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+OnlineHost :  Copyright 1995 America Online, Inc.
+
+OnlineHost :  The auditorium consists of two major areas:  the audience,
+where you are right now, and the stage, where the speakers appear.  Text
+which you type onscreen shows only to those in your row, prefaced by the
+row number in parentheses, such as (2) if you are in row 2.  To interact
+with the speaker, use the Interact icon on your screen.
+
+OnlineHost :  To send your question to the speaker, click on the Interact
+icon, then use the Ask a Question option.
+
+OnlineHost :  On her first audition, Andrea thompson landed the lead in
+the quirky sci-fi comedy DOIN' TIME ON PLANET EARTH.  After that, there
+was no stopping her.  The stunningly attractive blone was featured in WALL
+STREET and DELIRIOUS, before landing the role of Genele Erickson on FALCON
+CREST.  Recently, she has been a regular on BABYLON 5 as the Psi Corps
+Telepath Talia Winters.  
+
+OnlineHost :  Andrea was born in Dayton, Ohio, but at age six her family
+immigrated to Australia.  She grew up one of four children raised in a
+very strict Catholic household.  She graduated early from school and began
+five years of world wandering.  She worked various odd jobs including
+modeling, as a parts runner and cook for a gold mine in Northern
+California, sailing and fishing in the Caribbean, Jamaica, and Grenada. 
+Her other adventures took her to Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Rio and most
+of Europe.  
+
+OnlineHost :  Settling in New York, Andrea pursued acting and studied with
+Uta Hagen and Warren Robertson before she was accepted into the Actors
+Studio.   Andrea came to Los Angeles five years ago to start her film
+career.  It was at this time that she landed the role in DOIN' TIME ON
+PLANET EARTH.  Three years ago she met actor Jerry Doyle, also from
+BABYLON 5, and together they have a two year old son.  Presently, Andrea
+has added producer to her credits and is developing several film features.
+
+HOL Live  :  I'm your hostess this evening, coming to you live from
+Hollywood Online in 
+
+HOL Live  :  Santa Monica!! How ya doin, Andrea?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Is it cocktail hour yet?
+
+HOL Live  :  Hehe..  I think we're in the midst of it.  Let's start off
+with a question from ReelHtMan:
+
+
+Question  :  Andrea, do you know if Psi Corps will play a vital role in
+the season finale?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Yes I know but you don't, and I'm not going to tell you!
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one from Jhenslet:
+
+
+Question  :  What is the schedual like for shouting B5 
+
+Psi Andrea :  Like most TV schedules, very hectic.  We shoot a show in 7
+days, and we shoot approx.  7 pages a day.  If you compare that to film,
+where you shoot an average of 2 pages a day you get an idea of the kind of
+pace.  It's hardest of all for crew members.  The actors get sort of a
+break, the crew members have to be there all the time.
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is a question from Solonor:
+
+Question  :  Where did you disappear to? Your character hasn't been around
+for a few months (not counting reruns).
+
+Psi Andrea :  Well, I want to think up somthing really clever, instead of
+saying they haven't written... anything for me.  How about this:  I've
+been having a mad, passionate affair with Bester!
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is a question from Brando567:
+
+Question  :  What do you do on your spare time?
+
+Psi Andrea :  I read a lot.  Anything I can get my hands on.  I garden. 
+I'm a gourmet cook.  I also scuba-dive, sail, water-ski, horse-back ride. 
+I love to hike and camp.  And my all-time favorite is spending time with
+my son and my guy!
+
+HOL Live  :  Demon Red asks:
+
+Question  :  Are you planning any more episodes with the techno mages?
+
+Psi Andrea :  No - I wasn't in that episode.  But maybe Joe is (JMichael
+Straczynski, the head writer - the Big Cheese!)
+
+HOL Live  :  Joel 1234 asks:
+
+Question  :  Do you really like science fiction or is it only a job?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Both.
+
+Question  :  What's it like working on the set with your fiancee, Jerry
+Doyle?
+
+Psi Andrea :  It's tough getting out of his trailor at lunch time.
+
+HOL Live  :  Here's one from SophieFilm:
+
+Question  :  Is it true that you're having a same sex affair on this
+season's Babylon 5?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Oh several! Where have you been, dahling?
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one form Booperz:
+
+Question  :  What do you find to be the most challenging thing about your
+Babylon 5 role?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Walking in those tight skirts.
+
+HOL Live  :  Here's a follow-up from GriffithC:
+
+Question  :  Did you have any input in your 1940s style costuming; almost
+a Veronica Lake look?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Yeah - don't you love it!  But I had nothing to do with it. 
+The genius behind wardrobe is Ann Bruce.  Not only did she create my
+costume but she creates dozens of new costumes every week.
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is a question from EarlD8765:
+
+Question  :  The intro to this year's episodes talks about another war and
+it appears that it is leading up to this.  Will we see battles this
+season?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Without giving away too much, yes!
+
+HOL Live  :  Here's one from Bookworm2:
+
+Question  :  Do You find this role interesting or pretty simple to play
+
+Psi Andrea :  I find this role endlessly interesting.  JMS has given me a
+fantastic opportunity as an actress. My role is bound only by my
+imagination.  And fortunately the produces are very open to new ideas and
+different interpretations.  Going to work is like going to a playground
+for me.  It's very stimulating.  I'm having a ball!
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one from Ku Teke:
+
+Question  :  How would you like to see your character evolve, Andrea?
+
+Psi Andrea :  For 2 years now... Talia has been mostly a watcher, an
+observer... I'd like to see more of what she thinks and feels. Talia is so
+bound by the strictures of Psi Corps. that she often cannot act as her
+heart would dictate.   I'd love to see her have a completely mad moment. 
+It's the science fiction version of the nervous breakdown.
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is a question from Levinthal:
+
+Question  :  Does the cast know most of the story arc already or are you
+all surprised by what happens?
+
+Psi Andrea :  None of us know any of the story arc.  Occasionally, JMS
+will come by during lunch and drop a bomb like "the same-sex love affair,"
+which got it's start in that manner.
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is a question from Just Beco:
+
+Question  :  Thank-you for bing here.  Would you mind telling us how you
+and Jerry met?
+
+Psi Andrea :  At a bar.  It was a birthday party for a friend.  He bought
+me a cocktail.
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one from Hyboria:
+
+Question  :  How did you get the job?
+
+Psi Andrea :  The old fashioned way...I earned it!
+
+HOL Live  :  Wilburcat asks:
+
+Question  :  I love your character, do you have any latent telepathy
+yourself?
+
+Psi Andrea :  I knew you were going to ask that question...
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one from Kdubose77:
+
+Question  :  Hi there, Andrea.  Greetings from Arlington, VA.  Do you
+think Ivanova will be warming up to Talia any more than what we, the
+audience, have already seen thus far.
+
+Psi Andrea :  Stay tuned...!
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one from Dashripro:
+
+Question  :  The cast of B5 seem like they would be a lot of fun to work
+with...are they?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Yeah.  They're a great group of people, talented actors. 
+Thorough professionals.
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one from THAFT:
+
+Question  :  is there ever any kind of physical danger involved while
+shooting?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Sure - you could fall in love with an actor <g>.  But, no. 
+Not usually. Producers try to avoid dangers at all cost to their actors.
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one from Ears also:
+
+Question  :  Do you see a long running for B-5?
+
+Psi Andrea :  According to JMS, it's only 5 years.  And that's it!
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one from WhiteClar:
+
+Question  :  Are you able to tell us if we will see anymore of the Evil
+Spider Race Warriors?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Yes, I do believe they'll be playing a large part in the
+future...
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one from Lenobyte:
+
+Question  :  Do you know if there are any plans in the works for your
+character to develop a deeper relationship with Garibaldi?
+
+Psi Andrea :  We felt we were heading in that direction for a while but
+nothing was consumated.  Lets hope so!
+
+Question  :  What is PSI corp all about?
+
+Psi Andrea :  The PSI Corps was originally formed to protect normal human
+beings from the psychic abilities of telepaths.  They were segregated,
+kept away from the population at large.  Society's outcasts. Over time,
+they've developed into a very powerful quasi-militaristic organization. 
+With an agenda all their own!
+
+Question  :  The aleins in the pressure suit; are we going to find out if
+they are good or bad guys?
+
+Psi Andrea :  You're going to find out.
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one from HJC:
+
+Question  :  What were your favorite episodes to act?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Mind War!  I loved working with William Allen Young.  He's a
+phenomenal actor.
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one from TLARIAN2:
+
+Question  :  Any plans on a B5 movie?
+
+Psi Andrea :  There's talk of it for the future.
+
+Question  :  What's the last book you read where you felt you had to play
+one of the characters in the film?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Robber Bride, by Margaret Atwood.  I would love to play
+Zena. Alas, I'm nothing like her physically.  But it would be great. - to
+play such a ruthless character.
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is a question from Ron1120:
+
+Question  :  Do you think that the writters will exploit your  "aquired"
+telekinetic ability in future episodes?
+
+Psi Andrea :  I would certainly hope so.  In the context in which it was
+presented, only one in 10,000 telepaths has telekinetic ability and most
+are clinically insane.  So it gives me a whole new direction to explore.
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one from Willywig:
+
+Question  :  Do you plan in being in any more movies or just staying with
+B5?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Both.
+
+Question  :  When Jerry was here on AOL, it seemed apparent that a lot of
+what Garabaldi feels about his dad came from Jerry's life.  Without
+getting too personal, what can you tell us about Talia's depth of
+character is borrowed from your life?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Her sense of alienation, of not fitting in with any group. 
+I don't feel that way now, but as I was growing up, my family moved quite
+a lot.  My father was in hotel management, so we never stayed anyplace for
+more than a year.  I lived in 32 different places by the time I was 15. 
+It makes me a great traveller now, and I don't regret any of my childhood.
+
+HOL Live  :  TR3man wants to know why your character always wears gloves.
+
+Psi Andrea :  Talia always wears gloves, as do all members of the Psi
+Corps to prevent the picking up of thoughts, images, emotions, from other
+people.  Don't forget, the Corps was formed to protect normals from
+invasion of their privacy.
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one from Lisa7909:
+
+Question  :  Psi corps always seems evil, are you the white night, will
+she be able to turn it around? Its an organization that few can trust
+
+Psi Andrea :  I don't think any one person can turn the Corps around. 
+They've set a course.  And that course is dark.
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one from SnoopSKE:
+
+Question  :  Since you are not in every episode, how far in advance do you
+know when you shoot episode?   I don't.
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one from MCK1138:
+
+Question  :  Besides Talia, who is your favorite B5 character?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Garibaldi, of course.  I also adore the character of Delenn,
+as well as ambasador Londa Mollari.
+
+HOL Live  :  StiffysPa asks:
+
+Question  :  Andrea, will we find out more about the "gift" that Jason
+Ironheart gave Talia?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Most definitely, but I don't want to spoil you fun.  :-)
+
+Question  :  Andrea, how did Talia come across that penny, did she get it
+in PSI Corp?
+
+Psi Andrea :  She's had it since she was a little girl.
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one from Osuziq30:
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is a comment from BriMcGjrn:
+
+Comment  :  I just wanted to say that you were the hottest actress on
+Babylon 5...   :) Just had to say that.  Wanna get married?  Oh no, I
+forgot - I'm marrying Jerry next week.  ;-)
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one from Viper1701:
+
+Question  :  Will there be any new cast members next season?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Most definitely.
+
+Question  :  Do you think Talia will become more outgoing now that she has
+some heavy second thoughts about life with Psycorp? Maybe being more
+socialable with the B5 crew instead of all business.
+
+Psi Andrea :  So you want to see Talia cut loose, eh?  I'm with you.  I'd
+like to see her open up more, form some close relationships whether
+romantic or not.
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one from Watcher48:
+
+Question  :  I heard that Ivanova would be developing Psi powers.   Is
+this true?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Good things come to those who wait...  ;-)
+
+Question  :  Talia what got you in this buisness?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca.  I thought if I could just do
+that, if I could be only a fraction as good as she was that I would be
+happy for the rest of my life.
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one from RoseBrgr2:
+
+Question  :  Do you ever feel like the special effects take over, that you
+are "overshadowed" by all the flash?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Sure, but I'm not complaining.  It's great to be part of
+something as exciting as Babylon 5. When I saw the first episode, last
+year, I was seeing the special effects for the very 1st time just like you
+were. It was thrilling.  Like being 5 all over again.
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one from MerrickB:
+
+Question  :  What is your/Talia's feelings regarding Bureau 13 -
+Particularly how much trust do you/Talia have in the Psi Corp since the
+discovery of the "deceased" telepath?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Outwardly, Talia is the same as always.  Loyal to the Corps.
+Inwardly, she has many fears and reservations.  To express these, within
+the Corps, could mean death.  
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one from Kdubose77:
+
+Question  :  Have read either of the B5 books? You know, the first one,
+Voices, is very much a Talia story.
+
+Psi Andrea :  Yes, I did read Voices.  And enjoyed it very much.
+
+HOL Live  :  Here is one from JJMAYER:
+
+Question  :  Are there any plans for Walter Koenig to return in his
+PsiCorp role?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Definitely.  And isn't he good at it.  At playing such an
+evil character.
+
+Question  :  Do you ever find yourself becoming more like the characters
+you play as time goes on?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Oh yeah, it's a big pitfall.  Sometimes, when I'm playing a
+character who's dark.  I'll begin to take on depressing characteristics. 
+So, wild characters, wilder impulses.  Every once in a while, I have to
+remind myself, this is just my job - don't get to carried away.  I find it
+self-indulgent.
+
+Question  :  How long does it take to make an episode? 
+
+Psi Andrea :  7 days.  Of filming.  Post, another week.
+
+Question  :  Will there be a spinoff of b5
+
+Psi Andrea :  I don't know.
+
+Question  :  How did you start your career in acting?
+
+Psi Andrea :  In New York City, I went and did the usual cliche' waited
+tables and went to acting school.
+
+Question  :  Do you ever read any Pournelle or Niven or any other Sci fi
+writers?
+
+Psi Andrea :  I recently finished a book by David Brin, called Post Man. 
+I found it extremely interesting, and quite chilling in light of the
+recent tragedy in Oaklahoma City.
+
+Question  :  Is there a good possibility that Talia is a double agent for
+PSI Corps?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Ya never know.
+
+HOL Live  :  Andrea - You've been a wonderful guest! Is this your first
+venture into cyberspace? And will you come back on again for us?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Thank you!  Yes, I was a cyber-virgin until this evening. 
+And I'd love to come back!  Keep tuning in!
+
+HOL Live  :  Do you have any closing comments for our audience?
+
+Psi Andrea :  Good night America.
+
+OnlineHost :  We'd like to thank our guest Andrea Thompson for  appearing
+with Hollywood Online's Inside Hollywood!   transcript of this event will
+be available in the Hollywood Online Inside Holloywood Press Transcript
+Library within 24 hours! 
+
+OnlineHost :  And while you're at Hollywood Online, play the "Swimming
+With Sharks" contest, and you can win a trip to LA and a walk on role in
+the next film from Trimark Pictures!  In addition, see the new "Rob Roy"
+interactive kit available under the NEW MOVIE icon. Goodnight, America!
+
+OnlineHost :  Copyright 1995 America Online, Inc.
+
+
+
+Transmitted: 95-08-07 23:29:04 EDT
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+Subj:  Re: Cthulu in space
+Date:  95-12-02 05:34:09 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{comparing various B5 characters to Lord of the Rings characters}
+
+     The characters and comparisons you made are basic archetypal characters
+that have long been used in all kinds of sagas...the voice of the wise
+master, the characters of action, the hero on a journey, the smaller wiser
+folk...they extend far beyond Tolkein.  We draw on the same archetypal pool,
+but there's no intended parallel between them.  What invariably gets lost in
+this is that the LoTR saga was a *quest* story, that is the heart of
+it...ain't no quest here.  The characters are part of the saga-structure that
+goes straight back to the Illiad and the Odyssey, Gawain and the Green
+Knight, Jason and the Argonauts and elsewhere.  The only common elements come
+from the fact that we have our roots in the same literary garden of
+archetypes and literary symbology.
+
+     I didn't fight for five years to get this show off the ground just to do
+LoTR with the serial numbers filed off.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Hope for Vir, the Furst
+Date:  95-11-30 02:46:24 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{about Stephen Furst's guest appearance on Chicago Hope}
+
+       The Chicago Hope appearance is only a two-parter, nothing beyond that.
+
+
+jms
+
+Subj:  Re:Gethsemane 
+Date:  95-12-03 06:07:11 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{why did Ivanova tolerate Lyta so readily?}
+
+      Real simple.  Lyta has proven that she was telling the proof about the
+traitor; and she's on the run from the Psi Corps herself, putting her and
+Ivanova on the same side; and she helped when she was asked to try and find
+Edward.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:X Glen X
+Date:  95-11-28 22:12:43 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+     Tell me, Blacnignt9, how does it feel to be a racist?  Because that's
+what you are.  Oh, yes, you can be a non-caucasian and be a racist.  And you
+definitely qualify.
+
+"I must assume that there is a conscious at work and I don't find that to be
+the case."  (I assume this is a misspelling of conscience.)  If I were to say
+this about any ethnic group as a class, such as african-americans, you would
+call me a racist.  And you would be right.  And it's just as racist as to
+make sweeping comments about other races such as this.
+
+"...you are living proof that if I turned my back on you that I would die."
+If I said this about a hispanic, it'd be racist.  Same here.
+
+"I have lived a long time and the one theng that has remain constant is the
+fact the when ever you have a chance you will hurt us, and hurt us badly."
+Here you are speaking of caucasions as a race again.  This kind of sweeping
+statement is racist.  It is also wrongheaded and offensive.
+
+What about the half million white folks who died in the Civil war to end the
+brutality and monstrous practice of slavery?  More were killed in the course
+of that war than in all of our losses in every war thereafter combined.  
+
+How about the Swedes, who never even *saw* an person of african descent for
+most of their country's history?
+
+And while we're at it, what about my caucasian friend Lisa, who volunteered
+as a rape counselor in a predominantly black lower-class neighborhood, and
+was murdered for her efforts?  Yes, sir, I can sure tell that she was out to
+hurt other people like yourself, wasn't she?
+
+The heart of racism is stupidity and intolerance and classifying every member
+of an ethnic group as being the same, usually in a negative fashion.  By that
+definition, you are a racist, and I suggest before you start correcting
+others on this area, you do a little housecleaning of your own first.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:YOU PEOPLE ARE SICK
+Date:  95-12-01 03:45:08 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+      The reason Laurel Takashima/Tamlyn Tomita is not currently on the show
+is because the actress didn't feel really comfortable in the role of a
+military commander, and felt she might do better in other kinds of roles,
+such as that which came along about the same time in a major motion picture;
+she is now a highly-sought-after film performer.  When she opted out, I went
+instantly after Julie Nickson, an asian actress to play Catherine Sakai,
+Sinclair's love interest, a recurring role in the show.
+
+      And check my message uptopic...there's a racist here, all right, and
+it's you.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Blacnight9
+Date:  95-12-03 05:55:38 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+       Blacnight: okay, you've been hurt.  Three words: deal with it, but
+frankly, if you use this as a motivation to become just as racist in your
+descriptions of caucasians then you have totally and utterly sacrificed the
+high ground in the discussion.
+
+       Lemme explain something to you: I didn't come into the world with a
+silver spoon.  We were poor.  I'm not talking poor lower case letters, I'm
+talking POOR.  We lived in houses without roofs, without heat in the winter,
+always on the run from creditors.  You know where poor folks live, Blacnight?
+In the poor part of town, which was usually the ethnic part of town.  Most of
+my life I lived in areas that were mainly black, or hispanic, or puerto
+rican.  I lived in Newark just before the riots, as a kid, the only white kid
+on the whole BLOCK.  I've got class photos from schools as a kid, and you
+look for row after row, and in the lines of brown and black faces, you find
+one -- ONE -- white face.  Mine.  It ain't a case of "well, sure, some of my
+friends were black," ALL of them were.  Or Puerto Rican.  Or Hispanic.
+
+      And at those schools, because I was always the new kid, I got the snot
+beaten out of me on a regular basis.  Usually by kids with skin color
+different from my own.  Because that's usually all there was in the
+neighborhood.   So I got hurt, I got beat up, constantly.  Now, do I turn
+around and say that all black/hispanic/puerto ricans are bad people?  No.
+Some were great, some were real jerks.  Some helped me.  Some hurt me.  I
+deal with it *without* coming up with sweeping generalizations about whole
+groups.
+
+     For as long as you continue to make sweeping statements about caucasians
+-- and you have not responded to one of the responses I made to you before on
+this -- then you are every bit as racist and prejudiced as those you say you
+are against.  You come on, make one sweeping generalization, go away, then
+come back with another.  You don't listen, you just accuse and take the role
+of angry victim.  Well, fine, like I said, I've lost dear friends to people
+of other colors than my own...but I don't turn around and blame the whole
+group for the actions of a few.
+
+     If you're concerned about the well being of other african americans, let
+me ask what you're doing positively about it?  Working with inner city kids?
+Neighborhood programs?  What?  Or are you content to just come on here and
+complain?  
+
+     African-americans and hispanics have *got* to be brought into the
+mainstream of american political and economic life; we cannot long sustain a
+disenfranchised class determined by ethnic background.  That way lies madness
+and destruction for all parties.  On my show, I do as much as I can; on the
+side, I tithe a goodly percentage of my income to charitable causes, AIDS
+research, People For The American Way (which fights tyranny from the left and
+the right in censorhship issues), and other causes.  Because it ain't enough
+to complain; you've got to go in and DO something.  You talk the talk real
+good; how're you fixed for walking the walk?
+
+
+jms
+
+Subj:  Re:B-5 newsgroup
+Date:  95-11-30 02:49:24 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{will you be leaving AOL too?}
+
+       I have no plans for leaving here anytime soon, Angelica.  I hope to be
+here for the long haul.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:B5 Universe Questions
+Date:  95-12-01 03:53:56 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Mass drivers use asteroids freely available in space, accelerated and fired
+into a planetary atmosphere.  EA non-rotational ships have zero g.  EA tech
+is generally much lower in weapons tech and other areas than the Minbari and
+Vorlons, among others.
+
+
+jms
+
+Subj:  Re:Licensing & Your Audience
+Date:  95-12-01 03:59:02 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{you're letting Creation do B5 merchandise?}
+
+     We're aware of the rep that Creation has, and I've been very open in my
+criticism of them when they've done something dumb, both in my talks with
+them privately, and on the nets.  They know that if they do a Dumb of Bad
+Thing, I'm going to call them on it.  I'll also note when they do things
+right.  And thus far, for the most part, they've done okay by B5.  I've
+worked closely with them on the licensing aspects, and some of it is really
+quite cool, and the rest is fine.  (They have come out with two recent items,
+a B5 leather jacket (a bit over-priced, I think, but extremely cool
+nonetheless), and B5 mugs with the logo on one side, and the silhouette on
+the other in silver against black that's just *killer*.)
+
+     I don't feel sufficiently comfortable at this time to do a B5 convention
+with them; but I have made an occasional personal appearance, and found that
+they are genuinely interested in trying to straighten out their rep.  A great
+deal of the problem stems from the fact that they often work with local folks
+in the area as hosts who often don't know what they're talking about.  So now
+they're cutting back a little, trying to do fewer, better, than a lot, less
+efficiently.  
+
+
+jms
+
+Subj:  Re:To JMS
+Date:  95-12-01 17:52:49 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+     Hogan: thanks.  And at this point, we're in no particular jeapordy of
+being canceled; the ratings keep improving, slowly, but it's there, and the
+folks at WB have openly discussed the notion of our fourth season long before
+those words would usually ever come out of their mouths, so we'll probably be
+okay.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:VIDEOS
+Date:  95-12-02 01:49:28 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{about video releases}
+
+     The difference is that we want them to do it, and they don't think that
+there's a market.  You tell me how to resolve that difference, and I'll go
+for it.  
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Without Makeup
+Date:  95-12-02 01:50:31 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{will actors appear without makeup?}
+
+      It's been discussed, but the actors, particularly Andreas, are dead
+against the idea, on the theory that it ruins the illusion.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj: Re:Schedules and Reruns
+Date:  95-12-02 05:27:09 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+      The rerun schedule is to accommodate the PTEN desire to have new eps
+for sweeps periods, and nothing else.  I'm sitting on a bunch of new episodes
+that're just gonna sit on the shelf until January.  (Hey, everybody come on
+over to my house, we'll have a viewing party....)
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Episode #4
+Date:  95-12-02 05:28:20 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{"Passing Through Gethsemane" -- the interrogation scene was disquieting.}
+
+      Yes, that's definitely the sense I was going for.  That scene frankly
+unsettles and scares me a little, because it does show our characters
+skirting the line...yes, it's absolutely necessary, every moment is precious
+if they're going to try to save Edward's life...but it's still a bit creepy.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Who Works For Whom
+Date:  95-12-03 05:33:02 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+     I post this here only because this was forwarded to me in private mail,
+and if this utter and absolute lie is being circulated, best to quash it
+right here and now.
+
+     The email comes originally from a certain individual on usenet who does
+not merit his name being mentioned, and this is, as stated an absolute and
+total and complete lie of the worst sort I have seen in a while.  It concerns
+my departure from rastb5, predicated in large part by actions taken by this
+individual who is running like mad to find some other reason to attribute
+this to.  The relevant quote follows:
+
+
+"And his retreat just happens to correspond to the introduction of the
+new Babylon 5 area on AOL.  And isn't it amazing how his "formal
+termination" of his presence on this group is 30 November.  Bet it
+corresponds to his new contract on AOL which starts on 1 December, and
+includes a clause regarding his participation on the Internet."
+
+     1) I have no contract whatsoever with AOL concerning my presence here.
+2) I am not being paid one thin dime for my participation on AOL.  3) Not
+only do I not receive anything for being here, I pay for my subscription here
+just like everybody else on AOL, no freebie account, nothing.
+
+     There is no contract, and no cause in that contract.  I'm happy to bring
+my AOL bill to the next convention to prove this.  (I think it was $80 last
+month.)  
+
+     It's this kind of lying behavior by a certain few demented individuals
+that made my departure from rastb5 inevitable.  This particular lie is made
+more disgraceful by the fact that it is stated as cold fact, not speculation,
+not rumor, but cold fact...and is utterly, 100% untrue.
+
+     If you folks have to pay to be here, then I'll pay to be here.  (Though,
+granted, I do have freebie accounts on GEnie and in one or two forums on
+CIS.)
+
+     Sorry for the interruption; just felt this was necessary to nip in the
+bud.  As you were.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Videos
+Date:  95-12-03 05:34:14 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{who do we write about videos?}
+
+      That info has been given out elsewhere, and it hasn't done any good, so
+we're looking into the possibility of releasing them ourselves.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Rangers
+Date:  95-12-03 05:35:06 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{how long have the Rangers been around?}
+
+      Yes, there'll be other Rangers in episodes here and there.  There was a
+kind of loose-knit Rangers notion back on Minbar but it didn't come into full
+bloom until Sinclair arrived and took charge of the operation.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS:Writing
+Date:  95-12-03 05:36:54 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{about writing plays}
+
+     The play format varies a little here and there; I'm addressing this in a
+rewrite I'm finishing now of the writing book.
+
+     Re: the number of episodes I write...basically, it's just the number I
+feel is right to communicate the sense of the show in that season.  One of
+the main reasons I *created* B5 in the first place was to make a show I'd
+like to watch, and to write for.  So now that it's here, I'm following up.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Q about season schedule
+Date:  95-12-03 05:38:09 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{reruns before "Severed Dreams"?}
+
+      At this point, it looks like there may be a break before #10, though I
+haven't seen a final schedule on this.  It ain't what I would do...but it
+ain't my call, alas.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Coming Changes: JMS
+Date:  95-12-03 05:38:40 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{changes in the EA uniforms?}
+
+      Yeah, there might be some changes here and there....
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Who's Garibaldi's Second?
+Date:  95-12-03 05:39:11 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+      Zack.  
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Episode #4
+Date:  95-12-03 05:41:23 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+      How Sheridan and Garibaldi got away with it?
+
+      "Telepath?  What telepath?  Never happened.  Can you describe her?  No?
+I see.  Well, I don't remember seeing anyone in there, Mr. Garibaldi, do you?
+We'd check the logs to be absolutely sure, because we'd hate for this sort of
+thing to happen, but we had a small glitch in the software, and the recorders
+didn't work...still, we're working on it, and we hope to have it taken care
+of in the next few months.  Would you like some more tea, Ambassador?"
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Star trek still rules
+Date:  95-12-03 06:05:13 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"'Without ST none of these other series would have been born."
+
+      Sounds good.  Only thing wrong with it is that it ain't true.
+
+      Prior to ST, there were the SF anthology shows such as the Outer Limits
+and Twilight Zone and One Step Beyond and Men Into Space and many others;
+just prior to ST there was Lost in Space.  (And by the way, most critics at
+the time panned ST because they said it was just a cheap attempt to cash in
+on LiS's popularity.)  So you could easily say that ST wouldn't be on the air
+except for LiS, if you're going to follow your logic to its ultimate
+conclusion.  And let's not forget Forbidden Planet, which is almost a
+template for ST.
+
+     Finally, I'd note that if ST was responsible for other shows coming
+along in that same vein, why have there been no others in 25 years until B5
+(in terms of series set in our future, with us as a spacefaring civilization,
+with a fully worked out cosmology/universe)?  Do you know why it took 5 years
+to sell B5?  Because we were told, by execs at CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, Showtime,
+HBO, and elsewhere that -- and this is a direct quote -- "There's no room for
+any other SF show of this kind other than ST.  The market won't sustain it."
+
+      ST has been used as a rationale NOT to do space SF for *years*.  We had
+to fight like mad to overcome that notion.  So you'll understand why, having
+fought for years to overcome the roadblock that ST was in terms of selling
+B5, why I can only shake my head when someone tries to attribute the presence
+of this show to ST.  
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Vorlons as Angels
+Date:  95-11-30 02:39:56 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+       Also, it has not been stated anywhere that the Vorlons created the
+angel element; they could easily just have come in and tried to exploit
+it....
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Ratings
+Date:  95-12-02 01:46:18 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+     Every so often, this flares up, and I have to kind of get into it.  Yes,
+Bruce would like the ratings to get better, because he feels that this show
+is at least as good as ST, if not better, and thus deserves the same ratings.
+This is not a reasonable expectation, I think; ST has almost 30 years of
+presence in the public consciousness.  You can't beat that.
+
+     What *is* important is that we have continued to get the level of
+ratings required for renewal.  You don't have to be a top-10 show, or even a
+top-20 show; that's only the very tip...there are about 250 syndicated shows
+out there, and we are invariably in the top 35-40 out of 250, the ratings are
+either constant or growing in various markets, and the demographics (the kind
+of people watching the show) are exactly what the advertisers want.
+Consequently, the ads sell for very good prices to the sponsors...and WB is
+making money on the show.
+
+     There's this recurrent wave of panic about the ratings that's really not
+merited.  The fact is that Space Rangers is off the air, Time Trax is gone,
+SeaQuest has sunk, Earth 2 has fallen out of orbit, Sliders is gone, VR5 is
+gone...of all the SF shows introduced the same time or after we were, only B5
+and DS9 are still here.  They're gone because they didn't get the ratings
+necessary for renewal.  We're here because we do.  It's really that simple.
+
+     I've never intended this show to be a Huge Landslide Success, a
+*FRANCHISE* a la ST.  I want to tell this story, and it's the kind of story
+that kinda grows on you.  If you want to get the really big numbers, you have
+to dumb up the show, bring in kids, have lots of women in skimpy outfits, and
+make it into something other than what it is.  And once you *become* a
+franchise, you get Noticed by the studio types...when you get Noticed by the
+studio types, suddenly they want to protect you...protect the show...and any
+stories with teeth in them get knocked down, all the corners get filed
+off...and you've got something soft and inoffensive and essentially
+meaningless.
+
+     If I for a *moment* genuinely thought that this show was in any measure
+of jeapordy, I'd be right here banging the drums and sounding the clarion
+call and urging everyone to go out there and move and start letter campaigns
+and make lots of calls.  You'll notice I'm not doing that.  Because it's not
+necessary.  The show is doing well enough to go on, and that means the story
+will be told, the way I feel it has to be told.  
+
+     If that should *ever* change...believe me, you'll hear about it.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:ATTN JMS: Feeelthy Pirate
+Date:  95-12-07 05:31:04 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{about pirated merchandise}
+
+      All info on feelthy pirates gladly accepted so that we may go and whomp
+them.
+
+     Thanks.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Epic Parallels
+Date:  95-12-07 05:25:59 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Similarity to La Morte D'artur: Arthur's and Mordred's armies are poised
+for battle but make one last attempt to negotiate, but a soldier raises
+his sword to kill a snake and everyone attacks.  Compare this to the
+emperor's peace overture in "The Coming of Shadows."}
+
+      There's another applicable metaphor for the sword story; you'll see it
+a little later this season.  Very good catch, btw.
+
+
+jms
+
+Subj:  Re:The "Core"
+Date:  95-12-07 05:28:11 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{God is the core of Christianity, not an emotion or a moment.}
+
+      Filops: take it to the religion topic.  That's what it's there for.  If
+you wish to write long polemics on religion, that's fine, but do it in the
+appropriate place.  I really don't want bunches of topics to get filled up
+with rehashings of this stuff.  Thanks.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Show me to my ghetto?
+Date:  95-12-09 02:17:58 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+      The issue at hand is courtesy.  I know that a lot of people here want
+to discuss other areas than religion; there is a religion topic that is where
+religion messages should go, just as notes on merchandising go in
+merchandising, and items on ratings go in ratings...it makes it easier to
+find the topics that interest you, and keeps the conversation from being
+monopolized across various folders.  
+
+     As I told you in private mail, very often your messages on religion
+really have *nothing* whatsoever to do with B5, but rather with the issues
+that are of importance to you about religion, gays, whathaveyou...and you
+thus shoehorn them in...you do it here, you've done it over in the B5 folders
+in the SF-Television areas...and what happens is that the religion wars that
+erupt, due in some measure to some of the rather inflammatory tone you use,
+tend to keep other users away who just don't want to see it One More Time.
+
+     But there are religious elements in the show that can be
+discussed...hence I made it a point to open such an area.  Use it.  That's
+what it's there for.  If someone were to put up a long note on ratings, I'd
+point them to the ratings folder, simple as that.  Yes, it is your right to
+say anything you so choose...and it is the right of myself and others to ask
+you to show courtesy to your fellow users by doing so in the appropriate
+forums.  Is not courtesy usually considered the christian thing to do?
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Show me to my ghetto?
+Date:  95-12-09 02:22:17 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+      Mythopile: okay, maybe you don't care about keeping topics to their
+intended use.  That's fine.  I have received mail from people who stress that
+they are on limited incomes, and when they come in here, they only go into
+specific forums because they can't afford to spend a lot of time on AOL.  And
+they like to be able to know that when the click into a topic on Clams In B5
+that they won't have to wade through a bunch of messages on other subjects to
+find what they're looking for.  
+
+     I have never, at any time, "thrown some guy" out of a folder.  I have
+asked, simply, and only in a very few cases, that people try the folders
+where their comments will reach the widest audience, since someone interested
+in religion will go there first, and someone interested in ratings will go to
+tha topic first, as a courtesy to the other users here.  Nobody here is going
+to force you to be courteous.  I cannot do anything about it.  I can only
+suggest courtesy.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:This folder's name again.
+Date:  95-12-09 02:24:35 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{this is the B5 themes topic; religion is a theme in B5.}
+
+      Yes, religion is a theme in B5, Filops...unfortunately, you never
+*address* it...you only use this as a pretext to get into one of your long
+diatribes about what you consider acceptable behavior, acceptable social and
+sexual mores.  You use this only as a way to springboard into those
+discussions.  I've seen you do it repeatedly over on the SFTV forums, and it
+troubles me to see you doing it again here.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: TNT syndie question
+Date:  95-12-05 03:31:37 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{any cuts being made for second-run syndication?}
+
+       I don't know; my guess is that we're pretty close to the right time as
+it is, so I can't see what would be accomplished by cuts.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Post to rastb5 (re:Who Wo
+Date:  95-12-05 03:36:02 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{about the bogus "JMS is being paid to be on AOL" message}
+
+       Yeah, I suppose it can be reposted.  May stop some of this.  I hear
+people are saying, "Hey, it's okay if he makes money being on AOL," defending
+it, when it isn't true to *begin* with.  If I were doing so, if AOL thought a
+B5 presence were important enough to pay for it, heck, I'd be taking out ads
+in the Times.  But as far as AOL is concerned, I'm just one more subscriber,
+and I pay my way same as everybody else.
+
+      I just hope somebody's called the little twit on the fact that he went
+around calling others liars, then went out and posted his message about my
+alleged "contract with AOL" as though it were an absolute fact, even referred
+to a clause *within* that contract...and clearly, obviously, flatly lied
+about the existence of a document that isn't there.  It's a *deliberate*
+lie...it isn't a speculation, wasn't phrased in the form of a question, he
+deliberately went out and posted an out and out *verifiable lie* to the
+entire usenet, knowing it was a lie.
+
+      Never ceases to amaze me....
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:jms:X-files w/ B5
+Date:  95-12-07 05:05:41 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{B5 reference in the X Files?}
+
+       Don't know if the beacon reference was toward us or not; but it's
+still a great show, though it's getting a little convoluted even by their
+standards lately.  Still, I'll keep watching....
+
+      Re: elevators...at risk of repeating stuff I've said elsewhere...every
+so often, I'll see a note from somebody saying that this show only gets by
+because of its effects, that without that part it ain't nothin'...and just to
+honk 'em off I'll sit down and write a killer scene with just one or two
+characters in a room, no EFX, sometimes not even any music...and I often go
+for the smallest room in the station...and that happens to be the transport
+tube.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Who Works For Whom
+Date:  95-12-07 05:08:37 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+ "(still not sure which name to call you)"
+
+     It's just Joe.  
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS:Matters of Honor 
+Date:  95-12-07 05:09:28 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Shadows at the bar in "Matters of Honor?"}
+
+      Yes, that was a little hint of the shadows around Morden for those
+sharp enough to catch it.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:A very different question
+Date:  95-12-07 05:12:24 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+      I'm working on a Dell Dimension 90mhz Pentium, 2 1-gigabyte drives, 4x
+CDrom, 32 megs memory, 17" Nanao monitor, Soundblaster sound card, #9GXEpro
+64 bit video (identical system in office, I'm at home now, except office
+system has 128-bit Imagine video card)...and I'm using a US Robotics
+v.Everything Courier modem at 28.8 speed.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Question about the actors
+Date:  95-12-07 05:14:43 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{how often are actors paid?}
+
+     In the case of the regular actors, and the producers, you are paid a
+certain fee per episode contracted for (22 episodes for regulars, 13 or 8 for
+recurring cast members, 22 for producers).  That amount is then broken up
+into about 50 weeks (I think maybe 40 or so weeks for actors, John Copeland
+can probably be more specific on this), and you thus get a weekly check based
+upon that.  
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:B5 and DS9
+Date:  95-12-07 05:16:48 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{White Star related to DS9's Defiant?}
+
+      The White Star was always in the plans for the series; it's an
+outgrowth of everything that has gone before.  We've seen big warships,
+dreadnoughts, smaller ships, and personal fighters.  This fits right in.  If
+you're going to have a war over a long distance, you kinda need something to
+get in and out with.
+
+      I actually don't watch DS9 as a rule, so I really can't comment on its
+current storylines.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:To JMS
+Date:  95-12-07 05:20:30 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Don't let the Usenet folks annoy you.}
+
+      Thanks.  If it were just me, I could try to ignore some of the
+nonsense; but the problem was that it soon involved vast numbers of other
+people, who were being flamed or driven off the system, and every thread was
+contaminated by it.  A number of folks came to hang out at rastb5 because I
+was there, as many of them have stated since; that wasn't/isn't the only
+draw, theres' lots of good conversation, but that was a component...so my
+being there put people in the position of being available to be attacked,
+derided, flamed, insulted and assaulted, and I can't allow that to happen.
+And it began to have an impact on my writing, and that I *definitely* can't
+afford.
+
+      One way or another, that particular chapter in the experiment will find
+a way to continue, in the fullness of time.  I'm a patient man.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS:- Throwaway Dialogue
+Date:  95-12-07 05:21:18 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{You mentioned awhile back that some very important throwaway dialogue
+was coming up. Was it Ivanova's "know all, see all" line, or Lennier's
+"Minbari, but not born..." line?}
+
+       Ah, now I can't make it *too* easy, now can I...?
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS, I commend you...
+Date:  95-12-09 01:09:27 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+       Thanks, though I'm not entirely sure I emerged from all this totally
+sane...if I had, I wouldn't be working in TV....
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Star trek still rules
+Date:  95-12-07 04:59:35 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+      FWIW, I've seen most of the episodes of Space, and I quite like it.
+The last one was especially good, in that I couldn't figure how they were
+going to get out of this one, and I like being surprised.  Well done; the
+show has promise.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS Rocks
+Date:  95-12-09 01:07:11 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+     In general, I've really had to stay away from anything even resembling a
+story idea on the nets, so I don't use them, and haven't.  As for other
+shows, my sense as a fan myself is that the more quality SF on the air, the
+better; we've actually given tours and provided information on how we make
+this show to other producers so that they can use the "Babylon 5 Model" in
+helping to bring more SF to television.  The more the merrier.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Ratings and Bruce
+Date:  95-12-06 04:00:30 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+     Just a note to mention that due to the lengthy lead times required by
+national magazines, espeically those with an entertainment bent, that some
+pieces are considered evergreens, and can be published anytime.  You build up
+material until you're ready to go.  The piece in EW with Bruce came via an
+interview conducted toward the end of the long summer slump caused by reruns.
+Hence his comments.  They improved once the new episodes came back on again.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Ratings
+Date:  95-12-06 04:03:34 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Don't call Star Trek a franchise.  They take big risks.}
+
+     AcDec...all I can say is that you should talk sometime behind closed
+doors, as I have, with many of the writers and producers who have worked, and
+still work, on the various ST versions, who WANT to tell stories with teeth,
+that challenge, but who are prevented from doing so by the suits eager to
+preserve ST as an inoffensive franchise.  Sorry, but the logic still parses.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Why I watch
+Date:  95-12-09 01:03:00 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+     Lisala: Thanks.  We try to emphasize the voice of the storyteller as
+much as possible, that we are creating...well, I don't want to say creating
+new mythologies, because I don't think they are really created, they stretch
+back to the foundations of civilization, and show up repeatedly in works of
+literature...but reinterpreting and reinventing and clarifying the structure
+of myth for a new generation.  
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 *is* shot widescreen
+Date:  95-12-07 04:55:04 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+     Two series, and insofar as I know, *only* two series are currently being
+shot widescreen: B5 and Lois and Clark.  Here's easy verification: fire up
+the first season tape of "The Parliament of Dreams."  Fast-forward to the
+Minbari ceremony that's also used in the main title sequence.  Now compare
+the two; you see more of the shot in the widescreen opening than in the
+regular shot.
+
+      We generally compose for widescreen but protect for regular aspect
+ratio, which is how the show is broadcast currently in the US.  Sometimes it
+gets a little glitchy; in "Matters of Honor," when Marcus hands off the
+minbari fighting pike to Delenn, it's very visible in the widescreen shot,
+but you barely see it on the edge of the regular shot.
+
+      BTW, Germany and France have signed on to follow us through the
+post-production process for (trying to remember now) either season 3 or
+season 4, re-telecineing the negative stock back to the original widescreen
+aspect ratio for broadcast in letterbox format in those countries.  The UK,
+via Channel 4, is still in negotiations over this.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Story Arc
+Date:  95-12-12 19:16:26 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Too many filler episodes.}
+
+     I just posted a lengthy reply to this basic thread over in the Season 3
+topic (which is where I first encountered it).  That says pretty much
+everything I wanted to say on the issue.  
+
+     This happens every season.  Some people like shoot-em'ups and don't want
+to see any other stories, deriding them as "filler" and let's get to the
+blow-stuff-up stuff.  They seem to think that anything else is "lead" which
+has to be gotten out.  Every season begins with standalone stories, from year
+one to now.  Year two has The Long Dark and A Distant Star and Soul Mates in
+the first batch up.  Then we hit the big arc stories, and everybody forgot
+about the "lead."
+
+     In season one, we had six or seven strong arc stories.  In season two,
+there were about 9 really strong arc episodes.  In season 3, as of right now,
+there are 13-14 very strong arc episodes.  In year 4, there will be about 17,
+and in year 5 they're pretty much ALL arc episodes.
+
+     The series is moving as fast as possible, and as fast as intended.  
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Harlan Ellison Signs
+Date:  95-12-11 03:56:20 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+      To avoid duplication, check out the message in B5 Merchandising about
+Harlan signing stuff on the West Coast this coming week.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:The Last, Worst Hope for 
+Date:  95-12-13 01:48:45 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+     Yeah, but it's very hard to do a story about preparation in the sense
+you suggest.  "Well, let's go check out the White Star."  
+
+     "Well...sure is a fast ship, all right...so, what're the Rangers doing?
+Keeping an eye on stuff?  Good..good...so, what's for dinner?"
+
+     Each individual episode must be *about* something, must have a story
+that can stand on its own, separate from the arc, while adding to it.  For
+what it's worth, "Voices of Authority," which was originally slated to run in
+the first 4, *is* a preparation kind of story...it gets into how they should
+be gearing up for what's coming, the accumulation of allies and resources,
+all that.  Had it run as planned as #4, this would be answered.  But the
+sheer volume of CGI required, which was pretty hideous, put it into the #5
+slot, which we thought would still be in the first block of episodes.  Then
+we found that #4 was the cutoff point.  
+
+     All I can tell you is that what you're asking for is *there*, plain as
+can be, right in the very next batch of episodes.  (Also, do bear in mind
+that the "shadow war" referenced in the show operates as more than just
+discussing the shadows themselves, but what's going on back home as well.)
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:The Last, Worst Hope for 
+Date:  95-12-15 02:21:31 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+     Thanks.  No, you can't please everyone, I learned that lesson a long
+time ago.  What you have to look at are the percentages.  No matter *how*
+wonderful the work, there will always be a certain portion who won't like it
+because it isn't to their tastes.  That simple.  (I like bluegrass,
+classical, Japanese music, celtic music, hard rock, and others...can't abide
+straight-ahead country music or opera.  That's just how I'm hardwired.)  So
+basically, a work of superior quality will get about 40% who love it, 50% who
+think it's good, and 10% who hate it.  A middle of the road work gets
+30/30/30.  A flop gets the first breakdown but in reverse.  There's never
+been a novel, story, song or painting that everyone on the planet thought was
+nifty, without dissent.  So as long as the percentages favor the notion that
+we're doing right, I'm okay with it.
+
+     As far as the assessment of this latter stuff being my best work...god,
+I hope so.  I've been writing and selling since I was 17; in TV for a tick
+over 10 years, and the absolute honest truth is that I think I'm just now
+*starting* to get halfway decent as a writer.  So many years you spend just
+pumping out the bad stuff, the cliche characters, the implausible plots,
+until you finally get to the good stuff.  I write 7 days a week, 10 hours a
+day, 52 weeks a year, except for my birthday, my spousal overunit's birthday,
+christmas and new year's.  I'm in constant battle with the English language,
+slamming together different combinations of verbs and nouns and adjectives,
+hoping to provoke an explosion whose flare can illustrate a notion, or incite
+a moment of reflection.  And half the time I feel like it's a losing battle;
+the language beats you every time.  But if script #152 is just 1% better than
+script #151, well, that's progress.
+
+     And then I make the mistake of sitting down and watching something by
+Serling or Chayefsky or Rose or Corwin, and conclude instantly that I should
+get out of the profession before somebody discovers I'm a fake.  THOSE guys
+could WRITE.  Hell, they didn't just write, they thunder'd and lightning'd
+over the typwritten page, and the echoes have followed us down for decades.
+So maybe someday, if I work hard, and write to the best of my ability, and am
+sufficiently honest in what I write, I'll be good enough to carry their
+pencil cases....
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:The Last, Worst Hope for 
+Date:  95-12-16 03:18:33 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{how can people be interested in a show that's getting cancelled all over?}
+
+     Kydreamer: what you have to remember is that the syndication marketplace
+is undergoing *huge* changes right now, and has been for the last year.  In
+most markets, you're lucky if you've got even one or two independent stations
+(non-CBS, NBC or ABC).  Between the growth of Fox, and UPN, those stations
+are now almost all locked down, and are required by contract to give
+preference to programming made by their affiliated networks.  Now you've got
+2 hours a day that are available for prime-time programs, 8-10, that's it
+(most indies usually show news from 10-11).  That's a grand total of 14 hours
+a week, and there are currently about 250 syndicated shows all competing for
+those 14 available hours.
+
+     Usually, we rate between 30 and 50 overall, which is very good in that
+crowd of 250, so in most cases holding onto the station isn't hard.  But in
+some markets, where the squeeze is on, and there's only one station
+available, if UPN or FOX pushes hard enough...the show goes.  This has,
+however, happened in only about a handful of places out of something like 198
+total stations, so we're still pretty solid.  The problem comes when 15
+people in one area all post messages that their station has dropped B5, and
+what people tend to see is that there are 15 messages about this, so it must
+be a big problem.  (And in at least two, possibly three of those cases
+another station, sometimes a *better* station, has leapt in to pick up B5's
+contract.)
+
+     We've had a number of preliminary conversations with the folks at WB to
+determine how best to adjust to this in the fourth season, which at this time
+is looking very encouraging.  Several notions have been suggested by them to
+help counter or work with the changing syndication marketplace.  Some of them
+are quite interesting, though it's too early to comment much more than that.
+
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Other Theme Possibilities
+Date:  95-12-12 18:42:08 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+      Basically, any attempt to break down the B5 story into pure good vs.
+pure evil is going to fall apart sooner or later.  The thematic elements
+point to greyer areas: will you lead, or will you be led by others?  What is
+your responsibility to the world around you, and how far will you go before
+you do something drastically wrong?  The key themes in this show are choice,
+and responsibility.
+
+     How different would this story be if Londo had simply chosen *not* to go
+the easy way and go to Mr. Morden?  We are here because he made certain
+choices, and now he has to live with them.  Actions have consequences.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Oedipus Rex and Shadows
+Date:  95-12-13 01:43:47 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{CJ Cherryh deals with similar themes.  Will scripts be made available?}
+
+      Actually haven't read much if any of CJ's work, though I really should
+have.  The notion of hard choices, and responsibility, of course goes way
+back through early literature and into myth.  
+      Re: scripts...we do hope to make a limited number of them available
+through the fan club, once that gets going, but that's about it.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Other Theme Possibilities
+Date:  95-12-14 17:11:48 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{The Shadows probably don't consider themselves evil}
+
+     Good point.  The monster almost never sees a monster in the mirror.
+There can be all kinds of justifications for what one does....
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Other Theme Possibilities
+Date:  95-12-14 17:15:29 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+      I think that in the larger scope, many things are going to happen
+regardless...World War One would've almost certainly happened even without
+the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, but it might have happened later,
+might have taken on a different form....
+
+     But there's a great deal over which we *do* have free will.  Things
+*can* be changed; if they can't, then there's not much point to living.  The
+characters like to think they have no choice to comfort themselves with the
+decisions they've already made.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Beauty in the eye...
+Date:  95-12-17 02:28:42 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{The Vorlons aren't good, the Shadows aren't evil.}
+
+     On the other hand, to say the Vorlons are not good may also be to miss
+the point, which comes closer to the issue of control, and the question of
+being led vs. leading.  
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Franklin and Ivanova
+Date:  95-12-11 21:16:39 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"...each of the alien groups have only one religion, one government, one
+appearance...."
+
+      Actually, this is quite incorrect.  It's been established that the
+Narns have competing religions (G'Quan vs. G'Lan vs. other systems), the
+Centauri have a whole pantheon of different deities -- I seem to recall the
+number was in the 70s -- with each having their own household god, certainly
+the Minbari have three very distinct castes (with some differences in
+appearances, the warrior caste having more threateningly-spiked crests, vs.
+more rounded for religious caste), so there are definitely differences within
+our various alien races.  And, of course, we've go the green drazi vs. purple
+drazi situation to contend with, and accents vary as well...not every
+Centauri has the same accent as Londo (which is more of the Old School of the
+Centauri hierarchy), and not every Minbari speaks with Delenn's accent (which
+is more from the southern region of the planet).  
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:THE REAL WORLD
+Date:  95-12-12 18:37:18 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+     Blacnight...this is really becoming pointless.  For one thing, you're
+not listening to anyone else.  You come on here, and point to A...people
+answer you, and explain or respond to some of your concerns about A, but then
+you've moved on, you don't even deal with the question of A anymore, you've
+moved on to B...and people try to respond to B, and now you point over there
+to C.  You plainly have no interest in a conversation or a discussion, you
+haven't answered any of the objections to your prior messages, you just come
+in here to state and restate your position.  You're all over the place.
+First you bring up Baywatch, then you say you don't care about Baywatch, you
+flip all over the place.
+
+     My bottom line, frankly, is that yes, of course there's racism in
+society, nobody's debating that.  If that's the point you're trying to
+communicate, then nobody here is going to dispute it.  But by speaking of all
+caucasian people the same way, accusing them of all having the same behavior,
+you are every bit as racist as those you complain about, and that's another
+issue you've danced away from.  If I came on here and said about african
+americans the kinds of things you've said about caucasians I'd be branded a
+racist, and they'd be right.  
+
+     In an early episode of season one (at risk of actually mentioning B5 in
+this conversation), Sinclair makes the comment that "when you become obsessed
+with the enemy, you become the enemy."  You have become obsessed with the
+enemy.
+
+     Anyway, this is the last response you'll get from me.  It's painfully
+apparent by now, having given you every opportunity to show otherwise, that
+you are not interested in a conversation, only in stating and restating your
+position.  So the exercise becomes pointless.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Well done, Michael
+Date:  95-12-10 21:22:00 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{About the B5 presentation at Westercon in Phoenix, 1992}
+
+     I remember that presentation, and it shares something special with
+LosCon right before that.  At the time of the convention, all I had was my
+word on the kind of show I wanted to do, my rep, and about 30 seconds of a
+clip showing a ship docking at a beta version of B5.  That's it.  And even
+though producers for TeeVee series are always coming in proclaiming that
+their new show is the best thing since sliced bread, even though time and
+time again we (speaking as a fan myself) it ends up being just another awful
+show with genius kids and cute robots...even with all that, and so little to
+show for what I had in mind...fans both in Phoenix and at LosCon sidled up to
+the video clip, considered it, and the few other elements I brought to the
+table...and said, basically, "Let's give the kid a chance."  It speaks
+volumes of the willingness of SF fans to extend themselves, despite getting
+repeatedly burned, when most needed.
+
+     I've always been very moved by that, and whenever I've gone back (though
+I forgot this last time), I've always asked, "Did I keep the promises I made
+back then?"  The answer has always been yes.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Divided Loyalties
+Date:  95-12-10 21:23:31 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Was Garibaldi at Lyta's ship because the Rangers told him she was coming?}
+
+     No, Garibaldi was there because the ship's ID# didn't check out, as he
+stated, and it could've been in the process of smuggling or who knows what.
+The "soldier/diplomat" comment came more from shaping where this season is
+going.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Mira's Past
+Date:  95-12-10 21:24:19 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{What name did Mira Furlan use in earlier work?}
+
+     No, her credit there reads Furlan; that's her name.  Her husband's name
+is Goran Gajic.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Spousal Overunit's n
+Date:  95-12-10 21:27:40 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Who's your SO?  Has she written for B5?}
+
+     Her name is Kathryn M. Drennan, and yes, she wrote "By Any Means
+Necessary" for B5.  She has written for other shows, mainly in the animation
+area, and has worked as a journalist or feature reporter for newspapers and
+magazines, including Twilight Zone Magazine, Women's World, and others.
+
+     It was difficult at times with her doing a B5 script because I kept
+second-guessing myself too much on my reactions, and I ended up making her
+jump through a lot of hoops that nobody else had to go through because I have
+a real problem with even the *appearance* of nepotism, so she ended up
+working twice as hard as was probably necessary.  So far this season she
+hasn't come across a story she'd like to write, so it's a moot point.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:To Jms
+Date:  95-12-10 21:28:59 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+     Only a very few stations have dropped B5, mainly because there isn't
+room any longer on their schedules due to an influx of UPN and FOX shows to
+which they have prior commitments.  These number less than about 5 or so out
+of something like 198 stations, and in several cases other stations have
+jumped in and happily picked up the contract.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:actors
+Date:  95-12-11 21:05:49 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+     Generally speaking, very few actors are online; Pat Tallman is over on
+Compuserve here and there, Stephen Furst and one or two others come online
+here from time to time...bits and pieces here and there.  Mainly, if there's
+a message of interest, cast members find out by its being posted on the News
+From The Nets wall over on stage A.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:To JMS re.the women
+Date:  95-12-11 21:11:04 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Will there be more female leads?  Will we see the Talia/Ivanova relationship
+mentioned again?}
+
+     I do see Lyta's role growing in the show, in the hopes of her becoming a
+recurring character (main title) in time, and there are a couple of other
+female characters I'm thinking about, but I don't generally think in terms of
+quotas, 4 to 2 or 5 to 3 or whatever...you have to decide what works best for
+the show and the story.  
+
+     As for Talia/Ivanova...there's some closure to that right around
+mid-season, which definitely clarifies their relationship.  Suffice to say I
+think you'll be pleased.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:ATTN: JMS   Morden?
+Date:  95-12-12 18:30:25 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+     Well, to the question of where the shadows are, I think that just got
+answered...they're right here....
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS - thanks 
+Date:  95-12-13 01:41:44 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Which episode will shed more light on the Talia/Ivanova relationship?}
+
+     Stacey: thanks, and look for something very significant to that
+relationship in "Ceremonies of Light and Dark."  (Not as if it'll take much
+attention...it kinda jumps out at you....)
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Questions on Pilot A
+Date:  95-12-14 17:10:29 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Re. "The Gathering," you said the person standing outside a door in one
+scene would turn out to be important.  How?}
+
+      I'm not entirely sure what this refers to; the only possibility that
+comes to mind is that when the assassin finds Del Varner, he gets access via
+a panel outside the door, and we either hear or see "Laurel Takashima,
+Cleared To Enter."
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Jms RE: Ivanova 
+Date:  95-12-13 21:26:13 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{You should use Claudia Christian more.}
+
+     You're absolutely correct, which is why in the very first episode up in
+the next batch, we send Ivanova off in the White Star as its commander, and
+we involve her and her charactder more strongly in subsequent episodes as
+well.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Kudos and a Question
+Date:  95-12-13 21:35:52 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+     One of the hardest questions for any writer to answer is where did the
+story come from.  It's often a synthesis of lots of elements that sometimes
+bursts through all at one shot, other times trickles out a bit here and
+there.  
+
+     With B5, I started from wanting to do a saga, wanting to produce an SF
+show in a fiscally responsible manner (thus encouraging more of it), and to
+do real SF.  The usual strategy used by other shows is the man or show on the
+run...going in search of new worlds, or escaping from something, or trying to
+get somewhere.  The Immortal, Battlestar Galactica, the various Treks, The
+Hulk...all these and others used that approach, 'cause it's the easiest kind
+of story to construct, and needs the least amount of work.  The downside,
+though, is that you end up creating a venue in which you are constantly
+distracting your story from your main characters by having to introduce the
+Alien Of The Week, or the Planet Of The Week, establish them, their culture,
+the problem they bring in...which leaves you very little room for real
+character development.  And I wanted also to get into some of what's
+happening on Earth, do a little extrapolative writing in politics, law,
+criminal justice, sociology, religion, and other areas.
+
+     This led me to the notion -- used in shows like LA Law or St. Elsewhere
+-- of creating a place where the stories came to you, rather than vice versa.
+This led me to the notion of a space station, a freeport in space.  Onto
+this, I began to stitch the notion of a saga, a war, certain mythic and
+archetypal constructs...anyway I was playing with all this, when one day the
+whole story just sorta exploded in my head.  I saw the whole B5 sage, start
+to finish, in one big flash.  I then spent the next year, as I gathered my
+notes, and wrote the pilot screenplay, trying to write down and clarify what
+I saw in that one moment of absolute clarity.
+
+     It's those notes, written in 1986/87, which formed the basis for the
+arc, and which I'm still using with some modifications today.  
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Previews
+Date:  95-12-14 03:52:18 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+     Since the question of what's coming up in the next batch of episodes has
+arisen, I thought I'd go through and, while avoiding spoilers as much as
+possible, give some glimpses into what's yet to come.
+
+     This list is for the new episodes beginning in late January through the
+end of February, in order.
+
+     "Voices of Authority" - Earth begins tightening the screws on the folks
+at B5 to try and exert more control there.  Steps are taken to help prepare
+for the shadow conflict.  (Here, again, the "shadow war" means both the
+obvious, and the more subtle conflict brewing at home; it's description and
+metaphor.)  The White Star voyages to some territory not seen since the first
+episode, Ivanova helms the ship, a major dramatic turning point is reached,
+and there is the single funniest scene in probably the series to date.  A
+strong arc story.
+
+     "Exogenesis" - The last non-arc episode for some time.  Puts Dr.
+Franklin and Marcus together investigating some odd happenings in DownBelow
+that may indicate some kind of alien influence.  Does, however, introduce a
+thread that will play out over time.
+
+     "Dust To Dust" - Looks like a non-arc episode initially, but by the end
+it has a strong effect on the overall storyline, and makes some permanent
+changes in one of our characters.  Combines Bester, the telepathic-assault
+drug Dust, weapons dealers, and brings to a head a major part of the
+G'Kar/Londo thread.
+
+     "Messages From Earth" - This begins the three-episode min-arc within the
+larger arc that, by its conclusion, totally changes the structure of the B5
+universe.  A mega-wham episode.  Because so much comes to a head so quickly,
+little can be said about it without spoiling stuff.  Our characters begin
+making the final and irrevocable steps that will put them on a collision
+course with everything they have believed in until now.  There are four or
+five episodes this season that push the limits of our effects and CGI to the
+absolute wall; this is one of the biggest.
+
+     "Point of No Return" - The same, but moreso.  Internal strife threatens
+to tear apart the command structure of B5.  The Nightwatch thread comes to a
+crisis point.  And Majel Barrett Roddenberry guest-stars in a B-story
+involving Londo's destiny.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:To JMS re.the women
+Date:  95-12-15 02:00:56 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Where are the lesbians on B5?}
+
+     Y'know, it kinda seems to me that if two women have a relationship, and
+one leaves, the other still remains, so that answers at least one of your
+questions....
+
+
+jms
+
+ 
+Subj:  Re:Q: Parliament of Dreams
+Date:  95-12-15 18:50:07 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{How is "The Parliament of Dreams" an important arc story?}
+
+      Well, certainly, the rebirth ceremony is a direct antecedent to
+Delenn's rebirth in "Chrysalis," and we'll hear about the ceremony again.
+Mainly, I think of it as a slight arc story in terms of the Delenn stuff.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Pets
+Date:  95-12-15 18:51:29 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Why no pets on B5?}
+
+     Where would you put pets there?  Noplace would really be safe.  It's
+really more like a very large airport than a city...most people are just
+passing through.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:World Series
+Date:  95-12-15 18:53:43 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Who won the sixth game of the "59 series?}
+
+     Mars won the sixth game, but it was a squeaker, 5-4.  That tied it up
+going into the seventh game, which Earth won on an RBI that Mars is still
+challenging on the belief that the guy was really out at home, but that the
+umpire was catering to pressure.
+
+
+jms
+
+ 
+Subj:  Re:To JMS re.the women  
+Date:  95-12-15 18:56:02 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{If Ivanova is with a man, she'll be perceived as straight instead of bi.}
+
+      Which, of course, is exactly *why* one cannot write to the current
+political agendas on any side of the issue, because they're transitory,
+they'll change in two weeks.  If you start saying, "Well, this kind of person
+is *now* perceived THIS way this week, so I should change the story," you'll
+end up chasing your tail (also chasing your tale) and soon you lose all sense
+of direction.  So you do what's right for the story, and let the chips fall
+where they may.
+
+
+jms
+
+ 
+Subj:  Re:B5 Universe Questions
+Date:  95-12-15 18:57:45 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{There are no shock waves in space.}
+
+      Okay, then 'splain me this: when the Pioneer space probe moved past the
+speed of sound while it was in space, the monitoring station at JPL recorded
+a *sonic boom* as the shock wave rolled over the probe as it broke the sound
+barrier.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Garibaldi Left Handed!?!
+Date:  95-12-16 03:08:18 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+      I believe Jerry is left-handed, yes; doesn't really matter to me if
+Garibaldi is a southpaw or not, it wasn't a stipulation ahead of time.
+(Actually a number of our cast members are lefties; funny how that happens.)
+
+
+jms
+
+ 
+Subj:  Re:Quest/suggest
+Date:  95-12-17 02:21:56 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Lots of questions about future episodes}
+
+     Unfortunately, the answer to virtually all of your questions is no, with
+a few being "I can't tell you at this time."
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Experiencing Deja Vu...
+Date:  95-12-17 02:22:27 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+     The next batch of new eps begins airing around January 22nd.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Harlan Ellison
+Date:  95-12-17 02:23:54 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Is Ellison still working on his Dream Corridor books?  Did his story "Kadak"
+inspire Ivanova's Chanukah celebration?}
+
+     Last I heard, the Dream Corridor books will be coming out in a different
+form, in larger trade editions, with new stuff.
+
+     No, "Kadak" had nothing to do with Ivanova celebrating Chanakuh on B5;
+the ceremony far predates Harlan's story....
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:B5 vs Star Trek
+Date:  95-12-16 03:07:15 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+       We've finally received the paperwork on the fan club, and one of the
+things we plan to do is sell replica communication Links manufactured by the
+same sub-contractor company that produces the actual props, so they're 100%
+authentic; same with the EA pins and patches and some other stuff.  So hang
+tight, you may get your wish.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Harlan Ellison in SF/LA
+Date:  95-12-11 03:51:44 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+      B5's own Conceptual Consultant will be signing copies of his new CDrom
+game, "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream," based on his award winning short
+story of the same name, at Tower Records/VIdeo this coming week: on
+Wednesday, December 13, in Los Angeles from 6-7:30 p.m. at 8801 Sunset
+Boulevard, and in San Francisco at 3205 20th Avenue on Thursday, December
+14th, from 6-8 p.m.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:different=same?
+Date:  95-12-11 03:49:20 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+     "But what is truth?  Is truth unchanging law?  We both have truths.  Are
+mine the same as yours?"  Pontius Pilot to JC in "Jesus Christ, Superstar,"
+third act.
+
+      For whatever reason, I know just about every line of that rock opera.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Goodbye Babylon 5
+Date:  95-12-13 01:38:40 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Too many filler episodes.}
+
+       Thank you, Posti.  You have now posted your departing message in at
+least three different folders, probably more.  We kind of get the point.  
+
+       And it's story *arc*, not story *arch*.
+
+Jms
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+
+Subj:  Re:M.B.Roddenberry Apperance
+Date:  96-02-12 03:49:36 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+She appears in the last episode airing this month, before the rerun break,
+"Point of No Return."
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Number of Episodes
+Date:  96-02-12 03:51:07 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Every season of B5 has had 22 episodes, including this one.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Cthulu in B5
+Date:  96-02-12 03:53:37 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+There's a whole tapestry of related fiction of this sort...Lovecraft was one
+practitioner, so was Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth...it's a
+grand tradition of SF.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Who was the VofA?
+Date:  96-02-13 05:50:00 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I figured that some elements of the First Ones should be consistent with one
+another; others should have specific differences.  Using Ardwight
+subliminally reinforced some of the consistencies.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Can you rerun B-2?
+Date:  96-02-13 05:50:26 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+We're working on convincing WB to do this.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Susan Ivanova
+Date:  96-02-13 05:51:11 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yes, she does, including a variation on her father's name as her middle name.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:VOA: The "Goods" on Clark
+Date:  96-02-13 05:52:02 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+As it happens, the info about Clark's doctor was also released a bit later,
+which we'll hear about by the end of this month.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Writing for TV
+Date:  96-02-13 05:53:52 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I think it came out of the fact that Garibaldi doesn't trust ANYthing about
+Bester, and that it's not out of the realm of possibility for Bester to find
+some way to defeat the drug.  If not, then his line was basically another way
+of stating "What the ___ are you pulling and why are you doing it and why the
+hell didn't you TELL me you were going to do this before pulling it?"
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Help!
+Date:  96-02-13 05:54:32 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+It's my understanding that the station will show the last part of the show it
+clipped right before the next new episode.  So tune in early.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Instant Gratification
+Date:  96-02-13 05:55:54 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+What's being lost here, though, is that this show operates on the level of
+metaphor as much as it operates out in the open.  The shadow war is also the
+war within ourselves as much as it is Out There.  So Nightwatch, the
+political situation back home, are shadow wars of their own.  
+
+That said, however, there's shooting aplenty in the course of this season.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:G' kar as a telepath ?
+Date:  96-02-13 05:56:35 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+What, you don't think G'Kar would look good in a bikini...?
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Psi Corps ethics
+Date:  96-02-13 05:58:10 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Because it takes a certain amount of power, effort and skill to get detailed
+information about someone.  A P5-P7 can get strong emotions, some details, in
+brief bursts, but they're not always  as good on the big picture.  A P10 is
+needed for strong scans, particularly if the person is resisting.  That means
+a psi cop, and they're all registered.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Londo's retribution?
+Date:  96-02-13 05:58:56 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Correction: the terms of the surrender stated that for every Centauri
+*KILLED* 500 Narns would be executed.  Londo wasn't killed.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:possible plot to come?
+Date:  96-02-15 01:19:55 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Please refrain from posing possible plots to come or story ideas; doing that
+here jeapordizes my ability to stay here, for legal reasons.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:posting of common questio
+Date:  96-02-15 01:08:32 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+There's a faq (frequently asked questions) file in the library, I think.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Londo's Dream
+Date:  96-02-15 01:09:01 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+You will learn more about the outcome of that dream, yes.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Halfway Point
+Date:  96-02-15 01:11:52 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The episode is in the halfway mark, and that IS its significance, because it
+signals a major change.
+
+When we were midway through that episode, the halfway mark of the whole
+series, John, Doug and I were given these spiffy leather script books with
+silver inlaid initials by the crew, to commemmorate the event.  It was really
+nifty.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:B5 Problems???
+Date:  96-02-15 01:14:05 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I frankly have *no* idea what this refers to.  Every season we've come in
+slightly under budget, the show is making money for WB, so I don't have a
+clue, unless they're looking for some reason to play it cautious just now in
+their announcements.  I'm baffled.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Better and Better
+Date:  96-02-15 01:16:04 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks, Sharon.  Funny how some themes never seem to go out of fashion in the
+real world.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:attn JMS: Ivanova
+Date:  96-02-15 01:16:34 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+We'll here more about that relationship in due time.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Psi Corp, Shadows, Nightw
+Date:  96-02-15 01:17:11 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Are Shadows, psi-corp, and Nightwatch working together?}
+
+You'll know more about this within the next 10 episodes.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS-Uploaded Previews
+Date:  96-02-16 04:17:17 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Kung Fu generally has a long promo for B5, whereas B5 gets a shorter preview
+for itself.  I think the one here is the longer version shown during KF.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Letterbox format
+Date:  96-02-16 04:18:16 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Can't be done for now, since the majority of the population still uses
+smaller TV sets, you'd lose viewers rapidly.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Money Matters
+Date:  96-02-17 05:20:36 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Basically, it's a weekly bonus added onto their weekly salary; 50 creds is a
+pretty enticing bump, equal to about 50 pounds British.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:The Icarus
+Date:  96-02-17 05:21:42 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Here is a question I've been thinking about for a while. If the Icarus was
+sent to Z'Ha'Dum about 3 years ago, and the Vorlons and Minbari have known
+about the Shadows return now for over 4 years, and it was also suggested
+somewhere else that Earth Gov may be involved as far back as 5 years ago, is
+it possible that Interplanetary Expeditions knew what would be found when
+they sent the Icarus to that planet?}
+
+The crew of the Icarus may not have known as much as they could've about
+their mission.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:MacBeth
+Date:  96-02-17 05:25:23 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Just curious, but what was with all the MacBeth references in "Exogenesis?"}
+
+Just figured I'd use that description of it rather than Macbeth, to make it a
+bit more obscure, but also some actors do have a problem saying the name
+Macbeth or being around it when it's said (note: Jason isn't one of them). so
+it was also a courtesy.  (Later on, while shooting "A Late Delivery From
+Avalon," one of the hair dressers made the error of referring to Macbeth out
+loud in front of Michael York, and had to go through the whole undo-the-curse
+routine, walking around the stages three times, etc.)
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:The Capt's facial express
+Date:  96-02-17 05:26:07 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Is it possible to tour the B5 set?}
+
+Unfortunately, the B5 stages are off the WB lot, and we're not set up for
+tours.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:David Corwin
+Date:  96-02-17 05:26:53 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yes, David Corwin was named for Norman Corwin, whose work you should
+investigate if you do not know it.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Other TV Shows
+Date:  96-02-17 05:28:48 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks.  We have heard that more shows are starting to adopt both our
+production methods, and doing more arc stuff, so that's a good thing.
+
+Personally, I thought "Exogenesis" was okay, but not one of our best, mainly
+for writing reasons (i.e., my fault).  But from here on out, they're spiffy.
+You're in for a real treat in a few more days when "Messages" airs.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Exogenesis: Corwin's name
+Date:  96-02-18 19:17:13 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"Corwin is the main character in Zelazny's Amber series.) Not that David
+Corwin is very Corwin of Amber-like. That Corwin would more likely be a
+ranger."
+
+David Corwin was named after my friend and highly-regarded radio drama writer
+Norman Corwin.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Eating Crow...
+Date:  96-02-19 03:51:19 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{A few weeks ago I posted a message stating that it would be nice to have a
+few skirmishes before the final showdown with the Shadows.  At the time I
+feared you were saving too much for the end of the season. 
+
+I just watched MESSAGE FROM EARTH.}
+
+Like we said, we know what we're doing.  You just gotta trust us.  Sometimes
+we get cranky because someone says "nothing's happening this season with the
+shadows," and we're looking at an episode like "Messages" or others
+forthcoming, and we know what IS coming.
+
+A little patience is a good thing.
+
+But you need not eat crow over it; just nibbling at the feathers will
+suffice.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Exogenesis: Corwin's name
+Date:  96-02-19 03:53:29 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Norman Corwin's work is nothing short of superb.  I commend it to anyone
+willing to trudge down to the local library and dig it up.  It was by hoping
+one day to grow up and become a writer like Norman that Ray Bradbury got
+started as a writer.
+
+Norman's what you call a Writer's Writer.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:B5 vs ST
+Date:  96-02-18 19:15:53 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Just one thing to bear in mind in all this, referring to ST bashing...you
+don't have a situation here of B5 fans "bashing" ST.  What you tend to have
+are ST fans who've *always* had some concerns with the shows expressing their
+concerns here, because they also watch B5, and because to express some of
+this in other forums gets them yelled at.
+
+While there are many ST fans who have not seen B5, there are no B5 fans who
+have not seen ST.  What you have here is an internal ST situation, not a case
+of B5 fans hitting a show they don't know about or watch.  I'd venture to
+suggest that most of the concerns voiced here are ones they had long, long
+before there WAS a B5.
+
+That said, I've noted from the beginning that there was no reason to hold the
+shows up side by side; they're different series, and that just puts ST at the
+center of the fictional universe.  Let this show be its own creature.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:B5 vs ST
+Date:  96-02-19 03:48:10 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Actually, Voyager is not IN the top 50.  They're generally in the basement of
+the network ratings.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Babylon 5  The MOTION PIC
+Date:  96-02-18 00:49:27 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Why noy free ourselves from syndicators and go for the big screen?}
+
+At the moment, that's not my choice, you need a big studio backing you for a
+big movie.  Also, B5 was primarily *designed* for TV, this is the venue I'd
+prefer to work in for this.  You'd have to do 55 movies to tell the whole
+story, and you couldn't do much arc stuff in it, because it would have to be
+fairly self-contained.  The good wishes are appreciated, though.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Ratings Info
+Date:  96-02-18 01:00:52 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The figures have come in for our first non-rerun episode, "Voices of
+Authority."  The numbers of any show always drop in reruns; something that
+some folks tend to avoid mentioning when they just post figures without
+noting these things.  But moving on....
+
+While KUNG FU, in its new episode, went from #50 to #61 for the week in
+syndicated shows (this is out of 257 syndicated shows total, btw), B5 surged
+from #54 to #41, with a 3.5 rating, well above that which is guaranteed to
+advertisers.  
+
+(DS9 continues to wobble; #16 last week, and #15 this week; they haven't been
+in the top ten for a while now.  This in reply to some who asked for a
+relative positioning.)
+
+At #41 out of 257 shows, B5 is in the top 1/6th of all syndicated shows
+overall, about the top 16% or thereabouts.  In terms of drama shows, B5 is in
+the top 10 of all drama shows for that period, at #8.  
+
+So far, so good.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Trek
+Date:  96-02-18 19:10:32 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"...without Star Trek there probably wouldn't be a Babylon 5...."
+
+This is one of the biggest misperceptions we've had to try and correct over
+time; if anything, ST has been an obstacle to getting B5 on the air.  The #1
+reason we were given, time and again, during the 5 years it took to sell B5
+for not going ahead with it, was that "There isn't room in the marketplace
+for another space show other than ST.  There's not an SF marketplace; there's
+a ST marketplace, but that's all.  ST doesn't create more SF, ST creates more
+ST."
+
+Right up until the day we aired the pilot, some folks at WB were saying,
+"This isn't gonna work, there's not enough room in the market for another SF
+space show other than Star Trek."  And suffice to say that Paramount didn't
+make things any easier for us in their inimitable fashion.
+
+If the premise as advanced in the first line were true, then why in the 30
+years since ST:TOS has there not another space-SF series that's lasted more
+than three seasons?  Why have there been so very few shows even TRYING this
+venue?  In those 30 years, with the exception of Quantum Leap, which was more
+an anthology show really, no hardcore SF series has gone beyond 3 years; that
+alone mitigates against SF being a viable market.
+
+Trust me on this; for the five years it took us to sell B5, ST was one more
+obstacle to overcome.  It's not their fault, it's the fault of the
+marketplace that doesn't understand SF.  It's unfortunate that, when a cop
+show fails, industry folks just say, "Well, that show didn't work," but when
+an SF series fails, they say, "There's no market for SF."
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Psi Corps and the Shadows
+Date:  96-02-18 00:43:56 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Wait and see...but you're close to some stuff.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Costuming
+Date:  96-02-18 00:44:35 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+We have used them a bit, just haven't had to use them much until now.
+
+That's about to change.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:sending artwork
+Date:  96-02-18 00:47:43 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thank you.  In general, the best contact for now on B5 is the mail drop,
+which is located at 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA
+91423.  Send it along to my attention.  If it's show-related, I'll try to
+find a nice home for it at the stage.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Was Exo censored?
+Date:  96-02-18 19:19:32 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No, the only graphic scene is in the beginning, at the end of the teaser.
+Nothing was cut that I know of.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Addition to Pilot
+Date:  96-02-18 19:20:29 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+All the narratives are from a future point in time, but no one lives forever.
+How far into the future that person is telling the story will vary.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS, Night Watch, etc.
+Date:  96-02-18 19:24:01 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+DLyulkin...exactly.  You don't just take something and transplant it
+wholecloth...you change and modify it.  Nightwatch was never meant to be on a
+one-to-one corrolation to the SS, or Stasi, or McCarthy...the whole POINT is
+that this kind of mentality crops up in new forms from time to time, in
+different names, different approaches, but at its heartmeat core the same
+thing.  By saying it's "That over there," we can relax, since that specific
+incident can't recur...making us vulnerable to the next version.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS:Ivanova's left earrin
+Date:  96-02-18 19:24:40 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+It's a tribute to her dead brother, both as a character, and in real life.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re: JMS
+Date:  96-02-19 03:43:37 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Ivanova is supposed to be Jewish, right? ( Tells you I haven't been
+watching all of your episodes-grin ). Then how come her last name is 
+Ivanova as opposed to Greenberg or something?}
+
+She was born in the Russian Consortium, to Russian parents, with Russian
+surnames.  No big mystery there.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re: preview
+Date:  96-02-19 03:44:16 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Many things are inserted into previews by WB that aren't actually in the
+shows.  We have no control over what they put into the previews.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+----
+
+Subj:  Re:Steven and stims
+Date:  96-02-22 00:52:52 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Did I miss an episode?  (I can never get our stations right out here)  Last I
+saw, Steven was getting hooked on stims, than last week he's happy go lucky
+chattin with Marcus and being a lovable goof.}
+
+It hasn't come to a head yet.  Any abuser of substances has moments when he's
+up, and moments when he's down, moments when he seems fine, moments when he's
+not.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Norman Corwin
+Date:  96-02-21 01:48:17 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I'd suggest to start with ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH, and THE PLOT TO OVERTHROW
+CHRISTMAS.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Random thoughts
+Date:  96-02-21 01:51:27 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks.  It is, I think, a uniquely American concern, since it's long been
+common for writers in the UK to write a goodly portion of any season;
+McGoohan did much of The Prisoner (under a variety of names), and Terry
+Nation wrote the entire (and some say best) season of Blake's 7, though that
+was only 13 episodes.  (I believe the adaptation of I, Claudius, at 12 hours
+or so, was done by one writer...and it's the best thing ever made for TV, I
+think.)
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re: Great Show!
+Date:  96-02-21 01:51:49 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks...actually, to you and to Blair.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:ATTN: JMS, B5 Fans
+Date:  96-02-21 01:55:36 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Eventually, yes, we do hope to sell B5 eps via the fan club.  As for UPN, we
+were never a part of UPN, though we're aired on some UPN stations, so they
+can't actually drop us.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Exogenesis question?
+Date:  96-02-21 01:56:21 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+It was Ranger One.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:B5 C.D rom
+Date:  96-02-21 01:57:57 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+There's the screensaver CD rom from Sound Sources currently; the company that
+was going to do the encyclopedia cut down its list from 300 to 40 per year,
+and we were in those cut.  We're now taking bids from other companies
+interested in locking this down.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Hey JMS...
+Date:  96-02-22 00:58:51 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The vorlons were never intending to hide themselves from the shadows; they
+both know where the other can be found.  The concern was in the vorlons
+potentially revealing themselves to others, and standing openly as what they
+were.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:ATTN: JMS, B5 Fans
+Date:  96-02-22 00:59:10 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+It's up, should be "and running" soon.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: haitus
+Date:  96-02-22 00:59:36 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Is B5 on haitus?  If not , when do you stop filming?
+If so , when do you go back?}
+
+Filming wraps April 9th.  In theory it would begin again around late July.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Messages - Fantastic
+Date:  96-02-22 01:00:13 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I think this is one of the best of the series to date.  I think there are a
+couple coming up later in the season though that will give it a run for its
+money.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Messages - Fantastic
+Date:  96-02-22 01:01:12 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Oh, and a PS..."does it get even better?"
+
+It kinda has to.  We took a blood oath that each season must be better than
+the one preceding it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:" Original Ideas ", etc.
+Date:  96-02-22 01:04:51 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Yes, there are plenty of fans who would sign a waiver to give JMS free
+ownership of story ideas, but that still doesn't matter. *Someone* would
+bring suit. Someone, maybe, who holds a grudge for a real or imagined slight,
+or just because it's easy money...}
+
+The probelm is not just one fan.  People are *constantly* suing because they
+think their idea -- sometimes just that, an idea -- was stolen.  Steven
+Spielberg was sued by *three people* each one independently claiming that ET
+was based on their story.  Obviously, that three different people say the
+same thing means they're mutually contradictory...it can't be based uniquely
+on all three.  Two of them have to be wrong at minimum (and as it came out,
+all of them lost).  But they were True Believers.
+
+And yes, 98% of these cases are nonsense, and are eventually won by the
+original writer; but the process of defending such a case can literally
+consume *years* of your life.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:" Original Ideas ", etc.
+Date:  96-02-22 01:07:54 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Here's an example of this, btw.  On another service, someone without
+considering what he was saying (not his fault, it just happened) said, in
+essence, "What if somebody on B5 found out that he had been mind-wiped, and
+used to be something awful previously?"
+
+Well, I'd had "Passing Through Gethsemane" on the wire at that time, but when
+I saw this, I had to scuttle the story.  It lay there, untouched, for over a
+year, until I could finally meet the fellow and get a signed release
+indicating what'd happened.  If that fan had not been fair and reasonable,
+that episode -- which many consider one of our best -- would never have been
+made.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:The Screen Saver
+Date:  96-02-22 01:08:43 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yes, I hear the Mac version will be out in April.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Original Ideas, etc.
+Date:  96-02-23 03:30:08 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I've been over all this a hundred times with others, on other forums.  Or
+forii.  Yes, all of the reasons that you cite could be used in winning a
+lawsuit.  But I have no desire to spend the two years of my life fighting
+such a lawsuit.  If story ideas get posted, I turn to vapor, it's that
+simple.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Messages - Fantastic
+Date:  96-02-23 03:31:33 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks.  I find relationships fascinating, in how they grow, change, develop,
+veer right or swerve left.  The ones we're seeing here are fun to play with,
+and I tend to avoid the saccherine.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:messages
+Date:  96-02-23 03:33:10 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+1) There was an outsider, Kirkish, in the room.  Yes, she's helped him, but
+he's still going to hold back some info because he doesn't know what impact
+it might have on Sinclair.  He's protective of him.
+
+2) Yes, Kosh should've been there.  Kosh wasn't.  Kosh hasn't been carrying
+his weight, if you ask me.  I hope this doesn't cause a problem somewhere....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Spoilers Please
+Date:  96-02-23 03:34:05 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I wish I could, but they're just very cool, and I wouldn't want to give
+anything away....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Hey...that guy over there
+Date:  96-02-23 03:34:52 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Can't do it.  A cameo would destroy (for me) the illusion that is B5.  So you
+won't see me in a B5 episode.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:MFE -WHOA!!!
+Date:  96-02-23 03:37:03 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"Was the "package" mentioned in Exo the blonde woman giving us the Mars
+Shadow info? Or was it the eggs and bacon?  Or have we not seen it yet?  
+
+Yes, the package referred to Kirkish.
+
+"It seems Sheridan is destroying his Shadow ships by using tricks - not a
+straight up battle.  At some point won't he be one on one with a Shadow and
+have to deal with it?"
+
+Sooner or later.  Right now he's outgunned hideously.  He'll have to find a
+way.
+
+"At some point won't Sheridan have to fight Earth? (I really don't expect an
+answer to this one)"
+
+Stick around.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Two Questions for JMS
+Date:  96-02-23 03:39:16 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{2) With six appendages for the males and six slots for the females, I kinda
+wonder if the Centauri are capable of multiple births on a regular basis.
+Care to comment on that?}
+
+No multiple births, in that sense, not any different than humans.
+
+{1) Although the capital of the Earth Alliance (Earthdome) is located in
+Geneva, it seems to me the basic legislative structure is like the United
+States, albeit in a unicameral setting (I see only the Senate). Did you plan
+it this way, and have you ever thought about doing a historical
+article/presentation on Earth history until the Babylon 5 setting?}
+
+Your analysis on the governmental situation is pretty accurate; the Senate in
+this case comprised of member nation/states, with smaller ones having less
+voice than the bigger ones (like the Russian Consortium, the North American
+Federation, and so on).
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Love the Show!
+Date:  96-02-23 03:40:14 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks.  Eventually eps and the pilot will be on video, it's simply a matter
+of time.
+
+To the rest...wait and see.  And thanks.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Fan Fiction
+Date:  96-02-24 03:50:10 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{You could create a file entitled, "NO JMS Allowed". That should cover the
+legal stuff}
+
+1) Simply saying "NO JMS" on a folder is not sufficient; I could still go
+into any area to which I have been proven to have access.  Having access to
+the general area (AOL) access to the specific material is *automatically
+assumed* in any court of law.  Instant loss should someone post a story and
+decide later that something we did was too close to their story.
+
+2) I have asked, as a courtesy, for people to refrain from fan fiction until
+the 5 year story is over.  There are only 2 years remaining on this request.
+ST fanfic was developed as a way to keep the characters alive while the show
+was gone.  There is no such need at this time.
+
+3) If fanfic is posted to AOL, I will have to withdraw from AOL.  That
+simple.  It's even worse than posting a story idea, it's a whole *story*.  I
+have no desire to scuttle another story, or a major part of an arc, to avoid
+somebody thinking I swiped it.
+
+4) Be advised that the names, situations and characters are all copyrighted
+by Warner Bros., and if courtesy is not sufficient, any infringement of that
+copyright by fanfiction will be conveyed to the legal eagles for action.
+
+Don't do it.  I *mean* it.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:O'Hare, a bad guy?
+Date:  96-02-24 23:28:35 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{The real reason Sinclair is gone? RATINGS! WB didn't feel he was helping the
+ratings. They wanted a better known actor. An old story, but true.}
+
+There were only the following people in the room when Michael and I discussed
+the prospect of his leaving the show to return in another capacity at a later
+date: me, Michael, Doug Netter and John Copeland.  You are none of these.
+
+Further, at the time we had this conversation, the ratings were on one of
+their usual upswings after reruns.  
+
+You know *nothing* of this situation.  You're just going off what you assume
+to be true.  But assuming it and saying it doesn't make it true.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS. life for B5 after B5
+Date:  96-02-24 23:37:56 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{I am interested in your thoughts as to whether the will be a life
+for the surviving B5 charcters after the 5yr story arc.   You have created a
+universe that is rich and varied, and it would be a shame to see it just end
+after this much creative talent has been lent to it's birth }
+
+There's always been a side-story that could go off after the 5 years, though
+the odds are slim and none.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Thanks for the ride!
+Date:  96-02-24 23:38:35 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Thank you for the delicious thrill I get each week from your incredible
+show/universe/mind!  You have tapped brilliantly into the mythic themes of
+the great epic tales - and whether I feel caught up in the great "resistance
+struggle",  moved by the profound choices which degrade Londo or ennoble
+G'Kar, thrilled by encounters with Beings of Light, horrified by though
+control police or}
+
+Thanks....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Poetry guidelines (?)
+Date:  96-02-24 23:40:49 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+As long as new elements aren't introduced into the piece, we're fine.  "Oh, I
+remember when you found the space duck / We said you were really a big shmuck
+/ The bombing of Earth was a crummy notion / Now Detroit is just a great big
+ocean."
+
+That sorta thing.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj: Re:Waiting for June...
+Date:  96-02-24 23:42:49 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Some themes are universal and timeless.  In the case of Bosnia, more's the
+pity.
+
+Yes, I'll be at Blackpool.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:To JMS: Re: How we doing?
+Date:  96-02-24 23:45:03 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+So far, I hear we're doing well with the station-by-station renewals.  Won't
+know anything for sure for about a month or so.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Hats off, JMS!!
+Date:  96-02-24 23:46:25 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks, we try....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Messages from Mars?
+Date:  96-02-24 23:47:35 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{6.  And isn't Sheridan the least bit upset that Kosh wants him to do
+everything without help, even if it costs him his life?
+7.  Can you tell me the dimensions of a Shadow ship or the WhiteStar?  I'm
+guessing that a Shadow Mother-Symbiotic-Terror Ship has a 'spine-span' of
+about 2 kilometers at least, maybe even two miles; is this close?}
+
+Don't have the shadow dimensions offhand; and yes, you'd think Sheridan might
+begin to wonder about Kosh's level of involvement.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:By the way...
+Date:  96-02-24 23:48:30 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{We haven't heard squat from the Grey Council since Delenn was removed, and
+replaced by Neroon. Are they talking behind closed doors about...Londo?...
+In other words, will they show up again this season sometime?}
+
+At least one of them will show up again, yes.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:IPX Question
+Date:  96-02-24 23:49:07 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{How long has Interplanetary Expeditions been a going concern?}
+
+IXP has been in business, in one form or another, for between 50-80 years.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:"Message" Question & Comm
+Date:  96-02-24 23:50:49 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{1)  I didn't notice Lennier or Delenn doing any translations on the White
+Star.  Has the Minbari crew learned to speak English now?}
+
+Lennier was muttering his translations off-screen.
+
+That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Praise for MfE & N Staffo
+Date:  96-02-27 01:52:17 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{So if you have the opportunity, please pass along to Ms. Stafford my
+appreciation of her performance. }
+
+I entirely agree; I think she did a dynamite job as Kirkish.  Totally
+convincing.  When she walked into the audition, and did the part, there was
+no question...it was her.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Military Strength
+Date:  96-02-25 19:42:18 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I'd put Shadows and Vorlons at the top, then Minbari, Centauri, with Narns
+and Humans at about the same level, give or take.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:To: JMS and DLyulkin
+Date:  96-02-25 19:43:28 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+We've already established in the episode that the bodyguard is the same as in
+"All Alone."  We did that when the two had a drink in the zocalo.  It was in
+dialogue.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: TENTACLES!!!!!!
+Date:  96-02-25 19:43:52 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Those are his...erm...reproductive organs....
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Major Plot Twist Ahead?!
+Date:  96-02-25 19:44:39 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The third age is involved, yes...and if I told you the first two, that would
+give you the third.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Sinclair?
+Date:  96-02-25 19:45:10 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Sinclair appears in the 2-parter airing the last 2 weeks of May.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: One Word for MFE
+Date:  96-02-25 19:46:15 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+....i don't remember anymore....
+
+Senility is a terrible thing, but I suppose it happens to us all after a
+while.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Questions, questions
+Date:  96-02-25 19:48:41 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yes, Howard Stern has repeatedly endorsed the show; and yes, the shadow
+vessel was still a little wobbly from its long hibernation and the improper
+melding.  As for the title...I'm trying to avoid saying anything about it
+yet.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Particular politicals
+Date:  96-02-27 01:41:52 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Are the rights suspended during times of martial law similar to our own
+(freedom to gather, habeus corpus (sp?) etc.) ?}
+
+Yes, right to assemble, free speech rights, they're all open to abridgement.
+Travel can also be restricted.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Messages from Earth
+Date:  96-02-27 01:43:17 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Certainly G'Kar has had...a revelation, I suppose is the best way of putting
+it, and that tends to transform you.  What form emerges from this remains to
+be seen.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Bwok, bwok...huh?
+Date:  96-02-27 01:44:14 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{It did raise one little question: if Earth is only a two-day voyage away, why
+can't they get fresh eggs and bacon?}
+
+Mainly it's the expense involved per volume.  It still costs big bucks, and
+you generally need refrigeration.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Messages from Earth
+Date:  96-02-27 01:45:40 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+So what *was* that blue goop everyone else had to eat in lieu of bacon and
+eggs?}
+
+Actually, I think it was blueberry yogurt.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Lady Morella's Speech
+Date:  96-02-27 01:46:27 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{One question, was Lady Morella's speech regarding the emperor ment as a
+tribute to Gene Roddenberry?}
+
+There's probably a fair amount there that could apply to Gene, yes...
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:writing and spfx
+Date:  96-02-27 01:47:18 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Joe,   Do you take into account the ability of the SPFX crew to realize a
+shot when you are writing an episode ?}
+
+Generally, I write whatever the scene requires; most times, I find out that
+the efx folks can deliver *more* than what I had in mind.  I don't think I've
+had to pull back once yet.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS:HDTV Question
+Date:  96-02-27 01:47:52 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{I've read that B5 is shot in widescreen to be used later for HDTV.}
+
+Yes, we film widescreen and crop for regular aspect ratio; eventually it'll
+be released that way.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Michael York
+Date:  96-02-27 01:49:13 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+York finished with us quite some time ago.  Great episode, and a nice man.
+Very friendly, very polite, nothing of the "I'm a STAR" attitude one often
+gets with...well, *stars*.  He was even very nice when I gleepily asked him
+to sign my laserdisk of CABARET.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Soundtrack #2
+Date:  96-02-25 19:40:20 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No idea yet, though I should be getting a preliminary CD from Chris soon with
+his thoughts.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Ike and Abe
+Date:  96-02-28 04:31:14 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Evan: what a *great* analysis.  I'd nudge you in the direction of the
+Politics and History folder here in this area; I think you could add a lot to
+that one, which just started up.  Anyway, very well considered.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: White Star Symbols
+Date:  96-02-28 04:31:56 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+They're Minbari letters; yes, each race does have its own symbol or logo;
+we've used them here and there.  Will see if I can post them sometime.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Katsulas honored?
+Date:  96-02-28 04:32:57 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No, I don't believe he has won an emmy...and he's long overdue given his
+skills.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: A few questions...
+Date:  96-02-28 04:34:53 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+1) Who writes the blurbs each week in TV Guide?  Is it someone involved with
+the show, or someone at PTEN, or just some shadow somewhere?
+
+If by this you mean the actual listings themselves...they're written by TV
+Guide staffers, as I understand it.
+
+2) Is there a timeline that lists the approximate day/month/year that each
+episode takes place?  If so, could you post it?
+
+I don't have one available outside the show, since it's very detailed and
+has, well, EVERYthing in it, past and future...but there's one at the
+hyperion website (available here via the www jumpgate) that's pretty darned
+thorough.
+
+3) You say that after B5 ends, there is a possible "spin off" that _could_
+happen, but probably won't be made into a TV series.  Have you considered
+either a novel or a series of novels?
+
+Considered and considering...but for now, I have to focus on this.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Film Stock Question
+Date:  96-02-28 04:35:48 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No, we shoot in super 35 millimeter, which gives us a widescreen image which
+we crop for current domestic aspect ratio TVs.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:The Shuttle Dyson
+Date:  96-02-28 04:36:16 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Just a guy in the walla group who happens to sound kinda like Sean....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Tentacles again
+Date:  96-02-28 04:36:52 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Well, Londo did use them once to cheat at cards...so they're fairly
+dexterous....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS thankyou
+Date:  96-02-28 04:37:48 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The thanks are entirely mine....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:More inquiries
+Date:  96-02-29 20:16:58 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Many, many questions}
+
+I think you just won the prize for most questions that I absolutely can't
+answer at one time....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Frankly, You Amaze Me
+Date:  96-02-29 20:31:19 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Cristine: thanks.  You're right, in many ways it is personal to me.  I tend
+to get passionate about the job because I never taken on any job unless I
+feel passionately about it, if that makes any syntactical sense whatsoever.
+Life's too short.  B5 is a particular case in that this is something that
+everyone involved -- from the cast, through to the crew, directors, others --
+is absolutely dedicated to.  They believe that we're creating something
+rather extraordinary here, something that'll be talked about for a long time
+after we're gone.  
+
+It took me five years to sell this show, after everyone else told me to
+forget it, that it'd never happen, that it was too ambitious...said that I
+*could* sell it if I made it sexier, less aimed at the "smart" viewers and
+more accessible to folks who just want plain action and a smattering of sex.
+I could've sold a more mainstream series with far less hassle, to any of the
+networks.  But I have to tell *this* story.  
+
+So when you're obsessed with something, it's easier to spend 24.9 hours a day
+working on it.  (I cobble up the extra 9/10ths of an hour from a
+fourth-dimensional gate in my office.)  As for the online time...that ties
+into the obsession part, in some ways, but beyond that, it's a chance to keep
+working at my #1 bugaboo, demystifying TV, being responsive (and answerable)
+to fans when it works or doesn't work...actually, it works out for me because
+when I have to stop writing and think through a story point, I don't just get
+up and walk into the living room to watch TV, where you can lose a couple
+hours at a time.  I stay at the keyboard, do a quick pass through one of the
+nets, kill 15 minutes...by which time I've worked out the story point, and I
+get back to work.  It keeps me at the computer.
+
+But yeah...in every conceivable sense, the work comes first in my life. This
+is the single biggest thing I've ever attempted in my life, in terms of sheer
+scale and scope and hours.  It has a finite lifespan.  So during that time,
+it owns me.  I can give it nothing less.  When it's finally done, then I can
+rest.  Selling and running the show is like being yoked to a train; you pull
+real hard for a long time, for five years, until it finally moves.  Then it
+picks up speed.  And then you spend the next five years of your life running
+as fast as you can in front of it, because if you slow down, it'll run over
+you.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Hyperion Website
+Date:  96-02-29 20:32:44 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No, I had and have nothing to do with the Hyperion website, except to look at
+it with awe and wonder.  It's quite a site.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Hour 25
+Date:  96-02-29 20:35:52 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I followed Harlan as host.  After Mike passed away, he gave it to Harlan, who
+did it for a year, then Harlan passed it to me, and I managed to stick with
+it for five years.  I'm trying to remember when I finally left...I think it
+was around 1992-ish.  I opted out for many reasons, among them that I felt it
+was a conflict of interest to be making an SF series at the same time that I
+was hosting a radio show that covered stuff like SF TV series.  I enjoyed
+doing the show -- a 2-hour weekly gig on a high-power radio station in LA, no
+commercials, doing anything I wanted -- but ethically I had a real problem
+continuing when B5 became a reality.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Many thanks great show
+Date:  96-02-29 20:37:23 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No, the thanks are entirely mine, for your support and kind words.  This is
+the kind of show that will never come around for me again, and it wouldn't be
+here without viewers.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Lyta to appear ???
+Date:  96-02-29 20:38:12 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{In which episode will we see Lyta again?}
+
+You'll see Lyta again in Interludes and Examinations, then again this season
+in Walkabout.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:nightwatch
+Date:  96-02-28 04:29:16 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Here's something to consider in this.
+
+It's easy -- safe and reassuring -- to dismiss Nightwatch and the whole
+political climate on Earth at this time as referring to Nazi germany...SS,
+Stormtroopers, informers...but if we know our history, it shows that this is
+not so isolated as we might think.  If we say it was just the Nazis, then
+it's a non-repeatable phenomenon, we needn't worry about it again.
+
+But, of course, it does happen again...it did, and it will, to varying
+degrees.  Go back to the Inquisition, and forward to Joe McCarthy and the
+House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) which destroyed lives and
+reputations based on association, past history, social contacts and party
+affiliations (the items specified by Musante to the EA folks in Nightwatch).
+Stalin and to a lesser extent Lenin would have been right at home in
+Nightwatch.  Several of the leaders speaking for parties in the ruins of what
+was once Yugoslavia would also fit.  
+
+It's easy, and safe, for us to say, "Oh, we would never do that, only THEY
+did that."  But the "they" in this ARE the we on the other side...and "we"
+have done it, are doing it now, and will continue to do it.  Only when we
+*know* the history of such things, when we recognize the rhetoric of control,
+when we oppose blacklisting and scapegoating and dead-catting do we help to
+assure that they *won't* arise again.  Remember the quote: "Those who do not
+remember history are condemned to repeat it."
+
+There's a great deal of generalized historical and political metaphor in the
+show, never one-to-one because that's too easy, but disguised in one form or
+another, transumted.  The Centauri Republic isn't a real republic by any
+stretch of the imagination...any more than the Roman Republic from which it
+draws some of its political structure, particularly the Centarum, the ruling
+body.  There's a great deal of Japanese political and social structure to the
+Minbari, in their culture and art and some of their philosophy.  You can find
+parallels to the story in World War II, and the bible, among a few dozen
+others.
+
+Too little of TV these days is *about* anything...it's all context, no
+subtext.  This show is about a lot of things...but never in the mode of
+telling you what to think.  We'll ask *that* you think, that you consider the
+world around you, and your place in it...but defining that is your business,
+not ours.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:The enemy is us.
+Date:  96-02-29 20:08:57 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"Zack is the key figure here.  He's the one questioning if he's on the right
+side and just what his allies are up to.  I've heard some good analogies to
+present days situations kicked around on these boards, but It seems mostly
+Republicans want to accuse democrats and vice versa.  What we need is more
+Republicans willing to criticise fellow republicans and democrats willing to
+criticise fellow democrats."
+
+A very good point.  Zack is, to all intents and purposes, the Everyman
+character in this; he wants, desperately, to do what's right.  But he doesn't
+exactly *know* what's right, because he's getting conflicting
+information...or rather, a lack of *real* information and a plethora of
+agendas.  Who is he to believe?  Which wasy does he jump when he's not sure
+which pit holds the lion?
+
+When a culture become factionalized, when it becomes us vs. them, everyone
+starts setting up consistently smaller camps...first it's democrats vs.
+republicans...then it's mainstream republicans vs. conservative
+republicans...then it's conservative republicans vs. religious right
+republicans (with the democrats having equal problems on their side).  As
+soon as we forget that we're *all* US, it begins to fall apart.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Psuedo-intellectual babble
+Date:  96-02-29 20:13:15 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{B5 sucks, people only want to talk to JMS to feel like they are in the
+"inner circle", your lives are pathetic, etc}
+
+Yes, Sandie, that's very nice, but you still have to finish your brussel
+sprouts or you can't stay up and watch Baywatch.  
+
+Your mother and I are *very* concerned.
+
+jms
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+Subj:  Re:Eating Crow...Part 2
+Date:  96-03-01 03:23:12 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{how about giving us fans one of those infamous cryptic
+previews of the things we can expect in April and March....Please!!!!!}
+
+How do you like your crow?  Medium?  Well-done?  It can't be rare because
+crows are hardly ever rare.
+
+What's coming up?  Hmmm...the world is turned upside down, other people turn
+their backs on everything they think they believe in, a voice comes from the
+distant past, there's a change in fashion sense, there's romance (intended
+and unintended), heroics, the return (as it were) of Babylon 4, revelations,
+revolutions, treaties and a whole lotta gunfire.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Lyta Alexander
+Date:  96-03-01 03:24:22 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{I read somewhere that Lyta is deaf.}
+
+No, the novelist didn't blow it, Joe blew it, because in proofreading the
+manuscript, Joe missed that line somehow, and didn't catch it.  It's my job
+to catch these things.  (Just spent a whole week going over the A-Z of
+Babylon 5 coming out from Boxtree Books in the UK to keep it as accurate as
+possible.)
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Point of No Return - Spoi
+Date:  96-03-03 01:42:03 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Wendy: thanks.  We do try....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Hour 25
+Date:  96-03-03 01:22:27 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Ehh...I'm not really a radio personality kind of guy...still working on ANY
+kind of personality...and I don't know if I would have much of anything worth
+saying to a national audience.  So it's pretty much a moot point.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Sick feeling
+Date:  96-03-03 01:24:30 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks.  We disturb, from time to time; other times we amuse, or inform.
+That's what TV should be for.  "Be sand, not oil, in the machinery of the
+world," as someone said.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Earthforce officer
+Date:  96-03-03 01:25:32 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Wanda's tied up elsewhere, but we do plan to use more hispanics in the show,
+as well as other ethnic groups.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Withdrawels
+Date:  96-03-03 01:25:56 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yes, I think those two will be rerun in short order.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Withdrawels
+Date:  96-03-03 01:28:58 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+It's perfectly okay to show this stuff in class, as far as I know, so it's
+cool.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Foreign Markets
+Date:  96-03-03 01:30:28 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+We're on in a lot of countries: France, Germany, Norway, Canada, Taiwan,
+Singapore, England, Australia, Israel, Jordan and a number of others.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Frankly, You Amaze Me
+Date:  96-03-03 01:33:44 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"...you're doing the same thing without the pain of two "bad" records."
+
+Hrmmm...I dunno about that.  There are a number of things I've done in the
+course of learning my craft that I wouldn't necessarily want to put back on
+the air just now.  It's like the first time you learn carpentry; eventually
+you can make swell stuff, but you know that hidden in the other room is the
+napkin holder you made where the angles don't come together, the glue is
+visible, the dowels don't quite fit properly....
+
+Any form of art is trial and error.  You make the same mistake 999 times, so
+the 1,000th time you don't make that mistake anymore.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Space Potatoes?
+Date:  96-03-03 01:34:29 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The ship was hidden there to avoid it being destroyed during the war.  May or
+may not see General Franklin again anytime soon.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS- And The Rock Cried
+Date:  96-03-03 01:35:15 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" is a quote from the Bible, from a
+passage also used in various gospel songs.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Boom Today?
+Date:  96-03-03 01:35:47 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Boom April 3rd.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Actors
+Date:  96-03-03 01:36:50 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I'm directly involved in casting; all cast, guest and regular, must be
+approved through my office.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: PONR Questions (Spoi
+Date:  96-03-03 01:38:23 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+If I were to answer any of these questions, which will be answered in the
+very next batch of new episodes...well, there wouldn't be much point in
+showing them...
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:LuvSerfie 
+Date:  96-03-03 01:20:42 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Wow...I've never seen a tactical nuke used in battlefield combat before....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Any cons?
+Date:  96-03-04 05:30:04 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yes, I'll be at the Chicago Comic Con in June in neighboring Rosedale.
+
+Am tentatively planning to be at the Syndi-Con convention in San Francisco
+over the weekend of April 12-14.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Inquisitor quotes
+Date:  96-03-04 05:28:34 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks.  The Inquisitor was a great episode to write, and Wayne did a killer
+job with it (so to speak).  That one episode has received more mail than most
+others, particularly from those in the religious community, as well as at
+universities, crisis centers, you name it.  Something there seemed to strike
+a chord.
+
+It's easy in an SF show to cut to the EFX and let it rock; to me, the
+challenge is what's shown in those scenes: two people, locked in a room, no
+(or few) EFX, no car chases, not even much of a set...with explosions of
+dialogue and character.  Ah loves it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Messages from Earth
+Date:  96-03-04 05:22:45 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Allow me to disagree with you.  Re: "The Nine Billion Names of God," the
+whole purpose of that story had nothing to do with alien contact; it had to
+do with gettting all the earthbound names of God into a computer, so they
+could create the end of the world.  The monks are on B5 in an attempt at
+studying the different religions out there for the purpose of better
+understanding...or more succinctly, comparitive religious studies, which long
+predate Clarke by, oh, about 500 years.
+
+The buried shadow vessel was put there to hide it from destruction.  Are you
+suggesting that every time someone buries something alien it's 2001?  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:praise for PoNR
+Date:  96-03-04 05:25:08 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Tiger: thanks.  All I can say is that when you see "Severed Dreams," I think
+you'll find it was worth the wait.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Syndicated ratings: 2/11/
+Date:  96-03-04 05:19:23 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+There are usually anywhere from 250 to 275 or more syndicated shows every
+week; at #43 or 38 out of that, we're in the top 15-20%.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Trek vs. B5 on AOL part 2
+Date:  96-03-04 05:34:23 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Jeez...I'm surprised one of them didn't write "Go back to russia where you
+came from!"  All I can offer is that that reaction is not typical of all ST
+fans, only the noisy minority who show up at cons in Spock ears and make the
+majority of open-minded, mature ST fans shake their heads in dismay.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:favorite episode
+Date:  96-03-04 05:35:29 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The episode you cite was "The Geometry of Shadows."
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Delenn in PoNR
+Date:  96-03-07 03:04:26 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Delenn was taking care of some business on Minbar.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Great episodes
+Date:  96-03-07 03:04:58 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Darla: thanks.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Hello???????
+Date:  96-03-07 03:05:45 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The info came from the Vorlons, and from the last war the Minbari fought
+against them.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Why didn't we see the fig
+Date:  96-03-07 03:07:41 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+We could've easily played the EFX full-screen, as WB used them in the promos,
+after all.  But it's a slow tease, a reveal.  You do it big in Messages, hold
+it back just a bit, at arm's length, in PoNR, then bring it all REAL close
+again in the next episode.  By putting it at some remove in PoNR, it makes
+the viewer almost like one of those in the Zocalo, fighting for a better
+look, stranded out far away, trying to figure out what's going on.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Religion on B5
+Date:  96-03-07 03:11:28 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+We hope to have Harlan's script for next season.
+
+"I hope that perhaps you have done some searching in areas of your faith as a
+result of that episode."
+
+No.  Don't see any reason to do so.  I wasn't *exposed* to that episode, I
+*wrote* it, the same way I'd write a convincing show about Minbari...I don't
+have to believe they exist to write convincingly about them.
+
+I keep being astounded that others are astounded that an atheist can write
+well about religion without being religious.  Writing is writing.  Characters
+is characters.  Either you're honest as a writer, or you ain't; either you're
+telling a story, or you're using the medium for propaganda.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS:LOTR and the Future
+Date:  96-03-07 03:12:27 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+There's a lot more here than anything like LoTR; the show uses mythic
+archetypes, so you tend to see whichever myth-cycle you're most familiar
+with.
+
+And we do certainly hope to get this story finished, yes.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Corwin
+Date:  96-03-07 03:13:43 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks.  Corwin's question is really one that hits a lot; you see things
+starting to fly apart, but you keep thinking it's gonna work out..then it all
+goes to hell, and you're standing there trying to figure out how it all
+slipped away.  It's a very innocent, yet universal question.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Inquiries from the Rim
+Date:  96-03-07 03:15:05 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I'd love to see an Aggy micromachine.  As for the rest...why would I tell you
+what each of her prophecies means, thus defeating the surprise or the impact
+when they're shown?  That would be absolutely self-defeating.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:ISN's role
+Date:  96-03-07 03:15:39 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yes, that's a very good question.  It'll be answered in *the very next new
+episode*, in fact.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:B5 on TNT?
+Date:  96-03-07 03:16:18 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+TNT starts rerunning the show in 1998.  It doesn't guarantee our renewal,
+however.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Equality on B5
+Date:  96-03-07 03:21:50 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Cristine: thanks.  For what it's worth, I have always admired/been attracted
+to strong, capable, intelligent and witty women.  I like independence of
+thought, and nothing delights me more than being surprised, or topped in a
+verbal exchange.  And I've seen some women police officers and soldiers who
+could clear out a bar without even breaking a sweat.  Several women friends
+of mine are very much into the martial arts.
+
+Wimmin iz peoples too.  I don't understand why some folks have such a hard
+time with that concept.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Narn Religion
+Date:  96-03-07 03:24:20 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+G'Quan was the greatest of the Narns, a prophet, a religious figure of great
+proportions; G'Lan was one of those second-tier types who showed up
+afterward.  (The comparable human analog would be if G'Quan -> Mohammed,
+G'Lan -> Angel.
+
+(And yes, I know I've crossed religious structures there.)
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Bad transliterations
+Date:  96-03-07 03:25:37 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yes, and "sure" should be spelled "shoor."
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Misunderstanding
+Date:  96-03-07 03:26:04 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Nope, we did San Diego ourselves.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Battles as Tales
+Date:  96-03-07 03:26:46 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The only comment I would have is, be patient a bit....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:marcus and the link
+Date:  96-03-07 03:30:30 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I just summoned up Marcus in my head.  Here's what he said: "Because I won't
+wear the bloody thing, that's why.  Bad enough you've got those pagers you
+wear in 1996, no privacy, no chance to get away, always at somebody's beck
+and call.  Why not just put a leash around your neck and get it over with?
+It'd be faster and a good deal more honest.  I'm down in the bar trying to be
+inconspicuous, dangerous characters on all sides, trying not to be
+noticed...and the link goes off, and I'm dead.  Or at minimum seriously
+thumped.  No, absolutely not.  You'll never get me to wear one of those."
+
+(This is btw the reason why I absolutely *refuse* to wear a pager myself.)
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:New episodes
+Date:  96-03-07 03:30:58 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+April 3rd.
+
+jms
+Subj:  Re:Just Wondering
+Date:  96-03-07 03:31:23 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The good guys *always* get whacked, at some point....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Hi again, JMS, thanks & a
+Date:  96-03-07 03:33:30 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+There are no immediate plans for Talia's return...but we haven't heard the
+last of that relationship, and the reference I promised is in the very next
+batch of new eps.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Names
+Date:  96-03-07 03:39:29 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Actually, it's Clark, not Clarke, so that one's not a tribute; neither is
+Morden, though it has some of the sounds of Mordred and Mordor and other
+Murderous names.  I'd actually suggest that 90% of the names used have no
+other reference than their own identity.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Shadows/Vorlons
+Date:  96-03-07 03:39:50 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{does Kosh merge with his ship? Aren't the Vorlon ship
+organic too?}
+
+Yes, but only in a manner of speaking.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:stuff
+Date:  96-03-07 03:47:35 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"For I Am Become Death" was a working title; I finally decided that "Point of
+No Return" was a more apt title for the year.
+
+If one is being accurate in Eastern-European terms, it's pronounced
+strah-chin-ski; in general Americanized terms (which is what I go by), it's
+strah-zin-ski.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:click... *click*...  CLIC
+Date:  96-03-07 03:50:55 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I was the Supervising Producer brought on under Executive Producer David
+Moessinger when "Walker, Texas Ranger" was first being produced for CBS.  I
+left in fairly short order to do B5, which had already been commissioned
+prior to doing Walker, but David asked for some help, and I never decline a
+friend.  Unfortunately, the studio was Cannon TV, which is not exactly known
+for its sterling rep, so after a while I was driven mad and ran screaming out
+into the night.  "WTR" was eventually transferred to a different, better
+studio.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Bad transliterations part
+Date:  96-03-07 03:56:53 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Nope, still don't buy it.  How many versions have we seen of names in Vietnam
+or China in English?  Look at an atlas for China in the 1960s, and now.
+Notice that now X is used where once Ch was used.  (Chou becomes Xiou.)
+Technically, my name is pronounced strachinski, but it's got a czy in the
+middle of it.  
+
+There's also a difference between transLATION and transLITERATION.  The
+latter is often less accurate than the former.
+
+You may choose to take any linguistic position you choose; however, the
+language as it is used does not reconcile with that stance.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Misunderstanding
+Date:  96-03-09 05:15:12 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+How big was the San Diego Nuke?  Big enough, and dirty enough, to make the
+area officially uninhabitable for a long time.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Hi again, JMS, thanks & a
+Date:  96-03-09 05:16:44 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I can't send you a copy of the ep; but if you use the www jumpgate at the top
+of the B5 area here, it will take you to the Lurker's Guide at hyperion.com,
+and you'll find all you need there.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:No, no! Don't touch...ACK
+Date:  96-03-09 05:18:09 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I think you're misremembering; Bester nudged up his right sleeve with his
+left hand and held it out; Franklin stuck the needle in.  I don't believe he
+held his hand (which was gloved in any event).
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:To:  JMS
+Date:  96-03-09 05:19:56 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The syndicated market is changing so much I don't think it'd be feasible in
+anothr year or two.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Harlan Ellison
+Date:  96-03-09 05:20:50 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Harlan is generally quite jovial and funny in person; but he feels outrage
+deeply when it takes place, and isn't afraid to do a deserved Jeremiad when
+necessary....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Lennier (mis)information?
+Date:  96-03-09 05:22:35 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I have no idea where that came from; not from me (re: Lennier).  As for
+Sinclair, I think you'll get what you're asking for in the two-parter.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:To: JMS Re: Renewal?
+Date:  96-03-09 05:24:33 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I won't know until April/May.  The main issue, I think, is going to be the
+second-runs in most markets.  It wasn't a problem the first two years, but
+now with so much new syndicated product on the market, the logical and
+understandable reaction is, "Why should I rerun an episode of one show when I
+can put on a *new* episode of *another* show and make *more money*?"  But the
+advertising is sold based on double-runs in some cases, or at least a certain
+percentage of double runs.  So we'll have to see.  I am, for now, cautiously
+optimistic.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Questions, Schmestions!
+Date:  96-03-09 05:25:22 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+B5 orbits Epsilon Eridani.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Just Thinking
+Date:  96-03-09 05:26:59 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"Since Warner Brothers does not seem to have an understanding of what they
+have on their hands,   (Don't they realize the cash potential they have?!)
+Would you object to us, (loyal following) writing to them (Snail or E-Mail)
+and expressing more promotions or recognition be given the show?   If so, can
+you publish the CEO's name and address here? (preferably, E-Mail address)"
+
+That would be Robert Daly, at WB in New York; don't have his address at hand.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Att'n JMS:  The Equalizer
+Date:  96-03-09 05:28:47 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I enjoyed the Equalizer, though I didn't see all the episodes, and it wasn't
+anywhere in my head when I was coming up with the show.  
+
+The key to *any* good character is to make them real.  You have to invest a
+lot of yourself into that process, differentiating how they move, walk, talk,
+think, believe.  It's a lot of work, but the result is worth it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Other aliens in backgroun
+Date:  96-03-09 05:29:30 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+It does sorta look like that, on reflection, but it ain't Sandman-esque.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Susan's revelation- a ?
+Date:  96-03-09 05:30:29 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+That information was sent to Earth, where it's led directly to the series of
+current investigations that were launched...and which forced Clark's hand
+into declaring martial law to distract from all that.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Z'ha'dum
+Date:  96-03-09 05:30:56 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Why didn't the Vorlons destroy the Shadows on Z'ha'dum}
+
+It's not that easy; you'll figure out why soon.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Religion on B5
+Date:  96-03-09 05:39:46 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I've always been a writer.  Even when I was just a kid, I was "preparing,"
+always checking out different kinds of writing instruments, collecting the
+artifacts of writing...took 3 years of typing in high school until I got to
+120 wpm...but I didn't start writing until mid-high school, when I finally
+decided I had read enough, thought enough about it, and was *ready*.  
+
+That day, I started writing finally.  I wrote a story I placed with the
+school magazine done out of one of the writing classes.  The next thing I
+wrote ended up in a small outside magazine.  Then I began writing and placing
+articles and plays and stories....
+
+I took some writing classes in college, but the only ones of value were the
+workshops, not the ones where you're taught to write the way the teacher
+*wants* you to write.  The whole theory of writing is to find your unique
+voice; if you surrender that by writing the way somebody else writes, you've
+sacrificed the only commodity you had to offer: your unique vision of the
+world.  In any event, as stated, I was writing and selling long before I took
+my first writing class.
+
+Since 1971, I have written 5-10 pages per day (the last 12+ years generally
+10 or better) every day of the week, 52 weeks a year, except for my birthday,
+christmas, new year's, and my spouse's birthday.  On my first trip to
+England, I swore I wouldn't write, I'd take some time off; I ended up
+sneak-buying a small notepad and, by the time I got back, had outlined my
+first novel, later published by Dutton.
+
+I've written over 500 published articles, dozens of published short stories,
+12 produced plays, a number of songs recorded here and there (including two
+for a prime time ABC special), 2 published novels, 1 published anthology, a
+number of screenplays (some made as TV stuff, some not produced), and 145+
+produced TV scripts, among other stuff.
+
+I write all the time.  It's not what I do, it's what I *am*.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Levels we haven't conside
+Date:  96-03-09 05:40:20 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Are there higher levels in the show that we aren't considering}
+
+There aren't higher levels per se....but different levels.  You'll see.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS:  Question for a frie
+Date:  96-03-09 05:42:03 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Your friend needs to switch to a decaffeinated coffee.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Z'ha'dum
+Date:  96-03-10 04:01:36 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Delenn and Kosh told the truth as they knew it.  And the trailer for Severed
+Dreams won't be available until closer to airtime.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Actors imput
+Date:  96-03-10 04:06:17 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+This is a hard question to answer.  When you create a character in your head,
+you always hear them a certain way.  Sometimes, when you bring in an actor,
+you hear it a different way, and you have to adjust.  Sometimes the actor
+sounds just like what you had in mind (as with Jason Carter and Claudia).  
+
+For me, what's interesting is when an actor finds something in the text that
+was there, that I didn't recognize even though I'd written it, and
+illuminates a corner of the character.  (And sometimes I discover I've
+revealed more about myself than I'd intended in a scene, only finding this
+out when I see the actor saying the words.)  
+
+Probably the biggest impact in B5 terms was in seeing the humor that Claudia
+could bring to the part, and the vulnerability that Peter summoned up.  The
+scene in the pilot movie where Londo goes to Garibaldi and says, basically,
+yes, I messed up, and yes, I'd do it again, showed a great depth of feeling,
+of conflicting emotions that lifted that scene way beyond what was on the
+page, and showed me that I could take Londo anywhere I wanted, and the actor
+behind the character could and would take it all the way without ever
+stumbling.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Minbari Bone Ridges
+Date:  96-03-10 04:07:36 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Worker caste tend to fade into the background; we've seen them here and
+there; pilots and traders (visible in "Strife") are worker caste, and others.
+They don't have as much a stylized manner of bone-carving as the other
+castes.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:writer's block
+Date:  96-03-10 04:11:23 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No, I've never had writer's block.  (I hate saying that; it's like saying out
+loud at the top of the 9th inning that you've got a no-hitter going...the
+universe loves to trip you up.)
+
+I think it comes from being a generalist; if I don't have a script at hand to
+think about, I flip over to writing a short story, a novel, an article,
+something else.  Also, I never sit down to write out a scene or a section
+until I've "seen" it in my head so many times that it's practically
+transcription at that point.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:re wrists and stuff
+Date:  96-03-10 04:12:03 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Won't work.  I've tried dictating, didn't work (despite allegations that I'm
+a dictator).  I write out of my fingers; I can't dictate the stuff.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Janet Greek
+Date:  96-03-10 04:13:36 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Janet just signed onto a series -- jeez, I just forgot the name, it fell out
+of my head -- as a writer and director.  If I can drag it out of my brain,
+I'll post the name.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:B5 the Series
+Date:  96-03-10 04:16:14 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"This is better than sex!"
+
+Thank you.
+
+Now keep those hands to yourself, mister.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Conundrum
+Date:  96-03-13 18:06:07 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Warner Bros. is not so much a monolithic company as a series of mutually
+competing divisions.  WBN and PTEN are totally different entities, and
+there's almost no chance of overlap.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Lot's O Q's
+Date:  96-03-13 17:46:20 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The station is about 5 miles long, so the rest you can work from there.
+
+You *can* see the length of the station from some of the living quarters,
+such as Londo's, and from Sheridan's office.
+
+Yes, the Neville Chamberlain parallel was intentional.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:PoNR - Fixed Stars!
+Date:  96-03-13 17:47:26 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+We've gone over this a lot; because the station rotates, you'd need a
+circular, rotating starfield that would be twice as tall as our stage ceiling
+to make it work, and it'd be hideously loud.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:The creative process
+Date:  96-03-13 17:48:36 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Because I knew it'd have to be a multi-year format, which limits you to
+either books or TV, since you couldn't do all of this stuff in films.  (You'd
+need 55 movies.)  So...TV.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:PoNR - Fixed Stars!
+Date:  96-03-13 17:50:30 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+C&C is *not* in the center of the station, which is the zero-g docking bay;
+it's 1/3rd of the way down, so it has about 1/3rd gravity.  That means a 200
+pound person weights 67 pounds, so you're not exactly going to be bouncing
+around or anything.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Uniform Question
+Date:  96-03-13 17:51:24 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Only time will tell.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:World Con...
+Date:  96-03-13 17:51:49 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Well, I'll be there; we'll see about the rest.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:No Free Will?
+Date:  96-03-13 17:53:14 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yes, the characters surprise me...but the characters aren't real, and
+"they're" not surprising me, it's something that burbles out of my
+subconscious.  Only living beings can truly have free will.  Fictional
+characters don't.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Hot Jalla
+Date:  96-03-13 17:55:32 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+It's not a connection, but a resonance; jalla is made from the jalwah tree,
+and yes, G'Kar's father was hung from a jalwah tree.  But I wouldn't read too
+much more into that.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Name that tune
+Date:  96-03-13 18:04:47 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I listen to just about every kind of music there is, except for hard country
+music.  It just grates; not to say it's bad, lots of folks like it, it just
+gets my teeth grinding like tectonic plates.  (The closest I get is bluegrass
+and folk, with the Red Clay Ramblers being a favorite there.)
+
+When I work, I tend to listen to different things as the mood strikes me.
+Everything from rock to jazz to big band to "new age" to classical to Irish
+music to Japanese music to Australian aboriginal music to Gregorian
+chants...you name it.  I was heavily into Japanese KODO music for a while,
+but because I was playing it all the time I kinda got KODO'd out after a
+while.
+
+Among the stuff that turns up most often on the stereo while I'm working
+these days: Meatloaf, Slade, Enya, Alice Cooper, Melissa Etheridge, Sarah
+MacLachlan, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Red Clay Ramblers.  I'll probably
+cycle through into more orchestral/instrumental stuff soon.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:What type of Government E
+Date:  96-03-13 17:31:17 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Each nation/state on Earth has its own government internally, and its own
+leader, who is part of the EA Senate.  One senator per nation/state.  (Mars
+is treated as a colony rather than an independent entity, same with the more
+important colonies, while other, less valuable ones are more loosely
+attached.)  Clark has full military control as Commander of Chief of
+Earthforce, though the military is funded jointly by all participants.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:My point exactly KSTEEN!
+Date:  96-03-13 17:40:54 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"Nightwatch does, in fact, have an "heraldic banner" which is in the form of
+its black uniforms."
+
+Err...I hate to correct you, but Nightwatch members do NOT have black
+uniforms.  Many of them wear armbands, but others do not.  Julie Musante did
+not wear an armband.  Neither did the snitch in C&C who turned in the Narn
+cruiser in "Fall."  B5 security members were given the arm bands as part of
+their uniform, indicating that they were serving Nightwatch in an official
+capacity, the same as you'd give a badge or ID to someone working for two
+agencies.  There are and can be others who are part of Nightwatch who don't
+wear the arm bands.
+
+Also, it's not "an heraldic."  It's A heraldic.  You only use AN if you can't
+hear the H sound; if you can, then you use A.  As in "An hour" and "A horse."
+Similarly, the use "an historic" is also incorrect.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re: B5 CANCELLED
+Date:  96-03-15 04:25:44 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Because, Harokin, this stuff happens *every season* at this time, and after a
+while, one gets tired of chasing down and denying every rumor that comes
+along, time after time.  I posted a brief note about this in the ask jms
+category, that should cover it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  PS to Harokin
+Date:  96-03-15 04:26:42 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Don't take the tone of my prior note as indicating annoyance; it's just that
+this happens every year, and it wears thin after a while.  It's not your
+fault.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Beginnings
+Date:  96-03-15 04:07:25 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I first discovered the Red Clay Ramblers when they were the musical
+accompaniment for the Broadway show (then touring) FOOL MOON.  I thought they
+were absolutely terrific, and still do.  (And the show's terrific too; if it
+comes to your town SEE IT.)
+
+"Where did B5 start? What was the germ of the whole idea? Who were the first
+characters? Were any characters conceived as men that ended up as women and
+vice versa?"
+
+No, the men were men and the women were women (and they LIKED it that way).
+The primary "germ" of the notion was the setting in this case, a locale where
+the stories would come to us rathre than chasing new worlds every week.
+Obviously you need a command staff, and I began filling it out from there.
+Then, one day, the whole story just sorta unfolded in my head in a moment of
+total clarity.  That happens sometimes....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Fan Clubs
+Date:  96-03-15 04:08:03 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yes, I do believe the various actors fan clubs are sanctioned by the actors
+(at least, the ones we know of; not every fan club is sanctioned, obviously.)
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS:88 notes in your musi
+Date:  96-03-15 04:09:29 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+We never know from year to year on the B5 status, same as with every other TV
+series.  No studio will give you a 2-year buy unless you're Spielberg.  We'll
+have to see....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Station Interior
+Date:  96-03-15 04:10:31 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yes, the interior has been mapped to great detail; as Sheridan falls, you can
+see perspective on many of the structures, due to the 3d mapping.  Don't know
+if we'll ever make a map available, at least in the short run.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Cancellation of B5!?
+Date:  96-03-15 04:15:33 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+This happens every season.  People with too much free time on their hands
+start posting rumors long before anything has even been *discussed*.  This
+happened after the pilot ("I just heard from a VERY reliable source that it's
+never gonna make it to series") after the first season ("a guy I know at WB
+says the first season was just a fluke, they got pressured, there won't be a
+second season"), after the second....
+
+Nothing is ever decided on these things until the execs meet to go over it,
+and that won't happen until late April/early May.  Anyone who says he's heard
+anything definitive before then is simply full of it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Dear JMS:Starfury "Nose A
+Date:  96-03-15 04:16:56 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yes, there's nose art for most (though not all) of the furies.  Ivanova's is
+traditionally Russian, and Sheridan's is the Flying Tigers (we actually got
+permission from them to use the symbol).
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:No Free Will?
+Date:  96-03-15 04:17:50 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Ah, but it wasn't Holmes who forced himself back into the writings of Doyle;
+it was pressure from readers (real people) who refused to let it go away.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Artwork from Atlanta
+Date:  96-03-15 04:18:49 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Unfortunately, the answer to both is no, unless you want to give it to one of
+the actors at Fantasticon to pass along....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Couple'a Questions
+Date:  96-03-15 04:20:01 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Now that S3 of B5 is almost done, I can finish the deal to write the Grimjack
+movie, which will take me through the next few months to finish.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Apologies are in order...
+Date:  96-03-15 04:23:35 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+This season is an unintended aberration re: writers; I hope to use others
+next season.
+
+As for your story...apology not accepted because it is unnecessary.  As it
+happens, I remember your comments, and yes, at the time, they were hurtful.
+But they came from honest criticisms of the show, rather than any particular
+agenda, and I never have a problem with honest, fair criticism.  Hell, I had
+my own problems with the pilot, which I was determined to fix in the series.
+
+What you did that counts is that you were sufficiently open-minded and fair
+to give the show a chance when it hit series, and you found that the promises
+were true.  And now have said as much.  What more can anyone ask of one?
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:My point exactly KSTEEN!
+Date:  96-03-15 04:01:54 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Nope.  Zack did wear an armband the whole time he was involved with
+Nightwatch.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Foundationalism
+Date:  96-03-17 23:23:03 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The impact of other alien races on contemporary religions is a good question,
+and one that I hope to carve out some time to examine down the road a bit.
+The Foundation was a way of saying, in essence, that there aren't various
+religions, there's just *human* religion as opposed to what has been
+developed on other worlds...that every human religion is an aspect of the
+whole, like blind men describing an elephant by each holding onto a piece of
+it.  They looked to the foundation of all religions, and combined them, so
+there's aspects of nearly every major and minor belief in them.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:some questions...
+Date:  96-03-21 03:23:59 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+There are no shadow vessels buried on Narn, no.  The shadow influence on the
+Psi Corps has been growing for about 7 years now.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:ATTN: JMS
+Date:  96-03-21 03:25:52 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I wasn't really happy with what we did with n'grath; it's not any fault of
+Optic Nerve, they did a bang up job, it's just...it's a subjective opinion,
+and when I looked at it, it never really worked for me.  So we may not see
+that group again.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Cancellation
+Date:  96-03-21 03:27:26 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+At this point, we're still assuming we'll be renewed, so it's a moot
+question.
+
+The larger issue comes down to commercials, though.  To get national
+advertisers, you need X number of stations, in Y markets, carrying Z
+commercials, preferably on two nights (first run and rerun).  If you can't
+get national sponsors, paying enough money, it doesn't matter if the show is
+over, on, or under budget...you're a dead duck.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS - Voices of Authority
+Date:  96-03-21 03:28:45 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{What did the Walkers say about the Vorlons}
+
+Well, this isn't a *literal* translation, because some words don't translate,
+but the *sense* of the sentence would be "the vorlons can kiss my ____."
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Dawn of third age
+Date:  96-03-21 03:29:39 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The dawning of the third age really happens over the course of the B5 saga.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:B5 Cast in the UK
+Date:  96-03-21 03:31:24 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I don't think the overseas audience numbers will overly affect the decision
+either way; studios tend to look at domestic as the primary market, and
+everything else as ancillary, despite the fact that we are now a global
+electronic community.
+
+I think a few of the cast will hang about the UK for a bit while they're over
+for the cons; in general, many of our cast and crew hang out together and do
+things while on vacation...they like each other, and getting them apart is
+tough.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Tom Baker
+Date:  96-03-21 03:31:47 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I'd love nothing more than to use Tom Baker on the show at some point.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:protecting your work
+Date:  96-03-21 03:32:45 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No, there's not much point to copyrighting the work; if you're really
+concerned, you can always register it with the Writers Guild, but frankly,
+stealing is not as common as one might think.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:The Shadow Wars
+Date:  96-03-21 03:34:07 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No, the whole point of a mystery done *right* is that some folks won't ever
+figure it out, a majority of them will have some vague ideas, and some *will*
+figure it out.  That's the only outcome -- a bell-shaped curve -- if you're
+playing fair with the audience.  The clues have to be out there, and if they
+are, some will notice.  If nobody gets it, you didn't play fair.  This was
+one of the lessons I learned working on MURDER, SHE WROTE.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:bad copies of b5
+Date:  96-03-21 03:35:35 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I have no idea, unless when the tape was duped en masse, they just got a bad
+copy and nobody QC'd it to find out.  But 90% of all stations pick up the
+downlink, so this shouldn't be a problem.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Black uniform clues/hints
+Date:  96-03-21 03:35:58 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No, the black uniform you've seen here and there isn't a Psi Cop uniform.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Apologies are in order...
+Date:  96-03-21 03:38:22 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Every line an actor speaks is written down in a script; the actor's task is
+to find the character in that, and breathe life into it via the performance.
+So when someone asks, "who creates the character?" one can say the writer
+creates, and the actor interprets...but at the same time, that really isn't
+indicative of the vast contribution brought by the performer.  Londo in the
+hands of any other actor but Peter wouldn't be *Londo*.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Broken Limbs...
+Date:  96-03-21 03:44:09 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Oddly enough, Jerry's broken arm tied *beautifully* into something that had
+happened in the course of the episode we were filming, so all it took was a
+line or two to sell it.
+
+The funny thing is...in the very next episode after the incident, there was a
+line in the script I'd written *weeks* earlier, and it freaked everybody
+out...when Garibaldi asks someone to do something, and the person responds,
+"What, you've got a broken arm or something?"  At first some people thought
+I'd put it in there to pink Jerry, but it'd been there the whole time.  
+
+Similarly, in the Claudia incident, there was a line (cut for time) where
+Sheridan says talking to the Drazi is like trying to talk to your right
+foot...and Ivanova replies "I'll have you know I have a sublime relationship
+with my right foot."  Yep, the next day...that's the foot she broke.
+
+Just recently, I was trying to explain time travel to one of the actors.  I
+used the analogy, over lunch, "Suppose you finished eating your chicken here,
+then got sick as a dog a few hours later, then got in a time machine to go
+back in time and warn yourself not to eat the chicken."  Well, a few hours
+after that...the actor got sick as a dog from the chicken.
+
+I have been asked, expressly, not to make any further mention of actors' body
+parts in scripts....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Game Time
+Date:  96-03-21 03:44:44 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No, nobody's approached us about an Ivanova-based game, but it's a great
+idea.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Mr. Morden
+Date:  96-03-21 03:45:32 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Are Morden and his associates equals?}
+
+Well, he may sometimes *think* of his associates as equals...and my cat
+thinks he actually owns this house....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Shadows ships & bein
+Date:  96-03-21 03:45:58 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+You can see one of the shadows in the main titles; not too much like their
+ships.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Fan Club
+Date:  96-03-21 03:47:04 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+We have an address for the fan club, but haven't finalized details of price
+and material yet.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:jms: derivation of word a
+Date:  96-03-21 03:48:10 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+An arc is simply a geometry; it starts at an angle, goes up, and then comes
+down, like the arc of a flare fired by a flare gun.  Similarly, a story has
+its own dramatic arc.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Any Comment on Hypernauts
+Date:  96-03-21 03:49:10 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No, I had nothing to do with Hypernauts beyond recommending Christy; it's
+entirely their work.  It's good to see our methods and techniques used to
+bring more SF shows around; that was what we were hoping for.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: complex show
+Date:  96-03-21 03:50:49 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks.  I think you'll warm to Marcus as we go deeper in; he's a great
+character, and Jason does a terrific job of it.  
+
+Not backing away from anything re: Ivanova's diversity...we clarify something
+about her relationship with Talia very soon, in fact.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:The Psi Corps
+Date:  96-03-21 03:51:40 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The initial tests can indicate if the teep is a P1 to P12, they don't
+generally start at the same level.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Open letter to JMS
+Date:  96-03-21 03:52:24 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Fired?  I'm surprised you let him live.
+
+Next time....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Question going Waaay Back
+Date:  96-03-21 03:53:55 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+They could've punched their way out, but been even less able to get a direct
+location in real space because their new position, unpredictable, could be
+hundreds of light years away, and they couldn't pinpoint exactly where they
+are.  They could then jump back, and because of the math, gotten even further
+lost.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Casting Question
+Date:  96-03-21 03:54:23 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I honestly don't remember what happened with that, or even if we considered
+him.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Who are you/What do you w
+Date:  96-03-21 03:55:34 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+You miss the point.  It's not that there's a *correct* answer, but that
+there's an *informed* answer.  If you decide what you want, before you know
+who you are, you're likely to get something that will destroy you; if you
+know who you are, you can then ask for something that will be of greater use
+to you.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Vir's family
+Date:  96-03-21 03:56:30 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I can, but I'd rather show it; you'll find out a lot more about Vir and
+family relations in "Sic Transit Vir" in mid-april.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:An Open Letter to JMS
+Date:  96-03-21 18:45:15 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Good points.  I'd point you, incidentally, to an essay by Mark Twain on, I
+believe, the Boxer rebellion, in which he dissects the phrase "my country
+right or wrong," the earliest use I've ever seen of that phrase.  Also A
+Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, which has some very serious
+commentary on what *is* patriotism, what what *is* the Nation?
+
+Uncritical jingoism is as inherently unpatriotic as uncritical attacks.  It's
+important to see what a goverment does that is good, by our ability to
+perceive the good, and support it...and to find what is in need of redress,
+and fix it.  But either way, we have to be honest about what we see, and ask
+ourselves if it's right.  Even if we come back toward saying yes, it *is*
+right, at least we've thought about it, and now have reasons and objective
+criteria for *why* it's right.  Or why it's wrong.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:4th Season Status
+Date:  96-03-21 18:46:21 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+What gives is that it's a long process, always is, every year.  We'll know
+for sure when they finally tell us.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS:  Contest 
+Date:  96-03-21 18:47:55 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I believe Canada is considered part of foreign distribution; I don't know the
+figures on income from foreign runs, 'cause by the time any of that info gets
+to us, it's been...fixed...in the books to keep any possible profit from
+showing, so I have no real idea.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Slade?!?!?!?!?
+Date:  96-03-21 18:48:52 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yeah, I confess I enjoy Slade quite a bit; have most of their CDs.  Wish they
+had more currency here in the US.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Hey!
+Date:  96-03-22 03:50:10 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Songu, I answered something like 16 or 20 questions in a row; it's not
+possible for me to answer every single question or I'll never get the show
+made.  I'm not avoiding anyone's questions, and don't yell "HEY!" if I don't.
+It's rude.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Novels & Comics
+Date:  96-03-22 03:52:33 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I'm involved in the comics and novels, but the problem with the novels is
+that I get only a few days to review the manuscript before it has to go back,
+and given everything else I'm doing, sometimes I miss things.  I try to keep
+it as close to the show as I can, but there are always going to be glitches
+when you let it out of your direct supervision and into the hands of others.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  VQT News
+Date:  96-03-25 02:52:47 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I just heard this over on CIS, and I'm trying to verify it before saying it
+officially, but it appears that Viewers for Quality Television has taken the
+next step and actually *endorsed* BABYLON 5, which is a very important thing
+for us.  If correct, this is great news.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS:  G'Kar's Writing
+Date:  96-03-23 04:19:16 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Sometimes things slip through; the on-screen writing was done at Foundation,
+since we don't have that capability, and they did it left to right.  I wasn't
+able to be on set at the moment we shot that to check (and, likely, wouldn't
+have been able to change it if I had been there, since we had to go and it
+takes time to re-do that stuff).  Normally, however, Narns write right to
+left.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:More silly questions
+Date:  96-03-23 04:20:08 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I think both those questions are better answered in the series than blown off
+here.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:New B5 book
+Date:  96-03-23 04:20:57 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yeah, initially Dell kept going for one-word titles, and I generally don't
+like that, so I told them to have the writers come up with more interesting
+titles.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS:  Kabalistic themes
+Date:  96-03-25 02:50:26 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks.  The job of the show is to ask questions and pose scenarios for
+discussion, while at the same time entertaining, which is our primary
+responsibility.  
+
+I wouldn't say there's any one dominant area here, whether Kabalistic or
+strictly Judaeo/Christian or otherwise...it's a hodgepodge of elements.  You
+can find historical, religious, social and political echoes to a lot of
+things.  In the area you mentioned, there's bits and pieces of the two areas
+you singled out, plus buddhism, moslemism, zoroastrianism, Zen, catholicism,
+you name it, because it helps to create an authentic feel to the alien
+cultures and other aspects of the show.  Similarly, there are aspects of WW
+2, WW 1, Korea, Vietnam, JFK...I try to grab from lots of different areas so
+that it avoids being about The One Thing and becomes a synthesis that is
+about *us* in all our various permutations.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Mumy on Sci-Fi Buzz
+Date:  96-03-26 16:37:56 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I believe the clip in question was from "Ceremonies of Light and Dark."
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Lincoln
+Date:  96-03-26 16:40:35 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"the last, best hope of Earth" was from Lincoln, yes.  We quoted it in
+"Points of Departure."
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Pilots
+Date:  96-03-26 16:42:16 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The story just kinda shifted away from that for a while; I try not to stay
+too long with any one thread.  They sorta come in waves; as with this season,
+we emphasized Earth stuff for the first 11 or so episodes; then we slide back
+into the Centauri stuff, then the Minbari, then the Narn.  Aspects of the
+show rise and fall in prominence as needed for the story.  We'll get back to
+the pilots in the fullness of time.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:West/East End of London
+Date:  96-03-26 16:46:39 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+What I'd said, and maybe I wasn't sufficiently clear, but my sense was that I
+wasn't going to change it *prior to the first US airing.*  I found out about
+the mistake -- it was a typo, I knew the difference, I just became
+momentarily stupid and wrote west when I meant to type east -- after the show
+aired in the UK, and had a couple of months in which I could've chosen to
+make the change.  But I was concerned that the dub wouldn't have the same
+power as the original performance, so I was willing to let it go until after
+it aired, so it would've had that impact, then make the change later.
+Happily, the loop came out *very* well, so it worked out.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Odd Questions
+Date:  96-03-26 16:48:44 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The Ranger colony was financially supported by the Minbari; the Drazi allowed
+them to use one of their colony worlds as a base.
+
+If humans are special, and in some measure we are or we wouldn't be in the
+story, I should think it's more for what we *do* than what we *are*.  There
+is something very unique about us which comes in handily in the series.
+Delenn's already pointed this out.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Ask not.
+Date:  96-03-26 16:52:47 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Phil: thanks.  A wonderful and very encouraging analysis.  Sometimes I forget
+how much we're really packing into this show until I see it broken down like
+that.  Then suddenly I'm tired...but vastly pleased.
+
+As for Trent, we still plan to do that story at some point.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Who are you/Whaddya want
+Date:  96-03-26 16:56:42 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Exactly.  I think the process of transcending is much more interesting than
+*having* transcended.  The struggle is what's dramatic.  
+
+Re: n'grath...while that didn't work as well as I'd've liked, I'm still
+looking to explore some alternate ways of showing alien (non-humanoid) life
+forms.  We'll get there.
+
+BTW, I note that you use semi-colons correctly in your messages...it's a tiny
+thing, but it's the sort of thing rarely done anymore; the semi-colon seems
+to have become a form of vestigal punctuation.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:dolls
+Date:  96-03-26 16:58:35 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+If you've got a petition, then a place like Playmates, which tends to make
+action figure license deals, would be a good place to start.
+
+Otherwise, there aren't any character dolls at the time; eventually we'll get
+to it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Renewal Process
+Date:  96-03-26 17:10:05 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The renewal process for B5 is a little different than the norm, due to the
+PTEN structure.  It works in two parts, as I understand it.  (If I'm
+incorrect on any of this, I hope that any of the onlooking WB folks will set
+me straight.)
+
+Part one comes from the stations.  Each market looks at the show, and how
+it's doing in their area, which is a combination of ratings and demographics,
+and sometimes audience support for a show, though the first two always take
+precedence over the third.  They then decide whether or not to offer to take
+the show for another season.
+
+Part two comes from WB and the national advertisers.  As the stations line up
+yea or nay, you keep a running tally of how *many* stations, when they want
+to air it, and if they want to do a double run or not.  You need a certain
+percentage of major markets, national coverage, to get national sponsors; and
+you need to guarantee them a certain number of viewers.  Best if you can
+deliver a certain *kind* of viewer, the kind advertisers look for.
+
+The last part of WB's decision is if the show is profitable for the company
+given all of these elements.  (WB gets the advertising money for national
+spots in general, while local stations can sell other spots for local
+sponsors, generating their income.)  Unlike most TV shows, which can run at a
+deficit for a number of years, on the theory that they'll make it up in
+long-term syndication, our show and Kung Fu have to show a profit *from the
+word go*.  So the bear is much closer to us at all times.
+
+The problem that all syndicated shows are currently running into is that of
+diminishing berths for their programs.  Most communities have, at most, 1 or
+2 local independent stations.  When B5 went on the air, these were all
+available to us.  Since then, the Warners Network and UPN have come into
+existence, with contractual requirements mandating x-hours per week for their
+programs.  And Fox stations have grown, expanded their range of programming.
+So now you find that there are fewer and fewer available timeslots for
+syndicated shows not affiliated with one of these weblets.  A number of new
+syndicated shows announced recently have been pulled for the simple reason
+that they can't find enough stations that have available slots.
+
+It's a noose around our neck that we're definitely aware of, particularly
+given the importance of double runs for the national sponsors, which is even
+*more* difficult given the current glut of programs and the few slots
+remaining.  The game is trying to finish the story and get out before the
+noose closes around our neck.  
+
+It's going to be tight....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Which Episode does
+Date:  96-03-27 04:13:37 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I'll tell you that *after* the episode airs...if I tell you before, you'll be
+looking for it, and prepared for it, rather than being surprised.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Renewal/alternatives
+Date:  96-03-27 04:15:35 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I think the WB net would be very doubtful, since they're trying to create
+their own identity as a network, and taking a syndicated show would likely
+work against that; UPN is Paramount and I think they'd cut off their
+own...er...noses before taking on B5, given our relative histories.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Five MILES long?!
+Date:  96-03-27 04:17:50 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Well, I suppose he could've said six-point-one kilometers (or whatever the
+figure would be, I'm too tired and it's too late in the evening to do the
+math), but it'd kinda spoil the flow of the sentence; and if it's total
+length works out to five miles, give or take a bit, that seems the way to go.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Minbari rings
+Date:  96-03-27 04:18:16 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{whatever happened to the Minbari Rings Delenn used in
+the pilot?}
+
+The rings are still there; we just haven't yet had cause to use them.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Why Io?
+Date:  96-03-27 04:20:09 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Why is there a base and jumpgate on Io.}
+
+Yes, this is the primary jumpgate for Earth.  It's positioned at Io (most of
+the base is actually in orbit outside Io, some of it on the surface, as we
+showed in "Chrysalis") to keep Earth a bit safer by removing it some
+distance, and because putting it near the huge energy field of Jupiter makes
+it more difficult for weapons to target it from a distance.  It's mainly a
+tactical decision.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Renewal & Howard Stern
+Date:  96-03-29 00:55:27 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Howard, who is a big fan of the show, spoke a bit out of turn, and WB has
+since been in contact with him about it; he'll correct the statement soon,
+I'm told.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:*Where* Jms Learned *?*
+Date:  96-03-29 00:57:13 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I learned proper use of the * at a Shao-lin monastary after years of silent
+meditation upon a drawing of * set before me on a wall.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:B5 Fan Club and Newslette
+Date:  96-03-29 00:57:57 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Hang tight, we'll get out the word on this soon.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Morden and Bester
+Date:  96-03-29 00:58:38 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+That would be telling, wouldn't it?
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Continue
+Date:  96-03-29 00:59:46 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Just noticed the new folder after answering stuff here; can you either leave
+it for a bit or move the stuff over?
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS-YOUR GREAT
+Date:  96-03-29 01:01:03 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Good luck with the future sucess of the show}
+
+Thanks....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:B5 micro-machines/new & o
+Date:  96-03-29 01:00:42 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I have no idea what the deal is here on this; I think there may be an error
+somewhere, but will try and find out.  And thanks....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Sinclair is the First...
+Date:  96-03-29 01:01:47 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"Changes are coming; Sinclair was the first, there will be others."  He was
+referring to more changes coming.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS - another fan/questio
+Date:  96-03-29 01:03:07 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The thing about Ivanova, as noted here and there in the show, is that while
+she was born in the Russian Consortium, she was raised mainly abroad, going
+from school to school as her mother kept her one step ahead of the Psi Corps.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Observations
+Date:  96-03-29 01:05:10 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks...and yes, soldiers are soldiers, female or male.  I see no reason,
+barring some small differences in upper body strength, which can be
+compensated for, to make female characters any less active physically than
+male characters.  
+
+Frankly, in watching the Tyson/Bruno match on Showtime the other night, the
+best fight of the whole evening was the pre-fight with the two femal boxers
+who went the distance and showed incredible heart and determination.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Line from AtSFoS?
+Date:  96-03-29 01:06:16 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Actually, Sinclair says "I know you" in the present, as Delenn comes toward
+him, in referring to his remembering seeing her on the ship.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Keep up the RAD Work!
+Date:  96-03-29 16:30:02 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks.  The elements you cite are the reasons why it took us 5 years to get
+this thing on the air; it's something a bit different, for the US at least.
+We could've sold it a lot faster, and easier, if we'd taken some different
+approaches -- dumbed it down a little, dropped the ongoing story, made it a
+bit less ambitious -- but then it wouldn't be the story I wanted to tell.
+
+And yes, the bits and pieces add up, and gain further weight by seeing how
+they relate to different parts of the story.  It's a very careful, elegant
+little dance which I think will be seen even more clearly once we go to daily
+syndication.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:B5 is The One
+Date:  96-03-29 16:31:36 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+James: good suggestions.  One of the points of B5 is to encourage discussion
+about these areas, to be informed, to lead the examined life.  If we can add
+some impetus to read, to explore myth and history and culture, then the
+effort of making the show has been worthwhile.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:bother??
+Date:  96-03-29 16:33:50 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+If they're the music clips off Franke's BBS, as far as I know that's fine,
+because they were made available as samples as part of his license.  Other
+sound clips...I can't endorse it, because past I think 20 seconds you run
+into legal problems.  (Actually, it's not within my authority to "endorse"
+much of anything, it's WB's copyright, I can only offer suggestions or
+guidance.)
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:conventions
+Date:  96-03-29 16:35:41 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The San Francisco con is at the Cathedral Hill Hotel; check the B5 fan events
+folder here in this area for more info.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:conventions
+Date:  96-03-29 16:36:28 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+That's the Worldcon; it's the biggest convention in the world every year.  I
+don't have the info at hand, but I'm sure it's readily available.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Mood change or what?
+Date:  96-03-29 16:38:18 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The short version of the answer, as yes, I've answered this a lot: it was
+done primarily for story reasons.  I discussed the idea with Michael, to
+accommodate some changes I wanted to make to the story, he at the same time
+had some other options he wanted to pursue...so we parted ways very amicably,
+on the theory that at some point we'd link up again for a bit.  And we have,
+in this year's two parter.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:B5 Action Figures or movi
+Date:  96-03-29 16:39:21 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No immediate plans for action figures; WB has broached the idea of a movie,
+but so far it's just an idle speculation sort of thing.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Question about Kosh & She
+Date:  96-03-29 16:40:05 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{What happened with Kosh teaching Sheridan to fight the Shadows?}
+
+There's been some follow-up, but not a lot, and Kosh has kind of dropped the
+ball on some of this.  That will have to be dealt with.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:G'Quon and Valen
+Date:  96-03-30 03:32:57 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Valen and G'Quan were not the same person.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:It's Pat
+Date:  96-03-30 03:33:47 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I have no idea what this refers to, and suspect strongly that you're thinking
+of someone else.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:B-5's survival
+Date:  96-03-30 03:35:32 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+It's always chancy on every show as you come to renewal time; the added
+problem here is that the marketplace is fast running out of slots for
+syndicated shows due to the committed time slots for WBN, UPN, Fox and
+others.  So there are a lot of factors coming at us from all sides, which
+didn't exist when we first went on the air, but we remain cautiously
+optimistic.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Season #1
+Date:  96-03-30 03:36:40 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I suggest you go to the opening menu here in the B5 area, for the www
+jumpgate; then go to the Lurker's Guide, which has info on every episode of
+the series to date, well presented.  That should bring you up to speed on
+year one, since they don't plan on rerunning anything from year one until
+we've finished our run.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Narn battlecruisers
+Date:  96-03-30 03:37:13 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Why are Narn warships painted in such a manner?}
+
+It's just their culture's idea of a good paint job on a warship.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Kosh Assassination
+Date:  96-03-30 03:38:50 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No, it was covered in the pilot: the assassin was a member of a radical
+military caste clan which was against Minbari involvement in B5, and figured
+they'd sabotage the whole thing from within.
+
+jms
+
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+Subj:  Re:When to Bring in New Peop
+Date:  96-04-02 01:34:32 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{What episode would be best to bring new peoplein to watch the show?}
+
+I strongly suggest you try this week's episode, "Severed Dreams."  I showed
+it at a small con/fan gathering here in LA on Saturday, before the uplink,
+and there were several folks there who hadn't seen or been moved to check out
+B5...and by the time it was over, they'd turned around.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:To JMS:RE: The One
+Date:  96-04-01 18:37:46 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No, the Triluminaries are simply not that important.  This isn't a story
+about a mcguffin, a thing that has to be acquired or protected or regained;
+also isn't a quest story.  If you look at any work of an epic, mythic or
+saga-based construction, certain elements are universal.  Those themes show
+up in all such sagas...if you look for any kind of real story correlation
+between B5 and LoTR you won't find them.  They're not in any way parallels.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Keep up the RAD Work!
+Date:  96-04-01 18:39:24 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The show will eventually be stripped daily on TNT when the show's finished.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Previews
+Date:  96-04-01 18:43:36 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I don't know what the situation is, but will inquire.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Dolby Stereo
+Date:  96-04-01 18:45:01 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Hrmm...usually we're pretty good about that stuff...I know there was *so
+much* audio we were mixing for "Dreams" that that one element may have been
+placed center simply because we were so busy with everything else that it
+didn't get noticed.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Kung Fu, The Legend Ends
+Date:  96-04-01 18:46:02 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I haven't heard anything more on this, but would doubt that we'd end up on
+the WB network because of jurisdictional considerations.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Insane?
+Date:  96-04-01 18:46:57 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+That depends on how you define "the real thing."  Check back with me after
+the next 2 episodes.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Life force...
+Date:  96-04-01 18:48:25 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No, I wouldn't say there's a corrolation to life force and the shadow ships;
+they need a living organism as the central processing unit because an organic
+unit can think faster than most computer systems, and react faster in terms
+of formulating strategy and the like.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:ATTN JMS:  Extra
+Date:  96-04-01 18:49:24 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+You need to be a member of the Screen Actors Guild, belong to Central
+Casting, and be on their lists for extras.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Minbari friend quote
+Date:  96-04-02 01:31:26 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Hrmm...I'd have to drag out the script for that, and it's tucked away in
+storage.  Will try to drag it out when I get a chance.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Gun camera
+Date:  96-04-02 01:32:45 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The images continued to be broadcast to the distress probe after it was
+jettisoned.  The ISN team mentioned on-air they were attracted to the
+time-delay distress beacon on the probe.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Headline in New Sci 
+Date:  96-04-02 01:33:12 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I think the case is greatly overstated.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS - WOW! - and a ?
+Date:  96-04-03 02:25:37 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{What type of guns are used on B5, and how do they function?}
+
+The guns are Phased Plasma Guns, PPGs, which fire superheated helium bursts
+(in limited amounts, you have to swap out energy caps after a fairly brief
+period) rather than slugs to avoid puncturing the hull.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:SD: Author! Author!
+Date:  96-04-03 02:26:38 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Severed Dreams was the best episode to date}
+
+James: thanks...I'm just endlessly pleased by the reaction to this episode;
+we worked *awfully* hard on it.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:SEVERED DREAMS
+Date:  96-04-04 01:18:32 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{When will there be models for purchase?}
+
+Nothing's been firmed up yet about models that I know about; soonish, though.
+And thanks.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Next episodes
+Date:  96-04-04 01:18:59 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+You'll have new episodes all through April and May.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Next episodes
+Date:  96-04-04 01:20:02 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Oh, I've got plenty of ideas for other shows after B5...just don't know if I
+want to do them; if I'd've said all I want to say for TV in B5.  It's very
+tempting to go back to writing novels and plays.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Hyperspace vs.Normal Spa
+Date:  96-04-04 01:21:26 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Once in hyperspace, you can ride the navigational beams between beacons
+(narrow beam stuff, to cut through the interference, as noted in "Distant
+Star"), and by corrolating the beacons, know where you have to come out.
+
+That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:PPGs
+Date:  96-04-04 01:22:15 EST
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{How many shots to an energy cap?}
+
+I'll have to check my notes, but I seem to recall you get about 12 PPG shots
+to a standard cap, with some recharge time.  A PPG rifle gets about 20-25
+shots, with faster recharge.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Technical Manual?
+Date:  96-04-08 04:29:12 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks.  Eventually we'll do a tech manual, but probably not until after the
+show has run its course.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Getting the word out
+Date:  96-04-08 04:30:32 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+A lot of local promotions is done by the stations, with co-op funding from
+WB, so they all get to determine how it's done individually.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:SD and cold chills
+Date:  96-04-08 04:31:36 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks.  Those are rank insignia on the epaulets; and G'Kar's always been
+pretty strong.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:what Susan said...
+Date:  96-04-08 04:33:08 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yes, I do know what you mean, and you're welcome.
+
+No, as far as I know, no one from B5 will be at the big Creation con since
+it's a ST con.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Severed Dreams
+Date:  96-04-08 04:34:00 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No, her exact line was, "No human captain has ever survived battle with a
+Minbari fleet."  Sinclair wasn't a captain.
+
+And thanks.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Twilight Zone
+Date:  96-04-08 04:35:21 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I think you're primarily speaking of the CBS version; I did only one script
+for that version, and then 10 for the syndicated version.  "By His
+Bootstraps," I understand, was too expensive to film.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:DirecTV?
+Date:  96-04-08 04:36:12 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks, and no, there are no plans for not for any WB stuff on DTV that I
+know of.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:INCREDIBLE!
+Date:  96-04-08 04:36:46 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The third caste is the Worker caste.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Severed Dreeams/Mira
+Date:  96-04-08 04:37:53 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+We found Mira through the casting process, when she came in along with many
+others.  And we've been happy ever after that she did.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Speechless!
+Date:  96-04-08 04:40:02 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The best thing to do is mail your local station and show your support there.
+And thanks....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:SD Questions
+Date:  96-04-09 04:35:32 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"Why was it impossible to jump into hyperspace (in the beginning of the show)
+and not take the Starfuries with the ship?  We've seen it done before."
+
+No, I don't believe so.  You've seen a jump GATE used, but that's different
+from a jump POINT which basically closes right behind the ship like a rabbit
+pulling its hole in after it.  If the ships stayed behind to protect its
+rear, they'd be left behind.  Ships coming out of a jump point into normal
+space sometimes will let their fighters zip out AS they're coming out,
+alongside the main ship.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:B5 Merchandising?
+Date:  96-04-09 04:36:41 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+1) ALL of the B5 models currently being advertised are 100% illegal and
+unauthorized, and we are taking aggressive legal steps to shut them down.
+
+2) There will be a B5 RPG out sometime late this year/early next year.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:2 parter Title Change?
+Date:  96-04-09 04:37:14 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"Wasn't the upcoming 2 parter once entitled "World Without End" instead of
+"War Without End?""
+
+Nope.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: SD, All Alone / Nigh
+Date:  96-04-09 04:38:58 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"Hmmmm....I'm not really sure I want to know the answer to this...."
+
+Darn, and I was just about to spill the beans...ah, well....never mind.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS:RE:Grey Council & Duk
+Date:  96-04-09 04:40:41 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"Why was the Grey Council always to be found on a cruiser? Were they ever
+located on Minbar itself? Or was the cruiser orbiting Minbar? Was it for
+their protection, or secrecy? Or has this already been answered?"
+
+We've hinted at it...the Grey Council always stays on its ship, being part of
+the universe, giving it an exotic, distant feel for its people...as though
+among the gods.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:SD:How did Delenn know?
+Date:  96-04-09 04:44:47 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+She already knew that civil war had broken out between EA ships and forces,
+and that B5 had already faced one takeover bid, and that whether or not it
+happened today or the next day, it was definitely coming.  That was
+unmistakeable.  Also, bear in mind that Lennier stayed behind.  She would
+have checked in with him en route and found out what was going on, or picked
+up the radio broadcasts of the battle in progress.  I could've shown this,
+but that would''ve blown the surprise of her arrival.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:ATT JMS: Renewal situatio
+Date:  96-04-09 04:45:46 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I responded in both forums.  I doubt any such memo exists.  And nothing has
+been said.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS-Morden & Videos Quest
+Date:  96-04-09 19:55:37 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Folks have already tried writing WB to change their minds about videos;
+hasn't worked.  We're working at it from this end.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:The rim of known space
+Date:  96-04-22 22:43:20 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Who's behind the shadows?  Nobody.  The shadows are the shadows (though
+that's not the name by which they call themselves), a race of their own.
+Question is, why are they doing what they're doing?
+
+You'll find out by season's end.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:If I were Sherridan:I wou
+Date:  96-04-23 03:11:40 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"I would round up all the destroyed EA/centauri/narin hulls/ships I could
+find.(Especially the burned out Agrippa) to intimidate others who come with
+hostile intent.  Also it would serve as a parts depot."
+
+What's there are burned, blackened husks, which you do NOT want floating
+around as they become hideous dangers to navigation, and the "spare parts"
+would eventually start banging into your station, hitting incoming ships and
+starfuries.  What can be salvaged, has been.
+
+"I would construtively use my communication command athourity to send letters
+to the families of the dead."
+
+EA has cut off access to Earth; they don't want Sheridan getting information
+from back home, or relaying instructions to forces there.
+
+"I would rig the jump gate to explode on my command."
+
+Good idea; cut off the only means of escape for the quarter million people
+there who don't have jump capable ships.  You won't stop an invasion by
+hostile ships which can make their own jump points, you just end up killing
+all your civilians.
+
+"Make a deal with Drall on the defences, and learn of all his capabilities
+also the Minbari's."
+
+This is already in process, as has been established.
+
+"Arrange an accident to happen to one of the shadow creatures on board and
+get it to Dr. Franklin or Drall."
+
+You have to find them first.
+
+"Start a propagada campaign against Clark."
+
+Better to tell the truth.  And, again, home-communications are down.
+
+"Unite the renegade ships and offer a home to the missing Narin ship."
+
+This is an obvious step already in process.
+
+"Have the Minbari make a clone of Morden."
+
+They don't have that technology.
+
+"Start a spy network."
+
+They're doing all they can to get info.
+
+"Start propaganda working the non-aligned worlds."
+
+See above.
+
+"Get some answers from Kosh or kill him(information is everything)."
+
+Yessir, that'll work out great.  The vorlons are important to winning this;
+let's torture or kill their ambassador, REAL good idea.
+
+"Have Lyta scan all the crew members for spyes and loyalties."
+
+When you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy.  This would be
+a Bad Thing.
+
+"Move the minbari ships out of sight(behind the planet)."
+
+Another good idea; let's put them where they have to come all the way around
+the planet, by which time B5 is a burned cinder.
+
+"Start gathering intelegence on the shadows ships.  How many, were are they
+made, how long to make"
+
+Where would you get that information?  The only real source is on Z'ha'dum.
+
+Basically, everything that can be done, *is* being done.  But people have to
+have some moments to live, or there's nothing worth fighting for.  And
+sometimes a relationship can remind us what we're fighting for.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS:  Harlan Ellison
+Date:  96-04-23 03:12:09 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Harlan's doing much better; up and around and walking and in general in great
+spirits.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Status reports
+Date:  96-04-23 23:37:47 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"So, JMS... how are *you* doing through all this (Harlan, renewal, season's
+end, taxes, etc.)."
+
+I'M FINE!  ABSOLUTELY FINE!  COULDN'T BE BETTER!  I'VE ALWAYS WORN A RABBIT
+ON MY HEAD!  IT'S A FASHION THING, OKAY?  I'M FINE!  YOU HEAR ME?  FINE!!!
+
+jm(thud)s
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:In A Glass, Darkly
+Date:  96-04-23 23:40:37 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yes, there's a certain Jungian influence in the shadows, in that the shadow
+as Jung referred to it was unbridled want, unbridled need, and that's what
+they appeal to.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: A few questions
+Date:  96-04-23 23:43:42 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks.  As far as visual EFX, animators and visual artists are
+concerned...it's a world apart, one I barely understand.  I don't know what's
+really required or designed to hep succeed...though I suspect the ability to
+converse freely with squirrels is partly involved.  I couldn't advise you on
+this and have that advice mean much of anything, I'm afraid.
+
+For the rest, I can only offer my thanks.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS - Battle of Camlan
+Date:  96-04-25 00:28:41 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I dug through a number of recent Arthurian texts, and that date come out the
+most often; I've heard the other date, which was about 20 years later, but
+the one most often used is the 515 date, at least in what I researched.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Wide-screen and fan club.
+Date:  96-04-25 00:30:36 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I believe that France will be showing S3 in widescreen, and the episodes are
+being transferred to that format even as we speak.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Hugo
+Date:  96-04-25 00:31:18 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I wasn't given the vote counts, but it was my understanding that "Coming of
+Shadows" had received the larger number of vote counts.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:question
+Date:  96-04-25 03:46:44 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The cold, hard and rather ruthless answer is...if you're not sure, if it's
+just something you're kinda thinking about...don't do it.
+
+The only ones who have a chance of making it as writers are those who can't
+*not* write.  
+
+"I am trying to find out what I can do with my life and writing sound like
+fun."  It's not fun, as you mean it.  It's agony.  It's the hardest thing I
+do.  It takes *years* of work, every single day, day in and day out, before
+you get any good at it at all.  It takes suffering and pain and paying your
+dues and fighting every single day first to prove you have talen to yourself,
+then to prove it to others, then to finally begin making a living at it.
+It's not a case of, "Well, look over there, *that* looks interesting, maybe
+I'll do that."
+
+Either being a writer means everything to you, or it doesn't.  If it doesn't,
+you shouldn't do it.  It's not a question of knowing "what you want to do."
+You *know* it.  It's just a matter of the will and strength required to *do*
+it.
+
+Unless that describes you...try something else.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Earth history and B5
+Date:  96-04-25 03:51:37 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"What period of history interests you the most?"
+
+All of them, really, for different reasons.  The Middle Ages, the Victorian
+period, the Renaissance, pre- and post-numerical wars and a time in which we
+didn't have to number them...the present, the cruellest half of the cruellest
+century...right down to the earliest civilizations.  We can learn something
+from all of them.  
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS-What a great guy!
+Date:  96-04-18 04:35:14 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Gordon: thanks.  As for the promos...the usual time allocated for B5 promos
+was taken by the contest, which ends this week.  The promos will return
+shortly.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Severed Dreams
+Date:  96-04-18 04:37:26 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Basically, the Marines burned through the outer hull, moved into the inner
+hull (like any good vessel, this one is double hulled), then came up at a
+right angle, looking for a good wall to come through.  You *don't* want to
+come up through the floor, because then you have to climb out one or two at a
+time, which makes you a sitting duck.  Better to move off a few feet, and
+come up via a section between walls and blow your way through so you can come
+out en masse.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS' Story
+Date:  96-04-27 04:33:11 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The other thing to bear in mind about all this is the question of a "clean
+fight."  If Sheridan were to bring in alien forces at his order to kill
+humans, it would pretty much destroy his credibility.  Delenn came in at the
+end but only after he'd made his stand on his own.  
+
+One of the things that kicked off the French Revolution was the allegation
+that the King had brought in or was bringing in Prussian troops to help put
+down dissenters.  As long as it was all more or less in the family, that was
+one thing...but to bring in outsiders was an absolute affront to them.  (One
+of the singular incidents that started the fighting itself was a group of
+Prussian soldiers sighted sitting in a cafe having lunch, which caused this
+rumor about outsiders coming in to spread like wildfire, and led to the some
+of the first major incidents of rioting.)
+
+Two brothers may fight one another, but let a third unrelated person come in
+and shove one of the brothers around, and they'll *both* turn on him.
+
+During the worst days of the civil war, even Lincoln was offered assistance
+in troops from at least one other country; he declined, because it was an
+internal matter, and had to be resolved by those involved, not outsiders.
+
+Sheridan's logic was exactly the same.  It had to be a clean fight.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Questions Ad Infinitum
+Date:  96-04-27 04:34:31 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No, Londo and the bugs had nothing to do with any notions about the Shadows.
+
+Sheridan is a war historian, with his main interests in the civil war, where
+one of his ancestors fought.  He's very big on Lincoln.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Guest on Season Finale
+Date:  96-04-27 04:35:16 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Melissa is in two episodes; light in one, heavy in the other.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Avalon references
+Date:  96-04-27 04:36:36 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yes, there were several books I consulted about this...unfortunately, they're
+nowhere near at hand, so I can't drag out the names just now.  I'll try to
+remember to drag them out soonish.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: 4 questions
+Date:  96-04-27 04:39:25 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+1.  What gave you the idea to create a show with a time line?
+
+I wanted to do a saga; sagas take time to tell.  The Lensman books, the
+Foundation books, Dune, others...they can take from a few years to hundreds
+of years to tell.  (I love "A Canticle for Liebowitz," which compresses an
+amazing timeline into one volume.)  Doing decades worth of story would be
+impossible for TV's format, but a one-to-one year-to-season structure was
+do-able.
+
+2.  What were some of your first ideas for this series?
+
+I don't quite understand the question.
+
+3. How good of a chance does B5 have for being renewed?
+
+50/50.
+
+4. How is Harlan Ellison doing?
+
+Much, much better.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:writing a wild ride!
+Date:  96-04-27 04:41:35 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I write pretty much all the time, day or night.  I prefer night writing
+because the phone rings less often, and I can blow through a lot of work
+without interruption.  Lately, though, I find that I do get a little tired
+come around 2-3 a.m., which I didn't used to, so some of it has switched back
+to daytime or early evening.  My advice is to just find what's most
+comfortable for you as a time to write, and stick to it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Marshal Teague and Hard C
+Date:  96-04-27 04:43:02 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I haven't seen the material, and thus can't comment.  All I know of Marshall
+is what I see on the set, and he has always been a gentle, friendly, gracious
+performer.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:SoT Question (Spoilers)
+Date:  96-04-28 19:22:50 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Well, to follow the book, there still has to be a knowledge of the language.
+You need to have a dictionary around, which is what was used.  
+
+The comparison, I suppose, would be those who say that Jorge Luis Borges'
+work can only be most truly appreciated in the original Spanish.  There's a
+*translated* version, which someone has gone through and made the translation
+for you, written it all out in English...or you can learn the language, and
+then read the original manuscript.
+
+Garibaldi doesn't know Narn, so how other than with a dictionary could he
+read the original material, except by sleeping with it under his pillow and
+praying for divine intervention.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Two questions
+Date:  96-04-29 01:39:47 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5
+
+"Avalon" and "Vir" were reversed in order to a) finish effects on Avalon, and
+b) to give a lighter episode after "Ceremonies" (also to hold York for
+sweeps).  That may account for some of your feeling here.
+
+And yes, Earthgov sees B5 in much the way China now sees Taiwan.  (Though on
+reflection that may not be the best metaphor....)
+
+jms
+
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+Subj:  Re:Some questions
+Date:  96-05-07 04:21:31 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The only database I use is the one in my head, and some notes here and
+there....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Marcus (continued)
+Date:  96-05-07 04:22:01 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+We're all hiding something or other.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Renewal
+Date:  96-05-07 04:22:57 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+We'll know by the middle or end of this month; it's 50/50 because of the
+changing economics of the syndication marketplace right now.  It's all nuts
+at the moment.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:B5 legal status
+Date:  96-05-07 04:23:30 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No, you only send an ambassador if you recognize something as legitimate, and
+EA will never recognize an independent B5.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:After the Series
+Date:  96-05-07 04:24:33 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+That period is so far outside my ability to even see right now that it's
+beyond my ken.  The show is all I can see right now.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Michael York
+Date:  96-05-07 04:25:46 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+We look around for who might be right for the role, and then who of that is
+available and within our price range.  Sometimes the actor doesn't come in,
+if the actor has a lot of credits, but most will audition.  Then we make our
+selection.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:jms?monkmusic?
+Date:  96-05-07 04:26:21 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No, the music was the music, it wouldn't change by the hearer.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS-B5 Origins?
+Date:  96-05-07 04:28:35 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The story kind of came in all at once; and yes, in a way, it's the story I've
+been preparing to write from day one.  The eclectic, weird background I have
+is what enables me to tell this story this way.  This is, I think, my seminal
+work in the field.  To invoke greater names for a moment, Heinlein wrote lots
+of books, but he's known for Stranger in a Strange Land; Frank Herbert wrote
+lots of books, but he's known for Dune.  I've done a lot before this, and
+hope to do a lot after, but I suspect that this is what I'll be most known
+for when it's all said and done.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS at home
+Date:  96-05-07 04:34:35 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"I'm assuming when you are the creator/writer/executive producer of a running
+series that you must spend an enormous amount of time either "doing" things
+related to it or "thinking" about things related to it."
+
+Absolutely.  Even when I'm not actively working on it, it comes up constantly
+in conversation, or in other ways.  It never goes away, and I'm always
+jotting down notes for future use.
+
+"How does this affect your lifestyle?  Can one be in your position and still
+have a personal life - or is literally everything you do somehow involved
+with, wrapped up in or connected to "the series"?"
+
+Not if you're going to be this involved with the process.  It's really a 24
+hour a day job.  I haven't seen a movie at a theater in the 8 months
+preceding the wrap; haven't gone to a party except the B5 christmas and wrap
+parties in about a year.  For the six years it'll take to make this show --
+you count the pilot and post-production on the last year -- I went into this
+knowing that my personal life would pretty much go to hell for that period of
+time.  The show is the single dominant concern; has to be, or it won't be
+done right.  
+
+"Are you able to go out and have a good time and not think about anything to
+do with B5, or is it always there, in the back of your mind?"
+
+It's always there.
+
+"I very much admire what you do, but feel it must, at some point, drive you a
+little nuts........"
+
+Sometimes, but only a little.  I fought for 5 years to get this show on the
+air; it's a great privilege, and a terrible responsibility; WB has entrusted
+me to do this properly, and that's a great compliment.  In the media, it's
+unspeakably rare to get one singular vision on the air, without compromise or
+committee...I'm not *about* to complain about the hours.  I've got absolutely
+no grounds to complain about ANYthing.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:great love story
+Date:  96-05-07 04:35:16 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+It's fair to say that the Sheridan/Delenn relationship has some very
+interesting times ahead.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Vir? Babble?
+Date:  96-05-07 04:36:59 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Even the babble is pretty tightly scripted.  The hesitations and occasional
+stumble-restatements are the actor's delivery.  There's occasionally a very
+tiny bit of improv in that kind of scene, but very little.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Rules for Epics
+Date:  96-05-07 04:43:11 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Actually, it's Chekov's rule of playwriting: If there's a gun on the wall in
+act 1 scene 1, you must use it by act 3 scene 3.  Similarly, if you fire the
+gun in act 3, you must show it in act one.  I do try to play fair with the
+audience, and either hint at or point to what's coming in various ways, so
+that if you back up all the episodes, it's right there in front of you.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Interludes  & Examination
+Date:  96-05-07 04:47:28 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The Delenn/Sheridan axis is proceeding, but I've been very deliberately
+holding off the kiss, and what would follow that, so I could do it in a very
+special way.  You'll see soon enough....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Seasons 4 and 5
+Date:  96-05-07 04:48:08 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+There was never the intention of carrying the shadow war through seasons 4
+and 5.  That'd get boring.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:The Wrath Of Kosh
+Date:  96-05-07 04:49:30 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Kosh fought and fought hard.  And he did not go down easily...and one might
+say that yes, he did not go down alone...but not entirely in the way you're
+thinking.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:To JMS: Possible Triangle
+Date:  96-05-07 23:35:31 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Well, remember that we never defined what those feelings were between
+Sinclair and Delenn; she had a great deal of respect and admiration for him,
+yes.  And she had a fair measure of faith in him as well.  Question is,
+what's the root of that?  We'll learn some of that in the two-parter.  As for
+Sinclair, he was mainly involved with Sakai.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:slap heard 'round univers
+Date:  96-05-08 03:20:30 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I think the contact would've been too fleeting, and too much a shock (and it
+likely hurt like the dickens) that by the time he knew it was there, it was
+too late, and she would've sensed it in either event.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Repost Worldsinger questi
+Date:  96-05-09 01:45:53 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Huh, I must've missed that in my copy of SF Universe; didn't see it.  That's
+good to hear.  No, that's the only issue of the Trek comic that I ever wrote,
+mainly out of curiosity and because I like the original characters a lot.  It
+was fun.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:To JMS: Possible Triangle
+Date:  96-05-09 01:47:39 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yes, the voice you heard OS was Delenn; I kept her OS to avoid tipping the
+plan for her eventual change to more human physical qualities.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Having fun?
+Date:  96-05-09 01:48:16 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"Are you having fun? Or has it all become a demon that must be fed?"
+
+Yes.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Some Questions
+Date:  96-05-09 01:49:43 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+1.  How far will Delenn and sheridans relationship go?
+
+You'll find out in the two parter, to a large extent.
+
+2.  Why are the shadows attacking everyone?
+
+Good question.  We'll get that by season's end.
+
+3.  Is B4 going to become a big part of the storyline?
+
+In a sense.
+
+4.  Do the vorlons have a large amount of ships?
+
+Depends on your perspective.
+
+5.  Is B5 going to be renewed?
+
+We remain cautiously optimistic.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Delenn/G'Kar  in Tea
+Date:  96-05-11 05:11:59 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+In most cases, if it's a critical scene, I make it a point to be there to
+make sure it's correct. If, however, it's a very emotional scene, I tend to
+stay away, and let the actor find the emotional core of the scene without
+seeing me lurking in the BG.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Curious About Writing
+Date:  96-05-11 05:13:49 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No scripts are in hand for next season, in any form; this is always the case
+each year as we wrap production.  We wait for WB to renew the show, then
+provide a script order.  Once we have the script order in hand, scripts get
+going.  If it's a freelance script, going from first meeting through 2 drafts
+of the outline, 2 drafts of the script, it takes about a month, plus the time
+I spend revising it; if I write it myself, it's a lot less time, because I
+know the show more than any freelancer can be reasonably expected to.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:I&E Spoiler Q's
+Date:  96-05-11 05:14:49 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I think Kosh realized that some things have to be, and that as we've said
+from the start, there is always a price to pay.
+
+As for writing letters, copying WB as well as the local station is always a
+good idea.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Some Questions
+Date:  96-05-11 05:15:33 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No plans for Takashima; the highest rating is a P12; and the Vorlons still
+have their part to play.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Rangers obsolete?
+Date:  96-05-11 05:16:11 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The job of the Rangers takes on a different aspect now that stuff is in the
+open, at least to some extent; you'll find it by season's end.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Ivanova's Emblem
+Date:  96-05-11 05:17:18 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+It's certainly a return to more traditional Russian history; the Russian
+Consortium is pretty much no longer socialist in any way, though it's still
+vastly inefficient.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Keeping Track
+Date:  96-05-12 04:12:19 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Freelance writers know stuff on a need-to-know basis.  Yes, there's a general
+outline for the whole series, but as a rule, I just kinda keep it all in my
+head...a dark and scary place that nobody'd ever enter anyway.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS:  About Franklin . . 
+Date:  96-05-12 04:13:09 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Franklin would be off the council for a while; he has to go and figure his
+life out first.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  On Questions, from jms
+Date:  96-05-12 04:19:52 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+If I can make a suggestion....
+
+Please try to avoid packing a message with 5, 7 or 10 questions or more; the
+odds are that I won't be able to answer all of them, or even most of them.
+The problem with the AOL interface is that if I use the Read New command,
+once it pops up, if I log off the point where I came in is lost.  If I take a
+long time to answer 7 questions in one message, the odds are good that I'll
+either get bumped or have to go do B5 stuff and won't get to the other
+messages/questions, and it's hard to backtrack afterward.  It's also a bit
+more than I find manageable, given that when you combine all the services I'm
+on, about 500 messages per day flit in front of my corneas.
+
+So if we could keep the questions down to just a couple per message, it'd
+help me a lot.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Questions
+Date:  96-05-12 23:43:26 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I've never operated from any other perspective other than that we will finish
+this story.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Questions
+Date:  96-05-12 23:44:08 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+We might run into the technomages again, yes....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: A few more questions
+Date:  96-05-12 23:44:51 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The vorlons will become more active, but in a curious way...and there are
+some more White Star class ships, yes....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Contingency plan
+Date:  96-05-12 23:45:22 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+See my note two messages up.
+
+And yes, all filming for this season is done.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Lyta
+Date:  96-05-12 23:45:51 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Lyta was off-station running an errand for Kosh.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:A three-edge sword
+Date:  96-05-12 23:46:19 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The three edges: your side, my side, and the truth in between.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Question and other Stuff
+Date:  96-05-12 23:46:55 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No, Centauri women are bald by choice, to show their disdain for the
+showiness of the males.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:A Tell JMS mess.
+Date:  96-05-12 23:47:36 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks...it's an obsession, and the encouragement helps.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Kudos and Question
+Date:  96-05-12 23:48:32 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Humor is where we find it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:one of...
+Date:  96-05-13 03:54:16 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{Are the Shadow Ships more sensitive to pain than the Vorlon
+ships?}
+
+I suppose you could say they are, yes....
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Re; Interludes
+Date:  96-05-14 03:49:32 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+You'll see the new Vorlon within the first few new episodes, whenever they
+air.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Advancing the relationshi
+Date:  96-05-14 03:50:43 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I think they're still testing how they feel toward one another; if theydon'
+feel what they think they might feel, it's all a moot point and not
+worth
+their pursuit; if indeed there's something there, they have to decide that,
+then look at the other aspects.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:I&E ?- ATTN JMS
+Date:  96-05-14 03:51:51 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I never said we'd see Lyta in I&E, so I can't answer that.  As for how this
+affects her relationship with the new ambassador...isn't it better to see it
+than have me just answer it?
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:SERIOUS Delenn problems!!
+Date:  96-05-14 03:52:36 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Delenn's been holding back.  More than she should.  There will be a price.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Warners & Paramount
+Date:  96-05-14 03:53:10 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+You would sooner get a mongoose and a python setting up house together in a
+cottage by the sea.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Interludes...
+Date:  96-05-15 03:09:44 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+When they shot the scene itself...no, not a lot of emotion in the Kosh
+sequence in his quarters, because it was all very technical, bits and pieces.
+But in the hallway scene with Sheridan, and the later scene with Delenn and
+the others...yes, very much so.
+
+It was *extremely* difficult to write.  As a writer, the only way to evoke a
+feeling in your audience is to feel it yourself and communicate that honestly
+in the text.  It was just awful.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:delenn's clothes
+Date:  96-05-15 03:11:20 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+There hasn't been much occasion to drag out the little black number in a
+while.  But yes, she has new clothes along the way...the green dress she
+wears in "War" for instance, and over the course of seasons, she's gotten new
+clothes quite often, moreso than just about anyone else, really.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Everything
+Date:  96-05-15 03:13:24 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+There will be models...in the fullness of time.
+
+As to sitting back and looking at the show...right now, I'm still way too
+close to it to do that.  When I look at any of the episodes, all I see are
+the flaws.  The things that could've been better.  Stuff nobody else notices,
+but I know it's there.  In time, I'll be able to look at them objectively,
+but not this soon.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Direct Marketing Concern
+Date:  96-05-15 03:15:12 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I already answered your question posted here in email.  To repeat what I said
+then....
+
+The fan club will be selling only a very few items, most of it designated as
+fan club stuff (i.e., "Babylon 5 Fan Club" t-shirts or posters), on a limited
+scale.  It won't be producing nearly enough to cause even a blip in the
+direct marketplace arena.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Wordsmith-WWE-I
+Date:  96-05-15 03:17:43 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Actually, both those questions are answered in the next installment, so I'll
+let that answer for me.
+
+Yeah, I lov language, the way it can snake around behind you and turn into
+something else when you're not looking.  The alchemy of metaphor and the
+well-chosen allusion.  Banging words together is half the fun.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:ATTN: JMS -- Hootch?
+Date:  96-05-16 03:06:14 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+It takes a lot of alcohol to have an effect on them...but they enjoy it when
+they do.  Meanwhile, in moderate amounts, it just makes them happy.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Old shows
+Date:  96-05-16 03:06:40 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Tapes will eventually be available.  No reruns of first season for now.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: parents and children
+Date:  96-05-16 03:07:11 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"where are all the moms?"
+
+Good note, and good catch.  I'll have to get into this more.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Dr.Who- Opinions JMS?
+Date:  96-05-16 03:08:31 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I rather enjoyed it; some of the story needed a bit of work, and the woman
+doctor was annoying at times, but I think they got a *great* actor for the
+doctor, and pilots are always uneven.  I hope they go forward; I'll watch.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Great war
+Date:  96-05-16 03:09:09 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yes, the shadow war was never meant to consume the entire emphasis of the
+show.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Second B5 CD
+Date:  96-05-17 03:59:00 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I've heard, on tape, the first 15 minutes of the new CD, and it's great.
+Figure about July or so, to give Chris time to get it down just the way he
+wants it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Small critique of WWE par
+Date:  96-05-17 04:00:01 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yep, it was misspelled, and it wasn't misspelled in the script.  When I saw
+that on the final tape, it was too late to correct it for this airing.  It'll
+be corrected later.  (Somebody wasn't being careful when they did the
+captioning.)
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:WWE spoiler question
+Date:  96-05-18 04:20:40 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I'd rather let part 2 get into what exactly happened to Centauri Prime....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Ivanova and The 3rd 
+Date:  96-05-18 04:21:45 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+{What happened to the "Third age of Mankind" in the opening narration?
+Is its lack of any importance?}
+
+No, that'll likely show up again in year four....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:the Whamy Kiss
+Date:  96-05-18 04:22:35 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+There's always hope...as you'll see in part two.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:A Question...
+Date:  96-05-18 04:23:21 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Usually you only get the main war council and the support staff who monitor
+the progress of the war; the ambassadors were called in on Sheridan's hunch
+that now the vorlons would get involved.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Over the top?
+Date:  96-05-18 04:25:21 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No, I don't laugh about it...it's always an interesting, sometimes
+fascinating process.  If there were any consistent error I've seen, it's the
+tendency to focus on the little tiny things, and thus miss the big things
+I've just wheeled onto the stage in full view.  If you're going to do this
+show right, you have to play fair; so the person standing way in the
+background of a scene, just passing by, an extra, isn't likely to be very
+important, for instance...but people seem to leap after that one.  I
+sometimes get cute in my foreshadowing, but I try not to be obscure.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Mira on SciFi Buzz
+Date:  96-05-18 04:25:52 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The clip they showed was from "Grey 17 Is Missing."
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Two Questions
+Date:  96-05-19 04:19:14 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"1.  In the unthinkable, will you wrap up the storyline this season, or is
+that too late?"
+
+After the conclusion of this season, there are basically 3 major movements
+remaining in the symphony (for lack of a better description).  They fit
+comfortably in 2 seasons, leaving room to do the usual routine of starting
+each season with 4-5 standalones, and layering in other standalones along the
+way, some non-arc personal stories, and so on.
+
+If they came to me, put a gun to my head and said, "Okay, year four is it,
+wrap it up," yes, it could be done.  You just yank out the standalones and
+interstitial stuff I put between major movements, and shove the three pieces
+together.  It's not what I'd *prefer*, obviously, but it could be done.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Real JMS please stand up?
+Date:  96-05-19 04:21:20 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"Sitting here reading the spoilers, questions, comments and answers with my
+husband.  He doesn't believe its you answering these comments.  I, on the
+other hand, never thought about it."
+
+If the message has my initials on it, assuming it's not an imposter like the
+jerk who wandered into an IRC the other day...it's me, and ONLY me.  You'll
+note the writing style is always the same in every message, and elsewhere.
+I'd never entrust this to an assistant or anything similar, because I'd get
+the rap if something incorrect were said..and nobody else knows the show as I
+do.
+
+It's me.
+
+Whether that's good or bad remains to be seen.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re: Just another compliment:
+Date:  96-05-19 04:24:47 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"One would find it hard to believe that episodes like "Severed Dreams",
+"I&E","A Late Delvery From Avalon" and of course, WWE could be written by the
+same guy.  The pace, dialog, everything are adapted so well for each
+episode."
+
+Suddenly I'm having an identity crisis....
+
+I like to try different styles for different moods.  I also like to vary the
+tone of the show; one will be more comedic, as with Sic Transit Vir, others
+much darker, like Ship of Tears.  I enjoy trying new things, risking a bit,
+failing on occasion, but learning in the process.
+
+"You previsouly said that after B5 you would get "back" to writing.  What in
+Gods name are you doing now?  If this isn't writing, I sure as heck don't now
+what is."
+
+Actually, the theory would be to get back into writing novels and plays,
+assuming B5 runs its full course.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Blown Away by WWEI
+Date:  96-05-19 04:25:33 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks...I think you'll approve of part 2 as well.
+
+Thanks again.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Renewed?
+Date:  96-05-19 04:26:27 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+We should get word on renewal in a couple weeks, give or take.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:foreshadowing
+Date:  96-05-20 04:49:53 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Some folks catch double-meanings when they're there...some don't...some find
+double meanings when they're *not* there.  Art is a participatory sport.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:1 big question
+Date:  96-05-20 04:50:22 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Vorlon/Shadow tech is more or less at the same level; the Vorlons had the
+benefit of surprise.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Offhand lines...
+Date:  96-05-20 04:52:02 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"In WWE(1)I noticed a larger than usual group of offhand lines (ethel
+&.../wait in car.../cool-you know what I'm talking about).  Was this
+scripted?  Or was someone just ad libbing?"
+
+There's almost NO ad-libbing allowed on the show.  You can't change a word
+unless someone comes to my office and approves it, and it can't change the
+meaning.  (I.e., the actor is having a hard time saying "shibboleth" or
+something.)  Everything said in this show is scripted, offhand comments
+included.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:WWE/I
+Date:  96-05-20 04:52:32 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Incidental voices of just a line or two, for a one-time or so character,
+don't often get credited under SAG rules.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:"Are You Alright?"
+Date:  96-05-20 04:53:02 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+It's a lot of different things, including what's coming in part two.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:The Second Letter
+Date:  96-05-20 04:53:27 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Wait and see.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:B-5 fan Club
+Date:  96-05-20 04:54:42 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Stuff will start going out soon.  For one thing, we're getting a crush of
+memberships, and rather than keep sending out dribs and drabs, we're trying
+to do stuff all at once to make it simpler for mailing, copying, printing and
+the like.  The first newsletter is finished, and should be going out shortly,
+and the poster is being somewhat redesigned 'cause I wasn't quite happy with
+what we had, it could be improved, and that's what we're doing.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Congratulations from the 
+Date:  96-05-20 04:56:00 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks, I appreciate that....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:To JMS - telepaths abound
+Date:  96-05-20 04:57:17 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+This question will be dealt with by the season's end.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:WWE-1
+Date:  96-05-20 04:58:01 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I've begun to point to the question of "why," and thus having pointed to it,
+intend to answer it, by season's end.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Oh, Lucy, I'm Home....
+Date:  96-05-20 04:58:17 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Justine: thanks....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Speaking of pawns...
+Date:  96-05-20 19:25:07 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The shadows looked for Morden's opinion; he's an advisor, in a sense, on
+lower-species politics.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS:  The Scar?
+Date:  96-05-20 19:25:54 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+He got the scar while doing his training of rangers on Minbar.
+
+jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re:suggestion for plugging B
+Date:  96-05-26 01:14:23 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+We've contacted Howard's people, who say that because he likes the show so
+much, he doesn't want the folks to do his show because he'd have to rag on
+them by virtue of the nature of the show, and doesn't really want to do that.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:to JMS
+Date:  96-05-26 01:15:03 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+You'll be hearing more about the resistance a bit down the road.  And thanks.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Thanks and a Question..
+Date:  96-05-26 01:17:18 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"Would YOU categorize Babylon 5 as a Science Fiction show, or a Drama?  I
+know that it is set in a Science Fiction setting, but the storylines and such
+are really, I think, in the Drama category.  What do you think?"
+
+I have no problem calling it a science fiction, or SF (which also includes
+speculative fiction) show.  I know a number of writers in TV who hate the
+term, deny that what they're doing is SF, but I'm proud that it's SF, and
+would definitely classify it as such.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Seasons episodes
+Date:  96-05-26 01:18:03 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Re: the cliffhanger season 3 ending...I'd rather air it in Summer also...but
+the choice ain't mine.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Metamorphosis device
+Date:  96-05-26 01:20:15 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The chrysalis device originally came from Epsilon 3 with the other equipment;
+this should've been showcased more visually, but there was so much going
+on...
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Three questions
+Date:  96-05-26 01:21:34 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Claudia wears one earring to remember her real brother, and Ivanova's
+brother, who passed away.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:  Praise for JMS.
+Date:  96-05-26 01:22:44 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks, we try.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Who was that?
+Date:  96-05-30 04:07:30 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+You'll have to wait and see who entered the room.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:A Few
+Date:  96-05-30 04:07:53 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The Vorlons were called in after B4 arrived.
+
+jms
+Subj:  Re:WWE writing
+Date:  96-05-30 04:09:02 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks.  Actually, I keep hearing about B5 screenings becoming social events
+on an ever more regular basis.  Sometimes to "convert," sometimes to catch
+'em off satellite, or just watch them on a big screen.  I think it's great.
+
+Thanks again.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:G'kar of future
+Date:  96-05-30 04:09:58 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yes, one of his eyes had been plucked out some time before.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS:  wwe I & II
+Date:  96-05-30 04:10:41 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Barb: thanks, and thanks for working with your local station.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Flashforward
+Date:  96-05-30 04:11:24 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+It'd be hard to work in what everybody else saw in an episode down the
+road...that becomes difficult from a story perspective.  "By the way, y'know,
+when we were on B4, I saw the darndest thing..."
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS: Writing for Babylon 
+Date:  96-05-30 04:12:10 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks.  We don't take any kind of story ideas, or spec scripts, however.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:ATTN JMS:  Please Read...
+Date:  96-05-30 04:14:28 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks, and I remain happy to be here.
+
+On the writing and the scenes you cite...a story, *any* story, should be
+designed not just to take you through the mechanics of a plot, but to make
+you *feel* something.  Those, for me, are the elements I look for when I
+watch something, and when I write something.  If I'm not on the verge or
+tears in writing Kosh's fate, you won't be that way watching it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Remote Control
+Date:  96-05-30 04:16:07 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+That's an absolutely *wonderful* story!  Thank you for passing it along.
+
+But tell your co-worker to always duck *first*.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Cousin Brucie!
+Date:  96-05-30 04:16:37 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yep, that was Cousin Brucie.
+
+And Melissa appears later this season.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS-A Great Story!
+Date:  96-05-30 04:18:14 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks (actually, to you and those in-between who posted such nice comments;
+they're much appreciated).
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:  Writing
+Date:  96-05-30 04:19:26 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+All I can say is that I have always approached the writing with the
+assumption we can finish the story.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS is bad,and I'll tell 
+Date:  96-05-29 03:47:39 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+The delay in episodes until October ain't my idea....
+
+jms
+
+
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+The following is a transcript of the live chat with Bruce Boxleitner and
+Claudia
+Christian, held on February  3 at 9PM in the America Online Auditorium, The
+Globe.
+
+B5 Online:C) 1997 Warner Bros. Online
+
+B5 Online:Welcome to CYBERTALK!
+
+B5 Online:Tonight we are please to bring you our guests from the hit
+science-fiction television show,  "Babylon 5." We are currently awaiting the
+arrival of Bruce Boxleitner, but we want to welcome our  guest  Claudia
+Christian tonight! Bruce Boxleitner and Claudia Christian join us from the set
+of "B5," taking a  break from their busy schedules! Bruce Boxleitner is an
+accomplished actor with far too many roles to attribute here. Some of his most
+memorable roles are from the movies "Tron" and "The Babe."  On  Television he
+is best known for his starring role in "Scarecrow and Mrs. King." Claudia
+Christian's film  credits include "Hexed," A Gnome Named Gnorm," "Clean and
+Sober," and "The Hidden."  Im sure she'll  also tell us a little about her
+musical career! Welcome Claudia!
+
+B5 Claudia:hi everybody!
+
+B5 Online:Our first question is from Thinkum....
+
+Question:Bruce & Claudia: since B5 has a preordained 5-year run, how do you
+feel about having to  say farewell to your characters in just one year?  Do you
+feel as attached to them as we are, or is there a  professional detachment?
+
+B5 Claudia:I have no intention of saying goodbye to Ivanova I think I'll  have
+her with me forever.
+
+B5 Claudia:You never know... mabey there will be a sequel.... mabey a sit
+com... mabey not. :-0
+
+B5 Online:Heres a good question from JennBills...
+
+Question:For Bruce & Claudia: If you could write your character's final scene
+on B5, what would it  be? (ex: Would Ivanova 'go out in a blaze of glory' in
+the upcoming battle? Would Sheridan & Delenn settle  down on Earth or Minbar?)
+Not necessarily what JMS has planned but what would *you* want for your
+character?
+
+B5 Claudia:I would like to be sitting in a bar with a lovely blond... blond
+what ? you ask... NO seriously, I would like to have as befitting an ending for
+Ivanova as she deserves, something heroic and sexy  at the same tim e, is that
+possible... Joe.  Joe where are you.
+
+B5 Online:Heres a question from RSandridg...
+
+Question:Hi CC -- How is the CD doing? -- from "the othe Rick" ;)
+
+B5 Claudia:I'm selling them at a brisk pace. Mostly because they come with a
+free nude photo.  (Just  kidding)
+
+B5 Online:An interesting question from WaywardFl....
+
+Question:Claudia, is it true that you've been seen dancing down the hall in
+costume eating oatmeal cookies? And if not, what flavor were they?
+
+B5 Claudia:Absolutly false.  They were chocolate chip.
+
+B5 Online:From COMM RIKE...
+
+Question:Ivanova, you were great in "A Gnome named Gnorm"  What gives.  You
+were the best  part. Yet they didn't list it in your credits.
+
+B5 Claudia:Who didn't list it in my credits?  As far as I know it's on my
+resume
+
+B5 Online:Welcome Bruce!
+
+B5 Bruce:hello old friends!
+
+B5 Online:From MASWLCT, for bruce....
+
+Question:To Bruce: How do you like the way your character has developed and
+changed since its  introduction?
+
+B5 Claudia:Claudia says: HE's got less hair
+
+B5 Bruce:I love it !  I think JMS has given him more color and maturity.
+
+B5 Bruce:less hair???
+
+B5 Online:LOL.
+
+B5 Claudia:His hair has more color and more maturity too!
+
+B5 Online:Heres a question for both of you guys...
+
+Question:Were either of you big fans of the Science Fiction genre before coming
+to B-5, or did you  realy not take it that seriously?
+
+B5 Bruce:Not really all Sci-Fi, but Star Wars and 2001 really do it for me.
+
+B5 Claudia:This is my first experience in SF at this level.  I hve to say I'm
+learning as I'm going.
+
+B5 Online:Heres a question from Lilac6....
+
+Question:When you accepted the role(s), were you made aware of the complete
+story arc, and your  character's ultimate fate?
+
+B5 Bruce:no.
+
+B5 Claudia:Abolutely not. As JMS says if he tells you he has to kill you.
+
+B5 Online:From Tiger9...
+
+Question:Claudia do you have a fan club?
+
+B5 Claudia:No, but I have a Claudia Christian chronicles, a newsletter from
+England.
+
+B5 Online:Heres a good question for Bruce from Robertede....
+
+Question:Is it difficult to act when a lot of the action is done later using
+computer generated graphics?
+
+B5 Bruce:sometimes, yes it is.  But, we trust in the great maker to get us thru
+it.
+
+B5 Claudia:No. I love giving orders to a cardboard box.
+
+B5 Online:From NeilC1....
+
+Question:Claudia, comparing your current role to past roles, do you see this as
+breaking away from  old stereotypes, or just another step in a progression.  Or
+something else entirely.
+
+B5 Claudia:I've been lucky enough not to be stereotyped.  I think I will
+continue to play a variety of  pscho-bitch-from-hell roles.
+
+B5 Bruce:is that who you play now?
+
+B5 Online:From Delenn77 for both of you....
+
+Question:Bruce/Claudia  Do you enjoy going to the conventions and interacting
+with your fans?   Also are either or both of you coming to the northeast for a
+convention soon?
+
+B5 Claudia:I dig conventions, baby, and I'll be in Toronto this year
+
+B5 Bruce:Of course I like to do the cons, when my shooting schedule permits it.
+I'll be at Atlantic  City on Feb 22.
+
+B5 Online:Maybe Bruce can shed some light on this question from B5Crazy1
+without spoilers of  course.
+
+Question:Bruce,  what is the problem between Sheridan and Garibaldi?  Does
+Sheridan no longer  trust him since his abduction by the shadows.
+
+B5 Bruce:I'm afraid you'll just have to watch...
+
+B5 Online:From XNAXGOBBE...
+
+Question:Bruce or Claudia, I was wondering (I'm not trying to get information
+about future shows)  how much advance information are you given about the
+direction the story is going, or is B5 like other  shows where information is
+handed out episode by episode?
+
+B5 Claudia:We get the scripts 3 weeks in advance and occasionally if we perform
+special services for  the producers we get extra info.
+
+B5 Online:Ok Bruce... time to fess up.  EJCaldera wants to know...
+
+Question:What was your most embarrassing moment on the set of Babylon 5 (or, if
+you're the type that doesn't embarrass easily, what was the most embarrassing
+moment you witnessed - or took part in  creating - for someone else)?
+
+B5 Claudia:Doing those extra special favors....
+
+B5 Online:LOL
+
+B5 Bruce:This is becoming my moment now!
+
+B5 Online:Speaking of those "special favors..."
+
+Question:To Claudia: did you adlib any of the Alien sex dance seen you did? It
+was hilarious.
+
+B5 Bruce:did you perform?
+
+B5 Claudia:I choreographed the dance but the great Bard himself wrote the
+rediculous lyrics.
+
+B5 Online:From MIIB...
+
+Question:How has it been working on Babylon 5 Bruce
+
+B5 Bruce:Best experience in my career, with my clothes on!
+
+B5 Online:From JenMor29....
+
+Question:My question is for Claudia - do any of the guys play jokes on you on
+camera?
+
+B5 Claudia:If having their flies down, putting sun flower seeds in their
+cheeks, and talking about multiple genitialia on the Centauri counts....YES>
+
+B5 Bruce:back in the toilet again!
+
+B5 Online:Heres a question from OmegaS80....
+
+Question:Bruce>>what was your favorite episode and why
+
+B5 Bruce:Anything with Claudia is special...
+
+B5 Claudia:You old charmer, you.
+
+B5 Online:Aw....
+
+B5 Bruce:We've not shot my favorite yet.
+
+B5 Claudia:That's the one where he dies.... I'm sorry, that was my favorite.
+
+B5 Online:From NBA122....
+
+Question:Bruce, how does your character view himself?  I have noticed that he
+feels noticably  changed.  Is he under an external influence of Lorien?  Does
+he realize it?  Does he think of himself as  alive?  What does he admit to
+himself?
+
+B5 Bruce:"yes"
+
+B5 Online:From Keeslver...
+
+Question:claudia, are you amazed at all the attention that B5 has brought you?
+
+B5 Bruce:what attention????
+
+B5 Claudia:Actually, considering I was famous in Bangladesh prior to this I'm
+used to it.
+
+B5 Online:Heres a good question from Akshav...
+
+Question:Bruce and Claudia,        What do you like most about the respective
+character that you  each portray?       What actor or actress would you cite as
+having the greatest influence on your own acting  craft?
+
+B5 Claudia:I like the fact that I have a bulge in my pants and Pee Wee Herman
+is my hero.
+
+B5 Online::-o
+
+B5 Bruce:Claudia influences me!
+
+B5 Online:From SpooChef (Nice Name...)
+
+Question:Question for Bruce:  I've heard that you like horses, what is your
+favorite breed and why.
+
+B5 Bruce:American Quarter Horsed.  They are durable, smart and American!
+
+B5 Claudia:Just like Bruce.
+
+B5 Bruce:go for a ride?
+
+B5 Online:Heres a question from Lorien226...
+
+B5 Online:Im interested in both of your responses....
+
+Question:Do you Zip then fasten, or do you fasten then zip?
+
+B5 Online:The world wants to know.
+
+B5 Claudia:Fasten and then zip.
+
+B5 Bruce:zip and fasten
+
+B5 Claudia:but we get along in spite of our differences.
+
+B5 Online:From Aanderzak....
+
+Question:Mr Boxleitner, how is little Michael Garrett Boxleitner doing?  He's
+about 16 months old  now isn't he?
+
+B5 Bruce:Yes, he's wonderful, walking and attempting english, thank you!
+
+B5 Online:From KenBuzz...
+
+Question:Hey Claudia, when can we buy that new album of yours?
+
+B5 Claudia:Go to the Claudia Christian website and you can get the address. Or
+write to 8033 Sunset  Blvd. #140, LA, CA  90046  c/o Zard Prods.
+
+B5 Bruce:buy it and play it backwards for the secret message.
+
+B5 Online:From We2inABQ....
+
+Question:claudia...i just have to say you are the sexiest woman in sci-fi since
+Lt.Uhura.....don't i  sound like the typical sci-fi geek?
+
+B5 Claudia:As a matter of fact, what are you doing tomorrow night?
+
+B5 Online:For Bruce, from MystCruz....
+
+Question:Do you enjoy the time you put in on the show, and is it well worth the
+effort to be there,  and act?
+
+B5 Bruce:Yes, of course!
+
+B5 Claudia:I didn't know he was acting.
+
+B5 Online:From SteveT46...
+
+Question:Claudia, how do you feel about Internet chat rooms since your getting
+kicked on and off  from IRC while at a coffee house?  As I recall, they thought
+you an imposter.
+
+B5 Claudia:I've had all the perpetrators sent to IO.
+
+B5 Online:From TWandCrew for both Bruce and Claudia....
+
+Question:Bruce & Claudia - is there anything (other than write to WB and our
+local stations) that  we fans can do to get across to WB just how much we want
+to see the show renewed for that fifth year?  PS  everyone at the J&D forum
+says Hi.
+
+B5 Claudia:Don't burn flags but pickett.
+
+B5 Bruce:All you want is a fifth year?
+
+B5 Claudia:Bruce and I are counting on B5 - The Golden Years.
+
+B5 Online:Heres a question for Bruce....
+
+Question:Your last cybertalk was with JMS, and it was great!! Do you treat him
+that way all the  time?  How inportant is humor on you set?
+
+B5 Online:We have time for a few more questions tonight, we'll try and stay on
+as long as we can,
+
+B5 Bruce:Humor is very important on the set, but with JMS and Cludia on set,
+how could it not be
+
+B5 Bruce:FUN
+
+B5 Online:Since everyone is asking, can you give everyone to send you letters
+of encouragement?
+
+B5 Online:er.. an address
+
+B5 Bruce:Write to the B5 Fan Club, P.O. Box 856, N. Hollywood, 91603
+
+B5 Online:Ok... the multi-million dollar question....
+
+OnlineHost: Are you renewed for season 5 yet??
+
+B5 Claudia:We never hear  until the last minute! You know that!!! I'm activly
+pursuing stand up
+
+B5 Bruce:good luck
+
+B5 Online:From LadyZarya...
+
+Question:With regard to the nature of the arc, do you know the ultimate
+destination or do you take  it script to script?
+
+B5 Claudia:I love you, Brucey.
+
+B5 Bruce:script to script, generally.
+
+B5 Claudia:Is this a Noah reference?
+
+B5 Online:Heres a good question for you and your agents....
+
+B5 Online:From PBorroniv...
+
+Question:Have you been approached about the rumored spin-off. Will you be in
+the movies that  we've heard about?
+
+B5 Claudia:I've heard the title is "Claudia's Crusades"
+
+B5 Bruce:Bruce, the Star Captain, I heard...
+
+B5 Claudia:Yes, I'll be in both movies and so will Bruce.
+
+B5 Online:From Vorlon333...
+
+Question:My question is for Bruce.. How do you feel about the show so far, and
+do yoo plan to do  anything of this nature after Babylon 5??
+
+B5 Bruce:First, I love being a part of B5. I believe in B5.
+
+B5 Online:(He says after being confirmed for the 2 movies by Claudia)
+
+B5 Bruce:I certainly don't think there will be anything like it for a while.
+
+B5 Online:We still have time for a couple more questions. :)
+
+B5 Online:From KrisBrit...
+
+Question:Hi Claudia, I read that you have children's books due out. Can you
+tell us anything about  this endeavor?
+
+B5 Claudia:It's called "The misadventures of Ms. Emma Bradford" and they're
+geared toward ten to  fourteen year olds.  They're educational and hopefully
+will be available next year.
+
+B5 Online:Heres a good question for Bruce....
+
+Question:Is there anything you would like to change in your character?To maybe
+represent more of  you!
+
+B5 Claudia:I'd like Bruce to have that neat feathered hair-syle he had on
+Scarecrow...
+
+B5 Bruce:It would be awkward to ride my Quarter Horse thru the Zocalo, but
+never underestimate  JMS.
+
+B5 Online:Heres one from Capercail....
+
+OnlineHost: Bruce and Claudia, what have been your favorite episodes?
+
+B5 Claudia:There's a new question... TKO and Born to the Purple
+
+B5 Bruce:In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum, and Z'Ha'Dum.  Truthfully, it's a hard
+choice.
+
+B5 Online:From DVasilas....
+
+Question:Claudia, do you wish they had written a relationship for you and
+Bruce?
+
+B5 Bruce:YES
+
+B5 Bruce:YES
+
+B5 Bruce:YES
+
+B5 Claudia:Absolutely, I fantisize it all the time and I'm very angry at JMS
+for not pursuing it.
+
+B5 Claudia:Obviously the chemistry is there.
+
+B5 Online:From Mrs King2....
+
+Question:Hi Bruce - I am a big Scarecrow and Mrs King fan (can you tell from my
+screen name?)  Any possibility of a reunion movie?
+
+B5 Claudia:With or without Kate?
+
+B5 Bruce:If Kate wants to, I would be there in a heartbeat!
+
+B5 Online:We have time for 3 more questions tonight. :)
+
+B5 Online:From BRajswass....
+
+Question:claudia do you know if susan ever falls in love with marcus.
+
+B5 Claudia:As far as I can gather it is an unrequited love.  Ivanova is
+destined for celibacy.
+
+B5 Bruce:ugh!
+
+B5 Claudia:You're just jealous...
+
+B5 Claudia:There may be some truth to the rumor about Sheridan and Marcus...
+
+B5 Online:From WJMII....
+
+Question:Bruce, how was it working with your wife  and do you see a chance to
+work with her in  the movies planned for TNT.
+
+B5 Bruce:First, We've worked together a few times.  It was great. Unless there
+is a chance of surviving a nuke, she won't be back...
+
+B5 Claudia:Hey, you survived!
+
+B5 Bruce:Thanks B5 Online!
+
+B5 Online:Our last question is from Lionklaw....
+
+B5 Online:For Claudia...
+
+Question:To Bruce. Is Sinclair Sheridian's and Delenns son?
+
+B5 Online:oops... wrong one.. sorry. ;>
+
+B5 Claudia:No, I am!
+
+B5 Online:We'll have one more question for Claudia before we close.
+
+OnlineHost: claudia, when the captain left ivanova in charge of the station did
+you feel
+
+OnlineHost: a surge of power?  And what was it like?
+
+B5 Bruce:oh baby, oh baby
+
+B5 Claudia:It was like taking an ounce of sawpalmetto and watching THE WILD
+BUNCH.
+
+B5 Claudia:Before I embarrass myself anymore I just want to say thank you to
+everyone out there  who has been supportive of B5.  We love you.
+
+B5 Bruce:thank you all for stopping by tonite.  Thanks for watching.
+
+B5 Online:I want to thank our special guests tonight, Bruce Boxleitner and
+Claudia Christian for  joining us tonight! Next week at 8PM, be sure to join us
+with Mira Furlan and Bill Mumy - the Minbari  delegation from Babylon 5!
+
+B5 Online:We invite everyone to check out the latest preview for "Into The
+Fire" at Keyword: Babylon 5! Thanks again, and goodnight.
+
+
+
+Document ID: bb0203
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+OnlineHost: Copyright 1995 America Online, Inc.
+
+ OnlineHost: Good evening! Tonight, OMNI Online is pleased to take you
+behind the scenes of TV's "Babylon 5" with costume designer Ann Bruice and
+production designer John Iacovelli. Ann Bruice began her costume design
+career in regional theatre, designing numerous productions for South Coast
+Repertory.
+
+ OnlineHost: She received 1991 and 1992 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle
+Awards for her work on that company's production of "You Can't Take It
+With You." She has also designed several productions for the Mark Taper
+Forum and the Los Angeles Theatre Center.
+
+ OnlineHost: Besides "Babylon 5," her film and television work includes
+"Perfect Date," an ABC Afterschool Special; "Siringo," a TV movie; and
+HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS, for which she served as assistant designer.
+
+ OnlineHost: John Iacovelli designed "Twilight of the Golds" on Broadway,
+and he has designed more than 100 productions at theatres across the
+nation, including five productions for the Mark Taper Forum and nine for
+the Los Angeles Theatre Center. He won the 1991 Los Angeles Drama Critics
+Circle Award for his design of "Heartbreak House" for South Coast
+Repertory.
+
+ OnlineHost: In addition, he was the design consultant for Walt Disney
+Imagineering on the Florida attractions of The Tower of Terror and the
+Backstage Studio Tour. Welcome, Ann and John!
+
+ AnnBatB5: Thank you, it's a pleasure to be here.
+
+ JohnIatB5: Hi! Great to be here!
+
+ ErinM: It's great to have you here! Before we begin taking audience
+questions, could you explain a bit about your jobs on B5? Ann, will you
+start us off?
+
+ AnnBatB5: I'm responsible for conceiving and drawing designs for all
+costumes for the regular cast human and alien that appear on Babylon 5. I
+choose fabrics, I attend all fittings. I make all decisions on detail, and
+keep an eye on the costumes appear on camera.
+
+ ErinM: Thanks, Ann! Your turn, John. :)
+
+ JohnIatB5: I'm responsible for the visual look of the show in relation to
+whenever live actors are on set and I collaborate with the producers and
+the wizards at Foundation Imaging on the look of CG in relation to our
+sets.  Right now we have about 65 sets that rotate depending on scripts
+and my department is responsible for creating these worlds that consist of
+everything from kitchen sinks to futuristic devices for information and
+weapons, etc.
+
+ ErinM: Thanks, John! We have our first question from the audience...
+
+ Question: What changes can we expect in the look/feel of the show in
+season 3 (without giving anything away, of course)?
+
+ JohnIatB5: Several new sets and a new and improved med-bay and an
+upgraded Zocalo plus some sweet surprises in store. We are considering all
+of our sets just as we did at the beginning of the second season.
+
+ ErinM: We've lost Ann Bruice for the moment. I'm sure she'll get signed
+right back on. Until she does, John, can you eleborate at all on that last
+question without giving away any more secrets?
+
+ JohnIatB5: And this means that becasue our show is in analog time we can
+improve our sets just as people would improve their surroundings today.
+
+ ErinM: Welcome back, Ann! The question is still the one about changes in
+the look/feel of the show in season 3.
+
+ AnnBatB5: We are introducing a new recurring character which involves a
+new design for us. In the first episode, we are revealing a new set that
+we think will be our most spectacular set to date. Delenn and Lennier have
+additional new looks to accomodate some new and varied activities. We are
+also continuing to define new background alien races and delinate between
+groups of aliens G'Kar's look is changing somewhat this season as is
+Londo's to again facilitate continuing character changes. In the broad
+specturm we continue to try to refine and enhance both day players and
+recurring cast members' looks, as well as all of our background extras. 
+
+ OnlineHost: For those newcomers in the audience: OMNI Online is pleased
+to take you behind the scenes of TV's "Babylon 5" with costume designer
+Ann Bruice and production designer John Iacovelli. If you have any
+questions about how the auditorium works, please feel free to contact our
+usher, OMNI Muse, by instant message.
+
+ JohnIatB5: We are going to greater pains to make the quarters feel more
+lived in and less like hotel rooms.
+
+ ErinM: Another question from the audience...
+
+ Question: Ms. Bruice, I love your contribution to the show...it wouldn't
+be the same. How do you decide which style fits each character? It seems
+that you design the clothes to reflect the character.
+
+ AnnBatB5: I take my inspiration from Joe who always is available to
+discuss with me the background, history, pyschological makeup of each
+character as they evolve.  Wetry to make sense of not just interesting
+looks, but looks that tie and understanding of past, present, and future
+to specific characters and their individual needs.
+
+ Question: Question for John Iacovelli: Considering your background with
+the NASA Hydroponic module and Pavilion of the future, how much of the B5
+design is plausible real science as opposed to necessary for the plot but
+not well grounded in science?
+
+ JohnIatB5: The most important thing in the design of the sets is to
+fulfill the dramatic function of the scenes. Now sometimes we have to bend
+science to our liking and sometimes we get great inspiration from
+scientific phenomena, but as Joe says, you guys are out there watching us
+so we try to do things that have a foundation in hard science.
+
+ Question: Which species of alien poses the greatest challenges when it
+comes to wardrobe and/or makeup?
+
+ AnnBatB5: Probably the Narns. Because the look that has been designed for
+G'Kar is so complex and layered that any other Narn appearing in the
+series has to similarly evoke the same strength and complexity, while
+allowing G'Kar to remain the strongest Narn figure we see.
+
+ Question: Is designing for B5 similar or totally dissimilar to anything
+either of you has done before?
+
+ JohnIatB5: It's not similar to anything because we produce the show in an
+unorthodox way. One of the things we've always told Joe is to simply tell
+the story and we will do whatever we can to fulfill the story's needs
+which means that instead of one new set per episode sometimes we have more
+than five. So we need to be as flexible as possible because we can't make
+Joe write for only the sets that we have and Babylon 5 is a big place. We
+want to show it off a bit. Now we don't have laundromat sets like
+"SeaQuest," but there probably is one on B5.
+
+ AnnBatB5: In many ways it's been a similar project in that I research and
+discuss and evolve designs based on character development. The main
+difference has been the speed and scope of each continuing episode. We
+have seven days to prepare an episode and that's very different from the
+six weeks I used to get on a theatre production. Joe and John Copeland are
+also surprisingly more accessible to me as advisors than other producers
+and directors have been to me in the past, which makes the rapid pace
+manageable. It's also different in that the world is so entirely eclectic
+and that there are fewer rules about period and line and shape and texture
+that have to be adhered to. 
+
+ JohnIatB5: What Ann says goes for me, too, and I base a lot of the look
+of the show on research and in a curious way the legacy of over sci-fi
+design from the history of sci-fi, a rich history book.
+
+ Question: Will the uniforms be changing for the 3rd season and how will
+they be changing?
+
+ AnnBatB5: If I tell you Joe will have to kill both you and me.
+
+ Question: Ann: what sorts of materials do you use most? Natural fibers or
+synthetic? Which do youQuestion prefer? PS -- love your work on B5!!!
+
+ AnnBatB5: I prefer and always use whenever possible natural fibers. 
+Particularly we use a great deal of silk, brocades and other prints along
+with wools, leathers and some rayons. My love for combining fabrics in
+interesting ways and finessing details, trims and fastenings etc. keep
+this world a  constant delight.
+
+ Question: I noticed that during the 2nd season, Londo's quarters and
+clothes have been getting more opulent as he rises in influence. Can you
+tell us what you've been doing to create this impression?
+
+ JohnIatB5: Last season we painted a portrait, and this season his
+quarters have had many upgrades, including a lot of gifts he's been
+getting from people wishing favors.
+
+ AnnBatB5: Londo has evolved in my mind from a buffoonish character to one
+who has become more serious and darker. His look has changed to
+accommodate this development in his character. The silhouette has remained
+the same but the colors of fabric have changed noticably, he no longer
+wears a purple coat, rather one of dark navy, and this season you'll
+notice that even his colorful vests are gone.
+
+ JohnIatB5: The tone of the set and the set dressing has gotten more
+serious -- more like Peter the Great rather than Liberace.
+
+ Question: Ms. Bruice, I especially loved the costume designs for
+Deathwalker and Ambassador G'Kar. Am I nuts, or is there a recurring 'eye'
+motif on his uniform?
+
+ AnnBatB5: Very good, there is an eye motif in G'Kars.
+
+ Question: Do you ask the actors what they would like to have in their
+characters' quarters to make them more personal?
+
+ JohnIatB5: For example, things like laundry lying out, dishes in the
+sink, books and papers lying out, plus more photos of family and friends.
+
+ Question: John - is there any particular inspiration for the look of
+Bab5?
+
+ JohnIatB5: I like everything. I wanted the future to seem more like the
+present and not like a sterile, vacu-formed spaceship. I felt if people
+are really living here, there would be a certain amount of clutter and
+selective chaos.
+
+ Question: Question for Ann Bruice:  When making costumes for aliens, how
+do you work with the make-up people...is it coordinated or do the make-up
+effects come first and then the costumes are designed to fit the look?
+
+ AnnBatB5: Often we try to coordinate the sensibilities of the aliens. I
+try to work with Optic Nerve to ensure that the head meets the body in
+some sensible way. We talk about similiar qualities textures and colors
+and the flow of the total being. Truthfully, often the look of the
+prosthetic comes somewhat earlier and from that I have understanding what
+direction to go.
+
+ ErinM: Folks, I've been informed that one of the B5 newsletters said that
+Jerry Doyle would be attending tonight's conference. I'm afraid that he's
+not scheduled to attend. But we'll see what we can do to schedule him for
+a future conference. :) As a matter of fact, B5 producer John Copeland
+tells me that Jerry is out of town shooting an episode for another series
+tonight. Back to the audience questions for John Iacovelli and Ann
+Bruice...
+
+ Question: Mr. Iacovelli, How much of what we see on the screen is a
+physical set, and how much of it is CGI?
+
+ JohnIatB5: It depends on the shot. For example, in the Zen Garden the
+only real set that exists is the set that is immediately behind the
+actors. The rest of it is CG, and we do this in the docking bay a lot ,and
+I think that we use this kind of virtual set better than any other show. I
+dare you to find all of the CG sets because we integrate them so well.
+
+ AnnBatB5: John, you're being modest. We do it more and better than any
+other show.
+
+ ErinM: By the way, the other series that Jerry Doyle will be appearing on
+as a guest star is "Renegades."
+
+ Question: John: Babylon 5 looks great, apparently on a budget that is a
+fraction of "that other SF show".  How do you do it?
+
+ JohnIatB5: We're smarter. Actully we have many modular set pieces and we
+often repaint and use the same pieces over again. This helps to stretch
+our budget.
+
+ Question: Will we see any ceremonial dress from any homeworlds?
+
+ AnnBatB5: You see ceremonial dress already. Minbari celebrations,
+particularly religious Centuari celebrations, have included opulent
+orgiastic looks. Narn ceremonial dress includes G'Kar's prayer robe and
+talus while practicing the faith of G'Quan. Other ceremonial dress has
+been used with the ambassadors of the non-aligned worlds in the council.
+So G'Kar, Delenn, and Londo have always had special looks only worn for
+council meetings and ceremonies. And for that matter, the Earth Alliance
+has dress uniforms worn for special occasions. We will continue to
+introduce other looks for alien cultures as the opportunity present
+themselves in the scripts.
+
+ ErinM: Folks, we've got time for just one more question for John and Ann
+tonight...
+
+ Question: Are u involved in any theatrical prouctions currently - and if
+not, do u miss not working in the theatre? Is that where your heart
+belongs?
+
+ JohnIatB5: I just recently completed some designs over the summer, and I
+am currently working on a show at South Coast Rep, but it's now more for
+love than for money, and my theatrical roots help me stay current in the
+sense that I don't design the way a typical television designer designs.
+
+ AnnBatB5: This is the most theatrical project I've ever worked on, and
+for now this is where my heart belongs. However, I recently designed a
+production of "Blythe Spirit" with Jean Stapleton at South Coast Rep which
+was a delight. I find it difficult to balance the two and for now have
+chosen to do only B5.
+
+ ErinM: I'd like to thank Ann Bruice and John Iacovelli from "Babylon 5"
+for giving us a glimpse behind the scenes of the show. Thanks for being
+our guests tonight! The complete transcript of this conference will be
+available tomorrow in teh OMNI Online Conference Logs Library. To get
+there, go to keyword: OMNI, click on File Libraries in the scrollbox and
+then click on Conference Logs. I'd like to thank Ann and John, our
+wonderful usher, OMNI Muse, and all of you for attending. Good night!
+
+ JohnIatB5: Thanks, this was fun. Keep watching!
+
+ AnnBatB5: It has been a real pleasure. Thanks for asking.
+
+ OnlineHost: Copyright 1995 America Online, Inc.
+
+
+Transmitted: 10/15/95 3:36 AM
+
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+The following is a transcript of the live chat with BILL MUMY and MIRA
+FURLAN of
+Babylon 5, held on Monday, February 10th at 8PM ET in the Globe Auditorium on
+America Online.
+
+B5 Online:Warner Bros. Online Presents: CYBERTALK (tm)
+
+B5 MiraF:Hello, Everyone - I'm here.
+
+B5 Online:Tonight we are please to bring you the Minbari delegation from
+Babylon 5! Id like to welcome Mira Furlan and Bill Mumy to our online
+community!  Welcome!
+
+B5 BillM:Flok Sha everyone!
+
+B5 MiraF:Thanks
+
+B5 Online:So, let me tell everyone how to send in their questions and we'll get
+this thing going!
+
+OnlineHost:The auditorium consists of two major areas: the audience, where you
+are right now, and the stage, where the speakers appear. Text which you type
+onscreen shows only to those in your row, prefaced by the row number in
+parentheses, such as (2) if you are in row 2. To interact with the speaker, use
+the Interact icon on your screen.
+
+OnlineHost:To send your question to the speaker, click on the Interact icon,
+then use the Ask a Question option.
+
+B5 Online:Here is our first question from RVaug5949... For both of you. :)
+
+B5 BillM:Just so you normal humans out there know, Mira and I are having these
+questions screened for us.
+
+Question:RVAUG59495 "Will both of characters appear in the spinoff THE RANGERS?
+
+B5 MiraF:I have no clue.  I wish I had.
+
+B5 BillM:I have no idea about the spinoff.  Maybe yes.  We'll have to see.
+
+B5 Online:Our next question comes from Foxx3...
+
+Question:This is to both Ms. Furlan and Mr. Mumy:  You are both very
+distinguished actors and i was wondering what made you decide to be on Babylon
+5?
+
+B5 BillM:I've always loved sci-fi fantasy projects, and was ready to come back
+to it.
+
+B5 MiraF:It was a very unusual and interesting and strong character for me to
+play.
+
+B5 BillM:And aren't we all glad that you're here Mira!  You're the best.
+
+B5 Online:The next question is for Mira from Thinkum...
+
+Question:Mira, do you get to wear a wig, or do they have to work that wonderful
+bone "tiara" into your real hair?
+
+B5 MiraF:It is my own hair.
+
+B5 Online:Heres an interesting question from MalleyDat, want to field this one,
+Bill?
+
+Question:With the unusual and prophetic dreams of the Babylon 5 staff and
+ambassadors, have you had any similar fascinating dreams with you as
+Delenn/Lennier?
+
+B5 BillM:I have pretty hot dreams about Delenn.  Don't think they'll make it to
+prime time.  Too sexy.
+
+B5 MiraF:Oh, my god. Please stop!
+
+B5 BillM:Never!
+
+B5 Online:Heres a question you both can field from MalleyDat...
+
+Question:There's always coincidences in people's lives. What coincidences
+regarding your life and maybe or maybe not regarding Babylon5 have caused you
+to reflect and possibly reconsider something important in your (real) life?
+
+B5 BillM:Uh...Uh....let's see...Don't get blown up by aliens.
+
+B5 MiraF:There are a lot of coincidences between my own life and my life as
+Delenn
+
+B5 BillM:There's nothing important in real life.  IT's all in the mind you
+know.
+
+B5 MiraF:I think that Joe is inspired by some elements of whats going on in the
+former Yugoslavia and it reflects in the show.
+
+B5 BillM:Joe and I both read too many comic books.
+
+B5 Online:Heres one for Bill From WaywardFl....
+
+Question:For Bill: Space Cases is terrific! The kids want to know: will
+Catalina be back? Did you plan on Susie entering the series? Why didn't you use
+the J.S. teddy bear when a teddy bear appeared in the Space Cases episode? ;-)
+Thanks
+
+B5 BillM:Thank you!  We brought Cat back once second season, and hope to see
+her return if we get the third season pickup.  And, that WAS the B5 bear!  Just
+without the baseball outfit.
+
+B5 Online:From DNmass....
+
+Question:Mira and Bill, both of your performances have been incredible. For
+Mira, how hard is it working in this type of program compared to films?
+
+B5 MiraF:I'm used to going in and out of projects and once I finish with them
+I'm used to forgetting about them.  Of course, Babylon 5 is something
+differrent.
+
+B5 BillM:In tv, you have to work much faster.
+
+B5 Online:Here ya go Bill... from Timebaron... ;>
+
+Question:Will Lennier become a larger part of the show in the sense that his
+direct actions precipitate something that changes the arc?
+
+B5 BillM:Uh, I don't know.  Ask Joe.  I just hit my mark and read my lines and
+wear my bone and dress. Actually, going into that deeper, Lennier is always
+saving the day, and that definityly effects the arc, eh?  Or we'd all have
+blown up a bunch of times!
+
+B5 MiraF:It would definitely change Delenn's feelings.
+
+B5 Online:Heres a question you have probably been asked... but its one I always
+find interesting.... From Thrasher0...
+
+Question:This is a question for Both Bill and Mira, On all of the B5 Episodes
+you've worked on which one was your favorite.
+
+B5 BillM:Uh, hard to seperate them, cuz they all are part of the whole.  I love
+the one where Lennier first kicked butt.
+
+B5 MiraF:My favorites are "Comes the Inquisitor" and "Confessions and
+Lamentations"  "Severed Dreams" was also an interesting one for me.
+
+B5 Online:Heres a question for Bill....From ZaBaGaBe
+
+Question:For Bill: We've seen you and several members of the David family on
+Space Cases so far...when will we see more members of the Mumy family?
+
+B5 BillM:Can't afford them.
+
+B5 Online:(Id like to point out that both Bill and son Seth can be seen in the
+movie Three Wishes, available to rent at your local video store)
+
+B5 BillM:Just kidding.  I'd love to use more Mumy's in Space Cases.  Seth also
+was in Dear God, and a recent Dark Skies episode.
+
+B5 Online:From Frank2641....
+
+OnlineHost: To Mira: Is B5 big in Yugoslavia?
+
+B5 MiraF:It's not shown there. Croatian television bought Voyager instead.
+
+B5 Online:Heres a question from Glithcali....
+
+Question:Question for Both: Last week the comradery (sp?) between Claudia and
+Bruce was entertaining....is this a normal thing on the set??  How many members
+of the main cast do you joke with and associate with outside of B5??
+
+B5 BillM:We all play gin every Saturday night at Joes house.
+
+B5 BillM:Or not.
+
+B5 MiraF:The cast of B5 is one of the greatest pleasures of working on the show
+
+B5 BillM:One of them.
+
+B5 BillM:The other is wearing the bone.
+
+B5 MiraF:Yes, we communicate outside the show.
+
+B5 BillM:Why tonight, Mira and I are going out for a snack!
+
+B5 Online:Im sure a lot of people are wondering, Bill, but WJMII asked
+first....
+
+Question:Bill, a little of the topic of B5 but what is your opinion of the
+announcment of the Lost In Space movie and are you involved in any way?
+
+B5 BillM:No comment on the Lost in SPace movie yet.
+
+B5 Online:A question for Mira from CLOWNBOB....
+
+Question:Mira: Do you think B5 is one of the best shows you have been apart of?
+( be honest)
+
+B5 MiraF:I don't like comparing things. I like the fact that things are
+different not "better" or "worse".  Also you can't compare this kind of show to
+anything I"ve done before.
+
+B5 Online:From J1harper1 for Bill...
+
+Question:Bill, have enjoyed your work since Lost in Space and now my son really
+enjoys Space Cases.  Good work on Babylon 5 as well!!  Do you think there is a
+chance for romance with Delenn?
+
+B5 BillM:Well, in his heart Lennier loves Delenn, but he knows she's destined
+for another, so I don't think you'll ever see him make "a move".  Too bad...
+But the angst makes the character more interesting to play. Do you think there
+should be a Lennier Delenn romance? And thanks for the kind words.  I loved
+Lost in SPace and Space Cases.
+
+B5 MiraF:Delenn have had enough romances, real ones and potential ones.
+Remember Sinclair...Let's not overwhelm  her.
+
+B5 Online:A favorite question from your convention appearances... maybe you
+won't elaborate with Mira being right there... but GaryZepHe asks....  be
+warned....
+
+Question:Bill and/or Mira.... please tell us about the practical joke Bill
+pulled on Jason Carter.... about him supposedly being killed off last
+season....
+
+B5 Online:And have you forgiven Bill, Mira? :D
+
+B5 BillM:Let me say this for the last time.  It was JOES JOKE!  I was his
+instrument. I was cruel.  I convinced Jason, that Marcus was being killed off.
+He bought it. It wasn't very nice of me.  Mira spanked me into seeing the right
+thing.
+
+B5 Online:Oooh.... Minbaris have all the fun.
+
+B5 BillM:I apologized.  I could tell this in a very funny way, but ....I won't.
+
+B5 MiraF:I'm not a big admirer of practical jokes. They seem cruel and
+unnecessary. to me... Or maybe I don't have that sense of humor.
+
+B5 BillM:Jason was a good sport.  Joe and I both bought him gifts.  We
+grovelled.
+
+B5 BillM:You had to be there.
+
+B5 Online:From KRoss5225 for Mira....
+
+Question:Mira:  Has Joe (JMS, Kosh, Valen, whatever he is going by today) said
+if John and Deleen are getting married?  And if so, will it be on the show?
+
+B5 BillM:Keep watching.
+
+B5 MiraF:Let it remain a mystery.
+
+B5 BillM:Put it this way, IF so... It won't be on another show!  It'll happen
+only on B5
+
+B5 Online:Another question from ZaBaGaBe....
+
+Question:For Bill: There have been several references to Barnes and Barnes on
+Space Cases (from the Lumanians to Voobanahavopbop) -- will there be more, or
+will we see the Jenerators there?
+
+B5 BillM:Ooops.  Sure.  As much inside stuff as I can stick in, I will.  It
+makes me and a small circle of people chuckle.  I hope to continue doing stuff
+like that. Don't think the Jenerators will show up soon though. But I DO have a
+solo album coming out on Infinite Visions label this month.
+
+B5 Online:For both of you from Morden226...
+
+Question:Hey folks!  Is working with Joe an inspiration?  Does his dedication
+(hours and hours and hours) ever make you wonder where he gets all his energy
+from? Have you checked to see if he's a robot? :)
+
+B5 BillM:Joe is pretty amazing!  His work is really great.  He's a fun guy.
+
+B5 BillM:I think he gets that energy from Flarn.
+
+B5 MiraF:It is a great inspiration. I wish I had five percent of that energy.
+My question is... does he ever sleep?
+
+B5 BillM:Not with me.
+
+B5 Online:Here ya go Bill, your big chance... from DMReda...
+
+Question:Bill: If B5 were being re-cast, which character (besides Lennier)
+would you like to play?
+
+B5 BillM:That's a good question.  I'd say Sheridan.
+
+B5 BillM:Or the bartender.
+
+B5 MiraF:I'd like to play a telepath. #
+
+B5 BillM:I'd like to BE a telepath.
+
+B5 MiraF:I thought you were.
+
+B5 BillM:Heh Heh. I knew that.
+
+B5 Online:From Wolffgang....
+
+Question:this is for mira: are you active in speaking out on the current
+situation in the former yugoslavia?
+
+B5 MiraF:I don't know exactly what you mean by "active".  I would say that I'm
+still very involved but I don't want to deal with politics because it's
+corrupted and evil.  I feel defeated.  All the people who spoke against this
+war have been defeated. The  war mongers have won big time.
+
+B5 BillM:Unlike shobiz
+
+B5 Online:Heres your chance to write the rest of Lennier's story, Bill... from
+Dtucker93....
+
+Question:Bill, What do you want for your character's future?
+
+B5 BillM:I want hair and a bone loss, and normal ears and pants.
+
+B5 BillM:I'd also like another season for the show.  How about you guys?
+
+B5 Online:Speaking for the audience, I believe that is a unanimous YES!
+
+B5 BillM:I think Lennier is a cool, efficient, noble, loyal capable guy. I like
+playing him.  He just happens to be a Minbari.
+
+B5 MiraF:We all just happen to be something.
+
+B5 BillM:We've had Tony Dow directing a few shows lately.  That's been great!
+
+B5 Online:For Mira, From  BLCK OMEG.... Question:MIRA>>>>As an original cast
+member...Did you think B5 was going to take off like it has?
+
+B5 BillM:Have we taken off?
+
+B5 MiraF:No. This is a wonderful surprise for me. As a true Eastern European I
+always expect the worst.
+
+B5 BillM:Taken off like we have.... I don't get it.  mean, we're not exactly
+Seinfeld. We are a great show.  But we're not top of the pops.  Are we?
+
+B5 MiraF:But we are surviving.  How many Sienfeld cons have you been to?
+
+B5 BillM:Tell me if we are!  I want to renegotiate!
+
+B5 BillM:You mean you missed the big Elaine Con in France? It was great.
+
+B5 Online:Heres a musical question for Bill from ComicWhiz. :D
+
+Question:Bill>> how is the gutar coming? i heard you play it on lost in space
+and never agian!
+
+B5 BillM:Well, you haven't looked too hard.  I play all the time.  Lots of
+records out and always gigging somewhere.  New album, Dying to Be Heard, out
+this month on Infinite Visions label.  The one that put out Brent SPiner's CD.
+Check it out.
+
+B5 Online:From Ausavar for Mira....
+
+Question:Do you have any more European or American films in the works Mira for
+after B5?
+
+B5 MiraF:I can't talk about anything that's not definite. I'm supersticious
+
+B5 Online:We have time for a couple more questions this evening before we have
+to move out So heres one for both of you...  From CLOWNBOB:
+
+Question:Both: What is the most embarrassing event in the filming of B% for
+you? :)
+
+B5 BillM:That's a hard one....thinking...
+
+B5 BillM:Having my wife and son come to the set the first episode I did and
+them not being able to recognize me!
+
+B5 MiraF:It's always embarassing when you can't do a 5 page monologue in one
+take and that happens often.
+
+B5 BillM:Mira, you're always great! REALLY!
+
+B5 MiraF:Thank you, Bill.
+
+B5 Online:Do either of you have any conventions soon you want to let people
+know about?
+
+B5 BillM:No.
+
+B5 MiraF:I'm doing a con in Alberta, Canada in March.
+
+B5 BillM:You're such a jet setter.
+
+B5 MiraF:Yeah, that's me.
+
+B5 Online:From Johngf2....
+
+Question:I saw you both in the SFVortex war room. do you hang out together
+alot?
+
+B5 MiraF:Sometimes.
+
+B5 BillM:Yeah. Do you blame me?  I mean, you'd want to hang out with you too if
+you could.
+
+B5 Online:Heres a question for both of ya...
+
+Question:Do you sign autographs through the mail and what is the address to
+write to both of you at?
+
+B5 BillM:Write to B5 fan club.
+
+B5 Online:We have time for one more question each...
+
+B5 MiraF:You can write to the B5 Fan Club at PO Box 856, N. Hollywood, CA
+91603, or.. Mira's Fan Club is PO Box 523093 Springfield, VA 22152
+
+B5 BillM:Thanks for the support folks. We really do like being a part of this
+show.  We work hard and we're proud of it.
+
+B5 Online:For Bill, from Eidelon...
+
+Question:Bill, Does Lennier ever get to show some more of his fighting skills
+like when he saved Lando's butt?
+
+B5 BillM:Yes.  He's got some more "action" scenes coming up. I think. Or maybe
+they cut them out.
+
+B5 Online:And our last question of the night for Mira....
+
+Question:This is for Mira:  Is it hard to play a character like Delenn or are
+you a lot like her in real life?
+
+B5 MiraF:It's not hard because it's interesting and fun.  I enjoy the
+combination between different elements of her personality. She's vulnerable but
+tough, strong but gentle. sensitive, in one word, she's a very rich character.
+Very rarely a character like  that comes across, especially when you're a
+woman.
+
+B5 Online:Id like to thank both Bill Mumy and Mira Furlan for joining us
+tonight - it was a GREAT pleasure having you both back in our forum!  Feel free
+to stop by any time.. any closing thoughts?
+
+B5 BillM:Do the best you can and can the best you do.
+
+B5 MiraF:Keep on caring about us.  It makes us happy.  Bye-bye.
+
+B5 Online:Thanks again you two... keep up the great work, everyone supports you
+and the show.
+
+B5 BillM:Send money.
+
+B5 BillM:I want a Lennier action figure!
+
+B5 Online:Bill... with mighty fighting action?
+
+B5 BillM:Push his bone he kicks.
+
+B5 BillM:Flok sha!\
+
+
+
+
+Document ID: mf0210
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+The following is a transcript of the online conference with Peter Jurasik and
+Stephen Furst of "Babylon 5," held on Monday, February 17th on America Online.
+
+
+B5 Online:C) 1997 Warner Bros. Online
+
+B5 Online:Welcome to CYBERTALK!
+
+B5 Online:Tonight we are joined by the Centauri Delegation from "Babylon 5!"  I
+would like to welcome both Peter Jurasik and Stephen Furst to our online
+community tonight!
+
+OnlineHost:The auditorium consists of two major areas: the audience, where you
+are right now, and the stage, where the speakers appear. Text which you type
+onscreen shows only to those in your row, prefaced by the row number in
+parentheses, such as (2) if you are in row 2. To interact with the speaker, use
+the Interact icon on your screen.
+
+B5 Online:Welcome you two!
+
+B5 Peter:Hey, we're happy to be here.
+
+B5 Stephen:Thanks for having us.
+
+B5 Peter:My first question is for Stephen Steve, I really enjoy your work with
+the Londo character, is he as sexy onstage as offstage, and be honest
+
+B5 Online:Waitaminit waitaminit... IM IN CHARGE HERE.    Sheesh, give a guy
+Prime Minister status and he takes over the world.
+
+B5 Peter:Not the world just the internet
+
+B5 Stephen:He looks great without his fright wig on!
+
+B5 Online:Our first question tonight comes from Thinkum....
+
+Question:Just looking at Centauri hairstyles (male and female) makes my hair
+hurt, and at last week's chat session, Bill Mumy expressed a strong wish to do
+away with his character's bone, lack of hair, etc.  If you could change any
+part of your makeup/costuming, would you?
+
+B5 Stephen:I wouldn't wear underwear.
+
+B5 Peter:And I'd have three less tenticles.
+
+B5 Online:Hmmmm
+
+B5 Peter:Six really ruins the profile of my pants.
+
+B5 Peter:Seriously, I don't think I'd change anything.  I wish the makeup time
+was shorter...
+
+B5 Online:From SGBruckner.... For Peter:
+
+Question:Peter:  I met you on Friday when you were on the set with Benjamin.
+Hi.  Your son is very cute! Where would you like to see your character go as
+far as the storyline is concerned?  Have you enjoyed playing Londo?
+
+B5 Peter:Of course I've enjoyed playing Londo.  As far as my son being cute,
+what am  I chopped liver? And as far as where Londo goes we have a pretty good
+writer already so I'll go where he sends me.  But if he asks, I'll take more
+love scenes.
+
+B5 Online:Here's a question from Khasatin....For Stephen:
+
+Question:Stephen, what was it like working with John Belushi and Howie Mandel
+
+B5 Stephen:One's dead and one's still alive.
+
+B5 Online:From WaywardFl.... for both of you:
+
+Question:For Peter and Stephen: Your work is terrific, many thanks! Are there
+ever times talking to JMS  that you want to 'stick up for' your character, i.e.
+"Gosh, don't you think you've dumped on this poor guy enough already?"
+
+B5 Peter:I actually complain fairly often to Joe...but he doesn't listen. And
+that's the truth. More importantly, he usually right.  Who does he think he is
+the executive Producer/Writer?
+
+B5 Stephen:The last time I complained to Joe I was assigned toilet detail in
+the Vorlon section
+
+B5 Peter:So when everyone is in the Eclipse Cafe, and I'm lurking, why is
+everyone flirting... instead of discussing seriously my acting in Babylon 5?
+Enough about Londo, let's... talk about me for awhile.  Now I"ll be quiet.
+
+B5 Online:Not quiet for long, Peter... here's a question from Starfury3....
+
+Question:Mr Jurassik, thanks for being with us tonight  my question is: Londo
+has the most depth of any of the B5 Characters is that all your acting ability
+or is some of that your  personality showing through?
+
+B5 Peter:It may just seem that way but most of it is good acting coaching from
+Stephen... He taught me everything I know. Thanks for the compliment. Good
+scripts and good characters make the difference.
+
+B5 Online:Here's a question from RBilyeu54, that could be a long answer, but
+can you give us some insight, Stephen?
+
+Question:Steve, you directed tis weeks episode. Tell us about the experiance.
+
+B5 Stephen:I get to go to the front of the line at lunch when I'm directing,
+that was quite an experience. I really enjoyed directing the actors were great.
+
+B5 Peter:Stephen is too modest....It's not Vir directing the difference is
+quite amazing.
+
+B5 Online:Stephen's other directing projects, "Magic Kid" and "Magic Kid 2" are
+both available on video and laserdisk too I believe.
+
+B5 Stephen:You forgot to mention Cycle Sluts is also available on laserdisc.
+
+B5 Peter:And don't forget "Love me, Love my Dog. "Stephen was excellent.
+
+B5 Online:From Sonogump for Peter....
+
+Question:We know nothing is certain at this point regarding the fifth season,
+has JMS approached you regarding your interest in being in the rumoured sequel
+series?
+
+B5 Peter:Yes.  I understand it's going to be narrated by Londo as an old man to
+some children. Sounds interesting, no? And I don't think sequel is the word.
+Try prequel. I don't know about the sequel.  I don't think the aliens are in
+it.
+
+B5 Stephen:I'll be guest starring on the Wayan Brothers, as the missing brother
+during the filming of the sequel.
+
+B5 Online:For Stephen from Iyneferti:
+
+Question:Stephen Furst - First of all I'd like to say how great you are
+looking, it is really an inspiration to many of us here.  Question:  When you
+began as Vir did you realize the character would go from being almost comic
+relief to becoming one of the heros
+
+B5 Stephen:When I began playing Vir I first thought I was on the wrong sound
+stage and then I became the comic relief.
+
+B5 Online:From SueLuvB5.... here ya go Peter! :)
+
+Question:Londo - first you were a good guy - than bad - now good.  Which do YOU
+prefer ?
+
+B5 Peter:Oh, a lot more fun to play bad.  You're just playing at it so you
+don't get the consequences.
+
+B5 Online:From BertieK....
+
+Question:Question for Peter: Have you sold the Porsche yet? Is it too late to
+place a bid?
+
+B5 Peter:It is too late.  It sold to a Chuck Wingo in Georgia.  He made a
+really great offer.... I'll be able to make a nice donation to charity in the
+name of the fans.
+
+B5 Online:Heres a question for Stephen:  From Unixfan....
+
+Question:Stephen:  Saw "Illusion of Truth" (your B5 directing debut).  It is an
+unusual episode even for B5.  What did you learn as a director with this
+episode?
+
+B5 Online:Besides how to get first in line at lunch.
+
+B5 Stephen:How to turn the camera on.
+
+B5 Online:Heres a question for both of you from KentCK...
+
+Question:For both: What has been your most embarassing moment on the set?
+
+B5 Online:Who wants to go first? ;>
+
+B5 Peter:The time we were caught comparing the sizes of our six-shooters.
+
+B5 Stephen:The time we were caught comparing the sizes of our six shooters.
+
+B5 Online:LOL!
+
+B5 Peter:Don't you want to know who's was bigger?...OR  who caught us?
+
+B5 Online:Heres a question from SirPhilly....
+
+Question:I heard that some of the sets on B5 are CG created, is it hard to
+react and act to something you don't see?
+
+B5 Peter:I've been working with Stephen for three seasons and only one of us is
+real.
+
+B5 Online:Here's one for Stephen from Libertm...
+
+Question:Stephen, you look great! What's the secret? not spoo is it?
+
+B5 Stephen:Nonfat Spoo! I also gave up sex.
+
+B5 Peter:Thank god his wife didn't. I"m sorry, did I say that?
+
+B5 Online:Uh... from ZaxxonTH... ;>
+
+Question:For Stephen and Peter: How long does it take to do your Centauri hair?
+Is there any other makeup to do your parts?
+
+B5 Peter:The hair takes about half hour. IT's pre-coiffed.  As far as makeup
+for the rest... I have teeth beyond that only my hairdresser knows for sure.
+
+B5 Stephen:Mine only takes about 20 minutes.
+
+B5 Peter:Has anyone noticed that Stephen's hair is getting bigger?  Or am I
+just paranoid?
+
+B5 Stephen:Centauri envy!
+
+B5 Online:From Isilzha....  For Stephen....
+
+Question:I have a question for Stephen Furst:  We've all heard about the antics
+that go on on the set.  What was it like to have to put up with them from the
+director's chair?  Or did they go easy on you??
+
+B5 Stephen:I ruled the set like a young Mussolini. One antic from any actor and
+they were barred from the bagel table.
+
+B5 Peter:OH whip me, beat me, tell me you love me.
+
+B5 Online:From ScottGW for Peter:
+
+Question:Peter, how much of your new book DIPLOMATIC ACT will be about Bab5
+(veiled of course)?
+
+Question:Also, what role did you play on M*A*S*H?
+
+B5 Peter:DIPLOMATIC ACT is split into two parts.  My section is about
+television sets in general. And on MASH. I played criminal investigator.  There
+was a theft.
+
+B5 Stephen:I played Alan Alda.
+
+B5 Peter:I thought you were RADAR O'reilly.
+
+B5 Online:From Pitzerboy...
+
+Question:Do either of you guys use computers alot? ie: surf the web/net, etc.?
+
+B5 Peter:I just got a computer in the spring of last year and got online 6
+months ago and I'm really enjoying it.
+
+B5 Stephen:I'm still learning how to get rid of the flashing 12;00 on my VCR.
+
+B5 Peter:HOT NUDE ALIEN PICTURES...<SEARCH>
+
+B5 Online:Next month at Keyword: Babylon 5 and http://www.babylon5.com, be sure
+and vote for your favorite episodes, villains, characters and more!  The
+results of our "fan poll" will be used to produce a "Salute to the Fans"
+calendar - keep watching for ore info!
+
+B5 Online:No, you cant buy votes guys.
+
+B5 Stephen:Where are the Rosie O'Donnell promos?
+
+B5 Peter:OH, a calender.  Have you ever seen Stephen in a Speedo?
+
+B5 Online:Coming soon Stephen. ;>
+
+B5 Online:From CaptJoda...
+
+Question:My question is for Stephen.  You always have the best lines in the
+show.(No offence Peter) Are you that funny and great personally offstage?
+
+B5 Stephen:No, I'm a borring slob.
+
+B5 Peter:And a braggart too.
+
+B5 Online:Not Rosie, Stephen, but here ya go...
+
+B5 Online:Be sure and join Warner Bros. Online tomorrow night when we welcome
+Jon Voight! Keyword: Cybertalk!
+
+B5 Online:From BluSword...
+
+Question:My question is for ...Peter...As an original cast member, How do you
+feel particapating in a television series that is written well in advance
+?.....And, Do you fell that your character has had ample time to develop ?
+
+B5 Peter:No, still more time is necessary.  Baste lightly, cover will heavy
+duty tinfoil and set aside for 10 minutes. The character being written in
+advance has only been an advantage.
+
+B5 Online:We have time for a couple more questions tonight before they kick us
+out... Heres one from Bookherr....
+
+OnlineHost: JMS is going to be at ICON in New York-any "good" embarrassing
+question I could ask  him-think of it as your revenge if you want.
+
+B5 Peter:He's already gotten revenge for Pasadena, so my mouth is shut.
+Stephen?
+
+B5 Stephen:I hear he wears a toupee.
+
+B5 Peter:But not on his head.
+
+B5 Online:From Tree002 for Stephen:
+
+Question:for steven, does it bother you that you seen to always get the role of
+the happy and just short of compitant character
+
+B5 Stephen:It pays as much as the competent ones and no one expects me to know
+my lines
+
+B5 Online:Ill try and find one more question for each of you to conclude
+tonight. :) From AKATREKKE...
+
+Question:Stephen--It seems most people remember you for Animal House, but I
+remember your character on St. Elsewhere quite fondly.  Has there ever been any
+talk of a movie/revival of the show?
+
+B5 Stephen:they are thinking of doing a tv-movie, but what the hell to I care.
+I died in the last episode. We're all just a snow globe anyway.
+
+B5 Online:Our last question for tonight comes from TheSquiers...
+
+Question:Peter: During the filming of the strangulation scene between Londo and
+G'Kar, JMS supposedly gave you some insight about the future of your
+characters.  Care to share some with us?
+
+B5 Online:If not, Ill have to find another question. :P
+
+B5 Peter:I'd love to, but under penalty of death, I've been sworn to secrecy.
+Unless you can get some cash to me immediately. Actually you're pretty much
+caught up.  War Without End reveals almost all.
+
+B5 Stephen:Does anybody have a good recipe for gingerbread?
+
+B5 Peter:Baste lightly with an olive oil.  It really brings out the nutmeg
+flavor.
+
+B5 Online:Well, guys - thanks for being with us tonight.  Any closing comments
+you would like to share with the rest of the online world?
+
+B5 Peter:For B5 Fans, thanks for  your support it's so nice to know we're doing
+the show for somebody. To the online world, sorry, I have nothing to say.
+
+B5 Stephen:American Airlines, thank god you're not on strike.  Buy Pork
+bellies.
+
+B5 Online:Thanks again for being here tonight!  I would like to remind everyone
+that the latest B5 information can be found at Keyword: Babylon5 on America
+Online... and on the internet at http://www.babylon5.com and
+http://www.thestation.com Thank you, and good night. "Be seeing you!"
+
+
+
+
+
+Document ID: pj0217
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+<html>
+<head>
+<title>America Online information</title>
+<link rel="parent" href="../index.html">
+</head>
+<body>
+<h1>B5 information from America Online</h1>
+
+<h2>JMS messages</h2>
+
+<p>
+Transcripts of executive producer/writer J. Michael Straczynski's
+messages on America Online's Babylon 5 message areas.  Compiled by
+Kevin P. Mooney &lt;kpmooney@acsu.buffalo.edu&gt;.
+
+<p>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="latest">Collection point for new messages</a>
+
+<p>
+<li><a href="aol96-05">May 1996</a>
+<li><a href="aol96-04">April 1996</a>
+<li><a href="aol96-03">March 1996</a>
+<li><a href="aol96-02">February 1996</a>
+<li><a href="aol95-12">December 1-13, 1995</a>
+    (compiled by Lisa Freeman &lt;lefreeman@sunbelt.net&gt;.)
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Real-time chat transcripts</h2>
+
+<ul>
+   <li> <a href="andrea-thompson.txt">Andrea Thompson (Talia Winters)</a>
+   <li> <a href="richard-biggs.txt">Richard Biggs (Dr. Franklin)</a>
+   <li> <a href="bruce-claudia.txt">Bruce Boxleitner (Sheridan) and Claudia
+	Christian (Ivanova)</a>
+   <li> <a href="bruice-iacovelli.txt">Ann Bruice (costume designer) and John
+	Iacovelli (production designer)</a>
+   <li> <a href="jeff-conaway.txt">Jeff Conaway (Zack Allen)</a>
+   <li> <a href="jerry-doyle.txt">Jerry Doyle (Garibaldi)</a>
+   <li> <a href="mira-furlan.txt">Mira Furlan (Delenn)</a>
+   <li> <a href="furlan-mumy.txt">Mira Furlan and Bill Mumy (Lennier)</a>
+   <li> <a href="furst-jurasik.txt">Stephen Furst (Vir) and Peter Jurasik
+	(Londo)</a>
+   <li> <a href="jms-bruce.txt">JMS and Bruce Boxleitner</a>
+   <li> <a href="jms-bruce-2.txt">JMS and Bruce Boxleitner</a>
+   <li> <a href="jms-claudia.txt">JMS and Claudia Christian</a>
+   <li> <a href="jms-claudia-2.txt">JMS and Claudia Christian</a>
+   <li> <a href="jms-john.txt">JMS and John Copeland</a>
+   <li> <a href="koenig.txt">Walter Koenig (Bester)</a>
+   <li> <a href="patricia-tallman.txt">Patricia Tallman (Lyta)</a>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../index.html">To the Babylon 5 ftp directory</a>
+</body>
+</html>
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+The following is the transcript of the online chat with Babylon 5 star, "Jeff
+Conaway," held on October 8th, 1996 on America Online.
+
+B5 Online:	Hi Jeff!
+
+B5 Online:	Tonight we are pleased to welcome Babylon 5 star Jeff Conaway to
+our online conference.  Warner Bros. Online presents CYBER-TALK (tm)! Be sure
+and stay tuned!  We are giving away some GREAT B5 merchandise including
+posters, an autographed Jeff Conaway picture, and more! Details will be given
+out during the conference, will YOU be a
+lucky winner? :D
+
+B5 Online:	First of all, I would like to welcome Jeff to our online area and
+CYBERTALK!  Welcome, Jeff!
+
+Jeff at B5:	Hi Everybody!  Glad to join you on the Internet! Nothing like
+being cyberized!   And Surfed!
+
+B5 Online:	Our first question is from I VORLON....
+
+Question:	Mr Conaway,  Glad to have you here tonight!  How did you get
+involved in acting?
+
+Jeff at B5:	I wanted to be an astronaut at first, my grandfather was like a
+deep sea demolition diver in the first world war, and my uncle works at NASA.
+ I was a smart little kid, so they wanted to put me in space and at 7 years
+old I had to wear glasses. I was reading a book about spacefaring and after I
+had to get glasses, that was that. At age nine I though acting was a thing I
+could try and mother said forget about it. So I kept bugging her! So I did an
+audition for All the Way Home... with Lillian Gish.. a lot of great actors!
+ I got the part on my tenth birthday!  They said "You’re in!" That’s how it
+began... show ran for a year and I’m still running!
+
+B5 Online:	Here's a question from MarkB1529...
+
+Question:	Has the notorious on set B5 humour ever targeted you Jeff and how?
+
+Jeff at B5:	No.. no practical jokes on me!  But I hear the gag reels .. I’m
+on them all over the place - I guess I do funny things and I don’t realize
+it. The other day.. in fact.. there was a stuntman.  We were all in
+riot gear and stuff, and I kept losing my PPG.. it ended up on the floor!
+This guy next to me kept stealing it and laying it on the floor! I got back
+at him though. When he was on his back and I was on my knees I... Well, I
+passed gas on his face.
+
+B5 Online:	Uh.. just stay over there, Jeff.
+
+Question:	hey Jeff tell us about taxi, why did it go off the air
+
+Jeff at B5:	Nobody really knows why. It won best show for the year and we
+were canceled - it makes no sense. Often TV makes no sense. It's still such a
+popular show - one of the Star Trek's of comedy... one of those shows that
+was killed too fast.
+
+B5 Online:	Here’s a good question from AnessaE...
+
+Question:	Greetings!  I've seen that you've been a guest at a few scifi cons.
+Do you like them, and are you going to speak at any of them in the near
+future?
+
+Jeff at B5:	Yeah!  I have a real good time at them!  At first I had no idea
+what to expect.  You know.. "here's a microphone - go entertain!" I found
+that the questions were very interesting and I had fun answering them - tried
+to put a little comedy into it.  It's nice to be out there meeting the fans
+and seeing how high their interest is and how much more they know about the
+show than I do. I’m going to be in Springfield, MA in November... and then in
+England, and Scotland next summer. And then back over in Virginia in March
+... around there.
+
+B5 Online:	From CajunDanc, a regular in our Eclipse Cafe at Keyword: Babylon
+5...
+
+Question:	Mr. Conaway, how did you come to audition for the role of Zack
+Allen?  And why were you interested in Babylon 5?
+
+Jeff at B5:	Ill answer the 2nd part first. Two years ago, Id had the flu and
+I was at home channel surfing. I saw this spacey looking show.  I think
+Garibaldi was on screen and I stopped and I started watching.. and I thought
+"This is cool!" So what happened is I started watching the show every week,
+and
+just about in October of 94, the casting office called up and asked if I
+could come in for the role, I think I had about 3 lines in the first episode
+I did. But I thought the show was great! I actually turned down another role
+the same day to do those 3 lines.  John Copeland asked if I would like to
+come back and do more
+episodes and I said "You Bet!" And then I recurred for the season, and then
+signed a regular
+contract for the third and fourth.
+
+B5 Online:	From GREER701A....
+
+Question:	Have you done any work on Broadway?  Which do you prefer Broadway
+or Television?
+
+Jeff at B5:	Yeah! I did four Broadway shows.. "All The Way Home", "Everybody
+Out, The Castle is Sinking," "Grease" and "The News." Well, you know they are
+two different mediums. Theatre - the audience is there... there's no take
+two. There’s a concentration and focus you have to keep. That’s the problem
+with it - there’s no take two! In theatre you have to focus your whole day,
+existence, around two hours at night. You have to make sure you get enough
+sleep, eat right, etc.  So you're kinda a prisoner.  Whereas in television
+and film - you're there all day! So you have to relax and gear up for
+performance focus. The older I get, the more I enjoy working in television
+and film.
+
+B5 Online:	From FTLTSeren....
+
+Question:	What character that you have played is your personal favorite?
+
+Jeff at B5:	That’s a tough question to answer, because you basically fall in
+some kind of love with every character you play. I really enjoy playing Zack
+and going through the building of a character - he's finally coming into his
+own and growing on the show. I really loved my Grease character.. Bobby was
+fun. There was a TV movie called "Making of a Male Model" which was really
+challenging.  But very fulfilling and satisfying.
+
+B5 Online:	Here’s a good question...
+
+Question:	Jeff also do you ever talk with Tony Danza...
+
+Jeff at B5:	Yeah! I talk to Tony often. We've stayed pretty close over the
+years. You  Whose the Boss" Fans - I did one of those... he calls me up and
+says "You gotta do me a favoh.. I cant get and good guest stahs."  So I said
+Id do anything for him.. so I did the show. We hung around a lot when we did
+Taxi.. we lived around the corner from each other.. we hung out.. and it's
+carried on through the years. He's a great guy!  I love him! And not in the
+biblical sense.
+
+Question:	Is your role in B5 going to be expanded any?
+
+Jeff at B5:	THANK GOD YES!!!! When John Copeland asked me if I wanted to do
+more shows... and I said yeah... he told me to be patient. But I didn't think
+it was going to take them three years! (Only kidding Joe, if you're
+listening!)
+
+B5 Online:	From IluvB5...
+
+Question:	Hello Jeff.  How are you enjoying filming the fourth season?  Is
+your character going in the direction you hoped?  Jennifer
+
+Jeff at B5:	Hi I Luv B5!  I love B5 too! Remarked a little bit earlier the
+character is expanding and
+growing - we're getting to see a little bit more of Zack - I cant tell you
+storyline, but I can tell you that the direction for Zack is going the way I
+would like it too. We're learning a little more about who he is.
+
+B5 Online:	From Draughir...
+
+Question:	Do you find it difficult to work in an environment where most of
+the special effects are computer generated?
+
+Jeff at B5:	They are? Well, you know - it's the action that you're doing. As
+an actor you have to supply your imagination. What is a little disconcerting
+is when you shoot your PPG and nothing happens. er.. happens. I want to hear
+a bang! I was pulling the trigger the other day and adding my own sound
+effects. I told all the guys I won't make the sounds when we actually shoot.
+
+B5 Online:	From MMazz9259..
+
+Question:	Hey Jeff, Hope you're having a good one. What's the B5 set
+like(atmosphere and such)?
+
+Jeff at B5:	It's friendly and good natured.   People are very supportive of
+each other we kind of take care of each other throughout the day - we care of
+each other. After all, we're all on the same team. (Even if I’m not on the
+new poster)
+
+B5 Online:	From Kiki3733...
+
+Question:	Hate to ask, but how old are you.  You look better than ever!!!
+
+Jeff at B5:	I'm 46.  thanks Kiki!
+
+B5 Online:	From Kgeibel...
+
+Question:	What types of jobs did you have to hold during any tough time?
+
+Jeff at B5:	Thank God I've always been an actor! It's a good thing because I
+can't DO anything else My agent kept telling me to turn down work and be a
+waiter... I told him "You're Fired!"
+
+B5 Online:	From GRShaw...
+
+Question:	What is your favorite B5 episode?
+
+Jeff at B5:	Well, it would have to be one that I’m in... as opposed to the
+poster..... I guess the one where I turn the Nightwatch in was my favorite so
+far. It was dramatic and heroic. One of the things I like about Zack is his
+sense of humor - and then later he's blowing people away! I used to not like
+Narns.. now I do. The Centauri though.. I’m starting to get a little mad at.
+Let me shoot a good Centauri any day. Call me Zack "LAPD" Allan.
+
+B5 Online:	The episode in question would be "Point of No Return."
+
+B5 Online:	From AaronlnMe...
+
+Question:	Do you feel your show ranks among one of the best sci-fi shows
+ever?
+
+Jeff at B5:	Definitely! I loved the first Star Trek and I first watch it
+sometimes at night. I check out the other shows here and there.  But I just
+think that Joe's vision and imagination and creativity is quite amazing. I
+think he takes the storylines and characters to  a  place of drama and
+comedy... a place the other shows don't go. Plus.. he's writing all of the
+shows and that's quite a feat. I feel like I've been lucky and blessed to
+work with these guys and working with the producers and Joe, the crew and the
+cast, I feel there's a lot of brilliance going on.  And I’m just happy to be
+a part of it and be part of that vision.
+
+B5 Online:	We'll get a couple more great questions before we have to go!
+
+B5 Online:	From HLI...
+
+Question:	Jeff did you ever think of a taxi reunion
+
+Jeff at B5:	Everyone's thought of it - but I don't think it will ever happen.
+Everybody has expressed that they would like to do it.  There seems to be a
+problem at the top someplace with one of the creators. I think it would be
+fun to go back and see where Bobby is at these days. of course, he would
+probably have to get a job. Maybe even on Babylon 5!
+
+Jeff at B5:	BTW.. I'll be on Mr. & Mrs. Smith this coming Friday on CBS!  Be
+there
+or be square.
+
+B5 Online:	From DSneelix...
+
+Question:	What do YOU want? (Morden asks this)
+
+Jeff at B5:	To be on the poster.
+
+B5 Online:	And our final question comes from Andicouri...
+
+Question:	You've directed before, any interest in directing any eps of B5?
+
+Jeff at B5:	Yeah, Id love to some day!  You never know what could happen!
+Stephen Furst is directing episode 408 this year.
+
+B5 Online:	From LaraKJBA...
+
+OnlineHost:	 what is the most difficult thing about this role?  BTW, loved
+you in  grease!!!
+
+Jeff at B5:	I think the most difficult thing is.. playing a guy who probably
+in the past had made more of himself in his career. Through some knocks and
+bad breaks... he ended up alone and kind of confused. And so he signed onto
+Babylon 5. It's like starting over again and doing it right this time. And
+whatever the beast or demons inside of him - he's gotten rid of those. You
+noticed after he turned over Nightwatch... you didn’t see him for a few weeks
+- he was pretty shaken by his lack of judgment.  When he came out of his
+cocoon, he was a stronger individual. He starts to find himself this season.
+With some of the things I put personally in it, it helps add to the drama and
+the conflict inside Zack. in fact we touch on it a little bit in an upcoming
+episode. He's a hero waiting to happen in a way. He's an anti-hero waiting to
+grow up and be a full -fledged hero. But he's not getting any younger - and
+neither am I! Thanks for stopping by and sharing your questions and your love
+of the show with me. Keep watching! And if you want to write... just write to
+the B5 address.  And I'll write back! If you could send a SASE.. it would be
+very helpful! If you want pictures, send a manila SASE and Ill send a
+picture, a note and stuff. Because after all, you are the reason I’m here.
+
+B5 Online:	And with that we would like to thank Jeff for coming tonight! To
+write to Jeff, send your letters to: Jeff Conaway C/O Babylon 5, 4000 Warner
+Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505.  Thanks for coming to CYBER-TALK (TM) We'll see you
+in the Eclipse Cafe - Keyword: Babylon 5!
+
+OnlineHost:	Copyright 1996 America Online, Inc.
+
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+OnlineHost :  Copyright 1995 America Online, Inc.
+
+OnlineHost :  Tonight Hollywood Online's Inside Hollywood is  pleased to
+present Jerry Doyle from Babylon 5. He was born on July 16, the son of a
+police officer and a mother who worked at home. His family moved to Jersey
+when he was a junior in high school. He has a Bachelor of Science Degree
+in Aeronautics from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona,
+Florida. His first job was the marketing and sales of private and
+corporate jets for Falcon Jet out of New Jersey. He later became an
+investment banker on Wall Street with Drexel Burnham and Prudential Bache
+where he stayed nine years. While working on Wall Street, Jerry had a
+taste of Hollywood when a friend had suggested him for a part of David
+Addison on "Moonlighting." He flew out, got the audition, then got the
+part and shot the show, and went back to Wall Street. Three years later in
+1990, Jerry decided he wanted to change his career to acting so he moved
+to Los Angeles and got an agent.  His first role was on "The Bold and the
+Beautiful," then came recurring roles on "Home Front" and "Reasonable
+Doubt."  This is his second season on Babylon 5 as the feisty Security
+Chief Michael Garibaldi, the trusted protector of the ship who possesses a
+murky background.
+
+HOL Live   :  And I'm your hostess for tonight, coming to you live from
+Hollywood Online!  We're all being Irish today!  Happy St. Paddy's day to
+the folks at O'Shea's in San Francisco!
+
+HOL Live   :  How ya doin, Jerry?
+
+JerryDoyle :  Almost perfect!
+
+Question   :  We've seen a dark vision of Garabaldi's future from the
+Babylon Squared episode with Babylon 4.  Is this scene definitely going to
+play out, or was it a possible vision of the future?
+
+JerryDoyle :  Yes.
+
+Question   :  How old were you when you started acting? How did you get
+into acting?
+
+JerryDoyle :  I started in March on 1990, after 9 years on Wall Street.  I
+came to LA.  Started knocking on doors... and concentrated on the business
+side of show business...seing as how, I didn't have any of the show-side.
+
+HOL Live   :  Here's one from ASWestvee: 
+
+Question   :  Jerry- you have been attributed as saying that your
+character will "go out in  blaze of glory".  Is this true, and have you
+said something that you shouldn't have?  : )
+
+JerryDoyle :  No.  Yes and No, actually.
+
+Question   :  Jerry, I think your character is excellent and continues to
+have huge potential because of his political position and history.  Where
+would _you_ like to see him go from here?  More/less political?  More/less
+romantic?  More/less depressed?
+
+JerryDoyle :  I'd like to see the character go more in the areas of action
+and romance and definetly not depressed.  Garibaldi's confused about life,
+and basically wants a stable relationship and a pay raise.
+
+HOL Live   :  Here's one from Kristi267.. a good followup to your answer
+;>
+
+Question   :  Will the Chief ever get the girl?
+
+JerryDoyle :  Why just one?
+
+HOL Live   :  <g>
+
+HOL Live   :  Here's one from RedProbeG: 
+
+Question   :  Babylon 5 is a GREAT show!!  I was just wondering if there
+were any big changes in store for next season?
+
+JerryDoyle :  I expect a HUGE pay increase...
+
+HOL Live   :  And here's one from Levinthal..
+
+Question   :  What other work have you done that we might be familiar
+with?  It seems like there have been a lot of supporting roles that I have
+an image of, bu none of them come to mind.
+
+JerryDoyle :  I did recurring roles on Homefront, Resonable Doubts, 
+             and the Bold of the Beautiful, of which I was neither.
+
+Question   :  Jerry, will Garibaldi and Londo's "friendship" maintain as
+Londo's character begins to sink deeper into the darkness?
+
+JerryDoyle :  We're at a point where Garibaldi has to distance himself
+from Londo. But more important, Garibaldi has to now look back at the
+things he said to Londo that he possibly shouldn't have, and also look at
+what Londo said to him that he may have missed.  It's kind of like when
+you find out you're best friend's screwing your girlfriend.
+
+Question   :  When will we see the Great war that is refered to every
+episode?
+
+JerryDoyle :  Soon.
+
+Question   :  Is Your character on B5 close to who you really are?
+JerryDoyle :  Certain parts of him are.  I tend to only allow a certain
+part of myself to be seen by the general public.  Same with Garibaldi.
+
+Question   :  This is to Mr.Doyle: I am a kid from Hewitt, Tx. adn my pals
+and I always watch your show on Wed. nights and I was wondering what it is
+like working on a set with all those "alien" make-up artists and stuff???
+
+JerryDoyle :  Yee-haw.  I'll be in Houston April 21, 22, and 23 at
+Con-Trol.  Now your answer:  the Special Effect Makeup people do such a
+good job, that it allows you as an actor to put aside the obvious, and
+interact as if it were just another person, albeit having 3 arms sticking
+out of his head.
+
+Question   :  Is there an actual detective character you base Girabaldi
+on?
+
+JerryDoyle :  My dad was a New York City cop for 20 years.
+
+Question   :  In SciFi Univ. mag.,Mar95, page28, in the picture of
+Londo,it says"Londo was the first one on the show to get laid, laments
+actor JD...."  Is *laments* an accurate description of your feelings on
+the subject?
+
+JerryDoyle :  I think it was appropriate for Londo to get laid first,
+because he has six penises.
+
+HOL Live   :  Wow!!
+
+Question   :  You've said that you don't have a whole lot of experience
+acting...do you ever rely on some of the more experienced actors such as
+Mira Furlan as "guides"?
+
+JerryDoyle :  I watch every actor I work with and try to incorporate their
+nuances, subtleties, and  steal it.
+
+Question   :  What are the things, if any, that you feel make Babylon 5
+different from other things on television?
+
+JerryDoyle :  I'm on it.
+
+Question   :  There has been a lot of talk in the media about Sinclair
+coming back to the show, is this true??
+
+JerryDoyle :  There's been talk about the incorporation of Sinclair in the
+story line but I'm not aware of his coming back to the show.
+
+Question   :  How is the success of B5 affecting your life? Do you now get
+recognized everywhere you go?
+
+JerryDoyle :  As the show increases it's audience, your visibility as an
+actor increases with it.  Being recognized is part of the job.  Nobody
+asked me to get into this business, so if people want to come up and say
+hi and shake hands or whatever, I think it's cool.
+
+Question   :  Who came up with the idea of Garibaldi being a Warner Bros.
+nut???
+
+JerryDoyle :  Warner Bros. Marketing.
+
+Question   :  From salesman to investment banker to actor, these are big
+leaps--who instilled in you the self-confidence to make these changes?
+
+JerryDoyle :  My dad.  For a number of reasons  First off, he and my mom
+provided me with a stable, loving home.  Secondly, my dad always did for
+others before he did for himself.  He died at 41, never having the chance
+to get to the things that he wanted to do for himself.  I was 11 at the
+time, and 41 seemed really old.  Now, at 38 it seems really young, so I
+decided that I was going to do what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it,
+and to the degree that I wanted to do it.  The bottom line is, when you
+wake up in the morning, you're already ahead of the game.  So go for it,
+don't look back, and if I drop dead right now, I'm sure the people here
+would be pretty pissed off (we would), but I'm doing what I want.  And I'm
+happy, and that's all you can ask for out of any day.
+
+Question   :  Is Babylon 5 or Star Trek better?
+
+JerryDoyle :  Seing is how Babylon 5 is paying me, the answer is quite
+obvious.  What a stupid question.
+
+Question   :  How faithful to the same story line are the comic books? 
+I'm ashamed to admit I'm buying them, and the upcoming books are supposed
+to talk about Garabaldi's first meeting with Sinclair.  Will you be/have
+you been incorporating that information into your character?  How many
+times are  you surprised with what's happening?
+
+JerryDoyle :  To the best of my knowledge, there are 3 novels out, 
+             and 3 or 4 comic books, but I haven't read any of it.
+
+Question   :  As an actor, how do you deal with all of the technobabble?
+Do they help you?
+
+JerryDoyle :  I don't try to understand - I just say it.
+
+Question   :  Do you or have you read Science Fiction?  (Are you a fan?)
+
+JerryDoyle :  Believe it or not, I've never seen any of the Star Treks,
+never read any science fiction material and still don't.
+
+Question   :  What's the funniest thing that's happen on B5?   That you
+can tell, that is.
+JerryDoyle :  If you can get your hands on any of the blooper reels, and I
+know they're floating around out there, you'll see there's too much fun
+stuff to pick out just one.
+
+Question   :  Give us a typical day on the set
+
+JerryDoyle :  Show up at 6: 30.  Eat a greasy breakfast. Make-up. 
+Wardrobe.  Talk.  Smoke.  Talk.  Smoke.  Talk.  Smoke.   Talk.  Smoke. 
+Lunch.  Talk.  Smoke.  Go home at 7: 30.  Drink.  Smoke.  Drink.  Smoke. 
+Then sex, sex, sex.
+
+Question   :  Congratulations on your engagement!  Has it been easier or
+harder to work with Andrea now that you're in a relationship with her?
+
+JerryDoyle :  It's much harder to get us out of the trailor...
+
+Question   :  Do you like the story line of war of this season vs. the
+peace keeping nature of the first season?
+
+JerryDoyle :  Conflict is always good for drama.  And we shure as hell got
+conflict.
+
+Question   :  Who do or did you enjoy working with the most in the first
+season?  In the second season?
+
+JerryDoyle :  Check previous answer.
+
+Question   :  Are there going to be any more captains?
+
+JerryDoyle :  I haven't read the bible. (the bible for the story)  But I
+can't imagine there being any change.
+
+Question   :  From Cadet Dau..                   Mr.  Doyle...are you
+interested in Astronomy?
+
+JerryDoyle :  No.
+
+Question   :  After the Betrayal by his Aide, does Garibaldi REALLY trust
+anyone?  Who?
+
+JerryDoyle :  Who wrote this?  Do I know you?
+JerryDoyle :  Maybe I shouldn't answer...
+JerryDoyle :  ...
+JerryDoyle :  ...
+JerryDoyle :  Paranoid, me?  No...
+
+
+OnlineHost :  To send your question to the speaker, click on the Interact
+icon, then use the Ask a Question option.
+
+Question   :  Can you tell us more of the Geribaldi's history...some
+things that don't show up in your regular episode?
+
+JerryDoyle :  Garibaldi's bounced around the universe, because he's not
+really politick, distrusts authority, and hates the abuse of it, and
+basically doesn't like to take any crap, and that's causes him problems in
+both relationships and career.
+
+Question   :  Do you have plans for any projects during the next hiatus? 
+Or after the five year arc for that matter?
+
+JerryDoyle :  If we get word that the show is coming back for a third
+season, I plan to take the three months off and travel.  If we're not
+coming back, I'll probably still take three months off, but probably not
+spend as much.  After that, who knows.
+
+Question   :  B5 has a lot of great mysteries are they going to be
+"closed" in a movie or in an epsoide.
+
+JerryDoyle :  My understanding is that all characters, plot points, and
+story lines, will be resolved by the last episode of the fifth year.
+
+Question   :  Do any of the B5 people have a history with role-playing
+games?  There seems to be an influence in some of the "in jokes on screen.
+
+JerryDoyle :  I'm sorry, but I don't understand the question...
+
+Question   :  Jerry, Babolyn 5 dosen't seem to get the press that other
+shows in the sci/fi arena receive.  Why is that?
+
+JerryDoyle :  That's more a question for the PR and marketing people.  All
+we can do is put out the best product we can.  Then it's up to other
+people to help it along.
+
+Question   :  Any aspirations for a Major Motion Picture like the Star
+Trek films for Babylon  5?
+
+JerryDoyle :  I've heard some talk about a feature at the end of the fifth
+year, but there's nothing set at this pt.
+
+Question   :  Might Garibaldi and Ivanova get together???
+
+JerryDoyle :  I kind of doubt it.  But, you never know.
+
+Question   :  In involvement in B5, what moment do you look back on as
+your best work, what you were most proud of?
+
+JerryDoyle :  I was most proud of the day I got the job.
+
+Question   :  Jerry there is much mistery and an obvious cover-up
+surronding the death of the president, will we learn moreof the conditions
+of this and what if any clues can you give us to these events
+
+JerryDoyle :  Trust Garibaldi's information on this one.  There's going to
+be a very interesting revelation, probably before this season ends.
+
+Question   :  Jerry, did you try out for any of the other roles on B5
+before getting the role of Garibaldi?
+
+JerryDoyle :  No.
+
+Question   :  What is your favorit alien race on the show?
+
+JerryDoyle :  Gotta be the Centauri.  Bald women are kinda hot.
+
+Question   :  Babylon 5 has a more epic, ongoing story line than most of
+the other science fictions shows that focus on one shot plots.  Would you
+like more variety than the constant story being played out on B5?
+
+JerryDoyle :  I like things just the way they are.
+
+Question   :  B5 is very much an ongoing, developing project, building on
+past episodes.  How much information do you as an actor get in advance as
+to what is going to happen, and how far in advance?
+
+JerryDoyle :  Like I said earlier, I haven't read the bible (story bible)
+so I don't really know where the story line is headed.  As far as scripts
+go, we get them about a week before they shoot.  I typically don't read
+the script until we start shooting it.
+
+Question   :  Do you enjoy the tecno effects on the show? Or do you think
+they are over done?
+
+JerryDoyle :  It won an emmy!
+
+Question   :  Who is your favorite actor/actress?
+
+JerryDoyle :  Humphrey Bogart/Andrea Thompson.
+
+Question   :  Jerry, do you find there are any real differences in working
+on a syndicated program versus the typical network variety?
+
+JerryDoyle :  The mechanics of television, to me, have little to do with
+the process.  What's important is the product.   And whether it's network
+or syndicated, you have to deliver, or you're gone.
+
+Question   :  What other projects will we see you in in the near future?
+
+JerryDoyle :  None at this time.
+
+HOL Live   :  BFried989 wants to know if you like meeting your fans, and
+some information on the upcoming Texas con..
+
+JerryDoyle :  Yeah, I like meeting them.
+JerryDoyle :  As far as Texas goes, it's someplace in Houston, April 21,
+22, and 23.  I don't have any phone numbers or addresses with me.  But
+perhaps, Linda Shapley, my illustrious director of the Garibaldi and
+Company Fan Club might.
+
+JerryDoyle :  I'm sure you'll be able to find her on the 'net.
+
+Question   :  Sorry if this has been asked already but why exactly did the
+actor who played Sinclair leave the show, I was really starting to like
+him.
+
+JerryDoyle :  Ask him.
+
+Question   :  Will we see any more episodes involving B4 any time soon?
+
+JerryDoyle :  Sorry, but I'm not sure.
+
+Question   :  What kinds of roles do you want to tackle outside the Bab 5
+arena?
+
+JerryDoyle :  Roles that pay me $10 million a picture.  Seriously, I've
+always wanted to do a pirate movie.
+
+HOL Live   :  Jerry - How do you like communicating through cyberspace,
+such as in this sort of live chat?
+
+JerryDoyle :  It's cool - I don't have to shave.
+
+HOL Live   :  And our last question for this evening.. Cathuse wants to
+know what's your favorite episode.
+
+Question   :  What aspect of Garibaldi is the most difficult for you to
+portray as an actor?
+
+JerryDoyle :  My favorite episode was the first episode of the second
+season.  I was in a coma, said nothing and got paid the same.
+
+JerryDoyle :  The sober part.
+JerryDoyle :  (Happy St. Patrick's Day)
+
+HOL Live   :  Thanks for coming this evening, Jerry.  Any closing comments
+to our audience?
+
+JerryDoyle :  Thanks for watching the show and for you're continued
+support.  I hope you guys have as much fun watching the show as we do
+making it.
+
+JerryDoyle :  See ya!
+
+OnlineHost :  Our thanks to Jerry Doyle from Babylon 5 for  appearing
+online tonight and to Hollywood  Online's Inside Hollywood for arranging
+this conference.  A transcript of this chat will be made available in the
+Hollywood Online Inside Hollywood Press Conference Transcript area within
+the next 24 hours. Next week, Hollywood Online presents:  Pauly Shore -
+March 21 Taylor Hackford, director of "Dolores Claiborne" on March 22 An
+OSCARS Special featuring the debut of the weekly Film Scouts Chat! Join
+the Critics' Roundtable as famous film critics from all over the world
+make their Oscar picks!  The audience will be invited onstage to
+participate!  Don't forget - March 27th - the Hollywood Online Oscars
+Party!  Win fabulous prizes and join Hollywood Online, Kim Komando, Motley
+Fool, The Trivia Club and other great areas on AOL as we give you thebest
+Online Oscars Party!  Prizes include Forrest Gump soundtracks and a
+special private chat with a Hollywood agent and a special celebrity guest!
+ From Anna Valdez and the rest of Hollywood Online..  Good Night, America!
+
+OnlineHost :  Copyright 1995 America Online, Inc.
+
+
+Transmitted: 95-08-07 23:46:43 EDT
+
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+On Tuesday, October 25th, Babylon 5 Online hosted a *LIVE* Interview with the
+creator and cast of "Babylon 5."  The transcript of that event appears below,
+and has been edited.
+
+____________________________________
+OnlineHost :  Copyright 1995 America Online, Inc.   All Rights Reserved.
+
+OnlineHost : Welcome to the Globe Auditorium.  In a few minutes, you will be
+able to board BABYLON 5, the coolest space station on America Online!  Our
+guests this evening are Bruce Boxleitner (Cpt. John Sheridan) and J. Michael
+Straczynski, the show's creator.
+
+This event will begin at the top of the hour.
+
+OnlineHost : Have you every discussed future nation relations with a Minbari?
+ Do you know better than to not play with Shadows?  If not, then come aboard
+BABYLON 5 Online, AOL's hottest new space station.
+
+OnlineHost : To inaugurate the opening of the new space station, Babylon 5
+Online (keyword - BABYLON) welcomes you all to participate in our special
+live online conference event featuring Bruce Boxleitner, who plays Captain
+John  Sheridan, and J. Michael Straczynski, the show's creator.
+
+OnlineHost : Before becoming one of television's most popular captain, Bruce
+Boxleitner made an impression on audiences with his roles in the television
+hit "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" and the telefilms "Wyatt Earp: Return to
+Tombstone," "Gunsmoke V: One Man's Justice," "House of Secrets," "The
+Secret," "The Town Bully," "East of Eden" and "Double Jeopardy."
+
+OnlineHost : Babylon 5 show creator John Michael Straczynski is no stranger
+to the sci fi genre. He served as writer on "The Twilight Zone" and has
+earned several prestigious nominations for his work on "The Strange Case of
+Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." He was also a producer on the hit show "Murder, She
+Wrote." 
+
+B5 Online  : Welcome Bruce and Joe
+
+Jms at B5  : It's Actor-Boy & Writer-Boy, the All Sidekick Revenge Squad!!
+
+B5 Online  : We'll take the first question.
+
+BB at B5   : You've been eating too much chocolate again, Joe.
+
+Question   : Does B5 have an artificial gravity field or does the spinning of
+the station create the gravity on it?
+
+Jms at B5  : WHAT?  WHAT?  HYPER?  WHO?
+
+Jms at B5  : The rotating section provides all B5's gravity. The cargo area
+atop the station is zero-g, as is the central docking core.
+
+B5 Online  : From Cat Clock
+
+Question   : Is it a conspiracy or coincidence that most of the actors on B5
+were in "Tron"?
+
+Jms at B5  : I certainly hope it's a conspiracy; will make coming to work
+more interesting.
+
+BB at B5   : There are only two of us, myself and Peter Jurasik
+
+Jms at B5  : And Peter's 6-foot rabbit friend Mr. Mord... er, Harvey.
+
+B5 Online  : From IrnMike4u
+
+Question   : Where will the series lead us in the next year. Will we discover
+the reasons for the murder of the president? Will we discover the predictions
+of the former commander will come true?
+
+Jms at B5  : Yes on the first; you must realize that the show  proceeds in a
+logical order, if we set something up in the beginning, we kinda  have to pay
+it off...so here we have our people investigating this assassination, sooner
+or later this is going to have to come out, and they'll have to deal with the
+repercussions...all proceeding logically.  This coming season is when all the
+triggers get  pulled, and all the  birds come home to roost.      
+
+B5 Online  : From Cat Clock
+
+Question   : Is it true the idea for the Draasi conflict stemmed from a
+writer listening to two kids arguing for their favorite type of Hi-C?
+
+Jms at B5  : (I thought we didn't allow drinking during these conferences)
+No.
+
+B5 Online  : From MYSTRESS
+
+Jms at B5  : love the name
+
+Question   : Will we find out how Zathris got to the planet??
+
+Jms at B5  : Absolutely.  Actually, he's been there the whole time. He leaves
+later, which is earlier for us, since we saw him before the after where he
+left. (suddenly seasick)
+
+BB at B5   : I tell you its the chocolate
+
+B5 Online  : From AFA Dave
+
+Question   : I saw the new B5 area, very nice graphics!  I hope you upload
+several of the special effects shots in Quicktime format.  What will become
+of the telepath's character now that she has gone back to PsiCorp?  Is she
+off the show?
+
+Jms at B5  : Very nearly certainly...unless I change my mind....
+
+B5 Online  : From Asmat
+
+Question   : A question for JMS, any truth to the rumor that Neil Gaiman will
+script some episodes?
+
+Jms at B5  : I'd love to have Neil do some work; he keeps dodging  it, off
+doing his OWN work,  how selfish.   
+
+B5 Online  : From Kasper549 To Bruce:
+
+Question   : I have heard that the B5 story is already mapped out. How long
+will it take to run and is there any guarantee that the show will be on for
+as long as it takes? 
+
+BB at B5   : First of all in television there are no guarantees... I think
+there's a very good chance that we'll be around for the end of this saga.
+ How's that great maker?
+
+Jms at B5  : There are no guarantees this side of the grave.  Except that I
+will continue to lose hair.
+
+B5 Online  : From Chirurgeo
+
+Question   : Bruce, I have enjoyed all of your roles since How the West was
+Won.  What was it like entering B5 in the middle so to speak?
+
+BB at B5   : Quite exciting, a bit daunting, and now I feel totally at home. 
+
+Jms at B5  : Just that damned horse parked out back.
+
+OnlineHost : If you have an opinion to share on the upcoming war, the
+Minbari, Captain Sheridan or find out how Babylon 5 fans meet in real-life,
+try the BABCOM Communications Center message boards at keyword BABYLON 5. 
+
+B5 Online  : From Vnette
+
+Question   : I suspect that replacing Sinclair was not in your original plan,
+how does the replacement  change your overall 5 year storyline? 
+
+Jms at B5  : Only in that it widens the scope of the story, and allows me to
+do more stuff than I  had first thought possible; it's helped accelerate the
+storyline.  It's been a help.
+
+OnlineHost : To get to Babylon 5 Online, try keyword BABYLON 5.  There are
+plenty of pictures,  video clips and soundbites to download!
+
+B5 Online  : From Amb Delen for Bruce
+
+Question   : What can you tell us about the relationship developing between
+Delenn and Sheridan.
+
+Jms at B5  : It's very cool.
+
+BB at B5   : Just what I read in the scripts...
+
+Jms at B5  : And it will also continue to grow closer as things  get...more
+difficult around them.
+
+B5 Online  : From J9P
+
+BB at B5   : Joe keeps a lot of the storyline close to his vest. 
+
+Question   : Bruce, all the best to you and Melissa on the arrival of your
+new son. What's your favorite role you've ever played?
+
+Jms at B5  : Oops. sorry, Bruce, didn't see that was directed to you.
+
+BB at B5   : Thank you from both Melissa and I.  My favorite role....Capt.
+John Sheridan of course.
+
+Jms at B5  : (Memo to self: pay Bruce this week.  Good answer.)
+
+B5 Online  : From DoDaDh
+Question   : Are we ever going to see Kosh?
+
+Jms at B5  : Of course...and you'll see Kosh by this season's end (in 2
+weeks)
+
+OnlineHost : After this event, hang out at the Eclipse Cafe. Meet other
+Babylon 5 fans and talk about the upcoming war.  The intergalactic fun is at
+keyword BABYLON 5 under the "Chat Area" icon.
+
+B5 Online  : From MYSTRESS
+
+Question   : Just what kind of "relationship" Talia and Ivanova have?? More
+than just friends??
+
+BB at B5   : Closer than friends.
+
+Jms at B5  : They're very close, yes.
+
+B5 Online  : From Songokute
+
+Question   : JMS:  Are we going to find out the Vorlon's real intentions
+soon?
+
+Jms at B5  : Yes, but not soonish...it has to come out gradually, by contrast
+with another side.
+
+B5 Online  : From WCC Lev
+
+Question   : Bruce, how much do you find yourself getting into the  story and
+wanting to know more of the arc?  Jerry Doyle seemed to look at the show as
+more of a job when he was here.  Are you getting addicted, or keeping your
+distance? 
+
+BB at B5   : Completely addicted.  I've now read the next three  episodes
+beyond what we are shooting now  and can't wait to read more.  Write faster,
+Joe.  
+
+Jms at B5  : dancing as fast as I can, Bruce
+
+B5 Online  : From Quel Drom
+
+Question   : My question is for Mr. Straczynski. I heard a rumor  that Robert
+Culp will be appearing on the show. Will he and what will he be.
+
+Jms at B5  : It's our hope to eventually do a follow-up to the Outer Limits
+episode Harlan wrote,  DEMON WITH A GLASS HAND, with Culp reprising his role;
+in the fullness of time.
+
+B5 Online  : From Winter999
+
+Question   : What's the word on video releases in the US?
+
+Jms at B5  : WB doesn't seem to think anybody'd be interested in buying the
+show on tape,  even though in the UK it's #6 on the sell-through charts
+(after Schindler's List), we're hoping the fans can...educate them.
+
+B5 Online  : From Futrworke
+
+Question   : In the comic book there was a scene from the past where Talia
+was being experimented on by Psi-corps.  Is this when she had the other
+personality implanted?  Are you going to bring in another telelpath?
+
+Jms at B5  : Yes, that was when Talia and others had certain modifications
+made...and Lyta will be seen more next season, on many occasions, but a
+ regular PsiCorps teep...no.
+
+B5 Online  : From GinHart
+
+Question   : Will the Shadows get what's coming to them soon?
+
+Jms at B5  : Depends on what you think is coming to them.
+
+BB at B5   : Don't be so impatient.  It's just starting to get interesting in
+our galaxy.
+
+Jms at B5  : Suffice there are interesting things in store for them...and
+from them to us.
+
+B5 Online  : From WCC Lev
+
+Question   : Bruce, how does it feel to see the show after the post
+production work is done?  None of the previous work I've seen you in has
+special effects.  Does it change your performance, or can you "see" what's
+supposed to happen?
+
+BB at B5   : Each time it's a terrific surprise to see the finished show,
+ it's hard to imagine so of Ron Thornton's creations when all you see on set
+is a big blue screen.
+
+Jms at B5  : Actually Bruce IS a special effect; in reality he's  only 4'3"
+with one leg. Whose leg, we don't know
+
+B5 Online  : From RDunn2344
+
+Question   : Bruce,what is your favorite episode of b5 sofar 
+
+BB at B5   : The Coming of Shadows and Shadow of Za'ha'dum are my  favorites
+so far...and the ep you will see in two weeks, the finale to season two.
+ WOW!!
+
+Question   : I recently saw a newsletter saying that many of the cast from B5
+will be appearing at the ConRad in Universal City this coming weekend.  How
+accurate is this? and will the both of you be there? if so, when?
+
+Jms at B5  : I won't be there, no, nor will Harlan; there are apparently some
+misconceptions on this.
+
+BB at B5   : I will be co-hosting the SciFi Universe Magazine Awards this
+weekend at Universal City,  some of the other cast and production folks will
+be there at the Awards, but not the con.
+
+Jms at B5  : He'll be doing it with Nana Visitor.  Er, hosting.   (Hi,
+Melissa.)
+
+B5 Online  : From MAKagle
+
+Question   : Sorry, will we se SINCLAIR again as a recurring character?
+
+Jms at B5  : There are no immediate plans for that, no, though  he'll be
+appearing in a 2-parter this  coming 3rd season, as Ranger One coming to B5.
+
+B5 Online  : From SueKamaka
+
+Question   :  Will be seeing an more of Na'Toth this season?
+
+Jms at B5  : Na'Toth's last words: "Look, that looks like a big  ol' meteor
+coming this way."  BTW, as Bruce just reminded me, Majel Barrett Roddenberry
+is doing a guest... appearance on B5 this coming season, to support B5 and
+end this silly feud.
+
+B5 Online  : From CASADELAR
+
+Question   : What is Sheridan's deepest thoughts concerning Ivana?
+
+Jms at B5  : Nice shoes
+
+BB at B5   : She's probably his closest friend on B5....
+
+Jms at B5  : Good friend, confidante, fellow warrior, trusted ally.  And nice
+shoes
+
+BB at B5   : And he wouldn't want to make her mad.  
+
+Jms at B5  : great hair (of course I notice that)
+
+B5 Online  : From BilboShir
+
+Question   : What is the third age of Mankind... and the first  two?
+
+Jms at B5  : If I told you the first 2, you'd know the third; the third's a
+surprise.  BTW, Brad Dourif also does a guest shot in the coming season
+
+B5 Online  : From Siebers
+
+Question   : How do you keep such a large cast together when  individual
+actors go episodes without a scene? 
+
+Jms at B5  : Crazy glue and branding irons.  Actually, it's very hard,
+because they're all very talented and you can't have every single actor in
+every single episode, so you alternate, and give more time to some in one
+script, then others in another script, and hope that in the final analysis,
+it all works out.  Paying them would also help, but we're still working that
+out.
+
+BB at B5   : I'm bringing the horse into your office now.
+
+Jms at B5  : Fine, you clean the carpet this time.
+
+B5 Online  : From Pnmnm5
+
+Question   : JMS,  when you first wrote the 5 year story arc, who  did you
+have in mind to be the traitor?  I'm betting it was not the commercial
+telepath character.
+
+Jms at B5  : Actually, it would've been Laurel Takashima, who would've been
+the one who also shot Garibaldi.
+
+B5 Online  : From RTomasz18
+
+Question   : whats coming up in the new season
+
+Jms at B5  : Theo and his 12 brothers come to B5...lots of stuff on the
+station blows up, Sheridan gets command of a Minbari/Vorlon crossbreed
+ship..Bester returns...Sheridan goes right up against a Shadow....old ones
+ get heard and seen...and Ivanova has the best line of the series to date in
+Sheridan's bedroom.
+
+B5 Online  : From Mic12345
+
+Question   : Will Sheriden fall in love
+
+BB at B5   : Yes.
+
+Jms at B5  : May have already happened, or be happening already
+
+B5 Online  : From Db3l
+
+Question   : To JMS: Do you have any plans on publishing the Babylon 5 story
+as a novel following the run of the series?  And if so, would it be written
+ specifically to be a novel, or strictly as an adaptation of the serialized
+version?
+
+Jms at B5  : "Listen, Mohammed, baby, now that you've just moved this
+mountain, could you move the rest of that mountain range over there?"  One
+crisis at a time...just getting through this show now takes all my effort,
+can't imagine past that now.
+
+B5 Online  : From Songokute
+
+Question   : BB, What episode was the funniest to act in, or which had the
+most practical jokes?
+
+BB at B5   : Crisis...you must be talking about the horse, right?
+
+Jms at B5  : OH!  *That's* the horse...I thought that was Doug (my 
+             partner).  That explains saddle.
+
+BB at B5   : Every episode with Ivanova and Sheridan in the Observation Dome,
+winds up being pretty  funny to get through.  We've had some great gags
+there.  But there is humor almost every day  we are shooting the series.
+
+Jms at B5  : cat-igniting tournaments on-set, always great fun
+
+B5 Online  : From Buxton95
+
+Question   : What is it like to go through the jumpgate? that's  gotta be
+rush.
+
+Jms at B5  : I'd imagine it's a little like being audited.  But REAL fast
+
+B5 Online  : From Cao Cao97
+
+Question   : Will we see Sheridan's old ship, the Agamemnon, in the great
+war?
+
+Jms at B5  : .................oh, yeah           (sinister, evil smile)
+
+BB at B5   : We'll see the Agamemnon next season....but you'll have to wait
+and see what happens.
+
+B5 Online  : From Chirurgeo
+
+Question   : JMS, will the station be getting a new telepath?
+
+Jms at B5  : From the PsiCorps?  No.
+
+B5 Online  : From Annie Key
+
+Question   : JMS - If you had been there when Kosh was revealed, what would
+you have seen ?
+
+Jms at B5  : Michigan J. Frog
+
+BB at B5   : The same as Londo.  yuk yuk. ga
+
+Jms at B5  : hey, actor-boy...c'mere...
+
+B5 Online  : From BDerb
+
+Question   : What led you to do aScience fiction show, and specifically
+ where did the inspiration for B5 come from??
+
+Jms at B5  : Always an SF fan; wanted to do an epic since growing  up on
+them; inspiration not from  any one source, but lots of little things:
+history, religion, Jungian psychology, early Babylonian history, some
+sociological stuff I wanted to get into, and 'cause I had a cool idea.  SF is
+made for this kind of show, but this kind of thing hasn't been done much on
+American TV, though the British have done plenty of it.  It's our turn.   
+
+B5 Online  : From Fillingim
+
+Question   : When Morden was caught by Sheridan and in a cell, it  appeared
+the Morden was in a trance and he appeared to be trying to influence Sheridan
+to  let them go....Was the sound Sheridan heard over the Monitors that of the
+Shadows influencing him?
+
+Jms at B5  : The sound was probably Bruce's agent paging him....
+
+BB at B5   : At least my agent still calls.
+
+Jms at B5  : Yeah, but he keeps forgetting your name.
+
+BB at B5   : Sheridan was able to get a glimpse of the shadows  accompanying
+Morden.
+
+Jms at B5  : But no, no influence was exerted (Agent of Darkness  above).
+ The sound just twigged him to see it.
+
+B5 Online  : From DKeith215
+
+Question   : BB how do you like playing Capt. Sheridan
+
+BB at B5   : I love it.  I look forward to coming to work everyday, we have a
+great cast and crew  and the stories in the scripts are exciting to bring to
+life.
+
+B5 Online  : From NCTRNLMN6
+
+Question   : Who does the music for your show?
+
+Jms at B5  : Christopher Franke, one of the founding members of  Tangerine
+Dream.
+
+B5 Online  : Visit the Web Site for Sonic Images through B5's jumpgate to the
+World Wide Web!  Keyword: Babylon5
+
+Jms at B5  : You can order Chris's soundtrack via the Sonic Web 
+             Page above
+
+B5 Online  : From CamelWide
+
+Question   : Love the show.  What's Andrea Thompson's status with the show?
+
+Jms at B5  : In a box by the door.  
+
+B5 Online  : From SHOCKU
+
+Question   : Hi Bruce....Did you find it easy or difficult to switch from
+doing Scarecro w and Mrs. King to B5
+
+BB at B5   : Scarecrow went off the air ten years ago.  Therefore it was
+easy.
+
+B5 Online  : From WAARLOCK
+
+Jms at B5  : Should mention btw there'll be a HUGE change in the  show next
+year. It'll be a total turn-around in the very structure of the B5 series and
+universe.
+
+Question   : When will the Shadows finally win and take their rightful place
+as masters of us all<G>
+
+Jms at B5  : As soon as Bob Dole is elected President.
+
+B5 Online  : What kind of change can we expect?
+
+Jms at B5  : That would be telling.  But it's a huge one, and  a *permanent*
+one.
+
+B5 Online  : From OscarJ
+
+Question   : Any hints on what will happen in season 3?
+
+Jms at B5  : Matters get more intense.  B5 has to deal with the whole
+assassination storyline once and for all...and everything turns upside down
+ for everyone.  Except Kosh.
+
+B5 Online  : From Mfc2112
+
+Question   : JMS, do you see recent changes in DS9's format as a response to
+B5's popularity?
+
+Jms at B5  : Certainly I'm pleased to see that they're responding  to some of
+the changes we've wrought on the world of SF, production-wise and in other
+areas...our sense is that we  can never "challenge" (though that's a wrong
+word)  the ST hold on SF financially in PR, established name value,
+merchandising.. but we can challenge the hell out of them artistically...and
+we hope that they come right back at us and challenge *us*...with the
+ultimate beneficiary being the viewers.
+
+B5 Online  : From Anthony H
+
+Question   : We know B5 is five miles long, but what is the diameter of
+Babylon 5?
+
+Jms at B5  : Five hundred times this:   
+             <--------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Jms at B5  : five hundred THOUSAnd times Actually, that's a math
+question...nobody told me there'd be a test, mathematics not Zathras'
+skill...Ron Thornton has all that info.
+
+B5 Online  : From RDunn2344
+
+Question   : jm, how many fighters does the b5 hold?
+
+Jms at B5  : 4 squadrons total...John C (I know you're there, stop
+hiding)..how many per squad now?
+
+BB at B5   : Nine at last count.
+
+Jms at B5  : And we've got backups here and there. We will be adding some NEW
+starfuries next season
+
+BB at B5   : Total with reserves, 60.  Math, ugh
+
+B5 Online  : From VetPsycWa
+
+Question   : To JMS:  B5 has become my favorite show, I like it much better
+than Star Trek, and even the X-Files (my second favorite).  Do you plan to do
+a second five year mini-series?  I can't stand the thought of it ending.
+
+Jms at B5  : I've always had a possible side-story that could go off after
+this one, since in making  B5, I worked out the story +/- 10 years on either
+side, in building the universe, so there's plenty of stories there. I"m open
+to it, but if it happens, only Kosh knows.
+
+B5 Online  : From Winter999 for Bruce:
+
+Question   : What are you're hours like?  How much sleep do you get?
+
+BB at B5   : Well with a new baby, much fewer.  But work-wise, it's not bad,
+most days are around 12 hours. ga
+
+B5 Online  : We'll take 2 more questions.
+
+B5 Online  : From BobboG2
+
+Question   : Just what is the derivation of "Zokolow?"
+
+Jms at B5  : It's from the South American language, meaning Grand Plaza
+
+BB at B5   : Zocalo is a Latin American term for central market place.
+Jms at B5  : spelled Zocalo
+
+Jms at B5  : same difference
+
+B5 Online  : Last question: From DaveMage
+
+Question   : If B-5 continues to enjoy success, will you extend it beyond the
+5-year plan?
+
+Jms at B5  : As noted above, there's a possibility of a side-story, but the
+B5 story itself ends in 5 years...my partner Doug wants to do a B5 movie, but
+then...
+
+BB at B5   : Kaboom
+
+Jms at B5  : Doug also wants to conquer Mars, so there you are. But this
+story has a definite beginning, middle and end, I can't walk away from that.
+ C'Mon, someone must have one REALLY good question to end this with.  (no
+pressure) (we're all watching) (this will be half your grade)
+
+B5 Online  : From Alison JL
+
+Question   : Will there be a future storyline with the current  Captain and
+his predecessor?
+
+Jms at B5  : In the two-parter, we will put Sinclair and Sheridan together
+for most of the story  which will tie up the whole Babylon 4 storyline, and
+resolve many of the questions still  outstanding from that and other areas.
+ It should be a hoot; we're overall working to make year three more intense,
+bigger, with more astonishing CGI than before.  It's going to be a real hoot.
+ We've seen the first half dozen or so, and they're all totally top-notch, in
+large measure due to the actors like Bruce, and Andreas, and...Claudia, and
+Mira, and all the others.  It's something we're all very proud of. (damn,
+ended on a dangling participle.)
+
+OnlineHost : Babylon 5 Online would like to thank Bruce Boxleitner and J.
+Michael Straczynski for being our guests this evening at our official
+inauguration the new Babylon 5 Space Station online  (keyword BABYLON 5.) 
+
+B5 Online  : Thanks Bruce.  Thanks Joe.
+
+Jms at B5  : Anytime...Writer-boy signing off
+
+OnlineHost : Make your trip to this hot new space station and become a
+permanent member of the  Babylon 5 Online family.  Goodnight from Babylon 5!
+
+B5 Online  : We'll see you in the Eclispe Cafe!
+
+B5 Online  : (c) 1995 PTN Consortium
+
+B5 Online  : Thanks for coming everyone!
+
+BB at B5   : Thanks it's been a real pleasure
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+OnlineHost      Welcome, everyone! Tonight, OMNI Online is pleased
+                to present Bruce Boxleitner and J. Michael
+                Straczynski of the syndicated TV series "Babylon
+                5."
+OnlineHost      Bruce Boxleitner stars as Captain John Sheridan,
+                commander of space station Babylon 5. Bruce is
+                probably best known to television audiences for his
+                starring role in the popular series "Scarecrow and
+                Mrs. King." He also starred in several mini-series,
+                including "Till We Meet Again" and four of the
+                five "Gamblers." Among his numerous telefilm
+                credits are "Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone,"
+                "Gunsmoke V: One Man's Justice," and "East of
+                Eden." He has also appeared in the feature films
+                THE BABE and KUFFS. 
+OnlineHost      J. Michael Straczynski is executive producer and
+                creator of "Babylon 5." He has a long relationship
+                with science fiction and related genres. He was the
+                story editor and primary writer for the syndicated
+                "Twilight Zone" series, and his adaptation of "The
+                Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" for
+                Showtime earned him both ACE and Writer's Guild
+                Award nominations. He has also written short
+                stories, an anthology, and two dark fantasy/horror
+                novels. Welcome, gentlemen!
+ErinM   
+    It's nice to have you with us tonight!
+
+Jms at B5       
+    Glad to be here.
+
+BB at B5
+    It's great to be here.
+
+Jms at B5
+    Glad to be anywhere.  Just glad.
+
+ErinM
+    Glad to hear it. We've got plenty of questions, so we'll plunge
+    right in.
+
+Question
+    Thank you for the rotation of the stars as viewed from the end of
+    the rotating station.  How were the technical difficulties you
+    mentioned on the USENET newsgroup overcome?
+
+Jms at B5
+    We yanked out the actual window on the observation dome....  and
+    did the whole thing as a CGI composite, using CGI to create the
+    bars of the....  window.  A real pain, but the effect is cool.  ga
+
+Question
+    For Bruce: With the legacy of "Star Trek," do you find that fans
+    compare you to any of those characters?
+
+BB at B5
+    I don't really think so.
+
+Question
+    First, congratulations to Bruce on his recent marriage.  I hope
+    Melissa and you have many happy years together. Now to Joe. Having
+    attended a number of SF cons I noted the growing popularity of B5.
+    How about the mainstream audience?  Magazines?
+
+Jms at B5
+    We do seem to be crossing over quite a bit; I hear via email and in
+    letters from folks....  who've never watched SF before that they're
+    getting into our show, so I think we're....  definitely getting
+    crossover folks.  ga
+
+Question
+    Will this years episodes resolve or will this be a carry over in to
+    next year.  they are progressing at an exciting level each week.
+
+Jms at B5
+    A lot will be resolved this year, but as this is a novel, you can't
+    resolve too much at...  this early a stage; you're only a couple of
+    chapters into the book.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    Has the show been officially picked up for another season?
+
+Jms at B5
+    We'll know come April/May.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    Hey Bruce, great show, I was just wondering, is it hard for you to
+    remember the script, because of all the alien names and technical
+    jargon?
+
+BB at B5
+    In the beginning it was a challenge...  But, I'm much more
+    comfortable with the world of B5 now. ga
+
+
+Question
+    JMS:  Is it true that B5 already has an ending written?  I
+
+Jms at B5
+    It's absolutely correct; this was written and constructed as a
+    novel, with a beginning,...  middle and end.  When it's over, it's
+    over.  I grew up on the classics of SF literature...  FOUNDATION,
+    CHILDHOOD'S END, DUNE, LORD OF THE RINGS....  and wanted to know,
+    why hasn't anyone done this for TV?  So I figured I woud.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    JMS - how long has each of the races has jump gate technology?
+
+Jms at B5
+    Varying lengths depending on the species.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    When will we see the first line of Babylon 5 toys and computer
+    games?
+
+Jms at B5
+    Some is out this month, from Micromachines...  small B5 micro
+    machines, some shirts, a screen saver, that sort of thing.  The
+    soundtrack from Christopher Franke is out this month.  It's nifty.
+    ga
+
+
+Question
+    Do you think our society, right now, either needs a place like B5
+    or has a place like B5?
+
+Jms at B5
+    Newark?
+
+BB at B5
+    I think it's man's desting to leave the planet and...  a station
+    like B5 would be necessary to establish...  our foothold in the
+    stars. ga
+
+Jms at B5
+    We have to leave here; the planet will eventually fill up...  or
+    die when the sun dies, so we have to leave the cradle and go next
+    door.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    Give us some tid-bit on the future of the show?
+
+Jms at B5
+    That would be telling.  Okay...things get worse.  Then they get
+    better.  Then they get worse again...  then lots of stuff blows
+    up...people die...others are born...more stuff blows up...  and
+    then it ends.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    How has Bruce seen his character developing so far, and what is the
+    prognosis?
+
+BB at B5
+    I've gone from being a reactor to an inniator...  And have started
+    to experience a spirtaul awakening. ga
+
+Jms at B5
+    We're happy he's been able to save my crappy scripts.
+
+
+Question
+    When will we get to see how the President was assasinated and by
+    whom?
+
+Jms at B5
+    You already have. ga
+
+
+Question
+    How many episodes are left for this year?
+
+Jms at B5
+    Nine more to air, 4 more to shoot. ga
+
+
+Question
+    JMS how did you decide onthe design of the station?
+
+Jms at B5
+    I told Ron that I wanted it to be able to produce gravity the old
+    fashioned way...  via rotation, have different levels, all
+    that...he and Steve (T2) Burg came up with the...  preliminary
+    design, as did Peter Ledger, and it looked cool, my first
+    requirement.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    will there be any love interests for sheridan??
+
+Jms at B5
+    god i hope not.  ga
+
+BB at B5
+    Hopefully a nice labrador retreiver. ga
+
+Jms at B5
+    JUST KIDDING
+
+Jms at B5
+    So you dumped the german shepherd?  ga
+
+
+Question
+    Will we be seeing any Vorlons outside they're "Encounter Suits"
+    this season?
+
+Jms at B5       Yup.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    Will Michael O'hare ever figure prominently in the show again?
+
+BB at B5
+    Come on no gossip on the board.:)
+
+Jms at B5
+    We'll see him again, but not in the same capactity, or the same
+    extent.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    Several times we've heard reference to 3 Minbari castes, yet in
+    "Grail," Lennier says there are two.  Was this a clue or an
+    oversight?
+
+Jms at B5
+    He was being snobbish and forgot the 3rd caste.  fa
+
+
+Question
+    Is B5 doing well in the ratings and if so, do you still see the
+    series going all five years?
+
+Jms at B5
+    (Can't be writer error) Ratings are good, and we are cautiously
+    optimistic.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    Will there be more Peter David episodes?  I really liked the last
+    one.
+
+Jms at B5
+    One more this season, "And There all the Honor Lies"...it's about
+    Judge Ito.  ga
+
+Question
+    Are the books and comics considered canon?
+
+Jms at B5
+    Mostly, yes; though the details will get fuzzy, of necessity, with
+    divers hands.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    Are you bringing back Chekov in the finale?
+
+ErinM
+    Chekov = Walter Koenig :)
+
+Jms at B5
+    we'll see...nothing's set.  I know Bruce enjoyed working with
+    Walter, yes, Bruce?  ga
+
+BB at B5
+    It's an honor to work with an icon of scifi tv. ga
+
+
+Question
+    How did the departure of the previous commander alter your
+    intentions for the series?
+
+BB at B5
+    $Very funny we'll come down an unplug your computer.
+
+Jms at B5
+    Not at all; with the original commander, we could do a, b and c;
+    now we can do...  a, b, c and D, and D is *very* cool; also
+    remember that his connection was mainly...  to the Minbari; I
+    needed someone with a connection to the shadows, and making...
+    Sinclair that person would be too much to believe, with all the
+    rest.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    For Bruce, Do you have any desire to go up in the Space Shuttle or
+    otherwise leave the Earth?
+
+BB at B5
+    Definitely, whose got a ticket.
+
+Jms at B5
+    I think there's a ga there.  Hell, Erin, I get scared crossing the
+    street.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    To BB...TRON was a technically innovative film for its time 15
+    years ago.  How did you feel about doing that film?
+
+BB at B5
+    Very excited. Though unsure of what the final film would look
+    like...  and very surprised that it's still popular today. ga
+
+
+Question
+    What romantic possibilities do you have in store for Delenn?
+
+Jms at B5
+    Just one.  ga
+
+ErinM
+    No hints, Joe?
+
+Jms at B5
+    What?  Did I say something?
+
+ErinM
+    About the one romance?
+
+Jms at B5
+    What?
+
+ErinM
+    OK, I guess no hints about the romance. :)
+
+
+Question
+    Do the actors have much imput  to plot or dialog?
+
+BB at B5
+    Not really.  If there's a question about dialogue or character, Joe
+    is always receptive. ga.
+
+Jms at B5
+    Good answer.  You'll actually get paid this week.  ga
+
+Question
+    JMS, are you ever worried about looking too much like all the other
+    Sf shows?
+
+Jms at B5
+    What other SF shows?  There are other SF shows?  Not really....  we
+    have a unique look, and feel, and our story is unlike anything else
+    on the air...  I don't think you can live your life or make your
+    show by worrying about the other guy...  follow the quiet turning
+    of your own considered conscience.    ga
+
+
+Question
+    I love Girabaldi-is he patterned after anyone/character?
+
+Jms at B5
+    There's a lot of me in Garibaldi; I never have known when to shut
+    the hell up.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    Bruce, congratulations on your marriage.  I would like to  know if
+    you and Melissa are planning to make another movie together?
+
+BB at B5
+    Yes.  This summer we will be in a miniseries for NBC that will be
+    shot in Europe. ga
+
+
+Question
+    Star Trek has had 3 spin-offs And seven movies, Will we be seeing
+    more B5 related series or maybe even a movie?
+
+Jms at B5
+    While there's always been one possible offshoot of the B5 series, I
+    really don't...  want to create *A FRANCHISE* (tm)...I want to tell
+    THIS story, about THESE people...  and once finished, get off the
+    stage.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    JMS:  You have said that the characters reflect some aspects of
+    your personality.  Have you ever made a deal as bad as Londo's?
+
+Jms at B5
+    Ask Bruce's agent.  JUST KIDDING.  My family history is notorious
+    for bad deals.  Me, I keep it in the mattress.  ga
+
+BB at B5
+    Just wait til next year, Joe.  Motorhomes and hot and cold running
+    blondes.
+
+Jms at B5
+    Your point being...?
+
+BB at B5
+    Deals, we're talking deals..not telepaths. ga
+
+Jms at B5
+    (dial tone)  Oh, hi, is Melissa there?  Never mess with a writer in
+    a written forum, actor-boy!  DOES ANYONE HAVE A QUESTION TO SAVE US
+    FROM OURSELVES?
+
+ErinM   We've got one right here:
+
+
+Question
+    JMS - how hard was it to pitch the show with ST:DS9 already being
+    made/shown?
+
+Jms at B5
+    We didn't.  B5 was created 1986/87, and was being pitched years
+    before there was DS9.  We even pitched it to Paramount in 1989.
+    There has never been an overlap.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    Jm, how do you feel about being compared to George Lucas as regards
+    to your depth of story line and the vision you have of B5?  Jms at
+B5
+    I think I'm slightly taller, but he has a GREAT beard.  Hey, it's a
+    great compliment, and if I can create something that will endure as
+    has...  his work, that's terrific, but for me to consider it now
+    would be delusions of adequacy. g
+
+
+Question
+    To Bruce: How would you compare working on B5 to scarecrow or
+    Bring'em back alive?
+
+Jms at B5
+    but for me to consider it now...delusions of adequacy.
+
+Jms at B5
+    echo   echo
+
+BB at B5
+    Each series has its own unique distinctions...  Babylon 5 is
+    different experience, but it has some of the same...  elements as
+    the others, action, adventure, and intriquatly woven plots and
+    depth of character. ga
+
+
+Question
+    Why not have a lighter theme on the show from time to time, as in
+    "The Trouble With Tribbles"?  It seems so heavy at times.
+
+Jms at B5
+    We have always alternated a bit; SOUL MATES was a light ep; so
+    was...  GEOMETRY...I just don't want to get too camp or funny.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    To JMS: What are the chances of seeing episodes from the first
+    season showing up in reruns sometime soon?  Jms at B5
+    I haven't a clue; probably after this season has run ful length.
+    ga
+
+
+Question
+    Bruce, did you train as an actor and if so,, where?
+
+BB at B5
+    At the Goodman Theatre in Chicago for three years...  then with one
+    of the top acting coaches here in Hollywood. ga
+
+
+Question
+    you have both had experience with SF before... are you guys into SF
+    outside of your work on B5, or is it just what you do best?
+
+Jms at B5
+    Bruce, you're from Chicago, yes?
+
+BB at B5
+    Yes, northwest of the city.
+
+Jms at B5
+    I've always been an SF reader, plus horror, dark fantasy, you name
+    it; I think...  it's vitally important, if you're going to do an SF
+    show, that you hire somebody who...  KNOWS SF.  This generally
+    isn't done.  I grew up on Matheson, Bradbury, Ellison...
+    Lovecraft, Bloch, Clarke, Asimov, Serling...name it.  I love it.
+    ga
+
+BB at B5
+    Yes.  I'm reading the works of Arthur C. Clark right now.  $ga
+
+
+Question
+    For Joe: I was in England in Feb, and noticed there were a number
+    of B5 conventions scheduled, as opposed to few here. Any comment on
+    B5's popularity there vs. here?
+
+Jms at B5
+    I've found that B5 found an immediate home in the UK because some
+    of what we're...  doing here has already been done there, in such
+    continuing shows as THE PRISONER...  and our approach is somewhat
+    British in nature; I"m VERY pleased by the...  reception the show
+    has found over there.  But what can one expect from a country...
+    where they actually eat something called Bubble and Squeak?  ga
+
+
+Question
+    JMS: when did Minbari stride into your mind? How long have you
+    known  your  various aliens?
+
+Jms at B5
+    1986/87.  They've always been there in the story.  Minbar I named
+    after...  the pulpit in a mosque.  Delenn comes from delen, Middle
+    English for divided.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    I've heard that some people are having a hard time locating the
+    show, that it's been pulled on some stations.  Are there any plans
+    or rumors of being picked up by network, maybe Warner Bros?
+
+Jms at B5
+    Nothing has been discussed there; we'll see, but they're
+    competitive, so I wouldn't...  count on it.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    with the sudden rush of SF projects now, is there a possibility of
+    bad SF like the sitcom deluge of the 70's or is it too expensive to
+    make bad SF?
+
+Jms at B5
+    Bad SF/good SF cost the same.  It's the people who make the
+    difference, and the...  stories.  I think we may see a bit more,
+    but not a lot.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    Jms, what can you tell us about the "GrimJack" project?
+
+Jms at B5
+    Not much at this time; I'll be doing the script after we finish
+    this season's B5.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    Bruce:  Have you had many scenes in which you had to interact with
+    CGI sets or characters, and if so, do you find it challenging?
+
+BB at B5
+    Yes, yes, yes, yes. ga
+
+
+Question
+    To Bruce... Would you if the show has the longevity as  Star Trek
+    mind the kind of fan attention and following such as Patrick
+    Stewart BB at B5
+    Not at all, it would be quite flattering. ga
+
+
+Question
+    When writing novels many writers say the characters take over the
+    plot - has this happened in B5 yet?
+
+Jms at B5
+    To some extent, yes...  when you only have the characters in your
+    head, they sound like who you've made;...  after a while, actors
+    get into the picture, and then the characters start to sound
+    like...  the actors, and the actors sound like the characters...and
+    elements of personality...  begin to infuse your brain, and
+    somewhere along the line you're writing a script,...  minding your
+    own business, when a characters says, HEY!  I AIN'T DOING IT!  And
+    then you see someone for serious therapy....  But it's a sign that
+    the characters are alive, and feisty, and fun, and they can...
+    surprise you; and if they can surprise ME, they'll surprise YOU.
+    ga
+
+
+Question
+    It was interesting that the Narn were cast this season as
+    sympathetic characters, when in the previous season we were primed
+    to prefer the Centauri.  Who's idea was this? I like this plot arc
+    a lot.
+
+Jms at B5
+    Divine revelation....  I was walking down the street and a bag
+    person said, "Hey, change your characters..  all around."  That was
+    always the intent when I created the show; come up with...  what
+    appears to be the standard SF line: bad guy, good guy, ally...and
+    then start..  moving the chairs around.  ga
+
+BB at B5
+    Nothing is what it seems on B5.
+
+
+Question
+    who could we contact to make sure B5 is renewed???  Jms at B5
+    Your local station.  Write 'em.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    do you have any plans to continue the story when the first 5 yrs
+    gave been completed? I hope so!!!
+
+Jms at B5
+    Bruce: what do you like most/least about your role?
+
+BB at B5
+    Most - my nifty uniform and starfury...  Least, the food in the
+    Zocalo restaurants. ga
+
+Jms at B5
+    And when did you first fall in love with my writing?  never mind.
+
+BB at B5
+    Before the wardrobe fitting....oh, great writer-boy. ga
+
+Jms at B5
+    (Memo: tighter pants for captain.)  ga Er...not really; nothing
+    firm (re: the story continuing)...one crisis at a time.  (Was
+    having too much fun and missed the question) ga
+
+ErinM
+    Folks, it seems like Joe and Bruce are having way too much fun back
+    in the B5 offices...  right now. :)
+
+Jms at B5
+    (checking contract to see if the term writer-boy is present)
+
+ErinM
+    Back to the questions...
+
+
+Question
+    Considering the high skills of the design department for creating
+    (and making reality) new alien species, can we expect any
+    mechanical type characters in the future?
+
+Jms at B5
+    Nothing planned at the moment, no.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    How did you get Harlan Ellison on as a consultant to the show?
+
+Jms at B5
+    I asked him.  ga (He's a buddy.)
+
+
+Question What is the Minbari chain of command ?Satai on down
+
+Jms at B5 That's classified.  I could tell you, but then I'd have to
+kill you.  ga
+
+Question
+    Congratulations on yesterday's (today's) #1 rating.  We fans are
+    busting our tails trying to recruit new vewers.  How does this
+    feather affect the syndication advertising and visibility?
+
+Jms at B5
+    Every little bit helps; and we're very pleased and gratified.  ga
+
+BB at B5
+    We need the support of all our viewers. ga
+
+
+Question
+    When does the big war really break out?  All this build up is
+    making me bite my nails.  Jms at B5
+    Later this sesaon, and bigtime next season.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    Will we eventually find out more about Kosh?  In which season?
+
+Jms at B5
+    This sesaon.  Bigtime.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    For BB..You've done Sci-Fi before (Tron) and Westerns. Which is
+    more difficult and why? Or are they similar in some ways?
+
+BB at B5
+    Very similar in that both deal with stories set on frontiers...
+    it's hard to say what is more difficult.  Each has its own
+    distinctive challenges...  whether it's mounting a horse and riding
+    out of a scene...  or flying a starfury and doing battle in space.
+    ga
+
+Jms at B5
+    And get that damned horse off stage A, by the way.  ga
+
+BB at B5
+    Ok, I'm bringing in to your office.  :)
+
+Jms at B5
+    Who would notice one more horse's ass in my office?
+
+
+Question
+    JMS, will the Vorlons play a role larger than what they have now?
+
+Jms at B5
+    Most definitely.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    Will we be seeing any more of Ngrath in future episodes?  He just
+    kinda seemed to drop out of sight.
+
+Jms at B5
+    not planned for now, no.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    Bruce, does JMS share future plot developments with you, or do you
+    just have to take each script as it comes, and try to build on your
+    character episode by episode?
+
+Jms at B5
+    (This I gotta hear.)
+
+BB at B5
+    From time to time, during the season, we talk about where Sheridan
+    is going as a character...  on the day to day, week to week, I try
+    not to think too far ahead...  because in actuality I try to *be in
+    the moment* with my performance. ga
+
+Question
+    JMS-Welcome, I've heard that you previously wrote a novel unrelated
+    to B5-fact or fiction?  And if so where  is it?
+
+Jms at B5
+    I've written two published novels; OTHERSYDE and DEMON NIGHT, plus
+    an...  anthology of short stories, TALES FROM THE NEW TWILIGHT
+    ZONE, both now...  out of print; I have my next novel planned, and
+    will write it when B5 is done.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    JMS, love the show.  Has anything surprised you during the creation
+    of the series?
+
+Jms at B5
+    Everything has surprised me.  Mainly that it's as good as it is,
+    that we've had such...  terrific actors, the sets and efx are
+    better than I'd ever hoped...  it's just been a nice surprise on
+    just about every level (until tonight's conference.) ga
+
+
+Question
+    Bruce, did you find it difficult coming in to an already
+    established show?
+
+BB at B5
+    Not really.  I was received warmly and everyone is very
+    professional and we got on with the work.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    BB:  What is the most challenging aspect of your role?
+
+BB at B5
+    Maintaining the authority of command that is Sheridan's everyday
+    experience.  Also...  drinking the morning coffee. ga
+
+Jms at B5
+    (Also the hassle of translating the scripts from Urdu into
+    English.)
+
+BB at B5
+    You said it no me, Bwahana
+
+Jms at B5
+    By the way, anyone looking on should see right off that we have a
+    lot of...  fun here at the show; it's a good, loose bunch...  And
+    I'm calling Bruce's agent tomorrow.
+
+ErinM   Uh-oh. Back to the questions...
+
+
+Question
+    JMS:  The show is excellent!  Will Harlen Ellison write any
+    episodes?
+
+Jms at B5
+    In the fullness of time, he tells me.  And by an act of faith I've
+    come to believe him  ga
+
+
+Question
+    Joe, what do think of Newsweek's naming you one of the fifty most
+    influential people in cyberspace?
+
+Jms at B5
+    Well, it's nice, but that + 5$ will get me a cup of coffee at...
+    the Fame is Fleeting Cafe.  Still, they noticed the show, and
+    that's good.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    Bruce: what has the most challenging episode been for you so far,
+    and why?
+
+Jms at B5
+    (Someone is singing outside my office.  How weird.)
+
+BB at B5
+    The episode we just finished filming today.  It's called In the
+    Shadow of Za'Ha'Dum and my character deals with some very...
+    personal issues. ga
+
+Question
+    Will there be any novels telling us about the past of the B5
+    universe so we have the background of the series?
+
+Jms at B5
+    I wouldn't mind seeing them one of these days, but again there are
+    no plans for them...  again, remember, I've generally held back on
+    ancillary stuff; let's get THE SHOW right...  then the rest will
+    attend to itself.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    will there be soundtracks for each of the seasons?  I'd be very
+    happy if there are, because I like the music for second season as
+    much as for the first.
+
+Jms at B5
+    BY HAPPY COINCIDENCE...the first soundtrack comes out this
+    month...  and if it sells well, I'm sure there will be more.
+    (Hint, hint.) ga
+
+Jms at B5
+    And Chris Franke does GREAT work for us.
+
+
+Question
+    What efforts have been made to design the alien languages and
+    symbols that we see every week?
+
+Jms at B5
+    Y'know, John Copeland is lurking on BB's computer.......oh, John,
+    you wanna do this?
+
+BB at B5
+    Weeellll, we invested quite a bit of effort during the making of
+    the pilot at creating the alien...  languages.  We're still working
+    on refining them from season to season.  But they do make sense
+    if...  you know how to translate them.  ga
+
+Jms at B5       (BB=Bruce...so is a PPG a BB gun?)
+
+ErinM   That was producer John Copeland speaking through Bruce's screen
+name.
+
+BB at B5
+    $Look out Joe he's coming down the hall.
+
+
+Question
+    How did you come up with the configurations for the ships on B5,
+    especially for the race of the people who destroyed the Narn
+    Colony?
+
+Jms at B5
+    Also Judge Crater speaking through John.  Tha's a Ron Thornton
+    deal; he designs our ships, and where he gets his ideas...  only
+    Ron and his therapist know for sure.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    SO the files I see on the internet forum for B5 are the stories
+    there from you  (the creator??)  or is that just some
+    hoax,......and is it just someone claiming to be you..?
+
+Jms at B5
+    Depends on what files you're referring to; I"m there a lot, and my
+    stuff has been...  archived to within an inch of its life.  ga
+
+
+Question        
+    When will we see the return of Babylon 4.
+
+Jms at B5       
+    Next season.  Probably.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    JMS: The character of Ivanova seems to be used more to balance the
+    other character changes..i.e. picking up some "Sinclair" type lines
+    and more Londo of old type humour.  Is this deliberate on your part
+    to help balance the scripts?
+
+Jms at B5
+    Ivanova is in general something of a fulcrum upon which elements
+    turn; I don't thnk I...  created her with that specific role in
+    mind, that's just the way she is; there's a lot of.  the standard
+    russian humor I grew up with in her, so that bleeds over.
+    Equal...  parts astonishment and horror.  ga
+
+
+Question        
+    Is the pilot going to be reshown or available on video anytime?
+Jms at B5       
+    One certainly hopes so.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    Years ago, Battlestar Galatica had the most expensive budget on air
+    ($1 mil/episode)...  How does yours compare for today?  Are the
+    comp. anim. effects going down in cost, or up?
+
+Jms at B5
+    Without giving out details, we do our show for about 1/2 the
+    DS9/Voyager budget.  ga
+
+
+Question
+    JMS:  Thank you for B5.  How long does it take to complete an
+    episode from begining to completion?
+
+Jms at B5
+    A couple months,factoring in editing, writing, filming, scoring and
+    mixing.  ga 52 days, John tells me.  (feels like months.) And
+    couynting weekends, that IS two months.
+
+
+Question        
+    What planet is shown behind the B5 Station?
+
+Jms at B5       
+    Epsilon 3.
+    In the Epsilon Eridani system.
+    ga
+
+
+Question        
+    Will you put out a technical manual?
+
+Jms at B5       
+    We've discussed it, nothing firm.  (See above.)
+    ga
+
+Question        
+    Will Mira Furlan's makeup as Delenn change any further?
+Jms at B5       
+    Lord I hope not.  ga
+    We love it as is.
+
+
+Question
+    I know on the newsgroups there is a lot of carrying on (and on and
+    on) about scientific accuracy -- does it upset you when they do
+    this?  I really like the CHARACTERS, and prefer that and the story
+    aspects of the show far more than the science.
+
+Jms at B5
+    We try to be as accurate as we can; generally it helps the drama;
+    if it gets in the...  way, we pretend we don't see the science and
+    hope it'll go away.  ga
+
+
+Question        
+    What are the chances of an animated series in the coming years?
+
+Jms at B5       
+    EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!
+    Zip!  None!  Nada!  El-nopo!
+    (calming self down...an animated Londo...isn't that redundent?)
+    ga
+
+ErinM   Folks, that was our last question of the evening...
+
+ErinM   I'd like to thank Joe Straczynski and Bruce Boxleitner...
+
+ErinM   for being OMNI Online's guests this evening!
+
+Jms at B5       Glad we could be here.
+
+BB at B5        Thanks very much.  This was fun.
+
+ErinM   I'd also like to thank our industrious usher, OMNI Muse...
+
+ErinM   and I'd like to thank all of you for attending...
+
+ErinM   The transcript of this conference will be available...  
+
+ErinM   tomorrow in OMNI Online's Conference Logs Library...  
+
+ErinM   To get there, type keyword: OMNI...  
+
+ErinM   click on File LIbraries in the scrollbox ...
+
+ErinM   and then on Conference Logs Library.  
+
+ErinM   AGain, thank you and good night!  
+
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+EXTRA Online's live Interview was with J. Michael Straczynski, Executive
+Producer and Creator of "Babylon 5," and actress Claudia Christian, who
+plays Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova on the show.
+
+The transcript was edited for ease of reading and to correct typographical
+errors and was prepared in standard ASCII by emcee Rusti I:
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+OnlineHost:  Your host tonight is CSEmcee5 (JackDL).
+
+OnlineHost:   Welcome to EXTRA Online's *LIVE* Interview with J. Michael
+Straczynski, Executive Producer and Creator of "Babylon 5," and actress
+Claudia Christian, who plays Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova on the show.
+
+OnlineHost:  J. Michael Straczynski is the Executive Producer and Creator
+of "Babylon 5," and has a long relationship with science-fiction and
+related genres.
+
+OnlineHost:  Claudia Christian stars as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova in
+"Babylon 5."  Her other credits include starring roles in Danielle
+Steele's "Kaleidoscope," "Columbo," "A Masterpiece of Murder," and her
+film credits include "The Chase," "Hexed," "Clean & Sober," "The Hidden"
+and "Never On Tuesday."
+
+OnlineHost:  After the interview, be sure to check out EXTRA Online's
+"Special Presentation" area.  The cast of "Babylon 5" has recorded a
+number of audio and video files exclusively for our online audience. These
+files, along with photos from the current and first seasons, have never
+been released on America Online before and provide a wealth of
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+SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS area.
+
+OnlineHost:  The live online interview, along with unique souvenir files,
+will be featured on the "EXTRA" TV show later this week.  Also, look in
+EXTRA Online for a transcript of the interview along with the EXCLUSIVE
+"Babylon 5" Online souvenir files. Keyword: EXTRA, look in "Special
+Presentations."
+
+CSEmcee5:  Welcome to The Globe Mr. Straczynski and Ms. Christian.
+
+Jms at B5:  Glad to be here.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Thank you, it's good to be here.
+
+CSEmcee5:  Here is the first question for you:
+
+Question:  When was Babylon 5 created?
+
+Jms at B5:  I created the show in 1986/87, and wrote the initial
+screenplay for the pilot movie in 1987, commissioned artwork, and began
+taking the project around to studios and networks, with my associates Doug
+and John. It took us 5 years to find someone who believed in the project
+the way we do. And here we are.
+
+Question:  This is a question for JMS, rumors are flying about what
+happened at the Big Bang. Could you clear up what happened?
+
+Jms at B5:  We had provided material for the organizers of the con on the
+strict notion that they were to be used only to make a demo for later
+merchandising. We then found that they were taking these items, mass
+producing and selling them without our knowledge, permission, or license.
+At that juncture, in addition to some previous problems we'd had, B5 had
+to withdraw official sanctioning of the con, although we are allowing
+those cast members concerned about fans with non-refundable airline
+tickets and non-refunding con tickets, to go for their benefit.
+
+Question:  Whom did you use from your past to help create your character,
+Ms. Christian?
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Absolutely nothing. Ivanova's mold was broken after creation.
+
+Jms at B5:  And we're all thankful.
+
+Question:  For JMS: Any word on the renewal for season 3?
+
+Jms at B5:  We should know by the end of the month.
+
+Question:  There has been some speculation about Ivanova pursuing an
+intimate relationship with Talia.  Will this come about?
+
+Jms at B5:  I think it would be fair to say that she does have an intimate
+relationship somewhere down the road.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Been there. Done it. Worn the T-shirt
+
+Question:  JMS, will you choose "Acts of Sacrifice" for Andreas'
+nomination. He was excellent in that episode.
+
+Jms at B5:  I think we chose "Coming of Shadows" for that, actually. We've
+nominated many in our cast for emmies.
+
+Question:  Is it true that you have the future of B5 worked out?
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Yes, actually I do.
+
+Jms at B5:  To the last degree, virtually every episode for the full five
+year run that I want this show to last for. It's a novel for TV, and you
+generally have to outline to know where you're going.
+
+Question:  For Claudia, any upcoming movie projects during the break
+between seasons?
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Too many to talk about.
+
+Question:  How well is the B5 comic doing?
+
+ClaudiaB5:  I don't think they draw me well at all.
+
+Jms at B5:  As far as I know, it's selling very well, and has just gone to
+better stock paper. I'm happy with the stories, and there's some surprises
+going, in that we're hooking in some of the series stuff, introducing a
+new character in the comic who will likely show up in the series (I'll be
+doing another 4-issue arc, by the way).
+
+ClaudiaB5:  And that's just the commercials.
+
+Jms at B5:  Being on-line with Claudia is like being trapped in a tin
+drum.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Rim shot. Rim shot.
+
+Jms at B5:  Claudia is having too much fun.
+
+Question:   Claudia: How close is your real-life personality to your
+tough, take-charge character?
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Very close, in fact this morning I kicked my dog, ate
+breakfast and went go-cart racing.
+
+Question:  Will there be any big changes in the cast for the next season?
+
+Jms at B5:  Ah! A question I can't answer. Expect some surprises.
+
+Question:  My favorite characters in the series are Cmdr. Sinclair &
+Morden. Will there be more episodes featuring them?
+
+Jms at B5:  You will definitely see more of Morden, and we have some
+interesting plans for Sinclair.
+
+Question:  Claudia, how much input do you have in your character
+development?
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Absolutely none. Joe rules!
+
+Question:  To Claudia: Hi, I was wondering if you were from Russia just
+like the character you play.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Born in Glendale. Raised in Connecticut.
+
+Question:  What's it like working with Harlan Ellison?
+
+Jms at B5:  Harlan describes his role as mad dog nipping at my heels. I
+think of him as my personal Jiminy Cricket, steering me away from trouble.
+Overall, he's a free-floating agent of chaos, who gets into anything he
+wants to. He's a joy to work with.
+
+Question:  JMS: If the B5 story is like an iceberg, i.e. we only see 10%
+of it, how much will we see at the end of this season and how much at the
+end of the story?
+
+Jms at B5:  I can't even countenance that though. The only way this show
+has gotten made has been via an act of sheer will. I refuse to allow the
+chance of it ending. As for this season (I misread your question) (stupid
+producer boy) you'll have all of the questions asked at the start of the
+season, answered. Almost. Each year is nominally self-contained.
+
+Question:  What happened to the 4  previous B5s?
+
+Jms at B5:  1 - Sabotaged. 2 - Sabotaged. 3 - Blowed up. 4 - Vanished
+mysteriously.
+
+Question:  Are models used for the ships and station or are they all
+computer generated?
+
+Jms at B5:  All Computer Generated Images (CGI); including Claudia.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  There are no models, ever.
+
+Jms at B5:  But Claudia could BE a model.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Sorry. I are an actor.
+
+Question:  When will tape of the first season be available, and will there
+be more than one episode on a tape?
+
+Jms at B5:  I've been TOLD they're going to be out over the summer, but
+have no objective way of verifying that.
+
+Question:  JMS, do you plan on exploring Ivanova's relationship with her
+mother (i.e. latent telepathy) in future episodes?
+
+Jms at B5:  Not as much this year as last; more of an important reference,
+however.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Been there. Done that. Worn the T-shirt.
+
+Jms at B5:  Claudia, leave your T-shirt alone.
+
+Question:  Ms. Christian, do you feel that Cmdr. Ivanova could be
+considered a role model for females, especially those interested in the
+military?
+
+Jms at B5:  (Can't WAIT for this answer.)
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Absolutely! I feel honored that a new generation of young
+girls no longer feel the need to be secretaries. Ivanova is God.
+
+Question:  What can you tell us about next weeks show "And Now For A
+Word"?
+
+Jms at B5:  It's a break in our usual format. Something we haven't done
+before, and which hasn't been done in SF tv before, to my knowledge. But
+to tell it up front would ruin the surprise for those who don't want it
+spoiled.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  It's a great episode.
+
+Question:  I have watched Claudia for a long time. When she was in the
+Hidden I have that on video tape. I think she is a wonderful actress. How
+did she get started in show business?
+
+Jms at B5:  Working in the original CB DeMille silent movies.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  With absolutely no help and a lot of gumption.
+
+Jms at B5:  Gumption is what you find on your shoes, by the way.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  With Joe as my personal assistant.
+
+Jms at B5:  Call me Igor.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Actually he was my makeup artist but he's a little shy.
+
+Question:  JMS: You said (on the net) that tomorrow night's episode would
+have something special for videotapers. My fiancee broke the VCR. Any
+chance you could tell us when in the episode we should squint real hard?
+
+Jms at B5:  Do you know how much makeup covering that scar requires?  To
+the question; look for the end of the long reference to the Psi Corps. As
+they smile, you'll see it.
+
+Question:  With the warrior caste dominant in the Council, does this mean
+the Earth -Minbari was is in danger of starting up again?
+
+Jms at B5:  Who can say?
+
+Question:  One thing that I enjoy about the B5 is the complex plot and
+character development but this also makes it more difficult to interest
+friends in the show (so much back history). Any way to help bring new
+comers up to speed?
+
+ClaudiaB5:  You should point out that the episode is next week not this
+week.
+
+Jms at B5:  Actually, the episode next week, And Now For a Word, is
+DESIGNED in part to help new viewers come to the show. Interestingly
+enough, though, I've received many letters from overseas, where they show
+the series out of order totally, and the folks seem to have no problem
+getting into it. All the episodes are self-contained.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Send me $9.99 for a complete unauthorized compilation of the
+series.
+
+Jms at B5:  Or send it to her next of kin.
+
+Question:  How many Video Toasters do you have rendering the effects for
+the show?
+
+Jms at B5:  15,423. It's a BIG room. Actually, I think it's 10. But 15,423
+sounded better.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Actually there are 35 toasters
+
+Question:  When will we find out more about Kosh?
+
+Jms at B5:  This season. By season's end, you'll know a LOT. You may even
+SEE Kosh. And Kosh may SEE.
+
+Claudia.  Eeek! Promises, promises, Joey baby.
+
+Question:  It seems that the sets have been getting larger and more
+elaborate. Who is mostly responsible for the look of the show and how has
+it changed since the pilot?
+
+Jms at B5:  John Iacovelli, our art director, John Copeland, who works
+with him, John Flinn, our DP, all the little Johns and the construction
+crew. We have 18 standing sets and the capacity for 70 swing sets.
+
+Question:  Do you or will you ever entertain scripts from freelance
+writers?
+
+Jms at B5:  I don't entertain anyone.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  I only entertain writers.
+
+Jms at B5:  Then why are you in the other office?
+
+Question:  Are there any planes for a motion picture?
+
+Jms at B5:  Nope. Don't want no franchise. Don't want no movie. Just do
+TV.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  But I'm available.
+
+Jms at B5:  Tell your story and get off the stage. 5 years with Claudia is
+enough for anyone, Lord knows.
+
+Question:  For JMS: What is your favorite episode of Babylon 5
+Jms at B5:  So far, of what's aired, "The Coming of Shadows," but overall
+so far, the episode later this season, "The Long, Twilight Struggle" tied
+with "Comes the Inquisitor."
+
+Question:  For Claudia: How does B5 compare to your other works?
+
+ClaudiaB5:  I didn't have to put up with Joe Straczynski on the other
+shows.
+
+Jms at B5:  Also, here we allow her to speak. Barely.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Thank God for talkies.
+
+Question:  Any words on a Babylon 5 CD-ROM?
+
+Jms at B5:  Late fall, I hear.  I also hear voices in the night telling me
+I'm Joan of Arc. One of them is right.
+
+Question:  Two questions:  How can I write to the producers of the show,
+and is there an official fan club? I'm not the type that normally goes for
+this sort of thing, but this show is really worth it!
+
+Jms at B5:  You can write to me via AOL, and we hope to have an official
+fan club up soonish.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  How come everybody always claims not to be the type?
+
+Question:  Ivanova's a strong female character, yet men seem to love her
+rather than feel threatened. Why do you think this is?
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Because I'm so irresistible and humble.
+
+Jms at B5:  (thud)!
+
+Question:  Has your budget for special effects increased over time?
+
+Jms at B5:  Very slightly. We generally do fine with what we have.
+
+Question:  Have any of the plots used in scripts for "the other Space
+Station series" caused you to alter the story arc?
+
+Jms at B5:  I think I dropped one or two notions because they'd walked
+into that arena on other shows, like DS9, but they never got very far, and
+our way of handling them would be very different in any event. It's
+inevitable. But less so the deeper we get into the story.
+
+Question:  Claudia: How does it feel knowing that JMS knows what's going
+to happen to your character down the line, and he won't tell? Do you try
+to get a hint out of him?
+
+ClaudiaB5:  I've invested a lot of money trying to pry the info from him
+and then I tried sex. Nothing worked.
+
+Jms at B5:  I have SEVERAL hints for Claudia. But she keeps insisting on
+continuing to act. Hey! What's this "nothing worked" bit?
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Like what?
+
+Jms at B5:  What?
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Act like what?
+
+Jms at B5:  A BETTER PERSON, ALL RIGHT?
+
+ClaudiaB5:  I love you Joe.
+
+Jms at B5:  Lord, people, you have no idea. She's a cutie, but we're both
+going to hell for this. Has ANYONE out there got a question to save us
+from ourselves?
+
+Question:  Can you tell us about Garibaldi (can't remember the actor's
+name) and his resume when he auditioned? I hear it is a funny story.
+
+Jms at B5:  His resume had some creative writing. He listed among his
+bogus credits: "Member, Dance Theater of Harlem." I said "Okay, dance."
+Total fiction.
+
+Question:  Will any computer game companies be picking up the rights to B5
+for a new game? If you know of any>?
+
+Jms at B5:  Not yet. Someone might be picking up Claudia.
+
+Question:  It seems like Ambassador Delen has taken a minor role lately.
+Will that change in the future?
+
+Jms at B5:  Definitely. We have major plans for Delenn.
+
+Question:  This may be a silly question, but it is one that I have asked
+when watching almost every episode. Do Membari wear some type of
+headdress, or are those things on their heads actually part of their
+heads?
+
+Jms at B5:  It's bone that grows around from the back, like antlers.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  I certainly hope so.
+
+Question:  What are the titles of the remaining episodes in the season?
+
+Jms at B5:  There All the Honor Lies, And Now for a Word, Knives, In the
+Shadow of Z'ha'dum, Confessions and Lamentations, The Long Twilight
+Struggle, Divided Loyalties, Comes the Inquisitor, and The Fall of Night.
+
+Question:  JMS, how much do the other people working on the show know
+about the story arc?
+
+Jms at B5:  As little as possible. I could tell them, but then I'd have to
+kill them.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Diddly squat.
+
+Jms at B5:  Which is a new exercising regimen.
+
+Question:  For JMS, when will we find out how someone managed to poison
+Kosh through his suit?
+
+Jms at B5:  In the pilot, we saw him extend a part of himself. So that's
+obviously how. Question remains, WHY expose himself like this if he's
+worried about being seen? This will be implied in this season.
+
+Question:  In ST:NG, DS9, and recently in ST:V, the recurring plot of a
+malfunctioning holodeck seems to dominate the episodes. Do you predict any
+recurring plots that might happen in B5?
+
+Jms at B5:  No. The B5 tech works right out of the box.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Yes, the ongoing war between Claudia and Joe.
+
+Jms at B5:  War of the Roses? War of 1812? 
+
+ClaudiaB5:  The battle between the north and south.
+
+Jms at B5:  North and the Mouth?
+
+Question:  After the five year "arc" is done will the show be canceled?
+
+Jms at B5:  Unless there's a planned side-story, yes, that's the intent.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  I'll be continuing dinner theater.
+
+Question:  Are we going to be seeing more of or hearing from the telepath
+Gray?
+
+Jms at B5:   Not this season.
+
+Question:  Will we be seeing a connection between Susan and the Raiders?
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Soupy Sales is playing Sheridan in Spring Valley.
+
+Jms at B5:  Nope. Will you take Foreign Breeds of Frogs for fifty dollars?
+
+Question:  Will B4 come back or will it stay vanished?
+
+Jms at B5:  Yes.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  I'll be back and I'll take obscure writers for a hundred.
+
+Jms at B5:  You win.
+
+Question:  JMS, B5's storyline is very complex, plots within plots within
+plots. How do you and the writers keep it flowing as well as you do?
+
+Jms at B5:  Again, by virtue that I outlined all this 7 years ago. It's
+all in 200 pages of notes. Along with Ivanova's impending death scene (if
+this conference keeps going the way it is)
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Does that mean I don't get the raise?
+
+Jms at B5:  What raise?
+
+Question:  JMS, How much do you feel that the Internet has helped to
+bolster the show's ratings?
+
+Jms at B5:  Actually, I don't think it has, in that the numbers aren't
+there, but it helps to give me. a sense of the room, and I think it's
+important, in producing a
+show, to remain both open and accountable to the fans of the SF genre, who
+are generally the most exploited genre fans around. Good or bad, I'm here
+for the duration.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  (thud).
+
+Question:  Exactly how long does it take to film an episode, as well as
+apply the make and costumes to the aliens?
+
+Jms at B5:  7 days to film. 52 days to finish everything. 42 days for
+Claudia to learn her lines.
+
+Question:  JMS, the show is very allegorical and an epic of biblical
+proportions. Are the Vorlons an allusion to angels and the Shadows an
+allusion to demons?
+
+ClaudiaB5:  I just like seeing Joe face to face.
+
+Jms at B5:  Not really, no. It goes a lot deeper than that. The show
+operates on many levels; you can't stop at that level.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Ivanova is God.
+
+Jms at B5:  By the way, before we stop in a bit, I just want to make
+ABSOLUTELY CLEAR that I have nothing but respect and awe and affection for
+Claudia, and we get on here to play, and she's fun, and she plays back.
+Also she's on my lap.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Move your hand Joe.
+
+Jms at B5:  That's not my hand.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  In that case does that come in adult size?
+
+Jms at B5:  Not in years.
+
+OnlineHost:  All good things must come to an end.  Our time is up for this
+event.
+
+OnlineHost:  The live online interview, along with unique souvenir files,
+will be featured on the "EXTRA" TV show later this week.  Also, look in
+EXTRA Online for a transcript of the interview along with the EXCLUSIVE
+"Babylon 5" Online souvenir files. Keyword: EXTRA, look in "Special
+Presentations."
+
+CSEmcee5:  Thank you both for joining us tonight! I hope you had as good a
+time as we all did.
+
+Jms at B5:  It was great.
+
+ClaudiaB5:  Thanks, I've had a blast. Got to run before Joe kills me.
+
+CSEmcee5:  Good night everyone. Thanks for joining us tonight.
+
+Jms at B5:  And thanks for all the support.
+
+OnlineHost:  Thank you for joining EXTRA Online for this Special
+Presentation Interview with J. Michael Straczynski and Claudia Christian
+of "Babylon 5." Be sure to check out the special area on EXTRA Online for
+the "Tribute to Babylon 5" area, which holds a wealth of downloadable
+resources for "Babylon 5" fans, including EXCLUSIVE and CUSTOM MADE video
+and audio files, plus photos of the current and first seasons. 
+
+OnlineHost:  Also, be sure to join us next week when we present "Spotlight
+on The American Gladiators," which will include a special area for
+downloading Video and Photos of the men and women Gladiators, plus
+information on how to get tickets to a taping of the show!
+
+OnlineHost:  If you're not already on our mailing list, take the time to
+add yourself so we can keep you posted of these and other upcoming Special
+Events!
+
+OnlineHost:  Thank you once again. This has been an EXTRA Online Special
+Presentation.
+
+OnlineHost:  Copyright 1995 America Online, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+
+
+Transmitted: 95-06-08 17:02:08 EDT
+
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+Here is the complete official transcript of the AOL conference with JMS
+and Claudia Christian from Tuesday 3/14:
+
+DCOMLeib: Welcome everyone. It was the dawn of the third age of
+mankind.  We're here with Babylon 5 creator, J. Michael
+Straczynski and Claudia Christian, Commander Susan Ivanova from
+the show.
+
+DCOMLeib: Welcome!
+
+Jms at B5: Hi, all.
+
+ClaudiaB5: Hi, everyone!  What's up?
+
+Jms at B5: I should mention that Claudia braved terrible
+freeways to be here....only a few wrecked cars on the side of
+the road to show for it.
+
+DCOMLeib: Let's get started with our first question from BabG
+
+Question: I really enjoy watching Babylon 5. I think Ivanova's
+character is great. How much of yourself goes into it?
+
+ClaudiaB5: You're just jealous cuz you don't drive, Joey baby.
+
+Jms at B5: Now with you on the roads.
+
+Jms at B5: I mean NOT!
+
+ClaudiaB5: How about a question?
+
+Jms at B5: You just got one.
+
+Jms at B5: Cast your eyes skyward a few lines.
+
+ClaudiaB5: As much as they allow on an 8 o'clock show. ga
+
+DCOMLeib: The next question for Claudia comes from Motie2...
+
+Question: Claudia! Hello. When can we expect a sequel to
+"Hexed"?
+
+ClaudiaB5: May I remind you that I died.
+
+DCOMLeib: Our next "question" comes from Unixfan
+
+Question: Hi Jms.  I know we're not supposed to ask "What do you
+want?"  How about "What do *I*want?"
+
+Jms at B5: I as in me?  Or I as in you?
+
+Jms at B5: If the answer is what do I personally want....the
+only thing I really want is to tell stories.  It's all I've ever
+really wanted.  Well, that and a nice cheese sandwich, a piece
+fruit, and Carol Lynley.
+
+Jms at B5: To just tell the stories that occupy my brain until
+they're told out.  
+
+DCOMLeib: 50 people at random attending tonight's event will
+receive a special DC Comics Babylon 5 poster!
+
+Jms at B5: Drive-by random posterings.
+
+DCOMLeib: A question from MSteenber for Claudia...
+
+Question: Claudia, do you feel you broke new ground with your
+character, Ivanova, being the first female-in-high-command in
+science fiction?  How do you feel about your newest "rival,"
+Kate Mulgrew from Startrek: Voyager?
+
+ClaudiaB5: Absolutely, to part one of your question...
+
+ClaudiaB5: Part 2 -- they must have helium on the Voyager.
+
+DCOMLeib: You're here with Claudia Christian, Commander Susan
+Ivanova from the hit TV series Babylon 5...and J.Michael
+Straczynski, the show's creator.
+
+Jms at B5: Soon to be deceased.
+
+Jms at B5: I kinda think Claudia fertilized new ground.
+
+DCOMLeib: The next question comes from Landtrout...
+
+Question: Claudia, why do you wear only one earring on the show.
+
+ClaudiaB5: In memory of my brother, both real and in the series,
+who died.
+
+DCOMLeib: An often asked question from Asmat...
+
+Question: Questions for JMS: Will Sinclair return in a starring
+role?
+
+Jms at B5: There are no plans at this time, though we will see
+him again at some point.
+
+DCOMLeib: A continuity question from Adewald...
+
+Question: Hi. Love the show. It is very addictive.  Can you tell
+us how
+closely the comic is following the stroyline?  And the recent
+novel as well?
+
+Jms at B5: They tend to parallel the storyline in the series;
+you can get more, but they're not required reading per se.  Some
+minor elements will have to change, but overall, the events that
+happen in them also happen in the series. BTW.
+
+DCOMLeib: Our next question for Claudia comes from Gratfuldy..
+
+Question: Claudia how do you like playing Ivanova?
+
+ClaudiaB5: Beats working at Ralph's.  No, seriously, I love my
+job and the character of Susan.
+
+Jms at B5: I should mention that a writer can write all the
+great lines he wants, but they're useless
+
+DCOMLeib: The information we're all here for...a question asked
+by KrisVC...
+
+Question: Love the show.  What is in store for the rest of the
+season?
+
+Jms at B5: unless you have someone as talented as Claudia and
+the others to bring them to life.
+
+Jms at B5: What, you want me to tell you the end of the story? 
+Is this some leftover trace....of the communist system in
+operation?  Who sent you?  The Centauri?
+
+DCOMLeib: LOL
+
+Jms at B5: Lots of things blow up.  Then it gets quiet.  Then
+somebody isn't who we thought that...person was.  Then more
+stuff blows up.  Then something mind-bogglingly awful happens.
+
+Jms at B5: And then we wait for next season.
+
+ClaudiaB5: And those are just the commercials.
+
+DCOMLeib: A behind the scenes question from Elissapax...
+
+Question: jms and cc: what is the general mood of the show
+taping?  Is there a lot of joking, etc. or does everyone pretty
+much take things seriously?
+
+ClaudiaB5: We have a ball making B5.  At least I do.
+
+Jms at B5: Simple answer to the question: as you walk down the
+halls of the B5 production office...the one sound you hear the
+most is laughter.  And every day, everybody eats lunch together
+behind the stage, writers, actors, producers, directors, crew,
+everybody.  People have fun, have birthdays, hang out after
+work...it's a great, fun environment....and a lot of practical
+jokes.  
+
+Jms at B5: And then there's Claudia.
+
+ClaudiaB5: And those are just the commercials.
+
+DCOMLeib: BFlipp has a question about the origin of B5...
+
+Question: How did the concept of B5 come about?
+
+Jms at B5: I grew up on the sagas, and always wondered why no
+one's ever done for TV anything...on the scale of the Lensman
+books or Lord of the Rings or Dune or Childhood's End... so I
+figured I'd do it myself.  Took us from 1987 to 1991 to get it
+going on film.
+
+DCOMLeib: MSteenber has a question about the second season..
+
+Question: Claudia, how is the cast reacting to the "new"
+captain?  Is he up to par with the old commander?  How do you
+think the show has evolved with his presence?  
+
+ClaudiaB5: Bruce has brought a sense of professionalism and an
+interesting levity to the show.  I thoroughly enjoy working with
+him.
+
+Jms at B5: Bringing in Sheridan has also allowed us to promote
+Ivanova into more interesting jobs.
+
+ClaudiaB5: I would have never broken my foot.
+
+DCOMLeib: One question for Claudia from MRKremer...
+
+Question: for Claudia - What's your typical workday like?
+
+ClaudiaB5: I wake up, I go to work, I go home, I go to bed.
+
+Jms at B5: We don't know what she does here either.
+
+Jms at B5: But we love...well, whatever it is she's doing.
+
+ClaudiaB5: Thanks for the support, Bard.
+
+Jms at B5: Anytime, claudia baby...
+
+DCOMLeib: One more for Claudia from Lexus21...
+
+Question: Claudia, what do you see in Ivanova future?
+
+ClaudiaB5: Lots of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll and the
+Captaincy.  VBG
+
+Jms at B5: (stunned silence)
+
+ClaudiaB5: You told me to express my humor, Joe.
+
+Jms at B5: (Current needs: glass rum, gun, two bullets.)
+
+ClaudiaB5: On my way.
+
+Jms at B5: Those aren't bullets.
+
+ClaudiaB5: This isn't the fifties, Joe.
+
+Jms at B5: 38D?
+
+DCOMLeib: DRays has a question about the mysterious Kosh...
+
+Question: So, when do we get a peek at the REAL Ambassador Kosh,
+or at least what's inside the suit?
+
+Jms at B5: Laster this season.  We unveil him totally.
+
+Jms at B5: Then you get a peek at the real Ivanova.
+
+DCOMLeib: Penguin has a question about Ivanova's future...
+
+Question: Claudia - Any good stories in the near future that
+feature Ivanova?
+
+Jms at B5: Prior to this conference, yes.
+
+ClaudiaB5: Yes, the next episode we will be shooting.  It's
+called "Divided Loyalties.
+
+Jms at B5: We really haven't serviced Ivanova as well as we
+should have in stories...
+
+Jms at B5: one of my jobs for now and the next season is
+changing that.
+
+Jms at B5: Claudia is too good to waste, as stated, parking
+cars.
+
+ClaudiaB5: That and getting me a bigger trailer.
+
+Jms at B5: On the other hand....
+
+DCOMLeib: Jim in KC has a compliment for both of you...
+
+Question: While not wanting to be gushy about it, I would like
+to thank you both for what is in my opinion the best SF series
+I've ever seen and is currently my only must see show.
+
+ClaudiaB5: Thanks, you have excellent taste. VAG
+
+Jms at B5: Thanks; it's the result of a lot of hard work by a
+lot of
+talented, dedicated people in our crew, cast, and production
+office; I just get to bask in the reflected accomplishments
+
+DCOMLeib: Another very interesting comment..this one from
+Ce241...
+
+Comment: to Claudia:  Your performance doing the "sex scene"
+with the alien two weeks ago was a complete HOWL!!! I laughed so
+hard I almost wet my pants.  Great acting!
+
+Jms at B5: She was acting?
+
+ClaudiaB5: I recommend Depends when around the Lumati.
+
+DCOMLeib: One from BabG...
+
+Question: Will Ivanova's character get a romantic interest this
+season?
+
+Jms at B5: In a manner of speaking.
+
+ClaudiaB5: If Joe lets me break my curfew.
+
+Jms at B5: Hell, you've broken everything else around here.
+
+DCOMLeib: JMS..a question about Londo from GenaKHoo...
+
+Question: JMS - Do you see Londo as a character who is
+irredeemable?  Where do you see him going?
+
+Jms at B5: Londo's arc is light and funny, to dark and funny, to
+dark and tragic, to tragic and light, so there's a chance for
+him toward the end.
+
+DCOMLeib: A question for Claudia from OlexeyT95....
+
+Question: If the show runs it's entire five years, will you stay
+with it?
+
+ClaudiaB5: If they'll have me.
+
+Jms at B5: We're happy to have Claudia.
+
+DCOMLeib: A question about Mimbari technology from FalcnFire..
+Question: If the Mimbari surrendered to Earth, why do the
+Mimbari still have technology that Earth can only admire? 
+Didn't Earthforce capture any Mimbari craft in the war?
+
+Jms at B5: Captured Minbari vessels?  No.  They usually got
+fragged.  If you gave an aborigine an F14 fighter, he could
+examine it, but making it work...that's a different issue.  Jms
+at B5: they're quite a bit more advanced.
+
+DCOMLeib: A question about the shadows from Boehmund...
+
+Question: JMS:  We just watched "The Long Dark" again, and the
+Shadow in there looks rather humanoid, while the ones we saw
+talking to Morden looked insectoid.  Is there more than one
+species?
+
+Jms at B5: The shadows have their servants, which are being
+recalled to their places of power.  That was one of  their
+lower-level types.
+
+DCOMLeib: Don't forget that DC Comics publishes Babylon 5
+monthly..available at a comic store near you...
+
+Jms at B5: And they say the artwork will improve (what I've seen
+bears this out).
+
+DCOMLeib: A question about action from Yorgos...
+
+Question: CLAUDIA IS YOUR CHARACTER GOING TO BE MORE INVOLVED IN
+THE ACTION SCENES MORE THIS SEASON.I THINK IT WOULD BE VERY COOL
+IF YOU DID.
+
+ClaudiaB5: I'd love to kick a little more butt.
+
+Jms at B5: This is one of the things I have to correct, giving
+her more in this respect.
+
+DCOMLeib: The inevitable "cliffhanger" question from Adamsde...
+
+Question: So, can we expect a big cliffhanger at the end of the
+season?
+
+Jms at B5: Not a cliffhanger per se; definitely we're going to
+upend some more tables, but...not a cliffhanger in quite the
+same was as "Chrysalis."  We plan to end big, though.
+
+DCOMLeib: Another behind the scenes question....from Ce241
+
+Question: Claudia:  Do you ever find yourself and the other cast
+members getting the "giggles" when trying to be serious?
+
+ClaudiaB5: Absolutely.  And then I go to work.  We have some
+funny folks working on the show.
+
+DCOMLeib: A comment from Intruder.....
+
+Question: Babylon 5 is great show.... It's too under-rated
+
+Jms at B5: I agree; it's slowly gaining ground, though, and
+we're starting to get noticed by more people, and by critics,
+who say, Y'know, it ain't bad!
+
+DCOMLeib: Another question about Ivanova from Rick9719....
+Question: For Claudia, What have been the biggest changes for
+you from season 1 to season 2
+
+ClaudiaB5: Letting down my hair.  Getting to express a sense of
+humor...and finally meeting Joe.
+
+Jms at B5: Get your hand off my knee.
+
+ClaudiaB5: That's not my hand.
+
+Jms at B5: (even more stunned silence)
+
+DCOMLeib: Claudia, another question for you...from Clyde Dee...
+
+Question: Claudia, do you ever see yourself in a role where you
+may take over B5 or perhaps another outpost?  By the way, you
+are one of the best actors on the show.
+
+ClaudiaB5: Thank you, thank you.  And yes, I plan to be the
+Captain of the sit-com version of B5.
+
+Jms at B5:              <thud>
+
+DCOMLeib: Okay..another question about the Acts of Sacrifice
+episode from RonBS....
+
+Question: In the episode "Acts of Sacrifice", how many times did
+you have to do Ivanova's "sex" scene  with the visiting
+ambassador until you got a take where no one cracked up
+laughing?
+
+ClaudiaB5: To the ambassador's disappointment - it was a one
+shot deal.
+Jms at B5: I was on set; she nailed it from the starting take.
+
+ClaudiaB5: Nailed...nice choice of words, Joe.
+
+Jms at B5: I are a riter...i LEarn it GooD
+
+DCOMLeib: Next question comes from Nausea4....
+
+Question: I know JMS is rather experienced with the internet.
+How about yourself? Do you keep up with the newsgroup?
+
+ClaudiaB5: I just learned to turn my powerbook off, thank you.
+
+DCOMLeib: I should mention that in the dc comics movies and tv
+section there is an autographed picture of Claudia available for
+download..
+Jms at B5: I may write a 4-issue arc this summer, btw.
+
+DCOMLeib: A question about Ivanova's relationship with Psi
+Corps....from Keith7012
+
+Question: Ivanova is apparently a latent telepath.  One story
+line left off with her making friends with the station's
+resident telepath.  Will this story line be used to further the
+Babylon 5 mission?
+
+ClaudiaB5: They don't tell me anything around here.  I have to
+wait until the scripts come out.
+
+Jms at B5: Yes, there will be a development of the relationship
+with Talia in the storyline.
+
+Jms at B5: What most folks don't know, btw, is that Claudia (not
+kiddng here) has a genius IQ, and reads a massive number of
+books per week.
+
+ClaudiaB5: Here's your fifty bucks, Joe.
+
+Jms at B5: I live to serve.
+
+DCOMLeib: Bohemund asks an interesting question..
+
+Question: Let's say -- heaven forbid -- something happens that
+prevents B5 from finishing out its 5-year run.  Will you finish
+the arc in another medium, or just let us poor jamokes hang?
+
+Jms at B5: This story will be told.  I can't even allow the any
+other possibility to be considered., or it'd never get done.
+
+ClaudiaB5: Or we'll do it as dinner theatre.
+
+Jms at B5: (sigh...we have to work with her, you know.)
+
+DCOMLeib: I should remind everyone to e-mail your addresses to
+DCCONLINE for those posters!
+
+DCOMLeib: One last question....from ZaZoou..
+
+Question: JMS, I know you've been asked this a thousand times,
+but what was your inspiration for B5?
+
+Jms at B5: Wanting to do a show responsibly; wanting to tell a
+story that would be equal to the...
+
+Jms at B5: sagas that precede us...wanting to see the show as a
+fan
+myself...wanting to work with...Claudia Christian...being vastly
+disappointed... and wanting to leave something of value behind. 
+I think this has the chance to be it. And with (all seriousness)
+a cast as talented and bright and hardworking as this one, as
+embodied by the quick-witted Claudia, who is honestly a joy to
+work with.  I think we have the chance to accomplish that.
+
+Jms at B5: (You may now put your hand back on my knee.  Or
+whatever that was.)
+
+ClaudiaB5: Here, here. Long live Babylon 5!
+
+ClaudiaB5: Both?
+
+DCOMLeib: Well that brings another DC Comics Online auditorium
+session to a close....
+
+DCOMLeib: I'd like to thank Claudia and JMS for taking time out
+to answer all your questions here
+
+DCOMLeib: and i'd like to also thank you the audience for all
+your participation.
+
+Jms at B5: De nada
+
+ClaudiaB5: Thank you for the opportunity.
+
+DCOMLeib: A transcript will be available in the DC Comics
+transcripts area shortly...
+
+Jms at B5: Whether you want it or not.
+
+ClaudiaB5: I'm staying
+
+Jms at B5: Oh?  
+
+ClaudiaB5: They're blowing up the parking lot.
+
+Jms at B5: What WAS that?
+
+ClaudiaB5: Didn't you hear the big BOOM.  Always a Boom.
+
+Jms at B5: Sooner or later.  Boom.
+
+DCOMLeib: Well that's it everyone....thanks and good night.
+
+DCOMLeib: Copyright (c) 1995 DC Comics
+
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+Transcript of America Online chat with JMS and John Copeland, 2 June 1997.
+Download America Online at www.aol.com, and visit the official B5 area
+at keyword "Babylon 5".
+
+
+
+B5 Online:      Folks, we are awaiting our final guest for this
+evening, so I would like to welcome all of you to our online chat with
+J. Michael Straczynski, Creator and Executive Producer of Babylon 5,
+and coming soon, John Copeland, producer of Babylon 5! :D Also joining
+us through equipment donated to us by Zathras (as opposed to ZAthras)
+is B5CnC. Through B5 CnC, we are able to communicate directly with ANY
+CHARACTER on the show.  For instance, you can ask G'Kar whatever you
+want... Londo whatever you want... and through the power of The Great
+Machine, they will answer.
+
+Jms at B5:      and the Great Maker
+
+B5 Online:      Want to ask Garibaldi what's up?  Londo what's next -
+G'Kar how's the eye?  Now is your chance!
+
+OnlineHost:     The auditorium consists of two major areas: the
+audience, where you are right now, and the stage, where the speakers
+appear. Text which you type onscreen shows only to those in your row,
+prefaced by the row number in parentheses, such as (2) if you are in
+row 2. To interact with the speaker, use the Interact icon on your
+screen.
+
+Jms at B5:      They're all waiting out there for your questions... And
+they will be answered in the character's own "voice" and mannerisms and
+perspective.
+
+B5 Online:      So don't make Garibaldi mad.. please.
+
+B5CnC:  Ask away!!!
+
+B5 Online:      Our first question is for our own JMS...  From
+NotTheOne...
+
+Question:       Did you plan the Sheridan and Delenn relationship or
+did it just come to mind while writing the episodes??
+
+Jms at B5:      If you're not the One, why should I answer?  Besides,
+the One always denies he's the One.. No, that relationship was always
+going to be there for Delenn.  GA
+
+B5 Online:      I notice a trend already Joe... care to make a comment
+on Season 5 to bypass all of that tonight?
+
+Jms at B5:      Okay: 1) no word yet on S5, and 2) videotapes are
+possible down the road, but not now.
+
+B5 Online:      Thanks Joe. :D
+
+B5 Online:      Heres a question we've never had before.. from
+Danmaclea...
+
+Question:       I've noticed a lot more freedom in camera movement in
+scenes which combine CGI and live action.  Do you have some new
+hardware or do you match the CGI by hand.
+
+Jms at B5:      Yeah, we've taken to putting targets on the bluescreen,
+which allows us to "staple" the CGI to the set, and we can thus move
+around a lot more.  John can probably address this better than I can
+since he just got here.
+
+PigDog13:       We've also gotten a lot better at matching movement
+with live action and CGI. nSince we've started doing the FX in house
+we're trying stuff we were discouraged to do in the past.
+
+Jms at B5:      "We can't do it," we were told.  Well, actually, we
+can.  So now we do.
+
+PigDog13:       Sorry for being tardy, but my ISDN line was acting up.
+
+Jms at B5:      (John gets a working ISDN line, I have win 3.1 and only
+get carrier pigeons.)
+
+B5 Online:      Our next question for JMS comes from Earl Prae...
+
+PigDog13:       I just threw my ISDN modem across the room, I'm on
+analog.
+
+Question:       JMS, is there any chance Valen will return?
+
+Jms at B5:      Return to the present?  No.  None. Valen lived out his
+life in the past.
+
+B5 Online:      If you have a question for the B5 CHARACTERS, send in
+your questions now! :)
+
+B5 Online:      This question is for JMS from MediaRiot...
+
+Question:       JMS , in this weeks Newsweek, you take a swipe at Aaron
+Spelling and TV in general. Do you feel that most TV is a product of
+getting ad revenues up, that is, it's just made for marketing products
+to demo groups?
+
+Jms at B5:      Unquestionably.  That's the bottom line for TV stations
+and advertisers...even Majel once.  said to me, and openly to others,
+that they just sold ST as a way to sell soap during commercials, not
+that that's a bad thing per se, that's just how they think.
+
+B5 Online:      Our next question is for G'Kar... from Tannis4U...
+
+Question:       G"Kar did you decide to issue the joint statment with
+londo for the good of Sheradins alliance or did Londo's speach actually
+move you to act?
+
+B5CnC:  G'KAR: There comes a time when one must set aside old grudges.
+It is not a pleasant prospect, given Mollari, who I still consider
+something of a war criminal. but he is trying for repentence, and from
+the perspective of the Universe, I suppose this is a good thing.
+
+Jms at B5:      I agree with G'Kar.
+
+B5 Online:      A personal question for Lt. Corwin from Karen Eve....
+
+Question:       For Lt. Corwin:  If you could send any one personal
+message home, what would it be?
+
+PigDog13:       Hmmmm.  Corwin's got fans out there?
+
+B5CnC:  CORWIN: Dear Mom, Dad and Uncle Sherman: Don't believe
+everything you hear about Babylon 5 (well, except the parts about
+Ivanova)  We're working hard to do the right thing, and sometimes
+that's hard to figure out, but we believe in the direction the
+captain's taking us, and we're sticking with it.  (Remind me when this
+is over to tell you about my date last year, it was...something I'll
+never forget.)
+
+PigDog13:       Boy that Corwin is an eloquent fellow.
+
+Jms at B5:      John: yeah, who writes his stuff?
+
+B5 Online:      For JMS from Averij...
+
+Question:       Question for JMS: I've been impressed with the richness
+and depth of all the characters...except Dr. Franklin, who still seems
+relatively one-dimensional to me.  Do you find that character harder to
+write, or is it just harder to fit him into everything?
+
+
+Jms at B5:      It's always a task to get a doctor into the action, and
+it's easier for other kinds of more action-oriented characters.  But
+that aside, he's a lot of fun to write.  GA
+
+PigDog13:       I didn't know the characters were going to be this
+chatty tonight, did you?
+
+Jms at B5:      They're always chatty, you just have to know how to
+listen.
+
+B5 Online:      Question for Vir from TWandCrew... although this may be
+too personal...
+
+Question:       Vir....are you going to marry Lydesty??
+
+B5CnC:  VIR: Oh, my... Oh, this is embarrassing, I didn't expect
+this...it's so personal how did you find out?... Well, I...I
+think...perhaps yes, I mean...I know she has some...well, some
+problems, you see, and we have to work on those, but you know, she's a
+great kisser, and I can work around a lot that comes between us...not
+that anything would, I mean, let's not get graphic here...are we still
+on?
+
+B5 Online:      John, maybe you can answer this... from Johnldloa...
+
+Question:       Howard Stern is a big fan of the show.  Any chance of
+having on or a cast member being on his radio show.  This is not a
+Stern joke question.  He always talks about how he loves the show.
+
+PigDog13:       We've actually talked with his show about having
+Claudia on, but he's never set anything definite with us.  We'd love to
+have someone on with Howard.
+
+B5 Online:      For Marcus.. from Lightman2....
+
+Question:       To Marcus- Why on Earth are you dancing around Ivanova?
+Go for it, man!
+
+B5CnC:  Dancing?  Go for it?  What are you TALKING about?  I have no
+idea what's going on anymore (entering private mode)  Are you crazy?
+She's standing right behind me, you're giving away the game.  don't ask
+about this in front of her, or I"ll have to give you a good
+thump...well, her first then you.)
+
+B5 Online:      Londo... from MJButkus...
+
+Question:       Londo, are you staying in contact with Centauri
+Prime,as of now (s4) or rather staying....away?
+
+B5CnC:  Well, you see, this is not an easy question, my friend.  The
+Regent seems to have things very well under control, you see, and
+I...well, I serve a greater purpose here, on Babylon 5, than I could
+serve back home just now.  So I am content to stay here.  It is frankly
+quieter.  And several more of the lower court have reported to me tha
+the regent is acting most strangely lately, perhaps he has begun
+drinking, I hear of him wandering the palace late at night, telling
+people, "There is something important I must tell you..." then suddenly
+he stops, and walks off.  Very strange.  But he has always been a
+bit..odd, don't you think?  Go ahead...or as the humans say, GA
+
+B5 Online:      For John and Joe...
+
+Question:       for joe or john -- there have been a lot of rumours
+going around regarding the new 2 hour TNT films including which actors
+will be involved, which characters, etc. Anything you can divulge
+without giving anything away? And will Michael O'Hare be apart it?
+
+Jms at B5:      The budget doesn't have enough in it to fly Michael out
+from the Coast and pay him the salary he deserves.  And in the story he
+was really a basic-level squadron pilot, and the story deals with the
+larger parties.  John?
+
+PigDog13:       The first film - I think is one of the best things that
+Joe has written and I think that you viewers will be surprised at how
+all of these characters from B5 fit into how the saga begins. The
+second film is a different type of story than you usually see on B5 and
+we think tha it will be a pleasant diversion for you viewers.
+
+Jms at B5:      The films also have Shari Belafonte, William Sanderson,
+Theodore Bickel, others.
+
+Jms at B5:      (How informative, John.)
+
+PigDog13:       Rheiner Schone will be back.
+
+B5 Online:      Theodore Bikel played Rabbi Koslov I believe, correct?
+
+Jms at B5:      Why not tell them that everyone dies, I mean really, we
+can talk about that.
+
+Jms at B5:      Different part now.
+
+Jms at B5:      GA and save us from ourselves.
+
+PigDog13:       You mean the big funeral scene. I thought you wanted
+that to be a surprise.
+
+B5 Online:      For Lennier... from Philberto.
+
+Question:       to Lannier-  Are you ever going to tell Delenn how you
+feel?
+
+B5CnC:  Because Delenn has stepped out for a moment, I will answer your
+question. though it does seem to me rather personal...my feelings for
+Delenn are only of the highest and noblest form.  It would be unseemly
+of me to confess any such feelings, or any variations on those
+feelings, to Delenn.  So no, that would not be appropriate.
+
+B5 Online:      Lennier, if you can find Delenn.. I have a question for
+her.
+
+Question:       Delenn: what are your plans now that Minbar is settling
+down & the Gray Council is set?
+
+B5CnC:  I am here. I have a greater obligation now that must be pursued
+with the League Worlds and Earth...I could not pursue those goals for
+as long as my home was in turmoil, but now my people are on the path
+again, and I can devote my time to forging a new alliance, a new
+future, for all of our worlds.  (Can someone tell me why Marcus and
+Lennier are looking so embarrassed?  I just got here, and assume I
+missed much.)
+
+B5 Online:      A question for Joe and John from Managarm...
+
+Question:       We haven't heard anything about the telepaths Franklin
+helped hide from Psi-Corps. Is that going to change any time soon?
+
+B5 Online:      (BTW.. thank you Delenn)
+
+B5CnC:  Bester here, breaking into the com line: I would like an answer
+to that as well.
+
+PigDog13:       You'll see something about the frozen teeps in the next
+couple of weeks
+
+B5 Online:      Whoa whoa whoa! Whats going on here?
+
+B5 Online:      Bester?
+
+B5 Online:      Um.. ok...
+
+Jms at B5:      Captain: don't tell him, he'll find out soon enough.
+
+B5 Online:      GA Bester.. what's on your mind?
+
+Jms at B5:      For the rest of us, yeah, you'll find out stuff very
+soon.
+
+B5 Online:      (no pun intended)
+
+Jms at B5:      Oh, for crying out loud, don't bring him into this, it
+was going so well.
+
+Jms at B5:      Next question?  (Ignore him and he'll go away.)
+
+B5 Online:      Ok.. quickly.. Londo from GotMilk96...
+
+Question:       Londo...  Do you like the idea that you are turning
+into a nice guy?
+
+B5CnC:  My good fellow, I have *always* been a nice guy, whatever has
+G'Kar been telling you, hmmm?
+
+B5 Online:      Here is a ratings question from Ranger1a for Joe and
+John....
+
+Question:       How are the recent ratings for B5?  Do we have to worry
+about B5 being cancelled?
+
+PigDog13:       Our ratings have been up all across the board this
+season.  But the future is never assured.
+
+Jms at B5:      The ratings are good; solid.  The renewal depends on
+available station berths, primarily.
+
+B5 Online:      Paging Zack...  From LdyRangrB....
+
+Question:       Zak??  are you going to persue a relationship with
+Lyta?? you make a good couple..or are you just going to stick to
+pizza?
+
+B5CnC:  Yeah, well...Lyta...it ain't like I haven't thought about it,
+y'know...but she's a teep, how do you...
+ make a move on someone who knows what you're going to do before you do
+ it?  Y'know the old "arm around the shoulders at the scary part of the
+movie" bit?  C'mon, the ladies hardly fall for that NOW... with a teep,
+she'd break my arm.  And I'd miss, which would be really embarrassing.
+Not that... I'd mind trying, of course...it's a challenge.  I like
+challenges.  Especially red-haired ones.
+
+B5 Online:      Here is a GREAT question from Guru4Win9...
+
+Question:       Delenn said that the center of the new grey council was
+for the 'one to come'. That was what zathros called sheridan. Are they
+both references to the same person ?
+
+B5CnC:  DELENN: How do you know what happened in the Grey Council?
+Well, that aside...and I must look... further into our security...the
+place set aside might be for someone like John, yes.  But.. only time
+will determine that.  The universe knows what it is doing.
+
+B5 Online:      Heres an industry question for you guys from GSSFC...
+
+Question:       JMS... From a drooling fan, of course... From your own
+feedback in the 'biz', what do you see as being the future in terms of
+other  shows? Do you think there will be attempts to do a B5-type arc
+story from non-affiliated sources?
+
+Jms at B5:      I think that others are watching us, and we know that
+there are other arc-shows... that are in the works, or have started to
+change toward arcs; it's been a gentle... revolution, and over time I
+think more will go this way.
+
+PigDog13:       It will be interesting to see what happens.  In the
+wake of "Dark Skies" not working, others may be cautious in the near
+term.
+
+B5 Online:      We have another question for Vir from Hardestad...
+
+Question:       Vir what were you writing when woke up from your
+nightmare?
+
+B5CnC:  I was writing out the Ambassador's shopping list for the day,
+it's nothing terribly interesting... fresh spoo, hot jala (5 bottles),
+ladies undergarmen...I mean, clothing...
+
+B5 Online:      hmmm
+
+B5CnC:  and some small amount of alcoholic beverages, nothing much to
+speak of.
+
+B5 Online:      Ok, it's time for a moment of truth here.  Mr.
+Garibaldi... a question from BJSDebora.
+
+Question:       Garibaldi--have you wondered at all about the changes
+in your own thinking and attitudes?  Are you aware that you are feeling
+and doing things not like you?
+
+B5CnC:  Look, we all go through changes.  It happens.  It's part of
+life.  Yeah, I think I've changed... haven't you?  To continue a
+relationship like we have here you have to trust that the other guy's
+doing the right thing.  I ain't convinced.  I see things a little
+clearer now, that's all... I'm on my own, but y'know, I always have
+been.  It's nothing new.
+
+B5 Online:      Folks, I'm going to try and keep the comm systems open
+until the top of the hour.   I'll keep the channel open as long as I
+can. :)
+
+B5 Online:      From WandaJH.. for JMS and John.
+
+Question:       Joe: You've indicated that you will take ideas which
+resonate with a particular actor and weave them into the storyline.
+Was the civil war on Minbar always in the story or is it a detail that
+you added after you learned of Mira's personal ordeal?
+
+Jms at B5:      This is a case where I knew there would have to be
+conflict and division on Minbar...
+ but the specific shapes of that conflict, the specific icivil war
+ elements, I chose in order to tie into her own background, knowing I'd
+get truth behind her eyes during those scenes.  It's manipulative, but
+it's in a worthy cause.
+
+B5 Online:      From Sudibelle, for my favorite telepath... Lyta.
+
+Question:       Lyta, did you really explore all the options before
+going along with Bester?  Didn't the station give you any kind of
+support?
+
+B5CnC:  I don't know...maybe I should have looked into it more, but I
+was *tired*.... and even though I know the folks who run this place
+like me, there's just so much they can do.... even if they did let me
+stay in the larger quarters (and that wasn't really the issue)... I had
+to start working again, had to be a commercial teep again, and what
+that requires is not theirs to give.  I had to think in the long term.
+No, it wasn't something I wanted to do but I just didn't see any other
+way around it.  I'm just being sure to stay healthy.
+
+B5 Online:      Well folks, it seems the comm system is starting to
+experience some problems, and the crew needs to get ready for another
+Voice of the Resistance broadcast. I want to thank Joe, John and the B5
+crew for participating through us with the help of Draal and The Great
+Machine!  Thanks guys!
+
+B5CnC:  BESTER: Nobody ever has questions for me.
+
+PigDog13:       Thanks, it was a pleasure being here.
+
+B5CnC:  Sheridan to AOL: Thanks for having us.
+
+B5 Online:      Be sure to check out our new downloadable calendars at
+keyword: B5 and also visit the official websites at
+http://www.thestation.com and http://www.babylon5.com
+
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+OnlineHost: Copyright 1994 America Online, Inc. All rights reserved.
+
+OnlineHost: Center Stage is the largest gathering place on the service,
+bringing celebrity guests right into your home, and offering a host of
+entertainment events led by a team of talented emcees. It's capable of
+accommodating hundreds of guests and is truly the showplace of the
+service.
+
+OnlineHost: Your host tonight is CSEmcee3 (Rusti I).
+
+OnlineHost: Experiment with the menu. You'll find many powerful options,
+including one which permits you to interact with other members present in
+the auditorium. The interaction "rows" text is prefaced by a number shown
+in parentheses (1), etc., which is followed by the text sent by members in
+that row. Unless a row is being "broadcast" your hosts cannot see
+interactive text. Try it. You can't break anything!
+
+OnlineHost: Millions of Star Trek fans around the world know him not as
+Walter Koenig, but simply as "Chekov."
+
+What millions of Star Trek fans might not know, however, is that Koenig is
+more than an actor. He's an author whose diary about the shooting of Star
+Trek was published as "Chekov's Enterprise."
+
+OnlineHost: He has also authored several teleplays including episodes of
+"Class of '65,", "Family," "The Incredible Hulk," and "The Powers of
+Matthew Star." Added to his impressive list of credits are the feature
+films "Moontrap" and "The Deadly Weapon," and the telefilms "The Questor
+Tapes" and "Goodbye Raggedy Ann."
+
+OnlineHost: On the stage he appeared in the Mark Taper Forum Production of
+"The Deputy" and he toured nationally in "Actors" and "The Boys of
+August."
+
+OnlineHost: Koenig is currently filming "Generations" for Paramount. In
+the film he reprises the role fans have come to love, that of "Chekov."
+The film is due out on November 18. And now, America Online is pleased to
+present the host of the Star Trek Club online, and his special guest,
+Walter Koenig!
+
+W Koenig: Good evening, everyone.
+
+CSEmcee3: Welcome to The Globe, Walter Koenig and guests.
+
+Data1701D: Hello everyone! And thank you for packing the Globe here
+tonite!;)
+
+W Koenig: Thank you. It's nice to be here.
+
+CSEmcee3: Are you ready for some questions?
+
+W Koenig: Sure!
+
+CSEmcee3: Ok. Here's our first question:
+
+Question: Do you plan on making any further appearances on the wide or
+small screen as Chekov?
+
+W Koenig: Although I wouldn't rule out anything, since you should never
+say 'never', I think it's highly unlikely that I'll be invited to reprise
+the role. I really do think that the new Star Trek film is the last time
+you'll see Chekov.
+
+OnlineHost: Please do NOT Instant Message our on-stage guests. Thank you.
+
+Question: Do you find America's obsession with Star Trek strange?
+
+W Koenig: Not really. After all, we all have our heroes and it's really
+not that far removed from the days of early television. We've all seen
+fandom in some capacity, be it with Davy Crockett or Superman, or any
+number of other TV programs. People need people they can look up to, and
+I'm pleased to have been a part of that in some way.
+
+Question: I enjoyed George Takei's autobiography, "To the Stars". Will you
+be writing an autobiography one day?
+
+W Koenig: I'm sooooooooooo glad you asked! I've been working on my
+autobiography, as a matter of fact. Although it hasn't been optioned yet,
+I'm hopeful it'll be on the shelves eventually. And I hope they let me
+keep the title: "Beaming Up & Getting Off". Think they'll let me keep it? 
+
+Question: Out of all your Star Trek films, which is your favorite?
+
+W Koenig: I have two of them. I really enjoyed Star Trek II and Star Trek
+IV, in equal measure. Working with Ricardo Montalban was a pleasure, as
+was working with Paul Winfield. And all the action/adventure hijinks in
+Star Trek IV were really fun! That was also the only time Chekov's part
+was written distinctly for his Russian character. It was fulfilling to be
+recognized in that fashion.
+
+Question: Walter, how much have you contributed to screenplays of Star
+Trek episodes and do you plan to move into that area of movie making?
+
+W Koenig: Back then, as actors we really didn't have a lot of say in
+either the TV scripts or the films. However, I have had two screenplays
+optioned -- non-Star Trek -- and it's been my goal to see at least one of
+those screenplays produced. Only time will tell.
+
+OnlineHost: Please do not Instant Message our speakers. It keeps them from
+seeing your questions. Thank you.
+
+Question: Walter, what are the pros and cons of being involved in a
+cultural legacy like "Star Trek"?
+
+W Koenig: The pros are that it's very rewarding to hear that I've been an
+indirect -- but positive -- influence on people's lives. (Astronomy,
+physics, etc.) And it's been good meeting so many people over the years,
+since Star Trek has touched almost everyone's life in some way. As for the
+cons, well, there aren't many. I've been concerned about that, as have
+many of my peers in the industry. But it looks like Babylon 5 has helped
+break that tendency.
+
+Question: How many onscreen minutes do you have. Do you feel the "Classic
+Trek" crew were treated fairly?
+
+W Koenig: Not too many, I'm sorry to report. I think we were treated
+'fairly', but that we simply didn't figure into this plot as much as we
+hoped we would.
+
+Question: I am a very big trekkie. But, I have heard, that over the years,
+there has been a conflict between the crew and Will Shatner; is this true?
+
+W Koenig: :::putting on tap shoes, for the fancy dance:::
+
+W Koenig: I really don't have a lot to say about Bill, except that there
+was a nice moment or two for Chekov and his 'keptin' in the film -- which
+may or may not have hit the cutting room floor.
+
+W Koenig: On a side note, although I deeply appreciate the sentiments
+being expressed via Instant Message, it's making it harder to chat with
+everyone. I'd appreciate it if you'd please not send us all messages
+during this talk. Thanks, everyone.
+
+Question: Mr. Koenig it is a pleasure to talk to you! I have always been
+and will be a Star Trek fan! What do you think of the new Star Trek TV
+Shows? Did you get along with cast of the The Next Generation while
+filming "Generations"?
+
+W Koenig: Although I had reservations about ST:TNG when it debuted, it
+became a good show and one that I enjoyed watching from time to time. I
+never have had a chance to watch Deep Space Nine, since it airs opposite
+other shows that I usually watch. I think Voyager has potential, and we'll
+have to wait and see how the fans accept it. I think it will become as
+much a part of the legend as everything that's come before it. And we all
+got along fine, the The Next Generation cast was wonderful to us.
+
+W Koenig: ::::putting on black PsiCorp uniform::::
+
+W Koenig: You in the front row... ::::dragging thought from your mind:::
+Yes, you, the one with the dark hair.
+
+WKIntl: oops...look out! It's;...it's Bester!
+
+W Koenig: You wanted to know about me, didn't you? Of course you did ...
+I'm Bester and I'll be making another visit to Babylon 5. The Commander
+hasn't heard the last from me. I haven't even started to make his life
+miserable. I'll be entering his thoughts during the last week of January,
+in an episode titled, "A Race Through Dark Places."
+
+Question: What was your relationship with Gene Roddenberry, and do you
+approve Kirk's death in "Generations"?
+
+W Koenig: Gene and I became close friends over the course of the series,
+and afterward with the making of the Star Trek films. He was a kind man,
+who always thought about how best to treat people. He tried to be as
+equitable as he could with everyone, and that's been the most lasting
+impression I've taken from my association with him. As for Kirk's death,
+well ... I'd rather comment on that after the movie's been out.
+
+Question: What was it like doing the show Babylon 5?
+
+W Koenig: Babylon 5 was a wonderful experience, each time. I've always
+been very impressed with the writing, the effects, and the way in which
+the cast is allowed to think for themselves. I've been free to give Bester
+whatever edge I'd like, and you'll see that he continues to be even more
+charming -- and sinister. They're a great bunch! I always have fun over
+there.
+
+Question: Have you read Uhura's book, and what did you think?
+
+W Koenig: I have read it and must say that Nichelle did an excellent job.
+Of course, she told tales on me just a bit :::laughing:::, which brought
+back some memories. I enjoyed reading it and hope I do as well at relating
+anecdotes as she did.
+
+Question: How do you feel about the success of "Moontrap"?
+
+W Koenig: I have mixed feelings about it, in some ways. I had hoped that
+the film would see a theatrical release, since it's always gratifying to
+have something non-ST on the resume. At the same time, it became a sort of
+'sleeper' hit on video and did quite well in the international markets.
+Overall, I was pleased with how everything developed. There was talk a few
+times about a sequel, but nothing has come of it.
+
+Question: Do you plan on doing any more Babylon 5 episodes?
+
+W Koenig: I don't want to lead you all on, but let's just say we probably
+haven't seen the last of Bester. That much evil is hard to contain.
+
+Question: How many Babylon 5 episodes do you expect to be in?
+
+W Koenig: As I just said, it's really too early to tell. It's not a
+situation where I can ask to be included. Rather, it has to be because
+they want the character back, as part of their overall plan for the show.
+So, we'll see.
+
+OnlineHost: Please do not send Instant Messages to our speakers. It keeps
+them from seeing your questions. Thank you.
+
+WKIntl: Walter, I'm sure everyone would like to know about whether you
+will be doing any more performances of "The Boys In Autumn" with Mark
+Lenard ... care to enlighten us?
+
+W Koenig: Certainly! Mark and I will be doing the play again this
+February, in Thousand Oaks, (CA). We're looking forward to returning to
+the characters of Tom and Huck, since we had a wonderful time while
+reprising those roles on tour at conventions.
+
+Question: I've also enjoyed your comic book Raver and have all three
+issues published by Malibu. Are there plans to continue the series?
+
+W Koenig: There has been some talk of it, yes. I'm hoping everyone will
+see a graphic novel of Raver in the spring.
+
+Question: Is "Generations" going to be the last Star Trek movie with the
+original cast?
+
+W Koenig: In my opinion, yes.
+
+OnlineHost: Please do not send Instant Messages to our speakers. It keeps
+them from seeing your questions. Thank you.
+
+Question: Both the characters of Chekov & Sulu were just coming into their
+own right as commanding officers. Will you or do you desire to write any
+books on how Chekov's career went after Star Trek 6? Wish they would make
+a movie about that!
+
+W Koenig: Although that's an interesting premise and I've seen a lot of
+fan fiction on that very topic, I personally don't have any plans to
+continue Chekov's character in the literary sense. Although George has had
+some success in that arena, by recording a Captain Sulu adventure for
+Simon & Schuster.
+
+Question: Do you consider acting or writing more satisfying?
+
+W Koenig: That's very much like comparing apples and oranges, since I
+enjoy both but for different reasons. Acting gives me the ability to wear
+someone else's coat for a while, to see how they react to certain
+situations, etc. Especially in the case of stage work, where the
+adrenaline runs high and you can't make a mistake. And if you do, you have
+to find a quick, credible way out of it. :::laughter::: With writing, it's
+more cerebral. I enjoy the control of putting other characters into the
+mix, then seeing how they react to various situations. So, okay, it's a
+lot like playing God, but it's fun!
+
+Question: How do you feel about the new movie and the fact that some of
+the old cast is back in it and some not?
+
+W Koenig: I think the jury is still out on the new movie. I do feel it's
+time we passed the torch, and it's time to look ahead.
+
+OnlineHost: Please do not send Instant Messages to our speakers. It keeps
+them from seeing your questions. Thank you.
+
+W Koenig: I'd like to thank you for coming here to talk with me tonight. I
+had a good time answering your many questions, and hope you'll enjoy the
+new Star Trek movie.
+
+WKIntl: I'm sure everyone will enjoy "Generations", Walter.
+
+CSEmcee3: I'd like to thank you all for being here. Are there any closing
+remarks from our speakers?
+
+Data1701D: A big thank you to Walter for coming.  |)
+
+WKIntl: If anyone would like further information on Walter's club, you can
+just e-mail me.
+
+W Koenig: It was a pleasure being here ... thanks for inviting me.
+
+WKIntl: (a note from the mystery woman in the corner).
+
+OnlineHost: All good things must come to an end. Time is up for this
+event.
+
+OnlineHost: Our thanks to "Data1701D" (Bill) and his guest, "Chekov"
+(Walter Koenig) for a fascinating glimpse into an impressive career. Be
+sure to watch for Koenig's new film "Generations" in which "Chekov"
+appears once more. For a transcript of tonight's event, please return to
+Center Stage (Keyword: "CENTER STAGE") within 24 hours. Thank you and good
+night!
+
+(C) 1994 America Online. All rights reserved.
+
+
+Transmitted: 95-06-11 00:03:27 EDT
+
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+
+Subj:  Re:Wimp Postcript
+Date:  96-07-09 16:50:53 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I suggest you see what we actually DO with the show, and that relationship,
+before making either conclusions or threats or overall statements.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:JMS how is it done?
+Date:  96-07-09 16:54:54 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+In general, I work out the elements of each race that tends to distinguish it
+from the others as an overall unit (in which there can be some variation, I
+don't believe in totally monolithic, all-the-same races), and play those
+throughout; I also create the aspects of each individual character within
+that as a subset.  Whe I write, I just have that info in the background, and
+let the characters take me with them.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Thank You JMS
+Date:  96-07-09 16:56:16 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Thanks...I try.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:What a kiss!
+Date:  96-07-09 16:57:09 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Yeah, it was a sneaky way of having a first kiss and *not* having a first
+kiss, all at the same time.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:please more women
+Date:  96-07-09 16:58:26 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+We plan to bring at least one other woman character in as a recurring
+character next season, and do more with the female characters we already
+have.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  I'm here....
+Date:  96-07-09 17:00:55 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+...and taking care of some of the backlog, as best I can.  It's a lot to
+catch up on.  Things just got nuts, as they will do on a show like this.
+Address any other notes to the #9 ask jms section, as this one's about to
+fill up, I think.  Sorry for the absence...
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Attn JMS: arc/writing que
+Date:  96-07-09 17:09:50 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+This is one of those questions that's kind of like asking the magician to
+tell you where that rabbit REALLY came from...and to look at the alternate
+universe possibiliities of the story, and I'm just barely adequate to keep
+THIS story going without looking at all the permutations, which would just
+make me get confused and fall down....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Rumours
+Date:  96-07-09 17:13:09 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"I just heard a Rumour from one fan; he mentioned that **you** were
+interested in continuing development of Space: Above and Beyond on the WB
+Network (Fox just cancelled it), and that you were going to tie in the Chigs
+with one of the secondary races of B5...in an "alternate" fashion."
+
+Funniest thing I've heard all day.....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Story Line Suggestions
+Date:  96-07-09 17:23:08 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+"As a cure for the creative souls among us, may I humbly offer the following
+suggestion: create a new folder strictly for B5 Fan Fiction"
+
+Absolutely positively no way.  
+
+Yes, the B5 storyline is set.  Could we win any case in court?  Yes.  Do I
+want to spend three years of my life or thereabouts giving depositions,
+talking to lawyers, and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and the
+aggravation involved in all this?  No.  Not because somebody wants to toss
+out a story idea and later decide he wants to sue.  
+
+No fan fiction, no story ideas.  Or I'm outta here.  That's tough to say, and
+to hear, but that's the only request I make in exchange for being here.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Production Resumption
+Date:  96-07-09 17:23:58 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+We start shooting on year 4 on August 26th.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Help in Philly!?!
+Date:  96-07-10 03:58:35 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+I've heard that they're working hard on Philly, but don't have any details
+yet.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:The Babylon project RPG
+Date:  96-07-11 01:14:08 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+No, we consult with and give direction to all B5 licensees.  And the RPG is
+coming out from Wireframe/Chameleon.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Re:Books
+Date:  96-07-11 01:14:49 EDT
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Dell just picked up the license to produce 3 more books, so they should be
+out probably by the end of the year or so.
+
+jms
+
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+      MIRA'S ONLINE CHAT SESSION AT AOL FROM THE EVENING OF MAY 21, 1996.
+                                       
+   OnlineHost : To send your question to the speaker, click on the
+   Interact icon, then use the Ask a Question option.
+   
+   OnlineHost : The auditorium consists of two major areas: the audience,
+   where you are right now, and the stage, where the speakers appear.
+   Text which you type onscreen shows only to those in your row, prefaced
+   by the row number in parentheses, such as (2) if you are in row 2. To
+   interact with the speaker, use the Interact icon on your screen.
+   
+   B5 Online : Tonight we are pleased to welcome Mira Furlan, star of
+   Babylon 5 to Warner Bros. Spring Spectacular! Mira stars on "Babylon
+   5" as Delenn... welcome Mira!
+   
+   Mira at B5 : It's my pleasure to be here. So, ask me and I'll try to
+   answer...
+   
+   B5 Online : Our first question comes from BFried989...
+   
+   Question : Hi Mira, is it true you will be doing the opening narration
+   for the 4th season?
+   
+   Mira at B5 : I have no idea. As usual, Joe S. is the one to ask.
+   
+   B5 Online : From Delennn... (nice name)
+   
+   Question : What is it like working on B5?
+   
+   Mira at B5 : Do you want me to write a novel?
+   
+   B5 Online : From CT....
+   
+   Question : Delenn's character has changed a great deal in both looks
+   and character. Has this been difficult to portray.
+   
+   Mira at B5 : It's actually been the most interesting part of this job.
+   Changes.
+   
+   Question : Mira- first off, many thanks for making it on tonight.
+   splendid to see your interaction w/ fans. my ?: I've never seen you
+   out of make-up, do you get recognized out in public?
+   
+   Mira at B5 : Not very often. And I must say, I enjoy that part. I have
+   been recognized a lot in Yugoslavia via, because I've done a couple of
+   very popular TV shows. I always had trouble coping with being
+   recognized and treated as a very familiar face.
+   
+   B5 Online : From Delenn 7 (Another nice name!)
+   
+   Question : Hi Mira! How do you feel about the character of Delenn
+   compared to some of the other roles you have played, Ophelia, for
+   example.
+   
+   Mira at B5 : In every role you play there is a big part of yourself. I
+   think that the better an actor is the more of him/her there is in a
+   part that he/she plays. So, I guess, the connecting element in all my
+   roles is - me.
+   
+   B5 Online : From Minbari1 (I think we're surrounded by Minbari)
+   
+   OnlineHost : Welcome Mira! Do you have any projects you are working on
+   during the hiatus? If so, can you tell us about them?
+   
+   Mira at B5 : I actually did something that you might be interested in.
+   I gave voice to the character of Silver Sable on the animated series
+   "Spiderman".
+   
+   B5 Online : From Dtucker93...
+   
+   Question : Are you going to be doing any conventions this year?
+   
+   Mira at B5 : I will do a convention in London in June, then one in
+   Pennsylvania in August and one in Blackpool, England, in December.
+   
+   B5 Online : From SCIFIREAD...
+   
+   Question : War Without End part 2 was very intricate, was it hard to
+   follow while filming the episode?
+   
+   Mira at B5 : I had to go back to some old episodes and read them
+   through again in order to understand the script. There was a lot of
+   consulting with Joe during the shoot. That particular episode de
+   required a lot of concentration.
+   
+   B5 Online : From SciFiTalk...
+   
+   Question : Do You have a favorite episode ?
+   
+   Mira at B5 : "Comes the Inquisitor", "Confessions and Lamentations",
+   "Severed Dreams". As you can see, my favourites
+   
+   B5 Online : From Amkosh....
+   
+   Question : Wonderful to see you here, I am curious to know what genre
+   and type of acting you did in your former country and is it possible
+   for any of us to be able to see some of it?
+   
+   Mira at B5 : I did so much different stuff in all kinds of genres
+   (except the science fiction genre!) that I could not really define it.
+   I played major theatre roles, classic and modern ones, I acted in more
+   that 25 films, did a lot of TV. I would, however, say that drama is my
+   forte.
+   
+   B5 Online : Here's a question while I get my fingers working... from
+   JackParke...
+   
+   Question : Does it feel strange to work on a show that has so much fan
+   merchandise/accessories (comic books, trading cards, toys, etc)? Has
+   "fandom" surprised you at all?
+   
+   Mira at B5 : It' s been a whole new experience for me. I was not aware
+   of its existence when I came to the US. It's been a great and
+   wonderful surprise for me. And I must say that I've never met such
+   kind and gentle fans as are the sci-fi fans. Thank you for that. All
+   actors need love and support, but I think that my experience in the
+   former Yugoslavia made me especially vulnerable towards the audience.
+   THANK YOU.
+   
+   B5 Online : From CT9992...
+   
+   Question : The show gives a sense of camaraderie. Do the cast members
+   really enjoy working together?
+   
+   Mira at B5 : It's definitely been the best group of people that I've
+   worked with in my life. I've experienced a lot of envy, competition,
+   little nasty games (this profession is full of that - everywhere) in
+   my professional life. B5 is an exception.
+   
+   B5 Online : From Relacon... :)
+   
+   Question : Mira, You are a terrific actress! What are your plans AFTER
+   B5? Would you like to stay with American TV or hit the big screen?
+   
+   Mira at B5 : To ask an actor about her/his plans is a madness. Nothing
+   depends on you, your plans, your wishes, not even your talents and
+   abilities. We are on a shelf and from time to time some one grabs for
+   us and takes us down to do something. It's a very frustrating feeling.
+   Especially in this huge, huge country, where the main question is how
+   much money your name can bring into a production. The goal would be to
+   try to get some control over your destiny and be able to produce
+   projects that you believe in. Will that happen, I cannot say. Wish me
+   luck!
+   
+   B5 Online : From Barriej....
+   
+   Question : Ms. Furlan, I know I speak for many here tonight when I say
+   it is pure joy to watch you perform and I feel very fortunate that JMS
+   snatched you for this show. How did you happen to audition for B5?
+   
+   Mira at B5 : The audition for B5 was one of the first auditions that I
+   did when I first came to this country. My agent sent me, I didn't know
+   anybody, nobody knew me...
+   
+   B5 Online : From Ynacio...
+   
+   Question : When you first started on the show, did you know about the
+   change that was going to happen at the beginning of the second season?
+   
+   
+   Mira at B5 : I knew vaguely about the change. I didn't know, though,
+   how, to what extent etc... B5 is full of surprises. So far, they were
+   all pleasant surprises...
+   
+   B5 Online : From Kklitses....
+   
+   Question : Hello there! I wanted to know which make-up is harder to
+   deal with, The full head makeup during the first season or the partial
+   in the following seasons?
+   
+   Mira at B5 : The first season make up was harder to deal with than the
+   one that I have now, that's for sure. However, both make-ups last for
+   exactly the same amount of time. It's one of the tasks for me as an
+   actor. I deal with it.
+   
+   B5 Online : From Arion214...
+   
+   Question : Which of the many subtexts Joe writes into B5 are your
+   favorite? Peace, spiritually? Loyalty? brotherhood..or another theme
+   that resonates for you?
+   
+   Mira at B5 : Sometimes Joe surprises me with parallels to the
+   political situation in my own country. He deeply understands all about
+   human relationships, political confrontations, all the basic questions
+   of the human condition. In that way B5 sometimes has the depth of a
+   classical piece of literature. Coming from that background, both in my
+   upbringing and my acting career, I am proud to be a part of it.
+   
+   Question : Mira, what was your first impression about B5 after you
+   made the pilot. Did you think that it would indeed go this far and
+   have a chance to finish the story?
+   
+   Mira at B5 : In the pilot I must confess that I suffered under all the
+   make-up. I was asking myself: did I come all the way across the ocean
+   to be completely hidden underneath tons of glue and rubber and even be
+   confronted with the possibility of my voice being changed, not to
+   mention the other idea of putting lenses into my eyes. We've certainly
+   come a long way from that time. I've never dreamed that we would be
+   here in three years and that my whole life would change because of
+   Babylon. I always tend to expect the worst. So far, the reality proved
+   to be somewhat different than what I, a gloomy Eastern European, had
+   expect ed. (Joe, this one is for you.)
+   
+   B5 Online : One last question tonight. :)
+   
+   OnlineHost : You have a beautiful name, is it Yugoslavian? if so what
+   does it mean?
+   
+   Mira at B5 : Yes, it's Yugoslavian. It comes from the word "peace" .
+   Another symbol... I wish it would become a reality for all the
+   troubled people there.
+   
+   B5 Online : I want to thank everyone for coming tonight - it was
+   great! Remember to check out Keyword "B5" for pictures of Mira as
+   Delenn and more of the cast! Thanks again Mira!
+   
+   Mira at B5 : Thank you for being here. Have pleasant dreams!
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+On March 24th, Babylon 5 Online was proud to welcome Patricia 
+Tallman to our home and our Babylon 5 community!  Below is a 
+transcript from the event!
+
+Copyright 1996 America Online, Inc.
+
+OnlineHost : The auditorium consists of two major areas: the 
+audience, where you are right now, and the stage, where the speakers 
+appear. Text which you type onscreen shows only to those in your 
+row, prefaced by the row number in parentheses, such as (2) if you 
+are in row 2. To interact with the speaker, use the Interact icon on 
+your screen.
+
+OnlineHost : To send your question to the speaker, click on the 
+Interact icon, then use the Ask a Question option.
+
+OnlineHost : Tonight we are joined by Patricia Tallman, a very 
+talented actress and stuntwoman who first appeared in the pilot 
+movie of Babylon 5, and recently reprised her role as a rogue 
+telepath in the second and third seasons.  She has also appeared in 
+"Night of the Living Dead" and the new "Star Trek" series of 
+spinoffs. Welcome, Patricia!
+
+PT at B5   : Hello!
+
+B5 Online  : From JIMXXYZ
+
+Question   : Hi: Babylon 5 sorta reminds me of a 50's space show.  
+Any ideas why it survived when other sci-fi shows released about the 
+same time are now  collector's items?
+
+PT at B5   : For one thing, J. Michael Straczynski create the  show, 
+he has a brilliant five year plot line that nobody else is doing. 
+The characters have grown with everyone, and Joe  keeps us 
+constantly on our toes - you never know what's coming next.  This is 
+NOT a  predictable show. :)
+
+B5 Online  : From Larry Che...
+
+Question   : Will the role of Lyta replace Talia's role of "station 
+telepath?"
+
+PT at B5   : No.  Lyta has her own stroyline and always has.  Even  
+if Talia had stayed with the show, Lyta would have come in with her 
+storyline with Kosh.
+
+B5 Online  : From SandraB85...
+
+Question   : Pat, When will we see you on the show again.  I  
+understand it will be very soon.
+
+PT at B5   : I just shot an episode called "Walkabout"... but Im  
+afraid it won't air for quite a while. Maybe not even until next 
+season.
+
+B5 Online  : From AChag1948...
+
+Question   : Hi Patricia........I was wondering if you are doing  
+any stunt work in the new "Jurassic Park" Movie, assuming it's 
+actually going to be made.
+
+PT at B5   : It depends on the stunt coordinator.  I would LOVE to  
+be part of it, but I have no idea
+
+PT at B5   : if it would be appropriate.  It depends on who the  
+actresses are. :)
+
+B5 Online  : From PIZZAZZ2...
+
+OnlineHost :  Evening... how are you tonight
+
+PT at B5   : Im great, thanks, hope everyone else is!
+
+B5 Online  : From Lkrepel... 
+
+Question   : What roles did you play/episodes did you appear in on 
+Star Trek?
+
+PT at B5   : Ive done about 20 episodes on TNG, Voyager, and DS9.  
+Some of the guest stars would be Kiros on "Starship Mine," which 
+just aired  the other night... Jera the Romulan on TNG... Nima on 
+"Battlelines" on  DS9... "Weapons Officer" on DS9.  And... Nurse 
+Takamura on  DS9.   In addition to countless target practice roles, 
+falls, hits, fights, etc. on all three shows. Im currently working 
+on DS9 doubling Terry Farrell.
+
+B5 Online  : From Pinkleaps...
+
+Question   : Do you like the changes that character has gone  
+through from the pilot to now? It seems Lyta is becoming a more 
+challenging role to play?
+
+PT at B5   : Very much! If I were able to pick a path for Lyta, it 
+would be to be able to become more of a soldier for the Light, and 
+that seems to be in the  direction that Joe is taking her - but you 
+never know...
+
+B5 Online  : I hate when you do that... ;>
+
+B5 Online  : From CYaros...
+
+Question   : what is the connection between you and Kosh
+
+PT at B5   : I could very Vorlon and say, "There is a connection 
+between us all."  But to be honest with you, there is more to it 
+than even I know. From what I understand, Kosh to me is like a  
+religious mentor.  I have that kind of passion for him, as if he 
+were Jesus. There seems to be, however, something a bit sinister  
+going on, and that's all I can say. If Joe is in the audience...  he 
+could perhaps expound further.
+
+B5 Online  : Hmmm... Welcome Joe!
+
+Jms at B5  : Jeez, a man can't even lurk around here...this is  
+*Pat's* hour in the spotlight, not mine.
+
+PT at B5   : Did I say too much, Joe?
+
+Jms at B5  : No, you were just fine.  As always.
+
+PT at B5   : Of course you can't lurk - you're too big a guy!
+
+Jms at B5  : Well, I can loom real good....
+
+B5 Online  : From PaxilBndi...
+
+Question   : Do you expect your role to increase over the next two  
+years?
+
+PT at B5   : JOE....
+
+Jms at B5  : (smiles all-knowingly)
+
+PT at B5   : That says it all. And all I can say. ;>
+
+Jms at B5  : I would suggest that there's a very good chance of 
+this, yes.
+
+PT at B5   : YES!!!!
+
+Jms at B5  : Once we recast the role.
+
+PT at B5   : Ouch!
+
+Jms at B5  : JOKE JOKE JOKE JOKE JOKE....!  
+
+PT at B5   : not funny  Sick in the mind, folks!
+
+Jms at B5  : (Don't hit me, I'm a sick man.)
+
+PT at B5   : Sick in the mind, folks!
+
+Jms at B5  : We're all *extremely* fond of Pat on the show, and she 
+brightens up the place for... mall of us, a great performer, and 
+we're lucky to have her.  (Can I come inside now?)
+
+PT at B5   : O.K., all better now.:>
+
+B5 Online  : From Von Schaa...
+
+Question   : Any teasers about "Walkabout" you would like to share  
+with us?
+
+PT at B5   : I think I can say... I get to be on a ship I've been  
+dying to get aboard.  it's a special episode for me. For one thing, 
+I got to meet Bill Mumy.
+
+Jms at B5  : It's also fair to say that Lyta gets as close to a  
+shadow vessel as anyone ever should... and her role has a key here 
+to increasing over time.
+
+B5 Online  : From GrimJack4...
+
+Question   : Patricia: Having worked on both Trek and B5- do you  
+have a preference? What sorts of differences between the two shows 
+cats/crews?
+
+PT at B5   : Oh Puhleeze!  There's no question!  B5 is a very  
+special show with very special people, we have so much fun and we're 
+very proud of  our product.  The Paramount shows are fun in a 
+different way.  I am  just a grunt over there in the stunt family 
+and we do the best with what we got.
+
+B5 Online  : So her job is safe then, JMS... good. :)
+
+B5 Online  : From PsiLytaA....
+
+Question   : did the scene with the Centauri telepath creep you  out 
+as much as it did the audience?
+
+Jms at B5  : I think a *lot* can be done with Lyta, and I'm 
+             looking forward to it, yes.
+
+PT at B5   : I felt, as Lyta, in control there, and disgusted by  
+the Centauri. I'm glad it was effective for you.  I am feeling  
+schizophrenic (sp?) talking to you, BTW. mAnd Joe... how do you mean 
+that?  HmmMmMM?
+
+Jms at B5  : If you came to more staff meetings you'd know the  
+answer to that. Suffice to say...fun stuff for an actor to play.
+
+PT at B5   : Am I invited?? :D
+
+Jms at B5  : Always, Pat.  (Have I now made up for that crack  
+above, or shall I do penance for... the next 2,000 years?)
+
+B5 Online  : From Mike 1061...
+
+Question   : At the End of PTG were you sending or receiving?
+
+PT at B5   : (I haven't decided yet, Joe..) Anyway.. I was SENDING, 
+but both had been going on - if you  know what I mean.
+
+B5 Online  : From CYaros...
+
+Question   : will you be attending any conventions this year
+
+PT at B5   : Yes, they are building up!   I will be in San  
+Francisco April 12-14th at Syndicon (Joe?)
+
+Jms at B5  : Yes, you will, Pat.
+
+PT at B5   : And Columbus, Ohio in May, and Chicago in June (I  
+hope).
+
+Jms at B5  : (shakes head, playing stooge again)
+
+PT at B5   : And London in August.
+
+B5 Online  : From PaxilBndi...
+Question   : Are you happy with your characters storyline?
+
+Jms at B5  : YES SHE IS, DAMN IT!
+
+PT at B5   : Yes!  Ecstatic!
+
+B5 Online  : Wowsers!
+
+Jms at B5  : (I've gotta cut back on the caffeine...)
+
+B5 Online  : From James YO...
+
+Question   : Will Lyta's appearance be changing in the future?
+
+PT at B5   : I HOPE not.. because I hate wearing prosthetics.   They 
+are uncomfortable... and you're in makeup FOREVER.  I've done it to 
+death!  In "Army  of Darkness"... that was a 4 1/2 hour makeup job.. 
+I worked 17 hours,  and it took another 2 1/2 to get out of it.  The 
+KNB guys (The special Effects  Guys) had to hold me down by the end 
+of the day to get the contact lenses back in my eyes. It was a total 
+nightmare!
+
+Jms at B5  : I saw that bit, Pat...couldn't tell it was you at  ALL.
+
+PT at B5   : The itching really gets me.. Now Joe knows what to do 
+if he gets  mad at me :>
+
+Jms at B5  : These prosthetics will be *much* easier for you, Pat,  
+I'll see to it.
+
+PT at B5   : OOOHHHH>>>PLease NOOOO
+
+Jms at B5  : (Thinks she'd make a *terrific* 7-foot tall lizard  
+person.)
+
+B5 Online  : From SandraB85...
+
+Question   : Pat, What sort of background can you give us on your  
+character, Lyta Alexander?
+
+PT at B5   : ::ahem:: Moving along... Do you have an hour?  It's a 
+lot... :D She was very inexperienced when she first got to B5.  Sort 
+of friendless, not much with social skills - that sort of thing.  
+When she touched the Vorlon, she found something that  was missing 
+in her life.
+
+B5 Online  : From CYaros...
+
+Question   : have they been confirmed for a fourth season
+
+PT at B5   : They'd be fools NOT to...
+
+B5 Online  : Hmmmm
+
+PT at B5   : Joe...
+
+Jms at B5  : what?
+
+B5 Online  : I think I'll go sit in the corner now..
+
+PT at B5   : Never mind.
+
+B5 Online  : I think the decision will be made sometime in May. :)
+
+Jms at B5  : We should hear for sure late April/early May. 
+
+B5 Online  : From PaxilBndi...
+
+Question   : Do you  prefer stuntwork or acting?
+
+PT at B5   : At this point I prefer acting, but stunts give me the  
+adrenaline rush I seem to require. Maybe I can combine the two - do 
+something that  requires me to do my own stuntwork. I'm a big Jackie 
+Chan fan!
+
+B5 Online  : From Padria...
+
+Question   : Do you think that Lyta might become a regular next  
+season?
+
+PT at B5   : Regular would be good...  unfortunately it's not up  to 
+me. Hmmm... Joe?
+
+Jms at B5  : what?
+
+Jms at B5  : s'okay...did I miss anything?
+
+PT at B5   : NAHHH
+
+Jms at B5  : Let's just say I look forward to seeing more of Lyta. 
+Her role does become more important as time goes on.
+
+PT at B5   : Hey folks , we have a lot of ?'s , so I can't answer  
+any more repeats.  So don't feel bad if I don't answer your question 
+personally this time.
+
+B5 Online  : From JIMXXYZ... 
+
+Question   : What role did you play in night of the living dead?
+
+PT at B5   : You can't miss me in "Night!"  I have short red hair  
+and a big gun.
+
+Jms at B5  : Very tough woman there...Pat Tallmanatrix
+
+B5 Online  : From CYaros...
+
+Jms at B5  : (in "dead")
+
+Question   : are you a sci-fi,horror fan
+
+PT at B5   : Oh Joe.. yes, big time.
+
+Jms at B5  : yes, Pat?
+
+PT at B5   : Never mind, Joe.  Later
+
+Jms at B5  : "Night" was where I discovered Pat's work... I was 
+blown away by her work, and was determined to find her and hire her.
+
+B5 Online  : From SandraB85...
+
+Question   : Pat, Could you compare working with Michael O'Hare on  
+the pilot and working with Bruce Boxleitner this year? Thanks.
+
+PT at B5   : I only worked with Michael for the pilot, and have  
+worked with Bruce several times.  I adore Bruce and think his wife 
+is terrific!  He's one  of the reason the set is so much fun and so 
+comfortable to work on. 
+
+Jms at B5  : (did you want to elaborate on being an sf/horror fan, 
+             as above, if you were cut off?)
+
+PT at B5   : Joe, are you tired of telling that story? 
+
+Jms at B5  : (going now to sit in corner)
+
+PT at B5   : And , no that's all I had to say
+
+B5 Online  : From Grimjack4...
+
+Question   : Has Joe explained the gills yet - they were 
+freaky/creepy
+
+PT at B5   : The gills allow me to breathe the Vorlon atmosphere.  
+We have yet to see how they will come to play in the future.. and if 
+I've been altered  any other way.  How do Vorlons have babies, 
+anyway??? Joe?
+
+Jms at B5  : what?
+
+B5 Online  : Hmmmm
+
+B5 Online  : From Lkrepel...
+
+Question   : How far ahead in the storyline does JMS let you in  on?
+
+PT at B5   : None. He is a firm believer in the Need-To-Know  
+policy.
+
+B5 Online  : From Mike 1061...
+
+PT at B5   : But I can guess.
+
+Question   : Pat - Any ideas as to when Lyta will work with the  
+Rangers?
+
+PT at B5   : No, but wouldn't that be fun!  All those lonely men  in 
+uniform.  And God knows, Lyta needs some action! Joe? ;>
+
+Jms at B5  : what?
+
+PT at B5   : I give up.
+
+Jms at B5  : Lyta and the rangers would be a fine thing.
+
+PT at B5   : OOOOO goody.
+
+B5 Online  : From Lolson773...
+
+Question   : Pat, have you ever had any telepathic or paranormal 
+experiences yourself
+
+PT at B5   : I knew youwere going to ask that... Of course, I think 
+everyone has.  That's why X-Files  is so popular. And that's a whole 
+discussion unto itself.
+
+B5 Online  : From Lkrepel... 
+
+Question   : Have you found the fan attention/addiction  
+overwhelming? Yet? <g>
+
+Jms at B5  : Except, of course, they're all dead by then.
+
+PT at B5   : (What does that mean, Joe?)
+
+Jms at B5  : what?  Just figured I'd get half the chat rows to fall 
+over 
+             if I said that.
+
+PT at B5   : I find it kind of inexplicable, but I really enjoy  it.  
+I'd be lying if I said I didn't. I was hoping it wasnt a comment on 
+my "charms"
+
+Jms at B5  : No, no...was just playing about maybe something big 
+happening.
+
+B5 Online  : From Nance02
+
+Question   : What do you consider most interesting about the  
+character of Lyta, and what aspect do you find the most challenging 
+to play?
+
+PT at B5   : The most interesting thing is, we have NO idea what's  
+really going on with her. And the most challenging is... acting 
+against a blue  screen.  You'll see what I mean in "Walkabout." 
+
+B5 Online  : From VitoDiM... 
+
+Question   : Did you watch B5 when you were not actually on?
+
+PT at B5   : Between the pilot and the Divided Loyalties, not  
+really.  Since then, of course!
+
+B5 Online  : Folks, we have one more question for tonight.... And 
+finally Pat...
+
+Question   : How did you get into doing stuntwork?
+
+PT at B5   : I met stunt people while I was taking a sword study  
+class in New York, and they thought I would be a good stuntwoman.  
+The rest is history.  :)
+
+Jms at B5  : Pat: you know sword stuff?  How well?
+
+PT at B5   : Very well!! It was a major thing for me in school
+
+Jms at B5  : Cool...that could be useful.
+
+B5 Online  : Thanks for joining us for our conference with  Patricia 
+Tallman.  Join us tomorrow when the B5  Sweepstakes goes online!
+
+B5 Online  : We want to thank Patricia and JMS for joining us. :)
+
+PT at B5   : Thank you everyone!  Im so glad you were  interested... 
+maybe we can do this again some time.  God Bless!
+
+Jms at B5  : A big hand for Pat...a joy to work with, and fun
+
+PT at B5   : Goes both ways Joe!
+
+B5 Online  : Thanks again everyone!  Join us at Babylon 5 Online at  
+Keyword "Babylon 5"!
+
+OnlineHost : Copyright 1996 America Online, Inc.
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+This is a transcript of a May 14, 1996 online chat with Richard Biggs.
+This file is best viewed in a window larger than 80 columns, if possible.
+
+
+OnlineHost:      Tonight we are joined by Richard Biggs, star of the science fiction hit "Babylon 5."
+OnlineHost:      Rick's other work includes "Days of Our Lives" and numerous television appearances.
+B5 Online:      Welcome Rick!
+Rick at B5:     Good to be here!  Ready for your questions!
+B5 Online:      From Cyaros...
+Question:       just seen you ,joe and pat at marcon in columbus great time thanks
+B5 Online:      From Mibari1...
+Question:       Now that Franklin has resigned from Med Lab, what does that mean for the character? The
+Question:       War council, etc?
+Rick at B5:     More emotional, sexual, spiritual dimensions through other relationship other than Medlab.
+B5 Online:      From Jst...
+Question:       How are the pens working?
+Rick at B5:     The pens are working WONDERFULLY, and thank you. :)
+B5 Online:      From LSDB5...
+Question:       What will Franklin be doing while away from his position? Possibly a Ranger, I hope!
+Rick at B5:     A love interest.  No, Jason is not available.
+B5 Online:      :D
+Rick at B5:     Trying to find himself.  Franklin is trying to come to terms with who he is.
+B5 Online:      From Nethicus...
+Question:       Do you find working on B5 similar to experience working on Soap Operas?
+Rick at B5:     No, B5 is more relaxed... more challenging.  Soap Operas are very easy to do compared to
+Rick at B5:     Babylon 5.
+B5 Online:      From Its A Myth...
+Question:       For Rick: Judging from last episode, you're in great shape. What do you do to work out?
+Rick at B5:     What do I do... hmm. I try to stay away from the Snicker bars and go to the gym a lot.
+B5 Online:      From JH...
+Question:       Hi!  This is Jennifer from South Carolina.  Do you find Sci Fi audiences much different
+Question:       from Soap audiences.  We would love to see you back at Celebrity Softball soon!
+Rick at B5:     Hey! How ya'll doin down thar in S. Carolina? :D  Soap Opera friends are crazy, wild...
+Rick at B5:     on the edge.  SF fans are more cerebral.. more "Lets sit down and talk about the future."
+B5 Online:      From Pitzerboy...
+Question:       just wondering if you did any research for the addiction-thing....
+Rick at B5:     Yeah... I tried to do some reading, research.  i tried to talk to people who have a
+Rick at B5:     problem like that.
+B5 Online:      From Garibaldi...
+Question:       Do you have any special way of memorizing your lines?
+Rick at B5:     I did a lot of theater and that kind of gets me through.  What I do is I have people
+Rick at B5:     volunteer to read my lines to me over.. and over.. and over again - they hate me. :D
+B5 Online:      From DraziPurp...
+Question:       Who's going to take over as Medical CHief of staff now that Franklin is gone?
+Rick at B5:     They are all very capable - they are the best.  They can do just fine without me, Im sure.
+Question:       How long does it take to shoot an episode?
+Rick at B5:     It takes 7 working days.  From 6:30-7PM. :)
+B5 Online:      From BYU...
+Question:       Rick...were you an athlete in high school, and if so, what sports did you play?
+Rick at B5:     In High School i sat on the bench.. 2nd string football.  I broke my knee.. my arm...
+Rick at B5:     my shoulder.
+B5 Online:      From Tenor Ab...
+Question:       I'm an amateur actor who is interested in pursuing a professional career.  How did you get
+Question:       started, and what do you recommend for someone who hopes to?
+Rick at B5:     High School drama is where I started.. and college theatre.    Probably recommend
+Rick at B5:     theatre, theatre, theatre!
+B5 Online:      So, your saying theatre, Rick?
+B5 Online:      From Trkgr...
+Question:       what shows did you do before babylon?
+Rick at B5:     Days of Our Lives.. Gary Shandlings Show, Three's A Crowd,  Three's Company.
+B5 Online:      From Lcclp...
+Question:       Will Dr. Franklin find himself in time to help when Shadws attack B5?
+Rick at B5:     No and Yes.
+Rick at B5:     They attack, but he's not back yet.
+B5 Online:      From Pitzerboy...
+Question:       any future non-B5 projects coming up?
+Rick at B5:     There are some things in the air, but nothing's really sticking yet.  Theatre, Movie of
+Rick at B5:     the Week - a lot of stuff but nothing firm.
+B5 Online:      From Archer...
+Question:       Richard, when you saw the resignation scene, knowing JMS penchant for offing characters,
+Question:       did you fear for your job?
+Rick at B5:     Sure!  Yeah.  Especially with the fact that anyone can go at anytime.  If it happens, it
+Rick at B5:     happens.
+B5 Online:      From Hologhost...
+Question:       How do you expect your characters father to react to the addiction plotline?
+Rick at B5:     I hope the situation comes into play with boththe addiction and the secession storylines..
+Rick at B5:     A lot of people have asked me that - I hope Joe listens.
+Question:       Hi Rick...it's me, your old fan club prez, Janice!  Are you still teaching acting in
+Question:       Sacramento at John Robert Powers?
+Rick at B5:     Hi Janice!  No teaching there, but other places. :)
+B5 Online:      From Earl K1...
+Question:       Which scene or episode have you found most diffcult to prepare for?
+Rick at B5:     An episode coming up that was very emotional.  It was very draining.
+B5 Online:      From Lollie...
+Question:       Richard, How did you get involved with Babylon 5?
+Rick at B5:     My agent called and sent me on the audition.   I went through 4 callbacks and I got the
+Rick at B5:     part.
+Question:       Marcus!  When are they going to bring you back to "Days"?  I'm a little off track on the
+Question:       topic here. . .just wondering.  I thought you were great.
+Rick at B5:     Marcus at a medical convention in Los Angeles racking up a hell of a hotel bill right now.
+Rick at B5:     No plans to get back.
+B5 Online:      From Hologhost
+Question:       The arc is so serious now, how do you and the other actors lighten things up around the
+Question:       set?
+Rick at B5:     We hang out with Claudia. :D
+B5 Online:      From Sning1..
+Question:       What direction would you like JMS to take your character, and how would you compare this
+Question:       role to Marcus on "Days"?
+Rick at B5:     Comedy.  You can't really compare the two roles - they are two totally different people.
+B5 Online:      from AMorold...
+Question:       Do you like working sci-fi and did you have to get used to working with "aliens"?
+B5 Online:      Hey! I resemble that remark!
+B5 Online:      From JBRod222...
+Question:       Good Evening. I was very pleased with your performance on b5. It was the first time i
+Question:       realy have seen drug addiction dealt with on a major sci-fi show.
+Rick at B5:     Thank you.
+B5 Online:      From Hologhost...
+Question:       Have you been online before?
+Rick at B5:     All the time.  I have a computer.  Im listening to what you all are saying when you talk
+Rick at B5:     bad about me. ;>
+B5 Online:      From HO Katarn
+Question:       How much of the final story do you and the rest of the cast know?
+Rick at B5:     None.  We just know the next script as it comes down.
+B5 Online:      From EAPR...
+Question:       Wo;; we see any interspecies dating for Dr Franklin?
+Rick at B5:     GOOD Storyline!  I see the Dr. falling for a cute .. i dont know.. are there any female
+Rick at B5:     Vorlons? Hmmm
+B5 Online:      From Garibaldi
+Question:       Have you worked with any of the B5 cast members before?
+Rick at B5:     No, but I've worked with people behind the scenes on other shows.
+B5 Online:      From Mudmaster....
+Question:       Your presence at the Odium last year in Chicago helped make it a great time for me. Are
+Question:       you appearing at any other conventions in the area soon?
+Rick at B5:     No, it will be England in June... Virginia in July, Mass., and Cleveland.
+B5 Online:      From Minbari1...
+Question:       which character would you like Franklin to interact more with?
+Rick at B5:     Vir. :D  Ivanova.  I think both of them are very sharp and intelligent and there would be
+Rick at B5:     some really great dialogue between the two.
+B5 Online:      From Amkosh...
+Question:       After B5, would you like to do more sci-fi, or pursue a different genre of acting?
+Rick at B5:     I think I would kind of like to go and do something else.  More theatre or feature film.
+B5 Online:      From Londo2...
+Question:       Hi! This is James from England again. Will you be comming here for BABCOM '96?
+Rick at B5:     At the end of July, yeah, I will be there for Babcom!  Along with a few other people.  :)
+B5 Online:      From Archer C1...
+Question:       Have you had much experience with British b5 fans?  Since the show is so popular over
+Question:       there are they at a different intensity level than US fans?
+Rick at B5:     They certainly enjoy the show and follow it more intensely and they appreciate it.  They
+Rick at B5:     don't have to see the reruns as much over there. They see all the shows at once.
+B5 Online:      From Tenor Ab...
+Question:       Who have you learned the most by working with on the show?
+Rick at B5:     Probably John Flinn, the cameraman.
+B5 Online:      From Lcclp
+Question:       Rick, from a rather minor character, you have built Franklin into a charaacter with many
+Question:       dimensions. Did you konw that would happen when you signed on?
+Rick at B5:     No, but that was my objective with him.  Coming from the soap "one dimensional" character
+Rick at B5:     I was determined to make him three dimensional.
+B5 Online:      From Alathal...
+Question:       Where did you go to school, and did you have any formal acting training?
+Rick at B5:     Yeah, I went to USC for 6 years.  I had Classical Training.
+B5 Online:      From RedQueen5...
+Question:       How do u feel about the portrayel of blacks in the B5 Universe?
+Rick at B5:     Lack of?  If you can clarify I would appreciate it.
+B5 Online:      From GreenGoo7...
+Question:       Hi from British Columbia.  What's the funniest thing that has happened on the set
+Rick at B5:     The funniest thing was Majel Barrett walking into a door without it opening and smacked
+Rick at B5:     her in the face. :D
+B5 Online:      From Its a Myth...
+Question:       What do you think of the new uniforms?
+Rick at B5:     I like them a lot better, they look rebellious.
+B5 Online:      And now for the last question tonight...
+B5 Online:      From Pitzerboy...
+Question:       rick.. just wondering how you feel about the merchandising end of entertainment. do you
+Question:       think B5 should be more active? how about dr. franklin action figure.....
+Rick at B5:     Hmmm
+Rick at B5:     I say go for it!  How about a B5 cartoon?  A B5 lunchbox maybe?
+B5 Online:      I want to thank everybody for joining us tonight with our conference with Rick Biggs of
+B5 Online:      "Babylon 5."  I would like to invite everyone to the Eclipse Cafe for some munchies... and of
+B5 Online:      course downloadable videos of the 2 parter!
+B5 Online:      Thanks again Rick!
+Rick at B5:     Keep watching and Ill see you at a convention some time!  Thanks!
+OnlineHost:     Copyright 1996 America Online, Inc.
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+Video beeps
+
+backup.avi	Garibaldi reminds you to back up your hard disk.
+dream.avi	Delenn bids you goodbye.
+favorite.avi	Garibaldi reveals his favorite thing in the universe.
+minbari.avi	Delenn asks you to reset your comm software.
+password.avi	Lennier asks for your password.
+promo1mv.avi	(didn't play back on my AVI player)
+security.avi	Garibaldi warns you about security.
+software.avi	Delenn waxes philosophical.
+virus.avi	Sheridan scans for viruses.
+
+Scenes (with different soundtracks)
+
+2away.avi	Minbari cruisers head to B5 station, from "Points of Departure"
+2explos.avi	Shadows attack Narn outpost, from "The Coming of Shadows"
+2vortex.avi	Streib ship opens a jump point, from "All Alone in the Night"
+battle4.avi	Centauri vs. Narn space battle, from "Acts of Sacrifice"
+bigship.avi	Narn cruiser is destroyed, from "Acts of Sacrifice"
+invortex.avi	Streib ship jumps, from "All Alone in the Night"
+laser.avi	Babylon 5's communication laser, from "Points of Departure"
+planetb2.avi	Streib ship approaches homeworld, from "All Alone in the Night"
+rotate.avi	Flyby of the station
+shipcut.avi	Minbari cruiser is sliced, from "Points of Departure"
+vortex.avi	Jump gate activates
+xfight.avi	Starfury squadron in formation
+
+b5quick.mov	QuickTime movie with effects "The Gathering."
+b5quick.bin	Same movie, in MacBinary format.
+
+
+SOUND
+
+error.wav	Sheridan: "You've just committed a fatal error.  There's
+		nothing we can do for you.  Dismissed."
+greeting.wav	Sheridan: "This is Captain John Sheridan.  Greetings from
+		Babylon 5."
+redalert.wav	Ivanova: "Red alert, all quarters.  There appear to be online
+		visitors."
+see_soon.wav	Ivanova: "This is Commander Susan Ivanova of Babylon 5.  Come
+		back and see us soon."
+virus.wav	Sheridan: "Computer, activate virus defense systems.  Prepare
+		to download."
diff --git a/ftp/Clips/b5quick.bin b/ftp/Clips/b5quick.bin
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3d4c81fc
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/b5quick.mov b/ftp/Clips/b5quick.mov
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6a2655f1
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/backup.avi b/ftp/Clips/backup.avi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0fe79d0a
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/battle4.avi b/ftp/Clips/battle4.avi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ad4f9257
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/bigship.avi b/ftp/Clips/bigship.avi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dea4aa3a
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/dream.avi b/ftp/Clips/dream.avi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..daa20c97
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/error.wav b/ftp/Clips/error.wav
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..54dcb0ed
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/favorite.avi b/ftp/Clips/favorite.avi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..da26efb6
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/greeting.wav b/ftp/Clips/greeting.wav
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..06b0142c
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/index.html b/ftp/Clips/index.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b6df688b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Clips/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Sound and Video Clips</title>
+</head>
+
+<body>
+<h1>Sound and Video Clips</h1>
+
+<p>
+The sound and video clips in this directory are from Warner Bros.' online
+Babylon 5 promotion of May 1995.  All of them were specially created for
+the promotion; none of them are excerpts from the show.
+
+<p>
+Please don't upload sound or video clips unless they're sanctioned by
+Warner Bros.  We'll just delete them.
+
+<h2>Video</h2>
+
+X users can play Microsoft Video (.avi) and QuickTime files using
+<a href="ftp://ftp.crl.research.digital.com/pub/X11/contrib/applications/xanim26978a.tar.Z">XAnim</a>.
+Microsoft has a free
+<a href="ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/mslfiles/wv1160.exe">viewer</a>
+for Windows, and there's a
+<a href="ftp://ftp.hawaii.edu/mirrors/info-mac/gst/mov/video-for-windows-11p.hqx">Mac</a>
+viewer as well.
+
+<h3>Video beeps</h3>
+
+<pre><a href="http://www.uml.edu/Babylon-5/Clips/backup.avi">backup.avi</a>	Garibaldi reminds you to back up your hard disk.
+<a href="http://www.uml.edu/Babylon-5/Clips/dream.avi">dream.avi</a>	Delenn bids you goodbye.
+<a href="http://www.uml.edu/Babylon-5/Clips/favorite.avi">favorite.avi</a>	Garibaldi reveals his favorite thing in the universe.
+<a href="http://www.uml.edu/Babylon-5/Clips/minbari.avi">minbari.avi</a>	Delenn asks you to reset your comm software.
+<a href="http://www.uml.edu/Babylon-5/Clips/password.avi">password.avi</a>	Lennier asks for your password.
+<a href="http://www.uml.edu/Babylon-5/Clips/promo1mv.avi">promo1mv.avi</a>	(didn't play back on my AVI player)
+<a href="http://www.uml.edu/Babylon-5/Clips/security.avi">security.avi</a>	Garibaldi warns you about security.
+<a href="http://www.uml.edu/Babylon-5/Clips/software.avi">software.avi</a>	Delenn waxes philosophical.
+<a href="http://www.uml.edu/Babylon-5/Clips/virus.avi">virus.avi</a>	Sheridan scans for viruses.</pre>
+
+<h3>Scenes</h3>
+
+(Note that these feature soundtracks different from what was broadcast.)
+
+<pre><a href="2away.avi">2away.avi</a>	Minbari fighters head to B5 station, from "Points of Departure"
+<a href="2explos.avi">2explos.avi</a>	Shadows attack Narn outpost, from "The Coming of Shadows"
+<a href="2vortex.avi">2vortex.avi</a>	Streib ship opens a jump point, from "All Alone in the Night"
+<a href="battle4.avi">battle4.avi</a>	Centauri vs. Narn space battle, from "Acts of Sacrifice"
+<a href="bigship.avi">bigship.avi</a>	Narn cruiser is destroyed, from "Acts of Sacrifice"
+<a href="invortex.avi">invortex.avi</a>	Streib ship jumps, from "All Alone in the Night"
+<a href="laser.avi">laser.avi</a>	Babylon 5's communication laser, from "Points of Departure"
+<a href="planetb2.avi">planetb2.avi</a>	Streib ship approaches homeworld, from "All Alone in the Night"
+<a href="rotate.avi">rotate.avi</a>	Flyby of the station
+<a href="shipcut.avi">shipcut.avi</a>	Minbari cruiser is sliced, from "Points of Departure"
+<a href="vortex.avi">vortex.avi</a>	Jump gate activates
+<a href="xfight.avi">xfight.avi</a>	Starfury squadron in formation</pre>
+
+<p>
+A
+<a href="b5quick.mov">QuickTime movie,</a>
+donated by PTEN, with some effects sequences from the pilot.  A
+<a href="b5quick.bin">MacBinary</a>
+version is also available for Mac users.
+
+
+<h2>Sound</h2>
+
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="error.wav">error.wav</a>
+<dd>
+Sheridan: "You've just committed a fatal error.  There's
+		nothing we can do for you.  Dismissed."
+
+<dt>
+<a href="greeting.wav">greeting.wav</a>
+<dd>
+Sheridan: "This is Captain John Sheridan.  Greetings from
+		Babylon 5."
+
+<dt>
+<a href="redalert.wav">redalert.wav</a>
+<dd>
+Ivanova: "Red alert, all quarters.  There appear to be online
+		visitors."
+
+<dt>
+<a href="see_soon.wav">see_soon.wav</a>
+<dd>
+Ivanova: "This is Commander Susan Ivanova of Babylon 5.  Come
+		back and see us soon."
+
+<dt>
+<a href="virus.wav">virus.wav</a>
+<dd>
+Sheridan: "Computer, activate virus defense systems.  Prepare
+		to download."
+
+</dl>
+
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/ftp/Clips/invortex.avi b/ftp/Clips/invortex.avi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0d5d7316
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/laser.avi b/ftp/Clips/laser.avi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..416abb68
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/minbari.avi b/ftp/Clips/minbari.avi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..57dff385
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/password.avi b/ftp/Clips/password.avi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b173ccaa
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/planetb2.avi b/ftp/Clips/planetb2.avi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0433a882
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/promo1mv.avi b/ftp/Clips/promo1mv.avi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fa3d011c
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/redalert.wav b/ftp/Clips/redalert.wav
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..58803f4e
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/rotate.avi b/ftp/Clips/rotate.avi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b1618f79
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/security.avi b/ftp/Clips/security.avi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0bc4257a
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/see_soon.wav b/ftp/Clips/see_soon.wav
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..748e9b92
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/shipcut.avi b/ftp/Clips/shipcut.avi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ea1a1474
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/software.avi b/ftp/Clips/software.avi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..04423a56
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/virus.avi b/ftp/Clips/virus.avi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..00502805
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/virus.wav b/ftp/Clips/virus.wav
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c16512bf
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/vortex.avi b/ftp/Clips/vortex.avi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a3b36931
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diff --git a/ftp/Clips/wavindex b/ftp/Clips/wavindex
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2bbc9e2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Clips/wavindex
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+
+ERROR    WAV   38,860
+  Sheridan: "You've just committed a fatal error.  There's nothing we can
+             do for you.  Dismissed."
+
+GREETING WAV   37,132 
+  Sheridan: "This is Captain John Sheridan.  Greetings from Babylon 5."
+
+REDALERT WAV   30,248
+  Ivanova: "Red alert, all quarters.  There appear to be online visitors."
+
+SEE_SOON WAV   35,404
+  Ivanova: "This is Commander Susan Ivanova of Babylon 5.  Come back and
+            see us soon."
+
+VIRUS    WAV   41,644
+  Sheridan: "Computer, activate virus defense systems.  Prepare to 
+             Download."
+
+5 file(s)     183,288 bytes
+
diff --git a/ftp/Clips/xfight.avi b/ftp/Clips/xfight.avi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..88c85c3f
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diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/Index b/ftp/CompuServe/Index
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..79737350
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/CompuServe/Index
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+Transcripts of executive producer/writer J. Michael Straczynski's messages
+on CompuServe's Babylon 5 message areas.  Compiled by Michele Worley
+<michele_l_worley@yahoo.com>, The Green Meddler <kilgalen@tde.com>, and
+John Hardin <jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+latest     -- Collection point for new messages
+
+csXX-YY    -- Messages for year XX, month YY, except as noted
+
+cs95-11    -- November 1995 (missing Nov. 5-15)
+cs95-04    -- April 10, 1995 - April 30, 1995
+cs95-03-15 -- mid-March, 1995 - April 10, 1995
+cs94-12-01 -- Dec 1994
+cs94-11-01 -- Oct 26, 1994 - Nov 11, 1994
+cs94-10-01 -- Oct  1, 1994 - Oct  7, 1994
+cs94-09-02 -- Sep 12, 1994 - Sep 30, 1994
+cs94-09-01 -- Aug 24, 1994 - Sep 11, 1994
+cs94-08    -- ??? - Aug 25, 1994
+
+Chat session transcripts:
+
+jms-95-12-02	-- JMS, December 2 1995
+doyle-95-07-20	-- Jerry Doyle, July 20 1995
+jms-96-04-07	-- JMS, April 6 1996
+jms-96-11-02	-- JMS, November 2 1996
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs94-08 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs94-08
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0083803e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/CompuServe/cs94-08
@@ -0,0 +1,1571 @@
+The following postings from JMS (and occasionally others) are from the
+CompuServe information service.  They're collected by Michele Worley,
+michele_l_worley@yahoo.com.
+
+-----------------------------------
+Objects would fall at 1/3 normal speed in C&C.  What's the
+zero-G docking area for?
+-----------------------------------
+BABYLON 5: EYES---ORDERS
+FROM: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+RESPONSE TO: ROBERT MILLER
+
+ Re: objects falling at one-third their normal speed...again
+ I don't think this is correct.  A six pound mallet will weigh
+ two pounds, and drop just as fast as a two-pound object in 1G.
+ And as I recall, Gallileo dropped a wooden ball and a metal
+ ball of vastly divergent weights and they both hit the ground
+ from a great height at the same time.  (Gallileo?  Da Vinci?
+  Why can't I ever remember these things?  I mean, five years
+ of college and when I go to hook up a car battery for jumpers
+ I can never remember if it's positive to positive and negative
+ to negative or negative to positive and positive to negative....)
+
+     Main goods unloaded go into the zero-g cargo bay area,
+ which is above the station.
+
+                                                            jms
+---------------------------------------
+Part of an argument RE the gravity in C&C. Lots of
+people trying to give JMS a Physics I tutorial.
+---------------------------------------
+BABYLON 5: EYES---ORDERS
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+    But you really can't compare this to the moon experiments,
+ because there you're dealing with one-sixth gravity, which is
+ much more noticeable.
+
+                                                           jms
+----------------------------
+Several people tried to correct JMS' intuition re gravity. 
+----------------------------
+BABYLON 5: EYES---ORDERS
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+     The gravity in C&C is 1/3rd G, which makes a 200 pound
+ person about 66 pounds...and you're not really going to see
+ any real difference; 66 pounds is a good sized child, and
+ you don't generally see children floating from step to step.
+
+     The central docking area is part of the whole station
+ section that rotates, so it rotates as well.  Docking is no
+ more difficult than anything else, because in space *everything*
+ is in motion, there's no such thing, really, as a stationary
+ object.  Even the Lunar lander was capable of docking with a
+ mothership above the Moon in the 70s; we should be no less
+ capable of this in 250 years.
+
+                                                             jms
+------------------------------------
+Note: The 'he' in the next post is Garibaldi. JMS posted
+this just before B^2 initially aired.
+------------------------------------
+BABYLON 5: <IVANOVA: "DAMN...">
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+     Of course he doesn't fit into the stereotype of an
+ atheist, because the stereotype is *wrong*.
+
+     And he is definitely an atheist.
+
+     As for the rest...I agree regarding his cynicism and
+ irreverence.  He has a tendency to say the unlikeliest
+ thing at the most inappropriate moment (as you'll see
+ next week).
+
+                                                       jms
+BABYLON 5: <IVANOVA: "DAMN...">
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+    "How exactly did you create so many absorbing characters?"
+
+     In a way, I kinda took a shortcut...the kind of shortcut
+that helps you make the characters more real.  I basically
+peeled off aspects of my own background and divided it up among
+the characters.
+
+     I have an Eastern European background; that brings with it
+a certain amount of pessimism, a somewhat sardonic humor, and a
+view of life that is somewhere between resignation and
+astonishment, and gave that to Ivanova.
+
+     I was raised Catholic (though it wore off, I'm happy to
+report), so I gave some of that to Sinclair, escalating it to
+Jesuit training; gave him some of my fascination with history
+and religion and philosophy.  I've also lost a lot of people
+over the years, and gave him some of the sadness that comes
+with that.
+
+     One of the things that has constantly gotten me in deep
+trouble is that I'm basically a smartass; I always mouth off
+at *exactly* the wrong moment. So this went right to Garibaldi,
+along with my basic atheism.
+
+     The alien ambassadors are less personally based, since
+there have to be some alien characteristics about them; a
+different culture that informs who and what they are.  In
+those cases I kind of backtracked from what the species was,
+and tried to choose as typical a representative of that as I
+could.
+
+                                                         jms
+BABYLON 5: <IVANOVA: "DAMN...">
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+     "Then explain Kosh."
+
+     Okay...you got me.
+
+                             jms
+---------------------------------------------
+BABYLON 5: B5 RELIGION
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+     Actually, you're distorting the issue to make your point.
+To say that the atheist position that there is no god is a
+belief because one must actively believe there is no god, and
+thus this is now a belief system...I'm sorry, but this just
+doesn't wash.
+
+     If I say to you, "There are green penguins on the North
+Pole," it is incumbent upon me to prove that point, not for
+you to disprove it  You can look forever, and not find one,
+and I can simply say, "Well, you didn't look in the right
+places."  I said it, I must disprove it.
+
+     If you don't buy the premise of green penguins in the
+North Pole, then are you an anti-green-penguinist?  Is this
+now a belief system?  If you take this to its logical
+conclusion, then there are zillions of belief systems based
+on non-belief in purple gazelles, Thor, talking goldfish and
+the chance of the Mets ever winning the Series...all you'd
+ever have time to do is not believe in something...all the time.
+
+     The key to what you are doing is to redefine the language
+to your own purposes.  But words mean what they mean, not what
+you want them to mean.  A religious belief system is the belief
+in a supernatural force or gods, according to the dictionary.
+To say the contrary position is also a belief simply doesn't
+parse logically or linguistically.
+
+     This is really the newest (oldest) trick of the
+fundamentalist aspect of the country...if religion must be kept
+separate from the state, then by golly we'll cobble up an excuse
+to define science as religion, atheism as religion/belief...when,
+in fact, it is nothing more than linguistic smoke and mirrors.
+The first rule of debate is to redefine the terms of the debate
+in such a way that it favors your position; that's what this
+amounts to, nothing more, nothing less.
+
+                                                 jms
+
+BABYLON 5: B5 RELIGION
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+    "...it seems to me that your position is one
+of agnosticism.  You do not believe in a God, but
+you are not ridiculing those who do."
+
+     I think you are mistaking agnosticism for good manners.
+
+     There is this theory propogated that all atheists are
+religion haters. Not true.  I will protect the rights of a
+religionist with my dying breath, because with that freedom
+comes my own (though I sometimes wonder if the other side
+would return the favor).
+
+     I am not an agnostic.  I am an atheist.  My job is to
+write people AS people, not try to reduce them to stereotypes
+to advance some personal agenda or belief system.  If I would
+perform my job as a writer honorably and honestly, I cannot
+approach this sort of thing with a hateful approach. Religion
+is like the little girl, who when she was good she was very very
+good, but when she was bad she was horrid.  To advance the one
+without the other reduces the story to propaganda.  Peoples is
+peoples.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+BABYLON 5: B5 RELIGION
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+     Sorry, your argument falls apart on the face of it.
+A negative CANNOT be proven for the reasons you cite.  So
+it would be foolish to advance such a thing in the hopes
+of convincing others (which is why you don't generally see
+atheist missionaries).
+
+     Look...let's say that I call you one day, and say, "Hey,
+Bob, lissen, I need another hand working on B5, and I think
+you've got the qualifications. Hop in your car, move all your
+belongings, and when you get here, we'll work out the details
+of hiring you."
+
+     Wouldn't you want at least the minimal proof of a contract?
+Or a signed letter of intent?  If you would want that much for
+something as transaitory as a job, it seems to me that one would
+wish for at least as much when deciding whether or not to accept
+a certain cosmological perspective.
+
+     It's not up to you to prove you *don't* have an offer, it's
+up to me to prove that you *do* have an offer.
+
+     Trying to argue a negative statement is the first sign that
+the person really doesn't have a clue, or is trying to make a
+false analogy (which is what you're doing, by trying to restate
+my position in those terms).
+
+                                                       jms
+--------------------------------------------
+BABYLON 5: CHRISTMAS ON B5
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+     We have a New Year's celebration in one episode later
+ this season, and at some point will probably show other
+ stuff next year.
+
+                                                       jms
+---------------------------------------------
+Poster comments on seeing Michael Moore & Kevorkian singing
+the Hokey Pokey (paraphrase)
+---------------------------------------------
+BABYLON 5: HOKEY POKEY MEANING
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+   Missed the first half of TV Nation, but caught that...loved it.
+I see a great duet with Londo coming.
+
+     (TV Nation...best show on TV...well, second best....)
+
+                                                        jms
+----------------------------------
+BABYLON 5: MINBARI WAR CRUISER
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+     No, B5 is closer to 2.5 miles in diameter, not 1 mile.
+The thing is roughly 5 miles long, after all.
+
+                                                     jms
+-------------------------------
+BABYLON 5: MORE CONGRATS
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+    It's generally acknowledged that ST:TNG got the Emmy
+nomination for Best Seris this year for the reasons you
+cite: it was their last year, and they had to do *something*.
+The sadness in this is not that they got the nomination and
+didn't deserve it, they probably did...the truth is that they
+probably deserved it *some time ago*...have probably deserved
+it for a long time now.
+
+     But finally one SF series has cracked that particular nut,
+even if it took seven years to do it, so my hope is that perhaps
+we might get the nod at some point before our 5 years are up.
+Still, with the bias against SF within the Academy, who can tell?
+
+                                                          jms
+----------------------------
+BABYLON 5: O'HARE DEPARTURE
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+     ...sigh...it's not that Michael wanted to leave the show
+per se. Again, we came to HIM, it wasn't the other way around.
+With this as an option, there was now the opportunity for him
+to pursue a number of other possibilities, stage and TV, while
+his character was "away" for a bit.
+
+                                                        jms
+----------------
+BABYLON 5: <A VOICE...QUESTION>
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+   Telepaths are found in equal number in both places.
+
+                                                           jms
+----------------
+BABYLON 5: WHAT IS MINBARI GOV'T?
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+     It's the Minbari Federation and the Vorlon Empire.  
+Though those are the best translations we have of their
+statements.  What the Vorlon government *really* is, and
+how it's structured, is still quite unknown, since while
+Kosh has come to B5, no human has *yet* been allowed into
+Vorlon space, insofar as we know at this time.
+
+                                                      jms
+-------------
+BABYLON 5: B5 CAST ANNOUNCEMENT!
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+TO: ALL
+
+                         **** Announcement ****
+
+     Since this has just been released by PTEN, and will be 
+on the news wires shortly (and is probably already there), 
+I can now announce this here.
+
+     The new Commanding Officer for Babylon 5 is Captain John
+Sheridan, former captain of the Earthforce military starship 
+Agamemmnon.  It was Sheridan who won what is arguably Earth's 
+only real victory during the Earth/Minbari War, destroying the
+Minbari war cruiser Black Star and several accompanying 
+vessels.  He has been appointed to Babylon 5 over the strenuous
+objections of the Minbari Government, by the president's 
+insistence that Babylon 5 has had too much influence from the 
+Minbari and must begin to pull back and consider Earth's 
+interests; Sheridan is a symbol of that desire because of his
+record, which is the reason for his assignment.
+
+     Captain Sheridan will be portrayed by the well-regarded 
+actor Bruce Boxleitner, known to many as the series lead in 
+"Scarecrow And Mrs. King."  He has also starred in numerous 
+TV movies, miniseries and feature films.  He is also a solid 
+SF fan (media *and* print), and is very excited about coming 
+onto the Babylon 5 team.  We're equally excited to have him.
+
+     (Those here who've heard rumors about this building, and 
+were kind enough to refrain from repeating them here at my 
+request, can now speak, and I thank you again for your 
+Cooperation.)
+
+                                                     jms
+--------------------------------------
+QUESTION: <figuring PTEN dropped O'Hare for a more romantic
+   lead a la J T Kirk, doesn't care for the idea> (paraphrase)
+--------------------------------------
+BABYLON 5: B5 CAST ANNOUNCEMENT!
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+   Basically, what you're doing is prejudging Boxleitner 
+because he's reasonably good looking and has played a 
+leading man.  He's also played some very nasty parts as well.
+Of all those who we considered, he was the one best suited
+for the role that has been created.
+
+     I suggest you give him a chance...I think you'll like
+what you see.
+
+                                                jms
+
+BABYLON 5: B5 CAST ANNOUNCEMENT
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+  Garibaldi's named after the famous Italian military hero.
+
+                                                      jms
+------------------------------------------
+QUESTION: Have any of the current B5 personel ever served
+   with Sheridan before? (paraphrase)
+------------------------------------------
+BABYLON 5: B5 CAST ANNOUNCEMENT!
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+     Only Ivanova has served with him before; Garibaldi 
+doesn't know him from Adam, and this will lead to some 
+awkwardness and questions of trust down the road.
+
+                                                   jms
+--------------------
+QUESTION: How does Sheridan regard the Minbari? (paraphrase)
+--------------------
+BABYLON 5: B5 CAST ANNOUNCEMENT!
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+    Sheridan is a soldier.  A soldier is told, in wartime,
+THIS is your enemy.  You kill the enemy or your enemy kills
+you.  Afterward, you're in the same position American soldiers
+were in after the end of WW II when it came time to reconcile
+with the Germans and the Japanese.  It can sometimes be very
+awkward...and sometimes reconciliation takes a while.
+
+                                                         jms
+-------------------------------
+COMMENT: re Sheridan --- this ought to provide serious
+   tension on board B5... (paraphrase, likes casting choice)
+-------------------------------
+BABYLON 5: B5 CAST ANNOUNCEMENT!
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+     Thanks, I think Bruce is a great addition.
+
+     And you're right about the situation providing some 
+tension and story line possibilities; it ties into where
+the story is going, and ups the ante on several emotional
+levels, some personal (Garibaldi), some diplomatic (the 
+Minbari don't much like him).
+
+                                                    jms
+------------------------------------
+QUESTION: Why call Ivanova Lt Cmdr instead of Cmdr? And do
+   you go by Joe, Michael, Mike or JMS? (paraphrase)
+------------------------------------
+BABYLON 5: B5 CAST ANNOUNCEMENT!
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+     The main reason for the Lt. Cmdr. distinction in most 
+circumstances is because otherwise you've got two Commanders
+on deck, and it helps to keep distinct which you're addressing.
+But we have some different ideas in mind for year two.
+
+     And it's Joe.
+
+                                                     jms
+------------------------------
+The Ben Zayn quote JMS refers to below is from Eyes.
+------------------------------
+BABYLON 5: B5 CAST ANNOUNCEMENT!
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+     Sinclair (according to the stats given in "Sky") was 
+squad leader in the Battle of the Line, which would be 
+roughly equivilent to Lieutenant in rank.  I don't believe 
+that Ben Zayn said "Go ahead, Captain;" I'm fairly sure he 
+said "Go ahead, Sinclair."
+
+                                                       jms
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+    No, as I understand it, the rank goes (in descending 
+order) Captain, Commander, Lt. Commander.
+
+                                                      jms
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+     How we're handling Sinclair's relocation...is something
+I'd prefer to have shown in the episode, rather than talk 
+about it and diminish any impact.  Will he return?  We've 
+already filmed one scene with him that'll show up later in 
+The second season, so I'd say this is a real possibility.
+
+                                                      jms
+----------------
+BABYLON 5: HYPERION HVY CRUISER
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+   Actuallly, the Hyperion is one of the few surviving 
+heavy cruisers from the Earth/Minbari War period; after 
+we lost a LOT of our ships, there were some new ones 
+commissioned, which we haven't seen yet, which are far 
+cooler than even the Hyperion (though we'll see them next
+season).
+
+                                                   jms
+
+-----------------
+BABYLON 5: NEW B5 NOVEL #770906
+FROM: JOHN VORNHOLT
+TO: ALL
+DATE: SAT, JULY 23, 1994 1:45:28 PM
+
+Check this out!  I've just gotten approval to write a
+Babylon 5 novel. It's untitled, but the cover will
+feature Talia Winters, Garibaldi, and either Bester or
+Kosh.  The book will also feature Psi Cop Grey, the new
+commander, and jaunts to Earth and Mars.
+
+The publisher is Dell, and we're all trying to get the
+book out this year. The ball is in my court, if you know
+what I mean.  Joe's notes on my outline were extremely
+helpful and on-target.  I know many of you have questions,
+but I have a short deadline and won't be able to spend
+much time on-line.  (I don't really spend much time here,
+anyway.)  Rest assured, I will be back to remind you when
+the book is coming out. <g>
+
+Yowza!
+
+John
+------
+BABYLON 5: BABYLON 5 (#785357)
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: MON, AUG 8, 1994, 1:00:14 AM
+
+     What does a casting decision have to do with changing the
+story of a show you find "so far cerebral and provoking?"
+
+     You note Boxleitner as "some pretty boy space cowboy,"
+which may (or may not) describe some of the roles he may have
+played, but a) he's played other kinds of roles, and b) that
+isn't the kind of role that he's going to be playing on B5.
+What you are doing, really, is discriminating against someone
+because he may look good.  Bear in mind that many women comment
+on the notion that Sinclair was attractive.  So if you're 
+swapping attractive for attractive, I don't see the difference.
+
+     "Give the braindead what they want."  To which braindead
+do you refer here?  Because it was, fundamentally, my
+decision -- based on the story and what was going on for year
+two -- to bring this notion to Michael O'Hare, who supported it.
+
+     I understand that you like the show, and I appreciate that;
+what I'm trying to do is to get you out of speaking in cliches
+that have nothing whatsoever to do with the situation.
+
+     The story is the story is the story.  That isn't changing.
+Nor is Sinclair gone forever.  We have, as I've repeatedly noted,
+already filmed one lengthy sequence with the character to show up
+later this season.  The changeover in command of the Babylon 5 
+station will broaden out the story and let us do more stuff.
+And the stories for next season that we have on hand now are even
+more ambitious, and more complex, than those seen this season.
+Our second episode, "Revelations," is easily on a par with
+"Chrysalis," our big cliffhanger for year one.
+
+     Science Fiction is, in part, about approaching the future
+with an open mind.  (And Boxleitner, btw, is a *major* SF fan,
+not just of the media stuff, but the novels as well, and is a
+voluminous reader.)  Some of the people most upset over Sinclair
+leaving are the same ones who first said to throw him overboard
+based on the pilot.  "Give him a chance," I said, "he'll grow on
+you."  He did.  Now you and a few others are throwing Bruce
+overboard based on your perception of his prior work.  To which
+I say again, "Give him a chance, he'll grow on you."
+
+                                                        jms
+BABYLON 5: BABYLON 5 #786276
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: TUES AUG 9, 1994 2:06:11 AM
+
+     Yes, in several of my conversations with Bruce (who's
+also a big fan of airplanes, and has flown in just about
+everything), he indicated that he had seen the show, and
+enjoyed the show, prior to our contacting him.  (In fact,
+his kids are *major* fans of the show, and felt very strongly
+that he should take the part.)
+
+                                                       jms
+BABYLON 5: BABYLON 5 #786273
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: TUES AUG 9, 1994 2:06:00 AM
+
+     Next season's last episode will not be a cliffhanger
+per se, but will, like "Chrysalis," just escalate the hell
+out of the show.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+---------------------------------------
+Why don't we see more of the Garden area, since it's supposed
+to be so huge?  What's there, anyway?  Crops, parkland, places
+for the Lurkers to camp out?
+---------------------------------------
+BABYLON 5: B5 INTERIOR (#785275)
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: SUN, AUG 7, 1994 11:29:29 PM
+
+     On the one hand...we have more interior sets than any other
+series that I know of; 18 standing sets and 42 swing sets.  And
+we're building a number of other sets for next year, including
+an Officer's Club.  In addition to C&C, we've seen various holding
+cells, numerous quarters, a conference room, Sinclair's briefing
+room, the Council Chambers, the business room, two separate
+restaurants, the Zocalo, the Dark Star Club, the Casino, the Happy
+Daze Bar, Doug's Dugout Sports Bar, the Ombuds Courtroom, various
+DownBelow sectors...we've shown a *lot*.
+
+     Re: the crops/parkland...no, there are no settlements there.
+You don't waste precious land needed for farming and oxygen 
+reclamation and hydroponic gardens to throw up a shack or house.
+Those who work in the central Garden area live in standard B5
+quarters.  There are some recreational areas, a hedge maze (as
+you'll see later this season), and we're adjusting some of our sets
+to reveal more of the garden area.  No one "camps out" on the
+surface; if they try, they're destroying precious crops, and are
+arrested.
+
+                                                         jms
+--------------------------------------
+PARAPHRASED: In VitW, poster impressed by Londo. 
+--------------------------------------
+BABYLON 5: LONDO, GUARDIAN? (#785463)
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: MON, AUG 8, 1994, 3:29:23 AM
+
+     Thanks.
+
+     There's a LOT more to Londo than meets the eye.
+
+                                                 jms
+-----------------
+BABYLON 5: RANKS IN B5 (#785277)
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: SUN, AUG 7, 1994, 11:29:02 PM
+
+     A captain (as in the two-parter) is not subordinate to
+Sinclair, but B5 is Sinclair's command, and the captain must
+defer while on that base of command (as Sinclair must defer
+to Major Krantz in another episode where he is on that person's
+station).  Overall, the ranks have been fairly consistent,
+insofar as I can tell.
+
+                                                        jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 CAST ANNOUNCEMENT! #785276
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: SUN, AUG 7, 1994, 11:29:31 PM
+
+     We hadn't finished negotiating with Bruce,
+and I was concerned that anything resembling an
+official announcement or comment from me might
+mess that process up.
+
+     Showed "The Quality of Mercy" and "Babylon
+Squared," which airs this week.
+
+                                            jms
+----------------------------------------------
+Assumptions: (1) Sinclair is still with the show as a
+recurring guest-star who returns as necessary to the story.
+(2) Story line development, not fan requests, brought this
+about.
+----------------------------------------------
+BABYLON 5: B5 CAST ANNOUNCEMENT! #786274
+FROM: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: TUES, AUG 09, 1994 2:06:03 AM
+
+     Both your assumptions are correct.
+
+                                       jms
+----------------------------------------
+QUESTION #785298: How can you tie up the loose ends in B^2? Looks
+   like it won't play out for a couple of decades...(paraphrase)
+----------------------------------------
+BABYLON 5: BABYLON SQUARED...  #786247
+FROM: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: TUES, AUG 9, 1994 1:19:09 AM
+
+     Re: a couple of decades...maybe...maybe not...the story
+can go where it needs to go.  All I can say is that if the show
+goes its full 5 year run, all that has been indicated will be
+shown in depth.
+
+                                                         jms
+------------
+SF/FANTASY TV: THE STARLOST   #786120
+FROM: CHRIS BUNCH
+DATE: MON AUG 8, 1994 11:10:03 PM
+
+Now, the scary thing is, were you paying THAT much
+attention to STARLURCH?
+
+Although the really scary thing is that if I saw it
+now, given the crudola that's on - Deep Space,
+Babbling Five, and so forth, I might say, now THERE is real SF.
+
+Oog.
+
+Speaking of oog - our agent called and said they're reviving
+OUTER LIMITS, and the people there were interested in us doing
+a script for them - one of the producers was a big fan of our
+stuff on WEREWOLF. We said maybe (not wanting to do ANY more TV,
+and so they sent us the bible. Org, as Albert Alligator used to
+say - each and every line in the Writer's Guide was another stake
+in the coffin - good gets rewarded, evil punished, they're gonna
+do the moral at the end of each episode, and so on and so forth.
+I'd forgotten, until I looked it up, just what a hound-doggie
+OUTER LIMITS was. The new one is gonna be on Showtime - wanna bet
+it's gonna make the old one look scintillating?
+
+Oh yeah - we sent them some ideas, but they had every swingin' one
+of them in development. Including one called VIRTUAL MARILYN (Monroe).
+Suuuuuuuuure they did.
+
+chris
+
+
+SF/FANTASY TV: THE STARLOST #786288
+FROM: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+TO: CHRIS BUNCH
+DATE: TUES, AUG 9, 1994, 2:30:21 AM
+
+     I was called in to be a consultant on the revival
+of OUTER LIMITS, and was pretty appalled by what stories
+were presented in the bible.  (They felt I could consult
+even while doing B5.)  Ran as fast as I could.  My only
+hope is that Michael Cassutt (as new producer/writer) manages
+to steer them away from the directions they were taking,
+'cause they were *real* awful.
+
+                                                          jms
+------------------------------------------------------
+QUESTION #785796: When do we get more about
+  the Battle of the Line? (paraphrase)
+------------------------------------------------------
+BABYLON 5: A VOICE ITW I & II  #786272
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: TUES AUG 9, 1994 2:05:24 AM
+
+     The revelations about the Minbari will come, in part,
+in "Babylon Squared," which tells half the story, and
+"Points of Departure," next season's first episode which
+shows the other half.
+
+                                                     jms
+----------
+BABYLON 5: B5 SYNDICATED RATINGS #786275
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: TUES AUG 9, 1994 2:06:07 AM
+
+     It's generally around #4 or #5 in order of dramatic
+series; I find it interesting, though, that after a brief
+slump while we were showing reruns, the ratings have begun
+a steady rise over the last 4 episodes, every one a bit
+higher than the one before.
+
+                                                       jms
+-----------
+BABYLON 5: MANY QUESTIONS #786290
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: TUES AUG 9, 1994 2:30:29 AM
+
+     Soundtrack should be out around November.
+
+     There are currently no contracts for models of the ships.
+
+     B5 will be released on video in regular format around
+the fall.  Later, letter-box aspect ratio laserdisks will
+follow, though I don't know exactly when.
+
+                                                          jms
+-----------
+BABYLON 5: JOKE MENTIONED AT ICON #786289
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI, 71016,1644
+DATE: TUES, AUG 9, 1994 2:30:24 AM
+
+     It's in "The Quality of Mercy."  You'll know it
+when you see it.
+
+                                                  jms
+
+-----------
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI (message #791961)
+DATE: SUN AUG 14, 1994 11:48:11 PM
+
+     "JMS has specifically told us that one MAIN
+character will die in Chrysalis or Points of
+Departure (I don't remember which)."
+
+     No I haven't.
+
+     Never said it.
+
+     Sometimes, what happens is that people guess
+about what's going to happen in the story...and
+gradually that becomes the assumption on the part
+of some people that this WILL happen...which in
+time metamorphoses into "JMS said this would happen."
+
+     This is yet another of those.  Never said it.
+
+     While I understand how this happens (and it
+happens a lot), the only real complication that I get
+from it is that suddenly I'm being held to promises
+I never made...and if it doesn't happen as I
+supposedly said, then it's somehow my fault.
+
+                                                 jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 OF TAPE & LD #791583
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: AUG 14, 1994 4:49:26 PM
+
+     I'm led to understand that videotapes of B5 will
+be out sometime around the Fall or so, from first
+season.  There will eventually be laserdisks, and the
+best part of *that* is that they'll be in the original
+letterbox format in which the show is actually filmed.
+
+     In fact, in preparation for that, we've begun the
+process of transferring the videotape CGI effects to film,
+in correct aspect ratio to match the original live-action
+film.  As we finish, this will all have to be
+quality-controlled, so though it's a burden, I've
+volunteered to get the first set of widescreen tapes so
+that I can screen them prior to final transfer to disk.
+
+                                                       jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 NETWORK #791584
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: SUN AUG 14, 1994 4:50:00 PM
+
+     Babylon 5 has nothing to do with Paramount,
+and would never get moved there in a billion zillion
+years.  Insofar as I know, there are no plans to move
+B5 to the Warners network when that gets going either
+(PTEN is affiliated with Warners), as the two (PTEN
+WBN) are very competitive with one another.
+
+                                                    jms
+----------------------
+Question: Could you consider an offer from another network
+    if it came up? (paraphrase)
+----------------------
+BABYLON 5: B5 NETWORK #792101
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: MON AUG 15, 1994 2:29:25 AM
+
+     You have to understand that B5 is not owned by me,
+any more than Star Trek was actually *owned* by
+Roddenberry.  PTEN owns the copyright to B5, as
+Paramount owns the copyright to ST.  So any future
+movement, if ever required, is extremely problematic.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+---------------
+BABYLON 5: B5 FILMING START? #789144
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: THURS AUG 11, 1994 11:36:31 PM
+
+     All I can really say at this point is that it's
+going great.  We began filming on Wednesday, and once
+again we're on schedule, and the cast members are
+performing terrifically.  Bruce is fitting right in.
+Everyone -- cast and crew alike -- are excited to be
+back, and eager to get into the new stories, particularly
+since many of them go through some very interesting
+changes in their characters.  So far it's been great.
+
+                                                  jms
+
+
+---------------
+DATE: THURS AUG 18, 1994 7:29:10 PM
+
+     All you have to do with Harlan to make him happy,
+within the context of a show, is to treat him with the
+respect his position in the world of SF would require,
+and leave his words alone.  That doesn't seem to me
+much to ask for.
+
+                                         jms
+
+---------------
+DATE: THURS AUG 18, 1994 3:49:16 PM (#795469)
+
+     Harlan is currently writing the "Demon" sequel for us.  He
+is on as Conceptual Consultant next year, and is working closely
+with us.  But there are always people out to tear Harlan down, so
+I'd pretty much ignore these weasels.
+
+                                                              jms
+===============================================================
+Poster requested a description of Earth s government(s).
+===============================================================
+DATE: FRI AUG 19, 1994 1:23:20 AM (#796173)
+
+     Bill...those are far, far too elaborate questions
+(and answers) to be dealt with even faintly in a message
+or two.  I'll try and get into some of this down the road,
+and I know the faq has a lot of this, which I'd just be
+repeating.
+
+                                                      jms
+===============================================================
+QUESTION: Do you plan on bringing in fur-bearing aliens?
+===============================================================
+DATE: THURS AUG 18, 1994 3:49:09 PM (#795465)
+
+    It's something we've discussed and are considering.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+==========================================================
+Questions: (1) Are you a Mensan or a logodaelian leaving clues
+for logomancers? (2) Are you a Turtle? (summarized)
+===========================================================
+DATE: FRI AUG 19, 1994 1:23:18 AM (#796172)
+
+     I have been accused of many of those things, but
+never convicted.
+
+     If nominated I shall not run, if elected I shall
+not serve.
+
+     The bag will be deposited in the black tree at
+midnight.
+
+     "Are you a Turtle?"
+
+     I am the Egg Man.  Coo-coo-ka-choo.
+
+                   jm(who once belonged to Mensa, but quit)s
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+DATE: THURS AUG 18, 1994 3:49:12 PM (#795467)
+
+     Haven't yet seen or heard what the airdate
+schedule will be like for next year, but like you
+I hope it'll be with more new episodes straight
+through, and fewer interruptions by reruns.
+
+                                             jms
+=======================================================
+NOTE: Miguel == Miguel Ferrer
+=======================================================
+DATE: THURS AUG 18, 1994 3:49:14 PM (#795468)
+
+     Yes, there's a B5 comic from DC; I've written the
+first book, and gave DC the premise for the next 4-issue
+cycle, which is being scripted by Mark Moretti, art by
+Michael Netzer/Rob Leigh, cover (first issue) by Kaluta.
+I've spoken to Bill Mumy about doing the comic (we're going
+to have rotating artist/writer combinations for each
+4-issue self-contained arc), and he's interested.  Have
+also spoken with folks like Peter David and John Ostrander,
+who've expressed interest, but nothing's committed yet.
+
+     The novels will be coming out from Dell starting in
+the fall.
+
+     Would love to have Miguel do an episode one of these
+days.  Soon as we find the right part for him.
+
+                                           jms
+----------------------------------------------------
+DATE: FRI AUG 19, 1:23:25 AM (#796176)
+
+     Expect the CD Rom around January or so.
+
+                                          jms
+
+===================================================
+QUESTION: Which came 1st, the B5-universe reason for
+having Garibaldi deliver the autopsy report in B^2, or
+the idea that it might be a waste to bring in an actor
+[Dr. Franklin] for 1 scene? Was this an effortless
+decision? Knock-down fights? (paraphrase, see #796937)
+===================================================
+DATE: SAT AUG 20, 1994 12:47:03 AM (#797156)
+
+     I make those decisions, so there's no drag-out
+fights.  I can't really tell you which came first
+because they both kinda came at the same time; I look
+at the story, and ask, "Do I need this character here?"
+If the story dictates no, not really, then I don't.
+
+                                                jms
+DATE: SUN AUG 21, 1994 3:12:23 AM (#798072)
+
+     If you're referring to Na'Toth as done by Caitlin
+Brown...no, there wasn't a problem with the makeup.  She
+came in at the last moment to do the character after the
+original actress *did* have a problem working within a
+prosthetic.  Caitlin is a very attractive woman who has
+begun receiving feature film/romantic lead parts, and felt
+she wanted to pursue that rather than continue hiding her
+face as Na'Toth.
+
+                                                      jms
+DATE: SUN AUG 21, 1994 3:19:18 AM (#798082)
+
+     Yeah, the last episode of this year will air around
+the last week in October.  PTEN thinks it's our strongest
+episode (which it is), and they feel that it's best to
+hold that to kick in year two.  Me, I'd prefer it be aired
+well before that, since it is a cliffhanger in some ways...
+but hey, I'm just the executive producer....
+
+                                                      jms
+=========================================================
+QUESTION (paraphrase) Have *you* considered doing a cameo?
+=========================================================
+DATE: TUES AUG 23, 1994 3:11:02 AM (#799838)
+
+     Nope.  Don't do cameos.  Destroys the illusion for me.
+
+                                                        jms
+DATE: WED AUG 24, 1994 3:04:24 (#800953)
+
+     Not PGP, it's PPG...Phased Plasma Gun (or Phased
+Plasma Generator, depending on who you're talking to).
+
+                                                jms
+DATE: WED AUG 24, 1994 3:17:05 (#800965)
+
+     The three main components of Minbari society are
+the religious caste, the warrior caste, and the
+workers...which aren't really a caste per se, which is
+why they're not often included.  It's a very different,
+less influential part of their society.
+
+                                                  jms
+DATE: WED AUG 24, 1994 9:41:14 (#801676)
+
+     The way it was constructed is that we'd have a few arc stories
+in year one, the rest mainly stand-alones.  We then roughly double
+that number in year two.  Increase it again by year three...such
+that by year five, every story is an arc story, all closely connected,
+because by then all hell has broken loose, and you're racing toward
+the conclusion of the story.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+DATE: WED AUG 24, 1994 9:41:17 (#801678)
+
+     The people at Creation Con are, for the most part,
+idiots.  They went around announcing that Michael York
+was going to be brought in as the new commander of B5;
+they just released a bunch of B5 caps with tags that read
+LICENSED PRODUCT PARAMOUNT TELEVISION...which had to be
+recalled when PTEN went righteously ballistic.  And now
+they picked up on Mark Altman's goofball notion that
+O'Hare was fired because of what was said on the Nets,
+which the studio NEVER EVEN SAW.
+
+     Idiots.  I refuse to have anything more to do with them.
+
+                                                       jms
+==========================================================
+QUESTION (paraphrase): In AtSFoS, the GC guy had a triangle,
+but not in B^2. In S&P, Delenn had one. Why?
+==========================================================
+BABYLON 5: B-SQRD QUESTIONS (#799834)
+DATE: TUES AUG 23, 1994 3:11:28 AM
+
+     While the triangle is one element of the Grey Council
+symbology, it is not present and visible at all times and
+under all circumstances; it has a particular purpose or
+meaning.
+
+                                                   jms
+DATE: WED AUG 24, 1994 2:23:00 (#801258)
+
+     Some of the information about the missing 24 hours
+is in "Babylon Squared," but the bulk of it, the heart
+of the story, is in the first episode of the second
+season, which C4 *has* purchased.
+
+                                                  jms
+========================================================
+QUESTIONS: Why did the Minbari surrender? Why was Sinclair
+chosen for B5? (paraphrase)
+=========================================================
+DATE: WED AUG 24, 1994 3:17:03 (#800964)
+
+     You will get *all* the answers in the first episode of
+the second season, which airs at the start of November. 
+(Well, all the answers to the specific questions you asked,
+anyway....)
+
+                                                       jms
+==========================================================
+<insert question about involvement with The Real Ghostbusters
+and offence at the "vulgar way" of ending QoM here>
+==========================================================
+BABYLON 5: JUNE LOCKHART EPISODE (THE QUALITY OF MERCY)
+DATE: SUN AUG 21, 1994 5:47:19 PM (#798475)
+
+     To your first question...yes, I was involved with
+the animated series "The Real Ghostbusters," as story
+editor for the first syndicated season and the first
+network season (basically story editing 78 episodes in
+the same season), and over all wrote about 20 or so
+episodes.  It was a great deal of fun, but the best part
+is that the show continues to be very popular.
+
+     As for the ending of "Quality," which you describe
+as "vulgar, unnecessary and uncalled for"...the only
+thing that I can do is disagree. While you are free to
+describe it in any terms you wish, and I cannot contest
+that part of it, since a subjective reaction is just
+that...it is not within the purview of any viewer, or
+reader, to decide that something is or is not necessary
+and called for within the province of a story.  That is
+the writer's responsibility.  You may not like it.  That's
+your province. So I would separate out those two issues.
+
+     Secondarily, it was handled with infinite discretion.
+At NO POINT was anything put verbally.  At no point was it
+even linked to sex.  It was *very* carefully written so
+that unless you're really paying attention, you won't get
+it.  Certainly young kids won't get it.  It's implied only
+very, very tangentially.  My show is for adults.  I write
+for adults.  If you want to see vulgar, turn on "Absolutely
+Fabulous" on Comedy Channel...which is also one of the
+funniest shows around.
+
+     Anyway, I'm sorry you didn't like that aspect.  You
+are the first person to express that opinion, but that in
+no way invalidates it.  I just don't agree with it.
+
+                                                     jms
+=========================================================
+QUESTION: <compliment on handling with discretion & maturity)
+Just to get really sordid...considering what Li looks like,
+does this mean that Centauri males have one or *two*?!
+(paraphrased from #799714)
+=========================================================
+DATE: TUES AUG 23, 1994 3:11:03 AM (#799839)
+
+     Centauri males have six.
+
+                             jms
+===========================================
+QUESTION: <about how Londo's appendange reacted
+when the water pitcher was removed>
+===========================================
+DATE: WED AUG 24, 1994 3:16:27 (#800962)
+
+     We used a bullwhip sound effect for the
+"retraction" in QoM; when we were in sound editing,
+I asked for the hardest whip-crack they had...and
+got it put in REAL loud.  Every time I hear it, I'm
+on the floor....
+
+                                               jms
+------------------------------------------------------
+
+BABYLON 5: QofM GOV'T HYPOCRISY (#798897)
+DATE: MON AUG 22, 1994 1:21:04 AM
+
+     There are actually many issues to get into in all of
+this.  Which is really the "person," the mind, the soul,
+or the body?  If a person has an accident, getting amnesia,
+which wipes out his entire personality, is that person as
+good as dead?  Is there no difference between amnesia and
+death? If not, why not just kill the amnesiac?  But
+obviously there *is* a difference.  So what is the person?
+What constitutes death?
+
+     We consider the actual death of the *brain* through the
+cessation of brain activity to be the test for death.  But
+what if you simply rearrange those patterns?
+
+     There is also the question of *justice*.  If the person
+is dead, then that person cannot do much to correct the ills
+he visited upon society.  It is simply a waste of material.
+So why not take someone who, in any decent society, would be
+executed or forced to live in a 6x9 cage the rest of his life,
+and give the soul, and the body, a new chance by giving the
+person a new personality and letting him, as the Ombuds says,
+"serve the community harmed by his actions"?
+
+     Finally, if the person is dead, he's dead; let's say 5
+years down the road somebody finds evidence that proves the
+person was innocent.  There is at least the *chance* to
+reconstruct some of the original memories and personality
+profile.
+
+     All of this, again, has to be considered in light of the
+fact that we are talking about a *space station* with limited
+space and resources.  You cannot warehouse every person who
+kill somebody in a station that small; you would run out of
+space almost immediately.  (If you also include basic felons
+and near-killings.)  So what *do* you do with them?  As was
+noted, Earth doesn't want them and won't pay to have them
+shipped back...what's left?
+
+     That's the dilemma I wanted to pose in the episode...what
+*can* you do?
+
+                                                       jms
+
+DATE: TUES AUG 23, 1994 3:11:30 AM (#799835)
+
+     "...the 'personality' remaining in the body will
+be punished for a crime that 'personality' did not
+commit."
+
+     1) But again, which is the person...the old
+        personality, the new one, or something else?
+
+     2) Part of the new personality would be the delight
+        in serving others.
+
+                                                    jms
+=======================================================
+QUESTION: <admire memory-wipe solution> What about the
+theory that some people are genetically prone to commit
+crimes? Even if the personality is wiped, if the brain
+is genetically/chemically predisposed to be criminal
+wouldn't the new personality also be criminal? (paraphrase
+from #801973)
+====================================================
+DATE: THURS AUG 25, 1994 3:26:17 AM (#802040)
+     The theory is as yet only a theory; and if proven
+true, still wouldn't cover all cases.  If true, those
+cases where that could be shown that was the cause would
+receive different treatment.
+
+                                                       jms
+====================================================
+QUESTION: If Talia wears gloves to avoid physical contact
+with others, why did she keep them on when putting the
+black band on the badge? Why does she seem to wear them
+all the time? (paraphrase from #799070)
+======================================================
+DATE: TUES AUG 23, 1994 3:11:31 AM (#799836)
+
+     I suspect that's a director question....
+
+                                           jms
+DATE: THURS AUG 25, 1994 1:14:04 AM (#801949)
+
+     There will be 22 episodes in season two.
+
+                                          jms
+
+DATE: THURS AUG 25, 1994 1:14:09 AM (#801950)
+
+     My involvement is *total* with every single aspect of B5.
+
+     Once the script is written, I work directlly with the
+costume designers, prop designers, art director, director,
+computer graphics designers, every department.  I'm in on
+every phase of pre-production.  All design elements must get
+approval through my office.
+
+     I'm directly involved in casting sessions, with final
+approval (along with Doug Netter) of who's cast in our
+episodes.  I have meetings with the director and others to
+set the tone of the episodes.
+
+     I'm on set during filming, working with the director as
+much as I can, given that I'm simultaneously working on the
+next few episodes.  Generally, though, once the script hits
+the stage floor, it's virtually never changed (and then only
+after checking with me or Larry), and the directors know what
+they're doing well enough to leave them alone.  (Hire good
+people and get out of their face.)
+
+     When the director finishes his or her cut of the episode,
+John Copeland and I take over and do the producer's cut, in
+some cases totally re-editing episodes (though the better the
+director, the less of this we need to do). After the producer's
+cut is made, I work directly with John, Chris Franke, and our
+sound design people on the sound effects, music, walla and
+other elements that go into the show.
+
+     Finally, I'm there at the end audio mix, where it all
+comes together.
+
+     I can't "leave this kind of stuff up to the directors"
+because for starters, directors don't do a lot of this stuff.
+Also, directors come and go and may not have the vision of
+the series in its totality.  Further, TV is primarily a
+producer/writer's medium, whereas film is a director's
+medium.  This is my vision of the show, and I have to be
+there at every stage to make sure it *remains* my vision.
+
+     So on one level...my fingerprints are all over the show,
+on every square inch, at every level.  On another level...one
+can only do this if you've got a terrific crew, cast and
+production team who know their stuff and make this an easy
+and painless process.  They're bright, have vast amounts of
+initiative, and are fun to work with.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+
+==========================================================
+QUESTION: Will you and Claudia Christian be appearing at a
+Dallas convention in October?
+===========================================================
+BABYLON 5: CONVENTION APPEARANCE (#799837)
+DATE: TUES AUG 23, 1994 3:11:01 AM
+TO FRED J ORTIZ
+
+     Yeah, I plan to be at the con provided we're not shooting
+the pilot for a second SF series at the same time.  Claudia
+will also be there.
+
+                                                   jms
+=======================================================
+QUESTION: *WHAT* new series? (paraphrase)
+=======================================================
+DATE: TUES AUG 23, 1994 3:13:20 PM (#800116)
+
+     I will tell more about this in the fullness of time.
+
+                                                    jms
+DATE: WED AUG 24, 1994 3:04:23 (#800952)
+
+     I'll probably post a note about this shortly.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+==========================================================
+QUESTION: Will you and Claudia Christian be appearing at a
+Dallas convention in October?
+===========================================================
+BABYLON 5: CONVENTION APPEARANCE (#799837)
+DATE: TUES AUG 23, 1994 3:11:01 AM
+TO FRED J ORTIZ
+
+     Yeah, I plan to be at the con provided we're not shooting
+the pilot for a second SF series at the same time.  Claudia
+will also be there.
+
+                                                   jms
+=======================================================
+QUESTION: *WHAT* new series? (paraphrase)
+=======================================================
+DATE: TUES AUG 23, 1994 3:13:20 PM (#800116)
+
+     I will tell more about this in the fullness of time.
+
+                                                    jms
+BABYLON 5: NEW JMS PROJECTS (#800954)
+DATE: WED AUG 24, 1994 3:04:29
+TO: ALL
+
+       Since this just hit the wire services, I figured
+I'd mention it here.
+
+     The release went out from Classics International,
+owner of First Comics.  A deal has been concluded between
+CIE and Rattlesnake Prods. (owned by my partner on Babylon 5
+Doug Netter) to form a separate entity to produce a feature
+film based on the Grimjack books by John Ostrander.
+
+     The movie is budgeted for $30 million, and I've been
+asked, and have agreed, to write the screenplay.  (My job,
+as I see it, is to Leave The Damned Thing Alone and *adapt*
+the book, rather than throw stuff out and make it all up.
+I loved the book when it was out, and read it regularly.
+My hope is to do as faithful a transition to film as
+possible.  I've met with John Ostrander, and our feelings
+on which cycle of the Grimjack story to base the feature
+film on are absolutely the same.)
+
+     The plan is to have the script finished by late fall,
+probably around November/December, and shoot the thing in
+early or mid-1995.
+
+     (In addition, this Fall we're currently slated to
+begin production on a two-hour pilot for a new contemporary
+science fiction series which I've created and written for
+first-run syndication.  Current plans are to film the pilot
+in either Vancouver or Portland, with Doug and I serving
+again as Executive Producers, as with Babylon 5.  I can't
+reveal the title at this time -- it's nothing you'd
+recognize, it's an original concept, but it's a cool title
+and I'd hate to lose it -- but I hope to have more on this
+over the next few months.  Also, there are still one or two
+more hurdles before we can start production, even though
+we've been unofficially greenlighted, so I'll hold back
+just a bit for now until the ink dries officially.)
+
+                                                 jms
+
+DATE: WED AUG 24, 1994 2:32:02 (#801271)
+
+     My basic problem is that unless I'm writing all the
+time, I get twitchy.  If I have some down time, as we did
+between seasons one and two, and we don't know if there's
+going to be a second season or not so there's nothing to do
+on B5 during that time (aside from post production and
+editing, which isn't really writing), I have to find
+*something* to do with words beside BBSing...so I sell a
+series concept (with Doug) to a studio and write a pilot.
+What can I say?  I'm an obsessive-compulsive personality.
+
+                                                      jms
+====================================================================
+QUESTION: <hoping new work doesn't interfere with B5 script creation>
+====================================================================
+DATE: WED AUG 24, 1994 9:41:16 (#801677)
+
+     No, no problem.  The pilot script is already finished,
+having been written during our (alleged) hiatus.  The
+screenplay won't be a problem. Should the pilot go to series,
+while I'll be exec producing the series, it will be at some
+slight remove, because my first day-to-day allegiance has to
+be B5.  In the case of the other series, there will have to be
+an experienced writer/producer/show-runner brought on board to
+work directly with me and Doug...someone who also knows SF, with
+enough credits to guarantee the best show conceivable.
+
+==============================================
+QUESTION: <similar to B5 structure, just more episodic?>
+===============================================                                                        jms
+DATE: THURS AUG 25, 1994 3:19:09 AM (#802038)
+
+     No, the structure we're discussing *is* the B5
+structure; the structure of the new series, should
+it go from the pilot, would be far more episodic. One
+major saga at a time is *more* than enough for me.
+
+                                                jms
+
+------------------------
+DATE: FRI AUG 19, 1994 1:23:22 AM (#796174)
+
+     Valen, Zathras...these are all things I'd rather let
+be brought out in the series rather than here, at least at
+this time.
+
+     And the grail story was fairly self-contained, not much
+in the way of arc related stuff there.
+
+                                                       jms
+==============================================================
+QUESTION: Why was Garibaldi delivering the autopsy results
+on the Starfury pilot (in B^2) instead of Franklin? (paraphrase)
+==============================================================
+DATE: THURS AUG 18, 1994 10:03:02 PM (#795886)
+
+     Garibaldi is head of security, and Franklin would
+likely give him the report, which Garibaldi then relays.
+In such things there is a chain of command.  And as you
+say, it seemed pointless to bring in the actor just for
+one half-page scene.
+
+                                                   jms
+===============================================================
+Here are a few comments from JMS about B5's legal system (QoM).
+================================================================
+DATE: THURS AUG 18, 1994 3:49:11 PM (#795466)
+
+     No, what was done was perfectly correct legalistically.
+This is an unlicnsed alien device being used on humans; it
+was used in killing someone; it had to be conficscated.
+
+                                                      jms
+==================================================================
+QUESTION:  insert grumbling about lack of civil rights in QoM here
+==================================================================
+DATE: THURS AUG 18, 1994 10:13:27 PM (#795897)
+
+     Allow me to disagree with you.
+
+     Dr. Franklin did not require a search warrant to enter
+Rosen s quarters.  The door was basically open, and he is NOT
+an officer of the law. Only officers of the law are required
+to have search warrants.  Neither was he there to arrest her.
+
+     Defense counsel was sitting with the defendant at the
+table.  He had no lines, but he was there.  The trial had
+been ongoing; this was the part where the verdict is rendered
+after a decision has been reached.
+
+     The pattern of the judge passing sentence is exactly the
+same as when circuit court judges used to work the frontier
+areas of the US.  Where would you find a jury on B5?  Most
+civilians are passing through, on stop-over for only a day or
+two...unable to follow a long hearing.  The only other ones
+are station personnel, which represents a conflict of interest.
+Your only choice is a circuit court style judge whose loyalty
+is owed to no one.
+
+     The alien device was being used on humans without any
+kind of license, she is not a certified doctor, and it was
+used in the death of a human. Under those circumstances, it
+is within the judge s right to confiscate the device for the
+greater good.  (You can have a unlicensed firearm in a state
+that requires licensing, and use it in a righteous self-defense
+shooting, but it will be confiscated afterward.  No compensation
+is required because its use is/was unregulated, unlicensed, and
+she was/is not a working doctor.)
+
+     It *is* due process.  Even according to 20th century terms.
+Only problem is in understanding what due process actually *is*,
+as opposed to what we think it *should* be.
+
+                                                        jms
+==================================================================
+QUESTION: Was the device in QoM confiscated as part of the trial
+for convenience of the story line? (summarized)
+==================================================================
+DATE: FRI AUG 19, 1994 1:23:24 AM (#796175)
+
+     No, it wasn't convenience for the story line, if this
+were a real case it would be confiscated as part of that
+case.  It wouldn't have to be dealt with separately.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+---------------------
+BABYLON 5: <B-SQRD QUESTIONS> #792996
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: MON AUG 15, 1994 11:52:15 PM
+
+     Valen was the one who brought Minbari civilization together,
+ he is their Christ-figure.  And yes, the hevyset Grey Council
+member is the same one as in "Sky."
+
+                                                          jms
+BABYLON 5: QUALITY OF MERCY--SPOIL  #790957
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: SAT AUG 13, 1994 8:21:11 PM
+
+     The scan is preparatory to the prisoner being
+mind-blanked.  It is, as the Ombuds pointed out, the
+death of personality, the death of one's mind. Hence
+the black band on the Psi symbol.
+
+                                                  jms
+
+------------------------
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI (#786290)
+DATE: TUES AUG 9, 1994 2:30:29 AM
+
+     Soundtrack should be out around November.
+
+     There are currently no contracts for models of the
+ships.
+
+     B5 will be released on video in regular format
+around the fall.  Later, letter-box aspect ratio
+laserdisks will follow, though I don't know exactly when.
+
+                                                     jms
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI (#787150)
+DATE: WED AUG 10, 1994 12:39:09
+
+     Any videos released will be the broadcast versions;
+there are no director's cuts on film or video, for starters,
+only computer-generated Avid versions.  Also, TV doesn't
+generally *have* such a thing as a releaseable director's
+cut.  The producer makes the final cut.  Period.
+
+                                                      jms
+------
+Question: Will the soundtrack have both themes (pilot & series?)
+------
+BABYLON 5: MANY QUESTIONS #787151
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: WED AUG 10, 1994 12:39:11
+
+     The soundtrack will exclusively be the series, as of
+this time.
+
+     No deals on models pending, that I'm aware of.  Calls
+won't help, it's a matter of getting a licensee to come to
+the table with a sufficient deal.
+
+                                                        jms
+----------
+Question: Why is Ivanova always "Lt Commander" and not just
+    "Commander"? (paraphrase)
+-----
+BABYLON 5: LCDR VS CDR??? #788210
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: THURS AUG 11, 1994 2:25:03 AM
+
+     Because there are two people who would respond to
+Commander -- Sinclair and Ivanova -- the distinction is
+kept in order to know who's being addressed.  Otherwise
+whenever someone says "Commander" they'd both turn.
+
+                                                   jms
+----------
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI (#786275)
+DATE: TUES AUG 9, 1994 2:06:07 AM
+
+     It's generally around #4 or #5 in order of dramatic
+series; I find it interesting, though, that after a brief
+slump while we were showing reruns, the ratings have begun
+a steady rise over the last 4 episodes, every one a bit
+higher than the one before.
+
+                                                   jms
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI (#788095)
+DATE: THURS AUG 11, 1994 12:11:04 AM
+
+     I was raised by elves with attitude.
+
+                                        jms
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs94-09-01 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs94-09-01
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..30bc3871
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/CompuServe/cs94-09-01
@@ -0,0 +1,1752 @@
+The following postings from JMS (and occasionally others) are from the
+CompuServe information service.  They're collected by Michele Worley,
+michele_l_worley@yahoo.com.
+
+
+BABYLON 5: MINBARI CASTES #801209 (Reposted with author's permission)
+DATE: WED AUG 24, 1994 12:46:08
+FROM: IMS, 75050,357
+
+Question: Do the Religious Caste perform functions
+similar to our organized religions for the Warrior
+Caste and workers?  It would seem that the Religious
+Caste could either be the ones who provide spiritual
+guidance, rituals, ceremonies, religious teaching, etc.
+for the others or they could be more monastic in nature
+preferring a scholarly, aloof lifestyle separate from
+the other two groups.
+
+I'm curious about the role of the Religious Caste in
+everyday Minbari life.
+
+Thanks for a great show!
+
+DATE: WED AUG 24, 1994 2:23:04 (#801261)
+
+     That describes it pretty well; I'll probably
+get into this more in detail down the road a piece.
+
+                                               jms
+DATE: THUR AUG 25, 1994 1:14:04 AM #801949
+
+     There will be 22 episodes in season two.
+
+                                         jms
+DATE: THUR AUG 25, 1994 9:06:29 PM #802638
+
+     Usually, depending on circumstances, it takes me about 2 weeks to
+write any episode of a TV series, including B5.  That's from zero, no
+outline, to finished script.  I've done it in as little time as two days
+(when I was on Murder, She Wrote).  Optimum is about 7-10 days.
+
+                                                                 jms
+DATE: FRI AUG 26, 1994 4:23:02 AM #803023
+
+     "What was the hardest thing you ever had to write?"
+
+     Usually it's the next thing...whatever that happens to be.
+
+     (If you take it out of the area of scripts, then the hardest
+thing I've ever had to write was my second novel, emotionally and
+physically, since I was doing about 3 jobs simultaneously.  The next
+really major hurdle waiting for me is my planned 3rd novel, which
+will be around 1,000 pages and extremely complex.)
+
+                                                            jms
+DATE: FRI AUG 26, 1994 11:34:18 PM #804003
+
+     The planned third novel is more along the lines of
+contemporary dark fantasy, not horror.
+
+                                                jms
+DATE: THUR AUG 25, 1994 9:06:26 PM #802636
+
+     Generally speaking, I don't write for other shows.
+The pilot for the other SF series was written during
+the hiatus.  I haven't written for any other series
+since taking on B5.
+
+                                             jms
+--------------------------------------------------
+QUESTION #803044: (JMS' new pilot != JMS' movie screenplay?)
+--------------------------------------------------
+BABYLON 5: NEW JMS PROJECTS #803996
+DATE: FRI AUG 26, 1994 11:34:05 PM
+
+     Yes, but I separate out "movies" from "shows/series."  The
+GRIMJACK screenplay will be turn in around the end of the year.
+If the other pilot should go to series, I'll exec produce and
+write some of it, but will have to bring on a qualified show runner
+for day-to-day operations.
+
+                                                              jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 AND COMPUTERS #803998
+DATE: FRI AUG 26, 1994 11:34:08 PM
+
+     No, can't currently discuss the other pilot in any detail
+other than to say that it's contemporary SF.
+
+                                                jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 AND COMPUTERS #804000
+DATE: FRI AUG 26, 1994 11:34:12 PM
+
+     A lot of other shows now gearing up are looking to the B5 "model"
+as they call it for what to do, including CGI.  The only show that is
+not going to CGI, it seems, is ST.
+
+     The result of all this, one hopes will be more SF series coming out
+where because there isn't the constant concern about what EFX you can and
+can't do, they can concentrate more on the story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+BABYLON 5: NEW JMS PROJECTS #804001
+DATE: FRI AUG 26, 1994 11:34:14 PM
+
+     People who've noted the datestamps on my messages on
+various systems find they're posted at all times of day...
+up to 3-4 a.m.  Basically, I'm working from the minute I get
+up, to the minute I go to sleep, with one-hour breaks for
+lunch and dinner, and sometimes I'll watch Letterman or
+TV Nation, but that's about it.  I sleep maybe 4-5 hours a
+day.
+
+                                                    jms
+DATE: SUN AUG 28, 1994 3:24:21 AM #805189
+
+     Personally, I still like the pets on prozac story
+(though I kinda preferred the log-dog *before* they
+gave him the prozac).
+
+                                                 jms
+BABYLON 5: AFTER THE 2ND SEASON #802639
+DATE: THURS AUG 25, 1994 9:06:30 PM
+
+     The SF channel doesn't have the money required to produce full scale
+dramatic series, which is why they do basic talk-format shows.  And B5 is
+basically owned by PTEN, not me (the same way Paramount owned ST, not
+Roddenberry).  So anything afterward becomes highly problematic.
+
+                                                                jms
+----------------------------------
+QUESTION: invitation to Mid-Ohio-Con (Nov 26-27)
+----------------------------------
+DATE: THURS AUG 25, 1994 9:06:27 PM #802637
+
+     I don't think I can do mid-Ohio-con, simply because
+I'll be doing three others at that time, and I suspect
+I'm going to be convention'd out by that point, and there
+is this little series they tell me I'm supposed to be
+exec producing....
+
+                                                     jms
+-----------------------------------
+QUESTION #803327: Will you show Chrysalis at the Dallas
+   convention? (paraphrase)
+-----------------------------------
+BABYLON 5: CONVENTION APPEARANCE #803997
+DATE: FRI AUG 26, 1994 11:34:07 PM
+
+     No plans currently for a showing of "Chrysalis," but
+I'll know more the closer we get to that date.
+
+                                                      jms
+BABYLON 5: BORING B5 #802615
+DATE: THURS AUG 25, 1994 8:54:04 PM
+
+     Then stop watching.  If you don't like a show, stop
+watching.  I don't understand, and have never understood,
+people who watch a show they say they don't like, just to
+crab about it.
+
+                                                     jms
+BABYLON 5: BORING B5 #804002
+DATE: FRI AUG 26, 1994 11:34:16 PM
+
+     What I *don't* understand is how you can characterize
+the show as harmless and fluff...we've had parents who kill
+their children, an alcoholic main character who's still
+recovering, a commander with a death wish, a second in command
+going through the emotional turmoil of sitting shiva for her
+dead father and still dealing with the death of her mother by
+suicide... well, I could go on, but I don't much see the point.
+What you see is what you see.
+
+                                                          jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 AND COMPUTERS #802903
+DATE: FRI AUG 26, 1994 12:59:03 AM
+
+     Yes, CGI will be used in the second project we're doing, which is
+even more challenging (and interesting) from an EFX perspective because
+there will be a lot of location filming.
+
+     As far as the amount of CGI for this coming season...as with our
+first season, there will be as much as the stories require, no less, no
+more.  The effects have to service the story, not the other way around.
+
+                                                                jms
+BABYLON 5: NEW JMS PROJECTS #803024
+DATE: FRI AUG 26, 1994 4:23:04 AM
+
+     Nothing will ever be allowed to affect B5.
+
+                                          jms
+----------------------------------
+COMMENT: Things around here are slow because of reruns (paraphrase
+ from #802665)
+-----------------------------------
+BABYLON 5: RERUNS #802936
+DATE: FRI AUG 26, 1994 1:30:21 AM
+
+     Actually, I'm not entirely sure that's true.  I've been tracking
+the audience response, and the ratings for the last seven weeks have
+ALL increased over the one before, a step up every week by as much as a
+third of a ratings point.  So we're suddenly adding a *lot* of new
+viewers to whom the reruns are first-run.
+
+     Also, gauging from the mail we get at the B5 offices, we've added a
+lot of new viewers since TNG went off the air.  Several people have
+written in to say that while TNG was on, they felt funny about going over
+to B5, despite having heard some good things about it.  When TNG was gone,
+one of those obstacles was removed, and now they've been sampling the show.
+
+     Finally, after being on the air for a full year, there's finally been
+enough time for word of mouth to start getting around, and that's also
+adding to the viewership.  So I suspect that there will be a fair number
+of folks with comments about reruns that they're seeing for the first time.
+
+                                                                   jms
+BABYLON 5: O'HARE/SINCLAIR--WHY?? #805194
+DATE: SUN AUG 28, 1994 3:38:30 AM
+
+     Actually, yes, I believe there is a Michael O'Hare Fan Club; I saw
+a posting on Internet about it...maybe someone else here saw it and can
+relay the details.
+
+     I have, btw, now seen the finished (minus music and some minimal EFX)
+first episode of B5 with Bruce.  We did the producer's cut yesterday, and
+I have to say that I think it's very nice.  Last season's first episode was,
+I think (and as I said at the time), a bit less than it could've been from
+a characterization point of view.  That was something we grew into slowly
+over the course of the season.
+
+     In this year two first-episode, there's a lot of humor, some interesting
+plot turns, and a very solid emphasis on the characters.  It's sort of a
+sandwich episode; "Chrysalis," the last year one episode (which apparently
+will air a week prior to season two's debut), is *extremely* intense...so is
+the second episode of year two, "Revelations."  People are going to need
+some respite from that, and "Points of Departure" does this quite nicely.
+
+     And Bruce does a wonderful job in the role.  He's brought a lot to the
+table, and I think people are going to be very pleased.
+
+                                                                       jms
+STAR TREK: DAVID ALEXANDER: MORE #791971
+TO: ALL
+DATE: SUN AUG 14, 1994 11:57:07 PM
+
+To all and sundry...just to put some closure on the whole David Alexander
+situation, I thought I'd pass this along.  Near as I can tell, this is a
+reply to a message of mine, here on this forum, that scrolled off the
+forum and ended up in DA's mailbox.  He replied to it.  Since it was a
+reply to a public message, I'm passing it along here, in toto, without
+revision or distortion.  (All I can assume from memory is that I was
+noting in my original message that he never did deal with *any* of the
+issues raised in my original posting calling several of his statements
+into question, particularly when they contradicted one another.
+
+The only comment that I would make on the following is that 1) I never got
+ANY answers to ANY of the questions raised, which kinda makes moot the
+"not to your liking" aspect, and 2) I never said, implied, or stated that
+I was any kind of authority on Roddenberry's life...my questions were
+based strictly on the statements made by Alexander within the context of
+his message, which seemed to clearly indicate substantial bias against
+Gerrold and others.
+
+Once again, the question is misstated and bent to make it easier to attack.
+Ah, well...message follows.
+
+                               ***
+
+Date:  14-Aug-94 13:41 PDT From:  David Alexander [71271,1162]
+Reply to: Message Scrolled from SF & Fantasy Forum
+
+Mr. Straczinski,
+
+You labor under the illusion that because you send questions and demand a
+response that I am, somehow, under obligation to respond, and if those
+answers are not to your liking, then I am to respond again and again to
+any and all questions you care to put - as if you were some sort of final
+authority on the truth of Gene Roddenberry's life or my motivation in
+writing his biography.  I have no interest in becoming involved in what
+is clearly a CompuServe "tar baby."
+
+I admit that I was unaware of the "rules of behavior," that one had to
+cleverly couch one's insults and snottiness in polite language. Of
+course, I had been  attacked and accused of a number of things, including
+felonious behavior, for several weeks before I came on the forum, but
+that doesn't seem to matter.  I was blunt in my response and a number of
+people took insult and made their feelings known publicly - but a number
+of people also wrote me privately, telling me how funny they thought it
+was and how deserving they thought you were.
+
+When I was a child, we were plagued with door to door salesmen.  My mother
+had a sign made up that was quite effective.
+
+"You have nothing to sell or give away that I am interested in. Please do
+not waste your time and mine by calling me to the door.
+                                                Thank You"
+
+I think that sentiment is appropriate here.  My error was not invoking it
+at the beginning.
+
+David Alexander
+
+
+STAR TREK: START OF VOYAGER #803030
+DATE: FRI AUG 26, 1994 4:37:07 AM
+
+     Today's DAILY VARIETY had a big article about the problems over on
+Voyager, titled CAPTAIN QUEST LEAVES ENTERPRISE ON AUTOPILOT.  (Some
+edits for space follow; nothing significant was omitted.)
+
+     "The search for a captain for "Star Trek: Voyager"...has at least
+reached yellow-alert status.  Though production was to begin next Monday,
+the show shut down Tuesday because of an inability to get a star, or even
+figure out whether to weave a male or female uniform...."
+
+     It talks about ST fans faxing Paramount "unhappy missives because of
+rumors the studio was trying to fill the role with a male actor."  Plans
+for a female character "has yet to yield a candidate acceptable to both
+the producers and Paramount."
+
+     It mentions some of the candidates, including Susan Gibney, then
+notes: "The studio, apparently concerned that the traditionally strong
+male demos of "Star Trek" warranted a male star, was initially cool to
+Gibney and widened the search to men.  Sources said the studio is high
+on Nigel Havers, the British actor known for 'Chariots of Fire.'
+
+     "Though speculation is the show could still begin shooting Monday
+around its non-cast, that would be a challenge.  Scripts would have to be
+rewritten depending on who gets the top job."
+
+     Last coment from the article: "Par might be skeptical about handing
+over the keys to the Enterprise to a woman," and then goes on to mention
+that the person being brought on potentially to run one of the new nets is
+a woman, which then goes off on another tangent.
+
+     If the studio would just let talented people like Jeri Taylor alone
+to do their job, they wouldn't be *in* this fix.  But it's The Franchise,
+and the studio doesn't ever want to do anything risky to endanger that
+franchise.
+
+                                                               jms
+BABYLON 5: QOM--RESURRECTIONIST #802640
+DATE: THURS AUG 25, 1994 9:06:31 PM
+
+     In my original thoughts about the episode, there was
+more of a con man ressurectionist angle to the show, which
+later got dropped.
+
+                                                  jms
+------------------------
+The following refer to "Believers".
+------------------------
+BABYLON 5: QOFM GOV'T HYPOCRISY #803999
+DATE: FRI AUG 26, 1994 11:34:10 PM
+
+     No, the parents were not charged with murder.  When a species
+on the station acts against one of their own kind in a particular
+way, and no other species is affected, they are judged by the laws
+that apply to their own species and culture.  In their culture,
+what they did is not a crime, so they received no punishment.  Had
+they done this to a human, then yes, they would have been charged
+with murder.
+
+                                                             jms
+BABYLON 5: QOFM GOV'T HYPOCRISY #805188
+DATE: SUN AUG 28, 1994 3:24:20 AM
+
+     The area that cannot be opened is the chest area, primarily;
+a nick or cut or scratch really doesn't count; it's puncturing to
+the body cavity wherein the soul is housed.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+STAR TREK: START OF VOYAGER #805619
+DATE: SUN AUG 28, 1994 6:11:15 PM
+
+     It wasn't my post, really; it was only a verbatim quote from
+DAILY VARIETY.  If he has a problem with the information, he should
+take his concern to DAILY VARIETY.
+
+     The only comment that I made within that post was that the studio
+should let people like Jeri Taylor do what they do best, which is
+make the show as good as it can be.  If that is problematic to Brannon,
+I can't for the life of me understand why.
+
+                                                                   jms
+BABYLON 5: BAB 5 ON PARAMOUNT #807136
+DATE: TUES AUG 30, 1994 12:19:17 AM
+
+     Paramount has nothing to do with Babylon 5.  B5 is distributed by
+Warner Bros. through PTEN (Prime Time Entertainment Network); though it
+appears on some Fox stations, Fox is in no way involved in the production
+of the show.
+
+     B5 will never be part of the Paramount network.
+
+                                                                     jms
+STAR TREK: VOYAGER == END OF TREK #807135
+DATE: TUES AUG 30, 1994 12:19:15 AM
+
+     Excuse me, but having created B5, it a) has nothing to do with
+Battlestar Galactica, which I totally disliked, and b) was developed
+prior to ST:TNG going on the air.
+
+     You're only bringing it in in an "Oh, yeah?!" sort of way.
+
+     Just because you're confused about ST don't drag B5 into this.
+
+                                                                jms
+STAR TREK: VOYAGER == END OF TREK #807327
+DATE: TUES AUG 30, 1994 3:50:01 AM
+
+     The first notes and drafts on Babylon 5 go back to 1976,
+though the first script wasn't finished until 1977/78.
+
+                                                          jms
+STAR TREK: *BUJOLD IS VOY CAPTAIN!* #808399
+DATE: WED AUG 31, 1994 2:07:20
+
+     Funny thing is...the word on the street is that Ed Marinara's agent
+was just about to release a press release (or did release one) last week
+stating that Ed was going to be the new captain.  If something happened
+at the last moment, then that's very interesting.
+
+     Either way, I think it's an excellent choice, and in the rush
+of people crediting Berman and Pillar, I think perhaps a few might
+want to credit Jeri Taylor, who was the most vigorous in pushing
+for this, and fought very hard for it.  As co-creator of Voyager,
+she often gets insufficient credit due to the familiarity of Berman
+and Pillar.  She keeps a lower profile, but don't lose sight of her.
+
+                                                                jms
+==============================================
+QUESTION #808463: Do you think the fan campaign for
+a female captain brought this about?
+==============================================
+STAR TREK: *BUJOLD IS VOY CAPTAIN* #808906
+DATE: WED AUG 31, 1994 6:33:00
+
+     I think that David Gerrold starting the campaign here and elsewhere
+was actually a big help.  How much a help it was to them getting what
+they wanted is something I don't know, because obviously I'm not there.
+But I'm sure it was a help to one degree or another.
+
+                                                                  jms
+BABYLON 5: TOP TEN LIST #807120
+DATE: TUES AUG 30, 1994 12:04:10 AM
+
+     People are also bound to say B5 folk can't do math.
+
+     There were 11 items in your top ten.
+
+     "Much apologizing...mathematics not Zathras' skill...."
+
+                                                       jms
+==============
+COMMENT: worried about Sinclair leaving
+==============
+BABYLON 5: BABYLON SQUARED #806642
+DATE: MON AUG 29, 1994 6:00:22 PM
+
+     Nope, the storyline still tracks just fine.  There's just
+no reason to have everyone static and stuck in the same place
+for the next X-years.
+
+                                                       jms
+BABYLON 5: OPENING MONOLOGUE #806645
+DATE: MON AUG 29, 1994 6:00:29 PM
+
+     Yes, we will definitely be changing the narration each year; the
+year two narration will likely be shorter, with some personal touch
+(I'm in the process of writing it now), and it'll vary in phraseology
+with each new narrator.
+
+                                                                  jms
+BABYLON 5: OPENING MONOLOGUE #807118
+DATE: TUES AUG 30, 1994 12:04:07 AM
+
+     Another way you'll know immediately what season it is, besides
+the voice, is that the date in each intro will vary; the date in the
+second season narration will be 2259, and so on.
+
+                                                           jms
+BABYLON 5: OPENING MONOLOGUE #809327
+DATE: THURS SEPT 1, 1994 1:13:17
+
+     The year mentioned in the pilot is 2257.
+
+     Year one of the series is 2258, year two is 2259, and so on.
+
+                                                            jms
+BABYLON 5: JUMP GATES #808393
+DATE: WED AUG 31, 1994 1:55:28
+
+     Jump gates aren't instantaneous; transit within a gate is usually
+a couple of days, though it seems a bit longer to those outside.
+
+                                                                  jms
+-------------
+BABYLON 5: B5 GRAVITY #808915
+DATE: WED AUG 31, 1994 6:46:05
+
+     The 2.5 million tons of spinning *metal* refers only to that part,
+the metal casing.  It doesn't include the furniture, the structures,
+the Garden, the 250,000 humans and aliens...so the total mass of the thing
+is MUCH greater than the 2.5 megatons.  Also, the body was shoved out of
+the area around the cargo bay, non-rotating, which would also cut down on
+the momentum (as opposed to shoving out out of the rotating part, where
+it would speed away at 1g).
+
+                                                                   jms
+---------------
+BABYLON 5: QOFM GOV'T HYPOCRISY #805188
+DATE: SUN AUG 28, 1994 3:24:20 AM
+
+     The area that cannot be opened is the chest area,
+primarily; a nick or cut or scratch really doesn't count;
+it's puncturing to the body cavity wherein the soul is housed.
+
+                                                      jms
+BABYLON 5: BELIEVERS #806643
+DATE: MON AUG 29, 1994 6:00:24 PM
+
+     Actually, I disagree when you say that the doctor was right.
+Says who?  Not the parents.  Not the episode.  Nobody was really
+right, when you come down to it, except maybe Sinclair, who made
+the correct call.  You say the boy was okay at the end...the parents
+didn't think so.  Who's to say if there was or wasn't a soul inside?
+
+     I think David's script walked a very fine line and really didn't
+endorse either side.  (I've had people send me email upset because we
+showed that the parents were right, and others because we said the doctor
+was right, and others because neither was right and the ambiguity
+bothered them.)
+
+                                                                   jms
+====================================
+COMMENT #807555: <right == consistency with one's own beliefs,
+so *everybody* was right>
+====================================
+BABYLON 5: BELIEVERS #807741
+DATE: TUES AUG 30, 1994 5:19:03 PM
+
+     There's a wonderful scene in "Fiddler on the Roof" where Tevya
+is caught in an argument between two Rabbis.  The first one makes
+a point. "You're right!" Tevya says.  The second Rabbi makes a
+contradictory point. "You're right!" Tevya says.  A third Rabbi,
+looking on, says, "Wait a minute, they can't *both* be right."
+
+     "You know," Tevya says, "you're right too."
+
+                                                              jms
+BABYLON 5: BELIEVERS #807119
+DATE: TUES AUG 30, 1994 12:04:08 AM
+
+     A lot of our episodes are constructed to work as mirrors; you see
+what you put into it.  "Believers" has been interpreted as pro-religion,
+anti- religion, and religion-neutral..."Quality" has been interpreted,
+as you note, as pro-capital punishment, and anti-capital punishment.  We
+do, as you say, much prefer to leave the decision on what things mean
+to the viewer to hash out.
+
+     A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and
+the occasional bar fight.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+BABYLON 5: "MIDNIGHT" OBSERVATION #807760
+DATE: TUES AUG 30, 1994 5:57:01 PM
+
+     Re: the elevator/transport tube gag...yes, we set this stuff up
+WAY in advance.  The first time is in the tube where he tells Talia
+about his second favorite thing in the universe. The second time is
+in "Mind War" when he gives her the mental once-over and she belts him.
+And then we paid it off later with her line about him always being there.
+
+     One nice thing about the way we're doing this show is that we don't
+just have to set up gags within an episode; we can set them up *weeks*
+ahead of time, as long as the payoff is self-contained, but then when
+you see the earlier shows, now you get more out of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+========================================
+QUESTION #807890: (1) Rerun date for B^2? (2) In AtSFoS, is GC#1 the
+Minbari at the end, or the one with the staff? (3) Credits
+for B^2 GCs (#1 w/staff, #2 speaking role)
+========================================
+BABYLON 5: CREDIT CLARIFICATION #808394
+DATE: WED AUG 31, 1994 1:55:30
+
+     Not sure on the rerun for "B-squared."
+
+     Mark Henrickson was the...rounder of the two Minbari.
+The one with the staff wanted to go uncredited.
+
+                                                       jms
+BABYLON 5: CREDIT CLARIFICATION #808905
+DATE: WED AUG 31, 1994 6:33:30
+
+     No real reason, he just felt it would be better for the character
+to remain mysterious; and since it really wasn't a big part, it wouldn't
+make a real difference one way or another in his credits and resume.
+(I know that sounds weird, but as near as I can determine, that's
+the reason.  He did a great job, and we're looking forward to having him
+again.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+========================================
+QUESTION #805920: Are Londo's appendages in addition to or
+instead of human-type "appendages"?
+========================================
+BABYLON 5: JUNE LOCKHART EPISODE #805997
+DATE: SUN AUG 28, 1994 11:49:14 PM
+
+     That would be instead of, not in addition to.
+
+                                               jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 CAST ANNOUNCEMENT! #805620
+DATE: SUN AUG 28, 1994 6:11:18 PM
+
+     We decided to try an even stranger approach, and have Sinclair
+show up again about *mid-way through* the second season once or twice.
+There needs to be some mystery to his departure, which being there to
+shepherd the New Guy would destroy.
+
+     And at the same time, the comic from DC will follow the Sinclair
+line after he leaves B5 for the first four issues in particular, starting
+by showing the flip-side of what happens in the first episode.
+
+     What you suggest is perfectly reasonable; I agree that the tactic
+should be unusual.  And we think this may well qualify....
+
+                                                                  jms
+BABYLON 5: O'HARE/SINCLAIR-WHY??? #805194
+DATE: SUN AUG 28, 1994 3:38:30 AM
+
+     Actually, yes, I believe there is a Michael O'Hare Fan Club; I saw
+a posting on Internet about it...maybe someone else here saw it and can
+relay the details.
+
+     I have, btw, now seen the finished (minus music and some minimal EFX)
+first episode of B5 with Bruce.  We did the producer's cut yesterday, and
+I have to say that I think it's very nice.  Last season's first episode was,
+I think (and as I said at the time), a bit less than it could've been from
+a characterization point of view.  That was something we grew into slowly
+over the course of the season.
+
+     In this year two first-episode, there's a lot of humor, some
+interesting plot turns, and a very solid emphasis on the characters.
+It's sort of a sandwich episode; "Chrysalis," the last year one episode
+(which apparently will air a week prior to season two's debut), is
+*extremely* intense...so is the second episode of year two, "Revelations."
+People are going to need some respite from that, and "Points of Departure"
+does this quite nicely.
+
+     And Bruce does a wonderful job in the role.  He's brought a lot to
+the table, and I think people are going to be very pleased.
+
+                                                                  jms
+=====================================
+QUESTION #808145: When is Garibaldi going to get a girlfriend?
+=====================================
+BABYLON 5: O'HARE/SINCLAIR: WHY??? #808395
+DATE: WED AUG 31, 1994 1:55:31
+
+     Garibaldi will get something going next season....
+
+                                                     jms
+BABYLON 5: BORING B5 #805621
+DATE: SUN AUG 28, 1994 6:11:20 PM
+
+     DC Fontana has turned in her first scripts this season,
+"A Distant Star," which will be seen as episode #4, and will
+likely begin another very soon.  I have a story for David Gerrold,
+which I'm futzing with just a bit more before giving it to him
+to develop.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+========
+QUESTION #805938: <from SH, Infection, & QoM, poster has inferred
+a finder's-keepers rule for wrecked ships, artifacts> But what about
+genetic material from corpses found in wrecked spacecraft?
+(e.g. Narns & telepaths)
+========
+BABYLON 5: SALVAGE RIGHTS #805998
+DATE: SUN AUG 28, 1994 11:49:15 PM
+
+     Still working on that bit.
+
+                             jms
+BABYLON 5: TIME-WARNER&MERGERS #809789
+DATE: THURS SEPT 1, 1994 4:51:00
+
+     You kind of have to begin this conversation with the understanding
+that my grasp of matters corporate is not exactly breathtaking; I'm not
+quite an idiot on such matters, but I can do a darned good imitation
+some days.
+
+     Disclaimers aside...in general, the more you tend to concentrate power
+over artistic affairs and programming and the creation of TV series in an
+increasingly smaller number of people, I think the worse it is overall for
+the industry.  Let's say you make a fairly eccentric product.  If there are
+500 buyers in the room, the odds are decent that you'll find somebody who
+resonates with your ideas.  If suddenly the number of potential buyers
+decrease to 10, then the odds of your ever selling that project become
+substantially less.
+
+     I can see the fiscal advantage in owning the point of creation and
+production, and the point of distribution, in a studio/network merger.
+It gives you considerably greater control, and greater revenue sources;
+you don't have to worry about the distributer cross-collatoralizing your
+revenue streams against fees they shouldn't be charging.  But then that's
+really the point...it's a *financial* decision, not a creative one, and
+though I know that showbiz *is* a BUSINESS, still that sort of approach
+worries me just a bit.
+
+                                                                     jms
+BABYLON 5: TIME-WARNER&MERGERS #810235
+DATE: THURS SEPT 1, 1994 11:57:10
+
+     Thanks for your comments.  As it happens, your comments were echoed
+today by no less than Leslie Stevens (with Joe Stefano the force behind
+THE OUTER LIMITS), who came by the studio for a tour, just to say how much
+he loves the show, and the details, and the care with which we produce it.
+He's just enamored of the whole thing, and coming from him, that's high
+praise indeed.  A very nice and gentle man.
+
+     To the question of producing LoTR for TV...there are two competing
+aspects to the question: desire and practicality.  A lot of writer/producers
+(viz: folks like me) would *love* beyond the telling the chance to do LoTR.
+The flip side of this is the practicality of trying something that truly
+massive from a budgetary and location point of view, which would scare off
+the networks.  Right now, simply from a physical standpoint, it couldn't
+be done effectively, no matter how much you spent.  Virtually *all* the
+locations would have to be built, though you might be able to go on
+location for a few things like castles and forests.  But how would you do
+Mordor?  Or Lothorien?  Or the Shire?  Or Rivendell?  Or the high seat
+where Frodo has his vision?
+
+     In another 5-10 years, when virtual sets have been further perfected,
+to real three-dimension realism, you might be able to do the show for
+something short of the national budget.  And then it might become feasible
+for the networks to try.  Maybe.  You'd have to do it over a period of
+six years, one year per half-book.  Otherwise there's just way too much
+in the way of shifting locations.
+
+     I'm just not sure if LoTR *should* be done for TV.  Perhaps some
+things should remain sacrosanct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+=================
+QUESTION #810583: Can you tell us anything about the relative
+scale of B5's realm, e.g. Earth's distance to B5, Minbar's
+distance to B5?
+=================
+BABYLON 5: THE B5 GALAXY #810799
+DATE: FRI SEPT 2, 1994 9:04:06 PM
+
+     I'm in the process of putting that together in one place
+for easier reference; it's something we've worked out, piecemeal,
+but not gathered together.
+
+                                                            jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 - GRAVITY #810800
+DATE: FRI SEPT 2, 1994 9:04:07 PM
+
+     RE: maximum speed...obviously there's no maximum save for
+the speed of light, but there's a maximum of what any particular
+vessel can travel. There is a maximum speed that the Pioneer
+can travel, or the space shuttle. So there is a similar cap on
+Starfury accelleration.  I'm not sure I see what your concern is here.
+
+                                                             jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 - GRAVITY #810982
+DATE: SAT SEPT 3, 1994 1:20:06
+
+     "Either way, "speed" does not in any way equal "thrust," folks."
+
+     Sorry.  It does.
+
+     The maximum thrust your ship can give you is equal to the maximum
+speed your ship can travel, particularly since fuel is finite.  Given
+an infinite amount of fuel, and infinite amounts of time, you can build
+up a pretty good head of steam.  But Starfuries have neither.
+
+     Maximum thrust results, short-term, in maximum speed.  The rest is
+quibbling over semantics.  And pilots are notable for using shorthand.
+They may not say, "Utilize F15 rocket engines to maximum thrust."  They
+may say, "Hit it!"
+
+     If maximum thrust provides the top speed your ship can travel, then
+maximum speed is perfectly acceptable, and interchangeable.  (And we
+generally use thrust anyway.)
+
+                                                                   jms
+BABYLON 5: "CREDIT" CARDS #811560
+DATE: SAT SEPT 3, 1994 11:19:12
+
+     The credit chits work differently depending on who you are.  If
+you work for B5, your salary is tied into your credit chit, and you
+pay accordingly.  If you're a visitor from elsewhere, bringing in
+non-Earth currency, you exchange that currency (as Aldous noted
+in "Grail"), much as you do now.  Difference is, you turn in the currency
+at the B5 exchange.  It is processed on the current rate of exchange,
+and you are issued a credit chit programmed with an amount equal to
+whatever you brought in.  You use it the same way as a credit card,
+until it runs out, then it's rejected until you "recharge" it by
+exchanging more currency.
+
+     It's also tied into your identicard, which has every available fact
+about you.
+
+     Interestingly enough, I just saw an article in, I believe, WIRED,
+which noted that Sweden had just launched on a program of using this
+exact same device, same system, on a trial basis.
+
+                                                                  jms
+BABYLON 5: BORING B5 #810236
+DATE: THURS SEPT 1, 1994 11:57:12
+
+     Berman/Pillar have said, repeatedly, in and out of print, of ST:
+"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."  Meaning don't change it.  Which,
+you have to admit, makes a great deal of fiscal sense.  It's a great
+franchise, a license to print money...why take a chance on messing
+it up by doing something unusual or potentially controversial?
+
+                                                                jms
+STAR TREK: VOYAGER - MONEY #810564
+DATE: FRI SEPT 2, 1994 3:22:19 PM
+
+     If I can be permitted one personal, editorial aside....
+
+     I'm on a lot of nets.  More than I like to think about.
+And I tend to keep an eye on various discussions.  I've been
+tracking the Voyager talks for a while now.  (And BTW, if for
+no other reason than it was co-created by Jeri Taylor, I wish
+the show nothing but success.  Let's clarify that from the git-go.)
+And I've seen a lot of people, not necessarily you, I'm just
+thinking out loud and your message was in front of me when I
+started to do so...saying "Let's keep an open mind, give the show
+a chance, don't belittle it without seeing it, exercise tolerance."
+
+     I also recognize names...and quite a few of those names (again,
+I'm not directing this at you) are the same folks who've said that
+Babylon 5 would be crap before it aired...and who refuse to watch it,
+or even give it a chance....
+
+     As Kelsey said in "Mind War," "There are rules...and then there
+are rules."  One would wish that same open-mindedness would apply to
+some areas outside ST.
+
+                                                                  jms
+BABYLON 5: BORING B5 #811565
+DATE: SAT SEPT 3, 1994 11:31:24
+
+     Here is one other way, responding to that thread of your message,
+in which B5 differs in the area of merchandise.
+
+     You mention, correctly, that Richard Arnold read and approved all
+the ST stuff...comics, novels, whatever.
+
+     I work directly with DC on the comics line.  I approve artwork,
+stories, script and cover art.  I work directly with Dell Books on
+the B5 novels, approving outline, cover art, and full novels.  (I'm
+currently about 1/2 through John Vornholt's first B5 novel, and hope
+to get my notes -- minimal, it's a good book -- back to Dell by the end
+of the coming week.)
+
+     The result of this is that there won't ever be the mountain of
+licensing on B5 that you've come to associate with ST.  Which is fine.
+I wouldn't want that much.  What there is, has to be consistent in tone
+and quality with everything else.  This is a story, not a franchise.
+
+                                                                  jms
+BABYLON 5: MARIE CELESTE #811566
+DATE: SAT SEPT 3, 1994 11:32:01
+
+     As well as the transport Marie Celeste, the new B5 Earthforce Club
+is named Earhart's (as in Amelia).
+
+                                                                  jms
+BABYLON 5: JMS SECRETS #810362
+DATE: FRI SEPT 2, 1994 4:35:01 AM
+
+     I've spoken before of Norman Corwin.  For those who might've missed
+it, Norman Corwin is one of the finest writers that this country has ever
+produced.  At the height of the radio drama age, there was no one better
+or bigger...not Orson Welles or Arch Oboler.  Nobody.
+
+     He has been an inspiration to countless writers.  Charles Kuralt. Rod
+Serling.  Ray Bradbury (who began his career trying to write like Norman).
+He is, not to put too fine a point on it, a writer's writer. He is the
+wellspring from which many of our finest writers can trace their origin.
+Speaking as one tiny trickle in this momentous flood, I can certify his
+influence on my own work.
+
+     Some have commented on the style of writing in Babylon 5, and in some
+of my previous work.  While much can be laid at the feet of Harlan Ellison,
+much of my influence can also be traced to Norman Corwin, who taught me not
+just how to write, but what it meant to BE a writer.  I cannot commend his
+work to you highly enough.  If you have a love of language, of a story well
+told, of fiction with a conscience and a point of view, then Norman's your
+man.  Some of you may remember "A Prayer for the 70s," written by Norman,
+which I posted a while back. A work of absolute genius, in a career peppered
+with awards, and recognition by the U.N. and others.
+
+     Many of you have asked for more information about Norman's work. To
+that end I offer the following information:
+
+     Norman has a new book out, that is just hitting the stands.  It is
+entitled NORMAN CORWIN'S LETTERS, edited by A. J. Langguth.  It's in
+hardcover from Barricade Books, ISBN #0-9623032-5-9.  It is an amazing
+volume, full of inspiration and humor and the occasional thunder-and-lightning.
+
+     You will find letters to and from such notables -- friends of Norman's
+-- as Carl Sandburg, Ray Bradbury, Bette Davis, Stanley Kramer, Groucho
+Marx, Greer Garson, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Edward R.
+Murrow, Anthony Quinn, Rod Serling, Leonard Bernstein, Erik Barnouw,
+Archibald MacLeish, Stan Freberg, Walter Cronkite, Norman Cousins, Studs
+Terkel, Eric Sevareid, Philip Dunne, Bill Moyers, Gregory Peck...the list
+goes on and on.
+
+     The letters are documents of a life, funny and outraged and thoughtful...
+and beautifully written beyond my capacity to describe it to you.  If you
+are a writer, or interested in writing, I can commend no book to you higher
+than this one.
+
+     If as a Babylon 5 viewer you'd like to get a better grasp of what
+inspired me to pursue my career, and has helped make that dream a reality...
+I recommend to you the works of Norman Corwin, starting with this book.
+
+     If you need any further encouragement to go out *today* and get a copy
+of this book, then let me simply suggest that you call up a copy of Who's
+Who, and look up who Norman Corwin is.  I don't think you'll need additional
+encouragement thereafter.
+
+                                                           jms
+BABYLON 5: JUMP GATES #810363
+DATE: FRI SEPT 2, 1994 4:35:06 AM
+
+     Wellllllll...he said, smiling......yes, we're going to be showing
+the insides of Hyperspace on several occasions this coming season.  We've
+been working on the design, and it's *really* cool...dark and dangerous
+and very weird looking.  AND we're doing more POV stuff from within ships
+and cockpits.  It's very neat stuff.
+
+                                                                    jms
+BABYLON 5: ORIGINAL 2ND IN COMMAND #810556
+DATE: FRI SEPT 2, 1994 2:53:06 PM
+
+     There were a number of reasons why Laurel Takashima was reassigned.
+Primary among them...Tamlyn is a wonderful romantic lead in feature films
+and television.  She felt less than comfortable with her performance as a
+command officer.  It's not really the kind of thing she tends to do.  So
+we discussed it, and all parties decided it would be best if we sought out
+someone else.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+BABYLON 5: TOP TEN LIST #807050
+FROM: JAN FENNICK, 71670,254 (REPOSTED BY AUTHOR'S PERMISSION)
+DATE: MON AUG 29, 11:31:08 PM
+
+This following top ten list is going to be published in the newsletter
+I help edit called "Continuous Future Experience" which is a pop culture
+thingee about stuff we (meaning my editor in chief and other writers)
+like.  Anyway, thought you'd get a kick out of it in light of the current
+"Boring B5" discussion. (disclaimer:  this is meant to be humourous)
+
+Top Ten Reasons Why *Real* Science Fiction Fans Don't Like Babylon 5
+by Ian Prydon
+
+1. It's not "Classic" Star Trek.
+2. It's not Star Trek: The Next Generation.
+3. It's not Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
+4. It's not as good as Star Trek: Voyager is going to be.
+5. It's not Doctor Who.
+6. It's not Blake's 7.
+7. It's not Star Trek: The Animated Series.
+8. There aren't enough half dressed buxom babes to keep my interest.
+   And the girls they have on there are too smart.
+9. There aren't any Klingons, Romulans, Vulcans, Cardassians
+   or Ferengis on the show.
+10. I don't get most of the plots. And they don't even explain everything
+    by the end of the program.
+11. There isn't any neat merchandising stuff to spend my money on.
+
+BABYLON 5: TOP TEN LIST #807120
+DATE: TUES AUG 30, 1994 12:04:10 AM
+
+     People are also bound to say B5 folk can't do math.
+
+     There were 11 items in your top ten.
+
+     "Much apologizing...mathematics not Zathras' skill...."
+
+                                                       jms
+BABYLON 5: TOP TEN LIST #807257
+FROM: JAN FENNICK (REPOSTED BY AUTHOR'S PERMISSION)
+DATE: TUES AUG 30, 1994 2:02:20 AM
+
+>>People are also bound to say B5 folk can't do math.
+>>There were 11 items in your top ten.
+
+The author did that intentionally.  Just a little test to see who
+is awake out there. :-D  The other test is the author's name itself.
+Eventually, I'm planning on writing a critical review of B5 Season 1
+but right now I'm trying to finish an article on how all 7 seasons
+of ST:TNG were like a brontosaurus; very thin at one end, very thick
+in the middle and then thin again at the end. (honest)
+
+DATE: TUES AUG 30, 1994 3:50:06 AM #807328
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+     Critical review for whom?
+
+                                   jms
+BABYLON 5: TOP TEN LIST #807452
+FROM: JAN FENNICK (REPOSTED BY AUTHOR'S PERMISSION)
+DATE: TUES AUG 30, 1994 9:59:29 AM
+
+Continous Future Experience, the soon to be launched newsletter
+my friend and I are editing.  Just another desktop publication,
+but we're trying to have fun with it.  As I mentioned in my last
+post, it's just a pop culture newsletter about 'stuff we like'.
+And what our writers like, too.  Some of it will be serious
+and some of it goofy, like the top 10 list.  It's kind of surreal
+since several of the writers will actually be writing columns
+as different personas.  If you'd like, is there a snail mail address
+for Babylonian Productions?  I'll make sure you're on the mailing list.
+
+BABYLON 5: B5 AT THE HUGOS #811661
+DATE: SUN SEP 4, 1994 2:26:22
+
+     We don't have any trailers.  Never been made.  As it was, the
+only one we had access to was one put together by John (Fenn) Hudgens,
+from GEnie, who made this one for his own interest, and sent us a copy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 AT THE HUGOS #812234
+DATE: MON SEP 5, 1994 4:12:05
+
+     No B5 bible has ever been authorized for sale, no.
+
+                                                    jms
+BABYLON 5: HOMAGE, OR PLAGIARISM? #812629
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: MON SEP 5, 1994 4:47:14
+
+     To deal with your points one by one...may I first suggest widening
+your reading background a bit.  I'm amazed that you can say, of "regular
+signals repeated at specific intervals" that this is a steal from ALIENS.
+I would suggest that you do some reading in the SETI literature; this is
+the first test for detecting a communications signal from space.  There
+are monitoring stations set up all over the place listening for just this
+kind of signal. Not ALIENS, just plain old science.
+
+     RE: missiles...many people here and on other nets asked if we would
+see missiles in an episode of B5; they said they were tired of everything
+just being beams.  So I opted to use missiles.  They are a perfectly valid
+means of defense.  They had nothing to do with HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE.
+===============================
+NOTE from MLW: This isn't a typographical error---JMS forgot
+to put in his signature.
+================================
+BABYLON 5: JMS SECRETS #812140
+DATE: MON SEP 5, 1994 12:12:23
+
+     Actually, Norman is still with us, and working every bit as much
+and as hard as ever.  He has a second book coming out in about a month,
+part of the Directors Guild oral-history series, based on a bunch of
+interviews they conducted with him.  At age 84, he can still write
+rings around nearly everyone else in the business.
+
+                                                                 jms
+BABYLON 5: JUMP GATES #811966
+DATE: SUN SEP 4, 1994 6:18:11
+
+     Travel from point A to point B takes some amount of time.  But when
+you're near your destination, you can wait in hyperspace and choose to
+come out at a specific moment.  There's considerable speculation that
+both the Minbari and Vorlons have ships standing by in hyperspace, at
+various locations, in case they're needed quickly.  (In the pilot movie,
+Laurel Takashima even mentions that they are probably doing this.)  It's
+a correlation to the TOT (Time On Target) philosophy; you can send ships
+in from various sectors, have them lurk in hyperspace, then all come out
+at once.
+
+                                                                  jms
+BABYLON 5: JUMP GATES #812141
+DATE: MON SEP 5, 1994 12:12:24
+
+     Actually, T.O.T. comes from 20th century nuke technology.  The
+origins of this come from the need to sometimes launch ICBMs at
+staggered intervals, but on a launch and flight vector such that
+they all land at the same time, for greatest impact.
+
+                                                          jms
+BABYLON 5: ALIENS #811978
+DATE: SUN SEP 4, 1994 6:34:03
+
+     We've had other kinds of aliens, including the CGI creature
+in "Grail," and we're doing more non-humanoid stuff in year two,
+mixing prosthetics with CGI.
+
+     What you have to understand, though, is that if you're going
+to have a character BE a character, alien or not, you've basically
+got two choices: put a human actor in makeup of some kind or other,
+or you use puppets or animatronics, and in general the technology
+to realize that still isn't enough to make it really lifelike.
+
+     Also, interestingly enough, I spoke to a lot of folks who know
+biology and genetics and have an interest in xenobiology...and what
+they said was that the basic humanoid configuration is the ideal one
+from an evolutionary standpoint.  Logically, you need minimum two hands
+to grasp, and an opposable thumb (or two) to utilize tools; you want
+your sensors at the highest part of your body in order to detect prey
+and predators; you'll want legs instead of crawlers to run away from
+predators more effectively, and because lower motor areas such as legs
+are useful in controlling elements of technology; two legs are more
+useful than four for getting through narrow areas and being more limber....
+
+     The analysis goes on, but you get the idea.  And just as one last
+thought in your direction...whatever one may think of UFO sightings,
+you'll note that all of them have been of humanoid shapes, not one
+slithering BEM in the bunch.
+
+                                                                jms
+BABYLON 5: ALIENS #812143
+DATE: MON SEP 5, 1994 12:12:28
+
+     Which is exactly the point...alien life forms conceived in
+fiction novels can be as strange as you want.  You can do anything.
+You can have a conversation with sentient pocket lint if you like.
+The question becomes, what's practical and do-able in a visual medium?
+What works on the page does not necessarily work on the stage.
+
+                                                           jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 COMIC SOLICITED #812144
+DATE: MON SEP 5, 1994 12:18:14
+
+     I'm with you.  I just turned 40, and have a comics habit to the tune
+of $30-$40 per week.  To anyone who still thinks comics are for kids, I
+would heartily recommend SANDMAN by Neil Gaiman (separate from Sandman
+Mystery title, done by Matt Wagner, which is great, but may not be as
+accessible). Neil does some amazing stuff.  Ditto Frank Miller, currently
+publishing in MARTHA WASHINGTON GOES TO WAR.  The form is really coming
+into its own.
+
+                                                                   jms
+BABYLON 5: JUMP GATES #812808
+DATE: MON SEP 5, 1994 8:20:00
+
+     I think that the Eye was returned the next day, so there was
+a goodly span between Ladira's vision, and the scene in Londo's quarters.
+
+                                                                   jms
+========================================
+QUESTION #812303: Why is it called the *Gray* Council? Because
+they are between light and dark?
+=========================================
+BABYLON 5: GRAY COUNCIL #812652
+DATE: MON SEP 5, 1994 5:04:30
+
+     Yes.  As Delenn says when she takes her place in the Council,
+"I am grey; I stand between the candle, and the star; we are Grey,
+we stand between the darkness, and the light."
+
+                                                              jms
+STAR TREK: VOYAGER - MONEY #811965
+DATE: SUN SEP 4, 1994 6:18:04
+
+     One thing we have in common is that we're both fans of SF.  And like
+you, I've largely felt disappointed by TV-SF in the past.  Which was one
+reason for wanting to try it myself.
+
+     Generalizing this discussion past my own show and ST for a moment,
+I think there's some cause for hope.  One of the reasons, perhaps *the*
+primary reason, why much of the prior SF shows have been less than they
+could've been, or hooked around a gimmick rather than character stuff,
+is that they were generally cobbled together by people who didn't know
+the genre, didn't respect the genre.
+
+     Now we're entering a period where folks like George RR Martin and
+Melinda Snodgrass and Michael Cassutt and others who are SF literate
+are getting into positions where they can run shows.  And I think that,
+with time, this will further increase the amount and quality of TV SF.
+
+                                                                  jms
+BABYLON 5: MARIE CELESTE #811566
+DATE: SAT SEP 3, 1994 11:32:01
+
+     As well as the transport Marie Celeste, the new B5 Earthforce Club
+is named Earhart's (as in Amelia).
+
+                                                                   jms
+BABYLON 5: "CREDIT" CARDS #811560
+DATE: SAT SEP 3, 1994 11:19:12
+
+     The credit chits work differently depending on who you are.  If
+you work for B5, your salary is tied into your credit chit, and you
+pay accordingly.  If you're a visitor from elsewhere, bringing in
+non-Earth currency, you exchange that currency (as Aldous noted in
+"Grail"), much as you do now.  Difference is, you turn in the currency
+at the B5 exchange.  It is processed on the current rate of exchange,
+and you are issued a credit chit programmed with an amount equal to
+whatever you brought in.  You use it the same way as a credit card,
+until it runs out, then it's rejected until you "recharge" it by
+exchanging more currency.
+
+     It's also tied into your identicard, which has every available fact
+about you.
+
+     Interestingly enough, I just saw an article in, I believe, WIRED,
+which noted that Sweden had just launched on a program of using this
+exact same device, same system, on a trial basis.
+
+                                                                 jms
+BABYLON 5: BORING B5 #811565
+DATE: SAT SEP 3, 1994 11:31:24
+
+     Here is one other way, responding to that thread of your message,
+in which B5 differs in the area of merchandise.
+
+     You mention, correctly, that Richard Arnold read and approved all
+the ST stuff...comics, novels, whatever.
+
+     I work directly with DC on the comics line.  I approve artwork,
+stories, script and cover art.  I work directly with Dell Books on
+the B5 novels, approving outline, cover art, and full novels.  (I'm
+currently about 1/2 through John Vornholt's first B5 novel, and hope to
+get my notes -- minimal, it's a good book -- back to Dell by the end
+of the coming week.)
+
+     The result of this is that there won't ever be the mountain of
+licensing on B5 that you've come to associate with ST.  Which is fine.
+I wouldn't want that much.  What there is, has to be consistent in
+tone and quality with everything else.  This is a story, not a franchise.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+
+DATE: TUES SEPT 6, 1994 3:47:17  #813447
+
+     No, actually, Stewart Copeland has done a lot of other soundtracks,
+for the Rhythmitist, and for the Equalizer series.  He wanted to do
+some touring and an album after the pilot, which precluded doing the series.
+
+                                                                   jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 COMIC SOLICITED #813095
+DATE: TUES SEP 6, 1994 12:50:12
+
+     Yeah, Cerebus is good, though lately it seems like we're getting
+far too little artwork and way too much text.
+
+                                                                 jms
+BABYLON 5: C4 BAN B5(TKO) #814082
+DATE: WED SEP 7, 1994
+
+     "I wonder if JMS has an opinion on the scheduling (and banning)
+of his work?"
+
+     Absolutely.
+
+                                                                    jms
+BABYLON 5: ALIENS #812943
+DATE: MON SEP 5, 1994 10:33:10
+
+     "Why were all of those alien lifeforms living in glass tanks
+with no privacy?"
+
+     Why do you think alien lifeforms feel the same way about privacy
+that humans do?
+
+                                                                 jms
+BABYLON 5: PRISONER STYLE END? #812651
+DATE: MON SEPT 5, 1994 5:04:28
+
+     There are guarantees short of the grave.
+
+     That said...I think the ending for the B5 storyline is pretty cool.
+
+     That said...I don't think it's really about the ending.  The ending
+is simply where the story finally stops.  Look at the ending of THE LORD
+OF THE RINGS.  Frodo back in the shire (though not entirely the same shire
+it was when he left), glad that it's all over.
+
+     The climax of the story isn't always the same as the end of the story.
+The climax of LoTR would be when the ring is returned to the fire, and
+destroyed, in my view.  Others might say that Aragorn being returned as
+the kind would be the climax.  The fact is there's SO much going on in
+those books that it's hard to pick any one as being *the* climax.
+
+     In THE PRISONER, it was all centered on one question: will he or
+will he not get off the island, and who's behind it?  (Okay, that's two
+questions, but they're associated.)  B5 isn't built around ANY one question.
+It has a lot of different pieces and threads, each with their own arc,
+like LoTR.  Look at the LENSMAN books.  Same thing.
+
+     Will you be satisfied by the ending?  More to the question, are you
+being satisfied by the beginning, and the journey so far?  That's the more
+telling question.  B5 is more about the journey than the destination, though
+you have to craft one hell of a climax and a solid ending nonetheless.
+
+     You're also asking us to make a subjective decision that really
+only you can make.  You didn't like the ending of THE PRISONER.  I
+think it's nifty.  It's obvious that some stuff was thrown in just to
+get weird; but a lot of it wasn't, and you really have to sit down and
+parse through the thing to get maximum meaning out of it.  It's not as
+absurd as it looks.
+
+     Watch the show for as long as you enjoy the journey.
+
+                                                                       jms
+BABYLON 5: PRISONER STYLE END? #814081
+DATE: WED SEPT 7, 1994 
+     I've had occasion to talk to a number of people who were involved
+in the production of THE PRISONER, and there's one very interesting aspect
+they give to the events.
+
+     What they say is that #6 resigned *expecting* to get kidnapped,
+that he had heard about the Village, and protested, and deliberately
+put himself in the position of being taken there in order to prove
+his thesis: that the whole value of the thing could be proven worthless
+if even *one man* was able to defy what was supposed to be an unbreakable
+and inescapeable system. So there was really no mystery about why he
+resigned, except among the lower level flunkies...but they wanted him to
+*say* it, to prove they could break him.
+
+     (Further proof to this theory is in the main titles, the way
+he drives and never looks back, despite being followed...when the gas
+enters his room, he looks up and just for a second, there's a very definite
+smile on his face, a "good, let's get on with it, then" expression.  His
+glance out the window, almost a knowing, parting glance...then away.)
+
+     And so, at the end, he has proven his point.  The unbreakable machine
+is broken, its usefulness destroyed.  Unless he should choose to join it
+and run it, his resolution *not* to be broken being strong enough probably
+to break anyone else like him.  But he refuses, and when he does so,
+it all comes apart.
+
+     The irony, of course, being that once he's back, and he enters
+his own apartment...the door opens and closes automatically, just like
+in the Village...implying that when you come down to it, we're *all*
+in the Village every day, all of us.
+
+                                                                   jms
+BABYLON 5: HOMAGE, OR PLAGIARISM? #812629
+DATE: MON SEPT 5, 1994 4:47:14
+
+     To deal with your points one by one...may I first suggest widening
+your reading background a bit.  I'm amazed that you can say, of "regular
+signals repeated at specific intervals" that this is a steal from ALIENS.
+I would suggest that you do some reading in the SETI literature; this is
+the first test for detecting a communications signal from space.  There
+are monitoring stations set up all over the place listening for just this
+kind of signal. Not ALIENS, just plain old science.
+
+     RE: missiles...many people here and on other nets asked if we would
+see missiles in an episode of B5; they said they were tired of everything
+just being beams.  So I opted to use missiles.  They are a perfectly valid
+means of defense.  They had nothing to do with HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE.
+===============
+(Mr Straczynski omitted his sig on the above.)
+===============
+QUESTION/APOLOGY #813292: apology from poster JMS responded to in #812629;
+in Homage or Plagiarism thread; unintentional offence
+===============
+BABYLON 5: HOMAGE OR PLAGIARISM? #813445
+DATE: TUES SEP 6, 1994 3:47:13
+
+     Understood.  No problems here.
+
+                                    jms
+BABYLON 5: HOMAGE, OR PLAGIARISM? #813443
+DATE: TUES SEP 6, 1994 3:47:09
+
+     Sorry, I'm not going to let you run this number on me.  I have been
+on line and receiving criticism -- good and bad -- since the pilt went on
+the air.  And agreeing with much of it.  I've taken *immense* amounts of
+criticism.
+
+     What bothered me in the message, and what you didn't address, is
+the difference between a *criticism* and an *allegation*.  Look at the
+header of this message.  HOMAGE OR PLAGIARISM.  Had the header read,
+simply, HOMAGE? I wouldn't have had a problem.  But what it says -- and
+again, words have meaning -- is "Is this a tribute, or is it theft?"
+There is a quantum difference between criticism, and accusing someone of
+a crime.
+
+     For some reason, some people just leap to this.  David Gerrold had
+to fend off the allegations that he ripped off Peter David's novel.  Some
+people think that if there is any similarity in theme, it has to be theft.
+And they're too quick to throw around terms like plagiarism without
+understanding what they are saying, and what the impact is.  And then when
+they get called on it, they say the person's being defensive and doesn't
+want criticism...as you just did.
+
+     Wrong.  It's not a matter of God jumping on anybody.  I'm sorry, but
+I see 500 messages a day, most of them with a suggestion or a criticism.
+I don't jump on people unless there's a reason.  I've been here on this
+forum talking about this a long time, and the people here know that.  The
+day you can wade through 500 messages a day dissecting what YOU do for
+a living, then you can come talk to me about being open to criticism.
+
+                                                                       jms
+==============
+QUESTION: <enjoyed the B5 mantra>
+==============
+DATE: WED SEP 7, 1994 #814059
+
+     Ivanova's a hoot, no mistake....
+
+                                 jms
+BABYLON 5: TECH 1 GONE #814083
+DATE: WED SEP 7, 1994
+
+     Marianne Robertson wanted to spend time with her husband,
+Dick Robertson, do some traveling, and possibly (I'm told)
+have a kid.  Some people actually have lives outside of their
+work (impossible as that idea seems to me at times).
+
+                                                          jms
+BABYLON 5: JUMP GATES #814061
+DATE: WED SEP 7, 1994
+
+     Yes, most of the energy is expended getting in and out of hyperspace,
+with a fair amount being expended navigating through it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+=======
+PRAISE 813550: better than Trek: TOS
+=======
+DATE: WED SEP 7, 1994 #814060
+
+     Many thanks.
+
+                         jms
+
+BABYLON 5: PRISONER STYLE END? #815042
+DATE: THURS SEP 8, 1994 12:17:22
+
+     Alexis Kanner (who played the young guy who escaped with #6), who is
+also a friend of Patrick's, says that Patrick always considered #6 to be
+Drake.
+
+                                                                     jms
+=====
+QUESTION #815229: What is Alexis Kanner doing now?
+=====
+BABYLON 5: PRISONER STYLE END? 815240
+DATE: THURS SEP 8, 1994 3:22:26
+
+     Acting, doing a bit of directing, that sort of thing.
+
+                                                       jms
+BABYLON 5: PRISONER STYLE END? #815043
+DATE: THURS SEP 8, 1994 12:17:24
+
+     I wish I could take credit for the interpretation, but that's
+the one that I've picked up from the few people I've met who actually
+worked on the thing.
+
+                                                                 jms
+=========
+QUESTION #814533: Have you read the DC Comics sequel to The Prisoner?
+=========
+BABYLON 5: PRISONER STYLE END? #815049
+DATE: THURS SEP 8, 1994 12:18:06
+
+     Actually, yes, I did read the DC book...but for the life of me,
+I can't remember the precise storyline.  I remember he was there, had
+come back, was older...but beyond that, it's just fallen out of my head.
+
+                                                             jms
+BABYLON 5: PRISONER STYLE END? #815052
+DATE: THURS SEP 8, 1994 12:18:13
+
+     Thanks.  I love Patrick's work.  Problem is he's *very* fussy on the
+roles he takes.  (And justifiably so.)  He has to be sold on the script or
+there's no deal.  We'd sent him a copy of "And the Sky Full of Stars,"
+which would have had him as the main interrogator, Knight Two...and he liked
+it, and was prepared to do it...when we checked our respective calendars
+and discovered that he was going to be out of the country when we were
+scheduled to shoot.
+
+     We hope to get him at some later time.  He's just terrific.
+
+                                                          jms
+BABYLON 5: KUDOS #815916
+DATE: THURS SEP 8, 1994 8:56:02
+
+     My favorite books when growing up: the Lord of the Rings trilogy,
+a Lovecraft anthology (The Color out of Space), and the Martian Chronicles.
+
+                                                                       jms
+BABYLON 5: KUDOS #815048
+DATE: THURS SEP 8, 1994 12:18:04
+
+     Thanks.  I've had a long time to think about what I want to do with
+the story, and that's what I've *always* wanted to do...something that
+would be in the spirit of the great, huge, sprawling sagas that I grew up
+reading. As far as individual stories are concerned...when you've got
+characters as interesting as G'Kar and Delenn and Ivanova and all the rest
+(and now Sheridan), it's easy to come up with stories for them...and very
+hard to make them shut up once they start talking in a scene.  They pretty
+much just take over and start running around causing havoc....
+
+                                                                       jms
+BABYLON 5: C4 BAN B5 (TKO) #815918
+DATE: THURS SEP 8, 1994 8:56:07
+
+     Your best bet is to either get one from the States, or wait until
+it's released on video over in the UK.
+
+                                                                   jms
+=======
+COMMENT #816179: saw JMS' photo at WorldCon in a display
+of "Professionals of Science Fiction", not what poster had
+imagined JMS looked like
+=======
+BABYLON 5: C4 BAN B5 (TKO) #816284
+DATE: FRI SEP 9, 1994 12:41:08 AM
+
+     Just curious (how could I not be after that?) how the photo differed
+from the perception based on the work.  I'll say that the photo isn't the
+best of me, not because of the photographer, who was fine, but because
+I was just sorta walking by one day, dressed real casual, frumpy shirt,
+when I was asked if I'd sit for one.
+
+                                                                       jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 CAST ANNOUNCEMENT #815051
+DATE: THURS SEP 8, 1994 12:18:11
+
+     Replacing Sinclair?  No, not precisely.  Boxleitner's character,
+Captain John Sheridan, is coming aboard B5 as its now commanding officer,
+but Sinclair isn't gone permanently.  He is being moved off the chessboard
+for a time, allowing us to broaden out the story, and give Michael the
+chance to pursue some interests of his own in the meantime.  Sinclair will
+return from time to time as the story requires.  (There's a lengthy message
+in library 13 here with more details.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+=====
+QUESTION: So what *happened* to Sinclair? (paraphrase)
+=====
+DATE: THURS SEP 8, 1994 12:17:26
+
+     You'll find that out in episode one, starting in November.  To
+say now would be telling....
+
+                                                                 jms
+BABYLON 5: ALIENS #815047
+DATE: THURS SEP 8, 1994 12:18:02
+
+     Frankly, in the long run, I'm *much* happier with Chris Franke.
+Stewart was more of the "let's make a library of music and draw from it
+and remix a lot" school.  Nothing wrong with that, lots of shows do it.
+Chris, on the other hand, uses *very* little library stuff; each episode
+is scored individually, and the music is lush, driving, powerful.  I
+couldn't be happier.
+
+                                                                       jms
+========
+COMMENT #814245: <doesn't like the idea of a woman captain>
+<claims ST's purpose is to allow its "mostly male audience" to unwind>
+(NOTE: poster sounds serious, not like flame-bait MLW)
+========
+STAR TREK: BOYCOTT ST:VOYAGER #815084
+DATE: THURS SEP 8, 1994 12:44:27
+
+     Calamity Jane.
+
+     Annie Oakley.
+
+     Joan of Arc.
+
+     Indira Ghandi.
+
+     Amelia Earhart.
+
+     Mary Queen of Scots.
+
+     The usual flurry of Celtic warrior queens...the woman who led an army
+in the Old Testament (just forgot her name)....
+
+     Oh, yeah...and Ripley, and Susan Ivanova....
+
+                                             jms
+STAR TREK: BOYCOTT ST:VOYAGER #815915
+DATE: THURS SEP 8, 1994 8:56:01
+
+     Ripley is *not* a character of history, that's a character
+of fiction.
+
+     There have been plenty of stories and movies written about
+Annie Oakley, Joan of Arc, Amelia Earhart and all the rest.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+BABYLON 5: B5 WINS MAKUP EMMY #818543
+DATE: SUN SEPT 11, 1994 2:02:13
+     Just learned that Babylon 5 won an Emmy for its Makeup Design, for 
+"The Parliament of Dreams."  This is our second Emmy so far, our first 
+for the series.  I'm determined that next year we get some notices for
+our acting and other above-the-line areas.
+
+     In any event, congratulations to our makeup and prosthetics design
+people.
+
+                                                                   jms
+======
+MESSAGE #818603: <praise and congratulations>
+======
+BABYLON 5: B5 WINS MAKUP EMMY #818608
+DATE: SUN SEP 11, 1994 5:09:17 AM
+
+     Thanks x 2 for the kind words.
+
+                                jms
+BABYLON 5: NEW JMS PROJECTS #817492
+DATE: SAT SEP 10, 1994 2:26:24
+
+     You can have the Sun reporter contact me through Warner Burbank.
+
+     Typical, though....
+
+     And now perhaps you can see what it's like; they're always asking you
+to prove what makes you different from Star Trek.  Why should they think
+we're the SAME as Star Trek?  To many reporters, it's all the same thing,
+which is depressing.  How does the producer of NYPD prove that his show is
+different from Picket Fences?  *They're just not the same show*.
+
+     Anyway, I enjoyed working with you for the full totality of five
+minutes.
+
+     Too bad; at six minutes you'd've started getting residuals.
+
+                                                                       jms
+BABYLON 5: MINBARI CRUISER ANALYSIS #817503
+DATE: SAT SEP 10, 1994 2:43:07
+
+     I've said that Earth tech doesn't have any kind of gravitational tech,
+including magnetic/tractor beams.  The Minbari have a much greater control
+over and knowledge of gravitational science.
+
+                                                                     jms
+BABYLON 5: "BELIEVERS" #817504
+DATE: SAT SEP 10, 1994 2:43:08 AM
+
+     How Ivanova got away from the Raiders was taking advantage of
+her lead to run away, occasionally firing backward to deter pursuit,
+until she got to the jumpgate.  It wasn't really anything dramatically
+interesting, and at that point you would start distracting from the
+main plot...and that couldn't be allowed to happen.  There's really
+noplace in the rest of the act where you can cut in without destroying it.
+And in the tag there's no room for the pursuit, only the arrival.
+
+                                                                   jms
+DATE: SUN SEP 11, 1994 2:02:11 AM #818542
+
+     Thanks, glad you're enjoying the show.  So far, we plan to keep
+right on doing what we're doing until the game is called on account
+of darkness.
+
+                                                                  jms
+STAR TREK: BUJOLD WALKS-RUMOR? #818237
+DATE: SAT SEP 10, 1994 8:55:02
+
+     I don't understand why there's so much concern about whether or not
+they can meet their airdate schedule.  There's still plenty of time.  We
+began shooting the new season of B5 on August 11th, to go on the air
+November 2nd.  That's just under 3 months, and we'll be delivering episodes
+a few weeks before airing..  As of right now, there are 4 months between
+now and January, Voyager's debut.  If they take another full month to find
+a replacement, that's still more time than we took, so they should be fine.
+
+                                                                    jms
+STAR TREK: BUJOLD TOO BOLDLY GOES! #818238
+DATE: SAT SEP 10, 1994 8:55:07
+     Let me just jump in here on the "say each line word for word" issue that you keep throwing around.  The notion of how much actors improvise on TV is *grossly* exaggerated.  I have not worked on any show yet in which the actor is allowed to just change lines or wordings on set without first getting permission from the story editor or producer.
+
+     The reason for this is very simple: episodes are not shot in order
+of scenes, but in order of location (i.e., all the mess hall shots are
+done in there, then you move the camera crew to another location, and
+you do all those scenes, then you interweave them in editing).  It's
+VERY easy to lose track if you're shooting that way, and you can change
+a line in scene 9, from "He said it's the absolute truth" to "He said
+he wasn't lying," not realizing that *another* character in another
+scene has already said, or will say, "Like Mike said, it's the absolute
+truth," and now those two scenes don't match.  Meaning you now have to
+go in and edit around it and loop the dialogue.
+
+     Sometimes an actor may not fully realize that there's a clue, or
+a particular line that must be repeated.  So the rule on EVERY show
+that I've ever worked on -- particularly the more technical ones --
+have the same rule: absolutely NO changes allowed on set without
+consultation with the story editor/producer(s).  That's the rule on B5,
+Murder She Wrote, the Twilight Zone...on and on and on.
+
+     There's this contemporary mythology that actors get up there and
+start improvising and adlibbing, and that somehow ST is an aberration
+for not allowing that.  Simply not true.  You have bought into the
+trap of accepted cliche and misinformation.
+
+                                                                 jms
+STAR TREK: BUJOLD TOO BOLDLY GOES! #818541
+DATE: SUN SEP 11, 1994 2:02:10 AM
+
+     I have no direct contact with the day-to-day operations at ST,
+and if there's one thing that I've learned from the occasional sarcasm
+and rumor mongering and speculation attendant upon the modification
+in B5 casting, it's that such speculation is invariably wrong, and hurtful,
+and cynical, and thus nothing much is gained by my contributing to it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+BABYLON 5: C4 BAN B5 (TKO) #814082
+DATE: WED SEP 7, 1994
+
+     "I wonder if JMS has an opinion on the scheduling (and banning)
+of his work?"
+
+     Absolutely.
+
+                                                                 jms
+DATE: FRI SEP 9, 1994 3:34:28 PM #816752
+
+     I *believe* that only the first batch of episodes, up to but not
+including "Believers," are Hugo eligible for next year, due to the dates
+on which they were broadcast.  (There's a cutoff somewhere in there on
+eligibility, so later ones will have to be for the 1996 Hugos.)  Perhaps
+someone out there can provide the specific dates for eligibility for the
+1995 Hugos.  I think the only real biggies eligible from the first part
+of the season would be "Mind War" and "And the Sky Full of Stars," but
+someone out there may know better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+==========
+QUESTION #816622: Is there *any* chance that your casting director,
+Mary Jo Slater, could get her son to show up at some point?
+==========
+BABYLON 5: CASTING SUGGESTIONS #816753
+DATE: FRI SEP 9, 1994 3:34:29 PM
+
+     It's something she's mentioned to us a few times, so we'll see.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
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+STAR TREK: BUJOLD TOO BOLDLY GOES! #818975
+DATE: SUN SEP 11, 1994 4:55:26
+
+     I was lucky to have a *number* of very fine, talented actors when I
+was working on THE TWILIGHT ZONE.  Bruce Weitz, Eddie Albert, Janet Leigh
+and others.  The thing about TZ and other anthology shows is that it lets
+you do the kind of writing you really can't do on regular series, because
+there isn't time, you're rushing from one complication to another, whereas
+a show like TZ is built around one central element, and what matters is
+how that one element affects the characters.  It gives you the luxury of
+*time*.
+
+     (And the episode you cite, "Rendezvous in a Dark Place," is one of
+my favorites as well, up with the Albert and Weitz episodes.)
+
+     In the first season of B5, we worked hard to keep the pace as fast
+as possible, to really crank the story, establish the universe, and jump
+start this puppy.  Now that that's done, I'm working now to apply a
+somewhat Zone- ish approach, in that we're carving out time now for more
+personal stuff, to see how the stories affect our characters.  If I can
+blend these two approaches, I'll be a happy man.
+
+                                                                       jms
+DATE: MON SEP 12, 1994 6:38:24 #820032
+
+     "...there is going to be a Star Trek store someday."
+
+     Too late.  There's already a Star Trek store on the Universal Studios
+tour, and in other amusement/tour locations, and the Creation/Sci-Fi
+Universe stores, despite carrying a small number of items from other shows,
+are primarily ST stores, and they're spreading.
+
+                                                                       jms
+DATE: TUES SEP 13, 1994 1:34:01 #820574
+
+     I once asked David Gerrold how many Trek movies would finally be made,
+when all was said and done.  "One too many," he said.
+
+                                                                       jms
+STAR TREK: VOYAGER CAPTAIN QUITS! #820931
+DATE: TUES SEP 13, 1994 2:50:25
+
+     "Stephanie Beacham is off VOYAGER because she didn't want to move
+with the production to Florida."
+
+     Huh?  Last I heard, SeaQuest was moving to Florida, not Voyager.
+
+                                                                  jms
+STAR TREK: BUJOLD WALKS--RUMOR? #818977
+DATE: SUN SEP 11, 1994 4:55:22
+
+     We shoot an episode of B5 in 7 days.  Then the director gets 3 days
+to make his cut (he's been doing so all along with the editor as film
+comes in, but that's the final period where he or she has to finish).
+Then John Copeland and I go in and re-edit the director's cut (to small
+or major degrees) to make the producer's cut.  Another three days.  So
+two weeks so far.
+
+     We then do an edit-master of the episode (done on film, as opposed to
+the edit, done on computer-image Avids), which arrives in about 5-7 days.
+So three weeks.  We're also waiting for any rotoscope work that needs to
+be done on the show (PPG blasts, other non-space stuff, like the
+thought-wall in "Mind War"), and for any compositing work (live + CGI),
+which can take up to a few more days to a few weeks.  Split the difference
+and say two weeks. So now we're up to five weeks.
+
+     Midway through this process, we meet with Chris Franke and the
+sound people to spot the episode, indicating where sound EFX and music
+should go. We're also designing titles, doing any looping that might
+be required.  We now wait for the music to be scored, and for the
+sound EFX to be designed. Give it another 10-14 days.  Now 7-8 weeks in.
+
+     Finally, at that point -- 8-9 weeks or so -- we go in and do the
+final sound mix, entering in all the finished elements, and deliver
+the episode a week or so later.
+
+                                                                       jms
+STAR TREK: BUJOLD WALKS--RUMOR? #818976
+DATE: SUN SEP 11, 1994 4:55:11
+
+     I believe you're thinking of a recent problem in Comics Forum, where
+a journalist was MISquoting people (viz: me) in a certain magazine, without
+my prior knowledge or permission, and I was leaving unless some procedures
+were put in place protecting Forum members from having this happen to them,
+particularly the pros.  This has been done, insofar as it *can* be done,
+so that tussle is now over.
+
+     On the topic of religion...yes, we've spent a fair amount of time
+on the subject, and to your note that the "show has portrayed religion
+exceptionally well; it is nice to know that faith is not dead in your
+future as in all the ST shows," someone commented on another forum that
+because I'm an atheist, and don't have any particular axe to grind, it's
+possible to treat the beliefs of others with some measure of equanimity.
+It seems a sensible idea, I hadn't really thought about it, and there may
+be some measure of truth to that.
+
+     I've always taken a great degree of interest in varying belief
+systems. I've read the Bible cover to cover (twice), as well as
+whatever other books I could get my hands on, from the Bahagavad Gita
+(hope I spelled that right from memory) up and down the road.  What you
+come away with is a sense that the religious impulse, whether or not
+any one of them is fundamentally correct, is part of the human dynamic,
+and it's not going to suddenly up and disappear.  The job of the writer
+is to treat his subject honestly, and that seems to me the truth of the
+matter.
+
+     For six thousand years, humanity has been in the process of trying
+to figure out itself, and where its place is in the universe, and what
+the universe IS, really.  There are a number of ways one can approach
+that question, and the religious impulse is part of that.  In the
+earliest stages of its development, it was the religious impulse that
+prompted us to look up to the stars and ask, "What?"...and to look at
+ourselves and each other and say "Who?"...and to look at death and
+say "Why?"  It was, in a sense, the earliest form of the scientific
+method, except there weren't the tools for true inquiry.  But if humanity
+had not begun with the process of asking questions, it might not have
+developed science, since science is predicated upon self-awareness, and
+questioning, and looking at the universe and asking those very same
+questions.  The paths taken, and the means used, diverge quickly, and
+I'm not in ANY way equating science and religion, they are of necessity
+and by definition different creatures, but they share some roots in the
+intentions that created them.
+
+                                                                       jms
+BABYLON 5: RELIGION IN B5 #820033
+DATE: MON SEP 12, 1994 6:38:25
+
+     Actually, we did have a pagan and a wiccan in there, though we
+couldn't prolong the voice-over long enough to get there.  In at least
+one other shot of that in dailies, it's very plainly there.
+
+                                                                       jms
+BABYLON 5: SURVIVORS #820918
+DATE: TUES SEP 13, 1994 2:39:18
+
+     Definitely; there are additional fighters berthed inside Earthforce
+One, with a minimum four outside on constant patrol.  In addition, it's
+got some pretty hefty defensive weaponry on board, though they're worked
+into the design so that they don't appear too obvious (bad for PR).
+
+                                                                    jms
+=================================
+BABYLON 5: SCRIPTS AND CC #819567
+DATE: MON SEP 12, 1994 3:39:12
+FROM: SYSOP LEE WHITESIDE
+
+Joe, I've watched a couple of B5 episodes with the closed captioning on
+and it is interesting to see how what they display on screen is a lot of
+times not quite what the cast is actually saying.  Do the Closed captioning
+people work from a script or from a tape of the episode?
+=================================
+BABYLON 5: SCRIPTS AND CC #819569
+DATE: MON SEP 12, 1994 3:55:22
+
+     Supposedly they're working off scripts...not very well, from what
+you're saying.
+
+                                                                   jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 WINS MAKEUP EMMY #819568
+DATE: MON SEP 12, 1994 3:55:21
+
+     We get virtually *no* coverage from any major publications on
+anything near a regular basis.  We're as close to a stealth television
+program as you can get.  I think there'll be a small piece in Newsweek
+as part of an overall roundup on TV/BBSing in a few weeks or less, but
+that's all.
+
+                                                                   jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 WINS MAKEUP EMMY #821230
+DATE: TUES SEP 13, 1994 7:29:11
+
+     Yes, we've definitely gotten more coverage, and continue to do so,
+in the UK than we do here in the US.  The show rates very highly on
+Channel 4, and they've already committed to year two without having to
+look at the first batch of episodes, which they don't usually do.  I
+think the audience in the UK is more used to the kind of thing we're
+doing, and so it's grabbing hold just that much more quickly.  Thus the
+media pays more attention.  Ironic that we're having a harder time here
+than overseas; it's usually the other way around.  (Apparently we're also
+doing very well in other countries as well; in some cases, we do better
+overseas than here in the US.)
+
+                                                                   jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 WINS MAKEUP EMMY #820576
+DATE: TUES SEP 13, 1994 1:34:02
+
+     Thanks, and to you guys on the ones you walked off with.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+BABYLON 5: B5 SHIRTS/800TREKKER #822797
+DATE: THUR SEP 15, 1994 12:53:12
+
+     I just saw some new shirt designs from a non-Creation licensee,
+All-U, and they're *gorgeous*.  And some new Creation items, bookmarks
+and pins, that also look quite nice.
+
+                                                                   jms
+=====
+QUESTION #821957: LDS/Mormon missionary in the receiving line (PoD)?
+=====
+BABYLON 5: RELIGION ON B5 #822772
+DATE: THUR SEP 15, 1994 12:42:21
+
+     Yes, I believe that's correct.
+
+     No Scientologists, though.
+
+                                       jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 WINS MAKEUP EMMY #822795
+DATE: THUR SEP 15, 1994 12:53:08
+
+     Generally speaking, in the past, Starlog has generally screwed up
+one aspect or another of their coverage of B5, to the point where I
+won't have anything to do with them.  I won't stop my cast or crew from
+talking to Starlog -- that's their choice, and I don't feel that in all
+good conscience I can interfere -- but you won't see an interview with 
+me in Starlog.
+
+     Part of this is also due to the fact that Dave McDonnell has stated
+to many people that he feels obliged to carry B5 coverage, because it's
+a legitimate show, and it does draw attention...but because they are
+primarily a STAR TREK magazine, they will NEVER do a B5 cover.  So they
+get the coverage, but refuse to give it the respect it deserves with
+a cover story.
+
+     Which is pretty much what I expected.
+
+                                                                    jms
+==========
+QUESTION #824019: <saw Rolling Stones ref in S&P; they
+start war, have theme song> What did the rest of the
+listing say?
+===========
+BABYLON 5: SIGNS & PORTENTS #824120
+DATE: FRI SEP 16, 1994 4:32:04 AM
+
+     Some things are better left un-commented upon.
+
+                                                jms
+==========
+QUESTION #823723: Why was the ship in Lady Ladira's name instead
+of Lord Kiro's?
+===========
+DATE: FRI SEP 16, 1994 12:03:23 AM #823906
+
+     Ladira was Kiro's aunt, and much of the family money/property is
+in her name.
+
+                                                                  jms
+STAR TREK: BUJOLD: THE REAL REASON! #823907
+DATE: FRI SEP 16, 1994 12:03:25 AM
+
+     One thought indicating mercy for Bujold...apparently, according to
+DAILY VARIETY, they were shooting 19 hour days.  This means that you
+show up at 6 a.m. and don't leave until 2 a.m., counting makeup and
+costume and other daily requirements.  (The schedule is apparently to
+make up lost time for the debut.)  That's a *lot* to ask of ANY actor,
+and if you're the lead, then that means you're in virtually every scene.
+This isn't like showing up at 10 a.m. and going a few hours overtime;
+this is, as stated, 6 a.m. to 2 a.m.
+
+                                                                   jms
+STAR TREK: BUJOLD: THE REAL REASON! #825165
+DATE: SAT SEP 17, 1994 4:39:14
+
+     Actors do not generally share in merchandising revenue.  That goes
+to Paramount.  (Or whichever studio is involved in a project.)
+
+     Actors only get the salary for the series and movies they do.
+
+     The fans do not bestow wealth on the players of Trek.
+
+     For near 15 years after the original Trek, virtually none of the
+cast members could get work.  They had been typecast.  It practically
+killed some of their careers, and many of them have had virtually no
+careers outside of the movies, which are few and far between.  Many
+current ST cast members are concerned about any new work; which was
+why Brent Spiner only agreed to do the movie after it was agreed in
+his contract that he had to do two non-ST movies.
+
+     The fans of a show view appearing in that show as a gift from God.
+
+     An actor approaches it as a job, and has to.
+
+     Just a word of perspective.
+
+                                                                  jms
+=======
+QUESTION #825242: <applicable to most series actors?>
+=======
+DATE: SAT SEP 17, 1994 5:59:17 #825746
+
+     I suppose it depends on the level of performer you're talking about.
+
+                                                                   jms
+STAR TREK: NEW INFO ON BUJOLD #826219
+DATE: SUN SEP 18, 1994 12:29:31
+
+     The 154 days includes only weekdays.  (That's shooting 22 episodes
+in 7 days each.)  Weekends are off.  Also, no single actor works all of
+those 12 hours every day.  Some actors may appear in only one scene in
+an episode, and to all intents and purposes have the rest of the week 
+off. Or they may appear over several days, but staggered, a scene
+here or there.
+
+     Most of the time any actor spends in a day on set is waiting...
+waiting for the lighting to get set, waiting for the camera to get moved
+to another set, waiting for the director to block stuff out, waiting for
+wardrobe or prosthetics or other areas.  When they're finally on, they
+work a lot: first the master shot (of which there are often multiple
+takes), then over-the- shoulder shots, then closeups, and sometimes
+extreme closeups, anywhere from 2-7 takes each, which are then repeated
+for every *other* actor in the scene.  It's hard, rigorous work.
+
+     The main difference in all of this is whoever your lead is; the
+captain in a role like this can often be there through every scene or
+a majority of scenes...which adds up fast.
+
+                                                                  jms
+BABYLON 5: NEW NETWORKS #822796
+DATE: THUR SEP 15, 1994 12:53:10
+
+     There was never talk of putting B5 on the WB network; its is only
+PTEN, and if PTEN goes, so will B5.  (And if WB does go through with
+its purchase of NBC, I have a feeling they won't need a separate WB
+network, so that may go away, and again I don't know therefore if they'll
+continue with PTEN either...and B5 wouldn't be shifted to network in
+any event.)
+
+                                                                   jms
+DATE: FRI SEP 16, 1994 4:32:03 AM #824119
+
+     PTEN is a consortium of stations that have formed a partnership
+with Warner Bros. Television.  Shows produced for PTEN are owned jointly
+by WB and the stations.  It is *highly* unlikely that the station-owners
+would allow a show to go from their side to a network of any kind, given
+that this is their competition.
+
+     PTEN is a fine organization, and I have every hope for its longevity.
+Nothing here should be construed to mean anything else.  But many PTEN
+spokespeople have stated that the weblet may, or may not, last beyond the
+next few years, depending on corporate wrangling.  Should PTEN go, it
+would take B5 with it, unless it were such a HUGE success by then that
+WB could choose to try direct syndication.
+
+     The Warner Bros. Network is a whole different corporate arm, and is
+very competitive with PTEN.  They would not want in any way to take up
+any PTEN shows because it would muddy their identity (and they're probably
+right in this).
+
+                                                                     jms
+THE CON SUITE: ATHEISM AND HUMANISM #825770
+DATE: SAT SEP 17, 1994 6:25:16
+
+     The Humanist Manifesto is known to very few, and read by fewer still.
+Humanism is not a religion.  It has been defined that way by religionists
+who want to be able to attack it.  "Humanism" by their definition is
+anything they don't happen to like.  They created it and piled it high
+with every conspiracy theory, every social change, and created this great
+boogeyman that does not in fact exist.  Because hard-core religionists
+MUST have some kind of crisis, some kind of looming spectre to pepetuate
+the mindset that says they're standing against this dark force.  With the
+fall of communism, now it's so-called humanism.
+
+     Secular means only that, non-religous.  Humanism means concerned with
+the affairs of humans.  It's not a religion in any way, manner, shape or
+form; it has no collection plates, no churches, no doctrine, no schisms,
+no ministers, no tax-free status, no deities, nothing.
+
+     Okay, fine, so a few people got together and wrote a tract.  What
+does this have to do with anything?  Nobody I know has ever read it. I've
+never seen it in any bookstores.  You cling to this one tract as though
+it were Proof Positive of the Great Secular Humanist Conspiracy. It was
+just some people defining their attitudes, but this gets twisted around
+into some terrible threat.  Sad that a few people expressing an opinion
+in a tract that gets almost no circulation would be perceived as a threat
+to the mighty religious empire of 24-hour-a-day religious programming,
+and religious colleges, and massive religious text publishing companies,
+and radio stations...don't you see the pathetic nature of this?  It's
+like the elephant reeling in horror at a mouse.
+
+     By your definition, anything that states a principle is a religion.
+I'm sorry, but language means what it means, it doesn't mean what you
+want it to mean.  A religion, according to the dictionary, requires the
+belief in or worship of supernatural beings or gods.  But you play the
+oldest game: redefine the terms of the argument in ways that benefit your
+side.
+
+     Let me repeat: this great Secular Humanist Conspiracy DOES NOT EXIST.
+You and others like you have created it out of gossamer and a few pieces
+of paper in order to have something to point at.  Tell me, do you think
+there are Secular Humanist cell meetings in the middle of the night?
+I'm an atheist, I sure as hell wasn't invited to any of them.  Where
+Is it based? Where is its funding?  Where can I go to a meeting?
+
+     So a few guys wrote down their opinions....again, so what?  They
+speak for no one but themselves.  Just as I speak for no one but myself.
+
+     You and others like you have come up with a name and shoved into it
+whatever you don't like, then try to convince others that it exists.  It's
+as simple as that.
+
+                                                                    jms
+========
+COMMENT #825796: <poster says this is a rehash of previous
+discussion that got nowhere> <indicates respectful disagreement &
+moves on>
+========
+DATE: SUN SEP 18, 1994 12:29:28 #826218
+
+     Of course...because you have no facts to back you up.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+THE CON SUITE: ROBERT BLOCH PASSES AWAY #833044
+DATE: SAT SEP 24, 1994 1:09:27 AM
+
+     Tonight, at 8:30 p.m. Pacific Time, noted author and screenwriter
+Robert Bloch, a good and kind man considered one of the brightest
+lights in his field, passed away from cancer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+DATE: SAT SEP 24, 1994 5:23:00 #833584
+
+     Forrest Ackerman released that information *despite* being asked
+by the family NOT to do so.  Everyone respected their decision to have
+this kept private until he passed except Ackerman.  They were *very*
+distressed that he released this.
+
+                                                                jms
+BABYLON 5: NO STORY IDEAS, PLEASE #828590
+DATE: TUES SEP 20, 1994 3:20:13
+
+     Just a reminder not to post or send story ideas for episodes.
+I've just had a flurry of them wind up in my email box, and I've
+had to delete them without reading them, and send cranky notes
+back to the people who sent them.  Story ideas open up legal
+liabilities that potentially jeapordize my ability to stay here.
+Please don't send them to me.  We're solid for the season at this
+time, and virtually every story for the full five year run is more
+or less plotted out.
+
+     Thanks for listening.
+
+                                                            jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 SOUNDTRACK INFO #832408
+DATE: FRI SEP 23, 1994 3:17:14 PM
+
+     At this point, the soundtrack wouldn't include the music
+from the pilot in *any* event; the plan at this point is to do
+just the series for now, and maybe the pilot later.  And if the
+CD Chris plans to release is the same one as I've got now...it's
+a LOT longer than 40 minutes, closer to 50 or a squidge more.
+He's orchestrated the various cues into one long-playing suite,
+so one flows into the other, and it's a whole piece that plays
+on throughout the CD.  I'm very critical about music, and this
+is *real* nice.
+
+                                                           jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 NOVELS? #829686
+DATE: WED SEP 21, 1994
+
+     John Vornholt has turned in the first B5 novel to the publisher,
+Dell; Lois Tilton is working on a second, and John will also do a
+third.  The first novel, "Voices," should be out around January,
+I'm told.
+
+     We're doing something kinda unusual with both the novels and
+the comic due out from DC, in that we're trying to keep them in line
+with B5 continuity, so that they can be considered canon at a basic
+level, rather than unrelated throwaways.
+
+     I'm personally overseeing the novels (just finished my notes on
+John's first book, very light line edits for the most part), as well
+as the comic (in addition to writing the first issue, and providing
+the story arc for the next 8 issues, taken to script by others).
+
+     It should all be part of the overall story, not just done to make
+some bucks.  It takes a little more work, but I think it's important.
+
+                                                                  jms
+DATE: THURS SEP 22, 1994 2:50:20 #830922
+
+     Ron Thornton keeps wanting to do a tech manual, so I'm sure it'll
+happen in time.  Optic Nerve has already put together an Aliens of B5
+guide for in-house use at this time (with material written by Larry
+DiTillio), which may eventually see the light of day outside the B5
+offices.  At present, no role playing games that I know of are in the
+works.
+
+                                                                  jms
+BABYLON 5: JESUIT #828594
+DATE: TUES SEP 20, 1994 3:27:24
+
+     There really is no "Jesuit connection" on B5.  While I was raised
+Catholic (sorta), it wore off quickly.  But it's something I know about.
+In talking with my spousal overunit Kathryn about this, she also felt
+that if he were as Catholic as I'd made him out to be, he'd probably
+have been trained by Jesuits, the closest things we have to theological
+pit-bulls.  It made sense, so that's what he became.
+
+                                                                   jms
+BABYLON 5: MATEWAN #831939
+DATE: THURS SEP 22, 1994 11:51:19
+
+     Er, actually, this was a reference to a real and traumatic
+strike a number of years ago in a place called Matewan.  Different
+place, and a real strike, immortalized in film.
+
+                                                             jms
+STAR TREK: SEAQUEST DSV OR TNG? #829163
+DATE: TUES SEP 20, 1994 8:17:12
+
+     Here's comedy for you...I don't think I've ever received
+as many "thank you" notes about Babylon 5 in any 48 hours as
+I did in the 48 hours following the broadcast of the new SeaQuest....
+
+                                                           jms
+DATE: THURS SEP 22, 1994 11:51:14 #831936
+
+     "Do you make Babylon 5 too?!"
+
+     No, just Babylon 5, I'm making no other shows at present.
+
+                                                          jms
+SF/FANTASY TV: SCHNEIDER RIPS SEAQUEST #830048
+DATE: WED SEP 21, 1994
+
+     Hasburgh needs to get a clue, methinks....
+
+     (And the "baby-in-a-bucket" scene you refer to was one of
+the most moronic things I've ever seen; it guaranteed the kid
+would die, given that we never saw it surface, or give any
+inclination to surface; the only reason the kid survived was
+that SQ was conveniently there...but of course they didn't know
+this.  A trash receptacle, sinking to the ocean floor, with NO
+oxygen supply, sealed and airtight...yeah, that's a *real* good
+idea for keeping your kid alive.)
+
+                                                             jms
+DATE: THURS SEP 22, 1994 2:50:16 #830920
+
+     I really don't watch DS9, and thus don't really have an
+opinion on the writing of the show.  The only time I see it
+is if it's on while I'm walking through the room.
+
+                                                         jms
+DATE: THURS SEP 22, 1994 3:14:31 #831284
+
+     I try when possible to watch the debuts of new SF series, but
+I generally don't have time to watch thereafter; I'm at the studio
+from morning until 7:30, then I write at home until sometimes 3-4
+a.m., with only a break for dinner, so watching *any* TV becomes
+problematic at best.  I'm often forced to tape stuff and watch a
+little of it on the weekend.  The only shows I try to catch weekly
+are X-Files, TV Nation (when it was on, and let's hope it's renewed),
+and MST3k.
+
+     I tried to stay with SeaQuest, and made it through about the
+first hour, but finally dived out; I just thought it was dumb and
+juvenile and populated with breathtakingly annoying characters.
+(Just one man's opinion; your mileage may vary.)  I wasn't able to
+watch more than about 20 minutes of the new Lois and Clark, but that
+was mainly due to work pressures; I hope to try and catch it again
+this weekend.
+
+     For my money, X-Files is still one of the spiffier shows on TV.
+
+                                                                jms
+SF/FANTASY TV: SAVE ROBO: NEW INFO! #831959
+DATE: FRI SEP 23, 1994 12:05:22 AM
+
+     Word on the street is that it's too late, Robocop has been
+officially canceled.
+
+                                                             jms
+---
+DATE: THURS SEP 22, 1994 2:50:18 #830921
+
+     "Chrysalis," a cliffhanger of sorts, leads right into "Points
+of Departure," which picks up some of the tables kicked over by
+"Chrysalis," the balance of which are picked up in the second episode,
+"Revelations."  By the end of the second new episode, pretty much
+everything is now in place for the rest of the second season...though
+not everything is in quite the same position as it originally was.
+
+                                                                  jms
+DATE: THURS SEP 22, 1994 3:14:29 #831283
+
+     Season two of Babylon 5 is 22 episodes, same as season one.
+
+                                                             jms
+DATE: TUES SEP 20, 1994 8:09:08 #829159
+
+     It's my understanding that Channel 4 has already agreed
+to pick up season two, and it'll probably commence around the
+same time as the American airdates start: November or thereabouts.
+
+                                                           jms
+DATE: WED SEP 21, 1994 #829684
+
+     New B5 episodes will start late October, beginning with
+the last episode of year one, "Chrysalis," followed the next
+week by the season two opener, "Points of Departure."
+
+                                                        jms
+DATE: WED SEP 21, 1994 #830041
+
+     There is one more new season one episode remaining to be aired,
+"Chrysalis," which airs mid-late October.  This is followed by the
+second season debut, "Points of Departure," a week later.
+
+                                                               jms
+STAR TREK: VOYAGER SCRIPT #828589
+DATE: TUES SEP 20, 1994 3:20:06
+TO: SYSOP LEE WHITESIDE
+
+     We've been pretty good at keeping episode scripts out of
+circulation; a couple have gotten out, but that's about it.
+
+     What we do plan to do, a bit down the road, is to sell B5
+scripts in a *proper* fashion: those who've written for us and want
+their scripts sold, we'll sell through a still-in-the-planning-stage
+fan liaison office.  (If they choose not to have their scripts sold,
+that's fine too.)  The original writer will get a ROYALTY from each
+copy sold, just like with a novel.  This is frankly how it *should*
+be done...thus, that's how we're going to do it.
+
+     (Insofar as I know, to the previous message here, Lincoln Enterprises
+does not pay any kind of royalty to the authors of scripts they sell.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+DATE: TUES SEP 20, 1994 3:54:18 #828933
+
+     Stephen, you say that "there are plenty of ways to
+legally obtain them," and then you cite as examples of
+this "script vendors in the Hollywood area...(and) dealers
+at cons."  NEITHER of these are legal, Stephen.  The *only*
+legal means is through a studio/production company, and they
+are rather tight with these things.
+
+     This is a profound misunderstanding on your part.
+
+                                                       jms
+DATE: TUES SEP 20, 1994 8:09:05 #829157
+
+     Actually, the physical script *does* remain the property
+of the writer, even in American TV.  The copyright to the
+characters, the story, what's IN the script, is owned by the
+studio/network (making pirating illegal on that level), while
+the physical script is owned by the writer under separation
+of rights (which makes the pirating doubly illegal).
+
+                                                         jms
+DATE: TUES SEP 20, 1994 12:23:31 #828438
+
+     Stephen...calm down.
+
+     This (the matter of scripts floating around at script stores
+and cons and the like) is a very difficult, touchy issue.  On the
+one hand...I and any other script-pro loses money, and our copyright
+is violated, every single time one of our scripts ends up in a
+convention bin, photocopied endlessly.  On one hand, I take that
+very personally, and when I find it at a convention, I remove the
+copies from the dealer's table.  If the dealer has a problem, I urge
+him to call security so that I in turn can press charges against him.
+Because, frankly, they *are* dealing in stolen merchandise.  It's no
+different than if someone photocopied the latest Dave Brin novel, and
+was selling the copies at a convention.
+
+     *On the other hand*....
+
+     If I step away from my own vested interests for a moment, the
+reality is that it's *very* hard to get one's hand on scripts, in
+order to learn from them.  Early in my career, I bought a lot of
+scripts from various script sellers, and at conventions, so that I
+could study them and learn how to write scripts.  Even now, when I'm
+at a convention, if I see the script to a show I want to study, to
+see how the writer did it, I'm *very* tempted. Sometimes I give in.
+
+     Is this a massive contradiction?  Absolutely.  And I have thus
+far not figured out how to resolve it.
+
+     The closest I've come is in deciding not to blame the person
+who buys the script, as much as the person who sells it.  I've had
+people come up to me at conventions with a copy of the B5 pilot
+script, purchased on the "black market" and ask me to *sign it*.  I
+debated for a long time how to handle this, and finally decided to
+do so by signing it, and writing on the front page, THIS IS A
+NON-AUTHORIZED COPY OF THIS SCRIPT, AND IS NOT FOR RESALE FOR PROFIT,
+FOR ANY REASON ON EARTH, THIS IS ONLY (name's) PERSONAL COPY, PERIOD,
+AND IF HE SELLS IT I WILL COME TO HIS HOUSE AND HUNT HIM DOWN LIKE
+THE DOG HE IS.
+
+     I've found this a *most* effective deterrent.
+
+     Point being...the person to be yelled at is probably the dealer,
+who knows full well what he's doing, rather than the person who buys
+a script, not entirely aware of the details, only wanting a piece of
+something that he or she experienced and enjoyed.
+
+                                                                 jms
+DATE: WED SEP 21, 1994 #829685
+
+     Studios are not licensed to permit ANYONE to sell scripts
+by the author; that is the right of the writer, period, unless
+specifically given in contract (which would violate WGA's agreement).
+Their general right to operate may have been renewed, but that's got
+*nothing* to do with who has the right to sell scripts.
+
+     And yes, generally speaking scripts can be bought in advance
+of debut at many of these script operations.
+
+                                                               jms
+DATE: WED SEP 21, 1994 #829683
+
+     Very few people, really, would want to read a script
+in script form (in the case of novelizations).  The sales
+of the former would be so small as to be negligible, and
+wouldn't cut into the sales of the latter in any real way.
+
+     Novelization rights are usually purchased with the rights
+to the contents of the script, btw, and are generally controled
+by the studio, as opposed to the physical script, with remains
+with the writer.  In the case of B5, we don't intend to do any
+novelizations of scripts in any event, so the question is moot.
+
+                                                          jms
+DATE: FRI SEP 23, 1994 2:10:01 AM #832059
+
+     Stephen...several real points of contention.
+
+     1) Re: people giving the story away to you because they
+read it...how is that any different than people who give the
+story away to you because they saw it, or in a review?  I had
+the same problem you did with EMPIRE, not because anyone bought
+the script, but because a stupid reviewer in the San Diego Tribune
+blabbed it all in his review...I was walking into the theater to
+see ROCKY, having scrupulously avoided seeing any kind of reviews
+or articles...and somebody coming out yelled, "ROCKY LOSES!"  This
+is really a tangential issue.
+
+     2) Re: other people not wanting to see the movie because
+X-character dies...again, by the time the movie hits the theaters,
+this information will be running around.  What difference is there
+if that person makes up his mind on that basis now, or the day
+before the movie opens?  This isn't about script leaks, this is
+about people's eccentricities.  You seem to think that if scripts
+aren't available, there will be this huge vacuum, and nobody will
+know anything about a movie until they walk in the door.  This
+simply ain't so.
+
+     3) "When you steal those scripts, you are depriving Lincoln
+of legitimate income."  Is it legitimate?  Again, the physical
+ownership of a script is the writer's, unless it is specifically
+transferred.
+
+     4) "Paramount has to hire additional staff to track down
+stolen scripts and enforce confidentiality."  To my knowledge,
+Paramount does no such thing.  If they do, it doesn't come out
+of the Star Trek production budget in any event.
+
+     "That's money that could be invested in hiring better
+writers..."  Do you think there's a two-tiered system, bad
+writers cost X, good writers cost Y? The Writers Guild determines
+salary minimums, and I don't believe that there is much wide
+divergence in this area over there.  "or doing special effects or
+buying that special script from an outside writer."
+
+     Again, Stephen, as far as I know, ST pays the same rates for
+all scripts that it buys, same as every other show in Hollywood.
+There is no seperate category for "special scripts."  Again, the
+WGA determines the price of scripts.  What you describe here, as
+above, simply DOES NOT HAPPEN. And, again, any tracking-down of
+scripts and stuff would be done by Paramount Legal Affairs division,
+on behalf of ALL their shows, and would come out of that budget, not
+the show budget.  That kind of cross collatorization isn't done,
+because there'd be no way to keep track of it.
+
+     Some of your points are fairly reasonble, but you don't buttress
+your case by including wild fancy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+---
+NOTE: RESPONSE TO DIFFERENT POSTER
+---
+DATE: SAT SEP 24, 1994 5:06:01 #833576
+
+     Of course, at the bottom-line, what you're saying is that if
+someone chooses not to put something on the market, or cannot
+viably do so, then it's okay to steal it, and folks shouldn't
+complain when it happens.
+
+                                                            jms
+BABYLON 5: GILBERT SAYS O'HARE FIRED #829158
+DATE: TUES SEP 20, 1994 8:09:06
+
+     I'm trying to track down a copy of the tape now, but I've
+heard other characterizations of the interview as not being quite
+so aggressive in this regard, in which she defended O'Hare.  This
+is turning into a game of interpretations; once I have the tape
+on hand, this should be clarified.
+
+                                                             jms
+=========
+POST #829457: <person who has tape, offers to forward> <states
+that O'Hare was mentioned 1 time, Melissa did not defend him>
+=========
+DATE: WED SEP 21, 1994 #829681
+
+     Brett: if I can't dig it up elsewhere, yeah, I'll probably
+take you up on that offer.  It's not a big thing, frankly, but
+I generally prefer first hand knowledge of stuff, and certainly
+your characterization has usually been spot-on.
+
+                                                             jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 IN TV GUIDE... #830919
+DATE: THURS SEP 22, 1994 2:50:15
+
+     ...sigh...well, at least they acknowledged our existence
+for a change.
+
+                                                           jms
+DATE: THURS SEP 22, 1994 11:51:15 #831937
+
+     Negative, Electronic Arts let the rights to the B5 game
+lapse; they are now in the hands of Merit Software.
+
+                                                         jms
+
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs94-10-01 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs94-10-01
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+These are messages from J. Michael Straczynski on CompuServe, collected by
+Michele Worley (michele_l_worley@yahoo.com).
+
+---
+BABYLON 5: <EYES> FINALLY SAW IT #846124
+DATE: THURS OCT 6, 1994 4:06:25 AM
+
+     "MORE!"
+
+     Just 3 more weeks.
+
+                                    jms
+
+BABYLON 5: CHRYSALIS SPOILER #843485
+DATE: MON OCT 3, 1994 7:15:07 PM
+
+     That explanation is in the very next episode.  Complete and
+in full. Never said otherwise.  I've always made it clear that
+this will be resolved in the first episode of year two.
+
+                                                            jms
+BABYLON 5: CHRYSALIS SPOILERS #843491
+RESPONSE-TO: AndyL
+DATE: MON OCT 3, 1994 7:21:02 PM
+
+     Except, of course, that where everyone goes is important to
+the rest of the story, and that the purpose of the episode is to
+introduce massive change into the story overall; when Sinclair says
+"Nothing's the same anymore," he's deadly serious, and so are we.
+The changes won't just be transitory or for a season-end hook; these
+are permanent and substantial changes in the arc.
+
+                                                               jms
+BABYLON 5: CHRYSALIS SPOILERS #843847
+DATE: TUES OCT 4, 1994 12:17:14 AM
+
+     Thanks.  I've watched that episode, between rough cuts and
+producers cuts and mixing and all the rest, something like a
+dozen times...and it still gets to me.  Glad you feel the same.
+
+                                                               jms
+BABYLON 5: CHRYSALIS OF COURSE #844818
+DATE: TUES OCT 4, 1994 11:53:14 PM
+
+     Correct; Garibaldi's aide has *always* been a plant.  I seeded him
+in from the beginning, specifically for that purpose.  It was the aide
+who got Sinclair out of his quarters in "Sky," was the liaison who got
+Benson on line (also in security, you'll remember), and helped dispose
+of the body. If you watch his reaction in "Sky," he's the one who brings
+info to Garibaldi looking to clear Benson; and when Garibaldi sees through
+it, you can see his aide move off looking very worried.
+
+     Originally, it was Laurel Takashima who would have betrayed those
+around her, as this character did.  When Laurel was transferred, I had
+a choice: keep that arc for her replacement (Ivanova), or give this part
+of it to someone else.  Now, knowing how the folks here on the nets and
+elsewhere think, and knowing that they knew about the Laurel-possible-traitor
+thread, I figured that everyone would assume that Ivanova would get that
+part. (And, sure enough, a lot of people did.)  This became a wonderrfully
+convenient blind behind which to build the *real* plant.
+
+     And thus far, *nobody's* seen it coming.  He was right there in clear
+view, we used him many times (also in "By Any Means Necessary," for
+instance), and nobody ever paid him the slightest attention.
+
+     It is, in a way, the classic magician's trick of misdirection: you
+try to get everyone to look at your hand so they won't look at the huge
+elephant being wheeled up onto the stage in plain sight.
+
+                                                                    jms
+BABYLON 5: CHRYSALIS SPOILERS #845725
+DATE: WED OCT 5, 1994 9:41:25
+
+      "If the Shadows are active on Earth, we need to ask why
+Psi-Corps haven't picked them up."
+
+      Yep.
+
+                                                                jms
+DATE: THURS OCT 6, 1994 3:08:01 PM #846563
+
+     In the pilot, Lyta specifically states that once she's inside
+Kosh's mind, it's all subjective; and as such, she'll be "seeing"
+her own body, not his.  Hence the hand.
+
+                                                               jms
+DATE: FRI OCT 7, 1994 3:59:08 AM #847356
+
+      Yeah, we used the photo of LBJ being sworn in as the model
+when we shot that scene; interestingly enough, the day we shot
+that scene was the anniversary of the day LBJ took office after
+JFK was killed.  The atmosphere on set was *very* strange that day....
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+BABYLON 5: I NEED SOME EPISODES! #846003
+DATE: THURS OCT 6, 1994 12:57:26
+
+     "My other two (Babylon 5) tapes mysteriously disappeared."
+
+     Have you checked the Babylon 4 tape archive?
+
+                                                           jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 QUESTIONS FOR JMS #847021
+RESPONSE-TO: SIMON GRIERSON
+DATE: THURS OCT 6, 1994 9:50:02 PM
+
+     The underground high-tech will be seen again, and will have a role
+to play.
+
+     Delenn is acting slightly outside the majority opinion of the Grey
+Council in her actions.
+
+     What's going on with Delenn is not supernatural.
+
+     There's something going on between the Minbari and the Vorlons, but
+that won't be clear for a bit longer yet.
+
+     Jason Ironheart won't be returning anytime soon.  Not at all, really,
+in any sense we understand.  I don't like omnipotent beings running around
+in the storyline; makes some things too easy, and other things too hard.
+
+     No, Delenn does not become Zathras.
+
+     And no, I'm *definitely* not taking any kinds of ideas for stories,
+for movies or for episodes, at this time.  The point of B5 is that it's
+a self contained novel, which is already written out.  I've got more
+stories in the B5 universe running around in my head than I could *ever*
+use in all the episodes, books, comics and so on.  In putting together
+all of the background information, the future story arc, the character
+histories, I find myself in kind of a Tolkien-ish situation, where I have
+far more material than I could ever use.  Also, receiving any kind of
+story ideas here on the nets endangers my presence here for legal reasons.
+
+     Finally...as a note, your message contains spoilers, and should be
+noted with brackets to keep from ruining the fun for others.
+
+     Other than that...thanks, and I'm pleased you enjoy the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+BABYLON 5: CHRYSALIS SPOILERS #843848
+DATE: TUES OCT 4, 1994 12:17:16 AM
+
+     Main thing is, I'd suggest watching "Sky" just before
+watching "Chrysalis."
+
+                                                        jms
+BABYLON 5: HARLAN ELLISON #837328
+DATE: WED SEP 28, 1994
+
+     Thanks, and I agree with you 100% about Harlan.
+He's quite a guy.
+
+                                                 jms
+BABYLON 5: GARIBALDI & CO #838193
+DATE: WED SEP 28, 1994
+
+     Correct, I think that Michael and Bruce are either
+the same age, or Bruce is a smidge older.
+
+                                                   jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 2ND SEASON #848114
+DATE: FRI OCT 7, 1994 9:53:10 PM
+
+     Yes, the season one ender is "Chrysalis;" season two starts the
+following week; and we do see Bruce in the first episode of year two.
+
+                                                                 jms
+-----
+DATE: TUES OCT 4, 1994 7:43:25 PM #844492
+
+     I think the UK will be running season two starting in December.
+
+                                                                 jms
+BABYLON 5: YEAR TWO GUEST STARS #839197
+DATE: THURS SEP 29, 1994 7:51:07
+
+     Just a note to apprise everbody on some of the guest stars on
+year two of BABYLON 5.  We've been doing some pretty nifty stuff.
+In just the first seven episodes of B5 we've already used the
+following guest stars:
+
+     Fobert Foxworth.  Michael Ansara.  Dwight Schultz.  Anna Marie
+Johnson. Adrienne Barbeau.  Michael Beck.  Jessica Walters.  James
+Shigeta.  Walter Koenig.  Russ Tamblyn.
+
+     Not a bad start, I think....
+
+                                                                jms
+DATE: FRI SEP 30, 1994 12:22:28 AM #839599
+
+     Still definitely interested in getting McGoohan one of these days.
+
+                                                                   jms
+DATE: SAT OCT 1, 1994 4:10:01 AM
+
+     I don't have any personal contact with McGoohan to answer your
+questions; just one more admirer of his work.
+
+                                                                    jms
+DATE: SAT OCT 1, 1994 1:00:12 AM #840685
+
+     Oh, we have some very interesting plans for Mr. Bester....
+
+                                                            jms
+BABYLON 5: BOXLEITNER #840687
+DATE: SAT OCT 1, 1994 1:00:16 AM #840687
+
+     The way in which Sheridan comes into the storyline is *absolutely*
+consistent with everything that has come before, and everything that
+follows.
+
+                                                                   jms
+BABYLON 5: ATTENTION UK B5 FANS! #839011
+DATE: THURS SEP 29, 1994 5:19:17
+
+     I'm piggy-backing this message onto Brett's for the UK viewers
+out there.
+
+     "Chrysalis" airs in just a few days in the UK...Monday evening.
+I would have much preferred that it air more closely to the US
+broadcast, or simultaneously, but PTEN chose otherwise.
+
+     Of all the episodes I wrote for season one, this is probably the
+best of them.  This one works on every single level, including the
+acting, the directing, the lighting...all of it.  It's as close to a
+perfect episode that we've done.
+
+     As you'll discover in a few days, at least half of the show's
+success is in the surprises, and the planned shocks along the way.
+You'll know what I'm talking about instantly, when you see it.  As
+stated before, we tip over every table we've got.
+
+     Specific reactions and spoilers posted here will hit people
+literally WEEKS before it airs.  The effect, I think, would be to
+dilute the impact of the story profoundly.  So I would like to take
+this opportunity to ask our UK friends for a personal favor.
+
+     Obviously, discussing the episode on local UK systems is terrific,
+no problem.  If it's possible, it'd be wonderful if you could be more
+general or vague in comments here.  If you have specific questions
+related to the story, I'll be happy to respond to anything posted
+privately here.  I know and appreciate that this would be an
+inconvenience, and there's nothing that obliges anyone to go along
+with this.  I ask it only as a personal favor.
+
+                                                               jms
+DATE: SAT OCT 1, 1994 1:00:14 AM #840686
+
+     It's not so much with the hole in Sinclair's mind (though that's
+touched upon in a major way)...you could say it's to do with EVERYTHING
+on the show.
+
+                                                                   jms
+PROS AND PUBLISHING: WANTED - WRITERS #839612
+DATE: FRI SEP 30, 1994 12:32:25 AM
+
+     Of course, depending on how you choose to define "net revenue,"
+and it can be defined so as to make it look as though there ARE no
+net revenues, regardless of what may actually come in...it's possible
+that the writers and artists could receive *zero* money.  (I work in
+Hollywood, and I've seen how bookkeeping can make a huge profit into
+a net loss.)
+
+     There's no real way of knowing what "net profits" are until and
+unless one audits your books.
+
+     It is standard, professional behavior to offer a set fee, X-cents
+per word, or a flat fee.  If you are not doing this, then I can only
+conclude that something's profoundly wrong about this whole deal.
+
+                                                                   jms
+BABYLON 5: NO STORY IDEAS PLEASE #843490
+DATE: MON OCT 3, 1994 7:21:01 PM
+
+     Fox doesn't produce B5; it's Warners/PTEN, so Fox can't "can" the show.
+
+     As for fan fiction...I try to discourage it where possible, primarily
+if it's in a place where I can see it, to defuse any legal problems such as
+the one that killed one of Marion Zimmer Bradley's books.  There are going
+to be some B5 novels from Dell, but we're working with the writers of those
+books to make sure they're *not* just unrelated throwaways, but are part of
+B5 continuity, and thus nominally canon.
+
+                                                                       jms
+DATE: TUES OCT 4, 1994 3:03:01 PM #844240
+
+     Incorrect; now that she has been legally burned by it, MZB *is*
+openly discouraging fans from "playing in her fiction," as you put it.
+
+                                                                   jms
+DATE: TUES OCT 4, 1994 12:17:17 AM #843849
+
+     A fan wrote an extended piece of fan fiction set in Zimmer's
+universe, which ended up being very close to what Marion was working
+on.  The publisher, aware of both, spiked Marion's novel for fear of
+being sued.  A year or two of work down the drain.
+
+                                                                 jms
+DATE: THURS OCT 6, 1994 12:51:10 #845997
+
+     "I'd be more than happy to sign a waiver as long as she would do
+the same."
+
+     Why should MZB *have* to sign any kind of waiver?  It's her universe.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+======
+John Brobston: It makes sense for MZB to sign a waiver relinquishing rights
+to the fan's work.
+======
+
+DATE: FRI OCT 7, 1994 3:55:17 AM #847350
+
+     I don't think you're seeing my point; my question was why MZB would
+have to sign a waiver, not the other person.  Getting a waiver or
+disclaimer from the fan is, of course, fine.  But for MZB to sign a waiver
+means that she is giving up rights to her own creation...why should she
+have to do that?
+
+                                                                     jms
+DATE: SAT OCT 8, 1994 1:38:29 AM #848386
+
+     Your suggestion is fine except that it has nothing to do with
+the publishing business.
+
+                                                                jms
+BABYLON 5: NO STORY IDEAS PLEASE #843851
+DATE: TUES OCT 4, 1994 12:17:21 AM
+
+     I know I'm on for some kind of national symposium thingie (could
+I possibly sound any stupider?) in February; that's all I can recall
+offhand. I'll be sure to post more info the closer we get to it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 MERCHANDISE #844241
+DATE: TUES OCT 4, 1994 3:03:02 PM
+
+     The CD Rom was planned for January, but there have been a lot of
+recent shakeups at Compton's, so that may get pushed back.  I'd expect
+LD's sometime in the spring.
+
+                                                                   jms
+=========
+QUESTION #844432:  Will the LDs be single or multiple episodes?
+=========
+DATE: TUES OCT 4, 1994 7:43:26 PM #844493
+
+    Haven't heard for sure, but I'd imagine that they'd be two to a disk,
+one on each side.
+
+                                                                     jms
+BABYLON 5: COMIC BOOK #843850
+DATE: TUES OCT 4, 1994 12:17:19 AM
+
+     I think it'll be out the first week of December.
+
+                                                  jms
+STAR TREK: DS9 2ND PART WAS AWFUL! #846002
+DATE: THURS OCT 6, 1994 12:57:25
+
+     Hey, give 'em a break...after all, there's no holodeck on DS9
+to use for creating false stories...had to do *something*...couldn't
+have any of this stuff actually *happen*, now could they?
+
+                                                                 jms
+STAR TREK: TREK IS DYING? #844239
+DATE: TUES OCT 4, 1994 3:03:00 PM
+
+     The last season one episode, the quasi-cliffhanger "Chrysalis"
+airs around October 24th, with the first episode of year two following
+the week thereafter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+DATE: TUES OCT 4, 1994 3:37:06 AM #843967
+
+     Thanks.  One thing that I think commends B5 to people is the sense --
+which as Henry Kissinger said, "has the added benefit of being true" --
+that the show is made by folks who *genuinely like SF*.  The majority of
+people who work on B5 are fans...you walk down the halls and you see
+evidence of this all over the place (particularly in the art department).
+
+     So it's really a case of people making a show they'd like to watch
+themselves.  It means respecting the audience because they/we *are* the
+audience.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+
+DATE: TUES OCT 4, 1994 1:49:19 AM #843925
+
+     Hey...there's always section 13 if you want to look around a little....
+
+                                                                    jms
+DATE: FRI OCT 7, 1994 12:16:00 AM #847197
+
+     "I like B5, but it's NO Star Trek."
+
+     Thank you.  Weren't meant to be.
+
+     That's not a dig, simply a statement of fact and intent.
+
+     From some of the research done on the show, a *lot* of ST fans
+tuned in to B5 expecting something kinda like ST...and when they saw
+it wasn't it, figured it was a bad version of ST, rather than seeing
+it simply as something utterly different.
+
+     One could say, of NYPD Blue, "It's NO Cagney and Lacey."  Well,
+no, it's not.  That's rather beside the point.
+
+                                                                 jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 AND COMMERCIALS #848387
+DATE: SAT OCT 8, 1994 1:38:30 AM
+
+      All b5 episodes consist of a teaser, four acts, and a tag.
+I believe that ST is 5 acts and a teaser.  Our acts tend to be of
+uneven length; we just write whatever feels appropriate.  Sometimes
+an act can be 7 minutes, or 13 minutes, whatever is best for the story.
+Overall we have the same number of commercials as ST or any other
+syndicated series.
+
+                                                                   jms
+============
+QUESTION #845650: In S&P, wasn't Sinclair ordering the self-destruct &
+evacuation?
+============
+BABYLON 5: SINCLAIR'S FUTURE MISTAKE #845726
+DATE: WED OCT 5, 1994 9:41:02
+
+     The voice you hear in B2 is not Sinclair.
+
+     Also...1) check the name spelling, and 2) unless you append my
+CIS ID-number, I won't see this unless I do a full scan of topics.
+
+                                                                jms
+BABYLON 5: GARIBALDI'S MOTORCYCLE #846994
+DATE: THURS OCT 6, 1994 9:35:16 PM
+
+     I believe the bike in question was a Ninja.  And Jerry Doyle
+is something of an enthusiast, which is part of what led us to that.
+
+                                                                jms
+BABYLON 5: EXECUTION SQUAD #845716
+DATE: WED OCT 5, 1994 9:31:11
+
+     As noted in "The Quality of Mercy," there are still executions,
+usually spacing, for treason and mutiny, so that mainly only affects
+military.
+
+                                                                jms
+
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+BABYLON 5: THANK YOU JMS
+DATE: FRI OCT 28, 1994 12:21:12 AM #12187
+
+     It will definitely do; thank you for your kind words.
+They (and all the others noted here) mean a lot.  There were
+many times, over the five years we worked to sell B5, that we
+thought it would never happen; that I was told to just forget
+it, move on; that I could've sold 3 other series in the same
+amount of time and made big bucks.  But there was a story that
+I needed to tell.  And there have been times of great doubt,
+if it would all come together; tough times in particular when
+the pilot first aired, and in between that and the first season.
+Then you do the best you can, and you begin to wonder if anyone
+will ever notice, or care; with the snipes in the trades and
+the magazines, you start to wonder if you're crazy.
+
+     Very few people *really* understand what goes into the making
+of this show, the care and dedication, and the years it took to
+get this on the screen.  It is nothing less than a labor of love
+*for the genre*, which is very important to all of us who work on
+Babylon 5.
+
+                                                              jms
+DATE: SAT OCT 29 1994 6:56:18 PM #13616
+
+     Thanks.  Overseeing the audio mix are me, John Copeland and
+George Johnsen, and the latter in particular is a REAL perfectionist.
+We try to use the surround channels to heighten certain effects,
+because frankly, we all have killer systems, and WE want to hear it.
+
+                                                                jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 SOUNDTRACK @ LOSCON
+TO: ALL
+DATE: TUES NOV 1 1994 8:56:21 #16172
+
+     I'm pleased to announce that Christopher Franke's soundtrack
+for BABYLON 5 will be available starting around December in most
+markets (a great stocking stuffer).  In addition, a LIMITED EDITION
+version, which I'm told will be different from the mass release
+version, will be for sale at LosCon in Los Angeles over the
+Thanksgiving weekend.  I think only about 500 or 1,000 will be
+avilable there, and I expect they'll be grabbed up pretty fast.
+
+     (If those here involved with LosCon could get me about fifteen
+minutes of open room prior to the start of my Sunday presentation,
+I could play about 15 minutes of the CD, assuming a player is
+available and hooked up.)
+
+     It is, by the way, a *beautiful* album.  Chris has done
+something quite extraordinary, in that instead of a series of
+cuts and snippets, like most soundtracks, he's reorchestrated
+all the primary themes in the show into one long symphonic piece.
+It's gorgeous and rich and full, non-stop for the length of the CD.
+I received an early prototype, and have it on almost constantly
+while I'm working.  Never get tired of it.
+
+     (I also just did the liner notes for the album, I'm that
+excited about it.)
+
+                                                               jms
+BABYLON THE BOOK #14707
+DATE: MON OCT 31, 1994 2:29:13 AM
+
+     For a while, back a few years ago, when I was working on the
+new Twilight Zone, our offices were just a few blocks away from a
+B. Dalton Booksellers, which was across the street from the local
+Scientology HQ.
+
+     Whenever a load of books came into the store, one of the clerks
+there told me, they'd come in from across the street and buy them
+en masse, to keep the book high on the selling charts.  In a few
+cases, he said, the new boxes of books had B. Dalton price stickers
+on the covers...meaning they took the purchased books inside,
+repackaged them, sent them back to the distributing warehouse, which
+sent them back to the stores again.
+
+                                                                   jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 RENTAL TAPE SEEN (UK) #9736
+RESPONSE-TO: ARWEL PARRY
+DATE: TUES OCT 25, 1994 3:12:21 PM
+
+     I'd be very appreciative if some willing volunteer
+could purchase a copy of the "Voice" tape when it comes
+out in the U.K. and send it along to me, in exchange for
+an official B5 crew cap.
+
+                                                   jms
+DATE: TUES OCT 25, 1994 11:46:08 PM #10337
+
+     Now, now...just *one* person, please; I don't really
+need 30 copies of the tape.  If one person commits (and you
+were here first, I think), I'll wait and see what happens,
+then try another later.
+
+                                                       jms
+DATE: WED OCT 26, 1994 2:11:07 #10789
+
+     No, actually, insofar as I know, there's nothing wrotten
+in the UK tape; I'd just like to have a copy for my personal
+archives.  (See, I don't tend to get sent this stuff otherwise.)
+
+                                                            jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 SECOND SERIES
+DATE: FRI OCT 28, 1994 12:30:26 AM #12200
+
+     Arwel: would love to see the full ratings figures for B5's
+run in C4.
+
+     I think the airings will end up about simultaneous with the
+US schedule.
+
+                                                             jms
+BABYLON 5: SCREW-UP
+DATE: TUES OCT 25, 1994 3:12:23 PM #9737
+
+     Well, we tracked down more on the screw-up, and that's how
+the "To be continued" got in, and there's a second composite shot
+missing (from the DownBelow area).  We rousted our post production
+people out of bed last night, and at 3:30 a.m. had them correcting
+the mistakes made by others, reassembling the entire episode.  The
+correct version is going out on the bird today, tomorrow, and
+tomorrow night.  It will also be hand-delivered to KCOP here in town
+to make sure they get it.
+
+     I encourage anyone who saw "Chrysalis" over the last day or so
+to look at it again on the rerun; I think you'll find parts of it
+much better.
+
+     This has been a complete and utter meltdown, and we're all out
+for blood at the moment.
+
+                                                                jms
+DATE: WED OCT 26, 1994 2:41:25 #10541
+
+     We sent the refeeds to the stations this afternoon, and will
+send again tomorrow.  It'll definitely be in your market for the
+rebroadcast.
+
+                                                                jms
+DATE: THURS OCT 27, 1994 12:21:19 #11318
+
+     Yeah, it can make you crazy.  Y'know that game, where you
+have a mallet and your job is to whack the gophers as they
+stick their head up out of the ground?  That's as good a
+description of my job as I've ever seen.  And there are always
+new gophers....
+
+                                                           jms
+DATE: THURS OCT 27, 1994 12:21:24 #11321
+
+     Odd...one person said WWOR got it right, another that it got
+it wrong. Which is which, I wonder...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+DATE: THURS OCT 27, 1994 3:15:25 PM #11673
+
+     I wuz confoosed...I mistook WPWR for WWOR.  NY got it right,
+Chicago got it wrong.
+
+                                                            jms
+DATE: SUN OCT 30, 1994 12:47:22 AM #13877
+
+     Sigh...if anyone needs me, I'll be up on the roof....
+
+                                                       jms
+===============
+QUESTION 14129: <KCOP Channel 13 replaced the *good* version of
+Chrysalis with the messed-up version>
+===============
+DATE: SUN OCT 30, 1994 3:53:01 PM #14251
+
+     I know...I know....
+
+     Hand me my chainsaw, I'm going shopping for dinner.
+
+                                                             jms
+DATE: MON OCT 31, 1994 2:16:21 AM #14701
+
+     The mistake wasn't made by us.  It was broadcast correctly
+overseas, in the UK, perfectly.  This was done by the video
+house that supplied the satellite feed.
+
+                                                           jms
+NEW SEASON CONFUSION
+DATE: SUN OCT 30 1994 6:06:11 PM #14331
+
+     You couldn't possibly be less thrilled to see that than I
+was.  I can only attribute it to a problem with WB PR, given that
+we switched publicists and there was a period in between where
+no single person was really in charge, and I suspect a lot of stuff
+got out.
+
+                                                                 jms
+DATE: MON OCT 31 1994 2:16:18 AM #14699
+
+     Mira's accent is quite natural, as a native-born Yugoslavian
+who fled her country because of the war.
+
+                                                             jms
+HUMANS PLACE IN THE GALAXY
+DATE: TUES NOV 1 1994 3:30:22 #15915
+
+     Basically, I think our strength comes, and will come, from
+the fact that we are (in my universe-view, at any rate) the only
+species that really tends to build *communities* of diverse groups,
+humans and aliens, whereas the other species tend to either
+congregate only with their own kind, or conquer, rather than form
+communities which, in the long run, become stronger than the sum of
+their parts.
+
+                                                                jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 MOVES?
+DATE: THURS OCT 27, 1994 12:42:24 #11344
+
+     I think our tags are one of the better things about the show;
+I like the sense that, okay, the *incidents* of the story are over,
+but life goes on, and there are things yet to delve into, how
+the events we've just seen AFFECT our characters.  Sometimes we put
+major information into the tags, so they're not throwaways; sometimes
+we just treat them for fun, or for some nice character moments.
+
+                                                             jms
+BABYLON 5: NEW SEASON CONFUSION
+DATE: THURS OCT 27, 1994 2:53:26 AM #11443
+
+     If you heard Sinclair say "Nothing's the same anymore,"
+then you saw all of it; act 4 and the tag both end on Delenn.
+(Though the tag also has the exec producers' credits.)
+
+                                                          jms
+DATE: WED OCT 26, 1994 2:42:00 #10543
+
+     Good news is that the soundtrack will be out in the next
+month or so; I'll have more to say on this shortly.
+
+                                                           jms
+BABYLON 5: BRUCE ON SNYDER
+DATE: TUES OCT 25, 1994 3:12:24 PM #9738
+
+     Bruce Boxleitner will be on the Tom Snyder show this evening.
+Just FYI.
+
+                                                              jms
+DATE: TUES OCT 25, 1994 11:40:26 PM #10318
+
+     I only know that Walter Koenig will be over in the UK next
+week sometime for a convention, and will be bringing some B5
+stuff with him.
+
+                                                           jms
+DATE: TUES OCT 25, 1994 11:46:06 PM #10336
+
+     Yep, Synder's on CNBC, though he'll be moving to CBS after
+Letterman in December.
+
+                                                            jms
+DATE: SUN OCT 30, 1994 8:25:02 PM #14440
+
+     I think Bruce is on Marilu sometime this week.  (And he drank
+from the side where the coffee table was located.)
+
+                                                              jms
+========================
+QUESTION #11449: Any plans to be at Intersection (the 1995 World
+SF Convention) In Glasgow next August?
+========================
+DATE: THURS OCT 27, 1994 3:15:22 PM #11670
+
+      That's way too far in my personal future for me to plan now;
+I would definitely be interested, but it all depends on schedules.
+
+                                                               jms
+CHRYSALIS SPOILER
+DATE: TUES NOV 1 1994 3:30:23 #15916
+
+     I like symmetry and mirroring stuff from time to time, but
+I don't like to over-do it, so no, we generally won't do it every
+season.
+
+                                                               jms
+DATE: MON OCT 31 1994 3:18:10 PM #14932
+
+     The Shadowmen stuff was all CGI, no models.  Spiffy stuff.
+And yes, we'll find out in time what Delenn asked Kosh.  Glad you
+enjoyed the episode.
+
+                                                               jms
+===========
+QUESTION #11592: What was the question that Delenn had Lennier
+relay to Kosh? What Delenn has done, is it generally not known?
+===========
+BABYLON 5: CHRYSALIS - WHAM!
+DATE: THURS OCT 27, 1994 3:15:24 PM #11672
+
+     What Delenn has done is not generally known, but will become
+so in time.
+
+     The question...is another issue.
+
+                                                               jms
+DATE: THURS OCT 27, 1994 12:21:22 #11320
+
+     Thanks; it's definitely one of my favorites.
+
+                                              jms
+DATE: FRI OCT 28, 1994 8:52:06 PM #12848
+
+     Yes, in syndication, you're generally free of the restraints
+that the networks operate under.  Also, you don't need mega-numbers
+to be successful.
+
+                                                            jms
+DATE: FRI OCT 28, 1994 12:21:07 AM #12185
+
+     I'd say the next two weeks will have 90% of the answers
+you'd like.  In the next two episodes alone, we discover
+a) why the Minbari surrendered at the Battle of the Line,
+b) what happened to Sinclair in the missing 24 hours,
+c) where G'Kar went and what he found,
+d) what Londo is going to do about his situation,
+d) what Delenn becomes,
+e) why Sinclair was reassigned and why Sheridan was sent to B5...
+and so on.
+
+                                                          jms
+DATE: MON OCT 31 1994 2:29:14 AM #14708
+
+     I wouldn't look for too much of Garibaldi in the first episode;
+he was shot in the back...my feeling is that, TV logic to the contrary,
+it takes TIME to recover from that.  Consequently, this will take a
+few episodes to get even remotely back on track.
+
+                                                                  jms
+DATE: FRI OCT 28, 1994 12:21:09 AM #12186
+
+     "...found myself with my nose pressed against the screen...."
+
+     When you do that, we can see you, you know....
+
+                                                               jms
+BABYLON 5: KENNEDY AND DOOM #13617
+DATE: SAT OCT 29 1994 6:56:19 PM
+
+     Well, I appreciate the sentiment, though fortunately living
+next door isn't necessary, as we have wired your house for sound
+and can pick up just about everything you say or do.
+
+     And for god's sake will you PLEASE leave that chicken alone....
+
+                                                               jms
+BABYLON 5: CHRYSALIS - WOW
+DATE: THURS OCT 27, 1994 3:28:15 #11680
+
+     Here is Londo's arc through the five year storyline:
+
+     Funny and light; then funny and dark; then dark and tragic;
+then tragic and light.
+
+                                                             jms
+DATE: FRI OCT 28, 1994 12:21:05 AM #12184
+
+     Yeah, there's hope for Londo...but not in the way I think
+anybody will expect, and not in the way Londo would like.
+
+                                                             jms
+DATE: SAT OCT 29 1994 6:56:16 PM #13615
+
+     Londo is a fascinating character to write; there's layers
+upon layers, and every time I sit down to write him, he surprises
+me with something else. And it's certainly more interesting to
+watch someone you like falling into something terrible than to
+set up a bad guy from day one; no complexity or sympathy there.
+It's kind of like watching an accident in slow motion.  But in
+the final analysis, all is not dark for Londo.
+
+                                                             jms
+DATE: TUES NOV 1 1994 12:04:07 #15442
+
+     Peter's having the time of his life.  He loves where his
+character is going, loves the range of emotions he gets to
+play...I saw him for a bit on the set today, shooting "Soul Mates,"
+and he's just tickled (particularly since he's acting opposite
+Lois Nettleton, Jane Carr and Blair Valk as his three wives).
+
+                                                             jms
+DATE: SUN OCT 30 1994 12:47:27 AM #13879
+
+     Basically, yes, the characters are real for me.  Having created
+all of them, I'm essentially in the position of having Londo, G'Kar,
+Kosh, Delenn, Garibaldi, Ivanova and all the rest chasing each other
+in circles through my head 24 hours a day...which may explain a lot.
+
+     Usually, when I put one of my characters into a situation, I
+pretty much know how they're going to respond, though sometimes they
+surprise me. I took very much to heart Mark Twain's advice that you
+should never sit down to write a scene until you have finished it to
+your satisfaction; as a result, I "play" the scene over and over in
+my head, sometimes a dozen times or more, until I can see it clearly
+from start to finish, THEN I write it down.
+
+     It is strange sometimes to read other writers writing my
+characters; sometimes they get it, sometimes they don't.  But
+realistically, you can't expect other people to write someone you
+gave birth to with the same degree of familiarity that you bring,
+and that applies to any show.
+
+                                                               jms
+BABYLON 5: MORDEN'S CLOTHES #16171
+DATE: TUES NOV 1, 1994 8:56:19
+
+     Our sensibility is that men's fashions *really* don't change
+that much, in the long run (and to a lesser extent, women's). 
+Pull out some pictures of the settlers in the 1880s, and you see
+button shirts, jeans, shoes, socks, hats...they *really* haven't
+altered that much.  Some of the lines, yes, but the silver or
+spandex jumpsuits that were predicted in the 1930s for the 1980s
+have not materialized.  Form follows function.  People dress in
+layers.  So we tend to keep the silhouettes pretty much the same,
+but adjust the lines and details.
+
+     (And yes, G'Kar definitely returns in the second season, in a
+big way.)
+
+                                                                jms
+BABYLON 5: EPISODES TANKED
+DATE: FRI OCT 28, 1994 3:09:26 AM #12320
+
+     Negative.  Absolutely, totally, completely untrue.  We filmed
+22 episodes last season.  We've now aired 22 episodes of season one.
+There ARE no other episodes from that season, or from season two,
+that have been filmed and not shown.  Every episode made has been
+shown.  Period.  (Anyone who has been keeping track of the episodes
+during development, as Lee here has, title-by-title, can verify that.)
+
+                                                                jms
+BABYLON 5: <CHRYSALIS 10/21>
+DATE: TUES OCT 25, 1994 11:46:05 PM #10335
+
+     All of our writers on B5 are not only welcome on the set, but
+even *encouraged* to come to the set during filming.  (On ST,
+freelance writers are generally discouraged or outright forbidden
+to visit the set, and even staff writers labor under this.)  The
+writer is to be on-set, and if there's a question about a line, if
+I or my story editor aren't available, the director is under orders
+to take his or her question to the writer for final determination.
+
+     As for season two, I'm currently writing about half the episodes,
+12 or so.
+
+                                                                jms
+BABYLON 5: NEW SEASON
+DATE: FRI OCT 28, 1994 8:52:07 PM
+
+     There was a new episode aired a few days ago, "Chrysalis," that
+was our season ender, which shows Delenn entering the cocoon and we'll
+learn more on why later.
+
+                                                                jms
+===============================================
+QUESTION #12550: <poster just saw downlink of PtsOD> Why do the
+Minbari bear a grudge against Sheridan, a warrior who killed the
+enemy while defending his home?
+=================================================
+BABYLON 5: POINTS OF DEPARTURE
+DATE: FRI OCT 28, 1994 8:52:04 PM #12847
+
+     They don't much like the way he did it, which was rather sneaky.
+Also, the Minbari do have something of a superiority complex, and that
+he got them rankles more than a little.
+
+                                                                jms
+DATE: MON OCT 31 1994 2:29:16 AM #14709
+
+     My sense is that the Minbari have something of a superiority
+complex; the idea of being beaten, even briefly, by a technically
+inferior race is going to grate on them.  Also, bear in mind, that
+the military caste has not been fully informed about WHY they were
+ordered to surrender...so there's a great deal of animosity just
+barely submerged there, which is pointed at the only real human
+they know from the war...because he cost them.
+
+                                                               jms
+DATE: SUN OCT 30 1994 8:25:04 PM #14441
+
+      Actually, there have been other times we've shown C&C empty,
+or nearly empty.  In the first episode, we have Sinclair alone in
+C&C the first time we see him, and Garibaldi mentioning that he goes
+there when no one's around because it's quiet; also, in "Chrysalis,"
+we see Ivanova pretty much alone there, feet up on the console, because
+no ships are coming in for now.  So we've established it previously,
+just didn't button it down here.
+
+                                                                 jms
+DATE: SUN OCT 30 1994 3:53:05 PM #14253
+
+     Well, my thought at the time, and I probably should've put this
+into dialogue in retrospect, was that there's a window about every 36
+hours when the entire C&C system goes through self-maintainance for
+about half an hour, backing things up, doing self-repair, filing logs
+with Earth Central, that sort of thing.  They normally pick a slow
+period in docking, and any other routine stuff is handled through the
+backup C&C on the other side of the station axis (you can see it
+directly above the docking bay when the normal C&C is directly below it).
+
+     At first I'd considered putting that in Ivanova's mouth when she
+says, "Of all the time he could've picked," but then the reveal of where
+he was and what he was doing fell flat; it needed to be a surprise or
+it lost its impact and the humor.  Ah, well....
+
+                                                                   jms
+DATE: SAT OCT 29 1994 6:56:25 PM #13620
+
+     Yes, Delenn's reason for the chrysalis is covered in the next
+episode, "Revelations."
+
+                                                               jms
+DATE: TUES NOV 1 1994 9:02:05 #16184
+
+     We will be changing the main title sequence after "Revelations"
+airs to include the new version of Delenn.  Would be silly of us to
+include the new version in episodes prior to her unveiling.
+
+     (Jesus...how many producers will sit down and RE-DO their opening,
+with all the expense involved, just for two seconds?  I gotta be nuts.)
+
+     Also touching up a couple of other shots in the opening as well,
+just for the hell of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+DATE: SUN OCT 30 1994 3:53:00 PM #14250
+
+      Re: the ever-improving CGI...there's an action scene in the teaser
+of the second episode, "Revelations," that is particularly amazing.  And
+there is one shot of a Narn ship in extreme close-up toward the end of
+the scene that looks absolutely *solid*, and every bit as real and
+detailed as any model, and then some.  It cannot be distinguished from
+a physical object.
+
+                                                                    jms
+DATE: TUES NOV 1 1994 8:56:15 #16169
+
+     Oh, yeah...there's some shots in the second episode in particular
+that are absolutely dynamite, and totally solid.  Very cool indeed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+DATE: SUN OCT 30 1994 12:47:21 AM #13876
+
+     Thanks.  If you think PoD was a "wham," then I can't wait to see
+your reaction to "Revelations."
+
+     Interestingly enough, I figured on giving Sheridan a tie to the
+Civil War through his ancestor, General Philip Sheridan (sometimes
+called "Little Phil" by Lincoln).  Afterward, I discovered that Bruce
+is a big civil war buff, so the Lincoln stuff worked very well.
+
+     One of my favorite sequences from this episode is the stuff aboard
+the Minbari cruiser during the Battle of the Line; the shots surrounding
+Delenn and the other Minbari gives it a very god-like aspect.  Just
+wonderful.
+
+                                                                   jms
+DATE: MON OCT 31 1994 2:16:19 AM #14700
+
+     Chris did interpolate a little of the Battle of the Line music,
+but it couldn't build to a cresendo as originally done because the
+musical cue had to continue out through the next scene, and had to
+operate under dialogue, so it was more restrained.
+
+     And yes, the EFX are definitely improving even further.
+
+                                                                jms
+DATE: TUES NOV 1 1994 8:56:12 #16167
+
+     Yeah, Chris Franke is terrific.  (And check elsewhere here
+for a great announcement regarding this.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+DATE: TUES NOV 1 1994 12:11:31 #15446
+
+     Yes, they are the same set, for the most part.  Actually, the
+series set has been expanded; the CO's "office" adjoining and slightly
+above the tech pit, off to one side, was added for the series.  We've
+also added a lot of additional stations and filled stuff in, though,
+which may make it feel smaller.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+BABYLON 5: HELPING RATINGS
+DATE: MON NOV 7 1994 4:40:06 PM #21671
+
+     "I was asked how to show appreciation if the
+program is received by satellite."
+
+     Tie the letter to a balloon....?
+
+                                             jms
+     (Or write Warners directly.)
+BABYLON 5: B5 AND BALANCE
+DATE: SAT OCT 29 1994 6:56:21 PM #13618
+
+     Actually, I prefer to think that everyone on B5
+is a little unbalanced to start with.
+
+                                                 jms
+JOE OR JMS
+DATE: TUES NOV 1 1994 12:04:05 #15441
+
+     I'm usually referred to in third-person as jms
+or Joe, but when spoken to directly, Joe is preferred.
+
+     Some people, of course, call me Mr. S....and some
+people call me the Big S, which I know because I've
+heard them refer to me as the biggest S in town, and...
+hey, waitaminnit!
+
+                                                 jms
+--------
+RESPONSE: <now that poster knows correct form of address,
+gushing praise>
+--------
+DATE: TUES NOV 1 1994 9:02:06 #16185
+
+You are a woman of inestimable good taste...
+
+					jms
+BABYLON 5: POINTS OF DEPARTURE
+DATE: FRI NOV 4 1994 3:28:04 PM #18745
+
+     People have been removed, and that's all I'll say
+about it for now.
+
+                                                   jms
+DATE: FRI NOV 4 1994 3:28:08 PM #18748
+
+     Not only is Harlan still our consultant in our second year,
+that's his voice over the end credits on the show.
+
+                                                           jms
+B5 STAR SYSTEM
+DATE: TUES NOV 8 1994 11:04:12 #23192
+
+     I'll have to go check my notes, but I
+believe it's Epsilon Eridani.
+
+                                        jms
+------------------
+REQUEST: <publish B5 bible at the end of the 5-yr run>
+------------------
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 11:40:30 #18266
+
+     One crisis at a time....yikes.
+
+                                    jms
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 9:50:23 #18114
+
+     Thank you.  Granted, sometimes it's tough to hang out
+as openly as I do, but I think overall, the experiment and
+the conversation is eminently worth the effort.
+
+                                                      jms
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 12:16:02 #17370
+
+     The only software that we use is a word processing program
+called Movie Master, that's it, so I don't really know what he's
+referring to other than that.
+
+                                                            jms
+B5 RATINGS
+DATE: MON OCT 31 1994 2:16:24 AM #14703
+
+     We're doing pretty good.  Only complication is that
+right now, pretty good (which would've once been nothing
+less than wonderful and a guarantee of future seasons)...
+is not a guarantee.  First Fox grabbed a bunch of CBS
+stations.  Then CBS grabbed a bunch of independent stations
+to fill the gap. Then Paramount grabbed some stations, and
+now there are VERY few berths left for syndicated shows,
+and the only ones who will survive are those that can pull
+in BIG ratings.  So we'll see...I'd say that we and every
+other syndicated show are right up against the wall just now....
+
+                                                      jms
+DATE: MON OCT 31 1994 3:18:13 PM #14934
+
+     PTEN will never be bought by Paramount, believe me.
+
+                                                      jms
+DATE: TUES NOV 1 1994 8:56:17 #16170
+
+     It's not something I let myself think about.  If I
+ever thought about this stuff, this show never would've
+gotten made.
+
+     "Never tell me the odds."
+
+                                                     jms
+---------------
+QUESTION #15549: Why don't we see more B5 coverage on the
+entertainment shows? <ET owned by Paramount, but Extra
+owned by Warner>
+---------------
+DATE: TUES NOV 1 1994 3:30:23 #15583
+
+     Re: coverage...I dunno, we just can't get a break.
+
+                                                     jms
+EPISODE LENGTH?
+DATE: TUES NOV 1 1994 8:40:00 #16150
+
+     Negative.  ST and B5 have *exactly* the same number
+of commercials; the difference is in how we break them up.
+The amount of program time is the same.
+
+                                                     jms
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 11:57:01 #18276
+
+     As I understand it, here's the difference.
+
+     B5: teaser, four acts, tag, then right into the
+credits.  You get five commercial breaks from start
+of teaser through end of credits.
+
+     ST: teaser and five acts: you get six commercial
+breaks before you get the end credits.  So you get fewer
+commercials per break, but more breaks. In B5, you get
+fewer breaks, but more commercials.
+
+     I believe that our running time is 41:42 total,
+with a fairly short opening.  The ST opening title
+sequences tend to run longer, which may account for
+the difference in time; but the "dry" time (meaning
+that spent on story) is pretty much the same.
+
+                                              jms
+MERCHANDISE
+DATE: TUES NOV 8 1994 12:08:08 #22227
+
+     Yes, I believe the opening theme is interpolated
+into the CD.
+
+                                                jms
+DATE: SUN NOV 6 1994 4:35:26 PM #20794
+
+     I've just seen the B5 CD (well, the case,
+artwork, interior booklet and everything but the
+CD proper, though I have an advance copy of the
+prototype which I play *constantly*), and it's
+a gorgeous presentation, full color photos in
+a foldout book...just nifty stuff.
+
+     (For those needing the ID number of the CD
+to order it from Sonic Images or your local store,
+it's SI 8402-2.)
+
+     BTW, starting next week or so, Mira Furlan
+will be appearing in an alternative-theater
+production of Brecht's "Baal," at the Second Stage
+Theater on Santa Monica Boulevard in LA.  She will
+also be appearing at a Creation Convention in New
+York in about a week.
+
+                                               jms
+DATE: TUES NOV 8 1994 11:04:09 #23190
+
+    No, the CD is a basic audio CD.  The picture on
+the cover is of, big suprise, Babylon 5.
+
+                                                jms
+
+
+DATE: SUN OCT 30 1994 4:10:28 PM #14259
+
+     It's always best to simply contact your local
+TV station, in writing, and express your thoughts
+to them directly.
+
+                                              jms
+FRIEND LOST B5!!
+DATE: FRI NOV 4 1994 11:02:16 PM #19200
+
+     Alas, there's nothing I can do at that level.
+If enough folks petition another local station, they
+might pick it up.
+
+                                                 jms
+KUDOS ON SEASON 2
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 4:00:17 #17548
+
+     Thanks.  Much appreciated.
+
+     Re: Sci-Fi Channel...they can just afford to buy old
+show, and can't afford to produce any new dramatic series
+programming.
+
+                                                     jms
+-------------------
+QUESTIONS: (1) <poster thought Garibaldi had been killed off,
+saw credits, what's going on??> (2) Will we ever find out
+what Kosh looks like & the identity of the assassin or helper?
+------------------
+DEATH OF MAJOR CHARACTER
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 9:50:21 #18113
+
+     The only question that I can answer is #2, and yes,
+this season you will discover what Kosh looks like.  (The
+assassin was the Minbari with the changeling net in the
+pilot movie, and the helper was Takashima.)
+
+                                                     jms
+FREEZE-FRAME CLUES
+DATE: SUN OCT 30 1994 3:06:09 AM #13920
+
+     Yep, that's exactly what it was.  We even based it
+on the photograph. (We shot it, by coincidence, the same
+day as the anniversary of LBJ taking the oath.  Very
+weird atmosphere on set that day.)
+
+                                                     jms
+SEASON 2 MONOLOGUE
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 4:04:26 #17551
+
+     The voice-over is by Captain Sheridan this season;
+it'll probably change again next season, to continue our
+tradition of changing points of view as we go.
+
+                                                   jms
+DATE: FRI NOV 4 1994 3:28:06 #18746
+
+     Actually, the 5 transition is something that, when
+I first discussed it with Kevin Kutchaver, was considered
+almost impossible to do because of the elements: it's a
+raised etch, which dissolves into a cutaway, then a fade,
+then a wipe, all in one continuous move.  (I don't actually
+remember whether it was me or Kevin who suggested the move,
+or both, so I'll assume it was him for the moment.)  Kevin
+had to come up with some real tricks to make this work.
+
+                                                      jms
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 9:59:22 #18125
+
+     There's a reason for this: due to time constraints,
+we have to get Bruce to do the narration *without* having
+the images in front of him; he had no way of knowing where
+beats would go with the images, or what would be under it
+(since we were still putting the new opening together), so
+we had to artifically build in pauses when we did the final
+transfer (as opposed to year one, where we had the images
+assembled long before we had Michael do the narration).
+What took forever was that 5 fade/dissolve/wipe, which just
+killed us time-wise, but is spiffy to look at.
+
+     Now that it's all together, we plan to have Bruce re-do
+the narration with the images in front of him, so he can
+respond naturally and make it flow, the way he would've been
+able to do had we had the material ready in time.
+
+                                                        jms
+DATE: FRI NOV 4 1994 3:28:09 #18749
+
+     Actually, we just redid the narration with Bruce
+yesterday, and it's MUCH better.  We'll be able to get
+it in starting in episode #4.
+
+     While we were at it, btw, we took the opportunity
+to re-do the faceplate shot in the main title sequence.
+It was fine, but it could've been better.  Now it is.
+Expect it around the same time as the new VO.
+
+                                                  jms
+DATE: SUN NOV 6 1994 1:41:11 AM #20282
+
+     Actually, Kevin works closely with Ron, and many
+of the better effects in the show are collaborations.
+Nowhere is this more evident than in two episodes to
+come, "The Geometry of Shadows" (my personal favorite
+of the first six), and "The Long Dark," where they've
+done some real landmark work.
+
+                                                 jms
+DATE: TUES NOV 8 1994 11:04:11 #23191
+
+     Exactly.  That's something that a lot of folks haven't
+noticed (or at least haven't commented upon).  We had to
+digitally isolate the moving (sometimes a little, sometimes
+a lot) head shot within the larger picture, bring in the
+five between that, and frame-by-frame continue the digital
+isolation, the fade, and the push-in.  It was a real headache,
+but I love the effect, and Kevin did a great job on it.
+
+                                                      jms
+DATE: FRI NOV 4 1994 11:02:18 PM #19201
+
+     I think the movie will be out on video sometime
+winter/spring.
+
+                                                 jms
+B5 SOUNDTRACK @ LOSCON
+DATE: TUES NOV 1 1994 8:56:21 #16172
+
+     I'm pleased to announce that Christopher Franke's soundtrack
+for BABYLON 5 will be available starting around December in most
+markets (a great stocking stuffer).  In addition, a LIMITED EDITION
+version, which I'm told will be different from the mass release
+version, will be for sale at LosCon in Los Angeles over the
+Thanksgiving weekend.  I think only about 500 or 1,000 will be
+avilable there, and I expect they'll be grabbed up pretty fast.
+
+     (If those here involved with LosCon could get me about fifteen
+minutes of open room prior to the start of my Sunday presentation,
+I could play about 15 minutes of the CD, assuming a player is
+available and hooked up.)
+
+     It is, by the way, a *beautiful* album.  Chris has done
+something quite extraordinary, in that instead of a series of
+cuts and snippets, like most soundtracks, he's reorchestrated
+all the primary themes in the show into one long symphonic piece.
+It's gorgeous and rich and full, non-stop for the length of the CD.
+I received an early prototype, and have it on almost constantly
+while I'm working.  Never get tired of it.
+
+     (I also just did the liner notes for the album, I'm that
+excited about it.)
+
+                                                           jms
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 12:15:26 #17369
+
+     My rule is that my appearances can be taped, but not
+any material that I bring with me to show.
+
+                                                      jms
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 12:15:15 #17367
+
+     The soundtrack will be coming out from Christopher's
+own label, Sonic Images.
+
+                                                      jms
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 11:48:29 #18265
+
+     I imagine that the soundtrack will be available
+in Canada, through Christopher Franke's label, Sonic
+Images.
+
+                                                 jms
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 4:04:25 #17550
+
+     The theme of the first part changes as the show
+changes, to reflect the tone of the season.
+
+     Re: the closing music not matching the original
+closing music...er, they're exactly the same....
+
+                                                jms
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 12:15:19 #17368
+
+     We tend to use the full surround whenever we
+humanly can.  Ah likes surround....
+
+                                              jms
+DATE: FRI NOV 4 1994 3:17:05 AM #18448
+
+     The scores in B5 are done by Christopher Franke,
+of Tangerine Dream, working with the Berlin Symphonic
+Film Orchestra.  We're *very* happy with the work he's
+been doing for us; it's inventive, imaginative, moving
+and at times very touching and personal.
+
+     Chris composes here in LA, faxes the score to Berlin,
+watches and conducts the orchestra over two-way closed
+circuit video over high compression phone lines, they
+record it there, the music is then sent digitally back here
+over the same high-compression fiber optic lines, and
+delivered to us.
+
+     As for how it's determined where music goes...for
+every episode, we have a "spotting session," which is
+where I get together with Chrisopher, our sound effects
+and post-production people, to go over the sound for the
+episode.  As part of this, I sit and watch the show with
+everyone else, and when I think a music cue is called for,
+say, "Music in."  We note the time code on the episode
+there, and at the point where I say "Music out."  Chris
+then finds the core of the scene, its meaning, and finds
+ways to illuminate it through music.
+
+                                                     jms
+NEW SET LIGHTING
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 4:13:30 #17795
+
+     You didn't see moving spotlights because we weren't
+in the sets that use them, like the Zocalo, Central Corridor,
+DownBelow, others.  Believe me, they're there.
+
+                                                  jms
+BABYLON 5: POINTS OF DEPARTURE
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 4:04:29 #17552
+
+     What you have to understand is that we figured we're going
+to be getting a lot of people sampling the show in its first
+episode, year two. We were therefore a bit heavy on exposition,
+telling rather than showing, because there's so MUCH to tell,
+particularly for a new audience.
+
+     If we don't get that new audience, I don't know if
+there will be a third season, given how competitive the
+marketplace is getting, so we have to be careful how we
+bring them in.  Yes, that means explaining a bit more
+than long-term viewers have been accustomed to in the first
+episode; I think it's a relatively small price to pay.  The
+next episode, "Revelations," is really the culmination of
+the events of "Chrysalis," and shows more than tells...and
+it does a lot of it.
+
+                                                     jms
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 4:26:31 #17800
+
+     The soul hunter glimpsed her plans re: the chrysalis.
+
+                                                      jms
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 12:16:14 #17372
+
+     You'll note, if you check your tape, that the
+middle-section of the Agamemnon (the officer's section
+and the bridge) rotates, thus creating gravity.
+
+                                                jms
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 12:16:17 #17373
+
+     The Agamemnon was constructed after the Earth/Minbar
+War; the Hyperion was a survivor of that war.
+
+     And yes, ships can sit in hyperspace (something also
+mentioned by Laurel Takashima in the pilot, "If I were the
+Vorlons, I'd have a warship standing by in hyperspace just
+waiting to attack."
+
+                                                   jms
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 9:50:25 #18116
+
+     Heads definitely rolled (figuratively speaking) in
+the Minbari warrior caste after the Black Star incident.
+They allowed themselves to get cocky, and didn't do a
+proper job, which was more than an embarrassment to them.
+
+                                                     jms
+DATE: TUES NOV 8 1994 11:23:09 #23243
+
+     Yes, you can go in and shoot at a Minbari
+*cruiser* visually...but the reality is that any
+long-range weapon will be intercepted by targeting
+fire, and if you get up real close and personal...
+well, actually, you *can't* get up real close and
+personal because, as Mitchell learned in "Sky,"
+you get shot by the fighters.
+
+     What the fighters tend to remain engaged with
+are the Minbari fighters, which are *incredibly*
+fast...much too fast to target visually.
+
+     And believe me, as Sheridan stated, Earth's
+been *trying* to break the stealth tech for a while,
+just hasn't been able to.
+
+                                               jms
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 4:26:01 #17801
+
+     Yes, the closure is the same as male/female
+garments today, reversed.
+
+     And the flagship Sheridan destroyed was the
+Black Star, hence the term Starkiller.
+
+                                             jms
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 9:59:20 #18124
+
+     Actually, it was my decision.  The original costume
+designer on the pilot asked if I wanted all the fasteners
+to be uniform, or if we'd go the traditional way (which
+is true of military uniforms today).  I figured, again,
+that the key to B5 is more how we're alike than how we're
+different, and said to keep it.  We'd've saved some money
+if we'd made them all fasten the same way, design-wise,
+but it made more sense this way.
+
+                                                     jms
+DATE: FRI NOV 4 1994 11:13:15 PM #19221
+
+     Let me get into this for a second.  A lot of people,
+in the beginning, said they didn't see "a lot of depth"
+to Sinclair when he first came on the screen, just as you
+did with Sheridan.  Later, the majority of these changed
+their minds.  Why?  Because you don't get depth from spending
+one hour with somebody.  It's like any friendship; after
+knowing that friend for several months or years, you don't
+ever *see* your friend quite the way you did at first.  You
+now have layers of familiarity.
+
+     A number of folks said that they liked how much Michael
+had settled into his role by "Infection," only to learn that
+that was the first one shot.  It wasn't that Michael had
+settled into the role, it was that the audience had finally
+settled into Michael.
+
+     We are a nation hooked on instant gratification; an
+impatient nation. As with Sinclair, there's a lot of depth
+to Sheridan, but you only get to see that, as with any show,
+over *time*.
+
+                                                       jms
+DATE: SAT NOV 5 1994 1:11:29 #19368
+
+     Re: Foxworth...he was someone we spoke to in case Bruce
+turned out not to be available, and we liked him instantly,
+and he liked the show.  So for good luck, we had him come in
+for this role, which may appear again.  He's a terrific actor.
+
+                                                           jms
+----------------
+QUESTION #20121: <What were all those ribbons on General
+Hague's chest awarded for?><curiosity about what it takes
+to earn a decoration in B5's universe>
+----------------
+DATE: SUN NOV 6 1994 1:41:09 AM #20281
+
+     I'll have to check, but probably most of those medals
+are for actions during the Earth/Minbari War, and during
+the Dilgar War.  I'll have to check to get anything more
+specific than that.
+
+                                                      jms
+DATE: SUN OCT 30 1994 4:10:29 PM #14260
+
+     Yes, Mira Furlan definitely returns next season as Delenn.
+
+                                                           jms
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 4:00:16 #17547
+
+     The new character is Warren Keffer, a Starfury pilot who
+we'll see in several episodes (I think 8 or so) this season.
+Given the logic that you'd have lots of folks other than the CO
+and XO leading missions, we're filling in that gap now.
+
+                                                           jms
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 4:13:28 #17794
+
+      Note that Lennier says he wishes he could have
+told them (us) the *rest* of the prophecy...and there's
+definitely more to Sinclair, as will be seen later in
+the season.  Remember, the Grey Council never tells
+anyone the whole truth (note how Kalain asks that question
+upon being told that Sinclair is just an ambassador).
+
+                                                    jms
+CATHERINE SAKAI
+DATE: FRI NOV 4 1994 3:28:07 PM #18747
+
+     This is the one thread that I'm still trying to
+decide about.
+
+                                              jms
+DATE: FRI NOV 4 1994 11:02:11 PM #19199
+
+     Let's just say for now that Londo's eventual fate
+is kind of everything at once....
+
+                                                  jms
+LONDO/SIR JOHN FALSTAFF
+DATE: FRI NOV 4 1994 11:13:17 PM #19222
+
+     I'd have to agree with the sentiment that Londo is
+a classic romantic figure, odd as that may sound.  And
+Falstaff isn't a bad analogy.
+
+                                                jms
+FIRST HUMAN CONTACT
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 12:16:20 #17374
+
+     Sinclair was the first human the Minbari (or at
+least the Grey Council) had ever met, having come this
+far for the final victory.  The Earth Explorer vessel
+was part of a military fleet that encountered a Minbari
+convoy, there was a miscommunication, a misperceived
+threat, and our ships opened fire.  There was no
+person-to-person contact.
+
+                                                   jms
+--------
+QUESTION: Is it true that humanity was responsible for
+Dukhat's death?
+--------
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 11:48:28 #18264
+
+     This is true, yes.
+
+                   jms
+DATE: FRI NOV 4 1994 3:28:03 PM #18744
+
+     Thing is, I don't think that those two elements --
+the "hard SF standard that (we've) maintained through
+season 1," and "the concept of Minbari souls being reborn
+as humans" -- are in any real conflict.
+
+     The definition of hard SF is a technical solution to
+a technical problem.  But now does that mean that everyone
+in the story has to be an atheist?  Not at all.
+
+     You have to separate *hardware* from *people* to make
+the SF equation work.  Your hardware has to be as rigorously
+based in fact as possible; that's the science part of SF.
+But the people have to be people.  And that means that they
+will, sometimes, believe things that may seem foolish.  But
+that is not a contradiction in the approach.
+
+     Back as far as "Believers," we've always set belief
+against science, and generally tried to avoid making ANY
+pat statement about either.  Whether or not the part about
+souls is true is secondary to whether or not some of the
+characters *believe* that it's true.  Some will, some won't.
+Will I, as the Old Fart of the Galaxy, say in the series
+*THIS* side is correct?  No. My job is to start arguments,
+not resolve them.
+
+                                                        jms
+DATE: FRI NOV 4 1994 3:05:18 AM #18444
+
+     It has been established, in prior episodes, that there
+are brief periods when C&C is in "standby mode," during which
+time no ships are due, the station is in "night" cycle, and
+the operational equipment in C&C goes through routine backup
+and maintenance.  In "Midnight on the Firing Line," our first
+episode, Ivanova is told by Garibaldi that Sinclair is in C&C
+when it's in standby mode because he likes the quiet during
+those brief periods (usually only about an hour or so); in
+"Chrysalis," Ivanova asks Tech 1 if any more ships are due in
+for a while, is told no, and she puts her feet up on the console,
+watching the news, with the place pretty much deserted.
+
+     This isn't the bridge of a starship; this is mainly a
+center of operations for docking and other station activities
+requiring command personnel.  Every separate department --
+environmental, other resources -- has its own separate control
+center, with lots of redundency.
+
+     In addition, there's always somebody monitoring stuff
+as it comes through, so if there *were* any kind of problem,
+there'd be somebody on site in C&C in thirty seconds.  Basically,
+we're talking an hour or so once every 36 to 48 hours.  I
+could've explained this in dialogue, but it would've taken the
+edge off the revelation and humor, and I figured we'd done this
+before enough times that it wouldn't be an issue.
+
+                                                            jms
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 9:51:09 #18118
+
+     Argh...I can't lay my hands on the specifics on the
+Lincoln speech, as to where and when, and it just fell out
+of my head.  (I was just talking about this yesterday, too.) 
+Will try to pull it out.
+
+     And thanks for your kind words; we've had some bumpy
+times, and it's rewarding to know that we're getting our
+intent across.
+
+                                                       jms
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 12:16:09 #17371
+
+     Yes, the quote definitely comes from Lincoln.  I hated
+the old Babcom logo, so we dumped it.
+
+                                                        jms
+DATE: SUN NOV 6 1994 1:41:13 AM #20284
+
+     Actually, we kept the phrase BabCom, but got a much
+better screen for it.  We also divided it up: BabCom is
+JUST for internal B5 communications; StellarCom is for
+communications outside B5.
+
+                                                    jms
+DATE: MON NOV 7 3:38:24 AM #21324
+     StarCom was also the name of an animated series;
+and it's a real corp name, so we can't use it.
+
+                                                jms
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 12:35:01 #17417
+
+     Re: yankeecentrism...we always strive for balance.
+Yes, he quoted Lincoln, but he also noted that on his
+21st birthday, he flew to see the new Dalai Lama being
+sworn in.
+
+                                                   jms
+BABYLON 5: BESTER'S LEFT HAND
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 12:35:31 #17416
+
+     Walter decided that an interesting character trait for
+Bester would be if this skilled psi cop had a useless left
+hand.
+
+                                                      jms
+B5 ON LASERDISC?
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 4:04:23 #17549
+
+     While B5 will eventually be out on disk, the chances
+of including extra scenes is zilch, since that would mean
+re-editing and rescoring all of our shows so intended, and
+we don't have the resources for that.
+
+                                                        jms
+NEW SEASON CONFUSION
+DATE: TUES NOV 1 1994 3:12:17 #15889
+
+     You may want to avoid seeing the photo until after
+the *second* episode, not just the first.
+
+                                                    jms
+BABYLON 5: REVELATIONS
+DATE: FRI NOV 4 1994 11:02:20 PM #19202
+
+     I started writing "The Customer is Always Right," and
+partway through discovered that ST had trod upon similar
+terrain, story wise, and thus opted to shelve the story.
+It wasn't an arc-story, just something kinda fun, but my
+feeling is that if they did something close to it on ST,
+I'd rather not come anywhere near that particular pond.
+
+     Oddly, the new makeup takes *longer* for Mira than
+the old, which went on in a couple of fairly straightforward
+pieces.  Now there's a lot more detail work and more pieces.
+
+     Also, the intent is that G'Kar looked at both Sheridan
+and Londo, not sure which of them may have leaked the info,
+though I think the editing may have focused too much on
+Londo in that shot.
+
+                                                       jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 BOOK COMING
+FROM: JOHN VORNHOLT
+DATE: FRI NOV 4 1994 4:28:10 PM #18786
+
+Ken, what a nice message.  I'll correct one thing -- I'm writing
+the first and third of the books.  Lois Tilton is writing the
+ second of the three original novels; I think it's called ACCUSATIONS.
+
+I think the books are going to be real successful, beyond the
+initial expectations.  But the first three have to do well for
+there to be more. The first book, VOICES, is a story featuring
+the telepaths, Talia, Bester, Gray, and many more.  In fact,
+there a Psi Corps conference on B5.  My other book features
+G'Kar and the Narn.
+
+I was just in Louisiana for World Fantasy Con in New Orleans,
+and I could definitely be coaxed back. <g>
+
+John
+DATE: THURS NOV 3 1994 9:59:17 #18123
+
+     Shon'Kar.
+
+                                  jms
+FROM: JOHN VORNHOLT
+DATE: FRI NOV 4 1994 4:11:04 PM #18771
+
+Joe, thanks.
+
+John
+FROM: JOHN VORNHOLT
+DATE: FRI NOV 4 1994 4:17:26 PM #18779
+
+Jason, my TNG books are MASKS, WAR DRUMS, CONTAMINATION,
+one classic Trek, SANCTUARY, a DS9 book, ANTIMATTER,
+Starfleet Academy CAPTURE THE FLAG.  And the novelization
+for kids of GENERATIONS.
+
+John
+FROM: JOHN VORNHOLT
+DATE: FRI NOV 4 1994 4:33:17 PM #18793
+
+Larry, I just remembered that BLOOD OATH was a DS9 episode.
+But they still owe me a title as DS9 used SANCTUARY and TNG
+used MASKS, both from older Trek books of mine. <g>
+
+John
+
+Altho I wouldn't be adverse to using the Narn word, SHON'KAR.
+
+
+NEW WATCHER
+DATE: TUES NOV 8 1994 12:08:18 #22231
+
+      Eventually the tapes will be released commercially.
+
+      My theory on the B5 universe is much akin to a
+spider's web; we are at the center of the web, and if
+something happens, it may happen well out at the fringe
+of the web, but we sense the vibrations, and it affects
+the whole web.  We should always get a sense of things
+going on elsewhere, that there's a real world out there;
+and a sense that there is something dark and menacing
+gliding just beneath the surface, ready to come out at
+any second.
+
+                                                 jms
+PTEN CANCELLATIONS????
+DATE: MON NOV 7 1994 4:40:07 PM #21672
+
+    Can you give me the specifics of which station
+this is?  Fox 66 doesn't give me the market/call
+letters.  Would definitely appreciate this, and I'll
+try and look into the situation.
+
+                                                jms
+POINTS OF DEPARTURE
+DATE: TUES NOV 8 1994 12:08:12 #22228
+
+      I've been trying to figure out exactly what it is
+about this season's graphics that's so much better than
+last season's (the folks at Foundation try to explain it
+to me, but generally there's math involved, at which
+point I get confused and fall down), and I think that
+it's the way they've managed to separate the background
+from the foreground images.
+
+     Last season, the images were superlative, no
+mistake; sometimes, though, they had the sense of
+moving matte paintings, more or less all at the
+same focal distance.  Now they've somehow been able
+to clearly delineate foreground stuff (ships) from
+background stuff (nebula/stars), giving it all a
+more three-dimensional appearance.
+
+     Or it's pixie dust.
+
+                                                jms
+DATE: TUES NOV 8 1994 11:23:07 #23242
+
+     You're forgetting several elements.
+
+     1) It would be in the VP's best interests to go
+along on the trip, to help defuse any suspicion ("Boy,
+was I lucky.").
+
+     2) Going a few hours out of the country is one
+thing; you're not looking at the aspect that traveling
+in normal space takes a lot of time and expense...a
+ship as massive as EF1 is hideously expensive; two
+would be a major waste of government money, and they'd
+both be traveling side by side, further wasting money.
+Also, whereas Air Force 1 travels nominally alone, EF1
+has a full escort of fighters, with a minimum of four
+in the "air" at any one time, plus another batch inside.
+
+     Going between planets is a much different process
+than going between here and London; and if both parties
+are required at the other end, the only sensible way is
+to have them go together.
+
+                                                   jms
+DATE: SUN NOV 6 1994 4:03:27 PM #20757
+
+     Thanks.  And yes, Sheridan was Santiago's first
+choice to replace Sinclair.  Clark has no problem with
+that decision, given Sheridan's record; he's just the
+sort he'd like to have in that place.
+
+                                                   jms
+DATE: SUN NOV 6 1994 4:03:30 PM #20759
+
+     Let's just say for now that there's a lot more to our
+captain than meets the eye.  You'll get a much better sense
+about what's going on with him after episode 11.
+
+                                                    jms
+DATE: SUN NOV 6 1994 8:02:09 PM #20961
+
+     The correct phraseology would be, "I'm Captain
+Sheridan, commander of Babylon 5."  He is the station
+commander, and his rank is captain.
+
+                                                jms
+DATE: SUN NOV 6 1994 8:03:17 PM #20962
+
+     1) Captain Sheridan will retain command of B5
+and not give it over to Ivanova unless he is
+off-station.  First, he's the ranking officer.
+Second, Earth currently doesn't much care if the
+Minbari are mad.
+
+     2) C&C stands for Command and Control.  Since
+Sheridan is in command and in control, thus he is
+in C&C a lot.  I'm also trying to get Ivanova out
+from time to time to explore other aspects of her
+character.
+
+     3) No, you wouldn't put someone who's not a
+main character making contact with ships because
+in many cases, you need a command officer making
+decisions.  Routine communications with incoming
+ships are already being handled by lower-ranking
+officers, the dome techs located in the pit and
+around the edges of the dome.
+
+                                             jms
+DATE: MON NOV 7 1994 4:46:10 PM #21675
+
+     John Iacovelli worked up a kind of Esperanto for
+some areas of B5; you can spot it from time to time.
+SECUR AREA for Secure.  Mainly to help newcomers.  Me,
+I'm not entirely sure it's successful, so it may be
+dropped after a while.
+
+                                                jms
+DATE: MON NOV 7 1994 4:40:09 PM #21673
+
+     We have a *lot* of sets...I think 16-20 standing
+sets, and something like 59-60 swing sets, more than
+just about any other show I can think of.
+
+     As we were making some minor modifications to the
+costumes, such as putting some red piping along the
+edges, it came up that if you're a qualified fighter
+pilot, you generally get wings.  Thus, we added them.
+
+     The chrysalis is virtually all prop, with some roto
+work to enhance the glow in "Chrysalis."
+
+     In syndication, it takes a while to get in the final
+ratings, because it's aired over the course of a week;
+we should know more by this Thursday or Friday.
+
+                                                      jms
+DATE: SUN NOV 6 1994 4:35:21 PM #20792
+
+     You're going to see more of the "grunts" here
+and there on the show; more of the Starfury pilots,
+and in one episode, "GROPOS," you'll meet the
+equivilant of EA Marines.  (GROPOS is slang for
+Ground Pounders.)
+
+                                             jms
+DATE: SUN NOV 6 1994 4:03:28 PM #20758
+
+     Re: the rotating section...at first Paul didn't
+want to do the design, but I kinda pressed the issue.
+I think it looks terrific.
+
+                                                  jms
+DATE: SUN NOV 6 1994 4:03:25 PM #20756
+
+     I understood the question; it's just that it
+strikes me as Trek-think; "Here's this alien civilization
+that worships the great god Bobabloo, but we discovered
+that what they call Bobaloo is actually a scientific
+device left behind by a greater civilization to guide them...."
+
+     Feh.  When you reduce everything like that, where's
+the mystery? Where's the ambiguity?  To do this is to
+pluck the teeth of the lion, and I much prefer it with
+its teeth intact, however more dangerous it makes the journey.
+
+                                                      jms
+EPISODE TYPES
+DATE: SUN NOV 6 1994 11:55:26 #21167
+
+     Yes, we definitely show the episode titles at the top
+of each show, in the first act.  As for introducing a lot
+of new aliens, the danger in that is that soon the show
+becomes the Alien of the Week, and given where the story
+is going, I think it'll be a long time before any of our
+current alien characters gets boring.  That can only happen
+if the character simply is what he is, and never surprises
+you.  Not much chance of that here.
+
+                                                       jms
+DATE: SUN NOV 6 1994 8:03:19 PM #20963
+
+     "Which course will Babylon 5 follow later on this season?"
+
+     Both, as usual.
+
+                                                          jms
+DATE: TUES NOV 8 1994 12:08:15 #22230
+
+     I tried, I *really* tried to get through Earth 2, but
+after about 45 minutes just ran screaming from the room.
+But who knows, the series may be better...because after all,
+who am I to complain about pilot movies...?
+
+                                                       jms
+REVELATIONS
+DATE: SUN NOV 6 1994 1:41:12 AM #20283
+
+     Generally speaking, yeah, I tend to end up writing
+most of the arc related stuff, though I give Larry some
+of it from time to time, and a bit gets filtered out to
+the freelancers from time to time, but not much major
+stuff as a rule.  On the other hand, though, sometimes
+I do so much arc stuff that I *have* to do some fun
+stuff to balance it out, like "Parliament" last year,
+and "Geometry" this year.
+
+                                               jms
+DATE: SUN NOV 6 1994 4:03:04 PM #20762
+
+     Thanks.  The humor will *definitely* continue,
+as you'll see in "The Geometry of Shadows."
+
+     Again, good points.
+
+                                                jms
+
+DATE: FRI NOV 11 1994 12:05:16 AM #25196
+
+     The Star Wars X-wing fighters are not really efficient
+within space; you need something with thrusters on all sides --
+front, back, top, bottom -- to facilitate movement along an
+XYZ axis.  This is the most sensible, non-aerodynamic version
+we could develop.  (We've heard from a number of scientific
+types at JPL and Nasa and elsewhere commending us on the
+design, btw.)
+
+                                                       jms
+WHITHER ELLISON?
+DATE: WED NOV 9 1994 2:03:16 #23449
+
+     Harlan's script for us for last season encountered
+trouble when he was injured in the earthquake, and other
+health problems associated with his heart cropped up.
+He is currently working on one now for us.
+
+     Harlan's role on the show is basically under the category
+"free floating agent of darkness."  He's free to get involved
+with anything he chooses; he can wander into wardrobe (and has
+made many useful suggestions there), props (ditto), gives
+suggestions to outside writers like David Gerrold and Peter David
+and D.C. Fontana, contributed to the narration last year, and
+did the closing narration (over end credits) on the show this year.
+
+     Primarily, though, I liken him to Jiminy Cricket, perched
+on my shoulder...someone who's been through the wringer (on
+Starlost) and can point out the potholes in the road and help me
+avoid the same things that caused him grief.
+
+                                                          jms
+DATE: WED NOV 9 1994 2:14:24 #23475
+
+     My brief take on Spielberg: the man is a *terrific*
+director.  But he doesn't know what makes a *story*.  He
+knows images, knows how to bring your emotions right to
+the front, but a story is a very different creature.  When
+he has done his best -- Duel, Jaws, Schlinder's List -- he
+has always been working from someone else's story.  Whenever
+he has personally gotten into the writing process, he slips.
+
+     Take the highly-touted debut episode of "Amazing Stories,"
+as an example.  Old man's saying that the Ghost Train is gonna
+come by, pick up Grandpa, and take him to the Other Side.  This
+is in the very top of the first act.  They talk about this a lot.
+Lots of nice shots.  And then, at the end of the episode, the
+Ghost Train comes by, picks up Grandpa, and takes him to the Other Side.
+
+     One of the most common errors directors make in trying to
+create stories is that they get caught on the image...and as a
+result, the stories they become involved with END ON THEIR
+PREMISE.  The premise should be where you START, not where you
+finish.  This problem has nowhere been more obvious than in the
+series work he's been involved with.
+
+     There's no real direction, nothing to *say*, just images and
+moments that don't entirely add up.  So they pour money into it
+to make it look spiffy.
+
+     I sometimes think what I could do on B5 with the budget of
+DS9 or DSV or E2 or ST:V...then, sometimes, I think maybe it's
+better this way.  We don't have a lot of money...so we have to
+be creative instead.  Works for me.
+
+                                                            jms
+---------------
+QUESTION: <What do you think of Reservoir Dogs/Pulp Fiction?>
+---------------
+DATE: THURS NOV 10 1994 4:30:24
+
+     Sadly, I haven't seen either film (no discernible life
+here), so can't really comment.
+
+                                                      jms
+BABYLON 5: "BE SEEING YOU"
+DATE: FRI NOV 11 1994 12:05:13 AM #25194
+
+     Thanks.  Lines in scripts don't generally get there
+by accident. Somebody writes 'em.  Very little in this
+show happens by accident.
+
+                                                      jms
+DATE: FRI NOV 11 1994 12:05:04 AM #25189
+
+     The "Be seeing you" is a kind of nod to the Prisoner, yes.
+
+     As for Kosh, when it came time to design the character,
+I gave very specific instructions to, first, Peter Ledger
+(the artist who did the early conceptions of Kosh for artwork
+for the studios), and then our costume designer and prosthetics
+people.  I had very detailed elements that had to be included,
+given what's inside, so everything kind of had to bend to that.
+
+                                                          jms
+NA'TOTH
+DATE: FRI NOV 11 1994 12:04:25 AM #25186
+
+     The actor wanted to pursue other avenues.  She'd
+primarily worked as a romantic lead in films, then came
+in at the last minute to help with season one.  She then
+wanted to go back to that.  The character stayed because
+we need the character to have some prior knowledge of the
+situation, rather than bringing in somebody new.
+
+                                                    jms
+EPISODE LENGTH?
+DATE: WED NOV 9 1994 2:14:22 #23474
+
+     Usually, stations can't afford compression; it's
+done at the network level, cable or broadcast, or point
+of distribution.  Thus, insofar as I know, it isn't
+happening and won't be happening with B5.
+
+                                                 jms
+PTEN CANCELLATIONS????
+DATE: FRI NOV 11 1994 12:05:02 AM #25188
+
+     I've heard about the Channel 66 situation, and
+unhappily it's one of those things that I can't do
+anything about, much as I'd like.  This is something
+that has to happen at a local level.  It's certainly
+a pain in the butt, though....
+
+                                                 jms
+DATE: THURS NOV 10 1994 1:44:30 #24276
+
+     The executiver producer's job is to make sure
+the script is as good as it humanly can be.  If it's
+not good, he's to either rewrite it, or cause it to
+be rewritten.  An unsuccessful script is the executive
+producer's primary responsibility.  If a B5 script
+doesn't work, it's fundamentally my fault, regardless
+of whether I wrote it or not; ditto for Earth 2.
+
+     Otherwise, what the heck is the producer drawing
+a salary *for*?
+
+                                              jms
+REVELATION
+DATE: THURS NOV 10 1994 2:14:19 #24302
+
+     I don't think *anyone* really knows the amount
+of tap-dancing that goes on to get this show made
+the way I want, or the even greater amount that was
+required to get it on the air in the first place.
+Nor, in the final analysis, should they, I suppose;
+my problem is my problem and nobody else's.
+
+                                                jms
+DATE: FRI NOV 11 1994 12:05:08 AM #25191
+
+     Yes, generally stories are self-contained, but
+in the case of season endings like "Chrysalis," it
+takes time to get everything back up and running
+again.  The bigger the explosion, the longer it takes
+to clean up the mess.
+
+                                              jms
+DATE: FRI NOV 11 1994 12:05:18 AM #25197
+
+     All of the characters' personality traits remain
+there.  Some move forward or backward into the light,
+depending on the situation, but they all are there.  I
+think it's more interesting if someone does have these
+traits, because then it opens the arena for self-doubt,
+angst, and inner conflict.
+
+     To tell you Londo's fate would be like opening the
+last page of the book before buying it.
+
+                                                  jms
+B4 ON B5
+DATE: FRI NOV 11 1994 12:05:09 AM #25192
+
+     No, it's not Babylon 4.  Definitely.
+
+                                    jms
+SHOWERS
+DATE: WED NOV 9 1994 2:03:17 #23450
+
+     A vibe shower would theoretically use sonic
+waves (in combination with other elements, like
+disinfecting lighting, as seen in "Signs") to
+remove dirt and kill bacteria.
+
+     That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+                                             jms
+
+
+DELENN'S REASON
+DATE: FRI NOV 11 1994 12:23:11 AM #25223
+
+     Mind, however, that Delenn might have known Sinclair
+was going to be leaving.  Remember, "If you come, it must
+be soon; certain things have been set in motion, and we
+do not have much time."  That she went into the chrysalis
+prior to his leaving doesn't preclude prior knowledge by
+any stretch of the imagination (as we'll discover).
+
+     All of which is, of course, a separate issue from
+whether or not she is telling the *whole* truth for the
+reason behind the transformation....
+
+                                                   jms
+GOOF IN PTS OF DEPARTURE
+DATE: THURS NOV 10 1994 12:29:04 #24203
+
+     Nope.  Not a good recover.  That's what's in the
+script, and that's what's on the audio.
+
+                                                 jms
+POINTS OF DEPARTURE
+DATE: WED NOV 9 1994 5:20:12 #23825
+
+     Just to clarify: in Soul Hunter we set in place
+the question of what these things are, and do not
+resolve that question.  Dr. Franklin offers that
+with the correct technology, it might be possible to
+make (for lack of a better term) a clone of someone's
+neural patterns, copy his personality and memories
+into a storage device...but also dismisses the notion
+of soul stealing.
+
+     I traffic in ambiguity.
+
+                                                jms
+REVELATIONS-NARN HIST.
+DATE: FRI NOV 11 1994 12:05:11 AM #25193
+
+     Let's just say for now that about a thousand years
+ago, Narn was used as a lay-over and supply spot for a
+Shadowman group that landed there for a time, and used
+it briefly as a base of operations.
+
+                                                     jms
+GARIBALDI'S AIDE?
+DATE: FRI NOV 11 1994 12:05:14 AM #25195
+
+     There was a bit of bleed-over in the audio track
+from the high intensity lights needed to make that
+scene pop.
+
+                                                jms
+DATE: FRI NOV 11 1994 12:23:14 AM #25225
+
+     No, Jack wasn't *seduced* at that time...but he WAS
+there to meet them, and escort them to see Sinclair.  Why
+him?  Perhaps a contact there...?
+
+                                                       jms
+DATE: WED NOV 9 1994 2:03:18 #23451
+
+     The only time a name is associated with his aide
+is when Garibaldi refers to him later, at which time
+he just says Jack.
+
+                                                       jms
+REVELATION
+DATE: WED NOV 9 1994 5:20:14 #23826
+
+     Re: "switching places"...this is *exactly* what I noted
+early on; the intent to set up in the very beginning a
+situation where those who've seen basic SF before on the tube
+will go, "Oh, okay, I got it...this is the Bad Guy, this is
+the Good Guy, this is the Comic Relief, this is the Ally,"
+and so on, because that's generally what's been the case in
+TV SF; you set up the various sides from day one, and virtually
+nobody moves.
+
+     So you get them to rely on their conditioning, then you
+begin to move the chairs around, so suddenly what you THOUGHT
+was the good guy is maybe something else; and what you THOUGHT
+was the comic relief is a tragic and dark figure; and what you
+THOUGHT was the bad guy is maybe one of the real heroes of the
+story.  And you try and make the path that results in those
+changes as interesting, moving, or scary as possible.
+
+                                                          jms
+DATE: FRI NOV 11 1994 12:05:07 AM #25190
+
+     Of course Londo realizes he's being...not exactly set up,
+but that he's getting into a very bad situation.  But on the
+other hand, he sees that perhaps this is his last chance to
+grab for something more than what he is; he's not a young man
+anymore, and offers such as this, even though he knows there
+will be a price someday (as he states to Morden), do not come
+along every day.
+
+     Here is the key to characterization: who is your character,
+what does he want, how far will he go to get it, and what is he
+prepared to lose in that process?
+
+                                                            jms
+
+-----------------------
+QUESTION: Was the rebirth ceremony to welcome a soul into Sinclair?  And
+	  what ever happened with Talia's new power?
+-----------------------
+
+DATE: FRI NOV 11 1994 12:23:13 AM #25224
+
+     Re: the rebirth ceremony actually tied more into
+Delenn's comking change.  Note the repetition of "and
+so it begins" both times, and the use of the same white
+robe, the same unveiling.
+
+     Re: Talia...you'll get more on this by episode 8.
+
+                                                   jms
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+
+====
+FROM: ESTHER SCHINDLER
+DATE: WED 7 DEC 1994 1:00:10
+I dunno. My first thought was to wonder how she washed her hair.
+
+--Esther
+====
+INTEL ON DELENN!?!?
+DATE: WED 7 DEC 1994 3:23:27 #48079
+     Hold that thought for two weeks.
+
+                                 jms
+POINTS OF DEPARTURE
+DATE: TUES 22 NOV 1994 11:34:16 #36470
+     On the other hand, it was exactly this kind
+of discussion that the show was designed to provoke.
+Don't just state what one believes; WHY does one
+believe it, and what proof does one offer, and what
+level of proof does one require (two different issues).
+
+                                                 jms
+=======
+Q #36092: <will there be any tie-in between Earth religions
+and "certain outside elements"?>
+=======
+NARN RELIGIOUS HISTORY
+DATE: TUES 22 NOV 1994 11:15:19 #36434
+     No real connection, no.
+
+                                  jms
+=======
+CHRYSALIS - SORT OF
+DATE: WED 7 DEC 1994 1:08:05 #47775
+
+     Re: "Watch your back," and "You never did know how
+to watch your back," yep, that was a bit of deliberate
+foreshadowing for "Chrysalis."  When the episode aired,
+I mentioned at the time that there was something in that
+episode that would later be seen to be ironic or ominous,
+but didn't seem so at first.  One or two caught it, but
+most didn't.  This show is layered very, VERY carefully.
+
+						jms
+================
+FROM: Robert Miller
+DATE: WED 7 Dec 1994 8:54:09 #47899
+>>When the episode aired, I mentioned at the time that
+>>there was something in that episode that would later be
+>>seen to be ironic or ominous, but didn't seem so at first.
+
+What would have been even more ominous is if "TKO" was
+actually the last episode aired before "Chrysalis", as
+was planned at one time.  The "Watch your back" line is
+very nearly the last line of the episode, too.
+
+Another scene I'm wondering about was in "And the Sky
+Full of Stars", where Dr. Franklin is examining Delenn.
+At first I assumed the examination was Franklin's idea,
+but now I see it would have been very useful for Delenn
+to have her pre-Chrysalis health on record, so that Dr.
+Franklin would have a clue what he was dealing with when
+she came out of the chrysalis.
+
+Totally off topic, what was the race of that ambassador
+in "The Long Dark"?
+================
+DATE: WED 7 DEC 1994 3:20:30 #40878
+
+     I believe that was a Markab.
+
+                               jms
+================
+Q #48389: ...have all of us read *too much* into the
+episodes, or *too little*.
+================
+DATE: THUR 8 DEC 1994 1:22:01 #46828
+                                      Yes.
+
+						jms
+DATE: WED 7 DEC 1994 1:11:26 #477779
+     "It does seem to be a thinking person's program, doesn't it?"
+
+     Hey, check out TV Guide for the coming week.  Jeff (Mr.
+Paramount) Jarvis indicates that Earth 2 is far more intelligent,
+putting SeaQuest and B5 in the same ranks and not very intelligent
+and derivitive.
+
+							jms
+BEST SF ON TV
+DATE: THUR 8 DEC 1994 1:22:07 #48626
+
+     Thank you; we try very hard on the show, and always
+appreciate when it's noticed.  Like yourself, many people
+figured when they first heard about the show that we were
+a dumb ripoff...in essence, we paid the price for other
+people's shows...which was very hard for a long time, but
+I'm happy that as time passes, more folks see us for what
+we ARE, not what they think we are.
+
+						jms
+DATE: FRI 9 DEC 1994 2:54:10 PM #49836
+     Yes, the episodes to date, with the exception of
+"Soul Mates," were shot in the order they're being aired in.
+
+                                               jms
+WPWR CUTS OFF B5 CREDITS
+DATE: THURS 8 DEC 1994 1:31:31 #48643
+     Basically, Garibaldi's third favorite thing...is
+whatever the member of the opposite sex is having....
+
+						jms
+B5 QUESTIONS
+DATE: THUR 8 DEC 1994 1:29:05 #48635
+
+     Re: Ivanova's foot still giving her problems
+down the road and needing help....even today, if
+it's a reasonable break, once it's fixed, it's fixed.
+
+						jms
+DATE: THURS 8 DEC 1994 2:46:09
+
+     Re: symphonic forms...I think you've just found
+the outer edge of my knowledge of this stuff....
+
+                                                jms
+==================
+Q #35294: Lance = Lance Henrikson (Aliens), Bruce = Bruce Campbell
+==================
+ACTORS!!!
+DATE: TUES 22 NOV 1994 12:24:08
+     Bruce and Lance are strictly movie actors.  (Bruce
+was offered many series after BRISCO, but declined, saying
+he wanted to do features only from now on.)
+
+                                                jms
+ALIENS OR "NON-HUMANS"?
+DATE: WED 7 DEC 1994 9:28:08 #48373
+
+     Nope.  Won't do it.  I understand the reason for the
+suggestion, but to us, they're aliens.  And that's what we
+call them.  There ain't much room in B5 for PC.  But there
+*IS* room for fairness...and as a result, while we are
+sometimes referred to as humans, more often we're referred
+to as aliens by the races.                  ~~~~~
+
+     We don't call them that to their face, and they don't
+call us aliens to our face, but among ourselves...that's
+what we call each other.  (In fact, in one episode, someone
+mentions that the aliens call the oxygen-part of the station
+the alien sector.)
+
+                                                      jms
+DATE: FRI 9 DEC 2:54:09 PM #49835
+     Of course, on the other hand, one of the problems in the
+whole PC discussion is that PC has been over-generalized and
+often mischaracterized for purposes of debate.  Some days it
+seems like any attempt at polite behavior is derided as just
+more PC.  There is a difference between certain kinds of
+socialized thought-control and manners.  Blurring the line
+makes the criticism of the former less useful.  One must pick
+one's targets or waste good ammunition on collateral damage.
+
+                                                      jms
+CORTEZ SABOTAGE
+DATE: WED 7 DEC 1994 9:28:11 #48375
+     To get in and out of hyperspace you have to know
+where you are and where you're going, otherwise you'll
+come out even *more* lost, hundreds of light years from
+home; you jump in, and you're even further gone now.
+
+                                                  jms
+DATE: FRI 9 DEC 1994 2:54:03 PM #49831
+     I think the word galaxy is over-used, yes, particularly
+in the ads.  I try to keep it out of the show, but it does
+slip in when I'm not looking.
+
+     And the Cortez might've been able to locate some stars,
+but any fix on its position would only have been within a
+few light-years, not nearly precise enough for their purposes.
+They'd still be lost.
+
+                                                  jms
+THE LONG DARK
+DATE: TUE 6 DEC 1994 7:13:01 #47387
+
+     Well, on the theory that some words won't offend
+in 300 years, we could put them in, but our TV stations
+of today would bleep them out for the next 299 years,
+which seems somehow less than productive.
+
+     (Nor do I entirely buy the premise; many of our
+swear words, the really effective ones, go back several
+hundred years.  Check the Oxford English Dictoinary,
+and you can see the long history of these words.)
+
+                                                  jms
+DATE: WED 7 DEC 1994 1:00:04 #47755
+     Depends on whether it's done as simple invective
+or as art form; I've seen some people curse -- whole
+long strings of complex syntax, breathtaking terminology,
+impossible genetics and even less likely physiological
+recommendations -- in a way that is awesome to behold.
+And I'd note also that I have an entire *book* of curses
+and foul language appearing in Shakespeare's plays, some
+of which comes under this heading.  "The fall of an ass
+is no great hurt;" "Thou whoresome little tidy Bartholemew
+boar-pig!"  If it was good enough for old Will, it's
+probably good enough for me.
+
+						jms
+DATE: TUE 6 DEC 1994 7:13:03 #47388
+     Yes, the tugs use grapplers.
+
+                                                  jms
+===========
+Q: What are Londo's appendages called?
+===========
+DATE: FRI 9 DEC 1994 7:32:07 PM #49960
+     Tentisticularites?
+
+                                                  jms
+==================================================
+Q #49948: <just read B5 comic #1) What was the One Piece
+of Rather Startling Information not revealed thus far
+in the series? (other than the numbers involved in The Line)
+==================================================
+DATE: FRI 9 DEC 1994 7:37:07 PM #49972
+     It's the info conveyed by the Grey Council member to
+Sinclair about someone's permission regarding the mindwipe.
+
+                                                      jms
+(RE: BUREAU 13)
+DATE: FRI 9 DEC 1994 7:37:05 PM #49971
+
+     Insofar as I know, there isn't an RPG connection.
+
+     Thanks for the good wishes.
+
+                                             jms
+SPIDER/WEB
+DATE: FRI 9 DEC 1994 7:32:12 PM #49964
+
+     Kinda funny how many things in that one issue of
+Universe Today have played out into real life in B5,
+ain't it?  "Is Something Living in Hyperspace?",
+"San Diego Still Too Radioactive For Human Occupancy,"
+"Did Psi Corps Violate Its Charter By Endorsing
+Vice-President?"....
+
+     Planning, planning, planning.....
+
+                                               jms
+DATE: FRI 9 DEC 1994 2:54:12 PM #49837
+     Oh, there's stuff going on in their heads, all
+right, but there's a sense of timing you have to do
+in episodic television; you can't jump too fast.  You
+have to lay things out slowly in this kind of story.
+And when it IS time to pay this stuff off, you have
+to kind of clear the decks to do it, or just waste
+the opportunity.
+
+                                                jms
+COMMUNICATOR?
+DATE: TUES 6 DEC 1994 7:13:00 #47386
+     Okay, let's address this point by point.  (And on
+the issue of the ST pin communicator...here's something
+you can't see, because it's on your chest, and in which
+you CANNOT HAVE A PRIVATE CONVERSATION WITH ANYONE; it's
+broadcast loud, and you have to speak in a moderately
+loud voice in order to be picked up.  So much for doing
+anything on the QT.)
+
+     Now, to ours.  The Link isn't just a communicator;
+it's also a tie to the B5 computer system, and it's a
+powerbook of sorts.  There are going to be times you want
+to be surrepticious in your use of this item (in fact, we
+see one such use in an upcoming episode), and that means
+tactile imput. Also, you can generally use an item like this
+faster than you can talk.  I can hit CONTROL-ESCAPE-DELETE
+on my system a hell of a lot faster than I can SAY that.
+
+     So to access considerable amounts of data, including
+complicated stuff, you use tactile input.  So now where
+do you put it?  You want to put it in a place where you
+can see it, where you can manipulate it with just one hand,
+and where you can put it close to your mouth or ear if
+you wish to speak quietly to someone.  That would indicate
+either the wrist or, for purposes of great stability when
+using the buttons, on the back of the hand.  The Link has
+a gentle molecular bond that adheres it to the back of the
+hand. It goes on and off quite quickly and easily.  It can
+be plugged into a larger display system.  It can be hidden
+easily.  You can plant it as a bug if necessary, and it's
+flat enough not to be easily found.
+
+     It's an eminently sensible system; your friend simply
+didn't take the time to think it through.  It's the ST
+communicator and placement that makes no sense whatsoever to me....
+
+                                                       jms
+DATE: WED DEC 7 1994 #47750
+     Mainly that's because whatever is done here has to have
+a *reason* for its design.  We went over this one ad nauseum.
+I'm giving some thought to a modification or two to the basic
+style of the thing, but without essentially changing it.
+
+							jms
+DATE: FRI DEC 9 1994 2:34:24 PM #49815
+     Tracking balls are *already* coming out of vogue; new
+notebook computers come with a flat surface which you use by
+trailing your finger along the membrane, which moves the
+cursor around.  If we're going to show 2259 tech, we should
+at *least* be equal or ahead of 1994 tech....
+
+                                                        jms
+RAIDERS
+DATE: WED 23 NOV 1994 9:15:17 #37268
+     The raiders are pretty much kaput just now....
+
+                                                        jms
+PUSH THE BUTTON, LONDO
+DATE: THURS 8 DEC 1994 1:23:20 #48633
+     We see Conaway a lot, on and off, for the rest of
+the season.  He's made a welcome addition to the show.
+
+							jms
+DATE: FRI 9 DEC 1994 2:54:07 PM #49834
+     The San Diego wastelands was a physical model, yes.
+
+                                                 jms
+WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS...
+DATE: THURS 8 DEC 1994 2:46:08 #48980
+
+     Earthdome looked a little more barren than it should
+have; it's actually a fairly pleasant environment.  There's
+plenty of parts of Earth that're still terrific.  Expect
+the CD Rom sometime in the summer.
+
+                                                 jms
+=====
+Q #49119: ...the places that aren't still terrific: more
+San Diegos or just urban sprawl?
+=====
+DATE: FRI 9 DEC 1994 2:54:05 PM #49832
+     Mainly just urban sprawl.
+
+                                                 jms
+OUT W/THE OLD & IN W/NEW
+DATE: FRI 9 DEC 1994 7:32:08 PM #49961
+
+     Sheridan is certainly *acting* sunny enough...
+question is, IS it an act, and if so...why?
+
+     Stay tuned.
+
+                                                jms
+MODELS OF SHIPS/STATION
+DATE: FRI 9 DEC 1994 7:32:11 PM #49963
+
+     As yet there are no licenses for models; a few have
+approached, but apparently Warners felt that they weren't
+sufficiently big companies, or with solid distribution, to
+make the deal.  Eventually, though, I hope we can do this
+(hell, I want one...).
+
+                                                    jms
+DATE: WED 7 DEC 1994 9:28:13 #48376
+     Would love to see a B5 RPG, but so far no one has
+licensed one, and that has to come first.
+
+                                                    jms
+B5 T-SHIRTS
+DATE: MON 21 NOV 1994 2:39:07 PM #34877
+     I've mentioned that All-U is doing some Babylon 5
+t-shirt designs, and I've just gotten a new batch.  These
+are *really* nifty shirts, full color printing on black,
+one showing the station and a starfury in foreground,
+another with full cast, others.  Of all the shirts I've
+seen yet using B5, these are probably the best.
+
+     So if there are any dealers out there who buy in lots
+(and they don't need to be big lots; they come in boxes of
+24, 6 shirts per current design), you can contact them at
+1-800-424-ALLU, or 518-438-7291.  They're spiffy.
+
+                                                     jms
+DATE: WED 23 NOV 1994 9:15:18 #37269
+     You can find out your local distributer by calling
+All-U at 518-438-7291 or 800-424-ALLU.  They're nifty shirts.
+
+                                                      jms
+THE PRISONER'S SALUTE
+DATE: TUES 22 NOV 1994 12:24:03 #35473
+
+    It was basically a nod at a predecessor to whom
+respect should be shown.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+
+CENTAURI & THE SHADOWS
+DATE: SUN 11 DEC 1994 3:22:08 AM #51148
+     The Centauri weren't directly involved in the prior major
+conflict; it just missed them for the most part, though some
+among them have some notions about it.  And remember that Londo
+has a vested interest in putting down any notions of unusual
+forces out there just now....
+
+                                                       jms
+EARTH-MINBARI WAR
+DATE: MON 12 DEC 1994 7:30:19 PM #52326
+     There wasn't a need to wipe out civilian colonies; cut off
+the head by eliminating EArth itself, and then you can pick off
+the unsupported worlds on your way out again.   Mars was left
+largely undefended (which pissed them off no end), and the Minbari
+skipped past it for Earth.  There were military outposts and ships
+to take out earlier, but they figured on getting the smaller fish
+as they returned from taking out the BIG fish.
+
+ 							jms
+DATE: MON 12 DEC 1994 11:55:24 #52631
+     Any real war takes time, multiplied by distance.  You
+have to create supply lines, come up with strategies, analyze
+the enemy...and in the first part of the war the EA was more
+aggressive, until they saw the losses coming in; then they
+fought a holding action/retreat.  Your opponent may be
+technologically inferior, but as the Germans discovered
+when they tried to enter Stalingrad, a determined enemy
+can slow you WAY down.
+
+                                                         jms
+=======================================
+Q #53187: What did the Minbari intend to do with Earth once
+they'd captured it? Extermination? Pacification?
+=======================================
+DATE: TUES 13 DEC 1994 10:15:24 #53264
+     Extermination.  It was a Jihad.
+
+                                                         jms
+JUMP GATE PROBLEM
+DATE: TUES 13 DEC 1994 12:04:06 #52640
+     As stated, if a ship is that big, it's probably
+jump-capable.  But just for the sake of argument,
+assuming it's *not* jump capable...look at the jumpgate.
+The four segments are not connected.  They can move apart
+from one another at a coded order from C&C to accommodate
+just about anything.
+
+                                                       jms
+GRAVITY IN SHIPS
+DATE: MON 12 DEC 1994 7:20:10 PM #52306
+     Correct; the Hyperion didn't have a gravity-positive
+section.
+
+							jms
+DATE: TUES 13 DEC 1994 10:15:11 #53262
+     Yes, C&C rotates.  It is in the front of the station.
+It is 1/3rd of the way between the *center* of the station,
+where the docking bay is, and the hull.  So the gravity is
+roughly one-third, so a 200 pound person weighs 60 pounds,
+as much as a good sized kid, so they won't go bouncing around.
+
+                                                       jms
+ALIENS OR "NON-HUMANS"?
+DATE: SAT 10 DEC 1994 8:48:22
+     One other aspect missing from this discussion is that
+the word "alien" is not in any way pejorative.  Alien simply
+means different, or other.  If you look it up in the Oxford
+American Dictionary, the definition of alien is, "a person
+who is not a citizen of the country in which he is living;
+foreign, not one's own, unfamiliar, a different nature."
+
+     You can have illegal aliens, and *legal* aliens.  There
+is absolutely NOTHING wrong with the word.  I noticed people
+trying here to come up with a different term, and not being
+really able to do so, because the English language already HAS
+a perfectly valid word for it.  To be alien is simply to be
+alien, nothing good or bad about it, except whatever interpretation
+one wishes to bring with it, which has nothing to do with the
+quality of the word.
+
+     To say "alien" is neither PC nor non-PC; it's simply
+a description. The problem is the continuing politiciziation
+of the English language.
+
+                                                          jms
+DATE: WED 14 DEC 1994 #53810
+     "Calling someone an idiot should be seen as offensive."
+
+     Ah...obviously you've had little interaction with
+major TV networks....
+
+						jms
+THE LONG DARK
+DATE: SUN 11 DEC 1994 9:38:23 PM #51662
+     "I thought Talia's description of telepaths making love
+was one of the most erotic things I've ever heard on television."
+
+     I love it when you talk like that....
+
+                                                 jms
+SPIDER IN THE WEB
+DATE: MON 12 DEC 1994 11:55:27 #52633
+     Universe Today was/is a newspaper seen from time
+to time on the station; it's been seen in the pilot movie,
+in "Sky Full of Stars," and "Born to the Purple."
+
+                                                jms
+DATE: SAT 10 DEC 1994 8:35:00 #50891
+     Newspapers are *eminently* sensible.  They're light,
+you can fold them up and put them in your pocket, make
+notes on them, and at the end of the day, you drop 'em
+in the recylcer.
+
+     The way Universe Today works is that you enter in
+your preferences, the kinds of stories you want to follow,
+and when you wake each morning, there's a newspaper
+custom designed and printed to your requirements, which
+pops out of your primary system.  You rip it and read it
+at your leisure.
+
+                                                     jms
+DATE: SUN 11 DEC 1994 #51679
+      EA is the Earth Government, and thus has all the
+appropriate social and legal powers of any government
+to draw upon, so yes, if there were a violent protest
+on Earth, they could quash it (though depending on the
+country -- some still maintain some measure of independence --
+this might be more difficult in some places than others).
+
+                                                   jms
+A NICE PLACE TO VISIT...
+DATE: MON 12 DEC 1994 7:32:25 PM #52327
+      Most of earth is quite habitable (pollution problems
+notwithstanding), it's just that SD got nuked by terrorists
+quite some time ago.
+
+						jms
+SOUL MATES EPISODE #
+DATE: WED 14 DEC 1994 #54100
+     The episode number is permanent, and has to do with
+order in which it was produced, not broadcast order.
+
+                                                    jms
+B5 COMPUTER VOICE
+DATE: SUN 11 DEC 1994 3:22:07 AM #51147
+     It's the voice of our script supervisor, Haley.
+
+                                                    jms
+STAR WARS: REBEL CODES
+DATE: WED 14 DEC 1994 #54101
+TO: ALL
+     On the theory -- tested exhaustively over hours and hours
+spent behind the joystick -- that I'm *never* going to get past
+even ONE level of this silly game...could anyone out there give
+me the passcodes for all of the chapters in REBEL ASSAULT?  I'd
+at least like to *see* the various levels....
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+B5 RATINGS INFO
+DATE: WED 14 DEC 1994 4:50:11
+     Since many have inquired, here's a quickie breakdown of
+the results of the November sweeps.  (A more detailed posting
+is available if anyone wants it, and I can find time to type
+the darned thing.)
+
+     Currently, Babylon 5 is in a tie for second place with
+Baywatch out of 16 syndicated dramas among the male 18-49
+demographic, the one most prized by advertisers.  We're behind
+DS9, but far, FAR ahead of such highly promoted dramas as Lonesome Dove.
+
+     B5 also ranks third with women 18-49 and households in
+general, also an extremely important demographic and rating.
+
+     (B5's status of Viewers Per Household in the men 18-45
+demographic ranks fifth OVERALLl, including networks...pulling
+in a more saleable demographic to advertisers than ER, NYPD Blue,
+and Northern Exposure.)
+
+     In general, B5's ratings are up 14% to 20% this year overall;
+in many markets, though, the increase is even higher.  Chicago, up 25%;
+San Francisco, up 100%; Washington DC up 50%; Kansas City up 67%;
+San Diego up 80%...you get the idea.
+
+     Significantly, it appears that the majority of new viewers
+are coming in via word of mouth about the show.  An independent
+survey by a national polling group showed that 59% of those who'd
+HEARD about Babylon 5 watched it; the usual percentage of those
+who've heard about a show to those who watch it is usually closer
+to 34%.  So as the word gets out, we add viewers fairly quickly.
+
+     We're starting to gather real momentum.  The last national
+rating we had of 5.2 will put us probably in the top 15-18 of all
+syndicated shows (which includes game shows, talk shows and the
+like), and keep us firmly in the #2 or #3 spot out of 16-17
+dramatic series.
+
+     So to those who've been getting the word out...you're getting
+solid, concrete results.  Thoug we won't get a definitive answer
+on a third year until probably spring, this is encouraging for us.
+
+                                                              jms
+DATE: WED 14 DEC 1994 5:12:09 #53806
+     The syndication market is going through a LOT of changes
+right now; new shows, even some which've performed moderately
+well, are dropping like flies. And even if a show is doing very
+well, if the markets dry up because the new Paramount Network,
+the Warners Network, CBS and Fox have grabbed up all of the
+available stations, eliminating possible timeslots...it doesn't
+matter how good the show is, you're dead.  So believe me, we're
+not assuming ANYthing.
+
+						jms
+DATE: WED 14 DEC 1994 #54123
+     Insofar as I have ever been told, PTEN and Warners Network
+are and will remain separate institutions.
+
+                                                 jms
+HARTFORD RTGS RESCUE IT!
+DATE: TUES 13 DEC 1994 10:15:13 #53263
+      Thanks.  The ratings are up overall in every market where
+the show is given proper promotion and a steady timeslot.  We're
+getting there....
+
+                                                           jms
+DATE: WED 14 DEC 1994 #54099
+     Only local residents can bring pressure on their stations;
+it's beyond anything I or anyone associated with the show can do.
+You may want to coordinate with others for maximum impact.
+
+                                                         jms
+=========================
+FLINT PROGRESS REPORT
+FROM: RANDY J ZIMMERMAN 73363,3717
+DATE: SUN 11 DEC 1994 4:28:24 PM #51451
+
+jms;
+
+Last Wednesday (12/7) I took in a petition of around 100 names
+that were collected from two local comic shops to our local B5
+station (WSMH Fox66), which has decided not to show the next
+two episodes (Spider and Soul Mates I believe) due to college
+basketball.  They made this decision after having been deluged
+with calls and letters from the last "pre-empting" (where we
+missed Points and Revelations).  All this dispite the fact that
+they are showing first and second year reruns of ST:TNG most
+weeknights at 10pm.
+
+In the petition we state our dissapointment over the treatment
+they have given B5 over the last year stating that "to say the
+least Babylon 5 has been a challenge to watch".  Additionally we
+ask that they reschedule B5 to be shown more into the middle of
+the week (it's currently seen Saturdays at 10, if at all), with
+an additional showing sometimes on the weekends giving it the same
+exposure that they gave to the two Star Trek series that they carried.
+
+They accepted the petitions saying that they would "pass it on" to
+their main offices in Cincinatti for them to look over, and they
+reassured me that B5 would be back...but only for the rest of the
+year.  After that they would/could not give me any further information.
+All they would say is that it "WOULD help their main offices in making
+programming desicions in the future", whatever good that'll do.
+
+The best thing about the petition is to see who's signing it.  I've
+asked for name, address (to show that those signing live in the 66
+veiwing area) and age (to show that those watching the show have
+access to money to buy products advertised on the show).  The average
+age is around the upper 20's to lower 30's and range from 13 all the
+way to 63, and the majority of the signatures are male, though that's
+because the majority of signatures were gathered at the comic shops
+(mostly visited by males).
+
+We are still continuing to collect signatures, just in case, and
+I'll visit them again in a couple of weeks with an updated list.
+It would be a travesty (though VERY typical for Flint I'm afraid)
+if our local station decides to drop B5 in order to carry the next
+Trek franchise.
+
+I'll continue to keep you informed if you'd like.
+
+Zimm.
+
+P.S., by the way one of the signatures I have is from a 49 year old
+Lutheran minister who wanted me to tell you that you have produced
+THE most intellectually stimulating television show that he has ever
+seen, and to tell you "thanks".  Just thought I'd pass that along.
+=====================================
+FLINT PROGRESS REPORT
+DATE: SUN 11 DEC 1994 9:51:20 PM #51678
+     That's great (the Lutheran part in particular).  I'm sure
+that this effort on your behalf will have some effect.  Here's
+hoping, in any event. Your support is vastly appreciated.
+
+                                                          jms
+======================================
+FLINT PROGRESS REPORT
+FROM: DANIEL UPTON
+DATE: MON 12 DEC 1994 7:26:07 PM #52311
+Now that you have the names and addresses of B5 fans follow up
+with a letter to each thanking them for signing and asking them
+to send a note to the corprate offices of your station asking them
+to give the show better treatment, and to each local sponsor
+thanking them for supporting B5.
+
+FROM: RANDY J ZIMMERMAN
+DATE: MON 12 DEC 1994 10:27:26 #52505
+Daniel;
+
+Thanks for the suggestion!  What a great idea!
+
+That reminds me of something that I didn't mention to Joe, we
+actually got a sponsor to request spots on B5.  A hobby shop
+that usually runs alot of spots on television this time of year
+requested that they have their spots run on B5, so you know
+what our station did?
+
+Yep, cut out 30 seconds of the end credits just to run their spots.
+The shop was going to raise a heavy complaint last time I talked to them.
+
+I think we're in for an uphill battle here.  I'll keep everyone posted.
+
+Thanks again for the suggestion.
+
+Zimm.
+========================================
+B5 -- NEW AIRDAY??
+DATE: SUN 11 DEC 1994 3:22:05 AM #51146
+     I don't know about details of each station, but
+in many cases, yes, B5 will be going to Thursdays,
+since the Paramount network will take Monday and
+Tuesday nights, and Warner Network will grab Wednesdays.
+
+                                                  jms
+B5 CON SCHEDULE
+DATE: WED 14 DEC 1994 #54124
+
+     There's apparently going to be a Horizons convention in
+England sometime this spring that's nominally a Babylon 5
+convention; I think it's either late April or mid-May.  I've
+committed to be there, and so has Claudia Christian.
+
+                                                        jms
+<BABYLON 5 COMIC>
+DATE: SAT 10 DEC 1994 8:34:22 #50888
+     Nope.  The comic and the series are complementary, but
+exclusive; you needn't follow the comic to watch the series
+and vice versa.  From time to time, though, some information
+will be dropped in one or the other that may eventually surface
+in the other; it's just a matter of when.
+
+     My model for this is Alan Ayckbourn's THE NORMAN CONQUESTS.
+It's a series of three plays, meant to be performed on three
+nights in a row, all set in the same house over the same two
+days.  One play is set in the dining room/kitchen, one in the
+living room, one in the garden.  You can come see any one of the
+plays and have a wonderful night.  If you see all three, though,
+you get more of the whole picture of what *really* happened in
+those two days.
+
+                                                      jms
+SPIDER NOT CAPTIONED
+DATE: MON 12 DEC 1994 11:55:22 #52630
+     The first broadcast was not captioned due to a glitch;
+subsequent rebroadcasts will be captioned.
+
+                                                     jms
+DATE: TUES 13 DEC 1994 10:15:10 #53261
+     The sound quality is often affected by local stations,
+how they treat it after it arrives, and sometimes, yes, by
+closed captioning, since there is one more transfer done at
+that point, and you drop down another generation in film and
+sound quality.  Once the episode is out of our hands, there's
+little we can do about this aspect.
+
+                                                          jms
+DATE: SAT 10 DEC 1994 8:35:03 #50892
+     Actually, originally, the plan was for President Clark
+to indeed notify Ivanova in "Points of Departure," but
+introducing a new character in the General added some changes
+when we shot the scene.  But by then it was too late to modify
+the comic.
+
+     Also, in the comic, Clark doesn't *specify* who's giving
+Ivanova the promotion, just that it's being done.  (And Sheridan
+comments that he put through the paperwork the day after he
+arrived, which tracks with this time-wise.)
+
+                                                        jms
+B5 TECHNICAL BOOK
+DATE: MON 12 DEC 1994 11:55:26 #52632
+     No concrete info now on the tech manual; I think it's
+a bit down the road yet.
+
+                                                      jms
+B5 COMIC, ETC
+DATE: TUE 13 DEC 1994 3:20:23 #52742
+     Great, thanks for the heads-up, I'll look for it.
+
+     (BTW, for any onlookers...Babylon 5 producer John Copeland
+will be on CNN's Showbiz Today on Wednesday.)
+
+                                                      jms
+DATE: WED 14 DEC 1994 3:14:18 #53509
+     And Bill Mumy will be on the America's Talking cable
+network, on "Break a Leg," 11 a.m. PST on December 13th.
+
+                                                      jms
+DATE: WED 14 DEC 1994 5:12:06 #53807
+     No, I believe that's correct, and Bill's contract
+takes him to 22 next season.
+
+						      jms
+====================
+Someone apparently had a problem with the CD.
+====================
+B5 CD
+DATE: SAT 10 DEC 1994 8:48:23 #50897
+    Notify Sonic Images, and they'll gladly send you back
+a case AND a CD inside.  This is the only instance of this
+that I've heard of to date.
+
+                                                      jms
+NO EVIL TWINS
+DATE: TUES 13 DEC 1994 12:04:08 #52641
+
+     I will never do an Evil Twin Story.
+
+     Yes, you will.
+
+     No, I won't.
+
+     Yes, you will.
+
+     No, I won't.
+
+     I've got chocolate.
+
+     No, I -- what?
+
+                                                       jm(no, I won't)s
+
+==================================
+The following section also contains messages from Peter David, author of
+the episode "Soul Mates."
+==================================
+
+"RACE" PROMO AIRED
+FROM: PETER DAVID
+DATE: WED 14 DEC 1994 1:11:30 #53415
+That would be my luck.  "Soul Mates...good episode, but disappointing."
+
+PAD
+
+FROM: SYSOP DUPA T PARROT
+DATE: THURS 15 DEC 1994 12:12:09 #54190
+ > "Soul Mates...good episode, but disappointing."
+
+  Author! Author!!
+
+  (or is that "Writer! Writer!!"?)
+
+        -Dupa T. Parrot  [Tech Supp SysOp]
+        <OS/2 Warp + GCP 2.11>
+
+FROM: PETER DAVID
+DATE: THURS 15 DEC 1994 8:41:20 #54378
+How about, "Hey!  Shmuck!"
+
+PAD
+==============
+CONGRATULATIONS #55007: <Enough great lines to fill a compendium!>
+==============
+FROM: PETER DAVID:
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 9:56:11 AM #55213
+Or at the very least fill a script.
+
+Thanks.
+
+PAD
+
+SOUL MATES/INQUIRER
+===========
+FROM: JEFF METZNER
+DATE: WED 14 DEC 1994 7:59:31 #53962
+Your episode got a nice little blurb in today's (12/14)
+Philadelphia Inquirer TV column: "Tonight's episode of
+the syndicated sci-fi series Babylon 5 (Channel 17 at 8)
+was written by Peter David, a Fort Washington native and
+Upper Dublin High grad.  It's the first TV work for David,
+author of two dozen sci-fi novels."
+============
+FROM: PETER DAVID
+DATE: WED 14 DEC 1994
+Great!  Thanks for telling me!
+
+PAD
+
+SOUL MATES
+FROM: PETER DAVID
+DATE: WED 14 DEC 1994 #54166
+Y'know...for the past five years I've been writing Trek novels,
+and fans kept asking, "When are you going to start doing Trek
+TV episodes?"
+
+So here comes B5, I do an episode...and what do the fans keep
+asking?  When am I going to do a B5 novel.
+
+NYAAAARRRRRRRGGGHHHH!!!
+
+
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: THURS 15 DEC 1994 4:46:06 #54361
+     Then I assume a SeaQuest novel is out of the question...?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+     (Still reading; will advise soonest, he said mysteriously)
+FROM: PETER DAVID
+DATE: THURS 15 DEC 1994 8:44:21 #54379
+Wouldn't want to do that.  People have told me they didn't watch
+or didn't like STTNG until my books; why feed SeaQuest new viewers
+and bury "Lois and Clark" any further?
+
+(You're reading at 5 IN THE MORNING?!)
+
+PAD
+
+FROM: SYSOP DUPA T PARROT
+DATE: THURS 15 DEC 1994 11:52:16 #54957
+ > (You're reading at 5 IN THE MORNING?!)
+
+  Peter,
+
+  The time stamp on forum messages is adjusted for the
+time zone of the CIS node you're using. So adjust that
+timestamp based upon your timezone versus Joe's timezone.
+
+        -Dupa T. Parrot  [Tech Supp SysOp]
+        <OS/2 Warp + GCP 2.11>
+
+FROM: PETER DAVID
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 9:36:09 AM #55202
+Ah.  Two in the morning.  That's all right then.
+
+PAD
+
+FROM: PETER DAVID
+DATE: THURS 15 DEC 1994 8:24:13 #54764
+TO: BARBARA PFIEFFER
+Well, I was just informed by Joe about half an hour ago that
+they'll be going ahead with a second script of mine.  It would
+air late in the season, I expect.
+
+Except, of course, in those cities where it's pre-empted by
+an intermural lacrosse tournament or something...
+
+PAD
+======================
+CONGRATULATIONS #55127: ...If they do pre-empt it for anything
+but a nuclear war, I'll be talking to the station folks, with
+Ivanova and Garibaldi as inspiration.
+======================
+FROM: PETER DAVID
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 9:41:27 AM #55207
+You could be cocking and uncocking the hammer of a gun
+in the background...
+
+PAD
+
+FROM: LEE WHITESIDE
+DATE: THURS 15 DEC 1994 11:52:13 #54955
+Congrats on the second script!  Fortunately, the lacrosse
+tournaments don't interrupt the sat feeds...
+
+BTW, isn't Oblivion reaching video stores this week?  I'll
+have to track it down since it never made it into any theatres
+here in Pheonix.
+
+FROM: PETER DAVID
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 9:36:12 AM #55201
+Supposed to be out on the 14th.  People could rent it and watch
+it right after "Soul Mates" and have a Peter David/Carel Struycken
+film festival.
+
+PAD
+
+================
+FROM: J PAULSON
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 7:50:07 PM #55544
+Garibaldi's a cop, or if you prefer a Chandleresque
+sort of figure.  He's a recovering alcoholic with a
+strong sense of justice and an underdeveloped sense
+of "Miranda rights".  Frankly he's so New York I wonder
+if it's Jerry Doyle's interpretation or it's JMS'
+intention.  His language is so New York, in particular
+the elevator scene in "Spider", where he admits to Talia
+about being a "yutz".  The way he talks, I mean, he seems
+so familiar!
+
+I have a great deal of affection for this character.  I
+also have a bit of a crush on Ivanova.
+
+-J. Paulson
+================
+FROM: PETER DAVID
+A crush on Ivanova, eh? Brave fellow...
+
+FROM: PETER DAVID
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 9:34:16 AM #55199
+My feeling was that it was something that had been building
+slowly within her ever since the Ironheart episode.  That
+although she had been *saying* she was devoted, well...the
+difference between the reality of a B5 and the frequent
+unreality of STTNG is that folks don't always say exactly what's
+on their mind (kind of like the real world.)  As it turned out,
+my own thoughts on Talia dovetailed with future plans for her.
+
+Daggair was Pestilence.  Timov was Famine.  Mariel was Death.
+Originally I was going to have each of their names reflect their
+respective "incarnations," but decided that was too cutesy.  The
+only holdover from that idea is Timov's name which is, of course,
+Vomit spelled backwards.
+
+PAD
+
+FROM: PETER DAVID
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 9:39:02 AM #55204
+How funny.  Other people who stated flatly that they likewise
+knew Londo loudly proclaimed (over on Usenet) that he would
+have chosen Daggair.  Maybe he's a kind of tough guy to know.
+
+PAD
+========================
+POST #55859: <poster had no trouble guessing; the actress
+playing Timov "was the most well-known actress of them all">
+========================
+FROM: PETER DAVID
+DATE: SAT 17 DEC 1994 10:34:29 #55942
+Oh, I don't know.  Lois Nettleton's career goes way further back
+than Jane Carr's does.  Although Jane *is* from the Royal
+Shakespeare Company (and yes, she did work with Patrick Stewart.
+She's so pleased that now she too has portrayed a bald SF icon.)
+
+PAD
+====================
+FROM: SHARON FOSTER
+DATE: THURS 15 DEC 1994 8:40:24 #54792
+The second scene between Garibaldi and Stoner was intense, to
+say the least. That was the first time G. has actually _scared_ me.
+====================
+FROM: PETER DAVID
+DATE: THURS 15 DEC 1994 11:09:05 #54929
+Tension really crackled between the two of them, didn't it?
+In one of the takes, it was so intense that at the end, the
+director forgot to yell "Cut."  Instead he shouted, "God,
+that was great!"
+
+PAD
+===============
+FROM: SHARON FOSTER
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 6:54:26 AM #55157
+It _was_ great.  I actually jumped in my chair.  For just a
+second there, I thought Stoner was going to get seriously hurt.
+Thanks for showing us another side of Garibaldi.
+===============
+FROM: PETER DAVID
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 9:43:01 AM #55210
+Oh, the side was already there, in my opinion.  I think back
+to previous episodes where Garibaldi was all for spacing that
+serial killer.  When he encounters people he doesn't like, or
+have done dirt to people who are Garibaldi's friends, he can
+be pretty ruthless.
+
+PAD
+==============
+FROM: SHARON FOSTER
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 7:19:31 AM #55162
+Oh, I also wanted to comment that, right up until that scene, I
+still thought that what "Mr. Garibaldi" felt for "Ms. Winters"
+didn't go too much beyond simple lust (not that lust is simple).
+It is now abundantly clear to me that his feelings run much deeper
+than that.
+===============
+FROM: PETER DAVID
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 9:55:00 AM #55212
+As we've seen, Garibaldi doesn't exactly have the easiest time
+being demonstrative in his feelings for women.
+
+PAD
+FROM: PETER DAVID
+DATE: THURS 15 DEC 1994 4:40:07 #54573
+He, *I* didn't get "bitch" past the censors.  I just put it
+in the script.
+
+(What I loved was Daggair's expression on that line.  It's
+the only time she let her facade slip and she looked like
+she was ready to slug Timov.)
+
+PAD
+
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 2:10:26 AM #55069
+     "I just put it in the script."
+
+     And I just left it there.  I figured it was one of those terms
+that might red-flag somebody, so just didn't mention it to anyone
+outside the stage.  It's in the script.  What more is necessary?
+
+                                                              jms
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 2:11:00 AM #55070
+TO: TONI MULLER
+     What I love best about this is that given the time of year,
+"Soul Mates" is basically our Christmas episode.
+
+     I mean, are we perverse or what...?
+
+                                                               jms
+DATE: FRI DEC 16 1994 2:11:03 AM #55071
+     In addition to Peter's reply, I'd add that when you say
+"why wasn't Mariel arrested on the spot by Garibaldi and her
+quarters searched," you omit both legal procedure and evidentiary law.
+
+     You arrest someone AFTER you have reasonable cause and
+sufficent evidence to justify it.  You don't need enough evidence
+to convict, just to arrest or indict.  So the order is reversed
+for starters.
+
+     Second, what evidence *was* there to be found if he HAD searched
+her quarters?  She neither brought nor had ANYthing of an incriminating
+nature. She bought the figurine in the bazaar...and that's all she had,
+and all she used.  There WAS no evidence in her quarters to find.
+
+     (Believe me, I spent 2 years on MURDER, SHE WROTE, and we
+learned a lot about how this stuff works.  You can't just go
+around arresting people willy nilly, and the evidence must exist,
+and be sufficient, and locatable.)
+
+                                                            jms
+ALIENS OR "NON-HUMANS?"
+DATE: THURS 15 DEC 1994 4:40:25 #54574
+     More and more, it seems that language is used to distance
+us from the world, rather than describing the world as accurately
+as possible.  We lumber it with political vagueness and redundency
+("make the character more pro-active"...no, the term is "make the
+character more active," the pro is simply redundent and wrongheaded).
+
+     George Carlin made the excellent point that if we were still
+saying "shell-shocked veterans" rather than "veterans with
+post-traumatic stress syndrome," they might've gotten some of the
+help they needed a long time ago. Or even "battle fatigue."  Once
+language pierced the veil to the real world; now it has BECOME
+the veil behind which the real world is obscured.
+
+							jms
+THE LONG DARK
+DATE: WED 14 DEC 1994 3:22:12 #53511
+     Many dictionaries have fallen prey to pressure groups
+urging the removal of offensive words.
+
+                                                       jms
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 1:43:01 AM #55049
+     As a kid, I was...shall we say...problematic.  And in
+one of the schools I attended, discipline was enacted in,
+among other things, transcribing pages out of the dictionary.
+Verbatim.  Which is one reason why I have a fairly extensive
+vocabulary...up to the letter N, which is as far as I'd gotten
+when we moved.
+
+                                                        jms
+FAVORITE THINGS
+DATE: SAT 17 DEC 1994 3:39:00 #55800
+     Bugs and Daffy are forever.
+
+                                                        jms
+=================
+FROM: GREG CRONAU
+DATE: SAT 17 DEC 1994 10:37:06 #55945
+>> Bugs and Daffy are forever.
+
+Heh. In the episode where the Centuari seer lets Sinclair
+see her vision of how B5 is destroyed, I have this image
+of Garibaldi walking toward the control room saying: "Hmmmm,
+I wonder what that RED button really does...."
+
+Gregc
+
+
+=====================
+Since you seem to be the "fount of all wisdom," how about info
+on B5 cons in the Philadelphia area.  Is there somewhere else
+to get the info without bothering "The Maker?"
+=====================
+B5 CON SCHEDULE???
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 1:43:08 AM #55053
+     I alas have no information on this...this particular fountain
+has, sadly, hit a dry patch....
+
+                                                               jms
+RTV MUSEUM SPECIAL
+DATE: THURS 15 DEC 1994 4:35:26 #54571
+     No, none of the TZs shown were mine.
+
+							jms
+DATE: THURS 15 DEC 1994 4:46:07 #54362
+     What I found funny was being reminded in the SF special
+that when Star Trek first debuted, it was slammed roundly by
+the critics.  Sounds kinda familiar....
+
+                                                          jms
+BABYLON 5: B5 COMIC, ETC
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 1:43:03 AM #55050
+     Soul Hunter was the only ep provided by Warners.  We didn't
+even know about the request at the time.
+
+                                                              jms
+DATE: WED 14 DEC 1994 5:12:06 #53807
+     No, I believe that's correct, and Bill's contract takes him
+to 22 next season.
+
+								jms
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 1:43:05 AM #55051
+     Delenn already is on a full-22 episode contract for season two.
+
+                                                       jms
+================
+FROM: JASON WONG
+DATE: THURS 15 DEC 1994 7:53:08 #54737
+Yeah, the line kinda caught me by surprise.  It just seemed so
+awkward and out of place!  I checked my tape and here's the
+complete line:
+
+"Well, you could put a bag over his head and do it for Babylon 5."
+
+Weird line...  :-)  He was either at the casino or that new bar
+(anyone have a name for either of them?  It wasn't the Zocalo,
+that's the one name I know.  Did I even spell Zocalo correctly?)
+==============
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 2:10:25 AM #55068
+     The line will make a *lot* more sense once you see
+the episode.
+
+     And the Earthforce club is named Earhart's.
+
+                                                       jms
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 4:29:28 #55376
+     "In three more years, you mean."  Nope.  Mid- or late-February.
+
+							jms
+DATE: SAT 17 DEC 1994 3:39:02 #55802
+     Earhart's is a new season two set.  And I'd rather let folks
+discover that line on their own.
+
+                                                       jms
+DATE: SAT 17 DEC 1994 3:39:04 #55803
+     Mira is paid for 22 out of 22 episodes, whether she appears in
+that episode or not.  Same with Bruce, Jerry, Claudia, others.  We
+use the character only when the character has something to *do*.  We
+could try to work her into every episode...but then it'd be *working
+her in*, and that means adjusting the story and possibly injecting
+false notes just to have someone in it.  We don't do that.  Having her
+and other cast members in for 22 guarantees their availability.
+
+                                                                  jms
+===============
+FROM: RONALD LEGRO
+DATE: THURS 15 DEC 1994 11:13:19 #54933
+I've definitely noticed in the past, oh, month or so, an up-tick in casual
+acquaintances who seem to have checked into B5, at office and elsewhere.
+You know you've broken through when people start using one-offs from the
+series in ordinary conversation, e.g., at the coffee pot: "Those donuts
+are my second favorite thing in the universe." And yesterday one of the
+co-workers surprised the heck out of me by engaging me in a detailed
+analysis of the B5 back story. Heretofore this particular Trekker barely
+had admitted to even watching B5. It's happening, but one hopes it's not
+too late for the pebbles to vote. :)
+===============
+B5 RATINGS INFO
+DATE: WED 14 DEC 1994 5:12:09 #53806
+     The syndication market is going through a LOT of changes
+right now; new shows, even some which've performed moderately
+well, are dropping like flies. And even if a show is doing very
+well, if the markets dry up because the new Paramount Network,
+the Warners Network, CBS and Fox have grabbed up all of the
+available stations, eliminating possible timeslots...it doesn't
+matter how good the show is, you're dead.  So believe me, we're
+not assuming ANYthing.
+
+							jms
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 1:43:09 AM #55054
+     That's great; bit by bit, inch by inch, we're being noticed.
+
+                                                          jms
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 1:43:13 AM #55056
+     We don't yet know where and how the whole Paramount network
+thing is going to affect us.
+
+                                                            jms
+DATE: THURS 16 DEC 1994 4:36:18 #54572
+     "How do you do it Joe?"
+
+     By living in a constant state of denial.
+
+					jms
+DATE: SAT 17 DEC 1994 3:39:01 #55801
+     Eventually the first season will be rerun, though
+I suspect not until after we've finished airing the second season.
+
+                                                   jms
+SPIDER/WEB
+DATE: WED 14 DEC 1994 3:22:14 #53512
+     No, in one-third gravity, nobody's hair would be
+floating around.  And in case of a serious situation,
+the hair goes back quickly.  For most non- combat
+situations, *as in the real military*, there's no need
+to constantly wear it in a braid.  The main requirement
+is that hair be kept OFF the epaulets, where rank is
+noted.  We're maintaining correct military regs as currently
+established.
+
+                                                     jms
+DATE: WED 14 DEC 1994 5:10:26 #53804
+     Except of course that there's a difference between moderate
+to low (one third) gravity and micro-gravity.  Even on the moon,
+in one-sixth gravity, astronauts functioned pretty much normally,
+their hair didn't float around (granted it was short), but the
+effect of one-third gravity isn't as extreme as you're indicating.
+
+							jms
+DATE: WED 14 DEC 1994 5:14:08 #53808
+      Of course, thus far we have never seen it in any way
+interfere with her duties, or the perception of her; I think
+in the latter case, males've grown up a little in this respect.
+I think she's comfortable enough with herself to wear her hair
+any darned way she pleases, knowing it won't be any kind of
+problem.  (Hell, a nest of angry ferrets in her hair wouldn't
+even slow her down....)
+
+							jms
+DATE: WED 14 DEC 1994 5:18:28 #53811
+     *Nothing* has been changed in Ivanova's character.  The
+character has in general gotten a little more comfortable with
+her surroundings -- last season began with her very much the
+New Kid on the Block, having just arrived there, and not really
+knowing anyone, so she was a bit on the defensive side -- but
+that's all.
+
+							jms
+DATE: THURS 15 DEC 1994 4:34:03 #54570
+     Actually, a few women shuttle astronauts *have*
+gone out with long hair, meaning almost shoulder length,
+and what it tends to do is stick straight up. But in any
+event, again, it's not really an issue in B5 since there's
+a good sized gravity there.  When she flies a starfury,
+her hair is bound and behind her in the helmet.
+
+						jms
+JUMP GATE PROBLEMS
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 1:43:06 AM #55052
+      Nope, the gate couldn't be moved under such circumstances.
+B5 is in a vulnerable position, and there are no easy solutions.
+Mainly because I *hate* easy solutions....
+
+                                                      jms
+ELLISON DOES WHAT?
+DATE: FRI 16 DEC 1994 4:30:08 PM #55377
+     Harlan does all *kinds* of things.  Too many to list here.
+
+						jms
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs95-03-15 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs95-03-15
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,496 @@
+JMS CompuServe messages, mid-March 1995 through mid-April 1995.  Collected
+by darkman@io.com.
+
+[Response to an NBC executive's posting; the man was replying to JMS' comment
+ that seaQuest DSV had some major problems.  Thanks to kilgalen@tde.com]
+
+Subj:  NBC exec responds/Part 2		Section: seaQuest DSV
+  To:  Mary Feller, 73234,62		Friday, March 10, 1995 3:48:11 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#137074
+
+Dear Mr. Grill-Marxuach:
+
+       I was off wandering in the BABYLON 5 topic and saw a mention of your
+note, so I figured I'd check it out.  You've requested straight-up and
+unfiltered feedback, and explained your own background in the request.  Your
+interest is salutory, your motives laudable.  Like you, I am a fan of SF; my
+feeling is the more SF on the air, the better those shows will have to become
+by way of competition, with the audience being the final beneficiary.
+
+       I also know that there is a difference between a fan of the genre
+responding to an inquiry like this, and someone who works in the Biz doing so.
+One can find oneself locked out of the executive suites if one exercises
+bluntness to excess.  Nonetheless, on the theory that I've never been terribly
+smart about watching my mouth, and the secondary theory that we're both
+fundamentally interested in the same thing, I'll chance it.
+
+       Bottom line, Javier...I've worked on a LOT of shows, as producer,
+writer, executive producer and story editor.  In all that time, I have almost
+never seen a network executive's appraisal actually *help* a show. One of the
+few, rare exceptions to the rule is Gregg Maday at Warner Bros., who is quite
+frankly a very sharp cookie...he knows story, he knows character, he's
+willing to let creative people risk failing, he's just terrific.
+
+       You mention quadruple-dialogues and defining the franchise and other
+netspeak terms...I've heard them before...and for the most part they're
+meaningless and less than meaningless, because they perpetuate the notion
+that what one is doing is quantifiable and fundamentally productive.  You
+can't define characters with meetings, or fifteen page memos or changes in
+wardrobe or age-range parameters.  You define them in the *writing*, pure
+and simple.  The writing must emanate from one clear source, the show runner.
+The more that is diffused with committee-think, and focus groups, and network
+suggestions -- however well-intentioned and sincere -- the more the work is
+hobbled, and compromised, and watered-down.  It all becomes High Concept or
+Twitch-Characterization, or Characterization By Way of Phony Conflict/Annoying
+People.  It seems to me that far too much time is being spent figuring out
+who should be watching the show and how to get them, rather than *telling a
+story* and letting the audience find you, respond to that story.  If there's
+anything I've learned in SF, it's that the story andthe quality of the writing
+is crucial; everything else, EFX and wardrobe and makeup, can be secondary if
+what we see is INTERESTING.
+
+       seaQuest has gone through a lot of writer/producer/story editor changes
+since its inception, mainly as a result of tinkering behind the scenes.  Look
+at all the really successful shows...they all have strong writer/producer
+showrunners who are allowed to find and use their own voice, a perspective
+that informs the show, PERSONALIZES it (something you can't do in a memo),
+and makes it special...and the audience responds.  Always has. Always will.
+
+       You want to make seaQuest better?  Go out and find the best writer
+producer/show runner you can get your hands on.  Preferably someone who
+KNOWS SF and won't have to spend the first half of the first season
+re-inventing the wheel with stories that those who know the genre could
+tell wouldn't work from the git-go.  (Is Bob Crais doing anything these
+days?) Put that person in the EP's chair, shake his/her hand...and walk out
+the door and leave them alone.  Encourage them to be daring.  Don't sit on
+their shoulder and loom.  Trust your people and leave them alone.  You'd be
+surprised how well this works.
+
+       Great opportunities have been missed with both seaQuest and Spielberg's
+other show for NBC, AMAZING STORIES (which, frankly, was neither amazing nor
+a story in most cases).  My god, Javier, you work in the business, you know
+how utterly uncommon it is to get a guarantee of two seasons from a network.
+Because shows get short orders, they're loathe to do anything of moment,
+anything of substance; when you've got a guarantee, it behooves you to be
+assertive, aggressive, to challenge WITHIN an entertaining framework,
+*particularly* if you're doing SF.  Giant killer alligators don't do it.
+Killer plants don't do it.  Giant octopi don't do it.  Those are kiddie
+stories; SF has generally been the literature of ideas, and inhabited in
+the main by bright kids and adults.  The whole thrust of seaQuest is
+adolescent-oriented...but most kids don't want to watch a show about the
+military, don't like watching shows with other kids as the heros (anybody
+here want to be Robin, who could already do all that great stuff, or did they
+want to be Batman?), recognize that it's bogus, and at the same time you lose
+the grownups who are looking for something with a little meat on the bones.
+You fall between two chairs.
+
+       Blasphemy as this may be, I'd also suggest keeping Spielberg away from
+the scripts.  Visually, he's a genius.  Left to his own devices, he can't
+tell a story for sour owl-poop.  He goes for the quick image, the flash and
+dazzle, and the substance (SCHINDLER notwithstanding) isn't there. His best
+work has always been in working from someone else's book or script; if he
+gets into the writing process, try as he might, he's just not a writer,
+doesn't think in terms of story continuity, but rather in scenes and imagery
+that don't always add up to a STORY.
+
+       Undertand that SF fans *want* new shows to work; they've generally
+been disappointed, and they/we look to each new show riding over the horizon
+with the hope that *this* one will be the knight in shining armor that will
+make everyone sit up and take serious notice of SF...only to watch the armor
+fall off the horse when it draws near, revealing nothing inside in far too
+many cases.
+
+       The failure of much SF television stems from failure of vision or
+failure of nerve.  The problems with seaQuest stem from both; a failure of
+nerve in allowing the creative people to push the envelope and define the
+show without committees, and the resultant failure of vision because there's
+no one defining storyteller.  David Kelley, Steve Bochco, Chris Carter...
+hell, Javier, you know the short-list of show-runners as well as I do, maybe
+better.  And you know instantly the sort of show you're going to get from
+them.  Their shows succeed because they're for the most part left alone, and
+because they bring a unique voice to their shows.  What is the unique voice
+in seaQuest?
+
+       Every season-end, the networks look to how they can change the show
+to make it better...and in so doing, end up causing more problems, because
+you've got to get over the resistance of the fans who resent losing
+character X; you've got to spend the first part of your season setting up
+those new characters and relationships, which costs you whatever momentum you
+were able to build up in the prior season...it simply causes more problems
+than letting the show continue to steadily find its audience.
+
+       From day one, seaQuest has been tinkered with, and adjusted, and
+second-guessed, and analyzed, and committee-banged, and thus has for all
+that time been drifting from side to side, without identity or clear
+direction, whipsawed and staggered until it's dizzy.  The show doesn't know
+what it wants to be, what it's about, or *who* it's about.
+
+       Take some chances with the stories.  Don't assume you're making this
+show for kids.  Focus on the characters...who are they, what do they want,
+and how far are they prepared to go to get it?  Avoid the gimmick shows.
+Break the glass bell around the characters that keeps us to only the most
+simplistic motivations.  (The best episode I saw of SQ was the one in which
+Bridger must defeat a computer program of himself, and along the way must
+face emotions, and a past he's been running from.)
+
+       Bottom line...leave it alone, Javier.  Stop picking at it or it won't
+heal.  Hire good writers, producers and story editors, and let them have the
+helm for a while.  Because if there's some other key to success in TV, I sure
+as hell haven't seen it.  Good luck.
+
+                   J. Michael Straczynski, Executive Producer, BABYLON 5
+
+
+
+[Will Janet Greek be doing any of the upcoming eps?]
+
+Janet was not available to us for most of this season due to illness
+(flu turning 	into pneumonia), but she's better now, and will be 
+directing our season-ender, 	"The Price of Peace."  We hope to
+have her do five or six next year, and will of 	course try to get her
+for our first and last as with this year and the last of 
+year one; she's kind of our good luck charm.
+
+
+---
+[Any time the rest of this season will we see: Bester,	Morden,  Sinclair?
+Have you decided on a title for the third season yet?  What's the background
+hum you can hear with good headphones?  Tell us about "The Long, Twilight
+Struggle."]
+
+I'd hoped to work in Bester by the end of this season for a second 
+appearance, but it doesn't look like it's going to work out; I'd have
+to bend the story to do that, and I won't do that.  I would, however,
+like to use him more next season, and intend to do so.  Sinclair; 
+not this season. Morden: yes.
+
+Have I decided on a title for the third season?  Yes.
+
+We audio map each part of the station and create background sound including 
+a thrum whose volume depends on how far away they are from the hull, and the
+mechanism that rotates the station.
+
+I don't want to say anything about "The Long Twilight Struggle" at this 
+time, to avoid hyping people.  Suffice to say it's a very strong episode.
+
+                                        jms 
+
+---
+[Are jumpgates shut down during wartime?]
+
+Actually, you've seen the Centauri warships, the Narn heavy cruiser, and
+the Agamemnon all make their own jump points.  The jump gates are mainly for
+use by smaller ships and commercial vessels; of little or no strategic value.
+(Nonetheless, during the war, access codes for jumpgates were changed to keep 
+out anything that might come out the other end as a bomb.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+---
+[What are your influences?
+ Will the death of Commodore (maker of the Amiga) affect the show?]
+
+The most important way of supporting the show is to write your local station.
+It's hard to say what my influences were, in that I'm basically a fan of
+the genre overall.  On the one hand I grew up reading the Lord of the Ring
+books, Dune, Childhood's End, Foundation, the Lensman books, all the real
+sagas of SF...on the flip side my role models and/or influences in writing
+include Rod Serling, Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft, Arch 
+Oboler, Norman Corwin, Reginald Rose, Paddy Chayefsky and Charles Beaumont.
+
+It's difficult to say what SF TV programs have inspired me since so few of
+them have gotten it right;  mainly the original ST, Twilight Zone, the Outer
+Limits, the Prisoner, Blake's 7 and a very few others.
+
+Problems with Commodore/Amiga won't affect us, since the technology has
+already been imported over to DOS platforms.  And yes, it's certainly
+seemed that our decision to go CGI has been validated,  with more and
+more shows going over to this format.  (In fact, DS9 has contracted with
+the very same  people who do our CGI to do some of their stuff.  Nice to 
+see them following our lead.)
+                                    jms
+
+
+---
+70/30 odds are pretty good; this time last year I set our odds at
+50/50 for pickup on year two.
+
+Again, the best advice is to write your local station.
+
+Re: Blake's 7...what I enjoyed about the show was that you never knew what 
+the hell to expect from week to week.  Regular cast members came and went; Blake (for whom the show was named) just plain vanished for most of the show.  They were just nuts, willing to do anything if it served the story.  I also enjoyed the character of Avon, someone who would pointedly smile only once per episode...and always at 
+the *most* inappropriate moment.
+
+     ("I'm not stupid, I'm not expendable, and I'm NOT going.")
+
+Granted it's a bit rough around the edges, but you may want to check it out again sometime.
+
+                                      jms
+
+
+
+---
+[Could you send explosives through a jump point and have them appear suddenly
+ somewhere else?]
+
+Anything entering the gate must go through hyperspace, as we've shown in
+the series.  You could open a gate, then send through explosives, but
+it would only blow up *in* hyperspace, it wouldn't come out the other side.
+
+                           jms
+
+
+---
+[Have you thought about doing a fantasy show?  Why aren't there more of them?]
+
+Well, certainly now we have the Hercules series, which though I can't abide
+it, is apparently doing well in the ratings...and there you've got cyclops
+and sorceresses and all the trappings of fantasy.  There have been other 
+attempts at fantasy, the one starring Judson Scott (the name of which has 
+just fallen out of my head), and pilots aplenty, including the Dr. Strange
+pilot.  Dark Shadows could almost qualify as fantasy, though often leaning 
+into horror.  So there have been attempts (I know of one more in the works 
+right now in development with one of the new networks, via another writer;
+though I'm not allowed to talk  about it, suffice to say it has dragons and
+all the other elements of fantasy).
+
+SF is better suited in general to TV because most of it is either 
+contemporary or somewhat futuristic,  and in both cases you can either 
+use or cannibalize contemporary locations and sets.  Once you start talking
+castles and armies and the like, you're increasing the budget and production
+problems by orders of magnitude.  The more costly and problematic the 
+project, the less likely it becomes.
+
+Using some of the tricks we've worked out on B5 could ameliorate a few of
+these problems, but not the bulk of them; it's one of those puzzles that we
+haven't sussed out yet.  (And I've actually given it a fair amount of 
+thought.)  You'd almost certainly be caught in contemporary fantasy, for
+which I think there could be no better project than MAGE, Matt Wagner's
+graphic novel take on unpdating the King Arthur story.
+
+That said, to your specific questions:
+
+Yes, I've considered it, but not in any great detail.  My roots are more
+in SF than in unicorn-and-fuzzy-footed-elf-and-exiled-princess literature.
+Thus I don't know if I'd be any good at it.
+
+Who would I suggest?  Probably George R.R. Martin.  Or Alan Brennert,
+though he generally tends not to do SF anymore for TV.  Michael Cassutt.
+Bob Crais, if he could be conned into it.  Mark Edens.  David Gerrold. 
+D.C. Fontana.
+
+I think the rules on making a fantasy show work would be about the same 
+as those I laid out for SF.  And yes, I think you'll see several attempts 
+at fantasy on TV over the next decade.  Potentially, it could have an even 
+larger base audience than SF, since there isn't as much techspeak or 
+hardware to know going in.  It just needs someone to do it right, and do 
+it responsibly from a fiscal perspective.
+
+                                jms
+
+---
+[When will the third season (hopefully) start airing?]
+
+Assuming we're renewed, I'd expect us to start airing third season episodes
+the same time as last time, in November.
+
+                                                                       jms
+---
+[Will we see more alien-looking aliens?]
+
+I have always wanted to see a peersons puppeteer as described by Larry Niven
+for Example. But any non humanoid with a good complex culture would be fun.
+
+Also, bear in mind that you're hugging the technology curve pretty close
+here; the more bizarre the alien, the better your tech has got to be to
+make it *real*, and even more important, to make it convey emotion.
+If all you want it to do is drool and slobber, then you can make something
+like ALIENS creatures (oh, yeah, and bite).  But if you want to have any
+kind of conversation with it, that's *tough*.  Yoda's nice, but Yoda's a
+puppet, and there's not much doubt about it (and even with that, it cost
+them VAST amounts of time and money to get those shots).
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+---
+[How do you do skin and things that are not geometrically regular?]
+
+Skin is exactly the problem; and the musculature beneath.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+---
+[What kind of assistance did B5 get from the Minbari?  Where's Earthdome?
+How big is the EA?  What happened to San Diego?  Is Harlan Ellison still
+providing input?]
+
+1) Mainly financial support, after Babylons 1-4 went south and ate up most
+of the EA budget.
+
+2) Earthdome is the capital of the Earth Alliance, located in Geneva.
+
+3) Not including smaller operations, the EA has over 14 colonies and
+worlds in over a dozen solar systems.
+
+4) San Diego got nuked by terrorists.
+
+5) Harlan continues to provide as much input as he wants, which is always
+profoundly welcome.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+---
+[When the heck do you find time to read comics as well as produce/write/etc.
+B5, spend time online, watch TV, AND read comics?!?!]
+
+a) No sleep
+
+b) No life
+
+c) Massive doses of stupidity
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+---
+[Will we see more of B5's hollow interior?  What happened to the CD-ROM?]
+
+Yes to the interior shots; we've seen them before this season, any time
+we're in the Garden area, but we do plan on some big ones later.
+
+I think once we get going on year 3, we'll be able to push faster on the
+CD-Rom.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+---
+I'm really rather dismayed that my flame messages have been archived here.
+I don't see any need to contaminate this forum with what happened elsewhere.
+Since they're my words, I would like the file deleted.  Thanx.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+---
+This is a very hard message to write, but it has to be said, now, before the
+error compounds itself further.
+
+Several weeks ago, a number of us -- me, Claudia, Mira and Michael -- flew
+out to Chicago for a "dry run" of sorts for the Big Bang, held at Planet
+Hollywood.  It did not go well; there were many problems behind the scenes,
+which we worked to keep the fans from seeing: logistical, organizational,
+and other problems.  Our experience was that the whole exercise was poorly
+run, and there were other concerns raised about
+how business was being done.
+
+Upon returning, I have said very little about the whole event, and sent
+Tom Christofferson a 4 page fax detailing the items that worried me about
+how things were being run, and indicated that unless things changed rather
+dramatically, neither I nor my cast could support this operation, because
+in the end it was the fans who would be hurt.
+
+Subsequent to that came the capper.
+
+Tom approached us about licensing a product: high quality leather jackets
+in rememberance of the Battle of the Line.  He requested the original
+artwork for all the Battle of the Line patches, which we have never given
+to anyone else.  The purpose was to make ONE demo jacket to show to Warners
+Licensing to show how it would look.
+
+So you can imagine my dismay when I learned, over this system, in messages
+posted by others, that he was selling the jackets (which had NOT been
+licensed) at Vulkon; selling the patches; that he had taken artwork
+provided for use only as backdrops at the convention and had turned them
+into posters and was selling the posters.  People buying the posters and
+other material were told, and was even printed on
+them, that all proceeds were to benefit the Starfury Project, which had
+never been finalized, no arrangements had been made...buying these items
+on the assumption that they were contributing to a worthy cause.  They
+weren't.
+
+This is not only a violation of copyright, but a violation of trust, on
+top of the other concerns we had about the convention.  Warner Bros. Legal
+Affairs is already onto this.  We didn't know he was doing this, he had no
+right to be doing this, and this is, as they say,the straw that breaks the
+camel's back.
+
+Consequently, we must withdraw all support from this convention; neither
+I nor anyone else involved with Babylon 5 will attend.  If you were
+planning to attend specifically to see Babylon 5 folks, then I strongly
+suggest you secure a refund or change your plans.
+
+All of us here are bitterly disappointed, because until our first trip we
+had great hopes for this.  Primarily, however, we are disappointed and
+saddened for the fans of the show, who were looking forward to this as
+much as we were.  A lot of people were very excited about it, ourselves
+included.  But once again the theory is proven that sometimes things that
+look too good to be true often are.  It is my feeling that, even the
+pirating aside, the convention would be a total disaster, and in the end
+the fans would be the ones hurt by it, and we can't allow that.
+
+With great regrets....
+
+                                            J. Michael Straczynski
+
+
+---
+[Capt. Maynard in "A Distant Star" is wearing cowboy boots!  What happened
+to Earth, that they need domes?  Any plans for posters?]
+
+Yeah, the theory was to make Maynard a bit more eccentric.
+
+The Earth isn't in that bad a shape, actually, the domes are sometimes
+functional but often more metaphoric.
+
+There will be a new B5 poster done for later this year.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+---
+No TV series has ever gotten a 5 year contract, so I never expected to get
+one here.
+
+Our budget for year two increased slightly over year one, and will probably
+increase a bit more in year three (assuming we're go), but not much in any
+event, with the lion's share of that going toward actors and crews salaries,
+which is eminently deserved.
+
+We've actually used fewer library shots in year two than in year one,
+because the techniques for making them have gotten better, and because we
+tended to use a lot of establishing shots between  scenes to help establish
+where we were in our first year; so we now use fewer transitional shots this
+year.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+---
+[Is the show having trouble getting renewed in some markets?]
+
+No, apparently the show is doing well in most markets, and in most places
+we're getting better time slots.  We are cautiously optimistic.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+---
+[Hey, what is this?  You're on here BEFORE midnight!]
+
+It was an oversight.  I'll try not to let it happen again.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+---
+The year three title...is classified for the time being.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+---
+[How would you describe the Shadow ships?]
+
+For me, they're spiders.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+---
+"What the hell was that?" is exactly the right reaction.  In the B5
+universe, things have a tendency to blindside you...kinda like life.
+Congrats on the new convert....
+
+                                                                       jms
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+
+
+"But imagine what Joe could do if he had access to our nation's defense
+budget."
+
+I dunno...that's one hell of a lot of Ring Ding Jrs.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+I mentioned this elsewhere, but I figured I'd note it here as
+well......  In a few days we will begin shooting the final episode of
+season two: "The Fall of Night."  In terms of action, this is the
+biggest thing we've ever attempted.  Where normally our scripts have
+50-80 scenes/shots (as noted in numerical sluglines), this one has 134;
+of which 64 are EFX shots, some in combinations.  To understand the
+weight of that, there were 60 EFX shots in the entire two-hour pilot.
+In addition, this has more and more *complex* CGI than the first 13
+episodes of our first season put TOGETHER.  Nothing on quite this scale
+has ever been attempted in series TV before, and the irony is that the
+major part of this covers only a few minutes in the fourth act.
+
+This stuff is going to involve every one of our EFX divisions,
+compositing, makeup, prosthetics, costuming, practical effects, mattes,
+CGI; the visual EFX meeting was the biggest we've ever had, and
+everyone's both sober and excited.  Because there are only two options
+when you go for something this substantial: either you're going to do
+something truly amazing, or you're going to massively fall on your
+face.  For our EFX people, this is kinda like boarding the wildest ride
+at Magic Mountain and leaving off your seatbelt on a dare...it's one
+hell of a ride, but boy is it dangerous.
+
+But as Ron Thornton pointed out: no guts, no glory.
+
+This is also going to be a Janet Greek-directed episode, who for
+various reasons was only available to do our first episode prior to
+this, but she's kind of our good luck charm, and we wanted someone
+who's  done as much for us as she has to come in here and helm
+this...because it could probably break a less experienced (on B5)
+director.
+
+One last item, unrelated: the month of May is a good one for final
+conversions.  We're going to have some of our strongest episodes during
+that month, and the first one up in May (second new episode) makes for
+a very good recap/introduction to the show for newbies.  Starting with
+that one, we're going balls-to-the-wall on the arc from that point on
+through the rest of the season, with only one exception, which is a
+very intense episode but in a different way.
+
+Up through "The Coming of Shadows" we were still warming up; with CoS
+we really hit our stride on the show, and now we're going flat-out from
+here on out.  We stop for nobody.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+[What does "our demographics remain extremely good" mean?]
+
+Ratings tell you how many people are watching your show.  Demographics
+tell you *who* is watching your show: age, gender, income, that sort of
+thing.  And B5's demographics are quite stellar; we attract a bright,
+educated, high-class sort of audience.
+
+Why none of them ever show up here is anyone's guess.
+
+
+			       jm(it's a joke, I swear, it's a joke)s
+
+
+[In a recently published viewing figures for week ending April 2 in
+Britain, B5 was in Channel 4's top 30 shows. It hit #27 with 2.07
+million viewers.]
+
+That's good to know, thanks.
+
+								       jms
+
+Delenn *was* to be a male in the pilot.  We changed the one "he" in a
+voice-over to "she," and left her voice as was, rather than changing
+it.  I just wasn't happy with the voice- change.
+
+								       jms
+
+[I'd like to see just how the fighters get from the docking port
+opening back to the cobra bays.]
+
+
+In "Survivors," we showed the furies being lowered down into the bays
+for recharge, then replacement into the hangar.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+[What's the difference between Earth Alliance, Earth Force, and Earth
+Dome?]
+
+Earth Alliance is the government that encompasses all the colonies
+we've settled, other protectorates, plus Earth.
+
+Earthforce is the military arm of the Earth Alliance.
+
+Earthdome is the seat of EA government, located in Geneva.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+[ *How* is Earthdome in Geneva? Its an obvious place for a world
+capital, but last time I was there (10 yrs ago) there wouldn't have
+been room for even a small parliament-type building - except in the
+lake. <g>]
+
+Amazing what a few wrecking balls and an absolute disdain for matters
+historical can do for urban renewal....
+
+								       jms
+
+[Those of us that follow B-5 closely would like to know if anything
+might be in the planning stage.  All of us are asking for information
+about anyone who might have one of these <fake Big Bang> Jackets.]
+
+Thanks.  This is a real problem, but I don't feel comfortable making
+fans feel responsible for tracking down and reporting this stuff; I
+don't think it's appropriate to ask that, or expect that.
+
+For my part, while the pirated jackets, patches and other material are
+real issues for us, oddly enough the one I'm most troubled by are the
+posters, made from B5 artwork.  The posters say that all profits go to
+"Project Starfury," a supposed charity *that does not exist*.  The idea
+that people are buying these things, believing they were supporting B5
+and/or a charitable cause, when it wasn't true, just burns the hell out
+of me.
+
+I understand there are currently discussions between cast members and
+some other fan- run cons in the midwest, so with luck there may be some
+more apperances in that area.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+There have been long and agonizing discussions about the whole Big Bang
+issue in- house.  The greatest concern is with the realization, made
+after the prior announcement, that many people had bought
+non-refundable airline tickets, and might be unable to secure refunds
+for VIP tickets.  Several of the cast  members, though very concerned
+about how the con was being run, were equally concerned about the fans
+who might get burned.  We've talked about this at length over the last
+week or so, and though the concerns remain, they feel that it's
+important to do all they can to make sure that the interests of the
+fans are protected.
+
+Personally, I share with many of them these grave concerns.  They know
+the risks, but have decided to go in, in order to show their open
+concern for the fans.  Because those involved with this convention have
+infringed our copyrights and otherwise misled us, Babylonian
+Productions cannot in any way sanction the convention, and because of
+our concerns, will not provide any support in any way because, frankly,
+it's been misused before, and we cannot risk this happening again.
+Consequently, I will not and can not attend, as that would amount to an
+endorsement by B5.  The actors are free agents, and can take this
+chance independently; they are not representatives of the company.
+
+We have outlined to them steps to take to protect their interests, and
+those of the fans.  I have to say that I'm amazed and stunned by their
+willingness to take a chance on something that has already burned many
+of us here, and to do so for the sake of those attending.  Most casts
+wouldn't do this.  I *very* much hope that those involved with this
+convention fully understand the degree to which they are on probation
+and keep everything above-board, because we're going to be watching
+with *extreme* attention.
+
+Though I cannot take part in Big Bang, I am currently concluding
+discussions with Chicago ComicCon to appear there a week later, at my
+own expense, no fees, for any Chicago B5 viewers who might want to say
+hello.
+
+								   jms
+
+
+     (This post may be copied freely to other services.)
+
+
+[What your usual requirments are to attend cons?  I work with
+InConJunction in Indianapolis.  I would like to sugest you to the Chair
+as a GoH at a future InCon.]
+
+Whatever your usual GoH's get is probably more than fine; the main
+determining factor is time and schedule.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+[At the time, I was wondering why you were lurking around the edges of
+things (during the discussions, and afterwards) with a highly
+suspicious look in your eye.]
+
+I was kind of hoping that my expression at the Planet Hollywood thing
+didn't betray what was going on behind the scenes; it appears I was
+wrong. My sense is that the audience (stage, film, gathering) should
+never have to know what's going on behind the scenes, it should just go
+well, no excuses.
+
+The worst of it was during the teaser, when not one word of the show
+could be heard, and I was in the back, yelling at the sound guy, then
+the general manager, to fix it, that fans had paid good money to come
+here and see this episode, and by god they were GOING to see it or
+somebody was going to be minus a limb.  And later, the nonsense with no
+microphone being available, and everybody having to shout to be heard
+over the music from the rest of the club, and fans on the fringe not
+being able to hear *anything*...I was furious beyond the telling.  But
+I always tried to cover it up when approached, because that's my
+problem, not the fans' problem, and they deserved the best night
+possible.  Next time I'll work harder at curbing my face.
+
+								       jms
+
+The information you were told does not touch reality at any two
+contiguous points.  "Tom claims that he merely sold (the jackets) 9
+days earlier than he was authorized...(and) insisted that he had
+approval to sell them just 9 days later."
+
+This is, flatly, a lie.  No license agreement whatsoever had been
+entered into between him and Warners.  No meetings had taken place
+between those two.  No authorization of ANY kind had been given.
+Warners was not even aware of the jackets until it came out that he was
+selling them.
+
+"Tom also claims that he showed JMS all of the artwork/patches he
+prepared and claimed witnesses to support his contention."
+
+True.  We provided him with artwork to make sample patches for THE DEMO
+ONLY, which he said he was going to show to Warner Bros. as indication
+of the promised quality of the final product.  He showed them to me,
+and I repeated to him that these were ONLY for the demo, nothing else.
+He agreed, and made quite a big deal out of the fact that he was
+keeping them secret, showing no one else.  They were not for sale, he
+agreed.  And, subsequently, sold them.
+
+Re: fines and charges...Warners is still investigating the problem, and
+may very well bring further charges.
+
+"(Tom) gave me the name and phone number of the person in charge of the
+Star Fury project who would (allegedly) confirm where the proceeds
+would go."
+
+I would be very interested in knowing who this person is, because there
+IS no Starfury project.  If someone says he is involved with any such
+project, this person is either directly lying, misinformed, or engaging
+in deliberate fraud.  Where the money was going is one issue currently
+being investigated; the other is stating that there WAS a Project
+Starfury, and putting this information on posters, to make it look like
+a charitable function, when no such entity existed, or had been
+approved.
+
+If you have this information, please give it to me so that I can pass
+it along to Warner Bros. Legal Affairs.  We have now heard from several
+people who have been told about this supposed "Project Starfury," and
+who have donated resources for it, even as late as last week, without
+ever being told that this does not exist.
+
+There is no such thing as Tom's side of the story, given that the
+issues at hand are matters of record.  No agreement whatsoever existed
+between Warners and his company at ANY time.  Ever.  Never entered
+into, never negotiated, never even had a MEETING with Warner Bros.  If
+he says he had approval, let him produce the document, because there is
+always a signed document giving approval.  It's that simple.  Major
+studios don't just say over the phone, "Oh, sure, Tom, go ahead, we'll
+get the paperwork on this later."  Deals are signed, and exchanged.
+
+So either Tom can produce this document, or he can't.  If he can't,
+he's lying.  This is a simple equation.
+
+								     jms
+
+We were approached by CMC about Project Starfury, and they had spoken
+with Louise Kleba about this as well.  The notion of building a working
+Starfury was appealing, but we wanted to know exactly what was being
+discussed.
+
+In Chicago, in a meeting, Louise talked about the technical aspects,
+then Tom got into the financial aspects, which were *very* fuzzy and
+very unclear.  What sounded on the one hand as a scientific endeavor
+suddenly was being presented as a money-making venture for CMC, making
+rides.  There was no really clear plan of action, and at that meeting,
+I said that this was all very interesting, but it didn't all add up.  I
+emphasized that before anyone could endorse this project, we would have
+to receive a *detailed* business plan.  We had come there under the
+assumption that we were looking at a scientific exploration of the
+issue; what we left with was the sense that this was going to be a
+private, money-making venture.  Either way, it was made ABSOLUTELY
+clear that there was no deal in place, that there were some real
+concerns, and this was a very problematic issue.
+
+(Louise, btw, is a separate issue; she and her associates would like to
+see a Starfury someday, but my sense is that they were kind of taken
+advantage of in this.)
+
+Next thing I knew, I get a fraudulent poster in my hands with a
+notation on the thing saying ALL PROFITS GO TO PROJECT STARFURY.
+Again, at that point there was no such project, there IS no such
+project, and you cannot legally promote a private venture as a
+charitable cause.
+
+I'm sure that Louise and her associates in the space program will
+continue to promote the idea of a working Starfury, but that is totally
+separate and apart from CMC's "Project Starfury," which doesn't exist.
+
+								       jms
+
+[I just got a catalog from 800-TREKKER today. Are their B5 t-shirts and
+caps licensed?]
+
+I believe that that material is licensed, yes.
+
+								       jms
+
+Last episode's going great.  We wrap tomorrow afternoon.  (We shot an
+extra day for the first time because there's *so* much heavy EFX work
+in this thing.)
+
+								       jms
+
+[So, with "There all the Honor Lies," is Sheridan on his way down the
+well, or is he still teetering precipitously on the edge?]
+
+Sheridan really starts down the well in about two more weeks.
+
+								       jms
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+Messages collated by Bill Bottke <bottke@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
+
+******************************************************************************* 
+* Compuserve messages: (Courtesy of The Green Meddler at C.I.U.P.K.C. Software)
+******************************************************************************* 
+
+Subj:  M TV & R and B5?                 Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Emily Christensen, 73362,3512    Saturday, March 04, 1995 12:52:20 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#131266
+
+     Thanks for sticking with it all this time.  It's kind of funny; Mark
+Hamill talks about how he went to several conventions just prior to the
+release of STAR WARS, and practically couldn't get arrested.  He'd sit there at
+a table, all alone, and nobody would even come by.  Six months later....
+
+     At those first few B5 panels, back when the show was still only in the
+"here's what I'm going to do" stage, before we'd aired a frame of film,
+the usual reaction was "yeah, sure," or hostility, or disbelief, or just no
+reaction at all.  But at many of the cons, there was this core group of people
+who believed in the project from the first word...who lent their belief and
+their support to something they hadn't even seen, in the hope that maybe this
+time their dilligence and faith would be rewarded.  And to those who make
+Babylon 5, those are the special ones, and we are very mindful of them.
+Stepping out on faith takes a certain degree of courage, and that's not
+something to be taken lightly.  So thanks for being one of them.
+
+     Re: your question...at this juncture, I think I'd have to choose "The
+Coming of Shadows" as the one episode I'd use to represent the series.
+That one episode came out so close to perfect, so close to what I saw in my
+head when I wrote it, that the difference is no difference at all.  It has all
+the elements I'd feature in a B5 discussion...the CGI, the characterization,
+the complexity, the politics, the language, the performances.
+
+     There are, by the way, some really extraordinary episodes coming up. The
+first one in the next cycle of new episodes, "And Now for a Word," will, I
+think, be very popular, and to my knowledge does something that has never been
+done in SF television before; "There All the Honor Lies" is a fun episode with
+some nice characterization and solid humor; "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" is an
+episode that is as emotionally raw as "Chrysalis" with some major revelations
+that force Sheridan to make the most important decision of his life;
+"Confessions and Lamentations" I'd put right next to "Believers" in intensity,
+a terrific Franklin episode; "The Long, Twilight Struggle" is probably the
+biggest episode of the entire two years to date, story and EFX and character
+wise, and will have a profound effect on the series that I'd compare to a cross
+between "Signs and Portents" and "Chrysalis"...and "Divided Loyalties" will
+produce a stunning revelation about one of our major characters.
+
+     The latter half of this season is all about tightening the screws until
+you hit the screaming point.  I've got to send this show over the edge,
+because THAT'S where the really interesting stuff begins to happen.
+
+     I have a big sign on my office wall.  It's a quote from Franz Kafka. (And
+by big I mean 2' x 3'.)  "The point of no return; that is the point that
+must be reached."  The latter half of this season will send us tumbling end
+over end beyond the point of no return...and taking many of our characters with
+us.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 T-Shirt/Caps Info             Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  All                              Saturday, March 04, 1995 2:40:24 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#131322
+
+     A while back, in discussing merchandise, I mentioned that All-U was doing
+some *great* shirts, but that they were mainly supplying direct to
+distributers.  Because of demand, they've begun selling now directly, on
+individual orders.  How long this will last is anyone's guess, but they're
+doing it now, and I figured I'd give everybody a head's up.
+
+     They're doing short AND LONG SLEEVE t-shirts and caps.  The caps are with
+the B5 symbol embroidered.  The shirts are black, with full-color artwork
+from photographs and CGI images supplied directly by Foundation. The shirs are
+of the following kind: cast with station; station with B5 logo and the words
+"the last best hope;" station, logo and the nearby planet; and station, logo
+with a starfury flying past in foreground.
+
+     They're nicely done, without the usual thickness associated with color
+inking on black shirts.  These are authorized and approved.  When we saw
+how nifty these shirts were, we ordered boxes of them for the stage, and these
+are the same kind worn around the B5 set by cast and crew.  (They practically
+flew out the door upon arriving, by the crew in particular.) They're really
+nifty.
+
+     Apparently there are CIS rules about giving out the prices of the shirts,
+so I won't, but I will say they're very reasonably priced.  Their phone
+number is 1-800-424-2558, ext. 105.  They're a very enthusiastic bunch of guys
+who love the show, and want to do it right.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Sci Fi and Producers.            Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Richard Cunningham, 71213,3504   Wednesday, March 22, 1995 2:45:03 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#149451
+
+     I'm constantly amazed at the quality of work coming out of Matt Wagner.
+His MAGE continues to be one of the best graphic novels out there.  And
+while I'm quite enamored of his GRENDEL series in all theirf various
+incarnations (literally), it started as a MAGE backup, and I'd like to see him
+finish the promised sequel one of these days.
+
+     For what it's worth, in case anybody's interested, the books I'm finding
+of constant interest include just about anything from Grant Morrison, Neil
+Gaiman's SANDMAN, the FLASH has gotten really kind of interesting, all the
+ALIENS/PREDATOR stuff from Dark Horse tends to be just briliant, Steven Grant's
+X, the current SPIDERMAN clone-identity stories, Stan Sakai's USAGI YOJIMBO,
+plus BOOKS OF MAGIC, SUPERMAN, the new STARMAN has potential, and it looks like
+DC may finally have gotten LEGION OF SUPERHEROES onto a track worthy of its
+origins.
+
+(Yeah, if you haven't figured it, I've got about a $40 per week habit at
+my local comics store.)
+
+								       jms*
+
+(*vainly hoping to one day see more MIRACLEMAN titles, maybe this time
+from Alan Moore.)
+
+
+Subj:  <TSOZ - Predicatable>            Section: Babylon 5
+  To:           Monday, May 15, 1995 9:12:16 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#209630
+
+No, the Sinclair storyline would not have been introduced the same way as
+the Sheridan story vis a vis the shadows.  That was kind of my problem as
+I got into this; how to tie him to that part without straining credulity, given
+everything ELSE he was into.
+
+Science/exploration vessels are privately funded, and go into areas of
+considerable hazard.  They arrive by piggy-backing on a larger, jump
+capable ship, with an appointment X-number of days or weeks later with another
+ship to go home.  While it's gone, it's on its own.  EA can't afford to send
+out more ships into a situation like this, where they have no real idea what's
+gone wrong, and it's a private venture, any more than the US can send out the
+Coast Guard to investigate every single ship that disappears at sea halfway
+across the globe.
+
+Re: Voyager, I feel that the characters have great potential that has not
+yet been really explored.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <TSOZ - Delenn)                  Section: Babylon 5
+  To:   Monday, May 15, 1995 10:04:23 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#209735
+
+It's not possible to be on the edge of shooting the season, and not know.
+Contractually, we have to notify the cast, for instance, by no later than
+June 10th or so, or be in breach, and that won't happen.  There's just a lot of
+details right now still being worked out between the stations and Warner Bros.
+We keep expecting final word literally day by day.  Should be soon.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Main corridor scenes             Section: Babylon 5
+  To:   Monday, May 15, 1995 10:04:24 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#209736
+
+We're *frequently* in the main corridor, or the zocalo, which both have
+the rising floorline.  So I'm not sure why you're not seeing it....
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Za'Ha'Dum and Mind War           Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Monday, May 15, 1995 10:04:26 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#209737
+
+No, Sakai was never slated to vanish into shadow-lands.  This isn't a
+case of transplanting storylines.  If things were going to be done in
+exactly the same way with either character (Sinclair/Sheridan) then there would
+be no NEED to bring in another character.  Logic.
+
+Re: the two speeches by G'Kar and Delenn...yes, they were constructed
+specifically to echo one another, because the walkers at Sigma 957 are one
+of the older races that flit through but don't really pay any attention to us
+anymore.
+
+								       jms
+
+Subj:  Govts & Embassies                Section: Babylon 5
+  To:   Tuesday, May 16, 1995 2:07:13 AM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#209894
+
+Certainly there are some changes coming to the Narns, though not in any of
+the same way as the rest.  And no, G'Kar has generally gone along with his
+government.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  <TSOZ - Delenn)                  Section: Babylon 5
+  To:   Tuesday, May 16, 1995 2:07:14 AM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#209895
+
+>>Along these lines, is there any chance we might see -- on the nets or in a
+magaizine -- a >>story on the creation of a random episode, beginning from when
+the script is written to air >>date (including pre-production, filming, and
+post-production)?
+
+If any magazine ever wants to write that article, we're up for it, but so
+far, no one's approached us on it.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Comics #5 and #6              Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Tuesday, May 16, 1995 9:02:21 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#210954
+
+The comics vary in applicability.  I don't see why the events in the
+current arc wouldn't apply.
+
+BTW, I'm writing a new 4-issue arc, which introduces a character who will
+be seen in the (one hopes) third season.  So this will provide all the
+canon background on the character, and have it out before the airing itself.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Za'Ha'Dum and Mind War           Section: Babylon 5
+  To:   Tuesday, May 16, 1995 9:32:01 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#211040
+
+The Rim is the edge of explored or known space.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Shadow of Za'ha'dum>            Section: Babylon 5
+  To:   Wednesday, May 17, 1995 8:45:21 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#212073
+
+Actually, it wouldn't be the first time for a series; Blake's 7 ended by
+knocking off all the characters.  Frankly, I find that kind of thing
+vaguely dissatisfying.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <TSOZ>                           Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Wednesday, May 17, 1995 8:45:23 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#212074
+
+"I distrust any female who bites the male's head off after mating."
+
+Ah...I see we dated the same women back in college.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <TSOZ - Delenn)                  Section: Babylon 5
+  To:   Wednesday, May 17, 1995 8:45:24 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#212076
+
+There is just about zero chance of B5 ever ending up on the WB network, as
+those two (WBN and PTEN) are *very* competitive with one another, and
+neither division would allow it.  (Unlike other companies, WB is set up as a
+series of competing small empires who are not required to cooperate, in the
+theory that this will make for stronger individual divisions.  Not always
+true.)
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <In the Shadow ... >             Section: Babylon 5
+  To:   Wednesday, May 17, 1995 8:45:27 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#212077
+
+Re: disliking the idea of god...I don't, and don't feel its correct to
+dislike ANY idea.  Ideas are simply that: words and thoughts.  The idea
+that one sex or race is better than any other is harmless; the PRACTICE of
+treating one race or sex better than any other, and acting upon that idea, IS
+odious and wrong and must be stopped.
+
+We should never be afraid of ideas.  Good can only be properly understood
+in the context of evil, as balance points on our intellectual fulcrum.
+I've always wondered why the notion "Lead us not into temptation" was something
+to be praised.  Rather, I think it should be "lead us INTO temptation," because
+it is only when a belief, or an idea, or a faith is most fully tested, and one
+can REFUSE temptation, rather than just avoiding it, that growth takes place.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+
+
+Subj:  What do Shadows want?            Section: Babylon 5
+  To:           Wednesday, May 17, 1995 8:46:00 PM From:  J. Michael
+Straczynski, 71016,1644#212078
+
+Just for the record...it's J'Quon.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Shadow of Za'ha'dum>            Section: Babylon 5
+  To:   Wednesday, May 17, 1995 8:46:01 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#212080
+
+"Joe is storing a bit of a surprise for us among the Narn."
+
+Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm....could be.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Shadow of Za'ha'dum>            Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Wednesday, May 17, 1995 8:46:03 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#212081
+
+Yeah, I kinda wanted the current arc in the comic to come out around this
+time; it's good for showing a flashback that ties into several parts of
+the story at once.  (One biggie is yet to come, at the end of the comic arc.)
+
+I'm currently writing a new 4-issue arc, which is designed to give all the
+backstory of a new character that will (if we're renewed) be introduced in
+the third season, all of it canon, and which weaves in and out of many of the
+major events we've seen in year two.  In theory, the first issue of that would
+hit the stands about the same time the first episode of the series is aired
+(assuming the above).
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Za'Ha'Dum and Mind War           Section: Babylon 5
+  To:   Wednesday, May 17, 1995 8:46:04 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#212082
+
+Anything I write can be reposted anywhere else (and usually is).
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Comics #5 and #6              Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Wednesday, May 17, 1995 8:46:05 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#212083
+
+Thanks.  The 4-issue arc I'm writing is fairly large in scope; it goes to
+an area near the Rim, to Minbar, Earth, Narn, Centauri Prime, Babylon 5,
+and involves the majority of our characters, plus we learn a lot more about the
+Rangers.
+
+(Why do I seem genetically incapable of just writing a simple little
+story...?)
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  BABEARLON 5 INFO                 Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Wednesday, May 17, 1995 8:46:07 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#212084
+
+That bear, by the way, also provided our best dailies...there, on screen,
+was our EFX supervisor standing against a blue screen, a cockpit window in
+front of him, and a long pole stuck up the bear's butt, slamming it into the
+glass, over and over and over....
+
+I *live* for this sort of thing.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Big Bang                         Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Wednesday, May 17, 1995 8:46:08 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#212086
+
+The Big Bang convention is not a B5 convention, and is deliberately NOT
+sanctioned or endorsed by either Warner Bros. or Babylonian Productions.
+We've taken considerable pains to distance ourselves from it.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Notes from jms                   Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  All                              Friday, May 19, 1995 1:13:19 AM From:
+J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#213448
+
+Bits of this and that....
+
+1) Claudia Christian, Bill Mumy and I will all be appearing (in separate
+appearances, I believe) at the Creation Mega-Show in Ahaheim, CA at the
+Anaheim Convention Center the weekend of May 27-28.  I don't know which day(s)
+they'll be appearing, but I'll be there that Sunday.  For more info, call
+Creation at 818-409-0960.  Should be a big convention.
+
+(Side-note: Creation has produced some *very* nifty B5 jackets, some in
+denim, others in suede/leather, with the station embroidered on the back.)
+
+2) To parents of small children who watch B5...next week's episode,
+"Confessions and Lamentations," is a very strong, intense, uncompromising
+episode.  You *may* want to watch it first, in order to better decide if it
+should be seen by them, and what you may want to discuss later.
+
+3) To sum up various threads here...yes, Warner Bros. has decided that the
+last four episodes of this season will be aired in October, in order to
+get a running start on a (hopeful) third season in November, though there has
+as yet not been any confirmation about a third season.
+
+4) For our Irish viewers, Peter Jursasik will be blipping in for a one-day
+appearance in Dublin this weekend.  Contact Gerard Keating here on CIS for
+more info.
+
+5) A number of cast .avi files have been uploaded here; they can be
+re-uploaded to other systems, and are a great deal of fun.  You may want
+to check them out.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Notes from jms                   Section: Babylon 5
+  To:   Friday, May 19, 1995 8:01:09 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#214141
+
+The last new ep for this month is "Confessions and Lamentations," next
+week.  Then the long wait.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <In the Shadow ... >             Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, May 19, 1995 11:37:15 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#214380
+
+"Are people in the 23rd century REALLY this naive?"
+
+Are people in the 20th century really this naive?
+
+Answer: Senator Joseph McCarthy.  J. Edgar Hoover.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Notes from jms                   Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, May 19, 1995 11:37:16 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#214381
+
+You can probably contact Creation about the jackets at 818-409-0960.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Notes from jms                   Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, May 19, 1995 11:37:18 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#214382
+
+With luck, sometime in the coming week we'll get the formal word.  The two
+sides involved in the negotiations between PTEN stations, and Warner Bros.
+will both be back in town again, and with luck they can lock down the deal
+points remaining to be settled.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <TSOZ - Delenn)                  Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, May 19, 1995 11:37:19 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#214383
+
+At this point, Warners seems to think that if 1st season eps are repeated,
+folks'll get confused by seeing a different CO.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <TSOZ - Delenn)                  Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, May 19, 1995 11:37:21 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#214384
+
+I have zippo control over this.  It's strictly a PTEN decision, based
+primarily on sweeps periods and the like.  The reason they don't want to
+run new eps after May is that in June-August you have the lowest HUTs
+(Households Using Television) figures of the whole year; folks are out,
+enjoying the weather, going places, on vacation.  September puts you right up
+against the major network releases, and syndicated shows get *killed*. Year
+three would, one hope, debut in November...so that leaves October, after the
+new shows have settled down, and it's a non-sweeps period.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <In the Shadow ... >             Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, May 19, 1995 11:46:04 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#214406
+
+You're making a mistake in semantics.  First, if someone is trying to
+introduce legislation based on this anti-female POV, then that is an
+action based upon the idea, and as I've said, that is where you now draw up
+sides and try to convince the majority that this idea is wrong.
+
+More importantly, the issue at hand is the right simply to *express* or
+hold unpopular beliefs.  A free society allows all kinds of ideas.  A wise
+society chooses with care which ideas it implements.  At its best, we must be
+both free and wise.
+
+								       jms
+
+Subj:  Notes from jms                   Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, May 20, 1995 4:45:04 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#215006
+
+Not so much the future of PTEN, no; every year they go through various and
+sundry negotiations, some more intensive than others.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Tribute to Wise Guy?             Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, May 20, 1995 4:45:05 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#215007
+
+No, Wiseguy did not have any influence on writing my show.  The story arc
+was written 7 years ago, long preceding that show.
+
+Nor was Ivanova's ankle-break a tribute to anything, since it was written
+in to accommodate a real accident in which Claudia broke her foot.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Shadow of Za'ha'dum>            Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, May 20, 1995 4:45:08 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#215008
+
+The grapevine's info is wrong.  We have not yet been formally or
+officially renewed.
+
+In retrospect, the only problem with having given nods of respect to other
+works of SF is that now it seems that's the main thing people look for,
+seeing it even when it's not there.  The show was never intended to be a
+pastiche, but that's how some choose to, incorrectly, perceive it.  "Oh, this
+is a tribute to the Spock/Kirk pon farr fight."  NO it's not.  Part of the
+problem may be in the frame of reference; those with backgrounds in literature
+see parallels to Homer or MacBeth; those who primarily have an SF background
+see it all as riffs on Blake's 7 or somesuch.  It's enough to make me consider
+yanking OUT all nods and references forever down the road, to avoid people
+saying, "Oh, he's just doing X" when the simple fact is that I never SAW X in
+most cases, wasn't doing X, have no DESIRE to do X, and I thunk up this scene
+myself while sweating blood at 3 a.m.  It's kind of hard to go through that
+much pain, creating a scene, and then have someone say, "Oh, he based that
+scene on the cabbage sequence in "Mighty Mouse.""
+
+     So I'm giving some measure of thought to this whole issue.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Notes from jms                   Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, May 20, 1995 4:45:09 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#215009
+
+No, the UK will shows the episodes straight through, without a break, and
+will see the last 4 eps months before they're aired in the US.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Notes from jms                   Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, May 20, 1995 4:45:12 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#215011
+
+No, the Warner stores generally carry little to nothing from their series,
+including B5.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Notes from jms                   Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, May 20, 1995 4:45:13 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#215012
+
+I think Creation can do mail order or phone orders via their Glendale
+office, 818 409-0960.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Notes from jms                   Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, May 20, 1995 10:06:25 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#215312
+
+It's legally possible for a station to do a marathon, I just don't think
+it's likely.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Notes from jms                   Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, May 20, 1995 10:06:26 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#215313
+
+Right now, there's nothing much to be done until they finish their
+negotiations.  It's in the lap of the execs....
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Thanks for the AVI's             Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, May 20, 1995 10:06:27 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#215314
+
+A few lines were suggested by WB PR, and a bunch of others I wrote.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  <Shadow of Za'ha'dum>            Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sunday, May 21, 1995 10:17:18 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#216296
+
+Hey!  A reasonable, thought-out message!  Stop that, you know the rules on
+that sort of thing....
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  UK B5 ratings?                   Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sunday, May 21, 1995 10:17:23 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#216299
+
+We don't do the sound of engines droning all the time, but we do a fair
+amount of audio mapping, very subtle stuff, most noticeable if you run it
+through a good Dolby surround sound system.  If you're running it through a
+straight TV set, you may lose a fair amount of it.
+
+The UK ratings are published somewhere, but I don't have it at hand.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Jackets                       Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Monday, May 22, 1995 12:41:25 AM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#216403
+
+The expensive jackets are leather, and quite nice; but they also make a
+denim version as well, which should be far less.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Confessions and Lamen>          Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Monday, May 22, 1995 12:52:26 AM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#216404
+
+On one level, this does indicate that we really *are* crazy over here at
+B5.  Here we developed this race for nearly two years.  Developed their
+culture.  Mentioned them prominently just last episode.  Had them speak before
+the full Council (in "Long Dark").  Spent substantial amounts of money making
+them the biggest single alien group we've got (some of the group shots had
+40-50 or more Marcabs, all in full prosthetics and full costume)...and now,
+never to be seen again.
+
+It couldn't be a race we've never seen before, not if it was to have the
+impact I wanted.  It had to be a group that's been with us from the
+start.
+
+In Council scenes for the balance of the season, the Marcab seat remains
+empty.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Data Crystals                    Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Monday, May 22, 1995 7:24:22 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#217128
+
+There's a code imbedded inside the crystal itself, which though the camera
+doesn't pick it up, can be read fairly easily by the naked eye.  If you
+try to change the code, it requires breaking the crystal, which defeats the
+purpose.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Conference?                      Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Tuesday, May 23, 1995 1:01:31 AM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#217562
+
+Well, I *did* stop in for the Tallman CO here briefly.  And yes, the
+narration should be shorter next year.
+
+									jms
+
+
+Subj:  Notes from jms                   Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644Tuesday, May 23, 1995 12:17:15 PM
+~From:
+
+Joe:
+
+Q:  How many PTEN Executives does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
+
+A:  Two.  One to screw it in 4/5 of the way, and the other to come along four
+months later and finish the job.
+
+man, it's going to be a loooooooong Summer . . .
+
+- Steve
+
+Subj:  UK B5 ratings?                   Section: Babylon 5
+  To:   Tuesday, May 23, 1995 8:08:21 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#218423
+
+>>Is Babylon 5 filmed in widescreen format?
+     Yes, it is, and eventually it'll be released in that format.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  RoB5: 'Cheezy' quotes            Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Wednesday, May 24, 1995 2:56:19 AM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#218783
+
+I actually couldn't believe that episode.  I hadn't watched the show in a
+very long time, and finally set aside time to look at it...and the ship is
+menaced by the deadly cheese virus?
+ How could *anyone* pitch this with a straight face?
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Notes from jms                   Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Wednesday, May 24, 1995 8:32:07 PM From:
+
+<<Send your complaints <<re B5 schedule mess>> to:
+
+Dick Robertson, President Warner Brothers Domestic Television
+Distribution 4000 Warner Blvd.  Burbank, CA  91522 United States
+
+tel. (818) 954-5877 fax. (818) 954-5820>>
+
+
+
+Subj:  <Confessions and Lamen>          Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, May 25, 1995 8:17:04 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#220833
+
+"No disease in human history is 100% fatal."
+
+Not correct.  The Black Death was fatal to everyone infected by it.  It
+was not, as Drafa, 100% contagious, but it *was* about 90% contagious.
+The Black Death wiped out *three-quarters of the entire European population*.
+
+Roll that around for a while.  Three-quarters.
+
+The only thing that saved areas of Europe was that there wasn't as much
+travel then as today between countries; it was reserved for those with
+enough money to afford it, which were very few.  There were also fewer means of
+entry; a river and a bridge closed to refugees was often enough to keep people
+out.  There is now MUCH freer travel.  Had there been freer travel in the 14th
+century, it's entirely possible that the entire European population might have
+been completely eradicated, with those few who might've been immune dying from
+associated diseases, hunger and other problems caused by the presence of the
+disease.
+
+One person I spoke with at the CDC (Center for Disease Control) said that,
+hypothetically speaking, the sudden eruption of a disease like this is
+possible.  How likely depends on various circumstances.  There are, for
+instance, regions in the Amazon and South America where certain kinds of plant
+and animal life can only be found; and those specific lifeforms can transfer
+diseases to humans...diseases that literally melt the flesh off your body, or
+in another case, cause worm-like infestations to burst through the skin
+covering the entire body.  (Let me tell you, researching this was just a whole
+lotta laughs.) They are *highly* contagious.  The only thing that has (so far)
+prevented a massive outbreak is the fact that by the time you can generally get
+OUT of these remote areas...you're dead.
+
+A particularly aggressive disease could perform very much like what is
+described in the episode.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Conference?                      Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, May 25, 1995 8:17:05 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#220834
+
+It would be bad luck to release the third year title until I know for sure
+if it's been renewed.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Conference?                      Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, May 25, 1995 8:17:06 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#220835
+
+Perhaps the narration for year five should just be, "RUN FOR IT!"
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  cast change?                     Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, May 25, 1995 8:17:08 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#220836
+
+Stephen <<Vir>> is definitely not being written out of B5.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Conf & Lam Awesome               Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, May 25, 1995 10:08:08 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#220984
+
+>>Mira Furlan should be getting more Meryl Streep-like roles.
+     Thanks.  And Mira's terrific, I definitely agree.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Local station: "renewed"         Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, May 26, 1995 5:37:26 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#221631
+
+Unfortunately, no.  Baseline problem: both WB and the stations want B5
+back, but there are some outstanding, and rather substantive negotiations
+still ongoing concerning financial issues and other stuff that doesn't involve
+us directly, but affects our fate.  Those negotiations have not been completed,
+and everything is still in abeyance.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Notes from jms                   Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, May 26, 1995 10:55:05 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#221956
+
+On the other hand, the new series is from Morgan & Wong, the same guys who
+made the X-Files (with Chris Carter) a great show, so there's hope.
+
+								       jms
+
+Subj:  RoB5: Bashing...                 Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Monday, May 29, 1995 2:20:15 AM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#223617
+
+"...the fact remains that more people continue to enjoy Trek than Babylon
+5."
+
+Don't you think it's just the *teensiest* bit unfair to compare a show
+with a TWENTY SEVEN YEAR HISTORY to something that's only been on the air
+less than two seasons?  If B5 and ST came on the air at the same time, then you
+could make this comparison fairly.  ST has, over nearly three decades, become
+part of the culture; B5 doesn't have that advantage.
+
+On the whole issue of so-called "Trek bashing," part of my brain explodes
+every time I see this discussion dredged up from whatever place it rests
+in between sessions.  For 27 years, many ST fans held up that show as being the
+Ultimate in TV SF.  "Well, X is okay, but it's not as good as STAR TREK!"
+"Show Y really sucks next to Star Trek."  And so on.
+
+So now somebody says, "Well, Star Trek is okay, but it's not as good as
+BABYLON 5" and suddenly I hear a lot of whining and whinging and "Tell the
+bad mans to stop making fun of us!  That's not fair!"  Seems to me it's only
+not fair because somebody other than ST fans is saying it.  (And please don't
+tell me the former stuff didn't happen; I've been on the nets since 1984 and at
+cons/in fandom since forever, and I've seen it.)
+
+Most of the ST fans, I should point out, are quite accepting of B5; what I
+see most often is those who did the most bashing of every other show
+falling entirely to pieces because now they're at the other end of it, as
+though their show should be sacrosanct.  To whom I simply say...tough.  Deal
+with it, pink boy, it's *your* turn in the barrel, and if you don't like it,
+then maybe you shouldn't have been doing it yourself all these years.
+
+This leads to comments like those from (either Berman or) Pillar in a
+recent magazine interview, in which he stated that yes, there are lots of
+other SF shows out there, but because his show has the Star Trek name on it, he
+really doesn't have to keep up with or have any sense of competition with any
+other show, since that name gives them an automatic advantage.  That speaks to
+the heart of why many ST fans are now having a problem with that show, whose
+motto seems to be, "We're Star Trek, we don't HAVE to try harder."
+(Reminiscent of the SNL routine, "We're the phone company.  We don't care.  We
+don't have to.")  It's sheer complacency.
+
+When some ST fans berate or criticize other shows, they feel they do so
+from a perspective of quality, and thus they're automatically right; if
+another fan of another show does it to them, well, by golly, that's not
+informed criticism, it CAN'T be, because ST is the True One Light, it must be
+BASHING!  Screw that.  Any show that can't take a little criticism isn't worth
+squat in the first place.
+
+And don't even *try* the notion that B5 gets by without criticism.  I see
+*plenty* of it...a certain percentage comes from misunderstanding, a
+certain percentage just making trouble...and a great deal of it is quite
+correct.  But it's *there*, believe me, I go through it every day of the week.
+If maybe people do it a bit *less* than ST, could it possibly, just maybe, be
+because we generally do fewer stupid things and make fewer dumb mistakes?  No,
+couldn't be that...it must be blind loyalty, check your cerebral cortex at the
+door and don't question.
+
+Nope.  We try harder.  Work harder.  Because we don't have the luxury of a
+27 year franchise behind us.  The only thing we have to offer is a passion
+for quality and hard work.  We can't rely on the sure knowledge that viewers
+will come back to us every week because of our name.  We have to make every
+single episode as close to a home run as we can, because we can't afford even
+*one* foul ball.
+
+"...more people continue to enjoy Trek than Babylon 5."  Yeah, and more
+people eat at McDonald's than Chateau Marmont.  So what's your point? (And
+no, I'm *not* saying that ST = McDonalds, I'm just trying to illustrate the
+numerical fallacy in the argument you proffered.)  Numbers prove nothing in
+terms of quality per se.  If it did then BAYWATCH would be the Grail to which
+all TV should aspire.  I would remind you that more people originally watched
+LOST IN SPACE than ST when it was on the air; that LiS lasted longer than ST
+out of the gate, garnered more positive reviews than ST, and ST was generally
+considered, in newspaper and magazine articles, to be just a "cheap attempt to
+cash in on Lost in Space's popularity," and a vulgar adventure show without
+substance.  That's how it was described.
+
+Seems to me that ST fans should know their history, and understand when
+they are doing to another what was done to them.  (And most do, btw.)
+
+The *hardest* part, for me, is knowing how many ST fans ARE open minded,
+and accepting, and living out what was, frankly, Gene's concept of IDIC,
+infinite diversity in infinite combinations.  And it's the majority of them who
+are nifty, bright, open people, as opposed to a very small minority of
+whiners.  I was at a Creation Convention today, and time after time after time,
+I had people come up to me to say that they like B5, in many cases more than
+ST...and many of them said it with a glance over the shoulder, as though
+nervous that somebody was going to come over and argue with them or berate them
+about it.
+
+There's nothing unpatriotic or disloyal about criticizing ST, any more so
+than criticizing any other show.  In theory, that's how shows get better.
+Assuming the people in charge are listening.
+
+In sum...this isn't a screed or a Jeremiad against ST, or ST fans, or
+anything of that nature.  It's just that I get tired of a very few people
+who seem to apply the word "bashing" to the show they've been using to bash
+other shows, and thus dismiss any merit to the critiques by redefining it in
+terms more convenient for their own beliefs.  Here you've got this multi
+billion dollar MONOLITH that is *STAR TREK*, 27 years of history, multiple
+series, movies, zillions of merchandising items...and a few people fall apart
+and get hysterical because somebody raises his hand and says, "Err, umm, I
+kinda have a problem with something ST does."  Please.  At least we have the
+sense to laugh when we see an elephant frightened by mouse, and this situation
+is not terribly dissimilar.
+
+(And, once again, the ST criticism tends to come from ST fans who also
+watch B5; there is no such thing as a B5 fan who's never watched ST and
+goes after it.  This ain't a B5 problem, it's an ST problem.)
+
+The unfortunate part of all this is that ST fandom is generally nothing
+less than terrific; they kept a show on the air, sustained a vision, and
+have been ever faithful.  It's only a very vocal few who start vibrating into
+another dimension when the show gets pinked once in a while.  The open attitude
+that I've seen displayed by the vast majority of ST fans is to be commended,
+and complimented.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <<Confessions & Lam>>            Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Monday, May 29, 1995 1:31:23 AM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#223602
+
+What Colin misses, obviously, is that not *all* of the markabs are
+"mindless religious fanatics," in that Dr. Lazarenn was not one, but that
+was mainly because he had long been exposed to human/outsider ideas, which most
+of his reclusive people are not.
+
+Second, y'know, I get asked a lot, "Give us ALIEN aliens."  So I do. And
+then I get gigged because they don't act like we'd expect humans to act.
+Sometimes I just throw up my hands....
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Confessions & Lament>           Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sunday, May 28, 1995 11:30:10 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#223516
+
+Thanks.  I was hoping this one would come out okay, since it's kind of
+important that it do so, and I'm pleased that it's had the reception it
+has.
+
+								       jms
+
+Subj:  <Confessions>                    Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, May 27, 1995 11:04:24 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#222682
+
+You have to listen a little closer.  The dormancy period is several days
+to several weeks, as Franklin says; once the disease *comes out of
+dormancy*, then it kills within about a day.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Conference?                      Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, May 27, 1995 11:04:25 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#222683
+
+People of all sorts have good and bad characteristics.  To show the one,
+and then the other, is not an inconsistency.  SF has been too full of
+all-good or all-bad characters for too long.  That ain't life.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Conference?                      Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sunday, May 28, 1995 11:30:06 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#223512
+
+I don't think his behavior was boorish at all.  After a very long day, in
+which (he stated) he hadn't eaten a thing, he sits down in a cross legged
+position for (if you track the time in the story) 3-5 *hours*, alternately
+eating and meditating in a small, quiet room...who *wouldn't* fall asleep?
+
+As for the "golden boy" thing...I'm forever amazed at how many folks just
+don't learn the lesson.  People saw Vir come in, decided he was a comic
+character, a fop, nothing more, and complained about it...until he started to
+show his other colors over time, and to *grow into the role*.  And people said,
+"Oh, yeah, he's kinda interesting after all, isn't he?"  YES, HE IS, YOU
+LUMMOX, GIVE THE CHARACTER AND ME SOME CREDIT HERE.  (Not speaking to you,
+Anne, this is just what goes 'round in my head when the gerbil's not spinning
+the wheel.)
+
+What's the number one rule of B5?  Nobody's what they appear.  What's the
+number two rule?  Joe is interested in *process*.  You don't start out a
+character at point A and keep that character there forever; the show is about
+change and process.  Look at Luke Skywalker.  Was he in "Jedi" the same person
+he was in "Star Wars?"  No.  He went through a growth cycle and maturity
+cycle.  Look at Frodo at the start of Lord of the Rings, and at the end.  The
+classic hero's journey starts with someone who is breathtakingly unprepared for
+what's coming, and has to develop and grow.
+
+Sheridan comes to B5 with a bit of a silver spoon in his mouth and a smile
+on his face.  And he's going to get the crap kicked out of him.  And he's
+going to grow, and mature, and become someone of importance, and great
+strength, at great cost.
+
+So sometimes I lose patience -- probably incorrectly -- with people who
+look at Sheridan and, despite seeing every other character on this show go
+through major changes -- assume that what they're seeing now is all there will
+ever be.  On another level, it's kinda wrong for me to feel this way, since
+though I know where the characters are going, nobody else does, and it's unfair
+to expect people to react to something that hasn't been shown yet.
+
+What can I say?  I'm a writer.  I'm a little nuts sometimes.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Big Bang                         Section: News/Scheds/Cons
+  To:  Sunday, May 28, 1995 2:29:14 AM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#222757
+
+In addition to your note, the Big Bang Con has just had an ad appear in
+the current STAR WARS INSIDER stating that I will be attending their con,
+when in fact they have known for a very long time now that this is not to be
+the case.  This advertising is 100% false.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Shadows in UK                    Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sunday, May 28, 1995 2:20:15 AM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#222756
+
+Never said that the great war would be over this season; the great war
+gets GOING this year.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Minbari Family Structure         Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, May 27, 1995 11:05:00 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#222685
+
+Marriages are not arranged per se, but it is generally with the consent
+and blessings of your caste-leaders, to whose authority one submits.  One
+also generally tends to marry only within one's caste (warrior, religious or
+worker).
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Local station: "renewed"         Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, May 27, 1995 11:04:26 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#222684
+
+No, this has always been part of the ongoing negotiations ever since the
+big PTEN meeting.  As for the rest...as this has dragged on longer and
+longer, I've started to get a little nervous (but only a little), because the
+longer it goes on, the more that internal politics will start to manifest
+themselves, and that always worries me.  But there isn't much of anything that
+can be done from outside, so it's just back to wait and see.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Knives confusion                 Section: The X-Files
+  To:  Saturday, May 27, 1995 10:49:20 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#222673
+
+Yes, "Knives" was originally intended to be shown prior to "Shadow," but
+the heavy CGI requirements of the former caused it to be shown second. It
+doesn't affect the story much, mainly it was there to re-introduce the audience
+to certain ideas and concepts (like the Icarus) before dealing with them
+big-time in "Shadow."
+
+								       jms
+
+Subj:  What do Shadows want?            Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, May 18, 1995 1:48:23 AM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#212362
+
+G'Khamazad.
+
+And G'Quon's primary follower/co-prophet was G'Lan.
+
+Remember that name.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Shadow of Za'ha'dum>            Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, May 18, 1995 1:48:24 AM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#212363
+
+"HAVE YOU EVER ANSWERED A QUESTION STRAIGHT IN YOUR LIFE!!!"
+
+Yes and no.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Ratings                          Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, May 18, 1995 1:48:25 AM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#212364
+
+UPN is considered a network; PTEN is not; different rating systems.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <TSOZ - Delenn)                  Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, May 18, 1995 1:48:26 AM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#212365
+
+What I've lately been led to understand is that PTEN wants to hold the
+last 4 episodes, which I'd assumed would be in July, until *OCTOBER* in
+order to use them to get a running jump on the (not-yet-oficially-approved)
+third season.
+
+Take your reaction, multiply it by a factor of 100, and you will have
+mine.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Shadow of Za'ha'dum>            Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, May 18, 1995 1:53:15 AM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#212371
+
+"...we have less hair...."
+
+Well, boy-howdy, I must be evolving REAAAAALLY fast....
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <In the Shadow ... >             Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, May 18, 1995 9:24:14 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#213256
+
+Okay, let's say you identify a "bad idea," to use your phrase.
+
+Let's say racism.  You, from your POV, define racism as a bad idea. Now
+what do you do about it?  Try to eliminate the bad idea?  How?
+
+Now, that's you.  That's fine.
+
+But Bob over there, at the Four Square Baptist Church, he thinks that
+feminism is a bad idea.  What should he do about that?
+
+The problem is many-fold.  Who determines what a "bad idea" is?  Are you
+willing to let another define that for you?  Or define it yourself for
+everybody else?
+
+What our system of government does is to guarantee freedom of speech and
+ideas.  Even, and especially, the ideas we hate or disagree with.  It's
+easy to protect the ideas we like and agree with.  It's the others that need
+protection.  The day we stop defending those rights, is the day somebody else
+decides that OUR ideas are "bad ideas."
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Za'Ha'Dum and Mind War           Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, May 18, 1995 9:24:17 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#213259
+
+Yes, all the .avi files can be uploaded to Genie or elsewhere.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  What do Shadows want?            Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, May 18, 1995 8:55:01 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#213226
+
+Nope.  Insofar as I recall, I have never typed it as J'Quon.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  What do Shadows want?            Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, May 18, 1995 9:24:15 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#213257
+
+Damn...apparently I did misspell it...I must REALLY be tired.
+
+It *is* G'Quon.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  What do Shadows want?            Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, May 18, 1995 9:24:16 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#213258
+
+Ignore previous message.  I *did* misspell it in my last note. Creeping
+senility.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+Subj:  BABEARLON 5 INFO                 Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, May 18, 1995 9:24:19 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski,
+71016,1644#213260 >> Umm, where *is* the bear right now...?
+
+I'm not entirely sure either of us really want to know that.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+     Well, it was important in the sense that there was a lot 
+emotionally at stake for the characters; if it came off as 
+arch, or over-wrought, it would fall flat on its face.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  What Do You Want?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Monday, May 29, 1995 4:43:16 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#224100
+
+      To finish this story.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Confessions & Lam>>>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Monday, May 29, 1995 4:43:15 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#224099
+
+     The last 4 episodes of this season are being held by 
+PTEN until October, in theory to  lead into the year three 
+(not yet approved) debut in November.  I think I finally 
+sussed out why this is being done; I heard the other day 
+that Voyager is doing the same thing.  So that means PTEN 
+is counter programming it.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  Minbari Family Structure		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Monday, May 29, 1995 4:43:13 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#224098
+
+     No, what usually happens is that you sense a calling one 
+way or another early on; you are assigned to (for lack of a 
+better term) a teacher, who guides you and sees if your 
+calling is sincere (the teacher is from the caste you feel called 
+toward), and if the calling is true, you can enter that caste.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  RoB5: Bashing...			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Monday, May 29, 1995 4:43:20 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#224103
+
+     I disagree strenuously with the notion that the universe as 
+presented in the current ST series is a "brighter vision of the future."  
+It looks to me like humans have left behind everything that makes us 
+humans.  We've been bioengineered to within an inch of our lives. 
+ There seems to be no interest at all in what happens back home on Earth
+.politics, changes in culture, fashion, new music.  One's job description 
+seems to be the end-all and be-all of his or her life.  "Recreation" is 
+always the sedate card playing type, the nightmare dinner party of the 
+1950s, or living out a fantasy world in the holodeck because there's 
+nothing much in the real world.
+     Passions and spikes in our humanity have all been hammered down and 
+eliminated.  Remember "Invasion of the Body Snatchers?"  That, to me, 
+is the Star Trek future...set aside your passions, do all for the 
+collective good, it's a better world that way.  Maybe you 
+call that perfection; me, I call it a nightmare.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  RoB5: Bashing...			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Monday, May 29, 1995 10:27:19 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#224435
+
+     Of course he is, and of course he does.  Some folks think the only way 
+to get a reaction is to behave in a way that makes people angry.  Me, I 
+kinda think that's juvenile, but hey, what do I know?
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  <<Confessions & Lam>>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Monday, May 29, 1995 10:27:18 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#224434
+
+     There's another Lincoln quote that you don't hear very often, 
+I think it was about a book or play, which I think is great...
+"If you like that sort of thing, it's the sort of thing you'll like."  
+That line has gotten me out of more diplomatic situations than 
+anything else I can think of.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+Subj:  Narns on CNN                     Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Wednesday, May 31, 1995 3:04:04 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#225540
+ 
+     Actually, that is a piece relating to one of the shows for 
+later in the year.  But hey, we'll take it....
+ 
+                                                           jms
+ 
+ 
+Subj:  <C&L and Cynicism>               Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Tuesday, May 30, 1995 11:50:20 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#225390
+ 
+     I dunno...I've seen much the same thing.  I think, on some 
+level, it comes from the top. Seems like every time a politician 
+appears on the horizon, propped up as the latest Knight In Shining 
+Armor, sooner or later we discover that the armor is empty and the 
+knight is off somewhere boffing the innkeeper's underage daughter.  
+Maybe we have too many politicians and not enough leaders.
+ 
+     Such cynicism can also be self-reflective, though.  We're 
+still reeling from the hangover of the Me-Generation.  Self-
+sacrifice, altruism, these have become "stooge" values, snickered 
+at, derided..."You WHAT?  You turned in the wallet you found?  
+What're you, brain-dead?"
+ 
+     Someone made an interesting observation lately, that the WW II 
+generation raised their families with the notion that their kids were 
+the most important things in the world.  The kids grew up and, well, 
+kinda believed this, and became the center of the world, with *their* 
+kids all too often afterthoughts or part of a process to make *their* 
+life richer, where it is convenient for them.  I don't think that's a 
+wide-reaching generality, but I think it's true in enough cases that 
+it merits consideration.
+ 
+     Nobody trusts anybody anymore.  We all assume the other guy's 
+working an angle somewhere.  And here, I think, the perception is 
+inaccurate, because there *are* plenty of people out there working for 
+the greater good of the commonweal; it's just that when the evening 
+news rolls around, it's the crooks and the conmen and the latest 
+Capital Hill scandal that gets the attention.  I dunno...it's a 
+conundrum, to be sure.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+ 
+ 
+Subj:   C&L Date                        Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Tuesday, May 30, 1995 11:50:16 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#225389
+ 
+     Yeah, you're right, it probably is in October; I was going off 
+a mental countdown, just approximating.  The last 4 take place 
+between late October and mid-December, 2259.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+JMS CompuServe messages collected by The Green Meddler <kilgalen@tde.com>.
+
+Subj:  Hey!  New episodes!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, June 01, 1995 12:41:26 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#226576
+
+     I imagine they're <<UK Stations>> getting masters sent
+directly to them.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Sounds in space			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Wednesday, May 31, 1995 9:22:12 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#226352
+
+     In talking to a number of scientists and physicists 
+about sound in space, they came back with the realization 
+that the area isn't as black and white as first thought.  
+(Did you know that when the Pioneer probe broke the speed 
+of sound in space, it registered a shock wave across its 
+bow, a sonic boom that was monitored by JPL?  I didn't.)
+
+     As for making the starfield rotate...because of the 
+size of the window in C&C, the starfield outside is about 
+60 feet by 30 feet.  You cannot rotate something that size.  
+If you put a smaller field nearer the window, it's visible 
+for what it is.  We've gone over this, believe me.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Was that the Sandman?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, June 02, 1995 1:44:04 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#227583
+
+     No, just an alien breathing device.
+
+                                                    jms
+
+
+Subj:  Anaheim con			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, June 02, 1995 1:44:02 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#227582
+
+     I thought the Splitting Image folks did a *very* good job; 
+some of the makeups were a little "flat," in terms of the usual 
+texturing we do to make it look like actual skin, but that's a 
+very small quibble.  The makeups and costumes were extremely 
+good, and I was quite impressed.  (Stupidly, I didn't recognize 
+the last as Deathwalker initially, only because it's been so 
+long, and it was entirely my fault.)
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  UK B5: Break in series		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, June 01, 1995 6:17:14 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#227195
+
+     Don't lets be hasty here...they don't have the tapes yet 
+because they haven't been sent yet, but should go out in a day 
+or two.  There were some additional EFX needed for "Divided 
+Loyalties," which we're finishing this week, and is the first 
+of the last batch.  "Twilight" is done and "Confessions"<< I
+think he meand "Comes The Inquisitor">> will be done mid-next 
+week, with the final EFX coming in on "Fall of Night" by the 
+end or so of next week.
+
+     So I wouldn't write it off just yet.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 in UK?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, June 02, 1995 1:48:01 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#227586
+
+     Oops...I wuz wrong.
+
+     On the off-chance that I might commit an error (I know, 
+impossible, but there you are), I called around, and the Channel 
+4 people are out here on business.  Some digging ended up getting 
+the straight skinny on this: yes, there is going to be a break of
+a few weeks because the Tour de France is going to be going on 
+then, and anything else is going to get completely and totally 
+lost and overwhelmed in the ratings.  So they're holding back for 
+just a bit.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  Local station: "renewed"		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, June 01, 1995 6:03:09 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#227156
+
+     It's nothing to do with quality.  WB Network is a different 
+division of WB, and it's extremely competitive with PTEN.  We're 
+talking here massive, honking corporate politics.  They wouldn't 
+do it.  Further, WBN has *fewer clearances* in terms of TV stations 
+than PTEN, and we'd end up losing many folks who don't have WBN 
+network stations in their areas.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  Sounds in space			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, June 01, 1995 6:03:07 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#227154
+
+     A canvas painting of a starfield won't work, because the light 
+inside C&C is so bright that a painting wouldn't register through 
+the window (it's like trying to look at the stars through the 
+window of a brightly lit room). We have a star curtain with *fiber-
+optic lights* that create the stars.  You try and rotate something 
+with 500-600 delicate fiber-optic lights, and it's going to be 
+constantly breaking.  Also, 30 by 50 is fine *horizontally*; the 
+second you try and rotate that, you suddenly have something 50 feet 
+HIGH, and the ceiling isn't big enough to accommodate that.  (It's 
+wider than it is high currently because most of the angles we shoot 
+in are left/right, not up/down.)  If you shorten it for the ceiling, 
+it won't be wide enough.
+
+     Similarly, a projection onto a screen outside wouldn't show 
+through the glass, either.  It would also require a length for proper 
+rear-projection that would eliminate space badly needed for our sets.
+
+     Believe me, we've been over this and over this...there have been 
+hundreds of suggestions...none of them work.  Except for when we blue-
+screen in a starfield, there's 
+nothing else to be done.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  New Big Bang Newletter		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, June 02, 1995 1:44:01 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#227581
+
+     I think that if people paid extra for VIP tickets to get 
+workshops, and those workshops are now free, certainly should be 
+credited for that.  And for anything else that's not delivered.
+
+     Re: your question about cast fees...I spoke with Walter 
+Koenig today,who was supposed to receive the lion's share of his 
+fee within no less than 30 days of the convention (by contract), 
+and still hasn't received it.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  Conventions (the making		Section: Babylon 5
+  To: Saturday, June 03, 1995 3:38:24 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#228858
+
+     Assuming we're renewed (we hope to finally hear next week), 
+there are plans afoot to unveil an official in-house fan club 
+operation here at B5, which would handle some convention liaison 
+stuff for other conventions, and would eventually lead to a proper 
+B5 convention which we would put together using the very same 
+folks who make the show.  Since there's the benefit of PR, we 
+wouldn't so much be looking to make a profit as just breaking 
+even and, most important, having a good time...so the sense of 
+it would be closer to a fan-run convention in tone.
+
+     But be assured, that's at *least* a year down the road.  
+Maybe more.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  UK B5: Break in series		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, June 03, 1995 3:24:25 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#228853
+
+     Yeah, I get confused sometimes.  Here's why:
+
+     At any given point, while we're doing the show, 
+I'm working on thefollowing episodes *SIMULTANEOUSLY*:
+
+       I'm writing show #1
+       I'm getting the director a copy of script #2
+       We're prepping script #3 for principal photography
+       We're shooting script #4
+       The director is editing episode #5
+       John Copeland and I are doing the producer's cut of 
+       episode #6
+       We're doing the music/sound EFX spotting of 
+       episode #7
+       Visual EFX/composite shots are coming in on 
+       episode #8
+       We're doing the final audio mix of episode #9
+       We're delivering episode #10 to Warner Bros. 
+       for closed captioning.
+
+     In the course of any given day, I run from one of 
+these to the other,to the other, to the other.  After 
+a while, EVERYTHING blurs.
+
+                                                  jms
+
+
+Subj:  Just Say NO!			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, June 03, 1995 3:14:18 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#228851
+
+     No Wesley Crusher types.  Ever.  It's always a dumb idea.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Merchandise			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, June 03, 1995 3:14:17 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#228850
+
+     Actually, that mug is available now from Creation 
+Entertainment; I saw bunches of 'em at the Anaheim Convention 
+they did.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Books by JMS?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, June 03, 1995 3:14:16 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#228849
+
+     I'm almost finished with the revisions on the writing book; 
+it's been hell because it's a total rewrite from stem to stern,
+and I'm adding about 200 pages of new material on top of 
+correcting all the info that is now out of date.  It's a big 
+honking piece of work on top of doing the show, but it's almost 
+done.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+
+
+Subj:  Years?				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, June 03, 1995 9:08:20 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#229647
+
+     They would of course be speaking in Minbari terms.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  UK B5: Break in series		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, June 03, 1995 9:08:22 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#229648
+
+     It ain't easy.  You basically have to keep all the scenes 
+and all the stories sort of "uploaded" into your head at all 
+times, and just jump from one to the other.  It's kinda like 
+balancing 10 spinning plates on sticks.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Books by JMS?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, June 03, 1995 9:08:19 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#229646
+
+     My two novels and my anthology are currently out of print; 
+have also had short stories in Amazing, Pulphouse, Shadows 6 
+and the like.  The book I'm trying to finish is the update to 
+my scriptwriting book from Writer's Digest.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  New Big Bang Newletter		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sunday, June 04, 1995 7:15:22 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#230752
+
+     I quote your message <<From another poster>> *verbatim*, 
+word for word:
+
+
+"I spoke with one of the CMC Organizers today (Harold) and he 
+said the reason Walter Koenig hadn't received his check was 
+that he changed his address and didn't notify CMC of the change.  
+They FedEx'd his check to him and got it back as undeliverable 
+because the address was no longer valid.  Since FedEx doesn't 
+get address forwarding information like the Post Office does, 
+they could only return it to CMC.  CMC now has received Walter's 
+new address and the check has gone out (he may even have it now)."
+
+     The only problem with your message is that it isn't true.  
+Walter has never changed his address.  What happened (I just 
+verified this on the phone with Walter about, oh, 3 minutes 
+ago) was that the deadline for his check passed.  He called CMC.  
+They said it had gone out.  It didn't arrive.  He called again.  
+They said there was some kind of mistake, and they'd send it again.  
+Again, no check.  Finally, Walter insisted that if the check did 
+not arrive by Wednesday, he would have to withdraw from the 
+convention, and to send the check directly to his home.  Now, 
+finally, under threat, the check arrived.
+
+     To say that he changed his address is completely untrue.  
+To say he didn't notify CMC of a change that didn't happen is a 
+shameless and transparent fabrication.  From reports I've heard, 
+CMC has a habit of playing "the check's in the mail" with people.  
+Lying doesn't help.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  UK B5: Break in series		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sunday, June 04, 1995 7:15:18 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#230751
+
+     It varies.  Internet alone takes up to 3 hours a day, because 
+of the nature of my newsreader, and the sheer volume of messages to 
+wade through (I think you get 200-400 per day just there alone).  
+CIS is a little faster, thanks to a) Tapcis and b) a smaller volume 
+of messages.  Ditto for GEnie. Basically, if you added it all up, 
+it would come out to about 2-3 8 hour work days per week.
+
+     I don't actually find the time, I *make* the time, usually 
+trying to slog through it all between midnight and 4 a.m. on 
+weekdays, afternoons on the weekends, and the like.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Trading Cards			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sunday, June 04, 1995 7:15:16 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#230749
+
+     The cards should be out from Fleer sometime around September.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  Talia Leaving B5?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sunday, June 04, 1995 7:15:15 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#230748
+
+     Just for purposes of clarity, what I said in my note was in 
+response to a message alledging that Warners had influenced us to 
+drop the Talia character, at which point I noted that this had never, 
+ever happened, and that they were, if anything, only vaguely aware of 
+the character in any event.  There have never been any discussions of 
+ANY kind about Talia with Warners.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Talia Leaving B5?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Colin Knowles, 72152,201		Monday, June 05, 1995 2:25:05 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#231037
+
+     "...you don't have anything up your sleeve, by any chance?"
+
+     Constantly.
+
+     If I didn't, it wouldn't be Babylon 5.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Merchandise			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Pamela A. Beem, 74461,1030	Monday, June 05, 1995 10:02:24 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#232100
+
+     EA = Earth Alliance, the government.  EF = Earthforce, the main line of defense for the
+Earth Alliance.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  What --Persecuted??!!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Wednesday, June 07, 1995 10:40:27 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#234230
+
+     That's probably one of the best analyses I've seen on the 
+progress and history of the show(s).  As Dupa says, you may want 
+to consider posting this over on ST, though I'd maybe re-emphasize 
+that this *isn't* a flame (it obviously isn't that in context, but 
+it never hurts to reinforce it for those who just skim).  Certainly 
+it should lead to some interesting discussions, as long as it 
+doesn't turn into a "yeah, well MY show is better and yours 
+SUCKS" fest, at which point it's better left to die of its own 
+weight.
+
+     Certainly Paramount has gone out of its way to make life for 
+us difficult.  Getting Stephen Furst bounced off the Arsenio show 
+back when it was still around because they didn't want to promote 
+B5; making sure that Entertainment Tonight mentions it as rarely 
+as possible; naming their new PI show "Babylon," presumably to
+confuse the marketplace even further (suffice to say we encouraged 
+them to rename it, and that's been done); word that has come to us 
+from stations that program mangers were told that if they wanted 
+Voyager they had to drop B5...there are more examples.  But that's 
+what Paramount does.
+
+     But we're like Rasputin.  Shoot us, poison, stab us, drown us, 
+hang us...we just keep going.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  Final four episodes		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Wednesday, June 07, 1995 10:18:16 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#234217
+
+     Not really.  Because even though we still haven't gotten final 
+word yet, you can't wait until that comes to start writing scripts.  
+You have to get some in the pipeline ahead of time, or you're screwed 
+when it comes time to shoot.  We like to have 6 or so scripts on hand
+the day we start rolling film.  So even though I haven't known what 
+the final disposition is, I've had to keep writing, which is sometimes 
+hard because you don't know what the deal is yet.  But at least I get 
+to make my own hours a bit more.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  From JMS: B5 Renewed		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, June 09, 1995 2:16:00 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#235292
+
+     To confirm word already leaking out via John Copeland on 
+AOL...yes, we received word that BABYLON 5 has been renewed for 
+its third season.  I got the call this evening, and have spent 
+the time in-between doing Producer Stuff, and taking care of a 
+small bug that hit last night, and has thus taken a bit of the 
+edge off the news.
+
+     Nonetheless...we've been renewed.  Shooting on year three 
+will begin around July 31st. This season will put us past the 
+halfway mark on the series total.  Expect Big Things and 
+some major changes not just in characters, but the structure of 
+the B5 universe itself.
+
+     And now...to work.  With thanks to all of our friends on the
+ nets who have stood beside us through the last two years.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  Books by JMS?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, June 09, 1995 2:26:17 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#235295
+
+     The next novel wouldn't be out until after I finished 
+the B5 story.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  The Gathering - Cast		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, June 08, 1995 6:15:02 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#234871
+
+     While I'll let the other question slide for the moment, 
+yes, I'd like to see either Sakai or Takashima again.  Some of 
+what I'd considered for Takashima I recently transplanted into 
+more fertile ground (he said vaguely and mysteriously), but yes, 
+I'd love to do it sometime.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  The Gathering - Cast		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, June 09, 1995 2:26:18 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#235296
+
+     Some of this, re: Lyta, will be answered this season.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  What --Persecuted??!!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, June 08, 1995 6:15:00 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#234870
+
+     You have to step back and look at this from Paramount's 
+perspective. For 27 years, they've had a lock on space-based SF.  
+A monopoly.  They could point to all the other space-SF series 
+which went by the boards quickly, and say, "See, we've lasted, so we 
+MUST be better."
+
+     If even ONE other show in this genre not only lasts, but 
+*succeeds*, then ST isn't the Only One anymore; it's just one of 
+two, or three, or more shows set in this genre.  It isn't 
+unique (fiscally) anymore, and thus they are afraid they'll lose 
+some of its marketability, the franchise will weaken.  If you wanted 
+something from our future, in space, then for 27 years you had only 
+one place to go: Trek.
+
+     They're *terrified* of losing or softening their franchise.  
+They're aware that support for DS9 is, in general, fairly soft;
+ Voyager is still getting its sea legs, and they don't want 
+anyone else coming up alongside and blindsiding them.
+
+     For our part, we have never responded in kind.  When we 
+formed the B5 softball team, playing other shows, we happily 
+told the folks at ST that we'd love to play them sometime.  
+Thus far, no response.  Can't imagine why.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  What --Persecuted??!!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, June 08, 1995 6:15:04 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#234872
+
+     Re: imitation is a form of flattery...Fred Allen, I believe, 
+came up with a great line, "Imitation is the sincerest form of 
+television."
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  What --Persecuted??!!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, June 08, 1995 6:15:06 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#234873
+
+    RE: SF and ST and the like...actually, there is some 
+differentiation there to be found.  From the reports, and 
+demographics, and research that has passed over my desk 
+(most of which I try to ignore), it seems as though there's 
+a distinction: about 60% of avid ST viewers are also SF fans, 
+however nominally, in that they watch other SF shows (mostly) 
+or read SF novels/stories (fewer still).  About 40% or so 
+don't read or watch other SF; they're *specifically* ST fans.
+
+     Which is why one should always be careful making the 
+automatic assumption that if one likes ST, then one is an SF 
+fan, and thus should give B5 a chance.  There is not always a 
+corrolation.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  What --Persecuted??!!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  	Friday, June 09, 1995 2:37:11 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#235301
+
+     Here's the funny thing...every, oh, six-nine months or so, 
+I get phone interviews from major magazines asking, "So, to what 
+do you attribute this sudden boom in science fiction?"
+
+     Each time, I tell them the same thing: "There AIN'T no boom, 
+nor is there anything to attribute it to.  You've got 35 network 
+dramas on; that's business as usual.  You've got 5 SF shows, that's 
+a *boom*?  Further, most of the shows fall by the wayside fairly 
+quickly, and in a few months you'll be doing articles about "Why 
+won't SF work on TV?" and calling me on that one."
+
+     Not one magazine or newspaper has ever printed that part of 
+the interview.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+Subj:  What --Persecuted??!!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, June 10, 1995 12:56:00 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236207
+
+     The similarities have receded as both shows have gone off in
+different directions.
+
+     What was given to Paramount: the B5 bible, artwork, 20+ sample
+stories, the pilot screenplay and other material.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 vs. ST			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Saturday, June 10, 1995 12:50:07 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236203
+
+     "Paramount HAS increased the avenue of approach for more
+SF/fantasy by CREATING the market with TNG."
+
+     The only thing wrong with this statement is that it isn't true.
+
+     ST creates a market for more ST, nothing else.  As one who has
+had to speak with just about every network and studio major domo
+on this subject, the overwhelming concensus has always been, "The
+market isn't big enough to sustain more than one SF series, and
+that's Star Trek."  From time to time, grudgingly, one or the other
+tries it, but almost always half-heartedly.
+
+     I heard that line scores of times in the process of trying to
+sell B5, which is one major reason why it took 5 years to sell it.
+If what you say were true, then there should have been dozens of SF
+space series by now. But there aren't.  There's only us, and we had
+to work hard to overcome the ST-Is-The-Only-Marketable-SF problem,
+combined with Paramount's little games (making sure we're relatively
+invisible to Entertainment Tonight, getting Stephen Furst kicked off
+a guest-shot on the old Arsenio show to avoid promoting B5, and other
+little tricks I could go into).
+
+     None of which is to say that ST is bad, or that the people who
+make ST are bad, this is Paramount stuff.
+
+     But we had to fight hard to overcome the stumbling blocks put in
+our way that are part and parcel of ST, so you will forgive it if the
+hairs on my neck stand up when someone CREDITS the development of
+shows like B5 to ST.  It is absolutely, positively not true.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 vs. ST			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Saturday, June 10, 1995 2:53:13 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236266
+
+     Yes, it is difficult selling anything new to television.
+But you do not usually hear, "We've got one hospital show on the
+air now, that means you can't sell any others because the market's
+full."  Yet that has been the case with ST for years.
+
+     What will cause *more* SF shows to come is, well, more SF
+shows that succeed.  Up until now, ST has been viewed (using the
+industry term) as a "non-repeating phenomenon."  And if you step
+back and look at it from a network POV, they're quite correct.
+Very, VERY few science fiction series have ever made it past the
+second or third year.  But you can point to many mainstream shows
+that have gone five, eight, twelve, even fifteen years (in the
+case of such an abombination as "Hee, Haw").  "Murder, She Wrote,"
+which I was a part of for two years, has been on the air...what?
+Eleven years? Twelve?  Not one SF show has ever done that.
+
+     As soon as you have more than one SF show that lasts more
+than, say, three or four years, then you might see more.  We are
+one of the very, VERY few to make it to its third season.  And,
+consequently, some network and studio types are thinking maybe it can
+be done, maybe you CAN have more than one around at the same
+time.  But they're still edgy, and they still use the line that there's
+only room for ST all too often.
+
+     I'm not making this up, Don.  Even once we got the series pickup,
+we were told by a WB exec, "I'm not holding out any hope for
+this.  It has never been shown that there's any market for SF other
+than Star Trek." (That person has subsequently come around.)
+
+     And as an SF fan myself...the more good SF on television,
+the more I like it.  The Morgan/Wong pair from X-Files are doing their
+new Space series, and I wish it all the best.  The more the merrier;
+competition helps the field.  I just wish the folks at Paramount
+understood that, and took a healthy competition as something good,
+not something to be attacked or destroyed in order to preserve a
+franchise.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 vs. ST			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Saturday, June 10, 1995 12:55:27 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236206
+
+     "Do you think that if, say, Warner Bros was in the same position,
+it wouldn't be trying to crush Trek and make sure Bab 5 was the
+only SF show on TV?"
+
+     That would require organization on the part of WB; hence,
+doubtful.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 vs. ST			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Saturday, June 10, 1995 12:50:09 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236204
+
+     What I've said, repeatedly, is that I don't believe for a
+second that either of the creators behind DS9 would deliberately borrow
+*anything* from anybody.  What I *don't* know is the extent to which
+the development people at Paramount, who did have the B5
+material, may have influenced that development without them necessarily
+knowing the origin of the notes.
+
+     But frankly...it's old news.  There were striking similiarities
+between the DS9 pilot and ours; however, since then their show has
+gone on into very different areas, and the similarity has diminished
+further and further until there's almost no remaining comparison.
+So for me, that aspect is really not a major factor anymore.
+We move on.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Baseball Team			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, June 09, 1995 8:50:10 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236017
+
+     We lose as often as we win at softball, but invariably we get a
+much larger turnout of B5 people to cheer on our team (anywhere
+from 40-60, as opposed to, oh, usually 20), and we have a much
+better time, I suspect.
+
+     Interestingly, when came time to create our B5 softball
+jerseys, we gave them all the same number: 5.  So you've got an
+announcer saying, "At shortstop, number 5...first base,
+number 5...second base, number 5...."
+
+     There were some initial complaints, but on checking
+the rule books, there's nothing that says the numbers have to be
+different.  So the 5s stayed.
+
+     We had a previous shipment all with #4, but it vanished
+mysteriously.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  Plan NOW !			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, June 09, 1995 8:50:07 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236015
+
+     If every dedicated B5 viewer got 10 people who haven't
+watched/don't watch the show, and got them to just watch the episodes
+in October and November, it'd probably have a salutory effect on
+ our ratings, and given what's in those eps, we'd have them thereafter.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  What --Persecuted??!!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, June 09, 1995 11:00:03 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236144
+
+     Night Gallery was vastly under-rated and under-appreciated.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  What --Persecuted??!!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, June 09, 1995 11:00:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236145
+
+     Yeah, "attempted boom" in the sense that studios try to
+figure out what audiences want, and drag out focus groups,
+and research, and plug in the "formula" (put in a kid for
+the young crowd, maybe a pet as well, make it "campy"
+since the networks can't take SF seriously, put in a
+young hunk and a babe).  Never works.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  What --Persecuted??!!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, June 09, 1995 8:50:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236016
+
+     Yeah, we've noticed that; there are a lot of parallels
+between the early history of ST and our show, all of the
+things you noted, plus some hostility from Lost in Space
+fans who thought ST was poaching on their terrain, on and on.
+Kinda funny....
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  What --Persecuted??!!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, June 09, 1995 11:00:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236142
+
+     On the flip side, virtually *all* of the B5 fans are
+also SF fans as well.  That's because, ratings-wise, we're
+still hitting mainly the hard core SF audience.  Where ST
+gets its ratings is from the mainstream, non-SF fan community.
+Should B5 begin to mainstream out, then that would change.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  What --Persecuted??!!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, June 09, 1995 11:00:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236143
+
+     That may well be true for audiences at a young age, who
+turn onto a show like ST or something else, and seek it out,
+but for the majority of people, apparently it ain't the case.
+Most of those who seek out a book in the genre after watching
+ST to some extent...tend to buy ST novels.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Babylon 5 Theme Music		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, June 10, 1995 7:14:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236754
+
+     Yes, we'll change the theme again.  The theme and narration
+changes with the theme and part of the storyline we're entering.
+Some don't like the year two theme as much as the 1st because it
+doesn't summon up the same feelings; it shouldn't.  It's a
+different chapter in the story.  I've already spoken with Chris
+Franke about my ideas for the music for year three, and I think
+it'll be pretty kick-ass.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  Books by JMS?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, June 10, 1995 7:14:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236750
+
+     It'd have to wait until the series itself is finished; it'd
+take me about a year of dedicated work to write the next novel,
+and I can't do that while I'm making this show.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  Third season finale		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, June 10, 1995 7:14:07 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236746
+
+     I kinda have to follow the structure of the story as I've
+put it together; I can't start restructuring it around airdates,
+which may get changed.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Baseball Team			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, June 10, 1995 7:14:03 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236743
+
+     Depends on who's available; some cast play, some don't, some
+play sometimes.  At various points, Jerry, Bruce, Richard, Caitlin
+and others have taken part.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  What --Persecuted??!!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, June 10, 1995 7:14:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236742
+
+     We're *slowly* growing to include the mainstream audience.
+Mainstream viewers go to ST first because, well, it's ST and a known
+commodity.  They don't routinely check out other SF shows.  Slowly,
+though, we're starting to draw in that audience.  I'm getting more
+letters lately than ever before saying, "I've never watched much SF
+before, but now I've started watching B5.'  That will likely
+continue.
+
+     The biggest obstacle in the beginning was the negative
+reviews that came from reviewers who expected us to do ST,
+and we didn't, and thus they perceived us as somehow doing ST
+ "wrong."  So now it's all word of mouth.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  What --Persecuted??!!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, June 10, 1995 7:14:16 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236751
+
+     I've been to a total of two focus groups for B5.  I didn't
+want to go. Didn't want there to BE a focus group.  I think
+they're the tools of the devil.  They generally find these
+people at the nearest shopping mall; they're people to whom
+the $50 to come and do this is important; it's either this,
+or sell blood, I sometimes think.
+
+     We're talking here Focus Groups of the Living Dead.
+
+     At one of these...the last I was invited to...one of
+the guys on the other side of the two-way mirror said he didn't
+like B5 because it wasn't the way science fiction was supposed
+to be, it was lots of character stuff, and he didn't like that.
+"So what would you consider good science fiction?" he was asked
+by the facilitator.
+
+     "Power Rangers," he said.
+
+     I nearly went through the glass at him.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+Subj:  What --Persecuted??!!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, June 10, 1995 7:14:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236752
+     <Q: Did anyone at paramount know about year 2 stuff?>
+     No, nobody knew that stuff but me.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+Subj:  What --Persecuted??!!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, June 10, 1995 7:14:20 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236753
+
+     The problem is the medium.  If an artist wants to do art
+in the form of paintings, he needs canvas, paint and a subject.
+If an artist wants to do art in the form of television, he requires,
+oh, about $22 million, give or take.  In the case of ST, closer
+to $39 million, figuring $1.5 million per show, which is actually
+on the low side.  That's per season.
+
+     When you've got THAT much money riding on it, plus in the
+case of ST, literally *billions* of dollars in revenue from
+merchandising...well, you begin to understand why things happen
+the way they do sometimes.
+
+     We're *trying* to set a better example.  Many producers
+putting new SF shows together have come to us, and we've given them
+tours of our stage and facilities, explained how we do what we do,
+and many of them are now using the "Babylon 5 Model" in putting
+their shows together for the networks and studios.  As far as I'm
+concerned, the more the merrier.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 vs. ST			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Saturday, June 10, 1995 7:14:12 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236749
+
+     Paramount does not actually *have* a creative side; neither do
+most studios.  They are business operations that make deals with
+creative people who create programs and movies under their unbrella.
+Studios are made up of presidents and vice presidents and
+directors in charge of media affairs, business affairs, legal affairs,
+publicity and promotion, marketing, on and on.
+
+     The creative people at ST aren't a problem, any more than we
+are a problem to them.  When either show does a particularly nifty
+looking show, for instance, our EFX people call theirs, or theirs call
+us, to say so.  I have nothing but undying respect and admiration
+for Jeri Taylor and many others over at ST.  Whenever there's a
+problem it can usually be tracked down to one of the Suits.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 vs. ST			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Saturday, June 10, 1995 7:14:09 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236747
+
+     "Before Star Trek, there had NEVER been any attempt to bring
+serious science fiction to weekly television."
+
+     Well...not exactly true.  THE TWILIGHT ZONE did much to
+bring serious SF to American television, as did many episodes of THE
+OUTER LIMITS.  LOST IN SPACE ended UP as campy, but in the
+beginning, in the black and white episodes, there was actually
+some pretty decent stuff.  Ditto for THE TIME TUNNEL, the
+Quantum Leap of its time.
+
+     Just for purposes of clarity.
+
+     Which is not to devalue ST, nor should it be construed
+as such.  My sense is that the original ST was kind of like
+the Beatles; both were very much products of their time, both
+created something of a watershed for the form in which they worked,
+both are unique in their respective histories. Every so often,
+some new group is held up as the new Beatles; and every so often,
+some SF show is held up as the new ST.  Both fail to see the
+point, or put the source in its proper context.  The job is not
+to be the "next" ANYthing; it's to be its own creation.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 vs. ST			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Saturday, June 10, 1995 7:14:10 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236748
+
+      Yeah, people are still talking about it <paramount b5/ds9>.
+Only reason I chimed in here was because my prior statements on
+this were being slightly mischaracterized in your note (unintentionally)
+and figured I needed to clear them up.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Reporter Bias/Democracy		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, June 10, 1995 7:43:30 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236771
+
+     "Bill Clinton's involvement in the Whitewater scandal."
+
+     Except, frankly, I've now been waiting THREE YEARS to get one,
+just ONE definitive statement of what the scandal IS.  And what,
+if anything, they did.  Nobody seems able to find anything, yet
+they keep dredging this term up over and over and over.  Watergate was
+exposed in gory detail within one year of Woodward and Bernstein
+really digging in.  I've finally had to conclude it's just smoke.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  Plan NOW !			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sunday, June 11, 1995 2:37:20 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#237039
+
+<Can PTEN make a station which owns a show run it if it doesn't?>
+     Not insofar as I know, no.  If the fans in the area want the show,
+they have to bug the station to show it, or give the rights to another
+station in the area.  This happens frequently, btw, to other shows.
+In some cases, a station might acquire a show not because they want
+to show it, but because they don't want the OTHER station to have it,
+and since syndication is almost all on a barter situation, they don't
+have to pay much to get the show, so they lose nothing.
+(This happened to us on the syndicated Twilight Zone, in some cases.)
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Baseball Team			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sunday, June 11, 1995 2:43:03 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#237041
+
+     Actually, the baseballs *were* CGI.  Amazes me that they made
+such a big deal out of it in "Forrest Gump."  We just did it and
+threw it away.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Baseball Team			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, June 10, 1995 11:39:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236974
+
+     Kosh does color commentary on the game.
+
+     "Beauty...in the dirt."
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  What --Persecuted??!!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, June 10, 1995 7:43:28 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236770
+
+     Then again, you've got Thomas Jefferson who said, "Given
+the choice between a government and no free press, and a free
+press without a government, I would choose the latter."
+
+     The job of the reporter is to get out the facts that an
+informed electorate (emphasis on the word informed) needs in
+order to determine who to vote for, what bills to support, what
+changes to implement.  This is often inconvenient for politicians,
+who'd much prefer that they did what they did in the shadows.
+Consequently, they paint this picture of the media as a ravening
+beast, the "liberal press," when in fact virtuallly every major
+newspaper, TV station and radio station in the country is owned
+by Big Business, which is invariably conservative in nature.
+
+     Politicians and those citizens who fall for the okeydoke
+speak of the "media bias," but the media is made up of may disparate
+people, from different backgrounds, political beliefs, income levels
+and educational backgrounds as, well, the country itself.  There's no
+such thing as a collective "media bias," there are no secret cell
+meetings where the new agenda is established every year.  It doesn't
+exist except in the minds of politicians who wish to create this
+image in order to discredit the messenger when the news is
+inconvenient for them.
+
+     And the reality is that the American press today is *tame*
+considering what it has been like in the past.  There was
+absolutely NO pretense about journalism, newspapers wore their
+allegiances like banners.  Editorials and cartoons were vicious
+beyond description.
+
+     Without reporters, there would be only one source of information:
+the government story.  Period.  Where I come from, that's not only
+unAmerican, it's downright Soviet.  They may be unpleasant at times,
+they may be rude, they may sometimes fall into the unfortunate
+realm of the cult of personality, but the system is self-correcting;
+such individuals fall from grace pretty fast in journalistic circles...
+they may even be impertinent. But the simple truth is, sometimes the
+only way to get pertinent information is to ask impertinent questions.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  What --Persecuted??!!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, June 10, 1995 11:39:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236975
+
+     At 66 episodes, we will have enough to syndicate, yes, though just
+barely.  About 100 episodes is preferred.  It makes our position both
+stronger and more vulnerable: stronger in that we're now a player;
+more vulnerable in that, at some point, if somebody gets fed up with
+us, they can drop the show and recoup their investment in syndication,
+which they couldn't until year three.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  What --Persecuted??!!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, June 10, 1995 11:39:16 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236976
+
+     Of course they always point that <b5 not in syndicated neilsen
+top 20> out.  They also conveniently forget that the majority of those
+20 shows are sitcoms, entertainment newsmags, game shows and the like.
+I got the latest ratings summary, and as I recall we were the number
+4 dramatic series for the week in question, and the number 6 rated
+dramatic series for the year.  That ain't bad.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  What --Persecuted??!!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Saturday, June 10, 1995 11:39:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#236973
+
+     The bug is just a touch of the flu that seems to be
+making the rounds.
+
+     As for making a media "dynasty"...don't want to.  Assuming
+the B5 story runs its full five years, and assuming we don't do
+the possible follow-up story, my plan is to retire from TV
+and return to writing novels and plays.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Centauri Actress			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Monday, June 12, 1995 12:19:27 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#237904
+
+     Nope.  Different actresses, as noted in the credits.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+Subj:  RoB5: Reporter Bias/Demo		Section: The Promenade
+  To:  Monday, June 12, 1995 12:15:23 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#237901
+
+     Haven't heard them, but I don't listen to a lot of 
+radio these days.
+
+                                                    jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Economics			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sunday, June 11, 1995 6:52:17 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#237638
+
+      Thanks.  Yeah, the idea of getting out of this part of 
+the Biz and back into novels or plays is very appealing.  
+The pace would be FAR less difficult, you write at your own 
+pace, there aren't 250 people standing behind you waiting for 
+pages.
+
+     I've been writing, first part-time, then full time, 
+since I was in high school.  Full-time since about 1979.  
+3,000 pages a year.  Writing twelve hours a day, every day, 
+except my birthday, my spousal overunit's birthday, christmas a
+nd new year's.  By the time B5 is finished, I think I could well 
+use a slightly slower pace...maybe sit by a nice, quiet little 
+stream for a while, feed the ducks....
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Economics			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Monday, June 12, 1995 12:15:24 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#237902
+
+     Actually (and this is far more information that anyone 
+could conceivably want), since it's come up...yes, definitely 
+more than a few books.  The total stands at 12 produced plays, 2 
+published novels, 1 published anthology, a number of published 
+short stories, a dozen or so produced radio dramas, something 
+over 120 produced episodes of television (I'm afraid I've 
+lost count, could be 130 or so by now), and over 500 published 
+articles for places like THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, PENTHOUSE, VIDEO 
+REVIEW, LOS ANGELES HERALD EXAMINER, WRITER'S DIGEST, TIME INC. 
+and others.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 vs. ST			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Monday, June 12, 1995 1:10:25 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#237943
+
+     Though your sentiment is good, and your heart is in the right 
+place, I don't think a treaty will do it, simply because there are always 
+new people coming and going, and going and coming ("and always too 
+soon", Blazing Saddles).  Also, I'm not sure it's appropriate to 
+ask everyone to admit to something that has not yet been 
+demonstrated, whatever my own personal feelings about it might be.  Who 
+would sign it?  Who would implement it? Would Japanese car sales be 
+factored into the equation?
+
+     And, fundamentally, as stated, it's old news.  At this point, 
+what matters is not how the series got ON the air, but what they're doing 
+now that they're ON the air.  The marketplace of free ideas is the 
+only fair and accurate judge of such things.
+
+     I think what has you upset, and sometimes upsets me, is 
+when one does have the occasional member of the ST fan community roll 
+in and yell about B5 being a ripoff of DS9...when B5 dates back 
+to 1987, which can be verified in any number of places, including 
+published interviews and books.  So naturally it causes one 
+to wish to hit back in equal measure.  And while I will correct a 
+mis-statement when someone quotes me inaccurately on this subject, 
+I'm not really sure that's the way to go.
+
+     If I had to turn to the Star Trek community, and express 
+a concern, it would be only this.  Gene Roddenberry advanced the 
+idea of IDIC.  Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.  It is 
+another word for open-mindedness. Because Babylon 5 is on the air, 
+it does not constitute a threat in any way to Star Trek.  One is 
+no more disloyal to ST by checking out B5 than one is disloyal to 
+the original Trek by watching a show using the same name but in 
+no way created by the creator of Trek (Voyager).
+
+     We are not Trek.  We have no obligation to be Trek.  Nor, 
+really, do I think anyone would want us to be Trek, because then we 
+*are* irrelevant and redundent.  We are another view of the future.  
+It's not the same as the Star Trek future, but another possibility...
+which of course gets us into philosophical areas, and some of the 
+objections some ST fans have toward B5 are, indeed, philosophical; 
+this is how they want the world to be 250 years from now.  
+Fair enough, and I don't have a problem in the world with that.
+
+     I have no problem with ANYone who gives B5 a fair shake, and 
+then decides it's not for them; anyone who actually *embraces* the 
+idea of IDIC and practices it; anyone who gives B5 the kind of fair 
+chance that ST fans wish would've been given to the original show 
+back in the 60s.  Yet all too often, when someone comes into the B5 
+section on a kamikaze run, after they've dropped the bombs, you 
+discover that, in fact, they've never seen the series, never seen 
+more than some promos, or two minutes of a show; the same people 
+who will, by their own statements, stick with a new Star Trek 
+series, even though they hate aspects of it, for whole *seasons* 
+until they figure out how to get it right.
+
+     There is NO reason for animosity between ST fans and B5 fans, 
+for the simple reason that, every day, we gain more fans who 
+began as ST fans, and in many cases CONTINUE to enjoy that show.  
+Any hostility is as fundamentally silly as fans of Hill Street Blues 
+declaring open warfare against anyone who likes NYPD Blue because 
+they both have the word Blue in the title, and HSB was there 
+first.
+
+     All that anyone wants, I guess, is that the show be given 
+a fair chance.  The lack of that chance was what helped drive 
+the original Star Trek off the air after two years initially, 
+and finally after the third.  I can't see any reasonable 
+ST fan, knowing that history, and decrying it, then doing 
+it to another.
+
+     Interestingly enough...I saw Roddenberry once, at a 
+presentation he gave in either Glendale or Pasadena, around 
+1983 or so.  He screened "The Cage," and spoke afterward.  
+The one thing he emphasized, over and over, was this: 
+Follow your dream.
+
+     STAR TREK was Gene Roddenberry's dream.  His vision.  
+He labored long years to bring it to fruition.  
+He galvanized the media fan community (sometimes to 
+the exasperation of Lost in Space fans).
+
+     BABYLON 5 springs from the same roots.  Since 1987, 
+it has been my dream, my vision, to see this story 
+produced.  It's not done by committee, it's not done 
+by suits or execs.  It's done by me, and the breathtakingly 
+talented people who work for me.  It is as pure 
+and personal a dream for me as Star Trek was for Roddenberry.
+
+     Mutual regard in that respect, at least, while not 
+blinding either side to the genuine flaws or achievements 
+of either show, would seem to be the way to go.  IDIC.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+
+
+Subj:  B5 vs. ST			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Sunday, June 11, 1995 9:38:24 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#237784
+
+     Nope.  Still wrong.  Lost in Space preceded Star Trek, 
+and until it went campy, was exclusively SF (as much SF as 
+ST was at times, which tended to vary wildly), with the 
+same characters in the same setting every week.
+
+     Just for purposes of historical accuracy.
+
+                                                  jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 vs. ST			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Sunday, June 11, 1995 9:38:25 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#237785
+
+     Two corrections: there *is* a planet nearby Babylon 5, 
+Epsilon 3, to which they've traveled before, and will again.  
+Also, while B5 does not have a wormhole, it does have a 
+jumpgate beside it.  Both nominally function in a similar 
+capacity, allowing long-range travel.
+
+                                                  jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 vs. ST			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Sunday, June 11, 1995 9:38:28 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#237786
+
+     "without the benefit of the depth of the established 
+Star Trek universe it's not as good..."
+
+     The Star Trek universe is the end result of 30 years 
+of history.  Do you think it's fair to compare something 
+that's got 30 years of history against a show that's got 
+only two, and use age as the primary criterion of quality?  
+If so, then NO show will ever be as good (by your lights), 
+and never gives any other show the opportunity.  To use that 
+same logic, then with only two seasons under its belt in 
+the 1960s, ST could never be any good because at that time 
+it didn't have the "depth" that it acquired (or, more 
+correctly, was attached to it) over the following 28 years.
+
+     I'd also point out that when Star Trek first hit the 
+airwaves back then, many media SF fans and critics panned 
+it as nothing more than a cheap attempt at grabbing some of 
+Lost in Space's audience (the show was very successful at 
+the time).  They said that LiS had depth, there was a family, 
+they had strong relations, it was about hanging together...
+whereas Star Trek, they said, was just a mindless shoot-em-up 
+about salt monsters (they generally gave the show a cursory glance).  
+Star Trek fans at the time felt this was *very* unfair, that 
+their show was being dismissed by fans of another show without 
+giving it a decent opportunity, and certainly they wouldn't 
+do this to another show if the situation were reversed.
+
+     But times change, I guess.  Or do they...?
+
+     And speaking of "depth of the established Star Trek 
+universe," some questions: who is currently the President 
+of Starfleet?  What's happening back home right now?  
+Have ethnic fashions survived the ages on Earth?  
+How much do you *really* know about what's in the "established
+ Star Trek universe" except what happens on the ship/station?
+
+                                                   jms
+
+
+Subj:  Comic boks cancelled???		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Tuesday, June 13, 1995 1:13:13 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#239116
+
+     DC is, we think, acting precipitiously.  Current
+discussions seem to be moving toward extending the book
+another six issues to allow time to find its audience.
+More as this is locked down.
+
+     Problem is, DC is cutting back titles left, right
+and center, leaving mainly the superhero stuff.  And the
+comic biz right now is in a major tailspin overall.
+
+                                                    jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 in Houston			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Monday, June 12, 1995 10:08:23 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#238919
+
+     Re: hints about next season....
+
+     Well, how about a major change in the very
+structure of the B5 universe?
+
+     How major?
+
+     Imagine if, one day, the Enterprise crew discovered
+that their ship had actually been constructed by the Romulans,
+and that they were morally obligated to go off and serve the
+Romulan empire...and that didn't change at the end of the
+episode, it *stayed* that way for the rest of the season.
+
+     That scenario bears *no* resemblance to what I have
+planned for year three, so there's no point in riffing off
+it and looking for clues.  But that is emblematic of the
+Major Event waiting about halfway through the third season.
+
+     How's that for a start?
+
+                                                    jms
+
+
+Subj:  What --Persecuted??!!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Monday, June 12, 1995 10:08:16 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#238916
+
+     The others just sort of mumbled.
+
+     One other person in the focus group started going on
+about how he doesn't like women characters who aren't *women,*
+which by his lights meant he felt there should be more
+passive, motherly figures, that somebody like Ivanova
+shouldn't be running a station, didn't like her at all....
+
+     Then there was a THUMP in the room that startled
+everyone on both sides of the glass.  Without even realizing
+I'd done it, I'd picked up the nearest pencil and thrown
+it at the glass.
+
+     Odd that I haven't been invited back since....
+
+                                                    jms
+
+
+Subj:  JMS's books			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Monday, June 12, 1995 10:08:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#238915
+
+     Good heavens, that's an awfully long way to go....
+
+     Hope you like the book.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+Subj:  Babylon 5 Theme Music		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Monday, June 12, 1995 10:08:12 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#238914
+
+     I kinda thought it'd be a good idea from the start,
+though in theory over time the narratiions should get shorter,
+more to the point.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 vs. ST			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  74027,264Tuesday, June 13, 1995 1:22:02 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#239119
+
+     While I won't presume to speak for DS9, no, in my view,
+B5 is not "simply a futuristic version of Gunsmoke."
+
+     The mission in Gunsmoke was simple: protect the town from
+those nasty outlaws.  The marshall wasn't off trying to forge
+peace treaties between soldiers and native americans, the
+story wasn't constantly being affected by political events
+in Washington; the town was isolated, out of context.
+B5 is in part *about* context.  The premise in "Gunsmoke" is
+presented in the first episode, and you never really go
+anywhere from there, it is what it is.  Not the case with B5.
+
+     There are few clearly defined good guys and bad guys.
+Londo started out comic relief; he's become a tragic figure...
+G'Kar started out as the bad guy, has ended up as a heroic,
+possibly doomed figure...in "Gunsmoke," Miss Kitty wasn't
+revealed halfway through to be a carpetbagger, but we have
+no such boundaries.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Economics			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Monday, June 12, 1995 10:08:21 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#238918
+
+     I think that figure counts *most* of B5...I think.
+I dunno; the only way I can keep track anymore is go back
+through all the records and see how many were written for
+each show, and add 'em up, and I'm always forgetting
+something, somewhere.
+
+                                                    jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Economics			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Tuesday, June 13, 1995 1:13:11 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#239115
+
+     I've only seen one episode of The Tick, and loved it.
+Favorite scene: a Bad Guy has a friend, which is really a
+sock puppet over his hand, which he operates with minimal
+skill.  At one point, when the Tick doesn't appear, the
+sock puppet says, "He's off sulking like Achilles in his
+tent."
+
+     (blank stares from all the other bad guys)
+
+     "Achilles."
+
+     (blank stares)
+
+     "Homer.  The Illiad.  The Odyssesy."
+
+     (blank stares)
+
+     "READ A BOOK!!!!"
+
+                                                    jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Babylon 5 Theme Music		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Wednesday, June 14, 1995 2:50:17 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#240267
+
+     Yes, the B5 soundtrack is on sale in the UK.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+Subj:  Initials				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Tuesday, June 13, 1995 1:22:03 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#239120
+
+ >> Is it just a coincidence that Jeff Sinclair, John Sheridan 
+and Joe Straczynski all have the same initials? <<
+
+     Probably not.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+Subj:  <<Talia & Vir>>-Spoiler		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Wednesday, June 14, 1995 2:50:18 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#240268
+
+>>Talia Winters is either getting killed off or thrown in jail 
+back on earth.  She is the one who tried to kill Kosh at very 
+beginning of show.  In real life, the actress who plays her and 
+the actor that plays Garabaldi are engaged!!!  The shadows 
+attack the Narn home world and do major damage.  Vir is getting 
+killed off.I wonder if their sources are reliable.  
+We will see..............<<
+
+     I'd say overall that's the most breathtakingly jumbled 
+batch of half-rumors and quarter-truths I've seen.  You can 
+disregard, oh, 98% of it.
+
+                                                    jms
+
+
+Subj:  <CoS-Man. Canidate ref?>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Wednesday, June 14, 1995 11:31:27 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#241229
+
+     No, it's not a Manchurian Candidate reference.  There
+really is such a thing as psycho-linguistics.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Why B5 on TV?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Wednesday, June 14, 1995 11:15:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#241212
+
+     Any time I come up with a story, I try to look around
+to determine where it would work best.  This one *felt*
+like it belonged to TV.
+
+     More than that, though...I went into this looking to
+create a saga for TV.  It wasn't so much coming up with the
+story, and realizing it was a TV saga, as it was, "Nobody's ever
+done a multi-year science fiction saga for television.
+As a thought-experiment, can I come up with something that
+would work in this medium?"  This led me to the structure that
+became Babylon 5.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5's Military Metaphor		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Wednesday, June 14, 1995 11:15:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#241211
+
+     As I responded in private mail, I'm drawing upon a number
+of military influences in the show; some from WW I, in the Great
+War and how WW I sort of slid into WW II; some tactical and
+strategic elements of WW II military; and some of the political
+elements that went into the Vietnam and Korean conflicts.
+Actual tactics and battles will vary; there's a major battle
+setpiece in a later episode that uses more contemporary and
+futuristic elements such as long-distance (thousands of
+kilometers) tactics, interceptors and the like.
+
+     Also as I noted in email...I just learned today from someone
+high up in military PR in Washington that Babylon 5 is very popular
+with many branches of the military.  They call it a "force multiplier"
+(morale booster) for naval and air force and ground troops (apparently
+the show gets shipped out to bases and to carrier/battleship groups).
+It's also very popular with many folks in the Pentagon and the Secret
+Service.  (In one case, the Secret Service apparently did an analysis
+of one of our episodes as an exercise in character analysis of
+military persons under high-stress situations.)  The Flying Tigers
+have also been very supportive of the show, even allowing us to use
+their symbol in the series.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Babylon 5 Theme Music		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Wednesday, June 14, 1995 11:15:12 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#241210
+
+     Everything's fine.  But PTEN dropped *all* the ending
+voiceovers on their shows, including B5.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  <CoS-Man. Canidate ref?>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, June 15, 1995 10:33:12 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#242363
+
+     I was at SDSU, getting my bachelor's in psychology, 
+the first time I heard of psycholinguistics.  Much of the 
+department considered it basically rubber-science, but they 
+were all hard-core behavior modification/Skinner types in 
+any event.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Babylon 5 Theme Music		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, June 15, 1995 10:33:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#242362
+
+     Actually, there's 35-40 minutes of music in the pilot; 
+it wasn't wall-to-wall music.  I'm not opposed to it, but 
+at this time, nobody's licensed it.  We can't do anything 
+until somebody licenses it from a record company.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Military			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, June 15, 1995 10:25:12 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#242354
+
+     Vorlons/Shadows at the top of the force, Minbari after, 
+Centauri, with Humans and Narns not that far apart.
+
+     Er...what was the suggestion again...?
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Claudia/Takishima		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thursday, June 15, 1995 10:25:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#242353
+
+     I don't offhand know Claudia's age (I forget this stuff 
+5 minutes after I'm told), and wouldn't invade her privacy by 
+saying anyway.
+
+     Would rather hold back on anything to say about 
+Laurel for now.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Delayed Episodes			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, June 16, 1995 6:39:18 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#243048
+
+     Of the four remaining episodes, 1 was delivered about 
+a week and a halfor two weeks ago (which would air second 
+in the batch).  The episode thatwould air first was delivered 
+yesterday.  The episode that airs third willbe delivered today 
+or Monday.  The final episode will be delivered in in
+about 7-10 days.
+
+     So to recap:
+
+       episode 1 - delivered
+       episode 2 - delivered
+       episode 3 - Monday
+       episode 4 - 7-10 days
+
+     And that's all of it.
+
+                                                   jms
+
+
+Subj:  <CoS-Man. Canidate ref?>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, June 16, 1995 6:39:21 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#243050
+
+     Actually, I think the main reason there isn't much 
+fanfiction is that I've specifically asked for there not 
+to be any until after we've finished our run.  And as is 
+generally true of the SF fan community, if you ask nice 
+and respectfully, you will generally be accommodated.
+
+                                                    jms
+
+Subj:  <CoS-Man. Canidate ref?>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, June 16, 1995 11:46:10 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#243270
+
+<On a completely different topic, I understand you have carpal 
+tunnel syndrome. What was the first thing you notice 
+that you now know was a symtom? I have been getting shooting 
+pains up the side of my arm on the side of my left 
+little finger, I was wondering if this might be a warning sign.>
+
+     Sounds like it.
+
+                                                    jms
+
+
+Subj:  <CoS-Man. Canidate ref?>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, June 16, 1995 6:39:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#243047
+
+     I never much went in for Skinner.  When I went into the 
+psychology department initially, everything was Carl 
+Rogers, non-directive therapy, and RET.  Then somewhere along 
+the line Skinner took over, and by the time I transferred to 
+SDSU, it was all over for everything else.  Here's how bad it 
+was: I took a seminar in "Theories of Psychology."  All that 
+was taught that semester was Skinner.  Toward the end of the
+term I asked why.  "Well, there are many theories of psychology," 
+I was told by the instructor (who was also the department 
+chairman), but it seemed better to teach you the *right* one."
+
+                                                     jms
+
+Subj:  Claudia/Takishima		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Friday, June 16, 1995 6:39:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#243049
+
+<Just out of curiousity...
+Have you or any other B5 people been on AOL lately?>
+
+     Was on AOL a few days ago, fairly quiet.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Fighting Shadows			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  JOHN M. KAHANE, Sunday, June 18, 1995 12:17:10 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#244031
+
+     You're assuming that the relationship you saw between 
+Delenn and Sinclair was a romantic one.  It was a close one, 
+on her part in particular, but not based on romance.  
+We'll explain what that means in year three.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  Fighting Shadows			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Burhaan  Ahmad, Sunday, June 18, 1995 12:26:27 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#244035
+
+     "It's a rebirth ceremony, all right, which sometimes 
+doubles as a marriage ceremony."
+
+     Amazing how everyone went for the secondary meaning 
+and omitted the most obvious meaning in presaging the rebirth 
+Delenn went through in "Chrysalis."
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Military			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Barbara Pfieffer, Sunday, June 18, 1995 12:22:01 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#244034
+
+     Haven't made up my mind yet on what to bring to ComicCon.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Military			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Charles Agius, Saturday, June 17, 1995 6:07:23 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#243775
+
+      Which is all fine, except...who said that Earth was 
+going to end up fighting the Shadows?
+
+                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  From JMS: B5 Renewed		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Mike, Saturday, June 17, 1995 6:07:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#243774
+
+
+<Congratulations!  All of us in the Star Trek graphics 
+department are excited that we'll get to enjoy another year of B5.
+
+Your renewal is good news not only for those of us who are B5 
+fans, but also for television science fiction in general.
+
+-Mike Okuda>
+
+      Thanks, Mike.  You (and the whole graphics department there) 
+have always been a class act.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Claudia/Takishima		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Saturday, June 17, 1995 6:07:21 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#243773
+
+     Sinclair was in his late thirties or thereabouts.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 vs Simpsons			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jon A Bell, Saturday, June 17, 1995 6:07:20 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#243772
+
+     The Simpsons is *amazingly* well written.  I love the show.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  <TCoS> Ducks			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  SysOp Dupa T. Parrot, Sunday, June 18, 1995 12:22:31 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#244033
+
+ <In the teaser for "The Coming Of Shadows", where G'Kar is 
+trying to pursuade Sheridan not to allow the Centari Emperor on 
+board B5, there is a display case behind Sheridan's 
+desk. One of the items in the display case looks like a duck's 
+head on a stand. What is it really?>
+     
+I think it's a puzzle, but until I can check the tape, I can't be 
+100% sure.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 VIDEOS (UK)			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John Denley, Sunday, June 18, 1995 11:01:12 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#244951
+
+     "...because they realized that (the videos) are only
+in stereo..."
+
+     Nope.  The master tapes are in full Dolby surround.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Ratings			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  William H. DiPaola, Sunday, June 18, 1995 6:29:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#244733
+
+     Bear in mind that that "top ten" includes mainly game shows, 
+talk shows and the like; only two of them, DS9 and Baywatch, are 
+dramatic series.  In ratings you generally isolate the dramatic 
+series from the rest, and in that ranking we range between the #4 
+and #6 dramatic series in syndication.
+
+     The main problem is lack of public awareness.  Most people 
+don't know we exist.  Those who hear the name assume we're a Trek 
+show.  Roughly 55% of those who hear about the show and sample it 
+once, stay with it thereafter. The usual figure is closer to 30%.  
+It's just a matter of getting that word out.  Mostly it's word of 
+mouth.  At some point, we'll hit critical mass in the ratings; I 
+just don't know when that'll happen.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+Subj:  B5 Ratings			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  William H. DiPaola Monday, June 19, 1995 2:28:06 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#245008
+
+<Thanks for the response. I just hate to see a good show like 
+this underexposed.> 
+    Yeah, well, that goes for both of us.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5's Military Metaphor		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, Sunday, June 18, 1995 6:29:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#244731
+
+     It would get rather redundent and boring after a while if 
+the same war continued for three seasons, would it not?
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  TD: Star Trek			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Larry Rosenblum, Sunday, June 18, 1995 6:14:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#244724
+
+     B5 need not bring in huge ratings for some at Paramount to 
+view us as a threat; in point of fact they've treated us that way 
+from day one.  The ratings overall and support for DS9 are very 
+soft.  They can't afford to lose anyone.  But they're aware that
+many DS9 fans have tuned out to begin watching B5 because, well, 
+things *happen* in this show.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  TD: Star Trek			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Sunday, June 18, 1995 11:06:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#244956
+
+<A question, unrelated: Did Sinclair ever marry Catherine?
+(And who came up with the proposal, you? It was so in-character 
+it was absolutely perfect!)>
+     No, he pushed back marrying Sakai when he was reassigned.
+
+     And yes, the proposal was mine.  If my name is on the script, 
+every word of it was written by me.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Military			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  SysOp Dupa T. Parrot, Sunday, June 18, 1995 11:06:07 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#244957
+
+     Last I heard, I'd been scheduled for two big presenations,
+<at ComicCon> that Saturday and Sunday.  There will be one separate 
+presentation for Michael, possibly two, and a panel or two with 
+both of us, plus a panel with me, Michael and Peter David.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Military			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Charles Agius, Sunday, June 18, 1995 11:01:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#244950
+
+     "We crave ACTION."
+
+     And you shall have it.  In abundance.
+
+                                                 jms
+
+Subj:  Fighting Shadows			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jerry D Bookter, Sunday, June 18, 1995 6:29:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#244730
+
+<While you're passing out tidbits of info on Delenn, can you 
+tell us how the obvious romantic relationship she has with 
+Sheridan is going to be handled?> 
+
+     How will it be handled?  With discretion and dignity and 
+grace of course.  Problem is, this isn't the sort of thing that 
+collapses easily into a few-line message.  It'll have to come out 
+organically, during the show.
+
+                                                  jms
+
+
+Subj:  Fighting Shadows			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, Sunday, June 18, 1995 6:29:20 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#244732
+
+     They didn't cancel the tapes, as much as, we discovered, 
+never had the plans in the first place.
+
+     We are, frankly, astonished.
+
+                                                  jms
+
+
+Subj:  ITSOZ - Questions		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Colin Knowles, Tuesday, June 20, 1995 2:45:03 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#246115
+
+<Therefore, wouldn't it make sense for the Vorlons, whatever 
+Rangers have gathered, maybe the Narn (whatever's left - it 
+would've been better if they attacked before the war started) 
+and Delenn's friends in the Mimbari (there's got to be some) t
+o pound the heck out of the Shadows now, before they're ready?  
+If someone blew up Z'Hadum, it seems that would deal a serious 
+blow to the Shadows' plans.>
+     The forces you describe are not sufficient to take out the 
+shadows, even at this stage.  It's going to take a much larger 
+force, which is what Delenn et al are trying to gather.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Fighting Shadows			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Monday, June 19, 1995 10:11:03 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#245956
+
+     I think you've confused several things.  We're talking 
+about the events in "Parliament of Dreams" in which a ritual 
+she goes through with a bunch of other Minbari is referred to as 
+a) a rebirth ceremony, which sometimes doubles as a b) marriage 
+ceremony.  It was a rebirth ceremony in this case, presaging 
+"Chrysalis."
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Narn Genus?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Bob Perse, Monday, June 19, 1995 10:11:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#245955
+
+     I've worked out a rough chronology for the Narn evolution, 
+but nothing nearly concrete enough to want to put out here.  
+Once I've had the chance to think about it a bit more....
+
+                                                        jms
+
+Subj:  B5 Military			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael Beemer, Monday, June 19, 1995 10:11:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#245954
+
+ <>> "We crave ACTION."
+ >
+ >  And you shall have it.  In abundance.
+
+     Always giving the audience what it wants, eh, Mr. Dark? <g>>
+
+      The moral lesson in the quote being...be careful what 
+you ask for.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Whither Na'Toth?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Spencer Collyer [UK] Monday, June 19, 1995 10:11:31 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#245953
+
+     That's what's negotiated, but an actor may often be used in 
+fewer eps, as was the case with Na'Toth.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Cancel Voyager?			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  James Ortis, Wednesday, June 21, 1995 3:28:09 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#247131
+
+     Correction: the first seasons of TNG were not done 
+cheaply; the budgets set aside were greater than for any 
+other previous syndicated series, and were equal to or 
+greater than most network shows.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+Subj:  ITSOZ - Questions		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Colin Knowles, Tuesday, June 20, 1995 10:41:20 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#246960
+
+<Since we haven't seen much of this "gathering" so far, 
+are we going to see it next season?>
+
+     That will be part of the next season, yes.
+
+                                                  jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Laser import			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anthony Ho, Thursday, June 22, 1995 12:54:20 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#248135
+
+     Argh, unfortunately the disk is in storage, and I don't 
+have the number at hand.  You may want to try the Lasercraze 
+laserdisk sales service here on CIS; they may have it.
+
+     I've heard something very interesting about the UK 
+airing for the final four eps (year three beyond has been 
+renewed there).  I hope to have something very positive to say 
+shortly.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 - UK Return!			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Malcolm Pemberton, Friday, June 23, 1995 1:28:29 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#249248
+
+     That's good to hear.  Last I'd heard was the possibility 
+that Ch4 might air all four remaining year two eps *the same 
+night* on July 25th, in kind of a B5 marathon.  Good in 
+one sense, though if you miss that night, you miss it all.  
+Here, spreading it out as usual, is probably better.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  B5 Laser import			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Brian A. Thomas, Thursday, June 22, 1995 3:20:26 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#248610
+
+< >>  (year three beyond has been renewed there) <<
+
+ Year three beyond?  Do you mean year three _and_ beyond?!>
+
+    No, just year three; awkward syntax on my part.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Effect of story idea		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Christopher R. Turn, Thursday, June 22, 1995 3:20:25 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#248609
+
+<The Sysops have posted again the warning about story ideas not 
+being brought up in the forum, along with the reasoning.  They 
+used as an example a storyline about a person who had been mind-
+wiped and then recovered his memory which you were (supposedly) 
+developing but tossed after it appeared in this forum.  I was just 
+curious: was that a "B" story, or did you have to make changes 
+in the arc to accomodate the loss of the story? Please tell us 
+what you can.>
+
+     It was always intended as a B-story, mainly a character story 
+about the person who was affected, and how that would affect our 
+main charactes when they found out about it (it's someone they would 
+have known for a bit).
+
+                                                     jms
+
+Subj:  B5 World				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Charles Agius,Friday, June 23, 1995 9:41:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#250113
+
+     Remember that the Io mission <in GROPOS> was just a cover, 
+a red herring, for the actual mission.  So there really *was* no need.
+  As for B5 background, there are some lurker's guides out there 
+that have more info than anyone could ever want.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Laser import			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Friday, June 23, 1995 9:41:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#250111
+
+<Are there any arc-bending episodes at the end of Season 2?
+(I'm not asking what they are, just *if* there are.)>
+
+     Yes.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+Subj:  Drazi Question			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jason Wong, Sunday, June 25, 1995 3:25:03 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#251122
+
+<Are all the Drazi male?>
+
+     Actually, Drazi are asexual, carrying the attributes of 
+both, with their basic appearance reading to us like males.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  Top Five List			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Paul Maskens Sunday, June 25, 1995 1:14:25 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#251080
+
+     It's really sad, but...see, on the one hand, I like filet 
+mignon, and occasionally lobster, and all the other hoity-toity 
+foods you're supposed to like and eat when you're a TeeVee 
+producer, but see...I hate even to admit this in public, but...
+I actually kinda *like* McDonald's burgers.  I don't know why, 
+but there it is.  I usually end up ducking into one 
+when I'm by myself, because the explanations...well, you see my 
+problem.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 World				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Charles Agius, Saturday, June 24, 1995 5:08:10 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#250730
+
+     You can order <The Soundtrack CD> direct from Sonic Images, 
+via information here on the B5 library.  Pegasus Publishing also 
+does some CD ordering.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  From jms re: Harlan CD		Section: Babylon 5
+  To: All Sunday, June 25, 1995 9:10:31 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#251813
+
+     For those interested, Harlan Ellison has a new recording out 
+via the Harlan Ellison Record Collection, cost $16.50 & $2 
+postage/handling for the general public, $15 & $2 for members of 
+HERC (the Harlan Ellison Record Collection, which for a paltry $8 
+per year you get a newsletter, updates on what's available, access 
+to his books and prior recordings).
+
+     The new CD is his performance/reading of "Paladin of the Lost 
+Hour," which many of you may remember from its adaptation into 
+an episode of "The Twilight Zone."  It's a *terrific* reading, 
+very dynamic, and if you've never heard Harlan read one of his stories, 
+you're missing a lot.  (One prior recording was nominated for a 
+Grammy.)
+
+     Checks or money orders can be sent to: The Harlan Ellison 
+Record Collection, P. O. Box 55548, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  G'Quan's sex			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Daniel M. Upton, Sunday, June 25, 1995 9:10:28 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#251812
+
+     G'Quon was a male.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  Top Five List			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Dinie Kloosterboer, Monday, June 26, 1995 1:46:11 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#251972
+
+     We've had fast food on B5, including pizzas.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+Subj:  Spirituality and Delenn		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, Sunday, June 25, 1995 11:10:27 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#251811
+
+<I heard a quotation that made me think of Delenn, and of her experience in
+Confessions and Lamentations.  I believe that this was from the Gospel of
+Phillip:  "Spritual knowledge springs from an awareness of our own capacity
+for evil."  Does it seem to you that this is meaningful?>
+
+     Not bad....
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  Babylon 5: Hard SF & B5		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Aurora, Monday, June 26, 1995 10:46:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#253077
+
+     Then please explain to me why it was that, when the 
+Pioneer space probe passed the speed of sound while in 
+space, the monitoring station at JPL registered a shock 
+wave -- a sonic boom -- across its bow?
+
+     Also, fuel of any kind that exerts propulsion, 
+spewing forth substance to push it forward, puts forth 
+a medium behind it capable of carrying sound. When some 
+satellites have been launched from the shuttle, 
+the crew have heard or felt the engine thrust.
+
+     Further, a ship carries atmosphere within it.  If that 
+ship explodes, the sound will be audible within the curtain 
+of the expanding atmospheric bubble created by the rupturing 
+of the hull.
+
+     The idea of *no* sound at all in space is one of the
+great shibboleths of SF.  But in talking to many leading 
+space scientists, including some at the High Altitude 
+Observatory, and none other than Freeman Dyson, who currently 
+occupies Einstein's chair...ain't necessarily true.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  From jms re: Harlan CD		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael Beemer, Monday, June 26, 1995 10:38:12 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#253059
+
+     Insofar as I know, no, none of the TZ2 or 3
+<Twilight Zone> tapes are being sold.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  From jms re: Harlan CD		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Trent K. Johnson, Monday, June 26, 1995 10:38:09 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#253057
+
+     Actually, yes, Harlan does sing, and sing quite well; 
+there's a bit of it on one of his LPs.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  Kosh & Delenn			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Barbara Pfieffer, Monday, June 26, 1995 10:38:10 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#253058
+
+<When we do finally see Kosh, will we then understand why 
+Delenn felt she needed to see him before she underwent her 
+transformation?>
+  
+     Probably.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  From jms re: Harlan CD		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Ed Schlotman, Tuesday, June 27, 1995 9:47:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#254084
+
+<Is he going to write that Demon w/ Glass Hand follow up 
+that you mentioned briefly at San Diego last year??>
+
+     In the fullness of time....
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Games				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Charles Agius, Tuesday, June 27, 1995 9:47:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#254085
+
+     No computer games available at present.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+Subj:  Trying to Find JMS		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, Tuesday, June 27, 1995 9:52:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#254087
+
+<How does Kosh's susceptibility to poison rule out his being 
+an energy life-form?Were we ever told the nature of the poison?>
+
+
+     The pilot movie showed the poison being analyzed; the 
+line on the monitor read "Analyzing crystalline structure."
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+Subj:  Chicago ComiCon Question		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Charles S. Tritt, Tuesday, June 27, 1995 9:52:07 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#254088
+
+     Last I heard, I'll be doing presentations both Saturday 
+and Sunday.  If this stays true, your best bet is to come to 
+the one on Sunday if you can only do one or the other.  If 
+possible, try to verify this with someone as far as the two 
+presentations are concerned.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  JMS ComicCon Schedule		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  All	       Wednesday, June 28, 1995 1:24:18 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#254239
+
+     For those in the vicinity, I'll be putting in an 
+appearance this weekend at the Chicago ComicCon, Rosemont 
+Convention Center, Rosemont IL. Here's the schedule:
+
+     FRIDAY
+
+     3:00 A jms appearance with bloopers and other clips.
+
+     4:00 Michael O'Hare leads an acting seminar.
+
+     SATURDAY
+
+     11:00 a.m.  Q&A with Michael O'Hare
+
+     1:30-3:00   A special jms presentation.  *Be there*
+
+     4:00  A jms writing for TV seminar.
+
+     8 or 9ish p.m.  A casual B5 reception with jms, 
+     Michael O'Hare and Peter David.
+
+     SUNDAY
+
+     1-2 p.m. B5 panel with jms, Michael O'Hare and 
+     Peter David.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+Subj:  From jms re: Harlan CD		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Trent K. Johnson, Wednesday, June 28, 1995 11:54:30 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#255204
+
+     Dream Corridor is a great comic, I recommend it heartily.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+Subj:  Stims & Dr. Franklin		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Marlyn Bumpus, Wednesday, June 28, 1995 11:54:31 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#255205
+
+<I was wondering if Dr. Franklin's tendency to misuse the "stims" 
+when he gets swamped in med-lab indicates that they're addictive 
+-- and is this possibly going to be a problem for him when he 
+goofs due to diminished capacity under the influence, so to 
+speak?>
+     
+      We'll see....
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Games				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Charles Agius, Wednesday, June 28, 1995 11:54:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#255206
+
+     There will be a screen saver from Sound Source later 
+this year.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  Big Bang Convention		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  SysOp Dupa T. Parrot, Thursday, June 29, 1995 12:38:14 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#255230
+
+     I heard today that, as well as a previous check to one of 
+the cast members attending having bounced, a *second* check to 
+one of the major actors has bounced.  These guys are amazing....
+
+                                                        jms
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+JMS CompuServe messages collected by The Green Meddler <kilgalen@tde.com>.
+
+Subj:  Bab5 books			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  David Fox, Monday, July 03, 1995 11:56:25 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#259272
+
+     I'm involved in the books quite a bit, inclusive of 
+reading the manuscripts and approving premises.  Some stuff 
+slips past me, mainly in the small details, but the bigger 
+picture is generally consistent with the show.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  role of Natoth			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  David Fox, Monday, July 03, 1995 11:56:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#259271
+
+     The role of Na'Toth has not worked out as well in the 
+second season as the first; I may rethink my approach on 
+this a bit.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Acts of Sacrifice/Lumati		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Chris Carrier, Monday, July 03, 1995 11:56:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#259270
+
+     I think one need look no further than the latest 
+communiques from Dole and Newt to get some idea on the 
+progenitors of the Lumati.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Renewal Cont...			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Randy Pastrone, Monday, July 03, 1995 11:56:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#259269
+
+     KCOP will carry the third season; B5 has been renewed 
+overall.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Bearded folks raise hand		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jerry D Bookter, Tuesday, July 04, 1995 4:42:29 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#259828
+
+     Have recently grown a beard.  The two most consistent 
+comments I get:
+
+     1) "Good heavens, it's so GREY!"
+
+     2) "Oh, my (son/husband/brother) just grew a beard...
+he's going through a mid-life crisis too."
+
+     My kingdom for a nerf-bat.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Convention			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Brian A. Thomas, Tuesday, July 04, 1995 4:42:27 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#259827
+
+     For personal reasons, I'd urge *against* Atlanta.  
+Nothing wrong with the city, there are just personal reasons 
+why I won't go there.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+Subj:  role of Natoth			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jason Wong, Tuesday, July 04, 1995 4:33:31 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#259814
+
+     I don't think Mary really *got* the notion of Na'Toth, 
+though she did try gamely.  So I'm moving in other directions.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Video Releases in UK		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Gerard Keating (Ireland)Friday, July 07, 1995 1:42:05 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#262062
+
+     That's very weird, because they're delivered in surround, 
+and it costs no more to dupe them in that mode.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  Bearded folks raise hand		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Brian Kornfeld, Thursday, July 06, 1995 9:24:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#261894
+
+     I *think* there's a jms gif somewhere in the files; 
+if not, it can be uploaded, as a "before" shot.  The "after" 
+shot can be found on any Post Office wall....
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  Garabaldi's Eyes			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, Thursday, July 06, 1995 2:51:27 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#261186
+
+     It's a screwup committed by the EFX guy, who was 
+"doodling" on Garibaldi's face while he was rendering another 
+shot, and didn't think he'd saved that one frame.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  Acts of Sacrifice/Lumati		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Chris Carrier, Thursday, July 06, 1995 2:51:26 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#261185
+
+     Yeah, well, you only need to watch Dole hold a pencil to 
+figure out why he came out for the disabilities act; if it's in 
+his personal interest, then he's for it; if it serves the rest 
+of the commonweal (except the big money boys, which thus also 
+constitutes a personal interest), he's a'gin it.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Specs				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Paul Sulkowski, Wednesday, July 05, 1995 10:07:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#261056
+
+     None of that information has been officially released at 
+this time; at some point down the road it may.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Convention			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Rae Augenstein,Wednesday, July 05, 1995 10:07:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#261057
+
+     "I assume you're not against the idea of this convention?"
+
+     I'm not against many ideas, except maybe tarring,
+feathering and dead-catting, but I can't endorse it until it 
+gets to a less tenuous state.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Convention			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Brian A. Thomas, Wednesday, July 05, 1995 10:07:09 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#261055
+
+     I can't technically endorse *anything* until there's a 
+business plan and things get real.  Y'unnderstand, I get asked 
+CONSTANTLY to endorse one convention or another in the 
+nascent stages, "We haven't done this before, but if you'll 
+endorse us, we know we can do it," and I'm the one who gets the 
+rap if things don't work out.  So I really can't comment in 
+any kind of official capacity until this would get real-er.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  "Infection" question		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Robert Miller, Wednesday, July 05, 1995 10:07:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#261054
+
+     No similarity.  Icarus is a Greek name, chosen for its 
+own reasons.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  "Infection" question		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Lynn Dimock, Thursday, July 06, 1995 9:24:25 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#261895
+
+     There are some deliberate connotations to be derived from 
+choosing Agamemnon, yes. Particularly as re: Cassandra, given 
+that G'Kar is our nominal Cassandra figure in the 
+story...someone gifted with the power of prophecy (though not 
+literally in G'Kar's case) who was cursed in that no one would 
+never believe her until it was too late.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Emmy Nom. for B5?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Rae Augenstein, Friday, July 07, 1995 8:20:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#262766
+
+     I certainly hope so.  We've done all we can to help the 
+process along. We've put many of our actors up for it via the 
+application process, which is time-consuming and expensive, 
+we made videocassettes up for academy members of two of our 
+best episodes ("Coming --" and "Geometry of Shadows"), also 
+very expensive...so we can only hope they get the 
+recognition they deserve.
+
+     I think we'll have a strong shot at some of the technical 
+areas, like EFX, costuming, makeup, sound editing, music, that 
+sort of thing, IF enough academy members actually *look* at the 
+episodes, but the non-tech stuff, acting/writing/directing, are 
+always long-shots in the SF genre, sadly.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  Visions '95			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Bob McLaughlin, Sunday, July 09, 1995 11:34:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#264496
+
+     If you're going to be speaking with her <Mira Furlan>, 
+her name is Mira, not Miri.
+
+     Miri is a Star Trek episode.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  WB Official B5 Web page?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael Grabois, Sunday, July 09, 1995 5:31:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#264223
+
+     The only discussions re: a B5 web page involve getting 
+the elusive fan club going, which is still in progress.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Babylonians at Starquest		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Sunday, July 09, 1995 5:31:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#264224
+
+     The Rangers will be an increasingly important presence.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+Subj:  <Acts Of Sacrifice>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  SysOp Dupa T. Parrot, Sunday, July 09, 1995 11:26:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#264492
+
+
+<The hand-to-hand combat between G'Kar and the other Narn looked 
+really good. Did Katsulas do any of the stunts or were they done 
+by a StuntNarn?>
+
+     It was a little of both, yes.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  Garabaldi's Eyes			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Bob Perse, Sunday, July 09, 1995 11:26:18 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#264491
+
+<What !!?? DOODLING on Garabaldi's face........why, the man 
+should be fed to the shadows! <g>>
+
+     He was.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  "Infection" question		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, Sunday, July 09, 1995 5:31:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#264225
+
+<>>  What one finds depends on what one looks for, and what 
+one sees.
+
+JOE!
+
+Congratulations! That was the ONE HUNDRED THOUSANDTH question
+that you answered in a CRYPTIC and INCOMPREHENSIBLE manner.>
+
+     When the cat calls at midnight, your shorts will ignite.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  Londo in AOS			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jerry D Bookter, Monday, July 10, 1995 3:41:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#265074
+
+     Thanks.  He's a fascinating character to explore, and 
+the most careful balancing act of the bunch; part of the 
+character's appeal is that on a very fundamental level, 
+you *like* him, and you don't want to see him on this 
+terrible slide downward.  So every so often, you have 
+to pull him back, go in a different direction, remind us of 
+his basic humanity and potential for heroism.  He is, really, 
+any of us caught in a web of events spinning more and more 
+out of control every day.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Londo in AOS			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, Tuesday, July 11, 1995 3:50:24 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#265555
+
+     The environment came first, then the broad sense of what 
+the story was going to be, then the characters, then how the 
+characters fit with the story, and how the story fit with the 
+characters.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  Ancient Ones			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Bob Perse, Tuesday, July 11, 1995 3:50:25 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#265556
+
+<The alien on the planet (Epsilon3?) with all the miles of 
+machinery - was his race one of the First Ones?>
+
+     No, Varn was not one of the First Ones.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Ancient Ones			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Bob Perse, Wednesday, July 12, 1995 2:41:06 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#266446
+
+     Of course, insofar as I recall, it wasn't stated in the 
+episode that Varn's people actually *built* the Great Machine; 
+after all, if they could build it, why would the others have 
+been searching for it so frantically for the last several 
+hundred years?
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  L.Ditillio			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Walter J.  Lee, Wednesday, July 12, 1995 2:54:31 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#266449
+
+     Larry's greatest skill is as a world-builder, and a 
+script doctor in working with other writers.  The former 
+comes from his background as a gamer, the latter from his 
+years in TV.
+
+     Problem with B5 is that this world is already built 
+pretty completely, from one end to the other.  Also, the job 
+of a story editor is mainly to sit and listen to pitches from 
+outside writers, and to rewrite their scripts when they come 
+in.  But in the case of B5, virtually all the scripts were 
+based on presmises I'd assigned to writers; we took maybe two 
+pitches in two years.  I wrote 12 scripts in year one, 15 in 
+year two, and personally did just nearly all the rewrites on 
+freelance scripts in year two.  Bottom line, there wasn't 
+much for Larry to *do*, and there was a growing sense of 
+frustration, in that he wasn't in a position to do what he's 
+good at doing. So finally we parted ways.  Not much more to 
+it than that.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Ancient Ones			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Rich Foster, Wednesday, July 12, 1995 4:00:30 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#266985
+
+<Was the Great Machine built by a member race of the First 
+Ones?>
+
+     Could be.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+Subj:  Morden and his place		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, Wednesday, July 12, 1995 3:50:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#266966
+
+<In Signs and Portents (as I remember) Morden was confronted by 
+Kosh in a corridor. Kosh said "They are not for you. Leave now."
+
+We know Morden is never alone and that the Shadows with him 
+engaged in combat with Kosh (they knocked out the lights and 
+damaged his suit). What I want to know is who Kosh was talking 
+to when he said what he did? Was it Morden or the Shadows with 
+him?>
+
+     His comment would have been addressed to the shadows and 
+their current emissary.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Londo in AOS			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, Wednesday, July 12, 1995 3:50:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#266967
+
+<When you came up with Londo, had you just had an encounter 
+with a REALLY obnoxious relative?>
+
+     I don't have any other kind.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  This seasons shows		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Tony Scarpelli, Wednesday, July 12, 1995 4:00:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#266986
+
+     Thanks.  We've been working very hard to make each season 
+better than the one before.  The "48 Hours" approach did help to 
+explicate the show for new viewers.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  This seasons shows		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Tom Knudsen, Wednesday, July 12, 1995 11:05:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#267414
+
+<EXPLICATE!!!?????  It's not in MY dictionary.<G>>
+
+     "Explicate, n, to make clear, to explain (a literary work)"
+
+     Oxford American Dictionary
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+Subj:  This seasons shows		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  J. Michael Straczynski,Wednesday, July 12, 1995 11:06:12 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#267415
+
+     Oops.  Meant to type v for verb, not n for noun there.
+
+									
+jms
+Subj:  Emmy nominations?		Section: Forum&Technical Hlp
+  To:  Rae Augenstein, Thursday, July 13, 1995 2:00:25 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#267508
+
+     No, I believe the Emmy nominations are announced on July 20th.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  Gen. Haig/Control		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Robert Pierce, Friday, July 14, 1995 2:34:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#269009
+
+     No purpose in the name echo; and Hague of 2259 has no 
+bearing on our General Haig.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  B5 at Shore Leave		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Cynthia and Richard, Saturday, July 15, 1995 12:56:09 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#269454
+
+<Just wanted  to share with you and the rest of the online world 
+the wonderful time we had at Shore Leave talking to  MOJO.   [...]
+
+P.S.  Any signs of a B5 Convention, esp. on the east coast?>
+
+     That's good to hear.  Glad it went well.  The only other East Coast
+ con I know of for a bit is Magnum Opus Con in Florida shortly.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+
+Subj:  Ancient Ones			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Laurence Moroney, Saturday, July 15, 1995 12:56:12 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#269455
+
+     Varn was the custodian of Epsilon 3, the planet below B5, who was 
+replaced by Draal, a Minbari.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 at Shore Leave		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Richard P. Manny, Saturday, July 15, 1995 7:29:10 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#270001
+
+     As far as I know, Bruce Boxleitner and Patricia Tallman 
+will both be at Magnum Opus Con.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 and JMS in San Diego		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael Grabois, Saturday, July 15, 1995 7:29:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#270000
+
+     It'll be pretty much the same, minus the MSTB5 stuff, 
+which was done by local fans.  I definitely encourage folks 
+to be there for the 11am-1pm presentation I'm doing if you're 
+*anywhere* in the San Diego area, because the presentation 
+I'm giving won't be given again until after the new season 
+begins in November.
+
+     No confirmed cast members at this point, since they 
+only gave us the one time slot, except Bill Mumy, who 
+generally goes to SDCC every year, same as me.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 and JMS in San Diego		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  SysOp J. Shaun Lyon, Sunday, July 16, 1995 3:55:04 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#270240
+
+     It's that Saturday, 11-1.  I think I may be on another 
+panel or two somewhere, but that's the main event.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Fav. 2nd season moments		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  William H. DiPaola, Sunday, July 16, 1995 5:18:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#270594
+
+     Actually, 18 were shown thus far, not 19.  Four remaing out 
+of 22, that leaves 18.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  Big Bang Latest			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  All			Sunday, July 16, 1995 5:18:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#270595
+
+     Bad enough that Big Bang stiffed Michael O'Hare for the 
+remaining $5,000 on his fee to attend the convention, bad 
+enough the check to Mark Hammil to reimburse his travel 
+expenses bounced, but I was just told today that the check for the 
+remainder of his fee, $10,000, ALSO bounced.  There are vague 
+mumblings about how they hope to replace the 
+check in, oh, three months or so, but nobody's holding out any hopes.
+
+     And, of course, there was the check to Walter Koenig that bounced 
+and had to be replaced (fortunately this happened just *before* the 
+convention, so he was able to make it clear he wouldn't attend if 
+it wasn't replaced immediately), the many people who still haven't 
+gotten refunds....
+
+     There were a few people here offering apologia and explanations 
+for the behavior of Big Bang/CMC earlier.  I note we haven't heard much 
+from them here of late.
+
+     This behavior is unconscionable and unforgiveable.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  The Shadow and Jung		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sam W, Monday, July 17, 1995 1:00:22 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#270870
+
+      There has always been a certain element of Jungian archetypes in the 
+show, both in the shadows and elsewhere.  (Comes from having a degree in 
+clinical psych, I suppose.)  There's a *lot* of thematic/symbolic stuff 
+going on in the show, actually....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subj:  Oxygen Masks			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jerry D Bookter, 75453,2257	Monday, July 17, 1995 1:00:23 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#270871
+
+<A question: I noticed for the first time while watching 'Hunter, Prey' 
+tonight that the oxygen mask that Sheridan wore while visiting Kosh in his 
+quarters is lit from the inside. I'm wondering, is it to better light the 
+actor's facial expressions inside so the camera can get a 
+better view or does it serve some other function? Maybe it prevents glare or 
+unwanted reflections on the outside of the faceplate? Thanks.>
+
+     Er, it does both.  Yeah, that's it, that's my theory, and I'm 
+sticking to it.
+
+     Though mainly it does make the actor's face clearer.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+
+Subj:  The Shadow and Jung		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sam W, Monday, July 17, 1995 9:27:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#271580
+
+<Ever read this strange book by Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of 
+Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" ?
+
+He posits that we, as humans, until recently, were raving 
+schitzophrenics.  He claims that the Iliad and the people of 
+it were unconscious, schitzo, and only recently the corpus 
+callosum fully integrated to form a conscious mind.>
+
+     Yeah, I've read Jaynes' book, and was fascinated by it.  
+But then I've always found the whole issue of the function of 
+the corpus callosum to be of interest, particularly the 
+split-brain experiments of the 1970s. Fascinating stuff.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+Subj:  Odd gadget in "H,P"		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Nathan Wallace, Monday, July 17, 1995 2:46:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#271232
+
+<there's an odd gadget set on the bulkhead by sheridan's 
+contact inH,P before she takes out the "whoop" anti-bug 
+shield. it seems pointedat sheridan. later, when he gives her 
+the data crystal, sheridan seemsto be holding it. neither 
+mentions it, so i don't suppose you'd like to give
+us a hint as to what it is......?>
+
+      It's a flashlight, and he's also holding one.  You caught 
+a very small glitch.  Originally, he came out, flashed twice with 
+his flashlight, giving the code; then she did the same, and 
+THEN stepped out of the shadows, putting her flashlight down on 
+the ledge beside her.  It took too long, though, interminably, 
+so when we edited it, we cut out that sequence...and 
+hoped nobody'd notice the flashlight sitting there.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  Fan Club - Next action?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Don Chase, Monday, July 17, 1995 9:27:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#271579
+
+     Don't wait on us; we've been fighting/negotiating for a year 
+and a half on this fan club, and it's taken this long to get even 
+to this point.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+Subj:  Big Bang Latest			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  David Chandler-Gick, Tuesday, July 18, 1995 1:47:29 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#271731
+
+<I have just returned from NASFiC in Atlanta, which I have to say, 
+compared to what I heard there of Big Bang, it was the second worst Con 
+this month...
+
+	From an Exhibitor who attended BB; John Delancie was left at 
+the airport for 3 hours!
+	When he finally arrived at the Con, he was told that his 
+presentation was cancelled because he was late. He stood up to them, 
+reportedly, saying that the presentation would go on because it was 
+thru their fault, not his, that he was late.
+	When attempting to go on with the presentation, the BB people 
+shut off his lights and microphone. DeLancie then told those who were 
+interested could meet him outside and he would talk to them.
+	The auditorium where the autograph line was had been 
+sandblasted the day before. For four hours, while the Big Bang 
+Security Geeks let their *friends* ahead of everyone else, the fans 
+were breathing concrete dust!
+	Everyone was told there would be a limit to 2 autographs - to 
+which Mr. DeLancie responded by signing everything he could get his 
+hands on! BRAVO!
+	My source for this info (as he related to me) knew there was
+problems when he got in the taxi and the driver never even heard of the 
+place!
+	Gee, we at NASFiC had it made in the shade compared to that!>
+
+     Yup...and that's just the beginning of the nightmare....
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  Fav. 2nd season moments		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Robert Miller, Tuesday, July 18, 1995 1:49:16 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#271732
+
+     How do you get a shot of Morden's head on a pike past 
+the censors?
+
+     Easy.
+
+     You frame the shot so the head is draped...in shadows.
+
+     If I were to be planning such a thing, of course....
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  Big Bang Latest			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  SysOp J. Shaun Lyon Wednesday, July 19, 1995 12:39:29 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#272608
+
+<Joe - For your information, and the information of those in this 
+Forum, a user came into both SFMEDIA and our companion Forum, SFLIT, 
+advertising a "professionally edited" tape of highlights of the 
+convention.
+
+Due to the nature of the events of this convention -- something I 
+consider to be fraud -- these messages have been pulled from public 
+view and said person will NOT be allowed to advertise Big Bang 
+materials on this Forum.
+
+Just our small way of helping get rid of this kind of stuff in 
+the future.>
+
+     Certainly inquiries should also be made as to whether or not 
+the actors gave permission for their performances to be edited and 
+sold in a profit- making capacity.  A copy of the contract should be 
+provided if so, to help avoid any liability for CIS.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  Fan Club - Next action?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, uesday, July 18, 1995 3:08:26 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#272138
+
+     It's nothing to do with support; it's the process of making the 
+deal with WB, which is like jumping rope with the rope on fire.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+Subj:  CGI FX for next Season		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  William H. DiPaola, Tuesday, July 18, 1995 3:08:28 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#272139
+
+     It's *really* hard to quantify this stuff; the key is to make it 
+look more real overall, so in a way you don't *notice* it as much.  
+So yes, it will continue to improve; but how to quantify that, I've 
+no idea.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+Subj:  CGI FX for next Season		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Kenneth Porter, Wednesday, July 19, 1995 12:39:00 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#272609
+
+     You can't move the NASA zero-g trainer; it's where it is, in 
+Florida. We're in California.  Also, they don't really have a zero-g 
+trainer in the sense you mean; they have a water-tank that simulates 
+zero-g using carefully balanced counterweights and lifts.  Again, that 
+won't transport to CA.  We can't use the Vomit Comet airplane in a series 
+like this, which only lets you shoot for 30 seconds at a time, at hideous 
+cost.
+
+     We have, however, vastly improved the interior of the station, which 
+you'll see in more detail than ever before in one of the final four 
+episodes.  I think it's a *substantial* improvement.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+Subj:  <<B5 Comic #8!!!>>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Z. Michael Milutinovic, July 18, 1995 3:26:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#272154
+
+<After reading Issue #8, and looking back at previous eps, I think the 
+encounter Talia had with Kosh and the ViCaR in season one make it appear 
+more interesting.  (In "Deathwalker")>
+
+     You may very well see an echo of that scene, and learn why it was 
+there in the first place, in that episode.
+
+
+                                                               jms
+
+Subj:  Oxygen Masks			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Will Gearhart, Wednesday, July 19, 1995 1:52:24 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#273040
+
+<But don't the lights in the masks also make it hard for the people 
+to see?>
+
+     Actually, our actors never seem to have a hard time getting 
+around in them, so I'd guess no.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  Emmy Rip-Off			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Thursday, July 20, 1995 3:25:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#274030
+
+     Not to pick nits...X-FILES got nominated for Best Series, only 
+the second time this has happened (I think the first was TNG, which 
+I believe got a nomination in its final year).  So that's very 
+encouraging.
+
+     And we've gotten 3 nominations so far, and as for EFX, the 
+ballots are still being counted in this and several other areas in 
+which we think we have a good shot.
+
+     Three nominations ain't bad...Kung Fu got zero, Baywatch zero, 
+DS9 got only two, Pointman got zero, Hercules got zero....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  Emmy Rip-Off			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  C. Bussjaeger, Thursday, July 20, 1995 9:57:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#274410
+
+     Actually, I only included Hercules because it's genre.
+
+     In going over the list, you realize how kinda special this is; out 
+of all the shows on television, network and syndicated, only 62 series, 
+movies, comedies or specials were nominated; out of that, only ELEVEN are 
+dramatic series.  And that eleven includes DS9, ST:V, X-Files and B5.  
+So four out of those eleven dramatic series are genre series, about 
+45%.  That ain't bad.
+
+     And this time at bat, B5 got as many nominations as The John 
+Larroquette Show, the Kennedy Center Honors, the Liz Taylor story, 
+Murder She Wrote, Murphy Brown, the Simpsons and the Tonight Show.  And 
+*more* nominations than Lois and Clark, Love & War, Politically Incorrect 
+and DS9, among others.
+
+     So apart from the actors situation, I don't feel in the least 
+slighted.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  Emmy Rip-Off			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Marte Brengle, Thursday, July 20, 1995 9:57:21 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#274411
+
+     Breast augmentation is also a science.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Emmy Nominations		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Barbara Pfieffer, Thursday, July 20, 1995 3:45:18 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#274038
+
+      As an aside...there are other areas in which we hope to receive 
+recognition, among them directing, special effects, music and sound 
+editing. Those ballots are still being counted, however, and won't be 
+announced for another week or two.
+
+     That aside, it's *very* hard to get actors recognized for their 
+work in SF.  Ditto writing.  But we continue to improve.  The pilot B5 
+movie got one nomination; the first season got two; the second season has 
+gotten three so far, and possibly one or two more yet to come.
+
+     If we keep going at this rate, it's going to be impossible for them 
+to ignore us for long.  As is the case with X-Files.  They've begun 
+receiving nominations in areas normally reserved for mainstream shows (and 
+I'm absolutely thrilled spitless that they got the nom for Best Series; that's 
+just terrific), so that bodes well for gradual change in the industry, and 
+for B5 to start getting recognition in those same areas.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  3rd season scripts		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Barbara Pfieffer, Thursday, July 20, 1995 9:57:16 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#274409
+
+     Scripts to date are five: Matters of Honor, Convictions, A Day in the 
+Strife, Voices of Authority, Passing Through Gethsemane, and due sometime 
+next week, Dust to Dust.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  New season			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  michael, Friday, July 21, 1995 2:15:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#274963
+
+     Thanks.  And yes, nothing new comes out until the first 
+week of October, then straight through to about December 14th.  
+So unless there are any last-minute changes, you'll have 
+something like 11 new eps in a row.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  3rd season scripts		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Friday, July 21, 1995 2:15:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#274964
+
+     No idea yet on how many I'll finally write; I usually 
+don't know until it's over.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  Emmy Rip-Off			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  SysOp Lee Whiteside,Friday, July 21, 1995 2:15:12 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#274965
+
+     Actually, I think the rules on the EFX award *have* 
+changed, it's no longer a juried award.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  New season			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Joe Salemi Saturday, July 22, 1995 10:54:09 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#276375
+
+     Hmmm...if your info is correct (not saying it isn't, only 
+that I haven't heard this new bit), the "new season" that begins 
+for Voyager in August probably consists of the last 4 episodes 
+they held back from their first season.  Assuming they play through, 
+then the next month would have new season two episodes.  They 
+only started filming their season recently, so they're really going 
+to have to rush post-production to get material out there in time to 
+meet airdates.
+
+     Doesn't affect us at all (except perhaps the Mountain is hoping 
+to get a leg up a bit), but I hope it doesn't cause compromises in 
+quality to do it that fast.
+
+     (The Mountain is LAspeak for Paramount; Warner Bros. is the 
+Shield.)
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  San Diego Comic Con		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sheree Harrell, Saturday, July 22, 1995 10:54:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#276376
+
+     I'll be doing my primary B5 presentation at 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. 
+on Saturday.  CAn't give details, but I suggest you be there.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  New season			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, Sunday, July 23, 1995 5:53:23 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#276992
+
+<By the way, you have completely destroyed my calm, unruffled 
+lifestyle.  After 23 years of happy TV-free existence, B5 caught 
+us in less than 6 weeks after a loaner Tube landed in 
+our living room.  This morning we wired up our new Surround sound 
+system.  It's ALL YOUR FAULT.  Thank you, thank you, thank you.  
+(And an extra thanks to Mira Furlan.  Delenn is the one who hooked 
+me!)>
+
+     I'm simply here to serve the commonweal.
+
+     And the Dolby Surround Sound corporation.
+
+     Thankyew.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  San Diego Comic Con		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Don Berg, Sunday, July 23, 1995 5:53:27 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#276995
+
+     It's held at the SD Convention Center down by the Harbor.  
+It's HUGE, the usual attendance is over 25,000 people.
+
+                                                                       
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  More third season stuff		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Barbara Pfieffer, Monday, July 24, 1995 2:39:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#277836
+
+<I read on Usenet that you're introducing a new character 
+named Marcus.  Can you tell us anything about him, the actor 
+portraying him, etc?
+
+I was also wondering if you could upload a new gif or two of 
+the station.>
+
+      I think that uploading can be done.
+
+      As for Marcus...he's a Ranger, who'll be seen a lot 
+in the coming season.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  More third season stuff		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Barbara Pfieffer, Monday, July 24, 1995 10:35:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#278476
+
+     I'll give more info on Marcus after we've closed the 
+deal with the actor.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  New season			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, Monday, July 24, 1995 2:39:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#277837
+
+     Thanks, yeah, I think we're just on the cusp of finally 
+breaking through in a big way; my sense is that we're right 
+around where X-Files was just before it broke.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  Deep Space Franchise		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Robert Miller, Monday, July 24, 1995 10:43:09 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#278478
+
+<About the line in "There All the Honor Lies">
+
+     Correct; the Deep Space Franchise line is *all* Peter's.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Deep Space Franchise		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  J. Michael Straczynski, Tuesday, July 25, 1995 7:14:23 AM
+From:  Peter David,		#278753
+
+And as I wrote it I sat there thinking, "And as Peter kisses 
+his Trek novel career good-bye...."
+
+PAD
+
+Subj:  B5 & JMS books			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Monday, July 24, 1995 10:43:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#278479
+
+     Re: advice on getting your foot in the door.
+
+     Have a persistent foot.
+
+     Write constantly.  For anyone and everyone.
+
+     Patience, determination, direction and strength.
+
+     And never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work 
+the same way twice for anyone...the path follows you and rolls 
+up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their 
+own way.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  More third season stuff		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Burhaan  Ahmad, Tuesday, July 25, 1995 1:57:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#279129
+
+ <The same Ranger who sought out Garibaldi?>
+
+     Different ranger.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  More third season stuff		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  SysOp Dupa T. Parrot, Tuesday, July 25, 1995 10:39:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#279852
+
+     I believe he will be in the opening credits next season, yes.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  More third season stuff		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John Lester, Wednesday, July 26, 1995 2:27:20 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#280570
+
+     I would not be surprised to see Sinclair in a two-parter
+this coming season, on the B5 station.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  UK airing / video taped?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  David Chandler-Gick, Tuesday, July 25, 1995 1:57:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#279130
+
+     Warners is legitimately concerned about people offering to 
+make mass numbers of copies of episodes and send them out to 
+others, whether for profit or not.  Particularly when 
+they haven't been seen in this country, such that it violates a 
+lot of laws both domestic and international.  If someone is 
+engaging in mass copying, be assured that Warners will have 
+men with badges knocking on their doors in very short order.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  UK airing / video taped?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael Beemer, Wednesday, July 26, 1995 10:06:26 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#281108
+
+     Irony is generally lost on studios.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 & JMS books			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Tuesday, July 25, 1995 1:57:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#279131
+
+     Everyone always tells you it won't happen, you're wasting 
+your time, it's pointless...because that's how they want to think, 
+because someone achieving something makes someone who may not have 
+done so feel self- conscoius, because they KNOW you and as it says 
+in the New Testament "A prophet is without honor only in his own 
+land and among his own people," and because overall the system is 
+designed to keep you IN.  A writer by nature removes him- or herself 
+from the system of 9-5 office type work.  Over time you make your 
+own hours, your own schedule, you select who you work for... you're 
+outside the normal space/time continuum, and between you and that 
+goal is one hell of a lot of surface tension.
+
+     Every writer has been told, at some point, "You'll never make 
+it, why waste your time?"  Ninety percent of the time, they're right.  
+Ten percent of the time they're not.  But you won't know which camp 
+you fall in until you try.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 & JMS books			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Tuesday, July 25, 1995 5:12:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#279382
+
+     I started writing at 14; started selling at 17.
+
+     One warning re: 300+ page books at this point...if nothing 
+happens, and it may or may not, it can be a big stumbling block to
+get over.  Don't let the smaller stories get away from 
+you either.  It's good to do a variety of things.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 & JMS books			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Tuesday, July 25, 1995 10:39:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#279853
+
+     The differences between screenwriting and a novel...would take 
+a book to communicate.  Suffice for now to say just that the strengths 
+of a novel are all internal (internal monologue, POV, narrative 
+descriptions), and the strength of a screenplay is all external 
+(dialogue and visuals).
+
+     Which is why the best novels often make the worst movies.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 & JMS books			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Wednesday, July 26, 1995 2:27:21 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#280571
+
+     I could probably adapt the B5 storyline very well to a novel, 
+since it would provide the chance to expand on a lot of stuff.  
+Whether or not that ever happens is anyone's guess.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 & JMS books			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Wednesday, July 26, 1995 10:07:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#281112
+
+     It took 5 years to sell B5.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 & JMS books			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, Wednesday, July 26, 1995 2:27:24 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#280572
+
+     Some comics adapt well, some don't; Watchmen would be great.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Competition 4 B5...		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  David Chandler-Gick, Tuesday, July 25, 1995 2:13:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#279163
+
+     I don't consider Space competition in that sense, except 
+that it will be something more motivating us to work harder 
+(like we lacked that).  From where I sit, the more, the merrier, 
+and welcome to them.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  <<Divided Loyalties>>>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Simon Grierson, Tuesday, July 25, 1995 5:12:10 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#279380
+
+     Boy, a whole lotta questions, and not *one* I can answer at this 
+time without spoiling stuff for down the road.
+
+     Well, actually, there *is* one I can answer.
+
+     No, the B5 facilities were never flooded.
+
+     And thanks for the reaction....
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  <<Divided Loyalties>>>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Simon Grierson,Tuesday, July 25, 1995 10:39:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#279851
+
+     Some of it's the sound of the name, some has actual roots in 
+other places (minbar is the term for the pulpit in a mosque; delen 
+is middle english for divided).
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Syndication?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Glenn Storey/Wa., Tuesday, July 25, 1995 5:12:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#279383
+
+     The show is already in syndication, just not stripped daily. 
+You usually only trim network shows, which are longer than syndicated 
+shows; since we're already at that shorter length, it should be okay.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Syndication?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Glenn Storey/Wa., Wednesday, July 26, 1995 10:07:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#281111
+
+     It wouldn't likely go daily until the 5 years are up.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  <<DL real spoilers !>>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Richard McLaren, Tuesday, July 25, 1995 5:23:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#279407
+
+     C4 is showing the eps in the right order; don't worry.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+Subj:  <<DL real spoilers !>>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Martin Colloby, Wednesday, July 26, 1995 10:06:27 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#281109
+
+<The Long, Twilight Struggle Divided Loyalties Comes The 
+Inquisitor The Fall Of Night>
+
+     No, they're not correct.  That's the production schedule, 
+not the preferred airdate schedule.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  <<Divided Loyalties>>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Colin Radford, Tuesday, July 25, 1995 5:23:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#279408
+
+     Remember, Kosh was the one who sent those images into Sheridan's 
+brain, not anybody else; he was communicating useful information that 
+may come up down the road, but in rather symbological form.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+Subj:  Star Fury Models			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  C. Bussjaeger, Tuesday, July 25, 1995 10:39:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#279850
+
+<BTW, you do cons- ever heard the Frank Hayes song 'Little
+Fuzzy Animals?'>
+
+     No, never heard that song.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+Subj:  <<DL questions>>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Tom Knudsen, Wednesday, July 26, 1995 10:07:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#281113
+
+<Would a letter to WB about how not showing these episodes in the 
+US, but allowing them to be shown in England, has spoiled the 
+surprises you had planned for many of the biggest and most 
+supportive (but weak willed and looking for a B5 fix) fans of the 
+show do more harm than good?>
+
+     It wouldn't do a bit of good.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  Bless B5 and Thank You		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Deon W. Becic, Sunday, July 30, 1995 8:42:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#284792
+
+<Thanks for creating B5.  We've had our first X Files 
+convention in Sacto, how about B5 stopping by?>
+
+     Thanks.  We're definitely growing, it seems.  And the prospect of a true 
+B5 convention is indeed a possibilitiy, though down the line a bit.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  Speculation V Story Line		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Mark Sloan, Sunday, July 30, 1995 8:42:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#284793
+
+     Introducing new story elements vs. speculating on what events already 
+shown may mean.  That's the dividing line.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+Subj:  Unlicensed Bumpersticker		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeff Frank, Sunday, July 30, 1995 9:00:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#284800
+
+<Joe:
+
+I inadvertantly purchased an unlicensed bumpersticker from Starbase Columbus 
+thru the mail.  The sticker says "Beyond the Final Frontier lies Babylon 5" 
+with the B5 logo (trademark not acknowledged).  The sticker was produced by 
+Pegasus Publishing and shows their copywrite.<sic>  It also has a lousy 
+production quality -- that will teach me to order thru the mail.
+
+Would you like this sticker and the address & phone for Starbase Columbus?>
+
+     Yeah, I'd appreciate the info on that.  And if you've got one, all the 
+better.
+
+     Bad enough it's pirate, but to have crummy artwork...sheesh....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+[[[ EDITOR'S NOTE: MESSAGES WITH SPOILERS FOR THE LAST FOUR EPISODES CAN
+    BE FOUND IN THE FILE "spoilers" IN THIS DIRECTORY.  THEY'LL BE MERGED
+    BACK INTO THIS FILE AFTER THE US/CANADIAN AIRINGS OF THE EPISODES. ]]]
+Subj:  Bless B5 and Thank You		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jean  Teneglio, Monday, July 31, 1995 11:29:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#285752
+
+     Some parts of the world are in first season, some are in second.  
+It varies by area.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Party Suggestions?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Randy j Zimmerman, Monday, July 31, 1995 12:45:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#285238
+
+     The only thing I'd suggest is adding either And the Sky Full of 
+Stars and/or The Parliament of Dreams.
+
+     Photos or other residue can always be sent along to us, at the 
+address: 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.  Be sure to 
+include C/O Babylon 5 in the address.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Party Suggestions?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anthony Ho, Monday, July 31, 1995 11:29:25 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#285749
+
+     Pretty much the order they were shown in is okay, though again 
+Knives should precede Z'ha'dum; the rest is okay, as far as I can 
+remember.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  Women on B5			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Eric Baker, Monday, July 31, 1995 12:45:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#285239
+
+     There is no pre-determined male/female ratio on the show; it's 
+pretty much the luck of the draw or the script.  One thing that might 
+help, though, is that we've changed casting directors.  We kinda kept 
+nudging the one before for a greater diversity in guest roles (looking 
+for different ethnic groups, looking for men and women equally in parts 
+that can go either way), and our new one is definitely more inclined 
+in that direction, so this will doubtless improve.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+
+
+Subj:  Renderings on B5			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John Lester,Monday, July 31, 1995 11:29:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#285753
+
+     All I know is that it's indeed now a PC/Dos environment, using an 
+exported brand of Lightwave.  You may want to leave a public message here 
+for Paul Beigle-Bryant, co-CGI maven at Foundation Imaging, who is known 
+to hang out here from time to time.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  Ferengi rules rumor?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Burhaan  Ahmad, Monday, July 31, 1995 11:40:12 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#285758
+
+     I doubt very much anyone from B5 ever started that rumor because, 
+frankly, I don't even know what the heck he's *talking* about.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  Season 3 Starts Shooting		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Brett Sherris, Monday, July 31, 1995 11:40:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#285759
+
+     We did indeed shoot our first day on year three today, and it went 
+very well.  We wrapped about a half hour early, about seven-ish, the cast
+is happy to be back, everyone's fallen right into step...it's a wonder 
+to behold.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+
+
+
+*******************************************************
+* SPOILERS FOR FINAL FOUR SEASON-TWO EPISODES FOLLOW. *
+*******************************************************
+
+
+
+
+
+Subj:  <<Divided Loyalties>>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Derek Paterson, Tuesday, July 25, 1995 2:13:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#279164
+
+     Re: things you don't expect to happen...that's kind of one 
+aspect I was after here.  By way of comparison....
+
+     There's one great thing about The Shining, despite some other 
+flaws in the film: they set up Scatman Cruthers (sp?) as the one guy 
+who understands what's going on...he gets the Shining, he's a potentially 
+heroic character, and when all hell breaks loose, he's the one to 
+get into the snow plow, cross terrible weather, we're all sure he's going 
+to get there and fight the menace...he overcomes weather and nonsense 
+to get there...he blows through the front door, ready for action....
+and gets an axe in the middle of his chest and dies.
+
+     I *loved* that, and always kinda wanted to something of that nature, 
+where you set someone up to be that kind of character, the future, 
+whatever, then you yank it back and let the audience say, Oh, hell, 
+NOW what?
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  << Divided Loyalties >>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Brian Deane, Tuesday, July 25, 1995 5:12:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#279381
+
+     I'd say the next 3 are equal or more on a wow scale, 
+in some ways.
+
+     One other thought on Talia...one of the motifes we've played 
+with from the start was always showing Talia in mirrors...in Race, 
+in Z'ha'dum and others...always showing the reflection, her opposite, 
+just to set stuff up on an emotional/symbological level.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  <<DL questions>>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Ruth Ballam, Wednesday, July 26, 1995 2:35:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#280585
+
+     In the B5 universe, as a general rule of thumb, people don't just 
+come back after something like this.  "Talia" has been destroyed 
+permanently; that's what it said in the episode, and that's the way 
+it'll stay.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  <<DL foreshadowing?>>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Robert Miller, Sunday, July 30, 1995 8:42:09 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#284794
+
+     One thing you have to remember is that while Talia is in the opening 
+credits, to Psi Corps she's just one more of many programmed individuals in
+various places.  The character in "Spider" was a highly valued infiltration
+unit, with very expensive "parts."  Of the two, Talia would've been far more
+expendable.  And I don't recall that Control actually issued any death order;
+it was the Psi Corps/B13 in any event.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subj:  <<DL foreshadowing?>>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John McAuley, Monday, July 31, 1995 11:29:29 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#285751
+
+     The problem in trying to keep something mysterious and 
+vague is thatsometimes you can outsmart yourself, and get 
+confusing.  The *theory* isthat there was the Bureau as Control 
+overall back on Earth; and a minor Control figure on B5.  And 
+Controls are always referred to as "he"regardless of the facts 
+to avoid giving any means of identification to anoutsider based 
+on gender.
+
+     So it would be
+
+                            BUREAU CONTROL
+            ----------------------|---------------------
+            |                     |                    |
+      Earthdome Control      B5 Control         Minipax Control
+
+
+     (That's a breakdown using artificial and not necessarily
+correctelements, just for illustration.)
+
+     It is, however, a confusing bit of terminology, so it's been 
+amended subsequently.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+Subj:  <Divided Loyalties>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Malcolm Pemberton, Monday, July 31, 1995 11:29:26 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#285750
+
+<I wonder if you would settle an argument that has been raging about 
+the shooting at Lyta in Divided Loyalties.
+Is the hand with the gun  Left or Right?>
+
+     I don't remember offhand; I'll have to check the tape.  (I have a 
+vague memory that it was a right hand originally, flopped to shoot in the 
+other direction.)
+
+                                                            jms
+
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+JMS CompuServe messages collected by The Green Meddler <kilgalen@tde.com>.
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Mailing Address		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  All	      Tuesday, August 01, 1995 12:42:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#286115
+
+     There is a growing diversification in the names and personnel 
+to whom letters are being sent via the B5 mail drop (which is not 
+the main studio address).  Consequently, it is important to be 
+absolutely sure to include the words C/O BABYLON 5 on any mail you 
+send cast or crew at this address: 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260,
+Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.  Otherwise it may end up being returned.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  <Long Twilight Struggle>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John Lester, Tuesday, August 01, 1995 11:34:09 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#286700
+
+     "Joe, you do not disappoint."
+
+     I'm trying *awful* hard not to.  Doing this show right is terribly 
+important to all of us involved in it.  I really want it to be the kind 
+of show I've always wanted to watch as a fan.  And I'm very, very pleased 
+that the writing is generally satisfactory.  Sometimes, when 
+behind the keyboard, one has grave doubts if it's good enough....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  Great Maker			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Chris Gardiner, Tuesday, August 01, 1995 3:43:23 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#286265
+
+     Who are the 4 different races who all use the term Great Maker? 
+Insofar as I recall, only the Ikarrans and the Centauri used that term.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  MoreMicrosComing!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Rae Augenstein, Tuesday, August 01, 1995 11:34:07 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#286698
+
+     As it happens, we've found out, a LOT of toy stores have gotten the 
+B5 micromachines, but very few actually put them out on the racks, not 
+knowing anything about the show (our curse continues).  In general, 
+if people go into their local medium/large sized toy stores, 
+and ask them to check in the back, they appear.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Long Twilight Struggle>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  David Silkstone, Wednesday, August 02, 1995 12:44:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#287137
+
+     Yeah, we can probably put up a cast shot.
+
+     Season 3 airs in the US starting in November (with the last 
+of year two in October); I think it'll probably start in the UK 
+in the spring.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  <<DL foreshadowing?>>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John McAuley, Wednesday, August 02, 1995 12:44:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#287139
+
+     We've done a couple of steady-cam/CGI composite shots, but not 
+that much; in "And Now For a Word," you'll sometimes see a floating
+recorder in C&C moving around...that was a steady-cam in use, and we 
+composited in the CGI.  It is, however, time-consuming, so we only do 
+that sort of thing as required.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  Unlicensed Bumpersticker		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  B.J. Mitias, Wednesday, August 02, 1995 12:59:12 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#287161
+
+     Pegasus can *say* they are protected all they want...but parody laws 
+do NOT cover the use of the B5 logo, which has been copyrighted and 
+trademarked.  If it's just text, that's one thing, but to use the logo in 
+any unauthorized way is infringement.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  Unlicensed Bumpersticker		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  B.J. Mitias, Thursday, August 03, 1995 12:00:14 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#287744
+
+     We learn by doing.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  <DS9 4th season rumors>		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  William A. Swanberg,Thursday, August 03, 1995 12:48:23 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#287792
+
+     You always have to be careful when a studio says it hasn't turned 
+a profit on the show.  They say this for the primary reason that certain 
+people involved with series and movies -- stars, creators, executive 
+producers -- get a percentage of the net profit.  Conseuqently, it 
+is studio and network policy to make absolutely sure that, whatever the 
+real facts might be, none of their products *ever* show a profit *on paper*.  
+You always charge something more against the income, and make sure you zero 
+out the profits to avoid sharing it with anybody else.
+
+     It's the oldest gag in the book, and in any public statement, that's 
+the party line.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  <<TLTS: Shadow ships>>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Spencer Collyer Thursday, August 03, 1995 2:05:24 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#288105
+
+     The Sigma 957 vessel has no connection to the Shadows.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <<TLTS: Shadow ships>>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Spencer Collyer Thursday, August 03, 1995 10:38:23 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#288536
+
+<So what _was_ it then?  (Don't tell me: 'Yes' <g>)>
+
+     It was very old.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <DS9 4th season rumors            Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Mike Topf, Thursday, August 03, 1995 2:05:23 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#288104
+
+      "...you could ask for a MUCH smaller percentage of gross."
+
+      The only acceptable percentage of gross profits is zero.  
+Unless you're a megastar or megadirector.  Other than that, 
+nobody gets gross points.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <DS9 4th season rumors>		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Fred DeCosta, Thursday, August 03, 1995 10:38:25 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#288537
+
+     Because it gives you at least a shot, if the show is a huge 
+success, of eventually going in and having the right to examine 
+their books and at some far distant point, if you're willing 
+to throw away your career but there's some serious money to be 
+had, of going after them.  (Did you know that the majority of actors 
+from the original ST, outside the so-called Big Three, have over 
+30 years received only about $16,000 from ST in merchandise, profit, and 
+other areas?)
+
+     I believe it was Fess Parker who finally sued over profits 
+from his series, which after 25 years of syndication, was still 
+supposedly "in the red."  It took several years of litigation to 
+get the money he was owed from his "net."
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Season 3 Starts Shooting		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Dimitri M LaBarge, hursday, August 03, 1995 2:05:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#288102
+
+     It's just something I've had to learn out of self-defense; 
+I've never actually been good with crowds, was always terrified of 
+speaking in front of a group.  But sometimes you gotta do 
+what scares you....
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  Season 3 Starts Shooting		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael Grabois, Thursday, August 03, 1995 10:39:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#288538
+
+     I guess I chose "Twilight" because it's just such a kick-ass 
+episode that works great with an audience.
+
+     And yeah, the whole presentation was a hoot.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  Season Three Narration		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Bob Cazzell, Thursday, August 03, 1995 10:39:07 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#288540
+
+"By the way, your dedication and commitment to your audience is the 
+coolest thing I have ever seen come from the makers of a series, 
+sci-fi or otherwise. You have no idea how much we appreciate it!"
+
+     Thanks.  I guess, really, it's just having been a fan, and still 
+being a fan in many ways, I just figure fans should be treated the way 
+I would've liked to have been treated by folks in TeeVee.  It's really as 
+much my pleasure as anyone else's.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Season Three Narration		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Tom Knudsen, Saturday, August 05, 1995 12:22:31 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#289498
+
+     Yeah, Chris tends to get the lion's share of the credit for 
+being online, though I've been here since 1984/85, but that's okay; 
+it's the principle that matters.
+
+     I'm glad it's helped to demystify TV, because that's been one 
+of my goals from the very start.  You can't hope to influence or 
+control something until you understand it.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  U.S. video release		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Robert A. Russo, Saturday, August 05, 1995 12:22:08 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#289500
+
+     We're working on it....
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  the NEW sf standard		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  David Chandler-Gick, Sunday, August 06, 1995 12:52:17 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#290359
+
+     Let me address the small points first, then go into the major 
+thesis.
+
+     What keeps B5 from becoming a "cult" series if it runs only its 
+five years?  I dunno...lots of shows run only 5 years or less.  The 
+majority of them, in fact.  I'd also point out that in the moderately-
+hard SF area -- space stuff, star travel and the like -- no show has EVER 
+gone five years except Star Trek.  Even Lost in Space went only 3 years 
+(September 1965 to September 1968).  Prior to the new incarnations of ST, 
+the original series ALSO didn't make it past 3 years.
+
+     So if you really *want* to look at the only non-Star Trek spacefaring 
+SF series to go (hopefully) five years in, oh, the entire HISTORY of 
+American television and minimize that by calling it a "cult" series, well, 
+that's certainly your right.  I don't agree with it, but one wouldn't expect 
+me to.
+
+     Twin Peaks, which only went about 2, max 3 seasons, is a short enough 
+run to be justifiably called a "cult" show.  Five seasons is a credible 
+series in *anyone's* book.  Right now, at just shy of year two, we're still 
+a cult series.  By year five we would not be; we'd be in the same ranks as 
+any successful TV series, and success is defined as 90-100 episodes in the 
+can, enough to syndicate thereafter.  So right from the git-go, the term 
+being used, "cult series," doesn't apply, I think.  It's no more a cult 
+series than any mainstream series that goes 5 seasons.  (Hill Street Blues 
+just *barely* made it to six years.)
+
+     Blake's 7 is a UK series, and to American audiences, that usually 
+becomes "cult" by definition.  And, again, B7 ran only 4 years, from January 
+1978 - December 1981.  Dr. Who, though gifted with a 20+ year run, is also not 
+much known in the US, and thus comes under a "cult" show heading by that 
+default.  (Because part of the definition of cult show is not a numerical 
+issue, as you seem to advance, but a philosophical issue, the extent to which 
+the society at large knows about the show, or elements of that show.)
+
+     But to continue using your terminology for a moment...Space 1999, which 
+you cite, ran only from 1975-1977, three years again, which once more does 
+not allow for any real momentum to be built up in making the general populace 
+aware of it.  Quantum Leap made 5 years, but since we're talking space-SF at 
+the moment, and it'sreally more of an anthology series with recurring 
+characters, that goes into a separate category for now.
+
+     If this show goes the full five years -- and it will -- it will become 
+the only non-Star Trek space series to do so in the history of American TV. 
+That is a *huge* accomplishment.  Will it become widely known and accepted by 
+the American consciousness, mainstreamed like ST, so that Jay Leno can comment 
+on Klingons and everybody in the audience knows what he's talking about?  
+Who knows?  Maybe, maybe not.  Doesn't really matter to me one way or another.  
+The show will be there.  A painting is no less a 
+painting for the number of people who pass in front of it.  It is what it is.
+
+     I could probably help matters a bit by going more for merchandising, put 
+in some scantily-clad women, doing a lot of stunts...but I've said from the 
+start, I'm not here to try and make a franchise, I'm here to tell a story.  
+Some folks will like it, some won't.  Them's the breaks.
+
+     So the thesis of your panel, in some measure, seems to be, If B5 does 
+not become as well known as ST, is it ultimately successful or important in 
+American culture?  To me, this is inherently flawed reasoning.  ST is only the 
+measure of ST, and nothing else.  I'd even argue that except for the original 
+series, there really isn't any one thing called Star Trek.  There was the 3 
+season show that Gene did in the late 60s; there was the first movie Gene did 
+in the late 1970s; the other movies that were done by other people, like Nick 
+Meyer and Harve Bennet; the TNG series that was created by Gene and David 
+Gerrold; the DS9 that was created by Berman/Pillar; and the ST:V created by 
+Piller, Berman and Taylor.
+
+     They are all, in many ways, very different creations, that share only one 
+thing: the brand name.  If you renamed B5, STAR TREK: BABYLON 5, the ratings 
+would go up instantly, and it would become more of a household name than it is.  
+It would be no different a show, but it would have that brand name behind it.
+
+     "What keeps Trek from falling into the "cult" classification is the 
+ongoing production."  Negative.  To play one side of the coin for a moment, 
+the second most of the population knows or recognizes the word "Klingon," it has 
+stopped being a cult show, *on a philosophical level*.  And that happened long 
+before TNG ever went into production.  That happened over the 20 years the 
+original three-season ST was in syndication.
+
+     To play the other side of it...I hate to break it to you, but media SF is 
+STILL considered a "cult" area, by critics, by networks, by the press, by most of 
+the population.  A very small portion of viewers watch SF, including ST.  It may 
+seem to you otherwise, because as SF fans we're nominally in the fishbowl, but it's 
+true.  In syndication, you need far fewer ratings points to survive.  Overall, 
+neither TNG nor DS9 got anywhere near decent network ratings, though there were a 
+few times in TNG's history -- the pilot and a couple others -- where it approached 
+that.  Put onto a network series list, they would both be where ST:V is right now...
+in the cellar.
+
+     So, overall, I think the entire thesis of the panel is flawed, and proceeds 
+from the trap of accepted cliche, misinformation and fuzzy thinking that has little 
+to do with the realities of TV and culture.
+
+     Now to the main point of *my* thesis here.
+
+     I'm frankly tired as hell of "ST vs. B5" or "ST/B5" panels, however they're 
+couched.  They are separate shows, they have nothing to do with one another, 
+they're as different as night and day, and the only reason to put them into the 
+same panel is to start a fracas or take a philosophical position by defined 
+contrariness.  And, fundamentally, it continues to put ST at the center of the 
+universe.  We're going on our third season now, and things look good for seasons 
+thereafter.  We've carved out our own identity. why can't we be taken or discussed 
+on our own?  Why does there always have to be this nutty feud?
+
+     Are you going to be doing ST/Quantum Leap panels?  Will there be any X-Files
+/Star Trek panels?  No, because they're nothing like Star Trek, AND NEITHER ARE WE.  
+Yet everywhere we go, ST follows us around like Marley's Ghost, rattling its chains 
+and dominating the conversation.
+
+     "Can Babylon 5 replace Trek as THE icon of SF?...without a continued run."
+First off, THE icon to whom?  To core ST viewers?  Of course not.  To core B5 
+viewers?  In many cases, it already has.  You equate numbers of episodes to 
+quality of episodes.  Many SF writers have written MORE novels than Robert Heinlein...
+but how many have written them BETTER?  And which is more an icon of SF?  Who is 
+this person who decides what a media or print SF *ICON* is?
+
+     The Oxford American Dictionary defines "icon" as, "a painting or mosaic of 
+a sacred person, *itself* regarded as sacred."  If that's the Pointy Hat under 
+discussion, I'd rather pass, all things considered.  I don't WANT this show to 
+become an ICON.  I want to tell this story, about these people.  You can't sit 
+there worrying if it's going to become a Huge Eternal Monster, or some revered 
+icon, or anything that comes after the fact. That way lies madness.  You can 
+only concentrate on telling the story, and making the program, as best you can.  If the audience finds you, and likes it, you get to stay on the air and finish 
+your story; if not, you don't.  That simple.
+
+     Nothing personal in this, btw, this isn't a flame, and I'm not annoyed,
+I'm just trying to answer the question honestly.  And yes, the info you 
+provided re: BB was most helpful.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <DS9 4th season rumors>		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Alan Mulvie, Sunday, August 06, 1995 12:52:19 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#290360
+
+     "Surely that sort of thing <trick accounting to hide profits from the cast 
+andproducers> is illegal, if not immoral?"
+
+      It's Chinatown, Jake.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Cresent City Con			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Sunday, August 06, 1995 1:42:15 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#290397
+
+     Actually, it's fairly well known that Ron Goulart ghost-writes the 
+TekWar novels for Shatner.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  the NEW sf standard		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  SysOp J. Shaun Lyon, Monday, August 07, 1995 2:39:03 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#291470
+
+<I would like to further point out the following: CompuServe is a 
+fair sampling of science fiction fandom hooked up electronically to 
+online services, and while this branch of fandom is still a minority,
+I would say it is fairly smaller but still representative cross-
+section of fandom.
+
+And on CompuServe's SF & Fantasy Media Forum, Babylon Five has been 
+the single *highest* trafficked message section since the Forum's 
+inception in October 1994.  (I don't have the figures before the split 
+off hand.)
+
+Star Trek has been, for the past six months, number three.>
+
+     Well, hell, if that's the case, then I'm owed some *MAJOR* perks 
+around here.  That official food taster never DID arrive, you know....
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+Subj:  the NEW sf standard		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  David Chandler-Gick, Monday, August 07, 1995 2:39:19 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#291473
+
+     Understood.  No healing needed; it wasn't directed at you as much 
+as the topic.
+
+     I do understand your point; but I still don't think it's valid.  
+If by cult you mean, as you say, "anyone who is a fan of something that 
+is no more," not being produced, then EVERY TV series ever produced, 
+that is now no longer being produced, becomes a "cult" show.  Again, that 
+broadens the definition to the point where it's essentially meaningless.  
+Specificity In Language Is Our Friend.
+
+     The other point that I forgot to bring up in an already overlong reply 
+was this: you ask, can B5 "become the mainstream reference to SF?"  For 
+starters, it shouldn't, because then, for the mainstream SF = B5, and I don't 
+think that's correct.  The whole point of the exercise is to broaden out and 
+encourage MORE SF on the air.  What is the mainstream reference for cop shows?  
+Is it CANNON?  HILL ST. BLUES?  NYPD BLUE?  DRAGNET?  There are so many of them, 
+there isn't one clear point of reference.  That is the goal with SF, to get 
+people to understand that there isn't any one thing that is a reference point 
+to SF.
+
+     What would it be in literature?  Heinlein?  Asimov?  Clark?  Ellison? 
+Ashton-Smith?  Russell?  Simak?  Bradbury?  Anybody who says that Writer X is 
+THE reference point in SF would be laughed out of the room.  The only reason 
+that ST has kind of "been" that by default is that there hasn't been much 
+ELSE in 30 years that's been even moderately successful.  Once that changes, 
+you'll get to the *proper* definition of SF, as advanced by (I believe)
+Asimov, who said, "SF is whatever I point to when I say, 'That's SF.'"
+
+     (Which, by the way, is one of Paramount's greatest fears.  Until now, 
+they've had a lock on the genre, and ST has thus been special, and they're 
+worried that if there are lots of space genre shows around, that ST won't
+be *special* anymore, and will have to compete on its own merits.)
+
+     The other thing to consider in all this is the cultural aspect.  Will 
+there ever be another Beatles?  No.  Because as well as their artistic 
+contributions, the Beatles occupy a very special place in music history; 
+they were nominally the first really big breakthrough for what we now 
+consider modern rock.  They were the biggest.  They changed the field of
+rock forever, redefined it, gave it tools that did not exist before, gave 
+it a measure of legitimacy it did not have before.  Many other bands since 
+have sold more records, but none will ever occupy that primary, pivotal 
+position in our culture.  There cannot be another Beatles, and you cannot 
+define another group in that light, despite every six months somebody
+coming out and saying that X is "the new Beatles."
+
+     Ditto Star Trek.  It is very much a product of its time, and it fills 
+that same kind of pivotal role in SF television.  It changed SF TV back in 
+the 1960s, no mistake.  It occupies a unique niche in American television 
+that cannot be replicated.  Which is why I've always run from reporters who 
+ask if this is the next Star Trek, if I'm "the next Roddenberry," and the
+like, because there can't be either, any more than somebody is the next 
+Beatles.
+
+     The fundamental problem is that after ST went off the air, nobody
+picked up the ball they'd created and ran with it.  They chipped at the 
+stereotype of SF, and broke some of it, but nobody followed through with
+another show.  DRAGNET changed forever cop shows; prior to then, they were 
+always considered low-ratings shows, of interest only to those who like 
+police procedurals.  For all its stiffness, DRAGNET showedcops with real 
+lives, drinking problems, debts, marriages, dinners, dating...and in 
+very short order, other shows followed suit.  Had that not happened, cop 
+shows that came 20 years later would've been compared with Dragnet, since 
+that would be the only reference point.  But it *did* happen with Dragnet
+..and it *didn't* happen with Star Trek.
+
+     The larger the possibilities, the less likely ANYthing is to be a
+"reference point."  And that, to me, is the goal.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+
+Subj:  Who is Heinlein?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Chris Gardiner, Sunday, August 06, 1995 3:17:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#290885
+
+     Heinlein is one of the great figures of SF; STRANGER IN A STRANGE 
+LAND, THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS, STARSHIP TROOPERS, THE ROADS MUST
+ROLL...the list of his works is enormous, and were pivotal in shaping 
+much of modern SF.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+
+Subj:  Who is Heinlein?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Daniel M. Upton, Monday, August 07, 1995 2:39:09 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#291472
+
+     I just put the titles out in the order they came into my fevered 
+brain, there's no contextual or priority order there.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 at general cons		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, unday, August 06, 1995 3:17:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#290886
+
+     That really honks me off; here Michael comes to be the GoH at the con, 
+and some folks object to having his work on B5 shown there because it isn't 
+ST.  Whatta buncha meroons....
+
+     Re: showing letterbox...no, because we have not yet gone back and re- 
+telecine'd the footage back to its original aspect ratio.  We strike edit 
+and master prints from the negative that are regular aspect ratio.  To 
+later make the widescreen versions we'll have to strike all new prints in 
+the original format.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  Interesting Note...		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Monday, August 07, 1995 2:39:02 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#291469
+
+     It's hard to tell; I think SQ is certainly in megatrouble unless they 
+make substantial philosophical changes behind the desk.  If they don't, 
+well, the ocean's *real* deep, and a sub can sink and never be seen again.
+
+     Especially if its torpedoed by a network.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  Sinclair - Sheridan		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Benoit Langevin, Monday, August 07, 1995 2:39:07 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#291471
+
+     No, the Sheridan arc is completely different from the Sinclair stuff. 
+If it were just a continuation, then there'd be no need for the change.  
+The whole REASON was to do stuff we couldn't do otherwise.
+
+     Book 3 will be out later this month.  No plans on hardcover.  DC keeps 
+saying book 11 is the last, but I've been told by WB that the deal to extend 
+the comic to #24 at least has been agreed to, so I don't know what the heck 
+is going on.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 CD in LA			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  All				Monday, August 07, 1995 2:46:27 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#291475
+
+     BTW, for those here in the Valley in LA, the Tower Records store on 
+Ventura near Van Nuys has about 10 of the B5 soundtrack CDs just sitting 
+there in the rack, waiting for pickup by those who've been looking for them.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Interesting Note...		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, Monday, August 07, 1995 4:28:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#292036
+
+     Focus groups are the tools of the devil.  Nothing good EVER comes 
+out of them.  Ever.  And if they're looking, as you say, to the 4-12 year 
+old market...you can pretty much forget the show altogether.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  Season 3 Starts Shooting		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Richard Cunningham, Monday, August 07, 1995 3:49:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#292001
+
+     I guess some fears we just have to live with for a while, y'know...?
+
+     And thanks re: OtherSyde.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Soundtrack CD			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Gary Weinfurther, Monday, August 07, 1995 3:49:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#292002
+
+     Yeah, thanks...I love the soundtrack.  Especially track 12.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Soundtrack CD			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Gary Weinfurther, Monday, August 07, 1995 4:28:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#292034
+
+     Thanks.  Yeah, I've listened to it constantly, since it wandered 
+into my office, and continue to do so.  It's just nifty.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 at general cons		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, Monday, August 07, 1995 4:28:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#292035
+
+     Yes, that's correct, season 3 will be provided to France, Germany and 
+potentially the UK in widescreen version; I thought you were asking about 
+stuff *currently* available.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  Season Three Narration		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Tom Knudsen, Tuesday, August 08, 1995 12:44:05 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#292609
+
+     I use a good old-fashioned standard QWERTY keyboard.  As it happens, 
+one reason I'm as fast as I am (100-120 wpm) is that knowing I was going to 
+become a writer, I took 3 years of typing in high school, and by the time 
+I finished I was *blazing*.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  Demon on the Run?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Les P. George, Tuesday, August 08, 1995 12:44:08 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#292610
+
+     Demon's on hold until it's finished.  No season one/arc special eps will 
+be aired prior to the debut of season three.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  <<SLAP>>				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  JohnB, Tuesday, August 08, 1995 12:44:09 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#292611
+
+<I know this is a rather shallow question, but after watching "In the 
+Shadow of Za'ha'dum" again this past weekend, I was wondering how many times 
+(i.e. 'takes') Andrea got to smack Bruce in the Medlab scene?>
+
+     Only twice.  Mainly 'cause she tended to whack him real hard.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+Subj:  <SLAP>				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  SysOp Dupa T. Parrot Tuesday, August 08, 1995 11:22:21 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#293718
+
+  <Twice?
+
+  "Zack" and Richard Biggs both flinched convincingly. Was the first 
+take the one that was used in the episode? Did Andrea & Bruce conspire 
+to do this?>
+
+     Yeah, the take you see is the first one printed.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  All		          Tuesday, August 08, 1995 7:21:25 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#293427
+
+     For some time, I've been cautioning people dealing in pirated 
+material; videotapes, Links, PPGs, the whole gamut.  The usual 
+reaction from those involved is, basically, screw off, on the grounds 
+that there's plenty of ST pirated stuff out there, and nobody does 
+anything about it.  Well, for starters, that's because there's a lot 
+of grey about the copyright during the period during which ST wasn't 
+being produced, and the copyright wasn't being enforced.  Second...
+we're not ST.  A mistake many pirates continue to make, to their 
+detriment.
+
+     To the pirates out there, be warned: Warner Bros. is prosecuting 
+these cases to the full extent of the law.  Case in point: I saw 
+bootleg copies of B5 episodes for sale at the Chicago ComicCon, 
+confiscated them, and told the person selling them, David Scott, 
+*not* to do this anymore, because if he did, we would come down on him
+..hard.  His reaction was basically a shrug.
+
+     So this same person showed up at San Diego Comic Con, selling the 
+same B5 tapes.  WB was notified.  And the FBI showed up and seized the 
+material. And that of the other shows he was selling.  He tried to make 
+light of it at the time, nobody follows through on this stuff, after 
+all.  Wrong again.  He has been prosecuted by Time Warner Entertainment,
+with charges filed in United States District Court (case number 92-1602 
+H POR), and there has already been a judgment rendered to the tune of 
+*thousands* of dollars.
+
+     To the pirates out there: be warned.  We're not kidding around.  We 
+will take you down, hard.  Especially those selling the poor-quality 
+videotapes, and those selling supposed "real props" from the series, 
+which are simply cheap knockoffs with expensive price tags to separate 
+fans from their money.
+
+     (And to the OTHER dealer in Chicago, who was selling fake PPGs and 
+other items, from whom I confiscated the illegal goods, and has since 
+been mouthing off to other dealers that in lawfully confiscating this 
+material I "shoplifted" -- and I confiscated this stuff in front of 
+several witnesses, and put the dealer on notice as to what I was doing -- 
+by all means, continue running your mouth; you assiduously didn't have an 
+address anywhere available, and your behavior will simply make it that 
+much easier for us to find you.)
+
+     One of the reasons that I'm very careful on what we do and don't 
+license is that I want them to be done *right* when they're done; as a 
+fan, I've grown to despair over cheap knockoffs whose exorbitant price tags 
+only feed the sharks that made them.  I won't have inferior quality products 
+out there, licensed or otherwise.  We take great pains to make everything 
+involved with this show of the highest quality, and will not allow anyone 
+outside to hinder that effort.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  Harlan Ellison/TREK Book		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  GREG LASH, Wednesday, August 09, 1995 11:10:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#294974
+
+     The limited edition is numbered and signed by Harlan.
+
+     Under the terms of the Writers Guild Basic Agreement, to which all 
+the major studios are signatory, the actual physical manuscript remains
+the property of the writer, *not* the studio, under the Separation of 
+Rights clause.  So it's 100% kosher for Harlan to reproduce the material.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  Harlan Ellison/TREK Book		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Doc Zimmerman, Wednesday, August 09, 1995 11:10:09 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#294977
+
+     Thanks, yes, Mira is a great lady, in the classic sense in which that 
+word is used.
+
+     As for the book, it puts forth a lot of documentary evidence, and the 
+opinions of others outside Harlan (Nimoy, Takai, Koenig, Fontana and others) 
+so it's much broader in tone than that.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Stephen Burrow, Wednesday, August 09, 1995 11:10:09 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#294972
+
+     BTW, on the subject of marketing/merchandise...I've now seen the final 
+prints on the Fleer trading cards, and they're *beautiful*...also, the text 
+on the cards does a nice job of synopsizing the episodes and in a way, the 
+series overall, making them great and useful "cheat sheets" for those new to 
+the show.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, Wednesday, August 09, 1995 11:09:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#294966
+
+     There were no negotiations.  He showed me a prototype jacket (little
+did I know there were a whole bunch already made up, though he told me 
+there were only two), and an associate of his showed me a prototype PPG, 
+again saying no others were out there.  I said they were promising, but they 
+would first have to contact WB and make a deal before anything could be done 
+or said.  They never did...and began selling the jackets anyway.
+
+     And I've now seen the exact same PPGs now at various conventions, and 
+we're in the process of tracking them down.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, Wednesday, August 09, 1995 11:23:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#294993
+
+    PS...word on the street, which I'm trying to confirm, is that he's split
+for parts unknown, dropped off the face of the earth, leaving *more* people 
+unpaid (including those who provided security).
+
+                                                               jms
+
+Subj:  <Comes the old ST>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Ian Macey, Wednesday, August 09, 1995 11:10:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#294969
+
+<Having just seen some episodes of series one again I can only say: Please, 
+please, please, *more* of Vir, Lennier and Ivanova!! Bill Mumy and Claudia 
+Christian in particular had much better parts, and enriched the program because 
+of it, in series one.>
+
+     We have interesting things planned for all three this coming season, 
+rest assured.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  Sand Garden			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, Wednesday, August 09, 1995 11:10:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#294976
+
+     We've actually kept the Zen garden, in one form or another.
+
+     The pilot was rough in places, but still the potential was there.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Music Videos			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  SysOp Dupa T. Parrot, Wednesday, August 09, 1995 11:10:16 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#294979
+
+     Professionally done by a fan of the show, John Hudgens.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Twilight Struggle>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Christopher R. Turn, Wednesday, August 09, 1995 11:23:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#294992
+
+    No, B5 isn't on DSS.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Comes the Inquisitor>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  COLIN BRAKE, Wednesday, August 09, 1995 11:10:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#294970
+
+     I loved Picket Fences...but this last season, I dunno, something's 
+gone weird with the writing, it seems like all the characters I liked are 
+self destructing, turning unpleasant.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeff Frank, Thursday, August 10, 1995 1:01:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#295517
+
+     Yes, the Pegasus Publishing bumpersticker has arrived here...and 
+has been forwarded to Legal Affairs...who are now bringing in the lawyers 
+who eat raw flesh and warming them up.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jason Moore, Thursday, August 10, 1995 10:30:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#296182
+
+     There are 3 companies currently bidding on the CD rom encyclopedia of 
+B5; we'll see which gets it.  A CD rom screensaver, with some additional 
+stuff, will be out soonish from Sound Sources.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Comes the Inquisitor>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Martin Colloby, Thursday, August 10, 1995 10:30:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#296181
+
+     Yeah, I put together a little something on the side; <jms's
+recent series proposal to WB> just as glad it didn't go, as it would've 
+been a major effort, and B5 has to takeprecedence.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Bob Danielson, Friday, August 11, 1995 1:24:27 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#296714
+
+     Depends on how you define knockoffs.  If she walked into a store and 
+found xeroxed copies of her book for sale, that's absolute, blatant copyright 
+infringement, and can be confiscated.  This is a similar situation.  But you 
+don't just "fill your bag with the offending items and depart."  You go 
+directly to the person running it, show them the item, and tell them exactly 
+what you are doing, why you are doing it, what law they have broken, and that 
+you are confiscating this illegal material.
+
+     If they make a fuss over it, then what you do is to go find the nearest 
+security person or police officer, put them into contact with the WB Legal 
+Affairs office, and they will fax a note authorizing the police to not only 
+confiscate the material, but to seize any *related* material, AND to press both 
+civil and criminal charges against the person.  If that means bringing the 
+FBI in, so be it.  They have a whole division specifically to protect tv and 
+film product against copyright infringement, particularly video pirates.
+
+     So it's in the best interests of the person at the dealer's table to 
+cooperate.  I'm fully authorized to do this, and they don't have a legal leg to 
+stand on, and they know it.  So it's best to just warn them, and take it, and 
+hope they stop.  They get one chance to do it right.  After that....
+
+     If they choose to turn cranky, well, that's their perogative, and I won't 
+carry anything out...I'll just have their butt arrested, charged, and fined.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Comes the Inquisitor>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Martin Colloby, Saturday, August 12, 1995 9:26:25 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#298175
+
+     Well, it was understood at the start that if the other show *did* 
+get going, I couldn't and wouldn't be involved with it in the same fashion 
+as B5; I'd have to get a different person to be show-runner, and just keep 
+an arms-length involvement with the production.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  Harlan Ellison/TREK Book		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Leslye-Ann  Lubkin, Saturday, August 12, 1995 9:47:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#298198
+
+     CITY was only published once before, in an anthology of SF play scripts, 
+something like 20 or so years ago, and has not been seen since, nor is the 
+original available.
+
+     Two things I forgot to mention: the limited edition is a numbered edition 
+SIGNED by Harlan, and the longest afterword is by David Gerrold, who I 
+inadvertantly left off the list of contributers.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  Harlan Ellison/Trek News		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael Beemer, Sunday, August 13, 1995 3:17:10 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#298384
+
+     What's also worth pointing out is that, thus far, the new producers of The 
+Outer Limits have shown no interest in doing a follow-up to Demon, which is short
+-sighted, to say the least.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Comes the Inquisitor>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Martin Colloby, Sunday, August 13, 1995 6:04:20 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#298908
+
+     It would be difficult, but do-able.  It would've run like this:
+I hire a writer/producer as show runner on the every day aspects of 
+running the series; all scripts go through me after he's done his work 
+on them for any final thoughts from me (outlines also); the show runner 
+handles casting of guest stars, but I'd be involved in the casting of 
+regular/recurring cast. We'd work together where time allowed.  But for 
+the moment, it's a moot issue in any event.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  Series 3 - UK !!!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Martin Gillibrand, Sunday, August 13, 1995 6:20:03 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#298915
+
+     Not going to happen.  We get a broadcast schedule from PTEN that 
+tells us when new episodes/reruns will air, and we book our delivery 
+schedule accordingly; this allows us maximum time to finish tweaking 
+the episodes by taking advantage of the rerun periods.  The only way 
+C4 can run them straight through without interruption would be to start 
+running them in late February or thereabouts.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  Sacramento Con 8/13 Rev		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  C. Bussjaeger, Monday, August 14, 1995 1:34:06 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#299353
+
+     Vir is staying on as a recurring character; his appearances this year 
+will be pretty close to what he did for us last season.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  Sacramento Con 8/13 Rev		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Ed Schlotman, Monday, August 14, 1995 1:34:05 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#299352
+
+     Vir is *not* leaving the show.  We're making some room for him to do 
+his new sitcom; he's in episodes 3 and 5 so far, and more to come, of 
+season 3.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  Centauri Question		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Rae Augenstein, Monday, August 14, 1995 1:40:13 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#299357
+
+     They believe in a variety of afterlives; the god you worship, of the 
+centauri pantheon, holds dominion over a given "heaven" or afterworld.  
+If you appease the god sufficiently during life, it will accept you into 
+that afterworld, in preparation for the day when all heavens are united; 
+if not, you will have to be reborn and choose another until one accepts you.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  <CON Report>			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Timothy Young, Monday, August 14, 1995 1:49:29 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#299363
+
+     Creation Entertainment's main office is in Glendale, California, that's 
+an 818 area code. They're listed in the phone book, and in directory 
+information.  If you have problems with someone running a convention, you can 
+contact their main office there, and speak with Adam Malin, who with his partner 
+runs CE.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  Sacramento Con 8/13 Rev		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John Sheridan, Monday, August 14, 1995 1:27:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#299792
+
+     Yeah, that seems to be the tendency; each time we've introduced 
+someone, it's gotten hammered...nobody liked Ivanova in the beginning, 
+they said she was nothing but an ice maiden...they made fun of Vir, 
+said he was nothing more than comic relief, ridiculous, had no business 
+being assigned to Londo...there were grave doubts about Londo and the 
+hair...Sinclair got hammered in the beginning...Sheridan got hammered 
+in the beginning...and each time people assumed that what the character 
+seemed to be at the start was all the person would ever be.  Even when 
+it was shown that other characters grew into something other, still it 
+was hard for a lot of folks to assume that this new character would do 
+the same, and become interesting over time.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  Harlan Ellison/TREK Book		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Randall Chrisman, Monday, August 14, 1995 1:27:21 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#299793
+
+     The Trek book is now at the printers, I've seen the typeset pages, 
+so it has been delivered, done, and is now being bound.  So yes, it's 
+real Real.  And the cover art/wraparounds on Slippage just came in, so 
+that should be out soon as well.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  Joe on Genie-3rd season		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sandra G. Bruckner, Monday, August 14, 1995 1:40:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#299805
+
+     Actually, for story reasons, I've moved the discussions about the 
+two-parter so it'd fall closer to episodes 12-13.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  Centauri Question		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Daniel M. Upton, Monday, August 14, 1995 7:49:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#300176
+
+     Then your soul drifts forever.  Which is one reason to worry about
+the number of gods you may have pissed off over time.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  Mr. O'Hare/StarQuest '95		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Patrick Morrissey, Monday, August 14, 1995 10:31:25 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#300370
+
+     Thanks, I'm happy that it has gone as well as it has, and wish
+the con all good luck.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Future Episodes		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Paul Sulkowski, Tuesday, August 15, 1995 12:48:29 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#300833
+
+     Of course, Morden has never had any income since then in Earth 
+jurisdiction, so there's no taxes to pay.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  Centauri Question		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Rae Augenstein, Tuesday, August 15, 1995 6:33:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#301154
+
+     The religious beliefs of the majority of our alien races have 
+been worked out to varying degrees, also their sociology, culture, 
+art, methods of reproduction, relative strengths, and so on.  Seemed 
+prudent.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  Germany / B5 videotaped?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, Tuesday, August 15, 1995 6:48:27 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#301181
+
+     Kann ich spreche deutsch?  Nein, nein....nur English, nicht 
+Hochtdeutch oder Plattdeutch....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  Germany / B5 videotaped?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, Wednesday, August 16, 1995 11:53:03 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#302632
+
+     Yes, Mind War is a very nice episode, lots of stuff happens, and 
+some great character stuff.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  Quickies				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  All                      Tuesday, August 15, 1995 11:34:16 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#301473
+
+     Look for Jerry Doyle on the Mike and Maty Show on ABC on Wednesday, 
+and on Entertainment Tonight on Friday.
+
+     Articles forthcoming in Cinescape (out now), and Cinefantastique 
+(first a regular sized one, then a cover story).
+
+     And for those who've asked...one of my better Murder She Wrote 
+episodes, "The Committee," airs Thursday on USA.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Matt Allen, Wednesday, August 16, 1995 1:37:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#302015
+
+     To this day, I don't think anyone at WB has ever had any kind of 
+problem with fan computer art, freely distributed, based on the show, 
+or altering images into something new and different.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  End of Second Series		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Pat Clifford, Wednesday, August 16, 1995 1:37:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#302019
+
+     WB wanted to hold the last 4 for October to lead into new eps 
+in November.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  BIG BANG				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Linda Swiebocki, Wednesday, August 16, 1995 4:08:16 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#302138
+
+     Tom:
+
+     So good of you to emerge from seclusion to post this via Linda.  I 
+wish your message touched the facts at two contiguous places, but one 
+cannot have everything.  I do hope this won't be another post-and-run 
+situation, because there's much to clarify here.
+
+     So you're saying that because Michael O'Hare initially said he 
+wouldn't be coming, you fined him the $5,000 remaining on his fee, and he 
+agreed to this.  Aside from the loathesome mentality behind this excuse, 
+please explain to me why it was that on the Sunday of Chicago Comic Con, 
+Michael had been told, by you, that you would be present by 12 noon, with 
+that very same $5,000 owed as his balance...and never showed up.  If he had 
+agreed to this, then why was he still awaiting this payment, and why were 
+you saying you would have it for him?
+
+     Simple answer: because Michael O'Hare agreed to no such thing.  This 
+is a cover story to excuse non-payment of Michael's fee.  Further, you 
+told some users on this very system that Michael had been paid the balance 
+of his fees, in phone conversations, even offered to send a photocoy of the 
+canceled check (which of course never happened).  You really should work 
+more on getting your story straight.
+
+     We have begun documenting, in writing, some of the destructive and 
+hurtfulthings you have put out on the rumor mills about Michael, myself 
+and others...so your assertion that you "would never hurt" anyone doesn't 
+carry much weight at this end of the modem.
+
+     I have had a good conversation just today with Deborah Smolinski at 
+Visions, and we are working closely with them on this situation.  Certainly 
+they should notbe faulted for falling for rumors started by others.  The 
+purpose of the convention is not, and never has been, the issue.  As for 
+your statement that "I have never spoken to Bob Mcgloughlin since the Big 
+Bang show in June," Deborah said about 90 minutes ago that you and he had 
+spoken just recently about this situation.  Who am I to believe?
+
+     "JMS wants CMC and myself out of the science fiction convention 
+business."  No, I simply will not allow the offenses and incomeptence on 
+record to stand without comment.  Even after the Planet Hollywood debacle, 
+in which I sent you a several-page letter explaining what would be required 
+to fix the apparent problems, there was the spirit of cooperation until such 
+time as you began selling unlicensed B5 jackets, patches, and posters for a 
+non-existent charitable cause that used our name.  At that time, I told you 
+that Babylonian Productions was withdrawing all support from this convention, 
+and I would caution my cast in this regard, though leaving them to make their 
+own decisions.  Some of them went out of concerns for the fans who had 
+purchased non-refundable airline tickets and would be screwed otherwise.
+
+     And as long as you're here, some additional points.
+
+     Mark Hamill has been stiffed by you to the tune of $21,000.  The check 
+for his speaking fee has, he tells us, bounced.  Another check made out to 
+cover first class airfare and accommodations has also bounced.  Why hasn't 
+Mark been paid?  Why do you write checks that can't be covered?
+
+     I have received messages from many people...the photographer you hired 
+to shoot the convention, travel agents, security people...who say that they 
+have not been paid by you.  Why have they not been paid?  They come to me 
+because you promoted this as a B5 convention, so I have inherited the 
+problems you created by default.
+
+     Why did you have someone working on designs on the fraudulent Project 
+Starfury months after you had been told to cease and desist from such 
+endeavors, with this individual putting in $5,000 worth of work that has 
+now been wasted?
+
+     Why were you telling people -- and we have now written documentation 
+to that effect -- that I had been "tossed out of the Writers Guild" when 
+such is not true?
+
+     Many users here and on other systems have repeatedly asked you for 
+refunds on their tickets.  Why has this not been forthcoming?
+
+     In your newsletters, and your talks, including your May 28th meeting 
+with fans in Schaumburg, IL, you stated that one of the major features of 
+the convention would be the transformation of the Odeum theater into 
+"Outpost Odeum," with massive role-playing aspects, props, and a scripted 
+game which would include appearances by paid actors performing with the 
+"Outpost Odeum" game.  Many went for this reason.  Yet no such event 
+was presented.  You promised, in detail, a Sandman reenactment from Logan's 
+Run; what happened to *that*?
+
+     Would you care to comment on the assault on a dealer by staff, when he 
+attempted to document poor conditions in the dealer's room, which led to 
+hospitalization and surgery for severe injury to his eye?
+
+     An individual began selling video tapes of our actors appearances at 
+Big Bang.  He was told, by you, that you had contractual freedom to make and 
+distribute these tapes, when, in fact, the contracts stated clearly that 
+no such video or audio sales of the performance could be done unless a 
+seperate agreement were entered into and signed by the actors.  Why 
+was this person misled?
+
+     For months now, many people here and on the other nets have been 
+posting their dissatisfaction that what was promised by Big Bang was not 
+delievered upon.  Since you clearly have access to the nets, as shown by 
+your posting, why have you not previously addressed the concerns raised by 
+so many people who attended your convention?
+
+     Finally, let me repeat once more: my concern, ever since the Planet 
+Hollywood event, was that the Big Bang convention was being poorly and 
+incompetently run, and would hurt fans, and I wondered at the capacity of 
+CMC to deliver on its promises.  The reactions from virtually every person
+attending the convention bears out my concerns.  Cast members returned saying 
+uniformly that it was the worst-run convention they had ever seen, and some 
+had been attending conventions for over 20 years.  It was a disaster, and has 
+left a pile of debris that you have yet to clean up, and which comes to 
+*my* attention because they can't find *you*...with phone numbers that get 
+disconnected, calls that don't get returned...and always you try and 
+blame others.
+
+     Everything I have said about BB has come true; your statements, 
+however, are another question altogether.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+Subj:  BIG BANG				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Linda K. Swiebocki, Wednesday, August 16, 1995 11:53:12 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#302635
+
+     Except that Michael O'Hare has already been dragged into this.  
+And Tom's latest message does it again.  On the one hand, he says Michael 
+is a good man...and then, by implication, by alleging that Michael agreed 
+to do the Big Bang without receiving the second $5,000, implies that Michael 
+lied to and defrauded the fans at Comic Con.  That fundraiser was done 
+because he did not receive the balance of his payment.  According to Tom, 
+there *was* no balance of payment.  So clearly, someone here is fabricating.  
+By his message, Tom is implying that Michael lied to me, and to the convention 
+goers who came to his support.  Or that we both lied about it.
+
+     We didn't.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+Subj:  Joe on Genie-3rd season		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Don Hardin, Wednesday, August 16, 1995 11:53:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#302631
+
+     Yes, there's a five-year arc.  The final 4 eps of this season air in 
+October, with the new season beginning in November.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Fall of Night>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Friday, August 18, 1995 1:39:27 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#304390
+
+     I'm also on GEnie, Internet, Bix (sometimes), here, AOL, and I 
+lurk at a couple of other sites which function as control groups, 
+minus any interference by or awareness of my being there.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Fall of Night>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Friday, August 18, 1995 7:15:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#304766
+
+     "What're you, omniscient?"
+
+     Yes, I am.
+     And stop that.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+Subj:  <Fall of Night>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Friday, August 18, 1995 9:37:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#304969
+
+	<I mean, Mr. Straczynski is many things, but he's not 
+omniscient.
+	I think.>
+
+     I knew you were going to say that.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  BIG BANG				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey Friday, August 18, 1995 1:39:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#304391
+
+     Thank you.  Over the years, I've worked extremely hard to develop 
+a rep based on trust, and loyalty.  That this has sometimes gotten me 
+into trouble goes almost without saying.  It's one of the things that 
+matters most to me, because I've been in positions when I've been 
+screwed, and vowed never to do it to anyone when I was on the opposite 
+side of the desk.
+
+     Here, for me, is the most telling thing.  Talk to anyone who's ever 
+visited the B5 set and production office.  The one sound you hear the 
+most often, in either place, is laughter, people *enjoying* their work.  
+That is probably one of the things I'm most proud of.
+
+     Whenever you hea a producer say, "Oh, we're one big family," you know 
+nine times out of ten they're lying.  And, in fact, we're not like a family; 
+more like a bunch of guys who get together ten months out of the year to 
+have fun, make a show, play around and hang out with each other.  Everybody 
+has lunch together behind the stage, whole huge groups go off on vacation 
+together, after hours lots of them hang out, have dinner...we look after our 
+own.  We are one of the very few studios -- and this includes the majors -- 
+that provides health insurance for our employees whose premiums are 100% 
+employer paid.  During the time after the big quake, we pulled carpenters 
+off sets to help several people save their homes from water damage and other 
+problems until real construction could be done; when the fires hit, we had 
+teams ready to drive into fire zones to evacuate our DP when it looked like 
+his house might go up.  We take care of our own.
+
+     And as much as is ever possible, we try and look out for our viewers as 
+well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+Subj:  BIG BANG				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, Friday, August 18, 1995 7:28:10 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#304773
+
+     You really do have to be totally and completely monomanaical to do this 
+job if you're going to do it right.  So B5 is my life.  If I'm not writing 
+or directly working on it, I'm watching dailies or thinking about where to 
+take the show.  I have a pad beside my bed and frequently I wake up in the 
+middle of the night with a scrap of dialogue or a plot solution, so 
+I scribble it down and leave it where my feet land so I'll remember it's there.  
+I don't get a hell of a lot of sleep during the week, and try to crash on 
+weekends.
+
+     To the rest you cite...there isn't time for much of anything else. I've 
+seen a grand total of 1 or 2 movies at theaters in the last eight months; I 
+haven't gone to a single party for longer still; except for twice weekly 
+dinners with Harlan, we don't see anyone for dinner, I haven't had a chance to 
+read a novel since the start of the year, I barely follow the news anymore...
+it's literally a round-the-clock job.  But it's okay, because this is what 
+I've been working toward since 1987.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+ Subj:  <Shadows>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Nigel Nixon, Friday, August 18, 1995 7:14:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#304763
+
+<Just a thought, but Ed Wasser, in an interview in TV Zone, refers to 
+what we've been calling the Shadows, in the singular, the Shadow,
+a couple of times. 
+
+BTW Whatever you're paying AK and PJ it isn't enough, they have been 
+wonderful throughout the series, but in The Long, Twilight Struggle, 
+Comes the Inquisitor and The Fall of Night they were superb. I hope 
+you have them under cast-iron contracts for the rest of 
+the run.>
+
+     I think it must've been a mis-statement by Ed.
+
+     And believe me, we've got firm contracts with Andreas and Peter.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+Subj:  Jump Gates and Travel		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Spencer Collyer Friday, August 18, 1995 7:14:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#304764
+
+     They have to ride the signals between beacons; you can't just 
+go wandering around or you'll get lost, so you have a highway of 
+related beacons.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+Subj:  Babylon 5: Quickies		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Bob Perse, Friday, August 18, 1995 7:15:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#304767
+
+<BTW way Joe -- does Garabaldi have his own, personalized Starfury?  
+I just wondered, since (although he hasn't gone off base often) 
+the markings on it match his helmet.....after his "Daffy Duck" thing, 
+all I could think of was maybe his code name was "Tony the Tiger">
+ 
+    Yes, he does; I think it is tiger-striped, in fact.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+Subj:  Ship Spec			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Bill MacIntosh, Friday, August 18, 1995 9:37:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#304968
+
+     No, I haven't had a chance; what might be most profitable is to 
+leave a note here or in email for Paul Beigle-Bryant (he's in the 
+directory) of Foundation Imaging, since he helped build the thing.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  Jump Gates and Travel		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Spencer Collyer Saturday, August 19, 1995 11:00:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#305864
+
+     Yes, you can follow the beacons while in hyperspace, that's 
+rather the point; but you still go from one to the other, riding the 
+"wire."
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  Jump Gates and Travel		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  SysOp Dupa T. Parrot, Saturday, August 19, 1995 11:00:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#305865
+
+<Joe,
+
+  Do you think you could add some more of the background history behind 
+the explorer ships and jump gates to an episode in the third season?>
+
+     I'll try and work it in where possible.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Martin Gillibrand, Sunday, August 20, 1995 4:42:26 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#306373
+
+<Joe.
+
+I've got a couple of pictures taken from the show (via a TV card), 
+would there be any problems uploading them to the forum (I think I 
+have to include "Copyright 1995 Warner Bros")?>
+
+
+     I don't know for sure, I'd say probably there's no problem, 
+but the notice would have to be (c) 1995 PT<E>N Consortium.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Centauri Question		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, Sunday, August 20, 1995 4:43:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#306374
+
+     I kinda doubt that Dell would want any of the novels to become 
+more or less textbooks on alien cultures, and it's hard to bend the 
+freelancers to doing stories that touch on those areas anyway.  But 
+eventually some of this will probably find its way out, in some form or 
+other.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Jump Gates and Travel		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, Sunday, August 20, 1995 4:43:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#306375
+
+<How like the early airways beacon system.  One of the features you 
+can still find is that every beacon is within sight of a flyer over 
+another one.  When flying was new, pilots could literally fly from 
+one beacon to the next all the way accross the continent.  Were you 
+consciously using this as a model?>
+
+     It's a model I considered, yes.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  <The Fall of Night>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Hugh Kennedy, Sunday, August 20, 1995 4:43:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#306376
+
+     We shoot to protect the central area, but fill out stuff in the 
+edges, and often compose for widescreen, which is why sometimes 
+characters are a little off-center in the screen.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Comics			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jonathan Hoopingarn, Monday, August 21, 1995 11:19:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#307628
+
+     The regular series ends with #11, but DC has already committed 
+to a followup series of 12 more issues, in one-shots, and 4-issue 
+mini-series. This is a done deal.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Babylon 5: Quickies		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Richard M. Perry Monday, August 21, 1995 11:19:23 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#307629
+
+     Yes, Sheridan's icon is the Flying Tigers symbol, which is used 
+with the express permission and support of the real Flying Tigers 
+organization.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Fall of Night>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, Tuesday, August 22, 1995 1:12:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#308093
+
+     Unfortunately, I don't yet seem to have this infallibility 
+stuff down right yet....
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  BIG BANG				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey Tuesday, August 22, 1995 1:12:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#308094
+
+     I've thus far not dreamed an episode; but work is often in 
+my dreams, so I guess it balances out.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  BIG BANG				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Tuesday, August 22, 1995 11:12:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#308769
+
+	<Jawa #2 demands--no I mean, DEMANDS--to know who else 
+will be scriptwriting in Season 3.
+	(Throw a name this way--she's vicious!)>
+	
+     So you're saying that if I don't give you any other names, 
+Jawa 2 will do terrible, mean, unspeakably rotten things to you.
+
+     ...
+
+    So, like, what part of this is a problem?
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  Janeway in Murder.....		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Gregory D. Smith, Tuesday, August 22, 1995 3:05:27 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#308182
+
+<Did anyone else see a recently-aired episode of Murder, She 
+Wrote in which Kate Capshaw starred?
+
+She played the role of a wife to a rich old man who is murdered.  
+I did not watch the whole episode, but she did have incredibly 
+long hair.  Her character was very scared....she was 
+always hanging onto Angela Lansbury (a.k.a Jessica Fletcher) 
+and crying.
+
+Quite a difference from the stern Janeway that we know.>
+
+     To show what a small world it is, check out the names of 
+producers on that episode.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  Babylon 5: Quickies		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Morris L. Gavant, Tuesday, August 22, 1995 11:12:30 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#308768
+
+<I presume that if you ever show city landscapes on Earth that we 
+will see old and new combined?  I mean if Europe is full of 300-500 
+year old buildings that are still functional there is no reason why 
+we can't assume that 20th century man can actually build something 
+that will last as long. . . . for instance, the Statue of Liberty or 
+the Capitol or Buckingham Palace, etc. etc.  Do you think these will 
+be still be here in 4-5 centuries?>
+
+     Yes, I definitely think they'll be here still; and in some 
+cases when we've shown BGs of Geneva, through windows, we've tried 
+to keep that.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  The name game			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Julia E. Linthicum, Wednesday, August 23, 1995 9:34:18 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#309711
+
+<I was just glancing through a couple of recent articles on B5 and 
+discovered an odd sight: your name had changed. We're used to either 
+J. Michael Straczynski, JMS, or Joe, but not odd combinations of the 
+above. Example? Saying how "Joseph Straczynski's Babylon 5" 
+may not come trippingly off the tongue.. well, they might be wright. 
+Then elsewhere in the same article they use your full triple-barreled 
+name: Joseph Michael Straczynski. Did someone forget to proofread 
+something?> 
+
+     This is doing terrible things to my sense of identity....
+
+                                                   smj
+                                          
+
+Subj:  The name game			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Thursday, August 24, 1995 2:51:00 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#309859
+
+     Joe Straczynski looks like a very small engine pulling a huge 
+caboose.
+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+     Joseph Straczynski is too hard to say, even for me.
+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+     J.M. Straczynski just looks dorky and cumbersome.
+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+     J. Michael Straczynski, however, gives you a chance to sneak up 
+on thelast name...a little squib, one letter, nice and inoffensive, 
+then a longername, and then the big one.  It looks balanced on-screen.  
+It's fairly easyto say.
+
+     It's also a good "gatekeeper" of sorts; if the phone rings and it's
+someone who asks for Michael, I know instantly it's nobody I know
+personally.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  BIG BANG				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Wednesday, August 23, 1995 9:34:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#309712
+
+<>>Jawa #2 demands--no I mean, DEMANDS--to know who else will be script 
+writing in Season 3.
+	(Throw a name this way--she's vicious!)<<
+
+Calm down child.  Now tell us, just how many Jawas are there living 
+between your ears anyway? <GD&R>
+
+     Oh, the delightful possibilities....
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  BIG BANG				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Thursday, August 24, 1995 2:50:26 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#309858
+
+<Will Peter David be writing for B5 this season?>
+
+     Peter and I have talked, and it remains a possibility.  Harlan 
+and I have talked, and it remains a possibility.  I'm still determined 
+to get Neil Gaiman.
+
+     Other than that, the ones in hand so far are all jms scripts.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  UK B5 Vids			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Neil Carter, Thursday, August 24, 1995 2:42:08 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#309851
+
+<Anyone noticed the minor problems with the cover to volume 4? 
+If not take a little look at the titles on the spine.>
+ 
+    Okay, what's the glitch...?
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  <The B5 Final Four>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  David Chandler-Gick, Thursday, August 24, 1995 2:51:03 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#309860
+
+<I have just finished viewing the Final Four... Man, I have to tell you; WOW!>
+
+     Gradually, we're getting this TeeVee thing figured out, I think.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  <The B5 Final Four>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael "GANDALF" Kalus, Thursday, August 24, 1995 1:31:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#310219
+
+     Didn't create Captain Power, only served as story editor and 
+primary writer on the only produced season.  Didn't end, just sorta 
+stopped.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Comics			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Robert Miller, Thursday, August 24, 1995 1:31:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#310220
+
+<Will this include the 4-issue arc you mentioned a couple of months ago, 
+which introduces a character who will later show up in the series?>
+
+     Yes, it includes that as well.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  Babylon 5: Quickies		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Richard M. Perry, Thursday, August 24, 1995 9:10:31 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#310634
+
+<Cool. Is that why Sheridan chose it, because of the Flying Tigers 
+thing? If so that could tell us a little more about the character. 
+So, uh, is that a screamin' eagle I see on Ivanova's helmet?> 
+
+     Yes, Sheridan chose that traditional marking.  And it's a 
+traditional Russian eagle on Ivanova's helmet.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  BIG BANG				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Thursday, August 24, 1995 9:15:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#310636
+
+
+	<I'M strange?	
+			The Jawa
+			Kidism Patrol
+			Unarmed & Dangerous>
+
+     That was very brave of you to admit that.  Remember, 
+acknowledging your problem is the first step in dealing with it.
+
+     I think there was a typo, though, since there was a question 
+mark at the end, and it's clearly such an obviously intended direct 
+statement, given our prior experience.  I figured you'd want me to 
+point that out.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 CD: Where can I order		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John Stetzer, Thursday, August 24, 1995 9:15:09 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#310637
+
+     There's ordering info in the B5 library, section 5.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+Subj:  Quick Questions			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Saturday, August 26, 1995 10:10:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#312474
+
+     Claudia is a hoot, not mistake.
+
+     The Writers Guild is the chief bargaining unit for working 
+writers in TV, film and radio in determining minimums, residuals, 
+and the like.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  Comming of Shadows		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Will Gearhart, Saturday, August 26, 1995 10:10:20 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#312475
+
+<In "The Coming of Shadows", what was the deal with the human and 
+two minbari in the centauri throne room as the prime minister was 
+told of the emporer's collapse?>
+
+     They were discussing possible use of a world on the fringe of 
+Centauri space for something of, they hoped, benign use.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pouchlings?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Saturday, August 26, 1995 10:10:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#312476
+
+     Yes, there are pouches; Narns, despite public perception, 
+are marsupials.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  SpecialFX			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Elyse M. Grasso, Sunday, August 27, 1995 12:32:02 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#312551
+
+     The B5 model in the gift shop in "Honor" is now in Sheridan's office, 
+bronzed, as is his right as captain.
+
+     Once the show is finally off the air, be assured that the model will 
+end up in THIS captain's office.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  The name game			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, Sunday, August 27, 1995 12:32:07 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#312553
+
+     Thanks, yeah, slowly, very slowly, we're starting to crack through 
+the glass ceiling (if I can borrow that phrase) and get noticed in more 
+and more of the right places.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  AOL Chat Room for B5		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  William H. DiPaola, Sunday, August 27, 1995 12:32:13 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#312555
+
+     It's my understanding that in the next few weeks/month, there will be a 
+separate B5 area on AOL, and I suspect this will help facilitate chat rooms.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  Rerun chopped?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  David Fox, Sunday, August 27, 1995 12:32:15 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#312556
+
+     I couldn't tell you without seeing the actual footage.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Bob Danielson, Sunday, August 27, 1995 8:10:23 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#313225
+
+     No, I understand the dilemma <pirate tapes existing because
+WB won't release official versions>, believe me...and on this end, 
+we're dancing as fast as we can to get WB moving.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pouchlings?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Sunday, August 27, 1995 8:10:24 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#313226
+
+     "And you called ME strange!"
+
+     Well, yes, but that was journalism....
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Comic discontinued?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Dana Wright,Sunday, August 27, 1995 8:10:27 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#313227
+
+     DC is cutting back on *all* their licensed properties; however, 
+they've committed to essentially 13 more issues to be done as one-shots,
+and 4-issue miniseries/graphic novels.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pouchlings?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Monday, August 28, 1995 12:51:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#313746
+
+      Shooting goes fine.  Just walked out onto the stage a few moments 
+ago, while they were setting up a shot.  Aircon is off, fuse went out, 
+but that should be corrected shortly.
+
+      And I'm just kidding with you.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  sq and b5			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Nik Scott, Monday, August 28, 1995 12:54:24 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#313750
+
+     It's been established in the series that when we made first contact 
+with the Centauri, when they entered our space, they gave us a leg up on 
+technology, including jump gates, as part of a trade program.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  sq and b5			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael "GANDALF" Kalus, Tuesday, August 29, 1995 1:09:23 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#314362
+
+<will there ever be a book availabel (perhaps a CD) which explains 
+WHAT thebackground of B5 is?
+
+Like a description of all the Alien Races etc. Their Culutre, 
+technology andso on.>
+
+     The hope is to do all that in a cd rom, which is currently being 
+considered and discussed with several possible designers.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Babylon 5 Party success!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jason Moore, Monday, August 28, 1995 11:17:26 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#314300
+
+    When next you see Bill Loebs, tell him I love his work on the 
+Flash book.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  More books?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Mark D. Smith, Tuesday, August 29, 1995 1:09:24 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#314363
+
+     The books have sold well, and the third is coming out in the next 
+week or two.  Also, Dell has committed to 3 more at this time, including 
+one by S.M. Stirling, and another by Neal Barrett Jr.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+Subj:  sq and b5			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael "GANDALF" Kalus, Tuesday, August 29, 1995 2:59:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#314984
+
+<>>The hope is to do all that in a cd rom, which is currently being 
+consideredand discussed with several possible designers.<<
+
+Like the Interactive Technical Manual for Star Trek?>
+
+     Better.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  Babylon 5 Party success!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael Grabois, Tuesday, August 29, 1995 3:21:29 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#315006
+
+     We're talking here William Messner Loebs, right?  So I'm confused, 
+then; I've seen his credit endlessly...I guess I'm having prolonged brain 
+fart, because I could swear it was on Flash (but you're right on the Mark 
+Waid part...senility is definitely creeping in).
+
+     Whether or not GG is making a mess in Comics Forum is not the issue 
+for me; he's *there*, and as such the forum members are vulnerable to being 
+quoted out of context, without their permission, in his mean-spirited little 
+rag, and I refuse to make that process any easier for him by being there.
+
+     You should definitely have Rob Davis call Laura Hitchcock at DC, if he 
+is interested; we're doing 13 more issues -- one-shots and 4-issue miniseries 
+-- so there's room to play.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5/Roswell ?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Alan Crump, Wednesday, August 30, 1995 1:41:29 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#315643
+
+<The facial resemblance between the aliens at Roswell <shown in the recent
+tv special> and B5's Minbari was rather striking.>
+
+     Do you really think there's that much resemblance?  I don't much see it, 
+myself, but this too is in the eye of the beholder.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  Sci-Fi (Age) TV Article		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, Thursday, August 31, 1995 1:23:18 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#316945
+
+     I'm looking forward to seeing the article, haven't come across 
+it yet. As for posters, we can't do that, it has to come out of Warner 
+Bros. via someone licensing the product.  And yeah, we do seem finally 
+to be getting some heat out there....
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  TCOS queries			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael Beemer, Thursday, August 31, 1995 1:23:20 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#316946
+
+     The emperor was referring to Londo and Refa.  And if the Centauri 
+telepaths suspected or picked up anything, to tell anyone would almost 
+certainly lead to a quick demise.  When you're that high up in the royal 
+court, you learn to keep your mouth shut.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  <TLTS>				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Andy Wright, Thursday, August 31, 1995 1:23:28 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#316948
+
+     Agreed.  The use of different tactics and weapons at different distances 
+gives a sense that there is a *strategy* behind what's going on, that it's not 
+just two ships coming with city blocks of one another and clobbering each other.  
+Strategy implies intelligence, and to see intelligence in the shadow vessels 
+is scary indeed.....
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  Sci-Fi (Age) TV Article		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, Thursday, August 31, 1995 12:45:23 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#317450
+
+<The mag said somewhere that it's also from a branch of Warner's.  
+They ought to be able to do something about the lack of posters...  
+
+Oh, one last thing in the article.  Whoever (Dan Perez) wrote it 
+seems to think there's a good probability of doing all five years.>
+
+     From his lips to Warners' ears.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+
+
+
+*******************************************************
+* SPOILERS FOR FINAL FOUR SEASON-TWO EPISODES FOLLOW. *
+*******************************************************
+
+
+
+
+Subj:  <Long Twilight Struggle>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Steve Trease, Tuesday, August 01, 1995 1:14:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#286149
+
+<I've just finished watching The Long Twilight Struggle. Wow! 
+What can I say? By far the best episode yet.>
+
+     Thanks.  It's definitely one of my favorite episodes.  
+The intensity is terrific.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  <<TLTS: CGI>>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Spencer Collyer Tuesday, August 01, 1995 3:56:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#286284
+
+<I know Andreas is going to get much well-deserved praise for his 
+performance this week, but I'd like also to extend my appreciation 
+to your CGI crew - I don't think I have _ever_ seen a space battle 
+portrayed so well that I actually felt like it was real, that a 
+camera had somehow managed to record the events portrayed, as the 
+one between the Narn and Shadows.>
+
+     Thanks.  Yeah, that scene is one of my favorites; a lot of work 
+went into it, and I think it shows.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+Subj:  <<DL foreshadowing?>>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John McAuley, Tuesday, August 01, 1995 3:56:20 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#286285
+
+<Is that the first time the camera has moved in a composite live 
+action / CGI shot?>
+
+     Oh, heavens, no...we often move the camera in composite shots; 
+all of the push-ins to the Zen garden are that way.
+
+     Hard stuff we do all the time; it's the impossible stuff that's 
+fun.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+Subj:  <<Long Stug:Twiglght>>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Simon Grierson, Tuesday, August 01, 1995 11:23:18 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#286690
+
+<I was convinved Last weeks episode was top notch. But this weeks 
+episode! WOW!>
+
+     Thanks.  It's difficult to keep topping each season, and each episode, 
+but we're dedicated to continuing to try.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Great Maker>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Chris Gardiner, Wednesday, August 02, 1995 12:43:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#287135
+
+<  The Long,Twilight Struggle just aired in Britain yesterday and I 
+loved it.  After stretching out our souls and hammering them with a 
+mallet in 'Confessions and Lamentations' then delivering a steel-shod 
+kick to the heart in 'Divided Loyalties', 'Long, Twilight Struggle' almost 
+finished me off.>
+
+     Thanks; the reaction to "Twilight" has been terrific, and I think it 
+bodes well for us in the coming year.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  Shadow ship influence?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Scott Belgarde, Wednesday, August 02, 1995 12:43:27 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#287136
+
+Not really, re: stealth ships, but there is something in us all that responds 
+nervously when something large and dark and menacing flies overhead, particularly 
+close-up.  Maybe it's second-cousin to the instinct that makes baby ducks run 
+for cover when the shadow of a hawk falls over them.  Either way, it's 
+compelling, and that sense is what I wanted in that shot.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Divided Loyalties>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Malcolm Pemberton, Wednesday, August 02, 1995 12:44:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#287138
+
+    Yeah, I wouldn't waste much time on the gun-hand, frankly.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  <<TLTS: Shadow ships>>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Spencer Collyer Wednesday, August 02, 1995 12:59:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#287162
+
+     Actually, what's probably confusing is that the shadow vessels are 
+bi-level, so when two come together it looks like four or so; but it's 
+just the two.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  <<TLTS: Shadow ships>>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Richard Fincher, Thursday, August 03, 1995 12:00:11 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#287742
+
+     Ron and I discussed the shadow designs, and he went off and developed
+this into what you see, and as soon as I saw them, I approved them, as they 
+were very close to what I had in mind.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Narn Heavy Cruisers>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Mark Sloan, Thursday, August 03, 1995 12:00:09 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#287740
+
+     There are various kinds of ships the Narns have, some older than others; 
+the ones in the first ep were older ones.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  Season Three Narration		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Brett Sherris, Thursday, August 03, 1995 2:06:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#288106
+
+     "The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace.  
+It failed. But in the year of the Shadow War, it becam something 
+greater: our last, best hope...for victory.  The year is 
+2260.  The place: Babylon 5."
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Comes the Inquisitor>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Martin Colloby, Tuesday, August 08, 1995 3:57:26 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#293226
+
+     Why bring up Sebastian's past?  Because it's integral to who he is 
+now, and what he's doing, and why he's doing it.  Also, there's something 
+very important here about greying up the Vorlons a little; of all the people 
+they could've chosen for this job, why THIS kind of person?  It makes them a 
+trifle more morally ambiguous, which is necessary.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Comes the Inquisitor>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Nigel Nixon, Tuesday, August 08, 1995 7:29:30 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#293448
+
+      What happened is...basically...Joe is a moron.
+
+      I did my research.  I called up the info on the encyclopedia, got all 
+the dates right, and my eyes saw East End and for whatever stupid, idiotic 
+reason, my fingers typed West instead of East, and nobody, NObody, caught it 
+until now.  I'd loop it, but alas the line is on his face, and it'd look real 
+stupid, and the delivery is *so* perfect as it is; if we looped it, 
+we'd destroy it.
+
+      So I content myself with the notion that it's west...of B5.
+
+      Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go shoot myself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Comes the Inquisitor>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Tom Knudsen, Wednesday, August 09, 1995 12:57:08 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#294259
+
+	<Well, you could always say the West End fell into the ocean 
+and what used to be the East End is now the West End.<G>
+
+      Or one could say it's West of Babylon 5.>
+
+      No, no, it's hopeless...I'll have to turn in my writer's card.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+Subj:  <Comes the Inquisitor>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Spencer Collyer Wednesday, August 09, 1995 11:09:26 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#294968
+
+     Unfortunately (yes, we discussed this), he says the line *on camera*, 
+and the shape of the mouth for West is very different than for East; also 
+the performance wouldn't be nearly as good.  So there it is....
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Comes the Inquisitor>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  COLIN BRAKE, Wednesday, August 09, 1995 12:57:06 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#294258
+
+     Yeah, it's always the dopey, small stuff that slips past, and nobody 
+notices until it jumps out at you when it's too late.
+
+     Should have something official about the comic shortly.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  <Comes The Inquisitor>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Spencer Collyer Wednesday, August 09, 1995 11:09:23 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#294967
+
+     They SNIPPED the shot of G'Kar slicing his hand?  You're kidding!  I find 
+that quite astonishing; it was done discreetly.  I'm dumbfounded.  No wonder 
+there was confusion about that scene.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+Subj:  <Comes The Inquisitor>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Richard McLaren, Wednesday, August 09, 1995 11:10:07 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#294971
+
+<As regards the knife, I am sure that this was not shown on our version. 
+Perhaps C4 has been using its own knife, they have done so in the past.
+
+For some reason the British censors have a real problem with knives. Rape, 
+torture, nudity, language, you name it seems to get past the censors but 
+you never see anybody even accidentally cutting himself.>
+
+     You're right, btw; I was informed in another message here that they did 
+snip that piece of G'Kar's action.  Suffice to say I had *no* idea, and now
+that I *do* have an idea...I'm simply wog-boggled.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  <A Question for JMS>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Mike Aragona, Wednesday, August 09, 1995 11:10:06 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#294975
+
+<Could we say that the Vorlon telepathy constantly being referred to in
+terms of a song is something akin to the "Heavenly Choir"?>
+
+     A choir, yes; heavenly remains to be seen.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  <A Question for JMS>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, Thursday, August 10, 1995 1:01:15 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#295518
+
+<>>     A choir, yes; heavenly remains to be seen.
+
+Was Karl Edward Muller's compilation of a "choir to sing me into heaven
+when I die" significant in any way that will be important later?>
+
+     Who can say?
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  <A Question for JMS>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey,Thursday, August 10, 1995 10:30:14 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#296180
+
+     Yes, I have a voice like five thousand moths dying simultaneously
+in a very large bowl of tea.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Comes the Inquisitor>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Martin Colloby, Thursday, August 10, 1995 1:01:17 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#295519
+
+     I tied him <the main characer in CTI> to a specific person because 
+in writing, you *always* try to go for specifics, because generalities don't 
+really work.  It's the difference, in prose, between, "The room smelled good," 
+and "The room smelled of cinnamon and fresh coffee."  Also, the specific 
+connotations to who and what Jack was were essential and integral to the 
+storyline.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Comes the Inquisitor>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Martin Colloby,Thursday, August 10, 1995 10:30:19 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#296183
+
+     Sebastian was played by Wayne Alexander, a British actor of great skill 
+who hasn't been seen much on TV before this, but should now, with this 
+performance as a calling card.  It was a stunning performance.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Comes The Inquisitor>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Chris Gardiner, Friday, August 11, 1995 1:59:17 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#296295
+
+     Your analysis is *exactly* correct.
+
+     Also, check Sebastian's reaction when he asks Delenn what if she's wrong, 
+"have you ever considered that?  HAVE YOU?"
+
+     She responds, softly, "....yes."
+
+     Look at his face when she says this.  It rattles him.  It's not the answer 
+he expected, but more important, it's not the answer he wanted, needed to hear.
+He needed to hear her say that she had never had the slightest *scintilla* of
+doubt, that as he had been, she was a True Believer, a fanatic, incapable of
+doubt of mistake...and thus doomed to failure.  He can't even meet her gaze; he
+turns, looks away, and suggests an "intermission" that is more for his benefit
+than hers.
+
+     There's an awful lot going on in this show, a great deal of it sub rosa,
+under the surface, implied in gestures or hesitations or looks, some implied,
+some stated outright.  He *hates* the memory of Jack; it's not his name, the
+one thing that is his...remember, he is caught up with "who ARE you?" and his
+answer to that is lost in the persona created by history...his true name, is
+what's totally forgotten to history.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  <<Comes the Inquisitor>>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Chris Gardiner, Monday, August 14, 1995 1:40:15 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#299358
+
+     I'd say that those are good and accurate points all around, well 
+considered.  As for locale, it was similar to, but not exactly the same 
+as the one in which the Marcabs died, though I did want to somewhat evoke 
+the memory of that when I indicated the set I had in mind.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  <CtI - Names & Things >		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  David Gillon, Monday, August 14, 1995 8:06:00 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#300195
+
+     Of course, his real name was never Jack Sebastian; "Jack" 
+is his working name, Sebastian could be a first or last name.
+
+                                                    jms
+
+
+Subj:  <DL & TLTS>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, Tuesday, August 15, 1995 3:24:13 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#300531
+
+     It wasn't intended that Delenn should touch Draal; it sorta 
+happened on the set, and no one really noticed, and it wasn't worth 
+going back and reshooting the whole thing.  My sense is that if it's 
+like a virtual reality situation, she would "feel" it even though 
+it's not there, if the image was impinging correctly on the brain.
+
+     But in either event, the image is not and should not be considered 
+to be solid.
+
+     As for Londo's shot...the director called "cut" I think a bit too 
+soon, we used every frame we had to extend that shot (and, in fact, we 
+even went so far as to freeze the final frame and extend the shot by a 
+smidge, if you look at it carefully).  Nonetheless, I think it works 
+pretty spiffily.
+
+     As for the mass drivers, the amount of energy required to move 
+something that big would generate huge amounts of heat, possibly making 
+them even white-hot, hence the glow.
+
+     Anyway, thanks for the comments; I do think it's possibly either 
+the best, or one of the best shows to that point.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  <The Fall of Night>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Spencer Collyer Tuesday, August 15, 1995 12:48:31 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#300834
+
+<_The Fall of Night_ has just finished, and all I can say is that 
+this has got to be the most 'OH MY GOD' episode ever!  I don't 
+know how you are going to top this one...>
+
+     Thanks.  That last sequence is the single biggest effects 
+sequence done for TV, insofar as I know.  There are 34 composite 
+shots in a matter of just a few minutes.  Our guys nearly went blind 
+doing it, but it's cool.  The whole feel, I think, is quite nice.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+Subj:  <The Fall of Night>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Spencer Collyer Tuesday, August 15, 1995 3:02:11 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#300944
+
+<One thing I wondered about - when Lanz made that little speech about 
+'peace in our time' I sat bolt upright, because it sounded akin to 
+what Chamberlain said when he got back from Munich in 1938, having 
+just signed a non-aggression treaty with Germany.>
+
+     Yes, it was a definite nod to Chamberlain, and a bit of foreshadowing 
+for ominous things to come.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  <The Fall of Night>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Spencer Collyer Tuesday, August 15, 1995 6:33:19 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#301157
+
+     Oh, yeah, I'd think that most folks will get it over here; and 
+those who don't, just won't notice it, and will take it on face value.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  <The Fall of Night>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Danny Phillips, Wednesday, August 16, 1995 1:37:06 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#302013
+
+     There are a number of metaphors in the show that operate on many 
+different levels; it can't be a one-to-one corrolary to WW II, because 
+that limits and makes predictable your story.
+
+     In musical terms, it's almost a tonal piece, taking elements to 
+which we respond, almost subconsciously, and then rearranging them into 
+something that is, one hopes, a new construct.  You can find here echoes of 
+Vietnam, of Kennedy, of Chamberlain, of WW II, of Korea, of the Mideast; 
+in a way, it's a thematic piece that touches how we have come to think of 
+war, and conflict, across the development of the 20th century, and the 
+role of the individual in that regard.
+
+     We have learned to think of war as something now on a huge scale, 
+an entity in itself.  Once upon a time, before the gatling gun and the 
+automatic rifle, combat was something individual, even in larger wars, 
+one person against the enemy...and that person was honored, one person 
+could turn the tide against the enemy.  In a world in which weapons of 
+mass destruction exist, where then is the individual?  Where then the 
+bravery, the struggle, the triumph...and the failure?  Where, 
+fundamentally, is the responsibility?
+
+     All of that is intertwined with the storyline, and to communicate that 
+I'm not averse to taking elements of history that resonate with that theme 
+and reworking them, knowing that on a cellular level, we *recognize* that 
+aspect, we've seen it...but now in a new context, we can see it differently, 
+discuss its implications, *learn* from it.
+
+     This is one of the things I rarely talk about, because it's the kind of 
+thing that is best left simply implied, or implicit, in the work, and because 
+if you have to draw attention to something in the work, somehow I think it 
+lessens it, because it works best unspoken.  And because I guess it sounds 
+kinda presumptuous, and high-falutin' and self-indulgent.  But it's one the 
+things that matters to me in the context of the story.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  <The Fall of Night>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Glenn Curtis, Wednesday, August 16, 1995 11:53:30 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#302630
+
+     C4 can't repeat the show in widescreen, because it hasn't been 
+delivered in that fashion, it'd require going back to the original 
+wide negatives; but they are negotiating to show season 3 that way 
+(Germany and France have already signed on for that).
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  <KOSH!!!!!!>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Laurence Moroney, Tuesday, August 15, 1995 12:59:17 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#300843
+
+<I was right!!!
+Kosh is an angelic/christian image.
+It was made clear that he is an angel, but not which one, if that 
+can be revealed within this show.....>
+
+     Actually, no, not really; Kosh is what you see when you look at 
+him. And if a Drazi looks at him, the Drazi sees something different 
+than a Minbari; yes, a being of light, BUT....
+
+     Is that what they actually ARE, or how they have programmed us 
+to react when we see them?  As Sheridan said, have we been *manipulated* 
+to seeing them a certain way, seeing a certain image?  We may not be
+seeing what they ARE, but what they WANT us to see.
+
+     It goes a heck of a lot deeper than what it seems.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  <KOSH!!!!!!>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Tuesday, August 15, 1995 3:02:03 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#300941
+
+     Take Kosh at face value?  No, not at all, never my intent.
+
+     And yes, my spousal overunit wrote "By Any Means."
+
+                                                             jms
+
+Subj:  <KOSH!!!!!!>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Lawrence Duru, Wednesday, August 16, 1995 1:37:11 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#302014
+
+<>Kosh is what you see when you look at him.
+
+Does that mean that Kosh would appear different to a Hindu, a Buddist 
+and the  members of all the other human religous belief systems?
+
+Will there ever be widescreen videos of B5, and, if not, 
+when are the laserdiscs due to be released.>
+
+     Yes, there would be some amount of variation among humans, though not 
+in terms of beliefs that may have come along post-Vorlon influence.  This 
+sort of thing has been implanted almost at a genetic level, and they do 
+have a hand, or a mind, in activating it when seen.  The more people who see 
+them in different ways, the longer they must maintain that, the greater the 
+strain on them.
+
+     And someday, some happy, distant day, we do hope to have widescreen 
+laser disks, but that day is not yet in sight.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Kosh is .....>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  IMRAN NAQVI, Tuesday, August 15, 1995 6:33:15 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#301155
+
+<P.S. Is it just my imagination or has Ivanova gone back to the severe hair 
+pulled back look from before her friendship to Talia began?>
+
+     Her look varies depending on mood, day, and circumstance.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Kosh is .....>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Martin Gillibrand, Tuesday, August 15, 1995 12:59:20 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#300844
+
+<Kosh is........... an Angel???>
+
+     Is he?  Or is that how we've been manipulated to see, as Sheridan 
+notes?
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  <KOSH ID, jms, SPOILERS>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  All		           Tuesday, August 15, 1995 2:47:17 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#300918
+
+     Since "The Fall of Night" has now aired in the UK, and word is getting 
+out, herewith a post I left on GEnie about Kosh's now-revealed identity.  
+I thought it came out fairly well, so I'm repeating it here.
+
+*****
+
+      Okay.  Here it is.  I'm gonna do it.  I'm gonna reveal Kosh.
+
+      I'm not kidding.  Bail now if you're looking in and don't want to 
+know.
+
+
+
+
+     No backsies.
+
+
+
+
+
+     I mean it.
+
+
+
+
+     Last chance.
+
+     Okay, this is it.
+
+     "If he leaves his encounter suit, he will be recognized."  
+     "By who?" 
+     "Everyone."
+
+     "The First Ones taught the younger races, explored beyond the rim, 
+built civilizations...."
+
+     Kosh is what you're pointing at when you say "That's Kosh."
+
+     "Yes, the Vorlons have been to Earth, the Vorlons have been everywhere. 
+The Vorlons *are*."
+
+     They *are*.
+
+     "For centuries, the Vorlons have helped the younger races, guiding us, 
+and --"   "And manipulating us?"  "It is, as you say, a matter...
+of perspective."
+
+     They *are*...a matter of perspective.
+
+     Each race who sees them, sees something out of their own past, their 
+own legends, religions, faiths.  A being of light, if you will, but a Drazi 
+sees the Drazi version of that, Droshalla; the Minbari see the Minbari 
+version of that, Valeria; humans see a human version of that.
+
+     It is the mirror in which we see our beliefs reflected, but is it 
+the progenitor of those beliefs...or an implanted image that overlays that 
+vision on top of the true form of the Vorlon?  Is it revelation, or is it 
+manipulation?
+
+     The Vorlons are a cypher.  The Vorlons are a matter of perspective. 
+The Vorlons are guides...or users, emissaries or puppeteers, who wish 
+to be seen a certain way, so that we will react properly.
+
+     Is this good, or is this bad?
+
+     And the truth is, even though you have seen a Vorlon, have you seen 
+THE Vorlon, the one behind the image that dances somewhere between your 
+optic nerve and your brain?
+
+     Or to quote a message I left long ago, paraphrased from memory, 
+"The hand Sinclair sees is not the hand Sinclair sees, and the hand Sinclair 
+sees is not the same hand someone else in the room sees, and is not even the 
+hand that that person sees."
+
+     The Vorlons Are.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+Subj:  <KOSH ID, jms, SPOILERS>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Hans Peter Rushworth, Wednesday, August 16, 1995 11:53:15 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#302636
+
+<My impression of Kosh was one of relative weakness. I increasingly get the 
+feeling that Kosh is indecisive and weak. Kosh allowed himself to be poisoned 
+by a Minbari and, we assume, be attacked by Morden. He needed Sebastian to 
+determine the motives of Delenn and Sheridan and a Vicar to probe Talia, and
+here he needed Delenn to convince him to take action. He seems to use everyone
+else but seldom does anything himself. Here he demonstrated the ability to fly
+and somehow misdirect those watching. There might have been several ways a 
+metaphysically-enlightened being could have resolved the situation without 
+revealing himself. I assume that, for example Ironheart, could have done 
+something with a simple thought.
+
+I suppose I do find Kosh slighty "rightous" for my taste.>
+
+     Thanks.  And finding Kosh slightly righteous is pretty much the desired 
+intent.  So you're clicking on all the right cylinders.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  TFoN No spoilers			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Ruth Ballam, Tuesday, August 15, 1995 3:02:02 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#300940
+
+     How do we top this?  We just do it, because we kinda have to.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Season two Finale>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jonathan Colhoun, Tuesday, August 15, 1995 3:02:06 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#300942
+
+<I just want to say thank-you for all the hours of enertainment that B5
+has brought to my friends and I over the last couple of years - the
+quality of the storylines, acting and special effects has converted us 
+fromStar Trek nuts to Babylon maniacs !!>
+
+     I'm very glad to hear that, thanks.  It's a great note to go out on.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+Subj:  <The Fall of Night>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Chris Jay, 100573,2376		Tuesday, August 15, 1995 3:02:08 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#300943
+
+<JMS, please keep up the execellent work, please pass on "OUR" thanks to 
+your production team.>
+
+     Thanks, that's truly great to here.  A lot of sweat and blood went into 
+that one.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  <KOSH!!!!!!>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Stephen Chatwood, Tuesday, August 15, 1995 3:02:13 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#300945
+
+    Londo saw what he said he saw.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Fall of Night - story>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  David Gillon, Tuesday, August 15, 1995 3:12:17 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#300962
+
+     Actually, the "snitch" was the C&C tech, NOT the pilot, they just 
+have a somewhat similar appearance.
+
+     We've established that klaxons go off elsewhere in the station 
+during an attack to warn civilians, but they aren't going off in C&C 
+because they make it impossible to concentrate, as per military tradition 
+(see "And Now For a Word" to confirm this).
+
+     There wasn't time to call Draal, and they can't begin relying on him 
+for every problem; they have to be able to hold their own.  You would only 
+bring in Draal on something really major.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Fall of Night>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Mark Sloan, Tuesday, August 15, 1995 6:33:08 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#301152
+
+<Keffer jettisoned his recording as soon as the Shadow ship started scanning
+him. But the ISN broadcast showed the Shadow ship turning and firing,
+supposedly after the recording had been jettisoned. Was the jettisoned
+recording fitted with something that enabled to continue to record up to 
+the point where Keffer's ship got wasted?>
+
+      Yeah, I kinda figured that recorders like this would be outfitted with a 
+receiver for the ship's gun camera.  This would be vital to locate ships that
+got lost, and track as long as possible what happened after the log was
+ejected, and before the recorder moved out of range.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Fall of Night>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Dean Long, Tuesday, August 15, 1995 6:33:09 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#301153
+
+<The narrative at the end was novel. Was this intentional or did you 
+originally plan to do another episode?>
+
+     The narrative was a tonal setup for next season.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+
+Subj:  <TLTS: Narn Ships?>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Colin Glassey, Tuesday, August 15, 1995 6:33:16 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#301156
+
+     Not much to the secret...they coordinated their firepower on one of 
+the ships, in hopes of doing damage.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+
+Subj:  <A Question for JMS>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Mike Aragona, Tuesday, August 15, 1995 11:34:13 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#301471
+
+<Will Vir, even metaphorically, get to wave at Morden?>
+
+     That would be telling.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+Subj:  <Comes the Inquisitor>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jacqueline Groom, Tuesday, August 15, 1995 11:34:14 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#301472
+
+<Sebastian believed he had a destiny, so there must have been a reason 
+why he thought he was superior to other people.
+
+He threatened to stop Delenn's heart. Either he was using the frazzler, 
+or the Vorlons changed him, or he could do that before the Vorlons got him.
+
+Ironheart claimed he could do something similar, and he was part of an 
+experiment to create telekinetics using drugs. Sebastian would have had 
+easier access to more powerful drugs than we do now.  Ironheart also 
+mentioned that most TKs were insane.
+
+If there is a link between Psy-Corps and the shadows, and if the Psy-Corps 
+are investigating telekinesis in humans, does that have have any bearing 
+on why the Vorlons took Sebastian?>
+
+     Well...one out of four ain't bad.
+
+     Thanks.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+Subj:  Series 3?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Dinie Kloosterboer, Wednesday, August 16, 1995 2:25:17 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#301548
+
+<Anyway, I suppose we'll find out sooner or later. Or, *horrors*! What 
+if jms has it scripted so that we never do find out much more about the 
+Shadows!!!!>
+
+     Don't worry, all will be revealed in time.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Fall of Night - eekkk>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Arwel Parry, Wednesday, August 16, 1995 2:34:16 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#301549
+
+     Yes, the camera was still mounted on the Starfury, but cameras even 
+today are constantly transmitting to other locations; TV cameras don't 
+just transmit on a cable to the box they're attached to, they are uplinked 
+to other places.  Similarly, the recording device continued to receive 
+transmission fro the Starfury until such time as it either went out of 
+range or, in this case, the transmitter was destroyed.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Fall of Night - eekkk>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John Sheridan, Wednesday, August 16, 1995 1:37:15 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#302016
+
+<BTW, is Keffer doorknob-dead or what ?!?!?!>
+
+     He is an Ex-Keffer.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  <<Babcom '95 revisited>>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Arwel Parry, Friday, August 18, 1995 7:14:17 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#304762
+
+<Back when you were over here for the Babcom '95 con, you showed us a 
+tape including some goodies from forthcoming episodes. The only one 
+which we haven't seen in the Last Four [tm] appeared to show Vir falling 
+from a great height, which caused considerable anguish and discussion 
+amongst Vir-fans.>
+
+     That was from a scene we cut from an episode.
+
+                                                                jms
+Subj:  <Talia Winters>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Eric Benson, Friday, August 18, 1995 1:39:25 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#304389
+
+<I have some questions as well.  It seems that Ironheart should have 
+picked up on the hidden personality inside Talia's psyche.
+
+ It seems that Talia was basicly a good person.  Which of her personalities 
+was the construct, Talia or Control?>
+
+     Control was the construct.  The alternate personality was dormant at the 
+time Ironheart was there.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+Subj:  <Talia Winters>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, Friday, August 18, 1995 9:37:02 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#304967
+
+<>> Control was the construct.  The alternate personality was dormant at 
+the time Ironheart was there.
+
+I have been thinking about this. It seems to me that one would not just 
+*construct* a personality, you would have to have a starting point. 
+Was the new personality formed from Talia to begin with? Is the new 
+personalities name Isabella?>
+
+     I'd rather let this aspect slide for the moment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+Subj:  <DL and TLTS>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  AsstOp Pam Jernigan, Sunday, August 27, 1995 12:32:05 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#312552
+
+<I have only one burning question - that scene with Delenn and Sheridan 
+in the garden, where they're discussing the gaps in her vocabulary... was 
+that by any chance inspired by the long-running thread here about that 
+portion of Mira's anatomy? <g>>
+
+     No, the scene just came out of looking to have some fun with 
+language.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+Subj:  <DL> CUTTING ROOM FLOOR		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  David Chandler-Gick, Sunday, August 27, 1995 12:32:10 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#312554
+
+<Was there a kiss between two characters that was edited out in 
+Divided Loyalties?>
+
+     Nope, no such scene was cut.  It's just a slightly awkward 
+match in the edited shots.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  <TLTS - Draal - bravo!>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Bob Danielson, Sunday, August 27, 1995 12:32:18 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#312557
+
+     Thanks.  Draal's played by John Shuck, who did a great job.  
+And yes, we'll definitely be seeing him again.  (We first met him in 
+"A Voice in the Wilderness.")
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Saw FON>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Barbara Pfieffer, Sunday, August 27, 1995 12:32:21 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#312558
+
+<First, the important stuff<g>-Did Ann Bruice get married?  I 
+noticed an additional name on her credit.
+
+All the spoilers I read didn't make much of this exchange:
+
+Delenn:...unless the Vorlons were prepared to stand against them.
+Sheridan: Are they?
+Delenn: I do not think so.
+
+That scared the h*ll out of me.  Does this mean the Vorlons won't 
+help against the shadows? If so, we're in deep trouble.
+
+The SFX was great, including the shuttle effects.  Can't wait for 
+season three.>
+
+     Yes, Anne got married.  As for the Vorlons line..."prepared" 
+should be taken in the same sense as "ready"...so they may not yet be 
+ready.
+
+     Definite agreement on the shuttle sequence, works nicely.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  <TLTS>				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Daniel M. Upton, Sunday, August 27, 1995 12:32:25 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#312559
+
+<I just caught TLTS and I just wanted to thank you for staging a space 
+battle between two opposing fleets instead of just two ships.  And for 
+having the ships engage at a distance too great for them to all fit on 
+the TV screen at the same time.  You have once again raised the bar on 
+TV SF.>
+
+     Thanks.  One of the things I wanted to try was to find a way to stage 
+long-range combat. One of the things everyone says is that even though real 
+aerial combat tends to be at great distance -- and space combat would be 
+conducted over thousands of kilometers, you probably wouldn't be able to even 
+SEE your opponent at that range, just pick up the enemy ships on your scanners 
+-- you can't do that for TV because you need to have both in frame, 
+hammering each other short-range, to make it work for viewers.
+
+     But I've always liked a challenge, so I thought I'd see if I could make 
+it work.  The two sides are, as noted, thousands of kilometers apart, and take 
+most of that sequences just to catch up with each other.  And frankly, I think 
+it's probably one of the most dynamic battle sequences we've ever done, so you 
+can expect more in the future, now that I've kind of got the hang of how to 
+do this.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+
+Subj:  <TLTS>				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Tom Knudsen, Thursday, August 31, 1995 12:45:25 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#317451
+
+<The Narns fire an energy mine of some sort.  Was I seeing things,
+or did the Shadow ships "phase" out and then back in to avoid the
+brunt of this attack??  If so, it was a VERY interesting maneuver.>
+
+     No, they didn't phase out so much as absorb the energy, 
+at cost of great pain.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
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+JMS CompuServe messages collected by The Green Meddler <kilgalen@tde.com>.
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  David Henninger, Friday, September 01, 1995 1:13:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#318703
+
+     Simplest way to tell: if it has the PTEN copyright notice, it's 
+usually authorized, same for any other product by other shows.  If 
+not, not.
+
+     One-offs, paintings of characters, that's one thing, but if 
+somebody's selling mass-produced stuff like links, PPGs, patches 
+without any kind of ID on them, you can be sure it ain't legit.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Mark Slater, Friday, September 01, 1995 1:19:03 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#318706
+
+     Just so we're clear, the problem isn't getting WB moving on 
+licensing; ever since we got started here, I've been dragging my 
+feet on licensing stuff, because I've seen merchandising become the 
+tail wagging the dog on TV shows.  I don't want that to happen 
+here.  So as stuff comes in, I approve only a few things, selectively, 
+that I think can be done, and done well.
+
+     Re: the UK videotape situation...that's something that I have no 
+input into whatsoever, as it falls under the jurisdiction of another 
+country, and the approval steps are several steps removed from me.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Alan Katz, Friday, September 01, 1995 11:01:20 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#319178
+
+     I've been involved in approving the comics, the micromachines, 
+the novels, the screen saver, the Fleer cards, and other stuff.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Stephen Burrow, Saturday, September 02, 1995 9:33:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#320089
+
+     As with the disks, eventually we'll have tapes out, it's just a 
+matter of convincing WB that there's interest out there.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, Sunday, September 03, 1995 7:20:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#320985
+
+     It's a different division of Warners, run by Jim Cardwell at
+Warner Home Video, that makes the decision about cassettes.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Tom Knudsen, Friday, September 01, 1995 11:01:23 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#319179
+
+<Has any company requested a license for a calendar?>
+  
+     If someone comes to us with the right package, I'm sure we could 
+work that out.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Foul Ball			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Benoit Langevin, Friday, September 01, 1995 1:13:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#318704
+
+     The B5 baseball cap is available by phone order from Creation 
+Entertainment or at any Creation convention.
+
+     As for the sound mix...yeah, we put a great deal of work into 
+that aspect, for the surround effect.  If you fire up "Race" there's 
+a LOT going on in that one.  It takes a great deal of time, but it's 
+worth it.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Foul Ball			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Benoit Langevin, Friday, September 01, 1995 11:01:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#319176
+
+     Alas, I don't have their number right at hand, but if you call 
+818 area code information, for the Creation Entertainment offices 
+in Glendale, you'll get the info.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Blackadder, Saturday, September 02, 1995 9:33:31 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#320088
+
+<I have heard rumors of B5 being offered in laser disk in the near 
+future. Is there any truth to it?>
+
+     Eventually it'll be done, but there's no target date for that 
+now.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 vs. Trek fans			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sam W, Sunday, September 03, 1995 7:32:16 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#320995
+
+      BTW, someone should point out to the "ST doesn't use CGI" crowd 
+that, from what I saw, LOTS of the Voyager stuff was CGI last ep, 
+including that shot where the legs extend from beneath.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 vs. Trek fans			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Louis H. Levinson, Sunday, September 03, 1995 7:32:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#320994
+
+     There are limits to what the healing device can do, for starters; 
+it can't repair physical damage to the body, mainly it works with 
+disease and basic low-energy stuff; also, bear in mind that it was a 
+device used for *capital punishment*...meaning that to save one person's 
+life, another must sacrifice his or her own, if it's that far along, 
+so it's not really something you can trot out everytime somebody gets 
+nailed.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  What's legit?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Glen Guenther, 71163,75		Monday, September 04, 1995 3:21:18 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#321904
+
+     T-shirts are available from Creation and All-U, with caps and mugs from
+Creation (and there's a GREAT new mug with the station on the obverse side),
+along with a great jacket with the station embroidered on the back.  There
+are 4 micromachine sets out now, with 2 more to come.  And the trading cards
+from Fleer are due out in about a week or so.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, 76371,3057	Monday, September 04, 1995 3:21:21 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#321905
+
+     Sheridan's obsessive streak may be the only thing that gets them out
+of this alive.  And as far as I know, the kid hasn't been born yet.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Mark D. Smith, 70254,107		Monday, September 04, 1995 3:21:24 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#321907
+
+     Novel 3 is due out now, or in a week or so.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, 71513,1177	Monday, September 04, 1995 10:16:20 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#322437
+
+     Yes, that's the correct address.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, 71513,1177	Tuesday, September 05, 1995 11:18:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#323593
+
+     Yeah, thanks, we're finally starting to get some attention on the show;
+I think we've come to that annoying point where it's just about impossible
+to keep ignoring us....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Mark Slater, 100600,3605		Monday, September 04, 1995 10:16:21 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#322438
+
+     I've always said...the day I approve Babylon 5 Underoos is the day
+you'll all know I've sold out....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Bob Perse, 75310,3312		Wednesday, September 06, 1995 11:52:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#324597
+
+<They'd want you to model the Underoos...>
+
+     Naah...the whole nation would be struck blind, and I don't want to be
+held accountable for that.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  B5 vs. Trek fans			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Carl BUSSJAEGER, 102065,1635	Monday, September 04, 1995 3:21:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#321906
+
+     The two machines would only be distantly related.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 season Three			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Rae Augenstein, 72752,1653	Monday, September 04, 1995 10:16:24 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#322439
+
+     New sets: yes, and we're creating situations in which we can see more of
+Earth, Mars, our other local planets, plus Narn, Centauri, Minbari and one
+other major world.  As the Shadow War cranks into gear, you're going to need
+a place to meet in security and plan for it, so we're also building that.
+We'll see more of Draal's place on Epsilon 3.  And there's one other major
+set that we'll see in the first episode, and quite a bit thereafter.
+
+     New characters: well, there's Marcus Cole, a Ranger assigned permanently
+to Babylon 5, played by British actor Jason Carter; we'll see Lyta Alexander
+more this year; and Theo...what can I say about Theo...well, perhaps better
+to let you see for yourself.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 season Three			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, 71513,1177	Tuesday, September 05, 1995 11:18:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#323592
+
+     Theodore.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 season Three			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  SysOp Dupa T. Parrot, 70040,104 Wednesday, September 06, 1995 11:52:20 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#324598
+
+     No, since Theo is a fictional character and Theo Bikel is a real person,
+and they're two different things.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Comics			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeffrey Martino, 73477,1506	Wednesday, September 06, 1995 2:45:03 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#324077
+
+     Yeah, as I understand it, because the book will be published on something
+other than a monthly basis, subscriptions don't apply, that's exclusively for
+their regular, monthly titles.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Cast & Crew view eps?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Z. Michael Milutinovic, 71532,2231Thursday, September 07, 1995 10:19:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#325449
+
+     Not really, no...sometimes, one or another cast or crew person will
+ask to screen an episode, but it's very spotty; we don't provide personal
+copies until after the episode airs, and only to direct cast and crew
+members.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Cast & Crew view eps?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, 76371,3057	Friday, September 08, 1995 2:29:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#325901
+
+     Well, though they haven't seen the eps, they *have* read the scripts,
+so they do know what happened in those eps.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 move in SF			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Thomas McDonough, 73641,474	Thursday, September 07, 1995 10:19:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#325450
+
+     Well, I'm not surprised, in that stations generally don't run promos
+when the show is in reruns; we'll see what they do closer to debut.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 @ Emmys			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Rae Augenstein, 72752,1653	Thursday, September 07, 1995 10:19:03 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#325451
+
+     No, I won't be there, due to work.  The noms we've gotten are in hair,
+makeup and  cinematography.  They're up against stiff competition, though,
+so we'll see.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  John Shuck			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Mojo Jones, 71555,271		Friday, September 08, 1995 2:29:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#325902
+
+<I thought I recognized John Shuck as Draal, when he wasn't doing the
+Draal voice.  Is that the Commissioner's assistant from McMillan and Wife?>
+
+     Same guy.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 makes "Jeopardy"		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Richard P. Manny, Friday, September 08, 1995 11:04:03 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#326352
+
+<If you haven't already been told, B5 became a Jeopardy question 
+(answer?) last week.>
+
+     Actually, it's a repeat of an earlier Jeapordy.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  The Vorlons			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Daniel M. Upton Friday, September 08, 1995 11:04:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#326353
+
+     What, I should begin catering to prurient interests?  
+Broadcasting picture postcards (likely French) of Vorlons 
+in provocative poses, in lingerie?  A terrible thing, that 
+a nice young man such as yourself should be asking about.  
+Does your mother know you're out here doing this?  Good 
+heavens.
+
+     And who said they reproduce anymore?
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  The Vorlons			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel Saturday, September 09, 1995 6:33:27 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#327062
+
+<"Wouldn't that Minbari bone be awfully hard on the mother?">
+
+     Like elk antlers, they grow after birth.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Walter on QVC			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Richard M. Perry, Friday, September 08, 1995 11:04:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#326354
+
+     What's this fascination with underoos and sheets and uncut 
+something or others...?
+
+     Have you started rooming with Daniel or something?
+
+     Sigh...y'know, I remember when this was a clean place to 
+hang out, kids could play in the streets, mothers could take 
+their babies out in strollers, you could hang out on the front 
+stoop and talk to people...now it's all underoos and nudie 
+cutie Vorlon pictures.
+
+     What's the world coming to?
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Fury landings			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Kenneth Porter Friday, September 08, 1995 11:07:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#326355
+
+     We have shown, in other episodes, including "Survivors," 
+that the starfuries come back in via the central docking bay, 
+and are lowered into their proper bays from there, where 
+they are recharged and repaired.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Theo				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Saturday, September 09, 1995 6:33:27 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#327061
+
+<Not that I expect a straight answer on the first post <GDRVVF>, 
+but what sort of character is this 'Theo'?>
+
+     Here's a hint: he arrives with about a dozen of his brothers.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  Theo				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Daniel M. Upton, Saturday, September 09, 1995 10:51:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#327315
+
+     Nope, not a technomage.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Theo				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Bruce D. Sinclair Sunday, September 10, 1995 4:25:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#327850
+
+<If Theo is part of another brotherhood you've established on the show, 
+I think it's time to leave B5 - Pronto! <g,d,r>>
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  Theo				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Lynn Dimock, Sunday, September 10, 1995 11:09:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#328201
+
+     He's definitely human.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+     (Suddenly this has become "What's My Line.")
+
+Subj:  Theo				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John McAuley Sunday, September 10, 1995 4:26:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#327853
+
+<How about Theo and his brothers being 
+the first Organic ships (other than the Vorlon ship) to be 
+stationed on B5?>
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+Subj:  Theo				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Tom Knudsen, Sunday, September 10, 1995 11:09:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#328202
+
+<Is he one of the singing monks in the Moment of Perfect Beauty?>
+
+     Nope.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+Subj:  The Dodgers			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Randall A. Schanze, Saturday, September 09, 1995 6:33:29 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#327063
+
+     Actually, much of what's been reported is misconception or 
+actors who somewhat...misremember things.
+
+     Bill was never considered a one-shot as Lennier.  It was always 
+a recurring role.  That's what we put out in the casting breakdowns 
+that went to agents, and that was the understanding when we did 
+auditions, and when we negotiated with Bill, and did the main 
+titles.
+
+     Pat Tallman's character was *never* intended as a male; at one 
+time, I'd considered making Delenn male to start with, then female 
+after emerging from the chrysalis, but Lyta...never.
+
+     So there really hasn't been as much divergence as might seem.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  OTHERSYDE			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Raggedy Ann Sunday, September 10, 1995 4:25:25 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#327851
+
+     Thanks.  Characters, for me, are the point of a novel, and 
+any good story.  Long after the plot becomes fuzzy in memory, you 
+remember the people...you remember Ahab and Michael Valentine Smith 
+and Charles Dexter Ward....
+
+     Re: not having adjective/adverb disease...there's something 
+funny there you wouldn't know about.  See, when I was in high school, 
+they had Career Day for the tops in various areas (dance, acting, 
+athletics, whatever).  I ended up in the Writing group.  It was held at 
+Southwestern College down by San Diego.  I was stuck in this little 
+room, and nobody came by, because who wants to see writers when you can 
+see athletes and dancers and mimes?
+
+     Finally, a short fellow with salt-and-pepper hair wandered in, 
+and went down the line of manuscripts-with-writers, paused at my table.  
+(I was writing stories in the Lovecraft/dark horror vein at the time.)  
+Took one of my stories, walked off, sat in one of the lawn chairs, 
+read it through. Came back, returned the story, took another.  Read that 
+one over.  Put it back.  Looked at me for a long moment.
+
+     Then he said: "You have a great and substantial talent for your age. 
+Two pieces of advice: one, don't ever let them stop you from telling the 
+stories you want to tell; two, cut every third adjective."
+
+     Then he walked off, and as soon as he was out the door, the faculty 
+advisor came running at me at warp nine.  "What did he say, what did he say, 
+whatdidhesay?"  I told her.  "Don't you know who that was?" she asked.
+
+     I said no, though there was something kinda familiar about him, and 
+remember it's always different when you see somebody out of context.  
+"That was Rod Serling," she said, "he's here to speak at the college later 
+today."
+
+     Had there been a gun within easy reach, I would almost certainly have 
+put a bullet into my brain.  By the time I ran out, he was gone.
+
+     That was one of three weirdnesses in my life involving Rod.  
+The other two...are stories for another day.
+
+     So when you say I've managed to keep the adjectives down...
+I'm very pleased.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  About your lighting		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  David Corbin, 75663,623		Tuesday, September 12, 1995 11:02:27 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#330433
+
+<Why does B5 have so many 'moving spotlights'?>
+
+     They look cool....?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  OTHERSYDE			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Linda Woeltjen, 76711,1142	Tuesday, September 12, 1995 11:02:03 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#330438
+
+<How many people there are in the world who have as much confirmation as you
+do that they're doing with their lives what they were *meant* to do?>
+
+     I'm not sure some days if this is what I was *meant* to do...or if I'm
+simply incompetent to do anything *else*....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  Joe's name plagiarized		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jerry D Bookter, 75453,2257	Tuesday, September 12, 1995 11:02:30 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#330435
+
+<There's a guy with the name 'Micheal J. Superzcynski' on CompuServe>
+
+     Actually, I think I once ran into him hereabouts...small world....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  The Dodgers			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, 74053,2101	Tuesday, September 12, 1995 11:02:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#330436
+
+<Re: Lennier never being considered as a one-shot character: I'll be d@mned.
+Didn't this make it into TV Guide or something?>
+
+     Yeah, it did, and I'm kinda surprised by it, since Bill should really know better.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  'Convictions' ep title		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Elyse M. Grasso, 70302,3304	Tuesday, September 12, 1995 11:02:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#330443
+
+<Does the episode title 'Convictions' refer to strongly held opinions, or to
+the aftermath of court proceedings?>
+
+     As it happens, yes, it kinda refers to both.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Story Line Static?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Hugh Kennedy, 70042,710		Tuesday, September 12, 1995 11:02:16 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#330444
+
+     I'd be a fool not to build in trap doors all over the place, so that
+the story can continue no matter what happens to individuals...in the same
+way that the story of WW II continued, even though some lived and some died
+before the end.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  Nowhere Man/Prisoner		Section: Nowhere/DeadlyGames
+  To:  Rob Wu, Monday, September 18, 1995 10:10:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#336538
+
+     I approached the show with great hopes, but have stopped watching.  
+It just stretches credulity; this is a nationally famous photographer...
+have they eliminated/co-opted his publisher?  Every bookstore in the 
+country that carries his books (which doubtless also have his photo), 
+every library, every person who's ever seen his work, sent 
+him a letter...it's just too big and too improbable.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Marshall Teague/Narn?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Elyse M. Grasso, Monday, September 18, 1995 10:10:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#336539
+
+     Yes, it's the same character, and his name is Ta'Lon.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Query about Shadow Ships		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Mark Sloan, Monday, September 18, 1995 10:10:03 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#336540
+
+     They have alternate means of flipping into and out of hyperspace.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Baby 5?				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Rae Augenstein, Tuesday, September 19, 1995 10:14:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#337813
+
+<What is your reaction to people referring to your show as 
+"Baby 5?">
+
+     Doesn't really bother me.  Bombings, ships sinking, mortar fire, 
+*that* bothers me...the rest...ehh.
+                         
+                                                    jms
+
+Subj:  Nowhere Man/Prisoner		Section: Nowhere/DeadlyGames
+  To:  David Farsaad, Wednesday, September 20, 1995 8:13:25 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#338847
+
+     "In real life they do it all the time."
+
+     Really?  What was the last famous author/photographer/celebrity 
+who had his identity removed and then couldn't find anyone in the 
+continental United States who knew who he was?
+
+                                                          jms
+
+Subj:  Season Three			Section: seaQuest DSV/2032
+  To:  Rob Wu, Friday, September 22, 1995 1:17:10 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#340342
+
+     Haven't seen it, can't comment.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  Query about Shadow Ships		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane, Friday, September 22, 1995 1:17:12 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#340343
+
+     I can imagine there'd be different kinds of technology that 
+can accomplish the same goals, yes.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Long Twilight Struggle>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael  Zitaglio, Saturday, September 23, 1995 4:40:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#342223
+
+     "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
+
+                                                          jms
+
+Subj:  <Long Twilight Struggle>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael  Zitaglio, Sunday, September 24, 1995 4:15:28 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#342827
+
+<JMS, Father, you are wise.>
+
+     Thank you, son.  Now clean up your room before your mom gets home.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  Narn v. Centauri?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Paul Sulkowski, Saturday, September 23, 1995 4:40:10 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#342222
+
+     The colonies mainly came during the Centauri occupation, first with 
+Narns transported there as slave labor or as convenient penalty (a la 
+Australia's early history).
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+Subj:  Mira Furlan in LA Play		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  All	Sunday, September 24, 1995 6:01:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#343703
+
+     Mira Furlan, best known here as Ambassador Delenn, is currently 
+starring in a production of Sophocles' classic play ANTIGONE.  This 
+modernized version is directed by Mira's husband, Goran Gajic, and 
+adapted by Deanne Stillman.  It's a chance to see Mira out of makeup, 
+and in a very different kind of role than you've seen before.
+
+     The play is currently running at the Hudson Guild Theater, 6543 
+Santa Monica Boulevard, in Hollywood.  Performances are Thursdays-
+Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 7.  Tickets can be acquired by 
+calling 213-660-TKTS.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Pirate Warning from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Kevin J. Goulding, Monday, September 25, 1995 2:34:22 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#344181
+
+<Are any of the B5 episodes going to be release to LASER DISC??>
+
+     Eventually, yes, but no clear indication at this time of when that 
+might happen.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Random Queries			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, Monday, September 25, 1995 10:34:18 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#345526
+
+<1.  Will the WB-Turner merger affect you and B5?
+
+2.  Will we see Sarah (General Hague's messanger) again, or is Live Shot 
+taking all of Wanda De Jesus' time?
+
+3.  Rewatching All Alone in the Dark last night,rom:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#345687
+
+     I haven't actually gotten a copy of that issue of Foundation yet; are 
+there any other articles or essays in it mentioning B5?  I sent James an 
+email, but so far, no reply, on getting a copy.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+     (First time I ever wrote for a nominally "literary" publication; 
+hope I didn't come off as too much of a doofus.)
+
+
+Subj:  Random Queries			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Scott Orwig, Tuesday, September 26, 1995 10:36:29 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#346921
+
+<Might this affect syndication?  Is there a chance of WB "selling" B5 episodes 
+to TBS for $100?>
+
+     Dunno...it's all beyond my ken.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  Stunned by B5			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Neville White, Wednesday, September 27, 1995 1:45:10 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#347493
+
+     Thanks.  There does seem this odd rule that when a new viewer tries out 
+the show for the first time, it's invariably one of our few dorky shows; but 
+if you stick around, the next one is usually dead-on.
+
+     What do *I* want?  To finish this story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+Subj:  Mira Furlan in LA Play		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  R-Laurraine Tutihas, Wednesday, September 27, 1995 1:45:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#347494
+
+     That I don't know; I imagine how long it runs will be a function of how 
+many show up.  Best to call the phone number given and ask what they are
+currently projecting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  All				Thursday, September 28, 1995 12:46:11 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#348451
+
+     Before you hit the *kill* button...a thought or two in your general
+direction.  First, if you're eager for the actual news part of this message
+-- and it is kinda important -- it appears at the end of this message.  If
+you've got a second, stick around.
+
+     In every interview he's given on the subject, Walter Koenig has spoken
+glowingly of BABYLON 5, as a show he feels is fighting for genuine quality
+SF in television, with serious, mature stories for fans who grew up on STAR
+TREK and are looking for more of that quality...none other than Majel
+Barrett Roddenberry has gone on record at conventions, including Toronto
+Trek and the recent Wolf 359 convention, as saying that BABYLON 5 was "the
+only other intelligent science fiction series out there" besides the ST
+shows, and urged ST fans to support it.
+
+     If you've tried the show, and it wasn't to your tastes...fair enough.
+No one should be expected to like everything.  If you'd like to give it
+another shot, that's fine, but there is no need to defend your opinion; we
+respect it.  Not every show works for every viewer.
+
+     If you *haven't* tried the show...if you liked the original ST and the
+work of Majel and Walter and Harlan and others involved in it...if you like
+the work of Peter David, who has written for B5 and supports it...you may
+want to give it a shot in October/November.
+
+     The final four episodes from year two will be broadcast starting the
+week of October 11th, with the new year three episodes beginning the second
+week of November.  These nine episodes in a row contain some of the best
+work we have ever done.  Acting, writing, directing, effects...we stand
+behind all of them.  (The year two Final Four were held back from earlier
+broadcast to lead into the debut, so these are new to the US, although they
+have already aired to substantial praise in the UK.)
+
+     If perhaps you have been turned off by some of the more vigorous
+messages from B5 viewers, I'd only ask that you consider those comments in
+light of the fact that Paramount (NOT the people doing ST, but the studio
+itself) has done everything possible to hinder the progress of B5, which
+engenders certain reactions from everyone; and that to a man or woman,
+virtually all of the more vigorous posts have come from those who have long
+considered themselves fans of STAR TREK, voicing many of the concerns which
+are stated right here in this forum by current viewers...which they had long
+before there was a B5...  as well as some of the praises found here.
+
+     The ironic thing is that there is no problem between those who make B5,
+and those who make ST..Jeri Taylor is a friend, Majel supports the show,
+when ST does an episode with great EFX we call them, when we do a good one
+they call us...it's almost entirely a matter of perception.
+
+     So for what it's worth, direct from those of us who make BABYLON 5, if
+you haven't checked out the show before, or if you're curious to see where
+we stand now...I would like to personally invite you to check out the new
+batch of episodes starting around October 11th.  If you want to give us all
+nine episodes, that's great; if less, that's fine too.  If not at all,
+that's also fine.
+
+     Over a late dinner with Majel, I observed that after the original STAR
+TREK, which for the first time presented truly *human* characters, with all
+their flaws and frailties and bravery and nobility, in a science fiction
+series, the ball was dropped, and no one picked it up again for years.  She
+agreed with this...and it is my hope that you will find this coming season
+of BABYLON 5 to be that show.
+
+     Because it isn't an either/or, sum/zero game...one can watch, and
+enjoy, BABYLON 5 and STAR TREK equally, for different reasons, since their
+approaches are very different.  And this is the perfect time to come into
+B5, since these episodes encapsulize a lot of background, and will take you
+quickly into the background, the universe and the characters.
+
+     Which is why, I'm pleased to announce, Majel Barrett will be appearing
+as a guest star on BABYLON 5 this coming season...a gesture of support from
+her, and a gesture of respect from all of us at B5.  The deal has been
+signed, it's a done deal...she'll be appearing in episode #9, "Point of No
+Return," as Emperor Turhan's third wife, Lady Morella.  We're very much
+looking forward to her appearance in the B5 universe.
+
+     For all these and other reasons, I hope you'll give BABYLON 5 a try.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+     (P.S. For the Internet gang...please don't repost this on the 'net until
+after Jeannette has broken the news; I promised I'd let her make the
+announcement there, after she heard about it at Wolf 359 in the UK, and agreed
+to keep this secret for the last week at my request.)
+
+
+Subj:  B5/ST News			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  All				Thursday, September 28, 1995 12:46:12 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#348452
+
+     Suggest you check out the "Major B5/ST News" thread over on the ST forum.  
+Majel Barrett Roddenberry has signed to do a guest appearance on B5's third s
+eason as a gesture of mutual respect.
+
+                                                                     ms
+
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Mr. Laser Beam, Thursday, September 28, 1995 1:20:16 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#348928
+
+     Actually, we make as sure as possible that every episode contains the
+information required to follow it; any needed background is restated or
+contained within the episode.  You can see some, all or any other number of
+episodes and be able to follow them...in some countries, they're running the
+show *completely* out of order, except by season overall, and it seems to be
+doing okay.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Ted Wilcox, Thursday, September 28, 1995 1:20:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#348927
+
+     "He was nasty to the people in the crowd who tried to support ST.  He
+literally tried to make them look like idiots and talked them down."
+
+     I'm sorry, Lisa...I hate to say you're exaggerating, or being less than
+truthful, but this never happened.  I don't know if you're remembering it
+this way out of some defensiveness, but this never happened, and there were
+plenty of other people at that panel who can confirm this.
+
+     I have made it a very deliberate point, in any public appearance, not
+to put down *anyone* for watching ST.  Never have, never will.  I don't know
+if you're attributing comments made by others to me, or simply going off
+your emotions of that panel, but it never happened.  I know that Shane
+Shellenbarger (noted SF fan/writer based in Arizona) was there that day
+videotaping the panel, and I'll drop him a note asking to check the tape and
+verify this.
+
+     (I also remember very distinctly at that panel that I kept trying to
+change the topic to non-B5 shows, but kept getting yanked back to it by the
+other panelists and the audience...in large part because a) I wanted some
+info on the other shows, and b) I didn't want to blow the info that I'd come
+to use at the big presentation at a small panel, thus eliminating any sense
+of drama and becoming redundent.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Ellen Fuscellaro, Thursday, September 28, 1995 11:50:09 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#349855
+
+     Ellen: thanks.  As for the episode in question, it's entitled "Point of
+No Return," and the role of Lady Morella was written specifically for Majel.
+I hustled to get it finished prior to the Wolf 359 convention, where I gave
+her a copy of the script.  She read it overnight, and fell in love with the
+story, the character, and what it was going to do with and to the BABYLON 5
+universe (to wit: start turning it upside down).  Next morning, she said
+"I'm in." And she is.
+
+     Yes, it's a jms script, and is one of the most pivotal of this season,
+episode #9, which with the one before it, "Messages from Earth," builds to a
+major turning point in #10, so it should be a very popular, intense and
+memorable episode in every respect.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Anne Davenport, Thursday, September 28, 1995 11:50:10 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#349856
+
+     I *think* B5 is shown in San Diego on Saturdays or Sundays around 5 or
+6; not entirely sure.  Likely somebody else here who lives down there can
+give you the info; also, I believe there's a station list in the library
+which may have this info.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Charles Olsen, Thursday, September 28, 1995 11:50:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#349857
+
+     Thanks.  To me, emotion is the *core* of drama...an episode, a story,
+should leave you feeling something...make you worry, or think, or get mad,
+or laugh.  So the stories tend to proceed very much from an emotional core.
+Thanks for jumping in.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5/ST News			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Thursday, September 28, 1995 4:21:27 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#349188
+
+     She'll be playing a Centauri female, the Lady Morella, Emperor Turhan's
+third wife; also a prophetess and seer.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5/ST News			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, Thursday, September 28, 1995 9:34:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#349702
+
+     I often work on more than one thing at the same time; on B5, in
+addition to the producing jobs, I'm outlining one script, writing another,
+editing a third....
+
+     Prior to B5 (which is all-consuming), I'd often be in somewhat lower
+pressure jobs (standard writer/producer, not exec), and would be writing the
+episodes, plus a novel, plus stories, plus a screenplay, plus other stuff,
+all pretty much at the same time.
+
+     The key, though, is to FINISH what you write.  Otherwise it's useless.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+     P.S.  You misspelled "weird."
+
+
+Subj:  3rd Season opener...		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Peter David, Thursday, September 28, 1995 11:50:07 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#349854
+
+<Rumor is the 3rd season opener will feature Lord Refa going insane when Londo
+slips him hash-filled brownies.  And it's called, "Refa Madness.">
+
+      I won't comment on a joke I told you first....
+
+      We must now go to the WGA and arbitrate this.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, 76371,3057	Saturday, September 30, 1995 1:03:23 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#351142
+
+      Yeah, "Messages from Earth" came out quite well as a script; can't
+wait for it to roll before the cameras.
+
+      As it happens, episodes 8, 9 and 10 ("Messages," "Point of No Return,"
+and "Severed Dreams") are kind of a triptych, linked at the hip and designed
+to pull together/blow out several major hanging plot threads once and for
+all, and send the show spinning off in an entirely different direction.  The
+hardest one to write was 10, because it's a very emotional episode for the
+characters, and for me.
+
+      And next is #11, which I begin to write this weekend...and #11, year
+three, is the *exact* midpoint of the 5 year story.  This is the hump, the
+dead center of the journey.  It took so long to get here, and suddenly we're
+halfway finished.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5/ST News			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, 76371,3057	Saturday, September 30, 1995 12:43:07 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#351131
+
+     Nothing's crammed; it all fits where it fits.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  3rd Season opener...		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, 71513,1177	Saturday, September 30, 1995 12:43:04 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#351130
+
+     As Fred Allen said, "Imitation is the sincerest form of television."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Colin Knowles, 72152,201		Friday, September 29, 1995 1:16:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#350385
+
+     Re: "No Mrs. Troi on B5," I remember the comments when we mentioned for
+the first time that we'd have Walter Koenig on the show.  "Oh, lord, Chekov
+on B5."  Then they met his character, Mr. Bester...and nobody said that no
+more.  He instantly became one of our more popular, interesting characters.
+
+     The role Majel's going to do for us is very different than what she's
+done before...otherwise, what's the point?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Bette A. Loukakis, 102513,3065	Saturday, September 30, 1995 1:03:24 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#351143
+
+     All that can be done is to write your local station.  My hunch, though,
+is that this will settle down when the new episodes come on; reruns they
+invaribaly mess with.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Old Messages			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael Detlefsen, 70156,1636	Saturday, September 30, 1995 12:43:03 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#351129
+
+     Thanks; yeah, that show was a hoot.  So was HOUR 25 in general.  But in
+time it just became too much of a conflict of interest.  I couldn't keep doing
+a show about SF, including media, and make a product FOR SF media.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Wolf 359 Update 1995/96		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  BRIAN COONEY, 100551,1656	Saturday, September 30, 1995 1:03:27 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#351144
+
+     Ah, Brian...now that you've appeared in public, allow me to give you one
+good-natured, but quite solid thump to the head.
+
+     Remember when we were leaving the hotel the morning after the
+convention, and you and your associate gave Kathryn and myself two wrapped
+gift boxes?  Well, as you recall, we were in a hurry, so we thanked you
+politely, put them in our bags (carry on only, no check through), and
+hurried to the waiting cab.
+
+     We got to the airport, and were about to go through the scanners, when
+we remembered the boxes.  First rule of international travel: no matter WHO
+gives you a package, always open it before going on board, because they'll
+ask you.  So we opened the two boxes.
+
+     Which contained letter openers.  About half a foot long.  Reasonably
+sharp.
+
+     In other words....KNIVES!  We were about to go into an international
+airline with KNIVES in our carry-on bags.
+
+     Do you know, Brian...can you *imagine* the hassle those knives cost us
+on the flight?  The conferences with security, the long explanations, the
+checking and cross-checking of passports, the knives taken away by security,
+then returned in the plane later...then going through the whole thing all
+over again at the stop-over in Chicago...having to provide passport and
+other ID, getting a Chicago airline security person who happened to know the
+show to vouch for me and sign the knives back over to us....
+
+     We had such *splendid* things to say about you during all this, Brian.
+You should've heard them.  We were half-tempted to leave the bloody things
+at the terminal.  You may want to tell your people next time to THINK before
+they give someone a package for international travel.  I can just imagine
+what would've happened if we HADN'T checked the boxes before going through
+the scanners.  "Are you carrying any weapons or any kind?"  "Nope."  "Then
+would you care to explain these items, sir?"  CLANG!  They'd throw away the
+key.
+
+     That said...if you're still up for having me at the Encounter,
+depending on terms and times, I'm up for it.
+
+     But please...no parting gifts....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Midpoint				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Elyse M. Grasso, 70302,3304	Saturday, September 30, 1995 1:04:03 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#351145
+
+     Yeah, I just noted that elsewhere...at episode 11, we're over the hump.
+Strange to think it'll be over in just another couple years.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  TazDevil, 102671,2161		Sunday, October 01, 1995 4:23:15 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#352360
+
+     Except, of course, that there wasn't "a quick directional change by
+offering a new enemy" (in second season) because that enemy - the Shadows --
+was in there right from the git-go, in season one...in "Chrysalis," which we
+shot #12 even though it was aired #22 as our cliffhanger, and in "Signs and
+Portents," short shortly thereafter.  So it was always there, and has always
+been there...they're the primary antagonist, in a philosophical sense,
+throughout a major part of the story.
+
+     "...and the mutation of another primary character."  This, also, was in
+the outline of the story from the very first episode onward; it's
+*important* to the story, and wasn't done for any of the reasons you cite.
+(The only change here was that Delenn was originally planned to be a male
+character, if androgynous, which emerged female from the chrysalis, but we
+couldn't get the male-altered voice to sound right, so this was dropped,
+though we kept the more-human aspects.)
+
+     You seem to determine "the maturity of the show" by not offering real
+or substantive changes; but this show is *about* change, and the choices we
+make that create those changes.  There's this notion that if someone's the
+captain, he has to stay the captain all the time; which is the element that
+many ST fans criticize in TNG as to why Riker stayed first-officer for seven
+years, which would kill any other career.
+
+     So it's not a reset, it's an advancement of the storyline...look at
+Londo as we first saw him, and now; ditto for G'Kar...we're talking here
+major, substantive changes.  That aspect is at the very core of the story.
+You really can't look at this as you would a regular episodic drama in that
+one respect; "Oh, they just changed characters, so they're just starting all
+over again."  That's not the intent at all.
+
+     "the show (TNG) stayed with its basic core of characters and followed a
+similar structure...B5 episodes seem to detract from this formula."  Which
+is precisely the intent.  I don't like formula, or predictability, or to
+lock down a structure and never change it...that's not life, and I try to
+make this show emulate life.  People change, die, get promoted, demoted,
+transferred, corrupted, redeemed...change, for me, is the *drama* of the
+story; to stay static and unchanging the reverse of that.  It's *process*,
+and I find process fascinating.
+
+     "I guess patience is a virtue."  Well, I have to say that if you're
+waiting for B5 to settle down into a predictable, unchanging formula, you're
+going to have a long wait ahead of you, because that's not in the cards. The
+changes and developments only pick up greater speed and ramifications the
+deeper we go into the storyline.
+
+								       jms
+
+     (PS...as for "all or some of the credit" for the new SF shows going to
+ST, much as one might wish that were true, it isn't.  Otherwise you'd've had
+a lot more of them in the last 30 years.  I've been in meetings with network
+and studio execs, and one reason it took us 5 years to sell B5 was because,
+as we were told verbatim, "There's no market in TV for SF other than Trek;
+the market won't sustain more than one SF show like that; people don't want
+SF, they want ST."  It was used, repeatedly, to justify why you couldn't do
+these kinds of shows...and I'd point out that B5 is the FIRST SF show in 30
+years, since ST, to be set in the far future, with mankind as a spacefaring
+civilization, and with a fully worked out cosmology of other races,
+politics, and governments...and particularly one of the very few to go past
+two seasons in general.  Now you're getting more SF on the air because the
+networks have finally seen that ST does NOT have a death-grip on TV SF, and
+other shows, like B5 and X-Files *can* survive.
+
+     (Certainly it was never ST's intent for this to happen, and I'm not
+saying that it is or was; but this has definitely been the result, and the
+ST shadow has been something for other SF shows to overcome; it has not made
+the process easier, only more difficult.  How many American-made space SF
+series have gone past 3 seasons other than ST?  It's after 4 seasons that
+the networks/studios begin making back their money, and since the answer to
+that is "virtually none," you begin to see why they've been reluctant to do
+more than stick their toes in over the last three decades.)
+
+
+Subj:  B5/ST News			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, 76371,3057	Saturday, September 30, 1995 10:49:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#352249
+
+     I don't tend to leave out things in my stories, particularly B5, as
+much as morph them into something else if I feel it'd work better a
+different way.  For any writer to be so hidebound to stick to every single
+tiny element of the outline, once one is at the script stage (or the novel
+writing stage) is foolish, and I can't think of anyone who doesn't diverge
+to one degree or another.
+
+     For me, an outline is basically a series of directions on a map; get
+here, turn *right*, take highway 407 to here, get off and proceed south. But
+if you get into a part of your trip, and suddenly see that there's a fork in
+the road you hadn't anticipated that'll cut hours off your trip, you'd be
+foolish not to take it.  Non-writers never understand that; they only see
+the work when it's done, not the process, which is alien to them.
+
+     If you make a course correction, you have to make sure everything still
+tracks with your goal, natch, or risk getting lost along the way...but to
+the "experience" part of your question...that's the instinct that keeps you
+ever heading toward your destination.  That comes only with time.  And I've
+been at this a LONG time.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Wolf 359 Update 1995/96		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  SysOp Dupa T. Parrot, 70040,104	Saturday, September 30, 1995 10:49:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#352250
+
+     I had exactly 90 minutes in Chicago, 87 of which were spent explaining
+to security people why I was carrying these knives in my carry-on luggage....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Midpoint				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, 76371,3057	Saturday, September 30, 1995 10:49:23 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#352251
+
+     Well, of course, in the best case scenario, after the series has run
+its course, the theory is to try and get *out* of TeeVee and back into novels
+and plays.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Harlan 'tooned			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Ray Pelzer, 70475,1263		Saturday, September 30, 1995 10:31:26 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#352240
+
+     Harlan is a *huge* fan of Pinky and the Brain.  As it happens, I know
+the actor who does one of the two voices (I can never remember if he's Pinky
+or the Brain...I think the Brain...Maurice LeMarche), and had him call Harlan
+as his character.  They did competing Brains.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Majel Barrett on B5		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644Saturday, September 30, 1995 10:31:31 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#352241
+
+     Thanks.  What's compelling, for me, is that the reason the original
+Star Trek worked so well is that the actors did a great job portraying those
+characters...and ended up becoming tagged as being those characters, so in
+the long run were hurt because they couldn't get other work.  But they were
+able to make these characters work so well *because they were terrific
+actors*.  So if you give a Walter Koenig or others another kind of role,
+they'll do just as excellent a job with that as with what went before.
+
+     So the part for Majel will, as stated, be quite different.
+
+     Glad you like the final four; "Inquisitor" is also very much a favorite
+of ours, and even though it has far fewer effects than the episodes on
+either side of it, lots of folks here consider it possibly our best episode.
+And yes, the impact of "Twilight" is pretty much what you describe...just
+sort of a stunned silence, and lots of people have said they didn't want to
+talk about it for a while afterward, being very moved by it.
+
+     Re: the decision to hold back the final 4...creatively, it was a pain
+in the ass, because I wanted them out in July, so people could consider the
+implications.  But WB felt that it would give us a leg up on the third
+season debut, let us build some momenum with 9 eps in a row rather than just
+6-7.  There's an element of truth to that.  So I guess it's a wash....
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  Majel Barrett on B5		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644Sunday, October 01, 1995 4:23:05 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#352358
+
+     That's weird...I'd sent this to Mary Taylor, and it ended up being sent
+to myself...I think I used a wrong commmand in Tapcis....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Origins of Hokey Pokey		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane, 102664,773	Saturday, September 30, 1995 10:49:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#352252
+
+<"The Hokey Pokey" dates back to slavery; is its use in "A Voice in the
+Wilderness" related to that?>
+
+      I've actually heard several variations on what the song means; my guess
+is that the real origins have been so reinterpreted and made-up over time that
+we may never know the actual basis...what you heard is as valid as just about
+anything else.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+
+
+*******************************************************
+* SPOILERS FOR FINAL FOUR SEASON-TWO EPISODES FOLLOW. *
+*******************************************************
+
+
+
+
+
+Subj:  <TLTS>				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Dinie Kloosterboer, Friday, September 01, 1995 1:13:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#318705
+
+<Are Shadow ships more like an animal than a StarFury?>
+
+     Well, they're organic technology, so they can feel, but only 
+after a fashion.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  <<Fall o' Night Ques>>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Rae Augenstein, Friday, September 01, 1995 11:01:18 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#319177
+
+<During the battle in Fall of Night, when that part of the station 
+gets shot off, what exactly is that thing anyway?>
+
+     It's an area for helping secure ships while being offloaded 
+into the zero-G cargo bay right behind it.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  <<Fall o' Night Ques>>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Robert Miller, Sunday, September 03, 1995 7:20:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#320983
+
+
+<Will that area be repaired in time for the third season?>
+
+     Repairs will be visible being done in the first episode.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+Subj:  <The Fall Of Night>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Daniel M. Upton, Sunday, September 03, 1995 7:20:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#320984
+
+     The Vorlons aren't yet ready; they can't take on the shadows by 
+themselves, and must bring together other forces.
+
+     And in each case, re: Kosh, what they saw was not the *head* of 
+their belief, but in essence a supporting being of light; it wasn't 
+G'Quon, but G'Lan that G'Kar saw, which was a being that story tells us 
+served G'Quon. So you wouldn't see the head of the religion, 
+since there can only be one of those, and lots of Vorlons, but each tends 
+to have a supporting cast, for lack of a better term.  Those are what 
+we perceive the vorlons to be.
+
+     And remember, we didn't see any other human's POV of Kosh but 
+Sheridan's.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  <The Fall Of Night>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Tom Knudsen, 72347,1626		Tuesday, September 05, 1995 1:33:09 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#322589
+
+     No, she wouldn't.  Again, you don't see the *top* of the echelon of any
+belief, because there can be only one of those; it's the servants of light you
+see (and even the Old Testament makes reference to such things).
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <The Fall Of Night>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Eric Baker, 76600,2605		Wednesday, September 06, 1995 5:36:27 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#324201
+
+<Who would Ivanova see?>
+
+     Orson Bean.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  <Long Twilight Struggle>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael  Zitaglio, Friday, September 22, 1995 11:14:10 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#341404
+
+     Thanks.  Yes, there's a WW II parallel, not in terms of 
+justifying one or the other -- one can make compelling 
+arguments for and against the use of atomic weapons to close 
+the war, but I leave it to those who were there to have 
+made the right decision, because they had to live with it -- 
+but in terms of strategy and wartime logic.
+
+                                                      jms
+
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+JMS CompuServe messages collected by The Green Meddler <kilgalen@tde.com>.
+
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  B. Blyth, 76350,2717		Sunday, October 01, 1995 7:46:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#353246
+
+     "I don't think that (B5) would be doing too well if it was a clone of ST."
+
+     (Actually, that should be *were*, not *was*...just to be pedantic.)
+
+     That is, in a nutshell, part of the problem we faced going in.  On the
+one hand, you have the ST fans who, understandably, hadn't heard about what
+B5 was, or that it preceded DS9 by 5 years.  (This thanks to the new PR
+philosophy at Warner Bros., which strives to create the notion of stealth
+programming...that which cannot be picked up on radar, sonar, TV or infrared
+motion detectors.)  Not their fault, in other words.  Thinking the show was
+just a DS9 ripoff, many of them opted out...again, understandably, given the
+circumstances.
+
+     Then you have those viewers who tuned in expecting to see something
+like ST, found it wasn't, and decided we weren't doing ST or SF correctly
+because of that, and did a fast fade.
+
+     Finally you had the non-ST fans, who assumed it was just like ST (in
+some cases in part because some of the comments lent themselves to that; one
+station astonishingly enough even said, "From the creators of DS9," which
+probably astonished Berman/Pillar about as much as it did me), and thus
+didn't check it out, assuming it was just more of the same.
+
+     Consequently...we fell between three chairs.  It has taken time for
+people to get the word about what the show *really* is (mainly word of
+mouth; to some extent we are still a stealth program).  As they've made that
+discovery, a task no less daunting than the first trans-Atlantic crossing by
+canoe, our audience has grown slowly but steadily.
+
+     TeeVee...it's a mug's game, Brenna.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5, in general			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  TazDevil, 102671,2161		Monday, October 02, 1995 12:05:27 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#353635
+
+     No ill will was taken, or is extended.
+
+     Actually, it seems to me, what you're really talking about is not the
+show's maturity, but your *familiarity* with the characters, two different
+things.  The more you see them, the more backlog of information you have to
+appreciate their actions.  Very often, on many series, it's not so much a
+question of the actors getting comfortable with their characters as the
+*audience* getting comfortable with them.  Many of the same folks who
+initially didn't like Sinclair, after they got to know the character, went
+back to re-watch the first episodes and found that there's depth they didn't
+appreciate there, visible now because they know who the character is.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  VitW pt2 - Delenn/Londo?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Neville White, 100335,2721	Monday, October 02, 1995 9:12:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#354530
+
+     The favor is called in in season three, in one of the earlier episodes.
+It may surprise you....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  VitW pt2 - Delenn/Londo?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Neville White, 100335,2721	Tuesday, October 03, 1995 4:25:08 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#355007
+
+      I'd imagine (just a guess) that B5 will restart in the UK around April
+or thereabouts.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  VitW pt2 - Delenn/Londo?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, 71513,1177	Wednesday, October 04, 1995 3:13:31 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#356195
+
+     "Is this important?"
+
+     What isn't?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 or ST, why not both?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Timothy J. Scallon, 102775,510	Monday, October 02, 1995 9:12:30 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#354531
+
+     Your motives in asking the question are beyond doubt; your intent is
+clearly sincerely motivated.  It's just that it's been asked so many times
+in broad strokes that it's become difficult and leads to flame-wars.
+
+     When one says "what's being done wrong" with another show, then you've
+instantly got a value judgement that leads right to subjective argumentation
+rather than analysis.  But if you can somehow structure the discussion so
+that is analyzes the writing of each show independently, comparing and
+contrasting certain techniques or plot elements, more power to you.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Shadow Ship Progression		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane, 102664,773	Tuesday, October 03, 1995 12:28:14 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#354832
+
+      No, that ain't it...you'll have a better notion of the reason why the
+deeper you get into the first batch of new episodes.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  VitW pt2 - Delenn/Londo?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane, 102664,773	Wednesday, October 04, 1995 3:13:01 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#356196
+
+     You'll see it in "A Day in the Strife."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Midpoint				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Richard M. Perry, 76461,2737	Wednesday, October 04, 1995 3:13:03 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#356198
+
+      Yeah, a follow-up is a possibility, but the odds on it ever happening
+are slim and none, I suspect.
+
+     I think Ruby's Masks has done some new masks for Halloween.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Majel Barrett on B5		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Lynn Dimock, 74471,3131		Wednesday, October 04, 1995 3:13:12 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#356200
+
+     Re: "Comes the Inquisitor" (and I'm not sure whether to address this to
+you or Rae, not quite having caught the top of this)...when I wrote that
+episode, I figured it'd get some strong reactions.  What I did not expect
+was the comment, which I've now received from a number of women -- women who
+sat stoically through "Believers" and "Confessions and Lamentations" -- that
+they were in tears over "Inquisitor."
+
+     So I'd be curious to know what caused that reaction.  I think I may
+have subconsciously tapped something there -- the search for identity at its
+most emotional core, or just that it's Delenn -- and I'm trying to get a
+better sense of what that is.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5: Final Year???		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  peter  stathis, 102477,3046	Wednesday, October 04, 1995 3:31:29 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#356204
+
+     What's necessary is to understand that the syndication picture has
+changed a bit since B5 hit the airwaves.  There are far more programs on now
+for stations to choose between (which is why B5 is now airing only once a
+week in most markets, to allow stations to include more and different
+programs in their line-ups).
+
+     The first year, we only had to sustain our ratings to be renewed for
+year two; in year two, we only had to grow modestly to be renewed for year
+three; in year three, with all the new programs now available, and WB and
+UPN and PTEN and FOX fighting it out for the few remaining slots, we have to
+do even better.
+
+     This is the dilemma of *every* TV series, not just B5.  You grow in the
+ratings, or you get canceled; networks or syndication, that's the rule. All
+we can do is continue to make the best show we can, and hope enough people
+hear about it to come and check it out...because if they do, in most cases
+they stick around.
+
+     So this is a *very* important time for us; if you have friends who
+haven't yet seen the show, give 'em a call and invite them to the party.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Bette A. Loukakis, 102513,3065	Thursday, October 05, 1995 3:03:15 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#357394
+
+     Thanks.  It's actually not that big a burden, since except for the Work
+I have no life that has yet been detected by modern science...
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Tom Knudsen, 72347,1626		Wednesday, October 04, 1995 1:13:06 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#356199
+
+     I understand your point of view that point of view is no less valid
+than any other point of view...and note that the point of view about point
+of view offered from this end elicited "I don't necessarily agree with
+that," because that point of view is not a point of view which coincides
+with your own point of view, thus is viewed by you as a not necessarily
+valid criticism, which fundamentally reinforces my original statement, from
+my point of view.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Rodney, 73457,3544		Wednesday, October 04, 1995 3:14:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#356674
+
+     It came out of an original announcement that Majel Barrett Roddenberry
+would be guest-starring on a B5 episode, and kinda grew from there, so the
+start of the thread was definitely ST related.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  William H. DiPaola, 76521,1751	Wednesday, October 04, 1995 7:04:25 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#356962
+
+     By all means, repost away.  It's gone out now, so it's fine.  As for
+the B5 AOL site, I'm told it'll be up by mid-month.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5: Final Year???		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  SysOp Dupa T. Parrot, 70040,104	Thursday, October 05, 1995 3:03:12 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#357393
+
+     The only reason the ratings have slipped (which they never mention in
+the trades) is that we've been in reruns since *MAY*, just running the same
+18 episodes over and over and over.
+
+     We'll get a better picture in a few weeks.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Vir leaving?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Mark Sloan, 100407,3462		Wednesday, October 04, 1995 3:14:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#356673
+
+     Vir appears in multiple episodes this year, working around his schedule
+on "Misery Loves Company."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  KCOP & B5?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Richard Cunningham, 71213,3504	Thursday, October 05, 1995 3:03:16 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#357395
+
+     B5 starts showing new eps next Wednesday at 9, right after DS9; check
+your local TV Guide, you'll find an ad there.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  JOE  M VANCE, 74203,1254		Thursday, October 05, 1995 10:58:26 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#358419
+
+      Thanks, and I think they already have picked up a few lessons; which is
+the point of the exercise...we should challenge one another to constantly
+improve, or what's the point of being here?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  KCOP & B5?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Stephen C. Smith, 76150,1170	Thursday, October 05, 1995 10:58:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#358416
+
+     Well, y'know...it's gonna be interesting.  I was pleased to note that
+TV Guide gave B5's return next week a listing in the evening's highlights.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Shadow Ship Progression		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane, 102664,773	Thursday, October 05, 1995 10:58:20 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#358417
+
+     Yes, the first batch of eps from season 3, up through 9 or so, give a
+lot more background on the shadow ships, what they are and how they work.
+And as you say, virtually everything in this show is here for a reason;
+there's an offhand remark from Garibaldi in "Infection" about his long
+struggle out of the Martian desert that pays off in both the comic, and in a
+third-season episode.  So some of the year three stuff was being set up as
+early as episode 2 of year 1, in what was designed to look like just plain
+old throwaway dialogue.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  David Scarpa, 73672,2136		Thursday, October 05, 1995 10:58:28 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#358420
+
+     Yeah, the rerun schedule was a pain in the butt.  And because of it,
+lots of stations began moving us around.  It's my hope that that'll change
+now that we're back with new eps, and showing 9 eps in a row without a
+single break.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Episodes Evaluation		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane, 102664,773	Thursday, October 05, 1995 10:58:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#358421
+
+     If I had to look back at season 2 and pick favorites, they'd probably
+be "The Long, Twilight Struggle," "Comes the Inquisitor," and "The Coming of
+Shadows."  "Coming" is probably the one episode I'd say is most perfect, the
+most purely B5.
+
+     In year one, I thought there were a couple/three eps that just lay
+there and begged to be shot and put out of their misery.  But I don't think
+we had even one like that in year two.  Some were stronger than others, but
+not one dropped below a certain median high point over year one.
+
+     So far, year three is another general step up, with our least episode
+this season so far being the equal of some of the better year two episodes.
+
+     What makes for a perfect episode of B5 in my view?  It's kinda hard to
+define.  It's an episode where major and irreversible events take place,
+which were absolutely set up from what went before, and which turn on the
+individual choices made by our characters; episodes that have about them the
+feel of a car absolutely out of control, that ANYthing could happen...the
+kind of episode that makes you start insinctively reaching for the brake
+pedal, but it doesn't do any good.  And, finally, those that have a nice
+visual sense of style.  I've gradually grown more consistently fond of the
+montage as a dramatic device, though I'm being careful not to over-use it.
+(I *really* liked the intercutting in the Emperor's fall in "Coming.")
+
+     I'd rather not say anything at all about "Gethsemane," because a large
+part of the plot turns on something you need to discover mid-viewing, and
+anything I might say would only detract from it.  It's a lovely, sad, very
+moving story; it's kind of my Twilight Zone story in the B5 universe, with
+some very strong emotional twists as we go along.  It's not the kind of
+story I get to do within the B5 structure very often, and I'm extremely
+pleased with this one (and Adam Nimoy did a *bang-up* job directing it; he
+thinks it may be his best work ever).
+
+     We're now shooting episode #7, "Exogenesis."  So far, to give my own
+reactions to the year 3 episodes so far:
+
+     "Matters of Honor," somewhat of a continuation of the year two season
+ender, picking up the pieces, with some great action pieces, mainly a fair
+amount of fun, which is necessary given what precedes it..."Convictions," a
+moody, atmospheric, driving piece, stylistically very different for us, with
+some hysterically funny scenes juxtaposed against some deadly serious and
+gritty drama..."A Day in the Strife," a fair number of threads, a day in the
+life episode with everything that can go wrong going wrong, some elements of
+humor but mainly a straight-ahead kind of episode..."Voices of Authority,"
+you'll see some of our characters doing stuff they've never done before, and
+we get into the whole question of the First Ones, also fairly straightfoward
+in storytelling and direction..."Passing Through Gethsemane," which again is
+just an utter knockout episode, which with "Convictions" comes close to
+being a perfect episode..."Dust to Dust," haven't seen the director's cut
+yet, but the dailies looked great...and "Exogenesis," which we just started
+filming this week, is probably our most "ordinary" story of the batch,
+though it puts a new spin on several traditional story elements.
+
+     On just about every level, I'd say that the year three episodes are an
+improvement on the year two episodes, and we've got a lot more this season
+that should be equal to or better than "Coming" and the other top three
+mentioned earlier, at least based on how they look pre-shooting..."Messages
+From Earth," and "Severed Dreams" are massive action/character set pieces on
+the scale of "The Long, Twilight Struggle"...only bigger, and more
+personal.
+
+     It's going to be great.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  VitW pt2 - Delenn/Londo?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Richard M. Perry, 76461,2737	Thursday, October 05, 1995 10:58:07 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#358422
+
+      The favor he calls in is not on his behalf, but on behalf of an associate.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Rick Berman			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Michael Ogrinz, 71573,3153	Thursday, October 05, 1995 11:25:16 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#358450
+
+     "The ratings for B5 never get close to the ratings for the Trek shows."
+
+     Actually, not true.  The Neilsens have often posted the B5 ratings as
+asometimes equal to or slightly above the ratings for "Voyager."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  VOYAGER'S BAD TREK		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Mary Taylor, 75530,2650		Thursday, October 05, 1995 11:25:18 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#358451
+
+     Speaking of TPTB, here's an interesting angle on the whole Voyager/DS9
+dynamic.
+
+     Recently, more and more, the ST execs (people like Berman and Pillar)
+have been commenting publicly about the factionalization of the SF TV
+marketplace, and how this has diminished the numbers for the ST shows
+overall.  Most interestingly, one of them commented in an LA Times article
+this past week that a big problem for them is the factionalization *within*
+ST...that people may only have time to watch one version of ST that week,
+and they're being forced to choose.  And, of course, there are the debates
+between the two sides on quality.
+
+     Which dovetails precisely into the rumor running around town that
+Paramount is considering giving the axe to DS9 after this season, in order
+to force folks who want their ST to watch Voyager...because they have more
+money invested right now in Voyager, particularly in start-up, and they have
+their hopes for the Paramount network pinned to Voyager as their center.
+They don't like the idea of a syndicated show out there causing problems for
+the network on which they've spent millions and millions of dollars.  And
+DS9's ratings have been steadily on the decrease since the debut.  So the
+logic goes: take away DS9, and make those who want Trek go to Voyager as the
+sole provider of that.
+
+     Given the sources from whom this has come, I give very high credibility
+to the notion that this *is* being discussed; whether or not it will be
+implemented, that only time will tell.  If Voyager continues to decrease,
+threatening the foundations of Paramount's bid for a network, I'd think the
+chances of this happening will continue to rise.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  William H. DiPaola, 76521,1751	Friday, October 06, 1995 1:56:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#358892
+
+     William: you may want to consider scaling back the Trekker hits just
+a bit; I understand the emotions, but I think we've moved beyond that.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  KCOP & B5?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anthony Ho, 72440,1650		Saturday, October 07, 1995 12:36:08 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#359556
+
+     The local ads are the responsibility of the local stations.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Episodes Evaluation		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, 76371,3057	Saturday, October 07, 1995 12:36:12 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#359557
+
+     I'd also put "Grail" in my list of least-favorite eps from year one,
+along with "Infection" and "War Prayer."
+
+     We're shooting the two-parter as 15 and 16, but airing them as 13 and 14,
+in order to accommodate the need to have the same director do both halves.
+It's a matter of working around the schedule of directors when they're
+available, and that's when Adam's available.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  VOYAGER'S BAD TREK		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Mary Taylor, 75530,2650		Friday, October 06, 1995 8:19:24 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#359294
+
+     Actually, let me correct myself on one point; just to be sure of my
+quote, I went back and checked the LA Times article, and the most pertinent
+comment came not from Berman/Piller but from Kerry McCluggage, who is the
+Chairman of the Paramount Pictures Television Group (i.e., the man who makes
+all the final decisions on the life and death of the Mountain's syndicated
+series, and the UPN series).
+
+     McCluggage, the article states, "pointed out that Next Generation and
+the original Star Trek series still air in repeats in hundreds of markets.
+'If you on some level buy the concept that there's a finite number of Star
+Trek viewers, who only have so much time to watch their favorite program,
+it's going to split the pie a little bit."
+
+     Offered in the interests of accuracy.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  VOYAGER'S BAD TREK		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  William H. DiPaola, 76521,1751	Saturday, October 07, 1995 12:36:07 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#359555
+
+     Oh, there's no question that they need to bring up the ratings on DS9,
+that's a separate issue, however.  They need the ratings up because
+Paramount sells ads based on figures determined by ratings.  They've
+promised certain levels of ratings, and if the show doesn't pull those
+numbers, they have to give money *back*.  So it's definitely in their
+interests to keep the ratings up for as long as the show is on the air.
+
+     And, again, this is more the corporate POV of the situation.  The
+potential revenue for their new network *far* outmatches what any single
+syndicated show could pull in, and if the latter poses any kind of threat to
+the former...it ain't a contest.  Even Berman, in the same article, wonders
+if they may have come close to "going to the well too often."
+
+     So we'll have to see...clearly, many of those involved with the show
+want it to continue, as do the fans...we'll have to see if the corporate
+types feel the same way.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Wallpaper??			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  William H. DiPaola, 76521,1751	Friday, October 06, 1995 1:56:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#358893
+
+     In about 4 weeks there will be an official B5 screen saver from Sound
+Source, which has 150 images/wallpaper sources, .avi and .wav files.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Katsulas/Mahabharata?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Elyse M. Grasso, 70302,3304	Friday, October 06, 1995 2:03:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#358899
+
+     Yikes, I haven't got a clue on that one.  When I see Andreas next, I'll
+try to remember to ask him, assuming it doesn't fall out of my head in the
+meantime, a good probability.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Aliens			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Chad Underkoffler, 102512,1310	Friday, October 06, 1995 2:12:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#358911
+
+     Just to clarify...Sinclair was a Catholic, taught by Jesuits; Garibaldi
+is basically an atheist.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Aliens			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, 76371,3057	Saturday, October 07, 1995 12:53:13 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#359569
+
+     "...the only B5 race that I find myself occasionally getting annoyed
+with is the Earthers."
+
+     Good.
+
+     Because anything else is 'way too easy.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re: B5 Comic			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Asha DeVelder, 76703,4322	Saturday, October 07, 1995 12:53:12 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#359568
+
+      As noted elsewhere, there are going to be more B5 comics as one-shots
+and miniseries...Tim DeHaas is doing one set during the Earth/Minbari War (I'm
+doing a lot of consulting on that one to provide canon background on who was
+where, when, doing what), and I've begun a 4-issue mini tentatively entitled
+"The Book of the War," which chronicles much of our new Ranger character.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Episodes Evaluation		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, 76371,3057	Saturday, October 07, 1995 9:54:07 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#360514
+
+     How long to write a script varies; sometimes a couple weeks, sometimes
+just 3-4 days; sometimes less if my back's against the wall, but that's
+fairly rare.  Often the ones I write very quickly are better than the ones I
+write slowly, because I get it out before I lose track of the fingerprints
+of the characters and the passion of the story.
+
+     Once completed, it's anywhere from 3-5 weeks before shooting begins,
+which is a luxury in TV...most shows the director doesn't get the script
+until a few days before shooting.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re: B5 Comic			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, 71513,1177	Saturday, October 07, 1995 9:53:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#360510
+
+     I'll try to announce them as they come.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Fan Club, Magazine		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, 71513,1177	Saturday, October 07, 1995 9:53:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#360508
+
+     Yes, the B5 magazine is coming out from Sendai in the next month or so.
+I've read the copy for the first issue, and what I like is that it's not an
+obvious puff piece; it asks some tough questions, and doesn't soften the
+language or image of the characters on this show behind the scenes.  I told
+them, when they got the license, right up front, nothing is taboo, write
+about whatever you want.  The first issue, by nature, is more or less an
+introduction, with profiles of most of our core cast, but my guess is that
+more in-depth pieces will be coming in subsequent issues.
+
+     We finally got the paperwork on the B5 fan club, and have to make some
+minor adjustments, but should have the contracts revised and signed within
+the next week or so.  Shortly after that, we'll have an AOL page, and not
+long thereafter a web page for signups; we'll also try and integrate those
+fan clubs already out there as official branches, should they so desire.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  Life spans			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Rae Augenstein, 72752,1653	Saturday, October 07, 1995 9:53:18 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#360509
+
+     Minbari live to about 150 or so; she's about 50, very young still in
+Minbari terms (what we would consider a young woman in human terms).
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Wallpaper??			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane, 102664,773	Saturday, October 07, 1995 9:53:20 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#360511
+
+     I think it's windows 3.1 compatible.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Encyclopaedia			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane, 102664,773	Saturday, October 07, 1995 9:53:21 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#360512
+
+     It fell by the wayside when Compton's cut back its list to 30 titles,
+and we got too busy on the show to pursue it.  There are several companies
+now bidding on the cd-rom, so we'll see what happens.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Episodes Evaluation		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane, 102664,773	Saturday, October 07, 1995 9:54:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#360513
+
+     Visually, yeah, I'd have to say TFoN is one of our biggest from year
+two, and I'm quite fond of it; the only reason that it isn't in my top three
+is because while the last half is very intense, it takes a little bit to get
+there; I like 'em intense from the first frame on.
+
+     For the growing use of montage/intercutting...it's really just a
+process of continuing to learn my craft.  So I try out and experiment with
+different techniques.  While I love dialogue, and lots of it, I'm also
+coming more and more to appreciate moments where you *only* play the
+visuals, and the music, and get out of the way of the Moment.
+
+     At this point, we have the first 5 in various stages of completion; we
+deliver 1 and 2 this coming Tuesday; we've finished all the EFX in #3 except
+for the placement of a couple of sound effects and the placement of music
+cues; we're still getting in EFX for #4, and just finished the producers'
+cut on #5.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Shadow model spotted!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Simon Grierson, 100407,2075	Sunday, October 08, 1995 1:42:08 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#360656
+
+     Any shadow ship model -- for that matter, ANY B5 resin model -- is not
+licensed and is basically pirate merchandise.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  12 Steps Program?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, 71513,1177	Monday, October 09, 1995 1:17:16 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#362252
+
+     Michael's kind of stubborn and independent and doesn't generally go in
+for group sessions.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Re: B5 Comic			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, 71513,1177	Monday, October 09, 1995 1:17:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#362253
+
+     Nobody else here is sufficiently crazy to be on-line all the time.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  WOTW: DS9 Imitates B5?		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, 76371,3057	Monday, October 09, 1995 1:31:21 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#362273
+
+     Of course, the one good thing to come out of all this is what I've been
+saying all along...that the presence of lots of SF shows will cause more
+competition between the shows, with the ultimate beneficiary of this being
+the audience.
+
+     Case in point: from day one, B5 has always shown the station very busy,
+with lots of ships going and coming.  One of the concerns voiced by many DS9
+fans, quite logically, was that if this was such a busy station, why did we
+not see any ships docking at the station, a sense of being busy?  Well,
+finally, we now see the new open to DS9 where they show a fair number of
+ships moving in and out.  We've been doing lots of scenes with huge numbers
+of ships dating back to the pilot movie; now in the season debut, they've
+come to the plate and shown big numbers of ships.  Granted that several of
+the big shots were recycled throughout the course of the episode (watch for
+the wide shot where you see a Klingon ship in front of the crowd moving
+right to left, for instance), still it's a strong effort.
+
+     Our presence gives them some competition to do more, and as they come
+up to the plate to do just that, it challenges *us* to rise to the occasion
+as well, so it's a good back-and-forth.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  WOTW: DS9 Imitates B5?		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Jeannette Fornadel, 76371,3057	Monday, October 09, 1995 4:55:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#362470
+
+     Fred Allen, a man considerably before your time, once observed,
+"Imitation is the sincerest form of television."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Shadow Ship Progression		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Hugh Kennedy, 70042,710		Monday, October 09, 1995 1:31:23 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#362274
+
+     The color of the jump gates is kept consistent with the phenomenon of
+red shift; objects moving away quickly take on a red hue, those coming
+toward you take on a blue aspect.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Pot Luck Party in NH		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, 71513,1177	Monday, October 09, 1995 5:06:31 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#362480
+
+     If you're going to have something this big, with that great a video and
+audio system, maybe you ought to consider holding this one week later for
+"The Long Twilight Struggle," which benefits hugely from this kind of
+treatment, and will, I suspect, have a much bigger reaction from those
+attending.  Just a thought....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Episodes Evaluation		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane, 102664,773	Tuesday, October 10, 1995 12:49:22 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#363120
+
+     Re: craft...it's not any one area per se, really, just a lot of little
+things.  "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
+Michelangelo.  So I keep trying one technique or another, working to get a
+little better, or add different tools to my toolbox.
+
+     Favorite visual moments?  The last shots in the second major action
+piece in TLTS (the through the window stuff).  The Emperor's fall in CoS.
+Delenn and Sheridan embracing, and Lennier's exit from the isolation area
+in C&L.  Some of the staging in CtI.
+
+     We just have to continue to get better, and never look back.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Episodes Evaluation		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane, 102664,773	Tuesday, October 10, 1995 12:49:24 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#363121
+
+     No, "Severed Dreams" is episode #10.
+
+     I think really that "War Prayer" was so thoroughly ruined for me by the
+direction, as was "Grail," that I can't see past that aspect.  We spent
+hours and hours in the editing room, trying to make those work, and it was a
+major league pain in the butt.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  VOYAGER'S BAD TREK		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Lawrence Roberts, 73200,2174	Tuesday, October 10, 1995 12:50:01 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#363122
+
+     Absolutely not.  I don't think the audience is facionalized, really; I
+think there's *plenty* of room for SF, but it has to be SF *done well*.
+
+     See, that's the difference in how execs think (if I can use that term);
+if a cop show dies, they say, "Well, that one show didn't work."  If an SF
+series dies, they say, "There's no market for SF in television."
+
+     I think that the audience can handle lots of SF, if it's quality.
+
+     BTW, though I normally don't have a chance to catch the ST shows, with
+rare exceptions, I did manage to catch tonight's Voyager...and I have to say
+that this was probably the best I've seen to date.  The dialogue was crisp
+and funny and insightful, the story worked (even though the plot per se was
+nothing to write home about), the bits played...I quite enjoyed it.  I'd
+love to see them do more of this kind of thing.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Keeping B5 ALIVE			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Charles Agius, 72712,3572	Tuesday, October 10, 1995 3:29:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#363574
+
+     The series is fine as it is.  The changes you suggest would simply make
+into a gimmick show, action without substance.  Then it wouldn't be the show
+that people like...so what's the point?  I'd rather have it the show I mean
+it to be, and die, than compromise and go on.  What we need, primarily, is
+good PR to let people know what we're doing.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Keeping B5 ALIVE			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Charles Agius, 72712,3572	Wednesday, October 11, 1995 1:33:26 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#364227
+
+     Oh, I won't defend the delay in new episodes, because I think it's
+indefensible on many levels.  I just don't think it's appropriate to make
+the show into something less than it is to stay on the air; because then the
+show you want to keep on the air, that which makes it special, is gone
+anyway, so you've lost both ways.  Better to go out on your feet.  But we've
+made it 3 years so far, and I have no intention of letting it fall before
+finishing the storyline.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Max Cacas, 76476,2472		Tuesday, October 10, 1995 3:29:21 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#363575
+
+     I agree with you 100%.  They keep promising better; we'll see.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  DEBBIE PLOOR, 102662,3032	Wednesday, October 11, 1995 1:33:20 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#364225
+
+     Debbie: thanks.  To avoid a lengthy recap of the O'Hare situation, I
+would point you to the B5 library, sec 5, which has a lengthy message from
+me on the subject, which should answer just about all of those questions.
+
+     As for the second half of the "Babylon Squared" episode, and all the
+questions arising from that...and your question about O'Hare returning...
+they both have the same answer.  He'll be reappearing in season three in a
+two-part episode that shows the other half of the B^2 storyline.
+
+     Thanks for the kind words.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5: Final Year???		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Hugh Kennedy, 70042,710		Wednesday, October 11, 1995 1:33:18 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#364224
+
+<What about international markets?>
+     Unfortunately, that's considered by studio execs a "secondary market,"
+of less interest, and less reward.  Also PTEN is a consortium of WB and the
+stations; without the local stations, you got zip.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  Divided Loyalties		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Toni Muller, 75223,1575		Wednesday, October 11, 1995 1:33:23 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#364226
+
+     Thanks; it's a good warm-up episode for the next three biggies....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Keeping B5 ALIVE			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  The Jawa / Jawa #2, 76371,3057	Wednesday, October 11, 1995 11:22:26 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#365276
+
+     That's the point, you really couldn't pull a major thread without
+unraveling a lot of stuff.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Keeping B5 ALIVE			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Anne L. Warner, 71513,1177	Wednesday, October 11, 1995 11:22:25 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#365275
+
+     The stations have a season two poster that's quite nice; suggest you
+contact your local station and inquire if they have any left.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  WOTW: DS9 Imitates B5?		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Randy Hall, 74617,420		Wednesday, October 11, 1995 9:53:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#365148
+
+     Ah, I see the infamous Randy Hall of AOL is here, as well.
+
+     In citing the DS9 ratings, you carefully omit the Voyager ratings, which
+in many cases in the past have been somewhat *less* than the B5 ratings.
+Which kinda takes the air out of the argument, doesn't it?
+
+     Even so, B5 is challenging the ST universe artistically, in terms of
+what we put on the screen.  As we hope they will challenge us.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  GARIBALDI COP STUFF		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael  Zitaglio, 102545,641	Wednesday, October 11, 1995 11:22:30 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#365278
+
+     The actors do not input into scripts in the writing process; they
+interpret the script upon its completion.  In rare cases, they may ask for a
+line or word change for performance purposes.  But the line you cite was from
+Garibaldi's background.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Story Thoughts		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane, 102664,773	Wednesday, October 11, 1995 11:22:31 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#365279
+
+     It's an old wound, and though I appreciate the question, I'd rather not
+re-open it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Episodes Evaluation		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane, 102664,773	Wednesday, October 11, 1995 11:22:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#365280
+
+     The most difficult part on one level is probably the writing, because
+that's the one time I'm up on the high-wire entirely by myself; in every
+other aspect of the show, you've got other people, costume designers, EFX
+people, others who can keep you from falling.  Behind the keyboard, if you
+screw up, you've got no one to catch you.
+
+     On another level, the most physically difficult is the editing process,
+where we go over each episode frame by frame and edit it to within an inch
+of its life.  It's a very detailed and wearing process.
+
+     We definitely plan to do more with Lennier next season.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Telepaths on B5			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane, 102664,773	Wednesday, October 11, 1995 11:22:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#365281
+
+     Yes, both sides can pay the same telepath, since teeps have no vested
+interest either way, and their honesty is held to the highest standards.  Or
+you can get a second teep of your own.  And yes, there have been others on
+B5, but usually passing through with the businessmen who hire them.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Episodes Evaluation		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Kit Furness, 73574,44		Wednesday, October 11, 1995 11:45:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#365311
+
+     Thanks, and I think you'll like where we take that relationship in the
+coming season as well....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Divided Loyalties>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Neil Blevins, 102226,3566	Wednesday, October 11, 1995 11:45:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#365312
+
+     Remember, the *conscious* Talia did none of those things; she would
+never dream of scanning without permission.  (And in Ivanova's case,
+remember that she said she knows *instantly* if she's being scanned.  Note
+her strong reaction in "Eyes" when it happens.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Divided Loyalties>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Deonaha M. Conlin, 102531,2627	Wednesday, October 11, 1995 11:45:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#365314
+
+     That's terrific, thank you...and glad to see another Dr. Pepper fan out
+there....
+
+     This one came out quite well...but compared to what's coming, man....
+
+     Thanks again, and enjoy the marathon.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Divided Loyalties>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Joel Hilke, 74271,1016		Thursday, October 12, 1995 1:19:25 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#365370
+
+     There's little I could say about Jarvis' reviews for TV GUIDE that has
+not already been said about Jack the Ripper.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Ellison CITY Note		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  All				Thursday, October 12, 1995 1:19:27 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#365371
+
+Harlan Ellison has requested that I post this in places where those likely
+to have ordered the forthcoming CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER limited-edition
+hardcover can find it.
+
+Message begins:
+
+Here is the answerto the question of why a three-week delay in shipping THE
+CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER became necessary.
+
+A minor production glitch.
+
+Nothing more mysterious or ominous than that.
+
+Once the book had gone to Thomson-Shore in Dexter, Michigan for printing,
+and was in production, it was discovered that more than 150 corrections to
+the text--some significant, others of a niggling nature--but all troublesome
+to a greater or lesser degree--had slipped past, and had not been
+integrated.
+
+Tom Monteleone of Borderlands Press was out of the country.  But his
+concerns for shipping on time--we've been paying the price for a premature
+announcement of this title four years ago ever since that miscalculation was
+made--were preeminent.  Nonetheless, because of my insistence that this book
+(a book of great personal importance to me) be as close to perfect as
+possible, I took the necessary action to hold the production at a pre-final
+stage till Tom returned and we could get the changes made.
+
+That has been accomplished.  Tom Monteleone has been very gracious in
+accommodating my concerns, and the book is back in the tube at Thomson-Shore
+right now.  Three weeks max is what Dave Raymond, Customer Services Manager,
+tells us.  Three weeks and the book, a beautiful beautiful package, will be
+in the hands of those who've ordered it.
+
+It is unfortunate that Tom Monteleone's interim message on the Borderlands
+Press 800-order line has been misinterpreted by some people.  All is well,
+and the CITY is on its way to waiting eyes and hands.  Thank you for
+asking.
+
+                                                Harlan Ellison
+
+Subj:  <Divided Loyalties>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sharon Foster, 76360,301		Thursday, October 12, 1995 4:20:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#366007
+
+     Yeah, well, the great thing is that I've found a source for Drake's Cakes
+out here in CA...
+
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Divided Loyalties>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Steve Bennett, 70046,441		Thursday, October 12, 1995 4:20:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#366011
+
+<Have you ever seen a spy movie called Charlie Muffin?  Lots of twists.>
+
+     Haven't seen that one, but I'll keep an eye out, thanks.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Divided Loyalties>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Chad Underkoffler, 102512,1310	Thursday, October 12, 1995 4:20:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#366009
+
+     Talia v 1.0 would not have violated Ivanova's privacy during any kind
+of intimacy, as that would violate her profoundly; you can hold back, and
+Talia would have, and Ivanova would've sensed if she had tried it.  The
+theory on telepaths making love is that they both willingly drop the blocks
+they normally keep in place.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  VOYAGER'S BAD TREK		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Rich Brown, 76372,706		Thursday, October 12, 1995 4:37:09 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#366042
+
+     Actually, according to a recent article in the Los Angeles Times, the
+ratings for DS9 have been dropping about one point every season.  Not a
+reflection on the quality of the show, those are just the numbers.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Lame Voyager Writing		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Jonah Fleisher, 73664,475	Thursday, October 12, 1995 4:37:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#366043
+
+     One solution to this, though, is what made this last episode of ST:V so
+enjoyable.  Usually, when you watch a ST show, you get gang writing credits;
+it goes through the hopper and gets filtered through so many other writers
+that it loses its flavor.  Not to say they're not good writers, this is the
+case on ANY show, on ANY script; the more people who stick their snouts into
+a script, however individually talented, the overall quality of the script
+diminishes, gets watered down.
+
+     The episode this past Monday had just one name on it, and while I'm
+sure there was some tinkering here and there, it wasn't enough for anyone to
+take credit, which means the lion's share of the episode was written by this
+single writer...and that made all the difference in the world.  The dialogue
+was crisp and funny, the "voice" of the show was consistent throughout, it
+moved well...it worked.
+
+     The ST model is to work over scripts in-house to within an inch of
+their lives...but frankly, sometimes it's better to leave the darned thing
+alone.  This was a good example of that.  (I don't recall the writer's name
+offhand, but if they're smart, they'll put him or her on staff asap.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Lame Voyager Writing		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Janelle Keberle, 73552,3243	Friday, October 13, 1995 8:52:10 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#367610
+
+     Some shows just tend to have that as their guiding principle: rewrite
+the hell out of it.  Others try as much as possible to leave it alone and
+let the voice of the original writer come through.  I tend to fall more into
+the latter camp.  In some cases, I revise heavily, but only where I feel
+it's absolutely necessary.  Otherwise I leave it alone.  David Gerrold's
+script for "Believers," for instance, is about 85% his.  DC Fontana's last
+script for us was about 90% hers.  Just tweaks, mainly.
+
+     According to an interview I saw with one of the main ST producers, they
+use the "breaking the story" mode, which I've never much liked.  To wit: in
+each and every case, they take the story, and gather in a room, and start
+scattergunning ideas and arguments and plot points, which one person writes
+down on a blackboard, crossing out some items while adding others.  Yeah,
+it's a very democratic system, everybody gets their say...but I've always
+felt, on other shows, that it tends to knock off all the corners when you do
+that.  Doesn't mean good stuff can't get through -- obviously it does -- it
+just makes it harder for it to do so, and this is the case for any show that
+uses that approach.  At least, from my admittedly subjective point of view.
+But trying to tell one person how to tell his or her stories is like telling
+somebody how to make love...the advice is invariably unwanted, and usually
+inappropriate.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  To: B5 producers/writers		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Terrill L. Burlison, 73631,275	Thursday, October 12, 1995 4:37:12 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#366044
+
+     No, nothing was cut; we had a matching problem at one point in the edit,
+where Andrea reached with her left hand in one angle, and didn't reach out
+with the other, and we had to come around for the shot on Ivanova, so it
+looked a tick off.  But nothing was cut.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <DL speculations>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Greg Cronau, 76407,2311		Thursday, October 12, 1995 4:37:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#366045
+
+     An interesting thought...as for Bester's personality, keep an eye out
+for "Dust to Dust," episode #6, where you see Bester from a different and
+very interesting angle.  Some of what you say here, he says.  (Not about the
+corps, but about doing what's right as he sees it.)
+
+     'Course, whether or not one should *believe* anything he says is another
+question altogether.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Telepaths on B5			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John McAuley, 100260,412		Thursday, October 12, 1995 9:09:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#366422
+
+     No, the teep you hire is not bound to *volunteer* that you're lying; if
+asked by the other person, the teep would simply refuse to answer; which is
+tantamount to saying that you're lying.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 at Farpoint			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Cynthia and Richard, 71561,3255	Thursday, October 12, 1995 9:09:16 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#366423
+
+     That's great, congratulations.  The costumes sound great.  And I enjoyed
+speaking via phone at Farpoint; if I'd known some of the others couldn't
+show, I probably would've stayed around longer.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Story Thoughts		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Steven L. Wiser, 102633,3171	Thursday, October 12, 1995 9:09:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#366424
+
+     Thank you.  The episodes should make you wonder about tomorrow, and
+think about the choices in our lives.  If it has succeeded in that, then the
+effort is worthwhile.  Thanks again.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Divided Loyalties>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Neil Blevins, 102226,3566	Thursday, October 12, 1995 9:09:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#366425
+
+     A non-telepath can learn certain tricks to make it harder to break
+through, albeit briefly, so the reaction was sufficiently ambiguous and the
+event sufficiently brief that it wouldn't raise too many concerns.  Which is
+why Sheridan dived in when he did; if she'd continue to block much longer,
+just instinctively, it would've revealed her latent potential.  It was his
+distracting Ivanova that in a sense helped Lyta break through.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Divided Loyalties>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  C Clark, 71643,65		Friday, October 13, 1995 11:16:10 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#367758
+
+<Could Ivanova sense when someone else was being scanned?>
+
+     No, that she wouldn't really be capable of doing at her present level.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Keeping B5 Alive!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Refried Beans, 73737,3714	Thursday, October 12, 1995 9:09:28 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#366427
+
+     Well, we just this week hit the air with the final four of last year,
+and we haven't even hit the year three ratings period in November, so at
+this juncture I'd say it's premature to start worrying about some of this.
+The best thing to do, for everyone, is to keep in constant touch with your
+local stations, via letter, and let them know what you think about the show.
+Because we live and die at the station level.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Episodes Evaluation		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Elyse M. Grasso, 70302,3304	Thursday, October 12, 1995 11:15:27 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#366588
+
+     Each kind of takes their turn; G'Kar gets big stuff next year, and in
+the final four.  His character starts to formalize a turn that's been going
+on gradually for a while now.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Mira Furlan's "Butt"		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael Grabois, 74737,2600	Thursday, October 12, 1995 11:16:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#366589
+
+     It was a long time ago, but I suspect that that's probably what I was
+referring to.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5: Final Year???		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Hugh Kennedy, 70042,710		Friday, October 13, 1995 8:51:27 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#367606
+
+     Insofaras I know, the stations don't share in the revenues from overseas
+distribution, so their interest in it is negligible.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Jack the Ripper>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Brian A. Thomas, 75231,1122	Friday, October 13, 1995 8:52:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#367607
+
+     Actually, I have my own suspicion about his identity, and have dug out
+quite a bit of supporting evidence.  It's not a name anyone's heard before
+in this context.  I've spoken with a few other high-credibility
+Ripperologists, and apparently there are some others who have begun focusing
+on this person.  So we'll see....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Episodes Evaluation		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Daena Hinkelman, 73554,1731	Friday, October 13, 1995 8:52:03 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#367608
+
+     You won't have long to wait for the shadows to return; 6 days, to be
+precise.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  WOTW: DS9 Imitates B5?		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Colin Knowles, 72152,201		Friday, October 13, 1995 8:52:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#367609
+
+     Actually, we just got the overnights from the first day's ratings of
+the first of the Final Four, and they're quite good...in LA, for instance,
+where DS9 got a 5.9 rating and a 9 share, B5 got a 6.3 rating and a 10
+share.  So we're getting there....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Divided Loyalties>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Will Gearhart, 102147,2670	Friday, October 13, 1995 8:52:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#367611
+
+     Overall, I'd think this is a better question *debated* by folks than
+answered by me.  (And there's no one B5 answer, as there are so many varying
+belief systems in the B5 universe.)  All I can suggest is that you keep an
+eye out for an episode called "Passing Through Gethsemane," around #5 or so;
+it may get into some of this.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  JMS: Please Read This!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane, 102664,773	Friday, October 13, 1995 8:59:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#367619
+
+     I've told that story enough times; I have an aversion to typing it all
+out one more time....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5: What Gives?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Carl BUSSJAEGER, 102065,1635	Saturday, October 14, 1995 1:09:15 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#367837
+
+     You pays your money and you takes your chances; given that more and more
+folks are starting to come to the party, I suspect that maybe the story is
+doing its job.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Thomas McDonough, 73641,474	Saturday, October 14, 1995 1:13:10 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#367840
+
+     "With all due respect" is a term usually used (in addition to other
+places) in military life; it's a way of disagreeing with a superior officer
+without getting nailed for insubordination.  If it's used in that context a
+lot, it's because that's how it's supposed to be used.
+
+     "To be perfectly frank" doesn't serve the same purpose; the intent is,
+"I disagree with your assessment, but that doesn't violate the respect your
+position must demand of me."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <What do they know?>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael W. Mahoney, 	Sunday, October 15, 1995 5:06:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#369765
+
+     Basically, all that was indicated in the script was that he for a beat
+isn't sure what's up...then lets it go.  I generally don't drop specific
+points explaining foreshadowing in the scripts, in case they leak out.  If a
+line like that isn't sufficiently clear for the actor's intent, they then
+come to me and I explain it verbally.  This was done in particular when we
+had to shoot "Chrysalis" before "Signs and Portents," even though the latter
+aired before the former.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  Brains & Telepaths		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Scott Belgarde, 	Sunday, October 15, 1995 5:06:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#369766
+
+     No, no direct corrolary between IQ and telepathic potential; it's a
+matter of genetics, primarily.
+
+                                                                       jms
+Subj:  <Inquisitor Was?>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Eric Baker, 		Sunday, October 15, 1995 5:06:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#369767
+
+     I've always been a big fan of Alan's work, but I just couldn't get into
+this one, and gave up after the first couple issues.
+
+                                                                       jms
+Subj:  Ellison CITY Note		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  GREG LASH, 74323,456		Sunday, October 15, 1995 5:06:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#369768
+
+     The trade, I think, is a whole separate deal, so I have no info on that
+one.  The limited delay is only another week or so.
+
+                                                                       jms
+Subj:  New Season			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Ron Russak, 		Sunday, October 15, 1995 5:06:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#369769
+
+     Originally they were done on Amigas, but the software has now been
+exported to PC platforms, so that's their venue now.
+
+                                                                       jms
+Subj:  B5 Repeat on KCOP?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Stephen C. Smith,	Sunday, October 15, 1995 5:06:16 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#369771
+
+      No, there aren't any more repeats in LA or most markets; this is an
+overall PTEN change.  You get one chance and one only.
+
+                                                                       jms
+Subj:  <Divided Loyalties>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Bob Perse,		Sunday, October 15, 1995 5:06:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#369772
+
+     Certainly, a determined teep can get that information somehow....
+
+                                                                       jms
+Subj:  B5 Repeat on KCOP?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  The Jawa / Jawa #2, 	Sunday, October 15, 1995 8:43:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#370016
+
+<I really do hate to nag, but any word on the videos?>
+
+     If there were word, you wouldn't have to ask about it.
+
+                                                               jms
+Subj:  B5 Repeat on KCOP?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Steve Bennett,		Monday, October 16, 1995 11:22:24 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#371760
+
+     My *guess* is that they'll show the last four again to start reruns, or
+thereabouts.  I haven't seen a final schedule yet.
+
+                                                                       jms
+Subj:  <Divided Loyalties>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Will Gearhart,	Sunday, October 15, 1995 5:06:21 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#369773
+
+     Oh, sure, I could tell you what *I* think is the absolute truth of the
+metaphysical aspects of the B5 universe...but what would be the fun in that?
+
+                                                                       jms
+Subj:  New DS9 opening = B5?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Arthur Stoppe,	Sunday, October 15, 1995 8:39:09 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#370009
+
+     I've actually received email from people who say they've been harrassed
+by some of the more extreme ST fans for liking B5; one recent correspondent
+sent me a note off the usenet describing when he went into an SF bookstore
+(that also carried comics, soundtracks, other stuff), and was derided for
+wanting the B5 soundtrack, made fun of, told the disk wasn't there, finally
+found it hidden behind some other stuff, and endlessly insulted in a way
+that was very openly hostile and mean-spirited.  It happens.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  New DS9 opening = B5?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Tom Trankle, 		Monday, October 16, 1995 3:14:14 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#370332
+
+     I saw your prior note, and I'd have to say that probably most of the
+items you cite as similarities in approach have to do with just about any
+space-borne science fiction.  Many colony worlds, varying tech levels,
+that's fairly generic.
+
+     Definitely agree about the differences, though.
+
+                                                                       jms
+Subj:  New DS9 opening = B5?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Arthur Stoppe,	Tuesday, October 17, 1995 12:41:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#372229
+
+     Yes, I've seen the elusive Chris Franke, who is actually a 2'3" Latino
+with a broken nose and a tattoo covering both ears.  He hires this person to
+pretend he's Chris.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  B5 Horror Element		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane, 	Sunday, October 15, 1995 8:43:16 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#370017
+
+     In Zone, I tried as much as possible mainly to stick to the Serling
+influence in my stories; that I felt was my primary obligation.
+
+     "Gethsemane" isn't a horror-type story at all, though it does have a
+very TZish feeling, so it doesn't owe to any of those.  Best to just let you
+see it when it airs.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  Lame Voyager Writing		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Janelle Keberle,	Monday, October 16, 1995 3:14:09 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#370330
+
+     Okay, here's intro lesson #5, on How Hollywood Works, by jms, age 12.
+
+     Writers, the really *good* writers, are few and far between.  Sure,
+you've got journeymen and journeywomen, people who can cobble up a decent
+story, but the percentage of really *good* writers is the same as it is in
+any other venue, a minority.  And of that sampling universe, smaller still
+is the group that can write perfectly for *your show*.
+
+     Writer A may be a great writer on series A, B and C, but when it comes
+to show D, just doesn't Get It.  Every once in a very great while, someone
+walks in the door, and absolutely nails it first time at bat.  That person
+is *exactly* suited to your show.  So it's in your best interest to grab
+that person and stick him on staff as fast as you humanly can.
+
+     If you bring him in as a staff writer, he can't rewrite others, and
+can't verbally participate in story sessions (per WGA rules) with freelance
+writers.  His utility is limited, and since there isn't that much difference
+in salary between a staff writer and a story editor, you usually bring the
+person in as story editor.  Or, if the person has a lot of credits, you
+bring him or her in as a producer.
+
+     Hence the preponderance of writer/producers in TV, which has somewhat
+become the norm.  Working through freelance scripts is a difficult thing on
+the best of days, so there's an understandable impulse to hire a whole bunch
+of writers who you know Get It, give them producer titles, and have them do
+the lion's share of the writing.  This is how most TV shows are done today.
+In a way, it's kind of diminished the title "producer," since many writer
+producers don't really produce, it's just a title with more money.  You've
+got producers, co-producers, associate producers, executive story editors,
+story editors, supervising producers and executive producers.  And even
+executive producers don't always participate in the day-to-day operation of
+a series, so they've come up with a term that creates a subset of executive
+producers, an unofficial term you'll never see on-screen, which is "Show
+Runner."  That's the one person who is running the whole darned thing.
+
+     Is all this fairly new?  Yeah, fairly.  There was a time when the
+majority of TV shows were written by freelancers, but that was when the WGA
+consisted of far fewer writers than today, and it was easier to dip into
+that pool.  Now you've got well over 9,000 Writers Guild members, of which
+roughly 50% are unemployed at any given moment.  That's a lot of people
+scrambling to beat down your door at any moment, and when you factor in the
+greater risks these days, the short orders (you used to get a full season's
+order, 24 episodes, on networks, now you get 8, then if the ratings hold, 7
+more, then a third order for the balance of episoodes, called the Back Nine,
+which means you can risk less with outsiders in your first batch), that can
+lead to a bunker mentality.
+
+     Did I start out this way?  Sorta.  I've only written two freelance TV
+scripts for dramatic series; each time I get hired instantly right
+afterward.  On other shows, I'm just hired straight off, no freelance work
+required.  I didn't actually set out to be a producer; it was never my plan,
+or my goal.  Didn't want the Pointy Hat of Authority.
+
+     But I discovered early on that the only way to make sure nobody rewrote
+me, that the words got through as I wanted them to get through, was to go up
+the ladder until I became an executive producer/show runner.  It's a hell of
+a lot of work.  If someone said, "Look, we'll make you a staff writer, pay
+you crappy money...but we won't change your words," I'd take it in a hot
+second.  But that hasn't happened, so here I am...in the cannon barrel.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  "Inside Trek" column		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael Grabois, 	Monday, October 16, 1995 3:14:11 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#370331
+
+<Did you see this past weekend's version of the "Inside Trek" column? It
+On Saturday, they had an interview with Bruce Boxleitner.>
+
+     Yeah, thanks, I'd love to see a copy....
+
+								       jms
+
+Subj:  B5 cards, etc...			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Phil Koltko, 		Monday, October 16, 1995 11:22:28 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#371761
+
+     Because you're still hooked into the way the non-B5 world does things.
+We're kind of obsessive about stuff here.
+
+     Yes, I do have approval over everything, and while a few things
+could've been better with the cards, I'm overall quite pleased.  It's a
+start.  Remember, we're still in the process of convincing people that there
+really is interest in the show, so the miracle isn't whether or not a given
+product was done well, rather that it was done at *all*.  So these so far
+are fine, and we'll continue to improve.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 cards, etc...			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Phil Koltko,		Tuesday, October 17, 1995 6:36:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#372661
+
+     Basically, when you go into someone else's company, as much as you may
+advise, suggest, and carry on, ultimately it's not your company, and you're
+bound by the way other people do business.
+
+     Some people can license a product, for instance, but because the show
+isn't a proven money-producer in licensing, they may want to hedge their
+bets; they may not invest as much money into production, or publicity, or
+artistic contributers of one sort or another.  So the choices you then get
+to approve may not be the ultimate best  possible in a theoretical world in
+terms of pushing the envelope or being as daring as the show.  Their
+inclination is to  play it safe.
+
+     As time goes on, and people become reassured that B5 products will work
+for them, they will be more comfortable investing more money into them,
+which in turn will attract more artistic types, which then leads to more
+daring or unique stuff.
+
+     The first few novels were, I thought, fairly prosaic; the next batch
+are, I think, more interesting...because the book company is now putting a
+little more effort and thought into the product, since the first 3 volumes
+have very much proven their worth.  And the list of writers on the next
+batch is very good, includng SM Stirling and Neal Barret Jr.
+
+     It's a growing process....
+
+                                                                       jms
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  David Seraphin,	Monday, October 16, 1995 11:22:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#371763
+
+<Many thanks for creating such a wonderful show!>
+
+     Thanks, your support is very much appreciated.
+
+                                                                       jms
+Subj:  <Talia Winters>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Brian Kornfeld, 	Monday, October 16, 1995 11:22:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#371766
+
+     1) You're assuming Bester knows everything.  Also, Bester's interest
+may have been more...carnal than PsiCorp oriented.
+
+     2) The real Talia was becoming more and more disenchanted with PC, and
+this was in time going to pull her into resistance activities, which Talia
+v2.0 would only be *thrilled* about.  The self-protection mechanism only
+kicks in when the personality's existence is threatened.
+
+     3) Remember that Ironheart was not seeing Talia under the best of
+conditions...he was fighting hard NOT to use his abilities, for any reason,
+because it created mindquakes...he was pulling everything IN.  And later he
+was shot, also not a good position.
+
+     It lays out fine, really.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  <Talia Winters>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Pankaj Mangalik, 	Wednesday, October 18, 1995 2:06:05 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#373241
+
+     Having written the episode, produced it, edited it, seen it at least 20
+times, to synopsize it again, after all that, is something I really don't
+think I'm up to, much as I'd like to....
+
+                                                                       jms
+Subj:  Episodes Evaluation		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  peter  stathis, 	Tuesday, October 17, 1995 12:41:18 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#372230
+
+     The shadows influence is partly the gothic horror influence overall, and
+a lot of Jungian influence.
+
+                                                                       jms
+Subj:  <Divided Loyalties>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Spencer W. Farrow, 	Wednesday, October 18, 1995 2:05:24 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#373236
+
+<Drake's Cakes in CA?  Where?>
+
+     Try Slices pizza on Van Nuys in Sherman Oaks; they sell 'em by the box.
+
+                                                                       jms
+Subj:  Back to the Beginning		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane, 	Wednesday, October 18, 1995 2:05:25 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#373237
+
+<In "The Gathering," was the data Delenn gave Sinclair on the Vorlons really
+*everything* -- including the First Ones, the Shadows, etc.?>
+
+     Yeah, there was a lot of info there...it was everything she had *there*
+at hand, but not everything the Minbari have overall.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  B5 Horror Element		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane, 	Wednesday, October 18, 1995 2:06:00 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#373238
+
+     What many folks forget is that Serling's story were as often about
+redemption as about damnation; about hope as often as about horror.  That
+lesson is forgotten by many horror writers who claim him as influence.
+
+     The Serling influence, for me, is the strength of individual humans to
+endure much, sacrifice greatly, yet come out the other end of the struggle
+something nobler and stronger.
+
+                                                                       jms
+Subj:  Talia/Garibaldi/Comic#8		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Allan  S. Nassau, Wednesday, October 18, 1995 2:06:02 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#373239
+
+<Didn't Garibaldi see Talia in comic #8?  Why didn't he recognize her later?>
+
+     Nope, he was looking at the process overall; he never saw Talia.  The
+one shot of her is the omniscient POV, not his.  (And even if he had seen
+her, it would've been only a glimpse of a blonde woman, no name that he
+could see, and after so many years, given that her condition wasn't great at
+the time, he wouldn't necessarily recognize her in any event.)  But it's a
+moot point; the comic never indicated that he saw her.
+
+                                                                       jms
+Subj:  B5 via CON-RAD			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Grey Culberson,	Wednesday, October 18, 1995 2:06:03 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#373240
+
+<Will you be at CON-RAD?>
+
+     I've got some concerns about ConRad that I'm looking into; have to get
+into that more before I comment.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  <Divided Loyalties>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  The Jawa / Jawa #2	Wednesday, October 18, 1995 4:15:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#373788
+
+<Nice episode (TLTS)!  Does the planet have a name?>
+
+     Thanks; and the planet is Epsilon 3.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Talia/Garibaldi/Comic#8		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John McAuley		Wednesday, October 18, 1995 8:24:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#374131
+
+     "...picture of Talia on conveyer with red net over her face."
+
+     C'mon...you're saying anybody'd be able to recognize a flash image of 
+a woman with a red net over her face as much as 7 years later...?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Talia/Garibaldi/Comic#8		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John McAuley, 		Thursday, October 19, 1995 5:44:12 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#374675
+
+     As I recall, the Winters, T badge was only visible in the next to last 
+panel, which is a narrative flashback, not him personally.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Episodes Evaluation		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  peter  stathis, 	Wednesday, October 18, 1995 4:15:12 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#373786
+
+     If I were simply going to tell everyone what's going to happen, there 
+would be little point in actually making the series, true?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Episodes Evaluation		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Terry Cotant	Thursday, October 19, 1995 5:44:11 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#374674
+
+<Can I get 3D models of the ships?>
+
+     Unfortunately, we can't release that info outside the company for 
+copyright reasons.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Ellison CITY Note		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Randall Chrisman, 	Wednesday, October 18, 1995 4:15:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#373787
+
+     No "I told you so" involved; I've seen the galleys, there were 150 
+major typos, it couldn't be released like that.  So correcting those took 
+an additional 3 weeks.  Nothing to do with anything but production glitches
+in manufacture.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  WOTW: DS9 Imitates B5?		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Michael Ogrinz, 	Wednesday, October 18, 1995 4:36:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#373808
+
+     Not backwards at all when one considers that in general B5's ratings
+have been slowly, consistently improving in non-rerun periods since it went
+on the air.  No, it didn't start out in the top figures because it didn't
+have the ST name that guarantees ratings.  It's had to find its audience,
+and vice versa.  And this it has been doing.
+
+     In LA, the first new episode of B5, aired right after a new DS9
+episode, got a 6.3 rating and a 10 share, as opposed to a 5.3/9 for DS9.
+
+     And even *absent* all that...even a lower rated show can challenge one
+artistically.  Twin Peaks never got the big numbers, but it had a major
+impact in breaking open some of the elements that others have used since, in
+shows like X-Files and American Gothic and others.
+
+     On this whole question...if you saw the DS9 2-hour debut, with the
+action scenes, you may want to check out the show airing this week.  You
+might find it interesting....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  No vcrs?				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sharon Foster, Thursday, October 19, 1995 1:09:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#375031
+
+<Would you have still attempted something as complex as Babylon 5 if VCRs 
+were not as common as they are now?  
+Say, ten years ago? Is it something you took into consideration at all?>
+
+     The story is the story, regardless of the medium some might use to 
+record them at home.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  No vcrs?				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Arthur Stoppe,	Friday, October 20, 1995 1:16:22 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#375871
+
+     I've never given much thought to the home video market; I don't get a 
+direct piece of it, and it's a secondary revenue stream as far as PTEN is 
+concerned and thus not very important, as testified to by the fact that they 
+still haven't even put any cassettes OUT in the US.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  No vcrs?				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sharon Foster,		Friday, October 20, 1995 1:16:25 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#375872
+
+     Well, even without VCRs, eventually the show will be stripped daily 
+(one hopes, at least), once the show is over.  
+Some here have tried, as an experiment, watching them straight through, one 
+per day, and all the clues and bits and foreshadowings jump out immediately 
+that way.  So it probably works fine either way.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  <TLTS & Stuff>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Chad Underkoffler, 	Thursday, October 19, 1995 1:09:03 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#375032
+
+     Re: your note about 500 Narns for every 1 Centauri...you may want to 
+check our own history.  During the occupation of some parts of Europe 
+during WW II, similar tactics were used.  
+In some cases the threat rose as high as 100-200 Jews or Russians executed 
+for every Nazi killed; much the same has been done in earlier history.  
+Five hundred to one is a figure relatively consistent with what humans have 
+done from time to time when we wish to instill terror.  So I find this a 
+curious quibble.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  <TLTS & Stuff>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, 	Friday, October 20, 1995 1:24:19 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#375889
+
+     Actually, Londo *specifies* that the 500 will include "the 
+perpetrator's own family."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  <TLTS & Stuff>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  SysOp Dupa T. Parrot,	Friday, October 20, 1995 1:16:25 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#375873
+
+<What's holding Londo to the deck? Velcro(tm)? Suction cups? The 
+w\e\i\g\h\t\ mass of his sins? Something else?>
+
+     Some races, like the Centauri and the Minbari, use drive systems built 
+to varying degrees on magnetic and gravitational forces; 
+some of them don't so much go to a planet as create a situation where they 
+are drawn toward it. 
+One of the side effects of this is a field allowing for artificial gravity. 
+Earth doesn't have this level of technology, however.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  <TLTS & Stuff>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Burhaan  Ahmad,	Friday, October 20, 1995 1:24:20 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#375890
+
+     Actually, what Delenn said was, "...the Rangers *in this area* are 
+under my direct command."  So Sinclair's post as Ranger One remains back on 
+Minbar.
+
+     And yes, Sinclair has apparently been described as the One...but you 
+must ask...the one *what*?
+
+     Expect final answers to this one late this coming season.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  <TLTS & Stuff>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Paul Maskens Thursday, October 19, 1995 7:42:23 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#375537
+
+     G'Kar's prayers would have been unrelated to the wounding of the 
+shadow vessel.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  B5 Repeat on KCOP?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Paul C. Britton, 	Thursday, October 19, 1995 4:08:25 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#375274
+
+     Yes, I'm sorry, but B5 is now shown only once in most places, 
+including LA.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  <Long, Twilight Ques>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Kennedy How,		Thursday, October 19, 1995 7:37:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#375531
+
+<Draal's hookup to the machine is similar to the game Warhammer 40,000>
+
+     No, never saw Warhammer.  The machine isn't primarily there to 
+sustain, it's basically a control mechanism.  This game is a new one on me.
+
+                                                                       jms
+Subj:  Gary Numan and B5		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael  Zitaglio, 	Thursday, October 19, 1995 7:37:20 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#375533
+
+<An English techno-pop star has albums called Babylon 1, 2, 3>
+
+     That's great; would love to hear one sometime.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  This week's sQ			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Trent K. Johnson, 	Friday, October 20, 1995 1:16:28 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#375874
+
+<I noticed that this week's episode of seaQuest was written by Javier 
+Grillo-(can't remember spelling).  This was the fellow who wrote the letter 
+asking for opinions on how to fix the show wasn't it?>
+
+     Since I didn't see it, I can have no real coherent thoughts (as if I 
+could on any day)....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  No vcrs?				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Arthur Stoppe,	Friday, October 20, 1995 8:08:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#376624
+
+     Sure, I've given thought to it...<putting out B5 on videotapes> it's 
+just getting WB to go along with it; they don't think anyone would want to 
+buy them.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  No vcrs?				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John McAuley,		Saturday, October 21, 1995 4:55:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#377417
+
+     Unfortunately, 50% of the decision is made by the stations, which 
+don't really care what happens outside the US.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  <TLTS & Stuff>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Mark D. Smith,		Sunday, October 22, 1995 4:26:25 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#377984
+
+<In this vein, at the last with Drall, I loved the part with Drall calling 
+out for... Zathras!>
+
+     Yeah, that was a rather Draal bit of humor, wasn't it?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  B5 Repeat on KCOP?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Paul C. Britton, 	Friday, October 20, 1995 8:08:07 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#376625
+
+<Do you have any plans or thoughts on releasing a collection series?>
+
+     Sooner or later, but not soon.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  Message report			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  The Jawa / Jawa #2,	Friday, October 20, 1995 8:08:09 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#376626
+
+     Yes, ramoras live off shark leftovers.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  JMS: <LTS> SPOILER <?>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Alex Lau [FWB], 	Friday, October 20, 1995 8:08:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#376627
+
+<The Vorlons lodged an official protest.  Was that the first time the
+Vorlons acted so directly (since the eternal life episode, at least)?>
+
+     Yeah, that's pretty much the first time since the pilot where the 
+Vorlons got involved with the Sinclair situation.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  Starfury Q			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Donald A. McGrath I,	Friday, October 20, 1995 8:08:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#376628
+
+     No, we've never had problems with the starfury design; our thought is 
+that new models of fighters always come out, and we figured we'd introduce 
+some newer models along the way.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  Babylon 5			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Darren Lane, 		Friday, October 20, 1995 8:16:21 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#376636
+
+     It would be difficult to collapse everything into a fourth season.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  <twilight struggle>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Rae Augenstein, 	Saturday, October 21, 1995 3:23:24 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#376898
+
+      "So what you're saying is that they're the Borg."
+
+      heh.  heh.
+
+      C'mere.
+
+      No, it'll be fine, just come over here for a minute, this won't 
+hurt....
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+Subj:  <TLTS & Stuff>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Philip Hornsey,	Saturday, October 21, 1995 4:55:10 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#377418
+
+     "A narn resistance is going to be pretty hard to organize."
+
+     *Exactly* the issue we'll explore in "A Day in the Strife."  (Well, 
+one of many issues.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  Twilight Struggle		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Charles Agius,	Saturday, October 21, 1995 4:55:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#377419
+
+     The cruiser is the same size as that sent to look into Z'ha'dum; it's 
+just a matter of perspective and how close the camera gets.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  Londo Poisoned?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jon A. Bell, 		Saturday, October 21, 1995 8:57:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#377725
+
+     No, we'd never do anything that basically unfair to the viewers....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  <The Long, Twilight Str>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jason Wong,		Saturday, October 21, 1995 8:57:23 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#377726
+
+<I am totally stunned and speechless from this episode.  Joe, let me tell 
+you, I CRIED in this episode.>
+
+     Thanks.  I'm very pleased with that episode; your response was just 
+what I was hoping for.  Thanks again.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  <Twilight Struggle>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Neil Blevins, 	Saturday, October 21, 1995 10:49:09 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#377844
+
+     The reason for the placement of the jump points is *very* straight 
+forward.
+
+     By virtue of their size and the tremendous forces unleashed by punching
+a hole into hyperspace, you want to form it a little distance away or risk
+being severely damaged. If they formed the points between them and the
+enemy, which was quite capable of avoiding them, it would be entirely
+possible for the shadows to get in front of the point and cut off their sole
+means of escape.  Usually, better to form them behind you, so the enemy
+can't block your way out, and take a possible hit or two to your aft
+sections than be totally cut off.  They didn't anticipate the extra weapons
+the shadows had.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Bab5 cancellation HELP		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Dale Duncan,		Saturday, October 28, 1995 6:44:28 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#385876
+
+      What you can also do, btw, is get together lots of other folks, using 
+SF and comic stores, to sign a petition and go to another station and urge 
+them to pick it up once it becomes available.  This has worked in other 
+places.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Telepathic Vorlons		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael  Zitaglio,	Wednesday, October 25, 1995 10:16:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#382840
+
+      They have certain potentialities, but I'd rather not go into them 
+here quite yet.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <spoiler: Comes the Inq>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Marte Brengle, 	Wednesday, October 25, 1995 10:16:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#382841
+
+     Short of convincing them via pressure, I can't think of anything.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Influence?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Terry Cotant [RSS],	Wednesday, October 25, 1995 10:16:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#382842
+
+     No, had nothing to do with Q, it's deciding what kind of person our 
+Mr. Sebastian might've been, and working from  there.  When you have 
+a character with as vivid and powerful as his, you don't need 
+to look to ST for any ideas on character.  And unlike Q, Sebastian has no
+powers of his own, just the force of his personality.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Influence?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Terry Cotant [RSS], 	Thursday, October 26, 1995 8:07:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#383837
+
+     Wayne has primarily done stage work, not a lot of TV, he's kind of a 
+find.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Influence?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Ray Pelzer,		Sunday, October 29, 1995 3:37:25 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#386238
+
+     Okay, here's one clue for any would-be Ripperologists out there.
+
+     In all the long story of Jack, when he was out doing his nightly work,
+only one person, a woman, wrote an actual letter, published in the London
+Times, offering an *explanation* for the Ripper's work, arguing that he was
+trying to send a message, that maybe people should listen to that message.
+It was as close as anyone's ever come to an actual *defense* of what he was
+doing.
+
+     Note the woman's name, and who her husband was...a man who was twice
+interviewed by Scotland Yard, and interviewed by many Church officials, the
+transcripts of which have been *sealed* by the Church ever since, at the
+request of the family...a person who was the last man to see at least one of
+the victims alive...and who was a direct blood relative of the man who was
+living with the final victim (who was killed indoors, leading to the
+speculation that she knew her assailant)...who suffered a breakdown just
+before the murders began, was obsessed with cleaning up the Whitechapel
+area, and after whose sudden, hasty transfer, the murders stopped...and
+whose profession is tied *directly* to the only thing the Ripper was
+overheard to say to one of his victims.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Twilight Struggle >		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Elyse M. Grasso, 	Wednesday, October 25, 1995 10:16:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#382844
+
+<Just another note of appreciation.... now that I've finally seen TLTS, I 
+can't find adequate words to describe its impact. >
+
+      Thanks...and the amazing thing is, it continues to improve....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Londo's Cough			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Nigel Nixon, 		Thursday, October 26, 1995 12:34:30 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#383256
+
+      Not that it just looked better per se, but the gunshots came from 
+right to left; the gun hand as originally shot fired from left to right.  
+It looked very funky when edited together, like it was going in a different 
+direction than the one it was fired in.  Flopping the shot corrected that.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <CtI---OK>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jan Fennick,		Thursday, October 26, 1995 12:37:18 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#383257
+
+     "catch me a kvetch, find me a flarn...."
+
+                                                               jms*
+
+
+     (Who woke up this morning humming "While My G'Kar Gently Weeps")
+
+Subj:  Videotapes from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Marte Brengle, 	Thursday, October 26, 1995 2:18:31 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#383382
+
+     In answer to your question (383177)....
+
+     As you've noted, the Powers That Be at Warner Bros. don't think there 
+is a market for B5 tapes, from the first season to present.  The *only* way 
+that they can ever be released is if the fans themselves take action.  
+That is the absolute bottom-line.  Only if the fans speak out will this 
+happen. This is not a drill, and I don't pass along this kind of information 
+lightly or often, even when requested, as was done here.
+
+     The primary contact, who can make the decision, is Mr. James Cardwell,
+Executive Vice-President/General Manager, Warner Bros. Home Video, North
+American Division, 3903 W. Olive, Building 154, 3rd Floor, Burbank, CA 91522.
+
+     I do not anticipate posting this elsewhere, to avoid the appearance of 
+encouraging a deluge.  The question has come up here repeatedly, and I
+answered finally.  If others choose to take this message from CIS and post
+it elsewhere, that's certainly their option.
+
+     At this point, since WB has no plans to rerun the first season due to 
+concerns that the presence of a different CO might confuse viewers, 
+this is about the only way for folks who saw, or missed, the first season to 
+catch up on all that went before.  (Obviously when the show is over completely,
+ the episodes will go into syndication, but that is, presumably, 3 years 
+down the road.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Videotapes from jms		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Esther Schindler [EXEC], Saturday, October 28, 1995 12:13:20 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#385117
+
+     I think giving out the fax number might tend to clog it, which they 
+might kinda object to.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Fan mail				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Jane Killick, Thursday, October 26, 1995 2:18:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#383383
+
+     Fan mail can be sent to all involved in making B5 at the following 
+address: c/o Babylon 5, 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA
+91423.  The c/o must be included.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  <spoiler: Comes the Inq>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Chad Underkoffler,	Thursday, October 26, 1995 2:18:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#383384
+
+      The episode underlines that there are two fundamental questions in 
+B5: who are you, and what do you want?  The order in which you answer
+those two questions can either make you great...or destroy you.
+
+      As for "There...plain truth!"  Someone elsewhere noted that this is 
+how we work sometimes...we hand you our play book quite openly, we tell
+you we're coming right up the middle, try and stop us.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <spoiler: Comes the Inq>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Joe Walters,		Friday, October 27, 1995 2:07:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#384517
+
+      Yeah, that's about the right reaction to Sebastian.  As for the next 
+week's scenes...well, at least the really major thing wasn't shown.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <CtI -- Question>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Marlyn Bumpus, 	Thursday, October 26, 1995 8:07:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#383835
+
+<How did Lennier know where to find Delenn?>
+
+     Well, given Delenn's position, I think she'd have let Lennier know 
+where she was, or that he'd heard Sheridan tell Delenn in the scene we 
+played the voice-over.
+
+     Thanks, it was a good show.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <CtI -- Question>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane, 	Saturday, October 28, 1995 9:47:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#386114
+
+<Where do you see Lennier and Delenn having been, and where do you 
+see the two of them going?  My commendations to Mira on her 
+acting in this one.  Thanks for a terrific episode.>
+
+     Yes, Mira's great in that episode.
+
+     As for Lennier...it's an unusual relationship, which you'll learn a 
+LOT more about in "Ceremonies of Light and Dark."  Which is all I can say
+for now.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Archetypes			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane, 	Thursday, October 26, 1995 8:07:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#383836
+
+     That's the kind of thing I don't tend to dwell on overmuch, lest the 
+storytelling become self-conscious.  The more you start to over-analyze the
+work as you're doing it, the less fresh and spontaneous it becomes.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644Saturday, October 28, 1995 6:44:25 
+PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#385875
+
+     Sysops:
+
+     As a note, there's probably no reason to repost this message again; I 
+think it might be overkill, and while I felt it 
+was right to come in here once to announce this, it *is* the ST section and 
+shouldn't have to put up with multiple 
+raids of the same message.
+
+     As an aside, Majel is shooting this week on B5, and so far seems to be 
+enjoying it immensely.  She's having great fun working with Peter Jurasik 
+and Stephen Furst.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Episodes Evaluation		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Elizabeth Whitaker, 74541,613	Saturday, October 28, 1995 2:30:25 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#385578
+
+<I saw a mention of Bruce Boxleitner's coming on board in an issue of 
+TV Guide and decided to make an effort to check on the show -- and got 
+hooked.
+
+Episodes of Babylon5 really are like reading a chapter of a science fiction 
+novel every week.> 
+
+     Thanks, and I'm glad you made it to the show.  Bruce is nothing but 
+terrific to work with.  And I think you'll like where we're going over the
+next 6 weeks in particular....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  Episodes Evaluation		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  The Jawa / Jawa #2, 	Saturday, October 28, 1995 9:47:31 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#386111
+
+<Talia is now Corps.  Whatever Ironheart gave her, Psi Corps has.
+Is that, uh, a problem?>
+
+      Logically, yes, that would eventually pose a problem.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+Subj:  <Comes the Inquisitor>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sharon Foster, 76360,301		Saturday, October 28, 1995 2:30:26 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#385579
+
+<"Omigod. Omigod. Omigod. Omigod. Omigod. But you can't do that on 
+television. Nobody's ever done that on television!" ...>
+
+     You know, you say the *nicest* things....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  <Comes the Inquisitor>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  David Fox,		Saturday, October 28, 1995 6:58:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#385910
+
+     The pain is necessary because it's easy to consider laying down one's 
+life intellectually; when the pain and the agony bring it home, it's no
+longer as easy.
+
+     And there *is* no correct answer to "Who are you?"  The only real 
+answer is no answer, because as soon as you apply someone's term for it, 
+you have limited yourself, defined yourself in someone else's terms.
+
+     Doing things in a refined, gentle, intellectual manner is the sort of 
+thing Delenn's used to, she can handle that easily...the goal of Sebastian 
+was to try and *break* her.  That's not intended to be done gently.  You
+don't break someone over a cup of tea discussing philosophical concepts and
+the nature of personal identity.  It's also not terribly dramatic to watch.
+
+     Because of her position, rank and authority, she expected to be 
+treated a certain way...which was why it was important to treat her just 
+the opposite.  It's easy to put oneself into a grand prophecy, to assume
+one has a destiny...to pay the price for that is something else again.  
+Anyone can do the former; very few can ever do the latter.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <CTI> Did Sinclair pass?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  David E. Francis, 72047,2070	Saturday, October 28, 1995 9:47:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#386112
+
+    <Did Sinclair have to undergo a similar interrogation?  Good show.>
+
+     Bear in mind, though, that we don't yet know, when someone says The 
+One, the answer to, "The One *what*?"  When this gets answered later this
+season, you may have your answer there.
+
+     And thanks.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <TLTS & Stuff>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Richard M. Perry, 76461,2737	Saturday, October 28, 1995 9:47:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#386113
+
+     Hey, I gotta have *some* fun here, right?  Can't make it too easy.  If 
+I just answered all the questions, wouldn't be much point in making the show,
+now would there?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  <Inquisitor--Mira, etc>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Mara K. Malovany, 	Saturday, October 28, 1995 9:47:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#386115
+
+     I think that, in the long run, the vorlons and the shadows will answer 
+the questions Who are you and What do you want...in that that's kind of 
+what they *are*, if that makes any sense.
+
+     Well, it will.  Eventually.
+
+     Funny thing is, how much as you note the show corresponds to some of
+the things Mira's been through...some of it intentional, knowing that if I
+dig into this area, it'll come out of her with the ring of truth...some of
+it quite unintentional.  When I finished writing "Severed Dreams," and the
+actors got it, Mira's first words to me were, "So...how long DID you live in
+Yugoslavia?"  The parallel wasn't intentional...but it fit.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Milwaukee Affiliate		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Bob Perse, 		Saturday, October 28, 1995 9:47:09 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#386116
+
+     Yes, most stations now are only showing the episodes once per week not 
+twice.  So if you want to get it, it has to happen the first time at bat.
+
+     "I am seething here."
+
+     So when you called the station, did that make it a seething ring?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  Influence?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Richard P. Manny,	Sunday, October 29, 1995 2:57:03 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#386727
+
+<I've never heard this one although I've read a number of Ripper texts.  I 
+could cheat and ask for a reference, but I won't.  I'll do a little digging.>
+
+     That's because it isn't *in* any of the Ripper texts as a suspect....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Bab5 cancellation HELP		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Marion J Nalepa,	Sunday, October 29, 1995 2:57:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#386726
+
+     The stations that keep the show consistent do well with it, and don't 
+usually drop it.  So you're probably in good shape here.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <spoiler>Comes the Inq		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Rick Corey /NY	Sunday, October 29, 1995 2:57:16 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#386729
+
+      I guess also that the key to avoid something becoming cliche is to 
+turn it on its head.  Which was the case with Sebastian.  One thing I
+neglected to mention was the need to have an absolute mirror-counterpoint to
+Morden.  Here you've got the smiling, pleasant, utterly charming and good
+looking fellow who is our "mirror" if you will in which we see the Shadows
+reflected.  So now you need something dark and ominous and terrible as the
+mirror through which we briefly glimpse the Vorlons, which has to be done
+all in one episode, you can't develop it gradually as with Morden.  So
+everything about Sebastian was the opposite of Morden...and each is the
+opposite of what they represent.  As it appears to us now, anyway.
+
+      To the question of Crowley, I've read a little of his work, but only a 
+little...  I've never believed in the dictum of "Do what thou wilt shall be
+the whole of the law."  I've generally leaned in the direction of "Do what
+thou ought shall be the whole of the law." Crowley was a very strange man,
+and while clearly some of his reputation was blown out of all proportion --
+was he not kicked out of an entire country once, called The Most Evil Man Of
+All Time? -- but at the heartmeat core of it was something dark and tw
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <spoiler: Comes the Inq>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Deonaha M. Conlin, 	Sunday, October 29, 1995 2:57:18 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#386730
+
+	<<OF course, that raises the question -- Is penance enough?>
+
+	At some point, it must be.  Even the worst of us must have some
+hope for reprieve at some point.  Either let the creep out of jail, or kill
+him.  I think four hundred years of not knowing would even do justice to
+Manson. ...>
+
+     No, I think your points are all excellent, and tie right into the whole 
+question at hand.  Nothing soft about them, just very thoughtful and
+insightful.  One of the primary functions of the show, beyond entertainment,
+is to provoke questions, discussion, and the comparison of views.
+
+     I think my message titled videotapes from jms is still here with an 
+address for WB about tapes.
+
+     And thanks.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <CTI> Did Sinclair pass?		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Don Chase		Sunday, October 29, 1995 2:57:20 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#386731
+
+<< When this gets answered later this season, you may have your answer 
+there.>
+
+Is that this season, as in Season 2, or Season 3?>
+
+     I think I was referring here to season 3.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Comes the Inquistor>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Don Chase,		Sunday, October 29, 1995 8:09:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#387083
+
+     Can G'Kar grow to forgive?  I don't think so...and yet in a way he must 
+come to something more than rage, and other than forgiveness.  There is an 
+important step in his development yet to come.  And he will have to go there
+by a very hard road.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Major B5/ST News			Section: Star Trek
+  To:  JAMES M. TRAPP,	Sunday, October 29, 1995 8:14:10 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#387093
+
+<Neither my wife nor I particularly care for what seems to be never 
+ending plot lines.>
+
+      That's great, and I appreciate the honest answer.  Not every show is 
+for everyone.  Continued good luck.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <CtI---OK>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane, 	Sunday, October 29, 1995 8:14:12 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#387095
+
+< >> Actually, there *was* a scene where Lennier, concerned, tracks down Kosh 
+to inquire after Delenn's situation, which report alarms him and sends him 
+after Sheridan.  It was filmed...but cut for time. <<
+  Can you post it?>
+
+     Can't really post that kind of stuff, alas....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+
+Subj:  Avalon?				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Elyse M. Grasso,	Monday, October 30, 1995 2:35:16 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#387324
+
+<Does the episode title "A Late Delivery from Avalon" imply that Jinxo will 
+be back?>
+
+     Nope, no Jinxo.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  <Comes the Inquisitor>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Mark D. Smith, 		Monday, October 30, 1995 2:35:16 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#387325
+
+<When Delenn delivers her speach about "this body is only a shell", at 
+the end of it, watching Sebastion, the dissapointment on his face!  To me, 
+he looked like Delenn had just kneed his jewels up around his ears!>
+
+      Yeah, beautiful subtle work, wasn't it...?
+
+      Wayne Alexander.  Remember the name.  This guy's gonna Be Somebody.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  <CtI---OK>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sharon Foster, 		Monday, October 30, 1995 6:15:24 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#387966
+
+<What was the last word in Sebastian's "What about..." litany?>
+
+      Actually, the last one, since it was going to be drowned out, was an 
+adlib, "eternity."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  Fan club update?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Marlyn Bumpus, 	Monday, October 30, 1995 6:15:27 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#387968
+
+     Still processing paperwork...my life is paperwork.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Comes the Inquistor>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  DAVID F. LATORRE, 	Monday, October 30, 1995 6:15:30 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#387970
+
+<<gasp><awe>Thanks for the wonderful coda by the Inquisitor.>
+
+     Thanks....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Episodes Evaluation		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Dan F. Evan, 		Monday, October 30, 1995 10:33:10 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#388277
+
+<Have you won any awards for the show yet?  Kosh was spectacular.>
+
+     We've only won one Emmy and a couple of small awards for the series 
+(plus another Emmy for the pilot).  We're still working on making people
+aware that we're here, and what we're doing.
+
+     Other than that...thanks.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <TFON - Keffer>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Bob Danielson,		Monday, October 30, 1995 10:33:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#388278
+
+<Is Keffer dead?>
+
+     Dead as the proverbial doorknob.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs95-11 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs95-11
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+Subj:  Jack the Ripper			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Wayne D. Zimmerman	Tuesday, October 31, 1995 10:57:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#389227
+
+     So, in other words, if a historical, real character has been used in 
+some other venue, if the use of that same character in another, 
+wholly different world/series/show/universe is absolutely, totally and 
+completely the right thing for that story, 
+one should instead do what's *wrong* for the story and leave it out?
+
+     Sorry.  Don't buy it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Comes the Inquisitor>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Ray Pelzer,		Tuesday, October 31, 1995 11:22:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#389253
+
+<Delenn really made Sebastian realize who HE was as well.  Was this
+both-sides-of-the-coin intentional, or just happy happenstance?>
+
+     No, it was very much intentional; Sebastian learns quite a bit in the 
+course of that encounter about himself...especially when she rubs it in his 
+face as she does.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Fans Strike Again!		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Fred Miller, 		Tuesday, October 31, 1995 11:22:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#389254
+
+     Unfortunately, no suggestions except to note that the more people in 
+an area who keep after their stations, the more things gradually change.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <spoiler: Comes the Inq>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Catherine Becic,	Tuesday, October 31, 1995 11:22:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#389255
+
+     Sacrificing oneself happens frequently...but for just one other 
+person, AND in a situation where no one else would ever know about it.  
+Bear in mind that he wasn't testing people randomly; only those who felt 
+that they were chosen of god, fulfillers of prophecy...people who assumed 
+that they were part of some grand scheme, and thus to whom an anonymous
+death is an intolerable thought.
+
+     Also, most probably never *got* that far, unable to stand the real 
+pain of being placed in this position.  Everybody can talk the talk; very
+few can walk the walk.  Most probably just yanked off the bracelets and
+split, on the theory that they weren't being sufficiently coddled or
+glorified...or because being a potential prophet isn't as much fun as
+they'd thought.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+
+Subj:  <spoiler: Comes the Inq>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Daena Hinkelman	Wednesday, November 01, 1995 7:23:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#389981
+
+      "It doesn't fit in with the way the Vorlons have been portrayed.  It 
+bothered me."
+
+      Good.  That was the intended result.
+
+      Part of the reason for the story was to grey up the Vorlons a little; 
+one shouldn't fall too easily for what other people *say* they are.
+
+      (One might also say much the same of the old testament god who would 
+have Job so severely tested, btw.)
+
+       One should always be cautious of taking *anyone* at face value on B5.
+
+      "...you could consider them a force for good."
+
+      Ah, but what *is* good?  And whose *version* of good are we 
+discussing?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Fall of Night>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Michael Beemer	Tuesday, October 31, 1995 11:22:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#389256
+
+<IT DOESN'T MATTER.  THIS PLACE HAS BEEN BLESSED.
+   Wow!!  I expected this to devolve into a bitter argument
+   between different religions.>
+
+     Thanks.  I think that, with so many races around, you couldn't go into 
+holy wars or jihads at every occasion.  In a 
+way, what was seen was a validation for many...a moment they all came 
+together, instead of coming apart.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+
+ 
+Subj:  <season's end>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Joel Hilke,		Tuesday, October 31, 1995 11:22:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#389257
+
+<I'm sure you will have no end of congrats on a really fantastic season's 
+end.  I thought the last show with Jack the Ripper's narration was the 
+crowning touch of that show, and now I see this.>
+
+     Thank you.  The emotions the show stirs up are, to me, central to the 
+whole point of doing it.  We can't afford to pull any punches, or the story
+falls by the wayside.  It's an *incredibly* difficult show to do, on every
+level, from writing through acting to production and everything that
+follows.  But when it works, and people notice, it's all worthwhile.  
+Thanks again.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <season's end>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Al Mauroni		Wednesday, November 01, 1995 7:32:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#389987
+
+<The very BEST television out there - and this confirms it absolutely.>
+
+     Thanks...from your lips to the ears of the TV academy....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Fan club update?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane, 	Tuesday, October 31, 1995 11:22:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#389259
+
+     Re: "tennis wrists," or carpal tunnel syndrome...yes, I've got it in 
+spades.  I have to use the CTS gloves constantly or the arms ache badly
+within a matter of minutes; and even then they only slow down the speed
+with which they begin to hurt.  As it is, there's a dull ache pretty much
+all day, and most of the night; and after enough writing, my ring fingers
+on either hand start curling in, and my forefingers get a bit numb.  
+Toward the end of last season, the only way I could write was to write for 
+30 minutes, ice down my arms for 10 minutes, write for 30, ice for 10, and 
+so on.
+
+     No matter what precautions you take, when you write sometimes as much 
+as 20 pages per day...it's gonna happen.
+
+     (General note: I've seen virtually every article on CTS, I know about 
+the vitamins, the wrist-rests, the exercises, all that; I do what I can
+with those things that help.  So while advice is appreciated, it's not
+necessary in this case.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Fan club update?			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Esther Schindler [EXEC] Wednesday, November 01, 1995 1:26:24 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#389649
+
+     Unfortunately, for some reason my brain's hard-wired for typing.  
+I've tried dictating in the past, to a tape recorder, but nothing comes out 
+as crisp or as *right* unless I'm at the keyboard and my fingers are 
+thinking for me.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Inquisitor - Bravo!>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Chad Underkoffler, 	Wednesday, November 01, 1995 1:26:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#389647
+
+     On the "Jack sucks" threads, phrased various ways...doesn't really 
+bother me. I knew going in that some folks would react well to that, and
+some wouldn't, for an assortment of reasons, some valid, some less so.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Comes the Inquistor>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Chad Underkoffler, 	Tuesday, October 31, 1995 11:46:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#389271
+
+     Re: "...a Vir intensive script."
+
+     Just finished one.  Script for episode #13, "Sic Transit Vir."  I 
+think it's gonna be a hoot.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 screensaver			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Steve Trease,	Tuesday, October 31, 1995 11:46:07 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#389272
+
+     It'll be out in time for Christmas from Sound Sources.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 screensaver			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Steve Trease,	Wednesday, November 01, 1995 7:23:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#389980
+
+     Don't know yet the final release date.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 screensaver			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Ruth Ballam, 100412,3457		Wednesday, November 01, 1995 1:26:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#389651
+
+ <Do I dare ask if it will be PC only or Mac as well ?>
+
+
+    Dunno....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <FON - Nature of Kosh>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John Yuen,		Wednesday, November 01, 1995 7:29:23 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#389985
+
+     That's the irony, in a sense...what's inside Kosh's biomechanical 
+encounter suit...is a *perceptual* encounter suit....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <FON Thot>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Rae Augenstein	Wednesday, November 01, 1995 7:30:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#389986
+
+     From a strictly logical standpoint, a president would not lower 
+himself to deal with this personally.  When MacArthur and Patton earned
+the disfavor of the president, it was intermediaries who pulled them aside
+and registered this.  Also, gradually more authority if being vested in
+Nightwatch and the Ministry of Peace, as that's his arm, and so he'd be
+inclined to use that since he's in most direct control.  (Just to explain
+why what was done was done.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <TLTS & Stuff>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Richard M. Perry,	Wednesday, November 01, 1995 11:19:27 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#390185
+
+     Alas, actual history courses put me to sleep; reading is fine, 
+but to teach history...how bad would it be to see your own prof falling 
+over dead asleep at his own lecture?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  CD differences			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Mark D. Smith,		Wednesday, November 01, 1995 11:20:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#390186
+
+<I was looking through the book and saw a picture that was the same yet not. 
+ It's the picture with Kosh, G'Kar, Delenn and Londo standing in front of a 
+large fan.  
+In the LE CD, Londo looks like he's just been through a month of binge 
+drinking.  His face is splotchy and his hair is a rats nest.  In the GR CD, 
+he just looks pained.>
+
+      You caught me.  In the limited, they used a photo that I absolutely 
+*hate*, for what it does to Londo's hair.  So when the general release was
+due to come out, they couldn't change the photo, too expensive, so I had
+them put a different head on it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <TFON - weightless>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Timothy & Lisa Mitchell,Thursday, November 02, 1995 12:39:11 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#390207
+
+     Re: the starfury drop...this has come up before, and some of the 
+better high-IQ types have said we got it right.  The fighters use
+centrifugal force to be propelled *away* from the station; yes, it's at
+a slight tangent, but the station is also rotating behind them, so it
+isn't that severe.  The furies don't actually fire their engines until
+they're a bit away from the station, using the force of the drop.
+
+     The vectors actually work out accurately.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 as radio			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Sharon Foster,		Thursday, November 02, 1995 12:39:12 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#390208
+
+     I used to work in radio drama a lot, for ALIEN WORLDS and the MUTUAL 
+RADIO THEATER, so sometimes that aspect comes out in my writing.  I think 
+it's a wonderful, and little used medium.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Inquisitor - Bravo!>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  peter  stathis, 	Wednesday, November 01, 1995 1:26:28 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#389650
+
+     "it just didn't pay off in the long run."  For you.  For others it 
+did. Let's not start getting grandiose.  You feel this way, that's fine,
+but it's not the ultimate truth.  Otherwise you're totally dismissing the
+opinions of others who liked it a lot.
+
+     "Jack...has become a real cliche."  So because others have used that 
+figure in their work, well or poorly, no one should ever use this 
+historical figure ever again in the next thousand years of human history.  
+One should not do what one thinks is right for a story because of what 
+someone else did in a different story.
+
+     Sorry.  I don't work that way.  By your logic, I should not be using 
+starships or hyperspace or aliens, either, because they've been used a LOT 
+more than Jack.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  <FON Thot>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Al Mauroni,		Thursday, November 02, 1995 12:35:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#390490
+
+<You're right re: the joint chiefs.  It would be nice to see the formal 
+military chain of command in operation every now and then, one of the 
+things STNG did rather nicely.  
+One can only hope that Sheridan verified the JCS instructions off-line out 
+of the camera's all seeing eye.>
+
+     And the really great thing is...you're quite right about verifying 
+orders from one arm of the government with another...as we'll see in the 
+first third of the coming season.  Good call.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <spoiler: Comes the Inq>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Tom Knudsen,		Thursday, November 02, 1995 10:55:07 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#390895
+
+<So, did the Vorlons decide to stay back and help out, or were they left 
+behind by the other races for some reason?>
+
+     It's good you've been thinking about this.
+
+     'Cause this is one of those questions I'd rather answer in the series 
+than here.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  RPG?				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Robin L. Small,	Thursday, November 02, 1995 10:55:31 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#390892
+
+     No, not a gamer; I've only been dragooned into trying it a couple of 
+times, but basically I prefer making up my own stories.  Nonetheless, I
+know a lot of folks who do it, and they seem to have a great time doing it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Episode List 			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Kevin J. Goulding,	Thursday, November 02, 1995 10:55:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#390893
+
+     It's definitely at Hyperion.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:   <<DS9: Rejoined>>		Section: Star Trek
+  To:  Eric Baker,		Thursday, November 02, 1995 10:55:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#390894
+
+     Well, I have a number of feelings about this.  First, you'll note that 
+it's always an alien that has something "different" than the ST normal male 
+or female character...we had the aliens who were all unisexual in TNG, now 
+this.  And, of course, it wasn't *really* two women falling in love, it was 
+someone who was once a male, now in a female body, carrying on with that 
+relationship.  So there are a lot of ways out of this.
+
+     I also think they somewhat played it for the prurient interest factor; 
+we just did it, by developing a relationship over time, and when it came to 
+fruition, we didn't make a big deal about it, it's just normal and 
+accepted. And it was between two *human* characters.  It's personal taste,
+I suppose; I just prefered it the way we did it.  Doesn't make it better or
+righter.
+
+     We developed a growing relationship between Talia and Ivanova over two 
+whole seasons; paid it off, and there will be ramifications down the road 
+from this relationship.  Because it *is* a relationship in that sense, not
+just done for one hour, for sensationalism, and then you drop it thereafter.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Londo Talk From TLTS		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane,	Thursday, November 02, 1995 10:55:12 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#390897
+
+     <G'kar says "There is no greater power in the universe than the need 
+for freedom."  At "need," Londo blinks, and as G'kar says "freedom", Londo
+turns his head slightly to his right and I could have sworn he silently
+says  "Yes...",  out of the corner of his mouth.  Was this my imagination?>
+
+     It was your imagination.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Keyboards and Pain		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane,	Thursday, November 02, 1995 10:55:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#390898
+
+     Wish I had some nifty secrets to share on the CTS; but it's just wear 
+the wrist braces, take vitamins, do the exercises and try where possible to 
+get away from the keyboard.  So far, I'm systematic on 1.5 of those 4.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Keyboards and Pain		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Marte Brengle,	Friday, November 03, 1995 3:02:27 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#390978
+
+      Actually, I'm using (at work) a Kinesis ergonomic keyboard, and that 
+helps a bit (two recessed wells for the keys).
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Keyboards and Pain		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Mike Sisk,		Friday, November 03, 1995 5:41:26 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#391371
+
+     The thing about the Kinesis is that for the first week I was using it, 
+my arms and wrists *really* hurt.  I thought, "This CAN'T be right."  
+I looked in the manual, and found it said approximately "For the first week 
+your wrists and arms will hurt."  Oh.  Then you get used to it.
+
+     Overall, I've gotten quite proficient with it, and the typing speed 
+hasn't diminished.  There are a few things that could've been done better, 
+but overall it's a definite improvement.  (Main problem is that I have
+rather long, slender fingers, so I often over-shoot the keys unless I'm
+paying attention.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Fall of Night>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Pankaj Mangalik,	Thursday, November 02, 1995 10:55:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#390899
+
+     Liberty is *always* at peril; only the degree of the threat varies 
+from day to day.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Fall of Night>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Pankaj Mangalik,	Saturday, November 04, 1995 12:21:19 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#391585
+
+     Yes, the Shadows know that the Vorlons are still around, and that Kosh 
+is there.  That's never been any kind of secret.  They're just hoping that 
+the Vorlons and anyone who might believe them won't find out that they're 
+out and about again until too 
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <CtI---OK>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane,	Thursday, November 02, 1995 11:11:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#390919
+
+     I think I wasn't clear...the Lennier/Kosh scene *was* filmed; it just 
+didn't make it into the final cut of the episode.
+
+     In general, we leave 2-3 minutes per episode on the cutting room 
+floor, for various reasons...pacing, structure, whatever.  Usually it's
+just line cutting, sometimes it's a small, quick scene here and there.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <B5 Season 2 Finally>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Joe Salemi [ZD Net],	Thursday, November 02, 1995 11:11:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#390920
+
+     Yeah, this is the other structure that's kind of a favorite of mine.  
+I used it also in "Coming of Shadows."  It starts out kind of slow, it
+lulls you into a sense that this is going to be a fairly ordinary story,
+nothing major...allowing me to sneak up behind you in the story and just
+*whack* you real hard when you're not expecting it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Photo of Marcus			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  All				Friday, November 03, 1995 2:59:07 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#390976
+
+     For those who've not noticed it...in the 5 library (B5) there is a gif 
+image of Marcus Cole, our new recurring character, a resident Ranger 
+assigned to Babylon 5.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Inquisitor - Bravo!>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Bancroft Gracey,	Friday, November 03, 1995 3:02:26 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#390977
+
+     Actually, I think I saw more *annoyance* at Jack being used from the 
+UK folks than the US folks, that's the main difference, I think.  
+Probably because it's a peaceful, wonderful country which is *still* paying 
+off, in the public eye, one particularly nasty creature in their recent 
+history. They're probably tired of hearing about him, and to some extent,
+correctly so.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <FON>				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Brian A. Thomas,	Friday, November 03, 1995 3:07:05 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#390979
+
+     "who are angelic like"
+
+     Who says that's what they actually *are*?  That's only how they want 
+us to SEE them.  There's a difference.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Season 3 #1 >			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Rae Augenstein,	Friday, November 03, 1995 1:00:24 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#391159
+
+     A little over a week has passed between the events of FoN and "Matters 
+of Honor."  The first part of the season is almost in real time.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <spoiler-Fall of Night>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Gerald Himmelein,	Friday, November 03, 1995 5:33:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#391368
+
+     There's also a certain amount of McCarthyism inherent in the 
+Nightwatch, the emphasis on revealing spies in our midst, enemies of the 
+people.
+
+     The problem with pointing to the Nazis or the Gestapo exclusively is 
+that it allows us the safety of saying, "Well, it happened just there, and 
+only once, *we* could never fall for that."
+
+     Wrong.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <TFON - Battle>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Colin Glassey,		Friday, November 03, 1995 5:41:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#391370
+
+     The interceptors line refers to the fact that there are so many 
+incoming bursts that the interceptors are only knocking down 90% of them at 
+this point, meaning that some of them (the incoming bursts) are getting 
+through.
+
+     Janet's busy working on the scriptwriting part of her career, so she's 
+not available now, but hopefully she'll be available back to us come next 
+year.
+
+     And thanks.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <TFON - Battle>			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  SysOp Dupa T. Parrot	Saturday, November 04, 1995 12:21:22 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#391586
+
+     TOT, Time On Target, you launch everything you've got -- fighters at 
+close range to the target, long-range weapons firing earlier -- so that 
+they all arrive at the same spot at the same instant for maximum effect.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Mass drivers			Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Richard M. Perry,	Saturday, November 04, 1995 12:21:18 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#391584
+
+     A mass driver is a device which accellerates asteroids and sends them 
+hurtling down into the atmosphere where they arrive with the force of a 
+nuclear blast.  An ugly weapon.  It has not otherwise been known to cause
+coughing, hay fever of diptheria.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  <TFON>				Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  John M. Kahane,	Saturday, November 04, 1995 12:32:10 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#391590
+
+     Bear in mind that Sheridan specifically states that the treaty had 
+*not* been finalized yet between Earth and the Centauri, so the attack was 
+not a violation of a treaty that hadn't been signed yet.  (And very likely
+the Centauri captain was unaware of it *anyway*, just as Sheridan was taken
+by surprise by it all.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <spoiler: Comes the Inq>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Mark D. Smith,		Thursday, November 02, 1995 10:39:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#390878
+
+     Haven't seen Fall of Night yet, have you...?
+
+     And there's claiming by inference as well, setting oneself up as a 
+benign force on the side of good.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <spoiler: Comes the Inq>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Daena Hinkelman,	Friday, November 03, 1995 1:00:25 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#391160
+
+     Friendly disagreement is always great fun.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <spoiler: Comes the Inq>		Section: Babylon 5
+  To:  Daena Hinkelman,	Saturday, November 04, 1995 12:22:00 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#391587
+
+     "Good is the absence of evil...."
+
+     Is it?  Is it the *absence* or the *opposite*?
+
+     One might say (to take a christian pov for a moment) that god is the
+absence of evil.  But is this the case?  Is evil a thing, or is evil the
+potentiality to do acts of wanton destruction?
+
+     At what point did evil come into the universe, from this pov?  With the
+fall of Lucifer?  But unless the *potential* for evil existed before this
+act of pride, it would be impossible for Lucifer to fall.  The very tenet of
+free will is that there are choices to be made.  If there are no choices,
+there is no free will, quid pro quo.  Hence, in the garden, the *potential*
+for evil existed before an *act* later described as evil or rebellious.
+
+     And, hence, the *potential* for evil existed before Lucifer fell.  If
+it had not, he couldn't have fallen.  (Also, if one takes the position that
+the fall *created* evil, then a fallen angel has creative potential, which
+puts it at an unacceptably high level of power.)
+
+     It says in the book of Amos, "Is there evil in a city and the Lord hath
+not done it?"
+
+     If the potential for evil was there from the dawn of creation -- and it
+*must* have been for the actions described later to have taken place -- then
+there must perforce be the potential for evil in its creator.  (Unless one
+is willing to posit that in not having the potential for evil, god does not
+have free will, which means god is not omnipotent, and somehow gifted his
+creations with a capacity he himself was incapable of.) This doesn't mean,
+and shouldn't be taken to imply, that god *is* evil, or *has* evil, but
+rather that the *potential* is there, and has always existed.
+
+     Thus, good is not the *absence* of evil, but the *opposition* to evil.
+To use Mark Twain's example in "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg," you had
+an entire town that had never known temptation, and held itself up as
+righteous...  until the first day when real temptation walked in the front
+door, and the whole place fell for it...after which the sign out front of
+the town was modified to read "Lead us INTO temptation," for only through
+temptation, through the exposure to evil, is faith and the good tested and
+made viable.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+#: 399450 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    16-Nov-95  23:12:50
+Sb: Link&Log
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jon Wolf 76103,2541 (X)
+
+      It's a floating (air-compression) vidrecorder.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 399452 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    16-Nov-95  23:22:47
+Sb: #B5 Magazine
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: John M. Kahane 102664,773 (X)
+
+      Yes, I generally reviewed most of the material; but I explicitly told
+them I don't want it to be a fluff magazine, so there's some hard stuff in
+there from time to time.  I think the final schedule of forthcoming issues is
+being nailed down now.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 399453 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    16-Nov-95  23:22:48
+Sb: #DL Query
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: John M. Kahane 102664,773 (X)
+
+     Because the longer she was there, the more she'd discover (was about to
+enter into Sheridan's cell group in fact), and the more damage she'd be able to
+do.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 399454 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    16-Nov-95  23:22:50
+Sb: #<Convictions>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: John M. Kahane 102664,773 (X)
+
+     Thanks; it came out very well, I think.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 399455 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    16-Nov-95  23:22:54
+Sb: Sinclair's Warning
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+     Maybe a little of both....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 399489 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    17-Nov-95  00:52:30
+Sb: #Four Cents: Convictions
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Michael  Zitaglio 102545,641 (X)
+
+      The question, of course, is...is a person 100% dark or light?  Hitler was
+a monster.  He was also a snappy dresser and, to quote The Producers, he could
+dance the pants off Churchill.  Look at the war films from WW 2 behind the
+scenes...there's Goebbels and Goering and others having dinner, laughing,
+playing little jokes, listening to music....
+
+      The monster never sees a monster in a mirror.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 399672 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    17-Nov-95  12:05:35
+Sb: B5:The End???!!!
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Michael Ogrinz 71573,3153 (X)
+
+     Incorrect.  Share *is* important on the local level.  When you get the
+national ratings on a syndicated program, the final figure doesn't have a
+share, only a rating.  Shares come in market by market, and since the show's
+future is determined market by market, that's crucial to our survival.  So for
+our purposes, the share per market is *very much* the more important figure.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 399673 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    17-Nov-95  12:05:37
+Sb: B5:The End???!!!
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Michael Ogrinz 71573,3153
+
+     Some stations are shifting to less terrific timeslots; other stations are
+giving us *better* timeslots.  There's no one trend.  The main problem is that
+each market only has maybe one or two indie stations max, and if that's a Fox
+or UPN station, you've only got 2 prime time hours per night available 8-10
+(nearly all of these show their news programs at 10 p.m.). So first precedence
+for those 14 hours per week is given to Fox or UPN programs (or WB programs,
+depending), plus all the other syndicated shows out there, from talk shows to
+game shows and so on.
+
+     The market for syndicated shows, and where you can squeeze them in, is
+getting increasingly smaller.  Hence the growth of cable.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 399674 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    17-Nov-95  12:05:39
+Sb: #New Open!
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Gerald Himmelein 100417,3703 (X)
+
+     Yeah, and that quote got me in lots of trouble; my original statement was
+that we'd kick their ass, they'd kick ours, we'd kick back, and the ongoing
+competition would guarantee better shows for viewers. Unfortunately they chose
+to use only the first part of that...and thus was a huge fracas born.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 399675 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    17-Nov-95  12:05:41
+Sb: #<Rage'sThots: Cnvctns>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Chad Underkoffler 102512,1310 (X)
+
+     Londo and G'Kar no longer really have much to discuss; they're past that
+point, I figure.  They hate each other.
+
+     Re: the Drazi...yeah, I hear that a lot.  The most frequent comment: "I
+like the Drazi; they're just nuts."
+
+     Londo wasn't on Minbar; he was seeing someone off on a ship going to
+Centauri Prime.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 399681 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    17-Nov-95  12:19:30
+Sb: #399553-#Four Cents: Convictions
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Gerald Himmelein 100417,3703 (X)
+
+      I dunno...I just kinda figured that invading Poland, invading the
+Sudetenland, invading France, invading Russia, bombing Britain, eradicating
+much of the population of jews and gypsies in Eastern Europe, that kind of
+stuff comes as close as I can think of to a definition of a human monster.
+
+      Granted he fixed the economy, got Germany on a solid economic footing,
+ran a tightly organized Olympics, instituted new fashion sensibilities, and
+created some interesting architectural structures...and you couldn't beat his
+sense of theater and high drama...but I kinda think the former somewhat
+outweighs the latter.
+
+      Perhaps we are working from different definitions of what a monster is.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 399986 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    17-Nov-95  22:58:08
+Sb: #399710-#<Theo>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Ruth Ballam 100412,3457 (X)
+
+     Re: brewing ale...is that true?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 399987 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    17-Nov-95  22:58:10
+Sb: #399751-#Four Cents: Convictions
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Gerald Himmelein 100417,3703 (X)
+
+      There can be no question that the conditions prevalent in Germany after
+WW I created the climate in which a Hitler could come into power. There was
+great resentment and anger festering over the onerous conditions placed upon
+the German government, the enconomy was in ruins, people were looking for
+someone to blame, and that creates the perfect condition for scapegoats, and
+someone who can take advantage of that.
+
+      Hitler, however, was able to perceive that, galvanize it, shape it and
+form it.  It was Hitler who organized the brownshirts and created the
+krystalnachts, who orchestrated his rise within the government until he was
+finally able to seize the reins of government, and he who was the primary
+architect of the atrocities of that period.
+
+     Of course he didn't do it by himself; there were those who willingly, even
+happily collaborated; those who opposed and said nothing; those who were of no
+opinion one way or another; and those who resisted.  If you're going to blame
+the first group, maybe the first two or three, you still have to recognize the
+fourth.
+
+     People can be driven by the madness of the crowd, or intimidated by the
+government of the gun into silence.  No one is looking to totally exonerate the
+citizenry; though one can make a compelling argument that anyone who spoke out
+
+was swiftly arrested, deported, or shot...which tends to discourage the free
+exchange of criticism.  Would WW 2 have taken place without Hitler?  Possibly;
+the conditions were right.  Would it have taken the same shape?  Probably not;
+almost certainly not.  Thus the blame for *this* war, the way it happened
+*this* time, must be laid at his feet.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 399988 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    17-Nov-95  22:58:13
+Sb: #399797-Dr. Franklin's serum
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+      I'd forget it for now.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 399989 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    17-Nov-95  22:58:17
+Sb: #399799-Bio-tech weapons
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+      Could be.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 399990 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    17-Nov-95  22:58:17
+Sb: #399848-B5 Magazine
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Alan Katz 74260,3612 (X)
+
+      I go over the text, yes, but I've advised those who do it to avoid
+turning it into a puff-piece.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 399992 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    17-Nov-95  22:58:23
+Sb: #399955-Book of G'Quon
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+     The leaf shown is the G'Quon-eth, the plant featured in "By Any Means
+Necessary."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 400289 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    18-Nov-95  14:55:56
+Sb: #400146-#New Open!
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jason Wong 73302,776 (X)
+
+     It's my understanding that there'll be a B5 cover in Cinefantastique in
+the next few months.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 400290 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    18-Nov-95  14:55:57
+Sb: #400152-G'Quoneth Plant
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+     Nope.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 400291 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    18-Nov-95  14:56:00
+Sb: #400251-JMS: Questions
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Marlyn Bumpus 75117,3014 (X)
+
+     Vickery is a british actor, yes.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 400527 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    18-Nov-95  21:54:23
+Sb: #400299-#DL Query
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: John M. Kahane 102664,773 (X)
+
+     No, she didn't know who it was, but *whoever* the person was, the longer
+that person stayed where he/she was, the greater the risk.  They didn't know it
+all along remember; several people died on Mars getting that information
+out...as soon as they had it, and knew there was a traitor aboard, they had to
+move on it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 400528 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    18-Nov-95  21:54:26
+Sb: #400309-#Kosh Me This
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: John M. Kahane 102664,773 (X)
+
+      It's Screen Actors Guild rules; you can't have a character like this, who
+isn't actually an actor, in the opening credits.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 400531 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    18-Nov-95  22:04:09
+Sb: #400358-#B5 rerun schedule
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+      That's been the traditional rerun schedule with us; during the christmas
+weeks, the logic goes, most folks are out, not watching TV.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 400532 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    18-Nov-95  22:04:10
+Sb: #400397-Quick Question
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Mike Aragona 73641,1353 (X)
+
+     Yeah, it's fair to say that that's one of our themes.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 400533 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    18-Nov-95  22:04:12
+Sb: #400407-#Thanks for a Great show
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: David Schirmer 76774,3310 (X)
+
+      Thank you.  I don't think it's a case of hanging out with "the commoners"
+to use your term; I've been here since 1984 or so, and I enjoy the discussions,
+and I'll be darned if I'll change that just because my name appears on a TV
+screen somewhere.  I'm basically just another fan of the genre....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 401026 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    19-Nov-95  20:57:23
+Sb: #400665-B5 comic
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+     Don't know the exact pub date yet; the issues should be regular sized.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 401027 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    19-Nov-95  20:57:24
+Sb: #400668-B5 Costumers win again
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Cynthia and Richard 71561,3255 (X)
+
+      Thanks, and congrats.  We've been in contact with the Air and Space
+people, and when they're ready to do a B5 exhibit, we're there; but we'd rather
+not include B5 props in an ST exhibition.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 401028 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    19-Nov-95  20:57:27
+Sb: #400690-<The Mad Bomber>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Mark Pruett 74133,3406 (X)
+
+     That's great to hear, thanks.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 401029 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    19-Nov-95  20:57:30
+Sb: #400691-Four Cents: Convictions
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Mark Pruett 74133,3406 (X)
+
+     No, insofar as I know, it's an original, composed by Chris Franke.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 401155 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    20-Nov-95  01:03:45
+Sb: #401002-#<Franklin's IV fluids>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Morris L. Gavant, M.D. 74027,264 (X)
+
+     My sense is that if you're a german ambassador, and you're attacked and
+checked into Cedar Sinai Hospital, the chief of staff there takes care of you,
+rather than bringing in an outsider/german doctor.  Franklin's well suited to
+his task.
+
+     We could probably label the blood bags a little better.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 401156 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    20-Nov-95  01:03:46
+Sb: #400660-#B5:The End???!!!
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: peter  stathis 102477,3046 (X)
+
+     "...that would mean that it would be near the bottom of the ratings of
+syndicated shows."
+
+     People who don't know what they're talking about should avoid making
+comments like that.  The overall breakdown of syndicated shows runs about 10
+pages of very fine type; usually around 215 shows or more, ranked in order of
+average national ratings.  Babylon 5 is always on the first page of that
+breakdown; usually the #4 or #5 dramatic series for that week, sometimes a bit
+higher, never less than #6.  We consistently stay in the top ten of dramatic
+series.  (You don't include game shows or talk shows in the mix; that's
+comparing apples and oranges.)
+
+      If you *include* all those other shows, in one typical week, we came out
+as #38 overall, out of 215.  That is extremely respectable.  Most network shows
+that come in around the top 50 tend to stay around for a good long time.
+
+     Look, Peter, do me a favor, and get off the ratings, okay?  It's clear you
+don't understand them, and the bottom line is simply this: if our ratings
+weren't sufficiently high, we wouldn't be here.  It's that simple. We're here,
+so we're getting the numbers.  Warners is happy, and we're happy.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 401157 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    20-Nov-95  01:03:49
+Sb: #400700-#B5:The End???!!!
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Sharon Foster 76360,301 (X)
+
+      Local advertisments are bought by the local station, with matching funds
+from WB.  If the show isn't being advertised in your local area, the problem is
+your local station.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 401158 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    20-Nov-95  01:07:11
+Sb: #401038-#Demon w\ Glass Hand
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+      It's something we're still planning to do, in the fullness of time.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+
+#: 401616 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    20-Nov-95  16:53:51
+Sb: #401471-2nd Babylon 5 CD?
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Eric D. Fether 74067,465 (X)
+
+      The first CD came out and has done quite well; it's in most record stores
+(that can keep it in stock), so it can be ordered through your local Tower or
+Wherehouse, or you can order direct from Sonic Images via their web page, or
+the address given in the B5 library (#5 or #6).
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 401617 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    20-Nov-95  16:53:52
+Sb: #401537-B5:The End???!!!
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Sharon Foster 76360,301 (X)
+
+      I probably should, but I'm a lousy organizer/filer; I know they're all in
+one place, but not indexed or anything.  Probably no direct need to get a copy;
+accept the appreciation nonetheless.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 401618 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    20-Nov-95  16:53:54
+Sb: #401558-New TNT Info?
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: David Nedrow 70004,1273 (X)
+
+      No, nothing new....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 401818 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    20-Nov-95  21:26:28
+Sb: #401652-#B5 rerun schedule
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: John M. Kahane 102664,773 (X)
+
+      Yeah, I think those are the episodes covered in reruns, though at one
+point they're going to drop in "Hunter, Prey" one more time to set up the
+events to come in the next batch of new eps.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 401819 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    20-Nov-95  21:26:29
+Sb: #401744-#Italian Garibaldi
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Michael  Zitaglio 102545,641 (X)
+
+     Thanks....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 401820 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    20-Nov-95  21:26:30
+Sb: #401786-B5 fan club
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+     We've been working with WB on getting the paperwork finished, and it's
+nearly there, so the club should be on line in the next week or two.  I'm
+directly involved in running/owning it, with my associate Doug Netter.  It's
+not set up to be a big money machine, just doing a few things for the fans, and
+that sort of thing.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 401821 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    20-Nov-95  21:26:33
+Sb: #401790-<ADITS: Ask Kosh?>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+     Because Delenn doesn't know that information offhand, any more than you or
+I would have casual access to detailed scientific information from our own
+world just off the top of our heads; she'd still have to go to her own
+homeworld for the info, as our characters did.  And it's not that we didn't
+have it, it was just collating it all.  And given how Kosh answers questions,
+would you really want to use his responses in this thing?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 401830 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    20-Nov-95  21:38:28
+Sb: #401708-#<ADITS Episode>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Bob Fischer 73727,1774 (X)
+
+      My sense is that Delenn is not a godlike font of information; I don't
+think anyone, alien or human, at the station would just happen to know all the
+information required.  How much would Delenn know about molecular biology, for
+instance?  (And if you asked Kosh a question about the subject, he'd probably
+come back with "The heart does not sing with its parts."  Not exactly useful.)
+
+     Anyone there would have to go back to their own world for experts in the
+various fields...so you're back where you started.  Earth *has* the info, it's
+just getting it, and getting it fast.  If you add the overlay of going through
+another government, you're going to run out of time that much faster.
+
+     Logically, a probe like this would be sent off looking for information on
+the very cusp of technology that could pose a threat.  That's why it *didn't*
+go off when the probe presumed them to be a less developed civilization; it was
+looking for civilizations that *are* sufficiently advanced to pose a possible
+threat; Sheridan says exactly that as he walks across C&C.
+
+     Interesting aside on this, btw, in the "where do you get your ideas?"
+department.  The US House Science Sub-Committee held a series of hearings into
+the question of extraterrestrial contact during the 1970s, to determine what we
+should do in the event of contact.  The most likely scenario, the scientists
+agreed, was a probe coming into our solar system.  So what do we do in response
+to a message asking if anybody's home?
+
+     Believe it or not, it was the consensus of the Subcommittee that we should
+not respond...in case it was a berserker, just as shown in the episode.  That
+is our government's official policy on the subject.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+#: 401916 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    21-Nov-95  00:20:33
+Sb: #401886-#Question for JMS
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Antonio  Fuentes 103037,2550 (X)
+
+       That's a lot of questions, but still....
+
+       I'll go along with little increases in merchandising along the way, but
+nothing major until after we're done.  Then, when it can't contaminate the
+show, maybe more.
+
+       Talia and Ivanova were linked/did have a relationship; and there was a
+camera edit that didn't quite match, two different issues.
+
+       A book after the fact...will have to wait until I'm done for a decision.
+We hope the show will in time be out on tape/disk, and all of the major
+questions raised during the show should/must be answered during the show, you
+can't leave stuff hanging.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 402169 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    21-Nov-95  11:52:16
+Sb: #401933-Whitestar ?s (spoiler)
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Paul Sulkowski 75604,2156 (X)
+
+      Had a Minbari been running that sensor, he would've nailed it instantly;
+but Ivanova had never actually encountered that ship before, and was running
+off the initial scan reports.  (Also it was just phasing in at that point.)
+
+      The White Star uses local drive engines based on magnetic and
+gravitational principles; in a sense, it doesn't so much push itself toward
+other worlds as *pull* itself or *repel* itself.  One side effect of creating a
+powerful gravitational system is the ability to create artificial gravity.
+
+      That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 402170 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    21-Nov-95  11:52:17
+Sb: #402109-Question for JMS
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Eric D. Fether 74067,465 (X)
+
+     That's when the story ends.  You tell your tale and get off the stage.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 402171 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    21-Nov-95  11:52:18
+Sb: #402113-<Alien Probe>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Bert Johnson 102476,201 (X)
+
+      Probably not.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 402587 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    21-Nov-95  21:32:32
+Sb: #401882-#B5 Entertainment Utility
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Lori  Eppright 75113,474 (X)
+
+      Yep, that's the screensaver I was talking about; it's really nifty.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 402594 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    21-Nov-95  21:42:33
+Sb: #402212-#Kosh's lessons
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+      Sheridan has fallen away from the lessons a bit; Kosh is going to have to
+have a word with him about that.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 402595 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    21-Nov-95  21:42:35
+Sb: #402330-#How much did Kosh know?
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: John McAuley 100260,412 (X)
+
+      Good question.
+
+      Pity you'll have to wait for the answer....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 402596 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    21-Nov-95  21:42:38
+Sb: #<Gethsemane>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Tom Knudsen 72347,1626 (X)
+
+      Two things on the upcoming episode ("Gethsemane")....
+
+      1) This is episode #5 in shooting order; I'd originally planned to end
+the first batch of new episodes with #4, "Voices of Authority," which is a
+major -- and I mean major -- wham episode.  But the EFX requirements were
+pretty hideous (though not as bad as "Messages"), so I moved "Gethsemane" into
+that slot, which is a very strong episode, though not an arc'er.
+
+      2) On the story question...yes, this was the story that someone else
+(don't want to use names, no sense in blaming anyone) had accidentally
+suggested while I was working on it early in season two.  So I had to scuttle
+the script for nearly a year.  Finally, very chagrined over what happened, the
+individual gave me a notarized form explaining the situation. At that point, I
+was able to reactivate the story.  So no, it's not any kind of "it's okay to do
+this" notion about story ideas; as it is, the story was tied up for about a
+year, and might never have seen the light of day had not the other person made
+great efforts to set the situation straight.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 402598 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    21-Nov-95  21:42:45
+Sb: #402418-Vichy Narn?
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Michael  Zitaglio 102545,641 (X)
+
+      It's any occupied government, really....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+
+#: 402711 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    22-Nov-95  00:29:34
+Sb: #402677-<ADITS Episode>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Michael Grabois 74737,2600 (X)
+
+      I just went through my stuff trying to find it...there was a formal
+report published by the Government Printing Agency in around 1978 or so.  I
+think it was entitled something like "Prospects for Contact by Extra-
+Terrestrial Intelligence," and went into the whole CETI issue at great length.
+(Back then, it was CETI, for Contact With Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence,
+changed shortly after the House hearing on the subject to SETI, Search For
+Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.)  Any GPA office should have the report on
+file.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 403072 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    22-Nov-95  13:28:21
+Sb: #402823-#B5: Dear Joe
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: peter  stathis 102477,3046
+
+      Of course it's your right to say it.  You can say any foolish thing you
+choose.  My point -- underlined by your own comments -- is that you have
+absolutely no understanding of how the ratings work, where they come from, how
+they are compiled, what they mean, or where we stand in those rankings.
+
+     If you wish to continue putting out misinformation, botched figures,
+unnecessary panic, and foolish notions that have nothing whatsoever to do with
+reality, well, that's your right.  And I'm going to call you on it and if your
+comments are sufficiently stupid or misinformed, get a little testy, because
+that's *my* right.  I came back and posted the exact numbers that are made
+available.  It's not playing the ratings game except in the sense that the
+ratings are always a game...a game whose rules you don't know or understand.
+
+     For the week of 10/23 to 10/29, we were ranked #38 overall, out of a grand
+total of 220 syndicated television series, including game shows, talk shows,
+dramas, comedies, and everything else, and the 6th rated dramatic series for
+that week.  And our demographics scores put us in around 2nd/3rd position.  We
+did better than Highlander, Pointman, Kung Fu, the syndicated Tales from the
+Crypt, and other dramatic series.  Outside dramatic series, we did better than
+the Jerry Springer Show, America's Most Wanted, Sightings, Martha Stewart
+Living, Rush Limbaugh, Siskel & Ebert, Richard Bey, and Donahue...all of which
+are considered successful series.
+
+     Those are the cold, hard facts, the hard numbers as delivered the the A.C.
+Neilsen and Arbitron Companies.
+
+     If I were currently worried about the show, if I thought the numbers were
+soft, I'd be the first person sounding the clarion call and asking people to
+write letters urging the show's continuance.  I'm not doing that, because
+Warner Bros. is happy, PTEN is happy, and we're happy.  No one -- *no one* --
+is more concerned about this show's survival than I am, and if I'm relatively
+content with the situation, then we're in pretty good shape.
+
+     You cite that some stations are moving the show into weird hours.  That is
+correct.  First, it's only a very few stations out of nearly 200 stations;
+those are, for the most part, Fox stations that have contractual commitments to
+run Fox shows in prime-time, which is 8-10 p.m. Mon-Sun (they generally run
+news 10-11).  All that's left in those stations -- and many markets only *have*
+one or two independent stations -- is the non-prime time schedule.  That means
+after 11 or before 7.
+
+     You cite the Indianapolis station that dropped the show.  Yes, because WB,
+feeling strongly about the show, pressured it for a better time slot, same as
+in Grand Rapids MI.  They were locked in, couldn't give us anything better, so
+the show left...and has not been REPLACED in the Indianapolis market on WNDY.
+So once again your facts are incorrect by omission and
+inaccuracy...Indianapolis DOES have B5 back now, on better station in many
+ways, and we're in negotiations to bring it back to the two or three other
+markets where the same thing has happened.
+
+     In all the major markets, our ratings are *significantly* up.  In
+Charlotte we're up 186% over this same time last year; Cincinnati up 233%;
+Chicago up 133%; San Francisco up 135%...in Portland we blow the doors off
+altogether.
+
+     In short, Peter, you are absolutely, incontravertibly, dead-ass wrong.
+
+     "I am only doing a favor to those out there who like the show."  No you're
+not.  You're trying to whip up hysteria, get people upset, cause a crisis that
+exists nowhere but in your own mind, because that's what you enjoy doing.
+
+     And you clearly think that while you can come on here and say any thing
+you want, if I come back and say you're wrong, somehow this is wrong, this is
+only wanting to hear from groupies...as opposed to the simple fact that you're
+*wrong*.  You want to have one set of rules for yourself (anything goes), and
+one thing for me (shut up, bend over and take it without any backtalk).  I
+checked my CIS agreement; that proviso isn't there.
+
+     Anybody who comes on here and wants to express an opinion, negative or
+positive, about the show is free to do so.  Anyone who comes on and offers what
+he thinks are facts, and those facts are wrong, is going to be corrected.
+
+     There is this little club of people who think that they should be able to
+say anything they want, as addle-headed or inaccurate as may be, and that if
+they're called on it, that's wrong, and that's interfering in their right of
+expression.  Well, pal, I have a right to expression too, and guess what? The
+facts are on my side of the argument, not yours.
+
+     And they always come back with the same thing, "if it bothers you to hear
+it, well, that's just the way things are," and "I am not some groupie or some
+mindless fanatic," thereby denigrating everybody else, as if they are blind
+followers, and only you see the truth, which is I'm sure exactly what you would
+like to believe, and "you might not like to hear it, but I got a right to say
+it."
+
+     Absolutely.  You've got a right to be as asinine and incorrect and stupid
+and ill-informed and prejudicial and hysterical and wrong-headed as you wish.
+
+     And I've got the right to correct you.
+
+     Deal with it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 403073 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    22-Nov-95  13:28:25
+Sb: #402871-#Thanks for a Great show
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Paul M. Zukowski 102522,131
+
+      Yep, they had computers back then; I used to log on on an old Kaypro, no
+hard drive, 64k memory and 128k floppies.  Ah, those were the days....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 403074 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    22-Nov-95  13:28:27
+Sb: #403002-B5:The End???!!!
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Bob Danielson 73647,2247 (X)
+
+     No, no reconciliation there.  They want the numbers to improved in season
+three over season two.  They are doing this.  (Though we're gonna get killed
+tonight by the second half of the Beatles series.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 403076 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    22-Nov-95  13:28:30
+Sb: #403020-#$0.04: <A Day in Strife>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: The Jawa / Jawa #2 76371,3057
+
+      Thanks...and Vir will return to the station from time to time, just as
+Londo said.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 403077 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    22-Nov-95  13:28:33
+Sb: #403024-Kosh's lessons
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Philip Hornsey 74053,2101
+
+      Oh, yes, I'd say so....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 403078 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    22-Nov-95  13:28:34
+Sb: #403034-DL Query
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Alan Katz 74260,3612
+
+      There was no *proof* that it was her, just a good chance.  And the Corps
+wouldn't allow her to be just shipped off.  Pluse, she's still a citizen with
+all the rights attendent upon that; we can't just ship somebody off to Russia
+or Singapore if we don't like them.  Real life is a lot more complicated, and
+this show is patterned after reality as much as possible.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 403098 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    22-Nov-95  14:13:30
+Sb: #403043-#Daily News Dis
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: MARK SMITH 102161,2223 (X)
+
+      One person said, "Critics are paid to be unfair."  This piece shows it.
+Too much emphasis on being cute and biting, rather than discussing the merits
+of the show.
+
+      It's enlightening to see the dichotomy on the show on either side of the
+Atlantic...here the critics tend to dismiss the show, or get cutsie, or deride
+it...but in the UK, publications from Home Entertainment to Time Out to even
+the prestigious Radio Times have lauded the show, calling it some of the best
+SF of the last decade.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 403418 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    22-Nov-95  22:33:05
+Sb: #403193-#Fleer
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+      The Fleer situation has been mutually pleasing.  I think Fleer is going
+to close down or otherwise change, so the cards may end up in the hands of
+another company at some point.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 403419 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    22-Nov-95  22:33:06
+Sb: #403277-B5 rerun schedule
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: John M. Kahane 102664,773
+
+      Not too much substantial in this batch...a few things, but to point them
+out would defeat the purpose.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 403421 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    22-Nov-95  22:33:13
+Sb: #403349-B5: Dear Joe
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Walter F. Hern 74201,2063
+
+      To have a Tie fighter come through B5 space would a) break the reality of
+the show, b) make us a pastiche or comedy, people would be too busy noticing
+and laughing at that to pay attention, and b) would be a case of copyright
+infringement, which would get us in a heap of legal trouble.
+
+      Re: the ratings...you're quite correct.  Also, what most folks forget was
+that TOS was considered a ratings flop on every level, and would've been
+canceled after its second year were it not for a huge campaign by fans.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 403467 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    23-Nov-95  01:27:18
+Sb: #403451-Explosive Decompression
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Kenneth Porter 76161,3013
+
+      We've shown one body after spacing, and discussed another; in each case,
+we hewed close to the facts.  Dr. Franklin pointed out that, rather than eyes
+exploding or anything of that nature, they freeze, for instance. In any
+event...yes, point taken, and we won't do that, never intended to.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 403468 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    23-Nov-95  01:27:19
+Sb: B5 at LosCon
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: All
+
+     Just a reminder...I'll be giving a Babylon 5 special presentation at
+LosCon this Sunday at the Burbank Airport Hilton from 1-3 p.m.  As a caveat,
+the seats are usually gone very fast, almost always before the presentation
+begins, so you may want to come a little bit early, otherwise there might not
+be any available seats.  The last several appearances have all been SRO.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 403884 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    23-Nov-95  21:07:10
+Sb: #403496-$0.04: <A Day in Strife>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Lolita  . Maddalena 102701,3447 (X)
+
+<I loved the way the episode ended almost exactly where it started.>
+
+      Yeah...right back where we started....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 403885 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    23-Nov-95  21:07:13
+Sb: #403520-#New Open!
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Trent K. Johnson 71020,1052
+
+      "Why are starfuries firing on starfuries?"
+
+      Noticed that, eh?
+
+      Wait and see.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 403993 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    24-Nov-95  03:19:59
+Sb: #403915-DL Query
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Philip Hornsey 74053,2101
+
+<Up until the coup, was the EA government pretty good? They seem pretty
+non-intrusive.>
+
+      The EA was fairly easy going, but remember that people are used to a
+heavy governmental hand during the Earth/Minbari War.  It's in a way similar to
+the situation we had post WW2; the only way we could make it past that war and
+survive was through strict discipline, following orders, going along with
+rationing, conserving, everything.  And it was that positive attitude that
+those who came later would exploit in the McCarthy/Red Scare 1950s, and hit us
+sideways in the 60s.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 404287 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    24-Nov-95  18:01:48
+Sb: #404254-JMS: Babcom 96
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Chris Gardiner 100701,3353
+
+     No, I don't believe I'm slated for Babcom 96, but I will be at the
+Encounter in the UK in April or so.  (Details are in the library somewhere.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 404288 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    24-Nov-95  18:01:48
+Sb: #404272-#B5 Blueprints/Models?
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Brian Deane 100121,26 (X)
+
+<Saw an ad for a Starfury model>
+
+      Nope, this is strictly illegal.  Could you send me a copy of the magazine
+at the following address, so we can nail their heads to the wall? Babylon 5,
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423. (Send it to my
+attention.)
+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+#: 404439 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    25-Nov-95  05:07:07
+Sb: #404351-Pilot Episode
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: David Schirmer 76774,3310 (X)
+
+     Londo does not specify Sinclair in his dialogue; that's the picture at
+that moment, but that doesn't lock us into it.
+
+     A full explanation for what happened and why is uploaded in the library
+here; do a search in lib 5, I think, for Sinclair, and you'll find it. (Rather
+than recap the whole thing again here.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 404440 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    25-Nov-95  05:07:08
+Sb: #404365-#B5 Blueprints/Models?
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Chad Underkoffler 102512,1310 (X)
+
+     Rage needs rest.  Rest, Rage, rest.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 404441 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    25-Nov-95  05:07:08
+Sb: #404366-#Rage's Thots: Rangers?
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Chad Underkoffler 102512,1310 (X)
+
+     No, the Drazi was not a Ranger, only a supporter/collaborator (if I can
+use, or misuse that term.)
+
+     At this stage, the Rangers are exclusively either human or minbari.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 404442 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    25-Nov-95  05:07:11
+Sb: #404413-#B5 at LosCon
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Larry Rosenblum 72122,1555 (X)
+
+      No standing invitations to the area, but we'll see....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 404763 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    25-Nov-95  23:01:18
+Sb: #404483-#B5: Dear Joe
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Rick Sharon 76416,2213 (X)
+
+<About a reply to a bogus article about ratings>
+
+     BTW, you'll notice that young master stathis took a powder after dropping
+his offensive message here, so he wouldn't have to deal with any of the
+responses.  Then after a while he'll come back and do it all again. Typical.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 404765 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    25-Nov-95  23:01:23
+Sb: #404542-#$0.04: <A Day in Strife>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: The Jawa / Jawa #2 76371,3057 (X)
+
+<Clarification: How much time is missing from Sinclair's memory?>
+
+	     It was 24 hours.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 404766 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    25-Nov-95  23:01:25
+Sb: #404554-#B5 Magazine
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: The Jawa / Jawa #2 76371,3057 (X)
+
+<More magazine issues?>
+
+      It's my understanding that there will be more issues, yes.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 404767 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    25-Nov-95  23:01:26
+Sb: #404574-#Question for JMS
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Tapio K. Fransen 100731,1675 (X)
+
+<Will you do another SF show?>
+
+      Dunno...the plan for now, if B5 runs its full five years, is to get out
+of TV and go back to novels and plays.  We'll see....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 404768 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    25-Nov-95  23:01:30
+Sb: #404614-#<A Day In The Strife>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Sharon Foster 76360,301 (X)
+
+<Sheridan is being set up as a major savior figure, just like Talia was.>
+
+     Thanks.  And for "pulling a Talia" on Sheridan, that's one of the major
+benefits in *doing* the Talia thing to begin with; it makes it very difficult
+to sit back and accept that any character is going to be the key out of this
+story.
+
+     Agree on the new bumper; and the 5 fades in like a shadow vessel, making
+it even more ominous.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 404769 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    25-Nov-95  23:01:31
+Sb: #404637-#Explosive Decompression
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: William H. DiPaola 76521,1751 (X)
+
+<Didn't the giant Earth ship have artificial gravity??
+
+     That was the Cortez, and yes, it rotated to create its gravity, as you can
+see quite clearly in the episode.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 404770 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    25-Nov-95  23:01:35
+Sb: #404716-Cap'n Power
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Rae Augenstein 72752,1653 (X)
+
+<I found an ep of Captain Power at Wal-Mart for $2.00. Should I buy it?>
+
+      Well, either buy it or burn it....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 404883 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    26-Nov-95  05:07:24
+Sb: #404866-#Explosive Decompression
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: William H. DiPaola 76521,1751 (X)
+
+<Thanks for clearing that up for me. I don't doubt your word, but for
+some reason I just didn't recall seeing a section of that ship rotate.>
+
+      Look at the big, round section in the middle of the Cortez, that's the
+part that rotates.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 405279 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    26-Nov-95  22:23:13
+Sb: #404889-#Question for JMS
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Michael "GANDALF" Kalus 100265,3065 (X)
+
+<So NO Silver Screen Ambitions?
+What do you think about the end of SeaQuest? And how good are your
+quotes (if this is the correct word for it)?>
+
+      Nope, no real interest in doing movies; it's really a director's medium,
+so I prefer either television or print, which is a writer's medium.
+
+      What do I think about the end of SeaQuest?  Well, it was kind of
+inevitable, wasn't it?  If they had left it alone, in the hands of the people
+who first created it, like Rockne O'Bannon, and quit pulling on it in every
+possible direction, it could've been okay.  Instead, the Suits got involved,
+and when the Suits get involved...you're dead.
+
+      "How good are your quotes?"  Don't know what this means.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 405280 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    26-Nov-95  22:23:17
+Sb: #404923-#John J.?
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Anne L. Warner 71513,1177
+
+<I've been puzzling in my mind ever since "And Now for a Word," what is John
+Sheridan's middle name?  And did you work on Space Rangers?>
+
+     Eek!   I had nothing to do with "Space Rangers," feh, feh, a pox, no. We
+went on with our pilots in similar periods, but no, I ain't had nothin' to do
+with that one ever.
+
+     I have two options of what the J stands for; still trying to decide
+between historical reference and personal satisfaction.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 405281 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    26-Nov-95  22:23:18
+Sb: #404974-#B5: Dear Joe
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: peter  stathis 102477,3046
+
+     "Either answer in a polite way, or don't answer at all."
+
+     Peter, you came in here and started acting like a jerk.  Everyone here
+feels exactly the same way about your behavior.  I don't have to be polite if
+you're acting like a jerk; neither does anyone else here.  Around here, you get
+what you give; if you are polite, and respectful, others will treat you the
+same way.  If you come in here, guns blazing, acting like a ditz, then people
+are gonna call you a ditz.  Polite ain't got nothin' to do with it.  Take a
+little personal responsibility for your behavior.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 405283 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    26-Nov-95  22:23:25
+Sb: #405198-#<Gesthemene>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: David E. McCloud 102441,2371
+
+<Of the many excellent episodes you've written, this one's the best so far. It
+left me thinking over its themes long after the show had ended.>
+
+     Thanks.  That's really the intent; to get people to talk about the issues
+raised, and to examine the issues.  We won't tell you what to think about an
+issue, because I don't have an answer myself...but if it made you stop and
+consider this stuff, and decide for yourself where you fall in the discussion,
+then it's done its job.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 405345 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    27-Nov-95  00:41:24
+Sb: #405288-#B5 Magazine
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Z. Michael Milutinovic 71532,2231
+
+      It's from Sendai; ask your local bookstore to order it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 405346 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    27-Nov-95  00:41:25
+Sb: #405328-#John J.?
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: randall s. cavanaug 102134,760 (X)
+
+<is there and internet address that cast members can be written to?>
+
+     No, no cast email addresses.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 405347 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    27-Nov-95  00:41:26
+Sb: #405331-#Synopses/ Transcriptions
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Mike Fitzpatrick 73562,3437 (X)
+
+<Are the synopses [not referring to the Lurker's Guide ones] too detailed?>
+
+      I do think that sometimes the synopses get *too* detailed, and where they
+transcribe verbatim dialogue, are, I think, legally problematic, yes.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+#: 405474 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    27-Nov-95  05:55:42
+Sb: #405367-<ADitS> Choices
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Elyse M. Grasso 70302,3304 (X)
+
+<And Londo's comment "It's nothing personal, Vir" after his appalling
+conversation with Na'Far brought chills with its echo of the bomber's speech
+last episode.>
+
+     Thanks.  Yeah, "it's nothing personal" does echo the other theme; those
+who inflict great harm tend to shrug it off that way.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 405475 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    27-Nov-95  05:55:43
+Sb: #405380-#DL Query
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Philip Hornsey 74053,2101 (X)
+
+<Is gun control on Earth strict enough that a military dictatorship
+couldn't be prevented from forming?>
+
+      I'd like to not reply, as this is encroaching seriously into story
+territory.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 405476 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    27-Nov-95  05:55:45
+Sb: #Synopsis Query
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: All
+
+      Fast question...I seem to recall seeing some synopses that began with a
+telling quote from the episode, then a 1-paragraph summation, followed by cast.
+Does this ring a bell with anybody else?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 405477 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    27-Nov-95  06:01:03
+Sb: #405390-Rage's Thots:USENET Rant
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Karen E. Bahnsen 102735,3557 (X)
+
+      Keep that up and you're going to turn my head...in this case, as far as
+Linda Blair's in the Exorcist....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 405770 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    27-Nov-95  17:23:28
+Sb: #405478-#Question for JMS
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Michael "GANDALF" Kalus 100265,3065 (X)
+
+      Ah...what you call quotes we call ratings, and they have been very good.
+
+      Viewer response really had zip to do with the Sinclair situation; you can
+find a detailed explanation in library 5 here.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 405771 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    27-Nov-95  17:23:29
+Sb: #405622-Rage's Thots: Manifesto
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Chad Underkoffler 102512,1310 (X)
+
+<Is Harlan's Manifesto on SF shows available, or is it an ancient Vorlon
+secret?>
+
+      No, it's not currently available.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+#: 405772 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    27-Nov-95  17:23:30
+Sb: #405630-#Synopsis Query
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Richard P. Manny 70762,141 (X)
+
+     No, I checked, and it ain't the Hyperion guide; it's something else I've
+seen, and I just can't put my finger on it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 405773 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    27-Nov-95  17:23:33
+Sb: #405742-#DL Query
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Alan Katz 74260,3612 (X)
+
+      Oh, to be sure, they'd have preferred to have Talia accidentally fall out
+an airlock rather than turn her over to the Corps...but that's cold blooded
+murder, and if they go that route, then there's no difference between them and
+their opposite number.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 406058 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    28-Nov-95  00:17:48
+Sb: #405810-#<ADitS> Probe Query
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Wendy Shaffer 71201,2200 (X)
+
+<Is a 500,000 megaton explosion enough to devastate a *planet*?>
+
+     No, it probably couldn't take out a planet, though it'd sure disrupt all
+communications in and out for a long time, maybe throw up a dust curtain to
+bring down the temperature quite a bit.  Certainly it'd debilitate the planet
+long enough for additional probes to be sent in.  If one can do the job, one
+does the job; if more are required, more are sent.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 406059 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    28-Nov-95  00:17:49
+Sb: #406016-Question for JMS
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Charles S. Tritt 70254,131 (X)
+
+<Rockne O'Bannon is one of the few writters that I rember from the new Twilight
+Zone.>
+
+      Don't know what Rock's doing these days.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 406619 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    28-Nov-95  21:08:00
+Sb: #406267-#<PTG>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Philip Hornsey 74053,2101 (X)
+
+<I am not even going to ask about that last scene with Kosh and Lyta. Were I you
+I might consider asking folks not to talk about that for the remainder of the
+week. I saw it just as you had intended it to be seen (expecting nothing) and
+had to pry myself off the ceiling.
+
+That episode really creeped me out.>
+
+      So, in essence, you liked it, then...?
+
+      Re: Lyta...(evil smile)....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 406621 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    28-Nov-95  21:08:06
+Sb: #406404-Vichy Narn?
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Fitz Bushnell 76435,165 (X)
+
+<Enjoying all the historical parallels, and the show in general.>
+
+     Thanks...we try.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 406622 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    28-Nov-95  21:08:09
+Sb: #406579-Reactor Access
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Clinton Alvord 71470,3665
+
+<In the episode "Convictions," why did the "bomb squad" have to go out into
+space in order to gain access to the fusion reactor?>
+
+     Going in the vacuum door was the fastest way to get a bunch of people in
+there, and presumably get a big object out again.  Instead of riding transport
+tubes to the core shuttle, then the core shuttle to the far end, then tubes to
+the bottom...you jump out, get picked up and dumped at the far end.  Takes 2
+minutes rather than 10 or 15.  Remember, this place is five miles long.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 406727 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    29-Nov-95  00:45:09
+Sb: #406702-#B5: Dear Joe
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Elizabeth 76202,563 (X)
+
+<People like to try to annoy writers appearing in public.>
+
+      Thanks, and yeah, having served my time in and running creative writing
+classes, I've seen it too.  Ah, well....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 406728 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    29-Nov-95  00:45:10
+Sb: #406713-B5 books
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Mara K. Malovany 102750,1414 (X)
+
+<Audio versions of the B5 books?>
+
+     No one's yet discussed it, I think....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 406783 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    29-Nov-95  03:24:46
+Sb: #B5 Screensaver
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: All
+
+     Well, today I got my complimentary copy of the new B5 screensaver (aka the
+Limited Edition CDRom Entertainment Untility), from Sound Sources.  I have to
+say that I'm extremely pleased with it.  (And folks around here know that if I
+don't like it, I don't front for it.)
+
+     I have it running now on both my home computer, and my work office
+computer.  On the downside, it isn't exactly intuitive on the installation, and
+there's not much of a manual.  You have to figure out some stuff on your own.
+(Like when it says it installs all the wallpaper, it actually installs a
+portion; you then have the option of using the Install aspect to go back into
+the CDrom images area and getting the 150 or so other wallpaper images and
+putting them into your system, and then using the Add and Select menus to
+activate them.)
+
+     I had a memory/sound conflict on the work computer on a few of the
+modules, but no such problem on the home system (and since they're both nearly
+identical systems, it tells me something's wonky with one of the computers, and
+I have to figure this out.)  Maybe it has something to do with running Norton
+Desktop.
+
+     Those two caveats aside, and they're relatively minor...I love it. You've
+got a whole bunch of video clips complete with sounds and/or music, 150
+wallpapers, bunches of .wav files, using our actual sound library from the
+show, plus music clips...it's just gorgeous.  And well displayed, well put
+together.  It has what I was hoping for, a sense of a piece of Babylon 5 itself
+in your system.
+
+     As I understand it, there are only going to be 100,000 of these produced
+for full national distribution, and apparently the phone and mail orders are
+piling up, as are computer store orders.  So you may want to get it fast when
+it appears, 'cause it may not stay on the shelves very long.
+
+     I don't like to do a lot of merchandise, and when we do, it has to be of
+superior quality; this one definitely qualifies.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 406784 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    29-Nov-95  03:28:56
+Sb: #406729-#<ADITS:Aliens 'R Us>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Morris L. Gavant, M.D. 74027,264
+
+<What is the name of the race whose member was injured in Franklin's lab?>
+
+     I'll have to go back and check, but from memory I'm pretty sure he's a
+Llort.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 406785 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    29-Nov-95  03:28:57
+Sb: #406771-Stephen Furst
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: David Chandler-Gick 73654,2320
+
+      Yes, you'll be seeing more of Stephen.  Also, the Misery Loves Company
+show for Fox was dropped, and the appearance on Chicago Hope is apparently only
+for 2 episodes.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 407020 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    29-Nov-95  15:13:51
+Sb: #406930-#Rage's Thots: rastb5
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Chad Underkoffler 102512,1310 (X)
+
+<Sorry you're withdrawing from Usenet.  Thanks for being there this long.>
+
+      No, the thanks, and the pleasure, are all mine.
+
+      And yeah, having to do this is a pain in the butt, no mistake.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 407022 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    29-Nov-95  15:23:53
+Sb: #406889-#Science FictionAge/B5
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: S J NICHOLSON 76574,1663 (X)
+
+      Inch by inch by inch...we are taking over the world.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 407023 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    29-Nov-95  15:23:55
+Sb: #407013-#ABC rumor
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: John MacVeigh 72467,2141 (X)
+
+     No, absolutely not true.  ABC is doing a series called "Hypernauts" for
+Saturday morning kidvid -- live action plus cgi -- made by many of the same
+people who do B5, including Ron Thornton/Foundation Imaging, with Kevin Cremin,
+John Copeland, Doug Netter and many of our same directors.  But B5 has nothing
+to do with it, nor do I personally.  This person has confused two different
+issues/shows.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 407024 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    29-Nov-95  15:23:57
+Sb: #406932-Were are the Shadows
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Randy Upshaw 75464,1275 (X)
+
+      What we're doing in the meantime is plenty.  Originally, the fourth and
+final episode in this first batch of four was going to be "Voices of
+Authority," which deals with just this question of preparing for the war in a
+big way, has major developments, gets into the White Star...but the CGI
+requirements of that episode were hideous, so we had to move it to #5 in the
+lineup, moving up "Gethsemane."  Once we come back with new episodes, we'll hit
+the ground running hard on all this stuff.
+
+     Also bear in mind that wars aren't instant; in the real world, you have to
+line up support, get into alliances, move all your pieces around before you can
+get into it.  We're taking a similar path here.  Also, the term "shadow war"
+refers to more than just the shadows as a race; they refer to what's going on
+back on earth as well, as metaphor as well as plot point, and that's a huge
+part of the next batch of eps.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 407267 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    29-Nov-95  21:53:13
+Sb: #407078-#B5: Dear Joe
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Susan  Phillips 103044,3337
+
+<Do you believe fiction writing can be taught?>
+
+     The answer is yes and no.  I've taught writing classes and workshops, and
+it is entirely possible to take someone with a good command of the language and
+make them publishable in the area of articles and other nonfiction.  Virtually
+anyone can be trained.  You can also learn some of the basic *techniques* of
+fiction.  But there's a quantum jump between what is required of the two basic
+forms.
+
+     By the time I was done, invariably people would sell in non-fiction. The
+last time I did it, within 6 months of finishing the class, the percentage of
+those who actually pursued it (as opposed to just dropping the ball and not
+trying) and published was close to 100%.  Fiction, ah, that's different.
+
+     When it comes time to make up your own stories, you either hear the music,
+or you don't.  (And even if you don't, some folks can sell one or two items in
+their lives.)
+
+     That spark, that way of viewing the world and coming up with stories,
+cannot be taught I think.  It's either there, or it ain't.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 407268 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    29-Nov-95  21:53:20
+Sb: #407153-#<PTG>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Philip Hornsey 74053,2101 (X)
+
+<The Vorlons really aren't the good guys are they.>
+
+     Depends on how you define good.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 407274 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    29-Nov-95  21:59:39
+Sb: #407141-#<Gethsemane>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Neil Blevins 102226,3566 (X)
+
+     If the Centauri teep had had more time to react he probably would have
+gone after Garibaldi...but Lyta came in too fast, and she took his attention
+quickly.
+
+                                                                       jms*
+
+(*who is wondering, if he wrote an episode in which Morden was trapped on a
+cliffside, if he could title it "Ridge Over Troubled Wasser"...)
+
+#: 407444 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    30-Nov-95  01:44:03
+Sb: #407311-#<Gethsemene>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Richard P. Manny 70762,141 (X)
+
+<In so many ways, you
+remind me of Serling and Lovecraft.  Both strove with the gods and the devils
+to produce the best, to tell the story, to turn the word on its ear, to tweek
+the medium for all it could give, and then one more tweek.  There's another
+Lovecraftian aspect to you, beyond the story-telling word, its this enormous
+virtual circle of correspondents that you talk to each day.  Lovecraft had his
+circle which nutured the likes of de Camp, Long, Howard, and Derleth.  I wonder
+who out there in the ether is taking form as a writer by drawing nurishment
+from this circle?>
+
+      I don't think there can *be* any praise higher than to be included in the
+same sentence as Serling.  Of my personal pantheon of writers, he's right up
+there at the top.  And yeah, we've had to fight the same battles to get our
+respective shows on the air, with the integrity we feel/felt was required for
+the story.  But in the long run, the fight is worth it if it produces something
+that lasts.
+
+      About correspondents...I've heard from a number of folks, in the course
+of this prolonged conversation, who say they've had the courage to begin
+writing, or sending out what they write, because they've seen that it Can Be
+Done.  A few of them have broken through, most have not, but it's a long
+process, and there's plenty of time ahead.
+
+     If the show can inspire anyone, even one person, to do more, or better,
+then it has achieved its purpose.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 407445 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    30-Nov-95  01:44:08
+Sb: #407338-#<Gethsemane>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Mark Pruett 74133,3406
+
+      The absolution scene, based on what used to be called the rites of
+extreme unction, or last rights, is now called the "celebration" of passing,
+and I went to the Catholic church's information office, and got the actual
+text.  I made a few adjustments here, condensing it a bit (on the logic that
+Edward didn't have a lot of time), and modifying a few small points here and
+there, on the second logical point that in 250 years, such might have taken
+place (as the current ritual has been adjusted a bit here and there over the
+years).  So if it felt right, it was.
+
+     Yours is the second comparison here to Serling.  I think perhaps I can die
+happy now.  To the "strong moral sensibilities" aspect...there has to be this.
+The story must entertain, first and foremost, otherwise it's useless, because
+no one will watch it.  But then there has to be something of substance at the
+core of it, which elevates or ennobles or challenges.
+
+     Re: the use of Lyta to extract the info...this is the main reason why
+there's a Psi Corps, and there are exacting rules, otherwise it can easily
+become deus ex machina.  We won't ever do this sort of thing trivially, and
+here it was definitely meant to be a little disturbing...it was a sheer matter
+of life or death, the guy was a creep, and somewhere Edward was bleeding to
+death.  Even after so many viewings, and even having written the thing, I find
+that one scene vaguely scary.
+
+     It's the best of the first four, I think.  But better is coming....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 407446 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    30-Nov-95  01:44:12
+Sb: #407364-Rage's Thots: rastb5
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot 70040,104
+
+      Re: the joke about the dumb starlet who slept with the writer...sure, and
+you know why?   'Cause she heard that in Hollywood, EVERYONE screws the writer.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 407447 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    30-Nov-95  01:44:13
+Sb: #407395-Submitted for....
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Ray Pelzer 70475,1263 (X)
+
+<I feel safe in saying that
+your career is starting to closely parallel all the good aspects of Mr.
+Serling's career (and no, no jokes about doing Schlitz commercials after B5
+ends).  I don't think I'll be contradicted - especially in light of tonights
+show - in saying that, when the statues start going up, yours and his will be
+standing beside one another.>
+
+      Wow, that's three...I'm about ready to fall down.  High praise indeed.
+
+      Wasn't on the special because, basically, I wasn't asked.  Haven't yet
+seen it, but have the thing on tape, and will look at it later tonight.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 407551 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    30-Nov-95  04:44:35
+Sb: #407321-In the Shadow of JMS
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: David DeRubeis 75221,2351
+
+      Thanks.  This is kinda what I always said...if folks will give us just a
+fair chance, no more, no less, we'll back up the talk with action, and with
+stories.
+
+      You're to be commended for giving us a second chance, and posting this.
+Thanks for giving us the opportunity.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 407561 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    30-Nov-95  04:55:54
+Sb: #407474-<PTG>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Michael Grabois 74737,2600 (X)
+
+<Now that you've finally been able to use the story of a mind-wiped criminal
+learning of his past, can you say something about how different the story would
+have been had you been able to do it in the first (?) season as you had
+originally planned?>
+
+      No, no nod to the person who suggested it, since this isn't a
+competition, and the suggestion cost me a year where I couldn't do the story.
+(So I wasn't in the cutest frame of mind about this for a long time, even
+though it wasn't really his fault.)
+
+     Basically, it would've been a one-shot, with two monks arriving to scope
+out B5 for the arrival of the rest later on.  (You'll notice that none of the
+other monks get into the story here; that's a hold-over from the original
+outline, which I saw no need to change at this point.)  So this would've been
+folded into an introduction to the order as they come to check out B5's
+facilities.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 407562 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    30-Nov-95  04:55:56
+Sb: #407550-<Gethsemane>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Burhaan  Ahmad 75754,3065
+
+      Not sure he *wanted* to die, as much as he felt it was *necessary* in
+order to atone for the sins of another...his own "other," in this case.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 407842 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    30-Nov-95  12:21:46
+Sb: #407736-#<Gethsemane>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Tom Knudsen 72347,1626 (X)
+
+     The third Serling story isn't so much strange, as were the other two, but
+interesting, in that after that one first encounter with him, when I was
+working on the new Twilight Zone series, they found an outline by Serling that
+he had never put into script form...and they asked me to do the script based on
+that outline, so here, twent-some years later, I ended up sharing a writing
+credit with Serling on "Our Selena is Dying."  A collaboration, much after the
+fact.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 407843 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    30-Nov-95  12:21:47
+Sb: #407771-#<PTG>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Philip Hornsey 74053,2101 (X)
+
+     When you ask a Vorlon a question, you get what you get.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 407851 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    30-Nov-95  12:41:14
+Sb: #407695-#Minbari line in 1st 3 ep
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Chad Underkoffler 102512,1310 (X)
+
+     Just putting the gun on the table where everyone can see it before I pick
+it up and pull the trigger...as I have done, more subtly, in a whole bunch of
+other places, right through to the first season.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 407852 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    30-Nov-95  12:41:16
+Sb: #407784-#Minbari line in 1st 3 ep
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jeff Frank 70402,3015 (X)
+
+      Actually, it was in one of the first four episodes, not necessarily the
+first three.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 408013 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    30-Nov-95  17:29:08
+Sb: #407923-book question
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Richard L. Long 76562,2757 (X)
+
+<Book of the five-year arc?>
+
+     It's something I'll consider when we're finished with it all; right now
+it's too much to even think about.
+
+     And thanks....
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+
+
+#: 408175 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    30-Nov-95  22:27:49
+Sb: #408027-<Gethsemane>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Lolita  . Maddalena 102701,3447 (X)
+
+<When the brother died I blew my nose and thought it was over, but then you
+bring the "new" brother to Sheridan and there I go again.  Really, it was an
+almost cruel use of beauty.  Of course until the gill scene.  Eck.>
+
+      "...a cruel use of beauty."  What a great way to phrase it.  Never heard
+that before.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 408176 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    30-Nov-95  22:27:49
+Sb: #408104-Kosh Me This
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Daniel Mercure 72470,3713 (X)
+
+<Wasn't Twikki in the opening credits of "Buck Rogers?"  Why not Kosh?>
+
+      Twikki had a better agent than Kosh.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 408177 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    30-Nov-95  22:27:52
+Sb: #408142-<PTG>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Michael Grabois 74737,2600 (X)
+
+<How would they have gotten the info from the Centauri in the original?>
+
+     They would've gotten the info in a different way, without resorting to a
+telepath.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs95-12 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs95-12
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6b8213b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/CompuServe/cs95-12
@@ -0,0 +1,3430 @@
+#: 408463 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    01-Dec-95  13:01:12
+Sb: #408316-<Gethsemene>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] 72631,23 (X)
+
+      Thanks; eventually I'll get this writing thing figured out....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 408464 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    01-Dec-95  13:01:13
+Sb: #408345-B5 in Hong Kong!!
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: John Yuen 72466,1621
+
+<B5 is on in Hong Kong>
+
+      That's great.  My best wishes to all the new viewers down there.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 408465 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    01-Dec-95  13:01:15
+Sb: #408420-#<PTG: Mind Wipe>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Colin Glassey 72370,743
+
+<Mind wipes were presented too positively.>
+
+      I'm not sure I presented it positively; I just presented it, didn't make
+a moral judgement about it.  Some of those in the show did, but then we had
+Edward saying it *isn't* moral, that it's a monstrous thing to do.  Like any
+form of punishment it can seem fair to those not facing it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 408466 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    01-Dec-95  13:01:18
+Sb: #408428-#Rod Serling Story III
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Shelley Marshall 70751,2114 (X)
+
+<What's the third Serling story?>
+
+      Actually, I just posted it the other day...rather than posting it again,
+if someone here could point out the message ID number, that would be better.
+Nothing's more essentially boring than telling the same story twice at a
+party....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 408653 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    01-Dec-95  18:31:45
+Sb: #From jms: info
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: All
+
+      I need a little help here from US netters, 'cause something strikes me as
+a bit wonky.  I've been getting the market-by-market ratings reports, and just
+today I sat down to really study them, and something doesn't track. The market
+report doesn't seem to reflect where I *think* the shows are currently being
+aired.  So to the favor...if you're in one of these areas, let me know if the
+time given here is DIFFERENT FROM the time it actually plays in your area.
+(This seems especially curious to me since the report shows WTTY Indianapolis
+up through the past week, and it was my understanding that they had temporarily
+dropped the show until WNDY picked it up.)
+
+New York Fri 8P; Chicago TH 7P; Philadelphia Sat 8P; San Francisco Wed 8P;
+Boston Sat 8P; Wash DC Thr 8P; Dallas Wed 8P; Detroit Tue 8P; Atlanta Sun 8P;
+Houston Wed 7P; Cleveland Sat 8P; Seattle Wed 8P; Tampa Wed 8P; Minneapolis Wed
+7P; Miami Fri 8P; St Louis Wed 12M; Sacramento Sun 8P; Phoenix Wed 7P; Denver
+Sat 5P; Pittsburgh Sat 8P; Baltimore Wed 9P; Hartford Sat 5P; Orlando Tue 10P;
+San Diego Sat 4P; Indianapolis Sun 9P; Portland Wed 8P; Milwaukee Sun 11P;
+Kansas City Wed 8P; Charlotte Sun 11P; Cincinnati Sat 2P; San Antonio Wed 7P;
+W. Palm Beach Thr 8P.
+
+     Thanks for any help on this.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+[NOTE: There have been dozens of replies for just about every area JMS
+ listed -- BKB]
+
+#: 408658 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    01-Dec-95  18:38:12
+Sb: #408561-Kosh-ersize
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Bob Alberti 70764,410
+
+<What does Kosh look like when he's not exerting himself?>
+
+     He probably looks a lot like me....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 408659 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    01-Dec-95  18:38:13
+Sb: #408564-#Video Toaster
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Roger St. Cyr 73774,3303
+
+      Hey, I barely understand this stuff myself....
+
+      Besides, I hear they've exported all the software over to DOS platforms
+anyway, which don't use toasters.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 408661 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    01-Dec-95  18:38:15
+Sb: #408588-Were are the Shadows
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: WADE R. AIKEN 102012,1764
+
+<How does Bester fit into the whole Shadows-Psi Corps deal?>
+
+      This question will be dealt with in "Ship of Tears," around mid-season.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 408723 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    01-Dec-95  20:38:27
+Sb: #408680-B-5 Action Figures
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Les P. George 76162,1250
+
+      No, there are currently no plans for B5 action figures.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+#: 408724 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    01-Dec-95  20:38:27
+Sb: #408672-From jms: info
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Tim Sullivan 76210,1066
+
+     Les said in another message it plays in Atlanta on Saturday at 11, not 8.
+Which is correct?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 408725 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    01-Dec-95  20:38:28
+Sb: #408685-From jms: info
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Les P. George 76162,1250
+
+     Tim in another message said Saturday at 8 for Atlanta; which is the
+current time?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 408726 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    01-Dec-95  20:38:30
+Sb: #408719-#From jms: info
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: paul wood 102710,3071
+
+      Okay, follow-up...was there a period in the new episodes period (October
+9 - Present) when WTTY *wasn't* showing the episodes, and it wasn't being shown
+at all in Indianapolis?  I'd thought there was a gap there.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 408756 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    01-Dec-95  21:14:24
+Sb: #408653-#New Twilight Zone
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644 (X)
+
+      Yes, I was involved with Twilight Zone v2.5, the 30 additional episodes
+produced for syndication, as story editor and primary writer, doing 11 of the
+total 30 episodes, plus 1 for the prior network run on CBS.  It was, all things
+considered, a great experience.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 408833 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    02-Dec-95  01:00:07
+Sb: #408776-<<Gethsemane>>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Toni Muller 75223,1575
+
+      Thanks.  It's definitely the strongest of the first four, I think. And
+Pat is nothing less than terrific.  If there was any sense of hesitation in her
+appearance in "Divided Loyalties," it can be attributed to the fact that she
+had just given birth to her son something like 4-6 weeks prior, if that much,
+and this was pretty much her first day back in the saddle.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 408834 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    02-Dec-95  01:00:10
+Sb: #408778-the year of the war
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Bob Danielson 72614,737 (X)
+
+<Shadow war is all done by the end of the year?>
+
+      I think it's a bit broader than that.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+#: 408835 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    02-Dec-95  01:00:11
+Sb: #408828-#<PTG: Mind Wipe>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jon Wolf 76103,2541 (X)
+
+<Where was the mindwipe performed?>
+
+      We established in "The Quality of Mercy" that the equipment to handle
+mindwipes is there on-station, locked away until mandated by a court.  A court
+assigned telepath is usually brought in to do a preliminary scan before it
+happens and to verify the wipe immediately afterward.  In that same episode,
+Talia was used only because a court teep wasn't available.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+#: 408839 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
+    02-Dec-95  01:07:36
+Sb: #408812-#<Rage's Thots: PtG>
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Burhaan  Ahmad 75754,3065 (X)
+
+     "It's pretty obvious, really."
+
+     Heh, heh....
+
+     "Look, over there, an elephant...."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+#: 408857 S5/Babylon 5: General
+    02-Dec-95  02:15:14
+Sb: #408848-#B5 Screen Saver Arrived!
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Burhaan  Ahmad 75754,3065
+
+     They're BAF files to include the wav files that accompany each and every
+image.  There's also a large number of bmp files for wallpaper, though.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subj:  B5 Screen Saver Arrived!     Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  John McAuley                 Sunday, December 03, 1995 12:52:07 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #409386
+
+      Dunno about the UK availability; someone here has the 800 phone
+number, which can be used for ordering, though.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Ptg:Prison Station>         Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  JOHN GRAVES                  Sunday, December 03, 1995 12:52:08 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #409387
+
+      No, the other brothers aren't mind-wiped.
+
+      You're mis-remembering "The Quality of Mercy."  Telepaths do NOT
+perform mindwipes.  A court appointed teep makes a scan before and after
+for purposes of comparison, but the wipe is done by a device held under
+lock and key until ordered out by a court.  The only reason Talia did it
+in QoM was because they couldn't get a court teep there in the required
+time (which was also stated in the episode).  So here the court appointed
+telepath would have come and gone by now.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Garibaldi's arm              Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Chas T Freund,               Sunday, December 03, 1995 12:52:13 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #409389
+
+      Weird thing is that Claudia broke her foot in an episode where I
+mentioned her foot (the same one, btw), and Jerry broke his arm in the
+same episode where I have someone say to him, "What, you've got a broken
+arm or something?"  Very, very weird...I've been asked *not* to make any
+further reference to body parts of our various cast members, and I'm
+*definitely* not having anything bad happen to any guest cast named
+Dick....
+
+      jms
+
+Subj:  <Gethsemane questions>       Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Larry Rosenblum              Sunday, December 03, 1995 1:13:03 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #409395
+
+<Why did it take so long for a med team to get to Edward?>
+
+      They were in a pretty distant part of DownBelow, and in B5 you don't
+have trains or cars; there's just the transport tubes, and the central
+core shuttle.  Even if they gave a damn about what happens to lurkers in
+DownBelow (and they generally don't), it would still take at least 5-10
+minutes to get a trauma team down there, and he was dead within about 3. 
+(I was once mugged half a mile from a police station and a mile from a
+hospital; took 'em 30 minutes to get there.)
+
+     Sheridan and Theo didn't *discover* that Edward was using the
+computer; Theo was concerned that he was looking into it in general.  And
+if they had blocked the computer in his quarters, he would have been able
+to access one somewhere else.  They didn't know he'd actually done it
+until after the fact.
+
+     jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Screen Saver Arrived!           Section: Babylon 5: General  
+To:  Burhaan  Ahmad           Tuesday, December 05, 1995 12:48:10 AM 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #410841
+
+      {regarding B5 screen saver compatibility with win95}
+
+      Apparently the program *is* win95 compatible, at least that's what
+it says, I  haven't yet upgraded, waiting a) for the bugs to get worked
+out, and b) until I have  the time required for the learning curve of
+installation.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Screen Saver Arrived!           Section: Babylon 5: General  
+To:  John Sheridan                  Tuesday, December 05, 1995 7:48:09 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #411367
+
+      <quoting John Sheridan to JMS>:
+
+      >>The learning curve for installing WIN95 is pretty short Joe.
+      >>It's getting all of your software to run *after* you install WIN95
+      >>is where the learning curve can become quite long......<g>.
+
+      Yeah, that's the part that worries me.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Screen Saver Arrived!           Section: Babylon 5: General  
+To:  John McAuley             Wednesday, December 06, 1995 2:12:12 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #411911
+
+      {regarding the losing of JMS's hair, due to pulling it out
+       over win95}
+
+      Funny.  Very funny.  Amerikanski humor.
+
+      We bomb now.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Screen Saver Arrived!           Section: Babylon 5: General  
+To:  Scott Withrow            Wednesday, December 06, 1995 2:00:23 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #411663
+
+      {regarding a Mac version of the B5 screen saver}
+
+      As I understand it, the company wants to come out with a Mac version
+in a  re-release of the program sometime in the spring.  It's just hitting
+the market and  already it's doing quite well.
+
+       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Submitted for....            Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Rae Augenstein   Sunday, December 03, 1995 12:52:10 AM 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #409388
+
+      Don't know if the new TZs are playing anywhere, actually....
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Garibaldi's arm              Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Elyse M. Grasso        Tuesday, December 05, 1995 1:11:19 AM 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #410873
+
+      {regarding rewriting due to broken arm}
+
+     Actually just took a line or two to cover it, given what happened in
+the previous episode.
+
+     jms
+
+
+Subj:  From jms: info               Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Steve Ruud                   Monday, December 04, 1995 1:54:03 PM 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #410254
+
+      {regarding Tuesday 10pm time slot}
+
+      This doesn't help me unless I know where it's airing; can you tell
+me *where*  it's airing in this time slot?  Thanks.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Vorlons and Shadows          Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Gerald Himmelein, 100417,3703      Sunday, December 03, 1995 8:43:27 PM 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#409877
+
+      {regarding Vorlons and Shadows being genetically related}
+
+      Nope.
+
+      jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Questions                 Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  T.N.Tumbusch                 Monday, December 04, 1995 1:54:04 PM 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #410255
+
+      No, no limit on jumps, but you tend to ride the beacon from one jump
+gate to  the next to avoid getting lost.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  <PTG-Bravo!>                 Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  David Belt                   Tuesday, December 05, 1995 1:11:05 AM 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #410866
+
+      No, showing a tape to other folks is perfectly legal as long as no
+admission  is charged.
+
+      So you're welcome to do so, and welcome in general.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  AETR: B5 Promos              Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Trent K. Johnson             Tuesday, December 05, 1995 1:11:07 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #410868
+
+      I don't know, but I would imagine WB has something....
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Hubble Photos                Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Rick Shelton [FL]            Tuesday, December 05, 1995 1:11:13 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #410870
+
+     Actually I already downloaded the M16 shots from the Hubble web page, 
+glorious stuff.
+
+     jms
+
+
+Subj:  Hubble Photos                Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Walter F. Hern               Tuesday, December 05, 1995 7:48:14 PM 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #411369
+
+      {regarding crescent shaped ships flying near B5}
+
+      I think those are the ones attacking a Narn cruiser, so they're
+Centauri  mid-size attack craft.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Hubble Photos                Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Philip Hornsey         Wednesday, December 06, 1995 2:00:25 AM 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #411664
+
+      {regarding number of Narn casualties}
+
+      Actually, yes, there are millions of dead; I think that either Vir
+or Na'Far gets it right in "Strife," and the other misstates the figure in
+the same episode.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Hubble Photos                Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, 74053,2101   Wednesday, December 06, 1995 2:12:07
+PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#411909
+
+      {regarding the question of anyone saying "millions dead"}
+
+     Just went back and checked the script; Ta'Lon refers to millions in
+his  meeting with Sheridan.  (Knew I wasn't nuts....)
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Screensaver               Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Jason Wong                   Tuesday, December 05, 1995 1:11:14 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #410871
+
+     Actually it's hitting stores now.  (And there may be a Mac version
+after the first  of the year.)
+
+     jms
+
+
+Subj:  Bill Mumy's show on Nick     Section: Babylon 5: General   
+To:  Shelley Marshall         Tuesday, December 05, 1995 1:11:17 AM 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #410872
+
+      No, there's no conflict at all between our schedule and theirs; he's
+producing  it from here, not acting in it.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Minbari Souls                Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Sharon Foster                Tuesday, December 05, 1995 1:52:00 AM 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #410906
+
+      See my other note here about souls, this may clarify a bit.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 interruptions             Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Raymond Chuang         Tuesday, December 05, 1995 7:48:06 PM 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #411365
+
+      That stuff is entirely in the hands of the local stations.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Con#1 & Latvia            Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Mark Koro                    Tuesday, December 05, 1995 7:48:11 PM 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #411368
+
+      With Doug...always worry.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Ptg:Prison Station>         Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Philip Hornsey               Monday, December 04, 1995 2:10:22 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #410059
+
+      There are templates used, with some variations.  In a government
+monitored  situation (which this wasn't, they thought he was dead),
+mindwipes are kept in  servile positions, not allowed to achieve, as that
+would be a kind of reward.   Those guys you see along the roadsides
+picking up trash and putting them in  bright orange bags?  Mindwipes.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Ptg:Prison Station>         Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Paul Maskens (OMRI UK)       Tuesday, December 05, 1995 1:11:05 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #410867
+
+      Man has been on Mars for just under 100 years.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Gethsemane questions>       Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Robert Miller                Tuesday, December 05, 1995 1:11:11 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #410869
+
+      One caveat here overall...it's been complimented and commented upon
+that I  would expose a belief system in my show which I do not personally
+agree with  (presenting the face of religion even though I'm an atheist).
+That I could be this  tolerant is apparently praiseworthy.
+
+      I would just suggest that at some point, when and if I should offer
+a point of  view from another perspective, which one watching might not
+personally agree  with, the same tolerance is given, since the virtue of
+tolerating divergent attitudes  has been deemed praiseworthy...and is
+something ever to strive for....
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Gethsemane questions>       Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Daena Hinkelman, 73554,1731  Tuesday, December 05, 1995 1:52:02 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#410907
+
+"The themes of faith and forgiveness were worthy of a theologian. Are you
+sure  there isn't something you'd like to tell us?"
+
+     Never shoot pool at a place called Pop's.  Never eat food at a place
+called  Mom's.  The difference between horses and humans is that they're
+too smart to be on what *we'll* do.
+
+     And I have lost people.  Too many people.  Lost them to chance,
+violence,  brutality beyond belief; I've seen all the senseless, ignoble
+acts of "god's noblest  creature."  And I am incapable of forgiving.  My
+feelings are with G'Kar, hand  sliced open, saying of the drops of blood
+flowing from that open wound, "How do  you apologize to them?"  "I can't." 
+"Then I cannot forgive."
+
+     As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious,
+because it's only  here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and
+then it's gone forever.  No  afterlives, no second chances, no backsies. 
+So there can be nothing crueler  than the abuse, destruction or wanton
+taking of a life. It is a crime no less than  burning the Mona Lisa, for
+there is always just one of each.
+
+     So I cannot forgive.  Which makes the notion of writing a character
+who CAN  forgive momentarily attractive...because it allows me to explore
+in great detail  something of which I am utterly incapable.  I cannot fly,
+so I would write of birds  and starships and kites; I cannot play an
+instrument, so I would write of  composers and dancers; and I cannot
+forgive, so I would write of priests and  monks and minbari....
+
+     jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Gethsemane questions>       Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  John C. Brobston/PRCT  Wednesday, December 06, 1995 2:12:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #411907
+
+      {regarding when JMS might publish a book on poetry}
+
+      Never; my poetry really sucks....
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Gethsemane>                 Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Mara K. Malovany             Sunday, December 03, 1995 4:40:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #409727
+
+      And, as I noted in a message just now, maybe he thinks that they
+might be  telling the truth, that maybe something *is* going on.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Gethsemane>                 Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Mark D. Smith                Sunday, December 03, 1995 5:48:19 PM 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #409750
+
+      {regarding a connection between the Vorlons and our religions}
+
+       What, you really expect an answer....?
+
+       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Gethsemane>                 Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Joe Salemi [ZD Net], 72631,23      Sunday, December 03, 1995
+4:39:27 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#409726
+
+      And bear in mind that it's never just a common sense "oh, these guys
+are  lying to me from Nightwatch, they're the bad guys."  It's always
+couched in such a  way that it sounds like it *might* be a real concern. 
+That was how McCarthy and  others terrorized this country during the
+1950s.  There were plenty of people who  really *believed* that the Reds
+had infiltrated every aspect of society, as well as  those who might've
+had doubts, but figured that maybe where there's smoke  there IS fire.
+
+       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <PTG: Mind Wipe>             Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Jon Wolf, 76103,2541         Wednesday, December 06, 1995 2:11:12
+AM From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#411666
+
+      Re: mindwipes no longer considered people...this really is not that
+much  different from prison inmates, who are given numbers, have no real
+civil rights,  and are treated like cattle.  (And many of them deserve it;
+a few deserve worse; a  few deserve better.)
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  <PTG: Mind Wipe>             Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, 74053,2101   Wednesday, December 06, 1995 2:12:06
+PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#411908
+
+     On one level, I'm in favor of the death penalty.  I think that if
+someone takes  your life deliberately, they sacrifice their own in return.
+Some might say it's not a  deterrent in general...but it sure as heck
+deters that specific person.
+
+     *On the other hand*...I take that position mainly because nowadays,
+when  someone is sentenced to life, "life" means about 15 years at best. 
+If life  imprisonment MEANT life inprisonment, then I'd happily go for
+that option above  the death penalty (and that certainly does leave room
+for verdict corrections).
+
+     jms
+
+
+Subj:  <PTG: Mind Wipe>             Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Greg Munsill           Wednesday, December 06, 1995 2:12:09 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #411910
+
+      I just put the mindwipe issue out there, I didn't make a moral
+judgment about  it...in 2260, that's what's done.  I just report the
+news....
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  <PTG: Mind Wipe>             Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Carol Williams               Sunday, December 03, 1995 8:51:09 PM 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #409882
+
+      {regarding Christ's repenting for the sins of others}
+
+     Carol: *exactly* the right point.  In his earlier talk about
+Gethsemane, Edward  mentioned that old JC had to go through all that to
+atone for the sins of others;  when he sees Theo later, through the grate,
+he uses the same notion of  atonement for the acts of another, in this
+case, *his* other.  The logical parallel  parses pretty closely.
+
+     jms
+
+
+Subj:  <PTG: Mind Wipe>             Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Carol Williams         Sunday, December 03, 1995 8:51:08 PM 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #409881
+
+      Yes, B5 has a court system, authorized by the Earth Alliance
+Judicial System,  to conduct trials of this sort (which we've seen
+before).  And in this case, again,  there wasn't a trial per se as Ivanova
+noted; he pleaded guilty from the start, quite  proud of what he'd done. 
+So all that remained was the sentencing.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Minbari Religion             Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Scott Miller                 Tuesday, December 05, 1995 1:11:21 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #410874
+
+     If there were just one pure and unchanged unvirsal soul running
+through  everything, there wouldn't be any point in breaking itself into
+pieces and investing  itself in different species/people...it would just
+keep running into identical  versions of itself.
+
+     So the soul form in Minbari is different from the soul form in
+humans; also, in  their view, having been civilized longer than us, their
+soul form is more elevated,  more evolved...and thus the pices are more
+precious, to them, and to the Soul  Hunters.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Admiral's Promise            Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Charles Agius          Wednesday, December 06, 1995 2:00:18 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #411661
+
+      Apology accepted.  We move on.
+
+      jms
+
+Subj:  B5 Screen Saver Arrived!     Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  SysOp Dupa T. Parrot         Thursday, December 07, 1995 2:35:16 AM
+From:  J.Michael Straczynski        #412456
+
+      Yes, the .avi files play full-motion video and music/sound effects.
+Check your  setup menu to make sure you've selected those files, and that
+they're in the  directory, and that they've been marked to play.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Gethsemane questions>       Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  John C. Brobston/PRCT        Thursday, December 07, 1995 2:35:27 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #412460
+
+      {regarding athiest vs. agnostic}
+
+      If all the things you describe were suddenly to happen, sure, I'd
+have to give  my position serious thought, while turning down Stephen
+Hawking's invitations  to dance and dodging the newly revived dead.  Now,
+when is this supposed to  happen?  'Cause it hasn't happened yet, and
+gives no indication of happening  anytime soon.  Which is, really, the
+point.
+
+      Let me try a different take on this whole agnostic/atheist thing, to
+see if I can  better communicate my position.  My agent calls and says,
+"Listen, the BBC  called, and they're interested in signing you up for a
+two year documentary on the  mating habits of clams."  To which I respond,
+"Great, but I'll believe it when it  happens."
+
+      I do not say that the contract may, or may not exist; it either is,
+or it isn't, and  my actions proceed from those two options.  Until I get
+the contract actually in my  hand, it doesn't exist.  Until someone puts
+the absolute proof out in front of me of  a deity, it doesn't exist. 
+That's the difference; the agnostic says, well, maybe  there is, maybe
+there isn't, who knows?  The atheist says, There is currently no  proof
+whatsoever of this assertion, thus I choose not to believe it.
+
+      There are, really, any number of schools on what atheism is or
+isn't. Some  have taken this to be the notion of anti-religion, which I
+think is unconstructive.  I  used to write a humor column for Madeline
+Murry O'Hare's publication American Atheist back in the 1970s (betcha
+didn't know that one, did you?).  Even did some  other writing, articles
+and the like...until one day I realized that this (American  Atheist
+Organization) wasn't about just providing equal respect and treatment for 
+atheists, it was about knocking down religion and attacking others' belief
+systems...at which time I resigned the magazine.
+
+      To get back on track...mine is the kind of atheism you saw most
+often around  the turn of the century, basically accommodational of
+others, positive in outlook,  stressing the basic worth of the individual,
+and the importance of the individual in  building a better society.
+
+      Because of the more...rigorous atheists out there, atheism has, I
+think, gotten  kind of a bad rap in some circles.  And a lot of it is
+unfair, though I'd be foolish to  say that the criticisms were entirely
+without merit.  But when then-President Bush  said, as he did in an
+interview in Chicago during the last election, that he  "doesn't really
+consider atheists patriots, since after all the idea is one nation  under
+god," it brings you up a little short.  The founders of this country
+weren't just  believers, they were deists and freethinkers and even the
+occasional atheist.
+
+      In any event...I hadn't meant to belabor the point.  This is simply
+what I think.  I  don't usually get into it, but the question was raised,
+so I answered it.  I don't  expect much of anyone else to agree, or to
+convince anyone to think as I do.  And  that's fine, and as it should be.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Gethsemane questions>       Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Tom Knudsen                  Thursday, December 07, 1995 2:35:17 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #412457
+
+      {regarding athiest vs. agnostic}
+
+      Yeah, well, I've kinda given it a *lot* of thought over a *very*
+long period....
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  From jms: info               Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  George  F. Kraus       Wednesday, December 06, 1995 8:13:12 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #412188
+
+      Alas, no tapes are currently available.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  ATTN:JMS <? About B4>        Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Stephen C. Smith             Thursday, December 07, 1995 2:35:14 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #412455
+
+      {regarding Boxleitner taping "B5 Classic" intro}
+
+     To which they would reply, "Terrific, great idea, but we're not going
+to sacrifice  15-30 seconds of commercials so you can do this, so you're
+going to have to go  in and cut 15-30 seconds out of the show."
+
+     That time has to come from somewhere.
+
+     jms
+
+
+Subj:  To JMS                       Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Michael Milutinovic    Wednesday, December 06, 1995 8:13:26 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #412191
+
+     No, there's really just the one Minbari religion, and the warrior
+caste tends to  follow it, but not lead it.
+
+
+     jms
+
+
+Subj:  $0.04: <A Day in Strife>           Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming  
+To:  Ruth Ballam              Wednesday, December 06, 1995 8:28:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski             #412207
+
+     You're saying Sinclair was the chosen one...first, you don't know
+what he was  chosen FOR.  Second, if this is entirely true, why would
+Zathras look Sinclair  dead in the face and say "NOT the one"?
+
+     As for "why would he change his story"...nothing is set in stone; if
+you were a  writer, you'd know that an outline only gets you into the
+story and the main points.   I've had whole novels that I've written
+abruptly change direction halfway through  because of something I
+discovered midway that was better than what I'd planned  initially.  You
+adjust.  No outline ever survives contact with the enemy.
+
+     If, tomorrow, I decided that the rest of this story would be better
+if Sheridan  were transformed into a giant blue space moose, that's
+exactly what I'd do.
+
+     jms 
+
+
+Subj:  Max (Richard Moll)           Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Melanie Moser                Thursday, December 07, 1995 2:35:24 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #412459
+
+      Thanks.  At this point, Richard's part was a one-shot, but if we
+come up with  the right role, I'd love to see him again.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Screen Saver Arrived!  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Tom Knudsen      Thursday, December 07, 1995 1:58:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #412731
+
+      {regarding the .avi files having video}
+
+      No, the personnel files don't have them, only the
+battle, ship and geo files.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Gethsemane questions> Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  David Cerreta    Thursday, December 07, 1995 8:37:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #412951
+
+      {regarding quoting JMS's post about atheism}
+
+      By all means, quote away....
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Gethsemane questions> Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Rick Corey /NY   Thursday, December 07, 1995 8:37:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #412953
+
+      {regarding religion}
+
+      I guess I'm partly leery of going into my personal views
+on this stuff too much  because I'm very conscious of the
+position of "celebrity" in our society, even as  minor a
+celebrity as that of producer, of which there cannot possibly
+be a smaller  version of celebrity.  It's possible to use
+one's position as a platform for  advancing one's own personal
+views, or propagating them, and I don't want to do  that, or
+to be perceived as doing that.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  JMS resigns rastb5     Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Robt Martin,     Thursday, December 07, 1995 1:58:07 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski  #412732
+
+     You used to edit Fangoria?
+
+     So are you currently appealing the conviction...?
+
+     jms
+
+
+Subj:  JMS resigns rastb5     Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Robt Martin      Friday, December 08, 1995 2:44:26 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #413113
+
+      {regarding Mr. Martin's editing of Fangoria}
+
+      Actually, the best thing about Fangoria are the 
+conventions....
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  $0.04: <A Day in Strife>  Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Nigel Nixon      Thursday, December 07, 1995 2:10:07 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #412743
+
+     And this is quite correct; WB had always wanted a well
+known actor in that  rols, so when we decided to make the
+change, WB repeated this, and urged us  strongly in this
+direction.  Happily, Bruce was known to us through Doug and 
+John who'd worked with him on other projects, and said he was
+a swell guy in  addition to a terrific actor; we met, talked,
+and that was that.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  <PTG: Mindwipe>        Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Michael Guenther Thursday, December 07, 1995 8:37:03 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #412950
+
+      I'd say there's some similarity in the process, yes.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Jump Points            Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  John Cissna      Thursday, December 07, 1995 8:37:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #412954
+
+     No, I'm reasonably sure that the Centauri vessels that
+came through were  considerably larger than the White Star;
+the problem, of course, is determining  size visually in
+space, where there isn't a reference point.
+
+     jms
+
+
+Subj:  Another B5 Pun               Section: Promenade Alpha
+  To:  Andrew Diseker   Thursday, December 07, 1995 8:37:10 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #412955
+
+      The Nuremberg War Crimes Committee would like a word
+with you, Mr.  Diseker....
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Gethsemane questions> Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Tom Knudsen      Friday, December 08, 1995 8:28:14 PM 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #413425
+
+      {regarding JMS's celebrity status}
+
+      Yeah, I don't really buy into the celebrity notion; what
+I do is what I do, no  different than a teacher or an archi-
+tect; both require varying levels of creativity.   Main thing
+wrong with celebrity is that people start viewing you differ-
+ently...and  Kosh help you if your own view of yourself starts
+to reconcile too much with that  new perception.
+
+       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Rerun Schedule Worry   Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Kevin Kenney     Friday, December 08, 1995 8:35:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #413430
+
+      I don't think I'll be able to change the schedule; my
+guess is that they'll do a  full run of episodes in July,
+which they did in our first year, but didn't do in our 
+second.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  JMS resigns rastb5     Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  The Jawa/Jawa #2, Saturday, December 09, 1995 11:14:08 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #414000
+
+     We're making 22 episodes this year; interestingly enough,
+because the  ratings have been doing quite well, there have
+been some informal talks initiated  by some folks at PTEN
+about us doing an additional 2 hours in the form of a  direct-
+to-video movie, something to hold folks over between seasons. 
+So in that  sense we'd be doing 24 this season.  It's not
+finalized, but we're very encouraged  that they're considering
+trying this with us.  We won't have any final disposition on 
+this until well after Christmas, however.  The problem will be
+in getting all the  pertinent WB divisions to work together on
+this with us, and working with PTEN in  the sense that it
+won't be aired initially until much later, which may be a 
+stumbling block...but we'll see.  Still, it's a great vote of
+confidence.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  JMS resigns rastb5     Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  SysOp Lee Whiteside  Sunday, December 10, 1995 5:02:23 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #414104
+
+      {regarding direct-to-video B5 movie}
+
+      Yeah, it'd have to be kind of like the comics...it would
+add something to the arc, be complementary to it (like the
+"shadows past" miniseries was complementary to "Divided
+Loyalties" and stuff yet to come), but more or less  able to
+stand on its own.
+
+      Like I said, though, it ain't final yet, still in the
+talking stages....
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  JMS resigns rastb5     Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Philip Hornsey   Sunday, December 10, 1995 7:38:07 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #414396
+
+      {regarding story ideas for direct-to-video movie}
+
+      I'd advise against suggesting story areas for this,
+Philip.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  JMS resigns rastb5     Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Neil Blevins     Sunday, December 10, 1995 7:38:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #414394
+
+      {regarding making videos of B5 episodes}
+
+     Won't work.  Their logic (such as it is) is that if
+people have already seen the  episode on TV, they won't want
+to buy it...but a direct-to-video supplemental  episode, by
+virtue of *not* having been aired, IS commercially viable.
+
+     What can I say...?
+
+     jms
+
+
+Subj:  <PTG-Bravo!>           Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Felix Ling Saturday,   December 09, 1995 11:14:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #414001
+
+      Thanks.  It's a hard thing to walk the line between not
+being effective and  being heavy-handed...I think it worked
+quite well in that respect.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  <PTG--more questions>  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Mara K. Malovany Saturday, December 09, 1995 11:14:12 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #414002
+
+     The sculpture...wasn't exactly what I had in mind, no....
+
+     Re: the Centauri...note that Edward wasn't killed where
+they found him. He  was taken and killed elsewhere, in a area
+they'd more or less secured for that  purpose.  That was the
+area he knew about.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  A couple of Questions  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Tim and Laurie   Sunday, December 10, 1995 7:38:08 PM 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #414397
+
+     Yes, he had the momentum from his jump, plus that of the
+core shuttle itself  (which is considerable), plus the wind
+currents toward the center of the station  area/garden, which
+area also considerable.  Together that would be enough to 
+keep him moving toward the outer edge of the garden area.
+
+     No, the Narns do not have artificial gravity, which is
+why we've always shown  them belted into their seats in five-
+point harnesses.
+
+     jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5: Winter duldrums    Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  The Jawa/Jawa #2   Sunday, December 10, 1995 7:47:18
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #414407
+
+      {regarding direct-to-video B5 movie}
+
+       Whoa, whoa, whoa...Jawa, don't mis-state the situation.
+The deal still hasn't  been set, and even if it were, it
+couldn't possibly be out "sometime after  christmas," during
+the rerun cycle.
+
+       It might be able to come out *between seasons three and
+four* is, I believe,  what I said.  Bear in mind that I'd have
+to write it, it takes 4-6 weeks to prep such  a thing, 15-16
+days to shoot it, then another 52 days to finish post.
+
+       Just to clarify...I don't want this getting picked up
+and announced as fact yet  when it ain't.  Still may not even
+happen.
+
+       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Hague back             Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Barbara Pfieffer Saturday, December 09, 1995 11:14:05
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #413999
+
+     You'll be hearing more about General Hague in the next
+batch of episodes; as  for the two-parter, I'm about 13 pages
+from the end of part one, which I hope to  turn in on Monday,
+and the second part will probably be in after the Christmas 
+break.
+
+     jms
+
+Subj:  A couple of Questions  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Melanie Moser    Sunday, December 10, 1995 11:24:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #414498
+
+      {regarding artificial gravity on Narn ship in the
+       novel _Blood_Oath_}
+
+      Urk...that must've slipped past me (which reminds me,
+I'd better get back to  finishing proofing the next novel). 
+And yes, we'll see more of the Narn  homeworld as we go along.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Not B5                 Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Sharon Foster    Sunday, December 10, 1995 11:24:03 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #414497
+
+      {regarding a show called "Vanishing Son"}
+
+     Nope, don't know a thing about it, only heard the name
+here and there.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Harlan Signs in LA/SF  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  All              Monday, December 11, 1995 2:09:10 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #414554
+
+     Harlan Ellison will be signing copies of his new CD-rom
+game, "I Have No  Mouth, And I Must Scream," based on his
+award-winning short story of the same  name, at Tower Video in
+two locations in the coming week:
+
+     In Los Angeles on Wednesday, December 13th, at 8801
+Sunset Boulevard  from 6-7:30 p.m. and in San Francisco from
+6-8 p.m. at 3205 20th Avenue, 2nd  floor on Thursday, December
+14th.
+
+     jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Episodes on Tape       Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  William H. DiPaola  Monday, December 11, 1995 2:11:10
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #414555
+
+      We're still trying to work this out.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  G'Kar Trading Card     Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Jason Wong       Tuesday, December 12, 1995 3:14:17 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #415066
+
+      {regarding G'Kar not being on the card}
+
+     Is this the one on the actual card, or the promo four-
+card?  I knew it was wrong  there, and I'd thought we'd caught
+it before the finished versions were out.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Rage's Thots: Comm ?   Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Chad Underkoffler  Tuesday, December 12, 1995 3:14:18
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #415067
+
+      Yes, long-distance com systems like StellarCom are
+tachyon based;  communication inside hyperspace to and from
+normal space is very difficult and  problematic due to the
+differing physics involved; the beacons ships ride in  between
+jumpgates are more or less anchored to the gates at the
+hyperspace  side.
+
+      That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Rage's Thots: Comm ?   Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Philip Hornsey   Wednesday, December 13, 1995 7:36:14
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #415819
+
+      {regarding there being physical protrusions into
+      hyperspace}
+
+     Not that anyone's discovered yet.  (Don't read into that
+more than there is.)
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  ATTN:JMS <? About B4>  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Mitchell Schneider  Tuesday, December 12, 1995 7:51:15
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #415353
+
+     "...yeah, I was shooting the breeze with Jon just a few
+days ago. Jon's going to  try and get B2 re-run on my sugges-
+tion."
+
+     Er...it's Joe, actually.
+
+     That aside, thanks for the kind words, and we'll try to
+get it rerun.
+
+     jms
+
+
+Subj:  Compuserve Name for JMS  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Dan T. Davis     Wednesday, December 13, 1995 7:41:02
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #415822
+
+      {regarding picking your own CompuServe name}
+
+      Actually, I haven't picked any such name...what's the
+procedure for doing this?
+
+        jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  ATTN:JMS <? About B4>  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Chris C. Franks  Thursday, December 14, 1995 2:16:10 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #415971
+
+      {regarding one of the Turner stations running
+       the first season of B5}
+
+     They'll be playing the entire series, but not until the
+show has run its full  course, so around 1998.
+
+     jms
+
+
+Subj:  I Have No Mouth game   Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Brian A. Thomas  Thursday, December 14, 1995 2:16:11 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #415972
+
+      {regarding "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"}
+
+      Wouldn't hurt to read the story first.  It's a great
+story.
+
+      jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Babylon 4              Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Michael "GANDALF" Kalus Thursday, December 14, 1995
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #416204
+
+     Babylons 1-3 were destroyed during the very early stages
+of construction, so  not that much was done.  They poured a
+LOT of money into B4, which was very  big...when that one went
+ south, they decided to try one last time, with a  stripped-
+down version, B5.  B4 vanished 4 years prior to the first
+season of B5.
+
+    jms
+
+
+Subj:  JMS: Best party ep?    Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Robert Pierce,   Thursday, December 14, 1995 2:16:09 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #415970
+
+      {regarding which upcoming episode would be best
+       to have a B5 party for}
+
+     If you want some fun with your wham, and there's a lot of
+fun to be had in this  one, go for the first one up, "Voices
+of Authority."  If you want serious, serious  wham, go for
+"Messages From Earth."
+
+    jms
+
+Subj:  Screen Saver Audio     Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Shirley DeCarufelFriday, December 15, 1995 12:26:05 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #416434
+
+     Actually, the "cricket" sounds are the identicard
+scanning sounds used in the  pilot movie.
+
+      jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Hague back             Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  John M. Kahane   Friday, December 15, 1995 5:05:20 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #416505
+
+     At the office, I use the Kinesis keyboard, with two key-
+wells, not broken lines.   Works well.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Gethsemane Thought>   Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  John M. Kahane   Friday, December 15, 1995 5:05:24 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #416506
+
+      {regarding "Passing Through Gethsemane" ep}
+
+      Thanks.  Adam did a great job interpreting the script on
+that one, and it's  definitely one of our most successful
+episodes...though today I took a look at  another, more
+completed version of episode 8, "Messages," and *man* is this 
+amazing...just a knockout...trouble is we keep raising our own
+bar and won't  accept anything less...so the pressure becomes
+quite astonishing after a while.
+
+     Fun, though....
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Babylon 4        Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Michael "GANDALF" Kalus  December 15, 1995 5:12:27 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #416508
+
+     "wasn't nearly enough time"
+
+     If you apply 20th century construction models, sure...but
+we've advanced quite  a bit in 250 years.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Babylon 4              Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Michael "GANDALF" Kalus  December 15, 1995 5:38:03 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #416676
+
+      {regarding not enough time...}
+
+      Except, of course, there's no need to transport steel
+and other materials from  Earth...if that's your premise then
+it's seriously flawed. You mine ore from the  surrounding
+asteroids, as NASA has described for some time could be done. 
+ You could assemble the shell off Earth in pieces fairly
+quickly, use the jump gate  to get it to Epsilon Eridani, and
+mine whatever else you need there in the area  fairly effi-
+ciently.
+
+      Bear in mind that building a station like this in 2260
+uses many of the same  techniques already being used else
+where...so in many cases it's a matter of  slightly converting
+what's already being mass produced for other reasons.  
+Explorer vessels like the Cortez, for instance, are nearly as
+long as Babylon 5 (as  seen in "A Distant Star"), and its
+rotating section is nearly as wide.  And you've  got other big
+ships, many with rotational areas for gravity-positive
+sections.  This  isn't like NASA gearing up to make a one-off
+of something; this is a matter of  adjusting technology
+already in use.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Babylon 4              Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  John McAuley     Saturday, December 16, 1995 1:54:17 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #416849
+
+      {regarding acquiring raw materials to build B5}
+
+     Aside from the hull stuff which would've been constructed
+elsewhere and  shipped in and assembled, they would've mined
+the asteroids for most of the  raw materials needed.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Babylon 4              Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  John McAuley     Saturday, December 16, 1995 9:38:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #417210
+
+      {regarding B5 winning a Cult TV award}
+
+      I know we won one, and I believe it was this past year,
+yes; a very nice  engraved glass award.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Kosh and the Shadows   Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Birgit Kohls     Friday, December 15, 1995 5:13:00 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #416509
+
+      {regarding why they didn't kill Kosh}
+
+     Course, a dead Vorlon would be a major giveaway for
+them...best to keep a  low profile, at least for the time
+being.
+
+       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <TFON - Religion>      Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Colin Glassey    Friday, December 15, 1995 5:38:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #416678
+
+      Yes, those are pretty much the two interpretations...
+that the Vorlons *created*  the myth of angels, or that they
+came in and *exploited* it for their own purposes.  In my
+view, the latter seems more logical in some ways.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  <TFON - Religion>      Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Philip Hornsey   Saturday, December 16, 1995 9:38:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #417212
+
+
+      {regarding assumption that Vorlon standardized beliefs}
+
+      On the other hand, I didn't say that was the case in all
+places and in all cases.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  What's In A Name (Kosh)  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Gerald Himmelein  Friday, December 15, 1995 5:38:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #416680
+
+      <Quoting Gerald Himmelein to JMS>:
+
+      >two days ago, I finally got around to purchase the
+      >Compact Disc release of The  Who's classic WHO'S NEXT
+      >album [remastered, with bonus tracks and new liner 
+      >notes... really nice...] from 1971.
+
+      >When I read through the fine print, I found myself
+      >gasping in surprise.
+
+      >"Original vinyl sleeve design by Kosh."
+
+      <snip>
+
+      >This Kosh appears to be a  photigrapher and designer,
+      >and he apparently went with just that name, just  Kosh.
+
+      <snip>
+
+      >my question would be whether you were aware of this 
+      >designer / photographer talent of the 70's and if his
+      >name became the inspiration for the Vorlon Ambassador.
+
+
+      No, I'd absolutely never heard this story before...I'm
+astounded....
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  What's In A Name (Kosh)  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Gerald Himmelein        December 16, 1995 1:54:16 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #416848
+
+      {regarding JMS's taste in music}
+
+     Basically, I'm a fan of *all* music, except hard-stuff
+country and opera.
+
+        jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Videos Yet Again    Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Trent K. Johnson Saturday, December 16, 1995 9:38:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #417213
+
+     We'd almost certainly go for tapes initially...videodisks
+would mean  remastering all the film stock back to its
+original aspect ratio, and we're talking  major bucks here.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Screen saver frustration  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Bob Danielson    Saturday, December 16, 1995 9:46:03 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #417222
+
+      To get at the files, you have to follow these steps: use
+the Install part of the  setup menu, which takes you to the
+CDrom.  Highlight the files in the Images  directory.  Then
+copy them into the correct directory on your hard drive.  Once
+that's done, you then select the images you want.  Also be
+sure that the image  categories are toggled on your setup menu
+(personal info, battle info, images  (all vs. selected) and so
+on.
+
+     I've found that every once in a while, a video piece will
+bump into my system.   What's weird is that I have two
+identical systems, one at the work office, one at  home...on
+the work office system, every single image works without
+problem.  At  home, one of the images bumps into windows and
+shuts me down.
+
+     The best way to find out which is doing this is to
+individuall select the areas  (i.e., first select just Battle
+Info, or Geological Info, and de-select all the others in  the
+setup menu).  Let those run through, and if there's not a
+problem, try the next  one.  Since they go in order, you can
+figure out pretty fast which one is causing  you a problem. 
+I did this, and now my system at home works fine, after
+omitting  one of the ship info files that, again, runs just
+fine on the work system.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  JMS resigns rastb5     Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Richard M. Perry Sunday, December 17, 1995 1:54:19 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #417309
+
+      {regarding using SW and ST doing well as an argument
+       for getting B5 eps for sale on tape}
+
+     Nope.  Doesn't work.  They see Star Wars and ST as
+valuable commodities;  they don't see us that way because they
+*know* us, and we're just a show of  theirs, one of many. 
+This is the way it *always* goes, though.  On Star Wars, they 
+gave away most of the merchandising rights because they didn't
+think anybody  would want the stuff; on ST they canceled it
+after 3 seasons and didn't bother to  protect the copyright on
+the stuff for almost ten years (which is why they often  don't
+prosecute stuff based on the first series that gets pirated)
+because they  figured it was worthless.
+
+     It's only LONG after the horse has left the barn that the
+suits ever really  understand what they've got...or had.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  From jms: info         Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Anne L. Warner   Sunday, December 17, 1995 10:27:07 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #417659
+
+     Yes, the ratings on WSBK have been up between a half a
+point and a full  ratings point over where it was, now that
+they've stabalized it.  Which is what  we've been saying would
+happen for some time.
+
+     This is probably the overwhelming problem we've had with
+the few stations  that've been shuffling the show around...
+they don't give it a stable time slot,  constantly pre-empt
+it, put it on at 3 a.m., and say it doesn't do good numbers. 
+Well, duh.  But as soon as they GIVE it a solid spot, even
+if it's only for a little  while, the difference is noticeable
+almost instantly.  And then it *does* do well for  them.
+
+     What're you gonna do....it's Chinatown, Jake....
+
+     jms
+
+
+Subj:  Chrysalis              Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Gerald Himmelein Sunday, December 17, 1995 10:27:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #417662
+
+      {regarding if Garibaldi's shooting was pre-planned}
+
+     No, the shooting of Garibaldi was always a very strong
+part of the story for the  end of first season; that line goes
+all the way back to the pilot, and Laurel  Takashima.
+
+         jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Ds9 Cancellation Rumor       Section: Star Trek: DS9
+  To:  Ted Wilcox       Sunday, December 17, 1995 10:47:23 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #417671
+
+"I agree it is rediculous but JMS reported it at a Comic
+conference somewhere  and I was giving what I consider good
+advice to all who wish to do something  positive in lieu of
+his negative comment. Read previous messages about the 
+cancellation rumor so you can direct your anger to the proper
+sources. I did not  start this and I will not speak further on
+this rumor because it is exactly what JMS  wants. He loves for
+us to argue among ourselves. Be careful, he may be reading 
+and enjoying this right now!"
+
+       Excuse me just one damned minute here.  I just found
+out about this thread,  and once again this is being totally
+and 100% distorted by you.
+
+       I have never, ever, at any time posted a rumor saying
+"Hey, DS9 is going to  be canceled."  If you can find it, and
+post it, I will resign from Compuserve  *instantly* and
+*permanently*.  But you won't, because it doesn't exist.  What
+you,  and a few others, do is take what *was* said, throw it
+out there to cause a  firestorm, which gets me in trouble.
+
+       What I said was this: that at the time all this took
+place, several months ago,  there were several articles
+published -- in TV Guide, in the Los Angeles Times,  elsewhere
+quoting people like Kerry McCluggage, the head of Paramount,
+who  was concerned that having two ST shows around was cutting
+into the potential  viewers for Voyager.  Even one of the exec
+producers over at ST commented, in  the LA Times article, that
+they may have gone to the well once too often.
+
+       At the same time as this, there was a rumor floating
+around town, which is  *still* floating around, that Paramount
+was concerned about the notion of two  shows splitting the
+potential ST audience...an audience that is necessary to 
+Voyager as the cornerstone for the Paramount Network, UPN.
+There's much to  be said for canceling one show, DS9, so that
+there's only one place to go if you  want to see Star
+Trek...Voyager.  Because Paramount has *millions* of dollars 
+more invested in their network than in the standard syndica
+tion deal for DS9.
+
+       The *possibility* was being discussed, came the word on
+the street. And  several other people in the industry, who
+work in post production and sound  editing at the other
+studios around town, came forth and supported this by saying 
+they'd heard much the same.  But it's only woolgathering,
+nothing more, and I  never said it WAS anything more than
+that.  But a few people like you and a  couple of others have
+taken that one message, which I posted only once, here,  not
+some "comics conference," and crossposted it to other forums,
+paraphrased  it, distorted it, and changed it around in order
+to make it look like I posted a rumor  that I *never* in fact
+posted, for the simple purpose of causing me grief.
+
+       While there's much to commend this electronic forum,
+what's *wrong* with it  at root is that people can come in
+here, post something like this as if it's true,  and then you
+have to respond to it and chase it down.
+
+       Knowing folks here, I'm sure *somebody* has my original
+post filed away  somewhere.  I'm happy to see that reposted,
+because it is exactly as I have  characterized it.
+
+       Look, I get in enough trouble for the things I *really*
+say without other people  putting words in my mouth and
+deliberately distorting it.
+
+       I have never, ever, at any time, said that DS9 was
+going to be canceled, or  that there was a rumor on the
+streets that DS9 was going to be canceled.  Never  happened. 
+Are we clear on this now?
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Ds9 Cancellation Rumor       Section: Star Trek: DS9
+  To:  J. Michael Straczynski December 18, 1995 1:54:05 AM
+From:  Georg Buthe                  #417721
+
+>       Knowing folks here, I'm sure *somebody* has my original post filed
+> away somewhere. I'm happy to see that reposted, because it is exactly as I
+> have characterized it.
+
+Sure, no problem.
+
+People read into messages what they want to read. Human
+nature.
+
+Georg Buthe
+
+------------------------quote---------------------------------
+>%: 358451 S2/Star Trek  [SFMEDIA]
+>    06-Oct-95  06:25:18
+>Sb: #357994-VOYAGER'S BAD TREK
+>Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+>To: Mary Taylor 75530,2650
+
+     Speaking of TPTB, here's an interesting angle on the
+whole Voyager/DS9 dynamic.
+
+     Recently, more and more, the ST execs (people like Berman
+and Pillar) have been commenting publicly about the factional
+ization of the SF TV marketplace, and how this has diminished
+the numbers for the ST shows overall.  Most interestingly, one
+of them commented in an LA Times article this past week that
+a big problem for them is the factionalization *within*
+ST...that people may only have time to watch one version of ST
+ that week, and they're being forced to choose.  And, of
+course, there are the debates between the two sides on
+quality.
+
+     Which dovetails precisely into the rumor running around
+town that Paramount is considering giving the axe to DS9 after
+this season, in order to force folks who want their ST to
+watch Voyager...because they have more money invested right
+now in Voyager, particularly in start-up, and they have their
+hopes for the Paramount network pinned to Voyager as their
+center. They don't like the idea of a syndicated show out
+there causing problems for the network on which they've spent
+millions and millions of dollars.  And DS9's ratings have been
+steadily on the decrease since the debut.  So the logic goes:
+take away DS9, and make those who want Trek go to Voyager as
+the sole provider of that.
+
+     Given the sources from whom this has come, I give very
+high credibility to the notion that this *is* being discussed;
+whether or not it will be implemented, that only time will
+tell.  If Voyager continues to decrease, threatening the
+foundations of Paramount's bid for a network, I'd think the
+chances of this happening will continue to rise.
+
+      jms 
+
+>Subj:  Ds9 Cancellation Rumor       Section: Star Trek: DS9
+>  To:  Georg Buthe      Monday, December 18, 1995 3:11:01 AM
+>From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #417729
+
+     THANK you.  As the message said, the topic *was* being
+discussed, but that  there was no indication as to whether or
+not that step would eventually be  implemented.  And others
+confirmed this.  Nowhere in that message was it  stated by me
+that the show *is* going to be canceled, or that I'd heard
+anyone  else say that it was going to be canceled.
+
+     With luck, this will finally put an end to the distor
+tions that get around, thanks  to some people who want to fuel
+online wars.
+
+     Thanks again for digging this out.
+
+       jms
+
+
+
+
+Subj:  Ds9 Cancellation Rumor       Section: Star Trek: DS9
+  To:  Stephen C. Smith Sunday, December 17, 1995 10:53:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #417674
+
+     Stephen: check my comment to Ted.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  JMS: Best party ep?    Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Lynn Dimock      Friday, December 15, 1995 5:05:19 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #416504
+
+      <Quoting Lynn Dimock to JMS>:
+
+>Why does your saying an episode is serious make me so
+>nervous?
+
+     I don't know, but it should make you *really* nervous....
+
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  JMS resigns rastb5     Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Anne L. Warner   Sunday, December 17, 1995 10:27:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #417660
+
+      <Quoting Anne Warner to JMS>
+
+      >Without suggesting anything that hasn't been clearly
+      >indicated on the air as  interesting history, could we
+      >give you our opinions about what "history" we'd like 
+      >to see???
+
+      >One of my votes would go to Valen and the origins of
+      >the Grey Council.
+
+
+     Then you will get your wish, and then some.
+
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Gethsemane Thought>   Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Philip Hornsey   Friday, December 15, 1995 5:38:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #416679
+
+      <Quoting Philip Hornsey to JMS>:
+
+>Did Adam Nimoy direct Messages?
+
+     No, Mike Vejar directed "Messages."
+
+        jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Gethsemane Thought>   Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Philip Hornsey   Saturday, December 16, 1995 9:38:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #417211
+
+      {regarding Nimoy doing any others}
+
+     We're currently working that out.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Ds9 Cancellation Rumor       Section: Star Trek: DS9
+  To:  Colin Knowles   Wednesday, December 20, 1995 6:28:29 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #419339
+
+      {regarding why Paramount doesn't move DS9 to UPN}
+
+     I don't know for certain, but I'd suspect that there are
+contractual elements  prohibiting this.  UPN is an alliance
+between Paramount and Chris Craft  Television; at this point,
+CCT is paying virtually all the money for developing and 
+airing the shows, with Paramount contractually able to buy 50%
+of the network  sometime in the next year or so.  (This per
+the trades and reports in industry  business journals.)
+
+     DS9 is currently owned exclusively by Paramount.  Many of
+the stations that  currently air DS9 are not necessarily part
+of the UPN network; some are Tribune  stations, or other
+independents.  If they made it part of UPN, they would then 
+have to shuffle around a lot of stations, and might end up
+losing better time slots  and it's a *lot* of hassle.  And
+Paramount would have to be willing to turn over  partial
+ownership of DS9 to Chris Craft (here I'm guessing), and they
+may not  want to do that, may possibly not be *able* to do so
+by contract.
+
+     It's a very confusing corporate web, not that unlike the
+situation which basically  prevents B5 from going to the WB
+network.
+
+      jms
+
+Subj:  Chrysalis              Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Gerald Himmelein   Monday, December 18, 1995 11:25:03
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #418138
+
+      <quoting Gerald Himmelein to JMS>:
+
+      >Meaning that originally, Garibaldi was going to be shot
+      >at by Laurel and since  she dropped out after The
+      >Gathering, you used Garibaldi's second in command  as
+      >a trap door? Very nicely done.
+
+     Correct, had Laurel stayed with the station, it would've
+been she who pulled  the trigger on Garibaldi.
+
+         jms
+
+Subj:  Chrysalis              Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  John McAuley     Tuesday, December 19, 1995 11:05:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #418804
+
+      <quoting John McAuley to JMS>:
+
+      >Would Laurel have been a PsiCorps-personality-implant-
+      >mole?
+
+     Yes, Laurel would've been Control.
+
+         jms
+
+Subj:  Chrysalis              Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  The Jawa / Jawa #2     December 19, 1995 11:05:06 PM 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #418805
+
+      <quoting The Jawa / Jawa #2 to JMS>:
+
+      >Is it true that for awhile, the traitor was going to be
+      >Ivanova?
+
+     No, after the thread with Laurel was revealed, lots of
+people *assumed* that  that thread had been passed along to
+Ivanova.  It had never in fact been intended  for her, but
+when it was broached, I simply didn't reply, on the theory
+that if I said it  *wasn't* her, it'd narrow it down to who it
+*was*.
+
+         jms
+
+Subj:  Chrysalis              Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  The Jawa / Jawa #2     December 20, 1995 6:28:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #419337
+
+      <quoting The Jawa / Jawa #2 to JMS>:
+
+      >So, like Sheridan, Ivanova wasn't a "replacement"
+      >character?
+
+     All the characters are unique; there seems to be this
+bone-headed notion, that  I frequently run into, of "Well,
+Ivanova's just Takashima renamed," or "Sheridan's  story is
+just the same as Sinclair's, same guy just renamed."  They're
+*not* and  never have been.  The story of one does not devlove
+automatically upon the  other.  If you make a change, it's
+because you have something better in  mind...otherwise why
+make it?
+
+         jms
+
+Subj:  Chrysalis              Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Robert Miller    Thursday, December 21, 1995 4:07:15 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #419589
+
+      <Quotong Robert Miller to JMS>:
+
+      >If Laurel had stayed on the show, would she have
+      >received the password by this  point in the story?  Who
+      >would then have taken over as second in command? 
+
+     If Laurel *had* stayed with the show, by the middle of
+year two the fact that she  was Control would've been revealed
+via the password incident. At that point, one  particular
+possibility was that her second in command under her -- a
+rather dour  Russian lieutenant named Ivanova -- would've been
+promoted to take her place,  while Laurel was moved off the
+chessboard. (This was planned because we  knew going in that
+Tamlyn Tomita had a growing film career, and we probably 
+could've only kept her for a couple of years in the best of
+circumstances.  So why  not turn that to your advantage?)
+
+     The position now being occupied by Corwin, Ivanova's
+second, is the position  that Ivanova would've held (though
+more prominently) if Laurel had stayed on.   (And no, Corwin
+doesn't now have that arc lurking in the background.)
+
+     See, it's easy to stick to an outline and never diverge
+if you're writing  characters in a novel; in a TV show, with
+live actors, you have to be flexible, plan  ahead, come up
+with contingency plans, and have threads that weave and 
+interlock in ways to leave you maximum flexibility while still
+proceeding toward  your destination.
+
+         jms
+
+Subj:  Chrysalis              Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  The Jawa / Jawa #2     December 19, 1995 11:14:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #418813
+
+     "I *liked* Laurel!"
+
+     Well, yes, that's rather the point; tragedy is only
+tragedy if it happens to  someone you care about and like.
+
+        jms
+
+Subj:  Chrysalis              Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  The Jawa / Jawa #2     December 20, 1995 6:28:26 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #419338
+
+      <Quoting The Jawa / Jawa #2 to JMS>:
+
+      >Laurel would not have shot Garibaldi, though, right?
+
+     Yes, Laurel would've shot Garibaldi.
+
+     The tragedy rule is the #1 rule if you're going to make
+people care about your  characters.
+
+        jms
+
+Subj:  From jms: info         Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Anita Karve      Monday, December 18, 1995 11:25:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #418139
+
+      {regarding Anita's move from Boston to San Francisco
+       and her adoration of the show}
+
+       Thanks.  (And that's quite a long move, and a different
+climate.)
+
+         jms
+
+Subj:  From jms: info         Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Bill Sheldon     Tuesday, December 19, 1995 4:46:16 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #418230
+
+      <Quoting Bill Sheldon to JMS>:
+
+      >I was at SDCC for your showing of the TLTS, my 
+      >favorite episode to date.  <snip>  I saw a  really nice
+      >Duck Dodgers animation cell.  Did you get an early 
+      >X-mas present  from yourself?
+
+      No, didn't pick up that one, though I thought about it. 
+Problem is there's too  MUCH cool stuff at SDCC...which is why
+I go every year.
+
+        jms
+
+Subj:  ATTN:JMS <? About B4>  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Jason Wong       Monday, December 18, 1995 11:25:07 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #418140
+
+      <Quoting Jason Wong to JMS>:
+
+      >Just curious: is the season 2 ender going to be re-run?
+      >I noticed that it was  replaced with the season 3
+      >opener at the end of this batch of re-runs, and was 
+      >curious as to why.
+
+     Actually, the season 2 opener was "Points of Departure,"
+which wasn't rerun in  this batch, but rather "Hunter/Prey,"
+chosen because it sets up some stuff in the  next batch of
+episodes.
+
+         jms
+
+Subj:  Looking Back and Forward  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  John M. Kahane   Monday, December 18, 1995 11:25:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #418142
+
+       Jeez...where do I even start with that one...?
+
+       Okay, "how would I evaluate the work that I've done on
+the series to this  point."  (I assume this refers to the
+scriptwriting part of my duties, rather than the  producing
+part.)
+
+       The first season, I think, was pretty fair.  There were
+some rough spots here  and there.  There's a thing known to
+athletes called getting "in the zone," that's  when you're
+absolutely on target, in the groove, whatever jargon you wish
+to throw in.  In any first season of a show, no matter howmuch
+advance planning  has gone into the thing, there's a shakedown
+period as you find out what really  *does* and doesn't work. 
+There was a fair amount of that in year one.
+
+       I think I only really popped into the "zone" a few
+times, with the first real such  experience being "And the Sky
+Full of Stars."  Once I hit it, I was able to find the  target
+again a few more times that season, with "Mind War," "Babylon
+Squared,"  "Chrysalis" and a couple of others.  But that was
+about it.  I was trying to find a  new way of telling a story
+for TV, and while I'd been thinking about it for a long  time,
+there was never a chance to get in any *practice* because
+except for  Power, which had a few arc aspects to it, no other
+show WORKS like B5 in this  respect.  So there was still a
+learning curve.
+
+       Season two, I think, I started to Get It more often,
+and more consistently.  I'd  learned a lot doing year one, and
+was able to apply it. I don't think I could've  written "The
+Coming of Shadows" in year one, I just hadn't yet acquired the
+skills  that ONLY come through practice doing this very
+unusual style of storytelling.  I  think I got into the zone
+a little faster, with the last four in particular being right
+on  the mark, for what I wanted to achieve.
+
+       And as far as season three is concerned...though only
+4 have aired, I'm  finishing #17 right now.  I usually gauge
+where things are by the reaction the  scripts get around the
+set...and this season, more than any other, I've had the 
+actors and crew come by just shaking their heads in astonish-
+ment at what's  coming down in the pages.  The folks at WB
+have made it a point to call and say  that they're loving what
+they're seeing in the scripts, and that's unusual.
+
+       Subjectively -- and this opinion is the least valid,
+since it's colored by my own  perception -- I think that at
+this moment, I'm doing the best work of my career to  date. 
+There's something happening in the scripts that...I can't
+really define.   There's just something *there* that wasn't
+there before, or was there only  sporadically.  The scripts
+are completely taking on a life of their own.  (I related 
+elsewhere that something very major happened in "Interludes
+and Examinations," #15, that was never, ever in the arc, that
+I hadn't planned on doing  when I began the script...but the
+damned thing just *happened*...and all I could  do was watch
+it unfold on the page.)
+
+       Out of 17 to date, the only one that's *slightly*
+clunky is "Exogenesis,"  because it's just a little too
+straightforward for my tastes. I'd thought it was going  to be
+something other than what it was; there's a writing phrase,
+"it's too much  what it is."  But it has some great character
+moments in it, and I think that  redeems it to some extent.
+
+       But that's it, that's the only one.  "Messages From
+Earth" may be, in my view,  the best thing we've ever done. 
+And the rest are just nifty.  I'm pleased and proud  and
+utterly astonished at how well some of this stuff has come out
+this season.
+
+       (I *suspect* that part of the reason for the improve-
+ment this season is that  I'm not outlining each episode as
+much as before.  I used to sit down and break  out each act in
+detail, and then stick pretty strongly to that outline.  Now
+I just sit  down, knowing where I have to go with the story,
+and write it straight through,  letting the characters take
+control from time to time.  It takes a long time to be  able
+to trust yourself, your ability, and your characters before
+you can do that in a  show; finally I'm there.)
+
+       "what directions do you see the series going in now,
+that you might not have  considered back when you first
+started?"
+
+       Well, it's hard to say, in large measure because of
+what I've reported in the  paragraphs preceding.  The series
+has taken on a life of its own now, and while I  know where
+it's going, from time to time this great big unweildy beast
+throws me  off and goes where it wants.  And I'd be a fool if
+I refused to listen to that, and  forced it to comply with
+what I'd come up with in 1987.  Because that's the key 
+thing that I've come to understand. The structure was written
+in 1987/88...and I'm  a much better writer now than I was
+then.  I still intend to reach the destination I'd  imagined,
+but I've found FAR more interesting ways to get there than I
+could've  imagined then. Remember, since 1987 I worked on the
+Twilight Zone, Nightmare Classics, Murder She Wrote...I've
+learned a lot of stuff and acquired  some tools I didn't have
+back then.
+
+       So long answer made short...I think that the main
+difference is that the rest of  the story is going to be more
+ambitious, more dramatic, more fundamentally  *interesting*
+than I had ever hoped for.  And given what was there before,
+that's  saying a lot.
+
+       jms
+
+Subj:  Looking Back and Forward  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Trent K. Johnson Tuesday, December 19, 1995 4:46:16 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #418231
+
+      <Quoting Trent K. Johnson to JMS>:
+
+      >One of the many, many things I applaud about your
+      >writing is not only the  avoidance of technobabble, but
+      >avoiding techno-traps so prevalent in "the other 
+      >shows".
+      >
+      >A case in point from "ST: Voyager":  A writer (or
+      >writers) comes up with the idea to  land the ship on a
+      >planet. (Earhart episode)  In a subsequent episode we
+      >then  get, "Can't transport.  Can't use a shuttle. 
+      >Hey!  Let's land.  Uh, we can't because,  uh, yeah, the
+      >ground's too soft.  Yeah!  That's it!"
+      >
+      ><sigh>
+
+     "sigh" indeed....
+
+         jms
+
+Subj:  Looking Back and Forward   Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Philip Hornsey   Tuesday, December 19, 1995 11:05:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #418803
+
+      <quoting Philip Hornsey to JMS>:
+
+      >we have come to the  conclusion, recently, that by the
+      >time it is over, B5 *may* be the exception that  proves
+      >that general rule.
+
+       Yes, it does feel more like a novel now than anything
+else.
+
+       (BTW, "the exception proves the rule" is a bastardiza-
+tion of the original Latin  phrase, "exceptio probat regulum"
+(from memory), which means "the exception  puts the rule to
+the test of proof.")
+
+         jms
+
+Subj:  Looking Back and Forward  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Tom Knudsen   Wednesday, December 20, 1995 6:28:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #419340
+
+      <Quoting Tom Knudsen to JMS>:
+
+      >     < (BTW, "the exception proves the rule" is a
+      >bastardization of the  original Latin phrase, "exceptio
+      >probat regulum" (from memory), which means  "the
+      >exception puts the rule to the test of proof.")>
+      >
+      >     You've been getting a lot of use out of that
+      >tidbit of knowledge lately,  haven't you?<G>
+
+       I paid for this college education, and by god I'm going
+to use it for SOMEthing.
+
+       Odd that this particular phrase has cropped up so much
+in recent weeks.   Another bugaboo of mine is the use of the
+word "less" when what the person  means to say is "fewer." 
+"There are less people here today."  No, "There are  *fewer*
+people here today."  There are very few things about which I
+will actually  correct someone in the course of speaking, not
+wishing to be overly pedantic...but this is one of them.  The
+other is when I see a sign that says FOR  "SALE"...well, is it
+for sale or isn't it?
+
+       Anal retentive?  Moi?
+
+        jms
+
+Subj:  <Gethsemane Thought>   Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  John M. Kahane   Monday, December 18, 1995 11:25:23 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #418143
+
+     Actually, Mike Vejar is directing the two-parter, and I'm
+absolutely thrilled about  it; Mike's been our mainstay for
+some time, and he's just terrific.  (He directed  "Convic-
+tions," and "Inquisitor.")
+
+       Adam was great in that he's a *very* serious director
+who sits down and  really thinks through the subtext of the
+episode, the thematic aspects, the  underlying symbology, and
+then sits with the actor and *really* works with them  so that
+they fully understand the nuances of the scene.  A lot of TV
+direction can  be rushed...you're always under the gun...so
+it's rare to find someone who really  takes his time and
+prepares the cast.
+
+       "Does the pressure come from within, or does it come
+from without and the  reaction of the fans of the series?"
+
+       From within.  There's nothing I've ever seen on any net
+that's half as critical of  this show as what's said by we who
+make it.  If you try to gauge a show, any  show, and determine
+its direction by viewer reactions, you're going to have 
+pudding, because there are too many divergent reactions.  It
+becomes one  massive committee...and committees are the death
+of any creative process.
+
+       I'm making this show, first and foremost, for myself,
+on the theory that what I  find interesting, others may also
+find of interest.  And I'm a perfectionist.  Also a  pain in
+the ass.  Also monomanaical.  Just getting a show this big,
+this involved,  this visually complex *made* is a task of
+Herculean proportions...let alone  getting it made *well*.
+
+       I've always been a very driven personality; I try never
+to settle for second best.   If it can't be done just a little
+better than what we did last week, why the hell are  we doing
+it?  There *has* to be constant evolution, constant growth,
+constant  challenge, or you're dead creatively.  You've got to
+be absolutely willing to knock  all your support pins out from
+under you, in the belief that your skills will enable  you to
+land somewhere interesting on your feet.  The moment you
+*stop* taking  that risk...you're finished.  At least, that's
+what I feel about it.
+
+       This show is probably my one real chance to leave a
+mark that I passed this  way, so it has to be as good as I can
+humanly make it.  And nothign will ever get  in the way of
+that.
+
+         jms
+
+Subj:  <Gethsemane Thought>   Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Philip Hornsey   Tuesday, December 19, 1995 11:05:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #418802
+
+      <Quoting Philip Hornsey to JMS>:
+
+      >>>> I'm making this show, first and foremost, for
+      >myself, on the theory that what I  find interesting,
+      >others may also find of interest.
+      >
+      >ROFLMAO!
+      >
+      >Joe...
+      >
+      >I *hate* to tell you this...but worded *slightly
+      >differently...that's a Rush Limbaugh  quote...
+      >
+      >I will now flee the country and leave no forwarding
+      >address.
+
+     Be advised that the only thing standing between you and
+the abyss is my  assumption that you're making this up....
+
+       jms
+
+Subj:  Franklin's Stims       Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  John M. Kahane   Monday, December 18, 1995 11:36:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #418145
+
+     Stims are a prescription drug, which makes it perfect
+fodder for abuse by  doctors (which includes Drs Rosen and
+Franklin).  And yes, Franklin has been  getting increasingly
+cranky of late for reasons related to stims.
+
+         jms
+
+Subj:  Mo Mosely              Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  David Chandler-Gick    December 19, 1995 4:46:15 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #418229
+
+      <Quoting David Chandler-Gick to JMS>:
+
+      >What was your initial reaction to finding out about Mr.
+      >Doyle's "embellished"  resume, and how did you "deal"
+      >with it?
+
+      Well, I just kinda figured it fit in perfectly with the
+character; that's something  Garibaldi would've done....
+
+         jms
+
+Subj:  Mo Mosely              Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  John McAuley     Tuesday, December 19, 1995 11:05:09 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #418806
+
+      <Quoting John McAuley to JMS>:
+
+      >Did you find out before you hired him?
+
+     I found out the day he came in; I looked down and saw on
+his resume "Dance  Theater of Harlem," and said "What the heck
+is this?  Hey you, DANCE."  Since  then, he's forgotten this,
+and continues to insist that nobody ever caught onto his 
+little ploy.
+
+      jms
+
+Subj:  Thank you, sir.        Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  David Belt       Tuesday, December 19, 1995 11:05:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #418807
+
+      <Quoting David Belt to JMS>:
+
+      >I want to say thank you.  I showed my 12-13 year old
+      >deacons "Passing Through  Gethsemane" on Wednesday
+      >night.  Other than my son (who is an avid fan),  none
+      >of them watch the series.  In fact, other than my son,
+      >all of them say that  they don't like the series at all
+      >(in the less than imaginative and colorful ways that 
+      >boys that age have of disparaging that which they have
+      >never tried.)
+      
+      <snip>
+      
+      >The other adult present (who had never seen  the show)
+      >taught the lesson to the deacons quorum on Sunday and
+      >made several references to the show.  It was a great
+      >experience.
+
+     Then perhaps the next sermon/lesson should be on the sin
+of prejudging  something before actually being exposed to
+it....
+
+     Most interesting, and very encouraging to hear, thanks
+for passing that along.   As an atheist, I'm always caught
+betwixt and between when I hear about this kind  of reaction;
+as a writer, I'm pleased.  So the two of us are going to go
+ out behind  the house and slug it out.  Film at 11.
+
+         jms
+
+Subj:  Questions              Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  The Jawa / Jawa        December 19, 1995 11:05:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #418808
+
+      {regarding suggestions for Jawa's novel}
+
+       Technical: if someone who knows scientific stuff said
+"this character can't do  this because it's technically
+impossible," I'd have to really consider it, if he could  give
+me a good enough argument.  (And even there you have wiggle
+room...what  we *think* is impossible now may not be in 200
+years.  Serious scientists years  ago said that if you went
+more than 60 miles an hour in a train or a car you'd be 
+killed by the pressure.  So as long as you can make a plaus-
+ible argument that  it's *possible,* even if it's highly
+unlikely, you can sometimes get away with  rubber science.) 
+If it's a big glaring issue, or in the present where you don't
+have  alternate options, you may be stuck hewing to it.  If
+the person suggested an  alternative, and that alternative
+worked, and kept the science valid, sure, I'd take  it. That's
+what a consultant is for.  As long as it doesn't compromise
+the integrity  of the story.
+
+       Who reads: Yes, do be careful in your selection.  Some
+people will tell you  how to write it "better," when they
+really mean "write it more like *I* would've  written it."  A
+really bad reaction to what you've written, from someone you
+like or  admire, can be an absolute soul-killer.  And they may
+not be right.  May, in fact, be  quite wrong.  What you also
+have to remember is what every writer learns: if you  put your
+work out there, and you ASK for an opinion, suddenly they feel
+that they  *must have* an opinion, and they *must find*
+flaws...so instantly that tends to  skew things toward more
+negative comments than might be the case if they just  picked
+the book up off a store shelf and read it.  If you can find an
+adult *writer* to  look at it, you may consider that...but to
+go to non-writers for technical advice or  reactions or
+suggestions on writing is often non-constructive.  Their
+reaction to  the material may be valid, but they may not have
+the language or know the writing  craft well enough to steer
+you in the right direction, and may only succeed in  muddying
+up the waters.  If I were working to be a draftsman, and 
+finished my  first big design, I'd probably show it to another
+draftsman before I showed it to my  Aunt Morgana la Fey.
+
+       Whoever you turn to for advice, always remember that
+that advice must  always be secondary to what the small, still
+voice of the writer inside you insists  is correct.  You have
+to find your own voice, and if that means not taking the other
+person's suggestions, then that's what you have to do. Either
+you'll be right, or  you'll be wrong, and you'll hear the same
+comment from dozens of others, or  those in the field, and
+then you may have to reconsider your position.  But initially, 
+follow your voice.
+
+       Magazine sales: no, your story can definitely be
+published elsewhere  UNLESS the magazine specifically indi-
+cates that it buys "all rights." Otherwise, it  will usually
+buy other rights.  First North American rights are the most
+common,  leaving you free to sell it to other magazines
+overseas, and to other magazines in  the US after a reasonable
+period has passed, or if it's to a non-competing  magazine. 
+It's pretty much unheard of these days for magazines to buy
+all rights.   (Suggestion: go to your local library and pick
+up a copy of WRITER'S MARKET,  published yearly by Writer's
+Digest Books.  They generally explain the various  rights you
+sell in such situations.)
+
+         jms
+
+Subj:  DS9                    Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Elizabeth        Tuesday, December 19, 1995 11:14:07 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #418814
+
+     Actually, the limited edition of Harlan's "City on the
+Edge of Forever" script -- in  its various versions, outlines,
+with postscripts by Nimoy, Koenig, Kelley, Takai and others -
+is already out, and has totally sold out.  There will probably
+be a  trade paperback version sometime next year.
+
+       jms
+
+Subj:  Official Fanclub       Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Matthias Neumann Tuesday, December 19, 1995 11:14:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #418815
+
+      We hope to annouce the B5 fan club within the next week.
+
+         jms
+
+Subj:  Official Fanclub       Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Anne L. Warner         December 20, 1995 6:28:21 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #419336
+
+     Yes, one thing we've been discussing with the friendly
+folks at WB is licensing  the videos via the fan club as
+limited editions.  I don't know how limited "limited"  is yet,
+it kinda depends on our resources.  It may just be a few
+thousand each as  we gear up.  (And while we've been told we
+*can* make the deal, we haven't yet  geared up the paperwork,
+as we've been waiting for the fan club paperwork to  come in
+first.)  I'll certainly recommend 2 eps per tape when we do
+it; any more  than that, and you go to 160 minute tape, which
+is thinner, and breaks and  stretches more easily than 120
+tapes.
+
+     (We won't be able to do widescreen until WB authorizes
+the re-telecineing of  the original negative film stock back
+to its initial aspect ratio, and releases the  funds to do
+that, which are considerable.)
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Looking Back and Forward  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  John M. Kahane   Thursday, December 21, 1995 4:07:17 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #419590
+
+     Regarding "Legacies," there's one brief blip in there
+that we're going to see  again; I'm not sure I'd call it a
+clue, but certainly a cue...a hint of something to  come.  You
+won't have to wonder what it is; it'll be shown in a flashback
+in that  particular yet-to-air episode.
+
+     What does the learning curve tell me these days?  That
+I've got a LOT of  learning ahead of me yet.
+
+     Re: season 3 scripts...I'm quite happy with them, and the
+finished episodes.   I'd put on the top of the list for this
+season (not necessarily in order) Messsages  From Earth, Point
+Of No Return, Severed Dreams, Voices of Authority, Passing 
+Through Gethsemane, A Late Delivery From Avalon, Dust To Dust,
+and Convictions; they're real favorites of mine.  I suspect
+that Ship of Tears and  Interludes & Examinations will also
+come out *very* well.
+
+        jms
+
+Subj:  JMS resigns rastb5     Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Anne L. Warner   Monday, December 18, 1995 11:25:09 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #418141
+
+      <Quoting Anne L. Warner to JMS>:
+
+      >Oh, dear!  Coming from you, such reassurance (that I'll
+      >get my wish to learn  about Valen and the Grey Council
+      >"and then some.") is very disturbing.  I'll wait 
+      >eagerly.  Do I hold my breath? or is this months or
+      >seasons in the future?
+
+
+     Figure by the end of this season you'll know a lot more
+about all this.
+
+         jms
+
+Subj:  <Notes for upcoming eps>  Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  John Yuen        Thursday, December 21, 1995 3:32:30 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #419582
+
+     Actually, only 1 in the mini-arc of 3 will remain after
+the next batch; the final two,  as of now, in the January/Feb-
+ruary period will be "Messages From Earth," the 1st  of the
+three, then "Point of No Return."  Only "Severed Dreams" will
+remain for the  following cluster.
+
+         jms
+
+Subj:  Chrysalis              Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Joe  Smith,   Thursday, December 21, 1995 11:23:08 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #420100
+
+      <Quoting Joe Smith to JMS>:
+
+      >Thanks for creating literate science fiction. 
+
+     Thanks.  The literary aspect is what appeals to me a lot,
+and creating parallels  to a lot of real-life stuff.  Basical-
+ly...it's fun.
+
+       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Mo Mosely              Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Trent K. Johnson,      December 21, 1995 11:22:24 PM 
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #420095
+
+      <Quoting Trent K. Johnson to JMS>:
+
+      >I think I recall reading that Mr. Doyle worked at one
+      >of the brokerage houses that  was involved in the junk
+      >bonds  <snip> Was he around during this? If so, I'd
+      >wager  he has a story or two...
+
+     Yes, Jerry was working there at the time, and I believe
+ended up testifying  about what happened.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  The Encounter (UK Con) Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Ruth Ballam      Friday, December 22, 1995 2:57:10 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #420149
+
+     Actually, looking at my waistline after 6 months of
+nonstop writing, I think "spread" is *exactly* the right word.
+
+       jm(who was referred to as "a bit paunchy" by a guy in
+the UK group and was depressed about it for *days* afterward)s
+
+
+Subj:  <Gethsemane Thought>   Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  John M. Kahane   Friday, December 22, 1995 2:57:11 AM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #420150
+
+     Yeah, perfectionism can sometimes get in the way of the
+work...which is the  point where you have to learn to finally
+just back off, let it go, and stop tinkering  with it.  "Art
+is never completed, only abandoned."
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Looking Back and Forward   Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Tom Knudsen    Thursday, December 21, 1995 11:23:04 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #420098
+
+      {Regarding "For 'SALE'"}
+
+     Generally, one puts quote marks around something to imply
+other than what  the word means.  "Yeah, an `accident,'
+right."  (Usually accompanied by raising  both hands and
+making quote marks with fingers.)  Hence, to say FOR "SALE" is
+incorrect useage.
+
+        jms
+
+
+Subj:  The Encounter (UK Con) Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  BRIAN COONEY     Friday, December 22, 1995 9:10:19 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #420522
+
+      {Regarding a request for a 7' bed for JMS}
+
+      A 7-foot bed, eh?  Good, that's just long enough for me
+and a cat foot-warmer.   Does the bed come complete with cat,
+or is cat considered extra in the UK?   (Eight inches should
+be enough room for a cat, provided it is a medium sized  cat;
+if it is a much larger cat than 8 inches across, we may have
+to purchase a  cat-mallet.)
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  The Encounter (UK Con) Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Anne L. Warner   Saturday, December 23, 1995 6:09:20 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #420811
+
+      An 18 pound kitty is no longer a kitty; it is a geologi-
+cal landmark.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  The Encounter (UK Con) Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Philip Hornsey   Friday, December 22, 1995 9:10:21 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #420524
+
+      {regarding final title for this season}
+
+     Point of No Return
+
+        jms
+
+
+Subj:  The Encounter (UK Con) Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Ruth Ballam      Friday, December 22, 1995 9:11:00 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #420527
+
+     Actually, over long breaks like Christmas I generally
+tend to *drop* a few  pounds.  At the stage I eat a big lunch
+out back with everyone else, then make  myself a decent dinner
+when I get home, and there's always the odd doughnut  lying
+around at the stage catering table (Death With A Hole In The
+Middle).   Whereas at home, I don't generally eat a big
+breakfast, or any kind of real lunch;  just nibble a bit
+throughout the day, and then make my dinner.
+
+       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Helpful Hints          Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Ruth Spradlin    Friday, December 22, 1995 9:11:02 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #420528
+
+      <Quoting Ruth Spradlin to JMS>:
+
+      >Jean Paul Vaudreuil of Thomasville, GA wrote to
+      >Entertainment Weekly:
+      >
+      >"Bruce Boxleitner's worried about Babylon 5's low
+      >ratings?  A few helpful hints:  1.   Instead of modest
+      >uniforms, squeeze Commander Ivanova into a revealing 
+      >bodysuit.  2.  Replace decipherable dialogue with
+      >incomprehensible technobabble.  3.  Rid characters of
+      >human flaws so they'll be perfect role  models.  
+      >4.  Rather than fascinate us with character evolution,
+      >keep major  players static.  5.  Merchandise like
+      >crazy:  Bab5 toothbrushes, boxer shorts, and  an
+      >endless supply of toys.  6.  Have the aliens look like
+      >humans with forehead  problems.  7.  A surefire way to
+      >increase ratings?  Put Star Trek somewhere in  the
+      >title."
+
+      >Maybe you should hire this guy as a consultant.  ;-)
+
+     Boy, he really gets it, doesn't he?  Exactly correct.
+
+     It amazes me sometimes to think that, if the words STAR
+TREK were put in  front of this show, and it was *exactly* the
+same show it is now, we'd get double  the ratings, added
+national exposure, all the rest.  Ah, the world of 
+showbidness....
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  The Battle of the Line..  Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Alexander Shaw  Thursday, December 21, 1995 11:23:04 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #420099
+
+      <Quoting Alexander Shaw to JMS>:
+
+      >A major part of series 1 was based around the battle of
+      >the line, and  why the Minbari suddenly surrendered..
+      >Now that we are about to start season  three there are
+      >still some things that have not been clarified regard-
+      >ing this.. We  know (or at least think) the Religous
+      >Caste of the Minbari stopped the slaughter  of Mankind
+      >due to some Prophecy.. It would appear that this
+      >prophecy indicated  that mankind would have some major
+      >role in an upcoming struggle/war (The  Shadows I
+      >presume). 
+      >
+      >Are we ever going to have this confirmed ? Are we going
+      >to find out the exact  details of this prophecy ?
+      >Basically is the exact story of the Battle of Line
+      >going to  be revealed and cleared up as I still feel
+      >there are some qustions or nagging  doubts regarding
+      >it.
+
+     Yep.  I expect you'll have this all clarified for you by
+end of this season.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Chrysalis              Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Philip Hornsey   Friday, December 22, 1995 9:10:23 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #420525
+
+      {Regarding Corwin getting more lines and coming out of
+       the background}
+
+     Gradually, yeah; I like to take an actor who's shown a
+potential for doing more,  and gradually *give* that actor
+more, testing the limits.  So we do a bit more with  him as we
+go along.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  From jms: info         Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Anita Karve  Thursday, December 21, 1995 11:23:01 PM
+~From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #420097
+
+      <Quoting Anita Karve to JMS>:
+
+      >I'm glad Lyta made another appearance on the show. If
+      >you've seen some of the  recent threads, you'll know
+      >we're *dying* to find out what's going on with her and 
+      >the Vorlons.
+
+     As it happens, as soon as I finish the two-parter, this
+week, the next script will  get a lot more into Lyta and the
+Vorlons and all that jazz.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  The Encounter (UK Con)    Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Ruth Ballam      Sunday, December 24, 1995 6:08:07 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #421134
+
+     Well, suffice to say I'd love to see "A Close Shave." 
+But at the same time, I  have to be mindful of copyrights and
+the like.  So, basically, I suppose I'm  screwed....
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  G'kar/Cassandra        Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Chris Gardiner   Sunday, December 24, 1995 6:08:06 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #421133
+
+      <Quoting Chris Gardiner to JMS>:
+
+      >You're twisted.  <snip>    And I love you forever.
+
+     Thank you.  That's m'job.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5Convention           Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  John Bonavita    Sunday, December 24, 1995 6:14:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #421136
+
+     Now that the fan club has been officially announced,
+though the organizational  aspects are just now starting, we
+may try and gear up to hold an official B5  convention in
+about a year.  What we've talked about is the idea of having
+it here  in LA, so we could have best chance of getting as
+many cast members as  possible.  We'd also try and run it so
+that it was as close as possible to a fan-run  convention in
+the feeling it created; and as well as cast members and the
+like,  there would be seminars and presentations by our people
+in prosthetics,  wardrobe, makeup, art direction, props and
+other areas, so it'd be a real learning  opportunity.
+
+     But, again, that's at least a year down the road.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5Convention           Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  The Jawa / Jawa #2  Sunday, December 24, 1995 10:42:30
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #421206
+
+      <Quoting The Jawa / Jawa #2 to JMS>:
+
+      >B5 is heading in Trek's direction: very low-key while
+      >it's on the air, and  then comes it's fame.
+
+     That's the key, I think; I have a suspicion that, like
+the original ST, our main  attention will likely come after
+we've finished our complete run. The show was  designed to be
+seen in a stripped (once daily) fashion, that's when you
+really can  see the arc moving quickly.  And on TNT, once it
+hits that distributer, it'll finally  have what it has never
+had before in this country: a national broadcaster and a 
+regular timeslot.  Once that happens, I expect that what
+happened in the UK will  happen here finally...it'll be
+Noticed.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5Convention           Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Philip Hornsey   Wednesday, December 27, 1995 8:31:31
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #422232
+
+     Starting 1998, the show will appear in daily form on TNT;
+it's already been  sold to there.
+
+        jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5Convention           Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Philip Hornsey   Friday, December 29, 1995 9:16:09 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #423101
+
+       "Nice to see you making money."
+
+       Well, WB, anyway.  I get a net profit on the series,
+which means after all the  costs have been taken out...which
+in turn means that the show will never show a  profit (on
+paper), so I ain't getting a dime of the TNT sale.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5Convention           Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Chris Croughton  Sunday, December 31, 1995 10:44:26 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #423906
+
+     Re: studios and their income tax situations...puh-LEASE,
+show some  decorum; I deal in science fiction, not fantasy....
+
+         jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  B5Convention           Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Carl Bussjaeger  Sunday, December 24, 1995 10:42:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #421207
+
+      {regarding how to join the fan club}
+
+     As soon as those details have been worked out, we'll post
+them.  As it is we  just *barely* got the paperwork in hand
+authorizing us to proceed; now comes  doing it.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5Convention           Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Burhaan  Ahmad   Monday, December 25, 1995 2:27:24 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #421255
+
+      <Quoting Burhaan Ahmad to JMS>:
+
+      >You said you would like to make the  tapes yourself,
+      >since WB obviously won't.  Does Babylonian have the
+      >resources  to pull it off to the quality you desire? 
+      >I know little about the industry, but it seems  to me
+      >that it would be an expensive operation.  Or would you
+      >look to lisence the  rights to someone other than WB
+      >(assuming they'd allow it)?
+
+     That's something we're trying to decide now.  If we did
+them ourselves, it'd  almost certainly be on a limited-edition
+basis, to control quality.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5Convention           Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Susan Law        Sunday, December 24, 1995 10:42:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #421208
+
+      {regarding joining fan club, etc}
+
+     The details should be posted sometime after the first
+part of the year. Re:  Talia...it's okay to be pissed about
+that; it was intended to have that reaction.   Things *should*
+get us annoyed when Psi Corps pulls a stunt like that.  And we
+haven't heard the last of what happened to Talia, btw.  That's
+the B5 universe for  you....
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5Convention           Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Asha DeVelder    Tuesday, December 26, 1995 5:54:05 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #421573
+
+      {still on fan club and convention}
+
+     We'll have more info on all this over the next few
+weeks....
+
+     jms
+
+
+Subj:  New to B5              Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Theo Thourson    Sunday, December 24, 1995 6:14:16 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #421137
+
+     Actually, what you'll generally find is that if you watch
+a few more eps, the  background is usually included.  Besides,
+in the next batch of new episodes, we  kind of redefine the
+very nature of the series, so in a way this is the best time
+to  come aboard.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  New to B5              Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  STEVIE ADAM      Friday, December 29, 1995 9:16:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #423102
+
+      <Quoting Stevie Adam to JMS>:
+
+      >Please, is there any way to threaten Channel 4 In the
+      >UK with a Centauri takeover  to get them to show series
+      >3 here before mid 96?
+
+     I think it'll be spring, not mid-1996; also, remember
+that they don't break up the  show with reruns, they air
+straight through, and the episodes have to be  *finished* in
+time for them to air them straight through (and I think WB is
+trying to  avoid the problem last time of stuff airing in the
+UK first).  But as yet I haven't  heard a final date on this.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Publicity! Wow!        Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Anne L. Warner   Sunday, December 24, 1995 10:42:29 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #421205
+
+      <Quoting Anne L. Warner to JMS>:
+
+      >Here in New England, both WSBK  (Boston) and WNDS
+      >(Derry, NH) seem to have decided to try actually
+      >promoting  Babylon 5.
+
+     Thanks; that's good to know, and definitely a welcome
+change.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Zack in CoS>          Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Jon Wolf         Tuesday, December 26, 1995 5:54:03 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #421572
+
+
+      <Quoting Jon Wolf to JMS>:
+
+      >I just re-watched Coming of Shadows, and I think we got
+      >our introduction to  Zack in this show. 
+
+     I'm not sure though that that's the first time we saw
+Zack; I keep thinking it was  earlier...I seem to remember him
+breaking up a fight as the first time we saw  him.
+
+        jms
+
+
+Subj:  * *B5 in New Orleans* *   Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Philip Hornsey         December 27, 1995 8:31:30 PM 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #422231
+
+      <Quoting Philip Hornsey to JMS>:
+
+      >We just had a *huge* shake up in affiliation down here
+      >(three stations swapped  Fox -- ABC -- WB) and I am
+      >afraid to guess at what it did to us. Have you any info
+      >on the state of B5 in the New Orleans market?
+
+      Dunno how this is gonna shake out yet....
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  USS Runnymede -Newsflash   Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Debbie Gardiner  Thursday, December 28, 1995 2:55:18 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #422367
+
+      <Quoting Debbie Gardiner to JMS>:
+
+      >The Uss Runnymede is pleased to announce that on 6th
+      >January 1996, Babylon  5's  newest cast member Jason
+      >Carter (Ranger Marcus Cole), will be appearing  at our
+      >monthly meeting.
+
+     Then perhaps for the one night Jason's there you could
+rename the place the  EAS Runnymede, which is the standard
+useage on Earth Alliance Starships, as  in the EAS Agamem-
+non....?
+
+        jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  <CTI - East End>       Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  SysOp Dupa T. Parrot   December 29, 1995 9:16:16 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #423104
+
+      <Quoting SysOp Dupa T. Parrot to JMS>:
+
+      >On tonight's rerun of "Comes The Inquisitor", I see you
+      >took the hint from the  Brits and fixed the "West End"
+      >dialog. The dubbing job was pretty well done.
+
+     Once the error was brought to my attention, I just
+couldn't let it slide.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  OffLine Readers              Section: Promenade Alpha
+  To:  Carl Bussjaeger  Friday, December 29, 1995 9:30:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #423108
+
+     What the heck is HMI anyway?
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Talia/Control Nitpick  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  John Van Aken    Friday, December 29, 1995 9:30:18 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #423109
+
+     {If Talia was Control, why would she order herself eliminated?}
+
+     My sense was that the Control part, which sometimes moved
+at night,  reported that the mission could be jeapordized. 
+Then B13 gave the order to  eliminate.  Nowhere does it say
+that Control said the second half of the  sentence.
+
+        jms
+
+
+Subj:  JMS: Pls Clarify --    Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Robt Martin      Friday, December 29, 1995 9:30:19 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #423110
+
+      <Quoting Robt Martin to JMS>:
+
+
+      >At the time you posted this, I took this as an expres-
+      >sion of your regard (or lack of  same) for the material
+      >that Fangoria covers, not regarding my ability as an
+      >editor.  Unfortunately, your semi-jocular observation
+      >is being parenthetically interpreted  as a blast at my
+      >abilities, for global distribution.
+      >
+      >Regarding my work at Fangoria, despite the fact that
+      >the magazine specializes in  covering some truly
+      >gawdfawful films, I remain proud of the work that I did
+      >there,  which only that magazine's regular readers are
+      >in a position to judge. Given your  apparent distaste
+      >for the magazine itself, I think I can safely assume
+      >that you only  know of my work as editor with regard to
+      >Sci-Fi Entertainment, specifically my  own interview
+      >with you, and possibly also my earlier piece on John
+      >Vulich's work.
+      >
+      >As I said, maybe I am being thin-skinned, but to have
+      >your words taken out of  context and interpreted in
+      >this manner is, if not of any real harm to my career, 
+      >really, really annoying. Can you please clarify the
+      >statement?
+      >
+      >If indeed you did mean to say that I am a lousy editor,
+      >so be it, but that is not what  I thought you were
+      >saying. Yet that is what is being sent about.
+
+     No, the (regarding Mr. Martin's editing of Fangoria) was
+mainly just intended  as a segue into the note about the
+conventions being fun, since I've attended  several of them. 
+I am not sufficiently familiar with your editing to *have* any
+opinion whatsoever.  Since messages here are discreet, I
+always try to keep  some kind of referential within the
+message.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  The Gathering          Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Gerald Himmelein Saturday, December 30, 1995 9:23:24 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #423485
+
+      <Quoting Gerald Himmelein to JMS>:
+
+      >The "pleasure treshold" line was completely destroyed
+      >in translation, btw. <sigh>
+
+     Alas, there's nothing I can do at this end about the
+translations; it's out of my  hands.
+
+       jms
+
+
+Subj:  JMS at Necrnomicon?    Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Mary-Glynn Myers Sunday, December 31, 1995 10:16:30 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #423883
+
+     Yes, at this point, barring any work-related emergencies,
+I've confirmed for  Necronomicon.  I'm looking forward to it;
+it'll be the first time I've been in Floida.
+
+        jms
+
+
+Subj:  Tonight's repeat episode  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Rob Carr         Sunday, December 31, 1995 10:44:21 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #423904
+
+     Actually, from my perspective, it was never intended as
+a shot at Christians at  all; it was a warning shot to any
+breed of fanaticism that does not question itself,  that
+assumes, for whatever reason, that it is right and must impose
+that  rightness on others, no matter the price (usually paid
+by others).  To quote a line  from "Infection," "When you
+become obsessed with the enemy, you *become*  the enemy."  So
+I guess you could describe it as a shot at Christianity only
+if you  choose to define it in those terms; if not, then it's
+not.
+
+     Certainly, though, it does point to being sure that one
+is doing what one is  doing for the right reasons, and the sin
+of pride, which we all know has a  tendency to goeth before a
+fall.
+
+     For me, one of the important things about this show is to
+make people *think*  about what they believe.  If they come
+right back to what they originally believed,  that's fine. 
+But they've *considered why* they believe it.  In all too many
+cases,  our beliefs -- social, political, religious -- are
+just sort of *there*, invisible,  ineffable and unassailable,
+as much a part of the universe as the air around us.   We
+don't necessarily think WHY we believe it...we do.  Which is
+why, all too often,  when someone is challenged on what they
+believe, they don't have the tools to  defend it in any way
+other than force or anger.  But if you *have* considered your 
+beliefs, and you know why you feel a certain way, you can
+articulate it, explain it,  and be more self-confident in it. 
+It allows you to have discussions rathe than  arguments,
+schisms, or border wars.
+
+     Like I said, I don't have any answers...all I got are
+some questions, but they're  pretty good questions.  Our
+greatest peril is always the danger of the  unexamined life.
+
+     Re: C.S. Lewis...yes, I've read his stuff, from the
+Screwtape Letters (which are  great fun) to Perelandra and
+That Hideous Strength and others, including some  of his
+polemics and essays on christianity.  He was a good thinker
+and a facile  writer...which was sometimes good, and sometimes
+not so, because he had a  tendency to set up straw-man
+arguments, which made for more persuasive  dogma but not
+always reasonable discussion.
+
+     And yes, I've read the bible cover to cover, twice.  Some
+good moral tales, an  awful lot of blood and violence, some
+real slow parts (anyone who can make it  all the way through
+Numbers and Deuteronomy has my unbridled respect),  some real
+potboilers, a few plot holes and an inconsistent hero, but
+overall,  commendable reading.  (Though one could argue that
+any number of later  writers did a better job of pure writing
+than is present in the bible -- no  self-respecting writer
+would stop the narrative so often for a few thousand begats 
+and the discussion of cubits...well, except maybe for Herman
+Mellville, who had  far too many asides on whaling technology
+as parentheticals in Moby Dick...and  one should certainly
+think that a deity would be at least a good a writer as 
+Pynchon or Salinger or Joyce...still, there are spurts of
+greatness; the book of Job  is possibly one of the best
+stories ever written, and there's much in Psalms and  Proverbs
+to commend itself to anyone...though best to keep the Song of 
+Solomon out of the hands of kids...some racy stuff there....)
+
+        jms
+
+
+Subj:  Taking up your space   Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Ray Pelzer       Sunday, December 31, 1995 10:44:22 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #423905
+
+      <Quoting Ray Pelzer to JMS>:
+
+      >Joe:  Thanks for letting my take up so much space in
+      >your section with this whole  USENET/CIS-censorship
+      >issue.  I only considered that many people would read 
+      >the nessage if it was in Section 5, but I didn't
+      >consider the impact it was having on  B5-related
+      >messages.  Now that the ball is rolling, I'm going to
+      >move the  messages to Section 19, and thank you again
+      >for your patience with me.
+
+     No problem.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  $ to run B5            Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  mike lovitt      Sunday, December 31, 1995 10:44:27 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #423907
+
+     Yes, it's been established that the Minbari and the
+Centauri both funded B5  early on, and docking fees and other
+charges help pay for day to day operations.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Official Fanclub       Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Keith R. Nelms   Sunday, December 31, 1995 10:45:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #423908
+
+      <Quoting Keith R. Helms to JMS>:
+
+      >What can be done to convince WB there is a market for
+      >widescreen B5 on  laserdisc?
+
+      It would likely take nothing less than an absolute
+revelation from the  heavens....
+
+        jms
+
+
+Subj:  East End, West End     Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Daniel Barer     Thursday, December 28, 1995 2:58:18 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #422370
+
+      <Quoting Daniel Barer to JMS>:
+
+      >I was watching "Comes the Inquisitor" with closed-
+      >captioning on tonight (easier  to ride the exercise
+      >bike while watching that way) and noticed that Sheridan
+      >now  states (correctly) the murders occured in the East
+      >End, while the captions (and  Boxleitner's lips, on re-
+      >viewing) still say West End.  Glad you fixed the slip--
+      >are the captions etched in stone?
+
+     Y'know, I'd totally forgotten about the captions.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+     Nuts.
+
+       jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Shadow Training        Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Michael Zitaglio Tuesday, December 26, 1995 10:35:12 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #421902
+
+      {regarding Rangers being trained to fight the Shadows}
+
+     This is one of those questions that can only best be
+answered in the course  of the series; you'll learn a lot more
+about this subject this season.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Shadow Training        Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Susan Law      Wednesday, December 27, 1995 4:32:28 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #421938
+
+     Of course, judging from recent episodes, Sheridan seems
+to have been a bit  remiss in continuing his lessons from
+Kosh...ah, well, there'll probably be a price  to pay for that
+somewhere down the road.  Only question is who'll have to pay
+it.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Will Zathras reappear?    Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Gerald Himmelein    December 27, 1995 8:31:26 PM 
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #422229
+
+     Yes, he'll appear; no, not before the two-parter; yes,
+it'll be the same actor.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Will Zathras reappear? Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Lolita  . Maddalena    December 28, 1995 2:58:17 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #422369
+
+      <Quoting Lolita  . Maddalena to JMS>:
+
+      >Tell me if I'm wrong, but Zathras has been on the
+      >planet with the old mimbari,  hasn't he?
+
+     Well, that's what Draal said earlier....
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Will Zathras reappear? Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Gerald Himmelein  Friday, December 29, 1995 9:16:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #423103
+
+      <Quoting Gerald Himmelein to JMS>:
+
+      >Comment: Zathras looked somewhat bird-like, much like
+      >an owl, a screech owl  (Kauz, in German). Now, Zathras
+      >behaves like a "komischer Kauz" (oddball). So  his
+      >behavior and appearance match, at least in German. <g>
+      >Coincidence or  cleverness on the creator's part?
+
+     Coincidence; I ain't that smart.
+
+      jms
+
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+Subj:  B5Convention           Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  The Jawa / Jawa #2  Monday, January 01, 1996 7:15:16 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #424182
+
+      {regarding how long it took to get the "Kosh scene" just
+       right}
+
+     It took, literally, months of trial and error, design and
+redesign, which is why  we did it as the last episode of that
+season.
+
+       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Talia/Control Nitpick  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  John Van Aken    Tuesday, January 02, 1996 1:28:18 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #424358
+
+      {regarding referring to Control as "he"}
+
+      You always refer to agents in the single "he" form to
+avoid giving away  identities.
+
+      That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+       jms
+
+
+Subj:  JMS at Necrnomicon?    Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Richard P. Manny   Tuesday, January 02, 1996 3:35:07 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #424585
+
+      {regarding when Necronomicon is}
+
+     October sometime.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Tonight's repeat episode  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Rob Carr         Monday, January 01, 1996 9:50:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #424288
+
+     BTW, if you're really looking for something around which
+to base a sermon,  read Mark Twain's "The Man Who Corrupted
+Hadleyburg," available in most of  his anthologies.  I think
+the operative point will come through without my having to
+spell it out here.
+
+       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Official Fanclub       Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Keith R. Nelms   Monday, January 01, 1996 7:15:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #424181
+
+      <Quoting Keith R. Helms to JMS>:
+
+      >is there someone somewhere we can write, call, fax,
+      >email, etc.?
+
+     Nope, it's been tried, without success, so we may attempt
+doing the videos  ourselves on a limited-edition basis.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  ST Book from J Friedmann  Section: Star Trek: General
+  To:  paul wood        Monday, January 01, 1996 3:03:27 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #423942
+
+     At last count there were only a few copies of Ellison's
+CITY ON THE EDGE OF  FOREVER limited-edition hardcover,
+containing various versions of the script,  outlines, essays
+by Nimoy and Takai and Koenig and Kelley and others.  You  can
+order one by calling 1-800-528-3310.  They're $75 plus $5
+shipping and  handling.  (And they're gorgeous, well-made
+books, btw, well worth the money.)
+
+        jms
+
+
+Subj:  ST Book from J Friedmann  Section: Star Trek: General
+  To:  GREG LASH        Monday, January 01, 1996 7:15:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #424180
+
+      <Quoting GREG LASH to JMS>:
+
+      >I understand that the trade hardcover edition of THE
+      >CITY ON THE  EDGE OF FOREVER has been cancelled. What's
+      >up with that?
+
+     Borderlands Press will not be doing the trade paperback
+because it did not  have the final rights to do so, and other
+problems during the production of the  book -- the high number
+of typos and errors made that delayed the book's  publication
+-- led to the rights being taken elsewhere.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Upcoming:B5 Ep         Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Daniel M. Upton  Monday, January 01, 1996 7:15:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #424183
+
+      <Quoting Daniel M. Upton to JMS>:
+
+      >Speaking of Trek/B5 crossovers did you notice that the
+      >Star Fleet Admiral who is  apparently involved in a
+      >conspiracy to take over the Federation government 
+      >because it isn't taking the Founder/Gem Haddar threat
+      >seriously enough is  played by the same actor who does
+      >Gen. Hague?
+
+      Yeah, I caught that, and the description in TV
+Guide...y'know, this is really  starting to bug me....
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  Upcoming:B5 Ep         Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Philip Hornsey   Tuesday, January 02, 1996 3:35:09 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #424586
+
+     "Imitation is the sincerest form of television."  Fred
+Allen
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Bester PsiCorp Shadows ?  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Jeffrey Martino   Monday, January 01, 1996 9:43:10 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #424280
+
+     No, it wasn't Bester at the Senator's office.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  The Gathering: Garibaldi   Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  SysOp Dupa T. Parrot     January 01, 1996 9:50:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #424287
+
+     No, it was intended to be chemically inoffensive...I
+think the props folks just  put out drinks on the table and
+didn't think too much about it.
+
+       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Hello!                 Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Neil Blevins     Monday, January 01, 1996 9:54:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #424289
+
+      <Quoting Neil Blevins to The Jawa/Jawa #2>
+
+      >You're  a Jawa and not a Jawaette. Are there male
+      >Jawas? I know so little about your  species.
+
+
+     Jawanettes?  Jawaninas?  Jawanesses?  Jawarinas? 
+Jawanatrix? 
+Jawatress?
+
+        jms
+
+
+Subj:  Last of the Dilgar ???   Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Gerard Keating (Ireland) January 02, 1996 3:35:04 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #424584
+
+      <Quoting Gerard Keating to JMS>:
+
+      >"Have we seen the last of the DeathWalkers race, The
+      >Dilgar?"
+
+     They're dead as doornails.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Upcoming:B5 Ep         Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  JULIA            Monday, January 01, 1996 3:09:03 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #423943
+
+      {Regarding Majel Barrett Roddenberry going back into 
+       acting}
+
+      I'd just like to say that Majel did a great job for us
+on B5, and we are hoping  we can come up with other opportuni-
+ties for the character to return.  I know that  Majel is
+interested in pursuing other acting gigs outside ST, and I
+wish her all the  best.  I think other shows would do well to
+utilize her abilities; everyone had a  great time working with
+her, and she should be recognized for work other than  ST.
+
+       Perhaps folks should let the producers of other shows
+know that she's  available now, and interested, and that
+they'd like to see her appear on other  shows from time to
+time.  (Maybe someone could drop the folks at X-Files of 
+Space a note in their forums....)
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  From jms: info         Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Pat Russell      Tuesday, January 02, 1996 1:28:19 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #424359
+
+      <Quoting Pat Russell to JMS>:
+
+      >Walter is doing a great job with Bester.  Understand we
+      >will  see him again this season.  Looking forward to
+      >it.  Tell him he does "rotten" well.   
+
+     Yeah, Walter's doing a great job with it.  So far we're
+going to see Bester twice  this season at least, which I'm
+very happy about.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  From jms: info         Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Joe Salemi [ZD Net]    January 03, 1996 4:22:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #425082
+
+     Walter is also in "Ship of Tears."
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  From jms: info         Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Joe Salemi [ZD Net]    January 04, 1996 2:47:08 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #425352
+
+      {regarding B5 being one of the top rated shows on WDCA}
+
+     That's good to know; WDCA has been very supportive of B5
+from the very  beginning, hence the show is, as you quote,
+"one of (their) highest rated  programs."  Those that treat
+the show well, find it *does* well.
+
+       jms
+
+
+Subj:  The One                Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Mark Koro        Tuesday, January 02, 1996 8:31:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #424747
+
+     Careful...you're straying into concrete story ideas
+here....
+
+       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Dr. Seuss version of B5.   Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  JMS,             Tuesday, January 02, 1996 8:28:15 PM
+From:  C Clark                      #424744
+
+This Message, by Kevin Freels, was posted to the RASTB5
+newsgroup a few  days ago and I repost it here with permis-
+sion.
+
+If Dr. Suess had written for Babylon 5....
+
+(...Intro music starts up when 
+we see the network of P-TEN...)
+
+We live here on Bab'lon 5
+to keep our last great hope alive.
+So far, it seems, since Season One,
+The war of Shadows has begun.
+So victory now is what we need
+if Bab'lon Five is to succeed!
+
+This Minbari, she's Delenn.
+She speaks in riddles now & then.
+She has a bone upon her head.
+She'd rather have some hair instead.
+
+Delenn:
+"Hi there! Ho there! My old friend!
+It's nice to see you once again.
+Come, let's talk of Councils Gray,
+And Crystal candles as we pray.
+I live here on Bab'lon Five
+To keep our last great hope alive."
+
+This is Delenn's friend, Lennier.
+You may ask, "Why is he here?
+He looks familiar! I know his face!
+He used to be on 'Lost in Space'!".
+Just like her, he's real verbose,
+And smells like fish-heads when you're up close.
+
+Londo:
+"I am Londo, tall and proud!
+(though some might say that I'm too loud!)
+I'm Centauri, so you see.
+My hair defies all gravity.
+We Centauri will someday rule.
+(Actually, we're just a tool.
+The Shadows really run the game.
+Alas! Such is the price of fame!)
+I like women, game, and drink.
+I drink and drink 'till I can't think!
+I live here on Bab'lon Five
+To keep my ego hopes alive.
+
+This is my assistant, Vir."
+
+Vir:
+"I would like--"
+
+Londo:      "Get out of here!"
+
+This green lizard is G'Kar.
+He has come from very far.
+
+G'Kar:
+"I'm not a lizard! I'm a Narn!
+Time is crucial! I must warn!
+We're all in danger! Londo's nuts!
+His henchmen shadows kicked our butts!
+They've driven us down to our knees!
+Send lawyers, guns and money, please!
+Ion cannons! Ruby lasers!
+Even dusty Star Trek phasers!"
+
+This is Kosh. He gives me creeps!
+He barely speaks, just whirrrs & beeps.
+
+Kosh:
+*clakkity* *clakkity*!! *whirrr* *buzz* Beep!
+"You've always been here!" *ka-chunk* *gleep*!
+
+He always says that in fog-like scenes.
+I still don't know just what it means!
+He wears that suit to hide from us.
+Does he wear it on the bus?
+
+Garibaldi:
+"They're all guilty! Every one!
+I'll bust 'em up to have some fun!
+I'll bring in those bad beserkers,
+All those liars, thieves and lurkers."
+
+He's my Chief Security.
+Testosterone flows in him free.
+He's pretty edgy. I know why.
+Since Mars was home, well, he's been dry.
+He's really hyper, so I think.
+But imagine if he had a drink!
+
+This is Susan--
+
+Ivanova:
+             "As you were!
+I'm Ivanova! And call me 'Sir'!
+I'm delicate, on one small side,
+But touch me and I'll tan your hide!
+And though to you I might appeal,
+I once faked sex to clinch a deal.
+So stand your post and keep your ground,
+Or, I promise, you I'll pound."
+
+Meet the Doctor. He stays up late,
+And works for forty hours straight!
+
+Dr. Franklin:
+"I heal aliens, those are my jobs.
+Humans and Martians, Reptiles and Blobs! 
+Wozzles and Snangles and Bug-eyed Kertunkers!
+Yellow-faced insects with Red-winged Dondunkers!
+Centauri! Membari! Vorlons and Narn!
+I'd even help creatures made out of yarn!
+So I will stay living on Bab'lon Five
+To keep all these strange little creatures alive!"
+
+Talia's a telepath.
+She once followed in our path.
+But a time-bomb in her mind
+Has made her evil and unkind.
+It's doubtful she can be our friend.
+Our trust in her is at an end.
+
+The Psi-corp has a man named Bester.
+He could be labled "Mind Molester".
+He's evil, mean, and nasty, too!
+He can read the thoughts of you.
+We must give him credit, tho.
+He drove a starship years ago.
+
+Bester:
+"I've known your kind and what to do.
+So I'll be back. Be seeing you."
+
+This man Morden, standing here.
+He is one that you should fear.
+He has shadows for his brothers.
+He doesn't play so well with others.
+
+---
+
+So that's my story. It's lonely here.
+We're so far out, there is no beer.
+
+I'm stuck out here on Bab'lon Five
+To keep our last great hope alive.
+I'm stuck out here, it's just not fair!
+It's all the fault of that Sinclair!
+He bailed out, I took the fall,
+And now he won't return my call!
+
+But...
+
+It could be worse, it's just five years.
+Or I could have Ferengi ears.
+And when all is said and done,
+I'm not Harlan Ellison!
+--
+...kevin
+
+
+Subj:  Dr. Seuss version of B5.  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  C Clark    Wednesday, January 03, 1996 12:26:02 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #424821
+
+     Too, too, too weird....funny, though....
+
+        jms
+
+
+Subj:  ARRRRRRRRGGGHHH!       Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Lynn Dimock      Wednesday, January 03, 1996 2:49:15 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #424857
+
+      <Quoting Lynn Dimock to ALL>:
+
+      >I'm sorry, I know this is thread drift, but my team is
+      >getting its butt whopped at the  Fiesta Bowl and I am
+      >ready to scream. It's not so much the score as the way 
+      >three Florida guys have had to be hauled off the field
+      >so far (how many football  players do you hear of with
+      >dislocated *hips* for crying out loud), and the general
+      >attitude of the Nebraska players. And yes, if my guys
+      >were acting like that I'd still  be upset (though, to
+      >be honest, not as much).
+
+     You are not ready for victory.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Bester PsiCorp Shadows ?  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  J. Michael Straczynski    January 03, 1996 8:56:22 PM
+From:  John Van Aken                #425236
+
+<<No, it wasn't Bester at the Senator's office.>>
+
+This is probably one of those Questions Which Will Not Be
+Answered, but...
+
+..any reason why?
+
+
+Subj:  Bester PsiCorp Shadows ?   Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  John Van Aken    Thursday, January 04, 1996 2:47:06 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #425351
+
+     Yes.
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Bester PsiCorp Shadows ?  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Tom LeCompte     Thursday, January 04, 1996 2:56:20 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #425354
+
+     "To define is to kill; to suggest is to create." 
+Mallarme.
+
+       jms
+
+
+Subj:  THANKS FOREVER BOOK    Section: Star Trek: General
+  To:  paul wood        Thursday, January 04, 1996 2:47:10 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #425353
+
+    Actually, the reruns aren't skipping the season 3 opener,
+only (for some  reason) the season 2 closer; the first one of
+year three just aired here in LA  tonight, in fact.
+
+     And thanks....
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  ITS OVER               Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  James A. Du Bois Thursday, January 04, 1996 2:56:21 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #425355
+
+      <Quoting Jeff Frank>:
+
+      >Just to pick a nit that drives me up the fraggen wall: 
+      >The millennia doesn't end  on December 31, 1999, but on
+      >December 31, 2000.  There was no year 0 so the  end of
+      >the first thousand years occurred on December 31, 1000.
+
+     Funny thing is, some mathematicians disagree with this
+assessment; no,  there was no year 0, but there was a year 10
+and 20 and 30 and so on (though  all, as you note, assigned in
+retrospect).  So some of them have taken the  position that
+the first century was simply short one year, rather than
+rolling every  other century back one year.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Legacies Question      Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Michael Guenther Friday, January 05, 1996 1:52:28 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #425833
+
+      <Quoting Michael Guenther to JMS>:
+
+      >I just saw Legacies last night and I have a question
+      >for you concerning the young  Telepath introduced in
+      >the story. Now that  Alison and Sinclair are on the
+      >Minbari  homeworld has Sinclair met her since then? 
+      >Will we see more of her?  I'm sure  a P10 would come in
+      >handy for the coming struggle...
+
+     There are no current plans for that character, no.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Aliens Streib       Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Bert Johnson     Friday, January 05, 1996 1:52:29 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #425834
+
+      <Quoting Bert Johnson to JMS>:
+
+      >I have been going throught the AVI files in my new B5
+      >screen saver and came  upon the Streib.  Are they named
+      >in recogntion of Whitley Streiber's aliens in his 
+      >books?  They look the same.
+
+     It's a nod, yes; and the comics were/are meant to be
+complementary, within  the B5 universe but not required to
+follow the show.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Aliens Streib       Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  The Jawa / Jawa #2  Friday, January 05, 1996 3:46:10 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #426115
+
+      {regarding a new B5 novel}
+
+     Yes, there's another novel due out fairly soon, within
+the next month or so.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Official Fanclub       Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Susan Law        Friday, January 05, 1996 1:52:31 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #425835
+
+      <Quoting Susan Law to JMS>:
+
+      >Saw your post on rastb5 a couple of days ago - enjoyed
+      >it.  Anyhow regarding B5  merchandise that you're
+      >considering - how about the Ranger pins -  any chance 
+      >of those being available?  I'd sure spring for one.  
+
+     Not a bad idea; those would be expensive to make, though,
+so I'm not sure if  it'd work.  We'll see....
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5: Promoting B5       Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  peter  stathis   Friday, January 05, 1996 2:10:31 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #425841
+
+      <Quoting Peter Sathis to ALL>:
+
+      >Just curious, but I was wondering why none of the cast
+      >members have done the  talk show circuit? It couldn't
+      >hurt. I also heard that when Harlan was on Tom 
+      >Snyder's show he made no mention of B5 at all.
+
+     Once again you make broad statements: "none of the cast
+members have  done the talk show circuit."  Not correct. 
+Bruce has done the Stephanie Miller  show, showed up on the
+Tonight Show, the Mike and Maddie show (same there  for Jerry
+Doyle, who's done other talk shows including several network
+morning  shows, such as the the FX cable network show),
+they've all done various national  radio shows, and other talk
+shows.
+
+     So for starters you're not correct; they're doing some,
+and we're working on  doing more.  The problem is that most
+talk shows want major, recognized stars  from hit network
+shows, and syndication doesn't get a lot of attention there.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Official Fanclub       Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Asha DeVelder    Saturday, January 06, 1996 12:20:21 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #426399
+
+     We literally just signed the contracts; we now have to
+get a space for the  fanclub operations, set up the www page
+(which we hope will be up during the  next batch of episodes),
+hire the people we've selected to run it, and then we can  put
+the word out.  As with everything else, we always make sure
+we're prepared  before going forward with anything.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Minbari Military       Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Paul Owen        Saturday, January 06, 1996 12:20:18 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #426396
+
+      <Quoting Paul Owen to JMS>:
+
+      >As we are waiting for Season 3 here in the UK I was
+      >just wondering why are the  Rangers here at all?? where
+      >is the Minbari military in all of this , ? Is this
+      >another  twist in an already superbly convoluted
+      >plot???.  Is this going to become clearer in S3
+
+     This is one of the things that's better gone into in the
+show.
+
+       jms
+
+
+Subj:  "Survivors" question...  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Neville White    Saturday, January 06, 1996 12:20:19 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #426397
+
+      <Quoting Neville White to JMS>:
+
+      >I hope you don't mind me asking, but I was wondering
+      >the other day whether  there was any come-back on the
+      >woman from Garibaldi's past that we saw in  "Survivors"
+      >back in series one... security for president Santiago,
+      >yet he got  assassinated at the end of series one...
+
+     No, we haven't established what happened to her, but we
+will in time.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  "Survivors" question...Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Gerald Himmelein Saturday, January 06, 1996 6:13:18 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #426857
+
+      <Quoting Gerald Himmelein to JMS>:
+
+      >{Well, we'll be waiting for her reappearance (or will
+      >she only appear in a  "throwaway line" like the
+      >resolution of the situation on Ragesh 3 in Season 1?).}
+
+     No, if we go into what happened, and where she is, it
+kinda behooves us to  show her.
+
+        jms
+
+
+Subj:  Midnight in the ...    Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Sharon Foster    Saturday, January 06, 1996 12:20:20 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #426398
+
+      <Quoting Sharon Foster to JMS>:
+
+      >Forgive me if this has been asked a dozen times by now,
+      >but a friend of mine  wants to know if Harlan's story
+      >in next month's Fantasy & Science Fiction, called 
+      >"Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral", is a Babylon 5
+      >story and if so, is it canonical.   He says it was the
+      >working title of an episode that never got made.
+
+    No, it's not a B5 story; he liked the title, and used it
+there instead.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Grand Admiral          Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Charles Agius    Saturday, January 06, 1996 12:20:25 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #426400
+
+     Knowing Bruce, *every* charity is his favorite charity. 
+Any one you pick will  likely be fine.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Famous "Who Are you?"  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Phillip A. Cochran     January 06, 1996 6:13:13 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #426855
+
+      {regarding the question "who are you?"}
+
+     Yeah, that's one of the primal questions, isn't it?  And
+one that we are too often  distracted from considering.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Ship of Tears> Stuff  Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  John M. Kahane   Sunday, January 07, 1996 7:21:12 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #427668
+
+      <Quoting John M. Kahane to JMS>:
+
+      >is there  more that you can say about this episode and
+      >the Bester role?
+
+     Could, yeah, but I'd rather let that episode reveal
+itself...there's not much I can  say about it that wouldn't
+spoil it for people.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Tonight's repeat episode  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Rebecca Eschliman  Sunday, January 07, 1996 7:21:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #427669
+
+      <Quoting Rebecca Eschliman to JMS>:
+
+      >Whether Centauri, Narn, Minbari, Drazi, Vorlon, If  one
+      >stops to think about the fact that these civilizations
+      >have not developed  against a background of human
+      >interactions it is a lot more difficult to assign a 
+      >morality to their actions.  Therefore one has to
+      >examine one's own ethical beliefs  is contrast to
+      >whatever reactions we have to your other civilazations
+      >and one  hopes, to think about why we believe what we
+      >do.
+
+      I think it's not enough just to *have* non-Earth
+civilizations.  First you have to  explore them, and set them
+up as real, individual forces. Second, it becomes  easy to
+say, "Well, I don't have to think about this particular issue,
+it's just an alien  thing.  Isn't it interesting that they
+should feel this way?"  It's more effective in  some way to
+make the *really* challenging issues ones that directly
+involve  humans...it doesn't leave us as much wriggle room to
+avoid considering the  issue.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  KIDIST REMARK IN "TKO" Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  The Jawa / Jawa #2  Sunday, January 07, 1996 7:32:24 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #427671
+
+      <Quoting The Jawa/Jawa #2 to JMS>:
+
+      >This is a catastrophe of immense proportions!!
+      >IVANOVA MADE A KIDIST REMARK IN "TKO"!
+      >The scene: father's memorial.
+      >The remark: "...pouting in that way that only 13
+      >     can..."
+      >I don't know what to do.
+      >Ivanova seemed so *decent!*
+      >Joe, Joe, how could you let that slip PAST??
+      >What should we do?
+
+     Point One: the script was written by Larry DiTillio, not
+me.
+
+     Point Two: the comment is essentially correct; ain't
+nobody can pout like a 13  year old.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  A question about Morden   Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Michael Milutinovic  Monday, January 08, 1996 1:41:22
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #428074
+
+      <Quoting Michael Milutinovic to JMS>:
+
+      >Are the Sheridan, Garibaldi and the others keeping an
+      >eye on Morden?
+
+     They do when he's there, or at least they try to, but
+he's not there a lot, and  when he is...well, see for your-
+self....
+
+       jms
+
+
+Subj:  Another oldie query...   Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Neville White    Monday, January 08, 1996 11:56:07 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #428578
+
+      <Quoting Neville White to JMS>:
+
+      ><snip>
+      >Lennier revealed to Sheridan et. al. at the start of
+      >series 2 the issue of  discovering Minbari souls in
+      >(some?) humans as the reason for surrendering at  the
+      >climax of the war.
+      >
+      >My question is:- does Sinclair know this too? Do the
+      >Minbari know how much he  knows, and if so do they mind
+      >now? If this all gets sorted out in the much  antici-
+      >pated series 3, you can just say "it's in series 3" if
+      >you like!
+
+     Sinclair knows now.  And the triluminary mark is an
+implant, which reacts that  way in the presence of shadows or
+their direct "employees."
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  "And Now a Word..."    Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  William H. DiPaola     January 08, 1996 11:56:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #428579
+
+      <Quoting William H. DiPaola to JMS>:
+
+      >I seem to recall in the episode from last  season
+      >titled, "And Now A Word..." that G'Kar's name was
+      >misspelled with in "H"  in place of the "K" when he was
+      >being interviewed(G'Har).
+
+     No, I'm pretty sure it was spelled right; it may just be
+the typeface used that  makes a K look a bit like an H.
+
+        jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Novels              Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  John M. Kahane   Monday, January 08, 1996 11:56:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #428581
+
+     There are two more novels coming out after "Clark's Law,"
+one by Neal Barrett  Jr. and the other by S. M. Stirling.
+
+      jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Novels			Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Mark D. Smith, Wednesday, January 10, 1996 11:40:03 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#429807
+
+     His novel is about Babylon 5.  You were expecting talking mice?
+
+     (To say more is to give it away; suffice to say that Stirling's 
+book has some really nice stuff with Garibaldi, Londo and Ivanova in 
+particular, though the other characters are treated nicely as well.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+Subj:  Our Official Name      Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Rowan Kaiser,    Tuesday, January 09, 1996 2:57:22 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #428643
+
+      <Quoting Rowan Kaiser to ALL>:
+
+      >What's our official name?  Star Trek buffs are 
+      >"trekkies", X-files fans are  "X-philes", MST3K fans
+      >are MiSTies, so what are we?
+
+       PITAS.
+
+       Persons of Infinite Taste And Sensibilities.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  <FoN: Scarves>         Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  SysOp Dupa T. Parrot   January 10, 1996 3:59:17 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #429310
+
+      <Quoting SysOp Dupa T. Parrot to JMS>:
+
+      >In "The Fall Of Night", in the fighter jock's locker
+      >room we see Keffer wearing a  blue scarf with white
+      >stars. Meanwhile, "Mitch" is wearing what looks like a
+      >white  scarf with red stars.  Is the scarf a squadron
+      >thing or something else?
+
+     I do believe they relate to squadrons, yes.
+
+       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Ship of Tears> Stuff  Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  John M. Kahane   Sunday, January 07, 1996 7:21:12 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #427668
+
+      <Quoting John M. Kahane to JMS>:
+
+      >Isn't this the one that  has Shadow ship and stuff in
+      >it?  I don't know all that much about it, but is there 
+      >more that you can say about this episode and the Bester
+      >role?
+
+     Could, yeah, but I'd rather let that episode reveal
+itself...there's not much I can  say about it that wouldn't
+spoil it for people.
+
+         jms
+
+
+Subj:  "Survivors" question...  Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  John M. Kahane   Monday, January 08, 1996 11:56:16 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #428582
+
+      <Quoting John M. Kahane to JMS>:
+
+      >I have always thought that Lianna Kemmer  was an
+      >important person in the life of Michael Garibaldi, and
+      >"Survivors" left a few  threads hanging.  It'll be good
+      >to see or at least find out what happened to Lianna  in
+      >the aftermath of Santiago's death.  If nothing else, I
+      >don't think she was on  board Earthforce One when it
+      >blew, since she'd be doing the work on Io station 
+      >proper, right?
+
+     That's correct; as with her arrival at B5, she would've
+been handling the  advance work on Io prior to Santiago's
+arrival.
+
+       jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Ship of Tears> Stuff		Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  John M. Kahane, Thursday, January 11, 1996 12:33:05 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#429846
+
+     I'll say one thing about one of those eps, but I won't say which 
+one; when people hear what it appears to be about, the immediate 
+reaction is going to be "Oh, god, they're not doing THAT are they?" 
+and there'll be a lot of sarcasm and head shaking...until the 
+episode airs, and folks see that what it's about...is *not* what it's 
+about...and I think it'll be a very popular episode thereafter.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Novels			Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  John M. Kahane, Saturday, January 13, 1996 2:00:20 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#431161
+
+     What happens is that the company waits until they know if the 
+series is picked up for the next season before issuing more books; 
+once we're picked up, they assign more books to writers, so 
+there's always a delay.
+
+                    jms
+
+
+Subj:  <Ship of Tears> Stuff		Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  Tom Knudsen, Thursday, January 11, 1996 11:57:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#430516
+
+	<<"Oh, god, they're not doing THAT are they?" and there'll be
+a lot of sarcasm and head shaking...until the episode airs, and folks 
+see that what it's about...is *not* what it's about...and I think 
+it'll be a very popular episode thereafter>
+
+	So the episode we see will not be the episode we see, nor
+will it be the episode seen by anyone else???>
+
+     Go to your room.
+
+                  jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  A question about Morden		Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Nigel Nixon, Thursday, January 11, 1996 3:11:08 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#430246
+
+<Just a thought, but was the bod who supplied The Eye in Signs and 
+Portents one of the Shadows little helpers?>
+
+     If you mean Morden, yes.
+
+                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Another oldie query...		Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Robert Miller, Friday, January 12, 1996 2:54:28 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#430797
+
+<>>And the triluminary mark is an implant, which reacts that way in 
+the presence of shadows or their direct "employees."
+
+In that case, why did it appear on Delenn's forehead during 
+Sinclair's interrogation at the Battle of the Line?  And why was it 
+on the Grey Council member's forehead at the end of "And the Sky 
+Full of Stars"?>
+
+      It's also the insignia of the Grey Council, given its long 
+tradition of safeguarding.  They use it at certain times and under 
+certain conditions.
+
+                jms
+
+
+Subj:  Fan club				Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Gary Weinfurther, Saturday, January 13, 1996 2:00:21 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#431162
+
+     Like I said, we've barely gotten the paperwork signed; we're in 
+the process now of initiating a web site, getting the incorporation 
+papers, so we're still doing all the business stuff at this point.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  Ellison voice of comp?		Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Brian A. Thomas, Saturday, January 13, 1996 2:00:22 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#431163
+
+     Yes, Harlan does the voice; where did you get the notion that 
+he was going to be less involved?
+
+                              jms
+
+
+Subj:  Ellison voice of comp?		Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  The Jawa / Jawa #2, Saturday, January 13, 1996 8:28:01 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#431581
+
+     Harlan does whatever Harlan wants.
+
+                                    jms
+
+
+Subj:  Ellison voice of comp?		Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  The Jawa / Jawa #2, Sunday, January 14, 1996 4:53:12 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#432052
+
+	<So basically he stands there and says, "I like that...
+that's good...I like that...<whack> Joe, what were you thinking?--
+that needs to be redone completely!"
+	Then he tells you how he thinks you should do it.
+	Am I close <G>?>
+
+     Not bad.
+
+          jms
+
+
+
+Subj:  Opening credits season 3		Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Morris L. Gavant, M.D., Sunday, January 14, 1996 4:53:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#432051
+
+<Is their any significance to the fact that only half the cast is 
+turning their heads on the opening credits?  I believe it's 
+Garibaldi, Zack, G'Kar, and Vir.  Does that indicate that their 
+stories "turn" this year also or that the story turns around them?>
+
+     No, I don't think even I could ever manage to be that obscure.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+Subj:  "Star Lost" TV Series		Section: SF/Fantasy TV
+  To:  Jeff Kuzma, Monday, January 15, 1996 1:27:02 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#432326
+
+     "...never once did he (Harlan) disown that effort (`City 
+on the Edge of Forever')...."
+
+     The only thing wrong with that statement is that it 
+isn't true.
+
+     Harlan only kept his own name on City after Roddenberry 
+pleaded with him to do so; further, it was Harlan's *original* 
+script, not the rewrite, that earned the Writers Guild of 
+America award that year...and, in fact, he has *always* 
+maintained in print, and in every interview that he's given, 
+that he is in no way responsible for the televised version.  
+You are, basically, repeating a canard that Gene repeated at 
+cons, that was not in any way, manner, shape or form the 
+truth.
+
+     If you want to get the documented facts in this case, not 
+the mythos that's grown up around it, I suggest you get the 
+Borderlands Press version of "City," which includes memos, all 
+versions of the script and outline, and afterwords by Nimoy, 
+Kelley, Koenig, Takai and others involved in the episode.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+Subj:  Matters of Honor			Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  T.N.Tumbusch, Monday, January 15, 1996 7:52:25 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#432789
+
+<I was watching "Matters of Honor" last night. In the scene where 
+Londo is telling Morden to "disappear," there is a Minbari in the 
+background who I could swear is Lennier. Has Delenn's aide been 
+shadowing the shadow man?>
+
+     Nope, not Lennier.
+
+                    jms
+
+Subj:  B5 Novels			Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
+  To:  John M. Kahane, Tuesday, January 16, 1996 6:30:00 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#433351
+
+     <Mind you this does bring a question to mind:  Will there, 
+assuming the series reaches the end of Year 5 on tv, and there are 
+novels during this period...will there be novels in the B5 universe 
+*after* the series has come to its end?  Is this something that you 
+wouldn't mind, or is it sometning that you wouldn't want to see, 
+because of the continuity headaches and the creation of new material 
+that likely would fall outside the context and scope of the series 
+and the "B5 Bible"?>
+
+      It's something I really haven't had time to consider at this 
+point.
+
+   jms
+
+Subj:  Babylon 5 Movie !?!?!?!?		Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Laurence Moroney, Tuesday, January 16, 1996 6:30:03 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#433353
+
+     There've been discussions about a DTV project, a one-off, but 
+nothing's set yet.  The ratings are doing well; the reason some 
+(not many) stations have time-shifted the show to later hours is 
+that independent stations only have 2 hours per night of prime 
+time, 8-10 p.m., doing news at 10.  More and more they're tied up 
+with pre-set agreements with Fox, UPN and WB, so anything else has 
+to get put into later slots.
+
+                         jms
+
+
+Subj:  Babylon 5 Movie !?!?!?!?		Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Laurence Moroney, Wednesday, January 17, 1996 4:05:11 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#433899
+
+      Well, any time you move to a later slot it's going to affect 
+the numbers.  As for WB moving the show into later slots for 
+purposes alleged in a fanzine...for starters, WB has *zero* control 
+over where the stations run the show.  It's all determined locally.  
+So for starters the story is bogus. Second, on the "expensive" 
+line, our episodes cost just under $900,000 per, as opposed to $1.2 
+to $1.6 million per episode (or more) on DS9 and Voyager. Work it out.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+
+Subj:  Babylon 5 Movie !?!?!?!?		Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  SysOp Dupa T. Parrot, Thursday, January 18, 1996 1:02:09 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#434213
+
+     Seasons one and two both came in slightly under budget; we're 
+still into this season, but three is shaping up about the same.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Studio			Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Michael  Zitaglio, Thursday, January 18, 1996 1:02:09 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#434212
+
+	<I'll be taking a business trip to LA next week and Ill 
+have tuesday afternoon to look around.  I was wondering if the 
+Warner Studios were open then for a visit?  I dont get to LA very 
+often, It is usually San Diego. I just thought I would ask.   
+Thanks.>
+
+     We don't shoot on the Warners lot, so it's kind of a moot 
+question (the facilities we do have, across town, aren't set up for 
+tours, I'm afraid).
+
+                jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Hankies?			Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Bill Hayes, Thursday, January 18, 1996 1:08:17 AM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#434229
+
+     You just have to brace yourself for the work, and burn through 
+it by being somewhat monomanaical and obsessive.  It takes a toll, 
+but in the end, it is or should be worth it, otherwise why do it?
+
+     I've gotten used to handling work and deadlines, so it really 
+doesn't bother me too much, unless I'm really under the gun.  Thus 
+far, I've written something like 170 *produced* TV scripts, maybe 
+a bit more, and by the end of this season will have written 49 B5 
+scripts.  This season, in writing 22 episodes, not counting first 
+drafts and revisions which would double the figure easily, I'll 
+have written about 1,000 pages in less than 10 months. That's two 
+full-sized novels.
+
+     I try not to think about that too much....
+
+                                            jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Hankies?			Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, Thursday, January 18, 1996 1:17:14 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#434507
+
+      I've been on as much as usual; sometimes I have more to say, 
+sometimes even *I* get tired of my own "voice" after a while, and 
+figure everyone else must as well.
+
+                               jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Hankies?			Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  The Jawa / Jawa #2, Friday, January 19, 1996 1:44:17 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#435143
+
+     Not only did "Messages From Earth" come out as well as I'd 
+hoped or thought it would, it came out *better*.  It is, 
+potentially, either one of the best or the best thing we've ever 
+done in the whole series to date. There are some episodes that 
+come close this season, like "Point of No Return," "A Late 
+Delivery From Avalon," "Sic Transit Vir" (for absolutely different 
+reasons), and parts of "Dust to Dust," but so far -- at least until 
+the CGI for "Severed Dreams" is finished, which has at least a shot 
+at knocking "Messages" out of the box -- "Messages" is as close to 
+perfect as we've ever come.
+
+     Like "The Coming of Shadows" there's a real sense of a *story* 
+being told, and major events happening at breakneck speed.  It's 
+just a joy to watch.
+
+                 jms
+
+
+Subj:  B5 Hankies?			Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  The Jawa / Jawa #2, Thursday, January 18, 1996 1:17:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#434508
+
+      I use Movie Master for my scripts, Wordstar 7.0 for prose.  
+None of the files are very big individually, only en masse.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+Subj:  Quick Q about Mindwiping		Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Gerard Keating (Ireland), Friday, January 19, 1996 1:44:15 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#435142
+
+   <I've seen messages where you explained what your position is on 
+the Death Penalty versus Life Imprisonment. I was wondering, if the 
+technology of Mindwiping was available, would you be in favour of 
+it?>
+
+     I actually don't know how I'd stand on that...to render the 
+argument correctly in the show, I've had to "convince" myself on 
+both sides of the issue.  When it happens for real, I'll have an 
+opinion.
+
+     jms
+
+
+Subj:  Q: Laurie Anderson		Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Gerard Keating (Ireland), Friday, January 19, 1996 11:05:05 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#435436
+
+    <I was listening to Laurie Anderson's CD ("The Ugly one with the 
+Jewels") this evening, and a few references cropped up which made my 
+wonder if you had the CD, or had heard it??
+    Apart from the weird voice modulation (not too unlike Kosh) which 
+she calls her "Voice of Authority", she also recounts a story where a 
+little girl is told by her nutty/psychic/religious aunt that doomsday 
+is coming and that the world will end "In Fire!". (These two words 
+being given in the musical 'Voice'.) There may have been a few other 
+oddities, but these stuck out.
+    Isn't co-incidence a strange thing?>
+
+     Haven't heard the CD; yeah, some themes keep coming up in odd 
+places.
+
+    jms
+
+
+Subj:  GROPOS question			Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  John Hardin, Saturday, January 20, 1996 6:01:27 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#435808
+
+<[Posted on behalf of <IndyCCTX@aol.com>]
+
+In "Gropos" Garabaldi tells Dodger of all the weird stuff that's been 
+happening to him, and most of the references I recognized from events 
+on the show, except when he mentions meeting a lady, "the kind a guy 
+like me normally doesn't have a chance with" (paraphrasing from 
+memory).  Who is he talking about?>
+
+     That would be Talia.
+
+                      jms
+
+Subj:  UK B5 20/1/96 CITV		Section: Babylon 5: General
+  To:  Nigel Nixon, Saturday, January 20, 1996 6:02:02 PM
+From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#435810
+
+<A childrens show over here has just featured a set visit to B5, 
+what episode was being made while they were there (A clapperboard 
+has the director as John C. Flinn III and the date as 11/14/95)?>
+
+     That would be Ceremonies of Light and Dark.  What else was shown?
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 21-Jan-96 15:35:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Nigel Nixon <100666.2174@compuserve.com>
+Subject: UK B5 20/1/96 CITV
+
+ Nigel Nixon <100666.2174@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ou est la mauvaise Filles?
+
+     All an extra does is walk across a room, that's all.  There are
+no lines, no performances, just standing in a room or walking across. 
+There aren't a lot of requirements for that, it has nothing to do with
+the story, so I don't quite understand what's got you so exercised
+about this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Jan-96 21:47:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Nigel Nixon <100666.2174@compuserve.com>
+Subject: UK B5 20/1/96 CITV
+
+ Nigel Nixon <100666.2174@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ou est la mauvaise Filles?
+
+     Basically, whether the show is a new one or an old one, it
+doesn't much enter into it...as a syndicated show we take any PR we can
+get.  We didn't go to them, they came to us and said they wanted to do
+it.  We said yes. That was kind of the end-all and be-all of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Jan-96 15:27:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Military Questions
+
+ John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I am very interested in the military in B5, what they are doing?
+> Does the Earth Alliance military simply follow the President, or
+> does the Admiralty have its own mind? Will the EA do anything that
+> the Senators and President says? What does the EA military feel
+> about the loss of its telepaths? What does the EA military think
+> about the station B5? You basically said the Manbire military is
+> under the control of the shadow (rather simple view I know) is
+> the earth military the same way?
+
+     1.  I am very interested in the military in B5, what
+     they are doing?
+
+All kinds of things.  Some good, some not so.
+
+     Does the Earth Alliance military simply follow the
+     President, or does the Admiralty have its own mind?
+
+Any military must respect the chain of command.  You can't have the
+military setting its own agenda.  The president proposes, the military
+disposes.
+
+     Will the EA do anything that the Senators and President
+     says?
+
+Well, the EA military must obey the President as Commander in Chief. 
+The EA government is always quibbling.  They're like that.
+
+     What does the EA military feel about the loss of its
+     telepaths?
+
+The EA military hasn't lost any telepaths that I know of.  Don't know
+what this refers to.
+
+     What does the EA military think about the station B5?
+
+"Cushy job.  And they're a bunch of loose cannons over there.  Maybe
+we better see if we can help straighten things out."
+
+     You basically said the Manbire military is under the
+     control of the shadow (rather simple view I know) is
+     the earth military the same way?
+
+No, I never said that, and the Minbari are NOT under Shadow control.
+
+     My next question is on getting your show on military
+     T.V.  The network is called AFARTS, Armed Forces
+     A(something) Radio and Television something something.
+
+     Anyway, AFARTS does not show commercials. After not
+     seeing stateside commercials for over 5 years, you
+     actually start missing them, anyway, they don't do
+     advertisements, and basically ask for the show.  DS9,
+     Bay watch etc. either give it to AFARTS or gives it to
+     them for next to nothing.
+
+     I was wondering if you were even willing to enterin the
+     ideal.  If so, we have to start a write in "beg
+     campaign" to get worthless AFARTS (actually they are
+     O.K., but it is a sailors right to complain) to talk to
+     someone.  Last big thing was getting the Rush Limbaugh
+     show, on the radio, that had to go to congress, before
+     the FoB plants/sympatiers in the pentagon/Admiralty
+     would allow it.
+
+I'm up for it, we've talked to Warners about it, but it's their call,
+not mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Jan-96 00:12:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Barbara Pfieffer <72302.2453@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New eps & summertime
+
+ Barbara Pfieffer <72302.2453@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would Warners do that?
+> Or are you afraid they'll do the same thing they did to us (and
+> you) last year?
+
+     I haven't yet been apprised of the air schedule past February, so
+I'm as much in the dark as anyone else just now.  I'm hoping for the
+best.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Jan-96 00:12:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom LeCompte <76711.572@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Military Questions
+
+ Tom LeCompte <76711.572@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If you don't mind, could you clarify the role of telepaths in the
+> EA military? And certainly CDR Ivanova lives in perpetual fear
+> that she'll be found out and kicked out - or is her sin in the
+> eyes of EA more in *lying* about her telepathy than in having it? 
+> (Which brings to mind something else - where do the people who
+> are "not even a P-1" end up?
+
+     The military uses telepaths on a loan-out or special intelligence
+basis, rather than within the core units of soldiers and officers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Jan-96 00:12:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: COS <-> MOH connection?
+
+ Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would that happen to be the same planet the Rangers were chased
+> off of in "Matters of Honor"?
+
+     Could be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Jan-96 11:38:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: COS <-> MOH connection?
+
+ Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or not, right?
+
+     You'll love it.  You'll be creeped out by it, but you'll love it.
+It's a great film.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Jan-96 11:38:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Military Questions
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When the soulhunter said "You would do such a thing?"
+> to Delenn when he peeked into her soul, was he referring to the
+> change she made in Chrysalis or *something else*? I know Neroon
+> detests Delenn, but is he likely more friendly to Ambassador
+> Sinclair? May I assume that you approved having G'Kar butcher a
+> zillion people (was 10 billion a misprint?) in the Prologue? If
+> so, should we have *any* sympathy *at all* for the Narn (I now
+> don't) and will you bring up something in the show to grey them
+> up?
+
+     You'll hear the soul hunter's line again this season, in a
+flashback, that may illuminate this; and there's more about Neroon as
+well this year. As for G'Kar...people do things in war they can always
+justify.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Jan-96 11:55:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elaine E Brown <100353.3702@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 tapes in Aus
+
+ Elaine E Brown <100353.3702@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know how many will be released and at what intervals?
+
+     I actually don't know the release situation vis a vis the
+Australia tapes; what happens in international distribution is always a
+surprise to me, and frankly this is the first time I've heard of it. 
+I'll try to find out, though.  And thanks, for the words, and the news.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Jan-96 11:55:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All
+Subject: New Stuff
+
+       As y'all know, next week the latest batch of new episodes
+begins to air.  The first one up, "Voices of Authority," is an absolute
+hoot; if you've been looking to bring in other viewers, that's a good
+one to start them with, because it sets up a lot of what's going to
+happen in this episode, it has a lot of background, and it's a lot of
+fun.
+
+       The next two are somewhat more straightforward, stand-alones
+(to some extent; there's some arc stuff there, however, which becomes
+more important later).  Then the last two in this batch represent some
+of the best work we've ever done, "Messages From Earth" and "Point of
+No Return."  They follow directly on the footsteps of "Voices," so
+those three together would be great for new viewers.
+
+       Second, today is Michael O'Hare's first day of shooting here on
+the B5 stages for the two-parter, featuring his return to the station
+from Minbar, and propels him into the center of attention for most of
+the two parts. Everyone's having a great time so far, he and Bruce have
+been hanging out a lot, and the episode should be a real toad-strangler
+when it's finished.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Jan-96 17:37:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Barbara Pfieffer <72302.2453@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New Stuff
+
+ Barbara Pfieffer <72302.2453@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Toad-strangler?????
+> What on earth is a toad-strangler?
+
+     A toad-strangler, a barn-burner, a doozy...it's a good thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Jan-96 17:37:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: The Jawa / Jawa #2 <76371.3057@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New Stuff
+
+ The Jawa / Jawa #2 <76371.3057@compuserve.com> asks:
+> ("What do you think of these new uniforms?"
+> It'd be like war stories, but only they could understand them.)
+> After those...six (I count six, but I'm failing Algebra), are we
+> back to repeats?
+
+     Yes, then repeats after sweeps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Jan-96 17:41:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kathleen E. Ross <102747.3373@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Information Sought
+
+ Kathleen E. Ross <102747.3373@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can anyone confirm or deny this runor?
+> Does anyone know how this rumored demise will effect Bablon - 5
+> (and Kung-Fu: The Legend Continues)? Does anyone have knowledge of
+> an existing still?
+
+      PTEN is being restructured; if it should cease to be, WB
+domestic syndication will take over all shows like B5 and Kung Fu.
+
+      I'll try to put up a white star gif soonish...there may be one
+here now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Jan-96 21:57:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Information Sought
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean such shows will continue to be syndicated
+> independantly of the WB Network?
+
+     Yes, syndication is a completely different entity from the WB
+Network.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Jan-96 12:49:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Garibaldi/Talia ?s
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) [Out of Story] Did you, as chief cook and bottle washer,
+> decide against persuing the G/T relationship too far because
+> Jerry and Andrea were married out here in the Real World(tm)? 2)
+> [In the Story] Did the unTalia "shunt" Talia v.1.0 away from
+> Garibaldi? If so, why?
+> Fear of discovery?
+> Optimum choice of targets?
+> 3) [In the Story] Did Talia v.1.0 just genuinely dislike Michael?
+> 4) Some combination thereof?
+> BTW, has the Orkin man paid a visit to n'grath?
+
+     Basically, the answer to all of the questions is "no."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Jan-96 12:49:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New Stuff
+
+ Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this more a Warner Brothers thing or a Babylon5 thing?
+> How many episodes away is this 2-parter?
+
+     The web as it currently exists is more of a Warners thing.
+
+     The two-parter covers episodes 16 and 17 in the schedule.  So far
+we've aired 4.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Jan-96 12:49:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New Stuff
+
+ Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or do sitcoms go to reruns as often as B5 and the treks and I
+> just don't notice since, well, they are moronic sitcoms and B5
+> isn't? Oh well - what's the run-down on the reruns - season 3 I
+> assume?
+
+     I don't know the rerun schedule yet; they tell me this stuff as
+late as possible to keep me from going ballistic, I think....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Jan-96 12:49:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Sheridan <70700.345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Warner B5 Web Page
+
+ John Sheridan <70700.345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Downloaded a few of the character .AVI files (What?
+> No backup ?
+
+      Yeah, the preview ain't too bad, actually, considering how some
+of them have gone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Jan-96 12:49:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Military Questions
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why was Lennier chosen to serve Delenn, what set him apart?
+> Was Knight One's comment about "Maybe we're still inside"
+> something we should worry about, or just the ravings of a damaged
+> mind? What ever happened to the Home Guard?
+> Why did Jack (Garabaldi's aid not Sebastian) say "I've never met
+> a Psi Cop before" to Bester when we know he was up to his neck in
+> the Conspiracy? Lastly, what is Bester's first name?
+
+     Home Guard found other venues.  Bester's first name is Alfred. 
+And Jack was speaking correctly; his contacts were not psi-corps in
+nature.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Jan-96 12:49:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gerald Himmelein <100417.3703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Information Sought
+
+ Gerald Himmelein <100417.3703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that a Good or a Bad thing?
+> Will it affect the video tape gridlock in some way?
+
+     No, it'll have no effect on the videos either way, and is
+probably neither a good nor a bad thing; it should be a wash.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Jan-96 12:49:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John R. Finnan (Ireland) <100012.3073@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Q: Error in Pilot show?
+
+ John R. Finnan (Ireland) <100012.3073@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Well?
+> Can you tell us what it was?
+> Or has it disappeared from memory?
+
+      It's the overhead shot of the courtroom; we didn't have a second
+establisher, so we used the one of Kyle even though Sinclair was on
+the stand.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Jan-96 21:35:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phil Koltko <71604.2145@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Clark's Law
+
+ Phil Koltko <71604.2145@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How did you coordinate the book's storyline with the neighboring
+> episodes and the overall arc? Did you put together the story and
+> then give it to Mortimore to build a novel around? Did you just
+> give him a concept and some inside info he could use? Is this the
+> level of quality writing and series/book storyline integration
+> what we should expect from the next few books?
+
+     In most cases, the writer sends in a proposal to the book
+company; they then send these proposals to me to see which a) I like,
+and b) fit in with the storyline one way or another.  When the book is
+commissioned, I work with the writer to one degree or another in
+keeping things very much on track.  In the case of this book, I
+actually did very little until the actual manuscript came in, at which
+time I made my notes and suggestions. So the lion's share of any 
+compliments here must go to Mortimore.
+
+     And yes, in my view, the other coming two books are just as good.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Jan-96 21:35:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New Stuff
+
+ Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that not so?
+
+     No, only once has that been done, running "Hunter, Prey" in this
+last batch to set up the new ones.  The rest of the time, reruns are
+set up so that the stations have new shows to run in the sweeps periods
+(February, May, (sometimes July), and November).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Jan-96 21:35:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New Stuff
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     I've suggested it; doubt if they'll go for it, but hope springs
+eternal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Jan-96 23:47:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gary Weinfurther <71521.2352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Opening fly-by
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, yeah, it's a great sequence.  Overall, I'm very happy
+with how this season's main title sequence came out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Jan-96 23:47:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jon A. Bell <74124.276@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Gethsemane Praise
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Thanks.  It is a very moving scene, because of what it says about
+us, and the sugject, whether one believes it or not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Jan-96 11:58:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kenneth Porter <76161.3013@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Chess boobs
+
+ Kenneth Porter <76161.3013@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How can you have a surprise checkmate with two apparently
+> chess-knowledgeable onlookers? BTW, how many of the cast and crew
+> have played chess?
+
+     Actually, I play chess, though not as much as I used to...and
+believe me, there are *many* times I've been surprised and ambushed by
+a move I absolutely did NOT see coming.  (I'm also a sucker for a
+fool's mate.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Jan-96 22:10:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Opening fly-by
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Because we have to make the season 3 title sequence *very* early
+in the shooting process; we need shots to go out in the first episode
+title sequence, but we've only shot a few episodes by the time we need
+to deliver. So most shots tend to come from the preceding season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Jan-96 22:10:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Scheduling in UK
+
+ John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Should the same situation recur, can you please encourage Warner
+> Brothers to adopt the same solution? Are the Vorlons connected
+> with the Illuminati?
+
+     You're assuming I have *any* sway with WB/PTEN about scheduling. 
+I don't.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Jan-96 15:33:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elaine E Brown <100353.3702@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 tapes in Aus
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Yup, that's Harlan for you....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Jan-96 20:28:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robert Miller <71501.3042@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Military Questions
+
+ Robert Miller <71501.3042@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will Jack be appearing again, or will he be mentioned again?
+
+     He'll be mentioned again, yes, in the very next episode, in fact.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Jan-96 20:28:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Antony Jackson <100025.2004@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Action Fig. - 'ish!
+
+ Antony Jackson <100025.2004@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is this I hear that Henry Unger Associates have been
+> licenced to produce Babylon 5 statuettes? Can you tell me a bit
+> more about what they will be doing, planned release date etc.? 
+> I understand that the same firm also do action figures for other
+> licences, if they were to ask (and you are happy with their work
+> on the statuettes) would you allow them to produce action
+> figures?
+
+     I haven't heard about this yet, so can't comment.  If it does go
+ahead, I'll be involved in consulting on it, so I'll have a better
+sense of this at that time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Jan-96 20:28:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Cherns Major <75026.3723@compuserve.com>
+Subject: COS <-> MOH connection?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Wow, what a great line-up; almost makes me wish I was in NY.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Jan-96 20:28:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Bruce B. on E.T
+
+ Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you have any luck syndicating?
+
+     Bruce was on ET...?  Gotta check that.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Jan-96 14:23:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Atlnta Scheduling Change
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Ah, well....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Jan-96 14:23:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That is what I've always assumed, but my wife wonders if they
+> might not actually be a cross purposes to the others? You really
+> used the entire cast, didn't you?
+
+      Thanks...we keep working to make the show better each season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Jan-96 00:27:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Les P. George <76162.1250@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Time Change in Atlanta
+
+ Les P. George <76162.1250@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does PTEN have any type of contractual say so with individual
+> stations as to when to air the episodes?
+
+     Yes, I've heard this; we've always had trouble with that station
+in terms of air schedules and availability of slots.  There's nothing
+anyone can do about it at this end; only local pressure can make an
+impact.  (And some of the worst offenders do the "low rated" argument
+to cover the fact that they just have too many prior commitments to
+other networks like UPN and/or FOX or WBN...or that they just don't
+like the show for one reason or another.  Some shows have actually been
+bought by stations and *shelved* because they didn't want to air it,
+but at the same time didn't want anyone else in the market to air it
+either.  (This happened to us on Twilight Zone on several occasions.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Jan-96 00:27:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Organizing B5 Details
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you keep it all straight as you're writing new episodes?
+> Do you have some sort of an external memory-jog like an erasable
+> marker board (with different colored markers) or an industrial
+> suppy of Post-it notes? Or are all the details of the B5 universe
+> maintained on strictly internal storage?
+
+     As I make the changes, in large measure I just keep it all in my
+head, though a few things get written down and put on post-it notes
+around my home office monitor.  It's like a number-cruncher program;
+you make one change, hit return, and it incorporates all the
+permutations of that change down the line. That's kind of what I do in
+my head.  I change one item, let the ramifications ripple through it
+all, and now it's all there.  By doing this every time I make a slight
+modification, it lets me see what impact it may have down the line, so
+I can avoid making any changes that seriously conflict with the larger
+storyline.  It's a headache -- figuratively and literally -- but the 
+effort of doing so keeps me on track.
+
+     After that, it's mainly a process of remembering what happened; I
+treat this as the history of the Babylon station.  This is what
+"happened" in the universe I created in my head.
+
+     Problem is, this occupies all the available RAM my brain seems to
+contain.  I have zip memory for anything else that I can consider even
+remotely expendable, like appointments, remembering to pick up dry
+cleaning, bringing a magazine to a friend's house who'd requested a
+copy of something, on and on.  If it ain't involved with B5, it just
+slides outta my brain.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Jan-96 12:54:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gerald Himmelein <100417.3703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Organizing B5 Details
+
+ Gerald Himmelein <100417.3703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Bad news for John Ostrander, then?
+> Or will you make some room in your brain to fit that project in?
+
+     No, I wouldn't be doing the Grimjack project until *after* I'd
+finished this season's scripts in late February.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Jan-96 12:55:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gerard Keating (Ireland) <71154.3423@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ Gerard Keating (Ireland) <71154.3423@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will Marcus's "French" comment be change for the French Language
+> Version???
+
+     No idea....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Jan-96 23:43:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com>
+Subject: bk 4 question
+
+ Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this true?
+
+     I haven't read the book since the galleys, and don't have a copy
+of the finished book yet, so this will have to wait until it arrives. 
+I don't recall the exact specifics of the paragraphs in question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-Jan-96 15:57:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Biracree <71776.3456@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Lyta in "Clarkes Law"
+
+ Mike Biracree <71776.3456@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this true?
+
+     I don't know how that would've gotten past me...I don't recall
+seeing that in the draft...either I was tired when reading, or it was
+added later.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-Jan-96 15:57:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Personal request
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Done and done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-Jan-96 15:59:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Divided Loyalties
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     It's a moment of transition and awkwardness, more than anything
+else, I think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-Jan-96 21:36:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tony Scarpelli <71535.306@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<We need a mind wipe>>
+
+ Tony Scarpelli <71535.306@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you please get your people to put the name of the episode at
+> the end? Can they, or we, other humans, forgive such a creature?
+
+     Thanks.  The only problem with putting the title at the end of
+the episode, in the closing credits, is that many stations chop off the
+end credits altogether.  So it's best to have them in the beginning.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-Jan-96 21:36:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sharon Foster <76360.301@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Richard Biggs
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Ah...so it's out then?  I'll have to get 15 copies for the stage.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-Jan-96 21:36:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Where do baby narn come
+
+ John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this true?
+
+     Yes, John, it's true.  Now finish your brussel sprouts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-Jan-96 11:42:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sharon Foster <76360.301@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Richard Biggs
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     I'm not getting *near* this one....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-Jan-96 11:59:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: PETER STATHIS <103417.3702@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5: Run Around
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     "57th out of 75 shows."  Just to correct you: that figure is from
+the Christmas period rerun, which was low for everybody, and second,
+it's not out of 75 shows, that's usually just the top batch they list,
+it's 57th that week out of 275 syndicated shows.  Usually we do in the
+40s out of 275, which puts us in the top 20% of all syndicated shows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-Jan-96 11:59:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     The other part, I think, is that they were kind of amused to see
+this dinky little ship getting in their face, when they *knew* the
+First Ones could blast 'em to bits....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-Jan-96 11:59:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gary Weinfurther <71521.2352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Who said they didn't recognize it?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-Jan-96 15:34:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5: Run Around
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How are we among syndicated dramas?
+> How happy is WB?
+
+     Usually we're in the top ten of all syndicated dramas; WB is
+making money on the show's advertising, which is their main concern, so
+insofar as I have heard, they're happy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-Jan-96 15:34:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Where do baby narn come
+
+ John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where does she carry the baby?
+> Where does it come out of?
+> Is it a proper baby or is it a wriggly octopussy thing that turns
+> into a humanoid later? How big is it?
+> Do they live in water?
+> Do baby boy Centauri have to wear wigs?
+
+     Ask your mother.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-Jan-96 21:37:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tony Scarpelli <71535.306@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<We need a mind wipe>>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     You can't do that; you can only have the title card once, because
+SAG, DGA, WGA and other unions have rules that regulate where their
+workers appear in relation to the title of the episode.  If you have it
+twice, you mess that up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-Jan-96 21:37:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Marketing B5
+
+ Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any luck in Las Vegas marketing B5 for syndication?
+
+     Haven't heard yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-Jan-96 21:37:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Richard Biggs
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Yes, we'll have a female PA pick them up.  (I don't have the
+heart to tell anyone that they're usually in the Gay Men's Magazine
+section....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs96-02 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs96-02
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..32c82a72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/CompuServe/cs96-02
@@ -0,0 +1,8069 @@
+Date: 01-Feb-96 00:04:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Voices of Authority<<
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Oh, BTW, did you get a picture of a rat at a computer screen?
+
+     Ah, is that what that was...I remember it, and was both amused
+and bemused by it.
+
+     What's fun, for me, about the Minipax lady, is that she *clearly*
+knows that this is a game on one level, her comment about just
+rewriting the dictionary...she knows the problems aren't *really* gone,
+they just defined them away.  But when she's in front of a crowd of
+folks predisposed to her message, she goes full-tilt.  Showmanship.....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Feb-96 13:56:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sharon Foster <76360.301@compuserve.com>
+Subject: HE on PI
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Yup...and it's a good point.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Feb-96 13:56:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Where do baby narn come
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where does the fetus develop, and from where is it born?
+> Is Minbari physiology similer to human, or significantly
+> different (such as the Centauri)? Is this accurate?
+
+     The padded out area of Centauri males is where their genitalia
+(their tentesticles) are located.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Feb-96 13:56:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jeff Frank <70402.3015@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Voices of Authority<<
+
+ Jeff Frank <70402.3015@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it just me or were a large number of the Nightwatch members
+> looking pretty distressed about the new orders?
+
+     Now the weeding out process starts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Feb-96 22:25:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were you _bemused_ by the fact that people actually have pet
+> rats?
+
+     "they'll work for sunflower seeds."
+
+     Ah...I see they have the same agent I do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Feb-96 22:25:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Where do baby narn come
+
+ David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do they protrude or extend from what would correspond (on humans)
+> from the navel area or groin area? Where are the Centauri female
+> orifices located and do they have more than one?
+
+     Actually, Centauri have six.  They extend out from the sides of
+the body, and "fold" in over the solar plexus when not in, er, use. 
+(We actually saw one extended for other purposes in the first season,
+"The Quality of Mercy.") Female Centauri have six...er...slotted areas
+on either side of the spine, just above the hips, three on either side.
+
+     To go any further would probably bring in the FBI.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Feb-96 22:25:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Barbara Pfieffer <72302.2453@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <VOA>
+
+ Barbara Pfieffer <72302.2453@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you script the look of admiration Marcus gives Ivanova after
+> she gets her answer from the Walker? Musante's speech to the
+> Nightwatch--were you reading some of Herr Hitler's speeches
+> before writing that?
+
+     Yeah, the Loki was a little nod, sort of appropriate to who she
+was.
+
+     The crew you see on the White Star doesn't reflect those in other
+parts of the ship.  Also, being fairly advanced, it doesn't require a
+big crew in command.  You could even fly it single-handedly if it came
+to that.
+
+     And yes, the historical parallels are definitely there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Feb-96 22:32:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: NORMAN H. JOHNSON III <103707.410@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     On the other hand, Zack *didn't* rat out the code 7-R stuff to
+her in any detail.  He's absolutely caught between the two sides, and
+not sure which way to jump.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Feb-96 12:29:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Karen E. Bahnsen <102735.3557@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Thanks.  Yeah, everyone involved did a great job on that episode.
+It was a lot of fun.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Feb-96 12:29:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Stephen C. Smith <76150.1170@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ Stephen C. Smith <76150.1170@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why didn't Garibaldi just remind him that Garibaldi got shot in
+> the back when he uncovered the conspiracy? Or was Zack not around
+> then and they've kept it from him because of his Nightwatch
+> involvment?
+
+     You have to remember that all Garibaldi's people knew was that a
+few guys came through the station that may have been involved in the
+assassination. That is NOT the same thing as showing that Clark is
+involved.  There was no apparent connection.  We the audience suspect
+it, from what happens, but until now there has been no evidence of it. 
+So yes, they know that Santiago is dead; that there's some indication
+that he may have been assassinated...but that's a long way from
+pointing to Clark.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Feb-96 12:29:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John R. Finnan (Ireland) <100012.3073@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ John R. Finnan (Ireland) <100012.3073@compuserve.com> asks:
+> how were the ribs that day?
+
+     The ribs were great.  What can I say...barbeque day here at the
+stage is every Friday.  Choosing between ribs and a naked
+woman...that's hard after age 40.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Feb-96 12:29:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Where do baby narn come
+
+ David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My wife and I nearly died laughing and my kids kept asking "What?
+> What?"
+> What are Narns like?
+> Minbari?
+> Drazi?
+> Markab?
+> BTW, how did you get away with showing that part of Centauri
+> anatomy in TQOM? Were the censors asleep?
+> Did you bribe them?
+> Or were they just clueless?
+
+     Nobody's what they seem around here...
+
+     As for the tentacles...well, there's no rules about showing
+tentacles on TV.  I think they didn't even want to deal with it.  There
+are some moments when they pretend they didn't see it, and I pretend I
+didn't write it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Feb-96 12:30:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that Eeep related to the message, or something else entirely?
+
+     It's somebody else's eep, not mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Feb-96 22:57:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why are these officers not *screaming* to *everyone they know*
+> that they *KNEW IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN*!?!? Is Sheridan/Sinclair's
+> report what cause General Hague to become suspicious? Am I simply
+> wrong, and this Conspiracy of Light is simply the reaction I am
+> asking for?
+
+     With Clark removing all the evidence, and others giving orders to
+drop it, and knowing Clark would stop any kind of investigation, what
+is there for them to do officially?  They had to begin working covertly
+to prove it, which is what they've been doing ever since "Hunter,
+Prey."  If you're a military officer, and you're given a direct order
+from your commander in chief or the Senate Oversight Committee to drop
+something, and you violate those orders, you're up on charges or fired.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Feb-96 22:57:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <VOA>
+
+ Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I take it that the 'mask' as an 'encounter suit'?
+
+     It's certainly a form of representation, an icon, rather than the
+literal entity, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Feb-96 22:57:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<We need a mind wipe>>
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that supposed to serve some practical purpose for the union
+> members?
+
+     Yes.  For instance, you're a star, and you say, "I want my name
+to appear before the title."  So the next star says "Well, then I want
+mine right after the title."  Editors' credits have to go in a specific
+place in relation to the title.  And so on.  It's to help avoid
+problems of dumping people's credits where they won't be seen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Feb-96 00:19:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Raul A. Martinez <102250.1006@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <VOA> Nightwatch=Disney
+
+ Raul A. Martinez <102250.1006@compuserve.com> asks:
+> No other reason is necessary, after all, how could the boss be
+> wrong?
+
+     Yep, sounds about right.
+
+     There's a reason most folks who've been involved refer to the
+company as Mouschwitz.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Feb-96 19:42:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gerald Himmelein <100417.3703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Where do baby narn come
+
+ Gerald Himmelein <100417.3703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, there is no homosexuality among the Centauri then?
+
+     I don't recall saying or implying that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Feb-96 19:42:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com>
+Subject: VOA: Lurkers
+
+ Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the nightwatch going to start "cleansing" the lurkers from B5?
+> Is the book of G'Quon going to be the teachers edition with all
+> of the answers for the shadow war?
+
+      Nightwatch has bigger goals than dealing with lurkers....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Feb-96 21:16:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sarah E. Heacock <102412.1400@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New to Babylon 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Bless your heart...thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Feb-96 21:16:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New to Babylon 5
+
+ John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why did he bother with Londo?
+> What if Londo had caused a scene and "Varner" got detained by
+> security? Did someone else, with another changeling net, try to
+> kill Kosh? Was Lyta's mental vision faked by Kosh?
+> Will we find out in the very last episode of B5?
+
+      Actually, it was stated in the pilot that the assassin gave
+Londo a line of credit (later canceled) which Londo used to continue
+gambling, not that he personally stayed there the whole time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Feb-96 21:16:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     If you're talking about the conference room scene...Draal wasn't
+put into the scene digitally.  You do a split screen, with the camera
+locked off.  In one Delenn walks over to a point just short of the
+line; in another you get a shot just of the wall; then Draal walks up. 
+You then use a dissolve technique to fade him into the room on his side
+of the split screen.  But he's not being put *into* the room, he's
+already there, so he's neither bigger nor smaller than he is in real
+life, since he IS in real life there, not added in.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Feb-96 21:16:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randy Upshaw <75464.1275@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ Randy Upshaw <75464.1275@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So does that mean we have 4 more episodes untill a rerun cycle
+> and how many of these will deal directly with the story line?
+
+     Randy, I honestly don't think, after episodes 8-10 have aired,
+that you're going to have any problems with how fast the main story is
+progressing. And do bear in mind that the "main story" isn't just the
+war; if you wanted to do that, you'd just do Space A&B.  It's operating
+on a whole lot of other levels.  Nonetheless...this entire season is
+much faster overall in developing than the two before.  The first two
+seasons we were mainly putting the guns into position.  Now we're
+pulling all the triggers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Feb-96 21:16:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What more can we do?
+
+      It takes us no longer to make the episodes or the EFX really
+than it did before.  But PTEN will not air shows out of sweeps periods,
+for the most part. The episodes on hand now were finished weeks, and in
+a couple of cases over a month ago.  They sit on the shelf until PTEN
+decides to air them.  The only thing we did was swap "VoA" with
+"Passing Through Gethsemane" to give that one a little bit more time. 
+That's it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Feb-96 21:16:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or how many *years* was it before Frederic Pohl's Heechee series,
+> Roger Zelazny's Amber series, or Poul Anderson's Flandry stories
+> played out?
+
+     RE: the arc...the way it's always been structured, given the need
+to ease viewers slowly into it, is that season 1 had maybe 4-5 really
+strong arc episodes; season 2 had maybe 8; season 3 is almost equally
+50/50; season 4 will have an even higher number of arc episodes; and
+season 5 is nothing BUT arc stories.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Feb-96 14:30:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <VOA>
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ok, Joe, what does "Zog" mean?
+> What is this species of First Ones called?
+> That scene with Zack and Political Officer Julie at breakfast:
+> Did Zack sorta flirt with her because he had the same sort of
+> interview with her the previous day that she tried to have with
+> Sheridan the night before?
+
+     No, that wasn't the relationship between her and Zack, much as he
+might've wished for it.  As for the walkers at sigma 957...the
+recognition signal is their name, which is 15,000 letters long (we had
+to cut this line for time).  So I can't really repeat it here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Feb-96 14:30:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How does that work?
+> Do the stations order the show, and then if there are enough
+> orders Warner renews the series?
+
+     Correct.  There's a certain number of stations you have to have
+to make the syndication deal work financially.  You get that number,
+you get the pickup; you don't, you don't.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Feb-96 14:30:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jeffrey Martino <73477.1506@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <VoA la France>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     You didn't imagine it....
+
+     Part of what appeals to me is the idea that the English/French
+animosity you often see (though clearly not in all cases) would
+continue not only into the future, but outside Earth.  Realistically,
+if you go into Europe, you find people holding grudges 500 years old,
+or more.  Seemed appropriate to carry this small one forward as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Feb-96 14:30:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randy Upshaw <75464.1275@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ Randy Upshaw <75464.1275@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Perhaps you and everyone else are correct and I am so invloved in
+> this story that I can't wait (which is the case)? Are we going to
+> see these before another rerun cycle? Are B5's ratings in an area
+> that are going to support a 5 year run?
+
+     We'll see 8 and 9 in this current cycle, yes.  #10 will be aired
+in the next batch, in late April/first of May.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Feb-96 14:30:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gerald Himmelein <100417.3703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Where do baby narn come
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Yes, it was.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Feb-96 14:30:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+ David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Nothing is black and white in your Babylon 5 world, is it?
+> Who would have thought that at the end of this episode I would be
+> more frightened of Kosh than of Bester? Or maybe not...any news on
+> that front?
+
+     We'll approach McGoohan when we have a script good enough for his
+skills.
+
+     RE: Bester...thanks.  I'd decided a while ago that the next time
+we saw him, he either had to win, or he had to be right.  If he lost
+again, it'd cut his credibility out.  This gave me a chance to do some
+interesting things with him.  He's a fascinating guy...a creep, and I
+wouldn't trust him for a second, but fascinating nonetheless....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Feb-96 14:31:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was he digitally added at any point in that episode?
+
+     We shot two plates, first with him in the machine, then him out,
+never moving the camera, so it matched exactly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Feb-96 14:31:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elizabeth <76202.563@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ Elizabeth <76202.563@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there going to be another rerun break after these, or do you
+> know yet?
+
+      I think there's a break until late April/first week of May.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Feb-96 16:41:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom LeCompte <76711.572@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices>
+
+ Tom LeCompte <76711.572@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why go out of your way to help people if you can't change the
+> outcome? Is being a satellite of one superpower really better than
+> being a satellite of the other?
+
+      You're right about the shadow war, in many senses.  The story of
+B5 is the story of B5 and its people, not the shadow war, which is a
+*part* of that story but not the whole of it.  (Remember, it wasn't
+even mentioned in the first season.)  If it's just about a war, any
+war, then something's wrong. There has to be more to it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Feb-96 20:35:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you do exactly the same thing in The Long twilight struggle?
+
+     Don't really remember....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Feb-96 20:35:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Pat Bradshaw <71202.1532@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Tolkien Influences
+
+ Pat Bradshaw <71202.1532@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Am I close?
+> Am I hallucinating?
+> Should I get a life and get out more?
+
+     What you have to understand is that virtually all of the items
+you list are generic tools used in great mythic sagas.  A lone group
+with great responsibilities, a dark force gathering strength, defenders
+of light, beings of great power who are inscrutable or difficult...the
+names change but the archetypes remain.  Tolkein used those archetypes,
+as I'm using them, as other writers have used them.  Consequently, you
+see in this show whichever myth-cycle you're most familiar with.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Feb-96 20:45:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can I infer from that statement that by the time we reach season
+> 5 we'll actually know just what that arc is?
+
+     You'll pretty much have a sense of the overall arc's direction by
+the end of this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Feb-96 20:45:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> WHEN!!???!!!!
+> That means that after this group of 5 episodes we're going to
+> have NINE more weeks of reruns?? How many episodes are they going
+> to save till next year THIS time??? Seven???
+> Eight??
+> How can WB expect this show to get any decent ratings whatsoever
+> if they never show any fraggin new episodes? Can they really
+> believe that they can show 8 weeks of reruns at a time and then
+> bang, show new episodes only during sweeps periods, and expect
+> the ratings to be there as soon as new episodes start?? Why the
+> hell can't they show B5 episodes in groups of 7 or 8?? Would it
+> help if us, the fans, started a write in campaign to Dick
+> Roberton (I think that's his name) and give him a wake up call?
+
+     Dick Robertson isn't to blame for the schedule, apparently; it's
+a decision made jointly by the stations.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Feb-96 20:45:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rae Augenstein <72752.1653@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <VOA> Nightwatch=Disney
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     It's interesting to note that Eisner raised the ticket prices at
+Disneyland immediately upon arrival...and his salary bonus that year
+was equal to the amount of that increase for the year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Feb-96 01:17:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Burhaan Ahmad <75754.3065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ Burhaan Ahmad <75754.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, does the change in the structure of PTEN affect how their
+> control of the show?
+
+     I've no idea...TV business deals not Zathras' strength....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Feb-96 01:17:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: And the rock...
+
+ Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where does "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" come from?
+
+     It's from an old gospel song/spiritual.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Feb-96 01:23:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mara K. Malovany <102750.1414@compuserve.com>
+Subject: VOA: Lurkers
+
+ Mara K. Malovany <102750.1414@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, do the Vorlons really worship a god named Boojie, and why
+> does he wear a bucket over his head?
+
+      And best of all, the comment was sufficiently subtle that
+there's no way really to censor it...it's all implication.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Feb-96 01:23:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Thomas M. Conlon <73544.321@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<B5 - WWII Parallel>>
+
+ Thomas M. Conlon <73544.321@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has anyone else noticed the similarity between the Shadow Wars
+> and WWII? Remember the Secret Police?
+> Anyone care to put in their 2 cent's worth?
+
+     While yes, there are some intentional WW II parallels here, do
+bear in mind that you don't have to go all the way back to the Gestapo
+to find this kind of mentality...Sen. McCarthy would've been quite at
+home in Nightwatch.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Feb-96 12:01:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robert Miller <71501.3042@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <VOA>
+
+ Robert Miller <71501.3042@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would it be fair to say that the FO was not pleased to hear the
+> Vorlons mentioned?
+
+     Fair, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Feb-96 12:01:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anne L. Warner <71513.1177@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Where do baby narn come
+
+ Anne L. Warner <71513.1177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do I take it from the invocation of Kosh Mode, that the issue of
+> gay Centauris is off limits?
+
+      Well, not to other Centauri....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Feb-96 12:01:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<B5 - WWII Parallel>>
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can PsiCorps members belong to Nightwatch?
+> Where did they do their recruiting for Nightwatch?
+> Are they the SS to HomeGuard's SA?
+> Do they have arrest powers, and are these "thoughtcrimes" that
+> they investigate *officially* illegal, or do they have to trump
+> up a sedition charge? What is President Clark's first name (I have
+> heard William on ANFAW, and Morgan elsewhere, including Clark's
+> Law)? Where did he get this *extreme* personal *hatred* for Luis
+> Santiago?
+
+     It's William Morgan Clark.
+
+     And yes, they have some powers of arrest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Feb-96 12:01:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Netter join us for a bit to explain why 9 week dry spells are
+> good for the show and such?
+
+     Doug doesn't like it either.  Not our choice.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Feb-96 12:01:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Walter F. Hern <74201.2063@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ Walter F. Hern <74201.2063@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Season 6?
+> Was it?
+
+     Some was new, some old.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Feb-96 12:01:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Good to know.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Feb-96 12:01:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Thanks.  Much appreciated.  I'll get one right for him yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Feb-96 18:25:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <B5 - WWII Parallel>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Nope, not a save at all.  He says his full name in Chrysalis. 
+"I, William Morgan Clark..."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Feb-96 18:25:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <VoA> Space A&B
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I tend to agree.  I tend to like more S:A&B episodes than not;
+there has been some very good work.  I knew almost instantly that the
+new character in this weekend's episode was going to end up dogmeat,
+but that said, the trip there was interesting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Feb-96 18:25:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: AsstOp Pam Jernigan <75540.2554@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ AsstOp Pam Jernigan <75540.2554@compuserve.com> asks:
+> PJ ^^^^ President, Southern Combine; Having an Out-of-Forum
+> Experience FAQ or Fiction?
+
+     Thanks.  At least it's a shorter wait this time than last.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Feb-96 00:05:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gerald Himmelein <100417.3703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Where do baby narn come
+
+ Gerald Himmelein <100417.3703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there homosexuality among other races which have male and
+> female genders defined? A related question: Are there races in the
+> B5 universe which have transcended male / female? And another
+> related question: Are there different genders in the Vorlon race?
+
+     Yes, yes, and yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Feb-96 00:05:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, At the risk of asking a silly question, in light of the
+> technical explaining going on here, am I correct in assuming that
+> Drall is just plain a big man?
+
+     He's a tall, stout fellow.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Feb-96 00:05:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Book #3: Blood Oath
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How much of the Narn terminology and the like, not to mention the
+> details of the Narn homeworld, are accurate and canon?
+
+     It's accurate in some places, not in others; details slip
+sometimes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Feb-96 00:05:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <VOA: Draal>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any comments on this?
+
+     People said this about Londo, too.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Feb-96 02:08:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sarah E. Heacock <102412.1400@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New to Babylon 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Yes, but since time and space are curved, they eventually loop
+back the way they came, and thus you will end up in the final analysis
+ahead of where you were when you first discovered the program.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Feb-96 02:11:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All
+Subject: 'Dust' AVI in lib 5
+
+      BTW, for those interested, who have video for windows, I've
+uploaded an .avi file (full video and sound) of the teaser for "Dust to
+Dust" in library 5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Feb-96 13:09:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Nigel Nixon <100666.2174@compuserve.com>
+Subject: UK Ch4
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Correct.  The widescreen footage used in the titles is exactly
+the same as that shot for the show, only we crop the edges off.  You
+only have to compare the first sesaon shots from "Parliament" to verify
+that they're the same.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Feb-96 16:25:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alexis Holizki <75027.1277@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <B5 - WWII Parallel>
+
+ Alexis Holizki <75027.1277@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I take it the author wasn't as well-informed as he should have
+> been?
+
+     Missed that in the proofreading....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Feb-96 16:25:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Nigel Nixon <100666.2174@compuserve.com>
+Subject: UK Ch4
+
+ Nigel Nixon <100666.2174@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any news on whether C4 have bought season 3 in WS?
+
+     No word yet, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Feb-96 16:43:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roger Stenning <101521.1646@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Q. "Time On Target!"?
+
+ Roger Stenning <101521.1646@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just what does "Time on target" mean?
+> Help, anyone?
+
+     You fire your weapons (missiles, other stuff) not necessarily at
+the same moment, but so that it all *hits* at the same time.  Time is a
+factor for the arrival at the target.  Hence, time on target.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Feb-96 00:11:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dan Hayes <72303.2134@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A Voice In <VOA>
+
+ Dan Hayes <72303.2134@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Am I nuts?
+
+     It was definitely Ed Wasser.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Feb-96 00:18:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+ Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is he conning everyone?
+> Does he really think that everything he does is for the greater
+> good of earth?
+
+      "Dust to Dust" is what I call one of my "pretty box" episodes. 
+I set down the pretty box in front of you, and you think you know what
+it is. Then something else entirely jumps out of it at your face. 
+There's more coming here and there.  I like pretty boxes....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Feb-96 01:38:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin Kenney <76072.1474@compuserve.com>
+Subject: VoA: Pretty Bad
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Your friend should learn a few things from history.  Your friend
+should learn that virtually everything the Political Officer said was
+taken, in one form or another, from actual speeches from people like
+Goerring and Goebbels and Hitler and McCarthy and other members of the
+House Unamerican Activities Committee, stated right out in public. 
+Your friend should learn that some epidodes are meant to be lighter,
+some darker, because you can't have despair, sturm und drang every
+episode or you're going to lose viewers left, right and center.  Your
+friend should learn to speak for himself.  You should stop hiding
+behind "your friend's" comments.
+
+     That "your friend" doesn't like something doesn't make it bad,
+any more than liking something makes it good.  Your friend should learn
+that the universe does not revolve around his opinion.  Your friend
+should try writing something, and selling it, before he sets out to
+tell a writer the "better ways" that writer should be telling his
+stories.  Your friend seems to think that unless it's done *his* way,
+the "better way," then it's not good.
+
+     "jms...not having the time to find better solutions to each
+scene."  I had plenty of time to find solutions to each scene.  I chose
+the solutions that I liked.  And that most folks seem to have liked. 
+Again, if your friend would've chosen a different way, then it's your
+friend's story, not mine, and it's not "better."  Because I don't
+happen to tell my story the way your friend wants to tell a story
+doesn't make his "better."
+
+     So I guess all the people who enjoyed VoA, who enjoyed the
+dialogue, who laughed out loud at all the right places, who liked
+it...they're all fools and idiots because your friend says otherwise,
+huh?  Because clearly it's *bad*. No subjective opinions here, your
+friend says it's bad, well, then, by golly, it's bad...and the rest of
+the viewership is just plain dumb not to perceive it.
+
+     "Your friend" has clearly never been through a writing workshop,
+or learned how to present constructive criticism.  It's his way or the
+highway.
+
+     When "your friend" has written 145 produced television scripts,
+and been nominated for multiple writing awards, written columns and
+books on scriptwriting, *then* he can tell me the "BETTER" way to
+write.  Meanwhile, if he has logical concerns, questions, flaws to
+point out, mistakes that were made, I'm happy to hear them.  But anyone
+who sits there and says that he knows the *better* way to do
+everything, because his way IS the better way, and if it's not done HIS
+way then it's wrong...doesn't have the first idea what the hell he's
+talking about.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Feb-96 18:57:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Nedrow <70004.1273@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 'Dust' AVI in lib 5
+
+ David Nedrow <70004.1273@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance you could upload these as Indeo files?
+> Or, do you mind if I do the conversion and make them available?
+
+      I'm not set up for that conversion; if you can do it, by all
+means....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Feb-96 18:57:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A Voice In <VOA>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Don't know what else he's doing, actually....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Feb-96 18:57:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com>
+Subject: live action/CGI
+
+ John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this because they have to use trial and error to get it to
+> look right?
+
+     The shot as filmed wasn't locked down (locked camera), and they
+had to take the film and carefully insert the material so it wouldn't
+look jumpy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Feb-96 18:57:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com>
+Subject: general Psi questions
+
+ John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So what about the telepath in Sinclair's squad during the Battle
+> of the Line? Was he a closet "teep"?
+> or was EA desparate for any pilot?
+> or is this just some propaganda on Psi-Corps part??
+> Say, what was that stat about teeps and teeks?
+> What do we call Talia's husband?
+> eep??
+> eek??
+> Finally, how high do the P-ratings go?
+> P-5 Commercial telepath (Lyta?) P-10 Instructors P-13 Psi-cops
+> P-?? will we ever see her at her full potential?) P-??
+
+      As I recall, it was mentioned that he was a closet teep.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Feb-96 18:57:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: RICHARD D.SHEPPAR <100111.1053@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 - Uk?
+
+ RICHARD D.SHEPPAR <100111.1053@compuserve.com> asks:
+> if you could tell me when Channel 4 are showing B5 in the Uk (I
+> heard something about them buying a widescreen verion)? Can you
+> shead any light?
+
+      I haven't yet heard the final disposition on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Feb-96 18:58:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin Kenney <76072.1474@compuserve.com>
+Subject: VoA: Pretty Bad
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Ivanova wanted to get in the face of the First Ones, to say,
+"Look, you can blow me away, but damn it, listen to me."  If she'd said
+that "more reverently," as your friend noted, it would've worked
+against the logic of the scene and the resolution.
+
+     (Also, the political officer never "stormed into Sheridan's
+office." She was waiting there, quite demurely, as he entered.  So
+again, when he says that his complaint is "with Sheridan's lack of
+response when the political officer stormed into his office," and that
+never happened in the first place, you can understand why I might have
+a problem with this.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Feb-96 18:58:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Esther Schindler [EXEC] <72241.1417@compuserve.com>
+Subject: VoA: Pretty Bad
+
+ Esther Schindler [EXEC] <72241.1417@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How often do you tell someone that you write, only to have them
+> tell you that they've always intended to write a novel one day? as
+> if their intention is just as valuable as the effort you really
+> put into it, as the late nights spent struggling with the nasty
+> paragraph that refuses to sound right, as your pride in
+> re-reading your text and saying, "yes, that's what I wanted!"?
+
+      Yeah, every so often, I get somebody who says, "Yeah, I could be
+a writer too, if I just had the time for it."  Yes, and I could be the
+Prima Ballerina of the Bolshoi if I just had the time for it.  They
+don't understand that it takes *years* of training, work, isolation,
+trial and error...that it's a *craft* that, like any other craft, from
+woodworking to brain surgery to playing the violin, takes years to get
+right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Feb-96 18:58:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Esther Schindler [EXEC] <72241.1417@compuserve.com>
+Subject: VOA: Lurkers
+
+ Esther Schindler [EXEC] <72241.1417@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or is this a guy thing?
+
+      Her feeling was likely that it has always worked with her in the
+past. He's widowed, probably hasn't had any in a long time, he's
+vulnerable, a perfect target.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Feb-96 19:09:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ruth Ballam <100412.3457@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Othersyde World Tour
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Great, I never get out, but my book travels all over the place. 
+And people ask why I think there is no god....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Feb-96 19:09:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <DTD>
+
+ Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I guess I'm so used to sinister motives that I can't tell if Kosh
+> is still manipulating, or is he sincere?
+
+      A person can be sincere and still manipulative, in Kosh's case. 
+If he believes he's right, perhaps he's willing to manipulate anyone
+toward that goal, if it's worth it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Feb-96 22:41:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: VOA: Lurkers
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Btw, on the subject of the Night Watch, is this the group that
+> has taken over the role that was formerly held by Bureau 13?
+
+      No, the Bureau would've been a secret organization, a la the NSA
+or a covert military/spy group.  This is a much more public face.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Feb-96 22:41:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Upcoming B5 Eps>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why is the episode called this?
+> How do you intent to fig the title on the screen?
+
+      Why's it called that?  Because it's quite appropos.  How do we
+fit it? Not a big deal.  Longest title up to now was one I did for
+MURDER, SHE WROTE, a quote from Moby Dick, "To The Last Shall I Grapple
+With Thee."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Feb-96 22:41:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have something against the ambassadorial aides or what
+> this year? Perhaps we'll learn more about this in a future
+> episode?
+
+      The female Psi Cop here *was* the same as in ARTDP, played by
+Judy Levitt, who is also Walter's wife.
+
+      Yeah, everyone turned in great performances in this one, very
+intense and layered.  And as a result of G'Kar's attack, the next
+several episodes will find him still in prison.  In the B5 universe,
+you don't just go in for a long time at the end of an ep and next thing
+you're out again.  He has to serve his time, and now we'll see him in a
+cell for a while.
+
+      And yes, you'll learn more about what happened to the Narn
+telepaths in coming months.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Feb-96 22:41:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Charles Peacock <70031.3212@compuserve.com>
+Subject: VoA: Pretty Bad
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Feb-96 22:41:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Burhaan Ahmad <75754.3065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 'Dust' AVI in lib 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Thanks.  It kinda sneaks up on you, doesn't it?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Feb-96 22:41:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5: Run Around
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Sounds like a good thing to me....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Feb-96 22:41:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust> q?
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> However, after the battering and mind-rape, is LONDO still aware
+> that G'kar possesses this knowledge, or has it slipped into a
+> "must've been a nightmare" state?
+
+      Londo knows G'Kar knows, yes.  He couldn't not know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Feb-96 22:41:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are we allowed to be having this much fun?
+
+     "Are we allowed to have this much fun?"
+
+     No.  Report to your nearest Night Watch office at once and turn
+yourself in.
+
+     You'll feel better for it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Feb-96 01:28:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: VoA: Pretty Bad
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      She didn't say that she was from the "B5 advisory council."  She
+said that she had been dispatched by the Senate Oversight Committee,
+which as we have established before, has jurisdiction in many ways over
+B5.
+
+      This is the difference between TV logic and Real logic.  In TV
+logic, yeah, she should've tossed her outta there...but we try to be
+rigorously real about the B5 universe.  She was sent by the Senate
+Oversight Committee, as is their province, with the backing of several
+governmental offices, in an area over which Sheridan doesn't have
+jusrisdiction: the political arena back home. In the real world, you
+can't just toss somebody out the door because you don't like them...not
+if you're a career military officer who answers to a civilian authority
+or government.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Feb-96 01:36:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: VoA: Pretty Bad
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     "...didn't seem to announce her authority well enough...the
+Babylon 5 Advisory Council...."
+
+      Once again, as I noted elsewhere, this is NOT what she said, she
+specifically noted that this was from the Earth SENATE.  How much does
+one need to explain the senate?  (Jokes aside.)  As it was, that scene
+went about 2 full minutes of carefully balanced exposition...more, to
+explain the senate, when we've been seeing senators all three years is
+silly.  It WAS announced well enough.
+
+     One simply has to pay attention.  Thus far, the "better ways"
+have struck out consistently.  Most have been based on totally
+incorrect perceptions of what was said or done in the episode; the
+others are matters of personal taste that are, frankly, just lateral
+moves.  Most, again, are simply from not paying attention.
+
+     There's a great story about the first time Van Gogh met Gaugain,
+his role model.  Gaugain looked at Vah Gogh's paintings, which had been
+hung on all the walls for his inspection, and after a moment announced,
+"You paint too fast."
+
+     To which Van Gogh replied, "No, you LOOK too fast."
+
+     Take the lesson for what it's worth.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Feb-96 11:41:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Station damage
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     It's part of the stabalizing arm used when ships move in to
+unload cargo into the zero-g bay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Feb-96 13:46:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Rage's Thots: DtD>
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> *"Aren't you late for a bund meeting?"
+> My favorite lines, however, are Bester's "So you see me as a
+> pinata?" BTW, Joe, how do you write the Drazi speech pattern?
+> Drop all the articles?
+> Is that all?
+> Is this a Wm Goldman/Princess Bride nod?
+> Or am I *way* too into looking for stuff like this?
+> *Jeez, Kosh is a manipulative little <bleep>, ain't he?
+> *Bester's comment to his partner "You couldn't have gotten here 2
+> min earlier, could you?"
+
+     Actually, just to clarify the legalese, the judge sentenced him
+to *no less* than 60 days; that's the minimum, it could be more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Feb-96 13:55:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this what they do?
+> ?
+> Everytime the Shadows attack they stick other races out front and
+> say "we're right behind you buddy!"???
+
+     Exactly.  I mean, in three years, what the heck have the Vorlons
+actually *done* to help "our side?"  Let the others do it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Feb-96 13:55:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: VoA: Pretty Bad
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Yeah...real horrorshow...to quote somebody else....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Feb-96 17:36:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Station damage
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Basically they're new kinds of alloys, the anchors go deep into
+the top of the station; a small shuttle or medium transport comes in,
+stops between the tines, once it achieves station holding they anchor
+it to make life easier.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Feb-96 20:22:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did G'Kar see G'Quon or G'Lan (as portrayed by Kosh)?
+
+     The figure he was talking through during the scene appeared to
+him as his father; the very last figure, seen departing, was that of
+G'Lan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Feb-96 22:50:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mr Challeron <76420.1471@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Dust To Dust
+
+ Mr Challeron <76420.1471@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you WRITE stuff like that?
+> How long did it take to find actors who could PLAY scenes like
+> that?
+
+       Thanks.
+
+       Implying more than one sees is something that you kinda have to
+learn over time.  It can be very effective, as here.
+
+       You just have to kinda put yourself out on a limb, as a writer
+or as an actor.
+
+       This scene *should* be very affecting.  It goes to Joe's Theory
+of Violence on TV.  To wit...that we need more of it, but it has to be
+realistic violence.  It has to show consequences.  You glorify or
+desensitize violence when you shoot somebody, and they just go down, no
+yelling in pain, no sobbing as their guts fall out onto the street. 
+It's just gunfire, loud noises, excitement and fun.  If you're going to
+show violence, then show it for what it *is*, and show it the way
+people would react to it.  Make the audience understand that this is a
+*person*, not one in a series of body counts.
+
+       (There's also Joe's Theory of Button-Fly Jeans, btw...which
+holds that when you use the men's room, you only actually *have* to
+unbutton the first three buttons...the fourth one is just for show.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Feb-96 22:50:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: VoA: Pretty Bad
+
+ Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Anyone got any year two examples?
+> Demure?
+
+     Two comments, and two only.
+
+     He's still wrong.  She was waiting, demurely, when Sheridan
+entered. The argument didn't start until well afterward.  Tell him to
+run the episode again and maybe LOOK at it this time.
+
+     Second comment...I suspect that Hank has a problem with women. 
+His concerns repeatedly are with the women characters, that they're too
+much in your face, that they're not reverential enough, that they're
+"pushy," doesn't like that they can be sexually aggressive.
+
+     In short...the problem may not be the show....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Feb-96 22:50:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Andrew J. Puckett <75143.267@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <VOA> Question
+
+ Andrew J. Puckett <75143.267@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was there any change made to the opening music in "Voices of
+> Authority" (as opposed to third season episodes preceding it)?
+
+     Nope, no change in the music at all.  You're probably just more
+used to it now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Feb-96 00:20:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Dust<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Thanks.  And since TV works in a vacuum for the most part, and
+it's rare to really get solid feedback...we never hear it enough. 
+Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Feb-96 12:58:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John MacVeigh <72467.2141@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+ John MacVeigh <72467.2141@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The question is: do G'Kar (and Morden) still have free will?
+
+      Actually, I tend to agree with that assessment.  They've guided
+and instructed and pointed, yes...and manipulated...but they still
+haven't had to step up to the plate in other areas.
+
+      And I don't think the Narns have sacrificed nearly enough yet. 
+You can always sacrifice more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Feb-96 12:58:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <VOA> Question
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did they change the closing credit music on Dust to Dust?
+
+      Yes, we did change that.  Because we -- I -- forgot to have
+Christopher re-score it when we were re-doing the main title.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Feb-96 12:58:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Martin Higgins <72223.3441@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 3 title?
+
+ Martin Higgins <72223.3441@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I haven't seen it posted anywhere - what's the overall title for
+> season 3?
+
+     Point of No Return.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Feb-96 12:58:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Dust<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Your husband has great and refined taste.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Feb-96 12:58:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gary Weinfurther <71521.2352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Dust To Dust
+
+ Gary Weinfurther <71521.2352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it fasten then button, or button then fasten?
+
+      You're right; UNFORGIVEN is just incredible, his best work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Feb-96 18:31:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Could be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Feb-96 18:31:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust To Dust>
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is it with Unforgiven?
+
+     "He had it coming."
+
+     "Kid...we *all* got it coming."
+
+     Any movie that can produce those two lines is in my pantheon
+forever.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Feb-96 18:38:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robt Martin <75663.2701@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 cover story
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     You could've sent me a note describing the photos; I could've
+told you what they were.
+
+     Also, the statment "a Fox network series" is incorrect; some Fox
+stations carry us, but we're a PTEN series, no relation to Fox
+whatsoever. So you have double reason to complain about the insert.
+
+     I look forward to the article.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Feb-96 18:38:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Generally speaking, in television, if you're not going to see
+someone, you should at least try to avoid saying his name, because
+folks new to the show won't know what you're talking about.  Those who
+know, know.  For those who don't, it shouldn't get in the way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Feb-96 23:25:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Secret Organizations>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean that the group/organization has been done away
+> with because of copyright problems and the like? And if the Bureau
+> 13 folks have been dropped, what does this do for the General
+> Hague conspiracy?
+
+     No, it's just that names change; no secret group keeps the same
+name for very long.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Feb-96 23:25:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Upcoming B5 Eps>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And how goes things on the set and the filming of episodes at the
+> moment?
+
+     At this point, I'd prefer to say as little as possible about the
+last batch, to keep things quiet for the time being.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Feb-96 23:25:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     The correct answer is C.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Feb-96 23:25:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phil Adams <72470.1156@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <VoA> Space A&B
+
+ Phil Adams <72470.1156@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this just us, or has there been a conscious effort to "dumb
+> down" or "genericize" (new verb!) the story in order to reach new
+> viewers? 8) ); the suddenly-samurai Narn ("gotta draw blood before
+> I sheathe this baby!"); the idea of baiting an ancient race into
+> doing what you want them to do (how did they make it so far while
+> being _so_ stupid?); the name of the Vorlon/Minbari ship (the
+> White Star?!!? Minus the story arc elements, there've been a
+> number of sour faces going, "Was that a Star Trek or B5 ep?" Are
+> we just being unrealistic and too picky?
+
+       Phil...I get this at the start of every season.  Let me repeat
+what I've said, oh, about two dozen times already before.
+
+       At the start of every season, we have new people sampling the
+show. Do you want the show to continue?  If you do, then you have to
+continue to add new viewers.  If viewers tune in and they're lost in
+the overall arc, they're going to tune out again.  So you give them
+some stand-alone episodes in the beginning, shows that are a little
+more accessible, but introduce them to the characters, the situations
+and the universe so that when the arc begins to move again, they know
+enough to get into what's going on.
+
+       Sure, I could've just kept going right with the strong arc
+episodes. Which the new viewers, 90% of whom sample shows in the first
+few weeks of a new season and not thereafter, wouldn't have been able
+to follow well.  And they would've tuned out.  And it would've been a
+very big nail in the cancellation coffin.  You can bring in new
+viewers, or you can get canceled and never tell the whole story.  Pick
+one.
+
+       Second, you cannot -- CANNOT -- sustain the kind of intensity
+you have in the final four over the course of a season.  You need to
+have some lighter moments as contrast or people are going to start
+sticking their heads in ovens all across the country.  So at the start
+of a season, I try to do some lighter stuff, to bring people back up a
+little, bracing for the next drop in the roller coaster.  You need
+peaks and valleys to develop any kind of rhythm, or to appreciate the
+other side of it.
+
+       I got the same thing in season one, and season two..."Why these
+light episodes?  What's happened to this arc?"  Then by season's end,
+the chorus usually turns to "That was a GREAT season!"  So my response
+is, Unless you think I've suddenly turned stupid, or I've decided to
+betray the series I've now worked 10 years of my life to produce...will
+you for chrissakes *trust* me once in a while?  Show a little patience.
+When I introduced Vir, everybody on the planet jumped funky all over
+me.  "He's just a comic character!  It's Flounder!  He's dumbing down
+the show!  Space him!  He stinks!  Joe's losing it!"  And now, of
+course, we see what Vir is, and in many surveys he's now one of the
+most popular characters.
+
+       You know what the #1 comment from the pilot was, on the nets
+and elsewhere?  "LOSE the guy with the funny hair!  He's just
+ridiculous." Londo. Every time I've done something a little different
+in the show, I've usually been jumped on, because they're not willing
+to trust that I know what I'm doing...until they've seen it for a
+while, then they Get It, and it's "Oh, now I see it."  Great, thanks,
+now that you've been beating on my head for six months.  Next time show
+a little patience.  (And btw, ALL of the comments related above are
+real ones, many of them right here on Compuserve, from people still
+around here.)
+
+       Every story can't be an arc story at this point; you've got to
+see the characters outside the arc, in the way they live their lives,
+in other things that happen to them, or else you won't CARE what
+happens to them in the arc. No, the Purple/Green Drazi story didn't
+move the arc ahead, but it showed you a lot about Ivanova, didn't it? 
+So now if and when something should happen to her in the arc, you care
+about her.  It's the difference between just being chess pieces, and
+being *people*.
+
+       Okay, here's the breakdown.  Season 3.  You had arc episodes
+only a bit in the first batch.  "Honor," "Voices" and now a little in
+"Dust." You've got one more stand-alone next week, "Exogenesis." 
+That's the last one for a LONG time.  Episodes 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15,
+16, 17, 20, 21 and 22 are ALL arc stories, most of them heavy, none
+less than moderate.
+
+       I said, from the start, that each season would have
+stand-alones and arc stories.  About 20% in year one, 35% in year two,
+50% in year three, 70% in year four, and 100% in year five.  And the
+stand-alones tend to get pushed toward the beginning of a season for
+the reasons stated.  Is nobody paying attention when I say these
+things?  Because if so, then why do I get gigged each season at the
+start by people saying "HEY!  HOW COME THESE AREN'T ARC EPISODES?" 
+(And as it looks now, year 3 has closer to 13-14 arc episodes, so we're
+ahead a bit.)
+
+       Before people start making sweeping generalizations about the
+season, it might behoove you to see the season first.  If anything, my
+concern in looking at what's been done for year 3 is that we're too
+GRIM for the larger portion of it, and maybe a bit complex...so I'm
+working to clarify a few things here and there as I do these last few.
+
+       So that's my response to the generalizations.  To the
+specifics....
+
+       The political officer: improbable dialogue?  Most of it was
+taken direct from political statements, public ones, made by Goebbels,
+Hitler, Joseph McCarthy, Stalin, and other fanatics.  The kind of Big
+Lie dialogue people continue to fall for today.  Go to a Pat Buchanan
+rally sometime and tell me it's unlikely dialogue.
+
+       The chess maneuver: I mainly get this comment from people who
+don't play chess much.  I used to be a decent (not great, but decent)
+player, and I fell for a move out of left field sometimes.  (I'm a
+sucker for a fool's mate.)  Sheridan isn't a chess master, he's still
+rough around the edges, and Theo's been doing this a lot longer.  He
+got foxed.  It happens.
+
+       "Marcus, the walking cliche."  Heard this about Vir, Zack,
+Morden, Londo, and others.  My prediction: by season's end, Marcus will
+be one of our more popular characters.  Because you haven't seen all of
+what he is yet.  Any more than you did Vir on his first two
+appearances.
+
+       (Y'know, there are days I hate the american culture of
+immediate gratification and kneejerk condemnation and stereotyping with
+insufficient information.  So far there hasn't been an uninteresting
+character in the lot. Do you think suddenly I'm going to introduce a
+lox?  Okay, Keffer wasn't all he could've been, but that was because
+that character was always doomed, and doomed to go fast, so I think I
+put a little distance between myself and him. That doesn't apply here. 
+I said Vir was a great character, and some folks snorted and made fun. 
+I was proven right.  So trust me, Marcus is a great character.)
+
+       The two small story points...like I said, I went for a lighter
+touch in "Voices," because it was the last chance to have some light
+moments for a long, long, time.
+
+       The White Star was so named as a balance to the Black Star,
+which Sheridan destroyed.  What here is a problem?
+
+       I don't mean to rag on you, Phil...I know your interests are
+only the best.  But (expletive) it...y'know?  I was real patient the
+first time I went through this at the top of season one, patient again
+at the top of season two...and it's just wearing a bit thin.  If I knew
+what I was doing then, why should I suddenly not know what I'm doing
+now?  How many times over do I have to prove myself, and this series? 
+It seems like everything good I did in the season before gets forgotten
+because we just take a BREATH before moving on to the next stage.  And
+then suddenly it's "The sky is falling!  The show's falling apart!  The
+arc is gone!  Ohmygodohmygod!"
+
+       Patience, people.  I've been faithful, and honest, and straight
+with all of you.  I haven't let you down yet.  And I don't intend to. 
+Season three collectively represents the very best work we have done on
+this show to date. Starting with #8, "Messages From Earth," the arc and
+the story kicks into high gear, moving faster than ever before.  MAJOR
+stuff happens.
+
+       And natch, I'll go through this all over again in year four,
+because they'll say it doesn't move as fast as year three did.  You
+can't win.  I appreciate the concern, Phil.  Honest I do.  But I've
+always had a problem with people judging the season on a sampling. 
+Give it a chance.
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Feb-96 23:25:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 3 title?
+
+ Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What were the first two?
+> What are the last two?
+
+Signs and Portents.
+
+The Coming of Shadows.
+
+Now: Point of No Return.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Feb-96 18:32:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mara K. Malovany <102750.1414@compuserve.com>
+Subject: VOA: Lurkers
+
+ Mara K. Malovany <102750.1414@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I wonder, does her arrogance stem solely from her own
+> personality, or from her position in Night Watch? So just how
+> scared of Night Watch is the average Earther? Or do most people
+> believe that Night Watch is there to protect them from treason
+> and invasion, nevermind if a few rights get temporarily trampled?
+
+     Some are scared of Nightwatch, others feel it's a good thing, and
+darn it, it's about time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Feb-96 18:32:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust To Dust>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Thanks.  The pleasure is all mine....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Feb-96 18:32:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <VoA> Space A&B
+
+ Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Am I the <not so> silent majority?
+> Like major stuff hasn't happened yet??
+> So many subtle things we so easily miss, which are significant,
+> which are not? Is ANYthing insignificant?
+> re: dumbing down of B5?
+> Frustrating?
+> Do I wish I knew what was coming?
+> What the final end would be?
+> Where you are taking us?
+
+     Thanks.  I really think this season is just overall such a leap
+over the previous season, especially once episodes 8-10 hit.  As it
+happens, I showed a bit from 8 to some folks in the office the other
+day, one in particular being a fan of the show who sat in on an
+interview...to say their jaws were on the floor doesn't *begin* to
+describe it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Feb-96 18:32:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robt Martin <75663.2701@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 cover story
+
+ Robt Martin <75663.2701@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My deadlines are Monday morning, can you please take time from
+> your weekend to help?"
+
+     If it'd help make the article better or more accurate, I'm always
+available, 7 days a week.  I have no life upon which this could
+intrude.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Feb-96 18:32:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John A. Lewis <76740.1520@compuserve.com>
+Subject: VoA: Pretty Bad
+
+ John A. Lewis <76740.1520@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you please help me understand one aspect of VoA that I
+> found a bit confusing? Is one or the other behaviour simply an
+> *act* that this character assumes in relation to who she is
+> dealing with?
+
+     Basically, like many manipulative people, she projects whatever
+she thinks will work best with her audience.  Appealing to Zack's
+patriotism, trying to find Sheridan's affections by flattering him
+mercilessly (on many levels), playing the straight-chinned leader in an
+address to security forces...she puts on whatever face she thinks will
+work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Feb-96 18:32:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> did he see the stuff with G'Lan)?
+> Are the Vorlon telepaths primarily "Dreamwalkers"?
+> Is that how they influence the other races?
+
+       Yes, it helps if the person's mind is in a different state --
+asleep, exhausted, in a heightened state of awareness -- for the
+Vorlons to make contact, which is why their presence is often
+associated with dream imagery.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Feb-96 18:32:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+ John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have the Shadows always lost?
+
+       "Have the shadows always lost?"
+
+       That is a far more complex question than you could possibly
+know....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Feb-96 22:59:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Sound
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     The sources of the problem are two-fold, and we keep trying to
+get it straightened out.  When we deliver the episodes to WB, the sound
+level is where it should be.  Then we watch the show and the levels are
+a lot lower, and there's some phasing going on.  As near as we can
+determine, at some point after we've turned over the episode, when
+multiple levels of dubs are being made (for closed captioning, another
+for national spots to be inserted, and so on), the audio goes from
+digital to analog and back again. In addition, some stations tend to
+clamp our audio, but run the commercials hot.  We're working to find
+out where this is happening and stop it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Feb-96 22:59:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadows
+
+ Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Right?
+> So I have to wonder, when the Shadow War ends, will the Shadows
+> still be involved with those things?
+
+     Never said that the shadow war ends this season.  I simply said
+it wouldn't run all the rest of the series.  And even when a war is
+over, the afteraffects can be felt for some time.  And there may be
+related problems still to clean up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Feb-96 22:59:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Damian Reaves <75373.2325@compuserve.com>
+Subject: About the First Ones
+
+ Damian Reaves <75373.2325@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were the Ikkarans first ones ?
+> a)did they build the battle suits to fight off the shadows ?
+> b) will we ever see Ikkaran technology again ?
+> The Shadows have been out of commission for a 1000 years so is it
+> safe to assume that the Vorlons, the Walkers at Sigma957, and any
+> other first ones still out there have caught up with them
+> technologically? Were the Takarans first ones, and if not where
+> did the great machine come from?
+
+     Neither the Ikarrans nor those on Epsilon 3 were First Ones.  And
+the level of tech between Vorlons, Shadows and Walkers is fairly close.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Feb-96 23:00:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rae Augenstein <72752.1653@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Dust<<
+
+ Rae Augenstein <72752.1653@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A question for you: Has anyone else ever written *all* the
+> scripts for a show in one season?
+
+     No, insofar as I have been able to determine, in the history of
+TV no one has ever written every episode of a season of a dramatic
+series single handedly.  The closest would be Terry Nation, who wrote
+the first season of Blake's 7, but that was only 13 episodes, not 22.
+
+     As for what folks say about me...probably it's all of those you
+cite, and then some.  Good and bad.  You can't work at getting a
+single, personal vision on film without convincing some people you're
+great, and convincing other people you're the Antichrist.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Feb-96 23:00:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Karen E. Bahnsen <102735.3557@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <VoA> Space A&B
+
+ Karen E. Bahnsen <102735.3557@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you see that?!"
+> BTW, in DtD, where the camera looks up from G'Kar to see Kosh in
+> his encounter suit, does that big sign on the wall behind where
+> Kosh was standing say, "WARNING!"?
+
+       Yes, the sign does indeed say warning.  Look for another sign
+right behind somebody at the end of "Severed Dreams."
+
+       In defense of Phil...who I have spoken with before, and met
+once, and who asked his question in good faith and I kinda handed him
+his head...don't take my reaction necessarily as venue to jump on him. 
+Some days, when I've been working 18 hours straight on the show, I come
+across a comment that puts me into Wet Cat mode.  That was one.  Which
+is why I made a point of trying to say that I understand the
+question(s), and whence they proceed.
+
+       There are a very few flakes and idiots and dangerous loonies
+out there in net-land...but Phil isn't one of them.  It's the
+consistent idiots you have to watch out for.
+
+       Re: the discussion group...this is one of the things that I've
+decided I'm very proud of, regarding B5.  Delenn pointed out that
+humans form communities; it's what we do.  And a B5 community has
+arisen.  Fans of the show gather in pizza parlors to watch the show,
+set out open invitations for picnics and house parties to catch shows
+off the satellite, create discussion groups...form communities.  People
+have formed lasting friendships, regular pub groups, even gotten
+married because of the show.
+
+       Others have gotten involved in social work, contributed or
+worked for charities, food kitchens, other causes.  Decided that their
+fates are in their own hands, and been inspired to move across the
+country to form new lives and pursue what they *want* to do instead of
+what they felt they *had* to do.  I hear from them frequently in email,
+and in public messages.
+
+       I'm very happy about that.  If Star Trek's shining element was
+that it got people involved in the space program, perhaps B5's shining
+element is that it gets people involved in the human program.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Feb-96 23:00:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <DTD>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Thanks.  Yes, I think we've cast some great actors in the show,
+and they only continue to improve.
+
+     Many of us on the show are fans of fighter planes and military
+history, especially producer John Copeland.  So we've taken to giving
+the Starfuries nose art...in fact, the near-legendary WW II flying
+squadron the Flying Tigers actually gave us *permission* to use their
+logos on Sheridan's fighter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+Date: 11-Feb-96 14:10:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Burhaan Ahmad <75754.3065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+ Burhaan Ahmad <75754.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why not sooner?
+> Perhaps he needed to suffer into truth?
+
+       Because G'Kar needed to hit bottom, real bottom, before he
+would be receptive to the message...because time doesn't mean to the
+vorlons what it means to us...and because he was finally mentally
+receptive due to the dust.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Feb-96 15:18:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: The Jawa / Jawa #2 <76371.3057@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Dust<<
+
+ The Jawa / Jawa #2 <76371.3057@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You wrote every single episode this season, didn't you?
+
+     I look forward to being bored for a while.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Feb-96 15:18:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Exogenesis>
+
+ David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have big plans for him later in the season?
+> How much do his operatives know?
+> Can he get some to honor their commitment to help him when the
+> time comes if they don't know what they will be fighting or whom?
+
+     Thanks.  Yeah, Exo is the last non-arc episode for a long time,
+and the last chance to catch one's breath before the big fall.
+
+     My personal evaluation of the episode is that it's okay.  The
+second half, I think, isn't as strong as the first half.  Halfway
+through writing the episode, we had a problem come up in production
+that unexpectedly took me away from the script for about a week. 
+(Nothing major, but it had to be dealt with and it took time.) 
+Usually, I write copious notes on a script before I begin writing it. 
+In this case, the story was so crystalline clear in my head that I just
+dived in, and was blasting away terrific when the hit came midway 
+through.  By the time I got back, I'd lost some of the fingerprints of
+the story, and had to kind of re-find them again.  Mainly, I think the
+expository sequence at the end could've been done better.
+
+     Needless to say, that's the last time I trusted myself without
+notes, no matter how well I "see" the episode in my head.  It'd be a
+great script for second or first season, but we have to keep raising
+the bar, every aspect has to be better than the last thing we did, so
+for my money it's not quite up to that standard.  Happily, it's the
+*only* episode this season that I feel that way about...the rest are
+all just nifty.
+
+     That said, I think it has some great moments for Marcus, Franklin
+and others...and yes, there's a lot more planned with Franklin coming
+up this season, particularly toward the latter third of the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Feb-96 15:18:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: VOA: Lurkers
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+    For now, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Feb-96 15:18:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phil Adams <72470.1156@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <VoA> Space A&B
+
+ Phil Adams <72470.1156@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why am I so sure you won't be surprised to hear that?
+> Is it as grim as "1984" and "Brazil"?
+> Go to a rally where a guy drives up in a BMW and talks about
+> Americans losing their jobs (yeah, I know he and his wife sold
+> off their foreign cars after this was pointed out 4 years ago,
+> but it was a hoot when it happened)? Go to a rally where the guy
+> talks about the concerns of the middle class while making
+> 6-figure salaries off his media work?
+
+       For what it's worth, if your concern is with the suits, we
+haven't had a single writing note from WB since episode 2 or 3 of
+season 2.  Not one. Nada.  No nots at all on our cuts of the episodes. 
+Nothing.  They completely trust us, and they leave us to tell our
+story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Feb-96 21:18:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gerald Himmelein <100417.3703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Age of Centauri?
+
+ Gerald Himmelein <100417.3703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How old do Centauri get usually?
+> I mean: What's their average life expectancy?
+> At what age approximately?
+> Is the life expectancy different for male and female Centauri?
+
+     A Centauri can get to be about 150 or so, sometimes older.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Feb-96 21:18:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+ Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> .can we have some clues?
+
+     No, you can't have any clues.  What am I, a clues closet?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Feb-96 21:18:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 3 title?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     No; one thing at a time.  Now finish your broccoli....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Feb-96 21:18:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mara K. Malovany <102750.1414@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <DtD praise&nitpicks>
+
+ Mara K. Malovany <102750.1414@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And that piece used during the flash of images from Londo's mind
+> was perfect, was it new?
+
+      With some thematic exceptions, most of the music Chris composes
+for us each week is unique, and tailored for that episode.  So yes,
+it's all mainly new.
+
+      Re: the coat of welcoming...here's a little tidbit...we had to
+make up an entire alphabet for most of our major races (and I've been
+gradually building up a dictionary here and there for languages).  So
+they came and asked if they could embroider something in Minbari on the
+shirt Vir's wearing when he comes back.  I said sure.  Did I have
+anything in mind?  No, not really.
+
+      So I'm on the set that day, and I see the embroidered shirt, and
+I ask what these five letters spell, since I don't offhand read Minbari
+yet.  He looked up at me and smiled.  "It spells out ALOHA."
+
+      We have a very demented crew.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Feb-96 21:18:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: John Vickery
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> From Naroon to Welles: Nice range of acting, eh?
+> Has she appeared as an extra in other episodes?
+
+     Don't know offhand...will inquire.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Feb-96 21:18:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Correct.  They see reality, and time, and space somewhat
+differently than we do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Feb-96 21:19:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Timothy C Schell <71174.2414@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+ Timothy C Schell <71174.2414@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would it be valuable to rewatch "Soul Hunter" and "Deathwalker"
+> again?
+
+       Soul Hunter probably wouldn't be a bad idea at some point prior
+to the middle of the season...or the two-parter....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Feb-96 21:19:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <DTD>
+
+ Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you pattern the Star Fury after a war plane?
+
+       No, didn't actually pattern the starfury after a plane, but
+rather tried to see what would work most accurately in zero-atmosphere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Feb-96 21:19:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <VoA> Space A&B
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I agree.  We're slowly ratcheting up the tension, and this has
+got to take a toll on people.  Franklin probably wouldn't be doing as
+many stims as he is otherwise.  Actions have consequences.
+
+       And yes, having seen prior episodes adds more texture.  Still,
+one can follow the episode for what it is.  The more you watch, the
+more you get out of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Feb-96 21:19:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark Koro <70252.3354@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WDCA 20 to move B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's great to hear, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Feb-96 21:24:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     "Joe identified the figure Sheridan saw as the angel Gabriel."
+
+     No I didn't.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 12-Feb-96 14:26:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Ees okay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Feb-96 15:01:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dennis L. Schwendem <102620.3111@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+     Thanks, we try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Feb-96 15:01:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: John Vickery
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       No, we can't contract with occasional actors in this fashion,
+so we have to book them ahead of time, as soon as a script lands in the
+production office.  If they're not available, sometimes we have to do
+without and make the character someone else, or juggle episodes so we
+can shoot when they are available.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Feb-96 15:01:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Age of Centauri?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Probably about 120 would be the oldest a human would get; there
+hasn't been that much change in that end of it.  The median age,
+though, is different, so that right now, the average lifespan is 68
+years, I think.  By 2260 you can add another 20 years to that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Feb-96 15:06:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randy Hall <74617.420@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Good Grief - DS9
+
+ Randy Hall <74617.420@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Don't you know better than to try and say something good about a
+> Trek show in the B5 area?
+
+     "Don't you know better than to try and say something good about a
+Trek show in the B5 area?  I'm surprised JMS didn't come flying in here
+accusing you of having a sinister agenda and trying to do him personal
+harm."
+
+     An interesting comment from you, given that you're addressing
+this to Wayne Hall, your brother, so obviously he came in here to leave
+the message so you could then respond in this fashion, and thus attack
+me.
+
+     Also intresting in light of your comments on AOL, in which you
+were the single loudest voice screaming bloody murder whenever B5 was
+mentioned in the ST areas, and your repeated request, verging on
+demand, that people be prohibited from mentioning B5 at ST conventions,
+bitching about the mention of B5 at ST panels, and generally carrying
+on cranky whenever the show got any mention at all in a ST folder.
+
+     Whereas, on the other hand, when the B5 page was opened on AOL, I
+made it a *point* to make sure that there was a subsidiary section set
+aside for the discussion of other TV series, including the variations
+of ST, to create a more open environment.
+
+     The problem, as usual with you, Randy, is entirely yours.  You
+continue to project onto others your own problems.  You're truly a
+pathetic individual.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 12-Feb-96 19:27:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JAMES A. O'BRIEN <70661.2342@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Beyond five years
+
+ JAMES A. O'BRIEN <70661.2342@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any word as to what will happen to B5 after the 5 year
+> arc has run its course? I know ratings will play a major role in
+> any decision, but has JMS ever said anything about what might
+> happen beyond the 5 years?
+
+       From the start, I've indicated that there's a side-story that
+could go off in the B5 universe after the 5 year story is up, but it
+wouldn't be B5. Frankly, however, given the current state of the
+syndication market, I'd suggest that the odds of that happening are
+slim and none.
+
+       So barring anything truly exceptional -- like someone handing
+me an anthology series -- my plan at the moment is to retire from TV at
+the end of the five years and go back to writing novels and plays.  At
+that point, I think I'll have said just about everything I want to say
+for TV.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Feb-96 19:34:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Grey Council Question
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there other female council members or is it a mostly male
+> group?
+
+       No, there are and have been other female grey council members.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Feb-96 19:34:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, is the crux of the conflict between the Shadows and the
+> Vorlons something that we must change OUR paradigm of the above
+> to fully understand?
+
+       No, I wouldn't say that the shadows and vorlons see space, time
+and reality in the same ways.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Feb-96 23:30:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All
+Subject: Warning Bogus B5 Stuff
+
+       It has come to my attention that someone at Capricon this past
+weekend was trying to get fans to buy allegedly "real" B5 costume
+elements for as much as $3500, attesting that he has a letter from me
+verifying its origins.
+
+       We have never released ANY costumes for sale for any reason,
+and I have certainly never written any letter affirming this, or
+allowing this. If this letter exists it is certainly a forgery, and
+this matter should be turned over to the local police department for
+investigation by their fraud and bunko divisions.  If you have had any
+contact with these individuals, beware.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Feb-96 23:42:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mara K. Malovany <102750.1414@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <DtD praise&nitpicks>
+
+ Mara K. Malovany <102750.1414@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where did G'Kar take Londo?
+> Was it meant to be inarticulate, or am I missing something?
+
+       Thanks.  Emotion, for me, is the key to all drama.  If it
+doesn't make you feel something, what's the point?  The writer's job is
+to touch passion, not be burned by it, and come back to tell what it
+was like.
+
+       And what G'Kar said was, "Dear G'Quon, no more...."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Feb-96 23:42:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A clues closet?
+
+       Soon to be a basket case.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Feb-96 23:42:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <VoA> Space A&B
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Heck, they're *all* on edge.  Wouldn't you be?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Feb-96 23:42:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Advisory Council
+
+ Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question, then, is what happened to the Narn vote?
+> Did the Centauri get it, or did it just disappear?
+> Either way, wouldn't the balance be disrupted?
+
+       The council has been more or less abandoned as infighting has
+broken out.  It gets worse.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 13-Feb-96 19:04:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anne L. Warner <71513.1177@compuserve.com>
+Subject: John Vickery
+
+ Anne L. Warner <71513.1177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were the Drazi spokesperson in Dust to Dust, the Green Drazi
+> Leader in Geometry of Shadows, and the Markab ambassador in
+> Confessions and Lamentations, all the same actor? Who is he?
+> So I'm curious as to whether I'm right that these are all the
+> same actor, and if so, who???
+
+       I'm pretty sure he was both Drazis, but I'm not certain offhand
+about the Markab.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-Feb-96 19:04:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randy Hall <74617.420@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Good Grief - DS9
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Well, yes, Randy, I'm sure I responded exactly as you thought I
+would. When one exhibits poor behavior in public, one will usually be
+corrected.  You came in here and, totally unprovoked, without any
+message from me, without even a word from me in the thread, took a
+cheap and untrue shot at me, and my behavior.
+
+       When one pokes the bear without *any* justification, except to
+do it, well, I suppose it is only natural to expect some kind of
+reaction.  If I were to pour a pint of chocolate milk on someone's
+floor, I could anticipate their reaction.  But the problem would not be
+in the reaction; the problem would be in the ill-mannered, senseless,
+stupid and uwnarranted provocation.
+
+       Still, I take this as a sign of growth on your part that you
+can now predict the kind of response your generally poor behavior
+elicits.  And, as usual, you just dive out of the way instead of
+confronting the facts of your past behavior.
+
+       Which is exactly what *I* expected of *you*.
+
+       Symmetry is a wonderful thing, is it not?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-Feb-96 19:04:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <DtD praise&nitpicks>
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, how come it looks like *the're right*?
+> Am I off base here?
+> Would Earthdome and Psi Corps interpret that incident
+> differently?
+
+       Some might, others might not.  Simple fact is, the rules of the
+Psi Corps would forbid them from engaging ANY human telepath for this
+purpose. So the only other recourse is non-humans.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-Feb-96 19:04:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vorlon Theology
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who *is* the Ancient Vorlon God Boojie?
+
+       Marcus was making that part up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-Feb-96 19:04:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Exogenesis>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...on every level.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-Feb-96 19:04:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Fred Miller <76042.3474@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <D2D: Bester>
+
+ Fred Miller <76042.3474@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where would SF TV be these days if it were not for the quality
+> writing of B5? If so, are there, or can there be, blind telepaths?
+
+       Thanks.  And yes, they do need to visually acquire the target,
+in most cases.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-Feb-96 19:04:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Barbara Pfieffer <72302.2453@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A few questions
+
+ Barbara Pfieffer <72302.2453@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you still working on "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding
+> Place"? Do you have any idea what the titles of the final two
+> scripts of the season will be? Will we *see* General Hague again
+> this season or is he still busy subverting Star Fleet from the
+> inside?
+
+       Just turned in the script for "Rock," so that leaves just two
+left to write.  I haven't decided on a title for 21 yet, out of several
+options, and the title of 22 is classified for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-Feb-96 19:04:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Dust to Dust>>
+
+ William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Question: Is Molari aware that G'Kar got inside his head and
+> now knows of his involvement in the Centauri aggression on the
+> Narn home world?
+
+       Yes, he's aware.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-Feb-96 19:04:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All
+Subject: NEW B5 EPS!
+
+       Good news.  We've finally convinced Warner Bros./PTEN to go
+with eight new episodes in a row, starting the first week of April. 
+The new schedule, which just went out via fax to the stations today, is
+as follows:
+
+       So here now is the revised schedule:
+
+       NEW EPISODES:
+       2/12    EXOGENESIS
+       2/19    MESSAGES FROM EARTH
+       2/26    POINT OF NO RETURN              (w/Majel Barrett)
+
+       RERUNS:
+       3/4     FALL OF NIGHT
+       3/11    THERE ALL THE HONOR LIES
+       3/18    AND NOW FOR A WORD
+       3/25    IN THE SHADOW OF Z'HA'DUM
+
+       NEW EPISODES:
+       4/1     SEVERED DREAMS
+       4/8     CEREMONIES OF LIGHT AND DARK
+       4/15    SIC TRANSIT VIR
+       4/22    A LATE DELIVERY FROM AVALON     (w/Michael York)
+       4/29    SHIP OF TEARS                   (w/Walter Koenig)
+       5/6     INTERLUDES AND EXAMINATIONS
+       5/13    WAR WITHOUT END: PART ONE       (w/Michael O'Hare)
+       5/20    WAR WITHOUT END: PART TWO
+
+       We're now in the process of working to get 2 new episodes in
+July, so there are only 3 left for October.  Even so, we're very
+excited to get a chance to show eight episodes in a row, building up to
+the end of the May sweeps with our big two-parter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-Feb-96 21:01:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom LeCompte <76711.572@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 8 NEW B5 EPS!
+
+ Tom LeCompte <76711.572@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, re: "Sic Transit Vir" - was that intended to be a pun in
+> Latin? Or was it accidental?
+
+       It's accurate as far as it goes, and a pun on another level.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-Feb-96 21:01:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 8 NEW B5 EPS!
+
+ Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So after the 8 episode run, there will be more repeats, a few in
+> the summer, and then we won't see the end of the season until
+> october? I'm really happy about the 8 show solid chunk with no
+> repeats, but why on earth are they posponing the season finale to
+> october again?
+
+       Because PTEN wants to hold episodes for sweeps periods. 
+Nothing more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-Feb-96 21:01:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Barbara Pfieffer <72302.2453@compuserve.com>
+Subject: YKYBWTMB5W..
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I'm glad we've given people a reason to live.
+
+       Granted, it's a silly one...but what the heck...you can never
+have too many reasons to live.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 01:20:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Hawkins <71742.160@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Minipax through history
+
+ John M. Hawkins <71742.160@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Even so, I wonder how many of us could recognize modernized
+> versions of the events leading up to the Thrity Years War, or the
+> rise of Cromwell, both in the 17th Century, about as far removed
+> from our time as we are from B5's?
+
+       Yes, we have seen it before...and we're seeing it now...and
+we're going to see it again in future.
+
+       Someone once remarked, "Of course everything has already been
+said. But since no one was paying attention, we must begin again."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 14:37:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chris Carrier <72157.3334@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+ Chris Carrier <72157.3334@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any ideas when Season Two, especially the episodes Drazi Do
+> Worldcon "Geometry of Shadows" and Ivanova Meets The Libertarian
+> Party of 2259 "Acts of Sacrifice" will be on videotape?
+
+       We're still working on the tapes.  We'll have info when it's
+available.
+
+       And yeah, I love the Drazi.  They're just nuts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 15:26:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan Hedge <72017.3232@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 8 NEW B5 EPS!
+
+ Alan Hedge <72017.3232@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You couldn't convince them to run B^2 or even AVitW?
+
+       What, it's not enough I walked on the water here...?
+
+       No, I wish I could say otherwise, but thus far I haven't been
+able to convince them to run those eps.  Ah, well....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 15:26:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Minipax through history
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Actually, they did use that kind of technique on some of their
+own population.  The medical population, for instance.  Recently
+uncovered (and shown on A&E, which I sometimes think is the All Nazi
+Network, All Nazis, All the Time) were a series of "informational
+films" produced during the war and shown to doctors charged with the
+notion of eliminating the insane, the genetically flawed, and others
+not classified as jews or gypsies or poles or other non-desirable
+races.
+
+       They went through, each film gradually stating their theory
+more clearly, and explained that these poor souls weren't *really*
+alive, weren't *really* aware.  It systematically showed how it was
+better, really, in the lokng run, to put them out of their own, and
+society's, misery.
+
+       If it ever comes around again, watch it; it'll chill your soul.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 15:26:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vorlon Theology
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Weren't me.  It was Marcus.  Blame him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 15:26:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robt Martin <75663.2701@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 cover story
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Next time you're in a bind, btw, you may want to point out to
+someone out there that the *head* of the British Sci-Fi Channel, in an
+interview, stated that he felt that B5 was the best SF show currently
+around.  So if they want to move toward serving the UK population,
+where B5 is #6 on the sell-through video charts, they definitely should
+do more B5 coverage.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 15:26:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robt Martin <75663.2701@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Beyond five years
+
+ Robt Martin <75663.2701@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does Warner retain any authority to use B5 characters or premises
+> in other endeavors (films, novels, action figures, teddy bears)
+> without your prior approval after the five-year span? What factors
+> would you say put you in a strong position for negotiating such a
+> deal?
+
+       Warners owns the copyright to B5, just as Paramount owns the
+copyright to ST.  By contract, if there should be a spin off or sequel
+of any kind, I would have to be involved in it.  The contract doesn't
+say that there cannot be any of these; you're correct, that can't be
+negotiated.
+
+       But there are a number of common-sense things at work here, as
+much as anything involving a studio can be described as common sense. 
+Given that all our actors/service contracts are deliberately for 5
+years not the more traditional 7, continuing B5 per se past year 5
+becomes impossible, due to the hideous level of re-negotiation of
+contracts that would have to take place. The cost would skyrocket.
+
+       I've always said, from the start, that there's a side story
+that could go off after B5 is finished, but I just don't think it's
+likely for the time being.  The numbers have been good enough to
+continue the show, but it's not a blockbuster, not a
+franchise...primarily due to the fact that we don't have a national,
+regular timeslot.  (Where we *do* have that, in the overseas markets,
+the show is extremely successful.)  There've been some small talks here
+and there touching on various feature film possibilities, from 
+direct-to-video to something theatrical -- but, again, due to the
+corporate structure at the studio, which is straight out of the pre-
+Cambrian period, I doubt anything much will happen on that front for
+the time begin.  It's nice that they've broached the subject, but to
+become a reality takes a bit more.
+
+       If I were to engage in predicting the future, here's what I
+think is most probable.  The show will continue to go on, doing well
+enough in the ratings to continue for two more seasons.  A comfortable
+level.  In 1998, after we've finished our first run, we are
+contractually already sold to the TNT cable network, which is
+*extremely* excited about the show, plans to promote it, and sees it as
+a way of breaking into the SF genre.  There, for the first time, we
+will have a regular, *daily* timeslot on a national network.
+
+       Then, I think, suddenly we're going to be "discovered," much
+the same way ST was discovered in syndication after it left the
+network.  Give it about a year or two for WB to notice this (see
+pre-Cambrian comment above), then suddenly they're going to start
+running around seeing what they can do to capitalize on this.
+
+       At that point, I'm not sure which way the runes point. 
+Certainly they'll start cranking out more merchandise stuff, which by
+contract I have to approve, to make sure it's quality stuff.  If they
+want to do a feature, I'll have to be involved, and they'll have to
+negotiate with all the cast members, who by then will have moved on to
+other projects and may or may not be available.  Ditto for any
+spinoffs.
+
+       So by the time they get their brains wrapped around the
+question, it'll already be the year 2000.  By then, much of TV as we
+know it now will have changed considerably, as it has already changed
+considerably in just the last 10 years.  A spinoff or sequel may no
+longer be financially viable in the new marketplace.  Ditto for any
+features.  Certainly nothing much could be done until 2002 or 2003 in
+terms of development, pre-production, production and post production.
+
+       So as you can see, one doesn't need a contract saying you can't
+do something...in TV, entropy tends to take care of the problem very
+nicely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 17:11:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All
+Subject: Sheridan/Sinclair JPG
+
+I've just uploaded to library 5 the first JPG of Sheridan and Sinclair
+together from the 2-parter "War Without End."  The file name is
+twob5.jpg, and will be available as soon as it's cleared.  It's a
+little dark, so it may take some work to get a real strong image.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 17:16:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com>
+Subject: White Star
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+Don't remember.  It's possible.  There was a White Star line in
+reality, once upon a time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 17:16:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 8 NEW B5 EPS!
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any idea when the "Final Three" will be shown in
+> England??
+
+       See my note here on the UK.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 17:16:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  And from where I sit -- which is mainly behind my
+keyboard these days -- the idea of being bored is VERY appealing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 17:20:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: BRIAN COONEY <100551.1656@compuserve.com>
+Subject: YES !! UK C4 B5 DATES
+
+{14th April Sunday at 6pm.}
+
+       Yes, that's correct.  The Sunday 6 p.m. timeslot will be the
+one for all of the third season, so folks won't have to run home after
+work or risk missing it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 20:58:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Last Shadow War
+
+ Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was Earth involved?
+> Were there Shadow bases on Earth, like on the Narn homeworld, or
+> was it something else? When was the last was?
+> We know it was 1000 years ago, is that approximate, or the exact
+> date? Will you answer all of these questions straight and to the
+> point?
+
+       You'll get some of the answers here in next week's episode. 
+The rest will be handled by the end of the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 20:58:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 8 NEW B5 EPS!
+
+{Can WB be convinced to show season one episodes during reruns?}
+
+       Tried it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 20:58:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Don Fort <72204.1356@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <VoA:The First Ones>
+
+ Don Fort <72204.1356@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any chance we'll see what Catherine Sakai was doing at
+> Sigma 957 a season or so ago?
+
+       Sakai was doing just what she said she was doing, checking out
+the area for mining and other exploitation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 20:59:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Don Fort <72204.1356@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust To Dust>
+
+{Hitchcock is a fine inspiration, but please don't do a shower scene!}
+
+       We would never do that.
+
+                                                       Yrs, Norman B.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 20:59:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A few questions
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has there been any more discussions about the two hour
+> direct-to-video project?
+
+       Nothing new.  Which is what I figured.  I think they want to
+get a sense of the coming renewal situation before talks go any
+further.  Which will take another month or so.  Basically, the stations
+get pitched all new show pickups at NATPE, then they go home, confer
+with their general managers and owners, and then decide finally which
+shows they will and won't pick up. We won't hear anything definitive on
+that until probably late April, possibly even early May, depending on
+circumstances.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 20:59:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Morris L. Gavant, M.D. <74027.264@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5SciFi Univ cover story
+
+{An article compared B5 and DS9}
+ Morris L. Gavant, M.D. <74027.264@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did he do that with the DS9 cover story?
+> Is there sour grapes underneath the essay regarding the need for
+> new blood?
+
+       This is something I probably shouldn't comment upon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 22:40:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rae Augenstein <72752.1653@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sheridan/Sinclair JPG
+
+ Rae Augenstein <72752.1653@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know why the image is so dark?
+
+       I have no idea, as we didn't provide the graphic; I can only
+assume they either got it from WB, or digitized it themselves off the
+raw footage.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+       (PS, I did upload a cleaner, slightly lighter version an hour
+or two later.)
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 22:40:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 8 NEW B5 EPS!
+
+{Now we can get older episodes.}
+
+       You can't, not until they go on sale at some point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 22:40:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Shine <75213.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: LA Channel
+
+ David Shine <75213.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which LA station broadcasts Babylon 5 and, when?
+
+       Thursdays 9 p.m., channel 13.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 22:44:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Cameron c. Wood <103305.515@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Tolkien Influences
+
+ Cameron c. Wood <103305.515@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ya ever sneak a peek at the Dead Sea Scrolls, or even the old
+> gnostic stuff?   {Narratives similar to Tolkien, and to B5}
+
+       Not bad....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Feb-96 23:54:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All
+Subject: Harlan Ellison: Cartoon
+
+       No, no, it doesn't mean what it says.  But how else can one
+announce that B5's own Conceptual Consultant, Harlan Ellison, will be
+appearing at the Cartoon Art Museum at 814 Mission Street in San
+Francisco on Friday, March 1st, from 6-8 p.m.?  This Evening with
+Ellison goes for only $15 per person, and is a benefit to raise funds
+for museum.  For more info, call 1-415-CARTOON.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Feb-96 03:43:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Beyond five years
+
+ Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Gee, then it'll be what, ten years before the WB stores start
+> selling B5 merchandise?
+
+       Yes, I know the store...I've spent far too much money there,
+mostly on Superman stuff.  (You know you've spent too much money at the
+WB store when the clerks actually *call you* to tell you that something
+just came in that you're gonna NEED to buy.  I sometimes think I have
+the word STOOGE tattooed upon my forehead....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Feb-96 14:17:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Hayes <75140.2265@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+ Bill Hayes <75140.2265@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we see the [Drazi] ambassador again this season?
+
+       Yeah, we'll see him again at some point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Feb-96 14:17:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: Ivonova/Bureau 13
+
+{Ivanova is the backup Control, isn't she?}
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Feb-96 14:17:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Beyond five years
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What ever happened to customer service?
+
+       WB stores don't carry B5 stuff, or stuff from most of the WB
+shows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Feb-96 14:18:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 8 NEW B5 EPS!
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you implying that it requires divine intervention to make
+> studio execs see reason?
+
+       And sometimes even divine intervention isn't enough.  By
+comparison, parting the Red Sea is easy....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Feb-96 14:18:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vorlon Theology
+
+
+       "I think Marcus is going to work out."
+
+       Yup.  As I'd said.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Feb-96 14:18:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Antony Jackson <100025.2004@compuserve.com>
+Subject: YES !! UK C4 B5 DATES
+
+ Antony Jackson <100025.2004@compuserve.com> asks:
+> As you know the timeslot details, I take it you would know if
+> they will be showing it w/s?? Also, any news on if they will be
+> showing it in the "hi-def" (!) PAL Plus?
+
+       I haven't heard anything more on this, so my *suspicion* is
+that the answer is no.  At this stage there probably isn't time to do
+it, either.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Feb-96 14:18:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadows
+
+ Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The invisible alien that was in the Earth sleeper ship, was that
+> a Shadow?
+
+       Shadow servent.  Soldier of darkness.  Not a shadow, but a
+good, close friend of same.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Feb-96 14:18:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul Voisine <72117.1270@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 8 NEW B5 EPS!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       "I'm beside myself."
+
+       How then do you walk through doorways?
+
+       This seems highly dubious and very impractical.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Feb-96 20:58:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Thomas Rackers <72047.1207@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Makeup/Prosthetics Q:
+
+ Thomas Rackers <72047.1207@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (For example, adding a little bit to a person's jowls to age him
+> from his actual 40 years to around 70.) Could you refer me to
+> someone on the B5 staff, or some other source, who could advise
+> me on materials used for the face molds and the prosthetics, and
+> tips on how the process is done?
+
+       Alas, I would feel inappropriate in referring you to any of our
+staff for consultation, as a) they get such requests frequently, and b)
+they're very busy on other stuff.  Probably any good makeup technician
+in the area could do the same in any event; we're not doing anything
+that hasn't been well established in the field.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Feb-96 20:58:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robt Martin <75663.2701@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 cover story
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Do you think any of the foot dragging over at the Sci-Fi
+Channel Magazine is due in part to the fact that the SFC is co-owned by
+Paramount?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Feb-96 20:58:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rick Shelton [FL] <72560.3114@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 8 NEW B5 EPS!
+
+ Rick Shelton [FL] <72560.3114@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did he take a bath?
+> Also, is Lou coming back at all?
+
+       The actor playing Lou Welch wanted to do other things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Feb-96 20:58:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Smith <103020.3110@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: Ivonova/Bureau 13
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       We'll continue to see Corwin (played by Joshua Cox) for the
+balance of the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Feb-96 20:58:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust to Dust>
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the Psi Corps based on Mars, or do they only have an outpost
+> there? Is Bester a Mars or an Earth native?
+
+       There's a training facility on Mars, and a somewhat classified
+base. Bester was born on Earth.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Feb-96 20:58:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: mitoch <103576.3032@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Exogenesis
+
+ mitoch <103576.3032@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Hi, I just have to ask ( and I don't think a spoiler is
+> necessary), but is the voice of the pilot on the shuttle Dyson
+> actually Sean Connery or is it a celebrity impersonator?
+
+       It was a voice in the walla group that basically came out
+sounding that way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Feb-96 20:58:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Asha DeVelder <76703.4322@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vorlon Theology
+
+ Asha DeVelder <76703.4322@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, you're saying you didn't write that line?
+> That the actor just ad-libbed it and you left it in?
+
+       Actor?  What actor?  I'm talking about Marcus here.  I just
+write down what he says.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Feb-96 16:18:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Bussjaeger <102065.1635@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vorlon Theology
+
+ Carl Bussjaeger <102065.1635@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When can we expect _your_ characters to take over and start
+> posting directly, on their own?
+
+       Most unlikely.
+
+                                                                 kosh
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Feb-96 16:19:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Book 4, Morden>
+
+ Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will this finally be a case where a book has direct connection to
+> what will be coming up in the series? Will we see D'Arc on the
+> show?
+
+       Probably not, but one never knows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Feb-96 16:19:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sheridan & Delenn
+
+ Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know you can't tell me what they will become (if anything), but
+> can you let me sleep nights by letting me know you won't just
+> forget about their relationship?
+
+       I would say it's fair to say I do plan to do more with that
+relationship as we get deeper into the story.  And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Feb-96 16:19:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Exogenesis>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks (I think).  Yeah, I've said from the git-go that in my
+view the second half of Exo isn't up to the first half.  It is, in my
+view, the weakest of this season's 22.  On the flip side, that means
+the other 21 are pretty nifty.
+
+       Agree with you on Marcus.  I'm finding I have the same problem
+with him I have with Londo...getting him to shut up once I wire him up
+and let him go. He's a lot of fun to write, in that he can do the
+physical action stuff very well, he can do comedy, more dramatic
+emotional stuff...the whole range.  I can take him places and do things
+with him that I can't in some ways for the other characters, in that he
+has only one responsibility, whereas the others have larger
+responsibilities to more people.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Feb-96 16:19:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadows
+
+ gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Rangers, Sheridan, Sinclair, Lyta, and now G'Kar are good, close
+> friends of the Vorlons? Or more like just Lyta?
+
+       More like a foot soldier.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Feb-96 16:19:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Draco <101603.2062@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TLTS:Shadows
+
+ Draco <101603.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> a) In the Narn/Shadows battle, a Shadow ship is damaged by a
+> combined Narn attack - The Shadow ship seems to be totally
+> immobilised, was it really this badly hurt that the loss of one
+> part of one of it's 20 'limbs' (yes I've counted them!) causes
+> this ? - how tough are they ?
+> b) Is it possible that the bit of 'limb' is still floating in
+> orbit ? - for someone to collect and analyze?
+> - or can the Vorlons just tell us everything about Shadow tech ?
+
+       It was in shock, but it would've recovered in a bit more time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Feb-96 16:24:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robert Miller <71501.3042@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Beyond five years
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Absolutely.
+
+       And I'm looking forward to it.
+
+       I haven't summoned down thunder and lightning in a long time;
+it'll be good to get in the practice.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Feb-96 22:17:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Christopher R. Turn <71470.1536@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Unused scripts
+
+ Christopher R. Turn <71470.1536@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any chance (pretty please!) that the unused scripts from
+> seasons one and two (such as *The Long Night of Susan Ivanova*)
+> might be released?
+
+       There *are* no unused scripts.  This is a misnomer.  I've had a
+few titles, or premises, that haven't gone as far as a script, but no
+abandoned scripts.  So I can't upload them, since they don't exist.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Feb-96 22:17:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: The Jawa / Jawa #2 <76371.3057@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Beyond five years
+
+{Why do you put up with the bozos here?}
+
+       I consider it research; I work up some great lines for Ivanova
+this way as *she* deals with pinheads.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Feb-96 00:07:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William O. Powers <102124.3327@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TLTS:Shadows
+
+{About Shadow ships}
+
+       They're organic, in a fashion, and there's a cognitive aspect,
+but not what you may think.  More in 7 days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Feb-96 00:07:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Dust To Dust>
+
+{Continuing the "Psycho" thread}
+
+       Oh, good, I'll go get her for you.
+
+       You'll just *love* meeting mother.
+
+                                                            Norman B.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Feb-96 15:06:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rae Augenstein <72752.1653@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Nightwatch / ISN
+
+ Rae Augenstein <72752.1653@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where is the ISN during all this Nightwatch stuff?
+> Why aren't they investigating the Nightwatch?
+> Is the press being supressed by the MiniPax?
+> Will this become a factor in an upcoming episode?
+> Will Universe Today become a propaganda arm of Earth Dome?
+
+       You'll find more on this in the next three episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Feb-96 15:45:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: YES !! UK C4 B5 DATES
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       In every great war, there are always some civilian
+casualties....
+
+       (Is there anyone who can tape it for you, to watch later?)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Feb-96 15:45:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Garibaldi Payback
+
+ Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When are we going to see him finally kick the living crap out of
+> someone?
+
+       That can probably be arranged.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Feb-96 15:45:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: mike lovitt <75021.1731@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Enjoying Babylon 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...and the best is yet to come.  This coming week's
+episode, "Messages From Earth," is probably the best thing we've done
+on the series to this point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Feb-96 15:45:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ruth Spradlin <73477.3155@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Exogenesis
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  Sometimes I do like to take stories that have always
+been done one way, and turn them on their heads to see what new
+possibilites tumble out. It's fun....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Feb-96 15:45:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sharon Foster <76360.301@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Exogenesis>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  Yes, Marcus and Ivanova should get along
+well...assuming one doesn't kill the other first....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Feb-96 14:57:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages from Earth>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  Bruce did an excellet job in this episode, I agree. 
+As did everyone else.  This is, in my opinion, about as flawless an
+episode as we have ever made.  It's one of those cases where the sum is
+even greater than the sum of its parts...and the sum of its parts ain't
+bad.
+
+       From here on through the next batch, the intensity level
+continues to crank up.
+
+       We definitely pushed the envelope in terms of EFX this time
+out; mixing and matching, and in sheer amounts of shots, and their
+complexity. But the result, I think, is eminently worth the effort.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Feb-96 14:57:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin Hill <74170.1015@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 8 NEW B5 EPS!
+
+ Kevin Hill <74170.1015@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since there aren't too many Ardwrights around, can I assume that
+> this is the same person in B5? Does he write on the side to
+> suppliment his meager income from B5<grin!>?
+
+       Yes, I believe he does write as well, including some Robotech
+stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Feb-96 14:57:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Enjoying Babylon 5
+
+ Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any advice on effective strategies for dealing with
+> station management?
+
+       The best techniques are always persistence, and organization;
+if you can get others involved as well, in a concerted effort, that
+always has an effect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Feb-96 14:57:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John L. Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 8 NEW B5 EPS!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thank you.  Working on the show, and creating this universe, is
+a task that has, in sum, taken ten years of my life thus far, and it
+means a great deal.  I appreciate the kind words.  We do try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Feb-96 15:53:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All
+Subject: Thought from jms
+
+       Here's something that occured to me today.  Any time you have
+someone you're trying to convince about the quality of a show, and you
+say, "Here, just watch it next week," that's always the one that comes
+a-cropper.
+
+       "Messages From Earth" airing this coming week is possibly the
+best thing we've done to that point.  It's guaranteed to grab anybody
+who watches it.  So this would be a good one to use.
+
+       Pick ten friends who you know haven't yet tried B5, or are
+diffident about it, and give them a call.  Tell them to give THIS one a
+look.  Then all you have to do is sit back, and wait for the jaws to
+drop.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Feb-96 16:29:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Enjoying Babylon 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Some viewers have set up petitions at local SF-oriented
+bookstores, which can also be a good place to start.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Feb-96 18:07:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David E. Francis <72047.2070@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Thought from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...on all counts, really.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Feb-96 18:07:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Enjoying Babylon 5
+
+ Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm getting the feeling that this one is one that should be
+> taped, hmmm?
+
+       Taped?
+
+       Bronzed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Feb-96 18:10:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: FitzGeralds <103571.3245@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: Ivonova/Bureau 13
+
+ FitzGeralds <103571.3245@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did she really think she could evaluate him in such a short time?
+> What else should he have said?
+> Could he trust her?
+
+       Thanks.  Yes, I tend to find *process*...the going from one
+state to another, to be interesting.  Growth not only provides drama,
+it can often produce irony, tragedy, and comedy, and ah *loves* all of
+those.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Feb-96 20:12:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Good Grief - DS9
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       If you're looking for rationality here, save your time; these
+are the same two, he and his brother, who *insisted* over on AOL that I
+had sent official B5 reps to conventions to bash ST...and when
+challenged, backpedaled fast...until finally admitting that they saw a
+couple of guys on a panel who'd said bad things about ST, but were in
+NO way associated with B5 in ANY official capacity whatsoever.  They
+basically just made it up.
+
+       He just posted a HUGE and *provable* fabrication about DS9's
+ratings over on the ST section, and then has the audacity to come here
+and say that *I* speak with a forked tongue.
+
+       They seem to think that somehow I should prevent B5 fans from
+ever saying anything derogatory about ST.  I don't have that kind of
+control. They said it here again, that I "allow" this behavior.  This
+is irrational thinking at its finest, that somehow I control or allow
+viewers of this or any show to do or say ANYthing.  Their attitude is
+like a cranky child, "Make 'em stop talking bad about our show!"
+
+       Basically, accuracy and the Halls dine at separate tables. 
+You're making the same mistake I did at first with the Halls...assuming
+that you were dealing with sensible individuals interested in the
+facts.  You're not, and they're not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Feb-96 20:25:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing B5
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of writing and the like, how is the carpal tunnel doing
+> right now in your case?
+
+       Frankly, the carpal tunnel is not good right now.  Yesterday it
+shot up from my left elbow to wrist...it's hard to describe unless you
+take a shishkabob skewer and drive it from your elbow to your wrist
+real fast a few times.  Mainly it's a dull but constant
+weight/discomfort in the wrists, fingers and forearms; the ring finger
+of my right hand is now constantly turned inward...I have to sleep on
+it flat under my pillow at nights to straighten it out by morning. 
+(The left hand just started doing the same thing a few days ago.)
+
+       This is the worst part of the year for this, at this point in
+the writing.  Last year at this time, I had to write 20 minutes, then
+ice my arms down for 20 minutes, then write 20, then ice 20.  And so
+on.  The discomfort is pretty chronic now, but not always as acute,
+because I'm doing the exercises, and wearing the wrist restraints, and
+doing all the things I should be doing.
+
+       But the bottom line...to write this season means writing over
+1,000 pages of scripts in less than 10 months.  Not counting interim
+drafts and the like.  That's the equivilent of a novel every 5 months. 
+That's going to take a toll on you no matter what you do.  (Dictating
+or voice recog doesn't work for me; I write through my fingers.)
+
+       When these last two scripts are finished, though, I'll have a
+fair amount of time to recuperate before doing it all over again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Feb-96 20:25:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 8 NEW B5 EPS!
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Er, beg pardon, but what Robotech stuff is there left to write?
+> Then again, given my propensity for misquoting authors, whada I
+> know?
+
+       He's written some of the translated scripts for the animated
+series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Feb-96 20:30:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages from Earth>
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does a Shadow ship have only one crewman and can the "person"
+> leave the ship once he has bonded with it? If it is only a two day
+> jump from Earth to B5 why can't they get eggs to the station
+> before they spoil?
+
+       Basically, it's the cost involved in transporting something as
+basically trivial as eggs.  Yes, it can be done, but the cost per egg
+would be quite substantial, given limited space in ships.  Space flight
+is still very expensive.
+
+       And yes, a shadow vessel has one "core" sentient, and once in,
+it's very difficult for that person to ever get out again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Feb-96 22:43:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I'd just distract myself....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Feb-96 22:43:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan Katz <74260.3612@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Thought from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, we try....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Feb-96 00:29:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Messages from Earth<<
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this planned or just one of those things?
+> Will we learn what he has written during his tenure in prison?
+
+       Thanks.  Yes, the way Sheridan removes his EA pin here is an
+echo, or a shadow, so to speak, of his moment in "Honor."  The latter
+is meant to sort of indicate what might be ahead for him, what he may
+have to do at some point along the line.  He has to give up things that
+mean something to him. (We'll get more of this philosophy in a few more
+eps, I don't want to get too specific here.)  Visual foreshadowing.
+
+       From here on in, things get very interesting....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Feb-96 19:23:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gerard Keating (Ireland) <71154.3423@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Unused scripts
+
+ Gerard Keating (Ireland) <71154.3423@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Cound the unused "premises" be used as a basis for novels or
+> comics ???
+
+       One of them was; David Gerrold's premise was used for the
+two-part comic he wrote.  But beyond that, separated rights means that
+the author holds onto ancillary uses, so I can't go around assigning
+their outlines or premises for books and the like, only my own.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Feb-96 19:23:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages from Earth>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I'd rather let that be answered later in this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Feb-96 19:23:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages from Earth>
+
+ Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Also, I enjoyed seeing "The Book of G'Kar" - maybe a new
+> testament? Is this the first episode that fairly directly ties in
+> to either the comic or the books?
+
+       Yes, what he's writing will, in time, become the Book of G'Kar.
+
+       And correct, I went for a different feel in this episode, on
+the theory that a little change is a good thing, if used to a purpose. 
+It's built like a series of waves, with quite moments in between.
+
+       This is the second so far to strongly tie into the comic, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Feb-96 19:33:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Nigel Nixon <100666.2174@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Marianne Robertson
+
+ Nigel Nixon <100666.2174@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I wonder why she left?
+> It would be nice, though again it depends on why she left, has
+> anyone had any Marianne sightings on other shows? But for how many
+> episodes this season?
+
+       Marianne departed the show on her own, deciding that she wanted
+to travel and do other things.  I don't think she's acted much anywhere
+since.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Feb-96 19:33:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Bussjaeger <102065.1635@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       ...selling my ears....?
+                     ~~~~
+       WHERE THE HELL DID *THIS* THREAD COME FROM?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Feb-96 21:04:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Good Grief - DS9
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...the pleasure is entirely mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Feb-96 21:04:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages from Earth>
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was the spine that the White Star shot off the Shadow vessel
+> recovered?
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Feb-96 21:04:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Harold Eckstein <72253.3332@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Dust to Dust, comments
+
+ Harold Eckstein <72253.3332@compuserve.com> asks:
+> These are some questions I have about the logic or correctness of
+> some of the situations: 1) Should Sheridan have shown such little
+> anger when he catches Ivanova about to kill Bester? 2) Was that
+> right that Sheridan's staff speak before he gives them permission
+> and before he finishes? (He was laying down the law to Bester near
+> the start of the episode.) 3) Garibaldi can bring Ashi in so
+> easily, grab his hair, intimidate him a little and he caves? This
+> is the guy who has his hands in major crimes on the station? 5)
+> Why should G'Kar be so voluble with Lindstrom, revealing the Narn
+> (or his own) plans for the dust? Is a drunk driver not to be held
+> accountable for injury he causes after he drinks, because he
+> can't control himself when he is drunk?
+
+       Thanks.  The stories ebb and flow at different paces, some
+slower, some faster, depending on the nature of the story.  I try to
+give each one a separate flavor.  Where it may become a hassle is that
+some folks, myself included sometimes, tend to flip pages in a novel to
+get to the exciting stuff...but the interim parts, though slower, are
+where you get to know the characters and care for them, so that what
+happens later has consequence.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-Feb-96 02:09:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael E. MacDonal <102371.1166@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages from Earth>
+
+ Michael E. MacDonal <102371.1166@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One Bad point I found was How could the Hiperion Track the White
+> Star ...As Far as you have let on so far Earth force ship's are
+> unable to lock on to Mimbari Ship's as Far as tracking or fire
+> control goes ? Also With out you giving away too much Will we Find
+> out More Soon on the Buildup of Forces to fight the shadows ..Ie:
+> new war ship's or Vorlon Technology ...ect ...and if so will it
+> be soon ?
+
+       The forces will continue to build over the course of this
+season. The White Star would be detected because it was inside the
+atmosphere, where it could be picked up by its emissions, the
+disruption caused in the air by the engines, and frankly by plain
+sight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 20-Feb-96 11:49:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Frank J. Furfaro <74031.1005@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 & TNT
+
+ Frank J. Furfaro <74031.1005@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since TNT has purchased the rights to B5 for 5 years, doesn't
+> that pretty much assure that PTEN would continue B5 for 5 years? 
+> Or is this agreement flexable depending on B5's year-to-year
+> renewal and TNT would just get whatever is produced?
+
+       The agreement is flexible; WB has the option of doing just 3
+years, but I'm reasonably sure that TNT would like a lot more
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-Feb-96 17:44:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Celia J. Penham <102454.540@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 8 NEW B5 EPS!
+
+ Celia J. Penham <102454.540@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are the episodes ever coming out on video?
+
+       Thanks.  We hope to release the videos through the fan club
+once it's seriously up on its feet.  We're booked on scripts for this
+season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-Feb-96 17:44:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alexis Holizki <75027.1277@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Warning Bogus B5 Stuff
+
+ Alexis Holizki <75027.1277@compuserve.com> asks:
+> On sorta the same topic, how many B5 shirts have been authorized?
+
+       The All-U shirts are definitely legit.  And nicely done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-Feb-96 22:08:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shakespear and Marcus
+
+ Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were the Shakespearian lines in Exogenesis your doing or Jason
+> Carter's? Or did you write them specifically with him in mind?
+
+       I like Marcus quoting literature, Shakespeare included.  So
+it's something I've peppered through his character, though trying to
+avoid too much of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-Feb-96 22:08:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 8 NEW B5 EPS!
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If so, what is it that clues you in that you need a small break?
+
+       No, usually it's not a problem, except when I get physically
+tired at the end of a long day.  It's a full-immersion process only
+from July through April; from April to June it's a bit slower, so I can
+recuperate then (we don't shoot April to June).  I actually have very
+little trouble living in the B5 universe with half my brain, and
+hanging out here and the other nets with the other half of my brain. 
+Granted, I don't have any brain left over for a personal life during
+this period, but my personal life has always been pretty brainless, so
+there you are.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-Feb-96 22:08:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Warning Bogus B5 Stuff
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> but who's winning?"
+
+       That's good news, though I wish folks would drop the vs. part
+of the panel topic and just talk about the shows on their own terms.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Feb-96 00:40:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Messages from Earth<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Okay, then if gravities is inappropriate, 'splain to how
+shuttle and jet pilots refer to gravities in similar situations, e.g.,
+pulling 2 g's when at a certain accelleration and turn pattern.
+
+       Also, when the Galilleo probe was inserted into the Jovian
+atmosphere, and a number of scientists on CSPAN were talking about
+Jupiter, they commented that the interior of Jupiter would be twice (or
+whatever number) the gravity of Earth.
+
+       You're dealing with a much greater *mass* than with Earth, and
+thus greater gravity.  I don't see where in here is the flaw.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Feb-96 13:35:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gary Weinfurther <71521.2352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <MFE: Jumpgate>
+
+ Gary Weinfurther <71521.2352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why didn't Sheridan use the jumpgate trick against the shadow
+> ship like he did with the last one?
+
+       Because there wasn't a jumpgate he had access to, only a jump
+point created by the White Star.  In the prior situation, he blew up a
+standing jump gate.  The only one in the vicinity would be at the
+transfer point near Io, which if destroyed would seriously harm Earth
+interests.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Feb-96 13:35:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robert Miller <71501.3042@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Exogenesis question
+
+ Robert Miller <71501.3042@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just out of curiosity, what was Joshua Cox's reaction when he
+> read the script for "Exogenesis" and found out his character
+> actually got to get out of C&C?
+
+       He loved it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Feb-96 13:35:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 & TNT
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In your estimation, does the fact of the syndication agreement
+> with TNT make it more likely that season 4 and 5 will be done?
+
+       It's a wash, won't make a difference either way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Feb-96 13:35:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages from Earth>
+
+ Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we ever find out who was the person who entered the ship,
+> and does it matter?
+
+       It doesn't really matter in the long run; some poor shlub who
+got conned into it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Feb-96 13:35:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Drew Stephens <74761.245@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 vs ST
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, and thanks for joining the party.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Feb-96 13:35:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Benoit Langevin <74434.3136@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <MfE - Garibaldi+comic>
+
+ Benoit Langevin <74434.3136@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What are the latest news on the Fan club and the video?
+
+       I believe Sheridan wasn't shown the badge in the comic; and
+Garibaldi is always cautious about what he says in front of others,
+like Kirkish.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Feb-96 15:38:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages from Earth>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       And then there are days when I don't remember what I had for
+lunch....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Feb-96 21:09:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages From Earrth>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who'd have thought that the man called "Starkiller" last year
+> would be walking down the hallway of a Minbar (and half-Vorlon)
+> ship with two Minbari, huh? What can one say about this poor guy,
+> who is literally about to be caught between a rock and a hard
+> place?
+
+       Thanks.  Actually, we crank up the whole Nightwatch story over
+the next two episodes, and what's happening with Earth, until it hits
+fever pitch. Things really start to move.  (There's almost a short lull
+after #10, just to let folks catch their breath a bit before the next
+big wave.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Feb-96 21:09:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing B5
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Whne it gets to be this bad, what do you do for it, short of not
+> typing on the keyboard for two days? Have you considered the
+> surgery for this condition? In the meantime, take care of
+> yourself, okay?
+
+       Actually, no, the plan next season is not to write all of them;
+it only happened this season because so much gets changed that it's
+hard to bring in freelancers.  Next season, things will have stabalized
+enough to bring in freelancers again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Feb-96 21:09:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: The Jawa / Jawa #2 <76371.3057@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Four Cents: "Exogenesis"
+
+ The Jawa / Jawa #2 <76371.3057@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does Claudia Christian do this stuff in one take??
+> The Jawa Kidism Patrol 8:51 PM, Wednesday, February 21, 1996
+> Glasses help you see the screen!--who knew?
+
+       We rarely do just one take of anything; you always do more, in
+case you get something new.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Feb-96 21:09:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com>
+Subject: C&C lights
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Basically, it's a hassle to rig the lights given that set.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Feb-96 21:10:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark Koro <70252.3354@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages From Earrth>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...I think it came out well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Feb-96 21:10:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel K. Stump <104201.1460@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New Stuff
+
+ Daniel K. Stump <104201.1460@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you discussed DAYPRO with your doctor?
+> TALIA: if she is "The future" then why is she off the show?
+> Did the Actress quit or is this all part of the grand scheme of
+> things? Kosh: What does "You have always been here" mean anyway?
+> Stephen Furst is still on the opening squence, so is Vir going to
+> be on as much as ever? Here's a joke I made up, you're welcome to
+> use it if you like, no credit nor compensation required: How many
+> Vorlons does it take to screw in a light bulb?
+
+       "If Talia is 'the future' then why is she off the show?"
+
+       Because stuff happens.  Because rocketry was the hope of the
+German Luftwaffe to win the war.  Didn't work out that way.  Just
+because a character says it, doesn't mean that it's guaranteed to
+happen at all times. A parent can look at a child and say, "He's our
+hope for the future," and the next day the kid gets turfed by a
+semi-truck.  Stuff happens.  Nothing is guaranteed in the B5 universe;
+any character -- ANY character -- is vulnerable.  That, for me, is part
+of what's exciting.
+
+       Vir is in this season about as much as last, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Feb-96 21:10:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Julia E. Linthicum <73114.3530@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Messages from Earth>>
+
+ Julia E. Linthicum <73114.3530@compuserve.com> asks:
+> WHY do you do this to us?
+
+       If you think this is bad, wait until after next week's episode,
+when you'll have to wait until April 3rd for the conclusion of the
+three-episode mini-arc.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Feb-96 21:22:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages from Earth>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       "...I didn't think things would start moving this fast so
+soon!"
+
+       Well, this is what I kinda kept trying to tell people was
+coming, when they said things were moving too slowly....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Feb-96 00:35:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages from Earth>
+
+ Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I haven't seen it yet, but does this mean that a human can
+> "pilot" a shadow ship and if so, would the human be sane after
+> words?
+
+       Almost certainly not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Feb-96 00:35:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages from Earth>
+
+ Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The question then becomes, did you even HAVE lunch?
+
+       Who can remember?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Feb-96 00:35:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael E. MacDonal <102371.1166@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New Stuff
+
+ Michael E. MacDonal <102371.1166@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And also will we ever see Iron heart again ...?
+> ?
+
+       Talia's gift was exactly what was indicated, nothing much
+hidden in there: greater capacity to shield her thoughts, and limited
+telekinesis.
+
+       No plans for Ironheart for long, long time.
+
+       We shoot episodes from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.  Rarely do we go
+overtime.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Feb-96 01:35:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Grady W. Smithey I <103321.2766@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Minor Minbari Question:
+
+ Grady W. Smithey I <103321.2766@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How long ago was it that the Minbari discovered that souls were
+> going missing?
+
+       About a thousand years, give or take.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 22-Feb-96 14:22:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages from Earth>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Exactly.  You need a clear and present danger, and with a
+population that nearly got wiped out by the Minbari, who are skittish
+to begin with, you drag out the possibility of someone else doing the
+same thing and it makes it a lot easier to do what you want to do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Feb-96 14:22:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages from Earth>
+
+ John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you mean that a human can not pilot/ride(?) a battlecrab?
+
+       Yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Feb-96 14:22:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Barbara Pfieffer <72302.2453@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Episode 321
+
+ Barbara Pfieffer <72302.2453@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When will we get to find out the name of the season finale?
+> By summertime, perhaps?
+
+       I'm going to hold the title of 22 confidential as long as
+possible.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Feb-96 18:23:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: M. Campbell <75212.245@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages from Earth>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Feb-96 18:23:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Episode 321
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would that mean that the title of episode 22 is also the title of
+> season 4?
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Feb-96 18:23:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages from Earth>
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Should we start to look with suspicion at whoever it was that
+> ordered an Earth explorer ship into a sector of space in which it
+> would encounter the Minbari ship carrying the Grey Council --
+> which would respectfully approach the Earth ship with gun ports
+> open?
+
+       No, that was an accident.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Feb-96 18:23:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages from Earth>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Feb-96 18:23:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: MSF/NY-Jaime Cruz, Jr. <72267.1372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Clarks' Law>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       ...urk...I missed that when I proofread it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Feb-96 18:38:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All
+Subject: B5 PR
+
+       Having taken steps to further help promote the show, there's a
+lot more happening.  If you're in Portland tonight watch "Good Evening"
+tonight at 7:30 p.m. on KGW and in Seattle on "Evening" on KING-TV for
+a piece on "Point of No Return."  Also, tomorrow's Showbiz Minute on
+CNN will do stuff on this episode as well.
+
+       EXTRA will be running clips this weekend, and the AP has a
+story on it, as well as the New York Times Syndicate Inside-Trek
+column.  The episode has been picked as a highlight in the Philadelphia
+press, the LA Times, and in major newspapers in Dallas, Houston,
+Chicago, San Francisco, New York and elsewhere.
+
+       Slowly, we're getting noticed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Feb-96 22:30:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 vs ST
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       But it's a *good* weird.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Feb-96 22:30:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: Msgs from Earth
+
+ gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there something bigger than we might expect going on with the
+> Minbari? Is this true?
+> 3) Do Vorlon ships have the same (or similar) symbiotic deal?
+> 4) We've seen the mini-shadow-ship-balls, but are there various
+> sizes of big shadow ships? Can you help me feel better about this?
+
+       Well, they all could've died.
+
+       Neither situation relied on introducing new technology, only on
+taking advantage of what's known currently.  It's a simple equation:
+ship A is more powerful than ship B.  In a head-to-head situation, ship
+A (shadow) will destroy ship B (white star).  If you can't directly
+confront a stronger enemy, you have to find some way to work around it,
+outsmart it.  (And fortunately, this one was flawed, "insane," as
+Delenn put it.)
+
+       And the minbari know more than they're saying.  But then that's
+generally true of them.
+
+       And yes, the shadow ship arrived with a new "core" for the
+buried ship.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Feb-96 22:30:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Sheldon <73162.1054@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Still my favorite show
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, much appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Feb-96 22:30:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: School of Comm Arts <103111.2445@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages from Earth>
+
+ School of Comm Arts <103111.2445@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now is this just some sort of coincidence or deliberate?
+
+       The Eternal Vigilance line is from history, not Wing Commander.
+Ten Green Drazi points to the person who can name its origin.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Feb-96 22:30:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mara K. Malovany <102750.1414@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 PR
+
+ Mara K. Malovany <102750.1414@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know the show needs PR to help expand the audience and improve
+> ratings & time-slots, and I do enjoy reading the occasional
+> interview, but is there any way for you to control the media once
+> they do take notice? But, if/when the media turns the spotlight on
+> B5, are we going to end up with the situation Trek faces, where
+> lazy reporters think that giving away the ending is the same as
+> writing an article? Do you think you will be able to continue
+> doing so?
+
+       If presidents, ministers and generals can't control the media,
+we have little chance of doing so.  So we just have to try to keep
+things close to the vest on our own (which is why the title for 322 is
+classified for now).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Feb-96 22:30:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael E. MacDonal <102371.1166@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New Stuff
+
+ Michael E. MacDonal <102371.1166@compuserve.com> asks:
+> As i see you rarly do any thing that could not have meaning later
+> on I assume it got away for a reason ..and that we will be seeing
+> it again ?
+
+       As a matter of fact, yes, you'll be seeing the Na'Kal later
+this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Feb-96 22:37:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All
+Subject: Deja Vu
+
+       A labor action leading to a strike, with people shouting
+"strike!" and "union!" hits aboard a space station, inspired in part by
+a person of Irish descent whose ancestor was killed in the course of a
+famous strike. A government rep arrives to quash the strike, stating
+that he will use "any means necessary" toward that goal, which is
+finally achieved when the person in the middle redistributes his
+finances, giving the strikers what they want while circumventing the
+system.
+
+       Quick...is that a DS9 episode or a B5 episode?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Feb-96 22:37:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages from Earth>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Er, actually, you just misspelled it too.  It's not Heinline,
+it's Heinlein.  You were also off by one letter.
+
+       Simply in the interests of accuracy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Feb-96 00:07:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Grady W. Smithey I <103321.2766@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Minor Minbari Question:
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  We're giving it our best shot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Feb-96 00:07:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toby A. Aulman <74464.241@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Local show features B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, I remember doing the interview for that one, glad it came
+out okay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Feb-96 02:17:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phillip A. Cochran <75667.241@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing B5
+
+ Phillip A. Cochran <75667.241@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You mean there's *something* you don't think you own?!?!?!?!
+
+       Now, now...it's common knowledge on the nets that all B5
+viewers have my ear when they want it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 23-Feb-96 12:33:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Hoopingarn <73172.1065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Voices of Authority>
+
+ Jonathan Hoopingarn <73172.1065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we see more First Ones in upcoming episodes?
+> Will we find out what these First Ones have against the Vorlons?
+> Will we see more of Susan using the Great Machine, will her
+> experience (other than finding First Ones) become a factor in the
+> Great War, and will those experiences color her perceptions and
+> attitudes? On a general Ivanova note: Will any more come out about
+> her relationship (if any) with Talia and will that affect any
+> relationship with Marcus ?
+
+       I think the answers to all of those tend to be yes....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Feb-96 12:33:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Deja Vu
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So how come they can get away with it?
+> I know that you wont sue them, but *if* you did would they have
+> any kind of defense?
+
+       I dunno...still, I prefer to do what I do in the marketplace of
+free ideas.  There's how we did it, and how they did it.  Let the
+viewer take it from there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Feb-96 12:33:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <100125.1730@compuserve.com>
+Subject: YES !! UK C4 B5 DATES
+
+ Graham Smith <100125.1730@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you post a start date for the new C4 series?
+
+       As Brian Cooney first noted here, the projected date appears to
+be April 14th.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Feb-96 12:33:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anne L. Warner <71513.1177@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing B5
+
+ Anne L. Warner <71513.1177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you schedule the outside scripts to give your hands a rest?
+> Are you going to talk to Peter David about at least one??
+
+       As Ted Kennedy might say, I'll drive off that bridge when I
+come to it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Feb-96 12:33:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages from Earth>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Then my job is done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Feb-96 12:33:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Barbara Pfieffer <72302.2453@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <? on MfE>
+
+ Barbara Pfieffer <72302.2453@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this a mistake?
+> Second, what is the symbol on the floor of the White Star?
+
+       Per accident he began writing right to left; Narn is left to
+right, so we flopped the shot.
+
+       The symbol on the WS isn't on the floor, it's the top of a
+console that can be used for holographic tactical displays.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Feb-96 12:33:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing B5
+
+ John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why don't you scan your ear and upload it to the graphics
+> library? What do you think folks, who votes for a gif/jpg of Joe's
+> ear?
+
+       I think it's a terrible idea.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Feb-96 17:51:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randy Upshaw <75464.1275@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages From Earrth>
+
+ Randy Upshaw <75464.1275@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I belive from what has been said the next 2 episodes will take 5
+> or 6 weeks?
+
+       Well, next week's is a new episode, so you can get that far.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Feb-96 22:33:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing B5
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just as a point of reference, does it actually cost less for you
+> to write an episode than it does to have someone else do it? You
+> still get paid your writer's fee when you write the episode don't
+> you?
+
+       Whether I write the episode, or a freelancer does, the fee per
+episode is exactly the same.  No money is saved in the budget.  Under
+WGA rules this is a requirement.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Feb-96 22:33:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David&Rita McLaughlin <76400.1515@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Fleer...Good Guys
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah?  Gee, now if only I could get them to fork over a few of
+the cards *I'm* missing...even I don't have a full set.
+
+       But that's been said before by others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Feb-96 22:33:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Doug Gordon <71610.247@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages From Earth>
+
+ Doug Gordon <71610.247@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was the implication supposed to be that the high energy of these
+> weapons was atomically fusing the hydrogen? Or perhaps the weapons
+> were designed to be used in vacuum, and the atmosphere was
+> scattering the energy? Or am I missing something quite obvious?
+
+       Given that we're looking at a high-energy weapon capable of
+burning through a four-mile wide Narn orbital base as though it were
+made of butter, it's putting out enough energy, I figured, to lead to a
+reaction with the hydrogen, whether it's a fusion reaction of some
+other.
+
+       We're talking a concentrated level of energy equal to a
+thermonuclear reaction on a controlled level, or a fusion weapons
+system with an energy output well beyond contemporary science to
+calculate (particularly since this system is capable of delivering the
+energy, undiluted, to targets tens or dozens of miles distant).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Feb-96 22:33:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages From Earth>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this something that explains one little gaffe that I spotted
+> in this episode? Oh, well,...I guess you can't catch every one,
+> huh?
+
+       Not a gaffe; we flopped the shot because the writing was done
+left to right, instead of right to left, which is Narnish script.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Feb-96 22:33:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages From Earrth>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Btw, Joe, just exactly how does one write the organization name?
+> Is it "Nightwatch" or "Night Watch"?
+
+       It's Nightwatch.
+
+       The thread will diminish for a while, then return down the road
+in later seasons, after the story takes its third major turn.
+
+       By the last few episodes, pretty much all of my cards are on
+the table. But by the last episode of this season, we find that the
+game we've assumed we've been playing ain't necessarily the game at
+all.  The show takes a fairly subversive direction, and of all the
+seasons so far, the one that follows, year four, represents the
+greatest writing challenge to make this actually work.
+
+       Which is another reason why it's important to get the B4
+storyline and several other threads out in the open, and clear the
+decks, because this is gonna take every bit of whatever talent I've got
+to pull off.
+
+       Year four is the point in the novel when you're just past the
+halfway mark; you know the reader thinks he or she has got the story
+sussed out. The reader knows all your tricks by now, or thinks he/she
+does.  You've been pulling doves out of your hat for 243 pages.
+
+       Now you'd damned well better be able to pull out an alligator.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Feb-96 22:33:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing B5
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Stabilized, huh?
+> Does this mean that you'll be looking for a script editor once
+> more? I seem to recall that Larry DiTillio left the series, so
+> that would mean that you'd be taking over the script editing as
+> well, right?
+
+       During Larry's last year with us, I did most of the rewriting
+on freelance scripts anyway, so it doesn't really save me much on
+typing.  (If anything, the process is longer and more difficult than
+just writing 'em myself.)  Doing it this year was an interesting
+experiment, and necessary, but I don't think I'd opt to do it again
+anytime soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Feb-96 22:49:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe's Ear
+
+ John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So what do you think, lurkers and posters, YEA or NAY?
+
+       Let me put this to you simply.
+
+       No.
+
+       Unless you intend to drug me in the middle of the night, drag
+my limp body to a computer outlet and scan my ear while I'm otherwise
+unconscious, it simply *ain't* gonna happen, referendum or no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Feb-96 22:49:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: The Jawa / Jawa #2 <76371.3057@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing B5
+
+ The Jawa / Jawa #2 <76371.3057@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it legit?
+
+       Both All-U and Creation make B5 t-shirts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Feb-96 22:49:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Lynn Dimock <74471.3131@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing B5
+
+ Lynn Dimock <74471.3131@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has anybody brought up Vincent Van Gogh yet?
+
+       It was a mild Spring day, warm, clear, sunny, when Vincent Van
+Gogh picked up his easel, and some paints, and walked a mile and a half
+to an open field where he often painted landscapes.  He set up his
+easel, sat under a tree for a while, ate part of an apple, composed a
+brief note to his brother Theo.  Then he pulled out a derringer and
+shot himself in the chest.
+
+       After an hour, realizing that he was not going to die for a
+while yet, he picked himself up and staggered the mile and half back to
+Theo's house, where a few hours later that evening he passed away in
+Theo's arms.
+
+       Some say his sad ending came about because he felt he was a
+burden to his brother Theo, and the guilt did him in; others because he
+sold only one painting during his life, for 48 francs, and he felt he
+would never become a painter of any worth.
+
+       On reflection, perhaps it was the thought of people bidding for
+his ear that did it.
+
+       You wanna see the end of this story or not...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Feb-96 01:42:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 PR
+
+ Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you waiting for us to see an upcoming episode before
+> releasing the season-ender title, or are you going to try to keep
+> it secret up to air-time?
+
+       For as long as I can.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Feb-96 01:42:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com>
+Subject: "Arc" eps
+
+ Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> OK, just as a point of interest, why are major plot eps called
+> "arc" eps?
+
+       Because they best convey the "arc" of the storyline.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Feb-96 01:42:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Doug Gordon <71610.247@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages From Earth>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, perhaps a better word than ignite could've been used. 
+But hey, the guy was being shot at...I'd be sitting in a corner going
+bibble-bibble...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Nigel Nixon <100666.2174@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe's Ear
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Besides, what guarantee would I have that somebody won't print
+up a copy of the ear, take it into another room, and have unwilling
+aural sex with it?
+
+       No, no, a thousand times, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anne L. Warner <71513.1177@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages From Earrth>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: carrie foreman <76400.1170@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages impact>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  Suffice to say there are interesting things ahead....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com>
+Subject: General questions
+
+ John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Haven't you setup a rather impossible scenerio if - as it appears
+> - We will be saved/led from the Shadows (who appear to be far
+> superior to most other races) by humans? is/was that a reference
+> to Kosh (who was the focus of the pilot due to the assasination
+> attempt) or to Morden (who was not IN the pilot but is/was later
+> introduced in the first season) or to SOMEONE ELSE?
+
+       Exactly.  The goal would seem to be impossible.  So how do we
+do it? Is there a vulnerability that's been laid out but not picked up
+yet?  Is there an advantage we don't necessarily see yet?
+
+       We have to be smarter.  Humans are at our best when against the
+wall. And we have to do it ourselves, in the final analysis, nobody
+else can do it for us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ellen Fuscellaro <76022.1032@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shakespear and Marcus
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, he's a fun character.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jon Wolf <76103.2541@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages From Earth>
+
+ Jon Wolf <76103.2541@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was she lying, or mistaken?
+
+       If I said that exact phrase, it's because the word "pilot" is
+not exactly correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages From Earth>
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do they ever use something more *positive* on cities and the
+> like?
+
+       Yes, sometimes they introduce talk shows as an instrument of
+war. Any culture which begins to see talk shows can pretty much rest
+assured that shadows are behind it, and that our time is growing short.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Messages From Earth
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  And you can expect more between Delenn and Sheridan
+soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Bussjaeger <102065.1635@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sigh Corps Posted?
+
+ Carl Bussjaeger <102065.1635@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you put any of the CI$ Sigh Corps posts on that bulletin
+> board at the studio?
+
+       Don't believe so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anne L. Warner <71513.1177@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 jewelry??
+
+ Anne L. Warner <71513.1177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you authorized pins of the Psi Corps and Earth Alliance
+> insignia?
+
+       No, any Psi Corps pins or EA insignia are *definitely* illegal.
+Can you send me the info soonest?  Thanks.  The usual address for the
+mail drop is 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA
+91423, to my attention. Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deon W. Becic <102147.3271@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SF convention
+
+ Deon W. Becic <102147.3271@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance we'll see you at the SF convention in April with
+> Claudia and Stephen?
+
+       Which convention are we speaking of?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deon W. Becic <102147.3271@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Talia dead
+
+ Deon W. Becic <102147.3271@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can we hear it from the Great Maker?
+> Is it true?
+
+       It is indeed true, apparently, that John said that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 01:23:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Licanced B5 stuff
+
+ Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> B5 Micro Machines: Currently 4 sets, with 2 coming this
+> Spring/Summer #1 Space Station,Vorlon Transport, Green Ship #2
+> Vorlon Cruiser, Narn Transport, Raider Ship #3 Centauri
+> Transport, Minbari Cruiser, Star Fury #4 Minbari Flyer, Narn
+> Fighter, Babylon 5 Crew Shuttle #5 ?, ?, ? #6 ?, ?, ?
+
+       Also, T-shirts are currently available from All-U as well, very
+good quality stuff.  Ruby's is doing some B5 masks which are fairly
+decent.  And there's the Making of B5 book coming out in about a month
+in the UK from Boxtree Books, by David Bassom.  (I'm currently
+fact-checking his second B5 book, the A-Z of Babylon 5.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 01:23:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rae Augenstein <72752.1653@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing B5
+
+ Rae Augenstein <72752.1653@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This isn't part of that "Joe's body parts" thread is it?
+
+> (YES, we want to see the end.) 
+
+ "This isn't part of that "Joe's body parts" thread is it? :-\"
+
+       Hey!  Don't butt in....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 01:23:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Theo Thourson <73214.2131@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 8 NEW B5 EPS!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Relax.  Smoke a cigarette.  Go out for pizza.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 01:41:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing B5
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> have you called Guiness yet?
+
+       Nope, not calling anybody until I've actually *done* it, and
+there's still one more to go.  One doesn't mention the term "perfect
+game" while the pitcher is still on the mound in the 9th.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 01:41:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: FitzGeralds <103571.3245@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 5 year arc
+
+ FitzGeralds <103571.3245@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that the plan to only have it on for five years?
+
+       Yes, the story lasts just five years, then bye-bye.
+
+       And thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 01:41:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Hawkins <71742.160@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages from Earth>
+
+ John M. Hawkins <71742.160@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You've read some history?
+
+       Yeah, there are a lot of historical parallels in here, more in
+tonality than specifics in some cases like these.  When things get
+tight, even good people sometimes don't know which way to jump.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 01:41:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages From Earth>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  We've featured Minbari script going straight up and
+down like Japanese, right to left with Narns, and other variations. 
+Because they would naturally occur.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 01:41:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages From Earrth>
+
+ Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the arc we're in now (MFE, PONR, SD) the first or second major
+> turn? Harder than year three?
+
+       Yes, the current mini-arc (8-10) is the second major turn in
+the storyline.  The third starts with the last episode of this season,
+going into the fourth year.  Then you've got one more big turn about
+the last quarter or one-third of year four, and then a bit of a flip at
+the end.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 01:41:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages From Earth>
+
+ Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could one of the "Side of Light" (Sheridan, Sinclair, Marcus,
+> Ivanova, Delenn) be prepared to "pilot" a Battlecrab - and
+> turning it to a powerful ship for the Good Guys? Or is a
+> Battlecrab alive and intrinsically "evil" enough to prevent this,
+> just like the One Ring could not be used for Good in Lord of the
+> Rings, no matter how good and powerful the user was?
+
+       It's certainly a *very* good question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 01:42:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Messages from Earth>>
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which reminds me: what was the outcome of your "study" into how
+> the station-by-station numbers were being reported (falsified
+> airdates, etc.)???
+
+       We found that the research division wasn't being updated on air
+schedules; the new reports now feature accurate ratings for accurate
+times, which gives us a *much* better understanding of what's going on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 04:05:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <MfE - Agamnennon>
+
+ Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But would he have fired on another earth ship?
+
+       If I can, let me address one aspect of this, for your
+consideration.
+
+       Back when I was working on MURDER, SHE WROTE, we'd sometimes
+get letters saying, "This wasn't a good episode because I figured out
+the ending. It wasn't a surprise."  (Which is, to some extent, your
+point here.)
+
+       The problem we had with that particular letter was this: of
+COURSE you figured it out.  Because you were paying attention to all
+the clues we had put out there in the episode.
+
+       There seems to be this notion that nobody should be able to
+jump ahead, or else something's wrong or bad about the episode. 
+Absolutely not true.  If you're going to play fair with the audience,
+whether it's B5 or M,SW, you've got to put enough bits of information
+out on the table so that the person who's really following it can
+figure it out...so that at the end, those who *didn't* figure it out
+can back up the tape, watch for the clues or leads, and see where it
+all came from.  That's playing fair.
+
+       If NObody gets it, you haven't done your job right.
+
+       If EVERYbody gets it, you haven't done your job right.
+
+       The best case scenario is a bell-shaped curve.  Some don't have
+a clue what's coming, some manage to figure it out, and the majority
+have a kind of vague sense where it's going, but there are still
+surprises along the way.  If the bell-curve shifts one direction or the
+other, then you're in trouble.
+
+       So far, B5 seems to be hewing right to the bell-curve.  For
+every person who says "okay, this was expected," there's been another
+saying, "I had no *idea* this was going to happen here, or so fast." 
+(Many of these have been right on this forum, in fact.)
+
+       Finally, do bear in mind that you have an advantage here that
+99% of all the viewers don't: the discussion here on CIS, and direct
+comments from me.  For instance, I just noted elsewhere that we've got
+major turns at the end of this season, and one 2/3rds into year 4. 
+Now, if at those points, somebody says, "Well, I knew this was coming,
+that's bad," I intend to whap them, because the reason they likely knew
+it was coming was because I *said so* right here.
+
+       But that same 99% doesn't have this advantage.
+
+       This is the main difference I've noted in the mail that's come
+in: the net-folks are constantly trying to figure out what's coming up
+next, treating it like a mystery story (which, really, it's not, any
+more than ANY novel is a mystery in that you don't necessarily know its
+turns and twists as you're reading it), whereas the non-netted folks
+tend to just take it as it comes.
+
+       See, that's the other part of this.  People on the nets tend to
+treat it as though it's a mystery novel, and when it doesn't hit that
+aspect, say it's flawed as a result...when it was never INTENDED to
+function as a mystery novel.  It's a novel period.  A mystery novel
+depends absolutely on the riddle at the center of it.  This is a saga,
+which uses a different structure.  It isn't a mystery any more than
+Lord of the Rings is a mystery, even though when I first read it I was
+wondering what was going to happen next.
+
+       Also, a mystery novel is done when the mystery is finally
+unraveled. Not so the B5 story.  By the end of this season, most of the
+mysteries will be unraveled, and the pieces laid on the table for all
+to see.  It then becomes a matter of what the characters *do* about it
+thereafter.
+
+       If I'm doing my job right, and setting up things to come
+properly, and giving all the clues to it, then by definition a certain
+number of people HAVE to figure out what's coming.  As long as it's the
+smaller portion, that's as it *should* be.  So you'll understand why I
+tend to get in here for a moment when that's held up as something bad
+or poorly done. (And, again, even you note that the only reason you
+knew about the shadows on Mars was via reading it here, or others read
+it via the comics.  Again, that's a very small portion of the audience;
+most I've heard from had NO idea about that aspect of it.  If you
+hadn't read it here, you likely would have been surprised by it.)
+
+       Anyway, just something to consider in all of this....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 04:06:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan Auerbach <75176.3726@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Family Viewing
+
+ Alan Auerbach <75176.3726@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Hmm, I wonder where she picked that up?
+
+     That's great.  I appreciate hearing that, thanks, and my regards
+to all three of you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 16:07:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 8 NEW B5 EPS!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       We try....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 16:07:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan P. Biddle <73260.1450@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages From Earth>
+
+ Alan P. Biddle <73260.1450@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since you like at least parts of THE SHINING, I was wondering if
+> he is writing the Narnish equivalent of "The quick brown fox
+> jumped over the lazy dog" over and over and over?
+
+       No, I don't think I'd go that way with him, certainly not
+yet....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 16:07:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing B5
+
+ Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I assume she's misinformed about this?
+> ?
+
+       She had to be referring to the arc overall, because if next
+year's scripts are already written, I'd sure as hell like a copy of
+each; it'd make my job a LOT easier.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 16:07:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Damian Reaves <75373.2325@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages From Earth>
+
+ Damian Reaves <75373.2325@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the Shadow ship just a living ship or is it actually a
+> different type of Shadow?
+
+       It's not a kind of shadow, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 16:07:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <MfE - Agamnennon>
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What sense do you get from the letters of when the average
+> non-netted person comes to realize that the whole series is
+> telling one specific story?
+
+       What I usually get are letters that say, "I didn't know there
+was an arc until I saw four or five episodes."  Because that's an
+aspect that really hasn't been as well promoted as it could've been. 
+But once they glommed onto it, they ran with it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 16:07:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Licensed B5 stuff
+
+ Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When the official fan club gets up and running, will information
+> be included how to get in contact with all these people to get
+> their products, or will the club make it available itself?
+
+       The theory is that we'll use the fan club web page to allow
+direct or indirect access to the folks who make all the other
+non-fan-club licensed stuff.  We may even have a kind of virtual Zocalo
+where you can shop....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 16:07:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Draco <101603.2062@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Merchandise...
+
+ Draco <101603.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Anyone else seen anything like this, or is it just me ???
+
+       If you could send me a copy of the catalog, I'd appreciate it. 
+We have already shut down some of these companies, but others sprout up
+again, offering inferior merchandise or models that fall apart fast. 
+When we do models, and eventually we will, they will be *quality* and
+worth fans spending hard-earned money to purchase, not cheapo
+knockoffs.  (As a for instance, when we sell patches and pins via the
+fan club, they will be made by the same sub-contractor who makes them
+for the show, so they'll be high quality and *100% authentic*.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 16:07:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John R. Finnan (Ireland) <100012.3073@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Minor Minbari Question:
+
+ John R. Finnan (Ireland) <100012.3073@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, would this have been before after or *during* the last Shadow
+> war, which was also around 1000 years ago? For that matter, was
+> Valen and the Grey Council formed before/during or after the war? 
+> Or will we find this out when we find out the *true* history of
+> the Triluminaries???
+
+       It'll be covered in the two-parter, to a large degree.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 16:07:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: < Messages from Earth>
+
+ Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (Should we research the Ottoman empire, or is it _really_ just a
+> throwaway?
+
+       I'm reasonably sure those were Andreas' hands.
+
+       And thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 20:02:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John R. Finnan (Ireland) <100012.3073@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I've got JMS's EAR!!!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I suppose you know there is nothing I can do to stop you.
+
+       I suppose you know that I will find you.
+
+       I suppose you know the drill.  It begins with the words, "You
+will know pain...."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 20:02:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <MfE - Agamnennon>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Also, bear in mind that Sheridan went into Earth-space knowing
+the risks.  For him to fire on the Aggy would be selfish, and wrong; he
+knew full well that this could be a one-way ride.
+
+       If you're going to have a situation where Sheridan fires on EA
+ships, it has to be the ONLY way of dealing with the situation, and it
+has to be SUPREMELY motivated, so that it's not just him or one of our
+guys who's at stake.  It has to be a big situation to merit taking the
+lives of fellow officers, in the same service.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 20:14:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Eugene S. Erdahl <103403.1753@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Earthforce Ship Names
+
+ Eugene S. Erdahl <103403.1753@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Babylon 5, The Next Generation?
+> Am I right in assuming that the Earthforce warships (Agamemnon,
+> for example) bear the names of British Royal Navy ships-or is
+> this just coincidence?
+
+       Most of the Omega class of destroyers are given Greek names,
+such as Achilles, Alexander, Agamemnon and others.
+
+       And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 20:14:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Point of no Retrun>
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When did Londo acquire his taste for them?
+> Perhaps when he came into possession of 20,000 shares in a spoo
+> ranch? Did she ever prophecy for Turhan?
+> Did Sheridan sucker him into trapping the NW or did Zack
+> knowingly help Sheridan? Hague's squadron mean that Franklin's
+> father is on Clark's side?
+
+       Thanks.  I think Zack was mainly nervous in that last bit,
+which may account for his twitchiness.  And yes, Morella often
+prophesied for Turhan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 20:14:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phil Herscher <71101.304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: < Messages from Earth>
+
+ Phil Herscher <71101.304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What were the effects of the Whitestar opening the Jump Point
+> within the atmosphere? Was the resulting blast assumed to be the
+> "enemy" ship being destroyed?
+
+       I think they know the White Star (aka the unidentified ship)
+got away, but they put the best face on it back home.  Which is one
+more reason why Clark's declared martial law.  Things are spinning out
+of control, he's in increasingly hot water back home, and he has to
+seize control.  Whoever was in that alien ship knows too much about his
+operations...if that were to come out, he's finished.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 20:14:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Messages From Earth
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Maybe in her rebellious youth (if Minbari have rebellious youths)
+> she took to hanging around a Windsword dojo, mmm?
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 20:14:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Charles Agius <72712.3572@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Good to see.
+
+ Charles Agius <72712.3572@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why did they do this?
+
+       Best way to change the local time slot is to write the local
+station and urge them to do so.  Good luck with it, and thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 20:14:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Don Porges <71531.3465@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <MfE - Agamnennon>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Good point.  Because the show *is* going somewhere, it's
+possible for people, knowing that, to jump ahead a bit.  90% of the
+speculations are wrong, but if 10% are right, then there you are.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 23:33:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <MfE - Agamnennon>
+
+ Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That's good honor - but can it hold?
+> Do you see my issues on this thing?
+> Oh, btw - I assume the Whitestar is the only ship that's been
+> able to achieve an in-atmosphere jump? Its been tried before with
+> disastrous results ala opening jumppoints in jumpgates?
+
+       Of course it can't hold.  And they're going to go through
+plenty of fire.  Remember, this is the first of three that accomplish
+that.  Each escalates upon what went before.  Don't worry...you'll get
+your wish.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 23:33:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com>
+Subject: up and coming
+
+ Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this the last episode and then back to reruns (making it 5
+> episodes new) or is there a sixth planned?
+
+       Yes, "Point of No Return" next week is the last new one until
+April 3rd.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Feb-96 23:33:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>PoNR<<
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's the scoop?
+
+       Yeah, it's supposed to be a repeat.  What was in the promo you
+saw?
+
+       And thanks...the story's coming along nicely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Feb-96 01:29:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>PoNR<<
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does the promo make sense to you?
+
+       Okay, that's the make-believe promo they made from other
+footage. That's FON all right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Feb-96 01:29:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <MfE - Agamnennon>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       And that is exactly the reaction you *should* have.
+
+       Such things are never easy, and are always at terrible,
+terrible cost.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Feb-96 12:02:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anne L. Warner <71513.1177@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Point of no Retrun>
+
+ Anne L. Warner <71513.1177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any possibility of (or reason for) Lady Morella
+> reappearing in the future?
+
+       Always a possibility.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Feb-96 12:02:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages From Earth>
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It there and *actual authentic* name for the really cool Shadow
+> monsters?
+
+       I just call them shadow vessels.  For now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Feb-96 12:02:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Earthforce Ship Names
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do all the Omega class destroyer name start with Alpha or was
+> this just a coincidence in your post?
+
+       Not with Alpha, since that isn't a name out of Greek mythology.
+But the first one off the production line probably would've been the
+Achilles.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Feb-96 12:02:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Licensed B5 stuff
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  We're happy to spoil you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Feb-96 12:02:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Licensed B5 stuff
+
+ David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How long, O Great Maker, before the web page becomes a reality?
+
+       Expect late April.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 26-Feb-96 18:30:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Lee McNeil <101611.1440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Membari souls
+
+ Lee McNeil <101611.1440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who is right about Membari souls ?
+> Who is correct ?
+
+       Who is right?  Who am I to define the rightness of others'
+spiritual beliefs?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Feb-96 18:30:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: "Arc" eps
+
+ Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What do you consider the pivot of the arc?
+> The people or the place?
+> Something else?
+
+       The people have to be at the center of it, or it's meaningless.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Feb-96 18:30:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John R. Finnan (Ireland) <100012.3073@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Deja Vu
+
+ John R. Finnan (Ireland) <100012.3073@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that a B5 episode, or a DS9?
+
+       Yeah, given that our script was floating around for months
+before this was shot, and Foxworth had *already agreed* to do our
+episode, and his agent, and they brushed us off to do the DS9....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Feb-96 18:30:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John R. Finnan (Ireland) <100012.3073@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I've got JMS's EAR!!!
+
+ John R. Finnan (Ireland) <100012.3073@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What about fear????
+
+       Fear implies enough time for a warning.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Feb-96 18:30:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gregory Courtright <73420.2643@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages from Earth>
+
+ Gregory Courtright <73420.2643@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The WhiteStar looked different in this episode then in previous -
+> did you change the design?
+
+       Different camera work, mainly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Feb-96 18:30:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Messages from Earth>>
+
+ Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of ratings, how are we comparing to DS9?
+> Do we usually beat them?
+
+       Depends on the market.  Sometimes we beat DS9, sometimes they
+beat us. It varies considerably from place to place.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Feb-96 18:30:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com>
+Subject: "Arc" eps
+
+ Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why arc?
+
+       Story arc.
+
+                                             Climax
+                              Complication            Denouement
+              Rising action Introduction
+
+       An arc.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Feb-96 21:18:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Earthforce Ship Names
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or is this just a happy coincidence?
+
+       Oh.  Sorry, yes, we started with the A's.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Feb-96 21:18:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com>
+Subject: "Arc" eps
+
+ Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, a friend was wondering what's the aspect ratio on the
+> credits? Is it letterbox or cinescope?
+
+       It's letterbox ratio.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Feb-96 21:18:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages Question>
+
+ SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Care to comment?
+
+       ....i don't remember anymore....
+
+       It all blurs, Lee.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Feb-96 21:18:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JOHN GRAVES <102735.1124@compuserve.com>
+Subject: And Now...Reruns!
+
+ JOHN GRAVES <102735.1124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, before I ask for a glass of whiskey, a gun, and two bullets,
+> please give it to me straight up: how many weeks of repeats
+> before we resume with new episodes?
+
+       Just next month; we come back with new eps on April 3rd.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Feb-96 21:18:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages From Earrth>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That raises another question, however: What do you consider the
+> greatest challenge in writing B5 right now? That's just it, isn't
+> it?
+
+       I think probably the hardest thing in the writing this season
+has been in pulling the story through the next level, around the
+corner, and into a new relative shape.  Some things are the same, and a
+lot of things are different the deeper you go into this season.  It's
+been a real tough act to get this boat where it needs to go, but I
+think we pulled it off.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Feb-96 00:07:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com>
+Subject: < Messages from Earth>
+
+ Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ganymede would have security cameras, research cameras, etc,
+> right? So there would be a very high chance of one of these
+> cameras recording that it was the shadow vessel and not the White
+> Star, right? Right?
+
+       Of course.  But who controls those cameras?  Answer: the very
+folks who wouldn't want it to get out what they had there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Feb-96 00:07:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Harry R. Keller <103464.3722@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <JMS: Msgs from Earth>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Feb-96 00:07:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Deja Vu
+
+ Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean that General Hague was originally supposed to be
+> in MfE, or are you refering to something else?
+
+       Foxworth was slated for "Severed Dreams" when he bailed on us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Feb-96 00:07:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Prison Authors
+
+ John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Am I just being paranoid, or are you being even sneakier than
+> usual?
+
+       It's the Book of G'Kar.  Make of that what you will.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Feb-96 00:07:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Bacon and Eggs
+
+ John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Re: Marcus's "surprise" for Ivanova: does Marcus not know that
+> Ivanova is Jewish, and thus would not eat bacon? Or does he know
+> that she's Jewish, and sent her the bacon 'n' eggs anyway, more
+> as a joke? Or does he know that she doesn't practice her religion
+> much, and think that she'd probably eat it anyway?
+
+       Ivanova's not what you'd call orthodox under any circumstances.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Feb-96 00:07:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages From Earrth>
+
+ Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Maybe I missed it, but is word out on behalf of WB for season 4
+> approval? But when is the verdict?
+
+       We won't know until late April.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Feb-96 01:47:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All
+Subject: Finished Writing!
+
+       Well, it's done.  I have today turned in the first draft of
+script #22 for year three, which I suppose could be called a
+cliffhanger episode. This marks the first time in the 50+ year history
+of American television that one person has singlehandedly written an
+entire season of a series. (The closest record is Terry Nation, who
+wrote the 13-episode first season of Blake's 7.)
+
+       (I have no plans to do this next season, btw; this was
+necessary because of the substantive changes in the B5 universe this
+season.  Next season is a very different story...literally as well as
+figuratively.)
+
+       So far the film based on those 1,000+ pages represents some of
+our best work on Babylon 5.  There's some nifty stuff coming.
+
+       We are currently filming episode #18.  Four more after this,
+and we'll be finished shooting year three, as of April 9th.  Not long
+after, we should get the word on year four, probably by late
+April/early May.  But the writing is finished...and for the first time
+in 8 months, I will be able to go out, see a movie, play Wing
+Commander, find something that vaguely resembles a life.  This is where
+I now also become a director's worst nightmare: a writer-producer who's
+finished writing and finally has time to hang out on the set and give
+lots and lots of helpful advice.
+
+       It was a hideous task; two-thirds through I began to understand
+that there was a *reason* nobody's ever done this before...you'd have
+to be outta your ever-loving mind to even try.  But as with everything
+else on B5, if we don't know it's impossible, we just go ahead and do
+it.
+
+       The title, as stated elsewhere, is classified, though you may
+get a sense of what's coming in the two eps that precede it. 
+Regardless, the writing on year three is now complete.  Overall, I'm
+quite pleased, and I think by the time you hit this episode, you'll
+feel the same.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 27-Feb-96 12:10:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sunil Karve <70003.6236@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Finished Writing!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       We flopped the shot because it was accidentally written left to
+right, and Narns write right to left.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Feb-96 12:10:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Walter F. Hern <74201.2063@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Messages from Earth>>
+
+ Walter F. Hern <74201.2063@compuserve.com> asks:
+> On the previous week's episode, were you the flower seller???
+
+       No.  I have a policy of not doing cameos in my shows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 00:15:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel K. Stump <104201.1460@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 PR
+
+ Daniel K. Stump <104201.1460@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In the dream sequence where Kosh and Ivonova reach Sheridan's
+> mind: Was Ivonova in his mind or was it all Kosh? If it was
+> Ivonova, then how did Gerbaldi get there or was he Kosh, as the
+> latter appeared as someone else in G'kar 's mind? And who was that
+> fourth person in dream? Are you going to leave the contradiction
+> about Sinclair being the last Captain of B5, as stated on the
+> Premiere, as is or are you going to work it out so that that
+> isn't a contradiction at all? Also in the premiere, wasn't
+> Delenn's attack on G'kar out of character?
+
+       It was Kosh doing it all; and the narrative in the pilot never
+named Sinclair specifically.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 00:15:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deon W. Becic <102147.3271@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 script book
+
+ Deon W. Becic <102147.3271@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question: Is there a possibility that you could publish your
+> collection of complete, uncut scripts?
+
+       We may sell some scripts via the fan club, plus the one in the
+writing book.  We'll see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 00:15:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Finished Writing!
+
+ Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you contacted the folks at Guiness?
+> What's reason got to do with it?
+
+       Thanks, much appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 00:15:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gerald Himmelein <100417.3703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CTS
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Ice packs are usually good.  "Blue Ice" they call it, which can
+be repeatedly refrigerated and doesn't melt.  Wear wrist braces.  There
+are also a number of available exercises that can help.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 00:15:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages From Earrth>
+
+ Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or doesn't it make a difference by then, as the decisions are
+> made in late April based on data picked from, say, February?
+
+       No, I think they'll be looking at info right up until the time
+they decide.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 00:15:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Minor Minbari Question:
+
+ Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So we can also expect the trigger to be pulled somewhat regarding
+> the imbalance of power on the Grey Council? Thought we'd forgotten
+> about that, didn't you?
+
+       Oh, it's coming, all right....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 00:15:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Charles Agius <72712.3572@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Good to see.
+
+ Charles Agius <72712.3572@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That ship they found on mars was it dead?
+
+       It was dormant.  The core element was dead, certainly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 00:15:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <PONR & Nightwatch>
+
+ Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this an something that slipped by unnoticed, or is it just a
+> result of the design of the arm band?
+
+       It's probably a result of the printing on the armband as it
+goes around.  The posters are all one-word.
+
+       I think you hit the distinction between MfE and PoNR...the
+former is exciting, the latter is tense, with "Severed Dreams" a good
+blend of the two, particularly the latter.  We did our final producer's
+cut today, and man, it moves....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 00:15:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Sheldon <73162.1054@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Marcus line>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I wrote the line.  There's almost no ad-libbing on this show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 00:15:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <PoNR - Redemption>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       As I said...all good things to those who wait.
+
+       Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 11:57:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Nigel Nixon <100666.2174@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SFX Magazine Awards
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Hey, I'll take it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 11:57:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages from Earth>
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are Varn's People First Ones (I *believe* you said they were
+> not)? Was the Great Machine built by a race of First Ones or by
+> Varn's People? Is the Great Machine capable of seeing *everywhere*
+> or can it be blocked (by say the Shadows or Vorlon)?
+
+       No, Varn's people aren't first ones...and the machine can be
+blocked.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 11:57:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <PoNR - Redemption>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...it's a good episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 11:57:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: TIMOTHY R. GREEN <73023.143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Actor's Portrayals
+
+ TIMOTHY R. GREEN <73023.143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since you originally set up the 5 year story-line, has the
+> performance of the actors involved enthralled you to the point of
+> changing a character's fate? How do you handle this kind of thing
+> when you want to stay true to the story, but see the rewards of
+> an actor's performance perhaps drawing more viewers? Or just being
+> darned good entertainment?
+
+       My feeling is that if you've got a great actor, and you love
+the character, you don't refrain from doing something Awful to
+them...if anything it makes it better, 'cause you'll care about it
+more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 11:57:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James Kemp <101355.3704@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Finished Writing!
+
+ James Kemp <101355.3704@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now when do we vote you for president?
+
+       Don't wanna be president.  Want an honest job....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 20:35:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Message From Earth
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 20:52:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Christopher R. Turn <71470.1536@compuserve.com>
+Subject: San Diego ComiCon?
+
+ Christopher R. Turn <71470.1536@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you made any decision yet on attending the San Diego ComiCon
+> this year?
+
+       I'll definitely be at SDCC...it's my favorite place to shop and
+go nuts every year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 20:52:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Nigel Nixon <100666.2174@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SFX Magazine Awards
+
+ Nigel Nixon <100666.2174@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Don't you ever get really fed-up that B5 gets so much coverage in
+> the UK SF press (two big articles in SFX plus those awards, one
+> or two features a month in TV Zone, a feature every month or two
+> in Starburst) while at home you seem almost ignored?
+
+       It's annoying in terms of the US press, but it reaffirms the
+taste, selectivity and discretion of the British audience....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 20:52:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Burhaan Ahmad <75754.3065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Prison Authors
+
+ Burhaan Ahmad <75754.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does G'Kar actually think of it as *The Book of G'Kar*, or does
+> he just feel he's writing an autobiography/history of sorts? What
+> I mean to say is, does G'Kar now fancy himself as being as
+> important as G'Quon?
+
+       No, he hasn't thought of it that far yet...but it will find
+that role.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 20:53:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robert Miller <71501.3042@compuserve.com>
+Subject: < Messages from Earth>
+
+ Robert Miller <71501.3042@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is to prevent the people of Earth from believing Clarke's
+> move is exactly what it appears to be: a desperate act of a man
+> whose crimes are being brought out into the open? How can a man
+> who has been openly accused of assassination, who has some pretty
+> damning evidence backing up the accusations, and whose very
+> legitimacy is being investigated by the government, effectively
+> overthrow the government? For that matter, what are Clarke's
+> motivations? Is he just consumed by lust for power, or is there
+> something else going on?
+
+       It all depends on how you frame the issue...i.e., the attacks
+are groundless, baseless, and part of a campaign to destroy the
+government, he's the attacked innocent....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 20:53:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neal J. Meyering <104020.1417@compuserve.com>
+Subject: More Patricia Tallman
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       We definitely plan to do more with Pat, we're very happy with
+her.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 20:53:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Finished Writing!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...may the future bear out your assessment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 20:53:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David P. Watkins <74663.3345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The plot thickens
+
+ David P. Watkins <74663.3345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance of getting tapes????
+
+       Eventually we hope to put out tapes; in the fullness of time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 23:43:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Stephen T Jacobs <76132.603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SSN. 1 Tapes - ATTN. JMS
+
+ Stephen T Jacobs <76132.603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, if you're here, A) do you know what I am talking about?
+> , & B) If so, is the business legal?
+
+       Technically speaking, if one is making dubs of episodes and
+sending them around, it's not legal, correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 23:51:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Julia E. Linthicum <73114.3530@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Point of No Return>>
+
+ Julia E. Linthicum <73114.3530@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, does Lady Morella's Sight work for just Centauri or
+> everyone? Does this guy understand what a personal vision means?
+
+       The editorial does seem odd when you then flip to the back of
+the magazine and realize that the highest marks were *consistently*
+given to jms scripts.  That would appear to be a contradiction.  I
+think it's also a bit unwise to question the quality of a season before
+you've even *seen* it.  I suspect someone will be reconsidering those
+words by the end of the season.
+
+       Also, it wasn't like I sat down and decided to do this for my
+own benefit...this season, with so much happening, the show changing so
+dramatically, it's nearly impossible to bring freelancers into that. 
+Next season, when the chairs have stopped moving around, that can
+change and we can have other writers again.  This was necessity, not
+whim.
+
+       Elsewise...thanks for the kind comments on PoNR.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Feb-96 23:51:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Messages from Earth>>
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Hm, at the risk of sounding very silly, might I suggest you
+> consider doing an on-camera intro to the final episode of Season
+> 5?
+
+       Yeah, that'll *really* bring up the ratings....
+
+       "The next sound you hear will be millions of remote controls
+flipping to another channel all at once...."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Feb-96 02:37:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <PONR & Nightwatch>
+
+ Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was Hague supposed to appear in person in "Point of No Return" or
+> was he always going to have been behind the scenes? And did
+> "Severed Dreams" have to be modified to accommodate the actor's
+> not being there?
+
+       Ask me again after "Severed Dreams."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Feb-96 02:37:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Suzanne l. Bainbrid <103307.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Enjoying Babylon 5
+
+ Suzanne l. Bainbrid <103307.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How on earth are you going to be able to maintain this quality
+> for another 2 1/2 seasons, <eg> and still keep your sanity, not
+> to mention your budgets?
+
+       Thanks...and we just have to keep making it constantly better,
+there's no going back now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 29-Feb-96 15:11:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: NORMAN H. JOHNSON III <103707.410@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<PoNR>>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...it ratchets things up a bit more, certainly.  The big
+stuff's just around the corner.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Feb-96 15:11:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: NORMAN H. JOHNSON III <103707.410@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Starship classes
+
+ NORMAN H. JOHNSON III <103707.410@compuserve.com> asks:
+> We have seen cruisers and destroyers are those the only classes
+> of capitol ships or will we be seeing others, such as
+> battleships, in the future?
+
+       We'll probably be seeing more and different kinds of ships as
+we go in, plus support vessels of various sorts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Feb-96 15:11:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Cameron c. Wood <103305.515@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Beyond five years
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, and so far, there aren't any plans to change the end of
+this thing, believe me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Feb-96 15:11:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Point of No Return>
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can the President dissolve the Senate, as Parliments may
+> sometimes be dissolved, prompting new elections? What is the
+> procedure for removing the President from office? Can the
+> President declare Martial Law over the entire nation without the
+> consent of the Senate? Can the President suspend the Constitution?
+> HOW IN *GOD'S NAME* CAN THE MILITARY SUPPORT THIS!?!?!?
+
+       Wait for the next episode, then we'll see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Feb-96 15:11:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Point of No Return>
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Don't you think the "Traitors Can't Escape" poster was a bit over
+> the top for *public* consumption (on the wall in the bar area)?
+
+       It's not always as simple as that.  You also take a uniquely
+Western perspective.  Look around at Russia, Cuba, 1930s Germany and
+the beer hall putsch, Iraq, Iran...a leader can survive all kinds of
+opposition if he has sufficient control of the armed forces.  After the
+Gulf War, it was generally assumed that Saddam would be gone within a
+few months; now his position is stronger than ever.
+
+       Also, Clark didn't (ostensibly) declare martial law to protect
+himself, he did it because of an imminent alien threat which was
+detected long before these allegations came out, we just had Ganymede
+attacked and that's spitting distance from the primary Earth jump gate
+at Io...there is indication of collaboration and conspiracy among some
+in the Joint Chiefs (and in fact that's correct, from his point of
+view, given Hague's activities)...there's enough ammo there to justify
+martial law.  Dissolve the Senate?  Just happened a couple years ago in
+Russia, when we had tanks firing on the Senate building. Some might say
+that Yeltsin was in the same position as Clark in that his motives
+might be saving himself.
+
+       (The majorit of our posters, btw, are taken from genuine WW II
+propaganda and war-support posters that were actually in use.  We make
+some slight modifications, but the gist is there.  Yes, we do fall for
+these things, we do go for these things.  We always have.)
+
+       As for the USA-western perspective...during WW II we saw
+Japanese civilians interned in camps along the West Coast...afterward
+we saw people prosecuted for being Reds, saw careers and lives
+destroyed by even the hint of "commie" influence.  If you look at
+newsreels and documentary footage from the time, you see a populace,
+fresh out of a war, who survived by focusing on the Enemy, given a new
+enemy.  Might they have gone along with some kind fo martial law if
+they thought that if they *didn't* cooperate, the nation might be
+vulnerable to Russian nukes or invasion?  I think the climate was
+perfect for it.
+
+       Could it happen right here, right now?  No, because the
+surrounding climate isn't right.  Could it happen if the conditions
+*were* right?  Of course it could.  We're not genetically or
+evolutionarily different from the Germans or the Russians or the Cubans
+or the Iraquis.  If we think we'd never fall for that, we place
+ourselves in *exactly* the position of guaranteeing that we *will* fall
+for it.  Because we won't recognize it when it happens. We can justify
+and rationalize it as something else.
+
+       Yeah, people back on Earth still have guns.  What of it?  Right
+now, with martial law, the streets are quiet, the news is more positive
+than usual for a change, the quarrelsome jerks in the senate have been
+given a good kick in the butt, the president's getting things *done*,
+we've all still got our jobs, the muggers are hiding out, life goes on
+except for the lawbreakers. You gonna go out on your own and start
+shooting at Earthforce troops armed to the teeth with *vastly* more
+advanced weaponry?  On whose behalf?  The aliens? The troublemakers? 
+What're we rallying for?  Or against?  This'll blow over soon, it
+always does.  It never lasts.  Right now, just ride it out, wait and 
+see what happens.  Who knows...maybe Clark's right?  Who wants to be
+perceived as a traitor?
+
+       Those are the thoughts of any populace in this situation.  Just
+as when Yeltsin declared martial law in Moscow, as when Mayor Daly sent
+in the shock troops in Chicago, on and on.
+
+       Here's the number one rule: a population will always stay
+passive for as long as they perceive that they stand to lose more by
+opposing the government than by staying quiet.  It's when they have
+little or nothing left to lose that they rise up; the politicos first,
+then, more reluctantly, the general population.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Feb-96 15:45:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Rage's Thots: PoNR>
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It makes me wonder: what if Delenn had been on the station when
+> the riots/Nightwatch situation erupted? Maybe the Z-man should
+> have just tossed it over his shoulder? from his cell, to the
+> lighting of the candles (rekindling of hope lost in TLTS? You've
+> had it for *months*, okay? Clarke?
+> Him and the Nightwitch (Musante) are the type of people that have
+> Earth's best interest at heart? *Corwin, by his line "What did we
+> do wrong?" Did anyone else see Susan as Wednesday Addams sitting
+> there on the couch?
+
+       "...I wanted Sheridan &Co. to cut themselves free of Earthgov,
+and they didn't."
+
+       'Course, if you were to do anything that monumental, you'd
+spike right smack in the middle of your three-part story.
+
+       One of the things about these three episodes that's again worth
+stressing is that they're really one story, linked carefully.  Each of
+the three begins *one frame* after the other.  After they've aired, if
+you sit down with a VCR and edit them together, you'll find that they
+flow absolutely SEAMLESSLY from one to the other.  So PoNR is at the
+dead center of the piece that propels you toward the last third, like
+the second act in a three-act play (which was my structure for this).
+
+       That may help.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Feb-96 19:12:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Petition Letter
+
+ Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any ideas on what would be strong enough and to the
+> point without offending the station manager? Could I obtain a
+> copy?
+
+       Problem is, if I get in any way involved in advising on this
+stuff, it makes it look like I'm behind it, which negates the impact. 
+Your best option is to just indicate the demographics of those you've
+got on (their ages/status), and to be polite, and positive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Feb-96 19:12:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chris Croughton <100014.3217@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Names...
+
+ Chris Croughton <100014.3217@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this an attempt to keep your 'public' persona separate from
+> your 'personal' one, or is it something which "just happened"? How
+> much of the information in the book is 'canon'?
+
+       I've always gone by Joe personally; J. Michael is just so you
+can get a running start on Straczynski.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Feb-96 19:12:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Point of No Return>
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Should I not be?
+> How do you do business when you suddenly live in a dictatorship
+> and you use to be a democracy?
+
+       Thanks.  No, I understand the point, I'm just getting into the
+details a bit.  One last point I forgot to mention was that even for
+the US, there has never yet been a situation where we as an entire
+*species* stood on the brink of extinction by an alien race.  That'll
+definitely affect your mindset a bit....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Feb-96 19:12:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David P. Watkins <74663.3345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The plot thickens
+
+ David P. Watkins <74663.3345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are we about to find out some link between the Minbari, the
+> Vorlon's and the Shadows?
+
+       Who can say...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Feb-96 19:12:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The New Ratings Game
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you see a ratings system as a minor annoyance, a major threat
+> to the way you wish your novel to be told, an anathema, or
+> irrelevant? On a totally different topic, will your publisher
+> (who, please?) going to be promoting your scriptwriting book
+> revision at the ABA convention in June?
+
+       I imagine that Writer's Digest'll be plugging the book in June,
+but I don't have any objective info on that.
+
+       As for the rest...the V-chip will take at least 2 years to
+begin showing up, this takes time...by the time they get their act in
+gear, B5 will have finished its run anyway, so the point will be moot. 
+My feeling is the same as ever: tell the story the way it should be
+told, the heck with the rest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Feb-96 22:24:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jon Wolf <76103.2541@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Point of No Return>
+
+ Jon Wolf <76103.2541@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did somebody goose him?
+> Save the eye and change your fate?
+> Morden?
+> Anna?
+> Or will there be a time travel twist here?
+
+     "I watched hte first month of Space A&B,and I liked the grim,
+gritty atmosphere.  I wish this show had more of that."
+
+     And then we'd be just like SAAB.  I'd rather we set our own tone.
+I like the jumping from humor to dark stuff...for one thing, it keeps
+the audience from collectively sticking their heads in ovens across the
+country. Second, a good dramatic piece can help create tension which
+laughter relieves, giving you a roller-coaster effect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Feb-96 22:47:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Rage's Thots: PoNR>
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Story idea?
+> Is there a name for this triptych, or would that be *telling*?
+> I know he's one of Harlan's faves; what about you?
+> And was Susan still reading Harlan's autobio in "MfE"?
+> Carmichael?"
+
+       Norman's been a friend of mine long before I ever actually met
+Harlan, and so yes, his name popping up was my idea.  His writing is
+pretty amazing, isn't it?
+
+       (See if your library has a copy of the audio recording of "On A
+Note of Triumph;" it'll knock you down.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Feb-96 22:47:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Julia E. Linthicum <73114.3530@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Point of No Return>>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...and we really must work on getting you a proper
+sig....
+
+       How about, "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no
+trifle?" -- Michelangelo
+
+       or
+
+       "The point of no return: that is the point that must be
+reached."  -- Franz Kafka
+
+       or
+
+       "A fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first
+place." -- anon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Feb-96 22:48:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Lynn Dimock <74471.3131@compuserve.com>
+Subject: < Messages from Earth>
+
+ Lynn Dimock <74471.3131@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, is there an official scapegoat group, or are they just going
+> for generic "enemies of the State" (or of the people)? Or do I
+> just watch and find out?
+
+       Oh...probably better to watch and see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Feb-96 22:48:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Rage's Thots: PoNR>
+
+ Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Question if they are really intended as one complete story - why
+> weren't they labeled as such?
+
+       We knew that at some juncture they'd be split, so numbering
+them as parts 1, 2 and 3 would be awkward.  And distribution hates
+having to market multi-parters, for reasons of their own.  So...three
+episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Feb-96 22:48:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <PoNR - Redemption>
+
+ Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I loved Londo's throw-away line about politicians and
+> intelligence -- did you sit at your keyboard and cackle to
+> yourself when you wrote it?
+
+       Thanks, and I agree with those scenes.  (For me, the Vir/Londo
+scene in the tag is just hysterical.)  Re: "politics has nothing to do
+with intelligence," yeah, I kinda liked that one.  I have fun....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Feb-96 22:48:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: San Diego ComiCon?
+
+ Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any thoughts on which of these five will be shown at the Con?
+
+       No idea yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Feb-96 22:48:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<PoNR>>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       That'll actually be in May; we get new episodes from April 3
+through the end of May, 8 episodes total, not six.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs96-03 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs96-03
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+Date: 01-Mar-96 00:27:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Bussjaeger <102065.1635@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Do you want a party???
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       "The whole time I was at Wright-Paterson...."
+
+       So, which one of those labs has the crashed UFOs, huh? huh?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Mar-96 00:27:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Lynn Dimock <74471.3131@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <PoNR - Redemption>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       The island of Drafa.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Mar-96 00:44:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: DONALD BYRNE <75454.1265@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Enjoying Babylon 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, it's a lot of fun to do it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Mar-96 00:44:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<PoNR>>
+
+ Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> - Haven't rewatched the tape, but was there a mention of a ship
+> called Schwartzkopf, letting Hague escape from Io? - Who blasted
+> the escorts of the Alexander, if we saw and were told they
+> escaped?
+
+       When we come back, the very next episode has a very funny scene
+re: Londo and Narn security.  And yes, that was the Schwartzkopf.
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 01-Mar-96 12:30:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <PoNR - Redemption>
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Incidently, what were Londo's first two choices?
+
+       Centauri are always suspicious, and if you knew you might be
+emperor after the other is dead, you might be encourage to...help that
+process along, however you might like someone.  It's just good
+business.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Mar-96 12:30:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<PoNR>>
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What was it's final condition, and which side is Stephen's father
+> on?
+
+       Stephen's father is a by-the-book guy; he doesn't think his job
+is to set policy, only to implement policy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Mar-96 12:55:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ruth Ballam <100412.3457@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SFX Magazine Awards
+
+ Ruth Ballam <100412.3457@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Question has to be, what's he doing in television then ?
+
+       "what's he doing in television then?"
+
+       Nailing 95 theses to the door of science fiction television.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Mar-96 15:02:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All
+Subject: Violating Your Privacy
+
+       All messages entered into the Compuserve system are copyrighted
+by CIS, and the user; they cannot be posted elsewhere without the
+permission of the sender, and the system.  Mine are somewhat of an
+exception, since they can be posted anywhere, but even there I had to
+write specifically to AOL giving permission before they'd allow my
+messages from here to be reprinted. It is always required to do this;
+otherwise it's not only morally repugnant, it's illegal.
+
+       A user named Theron Fuller has just taken a great number of
+your messages posted on the DS9 and B5 folders and reposted them to the
+Internet (rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5).  Among those users whose messages
+have been taken without their knowledge or permission are Rae
+Augenstein, Anthony Davis, and Jose J. Ortiz Carlo.  There are
+apparently more.  To verify this all you need to do is go over to that
+forum and look for threads with "so you miss Joe Straczynski's
+dialogue" -- or words to that effect -- in the thread.
+
+       From Theron's own statements, these were excerpted from a
+*mailing list* which some individuals maintain for the sole purpose of
+forwarding messages they think will do me harm.  Or in general, to keep
+track of me, as stalkers do.  (This statement by Theron is also in the
+same thread there.) One individual has indicated that this mailing list
+was maintained by the Hall Brothers.  So apparently your compuserve
+messages (and AOL messages, and who knows how many others) have been
+circulated without your knowledge or permission, posted and reposted on
+other forums, and mailing lists.  And now he has begun posting your
+messages publicly.
+
+       This is a violation of both your copyright and that of
+Compuserve. It is morally and ethically repugnant.  It is illegal.
+
+       If you object, I suggest you contact Compuserve and register
+your displeasure with this, and also the postmaster at Theron's
+account, since he was the one who publicly violated your copyright, and
+took your messages without your permission.  (The users cited, btw, are
+only the ones noted in the current batch of messages he reposted; the
+odds are good that virtually *everyone* here has been excerpted and
+remailed/reposted since this mailing list has been going on for some
+time.)  I would suggest you demand to have access to the mailing list
+of all reposted messages from Compuserve (and that those on other
+services do the same).
+
+       Theron Fuller's user id is fuller@ix.netcom.com and the
+postmaster can likely be found there.  I would also suggest that the
+sysops here lodge a formal protest, and get CIS to do the same, in
+order to protect the rights not only of CIS, but of the users to post
+here and know that their words will not be excerpted, reposted, or
+otherwise used in or out of context without their knowledge or
+permission.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Mar-96 17:51:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steve Ramage <74731.235@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Christoper Fry
+
+ Steve Ramage <74731.235@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Carter?
+
+       I agree; Fry's work must be read or heard aloud to be most
+fully appreciated.  It has a wonderful cadence, and the vocablary is
+really quite extraordinary.  Some of his imagery is amazing.  I don't
+know if Marcus is so much in that vein as it might be, but there are
+probably some influences here and there.  Certainly when he winds up he
+can pick up some of that cadence....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Mar-96 17:51:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Anderson <76560.205@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Enjoying Babylon 5
+
+ David Anderson <76560.205@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering if we will ever see the one remaining Narn
+> cruiser again?
+
+       Yes, this season in fact.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Mar-96 17:51:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5's 'failings'
+
+ John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Hey, Joe, why can't *your* sci-fi show finagle a special tribute
+> to itself on an awards show? Or arrange a sketch on late-night TV
+> with Jay Leno on its set, being stupid with one of its
+> characters? Or have two of its principles slum out of a camper in
+> the boondocks, appear between sections of a movie (say, "The Four
+> Seasons") on a Saturday afternoon and make insipid comments about
+> the movie, and have pleas to watch B5 interspersed, disguised as
+> network identification? And how come you can't manage to produce
+> even a single B5 episode with a tidy, formula plot and a preachy,
+> politically correct moral that's about as subtle as a freight
+> train? Creative, well-thought storylines; thought-provoking
+> exploration of important issues that resist the urge for easy
+> answers; intense drama and intelligent comedy; insight into
+> individuals and societies; dynamite special effects; complex,
+> three-dimensional yet believable characters, excellently
+> portrayed by top-notch actors: just how far do you think that
+> *these* will take you?
+
+       I strongly suspect that one of us needs to lie down for a long,
+long time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Mar-96 17:51:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: The Jawa / Jawa #2 <76371.3057@compuserve.com>
+Subject: More Patricia Tallman
+
+ The Jawa / Jawa #2 <76371.3057@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The Jawa Kidism Patrol 7:34 PM, Friday, March 01, 1996 "Did I
+> mention that my nose is on fire?"
+
+       For what it's worth, I tend to agree.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Mar-96 20:35:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Violating Your Privacy
+
+ Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Wouldn't doing so vastly exxagerate their importance - and be
+> just what they want? How could anything I or others on this forum
+> write be harmful to you or the show? Put it another way: is it
+> worth it? Is there any indication they have harmfully falsified
+> the posts of this forum?
+
+       No, I don't mind if my messages get reposted all over; I've
+long ago given permission for anything I write to get reposted
+anywhere.  It's just that others have been having their stuff reposted,
+without their knowing, and I find it vastly inappropriate to do so
+without the courtesy of even letting them know.  It's a real breach of
+trust.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Mar-96 20:35:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Messages From Earrth>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...it's either gutsy or *real* stupid on my part....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Mar-96 20:35:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<PoNR>>
+
+ Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Right?
+
+       Approximately, yeah....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Mar-96 23:16:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Point of No Return>
+
+ Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And what's your problem with that?
+
+       "B5 has gravity defying video cameras"
+
+       Only if you consider a plane or any other reasonable technology
+of flight to be gravity defying.
+
+       The video recorders are made of an extremely ultralight
+material, new alloys that in total weighs less than an ounce; it has a
+visible (and audible) air propulsion system, a high speed fan with a
+stabalizer/gyroscope that keeps it steady, and move it forward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Mar-96 23:28:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John L. Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <PoNR - Redemption>
+
+ John L. Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was that your intent?
+
+       It's more universal than that.  Any time there's a big disease,
+we get Stupid.  The same exact thing happened with the Black Plague, as
+was mentioned in the episode...instead of blaming gays, the leaders of
+the time blamed jews and lepers.  The whole *point* is to drop politics
+and scapegoating whichEVER disease it happens to be next...and there is
+always a next...and focus on the problem: the disease.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Mar-96 23:28:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Point of No Return>>
+
+ Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ta'Lon's line about "All answers are replies, but not all replies
+> are answers" -- is that from something else (a paraphrase
+> perhaps)?
+
+       No, I don't think that's a quote from anywhere but the show, at
+least insofar as I know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Mar-96 23:28:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Rage's Thots: PoNR>
+
+ Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering about that; so, unlike the usual pattern where
+> each show is a few weeks after the last, these three are
+> continuous over a span of a couple of days?
+
+       Not per se, no; you can have one picking up a frame later, but
+there are still time gaps in *story*.  Between 1 and 2 there's only a
+few hours; but between 2 and 3 there's several days or so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Mar-96 23:32:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Violating Your Privacy
+
+ Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Only: what permanent remedy is there?
+> Legal action?
+> And who has the time or the means to pursue that?
+> Physical violence?
+
+       There is no permanent solution; but people should be aware of
+this, in case they do have a problem with it, so that they can at least
+know it's going on...at most perhaps encourage those doing this to
+cease by virtue of complaining about it to them or to their service
+providers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Mar-96 23:32:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Point of No Return>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Agreed.  When I have to go see the dentist, the #1 item on my
+fear hit parade...I'm fragging *hysterical*, in the sense that I'm
+constantly cracking jokes.  It's the only way I can deal with it short
+of passing out.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 02-Mar-96 18:56:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Karen E. Bahnsen <102735.3557@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Point of No Return>>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       If a word comes out of a character's mouth, it's usually mine. 
+The bit about greatness was one of them; had a number of different
+subtexts going on behind it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Mar-96 18:56:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard Cunningham <71213.3504@compuserve.com>
+Subject: San Diego ComiCon?
+
+ Richard Cunningham <71213.3504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Okay..since I got my little sign-up guide for SDCC the other day,
+> do you know if you'll be doing a presentation, and if so, which
+> day?
+
+       Nothing's been firmed up, they haven't spoken to me directly
+yet, but invariably I do a presentation (usually they're one of the
+biggest events of the con), so I'd *imagine* nothing's changed this
+year, but at this point I don't have any real info.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Mar-96 19:09:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 3 and Na'Toth
+
+ Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A question from my friend Vince: "Now that you've written all of
+> the season 3 scripts, can you tell us how things might have been
+> different had Na'Toth stayed in the storyline?"
+
+       The story arc would've stayed the same; but the character
+would've had some good moments, and helped move it along.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Mar-96 19:10:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Violating Your Privacy
+
+ Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I probably know the answer to this already, but here goes: Have
+> you ever provided fans or viewers with any such documentation?
+
+       "Have you ever provided fans or viewers with any such
+documentation?" I think I need clarification here...documentation of
+what?
+
+       Also, if you did get a copy of the original email "digest" of
+messages from here, was there an address on the point of origin, i.e.,
+who was sending them around initially?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Mar-96 19:10:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chris Croughton <100014.3217@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Names...
+
+ Chris Croughton <100014.3217@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So has that last name caused you problems, or has it been an
+> advantage in that people recognise it?
+
+       The name's probably been a slight disadvantage from time to
+time, but not significantly so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Mar-96 19:10:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <PoNR>
+
+ Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you ever read "Goedel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid"
+> by Douglas Hofstadter?
+
+       Have read some of Goedel's work, but not enough to be even
+remotely conversant about it.
+
+       Yes, a lot of stuff is coming together in the story now.  We've
+set up a lot over the last 2 years, now is the time to begin paying it
+all off, resolving threads left hanging, and moving the show to a
+different level. So a lot of stuff has to hit the fan here over the
+balance of this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Mar-96 19:10:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rob Perlstein <103542.522@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       We're working on the video stuff now.  Thanks for the support.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Mar-96 19:10:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<PoNR>>
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The Alexander would be an Omega class ship, would it not?
+
+       Correct, the Alexander would've come off the assembly line a
+bit after the Aggy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Mar-96 19:10:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shwartzkopff
+
+ Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean that Franklin is backing Clarke?
+> Will we see which side Franklin chooses?
+
+       Franklin is of the breed of officers who feels it isn't his
+place to set policy, only to execute it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 00:02:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Violating Your Privacy
+
+ Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you ever tried this tactic before?
+> Do you think he will gladly hand over his list of contacts at
+> C-serve?
+
+       What you're forgetting in the conversation is the issue of
+copyright. As a poster here on this forum, everything that you write is
+the joint copyright of you and CIS.  Copyright infringement is
+punishable by law.  Now maybe one can't keep chasing down people who
+take others' messages and shut down their access to various systems,
+it's problematic...but for each time one engages in copyright
+infringement, the *minimum* penalty under the law is $100,000 per
+instance.  If one chose to pursue it that far.
+
+       It'd be no different than taking a whole section of, say, a
+Greg Bear novel, and posting it on the nets without his permission.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 00:02:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Stephen C. Smith <76150.1170@compuserve.com>
+Subject: PoNR-Hague
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       No, Stephen, you've got that backward.  We had booked Foxworth
+long in advance.  Later, out of the blue, a rep for the actor said that
+by accident he'd been double-booked on B5 and DS9 for the same
+period...and even though we had prior claim, because the other was a
+two-parter, more money, they went for that.  One can only wonder when
+the other offer *really* came in....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 00:02:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randy Upshaw <75464.1275@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Point of No Return>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       "Even in the USSR the military would not support an attempt of
+martial law."
+
+       You mean like when Yeltsin called up the military, dissolved
+the Senate, and had tanks open fire on the Senate building to keep from
+being ousted in a coup...you mean like that?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 00:02:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randy Upshaw <75464.1275@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Point of No Return>
+
+ Randy Upshaw <75464.1275@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I don't see that that has anything to do with the b5 story line?
+> By the way were are the shadows???
+
+       "I don't believe a conservative nightwatch would be tolerated
+either."
+
+       Senator Joseph McCarthy.  The House Un-American Activities
+Committee. You can look it up.
+
+       Also, there was a PBS documentary this past week on the
+blacklist; I suggest that ANYone who thinks we would never fall for
+something like the Nightwatch should take a look at it.  It makes the
+Nightwatch look pale by comparison.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 00:32:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Cherns Major <75026.3723@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 PR
+
+ Cherns Major <75026.3723@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This discussion (about a spoiler for Point of No Return) brings a
+> question to my mind: where do TVGuide and other publications get
+> their little capsule descriptions, anyway? I don't presume that
+> TVGuide has a screening room where they watch all programs that
+> will be aired in a month or so, just to come up with little
+> five-line descriptions; wouldn't there be some sort of system in
+> which the station provides these descriptions along with their
+> schedules? And, assuming that stations themselves don't have
+> description-writing screening panels (or even advance access, in
+> many cases, I imagine), wouldn't these descriptions come from the
+> program source itself? Which brings up another question: are
+> episode titles usually provided for shows that have them, and why
+> aren't these listed? Or am I 'way off track in all this supposing?
+
+       Synopses come from one of two places: 1) a two-page synopsis
+from the studio/network, or 2) scripts provided to TV Guide by same.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 00:32:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Cherns Major <75026.3723@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Deja Vu
+
+ Cherns Major <75026.3723@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just out of curiosity, what would be the general time, from story
+> inception to broadcast, of a typical 1-hr sf show? So is there a
+> rule-of-thumb length of time during which we can assume that plot
+> similarities could be attributable to coincidence rather than,
+> er, "homage" (to put a nicer face on it than it deserves)? Or is
+> script security in the industry so lax that the question is
+> irrelevant?
+
+       Well, there are a number of factors going into this, including
+that as we develop threads over time, they become apparent outside even
+before the script appears (as noted by some who've anticipated some
+revelations here, in broad strokes).
+
+       One other element is that B5 is only able to do what we do on
+budget because we prepare a LONG time in advance.  We have scripts on
+the deck, ready to shoot, 4-6 weeks sometimes before we roll film. 
+During that time, scripts circulate to agents and others as casting and
+other production elements start moving.  In many TV shows, the script
+often doesn't land on the stage floor until a few days before
+filming...in some cases, pages are still landing *as* they're filming.
+
+       Once an episode is filmed, a 7 day process, it takes 52 days of
+post production before it's ready to air.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 00:32:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Violating Your Privacy
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Okay, I *think* I know what that refers to; I wrote a long
+message on one of the services about the ratings system, but it's
+nothing I saved, I just explained it that one time as best I could.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 00:32:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Violating Your Privacy
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Short version: anyone with even minor celebrity -- and there
+can be no more minor a celebrity than a producer -- attracts a certain
+number of what can only be described as stalkers.  Stalkers range from
+vaguely annoying to disturbing (and disturbed) individuals.  I have
+acquired about six or so who are dedicated to one singular goal: trying
+to disrupt my life, my career and my show through a constant, chronic
+pattern of abuse, insults, outright fabrications, disinformation
+campaigns, and innuendo.  Six doesn't seem like a lot, and in the
+grander scheme, they're irrelevant; on the less grand level, because
+they are singularly dedicated to this cause, utterly tireless, they 
+can, and have, paralyzed whole discussion areas, poisoned topics and
+made places on the net unlivable for me and many others.
+
+       Several of them, if they were doing via other means -- mail,
+phone, in person -- what they are doing on the nets, could easily be
+arrested and prosecuted under any of a number of anti-stalking laws,
+for creating malicious mischief, character assassination, and other
+charges.  But the nature of the net makes it easier for these
+individuals -- who are basically cowards -- to do what they do with a
+relative (though shrinking) degree of impunity.
+
+       Their behavior is pathological at best, and it was the exposure
+on a daily basis to their virulent pathology, the necessity to respond
+each and every day to the next new charge or rumor or lie -- which, if
+unanswered, becomes assumed truth on the nets -- that in time drove me
+from rastb5.  As with most Internet newsgroups, it does not have the
+same safeguards against chronic abusive personalities that are present
+in CIS, AOL, GEnie and other systems and BBSs across the country.
+
+       A number of people who've gotten tired of the chronic abuse of
+the system, and each other, recently resolved to try and create a new
+moderated group whose purpose would be to ONLY restrict these chronic,
+abusive messages from the petty dysfunctional, while allowing a) a full
+range of open criticism and language, and b) not in any way affecting
+or censoring the original rastb5 area.  Any group of people can agree
+to come together and form a group of their own, with their own rules,
+which others may or may not choose to enter. When and if that group
+gets approved, many of the users who left rastb5 will sign on with this
+new group, myself included.
+
+       (I understand there's a discussion about this issue currently
+going on over there, using the words censorship and nightwatch.  Which
+are loaded terms designed to elicit an emotional response and muddy the
+waters. Censorship is enacted against an individual against his or her
+will; anyone who joins the moderated newsgroup, should it be approved,
+does so knowing the charter of the group, thus expressing a willingness
+to go along with that, just as anyone signing on with CIS understands
+the general guidelines here.  If someone doesn't want to work under
+those guidelines, they need not sign on, and hang out in the
+unmoderated area.  How this relatively simple logic gets muddied is 
+beyond me.)
+
+       In any event, to your question...if any of the less than
+rock-solid individuals noted three paragraphs above are asking for your
+cooperation, that decision is between you and your conscience.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 00:33:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rae Augenstein <72752.1653@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Point of No Return>
+
+ Rae Augenstein <72752.1653@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You've thought of everything, haven't you?
+
+       But of course....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 00:33:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Grady W. Smithey I <103321.2766@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Just wanted to say...
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...yes, Marcus does seem to have a way with women of
+taste and sensibility....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 00:33:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Violating Your Privacy
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Absolutely.  You're quite right.  The other digest of my
+messages is a fine and fair thing, because I've said that my messages
+can be reposted anywhere, anytime.  It's others who have not given
+their permission, and the messages involved, that they may need to be
+made aware of.  (Darn, ended on a dangling preposition....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 00:33:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 3 and Na'Toth
+
+ Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Am I correct in guessing that some of what would have been
+> Na'Toth's story moved over to Ta'Lon? Or did you plan on bringing
+> him back all along?
+
+       I liked Ta'Lon, and definitely wanted to bring him back.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 00:33:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Burhaan Ahmad <75754.3065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Prison Authors
+
+ Burhaan Ahmad <75754.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I suppose there is something behind this?
+
+       It's just those darn Narns...politeness isn't easy for some of
+them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 00:33:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Do you want a party???
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Remember the stuff about the actual latitude and longitude of
+> "Area 51" being burned into the Newton 2.0 operating system, and
+> a CIA cryptographer found it, and they pressured Apple to remove
+> it from the time zones utility?
+
+       How odd that they would be so concerned about a base that, they
+say, doesn't even exist....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 01:04:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Peter David <72550.2517@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Bill Mumy on CNBC
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       BTW, Peter, I happened to catch the episode tonight (though I
+missed the opening and about 2-3 minutes at the top).  Nicely done.  I
+still think I preferred the commander from the test episode (now it's
+YOUR turn to hear that), but a lot has been improved, particularly the
+sets, which are very elaborate and visually interesting.  Some fun
+writing, good (if somewhat over the top) directing, and the effects
+were quite good.  This one may actually have some shelf life....
+
+       Congratulations.  You are now officially a Mogul.  Your
+certificate of membership should arrive in a few days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 01:04:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Violating Your Privacy
+
+ Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this sudden request related to the events of message abuse?
+
+       If Brent Barrett -- not one of the Demento Half-Dozen -- is
+asking permission to repost your messages, then he's doing this
+properly.  So if you don't mind your posts being reposted, by all
+means, give permission.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 01:04:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Karen E. Bahnsen <102735.3557@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Point of No Return>>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Good heavens, Karen, there was nothing in your message to be
+offended *at*.  I took the inquiry at face value, and answered it thus.
+
+       Glad you enjoyed "Point."  It sets everything up, so we can
+knock it all down in "Severed Dreams."  Now everyhing I need is right
+where I need it to be....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 22:26:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bing F. Quock <76216.520@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shwartzkopff
+
+       Not that I know of....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:06:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Violating Your Privacy
+
+       Thank you for your forthrightness, and your honesty, and your
+dilligence in dealing with the situation.  I think your approach is a
+good model for anyone in this situation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:06:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Cynthia Tenen <75015.364@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Violating Your Privacy
+
+       Well said, Cynthia.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:06:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Violating Your Privacy
+
+       Actually, casual copyright infringement has been dealt with
+more and more lately; one of the reason you see precise instructions in
+Kinko's Copier locations, and the reason they won't copy a full
+manuscript unless you can prove you own it, is because they got hit
+bigtime over the issue. It is, as you say, an area which has been dealt
+with only casually, but which I suspect is going to get more attention,
+particularly as the nets come more fully under the scrutiny of Suits.
+
+       (I think I just made an inadvertent pun...)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:06:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Violating Your Privacy
+
+       Not per se, but it was interesting nonetheless.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:06:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Violating Your Privacy
+
+       They do it because they ain't wired up right, Joel....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:06:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Violating Your Privacy
+
+       Every once in a while, I get something along these lines,
+though so far usually it's enough just to tell them to please back off
+a little. Their desire is usually well-meaning, just...overly
+enthusiastic.  For a while, I was getting 7-8 messages a day from a few
+different people, in email, asking extremely detailed background
+questions, literally dozens at a time, every day.  Eventually, I had to
+ask some of them to just back away and stop it.  So far they have, some
+with greater grace than others.
+
+       A related problem I have sometimes is that people will send me
+email with 5, 8, or 20 questions (literally), each question requiring
+an elaborate explanation to be clear.  I don't think they understand
+the sheer volume of email I get on a daily basis.  If a person sends me
+one or two questions I can answer fairly briefly, they'll usually get
+an answer.  If it's something like this, I go into overload, and either
+say "sorry" or just don't reply. If I were to engage in that kind of
+detailed email correspondence, I'd a) never have time for the show, and
+b) 2/3rds of the rest of my email would never get answered.  It's hard
+to fault them, because it's clear that their messages spring from real
+interest in the show.  I just think they don't really understand how
+*much* email I get on a daily basis.  (So in general, if it's a general
+question of any sort, from which others might benefit from the answer, 
+*always* post it publicly instead of emailing it.  This also saves me
+from having to answer the same question in email 50 times.)
+
+       Then there was the one person I told to avoid sending me email
+with 15 questions...who solved the problem by sending me 15 emails with
+1 question each.....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:06:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gerald Himmelein <100417.3703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Violating Your Privacy
+
+       For starters, read the message I just left here regarding my
+own email. To the question at hand...ask the reposter to please not
+repost your messages. From what I saw from Brent, he's a very
+reasonable fellow, and will oblige. Anyone else, tell them the same
+thing, if that's your decision.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Burhaan Ahmad <75754.3065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Violating Your Privacy
+
+       No, Brent seems okay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Colin Knowles <72152.201@compuserve.com>
+Subject: PoNR-Hague
+
+       Nope.  There are better ways of handling this.  You'll see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anne L. Warner <71513.1177@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Point of No Return>
+
+       I dunno....dunno if I want a funny dentist....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chris Croughton <100014.3217@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Fan Club
+
+       I imagine we'll have some info on how to deal with this soon;
+we're still sussing out all the details.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Peter David <72550.2517@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Bill Mumy on CNBC
+
+       It *WAS* the same actor?!
+
+       (thud)
+
+       I'm astonished....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shawn J Ashe <72460.1762@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <PoNR, BAMN>
+
+       We hope to have some more info on the fan club out soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin L. Reed <75327.1046@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Earthforce Ship Names
+
+       It was subconscious, but appropos.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Timothy C Schell <71174.2414@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <The last few eps?>
+
+       No, the Epsilon machine wasn't built by the same folks; and
+Kosh was the prime mover in G'Kar's revelation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Z. Michael Milutinovic <71532.2231@compuserve.com>
+Subject: To JMS....WOW!!!!!
+
+       Thanks...we try to make it a good ride....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com>
+Subject: General Hague / EA Fleet
+
+       No, most of the cruisers shot down were of the Hyperion class,
+slower and not as well equipped as the Omega class destroyers, a la the
+Aggy or the Alexander.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: FitzGeralds <103571.3245@compuserve.com>
+Subject: "Point of No Return"
+
+       Yes, this season they're all my scripts, though that'll change
+next season.  How does one do it?  Practice.  Listening.  And you have
+to be willing to make a fool of yourself 10 times on the theory that on
+the 11th time, you'll do something terrific.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Don Crossman <75147.175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: PoNR: Zocalo Optics
+
+       I have no explanation...will go check.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Point of No Return>
+
+       Bingo....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New episodes
+
+       I suspect it's an automated VO on the station computer; write
+them and let them know, and they'll likely change it.  (And we get new
+eps the week of April 3rd.)
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Point of No Return>
+
+       Thanks, and the powderkeg smoldering is a good analogy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:24:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ruth Ballam <100412.3457@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SFX Magazine Awards
+
+       "JMS...a great mind and nice people..."
+
+       Stop that.  I have a reputation to protect, you know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Mar-96 23:24:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Your copyright
+
+       Just so we're clear...the problem is primarily with the mailer
+set up by the Hall Brothers, who were picking, choosing and editing
+threads for the express purpose of providing "ammo" to use by others in
+the Let's Get B5 and JMS arena.  It's that use that had to be
+addressed, and it's spilled over into the other mailers.
+
+       The flip side is that this *is* a legitimate issue, and had to
+be dealt with one way or another.  I would also rather it hadn't come
+out in this way, but when the stuff is out there, it has the potential
+for misuse; it was inevitable that it would *be* misused...and now it
+has.  Once again, the Usual Few misuse the system and cause more grief
+and emotion in a situation that could've been dealt with differently.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 04-Mar-96 11:26:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<PoNR>>
+
+       Y'know, I think this was one of those subconscious things the
+brain does sometimes...I hadn't put it together when I put him on that
+ship.  It's a sad thing when you can't even trust your own brain
+anymore.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Mar-96 11:26:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <The last few eps?>
+
+       Yeah, I also heard that Paramount sent the US Navy a letter
+claiming that they owned the copyright to the term USS Enterprise, and
+that the Navy should cease and desist from using that name in future.
+
+       The Navy told 'em to stick it where the sun don't shine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Mar-96 00:21:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: When will they be back?
+
+       You'll see Morden and Zathras before the season is out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Mar-96 00:21:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: FitzGeralds <103571.3245@compuserve.com>
+Subject: "Point of No Return"
+
+       No, I'm not going anywhere as far as B5 is concerned; we'll
+have some freelance scripts coming in in years 4 and 5, but that's just
+the same as in years 1 and 2.  They'll almost certainly be based on
+assigned premises, and in all cases, I rewrite to make sure it all
+hangs together.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Mar-96 00:21:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Comic books in U.S.?
+
+       Let me try and address a problem I'm having with this question
+and the one preceding, both of which are from folks not on CIS.  I've
+just gotten a number of emails from people saying they have a problem
+here, in the sense that they pay CIS for access to this forum, and the
+ability to ask questions publicly.  To post a number of questions from
+people not subscribers on CIS, giving them that ability, bothers some
+of the users here who have to pay a subscription for that.
+
+       Personally, for me, a question is a question regardless of
+source, and thus far, I've answered all questions forwarded from other
+services here. It's an awkward situation, because if this were a free
+service, as rastb5moderated would be, it doesn't *matter* where the
+questions come from, it's all equally free.  But I'm sort of "living"
+in CIS's house while I'm here, and on a pragmatic level I have to be
+considerate of the wishes of the people in whose house I'm hanging out.
+Especially the wishes of the other users here.  One user put it quite
+bluntly: "If they want to ask you questions on CIS, why don't they sign
+up and pay the money same as I do? This isn't fair."
+
+       So I've been debating what to do about this.  My only solution,
+poor as it is, is that questions here have to originate here.  Once the
+moderated group is open, which is free to all, anyone from anywhere can
+ask as many questions as they choose, and this won't be an issue.  For
+now, this seems the only fair solution.
+
+       In short, I'd love to answer the forwarded questions, but I
+feel I have to be responsive to the wishes of the users here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Mar-96 00:21:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Cruisers? (PoNR)
+
+       Ditto.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Mar-96 00:21:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Labor Relations
+
+       Ditto.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Mar-96 00:21:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Demento Half-Dozen
+
+       Not a problem, Kevin.  You've usually been quite fair.
+
+       (I agree about Penn and Teller...love 'em.  They're just nuts.)
+
+       I can see no reason not to oblige Brent and John Hardin with
+their requests for reposting from my side of it; these are, of course,
+issues of privacy, the latitude and longditude of which are
+circumscribed by the quiet turning of your own considered conscience. 
+If you don't mind, then say yes; if you do mind, then say no.
+
+       As for the masks, yes, I believe they're the licensed ones from
+Ruby.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Mar-96 00:21:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <The last few eps?>
+
+       It ain't an issue of copyright, but of *trademark*, which can
+be put on at any time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Mar-96 00:21:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<Point of No Return>>
+
+       Any time you do something that hasn't been done before, you
+will have people jumping on your head out of the near-religious
+conviction that they must do so for the good of the commonweal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Mar-96 00:44:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 in SciFi Entertainmnt
+
+       There are a number of actors who feel that if they're in a
+story, then they should be at the *center* of the story.  Andrea seemed
+to feel that if she was in an episode, the episode should be about her
+character, and was consistently lobbying for this, despite the fact
+that it would cut into the arc, and time for the other characters
+on-screen.  Babylon 5 is an ensemble show; time on screen is determined
+by the story, not by whim or personal insistence.
+
+       Yes, we used her 8 or 9 times in a given season; but by
+contract, we paid her for a full 13 episodes, whether she appeared in
+them or not.  We were never under any obligation to give her *any*
+guarantee; we did so to make her feel comfortable taking on the job. 
+For the first year he was on the show Jeff Conaway didn't have a
+guarantee of episodes; he was used as he was needed, and that grew with
+time.  Andrea wanted time away from the show to do other projects; we
+accommodated where we could, as we do with all our cast members, but if
+a request comes in at the last moment, or conflicts with our schedule,
+we can't comply.  We feel that if we're paying someone a great sum of
+money to be available to us, for episodes they may not even appear in,
+this is not unreasonable.
+
+       Finally, it was never Warner Bros. who hired her or pushed her
+on me. WB didn't care one way or another.  I was the one who hired her,
+with Doug Netter.  If I hadn't felt she was right for the role, I
+wouldn't have hired her.  But I was also under no constraint to make
+the show into the Andrea Thompson Show.  Andreas and Peter have often
+appeared as many times in a season as Andrea, and didn't even *have* a
+guarantee for the first two seasons.  (Now they do.)
+
+       We did what we could to accommodate her without destroying the
+story arc.  I regret that she has taken out her frustrations in this
+way.  Either one is a team player, part of an ensemble, or one is not. 
+We are very proud of the fact that the cast members as they stand now
+are all ensemble, team players.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Mar-96 00:44:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Arc answers&questions>
+
+       Not bad.  Y'know, if I wuz you, I'd send this along to the
+rastb5-info group for archiving.  Helps to answer the yahoos saying
+I've left the arc behind and gone off to Latveria to work for Dr. Doom
+or whatever nonsense is being proffered this week....
+
+       It still tracks.
+
+       Individual threads come and go, but the story still tracks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 05-Mar-96 22:56:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: I want a poster
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       We may do some limited posters for the fan club, yes; that's
+all that's on the boards just now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Mar-96 22:56:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Comic books in U.S.?
+
+ John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com> asks:
+> However, given this policy, how do you respond to questions
+> emailed to your CIS address?
+
+       It's an awful bind there as well.  Up until now, I've been
+responding to most of my email.  I guess I consider email different
+than a public posting, because anyone can direct email anyone without
+having to use an intermediary to post in a forum.  And it's a private
+communication.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Mar-96 22:56:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<<Point of No Return>>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> The editing was reminiscent (sp?
+
+       I get my drive from Dell Computers.  The software comes from
+the improper allignment of my grey cells.
+
+       And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Mar-96 22:56:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Finished Writing!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       From your lips to Hugo's ears....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Mar-96 22:56:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS Interview
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I think we're all getting old and cranky.
+
+       Goodness knows I am....
+
+       Unfortunately, I was also young and cranky.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Mar-96 22:56:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Comic books in U.S.?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I absolutely agree on just about every count.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Mar-96 22:56:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Doors / AI
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       They will usually open automaticaly (from the inside); from the
+outside, you need to use an identicard.  If you ask to enter, the
+person inside has to give the verbal cue.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Mar-96 22:56:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sarah E. Heacock <102412.1400@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Comic books in U.S.?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah...it's a very difficult issue, and one I'm still working
+through to find The Right Thing To Do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Mar-96 22:56:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Fan Club
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will the fan club have an option for the non-netted?
+
+       Yes, the club has to serve netters and non-netters just as
+well, or it's organizationally deficient.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Mar-96 22:56:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Arc answers&questions>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, Lyta was to develop a relationship with the Vorlons from
+the start.
+
+       Some of Garibaldi's past has caught up with him; there is more
+to come.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Mar-96 00:07:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Evidence of an arc <g>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Let me straighten out two issues.
+
+       On the Sinclair issue, I have never, at any time, said that the
+change was for ratings.  When we decided to make that change, WB
+indicated that they'd like the next person in that chair to be more
+well-known.  We had no problem with that, since we were considering
+Bruce at that time, as he was someone with whom both Doug Netter and
+John Copeland had worked before, and were nuts about.
+
+       Re: Pat Tallman and Lyta...after the pilot, we made an offer to
+Pat for the series.  This is a matter of public record.  Pat can verify
+this. (Which right there puts the lie to the statement that WB didn't
+want her in the series; we *offered* her the series.  We couldn't have
+made that offer if WB didn't want her there.  Pure and simple.)  What
+happened thereafter was a comedy of errors, with WB playing tough-guy
+with *all* the actors agents, and on the other side Pat getting some
+bad advice from a manager just brought on (and subsequently let
+go)...so that the deadline passed for an acceptance, and we had to move
+on.  Pat has said this at cons and online many times over the last
+several years, long before we ever contacted her again about doing the 
+show, so there's no need to take my word for this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Mar-96 01:44:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kosh in US History
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I think your friend needs two weeks off in the Martian Pleasure
+Dome.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 06-Mar-96 18:32:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Enjoying Babylon 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.  I suggest you download Tapcis and use it; it makes
+sorting through the threads a lot easier.  Welcome to the club.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Mar-96 18:32:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: PoNR-Hague
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Trying to give the guy the benifit of the doubt (he's had a
+> pretty damn rough last few months after all), but would it not
+> have been professional to at least give you guys a couple of
+> scenes to tie up characters threads?
+
+       It wasn't workable, due to his schedule.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Mar-96 18:32:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Violating Your Privacy
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you think that this is some innocent person that reposted a
+> bunch of our material which was then grabbed by the Fullers, or
+> is this some twisted scheme?
+
+       You must understand that because I'm not on rastb5, my info
+comes secondhand.  My understanding, from TF's own statements, is that
+this last round came about because of a mailer generated by people who
+like trying to "mind-phuque" me, of which he is one, and is thus on the
+list.  (The term is his, cleaned up for cis.)
+
+       There are, on the other hand, other lists compiled by people
+who're fans of the show, for general information purposes.  They should
+not be considered in the same way, and as far as I can tell, they are
+going to great lengths to do this the right way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Mar-96 18:32:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Point of No Return>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I disagree.  When even Truman was loathe to take on HUAC and
+McCarthy, you've got a real problem.  You make the impact sound
+minimal; but people committed suicide when their careers were ruined by
+HUAC and Tailgunner Joe. I personally know writers who were at the top
+of their form and their careers who never worked again because they
+were blacklisted or greylisted.
+
+       It was also the climate created by HUAC that threatened much
+more widely than the actions of the committee itself.  Take Red
+Channels, a sleazy little rag published by the owner of a *SUPERMARKET
+CHAIN* in which he listed those he considered -- based on whim or
+divine revelation -- reds or sympathetic to reds.  Even a publication
+like that had tremendous destructive power.  I know one of the writers
+listed in Red Channels; the networks grey-listed him instantly.  It was
+*years* before he could work again.
+
+       The whole red-baiting hysteria of the 50s came as close to
+destroying the American dream as any threatened invasion.  If it had
+been led by someone a little less self-destructive than McCarthy, I
+hate to think what would've happened.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Mar-96 18:32:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <The last few eps?>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I first heard about it at a con, from a member of the crew of
+the USS Enterprise.  Also, when it happened, it was reported here and
+there in a few places.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Mar-96 18:33:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Point of No Return>>
+
+ Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You were not kidding when you said you were pulling the triggers
+> on the guns you set up were you? [Another moment of stunned
+> silance] What?! A repeat next?!
+> When in May do we get new episodes?
+
+       You get new eps in April, the first week, rather than May.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Mar-96 18:46:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Doors / AI
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       You can program in a variety of commands, from OPEN to COME or
+YES, though the vaguer the statement, the more probability of a
+mistake.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Mar-96 18:46:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Evidence of an arc <g>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       "Basically, it was a decision by the WB suits that was mutually
+agreed to by all."
+
+       Not correct.  It was first broached by me, to Michael, for
+story reasons; we discussed it, mutually and amicably agreed that this
+would work out for both of us, and then confirmed this with WB, to whom
+we had indicated we might do this, pending the conversation with
+Michael.
+
+       There's a long post here that was written by me and archived at
+the time; it's in one of the two B5 libraries.  It goes into great
+detail on the whole thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Mar-96 18:46:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Point of No Return>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I appreciate that, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Mar-96 18:46:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Fan Club
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       We have a PO box now, and we'll do ads in magazines and the
+like, plus maintaining a convention presence.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Mar-96 18:46:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Doors / AI
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, there's a sensor device, just as in your local drug
+store's automatic doors when you approach.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Mar-96 22:42:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Evidence of an arc <g>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       We learn by doing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Mar-96 22:42:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <PoNR> A complaint
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Okay, Greg, you asked for it, you got it...and it'll be in one
+of the very first batch of new episodes coming up.  I'll narrow it down
+to the first four up, to avoid spoilers.  But it's there.  In spades.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 07-Mar-96 16:06:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Future of B5
+
+ William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (I wonder if you see where I'm going with this.) Now, being that
+> B5 is set to be a 5 year arc, the completion of which will take
+> place in year 5, how might we expect to see things taking place
+> so far off into the future where the show's setting is concerned? 
+> Do you plan near the end of the arc to jump the current time line
+> ahead twenty or thirty years so that we will get to see what
+> happens, or will we be left dangling somehow by events that will
+> not unfold?
+
+       Well, the odds of a spinoff are few and far between to start
+with, so it's probably a moot point.  To the other question....
+
+       See, this is a puzzlement to me.  If I answer your question
+about when and how we'll see Londo's future, that ruins the show.  This
+is the puzzling part...I often get notes saying, "When are we going to
+see this happen?" Well, if I were to say, "Okay, you're going to see
+G'Kar lose his eye in episode 7 of year 4," then it *completely
+eliminates* any surprise, any tension, any shock value to it.  I might
+as well just not make the episode at that point.
+
+       So I have an answer to your question.  And we will deal with
+this point.  But to simply blow it out there would be to destroy the
+impact of anything we might have in mind.
+
+       It's funny...at conventions, actors get asked "how do you
+create this character," when the characters were created by me, and I
+get asked to reveal coming plot points that I *can't* reveal without
+kicking the props out from under the show.  I can talk in general
+terms, but anything detailed has to go by the boards.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Mar-96 16:06:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Point of No Return>
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The *speed* of McCarthy's collapse with the simple words "Have
+> you no decency Sir? At long last?"
+
+       Yes, but equally dangerous, Phil, is blindness or self-delusion
+about real failings and real problems.  Each population that marched
+off to annhilation under a dictatorship did so convinced that their
+values and their morals and their national fabric was supremely strong.
+
+       Pride has a tendency to goeth before a fall.
+
+       For additional reading check out "The Man Who Corrupted
+Hadleyburg." Check out European history.  We're not a different species
+over here on this side of the atlantic; we're just as capable of being
+foxed as the next guy in another country.
+
+       And your notion that the government wasn't responsible for what
+happened to people during the HUAC period doesn't jibe with the truth.
+It was the FBI which contacted networks and asked them for lists of
+anyone considered communist; the FBI who suggested there might be
+problems unless certain people were removed.  It wasn't just people
+who'd attended Young Communist meetings who were targeted...it was
+anyone who *knew* anyone who'd been at these things, or had in fact
+NEVER been to anything like this. People were called before HUAC and
+asked to *name names*, and if you didn't, then you were hiding 
+something, being uncooperative, facing contempt charges, so you named
+the names that had been named before, or made up new ones, gave up your
+buddies or your co workers, whatever was necessary to keep from being
+jailed or fired.
+
+       The problem was worse than just "inaccuracy."  It was rooted in
+meanness and cynicism.  I know someone who was asked during the second
+World War to make short films for the military and the newsreels, and
+to do radio shows, celebrating the US and the Soviet Union working
+together to defeat the Nazis.  All well and good, right?  Well, this
+same person, after the war, was grey-listed for having produced
+Communist propaganda MADE AT THE REQUEST OF OUR OWN GOVERNMENT at the
+time.  Meanness.  Cynicism.
+
+       To be named before HUAC was to instantly get a file at the FBI
+in your name.  As soon as that happened, you could reliably depend on
+having your phone tapped, your business associates would be questioned,
+your mail would be intercepted...no, the government didn't say
+publicly, "don't hire this person," but when all this starts to happen,
+jobs and reputations disappear. People committed suicide over the
+destruction of their careers, their *lives* being torn apart.  Did
+McCarthy pull the trigger?  No, but the people he targeted are just as
+dead as if he did.
+
+       There's the common assumption that one measures the decline of
+a democracy in body counts and increasingly inconvenient laws and
+regulations. But this is symptom, not cause.  Laws follow norms, and
+norms follow values in the political food chain.  And the values of
+HUAC were the values of terror, and spying on your neighbor, and
+looking for the enemy beneath bedsheets.  A democracy, ANY democracy,
+is based first and foremost on the notion of trust, however flawed,
+that the person beside you, however different his specific beliefs may
+be from your own, nonetheless hews to the same notions of liberty, and
+that when push comes to shove, you will be wiling to lay down your
+life to protect that person's rights.  Take that away in a paroxysm of
+paranoia, distrust, conspiracies, hearings and vague accusations, and
+everything else falls apart.  The center does not hold.
+
+       To question ourselves is not to weaken our democracy, but to
+strengthen it, because we know precisely what we believe and why we
+believe it; we're not victims if we learn from our mistakes and thus
+fail to repeat them.  If we *deny* our mistakes, or try to bury them,
+or rationalize them, then we create the potential for trouble.  We are
+at our most vulnerable when we are the most self-congratulatory and
+assured.  Because then we get blindsided.
+
+       "Fact is, the Red Scare tended to get two specific (and fairly
+small) groups of people, Hollywood actors, writers and executives, and
+people affiliated with Democratic institutions."
+
+       Yes, and the Nazis tended to get two specific (and fairly
+small) groups of people, jews and communists.  So I guess that's okay
+too.
+
+       Any attempt at repression *always* starts by first targeting
+artists, writers, and intellectuals, the ones in a position to
+verbalize and explain why what's happening is *wrong*.  You want to
+eliminate, neutralize or destroy their credibility.  This is standard
+operating procedure.  That's where it starts, but not always where it
+ends.  To assume that because we've always caught it before means we
+always *will* is, again, to set yourself up for a fall.
+
+       The manipulators always go after an easily identifiable group
+first, one which they can easily tar with the brush of responsibility
+for society's problems.  We're seeing it again today, writ smaller, in
+the constant and repeated assaults on Hollywood...attacking the
+*picture* of the problem rather than the problem itself.
+
+       Again, you demonstrate the problem.  "Well, it's just these two
+small groups, really."  Then it becomes three groups.  Then four.  Or
+you just stay with the two groups...and you harrass, chivvy, destroy,
+terrorize, humiliate, bankrupt and ultimately lead to the death of many
+of them.  But as long as it's just a couple of small groups, it's not
+that bad, really.
+
+       "Every man's death diminishes me.  So ask not for whom the bell
+tolls. It tolls for thee."
+
+       I'd also point out that when HUAC started, it was as the result
+of accusations that there were commies in the Military and the
+Pentagon; but when they found that they could get on TeeVee and the
+Newsreels by bringing in actors...that's what they did.  What does it
+do to a nation starstruck by actors to see these same shining examples
+of the American dream standing before the cameras and naming names of
+other actors, business associates, others?  You speak of the values of
+a nation...what effect does that have on our values?  What *are* our
+values if we allow this to take place...or dismiss it after the fact as
+having hurt only a few people, really.
+
+       It did great harm to the fabric of the nation, not in fines or
+jail sentences, but in the *heart* of the nation, the way we look to
+one another. Its effects reverberated long after the HUAC hearings
+stopped.  It bred a level of paranoia that when the youth culture of
+the 60s began to pop up, many of them were instantly categorized as
+commies; "Go back to russia where you came from" was a common cry to
+longhairs in that time.  Because to dissent was unpatriotic; the only
+ones who attacked the government were the commies, end of discussion. 
+The parents of kids who were teenagers in the 60s had come through
+McCarthy, had learned the wrong lessons of citizenship.
+
+       No executions?  Perhaps Julies and Ethel Rosenberg had some
+part in spying, maybe they didn't, I don't know if we'll ever know for
+sure.  But the Russians were working on a-bomb technology long before,
+and records show that they got it pretty much on their own.  They were
+executed as part of the hysteria of the times, their trial a rush to
+judgment.
+
+       No, we're not so weak a nation that McCarthy himself can
+destroy it; WE destroy it, if we allow ourselves to be convinced to
+turn one another in, to have the heart and soul of the nation sold out
+to terror and paranoia. Every nation has within its breast the seeds of
+its own destruction, within its own population; what some individuals
+do is water that seed, and fertilize it.  If it grows, it grows in us. 
+They don't do it to us, we do it to ourselves.  And given the right
+conditions, the right environment, the right soil...we could do it. 
+Even here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Mar-96 16:06:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chris Land <101636.1572@compuserve.com>
+Subject: OrganicTechnology
+
+ Chris Land <101636.1572@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who has it?
+> The Minbari?
+> Am I right?
+
+       Vorlons and shadows both have organic tech, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Mar-96 16:06:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruno Melancon <102647.3222@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Enjoying Babylon 5
+
+ Bruno Melancon <102647.3222@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 2 questions: 1) What does "3 first acts" mean?
+> 2) When does your script begins?
+> It seemed six years after the War, but since the last TV show
+> doesn't end with an armistice, how did you approach the beginning
+> of your show?
+
+       The last V movie ended with the armistice, as I recall; and 3
+acts means the 3 dramatic sections between commercials.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Mar-96 16:13:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Ensemble Look
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Then you needn't worry.  We have no plans to begin adding any
+more recurring characters at this point; we have all we need.  And, in
+fact, may start to lose a few of them in the fairly near future.  War
+is hell, you know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 08-Mar-96 23:42:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Tallman Episodes>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you tell us what episodes she'll be appearing in for the
+> remainder of the third season, if any?
+
+       She's also in "Walkabout" this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Mar-96 23:42:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Violating Your Privacy
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.  If one watches the show "religiously," does that mean
+one must angle the TV so one faces Mecca, or is simple genuflection
+sufficient?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Mar-96 23:42:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Future of B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Then let me put it as straightforwardly as possible: I *hate*
+loose ends, and thus the odds of very many things left dangling at the
+end of the story are fairly small.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Mar-96 00:20:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Fan Club
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       We'll give the info out when we've settled for sure on what
+we're going to be charging, and offering, for the club.  (Unlike some
+clubs, which charge as much as $20 or more, we're trying to keep it
+down to something a little more reasonable, to keep it more accessible
+to people.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Mar-96 00:20:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Ensemble Look
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> So this would be a bad time to set-up as a life insurance
+> salesman on B5?
+
+       The key to writing an ensemble show is to use those characters
+that serve the story, and for no other reason, not becuase you think
+they should get more on-air time for egos or any other rationale.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Mar-96 00:20:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Ensemble Look
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, Walter Koenig, Harlan Ellison and I will *all* be at
+Chicago ComicCon.  This should be most interesting....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Mar-96 00:20:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Ensemble Look
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       "We care what happens to these people and aliens."
+
+       Which is essential, whatever happens.  If something happens to
+someone, and you don't care for the character, it's meaningless.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Mar-96 00:20:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Ensemble Look
+
+ Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But where does that leave Jerry Doyle?
+> Can I offer you my life instead?
+
+       No, Jerry's great to work with, there hasn't been a problem.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Mar-96 00:21:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Future of B5
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How DO you create a character like Delenn?
+> How DID you create Delenn?
+
+       As with any character I create, I tend to peel off a small
+piece of myself to make the core of it.  There are certain aspects of
+me scattered in all the B5 characters, Delenn in particular.  Then you
+start adding elements that seem to shore up those traits.  For Delenn I
+pulled in some aspects of Zen mysticism, Japanese culture, certain
+Moslem influences in government and culture (minbar is the name for the
+pulpit in a mosque)...next comes the layering of history, where she
+came from, who her parents were, what happened to them (which, btw,
+you'll hear this season)...where she was when the war started, what she
+felt about it, what she did at the time, what happened later....
+
+       Our personalities are formed in large measure by our history,
+what we have seen and done and learned.  Once you have all those
+details, you're a long way toward building the character.  A character
+is like a well-reared child, it has aspects of its parents, but is more
+than just a reflection, and forms its own life after a while.
+
+       The final element comes in when you have an actor in the role,
+and you look at the actor and the character and try to merge them, so
+the truth of the person behind the name becomes the truth of the
+character.  For Mira, that meant hitting those aspects of Minbari
+culture which I knew would resonate with her background from the former
+Yugoslavia.  I know that if I put her in the middle of a scene in which
+she has to deal with her government unraveling, what the actor felt
+when the real thing began to happen will seep out, whether it's wanted
+or not.  Is it manipulative of the actor?  Absolutely.  Several of the
+actors have come to me and noted that the character is hitting
+something that's very close to them, and how did I know to hit them
+with this?  Half of being a writer is observation.
+
+       It's the same reason I assigned David Gerrold to write
+"Believers," even though he couldn't at first figure out why he, mainly
+noted for his light comic work, would be given this heavy dramatic
+story...until he was well into it, and -- having just adopted a young
+boy -- had to go through the emotional turmoil I wanted those parents
+to go through.
+
+       You have to be part oracle, part counselor, part parent, part
+boss and partly mad to make this show work....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Mar-96 00:21:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Future of B5
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it safe to say that one day we *will* see a resoution of the
+> Londo-G'Kar thread that will dispose of the dream in *some
+> manner*, even if that is Londo doing something that makes that
+> unlikely to happen?
+
+       But of course....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Mar-96 00:21:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Enjoying Babylon 5
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So this would have been made *instead* of the *amazingly*
+> pathetic series?
+
+       This would've followed the last version, and have been truer to
+the original miniseries.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Mar-96 00:21:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Messages from Earth +>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       It can be for a number of reasons.  The White Star was moving
+through a highly charged atmosphere, which would leave detectable
+trails; it was being fired at by the shadow vessel, which would've
+attracted considerable attention from the flares; diving at that speed
+and coming back up there would be considerble heat on the surface of
+the ship (not normally a problem in space); and it was pretty much
+shaken up/partially damaged during the fight.  Also, at that range,
+once you're near enough, you can pick it up visually as it gets close;
+it's not a cloaking system, only a stealth system.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Mar-96 00:21:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Messages from Earth +>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       The Agamemnon was not IN the Minbari war; as established in the
+show, it was one of the first of the Omega class destroyers constructed
+AFTER the war.  It's a *very* impressive battleship, as shown in its
+battle against the Streib.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Mar-96 00:21:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: OrganicTechnology
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       The Lumati don't have organic tech; and a ship using this tech
+would be a combination of the two, using organic components for certain
+specific tasks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Mar-96 00:21:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Fred Owens <74051.3602@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Security Forces
+
+ Fred Owens <74051.3602@compuserve.com> asks:
+> For the record, what is the status of the security forces on B5?
+> Are they EA or are they rent-a-cops hired by Sinclair to manage
+> his security when he took over due to the problems on the other B
+> stations?
+
+       No, they're attached to the Earth Alliance and responsive to
+those commands.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Mar-96 00:21:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Thought from jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks...and yes, a saga is just what I have in mind....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Mar-96 00:41:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5:Starlog
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       "Everybody involved in B5 is in it for the money."
+
+       Y'know, this with some of your other comments here -- using the
+old canard of dismissing anyone who disagrees with you as "worshipping"
+someone who creates or does a TV show -- amounts to some of the most
+cynical crap I've seen in a long time.
+
+       Here's a little revelation for you: Before doing B5, I was a
+writer producer on MURDER, SHE WROTE.  A top-ten (sometimes even top 5)
+rated megahit for CBS, with extremely high visibility.  I resigned M,SW
+to take on the reins of a syndicated series, which pays me HALF WHAT I
+EARNED WHEN I WAS ON M,SW. Not only is my producer's fee half what it
+was when I was at the network, the scripts fees are ALSO far
+less...about $15,000 as compared to $24,000 for a network script.  The
+residuals are lower in syndication, the publicity budget is less,
+people pay less attention to you in town.
+
+       Now...why don't you just sit down and do the math, and poke
+your head out of your butt long enough to consider that maybe, MAYBE,
+some people do something because they're motivated by something other
+than just being in it "for the money."  If I were "in it for the
+money," I would've stayed with a hit network series for major bucks. 
+If I were "in it for the money" I'd be pushing for more merchandising,
+I'd *NEVER* have set a ceiling of 5 years on the show, and I'd
+certainly never want to get away from TV and go back to writing novels
+when this is all over, since books pay a fraction of TV.
+
+       It's truly sad to see the world through your eyes, in which no
+one does anything for reasons other than THE BUCKS...no story wanting
+to be told, no art, no music, no committment, nothing other than sheer,
+naked greed.
+
+       Do not mistake cynicism for open-mindedness.  Yours is just
+another form of prejudice.  One can be just as close-minded by assuming
+the worst of others as by (to use your term) "worshipping."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 09-Mar-96 17:28:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Future of B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       No offense was taken; I was just trying to be clear; it was an
+important question, and I wanted to get across how strongly I felt on
+it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Mar-96 17:28:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 T-shirts
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       If they're from All-U or Creation, they're legit; if not, not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Mar-96 17:28:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruno Melancon <102647.3222@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Enjoying Babylon 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Problem isn't WB, it's the shrinking syndication marketplace
+that's making it more difficult for shows not affiliated with one of
+the webs or weblets to find a home.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Mar-96 02:13:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Violating Your Privacy
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+As usual, Buzz Dixon's hold on reality is tenuous at best.  He is
+engaging in the same tactics that tore apart the Guild, in part because
+he was one of those directly involved in the smear campaigns involving
+the BBS in question.
+
+It's ironic...a BBS is found in which messages from WGA users have
+been slandered, their sexual, drug, personal and work habits not only
+openly ridiculed but *catalogued* in library archive
+files...constituting a de facto blacklist...and this is revealed...and
+somehow by virtue of showing how a small group of people were
+maintaining a system dedicated to slander, libel and character
+assassination itself characterizes an attack on them is mind boggling
+to say the least.
+
+Yes, a user gave me full authorization to access a particular BBS,
+where I found that members of the WGA Board of Directors, the head of
+the WGA BBS and others were involved in actions against their fellow
+members, outright libel, and in violation of Guild rules.  I reported
+this to the Guild, which for political reasons chose to do nothing,
+leaving me with no choice than to go public with this.  Because careers
+of other writers were being systematically undermined.  It was the
+right thing to do, and I'd do it again.
+
+If Buzz is saying that these messages were "selectively edited," then
+he is lying through his teeth, plain and simple.  The entire text, with
+every single comma in place, was made available to the WGA, and if
+anything had been taken out of context, all the sysops of this system
+had to do was to give the WGA access to the message base to prove it. 
+They never did this, and swiftly wiped out the libraries in question,
+purged the message base, and quickly changed the name of the BBS
+itself.  Becuase they'd been caught doing something utterly
+reprehensible and indefensible...except by those people directly
+involved, who're still trying to cover their butts, and smear others in
+order to protect themselves.  As is being done here.  Every so often,
+this thread reappears, the same BS stuff gets posted.  Ain't no big
+deal.
+
+I have not "deliberately lied about scores of other writers."  This is
+an outright lie itself.  If I had done so, I would have been sued out
+of business.
+
+The majority of the other points raised are the usual distortions,
+fabrications, petty lies and bigger ones, which are trotted out on a
+regular basis by a very small group of dysfunctional individuals bent
+on revenge because I exposed their little smear-club in front of the
+whole of the WGA. The story was reported upon in the trades, in the
+local press, even some national press.  And, in fact, it led to a
+"writer" who was in fact NOT a writer, but a convicted felon who'd
+snuck into the WGA on fake credits, being exposed and removed from the
+WGA.
+
+And yes, absolutely, several Guild members took the WGA BBS to court
+because it was engaging in illegal business practices.  It issued a
+User's Agreement which was against labor law, in that it restricted
+message topics and discussions on the WGA BBS, which as a union house
+cannot legally control or restrict information by union members on its
+property.  This prior restraint was tacitly illegal, and a simple
+attempt to restrict criticism of Guild officials.  So if you've got
+something illegal...you take it to court.  And the court was about to
+rule that it WAS illegal when the WGA abruptly dropped the UA and shut
+down the BBS in a move not unlike the current situation in Utah, where
+to avoid one student group existing, the state shut down ALL student
+groups.  The fee asked for in the suit was to cover the expense of 
+filing a suit against the Guild, which is more than $1, as Dixon well
+knows. But, again, the facts aren't at issue here.
+
+The tactics of the BBS I stumbled upon were to assemble a series of
+outright lies, innuendo, misinformation, disinformation, and bile into
+a collected form, which they could use at whim to discredit, harm, or
+otherwise smear their fellow WGA members.  I'm not at all surprised to
+see that those who were involved in that practice are still continuing
+it, and that they have dragged this out into the public again.  They
+got caught with their genitalia in the door, and they will never
+forgive the public humiliation that came when the facts came out.
+
+If I had done anything amiss, the Guild or other members had the right
+to file charges against me.  Nothing has ever happened.  Because they
+were in the wrong.  The Guild shut down its own BBS rather than allow
+members speak openly about Guild policies *as required by union law*,
+engaging in the kind of censorship and prior restraint which any writer
+must abhor.
+
+So now, all we have left is the sour grapes, bile and hatred from
+those who got exposed.  These are sad creatures, really.  I feel great
+pity for them, and do hope they seek counseling for this sometime soon.
+They know that what they say isn't true; they just hope that by putting
+it out there, that this will be enough to cause trouble, which is their
+fondest hope.  To smear.
+
+What actions I took in this were legally, morally and ethically
+correct, and it's all very old news.  Buzz should get a life. 
+Preferably one that does not involve the continued habit of his peers
+of smearing other WGA members, as he does here, with half-truths,
+untruths, distortions and nonsense.  This particular act has gotten
+*real* old.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Mar-96 02:13:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Thought from jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+   Thanks.  As for the script book, a new and expanded edition will
+finally be coming out this Fall, totally rewritten and expanded (by
+100,000 words), with new chapters and info.
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Mar-96 15:08:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5: 5 or 6 years?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       A stand-alone TV movie really can't be an arc in the same sense
+as a season of the show.  So I can't really consider it "a year."  A
+year of story time equals one year of real time.  That's the five year
+arc, which refers to the *series*, to that specific one-to-one ratio. 
+The movie I've always considered to be a preface, or introduction...The
+Hobbit, if you will, to The Lord of the Rings.  If it were going to a
+sixth year arc, then it should've covered a span of a year; but it only
+covered a few days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Mar-96 15:08:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Fan Club
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Are you going to have some sort of "Charter Membership" for those
+> of us who are standing in line on day one?
+
+       One of the things we'll be offering for the first 100 signups,
+when the details are announced, are full-color decals/stickers of the
+*alternate* B5 logo designed by Peter Ledger, never actually used in
+the show.  These are from my own personal collection of stuff we did
+during the development period. We're still looking into what else can
+be included for those first in line.
+
+       What we're also going to do is to offer the first two issues of
+the B5 newsletter free to those who signed onto the original
+newsletter, which was going to run for only 5 issues, and stopped at
+#3.  This way everyone gets their full money's worth.
+
+       (The other day I suggested that we start the newsletter with
+volume 5, on the theory that volumes 1-3 were destroyed or sabotaged at
+the printer's, and volume 4 vanished mysteriously....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Mar-96 15:08:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5:Starlog
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How many years did you have to worry about where the next meal
+> was comming from, and how many times did your *mind* tell you
+> that you were an idiot for trying to be a writer instead of
+> getting a "straight" job, while your heart wouldn't let you try
+> something else?
+
+       Quite true.  During the period where I was working to break in
+as a writer, I earned maybe $3,000 a year tops.  I used my little
+income to buy writing supplies instead of food...at one point, at 6'4"
+I was down to about 155 pounds.  Maybe a bit less.  I was getting by on
+beef jerky and soda because I couldn't afford real food.  (Water
+would've been cheaper than soda, but I needed the sugar rush to get my
+energy level up enough to write; with the result that by the time I
+crashed at night I had the shakes from lack of food and the sudden
+sugar drop.)
+
+       Everyone told me to forget it, to take a regular job, and let
+the writing wait.  But I knew that if I did this...I'd never get out. 
+It was all or nothing.
+
+       So yeah, I paid my dues.  And then some.  And if you pay your
+dues, and you work hard, and you keep to your vision, and you have
+something roughly resembling talent...sometimes things work out.  They
+did.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Mar-96 15:08:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Enjoying Babylon 5
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Incidently, was it in response to this submission that the
+> infamous "If we give the SF fans rayguns and spaceships the'll
+> show up" comment was made?
+
+       No, that comment came when I was still a reporter with the
+late, lamented LA Herald Examiner, when the V series was still in
+production, by one of the producers of the series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Mar-96 15:08:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5 - Widescreen
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Haven't heard what the disposition is yet on C4 re: widescreen
+or regular.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Mar-96 15:08:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 T-shirts
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Then they're *definitely* not legit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Mar-96 19:24:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All
+Subject: From jms re:Email
+
+       Every once in a while I have to put this out as an FYI, so
+those of you who know the routine, stand down...the rest of
+you...c'mere, Unca Straczynski wants a word with you.
+
+       From time to time, my personal email mailbox begins to fill up
+with questions that really should be asked in public forums, and which
+require lengthy, in-depth explanations.  (One such today asked me to
+explain, in detail, the military hierarchy of Earthforce, relative
+strengths of ships, on and on and on.  In itself, not a bad
+question...but asked in email, that means that I have to answer the
+same thing for the next guy who asks, on and on and on.)
+
+       I can't get into detailed, exhaustive discussions of the plot
+or story or characters *in private email*.  If your question is a good
+or a valid one, it should be posted in a public forum, so that others
+can benefit from the answer.  Otherwise either I end up writing pages
+of information over and over again, and nobody else gets the
+information, or I just decline to answer the question.
+
+       The *only* reason for using email is if it's a personal or a
+confidential question, or something you don't want to say on the nets
+for whatever reason.  Please help me to keep my head above water by not
+using email unless there's a valid reason for it.
+
+       If there *is* something you need to express in email, please
+use the genie address (straczynski@genie.geis.com) instead of the
+compuserve address, because the CIS emailbox can only hold 100 letters
+at a time; any more than that which arrive get bumped and sent back or
+deleted.  I lost an important piece of email regarding B5 business
+today because it got shoved out by a letter asking me to explain the
+differences in organization and accountability to oders between the
+religious and military castes of Minbari.
+
+       Bear in mind that with CTS, it *hurts* to type.  The more I
+type, the more it hurts.  (Please don't send me any more info on CTS,
+btw...I have all the available information on CTS, more than most
+doctors right now, and to type a thank you note for each one that comes
+in just makes the problem worse.)  If a question needs answering,
+better if I can answer it once, so everyone can see it, than 15 times
+for one person at a time.  Every keystroke you see from me comes with
+discomfort.
+
+       Please try and use the email address(es) only if there's a
+valid reason for it; otherwise, let others benefit from the sharpness
+and quality of your question by asking it publicly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Mar-96 22:44:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: [F] ALL
+Subject: NEW B5 EPS!
+
+       Good news.  We've finally convinced Warner Bros./PTEN to go
+with eight new episodes in a row, starting the first week of April. 
+The new schedule, which just went out via fax to the stations today, is
+as follows:
+
+       So here now is the revised schedule:
+
+       NEW EPISODES:
+       2/12    EXOGENESIS
+       2/19    MESSAGES FROM EARTH
+       2/26    POINT OF NO RETURN              (w/Majel Barrett)
+
+       RERUNS:
+       3/4     FALL OF NIGHT
+       3/11    THERE ALL THE HONOR LIES
+       3/18    AND NOW FOR A WORD
+       3/25    IN THE SHADOW OF Z'HA'DUM
+
+       NEW EPISODES:
+       4/1     SEVERED DREAMS
+       4/8     CEREMONIES OF LIGHT AND DARK
+       4/15    SIC TRANSIT VIR
+       4/22    A LATE DELIVERY FROM AVALON     (w/Michael York)
+       4/29    SHIP OF TEARS                   (w/Walter Koenig)
+       5/6     INTERLUDES AND EXAMINATIONS
+       5/13    WAR WITHOUT END: PART ONE       (w/Michael O'Hare)
+       5/20    WAR WITHOUT END: PART TWO
+
+       We're now in the process of working to get 2 new episodes in
+July, so there are only 3 left for October.  Even so, we're very
+excited to get a chance to show eight episodes in a row, building up to
+the end of the May sweeps with our big two-parter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Mar-96 23:28:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Marcon/Columbus Dispatch
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this for real, or just Netrumor?
+
+       Yes, as of this point, I'll be at Marcon with Richard, that's
+correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Mar-96 23:28:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Space Cases Thoughts?
+
+ Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any thoughts on your next step in this in-joke-a-thon?
+> Will you wait for Peter to do a year 4 script, or might something
+> crop up this year?
+
+       I haven't yet decided...though I have some ideas...and a few of
+them are *real* doozies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Mar-96 23:36:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5:Starlog
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       We've always done everything in our power to assist our actors
+in taking outside work when they're not needed in the show.  We let
+Stephen Furst out of his contract enough to do "Misery Loves Company"
+for Fox, and rearranged our shooting schedule days to accommodate him;
+ditto when Peter Jurasik wanted time off to do "The Late Shift," and
+Andreas when he wanted to do a recent movie project.
+
+       The key is that we need *advance word* on these things; then we
+can adjust the scripts and schedules.  If someone comes to us at the
+last minute, we can't do much about that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 11-Mar-96 14:33:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Fan Club
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Are you assembling a mailing list from people who write the PO
+> box now?
+
+       There's a mailing list being put together, yes, but what'll
+count is when the actual checks arrive, and we haven't released the
+figure yet.  BTW, we also plan to offer fan club members a 10% discount
+on all B5 merchandise produced by the club.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Mar-96 14:33:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Point of No Return>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.
+
+       There's not a lower house in the EA, in the sense that each
+nation/state has its own various houses, and its own leader, but that
+leader is also part of the EA senate.  One per nation/state.  Each
+nation/state has its own constitution, but must not contravene the
+larger principles of the EA constitution.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Mar-96 14:33:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kim Strauss
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Dunno, but I'll find out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Mar-96 14:33:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Space Cases Thoughts?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Oh, I have no intention of writing for the show...but the ball
+is in my corner now, and I have to return it somehow.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Mar-96 14:33:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Space Cases Thoughts?
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this a trend you expect to see continue in the future?
+
+       We're ahead of our time, and forging a new way of doing TV, no
+question.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Mar-96 14:33:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Lee McNeil <101611.1440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Grey council,more than..
+
+ Lee McNeil <101611.1440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Anyone else think that this might be refering to the Shadows and
+> the Vorlons? Any comments ?
+
+       All I can say is...not bad.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Mar-96 00:36:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Starfury Model?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yeah, send me a copy.  I think these are the same guys we've
+already targeted, but it never hurts to be sure.
+
+       We shut them down as soon as we hear about them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Mar-96 00:36:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 8 NEW B5 EPS!
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Has he been on before?
+
+       York's a major film actor who's starred in many films,
+including one of my personal favorites, "Cabaret."  Also in the
+"Logan's Run" movie.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Mar-96 00:36:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Two questions...
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       The Playgirl with Biggs is out now here in the states; I don't
+know the issue date offhand, but it came out a couple/three weeks ago. 
+It's only a one-page or so item.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Mar-96 00:36:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sarah E. Heacock <102412.1400@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re:Email
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's true, but only until the moderated groups is up and
+running, which I hope is soon, then all internet folks will continue to
+have free access.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Mar-96 00:36:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: FoN
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  Yes, the show (and individual episodes) takes on a
+different sense the more you watch it, and can look back.  It's fun....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 12-Mar-96 14:47:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5 - Widescreen
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, the report is not correct.  Only the 2-hour pilot was
+filmed in normal aspect ratio; from day one, the series has been shot
+in widescreen format, cropped for current ratios.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Mar-96 14:47:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Duck food?
+
+ Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did someone once say negotiating with TV executives was "like
+> being nibbled to death by ducks"? If so, who was it?
+> Have I got the context right?
+
+       I think it was Eric Severied of CBS News.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Mar-96 23:50:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Two questions...
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, no plans for feeders.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Mar-96 23:50:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Fan Club
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       There's a PO box, which I'll post when we're closer to doing
+this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Mar-96 23:50:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 8 NEW B5 EPS!
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> (Guess I'm dating mysel!) <BG> On another note, have you ever
+> kill off a main character in B5? If not, is that ever a
+> possibilty?
+
+       Yes, we killed Lt. Keffer, one of our starfury pilot recurring
+characters, and killed Talia's primary personality.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Mar-96 23:50:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Cherns Major <75026.3723@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 PR
+
+ Cherns Major <75026.3723@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you say, "Blessed are the cheesemakers"?
+
+       No, actually, it's neither annoying nor irritating to have all
+my posts archived.  For starters, it keeps me honest; I don't think
+I've ever been caught out in a major contradiction.  It shows the
+progression of events, and chronicles how a show is made for
+educational purposes.
+
+       (Since some are opting out of being reposted, I'm going to try
+to make my replies here more reflective, so they can be followed even
+without any supporting messages.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Mar-96 23:50:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 8 NEW B5 EPS!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       We knew last year that Kung Fu would only go 4 seasons, as that
+was what PTEN needed to make the production worthwhile.  88 episodes is
+a good average syndication package.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Mar-96 23:50:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Fred Owens <74051.3602@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Security Forces again
+
+ Fred Owens <74051.3602@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are the B5 security forces a civilian organization or a military
+> unit?
+
+       It's regulated as part of the military.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Mar-96 23:50:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 8 NEW B5 EPS!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks, we try to keep it interesting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Mar-96 23:50:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Andrew Diseker <70714.105@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Question re:First Ones
+
+ Andrew Diseker <70714.105@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now, the question is: Just because the "First Ones," Vorlons, and
+> Shadows are old races, does age necessarily lead to maturity, or
+> does a race only last to become an old one by becoming mature?
+
+       A first one is a first one because...well, they're first.  But
+yes, the characters are growing.  Growth and change are at the center
+of the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-Mar-96 12:28:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Other Arc Series
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I think they have the potential to become very popular, if done
+right; if they're treated as novels, which means you're going to be
+tied to the quality of the person telling the story.  If it's just done
+as a gimmick, then arc-series won't hit it.  My sense is that since
+over the next few years series may end up having shorter runs due to
+the massive amount of available programming, why not build it to turn
+that to an advantage?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-Mar-96 12:28:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The "whys"
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Well, you've just asked two questions disgused as one; why do
+*I* feel I need to tell this story, and why should this story *need* to
+be told.
+
+       I need to tell this story because it won't let go.  The only
+way to get rid of it is to tell it.  Because I think it may be
+important.  It needs to be told because I think it has some ideas we
+need to hear, and because it's time somebody did a saga like this to
+help reinterpret some myths at a time when we very badly need our
+myths.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-Mar-96 12:28:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 8 NEW B5 EPS!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       It's too early to tell if the Kung Fu situation will have any
+impact on B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 13-Mar-96 22:57:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Rumor: B-5 canceled?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, as I recall, last May we were told that year four would
+almost certainly be the last for Kung Fu.  Which is no secret; all
+parties pretty much knew that going into the renewal period.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Mar-96 00:09:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arwel Parry <100336.623@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Jumpgate dimensions
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       They're pretty big...but because they're not anchored, they can
+(and do) move apart to accommodate larger ships when necessary.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Mar-96 00:09:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Other Arc Series
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       If B5 goes its full five years, I think I'd probably prefer to
+get out of TV and go back to writing novels and plays.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Mar-96 00:09:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The "whys"
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Of course, there are many who don't see such people in a Good
+Light; even Washington had people out smearing his name every day
+(which, among more altruistic reasons, was why he didn't want to stay
+in charge forever). We are never so greatly appreciated as when we're
+safely and conveniently deceased.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Mar-96 00:09:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: AT on JAG?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I have no idea what Andrea's going to be doing, or how much.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Mar-96 00:09:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Blaine Jack <103333.304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Thought from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 14-Mar-96 12:05:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Jumpgate dimensions
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I mean, everyone knows how to build 'em, and pretty well how they
+> work, but *everybody* bough plans for the things and they haven't
+> changed in the whole history of the galaxy?
+
+       Yeah, generally, the tech is pretty standard, and universal, so
+you don't get a lot of variation with jump gates.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Mar-96 12:12:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: YEAR (sing) of shd war..
+
+ Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that mean it ends this season?
+> What happens then to years 4 and 5?
+
+       I think it's fair to say that the shadow war will drag on into
+at least a portion of the fourth season.
+
+       Bear in mind that in the first season, we didn't even know the
+shadows *existed* until it was almost over.  This is more than just the
+story of this particular war.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Mar-96 00:15:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: TJG Hamshere <101351.3145@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 RPG?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Nope, the time I spend here is on my own dime in terms of time
+invested.  Wouldn't have it any other way.
+
+       And yes, there will be a B5 rpg coming out later this year, and
+yes, as with all licensed B5 products, I'll be involved in the
+development process.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Mar-96 00:15:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Theo Thourson <73214.2131@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Other Arc Series
+
+ Theo Thourson <73214.2131@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Full length or one act?
+
+       I tend to write both full-length and one-act plays, depending
+on the requirements of the topic.  I've had about a dozen produced (a
+mix of both lengths), and one published (and no, I won't tell you
+where, because I was only 18-19 when I wrote it, and that it's still in
+print leave me chagrined no end).
+
+       I actually tend to write just about anything; I enjoy working
+in, and have sold in, every form of prose: short stories, novels,
+anthologies, articles, investigative pieces, nonfiction books, even
+songs.  The one thing at which I'm *truly* awful however is poetry.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Mar-96 00:15:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Just a Question
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Too simple.  Not it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Mar-96 00:15:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: YEAR (sing) of shd war..
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       The information about the Battle of the Line comes back into
+play twice this season, and the Minbari soul aspect is a major aspect
+we'll be getting into at one point this season as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Mar-96 00:15:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: YEAR (sing) of shd war..
+
+ Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that mean we will lose the Vorlons when the war is over?
+> Or, as a previous hypothesis of mine went, does that mean we will
+> _become_ the Vorlons when the war is over? By the way, Kosh is
+> Clarence isn't he?
+
+       You make those assumptions about the war dominating the show
+because that's the obvious way to go, and the way most shows *would*
+go.  We're many things, but obvious ain't one of them.  There's more to
+it.
+
+       But no, we don't become Vorlons at the end of the war.  They're
+who and what they are because they're millions of years older than we
+are; you don't just get that status in a box of Crackerjacks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Mar-96 00:25:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: When is.....
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Story ideas aren't safe just because this season is over (from
+a writing POV), because you can just as easily toss something out
+that's planned for year 4.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 15-Mar-96 13:53:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 RPG?
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who is doing it?
+
+       Chameleon Games is doing the RPG.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Mar-96 13:53:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5 - Widescreen
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Are you able to say if we are ever likely to get B5 commercially
+> available in widescreen ?
+
+       Eventually, yes, B5 will be available in widescreen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Mar-96 13:53:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 RPG?
+
+ Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could this mean that by the time the games comes out you will
+> have finished showing us the aliens and are moveing along with
+> other things?
+
+       I think I can work out how much info to put in and still leave
+me with other areas to bring out new stuff, and there'll likely be
+supplements and subsequent reference works later that incorporate new
+stuff anyway.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Mar-96 18:11:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Eric Rochkind <70671.302@compuserve.com>
+Subject: character initials
+
+ Eric Rochkind <70671.302@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this intentional?
+> Will we later find out that both Sinclair and Sheridan have
+> middle names beginning with an "M"?
+
+       Sinclair's middle name is David, Sheridan's middle initial is
+J.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Mar-96 18:27:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Suehl <101661.1133@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Thought from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Mar-96 18:27:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Minbari warrior caste
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> I have heard that you said that the warrior caste was not
+> "touched by shadows"? Is this true?
+
+       I don't think I've ever said that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Mar-96 18:27:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Minbari Stealth
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       As established in the show, they use gravitational and magnetic
+drives in many cases.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Mar-96 18:27:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Jumpgate dimensions
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       B5 is probably a bit too big, but it's a moot point, as the
+station can't move under power anyway.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Mar-96 22:05:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Jumpgate dimensions
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yeah...funny, that....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Other Arc Series
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I can't even consider the question at this point; I can only
+focus on telling the story now and finishing it for TV, rather than
+alternate routes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Charles S. Tritt <70254.131@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Marcon/Columbus Dispatch
+
+ Charles S. Tritt <70254.131@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will Katherine (sp?) be coming with you to Marcon?
+> What is she doing to stay busy these days?
+
+       Still working out my Marcon plans.  Kathryn spends a great deal
+of her time tracking all the stuff that needs to be done while I'm lost
+in the B5 writing/producing process.  I'm nudging her to get back into
+her own writing more, though having done it once she doesn't seem
+interested in another foray into writing an episode of B5.  But there
+are other options we're looking into....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Minbari Stealth
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       If I answer that question, the Minbari warrior caste would have
+my head for revealing advanced alien tech....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Thought from jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       THE (EVEN MORE!) COMPLETE BOOK OF SCRIPTWRITING will be
+available at most any decent-sized bookstore when it comes out this
+Fall, as well as via direct-order from Writer's Digest Books.  I
+haven't received a final price tag or ISBN number yet.  I opted to
+include the script for "The Coming of Shadows," since that seems to be
+the most favorite overall thus far, though I suspect that may change
+later this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Enjoying Babylon 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Glad to see you over here, Shane.  Welcome to the other
+side....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Jumpgate dimensions
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, B4 has the potential for movement.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 comics
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question is why hasn't any new B5 comics come out yet?
+> What is the delay and do you still have a contract with DC?
+
+       Basically, we hit a snag we're trying currently to work out;
+it's a jurisdictional question between B5/WB and DC.  Business stuff. 
+I haven't yet heard a final disposition on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Vorlon vs Shadows
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Well, I'd imagine that we'd *have* to see a Vorlon/Shadow
+direct engagement sooner or later, of one size or another.
+
+       And then the fun *really* starts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 RPG?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       An RPG isn't a computer game, it's a role playing game, led by
+a game master.  So there's nothing to port over.  But we're currently
+getting bids on a possible B5 computer game.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ranger uniforms
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do they decide which design to wear?
+> Is it based on rank or just personal preference?
+
+       Some elements are very traditional, and many opt for that
+aspect of Ranger clothing; others go for something more modern, or find
+a middle ground.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: _WHAT_ uniforms?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       The basic Ranger uniform can't be *too* specific and uniform in
+every case, or it defeats the purpose of a more or less covert group. 
+But the silhouette is the cloak, the dark colors, a cowl, and the pin
+worn over the right breast.  (We'll have more on the pin and its
+meaning in the next batch of episodes.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Drazi Question...
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does the Drazi Ambassador (Kim Strauss) have a name, and if so,
+> what is it? Ob JMSRequest: More Drazi, plis?
+
+       Yes, the Drazi ambassador has a name, and we've used it, but
+I'll be darned if I can remember it right now.  Just fell out of my
+head.  (It was used in the episode where we have the mediation by
+Delenn between the Drazi and Londo.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael E. MacDonal <102371.1166@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Just a Question
+
+ Michael E. MacDonal <102371.1166@compuserve.com> asks:
+> and was wondering which one it was?
+> and if this Caused a great deal of changes to accomadate the cast
+> on his Arm ?
+
+       The arm broken was his right arm and wrist; we worked it into
+the show, in a way which actually worked well with what went right
+before it. Jerry's doing fine now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 02:25:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Soundtrack update
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Any word on *when* it'll be available this spring?
+
+       Chris mentioned that the next soundtrack *might* be available
+as early as the end of April or thereabouts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 02:25:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: HyperNauts ??
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       No, I'm not in any way a "proud papa" or *any* kind of papa
+when it comes to Hypernauts.  I had nothing more to do with it than
+recommending Christy Marx as story editor and to write the pilot, and
+offering a few suggestions when asked, which was rarely.  The H-team
+did this entirely on their own, though certainly some of the B5
+production models (meaning *how* we do things) were used to make the
+show containable for television.
+
+       A number of shows have scoped out how we've done things, and
+are learning from our experience.  This can only lead to more SF TV,
+which is in general a Good Thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 02:25:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Scarpa <73672.2136@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Reruns
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Better for B5, though, in that TNT has a lot more coverage,
+more cable stations, and more PR than the SciFi channel.  More folks
+will be able to hear about it and see it on TNT.  (I should mention
+that TNT is *very* excited about the show, as much as we're exited to
+be going there after the first run is over, and they're planning to
+give it a regular time slot and a lot of publicity.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 19:07:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Kosh's warning
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When Kosh told Sheridan, "If you go to Z'Ha'Dum, you will die"
+> was that meant as a warning or a threat?
+
+       Yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 19:07:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Numan Tapes
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Have you received the Gary Numan tapes I sent?
+
+       Yes, sorry, it's been busy, so I've only gotten a chance to
+listen to one tape so far.  I'll be honest and say that while I think
+it's good, it's not generally the kind of thing I tend to listen to for
+very long, in that what I've heard so far doesn't seem to have a lot of
+variation to it, it's very electronic, and after a while, for me, that
+becomes white noise.  It's the kind of music you tend not to notice
+after a while, and I like to notice my music.
+
+       Nonetheless, you went through a great deal of effort to send it
+along, and that is most definitely appreciated.  Musical tastes, like
+anything else, vary widely.  I can see why many folks would like Mr.
+Numan's work, and his background (in the clippings, for which I thank
+you again) is most interesting.  It's just not the kind of thing that
+winds my watch.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 19:07:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Nedrow <70004.1273@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Reruns
+
+ David Nedrow <70004.1273@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this give you any leverage with PTEN on renewals for
+> season's four and five?
+
+       No, the TNT situation doesn't really impact the PTEN decision
+overall, though certainly I expect they'd like to get at least 88
+episodes out of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 19:07:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Contacting Vorlons
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since Lyta had so much trouble contacting the Vorlon homeworld,
+> how was G'Kar able to do it in "The Gathering"?
+
+       Contacting the Vorlon government isn't the hard part; getting
+into and out of their space is what's hard.  We showed in the pilot
+that B5 and Earth were in *contact* with the Vorlons; Lyta was trying
+to get inside their turf, and they aren't exactly neighborly in that
+respect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 19:07:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mr. Morden
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Morden as the same person who asked him "What do you want?"
+> " in "Signs and Portents"?
+
+       G'Kar probably has not yet put that together; remember, he only
+met Morden once, for about 4 minutes, a couple of years previous to
+this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 19:07:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Fan Club
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       The fan club was authorized a few weeks back, and we're in the
+process now of finalizing all pertinent (and impertinent) elements;
+price (we're trying to keep it under $15 to allow maximum
+accessibility), what's going into the first membership kit, setting up
+an account, that sort of thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 19:07:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Ensemble Look
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yes, I tend to agree.  Lately we've spent a lot of time on the
+Narns and the Centauri from a cultural point of view, so the latter
+part of this season swings a bit back in the direction of the Minbari,
+allowing us to learn a little more about them, their approach to war,
+relationships, their political structure and so on.
+
+       And of course, the middle batch we've been in lately has
+focused a lot on Earth, so we can deal with the whole Nightwatch/Clark
+scenario before moving back into broader questions.
+
+       I tend to write toward (for lack of a better term) musical
+structure; one theme in the piece rises for a while, dominates, then
+slowly diminishes for a bit while another theme comes forward...then
+you have several rising all at once...interludes and
+crescendos...broken here and there by the single clear note, the
+non-arc story, which sustains us between the major pieces and greater
+musical themes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 19:07:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Tallman Episodes>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> two more episodes this year isn't *too* bad, right?
+
+       Two more Lyta episodes is...a good start.  We'll see if we can
+boost that a bit as we go.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 19:07:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Minbari Stealth
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I studied with Vorlons....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 22:52:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Triluminary device
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If a Minbari can use the triluminary device to change as Delen
+> did, can a human do the same?
+
+       I suppose it's possible to use the triluminary and chrysalis
+device that way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 22:52:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Marcon/Columbus Dispatch
+
+ Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you heard if any B5 people will be there?
+> BTW, just saw a B5 shirt at a local hobby shop, what name should
+> be on the lable to see that it was an authorised printing?
+
+       Yeah, in addition to me, Richard Biggs will be there, and one
+other; unfortunately I've just forgotten who....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Mar-96 22:52:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Thought from jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Especially since the script as it's going to be published in
+the book has a lot of material omitted from the episode for time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Mar-96 03:00:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Reruns
+
+ SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> ANy chance TNT might move up the start of their airings?
+
+       The broadcast stations which are a part of PTEN feel that if it
+aired now on TNT as well it'd be competition that would dilute their
+ratings.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Mar-96 03:00:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: YEAR (sing) of shd war..
+
+ Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Near the mark?
+> love the 'V' script in the library, will we be seeing any more?
+
+       Close, but there's a lot more involved in the third age than B5
+or the shadows per se.
+
+       Yes, there's a full V script -- 4 hours worth -- that I wrote
+for WB, but it'll never get made; too expensive for syndication. 
+(Heck, it was also too expensive for *network*...which is one reason
+why we had to fight so hard to get B5 on the air.  V the series nearly
+torpedoed WB television all by itself due to bugetary over-runs.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 18-Mar-96 14:02:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: _WHAT_ uniforms?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Not so much a uniform as a look, really....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Mar-96 14:02:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Thought from jms
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Gee, there was stuff omitted?
+> Have you ever considered asking Warner to let you do a 2 hour
+> syndicated series?
+
+       We end up cutting stuff out of every episode to some extent.  I
+believe in writing long so you can take out any bits that don't work as
+well, so only the strong stuff remains, and keep the pacing fast. 
+Usually it's just line cutting within a scene, but on a few occasions
+we've snipped out an entire short scene when necessary.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Mar-96 14:02:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Minbari Stealth
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And what did you teach them?
+
+       Never ask that question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Mar-96 14:02:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Other Arc Series
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> More seriously, if you were to suddenly discover that Warner
+> would only pony up for 88 eps (like they did for Kung Fu), but
+> *would* do that to get a good syndication position, could you
+> finish out the story with 21 more and a movie?
+
+       Yes, if WB said there's no 5th season, period, end of
+discussion, the market has gotten too glutted, it won't sustain
+it...yes, the story could be collapsed into year four.  It would just
+mean omitting some of the personal non-arc episodes, and some segues. 
+There are basically three major movements or themes that occupy the
+last two years; best is to let them play out at a reasonable pace over
+two years, but it could be collapsed into one, if that were to ever
+become necessary.
+
+       But obviously that would not be my first choice.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Mar-96 14:02:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Greg Munsill <76370.142@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Techno-monks
+
+ Greg Munsill <76370.142@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Had you caught this before?
+
+       I've heard this on and off since doing the episode...once
+again, the line between fact and fiction blurs.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Mar-96 14:02:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Kosh's name
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Kosh Naranek, is this Kosh's real name or does he just use it to
+> be identified by the people on Babylon 5?
+
+       His name is less a *name* and more of a description.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Mar-96 14:02:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: YEAR (sing) of shd war..
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       V had a big cast, and a lot of location shooting, outdoor EFX,
+lots of stunts...it adds up fast.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Mar-96 00:17:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kosh's name
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       My guess would be that the language in which Kosh's description
+is made would be Vorlon....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Mar-96 00:17:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Homeworlds
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why doesn't the Narn homeworld and Vorlon homeworld have names?
+
+       The Narn homeworld is called Narn, the Vorlon homeworld's
+nearest English equivilent is Vorlon.   The Earther homeworld is Earth.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Mar-96 00:17:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Great Space Sweepstakes
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does the fact that WB is giving away a chance to be an extra on
+> B5 which would presumable have to happen in season 4, bode well
+> for renewal?
+
+       One would think the contest would bode well...but there are
+always ways out and consolation prizes.  It guarantees nothing but we
+take some small reassurance in it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Mar-96 00:17:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Who let the Feeders out?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Stupid bureaucrats who couldn't afford to maintain a quarantine
+enforcement team in the sector.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Mar-96 00:17:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Scarpa <73672.2136@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Reruns
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       That one was The Parliament of Dreams.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Mar-96 00:17:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS:B5 on WB Network?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, the WB network is definitely *not* taking B5; the divisions
+at WB are very separate from one another, and very competitive.  The WB
+network wouldn't take a PTEN show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Mar-96 00:17:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Marcon/Columbus Dispatch
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I believe Pat Tallman will also be at Marcon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 19-Mar-96 16:19:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael E. MacDonal <102371.1166@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Just a Question
+
+ Michael E. MacDonal <102371.1166@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any that you think out do the others all ready aired ?
+> And How Much Did Foxworthy Backing out Realy change "Severed
+> Dreams" or for that matter "Point of no Return" ? or Did you Go
+> with a Replacement for him ? And BTW Being an old V fan ...I read
+> a Script posted here that you ? Is there any chance we might Get
+> to see him on B5 ?
+
+       The Foxworth bail resulted in a change of about three lines,
+that's about it.  You'll know which lines when you hear them.
+
+       As for the next eight...one thing I'm trying to be more careful
+about now is curbing my excitement about episodes.  If I say "X is the
+best thing since sliced bread," there's always going to be folks who
+then sit down to NOT be impressed.  Whereas if you say little, just
+hide in the underbrush and let the episode whack 'em upsided the head,
+you often get a better reaction.
+
+       So I'll try to answer but in vaguer terms than usual.
+
+       Of the next eight, I'd put 3 of them in the category of the
+best we've ever done, equal to or topping "The Coming of Shadows." 
+Those would be "Severed Dreams," and "War Without End," parts 1 and 2.
+
+       You've got two personal stories in the batch, which are more
+intimate and give us a break from the big changes in the current
+three-part sequence. "Sic Transit Vir" and "A Late Delivery From
+Avalon," that I enjoy immensely for very different reasons.  I'm very
+pleased with them.
+
+       Then you start heating up the arc again, leading toward the
+"War" two parter, with "Ship of Tears" (which I think fans will like a
+LOT), and "Interludes and Examinations," another very strong episode
+with some real surprises.
+
+       Personally, from a storytelling and character point of view, I
+think that the "War" two parter represents possibly the very best work
+we've ever done on the show, with "Severed Dreams" right behind it.
+
+       (After the major events in "War," you get two more episodes
+that act as an emotional buffer, a little quieter..."Walkabout" and
+"Grey 17 Is Missing," and of the two, I think "Walkabout" is pretty
+good; it has some moments that are maybe a bit too soft, which I'm
+going to try and strengthen in editing this week.  The last three of
+this season, "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place," "Shadow
+Dancing," and the last episode, are somewhat similar in construction to
+the mini-arc of "Messages," "Point" and "Severed," in that they build
+thematically and contextually toward a single resolution.  There's 
+a kind of nifty little visual element I use to tie them all together.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Mar-96 16:19:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: YEAR (sing) of shd war..
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Do you happen to know whether out of control budgets is what sank
+> "Live Shot?"
+
+       I don't really know enough about that show to comment; the only
+reason I know as much about the V series as I do is because, when they
+brought me in to write the new miniseries, I was briefed on the
+situation they'd had.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Mar-96 21:28:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Marcon/Columbus Dispatch
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I'm not sure she knows quite which medium she prefers; she's in
+the process now of making that decision.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-Mar-96 00:03:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: We Have Always Been Here
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thank your friend for the great words, and the thoughts behind
+them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 20-Mar-96 22:26:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: First One's Age
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did any of the races of the First Ones predate the rise of life
+> on Earth? Were there any space traveling races in our galaxy as
+> long ago as 1 billion years?
+
+       Well, to some degree you're limited by the amount of time it
+takes to evolve life per se, then into intelligent life, then into
+spacefaring life. You need time after the Big Bang for planets to be
+formed, cool, develop environments capable of supporting life...then
+the long haul begins.
+
+       So yes, on the one hand, you've got races that are millions of
+years older than humans, who were prowling around while we were still
+furred, fanged, and slamming bones together.  But they're not as old as
+the universe, because they can't be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-Mar-96 22:26:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Matt Allen <100530.232@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5 - Widescreen
+
+ Matt Allen <100530.232@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are the computer Fx also in widescreen?
+> But as far as I know the PAR can't put down widescreen stuff
+> unless you screw around with the output resolution?
+
+       We'd pretty much have to re-render the CGI for important shots,
+while more mundane stuff where there's nothing in the upper and lower
+parts of the frame could be safely cropped and lose nothing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-Mar-96 22:26:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS:B5 on WB Network?
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> With PTEN going away, doesn't that mean that B5 is no longer a
+> PTEN show? Or is it just that WB won't take a show that didn't
+> originate on the WB?
+
+       We're now pretty much the province of WB syndication, a very
+different arm than WBN, so the dichotomy persists.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-Mar-96 22:26:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Death of Turhan Again
+
+ Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When can we expect to know about, or be able to ask about,
+> whether the death of Turhan was an assassination, and if so by
+> whom? Might a different (non-Talia) character that we have seen,
+> also been under the influence of an implanted personality,
+> partially controlling their actions in a certain episode? If I
+> specified who I was talking about and why (in-episode pointers)
+> in the last question, would I have crossed into the verboten
+> realms of plot ideas?
+
+       No, Turhan's death was exactly as stated, natural causes.  If
+it were anything else, we'd have at least nodded in that direction at
+some point. It's not fair to do so otherwise.  Ditto re: any other
+implanted person; there isn't one.  At least not that *I* know of.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-Mar-96 22:26:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Scarpa <73672.2136@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Reruns
+
+ David Scarpa <73672.2136@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance of a video release soon???
+
+       We hope to do videos in the fullness of time.  Don't worry;
+when it happens, you won't have to ask, the info will be everywhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-Mar-96 22:26:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vorlon space
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that Sheridan is allied with Kosh, does he plan to ask Kosh
+> what happened to the Earth ships that went into Vorlon space? Or
+> does he believe what the Vorlons said about the ships having
+> accidents?
+
+       He would probably ask that of Kosh, if there were time, and
+circumstance to think of it.  It's hard to bring that sort of thing up
+unless it ties into an episode; otherwise it's just a forced sort of
+thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 21-Mar-96 14:53:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: PoNR-Hague
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, there's nothing unlawful about it...and if you force the
+issue, you've got an unhappy actor, which serves no purpose.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Mar-96 14:53:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 vs. DS9 filk story?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Little babies like to play little baby games...screw 'em.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Mar-96 14:53:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Mugs 'n Stuff
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Please, the next time you are talking with the coffee mug people,
+> would you ask them to design a B5 mug that will go into the nuke
+> for reheating??
+
+       A good thought, I'll keep that in mind.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Mar-96 14:53:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: G'Lan/G'Len???
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> was that G'Lan?
+> was that *also* G'Lan?
+> Or does there exist a "G'Len" and I'm just not hearing right?
+
+       G'Lan was one of a number of higher Narn beings who appeared to
+support G'Quan.  There is no G'Len, that's a misspelling of G'Lan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Mar-96 23:07:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 vs. DS9 filk story?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Except I don't think it's actually a story idea, but rather
+qualifies as parody (of a sort).  Also, I've never said I'd go after
+anybody who posts story ideas, because I can't do that; I can only
+leave any forum where they come up.  I can't interfere with that. 
+Actual *published* fiction that infringes is another matter entirely,
+of course.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Mar-96 23:08:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <The Touch of Your...>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       It's either their ignorance or they don't care...but you're
+correct, in the B5 universe you can't have two races interbreeding just
+like that. (In fact, I seem to recall pointing this out in my notes on
+the manuscript; odd that it hasn't been attended to, from what you're
+saying.  I can only assume that it slipped between the cracks.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Mar-96 23:08:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: G'Lan/G'Len???
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (aside) *ONE* of?
+> How does that sound?
+> At one time, wasn't the G'Quon/G'Lan situation outline to us
+> netted folks as similar to what happened with Islam after the
+> Prophet got "translated"? Rage Ranger of Washingdome "Book of
+> G'kar?
+
+       Oh, the Vorlons can be *very* invasive, when they want to be,
+if it suits their purposes.  There's no Vorlon prime directive...it's
+manipulation, whether small or large.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Mar-96 23:08:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: First One's Age
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I wouldn't call that entity an energy being, though it was
+non-tangible in nature, at least on this plane.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 22-Mar-96 12:08:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <The Touch of Your...>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Gerald, the reality is that as humans, we're all flawed. 
+Errors and inconsistencies in something as big as a novel, written by
+someone who doesn't work on the show, isn't involved in it day to day,
+are gong to slip through. That is inevitable.  I try to keep track of
+it all, read as much as I can, to keep it in line, but the *only* way
+to keep it 100% canon is to invest all the time I currently spend doing
+that on the series, which is a 24 hour a day job.
+
+       A writer comes in, has a notion for a book, or gets one
+assigned to him; the writer then goes away and around that notion
+writes 100,000 words or so.  I don't see it again until the finished
+manuscript comes in, almost always at the last minute.  The *only* way
+to make sure that every word of that is canon is to work hand in glove
+with the writer through every page. The reason the B5 series is as
+consistent as it is, is because that's what I do, day in and day out.
+
+       So the broad strokes are always going to be pretty much
+consistent with the series; of the next batch, we'll probably do some
+backstory in the B5 universe taken from my notes.  But some of the
+details will always be off a bit, because you're turning the work over
+to the hands of others.  There is simply no other way to do it short of
+my adding Editor and Publisher to my list of hats.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Mar-96 12:18:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sandra G. Bruckner <76642.3664@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Conventions
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Just to add some info...Patricia Tallman, Stephen Furst and I
+will be at Syndi-Con the weekend of April 12th; also, Pat, Richard
+Biggs and I will almost certainly be at Marcon.  I'll also be at LACon,
+the Worldcon in Anaheim in August.  (Oh, and Syndi-Con is in San
+Francisco.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Mar-96 18:19:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Thought from jms
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> which one will pass it?
+
+       My guess is that "War Without End" may well pass by "CoS" as
+all time favorite...until the next one comes along.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Mar-96 18:19:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <The Touch of Your...>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, I think you'll like all of Harlan's work, though for a
+newcomer to his work I'd probably recommend Deathbird Stories or
+Shatterday for the more recent material.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Mar-96 00:41:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: G'Quon and the Vorlons
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since a Vorlon was G'Lan and G'Lan supported G'Quon, did G'Quon
+> know about the Vorlons?
+
+       Interesting question, isn't it?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 23-Mar-96 18:00:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Yr. 4 renewal
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yeah, we'll likely hear late April/early May.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Mar-96 18:00:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Other Arc Series
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What are your chances of finding out in time?
+
+       No way of telling...we'll have to see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 24-Mar-96 15:24:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Infections
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were they part of the last conflict with the shadows?
+
+       It was the fear of the shadows, among others, that compelled
+them to start building up their war technology...with unfortunate
+results.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Mar-96 15:24:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Lee McNeil <101611.1440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B^2 & Infection
+
+ Lee McNeil <101611.1440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this person *something* to do with the onslaught of Babylon 5
+> ? (When it goes BOOM!) And could it be that this person, *if* he
+> were to be attacking B5, using some sort of watered down
+> OrganicWeapon technology which EarthForce Defence/Research
+> devision got thier hands on at the end of "Infection" ?
+
+       No, if I remember correctly, the person you're seeing works
+station defense, laying down a fire line against incoming personnel.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Mar-96 15:24:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: VQT endorses B5!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I'll go check it out.  It's GO ETV, I assume?  Also, I note
+that Lori identifies herself as BABYLON 5...not sure what this is
+about.  But I'll inquire.  This is great if true.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Mar-96 22:44:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vorlon legends
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that people have seen a Vorlon, Kosh, the legend that people
+> turning to stone when they see a Vorlon is wrong right?
+
+       Yes.  Not every legend is true.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Mar-96 22:44:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: What happens if...
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Joe is fine, and at this juncture, I can't even contemplate the
+question of not being able to finish the story, one way or another.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Mar-96 22:52:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 CD-ROM
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       If by "personnel avi's seem messed up," you mean the sound that
+comes with it, that chirrruping, that's the sound of the identicard
+scanner in the original pilot, which the rom folks used here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Mar-96 22:52:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Unresolved plot lines
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       We'll hear more on Na'Toth this season.
+
+       Laurel was, as stated in the series, transferred to the Rim.
+
+       Dr. Kyle, as stated in the series, was transferred back to
+Earth.
+
+       Talia was sent back to the Psi Corps as stated in the series.
+
+       Bureau 13 changed it's name and was absorbed into the whole Psi
+Corps covert operation.  Secret organizations are constantly changing
+their names. Homeguard has been absorbed into Nightwatch.
+
+       The fate of B4 will be shown this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Mar-96 01:36:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Violating Your Privacy
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       As I understand it, CIS claims compilation copyright to all
+messages as a whole, but you retain the rights to your own specific
+messages, so you can repost your own stuff anywhere you like, and if
+someone wants to repost yours, all they have to do is get your
+permission, as folks here are now doing, and it's all kosher.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Mar-96 01:36:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Unresolved plot lines
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Homeguard isn't the totality of Nightwatch, but NW has absorbed
+it into its overall structure, for the most part.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Mar-96 01:48:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Popularity & Msg Traffic
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yes, as your stats noted, it's been pointed out to me that in
+general, B5 messages outnumber the ST messages here on CIS by a factor
+of 5-to-1 on most days, and in some cases, as you noted, almost 10-to-1
+(the 45 for DS9 and the 451 for B5 in the same period).
+
+       I think it's in part because, once the episode is over, that's
+when the fun *really* starts as folks get into the debates and
+discussions of what the episode dealt with, the quesions -- plot, moral
+and ethical -- raised in the episode, the thematic and historical
+elements, and so on.  The show doesn't operate in a vacuum (though the
+B5 station obviously does), and it's the threads that reach into other
+areas that provoke discussion.
+
+       Which is a Very Good Thing from where I sit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Mar-96 01:48:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Tribute
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Send that one to Peter David.  I dare you.  I double dare you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 25-Mar-96 20:19:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jim De Vico <72662.2765@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Yr. 4 renewal
+
+ Jim De Vico <72662.2765@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any contingency plans in the event that B5 is not
+> picked up at any point along the story arc?
+
+       I always have to operate on the assumption it will be picked
+up, or it'll falter; this show is an act of sheer will.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Mar-96 20:19:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lost Threads?
+
+ Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this a fair assessment?
+> Have we lost a few percent of what you originally wanted the
+> story to be because of this? On a larger scale, how many threads
+> are there that you don't know the resolution to yet? (Hey, nothing
+> is set in TV till it is aired.) How many mysteries have you not
+> decided the answer to yet, since you're still willing to use
+> something cooler that you think up later? How much may we lose
+> because you can't fit it into episodes?
+
+       Nothing dropped behind is ever essential; if it's essential, it
+stays in, and gets paid off.  A story thread that hits a
+reality-speedbump just gets modified, flows into another thread, just
+like life.  You just keep on the road until you get to the end.  It's
+just what the characters do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Mar-96 00:10:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Andrea Thompson
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When Andrea Thompson told you she was leaving the show, did you
+> consider replacing her with another actress?
+
+       Fundamentally, for reasons that become clearer later this
+season, I needed *a* telepath on the station, in one of several
+possible positions; it's what we call in TV writing "a moveable piece."
+Didn't affect things in any significant way, except to allow the return
+of Lyta, which opens up a LOT of great story areas.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 26-Mar-96 12:11:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lost Threads?
+
+ Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, do you think writing B5 is like writing a novel, except that
+> you have to turn it in one chapter at a time?
+
+       Yeah, it is a lot like a novel, but as you say, once a chapter
+is done, you can't go back again...so it's like writing a novel in
+steel instead of paper; you can't erase what's done.  So anything you
+modify has to be forward-directed, rather than backtracking.  It's
+quite an elegant dance, really.  And a definite challenge, just to do
+it, let alone incorporating the real-world speed bumps (an actor breaks
+a limb, isn't available for some reason at an important point,
+whatever).  So you have to keep the general outline in your head at all
+times, and be able to shift and slide but keep on going where you're
+going.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Mar-96 12:11:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Unresolved plot lines
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       It's two separate mechanisms; no one has been able to open a
+jump point in a jump point because of the hideous amount of energy
+needed by the ship in question.  They used the White Star to open a
+jump point within a standing *jump gate* that was already there, and
+had a secondary source of power.  The competing energies were
+impossible to control, and blew the whole thing.
+
+       And yes, I'm *that* jms.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Mar-96 12:11:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Edward Sykes <101632.3501@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Unresolved plot lines
+
+ Edward Sykes <101632.3501@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I have another question :- At the start of season 2 when Sinclair
+> was reassigned, what happened to Catherine, who he got engaged to
+> at the end of season 1?
+
+       They had to break it off...he had responsibilities that
+excluded that kind of relationship.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Mar-96 12:19:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Popularity & Msg Traffic
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       What those who use ratings to bash B5 tend to forget is the
+history of ST...that the original ST limped along in the ratings
+basement for its three seasons, that fans of Lost in Space were
+constantly bashing it as an attempt to cash in on that show (some
+reviewers even noted this, in TV Guide and elsewhere), and that finally
+it got dropped as a ratings failure.
+
+       One would think that knowledge might encourage tolerance....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Mar-96 12:19:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SpaceCases&Hyper. in EW
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       One correction: I had nothing to do with writing the Hypernauts
+pilot, that was Christy Marx, I have no creative involvement with the
+show whatsoever.  It's their creation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Mar-96 16:52:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 CD-ROM
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Actually, a CDrom screen saver is *already out* from Sound
+Sources; info can be had in one of the B5 libraries.  Beyond that, a B5
+encyclopedia is still in the works for CDrom, though not finalized yet.
+Also, Christopher Franke, our composer, will be doing a second B5
+soundtrack and a CDrom to go with it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Mar-96 16:53:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Nature of Army of Light
+
+ Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What (if any) have you seen or used to form your model for the
+> Epic Hero, as seen in Sheridan, and the rest of the good guys??? 
+> I read an artical in "SciFi Universe" that Bruce Boxleitner
+> talked about the Arthurian Legends, so do you think it would be
+> closer to the mark to look at the Arthurian Tales as opposed to
+> Greek?
+
+       Well, if you're going to look at heroic epic, sure, the
+Arthurian story is a classic...but the earliest and best of these
+remain the Illiad and the Odyssey.  Homer was definitely hitting all
+cylinders with that.
+
+       If there's an aspect that informed B5's development, it's the
+arc of that heroic epic, which if you look at it dispassionately, is as
+much about the people *around* the hero as the hero himself.  And all
+too often, the hero achieves the goal, but falls or falters or is
+changed by the end of it. Much of what passes for contemporary "heroic
+epic" assumes that it means the Good Guys Win.  Heroic here as a term
+goes back to its much earlier origins, a "heroic effort" is something
+that takes everything you have, against terrible or impossible odds.
+
+       Yes, you achieve the goal...but you fall in battle in the
+fields of Troy.  Yes, you create Camelot, but in the end you are
+destroyed and Camelot falls.  There's tragedy and mistakes side by side
+with the glory and the gains.  The accounts of Arthur's meeting with
+Mordred at Camlan field, and how the final battle began is classic
+ironic drama, a tragedy of great proportions...and an aspect of that
+fed directly into the development of the B5 backstory, as you'll learn
+later this season.
+
+       Histories are written about the soldiers who won their battles;
+but songs are sung about the soldiers who fell in battle struggling for
+a greater cause.  What inspires us is the unfinished work, the dream of
+picking up the fallen standard and taking it ten more feet up the hill,
+knowing that even if you fall, the next man in line will take it
+another ten feet, until finally the hill is taken.  Humans are
+constantly throwing their lives away on causes logic tells us are
+hopeless...but which in time become real for that reason.
+
+       It's a dangerous romance with myth, heroism, and death.  On the
+one hand, it inspires an Arthur...on another, it inspires a car bomber
+to blow himself and 27 bystanders to bits en route to an appointment
+with Allah.
+
+       What makes the heroic epic work is that it taps into all the
+myths and archetypes that have been with us for all of recorded
+history, and much of its oral history.  Where B5 gets into this area is
+in trying to look at the kinds of myths and epics that have gone
+before, and finding not the specifics, but the themes which are
+universal, the *sense* and the feel of it, which are intangible, and
+which is what makes doing an epic so hard. Either you feel the 
+structure, or you don't; if you try to hammer it down into a formula,
+a step-by-step process, it turns to quicksilver in your hands and slips
+away. You have to take it all in, then listen to the inner voice and
+write accordingly.
+
+       I remember a stanza from a poem I read a long time ago; "Love
+will die if held too tightly; love will fly if held too lightly;
+lightly, tightly, how do I know, whether I'm holding or letting love
+go?"  This kind of fiction operates on the same basis.  Substitute the
+word epic or story for love, and the logic holds.
+
+       So the epic hero or story can't be a *model*, to use your
+phrase; it can only be an inspiration for what has gone before...an
+echo in the back of your mind that whispers and guides you through all
+the dark places.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Mar-96 16:53:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lost Threads?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Exactly.  B5 has to be an organic process; it's a history of
+the Babylon station and the people who lived there once upon a time. 
+It should have the feeling of a real place, and real people.  Stuff
+happens to real people.  The key is to turn it to your advantage, and
+use it to make the story stronger.
+
+       It's like trying to tapdance while people are rolling bowling
+balls at you and firing burning arrows...if you can keep to the rhythm,
+and even add some interesting new steps because of all the commotion,
+while making it all feel perfectly natural...then you've got something.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Mar-96 23:41:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Lee McNeil <101611.1440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vorlons & Shadows
+
+ Lee McNeil <101611.1440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are the Vorlons & Shadows related in *any* way ?
+
+       Define related.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Mar-96 23:41:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arwel Parry <100336.623@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Episode titles
+
+ Arwel Parry <100336.623@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since you're using a Latin title, does the fact that "vir" is the
+> Latin word for "man" have any significance?
+
+       Yes, it's sort of a double pun in that respect...thus passes
+the man, which can have many meanings, also entering manhood, or dying,
+or going away, or the more Vir transitioning, or going...lots of
+variations.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Mar-96 23:41:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: YEAR (sing) of shd war..
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, the V mini I wrote was several years ago, a planned revival
+that was ultimately dropped as too expensive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Mar-96 23:41:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Yr. 4 renewal
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Do you have any specific plans?
+> Like releasing it in novel form, or unfilmed scripts?
+
+       Let me rephrase this: I can't answer the question because I
+can't allow the question to even exist in my head.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Mar-96 23:41:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SpaceCases&Hyper. in EW
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that right?
+
+       Yes, that was the meaning of it, that Christy was SE and would
+write the pilot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Mar-96 23:41:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lost Threads?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Exactly.  And that's the point that a few non-writers make when
+they go after that aspect.  Writing is fluid...if you alter course a
+little, it's usually because you found a better way to do something. 
+This is done all the time, in every conceivable art form.
+
+       Also, the B5 basic storyline was conceived by me in 1986/87; I
+was a fairly good writer then, I'm better now...it's almost 10 years
+later, and I've written a lot of stuff, learned more about my craft,
+and the writer of 1996 has some better ideas of how to do things than
+the writer of 1986.  I'd be a fool to stick to every single note from
+10 years ago if I think of a better way to do it now; the goal is to
+tell the story as effectively as humanly possible, not to be rigid.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Mar-96 23:41:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SpaceCases&Hyper. in EW
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yes, the error was mine, I should have been more precise.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Mar-96 23:41:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: explorer ship
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What, if anything, happened to the ship that originally
+> discovered the ruins of Z'ha'dum?
+
+       As will be explained later this season, the ruins at Z'ha'dum
+were detected by a long-range probe; same as the kind of probe IPX used
+to find the other planet in "Mind War."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Mar-96 03:05:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Unresolved plot lines
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Sin wreak-oar Mistie, Montie, PITAS, Emperor of COWDP and Kidism
+> Patroler "So the leading causes of accidents are joy, sex, and
+> old age?"
+
+9) imbalance in the Grey Council
+
+Will be dealt with this season.
+
+10) the Underground Railroad
+
+Will be elaborated upon and brought to the fore later this season.
+
+11) Lady Morella's vision
+
+C'mon..."unresolved?"  It was only mentioned for the first time in the
+last new episode.  Gimme some time here, I'm dancing as fast as I can.
+
+(Some more on this later this season.)
+
+12) What Kosh really looks like
+
+More on this later this season, in an important way.
+
+13) Sinclair not the One, but he will be
+
+Dealt with this season.
+
+14) Delenn's "cramps"
+
+In the fullness of time.
+
+15) Londo's prophetic dream
+
+More this season, in detail.
+
+16) Where Bester stands (to be decided in Ship of Tears, later this
+year!)
+
+Yes, this season.
+
+17)  Minbari souls
+
+Also this season.
+
+       See, this is the thing that I have to shake my head at when
+people use terms like "unresolved plot lines" or "dropped threads;" the
+story ain't done yet.  You only use that term when you've finished the
+book, and stuff is left hanging.  We're only midway through the book --
+not even that yet in what's been broadcast -- it's a little premature
+to start announcing threads or plots as unresolved.  There's an ebb and
+flow to the threads, they're brought in and out as needed.
+
+       You can't reference every single thread in the show in every
+episode, or you'd just have an hour of people sitting around and
+reciting updates on all the various positions.
+
+       I don't like leaving loose threads hanging around.  And I
+don't.  We will hear more about Na'Toth soon, because it's time to
+mention that again, as an important storyline element.  (Somebody
+commented that it's being mentioned because folks have been
+asking...no, I don't work that way.  It's been asked for ages now. 
+People have been asking for n'grath, and I ain't moving on that one. 
+The few who've tossed this my way, that because they asked they forced 
+me to deal with it, are like the roosters who think their sounds at
+morning are directly responsible for the sunrise.)
+
+       In any event, to this issue...be patient.  This isn't about
+immediate gratification.  There's a certain pacing in the show in the
+ways in which story elements come and go, which would be more apparent
+if the show were being broadcast more steadily, without breaks.  Yeah,
+there've been two months almost since Lady Morella's prophecy, but
+there *haven't even been any new episodes aired yet*, and it was only
+aired in the last new epsiode out of the blocks, so how can it be a
+dropped plotline?
+
+       At the beginning of year one, a lot of folks were saying,
+"Where's the arc?  Huh?  Where's this `overarching storyline' we've
+been led to expect? Huh?  It ain't here."  Then they saw it bigtime
+starting with "Sky," and eventually realized that some elements of what
+they were seeing had ALREADY STARTED the arc...they just hadn't
+realized it until they looked back.  "Oh, yeah...THERE it was."
+
+       Others said, "What happened to that alien ship that blew up the
+Raiders in "Signs?"  They were just thrown in there to shake things up,
+and then they dropped it, I hate it when shows do that.  It's a cheat."
+Oh, you mean the SHADOW VESSEL that has now formed the main core of
+year three and a lot of year two?
+
+       In this list of "unresolved plot lines" I haven't yet seen one
+that we're not either dealing with, or planning to deal with shortly. 
+I would suggest we perhaps table this approach until the work is done,
+since only at that time can you say, positively, "THIS is an unresolved
+plot line," since we've hit the resolution of the story then.  Until
+then, it's an exercise in "who didn't cross the finish line?" halfway
+through the marathon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 27-Mar-96 12:28:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Unresolved plot lines
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       My point exactly.
+
+       And most folks who had the reaction you admitted, did so for
+the same reason.  In some ways, we get gigged for the mistakes of
+others, and have to prove we won't do things that way.
+
+       And don't drag the bear into this discussion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Mar-96 12:28:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lost Threads?
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Regarding changes that have been made, if Pat had not become
+> available, and if AT had not chosen to leave, would Talia have
+> been Control and then come back later with an altered
+> personality, or was the Control thing a trapdoor (set up from the
+> beginning with the mirrors and such) that you *could* spring
+> *only if you needed to*?
+
+       I'm busy enough on the threads that are happening...if I get
+into all the threads that might happen I think my head will explode....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Mar-96 20:39:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Unresolved plot lines
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  It's just as much fun for me.  To the waiting...I try,
+where I can, to resolve any question raised within the course of the
+coming year, rather than trying to stretch it out much beyond that. 
+One question gets answered, another question looms.  There've been a
+few exceptions, but overall I think we've pretty well stuck with that
+model.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Mar-96 20:39:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Troy Starr <74752.3172@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Grey Council
+
+ Troy Starr <74752.3172@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or, to put it another way, how often does the Council get new
+> members?
+
+       Membership in the Grey Council is usually for life; a person
+can choose to leave but only under truly extraordinary circumstances
+(kind of like being appointed to the Supreme Court).  In Delenn's case,
+though, remember that she didn't quit, she was booted out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Mar-96 20:39:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Unresolved plot lines
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When you find yourself asking the question "Why the hell did
+> Sheridan do this?"
+
+       One reason for the continuity is because you don't have a lot
+of different chefs in the kitchen.  The more you divide up the
+direction of the show and parcel it out, the more contradictions are
+going to emerge.  Also, by virtue of having the whole story forwards
+and backwards in my head, when a question gets asked about a production
+element, I just sorta mentally fast-forward or backward, see how it
+fits in, and can say yes, no or give a correction.  Often on shows
+you've got people going and coming in the command chair, and they may
+not always know the background as well as they might.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Mar-96 20:39:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: San Diego
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> So,....What is it with you and San Diego anyway?
+> Did you lose you luggage there or something?
+
+       I used to live in San Diego, first from 1971-1972, then from
+1974 until 1981.  It's my way of sort of nodding at my old stomping
+grounds.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Mar-96 20:39:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Knives creature
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is this true?
+> Sin wreak-oar ` Mistie, Montie, PITAS, Emperor of COWDP and
+> Kidism Patroler You've probably wondered in the past, "How can he
+> have Montie in his sig, yet never have used a single Python
+> line?"
+
+       Correct, the critter in "Knives" was most *definitely* not a
+Vorlon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Mar-96 20:39:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Unresolved plot lines
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I don't think I flamed anyone...certainly I don't think the
+person to whom I was responding felt particularly flamed.  When I set
+out to flame, there ain't a whole lot of ambiguity about it.  I was
+stating the background to the situation firmly, and indicating the
+frustration brought about by *the question*, not the person.
+
+       I did not consider the original question a flame in my
+direction, nor did I consider my response a flame in the other
+direction.  If I stated the issue strongly, it's likely because I know
+that any time I leave a message, it generally gets cross-posted to a
+zillion other systems, so in a way it becomes "talking to the room," so
+the wider audience will know the full background of the
+situation...thus helping to avoid having to go into the situation in
+great detail multiple times.
+
+       If the person to whom I was "speaking" feels flamed, he should
+let me know and I will apologize, as that was not my intent.  If not,
+then it's a moot question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Mar-96 20:39:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Foreshadowing on B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yes, you've caught them exactly.
+
+       With Ivanova, I've tried to construct a small emotional arc, in
+that when she arrived, she was the new kid, she was a bit uncomfortable
+with the job, and responded by being very formal, very businesslike, a
+bit on the snide side.  As she's gotten more comfortable with the job,
+and the people around her, she's relaxed a bit around her
+co-workers...but if somebody crosses her, as Bester tends to do, she
+lets fly with some pretty sharp lines.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Mar-96 23:46:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5:New pricey toys
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I don't know what this refers to; the only B5 ships currently
+being done are the Micromachines, which are only about $10 per set of
+four.  If you're referring to any kind of models, they're unlicensed,
+pirated stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Mar-96 23:58:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS is from the Future!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yes, indeed, you've sussed it out.  I *am* from the future.
+Unfortunately, I'm only from 15 seconds into the future, so it doesn't
+do me a bit of good, except being able to more accurately cut out
+commercials while taping "The Simpsons."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Mar-96 11:39:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: San Diego
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> By flattening it?
+> I take it we didn't like San Diego much?
+
+       No, I liked San Diego just fine.  If I didn't like it, instead
+of just nuking it I would've gotten nasty....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Mar-96 11:56:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CINEFANTASTIQUE -Morons!
+
+ Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But who's out on the net every night talking to his fans?
+
+       Kiddo, you gotta understand Da Biz, and in Da Biz, writers have
+never been given the same influence or recognition as actors, and never
+will. It's something you have to understand going in and accept,
+because there ain't much you can do about it.
+
+       And it's hard to fault that logically.  An actor's face is on
+screen; the writer is invisible.  We all see what the actor does.  Most
+folks still don't quite understand what a writer does, particularly in
+TV.  Whenever I leave town, when I'm in a cab, or (less often because
+fans are generally more informed) at a con, somebody'll hear what I do
+and say, "So do you make up the story and the actors come up with the
+dialogue?"  Some think that the TV writer puts the stuff together after
+the actors and directors make the episode.
+
+       They honestly, simply Don't Know and Don't Understand.  And you
+can't take umbrage at that; it's simply the way it is.
+
+       And whatever my participation on the nets may be, only one out
+of a couple hundred people even *have* computers, and the number of
+folks on the net are even smaller.  The general population still
+doesn't notice this area as much as they will in a few more years.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Mar-96 15:17:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rob Edin <102623.2165@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Universes: ST vs. B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Actually, the B5 budget is about half the average ST budget,
+sometimes a bit less.
+
+       We don't apply savings in CGI to alien makeup; they're totally
+different areas, each with their own costs.  Whatever they cost is
+what they cost.  But the reason we can do what we do is that we take
+new approaches to both the EFX and the prosthetics.  Optic Nerve, who
+does the prosthetics work as a contract deal, have found ways to make
+their masks more lifelike, easier to apply, and faster to apply, than
+the norm; so you tend to get more bang for your buck.  We've had as
+many as 40 or more complete aliens -- full prosthetics and costumes --
+not just in one episode, but often in one SCENE, which would kill you
+in any other kind of show...unless you came up with some smarter ways
+of doing things.
+
+       That's one of the important things about B5...we don't tend to
+do things the way they've always been done because they've always been
+done that way.  We tend to ride the wave of technology in whichever
+area we're doing, and take whatever's newest, fastest, best.
+
+       That was ultimately the reason we went with CGI, more than any
+fiscal savings.  We can *do more* with CGI, get closer, have more
+ships, bigger scenes, make the B5 universe come alive.
+
+       (BTW, a lot of folks still compare the models used on ST with
+the CGI on B5, not aware that a fair amount of ST EFX now are done with
+CGI; some of them have even been done by Foundation, our CGI
+providers...the solar sail recently, for example.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Mar-96 21:19:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rob Edin <102623.2165@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Universes: ST vs. B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, and you're quite correct, it comes down to personal
+taste for the most part.  Didn't think your message was harsh at all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Mar-96 21:19:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Talking Kosh
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can Kosh speak on his own to other people in their language or
+> does his encounter suite translate his Vorlon language for him so
+> he can be understood? Is this why in "Fall of the Night" when
+> Sheridan asked if the person who saved him was Kosh, all Kosh did
+> was nod because he couldn't speak on his own?
+
+       His encounter suit translates vorlon into english; he can
+converse just fine with other vorlons without it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Mar-96 21:19:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5:New pricey toys
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       This is odd phrasing, as it refers to both 24 collections and 6
+collections in the same sentence.  I think something here is a
+mismatch. See, 24 collections times about $9 or so, the average price
+for a set, would be about right, almost 200 bucks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Mar-96 00:41:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All
+Subject: 'Severed Dreams'
+
+       Okay, so you've got some friends who've maybe checked out B5,
+and they've kinda gone back and forth...maybe the week you asked them
+to watch was a slower episode, and they wanted something other...or it
+was a bit too much on the arc-ish side
+
+       Give 'em a call and have them watch "Severed Dreams" this
+coming week. Don't say anything more than that, just make get 'em to do
+it.
+
+       We'll take it from there.
+
+       Trust me on this one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Mar-96 12:50:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 'Severed Dreams'
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Does Marcus Feature in this episdoe?
+
+       No, unfortunately Marcus ain't in this one.  But he does have a
+very large part in the next one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Mar-96 12:50:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 'Severed Dreams'
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Great...and thanks...even if you *are* pushing Space Cases. 
+Aren't there laws about that?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Mar-96 12:50:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Pfeiffer <75402.3151@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ministry Of Peace
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...it's a pretty good episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Mar-96 17:26:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5/AOL/WB newsletter?
+
+ Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know what this one's about?
+
+       No clue....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Mar-96 17:27:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5:New pricey toys
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> I don't want to criticize the Great Maker but, let's see now
+> where's that calculator? Almost $200, huh Joe?
+> Can you tell which episode this is from?
+
+       The scene was from "Ceremonies of Light and Dark."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Mar-96 18:28:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ministry Of Peace
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yeah...what I've heard from people who've watched their tapes
+daily is that it's a whole new experience.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Mar-96 20:28:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Knives creature
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Was it anything else, or are we done with it?
+
+       We're done with it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Mar-96 20:31:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Talking Kosh
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> I'm currently on a debate on Vorlonspeak, so why not go to the
+> source? Do Corlon's speak in music, and the translator turns it
+> into English?
+
+       They speak in tones, almost a chorus of voices.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Mar-96 20:31:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sci Fi Buzz Interview
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you tell me what episode it was that they showed scenes
+> from? I notice that Sheridan has longer hair now, is that part of
+> the storyline or did Boxleitner do it on his own?
+
+       Not having seen the episode yet, I can't tell where the scene
+came from.  And the styles do get a bit looser with time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Mar-96 20:31:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Valen and the Vorlons
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did the Vorlons support Valen just as they supported G'Quon?
+
+       It's not that easy a question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-Mar-96 17:00:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: VQT Ratings &Endorsement
+
+ William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Care to make a comment about this?
+> Just heard from Pigdog that VQT took a full page out in a trade
+> publication listing the endorsed shows and, well, guess what?
+
+       Yes, we had this confirmed in Friday's Daily Variety; Viewers
+for Quality Television has added B5 to its short list of qualified
+endorsed shows, along with Murphy Brown, 60 Minutes, Dr. Quinn Medicine
+Woman and about 10 others.  It's a definite recognition of the quality
+of the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-Mar-96 17:00:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 'Severed Dreams'
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       "...your offspring...."
+
+       Thus are mutants created....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-Mar-96 17:00:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Peter David <72550.2517@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SpaceCases&Hyper. in EW
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       In that case I better start expanding my wardrobe....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-Mar-96 17:00:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Universes: ST vs. B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       The tones are his real voice.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-Mar-96 17:00:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vorlon
+
+ Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we see any direct conflict between the Vorlon and the
+> Shadows in the arc? Of course we would all like to see the epic
+> space battle with the super races fighting it out ('battle of
+> five armies'), but is that the flavor of the war?
+
+       It's fair to say that sooner or later, probably sooner, the
+Vorlons are going to have to get more involved...but mark this, be
+careful what you ask for....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-Mar-96 19:05:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ivanova
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you give us any general hints as to what you have planned for
+> Ivanova in the future?
+
+       Can I?  Of course.  Will I?  No, of course not.  Kinda takes
+all the surprise out of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-Mar-96 19:05:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 2 part episodes
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you decide whether a episode will be a two parter or as a
+> series of connected stand alones like "Severed Dreams" is a part
+> of? Do you have any two part episodes planned for season 4 yet?
+
+       For the most part, it's a matter of how the episodes feel to
+me, what length they feel as if they require.  When I did the big three
+this year -- Messages, Point and Dreams -- I hadn't really figured
+they'd be as tightly connected as they ended up being.  I knew they'd
+relate strongly to one another, but in a sense, they're reallly a three
+parter.  The War Without End story I knew was WAY too big for one
+episode, but due to the structure of the story wouldn't take being
+extended for one more episode; at that point you'd just be dragging it
+out.
+
+       It's all instinct, I wish I had a more concrete answer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-Mar-96 19:05:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 'Severed Dreams'
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How about Kosh?
+
+       Yeah...Kosh seems to have retreated a bit so far...worrying,
+that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 31-Mar-96 14:04:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Violating Your Privacy
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> At that point, I guess I would wonder out loud what difference it
+> makes if my public words are seen merely by the hundreds in here,
+> or the many hundreds or thousands "out there"? But the messages I
+> wrote with the expectation of their being read by hundreds of
+> strangers anyway??? Does the idea that hundreds *more* might see
+> them bother me?
+
+       Which is exactly the point.  If you're not bothered in the
+least, then it isn't an issue.  It just seemed fair and proper to
+notify those who *might* have a problem with it, and some did.  It just
+allows people to make informed choices.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-Mar-96 14:04:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kosh Identity
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       The Vorlons are one of the last of the First Ones in our space;
+it's a race, not an individual.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-Mar-96 14:04:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams, WOW>
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Two questions about it, was Delenn in the Whitestar when she came
+> to defend B5? Also, are any of the new fighters that B5 is taking
+> on the new starfuries?
+
+       Yes, the push in on Delenn revealed her in the White Star, and
+yes, a fair number of the new 'furies B5 inherited are Thunderbolt
+class.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-Mar-96 14:04:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Continuity
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Do you have anyone to research before the final script?
+> Have there been any major errors in continuity?
+> Or will you not tell if there were?
+
+       No, I kinda have to keep it all in my head.  Nobody knows the
+show more than I do, so a researcher wouldn't work.  So far, in 3
+years, I don't think there have been any real continuity goofs.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-Mar-96 14:04:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 'Severed Dreams'
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.  It's our best to date, I think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-Mar-96 14:04:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Fred Owens <74051.3602@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Minbari Physiology
+
+ Fred Owens <74051.3602@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Silly question probably but, is Minbari sexual physiology
+> completely compatible with human physiology?
+
+       No, not under normal circumstances; it'd have to undergo some
+fairly extensive genetic modifications before that could happen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-Mar-96 15:59:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Dugan <71016.576@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Minbari Physiology
+
+ Bill Dugan <71016.576@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you mean that relations wouldn't be fertile, or that it would
+> be physically impossible to do it at all?
+
+       They wouldn't be fertile, no...as for impossible, the long
+history of odd human sexual behavior seems to indicate that for some
+folks, there ain't much that's impossible to mess about with.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-Mar-96 15:59:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com>
+Subject: All Alone in the Night
+
+ John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, I just finished watching my tape of "All Alone In The Night"
+> If it isn't giving anything away, could you clear up somthing for
+> me? Can you clarify this?
+
+       Ivanova is the woman in each case; and that's Garibaldi, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-Mar-96 17:02:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is the story on the Grey Council?
+> PS, What part of Patterson were you born in?
+
+       Thanks.  The easy thing to do, the TeeVee thing to do, would've
+been to go from Sheridan's line "All ships return to base," to the
+exterior with the big ships, and fade out.  But I try to keep this show
+from doing the easy thing.  Yes, you had a victory.  Yes, it was
+necessary.  But what's the cost? We shouldn't glamorize these things. 
+Even at the end, as you notice, even at the end of the reception...we
+go out on an ominous note.
+
+       What part of Paterson?  The downscale part of town.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-Mar-96 21:28:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Talking Kosh
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Nope.  The man was nuts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-Mar-96 21:28:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 CD-ROM
+
+ David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Oh oh, oh, when, when, when??
+
+       I'd expect by around May sometime for Chris's new CD.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs96-04 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs96-04
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/ftp/CompuServe/cs96-04
@@ -0,0 +1,8326 @@
+
+Date: 01-Apr-96 14:07:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brad Davis <102416.342@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams> Spoiler
+
+ Brad Davis <102416.342@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will anyone back on earth recognize the White Star defending
+> Babylon 5 as the same ship that was accused of destroying the
+> base on Ganymeade?
+
+       Probably not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Apr-96 14:07:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams, WOW>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Are the Thunderbolt class Starfuries as durable as the "Thuds"
+> proved themselves in 'Nam??
+
+       The new fighters are pretty solid.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Apr-96 14:07:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Copyright infringement?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       All three of those items are absolutely bogus, pirated
+material. Totally illegal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Apr-96 14:07:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Talking Kosh
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       He wasa certainly feeling the strain, and not used to
+interacting physically with people, certainly not for a long, long
+time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Apr-96 16:37:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: spoooooooooooooo!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Fun, ain't it?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Apr-96 16:37:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Minbari Physiology
+
+ Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Didn't G'Kar ask Lyta about interspecies mating in the pilot with
+> the intention of producing a telepathic Narn?
+
+       Yes, he did ask her about mating, and in the course of that
+discussion mentioned the genetic manipulation that would be required.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Apr-96 16:50:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hiroshi
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is Captain Sandra Hiroshi that we saw in "Severed Dreams" related
+> to the security officer Hiroshi we saw in "Convictions"?
+
+       No intentional relation, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Apr-96 16:50:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Paterson has an *upscale* part?
+
+"Paterson has an *upscale* part?"
+
+       Used to.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Apr-96 16:50:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jack Beckman <73227.3066@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       "...hit between the eyes."   Yeah, that's the correct reaction,
+I'd say.
+
+       Yes, it's easy to fire on the enemy when it's a faceless
+entity; not as easy when it's someone you know.  Kinda brings it home,
+makes it personal.
+
+       We rode the audio on some sequences right to the legal limit;
+don't know if we got clamped at any point along the way, to explain the
+surround drop.  Will look into it.
+
+       Thanks again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Apr-96 21:17:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Talking Kosh
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"That makes me feel *marginally* better about the universe."
+
+      Good.  So you won't mind that I gave him your address....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Apr-96 21:17:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams, WOW>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks; it's a great sequence for Delenn.
+
+      The next episode is kind of clean-up time for some loose threads
+still lying about, then a couple of smaller stories to give us
+breathing space before the next big wave (and it's a doozy).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Apr-96 22:03:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gail Marsella <71551.3200@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 - TV Guide Contest
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Y'know...it's a wacky idea, but It Just Might Work....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 02-Apr-96 12:05:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Universes: ST vs. B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       A talking na'ka'leen feeder can ask a question like this...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Apr-96 17:52:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Time on B5
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How long is a day on B5?
+> Does it take 24 hrs for B5 to rotate?
+
+       No, but it's kept to 24 hours on B5 in order to sync up with
+Earth back home.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Apr-96 17:52:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Barney vs. The Shadows
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> but who the hell knows??
+> In getting worried?
+> Do you concur with these opinions?
+
+       Actually, I'd say the song is just about right...mostly.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Apr-96 17:52:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark <70004.1111@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Effects
+
+ Mark <70004.1111@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What kind of medium are you dumping the 24 bit data to?
+> How much "hard drive" space does say a 10 second efx shot take
+> up? You wouldn't happen to have the raw data of a Shadow ship
+> hanging around would ya?
+
+       ...urk...math...technospeak.....(thud)
+
+       That's a Ron question.  Rendering not Zathras' skill.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Apr-96 19:16:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Time on B5
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Isn't B5 a group effort of many worlds?
+> Why should Earth dominate?
+
+       Nope.  B5 is not "a group effort of many worlds."  The Earth
+Alliance funded the construction on all the Babylon stations, accepting
+a little extra money from the Minbari and the Centauri toward the end
+to help finish B5.  The currency is regulated in terms of Earth
+credits, the laws in the Ombuds courtroom are Earth laws (except as
+they encounter cultural laws between members of the same species), it's
+Earth Alliance Station Babylon 5, and so on.  Is it fair?  Probably
+not.  But that's how Earth wants it, and Earth runs, finances, oversees
+and built B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Apr-96 19:16:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5:New pricey toys
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Well, all Bandai has to do is make WB an offer, and if the
+details work, they'll do the models.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Apr-96 19:16:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Caru Hong <73267.257@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 'Severed Dreams'
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...the pleasure is entirely mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Apr-96 19:18:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steve Augustine <102202.200@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Entertainment CD
+
+ Steve Augustine <102202.200@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong when I try to access the
+> personnel files on the CD?
+
+       The scritttttt sound is the same sound made by the identicard
+scanners in the show; watch the start of Severed Dreams, you'll hear it
+there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Apr-96 19:18:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel Barer <74033.167@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Entertainment CD
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Not a problem; see my other note on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Apr-96 22:05:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Londo the puppet
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this true?
+> If so, why did you want Londo to be played by a puppet?
+
+   I've wracked my brain trying to remember if that's true or not, and
+I honestly can't remember ever having a discussion about Londo being a
+puppet. Prosthetics, yes, but not anything animatronic.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Apr-96 22:05:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Minbari society
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you intending to explore further the possibility that Minbari
+> civilization is stagnated and their culture may be in need of a
+> revitalization?
+
+   It's a topic I'm open to exploring, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Apr-96 22:33:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Continuity
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"do you run your scrips by others?  IOW, do you make sure that it will
+all make sense to others?"
+
+      You must understand several things.  First, there's no one else
+on a writing side to *run* things past here.  There's just me.  I *am*
+the writing staff this season (which will probably not be quite the
+same next season, if I can find the right people).
+
+      The other thing is that writing is really a solitary business. 
+There's the impression that in TV, stories get whomped around and
+mushed up by some faceless committee.  While this is true in some
+cases, it isn't true in all cases.  David Kelley's scripts are his
+scripts.  Steve Bochco's scripts are his scripts.  My scripts are my
+scripts.  If I don't know my craft well enough to know whether or not
+it'll make sense to others, I should get out of the business
+immediately.
+
+      As soon as I finish writing the script, alone, it goes right
+into production.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Apr-96 22:33:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 6, 7 ...
+
+ John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know you have said that Babylon 5 will run only 5 seasons, but
+> I cannot see how this can be possible? Without a season 6, to what
+> will WB tack on the last Eight or so episodes of season 5? Are the
+> upcoming 8 episodes all we're due to get until fall?
+
+      I don't know about the "after the eight" matter; it's possible
+that we could get 2 more run in July, the rest, I dunno...could be
+sooner, could be later.  We won't know this for a while yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Apr-96 22:33:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams, WOW>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Out of curiosity, however, was Ta'Lon killed in the attack on the
+> station, or was my nearsightedness just flaring up?
+
+      Thanks, and Ta'Lon is still alive and well.
+
+      It's a good episode, no mistake.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Apr-96 01:58:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow strength
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who is the strongest according to pure physical strength, a
+> Shadow or a human?
+
+      A shadow is *definitely* much stronger physically than a human.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Apr-96 01:58:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Severed Dreams<<
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When will we find out to which castes they belong?
+> Was the council leader one of them?
+> Is it just my imagination, or was her speech more "human,"
+> perhaps due to her time on B5 or her transformation? And I ask
+> myself, "Why do people let it come to this - that they must kill
+> each other to resolve their differences?" I found myself saying,
+> "No, it can't be; JMS wouldn't do that," Then, "Wouldn't he?" Is
+> she related to the Senator?
+
+      Toni: thanks.  All of the characters shine in this one, Mira in
+particular as Delenn.  It's a nice contrast; her speech to the Grey
+Council is an intense piece of work that goes on for a while; her
+declaration to the EA ships is short, to the point, and absolutely
+deadly.  The right tool for the right job.
+
+      I'm utterly pleased and proud of the job we did here.  Partly
+because it's just so nifty on its own terms, and partly because it
+gives us a new level to try and beat.  Up until now, I've been looking
+to top "Coming of Shadows;" now the goal is to top this one...and I
+think it's possible there may be one or two even this season that'll do
+that, but tonally I think they're different enough that it might end up
+as a tie.
+
+      I definitely wanted the close-in, hand-to-hand fighting to
+personalize what's going on.  It's also very logical strategically. 
+You send in your forces to disable or overwhelm C&C, distract them,
+slip in a cadre of troops to a station that (you hope) didn't know you
+were coming...then they race to C&C and seize control from inside,
+shooting anyone they have to en route.  If Sheridan et al hadn't known
+the ships were coming in, this could've gone very differently.  But
+once they were in, they were in close quarters, and you want to get in
+closer if you're on the defensive side so that they can't use their 
+weapons without cutting down their own people.  After that you have to
+hope you can overwhelm the intruders with sheer force of numbers.  It's
+an ugly, awful way to win a fight, because it *guarantees*
+casualties...but what war doesn't?
+
+      Something to bear in mind when rewatching, btw...it was during
+this scene that Jerry fell and broke his right arm and right wrist. 
+And they still had one last scene to film.  He stuck it out and they
+rolled film, to get the shot of him and Zack at the end of the fight. 
+Next time you watch it, keep an eye on the right arm as he releases the
+helmet...it bends in directions never intended by evolution.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 03-Apr-96 11:40:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 escape pod
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       We're still trying to figure all this out ourselves....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Apr-96 11:40:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Celia J. Penham <102454.540@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Homicidal rages
+
+ Celia J. Penham <102454.540@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we ever *see* alcohol's effect on a Minbari system?
+
+       No immediate plans for this, but knowing how my brain works,
+we'll probably see this sooner or later.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Apr-96 11:40:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams, WOW>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.  We have to keep shooting ever higher or we're dead.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Apr-96 11:40:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Benoit Langevin <74434.3136@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <SD:Garibaldi>
+
+ Benoit Langevin <74434.3136@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And by the way for the last two week, we don't see the next week
+> preview, is it in the satelite uplink or is it our station,
+> CFCF-12-Montreal, that didn't put it on air?
+
+       No, it's a different scene than the flash-forward in Babylon
+Squared.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Apr-96 15:20:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: General Hague <Spoiler>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       We'd booked the actor long, long in advance.  At the last
+minute, he bailed to do a DS9 episode playing, essentially, the same
+character, despite our having first dibs.
+
+       So I killed off the character.  Didn't change the story by the
+smallest measure.  May actually have helped, since it raised the stakes
+in the story right from the start.
+
+       Rule #1: Never honk off the writer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Apr-96 15:20:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 'Severed Dreams'
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> As an aside: Are you planning anything special for your
+> appearance at Marcon next month?
+
+       Nothing special per se planned for Marcon...I generally play it
+by ear on these things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Apr-96 15:20:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Did we get cut or did you leave it to our imaginations?
+
+       No, we cut that shot pretty close, to go out on the bang.  Your
+local station didn't cut anything there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Apr-96 15:20:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams, WOW>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, the Thunderbolt furies were seen both on Mars and
+attacking B5.
+
+       A normal Starfury can't function in an atmosphere environment. 
+The new Thunderbolt models have airfoils/wings that are folded back
+over the body of the ship for non-atmospheric maneuvering, and then
+extend out to full sized wings when entering an atmosphere.  (You'll
+get to see in detail how this works back and forth in "Ship of Tears.")
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Apr-96 15:20:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phil Koltko <71604.2145@compuserve.com>
+Subject: stuff
+
+ Phil Koltko <71604.2145@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Is there any hope of convincing David Gerrold to write a B5
+> novel?
+
+       Thanks.  Marcus is a great character...he can go back and forth
+between deadly serious and quite funny without batting an eye, it's all
+quite smooth. He adds a lot to the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Apr-96 15:20:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steve Augustine <102202.200@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Entertainment CD
+
+ Steve Augustine <102202.200@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You mean even when a picture of Delenn, Vir, or the others
+> display during the screen saver, it's supposed to make that same
+> 'scritttt' sound?
+
+       No, if you're talking about the white screens with the black
+and white photos and text, no, it's all Identicard stuff.  (Check the
+pilot, and you'll see the same display used there for Lyta's entrance.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Apr-96 20:56:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Puppets sue Babylon 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Go to your room....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Apr-96 21:11:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Dust to Dust question
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who is the second Narn that G'Kar talks to?
+> Is it his father again or G'Quon?
+
+      It's the same thing, the image of his father.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Apr-96 21:11:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams, WOW>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Well, at this kind of range, they could eyeball the targets for
+the most part, as far as the big ships are concerned; the smaller ones
+would be much more difficult.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Apr-96 21:11:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Severed Dreams<<
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  That's exactly the impression I wanted...you do the
+dolly/zoom move, isolating Sheridan visually...you don't cut back to
+the others as they speak, just let the camera stay on him, put the
+other voices down under the music and off to the side, just *HOLD*
+there...works great.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Apr-96 21:12:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel Barer <74033.167@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Severed Dreams<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I agree, but Jerry was determined to do it, and more time
+would've been lost arguing about it than it took to do the takes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Apr-96 21:12:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Severed Dreams<<
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I presume there was some dialog snipped giving him a new pinpoint
+> location for the pod?
+
+      That was because the Narns just kept right on going, even when
+he'd said "we'll wait here."  That's Narns for you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Apr-96 21:12:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: General Hague <Spoiler>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The show comes first, absolutely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Apr-96 22:56:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: L.A.,April 1, 1981
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'd forgotten about that part of it...thanks.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Apr-96 22:57:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Soul Hunters
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> I've been wondering about the Soul Hunters for a while JMS Will
+> we ever see them again? How advanced was thier tech?
+> How many are there?
+> Will they play any part in the Shadow War?
+
+      I'd certainly like to see them again....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Apr-96 00:54:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <SD - White Star!!>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Well, President Clark would know it, from the Aggy records, but
+the general population wouldn't know it yet, since those records
+weren't released. But it does give him a card to play at some point in
+the future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 04-Apr-96 11:54:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: L.A.,April 1, 1981
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What aniversary did you forget?
+> Do we all help Kathryn (sp?) beat on you with dead lemmings?
+
+       April 1st 1981 was the day I moved to LA to become a Big Shot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Apr-96 11:54:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Severed Dreams<<
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this a member of the Warrior Caste defecting with Delenn?
+> Who the hell is running the Mimbari government now?
+> Incedently, if the warrior caste was *not* in on it, where did
+> they get the warships?
+
+       At this point, with the Council broken, Delenn isn't currently
+running Minbar...there's a vacuum of power.  The system can carry on
+for a while, the balance between the castes is pretty efficient, but
+this is going to have to be resolved, and some in the warrior caste may
+suspect Delenn of doing this so she *can* rise to power.
+
+       As part of Valen's covenant, to prevent one caste from taking
+over the other, each caste has access to its own warships.  This was
+done to create trust a thousand years ago, and since then, since there
+hasn't been any conflict between Minbari, the three castes own their
+own warships still, but in general are assigned to Warrior caste as a
+courtesy, which can be revoked. As Delenn noted, the worker and
+religious castes control 2/3rds of their forces.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Apr-96 12:06:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Press Release
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       "...telepathy, telekinesis, prophesy..."
+
+       Basically, I wouldn't consider those technology in any form. 
+The technology on which the *show* is based is pretty
+rigorous...starfuries designed for zero gravity, a dyson-style sphere,
+rotational gravity, and so on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Apr-96 13:49:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Press Release
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       (sigh...some days I have the brains of a flea).   I typed Dyson
+sphere when I meant to type O'Neill sphere or station.  Brain fart.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Apr-96 13:49:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Severed Dreams<<
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did some of the Military follow Delenn?
+> May we assume that Neroon did not follow Delenn?
+
+       No, 5 left the council with her.  And one can wonder, Did she
+turn down the position of leader of the Grey Council, which would be a
+balance for that role, in order to eliminate the council and become
+primary ruler? (That is what some of the warrior caste are bound to
+begin wondering after a while.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Apr-96 13:49:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Severed Dreams<<
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Each caste populates the ships in their jurisdiction with their
+own people.  Which is why those on the Minbari warships that came in,
+which we'll see shortly, are religious caste, no warriors among
+them...but even the religious caste is well trained in combat, as part
+of their education in temple.  We've seen some of this already in
+Lennier's abilities in a fight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Apr-96 22:25:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phil Koltko <71604.2145@compuserve.com>
+Subject: stuff
+
+ Phil Koltko <71604.2145@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, What about Gerrold writing a novel?
+> Can this be done?
+
+      It can be done, sure, but I think David is generally more
+interested in writing his own novels than a farmed-out concept book,
+and rightly so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Apr-96 22:25:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: L.A.,April 1, 1981
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What are you doing on line in mid-day?
+
+      I dived on for a bit from my office at the stage.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Apr-96 22:25:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phil Koltko <71604.2145@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Gravity in core shuttle
+
+ Phil Koltko <71604.2145@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What holds people to the seats and floor of the core shuttle?
+
+      There are mag-strips, also hand-holds, seat belts and
+foot-straps.  As you enter you hear the voice warning that this is a
+reduced gravity area, and to exercise proper precautions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Apr-96 22:25:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Narn contribution
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Did the Narn contribute to the making of B5?
+
+        No, the Narn didn't contribute to the making of B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Apr-96 22:25:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Jinxo
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Are there plans for seeing Jinxo on the series again?
+
+      No, no plans for Jinxo for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Apr-96 22:25:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Dust to Dust Problem
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In "Dust to Dust" why did you have G'Kar refer to his father in
+> the third person when he said "I must honor my father's name" to
+> his father? Also why wasn't G'Kar happy and embracing his father
+> when he appeared to him right after G'Kar watched his father die
+> hanging from the tree?
+
+      Both questions have the same answer: logically, G'Kar knows that
+his father is dead.  He saw him die.  So whoever this was, wasn't his
+father, even though he was appearing that way.  Or was a spirit, and
+either way, he would've been sufficiently apprehensive about it not to
+go blithely around embracing something he didn't understand.  I sure as
+hell wouldn't.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Apr-96 22:25:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams, WOW>
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has Ron and the folks at Foundation picked up some new rendering
+> iron (or silicon)?
+
+      No, I just think they're getting better at using what they have.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Apr-96 22:25:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Celia J. Penham <102454.540@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Severed Dreams<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Apr-96 22:25:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <SD- Special Scene>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yup.  We designed that scene very carefully to have that impact.
+No cutaways, just *hold* on him.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Apr-96 22:38:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Last Shadow War>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Nope, sorry, that theory couldn't possibly be more incorrect....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04-Apr-96 22:38:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <SD - Narn Sacrifice>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      What you also have to bear in mind sometimes is that *this* is
+the only way to get things done.  When the Allies stormed Normandy
+Beach, they knew that German bunkers and machine nests and fortified
+positions were right there on the beach waiting for them.  But they
+stormed out, onto the beach, and the first lines were cut down, one
+after another after another, hundreds, literally thousands of soldiers.
+But those behind were able to get through, take up position as best
+they could.  Some of them clung to the edges of cliffs as Germans above
+laughed and threw down grenades into their midst.
+
+      Sometimes there's no other way.  But you do it because those who
+command you have the moral authority to say "You probably will not come
+back, but the cause is just, and fair, and necessary."
+
+      Thus do we go off to die.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Apr-96 01:35:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams-Classic>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and thanks especially for the comment about Delenn.  She
+really hit home here for a lot of people, and the exchange was a good
+one.
+
+      I think we may have done something quite extraordinary here. 
+One hopes for that, of course, always...but I've finally allowed myself
+to think we may actually have done it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Apr-96 01:35:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, there's an actual limit to the frequency/volume you can pack
+into an episode.  Go over the legal limit and you can get into dutch
+with the FCC.  We went real near it, but didn't pass it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-Apr-96 01:35:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Severed Dreams<<
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah...the reference was kafuffled.  There was so much going on,
+so many EFX shots, so much rearranging of shots to make everything work
+(we literally delivered this 2 hours before the process for uplinking
+started) that this slipped past.  I'll assume that Sheridan got excited
+and said the wrong name. It'd happen to anyone.  Right?  Right?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 00:17:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Dust to Dust Problem
+
+ William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So are you possibly indicating that G'Kar could have been seeing
+> a spirit as well?
+
+      Well, G'Kar doubtless *thinks* he saw a spirit, possibly the
+spirit of his father, possibly something else...revealed later as
+G'Lan, of course, taking that image in order to give him a revelation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 00:17:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Senators Giving Orders
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Real simple.  For starters, both Senators are on the Babylon 5
+Oversight Committee, and the CO of B5 is answerable to that committee,
+as those in the Pentagon are answerable to the senate for senate-funded
+activities.  Also, the matters in question, such as the labor strike,
+were not strictly military matters, but *civilian* situations.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 00:17:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Best Yet!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, and welcome out of Lurkdom.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 00:17:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Comic Disappointment
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there anything that you can do to get DC comics to start
+> publishing new B5 comics? Aren't you concerned that the story you
+> wrote for the first few issues may never be seen by your fans? If
+> you're having trouble with DC, why don't you just let another
+> company publish the comics?
+
+      The comics may finally be getting back on line.  There will be a
+meeting in May in NY to finalize stuff there.
+
+      I will not, however, be writing directly for the comic anymore. 
+DC has a policy that they will not allow writers final say on their
+books.  Only the editors.  On all books written by other writers, as
+per their contract with DC, I via WB, have final approval.  However, if
+I function as a writer, then I must give up that right and allow myself
+to be rewritten by the editor. It's a jurisdictional matter.  Suffice
+to say I was appalled by some of the rewriting done on what I'd turned
+in on the four issue arc.
+
+      Consequently, I will not be writing that arc, or any other books
+for the DC title.  I will be happy to provide information to keep the
+story current with the series, farm out premises so it stays canon, and
+work closely with the writers in my approval status.  That way I can
+make sure the work is to our standards; if I write for the book, I
+cannot do so, because the editor insists on rewriting me to maintain
+DC's jurisdictional structure.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 00:17:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do advertisers have to stay within those boundaries?
+
+      Advertisers generally go right up to the limits of the sound,
+but can't go over it.  They just use up *all* the frequency range, so
+it seems louder and bigger.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 00:17:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And Mira?
+> And the look in her eyes?
+
+      Thanks, and yes, there's definitely fire and steel in Delenn,
+which she calls upon when she needs it.  And nobody crosses her when
+that happens.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 00:17:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  Yes, it's designed to get you revved up at the retreat,
+it's our natural reaction.  The TV Logic thing to do would be to go to
+black at that point, and the commercial.  But this show is about
+consequences, choices and responsibility, and to *not* have that last
+scene would be a betrayal of that.  Otherwise it's just jingoism.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Of course, one wonders how he managed to get such a plum
+> position, hmmm? When exactly did the effects get finished for this
+> episode?
+
+      All I'll say here is that there were *so* many EFX here that we
+mixed the episode a few days before delivery, and got it down there 2
+hours before the process for uplinking the episode to stations.  It was
+the hardest thing we've ever done...but it was worth it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randy Upshaw <75464.1275@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams, WOW>
+
+ Randy Upshaw <75464.1275@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So Is "Ship of tears" the next big arc episode?
+
+      Exactly.  If you're going to do something as monumental as what
+Sheridan does here re: B5's status and Earth, it can't be done lightly
+or frivolously or without sufficient cause.  It has to be an absolutely
+last resort.  If we'd done it any sooner, it would've been less
+effective, and more of a cheat.
+
+      And yes, after two breather stories, "Ship of Tears" starts the
+arc moving again, and with very few exceptions doesn't let up for the
+rest of the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William O. Powers <102124.3327@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams, WOW>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, I agree, I think it is our best work.
+
+      So far.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Severed Dreams<<
+
+ Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How can you possibly top this one?
+
+      How can we top SD isn't the question.  It's when.  We *have* to
+keep constantly getting better, improving the show.  As Bob Dylan
+wrote, "Any man not busy being born is busy dying."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Severed Dreams<<
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean that there are warrior and worker caste Minbari
+> doing religous duties in the temples and warrior and religious
+> caste Minbari doing worker caste duties as well?
+
+      No, those aspects are kept absolutely separate and
+caste-specific. It's only when you get into the warships that, by
+tradition, some warrior caste have been involved with the others,
+mainly as a courtesy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Severed Dreams<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Except, of course, you now have an extraordinary situation in
+which the Major, through the death of his CO, was now the commanding
+officer of the Alexander.  In ordinary circumstances, this would mean
+he'd be given a field promotion.
+
+      Second, I don't recall any situation where the Major was "giving
+orders to a commander."  The aide on the deck of the Alexander was a
+Lieutenant, as I recall.  Also, if Hague indicated that he was to be
+given command as he died, that would likely be honored.  Finally, yes,
+the Major was involved in the discussions of strategy, but in *every
+case* he presented Sheridan and Hiroshi with options, and because it
+was Sheridan's neck of the woods, it was left to Sheridan to give
+orders.  He coordinated the defense, and was the only one speaking
+directly with the Agrippa.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Severed Dreams<<
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Re: Foundation "adding a new flame effect"...sort of.  One
+night, we just went out into the parking lot, set up a camera pointing
+up behind a plexiglass screen, and set off a bunch of explosions above
+it.  Went great until one of the blasts was so big it melted through
+the plex *and* the camera lens....
+
+      Looked good though, didn't it?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: General Hague <Spoiler>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think Sheridan was kinda up to his ears in matters graver than
+the Major's field promotion, though you're right, he had one coming (as
+I noted in an earlier message).  Given that they'd just broken away
+from Earthforce, and walked away from the rank structure to some
+extent, it would seem a rather indulgent exercise, since Earth
+certainly wouldn't recognize the field promotion of a renegade officer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <SD - Narn Sacrifice>
+
+ Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> With the station rotating for the simulation of gravity, and the
+> breaching pod attaching to to outside of the station: Should the
+> opening the pod mad have been in the floor instead of the wall?
+
+      Yes and no.  They came through the "floor" which would be the
+outer hull.  Like any good ship, the station has two hulls for
+protection, an inner hull and an outer hull.  Once breaching the outer
+hull, they moved into the inner hull, then angled up for a wall they
+could blow out.
+
+      I figured this would make more tactical sense because if they
+just blew through the floor, they'd have to *crawl* out one or two at a
+time, whereas if they angled in safely and then came in through a wall,
+they could pour in more quickly, en masse, and be less vulnerable.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <SD- Special Scene>
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Isn't that type of shot (camera pulling back as the lens zooms
+> in) a Hitchcock original (ala "Vertigo")?
+
+      Probably; the shot gets used in many films.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams-Classic>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Bingo.  You hit it right on the nose.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams-Classic>
+
+ Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And thus my question about this on EA ships: while we are shown
+> that they have rotating compartments, what happens when these
+> ships are under acceleration (or deceleration)?
+
+      Narns are strapped in because they don't have artificial
+gravity, or rotating sections; if they weren't strapped in they'd be
+floating about.
+
+      C&C is a little over one-third of the way from the central hub. 
+This gives you about 33-35% of normal gravity, so a person weighing 200
+pounds would weigh about 66-70.  (Yes, we did the math on this.)  So
+you're not going to see anybody bouncing around the walls.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams battle>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What happened to the fourth one?
+
+      That would've been killed off-camera.  We tried to fit in every
+ship getting nailed, but finally realized it would've required another
+half an act.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 00:34:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: SD - Thunderbolts
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The Thunderbolts have extension wings on the sides, which extend
+to lock for full flight capacity.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 00:34:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams >
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Re: caring for the characters...this is exactly the point I was
+going on about a few weeks ago here.  Somebody was wondering why the
+personal stories, why not just arc-arc-arc.  You *need* the occasional
+personal stories so you learn more about the people, and grow to care
+about them *as* people, not just arc-movers, so that when stuff like
+the events in SD happen, you care about it and get involved.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 14:01:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rob Edin <102623.2165@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Universes: ST vs. B5
+
+ Rob Edin <102623.2165@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 5 stations, hmmm?
+
+       Clarifications: B1-B3 were never finished, but sabotaged very
+early in construction, so the cost impact wasn't that high.  Only B4
+was completed. When it vanished, the project was almost abandoned, but
+then the Minbari and Centauri agreed to help finance the project, and
+the EA went ahead with a scaled-down version, their last shot at it. 
+Hence, B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 16:18:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Larry Rosenblum <72122.1555@compuserve.com>
+Subject: San Jose Merc and B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+        Great, thanks for the info.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 16:18:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sandra G. Bruckner <76642.3664@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Comic Disappointment
+
+ Sandra G. Bruckner <76642.3664@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When you mentioned the editing problems you were encountering
+> with DC in your phone conversation to the DC Gathering a while
+> back, did you notice the reaction? Everyone was apalled that some
+> comic book editor would have the nerve to want to re-write your
+> story? How can someone else write it better than you can?
+
+      Yeah, it's kind of the Red Queen's Race sort of logic.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 16:19:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: stuff
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would I be wrong in assuming that he is out of the renumeration
+> range for a B5 novel?
+
+       Probably, yeah.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 16:19:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What can I say?
+> Is this your best to date?
+> You and your entire crew (actors, special effects, casting -
+> EVERYONE) must be extremely proud of this masterpiece - as well
+> as a little aprehensive - how do you top this?? But, who are the
+> traitors? But, what of the Grey Council members that broke from
+> the council to side with Delenn? Traitors to what had been their
+> ruling body? Probably won't be enough, but at least he'd go down
+> fighting and it could help distract Clark's troops? I guess their
+> (Shadows) time of quiet preparation is over? Definitely not
+> comfortable but, who would would be? I could almost see/hear the
+> wheels turning in John's head ("this is it, no turning back, time
+> for "the" decision, it's in my hands, -my- decision" - replaying
+> events up to that point, wrestling with alternatives, "are there
+> alternatives?"
+>  - just plain numb over the weight of these events?
+> ships, situation hopeless - surrender or die?
+> "What do I tell his and Hague's wives?"
+
+        Wow, that's a lengthy examination.  Thank you for all that,
+and the effort.  Great encouragement.  I appreciate it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 16:19:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Stephen Burrow <70640.40@compuserve.com>
+Subject: "The" John Smith
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+        No, he's just funny that way....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 16:19:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Rage'sThots:JS's Dream>
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> "Do you know who I am?"
+> He sees himself, this possible being a question to himself along
+> the lines of "Am I dreaming?" Perhaps "You are the hand that
+> killed her?"
+
+               Not bad....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 16:19:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <SD - Narn Sacrifice>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 22:50:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Abuse in Sactown
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Nuts, you're right, that *is* very unfortunate.  Especially
+given how good the episode is.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 22:50:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Fan Club
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What do we have to do to get the fan club applications?
+> Do we have to send a letter, or do we get it if we signed up
+> online, on AOL or the web, a few months back? When should we
+> expect to receive the applications by?
+
+      I'll post the full information this coming week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 22:50:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Stern on B5
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since Howard Stern is a big fan of your show, do you plan on
+> asking him to guest star on B5 sometime?
+
+      No immediate plans for this, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 22:50:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks; you're right, it's the moments that make any good show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 22:50:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  Any work of fiction must, on some level, make you
+*feel* something for the characters, so it isn't just an intellectual
+exercise, or the resolution of the plot.  If you can touch the
+emotions, then you've got something very special.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 22:50:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams, WOW>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> done, is this do?
+
+      Yes, this one had more CGI than anything we've ever done before.
+And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 22:50:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 'Severed Dreams'
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 22:50:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Severed Dreams<<
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  If you've got someone new to the show, who might not
+know the backstory very well, then probably the Michael York episode,
+"A Late Delivery From Avalon" would be a good one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-Apr-96 22:50:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <SD - Narn Sacrifice>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, the ships kinda turned fast there, but we were just out of
+time in the episode, and had to move it along.
+
+      In any event...thanks for the great comments.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 13:50:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Minbari society>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Did that look like A'Shan in the Grey Council ship too you, as
+> well?
+
+      That wasn't Ashan, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 13:50:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <SD :-O >
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Did she mean on the WS, or the Grey Council cruiser, or Minbar?
+>  -Was Sandra Hidoshi related to Sinclair's Senator contact in
+> season 1?
+
+      Several corrections to your note:
+
+      1) That was not Ta'Lon in the episode.  He didn't appear
+anywhere in this episode.
+
+      2) Jerry didn't hide his broken arm in the pocket because it
+wasn't broken at that time.  That scene was shot previous to the
+earlier scene (we shoot out of sequence, like all shows).
+
+      3) It's Sandra Hiroshi, not Hidoshi, so no relation to the
+senator.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 14:15:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS: Severed Dreams?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Well I wouldn't consider the story with Mr. sebastian to be a
+wedding like scene (unless you go to some different sorts of weddings
+than I've ever been to), and the fruit scene (with Sinclair, not
+Sheridan) was primarily a rebirth ceremony, so again, I think the
+"pattern" is perceptual.
+
+      "...can we settle on the fact that the shadows are "bad" or at
+least completely and utterly selfish?"
+
+      You're putting human motivations on an *extremely* alien
+culture, which may have its own reasons for doing what it's doing. 
+(Actually, *everyone* has their reasons for doing what they're doing,
+even the Nazis used the argument of Lebensraum, living space, to
+justify their actions.)  So I won't say we can settle on this, no.
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 14:15:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<Severed Dreams>>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.
+
+      Re: Marcus...yes, he was away from the station when all hell
+broke loose; we find him returning in the very next episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 14:15:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are they new?
+> Whose are they?
+
+      Those are the Vree; we saw them in season one, in Deathwalker.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 14:15:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> "Will you give all you can give so that our battle may advance?
+> Some will fall and some will live; will you stand up and take the
+> chance?"
+
+      Thanks.  Yeah, the older I get, the more I realize there are
+things you can do with silence you can't do with words, though I still
+love the form of the speech.  There was a lot of counterpoint in this
+episode, a tool I'm still playing with as a writer; eventually I'll
+figure out how to really use it properly.  (Though there's an
+interesting scene up later this season using another kind of ironic
+counterpoint which I think works pretty well.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 14:15:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams, WOW>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      All of them....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 14:15:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams, WOW>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  I agree, Bruce has definitely made the role his own. 
+It's a slow and difficult process for any actor, but he's done very
+well at it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 14:15:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Severed Dreams<<
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'd have to check my figures, which are at the office, and I'm
+at home, but I *think* we've got about 600 crew and support on a
+Minbari cruiser.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 14:16:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ceremonies Question>
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In "Ceremonies of Light and Dark" why did G'Kar not accept
+> Delenn's invitation to the Rebirth Ceremony? G'Kar been trying for
+> awhile to become part of the army of light, why would he turn
+> down a chance to get closer to Delenn?
+
+      Because he saw the actual co-running of security, and their
+duties, more important...that is physical, and concrete, and he feels
+is his surest way to win a seat in the new council.  Actions, not
+ceremonies.  He's very direct that way.  (Which is pretty much what he
+said at the time.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 14:16:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ceremonies-Delenn>
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In "Ceremonies of Light and DarK" Lennier says that Delenn is
+> destined for another, is this part of the prophesy?
+
+      It is now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 14:16:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <SD: Praise & Questions>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> a) Will those Minbari warships be staying with Babylon 5?
+> b) Was that Minbari that Delenn talked to beofre meeting with the
+> Grey Council the same one as in "There All the Honour Lies"?
+
+      No, the Minbari wasn't Ashan, no.  And yes, the Minbari war
+cruisers will be staying for a while...but they know they can't rely on
+Minbari protectino forever.  They have to take control of the
+situation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 14:33:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams, WOW>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      "JMS is on an anti-typcasting crusade."
+
+      That's actually true, in a lot of ways.  My sense is that here
+we have many actors who created enduring works because they were good
+at what they did; they're *good actors*.  But because they were so good
+at it, they got typecast as only able to play that.  How many people
+snickered, wrongly, when they heard Walter was going to be Bester? 
+"Chekhov in the Psi Corps," was the usual lament.
+
+      Until they *saw* him.  And saw what he could do.
+
+      To work against the typecasting is simply payment on a debt to
+those who created enduring characters.  And I'll continue to do it
+wherever and whenever I can.  (Look for Robert England in an upcoming
+episode playing a very different sort of character than he's played
+elsewhere lately.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 14:33:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <SD - MAJOR error>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How would Delenn know about B5 declaring independence, and know
+> that they needed help?
+
+      Real simple.  Lennier was still on-station.  All she had to do
+was check in with him en route and find out.  Also, she went to the
+council for the purpose of getting military support because she knew
+heavy stuff was coming down, in one form or another.  Knowing that "the
+humans are fighting one another" as she said to the council, it's
+evident that if they didn't come to B5 that day, they'd come shortly
+thereafter.
+
+      So no, not a major error at all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Universes: ST vs. B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      We shot the last scene with the cane *before* we shot the scene
+in which Jerry broke his arm.  It costs way too much to go back and
+reshoot.  At the time we shot the later scene, he hadn't yet broken his
+arm.
+
+      And G'Kar isn't all the way in yet; he wants to be, but so far
+he's still being held at arm's length a bit...he may make an issue of
+this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Novel
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, the story is not from a novel.  It's all original.  Nothing
+from it has ever been published.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is there a reason she wanted Sheridan's part in the Conspiracy of
+> Light kept under wraps, but expected something very different
+> from the Grey Council? Wouldn't that have jeopardized the chances
+> for success for the Conspiracy of Light? Secondly, I'm curious as
+> to whether the three Minbari warships are the sum of the fleet
+> the Religious and Worker Castes have at their disposal? Anybody
+> ever tell you your stories are addictive? ?
+
+      Thanks.  The Grey Council could've taken a lot more action to be
+supportive behind the scenes, getting the warrior caste more involved
+with the rangers, giving aid to the non-aligned worlds...there was a
+LOT they could have been doing all this time that wouldn't have
+required tipping their hand. Instead they sat and did nothing.  And
+now, with B5 on the edge of falling, to say it's not their problem was
+too much.  Now is the time they have to start coming forward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      In a sense, it's going from one emotion or thematic element to a
+very different, but equally strong one, either as bookends or through
+intercutting. Going from the high of the victory, to the sudden shot of
+the dead troops, is thematic counterpoint.
+
+      Here's another...in "Cabaret" you've got a scene where the
+performers in the Cabaret are doing the sort of German dance where you
+slap your knees and thighs and chest...and they take it a bit further,
+slapping one another, it's all for comic effect...but during this,
+you're intercutting the owner of the cabaret being beaten to within an
+inch of his life by some Brownshirts outside.  You go from comic to
+brutal and back, with the result that the happy little dance suddenly
+takes on ugly characteristics, and the beating takes on the sense that
+the participants are having a sick kind of fun, that it's all just
+another kind of dance, a ritual.
+
+      That's what you have to look at as a writer...how this scene
+works, and how it interacts with the scenes in front, behind and
+"beside" it (for things happening simultaneously).  Sometimes, with the
+proper counterpoint, you can add whole new levels of meaning to a
+scene, or make the scene much stronger than it would've been on its
+own.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Why have we not seen any scenes showing the people in the
+> opposing forces?
+
+      We haven't seen those scenes because we don't know anyone there
+really, and in an hour show you only have so much time, and within our
+budget we only can do so much.  Every speaking role you add costs
+thousands of dollars. Every set costs thousands of dollars.
+
+      We're doing the absolute best we can with a budget roughly 1/2
+of any of the ST episodes.
+
+      If it isn't *absolutely necessary* to the scene, it isn't in. 
+Yeah, seeing some folks in EA talking back and forth about well, maybe
+this isn't a good idea, maybe it is, well, let's get back to
+work...it'd be an interesting aside, but in addition to slowing down
+the pace of the episode, and this one had to move like a house afire,
+it's just not something I felt we could or should do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams, WOW>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Also, was his arm in a cast during that scene at the end?
+> Was General Hague played by Robert Foxworth in earlier episodes?
+
+      Because we shot the cane scene *before* the fight scene.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams >
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Will we see Anna Sheridan before the end of the story?
+
+      You're absolutely right.  I didn't answer that question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams battle>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks back at you....
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <JMS-Severed Dreams>
+
+ John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You ignored the question, "Was what was going on in real Earth
+> History about 1000 years ago relevant?" Note, when Delan says the
+> last war was 1000 years ago, was that Earth or Minbar years? Was
+> this intentional?
+
+      No, that period on Earth was not terribly significant to the
+arc.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Technomages, and + ?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Harlan does pretty much whatever Harlan wants.
+
+      As for the fight, ships on either side would have FOF (Friend Or
+Foe) displays tied into the ID of their own squadrons to minimize
+friendly fire.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <SD-Best Episode>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's a new bomber...and don't be misled, the next 7 episodes are
+all new.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Ceremonies<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  What you say about relationships is quite true.  The
+slow process of getting to know somebody, the courtship, the parries
+and feints and false starts are 85% of the fun.  It's the process of
+getting into somebody's mind, discovering who they are.  And that's
+what these two are doing.  It's an awful lot of fun.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 00:53:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams, WOW>
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Because of the success of your anti-type casting, has there been
+> any kind of surge of actors wanting to be included in the B5
+> epic?
+
+      No, not really...mainly because we're still not very visible to
+most agents.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 00:53:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams, WOW>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah.  Bill kept bugging me to put him in a scene with June, but
+I just felt it'd get in the way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 14:00:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Delenn<<
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> _Why_ is she doing this?
+> And what will Sheridan's reaction be if and when he finds out?
+> Also, when you said we'll see Anna soon but not in this batch of
+> episodes, did you mean we'll see her at least by the end of this
+> season?
+
+       I'm in the awful situation of not being able to answer either
+of those questions without giving away something major.  All I can say
+is that Delenn has good reasons, or what she thinks are good reasons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 14:00:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >Severed Dreams/Kurosawa
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  I agree with you about Garibaldi; it has to be treated
+properly and with weight.
+
+       Actually, I've never seen Ran, though it's on my list of films
+to see when I get enough round tuits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 14:00:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 'Severed Dreams'
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, and may you only continue to keep saying that....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 14:00:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I hope nobody takes this the wrong way....but I think some of
+the earlier slowness in the first season episodes has something to do
+with being ST-programmed.  It's a pacing we've all kind of gotten used
+to, lots of standing around and discussing stuff, and for everyone
+concerned, particularly the freelancers, it's a *very* hard mindset to
+break.  It took a while to work that out of everyone's system so we
+could concentrate on telling a story the way only we can.
+
+       Also, bear in mind that the first season or so we had to spend
+a lot of time establishing our universe, the politics, history and so
+on, so that the events we're seeing now would have some weight.  Now
+that we've done all that, laid the foundation, we can just rip along at
+top speed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 14:00:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How do they protect the station from damage caused by collisions
+> with debris, and do they even attempt to gather up the remains of
+> the dead floating around out there?
+
+       We've shown clean-up crews before outside, including a hazmat
+station that goes out to clear away fuel cores or other toxic material.
+They would've been dispatched for this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 14:00:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Then we both wondered whether the plasma weapons tend to
+> cauterize and seal the wounds???
+
+       Correct, PPG bursts, being superheated helium, tend to
+cauterize the wounds as they go through.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 14:00:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Who is loyal and who is traitor?
+
+       Actually, yes, I tend to ask for musical counterpoint in the
+show from time to time.  For instance, when Sheridan et al were going
+to the area where the crowd was waiting, I told Chris to fool us...give
+us an ominous sounding sting going into what's going to be a very "up"
+scene.  In the battle earlier on, when you'd normally do something fast
+and exciting, I asked him to give me something more somber, to pull out
+the Requiem theme in a few places. Sometimes, in other shows, I ask for
+music that works against a scene to control the emotional core of it;
+if it's a bit too silly, perhaps, then I go for a more serious musical
+cue to balance it out.  Where a scene would seem to ask for major keys,
+I go for minor chords.
+
+       It's all just part of the tapestry.
+
+       (BTW, a little secret...just for fun, I wrote a couple of songs
+that you'll be hearing in an upcoming episode.  I used to write songs
+here and there, even did a couple for an ABC prime-time special, and
+figured I'd try it again.  I wrote the lyrics, discussed the music with
+Chris, and he took care of the score, and it's about what I first
+conceived.  Came out pretty well, actually.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 14:01:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams >
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       True; he would, and does have other photos.  But would you
+entrust a prized photo in Mr. Morden's hands...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 14:01:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon cereal
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just wondering, what is your favorite brand of Cereal?
+
+       Kellogg's Raisin Bran.  (Usually laden with blueberries and
+raspberries.)
+
+       What a very odd question.
+
+       (I suspect that if I'd said Cap'n Crunch I'd've lost the
+respect of everyone in the group.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 14:01:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Severed Dreams<<
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, just a member of the warrior caste making sure one he
+considered a friend *really* wanted to do this....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 14:01:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan L. Ravitch <73627.3126@compuserve.com>
+Subject: More SD Praise
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, that's about what we hope we are, and will become.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 14:01:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams, WOW>
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you ever actually write for "V" other than the script posted
+> here?
+
+       No, I had no involvement in V2 (which is simultaneously and
+appropriately the term for the series, and the German rocket-bomb that
+plagued Britain).  I just knew of Robert's work in general.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 14:01:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams, WOW>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       It would've worked, but the scene would've forever been about
+the mini-LIS reunion.  If it isn't important to the story, it shouldn't
+be there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 14:01:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, Dukhat was killed at the start of the Minbari war (that
+*caused* the Minbari war), and the Council did without a leader for a
+long time.  She was taught and sponsored by Dukhat.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 14:18:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Actually, the moderated group is now up and running.  It's a
+lot of fun.  rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 14:18:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5: The Other Side
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Bear in mind that if we had gone over to the other captains and
+what was going on in the other ships, to make room for those scenes we
+would've had to cut anywhere from 3-5 minutes of the other stuff.  You
+can't just add to the show's time; if that goes in, something else has
+to come out.  So you'd probably have to cut the scene between Sheridan
+and his father since that was the only stand-alone set piece.
+
+       Any time you write something, you must decide "who is it
+about?" This episode was about *our characters*, the ones we've come to
+care about, and how they deal with this.  To take away from that and
+spend time with people we've never seen before, and won't see again,
+would be to cheat our characters of the time on screen needed to pay
+off all the things we've set up over the years.
+
+       Would it have been an interesting aside to show the other
+captains? Sure.  In a movie, with an open-ended running time, I
+probably would have. But there's nothing I would want to cut out of the
+episode as it now stands to make room for it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 18:53:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Universes: ST vs. B5
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this something we can expect MAY happen by the end of this
+> group of 8 episodes?
+
+       Could be....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 18:53:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Cermonies of Lt&Drk>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  I was kind of afraid that after the big Stuff Blowing
+Up Episode, anything afterward would be a let down because it couldn't
+have the same level of huge action (without killing everyone making the
+show).  So the way to deal with that is to go in an entirely different
+direction; I was hoping that'd work, and glad that so far it has.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 18:53:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5: The Other Side
+
+ John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance of talking WB into some sort of two-hour special at
+> some highlight of the arc, or is this just too difficult in
+> syndication?
+
+       It's too difficult to sell a one-shot thing like that in
+syndication, I've been told.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 18:53:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams battle>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Another thing I was wondering about was, how long is an act in
+> viewing time? What is considered an act?
+
+       An act is a discrete dramatic unit separated by commercials
+front and back.  An act can be anywhere from 6-11 minutes as a rule;
+act 4 of SD was about 8:20, as I recall.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 18:53:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I realize that this is not another household, but my son will now
+> start raving to his friends at school, so who knows? Question,
+> will we learn more about the fate of Anna Sheridan this season? 
+> Will we see more of Sinclair after this season?
+
+       Thanks...and we'll certainly hear more about Anna Sheridan's
+fate this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 18:53:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Comic Disappointment
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.  As for Sandman...well, Neil's a special case in every
+sense of the word.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 18:53:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What would be the average message load if I wanted to start
+> reading the new group?
+
+       I think the moderated group has had about 1800 messages so far
+since it went on-line last week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 18:53:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Universes: ST vs. B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Actually, though, because he *did* have his hand in his pocket,
+it let me handle the break in the next episode without stretching
+credulity too far. It was...well...I guess you'd call that part of it a
+lucky break.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 18:53:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Supportability Issues
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Now that they are cut off from Earth, how will they support
+> themselves? How will they support these?
+> By the way, how do they get back into the station?
+
+       Fighters re-enter via the main docking bay and are recharged
+and lowered into the fighter bays.
+
+       No question, spare parts would be a problem, and they'll have
+to cannibalize a lot (plus whatever they scrounged up from the fighters
+blown apart outside).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 19:04:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rex Brynen <75040.472@compuserve.com>
+Subject: combat ops: StarFuries
+
+ Rex Brynen <75040.472@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Given the ease of tracking objects in space, the absence of
+> factors affecting projectile weapons trajectories, and the
+> possible use of beam weapons, wouldn't (capital) shipboard
+> countermeasures have a decisive advantage? If they don't, wouldn't
+> it be better to "swarm" ship defences with automated missiles of
+> some sort? 2) Given their size, could they really deliver much
+> firepower? If they could, shouldn't "carriers" (such as the EA
+> destroyers in SD) deploy their fighter squandrons at some
+> distance from the intended target? And screen themselves from
+> enemy counterattack? 3) At StarFury speeds, wouldn't some form of
+> guided missile be preferable to line-of-sight projectile or pulse
+> weapons for fighter-to-fighter combat?
+
+       Starfuries serve a *lot* of functions which we've shown before
+on the series.
+
+       They can take out a ship's defensive screens and
+countermeasures, allowing access by the big ships' armaments.  In a
+group, they can take out a good sized ship on their own (a la the
+Centauri cruiser in "Fall of Night"). They also serve to protect the
+station's defense grid from aggressor starfuries.
+
+       Also, a number of small support ships, including a Hyperion
+class ship came through as part of the "carrier group" that went after
+the station.  It was up to the starfuries to take care of those ships
+while B5 and the other destroyers took out the biggest threats.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 23:11:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SD: The Roanoke
+
+ Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How did the Earth Alliance destroyer, Roanoke come by its name?
+
+      Well, Roanoke is a place rich with history.  Some of it a little
+odd, given the colony's disappearance, but rich nonetheless.  (Clark
+has edged away from giving Omega class destroyers and others names from
+Greek mythology and history, toward more conventional names like the
+Clarkstown and the Roanoke.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 23:11:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Bendel [MA] <73447.741@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Outstanding job
+
+ John Bendel [MA] <73447.741@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were they wearing new uniforms as it appeared?
+
+      Thanks.
+
+      Re: Foxworth...it was really the only thing to do.  I'd created
+the character *specifically* to have him available for this episode,
+after which he'd basically fade away while others took up his standard.
+It was all leading up to this.  Without being in this episode, there
+was nothing more to do with Hague, hence I felt quite comfortable with
+his fate, it changed nothing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 23:11:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ed Wasser
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Morden wearing a crystal was Ed Wasser's idea and not yours, will
+> the crystal have any importance to the character in the future?
+
+      Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 23:11:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ruth Spradlin <73477.3155@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Star Furies
+
+ Ruth Spradlin <73477.3155@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How does everyone tell enemy Furies from friend Furies?
+> Don't they all look the same?
+
+      FOF...Friend Or Foe systems on board the furies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 23:11:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Mechanical evolution?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Do you design your ships so that the more advanced they get, the
+> more animal-like they become? Kind of like backwards evolution, we
+> start out animal-like, then become more mechanical, then the
+> mechanics become animal-like?
+
+      Certainly as they get more sophisticated, when just *doing it*
+isn't the main goal, a certain level of aesthetics comes into play. 
+Compare an early Model T to a modern Corvette, for instance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 23:11:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+         Basically, the warrior caste doesn't think it's their war;
+there's also a certain amount of resentment in it, I think...they *led*
+the last war, they *did* their job, and got yanked back and forced to
+surrender.  That was a terrible blow to their pride, caused in part by
+an alien race, so their attitude now tends to be more or less, "Screw
+'em."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 23:11:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anthony J. Bryant <71233.3035@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.
+
+      But really, can *anyone* under 6'2" *really* be a manly man?
+
+                                                      jms (6' 4-1/2")
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 23:11:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com>
+Subject: General Hague <Spoiler>
+
+ Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the show in great danger now, or did the story just happen to
+> be written at a time of some chaos, which has now passed?
+
+      The article portrayed, and somewhat overstated, the events of
+last year. (I take some of the blame for this; I may have spoken
+unwisely in a few places.)
+
+      The main problem overall right now, for *every* syndicated show,
+is that the available time slots are just totally disappearing, thanks
+to committments to WBN, UPN and Fox.  They just yanked Lonsesome Dove
+even though the ratings were good, and the show was a good show, simply
+because they couldn't find enough berths on independent stations to
+make it worth it for the national advertisers.
+
+      It's certainly a dark cloud on the horizon; we'll just have to
+see whether it blows past harmlessly or not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-Apr-96 23:25:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Amy Smith <104476.1020@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Cancellation RUMOR
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Okay, Horse's Mouth time.
+
+      We have not, repeat, not been canceled.  Right now, WB has
+bought covers of newspaper TV magazines in over 80 cities that'll debut
+over the next couple of weeks; they've also invested a huge amount of
+money in a series of radio and TV spots that'll be airing on cable and
+indie stations over the next 6 weeks.  They're currently running the B5
+contest.  Several stations have announced that they're going to go back
+to double-running B5 twice a week.
+
+      Do you think they would do this for a show that's been canceled?
+
+      They don't.  They cut their losses and run like hell.
+
+      This is a jumble of information.  Yes, PTEN seems to be going
+away; I've been saying this on the nets for the last several months,
+and that we're going to move into straight syndication.  Someone has
+apparently taken this and blown it all out of proportion.
+
+      Every season, somebody announces that they've heard it on
+absolutely firm grounds that we've been canceled.  Hasn't happened yet.
+We've had our ups and downs, like any other show, but we're still here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Apr-96 02:37:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+
+The following information has just been released by Jim Lochett,
+coordinator for the OFFICIAL BABYLON 5 FAN CLUB.  (Note to
+convention organizers: the address given below can now be used
+as a central clearing house for invitations to cast and crew.)
+
+                                ***
+
+                  THE OFFICIAL BABYLON 5 FAN CLUB
+
+Join today and you will receive the Official Membership Kit,
+including:
+
+     A Subscription to The Universe Today: The Official Newsletter of the
+     B5FC filled with exclusive interviews, news about Babylon 5, and
+     exciting merchandise offers.
+     An 8x10 Cast Photo
+     Full Color Babylon 5 Mini-Poster (13"x20")
+     B5 Fan Club Button & Full Color Sticker
+     Membership Certificate (Signed by the show's Executive Producers, J.
+     Michael Straczynski and Douglas Netter)
+     Membership ID Card granting you discounts on merchandise, conventions,
+     etc., as well as access to the Members Only section of TheStation.com,
+     the B5 Fan Club Web-site (to be up May 1996).
+     Plus as a bonus, the first 100 people to join get:
+     A Limited Collection Sticker of the alternate B5 Logo as designed by
+     artist Peter Ledger.
+ ================
+
+To Give a Membership as a Gift, simply make a copy of the entry form,
+fill in the name of the person you wish to make a member, and send it
+off. (Don't forget to include your name on the Suggestions line, so
+that we can include a gift card.)
+
+Each year the Renewal Kit will offer new and different goodies,
+savings, and of course another year's subscription to The Universe
+Today.
+
+Remember, this is more than just your run of the mill fan club; the
+Babylon 5 fans time and time again have gone that extra step for the
+show, and the Babylon 5 Fan Club is our way of giving something back to
+those who've been so loyal to us.
+
+ ---------------  CLIP OR COPY AND GIVE TO A FRIEND  -----------------
+
+YES!  I want to join The Official Babylon 5 Fan Club.  Please send my
+membership kit to:
+
+Name:    ______________________________________________________________
+
+Age:     __________
+
+Address: ______________________________________________________________
+
+City:    _____________________________ State:  _________ ZIP: _________
+
+Country: _____________
+
+e-mail address: _______________________________________________________
+
+Local Station you watch B5 on: ________________________________________
+
+Suggestions: __________________________________________________________
+
+ ______________________________________________________________________
+
+ _____ I am already on the mailing list.
+
+ _____ I got this form from a friend.
+
+Enclosed is $12.95 for a U.S. membership; $14.95 for a Canadian
+membership; and $19.95 for Foreign memberships.  Orders must be in U.S.
+funds. Send check or money order (DO NOT send cash) made payable to:
+
+Babylonian Productions/Fan Club
+
+Mail to:  The Official Babylon 5 Fan Club
+          PO Box 856
+          North Hollywood, CA 91603
+
+Please allow 5-6 weeks for delivery.  Foreign and Canadian orders are
+shipped surface, please allow additional time for shipping.
+
+All returned checks are subject to a $15.00 service charge.
+
+ ----------------  CUT HERE FOR THE END OF THE FORM  -------------------
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Apr-96 02:43:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       That was because there were so MANY of them; our PPG bursts
+usually take a great deal of work.  If we'd given all of them in this
+scene that amount of work, we'd still be doing them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Apr-96 02:43:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Previews
+
+ Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A quick question: Do you know why WB/PTEN isn't bothering to put
+> previews for the next new episode at the end of B5 anymore? What
+> gives?
+
+       The space usually taken by the B5 preview is now being used up
+by the WB B5 contest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Apr-96 02:43:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <SD, visual images>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Actually, this is the second time she's appeared before them in
+more colorful garb.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Apr-96 02:43:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ah, is it "the taller, the manlier"?
+> Dang, how come my 6'7" son isn't dating?
+
+       Because anything over 6'6" is unnatural.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 09-Apr-96 12:14:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Cancelled Rumor
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Nope.  Not true.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Apr-96 12:14:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com>
+Subject: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+ Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it just that you genuinely enjoy chatting about your show
+> enough to take the negative comments along with the praise? BTW,
+> how are the wrists doing?
+
+       Why?  Why not?
+
+       I was on CIS and GEnie long before B5 got going.  I figured,
+why change my habits just because now I was supposedly a vip?  (And I'm
+not always comfortable with that designation.)
+
+       Beyond that, my job as a writer is to know as much as I can
+about my characters and universe.  In answering all these questions, I
+learn more about those areas, which helps me.
+
+       Finally, it's a matter of being accessible and *accountable* to
+fans, as I'd wished producers had been when I was primarily a viewer. 
+SF fans are generally the most exploited sorts of fans...you're told to
+line up, watch the show, buy the merchandise, and shut up.  I didn't
+like it then, and I don't like it any better now that I'm on the other
+side of the lens.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Apr-96 12:14:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steve Ramage <74731.235@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SD: Boarding Party
+
+ Steve Ramage <74731.235@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What was the decision making process behind the costuming of the
+> EarthForce boarding party? How does that go again, and who said
+> it?
+
+       Exactly.  These aren't perfect or superior people...they're
+just like us, faced with the same problems we're faced with.  What's
+inspiring is seeing that people just like us *can* overcome these
+things...at great price, yes, with great difficulty, yes, but if we
+decide to act, we can succeed.
+
+       And yes, instead of going for a sinister EA look, I wanted the
+uniforms to be something we're used to, "our side," as you say.  There
+aren't many blacks-and-whites on this show.  It's all greys...and
+sometimes olive drab.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Apr-96 12:14:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: This season so far
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is there a spoiler sheet for the episodes that have aired so far
+> this season?
+
+       We're not on UPN, by the way, though some UPN stations carry
+us.
+
+       Try the Lurker's Guide, http://hyperion.com, which has synopses
+of all B5 episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Apr-96 12:42:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 v Star Trek
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Let me tell you about a certain kind of sickness.
+
+       The sickness manifests itself in pathetic individuals who, in a
+non-electronic forum, would be lighting cats on fire to watch them
+howl, or throwing rocks through somebody's window to see them all run
+out.
+
+       A few very sad, very pathetic individuals who want to feel
+alive come into a forum and leave a message written in insulting terms
+because they like to watch everybody get all wired up.  They sit back
+and giggle and laugh and wonder gee, whatever was it I said? when they
+know exactly what they said.  It was done deliberately, to manipulate
+people and get them upset.
+
+       You have no interest in a "survey."  You're a sick, sad and
+pathetic individual with nothing more in his life than the need to
+tweak people who follow a show that for whatever disturbed reason you
+feel should be attacked in the name of Star Trek, even though that
+means violating every principle of tolerance ever advanced in ST.
+
+       Some here will probably tell you to get a life.  I would
+suggest that you have a life...unfortunately, it consists of the kind
+of life where one spends one's time pulling the wings off flies because
+you like to see them squirm around on the table.
+
+       And most pathetically, you've probably never even watched the
+show, to bolster your opinion.  Maybe a minute or two here and there. 
+But getting the facts doesn't matter.  Getting people's opinions
+doesn't matter to you, really.  Just causing a flurry of angry messages
+and upsetting people is all that really matters to you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Apr-96 17:58:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: First Contact
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Will B5 ever address in its universe why the alien races waited
+> so long before making first contact with Earth? Did EA have to
+> pass some technology test to get contacted by the Centauri? Or,
+> did they just come across us accidently and try to exploit us for
+> their own political purposes?
+
+       Yeah, I'll probably try to get to it, but the basic reality is
+that nobody really either knew or cared much that we were here...we
+were kind of off the beaten track.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Apr-96 17:58:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 v Star Trek
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       "I tried to give people a motive to send their vote to me."
+
+       You could have accomplished exactly the same thing by just
+asking. And I'm sorry, when someone calls a show a "cheap knockoff,"
+and derides those who might actually watch it, it makes your statement
+that you "did not intend to offend" rather...unbelievable, at best.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Apr-96 17:58:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is there any chance that the fan club will start accepting credit
+> cards?
+
+       Unfortunately, we're a small operation, and not yet set up for
+credit cards.  With luck, we'll eventually be set up that way.  (Once
+the web site is up and running, it's our hope to have it credit card
+ready, so you could perhaps wait for that if it's a burden for now.  It
+should be up within about a month.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Apr-96 17:58:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is the fan club going to have its own e-mail address?
+
+       Eventually we'll have our own web site, probably within the
+coming month, which will provide some rather nifty services....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Apr-96 17:58:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chris Biebel <102414.3341@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Effects record question
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I don't know...I wouldn't *think* we beat the record...but it's
+possible that we did.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Apr-96 17:58:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chris Biebel <102414.3341@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Cancellation RUMOR
+
+ Chris Biebel <102414.3341@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean that B5 will now have a standard time and day so
+> that I won't have to check the listings every week to make sure
+> it hasn't been moved?
+
+       No, scheduling still remains at the whim of the station.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Apr-96 17:58:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  Yeah, we could've gone for something more expensive,
+but our sense for now is to make it as accessible as possible, not to
+turn this into a big profit venture.  This will about cover the
+expenses, after a certain number of memberships, or a little less.  But
+that's okay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Apr-96 17:58:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: SD: The Roanoke
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> When is the 'Elvis' going to be leading an attack?
+
+       As soon as I can find a pair of blue suede cruisers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Apr-96 17:58:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Yuen <72466.1621@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 at SyndiCon SF
+
+ John Yuen <72466.1621@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know your schedule at syndiCon for the coming weekend?
+
+       I haven't heard a final schedule, but I'd imagine one day will
+be much like the next.  (Yes, planning to bring the blooper.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-Apr-96 18:07:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rex Brynen <75040.472@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 v Star Trek
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       One also doesn't yell "Fire!" in a movie theater in Los Angeles
+because people will shoot at you....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 00:20:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carol Naylor <100645.2613@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Universes: ST vs. B5
+
+ Carol Naylor <100645.2613@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That was _lucky_ ?
+
+      "...the way your mind works can be *really* scary."
+
+      Why, thank you...that's the nicest thing anyone's said about me
+in days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 00:20:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS question
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What is your perspective??????
+> Do you believe that we are all here due to one big happy (or
+> unhappy) accident? From your perspective -- what is the meaning to
+> life? Where does it come from then?
+> Can I assume that at some point in your life that you did belong
+> to a religious faith? What brought you to the conclusion that
+> there is no god?
+
+      I declined to answer this privately because I'm really and
+honestly leery of spreading, or trying to spread, or being perceived as
+trying to spread my own notions about.  What works for me, works for
+me; your mileage may (and obviously does) vary.  What I do or don't
+believe shouldn't enter into it.  That's why I've deliberately left it
+*out* of the show. Otherwise you're not telling a story anymore, you're
+engaging in propagandxa.  But if you're going to press the issue....
+
+      As a writer, I don't feel it's my obligation to be fair to every
+group on the planet.  That way madness lies.  But I do feel that it is
+my absolute obligation to be *honest* in my portrayal of any group, as
+well as I am able to perceive it.  If I write about a Minbari, then I
+must be as honest I can in addressing who that character is, what he
+feels, what he believes, and so on.
+
+      So why should it seem such a leap that, as an atheist, I do the
+same when it comes to religion?  I suppose the question itself is the
+truly astonishing thing...that it should seem strange or unusual to be
+even handed and at least *try* to be honest.  Have we dropped so much
+as a culture that the absence of pushing one's own agenda, and giving
+an honest hearing of someone else's viewpoint, is considered
+extraordinary?
+
+      "The weaving of religion and scifi in your show is so well done.
+Where does it come from then?"  It comes from the characters who
+believe in whichever religion is under consideration.  If I am fairly
+rigorous in presenting the scientific or extrapolative aspects of the
+show, what then is odd about this other part?
+
+      As a writer, it's my obligation to put myself in the mind of my
+characters, and feel what they feel, and while I'm in their head,
+believe what they believe.  If I do my job right, I offer those
+opinions and thoughts and feelings with conviction, sincerity and
+strength.
+
+      Also, bear in mind that the religious impulse is not that far
+removed from the sense of wonder of a scientist on unlocking a
+particularly thorny DNA code.  (Note: science and religion are NOT the
+same thing, their methodologies are diametrically opposed, and
+creationism is NOT science, and evolution is NOT religion, however much
+some might wish to make it so by saying it is.) The emotion is the core
+truth of it all, what it *feels* like.  We've all experienced the sense
+of wonder in one form or another; it's no major task to translate it to
+another venue.
+
+      The religious impulse, and the scientific impulse, both spring
+from the same source...the desire to answer the questions, Who am I? 
+What am I doing here? and Where am I going?  Those had to be the very
+first questions we began asking when we became sentient, and we're
+still asking them.  The supernatural or religious approach to that
+question came first; the scientific approach much later.  The
+scientific approach is, "How can I figure out the answer to the
+question?"  The religious impulse leads you to, "Who can tell me the 
+answer to the question?"
+
+      The one approach is not intrinsically better than the other;
+they feed very different needs.  And the whole point of *asking* the
+question is to feed that particular emotional need for an answer.  You
+find the venue that most matches the wellspring of your desire.  They
+serve vastly different functions, are not comparable, but are no less
+valid experiences for those involved.  The core feeling of a scientist
+on receiving the first images from the surface of Mars are not far
+removed from the feelings of the newly converted upon stepping forth at
+a revival meeting.  Each gets what he *needs*.  And each is an
+honorable pursuit within its own framework.
+
+      "What brought you to the conclusion that there is no god?"  That
+I haven't yet seen one in any of our "holy books" that deserved the
+name; not one that wasn't afflicted by the same jealousies,
+pettinesses, irrationalities and meannesses of the average human.  I've
+met many humans who were better and nobler than some so-called deities,
+who sacrified their limbs, their fortunes or their lives without the
+sure knowledge that they would end up on the great white throne of
+heaven for doing so.
+
+      "Do you believe that we are all here due to one happy (or
+unhappy) accident?"  My belief doesn't enter into it.  The best
+physical evidence indicates that we evolved ourselves up from the
+ground, pulling ourselves up by our genetic bootstraps across a million
+years of struggle, evolution and blood, surviving because we were
+smarter than anything that was stronger than us.  This, to me, is
+something to be proud of; we did it ourselves, we weren't just created
+whole and complete, all the work pre-assembled at the factory. We
+walked on the moon because we *earned* it by growing smart, and
+learning -- in however inconsistent and fractured a way -- to live and
+work together more often than we fought with each other.
+
+      "From your perspective -- what is the meaning of life?"  As an
+atheist, I believe that we get just one ride on the merry-go-round, one
+shot at the brass ring before they close the park.  That's it.  As a
+result, I view life as being *incredibly* precious, a resource rarer
+than any jewel.  A resource that must be protected, nourished, put one
+step further along the road to a better road.  What we leave behind,
+our only shot at immortality, is the work we leave, the accomplishments
+that hold their place in the record books long after we've turned to
+dust, so that our names have meaning.  In 50 years, nobody will care
+much what religion Jonas Salk subscribed to; they will care only that
+he cured a terrible disease, and made the world a better place.
+
+      If we believe we are immortal, then we have wiggle-room to screw
+up, because we'll get another chance; to waste our lives on the theory
+that as long as we believe a certain way, it doesn't matter if we do
+anything of consequence, we're guaranteed an eternity of harp music. 
+If we believe the world will be swallowed by armageddon in a few years,
+then there's no reason to protect the planet, plan for the future, find
+a comfortable balance between nature and industry, so that we can
+achieve the stars without destroying the planet.
+
+      I don't have that luxury, and a luxury it is.  So I find my
+version of immortality in the words, and in the work, and in the memory
+of those I may touch, or help, or instruct, or entertain.
+
+      You may not operate that way.  And that's fine.  It's our
+differences that make us human, and our humanity that makes us
+endlessly interesting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 00:20:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there anything special being done for those of us who were
+> subscribers to the newsletter that Christy Marx edited?
+
+      Yes, those individuals will receive the newsletter free of
+charge even if they don't join the fan club, until such time as the
+remaining 2 issues are worked off.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 00:20:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 candy
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Quick question, what is your favorite candy bar?
+
+      Anything, as long as it's solid milk chocolate.
+
+      (Isn't this rather a silly waste of forum space?)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 00:20:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I hope this is a rumor..
+
+ Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it only rumor-mongering?
+> Or sad truth?
+> Can you even comment at this time?
+
+      No, it's just a rumor.  These things come up every year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 00:20:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Cancelled Rumor
+
+ Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But who will pick up with the collapse of PTEN?
+
+      In theory, should PTEN truly bottom out, we'd go out via
+straight syndication, same as most syndicated shows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 00:20:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anthony J. Bryant <71233.3035@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ Anthony J. Bryant <71233.3035@compuserve.com> asks:
+> NOW are you happy?
+
+      Beleve me, with my rate of folliclelessness, I'm not going to
+complain about anybody else....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 00:20:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com>
+Subject: General Hague <Spoiler>
+
+ Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  -is there any truth to the rumor that TNT has bought the re-run
+> rights for '98?
+
+      Yes, TNT has bought reruns starting 1998.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 00:20:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Theresa Kinney <70751.3262@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <SD- Special Scene>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  Yeah, the lighting is quite nice, and very atmospheric.
+We try to give it a film-look wherever we can.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 00:20:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Cermonies of Lt&Drk>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's okay...so are most of the women who work in the editing
+bays at B5. The first few days of this season, as his stuff started
+coming in, one of them pulled me aside, and with hand firmly on my arm,
+to let me know she meant business, said, "Listen very carefully: I want
+to see a LOT more of Marcus."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 00:20:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: DVD disks
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Right now we're still working on getting ANY video out....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 01:26:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Cancellation RUMOR
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'd say it's certainly more than has been the case...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 16:13:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      If I can, I will....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 16:13:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Previews
+
+ William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If PTEN really exists no longer, why would such an advertisement
+> be inserted when a B5 promo could be shown in its place just as
+> easily?
+
+      No, the PTEN change wouldn't really take effect until after year
+three, assuming that goes on as it seems to be.  This year is still
+under the PTEN aegis, and thus the cross promotion is necessary.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 16:13:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: This season so far
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Have you had any word on DSS picking it up any time soon?
+
+      No, DSS doesn't pick up individual syndicated shows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 16:13:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruno Melancon <102647.3222@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Earth Gov Question
+
+ Bruno Melancon <102647.3222@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does Earth still have different nations/states with
+> presidents/prime ministers and so on, under rules from the Earth
+> Alliance gov., with its own Senate and President? Are the EA
+> senators and president elected by all earth population?
+
+      Each nation/state elects a leader, and that leader is either one
+of the Earthgov senators, in the case of a smaller nation, or appoints
+a rep to be on that body.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 16:13:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 3 of Babylon5
+
+ colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just finished it, by all accounts, the new season is better, err
+> like how???
+
+      Thanks.  The show has consistently worked to improve, and even
+over such competition of CtI, we continue to get stronger.  Evolve or
+die....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 16:14:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Dreams [no spoiler]
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 16:14:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Troy Starr <74752.3172@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SD - ISN News question
+
+ Troy Starr <74752.3172@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just how much did the reporters at ISN know, and how long have
+> they known it? Has President Clark been using the information
+> gathered by ISN's reporters (such as what is going on out in
+> space and what the people/citizens of Earth think) for his own
+> purposes? did he have someone from the political office review
+> every news script before they went on the air)?
+
+      I'm sorry, but we cannot answer your question at this time.  We
+are experincing temporary transmission problems with ISN, but hope to
+have the situation remedied very soon.  Meanwhile, you can direct any
+inquiries for information to the Ministry of Peace, and the Ministry
+for Public Information, which has been aiding all public information
+broadcasts for almost two years now.
+
+      At the tone, please leave your name and identicard number. 
+Don't worry about calling back.  We'll find you.
+
+      <beep>
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 16:14:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anne Stallcup <102436.203@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ Anne Stallcup <102436.203@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, as I am fairly new here, may I say how great I think it is
+> that you make yourself so accessible to your fans?
+
+      Thanks, and the pleasure is entirely mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 16:14:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Ceremonies - well done>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  I'm doing a lot to deepen up Marcus and Lennier, to let
+people see parts of them we might not have seen before.  Everyone grows
+on the show; even at this point, compare Lennier to the wide-eyed
+innocent who first arrived at the station and couldn't even bring
+himself to look Delenn in the eyes.
+
+      Actually, no, the computer voice, Sparky, wasn't really a nod of
+any kind to Hitchhiker's.  (And 2001's HAL beat them to the punch a
+long time before that in any event.)  No, I just figured, if the
+computer system had a glitch, what would it sound like? 
+Answer...Harlan.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 16:14:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: R. Thomas <71544.3171@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing WWE
+
+ R. Thomas <71544.3171@compuserve.com> asks:
+> station commander/leader figure etc.?
+
+      Actually, it was no problem at all.  The similarity is only if
+you choose to define them by their narrow roles.  Their personalities
+are vastly different.  Also, Sinclair's been through a lot in the
+intervening couple of years, he's grown, he and Marcus would definitely
+have something of a relationship since he would've been there while
+Marcus was being trained, and so on.  And their roles in the story are
+very different.
+
+      It actually came out pretty well.  I'm very happy with it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 16:14:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Ceremonies>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, I didn't see or intend any element of Lennier being racist;
+but there are definitely differences in culture and physiology between
+Minbari and humans.  Minbari are very careful about personal space, and
+they don't like to be talked to a certain way.  Marcus momentarily
+forgot himself, and acted inappropriately.  Lennier corrected him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 16:14:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Salvador Bravo <103121.2770@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Great show
+
+ Salvador Bravo <103121.2770@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm into collecting model starships, and I was wondering if there
+> was a chance that the station as well as the rest of starships in
+> the B5 universe will be available for purchase any time soon?!
+
+      Thank you.  I'm glad you've stayed with it.  There will probably
+be models at some point down the road; right now the only models are
+illegal ones.  I want a B5 model myself, frankly.
+
+      Of course, I'd like mine on a 1-1 scale....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-Apr-96 16:24:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Fan Club
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Unfortunately, we're not set up at the time to take credit
+cards; we're a small operation.  Also, we had a number of folks ask for
+the regular mail route for overseas vs. airmail because they wanted to
+keep the cost factor down.  So we're kinda caught between a rock and a
+hard place here.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you guys planning to use the NetSrcape Commerce (or other)
+> secure web server?
+
+      No, I absolutely agree, which is why that won't be the only
+venue for such information.  Anybody who's not comfortable with that
+will have other options.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+ SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that the original logo you put up way back when?
+
+      Yes, it's the keyhole logo.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Yuen <72466.1621@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 at SyndiCon SF
+
+ John Yuen <72466.1621@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, does mira have any relative in this country, one of my
+> friend saw someone today that resemble her quite a bit in San
+> Jose?
+
+      No, no other relatives that I know of.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: This season so far
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      As a proud ower of a DirecTV/DSS hookup (in my office, since
+it's too far off the beaten track for cable), I have to concur on the
+quality of the sound and image.  It's just breathtaking.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Green! Purple!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      If *anyone* could be a Drazi, it's Capone....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  I think we'll get the credit for what we've all done
+sooner or later....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruce "Firestorm" S. <72571.1722@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ Bruce "Firestorm" S. <72571.1722@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Jms, do you know what was the reason for the sound limit imposed
+> by the FCC?
+
+      I used to know...I think it had something to do with preventing
+audio bleedovers, but I'm not 100% sure on that score.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams, WOW>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yup.  Cool shot.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <SD- Special Scene>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  We fixed a light atop a gimble, and pre-determined the
+rotation of the starfury, then moved the lighting to match.  Gives it a
+much more realistic feel.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <SD- Special Scene>
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was there a reason why it was dropped?
+> Is it just because we don't see too many shots directly out that
+> window anymore or something else entirely?
+
+      Actually, we did it once, in "Messages," but not much therafter.
+The main reason is the cost of renting varilights, and the height of
+our ceiling, which is somewhat lower than where we shot the pilot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Cermonies of Lt&Drk>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Attractiveness is wildly subjective.  I still don't quite see
+what makes everyone fall over about Sharon Stone.  It's all just
+personal.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jack Beckman <73227.3066@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Cermonies of Lt&Drk>
+
+ Jack Beckman <73227.3066@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Letdown?
+> Would this have been one of his chances to redeem himself(don't
+> have the prophosy text handy)?
+
+      I don't think Londo feels he needs to be redeemed; his reasons
+as stated were quite sincere.
+
+      And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Marshall L. Moseley <102264.2343@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Straight to video movie
+
+ Marshall L. Moseley <102264.2343@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you tell us the status on the hoped-for straight to video b5
+> movie for the summer?
+
+      WB hasn't said much about the direct-to-video movie, though
+they're now discussing a true feature.  It's just the usual up and
+downs that come from the studios as they try to figure out what to do
+with us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 00:37:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ron E. Burke <102601.3431@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WRITERS WANTED
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Be advised that we are definitely and strongly opposed to the
+publication of Babylon 5 fan fiction, and discourage it in the most
+vigorous terms possible.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 00:37:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Original Storyline
+
+ Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Obviously, JMS has had to make a lot of rather fluid changes to
+> the b5 "Grand Arc" to adjust to cast changes and so on, right? 
+> Opinions?
+
+      No, the "romance angles" aren't "late additions," but you don't
+just leap into a romance right off.  You couldn't have had the
+Delenn/Sheridan thing right in the beginning of year two, it had to be
+built, and grow gradually.  Things are introduced as it is time for
+them to be introduced. The shadows weren't even named until season two,
+and didn't make their first appearance until late in season one.  Is
+that a late addition?
+
+      To your other points...a commanding officer needs a second, it's
+that simple.  So it's not so much recasting the same part as filling
+what's required in a military role.  Draal--Drall2 isn't a different
+character, it's the same character.  Also, Lou Welch wasn't Garibaldi's
+second in command, that was the guy who shot him.  He goes away, now
+you need a new second who is a very different character.
+
+      In real life, things change.  What I *like* about B5 is that
+people come and go, the credits aren't the same from year to year. 
+Otherwise you end up in a situation like folks complained about on TNG
+where Riker didn't get a decent promotion in 7 years.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 18:18:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All
+Subject: SanFran Query
+
+      Question: if one were to go to dinner in San Francisco, and one
+wanted to go somewhere *very* nice, very tony, upscale, with *terrific*
+food, maybe a view of the bay or something equally spiffy, no loud
+music, something very comfortable, no pushy waiters...what would be the
+best place in town?  (It preferably doesn't require reservations weeks
+in advance.)
+
+      Follow up: if afterward one wanted to go to a great part of town
+for a cup of coffee, with little interesting shops in the area, or in a
+pretty part of town...what would one suggest?
+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+ Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This is probably a no-brainer, Joe, but if WB has access to the
+> numbers for the fan club, a good response would also help
+> convince them the interest is there for videos, etc.?
+
+      I don't know what it takes to get through on this issue,
+frankly....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Cancelled Rumor
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Whatcha gonna do?
+
+      We hunt them down and keel them....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: This season so far
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Maybe.  You must understand I'm speaking fairly close to being a
+layman at this stuff.  All I know is that when I look at what I get on
+cable, and what I get on the DSS, the difference is *startling*, and I
+haven't ever noticed any "artifacting."  My feeling is, if I can't see
+it, it doesn't bother me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ron E. Burke <102601.3431@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WRITERS WANTED
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thank you.  And it's "doubt," not "dought."  Editors should
+watch such things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ron E. Burke <102601.3431@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WRITERS WANTED
+
+ Ron E. Burke <102601.3431@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who are you?
+
+      "Who are you?"
+
+      That would be telling.
+
+      "I'm a black and frosted rosebud whom the good god has preserved
+since last October.  Take no notice."  -- Christopher Fry
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Delenn
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thank you.  Now that she's gone through her own personal fire,
+she's a much stronger character, and very interesting to write. 
+There's steel, and there's humanity and compassion, and she feels no
+need to defend or justify any of those traits.  What she is, she is.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: UK and budgets
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No TV shows are sent around on film anymore these days; it's all
+sent on digital tape.
+
+      The exact budget isn't something we give out; suffice to say
+it's under a million per episode, or about half the budget of an
+average ST episode.
+
+      We've come in a little bit under budget each year; not a lot,
+but some. A small portion of whatever money isn't spent goes into
+interim next season stuff (studio maintenance and improvements, set
+storage and repair, that sort of thing).  The rest goes back to WB as
+per our contract.
+
+      In the syndicated ratings, B5 generally falls anywhere from the
+low 30s to 40s during first run, a bit lower on long reruns.  But this
+is out of about 250 or more syndicated shows per week.  So we're in
+about the top 20% of all syndicated shows, and always in the top 10 of
+dramatic series.
+
+      I haven't actually seen any viewer numbers; I know the UK tends
+to give them, but I've never seen the figure given for X-million US B5
+viewers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 EA Shirts
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, those shirts are made by our wardrobe department.  We
+hadn't ever considered selling them...maybe we should.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: There All Honor Lies
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Jeez, I don't remember that exact line anymore...but your
+paraphrase is pretty close, so maybe it's not too bad.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Questions: (1) Was Dellen partially responsible for Dukhat's
+> death? (2) Does she _think_ she is responsible?
+> Or is this just an artifact of Minbari/English translation?
+> Could Dellen's anger have caused her to exagerate?
+> Does she feel that her destiny in the Minbari/Human joining
+> somehow caused the incident that killed Dukhat?
+
+      No, she doesn't feel responsible; it's an artifact of the way
+they approach certain things.  "His word is on my lips, his spirit is
+in my eyes." It's almost a way of saying he's speaking through me, back
+off.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jack Beckman <73227.3066@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Cermonies of Lt&Drk>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, this wasn't an opportunity for redemption.  It would be
+flagged as much more important than this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Clark Fischer <75551.2437@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Cancellation RUMOR
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      That's great, thanks for joining the party.  I'm pleased to find
+that the show has given a number of parents and kids something they can
+watch and discuss together.  There are certainly more than enough
+things to pull us apart.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Effects record question
+
+ Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Incidentally, when season 3 started here, one of the biggest
+> topics of conversation was the shot of the Starfuries firing on
+> each other from the opening credits: what could have led to that? 
+> Was that scene from "Severed Dreams", from another episode, or
+> was it made up especially for the opening credits?
+
+      The opening shot was made specifically for the title sequence,
+as (for lack of a better term) a bit of foreshadowing.  We generally
+put our cards right out in plain view for people to see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Thomas Zahler <74041.2514@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sinclair's Brother
+
+ Thomas Zahler <74041.2514@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But (and seeing John's father listed in the opening credits made
+> me think about this) did you rework this to be Sheridan's wife? Or
+> is this a plotline that we will never see happen?
+
+      No, the b-story about Sinclair's brother was never intended to
+be the Anna Sheridan thing, since obviously the reference was to his
+brother still being alive.
+
+      I never just transfer stories from A to B; each character has to
+have his or her own individual arc, specific to who that person is. 
+Bits and pieces get moved around, or reassigned, but not generally that
+blatantly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 23:39:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 blooper reels?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      "I've heard a lot of griping about hwo expensive the club is, so
+it's probably not going to be under $10 by a lon gshot.  If it's in the
+$30s or $50s, it almost isn't worth it..."
+
+      The fan club costs $12.95.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 23:39:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard J De Lotto <73353.1314@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 blooper reels?
+
+ Richard J De Lotto <73353.1314@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do we sign up for the fan club?
+
+Here's the info:
+
+The Official Membership Kit includes:
+
+     A Subscription to The Universe Today: The Official Newsletter of
+the
+     B5FC filled with exclusive interviews, news about Babylon 5, and
+     exciting merchandise offers.
+     An 8x10 Cast Photo
+     Full Color Babylon 5 Mini-Poster (13"x20")
+     B5 Fan Club Button & Full Color Sticker
+     Membership Certificate (Signed by the show's Executive Producers,
+J.
+     Michael Straczynski and Douglas Netter)
+     Membership ID Card granting you discounts on merchandise,
+conventions,
+     etc., as well as access to the Members Only section of
+TheStation.com,
+     the B5 Fan Club Web-site (to be up May 1996).
+     Plus as a bonus, the first 100 people to join get:
+     A Limited Collection Sticker of the alternate B5 Logo as designed
+by
+     artist Peter Ledger.
+================
+
+To Give a Membership as a Gift, simply make a copy of the entry form,
+fill in the name of the person you wish to make a member, and send it
+off. (Don't forget to include your name on the Suggestions line, so
+that we can include a gift card.)
+
+Each year the Renewal Kit will offer new and different goodies,
+savings, and of course another year's subscription to The Universe
+Today.
+
+Remember, this is more than just your run of the mill fan club; the
+Babylon 5 fans time and time again have gone that extra step for the
+show, and the Babylon 5 Fan Club is our way of giving something back to
+those who've been so loyal to us.
+
+ ------------------  CLIP OR COPY AND GIVE TO A FRIEND 
+ --------------------
+
+YES!  I want to join The Official Babylon 5 Fan Club.  Please send my
+membership kit to:
+
+Name:    
+________________________________________________________________
+
+Age:      __________
+
+Address: 
+________________________________________________________________
+
+City:     _____________________________ State:  ___________ ZIP: 
+________
+
+Country:  _____________
+
+e-mail address: 
+_________________________________________________________
+
+Local Station you watch B5 on: 
+__________________________________________
+
+Suggestions: 
+____________________________________________________________
+
+______________________________________________________________________
+____
+
+_____ I am already on the mailing list.
+
+_____ I got this form from a friend.
+
+Enclosed is $12.95 for a U.S. membership; $14.95 for a Canadian
+membership; and $19.95 for Foreign memberships.  Orders must be in U.S.
+funds. Send check or money order (DO NOT send cash) made payable to:
+
+Babylonian Productions/Fan Club
+
+Mail to:  The Official Babylon 5 Fan Club
+          PO Box 856
+          North Hollywood, CA 91603
+
+Please allow 5-6 weeks for delivery.  Foreign and Canadian orders are
+shipped surface, please allow additional time for shipping.
+
+All returned checks are subject to a $15.00 service charge.
+
+ ----------------  CUT HERE FOR THE END OF THE FORM 
+ -------------------
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 23:39:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 CD ????
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, the .avi files work in tandem with another file, to make it
+work. You'll note that shpdta08.avi comes alongside shpdta09.dat (or
+some other extension), which contains the info.  If you install it from
+the disk, it usually works fine.  The scrittching sound on the
+personnel data is the identicard scanner sound, which goes with the
+identicard readout.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 23:57:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Curryanne Hostetler <71533.17@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Finished Writing!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  As time goes on, we come to know these characters as
+friends; it's a nifty experience.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 23:57:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: UK and budgets
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm still not sure I understand the question.  The B5 videotapes
+for sale in the UK are definitely licensed.  We never sell any episode
+on film to anyone for any reason, here or otherwise.  Nothing's been
+out on disk yet.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 23:57:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Whats coming
+
+ Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I am wondering if we are going to see Bester as more of a good
+> guy? I am wondering if that is how I will look at B5 when it is
+> over and in reruns?
+
+      Exactly, the older shows take on more substance, weight and
+interest the more you've seen after them.  All kinds of stuff jumps out
+at you after a while.  As for Bester...no matter what, it's fair to say
+he's on nobody's side but his own.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 23:57:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams, WOW>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, it's a long way from Captain Power.
+
+      No, no direct involvement with Hypernauts, though they're one of
+several shows now on the air or in development that are now using the
+Babylon 5 model for producing TV shows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 23:57:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Celia J. Penham <102454.540@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Cermonies of Lt&Drk>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  It was a nice moment, and needed some leading-up-to,
+but I think it came out well.  It's a start.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 23:57:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Original Storyline
+
+ Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I think I was assuming something along these lines: Originaly you
+> had Sinclair as the lead character for the whole 5 years, right? 
+> PS- officialy, whatever happened to Na'toth and Lou Welch?
+
+      We'll be mentioning Na'Toth later this season.
+
+      Actually, the relationship with Sinclair and Delenn wasn't
+designed to be romantic; he was involved with Sakai, and would've
+stayed that way for the most part.  The relationship you saw is not
+quite what you're thinking; there is a closeness, but not based on
+romantic feelings.  You'll catch a sense of what's behind this more
+later this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-Apr-96 23:57:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 'Severed' pieces
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      We've shown work crews before cleaning up after big assaults;
+even a HazMat platform for clearing away fuel cores after they blew up
+the Centauri cruiser in "Fall of Night."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Apr-96 02:34:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: UK and budgets
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Aha!  Okay...the reason that the tapes haven't been released by
+WB Video here in the US...is that they don't think anybody's interested
+in buying them.
+
+      Now, in the UK, the videos are usually in the top ten or so on
+the sell-through charts.
+
+      Somehow, the video folks seem capable of looking at those two
+items and fail to see a contradiction.
+
+      'Tis a wonderment to me....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Apr-96 02:35:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dimitri M LaBarge <71501.3353@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams, WOW>
+
+ Dimitri M LaBarge <71501.3353@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any others that you can mention offhand?
+
+      Space Cases uses a variation on the 5-year arc, a lot of what
+they're doing with their sets and CGI and other areas nods to B5...and
+there are two new shows in the works that very definitely rely on the
+B5 model, though I'm not at liberty (as a courtesy to them) to discuss
+them at this time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chris Croughton <100014.3217@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon cereal
+
+ Chris Croughton <100014.3217@compuserve.com> asks:
+> OK, so what's the oddest question you've been asked?
+
+      The oddest question I've ever been asked?
+
+      "What do you do if you die before finishing the full B5
+storyline?"
+
+      Well...decompose, mainly....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+ Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Before I send away and import the "Making of B5" from the UK,
+> will it be available from the club?
+
+      I don't believe the book will be made available via the fan
+club, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >Severed Dreams/Kurosawa
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Are you going to be doing a Sunday afternoon session at Marcon in
+> Columbus May 5th?
+
+      I haven't seen a Marcon schedule yet, so I dunno....
+
+      And yes, because anything can happen to anyone around here, it
+makes this kind of thing more interesting.
+
+      I was thinking about this the other day, and realized just how
+much some aspects of the show remind me of a role playing game; you set
+up the parameters, you know where the story has to go, and you bring in
+some characters.  Some will live, die, be hindered, succeed, fail, or
+go mad, depending on how the players react to the situation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: UK and budgets
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  Matters of Honor was a good starting point, to get the
+story moving again.  The next batch are somewhat stand-alones, just to
+get the new folks up to speed with the show...but we pick up speed
+again soon enough.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: There All Honor Lies
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...and I'm always hoping for more moments of perfect
+beauty.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Postmortem
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Over my dead body.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Theo Thourson <73214.2131@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Actor's Knowledge
+
+ Theo Thourson <73214.2131@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If one of the characters, let's say Delenn for no good reason,
+> has a secret agenda, or is a traitor to the rest of the crew, or
+> something equally devious, does Mira know about it? In other
+> words, do the actors know everything the characters know?
+
+      Sometimes yes, sometimes no.  Depends on whether I want them to
+play the process or the result when leading up to that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS: Hmmm...
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, Earth's middle ages had really nothing much to do with the
+shadow war or the shadows; we simply weren't very important.
+
+      As for a bio of me...I can't *possibly* imagine anything less
+inherently interesting.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard L. Long <76562.2757@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon screen saver
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  It's a great program; I have it on both my home and
+office systems.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Salaries
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      We'll establish in coming episodes that they have to become more
+self sufficient; the Minbari will help some, others will also have a
+reason to help support the station for the advantages it gives them,
+the services it provides, and eventually docking fees will have to rise
+if they can make a go of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Talia and Ivanova
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is this correct and will Bester try and make use of this in Ship
+> of Tears?
+
+      I would think that Talia would deliberately refrain from
+dipping; the merging during sex really is a consentual affair.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Episode order?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Usually the episode airing order is right, with a couple of
+exceptions, which I can't remember just now (sigh).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arwel Parry <100336.623@compuserve.com>
+Subject: UK <Matters of Hono(u)r>
+
+ Arwel Parry <100336.623@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I like the new title sequence, the new theme has just the right
+> feel of impending doom and foreboding - will Chris Franke be
+> putting it on the new CD? or is it just a figure of speech in the
+> same way that when Sheridan "takes out" a Centauri cruiser he's
+> not taking it to a candlelit dinner or the movies? Marcus Cole
+> looks like an interesting character, but from what he said about
+> how he and his brother joined the Rangers it seems as if their
+> existence is quite generally known, at least in some circles -
+> how come EA and the Shadows' agents haven't heard about them? and
+> have ISN kept quiet about them? Thanks again for another
+> entertaining programme - you keep saying you're getting better
+> all the time, but will any of your audience survive the tension
+> in season 5?!
+
+      Actually, the B5 third year theme is an expanded version,
+somewhat altered, of the "Requiem for the Line" piece, which is already
+on the current CD.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Syndication
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'd imagine that the rules for syndicated commercials and cable
+are about the same; it's the jump from network to syndicated that leads
+to trouble.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Cermonies of Lt&Drk>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Was Sniper one of them?
+
+      They were both true believers.
+
+      I also went just a little here for a kind of metaphorical
+approach; prior to this, Nightwatch folks have always been presented as
+starched, scrubbed, visually appealing...the face they wanted others to
+see.  Now we see their true face, the scarred, dark, empty eyes, no
+longer pretending to hide. So we kinda cast in that direction.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Cermonies of Lt&Drk>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      "Londo is a hell of a leader."
+
+      Perfect fodder for an Emperor, no...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Cermonies of Lt&Drk>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Compliments paid in mathematical terms always worry me for some
+reason.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ceremonies - well done>
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Also, given that Ivannova had *finally* found someone to be close
+> to, it it just her fate to get screwed by Psi Corps?
+
+      No, people get involved with other people for any number of
+reasons; it's not necessarily any easier to stay within one's gender
+with teeps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ceremonies>
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Incidently, are we supposed to buy this "I know her destiny is
+> with someone else and I have accepted it" stuff?
+
+      Well, there was certainly that little catch in his voice, that
+hesitation, before he added "...in my heart."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Original Storyline
+
+ Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you still schedualed to go to the Marcon in ohio in May?
+
+      Yes, I'll be at Marcon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Ceremonies> Costume
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, not really.  I wanted it to have a crossed look, certain
+Minbari elements and textures, lines that are reminiscent of the
+Rangers, but also of Earthforce.  Hence, the result.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:45:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Love in CoL&D
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Certainly various sorts of love was at the core of the episode,
+and what we do for one another.
+
+      But no, not all relationships have to end badly (despite my own
+general history in that regard).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:45:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<<JMS THANKYOU!!!!>>>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it's a good start to the season.
+
+      But we have far to go before we can rest.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:45:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Sic Transit Vir>
+
+ David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> All Earth Force personnel no longer are being paid, are they?
+> Who is replenishing supplies?
+> Are things being bartered?
+> Are the Minbari picking up the slack?
+> Is that its function for the time being?
+
+      Thanks.  Dealing with the financial and support situation comes
+up next week.
+
+      And agree re: Vir.  He's a much stronger character than anyone
+might think.  He's sort of the "God's Fool" character, to get literary
+for a second, who somehow manages to make it through it all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:45:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ceremonies...>
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was she able to use the pain to confirm a sense of her own
+> rebirth?
+
+      Yes, I think Mira was able to draw upon her background a lot in
+this one.
+
+      I also like the look between Marcus and Delenn as they stand in
+the customs area...he looks like he desperately wants to say more, and
+she like she desperately wants to hear it...but he turns and walks
+away, the moment lost.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:45:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Sic Transit Vir<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, I love the Ivanova/Vir scenes; I fall down laughing every
+time.
+
+      "the wife is always right."  Hmm...I must convey this to Ivanova
+for her reaction the next time she pops out of my subconscious.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:45:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Rage's Thots: CoL&D>
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If you were trying to regain control of Babylon 5, would you
+> leave it in the hands of these nimrods? Why didn't Bochs assign
+> him a "handler"? Sniper's reaction to Delenn's "pity" speech: "You
+> pity me? However, why did he notify Susan before Garibaldi when
+> Delenn and Lennan were taken by the NWTs? Does he really dislike
+> Michael that much, or was it just to give us another AI scene? 
+> What aliens hasn't the guy played? Have we seen him as an Earther?
+> A question: Why didn't our heroes attempt to work with the
+> nudjing computer? and just WHAT was Delenn reacting to there?
+> Does everyone get them, or just command staff?
+> Yet, why are they *BLACK*?
+
+      "They're all so GOOD."
+
+      Gotta be.  No other choice.
+
+      (Actually, we had 3 more quickie scenes with the computer voice,
+but the ep ran long over time, and we were locked into some
+walk-and-talks where we couldn't make other trims.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:45:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: "Ceremonies"/too close
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, I'm glad it hit a little too close to home for comfort.
+There's a quote, "Be uncomfortable.  Be sand, not oil, in the machinery
+of the world." We need sometimes to be a bit uncomfortable so that we
+do *exactly* what you describe doing...sitting and thinking about all
+of this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 20:45:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <AI>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> _Sparky_ the computer??
+> _*SPARKY*_ the computer?!?!?!
+> I'm not repressed any more.") You have fun writing for him, don't
+> you?
+
+      I love writing for Marcus.  I can just come at the dialoge from
+a completely different angle.  There's a certain edge, a dark kind of
+irony that comes through his character that lets me do lines I can't do
+for anyone else except sometimes Ivanova.  He's a hoot....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 23:57:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steve Brightman <73420.3057@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ceremonies of L & D>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, no, the song in "Ceremonies" was not intended as a
+Prisoner riff or homage of any kind.  If the song originated with The
+Prisoner, that'd be one thing, but the song goes back a long, LONG ways
+before The Prisoner was even thought of.
+
+      What happened, actually, was this...I'm a big fan of the Red
+Clay Ramblers, a terrific group that does sort of bluegrass but very
+offbeat.  I was writing that episode, and I was playing with the
+torture aspect, and had one of their albums on.  At just the moment I
+got to that scene, up came their rendition of "Ezekiel in the Valley of
+the Dry Bones."  The notion was perfect, so I went back to the original
+version of the song, which is public domain (rather than their
+variation on it), and used it.  Synchronicity.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 23:57:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Matt Allen <100530.232@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS Fav B5 CD Track?
+
+ Matt Allen <100530.232@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe which is your favorite track on the B5 CD?
+> Is this your favorite track as a remix of it is now the third
+> season main theme? Do you ever play the CD while writing/relaxing
+> or driving etc?
+
+      Yeah, I'd say the extended "Requiem" piece on the CD is probably
+my favorite.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 23:57:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 - MT&R TV Festial?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I appreciate that, and the offer.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 23:57:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toby Johnson <104305.1442@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 - tape options
+
+ Toby Johnson <104305.1442@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you think if/when any video tapes of the show are sold in the
+> US that we will have a choice of format??
+
+      That hasn't been decided as of this time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 23:57:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mary Taylor <75530.2650@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Cermonies of Lt&Drk>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      "I do remember it looking much worse earlier on."
+
+      Your memory is correct.  Just before he did the first episode,
+he had to shave his full beard for some commercial audition.  It hadn't
+grown all the way back, and we had to darken it down a bit to make it
+work.  It's all back now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 23:57:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Cermonies of Lt&Drk>
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Remember the final episode of The Prisoner ("Fall Out")?
+
+      It wasn't a Prisoner reference.
+
+      Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...and sometimes a song is
+there because it's right for the episode, and that moment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Apr-96 23:57:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Sinclair's Brother
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Geez, I'm having enough hell just telling this story now...ask
+me in two years.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Apr-96 02:08:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon screen saver
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> When's the Mac version coming out?
+
+      Soon.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Apr-96 02:08:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Timothy & Lisa Mitchell <71461.303@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ceremonies of L & D>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Problem is I'm *very* eclectic.  I listen to just about
+everything, depending on my mood, except for hard-ass country
+(bluegrass is an exception to this).  Japanese, Celtic, heavy-metal,
+classic rock, classical, big band, Enya, you name it.  They all go into
+the player at some point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Apr-96 02:08:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toby A. Aulman <74464.241@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Keeping me guessing
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  It's been said that a writer must surprise himself if
+he's to surprise anyone else...and I'm constantly surprised by what
+comes out of the characters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Apr-96 02:08:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Cermonies of Lt&Drk>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The physical dynamics of the scar *would* have worked as seen,
+actually, mainly because that wasn't a piece of makeup, that's a real
+scar, and it does work that way.
+
+      Other than that...thanks!
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Apr-96 02:08:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <CoL&D thoughts>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It wasn't a Prisoner reference, so you didn't miss anything. 
+Some folks see what they want to see.  (If you were at a gospel
+meeting, and they sang "Ezekiel in the Valley of the Dry Bones," would
+*that* be a Prisoner reference?)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 16-Apr-96 14:46:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <CoL&D thoughts>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Do you have any news on Harlan's condition?
+
+       He's doing better, mainly now needs rest and quiet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Apr-96 14:46:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard L. Long <76562.2757@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >Sic Transit Vir<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yes, I'll be there...see you then.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Apr-96 14:46:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bob Ingersoll <72204.2405@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Syndication
+
+ Bob Ingersoll <72204.2405@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In what way is B5 moving to TNT?
+
+       They're picking up reruns in 1998.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Apr-96 14:47:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ceremonies...>
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This makes me wonder which the personnel of Bablyon 5 (or anyone,
+> for that matter) will regret most: the lost moments of actions
+> wrongly taken or the lost moments of actions not taken at all?
+
+       Thanks.  I just ordered it the second the information you
+provided appeared on my screen.  Looking forward to it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Apr-96 14:47:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill MacIntosh <70275.1372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Quoting Ta'Lon
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Well, I think we all kinda knew that Honeywell was being run by
+Narns....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Apr-96 14:47:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Cermonies of Lt&Drk>
+
+ Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That was a real scar?
+> When was Don Stroud so severely injured?
+
+       Yes, the scar is real.  He had some rough times a few years
+ago. (Actually, he also appeared with the scar as it's seen here in
+"TKO," as Garibaldi's corner man, though there it was hidden a bit.) 
+He's still doing a lot of work though.
+
+       (The funny thing was seeing the occasional comment on the nets
+saying how fake they thought the makeup looked, and why couldn't we
+manage to do something a bit more realistic looking?)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Apr-96 14:47:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 on WWCP
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I can't imagine why they're telling folks that, when it's been
+made clear to us that WBN wouldn't take the show.  Unless they're
+looking for a cover story for why they're considering dropping it, but
+that doesn't seem very likely.  I dunno....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Apr-96 14:47:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: How is Harlan ?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Harlan's doing much better.  The #1 thing he and Susan need
+right now is space and a little quiet time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Apr-96 14:47:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Ceremonies of L & D>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Okay...Things I Listen To While Writing:
+
+       (Well, this week, anyway.)
+
+       Melissa Etheridge.  Enya.  Meatloaf.  Slade.  Red Clay
+Ramblers. Alice Cooper.  Benny Goodman.  Artie Shaw.  KODO.  Sarah
+MacLachlan.  Billy Joel. Django Rheinhart.  Leon Russell.  The musical
+Chess.  And, of course, the B5 soundtrack.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Apr-96 14:47:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<<JMS THANKYOU!!!!>>>
+
+ Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com> asks:
+> After re-running that sequence, (Trying to find if it actually
+> exploded) I noticed it sort of Flashed - and I thought I saw some
+> kind of....skeleton? And then when it was finally ripped apart -
+> it Shattered? Are my eyes playing tricks or is this how you
+> intended?
+
+       I think that was mainly the energy coursing along it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Apr-96 19:16:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Delenn
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"...note on Lennier: "a pure, higher love"? Pshaw, I've heard that
+before and seen the results in my own life. Are Minbari so different?"
+
+      One would certainly hope so.
+
+      And there are such different kinds of feelings even among
+humans; yes, you're right, often it doesn't work out that way...and
+sometimes it does.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Apr-96 19:16:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Don Fort <72204.1356@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <ceremonies - scene>
+
+ Don Fort <72204.1356@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you specify that tableau for the distant shots of their
+> exchange or did that sort of evolve on the storyboard?
+
+      It sorta evolved.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Apr-96 19:16:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<Recasting fever>>>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Easy.  Takashima would have been the one to be Control.  A Psi
+Corps plant.  (Her background on Mars would've been the perfect time
+for it to have happened.)  When Laurel went away, I took that one
+thread and passed it along to Talia, setting it up as early as the very
+first episode, when Talia and Ivanova first meet, and later reluctantly
+have a drink.
+
+      At one point, Ivanova says to Talia, referencing Ivanova's
+mother, "You're as much of a victim as she was."  To which Talia
+replies, "I don't feel like a victim."  And, of course, that's exactly
+what she was, though she didn't know it yet.  Ivanova's analysis was
+100% correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Apr-96 23:10:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon cereal
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I do get asked that on occasion still....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Apr-96 23:10:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SD Withdrawing effect
+
+ John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How did you do this effect?
+> Is this correct?
+> Why the initial zoom out?
+
+      Yes, the way you describe the shot (zoom/move) was correct. 
+It's what was indicated in the script, and well executed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Apr-96 23:10:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <CoL&D thoughts>
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Is Harlan okay?
+
+      He's doing much better now.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Apr-96 23:10:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<Recasting fever>>>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, Carolyn wasn't involved with the Kosh situation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Apr-96 01:46:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 v Star Trek
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was Star Wars unoriginal because Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon
+> preceded it? Was Hill Street Blues unoriginal because about 200
+> other police shows preceded it? Is ER unoriginal because it's the
+> umpteenth hospital show ever made?
+
+      In considering ST to be totally original, obviously he's never
+heard of Forbidden Planet....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Apr-96 01:46:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Rebirth Ceremony
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It was stated at the time, in the first season, that it was a
+rebirth ceremony.  Just to clarify.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 17-Apr-96 14:12:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Ceremonies of L & D>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Does Meatloaf listen better than he watches?
+> Were you aware that the studio address and phone numbers are now
+> available to lots of fans?
+
+      That information was bound to get out sooner or later.  It's
+okay.  We have Narns working security.
+
+      Yeah, Meatloaf definitely "listens better than he watches,"
+though in truth he's lost a LOT of weight lately, and looks 100% better
+than in past years.  Most of his songs (even though written often with
+or by others) tell stories, they have a lot of heart to them, they're
+sometimes very funny, and there's a tremendous, enviable energy in
+them.  You get the sense that he undrstands the only way to tell a
+story sometimes is to put the pedal to the floor and go flat out for
+the abyss, hoping to come out alive on the other side.  I commend to
+you his two latest albums, Bat Out of Hell II and Welcome to the
+Neighborhood.  There's some really nifty stuff there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Apr-96 14:12:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Hoopingarn <73172.1065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Morden>
+
+ Jonathan Hoopingarn <73172.1065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since it's been established that some species use crystals as
+> part of their technology for data storage as well as other
+> things, is this pendant some sort of Shadow technology or does it
+> have some other sort of significance in his relationship to the
+> Shadows?
+
+      It may have its uses.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Apr-96 14:12:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <CoL&D thoughts>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> If we all send cards for Harlan to the B5 mail drop, will someone
+> pile them up for when he feels like reading them??
+
+      Sure.  We'll pass them along when he's home and better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Apr-96 14:19:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Morden>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Correct.  But since it's there, at some point I may as well use
+it for something.  Waste not, want not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Apr-96 14:19:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Cermonies of Lt&Drk>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Of course the flip side of this is that you'd have to check
+every single thing you ate or drank every day, every week, for the rest
+of your natural life.  Not the kind of life *I'd* like to live.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Apr-96 21:51:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phil Koltko <71604.2145@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sparky the Computer
+
+ Phil Koltko <71604.2145@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any hidden references in the Sparky the Computer gag
+> (in <Ceremonies...>)?
+
+      No, just figured it'd be a great name.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Apr-96 21:51:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: EA President
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is is "Clark" or "Clarke"?
+
+      It's Clark.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Apr-96 21:51:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dana Wright <72627.531@compuserve.com>
+Subject: BRAVO!
+
+ Dana Wright <72627.531@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I wonder if you will be convering the economics of what has
+> happened to B5? Who is paying those dock workers and in what?
+> Perhaps you may yet write thos volumes and include all those
+> tidbits left on the cutting room floor or topics like what
+> happened when the doctor learned his father had died? What about
+> appendixes that discuss the histories of all the known races or
+> the previous wars with the dark?
+
+      Thanks, and yes, we do get into the question now of who pays for
+what, and how.  It's a natural, logical progression.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Apr-96 21:51:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: How are you?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm fine.  A little harried, tired and generally staggered these
+days, but fine.  Spent the day at the hospital with Harlan today, who's
+doing MUCH better, walking around, cracking jokes...a vast improvement.
+
+      I'm still hip-deep in post production, and laying stuff out for
+next year in hopes of renewal...but basically fine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Apr-96 21:51:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Cermonies of Lt&Drk>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes, Londo is a very sharp, cunning character.  He does what he
+does for sheer patriotism, to serve his people.  *Whatever* that may
+entail.  And Vir gets whipsawed a lot...he's a great character, with a
+wide range of characteristics I can play with, from comic to tragic.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Apr-96 21:51:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <STV - clarifications?>
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) In the teaser, other than as a counterpoint to the "joke" Vir
+> was told, what were all the Narn doing there? Was this a bit of
+> license you took to tweak us with the teaser? Were these relatives
+> of other Narn ready to settle the score for their relatives (who
+> they've been told are "dead")? Were these Narn on the way through
+> an Underground Railroad (on *Centauri Prime*???)? 2) What happened
+> with the captured Narn at the end of the episode? Has all this
+> been handled off screen, or will we see further ramifications in
+> the future? Or, is that another comet going by?
+
+      I could've *sworn* there was a line there about the Narn
+recovering; I'm going to have to check this.  I hope I didn't
+accidentally cut it for time while doing something else.  (It was a
+LONG editing session.)
+
+      I figured the Narns were there to discuss the fates of their
+families back home, but yeah, to a certain degree it was there as a
+great end for the teaser.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 18-Apr-96 16:19:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >Sic Transit Vir<
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> what DID happen to the Narn Lindesty caught?
+
+       Nothing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Apr-96 16:19:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul Frazier <103311.567@compuserve.com>
+Subject: EA Battle Tactics
+
+ Paul Frazier <103311.567@compuserve.com> asks:
+> al., turn off the jump gate prior to the arrival of the EA
+> vessels? And a related question: why did the EA ships use the jump
+> gate? What am I missing here?
+
+       The answer to both your questions is about the same.  It takes
+about a day to power down, or power up a jump gate.  It operates more
+like a fusion reactor than a light bulb.  So not only wasn't there
+enough time, even if they *had* had enough time, you'd want to leave
+the gate up and running in case you needed to evacuate for any reason;
+otherwise you'd cut off your main escape route.
+
+       For the incoming fleet, knowing the gate was active was the way
+to go, since it would let them launch their fighters prior to coming
+in; if you use a jump point, you kinda have to launch while you're
+coming out to avoid anyone being stuck behind.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Apr-96 19:13:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Interludes SPOILER>
+
+ David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 2????
+> As in TWO????
+> Two?
+> Who could the other be?
+> ?
+> The new extra, Marcus?
+
+      You really shouldn't drop a message like that into a thread
+without a massive spoiler warning and space, given the nature of the
+subject.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Apr-96 19:16:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<Ambassador Na'fon?>>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is he still around, or is that a small comet that went by?
+
+      When he failed to convince the other Narns to accept him as
+their new leader -- which was the whole point to his being sent to B5
+in the first place
+ -- he had no choice but to go home.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Apr-96 01:53:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steve Ramage <74731.235@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <STV: a Narn question>
+
+ Steve Ramage <74731.235@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You know -- the one lying tied up on the floor, waiting to find
+> out if he's going to be done with his own blade? Is this yet
+> another thread I'm going to have to keep in my head, or was he,
+> his contribution to this episode concluded, returned to
+> supernumerary Hell?
+
+      No, nothing happened to him; Vir wouldn't ever do that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Apr-96 01:53:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Scarpa <73672.2136@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Recasting fever>>>
+
+ David Scarpa <73672.2136@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe , in one of the early eps there is a shadowery figure I think
+> there was some hidden group called Controll 11 or something what
+> ever happened to these individuals and is hat a dropped thread or
+> one that will come up again ?
+
+      The Bureau was incorporated into other parts of the government.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Apr-96 02:05:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 v Star Trek
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      If I'd wanted Big Money, I'd've stayed on MURDER, SHE WROTE,
+where I was paid *twice* what I get on B5, given that it's a top-ten
+rated network show. But I left that to do this.
+
+      This isn't a random casting about for an idea that makes money. 
+For one thing, "ideas" don't make shows, characters do.  Second, if
+what you posit were true, I wouldn't have built the show so that it
+self-destructs after 5 years.  Finally, every season of this show for
+three years plus the pilot for four has pushed the envelope completely;
+we only have two years left.  Not much time to settle into complacency,
+wouldn't you say?
+
+      Maybe you should bea little less cynical and insulting about a
+field about which you do not seem terribly well informed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 19-Apr-96 21:55:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Ceremonies of L & D>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm familiar with BOC, but haven't really gone out of my way to
+get hold of any of their stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Apr-96 21:55:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Was that the Jupiter 2?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, it's a Vree ship, which we've seen before.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Apr-96 22:16:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Ceremonies of L & D>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Ah....once again the topic of folliclelessness returns to the
+board...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Apr-96 22:16:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <A Note re: Spoilers>
+
+ Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why??
+
+      Yes, the intros are spoken in the past tense.
+
+      But when is it in the story that they are spoken....hmmmm....?
+
+      In theory, one could speak of 2258 in 2259 and it's the past
+tense.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-Apr-96 00:27:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: EA President
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Now you should have both a Clark Bar and a Mars Bar, and reenact
+"Severed Dreams."  Or, of course, you could ally yourself with the
+Shadows and go for the Milky Way....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 20-Apr-96 14:48:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Book in UK ?'s
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Wow...what're the other ascii codes for alternate
+numbers/letters that one can use online?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-Apr-96 15:16:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 v Star Trek
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, we're still waiting on renewal, same as every show.
+
+      To take off my producer cap for a moment and put on my fan
+cap...yes, I understand your position.  Lots of people in this town
+obsess about money, and everybody wants to tell you what to do.  I know
+the problems Bellisario had with "Leap," and some of them were of his
+own making, but the majority were from the Suits at Universal.  A large
+measure of what eventually comes out of your show depends on who you
+luck into as far as a studio liaison is concerned.  We got very lucky
+in having someone who understands what we're trying to do, and hasn't
+given a single script note since episode 2 of year 2. DB didn't have
+that luxury; I don't think anyone at Universal really understood what
+he was trying to do, which was unfortunate.
+
+      My response was mainly from the other side of the statement,
+implicit or stated outright, that implies everyone working in TeeVee
+does so only for the bucks, that money talks and nothing else matters. 
+There are some of us who are dedicated storytellers, first, foremost
+and forever.  Tarring everyone with the same brush is just another form
+of prejudice, and when it appears, it needs to be corrected.
+
+      A lot of what happens out here in *The Industry* horrifies me. 
+The quest for more, bigger, money-money-money.  Yes, on one level,
+writers are vastly underpaid for what we do *in terms of* the amount of
+money that the final product actually makes.
+
+      But we are also vastly OVERPAID in terms of what people doing
+the really important jobs are being paid: teachers, nursing staff, the
+many layers of people who keep the nation going and prepare it for the
+future.  So from where I sit, NOBODY out here has ANY reason to beef
+about their money. We're hideously lucky to be working in a field where
+we can entertain, and tell stories, and be well compensated for it. 
+And I think too many people out here forget that.  Having grown up
+fairly poor for most of my life, I *can't* forget it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-Apr-96 15:16:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arwel Parry <100336.623@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hugo Nomination congrats
+
+ Arwel Parry <100336.623@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I assume you withdrew TFON to avoid splitting the vote?
+
+      Thanks.  Yes, since the last time we were in Hugo contention,
+the splitting of votes cost us the award (combined votes would've been
+enough going in to win), the folks gave us the option of withdrawing
+one of the two, and since "The Coming of Shadows" seems the overall
+favorite, that one was the one kept.
+
+      One other good thing about the withdrawl of one episode was that
+it allowed Terry Gilliam's "12 Monkeys" onto the ballot, which
+otherwise would've been frozen out, and it deserves the recognition of
+the nomination.
+
+      We're all *very* pleased and excited by the nomination.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-Apr-96 15:16:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <STV-a few ?>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is Vir married?
+> What is that patch on the right shoulder of the new uniforms?
+
+      At this point, with the rethinking going on back home, he's
+bethrothed and promised, the marriage arranged, but not yet fully,
+*formally* married. There's still ritual to go through.  The other
+family could still choose to withdraw the arrangement.
+
+      One of the patches is a Ranger patch; the other is the new B5
+sword and shield logo.
+
+      (BTW, on your web site, could you possibly withhold the synopses
+ -- which are provided to the stations, and not intended for general
+release -- until a little closer to the episode's airdate?  A couple of
+those you've released have caused a fair amount of consternation, and
+destroyed some of the impact I'd wanted with those episodes.  There's
+nothing I can do to stop you from posting the information -- though
+starting with "War" 2 I'm now personally editing the synopses to delete
+some stuff -- but if you could just hold back even a little, it would
+help me a lot.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-Apr-96 15:29:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New B5 Card Set in 8/96!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Just a quick public statement of support for the cards.  The
+last batch were very good -- even ending up on some magazines' lists of
+Top Ten Cards for the year -- and all indications are that this one
+will be even better. Of all the things I'm asked to sign at
+conventions, probably the #1 items are cards from the Fleer set (ditto
+for many of the cast).  I'm definitely looking forward to seeing them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-Apr-96 19:58:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 v Star Trek
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  I haven't done quite as much with alternate beliefs as
+I'd like, however, and that's something I want to get into a bit more
+in year four.  It feels a little too mainstream to me right now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-Apr-96 19:58:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Book in UK ?'s
+
+ Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> cents c alt+0162 pounds L alt+0163 yen Y alt+0165 copyright C
+> alt+0169 registered R alt+0174 plus or minus ? alt+0177 squared 2
+> alt+0178 paragraph P alt+0182 1/4 ? alt+0188 1/2 ?
+> alt+0189 3/4 ?
+> alt+0190 spanish ?
+> ?
+
+      Cool...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-Apr-96 19:58:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robert M. Schlesinger <103347.2317@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ Robert M. Schlesinger <103347.2317@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But really, can *anyone* under 6'2" *really* be a manly man?
+
+"I've always heard that it's not how much you've got, but how you use
+it..."
+
+      Sure, easy for you to say.  I'm still trying to remember where I
+left it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-Apr-96 19:58:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Sic Transit Vir>
+
+ Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> By the way, was the door that opens on the room full of Narns
+> real, or CGI enhanced?
+
+      Thanks, and yes, the door was quite real.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-Apr-96 23:30:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 So FL schedule
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Good news, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Apr-96 15:33:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Hoopingarn <73172.1065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Future of SF-TV
+
+ Jonathan Hoopingarn <73172.1065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you heard of any other producers/writers/directors currently
+> developing projects that should give us hope for the genre in the
+> future?
+
+      I dunno...it's hard to say.  After the first ST series, the ball
+was dropped and *nobody* picked it up again really for almost 25 years.
+After we're gone, it's hard to say if anybody'll do so.  We've gone out
+of our way to bring in other producers and folks, show them how we do
+the show, in the hope that they'll then be able to do the same and
+create more in the future. Whether or not that happens is hard to say.
+
+      Because it's not just the techniques involved.  B5 is only on
+the air because I and a couple of others stood there and fought tooth
+and nail for five years to get it on the air.  There has to be a
+certain tenacity involved.
+
+      On the other hand, Hypernauts is already using the B5 production
+model for their show, and Space Cases has adopted the five-year arc
+notion, so maybe the future is already here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Apr-96 15:34:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Critique or Propaganda
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Do you see this as likely?
+
+      Yes, I think it's very likely that's one reason we're more or
+less frozen out of a lot of areas.  I've seen it happen.  I used to be
+a reviewer (not a critic, I'm not that smart), and hung out with
+others; the theaters or producers with whom they had a relationship,
+they covered; those with whom they didn't, didn't get covered.
+
+      But then, as was pointed out to me a while back, critics are
+paid to be unfair, so you can't let it bother you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Apr-96 15:34:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <TCoS: Londo's Dream>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      All I can say for now, without massive spoilers, is that we'll
+be getting into this issue very heavily by the end of this season. 
+You'll see more of this thread.  But for now, this is simply one of
+those questions I'm going to have to refrain from answering for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Apr-96 15:34:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Sic Transit Vir>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Tell me, is Peter's accent real?
+> Were you involved with the hiring of the actors?
+> Did you know their previous work or did they audition fpr their
+> parts?
+
+      No, Peter's accent isn't real, though he does a good job with
+it.  And yes, I hire (with Doug Netter and John Copeland) all the
+actors on the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Apr-96 15:34:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Sic Transit Vir>
+
+ Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What happened to Vir's pre-nuptial gift that his fiance so
+> lovingly offered to him to dispose of at his leisure?
+
+      No, Vir would never kill a Narn, so he's fine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Apr-96 15:34:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <STV - clarifications?>
+
+ Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who was supposed to have said it?
+
+      It was in the observation dome scene with Ivanova; I realized
+that we'd cut a small piece for time that was expendable, but in the
+back and forth went one line too far without realizing it.  Sigh....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Apr-96 15:34:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Sic Tr Vir-my opinions>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks; I heard about the Vir promo situation...sigh...some days
+we just can't catch a break.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Apr-96 15:34:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <A Late Delivery...>
+
+ David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who wouldn't believe he was Arthur?
+> Then why was he there?
+
+      Thanks.  I *really* like this episode a lot.  The performance,
+the music, everything works; I tried to get a little artsy, try out
+some different kinds of stuff, stretch some muscles I haven't used
+enough, and it came out very nicely.  It's just nifty.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Apr-96 15:34:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Transit...>
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> As to those problematic press releases, for whom and what purpose
+> are they originally intended?
+
+      Yeah, there's a smidge of Alizon in Lyndisty, mainly in grammar
+and word choice.  As for the releases...they're not press releases,
+they're synopses sent to the stations for only their use.  They were
+never meant for general distribution.  Happily, one source of the
+synopses has offered to stop putting them out, so that'll be a major
+help to us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Apr-96 18:15:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Bab5 Hugo Nomination
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks (and thanks for the vote).  They gave me the option of
+having the two nominations or withdrawing one of the two, and we
+decided to go ahead and withdraw "Fall," to avoid splitting the vote,
+and to allow another entry into the field, which was apparently "12
+Monkeys," which definitely deserves the recognition of the nomination.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Apr-96 21:38:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Minbari Stealth Tech
+
+ Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1 how much more advanced are the Centauri than EA ?
+> the Blockade Mines seemed to pick up the extremely advanced White
+> Star quite quickly and yet the older larger Minbari cruisers were
+> not detectable by the EA during the Minbari War, even Sinclair in
+> Season 1believed that they still should not have been able to
+> pick up Minbari fighters ?
+
+      No, it's slightly audible to others, but is the sort of thing
+generally lost in the crowd; we ignore stuff a lot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Apr-96 21:38:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Late Delivery<<
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And I thought that finally I could just feel happy about an
+> episode, but then you had to end it with the whole thing about
+> Kosh being Merlin...and who is Morgana LaFaye?
+
+      Thanks, and yes, Marcus and Franklin make a good team, it's a
+nice balance.  And Marcus did fit in well with the whole Arthur
+storyline (it's kind of an obvious but well-fitting match).
+
+      As for Marcus' line...sometimes offhand remarks are only offhand
+remarks...and sometimes they aint....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-Apr-96 21:58:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <A Late Delivery...>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, I like this one a lot.  Not really an arc episode,
+except in going into some backstory elements, but just nicely done. 
+I'm quite proud of this one.
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Apr-96 00:09:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hugo Nomination congrats
+
+ Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this a standard practice, or is it unprecedented?
+> Or am I putting a wrong spin on it?
+
+      No, apparently this option is often given.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Apr-96 00:09:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: maria kusznir <103636.2771@compuserve.com>
+Subject: help: EA ships names
+
+ maria kusznir <103636.2771@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It can't be some sort of in joke is it?
+> Anyone know?
+
+      President Clark got away from the tradition of using Greek
+names.  And the Roanoke was a Virginia colony that disappeared in the
+1600s.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Apr-96 00:09:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Sic Transit Vir>
+
+ Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of Londo's accent, I'm assuming that different Centauri
+> accents represent people from different areas of the planet? 
+> Anything significant in all this, or just a bit of
+> differentiation?
+
+      No, we've just always assumed that not everyone on any given
+planet is going to speak with the same accent as everybody else from
+that planet. Seems more realistic.
+
+      Certainly, among Centauri, a certain accent is more associated
+with the "old school" of court nobility and the like.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Apr-96 00:09:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Jerry Doyle
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks for the report.  Yeah, Jerry and all the cast are great
+when it comes to performing for audiences and off-the-cuff comments. 
+They're very funny when they want to be.  We're an iconoclastic bunch.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 22-Apr-96 16:07:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Sic Tr Vir-my opinions>
+
+ Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any idea why they are doing this?
+> Could it simply be human error?
+
+       Yeah, I heard about this on the nets and from a reporter; they
+say they're aware of the problem and it won't happen again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Apr-96 16:07:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Spencer Collyer [UK] <100137.230@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <TCoS: Londo's Dream>
+
+ Spencer Collyer [UK] <100137.230@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, loved the reference to "Netter's Syndrome" in _Convictions_
+> - how did Doug take it when he first heard the name?
+
+       Doug's reaction to Netter's Syndrome was...amused, chagrined,
+and the promise of swift and terrible revenge.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Apr-96 18:59:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  Do you have the membership info?  (If not, I should
+probably upload it to the library.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Apr-96 18:59:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Sic Transit Vir>
+
+ William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The Centauri who was speaking to Vir at the beginning of the last
+> episode --did he know about what Vir was doing in funneling
+> through the Narns to safety?
+
+      No, he didn't know, and would've been horrified if he had.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Apr-96 18:59:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Also this is the Episode Jerry Doylebroke his arm in a scene?
+> Was the scence used?
+
+      The previews often have clips that don't appear in the episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Apr-96 21:30:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Late Delivery<<
+
+ SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> DO you know where they got it?
+
+      Yes, it's a real sword...I'm trying to remember where we got it,
+it may have been a vendor in these things, one of many that frequent
+catalogs and Ren faires.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-Apr-96 21:34:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A look Back...
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Can I just put the lie to this once and for all?
+
+      It was never, NEVER my intention, and I never stated, that the
+Minbari were hermaphroditic, or that Delenn was then hermaphroditic. 
+It was NEVER stated that they all went through a male-female change, so
+it had NOTHING to do with the Left Hand of Darkness.
+
+      The idea initially was to use a female playing a male character
+because it added an offbeat, somewhat androgynous look to the
+character, which I thought might be good for the character.  It was
+only upon entering the chrysalis, and emerging, that Delenn would a) be
+more human, and b) be female. When I discovered that the voice change
+wasn't working as well as I'd hoped it would, electronically altering
+it, I finally scrapped that aspect of it, but kept the human/minbari
+change aspect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Apr-96 00:21:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ejecting from a Fury
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      You can see explosive bolts going off, and a series of small
+thrusters behind the cockpit area which allow for navigation.  This
+gets the pilot away from the main body which has either been crippled,
+or is about to explode, the same way a modern fighter has an ejection
+system.  (Check the main credit sequence for a better shot of an
+ejection.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Apr-96 00:21:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Sic Transit Vir>
+
+ William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, what is the translation to the title?
+
+      thus passes Vir (it's a signal of transition)
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 23-Apr-96 15:16:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan P. Biddle <73260.1450@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Late Delivery<<
+
+ Alan P. Biddle <73260.1450@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this normal, or is the local station cutting them off?
+
+       No, the time required for the promo has been taken up by the
+contest commercial; now that the contest is over, the promos will
+return.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Apr-96 15:16:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Sic Transit Vir>
+
+ David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you tell us what the line would have been about the
+> bound-up Narn?
+
+       No, the only line was that "the Narn is recovering in Medlab,"
+something to that effect.  Sigh....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Apr-96 15:16:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toby Johnson <104305.1442@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+ Toby Johnson <104305.1442@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you any information on how many people have joined the fan
+> club so far?? Also what % is US and what % is outside the US?
+> Are the numbers what you expected higher/lower??
+
+       Right now, without any advertising of note, mainly word of
+mouth, we've got over 2,000 members so far.  We're adding about 150 per
+day.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Apr-96 15:16:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <STV-a few ?>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yeah, I wasn't happy with that aspect of the promo either
+(which was the national spot, not cut by the stations).  It's kinda
+like doing a promo for Citizen Kane, "...it all began with a child's
+sled named Rosebud...."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Apr-96 15:20:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Marcon Dinner for CISers
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> OK, who's going to Marcon in Columbus?
+> Who's interested in a CIS get-together for dinner on Saturday
+> evening? Who else?
+
+       That should be confirmed attendence at the *con*, not
+necessarily at dinner; they've got me booked pretty solid....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Apr-96 15:20:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mihai Farcas <103346.2717@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Renewal or not?
+
+ Mihai Farcas <103346.2717@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can we all chill out and await a reliable reply - like from JMS?
+
+       I've said it a dozen times...*no one will know anything until
+the early part of May at the SOONEST*.  The people who make the
+decision aren't scheduled to have their meeting to START discussing it
+until then.
+
+       So ANYthing you hear, either way, on this from anyone prior to
+that time is simply unsubstantiated rumor and can be dismissed.
+
+       We remain cautiously optimistic.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Apr-96 20:05:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Melissa G. on B5?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, Melissa appears in two episodes this season, toward
+the latter part of the season, in an role that...it's just...well,
+words fail me. Otherwise I'd tell you.
+
+      (running like hell....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Apr-96 20:05:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TV Guide Ad...
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The ad was placed by WB, and you can leave a note for them via
+www.babylon5.com.  It's a great ad, and as you say, about time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-Apr-96 20:05:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Question
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's not a fractal pattern, though you're right, it does kinda
+resemble that.  And the massing along the border was to delineate the
+line between the two halves, as cut up by Morden and Londo.  That may
+change, however....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 24-Apr-96 22:18:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Shouldn't be long; we're still turning out some of the stuff for
+the club, like the posters; give us a bit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Apr-96 22:18:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A look Back...
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Nothing to apologize for; wasn't annoyed.  It's just that I've
+seen this misperception a lot lately, and finally just decided, "Okay,
+let's straighten this out once and for all."  Any vehemence was
+intended for the subject, not the poster.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Apr-96 22:18:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Melissa G. on B5?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Two eps, eh?
+> ...uh...do we gotta wait til fall to see them?
+
+      It'll be toward the latter end of the season; haven't gotten a
+final schedule yet from WB.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Apr-96 22:18:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Will Gearhart <102147.2670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Query
+
+ Will Gearhart <102147.2670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who are you?
+> And, what do you want?
+
+      I don't know
+
+      and
+
+      To finish this story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Apr-96 22:18:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: stoney truett <71623.2377@compuserve.com>
+Subject: PATRICK MAGOOHAN
+
+ stoney truett <71623.2377@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know what MacGoohan is up to these days?
+> Could you clarify this?
+
+      I don't know what he's doing these days, though happily
+Braveheart seems to have brought him out of retirement.  He's simply
+one of the best actors I've ever seen.
+
+      We'd approached him in year one with a part, and things seemed
+to be going well, until we were told he would be out of the country,
+which nixed it. We'll get him yet.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Apr-96 22:18:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruno Melancon <102647.3222@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Late Delivery<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  Yeah, because we've played back and forth with this
+stuff before, a la the Inquisitor, it *could've* been him, which made
+it all the more interesting.  Certainly Marcus *wanted* it to be
+him....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Apr-96 22:18:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Renewal or not?
+
+ Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You wouldn't do that to us, right?
+> RIGHT??
+> That's even cuter than teddy bears (ugh!!) Uh, Joe, you wouldn't,
+> Right?!??? the baseball bat?
+
+      Wow, thanks for all of that, and for the letter(s).  They'll be
+eminently helpful.  The hard work is much appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-Apr-96 22:18:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Melissa Gilbert on B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Wait and see...
+
+                                                              jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Apr-96 01:05:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David E. Francis <72047.2070@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TV Guide Ad...
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      There's a certain perverseness in making those on the side of
+light wear black uniforms.  It reverses our expectations.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Apr-96 01:05:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Book Tours Status
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      ...sigh...I just wish they were better books....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Apr-96 01:07:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Future of SF-TV
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...from your mouth to Hugo's ears....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Apr-96 01:16:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5 copied ST
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The only problem with your theory is that there was never, ever,
+at any time, any notion of copying Star Trek, and that perception tends
+to exist only in those who don't generally know the full, rich
+background of SF.  This show owes more conceptually to historical
+themes, and the kinds of sagas that come down to us in the Lensman
+books, Childhood's End, the Foundation books, Dune and others than any
+TV show, including and especially Star Trek.
+
+      The only similarity between ST and B5 is that they are both in
+the future, and both set in space.  That's it.  Are you also willing to
+state that every SF novel set in the future, in space, is *also*
+copying Star Trek? Including those published before there ever WAS a
+Star Trek?  And of course let's not even get INTO the Forbidden Planet
+question.
+
+      While I appreciate the *sentiment* of your note, I would commend
+to you your local library, and the works of Heinlein, Clark, Asimov,
+Sturgeon, Bradbury, Lovecraft, Dunsany, Russell, Smith and others. 
+Your points of reference may need some measure of enlargement.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Apr-96 13:42:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Franklin's Dad
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.  I'm looking to find a way to bring Franklin's father
+back into the storyline now, to help resolve this.  (Note: no
+suggestions, please.)  I think he would tend to fall on the other side,
+and it'd be good to show that some people may think that yes, there's a
+problem, but you solve that problem from within, not by breaking away. 
+Could make for some nice drama....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Apr-96 13:42:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Late Delivery<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  Yes, the Delenn/Arthur moment played out very well; no
+lines, not a word, just the images, and the emotions under the surface.
+
+       And thanks on the titles.  I often labor a long time on these
+things, to try and give them many layers, or turn the title in on
+itself, or do a play on words.  I can't start work on a script until I
+have a title, because the title sets the mood.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Apr-96 13:42:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Episode Order
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yes, that would've been the ideal order *in that* it would've
+let the first batch of eps here in the US end on an arc episode, and
+wouldn't have let that thread sit for quite so long.  But we needed the
+extra time to make the EFX right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Apr-96 13:42:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Book Tours Status
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  I guess I'm just kinda hard on my own stuff.  DN was
+the first novel I'd ever written, and it was a learning experience.  I
+came out of it better able to do the next one, and there are any number
+of ways I'd go back and improve the first book.  Ah, well...as someone
+once noted, "Art is never finished, only abandoned."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Apr-96 16:45:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Book Tours Status
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.  Actually, there's far more bio in OtherSyde than
+probably should've been there....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Apr-96 16:45:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: stoney truett <71623.2377@compuserve.com>
+Subject: PATRICK MAGOOHAN
+
+ stoney truett <71623.2377@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since it did not work out, was the part played by someone else or
+> was it dropped?
+
+       No, the part went to someone else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Apr-96 16:45:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Melissa Gilbert on B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, you'll be seeing Theo again later this season in "And the
+Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-Apr-96 22:17:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Late Delivery>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (Btw, is there any chance that we can get a date, as in month and
+> day, for this event?) Is it safe to say that the actual E-M war
+> started within the same year, or did it start a year later? 
+> Anything you can add to this would be of tremendous help.) Are we
+> actually likely to learn more about the circumstances surrounding
+> the Prometheus's attack on the Minbari ship and all?
+
+      The contact was made late in the year, and while that was the
+first blow, it takes a while for any war to really get going; you
+aren't at war instantly.  The Minbari had to pull their forces
+together, make the open declaration of war, establish supply lines and
+all the other elements needed for warfare.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Apr-96 00:14:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Newspaper Article
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Who is rightous and who is just egotistical?"
+> I wonder if this critic has watched and enjoyed B5?
+
+      Could you possibly send me a copy of that review?  I'd
+appreciate it. You can send it along to me at the following address:
+
+      14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
+
+      Thanks!
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 26-Apr-96 21:07:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: stoney truett <71623.2377@compuserve.com>
+Subject: PATRICK MAGOOHAN
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      It would've been Knight Two in "Sky."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Apr-96 21:07:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5 copied ST
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and I agree with all your points.  And yes, it's a
+lesson or a point of view worth examining, these days in particular.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-Apr-96 21:07:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Demon with a Glass Hand
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, I know how busy both you and Harlan are, and I know that
+> Harlan's main job right now is to get well, but do you think that
+> Trent will ever set foot on B5?
+
+      Dunno...we'll see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Apr-96 01:55:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <A Late Delivery...>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Ended up at A. Sabella's over by the Embarcadero...great place.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 27-Apr-96 15:16:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Franklin's Dad
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is B5's status vis-a-vis people coming and going there from
+> Earth? If I wanted to go from Earth to B5 what would I have to do?
+> Vise-versa, if I wanted to go home to Earth (after the
+> deportations were over) could I get a direct fliight and how
+> would I be received?
+
+      It's very difficult now; you have to go through secondary
+routes, and travel papers take forever to get processed.
+
+      We'll actually mention this aspect later in the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Apr-96 22:37:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Epic Bab5
+
+ Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm assuming that this was intentional?
+
+      No, so far, I'd say your analysis was quite good.  To some
+extent, you also have to go outside strict Greek storytelling structure
+in terms of saga and also go into classic Greek theater, especially the
+tragedies.
+
+      In that particular form, a character may have a destiny, or
+there's a prophecy, and the character does all he can to avoid that
+destiny, but everything he does only brings him closer to it. 
+Certainly there's a lot of that in Londo, for instance.
+
+      There's also the thematic issues of hubris, of the descent into
+the underworld, the oracle, and other elements of Greek and general
+mythic storytelling.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Apr-96 22:37:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Minbari Souls>
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If this is so, how can Minbari souls be flitting over to humans?
+> How does that sound, or do I have it all messed up?
+
+      That's close....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-Apr-96 22:37:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Actor's reaction?>
+
+ Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that the actors have finished filming season 3, and are 9
+> episodes ahead of us, can you tell us what their reaction is to
+> the changes you've wrought?
+
+      Well, most of the actors have split now that filming's over for
+the season, scattering to the four winds...but I'd say overall that
+they're all very pleased at how their characters have been changed,
+what's happened, and seeing how it's been *massively* cranked up for
+next season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Apr-96 00:27:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Avalon and 3d age>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, there's a small clue about the third age in the discussion
+between Marcus and Franklin about the ranger pin.  I mean, it's really
+pretty blatant.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Apr-96 00:30:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Actor's reaction?>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      They're *always* surprised, it seems....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Apr-96 15:43:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Martin Shaw <101642.505@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Communicators
+
+ Martin Shaw <101642.505@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was curious as to what is used to keep the communicators on the
+> back of the B5 staffs hands? Presumably what you use IRL is
+> different from what is used in the B5 universe ? Sorry to drag
+> this up again, but when can we expect B5 to appear on laserdisc ? 
+> will it be sometime after the tv series has been completed (in
+> two years time)?
+
+      My thought is that it's a molecular compound that naturally
+adheres to the epidermis.
+
+      No word on disks yet; when there's something to announce, you
+won't have to ask about it, I'll be blasting it all over the place.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Apr-96 15:43:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Don Fort <72204.1356@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Late Delivery<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks on both counts....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Apr-96 15:43:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Avalon and 3d age>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Not the work per se in terms of being influenced, but the
+attitude that goes into the work, yes.  I've stood at Stonehenge at
+dawn, the place more or less empty, walked along the circular stones at
+Avebury, and stood in the deep cavernous center of a pre-bronze age
+burial mound in Ireland...when you do these things, you begin to
+understand what *time* is, and how we in this country don't really know
+what that is yet.  It can affect how you perceive a lot of things, and
+in the end, that always feeds back into the writing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Apr-96 15:43:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JOHN GRAVES <102735.1124@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Death of Ducat>
+
+ JOHN GRAVES <102735.1124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How was she able to have his "blood on my hands" if the ship was
+> destroyed?
+
+      Franklin's line in Avalon indicates that a couple of ships were
+destroyed *and* Dukhat was killed.  You basically had one big convoy
+meeting another; the ship on which Dukhat was present was badly damaged
+but not destroyed.  Dukhat and a number of others on board were killed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Apr-96 15:43:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ship of Tears>
+
+ David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now it begins, eh?
+> Just how big are the Medlabs?
+> Is it like a modern hospital with 250 beds and so on?
+> So when we see Medlabs, are we seeing the equivalent of a
+> critical care unit? Immediately, she asks, "What have you heard
+> about Babylon 5? Is it renewed?
+
+      Thanks.  That's great to hear.  (Yours is the first reaction
+I've seen to the ep.)
+
+      There are a number of medlabs, which are broken into various
+areas; each has a larger wing attached to it, which we've seen on
+occasion, such as when the young girl in "Legacies" is in the infirmary
+in bed, same with Shon in "Believers."  They each have a pretty fair
+capacity for patients.
+
+      Beyond that...thanks again.  This is a particularly good
+episode, I think, a real turning point in the show.  (And I'm pleased
+that this is one ep where I've more or less managed to keep advance
+info down to a minimum.) Everyone did a great job.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Apr-96 15:43:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <...Avalon>
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I wonder how long it will be before "I take great comfort in the
+> general hostility and unfairness of the universe" starts showing
+> up in sigs?
+
+      Thanks.  I'd say more, but you kinda covered it all, and quite
+nicely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Apr-96 18:40:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5 !!@***!!@*%^**
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      "BUT THEN AGAIN I WILL NEVER EVER WATCH IT"
+
+      Ah...an open mind is a wonderful thing to behold.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Apr-96 18:44:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Avalon and 3d age>
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What might this special video-cam see in your current environs?
+
+      "What might this special video-cam see in your current
+environs?"
+
+      A monitor, a keyboard, and an obsessive-compulsive.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Apr-96 22:12:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Matthew Zubillaga <75211.2455@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hour 25
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks; maybe it's something that could be done after the
+two-parter. We'll see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Apr-96 22:12:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ship of Tears>
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who built it?
+> The Rangers or technicians on the B5 payroll?
+> Also, how much have the former Earth Force personel stationed on
+> B5 been told about the Shadows and the coming war?
+
+      Thanks.  Yes, everybody's agendas remain the same...but for the
+moment, they are on the same alignment.  As soon as it's over, as
+Ivanova says, he'll turn on them, no mistake.  Enlightened
+self-interest, nothing more.
+
+      The new command center was cobbled from what's on the station,
+with some additional Minbari funding.  And yes, by now, pretty much the
+whole crew knows what's at stake with the shadows.  And now that
+they're not hiding anymore, the whole *thing* is out in the open.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Apr-96 22:12:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ship of Tears-spoilers
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was the alien that committed suicide and put acid all on his body
+> the same species as we saw in the dream sequence operating on the
+> woman?
+
+      Yep.  Same species.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-Apr-96 22:12:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ship of Tears, Telepaths
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If all the Narn telepaths are dead, what happened to the Narn
+> telepaths that helped G'Quon defeat the Shadows?
+
+      Those were the last remaining ones, the older telepaths, their
+children all killed, too old now to produce any further children, and
+the technology of cloning or genetics was still way beyond them.
+
+      The story of the last crusade of G'Quan is actually quite
+interesting; I hope to get it into the show at some point.  Right now
+it's mainly background, even though I've worked it out fully.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 29-Apr-96 12:57:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vicki Mitchell <76234.1317@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Forgiveness & "Avalon"
+
+ Vicki Mitchell <76234.1317@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Delenn has absolved the humans of their guilt in the
+> Earth/Minbari war by forgiving "Arthur"/David McIntyre -- but has
+> she forgiven herself for her role in the war? And if not, is there
+> anyone among the humans from whom she could accept absolution?
+
+       You're right, that's a good question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Apr-96 12:57:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Lynne Caulfield <101647.2616@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5 !!@***!!@*%^**
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       "Persuade me!"
+
+       I made the show.  The show speaks for itself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Apr-96 12:57:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Ship of Tears>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks...it's a good one, no mistake.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Apr-96 12:57:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ship of Tears, Telepaths
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Would you consider writing it up as a novel, to ease your
+> transition (the one you say you want) away from TV?
+
+       One crisis at a time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Apr-96 15:14:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Fan Club Idea
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Whattaya think?
+
+       The shadows will love it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Apr-96 15:14:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James kemp <101765.1507@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Avalon and 3d age>
+
+ James kemp <101765.1507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What about the bath robe and the baseball bat?
+> His anti RMES litchness.What does this button do ?
+> ?
+
+       "What about the bathrobe and the baseball bat?"
+
+       That's not a baseball bat.
+
+       But thank you for saying so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Apr-96 15:14:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ship of Tears>
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And by the way, any word on renewal?
+
+       We won't hear on that until mid-May or so.  If there were word,
+you wouldn't have to inquire.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Apr-96 16:44:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Avalon and 3d age>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Enjoying your hiatus, are you?
+
+       Can't help it...I've got stark, staring mad....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Apr-96 18:05:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark <70004.1111@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow defeat, 1st time?
+
+ Mark <70004.1111@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How were the shadows defeated the first time around?
+> telepaths involved also?
+
+       Who can say...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Apr-96 21:41:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Franklin's Dad
+
+ Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In that outline you have in your computer or wherever (the one
+> that's triple encrypted), how much detail do you have the series
+> mapped out? Obviously the major points -- who does what to whom,
+> and where it happens -- are there, but what about the little
+> stuff? Is Season 5 mapped out in great detail or just rough
+> outline?
+
+      It varies; some aspects are extensively mapped out, some are
+left a little open to allow for spontaneity.  A lot is in a
+triple-encrypted computer file, which I consult as needed; the rest I
+carry in my head.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Apr-96 21:52:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hour 25
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What day/time is Hour 25 broadcast in LA?
+
+      H25 is usually broadcast 10 p.m. to Midnight Friday nights.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Apr-96 21:52:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Story of G'Quon
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since you already have the story of how G'Quon defeated the
+> shadows figured out, would you consider simply posting the story
+> on the internet?
+
+      I think I'd rather hold it for now, on the chance that I can use
+it somewhere, or in time turn it into something larger.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Apr-96 21:52:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Avalon and 3d age>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of the Ranger pin, can you please give me the spelling
+> for the Minbari word that Marcus used for the pin's surface or
+> gem?
+
+      The name of the Ranger pin is spelled Isil'zha.  I'll have to
+look up the other word.
+
+      The Minbari term for Ranger One, btw, is Entil'zha.
+
+      Z'ha'dum is where the shadows live.  Odd, that reversal....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Apr-96 21:52:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ship of Tears>
+
+ SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Whereabouts on the sound stages did you fit it in?
+
+      Since we're not using the casino much this season -- not a lot
+of room for frivolity -- we yanked it out and put up the war room on
+stage C.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-Apr-96 21:52:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ship of Tears-Bester>
+
+ James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Franklin able to help Bester's girlfriend or is she still on the
+> station?
+
+      It'll be a long time before Bester's ladyfriend comes anywhere
+near being whole again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-Apr-96 00:25:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Late Delivery<<
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It wasn't that they didn't know about the gun ports, they did,
+it's just that since the start of the war, they hadn't run into any
+Minbari warships that did this, there was no reason for it...until they
+learned what was going on.  For all they knew, it could've been
+trouble.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-Apr-96 00:32:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Death of Ducat>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's correct, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-Apr-96 00:32:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Ship of Tears<<
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I assume we will be learning more about the aliens in Carolyn's
+> visions? Was the fact that there are no telepaths left on Narn
+> part of the reason the Shadows were so eager to help the Centauri
+> destroy them? Easy prey without "weapons" - a nice first battle?
+> Will we learn what became of the other telepaths aboard the
+> transport?
+
+      Certainly, that there were no teeps on Narn made them easy
+targets, as were their ships.  They would also have a vested interest
+in subduing them because of the knowledge they have, revealed here.  If
+you'll remember, in "Matters of Honor," they mention to Morden that
+they've only been able to track down some Narn legends.  Morden's
+reply: "Well, we've taken care of that problem."  Had G'Kar not been
+out and about, they might have succeeded.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 30-Apr-96 19:58:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5 !!@***!!@*%^**
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Did you notice Henry Briscoe's comment to me, yesterday?
+
+      No, I agree, that a serious inquiry can merit good responses
+that lead to the person checking out the show.  It's just when somebody
+comes in and demands or tells you to "defend" the show, I've never yet
+seen a situation where the person had any interest in the answer...they
+just like to see people have to defend themselves on that which does
+not require defense.
+
+      I've been on the nets 15 years...I know all the routines by
+heart.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-Apr-96 19:58:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5Sword Logo
+
+ Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If there's no potential conflict and any one is interested, may I
+> upload it?
+
+      I suppose it could be uploaded (if included with proper link
+info to the B5 web page)...but yeah, just run it past me first so's I
+can check it out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-Apr-96 19:59:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ship of Tears>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, the teaser you saw isn't from the two-parter, it's
+from "Interludes and Examinations," which airs just before "War."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-Apr-96 19:59:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Ship of Tears- Narns?>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, apparently the rights negotations between the production
+company and the apparent rights owner (First) ran into unresolved
+rights questions from Ostrander, who says *he* has the rights...and now
+it'll have to go into arbitration.  Since it'll take 90 days to
+conclude that arbitration, that'll eat up my window of opportunity to
+do the script before B5 would get going for year four...so it'll have
+to wait at least a year now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-Apr-96 23:55:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS: gun port=respect?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It goes back a long time...if you look at certain members of the
+animal kingdom, they will often flash their teeth or growl to establish
+their identity, to show equality with someone else.  You have to step
+outside a human perspective and ask how an alien would show respect,
+which may not be how we would logically do so.  (Heck, in many cultures
+here on earth, a perfectly normal habit -- crossing your legs and the
+bottom of your foot showing -- is taken as a grave insult in some
+cultures.  Certain customs are deeply rooted in cultural backgrounds or
+incidents that are often incomprehensible to us.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-Apr-96 23:59:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Story of G'Quon
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The book was made by Mark Walters of our prop department; and
+when all is said and done...it'll likely end up in my office....
+
+      Creation hath its perks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
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+Date: 01-May-96 01:19:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Theresa Kinney <70751.3262@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <A Late Delivery>
+
+ Theresa Kinney <70751.3262@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who else could it have been?
+> perhaps we'll see more of the Narn Resistance in the future,
+> redesigned under the "Round Table" framework?
+
+      Actually, what I'd said was that these 2-3 eps between big arcs
+were NOT arc stories per se, but breathers.  Just to clarify....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 01-May-96 12:35:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Ship of Tears Alien?>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-May-96 12:35:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Ship Of Tears>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks, I look forward to your feeling it's an ongoing quality
+show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-May-96 19:59:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Andrew Bradbury <100777.747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5Sword Logo
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Depends on where you got it from.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-May-96 19:59:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: HOMer Award: B5 TCoS
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      That's great.  Thanks to all who voted.  It's a good episode,
+and the recognition coming from CIS is especially gratifying given
+our/my longstanding relationship with this forum.
+
+      So, like, is there a statue or anything that goes with this...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-May-96 20:00:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ship of Tears>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But does this mean that the allies of Light are going to start
+> recruiting from among Psi Corps? Which character was she?
+> Can you tell me if there was anything that you told Andreas or
+> Mira about playing out this sequence, or was it pretty much an
+> actor playing to another actor kind of thing?
+
+      Thanks.  That's one of the things about the show that makes it
+very appealing to write; you can go from fall down funny, broad comedy
+in "Vir" to something more emotional, almost lyrical but serious in
+"Avalon," then right into something vaguely horrific in "Ship."  You
+get to use all your muscles, not just the same ones over and over.  I
+like to stretch, try something I haven't tried before.  Which means
+from time to time I fall on my face, but that's okay; it's the only way
+to learn.  I have absolutely no qualms about making an ass of myself
+and failing if it means that the next time, I can do it right.
+
+      I didn't give Mira or Andreas any instructions on that scene
+except what was in the script, which was minimal.  When you have two
+performers that solid in the room, just give them the lines and run
+like hell.
+
+      Speaking of going back and rewatching episodes...part of this
+goes right back to the *pilot*, where, you'll recall, G'Kar tried to
+seduce Lyta, mentioning that there are no Narn telepaths, and they feel
+very strongly it's important to their survival that they start breeding
+them at the first opportunity.
+
+      Ding....!
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-May-96 20:00:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Ship of Tears- Narns?>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, because that would mean doing a story without our main
+characters, since G'Quan's story took place about a thousand years ago,
+and I don't think I could sell that.  (Unless I did another time travel
+number, and I only intend to go to that well once, with the B4
+storyline.)
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-May-96 21:37:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kudos from Tampa
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks for the good words, and the encouraging news about how
+the show is doing out there.  Much appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 05-May-96 22:01:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Poisoning Kosh
+
+ Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has the poising Kosh thread from the pilot ever been completely
+> addressed? any answers??
+
+      What's really left to address?  The reasons given were the
+reasons; the Minbari warrior caste were very much against the Babylon
+project; an extremist clan within that caste decided to frame Sinclair
+for murder, using what little info they had on the vorlons, in an
+attempt to destabalize or defeat the goals of B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-May-96 22:01:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Talia/Abbut Qs>>>
+
+ Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did Kosh know about the hidden personality within Talia Winters?
+> Does he simply distrust Telepaths?
+> Will he ever get to use this Data chrystal?
+> My memory seems to recall him giving the chrystal to Garibaldi ?
+> Abbut said somthing along the lines of "Nice doing business with
+> you Mr Kosh, A pleasure as allways" - did this mean Kosh has had
+> a lot of Telepaths scanned?
+>  - If so, did he know what Lyita knew - but didn't know what
+> Telepath was used, so had a number of them scanned?
+
+      Kosh certainly knew more about her, and almost certainly her
+second persona, than anyone suspected.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-May-96 22:01:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Jeff Sinclair
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      If you write to the fan club, you can get the form; and yes,
+Sinclair returns in this month's two parter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-May-96 22:01:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian Kornfeld <75703.1340@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Bester and... Bester
+
+ Brian Kornfeld <75703.1340@compuserve.com> asks:
+> have ANY bearing on your Bester?
+
+      Yes, it's certainly a tribute to Alfie, a giant in the field.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-May-96 22:01:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Women on B5>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's got nothing to do with second class citizenship.  I'm
+sorry, but when lives are at stake, *any* justification is acceptable
+for saving them. When a ship goes down at sea, as much as possible it
+tends to be the rule that women and children go first.  It's not
+putting women and children on the same social level, that's silly and a
+misstatement of fact.  The notion is that often men are physically
+better suited to taking care of themselves in a physically dangerous
+situation *as civilians*.  Now, if you're talking military, you need
+only to watch the same episode, "Severed," and you see women combat
+soldiers slugging it out, and getting stabbed, and killed, right along
+with the male soldiers.
+
+      Some people seem to feel that if one shows compassion for any
+group, that somehow you are saying that's a lower or second class. 
+It's sad when compassion can become warped around to mean something
+else.  It's also illogical.
+
+      If the position is that women are second class citizens in this
+case, then the cry would be, "Don't fire, we've got men down here." 
+Because that would imply that the men are more important; you'd get
+"men first" on sinking ships because, as first class citizens, men
+would be more important, and thus more worth saving, yes?
+
+      In a crisis situation, where people are going to die, you try to
+get out those for whom you care, and to whom you give status.  Those
+which are important, and may be less able, physically, to deal with
+great stress or danger.
+
+      So, basically, no, the statement did not come from any agenda;
+your analysis, however, *did*.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-May-96 22:01:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ivanova vs. The Markab
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'd rather leave the question of what Delenn saw open for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-May-96 22:01:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: season finale in October
+
+ Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this set in stone?
+> Can nothing be done?
+> Must we really be tortured again?
+> And will the UK get the end of season 3 before we do again?
+
+         I haven't heard this myself yet formally, so I really can't
+comment until I know more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-May-96 22:01:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ship of Tears>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How difficult do you find it to change emotional strides when
+> writing stories like this? By the way, any chance I can get the
+> spelling for the two Narn words that mean "mindwalker" and
+> "destroyed" that Garibaldi mentioned at one point in that
+> discussion?
+
+      No, it's never difficult for me to go from horror to romance to
+comedy to action; they're just different colors in the artist's
+toolbox...you go from red to blue to green to yellow, and it's not
+difficult doing it, just in knowing *when* to do it, and *how* to do
+it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-May-96 22:02:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Ship of Tears>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, Minbari telepaths can also have an effect, as we'll see
+soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-May-96 22:02:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ship of Tears>
+
+ Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com> asks:
+> would he?
+> would he?
+> Not even HE is that devious, is he?
+> could he??!?
+> he couldn't, could he?
+> will he?
+> (Hmmmm, B5 repair kit?
+> The newscaster wasn't visible "below the waist", was she wearing
+> hip-boots? are the Shadows consumers and we're just consumables?
+> He's a busy man, who has time for that sort of thing?
+> But, correction Sheridan, it's not "now we have a weapon", it's
+> "now we know what kind of weapon could work" - where is Sheridan
+> going to find an Army of telepaths? could you please arrange to
+> distribute/broadcast a new B5 episode every 2-3 hours? Whatever
+> were you thinking? DO YOU HEAR ME???
+> Anxiously looking forward to next episode (but, one week?
+
+      Thanks for that...well, for *all* of that, as there was much
+good stuff and kind words therein.  Just got in from Ohio, so I'm
+bushed, but still very appreciative.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-May-96 22:02:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruno Melancon <102647.3222@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ship of Tears>
+
+ Bruno Melancon <102647.3222@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  - Delenn-G'Kar confrontation - Bester helping the cause?
+>  - The War Room - Humans (or telepaths) merging with the Shadows
+> ships - The telepaths-weapons against the Shadows? About that last
+> point, can you tell me the name of the colony that is attacked by
+> the Shadows? Is it a human colony?
+> Clark be upset with the Shadows?
+
+      That's Brakiri space they attacked; more on that in the next
+episode. (They're a League world.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-May-96 22:02:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ship of Tears>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's a great episode.  And they get better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-May-96 22:02:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Ship of Tears-Bester>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Logically, he can't just go away indefinitely, and it's going to
+take a long time before they can get Carolyn in shape.  A very long
+time.  If he stays, he'd be noticed and hunted down by the Corps, which
+ends his usefulness.  His staying served no purpose.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-May-96 22:02:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: michael kazalski <72357.2642@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ExcellenceInBroadcasting
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thank you very much for those kind words; we work hard on the
+show, and that sort of feedback is appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-May-96 22:02:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS: Quick Question
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> When Sheridan and Ivanova are off galavanting about aboard the
+> White Star, who's minding the store on the station? Does
+> Garibaldi, as head of Security, run things, or would it be Delenn
+> as she's Sheridan's co-commander of the Rangers in that quadrant? 
+> Just what is the heirarchy of command on Babylon 5, now that it
+> is an independent state?
+
+      Yeah, generally it would fall to Garibaldi; it's no longer a
+rank thing as much as a "who can we trust?" question.  And Delenn
+maintains control of the Rangers in their absence.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-May-96 22:02:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <...Avalon> further
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any myth-legend cycles that you are (or later became)
+> acquainted with that you wished you had room for in B5, but
+> couldn't fit in, for one reason or another?
+
+      Dunno...I don't really make a list of what I'd like to do; it's
+all just one big melting pot in the back of my head, and it all sifts
+together.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-May-96 22:02:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Interludes...>>
+
+ David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were there any hints?
+> Why halfway through our story do the Shadows show their hand?
+> What is that agenda?
+> Are the Shadows independent operators or do *they* answer to
+> somebody?
+
+      Good points.  In general, you always know when I'm going to
+start answering a question, because I begin to point at it in episodes;
+I'm now beginning to point to the shadows and ask, "What do THEY want?"
+
+      The answer is coming.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-May-96 22:02:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Renewal
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      We'll know later this month.  No word yet either way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-May-96 22:02:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Interludes<<
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I felt frustration and confusion at his situation (how did it get
+> this bad? why didn't he get help sooner?
+> Question: Can Londo hear the Shadows now because he has turned
+> toward the darkness, or was he allowed to hear so he'd be
+> intimidated? Our phone rang right after that scene, and I debated
+> on whether or not to answer it because I was afraid the person
+> would ask me, "What's wrong?" That battle between the Vorlons and
+> the Shadows was a joy to watch (can battle be "a joy?"
+
+      Thanks.  The Kosh stuff, his scene with Sheridan, and his
+passing, is very moving.  I showed it at Marcon this weekend in Ohio,
+and many folks, including Patricia Talman -- who hadn't seen it yet --
+were in tears at that. That, to me, is the moment when you know you've
+done something, when you can make people *feel* something.  Not just a
+plot exercise, but you hit down deep where it hurts, or can make
+someone laugh.  It's all about touching emotion...or what's the point?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05-May-96 22:02:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Interludes questions>
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> could it be that the Shadows technical advantage lies in the
+> field of propulsion? First, why didn't Kosh flee the station and
+> go into Vorlon space before ordering the attack on the Shadows? 
+> Were Shadow vessels haunting hyperspace in the region of the
+> station ready to destroy him if he tried to leave? Why didn't he
+> ask Sheridan and Delenn for Ranger bodyguards? Would the Shadows
+> have simply killed them and then pressed their attack on Kosh or
+> would bringing things that far out in the open have left the
+> Shadows with no more reason not to directly attack the station? 
+> Why was Kosh able to order the Vorlon fleet to attack the
+> Shadows? Was his position in the Vorlon hierarchy higher than the
+> title of ambassador would indicate? was he, like Delenn was
+> originally, part of some kind of governing body? Why did Morden
+> and the Shadows automatically know that when the Vorlon fleet
+> attacked them that Kosh was behind it? And most importantly, why
+> are the Vorlon still "too few" to directly engage the Shadows? So
+> again, why aren't they ready? Why are the Shadows, who had to play
+> catchup in a big way, able to field a navy that has the
+> "thousands" of ships that Londo saw in his vision while the
+> Vorlons are still "too few"?
+
+      Because I think, on some level, Kosh knew it was inevitable; a
+price had to be paid.  In a way, Lincoln had the same feelings...why
+was he to live when so many had died?  In a way, he knew he wouldn't
+live much longer. Also, it would mean running...and the Vorlons don't
+run.  If he fled, another would pay the price...and that also wouldn't
+be right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 06-May-96 13:27:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ship of Tears-Bester>
+
+ Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will he continue to or begin to covertly assist B5 while Carolyn
+> and the rest of the teeps are on board?
+
+       Yes, that'll be something Bester will do now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-May-96 13:27:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Interludes<<
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If that is so, then how did Morden know about her before he
+> talked with the man Vir made the arrangements with? Or was it
+> something else - something to do with Kosh? Is this because of
+> what she is hiding - like knowing what the Shadows want? How did
+> Kosh know what would happen to him if the Vorlons fought the
+> Shadows? Since he is the link between the Vorlons and the army of
+> light, did he simply realize that the Shadows would move to sever
+> that link, or is there more to it? And why couldn't Kosh
+> successfully defend himself? Was he outnumbered three to one, one
+> Shadow being equal in strength to one Vorlon? His response: "Why'd
+> you have to tell me that?
+
+       The "crystals" were diamonds, he was bribing various people to
+let him in and otherwise do things for him.  And yes, Delenn's holding
+back some information still, and Kosh was outnumbered.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-May-96 13:27:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Ship of Tears>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       There's no relation between the aliens working for the shadows
+and the Streib.  The ones you saw in the flash were "doctors" of a sort
+doing the work; there was no abduction required except of course the
+covert kidnapping from the Psi Corps Re-education Center.  As for
+Bester's look behind, he was just looking to the guards behind him, and
+the ones in front of him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-May-96 13:27:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Women on B5>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       True, a woman's added body fat layer can help them cope with
+the temperatures, but if the sea is roiling and choppy, it takes a lot
+of upper body strength to stay afloat.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-May-96 13:27:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Interludes<<
+
+ Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Geez, how many of Morella's "chances" did he blow *this* time?
+
+       Thanks.  Yes, I don't think Sinclair would've handled that
+scene in the same way; it needed someone who'd go toe to toe with
+something very old and dark and dangerous in his way.  He had to get
+under Kosh's "skin," as it were. Needle and outrage and upset him until
+he got through...whatever the cost.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-May-96 13:27:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bert Johnson <102476.201@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Interludes<<
+
+ Bert Johnson <102476.201@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I think it is incredibly symbolic that Kosh visited both Sheridan
+> in Interludes and G'Kar in the previous episode as their fathers
+> The one thing that bothers me is that now the Shadows and the war
+> are out in the open as of at least two episodes, why why why do
+> they let Morden walk around the station at will?
+
+       They would do so, but since the fall from Earth, as Susan
+mentioned, they've had to hire guards who may not be above bribes, as
+we saw in the teaser.  And Morden is good at covering his footsteps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-May-96 13:28:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Poisoning Kosh
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why did Kosh cooperate with the effort to poison him?
+
+       Kosh extended a hand...because he recognized Sinclair.
+
+       Which is all I'll say for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-May-96 13:28:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Women on B5>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Okay; understood, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-May-96 21:44:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS: gun port=respect?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Bottom line, Steven...what you're doing is applying not only
+just Earth norms and standards of behavior to aliens, you're applying
+distinctly Western modes of behavior, conduct and mentality.  You're
+expecting them to think and act like we do, in the way we consider
+logical.  You can't even apply that criteria to other countries right
+here on Earth, let alone outside.  Is it logical to one day just walk
+away from all your possessions, just leave them where they are, and
+start walking, not coming back?  Here we consider that abnormal
+behavior, abandoment...in Australia, among the Aboriginal culture, that
+principle is called "walkabout" and is quite common and accepted 
+behavior.  The idea of ritually mutilating a young woman's genitals is
+a hideous, terrible notion to any sane person in this country...but in
+many African nations, it's practiced quite commonly, on an everyday
+basis as part of their notion of coming into womanhood.
+
+      Part of having *alien* aliens is that they don't think like us. 
+One big adjustment Americans rarely make when they go overseas is that
+they expect everyone and everyplace to be just like home in attitude. 
+But there are huge differences...and those differences can start wars.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-May-96 21:44:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Poisoning Kosh
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      It didn't have to get past the encounter suit; he was distinctly
+shown extending a portion of himself *outside* the suit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-May-96 21:44:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Jeff Sinclair
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      It was a great convention, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-May-96 21:44:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: season finale in October
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      All episodes of B5 are closed captioned as a rule, unless
+something goes wrong at some point.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-May-96 21:44:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ed Passarella, Ziff-Davi <72241.505@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Delenn and G'Kar
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's a nifty little scene.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-May-96 21:44:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5 on video?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Do you have any plans to release Babylon 5 on video?
+
+      In the fullness of time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-May-96 21:44:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS: Quick Question
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Are the former EA personnel now part of the Rangers -- or are
+> they still separate from the Rangers themselves? Or is it just
+> kinda mish-mashed together with Sheridan technically being in
+> command of both entities, with Delenn as official co-ommander on
+> the Ranger side of things and Ivanova his second-in-command on
+> the former EA side of things? What do they call themselves now
+> anyway -- Rebels?
+
+      The patch signifies their alliance with the Rangers, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-May-96 21:44:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Troy Starr <74752.3172@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <ISN News>
+
+ Troy Starr <74752.3172@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Dare one ask what's happened to the two reporters that were
+> broadcasting from the ISN news center when "ISN pulled it's own
+> plug to stop the fake trasmission?" Would people believe that
+> their (well, his) report was a fake? Finally, is ISN the only
+> channel out there?
+
+      ISN is one of the only interstellar networks bounced via the
+tachyon relay systems from Earth to the outer colonies and beyond. 
+There are lots of other channels back home, but to get this far out you
+need the support of the government.
+
+      The other two reporters are, to say the least, in deep guano.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06-May-96 21:44:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: 'Drop Dead' Date?
+
+ Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When is that date this year?
+> Any word if you'll be presenting at the San Diego Comic Con this
+> year? Any suggestions?
+
+      I believe the true, honest, drop-dead date is June 10th, which
+is when we have to pick up the actors' contracts.  If it's after that,
+we lose our options on the actors.
+
+      Re: Red Clay Ramblers...I'd suggest their album "It Ain't
+Right," from Flying Fish Records in Chicago.  It's got some of their
+best stuff in it, from the title song to "Ezekiel in the Valley of the
+Dry Bones" (which was on as I wrote "Ceremonies"), and a wonderfully
+sick, twisted and funny song called "The Merchant's Lunch."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-May-96 00:41:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Christian Vitroler <100042.662@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ivanova vs. The Markab
+
+ Christian Vitroler <100042.662@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any comment on the frequent mangling in German episodes?
+> So you can wonder, if he (JMS) gives us the voice beyond any
+> doubt why doesn't he show us her? But is there no such thing as
+> sort of quality control from the Executive Producer? you're out
+> once and for all once it's sold?
+
+      There is absolutely nothing I can do about this except be upset
+by it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-May-96 00:41:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Avalon and 3d age>
+
+ Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why would they not have their own names for this place--why does
+> everyone (seem to) universally use the Minbari name?
+
+      No, it's not a Minbari name, any more than automobile is a
+Spanish word, even though it's used in the Spanish language (albeit the
+pronunciation varies just slightly).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 07-May-96 18:41:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jimi Vigotty <72316.2103@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5 !!@***!!@*%^**
+
+ Jimi Vigotty <72316.2103@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you aware of any plans to release the series on Video tape?
+
+      Thanks, and tapes will doubtless come out in the fullness of
+time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-May-96 18:41:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gail Marsella <71551.3200@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: gun port=respect?
+
+ Gail Marsella <71551.3200@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I think she's right - was slavery acceptable just because it was
+> common, we practiced it for a long time, and a large number of
+> people found it convenient? Was foot-binding in China acceptable
+> just because it was always practiced on young girls who had no
+> way to say "no"?
+
+     "However, neither is it appropriate to view all alien behavior as
+acceptable just because it is different....."
+
+      Never implied it was.  In general, on the B5 station, though, if
+an alien acts toward one of its own kind in a cultural oddity (to us),
+we tend not to interfere unless so requested; if, however, an alien
+turns that cultural oddity toward one not of its own species, then the
+B5 staff would definitely intervene.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-May-96 18:41:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: gun port=respect?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      True, though the female version of this, as practiced in some
+countries, is extremely debilitating and far more violent or severe. 
+Much as we are all attached to our respective genitalia, I'd suggest
+that snipping the foreskin is not quite so severe as taking a razor
+blade and cutting OFF the clitoris and parts of the labia major, as is
+done in some places.
+
+      But you're right, the practice on either side is certain of a
+piece (so to speak).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-May-96 18:41:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Ganofsky <73354.1057@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Centauri Hair
+
+ John Ganofsky <73354.1057@compuserve.com> asks:
+> They were wondering how the makeup folks do the Centauri hair?
+
+      All I know is that each Centauri hairpiece is hand-woven into
+the fabric at an angle; you can't just take a wig and get it to stand
+up, you have to *hand weave* it.  It's a fairly difficult and expensive
+process.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-May-96 18:41:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <JMS: Quickies...>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think probably most races that have to evolve through a
+superstitious phase, at some point enter a religious phase (which is an
+organized system of superstition by strictest definition) until such
+time as the tools are there for the more scientific description of the
+universe.  So within that context, yes, most cultures would have at
+least one major figure in that area in its history.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-May-96 18:41:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: 'Drop Dead' Date?
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does the fact that one of the prizes in the recent "Mystery Alien
+> Contest" was the chance to play an alien in an upcoming episode
+> mean that they are more likely to renew the show?
+
+      Doesn't really affect the odds either way; there's always an out
+in these kinds of things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-May-96 20:44:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Files Fox <74020.3260@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ship of Tears>
+
+ Douglas Files Fox <74020.3260@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Had Geribaldi's "found pin" suffered the same fate as Bester's
+> pin? Is the addition of the Cyber- Implants, the "Preparation"
+> Delenn was refering to in "Messages from Earth"? The crew members
+> of the Icarus, who didn't go along, were they used as Shadow ship
+> "Central Cores"? So I was wondering if Sheridan's wife could have
+> been used as a "Core" of one of the Shadow Ships?
+
+      Yes, the implants are part of the preparation process Delenn
+referred to in "Messages."  As for the rest...only time will tell,
+cause sure as hell I ain't....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-May-96 20:44:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Ship of Tears-Bester>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> While we're on the subject, when was this little change of heart
+> for Bester planned? Was it at the start, when you did Mind War, or
+> something just this season?
+
+      Yes, this was definitely intended from the start with Bester.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-May-96 23:44:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vicki Mitchell <76234.1317@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Cheers for Mira
+
+ Vicki Mitchell <76234.1317@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would you please relay to Mira Furlan our highest compliments on
+> her scene with G'Kar in "Ship of Tears"?
+
+      I'll tell her when next I see her; thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07-May-96 23:49:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ship of Tears>
+
+ Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's next, little miniture Shadow ships painted on the side or
+> will we see the jackets first? BTW, did someone at WB get a clue
+> (or replaced by RMES)?
+
+      Thanks, and that's great to hear about the station's reaction. 
+It's a very hopeful sign, as is the increased advertising from WB.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-May-96 02:15:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Bester>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"If the theme of the relationship is "All Bester needed was to love
+and be loved, or he wouldn't have been the slimeball he is today", I
+will be a bit disappointed."
+
+Then you won't be.
+
+"It's just a little too simplistic."
+
+Absolutely.
+
+One mongoose can love another; that won't change its attitude toward
+pythons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-May-96 02:18:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ship of Tears>
+
+ Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you happen to know what this refers to?
+> Is this something you do in post, or is that done at the feed
+> site?
+
+"Noticed on the takeboards from the sat. feeds for this and a couple
+of other episodes: Textless at 1:05.  Do you happen to know what this
+refers to?"
+
+Some of the cassettes provided have the opening sequences in a
+separate section at 1 hour 5 minutes without the titles over them, so
+that they can be used in promos by the stations.
+
+"Also, they say "Color Corrected".  Is this something you do in post,
+or is that done at the feed site?"
+
+No, color correction is done in post, to make sure that all the colors
+are true, and sometimes to enhance one element or another.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 08-May-96 18:01:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Poisoning Kosh
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I suspect that we'll learn more about this in "War Without End"?
+
+       Yeah, it's fair to say you can imply more about this after
+"War."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-May-96 18:01:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <ISN News>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why am I not surprised?
+> That right or am I still off?
+
+       Yes, the ISN person was Alison.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-May-96 18:01:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ship of Tears>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you tell me which spelling on the name is right, please?
+
+       It's Brakiri.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-May-96 18:01:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 in Sac
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's great to hear...the message is getting through.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-May-96 22:18:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: gun port=respect?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      "Different (alien) doesn't mean illogical in my book."
+
+      I can think of a number of Zen schools of thought that you would
+consider vastly illogical...but quite human.  There are many things we
+would consider illogical to a western mind that are perfectly
+reasonable elsewhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08-May-96 22:18:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Upcoming EP:Walkabout
+
+ Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will "Walkabout" deal with the Vorlons' motivations???
+
+      That would be telling....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-May-96 01:35:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ship of Tears-Bester>
+
+ Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I mean, out of all the people on the ship, they just happen to
+> find the one person who is significant to Bester? I can see what
+> you wanted to do, but couldn't it have worked better if, say, he
+> had been brought a list of people who were in the ship?
+
+      Yeah, they could've brought him a list...and he'd have seen the
+name instantly, and wouldn't have been hit with his own "blip" careless
+attitude right in his face...also, she needed to be already being
+defrosted at that point, and you can't defrost all of them at once.
+
+      Yeah, it was a coincidence.  Synchronicity.  It happens.  It
+doesn't happen much on this show, hardly ever.  I figured she'd be one
+of the last in, and thus the first out.  Synchronicity and coincidences
+*do* happen.  How many times have you reached for the phone to call
+someone to find the phone ringing, and it's them on the other end? 
+What're the odds of Oedipus killing his father and marrying his mother
+out of all the possible kingdoms in the area?  It happens.  As long as
+it doesn't happen to excess, it's not something I'm worried about.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 09-May-96 22:04:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Lynne Caulfield <101647.2616@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ Lynne Caulfield <101647.2616@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where did you get this information from?
+
+      Yes, Mara is correct.  I'm an atheist.
+
+      You got a problem with my personal beief system?
+
+      Tough.  You don't get a vote.
+
+      And if that's enough to make you not watch the show...well, the
+problem is entirely yours.
+
+      I leave my personal beliefs *out* of what I write for TV.  I
+don't try to impose my attitudes or conclusions on others, or penalize
+others for what they think.
+
+      You ought to try it sometime.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-May-96 22:22:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Rage's Thots: Teeps>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, it means that the person has to be in their line of sight;
+they don't have to look into the person's eyes or anything as silly as
+that.  It doesn't matter if the person's head or body are covered, as
+long as there's a definite "focus" for them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-May-96 22:22:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kosh's Appearance/Form
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Only similarity is that the same EFX person designed Kosh as
+designed the aliens in the Abyss.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-May-96 22:22:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Using B5 names and place
+
+ Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question is, whether such usage would fall under fair use or
+> be prohibited by trademarks or if it is possible to gain
+> permission from you or WB to use such a name, by giving a
+> guaranty that any sites under that name would not deliver data
+> that falls under these new indecency laws? There already happens
+> to be a vorlon.com, did they just use the name or did they gain
+> permission from WB first?
+
+      If you make it a .com name, you will eventually run afoul of WB.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-May-96 22:22:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ship of Tears-Bester>
+
+ Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> By the way, any thoughts on the B5 presentation at the San Diego
+> Con this year?
+
+      Yes, I'll be at comic con, and will likely bring nifty stuff to
+show, as usual.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-May-96 22:22:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<Interludes...>>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Let me answer this way...whenever I'm going to unveil something
+on the show, I begin to point to it in upcoming episodes.  I've begun
+pointing to the question of what the shadows want, and why they're
+doing it.  So, logically, I'm now going to have to follow up on
+that....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09-May-96 22:22:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Interludes<<
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      B5 is still a place of considerable commerce, access to lots and
+lots of other races and diplomats...it serves Londo's purposes for now,
+and there are probably lots of Centauri back home who would prefer he
+stay here.  As for the rest...better the devil you know than the devil
+you don't.  At least on B5 they can keep somewhat of an eye on him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-May-96 00:25:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Lawless <70262.363@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Interludes<<
+
+ John Lawless <70262.363@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since Kosh knew in advance that he would be Morden&Co.'s target,
+> why didn't he prepare defenses? Or, failing that, why didn't he
+> get in his ship and leave for as long as Morden remained on B5?
+
+      Because he knew a price had to be paid, and if it wasn't him,
+it'd be someone else.  Because he knew there was no getting around it. 
+He's too prideful to run.
+
+      Remember Gethsemane....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-May-96 00:25:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Interludes - Name>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, you'll see more of Franklin, as he tries to deal with his
+problem. At first it's not too bad, but with time....
+
+      Re: titles...yeah, you got to watch out with this show,
+sometimes I put on deliberately dull titles when I want to sneak up
+behind you quietly.  The more innocuous sounding, the more you should
+worry....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-May-96 00:25:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: carrie foreman <76400.1170@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<I&E: Soundtracking>>
+
+ carrie foreman <76400.1170@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What might have caused the ghosting of a soundtrack?
+
+      It was probably caused by your local staion taping the show on
+the satellite downlink over the same tape they used for "Avalon."  They
+likely didn't degauss the tape first.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 10-May-96 13:17:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Harvey Mitchell <71172.1220@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<I&E>>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...it was a very moving moment for someone whose true
+face we've never seen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-May-96 13:17:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Interludes<<
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-May-96 13:17:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Lynne Caulfield <101647.2616@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ Lynne Caulfield <101647.2616@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You're mad aren't you Joe?
+
+       "...you have so many who never question your show that you're
+not gonna miss me!"
+
+       Lynne...here is where you show your stripes repeatedly in this
+discussion.  There is a certain type of poster who is under the
+curious assumption that only he or she questions me, or this show, and
+everybody else is just a follower, never questioning.
+
+       And it ain't true.  Believe me, I see more questions, go
+through more heated drilling about this show than you can possibly
+*begin* to imagine; no one here is in the least shy about expressing
+their opinions if something doesn't strike them as being correct.
+
+       Your comment here, as all have been to date, is
+self-congratulatory when no such basis for congratulations exist.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-May-96 13:17:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Interludes comments>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yeah, certainly the flash of light was an echo of Lyta's mask. 
+As for Delenn, I think she was just stunned, just emotionallly worn out
+over this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-May-96 13:17:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Interludes<<
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       One can certainly argue that Franklin's actions were hasty,
+that he is basically running away from the *consequences* of the
+problem he has, as much as from the problem itself.  This will, of
+course, have to be dealt with.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-May-96 13:18:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: I&E Support
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks...I'm just waiting for some nit to come out of the
+woodwork and announce that the real reason for what happened to Kosh
+was that Kosh had a contract dispute over money or walked off the
+show....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-May-96 13:18:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steven L. Wiser <102633.3171@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  Like I've said..if I *had* any answers, I'd be happy
+to give them in an episode.  But all I have are questions.
+
+       Television, as well as entertaining, should try where possible
+to get us TO think, not tell us WHAT to think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-May-96 13:18:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Rage's Thots: Teeps>
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So Bob the PsiCop *can't* scan someone behind them?
+> What about through a closed door?
+> Could Bob scan Mike if he knew Mike was in the next room over?
+> Would Bob know it was really Jill instead of Mike in the room?
+> I guess the ultimate question is, if I sneak up behind Bobin the
+> hallway, wearing a chameleon suit and really quiet shoes, will he
+> know I'm there Psiwise? If so, will he be able to scan me?
+> What if I duck behind a corner, outta LOS; can he still scan me?
+> Is it "seeing" or "knowing"?
+
+       No, if the person is behind a door, or otherwise can't be
+located visually, it's difficult to impossible to scan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-May-96 14:01:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: Arc a Fake?
+
+ Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What I cannot help but come up with is, magnificence of the
+> series and storytelling aside, are we being had? Have we been
+> subject to sales banter and are still expecting to see what we
+> expected? Have we been distracted from our original impressions by
+> the sheer brilliance of the show? (i) How come Ironheart who 'knew
+> everything' didn't see the fake personality? (ii) We saw
+> interaction between Kosh and her in (was it?) 'Deathwalker' which
+> resulted in Kosh recording something of her - what ever happened
+> to that?
+
+       It's a fair question.  I'm going to try and deal with it as
+best I can. The problem, first and foremost, is trying to explain the
+craft of writing to someone who isn't a writer.  This isn't intended as
+a slight; if a brain surgeon tried to explain his work to me, I'd be
+about as much in the dark.  I have no idea where music comes from; I
+can sit with Chris Franke for hours, trying to understand that process.
+I never will.  I'm not hardwired that way. I *am* hardwired for
+writing.  So it's not a judgment, just a minor truth.
+
+       The creative process is fluid.  Has to be.  Consider for a
+moment the position in which I find myself.  Let's say I'm writing a
+novel.  I start with a fairly clear notion of where I'm going.  Six
+chapters in, I get a better way of doing something, so I go back and
+revise chapters 1-5, so it now all fits; you never see what went
+before.  Now, compare that to a situation where you're publishing each
+chapter as you go, and you can't go back and change anything. (This is
+pretty much the situation Dickens found himself in, as he published his
+works chapter by chapter; you can never back up, only go forward.)
+
+       At the same time, because we're using actors who have real
+lives of their own, to whom things happen -- broken limbs, health
+problems that may preclude appearing in a given episode, sudden career
+changes, you name it -- you have real-life obstacles constantly in your
+way.
+
+       The closest thing I can compare this to...is if you're on
+stage, in front of a large audience, and you have to do a very
+elaborate dance...and all the while people are throwing bowling balls
+and chainsaws at you.  You either learn how to accommodate all that,
+and keep pretty much on rhythm, or you're dead.
+
+       This show was originally conceived in 1986/87.  About 10 years
+ago. Back then, all TV episodic stuff was done pretty much from one
+person's point of view, your nominal hero.  Yes, you'd occasionally
+dive outside that for a quick scene with other characters, usually to
+set up something, but for the most part, it was about that one person. 
+In MURDER, SHE WROTE, Jessica Fletcher was always at the heart of every
+episode; you had the occasional guest character with whom she'd
+interact, and the recurring supporting cast, but none of them ever
+changed, and none of them ever really took center stage for more than a
+few minutes at a time.  That's how TV has been done up until now.
+
+       Novels, on the other hand, are often omniscient in narrative
+structure, and you blip in and out of multiple points of view.  THE
+STAND, for instance.
+
+       Now, I've done both; I've written novels and I've written TV. 
+When it came time to pull together B5 initially, you go into the "okay,
+who is the TV point of view character" question.  Which was Londo's
+narration, and which was the way I'd learned to write TV all these
+years.  Once the series got going, it quickly became apparent that I'd
+have to learn a whole new way of writing TV that was a lot more like
+what I'd been writing in my novels, which were multi-POV huge stories. 
+It's a kind of writing that's never really been done before for
+American TV; and I had to somewhat invent that style or form of writing
+as I went, in front of millions of viewers.
+
+       You can't prepare for something like this, as much as you try,
+because it's never been done before.
+
+       (On reflection, probably the closest thing to what I've been
+doing here was the miniseries The Winds of War, in terms of the
+multiple viewpoints involved.)
+
+       Also, in the last 10 years, I've become a better writer,
+learned more about my craft, added more tools to my toolbox.  That
+means being able to perceive better ways of doing things now than I
+could've seen before.
+
+       So here we are.  I sit at my word processor with my notes from
+1986, and I see a better way of doing something from those notes...do I
+go with what's there, or do I strike off and do the better approach,
+PROVIDED that it still takes me where I want to go in the arc?  To
+ignore it is to be inflexible.
+
+       I've stayed fluid.  It's the same way I write a novel.  You're
+just seeing the *process* acted out right in front of you, a process
+which normally the public never gets to see.  That, I think, is some
+part of what you're reacting to.
+
+       Also, you have to be careful in how you define an arc.  There
+have been definite arcs of character all through this.  Look at Londo
+when we first met him...and look at him now.  Same for G'Kar, Delenn,
+Franklin... look at Sheridan when he first arrived: happy go lucky,
+smiling, glad to be there, fresh fruit and a hot shower, able to take
+care of anything and everything, how bad can it be?...and look at the
+dark, haunted, almost overwhelmed figure we see now.
+
+       The story has also arc'd, peeling off layer by layer.  The
+Minbari war leads to the secret of the Grey Council, which leads back
+to the first shadow war, which leads to the current shadow war, each
+really on a direct line one from the other.  The slow corruption of
+Earthgov, the death of President Santiago, the rise of Clark, the fall
+from Earth...all of it a very definite arc.
+
+       It's not just a matter of "living in interesting times."  What
+makes a story is *causality*.  A sequence of linked events.  "The king
+died, and then the queen died" is not a story.  "The king died, and
+then the queen died of grief" is a story.  It is an arc, however small.
+
+       Finally, I'd just note the posts -- public and private -- from
+folks who have sat down and watched the *whole show* as a unit, once
+per day, or several per day...and the linked aspect, the real *arc* of
+the show, becomes far more apparent when watched that way right now. 
+It's there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-May-96 22:08:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Arisians and Vorlons
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, I really hadn't been thinking of the Arisians in either
+direction when I came up with the Vorlons...just what they were, not in
+relation to anything else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-May-96 22:08:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Cathy Holley <75204.1515@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I admit I'm an idiot
+
+ Cathy Holley <75204.1515@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now, anybody know where I can get videos of the first two
+> seasons? How about the pilot?
+
+      Welcome to the party.  Videos aren't currently available, though
+the second and third season episodes can get rerun over the coming
+year.
+
+      And you can always disagree with a decision...and explain why. 
+Around the stage, we have a simple policy...anybody can go up to me and
+say, "Joe, it sucks."  And tell me why.  And if they're right, they get
+to stay....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-May-96 22:08:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Interludes>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What was going on, who was this fellow, and what happened to him?
+> Who were these two species, have we seen them before, and are
+> they part of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds (given the hints of
+> their proximity to Brikiri space)?
+
+      Thanks.  The two aliens in the start of the episode were a
+Brakiri and a Gaim.
+
+      "Interludes" for me marks a slight transition in the story, from
+one "shape" to the next up...the demarkation between the hero-cycle and
+the myth-cycle in the arc.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10-May-96 22:08:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: I&E Support
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Was this the thing you did that caused everybody to avoid you at
+> lunch for two days?
+
+      Yeah, it's funny, out of all the awful terrible things I've done
+to our characters over these 3 years, the one that honked off the whole
+crew was the Kosh development.  On one level, they loved it...loved how
+it tightened the screws...but they still didn't want to know from me
+for a day or two.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-May-96 01:35:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<Interludes>>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Sheridan tells Kosh, "How do we know it's even you in that
+> encounter suit? Wow, is that foreshadowing or what?
+> * Is the last voyage or duty of Kosh's ship something we'll see
+> in more detail? * My husband wants to know if you're going to get
+> Dick Sergeant to play the new Kosh?
+
+      Thanks; there's a lot in the episode that plays very well on all
+the levels you mention.  A lot of meat there.
+
+      As for Kosh's ship...it headed for the nearest star, the local
+one, and basically dived into it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-May-96 01:35:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Larry Rosenblum <72122.1555@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Interludes Question>>
+
+ Larry Rosenblum <72122.1555@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why did Londo not mention Adira since his original fling with
+> her, before this episode?
+> F
+
+      Basically because it's hard in an episode to just bring up
+something out of the blue unless you're going to use it.  You're stuck
+with, "Boy, I wish Adira were here...so what's for dinner?"  Which will
+mean nothing to the folks who didn't see the first season unless you
+then talk more about her, show her...and then suddenly you REALLY have
+to deal with it or it's intrusive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 11-May-96 15:55:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Julia E. Linthicum <73114.3530@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 article in paper
+
+ Julia E. Linthicum <73114.3530@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Lennier as the "gentle alien"?
+> And Ivanova as "Sheridan's serious and comely colleague"?
+
+      Thanks, actually it's an AP article that's appeared all over the
+place. One can quibble with the details, but it's actually a good
+piece.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-May-96 15:55:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Interludes question
+
+ John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you please post this note to either JMS, or to the
+> moderated info notesfile? Was that man Morden, or Sinclair?
+
+      It was Morden.  If it were Sinclair, the actor would've been
+noted in the credits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-May-96 15:55:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Interludes - Name>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, it's not B4.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-May-96 15:55:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <I&E Support>
+
+ Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com> asks:
+> People are upset because you've killed off a main character?
+> One question: Will we be seeing the Monks again?
+
+      Yes, you'll be seeing Brother Theo in the next batch of new
+eps...and thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-May-96 15:55:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <I&E Support>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Darn, you went and told...now it'll be all OVER the place....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-May-96 16:10:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> PS - Remember after the episodes about the soul hunter and the
+> one where the Minbari's belief that their souls were
+> transmigrating to Humans was revealed how all the rabid atheists
+> jumped down Joe's throat and said that if there was any room for
+> the objective existence of a "soul" in his story that it stopped
+> being science fiction and became fantasy and that he would lose
+> them as viewers?
+
+"The atheist is also denying the existence of God on faith since the
+statement that there is no God anywhere in the universe is equally
+impossible to prove (all universal statements are impossible to prove
+and therefore inherently unscientific)."
+
+That's a well phrased analysis of the situation...the only problem
+with it is that it ain't so.
+
+By your reasoning, if you say that there are green penguins at the
+north pole, and I refuse to believe it until you prove it, then I am a
+believer in non-green-penguinism.  I am, therefore, a believer in the
+negative concept of everything in the universe that has not yet been
+conclusively proven.  At which point the very notion of belief becomes
+utterly meaningless.
+
+If someone comes up to you and offers you a job if you move cross
+country, wouldn't you want a contract, some proof that the offer is
+real?  Until it's provided, are you believing in non-contractosity?
+
+Bottom line, Daniel...if you or anyone else makes a statement, the
+burden of proof is not on me to *disprove* it, it's on you to *prove*
+it.  Until that point, the question of belief doesn't enter into it. 
+Is it or is it not provable?  If not, then it isn't recognized as a
+real thing.  Belief is irrelevant.  Once you've shown me my new car,
+and I've driven in it, it doesn't require faith or belief to know it
+exists.  For my money, no one has yet proven the existence of a supreme
+or minor deity...so for me, it simply doesn't exist.  Again, belief has
+nothing to do with it.
+
+(I used the phrase belief system only because I didn't want to get
+into a prolonged discussion of it, and that seemed the simplest way of
+stating it. That'll teach me not to go for the precise terms, even if
+it means another few paragraphs of explanation.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-May-96 16:11:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: Arc a Fake?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The other thing to bear in mind is that I can't really be
+responsible for what expectations you bring to it, since I can't see
+inside your head. (Or if I could I wouldn't tell you...and stop that,
+you'll go blind.)  All I can do is tell the story that's in my head.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-May-96 16:11:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <I&E Support>
+
+ Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When it was over and I was breathing again, I wondered, was this
+> the death where the actor asked "why me?"
+
+      This was the "now me" episode.  The "why me?" episode is yet to
+come.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-May-96 22:28:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> On another matter, are scripts from already produced episodes of
+> B5 available commercially from any source?
+
+      Daniel, you're on a slippery slide into sophistry.  Of *course*
+one can make a blanket statement about some things.  Many things, in
+fact.  I can declare, in no uncertain terms, that there are in fact no
+Minbari.  They are a fictional creation.  So right off the bat that
+negates your thesis.
+
+      And, again, you miss the point...the statement is not "X does
+not exist," that's the usual argument brought out to try and make
+someone prove a negative, which is nearly impossible.  I repeat: the
+burden of proof is NOT on the person saying "show me," the burden of
+proof is on the person making the assertion.  You say there's a god. 
+Show me objective, scientifically verifiable, quantifiable, repicable
+evidence of same.  Otherwise, I can say that there is no evidence in
+it, therefore I don't believe it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-May-96 22:28:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Rage's Thots: Teeps>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now one could attribute this change in Lyta's abilities due to
+> the Vorlons (since she has undergone some changes), but are we
+> going to find out more about this and Lyta's abilities later this
+> season?
+
+      It's fair to say that Lyta has been...aided, slightly, in her
+abilities. But I'm not ready to pull the trigger on that one for a
+while yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-May-96 22:28:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: Arc a Fake?
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Don't we have here a really good example of the Heisenberg
+> Uncertainty Principle shifted from the laboratory to the
+> storytelling platform? Are you ever astonished at the
+> interpretations applied like a varnish over the story as you see
+> it?
+
+      Yes, I'm often intrigued -- don't know if I'd say astonished --
+at how the story is sometimes interpreted.  But that's the interactive
+part of the process, what the viewer takes away is sometimes only
+indirectly the result of what's actually *there*.  Take modern art for
+a moment.  You show me a white canvas broken only by a single red dot
+in the lower left hand corner, I see a single red dot in the lower left
+hand corner of a white canvas, nod and walk away...somebody else takes
+a look at it, and sees a telling commentary on isolationism and the
+Communist scare of the 50s and man's basic inhumanity to man.
+
+      Anything that passes for art reflects the work's creator, and
+the viewer; it's a mirror that works in two directions, and neither
+reflection holds the totality of the work individually.  Art happens in
+the moments in-between.
+
+                             jm(could I possibly sound more effete?)s
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-May-96 22:28:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Guntis Glinavs <72411.1421@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Toronto Star B5 Article!
+
+ Guntis Glinavs <72411.1421@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Again there are a few inaccuracies - did 500,000 fans really show
+> up to a B5 con in England?
+
+      Thanks for letting folks know; I just heard about it myself, and
+am having a copy or two sent on to me for the files.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-May-96 22:28:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Interludes>
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you giving out answers today?
+
+      I meant you'd see Vorlons as Vorlons, not necessarily Kosh; I
+think I phrased it that way initially.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-May-96 22:28:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Interludes - Name>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, and glad to have you on board for the ride....
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-May-96 22:28:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Interludes - Name>
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why did Morden have to open the door to Kosh's quarters before
+> his Shadowy friends could attack Kosh? Are the Shadows a variety
+> of Teep?
+
+      No, they're not a variety of teep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-May-96 22:28:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WwE Part 1 Question
+
+ Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it supposed to be a Shadow beam or some other race's?
+
+      Sigh...no, it's a piece of stock footage from "Sky."  We don't
+make the promos.  On the other hand, they've been doing a much better
+job lately, so I'm not about to complain.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11-May-96 22:59:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In other words, who's challenge will you accept, Mark Twain's or
+> Pascal's?
+
+"This is a discussion that *has* to take place on two different
+levels.  One is the purely empirical where saying "there is a God" and
+"There is no God" are both statements of nonsense devoid of real
+meaning because they both claim to describe some aspect of reality yet
+no test can be devised (again short of dying) that can falsify either
+of them."
+
+Once again, your knowledge of logic is faulty.  The attempt in logic,
+debate or science is not to "falsify" or disprove anything; the goal is
+to PROVE something.  Repeat after me: you cannot prove a negative.  The
+burden of proof of any statement belongs with the person making the
+assertion, NOT the person receiving it to disprove it.  You are simply
+misstating how science and logic work in order to make a debating point
+that doesn't hold up under scrutiny.
+
+"Without a transcendent God imposing a transcendent morality upon man
+there is no basis for rights save the state. Without a source of right
+and wrong that exists outside of the human race there is no basis,
+except for fickle human opinion, to say that Mother Teresa is better
+than Adolf Hitler."
+
+Another debating trick that also doesn't hold up to close inspection.
+
+The notion of a monotheistic god -- *GOD* -- is fairly recent in human
+terms. The Greeks managed to build an entire civilization that was
+known for its arts, its philosophy, its advancement in all areas
+(military included) using a host of household and minor deities who
+were in NO way ANY kind of guide to what was right and wrong; half of
+them were capricious and just plain nuts, the the other half were off
+mating with human women and then writing off their kids.
+
+Yes, in time Greece fell.  But so did Rome, the spearhead
+(figuratively and literally) for Christian propagation worldwide in its
+early history, so I wouldn't necessarily throw *that* into the mix.
+
+Very, very, very few people decide not to murder because God wouldn't
+like it. They don't murder (assuming they choose that) because they're
+afraid of being apprehended and sentenced under the laws made by humans
+in order to facilitate cooperation and progress and safety.  (If
+anything, people have proped up the notion of god as rationale for
+murder for centuries on all sides of the theological coin.)
+
+I'm not saying that religion is per se bad, it's like any other human
+artifact, including technology, it's what humans make of it.  But at
+the same time it's self-indulgent in the extreme for folks who believe
+to write off the whole of human history and say that if it weren't for
+their particular deity, we wouldn't know right from wrong, or positive
+from negative, that we'd just be staggering around blindly...when the
+notion of that sort of god is extremely recent in human consciousness,
+and prior to then we did okay; not perfect, we had wars and bloodshed
+and the like...and we still do.  Most of it by believers in one thing
+or another.
+
+When was the last time you heard of an atheist car bombing an embassy
+because he thought it would bring him closer to the void?  When was the
+last time you heard of an atheist murdering his entire family because
+he *didn't* hear the voice of god talking in his head?  When was the
+last time you heard of an atheist declaring a crusade or a jihad or a
+pogrom?  (And don't even try to bring the old soviet union into this;
+that was a political madness that had less to do with belief systems
+and more to do with the accumulation of personal power at the expense
+of EVERYthing, that wouldn't allow for ANY divergence from what they
+considered the norm.)
+
+You can write off "fickle human opinion" all you want, but from where
+I sit we haven't done too badly, all things considered.
+
+If my tone seems to imply I took some small offense...the operative
+word is "small," because I'm used to this.  On the one hand, I pretty
+much don't have a problem with anything anybody believes so long as
+nobody's hurt by it.  On the other, religionists tend to mutter darkly
+that if it weren't for some god-inspired notion of right and wrong, if
+we don't have that, well, we're just anchorless, as prone to murder a
+child as give somebody a gift.  That it's all caprice.
+
+Well, I happen to be an atheist, and I *can* tell the difference
+between Mother Theresa and Hitler.  And your inference that one can't
+is simply wrong and condescending.  As an atheist, I view every life as
+*incredibly* valuable because we only get one turn around the merry go
+round, and then it's over; no backsies, no second chances, no heavenly
+choir to sing one into the pearly gates no matter how terrible or
+abusive a life one's led as long as at the end one chooses to Believe. 
+Every life is rarer than the rarest diamond, and since the only future
+we have is that which we make, the only signs we were here are that
+which we create, life must be preserved, nourished and given the chance
+to grow.
+
+Because those Greeks -- you remember, the ones who didn't believe in
+your particular god, with its rules for right and wrong -- actually had
+the audacity to once define happiness.  Not in terms of right and
+wrong, but in even larger terms.  I noted them at Macon.  To wit: "The
+exercise of vital powers along lines of excellence in a life affording
+them scope."  It's about the only creed I live by.
+
+Not bad.  Bet they could even figure out this whole Mother
+Theresa/Hitler thing, too....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 12-May-96 13:58:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, are there any other TV people who believe that?
+
+      Yes, there are definitely other TV folk who feel that way;
+difference is, you just don't hear about them a lot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-May-96 13:58:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Act Structure
+
+ Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this something that's common in TV drama?
+> Have I just not noticed it before?
+> Or is this something uncommon that you've adopted?
+
+      It's actually something I had to fight for; a number of folks at
+WB weren't sure about the notion of using the tag (which you refer to
+as the last act) in quite the way I use it.  So yeah, it's a bit off
+the usual.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-May-96 13:58:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <I&E - special ship?>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Not special per se, just to establish that they have more than
+one design.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-May-96 19:02:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"One of the bedrock elements of science is that for a theory to be
+taken seriously it must be falsifiable."
+
+Nope.  If that's what you're thinking, then I suggest you go back and
+check, because that's not correct in any respect.  To take the green
+penguins at the north pole scenario again, I can search for 165 years,
+and not find any, and you can say, "Well, I guess you just missed them,
+but they're there."
+
+It is not the purpose of scientific endeavor to *disprove* every
+assertion, only to prove them.
+
+Your statement is simply false.  I'm sorry.  Saying it's so doesn't
+make it so.  So everything that proceeds from that is equally flawed. 
+Any scientist or logician here will back me up on this.  You may not
+want to hear it, Daniel, but you're simply wrong on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-May-96 19:02:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, I'm an atheist.  I prefer to define myself.
+
+      I don't say "maybe there is, maybe there isn't."  There isn't. 
+There is no proof to this statement.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-May-96 19:02:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, see my note to the, er, feeder...not an agnostic, an
+atheist.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-May-96 19:02:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since you don't believe in God what standard do you use to judge
+> Mother Teresa better than Hitler if it isn't human? Without a
+> viewpoint that exists outside of the human race what basis do you
+> or the Greeks have for saying that one is ultimately better than
+> the other that doesn't finally come back to human opinion?
+
+      Daniel, I hate to burst your balloon, but *everything* comes
+down to a human standard, to human opinion.  Christianity as it's
+practiced today is nothing like what was originally there around 100
+AD.
+
+      For a long time, the church had no problem with the concept of
+slavery. Even used sections of the bible as proof that it was a proper
+activity.  Only later, after society began to change, did they come
+around. Why?  Because they reacted to changing human opinions.  Once,
+the proper way to deal with heretics was to burn them at the stake, or
+press them with stones.  That changed as society changed.
+
+      And I'm sorry, but I've *read* the bible, twice, cover to cover,
+and I don't see any perfect guide or example of right and wrong there. 
+I see a fictional deity that is capricious, slightly insane, petty,
+inconsistent, vindictive...jealous, by its own admission, a trait we
+would deplore in ourselves.
+
+      The whole Adam/Eve thing was a mean-spirited setup.  The tree
+was the tree of knowledge, remember; the penalty was death.  But
+insofar as we know, nothing died in the garden, certainly no other
+people had died.  So to say "you shall surely die" was a meaningless
+concept.  They were children, they didn't know what the penalty meant. 
+And the kicker is...if the tree truly *were* the knowledge of good and
+evil, and they didn't have that knowledge until after they ate the
+fruit...then THEY DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS WRONG WHEN THEY DID IT.  They'd
+only know it was wrong AFTERWARD.
+
+      And for this they and their inheritors across ten thousnd
+generations were sentenced to pain and death?
+
+      This is the example of transcendental rightness you would hold
+before me?
+
+      Thank you, but I'll apply elsewhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-May-96 19:02:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Here's a little interesting aside...I used to write for Madeline
+Murry O'Hare's magazine, AMERIAN ATHEIST, back when I was in college. 
+I did a humor column, the occasional article, that sort of thing.
+
+      But over time, I came to the conclusion that she wasn't just
+trying to push for rights for atheists, but in fact was working to
+*eliminate* religion, which I had a moral and ethical problem with. 
+The constitution is there to allow anyone to believe, or not believe,
+whatever they choose.  If the day comes when certain relgions are
+banned, I'll be right there on the front lines with everybody else
+fighting for the restoration of those rights (though I have a quiet
+suspicion that the same might not happen if the situation were 
+reversed).  I felt that this was supremely wrong, and resigned as a
+result.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-May-96 19:02:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: Arc a Fake?
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why would he?
+
+      No, actually, there's a much simpler answer to the Ironheart
+question than that.
+
+      If we all remember the episode, he was trying as hard as he
+could to control himself, lest his abilities tear the place apart.  He
+was deliberately and with great pain trying NOT to use his abilities in
+any way, manner, shape or form.  He was also in great physical pain,
+was later shot, and became transcendent...which tends to kind of
+distract one....
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-May-96 19:02:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <JMS: Arc a Fake?>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  The voice-over is something I mentioned here a few
+months ago as a tool I was adding to my toolbox to use as counterpoint,
+or segue, in ways I hadn't tried before.  I use it again here and
+there, though the key with any new tool is not to go nuts and use it
+all over the place when a better one, maybe the one you already had, is
+better suited to the task.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-May-96 19:02:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Religon on B5>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I think the nature of the debate is using the wrong language
+here; I think when people are saying I'm "open-minded" it's possible --
+and I'm only suggesting this, not to put words in anybody's mouth --
+that the word being searched for is actually "fair."  Am I open minded
+about the possibility of deities?  No, in that you're correct.  Am I
+fair and/or open-minded in the treatment of religions on the show, in
+saying that for many people, it's a good thing *for them*?  I like to
+think so.  And that may be what's under discussion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-May-96 19:02:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<War Without End>>
+
+ David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Apparently every encounter suit is not the same, neh?
+> The message from Ivanova is beginning to come through
+> because...of the temporal rift AND because there was no guarantee
+> that the Whitestar would go 6 years into the past to save B4 from
+> the Shadow attack, right? Then was the vision Sinclair had of a
+> future B5 being attacked by a much stronger Shadow fleet a vision
+> (again) of an alternate future, where he never became ambassador
+> and remained on B5?
+
+      Thanks, and yep, you nailed the timeline just right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-May-96 19:02:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <I&E>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      "I hate you."
+
+      Why, thank you...then the episode had its desired effect....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 00:04:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> At what point does anything you said address my point that a
+> standard that isn't divine must therefore be human? Otherwise what
+> stops me from decreeing that I have a "right" to everything you
+> own and backing up that claim with the fact that I am better
+> armed than you?
+
+"Otherwise what stops me from decreeing that I have a "right" to
+everything you own and backing up that claim with the fact that I am
+better armed than you?  Rights must be granted by some force greater
+than the individual. That leaves God or the state."
+
+And, of course, this is exactly what happened on a regular basis
+throughout human history until only the last couple of centuries.
+
+If it was god doing this granting of rights...where was he for the
+last six thousand years?  Snoozing off in a corner somewhere?
+
+No, the rights you speak of were won by humans, fighting for their
+right not to be trammeled upon by greater forces, and bonding together
+in common cause to make sure it doesn't happen again in this place.
+
+While many of the "founding fathers" were believers, many others were
+simply deists, or freethinkers...they didn't do what they did because
+suddenly they figured god had given them the right, but because they
+got pushed to the wall, and we were 3000 nautical miles away from King
+George, and they in their very human way got fed up with being pushed
+around and decided it was time to push back, and create a set of laws
+that would prevent the tyrant from trying it again, or rising from
+within.
+
+Sorry, Daniel, we did this on our own.  God's a credit jumper.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 00:04:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: BRIAN COONEY <100551.1656@compuserve.com>
+Subject: UK Titles
+
+ BRIAN COONEY <100551.1656@compuserve.com> asks:
+> After the opening, the actors names and eps title are in a
+> different text any reason way?
+
+      I suspect that this is because we provide textless sections in
+the beginning to foreign markets for various languages, so they set
+them in a different type.  I guess....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 00:04:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Radio & TV Museum
+
+ SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do they only include things that they get as part of a festival
+> or something or can some producer or studio offer them some tapes
+> to make available for viewing?
+
+      I hadn't even thought about that aspect...it's certainly one
+that should be pursued, I agree.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 00:04:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Ship of Tears>
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> While I'm sure that you never intended the comparison when you
+> wrote SoT, (I'd go so far as to lay odds that you've never seen
+> Captain Eo), were the parallels mentioned by anyone when the show
+> was being produced?
+
+      No, it's never come up before, and I think that's WAY stretching
+it. (How come everybody always spends so much time trying to find out
+what a show like B5 is *like* instead of just looking at it for what it
+is?  "Oh, it's Cap'n Eo...oh, no, it's Lord of the Rings...Dune, Dune,
+I tell you, it's Dune...no, it's this over here...no, it's Cap'n
+Crunch...."
+
+      Feh.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 00:04:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Interludes<<
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, no, there are probably fewer.  We have a stable of
+about half a dozen directors at any given time; some move on, some
+stay, it's the nature of the beast.  That's about par for the course,
+maybe a bit less.  I know we had more on Murder, She Wrote.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 00:04:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Cheers for Mira
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Which is pretty much what I told you would be the case by this
+point. (Nobody ever believes me...do I have an untrustworthy face?  Do
+I look like Robert Vesco trying to sneak back into the country
+disguised as Moe Howard?)
+
+      And yes, Bruce is a hell of a lot better than some folks were
+willing to give him credit for in the beginning.  I think that's coming
+out now as his role becomes more deep and more serious.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 00:04:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Interludes - Name>
+
+ Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are they a lot bigger now?
+> How big do they grow?
+
+      No, they're about the same height consistently; it's probably an
+artifact of the camera angles and lighting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 00:04:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <What have you DONE???>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      If we put in warnings, the impact would be reduced.
+
+      No word yet on renewal, probably in the next couple of weeks
+we'll hear something definitive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 00:04:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <I&E, "wow" part II>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"The "arc" is fully alive for you now, I think.  Without these
+characters living and breathing inside your mind I don't see how one
+man could write as much as you have over the past two seasons.  What I
+*have* noticed is that all the actors now seem to be responding to the
+story you're telling."
+
+Yeah, it's kind of a funny thing...the deeper we got into the season,
+as the actors saw only one name on script after script, and they began
+to understand what was coming, and it's all *very* consistent...the
+sense of this being a novel really came through for everyone in a very
+profound way.  You could really feel a change in everyone's attitude,
+though it'd be hard to put into words.  A sense of, "This is it, this
+is the story, we're moving now, we're doing something nobody's ever
+done."  They know how hard it is for anyone to write this many scripts,
+which is why it's never been done before, and I think they not only
+respected that, but felt they had to rise to the challenge and give
+just as much at that end of it.  Usually you tend to hit a slump 
+energy-wise in your third year; not here.  Everyone's just hitting all 
+cylinders.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 00:22:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The closest thing to an insulting term that I have used is to
+> call human opinion "fickle" but if that isn't a proper term for
+> the race that produced both Mother Teresa *and* Adolph Hitler,
+> George Washington *and* Bill Clinton, Babylon 5 *and* Star Trek:
+> Voyager then what is?
+
+      Dan, I know you don't understand how one could take offense at
+some of this, which is why I've more or less been riding closely on my
+reactions. Let me try and explain:
+
+      Your statement is that without a "transcendental" outside force,
+a deity, to tell us right from wrong, that we have no way of
+distinguishing good from evil, Mother Theresa from Hitler.  That's what
+you *said*.  Now, I don't buy into the deity business.  Therefore, *by
+your definition*, I'm one of those folks who can't distinguish a
+humanitarian from a mass murderer.
+
+      The problem, Daniel, is that there's so much jingoism in this
+argument that statements like the one you made are put out there almost
+reflexively, without thinking.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 00:22:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: Arc a Fake?
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this difference something that will be addressed at a later
+> date or a nice detail that will simply be a source of viewer
+> speculation? Will her reaction to his death come into play in a
+> later epidose?
+
+      The red ship was simply another variation on the standard;
+nothing too major about it...and yes, when Lyta returns from her
+errand, she'll definitely get into this, and there will have to be some
+explanations made, though not to her....
+
+      And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 00:22:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: wwor channel nine nyc
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Could you do something about it?
+
+      No, the incidents with local stations can only be affected by
+local residents, I have zip control or influence over that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 00:22:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: George Ryerson <70775.142@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Interludes<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, no, the replacement isn't Kosh, as you say, it's
+another Vorlon, with a very different personality...the "we are all
+Kosh" is more of a conceptual thing....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 13-May-96 15:34:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<War Without End>>
+
+ Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know you said you were going to start pulling some triggers,
+> but man, are you related to "The Rifleman", or what?
+
+      Thanks.  I like Zathras...he's just nuts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 16:14:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you heard anything different?
+
+      Not only haven't I heard anything new, I hadn't even *learned*
+that she was missing until about a week ago...the perils of being
+buried alive in a story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 16:14:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Liz P. <76370.2665@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Exactly.  The constitution (this is from memory, so I may get a
+word out of place) stipulates "Congress shall make no law respecting
+the establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof." 
+Which means the state should have nothing to say about it one way or
+the other. It's a personal matter for each individual.  It's a bit of
+wisdom that goes back about 2,000 years; "Render unto Caesar that which
+is Caesar's; and to god that which is god's."
+
+      That the line gets blurred sometimes is really in violation of
+what the bible seemed to suggest.  The pharisees were synonymous with
+hypocrites, they had allied themselves with the government of the time,
+and that was their downfall in the final analysis; the state invariably
+corrupts religion.  The overall sense was to keep away from the
+government, to strive for something higher.  These days a fair amount
+of religion has become mass theater, much in violation of the
+suggestion to "go into your closet to pray," and the suggestions that
+those who made a show of their beliefs were not exactly role models.
+
+      The state should be religion-neutral, neither encouraging nor
+discouraging.  Sometimes this is unfair to one group or another, but
+as long as it does so consistently, not favoring either side, then it's
+okay.  The best compromise is one in which neither side feels it's
+entirely won.  (Yes, some of the questions of where and when religious
+artifacts can be put up stray into grey areas...but at least the
+patriotism of those involved is not usually up for grabs.  During one
+Presidential election, then Vice-President Bush, on a campaign stop in
+Chicago, was asked about his reaction to atheists, and he said, "Well,
+that's certainly their choice, though I don't see how anybody could
+call them patriots, since this is one nation under god." Substitute
+catholics or jews or moslems or japanese or irish for atheists in that
+sentence, and you'd have a firestorm that would've brought down the
+whole campaign.  Here nobody even seemed to notice.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 16:14:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is any of this making any sense?
+
+      Exactly.  That's a *very* good point; I'd forgotten about Romans
+2:14. There are sections that imply that those who don't hear The
+Gospels will be judged by their own actions and their own conscience,
+which implies the presence of a conscience (as does the quote you cite)
+even in the absence of a "transcendental" being, that is, knowing right
+from wrong.  Excellent point.
+
+      "...the largest problem we have in this country is that we have
+moved from a justice system to a legal system."
+
+      Wow...I've never heard that put so simply and so succinctly. 
+And it's absolutely correct.  Nicely done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 16:14:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes, Daniel, but you keep dancing away from the fact that the
+catholic church, and the Jewish religion, have also had changes and
+schisms and fractures, as the result of *changes in human opinion*.  If
+there were an eternal truth being practiced, then it should be
+unchanging.  But religion is *constantly* changing because of
+alterations in social mores and opinions. The role of women in the
+synagogue.  The changes from latin to english mass. The final decision
+by the church that maybe the sun *doesn't* rotate around the earth. 
+The ordination of women rabbis.  The dietary restrictions as set forth 
+in the Bible.
+
+      Heck, Daniel, the Old Testament goes on and on at great length
+to explain how the laws work, that the laws are the only ways to get
+over to the pleasant side of the afterlife...then suddenly in the new
+testament it's all, "No, no, forget the laws, THIS is how you do it." 
+What, god was just kidding for the preceding couple thousand years?
+
+      Go back to the early Catholic records, read the Dead Sea
+Scrolls, the early Roman records, and you'll find that the practice of
+Christianity today is utterly unlike its early history.  Religion
+changes as the world around it changes...or it dies.
+
+      The constant, unchanging religion you cite doesn't exist in
+reality. It's ALL a case of "it seems to me."  Every time a new pope
+comes in, you get a massive case of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 16:14:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: I. & E. Opinion
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  Yes, Delenn mentions in the tag that the Vorlons will
+be sending someone to quietly replace Kosh.  It's a bit darker
+character.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 16:15:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<Interludes...>>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, Sebastian said that bit about dying alone to both
+Sheridan and Delenn.  Who knows, he may have known something....
+
+      Yes, if Kosh had run, which wasn't in his character in the first
+place, someone else would've paid that price.
+
+      Londo still has chances, if he doesn't blow them.  You'll see a
+bit more about this in the two-parter.
+
+      Yes, some Vorlons do appear to us as female versions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 16:15:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Interludes<<
+
+ Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, one question about Kosh: Since the Shadows killed him, did
+> they see him in that now they know he was one of the Elder race? 
+> Or are they in the dark about the Vorlons?
+
+      Oh, no, the Shadows and the Vorlons know each other from way,
+way back.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 16:15:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<Interludes Question>>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      You're right; it was a sideways reference, without name, and I
+was thinking of whether or not the character had been named since.  I
+missed that one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 16:15:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Wilhelmy <73370.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <I&E - special ship?>
+
+ David Wilhelmy <73370.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Kosh's ship), are there a bunch of Vorlons in that cruiser or
+> just one GREAT BIG Vorlon?
+
+      There's a bunch in the big ship.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 16:15:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Rage's Thots: I&E>
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> "Where?"
+> How do you *write* like that?!?
+> Ed just exudes menace like slime, doesn't he?
+> (I mean that in the best possible way.) An interesting thought:
+> What are the standing Security orders re: Morden?
+
+      Yes, there is something thematically present about growing up,
+and parents, and coming of age that threads through the story.
+
+      And yes, there's the deliberate irony...that just as we finally
+start to really hear from Kosh...he's gone.  Snatched away just as we
+got close. Which would add to the feelings.
+
+      Good analysis.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 16:15:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Zocalo Statement
+
+ David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any comments on your earlier statement to help us feel better?
+
+      Still waiting....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 20:48:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 and J.R.R.Tolkien?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Odd...they reversed the Michael and the J.  Weird they'd do
+that.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 20:48:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So by what authority do you say that "A" is bad and "B" is good
+> and why should I respect it?
+
+"Alright, you and I are both humans.  We are in essence equal.  So by
+what authority do you say that "A" is bad and "B" is good and why
+should I respect it?"
+
+You respect if if there are more people than you are who believe A is
+bad and B is good, and they pass a bunch of laws requiring your
+adherence to this.
+
+Furthermore...
+
+You, as a christian, say A is bad, B is good, suggesting the
+transcendental guidance of your particular deity or prophet.
+
+A moslem says B is good, and A is bad, based on the transcendental
+guidance of HIS particular deity or prophet.
+
+So how is this resolved?
+
+See, this is one of the problems people bring to the table on this
+argument; they argue that truth always comes from transcendental
+god...omitting that they mean THEIR PARTICULAR god, that this alone is
+real truth...and the other guys are just misled.  "Ours is BETTER.  Our
+god can beat up their god."
+
+It's like those who want creationism taught in schools...oddly, when
+they bring this up, it's always the christian version of this...you
+don't tend to hear much about the one where Earth is carried on the
+back of a giant turtle....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 20:48:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Cheers for Mira
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Tell your husband that the Flying Tigers actually have given
+their permission for us to use their logos and artwork; Sheridan's
+helmet has a Flying Tigers logo.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 20:58:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Ship of Tears-Bester>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Not everything in life has a clue in front of it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 20:58:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Interludes<<
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If you were still the producer what are the chances that the last
+> episode of the series would have been about Jessica's friends
+> using Jessica's investigative techniques to solve Jessica's
+> murder?
+
+      The odds of that story are about zip.  One doesn't do such
+things to Jessica Fletcher.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 20:58:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Interludes<<
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, the shadows and vorlons are definitely not the same race. 
+And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 20:58:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<Whither Lyta?>>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Now that Kosh is dead (still hard to accept), what happens to
+> Lyta Alexander? She was Kosh's special attache, wasn't she?
+> Or is she working with ALL of the Vorlon?
+
+      She'll now have to work with the incoming replacement Vorlon,
+who might be just a bit miffed....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 20:59:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Doolitle's Raid
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Anyway, was this Vorlon attack synonomous to Jimmy Doolittle's
+> raid on Tokyo in the early days of WWII? WHat exactly has Sheridan
+> learned as of now? Will Kosh's replacement become his mentor now?
+> a Vorlette?
+
+      Sheridan has almost certainly not learned all he needed to know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 20:59:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Timothy C Schell <71174.2414@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<I&E Sublime>>
+
+ Timothy C Schell <71174.2414@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How was this fight different than the one we didn't see in "Signs
+> and Portents"? Were there more Shadows this time or are they
+> getting stronger? If Kosh did take out some Shadows, will more be
+> sent to Morden as replacements? Did Kosh project to Delenn, G'Kar,
+> or anyone else besides Sheridan during the fight? Did Garibaldi
+> ever get a chance to speak with Kosh about the Talia/Abbut data
+> crystal as hinted at in "Divided Loyalties"? Besides being
+> extremely old, was Kosh an average Vorlon or particularly special
+> in terms of strength, skill, or status?
+
+To your questions:
+
+1.  Kosh died fighting, I guess, and I'm also guessing that he took
+some Shadows with him.  How was this fight different than the one we
+didn't see in "Signs and Portents"?  Were there more Shadows this time
+or are they getting stronger?
+
+They were not initially prepared to kill him.  That was a territorial
+or jurisdictional squabble.  This was retribution.
+
+2.  If Kosh did take out some Shadows, will more be sent to Morden as
+replacements?
+
+He didn't.  Hurt 'em good, but didn't take them out.
+
+3.  Did Kosh project to Delenn, G'Kar, or anyone else besides Sheridan
+during the fight?
+
+No.
+
+4.  Did Garibaldi ever get a chance to speak with Kosh about the
+Talia/Abbut data crystal as hinted at in "Divided Loyalties"?
+
+Yes.
+
+5.  Besides being extremely old, was Kosh an average Vorlon or
+particularly special in terms of strength, skill, or status?  No other
+ambassador on the station has demonstrated the clout back home to
+sortie an entire fleet at a moments notice.  Delenn and Londo have only
+called on forces from a particular faction in their polities.
+
+He was certainly well regarded...one of the older of the vorlons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-May-96 23:47:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 and J.R.R.Tolkien?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"The best place to find out more about Joe is from the Lurker's Guide
+(http:/www.hyperion.com/lurk/lurkers.html)."
+
+      Yeah...I suppose...well, that or America's Most Wanted....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 14-May-96 13:39:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dimitri M LaBarge <71501.3353@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ Dimitri M LaBarge <71501.3353@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who was right, what was the proper interpretation of this church?
+> Yet, aren't Pelagius' ideas of an human-powered Christianity
+> equally as valid as the self-hating Augustinian conception?
+
+       Good points.  (And of course, there's Martin Luther and his
+fistful of theses nailed to a door....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-May-96 13:39:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <I&E Opinion>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       At this point, yes, since Ardwight tends to understand Vorlon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-May-96 13:39:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Ship of Tears>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yeah, and after a while I stopped doing that, because a number
+of folks couldn't distinguish between nodding to something that went
+before as an act of tribute or respect, and *doing* that story.  So I
+pointedly don't do that anymore.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-May-96 13:39:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WwE1 & Zathras
+
+ Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> After just watching WwE1, I have to ask: Will we ever learn
+> exactly who/what/when Zathras' people are?
+
+       Eventually, though that answer isn't terribly important.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-May-96 13:39:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <IaE Thought>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The only question I have about this is will we, the audience, be
+> able to tell that there is a different Vorlon on the station,
+> other than through the personality of said character?
+
+       You'll know the difference.  Believe me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-May-96 13:39:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Your impression
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I thought Marcon was quite enjoyable.  The organizers were
+quite pleasant, and the folks who showed up were nothing short of
+terrific.  I think I can speak for Richard and Pat as well, and say
+that we all had a great time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-May-96 13:39:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<I&E Sublime>>
+
+ Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Kosh may even have been the one the Shadows' asked, "What do you
+> want?" Care to comment?
+
+       No, not really, but you're in intertesting territory.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-May-96 13:39:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Stephen M. Demarest <70674.1405@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <MFE Question>
+
+ Stephen M. Demarest <70674.1405@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was Santiago president 8 years ago?
+> If so, was he (or his govt) working with the Shadows?
+
+       No, Santiago wasn't involved with the shadows; certain elements
+within his government, however, *were*.  Which was one reason why they
+needed to get him out of the way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-May-96 22:32:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Minbari souls?>
+
+ Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Am I in the ballpark?
+
+      You could be in the ballpark...question is, which ballpark? 
+Anything clearer than that will have to wait another week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-May-96 23:13:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Generally whichever side has the most people left alive at the end of
+the war gets to decide."
+
+Exactly.
+
+So much for eternal verities and transcendental truth.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-May-96 23:13:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"The reason for the multiplication  of Old Testament laws was because
+when Moses brought down the first ten the people promised to obey them
+to God's satisfaction.  This proved that they had missed the point,
+which was that God's law is impossible for man to keep to God's
+standards because his standard is perfection and we are imperfect."
+
+So in other words, this was sort of god's version of "pull my
+finger...."
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-May-96 23:13:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Right.
+
+      And that's why they were so sad, you see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-May-96 23:13:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jon A. Bell <74124.276@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ Jon A. Bell <74124.276@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it just me, or is there something wrong with this picture?
+> (Then again, I live in San Francisco, and becoming an Ordained
+> Minister of Anything in California is probably just a matter of
+> filling out a form and paying $20 to someone.) The Church of
+> Silly Walks, anyone?
+
+"My stepfather, a tax accountant, informed me that the pay of ordained
+ministers does not have Social Security taxes taken out of it, on the
+grounds that in their dotage, their flock will take care of them. Is it
+just me, or is there something wrong with this picture?"
+
+Yes, it proves that the social security system is completely flocked.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-May-96 23:13:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Prophetic dream
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The origin of that image will be discussed later this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-May-96 23:13:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Thoughts from Germany>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Great that the CD got there...and no, Ivanova isn't a strong
+enough teep for the incoming shadow vessel to really even notice.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-May-96 23:13:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gail Marsella <71551.3200@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Creative Process
+
+ Gail Marsella <71551.3200@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Here's a different kind of question for you: When you sit down to
+> work, I know you're not entirely in charge - the characters are -
+> but how do you participate? Did you *develop* a sustainable
+> creative process, or were you just always this way? In short, can
+> you train - or at least successfully invite - the Muse, and how
+> do you do it?
+
+"Here's a different kind of question for you: When you sit down to
+work, I know you're not entirely in charge - the characters are - but
+how do you participate? When I write fiction (admittedly not often), it
+either flows out onto the page as though someone else were using my
+hands on the keyboard, or nothing happens at all, no matter how long I
+sit there. You don't seem to have any "nothing" time. Did you *develop*
+a sustainable creative process, or were you just always this way?  In
+short, can you train - or at least successfully invite - the Muse, and
+how do you do it?"
+
+Hard to say...it's like any muscle, the more you use it, the easier it
+gets to use.  I think a part of it stems from the fact that I have very
+little in the way of barriers between me and the writing.  Too many
+people who want to be writers feel that when they sit behind the
+keyboard, they have to do something different or other...that somehow
+WRITING has an overlay of some sort, that it's different than talking. 
+But in many ways, it ain't any different.
+
+The best writing (IMO) is natural writing, where the words on the page
+flow very naturally, very smoothly.  Every once in a while, you pull
+out all the stylistic tricks, you thunder and lightning all over the
+page, when needed for effect...but it's the writing free of artifice
+that seems, for me, to work well.  If you hang out with writers long
+enough, the really *good* ones, you learn soon enough that most of them
+talk exactly the way they write.
+
+Lemme give you a forinstance...when Asimov was first struggling as a
+writer, he had lunch with his agent one day.  He was having a hard time
+describing things, using language to paint pictures.  The agent said,
+"You know how Hemingway would describe the sun rising in the morning?" 
+No, Asimov said, leaning in...how?  "The sun rose in the morning."
+
+There's virtually nothing between my brain and the keyboard; I'm
+hardwired that way, which is why I can't dictate scripts...I write
+through my fingers. I write pretty much the way I talk.  A lot of folks
+hereabouts have seen me at conventions, and they've noted that the me
+you see here is pretty much the me they see there, and the me that's
+just *there* all the time.
+
+If you stop thinking about *trying to write*, and just write...the way
+you have to stop thinking about the next step you make, and just
+*dance*...the way you have to forget about technique and just make
+love...it all comes together. You don't Try To Write.  You just write.
+
+As for story ideas...it's just nothing I've ever had a problem with. 
+As long as your characters are all distinct personalities, the stories
+you write will be as distinct and different as they are.  Find out who
+the character is, what he wants, how far he'll go to achieve it, and
+how far somebody else will go to stop him...and the rest takes care of
+itself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-May-96 23:13:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dana Wright <72627.531@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Interludes>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      That's a question that I think I could try and answer here for
+the next seven hours, and not quite get out the way I want to...it's
+one of those things you just sorta understand and do intuitively, and
+leave for the critics later to dissect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-May-96 23:13:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<War Without End>>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Will we see Kosh in th epast?
+> And will we see Valerian?
+
+      Not exactly, not as you might think, but in a sense....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-May-96 23:13:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Vacant encounter suit?>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Someone find me a very large stick....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 00:59:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vicki Mitchell <76234.1317@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Cheers for Mira
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Couldn't agree with you more.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 01:18:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> FWIW, every time I show that post to anyone who hasn't seen the
+> show, I get the response, "What show is this? When is it on?
+
+      Thanks.  I will confess I go back and forth about getting into
+this kind of conversation on the nets; either way, it will have an
+effect on how people perceive the show.  And, basically, I'm here to
+talk about the show, and be responsive to questions, not necessarily to
+put my beliefs, attitudes or prejudices out there in other people's
+faces.  I'm not what matters here, I'm not terribly interesting...it's
+the show, and those two can't ever be allowed to get confused.  I was
+kicking myself for days for allowing myself to get dragged into this
+(and it's nobody's fault but my own that it happened).  It's not really
+my place to go around lecturing anyone or spouting off to anyone about
+what they believe, and a few times, when the debate got really warmed 
+up, I did that.
+
+      What I do or don't believe is fundamentally irrelevant to the
+discussion, as long as I can keep it out of the show.  (The one area
+where it does get through that you note -- the importance of life and
+the right to choose one's own road through that -- is there, granted,
+but there aren't a whole lot of reasonable counter-arguments to that
+one.)
+
+      Because I make this show, I have -- for lack of a better phrase
+ -- a platform from which to spout off.  People tend to at least note
+what I say, even though most of it is rather silly, though I don't for
+a second buy into the notion that people are overmuch influenced by
+anything I say here. Particularly those on-line, who tend to be a
+fairly hardy bunch, intellectually speaking.  But there's still an
+obligation not to misuse or abuse that platform, or take advantage of
+it to spout notions that don't really touch the show per se at any two
+contiguous points.
+
+      In short...sometimes I say more than I should, and should learn
+to just Shut Up once in a while.  If this time out the discussion has
+done some good, then that's great.  But I still think some days I
+shouldn't have allowed it to happen.  If somebody wants to take a pot
+shot at my beliefs, let 'em. It's only pixels.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 01:19:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Interludes>
+
+ Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there a parallel (intended or not) in the "effects" of Kosh's
+> death and his calling John, son; and the winged legend known as a
+> Phoenix? If so, will Kosh be re-born in one form or another?
+> Or has he already?
+> Also, what was different about Kosh's confrontation with Morden's
+> associates this time as opposed to the one in "Signs and
+> Portents"? Was it just that there were more of them this time, or
+> was there some kind of agreement reached in the earlier one?
+
+      The earlier confrontation was a jurisdictional one; this one was
+about retribution.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 15-May-96 12:56:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <War Without End, Pt 1>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+>  - Isn't Delenn's sleeve different from the one shown in "Babylon
+> Squared"?
+>  - Why wasn't B5 destroyed?
+> Is it because the shadows knew they failed with B4 and so there
+> was no use in destroying B5?
+>  - Did the first three stations look similar to B4?
+>  - Why didn't Sinclair want Garibaldi along for the ride?
+>  - Is *Sheridan* The One?
+
+       B5 wasn't destroyed because it wasn't the one that would be
+taken back. Yes, the prior stations would've looked more like B4 but
+they were sabotaged *very* early in the construction process.  You'll
+learn why he didn't want Garibaldi along next ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 12:56:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadows entry to B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       They physically come aboard.  There's no beaming-in tech in the
+B5 universe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 12:56:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Interludes & Exam>>
+
+ Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Congrtulations on creating the single greatest hour in television
+> history, and it's supposed to get better?! Will that be explained
+> soon? 2) The fact that the Vorlons tiped their hat, and made it
+> known that they were involved with the Shadow war, seems to bid
+> ill, as in a previouse ep I seem to recall Delenn or Kosh
+> remarking how they don't have enouph forces gatherd...or am I
+> remembering wrong?
+
+       Actually, no, I never said that we'd show a vorlon as a vorlon
+this season; in time, yes, but not this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 12:56:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Spitfires>>
+
+ Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that the "pilot", or am I (as my friends maintain)
+> hallucinating again?
+
+       It's hallucinations.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 12:56:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Bester's Appearance>
+
+ Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In "Ship of Tears" how did Bester's fighter get into B5 space?
+> And if he hitched a ride on a larger vessel with jump drive, why
+> didn't B5 detect the jump point? Is their early warning system
+> damaged or deficient in some way perhaps?
+
+       It hitched a ride; and it's far enough outside B5...about an
+hour or so in normal space...that they wouldn't have picked it up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 14:49:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <IaE Thought>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I assume that might be "Walkabout"?
+
+       Yes, the new Vorlon arrives in Walkabout.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 14:49:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Vorlon Thought, WWE,I>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> On that subject, did Ardwight do the voice for the Vorlon that we
+> saw in "War Without End, Part One"?
+
+       Yes, that was Ardwight again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 14:49:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<Whither Lyta?>>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I think a yes covers all or most of your questions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 14:49:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Creative Process
+
+ William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you at all identify as a writer with what I'm relating to you
+> here? I'm also hard on myself where my writing is concerned
+> because I constantly find myself in the spot of saying, "Why is
+> it that I can't do more than I do?!" Any suggestions?
+
+       That's the hard part, the doing.  Lots of folks have ideas, but
+they flit, or they don't have the discipline to sit down behind a
+keyboard and just *do it* for the requisite number of hours per day. 
+And that's the one thing neither I nor anyone else can help or advise
+with.  It's what Marcus said: patience, determination, direction and
+strength.
+
+       And to quote somebody else, sometimes some people mistake a
+passion for reading for a desire to write.  They're wholly different
+impulses.
+
+       Writers write.  It's what they do.  If you're struggling to do
+it, maybe it's part of your brain throwing roadblocks in front of you
+to try and tell you something.  Maybe it's a lack of discipline, or
+attention span, or something deeper, a concern about finishing, or some
+other area.
+
+       I dunno...this is one area where I can't advise worth a damn,
+because I've never had this problem.  It's Heinlein's (and Ellison's)
+rules of writing: you must write, you must finish what you write, you
+must put it on the marketplace, and you must keep it on the marketplace
+until sold. Sometimes we get caught by the *idea* of a story, but to
+actually finish writing it, the *execution* of that idea, takes a great
+deal of work, and if the basic idea is already down there, the impetus
+to write it, the steam feeding the machine, evaporates quickly.  Only a
+conscious decision to finish the damned thing can carry you the rest of
+the way, a commitment to follow through on the craft of the
+STORYTELLING.
+
+       It's the difference between two kinds of people who talk about
+how they met their respective spouses.  One says "at a party," the
+other says, "at Bob's part in Toluca Lake, and she was wearing a red
+dress, and I couldn't take my eyes off her until I got her alone for a
+minute."  Idea vs. execution, telling the idea vs. telling the *story*.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 14:54:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Nah, it really isn't understatement...people who spend a day in
+my company invariably come away with the suspcion that there's
+considerably less there than meets the eye.
+
+       The invitation is, however, much appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 14:54:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: Arc a Fake?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Oddly enough...I think there's room for arc series elsewhere. 
+What I think is killing Murder One is that we just lived *through* this
+with the OJ Simpson trial, and everybody kind of got uniformly fed up
+with it, and so just don't have it in them to go through it again in a
+fictional environment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 19:28:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you actually find this when you spend time with the folks that
+> know you online??
+
+      No, it's not that...but in person, I generally tend to be fairly
+quiet and reserved, almost verging on shy.  In groups I tend to vanish
+into the wallpaper.  You'll usually find me at the back of the room,
+observing.  I'm not terribly extraordinary looking, rather average
+really, in contrast with what some perceive of me online, as evidenced
+by an email note I got just today where someone fancied me a mix of Sam
+Kinneson and Sean Connery, based on the messages here and elsewhere.
+
+      I can gear it up when I have to go to a convention and perform,
+but the rest of the time...I'm nearly invisible.  And I mean
+*invisible*.  As some small proof of this, when I went to my 20th high
+school reunion, I knew every face and every name I saw.  Out of the
+hundreds of people who showed up, two
+ -- TWO -- vaguely sorta kind remembered me, but that's about it.  I
+passed through their ranks without leaving even a footprint.  This is
+the norm, not the exception.  Online, I can be Cary Grant...but
+offline, closer to Don Knotts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 19:28:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Bester's Appearance>
+
+ Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you suggest some of his other works?
+> Did he write any novels?
+
+      I'd highly recommend The Stars My Destination.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 22:52:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Creative Process
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 23:09:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's okay, kiddo...I'm used to it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 23:09:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Creative Process
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes, I think I've seen stories about that on the news...fun
+stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 23:09:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Cheers for Mira
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Exactly.  A Heinlein hero isn't a bad description.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 23:09:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Matthew D. Woudstra <71073.540@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<War Without End>>
+
+ Matthew D. Woudstra <71073.540@compuserve.com> asks:
+> is Sinclair Valen?
+> Am I even close?
+
+      Best to watch and find out....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 23:09:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Matthew D. Woudstra <71073.540@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <War Without End, Pt 1>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, B4 survived the prior shadow war, but in very bad shape;
+didn't last much longer after that.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 23:09:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Spitfires>>
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have the Spitfires changed shape a little?
+
+      Not that I know of.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 23:09:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>War Without End: 1<<
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Me: Wanna watch Babylon 5?
+> Him: (Sound of extreme disappointment and look of consternation)
+> Why do they do that?
+
+      Inch by inch, we're taking over the world....
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 23:09:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>War Without End: 1<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Exactly.  The quote Delenn recited in "Parliament" was the quote
+from Valen when he formed the first Grey Council.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-May-96 23:10:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Story Arc
+
+ Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In "Infection," I was thinking, "Gee, what's this got to do with
+> anything?" 1) Will we see Ironheart again?
+> 2) Are Sinclair and Delenn married?
+> 3) Will we see the ship or beings that Catherine saw on Sigma 957
+> again? 4) Whatever happened to the insect-like being from Down
+> Below?
+
+      Thanks.  I've actually heard similar from others who've gone
+back and done the same thing...including some who, as you did, were
+kinda "Oh, yeah?" for the first part.  But as long as someone's willing
+to go back and look at what's there with an open mind, I don't have any
+complaints, and no apologies are ever required.
+
+      SF fans have so often been disappointed by shows that it's
+natural after a while to have "a chip on one's shoulder," as you
+say...I think it's based on a desire to defend oneself, to not get
+sucked in One More Time. It's understandable.
+
+      To your questions: no plans for Ironheart at this time,
+omnipotent beings running around my universe make me nervous...Sinclair
+and Delenn aren't married, it was stated as a *rebirth ceremony* which
+CAN sometimes double as a marriage ceremony, the rebirth being Delenn's
+upcoming change... she became more "passive," more insecure, after her
+change; that began to turn around after her encounter with Mr.
+Sebastian...and we saw the Sigma 957 ship again in "Voices of
+Authority."
+
+      Beyond that...thanks for the great words.  They help.  Pulling
+this show off is a tough job, harder than I think anyone knows, or ever
+will know, or ever *should* know, since that's irrelevant to what's on
+the screen.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-May-96 02:31:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dimitri M LaBarge <71501.3353@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ Dimitri M LaBarge <71501.3353@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is one set more valid just because it's got "production values"
+> and a storyline?
+
+      Hrmmm...I dunno...maybe.  I'll have to think about it.  I guess
+it's this particular topic, more than anything else, that has the
+potential to polarize people the most, and B5 tends to be about
+bringing folks together, not splitting them apart into camps.  We'll
+see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 16-May-96 16:37:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Surely, someone who does not question themselves, their beliefs
+> and their opinions cannot grow?
+
+       Lengthy, perhaps; confused post, no.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-May-96 16:37:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ATTN JMS: How old is...
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I'll put it to you this way...Kosh was old enough to have had a
+first hand familiarity with Valen.  Vorlons live a REAL long time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-May-96 16:37:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS /Dr Who?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I don't consider them a "rival," there's room enough for
+everybody. The more the merrier.  We're glad to have them on.  As for
+my personal view, I rather like the new Doctor.  He's probably the best
+they've had since Tom Baker, who for me has always been the
+quintessential Doctor.  There were some story lapses, and the female
+doctor is a good performer but needs to be written less
+annoyingly...but all the ingredients are there.  I hope they get 
+approved to series; I'll be watching.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-May-96 16:37:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE1: Familiar Shuttle>
+
+ Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> .did you ever get any stick time in that part of the Wing
+> Commander universe?
+
+       No, actually, I've never gotten into the Privateer stuff...I
+have the new Wing Commander, but my joystick is screwed up (others have
+made that observation before), so it's waiting until I can yank the
+computer out of its niche and install the Fancy New Joystick I bought
+that has fifteen thousand different plug-in points.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-May-96 16:37:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Terry Cotant [RSS] <70313.1103@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>War Without End: 1<<
+
+ Terry Cotant [RSS] <70313.1103@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If what happened to Shariden was a "time" thing, how did get get
+> moved all the way from sector 14 to Centauri Prime? Must be
+> "time/space", not just "time", right?
+
+       The time-flash (which in Sheridan's case is much more
+pronounced than what we've seen before) slides you forward or backward
+in time to where you are at that moment.  At that moment, 18 years from
+now (in the story), Sheridan was/will be on Centauri Prime.  So when he
+slid along the time line, that's where he ended up.  Just as in Babylon
+Squared, when Garibaldi had a timeflash back to his time on Mars.  It
+blips your perception to another point in your life, wherever you
+happen to be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-May-96 22:33:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You want to censor the internet, or ban guns?
+
+     Daniel, you Keep Missing the Point.
+
+      If "free speech (and) the right to keep and bear arms are God
+given rights," then why didn't God give them?  Why did it take a number
+of humans to *decide* that it was time to strive for something better? 
+The rights you speak of were never given by god, they were given by
+those who spent their life's blood in an effort to create something
+better for their inheritors. If god had anything to say on this issue,
+he should've said it in the 6,000 years preceding, and *done* something
+about it.  He didn't.  We did.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-May-96 22:33:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS: Arc a Fake?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, if you were able to suss anything out of those
+ramblings, then it's a Good Thing...and sorry about the delay. 
+Sometimes answers to old questions come when you least expect them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-May-96 22:33:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS /Dr Who?
+
+ Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Say, would you mind if I reposted your message into the Doctor
+> Who section on SF Media 2?
+
+      Sure, anything I write can be crossposted.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-May-96 22:33:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Spoilers
+
+ Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any info on that project (I think you said 'GrimJack', I don't
+> get out much :) who is the author and when do you think it will
+> be out?
+
+      I'm futzing around with several projects whilst awaiting word on
+B5; nothing concrete I want to talk about just yet.  And I've grown a
+beard since the photos you saw.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-May-96 22:33:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <I&E> Moved
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any reasons why you didn't do the scene that way (or was this a
+> budgetary constraint?) ?
+
+      I thought about that long and hard when writing the script, and
+I finally came to the conclusion that there was literally *nothing* we
+could show that wouldn't be disappointing...it's a conflict on another
+whole plane, and should have an almost cosmic or ethereal feel to it. 
+If we showed Kosh shooting a defensive field, or a shadow opening his
+suit with a can opener, or anything else obvious and physical, it
+would've diminished the scene.  The vorlons are mythic, indirect, you
+see them out of the corner of your eye, so it fit that the proper
+metaphor would be to handle the battle that way.
+
+      Even if we'd had ten million bucks to do that sequence...I
+would've made the same choice.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-May-96 22:33:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <War Without End, Pt 1>
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did the Minbari agree to help fund B5 after getting a look at the
+> nearly finished B4 and realizing what it was?
+
+      No, because if you remember, even Delenn didn't know where B4
+came from until she came to B5, well after completion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-May-96 22:33:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Vorlon Thought, WWE,I>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      There probably wasn't a credit there because it was an
+incidental voice rather than a recurring voice.
+
+      The other Vorlon also sounded different because I directed
+Ardwight in different inflections...literally stood there outside the
+booth using my hand like a baton to indicate the rising and falling
+inflections as he spoke, to give it a wave kind of sound.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-May-96 22:33:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>War Without End: 1<<
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      With this show, it's never safe to assume *anything*.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-May-96 22:33:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>War Without End: 1<<
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You can't become unstuck in time and slide past your own
+> lifetime, can you? Or is there a difference in Sheridan's
+> "unstickiness"? Garibaldi & Sinclair get the "perceptual trip" but
+> Johnny gets the Real Thing (tm)? Help?
+
+      Well, who can say at this point *what* happens on Z'ha'dum...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-May-96 22:33:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Story Arc
+
+ Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you do it?
+
+      Actually, the scary thing is...I wrote 12 the first year, 15 the
+second, and 22 the third, so that's 49 out of 66 altogether.  That's
+about 2,400 pages in 3 years, equal to 5 full-length novels.
+
+      Suddenly I have the overwhelming urge to take a nap....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-May-96 22:34:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE - timeline ?>
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you work out in your head the sequence of events that created
+> the circular timeline, or did you just throw up your hands and
+> say, "Who cares about explaining it?
+
+      No, it all has to hang together, or it's kinda useless.  It just
+required working out the details of what was, is, and will be.  Then I
+walked on water....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-May-96 22:34:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE1: Familiar Shuttle>
+
+ Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What brand of stick did you buy?
+> Did you go with an optical design?
+
+      Optical design?  Whuzzat?
+
+      I don't recall the make, but it plugs in at the game card, the
+mouse port, AND the keyboard port.  Frankly, it scares the hell out of
+me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-May-96 22:41:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: Arc a Fake?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The real drag about Twin Peaks is that, apparently, as told to
+me by some of the writers who worked on the show, they really had NO
+idea where they were going.  They just kept throwing stuff out there. 
+I was vastly disappointed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-May-96 22:41:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Screen Saver sound
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      There's not a fix; that's the Identicard Scanner sound, which
+you hear on the show from time to time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-May-96 22:41:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <War Without End, Pt 1>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, the B1-B3 sabotages had nothing at all to do with the B4
+situation; it was just done by forces opposed to the very notion of the
+Babylon Project.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-May-96 22:41:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <War Without End pt1>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Careful...we're straying into story ideas here....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-May-96 01:08:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ATTN JMS: How old is...
+
+ Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com> asks:
+> OK, question though, how long ago (now being 2260 on B5) did
+> Valen live and come up with his ideas?
+
+      Valen led the prior shadow war and formed the grey council
+roughly 1000 years before B5's current time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-May-96 01:08:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE - timeline ?>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That would certainly get in the way, yes.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-May-96 01:09:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE1 Ships>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      We've shown the saucer-shaped ship before; it's a Vree ship,
+first seen in Deathwalker.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-May-96 01:09:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: War I
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  Yeah, next week's a corker.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 17-May-96 19:10:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Penny J. Legner <103643.763@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ Penny J. Legner <103643.763@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Isn't that what we're doing here?
+
+      Yes, that's the dream...of course, there are many days when
+netspeak and the dream are far, far removed from one another.....
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-May-96 19:10:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ATTN JMS: How old is...
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      All I'll say is that I have nothing to do with the previews, and
+I never see them or know what's in them until the broadcast.  I see 'em
+when you do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-May-96 19:10:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Screen Saver sound
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Has the B5 Screen Saver been released in a Mac version yet?
+
+      I've been told that the early decision to do a Mac version
+wasn't actually a decision, but a thought experiment, and for now
+they're staying with a PC version.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-May-96 19:10:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hole in Sinclair's Mind
+
+ Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> was that a sort of "bleed-through" when he was recalling what
+> happened? or did that happen the first time, when he was being
+> interrogated at the battle of the line? If it's the latter, has
+> 'Sinclair knowing who delenn was before he ever met her' been
+> addressed yet??
+
+      Yes, it was bleed-through.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-May-96 19:10:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Interludes questions>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Was John thinking about his role in the destruction of the Black
+> Star, or the fact that he is now leading every race he can
+> influence into (possibly suicidal) battle with the Shadows?
+
+      In a way, each subsequent season tends to become stronger
+because now you know who these people are.  If you come to care about
+them, then the events that affect them have more power.  I've heard
+from folks who've watched the first season or two over again, and now
+that they know who these people are, found them much stronger than the
+first time through.  It's the nature of the beast.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-May-96 19:10:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Cheers for Mira
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any suggestions?
+
+      A toast for a wedding, eh?  I'm not usually asked to do this
+sort of thing -- I generally avoid those morbid parentheticals of the
+human soul, weddings and funerals -- but off the top of my head....
+
+      The heart is an inland sea, surrounded on either side by
+infinities of time.  On one side, the unsteady molecule, shaken by
+storm and the unlikely perambulations of amino acids, paraded across
+the centuries until their name was man, and woman, until they created
+poetries and cities and walked across the Sea of Tranquility.  On the
+other side, an uncertain future, waiting to be shaped by hands clasped
+across that ocean of possibilities.  Looked at from here, in the
+starlight of sanctified vows, that horizon can be daunting, even 
+frightening.  But there is nothing so dark or so profound that it can
+outwit the infinity that is behind you, or undo all that went into
+creating you.  Any problems before you are temporary; but the inland
+sea of the heart is eternal. May your journey be filled with calm seas
+and clear skies, guided by the compass of your entwined souls.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-May-96 19:10:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Story Arc
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks; foreshadowing is tough, because it implies the audience
+is going to BE there x-years down the road to Get It, and you have to
+risk the audience going "huh?" one time too many and wandering
+away...but nothing good comes without risk.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-May-96 19:10:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruce "Firestorm" S. <72571.1722@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <War Without End pt1>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Not a problem.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-May-96 19:10:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE - timeline ?>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I try....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-May-96 19:10:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Watching the Shadows.
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Bloopers and video releases aren't going to be happening for a
+bit yet. In time....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-May-96 19:10:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Avery C. Innis <74642.3366@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >Delein's Head<
+
+ Avery C. Innis <74642.3366@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How is this going to be explained away?
+
+      Won't have to, because you never saw what you think you saw. 
+All you saw was an arm.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-May-96 19:10:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Delenn
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Q: "What are the chances of Delenn evolving beyond her present
+> state of being?"
+
+      Depends on what he means by evolving; internally, yes;
+externally, no.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 18-May-96 00:43:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Interludes<<
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Was the physical force used on Sheridan projected by Kosh or the
+> encountersuit?
+
+      Yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-May-96 00:43:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Celia J. Penham <102454.540@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <War Without End, Pt 1>
+
+ Celia J. Penham <102454.540@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ok, this doesn't have anything to do with the current message
+> thread, but has there been any thought about a B5 novel? I mean,
+> one that tells THE ENTIRE STORY?
+
+      A lot of folks have suggested it...only time will tell if it
+ever gets done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-May-96 00:54:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: Arc a Fake?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Your observation is correct; the structure of B5 to a great
+extent is that of the novel, which is, after all, what's being
+attempted.  So you go from introduction, to rising action, to conflict,
+complication, climax and denouement.  A novel for TV.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-May-96 00:54:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Matthew D. Woudstra <71073.540@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <War Without End, Pt 1>
+
+ Matthew D. Woudstra <71073.540@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How long can one person wear the same outfit???
+> say, one of the principle players, one with a bony head crest and
+> long black hair...?
+
+      Actually, Delenn probably has more outfits than just about
+anyone else; there's the blue outfit, the rose colored outfit, the
+green active-wear look, her grey cloak and white religious caste robes,
+one more change of color...so I think your observation here is flawed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-May-96 00:54:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joseph Coulter <75272.3005@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE or All good things>
+
+ Joseph Coulter <75272.3005@compuserve.com> asks:
+> ?"
+> And really "Don't you trust me, John?"
+
+      That's because tachyons are unique particles; they appear to be
+moving the wrong way through time.  So they're natural for this
+purpose.  ST didn't make up the idea of tachyons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-May-96 20:10:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: ralph venables <101500.3333@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: Arc a Fake?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and it's just fun hanging around.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-May-96 20:10:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<WWE, Part I>>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Since when does Zack know about the White Star, and is it now
+> general knowledge among the B5 staff?
+
+      Yeah, the White Star has been common knowledge ever since it
+came in at the end of "Severed Dreams."  Certainly, by virtue of being
+Garibaldi's second in command, he'd know about it.  At this point, most
+everything is out in the open now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-May-96 20:10:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WwE Part 1 Question
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It was done for story purposes.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-May-96 20:10:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Vorlon Thought, WWE,I>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that Kosh is dead (and I presume that you won't be bringing
+> this character back to life), what was it about the character of
+> Kosh that you really liked and really disliked?
+
+      Actually, there wasn't much about Kosh I disliked...except his
+cryptic ways...they're all annoying that way.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-May-96 20:10:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>War Without End: 1<<
+
+ Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You are saying that *in one alternate universe* Sheridan will be
+> on Centauri Prime, just like in 8 days in one alternate universe
+> Ivanova will cry to the universe for help while the Shadows blast
+> B5 to hell and in one alternate universe Garibaldi sacrifices
+> himself for Sinclair?
+
+      There are no alternate univeses, only alternate or possible
+futures. If they didn't go back, the future in which Sinclair is there
+with Garibaldi -- having come back to see through the final battle --
+and in which Sheridan is killed, and Ivanova is calling for help...that
+future will come true.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-May-96 20:10:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carol Naylor <100645.2613@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Story Arc
+
+ Carol Naylor <100645.2613@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Quick question - is the "rebirth ceremony" from Parliament of
+> Dreams what we would have seen had the full ceremony gone ahead
+> in Ceremonies of Light and Dark or are there several different
+> versions - each with their own significance? Did you know that he
+> used to be a monk?
+
+      Yes, it's the same ceremony; Delenn states as much in the
+episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-May-96 20:10:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Hoopingarn <73172.1065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<War w/o End, p1>>
+
+ Jonathan Hoopingarn <73172.1065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Dosen't this blow the mystery of whether Sheridan goes to
+> Z'ha'dum? Or would that event be later in his life than his going
+> to Centauri Prime? And are we going to find out why older-Sheridan
+> was on C-prime in the first place and not off someplace
+> collecting his pension? I guess the question might be what are
+> Minbari feelings about such things?
+
+      Who said there was a mystery about Sheridan going to Z'ha'dum? 
+Kosh seems to treat it as a fait accompli; so does Sheridan.  It seems
+fated that he will go...the question is when, why, and under what
+circumstances, with what results?
+
+      See, sometimes the story works in the shadows (so to
+speak)...and other times we're right out in the open, we hand you the
+playbook and tell you we're coming right up the middle.  And *that's*
+when you've got to really worry.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-May-96 20:10:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Series Thoughts
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Come to think of it, how's the business of renewal for Year 4
+> coming?
+
+      No, it seems that WB is set on airing the last batch of
+episdodes in October, to ramp up for the November sweeps, assuming
+renewal.  We won't hear final word on this for another week or two.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-May-96 20:10:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WWE PART ONE
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The name of the station is still the same; it was built by the
+Earth Alliance.  So that's how she'd refer to it.
+
+      The rest will probably be clearer after part two.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-May-96 14:08:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ATTN JMS: How old is...
+
+ Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is my assumption that the different Minbari castes were on the
+> verge of destroying themselves prior to the war and the
+> appearance of Valen?
+
+      There was certainly some division among Minbari; Valen
+straightened a lot of that out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-May-96 14:08:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WwE Part 1 Question
+
+ Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Had Sinclair stayed on as B5 commander, who would have been
+> zapped to Centauri Prime to confront Londo on the destroyed
+> Centauri Prime?
+
+      I appreciate the questions, but there are so many alternate
+timelines flying around right now...I'm not sure I want to further
+complicate the issue.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-May-96 20:08:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<WWE, Part I>>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> * So is the NightWatch done for now?
+> (such as another assault on the station by EA forces)?
+> * Is Corwin and everyone else on the B5 command staff cool with
+> B5's seccession now?
+
+      All I'll say for now is that we'll obviously have to get back
+into the Earth situation sooner or later; that still has to be dealt
+with.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-May-96 20:08:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Harlequin <73122.2300@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Appreciation
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thank you for all of that.  It's a hell of a fight some days to
+get this show made, and believe me, the appreciation
+is....well...appreciated.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-May-96 20:08:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Fan club
+
+ Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since I don't have a printer, do you think it would be perfectly
+> fine to just hand print the form to join the club, so long as I
+> give all the same information?
+
+      That'd be fine, sure.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-May-96 20:09:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <War Without End, Pt 1>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Once I finish the show, then I'll have time to consider this. 
+For now, it's just too daunting an idea.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-May-96 20:09:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>War Without End: 1<<
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Part two will clear that up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-May-96 20:09:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Puppet riots
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Saw it...weird....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-May-96 20:09:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WwE1 - recording?>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      She said it came from Draal and Epsilon 3, which has been
+monitoring the area for the last 500 years.  (It's stated in dialogue.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-May-96 20:09:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<<<WWE Pt 1>>>>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      His clothing is different because that's the future Sheridan,
+into whom the current Sheridan has sort of slid....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-May-96 20:09:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE II>
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In the original version of the story where Sinclare stayed and
+> there was no Sheridan was Babylon 4 brought forward in time to
+> replace the destroyed Babylon 5? Was the ageing of Sinclare to
+> have been explained by the fact that he had given his time
+> stabilizer to Zathras? What did the Soul Hunter mean when he told
+> Sinclare "they are using you"?
+
+      No, B4 was never intended to go forward in time.  The aging was
+done pretty much as intended.  And the Soul Hunter meant they're using
+him to create their old Leader.  Still tracks.  I'll have more to say
+about all this after everyone's seen the episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-May-96 20:38:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<UK Dust 2 Dust>>
+
+ Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Geez, would she REALLY have blasted Bester??
+> After that final conversation between Bester and his ascociate, -
+> is it possible that the Psi-corp PUT that Dust dealer onboard B5
+> as an excuse to come on and do some snooping? Am I man enough to
+> say I could have cryed?
+
+      Yes, she would've blasted...she gave the order to fire; only the
+fact that Sheridan gave the over-ride at the same moment stopped it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-May-96 20:38:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Fan Club Stuff?
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, What's the word of Fan Club stuff?
+> And the Webpage?
+
+      We're just awaiting final word from WB before releasing the fan
+club web site; newsletters should be going out soon.  We're just
+waiting until there's a slight lull in memberships so we won't have to
+do too many multiple mailings.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-May-96 20:38:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<War Without End>>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, I'm glad it's come out to be your favorite; it's a good
+ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-May-96 20:38:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <War Without End, Pt 1>
+
+ Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are these forces incidental or important to the rest of the
+> series, or can't you say? Can't you EVER be predictable?
+
+      Yes, a number of folks took speculations and began posting them
+about as True Things set to happen.  Always an error....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-May-96 20:38:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE 2 Paradox>
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Even if the machine that Sinclare used was a copy where did the
+> knowledge come from to build it originally?
+
+      Nope.  The machine came up with Zathras from Epsilon 3.  It
+first appeared with Sinclair, then later got into Delenn's hands.  So
+she still has that version of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-May-96 20:38:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Rage's Thot's:WWE, #1>
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are we to assume that if all goes well, the variant future of
+> Sinclair and Garibaldi's flashforwards will be wiped out of
+> existence? Are these flashforwards becoming 'unstuck in time'?
+> If so, why didn't Sinclair and Garibaldi vanish like Johnny did?
+> Is Johnny's unstuck jump *able* to be wiped out of existence like
+> the visions mentioned above? In B^2, do we ever see Sinclair or
+> Garibaldi in oldstyle EA uniforms, or just the black riot gear? 
+> (Lucy and Ethel? Was Kosh *taller* than this guy?
+> *Why does Lennier seem to always mention new functionalities of
+> the ship in the middle of combat? *Why hasn't Johnny gotten fully
+> checked out on the ship as he did with the Thunderbolts in SoT? 
+> *BTW, what phrases were thrown up on the screen behind Delenn in
+> Minbari script? Was it like Vir's Aloha shirt, or actual
+> Minbarese? * Just *when* is Johnny supposed to go to Z'ha'dum?
+> And just what does "If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die" MEAN?
+> What does that MEAN?
+> why does there have to be seven days between episodes?
+> F
+
+      Thanks.  To the questions...no, we only saw the black flak
+uniforms in B2, because I knew we'd be changing them, but wanted to
+hide that fact (as I did with Delenn's line to Sinclair in B2, done
+off-camera to hide her change). And the Minbar cityscape was done by
+Eric Chauvin.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 20-May-96 03:48:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ATTN JMS: How old is...
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes, that divisiveness has been growing lately, culminating in
+the breakup of the Grey Council which Valen formed.  There's bound to
+be some fallout....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-May-96 03:48:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Vorlon Thought, WWE,I>
+
+ Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> On a similar topic, do you have a favorite character?
+
+      They're all favorites.  If I had to pick one, it might well be
+Londo, simply because of the scope of the character, and what he lets
+me write.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-May-96 03:48:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<War w/o End, p1>>
+
+ Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I've been thinking about this quite a bit after I&E, and it seems
+> to me that we may not have entirely realized what Kosh was saying
+> (no surprise, eh? On the right track?
+> Or derailed?
+
+      Interesting speculations.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-May-96 03:48:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<<<WWE Pt 1>>>>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      There's a reason Garibaldi can't be there....
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-May-96 03:48:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE II>
+
+ Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If you want to wait to answer this that's OK, but did the Minbari
+> *know* that Sinclare was going to become Valen when they backed
+> his assignment to B5? Is that what Delenn meant when she said she
+> knew that they were not wrong about him? And if that is the case
+> why was Delenn told to kill Sinclare if he remembered what
+> happened to him at the Battle of the Line?
+
+      No, they didn't know at the time; most of them were still trying
+to figure the whole damned thing out; some refused to accept it, and if
+he was indeed bogus, wanted him killed to avoid becoming a false
+prophet and undoing Minbari society; some *did* believe it was him. 
+This disagreement in a sense became the first loose thread in
+unraveling parts of Minbari society.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-May-96 03:48:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<War Without End,pt.2>>
+
+ David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But the other you'll get asked a lot and so I'll ask it now: was
+> this always Sinclair's path and if it was, was it your intention
+> (originally) to reveal it much later in the show, say season 5?
+
+      To the latter question...I think I'll hold off on commenting on
+this for a while.
+
+      Other than that...I'm happy you liked the episodes.  It's a good
+point to go out on for the break.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-May-96 03:48:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Matthew D. Woudstra <71073.540@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WwE1 & Zathras
+
+ Matthew D. Woudstra <71073.540@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where on earth did you get the inspiration for Zathras?
+> Was the character a product of your vision or what the actor
+> brought to the role...?
+
+      Well, Zathras appeared in Babylon Squared, so you might have
+seen him there.  Beyond that...no, the actor came to what was written
+on the page and made it come to life, but didn't invent the character. 
+I just sorta thunk him up.  It's what I do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-May-96 03:48:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <War...I>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Re: G'Kar and Londo changing positions as Sinclair and Sheridan
+have done, these two moving from certainty to uncertainty in either
+direction, that ain't bad.  That ain't bad at *all*.  I like symmetry,
+and both journeys are interesting explorations.  What I've been doing
+in complex terms, you explained in an astonishingly few words.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-May-96 03:48:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Doug Quinn <76330.350@compuserve.com>
+Subject: << WWE, Pt.1 Spoilers >>
+
+ Doug Quinn <76330.350@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now, the question is, how long has Deleen known that Sinclair
+> was/is/will be Valen? Did they discover this when he was captured?
+> (I'd think not, else the Grey Council would not have told deleen
+> to kill Sinclair should he remember being captured.) Did Deleen
+> find out when Kosh came on board? (Kosh clearly knew what the deal
+> was, which explains why he didn't hang around the Council much
+> when Sinclair was in charge of the Station -- didn't want to
+> accidentily mess the time line up.) Did Deleen find out when she
+> came into posession of the "cocoon" machine? And here, since I
+> haven't seen the second part of this yet, I'm assuming that the
+> thing Sinclair is clearly putting a triluminary on in the preview
+> is the machine that goes into the past with him and later -- 1000
+> years later -- comes into Deleen's posession, since this explains
+> the "Valen was more than Minbari" line.) Or was she as much in
+> the dark as Sinclair himself was, right up to the moment when he
+> got a letter from his future/past self telling him what was going
+> to happen? What was in the note she received just prior to
+> Sinclair arriving on B5? What must Deleen think of this?
+> A _human_ becoming half-Minbari as the founder of her
+> civilization's government? Valen is also apparently looked up to
+> as a _religious_ figure -- how might other Minbari react to the
+> knowledge that Valen was half human? Or that Sinclair's Minbari
+> name sounds almost identical to the stone in the Ranger's pin, a
+> stone which represents the coming together of the human and
+> Minbari halves into one whole (a la Deleen's fusion, a la
+> Sinclair's coming fusion into Valen)?
+
+      On the Grey Council and Sinclair, I just left a note on this, so
+you may want to check that one rather than my repeating it here.  But
+yes, you seem to be close to it all...which is good.  All the pieces
+have been there, certainly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-May-96 03:49:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <War W/o End #2>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, the Londo stuff is just incredibly powerful...very moving.
+As for the voice...well, we'll just have to wait a bit, won't we?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-May-96 17:59:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Hypernauts Cancelled?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> If nobody else picks it up, is there any chance that the B5 fan
+> club could issue the completed episodes as videos?
+
+      There's no relation between B5 and Hypernauts, and it would be
+contractually impossible for us to do tapes of that show.  Still
+trying to work out the B5 tapes at present.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-May-96 17:59:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: MYSTERY ALIEN SWEEPSTAKE
+
+ Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who won?
+
+      I haven't heard yet.  When I do, I'll post the info soonest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-May-96 17:59:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I&E Thought
+
+ Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this little parallel intentional?
+> And if so, is that worth noting for later or was it just one of
+> the many tools you employ?
+
+      Not an intentional parallel, no, but often to achieve something,
+one must decide if it's more important than one's life.  That's kind of
+descriptive of the whole of human history, frankly....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-May-96 17:59:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toby Johnson <104305.1442@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Kosh's Ship
+
+ Toby Johnson <104305.1442@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was his ship made/created for him??
+> and if so was it as old as he was??
+
+      It was made for Kosh, as Delenn points out, was almost a part of
+him; it wouldn't function as well, if at all, for anyone else.  There
+was nothing else to be done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-May-96 17:59:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Story Arc
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-May-96 17:59:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bert Johnson <102476.201@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<WWE Pt 2>>
+
+ Bert Johnson <102476.201@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Two, who did Delenn see in Sheridan's quarters?
+> In the future of that timeline, did they have a daughter?
+> I think they identify with him ("No one listen to Zathras") Will
+> we see him again?
+
+      The eye was of the keeper on Londo's shoulder, you can see
+G'Kar's fingers gripping a part of it.  It woke up.
+
+      The other questions will have to wait, and be answered in the
+series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20-May-96 17:59:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: op
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      They've played with some research in this area, but they aren't
+anywhere near the tech required to actually do anything with time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-May-96 00:12:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jon Wolf <76103.2541@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<War Without End>>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually...incorrect.  Whenever there's a timeflash, people see
+one thing or another.  When Sinclair and Garibaldi first came aboard,
+there was a timeflash.  We saw what Sinclair saw, we have no idea from
+that scene what Garibaldi saw.  No reason he couldn't have seen
+something from about that same period.  It wasn't stated either way at
+the time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-May-96 00:24:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<<<WWE Pt 1>>>>
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Yes, but *how* does Sinclair *know* this?
+> Will this be addressed in more detail?
+
+      Yes, in part two.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-May-96 00:24:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WWE Question
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Why hasn't the design changed?
+> Ritual?
+> Also, where did Sinclair get the scar?
+> Could you please 'Splain this to me, Lucy?
+
+      The design *has* changed; the main section is much longer, and
+more primitive looking, less tricked out.  You can see a bit of it
+there, but you will see them in more detail in part two.
+
+      Sinclair was scarred during ranger training duties.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-May-96 00:24:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE2 & Kosh Naranick(sp)
+
+ David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could that have been our favorite vorlon back 1000 years ago?
+
+      Suffice to say that Kosh knew Valen from way, way back....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-May-96 15:52:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Hypernauts Cancelled?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> You've mentioned recently about trying to get things moving for
+> the UK viewrs/fans/rabid mottley crew (that's US!) over here, but
+> I've not seen anything of late: What's the score, please?
+
+       Still working at it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-May-96 23:07:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Rage's Thot's:WWE, #1>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's been established that there have been previous riots on
+Mars, including the food riots referenced in, I believe, the pilot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-May-96 23:18:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> This is a bit off-subject, but I was wondering: as an athiest,
+> where do you believe that life came from originally? The cell
+> theory states that all cells must come from pre-existing cells,
+> but where did the first one come from?
+
+      You tell me where god came from originally, and I'll tell you
+where that first bit of matter came from originally.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-May-96 23:18:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Imran Naqvi <100533.273@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<UK Dust 2 Dust>>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Good.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-May-96 23:18:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: michael kazalski <72357.2642@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Story Arc
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I truly appreciate that, thanks.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-May-96 23:18:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<WWE I etc.>>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I don't recall the question, but Ivanova's uniform in the flash
+forward was only 8 days ahead, so it'd be the same.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-May-96 23:18:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE, part 2>
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JUST WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN MIND, YOUNG MAN???
+
+      Escalation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21-May-96 23:18:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE-crystal formation>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Or am I just seeing things?
+
+      You're seeing things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-May-96 04:37:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan D. Brown <74407.3015@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE II>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thank you.
+
+      And stop sitting in the dark; you'll trip when you stand up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-May-96 04:47:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Cathy Holley <75204.1515@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ Cathy Holley <75204.1515@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Then if I told you that God always existed, you'd tell me that
+> matter has always existed as well?
+
+      Yup.  In one form or another, one Big Bang leading to a
+collapse, and another Big Bang...if one can say god has always existed,
+then one can equally say that perhaps the universe has always existed,
+in one form or another....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-May-96 04:47:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Screen Saver sound
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Anyone have the address?
+> At least I've got the show...well...an hour next Sunday,
+> anyway...Joe, is it October before we get the remaining episodes?
+
+      Yup...October......yikes.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-May-96 04:47:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<War Without End>>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  It was a good sendoff.  (At one point, Bruce said to me
+over lunch, with Michael sitting with us, "Hey, so how come HE gets to
+go off and become the next best thing to God and I get the crap kicked
+out of me?"  I shrugged.  "Seniority.")
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-May-96 04:47:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jerome Keating <76243.620@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE 2 Paradox>
+
+ Jerome Keating <76243.620@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I have a question - remember when Ivanona when to go meet with
+> those "old ones" and they they said to come get them when it is
+> time - well isn't now a good time???? with the shadow in the open
+> attacking many races - now would seem opportune - do you plan on
+> bringing them in the fourth season?? second question - were those
+> old ones the only ones contacted by "our heros" ??
+
+      Tentatively, they'll show up in the fourth season...and they
+will have to get some more First Ones on board.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-May-96 04:47:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<WWE I etc.>>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes.  Up until that moment, the total forces available to the
+shadows were an unknown to us...sort of like Shroedinger's Cat, is it
+alive in the box or is it dead?  It could be either one.  If they
+didn't go into the past, didn't affect the outcome, it would be one
+reality; if they did, then it'd be another.  As soon as they achieved
+one or the other of those two, the two possible results collapsed into
+the one, singular possibility.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 22-May-96 12:29:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Music Video
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       The video is something we'd like to release eventually, but
+still have to negotiate the right to do so with actors and others
+involved.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-May-96 12:29:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE II>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thank you.  I agree, in the beginning of the show, there was
+the occasional rough spot; when you're trying to do something nobody's
+really ever done before, there's a certain amount of trial and error. 
+But we learn *real* fast.
+
+       Thanks again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-May-96 12:29:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE 2> - My Head Hurts
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Have I got this right: Delenn saw John attempting to synch back
+> up so gave up her stabilizer for him; this caused her to become
+> unstuck and put her in the space suit so that Zathras could give
+> her the repaired stabilizer when she appeared later; Delenn was
+> "missing" from the time she stuck her head out of the hole until
+> Zathras gave her the stabilizer and no one noticed? How long was
+> B4 in the past before the Minbari showed up to search it? 
+> Obviously long enough for the 2 Vorlons to show up, but how long
+> was that?
+
+       Yes, you're correct about the Delenn material; she left the
+ship to do this, and not that much time had passed.  It was, in fact,
+to check on Delenn that Marcus was coming out as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-May-96 12:29:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Interludes<<
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Because it was they who took it back, at this point; if they
+didn't do it, then they wouldn't have done it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-May-96 12:29:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WWE PART ONE
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       It's not expensive per se, but it is time consuming.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-May-96 12:33:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS: Renewal? Y or N?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       We should hear in the next few weeks; we have to know by June
+10th or so in order to pick up the actors' contracts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-May-96 21:18:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <War Without End>
+
+ Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that also the case with WwE (1 and/or 2)?
+> If so, would you be able to comment on the scenes cut or is that
+> right out?
+
+      Thanks.  There were a few small bits cut out of WWE2, but at
+this late remove, I honestly can't remember what they were now.  It's
+all a blur....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-May-96 21:18:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I&E Thought
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, As painful as Adera's (sp?) death was for Londo, is it
+> likely that Londo will discover the truth about Morden's
+> involvement?
+
+      Anything's possible.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-May-96 21:18:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: US tapes vs Brit tapes?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      WB thinks there isn't a market in the US.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-May-96 21:18:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bob Hodge <74774.1747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE2 (slight spoiler)
+
+ Bob Hodge <74774.1747@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One nagging question in my mind - Has Sinclair, Delenn, and
+> Sheridan gone too far?
+
+      Thanks.  No, that's not it; you're right, it'd make the story
+'way too convoluted.  But Delenn may have made some questionable
+decisions at various points.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22-May-96 21:18:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<Time Travel Ques.>>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is the time travel that Sheridan experienced to the Centari
+> homeworld different from the time flashes experienced by
+> Garibladi, Delenn, Krantz, and others on Babylon 4? If these
+> flashes are different, then is the Sheridan of 2278(?) dead,
+> lost, or just somewhere else? Does Delenn continue on the mission
+> alone?
+
+      No, Sheridan "leapt" into his future self, hence the difference
+in wardrobe and appearance.  Londo wasn't suprised to see him.  If you
+recall the Centauri guard when we first arrive in the Palace, he says,
+"I think he's awake again, would you like to see?"  The implication
+being that he's been beaten into unconsciousness, hence Londo's line,
+"Welcome back from the abyss."  It was at that moment of
+unconsciousness that he "slid" into his future self.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 02:11:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Cathy Holley <75204.1515@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+ Cathy Holley <75204.1515@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If you saw a house in a forest, full of furniture, but made
+> entirely of foresty stuff, would you conclude that the house
+> formed on it's own? without a designer?
+
+      Yes, I've heard the "looking at a house" notion...and I've also
+noted the Rohrscharch test, in which you look at random drawings, and
+the human mind, which seeks out patterns, takes that which has no
+meaning and puts a meaning onto it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 02:20:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: US tapes vs Brit tapes?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Joe, to which WB "suit" may we write a letter expressing our
+> desires for B5 tapes?
+
+      Won't work.  They're immobile.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 02:21:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<War Without End>>
+
+ Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was the white ray (or whatever) in WWE1related to the being that
+> got inside Sheridan during "Knives," or was it just the effect of
+> blowing up a fusion reactor?
+
+      No, that was just the result of the blast.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 02:21:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE-crystal formation>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> My first thought was "What is that, a Vorlon temple or embassy or
+> something?" Is that because he's been around Vorlon's too long or
+> Ranger One too long?
+
+      After a while, you get used to that from Vorlons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 02:21:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Frank J <104464.2504@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<WWE2 - Spoilers & ? >>
+
+ Frank J <104464.2504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is WWE2 what you were referring to?
+
+      No, when you see a LOT of vorlons together, that's when it's
+time to run like hell.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 02:21:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>WWE: I and II<<
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was that a Minbari in _shorts_ in the opening scenes of Minbar!?!
+> Where was Sinclair all those 900 years between his existence as
+> Valen and his birth as Jeffrey David Sinclair? Or was he nowhere,
+> existing only at the closing and opening of the loop, being born
+> in the future and dying in the past? When Zathras said he was 110
+> years old, was that human years or his own race's years?
+
+      No, I don't believe anyone on Minbar was wearing shorts.  It's
+not the season for that.
+
+      As for Valen, he died about 900 years ago, our time.  He lived
+to be well over a hundred years old.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 02:21:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 renewed?
+
+ Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When are we going to be put out of our misery and be told that B5
+> has been renewed for a fourth season?
+
+      We should know soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 13:50:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruno Melancon <102647.3222@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE II>
+
+ Bruno Melancon <102647.3222@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How will you surprise us with the resolution of the Shadow War
+> since we already know we will win?
+
+       It's a literary...I hate to say the word trick, but it's the
+most descriptive.  You show somebody the end right off the bat, as we
+did with the Londo/G'Kar scene.  But how do we get there?  What
+happens?  Yes, the war is eventually won...but what *was* the price? 
+And what does it mean to everyone involved?
+
+       The best magic is when it's right there in your face, and you
+can't see how it's being done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 13:50:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joe an atheist?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Ah, but physics is now postulating that there's not just one
+big bang, but there have been numerous ones...perhaps an infinite
+number of them, as the universe collapses, then bangs, collapses, then
+bangs.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 13:50:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<WWE 2>>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 13:50:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE2>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       What happens with the future of Londo and G'Kar...is what you
+see. Course, how they got there is the meat of the story.
+
+       And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 14:02:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Encounter (UK Con)
+
+ Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where did you hear this?
+> Anyone out there heard anything?
+
+       Actually, B5 is being shown *right now* in widescreen in France
+and Portugal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 14:02:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Some thots on <<WWE2>>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> 1) How long has Lennier known Sinclair was Valen?
+> Why else would the Minbari reject everyone for commander of B5
+> until they got to Sinclair? Did Ivanova make the connection, too?
+> What about the other Minbari on the bridge -- was this a
+> revelation for them as well? Now that they know who Valen really
+> was, how will they react to Minbari who revere him as a religious
+> figure? Will they tell Garibaldi?
+> Will he freak out?
+> 4) Didn't ya just love the stuff between Sinclair and
+> Delenn????!!!!??? is she Sheridan's and Delenn's daughter?
+> Why, oh why did I mail all my first season tapes to Oklahoma two
+> weeks ago? 7) So now can we say, "In Sinclair's Name?"
+> instead of "In Valen's Name," as an oath?
+> 8) So, do ya think one of those Vorlons was Kosh?
+> And, ohmygosh, is Kosh *actually* Valeria?
+> Did they appear to him, or did he call them somehow?) And does
+> Sincalir know that Kosh was killed? SO where do we go from here?
+
+       To your question, yes, the scenes with Zathras pinned under the
+strut were the same scenes from B2, we didn't reshoot that material.
+
+       The hardest shot was matching the lighting and composition in
+the central corridor *exactly* for the Ivanova-on-the-link scene, and
+the walk by seconds later by Garibaldi and Sinclair.  That came out
+pretty seamless.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 14:10:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Attn: JMS, Continuity
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       The leather strip was also present when we shot the original,
+Babylon Squared, in year one.  I was kinda thinking at the time that
+the change was gradually being introduced in various divisions of
+Earthforce.  Krantz is from the Marines division, I believe (note the
+brown uniform), from that part which functions sort of like the Army
+Corps of Engineers, overseeing the building of space stations and the
+like.  Since it takes time to introduce a uniform change across
+divisions and light years, I figured some might have them earlier than
+others, or to try them out.  So I gave Krantz the leather strip.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 14:10:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: I beg forvigeness
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Welcome to the party....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 17:33:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE 2> - My Head Hurts
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> BTW, did the photos of Rick and Pat in Marcon's Klingon jail
+> arrive?
+
+       Yes, I got the photos, thanks...they're going to go up on the
+stage wall asap.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 17:33:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<War Without End>>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       If nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve, if
+deified I will not transmute....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 17:33:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Linda B. Donahue <104574.621@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sinclair's Scar & More
+
+ Linda B. Donahue <104574.621@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where did Sinclair's scar come from in WwE?
+> Is it a Sinclair scar, or an O'Hare scar?
+> Was this because he had a feeling he knew Sinclair's destiny...or
+> did he just have gas?
+
+       The scar came during ranger training.
+
+       Marcus's look came because he overheard the Minbari-language
+part of the discussion, and knew something was up.  It made him more
+watchful of Sinclair, which pays off in WWE2.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 22:28:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE II>
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The fact that the woman seemed to have a passkey to Sheridan's
+> quarters makes me wonder...and I would love to see the surprise
+> on folks' faces if it turned out to be Catherine Sakai...but
+> that's not likely, is it? Any thoughts on this?
+> I was rather pleased to see how Marcus reacted to Sinclair's
+> decision to go back to the past and become the leader of the
+> Minbari, and I loved seeing the actual scene with the Minbari
+> "Valen" encounter the 1,000 years ago Minbari, but couldn't help
+> but notice that we didn't get to see Kosh...or perhaps one of the
+> Vorlons there was Kosh? Other than the destruction of B5 by the
+> Shadows and the visions from Ladira that we saw in "Signs and
+> Portents," how many of these visions actually portrayed the
+> future that we will actually see? Were these actual future
+> occurrences, or were they more "what might be"s (as Ladira called
+> them in "SaP")?
+
+      Re: the Chrysalis device...it came from Epsilon 3.  There was
+one shot that should've been made more of, where we see a long box with
+a silver triangle on one side being set up, and left.  Unfortunately,
+the shot didn't make much of it (you can see Zathras putting it out
+there), and a later shot we dropped showing it again because it wasn't
+properly featured and you couldn't really tell what it was.  There was
+so much in this episode that had to be pulled off, in a short amount of
+time, that sometimes things in the background don't get framed as they
+might be.  But that's where it came from: from Epsilon 3 to Sinclair to
+Delenn, who still has it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 22:28:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE II>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, the pleasure is all mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 22:28:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 renewed?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      As of now, all that can be done has pretty much been done and
+it's all in the hands of the stations and WB.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 22:29:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Keffer and Corwin
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What's the point in having Corwin and the ex-Keffer as
+> characters? basically useless characters that moves the story
+> along and dies at the end?
+
+      Not at all.  Yes, a character dies...after a season of getting
+to know him.  To say, "Well, you just put in a character to kill him,"
+and citing red shirts, is really...well, a red herring and a
+distortion.  A redshirt, by definition, was usually a security guard
+who was introduced in the same episode in which he was killed, we knew
+*nothing* about him, he had maybe 2 minutes of screen time, maybe a
+word ("look out!", and then he was dead.
+
+      By the definition you apply, anyone who dies in a novel is a
+redshirt, since the author knew he was going to be killed off.  If you
+do a novel about the Civil War, and Lincoln dies halfway through, is
+that a redshirt?  Many of the characters in The Stand don't make it to
+the end...are they redshirts?
+
+      I hate to break it to you, but *everybody* dies sooner or later.
+For the purposes of this show, some die on camera, some die off, some
+die during the story, some die afterward.
+
+      Nor was Keffer's character useless; through him, we got to see
+the Starfury pilots and learn more about them, we got our first close
+look at the shadows, we met the Gropos, and the primary incident that
+began to unravel the whole thing -- Keffer's gun camera footage -- came
+about.
+
+      And Corwin's character is still very much alive, and useful in
+the story, so that kinda disqualifies *that*.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 22:29:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Linda B. Donahue <104574.621@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sinclair's Scar & More
+
+ Linda B. Donahue <104574.621@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How did he get so...Vorlon-like in such a short period of time?
+
+      He was kinda Zen when he left, frankly...and two years living
+among Minbari, learning their language, learning to think the way they
+do, learning the whole history of the shadow war...that can have a
+pretty profound effect on you.  It obviously wasn't all hanging around
+the Hyatt Minbar and watching reruns of I Love Lennier for two
+years....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23-May-96 22:29:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WWE Part 2
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, and I like your explanation/rationale for the small
+differences. Works for me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-May-96 00:15:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Story Arc
+
+ Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In real life, the most difficult decisions we make are what house
+> to buy in which town in which neighborhood, or what car do we
+> want to get, or should I leave my current job and get another,
+> maybe better one? Sometimes, we make extremely crucial
+> decisions--there's a war on--should I enlist? It makes me wonder,
+> though, that if Ivanova is a latent telepath, even only a P-1,
+> would she sense the Shadows near Morden? Will you be bringing
+> Talia back at some point in the future?
+
+      Thanks; no plans for Talia for the time being.
+
+      I agree with much of what you said.  The unexamined life is a
+real peril, and literature at its best can help us to avoid that trap
+by asking uncomfortable questions.
+
+      I actually tend to think that the day-to-day questions can be
+more central, more profound, than where to buy a house.  Do you tell
+your friend that his/her spouse is having an affair?  Do you intervene
+when you see someone on the street being mugged?  Do you have an
+abortion?  Do you sacrifice buying the boat you always wanted so you
+can put your kid through college?
+
+      At some point in our lives, we have to make a baseline decision
+about whether our actions will be ethical, or convenient; do we do
+right, or do we do wrong?  Some may seem like small or unimportant
+decisions, but each one made for the wrong reasons makes it easier for
+the next bad decision to slip through.
+
+      Politicians tell us that we can find lives in which courage and
+hard decisions are not necessary.
+
+      They are, of course, lying.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-May-96 00:15:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE II>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  Actually, I seem to recall, after that Londo/G'Kar
+scene was shown the last time, posting somewhere that folks now knew
+*what* has happened, but they don't yet know the *context*.  Very few
+picked up on that and thought to actually reverse what they *thought*
+they were seeing to what they *might* be seeing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-May-96 00:15:26
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE II Spoiler / Quest>
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Coincidence that the son of Delenn and Sheridan is named
+> David, Sinclair's middle name? some of our own religious figures
+> seem to vanish rather than die according to biblical stories...)? 
+> 4) On a lighter note, what brought Cousin Brucie to the Show?
+
+      Cousin Brucie was a fan of the show and wanted to do it.
+
+      Correct, Sheridan wouldn't know anything of what happened after
+he blipped out of that future situation.
+
+      As for David, remember that Sheridan's father is also David.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-May-96 02:08:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 renewed?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Are we there yet?
+> Are we there yet?
+> Are we there yet?
+
+      Keep that up, young lady, and we'll turn this car *right* around
+and go home.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-May-96 02:08:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ben Roberto <71203.1514@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Time Stabilizer Thingy>
+
+ Ben Roberto <71203.1514@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) In "Babylon Squared" after Zathras hands The One 'a' time
+> stabilizer, which one was it? His or the repaired one?
+> Did he lie to them?
+> What did I miss?
+> Or was it the whole device?
+
+      Sheridan's stabalizer basically broke into two major pieces, the
+front section which fell off in the White Star, and the back half which
+was still clipped to his belt, and later came off as Zathras watched.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-May-96 19:21:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: TIMOTHY R. GREEN <73023.143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE2 Great Job!>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and I'd love to someday tell the story of Valen and
+Zathras in the most recent shadow war.  It's quite a tale, actually....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-May-96 19:21:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Encounter (UK Con)
+
+ Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know whether Channel 4 here in the UK have acquired the
+> Widescreen versions or not ?
+
+      I don't believe the UK has acquired the widescreen versions, no,
+otherwise they'd be playing them currently, as is the case in France
+and Portugal.  What happens after the current run, I don't know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-May-96 19:21:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS: Eps for Newbies?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+Pilot Movie (tell them it gets better) Midnight on the Firing Line
+Sky Full of Stars A Race Through Dark Places Believers Babylon Squared
+A Voice in the Wilderness 1 and 2 Signs and Portents Chrysalis
+Points of Departure Revelations All Alone in the Night The Coming of
+Shadows Hunter, Prey The Long Twilight Struggle Comes the Inquisitor
+Divided Loyalties Confessions and Lamentations The Fall of Night
+Matters of Honor Convictions Dust to Dust Ship of Tears Interludes and
+Examinations War Without End 1 and 2
+
+      If that doesn't do it, nothing will.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-May-96 19:21:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE II>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, it's a nifty little scene.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-May-96 19:21:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>WWE: I and II<<
+
+ David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So total human years + mimbari years not counting accidental
+> aging = well over a hundred years? Or did he live over a hundred
+> years as a mimbari?
+
+      He lived close to a hundred years as a Minbari; they're a long
+lived race, and they did all they could to maintain his health as one
+of their truly great figures.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-May-96 19:21:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian P. Delaney <103640.3511@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Some thots on <<WWE2>>
+
+ Brian P. Delaney <103640.3511@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If 1 in 10000?
+> telepaths could move a penny and she was "upgraded" so far that
+> she could EMBED one into a wall I think you had big plans for her
+> that didn't work out??
+
+      The Talia situation likely could've been finessed more smoothly
+than it was, no mistake.  Sometimes there are going to be ragged spots.
+It's going to happen.
+
+      Here's the best comparison to what my position is with this
+show: Harlan Ellison has, on occasion, done this routine where he'll go
+into a bookstore and write a story in full view of everyone.  As each
+page is finished, it's taped to the wall unti it's done.  This is
+considered a pretty nifty trick, sustained over maybe 15-20 pages.
+
+      That's pretty much what I'm doing here.  It's an ongoing story. 
+I can't go back, I can only go forward.  As each page (episode) is
+finished, it's put up on the wall, and I have to go on to the next one.
+So far I've written 2,400 pages on that wall.  Again, I can't go back
+and change anything, and if there's a bump caused by a real world
+incident, it simply has to be accommodated as best I can while still
+going where I have to go.
+
+      From time to time, there's going to be a misstroke on the
+keyboard, or there's going to be a typo that I'll miss.  That's
+inevitable when you're out performing in front of a massive crowd on
+the high wire without a net.  As long as the totality of it all hangs
+together, as long as the story is told, the trick finally done...then
+that's what fundamentally matters.
+
+      That this happens on occasion should be obvious; that it happens
+as rarely as it does is the point of wonderment, I think.  Remember,
+it's all trial and error, because no one's ever done this before.  And
+right about now I understand why.  But we're making it work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-May-96 19:22:02
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Sinclair's Scar & More
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Sakai certainly wouldn't have wanted to get tied down to life on
+Minbar, and Sinclair knew that his life would be difficult now with the
+rangers, so they parted ways.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-May-96 19:22:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Keffer and Corwin
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> I meant is he just another "unimportant" character that's going
+> to get killed off in the end?
+
+      But see, not every story has to be about the Important People. 
+We've got that in our nominal "heroes."  What tends to get omitted from
+SF are the grunts and the blue collar guys, the pilots who have to fly
+the missions called on by the Big Guys.  To say "are they important"
+is, I think, really a question that proceeds from a skewed perspective.
+Are *you* important to the overall arc of this nation, the history of
+this country?  Am I?  Probably not; I'll never sign a constitution or
+discover radium or walk on the moon, I just write stories for phosphor
+dot screens; can there be anything more ephemeral? But the
+repercussions of history are written on the faces and the lives of 
+those who *can't* change it, who have to live with the decisions made
+by those above.  Showing those people is as valid as anything else.
+
+      It ain't just the heroes that make the future, Edwin.  It's the
+carpenters and the plumbers and the dockworkers we showed in the first
+season. Now, you may think they're unimportant.  I don't.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-May-96 19:22:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE 2> - My Head Hurts
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How long before Rick and Pat will see them?
+> Mid-summer assuming renewal?
+> Or did you call them up and brag that you had them?
+
+      I think I'll just have them discover that they're there....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-May-96 19:22:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE2>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm not sure if they're the bookends; everyone's part of this to
+one degree or another.  And yes, magazines arrived safely, thanks
+again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-May-96 19:22:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All
+Subject: B5 in Millimeter Mag.
+
+For those who want a really good picture of how we do this show, and
+how we're ahead of the technology curve, making a bit of history with
+how we do things here, this month's MILLIMETER MAGAZINE has a cover
+story on B5's production methods.  (It's *the* trade magazine for tv
+and film production.) If your local bookstore doesn't carry it, the
+library might.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-May-96 22:04:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE <<Major Spoiler>>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Oddly enough, there was a squib on the news the other day that
+indicated scientists were able, albeit briefly, to have the same
+subatomic particle exist in two separate places at the same time, much
+to everyone's consternation.  (They don't think something like a person
+could do it, in that we are too "quantum mechanically complex.")
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24-May-96 22:04:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: <David L. Gold> <73177.1161@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sinclair's Scar & More
+
+ <David L. Gold> <73177.1161@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did it *really* come during Ranger training, or was the scar
+> *supposed* to have been inflicted by Kosh ( as we saw happen to
+> Sheridan )? Had Michael remained on the series to the present day,
+> would _that_ have been the original reason for the scar on
+> Sinclair?
+
+      No, because you'll note that Sheridan isn't scarred by it.  No,
+you have to remember that one doesn't just transplant one storyline
+onto another.  It doesn't work that way.  Sinclair has his arc,
+Sheridan has his own.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 25-May-96 02:16:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: White Star Question
+
+ Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When will Garibaldi ever get to see the inside of the ship?
+> Will either the Minbari crew learn English or Sheridan/Ivanova
+> learn Minbari anytime soon? Any plans?
+
+      I'm sure Garibaldi will eventually end up on the White Star; and
+the Minbari will also probably begin slowly acquiring English, and vice
+versa.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-May-96 02:16:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<WWE I etc.>>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well, if the Minbari had records of B4's visual look, given that
+the Shadows are advanced, would they not also have the potential to
+recognize it for what it was once it was nearing completion from their
+own records?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-May-96 02:16:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jim De Vico <72662.2765@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE2>
+
+ Jim De Vico <72662.2765@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What will you be tying up then?
+> Something else that this brings to mind is how many others in
+> your field want to tell a story this way, yet can't because they
+> don't have the gumption?
+
+      Thanks (and I loved Watchmen myself).  It's certainly my hope
+that our success with this will encourage others to follow in our
+footsteps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-May-96 02:16:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Julia E. Linthicum <73114.3530@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<War Without End 1&2>>
+
+ Julia E. Linthicum <73114.3530@compuserve.com> asks:
+> why does the image of Tennyson's Ulysses (Sinclair's favorite,
+> but equally appropriate to this commander too) growing old and
+> grey watching his friends and enemies disappear flash through my
+> mind? BTW, one quick question, what does the honorific used by
+> Marcus and Rathenn to Sinclair mean? And, were my eyes deceiving
+> me, or were those two Vorlons au naturel hovering over Valen?
+
+      In a way, this question touches on the issue that got raised in
+another thread here, about who's the "important" character.  We all
+have the potential for importance, if we choose to exercise it, and
+recognize the necessity of personal commitment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-May-96 02:27:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE2>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, Londo does not currently have a Keeper attached to him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-May-96 02:27:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jon Wolf <76103.2541@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE2>
+
+ Jon Wolf <76103.2541@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you now tell us what that one element was?
+
+      The element I couldn't quite fit into War....
+
+      In B2, Krantz says they found Zathras when there was a flash,
+and he appeared in a conference room.
+
+      Now, I sketched out that scene when it came time to actually
+write the whole WWE two-parter.  What happened, basically, was that
+Zathras was passing by a room where he saw the one piece he still
+needed to finish his repairs on the time stabalizer.  He slips in, as
+best he can, unnoticed...the meeting goes on as he goes under a table
+to get the piece of equipment...he finishes just as there's another
+time-flash...as it ends, momentarily disoriented, he's discovered, and
+captured.
+
+      This would've matched what was in B2, as I'd intended. 
+Unfortunately, it added several minutes of screen time that I couldn't
+afford.  I would've had to cut something somewhere else, and that
+script was so tight it screamed as it was.  So I had to fudge how I did
+that and let the small inconsistency go.  The only other thing I
+could've cut, the one moveable piece, was Sinclair trying to radio
+Garibaldi at the end...and I didn't want to lose that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-May-96 20:21:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Edward Sykes <101632.3501@compuserve.com>
+Subject: US tapes vs Brit tapes?
+
+ Edward Sykes <101632.3501@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Surely though you have Star Trek videos over there in the US?
+
+      Yes, that would be reasonable; what that has to do with how WB
+home video works is beyond me....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-May-96 20:21:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS: Eps for Newbies?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I thought you were supposed to be quarantined?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-May-96 20:21:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE, part 2>
+
+ Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why do I feel we're starting up another roller coaster hill and
+> this one's bigger than the one we just came screaming down? But,
+> October?
+
+      Thank you.  Yeah, the critics have been...well, unfair doesn't
+quite seem to describe it.  Some of these reviewers are to legitimate
+criticism as Auchwitz is to health spas.  Still, some of them have
+actually begun to turn around.  They just totally dismissed us from all
+serious consideration right from the start, some because we were SF,
+some because we weren't ST.
+
+      There's an old saying on Broadway theater: "Nobody but the
+audience loved it."  And that's what counts.
+
+      As far as the last five are concerned...they're an interesting
+and mixed bag.  The first two are almost, but not quite stand-alones,
+each has a couple/three stories going on, and one of each tends to lean
+toward the arc. But the last three are seriously hardass.  They bring
+you right to the edge, and you can see it coming quite clearly...then
+drop you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-May-96 20:21:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: <David L. Gold> <73177.1161@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sinclair's Scar & More
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      David, you can say "it seems to me," but I'm telling you it
+wasn't, not in relation to the scar.  And Sheridan wasn't a "backup"
+for Sinclair, he was brought in specifically because I needed somene
+who could and would do things in a different way, and had a different
+arc.  If it was going to track 1-to-1 you wouldn't *need* a new
+character.
+
+      And the swipe Kosh took at Sheridan wouldn't be *nearly* enough
+to cause a huge scar like that.
+
+      You're connecting two unconnected incidents.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-May-96 20:21:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Third Age>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Joe, is David the Third Age Of Mankind?
+
+      Not as such.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-May-96 20:21:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <War w/o End>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Wow, thanks.  Great comments on it all.  Makes doing it
+worthwhile.
+
+      Re: vacation...I wish.  We're still doing post production, still
+editing, mixing, spotting for music and sound...it's a long process
+that will take us right through the prep time for year four, assuming
+renewal.  I can grab a day here or there, that's about it.  And even
+while awaiting word, I still have to begin working on year four
+scripts.  (The tentative title for the first episode of year four is
+"The Hour of the Wolf.")
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25-May-96 20:21:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gail Marsella <71551.3200@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <War w/o End II>
+
+ Gail Marsella <71551.3200@compuserve.com> asks:
+> These warm fuzzies of Delenn and Sheridan sleeping peacefully
+> together and having a child and winning the war and loving each
+> other for decades...JUST WHAT PRICE DO THEY PAY FOR ALL THIS??? 
+> Why do I get the impression it's going to be way too high?
+
+      Depends on how you define "too high" a price.
+
+      Oh, and yes...better stock up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 26-May-96 02:08:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: White Star Question
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, Garibaldi has a big role in "Grey 17 Is Missing."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 02:08:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Linda B. Donahue <104574.621@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sinclair's Scar & More
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Extremely well said.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 14:36:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <"War" and Delenn>
+
+ Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When Delenn is in the center chair on the White Star as Sheridan
+> is lost for the second time, what causes her to go down into the
+> station at *exactly* the right moment to see and "rescue"
+> Sheridan? Was it in her letter?
+
+      Mainly just a feeling she had, best to check everything out for
+herself, make sure things were going properly, since they were getting
+right down to the wire.  Also, in case Ivanova got into trouble trying
+to get into C&C, she wanted to be closer to the situation to help, if
+necessary.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 14:36:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Great Show !
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, much appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 14:36:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Babylon designs>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  No, the first 3 Babylon stations never got much past
+the very earliest stages of construction, just some hull elements, that
+sort of thing, nothing that could be recognized.  Other forces took
+them out, mainly for political reasons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 14:36:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE <<Major Spoiler>>
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Well, physics was not one of my strong suits, but I have to
+> wonder if it is more a question of the limitations of our current
+> timing or photograpy equipment? How did they "prove" both existed
+> simultaneously?
+
+       I dunno, but I'm *reasonably* sure there was math involved.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 14:36:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: <David L. Gold> <73177.1161@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sinclair's Scar & More
+
+ <David L. Gold> <73177.1161@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Perhaps it should have been called "B4, And After" ?
+
+      Wasn't offended, just trying to be clear.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 14:36:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: A. Ellis <74542.2467@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE2>
+
+ A. Ellis <74542.2467@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Please explain one minor thing I've missed: What does Sinclair
+> mean by asking Delenn whether SHE is "airtight?"
+
+      It wasn't "airtight," it was "alright," which SHOULD have been
+"all right," but the person writing the caption got it wrong.
+
+      And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 14:36:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <War w/o End>
+
+ Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com> asks:
+> By the by, I have been wondering, now that the War room is a full
+> time operation, are their others in the command staff to spell
+> Sheridan, Ivonova, and Delenn?
+
+      Yes, the war room would have to have support personnel there
+when the big guys are off having fun or sleeping.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 14:36:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<WWE2-Vorlons?>>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      They'd recognize them from legends of their own past, yes.  But
+bear in mind that the Minbari and Vorlons had already been working
+together in the war effort.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 14:36:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Linda B. Donahue <104574.621@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vorlons vs. Shadows
+
+ Linda B. Donahue <104574.621@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What does that mean?
+> Are they of the same fabric?
+> The same DNA?
+> Are we going to learn more about the Vorlons?
+> And are we going to find out more about who the Shadows are, and
+> what it is that they want? And how do humans tie into this (since
+> humans have a great destiny)? Any word on renewal yet?
+
+      Thanks.  For now, I'll just say that you'll learn a LOT more
+about the shadows, and their relations to the Vorlons, by the end of
+the third season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 14:36:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All
+Subject: How Time Flies
+
+      I've been going over my notes on the show, and just thought I'd
+pass this along to the newer folks to show just how long this show has
+been in the works.  In looking it all over, I'm already kind of
+astonished at how large a chunk of my life this thing has consumed
+already.
+
+      1986: Babylon 5 is thunk up.
+
+      1987: Pilot screenplay and series treatment written, artwork
+commissioned.
+
+      1987-1991: Five years wandering in the desert of studios and
+networks, trying to sell B5.
+
+      June 1991: We place Babylon 5 with PTEN.
+
+      October 1991: B5 announced to the world.
+
+      August 1992: Filming begins on B5 pilot movie.
+
+      September 1992: Filming completed on B5 pilot, post production
+starts.
+
+      February 1993: Pilot airs.
+
+      February 1994: First season begins airing.
+
+      It's odd sometimes to consider that though this is the 3rd
+season of Babylon 5, it's been a part of my life for 10 years, about
+25% of my life; trying to sell it, selling it, making it.  And this
+month marks about 5 years since we placed it with PTEN.
+
+      Jeez, but that's a long haul....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 19:52:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Encounter (UK Con)
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, not likely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 19:52:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan L. Ravitch <73627.3126@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE2-Cousin Bruce Morrow
+
+ Alan L. Ravitch <73627.3126@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just out of curiousity...was there something special (like you
+> know, a "celebrity request" for a part cause they like the show,
+> and/or what were the circumstances that led to East Coast Radio
+> Legend Cousin Bruce Morrow's part in WWE2?
+
+      Thanks.  No, basically, he just kinda wanted to do it, and we
+said sure.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 19:52:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mira's words on JMS/B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      That's great, she's very generous.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 19:52:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<War Without End>>
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How about that line as a promo?
+
+      Warners'd never use it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 19:52:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE II - YES!>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Nope.
+
+      Minbari *do* have more than one ceremony, after all....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 19:52:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <War w/o End>
+
+ Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have a tentative title for season 4 yet, or is that
+> classified, either for spoiler purposes or until we're sure there
+> will be a season 4?
+
+      I generally hold back on the overall title until we're deeper
+into it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 19:52:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <War w/o End II>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is Zathras the "man in the middle" from Sheridan's dream?
+
+      No, Zathras isn't the man in the middle.  Someone else is.  And
+it isn't/wasn't Sinclair, either.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 19:52:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE 1&2>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and thanks again a second time for giving me a GREAT
+reason for, er, *deliberately* making those little mistakes...yes,
+that's right, I had to think about not causing the end of the universe,
+after all...writer have great responsibility, yes, thinking great
+thoughts, Zathras knows what he is doing...are you going to finish
+those fries?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 19:52:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Sinclair/Sheridan?>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I believe it was G'Kar who commented on the notion that he was
+both reassured and frightened by the knowledge that there were
+mysteries out there that could never be adequately explained, and that
+they shouldn't be, in order that there might still be mystery in the
+universe.
+
+      File this reply under that heading.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 21:09:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: How many Centauri......
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, variations on that joke were told at a number of
+conventions; it's the obvious one to go for, given that for a while the
+"how many X does it take to change a lightbulb?" question was racing
+all around the nets. There were literally hundreds of them; of which,
+this or a variation on it was the most common one floating around...so
+I let it go in as a nod to the nets.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 21:09:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The *other* story...?
+
+ Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it the Valen/Zathras story or is it the David/Future story or
+> is it something else entirely? Or is this something you'd rather
+> not answer yet?
+
+      Rather not answer yet.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 21:10:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Sinclair's Scar & More
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The secret of writing: get your character up a tree and throw
+rocks at him.
+
+      I throw big rocks.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 21:10:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: <David L. Gold> <73177.1161@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE2>
+
+ <David L. Gold> <73177.1161@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Kinda curious here, but since the show is closed captioned -
+> would those lines have been included in the closed captioning? And
+> if it was, did *they* get the spelling right?
+
+      No, doubt they were captioned.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 21:10:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE2>
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And as for the little "keepers", are they a going-away present
+> from the Shadows, or are they ANOTHER item with which we must
+> concern ourselves?
+
+      You needn't concern yourself with the keeper...for a while yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 21:10:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <War...Part 2>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Good analysis, as usual.  The thematic elements are often
+overlooked.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26-May-96 21:10:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE2>Bets&other stuff
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Would you mind settling a bet for me?
+> Since she's willing to stake $5 on this, and I'm desperatleing
+> need of cash, I figured who better to ask than the Great Maker
+> himself...?
+
+      It's the exact same chrysalis device in both episodes.
+
+      And you win the bet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 26-May-96 23:24:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <War w/o End II>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Do we have enough information to figure this out yet, or are
+> there more clues on the way?
+
+      No, you don't have all the info yet.  But you will by the
+season's end.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 20:25:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Penguins Attack!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      We're keeping that information on ice for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 20:25:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: D.N. Cid (UK) <101647.250@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Character Casting
+
+ D.N. Cid (UK) <101647.250@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering if this was indeed intentional?
+
+      Thanks.  Yes, we do try and cast from a variety of backgrounds,
+and allow for different accents and the like.  We haven't done as much
+as I'd like, I think we did more in season 3 than in 2, but I still
+think we can do more of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 20:25:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com>
+Subject: MacUser mention
+
+ John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance of modifying the rerun schedule to slip in a rerun of
+> Babylon Squared so we can rewatch it with recent revelations in
+> mind?
+
+      Alas, I have zip influence over airing schedules.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 20:25:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE, part 2>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> You gonna be ready to reedit the show in 20 years ala Star Wars?
+
+      I'm still working on doing it, now to even think about re-doing
+it is more than my poor brain can handle....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 20:25:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<WWE2 - Spoilers & ? >>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks for all that, it's much appreciated.  And don't worry
+about "running off at the mouth."  If folks around here can stand me,
+then can put up with just about anybody.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 20:25:49
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Some thots on <<WWE2>>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> You mean you're actually human?
+
+      Unless you've heard something....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 20:25:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE2>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> When will I no longer be confused?
+
+      Well, the reason Delenn dropped the globe will be gone into by
+the end of the season; as for "when will (you) no longer be confused?"
+that's rather outside my purview.  Have you considered meditation?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 20:25:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <War w/o End>
+
+ Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we see any of them or at least hear mention of them?
+
+      Well, you see them every time you go into the set.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 20:25:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<WWE 2 Time Flashes>>
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What caused Delenn's time flash?
+> Also, are we to assume Sheridan didn't have any other
+> "interesting" flashes before Delenn gave him the stabilizer?
+
+      Throughout the episode, whenever there's a tachyon burst, pretty
+much everyone has a timeflash of one sort or another (as also mentioned
+in Babylon Squared).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 21:10:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Attn: JMS, Continuity
+
+ Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And did we ever hear anything about the B4 crew that was
+> evacuated?
+
+      Yeah, I know about the sleeve...and actually she didn't touch
+him in WWE2.  It was one of those days when it was a hideous production
+schedule, and I wasn't on set, and it slipped by everybody else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 21:10:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE2-Cousin Bruce Morrow
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and always feel free to join in.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 21:10:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gillian M. Nicholls <104565.3115@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mira's words on JMS/B5
+
+ Gillian M. Nicholls <104565.3115@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS: Just out of curiosity, where is Mira Furlan from?
+> Is it likely Babylon 5 will be back for another season?
+
+      Mira's from Yugoslavia...and no word yet on renewal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 21:10:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: TIMOTHY R. GREEN <73023.143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: How Time Flies
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Oddly enough, the suits (studio execs) have basically come to
+trust us to do this right...and that's hard won.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 21:10:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: How Time Flies
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  That was the one thing I just didn't want to do,
+disappoint the fans, as I'd been disappointed so many times *as* a fan.
+We'll never be perfect, however much I try, there will always be
+glitches, and more glitches, and sons of glitches, but we always work
+to make it as good as humanly possible.  It's certainly the story I
+always wanted to see, and hope that others feel the same.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 21:10:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 RENEWED? YES? YES!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, the information is *not* true, and I sent Steve a note about
+this. The meeting to renew/not renew B5 hasn't happened yet, though
+it'll be happening shortly.  Some individual stations have signed on,
+but that isn't the same thing as renewal, since WB will make its
+decision based on the final number of stations that do sign on, vs.
+those that don't, or those that put it in an unworkable timeslot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 21:10:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Drop-Jawed with Delight
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and I'm happy to be here.  Just part of the service....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 21:10:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: First season question
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Delenn had intended to tell Sinclair much about the soul issue
+before entering the chrysalis.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 21:10:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 and station-swapping
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, any other independent station in your area can pick up B5
+if the current station stops carrying it.  This has in fact happened in
+several places where stations didn't support it, dropped it, and
+another picked it up and did much better with it.  And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 21:10:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steven K. Andeweg <72143.674@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Screen Saver
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, yeah, I use it myself, nifty stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 21:10:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Casey J. Peter <73453.2074@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE II>
+
+ Casey J. Peter <73453.2074@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any non Vorlon thoughts on that?
+
+      Thanks.  Lurker's pulled the flash because it ain't so, and I
+indicated as much to them.  Obviously they're eager, and want for good
+news to come soon, as do we all, so they can't be faulted for
+enthusiasm.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 21:10:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <War W/o End #2>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks; showing the end of a story at or near the middle is a
+literary device that's sometimes used by novelists that can be very
+effective, if used properly.  It shows you what happens, but leaves
+open *how* you got there, and what it means.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 21:10:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<Time Travel Ques.>>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> talking about time travel, was the scenes with garibaldi with
+> more hair, scenes that where taped back during the first season,
+> or where they taped now? is that true and how many episodes are
+> left of season three?
+
+      Yes, the Garibaldi scenes in part 2 were all from the first
+season; and the last 5 eps will apparently be held for October to ramp
+up the ratings for the November sweeps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 21:10:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian P. Delaney <103640.3511@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Some thots on <<WWE2>>
+
+ Brian P. Delaney <103640.3511@compuserve.com> asks:
+> master plan?
+> or just a pleasant episodic dalliance?
+
+      Good heavens, no, I wasn't offended...I guess what was coming
+out was the "tone" I really tend to hold in my own internal dialogues
+when I go over the good parts and the flaws.  You must understand that
+I'm *far* more critical of this show than anyone else could EVER be. 
+So no, good grief, there was no offense taken at all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27-May-96 21:10:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE pt2>
+
+ Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I will always go" and Kosh's "I will always be here"?
+> Also, I was wondering which way did Delenn slide (past or future)
+> and what did she experience? What warning was attempted to be
+> given to her? (maybe that was why he gave in to Sheridan, because
+> he knew it must come) Oh, I almost forgot; does Valen go on to
+> have a wife and childern in those 100 yrs? And if so where does
+> his line continue into? (maybe Delenn?
+
+      No, the two statements don't have any relationship; and Delenn's
+flash was a look forward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 28-May-96 11:45:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>WwE 2<<spoiler
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> When we see Vir pick up the symbol of the Emperor after Londo and
+> G'Kar are dead, does he already have a keeper as Londo did?
+
+       No, Vir doesn't have a keeper.  They would, of course, try to
+take care of that detail afterward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-May-96 11:45:31
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE pt2>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Were these two events connected?
+> Was the Minbari warrior caste trying to change the *past*?
+
+       No, they weren't trying to change the past, and that wouldn't
+have done it.  There are always extremists in every caste, and Minbari
+are no exception.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-May-96 11:45:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<War Without End>>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.  Lennier will be getting some more screen time shortly,
+in the next batch of episodes.  (There's some very nice stuff with him
+and both Delenn and Marcus in "Grey 17 Is Missing.")
+
+       "intellectual crack"...an interesting notion....
+
+       Thanks again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-May-96 11:45:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill MacIntosh <70275.1372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE 1 Ivanova>
+
+ Bill MacIntosh <70275.1372@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you explain this apparent inconsistency?
+> Have I (and at least one other B5 fan I have spoken with) simply
+> misunderstood Ivanova's character or are you implying that the
+> awesome might and destruction wrought by the Shadows would have
+> been enough to cause anyone to crack?
+
+       With most of their systems down, everyone around her dead,
+Sheridan dead, knowing she's about to die and there's nothing she can
+do about it, and obviously knowing full well who's out there...about to
+witness the deaths of a quarter million sentients on the station...I
+felt a bit of an outburst, a final letting go of the emotions, was not
+inappropriate for her. (Although I do think Claudia may have played it
+a bit too hysterical at times; separate the lines from the performance
+and look at it again.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-May-96 11:45:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 RENEWED? YES? YES!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Screw 'em.  We've been declared dead more times than Lazarus.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-May-96 11:45:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan Kaiser <76003.1050@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Story Arc
+
+ Alan Kaiser <76003.1050@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) When will we learn who Delenn saw in her flashfoward/flashback
+> (which?) when the door opens? 2) The reception here was not that
+> good...did the two vorlons we saw have Minbari faces? Are they
+> related? 3) When will we ever learn who built the Great Machine on
+> Epsilon? Has it a greater role to play in the story?
+> 4) If WWE could have been 3 episodes, would you have done it?
+> Will you be fleshing out many of those fragments down the road or
+> leave most of it "as it stands"?
+
+       There's not much point to asking me "when are we going to learn
+who Delenn saw in her flashforward."  Or similar questions.  I will not
+throw away the impact of something happening in an episode by blowing
+it out in a message.  There have to be surprises along the way.  You'll
+see it when it happens.
+
+       No, WWE couldn't have been 3 episodes.  Yes, it had enough
+story for it, and then some, but you can't take one storyline and
+stretch it out that far.  I wouldn't have done it even if I could. 
+I'd've had to introduce a B story just to break it up a little, because
+3 hours of just a straight line one-story plot is murder.  And that
+defeats the purpose of expanding it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-May-96 16:55:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 RENEWED? YES? YES!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.  At this point, it's all in the hands of the numbers
+crunchers; if the ratings are good enough, and there are enough
+stations on board, we go; if not, not.  We should know soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-May-96 22:21:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: How Time Flies
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  At this point, all that can be done regarding season 4
+has been done, and now it's in the hands of the number crunchers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-May-96 22:21:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Larry Rosenblum <72122.1555@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE II>
+
+ Larry Rosenblum <72122.1555@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If Delenn still has it in her quarters in 2260, having used it in
+> 2258/59, from where did Zathras get it in order to bring it along
+> to Babylon 4?
+
+      From Epsilon 3.  It was on Epsilon 3, then taken into the past
+with B4, held on Minbar until Delenn got it, and still has it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-May-96 22:21:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <War W/o End #2>
+
+ Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com> asks:
+> PMJI, but around which episode will you reveal what the Shadows
+> really want and their reasons for their attacks?
+
+      Toward the end of this season is all I'll say for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-May-96 22:21:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Larry Rosenblum <72122.1555@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WwE1 & Zathras
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...I like Zathras.  He's a hoot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-May-96 22:21:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Larry Rosenblum <72122.1555@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Time Travel Ques.>>
+
+ Larry Rosenblum <72122.1555@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What happens to the consciousness of the Sheridan of the future
+> while he is being "inhabited" by the Sheridan of the past? Does
+> the Sheridan of the future remember what has gone on?
+
+      The future Sheridan would have a little memory of what happened
+during that time, but it'd be almost dreamlike, two steps removed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28-May-96 22:21:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Babylon designs>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Those aren't 3s, those are Bs in which there's a stylized 4.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-May-96 00:02:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS: Eps for Newbies?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Did you forget Severed Dreams, or was that left out on purpose?
+
+      Oops, yeah, I forgot it...I glaze over somedays....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-May-96 00:02:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Timothy C Schell <71174.2414@compuserve.com>
+Subject: How Time Flies
+
+ Timothy C Schell <71174.2414@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Knowing that you have accomplished much besides B5, I'm wondering
+> how you feel about being tagged as "Joe Straczynski, the guy who
+> created Babylon 5?"
+
+"Joe, you are already *known* for B5 and, given two more seasons and
+the repeat deal on TNT, you will only become more noticed.  Maybe this
+will change in the future, but as of 1996 when people think of you they
+will probably identify you with B5.  Knowing that you have accomplished
+much besides B5, I'm wondering how you feel about being tagged as "Joe
+Straczynski, the guy who created Babylon 5?""
+
+      It bothers me not at all.
+
+      Every writer has one seminal work for which he or she is most
+known. For Heinlein, STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND; for Herbert, DUNE; for
+Smith, the LENSMAN books; for Tolkein, LORD OF THE RINGS; for Bradbury
+THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES.  I don't put myself anywhere NEAR that
+league...I'd be doing good just to carry their pencils...but my sense
+is that even though I've done a lot of stuff prior to B5, and will
+likely do a lot more after, this is almost certainly the one work for
+which I'll be most known, and remembered.  (Which is also why I'm
+working so hard to make it right.)
+
+      Doesn't bother me at all; I'm proud and pleased to be associated
+with this show, and always will be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-May-96 00:02:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 RENEWED? YES? YES!
+
+ Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you likely to have any news for us at the 'The Encounter'
+> convention on renewal ?
+
+      Dunno, we'll see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-May-96 00:02:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 RENEWED? YES? YES!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I remain cautiously optimistic.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-May-96 00:02:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 RENEWED? YES? YES!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Forgiven, forgotten, gone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-May-96 00:02:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Scriptwriting Text
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      So there's sex, dolls, aliens, playing house...and me.
+
+      Seems about right.
+
+      BTW, when *is* the ABA?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-May-96 00:02:33
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE II>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> But you answer to that will be "wait and see", right?
+> Speaking of them, was that thingy on Londo's shoulder his
+> controller?
+
+      Yes, that was his keeper.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-May-96 00:02:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Casey J. Peter <73453.2074@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE II>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  Actually, the final demographic report just came out
+for the second quarter of 1996, and we now officially have the *best*
+demographics of ANY dramatic series in syndication, finally beating DS9
+and Baywatch.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-May-96 00:02:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <War W/o End #2>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, no Garp ending planned at this juncture.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-May-96 00:02:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <War W/o End #2>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      If you check out some of the more experimental South American
+magic realism and fantasy work, you'll find this used a bit more. 
+Also, I believe that Pratchett and Gaiman's collaboration kind of began
+at the ending (unless my memory is acting up again).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-May-96 00:02:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steve Brightman <73420.3057@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE <<Major Spoiler>>
+
+ Steve Brightman <73420.3057@compuserve.com> asks:
+> After all aren't they technically superior to the Minbari ?
+
+      Time travel isn't that easy, and at this juncture it will never
+happen again in the B5 universe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29-May-96 02:26:25
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: IT IS DONE
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The thanks are entirely mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 30-May-96 03:11:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com>
+Subject: How Time Flies
+
+ Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you think that after this anything else will be a bit of a
+> let-down? Or is that why you want to get out of TV and do
+> something different, so you won't be competing with yourself?
+
+      My sense about getting out of TV when B5 is over is that I feel
+I'd've said most of what I want to say for television.  The only things
+that could keep me in would be an anthology, or something right on the
+cutting edge, something with which we could make another kind of
+history.  But those don't tend to come around very often....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-May-96 03:11:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ken Adams <74065.751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Screen Saver
+
+ Ken Adams <74065.751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe: Is the B5 screensaver available for the MAC, and , if so,
+> how does one acquire it? 4 MONTHS?!!!?
+
+      No, as it happens, no Mac screen saver for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-May-96 03:11:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William O'Connor <75231.3643@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS:Chicago Blues Fest
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I think they've got me scheduled up the wazoo, so I think that
+will preclude any expeditions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-May-96 03:11:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan Hedge <72017.3232@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WwE1 & Zathras
+
+ Alan Hedge <72017.3232@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One question though, Zathras say Zathras oldest living keeper of
+> Great Machine (or something like that), but why Zathras not still
+> keeper? Was Zathras keeper before (forget name, Drall's
+> predecessor)? Did Zathras do something wrong so that Zathras not
+> kepper anymore? Or did Al misunderstand what Zathras meant?
+
+      No, just that Zathras has worked on the machine, and survived
+it, the longest of all the others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-May-96 03:11:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sinclair's Scar & More
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What did you guys do with our ambassador?"
+
+      Well, Minbar isn't being very receptive to Earth at the moment,
+and will probably just put them on hold...indefinitely....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-May-96 03:39:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anthony J. Bryant <71233.3035@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mira's words on JMS/B5
+
+ Anthony J. Bryant <71233.3035@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ever thought about (probably post-series) novelizing the arc
+> itself?
+
+      One crisis at a time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-May-96 03:40:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chas T Freund <75036.160@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Opening Credits SD+>>
+
+ Chas T Freund <75036.160@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So why are our hero's still wearing EA uniforms?
+
+      Because changing one picture, or a credit caption, is a *heck*
+of a lot simpler than changing 4 pictures and redoing the whole thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-May-96 03:40:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<WWE 2 Time Flashes>>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It'd be very difficult to go back now and just drop in those
+other time flashes; it's hard to work that in dramatically.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-May-96 03:40:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE 1 Ivanova>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"You hand this woman a script and say to her, "Miss C., everyone
+around you is dead and you are in command.
+        The station is falling down around you and you're in terrible
+pain, about to die by decompression or laser burns or crushing--or
+worse, you could become a Morden and be controlled by the Shadows the
+rest of your life.
+        You have no hope of rescue.
+        You may not know where you are."
+        And then you say she was a tiny bit on the hysterical side?"
+
+      Hey...from where I sit, that's just another day at the office.
+
+      Don't know many producer/writers, do you?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-May-96 03:40:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <sinclair season5?>
+
+ Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean that we will see Sinclair again?
+> Or is this just a slight alteration of the timing of various
+> sections of the ARC?
+
+      The arc is a fluid creature when she needs to be....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-May-96 03:48:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<UK Dust 2 Dust>>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      BTW, here's something to notice when you watch DTD again.  The
+montage scene with Londo and G'Kar lasts, I think, 10 maybe 12 seconds.
+But that one piece took John and me *hours* to put together.  Go
+through frame by frame, and you'll see some of those bits are only 3 or
+4 frames long (one second is 24 frames).  We were nearly blind by the
+time we were done, but it was worth it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-May-96 03:48:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: <David L. Gold> <73177.1161@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Sheridan:A Man Unstuck>
+
+ <David L. Gold> <73177.1161@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why did he appear on the Centari homeworld?
+> Why not on Earth, or Minbar, or well - deep space?
+> The Abyss of *what*?
+> The Abyss of going back in the time vortex?
+> The Abyss of deep space?
+> The Abyss of the Shadow's base on Z'ha'dum?
+> What?
+> And if he jumped to the place where his future-self was, then
+> what happened to his future-self once the present-day Sheridan
+> popped in?
+
+      Simple logic.  Sheridan slid forward in time, to wherever he was
+at that moment in the future.  He didn't just go hopping around
+aimlessly; if he flipped 10 days ahead, he'd come into his body at that
+point 10 days from now, wherever he happened to be.  At that moment, 17
+years down the road, he happened to be on Centauri Prime.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-May-96 03:48:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All
+Subject: jms on radio in LA
+
+      For those in the Los Angeles area, I'll be appearing on my old
+stomping grounds, HOUR 25, on KPFK-FM 90.7 this Friday from 10 p.m. to
+midnight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 30-May-96 12:17:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: annie <104246.3046@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Scriptwriting Text
+
+ annie <104246.3046@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Franklin be back before next year?
+
+       Franklin isn't gone from the show; he's in the very next
+episode, in a major way, and has a big part in "Shadow Dancing."  He
+just has a lot to work out right now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-May-96 12:17:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WWE pt2>
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Would stating who said hello to Delenn in her flash-forward
+> be too much of a spoiler?
+
+       Absolutely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-May-96 12:17:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Just curious...
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       What an interesting question....
+
+       I don't think it *has* affected me, but that's my my subjective
+point of view, and that's a self-serving analysis, so let's start from
+the assumption that that may be flawed, and proceed from there.
+
+       Main reason I think it hasn't affected or changed me is that I
+haven't had *time* for it.  Once we got the go-ahead for the series, I
+stuck my head in a B5 shaped hole in the ground and haven't had time to
+come up for air yet. Once I've finished the show, and can take a moment
+to look around, will I become a complete butthead?  Possible, but I
+don't think so.
+
+       My problem is the same as it's always been...I'm *extremely*
+self critical.  The doofus in the mirror today, 3 years into B5 is the
+same doofus I saw there 3-4 years ago.  I know the areas in which I'm a
+jerk, and the areas in which I'm golden...they haven't changed much.  I
+also have a hard time applying the reaction to *the show* to myself. 
+The show is a thing apart, somehow.  Whenever someone thanks me for the
+show, I tend to get kinda abashed about the whole thing...which is why
+you don't tend to see messages from me elaborating on someone's
+appreciation.  Usually it's just a "thanks" and we move on.  If I
+wanted to feed that, or keep it going, I could do so. But for me, the
+Babylon 5 universe has a certain reality about it, somewhere deep in my
+brain, and I'm just writing down what happens there.  (No, I can still
+tell fact from fiction...but I've just been living in that fictional 
+place so long that it becomes second nature...imagine your best friend
+walking across the den late at night, and banging his/her shin on the
+coffee table. It doesn't take a great leap of imagination to figure out
+what your friend will say in reaction...it comes naturally.  So do the
+events in B5, by virtue of knowing the characters and the universe as
+well as I do.)
+
+       I will tell you a terrible but true thing: when I go to a
+convention and take the stage...I never hear the applause.  I'm so
+concerned with what I'm going to say, the need to find some way to
+appear even *remotely* interesting when I know the reality is far from
+it, to make sure these good people get their money's worth, a
+performance...that I don't hear it, try as I might.  I want to, I would
+like to...but it's as if it's intended for someone else, and he or she
+couldn't make it, and I'm being thrust out onto the stage to substitute
+for someone interesting.
+
+       I think that if I've changed at all, it's to become a little
+more cautious and introspective.  (Witness this message.)  As that
+famous Greek philosopher Peter Parker once pointed out, "With power
+comes responsibility." Because of this show, I have an unexpected
+platform; so I have become more wary in how I use it in order to avoid
+abusing it.  With that comes the desire to find ways to use it in a
+positive fashion...to encourage other people to find their own dreams,
+to ask questions and put out good information on how TV works, so that
+people can better influence what they see and hear in this medium, and
+get what they want, not what somebody *thinks* they want.
+
+       Finally, I think I'm fairly aware of my relative position in
+society; can there be any lesser celebrity than a producer, anything
+more ephemeral than a television writer?  Between writing, prep,
+shooting, and post, it takes us about 3 months to make one
+episode...which is gone in an hour, phosphor dots sent cruising toward
+Andromeda at the speed of starlight. It's been debated here before, but
+I still hold fast to the notion that the really important people, the
+ones doing the work that will influence the next hundred years, are the
+teachers and the builders and the researchers who are creating the
+*real* future, not writing about a fictional one.  I can write 1,000 
+episodes of B5...and it won't cure one person of polio, that took Dr.
+Jonas Salk.
+
+       Television as a medium is too important to turn over to the
+visigoths, can be used to great purpose...it can ignite controversy,
+entertain, educate and ennoble; it can propel us toward the stars or
+bring down a president.  But it is always ephemeral, of the moment; it
+does not last, does not endure.  If you're very lucky, your show can
+last 10 years before it becomes dated, out of style, behind the times. 
+Where it can inspire people to do more with their lives in ways that
+make a permanent difference, then it is of greater value, and that is
+my hope for this show.
+
+       But that's the show.  Not me.
+
+       I'm still the doofus in the mirror.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-May-96 12:17:55
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William O'Connor <75231.3643@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS:Chicago Blues Fest
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks; if I can, I will.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-May-96 12:17:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Londo & G'Kar
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Will you see Londo and G'Kar together later this season?
+
+       Hmmmm......
+
+       Yes and no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30-May-96 12:18:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: annie <104246.3046@compuserve.com>
+Subject: How Time Flies
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...we'll see what happens when it happens.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-May-96 00:18:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<UK Dust 2 Dust>>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Ah...noticed that, eh...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-May-96 00:18:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Mira's words on JMS/B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"You always type in riddles"
+
+      Well, I *tried* typing in Iambic Pentameter, but nobody got it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-May-96 00:18:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms on radio in LA
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> For those of us who aren't in the area, are tapes of the program
+> available?
+
+      No, tapes aren't generally available.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-May-96 00:18:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Just curious...
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      That's great to hear, and I'm happy the words touched your aunt;
+that makes it all worthwhile.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-May-96 00:18:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Just curious...
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  There's always a danger in trying too hard to teach, of
+course, and I try to avoid that.  (It's just that I actually love
+teaching.) Back a few years ago, when I still used to teach writing
+here and there, I trained my class that when I started to go off and
+start pontificating to excess, they were to say, as with one voice,
+"Shuuuuuttt uppppp."
+
+      Worked every time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-May-96 00:18:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Just curious...
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I dunno...the last time I peeked through the mirror to the other
+side all I saw was gears, wheels, fan belts and 27 pairs of yellow
+slitted eyes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-May-96 00:19:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rick Parry <102620.113@compuserve.com>
+Subject: KJAZZ 14 SLC
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-May-96 00:19:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Delenn's Cycles
+
+ Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which is correct, or are they both correct?
+> How old (in standard/Earth years) is Delenn anyway?
+
+      I think it's the difference between serving the council in
+general, and being *on* the Council.
+
+      (That's my story and I'm sticking to it.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-May-96 00:19:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE II>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-May-96 00:19:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Cathy Holley <75204.1515@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE <<Major Spoiler>>
+
+ Cathy Holley <75204.1515@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Subatomic particles are tricky creatures <g> Did you know that
+> electrons can hop from place to place, yet never go through the
+> in-between?
+
+      How odd, I navigate the same way....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-May-96 00:19:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dimitri M LaBarge <71501.3353@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Sheridan:A Man Unstuck>
+
+ Dimitri M LaBarge <71501.3353@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that mean it would have been impossible for him to have
+> become unstuck in time and reappeared in, say, his own body ten
+> minutes after he was murdered?
+
+      You hate me, don't you...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-May-96 00:19:15
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WWE
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      We'll top it because that's what we do.
+
+      And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-May-96 00:19:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ^The Shadows^
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Well...actually...none of those are it.
+
+      And as an aside...please be careful, if story suggestions or
+storylines get posted, it can cause me a problem.
+
+      That aside...good thoughts, well considered.  And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-May-96 00:19:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vicki Mitchell <76234.1317@compuserve.com>
+Subject: War Without End
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks; there's a break for a bit now, but I think you'll find
+the next batch quite interesting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-May-96 00:25:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Spoiler Vorlon Question
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The rumor's wrong.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs96-06 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs96-06
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/CompuServe/cs96-06
@@ -0,0 +1,3117 @@
+JMS CompuServe messages for June 1996.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+Date: 31-May-96 16:10:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Spoiler Vorlon Question
+
+ Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I do, however, have one question (also about the Vorlon), that
+> you might be able to answer : Will whatever Kosh was doing to
+> Lyta in Passing Through Gethsemane have anything to do with the
+> overall (arc) plot at some time in the series?
+
+       Yes, primarily because what Kosh was doing with Lyta (that
+sounds vaguely suggestive) wasn't a one-time event.  There was a
+transference going on, and that aspect will be heard from again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-May-96 16:10:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE - Beginning???
+
+ Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just a thought, people are probbably going to hate me for asking
+> this, but where exactly does the storyline to War Without End
+> Begin?
+
+       The storyline began millions of years ago.
+
+       We're coming in in the middle of the story.
+
+       But then, that can be said of all of us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-May-96 16:10:37
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 essential episodes
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I did it off the cuff, I don't actually have a list; somebody
+else here may have it offhand.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-May-96 16:10:39
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<WWE2>>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       It's not a shadow host, no, but one of the many things that
+work for them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31-May-96 16:10:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Renewal!!?
+
+ Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know yet if B5 is going to be renewed for another 1 or 2
+> seasons? If not, how are you going to decide what to do about
+> wrapping it up? I know that it's been said that you yourself
+> stated that you could finish it in one more season, but how are
+> you going to make that decision if you don't know how long you've
+> got?
+
+       We'll know soon.  We're cautiously optimistic.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Jun-96 02:03:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: TIMOTHY R. GREEN <73023.143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hour 25
+
+ TIMOTHY R. GREEN <73023.143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you find the time to do everything you do?
+> Unless you have some way of slowing down the time flow somehow?
+
+      It helps to be an obsessive-compulsive personality....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Jun-96 02:03:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<UK Dust 2 Dust>>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, that has nothing to do with the redemption.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Jun-96 02:03:44
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: How Time Flies
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      This is probably the most commonly asked question, and the
+answer remains...I dunno.  Right now, the sheer task of getting this
+show made now, for TV, is sufficiently daunting, that the idea of
+telling it again in print is enough to make me tip over.  Also, this
+show was *designed* for TV; if I'd wanted to write a nove, I'd've
+written a novel.
+
+      So for now, the answer remains "I dunno."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Jun-96 02:03:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Just curious...
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, I can only hope you're right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Jun-96 02:03:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Trading Card Game???
+
+ Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are they refuring to the next regular card set like the one we
+> saw before or is it a trading card game (none of the other stuff
+> listed on the page is anything but trading card game)? While we
+> are talking about Babylon 5 games, what is the current word on
+> the Babylon 5 RPG? Who is making it?
+> Any other stuff coming out for our computers soon?
+
+      Fleer's coming out with a brand new card set, but not a card
+game set.
+
+      The RPG will be out from Chameleon later this year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Jun-96 02:03:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael R. Marks <104504.455@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Renewal!!?
+
+ Michael R. Marks <104504.455@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I wish to know if videos will ever be released and why does
+> Warner seem to treat the show with indifference?
+
+      Thanks; and we hope to have the videos out eventually.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Jun-96 02:03:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<War & Delenn>>
+
+ Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When Delenn has her time-flash, does she just see what happens in
+> the future, or is she actually there, like John's trip?
+
+      No, she more just saw it as a passive recipient, whereas he was
+actively There.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Jun-96 02:03:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <War...2> Aftershocks
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is whatever it is they tried to make her tell them something that
+> concerns B5 in 2260-2262?
+
+      No, what they were after from Delenn was info relevant to that
+time, some of it related to their son.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 01-Jun-96 16:03:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hour 25
+
+ Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did I miss anything else as *spiffy* as that?
+
+      I can't remember what we discussed in the first hour...nothing
+as cool as that happened, at any rate.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Jun-96 16:03:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Renewal!!?
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any idea who that person is?
+
+      It's a grip who stood too close for the photo.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Jun-96 16:03:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Trading Card Game???
+
+ Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Meanwhile is that book coming from Boxtree called "Making of
+> Babylon 5" or "Creating Babylon 5"?
+
+      I think it's Creating B5...but I haven't gotten my copy yet, and
+that's from memory.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Jun-96 16:03:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: TIMOTHY R. GREEN <73023.143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Universe
+
+ TIMOTHY R. GREEN <73023.143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you think we have a purpose in the universe, or a purpose to
+> make the best of our lives as we find them?
+
+      The purpose we have is the purpose we find, and that we *choose*
+to find.  Acting on that purpose is another topic altogether....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01-Jun-96 16:03:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chris Shepard <102076.276@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ^The Shadows^
+
+ Chris Shepard <102076.276@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why is this?
+
+      I've gone over the legal aspects of the story idea provision,
+oh, about 25 times...I know it's in the faq file somewhere.  Bottom
+line, I can't see or accept any story ideas, period.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 02-Jun-96 14:49:58
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: How Time Flies
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What kind of feeling and what kind of reaction do you have about
+> this side of the B5 success story?
+
+      Actually, I've no idea...I don't socialize at all -- except for
+B5 related gatherings, I haven't been to a party in...oh, about 2
+years, maybe a bit more.  So I don't tend to hear from anyone *not*
+really involved with the show in terms of other TV writers or
+writer/producers.  I imagine I'll hear more when I get done with it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Jun-96 14:50:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Just curious...
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I don't think they quite knew *how* this show was to be sold to
+the audience; the arc wasn't heavily played initially, no.  Later,
+moreso.
+
+      I hear all the time though from new viewers who just started
+watching, and are right up to speed.
+
+      Re: changing the episodic structure...no, can't really do that,
+because you have to think in larger terms, both down the road and how
+the show airs overseas, minus those breaks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Jun-96 14:50:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Trading Card Game???
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any more novels contracted after #6 (love the
+> Delenn/tea ceremony bit in #6)?
+
+      They're waiting until we get formally renewed to contract for
+more novels.  That should be soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Jun-96 14:50:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Ent Utility
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The character-oriented wav and avi files weren't done because
+there are still pending matters to be worked out with the various
+unions -- SAG, WGA and DGA -- about how those are to be used.  It's
+still a new medium, and how you reuse footage shot contractually for
+purpose A, turned to use B, and what residual structure you follow, is
+still being worked out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Jun-96 14:50:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chris Shepard <102076.276@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ^The Shadows^
+
+ Chris Shepard <102076.276@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, what made you get in touch with Ron Thorton?
+
+      Thanks.  John, Doug and I had originally worked with Ron on
+Captain Power, so that's where that connection comes from.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Jun-96 14:50:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ^The Shadows^
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Apology unnecessary, but accepted.  We learn by doing.
+
+      I don't know which message reprint request or content you're
+referring to, so I really can't comment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Jun-96 14:50:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: < first episode year 4>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> is this a wolf in sheep's clothing story?
+
+      The Hour of the Wolf is that hour around 3 a.m. when you can't
+sleep because you're worried about one thing or another....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Jun-96 14:50:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: FInal Scene-Severed Drea
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> In the final scene of Severed dreams (the applause scene), are
+> you the guy who begins clapping first?
+
+      Nope, I don't do cameos in the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Jun-96 15:56:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE II>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  Also, our hard ratings shot up almost a full half a
+point this quarter over our last batch of new episodes, from a 3.0, our
+usual, to a 3.4, at a time when most syndicated shows were in a
+downturn, including DS9, which went down over a full point during the
+same period.  Warners is most pleased.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Jun-96 15:56:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chris Shepard <102076.276@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ^The Shadows^
+
+ Chris Shepard <102076.276@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If I write a show that was truly my idea, how do you defend
+> yourself from some crazed lunatic coming into court saying that I
+> stole it from him/her? How can that person prove it was theirs to
+> begin with? It's the same idea, but how could one sue the other
+> for stealing it? What about space battles in general?
+> Cloaked ships?
+> The shadows cloak themselves, but how would the Trek guys sue JMS
+> for stealing their idea about cloaking technology? Don't they have
+> enough?
+
+      Chris, the only thing wrong with your message, and your
+assumptions, is that they're wrong on just about every conceivable
+level.  Let me try to walk you through this to help you understand a
+little better.
+
+      First off...a general observation.  Story ideas are worthless. 
+It's very doubtful that you or anybody else has had an idea that nobody
+in the history of mankind has ever had before.  You can take a basic
+idea and give it to 10 different writer and you'll get 10 TOTALLY
+different stories.  What matters is execution, how the idea is
+rendered.  An idea isn't a story, and what matters is *story*, a series
+of consequences and reactions based on actions.
+
+      Most amateur writers don't know or understand that, and think
+that their story idea is something saleable, something somebody wants
+to buy, or something they need to jealously protect.  There are even
+people who will exploit that.  There was a publication a few years ago
+which would publish your story idea in a big book, on per page (which
+you paid for, natch), and sent it to the major studios and networks.
+
+      Not one of them ever sold.  None of them were worth buying. 
+None of them were really stories.  And it was thrown into the trash of
+every studio or network at which it arrived because of fear of lawsuit.
+
+      Now, to your points individually:
+
+      "For one, I would talk with the individual and arrange something
+legal so that his story idea could be used and he/she would receive
+full credit plus pay."
+
+      This is illegal.  There is no fee inside the Writer's Guild for
+"story idea."  (ST tried to get around this for a few years, but was
+finally trounced by the WGA.)  If it's a credible, WGA signatory, which
+all the major studios and networks are, they can't operate outside
+formal parameters in their agreements.  There's no category for "story
+idea," so they can't buy that, and there's a reason for it.  A "story
+idea" is sufficiently general that it can't be readily surrounded...is
+it a sentence?  A paragraph?  A page?  Two pages? You could start
+taking whole stories, swiping them, and getting the royalties
+ -- thousands and thousands of dollars -- while the originator of the
+story got a couple hundred bucks, if that much.  This provision exists
+to *protect* writers.
+
+      See, part of the problem is, you're looking at the TV writing
+business not as a writer, but as a fan, a viewer.  We who work in this
+business have had to painstakingly, and at great suffering, fight for
+protections for those who work in this business as their livelihood. 
+Creating a scenario such as the one you describe would hurt the
+profession beyond description.  Yes, you may like the show, but should
+we set into place practices and policies that will undo years of
+hard-won strikes, and create what is, in essence, the camel's nose in
+the tent...the camel -- studios who would exploit this to take stories
+and outlines for zero money -- would surely follow, on the logic that 
+if you permit this for one show, you have to permit it for all.
+
+      (Also, for the "full credit plus pay" part...again, what credit,
+and what pay?  There's no provisions set up for either.  You'd have to
+create whole new areas in the WGA for this, which don't currently
+exist; you can't just do this willy-nilly.  Pay...a flat fee?  Fee plus
+residuals?  How do you determine how much a 1 paragraph story should
+get vs. a two or three page story?  Which gets a flat fee and which
+residuals?  It's a slippery slope.)
+
+"Secondly, if I created a forum and opened it to fans who wanted to
+give their ideas for stories, etc., then I would post a message at the
+beginning of the forum stating that anything spoken and written in that
+forum cannot be protected by law."
+
+      Now you're in violation of US Copyright Law.  Anything you write
+is instantly yours under what's known as Commonlaw Copyright.  In
+addition, a forum like Compuserve copyrights all content as a communal
+copyright, owned by both parties, the poster and CIS.  (All services
+work this way.)  Also under the law, you cannot make a statement or a
+policy which removes people's rights from them...in other words, you
+can SAY that anyone posting messages gies up their rights...but that
+doesn't have *any* legal basis whatsoever, and cannot be enforced.  The
+only way would be to have each person type up a waiver, hard-copy, sign
+it, get it notarized, and mail it *for each and every suggestion*
+giving up all rights to that specific story.  It can't be done en masse
+for anything written.
+
+"Lastly, how would one prove in court that someone has stolen someone
+elses idea.  If I write a show that was truly my idea, how do you
+defend yourself from some crazed lunatic coming into court saying that
+I stole it from him/her?"
+
+      That's the hard part.  You can't.  Sure, you can win the case in
+court, but a case like this can take two or three YEARS of your life. 
+And most will hang on because most cases like this are settled,
+regardless of merit, because it's cheaper than a trial.  Do you want to
+spend two or three days a week, every week, for three years giving
+depositions, talking to lawyers, dredging out every bit of paperwork,
+turning over your computer files to lawyers, having your friends and
+co-workers deposed, your character challenged, all because somebody
+posted a story idea that was vaguely similar to what you did? I don't.
+
+"How can that person prove it was theirs to begin with?"
+
+      By showing a printup of the story as posted in the forum you
+have suggested here.  (Or another.)  Their word not good enough?  You
+subpoena the sysops here, access the CIS database, on and on.
+
+"An idea is an idea.  Buck Rogers had the idea of stargates in it's
+series. Babylon 5 uses the jumpgates. It's the same idea, but how could
+one sue the other for stealing it? What about space battles in
+general?"
+
+      See, again, here's the problem...a stargate or a jumpgate isn't
+an idea, it's a bit of technology.  You can't build a story around
+that, so it's not a story idea, again you're not clear on your terms. 
+"How about a jump gate?" isn't a story idea.  "How about a jumpgate to
+go kill the giant frog monster in sector 97" *is* a story idea.  Once
+again, you don't have a clear notion what it is you're discussing.
+
+"Cloaked ships? The shadows cloak themselves, but how would the Trek
+guys sue JMS for stealing their idea about cloaking technology?"
+
+      Shadow vessels don't cloak; they have alternate technology for
+phasing in from hyperspace.
+
+"It's plain silly and it's a waste of everyone's time."
+
+      It is...until you end up in court for it.  The ONLY reasonable
+protection is the no-story provision.  Especially in a case like B5,
+where the whole story is *already worked out*.
+
+      It's the difference in perception between an amateur writer and
+a writer who does this as a living.  (By "amateur" I don't mean bad, I
+just mean one who is either unpublished, inexperienced, or a
+hobbyist...I'm an amateur bowler, as an example.)  You don't understand
+the consequences of this sort of thing, it's not a profession to you,
+it's something you'd like to toss out there.  But it can hurt.  Marion
+Zimmer Bradley recently found herself in a *terrible* position...she'd
+worked for about 2 years writing a new novel, turned it in...and had
+the book cancled by her publisher because a fanzine to which she had
+possible access had published a very similar story and they might sue. 
+Two years of work, down the drain.
+
+      This isn't a game, or a hobby, or something where you can make
+up the rules as you go.  Writing is a *business*, a creative one, yes,
+but if you're going to make a living at it, you have to treat it as a
+business, just as if you're a carpenter or a plumber or a surgeon. 
+Those rules are there to protect writers from being expoited,
+harrassed, ripped off or sued.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02-Jun-96 15:56:47
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jack P <102474.2071@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New Upcomings or Reruns?
+
+ Jack P <102474.2071@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does the producers intend to show any new continuing episodes for
+> the summer or we'll all have to wait until the fall implying in
+> the meantime we'll just watch the past season reruns? Also I don't
+> know why in the world would the LA station airing the B5 show as
+> they always have, show the week's encore of other shows(less
+> desirable) and not B5 for those that couldn't be around the first
+> time?
+
+      The produers of B5 -- viz, me -- have no control or influence
+over the scheduling of episodes or reruns.  Just FYI.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Jun-96 00:57:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All
+Subject: jms in UK
+
+      Can't recall if I mentioned this earlier, but...in addition to
+being at the Wolf 359 convention in Blackpool this coming weekend, I'll
+be doing an autograph session at Forbidden Planet Bookstore in London
+this Thursday at 4 p.m. along with David Bassom, author of "Creating
+Babylon 5" and "The A-Z of Babylon 5."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Jun-96 01:13:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Question of Timeline
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So can you clarify the dates somewhat here for me, please?
+
+      Well, she didn't go directly into Vorlon space; she left, went
+around a bit, had to find a pilot willing to take her...it was a time
+consuming process.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Jun-96 01:13:03
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: < first episode year 4>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yup, that's it, that's the hour of the wolf....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Jun-96 01:13:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: < first episode year 4>
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this anything like "The Hour Of Scampering?"
+> Or maybe "The Hour Of Running Like Hell?"
+
+      No, no, no, you're thinking of the Hour of the Plucked
+Parrot....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Jun-96 01:13:08
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: FInal Scene-Severed Drea
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Nopers....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Jun-96 01:13:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steve Brightman <73420.3057@compuserve.com>
+Subject: << How old is Delenn >>
+
+ Steve Brightman <73420.3057@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Excuse for asking but just how old is Delenn ?
+> So I guess she must be at least 900 years old ?
+
+      No, Delenn never said she held Valen when he died, she said she
+held Dukhat, the last of the Grey Council leaders, at his death.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Jun-96 01:36:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Cathy Holley <75204.1515@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ^The Shadows^
+
+ Cathy Holley <75204.1515@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do the studios get around buying a book to make into a movie
+> or tvshow? And didn't you sell B5 as an idea?
+> not a complete story?
+> or am I missing the point?
+
+"How do the studios get around buying a book to make into a movie or
+tv show? I mean in many cases if you compare the book to the movie,
+there isn't a whole lot left except the basic storyline."
+
+      They don't get around buying the book; they *do* buy the book. 
+No, when all is said and done, the result may not look much like the
+book, but that's a matter of creative realization of the project --
+artistic success or failure
+ -- not legalities.
+
+"And didn't you sell B5 as an idea?  Not a complete story?"
+
+      Again, define "idea."  The way Chris defined it, an "idea" is,
+"Let's do a show on a space station."
+
+      You also have to remember that like many other writer/producers,
+I'm in a position where I've shown that I'm capable of taking something
+and making it into a TV show.  But even so, like every other person
+there trying to sell a series to PTEN, I didn't just walk in the door
+with an idea.
+
+      If you're going to sell a series, you need to know the
+characters, the situations, the possible additional storylines, the
+support network and supporting characters...all of that.  What usually
+happens is that you go to a network, with a long list of credits, and
+spin out a few details of what you have in mind: the central character,
+the situation, some additional characters, how you'd get in and out of
+stories, and the like.  There's been a LOT of prior thought given to
+it, it's a LOT more than just an idea.  Then the network gives you seed
+money (called "development money") to take that proposal and flesh it
+out, writing a treatment and series bible, then a pilot script.  Based
+on ALL THAT, you then get or don't get your series.
+
+      When a writer comes in to pitch for a series already on the air,
+he or she has the beginning, middle and end of the story worked out,
+and some of the high points along the way.  Every so often, somebody'll
+come in and try to sell an idea, just a notion...and you want to hurt
+them.  I was working on MURDER, SHE WROTE and a guy came in to pitch
+his story.  "Okay," I said, "what did you have in mind?"
+
+      "Amnesia" he said, then sat back, pleased with himself.
+
+      I waited.  Glaciers slowly moved across the northern polar
+frontier. "What about it?" I asked finally.
+
+      "*Amnesia*," he said again, as though repeating it would
+suddenly make me understand.
+
+      "WHOSE amnesia?" I asked.  "Who forgets what, what's been
+forgotten, and where do we go with it?"
+
+      "Well, we'd work that out after I get the assignment."
+
+      He was never invited back.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 03-Jun-96 13:29:30
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: annie <104246.3046@compuserve.com>
+Subject: << How old is Delenn >>
+
+ annie <104246.3046@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How old is Delenn?
+
+      In human terms, she's probably around her late 40s early 50s,
+which is very young still for a Minbari, who can live to be almost 200.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03-Jun-96 13:35:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Joining B-5 Fan Club?
+
+ Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Anyone actually got the fan club stuff yet?
+
+      The first issue of the newsletter -- Universe Today -- should be
+going out this week, if it hasn't already started going out.  There
+were a few glitches in the cards from the printer that had to be
+corrected, and I wanted to make some final changes to the poster, which
+now looks better.  It's all in place now, however.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 13:41:45
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: How Time Flies
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  Unfortunately, we're not really set up to give tours of
+the set, so that's not possible for us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 13:41:46
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms in UK
+
+      I think the books will only be out via import stores.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 13:41:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms in UK
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks; I just now got this, if I'd known at the time, I likely
+would've stopped by.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 13:41:50
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sidebars 1
+
+      Good points, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 13:41:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sidebars 2: Cabaret
+
+      I wouldn't say Cabaret was my favorite movie of all time, but
+it's certainly one of my tops, and that one scene, "Tomorrow Belongs to
+Me" still scares the hell out of me.
+
+      If I had to delineate my favorite films overall, they'd be
+Seconds, They Might Be Giants, Forbidden Planet, The Stuntman, A
+Christmas Story, The Empire Strikes Back, Cabaret, Failsafe, Seven Days
+in May, Aliens, All That Jazz, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Glory,
+The Haunting of Hill House, Road Warrior, Terminator 1 and 2, The
+Natural, Network, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Rocky Horror
+Picture Show, Phantom of the Paradise, When Worlds Collide, The Seven
+Faces of Dr. Lao, The Shootist, War of the Worlds, Stalag 17, and The 
+Time Machine.
+
+      Those are films I can watch again and again and never get bored
+with them.  Lao is a particular favorite, it's just a beautiful film. 
+I tend to love films that break your heart or make it soar, or both at
+the same time, like Glory, or Giants.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 13:41:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: carrie foreman <76400.1170@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Merchandise question
+
+      No, Psi Corps pins have not been licensed, and are thus illegal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 13:41:57
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: Sorry...
+
+ Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just how negative are those feelings?
+
+      I didn't read the thread, but yes, Carl's right when he says
+that we have to be careful to avoid storylines and the like.  Don't
+worry, apology accepted; forgiven, forgotten, gone.  We learn by doing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 13:41:59
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Other races' ships
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Just out of curiosity, have any Markab ships been shown, other
+> than the one in "Confessions and Lamentations"?
+
+      Yes, Marcabs had warships, though not a lot of them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 13:42:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 4th Season
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were you given any feel as to the likelyhood of a Season Five?
+
+      Thanks, and we'll know more about Warner's plans in a bit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 13:42:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Did Sinclair get married
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, they didn't get married.  Wasn't time, and his new posting
+precluded that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 13:42:05
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: A B5 reflection
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      That's great, thanks for passing it along.
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 13:42:07
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Series Renewal
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, we're very pleased.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 13:42:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Renewal
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  Yes, the numbers and support led right to renewal.  I
+should mention that the domestic ratings have grown enough that one of
+the major station groups has committed its stations to return
+double-runs of episodes for the coming year, so Los Angeles and a
+number of other markets will be getting two showings per week again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 13:42:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kathy Sheldrake <76236.254@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Fabulous Costumes
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  Yes, the costumes are great.  Ann Bruice does a
+terrific job finding fabrics which don't seem to be one thing or
+another; your eye just sorta slides off them.  It's a very tough job.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 13:42:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Point of No return>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and Severed is even better....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 13:42:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Bablyon 5 Beyond the Rim
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In your "Hours of the Wolf," (with the uncertainties you must
+> deal with as a creator/executive producer of a syndicated show
+> you must have a continuing series of "Hours of the Wolf), do you
+> ever get story ideas about the B5 characters that occur well
+> outside of the the megastory you've committed yourself to tell? 
+> Would it be helpful or detrimental to start agitating at either
+> the local or WB-macro level for a guarantee (or as close as is
+> possible in the fluid dynamics of syndicated series) of a season
+> 5? Since you've indicated the possibility that you might be
+> required to compress seasons 4 and 5, is there any value to all
+> of the dedicated viewers stating up front that a compressed
+> season is not an acceptable option?
+
+      Thanks.  Yes, I sometimes do get notions for stories with our
+characters outside the B5 arc.  Earlier stuff, later stuff...you just
+sorta file it away. I'll probably never get to telling any of it, but
+it helps add truth to the writing because I know what they're doing
+elsewhere and elsewhen.  Those tales will probably never be told.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 13:42:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bob Ingersoll <72204.2405@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Last 5 When?
+
+ Bob Ingersoll <72204.2405@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will they run sometime over the summer, or are they being held
+> back again until the start up of next year's season?
+
+      October.  Urk.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 21:02:35
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5
+
+ Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it updated as well?
+> Oh, will Peter David be writing any other episodes?
+> ?
+
+      Thanks.  It's a great show, and fun to work on.
+
+      To the question of the writing book...the version being
+published this October is *completely* rewritten, stem to stern, with
+new chapters and other goodies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 21:16:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John L. Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Merchandise question
+
+ John L. Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is is okay/legal to use the PTEN copyrighted gifs on a website?
+
+      It's been general policy for WB to look the other way on that as
+long as proper copyright notices are appended.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 21:16:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mary Taylor <75530.2650@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Renewal
+
+ Mary Taylor <75530.2650@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does by any chance the major station group that has committed to
+> a return of double runs of the show include WPWR in Chicago?
+
+      I'm reasonably sure that WPWR Chicago is one of those that have
+committed to the new slate of double runs, but I'm not 100% sure; will
+get a list as soon as available.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 21:16:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 congrats
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, and I'm glad the show is finally reaching your corner of
+the world.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 21:16:21
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Sheridan Disappears?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      He doesn't disappear completely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 21:16:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Celebration Time!!!
+
+ Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since I believe you said you were not going to pull another
+> season 3 and write all the scripts yourself, who can we expect to
+> see pen some eps this upcoming season? Niel Gaiman or Halan
+> Ellison? Also, who do we need to be writing to, outside of our
+> local stations, to insure that WB gives a speedy greenlight to
+> season 5 ASAP...after all, what is one last season to a big
+> studio like them?
+
+      Nothing much to be done now for year 5, that will depend as does
+every season on the ratings for the year preceding.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12-Jun-96 21:16:24
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season Finale
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      When I'm ready....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 13-Jun-96 12:46:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Wilfred Gibo <74543.1600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Celebration Time!!!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, and we look forward to the coming year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-Jun-96 12:46:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Merchandise question
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, I think that's fine as well, with proper notices.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-Jun-96 12:46:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Merchandise question
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       You cannot make and *sell* them.  That's the difference.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-Jun-96 12:46:43
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: S J NICHOLSON <76574.1663@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Chicago Comicon
+
+ S J NICHOLSON <76574.1663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you (or anyone out there) know what your schedule would be
+> this weekend? Is it going to be Friday, Saturday and Sunday?
+
+       I believe my main panels are in the afternoons on Saturday and
+Sunday.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-Jun-96 21:36:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark Pruett <74133.3406@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sidebars 2: Cabaret
+
+ Mark Pruett <74133.3406@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Seconds...Seconds....was that the truly dark film with Rock
+> Hudson? Or am I remembering wrong?
+> You included The Shootist but not Robin and Marian?
+
+      Yes, that was the Rock Hudson film...and the letterbox Forbidden
+Planet has been out for some time on disk.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-Jun-96 21:36:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: *B5 Renewed*!!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, TNT had the rights to B5 at a point after 88 episodes,
+yes, BUT...WB had the option within that contract to produce only 66
+episodes and still get the same deal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-Jun-96 21:43:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Chicago Comicon
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you bringing anything *interesting* to show us????
+
+      Mainly clips from coming shows, not any finished episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13-Jun-96 21:43:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Timeline Inconsistency
+
+ John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That places "Messages From Earth" about a week after
+> "Exogenesis," right? You start to see the dilemma?
+> Which means that "Severed Dreams" takes place about the 12th of
+> April? How's that so far?
+> But what does this do with the dates for "Sic Transit Vir" and
+> "Ceremonies of Light and Dark"? So any chance of you helping out
+> with the dates for all this, and a clearing up of some of the
+> timeline here for me?
+
+      The only thing I can clear up is that Sic Transit was *not*
+filmed prior to Ceremonies, the filming order was Severed, Ceremonies,
+Avalon and Vir. Other than that, you're on your own.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 14-Jun-96 21:34:14
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Publicity??
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The UK was pleasant, I trust?
+> Who handles B5 publicity?
+> Is it WB or in-house Babylonian Productions?
+> Does that include talk show bookings, SNL guest hosting, and all
+> that jazz? but how do *you* feel personally as regards SNL's
+> tendency to parody the week's guest host's roles? I know you
+> dislike (or just don't want to see) fanfic B5 parodies, what
+> about parodies done by the Not Ready for Prime Time Players? have
+> you seen the RPG playtest rules and background? Is it true to your
+> vision?
+
+      WB has generally handled B5's publicity, though we've lately
+hired our own publicists to help gain additional exposure.
+
+      Parodies don't bother me.
+
+      Newsletters have begun going out; posters and fan club packets
+have had to wait until we got everything worked out.  Remember, please,
+everybody, that the FC is a new creation, was not a going concern;
+those who got in at the very beginning will have a short wait that
+those joining thereafter won't have.  As with everything else we do, we
+try and do it *right*.  If that takes a bit longer, so be it.  (I sent
+back the new poster design twice for small changes and improvements,
+which alone put things back.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Jun-96 21:34:17
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ruth Spradlin <73477.3155@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Pilot Movie
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, I didn't know that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Jun-96 21:34:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Fourth season...
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, and we're looking forward to year four.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Jun-96 21:34:22
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Bablyon 5 Beyond the Rim
+
+ Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance of covering those areas in B5 movies after the 5th
+> season is over? If not commercial features, what about
+> made-for-television ones?
+
+      We'll kinda have to see what happens when it comes round to make
+that decision; right now just telling this one story now takes up 110%
+of my time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Jun-96 21:34:23
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Doug Quinn <76330.350@compuserve.com>
+Subject: << WWE Questions >>
+
+ Doug Quinn <76330.350@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) On the destruction of B5 -- can I assume that the vision of B5
+> being blown to bits in in SIGNS & PORTENTS is the same possible
+> future we saw in BABYLON SQUARED and in WAR WITHOUT END? Or was
+> the vision from SIGNS & PORTENTS fortelling a different future
+> that's still out there? 2) Since Jeff Sinclair was Roman Catholic,
+> and since Jeff Sinclair became Valen, and since Valen became the
+> spiritual and political leader of the Minbari, does this mean
+> that the Minbari are Roman Catholic?
+
+      Yes, the vision of B5 blowing was the same as the one from
+Signs.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Jun-96 21:45:48
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Sidebars 2: Cabaret
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I liked "Unforgiven" quite a bit, but it isn't a film that I
+could watch endlessly, or often.  The others are films that catch me up
+and take me someplace I enjoy returning to, and if I'm channel surfing
+and happen to land on one of them, I generally tend to stay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Jun-96 21:45:51
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 TV Schedule - UK
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      BTW, I heard today from the chain of command that the UK might
+*not* be broadcasting the final 5 prior to the US, at the insistence of
+WB.  Won't be able to track this down any further until next week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14-Jun-96 21:45:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Making life interesting
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Congratulations, you're doing *exactly* what I did when I
+dropped everything, sold what I had, and came to L.A.  Good luck.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 15-Jun-96 17:06:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Merchandise question
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No more feeders...they won't leave the female extras alone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Jun-96 17:06:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruno Melancon <102647.3222@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Series Renewal
+
+ Bruno Melancon <102647.3222@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, did you start writing any fourth season episodes?
+
+      Yup, I'm writing the first episode now, "The Hour of the Wolf,"
+and we should have 6 in hand by the start of filming.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Jun-96 17:06:12
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Interludes>>
+
+ Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A question about "I&E" (Second favourite episode of season 3 so
+> far, after Severed Dreams): Did Adira's killer suffer the same
+> fate as the guard who appeared in the episode's teaser? Now season
+> 4 has been confirmed, are you going to make him put all the
+> weight back on?
+> ?
+
+      No, Adira's killer is still alive...can be useful, those folks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Jun-96 17:06:13
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Communicator
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How does the communicator stay on the hand?
+
+      Sleight of hand.
+
+      Molecular bonding at the epidermal level.
+
+      Crazy Glue.
+
+      Pick one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15-Jun-96 17:06:16
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Bablyon 5 Beyond the Rim
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, it's a tribute to Alfie.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Jun-96 11:08:27
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Other races' ships
+
+ Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would they have contracted Drafa?
+
+      There would've been a very few on deep space patrols, or on
+isolated worlds that would've survived, yes, as was indicated in the
+narration at the close of the episode, but you're talking about very,
+very small numbers.  The race is still effectively dead.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Jun-96 11:08:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dimitri M LaBarge <71501.3353@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Series Renewal
+
+ Dimitri M LaBarge <71501.3353@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you a title for this season's episodes yet?
+
+      Yes, I have titles for this season's shows, mostly, and the
+overall title.
+
+      You'll get them in the fullness of time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Jun-96 11:08:28
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <More of Zathras?>
+
+ Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we see Zathras again in a future episode or was his trip
+> 1000 years into the past his exit from the series?
+
+      I'd love to see Zathras again somehow....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 16-Jun-96 16:26:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+ Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> what is it, and what happened to it?
+
+      Clarke has inside info that ISN would be going public soon with
+info on what was *really* going on on Mars, his planned attack on B5,
+and other stuff he wanted quiet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Jun-96 16:26:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neville White <101352.1023@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <severed dreams in UK>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  The Television Thing to do would've been to have that
+moment of victory, Sheridan saying the crisis is over, then fade to
+black...but it was absolutely *vital* to go to the lower sections and
+see the human cost of that victory.  War is never a bloodless game.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Jun-96 16:29:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tim Kelly <76735.3255@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 at an end in NY?
+
+ Tim Kelly <76735.3255@compuserve.com> asks:
+> is picking up the show for a fourth season, WOR may be nixing the
+> show from their fall schedule? Now, I don't want to start a rumor,
+> but is there any truth to this???
+
+      No, NY will continue to air the show next fall.  There's always
+somebody saying they've got a "source" at WB saying one apocalyptic
+thing or another...and they're always full of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Jun-96 20:57:00
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lift question
+
+ Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can the lift take someone horizontally from sector to sector?
+
+      Yes, the tubes can move at both angles.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Jun-96 20:57:01
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steven K. Andeweg <72143.674@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Staff of Aesculapius
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, we try to get the details right.  As someone once said,
+god is in the details.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Jun-96 21:59:10
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Interludes>>
+
+ Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it?
+
+      Certainly, one theme of the show is how we each deal with the
+traumas that beset us, and the choices we make.  The difference is in
+how we handle them.  In "Shadow" and "Interludes" both Londo and
+Sheridan have to confront somewhat similar losses: the death of a loved
+one.  But Sheridan, at the last, was willing to suck in the pain and do
+what was right, however much it grieved him, and forego
+revenge...Londo, on the other hand, has embraced revenge.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16-Jun-96 21:59:11
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Hour 25/B5 Music
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Agreement on both counts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 17-Jun-96 11:34:52
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Hour 25/B5 Music
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       My agreement was that it should be on the next CD, and have
+noted same to Chris.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Jun-96 11:34:53
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Delenn's Family
+
+ Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> will we ever hear about Delenn's parents/family?
+
+       As a matter of fact, yes, you'll hear about Delenn's parents in
+"Grey 17 Is Missing."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Jun-96 21:00:29
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 off air in Philly
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm sure WB is looking at alternate stations.  The basic reality
+is that if the station supported the show, it did well; if not, not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Jun-96 21:00:32
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season 4 Narration
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes and no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Jun-96 21:00:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WWE & Geo. of Shadows>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, it wasn't an intentional bit of foreshadowing, unless my
+subconscious is smarter about this stuff than I am...which is
+altogether possible, I suppose.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Jun-96 21:18:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Severed Dreams
+
+ Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just a little question, at the end of SD when Delenn returns with
+> the Minbari ships, what is the small Minbari ship that
+> accompanies the cruisers ?
+
+      That's the White Star, and thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17-Jun-96 21:18:06
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Severed Dreams>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I actually went to a mix of schools; four different high
+schools, a dozen or so grade and junior high schools...some were
+public, some were parochial (catholic) schools.  The last time I
+stepped into a catholic school was in my first year of high school at
+St. Benedict's High School in Matawan, New Jersey.  After, oh, about
+six months they asked me to leave, on the theory that I was
+troublesome, asked impertinent questions, and had a tendency to poke
+holes in whichever theological discussion was underway at the moment. 
+So I got blipped over to Matawan Regional High School, and stayed
+public thereafter...though still getting into trouble from time to time
+for asking too many questions and refusing to take "because I said so"
+as ANY kind of legitimate response.
+
+      So yes, while I do have some experience with catholicism, I
+wasn't in any way raised, trained or educated by those intellectual pit
+bulls of religion, the Jesuits.  The last time I had anything to do
+with it at all was about the same time as the above incident, wherein I
+was told, at the first session of this religious doctrination session,
+that Confirmation was "the sacrament of free choice."  I wanted this
+clarified -- religious rules were always tricky, and you didn't want to
+get on the wrong side of anything as positive as hell (to paraphrase
+Christopher Fry) -- and asked, "So this one we can choose or not, we
+don't have to be here, right?"  The nun said yes, that's corr---
+
+      She never finished the word, as there was no longer a "me"
+standing in the room, only a jms-shaped silhouette made of the dust
+kicked up by my sudden and rocket-like departure, rather like a Warner
+Bros. cartoon, which disappeared before her eyes.
+
+      Bottom line...I have *always* been a pain in the ass.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Jun-96 01:40:41
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Two Questions
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Basically, after seeing what he's done for the Narns, and
+knowing who Vir is all this time, and seeing his reaction of horror to
+what Lyndisty was suggesting, anybody who thinks he offed the Narn
+isn't paying attention.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Jun-96 01:40:42
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ABA and B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      That's good to hear from the ABA booths.  Thanks.
+
+      Re: the fan/pro relationship (which can be difficult at
+times)...yes, I do tend to think that because many SF pros come from
+the ranks of fans, it makes them more receptive to and sympathetic to
+that side of things.  It makes me *very* annoyed to see people who've
+stood in line for 1, 2 or 3 hours for an autograph being turned aside. 
+If I have any control over this, I won't have it.  (The only time I
+haven't been in control of this was at Wolf, where a number of folks
+were turned aside, and that's something the organizers and I have to
+discuss for next time.  I also found out, after the fact, that some 
+folks were turned away from the Forbidden Planet signing because they
+brought stuff instead of buying, and that was NEVER a condition that
+I'd agreed to or even knew about, and I'm quite unhappy about that.)
+
+      Generally speaking, I don't care how long I have to sit there
+and sign, ain't *nobody* walking away empty handed if I can help it. 
+Because I've been in that position myself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 18-Jun-96 14:43:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Interludes>>
+
+ Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Isn't this one of the primary differances between the characters,
+> though?
+
+       Yep, that's it exactly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Jun-96 14:47:18
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: UK B5 Radio Times
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       So like, what does it SAY?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Jun-96 14:47:19
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Which came first?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       The *Mars* excavation was years ago, the *Ganymede* one was the
+one in Messages.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18-Jun-96 14:47:20
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Which came first?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       The excavation came first, then martial law.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Jun-96 00:25:34
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom O'Hay <71264.106@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Just curious...
+
+ Tom O'Hay <71264.106@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Years ago, after reading a story, I asked the children "How would
+> you like to go there?" Do you remember S Spielberg's "Amazing
+> Stories"?
+
+      Thank you, I appreciate that.  That's really all I've ever
+wanted, to tell a good story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Jun-96 00:25:36
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Other races' ships
+
+ Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What I meant was, will we see them again, and will they come in
+> on B5's side?
+
+      No, they're effectively out of the picture.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Jun-96 00:25:38
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <severed dreams in UK>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  And you're quite right; when we lose touch with our
+myths, we have to dig them out, dust them off, and recast them under
+different names, so that people can rediscover them without thinking
+they're reading about something old and irrelevant.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Jun-96 00:25:40
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: UK B5 Radio Times
+
+ Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So what lies ahead over the next 11 episodes?
+> What do you think of that last line then ?
+
+      Thanks for the info, it's appreciated.
+
+      "What do you think of that last line then?"
+
+      What's to think?  Dominic May is a fine name.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 19-Jun-96 11:41:54
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: What of Earth?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, we'll definitely get back into the Earth side of things;
+we just go in cycles story-wise.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Jun-96 11:41:56
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS: thestation.com????
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Any ETA when the page will be on-line?
+
+       As soon as WB stops dithering about and gives us authorization
+to put it out there.  All licensed stuff has to go through their
+auspices, and they're taking their time.  We're pressing them as much
+as we can; we've had a beta site on line now since May.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Jun-96 23:59:04
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Other races' ships
+
+ Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What about that lone Narn cruiser?
+> Is that due to play a part again?
+
+      We'll see the Narn cruiser again this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19-Jun-96 23:59:09
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Technical Accuracy
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Usually they use equations, I understand...though glitches, such
+as those you note, do slip through.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 24 Jun 1996 12:05:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Series Renewal
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Will Janet Greek be back?
+
+       We'd love to have Janet back, but she apparently just adopted
+an infant, and isn't sure she wants to do any work for the coming year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jun 1996 12:05:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadows are Beautiful!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...and I'm not sure the shadows' motivation is an "open"
+question as much as it is one open TO interpretation....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jun 1996 12:05:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadows are Beautiful!
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that in some way different from what Elizabeth said??
+
+       It's between those two positions....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jun 1996 21:22:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadows are Beautiful!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      You don't have all the information yet on which to base any
+conclusions; it's coming by season's end.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jun 1996 21:36:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Lynne Caulfield <101647.2616@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Why GA deserves an Emmy
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Since you mention the UK ratings, the newest volume of the B5
+videotape, #11, just came out in the UK...and it's #1 on the charts,
+topping the X-Files you cite.
+
+      As for the other UK ratings you mention, Channel 4 is always
+generally rated lower than BBC1 and BBC2; within the course of what C4
+airs, B5 does *extremely* well for them, and just recently came in at
+#16 in their list of programming.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1996 12:56:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadows are Beautiful!
+
+ Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Defining 10 as 'kills because (s)he enjoys doing it, and revels
+> in the deaths/pain of others' and 1 as 'kills because it is
+> necessery to do so for survival/etc', where would the Shadows
+> rate? How was the Chicago Comicon, BTW?
+
+       On the 1-10 scale you suggest, and using those specific
+criteria to make a decision, I'd rate the shadows right around E or F.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1996 12:56:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Another Death?
+
+ Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do the future events depeticted in War Without End have to come
+> to pass, or has the future now been changed by the very fact that
+> Sheridan knows something of it? If so, do all the characters that
+> were alive in the future scenes in War Without End necesserally
+> have to be alive in that future now?
+
+       Sheridan, by taking the actions he took to keep history on
+track, has now pretty much assured that the events we see *will*
+happen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1996 00:44:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Series Renewal
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Of course, there's a substantive difference between killing a
+character to serve the plot, or because of real-world events, and
+offing somebody without giving the person a fair chance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1996 00:44:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Marcus Cole/Jason Carter
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Just one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1996 00:47:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Special B5 episode
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Uh, huh....
+
+      *
+
+      Okay, buddy, back away from the keyboard and keep your hands
+where we can see them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1996 12:55:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 in Spain
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's great, thanks for letting me know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1996 12:55:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Marcus Cole/Jason Carter
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Of course, if my head implodes, I won't be able to finish the
+story, now will I...?
+
+       Read "Scheherezade" lately?
+
+                                        jm(probably misspelled that)s
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1996 12:55:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: annie <104246.3046@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Another Death?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Oh, Delenn definitely still knows more than she's telling....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1996 00:33:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: What of Earth?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  It's primarily an effort to integrate the real world
+into the series.  So much of SF on television tends to take place in a
+vacuum.  The leader of the Federation is always the leader of the
+Federation, we rarely hear about squabbling, elections, economic
+problems, dissident groups breaking away...and when we do it's usually
+a misunderstanding or basically good people with a different agenda
+that can be quickly resolved.
+
+      I think that integrating all of those elements lends an
+atmosphere of verisimilitude to the story, making it all the more
+*real*.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1996 00:33:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: sci fi shows
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      "Neverwhere" will probably show up either on PBS or Bravo, since
+it comes off the BBC.
+
+      I've seen the "Dark Skies" pilot...it's kind of a hodge podge of
+stuff. Parts are very effective, some aspects stretch credulity...but a
+pilot can be a poor indicator of the series, so I'll definitely give it
+a shot when the regular show begins.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1996 00:33:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neville White <101352.1023@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadows are Beautiful!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Exactly, the already had a source on Earth.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1996 00:33:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ahem... regarding Bears
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It was supposed to have been arranged by some of the folks at
+Comic Con in Chicago.  When I got there, I asked if this had been taken
+care of (they said they knew the right people, and I'd reimburse for
+the cost involved). They said it was all going to go off as planned. 
+If it didn't...then I'm hugely annoyed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1996 00:33:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Another Death?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Many things are possible.
+
+      But that future will happen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1996 11:55:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Series Renewal
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, it's the same casting director.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1996 12:06:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Marcus Cole/Jason Carter
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Y'know, every time a character gets introduced on this show,
+there's always somebody who yells about killing him off.  I've been
+told by folks on the nets, variously, to kill Londo ("Who's the jerk in
+the Bozo hair?  He's a joke, he's ruining the show, space him!"), Vir
+("Flounder in space?  Give me a break, he's nothing, throw him out an
+airlock!"), Lennier and others, including Sheridan ("He smiles too
+much, what's the deal, Smilin' Jack," which was a setup for his fall). 
+Many people screamed to kill Sinclair during the first season...and
+then were the first ones wanting him back a year later.
+
+       And in each case, they went on to become some of our most
+popular characters.
+
+       Patience is a virtue.  We get to know people over time.  See
+their strengths and weaknesses over time.  There's a lot more to Marcus
+than meets the eye...and many people *do* like Marcus' character quite
+a lot.
+
+       The sad thing to me is to see folks who, if they don't
+instantly spark to someone, say "Kill him!!!"  Which seems to me rather
+cruel and intolerant for just not sparking to someone.  I wonder if
+they have friends, or if they meet someone and instantly don't take to
+them, do they wait in an alley and blow their brains out...or give them
+time to grow...or at least take a wait-and-see attitude.  I sometimes
+wonder about a society that breeds the notion that if you don't like a
+character, let's *kill* them. Not, "let's not feature him," not "write
+him out," but KILL him.  There's something rather disturbing in that.
+
+       But...if Marcus doesn't work for you, he doesn't work for you. 
+He does work for others.  And he works for me.
+
+       I think you're outnumbered.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1996 21:50:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Series Renewal
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Putting aside your total lack of time, are you interested in
+> directing?
+
+      I go back and forth on this.  Basically, no, I'm not interested
+in directing.  On the other hand, my gut (and my agent) tells me that I
+should do it at least once, just so I understand the process (a good
+idea), and to add that aspect to my resume.  I dunno...we'll see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1996 21:50:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Series Renewal
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> As an employer, how do you hire for the show in such a way as to
+> let your employees know how long they would be under your employ? 
+> How do the actors deal with this?
+
+      Thanks.  Basically, you hire actors by the season.  You hire
+someone for, say, 13 episodes out of 22.  That actor has a pay-or-play
+*guarantee* of 13 episodes.  We may only end up using him in 11, but he
+gets paid for all 13 regardless.  So that allows the actor to plan his
+year effectively.  The contract for all actors has an option for the
+following year at the producer's discretion.  When we get the word on
+renewal, we can then choose whether or not to bring an actor back,
+assuming we haven't already decided this earlier and killed the
+character off.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1996 21:50:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: sci fi shows
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Odd, I'd thought Tracy Torme was off Sliders now.  I'd heard
+that, anyway.  Let me know if he's still listed on the show in the new
+eps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1996 21:51:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Another Death?
+
+ Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But will the events we saw unfold as we saw them, or will they be
+> changed? Or did Sheridan exist in two time continuums at the same
+> time? Would his very knowledge of the future shade events
+> somewhat?
+
+      Events will unfold as we saw them.  Sheridan might try to use
+his knowledge to change things...but who knows, that may just bring
+them about.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1996 21:51:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ta'Lon?
+
+ Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Question: Are we going to be seeing more of Ta'Lon?
+
+      Wouldn't mind seeing more of him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 29 Jun 1996 00:25:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Another Death?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yup.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jun 1996 15:44:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Series Renewal
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Due to the timing of Warner Bros' decision to renew, does this
+> give you enough time to assign scripts, and have those authors
+> complete the job in time for filming? Or will you just take the
+> first few episodes yourself? I can not even begin to understand a
+> writer's creative process, but generally how long does it take
+> from the time of story assignment to the time the finished script
+> is submitted?
+
+      Depends on the writer.  Freelance writing almost always takes
+longer because they don't know, and can't be *expected* to know, the
+show as well as you do if you're on staff.  You can have several pitch
+meetings over the course of weeks before a good story walks in (though
+in the case of B5 the stories are generally assigned out by me, saving
+that process); then you wait anywhere from 1-3 weeks for the outline;
+you have a meeting about it; another week or so for the revised
+outline; you have another meeting; then about 2-4 weeks for the first
+draft script; then another meeting; then another 1-3 weeks for the
+second draft.  (These are *optimal* periods, sometimes it's shorter, 
+but usually it's longer.)  And then, on a show as eccentric as B5, you
+often end up rewriting large portions of it anyway.  So it can take as
+much as 2 months or more to produce a shootable script.
+
+      I can write a script in 7 days or less, that's ready to go
+before the camera as written.  Which isn't to say anything qualitative,
+only to say that it's easier and faster because I'm inside the bubble.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jun 1996 15:44:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hyperspace vs. Distance
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, what I said was that *time* works about the same way in
+hyperspace, not distance, nor that there was necessarily a proportional
+1-1 corrolation between realspace and hyperspace.  There's still some
+distance involved in hyperspace, yes, though again there isn't always a
+1-1 corrolation.  It takes 3 days to get to Earth.  It takes 4 days to
+get to Centauri Prime, even though CP is almost twice the distance from
+B5.  It's *extremely* confusing to navigate hyperspace, which is why
+you need the beacons and transfer points, or it's extremely easy to get
+permanently lost.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jun 1996 15:44:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Another Death?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, of course there's free will.  But if I pull a trigger, and
+the bullet flies out hitting someone in the head, what happens between
+the moment of the trigger, and the impact, has nothing to do with free
+will.  Sheridan made the choice -- free will -- to do what was done in
+WWE.  There were two probable results, depending on whether he did or
+didn't do as asked.  Once he did that, the two probabilities folded
+into one actuality (a la Shroedinger's Cat).
+
+      Which doesn't mean to say he won't *try* to change things....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jun 1996 23:25:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: sci fi shows
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Okay, the error here was mine.  I was having dinner with a
+friend a few weeks ago, and catching up on stuff (this friend also
+works in the TV biz) and names were flying around...he mentioned that
+Michael Piller was no longer involved in ST, and Tracy's name came
+up...and this is entirely my own fault, I got the two juxtaposed in my
+head.  So I misspoke myself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jun 1996 23:25:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Slowly but Surely
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, I'll take all the help I can get....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jun 1996 23:25:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Another Death?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Ah...sleeping on the couch again, are we...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1996 02:19:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Studte <100245.2335@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Series Renewal
+
+ Michael Studte <100245.2335@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now, when do we start the campaign to get the series renewed for
+> its fifth year? And is there any light on the horizon for a
+> laserdisk release of the series?
+
+      Thanks.  There's nothing much happening currently on videos or
+disks; in the fullness of time, I suppose....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1996 02:19:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: What of Earth?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, five seasons would be 110 episodes.
+
+      Thanks re: the producer part.  This is probably the one area I
+get asked about the least, and the hardest part of the job.  You have
+to make sure each and every element intersects correctly with every
+other element, and that takes some juggling.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1996 02:19:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A laugh for ya
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's great...and congratulations on the win.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1996 13:53:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Art W. Sullivan <104630.1315@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Just curious...
+
+ Art W. Sullivan <104630.1315@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you start with the place B5 and write forward, letting the
+> story evolve, or backwards from a conclusion? Are you a character
+> or plot driven writer?
+
+       I started with the place, but basically saw the story in one
+full blown moment of clarity...dunno where that sort of thing comes
+from.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1996 13:53:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ta'Lon?
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any regular or semi-regular characters you never want
+> to see again on the show??
+
+       Sure, but those I just don't mention.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1996 13:53:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hyperspace vs. Distance
+
+ Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How many Hyperspace hours away are the various races from Earth ?
+> do all ships travel the same speed in Hyperspace, or can some go
+> faster...meaning shorter travel times, etc ? And, finally :), we
+> know the tech order of the races, does this also equate to their
+> ships speeds ? Is this fast, or slow compared to EA ships ?
+
+       Hyperspace isn't like warp speed, you don't generally run into
+the same problems with time dilation.  It's largely the same in both
+places.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1996 13:53:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE2 Question/Spo
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I think his message to Garibaldi was a momentary lapse, it
+wasn't something he'd planned, his emotions momentarily got in the way
+of his reason. To do so would be dangerous, so it wasn't done by him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1996 19:51:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Smith <103020.3110@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Series Renewal
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Nice quote, thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1996 19:51:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: CHRIS LAND <101750.2526@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Marcus Cole/Jason Carter
+
+ CHRIS LAND <101750.2526@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did Aragorn inspire Marcus as I have heard that you enjoyed LOTR?
+
+      Thanks.  And no, Aragorn didn't inspire Marcus.  There's a lot
+of heroic fantasy stuff that goes a long way beyond Tolkien, after all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1996 14:08:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: [F] ALL (2nd Pass) 
+Subject: From jms re:Email
+
+       Every once in a while I have to put this out as an FYI, so
+those of you who know the routine, stand down...the rest of
+you...c'mere, Unca Straczynski wants a word with you.
+
+       From time to time, my personal email mailbox begins to fill up
+with questions that really should be asked in public forums, and which
+require lengthy, in-depth explanations.  (One such today asked me to
+explain, in detail, the military hierarchy of Earthforce, relative
+strengths of ships, on and on and on.  In itself, not a bad
+question...but asked in email, that means that I have to answer the
+same thing for the next guy who asks, on and on and on.)
+
+       I can't get into detailed, exhaustive discussions of the plot
+or story or characters *in private email*.  If your question is a good
+or a valid one, it should be posted in a public forum, so that others
+can benefit from the answer.  Otherwise either I end up writing pages
+of information over and over again, and nobody else gets the
+information, or I just decline to answer the question.
+
+       The *only* reason for using email is if it's a personal or a
+confidential question, or something you don't want to say on the nets
+for whatever reason.  Please help me to keep my head above water by not
+using email unless there's a valid reason for it.
+
+       If there *is* something you need to express in email, please
+use the genie address (straczynski@genie.geis.com) instead of the
+compuserve address, because the CIS emailbox can only hold 100 letters
+at a time; any more than that which arrive get bumped and sent back or
+deleted.  I lost an important piece of email regarding B5 business
+today because it got shoved out by a letter asking me to explain the
+differences in organization and accountability to oders between the
+religious and military castes of Minbari.
+
+       Bear in mind that with CTS, it *hurts* to type.  The more I
+type, the more it hurts.  (Please don't send me any more info on CTS,
+btw...I have all the available information on CTS, more than most
+doctors right now, and to type a thank you note for each one that comes
+in just makes the problem worse.)  If a question needs answering,
+better if I can answer it once, so everyone can see it, than 15 times
+for one person at a time.  Every keystroke you see from me comes with
+discomfort.
+
+       Please try and use the email address(es) only if there's a
+valid reason for it; otherwise, let others benefit from the sharpness
+and quality of your question by asking it publicly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1996 20:17:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: From jms re:Email
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I can't dictate scripts; I think through my fingers.  Tried it,
+just can't get into the characters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1996 20:17:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hyperspace vs. Distance
+
+ Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean Ships travel at different speeds in Hyperspace ?
+> And maybe the Vorlons and Shadows are so advanced they can go
+> faster, hence the WStar + Battlecruisers ??
+
+      Actually, the White Star doesn't go to Earth in "Severed," it
+goes in "Messages from Earth," and it's stated in dialogue that it
+takes 3 days in that episode as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1996 20:17:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Dugan <71016.576@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hyperspace vs. Distance
+
+ Bill Dugan <71016.576@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it confusing for the First Ones, or just for us younger races?
+
+      Dunno, but it confuses the hell outta me....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1996 20:17:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steven GASKELL <101700.2032@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mimbari Anti Grav.
+
+ Steven GASKELL <101700.2032@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But what if you attach a buttered piece of bread, butter-side up
+> to a cat's back and toss them both out the window? Will the cat
+> land on it's feet? Or will the butter splat on the ground?
+
+      Dropped out of counseling again, I see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1996 20:17:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Minbari Males
+
+ Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this a correct assessment?
+
+      Yes, they can grow facial hair only.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1996 22:14:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Series Renewal
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Have you started lining up directors yet?
+> Is Adam Nimoy slated for any in season 4?
+
+      Yes, we've begun lining up directors; will announce more as we
+get closer to finalizing stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1996 22:14:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: What of Earth?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Second, has there been much shown in the economics of the
+> universe you've created? I've seen postings concerning the
+> relative military and technological strength of the major races
+> -- has there been any similar comparisons of economic influence? 
+> Is it something you consider part of the backstory when writing
+> episodes or is the amazingly complex factors you already juggle
+> quite enough?
+
+      There's been some on economics, not nearly enough, though.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1996 22:14:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS: thestation.com????
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Just how much does WB "own"?
+> I notice everything is copyrighted by WB, so you don't own any of
+> it? If you want to write a novel or make another show based on the
+> B5 universe do you now have to get WB permission? Is this typical?
+
+      Yes, on all TV series, the studio owns the copyright and all
+that entails.  That's why ST in all its forms is (c) Paramount, not
+Roddenberry.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1996 22:14:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: sci fi shows
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I don't generally watch any of the ST shows.  I like X-Files
+quite a bit, haven't seen virtually anything of Sliders...though I can
+tell you now that the next big, nifty show to come along in the
+fantasy/sf genre is going to be "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman.  I've seen
+a couple of episodes of it, and it's neat.  Look for it later in the
+year or spring.  (It's from the BBC.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1996 22:14:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 on WBTV in Euro?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Haven't got a clue.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1996 22:14:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael N. Rubinste <74012.147@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Londo in I&E (Spoilers)
+
+ Michael N. Rubinste <74012.147@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If Londo believes that Adira was killed by Refa, and wants
+> revenge, then why doesn't he just have Refa killed, like he
+> threatened to do?
+
+      Refa is a powerful guy now, with powerful allies; he needs
+money, in large amounts, and more influence, so when and if Refa would
+get it, there wouldn't be the kinds of repercussions that might
+otherwise come, as with a mafia hit, for instance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1996 22:30:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS
+
+ Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It seems clear that there is demand for B5 Merchandise of this
+> type - so can I ask (if I may be so bold) why there is no such
+> merchandise, other than the Micromachines and Stamp sets,
+> availalbe? Have you any information?
+> Oh - before I go, is there any information on B5 Club membership
+> in the UK?
+
+      We're going after the pirates.  On the model front...basically,
+all that has to happen is for a model company to come to us and make a
+deal to produce the models.  (A decent sized company.)  So far, none of
+them have, on the theory that only ST models sell from TV shows.  Maybe
+if they heard from consumers interested in B5 models, they'd come to us
+and make a deal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1996 22:30:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 and Star Wars.
+
+ Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can I just make a little point of observation here?
+> Micheal Statzynski into the same "Great Minds of Science Fiction"
+> category that I think they deserve to be in?
+
+      I can't think of any higher compliment than to be included in
+the same sentence as the Star Wars trilogy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1996 22:30:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elizabeth Elliott <100601.3142@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadows are Beautiful!
+
+ Elizabeth Elliott <100601.3142@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Doesn't anyone else think the same way about this poor, despised
+> race?
+
+      Ah, you are now the first...there will be others....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs96-07 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs96-07
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e41a79d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/CompuServe/cs96-07
@@ -0,0 +1,2625 @@
+JMS CompuServe messages for July 1996.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+Date: 01 Jul 1996 21:46:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill MacIntosh <70275.1372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Fan Club
+
+ Bill MacIntosh <70275.1372@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there a email address to inquire to the status of my
+> membership?
+
+      They're going out in batches; anyone who hasn't received one
+within the next week or two, let me know.  Somebody started sending
+them out bulk mail; they'll go out henceforth either 1st or 2nd class
+mail.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 02 Jul 1996 21:33:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard L. Long <76562.2757@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Fan Club
+
+ Richard L. Long <76562.2757@compuserve.com> asks:
+> question?
+> is it up and running yet?
+
+      The web page isn't up yet, WB is taking forever on the approval.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jul 1996 21:33:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: severed dreams in UK
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, that's what actually happened.  He's a trooper.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jul 1996 21:33:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: sci fi shows
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In what context did Torme's name come up, if I may be so bold as
+> to ask?
+
+      No, everything I've heard concurs with your assessment. 
+Basically, we have a lot of mutual friends in common, and the name just
+came up in conversation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jul 1996 21:33:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Wallace & Grommit D.F.
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      pfthpft
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jul 1996 21:33:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Martin Shaw <101642.505@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Fan Club in the Uk
+
+ Martin Shaw <101642.505@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is the current status on this?
+
+      Okay, we've got a reading on this.  All overseas/foreign Fan
+Club memberships will be handled using Air Mail instead of ground, for
+the same price.  We'll just eat the difference.  So memberships from
+the UK and elsewhere can come on in now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jul 1996 21:33:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE2> <SPOILER> <GRIPE
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Of course, Delenn was trying to save Sheridan from blipping off
+forever into the time stream, so it *did* serve that purpose as well,
+so it did work within the plot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 03 Jul 1996 02:07:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Pokey <72704.1457@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ATTN:JMS - Review Shows
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Usually I carry it around in my head; if I need to quote
+verbatim from a prior episode, for a flashback or the like, then I tend
+to drag out the script and read it; it's easier than fast-forwarding
+through videotape.
+
+      I do tend to rewatch episodes as they're aired in reruns, making
+sure nothing untoward happens to them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jul 1996 02:07:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mara Huebner <101750.2400@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Don't wanna hear that!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      My sense is that these things tend to go in cycles; if you were
+around in the Roaring Twenties, with flappers, jazz, and (to say the
+least) a lapse in morals that went into the first part of the 1930s,
+you'd extrapolate from that to say that the 1950s, by virtue of being
+20 years down the road, would be even MORE loose, more immoral, wilder.
+But, in fact, the 50s were extremely conservative.  And most of the SF
+of the time looked to a future that was as button-down as the present
+of their writers.  Then the looser 60s and 70s, and a rebirth of some
+extent of conservatism in the Reagan 80s and for health reasons.
+
+      The day someone perfects, and distributes, a guaranteed Aids
+vaccine, I think you're going to see another sexual revolution that'll
+make the 60s look like a dinner party.
+
+      So by the time of B5, we're in a bit of a conservative swing
+again, in terms of sexual matters (which often tends to come about
+post-war).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: S.G. Menzel <100537.1517@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Fan Club
+
+ S.G. Menzel <100537.1517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any idea how much longer?
+> Could you post a message here, once the webpage is up and
+> running?
+
+      Thanks, and as soon as WB gets us the approvals, we'll be sure
+to announce the web page just about everydamnwhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sic Transit Vir
+
+ colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It's okay to kill the Narns , after all, it isn't as if they were
+> another sentient species is it? Finally, Claudia, (why can't she
+> come to the Wolf convention - please, pretty please - you'd hate
+> to see a grown man begwouldn't you?
+
+      That's all very encouraging, thanks.  Yeah, it's kind of a fun
+episode, all soft and fuzzy on the outside, with REAL big teeth on the
+inside.  I like that kind of episode a lot.  It's wonderfully
+subversive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Just curious...
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      And there are some who would argue they're the same thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Previously on Babylon 5
+
+ Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you ever consider regularly putting in clips from previous
+> episodes at the start of each programme, in the same manner as,
+> say, LA Law, another programme with multi-episode storylines?
+
+      The problem with putting in clips from previous episodes is that
+we only have about 42-43 minutes to tell our story.  If we put in 30
+seconds or 1 minute of clips from last week, that leaves us with 1 less
+minute to tell our story this week, and in this show, we need every
+second we can get.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Centari Background
+
+ Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) What was the Centari's part in the last Shadow War?
+> 2) How large was the Centari Empire at its peak?
+> 3) What started the downfall of the Centari?
+> 4) What role, if any, did the loss of Narn play in that downfall?
+> 5) How was the Eye lost originally?
+
+      In short form, since this would take forever otherwise...they
+were a fairly large empire at one time, but in areas which didn't
+really connect with what was going on with the last shadow war.  They
+were more or less out of it. The downfall of the republic was mainly
+entropy, it's nearly impossible to maintain control of an empire
+covering light years (or even thousands of miles, as the early British
+Empire discovered, among others), and in that process, the Narn were
+basically the final insult.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Andrew Bradbury <100777.747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: copyrights
+
+ Andrew Bradbury <100777.747@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would I put something like "Copyright Time-Warner 1996", (or am I
+> getting totally confused?), or "Babylon 5 is a trademark of {x}"? 
+> Finally, as the picture is entirely my own work, am I entitled to
+> put my own copyright on the picture (making sure I acknowledge
+> the previous trademarks/copyrights)?
+
+      The copyright is still owned by PTEN, regardless of the future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Glen Guenther <71163.75@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Bootlegs?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      ANY B5 videos of any sort being sold at conventions are bootlegs
+and illegal.  They are crummy quality, and copyright infringement.  We
+have been and will continue to prosecute anyone we find doing this. 
+And I do mean prosecute.  Serious fines are the order of the day.  For
+a second offense, we go for criminal penalties.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: spoilers
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I have enough time living in this dimension without getting into
+what may or may not happen in parallel or alternate universes....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Avalon & Delenn
+
+ Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm curious: What exactly did Marcus/Franklin tell Delenn about
+> David in "A Late Delivery from Avalon" before she went in to
+> recover the sword? Did they tell her who he was and what he did?
+> Did they tell her what "role" the wanted her to play?
+> Did they tell her to get the sword?
+
+      She was told the whole background...including who David really
+was. She was in a way taking the pain from someone who had attacked the
+very ship she and the other Grey council members had been aboard.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ship Of Tears-Mira
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I couldn't agree more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Dancing
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What else would beings with eight legs want except to "shake"
+> 'em? So when can we expect to see Garibaldi in a white Disco-suit
+> singing "Staying Alive" <g>?
+
+      Never have I seen a better reason to log off and never, ever
+turn my modem on again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Susan and Talia
+
+ Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did I miss something?
+> Was anything ever actually confirmed between the two of them or
+> was it merely hinted at as being a possibility?
+
+      They weren't shown in separate beds.  We saw Talia reaching over
+to the empty space in the bed where Ivanova had been, and finding her
+gone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Delenn as a child
+
+ Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we ever find out who/what Delenn saw as a child in that old
+> temple?
+
+      Probably.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jul 1996 12:08:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Bootlegs?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What should we do, next time?
+
+       Best to get their card and let me know the details; we'll take
+it from there.
+
+       There've been enough inquiries on this that I'm thinking maybe
+I ought to make some kind of general policy statement for folks to
+have.  I'll try to get to it soonish.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jul 1996 12:08:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Glen Guenther <71163.75@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Bootlegs?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Nah, it ain't worth your hassle.  They show up again later.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jul 1996 20:43:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Last Episode Name
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So how did you manage that?
+> Didja throw teddy bears at him?
+
+      At Chicago, the assumption was still that the UK wouldn't be
+getting the final 5 until the US did.  But since now they'll be getting
+new (to the US) episodes starting in August, keeping the title quiet
+now seems kind of a moot issue.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jul 1996 20:48:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sic Transit Vir
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, yeah, I love the range we get on the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 10 Jul 1996 21:08:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: J.M.S. at S.D.C.C.
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, standing and pacing for ninty minutes must be tiring,
+> couldn't they get you a bar stool?
+
+      There were chairs there, but I would've been low-eye level, and
+given that there were SO many folks so FAR in the back, all you
+would've seen from that distance would've been the table and a little
+bump for a head.  So I stayed on my feet.  Besides, a moving target is
+harder to hit....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Jul 1996 21:08:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Harlan Ellison on Snyder
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Because he and Snyder are long-term serious buddies, and he'd
+brought Harlan there to talk about his heart attack, and flog the book,
+and it just didn't occur to him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Jul 1996 21:08:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Susan and Talia
+
+ O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Indirectly unrelated to this, wouldn't intimate contact make it
+> more difficult for Susan to hide any psi tendencies from Talia? 
+> Also indirectly unrelated, given the previous statements by Talia
+> about the intensity of mutual telepath love, do telepaths in
+> general view intimacy with non-telepaths as a lesser experience,
+> and so typically avoid "normals" as lovers?
+
+      Well, a telepath can also hold it back and avoid dipping any
+further into someone's mind, if not permitted or asked not to do so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 12 Jul 1996 14:17:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. Vallely <103351.1752@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 BUBBLE BUDDY
+
+ William H. Vallely <103351.1752@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now, Warners does have *some* proprietary interest in the show,
+> right? I mean, how can they expect to get a better deal from
+> someone else when they could publish it themselves? Stirling
+> written?
+
+       S.M. Stirling's credits are beyond reproach, and if you don't
+know who that is, or what he's done, then the loss is yours...and
+you're simply showing your ignorance here of written SF.  And we've had
+lots of other quality SF writers doing our books, like Neal Barrett Jr.
+and Lois Tilton and John Vornholt, among others.  But I guess maybe you
+don't know who THEY are either.
+
+       That's okay...they don't know who you are, either.
+
+       Re: the comic...yes, WB did want DC to do it originally, and
+they did so for some time.  But they're really not set up these days to
+do much licensed stuff, the Star Trek books and other licensed stuff
+have pretty much all gone to other publishers.  Creatively, things
+weren't working out, and in reality, WB can get more from an outside
+company that pays larger bucks for the license than with an in-house
+company which doesn't have to.
+
+       So again, your facts don't touch reality at any two contiguous
+points.
+
+       And yes, there *is* a large demand for B5 merchandise.  And if
+you used this forum for any purpose other than to issue snide
+commentaries, you would know that from *day one* on this series, I've
+stated very openly that I do not WANT a lot of merchandising on this
+show while it's in production. I'm taking the Calvin and Hobbes model
+on this one.  I said here, in front of all the users on CIS, GEnie and
+elsewhere, long before we were ever in a position to even get offers,
+that I intended to drag my feet on licensing, because I've been
+involved with, or seen too often shows in which the tail began wagging 
+the dog, where merchandise begins to drive the show.
+
+       I refuse to allow that to happen with B5.  It's real simple:
+you tell the story first.  Make the show first.  Then, when it's all
+done, if it's a hit, and ours is growing steadily, then there's all the
+time in the world to do some merchandising.  If not, it's a moot
+question anyway.  For every 10 prospective licensing deals that come
+through my hands, I appove only 1, and usually with a great deal of
+conditions involved, and direct creative supervision.
+
+       Bill Watterson could've made gazillions of dollars licensing
+all kinds of Calvin and Hobbes stuff.  His friends wanted him to, the
+company REALLY wanted him to, others couldn't understand why he
+wouldn't do it...but he understood the importance of the story, and the
+product.  Take care of that first, and the rest will attend to itself
+later.  He made a good living doing what he was doing, and I do okay
+too...how much more do you need?
+
+       I guess it's beyond your comprehension that anyone would
+actually turn down money, or want to do something for reasons other
+than money. Again, the loss is yours.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Jul 1996 14:17:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Delenn Kissing
+
+ Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> where *does* Delenn pick up those sayings like "Something in the
+> air"? Are you *serious*?
+> Did she really?
+
+       Nope, just kidding.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Jul 1996 22:08:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean that there's still a chance to see the books you
+> were going to write?
+
+      Yup.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Jul 1996 22:08:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Previously on Babylon 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  It's kind of like building a text-hologram, I
+suppose....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Jul 1996 22:08:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Troy Starr <74752.3172@compuserve.com>
+Subject: You are number 29!
+
+ Troy Starr <74752.3172@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That got me thinking: If you had the choice, how would you have
+> prefered the show to be created and distributed? Would you prefer
+> independant distribution (such as PTEN), a cable network (TNT),
+> or a broadcast network? the market penetration of a prime time
+> broadcast network slot?
+
+      It'd be either a guarantee from a cable network -- which would
+let us do a lot more in terms of language and hard storylines -- or
+syndication. This show wouldn't have lasted long on the networks, which
+invariably tend to interfere creatively, and only give short orders to
+start.  This is a very eccentric show....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1996 21:27:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Bored of the Rings
+
+ Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Seriously for a second...are you going to be writing the episodes
+> for Season 4 under the assumption that there shall be a Season 5
+> at the moment? Oh, and if you are writing them assuming that there
+> will be an S5, do you have a Master Plan to bring us the end of
+> the story should Warners fail us???
+
+        I'll have more on this once I've worked it out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1996 21:27:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ch.4 (UK) edits violence
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, and yeah, when you get "Shadow Dancing," I'd love to see
+how much the slice outta this one....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1996 21:27:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steve Gill <73260.1723@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 in the newspaper!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, any quotes you can remember from the article?  I haven't
+seen it yet.
+
+      (Or you could send a copy to me c/o Babylon 5 at the usual
+address, 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1996 21:27:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Avalon Q's
+
+ Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Will we see/hear from David/Arthur again?
+> 2) Is Morden in any way related to Mordred?
+> 3) Ivanova said (in MOH I think) that "We will all die horrible
+> lingering deaths" - is this important?
+
+      The answer to all those is, nominally, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1996 21:27:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Avalon & Delenn
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  Actually, there are 5 more season 3 eps left to air, in
+October, followed by new season 4 eps in November.
+
+      Thanks again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1996 22:56:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Previously on Babylon 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, as I think I indicated, WWE is probably the one most in
+need of prior episodes, but in general, the rule applies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1996 22:56:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Bored of the Rings
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Don't worry about it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1996 22:56:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS:Budget B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I guess maybe Dick Robertson would be the one to write to at WB
+and thank; his address is in the faq.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1996 22:56:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ch.4 (UK) edits violence
+
+ Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> ASide to that how much time do Channel 4 have to do the
+> 'required' edits before it's broadcast ?
+
+      We usually get "censor-check" copies to C4 about 2-3 months
+ahead, so there's plenty of time to make any edits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1996 22:56:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Narns conquerers?
+
+ David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this accurate?
+
+      They had a brief period after the Centauri got driven out where
+they were throwing their weight around, yes.  Didn't last long, though.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1996 22:56:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Minbari & League Ques.
+
+ Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When was the Earth-Minbari war ?
+> And it was the DSEV Amundsen that fired, was it not ?
+> How many (roughly) Alien races are in the League Of Non-Aligned
+> Worlds ? Are there just the ones in the B5 Counsel ?
+> Or are there a few more ?
+
+      The Earth/Minbari war ended in 2247, and there were several
+ships in the initial contact convoy, the Amundsen and the Prometheus.
+
+      The membership in the League varies widely and frequently, so a
+good count is difficult.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1996 22:56:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I&E
+
+ Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A race of critters who started out in hyperspace?
+> Who could have let them out?
+
+      No, they didn't exactly start out in hyperspace, but they were
+among the first to get into it, and they know a lot of tricks in and
+out and around it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1996 22:56:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE1-2 Questions
+
+ Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we ever see more of the Centauri Prime future line (around
+> the time of Sheridan's 'visit')?
+
+      We won't actually go back to that future time again, but we will
+see the events which cause it to come about.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1996 23:02:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Cherns Major <75026.3723@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE-Homage?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I've never seen the Dr. Who ep you mention, and I'm at an utter
+loss to call any of Feydeau's work to mind, so that may answer the
+question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1996 21:42:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Don Crossman <75147.175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Previously on Babylon 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  I know the feeling; I get the same reaction when I read
+Jonathan Carroll's books.  It's the nearest thing I've seen in writing
+to close-up magic, it's *right there* in your face, and you can't see
+how he's doing it.  If the stuff in I&E came even close to that, then
+I'm happy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1996 21:42:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Art W. Sullivan <104630.1315@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Bored of the Rings
+
+ Art W. Sullivan <104630.1315@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Contrary to other peoples worries, do you feel, that it will be
+> easier getting B5 renewed for year 5, than it was for year 4? Now
+> that WB has shelled out the money for 4 years of B5, even if
+> rating dropped slightly ( not that they will ), wouldn't it be
+> better to complete year 5 and try for a greater syndication price
+> based on a 5 year complete series than a partially completed 4
+> year run?
+
+      It's a sensible position, yes.  Let us hope they can be
+reasonable.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1996 21:42:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Thoughts + Positions
+
+ Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you get around and reply too so many messages ?
+> All I would like to know is are *all* the races, including
+> Vorlons and Shadows between 2-4 days hyperspace from B5 ? We know
+> Earth is 3 days, Centauri Prime is 4 days.Someone said the Vorlon
+> Homeword was 4 days, and Narn 2 days...can you confirm this ? Are
+> the shadows far away, just a couple of days ?
+
+      The majority of races are within that range because that's as
+far as they've gone in putting in navigational beacons, without which
+traveling in hyperspace can be extremely dangerous.  You sort of inch
+your way outwards.
+
+      And thanks...it is a massive task, moreso than most folks will
+ever know, or should ever know...but it's worth it in the end.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1996 21:42:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Avalon & Delenn
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It was prompted by needs that developed in the story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1996 21:42:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE1 - dialog
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are they still "speaking Minbari" with the English presented for
+> our benefit, a la "Red October"?
+
+      No, he slid into Minbari at that point to try and conceal what
+was being said from the others on the bridge.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1996 22:12:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Studte <100245.2335@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Fan Club Kit!
+
+ Michael Studte <100245.2335@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know if there is ANY way to get them to ship things via
+> air (to Australia)?
+
+      We're shipping all foreign orders airmail rather than surface
+and just eating the cost difference.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1996 22:12:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 and its Morals
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'd actually offer that we're not a moral show at all, but
+rather an ethical show.  We don't generally tell people what to think,
+or which road they have to take.  Rather, we raise ethical issues for
+the purpose of provoking discussion so people can define their stands
+for themselves.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 17 Jul 1996 13:15:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Praise for B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, you've just made my day.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jul 1996 13:15:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Fan Club Kit!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       By next week, we'll be able to post a direct phone number for
+Jim Lockett at the fan club, and an email address.  If you haven't
+gotten anything by then, contact him directly and he'll resend.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 18 Jul 1996 11:46:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS: ?? <<SPOILERS
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> I can see why you can't answer questions #2 & #3, but how could
+> the age of Delenn and Sheridan's child spoil a plot? Would it make
+> a difference if he was 5 or 15 at the time?
+
+       It's not that I *can't* answer the question, I simply choose
+not to. There is no requirement here that I HAVE to answer every single
+question unless I'm specifically prohibited for some reason.  Some
+things I just prefer to hold back until a later time.  You may not know
+the reasons, but I do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Jul 1996 11:46:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Video Tapes/ Mail Order
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, I actually don't know what the deal is on that.  It would
+have to be legit (though only for the UK) because they're being very
+open about it. It's like any mail order video company, I assume.  They
+buy in bulk, and sell it via mail for a discount.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jul 1996 02:20:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Vs ST:Voyager
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, that's been one of the big problems, more and more nights
+are being committed to either UPN or Fox or WBN...syndicated shows are
+being squeezed out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jul 1996 02:20:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Awards
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that the Emmy nominations have been announced, and the
+> inevitable reactions from the netted are battering at you, I
+> would ask, "What award currently given to television would mean
+> the most to you?" Is there a particular award that you would find
+> most gratifying to receive?
+
+"Is there a particular award that you would find most gratifying to
+receive?"
+
+Speaking as a long-term fan...the Hugo.
+
+jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jul 1996 02:20:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS: ?? <<SPOILERS
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Did you mean to say you "could" answer every question "if" you
+> chose, UNLESS you were specifically prohibited by WB from doing
+> so? So you just basically feel that reveling his age would be a
+> major spoiler of some kind?
+
+      Well, logically, you could backtrack from there to figure out
+exactly when Sheridan and Delenn...er...get together.  I'd rather let
+that come along at its own pace.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 19 Jul 1996 16:50:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Emmys
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Any Nemmy onminations?
+
+       John Flinn got a nomination for cinematograhy for "Inquisitor."
+Last year we sent videotapes of our up-for-nomination episodes, and got
+three nominations for it.  But WB got upset by this -- they don't do
+this for their other shows, we did it on our own -- and ordered us not
+to do it again.  The other shows don't need it because they're network
+shows and get good exposure; most syndicated shows (non-Trek) tend not
+to be Emmy aspirees, so it's not a problem there.  We're in between,
+and we were, in effect, producing videotapes, and they didn't want
+that.  So we had to sit on our hands and not do what we knew would
+result in getting more noms. It's very frustrating.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jul 1996 17:15:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: B5 Fan Club Email
+
+Jim Lockett, head of the Official B5 Fan Club, now has an email
+address which can be used for inquiries and notifications of unarrived
+stuff.  His address is:
+
+JPLB5@AOL.COM
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1996 15:57:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ch.4 (UK) edits violence
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It is, not to put too fine a point on it...EXTREMELY important
+to see "Shadow Dancing."  If they choose to cut the nasty bits that's
+one thing, it won't affect what You Need To See, but to not run it at
+all would be a disaster of substantial dimensions.  Still, I imagine
+they'll run it; the nasty bits can be excised pretty well, if
+necessary, I should think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1996 15:57:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 and its Morals
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, I don't think so, because that plunges you too deeply into
+the mire of situational morality or situational ethics.  Granted,
+there's always a certain element of situational judgment in these
+things ("It's wrong to kill. The martians are about to flatten the
+country.  KILL 'EM.")  But the decision making process should, ideally,
+be on what seems the *right* thing to do rather than the *convenient*
+thing to do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1996 15:57:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Emmys
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> WHAT!!!!!!?????!!!!!
+> What the HELL is the problem with those guys????
+> What are they afraid of??
+> Do they think that your sending out a few video tapes of the show
+> to the people doing the voting is going to lower the ratings or
+> something???
+
+      No comment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1996 15:57:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John L. Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Emmys
+
+ John L. Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What on earth is the motivation for this, if you can comment?
+
+      I don't think I can comment without getting in just a HEAP of
+trouble.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1996 15:58:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: "INDEPENDENCE DAY" AWFUL
+
+ William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why did they(the studio) even bother in the first place without
+> serious revisions having at least been done first??!! Have people
+> become this lame in mentality, this stupid??????? Where has common
+> sense gone by en large, and have people learned to just 'shut
+> their brains off' when they go to a theater?
+
+      Thanks.  I saw ID4 this week, and on one level, could enjoy it
+for the technical expertise (I think they ate our lunch in some visual
+areas, and now somebody else is doing Big Fleet stuff, so we have to
+work to stay ahead of the curve again).  But story wise, yeah, there
+was some massively dopey stuff in there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1996 15:58:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Antony Jackson <100025.2004@compuserve.com>
+Subject: UK Media Articles
+
+ Antony Jackson <100025.2004@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Bester, the Psi Corps member with the slimy manners and bad wig,
+> is now working with Sheridan, but can he be trusted?
+
+      That's great to know, thanks for passing it along.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1996 15:58:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randy Hoppe <74403.2532@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Tri-Luminary -> The One
+
+ Randy Hoppe <74403.2532@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can we expect to see him using the Tri-Luminary in the future?
+
+      Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1996 21:56:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Fan Club Kit!
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Lockett?
+
+      Drop Jim a note.  Never hurts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1996 21:56:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 and its Morals
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  We rarely draw events 1 for 1 from the real world; it's
+a sad thing I suppose but certain tragic themes have a way of recurring
+over the generations.  We just give them different names.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1996 21:57:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ship of Tears
+
+ Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> protect what?!
+> Is this going to be explained in Shadow Dancing?
+> have the shadows reopened the facility that you mentioned in
+> Messages From Earth and the comics? Is this Mars link important?
+
+      Kill telepaths to protect the Machine from them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1996 21:57:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Minbari Background
+
+ Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How is it done, or is it some combination of these things that
+> determine a Minbari's caste?
+
+      In "Legacies" the question of caste heritage had more to do with
+how your death is handled than what you're determined to be in life.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1996 21:57:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Minbari names?
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this significant?
+
+      No, various families on Minbar use various common surnames,
+prefixes and suffixes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1996 21:57:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Continuity Error?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, if they had survived the first encounter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1996 22:05:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Fan Club Kit!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Write jplb5@aol.com if you haven't received your stuff yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1996 22:05:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New War Room Staff
+
+ Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I've just watched Ship of Tears, and looking at the new War Room,
+> I wondered how much the ordinary technical staff know about the
+> Shadows?, are they a selected and trusted few or are all B5 (ex
+> Earthforce) personnel now pretty much aware of what's going on ? 
+> PS who do the flying saucers belong to???
+
+      Everyone now pretty much knows what's going on.  It's out in the
+open now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 23 Jul 1996 16:41:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: "INDEPENDENCE DAY" AWFUL
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How come we've never seen one on B5?
+> Hasn't Dicovery done one, or did we manage to miss it?
+> With Chris Franke doing the music for that show, can't you
+> contact the producers and get into their lineup? Or is this
+> another example of WB a**h***ishness?
+
+       Movie Magic wanted to do an hour on B5, but it was nixed by WB;
+we hope to do one eventually, though.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jul 1996 16:41:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Video Tapes/ Mail Order
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's great to hear, thanks!
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jul 1996 16:41:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 on Video.
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No and no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jul 1996 16:41:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Won Bin . Lee <76770.162@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE1 - dialog
+
+ Won Bin . Lee <76770.162@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Out of curiosity, will there ever be books on B5 languages like
+> they have for Klingons?
+
+       Doubtful.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jul 1996 22:52:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Don Crossman <75147.175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Fan Club Email
+
+ Don Crossman <75147.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Question: I sent a query (from my AOL acct); Is he acknowledging
+> msgs or not?
+
+      Jim's gotten a lot of email on this, but that's good, it lets us
+track down where the problems are.  But it may take him a while to
+acknowledge it all, given that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 23 Jul 1996 16:41:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: "INDEPENDENCE DAY" AWFUL
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How come we've never seen one on B5?
+> Hasn't Dicovery done one, or did we manage to miss it?
+> With Chris Franke doing the music for that show, can't you
+> contact the producers and get into their lineup? Or is this
+> another example of WB a**h***ishness?
+
+       Movie Magic wanted to do an hour on B5, but it was nixed by WB;
+we hope to do one eventually, though.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jul 1996 16:41:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Video Tapes/ Mail Order
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's great to hear, thanks!
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jul 1996 16:41:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 on Video.
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No and no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jul 1996 16:41:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Won Bin . Lee <76770.162@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE1 - dialog
+
+ Won Bin . Lee <76770.162@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Out of curiosity, will there ever be books on B5 languages like
+> they have for Klingons?
+
+       Doubtful.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jul 1996 22:52:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Don Crossman <75147.175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Fan Club Email
+
+ Don Crossman <75147.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Question: I sent a query (from my AOL acct); Is he acknowledging
+> msgs or not?
+
+      Jim's gotten a lot of email on this, but that's good, it lets us
+track down where the problems are.  But it may take him a while to
+acknowledge it all, given that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1996 21:07:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Video Tapes/ Mail Order
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's wonderful...would've loved to have heard that one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1996 21:14:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Apology to jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Re: apologies...unnecessary.  We learn by our mistakes, and move
+on. The incident is forgotten, gone.  We move on.
+
+      To your questions...there's always been a side-story that could
+go off after the 5 years in the B5 universe, but it wouldn't be B5.  No
+reference books planned for now, or anything filmic currently on the
+boards.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1996 21:14:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Timmorn <104444.3110@compuserve.com>
+Subject: entertainment utility
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, we noted that one...it got past all of us until the darned
+thing came out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1996 21:07:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Video Tapes/ Mail Order
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's wonderful...would've loved to have heard that one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1996 21:14:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Apology to jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Re: apologies...unnecessary.  We learn by our mistakes, and move
+on. The incident is forgotten, gone.  We move on.
+
+      To your questions...there's always been a side-story that could
+go off after the 5 years in the B5 universe, but it wouldn't be B5.  No
+reference books planned for now, or anything filmic currently on the
+boards.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1996 21:14:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Timmorn <104444.3110@compuserve.com>
+Subject: entertainment utility
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, we noted that one...it got past all of us until the darned
+thing came out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 25 Jul 1996 11:30:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Cherns Major <75026.3723@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE-Homage?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jul 1996 11:30:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TV GUIDE article
+
+ William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Your show in an issue where Trek was also focused on??!!
+
+       I stay off the road for the good of the commonweal; it's not
+something I feel is negotiable, just personally.  It's unquestionably a
+pain in the butt.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1996 12:35:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ship of Tears
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Which book??
+
+       The story is "The Cask of Amontillado," by Edgar Allen Poe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1996 12:35:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms Songwriter ?
+
+ Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 2) Who sings the songs?
+
+       No, not a career move; it's not widely known -- I guess mainly
+because I haven't ever mentioned it much -- but from time to time I've
+written songs. Mainly the lyrics; I know how the music should sound,
+but I'm incapable of reading music...I think it's the same mental
+glitch that hits me when I try to do certain kinds of math.  "X is a
+numerical value." "No, X is a letter, 7 is a numerical value."  I can't
+ever seem to make the one equal the other in my head.  Similarly, a
+black note on a piece of paper isn't the music...anyway, it's a
+glitch.)
+
+       So when I write songs, and I have a specific melody I'm hearing
+in my head, I'm invariably placed in the humiliating position (since I
+can't play a musical instrument) of humming it, or somehow trying to
+suggest it to the music-person.  Suffice to say it looks really goofy
+and stupid.
+
+       Anyway...despite this, I do sometimes write songs, and like to
+keep my hand in, as they say.  I did two songs for an ABC-TV prime-time
+Real Ghostbusters special, did a few songs that have been recorded by
+small groups (you've never heard of any of them, trust me), another
+song that, much to my chagrin, is apparently still being used in church
+songbooks (and that's all I will ever say about that)...and when I
+decided to do a show with a singer for B5, I wrote a couple of songs
+for that one, with Chris Franke providing the music.
+
+       They're bluesy, Billie Holliday kinds of songs, updated
+slightly. I'm actually very pleased with how they came out (Erica
+Gimpel, one of the cast members from Fame, plays the part and sings the
+songs).  Several folks around here want either or both songs to come
+out on the next B5 album, but I"m loathe to do so, on the theory that
+the soundtracks work better in the style we've already used, all
+instrumental.  (There've even been some inquiries from music people
+who've heard the songs about releasing them commercially, but that
+would mean adding about 30 seconds to each song to make them airplay 
+compatible, and I'm not sure I want to take on the extra hassle just
+now.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1996 12:35:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Delenn question (spoiler)
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       She wanted to see Kosh to assure herself that the Vorlons, who
+she'd never met before, were who she believed them to be, and that this
+was a true Vorlon and not a pretender.  He had to be in place as part
+of Valen's prophecy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1996 21:29:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Apology to jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm also the executive producer, I basically *make* the show,
+overseeing every aspect of production, hiring directors, actors,
+supervising sets, costumes, efx, you name it.
+
+      It takes 7 days to film an episode.  My favorite is probably
+"Shadow Dancing," which you haven't seen yet, mainly because I haven't
+been able to poke any holes in it yet.  It's a good ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1996 21:29:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TV GUIDE article
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The show has been an uphill battle from the first day until
+today. After a while, you just kinda get used to it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 27 Jul 1996 14:31:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TV Zone
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Photos of me?  Oh, dear.  Now nobody'll buy it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jul 1996 14:36:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TV-Guide B5 article
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      What a great image....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jul 1996 14:36:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Stephen Chatwood <100522.1020@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE_Possible arc hole
+
+ Stephen Chatwood <100522.1020@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Then at the end of WWE we see Sinclair flanked by a couple of
+> Vorlons, about 900 years before Babylon5 existed?? Any comments?
+
+      Bear in mind that there have been lots of folks named Sinclair
+in the last 900 years; that we don't know how much Valen told anyone
+about his prior life; that the Minbari had had little to no direct
+contact with the Vorlons in well over a hundred years and likely would
+not have told them what they found at the Battle of the Line until such
+time as personal contact had been made again, which only happened at
+Kosh's arrival...and there wasn't exactly time to make a report after
+he rolled into B5 for the first time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jul 1996 23:38:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Apology to jms
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Are there serious, concrete plans for this "side story"?
+
+      All I can say for now is that WB has asked us to make a
+presentation to them on a possible sequel; this has been done.  They've
+now asked us to go to the next step of making a demo reel.  In
+addition, there's some very exciting stuff going on with TNT that I
+can't talk about yet, but hope to be able to do so soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jul 1996 23:38:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Snow White?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      ....oh, shrock....
+
+      No, don't go.  It's terrible.  Everyone dies.  Your kid will end
+up traumatized.  The surgeon general issued a report advising against
+it.  Whole communities have outlawed it.  I...I....
+
+      I was a much younger fellow when I wrote that.  I was, I think,
+about 18 or 19; I'd written a number of produced one-act plays at 16
+and 17, but this was my first commissioned play, and one of my first
+long-term produced full-length plays, running summer stock in the San
+Diego area for 16 weeks. You can't hold what I wrote at 18 against me
+now.
+
+      I don't remember anything about it.  I've flensed it from
+memory.  I can't...I....awk....
+
+      <no carrier>
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1996 08:58:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: [F] ALL (2nd pass) 
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+The following information has just been released by Jim Lochett,
+coordinator for the OFFICIAL BABYLON 5 FAN CLUB.  (Note to
+convention organizers: the address given below can now be used
+as a central clearing house for invitations to cast and crew.)
+
+                                ***
+
+                  THE OFFICIAL BABYLON 5 FAN CLUB
+
+Join today and you will receive the Official Membership Kit,
+including:
+
+     A Subscription to The Universe Today: The Official Newsletter of
+     the B5FC filled with exclusive interviews, news about Babylon 5, 
+     and exciting merchandise offers.
+     An 8x10 Cast Photo
+     Full Color Babylon 5 Mini-Poster (13"x20")
+     B5 Fan Club Button & Full Color Sticker
+     Membership Certificate (Signed by the show's Executive Producers,
+     J. Michael Straczynski and Douglas Netter)
+     Membership ID Card granting you discounts on merchandise,
+     conventions, etc., as well as access to the Members Only section of
+     TheStation.com, the B5 Fan Club Web-site (to be up May 1996).
+     Plus as a bonus, the first 100 people to join get:
+     A Limited Collection Sticker of the alternate B5 Logo as designed
+     by artist Peter Ledger.
+
+================
+
+To Give a Membership as a Gift, simply make a copy of the entry form,
+fill in the name of the person you wish to make a member, and send it
+off. (Don't forget to include your name on the Suggestions line, so
+that we can include a gift card.)
+
+Each year the Renewal Kit will offer new and different goodies,
+savings, and of course another year's subscription to The Universe
+Today.
+
+Remember, this is more than just your run of the mill fan club; the
+Babylon 5 fans time and time again have gone that extra step for the
+show, and the Babylon 5 Fan Club is our way of giving something back to
+those who've been so loyal to us.
+
+ ----------------  CLIP OR COPY AND GIVE TO A FRIEND -------------------
+
+YES!  I want to join The Official Babylon 5 Fan Club.  Please send my
+membership kit to:
+
+Name:    _______________________________________________________________
+
+Age:     __________
+
+Address: _______________________________________________________________
+
+City:    _____________________________ State:  ___________ ZIP: ________
+
+Country:  _____________
+
+e-mail address: ________________________________________________________
+
+Local Station you watch B5 on: _________________________________________
+
+Suggestions: ___________________________________________________________
+
+  ______________________________________________________________________
+
+  _____ I am already on the mailing list.
+
+  _____ I got this form from a friend.
+
+Enclosed is $12.95 for a U.S. membership; $14.95 for a Canadian
+membership; and $19.95 for Foreign memberships.  Orders must be in U.S.
+funds. Send check or money order (DO NOT send cash) made payable to:
+
+Babylonian Productions/Fan Club
+
+Mail to:  The Official Babylon 5 Fan Club
+          PO Box 856
+          North Hollywood, CA 91603
+
+Please allow 5-6 weeks for delivery.  Foreign and Canadian orders are
+shipped surface, please allow additional time for shipping.
+
+All returned checks are subject to a $15.00 service charge.
+
+ ----------------  CUT HERE FOR THE END OF THE FORM ------------------
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1996 14:00:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Apology to jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That breakdown is about right; and no, Minbari don't count as
+First Ones.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1996 14:00:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TV Zone
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Agreed, darned careless of them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1996 20:51:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TV GUIDE article
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's common today, in our age of cynicism, to deride anything in
+which the people involved feel passionately about what they do.  We
+should all be laid back, do it for the money, just churn out sausage
+between commercials; if you get passionate about something, you're told
+to chill out, because passion is passe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1996 21:06:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Apology to jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The B5 copyright belongs to PTEN/WB.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1996 21:06:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Post B5 Years...
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What exactly is a "demo reel"?
+> Is it more like a pilot episode complete with actors or more like
+> a series of highlight clips? I know the sequel is in the B5
+> universe but time-wise would it be before, after or during the
+> current timeline? Does the TNT deal have to do with the broadcast
+> of B5 reruns?
+
+      No, the TNT situation involves something else, though it relates
+to B5. More on this when things are settled.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1996 21:06:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neville White <101352.1023@compuserve.com>
+Subject: IaE in UK
+
+ Neville White <101352.1023@compuserve.com> asks:
+> presumably Adira was actually poisoned by Mordens cronies, since
+> he was looking for a way to hurt Londo, and we saw him finding
+> out information about her? I don't remember seeing any rangers in
+> this episode - where did he come in? Will we ever find out why
+> Kosh allowed himself to be "poisoned" in the pilot episode now? 
+> What was the flash of light running across B5 when Kosh died? Does
+> Delenn know what the shadows are after (considering the war from
+> a 1000 years ago, I would have thought that the star faring
+> Minbari would have had pretty good records)? Will you tell us?
+> What happens to the information Kosh recorded about Talia back in
+> year1?
+
+Thanks...to your questions:
+
+"1. presumably Adira was actually poisoned by Mordens cronies, since
+he was looking for a way to hurt Londo, and we saw him finding out
+information about her?"
+
+Correct.
+
+"2. In the final credits, a ranger is mentioned. I don't remember
+seeing any rangers in this episode - where did he come in?"
+
+His scene was snipped for time, it was a small one, didn't add much to
+the story, but you have to keep those credits in under SAG rules.
+
+"3. Will we ever find out why Kosh allowed himself to be "poisoned" in
+the pilot episode now?"
+
+You're assuming he allowed it.
+
+"4. What was the flash of light running across B5 when Kosh died?"
+
+A non-localized phenomenon.
+
+"5. Early on, when Sheriden was talking to Delenn, he wants to know
+"what the Shadows are really after". Delenn looks like she is
+resolutely not saying anything and hoping that the conversation moves
+on before Sheriden presses for an answer... which it does. Does Delenn
+know what the shadows are after (considering the war from a 1000 years
+ago, I would have thought that the star faring Minbari would have had
+pretty good records)?"
+
+They do, and she does, and she's making a few mistakes that may come
+back to haunt her in the not too distant future.
+
+"6. Will you tell us? (answer = cryptic "YES" no doubt!)"
+
+In the fullness of time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1996 21:06:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Greyest of the Grey
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question is: given the fact that the overall plan for B5 and
+> the themes involved were pre-organized, do you ever find themes
+> that are there, but that you did not consciously plan, and, if
+> so, do those "themes trouves" influence how you write future
+> episodes?
+
+      To the two parts of this...yes, there's always been the
+undercurrent in the series that says we are our brother's keeper, that
+we have an obligation to look out for one another.  If we're bound and
+determined to seek our own destruction nothing can stop that...but
+anything less, and a kind word in the right place, an action taken at
+the right time, can bend history and help others.  This is part of the
+community sense that comes through so strongly in B5.
+
+      And yes, there are sometimes themes that come out without my
+knowing it; sometimes I wear my heart on my sleeve more than I
+intended, and stuff slips through, thematically and dialogue-wise, that
+later I see and wish I'd left out.  Sometimes it'll be much later when
+I'll realize what a character was REALLY saying when s/he whispered a
+line or two into my brain, and I'll perceive again that the characters
+are smarter than I am sometimes...and take that thematic element and
+run with it.
+
+      And no, I won't tell you which was which....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 29 Jul 1996 12:39:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Apology to jms
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> May one assume that, given these new potential offers, that you
+> might be willing to postpone your retirement from television for
+> a few years (please, please, PLEASE..)?
+
+       We will see what we will see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jul 1996 12:39:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: AsstOp Mike Willmoth <76170.1037@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Episode Character Titles
+
+ AsstOp Mike Willmoth <76170.1037@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why the difference?
+
+       Because putting Ambassador at the start of each name would look
+odd after a while, and many people wouldn't get to the second name
+before it scrolled off; because Delenn and G'Kar only have the one
+name, and to break it for Londo...well, what the heck.  So the Centauri
+get screwed for a change, it's about time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jul 1996 12:39:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: IaE in UK
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       A personal transport is assigned to one vorlon for life,
+changing and evolving over time.  Little fighters have a more primitive
+system.  It's not the same thing as a shadow-vessel merge.  A big
+Vorlon cruiser has a full crew.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jul 1996 12:39:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WWE_Possible arc hole
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I think it'd be hard to just drop in Garibaldi's attitudes
+about Valen without it having something to do with an episode; if it
+doesn't move that particualr episode along, it shouldn't be there.  So
+that sort of thing is tough to pull off, making the show more
+unfriendly to new viewers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jul 1996 12:39:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Helene Northway <72370.1026@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+ Helene Northway <72370.1026@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any word for those of us who sent checks/form in in April and
+> haven't received anything yet????
+
+       There've been some problems with the post office; send a note
+to jplb5@aol.com to let him know your situation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jul 1996 12:39:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Nothing personal, Joe, but why are you soliciting membership in a
+> "fan club" when most of us who applied for membership and sent
+> money months ago haven't received anything?
+
+       No, it's not vapor.  Many people *have* received their stuff. 
+So it's there, and it's working, but there have been some glitches in
+the post office side that blindsided us.  A "vapor club" is one where
+you sign up and get nothing, because nothing's made or delivered.  Many
+people here and elsewhere *have* received their full packets, and
+newsletters, and the posters are going out shortly, now that WB has
+*finally* approved the design, which took longer than it should have.
+
+       If you haven't received the material, send email to
+jplb5@aol.com and let him know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jul 1996 12:47:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Why should Joe be soliciting members when he hasn't taken care of
+> the ones who sent in money months ago? What guarantee do new
+> applicants have that they won't be left in the lurch?
+
+       For starters, I didn't resolicit anyone, the fan club message
+gets popped up by the system.  Second, new applicants have less of a
+chance of getting left in the lurch than the folks who dived in at the
+beginning when we were still putting all the pieces into position.
+
+       If you have *any* reservations, we will happily refund your
+money. Or you can give it a bit of time; we can't know who hasn't
+gotten their stuff until we hear from them, and/or the post office
+sends back the material, which has begun to happen.  We're dealing with
+it as fast as possible.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jul 1996 12:47:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Nothing personal, Joe, but why are you soliciting membership in a
+> "fan club" when most of us who applied for membership and sent
+> money months ago haven't received anything?
+
+       PS...I just went down the hall to ask Jim Lockett about what
+the status of things was, and there was a huge pile of newsletters and
+packets on his desk ready to go out.  I asked about yours in
+particular, and he had it right there, about ten down in the "to-mail"
+pile.  So you should have the stuff shortly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neville White <101352.1023@compuserve.com>
+Subject: IaE in UK
+
+ Neville White <101352.1023@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Another thought that occurred to me just now - and I haven't been
+> back to the video to check it up, but in Dust to Dust didn't Kosh
+> appear in G'Kars dream as *his* father, too?
+
+       Yes, by all means, I can't exactly lay claim to a patriarchal
+system, after all.  And that's what Kosh tends to play into, the whole
+father aspect, though others might take the other approach in this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Eric Rochkind <70671.302@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Olympics in 2260?
+
+ Eric Rochkind <70671.302@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since we have not yet seen or heard the Olympics mentioned in the
+> third season of "Babylon 5" (Granted, this could be in one of
+> those episodes we haven't seen yet) are the olympics still being
+> celebrated in the 23rd century? If not, why not?
+> Any ideas on this subject?
+
+       My gut instinct would be that the Olympics would still be
+almost exclusively an Earth/human thing, we have to keep some things to
+ourselves, as part of our unique heritage.  And they're probably still
+going on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Greyest of the Grey
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       On the other hand, the only way to get pertinent information is
+to ask impertinent questions....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Delenn question (spoiler
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I&E -Vorlon Cruiser
+
+ Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since its own weapon seemed to be pretty devastating why did we
+> not see it attack a Shadow vessel directly ?
+
+       I think we just didn't see those shots; it was used in the
+attack. And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Greyest of the Grey
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any idea how often you've brought tears to our eyes
+> this season? Particularly the tears shed over an animatronic
+> actor?
+
+       And that's good.  Too much of TV is just the plot/action stuff,
+not much emotional content.  For me, drama done well should make you
+feel something.  That's vitally important to me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Audio
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Do you have any input on this?
+
+       That happens after we turn it over to WB, during the dubbing
+process wherein they add first captions, then commericals.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: gerbals or hamsters?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Go to your room.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms Songwriter ?
+
+ Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com> asks:
+> To you, maybe, but there are dozens (hundreds?
+> How about all the blues singers who couldn't recognise a note of
+> written music but wrote those superb songs? Has it been shown yet?
+
+       No, the songs are in "Walkabout," which is the next episode up
+after "War Without End."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WWE question
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> First of all why does she get into the suit?
+> What the heck is that about?
+> Also, why wouldn't she try and wake Sheridan to see if he was OK?
+
+       When Delenn takes off her stabalizer and puts it on Sheridan,
+taking on his suit for whatever small protection it might offer, at
+that point he stabalized and she became lost/unstuck in time.  So it
+was she who appeared in the last sequence there.  She took the risk to
+ensure saving Sheridan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Apology to jms
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Does this mean there's hope that we can keep you in television
+> after B5's run is complete?
+
+       We'll see; it depends on how far they would let us go with the
+story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: IaE in UK
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What significance was the fact that one of the Vorlon ships was
+> red instead of the usual green/yellow ? Is it a prototype ?
+
+       Thanks.  The different color just goes to show some measure of
+individuality in design, and there are some hierarchies implied here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1996 22:26:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Antonia Smillie <100333.3625@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Apology to jms
+
+ Antonia Smillie <100333.3625@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just tell me one thing - who or what are TNT?
+
+      TNT = Turner Network Television, a huge cable network here in
+the states.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1996 22:26:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Antonia Smillie <100333.3625@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Old SciFi series
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and in theory, yes, you could carry on without the
+station itself, since the story is about the people who live there,
+rather than the place itself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 31 Jul 1996 15:18:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Hoopingarn <73172.1065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Tech & Other Stuff
+
+ Jonathan Hoopingarn <73172.1065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is 1G maintained at the interior surface or the last level (Down
+> Below?) just inside the skin? How many levels are there between
+> the outer hull and the inner surface (I'm trying to figure the
+> change in "gravity" from level to level)? What's the radius of the
+> main cylinder? By the way, had you read Gerard K O'Neill's work on
+> space habitats?
+
+       I don't have the specs onhand, but basically you've got a
+smidge under 1g in the inner levels, working out until you've got a
+smidge over 1g in the areas closest to the hull.  This helps with alien
+requirements in living quarters in those areas.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Jul 1996 15:18:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Margaret Rainey <100445.742@compuserve.com>
+Subject: IaE in UK
+
+ Margaret Rainey <100445.742@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If the Shadows are already on-station, and can blow away Kosh (of
+> all people), why don't they just rub out Sheridan, Delenn, et al,
+> in a similar manner, and solve their "problems" at a stroke? why
+> do I feel I must be over-simplifying....?
+
+       A good question, which we'll answer in the last episode of this
+season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Jul 1996 15:18:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Old SciFi series
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I know, but I can't tell you.
+
+                                                     the new number 2
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Jul 1996 15:18:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: IaE in UK
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, I wouldn't say childish gods...that's too easy.  It has to
+be a bit more than that.
+
+       But good thoughts nonetheless.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs96-08 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs96-08
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,4287 @@
+JMS CompuServe messages for August 1996.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+Date: 01 Aug 1996 12:12:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Eng Lit & B5
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> I am curious to know what else is your favourite
+> poetry/literature?
+>  - but I am interested to know what else it is you like, or has
+> influenced you?
+
+       My interest in poetry is fairly eclectic, and eccentric.  I go
+from the classics to the obscure, but I'm not *really* as informed
+about poetry as I should be.  My favorite stuff comes from the
+Shelley/Byron period of English literature.  Tennyson is also obviously
+a favorite.  Coleridge.  But then I jump right over into e.e. cummings
+and Lawrence Ferlinghetti (no, I never really recovered from beat
+poetry, some of it still works for me).  I tend to go for the more
+structured poetry; free verse is okay to a point, but often gets
+misused or used as an excuse for sloppy writing.
+
+                        jm(look upon my works ye mighty and despair)s
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Aug 1996 12:12:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Larry Rosenblum <72122.1555@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Kosh/Sinclair-WWE
+
+ Larry Rosenblum <72122.1555@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is my memory incorrect, or am I missing something?
+
+       No, you're correct...but he could only recognize him once he
+actually saw him, and that didn't happen until he arrived at B5, after
+which he wasn't in any condition to talk to anyone until after things
+were over.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Aug 1996 12:12:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jeff Smith <76702.2572@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Old Archives
+
+ Jeff Smith <76702.2572@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This would certainly explain why a lot of info is 'missing' that
+> one might think should be around, but why didn't the info
+> survive? If the Vorlons/Minbari fought the shadows a thousand
+> years ago, and had the FTL ships they obviously had, why don't
+> they have records from that time?
+
+       It was also a very devastating war, and one of their mistakes
+was that their were those who were entrusted to keep the past, sort of
+a more advanced version of storytellers, who put all their data in one
+basket, as it were...very possessive and jurisdictional.  When they and
+that center of data were taken out, a lot was lost.  One drawback of a
+very rigid and structued society.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Aug 1996 20:39:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      We don't know who did or didn't receive stuff until we hear
+back; send email to jplb5@aol.com...he's sending out batches of stuff
+all this week to those whose deliveries got screwed up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Aug 1996 20:51:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Old SciFi series
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That would be telling.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Aug 1996 20:51:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Kosh & Kyle/pilot
+
+ Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Kyle's reactions?
+
+      No, from where I sit, he looked and spoke pretty awed.  So I
+can't account for your interpretation; certainly I think the general
+concensus was that he was massively impressed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Aug 1996 20:51:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Eng Lit & B5
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Lewis and Tolkien's cronies) "Taliesin Through Logres?"
+
+      Yes, I'm very fond of William Blake's work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Aug 1996 20:51:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Voice in the Wilderness
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Who can say...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Aug 1996 20:51:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Voices of Experience
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you find it more of a challenge to write from the perspective
+> of one (individual, society) who is less experienced than
+> yourself (regain lost innocence) or one who is more experienced
+> (project 1,000 to 1,000,000 forward), or is there no difference?
+
+      I don't think there's really a difference.  (Also,
+philosophically, I think one can be experienced and still retain a
+certain measure of innocence, but that's another discussion for another
+time.)  I think we all have that part of ourselves which wishes to
+believe, needs to believe in a cause or in other people , however many
+times experience slaps us in the face with the contrary position...and
+there is always the part which is tired and weary and burned out and
+refuses to trust again.  We are all these things at different moments. 
+The difference with writers is that we must be those different things
+on command, and articulate those feelings through the voices of our 
+characters as they experience them in new contexts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Aug 1996 21:01:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 New Season
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Can someone fill me in?
+
+      Expect new eps around the first week of October, at which point
+there will be 9 new shows aired in a row.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Aug 1996 00:21:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jeff Smith <76702.2572@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Old Archives
+
+ Jeff Smith <76702.2572@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One follow up though, would such an event as described above have
+> to occur well after the war to have such an effect, since if
+> happened while there where still Minbari alive with personal
+> experience in the war the records could still be mostly
+> reconstructed?
+
+      Certainly it would've occured in the last days of the war.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Aug 1996 00:21:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: IaE in UK
+
+ Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The first question that needs to be asked is why did _most_ of
+> the first ones leave? Were they tired of thousands of generations
+> of war with the Shadows? Tired of this small galaxie?
+> Or was there a general agreement to leave this place to the
+> Shadows? Could the Shadows be higher levels of natural selection?
+> If the clues we have about the death of a Vorlon support Minbari
+> theology then what do the Shadows want? What is my bet?
+
+      Some of the first ones just got bored after millions of years,
+and went off in general.  The rest, for the most part, went beyond the
+Rim for the same reason you cut down old trees to make room for new
+ones.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Aug 1996 00:24:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: John Copeland on SFC
+
+      Babylon 5 Producer John Copeland will be on "Vortex," a new show
+on the Sci-Fi Channel, tomorrow evening, along with Majel Barrett
+Roddenberry.  Time you got to seem some of the other friendly folks
+involved in making this show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Aug 1996 14:49:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 New Season
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Haven't heard anything yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Aug 1996 14:49:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Martin Shaw <101642.505@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Doom and Despair
+
+ Martin Shaw <101642.505@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have we only reached the tip of the Iceburg of despair?
+
+       There's always light at the end of the tunnel...but things have
+got to get REALLY bad first, there has to be some major stuff for
+everyone to overcome to make the light mean something.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Aug 1996 14:49:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Have all the Membership kits been sent yet?
+
+       They're going out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Aug 1996 14:49:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Tech & Other Stuff
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I don't think the diagram has been posted anywhere; and as for
+trouble coming in threes...most definitely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Aug 1996 14:49:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Info please!
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> I hate to be a bother, but could you explain some stuff to me?
+> What is the relation of these episodes to each other?
+
+       It'd be hard to explain in a few paragraphs...may I commend to
+you the lurker's guide on the internet: http://hyperion.com, which will
+bring you wonderfully up to speed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Aug 1996 21:13:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TV GUIDE article
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yup...well said.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Aug 1996 21:13:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: IaE in UK
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What's beyond the Rim?
+
+      A really, really, really MASSIVE Baskin and Robbins....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Aug 1996 21:13:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robert Pierce <76752.717@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: Offbeat Qd.
+
+ Robert Pierce <76752.717@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could the Soul Hunters out there sense when Kosh "died"?
+
+      It's not that easy a question, or that straightforward a
+situation, as you'll see soon enough.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Aug 1996 21:13:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WWE-Sinclair
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What I mean to say is, how was it originally written?
+
+      The Valen aspect was set up in the first season, long before
+anything was decided about Michael.  Also, I won't be at
+Fantasticon...gotta write....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 03 Aug 1996 15:08:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TV GUIDE article
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you say WB was interested in a spinoff?
+
+      Yes, they seem interested.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Aug 1996 15:08:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: John Copeland on SFC
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> For those of us beknighted souls whose cable companies don't see
+> the value of the Sci-Fi Channel, how about getting B5 movers and
+> shakers a gig on "Politically Incorrect?"
+
+      Actually, Harlan's been on Politically Incorrect twice so
+far....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Aug 1996 15:08:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Have a slice <G>
+
+ Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Zen Buddhism: What is the sound of cake baking?
+
+      Now that's comedy....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Aug 1996 15:08:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Track12 B5 CD different?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Listen to how the final track fades out; one has the strings in
+dominant form, the other has percussion.  The early version of the
+European disk came out only briefly, so if this is a recent purchase,
+it's probably the same as the US version.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Aug 1996 15:08:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: IaE in UK
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How many flavors?
+> Seriously though, what is meant by "The Rim"?
+
+      The rim of the galaxy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Aug 1996 23:02:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow Theory.(ATTN JMS)
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's an interesting theory.  Got nothing to do with where the
+story's going, but an interesting thought nonetheless....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Aug 1996 23:02:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow Motives & Stuff
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Er...well, no, actually, it's not in the ball park.  But a good
+thought.
+
+      And yes, Sheridan has doubltess noticed by now that Delenn is
+holding stuff back from time to time...may even mention this in a few
+episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Aug 1996 23:18:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Responsibility/Forgive
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That was really excellent.  Let me explain to you how excellent
+it was: I was taking a break on CIS because I was trying to work
+through the heart of a scene between Delenn and Sheridan in script 403.
+It was a little fuzzy there in places, and I usually log off and putter
+around rather than trying to write it when it isn't all there yet in my
+head.  Your analysis helped me clarify something in my own mind which
+was there in the first place but hadn't yet racked into focus yet.  It
+would've done so eventually, it always does, but you may have saved me
+an hour or two of going back over their relationship in my head and
+pulling out the emotional and thematic undercurrents of what's been
+established over the last couple of seasons.
+
+      Good stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 04 Aug 1996 14:57:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TV GUIDE article
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"I figured everybody in Hollywood would be rooting to get you out of
+television"
+
+Well...*almost* everybody....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Aug 1996 14:57:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: IaE in UK
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Jump gates go where gates have been constructed by long-range
+explorer vessels.  Nobody near our tech has ever built anything outside
+the known galaxy, or frankly through about 80% of what IS known.  Going
+beyond is a one-way ticket.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Aug 1996 14:57:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS : WWE1: Sheridan
+
+ Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When lady Morella told Londo not to kill the one that is already
+> dead, was she referring to Sheridan? IF this is so, do the words
+> of Arkady in "Second Foundation" have significance to Sinclair?
+
+      Unfortunately, I've forgotten what Arkady said, so it's kind of
+an open question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Aug 1996 00:17:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com>
+Subject: IaE in UK
+
+ Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Crossing from here to say the Adromada galixy probably would take
+> a great deal of time though even in hyperspace huh?
+
+      For one thing, it's a long, LONG trip outside the known
+galaxy...it takes 3 days to go to Earth from B5, it's not
+instantaneous...so you can well imagine how much time is involved in
+getting outside the galaxy.  Second, a ship like the Aggy isn't
+configured or capable of constructing a jump gate, that's up to the big
+Explorer-class vessels.  Finally, the further you range afield from the
+established series of hyperspace beacons, the greater the odds of
+getting permanently lost out there, since points of reference outside 
+aren't on a one-to-one basis with hyperspace.  (And outside the galaxy
+you'd have little in the way of more conventional references as well.) 
+So any trip would be a one way trip, at least at this point in our
+technology.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 05 Aug 1996 12:32:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS : WWE1: Sheridan
+
+ Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> She said 'A circle has no end'?
+
+       No...the notion that a circle has no end is a lot older than
+that.
+
+       And the line re: Sinclair was "he is the closed circle, he
+returns to the beginning."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Aug 1996 12:32:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Martin Shaw <101642.505@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS : WWE1: Sheridan
+
+ Martin Shaw <101642.505@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The ship that Zathras hooked up to whitestar in looked helluva
+> similiar to one of the ships you can get in 'Privateer' - I have
+> heard that you are a bit of a Wing Commander buff, was this a
+> deliberate homage?
+
+       Nope.  Only coincidence.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 06 Aug 1996 21:30:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Eng Lit & B5
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How about books?
+> Just curious - many thanks (will you ever write a book of How B5
+> Came to Be, and What Went Into It - people, books, skills, etc.?
+
+      Mentioning or referencing books is tougher, because any segments
+are less concise in general, less instantly recognizeable and
+self-contained. And half the fun of the poetry references is the
+lyrical aspect of it.
+
+      As for a book...maybe someday, down the road.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Aug 1996 21:30:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Possible later projects
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How do you plan to change TV in these new projects?
+
+"How do you plan to change TV in these new projects?"
+
+   To quote Sinclair, "That is a far more interesting question than
+you might suspect."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Aug 1996 21:30:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill MacIntosh <70275.1372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow suit
+
+ Bill MacIntosh <70275.1372@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When we see a "Shadow" are we seeing an encounter suit, a
+> projected imaged like a Vorlon does or a "naked" Shadow?
+
+      Well...all of the above, I suppose, would apply in various ways.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Aug 1996 21:30:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5 , CC Game
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I can't look at ANYthing related to B5 products unless and until
+they're licensed; if you're doing these without WB licensing, you're
+going to get into a heap o' trouble.  If you're serious about a game,
+then you have to get it licensed; otherwise I can't look at it, or I'd
+be spending 18 hours a day looking at possible proposals that go
+nowhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Aug 1996 21:30:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Ranger Belt Buckle
+
+ Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What are the figures which make up the Ranger belt buckle?
+
+      Er...I don't remember offhand....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Aug 1996 21:30:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: War Without End
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> There are a few little bits, like the repaired time stabliser
+> that The One gets from Zathros (in Babylon Squared), that's
+> Sheridan's isn't it? Did you sit down and write these episodes at
+> the same time?
+
+      Actually, that would've been Delenn who finally got the repaired
+time stabalizer.  And no, I didn't write them at the same time, but I
+did a basic outline of what the follow-up (WWE) would be, so it'd all
+match up when the time came to show that half of the story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Aug 1996 21:30:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Valen questions
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Valen did not have any children.  And there's some difference of
+opinion over exactly what Valen's final fate was.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 07 Aug 1996 19:40:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Batman <104635.1044@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Just some thoughts.....
+
+ Batman <104635.1044@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do they skip over those and just release 418, or do they reprint
+> them?????
+
+"Think of how annoying it will be, in ten years time, when this stuff
+will be a valuable collector's item, and having to explain that there
+was never any issues 1-4, THEY STARTED ON 5!!!!!!"
+
+      That's *exactly* what I was thinking of....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Aug 1996 20:13:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Eng Lit & B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      What books I like....
+
+      I generally recommend the dark fantasist Jonathan Carroll to
+anyone who'll listen, his work is superb.  Beyond that, these days I
+mainly read nonfiction.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Aug 1996 20:13:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5 , CC Game
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      You would contact Warner Bros. Licensing in Burbank.  But they
+don't deal with individuals, it would have to come through a company
+that was prepared and capable of doing the licensing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Aug 1996 20:13:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kosh/Lyta/Kyle Question
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Being seen by one person is automatic, no strain involved, it's
+almost an autonamic reflex...it's extending the influence to more than
+one person that's difficult.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Aug 1996 20:13:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: War Without End
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      When there's a time-flash, everyone has a vision forward or
+backward. The vision of Lise Hampton long AFTER the one we saw
+nominally from Sinclair's POV.  We never saw specifically what
+Garibaldi saw at that same moment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Aug 1996 23:47:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5: The Sequel?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      NO!  NO, no, no, no, no....NO GUESSING ABOUT THE SEQUEL, because
+guesses about the sequel is basically putting out reams of story ideas.
+If someone comes up with an interesting notion...guess what?  I CAN'T
+USE IT BECAUSE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF LAWSUIT.  So this discussion could
+kill any hope of doing a sequel along any interesting lines.
+
+      I've already said...the sequel would be built to some degree
+around the rangers.  Let it go at that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Aug 1996 23:59:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Your Anticipation
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'm definitely looking forward to the reaction.  Today, for
+instance, we did the final audio mix of "Z'ha'dum," our third season
+ending episode. All of the EFX were in place, the sound, the
+music...and after we did the piecemeal mix, layering in things in a
+stop-and-go fashion, we did our playback, watching it straight through.
+I don't think anyone was breathing for the fourth act.  Everyone was
+just wog-boggled.  The emotional impact of it all is quite strong.
+
+      When the lights came up, and I looked around to the stunned
+faces in the room, the only thing I could say was, "Welcome to history,
+gentlemen."
+
+      Looking forward to reactions?  Oh, yeah, I suppose you could say
+that....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 08 Aug 1996 16:37:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: War Without End
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Sinclair: What...What was that?
+
+       Hey, who're you gonna believe, Krantz or me?
+
+       Besides, it could've been a sequence from the fall of B5, but
+not that exact MOMENT, so it WOULD be different, so NYAH.
+
+       (suddenly I'm five years old)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Aug 1996 23:29:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Your Anticipation
+
+ Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Out of interest, who was there watching it?
+
+      No, the only people in the room are those involved in the mix,
+this isn't a screening, it's part of post-production.  It's me, John
+Copeland, co-producer George Johnsen, the sound editors, mixers, sound
+supervisor, a few others on the periphery.
+
+      At one point, one of the mixers was working on putting in the
+sounds as he went, hadn't yet gone through it all...and kept telling
+the sound supervisor (who was asking questions about how we wanted to
+handle some later scenes) "don't let me hear this, I don't want to
+know, I just want to see what happens next, this is great."  Which in
+this town, from folks who work on a lot of shows, is a good reaction.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Aug 1996 23:29:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Your Anticipation
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any of the episodes that we particularly avoid the
+> spoilers on??
+
+      Certainly avoid any spoilers on the last two episodes of year
+three.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 09 Aug 1996 16:51:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Day in the Strife
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Aug 1996 16:51:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 : Writing is Art?
+
+ Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this intentional in your work, or just something odd that I am
+> feeling when I encounter it???
+
+       It's definitely intentional.  The purpose of any kind of art
+should be to make you feel something.  If it's created with passion,
+then the work mirrors the intensity of emotion felt by the creator,
+passing it along to the viewer, who may not even recognize what's
+happening, or be able to pin it down...but it's there.  I write very
+passionately, and the show needs to feel passionate to be what I need
+it to be.  Otherwise what's the point?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Aug 1996 16:51:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any other suggestions for checking on the status of an order?
+
+       He's dancing as fast as he can, another 1,000 went out this
+week.  We have 5,000 members now and just two people manning the club. 
+We hope to expand that soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Aug 1996 16:51:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Eng Lit & B5
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> any titles?
+> is he available in the UK????
+
+       If by "he" you mean Jonathan Carroll...yeah, he's actually
+bigger in the UK than the US.  Start with "Bones of the Moon" or "The
+Land of Laughs" and take it from there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Aug 1996 16:52:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toby Johnson <104305.1442@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+ Toby Johnson <104305.1442@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any other suggestions for checking on the status of an order?
+
+       It's coming....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Aug 1996 16:52:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: DS9's Homage
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I see...and this, by you, is a good thing.
+
+       Well, we have very different views of the universe, that's for
+sure.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Aug 1996 20:48:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Promoting B5
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you direct me to someone who could help me go about this?
+> Also, I attended Fantasticon this past weekend and wondered if
+> you'd consider attending next year, if invited (as if you need
+> one more thing to do)?
+
+      I'll try to attend next year; I was just in writer hell this
+weekend, and had to focus on the work.
+
+      Your best bet locally is to contact the program director or,
+above him, the station manager of the station you're after.  They make
+the decisions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Aug 1996 20:48:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Soul Hunters
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Does any race beyond the Soul Hunters know the Soul Hunter's
+> motives?
+
+      Definitely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 10 Aug 1996 21:36:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Eric Rochkind <70671.302@compuserve.com>
+Subject: X Men on Babylon 4!
+
+[Reply to message #556812, which is no longer available]
+
+      It's a door wheel which has been on that particular wall since
+year one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Aug 1996 22:14:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Promoting B5
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Like, is there a promotional pack that can be mailed to the
+> station, or someone who handles new stations? Or do I just direct
+> them to Warner if they are interested?
+
+      No, we don't have any material like that at all.  That's all
+handled by WB, we're not in any way involved in distribution.  If
+they're interested, they'll know who to contact.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Aug 1996 22:14:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vorlons & Minbari
+
+ Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is the relationship between the Vorlons and the Minbari ?
+> We have seen a couple of Vorlons on Minbar, is their relationship
+> like ours and the Narn for example ? We get the impression that
+> the White Star is not as powerful as the Vorlon ships, but surely
+> as well as having Vorlon shielding wouldn't it have the powerful
+> Vorlon weapons & flower propulsion thingies (those petals) ? Why
+> is there a Minbari crew, not one vorlon insight and why do they
+> let Sheridan be the captain ?
+
+      The Minbari built the White Star, borrowing some Vorlon tech, so
+it's primarily Minbari, and built with their sensibilities, all the
+controls are in Minbari, and so on.  They allow Sheridan to command it
+because Delenn said to do so, and in battle an unpredictable human
+might have options that a more regimented Minbari might not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Aug 1996 22:14:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Disbarring a doctor
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Bear in mind, though, that we're talking Earthforce doctors, who
+are part of the military establishment, and we don't know the full
+structure of how that exists 200 years from now...certainly if
+someone's actions caused the death of 250,000 sentients and a major
+Earthforce base, I'd suggest that that could be sufficient grounds for
+ending somebody's career....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Aug 1996 22:14:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Alcohol & Minbari
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> In "Matters of Honor", Marcus makes a comment to Delenn and
+> Lennier about the effects of alcohol on Minbari and I was
+> curious: What are those effects?
+
+      Makes 'em paranoid, and psychotically violent.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Aug 1996 22:14:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: New Cast Addition
+
+      Just a general announcement: Patricia Tallman, also known as
+Lyta Alexander on B5, will be joining the regular cast in year four,
+appearing in the main title sequence.  We're extremely pleased to have
+her on board.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Aug 1996 22:20:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Worst B5 Episode
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, the White Wolf paperback version of Harlan's "City on
+the Edge of Forever" book is *now out*, with an even further expanded
+introduction.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Aug 1996 22:20:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Valen questions
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Theo was named for Vincent van Gogh's brother.  Hence, Brother
+Theo.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 11 Aug 1996 14:23:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 : Writing is Art?
+
+ Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Don't you think there are very few passion those days?
+
+      Passion, as I've noted elsewhere, has become passe.  It's old
+fashioned; the proper attitude now seems to be detatchment and
+cynicism.  It doesn't help that so much of TV is done by rote,
+recycling the same stories from place to place.  Interestingly, I think
+we're seeing *less* of that in the last few years than in the entire
+decade preceding, so maybe this is a good turn.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Aug 1996 14:23:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New Cast Addition
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, the item referred to Lyta.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Aug 1996 14:23:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Grey Council Ship ??
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Do all the members of the Grey Council live permanently and
+> exclusively on that ship? Do they ever take vacations?
+> Does the ship have a name and a class?
+
+      They stay on the cruiser almost entirely during their tenure in
+the council, only leaving for personal family crisis/situations and the
+like.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Aug 1996 14:23:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan P. Biddle <73260.1450@compuserve.com>
+Subject: EA Civil War
+
+ Alan P. Biddle <73260.1450@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you say when we will get some additional info without
+> compromising anything?
+
+      I'd say you can expect that thread to pick up again after about
+the first third of year four.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Aug 1996 14:23:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Disbarring a doctor
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nope.  Actually, I don't think I've ever heard of his work
+before, let alone ever read anything.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Aug 1996 14:24:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Antony Jackson <100025.2004@compuserve.com>
+Subject: More UK Media Articles
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well...sort of backhanded compliments, but I'll take them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Aug 1996 14:24:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neville White <101352.1023@compuserve.com>
+Subject: No Kosh's body?
+
+ Neville White <101352.1023@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this because she knows something about the nature of Vorlons,
+> or is it because she knows something of the nature of Shadow
+> attacks? Do the shadows consume their victims?
+
+      More about the Vorlons than the shadows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 12 Aug 1996 17:25:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Comic
+
+ Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has there been any plans to start another run of B5 comics?
+> Can we expect another one of those anytime soon?
+
+       Several companies are circling around the rights to the B5
+comic, and are currently in negotiations.  And after some initial
+problems with the contract between WB and Sendai, they hope to begin
+putting out more issues of the B5 magazine, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Aug 1996 17:25:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 1st season questions
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No word yet on tapes, and no, none of the cloaking suits are
+still in anyone's hands on B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Aug 1996 17:25:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New Cast Addition
+
+ Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Pat Tallman is back?
+> Joe, do you have to make many adjustments to the story line to
+> work her in?
+
+       You just gotta learn to dance while life is throwing chainsaws
+and chickens at you...after the first few cuts and pecks, it's easy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Aug 1996 23:36:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Worst B5 Episode
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      "Dream Corridor" is still coming out, as new graphic novels; the
+next one should be out shortly, as all the pieces are now in.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Aug 1996 23:43:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 1st season questions
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's a question without a stated answer for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Aug 1996 23:43:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS on Newsgroups
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Are you also available on the B5 newsgroup for questions, etc??
+
+      Yes, you can find me over on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated. 
+It's a fun place to hang out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Aug 1996 23:43:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Fan Club Mailing
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+        Will do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Aug 1996 23:43:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hart Trevor <100705.1222@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Tactics.
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, that's not it, not at present, certainly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Aug 1996 23:48:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Little "one Liners"
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Red Five is not from Star Wars...it's standard Air Force
+designation on various teams, Red One, Blue Three, others in some
+cases, Alpha One, Bravo Two in others.  People in and out of the
+military have been color coding fighters and the like long, long before
+there was a Star Wars.  There's a danger in assuming that the first
+place you heard it was the place that invented it. There are some ST
+fans who *insist* that ST invented the term tachyon, since that's where
+they heard it first, and even have given me and other shows a hard time
+when we use this actual scientific notion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1996 12:00:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Your Anticipation
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> On a lighter note....the music comment reminded me: Any timeframe
+> yet for the release of the second CD?
+
+       I think Chris is going to time the second CD to coincide with
+the new season, so he can piggy-back on the PR.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1996 12:00:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: PW Notes Screenwriting
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's good to know, thanks, I'll go get it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1996 12:00:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Composition
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> That makes me curious,since Babylon 5 is actually shot in a
+> widescreen format how do compose your outer space shots? Come to
+> think of it, how do you compose shots in general? Do you have to
+> make compromises so a scene will look good on a regular TV now,
+> as well in the future when the show is out on laser disk and
+> HDTV?
+
+       That's more a Foundation question, I suspect...basically, I
+think they all just sorta do what looks cool....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1996 12:00:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Little "one Liners"
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       There were initially some throwaway lines to reference outside
+SF, but soon it became a hunting expedition, with people paying more
+attention to that than was correct.  It got in the way, and this show
+has to define itself in its own terms...so the practice stopped.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1996 12:00:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Worst B5 Episode
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, does Harlan have YOU writing anything for it yet??
+
+       Yeah, I'm supposed to adapt "Someone is Hungrier" for the book,
+when I have the time (insert crazed, manaical laughter here).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1996 12:00:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: War Without End
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       It's too hard to synopsize here...try the Lurker's Guide.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1996 21:56:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Something big out there?
+
+ Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it a Shadow ship he saw?
+> Are there types of Shadows ships as yet unseen?
+
+      At least one, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1996 21:56:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arwel Parry <100336.623@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Eeek!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      But what the heck does it mean...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1996 21:56:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com>
+Subject: More Vorlon Questions !
+
+ Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are their different sexes of Vorlon ?
+> Do Vorlons have babies, if so...how ?
+> How long can the Vorlon keep his Psychic shield up ?
+> And how did Kosh get to the Garden, to save Sheridan...did he
+> just pass through walls..? And finally, did Vorlons "invent" the
+> Angels in the different races ? oh BTW - Is there a technical man
+> from B5 on the Net whom I may contact about general tech
+> stuff....a tech advisor ?
+
+      Kosh was right there in the garden when Sheridan fell, so that's
+how he got there.  And the only tech person on B5 is me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1996 21:56:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ATTN: JMS <Kosh>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's likely a matter of both, choosing an element which is
+strongest in the other person, which for Sheridan and G'Kar would be
+their respective fathers, who would also be authority figures to
+them...so it's both manipulation and emotion.
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1996 12:19:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5: Time to kick butt
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, Peter, that's very good, now sit back down and finish your
+broccoli or you can't have any Neapolitan ice cream.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1996 23:02:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New Cast Addition
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Bringing actors in and out, and changing their characters, is
+more or less always a story issue, so it's never a problem.  Londo,
+which you mention, was always intended to go on his arc from comic
+relief to something darker and more tragic.  That's his story; it was
+his story long before any actors were ever hired.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1996 23:02:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TV Guide Letters
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you read the Letters section of next week's TV Guide?
+
+      Yeah, it was great...the "Babylon Edging Out Trek?" column is
+quite a bit away from their initial reaction to B5, to wit: "...they
+hope will become a series.  Fat chance."
+
+      I have this suspicion people are finally starting to figure out
+what we're doing here....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1996 23:02:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Martin Shaw <101642.505@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Goodbye Old Friend..
+
+ Martin Shaw <101642.505@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But how could you leave Garibaldi in the lurch like that?
+
+      Thanks, the Sinclair material was very moving, I thought.
+
+      As for the kiss...I knew everyone would be waiting for that
+first kiss, so I made sure it was different, that it was a first kiss
+for one of them, but not the other, that it was natural and totally
+unforced and surprising. So for Sheridan, his first kiss of Delenn was
+actually his second (by a long ways), and his second, when it comes,
+will be her first.
+
+      Just can't do anything the conventional way on this show....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1996 23:02:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lyta--Season 4
+
+ David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How you get to those milestones is dependent on who you have to
+> play with at the time, true or no? Do you look with anticipation
+> these unexpected opportunities? Do they make your work more
+> exciting because it keeps you on your toes? But I wonder if you've
+> experienced the same thing you've experienced in writing your
+> novels, that is new characters ask to be born, others ask to die
+> and others ask to have their fates changed? I assume that is the
+> case with adding Sheridan and killing off Kosh, but was that the
+> case with Marcus? Was he planned all along?
+> Did Lyta's appearances in Season 3 and Patricia's availability
+> make Lyta's character *demand* more time? Finally, has it ever
+> gotten to the point where you literally have to rein in your
+> characters before they make a shambles of your carefully designed
+> and laid-out plot?
+
+      Actually, the progression of the B5 story has been almost
+exactly the same as the way I write my novels.  I start off knowing
+where the story has to go, what benchmarks I need to hit en route to
+the end, what my repertory group of characters consists of, and then I
+start writing.
+
+      As someone said of a battle, an outline never survives contact
+with the enemy, which in this case is the actual writing.  The outline,
+for me, is a safety net whose purpose is to keep me nominally on track
+while allowing me the freedom to bounce around the landscape, adding
+new threads, broadening out the storylines, fleshing out the
+characters, and reorganizing how the characters move in and out of the
+story.  That makes the work organic.  I still end up exactly where I
+wanted to end up, but the road there is much more interesting than if
+I'd just hewed to a very rigid structure.
+
+      It's like driving from LA to San Diego...you can just jump on
+the freeway, or knowing the freeway is there, jump off from time to
+time to grab lunch at Pea Soup Anderson's or a quick ride or two at
+Disneyland.
+
+      And yeah, sometimes I have to work to keep the characters in
+line. Londo's the worst.  He's always going off and pulling me in one
+direction or the other, he's very peripatetic...and getting him talking
+for dialogue is never hard...getting him to shut the hell UP for two
+minutes so somebody else can get a word in, tha's hard.
+
+      Writing is a very schizophrenic business.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1996 23:08:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon TV Guide Letters
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Now if the show was all about cute kids, or a cute kid or robot
+> saved the day consistently (whoops, did I say Star Trek?
+
+      Two quick notes...what I said was that we wouldn't have cute
+kids (or for that matter ANY kids) in as regular characters a la a
+Wesley or the kid from SeaQuest.  We have, on rare occasions, had cute
+kids in one-shot episodes...of course, they've generally ended up
+shipped off or conveniently deceased....
+
+      Also, just a correction: David Gerrold wrote "Believers," not
+me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1996 12:09:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Walkabout Cast
+
+ Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I just wondered, is Michael really in Walkabout?
+> Or have the Radio Times made a mistake with their cast listing?
+
+       It's a typo.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1996 12:09:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE - Hot damn!!!
+
+ colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, well, what can one say???
+> The thing that really came across was how much 'face' acting
+> there was, close ups where one or two words and an expression
+> carry a scene, there were so many instances, it's hard to say
+> which really had the most impact, how did Bruce manage to look so
+> hateful / disgusted with Londo? How do you manage to get the
+> performances so consistenty high from your cast and crew?
+
+       Thanks; all the characters are great in that one, and the line
+was "never use this."
+
+       Re: "face-acting"...this is something I've been working on a
+bit lately in my scripts, letting the actor have a moment visually
+without words to carry it.  When you're starting out in a show, and
+everyone's new, you have a tendency to make sure that the emotions are
+expressed in dialogue, in case the acting doesn't carry it off.  Then,
+over time, you learn to relax and start playing the silences, using
+only a word or two here and there.  A few scenes in some year 4 scripts
+play almost like haiku.  You learn to trust your cast, and they respect
+that trust and return it.
+
+       I can't think of any of the cast who doesn't strongly believe
+in the show, and the story...they know, on whatever level, that we're
+doing something of value here, something that's going to be remembered
+and talked about for a long time after we're gone.  Lord knows it ain't
+the money, none of us are getting rich here.  They believe in the
+story, and that's truly extraordinary.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1996 12:10:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Question
+
+ Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you, however, also think that once we find out what the
+> Shadows want, we shall agree that the methods by which they go
+> about it are justifiable? To put it another way, is the manner in
+> which the Shadows are attempting to achieve their objective the
+> only way in which they can do so, or is there another method they
+> could have chosen?
+
+       I don't think we'll find the methods appealing, but the motives
+behind it may have some justification.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1996 12:10:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Goodbye Old Friend..
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks...a devious mind is a good thing....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1996 12:10:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lyta--Season 4
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, you can see Pea Soup Anderson right from the freeway, going
+down the 5 south.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1996 23:52:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Comics as a medium...
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I thought that while I was passing that along to you, I'd ask
+> what you think of comics as a medium to tell *your* stories? Do
+> comics give you the same range that a novel or a TV script does,
+> or do you find them too limiting?
+
+      In general terms, a comic allows you to do things that you could
+never afford to do in a TV series or movie.  There's the constraint of
+the artist you choose...a great artist can elevate a book, a bad one
+can sink it no matter how good the storytelling...and having grown up
+on comics all my life, and enjoyed the work of Miller and Moore and
+Gaiman and David and others, I think they're a terrific form of
+expression and storytelling.
+
+      In regards the Legion...setting aside the reality that after the
+situation with the B5 comic, which I felt wasn't being done correctly,
+and said so vociferously...if there's any book I'd love to do (after
+any of the Superman titles), it'd be the Legion of Superheroes.  It's
+gone through some tough times, mainly in the Giffin days which were as
+much a screwup of the concept as Byrne's Superman, but I have a lot of
+loyalty to the characters, having come into the title back at its
+formation out of the pages of Adventure Comics.  I'd do it in a hot
+second, but I'd want to take it a bit back to its roots, and I'm not
+sure they'd go for that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1996 23:52:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Imran Naqvi <100533.273@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Goodbye Old Friend..
+
+ Imran Naqvi <100533.273@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How exactly does the triluminary thingy come into existence?
+> Paradox, no?
+
+      It originated on Epsilon 3.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1996 23:52:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lyta--Season 4
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, there's also one on the SD/LA route; I wouldn't have said
+so otherwise.  (I know, I've eaten there.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1996 23:52:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Walkabout Cast
+
+ Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was just wondering, do you consider the posters to this forum
+> 'friends' in the same sense you consider those on GEnie friends?
+
+      I try to follow as much of the general conversation as I can,
+but it's a lot to track.
+
+      Re: the CIS/GEnie thing...I was one of the first people around
+town to go on-line in the entertainment business.  I was logging onto
+Compuserve back in 1984, when you could only get 300 baud access, off
+the back of a Kaypro II computer with 128k floppy disks.  This was my
+first online network, and I've known a lot of the people here for 12
+years.  So there's a certain kinship here.
+
+      With GEnie, that was the first online network to give B5 a real
+chance of being anything; a topic, then two, then a whole category,
+then two whole categories were set aside for it, and they've believed
+in the show for a long time.  It took a lot longer for CIS to come
+around and even note the show, or do some of the things that GEnie was
+already doing.
+
+      Those are pretty much the main distinctions in how I see the
+two.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1996 23:52:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season 4 Title?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Have you announced the overall title for season 4 yet?
+> If so, can you share it with us?
+> Have you begun filming the next season yet?
+> And how's the writing coming along?
+
+      When I can announce the overall year 4 title, I will.  Filming
+starts August 26th.  The writing is coming well.  Actually walked the
+sets today for the first time since we wrapped in May; it's just too
+depressing to walk on a dead set.  Lots of work going on now, new sets
+being built, noise and energy and enthusiasm...much better now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 16 Aug 1996 15:08:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Magazine Article
+
+ colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> maybe", flattery will get you anywhere eh??
+> It goes on, but hey, pretty damn good PR I think nes pas??
+
+       Thanks, I'd seen the article, and it's a great thing.  We're
+starting to pick up more positive articles and reviews
+lately...basicallly, I think journalists are starting to get past their
+preconceptions of what we should be, and what SF is, to see the show
+for what it is.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Aug 1996 15:08:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Comics as a medium...
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I trust you won't object if I pass your comments back to the
+> mailing list?
+
+       Yeah, I've read the books during the rebuilding period, though
+I haven't had time to indulge my comics habit for about six months or
+so.  For some reason, though, it still feels wonky to me.  I confess
+that as far as names go I still prefer Sun Boy to Inferno, and some of
+the other renamings have been kinda dopey.  If you're going to change
+it (and objectively I know Sun Boy is a bit goofy), you should go for
+something a little better than, for instance, Lightning Lad to
+Livewire.  Livewire is just an awful name.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Aug 1996 15:08:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Dark Is Rising
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, I haven't read it; will confess I hadn't heard of it until
+now, my head being entirely in the show; when I'm done with the show,
+and have some time, I will try and take a look at it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Aug 1996 15:08:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Triangle on Minbari head
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Let me hold off on this for a bit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Aug 1996 15:08:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Copernicus ???
+
+ Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Copernicus* Earth's first and only Sublight Interstellar
+> "freezer" ?
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 17 Aug 1996 16:55:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New Cast Addition
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I haven't heard anything about how KVOS will be handling the
+show yet, so we'll have to see.
+
+      "Who are you for starters?"
+
+      I work craft services at the Babylon 5 stage.  I make the hot
+dogs. It's a small job, but I'm proud to be there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+(don't read credits, do you...?)
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Aug 1996 16:55:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Magazine Article
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And isn't it also possible that journalists skipping their
+> browsers across the WWW like stones across a pond will inevitably
+> run into "cool" B5 sites, which, again, might direct their focus
+> in a more desirable direction?
+
+      I dunno...don't think enough journalists are online yet to make
+an impact that way, but who knows?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Aug 1996 16:55:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Magazine Article
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nothing about the show ever gets easier...it's just the nature
+of the beast
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Aug 1996 16:55:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Snow White
+
+ Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Queen: "Mirror, mirror on the wall; who's the fairest of them
+> all?" Miror: "How about a weather report instead?"
+
+      I hate you...I hate you...I really, really, really hate you....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Aug 1996 16:55:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Triangle on Minbari head
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> No call yet - to be borne in mind??
+
+      The call will come eventually.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Aug 1996 16:55:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Day in the Strife
+
+ Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Should that have been the Blackstar the ship he destroyed?
+
+      Yes, it was called the Black Star.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Aug 1996 16:55:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Goodbye Old Friend..
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Well, I think it's safe to say that Franklin will finally get
+the point later this season....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Aug 1996 16:55:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lyta--Season 4
+
+ David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know of any others that might take the stage as late as
+> Season 5, or haven't they let themselves be known to you yet<G>?
+
+      Thanks...and yeah, it happened again.  I'm writing 405, "The
+Long Night," and there's something that one character was supposed to
+do in the script, that had been the plan all along, that was my intent
+even as near as 1 page from where it was going to happen...then just as
+I got to that scene, another character stepped up and said, "no, let me
+do it."  I was kinda flummoxed.  "You?!  You're the LAST person anyone
+would think to do this." The character nodded.  "Exactly."  And the
+symmetry was perfect, the impact would be greater...so that's who did
+it.
+
+      On one level, it's always wonderful when this happens; on
+another, it scares the hell out of me....
+
+      It's at the bottom of act two, you'll figure it out when you get
+there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Aug 1996 16:55:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Walkabout Cast
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yup...I was here at the dawn of the SF forum....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Aug 1996 23:19:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 at WorldCon
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know if the "A1" room will be Big Enough?
+
+      We'll have to see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1996 21:15:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Comics as a medium...
+
+ Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So I guess this means you haven't read the Kingdom Come series
+> yet?
+
+      Kingdom Come is about the only comic I've made it a point to get
+lately; great stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1996 21:15:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vorlons & Angels
+
+ Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do Vorlons just *use* the images of angels from the races, or did
+> they actually *create* the idea of Angels on each of the
+> homeworlds ?
+
+      In some places they may have expoited what was already there,
+and created it in other places.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1996 21:15:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Centauri Home World ??
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Am I recalling the sense of your words approximately correctly?
+
+      No, the Centauri Republic is where they're from.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1996 21:15:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com>
+Subject: C4 B5 announcement
+
+ colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This week however went one better, now I wouldn't like to say
+> what they were hinting at but the announcement at the start of
+> the program this week was "Special effects WITH a plot, Babylon
+> 5, science fiction as it should be", not biased or anything eh??
+
+      I hadn't heard that, that's great, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1996 21:15:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Fan Club Site
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's a feature of not using netscape (assuming there wasn't an
+operating glitch)...you're presented with your own Babcom screen, which
+is you launch point into the rest of the site.  Again, it's still being
+added to and worked out, we haven't officially put the darned thing up
+yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1996 21:15:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lyta--Season 4
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  A lot of people are looking back at season 1 and
+finding it better than they remembered, now that they know the
+characters.  They also now see the little touches here and there
+pointing forward in the storyline.
+
+      The plot-recap stuff is difficult to pull off without being
+obvious; you have to slip in the backstory a line at a time, here and
+there, so new viewers can follow it but without annoying the constant
+viewer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1996 21:15:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Walkabout
+
+ Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I found myself wondering if Franklin shall eventually find what
+> he seeks, or if has he already discovered it, and just needs to
+> realise that for himself? And as for the songs...well, Joe, what
+> can I say? Is it pure co-incidence that all Vorlon suits shown so
+> far, with the exception of that belonging to Kosh, are similar in
+> design? Why is his the only encounter suit that I have seen so
+> far, that is predominantly green?
+
+      Actually, the new Vorlon's encounter suit is more purple/red
+than green. The design is a matter of form following function.
+
+      And yeah, I figured it might be cool to continue the song over
+the credits.  That happens one more time this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1996 21:41:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Snow White
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Maybe if someone can get the script a production could be put on at
+one of the big cons?"
+
+don't...
+
+you...
+
+dare....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1996 21:41:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Walkabout
+
+ Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Quickie question : What did Kosh2 see on the door behind Lyta?
+> They sure looked like Shadow warriors to me, but what are they
+> doing following _her_? And why did Kosh2 ignore them?
+> Surely they also followed her onto the White Star....why not
+> wreak havoc then?
+
+      They weren't following Lyta.  We were in Kosh's old quarters,
+and those images were burned into the wall when Kosh died.  Bear in
+mind that she doesn't actually meet the new ambassador until the next
+scene.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1996 21:41:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Walkabout
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Did you notice Lyta was wearing her gill dress when she first
+> came on board? Who did the music?
+> Where did the Narn heavy fighter come from?
+
+      "Who did the music?"
+
+      I wrote the lyrics, Chris Franke did the music.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Aug 1996 01:55:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rerun Order
+
+ William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this something that disturbs you as well, or do you take part
+> in the decision making process as to which episodes will air
+> when?
+
+      It's WB that decides on the rerun order...it's beyond my control
+or influence.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Aug 1996 02:01:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Walkabout
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I don't suppose I could ask that synopses of the episodes that
+are this detailed be kind of not-done?  Brief ones, sure, but a
+blow-by-blow breakdown of every scene is rather disheartening to see in
+a public forum, even one set aside for spoilers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:51:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Walkabout
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Chris Franke did the music.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:51:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Walkabout
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No signicance to the eyepiece color; no reason to assume
+Vorlons only have one encounter suit their entire life.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:51:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Walkabout
+
+ Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that fine to you?
+
+       Nothing to apologize for; nothing wrong with asking for a
+synopsis, it was just the extent of it that brought me up short.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Walkabout
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       My concern about detailed synopses comes from a number of
+elements. One of the foremost...a not as detailed synopsis leaves some
+room for surprises. Even if you want to know what happens, to have
+every breath, every line given to you ahead of time diminishes the
+*impact* of what you're seeing.  If someone says, "In this episode,
+Kosh dies," then okay, you know it's coming...but you don't know *how*
+it's coming, and that's half the fun.
+
+       Second, when someone attempts to recreate a scene, inclusive of
+dialogue and action descriptions, the episode itself becomes a hostage
+to how well that's presented.  I can't tell you how many times I've
+gotten email from people who said, "I read a detailed synopsis of this
+episode before I saw it, and from the way it was described, it felt
+really stupid...but then I saw it, and I liked it a lot better than the
+way it was presented in the synopsis." It can mitigate against the
+impact, and the quality, of an episode if it's not well presented.  A
+simple by-the-numbers, blow-by-blow synopsis can flatten out any of the
+drama.
+
+       Will they watch it?  Likely yes.  Will the impact be
+diminished? Yes. Can people approach the episode from a prejudiced
+perspective thanks to a too-detailed synopsis?  Yes.  There are other
+concerns even beyond this, but those will do for now.
+
+       (And my problem with the other fellow wasn't so much the
+synopsizing, as that was all he ever did, moments after the show, just
+to be first, and never took part in anything else.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Walkabout
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Again, you don't have to apologize, and I'm not looking for
+one.  You can synopsize all you want...I was just encouraging a briefer
+one that leaves some room for surprises here and there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Rim anyone ?
+
+ Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Anyway, in a post once you said to me that the races had only
+> explored as far as they did because they need Navigation Beacons
+> for Hyperspace, did they get to the Rim, is the rim the edge of
+> explored space or the edge of the galaxy ? & why don't they go
+> into hyperspace, keep going for a month then come out ?
+
+       It's the Rim of the galaxy, and once you come out of hyperspace
+past the galactic rim, all your points of reference are gone, and
+getting back is tough, if not impossible...and you can't just "keep
+going" in a straight line in hyperspace, as it's not a one-to-one
+corrolation to normal space.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Still waiting...
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Will check into this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 2 Q's on Walkabout
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       They're not that far apart in age, but yes, Kosh would be a bit
+older
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Snow White
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I'll think about it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Snow White
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Oh, I didn't really do it for the money, there wasn't much
+involved at the time...it's not that I wrote it for money, it's that I
+wrote it when I was *18* and when you look back at ANYdamnthing you
+wrote at 18 the impulse is to shriek and run away.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hart Trevor <100705.1222@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Private JMS Viewing!!!!!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       It wasn't that I disliked the responses...most of them were
+quite funny in response to my (in jest) offer to come by and see
+them...but others said it was kinda mean (mainly in email) and as I
+pulled back and looked at it objectively, I saw that it could've
+potentially been a UM, and Unintended Meanness.  So I had to rectify
+it.  And the only way to do that was to turn the in-jest offer to come
+to my office and see them into a real offer.  You gots to do what's
+right....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Detroit problem
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Best if the local fans get together en masse...that tends to
+work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rerun Order
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But have they ever given you any justification for their
+> scheduling?
+
+       It's all a matter of running new eps during sweeps.
+
+       What's interesting -- when some fans of ST shows look for
+something to badrap B5 about, using the ST ratings as a bludgeon -- the
+ST ratings have been consistently sliding.  For the last several
+quarters, the quarterly rating on DS9 has gone from 7.1 to 6.7, 5.9 and
+as of July 4.6.
+
+       B5's ratings per quarter have gone from 2.7 to 2.9, 3.0 and
+3.1.  Why do I bring this up?  Because lately, in reruns, DS9 hit a 3.9
+rating for the first time in reruns that I can think of (usually
+they're in the 4s or low 5s) at about the same time we hit a 3.1 in
+reruns, where usually it's a bit lower. So now there's only .8 between
+us and DS9 in reruns, where the gap used to be huge.  So it should be
+*very* interesting to see what happens when new episodes hit the air. 
+I imagine they'll still be ahead, but the gap will, I suspect, be much
+smaller.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Characters' Ages on CD-R
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are these accurate?
+
+       I'll have to check this and get back.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: walkabout questions
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       "You OWE me an explanation."
+
+       No I don't.
+
+       The series has to stand on its own, for starters, and most of
+the questions you've asked here will be addressed by the last episode
+of this season.  Suffice to say he has to trust Delenn...he knows she's
+been holding back information (even says so later this season), but
+until now, has held her in trust, that she must have her reasons.  This
+may or may not change soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Walkabout propaganda
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       There's really no need for propgaganda.  By about now,
+everybody out in this part of space knows the situation...and what's
+going on back home is secondary to winning the war.  Also, you can be
+sure that if they set up a network -- and who has time in the middle of
+a war -- you can be sure Earth would find some way to jam it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 14:25:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Joe vs. Bears
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Actually, I've been remembering the script, and I'm reasonably
+sure the teddy bear was added by the director, I don't think it was in
+the script.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 21:09:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Comics as a medium...
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Though I've fallen out of my comics habit over the last 6-8
+months, I followed Cerebus since very early in its run, and enjoyed it.
+It's great.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 21:09:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Fan Club Site
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The problem as I understand it is that using Netscape will let
+us do more of the cutting-edge stuff we plan to introduce over the
+course of the coming year than the other systems...avatars, residences,
+other nifty stuff. If we go for a less sophisticated interface, we
+won't be able to do this stuff.  At least, that's what we're being told
+by the designers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 21:09:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Private JMS Viewing!!!!!
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I wonder why?
+
+      It's that parrot, man, I keep telling you....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 21:28:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Walkabout propaganda
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Okay, John, lemme ask you a question, since you keep harping on
+this issue of propaganda.
+
+      You're the leader of an isolated space station with a quarter
+million inhabitants, who need air, food, supplies, space, support.  You
+no longer have ties to Earth, no support from there, no money, so you
+have to rely on whatever docking fees you can get from other worlds. 
+You're in the midst of a war in which you have few resources, little
+money, allies that have a tendency to turn on one another, nobody's
+giving you a break, your position is tenuous as hell, you're constantly
+undermanned, shorthanded....
+
+      Now you tell me where the heck you're going to get the time,
+resources, money and manpower to launch a propaganda operation, which
+if you're going to broadcast (and what's the point otherwise?) on an
+interstellar basis is going to require extensive and expensive
+facilities, broadcast repeaters, tacyhon carrier wave generators to get
+around the time-delay aspects, writers, directors, broadcast engineers,
+spokespersons, propaganda specialists, psychologists, technicians,
+camera equipment, space in which to PUT all of this stuff...on and on
+and on.
+
+      You keep beating this particular horse, but your objection has
+nothing to do with the reality of their position.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1996 02:39:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Merchandise in London
+
+ Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I thought it quite odd that the availability of such merchandise
+> has not been mentioned around here before, which made me wonder
+> if it is not fully legitimate...do you have control over such
+> things? Before I splash out $120 on a uniform, I would like to
+> know if these things are legit?
+
+      If the uniforms are from Janet Lawn, they're legit; no Psi Corps
+pins have been approved for anyone at this point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1996 02:44:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Christianity in Babylon5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      One doesn't have to believe in the existence of something to
+write about it effectively...there aren't really Minbari or Vorlons,
+y'know...you just decide to write about it as though it were a True
+Thing.  And that's about how I approach religious characters.  As a
+writer, you can choose to be honest in your characterization, or you
+can use the medium for propaganda and the advancement of personal
+agendas.  The latter holds no appeal for me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:09:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Snow White
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      At 18 I was trying to get the hang of my craft.  I knew some
+stuff, but not a lot.  I'm a little closer to that goal now, though
+there's still a long road ahead of me.  B5 is something I'm proud of
+now, and will be in future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:09:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Fan Club Site
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Should work with Netscape 3.0 no problem.  And thanks.  We do
+want it to be cool...once it's fully operational, with all the final
+parts and pieces added in, it should be nifty indeed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:09:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rob Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Christianity in Babylon5
+
+ Rob Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Yeah, but how come you do so much better a job than those that
+> do? There...there AREN'T?
+> You mean, B5 isn't real life?
+
+      Never took it *as* criticism....
+
+      To the question of why more folks don't do it, or as much or "as
+well" (the last in that list being subjective and self-serving for me
+to repeat), I think a large part of the problem may be that very often,
+if you deal with religion in TV, ten gazillion pressure groups from
+either side of the political spectrum jump up and down on your head
+until it's reduced to guava jelly.  So folks get very tentative about
+the area.
+
+      Me, I've been on computer nets for 12 years, I'm used to people
+jumping up on down on my head until it turns into guava jelly...no big.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:09:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Christianity in Babylon5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I commend C.S. Lewis to you as a writer first, and a theologian
+second. As a writer, he does some nifty stuff...the Screwtape Letters
+alone is worth his having walked among us.  The Perelandra (sp?)
+books...are okay, but a bit dry sometimes.  His strength was in more
+fantasy than SF.  As a theological writer, he had a tendency to set up
+straw man arguments a bit too often and too easily for my tastes, but
+he's certainly worth the read.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:09:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Rim anyone ?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> So when Delenn states that some of the first ones went exploring
+> beyond the rim does that mean they went off expolring the
+> billions of other galaxies in the universe or different
+> dimensions, realms etc ? Is the B5 arc painted on a Galactic sized
+> canvas (specifically the Milky Way) or does it hold consequences
+> for the known Universe ?
+
+      No, the events take place only in our own galaxy, and only in
+portions of that...it's just too big a place.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:09:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Voltayre WWW Page
+
+ Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you visited "Encyclopedia Xenobiologica" (B5 page) on the
+> World Wide Web ? Would you consider it to be accurate ?
+
+      Dunno, I haven't seen it...will investigate.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:09:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Patricia Tallman
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well, she's in the main title sequence with all the other cast
+members starting next season, how's that?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:09:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Walkabout
+
+ Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who was that?
+> Not me????
+
+      No, that ain't you, don't worry, that's old news.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:09:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Walkabout
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Do you see what I'm getting at?
+
+      So where is the problem with, let's say, a person putting up a
+spoiler that says what basically happens in the episode, adding, "If
+you want a more detailed analysis, email me and I'll send it along."
+
+      But bear in mind, again, folks can post here whatever they want;
+I'm not in a position to stop anyone.  If I have any moral authority on
+an issue -- dubious since I'm not sure where I left my morals anyway --
+that's fine, but I'm not going to pressure anybody to do
+anything...that ain't how I work.  How people perceive me is beyond my
+control, and when the poster here apologized for the long synopsis, I
+told him he didn't have to do so.
+
+      This really ain't a big issue, folks...I saw something, had a
+gut reaction to it, and said what was on my mind.  I can't start
+censoring what I think because someone might take it too much to
+heart...yes, the person has a right to post what they want, and I have
+an equal right to respond as I feel is appropriate.  I'm being as
+honest in my reactions as anyone else.  Who in this room has a problem
+with that?
+
+      Unless you're saying I should just shut up when I see something
+I feel strongly about...which seems to me just as bad as anything else
+being discussed here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:09:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Walkabout propaganda
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      John...you're getting too wrapped up in this.  For starters,
+having just had a MAJOR WAR with the Minbari, which nearly wiped out
+Earth, and many folks back home *hating* the Minbari...do you think for
+one second that they're going to believe a word of what the Minbari say
+to them?  Do you think the government would allow this to go through
+unjammed?  Hell, EarthGov would have a field day with this..."See? 
+It's all alien propaganda, just like we told you, they're trying to
+destabalize Earth."
+
+      Second, I don't think the Minbari have the propagandists,
+writers, directors, and others needed to put together a propaganda
+network, and would find the whole idea immoral to begin with...and a
+couple of paragraphs of text are meaningless...Earthgov says "it's not
+true," and it's your word against theirs.  That's why you must have
+absolute, unvarnished PROOF, otherwise it blows up in your face, which
+any journalist worth his or her salt knows.
+
+      Again your suggestions don't touch reality at any two contiguous
+points.
+
+      Also, I can't keep track of, or answer, 15 or 20 questions in
+one message; if you've got a point to make, do so concisely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:23:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Snow White
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"But he's considering letting me live"
+
+      The night is young.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1996 12:28:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Walkabout
+
+ Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Wouldn't this image have been worth mentioning?
+
+       Watch the scene again; the first time the new Vorlon looks at
+the wall, he sees nothing; the next time he looks at it, the lens wide
+open, the image is somewhat distorted around the edges, and now he's
+seeing the afterflash. Only certain types can see it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1996 12:28:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Christianity in Babylon5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Good point.
+
+       It can sometimes be annoying...I know there was a fan meeting
+of a certain group in the UK at one convention last year where they
+insisted, in NO uncertain terms, that my statement about being an
+atheist was just a cover, and that I was in fact a religious person
+using that as a blind so I could get my views across.
+
+       Language is a precise thing; if you do not say what you mean,
+you can never mean what you say.  What I stated in this regard is the
+simple truth. Anybody who can't handle that...should just have a little
+faith.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1996 12:28:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Snow White
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       The night is never young on that side of the Atlantic.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1996 12:28:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Christianity in Babylon5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, but almost always in terms of *alien* religions.  ST
+frequently addresses religious issues, and yes, mostly in a negative
+light...but when was the last time you saw this about a human religion?
+See, that's the easy out. You can say whatever you want about the
+stupid religious beliefs of the blue-furred Erzani of Cromethiom
+Nine...take a shot at the Pope, and you get letters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1996 12:28:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Travel times
+
+ Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or, is the *3 day* figure just to get to the "Earth Solar System"
+> ? If yes, then what roughly *is* the length of time *in*
+> Hyperspace (outside observers) ?
+
+       Three days is the time to the jumpgate off Io.  Once you're
+within our solar system, it takes another several days or more to reach
+Earth itself. It's fairly common to keep your jump gate a bit removed
+from your "core" planet so you have warning if any agressors come out
+of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1996 12:41:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Stealth Production?
+
+ Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or are you guys just shy?
+
+       We're not on the lot.  We couldn't find facilities big enough
+for our needs, and if you're on the lot...you're more accessible, and
+people have a tendency to wander in and give you notes.  So we're well
+off the lot, and nobody bothers us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1996 20:31:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Stuff is still going out; another 1500 zipped out the door
+today.  It's coming....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1996 20:31:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Christianity in Babylon5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Also, I think we're sufficiently low-profile that they just
+haven't noticed us yet....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1996 20:31:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Patricia Tallman
+
+ Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, is Ivanova in the main title sequence next season?
+
+      All of our regular characters are in our main title sequence for
+the year in which they appear.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 23 Aug 1996 11:47:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New episode airdates?
+
+ Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any closer idea as to when the end of Season 3 is
+> going to be shown in the US besides "sometime in October"?
+
+       Starts the first week of October, straight through.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Aug 1996 11:47:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Richard Hatch
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Did Richard Hatch of Battlestar Galactica read for the part of
+> Sheridan?
+
+       Trying to remember...Bruce was our first choice, but we had to
+have some backups in case he wasn't available...yeah, we saw Hatch, and
+felt he wasn't right for the role, though he's a good actor.  Saw a
+bunch of actors, most of whose names have fallen out of my head.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Aug 1996 11:47:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Walkabout propaganda
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, they do...but bear in mind that the Minbari are currently
+having their own problems.  The Grey Council has fallen apart, the
+Military Caste (as we'll see in one of the next episodes) is having
+some serious doubts about how the Religious Caste is handling things,
+and that much of the support given Earth (by way of B5) has been
+covert; the White Star program was launched in secret, and the greater
+amount of the Minbari population aren't aware they're so much "in bed"
+with the humans (as it were).  As far as they're concerned, we're
+apparently necessary to the plan, but not much more than that.  So I 
+think they wouldn't be warm to the notion of extending their services
+overmuch to Earth.
+
+       You keep trying to make everything cut and dried, but in the B5
+universe, there ain't no such critter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Aug 1996 11:47:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Hoopingarn <73172.1065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Quakers on B5?
+
+ Jonathan Hoopingarn <73172.1065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> With tounge (sp?) firmly in cheek I must ask "What?
+> No Quakers?
+> What civilized society wouldn't still have the Society of
+> Friends?" I guess I do have to ask, seriously, "How fair the
+> Friends in the B5 universe?"
+
+       Well, if Quakers choose not to use mechanical means of
+transportation, only horse-drawn carriages...then I would suggest that
+this may hinder their progress in interstellar travel.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1996 00:08:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Fan Club Site
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      That's odd, since it doesn't happen when I checked it out a
+little bit ago...will check again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1996 00:08:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Quakers on B5?
+
+ Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or have they been forcibly supressed by EarthGov?
+
+      Yeah...ten minutes after I sent the message I did a Simpson
+"D'oh!" and realized I was talking about the Amish.  Ah, well...we're
+all entitled to one screw-up...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1996 00:16:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just out of curiousity, how long ago did you get the newsletter?
+> last week receiving the kit?
+
+      Jim has sent a public response to the Usenet about the delay,
+and the Zocalo has also published a letter from him about it.  In
+addition, I've gone at some length here about what's been going on. 
+You may not have seen them, but there have been public replies.  The
+email list is too hideously huge to reply to individually.  But stacks
+and stacks are going out the door as fast as can be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1996 00:16:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Private JMS Viewing!!!!!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"I'll show you my Dupa."
+
+      And the fifteen people on CIS who know Polish found this
+extremely funny.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1996 00:16:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Christianity in Babylon5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Roddenberry was an athiest and very anti-religious."
+
+      And therein lay the key.  One can be an atheist for oneself, and
+not anti-religious when it comes to others.  The two need not go hand
+in hand.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 25 Aug 1996 15:36:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      We figured we'd get an initial membership of about 1,000-1,500,
+and staffed accordingly.  We got about 6,000, so all our planning has
+gone straight to hell in that regard.  Last I heard from Jim, the last
+batches of stuff should be out by mid-week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Aug 1996 15:36:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Fan Club Site
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Some of us may want to "roll our own" species, have you given
+> thought of how that could be done? Are there plans for that using
+> security "certificates" or plain old passwords?
+
+      Yes, there will be security once it's all officially online.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Aug 1996 15:36:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Batman <104635.1044@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lyta--Season 4
+
+ Batman <104635.1044@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ever consider doing a "recap" show, ala the X-Files two "Secrets
+> Of" episodes?
+
+      We suggested it to WB, and were turned down, on the grounds that
+as a network, Fox can just go ahead and program what the want in those
+hours, if it's a secrets-of special or something else; but PTEN isn't
+really a network, it's a syndication division, and in syndication you
+have to sell each item separately, so they'd have to go out and sell
+that one hour special the same way they'd sell a series, and they were
+loathe to do that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Aug 1996 15:36:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Walkabout
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Would it be possible (and not too much typing) for you to post
+> those lyrics here? Maybe upload them as a library file, so that
+> they wouldn't go away? Pretty please?
+> With a virtual (no calories) hot fudge sundae?
+
+      Will try to remember to do that soonish....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Aug 1996 15:36:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Questions
+
+ Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the "keeper in Londo, 17 years in the future, a Shadow?
+> Is the "keeper in Londo, 17 years in the future, a Vorlon?
+> The war that Dellan refers to (17 years in the future) where the
+> enemies The Shadows? The war that Dellan refers to (17 years in
+> the future) where the enemies The Vorlons? In the Babylon 5
+> storyline do the Vorlons become a bigger enemy that the Shadows? 
+> Do you think the Vorlons are cheats using time as a weapon?
+
+"Is the "keeper in Londo, 17 years in the future, a Shadow?"
+
+No.  One of their dark servants, a leftover from the war.
+
+"Is the "keeper in Londo, 17 years in the future, a Vorlon?"
+
+No.
+
+"The war that Dellen refers to (17 years in the future) where the
+enemies The Shadows?"
+
+No.
+
+"The war that Dellan refers to (17 years in the future) where the
+enemies The Vorlons?"
+
+No.
+
+"In the Babylon 5 storyline do the Vorlons become a bigger enemy that
+the Shadows?"
+
+Depends on your definition.
+
+"One that you can answer non cryptically : Do you think the Vorlons
+are cheats using time as a weapon?"
+
+No.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:20:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Richard Hatch
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Were these people you were just "considering" in your head, or
+> had they actually read for the part? Wasn't John Rhys Davies on
+> Sliders at this time or was this just prior to that? You say Bruce
+> looked like how you pictured Sheridan but just how well defined
+> was the character at this stage? Is there any chance A Martinez
+> might guest star in the future?
+
+       Many of the names we were considering don't audition; you know
+their work or you don't.  Some did.  (It's bad form to indicate which
+did what.)
+
+       While I had a certain idea of the look for Sheridan in my head,
+the one thing you learn as a producer is to keep an open mind when it
+comes to casting, because sometimes something will happen that you
+hadn't anticipated and you go with it.
+
+       While I had the name Sheridan, I hadn't locked down his ethnic
+background yet, and instructed our casting director accordingly.  I
+wanted to see a range of people.  So we saw not just Caucasian actors,
+but hispanics, african american, asian...I felt strongly after the
+first season that we didn't have enough ethnic diversity, which is one
+of the reasons we changed casting directors to one that had a wider
+background in this area. As it turned out Bruce was the best person for
+the role, but we went into the process open to whoever walked in the
+door.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:20:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Questions
+
+ Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com> asks:
+> His definition of "bigger," or that of "enemy"??
+
+       Well...yes, I suppose.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:20:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWOR in NY
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I don't know specifically what's going on for Sunday...but I do
+know that the station group to which WOR belongs has stated it will
+keep the second airing, and they are working to move the show into
+better time slots. So going from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. gives us a prime time
+slot, which is *much* better for us.  I don't know if they'll keep the
+Sunday rerun where it is, but there will be a rerun somewhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:20:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Questions
+
+ Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why do the Vorlons hate the Shadows so?
+> Will this be ansered later in the show?
+> I suppose the mystery of what the old ones are so upset with one
+> another won't be known until year 5?
+
+       After "Z'ha'dum," I think you'll have your answer to this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:20:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do fan club applications still continue trickle in, flow in or
+> downpour in?
+
+       The flow of applications have slowed a little, in large measure
+because we've stopped putting the information out there until we get
+caught up on what we've got.  Once we've caught up -- and I think
+virtually everything has either gone out last week or will be out this
+week -- then we'll go out and start beating the drum again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:20:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: More pics here?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No reason...just the upload time involved to do it all. 
+Anything there can be reposted here.  I keep meaning to do it, but end
+up tying up my computer with writing.  The folks at WB do the uploads
+to AOL and the WB B5 site; here it'd have to be me, and it's just a
+question of finding the time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:20:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: First Day of Filming
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, how was the first day of filming?
+> Are you still alive?
+
+       It's frenetic, nuts, lots of running around and little fixes,
+we all get a little crazy on first days...but it'll be okay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:21:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> once the email address was published, someone should have been
+> ready to respond (why else publish it?
+
+       Lemme ask you a question...did your check get cashed?  Because
+I just went down the hall and asked Jim what the status was on Jonathan
+Kass' membership, and it wasn't in any of the files, so what I'm
+wondering is if it just never got to us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:32:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SF as it should be
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       All of them wanted to work more after ST; very few did, many of
+the cast couldn't get arrested.  They deeply resented it.  It's not as
+if they said, "oh, well, I'm old now, I can retire."  At the time, most
+were in their 40s, with Kelley being the oldest one there.  One doesn't
+retire at 40 as an actor; you go on.  They've all talked about it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:49:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Newsletter
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, the first three volumes, as noted in the newsletter, were
+destroyed at the printer's; the fourth mysteriously vanished.  Who
+knows, perhaps in years to come, the fourth one will make a
+reappearance....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:49:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Chris Franke
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I think he's decided to time it to come out at the same time as
+the November debut of season 4, so he can piggyback the publicity.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1996 14:57:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joseph Coulter <75272.3005@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Christianity in Babylon5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  I think in that kind of situation you have to deal in
+the straight emotions of the belief, the honest feelings of those
+involved, and how they view their lives, and that will keep you on the
+heart's true magnetic north...when you diverge into the more doctrinal
+stuff, you will always go astray.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1996 14:57:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now what?
+
+       Now I go back to Jim and tell him to look again...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1996 14:57:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Fan Club Site
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I think you can change it, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1996 14:57:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Richard Hatch
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Nope.  Those were some of the folks we were considering.  We
+also looked in the direction of Bruce Campbell (who had just had his
+show shot out from under him, and whose agent said he wasn't doing TV
+for a while) and several others.  Basically, you look around for who's
+available, who might be good for the role, might bring something
+interesting to it...and then pick the best person.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1996 14:57:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Walkabout
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Since I didn't write Gropos, it didn't happen there....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1996 14:57:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Hoopingarn <73172.1065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Quakers on B5?
+
+ Jonathan Hoopingarn <73172.1065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that all the mistaken identities have been cleared up, and as
+> the final arbiter of all things Babylonian, would the Quakers
+> have made it?
+
+       I don't know...maybe...it's something that I'll have to
+consider.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1996 14:57:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rogue Teeps
+
+ Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> franklin helped out?
+
+       Yep, we'll be hearing about this again quite soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1996 21:51:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I went to Jim's office again after your last note, and had him
+check the database again by hand; it's definitely not there.  So I've
+copied your email to him, and he should be in touch soon, or he'll go
+ahead and add it to the list.  It's conceivable that if your check got
+caught up in a bundle it might've missed being processed by us.  As far
+a I know this is the only time it's happened; but we never know about
+it until and unless someone tells us about it.  Thanks for bringing it
+to our attention.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1996 21:51:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Walkabout
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, I kinda wear my heart on my sleeve more than I should;
+sometimes even I'm appalled at what I find my subsconscious has given
+away once I can step back and look at a script objectively.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1996 15:46:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's the question that's hard to answer, because stuff is
+going out the door as fast as possible.  One batch of 1500 went out on
+Thursday.  Was yours in there?  I don't know.  Part of the consistent
+problem we're having is the Post Office.  They told us what the postage
+should be for each packet and newsletter, first class (we sent the
+first batches off bulk, and they got dumped, lost, delayed...never
+again, we'll just take the loss and deal with it).  So we use that, and
+turn it in at the post office.  Depending on which postal worker takes
+the parcels, it goes through, or they send them back for more.  So now
+we're increasing the postage to make sure they don't do this to us
+again.  It's making Jim crazy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1996 15:46:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Private JMS Viewing!!!!!
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> By the way, do you have a cat?
+
+      Well, there's a neighborhood cat who comes around, sort of a
+rent-a-cat that gets fed and tolerated, but that's all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1996 15:46:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Quakers on B5?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Just increased your insurance policy, didn't you?  I can
+tell....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1996 15:46:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Richard Hatch
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What was it about Bruce that made him your first choice?
+> Was it a particular quality or characteristic he expressed in a
+> previous role, or did he just have "the look"?
+
+      It was a number of things.  He looked like what I thought
+Sheridan would look like, and had the right attitude.  He had a
+reputation for being an actor associated with lightweight dramas
+(though he was capable of much more), and I knew this would play in my
+favor in that people would be set up for one thing, and then I'd yank
+it in the other direction; even made sure that I gave him lightweight
+dialogue, had a jolly attitude, for most of his first few episodes on
+the show (exempting "Revelations").
+
+      So when the first eps aired, and people were going on about
+"smiling jack," I knew I had them set up for the whack-upside-the-head
+that was coming down the road at them, and the character.
+
+      (It's sometimes like an elaborate game of chess...I try to
+anticipate the viewer reaction so I can, well, turn this on them and
+use it to my own advantage.  Look at folks' initial reactions to Londo
+and Vir as another example of this.  I've said before that I'm not
+averse to taking aspects of the actor -- Mira's background in
+Yugoslavia -- and using them for the benefit of the story, so you can
+bet I'd be willing to do that with the audience as well.  I say if
+people are going to apply their preconceptions to a character or an
+actor, then it's perfectly fair game for me to turn this around on
+them. So those who saw depth in Londo or Vir -- and were ploinked for
+it -- got to see their suspicions confirmed (good result) and those who
+thought they were just buffoons got to have their brains splattered
+when they saw the depths that emerged (also a good result).  So why not
+do this with Bruce?)
+
+      Other reasons...Doug and John had worked with Bruce before, and
+knew him to be a stand-up guy, loyal and honest and hardworking, a team
+player, and a genuinely nice man who was far more talented than the
+roles given to him before had let him show, more range and more colors
+than he had previously had a chance to display.  He's also a stone SF
+fan, both in media and literary SF, so I knew he'd have a great respect
+for the story.
+
+      I've been remembering some of the other choices we were
+considering for Sheridan...James Earl Jones, John Rhys Davies, Barry
+Bostwick, Michael York, Michael Moriarity, A. Martinez...but for me,
+Bruce *was* Sheridan, and when it came time to make a decision, it was
+him, hands-down.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1996 19:56:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Our great government efficiency at work again!  Do you think THEY
+think it's coming FROM Babylon 5?!"
+
+      Dunno about that...but it sure looks to me like the Post Office
+is being run by the Shadows.
+
+      (Hmm...I wonder if they saw "Avalon" and are still smarting over
+the Post Office humor...?)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1996 19:56:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Won Bin . Lee <76770.162@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Christianity in Babylon5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"...he preaches all day on why religion should be eliminated, his
+future goals of ruling the world and wiping out such religion, and not
+only that, but arts as well, thinking they are "useless"."
+
+      Mr. Stalin, meet Mr. Hitler.  Mr. Hitler, meet Mr. Stalin.
+
+      "his future goal of ruling the world"
+
+      First though he has to stop living in his mom's basement and
+collecting balls of string and wrapping aluminum foil around his head
+to keep out the Martian death rays....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1996 19:56:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: War Council
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One question: I was under the impression that Sheridan was the
+> military leader of the Army of Light, is this not correct? Is this
+> to be a war by committee? How exactly is the Army of Light
+> organized?
+
+      Sheridan commands the Army of Light, Delenn as second.  If the
+AOL speaks with one voice on something of importance, they have to be
+listened to. When Sheridan put himself on the front lines, he was then
+taking on the role of soldier, not commander.  They also felt it risked
+leaving them without said commander if it went wrong.
+
+      Bear in mind that their orders in *no* way compromised his
+actual mission, or over-rode his decision.  They were sending along a
+secondary mission to keep an eye on the primary mission.  I don't see a
+conflict here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Aug 1996 00:53:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Fan Club Site
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the area affiliation (Earth Force, PsiCorp, etc.) going to do
+> more than affect the graphical gizmos on the BabCom window?
+
+      We'll do more with the affiliations later on once more parts of
+the station go on line.  For instance, we'll have various chat areas
+set aside. If you're Earthforce, you can get into Earharts...if you're
+a Centauri, you can't, but you'll have another area you can get into. 
+When you get your quarters set up on B5 (you'll be able to actually
+rent a residence on the station), if you're a Narn it'll be in the
+alien sector, if you're Psi Corps it'll probably be Red
+Sector...basically, we'll try, as much as possible, to replicate what
+it would be like to actually live there.  Eventually we hope to 
+introduce avatars in the chat area so you can appear visually in the
+room as the species of your choice...with the thought that, in time,
+people will be able to upload images of themselves and use those in the
+chat area with the avatars...it's going to grow into something very
+elaborate.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Aug 1996 00:53:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Richard Hatch
+
+ William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Wait a sec ...you wanted Bruce first???
+> Nevertheless, what made you go with O'Hare?
+> The two are like night and day for a variety of reasons, and was
+> Bruce unavailable initially? How did you learn that he was
+> interested in coming aboard?
+
+      Let me clarify, so I won't be misunderstood...Bruce was our
+first choice after the change-over from Sinclair.  Bruce would not have
+been right for the choice of Sinclair, but was right for Sheridan. 
+Michael was right for Sinclair, would not have been right for Sheridan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Aug 1996 01:03:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Private JMS Viewing!!!!!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"It'd be a whole lot funnier if Ed Wasser hosted the flight."
+
+      Tell that to the crew of the Icarus....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Aug 1996 01:03:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: War Council
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Just some comparisons to illustrate...during WW II, the head of
+naval operations for the Japanese fleet insisted on being on board
+during several of their more pivotal missions.  His subordinates
+insisted that additional ships be sent as escorts given his importance
+to war strategy.  That's a very rigid military structure, but when
+*all* the subordinates get together on something, to go against it
+causes more problems than it's worth.
+
+      Even within the context of a conventional military situation,
+there's flexibility.  If a commanding officer gives an order which is
+immoral, illegal, or against the rules of engagement, a subordinate can
+refuse to implement that order, even give a countermanding order which,
+depending on the situation (such as a nuclear missile firing) would
+take precedence over the CO's order (though you'd first have to relieve
+the CO of command, and if you do that, you'd darned well better be
+prepared to back it up with every legal and moral means at your
+disposal, or it's mutiny).  Heck, it was just this kind of dilemma that
+was at the core of the movie "Crimson Tide," and was brought up in the
+recent war crime trials going on investigating what happened in Bosnia,
+with a soldier being asked why he didn't refuse to carry out an order
+to kill civilians.
+
+      Ain't a lot of black-and-whites in the world, but a whole lotta
+greys.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 28 Aug 1996 11:58:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Jim's just done a hand-search of applications, and still can't
+find anything on your membership.  He's asked if you could send a xerox
+copy of your canceled check (both sides) to him at the fan club
+address.  Once we have that in hand, we'll zip everything out the door.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Aug 1996 15:56:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 on tape.
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       In the fullness of time, they'll be out here....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Aug 1996 16:05:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Valerie Williams <104047.2451@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Richard Hatch
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's good to hear, and I'm sure a number of other folks
+started with the show when Bruce came on.  Whatever the cause, I'm
+pleased with the effect.
+
+       And don't feel bad about your initial attitude (assuming you
+did); lots of folks had the same initial resistance, often out of a
+sense of perceived loyalty to ST.  We learn by doing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Aug 1996 23:20:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Valerie Williams <104047.2451@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Richard Hatch
+
+ Valerie Williams <104047.2451@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If you get asked to come back next year, will you?
+> Truth to that?
+> Any thoughts as to also releasing videos of the episodes?
+
+      Thanks.  To your questions...I haven't yet been invited back to
+Marcon (I don't know if they've finalized their list yet), but if that
+should happen, work schedule allowing, I would likely be there; and
+yes, B5 has been sold to TNT for runs after the show has gone its
+course, which will be the first time we'll have had a national timeslot
+and a big network.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+Date: 29 Aug 1996 12:06:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Walkabout
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Not coincidences, no, but not quite asx tightly linked as you
+suggest. Thematically indicative more than anything that points to
+story specific elements.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Aug 1996 12:06:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Richard Hatch
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       S'okay...that generally happens on the show.  When we brought
+in Vir, lots of folks moaned about what a mistake it was, "flounder in
+space," they said...same with Walter Koenig...there were any number of
+messages suggesting we lose Londo, and others...and after a while, when
+they see what we're doing, they turn around.  Vir is now many folks'
+favorite character, and Bruce has hit it as Sheridan for most everybody
+now.
+
+       Doesn't bother us anymore.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
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+JMS CompuServe messages for September 1996.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+Date: 02 Sep 1996 19:51:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      They're going out in clumps, batches of newsletters, then
+batches of kits, and so on until they're caught up.  Apparently almost
+all of the stuff should be out within the next week or so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Sep 1996 19:51:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Antony Jackson <100025.2004@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Would they tell you?
+
+ Antony Jackson <100025.2004@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you been told if B5 will be on this new station?
+
+      No one's told me about it, and it would probably conflict with
+their standing license with C4, which has first rights to the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Sep 1996 19:51:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Hugo Award
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, no, two episodes of TNG also got Hugos.
+
+      But what *is* significant here is that in 43 years, only 7 Hugos
+have gone to dramatic TV series; 3 to the original Twilight Zone, 4 to
+Star Trek (old and new).  This is the first Hugo in 43 years to go to a
+science fiction TV series other than TZ or ST.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Sep 1996 19:51:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Dead after a week? :-)
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has the first week been that hectic?
+
+      Was offline in Anaheim for Worldcon, that's all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Sep 1996 19:51:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Wins 1996 Hugo!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  The Hugo is a marvelous reward to everyone who's worked
+so hard on the show these last 3+ years.  We're very proud.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Sep 1996 19:51:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruce Probst <71154.3171@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE: Vorlons in the Past
+
+ Bruce Probst <71154.3171@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Except - where did the Vorlons come from?
+> In which case, the question is - why are they there?
+> What can they possibly know about B4 since, by their reckoning,
+> it's the first time it's ever made an appearance? How did they
+> know when and where it would turn up? If they can do it, what's
+> stopping the Shadows from doing it? Where does it all end?
+
+      Well, the other obvious solution, since the Vorlons were then
+out and running around and actively involved in the war of that time
+period, he just sent out a signal, and they got there first.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Sep 1996 19:51:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Spencer Collyer [UK] <100137.230@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Grey-17...
+
+ Spencer Collyer [UK] <100137.230@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does Neroon's revelation at the end of this episode mean that the
+> Warrior caste will now be more willing to fight alongside the
+> Religious caste, or is the blood between them a sign that they
+> are now irrevocably split?
+
+      I think he's closer to an understanding, but we'll see if the
+others all feel the same way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Sep 1996 19:51:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Grey 17 is missing
+
+ Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How much truth is there to the Minbari's beliefs, beyond the
+> spiritual truth which the religious caste believe, of course?
+
+      It has some bearing, in a way, but more in a thematic than
+literal sense.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Sep 1996 19:51:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Spencer Collyer [UK] <100137.230@compuserve.com>
+Subject: G17 & C&L
+
+ Spencer Collyer [UK] <100137.230@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are we going to learn more of this 'big city visit' in time, or
+> am I just barking up the wrong tree?
+
+         No, you're right that it was a big deal to them, but it
+doesn't really center in the story much, so I don't know if it'll ever
+be explored. It's just background detail at this point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Sep 1996 19:51:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Grey 17 Question
+
+ Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is the ' Veil' ?
+
+      He croaked.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Sep 1996 19:51:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Dancing CUT
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      If they cut 7 seconds, it's likely the 7 seconds of the actual
+stabbing itself, which is implicit in what happens afterward, so it
+shouldn't have a major effect on being able to follow the story.  It's
+a reasonable edit, and about what I'd expect given the general
+attitudes on TV violence among the UK TV networks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Sep 1996 20:08:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 CD screen saver etc
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The CD rom has permission for all the cast photos used in the
+screen saver, and there are literally dozens of them there.  But under
+SAG rules, there are strong limitations on secondary use of full-motion
+clips of the actors speaking or acting in scenes from the show.  If
+they were put on this CD rom, the cost of licensing the clips from SAG
+would make it too expensive to buy or produce.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Sep 1996 20:08:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Wins 1996 Hugo!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      What's interesting, in noting the number of votes in the
+nominations, is that if we hadn't withdrawn the second Hugo nominated
+B5 episode, "The Fall of Night," DS9 wouldn't have had a nomination at
+all.  They moved into the nominations when we withdrew "FoN."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Sep 1996 12:15:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Wins 1996 Hugo!
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How many nominations did FoN receive?
+
+       I don't know offhand; my guess is that it was #5 in the overall
+nominations list, because (I understand) they had to jump past #6 (The
+Long, Twilight Struggle) to get to #7 (the DS9 episode) to find a
+non-B5 candidate for the nominations list.  So we had 3 out of the top
+6, and apparently two more B5 episodes were high up on the list, I
+think in the top 10.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Sep 1996 12:15:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruce Probst <71154.3171@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE: Vorlons in the Past
+
+ Bruce Probst <71154.3171@compuserve.com> asks:
+> so the Vorlons walk on, take one look at Valen, and decide that
+> he gets "the stamp of approval"?
+
+       Well, Bruce, given that there's a massive war on, they just had
+their major starbase destroyed, they were left without a platform from
+which to stage the last part of the war...and here comes someone
+offering a 6 mile long, perfectly empty and eminently useable base for
+the last phase of the war, no charge...hell, I'd take him up on it too.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Sep 1996 12:15:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Grey 17 is missing
+
+ Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (Did you receive any impression of the general 'feel' towards B5
+> at WorldCon?
+
+       The reaction at the con to B5, at the awards and elsewhere, was
+quite amazing.  Everywhere the show was mentioned at panels, it
+appaarently got applause.  The attending fans were *extremely*
+friendly, went out of their way to be nice.  The two B5 panels I gave
+(the second one added on when the first one wouldn't fit into the room
+provided) were extremely enthusiastic. I think the two presentations I
+gave that day totaled about 2,500-2,600 people total.
+
+       When the winner was announced for Best Dramatic Presentation,
+and I headed for the stage, for a moment I thought we were having an
+earthquake, or there was a sudden thunder...but it was the fans
+applauding and stomping their feet enough to make the ground shake.  It
+was deafening down where the nominees were, and I noticed a couple of
+them looking around with a "what the hell is THAT?" look on their
+faces.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Sep 1996 12:15:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hugo Award
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Re: the debate...the one thing I'd wanted to mention in my
+closing remarks, but didn't get around to, was that religion, science,
+atheism, are all just tools, neither better nor worse than the people
+who use them.  They are part of our attempt to understand the universe
+and our role in it.  They can be used for good or ill, depending on
+who's involved and what they're after.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Sep 1996 00:00:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Hugo Awards
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Now a question (to anyone, really): Which DS9 episode is "The
+> Visitor"?
+
+      I'm reasonably sure that's the one where Sisko's lost in time
+and his son saves him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Sep 1996 00:00:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Post-Product Question
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this length of post longer because of CGI?
+> In other words, how does this compare with a series such as
+> "Murder She Wrote?"
+
+      No, that's pretty much uniform whether it's a big CGI episode or
+not. You need time to edit it, do all the sound work, whatever EFX are
+needed, do your final color-correction, mixes...on and on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Sep 1996 11:41:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 CLUB Email address
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       It's jplb5@aol.com.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Sep 1996 22:11:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Frank J. Furfaro <74031.1005@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writers and Valen
+
+ Frank J. Furfaro <74031.1005@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you assigned scripts to any other writers for this season?
+> If so, can you tell us who they are?
+> Also, do the Minbari have any legends foretelling that Valen will
+> return when he is needed, that sort of thing?
+
+      Yeah, there are some legends about Valen returning someday, but
+so far they've been only legends, nothing more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Sep 1996 23:00:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kick Butt Pt.III
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"I'm here to express opinion like it or not."
+
+   Peter, I was trying to ignore this whole last thread, but you're
+really becoming a pain in the ass.
+
+   Lemme explain a few facts of life to you.
+
+   EVERYONE is here to express an opinion.  What happens here is that
+every once in a while, some bozo (insert your picture here) comes
+riding in here and has the notion that nobody else here is objective,
+that he and ONLY he dares say anything negative, and puffs up like a
+pouter pigeon as proclaimer of Truth, Justice and Objectivity, and all
+you poor saps out there just dang well better get used to it and get
+over it.
+
+   Seen it.
+
+   There's LOTS of positive AND negative opinion expressed here.  It
+didn't spring suddenly into being when you materialized in our midst,
+Peter.  Check out the Grey 17 thread.  A number of people were iffy on
+it, or downright negative.  I said they had a point, and agreed with
+much of it.  So right off the bat, you are proceeding from a false
+assumption, that nobody else here critiques the show.  So you're wrong
+on the face of it.  Don't believe me? Check the threads.  It's there. 
+And elsewhere.  Always has been.  Always will be.
+
+   But for you, it's necessary to think, for your own ego, that you
+and ONLY you DARE to stand up and speak ***THE TRUTH***.  It's how you
+make yourself feel important.  And the next phase of that is that you
+must now put yourself in the position of feeling persecuted for your
+statements...it's not enough that you must criticize, you must feel
+*special* for doing so, reinforce your own sad notion that only you are
+the Visionary One here.  So you come in and you insult people, deride
+them...indicate that anyone who takes issue with your hamhanded and
+abusive messages is a nut, or an idiot, or a blind, ass kissing fool.
+
+   Then you go to phase three.  It's all right in line with what we've
+seen here a thousand times before.  You may think you've invented this
+little dance of yours, but we've seen it before you, and we'll see it
+after you. You've practically become a cliche.
+
+   Phase three, when people take offense at what you say, is to shrug
+and say, "hey, it's just wit," and "chill out."  Yessir, that'll work.
+
+   There's a particularly offensive sort of netjerk who thinks that as
+long as he says what he says in a calm, flip fashion, he can say any
+stupid, offensive, chowderheaded thing he so chooses...and if someone
+gets upset about it, heyyyyyy, chill out, look how angry you're
+getting, you're shrieking, when I was just calmly talking about how
+your mother works the corner of Sunset and Vine for twenty bucks a pop,
+there's nothing wrong with that, hey, it's the world's oldest
+profession, why're you being so defensive....
+
+   That's the game you play.  And it is a game, make no mistake. 
+Difference is, some of us have been around long enough, and seen other
+yahoos like you come storming in here doing the same thing, to
+*recognize* that it's a game. And the rules of the game are as follows:
+"I can say anything I want, and that's great, but if you get upset in
+response, then that's wrong, and bad."
+
+   You want to believe that you're the Last Bastion of Persecuted
+Truth, the only person who can look at things calmly, so you get other
+people upset to prove your point...it's a very nice, self-contained
+little mobius loop designed specifically to reinforce your own
+self-image.
+
+   If you say something, that's your opinion, and you're damn well
+entitled to spraypaint that opinion all over the walls, and if anybody
+doesn't like it, screw 'em...but if the other users here exercise THEIR
+right to hold an opinion about your boorish behavior, somehow THAT'S
+wrong, that's shrieking and screaming and being an "idiot."
+
+   I would suggest that it's you who can't take criticsm, you who
+can't abide people having an opposing opinion, on one level, because
+you need to deflate it or deflect it or deride it...but at the same
+time, you *need* it, you batten off it like a blood-swollen tick, you
+respond to it with glee, because you think it makes you important in
+their lives, or at least your own.  It's like the ten year old kid
+sitting on a fence firing a slingshot at a horse, you think that
+because you got a reaction, it *means* something.
+
+   And as for saying "it's just wit," there are two primary
+requirements for wit: 1) it must be funny, and 2) it must not proceed
+from maliciousness. Neither of those conditions is operational in your
+messages.  They are mean, venal, petty, self-indulgent,
+self-congratulatory, derisive, ill-mannered and offensive.
+
+   But they're not witty.
+
+   That's just what you hide behind, you think it excuses any stupid,
+hare brained thing you choose to spout...it's just wit, just bein'
+funny.
+
+   Like I said...seen it.
+
+   Finally, for this:
+
+"Joe, you comments are cute at times, but remember I tell it like it
+is. If you want to talk to just yes men, and women then they're all
+yours. Fail them, and they'll east you alive."
+
+   No, you don't "tell it like it is."  That's more of your ego, your
+sense of god-given mission, that somehow you know the Truth and nobody
+else here has sufficiently evolved to your level yet.  Nor do I talk to
+just yes men and women.  That's again your way of dismissing other
+people here, writing off their opinions as "yes men" while insisting
+your own is more valid because you're "objective," when you're really
+just being boorish.  Nobody here is a yes-ANYthing.  There's
+disagreements, criticism, even some outright knock-downs.  But you
+don't see them.
+
+   Because the universe of Peter Stathis is *just* big enough to
+contain Peter Stathis, and nothing much more than that.  Your messages
+are intended for the greater glorification of Peter Stathis, to elicit
+persecution for the poor, embattled Peter Stathis, so that you may be
+crucified on a cross of your own making because you need the pain and
+the glory and most of all you need to be *right*.
+
+   Because you are none of those.  You are, simply, ill-mannered and
+in the final analysis utterly irrelevant.  The only thing more
+irrelevant than you, is your opinion.  But only because it rides into
+this forum stapled to a horse's ass.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Sep 1996 14:01:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Grey 17 is missing
+
+ Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Oh yeah, I was wondering: do you have any special provisions for
+> feline viewers of B5?
+
+       I'm not suprised...the cat's probably keeping an eye out for
+shadows. Cats are well-known shadow-detectors, you know.  Whenever you
+see one looking up into a corner of the room, and you don't see
+anything there, now you know what they're *really* seeing....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Sep 1996 14:01:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rage's Thots: JMS' Lit
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you point me to where I can find out more info on this?
+
+       Thanks.
+
+       The Synanon game is (more was than is, but that
+notwithstanding...) used in drug and alcohol counseling programs.  If
+you'll check the psychology wing of your local library, you'll probably
+find information on it there.
+
+       Re: the scene you mention you'd've liked to have seen...it was
+there, actually.  The editor of the book snipped it for length.  (I
+think there were about six or seven substantive scenes deleted to bring
+it under 100,000 words, which was about right for them size-wise.) 
+With most of them you don't feel the absence; with some, you do.
+
+       My appraisal: it's a decent enough first novel.  It was
+strictly learn-as-you-go, having never done it before, and really only
+doing it to see if I could do it, and because I couldn't find the book
+I wanted to read, so I wrote the darned thing, never really figuring on
+selling it.  It sat in the closet for something like 2 or 3 years
+before my agent bugged me into letting her read it.  The second novel,
+OtherSyde, is something of an improvement, I knew a little better then
+what I was doing.  And the next novel, whenever I have the chance or
+time to write it, should be even better.  It's going to be a long one,
+a 1,000 page contemporary dark fantasy with some interesting edges to
+it.  Got a great title for it, it's all outlined, just gotta find time
+to write it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Sep 1996 14:01:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Adrienne Chafee <76711.2643@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hugo Awards
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...I'm not sure I heard much of anything that night....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Sep 1996 14:17:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: G S Fletcher-Brown <76534.513@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Kick Butt Pt.III
+
+ G S Fletcher-Brown <76534.513@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, do I have your permission to use the aforementioned message
+> altered and amended to show they're your words, removing the
+> thread title and offender's name?
+
+       Sure, if it'll help elsewhere, feel free.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Sep 1996 01:23:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: AsstOp Mike Willmoth <76170.1037@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WorldCon & Hugo
+
+ AsstOp Mike Willmoth <76170.1037@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My only question is where will you display it?
+
+      Thanks; I was thinking of putting the Hugo on display in my
+bedroom, but I decided it was 'way too Freudian.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Sep 1996 01:23:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Grey 17 is missing
+
+ Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com> asks:
+> ...do you want to buy an apartment in Barcelona?
+> ...or a cat?
+
+      You cannot sell a cat, you can only lease it out.
+
+      BTW, what's that behind you?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Sep 1996 12:42:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Can you suggest my next course of action?
+> And, could you let me know--if I am to send a cc of the check--to
+> whom and what address???
+
+       Drop a line to Jim Lockett at jplb5@aol.com and let him know. 
+Again, there were some initial problems with the post office, and we
+have no way of knowing who didn't receive one of the mailed items until
+we hear from them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Sep 1996 12:42:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WorldCon & Hugo
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Have you taken the Hugo onto the set yet?
+
+       Absolutley, I took the Hugo out on the very next day, Tuesday. 
+The whole place was very excited about it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Sep 1996 12:42:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WorldCon & Hugo
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Would you do one thing?
+> You could offer it through the fan club, as our first special???
+> Thinking a little further, maybe only the principle cast, the
+> series regulars and Turhan Bey?? Pretty please and a whole virtual
+> slice of chocolate decadence???
+
+       It'd be difficult to get those parties all together at once,
+but if it can be done, we'll try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Sep 1996 16:41:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: kick butt Pt. II
+
+ Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ya don't say?
+> Well I'm just shocked, you mean there's aliens on B5?
+> Secondary stories?!?
+> Just how big is this skyscraper anyway?
+> A skyscraper in flatland, who'd have thought it possible?
+> Care to be reconsidered, oh great one?
+
+       By the way, you'll note that since coming on this last strafing
+run, Stathis hasn't logged on to read any of the replies.  And
+consequently hasn't responded.  Because it doesn't really matter to
+him.  He just likes to swoop in here and get people upset, then swoop
+out, amusing himself with the notion of everybody scrambling
+around...then he waits a bit, then he does it again.
+
+       A truly demented and sad individual.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 Sep 1996 22:36:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kick Butt Pt.III
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"The truth is you don't like it when I take the show to task, but
+instead of getting a calm arguement, I get nasty comments."
+
+      Nope,  Not the truth.  Because the truth is that your opinion(s)
+about the show generally take up, oh, maybe 10% of your message(s). 
+The rest of your messages are all about you...about the validity of
+your opinion, the need for other people to listen to your opinion, your
+reactions to other people's reactions, your position relative to other
+people...you have no interest in discussing the show, good or bad.  The
+interest of Peter Stathis is in talking about Peter Stathis, and his
+centrality to the known universe. If what you say were the truth, you
+would not have titled the message that you were here to "kick butt,"
+given that the only butts around here are of the users of this system. 
+Check your own first message again...the "opinion" part runs about 2 
+sentences out of 25.  The rest is all about you.  Then you complain
+when the discussion becomes about you when *you* set the parameters of
+the discussion.
+
+      Egotism?  Peter, your ego could be wrapped around the sun three
+times and still leave room for a knot.
+
+      You came in confrontational, with no interest in the discussion
+itself, only in creating a discussion *about* the discussion...a
+discussion in which Peter Stathis would stand crucified on a cross of
+his own making, for his own edification.
+
+      You're worse than sad and pathetic...you're a cliche, and a
+boring one at that.  We've seen your act before, Peter, and we don't
+fall for it anymore. Go bug somebody who cares.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Sep 1996 22:36:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WorldCon & Hugo
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you going to let it show up on camera somewhere??
+
+      Actually, at www.scifi.com/worldcon there's a group photo of the
+Hugo winners with the things in hand that's fairly decent.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Sep 1996 22:36:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Will send this on to Jim personally.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Sep 1996 22:36:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Grey 17 is missing
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's *always* scary for me to go on...I'm always sure the day
+before that nobody's gonna show up, and then I go into panic when I hit
+the stage, and it's mainly a matter of burying that so I can get
+through it and perform. These people have been there, often, for a long
+time, waiting, and they deserve nothing less than a fun, interesting,
+and sometimes maybe even useful show.  They deserve their money's
+worth, which is why I'm so adamant about nobody getting disappointed or
+cut off in line or ignored.  The second panel was a last-minute
+addition when the first one got flooded out (as it werte), and after
+giving my all on the first one, I was just whipped...but I wasn't about
+to let anyone leave disappointed.  (As it was, I think my energy level 
+was still lower than I'd've liked during the second presentation, and
+a bit more rambling in structure, especially toward the end, 'cause I
+was running on fumes, though so far it seems to have come off okay from
+the other side of the room.)
+
+      I think the day I ever *stop* being nervous about it, and get
+either complacent about it, or take it for granted, I should stop doing
+it.  But that doesn't seem terribly likely....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Sep 1996 22:36:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE: Vorlons in the Past
+
+ Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did B4 have more firepower than even the current B5?
+
+      Yeah, B4 had more firepower, and it had one thing B5
+doesn't...engines that can move it forward if necessary.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Sep 1996 14:23:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Creeping-itus
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I love that...if you could send me a copy of that page, I'd be
+grateful; we'll put it up on the B5 stage wall with some other stuff. 
+(Our mailing address is Babylon 5, 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260,
+Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.)  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Sep 1996 14:23:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Grey 17 is missing
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks; btw, who're #1 and #2 on your list?  I'd be interested
+in seeing how they do it, maybe pick up a few hints on presentation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Sep 1996 14:23:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Julian Suddaby <106163.653@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ATRCONHP
+
+ Julian Suddaby <106163.653@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that really the Shadows' motives?
+> The fear of other races, different people?
+
+      Nope, that ain't the motive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Sep 1996 14:23:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Z - Minus 10 days
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, yeah, the countdown aspect does add a lot to this, gives
+it a forward momentum and a kind of subliminal ominousness.  And as for
+the Refa situation presented in counterpoint...I love how that came
+out.  It's almost subversive in a way...just gives me the quiet chills.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Sep 1996 14:23:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com>
+Subject: And the Rock...
+
+ Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In other words, will he, in the light of the events in this
+> episode, ever take action to stop Londo's campaign? I'm not
+> inferring that it might be major action, such as leaving Londo's
+> side, or turning against him openly, but might he now consider
+> 'dropping Londo in it', to coin a phrase? (Oh, and I take it that
+> the Minbari language is more logical than our own, in terms of
+> word definitions?
+
+      I don't know if Vir really has anywhere else to go....
+
+      And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Sep 1996 15:21:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jackie Pearcey <102404.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z Minus
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well, you combine the release of 2,000 prisoners, many of whom
+were likely resistance fighters, and the payback to one who
+orchestrated the bombing of Narn, and that adds up to a pretty good
+incentive to get Refa even WITHOUT Londo's presence in the deal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Sep 1996 15:21:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ep. title
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is that a 'real' song, or are you also a songwriter/composer??
+
+      No, as a rule, Harlan doesn't suggest titles; "Rock" came from
+the quote from the Bible, which was later made into a gospel song, used
+in the show.  So it's a real song, though I did write 2 for
+"Walkabout."
+
+      PS, please be careful as your message isn't spoiler protected,
+and would give away stuff.  When possible, just remember to note the
+brackets around message headers.  And thanks for the rest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Sep 1996 18:31:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WWE: Vorlons in the Past
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      B5 doesn't have engines that can move it; yes, budget cuts,
+after spending so much on the previous attempts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Sep 1996 22:07:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rock -- Yes!
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now, the obvious question: Why did everyone seem so convinced
+> that it was a major character who would die? Did the fans just
+> confuse the death of Kosh with the death of Refa and you let it
+> brew until we all had it dead wrong? Or is there still a death to
+> come?
+
+      Well, given that Refa has been around for two years, and Keffer
+was only in a few in one season, I'd hardly put them in the same
+league.  Part of all this is how you define "major."  Usually, I've
+refrained from using that term...I would say someone you've seen since
+the first year, for instance, or an important character.
+
+      Certainly I was primarily referring to Kosh in my original note
+about all this...but a lot of folks took that and extended it past that
+point, which I just let go rather than correct, because the show should
+do any correcting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Sep 1996 00:58:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rock -- Yes!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, I think the message of mine you're referring to are the
+ones I wrote with Kosh in mind, not Refa.  But since I obviously
+couldn't say that at the time, some of it sloshed over into how folks
+viewed later episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Sep 1996 13:41:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ATRCONHP
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Sep 1996 13:41:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rock -- Yes!
+
+ Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, I take it that Refa (or at least the actor playing Refa) was
+> the one who said "Why me?" in your note about two deaths at the
+> end of the third season? If so, could you now say a little more on
+> this topic as to how the conversations went?
+
+       Yes, it was with the actor who plays Refa that I had that
+conversation. He was initially bummed out, figured I was doing what I
+was doing in "Rock" because I wasn't happy with his performance or
+something. So I pulled him aside and explained the situation, and
+indicated that we'd likely use him again as an alien character, under
+prosthetics.  If he hadn't done such a good job, this wouldn't have
+happened, because no one would've cared about the character.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Sep 1996 13:41:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Z Minus
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Except, of course, that going on at length about the death of
+Refa would require revealing what he was doing there...and I doubt very
+much that the Royal Court would like even the suspicion that one of its
+own was making deals with the Narns to become public knowledge...so
+it's extremely unlikely that there would be any retribution.  This is
+one the Centauri would prefer to sweep under the rug, I think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Sep 1996 13:41:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Imran Naqvi <100533.273@compuserve.com>
+Subject: And the rock...
+
+ Imran Naqvi <100533.273@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I don't know, but the combination of seeing Delenn and John Kiss
+> in front af that Armada seemed a little...odd?
+
+       I guess it's really a matter of perspective.  It depends on
+what the fleet is *there* for, as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Sep 1996 13:41:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Rock -- Yes!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.  When I thought of that one, I just sat there and
+grinned. It's so perverse, but yet so appropriate, all at the same
+time.  Just to further add a bit of creepiness to it, in the sound mix
+I had the editors verb up the music toward the fade out, so it had a
+slightly distorted edge to it.  The details are everything in a scene
+like that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Sep 1996 18:01:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark McGehee <75720.2420@compuserve.com>
+Subject: HUGO Award
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks; that was the one where we felt we really hit our
+stride.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Sep 1996 18:01:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rock -- Yes!
+
+ Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have many folks who have played multiple roles?
+
+       Yeah, we've floated characters between human and alien from
+time to time; we've used Wayne Alexander as a Narn, the actor who
+played the Ombuds came back as the Markab doctor...we've basically got
+a kind of alien rep company goig here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Sep 1996 18:04:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Rock - minor nit ?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Not in the queue, but providing security within the station...
+remember, many of the Narns have joined B5 security.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Sep 1996 18:04:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Rock - minor nit ?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Nope, we're generally very careful about what aliens show up in
+what scenes.  (See my other note on this.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1996 15:33:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I Found Demon Knight!
+
+ David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If I were to send them to you, could I impose upon you to sign
+> them and send them back?
+
+       If you sent it with a self-addressed, stamped envelope or
+mailer, yes, otherwise it'll sit here and I'll forget to get around to
+sending it back.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1996 15:33:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael W. Mahoney <103007.1253@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Kick Butt Pt.III
+
+ Michael W. Mahoney <103007.1253@compuserve.com> asks:
+> He's just dull enough to convince himself that he's witty: "See
+> all the replies I got!?!"
+
+       Thanks.  Me, I don't much care for flames or insults...it's
+something I try and avoid where I can.  It's just not worth the hassle
+or the bile or the angst.  You've gotta *really* provoke me to push
+that particular button. I've gotten decent at it out of survival, and
+simply because I'm a writer; you've gotta be out of your *mind* to go
+up against any fairly decent writer in a written medium.  You won't
+win.
+
+       But for folks like the one you describe, they're not out to
+win, only to validate their existence by generating a response, proving
+they exist by the echo produced by their voices.  So in that, I agree
+wholeheartedly with your analysis.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1996 15:33:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Creeping-itus
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Somewhat intentional; in the long run, the show will end up
+either aired daily, or stripped weekly, so either way the 14 days until
+climax works well, as it does now for the UK.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1996 15:33:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: And the rock...
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> I presume John is in love but is it clouding his judgement ?
+> After spending all that time in the war room
+> worrying/fretting/planning I was expecting a more extreme
+> reaction when the 'White Stars' were revealed - maybe something
+> along the lines of 'Why the hell did'nt you tell me about this
+> before ?'
+
+       Well, as she indicates, she didn't *have* them before.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1996 15:33:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Questions
+
+ Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any plans for any books covering the technical aspects
+> of Babylon 5 ? manual ?
+> Who's been "spacefaring" longest the Minbari or the Centauri ?
+
+       No immediate plans for tech books; the Minbari have been out
+and about much longer than the Centauri.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1996 15:33:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Fiona McKenzie <100705.2062@compuserve.com>
+Subject: And the Rock...
+
+ Fiona McKenzie <100705.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A question:are the 6 B5 books currently out consistant with
+> plot-lines to come? What's the chance of you producing some large
+> posters of Mira Furlan (don't know if I've spelt that correctly?)
+> for my friend Marco Biagi who is currently infatuated with her?
+
+       Thanks; the books are consistent in the broad strokes, though
+some of the details veer away.  That happens when you have diverse
+hands working on a project.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1996 15:33:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Z'Ha;Dum>>??
+
+ Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could the alligator your gonna pull on us be the fact that
+> Babylon 5 is gonna get blown away at the end of season 3 or early
+> season 4? Perhaps this is Z day?
+> Will happen before the end of the 5 years?
+> Will it happen soon?
+
+       We'll have to see...obviously I won't just say what's what
+ahead of time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1996 15:33:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Religion ??
+
+ Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) I wonder how much of the main arc is Religion based?
+> Will the "enemy" be one of these or a 7th?
+> 3) Are the three ages of man kind based on a religious premise,
+> such as the three ages of History according to Joachim?
+
+       No, the arc isn't religion based, though it does have
+mythological underpinnings.  No 7's planned, and no, the ages of man
+aren't based on a religious premise either.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1996 16:00:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carol Naylor <100645.2613@compuserve.com>
+Subject: best CGI
+
+ Carol Naylor <100645.2613@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So do you want the photo?
+
+       As long as you don't apply that cuddly description, I'll let
+you live.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1996 18:05:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rock -- Yes!
+
+ Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In "The Rock " Wayne Alexander was a Narn G'Dan, which one was he
+> ? the Narn who first met G'Kar on Narn?
+
+       He was the Narn who first met G'Kar on their homeworld; the
+only one with any lines.
+
+       Wayne has a considerably larger role in year 4 as an alien
+named Lorien.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1996 21:29:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hart Trevor <100705.1222@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Universe Today.
+
+ Hart Trevor <100705.1222@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Please can you tell me if this is case?
+
+      No, this is still the first issue.  (Jim and his aide took a
+polaroid of the big pallet of boxes going out the other day.) 
+Basically, everyone's membership date is moved to when we got around to
+it, so nobody loses anything.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1996 21:29:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Storytelling Question
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you ever deliberately set out to commemorate people you've
+> known when you write a story? Do you find that, once you've
+> written the story, you have inadvertently commemorated people
+> you've known?
+
+      I don't know if commemorate is the right word for what you're
+asking... you wanna take another stab at that and clarify?  This can
+cover everything from Tuckerizing to homage to using friends or
+whatever.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1996 21:29:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: VOA
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Well, it's conceivable....we'll have to see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1996 01:11:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com>
+Subject: General Hague
+
+ Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you intentionally name your General Hague's ship the
+> Alexander thinking of former Nixon White House Chief of Staff and
+> Reagan Secretary of State Alexander (I'm in Control Here) Haig?
+
+      I liked the sound of the name...and I was thinking more of the
+Hague as a place, not Haig the military guy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1996 01:11:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I Found Demon Knight!
+
+ David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there other novels (besides Demon Night and Othersyde) that I
+> should know about?
+
+      Those are my only two novels (at present); there's a TWILIGHT
+ZONE anthology I wrote, but that's damned near impossible to find.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1996 11:51:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steven K. Andeweg <72143.674@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 3 Title Sequence
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       What remarkable timing...John Copeland and I just got finished
+with the main title for year 4, which is, again, different from last
+year's. This time I wanted a whole new approach, on just about every
+level, and designed the thing myself, working with John and the editors
+to get the best shots and pull it all together.  It's *majorly* cool. 
+We showed it to some members of the crew, and they're all jazzed by it,
+they think it's our best main title ever.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1996 11:51:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom General <102233.2410@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+ Tom General <102233.2410@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you come up with a way of getting to him in person?
+> Are the major mailings over now?
+> What about the rest of us?
+
+       No, the major mailings aren't over, they're still going out.
+Everyone who signed on will get/is getting their stuff.  He's had a lot
+of email to contend with, but I do know that a lot of folks are a)
+getting their stuff, and b) getting email replies.  He's getting to it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1996 11:51:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neville White <100335.2721@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Symmetry
+
+ Neville White <100335.2721@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just wondering, but is symmetry a favourite concept of yours?
+> So back to the first question - a favourite concept or just a
+> convenient word at the time :-) ? (except that it is then what, 9
+> months before we see more over here?
+
+       Thanks.  Yeah, I like symmetry...both as a word, and as a
+concept. It plays into the show a lot, showing the balance that the
+universe tends to impose whether we like it or not.  What goes around,
+comes around.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1996 15:18:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 3 Opening Titles
+
+ Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it a case that this scene was created long before the effects
+> for Severed Dreams and subsequently not included or is it still
+> to come ?
+
+       No, I think the intent of my message was that it was a
+foreshadowing of the big fight around B5 in "Severed," not that that
+particular shot was going to be used.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1996 15:18:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season 3 Title Sequence
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> PMFJI - will there be more CDs of B5 music?
+> Are there going to be other writers in next season's eps?
+
+       Chris is looking to have the new 2nd volume of B5 music out in
+time to coincide with the November sweeps; I've heard the first 15
+minutes, and it's great.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1996 15:18:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 3 Title Sequence
+
+ Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the October release date still on schedule as I expect Chris
+> must also be busy preparing to score season 4?
+
+       I think they're going to go closer to November, to capitalize
+on the PR for the sweeps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1996 15:18:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Martin Colloby <100137.2625@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rock -- Yes!
+
+ Martin Colloby <100137.2625@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was the music another jms/Franke composition?
+
+       No, the song is an old gospel song that goes 'way back.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1996 17:49:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom General <102233.2410@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+ Tom General <102233.2410@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you let us know when the major mailings are over, or when
+> to contact him? So, what do I do?
+> How long should I wait?
+> Come on, how much longer?
+
+       I walked down the hall to Jim's office, and asked.  Your stuff
+went out this morning, several hours ago.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1996 17:49:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Title-ATRCONHP
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is there anything jms *can't* do??
+
+       "Is there anything jms can't do?"
+
+       Divide or multiply fractions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1996 20:28:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I Found Demon Knight!
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would that be "Tales From The New Twilight Zone"?
+
+      Yup, that's the one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1996 00:58:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ken Mayer <103721.3257@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Bablyon 5 Stamper Set
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, it's legit.  Thanks for asking.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1996 01:05:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Storytelling Question
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"So, I suppose I meant "commemorate" in the way the post office does
+ -- recognizing those who have died."
+
+      Specific persons, no.  I don't do that.  Never have.  I think,
+in the case of someone I know who's passed away, it would be rude.  I
+don't think I could handle it.  Over the years I've lost way too many
+friends, and some wounds never entirely heal.  Best to leave them
+alone, and remember those friends as they were, not as they were bent
+into fictionalizations.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1996 01:05:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I Found Demon Knight!
+
+ David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is the title of the TZ anthology?
+
+   "Tales from the New Twilight Zone," from Bantam.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1996 18:42:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       They're all going out first class.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1996 18:42:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ATTN:JMS Tamlyn Tomita
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Well, now that she's on BZ, that kinda precludes it in any
+event, so it's kind of a moot point, though I'm very pleased for her
+success.  She's a fine person.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1996 18:42:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard L. Long <76562.2757@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Posters only got approved recently, so they're lagging behind.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Sep 1996 12:12:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Rock -- Yes!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Not that I'm aware of, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Sep 1996 16:42:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ghosts from the past
+
+ Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering if/when we'll be seeing: The Walkers (Zog dudes)
+> from Sigma957 (what is their race/name, btw?) The Technomages
+> from "Geometry of Shadows"??
+
+       She didn't know what was coming, and that worried her.  She is
+most secure when she has a definite plan of action, and variables
+aren't something the Minbari are good at in any event, they're very
+rigid and structured.
+
+       And we'll be seeing the Sigma walkers again in the not too
+distant future.  And some of their pals.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Sep 1996 21:44:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, the poster was only approved (finally) by WB about 2-3
+weeks ago, at which point we began to produce them and mail them out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Sep 1996 21:19:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Foundation Image Out
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, the note to lwtattler was a *private email* which
+should not have been posted publically, so let your conscience be your
+guide on letting this stay here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Sep 1996 00:11:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Dust to Dust question
+
+ Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any scenes from episodes that haven't aired yet?
+
+      No, I don't think there's anything else from later eps in there.
+
+      And thanks again....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Sep 1996 00:11:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Visible David
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we ever *see* Sheridan & Delenn's son David (at any age) in
+> the series?
+
+      Well, I wouldn't want to preclude anything at this point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Sep 1996 13:29:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rock -- Yes!
+
+ Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any plan to do this?
+
+      Not currently, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Sep 1996 13:29:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Dancing-Gumph!
+
+ Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Couple of questions: (1) Have we seen where Delenn dropped the
+> snow globe before somewhere? I don't recall this image in AAITN,
+> was it there or elsewhere?
+
+      Yes, the snow globe was shown as a flash-forward in "WWE-2," and
+we did see that image of Sheridan in Psi Cop uniform in "All Alone."
+
+      And thanks, it's a great ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Sep 1996 13:29:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow Dancing
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Great, thanks, good to hear.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Sep 1996 13:29:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arwel Parry <100336.623@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Dancing
+
+ Arwel Parry <100336.623@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A cute kid appears on B5 and it _survives_?!?
+> or was the kid getting spaced in the 7 seconds that C4 cut?
+
+      Yeah, the Minbari greeting is a hoot...there's a lot in that
+episode I just like a lot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Sep 1996 14:01:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Dancing
+
+ Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I ask you if the perspective was that of Anne Sheriden?
+> If it was, then why did the extra's behave as if they'd seen a
+> ghost? Is she gonna re-appear next week?
+> Or was she credited purely to allow a credit before Anne?
+> ie was the character important or was it artistic licence?
+
+      The script said the extras shouldn't make a big deal about
+seeing her. The director did that on the set.  That's not what I had in
+mind, but it isn't that big a deal...I figure she's a striking looking
+woman, maybe that's a good justification.
+
+      The ordering of credits was done to de-emphasize and hide (as
+much as possible) the appearance of Melissa.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Sep 1996 13:29:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rock -- Yes!
+
+ Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any plan to do this?
+
+      Not currently, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Sep 1996 13:29:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Dancing-Gumph!
+
+ Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Couple of questions: (1) Have we seen where Delenn dropped the
+> snow globe before somewhere? I don't recall this image in AAITN,
+> was it there or elsewhere?
+
+      Yes, the snow globe was shown as a flash-forward in "WWE-2," and
+we did see that image of Sheridan in Psi Cop uniform in "All Alone."
+
+      And thanks, it's a great ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Sep 1996 13:29:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow Dancing
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Great, thanks, good to hear.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Sep 1996 13:29:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arwel Parry <100336.623@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Dancing
+
+ Arwel Parry <100336.623@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A cute kid appears on B5 and it _survives_?!?
+> or was the kid getting spaced in the 7 seconds that C4 cut?
+
+      Yeah, the Minbari greeting is a hoot...there's a lot in that
+episode I just like a lot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Sep 1996 14:01:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Dancing
+
+ Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I ask you if the perspective was that of Anne Sheriden?
+> If it was, then why did the extra's behave as if they'd seen a
+> ghost? Is she gonna re-appear next week?
+> Or was she credited purely to allow a credit before Anne?
+> ie was the character important or was it artistic licence?
+
+      The script said the extras shouldn't make a big deal about
+seeing her. The director did that on the set.  That's not what I had in
+mind, but it isn't that big a deal...I figure she's a striking looking
+woman, maybe that's a good justification.
+
+      The ordering of credits was done to de-emphasize and hide (as
+much as possible) the appearance of Melissa.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1996 12:18:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Dancing
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       There was a combination of reasons, including production
+schedules, for the decision.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1996 12:18:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Dancing
+
+ Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are they now lying low due to the loss of Kosh, or is there some
+> other reason for their apparent lack of interest in the affairs
+> of the other races? And if there is another reason, will it be
+> addressed soon?
+
+       There are other reasons, which yes, will be addressed soon....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1996 12:18:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Dust to Dust question
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In what other series does what seems to be arrogance in one
+> episode turns out to be prophecy when viewed from an episode
+> further down the line?
+
+       Yeah...we're slippery that way....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1996 12:18:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Larry Rosenblum <72122.1555@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 visibility/popularity
+
+ Larry Rosenblum <72122.1555@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you agree that there has been a noticeable increase in
+> recognition of B5 over the last six months, and if so, to what do
+> you attribute it?
+
+       Yes, I agree that there has been an increase in our visibility
+lately. I think it stems from a number of things.  First, we've
+outlived the expectations for us.  Everybody wrote us off, said we'd be
+gone in half a season (including Entertainment Weekly).  We've been
+stomped on, panned, abandoned, derided and left for dead.  But we keep
+on going, like some kind of deranged, phosphor-dot Energizer bunny. 
+Look at the shows that, unlike B5, got lots of PR, had big names
+attached to them, were held up way above us by the fickle media...VR5,
+Earth 2, SeaQuest, Space Rangers, Space Above and Beyond, others...and
+they're all gone.  And we're still here.  We can't be ignored any
+longer.
+
+       A lot of folks are still asking, Can B5 succeed?  But in
+whatever television terms you choose to apply, we *have* succeeded.  We
+succeeded when we went three years, which is exceedingly rare in ANY SF
+series.  Had we gone only 3 years, even though the story wouldn't have
+been finished, the series itself would've been a success from a purely
+TV perspective. Remember, the original Star Trek itself only went 3
+seasons...and look where that led.
+
+       Second, I think more people have at least sampled the show, and
+from the ratings, more people have stayed with it, and seen what it is
+we're doing. The longer you're on the air, the more folks will run into
+you, even if just by accident.  Where virtually every syndicated show
+has lost ratings, B5 has grown, slowly but surely.
+
+       There comes a point where a series, any series, reaches
+critical mass in terms of public recognition.  I think we're finally on
+the cusp of that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1996 12:18:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Slight Fan Club panic
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Sure, it's jplb5@aol.com.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1996 12:18:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow Dancing
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yeah, the channel 4 reference was a nod to the UK.  Wondered if
+it'd get noticed....
+
+       Good point, when you do a battle like that...what do you do
+next that won't seem anticlimatic?  Usually you save something like
+that for your last episode of the season, not your next-to-last, or
+you've blown your big EFX show 1 show early.  It makes for a real
+challenge...what do you do to follow THAT up?
+
+       I think we figured it out....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1996 12:18:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Creature CGI
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> With the Foundation situation does it mean that we won't get to
+> see these after all ?
+
+       Actually, no, the equipment now in hand is equal to or better
+than the previous stuff, so that's still a very viable option.  I just
+gotta find the story to go with it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1996 17:19:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow Dancing
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks, glad you decided to join the family....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1996 17:19:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ghosts from the past
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, it's just a matter of fitting everything in, in its proper
+place.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1996 17:19:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow Dancing
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, Sheridan isn't the man in the middle...the man in the
+middle is the one out there who sent Anna.  As Ivanova says, his
+opposite number.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1996 17:59:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dr John A Purvis <100341.1147@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Dancing
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       They cut that?  How curious...I didn't know that.  From what
+I'd seen of British TV, some shows use the word bastard like I use a
+comma, they're ubiquitous....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1996 22:28:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Dust to Dust question
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, the best "slippery" line came from Australian artist
+Peter Ledger, who before his passing helped visualize the designs of
+B5: "Slippery as a bucket of monkey's foreskins."
+
+      It's the kind of hideous line that just keeps you up at night,
+trying to pretend you never heard it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1996 22:28:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com>
+Subject: And the Rock Cried Out
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  It's comical...and it ain't comical...it's designed to
+elicit conflicting emotions, between what you *are* feeling, what you
+*should* be feeling, and so on.  I like uneasy laughter....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1996 02:33:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I Finally got it! <G>
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And what about that intriguing new central logo?
+
+      The logo in the center of the new poster is the one that now
+hangs in the Council chambers for the League of Non-Aligned Worlds.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1996 02:40:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 game?
+
+ Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it true?
+> There's a B5 wargame in the works?
+> Or is that just an off-hand reference to the RPG by Chameleon
+> Eclectic?
+
+      Yes, there's a B5 war game in the works....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1996 02:40:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow Dancing
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  With "Shadow" my hope is really to erase most (though
+obviously not all) suspicions or predictions on how the last one will
+go.  If we already had our big EFX battle, it won't be that...Anna's
+here, so it can't be that...it can't ever be a return to tabula rasa,
+an empty slate, but by doing what's normally done in the season closer
+one episode prior to that, it may help ease the way for a different
+tonality to come in.
+
+      And thanks again...you definitely won't be disappointed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1996 02:40:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow Dancing
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  What matters for me is that it should feel like a real
+future, that this is happening somewhere, and these are a series of
+reports back from that place.  It's certainly real enough in my head
+some days....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1996 02:44:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >> Z'HA'DUM <<
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I was gonna say something to that effect, but last time I did,
+everybody jumped funky on me, so now I just nod in at the window, like
+a black and frosted rose left over from the spring (to paraphrase
+Christopher Fry).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1996 11:57:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Creature CGI
+
+ Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will Netter Digital (?) be using Sillicon Graphics workstations?
+> Did Foundation use KPT Bryce?
+
+       You've just passed beyond the envelope of my expertise....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1996 11:57:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Late "Avalon" question
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> My brother was wondering into my ear about whatever happened to
+> the sword that Michael York's character gave to Delenn in "A Late
+> Delivery from Avalon" -- what *did* she do with it? Does she still
+> have it -- use it as a back scratcher or vermin control like
+> Londo's kutare or what?????
+
+       It went back to our prop department....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1996 11:57:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season 4
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.  We started filming 3 weeks ago, and will be finished
+sometime in May.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1996 12:06:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Radio Times
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Anything there worth repeating?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1996 14:36:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow Dancing
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Apparently there's some sort of rule at C4 about showing
+American produced shows in the watershed prime-time hours.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1996 14:36:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Helene Northway <72370.1026@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I Finally got it! <G>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  Yours is the first detailed feedback I've gotten back
+on the poster.  I designed it myself, with Jim Lockett then doing the
+actual work of putting the darned thing together from the various bits
+and pieces.  The feeling I wanted was of these old scrolls, found long,
+long after the fact, and when you unroll them, looking up at the stars,
+there are the faces of our characters, and the scroll tells their
+stories....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1996 14:36:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steve Arnott <70247.2614@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 visibility/popularity
+
+ Steve Arnott <70247.2614@compuserve.com> asks:
+> While it's not up there with winning a Hugo, hey, every little
+> bit helps, right?
+
+       Cool, I didn't know this...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1996 17:35:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z'Ha'dum Spoilers
+
+ Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Seems that this is going on in your story, or do you have a few
+> more aces up your sleeve?
+
+       Thanks.  The portrayal of their motives is somewhat more
+elaborate, but the sense is there, and as you yourself note, there's a
+certain cold logic there which can be agreed with at some level.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1996 17:35:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >> Z'HA'DUM <<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       From the way it was worded, it was written by someone who's
+actually seen the thing, since the little moves and such described
+weren't in the script.  Must be an advance copy in the UK.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1996 17:36:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I Finally got it! <G>
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What does the alien text (Minbari) in the sword logo say and what
+> race's script is it?
+
+       The Minbari script on the left says the same thing as the
+English sentence on the right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1996 17:39:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tony Cherrington <100770.3121@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Thank you from the uk
+
+ Tony Cherrington <100770.3121@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I have just watched Shadow Dancing, and I felt I had to finaly
+> take the plunge and say publicly *thanks*, Have you any idea of
+> what the next seven days are going to be like ?
+
+       Thanks.  If we come even close to someday being classified as
+literature, that would be a good thing; a chance to show you can tell
+a quality SF story for television.  But the day they put out a Cliff's
+Notes version of the series, I'm leaving for the Arctic Circle.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1996 00:02:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I Finally got it! <G>
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I doubt you'll be willing to answer this until after the final
+> season, but why would a Minbari/Human heraldic image be central
+> to the Council of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds?
+
+      Basically, it's the symbol that went up when the various sides
+began to join under Sheridan and Delenn against the shadows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1996 00:02:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 game?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, this is another game.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1996 00:02:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >> Z'HA'DUM <<
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (further paraphrase) After all, what is a halo?
+
+      Now that's writing....
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1996 12:27:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >> Z'HA'DUM <<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Re: my "everybody" comment...y'gotta understand, my posts here
+get reposted/forwarded to at least 2-3 mailing lists, the Internet and
+elsewhere, so whenever I do something that's actually stupid, or
+perceived as stupid, not only do I get whomped on here, but as it
+ripples out, I get to relive the experience and re-argue the arguments,
+for *days*.  I'm not complaining, I knew the job was dangerous when I
+took it, just point out one facet of the situation and thus my comment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1996 12:27:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: I Finally got it! <G>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> At a guess, those of us who got membership kits without posters
+> will have to wait some more, yes? Is the poster shipped rolled or
+> flat?
+
+       Alas, they're shipped flat.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1996 12:27:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chris Hartford <101363.2270@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z'Ha'dum Spoilers
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       What Sheridan is told, in that episode, by them, concerning
+their motives, is absolutely true, certainly from their point of view.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1996 12:27:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Late "Avalon" question
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> No -- I meant what did *Delenn* (the character in the story) do
+> with the sword?
+
+       No, you were being clear, I was just being puckish.
+
+       Well, in theory.
+
+       I actually haven't worked out what she did with the sword, or
+who has it now.  I have several options on this, all of them
+interesting, and never made the final decision.  Maybe they used it to
+make the new emblem.  Lemme dwell on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1996 12:27:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Helene Northway <72370.1026@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I Finally got it! <G>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       "Who will still be around to find the bottle?"
+
+       Dick Clark.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1996 16:09:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Late "Avalon" question
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> so does this mean that there are really no loose ends on B5?
+> only things that you are still thinking about??
+> Do you know how this kind of thing pans out when you write it, or
+> is it simply fortuitous /serendipitous? Or is there more in *you*
+> than you know?!!
+
+       I try not to randomly drop in significant lines without knowing
+ahead of time where it's going to go, or where it has the capacity to
+go.  You can't just mess with the audience that way; that was where
+Twin Peaks went afoul. You just have to vary them; some things are
+obviously significant, some things only become significant in hindsight
+(or rerun).  It's a hard dance to dance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1996 16:09:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Early Word on Year 5?
+
+ Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Assuming the ratings only go up in November, and considering WB's
+> apparant pride in the Hugo, do you think there's any chance about
+> getting the nod for year 5 any earlier than the last minute this
+> year? Say, after the Broadcasters' next shindig in Vegas (early
+> '97)? And have you handed out any scripting chores yet, or it this
+> also waiting on Nov.? Which episode number, if so?
+
+       It's way too early to judge the impact of any of that stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1996 16:09:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z and the Q
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Question: Does the "explanation" in "Z'Ha'Dum" explain it all, or
+> will there still be unanswered questions about the Shadows and
+> Vorlons into next year?
+
+       Well, it sorta answers all the questions...it's hard to explain
+until you've seen the episode and the ones that follow.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1996 16:09:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Necronomicon
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, I'll be there (and that was noted also in the latest
+Zocalo, I checked).  Should be fun.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1996 17:24:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 in Philadelphia
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I haven't heard anything definitive yet, but I know they're
+working on it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1996 20:56:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Coming Of Shadows promo
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did it take much prodding to get WB to do this or was it their
+> idea?
+
+      It was their idea.  They're impressed that we go the Hugo.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1996 20:58:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Adrienne Chafee <76711.2643@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ruth gets a new job
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I missed the start of this thread...Ruth, if you see this,
+congrats on making your life interesting.  Great news.  Good luck.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Sep 1996 12:49:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Z. Michael Milutinovic <71532.2231@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Question To JMS About EA
+
+ Z. Michael Milutinovic <71532.2231@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, do the people of the Earth Alliance know about the Army Of
+> Light and there recent battles like Shadow Dancing?
+
+       They've heard rumors, usually the ones furthest away from
+Clark's confining influence....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Sep 1996 12:49:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Stars My Destination
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I'm glad you had a chance to check it out; it's a great book.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Sep 1996 12:49:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ruth gets a new job
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Whenever we step out on our own courage and dare to change our
+lives to make it more in line with what we want it to be, 9 times out
+of 10 it works out infinitely better than we (and others) expect.  Of
+course, there's always that 10th time...but the lesson obtains.  You
+can live a better life if you decide to do so and take action.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Sep 1996 18:36:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Duff <106251.3535@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5
+
+ David Duff <106251.3535@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Trip to Zha,dum?
+> Does Sheridan have an anti-Sheridan?
+
+       Thanks...I imagine the wait won't be easy, but it'll be worth
+it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Sep 1996 18:36:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Sleeping
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or did you and just run out of time to fit it in?
+> I'm curious, did you plan to show more there and just couldn't
+> fit it in, given the enormous nature of the episode?
+
+       Basically...we've got 44 or so minutes...we could've shown the
+whole battle as shown, or shown Sheridan trying to sleep.  One would
+have to go to make room to include the other.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Sep 1996 15:33:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hart Trevor <100705.1222@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS's AOL Homepage.
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I deleted it; it really wasn't worth looking at, honest, I
+wouldn't lie to you about this, I was just diddling about....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Sep 1996 15:33:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Newbie Delurks!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.  The online aspect gives it an almost family feel
+somedays. Vaguely dysfunctional, but what can one do...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Sep 1996 15:33:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season 4
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Certainly, LoTR is one of the best examples of modern heroic
+fantasy ever written.  It's just brilliant; I reread it every 3-4 years
+just to walk around in that world for a while.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Sep 1996 15:33:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Petition Worked!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's terrific, congratulations, and thanks for staying with
+the effort.  They do pay off.
+
+       What's been interesting is that lately, the reruns of B5 are
+pulling in numbers very close to the *original broadcast*.  Everyone at
+WB has noticed this, and given the number of stations that have
+recently moved B5 back into prime time, or given us back a second run,
+I think they're noticing as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Sep 1996 15:33:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Shadow Dancing> quick q
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       And then, there are just times you do it 'cause it feels more
+dramatic that way....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruce Probst <71154.3171@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 visibility/popularity
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yes and no.  The British SF shows are a different issue.  As
+for American TV, no space-based series beyond the ST shows have gone on
+for more than 3 years since Lost in Space.  Thirty years.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Sep 1996 20:15:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chas T Freund <75036.160@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Narn Shadow Relationship
+
+ Chas T Freund <75036.160@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or is it something else?
+> If they aren't loyal to G'Kar, why not?
+
+      Narn is somewhat factionalized itself, as is every world; there
+are different followers of different denominations of sometimes similar
+basic beliefs.  Catholics and Protestants are both members of the same
+faith, but a Protestant doesn't recognize the power of the Pope;
+neither does a Mormon, or a Lutheran.  Similarly, not everyone invests
+G'Quon with the same amount of reverence or credibility.  And G'Kar can
+call upon those who believe similarly to send out an expedition, but
+may not have the clout in the rest of the goverment to do much more
+afterward.
+
+      And yes, initially the shadows had no interest in the Narns,
+until such time as the Narns, led by G'Quon, began to engage in
+sabotage and direct attacks to drive them off their homeworld.  Then
+the killing started.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 01:32:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS in the Forefront
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Really?  Cool...wait until the new version comes out....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 01:35:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel F. Evan <104377.1433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 in Philadelphia
+
+ Daniel F. Evan <104377.1433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Isn't there a way to resolve this issue?
+> I know you know because" you've always been here" so what is
+> causing all these problems?
+
+      I've also gotten conflicting stories over what's happening
+there; all I know for sure is that WB is working to rectify it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 13:37:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anthony R. Nollet <71232.2556@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 in Philadelphia
+
+ Anthony R. Nollet <71232.2556@compuserve.com> asks:
+> P.S.: Will the early seasons of B5 be coming out on tape soon?
+
+      We're still negotiating for the release of the tapes...last we
+heard Nixon had 'em....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 13:37:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Accent
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (Seriously, how come good guys rarely wear glasses on TV?
+
+      I dunno what problem others have with the ides of British actors
+as heroes or good guys.  Maybe they're still fighting the colonial
+war....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 13:37:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Julian Suddaby <106163.653@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z'ha'dum
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      "I hate you."
+
+      Thank you.  I try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 13:37:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Marion Harvie <101757.2744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z'Ha'Dum
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  It's a lovely episode.  This is the one where, after we
+watched the final audio mix playback, prompted me to say to the other
+producers working on the show, "gentlemen, we have just entered
+history."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 13:37:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Last ep <Z'ha'dum>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> I was also really expecting B5 to go, but it didn't - saving that
+> up for another time???!!
+
+      Thanks...yeah, it has some surprises, with teeth....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 13:37:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Melanie Dymond Harper <100753.754@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Alligators
+
+ Melanie Dymond Harper <100753.754@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, the question remains: was he captured, or did he volunteer?
+
+      "Was he captured, or did he volunteer?"
+
+      We'll have to see....
+
+      And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 13:45:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: SNOW WHITE CASTING CALL
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      From the back of the room, I would like to suggest that this is
+a mind-numbingly bad idea.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 13:45:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Draco <101603.2062@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ZHD - Cut?
+
+ Draco <101603.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can anyone confirm if C4 have cut Z'Ha'Dum ??
+> Maybe we've missed something (I've still to watch the ep again),
+> but what went on after he shot at that Shadow?
+>  - did he kill it, did he shoot at Morden while he was there?
+> (I'm pretty sure I'd have done) And how did he get away?
+
+      No, C4 didn't cut anything there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 14:50:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Final ep. is superb.
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it's a knockout, I think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 14:59:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Andrew Bradbury <100777.747@compuserve.com>
+Subject:  Z'Ha'Dum 
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  The parapet shot was one I was very particular about, I
+really wanted it to feel *high*, and impressive.  That whole sequence
+is one I run again and again, it's very moving.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 14:59:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ZHD - Cut?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Basically, my thought was that it was just the one shadow in the
+room, and there was a tussle with some others, and he started running,
+made a break for it...didn't seem worth the time to show what would've
+been only a few minutes of hit 'em and run.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 14:59:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The man in-between ?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, the phrase is "the man in the middle is looking for
+you."
+
+      Justin describes himself as "a middle-man."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 14:59:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<Za'Ha'Dum>> Oh Boy!
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> I look (or 'lurk'?) at the Lurkers Guide on the Web so I know
+> that a forthcoming ep in S4 is called 'Whatever happened to Mr
+> Garibaldi?' but I gotta know now - is he dead?
+> is he having a Sinclair experience?
+> what?
+> Will we see Sheridan again?
+>  - on this side of the Rim at least?
+> Are you sure you are an atheist?
+
+      Thank you.  (And I'm far from the last reasonable atheist on the
+planet; we're just a quiet bunch, that's all.)
+
+      As for Garibaldi and Sheridan, well, we'll have to see, won't
+we?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:25:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Z'ha'dum cliffhanger
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      This is a spoiler message in the wrong area; suggest you move it
+to 6 and delete this one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:48:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin Wood <100337.272@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Thank you from the uk
+
+ Kevin Wood <100337.272@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you realise it took half the evening before I was able to get
+> onto the B5 web page, only to find out absolutely nothing? How can
+> you do this to us?
+
+      Thanks.  For me, waiting to hear reactions to the shows is
+almost as hard as it must be to wait for them...and very pleasing when
+they come.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:48:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Publicity?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Do you know if WB is going to do any kind of publicity here in
+> the US for the last couple of season 3 shows because of the
+> Melissa Gilbert/Bruce Boxleitner connections? Will we be seeing
+> them on Entertainment Tonight promoting the show?
+
+      I think the publicity will only come in for 322, for Melissa's
+appearance there, not in anything before that.  They only promote
+shows that fall within sweeps periods.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:48:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: George Wilson <100331.723@compuserve.com>
+Subject:  WoW - Z'Ha'dum 
+
+ George Wilson <100331.723@compuserve.com> asks:
+> "Have the Vorlons and Shadows foreseen the consequences of
+> Sheridan's 'Leap of Faith' at the end of Z'Ha'dum?"
+
+      I think the two sides have been too caught up in their own
+agendas to realize what was happening right under their noses until it
+was too late... except for Kosh, whose last traces did what they
+did...for a number of reasons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:48:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season Finale
+
+ Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Well, what can I say that has not already been said?
+
+      Thanks...the final fate of the first White Star is very moving,
+like some great silver bird plunging on fire out of the sky, bringing
+retribution and striking one last time.  That kind of image is a very
+powerful one to me, and it works very well here.
+
+      As for what Morden and Justin told Sheridan...I'd say it was
+pretty much the truth.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:49:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Questions for JMS
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Why do the Vorlon ships come out of the jumpgates backwards?
+> Less painful?
+> Is this "Piece" the vorlons are looking for, his living spirit?
+> In all that confusion I cant remember if Garibaldi fired six
+> shots or only five?
+
+      Vorlon ships come out backwards when possible to help
+decelerate.
+
+      Pat has interesting eyes...they're slightly larger than is the
+norm, and they take some getting used to.  Those eyes are one of the
+things that beckoned to me to cast her...they're the eyes of a
+telepath, who sees more than should be seen.  They're terrific eyes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:49:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Manders <100641.1115@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z'Ha'Dum
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Haven't heard formally when C4 will air the fourth year...and
+thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:49:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The man in-between ?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Excuse my joining in, but is it not actually " the man in between
+> is looking for you."?
+
+      Nope.  It's the man in the middle.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:49:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Za'Ha'Dum<<
+
+ Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, can I ask if I am correct and John S is still alive?
+> Does this have any connection to the Season 4 episode "WHatever
+> happened to Mr Garibaldi"? Thridly, Julain - the "Old Guy" on
+> Za'Ha'Dum is the Man in the Middle? Or is he Sheridons Equal and
+> Opposite on the other side? Or is that Mr Morden?
+> So what do I think of the Shadows motives?
+> Has Chrstopher Franken got a bigger orchestra to work with now?
+> When is Channel 4 palnning to bring B5 back next year?
+
+      Thanks....
+
+      Obviously the questions are better answered in the series, but I
+think you'll find the answers interesting.
+
+      As for the music, no, it's the same orchestra Chris has always
+used. I've seen times when people assumed he was using synth and
+wasn't.  He uses the Berlin Film Symphonic Orchestra for a goodly
+amount of the work for the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:49:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Za'Ha'Dum thanks
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Sheriden : given that the White Star has Vorlon technology, that
+> Vorlon ships have some sentience and that there was a white light
+> flash before the nuclear explosion, can I assume (stupid
+> question, I know) that the sentient part of the White Star was
+> saving itself and Sheriden by leaving the White Star early enough
+> to catch the captain and dive deep enough to use the protection
+> of the planet's mass? Any chance of you casting some light?
+> With best wishes for next season - do I really have to wait until
+> July??
+
+      No, the White Star didn't have any substantial consciousness to
+eject before impact.  It's gone.
+
+      And thanks, on it all...G'Kar's final litany is very moving, and
+the music throughout works so well...as you say, it's going to be hard
+to beat.
+
+      But that's what we do around here.  Because if we ain't pushing
+it every day to get better, what's the point of living?
+
+      Having now seen the first two finished S4 episodes...I think
+people are going to be pleased.  What strikes me about the new season
+is that it seems suddenly very mature, more filmic...everyone's very
+excited about it here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:49:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Imran Naqvi <100533.273@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z'Ha'Dum
+
+ Imran Naqvi <100533.273@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is it with you?
+> What are you going to do to Ivanova next year?
+> And Garibaldi?
+> How on earth do I avoid eight months of spoilers?
+
+      Thank you, and what you say is quite true: whatever else one may
+say about Warner Bros., however much we may feel frustrated about the
+videotape issue, or the PR, or other elements, the stone cold fact is
+that they let us make this show the way we want to make it.  They don't
+interfere, they don't give notes, they leave us alone.  They trust us. 
+I'd rather have that trust and do the story I want, than have all 3
+seasons on tape and not have it be the series I wanted to do.  If
+that's the trade-off, then I take it gladly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:49:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ep22 question
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Garibaldi programmed it from the intructions given him by
+Sheridan; it would've been set to explode at a certain point.  He gave
+it final detonation instructions when he signaled it via his link.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Sep 1996 00:37:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Andy Scrimgeour <100716.117@compuserve.com>
+Subject: BABYLON 5 SEASON FINALE
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The reason for the difference in air dates in the UK and US is
+this:
+
+      Here we have reruns.
+
+      We get the broadcast schedule from WB, which makes all final
+decisions on this matter.  Then the show starts airing.  We still have
+post production to do, and the breaks for reruns give us time to finish
+the episodes.
+
+      C4 doesn't do reruns.  They run straight through.  So if they
+began the season there the same time as the US, they'd run out of
+finished episodes to air right around (thinking...) episode 10 or so. 
+Then they'd have to wait.
+
+      What C4 needs to do is figure out when the earliest is that the
+final cuts can be delivered, then backtrack that to when they can
+start.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Sep 1996 00:42:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Double Bluff <<Z'hadum>>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      One thing to also note is that when the shadows appeared, they
+swarmed all OVER B5 as fast as they could, circling it without slowing
+down much.  So if Draal *did* launch an offensive, it'd take out B5 in
+doing so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The man in-between ?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yeah, that's me...and thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Thank you from the uk
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, it's a lovely show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Za'Ha'Dum<<
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Just a thought, but was the talking bomb a nod to Dark Star?
+
+       No.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Martin Shaw <101642.505@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Couple of Questions..
+
+ Martin Shaw <101642.505@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this due to some technical hitch, or is it intended to be
+> someone else? Did Morden get a Fatal Sun tan?
+> but what do they get out of it?
+> Now the Shadows have had a rather large setback, will the Vorlons
+> be prepared to intervene?
+
+       Actually, no, that was Kosh's voice, treated the same as
+always.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phil Morris <100602.3647@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Last ep <Z'ha'dum>
+
+ Phil Morris <100602.3647@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One question though: as you always start off a new season in
+> 'light' mode so as to gradually introduce new viewers to the Arc,
+> will you start off season 4 in 'light' mode?
+
+       Season 4 definitely starts in dark mode.  Bigtime.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neville White <100335.2721@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z'Ha'Dum
+
+ Neville White <100335.2721@compuserve.com> asks:
+> what?
+> I now have to wait 6+months to see what happens next in the UK???
+
+       Thanks.  One of the things I like about the episode is the
+emotional content, as it builds toward the end of the ep.  I've watched
+it (in finished form) a half dozen times or more...but certain
+sequences never stop being interesting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Marina Waring <106312.3516@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z'ha'dum
+
+ Marina Waring <106312.3516@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was also wondering where you get the ideas from?
+
+       Coming up with ideas is easy, as long as you know who your
+characters are and what they want and what the world is like around
+them.  It's like knowing what a good friend will say when they bump
+their shin into the coffee table in the dark; you create any given
+situation, which is itself a logical extension of the world they're in,
+then drop those characters into that situation...and the story takes
+care of itself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow Dancing
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Under SAG rules, you must put guest stars of a certain calibre
+in the opening credits; also, for Melissa to take back-billing would
+have been a break in her work to date elsewhere.  We had no choice in
+this, it's all stuff regulated by the guilds.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject:  Z'ha'dum
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> 1) Why do the Shadows and Vorlons interfere ,what do the get out
+> of it that they are willing to invest aeons of time and risk
+> their lives ? 2) The Shadows and Vorlons were supposed to be equal
+> in their approaches, was this a mutual accord between the two, or
+> did it involve other first ones ? 3) What's greener about the
+> greener pastures the other first ones have gone to ?
+
+       All those get answered in the first part of season four, so I'd
+rather leave it to that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Duff <106251.3535@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season Three.
+
+ David Duff <106251.3535@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When is it coming back!!!!!!?
+
+       I don't know yet when S4 will beginning its run on C4; I'd
+guess sometime in the late spring, around the same time it began this
+season plus or minus a few weeks.
+
+       And thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: PETER WADSWORTH <106013.1551@compuserve.com>
+Subject: To Mr. JMS.
+
+ PETER WADSWORTH <106013.1551@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How long ago did you get the idea though?
+> Will she be coming back in the future or what?
+> How many more seasons do you see B5 going on for?
+
+       Thank you.  The basic storyline for B5 was conceived by me back
+around 1986, the pilot movie was written in 1987, and it took us 5
+years to sell the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Za'Ha'Dum thanks
+
+ Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> He wondered how do the Shadows build anything with only their
+> little claws to help them ?
+
+       The other crew of the Icarus shown on Z'ha'dum were all done
+CGI.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season Finale
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Two different things...the allies of the shadows can know about
+us, can have used influence to start infiltrating the Psi Corps, long
+before we found out about them.  And bear in mind that Earth is not
+monolithic; the FBI may not know what the CIA is doing.  That some in
+the Psi Corps may have had something going on there doesn't mean anyone
+from IPX knew about it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James & Deb's <101355.3704@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z'ha,dum
+
+ James & Deb's <101355.3704@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Just a quick question after watching your most amazing
+> episode ever.What happened to all the ships that were ment to be
+> guarding Babylon 5.All i could see used was the star furieries?
+
+       Most would've been getting repaired from their recent
+engagement. And the shadows phased in too close to B5 for either ship
+to ship combat, or anything from Epsilon 3.  Any attack on them
+would've also destroyed B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Necronomicon
+
+ Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there anything special you plan on bringing with you?
+
+       I tend to bring music videos and bloopers, some trailers/clips,
+but no finished episodes, as WB doesn't allow screenings in front of
+large audiences.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Walkabout ?
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I *love* those little moments of synchronicity where I'm feeling
+> *exactly* the same thing as the characters - the three Shadow
+> vessels fade out ("bug out?" Now, a question - is the success of
+> this operation what caused the Shadows to put Anna into play? Did
+> this prove that Sheridan had to be dealt with *now*?
+
+       It's certainly gotten their attention...but it's the events in
+"Shadow Dancing" that tipped them into moving directly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:53:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Coming of Shadows PR
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...we'll take all the help we can get.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:53:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Is she toast? (322 spoil
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Sheridan, I'm not gonna ask you about Justin or Morden or even
+> Garibaldi - but Anna has definetly been reduced to her component
+> molecules, hasn't she?
+
+       She's an ex-Sheridan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 14:16:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil Plucknett <101371.1144@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sheridans survival
+
+ Neil Plucknett <101371.1144@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (1) Given that the white star was about to hit dead centre with 2
+> planet busters on-board, why did an echo of Kosh's voice tell
+> Sheridan to jump down a dirty great hole? (2) Why did the shadow
+> cruiser hijack Garibaldi c/w Starfury and take it back to the
+> homeworld ?
+
+       Well, it was either jump or get vaporized....
+
+       In that sense, as someone else once pointed out, Sheridan is a
+hero in the Heinleinian tradition.  He does the logical thing, whatever
+that is, to survive.  "Okay, I'm about to get vaporized...but if that
+hole is several miles deep, it might shield me and keep me alive for
+another 10 seconds. Yes, there's the *splat* at the end problem, but
+I'll have 10 seconds in which to figure out that problem...."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 14:16:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anthony Hughes <100277.3720@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mistakes in <Z'ha'dum.>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       The shadows entered through a different door/entrance; it was
+to the right of the room, which would've adjoined the room next door. 
+Anna and John came through the door on camera left.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 14:16:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Christopher Harrison <101712.2401@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z'ha'dum doors
+
+ Christopher Harrison <101712.2401@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did anyone else notice that those stone like doors on Z'ha'dum
+> sound rather like the doors in the game Quake?
+
+       It's just a sound of stone grinding on stone.  With a slight
+animal like sound, as though entering someone's maw.  Which is what I
+wanted.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 21:33:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Slight Fan Club panic
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'll need a last name so I can personally have Jim check.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 21:33:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil Plucknett <101371.1144@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sheridans survival
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Well, given that Garibaldi is any number of light years away at
+the moment at which Sheridan is dropping, I'd say any attempt to arrive
+before Sheridan would hit bottom would be less than useless.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 21:33:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A Rollercoaster
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  An emotional rollercoaster is a good image for that
+episode; it takes you in every direction and then just drops you.
+
+      Re: the Revelations scene...we actually shot that entire
+sequence, with the notion of possibly re-editing "Revelations" and
+inserting the Melissa piece instead...sort of TV by way of soviet
+revisionism...and of course it was *always* that way...what other
+version was there?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1996 21:42:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Fiona McKenzie <100705.2062@compuserve.com>
+Subject: White Star (K'Z'D)
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Who said they were speaking English?  In a WW II movie, when you
+go to the Germans, you can understand what they're saying on the
+premise that yes, it's German, but we're hearing it as English.  On the
+other hand, if Garibaldi programmed them, then they may have been in
+English...there's no way to tell exactly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Sep 1996 01:46:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season Finale
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The building was a lot bigger in the book than it should've
+been, more like a quonset hut arrangment hastily erected.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Sep 1996 01:46:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season Finale
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Well, I don't know if the shadow pilot was aware of the Psi
+Corps research installation...they're not really aware of much of
+*anything*, except their orders...I'd just suggest that there may be
+something beneath that particular installation, and a reason they built
+it there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Sep 1996 01:49:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Christopher Harrison <101712.2401@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 1/3 and 2/3 and the rest
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, the First Ones, Vorlons and Shadows aren't parents in any
+sense of the word...we all evolved on our own, there's no common
+genetics, and they didn't seed life here or elsewhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Sep 1996 13:29:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com>
+Subject: White Star (K'Z'D)
+
+ Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> " Who said they were speaking English?
+
+       Yes, if you have a translater in the room...but if you have two
+Narns speaking in a room, they're not going to need a translator in
+there with them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Sep 1996 13:29:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Slight Fan Club panic
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I checked with Jim's elves, and I'm told yours went out either
+Monday or Tuesday.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Sep 1996 13:29:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dale A. Wieber <73141.1332@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Club Help
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Jim says he got your change of address after it went out; he's
+now waiting a few days to see if it comes back to us, or gets forwarded
+on to you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Sep 1996 19:04:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Z'Ha'Dum
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  Generally, I'm here for both kinds of comments...there
+are brickbats, and occasional roses, and you have to learn to take them
+both with a fair amount of equanimity.  Unless they're just simply
+being unfair and malicious, at which point you simply take their heads
+off and move on.
+
+      But in general, I've found the criticisms here to be
+even-handed, fair and often I agree with them.  The roses sustain one
+between brickbat festivals.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Sep 1996 19:05:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phil Morris <100602.3647@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Those final words .....
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, Andreas did a terrific job on the end monologue.  Very
+moving.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Sep 1996 19:05:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Starburst article
+
+ colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So what happens??
+
+      Thanks; I think I have that issue.
+
+      Larry DiTillio made the point, while on the show, that some SF
+fans reared on ST expect everyone to talk like English earls, very
+proper.  We go for vernacular every time.  I like the rough edges, the
+hesitations, the stumbles.  In editing 402 the other day, there's
+several takes to choose from in a particular scene, but I picked the
+one where the actor slightly stumbled over the line, because it was at
+the heat of the moment, and in that kind of situation, we all get
+flustered.  It made it feel more real.
+
+      Slang and idiom have been with us forever, and always will be. 
+Now, on the other hand, I don't go full-tilt bozo with it, by peppering
+the dialogue with lots of techtalk and futureslang because I think it
+becomes intrusive. So we try to find a balance.  Some people don't like
+it, and like their SF to all sound the same.  That's fine.  Tastes
+vary.
+
+      Also, I use some dialogue styles that lean toward the
+theatrical, what you'd see on the stage, or hear in a radio drama. 
+Other times I'm right in the gutter.  You use different tools for
+different jobs.  My influences are from Rod Serling and Charles
+Beaumont and Norman Corwin and Ray Bradbury, so you're going to hear
+those colors from time to time, and because you don't hear a lot of
+that particular style in TV these days, some people think it's 
+bad...no, it's just a different approach to dialogue.
+
+      Look at Harold Pinter, then look at Christopher Fry, then look
+at Joe Orton.  Between just those three you've got three very stylized,
+consistent approaches to dialogue, not like the other two at all, and
+between them more diversity than in a hundred TV shows.  In theater,
+which is where I cut my teeth, it's *okay* to have dialogue that's
+somewhat stylized, or a bit more formal, a bit more literate, or
+whatever.  In TeeVee it's all gotta be the same.  To which I say...why?
+
+      (I've also made the mental assumption of a return to a new
+formality in 2260, since styles go in and out of fashion.  People use
+the word Mr. and Ms. more often, there's a more formal stance with
+people you often get when a culture comes out of a major war, as we did
+after WW2.)
+
+      But dialogue tastes are utterly individual; what works for one
+may not and likely will not work for someone else.  And that's okay. 
+That's as it should be.  As long as the totality works.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Sep 1996 00:12:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I Found Demon Knight!
+
+ David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So where do I send the books?
+> Do you have any children?
+
+      Mail can come to me at:
+
+      14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+
+      No kids; they'd be redundent.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Sep 1996 00:12:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Those Darned Spheres
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it?
+> And, if it is, why is it?
+> Was it shot for each episode?
+> Since each was supposed to be of the exact same event, why risk
+> getting them different each time?
+
+      Sometimes there are practical considerations in the overall
+staging; when we shot the flash-forward, Melissa wasn't there, so when
+she was, there was some interest in restaging things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Sep 1996 11:34:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Surely Serling?
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Am I correct?
+> Is that a Serling line you've honored us with?
+> Am I just nuts?
+
+       No, it's not from anything I'm aware of, though it's a concept
+that seems very natural.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Sep 1996 11:34:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phil Morris <100602.3647@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Those final words .....
+
+ Phil Morris <100602.3647@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or maybe it was just the lighting?
+
+       Probably the lighting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Sep 1996 11:34:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: G'Kar as Shadow ally?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I think that reasoning can be applied to any side.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Sep 1996 16:51:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Tapes
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       It just ain't gonna move WB to release the tapes; we're
+negotiating to do them ourselves.  WB Home Video almost never releases
+TV series, mainly movies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Sep 1996 16:51:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 322 Transcript
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Trying to get this episode straight in my mind, I made a
+> transcript of the episode from when Sheridan enters Justin's
+> quarters to the end(Obsessive? So, can I do this?
+
+       Yes, it would be a definite copyright issue to post that much
+material without authorization.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Sep 1996 16:51:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Perks of the FanClub
+
+ Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that I'm a member of the b5fc, how do I get the extra perks
+> on 'the station'??? is there someone I can e-mail to ask about
+> it???
+
+       Well, you can email John Copeland about it at pigdog13@aol.com,
+but basically, we're still waiting on approval from WB before putting
+the new areas on-line, including a dedicated chat server and the Gold
+Channel area, which will be for FC members *only*, whether they choose
+to take up residence on the station or not, which has behind the scenes
+photos I've taken, and my personal journal from the filming of most of
+a season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Sep 1996 16:54:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ATTN JMS: A B5 Novel???
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Indeed in May of this year you posted an excellent dissertation
+> on writting in general and writting B5 in particular, and I was
+> wondering when all of this is over, and after you take your long
+> nap, if you were going to publish the scripts as a novel? Do you
+> have any advice for a wouldbe writter?
+
+       Publishing the scripts in book form is something that I'll have
+to consider later, there will probably have to be negotiations with WB
+over it.
+
+       There's no real advice I can give to an aspiring writer that
+would mean a damn except to write, keep writing, keep sending it out,
+and don't stop.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Sep 1996 20:34:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hart Trevor <100705.1222@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Slight Fan Club panic
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Try a direct line to jplb5@aol.com, and if that doesn't work,
+lemme know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Sep 1996 20:34:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ATTN JMS: A B5 Novel???
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If I may ask, what do you mean when you reference writting
+> "tools" you've developed, and how do you know when there working?
+
+      Tools are tools...learning how to use narrative in a scene, and
+narration over a scene, as different things...using visual
+counterpoint to a scene...different kinds of exposition, and ways to
+present exposition so that it doesn't *feel* like exposition...it's all
+intuitive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Sep 1996 20:53:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: B5ers on SF Vortex
+
+      As a general advisory: tomorrow on the Sci Fi Channel's new
+show, SF Vortex, you will find Jerry Doyle, Bruce Boxleitner and B5
+producer John Copeland (on his return visit, the second of three, he's
+becoming so popular there that we're now nominating him for resident
+Media Sex God).  Look for them toward the latter half of the program.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Sep 1996 01:40:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season 3 Title Sequence
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The new soundtrack should be out in November sometime.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:44:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Perks of the FanClub
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, you need Netscape 2.0 (or compatible) to get past the demos
+screen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:44:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan L. Ravitch <73627.3126@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Perks of the FanClub
+
+ Alan L. Ravitch <73627.3126@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Next move is?
+
+      Next move is, I go to Jim and ask where your stuff is.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:44:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Calendars
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Do you think it would be bad etiquete to ask Bruce if he could
+> pass them along?
+
+      Yeah, they're great; a UK company is doing a B5 calendar for
+1997, which should be out shortly.
+
+      Generally one does not give cast member A a parcel for cast
+member B; mainly because it's never just one person who wants to do
+this, and you can end up with 15-50 items to bring back with you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:44:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Tapes
+
+ Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Weird or what?
+
+      There's always been more of a sell-through market in the UK on
+tapes, so that helps.  But the bottom-line problem is that WB Video
+mainly only handles guaranteed big sale stuff like their movies.  You
+very rarely see ANY tv show sold on cassette from WB Home Video.  I
+rather suspect they think TeeVee is beneath their notice.  We may call
+in Jimmy Carter to see if he can work out a release of the hostages.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:44:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Eric Baker <76600.2605@compuserve.com>
+Subject: USENET SFWA post
+
+ Eric Baker <76600.2605@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Not SFWA surely?
+
+      Organizationally, no, SFWA doesn't make a big deal about who
+sold what copies, but it *is* a point of status within SFWA -- selling
+authors tend to get more attention than non-selling authors, that's
+understandable -- and within the greater SF establishment.
+
+      And yes, Norman could win a Nebula...I only used the word
+"theoretically" to indicate that his work does fall within the correct
+parameters (prose, SF, book form) to be nominated, but that the odds
+of such a book winning would be slim at best unless the books made a
+HUGE change in direction.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:45:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sheridans survival
+
+ David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How could Sheridan pick up enough terminal velosity to reach that
+> hole before the White Star blew and released 1 - 1.2 gigatons of
+> nuclear devistation? Now I have to wait till the October 28th
+> Satelite feed for a new epsiode??!!
+
+      Well, if you hadn't spoiled yourself, you could enjoy new
+episodes NOW with the rest of the country, starting this week, but
+noooooo, you had to go and jump the gun, well you've made your bed,
+young man, now you have to sleep in it.
+
+      And there are shadows underneath it.
+
+      Sleep tight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:45:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gayle S. Stever <103202.3163@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z'Ha'Dum questions
+
+ Gayle S. Stever <103202.3163@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were the people living on Grey 17 prisoners there or were they
+> staying there by choice?
+
+      Depends on your definition, but basically, they were there as
+part of this cult...but any good cult leader knows you should make it
+just a *bit* hard for them to get out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:45:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Delenn and Sheridan
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Did you create that idea or was it taken from some other religion
+> or philosophy?
+
+      As far as I *know*, at least, that bit about seeing your true
+face revealed as you sleep is something I came up with on my own. 
+There's just something I like about it, and if you've ever watched
+someone's face while they're sleeping, you understand.
+
+      Though one person did comment, "So a man's true face is all
+mushed up against the pillow and drooling?"
+
+      We don't talk anymore.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:45:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The man in-between ?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yep.  I checked.  I screwed up in my comment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:45:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bancroft Gracey <100532.1747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ep22 question
+
+ Bancroft Gracey <100532.1747@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, were the 'creatures' we saw - the one Sheridan shot at & the
+> pair behind Anna in the tunnel - the actual Shadows, or more of
+> their (biomechanical?) servants?
+
+      No, those were definitely shadows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:45:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Those final words .....
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It left me rather optimistic, yes...and generally quite pleased.
+I wanted to sneak a peek at the reaction without being seen...until
+somebody put the camera on me.  Suddenly I felt like Mussolini standing
+in the balcony about to address a crowd, and moved away as soon as I
+could.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:45:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arwel Parry <100336.623@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z'ha'dum - sneaky!!
+
+ Arwel Parry <100336.623@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It was only on my 6th viewing of "Z'ha'dum" today (the S4C
+> transmission) that I noticed that when Kosh appears in the mirror
+> behind Sheridan, he says "If you go to Z'ha'dum, will you die?" 
+> Were you telling us that even the Vorlons don't know everything,
+> or setting us up for eight months of uncertainty and doubt?
+
+      No, he says "you will die."  Very odd...check it again.  We used
+the same audio track from before.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1996 16:00:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Double Bluff <<Z'hadum>>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nope, there was a very specific reason why Garibaldi was picked
+up, and there's a suggestion of it in what Justin says at one point to
+Sheridan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1996 21:40:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sheridans survival
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do Shadows go "bump" in the night?
+> Or are they more of a "ping"?
+
+      They're silent.
+
+      That's what makes them so scary.
+
+      If you hear them, you're fine, but if you hear *nothing*....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1996 21:40:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bancroft Gracey <100532.1747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ep22 question
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      They're also in the main title, and we've seen them before
+elsewhere several times.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1996 21:40:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dr John A Purvis <100341.1147@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Double Bluff <<Z'hadum>>
+
+ Dr John A Purvis <100341.1147@compuserve.com> asks:
+> ?
+
+      That's correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1996 21:40:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Double Bluff <<Z'hadum>>
+
+ Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Question: I don't know whether anyone has already asked this but
+> was Justin a crew member of the Icarus ?
+
+      No, he was assigned there later.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1996 21:40:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ivanova and the Raven
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, the critter wasn't anything to do with the Exogenesis
+creatures; and no, Ivanvoa does not have an implanted personality.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1996 21:44:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: NEW SIMM GROUP FOR B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Be advised that your simm is, insofar as I know, unlicensed and
+unauthorized, and be further advised that WB has shut down other such
+unlicensed and unapproved simms.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Sep 1996 00:58:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: B5 T-Shirts
+
+      As well as going on about unlicensed B5 products, a number of
+folks have been asking for info on what IS authorized.  Hence, this
+note....
+
+      One of the most popular items here at the B5 stage are the
+t-shirts made by All-U.  They're color, on black, but done so in a way
+that the ink and coloration isn't thick, but feels very natural with
+the fabric.  They look great and wear well over time.  (They are also
+the only ones making *long-sleeve* B5 t-shirts.)  We order about 3-4
+cases at the start of each season, and by Christmas they're all gone. 
+The crew loves 'em, and many of the cast also wear them.
+
+      Anyway, if you'd like more info, you can order the shirts from
+All-U at 1-800-424-ALLU.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Sep 1996 00:58:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Drink to Me Only...
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I can only conclude that I'm a smarter guy than I'd thought....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Sep 1996 17:59:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Delenn and Sheridan
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> .....so when were YOU talking to my wife?
+
+       Do you have any idea the kind of restraint that has to be used
+when confronted with a straight line like that?  I think I hurt myself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Sep 1996 17:59:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Double Bluff <<Z'hadum>>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Could I please prod you to post the song lyrics from Walkabout
+> sometime soon? Pretty please, and a virtual slice of Rosie's
+> chocolate raspberry cake???
+
+       Yeah, eventually I'll upload the lyrics, it's something I've
+meant to do for a while, I've just been distracted lately.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Sep 1996 17:59:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: NEW SIMM GROUP FOR B5
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How will the forth coming B5 role playing game, supposedly being
+> created be Chameleon Eclectic Games, be effected by copyrights? 
+> Will everyone who runs a campaign need to be licensed and
+> authorized by WB <which seems a bit rediculous, but seems to be
+> in effect what you are saying here> or is it covered by the game
+> company's authorization? Furthermore what would happen if someone
+> were to run an online game (say in GO RPGAMES) using these rules?
+
+       The use of the Chameleon game is fully covered by their
+license.  If one is having online games using that, for which users are
+paying access time, that's something I don't know.  I'll have to find
+out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Sep 1996 17:59:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sheridans survival
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I think WB does something to the tapes during the transfer in
+which they insert the commercials that degrades the sound quality
+slightly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Sep 1996 17:59:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Framing a shot
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> I was wondering when your shooting do you frame the shot for the
+> best possible 16:9 widescreen ratio image and then get the best
+> pan and scan from that, or do you always go for the best 4:3
+> image and just make sure that there are no unwanted booms etc in
+> the expanded 16:9 frame ? Is it the same process for the CGI
+> sequences ?
+
+       We slide it back and forth.  Some shots are composed for
+narrow, some for the wider aspect ratio.  Sometimes a character's face
+is somewhat off center or out of frame for that reason.  It's whatever
+looks best per shot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Sep 1996 17:59:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Tapes
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Can't.  And even if you could, you couldn't play them on
+American VHS players.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Sep 1996 17:59:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Last ep <Z'ha'dum>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Sep 1996 17:59:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: NEW SIMM GROUP FOR B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       "What can they do, sue me?"
+
+       Yup.  They've shut down several others doing this that way.
+
+       "C'mon, like they're gonna sue a 17 year old."
+
+       Nope, they'll just sue your parents.
+
+       And bear in mind, you don't have to sue someone to get a
+restraining order against them...which is what WB did to a couple of
+other unlicensed SIMMS.  You (or your parents) just end up spending a
+lot of time in court.
+
+       Don't mess with the Shield.  Trust me on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Sep 1996 17:59:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Tapes
+
+ Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How's season 4 going?
+
+       Season 4's going well; just about to settle down and watch the
+director's cut of 403.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
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+JMS CompuServe messages for October 1996.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1996 12:55:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: NEW SIMM GROUP FOR B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Best to drop a note to ken_parks@warnerbros.com and ask
+directly of the source at WB legal.  That way you'll be copacetic from
+the start.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1996 12:55:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Hug Mr. Ellison for me
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks on Harlan's behalf, and I'll send him a copy of this.  I
+think he'll be pleaed....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1996 12:55:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season Four: 403
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When you're done, could you let me know (generally, of course
+> :-), how you feel it came out?
+
+       They're all coming out nicely...very different feel this
+season, which takes some getting used to, but overall, very very nice.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1996 12:55:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Plunge
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My God, it's a jump gate, isn't it?
+> Only question is, *where* does it lead?
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1996 12:55:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: jms Songwriter ?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is "Walkabout" the first new episode back from the long reruns?
+> I saw it on dish but wondered if new shows started the week
+> before?
+
+       No, Walkabout is the first of the final 5 held back from year
+3.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1996 12:55:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z'ha'dum - sneaky!!
+
+ Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Shall I sample it and upload it to the forum, incase some
+> technician has been mucking about behind your back? Maybe ol'
+> glowing eyes is back?
+
+       I've checked it, and I think it was just the actor sliding a
+vowel to make it clearer; "if you go to Z'ha'dum (ah) you will die."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1996 12:55:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Double Bluff <<Z'hadum>>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Wait.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1996 12:55:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Z'ha'dum>> - a query
+
+ Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, who or what were piloting the Shadow vessels which were seen
+> on Mars? More 'servants' (like the one seen - or rather NOT seen -
+> in 'LD')? Was anyone guarding the Shadows while they slept?
+
+       Yes, they had some of their servants and allies taking care of
+things; whenever a signal was sent, and a ship found, they'd dispatch
+one of the standby ships to go and pick it up, slowly regathering their
+forces.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1996 12:55:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow Dancing
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, since it was my idea re: Melissa.  It was a scheduling
+situation involving availabilities.  If it wasn't her, it would've had
+to be someone else...so I figured, why not?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1996 12:55:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: USENET SFWA post
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       All good points...might even be true.  I have nothing to do
+with 'em anymore, so it's moot in any event.
+
+       The new season starts this week.
+
+       There's one other aspect to this whole thing which was brought
+home to me in something Ellen Datlow said on MSNBC the other week.  She
+pointed out, with deadly accuracy, that once upon a time, movies tended
+to mine SF novels for their stories.  Now, it's movies and TV that
+drive novels, with endless ST books, books based on movies,
+novelizations, the whole Star Wars Empire stuff, on and on and on. 
+You'd think that an organization of SF writers would want to be more
+involved in the mass media that was changing the way their field buys
+books, and what they buy, since it has a direct effect on their 
+livelihood.
+
+       By working *with* the media, they would have a better chance of
+helping SF film and TV producers understand what SF is, and what books
+are out there they can option.  That could lead to more movies based on
+books, more option money for writers, and so on.  It's a provincial
+attitude that is going to continue to do them great harm in the long
+run.  But SFWA, for all its SF trappings, is remarkably short-sighted
+when it comes to alternate storytelling technologies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1996 20:19:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: NEW SIMM GROUP FOR B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Send a note to ken_parks@warnerbros.com and inquire directly of
+legal affairs.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1996 20:19:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: CHEK Victoria
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      There's very little we can do about local situations such as
+this; the main contract period where they have to follow the schedule
+is during new episodes.  During reruns, they're often all over the map.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1996 20:19:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Julia E. Linthicum <73114.3530@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SF Vortex on SCI-FI
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, they're all remarkably unrestrained.  Which is great.  It
+makes coming to work each day a fascinating and terrifying
+proposition....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1996 20:19:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dr John A Purvis <100341.1147@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Z'ha'dum>> - a query
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'll do that in the show, rather than blowing it out here.
+
+      Otherwise what's the point of making the show?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1996 20:19:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Grey 17
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  I think it's about 3/4ths of a good episode.  Where it
+falls down, for me, is the Zarg...I just have this constant desire to
+go to everyone's house and personally apologize....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1996 20:19:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: S.G. Menzel <100537.1517@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Missing Scene? SPOILER!
+
+ S.G. Menzel <100537.1517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was there a something missing inbetween these two scenes?
+
+      He was in close quarters with a small group, and fought his way
+out. This picks up right after that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1996 23:55:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I Found Demon Knight!
+
+ David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did the books arrive?
+
+      Yes, and they're going back in a few days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1996 23:55:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Avery C. Innis <74642.3366@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New Season HELP!
+
+ Avery C. Innis <74642.3366@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Thank goodness they are just as enjoyable the second time around,
+> but when do I get the opportunity to view new material?
+
+      This Thursday the new season starts on KCOP.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Oct 1996 13:26:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: S J NICHOLSON <76574.1663@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Walkabout!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  It came out pretty well; it's exceeded by Shadow
+Dancing, Z'ha'dum and Rock, but it ain't bad.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Oct 1996 13:26:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Plunge
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Actually, the funny thing is, I kinda hinted at the answer a
+long time ago in a message here...but so far no one's put two and two
+together. So there we are.  But you only need wait a while to see it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Oct 1996 13:26:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Tapes
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe: Have you written all of the 4th season episodes to date?
+
+       Er...yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Oct 1996 13:26:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: USENET SFWA post
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I think your points are valid...the question, for me, is *why*
+they are valid.  Yes, what you describe is what the studio folks
+*think* is SF. Because they don't know any better.
+
+       Lemme take this away from SF for a moment to make the point. 
+For the last 45 years, the networks and studios thought cop shows were
+all of a piece. If you really sit back and look at them objectively,
+most cop shows were more adventure shoot-em-ups than anything else, the
+bad guy has a plot, the good guys try and stop him...they had very
+little bearing on reality. The occasional exception, like a Hill Street
+Blues, was just that, an exception and not repeated.  The networks
+thought that's what a cop show WAS.  Police Story and Jake and the
+Fatman and Cannon and all the rest.
+
+       Then along came a book...Homicide: Life in the Killing Streets,
+which was trotted over to the networks with startling speed.  It was a
+gritty, inside look at how this stuff *really* works.  And as with one
+voice, the networks said, "Oh, so THAT'S how it works," and then you
+instantly had the Homicide TV series, and NYPD Blue and others
+fast-tracking to be real cop shows.
+
+       They can course correct *real* fast if you know how to approach
+them. Do the studio heads *really* appreciate cop stories now more than
+before? No, not really, their eyes are still on the bottom line of
+finances.  But they now allow these sorts of stories to be done.
+
+       You can do the same thing with SF.  We've done a little of that
+with B5, and now there are more shows coming up with long-range story
+arcs, from Space Cases to Dark Skies to others now in development. 
+We've done stories in aresa not usually considered covered by SF, from
+religion to the death penalty to other areas.  We've educated.  Not a
+lot, I'm not exaggerating our influence, but a little...and that's a
+start.  More could be done if the SF publishing community got off its
+butt and addressed the media rather than running from it or deriding it
+or simply ignoring it, in the belief that if they close their eyes it's
+not there anymore.
+
+       SF writers, more than anyone else, should understand the
+dangers of not keeping up with changes in technology in the areas in
+which you work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Oct 1996 17:20:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Two comments
+
+ Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  - Why did you use Jack the Ripper as a character?
+> I mean, are you fascinated by the story of JtR (as many of us
+> do), or simply you used him for dramatic effect?
+
+       I used Jack because he was perfect for that particular job,
+which was what the Vorlons had decided as well.  Simple as that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Oct 1996 17:20:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow Dancing
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Unfortunately, SAG rules limit your options when it comes to
+actor placements.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Oct 1996 17:20:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Hug Mr. Ellison for me
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> PMFJI, but how *is* Harlan?
+
+       Harlan's doing great, even better than he was before the
+surgery; he has more energy, he's all over the place, he's writing more
+now...it's great.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Oct 1996 17:20:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Hug Mr. Ellison for me
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> PMFJI, but how *is* Harlan?
+
+       I sent your note to Harlan, and today received this message in
+return. Any typos that may have crept in here are my responsibility.
+
+jms
+
+*****
+
+2 October 1996 TO: Joe Straczynski FROM: Harlan Ellison Re: Posting on
+B5 General topic pursuant to your fax of 1 October 96
+
+Joe: Here's the response we discussed via telecon this morning.  If
+you would post it for me, I'd be appreciative.  - he
+
+Dear Mary Cree:
+
+       As you likely know, I am--how shall I happily put
+this?--"netless in Gaza."  That is to say, Joe Straczynski is posting
+this for me.  Had I your home address, I would have hand-typed an
+actual letter, and signed it with one of my lovely fountain pens, and
+mailed it directly to you; and you'd have had a small, but for-real,
+artifact.  Rather than this nebulous electronic simulacrum, sans human
+signature...the traditional mark of establishing that the message comes
+from the heart of the sender.
+
+       Here's the long and the short of it: I have waited thirty and
+more years for your letter.  I cannot, in any human tongue, express my
+gratitude for your comments and encomia.
+
+       I hint, in the introductory essay to CITY ON THE EDGE OF
+FOREVER, at the circumstances that conspired to jostle, prod, and
+chivvy me to the point of writing the book.  Delineating those
+circumstances would take yet *another* 45,000 word essay.  I choose to
+give *that* odious chore a regal pass.
+
+       Insofar as the reality of writing the long introductory
+material to CITY is concerned, I was an *extremely* reluctant virgin
+brought to that nuptial bed.  Had I let the whole idea go a-bornilng, I
+would probably have been just as content...and continued to live with
+that ugly little feral hatred gnawing at my composure for the remaining
+years of my life.  But the forces massed, and I wrote the book, and now
+it's out there doing incredibly well (much to my suprirse), and I guess
+it's all worth it.  Because, in some measure, I received your note.
+
+       I never realized, till I got into the writing of CITY, just how
+angry I was, nor even how deeply I'd been hurt by what happened.  The
+writing was like crawling across the most exhausting Gobi Altai one
+could imagine, only to be offered, at the oasis, not a glass of
+Perrier, but a large peanut butter sandwich.  Nonetheless, I did it,
+and it was done, and out there-- twice-- and I could cease ruminating
+on what a crappy chapter it had been in my carer.
+
+       I didn't realize I was waiting for your letter.  That I'd
+written the book *just to get your letter*.  But now I know.
+
+       Thank you, every so much.  Respectfully,
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Oct 1996 17:20:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: jms Songwriter ?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is this where we get 8-9 new ones in a row?
+
+       Yup.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Oct 1996 21:11:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Tapes
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...I'm chugging along just fine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Oct 1996 21:11:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Grey 17
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One has to wonder, if the Zarg was so doggone dangerous, and such
+> a perfect preditor, how did they catch it and transport it to the
+> station in the first place?
+
+      There was a line about slipping the egg into the station...don't
+remember now if it made it through the edit or not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Oct 1996 00:31:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hug Mr. Ellison for me
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nutz...this got sent to Susan instead of Mary Cree...via her
+husband's account...could some kindly sysop please reroute it to the
+desired destination?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Oct 1996 23:10:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Coming of Shadows
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, B5 will be going up against ID4 next year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Oct 1996 23:39:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Fan Club Web Page
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Could you pass this info onto the web developers so they can try
+> to make the site a bit more friendly?
+
+      I don't understand how this can be, since I use Netscape 2.0 on
+Windows 3.1 and the java stuff works fine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Oct 1996 23:39:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dr John A Purvis <100341.1147@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Z'ha'dum>> - a query
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      There are days it becomes a bit much...but you just take it and
+move on. Overall, the experience is more positive than not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Oct 1996 23:39:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Melissa Gilbert
+
+ Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since you've switched to Melissa and the series will eventually
+> be on TNT, do you now go back and edit Melissa into the Season 2
+> episode and replace the other actress? Or will we still see the
+> switch of actresses when we see it again on TNT or eventually on
+> video?
+
+      It's something we're considering; we had her do the entire
+message, and shot Bruce in those sequences, so we have that option. 
+Sort of a Soviet revisionism approach to television....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Oct 1996 23:39:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z'ha'dum - sneaky!!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well, that's Vorlons for you, it's all a matter of perception,
+everyone sees and hears them differently.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Oct 1996 12:42:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Melissa Gilbert
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       True...and of course the Chrysalis situation wasn't our fault;
+we delivered to WB the right pieces, but they had their satellite
+facility rebuild it after they messed up the broadcsat...and used the
+wrong piece for that shot, the pre-composite raw footage.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Oct 1996 12:42:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Coming of Shadows
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...we'll see what happens.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Oct 1996 12:42:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: USENET SFWA post
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Again, I think we're more on the same side of the issue than
+not...I'd just point out a very basic truism that does, or should,
+matter.
+
+       If producers are more aware of SF novels, and SF writers, they
+will likely option more properties for film and TV.  If they're not,
+they will option fewer.  That's an absolute loss of income to SF
+writers.
+
+       But it's their business, not mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Oct 1996 12:46:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: George Tait <101354.3137@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Nine Walkers
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       You're forgetting Boromir, who was killed by Orcs after trying
+to grab the ring.  Most people forget him since he never made it
+through the story...sort of the Pete Best of the heroic fantasy
+genre....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Oct 1996 18:08:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Gillman <100724.1646@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Support mechanism
+
+ Michael Gillman <100724.1646@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, which is it?
+> Garibaldi or B5 itself?
+
+       Nope, I never identified Garibaldi as the support mechanism,
+only B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Oct 1996 18:08:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New Season HELP!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I think it starts with the first batch of season 4 episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Oct 1996 23:48:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: USENET SFWA post
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      What's the HOA?  Don't recognize the acronym...unless you mean
+Homeowner's Association....
+
+      Re: "Walkabout," thanks...of the final 5, it's not at the top,
+but it ain't bad.  If you happen to be out of the house this coming
+Thursday, and miss "Grey 17 is Missing," you miss a little, but not a
+lot.  It's okay.  But the ones after that are just *killer*.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Oct 1996 23:48:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: DAVID HORTON <101615.563@compuserve.com>
+Subject: poetry
+
+ DAVID HORTON <101615.563@compuserve.com> asks:
+> have you ever tried writing poetry?
+
+     "Have you ever tried writing poetry?"
+
+      Yeah.  I stink.  It's the one form I can't do worth a damn.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Oct 1996 23:48:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Walkabout's Tallman
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So you weren't able to go back and fix Patricia Tallman's credit
+> on "Walkabout"?
+
+         WHAT?!?!
+
+         Are you sure?  We changed it on my copies here.....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Oct 1996 23:48:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Walkabout (No Spoiler)
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> were you referring to the closing credits?
+
+      Yes, the song continued over the credits, but the VO here in LA
+filled up all the space until it was over.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Oct 1996 23:49:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Sheridans survival
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it's a good ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Oct 1996 12:54:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Tapes
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Couldn't be better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Oct 1996 12:54:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Some questions
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is the Minbari warships strong enough to go one-on-one with the
+> Shadow vessels? Since the White Star is a hybrid Minbari-Vorlon
+> ship, does that mean that the Vorlons are cooperating with the
+> Rangers?
+
+      The Vorlons were cooperating in the recent past, yes, and it
+still takes a couple of Minbari cruisers under most circumstances to
+take out an immobilized shadow vessel, though one can do it if the
+firepower is concentrated and prolonged.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Oct 1996 12:54:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Walkabout!
+
+ Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Intentional?
+
+      Thanks, and yes, I'd say this Kosh has a bit more of an edge to
+him....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Oct 1996 12:54:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Morden on Toast
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> So.......Is Morden toast or what?
+> Was Sheridans wounds from the Shadow that he was shooting at or
+> from a fight with Morden and Co afterwards?? I thought someone
+> else was going to die? Did you mean Anna?
+> Did you see " A Close Shave" yet?
+
+      Yes, have seen and enjoyed "A Close Shave."
+
+      No comment for now on the rest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Oct 1996 19:48:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Walkabout's Tallman
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you sure?
+
+      (slow burn)
+
+      We delivered a corrected print ages ago.
+
+      Someone gon' DIE.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Oct 1996 19:52:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Walkabout Footsteps
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Good points, and the fragmentation or fractionalizing is also
+visually cued by the last shot of Franklin through the window, split
+into many versions of himself.
+
+      Re: the hand-on-shoulder gesture, from Marcus it was an
+upbraiding, stop-him motion, whereas from Sheridan it was one of
+congratulation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 Oct 1996 11:35:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: USENET SFWA post
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, no super stations carry B5 (except WWOR, and they tend to
+black that one out for syndex).  But you may be able to catch the
+uplink.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Oct 1996 18:58:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.  No real plans for arc stuff outside the show, though
+there's a 1,000 page novel all outlined and ready to be written as soon
+as I can get to it....
+
+       Thanks again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Oct 1996 18:58:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Troy Starr <74752.3172@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Why is B5 still around?
+
+ Troy Starr <74752.3172@compuserve.com> asks:
+> An interesting question struck me recently: Why are so many
+> people still on Babylon 5?
+
+       Well, that just might happen....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Oct 1996 18:58:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hart Trevor <100705.1222@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS on IRC
+
+ Hart Trevor <100705.1222@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you please tell me what is going on?
+
+       I don't know...all I know is that while I'm at Necronomicon in
+Tampa, they've got me doing an IRC on Saturday.  I'm not any more
+involved than that. Don't know any of the details.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Oct 1996 18:58:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: So Glad B5 is Back !
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Valen only knew what Sinclair would've known.  Zathras wasn't
+speaking from what Sinclair had told him, but on the basis of things
+he'd figured out on his own.
+
+       Re: the new Kosh...yeah, the look is intentional.  I worked
+with Optic Nerve to get the new lines right, messed with their sketches
+until I had what I wanted.  It's very effective in some lights, less so
+in others, but the sense comes across.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Oct 1996 18:58:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Fighting staff
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Really?  Wow...I gotta get me one of those.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Oct 1996 17:01:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Netter comments
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Can you give us any other info?
+
+       WB has asked for a treatment on a sequel, and TNT is interested
+in doing two original B5 movies set during the B5 main story arc, with
+one of them a prequel.  We'll see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Oct 1996 17:01:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: USENET SFWA post
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> As Program Manager, shouldn't she *know* this stuff whether she
+> watches the show or not?
+
+                               ...sigh....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Oct 1996 22:29:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Say it ain't so, Joe!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Obviously there's a lot I can't say...obviously the fact that
+PTEN as a functioning entity really no longer exists is a
+factor...obviously no show ever gets more than one season's commitment
+at a time, unless you're a Spielberg or the like...and there's a lot
+that I just can't say because of the position of WB, and because,
+frankly, I just don't know anything for certain.
+
+      All I can say is this:
+
+      That at the time of renewal, a number of parties at WB assumed
+that this would be our final year, in large measure because PTEN was
+vanishing, and you simply don't continue to pay out money on an
+enterprise that no longer exists; you cash out the assets, stop
+spending money, and start making profit.  I know that many people there
+operated under that assumption.
+
+      Then the later ratings started to come in...and people at WB
+began to notice that our reruns were now doing what our first-runs used
+to do...and gradually those same people began to say much the opposite.
+I can say that, as recently as last week, WB was asking about a fifth
+year, and what we would do.  As of 24 hours ago, we've been in
+considerable negotiations for 2 two hour original movies for TNT set
+during the arc, and WB is looking at the possibility of a
+sequel...which would, in theory, be set up in part during a fifth year.
+
+      So you've got some who say there won't be a fifth year, some who
+say there might be a fifth year, and some who say there *will* be a
+fifth year.
+
+      Through all this, I am constructing and honing the story to
+ensure that it will get through to its conclusion.
+
+      The assumption in all this is that anybody knows ANYdamnthing
+out here. But as William Goldman noted, nobody knows *anything*.  That
+somehow I have *THE ANSWER* to the question, and am simply declining to
+answer.  WB doesn't know, and I don't know, and anybody who says they
+*do* know is either woefully misinformed or deliberately lying.
+
+      "Saying, I would know.  Do not know, so cannot say."  -- Zathras
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Oct 1996 22:29:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Walkabout!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actuallyk, we never showed what the Minbari telepaths were
+looking at; for all you could tell, there could've been viewers or
+other ports above their beds.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Oct 1996 22:56:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: jms in tampa/book out
+
+      A couple of quick notices:
+
+      1) I'll be in Tampa, Florida this weekend for Necronomicon, held
+at the Chamberly Plaza Hotel and thereabouts.  I'll be bringing
+bloopers, clips from upcoming shows, and other Cool Stuph.
+
+      2) My "Complete Book of Scriptwriting" is now hitting the
+bookstores, in a totally rewritten/updated and expanded version.  It's
+$21.99 from Writer's Digest Books.  Some interesting B5 stuff there....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:55:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Fighting staff
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks again for the staff; I didn't have time or circumstance
+to thank you properly at the time (or voice).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:55:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Another convert....
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks, and yes, that's a definite part of the Ranger oath.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:55:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: USENET SFWA post
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       There's a time bomb built into B5; instead of the usual 7 year
+options, we only took 5, building a hedge against our own greed.  If
+this show as it stands now were to go past 5, everyone would be able to
+renegotiate...actors, subcontractors, suppliers, everybody.  At which
+point it would be too expensive to produce anymore.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:55:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Trailer Congrats
+
+ Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW - how are the effects coming along?
+> Was the transition reasonably smooth?
+
+       The new CGI effects are stellar (as it were).  I defy *anybody*
+who doesn't know the difference just from knowing what's gone before to
+tell the older shots from the new ones.  (We've always reused some
+shots, usually establishers and the like.)  I sure can't tell them
+apart.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:55:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel F. Evan <104377.1433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Say it ain't so, Joe!
+
+ Daniel F. Evan <104377.1433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is TNT a prospective outlet for that show?
+
+       Thanks, we'll try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:55:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Dr. Franklins Soul
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is there a hidden meaning in this image or am I just reading way
+> too much into this?
+
+       It's imagery, yes, of his still being fractured, still looking
+to find himself, as it were.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Say it ain't so, Joe!
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Do you *want* to do a sequel?
+> 2) Or has your mind changed since the lurker guide posting?
+> 3) And more importantly, what is it that *YOU* want?
+
+       I've always kept a separate B5 project in a different
+pocket...yes, I'd love to do a B5 sequel if the story could be made
+sufficiently worth doing. And the treatment that's been turned in could
+well be that.  So we'll see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Londo and Yueh
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Was this your influence for Londo?
+
+       No.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 in St. Louis, MO
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       That's good news.  Here in LA, our local channel has returned
+the Saturday 11 p.m. rerun of the show, which will be a big help.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Fighting staff
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Hey Joe, any chance of your ever doing an appearance on the East
+> coast?
+
+       Tampa is on the east coast.  That's the only one scheduled.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shuttle launches
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Have you ever seen a live shuttle launch?
+
+       Nope, hope to someday.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Grey 17
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> which leads me to ask - is "The One" literally Ranger One?
+> Or more figuratively the "Sole Leader" of the Minbari?
+> And then Valen was "The One" who was, Delenn (has now become/is
+> becoming) The One who is, and somehow we are to assume Sheridan
+> will someday become Ranger One?
+
+       Entil-Zha, whoever that is at the time, is for all intents and
+purposes the One for the Rangers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Grey 17
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Since Sinclair knew that the Warrior caste would refuse to get
+> involved in the current war, and have problems with having humans
+> in the order, why didn't he leave control of the Rangers to the
+> religious caste?
+
+       Because *at the time* the Warrior Caste *was* involved, and it
+would've been a slap to them to do so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rage's Thots: G17iM
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How does Susan find him, anyway?
+> Yet, has she ever *been* Down Below before?
+> Where did Jerimiah go wrong?
+> *So what happened to the cult at the end of the ep?
+> Did Garibaldi run them all in?
+> And hey, Johnny, we effectively just added a whole UNUSED level
+> to your station-- quarters for the Rangers? More Hydroponics
+> sections for coffee? Chicken coops?
+> Teep boot camp?
+> Rental units?
+> *What was that on Marcus' wall?
+> So is it a Ranger thing?
+> A Minbari thing?
+> Lares and penates?
+> Mezuzah?
+> *Oh, and is Stephen's hidden file named after Harriet the spy, or
+> am I being far too cute?
+
+       It's Harriet for Harriet Tubman, who ran the slave underground
+railroad around the time of the Civil War.
+
+       And no matter how much Ivanvoa trains, she'll never be much
+past a P1, and that's more or less useless to them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Larry Rosenblum <72122.1555@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sheridan/Z'Ha'Dum
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yep.  I wanted everybody to fall for that "oh, he's a standard
+good guy, hero model type" approach...then yank their blankets, and
+deeply intensify the character.
+
+       Glad it worked.
+
+       "I had no idea you meant that literally!"
+
+       And sometimes, I'm being far more straightforward than it would
+appear. Because I know everyone overlooks the most obvious stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: AbFab & Rosanne...
+
+ Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know you're a fan of AbFab -- have you heard that Jennifer
+> Sanders and JoAnne Lumley <sp?> are going to be on Rosanne?
+
+       Really?  Great, I'll watch it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Nina K. Berg <102461.2104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WWE questions
+
+ Nina K. Berg <102461.2104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When did Delenn first know that Sinclair was Valen?
+> Does anyone besides those who were on the White Star know that
+> Sinclair was Valen?
+
+       She had suspicions starting from the Battle of the Line; we'll
+have more on that later.
+
+       Yes, the Grey Council knows, but the general Minbari population
+does not know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Thomas Rackers <72047.1207@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Mail to you
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Unfortunately, we have *zero* influence on local scheduling;
+only local fans can do anything about it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 22:31:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Thomas Rackers <72047.1207@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Mail to you
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Just sent a private reply on this....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 22:31:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ron Stadelman <102623.700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vorlon Home World
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      There are no plans at present to show the Vorlon homeworld.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 22:31:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rage's Thots: G17iM
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you saying that Susan's psi powers won't really be a factor
+> in the story?? Wouldn't that tend to go against the gun over the
+> mantle rule??
+
+      Only if one assumes everything applies only to the Shadow war.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 22:31:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Glitch in "The Rock"?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nope.  Refa had a flashlight, not a gun.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Oct 1996 11:57:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Scripts available?
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you involved in making this decision?
+> If not, who are you to say?
+
+       It's a moot point...yes, you can scan in a script, but a) only
+if you have access to it, and b) you still have to go through massive
+amounts of work making sure it's all properly spaced and laid out.
+
+       As of now, "The Coming of Shadows" script is available in the
+new edition of my scriptwriting book, so that's a start.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Oct 1996 11:57:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Views of Possible Univ`
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       You mention how ST brought people into the SF fold who
+nominally hadn't been there before...I've been noticing much the same
+phenomenon at the conventions I've been attending.  Even at the most
+recent Necronomicon, the number of people over what the convention
+normally gets (there were about 700 over their normal attendence) was
+almost exactly equal to the number of people who came there strictly
+for the B5 stuff...and the majority of them, from what we could
+determine, had never been to a convention before, and for the most part
+weren't into other SF shows...many didn't watch much TV at ALL except
+for B5 and a couple others.
+
+       You can see the new group sort of sliding itself into the
+larger "melting pot" of fandom.
+
+       Interesting to see the pattern repeating.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Oct 1996 12:27:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hugh Kennedy <70042.710@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Summary Episode?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Can't be done.  It's been discussed, turned down.  Fox as a
+network can program whatever it wants, and the stations air it; PTEN is
+syndicated, and each item has to be sold separately, and they won't
+sell that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Oct 1996 12:27:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Glitch in "The Rock"?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Okay, you're nitpicky.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Oct 1996 21:16:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Scripts available?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      What might be interesting, next time you pick up the book, is to
+fire up a copy of "The Coming of Shadows" and go through it with the
+script in hand...it's a good way of seeing how you lay out a show
+shot-for-shot.  And since there's stuff there that was cut from the
+episode, you can also judge on what was left out, and why, and whether
+it hurt or helped.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Oct 1996 21:16:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com>
+Subject: delenn forgot?
+
+ Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> yes??
+> That wouldn't happen to be a piece of a vorlon or being "with
+> child" would it???
+
+      No, that replied to his promise to come see Delenn...which in
+the flurry of events he forgot until she was already in the chrysalis.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Oct 1996 21:16:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Valeria & G'lan
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      ....!....
+
+      Unfortunately, I can't even *start* to get into such an
+elaborate backgrounding in a message.  It would require a lengthy
+article; the answers are fairly complex.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Oct 1996 21:16:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Rock> thoughts
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, Vir has to be *very* careful...he's on the razor's edge
+these days.  The higher up you go, the more you know, the higher the
+stakes and the greater the risk of choosing badly.
+
+      Re: "funny yet chilling," those are the scenes I love most...the
+ones where you're utterly conflicted, it's grotesque or frightening on
+the one hand, and comic or absurd on the other.  It leaves you
+uncertain which way to jump emotionally, and I love that
+feeling...caught betwixt and between.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Oct 1996 03:39:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: URGENT! HELP! from jms
+
+HELP!  I got zapped tonight!  Someone sent me what they SAID was a
+picture his kid made of a Starfury, said it'd be great if I could say
+an encouraging word or two about it.  So I downloaded the file, and it
+turned out to be a booby trap.  (No, I can't trace back the user, it's
+off the internet, and the address was an anon...didn't write it down.)
+
+Anyway, it DELETED MY DOS DIRECTORY and started to delete my Windows
+directory as well before I caught it at the last moment.  (Yes, it was
+a com file, and I stupidly didn't look to check before activating it
+with the newsreader's program.)  I've managed to restore nearly all the
+Windows directory (except for win.exe which is utterly gone).  I used
+Norton to do that part...but Norton Unerase only seems to work in a
+directory that's still there.  The DOS directory is completely *gone*. 
+Is there any way I can restore it?  I can try moving the DOS directory
+from my work computer to the home one (they're the same systems, and
+arrived within days of one another, so they should be nearly the same),
+but I'm obviously leery.
+
+When it runs through my autoexec.bat file, I get the following errors:
+
+Bad or missing C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
+
+Bad or missing C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
+
+(I figure those'll come back after DOS is restored, but I'm less sure
+about the other ones following:)
+
+HMA not available; loading DOS low
+
+Bad or missing COMMAND interpreter Bad command or file name Bad
+command or file name
+
+(I'm not altogether sure that's from autoexec. or the config.sys file,
+by the way...could be either.)
+
+This isn't the sort of thing I've ever had to deal with before, and
+will take ANY advice from someone knowledgeable.  I have scripts to
+write, and this is a major problem for me right now.
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Oct 1996 18:11:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: URGENT! HELP! from jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks for the info; I was up until 5 a.m. restoring the
+Windows directory.  Thank goodness it didn't get much further than
+that.  My reflexes are pretty good.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Oct 1996 18:11:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard Hohm <72247.3623@compuserve.com>
+Subject: URGENT! HELP! from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I'm going to take the command.com file off one of my rescue
+disks that I made for this computer (alas, they can't restore the dos)
+and my hope is that that'll be clean.
+
+       And now the kicker.
+
+       There's also a text file in that directory that wasn't there
+before. It contains 3 words.  STAR TREK RULES!
+
+       Fortunately, I caught it before too much damage was done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Oct 1996 18:11:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: URGENT! HELP! from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I have the most current version of Norton for win3.1, but I
+couldn't see how to make it restore directories, only *sub*directories.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Oct 1996 18:11:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com>
+Subject: URGENT! HELP! from jms
+
+ Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> There is a command line argument that you can give it to clean
+> the virus from the hard drive (check the readme file or type
+> SCAN/?
+
+       Nope, wasn't a virus, it was a com file.
+
+       Thanks for the info.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Oct 1996 18:19:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Scripts available?
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The question is - why are points on net *still* being offered?
+> Are there enough rubes who go for it to make it worth a try for
+> the studios? Are they largely ignored if the other provisions of
+> the contract are sufficient? Is there a "prestige" factor to being
+> offered 5% of nothing as opposed to 2% of nothing?
+
+       Yep, they're still offered...and taken...because it's important
+to at least keep the *concept* of profit alive, however bastardized the
+form.
+
+       Fr'instance...I don't have a gross profit percentage of B5.  I
+have a small *net* profit.  Which, as we all know, means I'll never see
+a *dime* out of it.  The only part where I have a piece is an (even
+smaller) percentage of the gross is in...merchandising, the one area in
+which I've dragged my feet from day one.
+
+       My accountant thinks I've got it in for him....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Oct 1996 18:19:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: URGENT! HELP! from jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks to all for the advice...I'll be heading home in an hour
+or so, and will see what works.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1996 00:44:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: A Funny Thought
+
+      It's a funny thing...just to show you how sometimes even jms can
+be just a LEEETLE bit slow on the uptake....
+
+      I've known, at some level, for four years that we're a
+syndicated show, that we don't have the usual network censors to deal
+with.
+
+      Then, this season, it finally hit me..."waitaminnit...we don't
+have CENSORS!  As long as it doesn't use the words you absolutely can't
+say on TeeVee, as long as it doesn't directly involve nudity or blood
+and guts, I can take things *CONCEPTUALLY* as far as I want."
+
+      Heh.
+
+      Heh-heh-heh....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1996 01:02:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com>
+Subject: URGENT! HELP! from jms
+
+ Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> No backup?
+
+      Thanks.  Alas, some of my backup was on a Zip drive, but I
+couldn't use the Zip without Dos being present, so I was basically
+screwed.  At this point I've got the Dos directory restored (using the
+files from the twin computer at work), and so far it *seems* to be
+okay...but it also screwed up all the files in the windows system
+directory, and now I've got to go through, restore and rename all of
+them, and since I don't know offhand what they all are, it's going to
+be a slow process.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1996 01:02:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Colin Glassey <104224.2227@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rock: Lord Refa?
+
+ Colin Glassey <104224.2227@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Why won't Lord Refa bring his own people?
+> Is he over confident?
+> Is he actually weak on man power?
+> They also are letting the last member of the Ka'Ree escape from
+> Narn? But here, these Centauri guards, are going to just walk away
+> and let Refa be killed by NARNS?!? The sort of character that
+> doesn't show up often (fortunetly) but without great vilians,
+> what chance is there for great heroism?
+
+      Bear in mind that all of Refa's people were *back on Centauri
+Prime*. He didn't bring them with him; to send word to Centauri Prime
+to bring them all the way out here, then on to Narn, would double the
+time required to get there, and by then the "rescue" would've been
+over.  That was part of Londo's scheme...he wouldn't have much time, he
+had to get in and get out.  Refa only brought a few with him, and they
+were needed to watch Londo and guard Vir.
+
+      As for the Centauri back home...you proceed from the assumption
+that all Centauri act as one.  I'm basing this somewhat on the early
+Roman civilization and government, where one side would sell out the
+other, arrange for deaths and murders, turn people over to their hated
+enemies as long as it advanced their position, or if they were allied
+with persons of power on a particular side.  Why did the Roman guards
+escorting Tiberius (a much less worthy emperor) kill the heir to the
+throne in "I, Claudius" (a much better leader, and well liked among the
+military)?  Because they were told to do so.
+
+      SF in TV has the tendency to portray aliens as monolithic...they
+put the good of their species as a whole above everything else.  Some
+do that; some do not.  Just as with humans.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1996 14:12:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Rock: Lord Refa?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, I wouldn't say they hate one another any less now than
+before; and yes, he would've sent word to G'Kar and arranged a private
+meeting, just the two of them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1996 14:12:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: stoney truett <71623.2377@compuserve.com>
+Subject: HAMILTON B5 PLATES
+
+ stoney truett <71623.2377@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this something you were reviewing before it is made available
+> to the public?
+
+       The designs are just now being finalized; I think they're on
+track to be released by Christmas.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1996 14:12:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Book?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What is it, and will it be available in the UK?
+> Also, when you are writing B5, are you, in a sense, reporting
+> what you see in your mind (so that B5 continues when you are not
+> looking, so to speak!), or are you each of the characters in
+> turn?
+
+       "The Complete Book of Scriptwriting" is out, yes, and can be
+ordered from the UK via Writer's Digest Books, or www.amazon.com.
+
+       And yes, the characters do somewhat live in my head, and I
+check in with where they are at various points, and write it down. 
+It's very weird.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1996 14:17:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard Hohm <72247.3623@compuserve.com>
+Subject: URGENT! HELP! from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       To know how to rename all the hundreds of files in my
+windows\system directory, is there any way to save to a file all of the
+file names in my directory, so I can bring that one file home with all
+their names?  (I know, I should do a print screen, but the printer here
+at the office is broken, and I'd have to hook up another one from
+another office, which is a pain.)
+
+       Also, how does one uncompile a .com file?  I think I caught the
+Trojan Horse before it did anything else, but I kinda want to open it
+up and look inside in case it did anything else I should know about. 
+Don't want to go through all this and get another surprise in a few
+days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1996 18:11:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard Hohm <72247.3623@compuserve.com>
+Subject: URGENT! HELP! from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I'll definitely scan the drive, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1996 18:11:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard Hohm <72247.3623@compuserve.com>
+Subject: URGENT! HELP! from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Many thanks...it's appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1996 18:11:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: HAMILTON B5 PLATES
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       The only full-color one I've seen so far is Sheridan, and it's
+gorgeous.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1996 18:11:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Fighting staff
+
+ Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, how did you like you first trip to Fla?
+
+       Florida was fine...except that the on-and-off laryngitis I came
+down with while there morphed into an upper respiratory infection which
+I'm fighting off as best I can...on top of everything else that's been
+going on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: URGENT! HELP! from jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      At this point (note to all who've emailed...there were so many
+not everyone could possibly get a response), the system itself is up
+and running again, having transplanted the DOS directory from my work
+computer (an identical system) to the one at home.  I then used unerase
+to restore the Windows and windows/system files.
+
+      Alas, the only way to unerase is to give the deleted files a new
+first letter or number...and I didn't know what they might be offhand
+(there are something like 200-350 of them altogether in the windows and
+windows/system directories), so I kinda had to rename them randomly,
+just temporarily.  Now I have a list of the proper names of what the
+files *should* be, and now I'm going through the long process of
+matching them up and renaming them all.
+
+      My virus scanners are all windows based, so once it's up again,
+I'll be able to go looking around a bit more.
+
+      Thanks to all who've helped.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: URGENT! HELP! from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, I'm still on 3.1...who has time for the win95 learning
+curve?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel F. Evan <104377.1433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: URGENT! HELP! from jms
+
+ Daniel F. Evan <104377.1433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do all your peripherals still work?
+
+      So far, everything's checking out....I hope this can all end
+soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Terrill L. Burlison <73631.275@compuserve.com>
+Subject: URGENT! HELP! from jms
+
+ Terrill L. Burlison <73631.275@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you mean you downloaded it from a Newsgroup?
+
+      Unfortunately, I didn't write down the information, the poster
+said his address was on the jpg, so I didn't bother...and when it
+activated, the whole system went kablooey...it's my own stupidity,
+that's all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A Funny Thought
+
+ Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, when did you get this revelation?
+> Before or After your computer was attacked?
+
+      I figured it out before I started writing season 4.  Look for
+some interesting stuff....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Trailer Congrats
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      There's no perceptible difference between the establishers from
+before and after, except that the newer ones are somewhat more
+detailed.  This increase has always been there each season, but we've
+often used stock from prior seasons in non-critical shots...it blends
+seamlessly.
+
+      And yes, I feel *very* fortunate to work with the people here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WWE questions
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That person was Grey Council, and they were concerned that a)
+Sinclair was not really who they thought, and b) if he went public with
+it, upon remembering, it would be devastating to their culture.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: HAMILTON B5 PLATES
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Dunno...I know it can be done mail order...I'll try to post the
+info when it becomes available.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark McGehee <75720.2420@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TP's From Ship of Tears
+
+ Mark McGehee <75720.2420@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that Sheridan is openly searching for Telepaths, will we find
+> out in a future episode what happened to the 100 Telepaths who
+> were rescued in "Ship of Tears?"
+
+      Yup.  Basically, they're still in cryo as Franklin keeps
+working.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 20:08:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John L. Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com>
+Subject: URGENT! HELP! from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Exactly.  I don't have time for a learning curve right now; I'm
+staying with what I've got until what I've got no longer does what I
+want.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 20:08:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Rock: Lord Refa?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Exactly.  These two characters, Londo and G'Kar, are linked at
+the hips. That is their beauty and their tragedy.  And you will see
+some new colors to this in the first part of season 4.  This story is
+as much about them as anyone else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 20:08:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >Z< - damned?? >spoiler<
+
+ colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Having watched Z a few times now, I find myself thinking the
+> unthinkable, has JMS lost the plot??? While I'm playing devil's
+> advocate, what about Anna??
+
+      It seems to me that the problems you cite are really ones you've
+put onto it, frankly.  They don't really have anything to do with
+what's being *done*, only with what you're projecting *might* be done. 
+And in some cases, your information is simply incorrect.
+
+"While I'm playing devil's advocate, what about Anna??  I thought
+shadow ships only worked with telepaths, you telling me that Psi Cops
+didn't spot Anna was telepathic - I don't think so!!"
+
+      Incorrect.  Ivanova even says, "Delenn never said that was
+required." A shadow vessel can use *any* body and brain of sufficiently
+evolved form as its CPU...the whole purpose of picking up teeps was to
+start putting together ships that could withstand telepathic jamming. 
+That was the whole *point* of "Ship of Tears."
+
+"I have a fundemental problem with this, namely, that unless JMS pulls
+something absolutely extrodinary out of the bag, we are going to end
+up with a quick and dirty fix, not what I think B5 is known for."
+
+      Translation: you haven't figured out yet how I'm going to pull
+this off, so you're making an assumption based on what you can't figure
+out.  Why not wait and actually *see* what happens before judging?
+
+"Another failing, the shadow ship with Mr G's ship in, historically
+speaking we know that the shadow ships take people in, they are "wired"
+into it, that suggests a centre of operations.  For a Starfury to fit
+inside a shadow ship, it's gonna loose an awful lot of itself, I don't
+see it - sorry!"
+
+      Again, you're not paying sufficient attention, and citing it as
+a problem in the show.  Not everything it encounters is or has to be
+wired into it.  Remember "Shadow Dancing"?  You see Anna's ship being
+released by a shadow vessel and flying off.  It wasn't in the *center*
+of operations, it was held in the skin of the thing.  Look at how *big*
+these things are. They're huge.  (Compare the size of the Narn attack
+ships and the shadow vessels in "Coming of Shadows" for a good
+perspective.)  They can function almost like an aircraft carrier,
+holding ships within their skin as they fly through hyperspace, then
+releasing them on at a time, or by separating a piece of that skin and
+firing them as a group (as also seen in the show).
+
+"Maybe JMS should take 5 and step back from the problem a bit."
+
+      And maybe you should wait to see what I do first, then decide. 
+Because what you're pointing to as problems have *nothing* to do with
+what I'm planning to do with the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: URGENT! HELP! from jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      At this point (note to all who've emailed...there were so many
+not everyone could possibly get a response), the system itself is up
+and running again, having transplanted the DOS directory from my work
+computer (an identical system) to the one at home.  I then used unerase
+to restore the Windows and windows/system files.
+
+      Alas, the only way to unerase is to give the deleted files a new
+first letter or number...and I didn't know what they might be offhand
+(there are something like 200-350 of them altogether in the windows and
+windows/system directories), so I kinda had to rename them randomly,
+just temporarily.  Now I have a list of the proper names of what the
+files *should* be, and now I'm going through the long process of
+matching them up and renaming them all.
+
+      My virus scanners are all windows based, so once it's up again,
+I'll be able to go looking around a bit more.
+
+      Thanks to all who've helped.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: URGENT! HELP! from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, I'm still on 3.1...who has time for the win95 learning
+curve?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel F. Evan <104377.1433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: URGENT! HELP! from jms
+
+ Daniel F. Evan <104377.1433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do all your peripherals still work?
+
+      So far, everything's checking out....I hope this can all end
+soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Terrill L. Burlison <73631.275@compuserve.com>
+Subject: URGENT! HELP! from jms
+
+ Terrill L. Burlison <73631.275@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you mean you downloaded it from a Newsgroup?
+
+      Unfortunately, I didn't write down the information, the poster
+said his address was on the jpg, so I didn't bother...and when it
+activated, the whole system went kablooey...it's my own stupidity,
+that's all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A Funny Thought
+
+ Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, when did you get this revelation?
+> Before or After your computer was attacked?
+
+      I figured it out before I started writing season 4.  Look for
+some interesting stuff....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Trailer Congrats
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      There's no perceptible difference between the establishers from
+before and after, except that the newer ones are somewhat more
+detailed.  This increase has always been there each season, but we've
+often used stock from prior seasons in non-critical shots...it blends
+seamlessly.
+
+      And yes, I feel *very* fortunate to work with the people here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WWE questions
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That person was Grey Council, and they were concerned that a)
+Sinclair was not really who they thought, and b) if he went public with
+it, upon remembering, it would be devastating to their culture.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: HAMILTON B5 PLATES
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Dunno...I know it can be done mail order...I'll try to post the
+info when it becomes available.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark McGehee <75720.2420@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TP's From Ship of Tears
+
+ Mark McGehee <75720.2420@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that Sheridan is openly searching for Telepaths, will we find
+> out in a future episode what happened to the 100 Telepaths who
+> were rescued in "Ship of Tears?"
+
+      Yup.  Basically, they're still in cryo as Franklin keeps
+working.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 20:08:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John L. Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com>
+Subject: URGENT! HELP! from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Exactly.  I don't have time for a learning curve right now; I'm
+staying with what I've got until what I've got no longer does what I
+want.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 20:08:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Rock: Lord Refa?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Exactly.  These two characters, Londo and G'Kar, are linked at
+the hips. That is their beauty and their tragedy.  And you will see
+some new colors to this in the first part of season 4.  This story is
+as much about them as anyone else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1996 20:08:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >Z< - damned?? >spoiler<
+
+ colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Having watched Z a few times now, I find myself thinking the
+> unthinkable, has JMS lost the plot??? While I'm playing devil's
+> advocate, what about Anna??
+
+      It seems to me that the problems you cite are really ones you've
+put onto it, frankly.  They don't really have anything to do with
+what's being *done*, only with what you're projecting *might* be done. 
+And in some cases, your information is simply incorrect.
+
+"While I'm playing devil's advocate, what about Anna??  I thought
+shadow ships only worked with telepaths, you telling me that Psi Cops
+didn't spot Anna was telepathic - I don't think so!!"
+
+      Incorrect.  Ivanova even says, "Delenn never said that was
+required." A shadow vessel can use *any* body and brain of sufficiently
+evolved form as its CPU...the whole purpose of picking up teeps was to
+start putting together ships that could withstand telepathic jamming. 
+That was the whole *point* of "Ship of Tears."
+
+"I have a fundemental problem with this, namely, that unless JMS pulls
+something absolutely extrodinary out of the bag, we are going to end
+up with a quick and dirty fix, not what I think B5 is known for."
+
+      Translation: you haven't figured out yet how I'm going to pull
+this off, so you're making an assumption based on what you can't figure
+out.  Why not wait and actually *see* what happens before judging?
+
+"Another failing, the shadow ship with Mr G's ship in, historically
+speaking we know that the shadow ships take people in, they are "wired"
+into it, that suggests a centre of operations.  For a Starfury to fit
+inside a shadow ship, it's gonna loose an awful lot of itself, I don't
+see it - sorry!"
+
+      Again, you're not paying sufficient attention, and citing it as
+a problem in the show.  Not everything it encounters is or has to be
+wired into it.  Remember "Shadow Dancing"?  You see Anna's ship being
+released by a shadow vessel and flying off.  It wasn't in the *center*
+of operations, it was held in the skin of the thing.  Look at how *big*
+these things are. They're huge.  (Compare the size of the Narn attack
+ships and the shadow vessels in "Coming of Shadows" for a good
+perspective.)  They can function almost like an aircraft carrier,
+holding ships within their skin as they fly through hyperspace, then
+releasing them on at a time, or by separating a piece of that skin and
+firing them as a group (as also seen in the show).
+
+"Maybe JMS should take 5 and step back from the problem a bit."
+
+      And maybe you should wait to see what I do first, then decide. 
+Because what you're pointing to as problems have *nothing* to do with
+what I'm planning to do with the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Oct 1996 13:43:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: BABYLON 5 SEASON FINALE
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Here's how to work this out, for the earliest possible start
+date for S4 in the UK.  This may not be what actually works out, I'm
+not committing C4 to anything here, only indicating the *earliest* it
+could theoretically be done.
+
+       We finish shooting May 5th.  It takes about 52 days to finish
+post production on a given episode.  Figure 2 months, round it off. 
+That's July 5th for delivery on 422.  Maybe add a week or two just to
+allow for glitches. So now July 19th.  We have to allow C4 to go
+through the episodes for censor purposes, and that takes about another
+couple/three weeks, so now we're at the end of July/first week of
+August.  That becomes now the earliest you can conceivably air 422.
+
+       So now you just do the math: 22 weeks from the first week of
+August would mean that March 10th or 17th would be the absolute
+earliest that the show could debut.  If they wanted to build in a
+cushion to prevent any possible conflicts, then the ideal date would be
+around the first week of April.
+
+       But, again, I don't speak for C4, or their prior scheduling
+committments, I'm just backtracking to when it would be feasible from
+a production standpoint.
+
+jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Oct 1996 18:40:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Speaking of Season Four
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of the new season, what episode is filming currently?
+> And which one(s) are you finishing up post work on these days?
+> Do you still feel good about all of them?
+> Do they still have that "film" quality of which you spoke
+> earlier?
+
+       Yeah, feel great about the new eps.  We're currently shooting
+#6, and we have scripts in hand through #10.  We've delivered 1 and 2,
+and will finish the audio mix on 3 next week.  John and I go in to edit
+3 on Wednesday.  The feel of it is quite extraordinary.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Oct 1996 14:43:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: And the rock...
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, it was real; and Londo points out that he could easily
+have killed Refa elsewhere...as he says, the point was to do it on Narn
+so that he could dishonor his house back home.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Oct 1996 14:43:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: URGENT! HELP! from jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I'll definitely do that, thanks!
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Oct 1996 14:43:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Speaking of Season Four
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       All jms scripts so far.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Oct 1996 14:43:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rock Cried Out
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, generally, everything is scripted.  (See the "Coming"
+script in my writing book for an example.)  But the director adds a lot
+in framing and pacing and camera movement and other areas.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Oct 1996 14:43:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: S J NICHOLSON <76574.1663@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Dancing
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...we try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Oct 1996 14:43:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com>
+Subject: BABYLON 5 SEASON FINALE
+
+ Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> From a producer/writers POV due you prefer the US half a dozen
+> then Rerun or the UK whole season in one go?
+
+       I'd love to go straight through.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Oct 1996 01:13:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Enjoying B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...and I don't allow my own personal beliefs (or lack
+thereof) to redirect or influence the show; then it becomes propaganda,
+and I have no interest in that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Oct 1996 18:20:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian Kornfeld <75703.1340@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rock Cried question
+
+ Brian Kornfeld <75703.1340@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why would G'Kar even attend this meeting, given his hatred of
+> Londo and his mistrust of all Centauri? Why would G'Kar trust
+> Londo, even for a second?
+
+       I think that if Londo sent word via the Babcom unit that he
+wanted a one-to-one with G'Kar, and that thousands of Narn lives were
+on the line, he would come.  G'Kar has nothing to fear from Londo as
+long as he's on B5...and if anything, I think he'd be amused if Londo
+did try anything.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Oct 1996 22:59:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Wildfire Threat?
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were any of the people involved in B5 or the studio itself
+> threatened by the current spate of wildfires?
+
+      No, it was a long, long ways from here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Oct 1996 20:49:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sun-Times B5 kudos
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, I'd love to get it, thanks!
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Oct 1996 20:54:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Roleplaying Scenario?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Be advised that this sim group is not authorized, involves
+paying members, and will be shut down by WB, which has shut down
+others.  If you're using CIS, you will get them into trouble.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Oct 1996 20:54:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: !!B5 SIM GROUP MEETING!!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      See my prior note to you.  WB has shut down other unauthorized
+sims, which are violations of copyright.  If you want them to come
+after CIS, go right ahead.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Oct 1996 20:54:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ZHD Spoiler
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Nope, the White Star blowed up real good, so it couldn't save
+Sheridan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Oct 1996 23:12:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: foundation on voyager?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is this true?
+
+      Correct, Foundation is now doing EFX for Voyager.  I wonder how
+some ST fans who put down B5's effects, saying ST's never-go-CGI
+approach made them a better show, will react to this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Oct 1996 00:44:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Colin Glassey <104224.2227@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Dance - Nits
+
+ Colin Glassey <104224.2227@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Why did "The White Star" have to hang around in normal space?
+> I realize there are good dramatic reasons for putting Ivanova and
+> Marcus in harm's way, but are there good logical reasons? Couldn't
+> this have been pushed into a different episode? And what do we
+> see? I know you are pressed for time in this epsidoe, but really,
+> relationship building? romance?
+
+      Okay, a couple of responses....
+
+      "Seems to me the strategy is: wait in hyperspace "near" the
+flock of refugee ships, and when they signal for help (as they will
+when the Shadow fleet appears), pop out of hyperspace and engage the
+Shadow fleet.  The point is, the Shadow fleet is going after a known
+target (or so Sheridan guesses), if you hang around near the target,
+they will tell you when the attackers appear.  No need to for your
+ships, even a scout, to sit in normal space, the refugee ships are all
+"scout ships" in a sense."
+
+      Massive logic problem.  If you wait until they're right on top
+of the refugee ships, or very near, they'll just dive into the midst of
+the refugee ships and there's no way you can have a clean battle
+without resulting in *MASSIVE* amounts of civilian casualties.  What
+you suggest would all but insure that the refugee ships would be
+destroyed (defeating the purpose of the mission) and the piles of
+civilian ships running for cover in every direction would hinder our
+side, but not the other side, and we'd lose even MORE of our own ships.
+
+      "2) Delenn and Sheridan spend the night together and we get to
+watch... comercials. Talk about giving "short shrift" to a rather
+interesting event. Couldn't this have been pushed into a different
+episode?  I mean, here they are, alone together, in a "ostensibly"
+romantic situation, lots for them to talk about I should think.  Well,
+I'd like to know what was said... And what do we see?  Sheridan is
+already asleep!"
+
+      It's not a matter of being pressed for time.  The whole point of
+the ritual was to watch him sleeping.  We had that nice moment right
+before they took off with the fleet, and bunches of others, including
+the big kiss, right in the previous episode and throughout the whole
+thing.
+
+      "3) I think the battle could have been done with a bit more of
+an "umph" to it.  Perhaps the use of intercutting between the two plots
+was distracting in this case.  It was a good battle, just not quite as
+effective as "Severed Dreams" or "Long Twilight Struggle" (which did
+have effective intercutting)."
+
+      That's because there was more emotional content to the other two
+battles you mention; the bombing of the Narn homeworld, and EA fighting
+EA in SD.  Not all battles are created equal, it's a matter of context.
+You can't expect to get exactly the same reaction to all of them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Oct 1996 11:29:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Enjoying B5 -Rock
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, that's been pointed out to me...well, y'know, they said
+only Nixon could go to China....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Oct 1996 11:29:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: URGENT! HELP! from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       What an interesting notion...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Oct 1996 11:29:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >Z< - damned?? >spoiler<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Okay, got it, thanks for the clarification.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1996 21:10:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: !!B5 SIM GROUP MEETING!!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I cannot give authorization, it's not mine to give, it has to
+come from Warner Bros., as part of a license.  And while you are not
+getting paid for it, the users *are* paying for access to CIS for the
+game, and that is a large part of where you're getting into trouble.
+
+      I understand that your error is one of enthusiasm, nothing else,
+and I appreciate the enthusiasm...but understand that when I say WB
+will get upset about this, they *will*.  They've done it before, and
+shut down at least one other sim group, maybe more.  I'm basically
+trying to steer you clear of trouble, and there's no way to do this
+without a license.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1996 21:10:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Encouraging Attitude
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      That's great, thanks for passing that along.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1996 21:10:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow Dance - Nits
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, no Lumati.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1996 00:25:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The CARDS are Here!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      "Zathras won't talk to press.  Tabloids always misquote
+Zathras."
+
+      Hmmm...I didn't know Zathras worked for the Dole campaign...but
+it does explain a lot....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1996 00:25:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The CARDS are Here!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Maybe, for those you don't like, you can stick up the Nightwatch
+posters over their cubicles....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1996 15:17:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Trailer Congrats
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1996 15:17:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Larry Rosenblum <72122.1555@compuserve.com>
+Subject: VP is a fan
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well, if he ever wants to invest some of that $600 million in a
+TV series, he knows where to find me....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1996 15:17:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Shadow Dancing<<
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Why didn't they just jump in right on top of their targets and
+> started blasting away?
+
+      So they could drive any other ships toward the center, into the
+killing zone.  If they come in into the center, everybody splits in
+every possible direction, and that makes running 'em all down harder.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1996 15:51:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The CARDS are Here!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, the more I think about it, the more I like the idea of
+Zathras as a political speechwriter or candidate.
+
+      "Zathras look at budget deficit, says, not good.  Stop spending.
+But no one ever listen to Zathras.  But one day, everybody listen. 
+Then, Zathras elected.  Zathras will be great president.  Someday even
+have face printed on money.  Then, everybody have Zathras face in
+pants.  It is good to be president."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1996 15:51:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Robison/ WA & FL <71361.1440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Deeper meanings in work?
+
+ Mike Robison/ WA & FL <71361.1440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Reading some of the other messages in this section,(some
+> quite old, by now) concerning academic interpertations of a
+> writers' work, I was wondering if any of "us" out here in
+> cyberspace have read anything into your works that were not
+> intended to be there when you wrote them, but, upon being pointed
+> out to you, you can now see that it does, in fact, have the
+> meaning that was "discovered"? IOW, are there deeper meanings in
+> your work that even you don't see at times?
+
+      Nothing at all insulting in the question.  It's a hard one to
+address, but I'll give it a shot.
+
+      Harlan says, when someone comes up to you and says, "Listen,
+when I read your story, I saw you had structured the whole thing around
+the Jungian notion of inner conflict vs. external conflict, and...." 
+that the proper response is, "Absolutely, and you're the first person
+to figure that out," whether it's true or not.  Let them think you're
+an utter genius.  (This was, obviously, somewhat tongue in cheek, but
+there's some truth there, I think.)
+
+      Generally, some of the "deeper meanings" attached to the work
+are less a product of what's written, as what's perceived and how it's
+perceived; it's a function of what you, the viewer, bring to the table.
+In that respect, a good story is like a Rohrscarch test (and I think I
+just hideously misspelled that).
+
+      Some of the hidden meanings or subtext (the more proper term, I
+think) are deliberately set in place during the writing process.
+
+      And there are some that slip past me, when I get ambushed by my
+own subsconscious.  Often I'm working something through myself at the
+time, or going through something, and when I'm not looking, the writing
+part of my brain shoots it out onto the page.  Then, afterward,
+sometimes minutes later or months later, I'll look at it and suddenly
+realize what was going through my mind at the time, and realize I've
+given away more of myself than I had intended.  It's an awkward
+feeling...like coming home from a party and discovering that your fly
+was undone the whole time.  There are times I'd like nothing more than
+to take my subsconscious out and give it a *really* good thwacking when
+it does this to me.
+
+      Sometimes those meanings are very personal ones, sometimes more
+general in nature, trying to figure out stuff.  The only way to stop it
+is to ride herd on the part of your brain that does the writing, making
+sure nothing slips past you...but then it becomes a more mechanical
+process.  As a writer, you learn to listen to the small, tiny voice in
+the back of your head and trust it, that it knows where it's going even
+if the logical part of your brain does not.  You have to get rid of the
+gatekeeping, get rid of what you were taught writing is supposed to be,
+get rid of what you think others want to hear from you, get rid of
+*everything* that gets in the way and overpowers that small voice.
+
+      If you do that correctly, then you are *always* surprised by
+what comes out, which is necessary; if you cannot surprise yourself,
+you have no chance of surprising an audience.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1996 15:51:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow Dancing Battle
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Good question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1996 15:51:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dana Wright <72627.531@compuserve.com>
+Subject: First Ones
+
+ Dana Wright <72627.531@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why or when will B5 feel the need for the other First Ones?
+> Will there be a resolution among the Minibari casts?
+
+      Re: the First Ones...be patient.  They'll show up soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1996 15:51:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow Dance - Nits
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, but that tactic works only if you know you're going to be
+under attack.  If the shadows were to materialize in the midst of the
+refugee ships, they'd just scatter in every direction.  The purpose is
+to wipe out all those ships quickly and efficiently...so you start at
+the outer fringe, drive everyone inward, and then wipe them all out. 
+To jump into the middle of them makes it very hard to do this...it's
+like herding kittens.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1996 15:51:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Shadow Dancing<<
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Why didn't they just jump in right on top of their targets and
+> started blasting away?
+
+      See my other note on this.  And, again, it isn't a settlement,
+it's a gathering of ships.  The other note explains in more detail.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1996 20:24:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Did you always know?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      This was all planned out from the beginning.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1996 02:59:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Dancing in the Dark
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      It's a great ep...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1996 18:16:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Martin Shaw <101642.505@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 4 Title
+
+ Martin Shaw <101642.505@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering if you have decided on a title for series 4 yet?
+> Have you released the details of the opening narration yet?
+> Or are you planning on leaving this to the conference next
+> weekend? in the UK?
+
+       The main title will reveal itself soon enough; and yes, I have
+a title for the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1996 18:16:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Religion on <The Rock>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1996 18:21:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow Dancing
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Well, certainly Kosh was accessing that which he could, in part
+to prove he knew what he knew, in part to set things up.  Although who
+knows, there may be more to it...that that's what they came up with
+doesn't necessarily mean that is the full extent of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1996 18:21:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow Dance - Nits
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Actually, no, most refugee ships are NOT jump capable. 
+Remember, it takes a LOT of power...you've got the heavy cruisers, and
+long range exploratory vessels, and not much else.  That's what makes
+the White Star so special, that it can be as small as it is and still
+generate a jump point. The Asimov class passenger liners, for instance,
+can't jump, and have to rely on gates.  The smaller ships the refugees
+would've been using would have had to get to their local gate, and then
+line up to go through it in small groups. Which means 85% of them
+would've been trapped there, ducks in a shooting gallery.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1996 19:48:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Robison/ WA & FL <71361.1440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Deeper meanings in work?
+
+ Mike Robison/ WA & FL <71361.1440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> From what you said, I infer that writing is a similar
+> "relaxing/unconscious" process for you, when you are *on*...OTOH,
+> are there still days when writing seems similar to staring at the
+> keyboard until drops of blood appear on your brow?
+
+      It never gets easy...it just gets difficult in different areas.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1996 19:48:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Boris -pH7- Molodyi <70322.624@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Dance - Nits
+
+ Boris -pH7- Molodyi <70322.624@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which makes me wonder: why didn't Shadows surface right in the
+> middle of refugee ships, and do their job, rather than coming out
+> at what seems to be considerable distance, and thus opening
+> themselves to attack by the Army of Light?
+
+      Just answered this twice in another thread...would hate to take
+up the space repeating it a third time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1996 19:57:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Second B5 CD
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is the second music CD still scheduled for release at the same
+> time as season 4, or has it been pushed back again?
+
+      It's being released in November, but I hear they won't sell it
+to you because they say you're too loud.
+
+      Me, I don't get involved in these things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1996 19:57:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Second B5 CD
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Nope.  I just got the liner notes to them last week, which they
+needed by Wednesday latest because they were going to press this week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1996 01:28:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Second B5 CD
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I've heard the first 20 minutes or so, and it's great stuff.  I
+should get the balance soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1996 01:28:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Stern cheers B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm constantly delighted to hear about Howard.  We'd love to
+have him on the show someday.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1996 01:28:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 4 Title
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Okay, Joe (aka Kosh), I'll bite: What *is* the title for the new
+> season?
+
+      That would be telling.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1996 01:28:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow Dancing Battle
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"If this were live, you could be implanting strange dreams in my
+head."
+
+      Hmmm...guess you just haven't noticed 'em yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1996 11:54:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Gillman <100724.1646@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z'Ha'Dum
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       This is from memory, but I think it's "nuzen fallani, en allis
+mi dron."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1996 12:19:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow Dance - Nits
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       For as long as required by the script.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1996 12:19:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: gloves for CTS
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you heard of SoftFlex, which are fingerless gloves that help
+> to alluviate CTS?
+
+       I just ordered them as I saw your message, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1996 17:32:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season 4 Title
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Oh, be assured, the interesting times for Londo haven't even
+*started* yet.
+
+       But they will, real soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1996 13:34:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Dance - Nits
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I have to ask, what nigtmare did these things come from?
+> Also, where did you come up with the strategy, was that your own,
+> or did you get some suggestions or did you look into history?
+
+       I dunno...I just thunk it up as efficient and ruthless.  I
+guess it comes naturally when you're a producer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1996 13:34:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Deeper meanings in work?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I can't answer that, because the two elements are always the
+same to me.  It's like asking a centipede which leg goes first.  I
+don't know how I do what I do, I just kinda do it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1996 17:38:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Dance - Nits
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But you thought up B5 before you were a producer, so what deep
+> dark part of your soul is bleeding out to make these Shadows?
+
+       I don't know, but I suspect it's best left unidentified...and
+undisturbed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Oct 1996 12:21:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Schirmer <76774.3310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Hamilton Plate Series
+
+ David Schirmer <76774.3310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know who the Artist will be?
+> And do you know how many plates there will be in the series?
+
+       Can't remember the artists offhand, but the plates will feature
+each of our major characters in turn; Sheridan is first, then Delenn,
+then I think we've got Ivanova, Londo, G'Kar, others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Oct 1996 12:21:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Dance - Nits
+
+ David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who are running around in the flying sausers (which by the way
+> seemd awfull potent)?
+
+       Them's is Vree.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Oct 1996 12:21:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Dance - Nits
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  A writer's job is to stay vulnerable, and explore
+everything in the writing...the drama, the tragedy, the comedy, the
+weirdness...it's all part of the package.  I just sometimes put a
+little too much out there, I think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Oct 1996 12:21:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Marcon in Columbus, Ohio
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No one's yet extended a formal invitation, so we'll have to
+see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Oct 1996 20:43:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Z'Ha'Dum x2
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...and yeah, we'll try to deal with the retcon if we can.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Oct 1996 20:43:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Za'ha'dume
+
+ Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 5) Why were the Shadows and the Vorlon left behind by the first
+> ones? Punishment?
+> A desire by the two races to prove a point?
+> Something in their nature that made them want to stay?
+
+      Well, most of that is on track....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Oct 1996 23:11:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Dance - Nits
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm going to make an assumption here, but you put a little too
+> much (of yourself) out there for your own comfort? As far as
+> storytelling, which is why we're here, can you put too much out
+> there of pain, joy, fear, yearning, resentment, relief, etc.? 
+> Stripped of those elements, doesn't the story become antiseptic
+> and liable to lead to indifference in the viewer/reader?
+
+      Yeah, it's primarily a personal comfort issue.  It's kinda like
+standing naked in front of ten million of your best friends....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
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+JMS CompuServe messages for November 1996.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+Date: 01 Nov 1996 00:43:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Colin Glassey <104224.2227@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z'Ha'Dum - Praise
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's some of the best work we've ever done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 01 Nov 1996 20:31:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Z'Ha'Dum - Praise
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, much appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Nov 1996 20:31:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z'Ha'Dum - Praise
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...I appreciate it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Nov 1996 20:31:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: great chess game ?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Well, starting from the death of Kosh, we've been in the myth
+cycle. That now has to play itself out.
+
+      And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Nov 1996 00:20:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS Hospital rumor FALSE
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Kevin: by reposting this information in any form whatsoever, you
+have contributed grief to my life.  The stage was flooded with phone
+calls while I was at the editing bays about this.
+
+      There is this crummy logic in internetdom which says, "since
+information is power, my status can increase the faster I can get info
+out to others."
+
+      This kind of rumor is hurtful.  It causes me grief in running it
+down; it tied up the switchboard at work; it harrassed many people at
+work.
+
+      Understand this absolutely clearly: if anything ever does
+happen, I have people at the stage who will post specific and precise
+information.  If ever you see a rumor about this, you know *instantly*
+that it's not true, because if it were true, it would come instantly
+from those involved, and you wouldn't have to HEAR it from any other
+source.
+
+      The original poster was bad enough; reposting gossip, rumors or
+other nonsense is just as bad.  You should never have posted it in the
+first place; many people cited your message as the reason they were
+tying up our switchboard.
+
+      Never, ever do this to me again.
+
+      Am I perfectly, crystal clear?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Nov 1996 00:20:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil J. Nagler <103522.1540@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z
+
+ Neil J. Nagler <103522.1540@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What can I say?
+
+"I'm still low, because I still want to go up from here. How Joe will
+do it is beyond me."
+
+      What, there can only be one 10 in four years?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Nov 1996 00:20:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Z - Sheridan
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Nov 1996 13:54:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael N. Rubinste <74012.147@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z Questions, Comment
+
+ Michael N. Rubinste <74012.147@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I also love how you added yet another wrinkle to the ambiguity of
+> the time-travel paradox: Was Delenn warning Sherridan not to do
+> what he *did* do, or not to do what he *didn't* do? If the
+> Shadows' goal is to help evolution along by covertly getting the
+> various races to fight each other (which they were doing a fine
+> job of for a while there), then why did they then start attacking
+> directly? Was it because they had now decided who the winners
+> were, and were "culling" the losers? Are you saying that Sherridan
+> fought not one, but several Shadows with his BARE HANDS and got
+> away from them?? Are they so weak physically?
+> Have they no amazing mental powers or weapons with which to
+> subdue him? How did they kill Kosh then?
+
+      Well, look what happened when the shadows came out and attacked
+a couple of places...first they did so without anyone knowing it was
+them doing it, as we've shown.  So now everyone's running around like
+ants, scurrying for cover and trying to figure out what the hell's
+going on, accusing one another...then the Centauri got the credit/blame
+for it, causing further conflict...then they came out and sent everyone
+scurrying again, some to make alliances they thought would protect
+themselves (and thus enable them to make war on their neighbors, as
+shown), only to have that fall apart and they turn on themselves/each
+other.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Nov 1996 21:36:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 4 Title
+
+ Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now, any chance you could broadcast ALL of season 4 one night
+> this week??
+
+      Thanks.  The details are everything, in a show like this, and
+it's great when they're appreciated.
+
+      As for season one...we learned last week that when the show is
+finally over, TNT will be stripping the show, starting with the pilot
+straight through all the seasons.  Stripping means airing every day, 5
+days a week.  I think it'll be great.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Nov 1996 21:36:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark Fountain <74023.221@compuserve.com>
+Subject:  Z'ha'dum
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I thank you, and our lawyers thank you....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Nov 1996 21:36:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z'Ha'Dum........ wow.
+
+ Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did Anna have a Keeper?
+> Was that the epidermal scarring?
+> Was she real, or was she Memorex?
+> Was this the end of John and Delenn?
+> What did Sheridan ask Garibaldi to do?
+> And what was the fourth part of the post you put on Usenet months
+> ago, when you finally broke down and gave us a synopsis of the
+> episode? Now that their plan to subvert him has failed, we may
+> find out more, eh? Then again, we don't really know what a Vorlon
+> looks like, do we?
+
+      Thank you.  You're most kind.
+
+      Funny, on the line about "started watching B5 waiting for it to
+impress me."  I've heard much the same from many others.  I think we've
+all been burned so many times by SF shows that we had a real burden
+here to prove what we could do, and how we would do it.  You kinda
+don't want to have your heart broken anymore.  I'm glad we were able to
+come through.  It's a show I'm very proud of.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Nov 1996 21:36:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Conf 2nd Nov
+
+ colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Whilst I have your attention, do you have any plans to release
+> the blooper reels though the Fan Club, and maybe the UK fan club
+> also??
+
+      No immediate plans for the bloopers...and thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1996 01:42:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin Butler <75034.2007@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 4 Title
+
+ Kevin Butler <75034.2007@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One question though; do you think that the Whitestar will be
+> destroyed, or did it survive?
+
+      White Star blowed up REAL good.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1996 01:51:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season 4 Title
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, they'll continue to run it as long as it does well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1996 01:51:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil J. Nagler <103522.1540@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z
+
+ Neil J. Nagler <103522.1540@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Otherwise, what's a heaven for?"
+
+      Fine.
+
+      Just fine.
+
+      Break a mother's heart....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1996 01:51:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Z'Ha'Dum........ wow.
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, and yeah, it was kind of serendipity about the two shows
+with "wife taken over" premises.  Can't help but lead to "compare and
+contrast."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1996 01:51:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ZDH question
+
+ Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question is one I haven't seen asked yet -- what about Morden?
+> Is he now an ex-Morden?
+> For that matter, is Justin an 'ex' as well?
+
+      What about Morden?  Oh, wait about 7 days, you'll find out.
+
+      And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1996 01:51:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Z - praise part 104
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+      Adam also directed "Passing Through Gethsemane," and is
+unfortunately now off doing network shows, and not available to us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1996 15:22:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Stern cheers B5
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Wasn't Imus ( that other NY D.J ) in the WWE episode on B4 ?
+
+      No, that wasn't him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1996 15:22:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Music Scores
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Joe, who decides what musical scores go into each episode?
+> or does it work that way?
+
+      We contract with Christopher Franke for the full season, and he
+provides all music cues.  We can't take outside stuff, it all has to be
+work for hire.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1996 15:22:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 awards
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Does WB know about all these awardsB5 is getting?
+> Were they present at the awards ceremonies?
+> Do they F@$#ing care?
+
+      WB cares about some of them, others they don't understand.
+
+      My best to your wife, and her grief hasn't started yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1996 15:22:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Al Kuntzler <76702.1236@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Truth Comes Out!
+
+ Al Kuntzler <76702.1236@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How could you hold this back, Joe?
+
+      It's a terrible and ugly history.  Dozens of dead bodies left
+lying in the ring.  Referees knocked unconscious.  You don't wnat to
+know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1996 15:22:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Day & Night on B5
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Have you developed any affinity towards science fiction/space now
+> that you have written/produced an epic like B5 ? When B5 is over (
+> a very sad day indeed ), and you go onto other projects, will
+> they be science fiction/space oriented as well ? Does this mean B5
+> has a sense of day and night ? And why was Sheridan so interested
+> in the wrong door when he was told, 'no it's not that one, it's
+> over here' ? Are you ever going to release the notes/revisions you
+> have been taking on B5 since 1986 ?
+
+      Actually, I was an SF fan *long* before I ever did Murder, She
+Wrote.
+
+      And yes, there's a day/night cycle on B5, it seems appropriate.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1996 15:22:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SUSAN F. KIRN <76262.2013@compuserve.com>
+Subject:  Z'ha'dum
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and I'm hoping somehow the situation there can be worked
+out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1996 15:22:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Z'Ha'Dum........ wow.
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, no, what happens within WWE can't be really shown in
+the current arc, only anticipated and the ground laid in place for all
+that to happen.
+
+      And thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1996 15:22:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Hour of the Wolf
+
+ David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This isn't going to be another solo year, is it?
+
+      Thanks.  Yeah, everybody's just cooking on this one, it has a
+very filmic, grand look to it.  I love it a lot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1996 15:22:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Mr. Garibaldi
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Garibaldi because he would be the one to replace Sheridan if
+> Sheridan was killed ?
+
+      Perhaps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1996 17:07:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin Butler <75034.2007@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 4 Title
+
+ Kevin Butler <75034.2007@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will Londo become the emperor when, and if, he takes his new
+> position on Centauri Prime?
+
+      Well, eventually, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1996 17:27:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Music Scores
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What does work for hire mean?
+
+      It means it's done on assignment, as part of a package, rather
+than buying something created independently and acquiring the rights.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1996 17:27:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Truth Comes Out!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I have certainly had a varied and colorful career.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1996 17:27:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Za'ha'dume
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One innocuous question: In Z'ha'dum, were those Bruce & Melissa's
+> actual wedding photos, or were they special ones you had shot for
+> the show? One not-so-innocuous question: is it safe to assume that
+> Anna, Morden, and Justin were all roasted in the White Star
+> blast? so he'll be doing the season 4 opening credits, eh?
+
+      Yes, we used their actual wedding photos.
+
+      And I did see the Dynamic Druggie Duo on Roseanne (the only time
+I've ever watched it).  They were in fine form.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1996 17:27:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z'Ha'Dum/Doom Itself
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I can't imagine carrying around ALL of theses richly-drawn
+> characters in the fullness of their stories over such an extended
+> time -- are there any words to describe what that feels like for
+> you?
+
+"I can't imagine carrying around ALL of theses richly-drawn characters
+in the fullness of their stories over such an extended time -- are
+there any words to describe what that feels like for you?"
+
+It feels like a chicken giving birth to a tyrannosaurus rex.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1996 17:27:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Z editing question
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, I did want to leave open the question of what happened to
+the others, just for a bit.
+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1996 17:27:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Justin's motions
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Or was that just the actor?
+
+      It was an actor's choice.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1996 20:15:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Garibaldi Preview?
+
+ Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Garibaldi, does the preview also contain more spoilers than
+> usual?
+
+      Dunno, I never see the preview until it airs, same as everybody
+else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Nov 1996 01:59:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Z'ha'dum
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That will continue to be funny for just about as long as it
+takes for me to find out where you live....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Nov 1996 01:59:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hour Packed
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One question: Do I take it that you're going to hold off a while
+> before telling us how Sheridan and Morden survived? When can we
+> expect some sort of answer as to how Sheridan managed to survive
+> so intact?
+
+      Thanks.  I'll string out the Sheridan info for a while; as for
+Morden, as he said, his associates can repair flesh, replace flesh
+(though where they got replacements from is something I don't want to
+know)....
+
+      It's definitely a packed episode.  I still find myself realizing
+that the end of act one feels like two acts.  And the next three are
+every bit as intense, if not moreso.  I love it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Nov 1996 01:59:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Purple Londo
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Didn't want another episode like what happened with Delenn's
+> dress, eh?
+
+      I never make the same mistake.
+
+      I just learn how to make new ones.
+
+      (And I'm very pleased with that scene...it's kinda goofy, with
+the minister in particular...he's just nuts.  Well, not as much as
+Cartagia, obviously....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Nov 1996 21:19:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com>
+Subject: !!B5 SIM GROUP MEETING!!
+
+ Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who/what actually owns the copyright to Babylon 5 and any spin
+> offs? Sure you as creator own copyright on the ideas and
+> characters, along with the stories you write, while WB have
+> copyright on the finished product? Or is it about 234 times more
+> complicated than that?
+
+      It's 573 times more complicated than that, but bottom
+line...Warner Bros. owns the complete compyright to Babylon 5, lock,
+stock and barrel, the same as with any show, as ST is a Paramount
+property.  It's the nature of the beast.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Nov 1996 21:19:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Music Scores
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Can someone market themselves to develop material specifically
+> for the show under those conditions? Its like saying, hey, Im a
+> musician and Id like to do some music scores for your show, do
+> you like my style, are you interested?
+
+      No, you must understand, we commit for full seasons, not per
+episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Nov 1996 21:20:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Extras
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is extra work valuable experience in getting larger parts?
+> Is this true?
+> Has every extra on B5 completed some sort of "offical acting
+> class"?
+
+      I know little of any use about acting.  I don't know if being an
+extra helps or not; most extras I know do only that, nothing more, and
+if you have no lines, you can't progress.  Acting seminars are
+necessary and good, but the high priced exploitive ones are to be
+avoided.  Best to have her hook up with a theater and do a lot of that;
+most of our actors on the show, guest and regulars, are folks with lots
+of theatrical (stage) training and experience.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Nov 1996 21:20:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ronald Legro <75136.2066@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z'Ha'Dum - Praise
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'll definitely keep working on it.  Thanks.
+
+      Odd...I thought "uffda" was of Swedish or Norwegian origin.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Nov 1996 21:20:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Z editing question
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      You are correct.
+
+      I hope you had money riding on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Nov 1996 21:20:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Purple Londo
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you envision the character that way, or did the actor and the
+> character merge into something wonderful?
+
+      Innocent and fragile is a good description...and certainly the
+dialogue is written that way, and we cast him because he matches that
+character.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Nov 1996 21:20:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: S J NICHOLSON <76574.1663@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WOLF IS EPIC!!
+
+ S J NICHOLSON <76574.1663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Didn't it have some of the first season music incorporated into
+> it?
+
+      Thanks.  It's a terrific episode.  The music now echoes season
+one because in some thematic areas, we're starting to bend back on
+ourselves, and close some circles, as you'll see soon.
+
+      That it affects the emotions is, for me, the goal.  If you can
+make an audience *feel* something, in a medium as cold as TV, you've
+done your job right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Nov 1996 21:20:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>ZHD - Thoughts<<
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If, however, we are fully human in our "native" state, that is,
+> there is no where to go, then the question of "Who are you?" If
+> the Shadows are evil and bad, what happens when the "good" start
+> acting like the bad and take their eyes off their Ideal, and
+> start striving for what they want? The Vorlons manipulate races
+> genetic codes to create telepaths, they manipulate Sheridan to
+> put him in a place to head the AOL so that he will wipe the
+> Shadows away, and they are so sure that they have answered the
+> question "Who are they?" Delenn and Kosh hide the truth from
+> Sheridan, don't trust him to be who he is, and then excpect him
+> to do what they ask? In trying to stop evil, the Vorlons and
+> Minbari have fallen into the oldest trap that evil has, they have
+> become what they fought, they have become so busy asking everyone
+> else "Who are You?" while they were answering "What do you want?"
+> By forgiving one another, and by being forgiven, they can begin
+> to answer the question of "Who are they?" What do you think?
+
+      That's an extremely good and cogent analysis.  And you hit the
+theme right on the head, one we'll explore in year four with the
+Vorlon/Shadow situation...and which was presaged in "Infection," right
+in the first season, the first episode shot.  Sinclair says, in the
+ultimate moment in that conflict, "You forgot the first rule of the
+fanatic: When you become obsessed with the enemy, you *become* the
+enemy."  That is what is happening here, with these two and other
+parties.
+
+      It all comes together....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Nov 1996 21:30:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: S J NICHOLSON <76574.1663@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WOLF IS EPIC!!
+
+ S J NICHOLSON <76574.1663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It reminded me of the "Zog" creature so perhaps it is something
+> that these "old ones" can produce with a Draal type of
+> technology?
+
+      Check out "Voices of Authority."  You've seen those eyes before.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Nov 1996 00:02:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ronald Legro <75136.2066@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Z'Ha'Dum - Praise
+
+ Ronald Legro <75136.2066@compuserve.com> asks:
+> His refuge?
+
+      That sounds about right.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Nov 1996 00:02:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>ZHD - Thoughts<<
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So is it safe to assume that the third age of mankind is wrapped
+> up in this somehow? As I write this, I begin to wonder, are we
+> seeing to some degree your own thoughts and/or strugles with
+> divinity/God/existance, or have you tried to keep those out of
+> this?
+
+      I don't know if any of it is so much my thoughts on these areas,
+as the questions I think we all have to look at.  My thoughts on their
+own wouldn't light up a cheap flashlight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Nov 1996 18:21:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>ZHD - Thoughts<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thank you.  I can only hope that you are proven right by time,
+and that the Nobel committee hears about it....
+
+       As for answers...since I have none to give, I can't shove them
+down anyone's throats.  And if I did have them, they'd only be *my*
+answers, not anybody else's, so again, there's no point.
+
+       I'm a big believer in the power of critical thinking; don't
+just have an opinion, have an *informed* opinion, and challenge it
+yourself, be rigorous.  Even if you come back to the same opinion
+later, at least you will now be able to defend or explain your view
+rationally.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Nov 1996 18:21:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Hour Packed
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Nov 1996 01:21:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 in Newsweek
+
+ Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe-- You've probably read this already, but do you know if Bruce
+> and Jerry will still be going to the launch, now that it's been
+> delayed?
+
+      Heard about it...don't know how the current schedule is with
+them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Nov 1996 01:21:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Nick Murray <70003.1112@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Marcon in Columbus, Ohio
+
+ Nick Murray <70003.1112@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How far in advance did the Marcon folks invite you for this past
+> Marcon?
+
+      Have no idea anymore.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Nov 1996 01:21:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>ZHD - Thoughts<<
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So does thatmean you've formed the opinion that you have no
+> answers, or is the show part of you trying to find answers?
+
+      It means I have some ideas that work for me, but no Answers that
+could work for anyone else.  I have rules and guidelines based on what
+seems basic ethical behavior...but I'm constantly working to revise
+them, and question if they work as well as they might.
+
+      But it all comes down to what was said in Lost Horizon: "Be kind
+to one another."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 Nov 1996 19:34:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bob Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com>
+Subject: (blocked)
+
+ Bob Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It appears that trying to contact you via the moderated USENET
+> newsgroup on the Internet is too hard to do using COMPUSERVE; but
+> I understand from the Lurker's guide that this is still an
+> acceptable forum? Did the Shadows, Vorlons and to a lesser extent
+> the Minbari hit a technological plateau in those thousand years? 
+> So how is Sheridan and company able to "compete" militarily with
+> the Shadows (although coming off the short end of a 2-1 kill
+> ratio is probably not exactly "competing")?
+
+      Actually, the shadows are *much* older technologically than a
+thousand years...that's just what Anna promised Sheridan we could jump
+ahead, between 1 and 10,000 years.  They're profoundly older than that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Nov 1996 19:34:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Debra dwnSo <104412.1664@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WOLF IS EPIC!!
+
+ Debra dwnSo <104412.1664@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What would I have to do to bribe you to tell me?
+> As for the father voice, are you trying to make us paranoid and
+> wonder if they Eyes may be Kosh?
+
+      Yeah, I almost wouldn't worry too much about the background
+stuff; this season starts some new threads that should be pretty easy
+for a newbie to jump into.
+
+      Enjoy the ride....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Nov 1996 19:34:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: HotW - 2 planets
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Nov 1996 00:16:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Colin Glassey <104224.2227@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hour of Wolf - No nits
+
+ Colin Glassey <104224.2227@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was there a note of humanity in his lines this time?
+
+      Thanks.  RE: the opening...exactly.  The B5 story is told from
+everyone's point of view, and they're all a part of it, so the opening
+now reflects that.  And it gives me the chance to do an opening that's
+sort of a prose poem, which is a nice touch.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Nov 1996 14:40:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hour Packed
+
+ O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com> asks:
+> By the way, would it be fair to suggest that in some ways, Justin
+> was for the Shadows what Sebastian was for the Vorlons?
+
+      Thanks.  And yeah, it's fun and interesting to see Londo now
+having to deal with being in a sense on the same side as Sheridan, but
+for vastly different reasons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Nov 1996 22:05:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Hour Packed
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Are you getting soft on us<g>, or was there a reason to give us
+> the information here?
+
+      To not do so would've been vastly unfair.  And it nicely
+replaces one mystery, is or isn't he, with "who the heck is THAT?"
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Nov 1996 22:05:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Londo's Dream
+
+ Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, now that we've seen most (maybe all?) of Londo's dream come
+> to pass, how's Peter feel about the trip from there to here? Still
+> astonished?
+
+      He's pleased, let's put it that way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Nov 1996 22:05:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Drazispeak
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Ambassadors have been learning as they've gone along; I took the
+notion that the higher ups didn't have that much contact with humans,
+so their grasp of english was halting at best, but over 4 years,
+they've gotten better.  The grunts/lower echelons, though, are still
+marginal at best.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Nov 1996 14:30:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Some general questions
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> what?
+> I'd hope for some cinematic releases based in the B5 galaxy?
+> Pretty please?
+> Once a year or so?
+> Do you have a bitmap of a set of closed doors on the station?
+> Either to personnel quarters or to a docking bay, something like
+> that? Would you know if any such pictures are available anywhere?
+
+      I don't have any bitmaps per se of the doors, though there is a
+door like image on the B5 web page, www.thestation.com based on our
+doors (as I recall).
+
+      We may do some TV movies to expand upon the arc, show things we
+couldn't show in the series for budget reasons, but nothing cinematic
+planned.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Nov 1996 14:30:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John L. Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hour Packed
+
+ John L. Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A somewhat annoyed Soul Hunter?
+
+      Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Nov 1996 14:30:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <HotW> Wonderful
+
+ Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are we shifting from hands to eyes as a theme?
+> Does he have a name, or is he so swallowed up in his identity as
+> a palace functionary that he doesn't need one? "Who are you?"
+> "Who are you?"
+> "How did I get here?"
+> "Why am I here?
+> "Well, that is the question, isn't it?"
+
+      Yes, the last piece there is kind of the key, isn't it?
+
+      I've always kept the minister just that, no name, for the
+reasons you cite.  This is someone wh's a survivor, who bends with the
+wind, and somehow keeps going by not being noticed, or taken seriously.
+
+      And yes, this season I was noticing that eyes have become a
+predominant image, from Lyta to the shadows to Lorien to some stuff
+coming in the next few episodes...funny, how this stuff creeps up on
+you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Nov 1996 21:26:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Newsgroups
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
+
+      Trust me on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Nov 1996 21:26:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Hour Of The Wolf
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Er...there was *zero* CGI in that scene.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Nov 1996 21:38:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Stern cheers B5
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> i have to ask you, what is your opinion of bob dole and all the
+> stuff he had to say about hollywood?
+
+      Television is a convenient target, nothing more.  In this
+respect, and some others, Dole has his head up his ass.  When you don't
+have anything else to offer, attack Hollywood.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Nov 1996 21:38:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Spill The Beans
+
+ Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> both positive and negative, to be an asset or a burden?
+> What is the main arc for the next 18 months?
+
+"Would YOU have continued with Babylon 5, in the way you have done so,
+without the feedback from fans?"
+
+      Absolutely.  More than anything else, I'm making the show, and
+telling this story, for myself; it's the story I'd want to see.  I'm
+doing it because I can't *not* do it.
+
+"Do you feel the critasism. both positive and negative, to be an asset
+or a burden?"
+
+      Neither.  It's a sense of the room, which is always good, but in
+general what you find is that for everything you do in a given episode,
+there will be some who hate it, and some who love it...there is no
+single strong concensus. So what you have to do is to just listen to
+the inner voice of the story and follow that, regardless.  If you start
+trying to second guess everyone's reaction...that way madness lies.
+
+      On a personal side, it can sometimes be a bit stressful, but I
+said I'd be accountable one way or another, and that promise stands.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Nov 1996 21:38:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season Four
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> when will the new cd (soundtrack) come out?
+> will corwin get a bigger role, and a spot on the openning
+> credits? and, the names of who narrated the openning of season
+> four in the order they narrated in?
+
+"when will the new cd (soundtrack) come out?"
+
+      I'm going to be getting the soundtrack in about 10 days from
+Chris, so I can listen and approve or give notes.  That's the last
+stage; the artwork is done, the liner notes are in, everything's done. 
+So it should be fairly quickly thereafter.
+
+"will corwin get a bigger role, and a spot on the openning credits?"
+
+      There are currently no plans for that; the main cast is big
+enough as it is.
+
+"and, the names of who narrated the openning of season four in the
+order they narrated in?"
+
+      I have to do this from memory, but I think it's Bill, Jeff,
+Andreas, Pat, Stephen, Jason, Mira, Peter, Richard, Claudia, Jerry and
+Bruce.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1996 00:20:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Blown Away
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And, "Can you believe this is on TV?
+> It's so much better than anything else?"
+
+      Thanks.  I hope, and sometimes allow myself to think, that
+you're right. This show is going to be around for a long, long time,
+and I think it's going to be remembered and talked about.  It's a great
+experiment, and my only regret is that its like will almost certainly
+not come my way again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1996 14:50:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: S J NICHOLSON <76574.1663@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season Four
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I think a year five opening would be just a still, unmoving
+camera focused on me, collapsed at my desk....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1996 14:50:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Hour of the Wolf
+
+ Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's the fun of writing if you can't confuse and surprise the
+> audience?
+
+      Thanks.  I keep adding and trying out different tools...so far
+they seem to be working.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1996 14:50:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WEH to Mr. Garabaldi
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  This one's a favorite of mine as well.  On the
+Garibaldi scene, it was shot fairly conventionally, but as we got into
+editing, I said, "Let's do something we don't normally do, let's try a
+visual approach that's not usually part of SF shows."  So we put that
+sequence together.  Again, my feeling is, break your format once in a
+while or get stuck in a rut.  Take chances.  The worst that'll happen
+is that you'll fail.
+
+      It's a lovely episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1996 14:50:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Wolf>--Morden thoughts
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1996 19:27:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anne Strauss-Wiede <76614.2621@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WOLF IS EPIC!!
+
+ Anne Strauss-Wiede <76614.2621@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any coincidence between how the eyes appeared to Ivonova, et al
+> and that when the Vorlonn appeared to Sheriden that he came as
+> his father?
+
+      I figured that they would both tend to use a patriarchal
+influence, which would tie into so many races having that system.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1996 19:27:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Wolf>--Morden thoughts
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, and thanks for rediscovering us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1996 19:27:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard L. Long <76562.2757@compuserve.com>
+Subject: What EHT Mr Garibaldi
+
+ Richard L. Long <76562.2757@compuserve.com> asks:
+> would this be to enhance the show or tell more of the story or
+> expand the story?
+
+      Primarily, more money would let us enhance certain elements, but
+the overall direction is what it is.  The money doesn't affect that one
+way or another.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1996 19:27:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Hour of theWolf
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is this the intent?
+> Or, are we so much into the characters at this point that you
+> just gotta "join in when you join in" and do your best to catch
+> up?
+
+      I dunno...I hear frequently from people who've joined the show
+at much later points, and after just a couple of eps, are pretty much
+up to speed. Certainly the recap is designed to help.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1996 19:27:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Sheridans Mistake
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Maybe he did...maybe he didn't.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1996 19:27:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: HotW--The Widening Gyre
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...yeah, it's kind of a hodge-podge of things, which I'm
+trying to look at in different ways and reinterpret, putting in other
+combinations than what may usually be the case.  It's really dancing on
+the high wire time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1996 22:38:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Timothy C Schell <71174.2414@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Whither Ivanova--Wolf
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, it's deliberate...take 'em apart, separate 'em, see how
+they react, and make everything as dark as possible in anticipation of
+some kind of dawn, though getting there will be a struggle.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1996 02:38:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JIM BUSKIRK <70571.2357@compuserve.com>
+Subject: captain's bar in "wolf"
+
+ JIM BUSKIRK <70571.2357@compuserve.com> asks:
+> what more could you ask for?
+> "hour of the wolf" will you confirm for the record that the
+> captain's bar that fell to the ground fell from Sheridan's chest? 
+> or could it have been dropped from the "one moment of perfect
+> beauty" 'creature' in "Matters Of Honor"?
+
+      It's not a captain's bar it's a stat bar (gold for command, gold
+and silver for command/administrative liaison, red for medical, green
+for security), and it's Sheridan's.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1996 02:38:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Wolf general comments
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  Yes, by building up Cartagia offscreen, it helped pave
+the way for what we do finally see.
+
+      And the only reason to not hold back Sheridan for one more ep
+was my feeling that if I held him *and* Garibaldi back, it'd be a bit
+much.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1996 02:45:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Dark Night?
+
+ Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> will the show and/or the characters be going through something
+> like that, where the tensions of the shadow war (both inside and
+> out) come to a dramatic confrontation, emerging into the
+> realization of hope??
+
+      I'd say that's about right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1996 02:45:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Hour Of The Wolf
+
+ Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So the light beams streaming from Lyta to Kosh 2 as 'he' leaves
+> were done with cel animation then?
+
+      No, the streams were done on a flint, and there were not two
+takes edited together, there was just the one continuous take.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1996 02:45:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Hour Of The Wolf
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes...the CGI ref was to a fake Lyta head...and there wasn't
+one.  The streams aren't technically considered CGI as we use it. 
+That's roto work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1996 02:45:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season Four
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Dunno, I'll find out when I hear it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1996 02:45:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <HotW>: Who's in charge?
+
+ Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's the chain of command aboard B5?
+> Who's next after her -- who was in command when Ivanova was off
+> at Z'ha'dum?
+
+      That would be Major Atumbe, who's been referred to a few times,
+but not actually seen much.  And Corwin would also step in if needed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1996 18:09:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Sheridans Mistake
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> You do this on purpose don't you?
+
+       Hey, those cards are going for $300 a pop now...if you're going
+to toss 'em, let others know where....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1996 18:09:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SUSAN F. KIRN <76262.2013@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Hour Of The Wolf
+
+ SUSAN F. KIRN <76262.2013@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was curious to know if you have story approval over these and
+> if the are considered B5 *canon* (for want of a better word)?
+
+       In the past, we've tried to keep them canon in the broad
+strokes, though in the details things fall out.  The new batch, though,
+are being kept much closer to continuity....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1996 18:09:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com>
+Subject: captain's bar in "wolf"
+
+ Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is Ivanova's stat bar gold and silver or (as I saw it) gold and
+> green?
+
+       Gold and silver.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1996 18:09:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Hour/Confirm?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, and it' snot the same headpiece; the soul hunter had a
+single jewel implanted in his head, nothing else.  This is more
+crown-like, and has an actual headpiece.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1996 18:09:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carin Ekeroth <75313.3004@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Orientation
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       In 2261, nobody much worries about categorizing people as one
+thing or another...some can move in and out of various kinds of
+relationships and no one thinks of it one way or another.  There is no
+political agenda here, or saying "you are this, and if you do that,
+you're not this anymore," or conversion, or anything of the sort.
+
+       One can only wish that were more true today.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1996 18:09:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Hour Of The Wolf
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       CGI is specifically graphics generated on a computer, usually
+2d or 3d animation.  Roto work like the streams from Lyta's eyes are
+done by hand, frame by frame.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1996 12:10:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season Four
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which reminds me, are you nearly ready to give us the new "season
+> title"?
+
+       When I'm ready....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1996 12:10:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Emperor's Journey
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Has Emperor Carpaggia (sp?) made his visit to Narn yet?
+
+       Not yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1996 12:10:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Timothy C Schell <71174.2414@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Garibaldi History
+
+ Timothy C Schell <71174.2414@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this in the correct order?
+> Am I leaving out something?
+> Was this the base at Syria Planum or is that another installation
+> altogether? I seem to remember Garibaldi referring to
+> investigating the Syria Planum base....did he make further
+> inquiries or was the story just to coverup how he first
+> discovered PsiCorps activities? Was Garibaldi's flirtatiousness
+> with Talia genuine or a ploy to keep close to her without
+> arousing the mole personality's suspicion?
+
+       Sounds about right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1996 12:10:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WHT Mr. Garibaldi?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's great, thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1996 16:07:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: mason <73522.2652@compuserve.com>
+Subject: hour of the wolf/etc
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...it's a great start.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1996 16:07:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Donna L. Schulman <72212.3265@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Women's role in SF & B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Actually, the ship was what technically saved them...Lennier
+also began to fall under the influence of the shadow voice, as we saw. 
+There was some forethought on his part, but the ship activated itself
+on timer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1996 23:26:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Pilot Question
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's to protect both.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1996 23:26:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Thanks
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The Tony Dow on the show is indeed THAT Tony Dow.  And no one's
+guessed Lorien per se.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1996 23:26:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Hour Of The Wolf
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      You're hallucinating....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1996 23:26:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Wolf general comments
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"How does he DO that?"  "Do what, dear?" <my most innocent look>  "Get
+hooked into your mind like that?"  All I could do was smile."
+
+      Thanks...that's probably the ultimate compliment.
+
+"Stephen's drop in weight did cause a small argument to break out
+between me and a friend, who swears that Vir's and Londo's facial
+weight was nothing more than appliances, while I was certain it was
+their own."
+
+      You're right, they're wrong...there was never any appliance to
+add weight to them.
+
+      And thanks again for the great report.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1996 23:26:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Whatever Happens
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What can I say?
+> It dawned on me today that Londo has finally answered the
+> question of, "Who are you?" Now that he knows who he is, he knows
+> that his answer to "What do you want?"
+
+      Thank you...it's a very emotional episode, and one I like quite
+a lot. Those are some great scenes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1996 23:40:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carin Ekeroth <75313.3004@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Orientation
+
+ Carin Ekeroth <75313.3004@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why would I choose a marginal position in society?
+
+"My point is that orientation, that who you fall in love with, is not
+a matter of choice! Why would I choose a marginal position in society?
+I operate very much in the mainstream as a senior executive in a large
+multinational corporation and believe me - being openly gay is not the
+most career enhancing thing I've ever done by a long shot! It is not
+chosen and I don't believe you can switch orientation like changing
+socks."
+
+      Ah, but you see, here you are revealing your *own* prejudices. 
+The gay community has adopted the "ther is no choice, this is how
+you're born" argument for many political and social reasons, some of
+them sound and reasonable, some of them less so.
+
+      You say you want to enhance choices, but in that one paragraph
+alone you are restricting the choices of others...one can not explore,
+one cannot change one way or another, one is locked in for life.  Now,
+in many cases, this may be true...but it is not true in all places, at
+all times, for all people, and the lack of tolerance for lifestyle
+choices you indicate does not speak well for you.
+
+      I have many friends who are gay.  I have many friends who are
+bi.  I know women who were involved with men exclusively for most of
+their lives, then got involved with women exclusively for a number of
+years.  Some are still there, and happy, some have flipped back again.
+
+      The far right uses political agendas to restrict the choice of
+other people..."nobody's naturally born gay, it's all teaching, and
+it's against god's law," which is nonsense...and I'd hate very much to
+see the same politicization going on at the *other* end of the
+spectrum, in which there are only gays, and straights, and no room to
+maneuver, and anybody else has something wrong with them somewhere.
+
+      You go that way, and you're just exchanging a closet for a
+straightjacket.  This, by my lights, is not progress.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1996 01:32:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: Some jms rules
+
+      Okay, it's time for the usual recitation of email rules.
+
+      1) Please do not send me inquiries about the storyline in
+private email. You may think, "Well, it's just me," but at last Neilsen
+count there were about 15 million of you out there, and only one of me.
+I can't get into lengthy discussions about the plot or storylines in
+email.  I end up answering the same questions multiple times, and the
+answers go to only one person at a time.  If you have a story question,
+ASK IT IN A PUBLIC FORUM, NOT IN EMAIL, so that others can benefit from
+the answers.
+
+      2) Please, please, PLEASE do not send me story ideas in email.
+
+      3) Do not send jpgs or anything else that requires downloading;
+I was hit by a trojan horse and virus lately, and consequently I have a
+very firm no-download policy on anything else coming into me via email.
+
+      4) Private email should be used for things you cannot discuss in
+a public forum, or for which confidentiality is needed for other
+reasons.  I'm swamped with 500 messages a day...if it doesn't have to
+be sent email, please don't do so.
+
+      5) Requests for agent suggestions, or requests to read your
+scripts or stories, will be met by stony silence.
+
+      6) We cannot give studio tours, or afford to send out scripts,
+or story bibles, or actor photographs.  When the actors do this, bear
+in mind that it is a kindness *that comes out of their own pockets*, as
+there is no budget from WB to send photos.
+
+      I hate to be as brusque as this, but I'm starting to get
+overloaded with email, and an occasional pruning seems necessary.
+
+      Many thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1996 14:07:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Debra dwnSo <104412.1664@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WHT Mr. Garibaldi?
+
+ Debra dwnSo <104412.1664@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which side of the shadow war are you on, by the way?
+> But surprises?
+
+       Which side of the shadow war am I on?  The third side.....
+
+       And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1996 14:07:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rage's Thots: Teeps
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is Susan Ivanova a "born" or "genetic" teep, or was she
+> "infected" with telepathy due to her close mental contact with
+> her mother?
+
+       It's genetic, you can't "catch" it from someone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1996 14:07:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Hour Of The Wolf
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, but those are rarely worth talking about....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1996 14:45:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Fantastic Epic
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       You really are misusing the term "deus ex machina," Jim.  If
+you look up what it actually means, it refers to something that comes
+up at the end of the story, out of nowhere, and saves the situation. 
+"God in a box" as it's usually called.  It's a cheat because it isn't
+referenced or built up earlier.
+
+       Telepathy is not a deus ex machina device in the show -- it's
+been there since the pilot -- nor in SF as a genre.  Telepathy has a
+long and respected history in the SF genre, with "The Demolished Man"
+considered one of the greatest landmarks of the field.
+
+       Nor is telepathy used in the show as the end-all solution,
+which *also* negates the deus ex machina notion.  Look at "Shadow
+Dancing."  The teeps helped, but it wasn't a case of shooting
+motionless ships...it was an all-out bloody fight where our guys lost 3
+ships for every 1 they killed. That, to me, ain't deus ex *anything*.
+
+       For what it's worth, the latter half or two-thirds of year 4
+takes a much more hard SF approach to things, moving away from the myth
+cycle into other territory.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1996 18:36:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: S J NICHOLSON <76574.1663@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Episodes are shorter?
+
+ S J NICHOLSON <76574.1663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why did this episode only last 5 minutes?
+> is this going to keep happening...?
+
+       Hey, could be worse, the next one is only three minutes
+long....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1996 18:36:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 at WindyCon
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The bid motto was "What Do You Want?"
+
+       That's great....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1996 18:43:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gayle S. Stever <103202.3163@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Women's role in SF & B5
+
+ Gayle S. Stever <103202.3163@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So the show should cater to men's fantasies?
+> What about women's fantasies?
+> What about women who want to see other women explore something
+> BESIDES their sexuality and romantic life? What about women who
+> fantasize about leadership, respect, making a difference, being
+> their own person?
+
+       "What about women's fantasies?"
+
+       I'm busy.
+
+                                 jm(I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry)s
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1996 20:12:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Glen Guenther <71163.75@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Bootleg question
+
+ Glen Guenther <71163.75@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It's an AIDS benefit held by some local comic shops but they're
+> going to have some dealer booths which will have who-knows-what? 
+> If I see someone there selling bootleg B5 stuff (like they did at
+> the last local convention I attended) what, if anything, should I
+> do about it.? I know the owner of the main shop sponsoring the
+> convention so I can probably get a name and address for any of
+> the dealers but is there anything else I can do that would help? 
+> Do you know who I could write to at WB to urge them to release B5
+> in 1 or more of these formats?
+
+      You must go to the convention operators and explain to them that
+by allowing these bootleg tapes to be sold, they are violating
+copyright laws and risk being acted against legally by WB.  They have
+an obligation to ensure that pirated material is not sold at their
+conventions, and if they will not enforce it voluntarily, WB will hold
+them responsible, and in some cases, have already done this at
+conventions.
+
+      If you see this going on, and it's happening at the time, send
+email to ken_parks@warnerbros.com and we'll take it from there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1996 20:12:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Glen Guenther <71163.75@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Point Of No Return Rerun
+
+ Glen Guenther <71163.75@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will "Point Of No Return" (episode 3.09) be replayed and, if so,
+> when?
+
+      I imagine it'll be played eventually but don't have the dates at
+hand.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1996 21:03:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carin Ekeroth <75313.3004@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Orientation
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I read what you said.
+
+      Reading and writing is what I *do*.
+
+      Perhaps what you said was not what you meant.
+
+      It's my experience that unless you can say what you mean, you
+can never mean what you say.
+
+      What was written was a very intolerant message about bi's, and
+based upon that point of view, you gigged the show for not applying a
+political agenda.  I don't think something as inherently personal and
+intimate as sex should be politicized by either end of the spectrum,
+and used to dismiss one class or another because of it.  I'm an
+extremist for tolerance.
+
+      If some portion of what I quoted back to you was reprinted
+inaccurately, or paraphrased, or otherwise changed, please let me know
+and I will correct it.  Otherwise, what you said was what you said.  It
+didn't upset me, didn't make me mad, because I'm not at issue here...I
+only wanted you to understand what you were saying by sending it back
+to you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1996 21:03:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Debra dwnSo <104412.1664@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WHT Mr. Garibaldi?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, as forthcoming episodes will show, that was an
+absolutely clear and unambiguous answer....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1996 21:03:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 4 or 5? Be HONEST, jms
+
+ gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So can you at least be honest with us about how you are currently
+> writing the episodes for season 4? with the intention of ending it
+> in 4 or 5 years?
+
+      I have been honest, and remain so.  I have said, repeatedly,
+that at this point WB does not know.  Different departments have said
+different things, all of them mutally contradictory.  At one time it
+sounded like that might be a possibility, and some of the cast talked
+about this at the time; that was before ratings started coming in on
+the final 5 and the new eps, which have been extremely strong and
+continuing to build.  I can say that WB has, itself, initiated
+discussions about a fifth season several times over just the last few
+weeks.
+
+      What I'm doing is keeping my options flexible...the way it's
+being written now is such that it allows me to flip either way. 
+There's a certain built-in drop-dead point in that structure, but that
+isn't near yet.
+
+      This is what I've been saying all along.  I have been extremely
+forthcoming about this, telling as much as *I* know at this point.  So
+I do somewhat resent your suggesting that I do what I am doing, and
+have been doing from day one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1996 21:37:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: John in the Underworld
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      THANK you.  I've mentioned elsewhere that I was going more for
+the roots of this.  Though the Dante thread you mention is closest in
+many ways (again, you dig into archetypes you end up with similar
+structures, that's the nature of the beast), it was Orpheus going into
+the underworld for his wife, and losing her, that was in the back of my
+head when I was blocking out that part of the story.  (You can also
+toss in Christ's temptation by the devil, and descent into the
+wilderness, if you want.)
+
+      This will probably get me in trouble, but...on the one hand, I
+am always delighted and impressed with the breadth and depth of
+analyses and thought of the larger group of SF fans, and the
+insightfulness with which they apply those perceptions.
+
+      On the flip side of this discussion...for a certain percentage
+of them, that breadth and depth is only or primarily within SF and
+mainstream fantasy. The wellspring of material from which to draw when
+making comparisons is not often as broad as it should be in classical
+literature, mythology, medieval studies, and so on.  They see a drop
+into a chasm, they think "Oh, Gandalf." Not understanding that the root
+of this goes back way, way, way further...to Orpheus and his kindred
+spirits.
+
+      I was copied a note from someone on another newsgroup who
+insisted that everything in the show had an elvish/Tolkein base,
+including and *especially* the names of everyone, citing the Agamemnon
+as meaning something or other in LoTR elvish.  The symbol is RIGHT
+THERE, in the name, Agamemnon, and the whole unfortunate history of
+that character and his wife, and the Cassandra character (which is at
+the center of G'Kar's character)...and yet she says, "No, no, it's all
+a clue, it means this thing over here."
+
+      My background is as an SF fan myself, so I offer the above
+without stereotype or pejorative intent.  But as well as reading SF, I
+spent most of my early adult life reading from classical sources. 
+Goethe's FAUST informs Londo in many ways, as well as the history of
+early Rome, and Hegelian notions on the role of conflict, and the
+divine role of the emperor.  You're talking to someone who read
+Plotinus' The Aenneads just for kicks, and whose favorite character was
+Zeno and his paradoxes.  You want to talk Plato's perfect forms? The
+Socratic method of teaching?  Greek tragic structure as embodied in 
+Oedipus?   The overall work of Sophocles?  The Bible?  I've read that
+one cover to cover twice...anyone else in the room who's done that,
+raise your hands and tell me you didn't fall asleep halfway through
+Numbers and Deuteronomy, the two most boring books in the whole darned
+thing.
+
+      There was a period in my life -- from around 1976 through 1981
+ -- when I devoured everything I could in these areas.  Mythology. 
+Existentialism. Zen. 18th century literature.  I took part time jobs in
+libraries so I could get access to the widest possible range of books,
+especially new ones in areas that interested me.  A lot of the details
+have washed away over the years, but the cumulative *sense* of that
+remains.  I can still remember how excited I was when a brand new
+translation of the Inferno, the Purgatario and the Paradisio came out
+(from Penguin, I think), putting it all back into the proper lyric
+form, and I devoured them, one day each, then read them all again using
+the footnotes and marginalia.
+
+      All that time, I never knew I was preparing myself to write this
+show, because it could *only* be done with a generalist background,
+knowing a little about a lot of areas...just enough to get into
+trouble, ususally, but still the grounding is there.
+
+      Funny thing...about two, three weeks ago, I got an email from a
+woman who is a professor of medieval studies at a major university, who
+said she'd been nudged into watching the show by her graduate students,
+and is now a big fan of the show.  She said that as she watched, she
+"clicked" constantly on the sources from medieval and classical
+literature, mythology, and other deep well sources, and was pleased to
+see them being used in a contermporary or futuristic venue.
+
+      Anyway, it's what I've always said about this show...you see the
+paradigm with which you are most familiar.  Sometimes that's great,
+and sometimes it's a curse.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1996 01:48:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Women's role in SF & B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"...you are a very, very bad man..."
+
+      Okay, how the hell did I get out here in the cornfield...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1996 01:48:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rage's Thots: Teeps
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In your capacity as an executive producer of one of the most
+> innovative shows on TV, do you think a miniseries (or set of
+> miniseries) is technically possible for Neil Gaiman's SNADMAN, or
+> is SANDMAN by virtue of it's construction insanely difficult to
+> bring to the screen? What's that?
+> You'd like to show me your bat?
+> I'll just sit over here, okay, George?
+
+"In your capacity as an executive producer of one of the most
+innovative shows on TV, do you think a miniseries (or set of
+miniseries) is technically possible for Neil Gaiman's SNADMAN, or is
+SANDMAN by virtue of it's construction insanely difficult to bring to
+the screen?"
+
+      I think it'd be eminently do-able.  And I'd love to do it if
+Neil doesn't.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1996 01:49:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Colin Knowles <72152.201@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vorlon Consciousness
+
+ Colin Knowles <72152.201@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When the Vorlons separate bits of their consciousness, can the
+> bits develop individually over time? Do they remained linked to
+> the original, or are they essentially separate individuals until
+> they merge back with the original? sending only certain elements
+> to the host? How am I doing?
+> Hot?
+> Cold?
+
+      They can't survive for long on their own.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1996 12:41:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Women's role in SF & B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Bill....IT WAS A JOKE.  Which she took that way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1996 12:41:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Four Year Arc
+
+ Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this a prelude to WB cancelling the show at the end of this
+> season, and if so why are they so interested in a Babylon 5
+> spin-off if they have concerns over a fifth year of Babylon 5 ?
+
+       That's the whole point.  That interview was conducted fresh on
+the heels of renewal, and we were getting mixed signals from WB (still
+are, actually), and different people were telling people different
+things.  It's subsequent to that interview -- remember, there's a LOT
+of lead time on these magazines -- that the ratings began to come in,
+and WB began initiating talks about a fifth season, and the sequel. 
+You don't do a sequel unless the show is doing well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1996 12:41:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SANDMAN & Production
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you ever read (i think it's called) PRODUCIBLE
+> INTERPRETATIONS by Rob Hume and [somebody]? Is this the sort of
+> thing you do each day as producer? Isn't that how Dark Shadows
+> started, or am I confused?
+
+       No, you're right, you couldn't do those characters with CGI,
+it'd have to be prosthetics, or cripple the performance aspect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1996 12:41:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: female vorlons
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> are there female vorlons?
+> are we going to see female vorlons in season four?
+
+       Female is an irrelevant concept to the vorlons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1996 12:41:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bryan Morton <106454.3602@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Future of Babylon 5
+
+ Bryan Morton <106454.3602@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Okay, I realize you're proabably sick to the back teeth of people
+> asking you about the fifth season, but I gotta know - is this
+> report true? If so, is there any point in even *having* a fifth
+> season, given that one of the show's greatest hooks (that famous
+> arc) wouldn't be present?
+
+       I just answered this in another thread....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1996 15:11:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Apotheosis Hanger
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> with another cliffhanger)?
+
+       No, it doesn't exactly end with a cliffhanger.
+
+       It does, however, end on a cliff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1996 15:11:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Old Kosh?
+
+ Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did Kosh (#1) ever go through the same "stuff" that
+> Sheridan/Sinclair is going/went trough??
+
+       No.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1996 23:26:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Four Year Arc
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, is it possible that Warner Brothers would make a sort of
+> trade? Would they give you the sequel, which they CAN show on the
+> network, but in turn make you end the original series after 4
+> seasons?
+
+      Since your question embodies a complexity of thought I have yet
+to see from corporate WB, I very much doubt that will be a problem. 
+Further, there are NO plans or intents for the sequel, if it becomes a
+reality, to go to the WB network.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1996 23:26:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jim Casey <71154.3232@compuserve.com>
+Subject: John in the Underworld
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I didn't go to Oxford, and I can't read Greek.  I went to 3
+junior colleges in small towns, and one college, San Diego State
+University.  And I'm doing fairly decent with English when I try, but
+except for a smattering of German, forget the rest.
+
+      Where you grew up or went to school is no reason not to go out
+and find the great wealth of material waiting for you at your local
+library.
+
+      Nor is there anything wrong with LoTR being a bridge to other
+works... provided one actually *drives across* that bridge....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1996 23:27:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Mr Garibaldi
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, those two are terrific.  You know you can write *anything*
+for them, and they can play it.  Just terrific stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1996 23:27:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WEHtMG - wow
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, those are the moments when it all has to count.
+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1996 11:33:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: John in the Underworld
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Asbury Park...I used to hang out at Asbury Park when I was a
+kid, and when it was still a fairly decent park.  How is it these days?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1996 11:33:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 4 or 5? Be HONEST, jms
+
+ gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is my logic faulty?
+> Can you clear this up for me?
+
+       I've worked out the details for 1,000 years in either direction
+for the B5 storyline in general, and in specific for 100 years in
+either direction; there's no chance of anything getting watered down no
+matter what happens...there's enough story there for several novels. 
+And WB is currently very interested in the side-story/sequel series
+that I've mentioned from the beginning is a possibility.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1996 11:33:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel F. Evan <104377.1433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 4 or 5? Be HONEST, jms
+
+ Daniel F. Evan <104377.1433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Perhaps a no LOTR reference rule is in order?
+
+       No, that wouldn't really be practical.  If someone wants to
+*compare* it with LoTR, a compare and contrast thing, that's something
+I don't have a problem with...to be even included in the same breath
+with LoTR is a great compliment.  It's the notion that something was
+*adapted* from that, or some other work, that sometimes drives me
+crazy...but I wouldn't wish to set that forth as a rule...the rules are
+only as absolutely necessary, not for this sort of thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1996 11:41:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: I need help JMS!
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> ARE REPEATS COMING SOON?
+> i think i need a rest.....or something?
+
+       So basically you're just a shadow of your former self....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1996 11:41:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Vir speculat'n-spoiler
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How close are we?
+
+       Who can say...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1996 22:14:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Episode Titles
+
+ Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> At what point do you come up with the title - before you write
+> the episode, during, or at the end? Yeats poem (the title escapes
+> me - too many years since college English literature) that refers
+> to "shadows" and "slouches toward Bethlehem"? Also, have you ever
+> read the book "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" by Joan Didion, circa
+> 1968, which, I believe, contains a fragment of the Yeats poem?
+
+      I always have to have the title before I begin writing, since it
+sets the whole tone for the episode.  I can labor for hours just coming
+up with the right title...other times it just hits me.
+
+      And I've read the Yeats poem...even had G'Kar quote that passage
+in "Revelations."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1996 22:14:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Robison/ WA & FL <71361.1440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WB merchandise catalog
+
+ Mike Robison/ WA & FL <71361.1440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just one or two shirts?
+
+      The WB stores/catalog generally don't carry items from many of
+the shows produced by WB.  Only a very rare few.  And B5 isn't
+technically a WB show, it only distributes the show, so I'd say the
+odds are slim and none.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1996 22:14:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: John in the Underworld
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Though I lived all around the country, I was born in Paterson,
+and spent many years in Newark, then Matawan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1996 22:14:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 4 or 5? Be HONEST, jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, and welcome to the show.  Say hello to Mr. Steed for me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1996 22:14:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 4 or 5? Be HONEST, jms
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm not surprised -- why else would the universe of B5 feel so
+> real? But on a tangent, do you find that there are new characters
+> that keep cropping up in your imagination beyond the scope of the
+> current 5-year arc that nag to have their stories told?
+
+      There's always new stuff cropping up and creeping in; half the
+struggle in this show is deciding what to tell, and what not to
+tell...it just goes on and on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1996 22:14:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Delenn's Alamo
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Garibaldi?"
+> that she was speaking in Minbari (ala the WWII movies of which
+> you spoke earlier)? Or do the minbari Rangers learn English/Human
+> as part of their training?
+
+      She was speaking Minbari.
+
+      That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1996 22:14:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ZaHaDum
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  Claudia did a great job with that.  And yes, the
+details are what make it come alive.  As Michelangelo said, "Trifles
+make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1996 01:24:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel F. Evan <104377.1433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vir speculat'n-spoiler
+
+ Daniel F. Evan <104377.1433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you ever shot more than one ending to an episode?
+
+      Not yet....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1996 01:24:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul Hachey <76625.2644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crossing the line
+
+ Paul Hachey <76625.2644@compuserve.com> asks:
+> when did Delenn's heart "cross the line"?
+> Beings friends first is wonderfully romantic, to quote James
+> Stewart in Shenandoah "Yes, I know you love my daughter but do
+> you LIKE her?" All rambling aside, when was - to you - the
+> galvanizing moment for her?
+
+      I don't think Minbari galvanize in quite the same way...with
+them, I think it's more a gradual, growing relationship, and as many
+do, there's just one day when the closeness crosses a point without you
+almost being aware of it...and there it is.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1996 01:24:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hour/Confirm?
+
+ Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are those entirely Wayne's eyes?
+> Is he wearing contacts, or do you just have the greatest makeup
+> artist in the world?
+
+      The eyes have metallic gold contact lenses; you can't see them
+as well in the red light, but later, you'll see them better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1996 01:24:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WHtMG?
+
+ Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Rorschach jewelry?
+
+      Thanks...I agree on pretty much all of that.  I'm very proud of
+this one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1996 01:24:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Best Gas?
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can I take it that you chose a man with the same general physique
+> as Walter Koenig and had him wear an opaque mask (something we've
+> not seen before and that wouldn't be required if you're coming in
+> to inspect someone who'd passed-out) for a reason?
+
+      Who would do a thing like that?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1996 01:24:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Knock, Knock?
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since Ivanova (and Delenn, and the rest, I assume) have resigned
+> themselves to Sheridan's death, has anyone bothered to try to
+> contact his family and let them know of his fate? Or is this
+> something they wouldn't want to get out to the "other side"
+> (although I don't see how they can avoid it if all of the
+> ambassadors heard the same rumors)?
+
+      That's what Franklin was doing, gathering his possessions with
+the intent of getting word to Sheridan's family.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1996 01:24:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WHtMG>--house reaction
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1996 21:28:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: MrsPeel <103112.2040@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 4 or 5? Be HONEST, jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      He always did have excellent taste.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1996 21:28:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Mr. G? opinion
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Tell your step-dad that it's a real accent.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1996 21:28:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Mr G. > - God?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The first sentient being.  He ain't god in any sense of the
+word.  That he's still puzzling out this "word/thought" business shows
+that, even after all this time, he's still trying to suss things
+out....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1996 21:28:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JOHN GRAVES <102735.1124@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mr. Garibaldi's Days
+
+ JOHN GRAVES <102735.1124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you clear this up?
+
+      It's a typo, believe it or not, which no one caught.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1996 21:28:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Christopher Harrison <101712.2401@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 4
+
+ Christopher Harrison <101712.2401@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this true?
+
+      Nothing has been firmed up one way or another.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1996 21:36:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lyta on her own
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, she's starting to rebel a little against Kosh2.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1996 21:36:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 episode length
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think the main difference there is in the main titles and end
+credits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1996 21:36:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Mr. G - best congrats
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, the Garibaldi intercuts like that were something that
+I came up with in the editing room, and John Copeland and I thereafter
+assembled it, with the editor.
+
+      And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1996 23:45:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 episode length
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I figured, since this year was much more serial than in the
+past, you kinda *had* to put little recaps at the top...also, it gives
+it a different, narrative feel, which I kinda like.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1996 23:45:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Mr. G? opinion
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      We're certainly not aware of any difference, and since there's
+been nothing about this on America's Most Wanted, I will have to assume
+all is well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Nov 1996 13:59:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Attn JMS: Bow Letters
+
+ Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What do the "C" on the Churchill and the "M" on the Roanoke stand
+> for? Could they perhaps represent destroyer squadrons?
+
+       Probably.  I'll have to go back and check the notes on that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Nov 1996 13:59:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Thirs Age of Mankind
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       We'll have to see, won't we...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Nov 1996 18:35:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Resolution?
+
+ Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> will that be explored with Sheridan?
+> my question is: Will that part of sheridan's character be
+> explored in S5?
+
+       You have to understand that big plot questions like this I
+don't answer.  If I were to answer that with "yes," then what's the
+point of making the show?  There's no surprises left.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Nov 1996 18:35:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Mr G. > - God?
+
+ Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com> asks:
+> or just the oldest surviving?
+
+       First, as far as he knows.  To quote from a later episode, "So
+we left, and found no others like us."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Nov 1996 18:35:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Cindy Pegg <102550.42@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lyta on her own
+
+ Cindy Pegg <102550.42@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When Lyta carries Kosh2 is she able to keep secrets from him, or
+> can he roam her mind at will?
+
+       She can keep secrets a little...but not if he pushes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Nov 1996 18:35:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season Four
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Ah...Amerikanski humor.
+
+       Very good.
+
+       We bomb now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Nov 1996 18:35:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Pasadena Convention
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...I couldn't let folks go without an autograph, and when
+I saw they were going to close it down, I had to jump in.
+
+       And that was a *very* nasty gag from Andreas...and I intend to
+pay him back bigtime.
+
+       Wait until he sees the script where G'Kar is transformed into a
+chicken for one episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Nov 1996 18:43:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Justin Withers <101650.3373@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Summoning
+
+ Justin Withers <101650.3373@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But I have to ask: are they really (as seen in the preview) going
+> to try to kill the big, mean, nasty Vorlon Ambassador???
+
+       You'll have to wait 7 days to find out.  But suffice to say
+things take quite a turn....
+
+       And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 12:09:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kirk R. Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mr. Garibaldi's Days
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I'm considering revoicing it...we just didn't catch it until it
+was gone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 12:09:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Attn JMS: Bow Letters
+
+ Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Alexander J Jupiter?
+> Agrippa S Saturn?
+> Olympic R Rim?
+> Nimrod G Ganymede?
+> Churchill C Colonial Fleet?
+> Roanoke M Mars?
+
+       Not bad....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 12:09:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Londo/Language
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Which is why Cartagia likes Londo...he stands up to Cartagia,
+but does so in such a way that Cartagia can't touch him...doesn't give
+him any excuse or way in.  He's got nowhere to go...and in a way, he
+admires and respects that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 12:09:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Cissna <102320.3535@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Nature of Vorlons
+
+ John Cissna <102320.3535@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have we seen an actual Vorlon?
+
+       Not yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 12:09:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Summoning
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Exactly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 12:10:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Applauding
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  They're four very good eps, and the next two after
+that may be the best we've done overall.  I'm very pleased.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 12:10:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Londo's Bug
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If Londo's quarters were being bugged regularly, why on Centauri
+> Prime didn't they bug the cells as well? And when did you notice
+> the spit? Before or after you edited the episode together?
+
+       I figured Londo would've bribed the guards to shut down the
+bugs. Also, there's reason to bug a political figure's quarters...but a
+cell in which there is just one person, who in theory has no allies
+with whom to conspire...that would likely have a low priority.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 12:10:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Directing B5 <Summoning>
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW did you get those CTS gloves and do they help?
+
+       The director implements the script, as written.  They work with
+the actors to bring out subtext and the full understanding of the
+scene, but the script is written as it's written, and they know that. 
+There's no room here for messing around on set.
+
+       Where our directors tend to shine is in their visual sense.  We
+try to bring a certain amount of style to our episodes, and to
+encourage our directors to take chances, try things they might not
+otherwise get a chance to do.  The more complex the shot, the longer it
+takes to set it up, and most TV shows just concentrate on bagging the
+shot and moving on.  Others, like X-Files and a growning number of
+other shows, including B5, encourage a more filmic look.
+
+       What we want in a director is someone who understands what the
+vision is, and is oriented toward executing the text.
+
+       And yes, got the CTS gloves...they're a little soft, and don't
+provide the requisite support as well as they might, but I'm giving
+them a little more time before I decide that completely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 12:10:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Pasadena Convention
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yeah, but it was Andreas' idea.  So he will receive the full
+benefit of my undivided attention.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 12:10:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rob Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Getting Better?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  It really is what I said it was going to be:
+holographic storytelling.  You can look at them alone, but when looked
+at through the translucent glass of all the episodes preceding it, the
+patterns become clearer and the weight of each scene increases.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 17:38:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bob Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Tech
+
+ Bob Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Even if that Iowa class ship could be telepathically "jammed:,
+> what could those Trieme's actually accomplish with spears and
+> arrows? If the Shadows are thousands of years advanced of all the
+> races except the Vorlons, how are Sheridan's "Trieme"s" able to
+> hurt the Shadows at all? So militarily speaking, why haven't the
+> Shadows just run ruff shod over Sheridan's brave forces????
+
+       Because up until now, they haven't been out to destroy
+everyone, that's not the point...you can't sow chaos if there's no one
+around in which to sow that chaos.  And they may have some ideas on how
+B5 could be turned to their advantage....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 17:38:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Sheridans Mistake
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks, I try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 17:38:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Don Berg <74147.1753@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Applauding
+
+ Don Berg <74147.1753@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In the upcoming episode that Steven Furst is directing, does Vir
+> not appear? And is the upcoming director "Tony Dow" - the same
+> actor who played Leave it to Beaver's Wally Cleaver?
+
+       It seemed a bit much for Stephen to both act and direct in the
+same episode, and yes, it's *that* Tony Dow.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 21:58:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John L. Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Pasadena Convention
+
+ John L. Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You wouldn't put his eye out or anything like that now would you?
+
+      Too easy.  And over with too fast.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Nov 1996 18:24:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Debra dwnSo <104412.1664@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Summoning:a criticism
+
+ Debra dwnSo <104412.1664@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And can someone slap Ivanova silly for me?
+> Hello?
+> Lenier is not gone and surely to goodness he counts for
+> something? Hey, new computer game: mount the baddies heads?
+
+       You're right...someone should get outraged...and will.  It's
+simply a matter of picking the right time and place to *do* something
+with it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Nov 1996 18:49:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS: season 4 = arc end?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is B5 going to become a franchise, and in what way did they talk
+> to you about this? A 5th season of B5 with mostly stand-alone
+> episodes? Please, could you enlighten this matter a little for us?
+
+       Once again...nothing is known.  Some folks at WB when we got
+renewed said there'd be five, some said four; come of the cast heard
+four, and repeated four...the interviews you're seeing now were
+actually done a long time ago, given lead times.
+
+       If you're confused, it's because there IS no answer at this
+time.  As I said last year at this time, and the year before at this
+time, and the year before that...nothing is ever known at this point
+until around February or a bit later.  They've initiated some
+discussions about the fifth year, as the ratings have continued to
+improve, but nothing is set either way.
+
+       If I knew, for certain, I would tell you.  But I can't tell you
+until WB makes its final decision.  That hasn't happened yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Nov 1996 18:49:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bob Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Tech
+
+ Bob Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The crux of my question is how Sheridan's ships, seemingly
+> thousands of years behind the Shadows technologically, are even
+> able to "dent" the Shadow ships??
+
+       Bear in mind that the White Stars are partially based on Vorlon
+technology, which is similar in strength to the Shadows.  That helps a
+lot. Also, other ships can have an influence in sufficient numbers. 
+Even a lion can be brought down by a sufficient number of hyenas.  The
+idea that higher technology always equals victory didn't help Custer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Nov 1996 18:49:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul Hachey <76625.2644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Change to intro?
+
+ Paul Hachey <76625.2644@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did I hear correctly?
+
+       There was no change.  The line is the same as it always was.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Nov 1996 18:49:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Mr. Garibaldi's Days
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, that's the intent, and you can explain it like that, but
+I'd rather just eliminate the *need* for explanation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1996 12:41:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Summoning
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...it ain't bad....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1996 12:41:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>The Summoning<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Oh dear, did I say ratcatcher?  I meant to say catcatcher. 
+Tell them it was nothing personal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1996 12:41:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow Tech
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       There's one more thing you haven't seen, yes....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1996 12:41:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 4 or 5? Be HONEST, jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1996 12:41:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Summoning
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks...though, of course, the book on which JC superstar is
+based ptedates it just a tad...anyway, it's a great scene.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1996 12:41:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Foundation Question
+
+ Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Wasn't Foundation part of this setup?
+> Or did they loophole it due to duress around the time of the
+> layoffs? And if the Turner movies happen (Stephen said they would
+> at the Pasadena con) are they outside or inside these deals?
+
+       The Turner deals are currently in discussion; and there are
+options exercised at the discretion of the producers, not contracts per
+se.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1996 00:53:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Mr G. > - God?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      He'll discuss his origins at considerable length in about 3 or 4
+more episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1996 00:53:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ed Passarella, Ziff-Davi <72241.505@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Literary references
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...yeah, there's quite a bit going on in there....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1996 00:53:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rage'sThots: Garibaldi
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How off-base is this?
+> My question is this: did the scene we saw of MG in WHtMG happen
+> in "reality" or is it the deranged babling's of Michael's mind
+> trapped within a Control overlay?
+
+      No, that scene happened in reality.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1996 00:53:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rage'sThots:Technomagi
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do the Technomages (or Technomagi, natch) have access to higher
+> than Earth Alliance technology? Or is it that their tech is aimed
+> at "looking" magical?
+
+      They definitely have access to higher tech, through TMs on other
+worlds.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1996 13:35:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Yuen <72466.1621@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Summoning
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       It ain't Morden's voice.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1996 13:44:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jose Cabanillas <71020.3316@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Fleet combat
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Your point is a good one, and something we've discussed here on
+many occasions.  There are some interesting 3D tactical things we'd
+like to try, and are only waiting a chance and the right story with
+which to do them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1996 13:45:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Nature of Vorlons
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Joe is fine....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1996 13:45:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Spinoff Series-Sinclair
+
+ Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would this be a new series for Michael O'Hare to lead?
+
+       Everything is currently very fluid.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1996 13:45:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>The Summoning<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Cool....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1996 13:45:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Part of It
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering: Is Sheridan's piece of Kosh still with him after
+> 402, or did that "part of the problem" go away when John chose
+> "tock"?
+
+       You'll find out in about 8 days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1996 13:45:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: season 4 = arc end?
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If WB makes their decision in February or March, will you be able
+> to adjust the story appropriately? Is this correct?
+
+       I'm covered either way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:19:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: Audio Note from jms
+
+      Just a little thought in your general direction....
+
+      After spending all Monday doing the audio mix mix on 404,
+"Falling Toward Apotheosis," which is normal, we did all but 7 minutes
+of that episode.
+
+      George Johnsen, John Copeland and I spent from about 7 p.m.
+Wednesday night until 2:30 a.m. Thursday morning doing the audio mix on
+those little seven minutes.
+
+      So for that episode, you may want to make friends with somebody
+with a really good surround sound system.
+
+      Just a thought.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:19:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: jms co on station.com
+
+      Just a quick advisory..I'll be doing an online conference this
+coming Monday at the official B5 fanclub site,
+http://www.thestation.com ...this is our very first online major
+conference, and you're welcome to attend.  The site is open to all,
+providing chat features, messages and a station tour, with some areas
+set aside just for FC members, and more features coming on line soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:43:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Hartman <76216.1771@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Oblique References
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      As I've never seen that episode -- didn't watch much Night Court
+in any event -- the answer would be no.  I am, on occasion, capable of
+thinking up a line or two on my own, if I strain real hard....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:43:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 back early in Detroit
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's great news, thanks for the update!
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:43:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS: Book of Dreams?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Wasn't asked.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:43:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 2nd B5 Soundtrack
+
+ Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any further news on the second Babylon 5 soundtrack?
+
+      Chris fell behind due to the press of work...however, the
+artwork and liner notes are all finished, and he said this past
+Thursday that he'd have the first pass at the new soundtrack in my
+hands this coming week for approval and discussion.  So it's getting
+there...he just wants it to be done right, and as always, I'd always
+prefer it be done *right* than fast.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:43:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kirk R. Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Summoning
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I live to serve....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:43:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WHtoMG
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it's a good ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:43:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Going Native
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are we simply adding to the "holography" of the B5 experience by
+> adding our own layers, or was this parallel actually
+> predetermined in the "magic plan?"
+
+      Certainly he came to care about us more than the vorlons
+intended.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:43:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: More Kudos for Joe
+
+ Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is his purpose?
+> Is he good or evil?
+> Have you ever read Bambi?
+
+      Wow...I hardly know what to say.  You work this hard on a show,
+and you hope that what you're doing gets noticed for what it is.  You
+hope people will understand.  Thanks for, in one message, making the
+journey worth the effort.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:43:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Questioning...
+
+ gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Are the Shadows motives really (at least) what we've learned
+> so far (chaos, evolution, what do you want)? 2) Are the Vorlons
+> motives really (at least) what we've learned so far (order,
+> evolution, who are you)? 3) Did the Vorlons actually destroy the
+> planet mentioned in Summoning? 4) Do the Vorlons really want to
+> wipe out all the worlds touched by the Shadows, and ultimately
+> eliminate the Shadows all together? 5) Is Lorien really a
+> different "thing" than Shadows or Vorlons/Koshs? 6) Is there more
+> to the Minbari working caste than we've learned so far?
+
+     Yes to all of them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:43:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Time to Change?
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Exactly how much time passed between these two scenes?
+> Was something written and/or shot that wasn't fit into the final
+> cut?
+
+      No, that's the funny thing...I've seen a number of posts about
+how his uniform was changed, but it *wasn't*.  It was exactly the same
+outfit right out of the wardrobe closet...not sewn, not cleaned, just
+dusted off a bit, by hand, the way he might've upon coming in.  You can
+clearly see that the sleeve is still torn as he's up there.
+
+      All I can figure is that the red Z'ha'dum lighting made it look
+a lot worse than it was.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1996 21:07:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms co on station.com
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What time?
+
+      Sorry...6:00 p.m. Monday.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1996 21:07:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Time to Change?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Oh...yeah, there was definitely time to grab a fast shower and
+change of clothes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1996 23:31:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms co on station.com
+
+ Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Eastern time?
+
+      Pacific time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1996 23:31:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: jms co on station.com
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+   Earth Standard Time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1996 01:09:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin E. Koster <104761.3176@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: season 4 = arc end?
+
+ Kevin E. Koster <104761.3176@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Another question: Are you currently intending to pen all of the
+> episodes this season?
+
+      Not sure yet....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1996 15:52:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Audio Note from jms
+
+ SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which seven minutes?
+
+      From Lyta's entrance to Kosh's place, to Lorien's hand.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1996 15:52:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Falling...
+
+ David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And everybody finally gets their wish, don't they?
+> What is going to happen in the next two weeks?
+> How can amassing the largest fleet in history stop the Vorlons
+> with their planet killer? How is B5 maintaining operations since
+> we have to assume that most trade is interrupted during the war? 
+> And, most importantly, who made the salad?
+
+      Thanks...it was an exhausting and difficult episode...but well
+worth the work, I think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1996 15:52:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Falling Toward Life
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well, I'm relieved...though someone will have to point out to
+them, at some point...that what goes up, must come down....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1996 18:19:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ken Grumer <76676.1501@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms co on station.com
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Nothing's wrong with the site...but it takes Netscape 2.0
+minimum to get it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1996 22:16:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Summoning
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> I thought HoTW was incredible, WHtMG?
+> Huh?
+> Explain, please?
+
+      Remember that often people will express an opinion as though it
+were the fact.  What we like, and what resonates with us, is
+subjective.  What you like, you like, and there's no need to defend it
+or feel pressured about it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1996 16:54:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Traffic to B5 from Earth
+
+ Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is trafic between Earth and B5 still open?
+> (Well, at least the wife did.) How is it that people like that
+> are still coming through the station in the middle of a civil
+> war?
+
+       It's difficult and limited, but yes, there's still some travel,
+just as one may travel to countries that the US does not recognize
+officially or have diplomatic relations with.  How long they continue
+to allow this...we'll see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1996 16:54:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: season 4 = arc end?
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So how many continuous episodes have you penned?
+
+       Just the 22 was a record.  At this point, it's 39 consecutive
+scripts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1996 16:54:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Summoning
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Just had to say something, you know?
+> Not to mention the fact that I was getting it right back -- "You
+> mean you actually *liked* that move? Couldn't you see all the
+> stuff that was wrong with it?"
+
+       Oh, no...no, no...you didn't offend anybody, I was only
+supporting your argument, and your right to feel any way you choose
+about an episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1996 16:58:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sanjiv S. Purba <102735.1770@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sheridans Mistake
+
+ Sanjiv S. Purba <102735.1770@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any published works before B5?
+
+       Yes...about 500 published articles, many short stories, 2
+novels, 1 anthology, 12 produced plays, 12 produced radio dramas, and
+other stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1996 16:58:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Attn JMS: B5 T-shirt
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       That's a great story, thanks...and I've heard elsewhere enough
+that makes me think we have a very wide audience, from every level.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1996 16:58:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Comments
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thank you...and believe me, the pleasure is entirely mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1996 21:41:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: Apologies on CO
+
+      Very quickly...my apologies for the fiasco on thestation.com
+tonight. Our server is directnet, and...okay, you accept that at
+conventions, they always underestimate us.  They give us too small a
+room.  Then our people show up...and it's madness.  Well, same thing
+happened here.
+
+      Their conferences run maybe 100 people tops most days, and
+that's what they figured here *without asking us*.
+
+      Their memory and system allocations were therefore in that area.
+
+      Just one teensy, weensy little problem: something in excess of
+2,000 people showed up.
+
+      And I and others got frozen out of the system, the thing was
+delayed 30 minutes, it was chaos, angry phone calls were made from B5
+to directnet that fried phone lines....
+
+      Anyway...my apologies to those who showed up and may have been
+disappointed.  We've registered our extreme displeasure with
+directnet, and are strongly considering changing servers because of
+this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1996 01:14:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms co on station.com
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, I know...I went through the same thing.  Much
+apologizings.  The server, DirectNet, was blown out by 2,000 or so hits
+at the same time, and they (stupidly) hadn't been prepared to face that
+many when they approached us and told us we could do this.  I'm
+*extremely* annoyed at this, and we're going to take some serious steps
+to correct this and make sure it never, ever, EVER happens again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1996 01:14:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: thestation demographics?
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you gotten any kind of report yet as to what percentage of
+> people logging on to thestation.com are opting for Earthforce,
+> Minbari, etc.? If so, did the percentages surprise you in any way?
+
+      Haven't seen that figure yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1996 01:14:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Summoning> thoughts
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Assuming that annhilation was the goal...which wasn't exactly
+stated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1996 01:14:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Paradigm shift
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I think you're right.  Interestingly, David Gerrold first pegged
+this one way back in the first season, saying that with B5, a paradigm
+shift had taken place, only most people hadn't twigged to it yet.  I
+guess he called it right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1996 01:14:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Falling> question
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, did the part of Kosh that remained inside Sheridan still had
+> its own will? was it consulted by John and Lorien regarding what
+> there were going to do, or did J & L use what's remained of Kosh?
+
+      I'd say it was aware of this, yes...and you can hear just a
+trace of its voice just before it emerges.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1996 01:14:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 404: Falling
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And what exactly did Lorien mean by "the last of Kosh, and some
+> of him and some of me"? Was the energy/being that ripped out of
+> Sheridan's chest not *just* Kosh? Was it part of all three of
+> them? Did Lorien also have to use some of his energy to keep the
+> piece of Kosh alive long enough to battle the Vorlon Ambassador? 
+> May I ask if we'll see any rebel EA ships in that fleet? But what?
+> And who in their right mind thinks she'll ever give up that ring
+> for a "better" one someday? How will he react to that ring on her
+> finger and her explanation of what it means? Andreas has to wear a
+> patch for the rest of the run and you *still* wanna punish him?
+
+      Thanks, and I agree with all your picks on the scenes.  It came
+out very nicely...a good one to end this batch on.  Thanks again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1996 18:12:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sandra G. Bruckner <76642.3664@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Apologies on CO
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Actually, turns out 6,000 total showed up...enough to crash any
+server on the planet short of Skynet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1996 18:12:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Happy families
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I believe C4 is *currently* showing the previous seasons,
+starting with one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1996 18:12:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bob Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Zha'ha'dum
+
+ Bob Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you elaborate on this seeming anamoly?
+
+       It's an efficient way of lighting an underground city several
+miles across; you can open or close it to allow the big vessels in for
+construction purposes, and so on.  If you build something that big, you
+need some way of getting stuff IN there, then lighting it without
+consuming vast amounts of energy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1996 18:12:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Define Apotheosis, pls !
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Interpretation is everything...I prefer to leave it that way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1996 18:12:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: HotW - quick question
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is this a literal statement, or is it figurative?
+
+       Well, they don't grow underground, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1996 18:12:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Missing Joshua?
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is something up with Joshua Cox?
+> Other obligations?
+
+       Just haven't had enough for him to do to merit bringing him in.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1996 18:18:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TS - Overlooked stuff
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Continuity gaff?
+> Was he waiting for Sheridan?
+
+       Actually, Lyta never said she was a P5 in Walkabout; it was
+Delenn who said that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:35:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Summoning
+
+ Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When Kosh said that there were still few, did he mean few who
+> understand? You've brought up the first rule of the fanatic a
+> couple of times, did Sinclair teach this to Kosh in the hope that
+> he would be able to bring the other Vorlons around to that
+> understanding? Maybe in the hope that the war wouldn't escalate to
+> blowing up planets as well? Did Kosh (and his cohorts) give the
+> Vorlon technology so that our heroes could register something if
+> the other Vorlons were to escalate the war to the point they did? 
+> Another thing that caught my attention, especially with Lorien
+> coming back with Sheridan, was one of the questions he asked
+> Sheridan; "Do you mind if I share your fire", exactly which fire
+> did he mean? Was Lorien refering to the fire on the ground, or the
+> fire inside of John, or both? Why do I get the feeling that
+> Garibaldi had a return visit to a certain place on Mars? Or
+> somewhere with the equipment like that used there? "Do you know
+> who I am"; who are you, why are you, what do you want?
+
+       Suffice to say that Kosh was utterly correct about the sword,
+and we'll be hearing this again soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:35:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Apologies on CO
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+               Hmm...most interesting...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:35:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Summoning
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I thunk that up, as far as I know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:35:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms co on station.com
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> ("How big do you think the _____ will get?"
+> Will there be any kind of transcript of what went on between
+> those who successfully navigated the shoals made available? If so,
+> where and how?
+
+       I don't know if it'd be worth transcribing...too much chaos.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:35:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Delenn - Lennier?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Lennier had gone out for pizza....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:35:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: summoning
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, it was just relief, letting her guard down, allowing
+herself to feel, which she hadn't done much before this.  There's no
+romantic interest there.  You can have situations where men and women
+work together, and can care about one another, without it turning into
+more than that.
+
+       Men seem to understand this less often than women.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:35:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com>
+Subject: FTA
+
+ John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you release suitable wide screen format JPG publicity
+> stills to the Lurker's Guide so we can fit the whole Vorlon in
+> one image?
+
+       Thanks.  We can't release anything widescreen until we can go
+back and re-telecine everything back to the original format, then
+recomposite the effects.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:35:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Selfless or Selfish?
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there anything you can say to help us settle this
+> disagreement?
+
+       I think both camps are probably right to one degree or another.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:42:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Falling...
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> I wonder if maybe we'll be seeing it again someday?
+
+       Remember, though, that the alien healing device isn't a
+cure-all; to save one person's life, it takes the equal life force of
+another.  It was used as a capital punishment device.  So somebody'd
+have to die for that to happen...and even then, it doesn't cure
+everything.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1996 20:10:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: jms & co at LosCon (LA)
+
+      Just an advisory: this Thanksgiving Sunday, there will be a 2
+hour B5 presentation at LosCon, the annual fan-run convention put on by
+LASFS (usual attendence about 1000).  The presentation/panel is slated
+for 2:30-4:30 in the biggest room they have.  I'll do the first hour,
+then the second hour will have our conceptual consultant Harlan
+Ellison, producer John Copeland, and co-producer George Johnsen joining
+in.  (There's a possibility Peter Jurasik may show up, but that's
+unconfirmed at this point.)
+
+      We'll have the very first showing of the rough cut of season 4
+bloopers, scenes from several unaired episodes, a music video or two,
+and of course the usual dog-and-pony show that has become the biggest
+draw at each year's LosCon.
+
+      Because this tends to be a big event, you may want to be sure to
+show up a bit early, to get a seat...they vanish REAL fast.
+
+      The convention is taking place at the Burbank Airport Hilton,
+just abaft from the Burbank Airport, natch.
+
+      LosCon, as a fan convention, is a lot of fun, and there's
+generally a lot of good stuff going on all 3 days as well.  If you
+haven't been to a con before, this is a good one on which to cut your
+teeth.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1996 20:10:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SUSAN F. KIRN <76262.2013@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Summoning
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...we try.  And I'm happy Philly is back on board.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Nov 1996 02:27:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com>
+Subject: First Contact vs. B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, I appreciate hearing that.  We do try to put a lot into
+these things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Nov 1996 02:27:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WHT Mr. Garibaldi?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+         I think Lorien is beyond concepts of male and female as they
+pertain to the Vorlons...that's our perception of them, not his.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Nov 1996 02:27:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Art W. Sullivan <104630.1315@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Zha'ha'dum
+
+ Art W. Sullivan <104630.1315@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When Kosh told Sheridan, that if he went to Zha'ha'dum he would
+> die, was that just a comment on the odds of going there and
+> comming our alive, or do the Vorlons have precognition, like
+> Londo's dreams about his own death? Does that cost a station any
+> more money or can they show it as often as they want?
+
+      It was a statement of fact, one way or another.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Nov 1996 22:28:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms & co at LosCon (LA)
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Last I heard, last week, they were still negotiating.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1996 01:56:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Falling> question
+
+ Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, am I somewhat correct here, or am I totally off base?
+
+      Yep, that's about right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1996 01:56:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Falling...
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, is Bruce getting a little grey hair or is that just merely
+> for the role?
+
+      If you had a vorlon inside you, you'd get a little grey too....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1996 02:03:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 404: Falling
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      For my money, the truly frightening thing about Cartagia is that
+he is motivated entirely by whim, by caprice...he can give you
+something wonderful one moment, then turn around and have you killed
+the next.  You *never* know which way he'll flip from moment to moment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1996 02:03:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Colin Glassey <104224.2227@compuserve.com>
+Subject: FTA - Questions
+
+ Colin Glassey <104224.2227@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Three questions, 1) Do the Vorlons have "wings"?
+> 2) What did the original doctor see in the pilot?
+> The true form of a Vorlon or the angelic form?
+> 3) Why does Morden's request make sense?
+> The Shadows are fighting the Vorlons, they know how little
+> appreciation the Vorlons are showing for "civilian" deaths, why
+> make this request?
+
+      Morden is living in denial...he's afraid, and hoping he's right.
+Centauri Prime has more civilians than any other planet or colony hit
+so far: three billion people.  The shadows are hoping a figure that
+high will daunt even the Vorlons.
+
+      The wings are just how we perceived them, to some extent, though
+we did see a hint of wings as the last of Kosh emerged from Sheridan. 
+(We also heard the wing flap sound, and the sound of Kosh's voice for
+the last time right after Lorien's "Now.")
+
+      Dr. Kyle saw the angelic form...even in its reduced state, it
+held itself together enough to maintain that form.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1996 02:09:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randy Upshaw <75464.1275@compuserve.com>
+Subject: BACK TO RERUNS BUT WOW
+
+ Randy Upshaw <75464.1275@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When does the rest of this season continue?
+
+"I have complained in the past about what I thought was a slow moving
+story but I now feel like we are at warp 9. No wasted eps in the last
+batch."
+
+      Told you.
+
+      Now next time maybe you'll believe me.
+
+      And finish your broccoli.  And sit up straight at the table. 
+And stop playing with your silverware, it's always funny until someone
+gets hurt....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1996 02:09:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Define Apotheosis, pls !
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      "To define is to kill, to suggest is to create."
+
+                     -- Franz Kafka
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1996 15:29:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randy Upshaw <75464.1275@compuserve.com>
+Subject: BACK TO RERUNS BUT WOW
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      They'll be in February...and I was just having some fun, don't
+take it too seriously.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1996 15:29:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Falling>> Thoughts
+
+ Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If the Vorlons are now hell-bent to destroy the Shadows, why
+> nibble around the periphery and not blow-up Zhadum first? If the
+> Vorlon "parenta" approach has been used for so many eons, why
+> start destroying everything in their path now? Morden must know
+> that that the Centauri are no match for the Vorlons; so why ask
+> them to send up their ships as a defense shield? I wonder if there
+> is a "Peace party" among the Shadows? Is Earth a Vorlon target?
+> Is B5 a Vorlon target?
+> How can the AoL stand up to both the Vorlons and the Shadows?
+
+      Excellent questions to which I, alas, can only reply, "wait and
+see."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1996 17:36:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 404: Falling
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we ever see Kosh again?
+> What will John do?
+
+      Yep, all trace of Kosh is gone.  He/it will never be seen again,
+in any form, exempting flashbacks, of which none are currently planned.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1996 17:36:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 404: Falling
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah...would've been nice if Londo had at least tried to do
+something about the eye that did not see Cartagia's splendor....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1996 17:40:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan L. Ravitch <73627.3126@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: season 4 = arc end?
+
+ Alan L. Ravitch <73627.3126@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's up?
+
+      Nothing has yet been decided; different arms of WB are telling
+different people different things...this has been the situation from
+the first season to today.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1996 19:01:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Falling>> Thoughts
+
+ Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In writing your scripts, do you have a conversation with each
+> character and he/she tells you what's happening; or do you see
+> the action the character is in from their point of view; or do
+> you see the action much as the camera sees it from a third person
+> point of view, but focusing on that character?
+
+      I see the episode in my mind the same way it's seen by viewers. 
+I watch it from the camera's point of view.  It's just once in a while,
+as I'm watching it, that one of the characters will lean into camera,
+bang on the side of it, and say "Listen, shmuck, you're not doing this
+right."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1996 21:56:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New FX - no problems!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      What kinda bugged me was that, after having made the change,
+there were a number of people -- presumably associated with Foundation
+ -- who were running around the nets and saying that the efx were going
+to be terrible, or there wouldn't BE any efx...trying to poison the
+well.  But as always, we never do anything unless we think it'll be an
+improvement, and the new season shows that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1996 18:33:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dennis G. Berdanis <72072.550@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: season 4 = arc end?
+
+ Dennis G. Berdanis <72072.550@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there an email address for WB where we can send our support
+> for the show or should we just keep after the local stations??
+
+      Local support is always best, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1996 18:33:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms & co at LosCon (LA)
+
+ Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, will you be making an appearance at I-CON this year?
+
+      At this point...yes, I've confirmed that I'll be at Icon this
+year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1996 18:34:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 ruins it all . . .
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I have the Twister laserdisk -- it's the only way I was able to
+see it
+ -- and that transfer looks pretty cool.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1996 18:34:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Laser Disc
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nope.  Because a) WB doesn't think there's a market for B5 on
+tape or disk, b) won't let us do it because they have the right to do
+it, even though they won't (like the proverbial monkey with its fist
+around a nut in a jar, it can't take it out and won't let go), and c)
+WB video almost never handles piddly TV stuff, only big-budget,
+sure-return movies.
+
+      We'll keep working at it.  Sooner or later, we'll win.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1996 18:34:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 404: Falling
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Except, of course, this trip with G'Kar was in his best
+interest, and Cartagia is always responsive to what's best for
+Cartagia.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1996 18:34:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Wayne Alexander
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+         Will do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1996 18:34:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Images
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...those kinds of images are what we live for.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1996 18:34:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New FX - no problems!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, the first few used about the same amount of stock as
+most of our shows ever did.  And there was a LOT of new stuff...the
+Z'ha'dum confrontation with the White Star, the new establishers of
+Centuari Prime from space, plus the new ones of the city, and the big
+garden areas in "The Summoning" (all those outside sets are virtual),
+the shadow overflys in 401, Lorien's "true image" holding up Sheridan,
+the underground Z'ha'dum composites, the new B5 establishers, the White
+Star fleet coming to B5...there was a LOT of stuff there, it's just
+very subtle.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1996 18:39:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Chicago ComiCon '97
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      At this point, I'll likely be in Chicago.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1996 18:39:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New FX - no problems!
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Are the effects the same or different in some respects?
+
+      Basically, if you're told to look for a difference, you'll see
+one.  I got a couple of emails saying that a couple of specific
+Centauri Prime shots weren't as good as the old ones...then pointed out
+that the ones they singled out WERE the old ones.
+
+      As for the Planet Killer, we bring it a little closer each time.
+
+      Virtually all the designs are right out of the computer files,
+so they're identical to what's been done before, using the same system
+(or slightly better) and most of the same people.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1996 23:47:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Falling...
+
+ Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Calamari, anyone?
+> Are the Vorlons the greater foe?
+
+      Who is the greater foe?
+
+      It is always the one closest to where you live.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1996 23:55:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Falling...
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, she said, "I think, it's possible, someone else does."
+But she didn't specify Sheridan, and likely wouldn't have until she
+knew absolutely for certain...and until she knew a little more about
+the vorlon she was dealing with.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1996 23:55:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: FTA prophecy&future
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Nope, it's the corret eye.  We don't make those kinds of
+mistakes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1996 23:55:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Apotheosis
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In "Falling Toward Apotheosis" there is an outright assassination
+> of another of their Ambassadors, so wouldn't it stand to reason
+> that NOW the Vorlons would *absolutely* destroy the B5 Station
+> because of this latest act by the humans??
+
+      Of course, at the moment, the vorlons are a little busy...but
+given time, yes, they would do exactly that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs96-12 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs96-12
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+JMS CompuServe messages for December 1996.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+Date: 01 Dec 1996 01:57:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lorien
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I just kinda thought it was a cool sounding name....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Dec 1996 01:57:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 404: Falling
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Kosh went with the new vorlon into the ship, and that final
+blast was what did the job ultimately.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Dec 1996 02:17:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: Answers
+
+      Okay, I'm gonna keep this real short and real simple.
+
+      You wanna see the end of the story?  Huh?  Do you?  Do you?!
+                                                          ~~~~~~
+      THEN GIVE ME THE DAMNED CHEAT CODES FOR "QUAKE!"
+
+      Just that.  Okay?  And I can get back to work, and nobody gets
+hurt.
+
+                                jm(vibrating into another dimension)s
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:18:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: James & Deb's <101355.3704@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Answers
+
+ James & Deb's <101355.3704@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Enjoy.Have you tried Duke nuckem 3D yet?
+
+      Thanks!
+
+      I've done some with Duke Nukem, but the thing's just a bit
+repetitive for me, so I haven't gotten that deeply into the game yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:18:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Questions
+
+ David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Seeing what the production schedule is like for a 24
+> episode/season show like X-Files, I wondered if you were *glad*
+> you had only 22 eps or wished you had 24? Anyway, just how long
+> are you in production each year? Does your crew take much time off
+> for the holidays or do most work through? The opposite question
+> would be: would you wish you had *less* shows in a season? I was
+> wondering if there were any articles that would showcase the
+> complete production of a single episode, from its inception down
+> until the final sound mix (or whatever comes last)?
+
+      No, no one's done an article like that, though Stephen Smith did
+spend a week on the B5 sets for Sci-Fi Universe Magazine.
+
+      I'd much rather shoot 24 than 22, because it gives us more room
+to spread things out, and try some different kinds of stories.
+
+      We shoot from early August through May 5th, so the cast gets
+about 2-3 months off.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:18:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Laser Disc
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm with you...I've bought all the various Star Wars
+incarnations on disk, and the Aliens and T2 movies the same way, right
+up through the AC3 disks.  I hate buying the same movie more than 3
+times....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:18:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Vindrizi
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That was a one-time only.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:18:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kosh Question
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Why not?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:18:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: FTA - Questions
+
+ Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But it won't will it?
+> Am I right?
+> Am I even close?
+
+      Not all of them....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:18:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Kosh(s), clarification
+
+ gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Have we now seen a real Vorlon?
+> So is the primary purpose of their encounter suits only to hide
+> their appearance? Since the yellow entity wasn't all Kosh-1, but
+> still looked like a "Vorlon", do all life-forces look the same? 4)
+> Was Sheridan dead again (after Kosh-1 et al left him)?
+
+      Yes, yes, maybe, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:18:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 encounter...
+
+ gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> At which point, the mother chimed-in and said "But you watch
+> Babylon 5 now, so you're all better?" It's been wonderful to see
+> B5 comments go from "What's that?" to "Isn't that the show with
+> the funny hair?"
+
+      That's a great story, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:18:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vorlons/Shadows Motive??
+
+ gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> life-entity stuff, ala FTA), are the Vorlons destroying worlds to
+> get more life-entities for themselves in a hurry? And could this
+> be what the Shadows have really been doing, too?
+
+      Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:18:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New FX - no problems!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, we kinda decided to cut back a bit on lens
+flare...because that particular one is now used in so many places, it's
+become a cliche.  We tried out a new kind of flare in the Kosh2 scene,
+when he nails Sheridan, you can just sorta see it...once everyone else
+does what we've been doing, we tend to move on to newer areas.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:18:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: FTA prophecy&future
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      You could.
+
+      But of course it would be hideously dangerous of you to do so.
+
+      Besides, in our soviet revisionism style, that error no longer
+exists, so there you are.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Dec 1996 02:48:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joseph Schierer <76326.3124@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sheridan chgd the Arc?
+
+ Joseph Schierer <76326.3124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I wonder how much this fact has changed the original Arc?
+> For example, The flash-forward of the older Sinclair in Babylon
+> Squared - Was there a different (pe- Sheridan) 'explanation' than
+> the one presented in WWE? Did the Arc change significantly, due to
+> the change in cast??
+
+      You'd be surprised how much it *didn't* change.....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Dec 1996 02:48:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Falliing Toward <Gulp!>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's a nicely intense sequence.  And the next two are
+moreso.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Dec 1996 02:49:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Falling Toward Reason
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know Delenn had to be at the Great Vorlon Battle for the sake
+> of the story, but, as the author, can you tell us why she decided
+> to go there? Was it the noise of the battle that attacted her?
+> Was she informed of the battle beforehand, and we just didn't
+> know about it? Did someone clue her in, and she ran down there to
+> witness it and/or look out for John?
+
+      Well, I think it's pretty obvious she would've known about it,
+given hr proximity to Sheridan...and if I knew something this big was
+going on, sure as heck *I'd* want to be there to see it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Dec 1996 13:48:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: FTA prophecy&future
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Danger??!!
+
+       "I've got it on tape."
+
+       Of *course* you do.
+
+       BTW, you should clean up your front room more often, it takes
+forever to find anything there....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Dec 1996 13:48:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ruth Spradlin <73477.3155@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Call for Papers
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Cool...if they only knew my GPA while I was in college...urk.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Dec 1996 13:48:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Sheridan chgd the Arc?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Well, bear in mind that the Valen transition is set up as far
+back as the first season....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Dec 1996 13:48:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kosh's Ship
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       It was responding to Kosh2's commands to get out of there so
+he/it could enter it and escape.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Dec 1996 13:48:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Vorlon ship problem
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       There wasn't enough left for that...it was just a hint of him,
+that later needed to be bolstered by both Lorien and Sheridan to hit
+even a part of its original ability.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Dec 1996 13:48:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: S.G. Menzel <100537.1517@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Laser Disc
+
+ S.G. Menzel <100537.1517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> do you think it might help if a lot of people would tell WB that
+> they'd be willing to buy B5 on LD?
+
+       No, it's a status thing, primarily...they don't like to sully
+their hands with TV, they prefer to handle the big-budget movies
+exclusively.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Dec 1996 13:48:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Laser Disc
+
+ Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So what is the difference with WB in the UK?
+
+       Different company (each division is its own company), different
+mindset.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Dec 1996 13:48:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Moving Towards...
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, that's a Vorlon...and there was a physicality to them,
+shown by the fact that it could strike out and hit things.  It's not a
+ghost or anything of that nature, it can be hurt and killed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Dec 1996 14:04:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Chicago ComiCon '97
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Actually, I won't be at either Chicago ComicCon or the Irish
+con, as it turns out, since I'm tagged as guest of honor at Westercon
+50 in Seattle that weekend.  I hope to do ChiCon next year, since it's
+a great experience, and the Irish one next time I'm in the area.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Dec 1996 14:04:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Call for Papers
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       What the hell does THAT mean?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yep, it was all worked out long ago.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: season 4 = arc end?
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who held the 22 script record?
+> Was that Terry Nation?
+> So how far do these 39 scripts go (Episode Num to Ep Num)?
+> And, better yet, how do you manage to be an Executive Producer, a
+> writer, and have a life all at the same time?
+
+       Actually, Nation's record was about 13 or 18 in a row.
+
+       And of those three elements, the personal life is the one that
+has to go out the window to make the other two work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Apotheosis
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Hey Joe, have we now gotten to see exactly what a Vorlon looks
+> like beneath that suit, or was our friend Kosh2 somehow visually
+> obscured and\or distorted by the trap that had been set for him?
+
+       That's pretty much what they look like.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Falling>> Thoughts
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any particular character who bangs the camera more often
+> than not? And how often does the finished product match what you
+> "saw"?
+
+       The finished film comes startlingly close to what I saw in my
+head at least 85% of the time.  The other times, it falls below, or
+goes beyond.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Kosh(s), clarification
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it my imagination or did the Vorlons look like the shadows?
+> And if so, would the reason the Vorlons hide in encounter suits
+> be because when they leave they have to project the right images
+> to people?
+
+       I didn't think they looked that much alike.  But then, no two
+people ever see Vorlons in quite the same way, I guess.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Answers
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Ooh, I like that one...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Sheridan chgd the Arc?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Sheridan, or someone like him, would've been brought in around
+this time regardless, yes...but knowing this would happen, I was able
+to skew the new character to have the elements, and be in the position,
+that would most help me move the story along.
+
+       And you're right...the longer you leave someone in command
+there in the show, the more difficult and dangerous it becomes to
+remove that character. If you're going to do it, best to do it earlier
+than later.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS : Dreams?
+
+ Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just wondering...you do a lot more *thinking* about B5 than
+> I....does it affect you in the same way???
+
+       Yeah, I live the show, dream the show...can't get away from it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kathleen E. Ross <102747.3373@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Kosh
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yep, at the time of that flash-forward, Sheridan has at most
+2-3 years left to live.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New char
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is it Lorien, somebody else, or somebody we haven't met at all?
+
+       Lorien certainly qualifies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joseph Schierer <76326.3124@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sheridan chgd the Arc?
+
+ Joseph Schierer <76326.3124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you EVER going to tell us what the change was??
+
+       Of course not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: comments
+
+ Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could that be his escape in the future?
+
+       Torture, yes...but some people consider that pleasurable...it's
+quite a dilemma....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sheridan chgd the Arc?
+
+ Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So MOH departure WAS unexpected?
+
+       I've always said that it was something I began to realize was
+necessary about two-thirds of the way into season 1, and as I began to
+plan out season 2.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Falling Toward Reason
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Probably both.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Centauri Emperors
+
+ Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did Turhan come to the throne very late in life and reign only
+> briefly? If Turhan reigned a long time, who kept the 'pain
+> technicians' busy and gave Londo (who had only been at court for
+> a short time when he talked to G'Kar) the opportunity to see
+> prisoners being tortured and vivisected for the amusement of the
+> court? Cartagia seems very over the top to us, but does he seem
+> less excessive to Centauri who look back on the days when
+> Turhan's father personally ordered the execution of 100,0000
+> Narns?
+
+       I'd say that Turhan was probably emperor for about 30 years or
+so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Laser Disc
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Any idea how many letters they have received on the subject?
+
+       If ten zillion letters showed up, it wouldn't matter, I've
+finally come to understand...it's a prestige thing, not a money thing. 
+They want to handle the high-profile movies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kosh(s), clarification
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I'm not sure you're remembering this correctly....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: FTA & Vorlons
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> In this newest episode, have we finally seen what Vorlons really
+> look like?
+
+       Yeah, that's pretty much it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kosh(s), clarification
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       The encounter suit was mainly to mask them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Movies
+
+ Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are these the two movies that TNT has requested?
+
+       No, those are other projects.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bryan Morton <106454.3602@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Another Kosh Query
+
+ Bryan Morton <106454.3602@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was just answering a post on that in another thread, and a
+> thought occurred to me (doesn't happen very often <g>): was FTA
+> the episode where Kosh *should* have died, had you stuck to your
+> original intentions? If so, would he have gone out in the same way
+> (helping to kill another Vorlon), or would he have been in Darth
+> Kosh's position?
+
+       Best to leave what might've been out...what is, is better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 19:57:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Book Advice
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Call a specialty SF bookstore and have them get a copy of
+CREATING BABYLON 5, from Boxtree Books in the UK.  It's terrific.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 19:57:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com>
+Subject: FTA prophecy&future
+
+ Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, in other words, you retaped that dialog?
+
+     yup
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 20:07:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Gold Channel
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I gather that this is just a gag?
+
+      Yeah, it's just a gag.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 20:07:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Thanks for the Gift
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The pleasure was entirely mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 20:07:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Early History ?
+
+ Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com> asks:
+> First when the Vorlons and Shadows divided up the galaxy, who got
+> Earth? Also, did this division match the division between the
+> Shadows and Centari? In regards to Lorien's statement that he is
+> The First One, does this mean was the first sentient being, the
+> last survivor of the first sentient race, the first sentient
+> being to achieve sufficient control of life energy to be
+> "immortal"? Also, is Z'HaDum Lorien's home world and if not why
+> did he hang out there so long?
+
+      There was no clear division...they both tried to influence
+everyone they came upon, to get them to go one way or the other.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1996 20:08:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Emporer
+
+ Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> and what of the prophetesses?
+
+      They weren't prophetesses, they were communications-telepaths,
+and the emperor can use them if he perceives the need to keep in
+contact with events in the royal court.  Cartagia could give a fig for
+what goes at home, which will be ash soon anyway....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Dec 1996 01:07:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Laser Disc
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> That's depressing...but they won't let you have the rights to
+> release them? What if we wrote about *that*...<G>?
+
+      Nope again.  They're like a monkey with its fist around a nut in
+a jar; they won't let go, and can't take it out, or let anyone else
+have it.  But we will keep working at it...sooner or later, we'll win. 
+We always do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Dec 1996 01:07:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Laser Disc
+
+ Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So then why the tapes in the UK?
+> Or is that some other company?
+
+      UK tapes are under a different divsion of WB.  WB International
+and WB Domestic are wholly different divisions...WB isn't one company
+like Universal or Paramount, but a series of competing fiefdoms with
+their own rules and agendas.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Dec 1996 11:45:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hart Trevor <100705.1222@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Snow White Script
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Sorry, it turns out that material is no longer available
+anywhere. There was a terrible fire....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Dec 1996 11:58:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS : Dreams?
+
+ Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> May I ask another question?
+> I have been curious about the strange scheduling of the show in
+> the USA (I arrived here just in time for season 4), and wonder if
+> it actually *helps* the quality of the show??? What do you think
+> of this? Was this the writers exhaustion reaching the screen
+> having written all of season 3 and a huge chunk of season 2?
+
+       The long broadcast breaks don't give us a break because we
+don't stop filming during them.  We start filming at the beginning of
+August, and we shoot straight through to May, with only breaks for
+holidays and a quick one-week hiatus in the fall and spring.  It would
+be hideously expensive and difficult to stop and start shooting every
+five weeks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Dec 1996 11:58:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lyta Alexander
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Only that they'd still respect her in the morning.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Dec 1996 11:58:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: season 4 = arc end?
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you miss the trade off?
+> I know you love your work, and you are doing a superb job, but
+> I'm curious if you feel you're missing something?
+
+       "I'm curiuos if you feel you're missing something?"
+
+       Having had a personal life, I found it vastly over-rated.
+
+       More seriously, though...I figure it's no different than
+joining the military for five years.  Except for the running, jumping,
+shooting and getting killed bits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Dec 1996 11:58:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Falling>> Thoughts
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So how do you convey to the director and actors what you see in
+> your head? Do you make notes on the script, or do you talk it out,
+> or what?
+
+       We have tone meetings where I go over every scene with the
+director, so we both know what's required, what the subtext is, and so
+on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Dec 1996 17:06:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: S.G. Menzel <100537.1517@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Book Advice
+
+ S.G. Menzel <100537.1517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I am aware, this is a completely different matter, but you
+> wouldn't have any good advice on how to get ones hands on your
+> scriptwriting book outside the U.S.?
+
+       Go onto the worldwide net to http://www.amazon.com, and you can
+order it from anywhere in the world....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Dec 1996 17:06:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Any work of fiction is organic and changes with time...it's
+part of the process.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Dec 1996 17:06:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <<Falling>> Thoughts
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, that's Andreas' head, which I personally moved over to
+where it would be beside Peter...who complained (in jest) that Andreas
+was again stealing the scene from him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Dec 1996 17:06:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Minbari lifespan
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Minbari can easily live to about 140 or so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Dec 1996 17:06:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: History recap?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Am I right so far?
+> What I'm wondering is at what point did we meet the Centauri?
+> And when did they give us the jumpgate technology?
+> Before or after the war?
+
+       No, our first contact was with the Centauri, who gave us the
+tech. We didn't meet the Minbari until long, long afterward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Dec 1996 02:08:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS: B5 Parodies
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I have never had any problem with parodies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Dec 1996 02:20:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel Barer <74033.167@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Laser Disc
+
+ Daniel Barer <74033.167@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does Warners have all domestic video rights in perpetuity, or
+> only while the show is in first run?
+
+      They *own* the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Dec 1996 02:20:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Cissna <102320.3535@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 2nd Ones
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well, technically speaking, I suppose you could say that the
+Vorlons and Shadows are second ones, since Lorien's people came first,
+about which you'll hear more in the next batch of eps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Dec 1996 02:20:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: ben dibble <105430.3170@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Who knew what, and when?
+
+ ben dibble <105430.3170@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you possibly tell us the "Story of Kosh?"
+> Are we ready for this information?
+> Or does it still contain hidden bits of story?
+> _Why_ did Kosh open his suit to "Sinclair?"
+> Are you going to tell me he was *actually* going to shake hands?
+> Had Kosh read up on Earthers and already gone Native?
+> And was this information provided to Sinclair by Delenn?
+> Or was that a case of Minbari dissembling?
+> What did Delenn see when she went to see Kosh, and *why* did she
+> go? Can you ___finally___ give us her prophesy?
+> Is this your story to stick with?
+
+         There's a lot more to be said of the story of Kosh, and the
+Vorlons in general...and part of me says explain it later...and another
+part says that if you explain mysteries too much, it destroys them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Dec 1996 13:39:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lorien = Ken Nordine?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Having never heard his work, that would tend to mitigate
+against that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Dec 1996 13:39:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Penny J. Legner <103643.763@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5
+
+ Penny J. Legner <103643.763@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I suppose that means my life qualifies as a work of fiction?
+
+       That's what we've been saying about you for months....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Dec 1996 13:39:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: season 4 = arc end?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       The way I live, kids would be redundent.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Dec 1996 13:39:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Falling>> Thoughts
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I assume that you don't make comments during filming then
+> directly to the actors, so what do you do if you see something
+> during filming that needs to be changed?
+
+       I will, on *rare* occasions, address a note or correction
+directly to an actor while we're shooting, but in general I give any
+notes to the director on the set, who passes them on to the actor. 
+There really can't be a multiplicity of voices talking to actors on the
+set...it can become confusing, and they can get contradictory
+directions.  They can get skittish and lose concentration.
+
+       One occasion where I *did* do this recently...in the scene
+where Londo explains to Cartagia why he shouldn't be killed for being
+late, the director had Londo playing that scene submissive and nervous
+in rehearsals, didn't understand that the whole point of the exercise
+was Londo standing up to Cartagia, but doing so in a very sly way, not
+giving him any room to maneuver. Cartagia likes Londo because there's
+intelligence and steel, in a very manipulative fashion..."you think the
+same way I do," Cartagia says. So before we shot the scene, I pulled
+Peter aside and gave him the correction, and that's how we shot it.
+
+       But, again, those incidents are fairly rare.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Dec 1996 23:20:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Your writing schedule
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      We'll probably know around February.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Dec 1996 23:20:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Schirmer <76774.3310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: G'Kar Statue
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The statue is the pilot movie version of G'Kar.  I think it's
+about 7" tall.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Dec 1996 23:20:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Early History ?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Kinda, yeah....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Dec 1996 23:20:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Who knew what, and when?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Which is, of course, another good reason not to do it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Dec 1996 23:20:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SUSAN F. KIRN <76262.2013@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<Falling>> Thoughts
+
+ SUSAN F. KIRN <76262.2013@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, On the flip side of the coin, do the actors ever come to you
+> for clarification or advice on how a scene is to be played?
+
+      That, yes...very often, while the actor is prepping, they'll
+come by my office, or at lunch ask about a particular passage, for
+clarification on my part, as opposed to an adjustment on their
+performance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Dec 1996 23:48:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Book Advice
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, depending on how long you can wait, very shortly the
+best B5 book of the batch to date, Jeanne Cavelos' story of the Icarus'
+fate, will be hitting bookstores shortly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Dec 1996 23:53:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Snow White Script
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's so bad about the script?
+
+      I wrote it when I was 18.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 Dec 1996 21:41:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS: season 4 = arc end?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Blake's 7.  (And other stuff.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Dec 1996 21:41:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Snow White Script
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does it stand up to your 39-and-counting eps of B5?
+> But why should it?
+
+                                 Feh.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Dec 1996 02:22:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: season 4 = arc end?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      What annoys the hell out of me is that I have an ISDN line in my
+office at work, but apparently you can't run ISDN on Win3.1, only Win
+95, so it sits there useless....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Dec 1996 02:22:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS' Snow White in Chgo!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Never mind.  Just heard the theater burned down, so there's no
+point in anyone going.  Real shame.  Ah, well.  Onward and upward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Dec 1996 19:54:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 merchandise
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Never said I never wanted to do *any* merchandising...what I've
+always said was that I wanted to do a little, here and there, adding a
+bit as we go along, but doing so gradually, so we could control the
+quality of the items, to make sure that fans didn't get stuck with
+crummy stuff.
+
+      Mainly, I approve to merchandise anything that I think is either
+very cool, or which I'd like to have myself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Dec 1996 20:03:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dana Wright <72627.531@compuserve.com>
+Subject: First ones again
+
+ Dana Wright <72627.531@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we see more?
+> Will we learn more or what the others chose to do rather than
+> nurture the second ones?
+
+      Yes, you'll see more of them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Dec 1996 20:03:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ISDN Lines
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which one do you have?
+
+      I'm using a Motorola Bitsurfer, external.  No one seems to know
+how to make the damned thing work with win3.1 or 3.2.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Dec 1996 20:03:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Diseases in B5?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The B5 reference in Captain Power was just a nod to something I
+was working on...and definitely shows that it was in the works as far
+back as 1986.
+
+      Yes, we have shown diseases, particularly in "Confessions and
+Lamentations," a 2nd season episode.  But in general, my sense is that
+the biologies of aliens are sufficiently different to minimize most
+transmitted diseases.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Dec 1996 20:03:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jon Wolf <76103.2541@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Attn JMS <Dust>
+
+ Jon Wolf <76103.2541@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it G'Kar's father, or G'Lan?
+
+      It was his father in the first part, G'Lan in angelic form,
+since after all that was G'Lan's form.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Dec 1996 20:03:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mysterious Four
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's the title for the fourth season?
+
+      When I'm ready.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Dec 1996 20:04:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Irony on Review/Vorlons
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Good points, especially the vorlon stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Dec 1996 02:22:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 merchandise
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      We're actually doing a few small things via the B5 fan club.  We
+just Friday took delivery of our first batch of t-shirts made in-house:
+they have the B5FC logo on the front left breast, and come in three
+colors...one in black with white lettering saying "No boom today, boom
+tomorrow, there's always a boom tomorrow" black for Ivanova's mood...a
+white one (for the angelic seeming vorlons) with black lettering, "We
+have always been here"... and a grey t-shirt with "We stand between the
+darkness and the light" (the grey here is obvious).
+
+      We should be releasing these shortly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Dec 1996 02:22:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Job Description
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'd say it's waning, and again, most have left our galaxy for
+whatever is beyond.  Only a handful remain.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Dec 1996 02:22:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mira's Head
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Given what we know of the content of "Atonement," and given that
+> it's known that an actor has been signed to play Dukhat in that
+> episode (presumably in flashbacks), can we assume Mira is going
+> to have to get back into that full Minbari makeup again? How
+> does/did she like that idea?
+
+      Yes, Mira got into the original year-one makeup.  It's
+funny...when I walked out onto the set, and saw her in that prosthetic,
+the first words that came out of my mouth were, "It's *you*!  I haven't
+seen you in almost three years, how've you been?"
+
+      I don't think Mira quite knew what to make of me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Dec 1996 02:22:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Arc Prequel
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Oh, and Joe, speaking of the movie: Since it will deal with the
+> E-M War, do you have plans to bring in Michael O'Hare to play
+> Sinclair again?
+
+      Nothing is set yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Dec 1996 13:00:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Another death
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Well...more than one, really....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Dec 1996 13:00:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ISDN Lines
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that a "Bitsurfer PRO" or just a "Bitsurfer"?
+> BTW, have you tried the ISDN forum (go ISDN)?
+
+       I have the Bitsurfer PRO, yes...and the line is all
+configured...the installation tests show a green light...I just can't
+seem to get it to work with 3.1, I couldn't find a server that handled
+ISDN in the area, so in the end I pretty much gave up and now it just
+sits there, mocking me....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Dec 1996 13:00:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: W. Lee <76770.162@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Movie?
+
+ W. Lee <76770.162@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this true?
+> If so, when can I expect to see it come out in the theatres?
+
+       No, there is no theatrical B5 movie planned at this time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Dec 1996 13:00:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Diseases in B5?
+
+ Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> "supposed" future child?
+
+       That's why she underwent substantial genetic manipulation to
+make her more human.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Dec 1996 13:00:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Human Emotions in B5
+
+ Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> However, have you ever considered creating a alien species whose
+> various emotions are totally outside the mainstream of human
+> emotion and are 100% unintelligible?
+
+       The only problem becomes using a 100% unintelligible character
+in any kind of story.  It's hard to structure something like that.  The
+closest I've come to is Kosh.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Dec 1996 13:00:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sanjiv S. Purba <102735.1770@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Job Description
+
+ Sanjiv S. Purba <102735.1770@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you going to define where the older races went?
+> Exactly what is beyond?
+
+       "To define is to kill, to suggest is to create."  -- Mallarme
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Dec 1996 13:00:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sanjiv S. Purba <102735.1770@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Job Description
+
+ Sanjiv S. Purba <102735.1770@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is Talia going to come back?
+
+       No, no plans for Talia.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Dec 1996 13:00:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Motorola BitSurfrPro
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       What software are you using for the modem, and what server are
+you using?  (I.e., Microsoft Network, IBM network, Earthlink, what?)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Dec 1996 13:00:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 merchandise
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, they're fairly discreet, and kinda classy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Dec 1996 13:00:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Comments and praise.
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I don't see it really as a change of heart...they've always
+been very ruthless in their way.  Remember, it was the Vorlons who
+simply decided to off Deathwalker in first season.
+
+       There's some amount of escalation going on, obviously, which
+will be explained a bit more in upcoming episodes, but they've always
+been this way, it's your perception of them that's at odds.  You fell
+for what they wanted you to see them to be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Dec 1996 13:00:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 merchandise
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How are we going to order these, if we don't get to see the web
+> site?
+
+       I'll post the info when we're ready to go.  FC members
+generally get discounts on all B5FC merchandise.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Dec 1996 21:34:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Diseases in B5?
+
+ Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that mean that Delenn could no longer have children via a
+> Mimbari father?
+
+      Probably not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Dec 1996 21:34:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New Fan
+
+ Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> "That's it?!
+
+      That's a great story...thanks.  Inch by inch, we're taking over
+the planet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Dec 1996 21:34:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Narn of the Above
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  - bloodlines - religious affiliation - Narn psychic midwife
+> declaration - Narn of the above?
+
+      It's usually based on religious affiliation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Dec 1996 21:34:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: War of the Worlds
+
+ Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, is this someone associated with the show or is he just
+> plugging the product?
+
+      I have no idea...it's news to me.  Is this a new book?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Dec 1996 03:33:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: V
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      NBC didn't reject it, it was meant for syndication after the
+network show was canceled; and most of the cast had moved on to do
+other things. Actors don't generally just hang around waiting for shows
+to get revived, they were not available in many cases, and my mandate
+was to give the show a fresh start.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Dec 1996 18:36:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: V
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No idea.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Dec 1996 18:36:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Human Emotions in B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, B5 is fiction...but elements of it that appear here and
+there are based on historical incident.  The CDA and other moves toward
+censoring the arts or the internet or free speech are the logical
+inheritors of Joe McCarthy's Senatorial inquisition, as well as earlier
+verions.  The Nightwatch goes right back to those roots...and anyone
+who thinks it can't happen here...it *has* happened here.  And can
+happen again tomorrow.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Dec 1996 18:36:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Another death
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> You enjoy making us twist, don't you Joe?
+
+       Except, of course, that trying to guess at it removes any sense
+of surprise, since by the time everyone's gone over all of the
+possiblilities, there's not much more to do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Dec 1996 18:36:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ISDN Lines
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What area code are you in?
+
+       I'm in the 818 area code.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Dec 1996 23:46:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Alien names/ships?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm not sure which ones you're referring to; we've got Llorts,
+Hyachs, Vree, Brakiri, and others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Dec 1996 13:59:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Alien names/ships?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       In order...those are Brakiri, and Gaim.  The last one is
+probably a Llort.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Dec 1996 14:09:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sheridan Speaks
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was awonderin': Since Sheridan had close contact with numerous
+> alien races before coming to B5 ("even a few Minbari") and had
+> picked up a few words of, at least, Narn ("All Alone in the
+> Night"), does he know *any* Minbari? Has he picked up any in the
+> last two to three years of close *ahem* contact with the Minbari? 
+> Do you have any plans for him to try to learn some or all of the
+> language?
+
+       When he has a bit more time, what with this pesky war and all,
+he'll almost certainly undertake this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Dec 1996 14:09:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kenneth Porter <76161.3013@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ISDN Lines
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Cool...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Dec 1996 14:09:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Arc End....
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, that's not the case, and we won't know for a while yet
+either way. No one is quoted as saying it, that's what was assumed by
+the writer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Dec 1996 03:16:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sheridan Speaks
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, I take it he didn't pick up much conversational Minbari on
+> his trips and contacts with the other races, eh?
+
+      Yup.  Because during the Minbari war, the Narns were selling us
+weapons, so Sheridan and other Earthforce captains had to learn at
+least a smattering of Narnish for purposes of negotiations.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Dec 1996 20:15:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: quick requests
+
+      Just a couple of quickies:
+
+      1) I know it's that season, but because I don't do christmas,
+any christmas cards sent to me get roundfiled.  Invest the postage in a
+donation to a local charity.  But don't send me stuph.
+
+      2) Please do not send me binary files or uploads without first
+checking with me ahead of time.  I had my hard disk nearly killed by a
+trojan horse, and make it a practice now not to download ANYthing
+unless I know what it is and whence it comes.
+
+      And again, please, please, please do not send email with story
+related questions...you may think you're the only one doing this, it's
+just the one, but there are between 10-15 *million* people watching B5,
+and an awful lot of them are on the nets, and I can't keep answering
+the same story questions in email all the time (and many of them are
+much the same).  If you have a story related question, please post it
+in the public forums so that others can benefit from the answer, and so
+I only have to write it once.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Dec 1996 20:15:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Cherns Major <75026.3723@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Orange County interview
+
+ Cherns Major <75026.3723@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If the latter, care to expand?
+> While I have your attention, could I ask something that's been
+> bothering me a bit? What languages do the various characters
+> speak, and when? I presume that the humans are all talking English
+> (is English now Earth's official language? maybe they're all
+> speaking Esperanto or LogLan?); and I can accept that when
+> various other species talk among themselves they are speaking
+> their native language but that the show expresses their
+> conversations in English for our convenience; and we have seen
+> some cases where characters speak in a language other than
+> English when language is an issue ("brickbat lingerie"), but what
+> about a situation like Sheridan and Lorien?
+
+"Now, I *know* you didn't write all the episodes in Seasons 1 and 2,
+but I wondered if there really was a connection between the planned
+series length and "the name of the place."  After all, I suppose 5 is a
+fairly arbitrary number--it could have been one or two or seventeen
+earlier stations that were sabotaged during construction--but I never
+really thought of the similarity."
+
+      No, that was never the intent, that it was called Babylon 5
+because it's 5 years of story.  The reporter just kinda came up with
+that.
+
+"The interviewer constantly uses the term "sci-fi," but, since I'm
+sure that you are well aware of the controversy over it, I would have
+presumed that you either would not have used it yourself (I don't think
+I've ever seen it in one of your messages), or else that you would have
+some particular statement-making reason.  If the latter, care to
+expand?"
+
+      No, I didn't use the term sci-fi, and NEVER use the term.  I use
+either SF of Science Fiction, but interviewers insist in putting those
+terms in my mouth because it's what they use.  I've complained to
+several of them about this already.
+
+"I'm not ruling out Babel Fish or belt-mounted Universal Translators,
+or perhaps Lorien's ability to read Sheridan's mind and learn English
+from it, but it does seem to me that things like this require at least
+a minimum of explanation. "
+
+There are several primary languages used on B5: Earth English,
+Centauri and Interlac, the latter being a kind of Esperanto (all of the
+important signs are in all three languages).  In addition, many
+species, such as the Gaim and the pak'ma'ra, use translator devices,
+since they're incapable of making human sounds.  Remember, you're
+seeing ambassadors for the most part, or aliens in the trade or
+commercial business, so they would tend to learn the dominant language
+of the place they're working in.
+
+"I'll hang on to the clipping if you want it for your scrapbook."
+
+      I'd *definitely* appreciate a copy of that one, so I can pass it
+on to WB for use in their PR, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Dec 1996 01:41:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Your writing schedule
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What are the current odds in your opinion?
+> 50-50?
+> 60-40?
+
+      I couldn't begin to guess.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Dec 1996 01:41:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Arc End....
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just so I can tell all my friends without net access, when will
+> the decision be made on season 5 and made public?
+
+      I don't know, that's a WB call.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Dec 1996 01:41:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Another death
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Heh...yeah, snuck that one right by everybody....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Dec 1996 01:41:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: No Hiding Place
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it's a very subversive scene...I love it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Dec 1996 01:41:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vorlon Question
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Are the Vorlons and the Shadows both crystaline based
+> entities? 2) Did Lorien (or his race) create the Shadows or the
+> Vorlons?
+
+      No and no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Dec 1996 15:34:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Londo
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Londo had fallen to being something of a minor functionary, an
+addendum to the royal court, from the old school, assigned to one
+mid-level job or another, a reminder of what had been...and such
+reminders always improve with being sent far away.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Dec 1996 15:34:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Oh, Joe . . .
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Basically, yeah, too much depression and guilt lately, and she's
+been for the most part a passive character lately, while others acted
+around her. Now it's about time for her to start becoming active again.
+There's fire and steel in *use*, and fire and steel waiting to be
+called upon...time to shift from the latter to the former.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Dec 1996 12:04:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Londo&Refa-Starlog artcl
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       That is what Londo thinks, and that's what Peter repeated. 
+Londo doesn't yet know anything to the contrary.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Dec 1996 12:04:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Penny J. Legner <103643.763@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Oh, Joe . . .
+
+ Penny J. Legner <103643.763@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And people wonder why this show is so fantastic?
+
+       Thank yu...I tri to rite gud....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Dec 1996 12:04:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ISP in 818 Area Code
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Cool...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Dec 1996 12:04:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Londo & Morden<Hotw>
+
+ Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would that minion have a name?
+> Would that Minion be Morden?
+> Does better mean that he will be dead and outside the confines of
+> his flesh? Michael instead of Joe?
+
+       No, it ain't Morden.
+
+       And J. Michael looks better on a screen, mainly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Dec 1996 17:49:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Walkabout Shuffle
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Therefore, my question, considering how you probably had to work
+> to get all three of the "Babylon Squared" stars back at the same
+> time for WWE, is: Was "Walkabout" originally intended to take
+> place before the events in "War Without End"?
+
+       Correct.  Initially we'd wanted to put Walkabout in first, but
+that would have meant airing only WWE1 in that sweeps period, and
+having to wait until the fall for part 2, which seemed not only
+excessive but remarkably stupid.  So we reversed the shooting/airing
+order to accommodate that, and the fact that we knew we'd need a LOT of
+EFX in WWE1, and this would give us time to do it properly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Dec 1996 22:37:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Hyperspace/Jump Gate
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How does Hyperspace / Jump Gate technology work?
+> Does it create a bend in the space and time continuum where they
+> (ships) can travel faster than light?
+
+      It opens a way to hyperspace, which does not have a 1-1
+corrolation to our own space, allowing us to subvert the limitation of
+light speed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Dec 1996 22:37:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Spinoff arc?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> If the spinoff deal goes through, would it have an arc like the
+> original, or have you even planned for that eventuality yet?
+
+      It would have an arc, yes, but not as rigorous as the one in B5;
+I've kind of done that now, and would like to try something
+different...I don't like to try and walk in the same stream twice, to
+borrow a metaphor from Greek philosophy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Dec 1996 22:37:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vorlon Question
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So the Shadows are Organic?
+
+      Well, yeah, they're a life form, therefore they're organic.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Dec 1996 22:37:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Londo&Refa-Starlog artcl
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The ways of actors are mysterious and transcend all
+understanding....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Dec 1996 11:45:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 T-Shirts
+
+ Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does anyone know where to get a child's B5 shirt or even if they
+> make them?
+
+       Ah, the shirt you describe is from All-U.  I posted the number
+here for the company a while ago, but don't have it at hand.  I'll try
+to dig it up, but in the interim, if some friendly person happens to
+have it nearby, and posts it, that would save you some time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Dec 1996 11:45:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 T-Shirts
+
+ Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does anyone know where to get a child's B5 shirt or even if they
+> make them?
+
+       You can also try the Lurker's Guide (www.hyperion.com) which
+has a link to Uncommyn Gifts, which carries that stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Dec 1996 18:28:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Oh, Joe . . .
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Exactly.  She needed that amount of time, so that's what she
+had to have to make it believable.  The next logical step is to show
+the other parts of her starting to come back into the foreground.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Dec 1996 18:28:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Walkabout Shuffle
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will you adjust the episode order so that TNT broadcasts it in
+> the "correct" order when they strip it?
+
+       Not really, because it doesn't make *that* much difference to
+risk confusing them about it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Dec 1996 18:28:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randy j Zimmerman <73363.3717@compuserve.com>
+Subject: War of the Worlds
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  I'd love to check out the comics.  Because of the
+press of work (and so many of the books out there started getting
+crummy, in my view), I've kind of gotten out of the comics habit over
+the last year, so I have no info on this one.  Best to send it along to
+me via the B5 mail drop, 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman
+Oaks, CA 91423.  Thanks again, for the kind words and the reference.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Dec 1996 18:52:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Oh, Joe . . .
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The question that come up as a result of this, at least in my
+> mind anyway, are; was she able too, and was he asking too much of
+> her under the circumstances, and should he have at least given
+> her some time before expecting an answer? In essence, what I guess
+> I'm asking in a nutshell is, was he expecting too much of her? 
+> After all, what if she didn't refuse because of what he had just
+> told her? Could she have lacked the courage at such a vulnerable
+> moment, thereby putting her needs on the back burner for what he
+> wanted? Even if that's indeed what happened, it still constitutes
+> love, but was it fair of him to put her in that position? Thus,
+> the question naturally therefore arises from this is, was he
+> thinking more of her at that moment, or of himself and what he
+> wanted?
+
+       Well, I think it's better for someone to know that first, then
+find out about it later.  "Oh, good, we're going to spend the rest of
+our lives together...oh, by the way, now that you've committed, you
+should know...."
+
+       Uh, uh.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Dec 1996 22:18:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Spinoff arc?
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Leaving aside the question of *why* you might want to do such a
+> thing, barring the sheer novelty of it, could you write
+> empty-headed drivel?
+
+"...could you write empty-headed drivel?  I mean by that, something
+devoid of the psychological depth, cultural allusions and
+variously-voiced wit that we currently appreciate in B5."
+
+      Never have before, and see no reason to start now.  Any time
+I've worked on any show, I've tried to bring something special to it. 
+Even when I was doing animation...the references in "The Real
+Ghostbusters" got blindingly obscure and arcane from time to time (we
+once referred to a group of eskimos of specific professions gathered to
+handle a spiritual problem an "inuit minyan," which I figure about 8
+people in the country got.)
+
+      One thing that tends to be true of TV writing in general, not
+just my case, is that once you know who's running and writing the show,
+you have a fairly good idea of the kind of show you're going to be
+getting, because shows tend to be direct outgrowths of the personality
+of that writer.  You can use phrases like "a Chris Carter show," which
+calls up one kind of show, or a "Carl Reiner kind of sitcom," or "a Rod
+Serling kind of show."  A jms show falls into the same category.  I
+like sharp, witty, in-depth writing; always have, always will.  So that
+can be counted on as a constant.
+
+      The other kind of writing you describe I couldn't do on a bet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Dec 1996 22:18:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: FYAmusement
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who knows, maybe upon her return home she will tune in just to
+> catch the "real" wave?
+
+      You're right, that is amusing...in a nice way.
+
+      Be of good cheer (despite the season)...they're as real to me as
+they are to anyone else.
+
+      Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go stop G'Kar from
+frightening the neighbor's cat again....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Dec 1996 22:18:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Oh, Joe . . .
+
+ Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, Joe, cross-culturally, how does the Minbari sleep-watching
+> ritual compare in seriousness to a human marriage proposal?
+
+      Well, I think it fair to say that with Delenn starting the
+ritual, there had already been kind of an implicit understanding that
+this was going to be more than just a fling...and there's still a long
+road ahead of them before this can be finalized.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Dec 1996 03:15:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael N. Rubinste <74012.147@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Q about shadows&vorlons
+
+ Michael N. Rubinste <74012.147@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Don't they have better things to do with their lives?
+> What happened to the shadow that Sherridan fired on?
+> Did it deflect the PPG charge like Kosh2 did?
+> How did he get past it?
+> Sherridan FOUGHT shadows --- or even one shadow -- with his BARE
+> HANDS? I realize they weren't trying to kill him, but a
+> full-fledged shadow could not subdue one puny human? How did they
+> kill Kosh then? Did Sherridan's hand get bloodied from tangling
+> with the shadow's spiky exoskeleton? I'm sorry to be so persistent
+> about this question, but everyone I watch this episode with goes
+> "Huh?"
+
+      The PPG bursts would've wounded the shadow, allowing him time to
+scramble out of there before Morden could draw.  He then had to fight
+some other humans in the area, scramble down some ridges into the cave
+areas, and then walk out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Dec 1996 03:18:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 censored in UK
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Just a note, but so far the 4th season hasn't aired in the UK
+yet, and thus hasn't yet been censored, so this header is kind of a
+misnomer.  Also, I have no idea yet what C4 has in mind, and perhaps it
+might be a good idea to see what they do, and react to it, rather than
+jumping to conclusions based on what they *might* do....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Dec 1996 16:10:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+There's been a fair amount of speculation and concern about the fifth
+season, and how the story is laying out to handle the possibilities of
+renewal vs. no renewal.  Though the ratings have continued to improve
+despite the shifts and changes in the syndication marketplace -- it's a
+very different market than it was when we first debuted -- nothing is
+certain yet about a fifth season. Some at WB say yes, some say no.  My
+job is to pick my way through this minefield and make it all  work, and
+assure the story ending where is was meant to end.  So how does one do
+this?
+
+Here's the skinny.
+
+First, you have to understand that writing is a *process*, and that
+process is constantly changing.  Ask any writer, and they'll tell you
+that many times they've been working on a short story, or a novel, and
+they have to edit for space.  This applies to both fiction and
+nonfiction writers.  Sometimes it's done by the writer, sometimes by
+the editor.  On my second novel, the editor told me at the halfway mark
+that we'd have to keep the book down to 100,000 words, which was about
+75-100 pages less than I'd been planning on, so the story had to be
+adjusted to fit.  As a journalist, I've often walked into the office
+with a story in hand and been told, "Okay, you've got 15 column 
+inches," or 25 column inches, or 10 column inches...and you just learn
+to write to fit.  Every writer goes through this.
+
+And in most cases, the average person never knows.  Done properly, it
+should be seamless.  Look at Stephen King's The Stand, cut by almost
+25% by the editors at first, then later released with all the ancillary
+material replaced.  I've read both, and the latter is not appreciably
+better than the former...if you didn't know the material was there, you
+would never have missed it.
+
+This also happens on a per-episode basis.  At LosCon, I showed a
+finished scene from 405, and the daily of the master shot of the same
+scene, which had another minute or so of material cut from the finished
+scene.  We cut material all the time; if you added up all the material
+cut from the third season, you'd have enough for almost two episodes. 
+And we often slide material from one episode into another; we slid
+Ivanova's scenes in 402 into 403, and another scene from 405 into
+406...we've done that in prior seasons as well. Sometimes you go back
+and you *add* material.  Again, it's all part of the process.
+
+(Interestingly enough, I just bought the new laserdisk of "Young
+Frankenstein," which has about 15 minutes of material cut from the
+movie for time.  I watched it the other night, and of those 15 minutes,
+13 were easily expendable...only one scene was fairly interesting, but
+not really necessary.)
+
+Okay, so how does all this relate to B5?
+
+My obligation as a storyteller is to get to the end of the story in a
+satisfying way.  So after we got the year 4 renewal, and knowing that
+the PTEN business situation had the potential to impact us (when the
+network that supports you is no longer there, so now your entire
+structure is shot out from under you...you've got a problem), I looked
+at the structure for the story, and began planning adjustments so that
+it could go either way without padding anything, and without
+shortchanging the story.
+
+First thing I did was to flip out the stand-alones, which
+traditionally have taken up the first 6 or so episodes of each season;
+between two years, that's 12 episodes, over half a season right there. 
+Then you would usually get a fair number of additional stand-alones
+scattered across the course of the season.  So figure another 3-4 per
+season, say 8, that's 20 out of 44. So now you're left with basically
+24 episodes to fill out the main arc of the story.
+
+Now, that arc is very intensive, and has three primary threads: the
+resolution of the Shadow war, the situation regarding Earth, and a
+series of smaller sub-threads that feed off those main threads.  But if
+you charge right from one to the other, it's going to feel rushed,
+you're going to need some breathing room between major movements,
+particularly after the shadow war. Not so much stand-alones as episodes
+that let you begin to rearrange your pieces for the next major
+movement.  So now you're back up to about 27.
+
+Okay, so *now* what do you do?  The solution to that came in several
+unassociated pieces.
+
+First came the word of the two B5 TV movies for TNT, which were
+envisioned as taking place within the arc of our main story.  Suddenly
+I had 4 hours into which I could slide some of this material.  One
+sub-thread I'd been planning on was a 3-episode arc that would look at
+how the Earth/Minbari War started, and Delenn's situation at the start
+of the war, joining the Council, that sort of thing.  Now I was able to
+split that out.  So in the series I can, in an episode, get into
+Delenn's role in the war and go into the background of how she got to
+know Dukhat, how she got into the Grey Council, and so on...all the 
+stuff you'd need to see prior to the war. Then the two hours covering
+the rest, the progress of the war itself, could be covered in the
+two-hour movie.
+
+With the *benefit* that we'd have a little more money for the movie
+than we would for two conventional hours, so we could do *more* in the
+way of EFX, production value, and so on, which you're going to need to
+really sell the E/M war.  So strangely enough, and as tends to happen,
+this has put us in the position of doing it *better* than if I'd
+dropped it into two standard-budget episodes, as was my original plan.
+
+Another sub-thread wouldn't have been introduced until late in year 5,
+in part to set up the possibility of a sequel (which, as I've stated
+from the very earliest days of the show, was always in the back of my
+head) and which would stand on its own in any event; a thread designed
+to illustrate the notion that the duration tends to be a lot longer
+than the war. (You'll understand that one later.)  That sub-thread
+would've filled about 3-4 episodes.
+
+Now, again, having the second 2-hour movie lets me slide that piece of
+story into that category and cover nearly all of that ground in doing
+so. The remaining material could (and will, one hopes) be covered in
+the actual sequel itself.  (If the sequel never ends up going, the
+material will be sufficiently stand-alone to still work on its own.)
+
+Then, finally, you take the stand-alones you pulled out earlier (which
+nobody would miss, not knowing what was in them), and the final couple
+of sub-threads (not yet introduced or implied in the main series) and
+slide them into the sequel series, CRUSADE.
+
+So if we *had* to collapse everything into a fourth year, it would all
+fit perfectly.  If word came that there *was* going to be a fifth year,
+you commission some scripts early, drop some of the stand-alones back
+into the slot, and bring up the sub-threads that would otherwise have
+been transferred into the sequel.
+
+Bottom line is...you're covered either way.  You end up where you
+wanted to end up, the main threads get dealt with, secondary or
+tertiary threads have other venues in which they can be dealt
+with...you're solid.
+
+There's nothing particularly extraordinary or amazing in this...this
+is how all writers work, since there are always going to be varying
+constraints in length or venue.  Writing is a process, and that process
+is such that it is infinitely variable while still proceeding where you
+want it to go.
+
+So that's where I am currently.  If I know the fate of the fifth year
+by late February or early March, I can then flip either way and get out
+cleanly. Worst case scenario is that I might have to write alternate
+scenes or alternate endings for scenes in the last few episodes if the
+word comes much later than that, just to give me the flexibility to
+adjust the story in editing, which would definitely take place after we
+wrapped, at which time we have to have word by contract.
+
+None of this could've been done in three seasons...we had to have a
+minimum of four to give us the flexibility of cutting either way. 
+There's no point to reading a book that leaves you hanging for an
+ending, and B5 was meant to have an ending.  At this juncture,
+finishing off script 15, I feel very comfortable with the way all this
+is laying out.  The flow is there, and I know we'll get where we need
+to.  No matter what happens, we're covered. We can handle year 5 
+without padding, and handle year 4 without shortchanging the
+storyline. Granted it took only slightly less planning than the
+invasion of Normandy, but it works, and that's the crucial thing.
+
+Anyway...I've gone on for longer than I'd intended.  I hope that this
+will answer some of the questions and concerns raised about the
+situation, and explains how you do some of the planning for this kind
+of thing.  Again, this online experiment is about letting people
+understand the process of telling a story like this, and of making a TV
+show in general.  As I've noted before, telling a story of this nature
+for television, with all the exigencies and real-life surprises
+involved, is like doing an elaborate step-dance while people are
+throwing live chickens and chainsaws at you...but I knew that would be
+the situation going in, and it was only a matter of whether or not the 
+story was worth the grief involved in telling it.
+
+And it most definitely has been.
+
+jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Dec 1996 23:55:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phyllis Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Your writing schedule
+
+ Phyllis Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If the show is ended in the 4th rather then the fifth year how
+> does that change the orginal arc plan- what happened according to
+> the opening on the first year sinclair was to be the last
+> comander of B5?
+
+      Actually, Sinclair wasn't identified by name in the pilot
+episode as the final CO.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Dec 1996 23:55:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: What came First/Last?
+
+ Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But it couldn't have been everything, could it?
+> So, in broad strokes, could you define the order in which you
+> created the universe/story? On the other end, was there anything
+> major in what we've seen so far that got added in after the fact? 
+> I guess that Sheridan is #1 here, now 'bout #2?
+
+      Doesn't work that way.  I can't separate out the elements like
+that, it's all of a piece.  It's like, when someone asks you to
+remember your first relationship, you don't define it or bring it up in
+terms of trips in cars, clothes you were wearing, or the like.  It's a
+whole.  And that's how I tend to tell, and how I developed, the
+story...sort of like remembering it all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Dec 1996 23:55:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: ben dibble <105430.3170@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Spoo taste?
+
+ ben dibble <105430.3170@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But the question is, what earth food is most like it?
+> Escargot?
+> tripe?
+> Scallops?
+> steak?
+
+      Meat Jello.
+
+      Served chilled.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Dec 1996 23:55:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Messages from Earth
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      You need to get out more.  "Eternal vigilance is the price of
+freedom" is a very famous phrase from history.  Your homework
+assignment now is to go and find it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Dec 1996 23:55:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  I think the impact of the show will only continue to
+grow with time.  In a few years, we'll be discovered, as though
+suddenly we materialized on TeeVee...but that's okay.  It's the doing
+that matters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Dec 1996 23:55:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, the two TNT two-hours are confirmed.
+
+      And the regular series will start on TNT right after the main
+run is finished, starting with season one.  (So if we finish new
+episodes in any given November, the show begins reruns on TNT the
+following January.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Dec 1996 23:55:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vorlon Question
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But the Vorlons are a lifeform and I thought you said they were
+> crystiline? Or are they a lifeform?
+
+      Silicon or crystalline based lifeforms are still lifeforms, just
+not the same as carbon-based lifeforms (like us).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Dec 1996 23:13:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Spinoff arc?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> But haven't you already done the single episode format on MSW,
+> and other series you've been on? What's between the arc and the
+> stand alone shows?
+
+      Well, basically, all there *is* are either arc shows or
+stand-alone shows (or maybe somewhat stand-alones with a slight thread
+running through them).  My feeling for now is that I just don't want to
+do the same thing twice in a row...and maybe find some new approaches
+along the way to the next project.
+
+      You must understand how hideously difficult and exhausting
+telling a 5 year tightly constructed story like this is...basically,
+over the course of 4 years, I'll have written 3,000 pages all in one
+universe, primarily telling one story.  That's the equivilent of 6 or 7
+full-size novels in 4 years, telling one story.  After something like
+that, you want to do something a little different for a bit.
+
+      Four years ago, when I started carrying this elephant, I barely
+had a grey hair on my head...now it's gone almost entirely grey, I look
+as if I've aged 10 years, and people who see me after a gap of a few
+years all say the same thing: "What the hell HAPPENED to you?"  I tell
+them: Babylon 5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Dec 1996 23:13:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Are there any plans to eventually release the B5 episodes (and
+> potential upcoming TV movies) on video tape for the home market?
+
+      In the fullness of time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Dec 1996 23:13:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rob Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and I'm glad the book is turning out to be useful.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Dec 1996 23:13:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Corwin's Absence?
+
+ Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com> asks:
+> David Corwin still a part of the B5 story arc?
+
+      He'll be showing up again about mid-season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Dec 1996 23:13:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The "Triangle"
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Basically, yeah, it senses the presence of the Shadows
+themselves... hence her comment, "They're back," even though we see
+only Morden.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Dec 1996 23:13:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Glass Hand question
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It got pushed due to the increase in the arc, but we hope to do
+something with it eventually.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Dec 1996 23:13:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Oh, Joe...
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you tell me anything more about this, or have we indeed been
+> left to draw our own conclusion in that regard?
+
+      I figure a) it's left to the viewer, and b) from my POV, he saw
+what he said he saw.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Dec 1996 23:13:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael N. Rubinste <74012.147@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Dr. Kyle
+
+ Michael N. Rubinste <74012.147@compuserve.com> asks:
+> He probably got all kinds of details from that scan; otherwise
+> how could he have saved Kosh? Kyle since?
+
+      It was noted in season 1 that Dr. Kyle was reassigned to
+Earthdome, under President Clark.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Dec 1996 23:13:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Eldridge <100723.2754@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 censored in UK
+
+ Philip Eldridge <100723.2754@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If they do cut it would you be consulted or would it just be get
+> out the scissors and cellotape? Surely being the creative force
+> behind the series it must annoy you to see someone tamper with
+> your work? Is there any truth to the stories of TNT syndicating
+> B5? If so how will this affect a possible series 5?
+
+      TNT picks up B5 whenever it's done, whether that's 4 or 5 years,
+so it doesn't affect us either way.
+
+      My only concern on the C4 thing is that, as far as I know,
+nothing has been indicated by C4 either way on cuts of any sort, and I
+know just enough about TV folks to know that if people act before even
+*they* have reached a concensus, and may not in fact be accurate, it
+tends to move them in the opposite direction from that desired.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
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+JMS CompuServe messages for January 1997.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+Date: 01 Jan 1997 18:40:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+      Actually, I was in the shower...and I don't usually have a
+computer there, as it's rather dangerous.
+
+      "I wondered if you know what you'll be doing after (B5 is) all
+over."
+
+      Depends.  WB is very interested in the sequel series, and we
+hope to have some info on that by the end of the month.  That I'd
+definitely want to do.  Barring that, I'd like to find a show or a
+structure where I could push the envelope again but in a different way.
+If I can't find a show like that, or create one, I'll go back to prose.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Dec 1996 10:17:50 -0700
+From: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+Why weren't others willing to take a chance with B5?  Because it was
+something new and different, or because you wanted to tell your story
+your way and they didn't like that?
+
+ --Scott
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jan 1997 18:40:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+      Two primary reasons why it was a hard sell: 1) SF has *always*
+gone way over budget.  The "V" series singlehandedly nearly destroyed
+Warner Bros. Television.  Producers always said they could do it, and
+they lied, and the studios and networks were very skittish.
+
+      2) They're skittish about SF in general, and space stuff in
+particular. We were told, repeatedly, in verbatim terms, "No space
+series other than ST has ever survived more than a couple of sesaons. 
+There is no market for space SF other than Star Trek.  The market won't
+sustain it, isn't big enough to sustain it."  That was, hands down, our
+single biggest stumbling block.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jan 1997 18:40:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Proper Boskonian duz JMS
+
+      I'd love a copy, thanks, as I haven't seen it yet.  Whole or
+just the clip, either is fine.  You can send it to me via the B5 mail
+drop, at 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423. 
+Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Dec 1996 21:51:46 -0700
+From: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: G'Kar's monologue
+
+> The writing of it...this is just an estimate, trying to remember, but
+> I think it took me about 10-15 minutes.  Which is actually a long
+> time for me to stay parked on any part of the page.
+
+  Well, now I don't feel so bad.  I realize my brief, occasional
+scribbles don't come close to yours (or anyone else's), but I've found
+that when I try to put pen to paper, either it comes flying out at top
+speed, or it doesn't come out at all.  That, and I tend to avoid heavy
+re-examination of what I've done - if I look at it too long, I start to
+second-guess myself.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jan 1997 18:40:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: G'Kar's monologue
+
+      Exactly.  Too often, errors come when you second guess yourself.
+The scripts of mine that have always worked the best were usually
+written in just a couple of days; the ones I nurse and revise and futz
+around with for a week or so are always the ones that perform less
+well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jan 1997 18:40:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Message to Great Maker
+
+      Sure...anything I write here can be reprinted elsewhere.
+
+"how do you do it? How many years has it been since you've seen
+genuine sunlight? =)"
+
+      I think you just answered your own question.
+
+      It's easy when you don't have a life outside the keyboard
+umbilicus.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Dec 1996 17:04:19 -0700
+From: B <71513.2510@compuserve.com>
+To: JMS <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: "Crusade" Spinoff?
+
+I just read about your as yet fully formed concept of a B5 spinoff
+involving the rangers. I would like to know some of your specific ideas
+regarding this proposal.  1. Does the story take place before, during,
+or after the 5 year B5 arc? 2. What characters, assuming you
+can sign up the actors, would be involved?-Dellen, Marcus, Lanier,
+Sinclair ?
+
+John Morgan Devoted B5 Fan
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jan 1997 18:40:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: B <71513.2510@compuserve.com>
+Subject: "Crusade" Spinoff?
+
+      It would take place after the main B5 arc.  As for specifics on
+cast, nothing can be said until things get closer to being nailed down;
+there's still a lot that can change on this, and it's a question of
+what works best for the show, and who wants to move on, and other
+aspects.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jan 1997 18:40:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Do it all over again?
+
+      I had nothing to do with the marketing of the series itself, so
+I can't affect that either way.  What I'd do different with the
+show...I'd just love one more chance to adjust every episode, but
+that's an after-the-fact thing. What I'd do different otherwise...I
+dunno.  Maybe nothing.  You take a different tack, you just run into
+different problems, never fewer problems. So it's hard to say. 
+Overall, I'm as pleased as anyone can be with a show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jan 1997 22:28:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Alliance (UK Con)
+
+      Actually, I rather like most British cooking.  My problem at the
+last Wolf was that the dining room was open for only -- what? -- 15
+minutes at a shot, and never when I was either awake or not on a panel,
+so all I had for four days, except for when we chose to go elsewhere
+(and that was difficult) was fish&chips.  Four days of fish&chips.  It
+will drive you mad.  So finally, on Sunday morning, after the
+restaurant had closed (having expended its fifteen minutes of food) I
+planted myself in the restaurant regardless, and explained that unless
+I had a proper breakfast I was going to go out into the hall and do my
+version of Night of the Living Dead and start eating the flesh off the
+first person I encountered.  They saw the crazed look in my eyes, and 
+wisely fed me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Jan 1997 06:36:19 -0700
+From: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+> I saw most of it all at once, and spent the better part of a year
+> getting it all down on paper. 
+
+The entire 1000+ years at once?  What were you doing when that
+happened?  So I am assuming the details have come as you've written the
+episodes and it was the overall scheme of things that came to you?
+
+When did you see the end of the story?
+
+Thanks for taking the time with these questions.
+
+ --Scott
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jan 1997 15:20:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+      I saw mainly the multi-year storyline of B5.  The rest I filled
+in as I went, in terms of the backstory and forestory of the B5
+universe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jan 1997 07:26:17 -0700
+From: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+> Two primary reasons why it was a hard sell: 1) SF has *always* gone
+> way over budget.  The "V" series singlehandedly nearly destroyed
+> Warner Bros. Television.  Producers always said they could do it, and
+> they lied, and the studios and networks were very skittish. 
+
+Ok, now you got me really curious, what is your budget and do you ever
+run over?
+
+> 2) They're skittish about SF in general, and space stuff in
+> particular.  We were told, repeatedly, in verbatim terms, "No space
+> series other than ST has ever survived more than a couple of sesaons.
+> There is no market for space SF other than Star Trek.  The market
+> won't sustain it, isn't big enough to sustain it."  That was, hands
+> down, our single biggest stumbling block. 
+
+So what finally convinced WB to do B5, especially after V?
+
+ --Scott
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jan 1997 15:20:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+      Our budget is under $1 million per episode, and we have run
+slightly UNDER budget every season, which I think is a first for any SF
+series.
+
+      To convince WB we first had to make the pilot, show we could do
+it responsibly, and get the ratings, THEN we got the series order.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jan 1997 11:13:18 -0700
+From: (blocked)
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Something . . .
+
+I've been meaning to ask for a while . . .
+
+How do think that your participation on the nets has affected you,
+your writing, and B5 as a whole?
+
+Earthstar and the Drifters    T minus ?? days "Silly customer!  You
+cannot hurt a Twinkie!" Babbler, SOLD!, KP, SP, Montie, SPAMM, etc.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jan 1997 15:20:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Something . . .
+
+      It's affected me in that it has put me in touch with the
+audience, which is a rarity in TV, where all you usually get are the
+raw numbers.  It's given me a sense of the room, as it were.  It's kept
+me answerable and responsive, and that has the side effect of keeping
+you modest and honest.
+
+      It hasn't substantially affected the B5 storyline because the
+story is the story; any big committee, network or otherwise, will only
+work against you at the creative level.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jan 1997 18:51:51 -0700
+From: Gabriel Koerner <76767.3523@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Message to Great Maker
+
+I'm wondering, Joe, do you at all know Harlan Ellison? I'm a fan of
+his works...
+
+As a literary SF lover, I'm sure you've read Asimov. My favorite works
+of his are the Foundation novels (atleast the original trilogy... the
+only one I liked of the later four was "Foundation's Edge", and even
+that paled in comparison with the original trilogy). I'm also an avid
+fan of his robot novels...
+
+Do you, with all your responsibilities, still have time to delve into
+the realm of literary science fiction?
+
+                                --Gabriel
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jan 1997 02:04:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gabriel Koerner <76767.3523@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Message to Great Maker
+
+      Harlan's our consultant on the show, and has been my friend for
+many years.  So I definitely know his work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jan 1997 21:59:40 -0700
+From: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Is it my breath?
+
+ (This didn't seem to be *that* bad a question, so I figure you might
+  have missed it the first time I sent it.  If you ignored it on
+  purpose, then just ignore it again -- I'll get the drift.)
+
+Joe,
+
+    Should we assume that Major Atumbe isn't part of the command staff
+of the Army of Light?  I take it that he/she's still third in command
+of the station (although why was Delenn running C&C in "The Summoning"?
+I know, Atumbe works the night shift...), but not in the command ranks
+of the AoL.
+
+    I say this, because you would think Atumbe'd be present at some of
+the important War Council meetings if he/she were involved in that side
+of things (I mean if Zack, a sergeant, is present, you'd think Atumbe,
+a major, would be present).
+
+    I realize that production-wise, it simply isn't realistic to cast
+someone to play Atumbe and, essentially, add a new regular character,
+so that's why I'm going on the assumption that Atumbe is part of the B5
+chain of command and not part of the AoL chain of command.  Is this a
+fair assumption?  Will Atumbe ever be seen or the character's role in
+things ever addressed?
+
+Thanks,
+
+  -- Brent (who, for some reason, thinks about these obscure details
+during re-run season)
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jan 1997 02:04:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Is it my breath?
+
+      I'd assume he'd mainly stay within his division; not everybody
+is in the AoL chain of command, or it'd get unweildy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Jan 1997 05:09:35 -0700
+From: (blocked)
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TD: Rod Serling
+
+This New Year's the Sci-Fi Channel ran a Twilight Zone marathon, and I
+watched Rod Serling's little gem called "The Monsters Are Due on Maple
+Street" for the umpteenth time, and am compelled once more to marvel
+publicly at the genius of this man. He could pack so many levels of
+meaning into a brief 30 minute screenplay, and without a single special
+effect in sight.
+
+My age hadn't quite hit the double digits when TZ first aired, so I
+guess I wouldn't have realized it then, but he did quite a lot of
+pieces that referred in some way to the Blacklist and the McCarthy era.
+And I noticed that Art Carney's character in the Santa Claus teleplay
+was named "Corwin". Did he know Norman Corwin?  Serling himself was
+never blacklisted, was he?  But clearly the issue affected him deeply.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jan 1997 16:18:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TD: Rod Serling
+
+       Everyone who came up as a writer during that time was in danger
+of being blacklisted or greylisted, or at minimum knew other writers
+and actors who had been listed and had their careers killed.  Some
+actors, like Jeff Corey, didn't work again for almost 20 years.  So
+certainly it had a profound effect on Serling and others.
+
+       As for Corwin...yes, Rod was a big fan of Norman's work, and
+cited him as a kind of writer's writer.  He began trying to do
+Corwin-like stuff, as did Bradbury and many other writers.  Norman is
+one of those writers whose work may not be known to the public as well
+as it should, but writers, any writer interested in genuine quality of
+language and vision...we know his work. People like Bradbury and Stan
+Freberg and Charles Kuralt and others have all described themselves as
+"Norman's kids" for the inspiration he has provided.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jan 1997 16:18:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Alliance (UK Con)
+
+       Yup.  I remember.  You seemed quite fuddled to run into me
+there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jan 1997 11:29:20 -0700
+From: (blocked)
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Something . . .
+
+> It's kept me answerable and responsive, and that has the side effect
+> of keeping you modest and honest.
+
+And that's one of the main reasons we like you . . . sort of a
+symbiotic relationship, or something. . .
+
+> It hasn't substantially affected the B5 storyline because the story
+> is the story; any big committee, network or otherwise, will only work
+> against you at the creative level.
+
+Have you ever done anything on the show because of a feeling or
+request on the nets?
+
+Earthstar and the new kitty    T minus ?? days "Silly customer!  You
+cannot hurt a Twinkie!" Babbler, SOLD!, KP, SP, Montie, SPAMM, etc.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jan 1997 16:18:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Something . . .
+
+       Nothing substantial that I can think of, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jan 1997 13:11:57 -0700
+From: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Is it my breath?
+
+Re: Atombe
+
+    As I suspected.  Thanks.  But, did you catch the final part of my
+post? Will we ever see/hear of/from Atombe at any point in the story or
+is he just background texture?
+
+  -- Brent
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jan 1997 16:18:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Is it my breath?
+
+       Depends on if I can work it in seamlessly or not.  It's kinda
+late in the day to begin introducing characters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1997 17:11:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Alliance (UK Con)
+
+      Yes, well, we've all been keeping tabs on your movements, you
+know....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1997 10:07:35 -0700
+From: (blocked)
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Something . . .
+
+> Nothing substantial that I can think of, no.
+
+Other than, of course, the Gethesmane incident . . .
+
+Earthstar and the new kitty    T minus ?? days "There's naught wrong
+wiv gala luncheons, lad!  And doan't you forget it!" Babbler, SOLD!,
+KP, SP, Montie, SPAMM, etc.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1997 17:12:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Something . . .
+
+      Yes, but that was a case of *not* doing a story for fear of
+legal complications, rather than fan interaction contributing to the
+show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jan 1997 19:09:35 -0700
+From: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Nature of Shadows
+
+Joe,
+
+In "Interludes and Examinations", Morden had to physically open the
+door to Kosh's quarters in order for the Shadows to enter even though
+they appeared to pass through the walls.
+
+In the the "Garibaldi's Last Stand" scene in "Babylon Squared" and
+"War Without End Pt 1," it was implied that those attacking had to cut
+through the walls in order to invade (and the hole was not
+Shadow-shaped).
+
+Why is this? Or will this be covered later this season?
+
+ -SysOp Dupa T. Parrot, Technical Consultant
+ dupa@compuserve.com    http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dupa
+ OzWin 2.11 O-
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1997 17:12:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Nature of Shadows
+
+      Well, large boarding parties tend to cut through walls to get
+large groups through, as they did in "Severed Dreams."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1997 02:30:07 -0700
+From: (blocked)
+To: All 
+Subject: Paramount STRIKES!!!
+
+With Christmas about to set in, people around the world were busy in
+preparation for the holiday. Out of nowhere, Viacom / Paramount
+started handing out Christmas presents to numerous web master  a legal
+warning letter to tell them close down their Star Trek Internet web
+site or else.
+
+For those of you who want to read about the letter, here is an
+abstract:
+
+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+ ---------
+ ----- Re: Infringements of STAR TREK Copyrights and Trademarks
+
+Dear (name here):
+
+I write as attorney for Paramount Pictures Corporation ("Paramount").
+
+As you are, no doubt, aware, Paramount owns all the rights to the
+television series entitled STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, STAR TREK:
+DEEP SPACE NINE, STAR TREK: VOYAGER, and all theatrical releases
+relating thereto (collectively the "STAR TREK Properties"). These
+rights are protected by numerous copyrights trademarks in both the
+programs themselves and the characters, sets, and other elements
+appearing in those programs.
+
+We have recently learned that you have posted various elements of the
+STAR TREK Properties on your site at (web site address here). Your
+posting of these items is an infringement of Paramounts copyright and
+trademark rights in the STAR TREK Properties.
+
+Paramount does not, of course, object to all materials posted on the
+Internet relating to the STAR TREK Properties. For example, Paramount
+does not object to the general discussion of "Star Trek" over the
+Internet. However, when such discussions rise to the level of copying
+full scripts or excerpts therefrom, or providing detailed summaries of
+the works, suck transmissions are clear infringements of Paramounts
+rights. Similarly, posting of copyrighted material such as photographs,
+artistic renditions of "Star Trek" characters or other properties,
+sound files, video clips, books or excerpts thereform are likewise 
+infringements of Paramounts rights.
+
+Based upon the foregoing, we hereby demand that you confirm to us in
+writing within ten days of receipt of this letter that: (I) you have
+removed all infringing materials from your site, including all images,
+sound bites, and video clips; and (ii) you will refrain from posting
+any similar material on the Internet or any other on-line service in
+the future.
+
+The foregoing is without waiver of any and all rights of Paramount
+Pictures Corporation, all of which are expressly reserved herein.
+
+(Lawyers name here)
+
+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+ -
+
+Whats Wrong? Viacom Has Every Right To Do This!
+
+True! Even I must agree. Viacom's action seems so reasonable ... and
+yet to completely idiotic as not to be believed!
+
+One thing must make clear at this point. IF a site private Star Trek
+Properties for use in commercial manner or in any other way related to
+commercial activity, then Viacoms action is a just one. But what
+happens here is very different. How can a site maintained by a 14-year
+old kid be a thread? Most sites were created and maintained by Star
+Trek fans, these sites never charged a single cent. These sites were
+created as a publicity and promotion mean to introduce others to the
+show. It is these sites that saved Paramount billions in advertising.
+It is these sites that snow ball paramounts income in the first place.
+
+Star Trek had been and shall continues to be Paramounts valuable
+asset. What makes Star Trek successful is the fans behind the show. It
+is the fans who frock to theater to see the Star Trek movies; it is the
+fans who pay for memorials; it is the fans who promoted the show to
+others. For some mysterious reason, Viacom also think it is the fans
+that is hurting their profits???
+
+Is Viacom stupid enough to believe one will settle for an poster image
+instead of the real thing? One will be satisfy by owning a 10-second
+sound clip instead of a sound track? One will opted for a 20-second
+video clip instead of the video tape or laser disc?
+
+Internet was a place for freedom of speech, and I fail to see Trekkers
+had abused their right. On the contrary, images, sound clips and video
+clips are more like a bate to seduce us to buy the real thing  and in
+return, put our hard earned cash into Paramounts pocket.
+
+I sincerely hope Viacom will come to its sense REAL SOON. Otherwise,
+the Trek community will become so hurt that it might not exist any more
+
+If you want to learn more about this disaster, use the site
+http://www.stwww.com/viacom.html as your starting point to learn more.
+
+If you feel it is time to act, please write to Viacom or Paramount and
+let them know your feelings.
+
+:) Rgds.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1997 18:05:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Paramount STRIKES!!!
+
+      This is a most unfortunate development.  But there are some ways
+you can try to deal with this constructively.
+
+      Last year, WB became aware of the existence of many BABYLON 5
+sites, and the Legal Affairs Department was of a mind to take similar
+action (as has been taken by other shows, including the Simpsons).  The
+reason for their desire is simple.  It's not that the sites present a
+*threat* per se, but there is the issue of copyright protection at
+stake.
+
+      To explain...and this may help you to at least understand
+Paramount's position, even if you don't agree with it...if copyrighted
+material begins to be passed around freely, and copied, and
+redistributed, and published, without the proper protections,
+eventually the material will become *public domain*. The studio no
+longer owns it.  In order to demonstrate that you own the material, you
+must make consistent, and conscientious efforts to protect your claim
+to that name and/or that property.
+
+      Many companies and individuals have actually *lost* the right to
+the copyright of material they own or created because they did not take
+steps to actively protect it.  Which is why you often see
+advertisements from companies like Xerox reminding people that it's a
+*company name*, and not a generic term for photocopying.  Otherwise
+they risk letting that name become a word, part of the vernacular, and
+as indefensible as saying "tissue paper" is a copyrightable term.
+
+      When material from a show is posted without the proper copyright
+protection, every time you allow this to happen it moves that material
+further and further into public domain.  Once it *becomes* public
+domain, the studio will not be able to profit from it, ownership
+questions come up, and outside agencies can produce anything they want,
+slap that name on it, and sell it. It's a cumulative effect, over time.
+And it *is* a real problem; don't delude yourself by saying so because
+you *want* it not to be so.  The law is the law is the law.
+
+      When this came to our attention, we (acting sort of as fan
+advocates) sat down with WB legal and discussed ways of doing it short
+of sending out these exact sort of letters to BABYLON 5 sites.  What we
+came to was the following understanding: that WB would not actively go
+after sites which used B5 photos and other material PROVIDED THAT the
+proper copyright information was appended to the material utilized. 
+They are currently in the process of verifying and evaluating sites
+before sending letters telling them to append this information.
+
+      This seems to me a fair and reasonable response to what is, in
+truth, a genuine concern.  What may help here is for system operators
+of web sites to append the copyright information, and notify Paramount
+that they are in full and complete compliance with copyright, and
+acknowledge formally that Paramount is the owner of all copyrighted
+material posted on that site.  They may, or may not, accept that, but
+it gives you a place to start.  Obviously, magazines use copyrighted
+images all the time, and Paramount makes no effort to stop that...but
+if you look in the edges along photos and the like in these magazines,
+you will see the words "photo copyright (c) 1997 Paramount Television."
+That is the difference that allows them to use this material. There is
+no immediate reason why sites should be viewed in any way differently 
+than a magazine, IF the laws are followed.
+
+      (Interestingly, there's a debate in the TV community about the
+copyright of the original ST being in some dispute, since for about 10
+years Paramount did little to protect the name of the original ST,
+until the first movie came around.  I have no actual information on
+that, however, nor can I comment beyond just remarking on the topic. 
+If there *is* any merit to it, that might further explain their
+reasonable concern about it happening with current material.)
+
+      So point is...the concern expressed by Paramount is legitimate,
+and you should abide by it, OR see if you can find some compromise
+position by adhering strictly to the copyright laws in how material is
+displayed, and what material is selected, as we have done with the B5
+sites.  You may also want to write to those currently running the ST
+franchise to see if the producers of the show can intercede on the
+behalf of ST fans as we did for B5 fans. Lawyers have little or no
+vested interest in the fan/show relationship; those involved directly
+in these shows, do have a vested interest.
+
+      Usual disclaimer: I am not an attorney, and can only speak from
+anecdotal information, and have no specific information about
+Paramount, and am in no way suggesting any difference of opinion with
+their actions.  I'm only trying to help you understand the issues
+involved.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1997 19:24:36 -0700
+From: Mary Taylor <75530.2650@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Paramount STRIKES!!!
+
+Everything you say is correct, of course, but I'm convinced that with
+the Viacom/Paramount decision much more is at stake than the mere
+protection of their copyrights.  If that were all they were concerned
+about, less draconian action, like the action taken by Warner, could
+have been chosen.  I'm convinced that the MSN site has everything to do
+with their decision.  Many fan sites were far superior to anything over
+at Continuum (I don't belong to MSN and don't intend to, but a friend
+does for her business, and I've seen the site), and thus in direct
+competition with the exclusive, money driven MSN site.  Of course I'm
+sure you know all this, but I'm just raising the point.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1997 23:23:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mary Taylor <75530.2650@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Paramount STRIKES!!!
+
+      Urk...I'd forgotten about the MSN site.  I wonder also if there
+is any advertising at that site.  That might also prompt them to want
+to drive people there for ST material, so they can ensure there's only
+one place in town to get it, and then collect ad revenue.  Nothing
+wrong with advertising on a web site in and of itself, of course; it's
+a natural progression that will, in time, give sites greater resources
+to do stuff.  Most web sites are "dead web," interesting to look at,
+but with the resources to make the site very deep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1997 18:19:09 -0700
+From: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Proper Boskonian duz JMS
+
+from message #631358 >>RebelCon 1997 is coming August 8-10, 1997 at the
+same Taunton Holiday Inn in Massachusetts that saw this year's
+successful convention on July 5-7, 1996. This year's announced guests
+(as of January 1, 1997) are:  J. Michael Straczynski, creator and
+producer of Babylon 5 (in one of his few East Coast appearances!);<<
+
+        Joe, I'm just curious, but do you have some kind of an
+aversion to New York? :)                I guess to see you at a
+convention I'd have to travel out of state.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1997 23:23:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Proper Boskonian duz JMS
+
+      Actually, I'm doing the Icon convention in Long Island this
+spring, so that's closer to your turf.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1997 18:19:04 -0700
+From: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: "Crusade" Spinoff?
+
+> It would take place after the main B5 arc.  As for specifics on cast,
+> nothing can be said until things get closer to being nailed down;
+> there's still a lot that can change on this, and it's a question of
+> what works best for the show, and who wants to move on, and other
+> aspects. 
+
+        It sure sounds like Claudia is with you if you want her there.
+<g>
+                I was encouraged by how happy she is not only to be
+with this show, but *why* she's glad to be with it, and her high praise
+for you and your ability was beyond reproach. Quite frankly, she may
+have even gotten some people within your industry a bit hot under the
+collar by what she said, which delights me to no end. However, it may
+not be in her best interest to do such things unless she's real
+confident in her ability as an actress and is not worried about
+politics standing in the way of her career.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1997 23:23:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: "Crusade" Spinoff?
+
+      Claudia is notoriously fearless.  Actually, that applies to most
+of our cast, which is fun.  If you see interviews with our cast,
+they're right out there on the edge, being outrageous...because that's
+who and what they are.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1997 18:33:00 -0700
+From: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Nature of Shadows
+
+> Well, large boarding parties tend to cut through walls to get large
+> groups through, 
+
+Yeah, I can see *that*.
+
+But what about the scene in "Interludes and Examinations" where, after
+Morden opens the door, the Shadows appear to pass through the walls. If
+they can pass through the walls, why do they need an opening?
+
+ -SysOp Dupa T. Parrot, Technical Consultant
+ dupa@compuserve.com    http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dupa
+ OzWin 2.11 O-
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1997 23:23:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Nature of Shadows
+
+      They're not passing through the walls, they're just phasing into
+the visible spectrum.  It's probably something of an optical illusion
+given the distance between the walls and themselves.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1997 18:19:08 -0700
+From: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sci Fi Universe
+
+Joe,
+
+        Have you read the article in the latest edition of Sci Fi
+Universe magazine? They were mostly very good to you and your entire
+team in their articles. There was one main article and several small
+ones pertaining to standout episodes. I suspect you must have seen it
+by now.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1997 23:23:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sci Fi Universe
+
+      No, haven't seen it yet...will probably get it this week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1997 02:33:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Paramount STRIKES!!!
+
+      Again, this was a conversation we had with WB, and as long as
+sites have a link to either the WB site or the official B5 fanclub
+site, we don't see a problem in coexisting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1997 23:41:04 -0700
+From: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Proper Boskonian duz JMS
+
+> Actually, I'm doing the Icon convention in Long Island this spring, so
+> that's closer to your turf.
+
+        Excellent!
+                Can you tell me the dates and location? I really would
+like to be there for it.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1997 02:33:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Proper Boskonian duz JMS
+
+      It's the April 4th weekend, at the University of Stony Brook,
+Long Island.  Harlan will also be present, and many others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1997 23:42:37 -0700
+From: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: "Crusade" Spinoff?
+
+> Claudia is notoriously fearless.  Actually, that applies to most of
+> our cast, which is fun.  If you see interviews with our cast, they're
+> right out there on the edge, being outrageous...because that's who
+> and what they are.
+
+        I tell ya, I really loved it! <g> It came right near the very
+end of the article and it was the last thing I expected to see. :)
+                                Go Claudia!! <bg>
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1997 02:33:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: "Crusade" Spinoff?
+
+      BTW, which article are you referring to?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1997 14:31:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Alliance (UK Con)
+
+      You can *never* be paranoid enough.
+
+      (BTW, you left your window open again last night.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1997 05:30:43 -0700
+From: (blocked)
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Historical reference?
+
+In my most recent viewing of Hour of the Wolf, I noticed that the
+metalwork in Cartagia's palace looks suspiciously like the "rising sun"
+emblem of Japan. Is there a historical significance that my meager
+knowledge of history in general and military history in particular is
+preventing me from seeing, or did it just look cool?  All I can come up
+with is a parallel between Cartagia and a kami-kazi pilot.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1997 14:31:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Historical reference?
+
+      I think it's just a general sense of empire style symbols,
+nothing specific to Japan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1997 12:23:02 -0700
+From: mike lovitt <75021.1731@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Centauri Eye
+
+Mr Stracznski:
+
+           With the show in reruns I've been thinking about the
+Centauri Eye. How long was it missing, and its been along time since
+I've seen it, but has it been shown recently?
+
+Mike
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1997 14:31:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: mike lovitt <75021.1731@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Centauri Eye
+
+      The eye is now safely back home and on display.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1997 14:53:24 -0700
+From: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Broadcasting in order?
+
+Joe,
+
+Apparently someone over there at WB has finally woken up out of the
+fog because they're actually showing the repeats in the order that
+they're supposed to be shown. This is a first!
+        Were you made aware that they were going to start doing this?
+                        I'm just curious, but it's about time!
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1997 22:03:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Broadcasting in order?
+
+      They asked us what order this latest batch should go in, and we
+made a suggestion.  It seems to be working well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1997 21:11:32 -0700
+From: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hour of the Wolf
+
+Joe,
+
+        WWOR stationed in NJ, which also happens to be my NY station,
+threw me a curve ball this week by airing B5 Saturday night at 8:00
+p.m., and then again on Sunday night at 8:00 p.m.. This has me
+wondering if they're thinking of moving the show back to its Sunday
+night slot at 8:00, which they abandoned back on September 26th when
+they moved it to Saturday nights at eight.
+        At any rate, I ended up watching the same episode back to back
+both nights, which really didn't bother me because it's a pivotal
+episode which I enjoyed. I'm writing you this because I must tell you
+that I've gotten such a kick out of the way in which he handled
+bringing Emperor Cartegia into the arc. When first we see him, he's
+sporting a new hairstyle not fitting with Centauri tradition. Right
+away this is a sort of "heads up" for the viewer to take notice of, but
+it's not clear why. Does he view this new trend which he's stirred up
+to be "chic," perhaps simply because he is young, or is he somehow 
+mentally and\or emotionally off balance? He's smart enough to assess
+Molari during the first meeting that we the viewers get to see between
+these two men, and we know he's up to something, though we're not sure
+what. It all becomes clear once he spouts his "deification" speech to
+Molari, and I must commend you on handling the scenario most
+effectively. It is not until this point that both we and Molari get to
+truly see the Emperor for what he is for the first time --insane. <G>
+When Molari first enters the room he is so alarmed, so irritated, so
+utterly frustrated by what the Emperor has done that he dares to grab
+at his arm as if he were scolding an incorrigible child. Only moments 
+later does he realize what he's truly up against, a mad ruler, and his
+utter speechlessness upon listening to the Emperor's insane notion is
+priceless! <bg> It is also a true credit to Peter Jurasik as an actor,
+who earns more of my respect for him as a performer on a seemingly
+regular basis.
+        Anyway, just a little aside about something which I
+particularly appreciated. I know that what we're looking at when we see
+Cartegia is a reincarnation of Caligula, but it's all just so much fun
+to watch. :) This episode also got me wondering about how Morden will
+meet his end, and at whose hands, Molari's or the Shadows.
+                Cheers for producing such quality entertainment!  ;-)
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1997 22:03:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hour of the Wolf
+
+      Thanks; it's a nifty little episode, and it sneaks up on one
+very nicely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Jan 1997 15:41:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Alliance (UK Con)
+
+       "everybody being mean to me"
+
+       Well, there *was* that petition, after all....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Jan 1997 20:03:12 -0700
+From: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Perfect Beauty Training
+
+jms -
+
+Upon rewatching "...Wolf" one slight question occurred to me:
+
+When Kosh was "tutoring" Sheridan and set up the Moment of Perfect
+Beauty, did Kosh have the Lorien experience in mind as something for
+which to prepare, or was the relinquishing of the pin leading to an
+interesting encounter more to do with authorial artistry?
+
+ -rje-
+
+I can almost feel the rustling-in of some kind of enchantment already.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jan 1997 12:56:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Perfect Beauty Training
+
+       I think it was a more general sense than preparing him
+specifically for Lorien.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jan 1997 12:56:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Alliance (UK Con)
+
+       Something like *that*, you only need to do it once.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 Jan 1997 16:16:41 -0700
+From: (blocked)
+To: Joe Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Garibaldi's Badge
+
+Hi joe,
+
+My friend dennis Queally wants to know whose police badge that was in
+Garibaldi's room in the HOTW.
+
+Thanks mike
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jan 1997 21:16:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Garibaldi's Badge
+
+      It was a prop.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jan 1997 16:49:17 -0700
+From: (blocked)
+To: Joe Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mail Address
+
+Hi,
+
+Youve given me an address to send you some tapes a while back but I
+lost the file.  Could you please give that to me again. Terri has
+something she'd like to send you.  How have you been holding up stress
+wise?
+
+Thanks
+
+Mike
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jan 1997 21:16:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Mail Address
+
+      Holding up just fine so far....
+
+      Address for me is via the Babylon 5 mail drop, 14431 Ventura
+Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Jan 1997 11:24:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Alliance (UK Con)
+
+       One little mistake?!  Do you realize that that cat's fur will
+probably NEVER grow back?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jan 1997 09:23:57 -0700
+From: Ronald Legro <75136.2066@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Perfect Beauty Training
+
+> I think it was a more general sense than [Kosh] preparing him
+> [Sheridan] specifically for Lorien. 
+
+I like that "I think." Suggesting, of course, that the Great Maker can
+still be surprised or uncertain regarding his B5 creations.
+
+ -- from Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA via Amiga AUTOPILOT v1.80
+   "Wherever you go...there you go again!" -- Buckaroo Bonzo
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jan 1997 11:24:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ronald Legro <75136.2066@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Perfect Beauty Training
+
+       I just report the news, I don't make it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Jan 1997 00:40:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+      Two novels, DEMON NIGHT and OTHERSYDE, an anthology, TALES FROM
+THE TWILIGHT ZONE, all out of print, and short stories in AMAZING SF,
+PULPHOUSE and others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jan 1997 12:15:49 -0700
+From: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ISDN
+
+Joe,
+
+Any luck finding an ISP to use your ISDN modem with?
+
+Doug
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Jan 1997 00:40:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ISDN
+
+      Haven't really had time to deal with it yet...the show is
+keeping me kinda busy lately....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jan 1997 23:15:29 -0700
+From: Debbie S. Bohdal <105457.2417@compuserve.com>
+To: jms <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 CD-ROM?
+
+ I was just reading some old posts from you in the Lurker's Guide
+about a B5 CD-Rom (from Comton's?) that would be released someday
+including some cool features like voice recognition and the ability to
+build a small scene using a
+
+set of dailies.  Any word on the current status of this project?
+
+If this topic has been beaten to death, I apologize.  Just sounded
+like a real neat piece of software and I'd like to get more of an
+insight on how the creative process works on B5 (including the actual
+software you use to do your editing, mixing, etc).
+
+Thanks!
+Debbie
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Jan 1997 00:40:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Debbie S. Bohdal <105457.2417@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 CD-ROM?
+
+      That one has been put back, though we're doing a different CD
+rom in house currently.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Jan 1997 00:44:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: HELP! HELP!
+
+      Que Queg was the name of one of the characters in MOBY DICK, the
+harpoonist, I believe, from a South Pacific island.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Jan 1997 05:36:17 -0700
+From: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 CD-ROM?
+
+> That one has been put back, though we're doing a different CD rom in
+> house currently.
+
+                                                               jms <<
+
+Speaking of CD's, does Chris Franke have a definite release date for
+the second music CD yet? I know the Sonic Images web page says January
+but it's January now. Also if there is a release date is it a US only
+date or world-wide. I'm over in the states at the end of the month so
+if it is a US release date I'll have to have a look out for it whilst
+I'm there.
+
+Thanks in advance..
+Darran...
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Jan 1997 12:17:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 CD-ROM?
+
+       I just got the full soundtrack (58 minutes) yesterday...I'm
+going over it now and making notes and some suggestions.  Shouldn't
+take much longer to make the small changes and get this puppy out the
+door.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Jan 1997 00:46:46 -0700
+From: Debbie S. Bohdal <105457.2417@compuserve.com>
+To: jms <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Killing Kosh2 etc.
+
+Hi!
+
+A couple FTA questions if you have the time:
+
+During the battle between Sheridans forces and Kosh2, why didnt they
+allow Kosh2 to escape once he broke out of his encounter suit?  Were
+they concerned Kosh2 would take them all out before he left?  Or were
+they unaware he was trying to make a getaway?  Or did Sheridan really
+want to kill him - was that Sheridans ultimate goal or would he have
+been satisfied if Kosh2 left the station when Geribaldi asked him to?
+
+And why did Kosh2 leave through the ceiling instead of the floor
+(which should be the faster way out right? -- or was he too busy
+fighting with Kosh1 to notice)?  How far can a Vorlon travel and how
+long can they stay in space without a ships protection?
+
+Also - Delenn prizes life.  How does she feel about Sheridan murdering
+one of the ambassadors?  She seemed to have a sick look on her face
+when she was watching Kosh2 being shot down.  Did she support Sheridans
+decision, and will it affect her perception of the man who has returned
+from Zhadum?
+
+Wow - more questions than I meant to ask  And I can think of 100 more,
+but Ill stop bombarding you.  I appreciate any insight!
+
+Thanks!
+Debbie
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Jan 1997 15:39:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Debbie S. Bohdal <105457.2417@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Killing Kosh2 etc.
+
+       The idea was to force Kosh2 out of the station, to where it
+could be destroyed outside with a minimum of damage to the station. 
+Delenn wasn't happy about it, but also recognizes that war means
+sometimes having to kill somebody.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Jan 1997 09:52:50 -0700
+From: Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B-5 RPG
+
+I've recently heard that the reason we haven't seen the Babylon
+Project from Chameleon Eclectic is because they never received the
+proper permission from you to create it.  Is this true or is it hung up
+for the more usual RPG-never-on-schedule reasons?
+
+If you haven't given permission, is it forthcoming or is the game no
+longer a possibility?
+
+Thanks for your time.
+
+Sue
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Jan 1997 15:39:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B-5 RPG
+
+       No, the game is coming along fine, it has all the proper
+permissions. There have been some delays at my end of things, just
+because there's so much material to review, but what I've seen has been
+terrific.  So no, it's definitely coming out, and I think it's great.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Jan 1997 22:55:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: How many in a row?
+
+      They'll air 5 through 9 in the next batch.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jan 1997 22:55:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Killing Kosh2 etc.
+
+      Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jan 1997 18:15:09 -0700
+From: Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Kosh1 vs. Kosh2
+
+Joe:
+
+Some of us were wondering: Did Kosh1 voluntarily participate in the
+fight against Kosh2, or was he just a semi-conscious pawn of
+Sheridan/Lorien?
+
+Thanks.
+
+SJE
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jan 1997 22:56:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Kosh1 vs. Kosh2
+
+      It was conscious, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jan 1997 22:56:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kosh1 in charge?
+
+      Yes, he actively participated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Jan 1997 23:36:25 -0700
+From: Phyllis Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com>
+To: all 
+Subject: Hal
+
+I'm surprised no one noticed Sunday Jan. 12th 1997 is the day Hal
+became operational in 2001-A space odyssey
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jan 1997 23:06:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phyllis Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hal
+
+      Well, THAT explains why my computer's been acting funny, now I
+have to warn the world before it cuts me off from th
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jan 1997 13:56:16 -0700
+From: John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: Claudia CD?
+
+Recently saw a graphic image of Claudia Christian on the Web which
+purports to be from her CD.  I've never heard of one.  Anybody have the
+scoop on this?
+
+Thanks, John.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jan 1997 23:06:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia CD?
+
+      Where's the photo located on the web?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Jan 1997 15:29:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Does the audience NEED to be as big for a syndicated show
+> compared to a network show in order to survive? I think you
+> mentioned in your "Quick Requests from JMS" message something to
+> the effect B5 has about 10-15 million viewers -- would that be
+> enough to sustain it on one of the big three or even the little
+> two (UPN, WB)?
+
+      It doesn't need to be a BIG audience, but it does need to be big
+enough to make a profit.  And that's what they didn't know.  Since
+then, they have made a very tidy profit on B5 already.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Jan 1997 15:41:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Killing Kosh2 etc.
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Had Kosh2 left when asked, it wouldn't have had to be done, no. 
+It was vaguely possible, but they had to plan as if he would not do so,
+which in fact was what happened.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Jan 1997 22:18:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Betwixt the Betweens
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Good points.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Jan 1997 18:41:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sue Wachowski <74743.3703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ Sue Wachowski <74743.3703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The whole concept of knowing that the show has a beginning,
+> middle and end, and that's it, makes it more exciting as a
+> viewer...has this ever been done before? I know some shows produce
+> endings when they aren't renewed or are choosing to go off the
+> air, but are there any shows that knew the ending from the
+> beginning<g>? If the spin-offs of B5 aren't done the same way,
+> will there be that same thrill? Will you continue this way of
+> structuring a TV series? I find that I don't watch pointless TV
+> anymore...and if a series has no ending in mind, how can they
+> work towards a goal, except within episodes and scenes? I guess
+> what I want to know is, why hasn't this been done before? Why
+> doesn't TV produce more structured series like this? Will you
+> continue to create shows in this way? A TV novel, is there a term
+> for it? How about *Noveries*?
+> Is this enough of an introduction to myself?
+
+       "Why hasn't this been done before?"
+
+       To which the only answer is...because nobody's done it before. 
+(At least, here in the US...in the UK similar things have been done for
+some time, a la The Prisoner.)
+
+       I guess mostly it's because in TV, the question is always "are
+we going to last 9 weeks?" and nobody thinks that far ahead.  To set
+things up that you won't pay off for *years* takes someone a little
+insane, a) to believe you'll be on the air that long, and b) to count
+on the audience to be patient enough to wait for things to unfold.
+
+       And over time, I do think you're more likely to see more of
+this sort of thing as B5's impact grows over the coming years.
+
+       My general sense for what comes next for me...assuming the B5
+sequel goes...I've done a hard-linked and extremely intense drama with
+an adventure component...and now, having done that, and proved that it
+*could* be done, despite many who said it couldn't, my feeling now is,
+"Okay, we've done that, how can we tweak it so that the sequel has a
+different feel to it?" So I'm looking at something that's a little more
+in the adventurous mode, with a serious underpinning, with an arc to it
+that's not quite as intense in tone, but is still good drama. 
+Characters that grow and change, a definite ending, several mysteries
+enclosed inside other mysteries, with a much larger canvas, and an even
+stronger sense of wonder.  B5 I did to prove a point, to some extent;
+now I'd like to try something where, having achieved that, I can sit 
+back and, knowing the format now, have some fun with it.  Maybe turn
+it on its head in a few places.
+
+       As with everything else I do, I try to find what I'd enjoy as a
+viewer, and take it from there.  That was how B5 came about, and that's
+how the new show would come about, should it happen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Jan 1997 18:41:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 TV ratings?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> And, while I've got your ear, what is your opinion on the TV
+> ratings?
+
+       I think we got stuck with a TV 14 rating...and frankly, I think
+the ratings system is massively stupid, and will be broadly ignored.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Jan 1997 18:41:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia CD?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I got it, thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Jan 1997 18:41:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do they make a profit?
+> From syndication fees?
+> Or is there other evenue streams?
+> And, if I may ask, how do you get paid?
+
+       They get their money from commercial advertising and foreign
+sales. I get a piece of the *net* profit, and since the numbers are
+always jigged so that no TV show or movie ever shows a profit, we know
+how much that will result in...zilch.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Jan 1997 18:47:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Alessio <71333.714@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Atn: JMS- Story Arc
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Just one problem: I never SAID "Crusade" would not have a story
+arc. I have only said that it won't be as *intense* an arc as that on
+B5, because the tone is somewhat different, because I don't want to do
+the exact same thing twice.  But it will have an arc to it.
+
+       My suggestion: wait until you see what it IS before you ask me
+to make it what it's not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Jan 1997 12:45:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, it did *really* well, and they're aware of that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Jan 1997 12:45:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, that's the standard practice in town.  Actors have sued for
+their net of shows that have been in syndication for 25-30 years, and
+been told that it's "still in the red."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Jan 1997 12:45:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No idea.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Jan 1997 18:00:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 TV ratings?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Here's the insidious part of all this...they say they want a
+ratings system, but of *course* it won't be used for censorship
+purposes, they just want it for informational purposes...and the system
+wasn't even in place for a week before pinheads like Rev. Wildmon were
+out there calling for a boycott of EVERY show rated TV14, on the
+grounds that it shouldn't be on TV. (Leave out the insanity that you
+only have to create a TV15 rating, make all the TV14's another
+category, and suddenly *they're* okay, the same programs would be fine,
+if there were another nastier category.)  It's the same thing that 
+happened with record ratings, which were instantly used to pressure
+some record stores into not carrying more mature fare.
+
+       It sucks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jan 1997 00:18:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 in South Africa?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I believe it is, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jan 1997 00:27:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lock and Lie
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If the Captain felt his ships and people were in danger and fired
+> in perceived self-defense, then why on Earth would he feel the
+> need to lie about it? Did he know that the Minbari were not a
+> threat? If he did, why did he fire on them?
+> Did he learn something between the time of the incident and the
+> lie at the Earth base? Is this something that will be made clearer
+> in the upcoming movie, or is it something you can comment on
+> here?
+
+      The Minbari approached with their gun ports opened...but they
+also hadn't locked on.  They were a potential menace, but had not gone
+into the territory of definite menace...and when they fired, it was
+clear from the moment or two it took to respond that the Minbari ships
+weren't ready to attack.  So he chose to cover his butt rather than
+take responsibility for screwing up a first contact situation and
+plunging Earth into a war.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Jan 1997 12:49:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: MrsPeel <103112.2040@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 TV ratings?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yup...I agree on about every level.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jan 1997 12:49:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So I assume that you get paid a salary as well as the
+> (non-existant) net? Is there anyway you can get a better deal?
+
+       Yes, I do get a per-epsode producing fee, and script fees.
+
+       No, no chance of changing the deal, it is what it is...and no,
+I do not personally own B5 in any way, not in copyright, licensing, any
+of that. WB owns all rights.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1997 02:07:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, If they're out of print, then how might we get them?
+
+      Some libraries and SF oriented bookstores still carry them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1997 02:07:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So I take it this is an industry standard set up?
+> So how would you, in the future, get a bigger piece of the pie
+> you've created (such as with Crusades)?
+
+      Yep, that's how they get you, and yes, I hope that the success
+of B5 will allow for a slightly better deal on the new show, though
+again the definition of net profits will almost certainly still be such
+that it adds up to oh...about zip....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1997 02:07:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So when you pitched it to them and they agreed to make the show,
+> did you get paid for the rights, or do they get the rights in
+> exchange for making the show?
+
+      They get the rights for financing and distributing the show; we
+make the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1997 02:07:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sue Wachowski <74743.3703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ Sue Wachowski <74743.3703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Isn't it also a question of how TV views its audience?
+> What IQ do they assume we all have?
+> What grade level reading do we understand?
+> I guess that's not fair, but how mindless do we want our
+> entertainment to be? Also, what about the TV executives that have
+> to like a show first? Are executives changing?
+> Are their attitudes toward what they like swinging towards TV of
+> a higher level? So, are there things you would change about B5,
+> knowing how it's done? Is it more like, those who grew up on good
+> SF Literature are now in a position to influence the creation of
+> today's SF shows and movies?
+
+      Yes, more writers and folks at the studio/network levels do know
+a little from SF, but not as much as should be.  I think that will
+continue to change with time.  Now that B5 has broken the strangle hold
+of "no other SF than Star Trek has ever been profitable on TV," I think
+maybe it'll have a positive effect.
+
+      RE: how the networks view viewers...lemme quote something to you
+a suit at one of the networks said: "Our sense is that most of the
+viewers with money or an education have cable, VCRs, laserdisks, and
+they watch those instead of the networks.  Our programming more and
+more will have to turn to those who don't have any real education or
+money for other programming options."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1997 02:07:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Our visibility is increasing, no mistake, but we still haven't
+hit critical mass, and most viewers/reviewers are still largely unaware
+of us. But that's okay, I went into this figuring this would be a long
+haul.  Once the show is done, it's done, and nothing will ever change
+that; the only thing that will change is the size of the audience.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1997 02:07:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> But you have some kind of influence when it comes to
+> merchandising arrangements, right?
+
+      I have approval over what gets licensed, and the form it takes. 
+I work closely with all our licensees.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1997 02:07:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A piece of the NET profit?
+> Gadzooks, so you and James Garner will be spending a lot of time
+> together at the accountants' offices, eh?
+
+      Bingo.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1997 02:07:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 TV ratings?
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What kind of a show would get a TV-M?
+
+      Apparently, the TV 14 is not a permanent thing...whether this
+changed after we complained, or it was always going to happen, I
+dunno...it'll change from episode to episode.  Funny thing is, NObody
+at WB knows who assigned it that rating.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1997 02:08:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 TV ratings?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Just replied on this...it's ep by ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1997 14:06:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Ordover-Trek Editor <72674.1362@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Exactly.  And of course what they tell the advertisers is
+likely a very different story.  I just about fell down when I heard
+this one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1997 22:01:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you believe that "network suites" are following that
+> philosophy to a certain degree? Or is that many people's
+> perception that network TV used to be better mere nostalgia? Even
+> with your busy schedule, do you ever get a chance to watch any
+> network TV?
+
+      I don't get much chance to watch TV these days, for obvious
+reasons.  I try to carve out room for X-Files, Simpsons, 60 Minutes,
+The Tick, the Larry Sanders Show, Dateline, Nightline and a couple of
+others, but that's about it for the week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1997 22:01:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I am curious of whether my friend's view is prevalent in the
+> industry, whether it is technically accurate, and whether such a
+> view has hampered (or maybe helped?) to some extent your ability
+> to market B5 accross the country?
+
+      All I know is that in 4 years, I've never heard anyone in the
+industry refer to B5 as a soap.  So that may answer your question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1997 22:01:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Ordover-Trek Editor <72674.1362@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ John Ordover-Trek Editor <72674.1362@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You ever feel that all the networks (and many companies) would
+> run better if they "inverted" the company every once in a while,
+> ie, put the people currently on the front lines in the back
+> office, and vice versa?
+
+      I dunno...sometimes I think that's the *problem*.  It used to be
+the case that network suits stayed in one place for a long time, and
+held sway for years...now you've got kids coming in who know nothing
+BUT TV running the show.  The median age at the networks is very low
+these days, and the turnover is quite high.  The longer you can stay at
+the job (within common sense limits) the more confident you can get and
+start taking some chances (until you get TOO comfortable, natch).  Now
+the rule seems to be "cover your ass and don't make trouble" competing
+with "I've gotta do something big to make a splash so I can get a
+better deal with I go to another network."
+
+      Very few people make decisions based on what they think will
+work, it's all based on research now, focus groups and other means of
+being able to point to someone else and say, "I did my job, research
+said it was a good show, it's not my fault."
+
+      Most of the really imaginative work being done in TV these days
+is happening in cable, frankly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1997 22:01:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sneak Attacks.
+
+ John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> He accepted an invitation to peace talks, bought just happen to
+> bring along two nuclear missles with him which could not be
+> detected by the enemy (and just why didn't the "Eye" detect his
+> ploy? My problem here is, after such a sneak attack, why do the
+> Minbari still rally around him? Why don't they change his
+> knick-name to "City-Killer" and go off to fight this war the
+> honorable way?
+
+      Well, you're looking at very different scenarios.  A "sneak
+attack" a la Pearl Harbor is against a nation that is not at war.
+
+      In the Black Star situation, Sheridan's ship was damaged, and
+they used that to lure in the aggressor ship (which was coming in to
+eliminate them) and destroy it.  They were already at war, and they
+were taking drastic steps to keep from being destroyed themselves.
+
+      In the Z'ha'dum situation, again, there was a war of aggression
+on, pursued by the shadows.  In wartime, one does sometimes bomb the
+capital cities of aggressor nations, from Iraq to Dresden to Tokyo, on
+and on.
+
+      But neither situation is in the *least* comparable to a sneak
+attack. Was there cleverness?  Sure.  But sometimes you need that to
+beat a technically superior enemy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Jan 1997 15:02:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Ordover-Trek Editor <72674.1362@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ John Ordover-Trek Editor <72674.1362@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Finally one Viacombot said "Well, how do you know the fans even
+> want an Encyclopedia? Did you do a focus group?"
+> Our producer relpied "How about the 750,000 people who bought the
+> book version?
+
+       Back at you:
+
+       WB did a focus group for B5.  Peeled of 20 folks for an in-room
+review, the rest of us watching through mirrored glass.  One guy hates
+the show vehemently, keeps saying it's not science fiction.  Finally
+the guy running the group says, "Could you tell us what you feel is an
+example of good science fiction?"
+
+       And the guy says, "Power Rangers."
+
+       I damn near went through the glass at him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jan 1997 15:10:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Stargazer creditors mtg
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Btw, could someone over in the UK who knows somebody over at
+the CultTV awards let them know that we still haven't received the
+awards from last year's presentation...and we're building an awards
+cabinet, and they'd look great in it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Jan 1997 18:05:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Ordover-Trek Editor <72674.1362@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ John Ordover-Trek Editor <72674.1362@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Thing is, they're talking about the -same- book.<G> That ever
+> happen to you on episodes, getting "too thin" from one person and
+> "too fat" from another, when they are talking about the same
+> episode?
+
+       Yeah, that's common...one person wants more EFX, another more
+character, another more arc...and if it doesn't have one of those
+things, that which works for them best, sometimes it gets written off. 
+That's one of the things you learn in workshops...that you didn't like
+it doesn't mean it's bad, only that it didn't work for *you*.  But on
+many occasions I've seen a note from someone who felt that, because it
+had no CGI in it, it was perforce bad.
+
+       Which is why, in the final analysis, one must listen to the
+small voice in the back of one's head when writing.  If networks
+comprise one sort of committee, fandom -- well-intentioned as they all
+are, and as sharp as they all tend to be -- is still another (and
+larger) committee, even more diverse. As you say, there's no one thing
+the fans want...they're not some monolithic group...they're a diverse
+and fasacinating group.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jan 1997 18:05:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       You never know...it's a mug's game, TeeVee....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jan 1997 18:05:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 TV ratings?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yeah, it was a good show, wish it were around more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jan 1997 18:05:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 TV ratings?
+
+ Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just out of curiosity, have you ever seen "Politically Incorrect
+> with Bill Maher?" I know, I know, but what the hey, it nevers
+> hurts to dream, no?
+
+       I have no special urge to see my face on TeeVee, frankly...I'm
+a writer, and happy just with that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Jan 1997 01:36:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sanjiv S. Purba <102735.1770@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ Sanjiv S. Purba <102735.1770@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who does the licencing for B5 novels?
+
+      Dell has thus far licensed the right to do the books; the
+current three books under contract are all filled.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Jan 1997 01:37:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think it may have had something to do with the three guys who
+tackled me....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Jan 1997 01:37:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has there ever, in the history of television that you know of,
+> been a hit show (a big hit, not just a show that stuck around a
+> couple of years) that was instigated/designed based upon this
+> research??
+
+      Not that I know of.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Jan 1997 01:37:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: ben dibble <105430.3170@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ ben dibble <105430.3170@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, do you ever wonder if your doing ever so many episodes for
+> B5 is going to make any others following in your footsteps have
+> second thoughts about "the arc thing?"
+
+      I think a *lot* of people wonder about me.
+
+      And it doesn't have to be done by one person; the third year it
+came about because so much was changing, so much was happening, it made
+it hard to bring in anyone...in year four, I've had to structure this
+extremely elaborate tree so I can flip either way depending on whether
+or not we get a fifth year, and again you just can't farm that out in
+any realistic way.
+
+      I'm *very* much looking forward to never, ever doing this
+(writing an entire season or two singlehanded) again for the rest of my
+natural life....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Jan 1997 01:37:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sanjiv S. Purba <102735.1770@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 TV ratings?
+
+ Sanjiv S. Purba <102735.1770@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When are new episodes of B5 going to air?
+
+      New eps start around the week of January 27th.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Jan 1997 20:27:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard P. Manny <70762.141@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Typical...and saddst of all to know that your story is not at
+all uncommon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Jan 1997 20:27:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      You don't skew the group ahead of time; you get a random sample,
+some who like it, are neutral, or don't like it.  That's the public
+opinion measurement biz.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Jan 1997 20:27:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Earth-Minbari War
+
+ Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The E-M war lasted five years (2242-2247 I believe), if the
+> Minbari were so superior technologically why did it take them
+> years to beat us back to Earth ? Will we ever see more info about
+> the war ?
+
+      The 2-hour prequel will get into the question of the war in far
+more detail.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Jan 1997 20:27:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 TV ratings?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      For five weeks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Jan 1997 16:05:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, the figures are correct.  DS9 does rate higher than B5,
+though it's lost about 18% of its ratings over the last year, according
+to the trades, while B5 has been gaining over the same period of time. 
+Interestingly, on a head-to-head basis with new episodes, we're
+generally only about half a point behind Voyager.  DS9 averages a
+couple of points ahead of us.
+
+      BTW, I found out the other day that apparently when Scott Adams
+had done the Dilbert cover story, he'd intended for B5 to get the
+cover, but the folks at TV Guide put Star Trek on at the last minute
+because they felt it would sell more copies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jan 1997 21:09:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 director
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  Mike is one of our core directors; he wasn't available
+to us for the first batch of episodes because another show locked him
+down before we got renewal notice for year 4 (you can't book directors
+if you don't have a commitment), but he's directing one now, and is
+going to do a bunch more. He's a great visual stylist.  If I know we're
+going to have him as a director, I'll actually write the script a
+little differently and call for the kinds of visuals I know he can give
+us.
+
+      Funny story...turns out that in Spanish, "vejar" means to abuse,
+degrade and humiliate.  So one day, all the crew vanished from the set
+mid-day and reappeared moments later wearing bright red shirts with
+black type reading "I'VE BEEN VEJARED!"  They're still very popular.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jan 1997 21:09:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Atn: JMS- Story Arc
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> is Crusade definate?
+
+      Crusade isn't definite yet, we should know soonish, though.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jan 1997 21:09:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ?s of Sordid Biz Nature
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does WB tell you if they're promoting B5 at NATPE each year (this
+> year in particular, since the whole 4 or 5 season termination is
+> such a burning question)? If so, do they tell you the results, or
+> do you have to rely on industry jungle-drums to find out how B5
+> fared at NATPE?
+
+      We've never heard squat about NATPE or much of anything else
+over these four years.  Also, NATPE is mainly useful for selling new
+shows, not renewing older ones.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jan 1997 21:09:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Opening Credits Season 4
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just got around to really trying to breakdown the opening title
+> sequence, haven't been lurking here for a couple of months, don't
+> see any messages, so am curious if this has been "documented" -
+> who says what? Is this right??
+
+      Not quite...rebirth goes to Lyta (since Pat had just had a kid
+recently), and Claudia got the year everything changed, to put her in
+the same grouping with Jerry and Bruce.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jan 1997 21:09:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 3rd Age of Mankind...
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or am I completely in left field?
+
+      Sorta kinda...close.  You won't have to wait long.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jan 1997 21:09:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mr. Garibaldi vs. Talia
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, the Garibaldi situation doesn't relate to or act as a
+surrogate for that earlier thread.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Jan 1997 13:57:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you keep from becoming ensnared in what THEY want the show
+> to be?
+
+      Fortunately, most studios don't know what they want...they only
+get into it if whatever it is, isn't working.  B5 is working, so they
+leave it alone. Also, I think they know by now that if a project I care
+about is going to be bastardized...I walk.  I've done it many times
+before, and wouldn't hesitate to do it again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jan 1997 13:57:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hugh Kennedy <70042.710@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ Hugh Kennedy <70042.710@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And WB still don't want to release B5 on tape in the US?
+
+      It's got nothing to do with making money...if you look around,
+aside from the cartoon stuff, NO WB series are out on disk or tape,
+because that division prefers to deal with guaranteed big sellers
+(Batman, etc) than with TV, which they feel is kinda below them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jan 1997 13:57:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you actually have this entire thing drawn out on paper so to
+> speak?
+
+      I figure they'll probably bury the darned thing with me...and
+I'll still be laying there and revising it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jan 1997 13:57:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Atn: JMS- Story Arc
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we find out about Crusade at the same time as year 5?
+> Or are they under different groups?
+> Are the movies confirmed, and will there be more movies after the
+> 2 by TNT?
+
+      The two TNT movies are confirmed; I imagine I'll hear about the
+sequel before I hear about year 5, but the difference in time will
+probably be only a few weeks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jan 1997 13:57:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JOHN GRAVES <102735.1124@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Audio Problems
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      This is the first I've heard of it, but I've printed your
+message and will give it to George Johnsen tomorrow so he can look into
+it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1997 13:46:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Makeup Question
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How long does it take Andreas to get made up every day under
+> normal circumstances (excluding the last couple of episodes)? What
+> does he do all that time?
+
+       Last I heard it takes about 2 hours, not too bad, actually.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1997 13:46:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing
+
+ Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know that you have the overall arc of the series mapped out,
+> but when you write an individual script, do you follow a
+> "template" of some sort and create the story to fit it, or does
+> the story just spring full-blown into your head, a la Mozart? Do
+> you, for example, decide ahead of time how many scenes there will
+> be and where the characters will be at the end of each? If there
+> is no set method that you use, could you, as a kindness to the
+> adoring masses of lesser mortals, try for a moment to imagine
+> that you are not a genius, and you must write a story from
+> scratch, by lunch, or its no beans for you? What would you start
+> with? Would you begin with a framework/checklist of some sort, or
+> just set a character down and see what he does?
+
+       It's a combination of things, and very hard to explain.  I come
+to a given episode knowing I have to do X...X might be "this is the one
+where I have to plant the info about the giant space ferrets," or "this
+is the one where Lennier gets nailed in bed by Londo."  Then I kind of
+check in on the characters in my head...I know what they've been going
+through, and I see how they're feeling about it, where they are, what's
+going on...then I sit down and "watch" the events in my head like
+watching a movie, or watching the news. Some scenes are vaguer than
+others, so I keep replaying it in my head until I can see the whole
+thing...then I write it all down.
+
+       In the latter case you mention, having nothing, and being under
+the gun, I always, *always* start with character rather than a series
+of incidents or plot points.  Because character is the key to
+everything: plot, structure, all of it.  All you need to know is who
+your character is, what he wants, how far he will go to get it, and how
+far somebody else will go to stop him.  The rest follows naturally.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1997 13:46:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kevin Dobson
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is this the actor Kevin Dobson of Kojak, Knotts Landing fame and
+> currently F/X The series?
+
+       Same name, different person.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1997 13:46:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Bester
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> When's the next Bester episode?
+
+       407, "Epiphanies."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1997 13:46:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So how big is this thing?
+> And what do you put on it?
+
+       It's about as big as my life these days....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1997 13:46:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But would most studios care in other situations?
+> Where else have you walked from?
+> And, if I may ask, why do you do all of this (make the show, talk
+> with us, deal with the studio, etc)?
+
+       I walked off THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS when they decided to soften
+the characters and turn Janine into a mommy figure, off CAPTAIN POWER
+when they decided to give the sponsor (Mattel) more control over
+stories...and others.
+
+       Why do I stay on the nets?  I was here before B5, and I'll be
+here after, to one degree or another.  I see no reason to change.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1997 13:46:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: MrsPeel <103112.2040@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ MrsPeel <103112.2040@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Someone in Hollywood with artistic integrity?
+
+       There are lots of folks out here with integrity; they're just
+not as colorful to write about, and they don't fit in with accepted
+cliche.
+
+       Mainly, I'm genetically a pain in the butt.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1997 13:46:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is your life natural?
+
+       You can never burn out as long as you're doing what you enjoy. 
+When it stops being fun, then you burn out.  And I'm still having fun.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1997 13:46:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B4 & After
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       You misremember.  The whole point of going back was to make
+sure the last war was won, so that the shadow fleet would have *fewer*
+ships coming up to the present, not to get more ships for our side.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1997 01:49:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"So in other words, you like it here (the Nets) and you do what you do
+(make great stories) because you're having fun, and you don't
+compromise on principle.  That must be hard in the town you're in."
+
+      Not really.  Not as long as you know what you're in the business
+for. I'm a storyteller.  The rest is superfluous.  And it's not really
+that hard because I live a sensible life...if they take it all away, I
+should still be okay, and I can go back to writing books, or teaching. 
+A story is a story, doesn't matter to me which venue it is.  Where this
+town gets you is if you're in it for the money.  Money's nice, but
+doesn't really mean that much to me...you can only sleep in one bed at
+a time, drive one car at a time, eat one meal at a time...how much do
+you *need*?
+
+"Joe, you are a truly remarkable man, much like the ancient Bards of
+old.  In my humble opinion, you are Shakespere and Homer wrapped up in
+one."
+
+      Not a chance.  If I work hard and write my brains out, then in
+20 years *maybe* I'll be fit to carry their pencil cases, but no more
+than that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1997 01:50:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sneak Attacks.
+
+ John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was there cleverness?
+> Again I ask, why do they follow him still?
+
+      I think the main reason the Minbari have a problem with the
+Black Star incident is mainly because it happened to *them*.  And even
+there it's mainly the warrior caste that's annoyed by it...even though
+they were en route to doing something just as reprehensible, the
+equivilent to strafing lifeboats in WW2.  Frankly, I don't think the
+warrior caste would give a fig who else it happened to...they're
+outraged because it happened to *them*.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1997 01:50:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Another John?
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I don't know what you think of the man, but have you heard that
+> John Rhys-Davies is available? Do you prefer them over
+> contemporary? TVG: What science-fiction novels have you enjoyed?
+> Would you sign up if the opportunity presented itself?
+> Wouldn't you?
+
+      Hmmm...interesting....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1997 01:50:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Mike Willmoth <76170.1037@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Twain was the same way; he said, "You should never start writing
+a work until you have finished it to your satisfaction."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1997 01:50:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing
+
+ Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this cerebral cineplexing a learnable skill, and if so do you
+> have any suggestions as to how to learn it?
+
+      I dunno...I've always been this way, seeing it in my head. 
+Helps to have been a solitary-minded kid, I suppose, always off by
+myself.  When I first began to read novels, I saw them in my head in
+full technicolor with surround sound.  Especially with Bradbury's
+stuff, which is full of imagery; I can still summon up my mind's eye
+view of Usher 2, the Martian deserts with their silver windsailing
+vessels, the race for the ship in "The Golden Apples of the Sun"...it's
+the way I'm hardwired.
+
+      Which is why my scripts for B5 (and most shows) are *very*
+detailed; I don't just write action and dialogue, I go shot-by-shot,
+close-ups, fades, juxtaposition of shots, lighting, sound, framing of
+actors, all of it, to try and most precisely recreate the script (and
+the episode) to look like what I saw in my head.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1997 01:50:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Yr. 4/5
+
+ Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How does the process work in choosing a director?
+> Do you have input and/or final say?
+> Just out of curiosity have you ever considered Jonathan Frakes?
+
+      Given that Paramount already pressured one director associated
+with ST not to work with us, I'd rather not take that chance again.
+
+      We choose directors based on prior work, a demo reel of their
+stuff, a personal meeting, and gut instinct.  They have to understand
+that the job is to service the text, not to rewrite or change.  We look
+for directors whose work shows a great visual style, and who are
+willing to take chances.  We get some directors who come to us because
+they can't do the kinds of things they want to do for any other show. 
+Here, we *encourage* them to experiment.  The worst that'll happen is
+that it'll fall short.  Big deal.  If you succeed, it's brilliant.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1997 13:25:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       The amazing thing about TV Guide is that here we are, doing
+this show for 4 years, with 2 Emmy awards, a Hugo award, a bunch of
+other awards, the fifth highest rated syndicated drama series...and in
+those 4 years we have never, ever had a B5 cover on TV Guide.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1997 13:32:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: MONICA FLYNN <101771.3174@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       So, like, you're saying I should stay away from boats....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1997 13:32:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SFX Readers Awards
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's great news, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1997 13:32:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: MrsPeel <103112.2040@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing
+
+ MrsPeel <103112.2040@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The next time I went in to pitch, I purposely structured my ideas
+> around the thought, What do we need to say about the characters?
+
+       And therein, I think, lay the problem....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1997 01:29:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Another John?
+
+[Reply to message #640368, which is no longer available]
+
+      More than I can tell you, I would *love* to do a film or
+miniseries version of "Canticle."  I *love* that book.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1997 01:46:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      My credits list is very long and very dull and very boring...can
+there be anything less interesting than somebody reciting their work
+history?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1997 01:46:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Writing
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Are you a fan of his?
+
+      Yeah, I've always enjoyed Bradbury's work, though more the
+earlier stuff than the later stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1997 01:46:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Press and Year 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's the same we've had from the start.  Some say yes, some say
+no, and the press usually reports the no's because they're more
+interesting than the yes's.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1997 01:46:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: No Surrender!
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Care to comment?
+
+      Not really.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1997 22:09:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com> asks:
+> True or false?
+
+      3 to four OTHER spinoffs?!
+
+      The thud you just heard was me fainting.
+
+      No...definitely not the case.  Yikes....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1997 22:09:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Another John?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is it a possibility?
+> Did anyone ever buy the dramatization rights?
+
+      Given that it's a seminal work of SF, I'm sure *somebody* must
+have the rights....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1997 22:09:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Another John?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Did you ever hear the NPR radio dramatization?
+
+      I caught bits and pieces of it...what I heard, I liked.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1997 22:09:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Too Much Success?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, the sequel and the fifth year could conceivably happen at
+the same time...or not...or one or the other...it's utterly in flux. 
+Totally fluxed up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1997 22:09:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: "Lensman" Series
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, they're written in order, and whoever you're buying
+them from will likely have that information, or they'll be released
+that way.  From memory, I don't have them in front of me, it goes from
+Triplanetary to Lensman, Second Stage Lensman, Grey Lensman and
+Children of the Lens...I think that's right....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1997 22:16:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      If it's just shows, then there's also He-Man, She-Ra, Jayce and
+the Wheeled Warriors, Real Ghostbusters (animation all)...then the live
+stuff with Captain Power, the new Twilight Zone, Murder She Wrote,
+Nightmare Classics, Jake and the Fatman, Walker Texas Ranger and B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1997 22:16:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Stuart C. Hellinger <70402.1371@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Press and Year 5
+
+ Stuart C. Hellinger <70402.1371@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Oh, btw, will TNT also show the "The Gathering"?
+
+      Yes, TNT will show the pilot movie.  The theory is to do the
+prequel first, then the pilot, then the series through one run at
+least, then the second original TV movie to freshen the cycle, then
+onward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Jan 1997 13:31:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Another John?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       The deal is that what makes for a great novel is not what makes
+for a great movie in most cases; novels are internal, movies are
+external.  And often execs hear about a big SF book, they don't know
+anything about it except that it's popular or famous, and they option
+it...then find out what it is and have no idea how to make it...or what
+it was...or why it works... and after buying it for what it *is* they
+try to make it into something it's *not* because they're more
+comfortable wit what it isn't but could be than what it is and can't
+be.
+
+       And the fact that I actually understood what I wrote and was
+entirely serious in it suddenly tells me that I've been in this town
+WAY too long.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jan 1997 13:31:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Press and Year 5
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Had you or anyone else thought about getting TNT to fund the re-
+> editing of that movie the way you originally wanted it?
+
+       We've talked with them about it, and there's still nothing set
+yet. We think we may be able to get this reworked to some extent, at
+least re-edited, with some new CG, but it isn't final yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jan 1997 22:52:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Mug Rug
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      It just came in today (well, I just got it today from the mail
+drop, nominally the same thing)...looks great, and it'll look great on
+my office desk at the studio.  Tell her thanks for me, it's nifty.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jan 1997 22:52:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: fave books ?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> So what are your favorite sf books ?
+> Who are your favorite writers ?
+
+      I'm somewhat a traditionlalist in my SF/fantasy
+reading...Bradbury, Clarke, Asimov, Ellison, Russell, Smith (EE and
+Clark Ashton), Lovecraft, others.  I've fallen a bit astray of the
+newer folks, though I never miss an opportunity to plug Jonathan
+Carroll's work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1997 00:44:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      "Less than unbiased" didn't even BEGIN to cover it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1997 00:54:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Changes
+
+ Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How has B5 changed me?
+
+      Re: "Never eat anything bigger than your head"...that goes back
+a long ways.  It's part of a litany of country-wisdom stuff that has a
+long history. I think the first part of it is, "Never eat anything
+bigger than your head, never eat at a place called Pop's, never shoot
+pool at a place called Mom's, the difference between horses and people
+is that they're too smart to bet on what we'll do, and a fool and his
+money were lucky to get together in the first place."  I like that last
+one particularly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1997 00:54:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 CD #2 is Available!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      So what do you think?  I've listened to it about five times now,
+counting the two times prior to approval, and I like it a lot.
+
+      Here's the interesting thing, and it shows how sometimes you can
+never quite shake the fanboy aspect in your (my) perceptions.  When I
+first listened to the CD, and I spoke to Chris, I gave him a series of
+notes, based on how much I liked the first CD, to make it more in
+keeping with that.
+
+      I went on at this for some time, and Christopher pointed out
+that it was obvious I liked the first one...but that if he went along
+with what I was saying, it would make the second soundtrack just like
+the first one...in which case, why make it?  Which was just what I'd
+been saying about wanting to do the sequel series, if it's picked up,
+in a different way.
+
+      We all come to like something a certain way, and want the next
+one to be just like the *last* one.  And I realized that he was utterly
+correct, and I let it go through without changes, trusting to his
+creative instincts.
+
+      After the finished CD came in, I listened to it again at the
+office, and called Chris.  "I'm glad you stuck to your guns," I told
+him.  "You were right and I was wrong."
+
+      Which is the other good thing about B5...nobody here is afraid
+to argue with me if they think they're right.  I expect nothing less.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1997 00:54:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS' scriptwriting book
+
+ Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Pathetic, really, isn't it?
+
+"no animals were harmed during the typing of this message."
+
+      I would've believed this until a petition signed by 47 ferrets,
+ducks and hamsters arrived on my desk a few minutes ago....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1997 18:36:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sanjiv S. Purba <102735.1770@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+ Sanjiv S. Purba <102735.1770@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How does one get to bid on a book contract that needs to be
+> filled? Is it possible to submit a book proposal?
+> How do you submit ideas for other types of licences?
+
+      You need to write an outline and submit it, though lately we've
+been assigning books to published authors based on a premise from
+in-house.  You can't just submit ideas for licenses...a company has to
+approach WB with an offer and a business plan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jan 1997 03:41:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS' scriptwriting book
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"They were forced to sign the petition by a terrorist group of
+meerkats, kinkajous and bandicoots"
+
+      Oh...*them* again....
+
+      Same old story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Jan 1997 14:26:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Press and Year 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       TNT will begin showing B5 after it's finished.
+
+       Crusade is in development, and will take place within the B5
+universe, but with a distinctly different plot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jan 1997 14:26:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Long Night
+
+ David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How many could say that now?
+
+       Thanks...and yeah, lots of folks were eager to write off Vir at
+the start.  I think they've all changed their minds by now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jan 1997 14:26:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Press and Year 5
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have all the scenes you shot for the piolit on disk
+> somehwere? One other thing I just thought of, how long do you keep
+> the shots from the episodes on disk?
+
+       We don't keep them on disk after we finish editing; in the case
+of the pilot we're redigitizing dailies to go in and make our changes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jan 1997 14:26:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: What's the word?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Does he have good information, or can I write them a nasty letter
+> for making me panic?
+
+       Not having been told this myself, I can only say I'll have to
+check it out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jan 1997 14:26:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS' scriptwriting book
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why is it everyone around here thinks you don't like cute?
+> Is there some comment that you made regarding "cute fuzzy
+> things"??
+
+       Ah hates cute....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1997 11:54:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Press and Year 5
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Correct me if I'm wrong, but everything you shoot is stored
+> digitally for final mixing and the CGI effects to be added,
+> right? So, what are dailies and how are the stored?
+> And what happens to the data after the episode is sent off?
+
+       Dailies are the actual film, developed overnight and
+transferred to video.  The videotapes are then digitized, and dropped
+into the editing machines.  Once editing is finished, the main disks
+containing the digitized dailies are wiped; we only keep the list of
+shots and frame counts for the supercomputer to use in assembling the
+film.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1997 11:54:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kathy Sheldrake <76236.254@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Changes
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, it goes way back.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1997 11:54:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Press and Year 5
+
+ SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that mean you are definitely rediting the pilot or that's
+> what you'll do if you get the go-ahead?
+
+       We've got a definite maybe, but we can't wait until the last
+moment to begin digitizing stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1997 11:55:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>the Long Night<<
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What I'm wondering is, the dialogue about Vir being "harmless",
+> was that written before or after you realized what should happen? 
+> In general, do you go through a lot of drafts and
+> insertion/deletion?
+
+       No, I usually go through only a couple of drafts.  The line
+about Vir seemed correct regardless.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1997 11:55:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Long Night
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  The White Star mission in that ep has definite roots;
+during WW2 to convince the Germans we weren't going to land at
+Normandy, our own agents were fed incorrect information, set
+loose...and then info was leaked to the Germans allowing them to pick
+up the agents and torture the information out of them.  This wasn't
+quite as bad as that, the crew at least knew what they were getting
+into...but there are often no good choices in war.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1997 11:55:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Press and Year 5
+
+ Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that mean UPN will not be showing reruns?
+
+       UPN has nothing to do with B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1997 11:55:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JOHN GRAVES <102735.1124@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5 Cancelled?
+
+ JOHN GRAVES <102735.1124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any comments?
+
+       If I had anything to say on this, I would've said it.  All I
+know is that this exact thing has happened before in previous seasons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1997 17:05:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ruth Spradlin <73477.3155@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Scott Adams cameo
+
+ Ruth Spradlin <73477.3155@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So -- what the hey?
+
+       Nope, it'll be as a human.  It's a small role but should be
+good for Dilbert fans.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1997 17:09:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New episode...
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Two things....
+
+       The episode that preceded "The Long Night" aired last
+week...and bear in mind that Cartagia has never been shown to be
+weak...he's young, and Londo ain't...he takes pride in being a lady's
+man, so given that he got behind Londo, a weak position for anyone,
+it's very reasonable.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1997 17:09:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: matt greenslade <111111.1445@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mr Garibaldi
+
+ matt greenslade <111111.1445@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can anyone answer why Garibaldi has a security level of
+> 'Ultraviolet Alpha' (presumably high) and yet in the same
+> conversation last series reveals that he has been dismissed from
+> his last four jobs? I mean is he a hacker, a liar or a very lucky
+> guy?
+
+       He got his clearance when he came onto B5, after Sinclair
+fought to get him the job.  And that clearance mainly pertains to B5
+stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1997 22:13:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 cancelled?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nothing is known for certain yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1997 22:13:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Long Night
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, this was always G'Kar's path.
+
+      I think it also showed the League that he was willing to
+sacrifice his own people, that he *means business*...and is prepared to
+go all the way for this, and they'd damned well better be as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1997 03:54:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New episode...
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> While I've got your attention, any new word on renewal for season
+> 5?
+
+      No word yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1997 11:54:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Scott Adams cameo
+
+ Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com> asks:
+> For those of us with friends and aquaintances who are Dilbert
+> fans and occasional B5 watchers, can you tell us which episode
+> Adams will appear in?
+
+       I seem to remember dropping his cameo into "Moments of
+Transition."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1997 11:54:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New episode...
+
+ Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm thinking of the scene when Cartagia (with his hands covered
+> with G'Kar's blood) finds Londo and Vir in the garden, and says
+> to Vir, "What are *you* doing here?"
+
+       Who knows, sometimes the characters know more about this stuff
+to come than I do....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1997 22:44:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: NATPE & Rumors
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is it possible that somebody sold you a bill of goods about the
+> value of going to NATPE? Would B5 have fared better if people had
+> been pushing it at these industry shindigs? Do you have someone in
+> WB Domestic TV seriouly honked off at you? Or is someone trying to
+> generate support, using reverse psychology, by floating a
+> cancellation rumor, so the loyal fans will rise into a collective
+> high hover and start yet another letter writing campaign, to
+> "rescue" the show?
+
+      I understand...thing is, people carried back the same reports
+from the same NATPE convention *last* year...so where does one start?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1997 22:44:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Harlan on 'PI'
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah,I was astounded myself.  Neither he nor Star Parker knew a
+thing about what the Blacklist was really about...I think if you're
+going to do a show like that, you should do your homework.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1997 22:44:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Harlan
+
+ Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that a good thing or a bad thing do you suppose?
+> Is it true that you and he will be at Icon in New York early
+> April?
+
+      Yeah, we'll both definitely be at ICON.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1997 22:45:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Long Night
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It was gonna be Londo right up until 2 pages before the
+scene...then Vir said, "Nope."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1997 22:45:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Long Night
+
+ Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The whole scene with G'Kar and the other Narn and then to have
+> them ask, what did he endure????? And Vir, I didn't even see that
+> coming? Did he?
+> When you write, does it ever feel like that there's this person
+> inside your head who keeps bugging you to tell a story about
+> them, or do I need that vacation more than I know??? Do you have a
+> lute at home?
+
+      Certainly there's an obsession to get this story out.  And the
+characters are alive, on one level...because you have to imagine them
+as being real in order to write them.  22 times a year I crack a window
+to peer in at them....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jan 1997 02:04:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Catherine Sakai
+
+ Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Forgive me for being out of the loop, but I was just wondering
+> (you see, I got B5 religion sort of late in life and hence missed
+> the early eps, except those I begged copies of once it hit me) if
+> anyone knows what ever happened to Catherine Sakai? Did she go off
+> to Minbar with him? Did he just go traipsing back in time without
+> so much as a phone call? Or was it just not dealt with, what with
+> the universe needing to be saved and all? Or maybe she took one
+> look at Sheridan and was too overcome by lust to remember her own
+> name, let alone Sinclair's? Whatdaya think?
+> Any chance she'll show up again, and maybe a technomage can give
+> her a one way ticket to Valen-land on the orange blossom express?
+
+      The fate of Catherine Sakai will be revealed in a coming B5
+novel from Dell.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Jan 1997 12:31:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Harlan on 'PI'
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> "He" being Maher?
+
+       He didn't know what the blacklisting was...if he did, he'd know
+that 90% of those called before HUAC had *nothing* to do with the "Evil
+Empire" of communism, and have been shown to have been innocent.  If
+anything, the hearings gave aid and comfort to the other side.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jan 1997 12:31:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5 Cancelled?
+
+ Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm sure you would keep us well informned, but on a metter of
+> copyright/ownership if the worst came to the worst and Warner
+> Bros pulled the plug on Season 5, would you be able to take it to
+> another station/production company? I don't know how this all
+> works, but for instance could Paramount or Fox legaly allow you
+> to finish the five year arc?
+
+       No, the show can't leave WB for any reason.  It's this or
+nothing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jan 1997 12:31:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Heroes
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, I think you nailed it pretty well, anything I could add
+would just be lagniappe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jan 1997 12:31:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: NATPE & Rumors
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is this enemy action, or a devious friend?
+
+       Neither...I think it's just people talking to talk, to show
+they may have some inside information, whether such exists or not....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jan 1997 12:32:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Yuen <72466.1621@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS' scriptwriting book
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, well, when they're that small and young, they move fast,
+I couldn't get a bead on her.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Jan 1997 22:42:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing
+
+ Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you recommend any books on writing?
+
+      I don't keep up with the general writing books, I'm afraid.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jan 1997 22:42:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Catherine Sakai
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> any that are out that you might recommend especially?
+
+      Basically, my opinion on the novels is that they've been wildly
+uneven. Some were pretty good, some just fell down, for me.  A large
+part of the problem was that we went through the notion of taking
+proposals for books, and 9 times out of 10 the writer wanted to tell
+the story about his guest characters, and the main characters took a
+back seat.  I protested and yelled, and finally decided that the only
+way out was to pull novels out of my notes, and out of the series
+itself.
+
+      So novel 1 of the next batch is about Anna, Morden and the
+Icarus; in my view it's the best of the line published so far, I worked
+very hard with the author to keep it in line with the series; the
+second novel is set on Centauri Prime, from a short premise from me,
+during the time when G'Kar is kept prisoner in Cartagia's cells, and
+again our characters are in the center, though I think it isn't as
+strong as the first one in this batch of three; the third novel, which
+I haven't yet read in manuscript form, again from an assigned premise,
+follows Sinclair and Sakai to Minbar and the creation of the Rangers.
+
+      With any luck, this batch will be very strong.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jan 1997 22:42:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ><The Long Night>>
+
+ Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> "Di.....?'
+
+      Thanks...I'm quite happy with this episode.  It's fun.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
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+JMS CompuServe messages for February 1997.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1997 00:06:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: Scotty Fired
+
+      Don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet, but since it's been in
+the trades I thought people might want to know...apparently Paramount
+was unhappy with Jimmy Doohan doing a part on Homeboys from Outer Space
+(I think that's the title) that had a scottish accent and a mustache
+and was kind of a parody of Scotty...and they pressured the production
+company to terminate his contract.  And now he's off the show.
+
+      It's hard enough for actors to find work on the best of days. 
+But this sort of thing is just appalling.  If there are fans of Jimmy
+Doohan's work who are less than thrilled with this heavy-handed
+treatment (which has many folks in the Industry out here annoyed as
+well; Bill Mumy was nearly speechless when he heard it) and who want to
+note this with the studio, you're certainly free to do so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1997 00:23:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New Supporter
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks for passing that along...it's great to hear.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1997 00:23:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Not Photogenic?
+
+ Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that mean you look like Peirce Brosnan in person?
+
+      On very rare occasions you may get a shot where I look
+relatively human, but they're few and far between.  The camera loves
+Harlan, on the other hand, who always looks great in shots.  Me, every
+time my photo comes out somewhere, America's Most Wanted gets calls....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1997 00:23:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Martin Toggweiler <74041.2400@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Episodes per season
+
+ Martin Toggweiler <74041.2400@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it true that each B5 season was planned for 26 eps instead of
+> 22 in case one of the major networks picked it up? Are there
+> "lost" B5 eps that may surface some time in the misty future like
+> some long lost Beatles tracks?
+
+"Is it true that each B5 season was planned for 26 eps instead of 22
+in case one of the major networks picked it up?  A friend told me that
+he heard this was the case and that there are a number of entire eps
+that were written and filmed, but have never aired with no plan to air
+them anytime soon.  Are there "lost" B5 eps that may surface some time
+in the misty future like some long lost Beatles tracks?"
+
+      Nope, nope, and nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1997 00:23:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Personal Tibits
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...those parts are what makes the show come alive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1997 00:23:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TLN
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 4) Promos - did you see the airing?
+> but such are the vaguaries of TV executives, right?
+
+      Certainly I would never have made a big deal about the Ericsson
+thing, because then it *does* set up certain expectations.  I didn't
+hear about the promo until you did.
+
+      There actually *was* a Lorien scene in that episode, but it got
+slid a bit when we ran out of time in that ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1997 15:49:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruce Probst <71154.3171@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Deep Bass
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks; we put in a LOT of time in the music and sound design of
+the show, more than most shows.  I'm glad it shows.
+
+      Ironically, though, the company doing the satellite uplink was
+changed recently (we have no control over this) and they're now
+uplinking the show in *analog* rather than digital, so there's some
+frazzing now that limits the dynamic range just a tad.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1997 15:49:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sanjiv S. Purba <102735.1770@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5 Cancelled?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      It's really little to do with popularity or ratings...it's the
+reality of PTEN no longer existing, and contracts being tied up in a
+corporate tangle, and them trying to decide if they want the headache
+of doing all this again. We still don't know anything for certain,
+though, so all we can do is wait.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1997 15:49:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A Matter of Case
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      ...sigh....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1997 22:08:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Quick Requests from JMS
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Certainly there are some thematic carryovers, yes....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1997 22:09:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Long Night
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nothing about it was at all accidental...he had to go pick it
+up, turn, move to Cartagia, stick it in, and then pull the trigger. 
+Nothing accidental about it.  But if we'd shown him doing all the prep,
+the shock wouldn't have been as substantial.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1997 22:09:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Long Night
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...I think a lot of it there has to do also with the
+performance of the actor playing Ericsson.  He brought a real sense of
+presence to the job.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Feb 1997 03:00:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: If people didn't leave..
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Sinclair was never intended to go to Z'ha'dum.
+
+      And it wouldn't have worked for Sakai to be the one who awoke
+the shadows and "died" at Z'ha'dum because *they were already awake* in
+the first season.  People who try to lay the one line atop the other
+tend to forget this.  We also get Garibaldi's mention of crawling out
+of the Martian desert in the very first episode...which tied into the
+whole Messages From Earth thread, putting the shadows at work for at
+least 2-3 years.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Feb 1997 03:03:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Long Night
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Consider yourself the recipient of a cybernoogie.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Feb 1997 21:27:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SUSAN F. KIRN <76262.2013@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Long Night
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...yeah, it's great to know you can write *anything*, and
+this cast can pull it off.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Feb 1997 21:28:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Claire Nollet <71232.2556@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Long Night
+
+ Claire Nollet <71232.2556@compuserve.com> asks:
+> just how many hearts does the average Centauri have?
+> Also, I liked Cartagia's comment about humor "being subjective"
+> -- but isn't a mime a terrible thing to "waste"?
+
+      Re: heart/hearts...I figured that the two collectively are a
+whole from an emotional or spiritual perspective.  We say "a pair of
+pants" even though it's just the one, as a related example.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Feb 1997 21:28:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TLN Sound
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Part of the problem is that they've switched satellite uplink
+services, so that now it's being uploaded in analog instead of digital,
+and if it isn't absolutely calibrated, there's some left/right
+frazzing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Feb 1997 21:28:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Death & Rebirth
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How would you respond to that?
+
+      When characters die, they stay dead.  The one and only sorta
+exception to this is Sheridan, and only for a) reasons that make sense,
+b) reasons that are essential to a mythic structure, and c) really are
+just a postponement; he's been reanimated and can last another 20
+years, but that's the max.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Feb 1997 21:28:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A Gamut of Hard Things
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since he has rejected the easy sole leadership, what position can
+> he create for himself in the face of woefully uncomprehending
+> followers?
+
+      Thanks...that's a lot to keep in play at the same time, and I'm
+glad the themes all come across.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Feb 1997 01:16:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Long Night
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm probably going to write to you about this episode in a few
+> days because there are some things I wanted to bring up and talk
+> about a little, but just where did you get Wortham Krimmer from
+> anyway?
+
+      Wortham came in to audition, same as everybody else...and we
+thought he was great.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Feb 1997 01:16:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Great Job (as usual)<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  One of the things about the way events come to a head
+and finish in ITF is that it's very unnerving...okay, *now* what?  The
+ongoing conflict has become something you could count on, you knew the
+rough shape of what might be coming along.  Now all that's kicked over,
+and you have to get on with the next aspect: making a new life.
+
+      What interests me, what I wanted to do with making this show,
+was in large measure to examine the issues and emotions and events that
+precede a war, precipitate a war, the effects of the war itself, the
+end of the war and the aftermath of the war.  The war is hardware; the
+people are at the center of the story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Feb 1997 16:26:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Great Job (as usual)<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       No, Sheridan's view of the future, the moment he saw, is still
+very valid, and will happen as written, once he took the step of taking
+B4 into the past.  That future is now set.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Feb 1997 14:52:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Scarpa <73672.2136@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TLN: Great Job as Usual
+
+ David Scarpa <73672.2136@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know we've been caught upin the shadow war, but I'm surprised
+> there has'nt been some attempt to rest control away form
+> Sheridan, or is Clark that afraid of the Minbari? Now that the War
+> is winding down ( As may be the series(I hope not) ) Will this be
+> explored ?
+
+       Earth takes up a big portion of the latter third of this
+season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Feb 1997 15:19:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Derek Linden <73322.2517@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TLN:Eye That Cannnot See
+
+ Derek Linden <73322.2517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this a correct assessment, or have we missed something?
+
+       Certainly Londo would like to avoid his fate, and Lady Morella
+prophesied certain ways of doing this...and he's had some chances, and
+blown them.  As you say, he's creating the very future he'd hoped to
+avoid.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Feb 1997 15:19:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Death & Rebirth
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       We'll have to see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Feb 1997 15:19:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TLN:Gamut of Hard Things
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This reminds me to ask you - did Londo's men switch the chains
+> back, or did G'Kar break them anyway because he was so
+> determined?
+
+       That was one determined Narn.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Feb 1997 15:19:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Into the Fire<<
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I still don't quite understand what "beyond the rim" is; is it
+> actually a different dimension, sort of like hypserspace but
+> different? ??
+
+       Thanks...it definitely clears the decks a bit....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Feb 1997 15:19:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark Honeyborne <106531.647@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, and I hope you're right, and the show endures.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Feb 1997 15:19:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Long Night
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Oh, I got back Andreas bigtime...but I'll save that story for
+the next convention.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Feb 1997 15:19:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Into The Fire
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...it's a beautiful ep....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Feb 1997 15:19:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TLN: Great Job as Usual
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I mean, the aftermath doesn't look very rosy at all now, does it?
+
+       It will have its ups and downs...but things do have a tendency
+to work out sometimes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Feb 1997 15:19:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 CD #2 is Available!
+
+ Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My system has been losing messages, could you please repost the
+> info on the new CD?
+
+       A mistake is a mistake, where's the mileage in saying it didn't
+happen? In what parallel universe did it not happen?
+
+       You can find info on the sountrack at www.sonicimages.com.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Feb 1997 15:19:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Into The Fire
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Had you always intended to try to get the same actor to play the
+> Inquisitor and Lorien, or was it serendipity?
+
+       Yeah, well, there's only so much you can do on TV and expect
+stations to still broadcast it.
+
+       We always knew only Wayne could do Lorien; no question, no one
+else auditioned.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Feb 1997 17:53:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Sanford Meisner
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> That got my attention, but what really sent a shiver down my back
+> (and now I understand what the word "frisson" means) was when he
+> said that Meisner instructed his students to approach a character
+> by asking the questions "Who are you? What do you want?
+> Why are you here?"
+
+       The man was obviously a Vorlon plant....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Feb 1997 17:53:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Midwest JMS
+
+ Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I've heard that you often appear in LA but I can't travel there
+> (afraid of turning into a pillar of salt, don't you know), and
+> wondered if you are planning to make any appearances in or near
+> the (wholesome, inexpensive and friendly!) midwest this year? I've
+> been checking the Zocalo and everything else I can find, but hope
+> I might have missed something?
+
+       Nothing in the midwest...Columbus Ohio, Orlando Florida,
+Tauntaun Mass, Long Island NY, Seattle, WA...wanted to do Chicago
+ComicCon this year, but the timetable doesn't work out, and Westercon
+got there first for Seattle as GoH.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Feb 1997 17:54:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Day of Reckoning
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What is he referring to ?
+> and why?
+
+       Well, the reckoning in the next life for his actions in this
+one, would be the best way of putting it.  That's what he expects.
+
+       (My B5 mug is sitting on my mug rug right now, on my desk at
+the stage. It gets many comments.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Feb 1997 17:54:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Derek Linden <73322.2517@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TLN:Eye That Cannnot See
+
+ Derek Linden <73322.2517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And is Sheridan also creating the future he wants to avoid?
+
+       Life's funny that way, ain't it?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Feb 1997 17:54:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: S J NICHOLSON <76574.1663@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Into The Fire
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       He'll get there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Feb 1997 00:43:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Midwest JMS
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> When are you going to be in Tampa or St.Petersburg Florida again
+> ?
+
+      I'll be in Orlando for Megacon the weekend of March 14th.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Feb 1997 00:43:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Midwest JMS
+
+ Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When will you be in Columbus?
+
+      I'll be in Columbus the weekend of May 9th.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Feb 1997 00:43:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Derek Linden <73322.2517@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TLN:Eye That Cannnot See
+
+ Derek Linden <73322.2517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But does Ivanova go down in mortal terror, wanting desparately to
+> live? But maybe I don't fully understand her--perhaps fear has
+> always been a major part of her life after all...either that, or
+> maybe she escapes the C&C? Does it?
+> Or can Sinclair, by his goodness, prevent such things as he
+> determined to do in "War w/o End"?
+
+      Guess we'll just have to wait and see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Feb 1997 18:41:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Derek Linden <73322.2517@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TLN: Great Job as Usual
+
+ Derek Linden <73322.2517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If he had not gone as Delenn warned, could Sheridan have avoided
+> that future? Or was it already set in stone, as you seem to
+> suggest? I find that amazing...why do you do it, if you don't mind
+> my asking?
+
+       Had he not gohne to Z'ha'dum, he would've avoided that fate,
+but caused another.  And yeah, I answer most questions that require a
+response.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Feb 1997 18:41:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Scarpa <73672.2136@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Into The Fire
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Some stations show the rating, some don't.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Feb 1997 18:41:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Scarpa <73672.2136@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Into The Fire
+
+ David Scarpa <73672.2136@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Only 3 things nawed at me while I watched "ITF" where was
+> Garibaldi and G'kar during all of this?
+
+       All will become clear in time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Feb 1997 18:41:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hawking..3 ages??
+
+ Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering if anything here relates to Stephen Hawking the
+> Cosmologist? Any comments, did Hawkings theory provide any ideas
+> etc???
+
+       It's a good corrolary, yeah...that wasn't the intent going in,
+but it ain't bad.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Feb 1997 18:41:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ITF:<Take Us In>
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are we to believe that these two ancient enemies, who would fight
+> and slaughter for millions of years, would just give up after
+> talking to Sheridan and Delenn for a few minutes? Was there just
+> one Shadow there?
+
+       I think that, for me, what mitigates against that is that a) it
+wasn't just Delenn and Sheridan, it was with virtually every other
+major civilization around backing their play, and adding their support,
+their voice, even being williing to die for the sake of this
+confrontation.  If it were just the two of them...they'd be scragged. 
+The two forces needed to be shown that the others had turned against
+them, and that their true faces had been exposed.
+
+       b) The other key for me is that neither the Vorlons nor the
+Shadows saw themselves as conquerers or adversaries...both believed
+they were doing what was right for us.  And like any possesive parent,
+they'll keep on believing that until the kid is strong enough to stand
+up and say, "No, this is what *I* want."
+
+       Most wars tend to end with one singular even...sometimes it's a
+big bomb, or a series of big bombs...and sometimes it comes with a
+negotiation. The two sides meet in a room, sometimes with
+representatives of other nations, and together they hammer out a truce,
+or a peace.  There's the Nagasaki solution on the one hand, and the
+"let's meet in a room and talk about this" of Jimmy Carter, Anwar Sadat
+and Minister Begin.
+
+       Both work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Feb 1997 18:42:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Day of Reckoning
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Please let me know if anyone else there wants one and Ill make
+> more and send them to you......or do you want to be the only kid
+> on the block with one?
+
+       Well, I gotta have *something* just for me....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Feb 1997 00:25:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: HOUR 25
+
+ Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any tapes or transcripts out there to be had?
+
+      No, there are neither tapes nor transcripts; eventually I'll
+gather it all together in book form, though.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Feb 1997 23:39:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Long Night
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      He asked if Ericsson was married because, if he was, that was a
+call that Sheridan would have to make, over Stellarcom or in person, to
+notify her that her husband was dead.  And, for Sheridan, I suppose
+there was a tinge of relief, knowing that at least he wouldn't be
+creating a widow as well as ordering Ericsson to do what was necessary.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Feb 1997 23:39:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Knives b-ball field
+
+ Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The field looked so real, inviting and wide open-- how'd you do
+> that? And is that B5 baseball hat he's wearing the one he had
+> Ivanova pick up in the now-defunct B5 gift shop "for his sister"?
+
+      The whole set was a virtual set, except for a few feet of
+dressing. All done in computer.
+
+      The Agamemnon cap is something we may be offering soon via the
+fan club.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Feb 1997 23:39:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Into the Fire<<
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Joe: In the final scene where we see an image of both the Vorlon
+> and the Shadows, why did you not show us the Vorlon in its true
+> form without the encounter suit?
+
+      Because we'd still be rendering it.  There are 114 EFX shots in
+that episode, and as it was we just barely made the satellite uplink. 
+If it wasn't absolutely necessary, better to do it more simply.  As it
+was, we were rendering the shadow form too.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Feb 1997 00:27:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Not Photogenic?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Yes, there are photos of Joe in the SF Library."
+
+      In *spite* of the petitions....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Feb 1997 03:10:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Harlan on Snyder
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Someone once said that writing involves constantly proving you
+have talent to those who have none.  But some suits don't want to admit
+that, and figure, if they can hold a pencil, they can write.  Because
+they have no respect for writers or the written word.  So they screw
+with it. Constantly. Which is why I consider myself very lucky with B5,
+in that they have left me alone and not interfered.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Feb 1997 03:16:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ITF
+
+ John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What did the latter call Delenn?
+> Is this important?
+> Was the rock that bumped the White Star and thus Lorien, letting
+> the Vorlons and Shadows know they were being 'tapped,' part of
+> the plan or just fate that worked out ok? Could Londo asking Vir
+> to kill him to save Centauri Prime one of his chances for
+> redemption and a successful chance?! What was the 6th?
+> Now that all 6 have left, and presumably won't appear again,
+> could you tell us the names of those races (assuming you've given
+> them any) and which ships belong to each race? Is Ironheart
+> already "beyond the rim?"
+
+      I don't think the shadows speaking through Lyta referred to
+Delenn by name; they said only, "And you they have left for us."
+
+      The jostling from the asteroid was an accident, though the
+others would've figured out what was going on soon enough.
+
+      Thanks again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 Feb 1997 11:42:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Derek Linden <73322.2517@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TLN: Great Job as Usual
+
+ Derek Linden <73322.2517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Intriguing...now I'm really curious...what would have been his
+> (and the universe's) fate had Sheridan not gone to Z'ha'dum?
+
+       That's one of those great questions to which the universe would
+rather we not know the answer....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Feb 1997 11:52:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com>
+Subject: VTTBOTS
+
+ Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Having grown up on Irwin Allen SF, and having noticed hommages to
+> various other SF shows on B5 in the past (Most noteably the
+> Prisoner), I was wondering if this was intentional, entirely my
+> imagination, or perhaps just a case of form follows function?
+
+       It's your imagination.  And form follows function.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Feb 1997 11:52:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Stuart C. Hellinger <70402.1371@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TLN - End Music
+
+ Stuart C. Hellinger <70402.1371@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I apologize in advance if you were already asked this (I haven't
+> had the time to log on this week), but was it deliberate that the
+> end credit music for the "The Long Night" went back to the third
+> season theme?
+
+       It was an error...but as with many errors on the show, it
+worked to our benefit.  It's the ABA principle....Art By Accident.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Feb 1997 11:52:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New episode...
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Everybody was in fear of Cartagia.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 Feb 1997 17:48:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Thanks for a Few
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       We vary it depending on what's going on...in general, it's best
+over the black, I think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Feb 1997 17:48:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ITF
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Morden - What are you going to do, blow up the island?
+
+       Thanks...that's a favorite moment of mine as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Feb 1997 17:48:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Into the Fire
+
+ Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it?
+
+       Thanks for the kind words.
+
+       No, no relation to Ivanova's outfit.  I just wanted a sense of
+something that was both ancient and ageless, frozen, formal, distant.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Feb 1997 23:03:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Andrew Diseker <70714.105@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Into The Fire
+
+ Andrew Diseker <70714.105@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it your intention for the Vorlon and Shadow reps that
+> appeared on White Star #2's bridge to sound, well, plaintive,
+> when they were talking to Lorien? Will the loss of the First Ones
+> be equally traumatic, in the story that comes after? Will some of
+> the characters begin to realize just what it means to really be
+> in charge, now?
+
+      Thanks.  There is a definite parent/child/parent dynamic going
+on there, in that Lorien is, in a way, in that role to the Vorlons and
+the Shadows, they're in that role to us, and we're in that role to
+those who will follow. It's the endless cycle.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Feb 1997 23:03:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Into the Fire<<
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, what was that entity that Ivanova saw in "Voices Of
+> Authority" and the "Hour Of The Wolf" (I think)? Was it the Papa
+> Shadow?
+
+      The Sigma 957 ship was one of the First One ships, yeah.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1997 21:16:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      There are bloopers, but we save those to show at conventions. 
+There are some illegal copies floating around, but they're always poor
+quality and we discourage people from buying them.
+
+      The 2nd CD is great, I agree.  I think the first couple of
+tracks are my favorite, particularly the extended season 1 theme at the
+top.  I'll sometimes just let that one replay several times on its
+own....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1997 21:28:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark Honeyborne <106531.647@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5
+
+ Mark Honeyborne <106531.647@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If they are not is there any chance of them being put onto a CD
+> single perhaps with Vir and Londo's rendishion of a Centari song
+> that they sung on KNIVES?
+
+      There was never any alternate version of "War," only my notes.
+
+      The songs will surface somewhere, eventually, I'm sure.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1997 21:29:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Video & LDs in the US
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Won't make any difference.  WB Video doesn't release *any* TV
+series on tape or disk; that it would make money, it seems, doesn't
+matter...they only want to be involved with the high-visiblity
+big-budget sure-hit movies, not piddly TV shows.  So all the letters in
+the world -- and they've received a lot of them -- apparently won't
+make any difference to these people.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1997 21:29:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Into the Fire
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  So far the general reaction has been, "But...but...what
+NOW?" which is *exactly* the reaction I was hoping for.
+
+      Everybody keeps commenting, "This is the sort of episode you
+have at the end, not 6 eps into your season."  Yep.
+
+      We're funny that way....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1997 21:29:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Into the Fire<<
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, that's not a ship.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1997 21:29:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Space Imagery
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Why was the being enclosed in a transparency?
+
+      The woman was in ice as a symbol of their ridigity, their
+inflexibility, "frozen in time," as the shadows say.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1997 21:29:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Into The Fire- Draal
+
+ Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are they yet to come?
+
+      Epsilon 3 will come up in various ways and places, and
+Draal...but in places where you won't expect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Feb 1997 01:37:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Scotty Fired
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"BTW, it is VERY enheartening that you speak out for the actors--good
+show!"
+
+      I think you *have* to.  The reality is that these individuals
+were the core of the ST phenomenon.  It wasn't the EFX, good as they
+were...it was the characters, and the capacity of viewers to care about
+those characters, as portrayed and given life by these actors.  They
+deserve recognition for creating something that has endured for 25
+years, and to be rudely treated by the studio seems to me vastly
+inappropriate.  (Did you know that until just recently, when the bulk
+of the original ST actors took action against the studio, they had
+individually received as little as $16,000 total as their share of the
+25 year multi-billion dollar ST franchise?)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Feb 1997 01:37:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Into the Fire
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Was he referring to Lyta's contact with the "eye" above Z'hadum?
+> Was the "eye" a part of the Shadow's consiousness?
+> If not, will we ever find out what it was?
+> Although I have some reservations about both the Shadows and
+> Vorlons suddenly reverting into whiney, frightened 3-year olds
+> (You're not going to leave us all alone are you?
+
+      You may not find out who built the Great Machine in the series,
+but that will be one of the features of one of the planned TNT movies. 
+And there will be more on the Valen/Sinclair transformation as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Feb 1997 01:37:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark K. Smith <74014.1534@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Into the Fire
+
+ Mark K. Smith <74014.1534@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When you got the idea for B5, did your wife have to lead you out
+> of the shower?
+
+      Didn't require leading out of the shower, but I didn't much come
+out of my office for a very long time thereafter....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1997 01:31:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark Honeyborne <106531.647@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5
+
+ Mark Honeyborne <106531.647@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Oh I thought the script was origanally longer from what I
+> gathered from TV ZONE but could there be a novel based on you
+> notes?
+
+"could there be a novel based on you notes?"
+
+      Several.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1997 01:31:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing
+
+ Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you ever used a pen name?
+
+      Nope.  Don't believe in it, at least for me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1997 01:31:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Future Theo?
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will you be including Brother Theo and the Boys in any future
+> episodes?
+
+      It's kinda hard to work them in...I'm trying....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1997 01:31:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Long Night
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      We're definitely keeping him in mind.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1997 01:31:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Into the Fire
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...I'm kinda proud of that line.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1997 01:31:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Epiphanies<<
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is he going to regret having spoken to and threatened her the way
+> he did?
+
+      Thanks...yeah, the rest of the season will actually continue to
+increase in intensity, not decrease.  "Epiphanies" for me is an episode
+where I can feel the gears changing between war and post-war just a
+bit, but overall it's not bad.  And there's some *mean* stuff coming up
+very soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1997 01:31:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dana Wright <72627.531@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ITF:Feeling
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...the sense of wonder and awe is something that's missing
+from so much contemporary SF, I'm glad we could restore a little of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1997 01:31:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<ITF>> Frying Pan...
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  You pick up on a lot of good stuff.  I've suggested the
+use of a minor chords version of the theme music to Chris on several
+occasions, where it seemed right, here, Signs and Portents, and in
+others.  The change from minor to major chords does signal an emotional
+transition, and it works well.
+
+      The director initially didn't want to do the Londo rage scene in
+one take; it was something I felt very strongly about, and I think it
+works well.
+
+      BTW, there's another example of a long single take coming up
+soon, on Epsilon 3, which is all I'll specify.  I kinda wanted the
+scene to play itself out, without cutting, and to show just how
+amazingly capable some of our actors can be.  We're talking here almost
+4 minutes of footage, not one cut in the whole thing, very fast
+dialogue, and not a single muffed line, with the performances working
+wonderfully.  You'll know it when you see it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1997 01:31:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ITF: The Right Ending
+
+ Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> On the first viewing, like Marcus, I was thinking, "Was that it?"
+> But how can they still ask for that, when we discovered how
+> all-powerful the desire to be proven right was for each of the
+> Old Ones? The last scene, when the Shadow asked Lorien if he would
+> come with them, and when the Vorlon said, "Then we will not be
+> alone?" You have so many tragic figures in this story--Londo,
+> G'Kar, Sheridan, Garibaldi--leave us some room for joy before you
+> wrap, will you?
+
+      Thanks.  You definitely hit a lot of the symbolism right on the
+head. One could almost argue for the whole scene as a classic
+"intervention" out of psychotherapy or group counseling.
+
+      Very early on, John Copeland asked me, "Okay, bottom line it for
+me, what's the war about?"  I said, "It's about killing your parents." 
+And his eyes went wide, and I explained, "No, not literally...but at
+some point you have to step outside the control of your parents and
+create your own life, your own destiny.  That process is
+inevitable...and if there are indeed older races, and they're
+interfering, that puts them smack in the middle of that same process."
+
+      It's not about who has the biggest gun, because there's *always*
+somebody else with a bigger gun...it's about *understanding* your way
+out of a problem.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:14:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Into The Fire
+
+[Reply to message #647046, which is no longer available]
+
+      Thanks, I appreciate it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:32:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Scotty Fired
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Do we ask the EFX to sign autographs?
+> Do we go to conventions for laser light shows and things
+> exploding? And HE didn't get fired, did he?
+> Do you know what the latest of this is, from "inside"?
+> Are any of Doohan's buddies sticking up for him?
+> Is he protesting this?
+> Is Paramount getting truckloads of mail in protest?
+
+      There's nothing more new on this in the trades, which is all I
+know about it...everybody rolled over, apparently, and that's that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:32:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Russ Herschler <76300.1071@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Video & LDs in the US
+
+ Russ Herschler <76300.1071@compuserve.com> asks:
+> From a legal standpoint, is there any possibility of them
+> licenceing Babylon 5 to another video company for release
+> (Columbia House or some such company...)?
+
+      We've been after them to do this, but so far it's "Well, no, we
+don't want to do them, but we don't want anyone else to do them either
+because it's our territory and if anyone should do them it's us, we
+just don't want do do them."
+
+      Nothing new there..."People will do what they will do even
+though you should burst."  Marcus Aurelieus
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:32:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Into The Fire
+
+ Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What can I say that hasn't been already said?
+> Susan's comeback also echoed my uneasy feeling of "did it REALLY
+> just happen?" but, from you?
+> The decadence of dealing with "subjective humor", the paraded
+> G'kar telling the -other- Narn to "be strong", Ericson's suicide
+> mission, "what had G'Kar sacrified?" were those Narn's blind???
+> desperate?
+> Where will you take us from here?
+
+      Thanks...and there are definitely more transitions to come....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:32:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Epiphanies<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah...Sheridan's taking a different tone with a lot of people
+these days.  I guess being dead for a while does that to you....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:32:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<ITF>> Frying Pan...
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> As if there weren't enough stuff (acting, story, CGI) to
+> anticipate...(And it takes place on Epsilon 3?!!
+
+      RE: actors and producers...it's a mixed bag.  Some producers
+prefer to have as little as possible to do with the cast.  And
+relations can be *very* strained, which leads to a lack of appreciation
+of the cast.  On B5, the cast and I hang out, we go to dinner, do
+conventions together, and I learn more about what they can do.  It
+creates an atmosphere where you want to reward them and show what they
+can do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:32:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ITF-Preview within ep
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's nothing to do with me, keed...I gots nothing to do with
+that.  I can only shake my head with everybody else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:32:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Epiphanies
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm confused about what was happening at the table; was Bester
+> doing a very light scan? know?
+
+      He tried to scan, but she kept blocking him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:32:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 407: Afflatus?
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Question: Was there more to that scene that had to be cut for
+> time? Or am I just seeing things?
+> I take it that if there was, the dialogue wasn't terribly
+> important to the story, but do you happen to recall what was
+> said?
+
+      You got it right...there was more in that scene, but we were
+about 4 minutes over on that episode, and I was chasing about another
+minute at that stage in the editing...and it went.  Weren't nothin'
+terribly important, just this part that explained the ethical structure
+of the universe and the true meaning of life, but heck, everybody knows
+THAT one....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:32:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ITF: Questions...
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Now that the first ones are gone, what happened to the Eye at
+> Z'ha'dum? 2) What's to prevent someone from going to the Vorlon
+> homeworld, and if they did, what would they find? 3) How
+> widespread is the knowledge of the victory? Does the Earth
+> government know what happened? And what about the people of Earth,
+> do they know? 4) NOW WHAT!?!
+
+      Oddly enough, every one of those questions is addressed in
+upcoming episodes, some as early as next week...so I'll let the show
+speak for itself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Feb 1997 15:31:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Remington Steele <73370.3260@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Into the Fire
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Feb 1997 15:31:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Epiphanies<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, yeah, it's one of those great opportunities when you
+get to play to the fact that the audience knows more than the
+characters know about something.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Feb 1997 15:31:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jeremy Bloom <73124.3263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Midwest JMS
+
+ Jeremy Bloom <73124.3263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And do you plan on attending Worldcon '98 in Baltimore, to pick
+> up your Hugo for "Into the Fire"?
+
+       Well, we'll see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Feb 1997 15:31:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The big pic (itf etc)
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Level of Vorlon impact on the known races - can we assume that
+> Londo's inability to see Kosh in TFON was a reflection of the
+> fact that the Vorlons _never_ interfered with the development of
+> the Centauri people? Was this intentional - natural abilities
+> exceed what the Vorlons seemed to be handing out?
+
+       It's a combination of elements, Londo's fall, and yes, the
+Vorlons had a very minimal affect on the Centauri, they never were able
+to get a really strong foothold there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Feb 1997 18:42:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ITF: Questions...
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The other siblings of the newlyweds (Psi Corp, IPX, etc) do,
+> what??? Have I got this dynamic straight?
+> And if so, does this have any resemblance to your family?
+> And finally, is the rest of the series about the Newlyweds
+> starting off, or are their some other of the underlying themes
+> you've hit on that are going to be explored?
+
+       There is such a thing as too much analysis....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1997 12:28:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<ITF>> Frying Pan...
+
+ Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you ever going to tell us how you got revenge for Andreas'
+> practical joke?
+
+       I'm saving that story for the next big convention....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1997 12:28:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Wrath of Nuts
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       You'll have to catch me first....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1997 12:28:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 videos in the USA
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I've dragged my feet on general merchandise, yeah, but never on
+tapes. B5online is confusing the issues.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1997 16:57:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Kathryn Drennan
+
+ Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any other Kathryn Drennan books available?
+> Does she have an Email address for fan mail?
+
+       While she has written prose for Twilight Zone magazine, and
+other national publications, and is a Clarion graduate, this will mark
+her first novel.  It's quite good (having read most of it now),
+tracking Sinclair's journey from B5 to Minbar, taking up the role of
+Ambassador, then transitioning to head of the Rangers.
+
+       This book stands to be the first one (closely followed by
+Jeanne Cavelos' forthcoming B5 book) that's 100% canon...to be
+considered a true chapter in the B5 storyline.
+
+       What's fun about it is that it ties all the books and comics
+together with the show, and puts it all in chronological order, and
+weaves in and out of events in the second season.  I think this is
+going to be a fan favorite. The Cavelos book follows Anna Sheridan as
+she comes to join the crew of the Icarus, and the details of their fate
+at Z'ha'dum.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1997 16:57:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Wrath of Nuts
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       "We're working on a plan."
+
+       And where you intend to get a chicken that large is beyond me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1997 16:57:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 407: <Escorts?>
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How come he's got no guards on B5?
+
+       Because Londo wouldn't abide that for more than five minutes;
+it'd cramp his style.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1997 16:57:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The big pic (itf etc)
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But I'm curious, shouldn't he have been looking for Sinclair?
+
+       No, Valen was a done deal, as far as the Vorlons were
+concerned; they knew that that happened/would happen.  It was Sheridan
+and Delenn who had to go through this...and in Delenn's case, more for
+her benefit, in some ways.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1997 16:57:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Epiphanies<<
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> My boss seemed to think it has something to do with something
+> that happened in this episode, but I have no clue what he's
+> talking about, do you?
+
+       Ah...well, that explains the angry phone calls and late-night
+hangups, then....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1997 23:30:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kathryn Drennan
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think the first one out, the Cavelos book, should be out next
+month.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1997 23:30:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kathryn Drennan
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The other books...in broad strokes, I accept they happened, but
+in the details, and how they're treated, and some incidentals...they
+haven't hit all the right cylinders.  This time, with this batch, I got
+more directly involved and I think they're definitely improved...though
+the Cavelos novel had the least need for input, since she *really* knew
+the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1997 23:30:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<ITF>> Frying Pan...
+
+ SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you want a reminder on Sunday?
+
+      Reminder about what?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:50:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Fred Miller <76042.3474@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Kathryn Drennan
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's certainly what I want....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:51:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<ITF>> Frying Pan...
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, but I think I want to hold that for a big con...my
+problem is, once I tell a story ANYwhere, it's on the nets in 50
+seconds, and I can't tell it anywhere else without boring my audience
+to tears.  So I'm looking for ways to spread stuff around.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:51:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5 Soundtrack II
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is the Babylon 5 Volume 2 soundtrack out in stores and on the
+> shelves yet?
+
+       Yeah, it's out (though you may need to have your local store
+special order it for you), and you can get it online via
+www.sonicimages.com.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:51:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Colin Glassey <104224.2227@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Epi - Lyta & Sheridan
+
+ Colin Glassey <104224.2227@compuserve.com> asks:
+> First, the jump seems huge, how could he think that she had
+> anything to do with it? I've done so many things for you, and what
+> have you done for me? You aren't my commanding officer."?
+
+       No, Lyta doesn't officially work for Sheridan, but she has
+nowhere else to go, and is beholden to him just for everyday survival
+and protection against the Corps.  That makes her answerable to him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:51:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Epiphanies
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> BTW, does the Regent have a name now?
+
+       Actually, though the tougher Delenn is in flashbacks in 2
+weeks, the foreground/contemporary story has her very tough, and very
+smart. Basically, the next mini-arc sequence focuses a LOT on
+Delenn...she has many facets, and while part of that is the
+relationship, there's steel there as well, and we're going to explore
+that.  As she at one point comments to Sheridan, "I appreciate that you
+have come to care for what I have become... but never forget who I am,
+or what I can do."
+
+       After this arc of hers, nobody's ever going to make that
+mistake.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:51:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Just What I Wanted
+
+ David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> She was quite relieved, although she had the reaction you
+> apparently wanted from your avid viewership: "Oh s**t, what now?"
+
+       That's great to hear, on all fronts...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:51:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Into The Fire
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Nope, the events of WWE *cemented* the events that are to come.
+What we saw in that flash-forward will now happen precisely because of
+what has been done.  That future will take place.
+
+       As for the story being over...not by a long sight.  Frankly,
+some of what's coming in the latter part of this season is more intense
+than anything we've done previously.  We really focus in on the
+characters and the after-shocks of the war, in ways usually ignored.
+
+       After all, we all know how nice and calm and civilized Europe
+was after the War To End All Wars came to an end...we hardly heard a
+peep from that part of the world thereafter....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:51:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jim De Vico <72662.2765@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Epiph.> Throw away line
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Give 'em time, and they'll try to buy a planet.  It's
+inevitable.
+
+       With Earth now in the present, that'd make two.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1997 22:19:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing
+
+ Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was just wondering what sort of software you use to write
+> scripts, and if you use something different for novels?
+
+      I use Movie Master for scripts; it's a formatting program only. 
+It's quirky and buggy as hell, but it's what I learned to use at
+Universal, and it's functional.  I use Wordstar for regular prose.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1997 22:19:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<ITF>> Frying Pan...
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So......is I-Con considered the next big con??
+
+      Megacon in Florida would be the next biggie.  I'll be at that
+one in Orlando March 15th and 16th.
+
+      BTW, here's one of those little things that make you go
+"hmmmmm...."
+
+      That Starlog has an anti-B5 bias has always been evident, and
+has covered us only reluctantly covered us.  There is a convention
+listing page in the current issue.  It mentions the Gallifrey
+Convention happening this weekend here in LA, lists the guests...but
+omits my name.  So you figure, "Okay, it's an oversight."
+
+      Then there's a listing for MegaCon in Orlando.  Now, understand
+that MegaCon *advertises* in Starlog.  Three pages earlier, there's a
+huge half page ad for MegaCon with my name in huge letters as the
+primary guest.  But in the convention listing for MegaCon, all the
+others are listed *except* me.
+
+      One you figure could be an oversight...two, in the very same
+magazine that has a huge ad for one of the conventions, starts to look
+like a deliberate snub.
+
+      Or, more succinctly, "Hmmmm....."
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Feb 1997 19:42:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Scotty Fired
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Your understanding of the situation is correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Feb 1997 19:42:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Goodies
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The 2nd soundtrack is out and available right now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Feb 1997 19:48:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Writing
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think a lot of SF writers stayed with it because of
+familiarity.  SF writers, and folks like me (still not entirely sure if
+I belong in that category), were invariably the first ones on our block
+to have personal computers...back when that meant a Kaypro II with 64K
+ram and 128K floppies and NO internal hard drive, and an 8" green
+monitor.  (I still have mine, incidentally, I'm too sentimental to
+throw it away.)
+
+      Back then, Wordstar was pretty much the way to go.  That's what
+I learned on, and that's why I use it.  I like the WYSIWYG approach,
+and it does feel like a typewriter.
+
+      The WS for Windows was a nightmare, and I deleted it instantly. 
+Is there any indication that they're going to be trying again any time
+soon? I'd like to use the capability that comes with windows, but I'm
+too short on time to afford the learning curve for another software
+system.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Feb 1997 19:48:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Nick Murray <70003.1112@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5 Soundtrack II
+
+ Nick Murray <70003.1112@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But when I played the "Severed Dreams" track on the new CD it
+> doesn't sound like the same cue at all?? Someone had a breakdown
+> of the tracks on USENET and from what I understand the track
+> titled "Severed Dreams" is actually mostly music is from
+> "Messages from Earth"? I guess I don't understand why the tracks
+> are titled the way they are when they don't contain the music
+> from that particular episode?
+
+      I think that music appears elsewhere on the disk, in
+pieces...I'm not sure why he entitled stuff the way he did.  There's
+more "Z'ha'dum" stuff in the "Severed" track than anything else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Feb 1997 19:49:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Epiphanies - good...
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The G'Kar/Londo dynamic isn't quite over yet...there's more to
+come, and that relationship is going to continue having its ups and
+downs.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Feb 1997 20:01:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kathryn Drennan
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The broad strokes of previous books are generally incorporated
+into canon, but henceforth the books will be *based on* canon, which
+will help take care of a lot of trouble.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Feb 1997 20:01:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Timmorn <104444.3110@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Paramount praise?
+
+ Timmorn <104444.3110@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this correct?
+> close?
+
+      It probably refers to Majel Roddenberry, who supported the show
+by coming out and acting on it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Feb 1997 20:01:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>IofT great/frightening
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...yeah, it's a *very* subversive episode in that way. 
+Which is way cool.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Feb 1997 20:01:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Epiphanies> All Round
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Garibaldi's shaving scene is a visually eerie thing
+> (foreshadowing?
+
+      Thanks...and as always, good thoughts on all this material.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Feb 1997 21:43:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Writing
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I use WS 7.0.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Feb 1997 21:43:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Slip Slidin' Away
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What do you say?
+> Maybe after the series is over?
+
+      We'll see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Feb 1997 21:43:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Epiphanies> curious ?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> My one, quick, curious question is, was the "big band" style
+> music used in the beginning something written specifically for
+> this episode? Or was it something else?
+
+      Yeah, Chris wrote the music for us, in Big Band style.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Feb 1997 21:43:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: First Ones Motives
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The main motive for going beyond the rim...there's a heck of a
+big Taco Bell out there....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Feb 1997 21:43:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 408: Timeline
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you clarify the timeline for the first eight episodes?
+> Does that mean that 407 ("Epiphanies") happened sometime in Feb,
+> March or April?
+
+      There are always some time jumps in the show, since there's only
+22 weeks worth of shows, and they cover 52 weeks of a year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Feb 1997 01:07:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>IofT great/frightening
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> I assume they were the names of real directors, writers, and
+> actors who were blacklisted?
+
+      Yes, they're based on the real names of writers who were
+blacklisted, Dalton Trumbo and Paul Jarrico.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Feb 1997 01:07:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Epiph & prior eps
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  RE: the regent...well, if you want to do something
+really nasty, you want to do it to somebody everybody kinda likes, so
+you feel for the situation.
+
+      Ah likes doing that sorta thing...dropping anvils on characters
+to see what pattern splat they make....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Feb 1997 12:42:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rage'sThots:Epiphanies
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> * I think it's about time our Minister / Regent got a name, don't
+> you? After the Great Bab5 Computer Reboot (starring Sparky the
+> Wonder Computer), was the SPIDER IN THE WEB Control erased from
+> Bab5's files? Wasn't / Isn't Mars owned by a company, kinda?
+> Maybe he had tasted what the two of them could do when they
+> worked together instead of at each other's throat? Boy, he got
+> shut down hard a couple few times by Lyta, didn't he? A taste of
+> Martyrdom? Maybe her and Alfie, y'know, "wink-wink, nudge-nudge,
+> say no more"? I seemingly recall a mention somewhere by Pat
+> Tallman that Lyta was a lesbian, or bisexual? Is that canon, or
+> just something Pat said at a convention? And ObObviousQuestion:
+> How *much* has she been modified? A telepath would be real handy
+> for removing that stuff, don'tcha think? How immortal (for 20 yrs)
+> is he? More importantly, how immortal does he feel?
+> Rage Ranger of Washingdome "I assume my usual quarters in the
+> brig are available?
+
+       The only thing I'd quibble with there is calling Garibaldi's
+trust of Jack in season 1 a massive screwup...he had no way of knowing
+what was going on, nobody did, viewers included, until it happened.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Feb 1997 12:42:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: John Schuck-Draal
+
+ Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How will this effect his part as Draal and B5's shooting
+> schedule?
+
+       It's been an ongoing series of complications relative to
+Draal's character and John's schedule.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Feb 1997 12:42:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Blacklist
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks...it's a period too few people really know much about,
+and it never hurts to point to the past in order to warn about the
+future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Feb 1997 12:42:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: What hpned to L Welch?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       The actor wanted to do other things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Feb 1997 20:31:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Barometer
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How's the production coming along?
+> What script are you up to in writing and which are they currently
+> filming? And, most importantly, how are *you* doing thesedays?
+
+      Production's coming along spiffily.  We're currently working
+with our guest star Efram Zimbalist Jr., who is going to be in 2
+episodes.
+
+      I'm getting along as well as can be expected under the
+circumstances, and a few thousand pressures....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Feb 1997 20:31:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<ITF>> Frying Pan...
+
+ Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> On a related note, have you seen the latest issue of Sci-Fi
+> Invasion? Needless to say this caught my eye, so I read the entire
+> article so I could get it in the right context, I mean no one
+> would be that bold, right?
+
+      So by Hans logic, any series of novels, like the Dune books or
+anything else, is "limited by the imagination" of the person
+responsible, and thus flawed...or Herbert was just full of it...same
+for Tolkein, Clarke, Asimov, Smith and others.
+
+      I think this is what's called a classic case of projection.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Feb 1997 12:20:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <100563.322@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade
+
+ Darran Williams <100563.322@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I note that you say the virus has an incubation period of 5 years
+> so is this an indication that the series is intended to run for 5
+> years like B5.? On a side note will TNT be exclusively showing the
+> two Babylon 5 movies or do they intend to make a deal with other
+> TV companies around the world so that the likes of us in the UK
+> will be able to see them ?
+
+       I imagine that the TNT movies will be made available
+internationally, as that's how they'll make money off them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Feb 1997 21:29:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Cherns Major <75026.3723@compuserve.com>
+Subject: IoT: co-conspirators
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Parks (the person who's naming names) was also named after one
+of those who testified before HUAC.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Feb 1997 11:46:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The doctor's eyes
+
+ Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this what was intended?
+
+       Actually, no, he wasn't reading off a teleprompter at all.  His
+eyes may have been moving, but there was no reading involved.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Feb 1997 22:33:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Backlash
+
+ colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What say you all???
+
+      a) One letter writer does not a backlash make.
+
+      b) How can we have a backlash when we've never even had a
+frontlash?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Feb 1997 22:36:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jose Cabanillas <71020.3316@compuserve.com>
+Subject: IoT: co-conspirators
+
+ Jose Cabanillas <71020.3316@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who came up with that perspective, and was this change of tone
+> set totally in the writing or did it get enhanced on the set? Had
+> he done any directing before?
+
+      Stephen has directed before, yes, though he hasn't done that
+much episodic TV work.
+
+      The final shot was strictly described in the script; the monitor
+POV, the relative positions of everyone, the slight fisheye look and
+the absolute silence.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Feb 1997 17:12:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>A Couple of Questions<
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How many folks on Earth even know about the Shadow/Vorlon threat,
+> the assembled fleet, its success and the repercussions? Is this so
+> and, if so, when will we begin getting a clearer idea of what
+> that agenda might include?
+
+      For now, just the one...no, not everyone back home even knows
+there *was* a war.  Which our characters will find rather annoying....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Feb 1997 17:18:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Not the One?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, Entil-zha is the One, the specific head of the Rangers
+(known in the Minbari language as Anla-shok, meaning the application of
+force, as will be noted in one of the novels).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Feb 1997 01:41:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Frank J. Furfaro <74031.1005@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TV Bloopers show
+
+ Frank J. Furfaro <74031.1005@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were you aware that these were going to be on and chose them, or
+> did WB just include them in the show?
+
+      NUTS!  I missed it!  I knew it was coming, but didn't know it
+was tonight.  NUTS!
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Feb 1997 01:41:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Illusion of Truth
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....we try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Feb 1997 01:41:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Cindy LOVED Demon Night
+
+ David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any word yet on renewal or the follow on series?
+
+      Thanks on all counts...and no word yet on the rest of it.
+
+      They're pretty good books.
+
+      But the next one will be better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Feb 1997 01:41:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: He Did What?!
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> At first, I thought, "Hey, this is a new show, I wonder if
+> they'll have any B5 bloopers?"
+
+      Sigh...and I missed it...oh, well....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Feb 1997 01:41:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phyllis Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com>
+Subject: IoT: co-conspirators
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, that's one of the things we try to do with this show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Feb 1997 01:41:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Personal Revelations
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...yeah, a number of folks have come around to that. 
+That's one more reason why I wanted to get the war out of the
+way...because too many people were focusing in on the show as being
+about the war.  It ain't.  It's about the changes that happen before,
+during, and *after* a war.  And what's coming up is in some ways
+stronger because it's more personal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Feb 1997 01:41:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Illusion of Truth
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's a good and creepy episode.  I like it when things
+get creepy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Feb 1997 22:44:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lessons of 'Epiphanies'
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"1. Sure the witch-hunt was probably a bad thing but let's all
+remember that Hollywood was indeed full of Commies."
+
+      Sigh...
+
+      Darwin was wrong.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Feb 1997 23:16:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Cindy LOVED Demon Night
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm just curious, is this because the here-and-now is too
+> confining for the stories you want to tell, or SF allows you to
+> play with what we know in the here-and-now more effectively,
+> or...?
+
+      I tend to lean toward SF because that's what gets caught in my
+filter. I'm an SF fan.  Always have been.  I like other genres, and
+tend to play with them from time to time, but SF remains my first and
+foremost love.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Feb 1997 23:16:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Cindy LOVED Demon Night
+
+ Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does the next one have a title or expected publication date yet?
+
+      Title, yeah, but I'm holding that for now; no pub date, I want
+to finish it first, then auction it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Feb 1997 23:16:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: He Did What?!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...lemme check around here first, in case we can get an
+aircheck from the studio first.  If not, I'll take you up on the offer,
+thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Feb 1997 23:16:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 in MacUser
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...yeah, I saw it.  Nice article.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Feb 1997 23:16:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Illusion of Truth
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"FWIW, that was your most courageous episode yet, IMHO."
+
+      I appreciate the sentiment, so don't take this as lack of
+gratitude on my part; I'm happy you perceive it that way.
+
+      But courageous?  No.
+
+      Courageous as an apellation belongs to the South American
+writers who insist on telling the truth about their governments, who
+risk death on a daily basis for doing so...and to other writers doing
+similar work in other countries.
+
+      Yeah, it was kind of a shot to the midsection for some groups,
+with a certain element of biting the hand that feeds you, but the truth
+is, ain't nobody gonna come to my door in the middle of the night with
+death squads, take me away, and torture me.  If you want to hear about
+real courage, join PEN International, or Amnesty International.  They
+can always use the help.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Feb 1997 23:16:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lessons of 'Epiphanies'
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, being a communist wasn't illegal back in the McCarthy
+period, either...they just destroyed you for it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Feb 1997 23:16:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <TIoT> Ill-/De-/Coll-
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can what Garibaldi says be counted as illusion or truth, these
+> days?
+
+      Thanks...your reaction is about on a par with most folks...that
+this ep is one that'll be discussed a lot, but not rewatched a lot,
+because it's just really hard to watch, knowing what's coming.  It
+really does tend to upset people.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Feb 1997 23:16:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: IoT--cryo-cameos
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'll probably be there sooner or later....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Feb 1997 23:46:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Cindy LOVED Demon Night
+
+ David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The next novel?
+> You mean there is something coming after Othersyde?
+
+      Yeah, I started my next novel...it's going to be a slow haul,
+because I still have to give B5 my primary concern, but I've been going
+batty not doing some prose work, and I decided I finally had to start
+it, just for my own soul.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Feb 1997 17:32:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Cindy LOVED Demon Night
+
+ Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I don't suppose you'd give us a little hint of what it's about?
+
+       Fraid not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Feb 1997 17:32:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <TIoT> Ill-/De-/Coll-
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It beggs the question "Who watches the Watchmen?"
+> Is Garibaldi's comments to Dan Randall what you had in mind?
+
+       That's certainly the beginning of it, yeah.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Feb 1997 22:32:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phyllis Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Cindy LOVED Demon Night
+
+ Phyllis Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you plan to put Babylon5 into prose form (three novels I would
+> think) or do you think trying to translate into another media
+> from TV film would basterize it?
+
+      My feeling is, if I'd wanted to do 'em as books, I'd've done 'em
+as books.  The story was designed for TV, and that's probably the best
+place to leave it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Feb 1997 22:32:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Cindy LOVED Demon Night
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What's the next one going to be?
+
+      No, the next novel has nothing to do with B5, anymore than did
+my first two.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Feb 1997 22:32:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Atonement
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Feb 1997 22:32:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Truth, the Media, and B5
+
+ Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are we supposed to think that you believe all reporters are
+> slime, or is it just the slant that they've been given in B5
+> episodes? So I guess my main questions are these: What is your
+> attitude on the press? And will you ever portray reporters in a
+> good light?
+
+      No, I don't make any blanket condemnations of journalists.  For
+one thing, there's a difference between portraying journalism in a
+relatively free society, and one that's operating under a dictatorship,
+a la President Clark. It's the difference between journalism and
+propaganda.
+
+      In "Midnight on the Firing Line," we had a reporter there doing
+a straight-ahead story; in "Point of No Return" we had the Good
+Journalists fighting to reveal the truth even as Clark was shutting
+them down.
+
+      There have been favorable portrayals; it's just that under the
+current regime, they don't have access to the media.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Feb 1997 22:32:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>The Truth in IofT<<
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is there no wear and tear on space suits and space ships?
+> Don't people and equipment bump into things in space and scratch
+> letters and bend things that aren't worth repairing? Is this
+> intentional? What does the print say on the top?
+> Any of these available on the market yet?
+> Is not Sheridan bothered a little bit by the fact that the
+> reporter may be right? Who really is telling the truth just a
+> little, Delenn or ISN?
+
+      The Hubble looks pretty new and gleaming, until you get right up
+close to it.  You don't allow wear in a space suit because it'll kill
+you.  And the stuff at B5 is at *most* 4 years old, and only outside
+when needed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Feb 1997 23:47:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS's new book
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Didn't say it to you 'cause I'd already said it, and didn't want
+to repeat myself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Feb 1997 16:53:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>The Truth in IofT<<
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> No rust in space, but no dust also?
+
+       You don't want to get dust into your space suit or it'll screw
+up the works and you'll die, which is a definite design flaw.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Feb 1997 22:24:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WB vs. Drop Dead?
+
+ Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have a feeling yet whether WB/PTEN will be willing to give
+> you an answer on renewal and/or the sequel after this week's
+> numbers come out and get digested? If not, do you know this year's
+> 'drop dead' date on renewal?
+
+      The renewal dates for the actors is the same every year, around
+late June/early July.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Feb 1997 22:24:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: more praise
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's great, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Feb 1997 22:24:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kristi Ferebee <75361.1615@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Time loop?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I could answer this, but if I expand the time paradox loop any
+further, I would end up not answering it because I'd already answered
+it, which means it wouldn't get answered, requiring me to answer it
+now, and pretty soon the universe implodes, and I don't want that on my
+conscience.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Feb 1997 22:24:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ><The Long Night>>
+
+ Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it my drug-induced haze, or was the voice of the shadow
+> creature done by Ed Wasser?
+
+      Yeah, that was Ed's voice.  Seemed appropos.
+
+      Definitely didn't want it to end in a big explosion.  We've seen
+many of those; how many more can you see?  One is the same as the other
+after a while. And if we destroyed everything, how would that show we'd
+grown enough to create the new age?  It's a matter of evolution, not
+destruction.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1997 01:40:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Cindy LOVED Demon Night
+
+ David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it horror, SF, or something else?
+
+      It's SF.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1997 13:52:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Greatest 10 Seconds
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...it was fun....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1997 14:07:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Conspiracy of Light Conv
+
+ Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are these guys for real?
+> Did I miss the description of what facility they are talking
+> about? make a reservation, but is this legit?
+> thing out?
+> crew, JMS, etc?
+> What do you know of this?
+
+       My knowledge and association is at some distance.  I met with
+some of the people putting this together while I was in Florida, and
+they include a number of folks who have been long-time online
+supporters of B5, who apparently have a good background running
+conventions.  I know that they are making a honest effort of this, and
+are doing all they can to make it a good convention.  Beyond that, I
+can't say that we're actively involved in it. It has all the earmarks
+of something that would work out, but I have no way of knowing that,
+any more than any other first-time convention...except to know the
+intentions of the people, which are good, and their experience, which 
+seems to be solid.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1997 14:07:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: pen names
+
+       I just chose not to go the pen name route for myself, it's not
+meant as a general statement for others.  I figure if I do all the work
+creating something, it's not unreasonable to expect people to work
+their way through pronouncing Straczynski....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1997 14:07:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Epiphanies
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When Garibaldi spoke to Zach about his hiring him, were you
+> harkening back at all to when you hired Jeff for the role when
+> you wrote that particular scene?
+
+       Jeff has certainly had his share of rough breaks, and we were
+very happy to give him a home here on B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1997 14:07:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 409: Shades of Red
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I'll have to verify what you report, but if it's there, my
+guess is that it's an artifact of the blue-screen that was behind her
+for the second shot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1997 14:07:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Atonements
+
+ John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Am I correct that Dukhat is the first Minbari we've seen with
+> facial hair? Is that important?
+> Did Sinclair/Valen ever realize Delenn's heritage?
+> Might this newly mentioned mystery about Valen's end foreshadow
+> it's resolution in future episodes? Did I hear correctly that
+> Calenn is Delenn's brother and they had other brothers die along
+> with Dukhat?
+
+       No, Calenn was not Delenn's brother; the grey councilor speaks
+of brothers in the generic sense.
+
+       Draal, in his first appearance, also had a small beard.
+
+       And thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1997 14:11:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Official: No year 5
+
+       No, the Netter release DOES NOT specifically state that there
+will not be a season 5.  It talks about the current 88 episodes in the
+can, which TNT wants to go with asap, but we've been told by WB that a
+concurrent airing of season 5 and the TNT reruns is a possibility, so
+it's still in the discussion process.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1997 18:12:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Colin Knowles <72152.201@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Official: No year 5
+
+ Colin Knowles <72152.201@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Isn't this pretty much completely against what you've intended
+> from day one about B5? Also, could you give us any tantilizing
+> hints about "Babylon 5: In the Beginning"?
+
+       Re: "programming franchises"...I agree.  I went and yelled on
+Doug today, because this came out of the offices of the financial guys
+in his company, and their only goal is to make everything big and
+productive sounding for their stockholders, and that's the kind of
+language they love. I didn't even see the thing until I logged on
+today...and created several new orifices for him in the area of "these
+things never go out unless I see them first!" Financial people and
+creative people have different concerns and different priorities. 
+(Which is why there were no quotes from me in this, I didn't know it
+was going out.)
+
+       So people have been yelled at on this one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1997 18:13:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Cindy LOVED Demon Night
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What about that paragraph about "the one" or something from
+> Othersyde? Is a novel about Sinclair/Zathras or G'Quon and G'Lan
+> still possible?
+
+       The new version of the B5 comic will have more info on
+Valen/Zathras.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1997 18:13:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 409: Shades of Red
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any idea why bluescreen would do that sort of thing
+> to some colors? And, is there anything that can be done to avoid
+> it?
+
+       I think they had to tweak the color in the transfer to avoid
+the problem of blue against blue, and having the virtual set bleed
+through.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Feb 1997 01:01:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Image of a Vorlon
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Because it takes concentration to pull it off, and Kosh2 was
+kinda distracted....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Feb 1997 01:01:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Epiphanies
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> ....have you ever considered the fact that between Jeff Conaway,
+> Stephen Furst, and several others, you've made B5 into a haven
+> where unappreciated and typecast actors have been able to shine
+> with their respective skills while flipping a thespian finger at
+> all those who've ignored them?
+
+      That sometimes occurs to me....
+
+      They're all fine actors who've been vastly underappreciated,
+under utilized, and typecast.  We don't cater to that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Feb 1997 02:37:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: To Sysops from jms
+
+      Some recent rumors have come to my attention over the last few
+days, which I hope, in this forum, to put to rest.
+
+      The rumors concern messages, posted here, which may have used
+the occasional reference -- largely allowed on television, in
+magazines, on the radio and elsewhere -- words such as "pissed off" or
+"ass," that have been deleted or moved out of public view.  That is to
+say...censored.
+
+      Understand that those words are good enough for the Bible, which
+tells us that god will "cut off from His presence he who pisseth
+against the wall," and refers to the "jawbone of an ass."  Now, if such
+language is good enough for the Bible, then it seems to me that such
+terms should be good enough for Compuserve.
+
+      Now, I say "rumors" because I'm sure that the sysops will now
+come forth and explain that this was a terrible misunderstanding, that
+no such thing ever happened, and will not happen in future.
+
+      Granted, obviously, there are certain words and phrases that
+have no place in a forum such as this...the really Tough Words. 
+"Pissed off" and "ass" are not tough words...they are not even
+firecrackers in the world of harsh language, nowhere near the
+occasional cannon or howitzer that is out there.
+
+      Further, more disturbing, are the rumors that messages inquiring
+about these censored messages, which do not in and of themselves
+contain any such language, have THEMSELVES been deleted or moved out of
+public view (essentially the same thing).  That it is now inappropriate
+and unallowable to even ASK about such things, regardless of language
+used.  And that such heavy handedness has caused the resignation of a
+number of forum members here.
+
+      I say rumors, and I say unfounded rumors, because surely even
+Compuserve would not actually take such action, and I'm confident will
+now step forward to say otherwise.  Why do I believe this?
+
+      Because Compuserve has a public image to maintain, and the
+information that it was driving off users and deleting messages for
+asking questions about censored messages would cause a furor of
+substantial proportions.
+
+      Because I will be sure to post many colorful quotes from the
+Bible in this space, and when they are removed, inform the National
+Council of Churches that Compuserve is deleting material from the Bible
+on the grounds that people should not see it.  In sum, censoring the
+Bible.  This should go over extremely well in the press.
+
+      Because Compuserve and the sysops must know that if such rumors
+*were* true that I would be forced to resign from this area myself,
+rather than tacitly endorse such heavy handedness.  I would publicly
+announce that this area is not conducive to the open discussion of this
+show, and that users should apply elsewhere.
+
+      Because on a daily basis, I give interviews to major newspapers,
+magazines, television shows, radio shows, internet publications and
+other venues in which I am asked about the online discussions of
+Babylon 5; I speak at conventions across the country where these
+matters are also discussed. And if this really *were* the situation
+here on CIS, then in all of these interviews I would have no other
+choice than to talk about messages censored simply for asking about
+policies on censorship and their rationalization, let alone for
+essentially innocuous words.  I would talk about it *at length*, and 
+ensure that every newspaper and magazine and TV show and radio show
+and internet publication and convention I spoke to printed or discussed
+this information at length.
+
+      I would obtain the name of the CEO of Compuserve, and pass along
+that information to journalists so that they could verify this for
+themselves, since the idea is, as stated above, utterly
+ludicrous...that any reasonably sane person could behave in such a
+capricious and brutish manner.  If this policy were in fact being
+enforced, then I should imagine that the CEO of Compuserve would only
+be *thrilled* to defend its practice to journalists at all hours of the
+day.
+
+      Compuserve would surely know that such behavior can exist only
+in the shadows, and that nothing so illuminates the corners of such a
+discussion as a few well-aimed journalists...and where the average
+person might not have a means of getting the word out...I do.  And I
+have an obligation to the many B5 fans using this service to maintain
+the *reasonable and justifiable* limits of language that have always
+been used here in the past, and that a show which encourages the asking
+of questions will support those of its fans who choose to ask questions
+of others, including "Why was that deleted?" without having to fear
+that inquiry being itself deleted or otherwise obscured.
+
+      I expect now that the messages inquiring about deleted or
+"disappeared" messages will be restored, and reasonable discussion be
+permitted here, and this whole silly rumor discounted once and for all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Feb 1997 12:56:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Epiphanies
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Dunno...the ways of actors are like unto god, and transcend all
+understanding.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Feb 1997 12:56:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Illusion of Truth
+
+ Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just how painful was this for you as a writer to write about?
+> Have you or someone you cared about been treated this way?
+
+       It was most definitely difficult and painful for me to write. 
+I am as much involved with these characters as anyone else, and doing
+this kind of thing to them is hard.  And you have to put yourself in
+the minds of those doing this, and that's a dark place to be.
+
+       And yeah, I know people who were harmed in the blacklist, and
+I've seen others, and myself, sometimes harmed by those who like to
+twist things around to their own benefit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Feb 1997 12:56:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com>
+Subject: pen names
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I was hired by WB to write the 4 hour miniseries that never got
+produced, to revive the show, because it would've been too costly for
+syndication.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Feb 1997 12:56:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Yuen <72466.1621@compuserve.com>
+Subject: To Sysops from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       It ain't just you...it's also Tom Knudsen and Stephen Smith and
+others who have had this difficulty lately.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Feb 1997 02:03:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: To Sysops from jms
+
+ WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Perhaps it isn't an exact parallel, but wouldn't you do something
+> similar to avoid Babylon 5 becoming rated "R"? As an example, in
+> your role as sole producer/creator of Babylon 5, would you
+> tolerate the viewers of your program voicing their opinions of
+> its direction while you were producing it?
+
+||Pictures or text exposing extreme cruelty, physical or emotional
+acts against any animal or person which are primarily intended to hurt
+or inflict pain.  Obscene words, phrases, and profanity defined as text
+that uses, but not limited to, George Carlin's 7 censored words more
+often than once every 50 messages (newsgroups) or once a page (web
+sites).||
+
+      Well, then you have an immediate probelm here, Wes.  The
+deletion in question seemed to occur after only ONE appearance.  The
+rule stipulates "more often than once every 50 messsages."  If you are
+strictly adhering to this rule, then it stands to reason that you have
+the statistics to back it up. Otherwise how can you enforce it?
+
+      So it is incumbent upon you to demonstrate that the use of one
+word occured more than once in every 50 messsages.  Please show me the
+stats you used to verify this position.  Otherwise it is random,
+capricious, and in direct violation of the rules you say you are
+following.  Because by inference, removing messages that contain words
+such as the one you note LESS than every 50 messages is a VIOLATION of
+CIS rules...and since only you have the access to the full stats on
+this system, it is now incumbent upon you to demonstrate whether or not
+you are in adherence to, or violation of, CIS rules.
+
+"As you can see, Joe, we really have NO CHOICE but to adhere to the
+"Carlin's 7" list of forbidden words (and "but not limited to")."
+
+      Except, of course, that Carlin's list of Words You Can't Say On
+Television is no longer applicable, because many of the words he said
+you couldn't say back in the 1960s and 70s *can* be said NOW on TV.  So
+the rule itself is irrelevant.  Even Carlin himself has said so...I was
+watching one of his HBO specials yesterday, and he his own self noted
+that the list was no longer accurate, and he had to revise it upward to
+include new and more interesting words (which he enumerated at great
+length).
+
+      Since CIS seems to be looking to a comedian to define its rules
+on language -- odd since I can't ever remember a Supreme Court decision
+favoring the Comedian Rule in examining issues of censorship -- then if
+Carlin himself has stated that the rule no longer applies, then why
+does CIS not recognize this?  If Carlin's word was good enough to make
+the rule, why is it not good enough to UNmake the rule?
+
+      Additionally, the argument falls apart on the basic principles
+of language itself.  The word Carlin offered, another word for urine,
+is not the same word as "pissed.  The latter refers to anger, and has
+nothing whatsoever to do with bodily fluids of any form.  It's spelled
+the same, but IT'S NOT THE SAME WORD, WES.  It's like *heat* and
+*heat*.  They're both spelled the same, but one is a unit of
+temperature, and the other is a term used in racing for a match between
+several cars.  So you're in the unlikely position of deleting a message
+for using a word that LOOKS like a word you supposedly can't say, but 
+ISN'T the same word, wasn't intended as the same word, and doesn't
+mean the same thing within context.
+
+      From a simple, grammatical perspective, it isn't ON Carlin's
+(now defunct) list because it isn't one of those words.
+
+"You don't like it.  We don't like it. Perhaps it isn't an exact
+parallel, but wouldn't you do something similar to avoid Babylon 5
+becoming rated "R"?"
+
+      I used language that I knew would get us a more restrictive TV
+rating just two weeks ago.  Also, there is no R rating in TV.  The
+highest you can go is TV-M.  Which was the category under which
+Schindler's List was just broadcast...which received praise from
+members of Congress (all but one), and was upheld by every conceivable
+standard even though it featured full frontal nudity.  If I felt it had
+sufficient merit, I'd be willing to go for a TV-M. If it's good enough
+for Spielberg and Congress, sure, it's good enough for me.
+
+"Members of these forums are welcome to ask about our policies and,
+even, to question them.  However, such messages are considered to be
+between the sender and the senior staff of this forum and are not
+subject to open debate."
+
+      So in other words, the discussions people would need to
+determine what they should and should not say are closed off from the
+people so that they cannot see those discussions and thus cannot know
+when they offend, or why, or what recourse they may have.  "not subject
+to open debate" is another way of saying "not subject to open
+*dissemination*."  Sure, you can't do an offensive thing if everybody
+knows about it...so you make sure the discussions of it all take place
+in utter privacy.
+
+      Every user here is DIRECTLY AND PERSONALLY affected by CIS's
+policies on language and message content.  So how, then, can
+discussions of these policies be excluded from the users?  Logically,
+you *want* users here to know what the rules are, so that they
+understand them, and thus you don't have to enforce policies that seem
+arbitrary and blindside people.  Therefore the logic of "not subject to
+open debate" falls apart on the face of it; the line stems from the
+corporate arrogance that says, "We cannot be questioned, and we will 
+not be held accountable.  Only YOU can be held accountable."
+
+"As an example, in your role as sole producer/creator of Babylon 5,
+would you tolerate the viewers of your program voicing their opinions
+of its direction while you were producing it?  Such would be
+distracting to the cast and crew and would be something best held in
+privacy between those concerned and yourself."
+
+      Well, in point of fact, every day I'm online, I hear from the
+thousands of people online who express their opinions of the direction
+of B5 while we're making it.  That's kinda why I'm HERE.
+
+      Secondarily, the purpose of message boards is DISCUSSION.  The
+purpose of a TV studio is to make a show.  Two different creatures. 
+Which puts you in the position of, "The message boards are for the
+purpose of users expressing their opinions EXCEPT when the messages are
+ABOUT expressing their opinions, in which case they cannot express
+their opinions."
+
+      Every argument you have presented is either fallacious,
+unprovable, involve mass exercises in paralogia, or come down to the
+basic bottom line, "Because I *said* so, that's why!"
+
+      It doesn't hold up, Wes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Feb 1997 02:03:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: To Sysops from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      You may want to check my response to Wes, just posted in this
+thread, and add that to the collection.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Feb 1997 02:22:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: To Sysops from jms
+
+ WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Perhaps it isn't an exact parallel, but wouldn't you do something
+> similar to avoid Babylon 5 becoming rated "R"? As an example, in
+> your role as sole producer/creator of Babylon 5, would you
+> tolerate the viewers of your program voicing their opinions of
+> its direction while you were producing it?
+
+      Oh, I forgot this one....
+
+"But if it is our goal to stay off the Parental Control list and
+therefore allow children to access discussions relating to topics in
+this forum, then we must make every effort to adhere to its
+restrictions."
+
+      So to avoid restricting children, we will restrict the adults. 
+In a forum where intelligent discourse is the goal, I'm not sure I
+perceive the wisdom in this.
+
+      And if the discussions are hobbled, what benefit is there in
+guaranteeing access to conversations that are inhibited?
+
+      How many children -- and define children here -- use this forum?
+I very, very rarely see them here.  Are you restricting several
+thousand adults for the benefit of 3 children?
+
+      All of which is, of course, secondary to issue raised
+before...are you actually keeping to the letter of the rules by
+numerical content, or are you not?  If you are, then please show us
+your math.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Feb 1997 02:22:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: To Sysops from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, the FCC does not define foul language in the fashion
+you indicate, not in over 20 years.  And it does allow the broadcasting
+of ALL the words on Carlin's "list" under certain circumstances.  (This
+from my having worked for 5 years at a Pacificia radio station, which
+kept us apprised of such rules.)  They don't tell you any longer what
+words not to say...they just wait until an accumulation hits.  And
+there is the 12:00 midnighr rule, which allows virtually everything and
+anything to be said, as was the rule at many Pacifica stations.
+
+      So, basically, it should be okay to read messages here with
+language in them after midnight....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Feb 1997 12:41:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Clarion
+
+ Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What do you and Kathryn think of the Clarion workshops?
+> Useful?
+> Traumatic?
+> Both?
+> Would she do it again?
+
+       I didn't go through Clarion, so I really can't comment, and
+would not presume to characterize another's opinions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Feb 1997 12:48:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TNT Movies Prod Question
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Does this, in any way, affect your and the rest of the cast's
+> attendance at any of the summer cons (particularly, Wolf 359: The
+> Alliance)?
+
+       No, it doesn't affect the Wolf con, as we'll be finished
+shooting by June 30th.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Feb 1997 17:22:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Number of B5 Episodes?
+
+ Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I don't want to make assumptions about season 5, but isn't the
+> statement "entire 88 episodes" incorrect EVEN IF there are only
+> four seasons? Or is TNT not going to show the premiere after the
+> "Prequel"? Finally, if it IS 88+2 (or 110+2) episodes, will the
+> premiere be broken up into two one hour pieces to become part of
+> the overall set?
+
+       We haven't been told anything official yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Feb 1997 17:22:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tina Whitecotton <71620.2013@compuserve.com>
+Subject: To Sysops from jms
+
+ Tina Whitecotton <71620.2013@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So where's the problem here????
+
+     "I have NEVER ONCE seen the forum participants WIN."
+
+     Then it's about time, no?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Feb 1997 17:22:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: To Sysops from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Wes, you have still not replied to the main point of my
+message.
+
+       You say you are following the CIS rules, which will determine
+whether or not sfmedone is placed on the Parental Control List.  But
+the rules you quoted indicate that in fact this sort of language is
+PERMITTED, provided that it does not happen more than once every 50
+messages.
+
+       You have still not shown to me that this was the case here.  On
+what basis do you decide that it happened in 49 messages or 51
+messages?  You have completely ignored my request for you to show me
+the figures you used to make this determination...figures without which
+you could not have made that determination...unless you just did it
+arbitrarily.  Which is it?
+
+       As for the quotes...every first year journalist understands
+what Fair Use is, and what constitutes Fair Use.  Surely CIS can afford
+one lawyer to consult for one hour to tell you what every journalist
+knows...that to a large degree it's a matter of the extent of the
+material quoted, its proportion to the original material, and whether
+or not proper attribution is made.  If a book is at issue, quoting
+several paragraphs certainly falls into fair use...while quoting
+several paragraphs of a one-page poem would not, again due to the
+proportions involved.
+
+       I'm still waiting for you to show me the basis on which you
+made your decision.  If you cannot provide it, you leave only the
+impression that it was made arbitrarily, and that you *yourself* stand
+in violation of CIS rules, and should be reported as such.
+
+       However, that you are "rethinking" the policy is certainly a
+good thing...in a way, it's not so much the policy as the *method of
+implementing* that policy, and the extremes used, that may be most in
+need of attention.
+
+       BTW, I was interviewed just this afternoon by a reporter from
+SciFi Entertainment on the online world, and went into this at some
+length; it will likely show up in the next column there.  I'll be sure
+to update her on further developments.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Feb 1997 17:28:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: To Sysops from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Here's the ultimate irony...this began in part because a word
+was used just once...and the furor has led to the word being used far,
+far more times than would have been the case if the situation had been
+left alone by the sysops.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Feb 1997 17:28:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: To Sysops from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       PS...you also did not respond to the point that "pissed off" is
+NOT on the Carlin list, and is not even the same WORD as what Carlin
+cites, does not have the same meaning.  It's not nitpicking, it's NOT
+THE SAME WORD, so the Carlin "rule" does not apply to it.
+
+       One word means bodily fluids, one means a state of anger.  You
+can say they're the same to your heart's content, but words mean what
+they mean, not what you want them to mean.  You're shooting at the
+wrong target.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs97-03 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs97-03
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+JMS CompuServe messages for March 1997.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+Date: 01 Mar 1997 00:30:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Official: No year 5
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So what exactly is your relationship with Netter?
+> I've noted you saying you don't work for him, does Copeland?
+> And I've noticed he is an Executive Producer, does that mean you
+> two have equal "ownership"?
+
+      Yes, we both have equal ownership of Babylonian Productions, but
+Netter Digital Entertainment is his separate company, I have nothing to
+do with it, don't work for or with it or own any of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Mar 1997 00:30:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: NEW To Sysops From jms
+
+"I decided to not address that part of your message because it seemed
+moot in light of the fact that I agreed with you in regard to the
+Carlin 7, that we are reconsidering our position that we will abide by
+them, and that, in the meantime, would discontinue "backrooming" any
+messages unless they were blatantly offensive and/or broke other forum
+rules.  As for the stats you requested, I can't provide what I do not
+have.  While I admit that we pulled messages containing profanity, we
+did not do so "arbitrarily."  We pulled EVERY message that we saw."
+
+      Ah, but now that confirms what I suggested earlier.  The rules
+require you to pull one such message per every 50 messages, that was
+the part of the rule book that you, yourself, cited to me.  So if you
+pulled EVERY message, then you violated CIS rules.  So that point is
+now resolved.  Thank you.
+
+"If we decide to no longer aspire to remaining off the PC list then
+Carlin's 7 becomes moot and you will have "won" on both of your points.
+What more do you want?"
+
+      Actually, nothing...and this isn't about me winning, I don't
+have any vested interest in you losing or me winning.  Who wins if a
+situation goes from unreasonable to reasonable?  Answer: we both win. 
+You aren't stuck having to enforce essentially indefensible and
+arbitrary policies, and can instead enforce them selectively,
+logically, and in keeping with CIS policies. Which means you don't get
+people yelling at you, and you have the backing to avoid doing things
+which you, yourself, stated you don't like doing.  I don't see this as
+a particularly bad thing at all here.
+
+RE: the interview this afternoon with Sci-Fi Entertainment, in which I
+mentioned the current fracas, you say:
+
+"Thank you for indicting us in an area where we can't "confront our
+accuser."
+ Old Joe McCarthy would be proud of you for using that tactic.  I hope
+that you will "update her" if you and I conclude this discussion to
+your satisfaction."
+
+      I simply applied the same practice that was going on here, and
+backroomed the discussion with the reporter, since that seemed good
+enough for the sysops.  And you can certainly "confront your accuser"
+ -- assuming that anyone who speaks from their own experience of a
+controversial situation is automatically your accuser -- when the piece
+appears.  But to your last point...yes, I will indeed update her
+completely if this continues toward a positive resolution, as it seems
+to be doing.   Understand that I'm a pain in the butt...but I'm fair. 
+And I try to be honest.
+
+      That said...I now turn to the earlier, positive comments, so we
+can end this on a positive note...and those looking on: pay attention
+to what's said in Wes's note.
+
+      Regarding the rules under discussion, note the following:
+
+      "...we are reconsidering our position that we will abide by
+them, and that, in the meantime, would discontinue "backrooming" any
+messages unless they were blatantly offensive and/or broke other forum
+rules."
+
+      I think that this single sentence now takes care of most of the
+concerns here; if the practice of backrooming is now being
+discontinued, this is a positive step in the right direction, and
+negates about 75% of the concern shared by myself and others here.  I
+think that most people here would agree with that.
+
+      "If we decide to no longer aspire to remaining off the PC list
+then Carlin's 7 becomes moot."  A valid point.
+
+      Re: the Fair Use issue: "That isn't as definitive as I'd like,
+but seems to substantiate what other, non-legal, folks have said.  On
+the other hand, there have been others who are or have been publicists
+who claim that more than 2-3 lines quoted exceed "fair use."  Believe
+me, we're working on nailing this down."
+
+      Thank you, and I have every confidence that what you discover
+will confirm what has been discussed here.  Bear in mind that
+publicists are rarely journalists, and their job is often to discourage
+use of their client's material in excess, so they can control it, and
+when using one's quotes to publicize something, there are other very
+strict rules that come into play. If I write a review of a book, and a
+publicist wants to excerpt that review to promote someone's book to
+make them money, I'm going to be fairly hard about what's allowed to
+promote someone else's work.
+
+      This is a different situation altogether from quoting material
+in the context of a discussion.  There the Fair Use contingencies of
+copyright law come into play.  Any good book on journalism law will go
+into this at length. Good on you, though, to continue to dig into it.
+
+      "Any constructive suggestions you have would be welcomed --
+assuming we decide to continue with wanting to stay off the PC list. 
+Hell, for that matter, any constructive suggestions ANYONE has would be
+welcomed at this point!"
+
+      Which was the other point I mentioned.  By not backrooming these
+sorts of discussions, you open up the door to constructive suggestions
+on how to deal with them.  If you had said, "Listen, folks, we have a
+problem here...the use of language is getting into the
+more-than-1-in-50 limits we have to abide by, and I'm concerned about
+the quoting of material.  Could you work with me on this and come up
+with some ways to moderate the discussion a bit so it doesn't get out
+of hand, and give me some hard facts about what constitutes Fair Use"
+I'll bet you $100 you'd have tons of *constructive* comments, NObody 
+would've said you had a german accent, and you would've come out of
+this like a saint.
+
+      B5 fans are *notoriously* helpful, and understanding, and you
+can bet your shoes they would've come at you with a very different
+response.  "Here," they would've said, "HERE is somebody who respects
+our intelligence, who wants our input, who is open to at least
+*discuss* this so that we know what's at stake, and know what our
+options are, and would welcome our help to resolve a thorny problem
+he's stuck with and doesn't much like."
+
+      So given all this...to those looking on...lay back for a bit.  I
+think we are getting some positive movement here, the policy of
+backrooming has already been stopped, from what Wes has said, and the
+policy is being reconsidered, which was the point of the exercise.
+
+      I think that Wes has been very receptive here, and has made a
+good faith effort to rectify what is, for him and other sysops here, a
+difficult and obviously painful situation.  Let's now let the process
+continue.
+
+      The "Joe McCarthy" comment I will let slide personally, because
+you were upset, and we're all entitled to a moment's upset.  Instead, I
+will again simply thank you for taking the steps you have taken, and
+look forward to the final resolution of this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Mar 1997 00:31:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com>
+Subject: To Sysops from jms
+
+ Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Then it's about time, no?
+> Have you considered the odds?
+
+      Check my last note...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Mar 1997 00:31:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  I've seen just about every article on CTS that I can
+think of, and I've got it down to a roar...sometimes it's worse than
+other times.  The Kinesis ergonomic keyboard at work helps, and I just
+sent out for a Datahand keyboard to use at home to see if that helps
+further.  It aches pretty much all the time, but it's a low, dull ache
+and I'm hardly aware of it most of the time.  It's only when I go to
+bed, and I'm still for more than 5 minutes at a time, that it really
+starts to demand my attention.
+
+      It was *much* worse last year or so, when I had to literally
+write for 20 minutes, ice down my hands/wrists for 20 minutes, write
+for 20, ice for 20, on and on.  I actually haven't had to do that this
+year.
+
+      (And yes, when I remember to do so, I use the wrist braces.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Mar 1997 00:31:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Atonement<<
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does what we (and a few Minbari) now know about the triluminaries
+> glowing in response to human DNA necessarily negate the theory of
+> the "Minari Soul Train"? Will Delenn ever tell John the truth?
+> What's going on with Delenn's/Mira's hair?
+
+      We keep working on Mira's hair...some days it's better than
+others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Mar 1997 00:42:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: To Sysops from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Give Wes some time...he has restored the messages, and is
+currently in the position of reconsidering the situation regarding the
+rules themselves, and what actually applies within those rules.  I
+think we should be willing to give him the room to do so without an
+immediate deadline, since he has made a good faith effort here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Mar 1997 02:44:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: To Sysops from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"The ultimate irony is that *you,* our resident atheist, promised to
+regale us with a plethora of censorable biblical quotations!"
+
+      Who better?
+
+      Y'gotta understand, I've read the thing *twice*, cover to cover.
+(And ANYone with the patience to get through Deuteronomy, Numbers and
+Leviticus has my enduring respect.)  It's actually a pretty good book,
+all things considered, and despite some misuse by some of its readers. 
+There's good drama, lots of melodrama, an overall arc (and an ark),
+some good writing and some utterly *awful* writing, blood and thunder
+and some racy material, the perfect ingredients for a
+potboiler...except that it's often redeemed by such terrific parts as
+Psalms, and parts of the Song of Solomon, and Proverbs, and the story
+of Job, which is probably one of the best stories ever written.
+
+      A good editor would've helped *enormously*, but one can't expect
+god to be all things at once....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Mar 1997 02:44:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
+
+ Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That line about Sheridan's head imploding was more than a little
+> autobiographical, no?
+
+"That line about Sheridan's head imploding was more than a little
+autobiographical, no?"
+
+      Just a tad....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Mar 1997 02:44:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: NEW To Sysops From jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      As it happens, I have an answer to this.  First, it's Warner
+Bros. that would be at issue here, since they own the copyright to B5. 
+That issue aside for the moment...
+
+      This actually came up not long ago, when a person doing synopses
+of the episodes didn't just synopsize it...it included every line of
+dialogue in the episode, and extensive narrative descriptions.  WB saw
+that and said, "Tell 'em to stop it."  Which they did.
+
+      On several occasions, whole pages at a time have been excerpted
+for articles, or reprinted...a heck of a lot more than what was posted
+here...and neither WB nor I have a problem with that.  As it is, many
+of the current synopses contain *massive* verbatim quotes of dialogue,
+just not as much as the one main offender.  Nobody blinks an eye.
+
+      I'm not saying this across the board, but you asked what would
+apply in my situation, and that's it.  (Which, btw, is a kind of
+evasion...rather than dealing with the problem That Is, people create
+what they hope are similar situations and say, "Well, what would you do
+if THIS happened?"  Well, this HASN'T happened, and it isn't a direct
+corrolary to this current situation in ANY event.  Its' just a way of
+skidding the discussion off in another direction and muddying the
+waters.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Mar 1997 02:44:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Soundtrack Vol 2
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...yeah, it's a great CD.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Mar 1997 02:44:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kirk R. Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Atonement<<
+
+ Kirk R. Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Yes, but why did you give Ducat hair (a beard)?
+> Is it possible, BTW, that the "transformation" for Delenn worked
+> more thoroughly than the other Minbari realize because it had
+> some human DNA already in Delenn's cells to build on? And judging
+> from the stunned expressions on the faces of the other Gray
+> Council members when the trilumenary glowed, did they understand
+> that significance, and do any others now on Minbar? Finally, I beg
+> for a hint...will this information have any future bearing on the
+> plot, or is it merely "nice to know" data?
+
+      Yeah, the human DNA definitely helped...and overall, this isn't
+so much the arc as the overall story and history.  It's filling out the
+world.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Mar 1997 02:44:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The One and the Nine
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean that Dukhat (and any leader of the Minbari people)
+> is also on the Grey Council? Was Valen the first leader of the
+> Minbari people in the history of the Grey Council? Or is it
+> possible that this vacancy in the Nine was the one that Delenn
+> later filled? Or am I reading this in the wrong way?
+> Can you help me understand this a little better, please?
+
+      There's the One, and the Nine...when Dukhat was alive, there
+were 9 grey council members and him as the head of it, making ten. 
+(Look at the picture and count the number of people.)  1 and 9.
+
+      Valen called together the Grey Council, formed the first one;
+until then the castes had been in constant competition.  He wanted to
+operate outside of that a bit, so he made sure he was not one of the
+Nine.  That tradition has continued.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Mar 1997 03:14:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: To Sysops from jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"But that doesn't mean I'll back every decision or idea or crusade or
+action he takes - and nobody SHOULD (and I bet he'd be the first to
+agree with me)."
+
+      Yup.  When I behave like a jerk here, I fully expect to be told
+so.
+
+"The issue he's brought up here is a valid one - but the method he
+started with was too confrontational by far. He should have started it
+friendly, specially without the threats of splitting, and then, if
+rebuffed, gotten brittle."
+
+      That one, I dunno...it's easy to second-guess things after the
+fact.  I knew that a number of people had *already* either been (or
+felt) forced off, or were resigning, and sometimes the only way to get
+a result is to first get the horse's attention, as the saying goes. 
+I've had a number of dealings with lots of systems and worked things
+out quietly, behind the scenes; you don't know about them *because*
+they've been worked out in a friendly way.
+
+      Then, there are days when only a howitzer will suffice.
+
+      It was my call.  I made it.  And it seems to have worked.  Would
+it have worked out with the other approach?  Again, I dunno.  I'm only
+a P3, after all....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Mar 1997 03:14:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: To Sysops from jms
+
+ WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com> asks:
+> at work, at home, and at play"?
+> That sorta, kinda, leaves us out in the cold, eh?
+
+      Related question, Wes:  When a conference is promoted at the
+opening menu, does it bring in a substantial number of folks who are
+not *already* members of the forum?  I was just thinking that folks not
+into SF likely would not show up for a conference with an SF type...and
+those into SF are likely already aware of it from the on-site notice. 
+Just curious.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Mar 1997 03:15:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Soundtrack Vol 2
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I believe Chris Franke's website (www.sonicimages.com) has a
+full breakdown on the tracks and their sources.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Mar 1997 03:15:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Captain Power <uh oh>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It was a mixed bag...some good stuff, some stuff I wouldn't mind
+seeing dropped off a pier somewhere....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:08:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: To Sysops from jms
+
+ Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there a way for those of us not in The Business to glom onto a
+> copy of FCC rules?
+
+      I imagine that anyone writing to the FCC in Washington DC can
+obtain a copy of the rules, since the FCC is a public agency,
+regulating the public airwaves, to ensure they conform to the public
+"interest, necessity and convenience."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:08:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: To Sysops from jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Think it'll happen though?"
+
+      When hasn't it?
+
+      I've been told I'm a jerk before, will be in future; and in a
+sense, your message wondering if my actions were right was implicitly
+implying a potential state of Jerk...and that's okay.
+
+      You're wrong, of course....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:08:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: To Sysops from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I see.  Though, that would apply only to SFMEDONE, if it got the
+PC label...you could still hold COs on SFMEDTWO, with different forums.
+In other words...let's say, worst case scenario, SF1 gets PC'd.  No
+opening menu announcements.  But SF2 is *not* PC'd.  So the CO could be
+held there; and since they're both (presumably) under the same roof, it
+all works out the same, yes?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:08:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: NEW To Sysops From jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Okay.  You're right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:08:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Minbari facial hair?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How did that happen??
+
+      Other Minbari have had facial hair; including Draal v1.0 and
+Kalain in "Points of Departure."  It's certainly not common, though.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:08:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: email
+
+ Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> About how much email do you average a day?
+
+      Email...maybe 60-80 per day, sometimes more.  In public forum
+messages, on various systems...hundreds.
+
+      I try to answer as much as I can, but often the questions are
+too complex, or ask for elaborate story discussion ("Can you give me
+the history of Minbar before Earth made contact?"), or have
+multiple-subquestions to the point where I can't deal with ANY of it.
+
+      See, the problem is, everyone thinks "Well, it's just me, after
+all." Well, according to our ratings, there are between 10-15 million
+"me's" out there.  But often folks don't understand that.
+
+      For instance, a guy sent me a piece of email recently with 13
+*very* elaborate and detailed questions, much along the lines of the
+one just quoted above.  I couldn't get into any of them, there were
+just too many, and they were much too involved.  A week later, I got a
+VERY angry and agitated letter from that person saying what a jerk I
+was for not answering his questions, that he had taken the time to
+write them so I had an obligation to answer them, he's the Fan who is
+keeping the show alive and we owe this to the fans who support us...he
+got fairly abusive about it.  "It shouldn't take too much of the BUSY
+PRODUCER'S TIME to answer ONE LETTER!" he said in conclusion.
+
+      Sure, if it WERE just one letter.  But it ain't.
+
+      Other times, people will leave public or private mail
+*demanding* I answer something, as though I were under contract to
+them, or paid to be here. Suffice to say that I generally ignore such
+notes.
+
+      It's worth noting, though, that those remain the exceptions to
+the rule; most of the online crowd is well-behaved and intelligent and
+courtous, especially among B5 fans.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:08:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Subverting Censorware
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Never said there shouldn't be guidelines.  The only question was
+the extent, the degree, and the clarity or consistency with which those
+rules are applied.  The general concensus was that the rule was being
+*over*applied. So now let's see how it shakes down before taking the
+next logical step.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:08:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TNT Air Order
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What order will TNT air the episodes in?
+> In the original air order, or in the order you originally
+> intended, that for various reasons aired differently?
+
+      I'll be discussing this issue with TNT in the near future, at
+which time we'll get into the preferred air order, which probably won't
+be a problem for them to follow.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:08:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: ben dibble <105430.3170@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Dreaming
+
+ ben dibble <105430.3170@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What then is the deciding factor as to whose memories are
+> experienced by all present? Is it whoever "allows" themselves to
+> be drawn into the experience, who wills it to happen to them?
+
+         I think the order or dominance of the drug is probably
+determined by the contents of the script....
+
+                                    jm(oh, look, over there, a comet)s
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:08:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The One and the Nine
+
+ Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you identify this ship?
+> Is this the case?
+
+      There was the Prometheus, which was there; and others, including
+the Amundsen.  The one you saw, which looks a bit like the Aggy but
+without the rotating section, is another, smaller class of destroyer
+also seen, I believe, in "Dreams."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:08:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Van Valen
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Did you already have him pictured in your head?
+> Did it make casting easier?
+> Who designed them?
+
+      Actually, that was Dukhat, and yeah, that's pretty close to how
+I saw him in my head.  Definitely a bigger than life fellow.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:08:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Atonement>...Attunement
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Good points.  Speaking of visual puns, someone pointed out that
+in "Epiphanies," you've got Zack leaving customs, saying of whoever
+comes through next, "it might be the Second Coming and I'm five sins
+behind on penance," and who walks in...but the Three Kings....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:35:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: To Sysops from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Y'know, I've been thinking about all this a lot over the last
+few days (what else do I have to do, run a show or something?) and
+here's the thing that gets me in the area of parental controls.
+
+      It starts with discussions over language, and nobody wants to
+say "We can't have language or other problematic items our
+conferences," because it smacks of censorship (which, in fact, it is). 
+(And, granted, some uses of language are a little more disagreeable
+than others, I'm not getting into degrees here, just the overall
+notion.)
+
+      So someone says, "Instead of doing that, let's have a Ratings
+System, which will tell parents which forums (or shows) are safe for
+their kids, and which are not, so we can have areas where you can say
+whatever you want, and other areas where it's more controlled, and
+parents know where to go."
+
+      Then the ratings go into place...but nobody wants to be tagged
+with the harsher designation.  Because that would mean a loss of
+revenue, or prestige, or visibility.  So now everyone starts doing
+whatever it takes to avoid that rating, by changing content or
+enforcing stricter rules to avoid the label, since that's somewhat
+easier to defend (even though it's exactly the same as the original
+problem, they've just moved the target to something that's less of an
+obvious flash-point as censorship).
+
+      What you therefore end up with is that all forums or shows move
+toward the safer designation, and there no longer IS a choice between
+"kid" and "adult" conversations or topics or language or subjects. 
+Because the latter has ceased to exist not for political reasons but
+for *economic* ones.
+
+      It's much like what happened in the record biz...some groups
+wanted labels put on records, have them rated so parents and kids could
+tell the hard stuff from the safe stuff, "But we're not pro-censorship,
+we just want to be informed."  Until the records started coming out, at
+which point the same parents groups began screaming about x-rated
+albums being even in the same STORE where kids could enter their orbit,
+even if protected by cellophane wrapping and warned by labels.  It
+became a basis for exclusion.
+
+      Nobody in TV right now wants to be hit with the TV-M (mature)
+rating, because of threatened boycotts.  It's the same material that
+may have been there before, but now that it has a label, that label has
+become a target.
+
+      The expressed intent is to create clarity in making choices in
+material.
+
+      The result is to *remove* choices by excluding material.
+
+      The more I look at it, the more insidious it gets.
+
+      I think I'll write something about this, one of these days....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:35:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Minbari castes
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What caste is Lennier, and do every member of a clan belong to
+> the same caste?
+
+      Lennier is religious caste; and all members of a given clan
+belong to one caste.
+
+      There are, for instance, no religious caste members of the Star
+Riders (military caste) clan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:35:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Atonement
+
+ Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just wondering, what, if anything, was involved in using the song
+> from Pirates of Penzance that Marcus was singing at the end?
+
+      Nothing, really...we just grabbed one of the audio bits from the
+day's filming and dropped it in.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:35:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Grey Council
+
+ Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now if Delenn has not voted, how can there be a tie vote?
+> They needed more than a simple majority What say you oh Great
+> Maker?
+
+      Others in the Council died, as was noted when the one says, "Our
+brothers?"  "Dead," Delenn says.  So there were others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1997 12:05:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Caste, Clan, Family?
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So I take it, from earlier comments of yours that Delenn chose
+> her caste as a child (I believe you said it was due to her
+> "vision" in the temple), that you are not born into your clan? In
+> other words, If Delenn had chosen to be a worker, she would not
+> be in the clan she is currently in, correct? If that's the case,
+> then clans aren't necessarily organizations of relatives, right? 
+> Was her clan the "Mir" clan? Or was "Mir" her family name?
+> Is that different than the clan?
+> Is this correct?
+
+       Yes, Mir is her family; you are generally born into a caste
+unless you at some point decide that the calling of your heart is
+elsewhere, at which point you enter training for that other caste (with
+the permission of your caste leaders) until such time as it's finalized
+that that's what you want, at which time you're assigned to a clan
+within that caste.  If you choose to stay in the caste you're born
+into, you automatically are in your familiy's clan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1997 12:05:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Minbari castes
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Don't take this the wrong way...it's simply an
+observation...just a thought from someone who works with words all the
+time and gets very anal retentive about these things...the dictionary
+is our friend....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1997 12:05:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TNT Air Order
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, the fault was mine, not the suits.
+
+       Prior to exec producing B5, I had never edited a show before,
+never had final cut before...had never even been IN an editing room for
+more than 5 minutes before.  So here I am, given the director's
+cut...and I know it's real slow, but I haven't done this before, so I
+don't trust my instincts.  I let it go with very minimal changes.
+
+       And I've been kicking myself ever since.  I should've followed
+my instincts, but instead I deferred to the director's cut.
+
+       It's a mistake I have never made since.
+
+       Even so, that first cut just gnaws at me...I *know* I can make
+it better, stronger, even if only a bit in a few places, that would
+help salve my soul over this thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1997 12:05:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: To Sysops from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       So then the concern about not getting opening screen promos
+because of parental controls is moot because we can't get the promos
+ANYWAY because it's not business oriented, so it's really a moot issue
+in any event...?
+
+       Fascinating.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TNT Air Order
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yeah, we're also going to update the CGI, if we can do this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Caste, Clan, Family?
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, am I correct in my memory that you said Delenn changed castes
+> when she was young? If so, what was her family's original caste?
+
+       No, Delenn never changed castes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Delenn
+
+ Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Hasn't Delenn learned her lesson about telling the truth, all of
+> it, to Sheridan? Are we seeing a return of the old Delenn?
+
+       Certainly Delenn has some hard things to do coming up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: To Sysops from jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yeah, that's the problem...it has to be one or the other
+Family, or Adult...and if you have any content that ain't kid-approved
+it automatically puts you in the latter category, which lots of people
+don't want for all the reasons you cite.  Something here don't make a
+whole lot of sense....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Next New Show?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       The next ep comes around May-ish, so you can sleep in for a
+while...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Air Order
+
+ John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will the Gathering be shown before or after the Prequel Movie?
+
+       The prequel will be aired first, then the pilot, then the
+series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 in new Ent.Weekly
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Writer_s_?
+> Joe, do you have multiple personalities that we don't know about?
+
+       WriterS....sigh.
+
+       Hell, we're just happy to know they're AWARE of us....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Caste, Clan, Family?
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The fact that Mir is the Russian word for peace wouldn't have
+> anything to do with you using it for her family name.....would
+> it?
+
+       Yeah, there's that, and it nicely intersects with the fact that
+Delenn is portrayed by MIRa Furlan.  It's kind of a bank shot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Official: No year 5
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And Netter digital does the Special Effects, right?
+> So what else does Netter Digital do?
+
+       NDEI has its own projects under development, was involved in
+the Battleground Earth project with Majel Roddenberry, produces the
+occasional documentary (such as the Wild West documentary a couple
+years ago), and other projects which don't involve me at all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Van Valen
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Certainly that ties in with what Delenn said about humor being
+essential to Minbari philosophy and culture.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The One and the Nine
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, if you keep watching Dukhat comes in, followed by Delenn,
+through the opening (the empty spot) and then another Minbari comes in
+to fill that spot.
+
+       (Sudden thought...I have to check to see if we *used* that shot
+or if it was just in dailies...but if you count the Minbari there at
+the end of the scene, you'll find the count is correct.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Official: No year 5
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Has there been any word on the fate of year 5?
+> Can you give us the odds?
+
+       No, no definitive word yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bob Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Atonement
+
+ Bob Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Those ships that showed up just before the humans attacked, where
+> Delenn said something to the effect that they only showed up when
+> death was near - who were those guys?
+
+       Those were Soul Hunters, who in the first season we learned
+showed up to attempt to grab Dukhat's soul...they were prevented from
+successfully boarding the ship by the Minbari, who threw up a wall of
+bodies to stop them (which is why there were few around with Delenn and
+Dukhat; Soul Hunters are a pretty advanced sort, the terror of Minbari,
+and it took a lot to stop them). After Dukhat died, Delenn went down
+and joined in, confronting them about this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Mar 1997 18:28:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: Sysop on CIS Rules
+
+       Just received this, and thought I'd pass it along for whatever
+use it may have in illuminating the discussion.
+
+jms
+
+Subj:Confessions of a CIS sysop
+Date:97-03-03 23:00:21 EST
+From:rick@hugin.imat.com (Rick Moen)
+To:jmsatb5@aol.com
+
+Here's how CIS forum-content regulation works, from the perspective of
+a (former) CIS primary forum sysop ("wizop").
+
+I used to work for a software company, and as part of my job as a
+support rep created a CIS forum to support our customers -- and then
+ran it single-handed for four years.  This meant answering all
+CIS-based customer questions from around the world, plus handling all
+forum administration.  Many wizops recruit assistants, giving them
+access to some sysop functions.
+
+As a forum (primary) sysop, one is handed a couple of big binders,
+that mostly cover technical matters, but in passing touch on content
+guidelines.  These were vaguely described, but the sysop is told he's
+obliged to keep "off" all profanity, solicitations of business for
+other online services, and some other things.  Forum members were to be
+_advised_ by e-mail if a post had been removed, and could be locked out
+(in ordinary circumstances) _only_ after a warning. (As a courtesy, I
+also sent a copy of any removed post back via e-mail, in case the
+poster wanted to edit and re-post it or send it unchanged via e-mail.)
+
+I enforced the profanity guidelines, among others, permissively, and
+always with the advisories described.  I told members up front that it
+was a _support_ forum, and that they could create a Berate Company
+Management forum elsewhere.
+
+To get to the point, several things:  (1) "Wizops" operate forums by
+contract with CIS for a percentage of user billings.  (2) CIS thus
+distances itself from both administration _and_ some legal liability. 
+(They can say "Not our fault.  We weren't running it." This, in my
+view, is CIS sysops' primary design function.)
+
+(3) The standard CIS forum contract forbids disclosure of its terms to
+any third party.   (Yes, I'm violating it.  I have reason.)
+
+(4) Many if not most forum sysops, both wizops and their chosen
+assistants, ignore the obligation of accountability to users. They do
+this for convenience's sake, and because there's little to hold them
+accountable.  My successor did this, for example. Sysops tend to see
+themselves as overworked and under-appreciated (almost always true): 
+Unfortunately, they tend to consider this an excuse for whatever
+management techniques seem most expedient.
+
+(5) CIS forum management routinely abdicates its responsibility to
+oversee sysops.  My guess is that exercising it would (most of the
+time) tend to increase their legal exposure, and they intercede only if
+there's a disaster brewing that might spill over from the sysop onto
+them.  I've known a number of cases of people appealing to CIS
+management over clear cases of high-handed sysop behaviour:  I don't
+think CIS even _responded_ to any of those users. Again, little existed
+to _hold_ them accountable.
+
+(6) The remedy:  Exactly what you're doing.  Have someone watch the
+watchers, and spotlight abuse when it happens.  Don't accept
+convenience and mishap as excuses for absurd happenings such as those
+you've described.  The responsible parties _will_ be motivated to
+elmininate abuses if faced with fair complaints from multiple parties,
+that won't go away if ignored.
+
+Thank you for pursuing the matter.  Feel free to quote this e-mail if
+you wish, and you need not omit my name or mailbox, if you do.  I stand
+behind it.
+
+ -- Cheers, Rick Moen rick@hugin.imat.com
+
+ ----------------------- Headers --------------------------------
+ From rick@hugin.imat.com  Mon Mar  3 22:59:59 1997
+ Return-Path: rick@hugin.imat.com
+ Received: (blocked)
+          emin08.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id
+          WAA25626 for <jmsatb5@a
+ Received: (from rick@localhost)
+          by hugin.imat.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id TAA06900 for
+          jmsatb5@aol.com; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 19:56:54 -0800
+ From: Rick Moen <rick@hugin.imat.com>
+ Message-Id: <199703040356.TAA06900@hugin.imat.com>
+ Subject: Confessions of a CIS sysop
+ To: jmsatb5@aol.com
+ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 19:56:54 -0800 (PST)
+ Content-Type: text </PRE></HTML>
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Mar 1997 23:27:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Air Order
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the directors cut typically different from a producers cut?
+> Is there a differnce between TV and Movies on how they would
+> differ?
+
+      A director's cut can be the same as, or vastly different from,
+the producer's cut, depending on what the director does, and how much
+in sync the director is with the producer.  But the producer gets final
+cut in TV, whereas the director gets final cut in films (unless the
+studio or a big name producer has it contractually otherwise).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Mar 1997 23:27:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: email part 2
+
+ Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that mean that snail mail people are out of luck?
+> Do you also respond to those?
+
+      I try to reply to snail mail as I can, though it's certainly
+easier to do so in email.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Mar 1997 23:27:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Atonement again
+
+ Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So how come this one turned out to be a lie/deception?
+
+      Those Minbari...I tell you, you just can't trust 'em....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Mar 1997 02:58:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kick-A$$ Advertising
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> I wonder who I should report this rule violation to?
+
+      That is kinda funny, since I was sent a private message here a
+month or two ago by, I believe, Chaffee, chiding me for using the term
+"pain in the ass" in a public forum...and here that word is used in a
+Member Services announcement.
+
+      I guess that means that they can't promote the Member Services
+Announcements in the Member Services Announcements section anymore.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Mar 1997 02:58:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Atonement
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      What airs is considered canon; in 15 years, nobody's gonna be
+hauling these messages around.  But the show will still be on the air. 
+If it airs, it's canon.
+
+      And in another one of those posts, I did mention that on just a
+couple of small occasions, I have fibbed when asked major story arc
+questions to protect future storylines from being deflated....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Mar 1997 02:58:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Atonement
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      He could have left Dukhat a message...but tampering in the
+future is VERY chancy business, and could even make things worse, for
+all we know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Mar 1997 02:58:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: to sfwa from jms
+
+      (The following material -- which will be posted to other forums
+ -- is submitted on the theory that I apparently haven't gotten in
+*nearly* enough trouble lately.  So I may as well go for broke.
+
+                                                                  jms 
+
+John J. Miller
+SFWA Secretary
+Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
+(address deleted for privacy)
+
+Dear Mr. Miller:
+
+I am in receipt of your recent letter inviting me to rejoing SFWA.
+While others who have either resigned from SFWA or let their
+memberships lapse have received similar letters, I note that you
+added, in handwriting, the following: "Michael - We're particularly
+interested in encouraging writers of your stature and experience to
+rejoin."
+
+I'm posting this, my reply, both online as well as in standard mail
+to you, because the issues at hand affect others in the industry;
+because it is a good subject for public debate; and because SFWA has
+to this date refused to publish my letter of resignation from SFWA
+in its membership publication; even now, years after the fact, SFWA
+does not choose to recognize the boorishness of its behavior toward
+those of us who work in television, film and other media.
+
+To recap, for the benefit of those looking on, and for the purpose
+of historical accuracy: a number of us were troubled by the fact
+that SFWA allowed TV and film scripts in the SF genre to count for
+membership, so that our dues could be accepted, but that these very
+same scripts were not considered "real" science fiction...and thus
+ineligible for consideration for a Nebula Award.
+
+An attempt was made to restore the Dramatic Nebula, given in years
+past, in order to achieve equity with other forms of SF.  Those
+involved in the attempt included myself, Harlan Ellison, David
+Gerrold, D.C. Fontana, Michael Cassutt and others.  We believed,
+foolishly in retrospect, that SF writers -- presumably forward
+thinking and progressive -- would understand that stories can take
+new and different forms, that SF for television and film was a
+perfectly valid form.  It's still SF; it simply uses a new kind of
+technology to facilitate that storytelling.  Since SF is often
+about the foolishness of small-minded people when faced with
+changing technologies, and generally the impact of technology on
+people and art forms, we felt they would agree that the time
+was right for the reinstatement of the Dramatic Nebula.
+
+We were wrong.
+
+We were greeted by an outpouring of such virulent bigotry, such
+undisguised hostility, and such abuse as to numb the senses.  There
+was hate mail, name-calling and dead-catting; we were called (in
+person, and in SFWA's publication) "hacks" and "no-talents" and
+told that scripts aren't stories...obscene and threatening messages
+were left on my answering machine...hate mail arrived at my home...
+and the most nakedly straightforward one stated, "I work my ass off
+for a few pennies a word, while you Hollywood hacks earn big bucks
+for turning out crap.  You'll never see the Dramatic Nebula back as
+long as I'm alive."
+
+To help defuse some of the tempers, many of us were willing to
+disqualify ourselves from ever being eligible for the Nebula, should
+it be reinstated, to remove any suspicion of a vested interest.  It
+was the principle that concerned us.
+
+For an organization claiming forward-thinkers, there was more fuzzy
+thinking and illogic pouring out of SFWA than at any average meeting
+of the Flat Earth Society.  "Why should SFWA give scriptwriters a
+Nebula if the WGA won't give awards to prose writers?" some yelled
+at us, which granted was at least an attempt to put together a
+comprehensible sentence.
+
+"Because the WGA is *form* oriented, and SFWA is *genre* oriented,"
+we said, "that's why.  Any genre script can win a WGA award, as long
+as it's in the right form.  And any form of SF should be able to be
+considered for a Nebula, as long as it's in the right genre."
+
+Our point, in the final analysis, was simply this: If SFWA will not
+recognize scripts as SF for the Nebula, then they should not qualify
+for membership in SFWA.  If SFWA *does* recognize them as SF for
+purposes of membership, then they should be eligible for the Nebula.
+It was real simple: you can't have it both ways.  Pick one.
+
+But that didn't happen...the illogic, the contradiction was allowed
+to continue, with SF scriptwriters held as second-class citizens
+within SFWA.  In theory, a GOR novel could be considered for a
+Nebula...but a Babylon 5 script could never even begin to be
+considered because according to SFWA, it isn't a story, it isn't
+real writing, it isn't literature, it is absent of quality, and
+fundamentally, it ain't SF.
+
+It was this issue that finally compelled me to resign from SFWA,
+as had others before me.  That, and the insults, abuse, veiled
+and not-so-veiled threats and harrassment I received from many
+in SFWA over this issue.
+
+And now you come to me...and you ask me to rejoin.  You say this
+is because of my "stature and experience"...but what use can that
+be to SFWA if my work and the work of every SF writer working in
+television or film is dismissed as lacking in merit by virtue of
+the form in which we work?  Since the bulk of my work is in TV,
+how can SFWA consider what I have to be "stature" if it does not
+recognize that there is any quality work in SF being done in TV?
+
+I don't believe in stature, particularly and especially my own.
+I'm still the same person I was when I resigned, for good or ill.
+The only thing that matters to me, that has *ever* mattered to
+me, is the work.  The storytelling.  This genre.  I love SF.  I
+love the community of fandom that has embraced it, and given it
+life.  I love the sense of wonder that is SF.
+
+[More]
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Mar 1997 02:59:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: to sfwa from jms
+
+[Continued]
+
+In order to rejoin SFWA, I would have to accept the tacit
+implication that my work is NOT SF...and this I will never do.
+
+Last year, I realized a lifelong dream, and we received the Hugo
+award for an episode of Babylon 5.  And I'll tell you a true
+thing: I'll take the Hugo over the Nebula any day, because it
+comes based on the quality of the work...it comes based on the
+understanding that fans have that SF is SF, regardless of the
+medium.  Where the pro community throws up barriers, and tidal
+waves of snobbery, and play political games by defining SF as
+whatever is most convenient for them, the fan community is open
+to the free debate of one singular question: "Is it good SF?"
+
+In light of that, what possible reason could I have for wanting
+to rejoin SFWA?  To associate with writers who disdain the form
+in which I work?  To try and educate them?  We tried that...and
+got our heads handed to us.
+
+It's not just the Nebula that's the concern...as before, I'm
+willing to permanently disqualify anything I write, now or in
+the future, from Nebula consideration, to set aside allegations
+of self-interest; it's the principle of the thing that matters,
+the desire to make this better for the next guy to come down this
+road; and it's the attitude behind the current situation that
+rankles, that worries me; the open hostility and prejudice
+against those working in the visual media.
+
+So thanks, but no thanks.
+
+SFWA has chosen to ostracize film and television...and in the
+end, has only hurt itself.  By sticking its head, ostrich-like,
+in the sand, it has failed to come to grips with these new
+media...has become isolated, so that no one in Hollywood thinks
+of SFWA members, because SFWA thinks nothing of Hollywood.
+
+The result?  Where once many SF novels were chosen as fodder for
+movies, now movies and TV shows drive a substantial portion of
+the novel market through licensing.  All too often now, books are
+based on movies, when it *should* be the other way around, which
+means that the audience is deprived of visual medium access to
+some truly excellent work.  The publishing industry has become
+more like Hollywood in many ways now, looking for the blockbuster,
+losing the midlist, one megacompany swallowing up another.  We've
+been there, done that, and could've helped.
+
+(Now *here's* an irony I hadn't considered before just this
+moment: while an episode of B5 is not eligible for a Nebula, a
+novel based on B5 *is* eligible.  Where is the logic in that
+one?  And here's another irony: one of the members who most
+vociferously opposed the Dramatic Nebula on the grounds that
+everything SF that came out of Hollywood was crap...well, his
+name showed up recently on a list of writers asking to be
+considered for an assignment to write one of the Babylon 5
+novels.)
+
+Because of SFWA's provincial attitudes toward those of us who
+work in TV and film, it has lost access to secondary markets
+and opportunities, costing its members potentially hundreds of
+thousands of dollars.
+
+If parts of this letter seem angry, or frustrated, you should
+understand that the two areas of my life which have always meant
+a great deal to me are my work in television, and SF as a genre.
+I'm proud, have always been proud, of both.  Many producers
+assigned to SF series deny they're doing SF, as though they were
+ashamed of it.  I've always embraced the idea.  I was proud to
+be a member of SFWA.  I was proud to write for television.  But
+finally I had to choose between them, and that was a very
+difficult, painful thing for me.  It still is.  It's like having
+divorced parents; you want desperately for them to get along with
+each other, somehow put it together again...but it doesn't happen
+and doesn't look like it will *ever* happen.  So you get upset.
+
+I'm not upset with you, John, or even many members of SFWA, a
+number of whom weren't even members when all this went down a
+few years ago.  It's simple frustration with a system, and a
+certain loud proportion of the membership, that is provincial
+and parochial.  A great deal of good could come out of a tighter
+coordination between those of us working in the visual media,
+and print authors.  To see that frittered away is maddenning.
+
+Television and film are as valid a forum for the exploration
+of science fiction as any short story or novel.  As long as
+SFWA persists in saying otherwise, I will never rejoin that
+organization.
+
+Let me know when you folks get serious.  Let me know when you
+are willing to consider that what we do in TV and film counts as
+SF.  Then we'll talk.
+
+But not before.
+
+J. Michael Straczynski
+Executive Producer/Creator/WRITER
+Babylon 5
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Mar 1997 14:14:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robert Freeman <74577.1525@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A fan says thanks...
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...we try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Mar 1997 14:14:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: to sfwa from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I agree 100%.  One of the things I've been ragging on for years
+is that you should bring in SF writers to work on SF shows.  Real
+simple logic. But the perception there is that SF print authors can't
+deal with, or are disdainful of, scripts...something SFWA perpetuated
+when many of their members said they (as a group) wouldn't be able to
+make sense of a script.
+
+       There are some terrific resources out there who would be
+invaluable to any SF series.  That's why I gave Peter David his first
+shot at a live action TV series, ditto for Christy Marx and others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Mar 1997 14:14:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Triluminary
+
+ Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does it glow brighter if there is more of the DNA present?
+> did it glow really bright when held up to Sinclair after he was
+> captured at the Battle of the Line? Did they know at that time
+> that it only glowed in the presence of Valen's DNA? ever get your
+> ISDN modem to work?
+
+       Yeah, we showed it glowing when Sinclair was catpured.  Since
+it happened with Valen, they assumed it was because he had a Minbari
+soul, maybe Valen reborn.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Mar 1997 14:14:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: to sfwa from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       The only point of disagreement is that "SF on screen is
+actually more of an accomplishment."  They're equal, in different ways,
+and certainly a movie or TV show can, in time, start to look dated. 
+But a book, which exists in your head, never grows old.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Mar 1997 14:14:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Atonement
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yeah, some are more accurate than others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Mar 1997 14:14:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Edit Process
+
+ Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this something to do with a different editing process, or does
+> it relate to the change in satellite delivery?
+
+       I'm afraid I don't know what elements you're referring to, so I
+can't answer that offhand.  On the rest...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Mar 1997 14:14:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: To Sysops from jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Well said.  You really ought to consider giving this writing
+thing a shot sometime.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Mar 1997 17:41:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Incongruous Advertising
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"This forum is subject to Parental Controls because the 'bot looks at
+the messages here.  Parental Controls covers forums, Web pages, and
+newsgroups, not Member Services."
+
+       Yeah, I think that contradiction is kind of the point....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Mar 1997 17:41:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Air Order
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So in films the director provides the thematic vision of the
+> movie, wheras in TV the producer provides that vision?
+
+       Correct.  In many films, the director is there from the start,
+working on the vision...in TV, a director comes in 2-3 weeks before you
+shoot, and walks into a situation where the vision is already set.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Mar 1997 21:45:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Air Order
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So that's why you became an Executive Producer?
+> To protect the vision of your work and not have a director or
+> producer change it?
+
+"So that's why you became an Executive Producer?  To protect the
+vision of your work and not have a director or producer change it?"
+
+      I sure as heck can't think of any OTHER reason to do it, given
+the grief involved....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Mar 1997 21:45:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: to sfwa from jms
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> As to the SFWA, is there anything that we, the fans can do to
+> help you win this crusade?
+
+      Thanks...and as for SFWA, it's an internal matter that they will
+have to consider on their own.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Mar 1997 17:06:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Incongruous Advertising
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       "It's important to understand the difference between CIS rules
+and Forum rules."
+
+       Not a problem.  Same rules we sometimes heard growing up. 
+"Don't do as I do, do as I say."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Mar 1997 17:09:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Redist. of SFWA Letter?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Sure; any post of mine can be reposted elsewhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Mar 1997 20:50:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Air Order
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you ever considered directing?
+
+"Have you ever considered directing?"
+
+      With great trepidation, and at the urging of Warner Bros., I've
+decided to direct one episode this season...not because I have any
+particular ambition to be a director, but because I think it will help
+me become a better writer by more fully understanding that side of the
+camera.  Given how massively busy I am already, this decision will
+almost certainly be called as evidence in any sanity trial that might
+take place in future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Mar 1997 21:20:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New Set of B5 Cards
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I saw a piece in one of the comics publications the other day,
+might've been Comics Buyers Guide or the like...apparently unopened
+boxes of the first B5 set are going for $150 each, originally $35 or
+so.  Not bad....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Mar 1997 21:20:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: to sfwa from jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The point of my "internal matters" reply was in response to
+someone who wanted to know whom at SFWA to bombard with email about
+this.  I'm reasonably confident that no one at SFWA wants to receive
+such a bombardment, and such a bombardment would not do any good, hence
+my observation.
+
+      That's got nothing to do with the reality that SFWA's stance is
+massively stupid, and deserves to be openly discussed.  As someone
+once said, "When someone does a foolish thing you should tell them it
+is a foolish thing; they may choose to continue doing it, but at least
+the truth is where it needs to be."
+
+      I'm certainly pleased to hear that GRRM is currently SFWA's
+veep. George is a VNM (Very Nice Man).
+
+      Of course, that's got nothing to do with SFWA's general attitude
+toward this area, scriptwriters in general, or the dramatic nebula
+(they get to like George because a) he's an accomplished novelist, and
+b) he's a VNM, and ignore the rest of it if they so choose).  Still,
+it's good news for George, and I'm pleased for him.  It's a good thing
+to have George, since some others, like Harlan Ellison, also refuse to
+rejoin SFWA over the dramatic nebula question, and the treatment of
+scriptwriters in general.  George is a much more patient and generous
+man.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Mar 1997 21:20:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JOHN GRAVES <102735.1124@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Is The Great Maker Here?
+
+ JOHN GRAVES <102735.1124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, Are you still participating in the CIS forum?
+> When I left a posting for the sysops, >>Who Killed JMS<< the
+> responses seemed very defensive (gee, I wonder why?
+
+      I'm here...and the sysops have generously altered the position
+of sfmedone to allow for greater flexibility, and for that I think they
+deserve considerable praise.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Mar 1997 21:20:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: AgamemCon Report
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> But B5 fans?
+
+"My respect for fans would ratchet yet higher if it turns out that
+more than 350 of them can keep a secret .... especially online.  I
+can't imagine saying to 350 mundanes "This is just between you and me
+..."
+
+      Here's the amazing thing.
+
+      From time to time at cons, I'll decide to tell a story that for
+one reason or another I want kept off the nets.  And I'll say to the
+audience, please oblige me on this one.
+
+      I've done this about a dozen times, in front of audiences as
+large as 2,000 people.
+
+      And y'know what?
+
+      As far as I can remember, not once has anyone broken that
+agreement.
+
+      Anybody wants to badrap the fans, I tell 'em that...and it sets
+them straight real fast.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Mar 1997 21:20:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: <David L. Gold> <73177.1161@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mr. Garibaldi
+
+ <David L. Gold> <73177.1161@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this now Garibaldi?
+> Or was it Talia?
+> And if it's not Garibaldi, how long until we get back the
+> loveable lug we remember?
+
+      Mr. Garibaldi is certainly going through some rather dramatic
+changes, yes....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Mar 1997 21:20:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kirk R. Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Decendents of Valen
+
+ Kirk R. Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What would be the social status of a Minbari who was known to be
+> a descendent of Valen? What does that mean in terms of the racial
+> purity issue? Would general knowledge of Delenn as a descendent of
+> Valen help her or hurt her on the Gray Council (racial impurity
+> versus descendency from the One)? Did the other members of the
+> Gray Council understand the significance of the glowing
+> Triluminary (yes, I saw the astonishment on their faces, but that
+> might only have been surprise at the phenomenom)? Was Dukhat a
+> descendent of Valen? Is it now known among at least the Gray
+> Council that Valen was Sinclair?
+
+      No, Dukhat was not descended from Valen; yes, the Grey Council
+now knows who Sinclair was; and general knowledge of what happened
+would certainly have an upsetting effect on Minbari society, so they
+will continue to keep it indefinitely back-roomed....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Mar 1997 21:25:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JOHN GRAVES <102735.1124@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Who Killed JMS?
+
+ JOHN GRAVES <102735.1124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just what the heck is going on?
+> What are you folks thinking of?
+
+      As I noted in a message to you in another thread, everything has
+worked out fine, and the sysops have adjusted the structure to allow
+for greater flexibility, for which they are to be commended.
+
+      So I'm still alive and well and here...the reports of my dearth
+are greatly exaggerated....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Mar 1997 21:25:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Starfury model/drwgs
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The models advertised in the UK are pirate and inferior.
+
+      Authorized models will be coming out from Revell/Monogram later
+this year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Mar 1997 22:33:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Air Order
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, You're gonna actually do it after all?
+
+"I read the article in the latest Sci Fi Universe magazine, and
+honestly, I don't know how you do it all. God, talk about stress!"
+
+      1) I have no choice.
+
+      2) You just shrug your shoulders and you do it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Mar 1997 22:33:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New Set of B5 Cards
+
+ PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Don't suppose you want to buy an autograph card do you Joe ?
+> Hasn't anyone convinced Jerry "Bruce Willis' twin brother" Doyle
+> to come to Blackpool for convention in the summer ? ?
+> to make the love interest a bit more viable, or was there some
+> other thinking behind the changes ? Are you prepared for the hero
+> worship that's going to abound at the convention ?
+
+      I think Jerry has other commitments...
+
+      As for the pilot, initially Delenn was going to be a male
+Minbari who came out of the chrysalis female...but due to our inability
+to modify Mira's voice enough to make it work, we dropped that aspect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Mar 1997 22:33:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Who Killed JMS?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No current plans for LD release.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Mar 1997 22:33:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Is The Great Maker Here?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Apparently they've changed the category under which this forum
+falls to allow for greater flexibility in language...I think the sysops
+can probably explain it better than I can...sysoping not Zathras'
+strength....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Mar 1997 22:33:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Was this Delenn?
+
+ Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Funny, ain't it...?
+> I was wondering if you've yet sprung the off beat plot turn on us
+> yet, and if so was it one of the transformations? If not is this
+> still on the books to be done? If it was and not one of the
+> transformations what was it?
+
+      The off-beat notion was Delenn going from male to female, and
+then having a relationship with the CO.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Mar 1997 22:33:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Atonement
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I have NOT fibbed about past works.
+
+      Denied, denied and denied, sure, but fibbed, never.....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1997 02:14:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: NEW To Sysops From jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"He promised to "update" the reporter, though, so I presume he's done
+that and the article will accurately reflect what went on here."
+
+      Yup.  Already in process.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1997 02:22:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Who Killed JMS?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      We don't have a public affairs office.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1997 02:22:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5 CD, Volume Two
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> JMS, sorry to bother you but why isn't the Volume Two CD out in
+> stores?
+
+      Actually, a very few stores *have* gotten it in...but sonic
+images decided to fill all the fan orders first, and have gotten
+somewhat overwhelmed.  Once they catch up, they'll hit the stores.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1997 02:22:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Back to Z'Ha'Dum
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, it's one of her regular dressing gowns.
+
+      And thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1997 02:22:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Man In Between
+
+ Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was Lorien the man in between?
+> Was Sheridan the man in between?
+> Was Justin the man in between?
+> Okay, if you won't answer those three, then will you answer the
+> following? Was Refa the one who was already dead?
+
+      Refa was never already dead, so it can't be him.  Dead is dead,
+and the only one who fits that description would be Sheridan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:25:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: jms in Orlando
+
+      Just to advise those in the Orlando area...I'll be at Megacon at
+the Orange County Convention Center thereabouts, giving my B5
+presentation on Saturday at 3:00 p.m., with scenes from shows not yet
+aired, bloopers, and other sundry stuff.  I *think* there's also an
+autograph thing afterward, but can't be sure offhand.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:25:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: NEW To Sysops From jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, no, once you tell someone that part of a story *ain't*
+a story no more...it tends to go away.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:25:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Air Order
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why were they so interested in you directing?
+> Which one?
+> Are you going to act as well to cover all the bases?
+> What does your wife think of your schedule?
+
+"Why were they so interested in you directing?"
+
+      Well, they know the show is really my vision, and they're
+curious what it would look like if it was also followed through behind
+the camera.  And as our liaison with WB said, "We like it when our
+creative people spread their wings a little."  They like the show, and
+it does well for them, and they're just generally supportive that way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:25:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rob Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com>
+Subject: to sfwa from jms
+
+ Rob Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But who would want to win such an award?
+> What's it mean if you let someone else win?
+
+      Well, for starters, I don't think it would be letting someone
+else win; nominees would be submitted, and the best of that batch of
+nominees would win in head-to-head competition.  We've been bypassed
+for the occasional Emmy nomination even though I think some of the work
+done that year in those areas was at least as good as anything done
+elsewhere...does that diminish the kudos to the ones who *did* win?
+
+      Beyond which...even if SFWA *were* to start working on restoring
+the dramatic nebula -- the chances of which are roughly equivilent to
+an ostrich giving birth to an iguana -- it would take them a couple of
+years minimum to do it, by which time B5 is over anyway, and who knows
+if any later work of mine will be in the SF area at that point anyway? 
+(It's likely, but one never do know...I ended up on Murder She Wrote
+for 2 years, remember.)
+
+      Either way...my concern is the principle at work here.  If
+disqualifying or refusing the Neb myself is the only way to ensure that
+this ain't a personal agenda, and thus make the road easier for
+somebody else down the road, then that's jake by me.  But, as stated,
+the odds of this are slim and none.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:25:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Is The Great Maker Here?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'd be hard to pick an absolute favorite; I like all of them,
+for various reasons, and at various times.  If you put a gun to my
+head, I'd say it was probably either Delenn or Londo, because of the
+many shades to their characters.  They're like crystals, they change
+color and texture depending on how the light shines through them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:25:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: SFWA issue on SFLITs
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm sure there are, but having already been villified by Martin
+over on GEnie, speaking as veep of SFWA, I think I've had enough SFWA
+for a while.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:25:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Edit Process
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      All I can figure out is that they must be artifacts of the
+analog commercial drop-ins they've been doing, which affect the uplink
+process.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:25:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Atonement
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      You're right.
+
+      I am dust beneath thy feet.
+
+      I shall now sit in my garden and eat worms all day as penance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:25:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: AgamemCon Report
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Good point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:25:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Man In Between
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Didn't Londo have a prophecy about not killing the one who is
+> already dead? So, with the flash forward in WWEII we see him
+> sparing Sheridan, thereby avoiding his fate, right?
+
+      The goal was to *redeem* himself.  Sparing Sheridan was part of
+that. Then he had to surrender himself to his greatest fear: his death
+at G'Kar's hands.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:25:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Delenn and the Truth
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why didn't Delenn tell John the truth about her trip to Minbar,
+> and won't John be slightly ticked off when he finds out the
+> truth?
+
+      "Listen, honey, while you were out I went to the store and I
+bought some new candles, you know how we're always running out, and
+Lennier took the cat in to be cleaned, and oh, did I mention I was
+directly responsible for the deaths of two hundred and fifty thousand
+of your best friends and fellow officers?  Pass the sugar."
+
+      She'll never tell him.
+
+      Because it's over...what would be the point, except to ruin what
+they have now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Mar 1997 14:42:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Is The Great Maker Here?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think that would give away half the fun of what's coming.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Mar 1997 14:42:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: jms in Orlando
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I don't recall a 1 pm Sunday session, but it's possible.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Mar 1997 14:42:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms in Orlando
+
+ Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is Megacon the real reason you are going to Orlando?
+
+      I find this vaguely unnerving....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Mar 1997 14:42:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Support Letters.
+
+ John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question is, where do we need the most pull, WB, our local
+> stations, or both? Should I trust them?
+
+      At this point, I'd hold off until we see which way this goes....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Mar 1997 14:42:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: First-season reruns
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I know, I know, I know....
+
+      At least we'll get 'em finally on TNT.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Mar 1997 14:42:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Delenn and the Truth
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"You are a sadist, you know."
+
+      Thankyew....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Mar 1997 14:42:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Delenn and the Truth
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Doesn't he suspect to some degree?
+> He knows she was on the Grey Council, he knows she knows about
+> Sinclair, isn't there the possibility he'll put 2 and 2 together? 
+> Also, doesn't she to some degree want forgiveness from him for
+> her part in the war?
+
+      The reality is...in war, one does what one does.  Afterward, as
+we heal, we try to forget what we did, and what they did.  He killed as
+many Minbari as he could; she was on the Grey Counci that directed the
+war.  One doesn't go into it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Mar 1997 14:43:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Who cares about truth?
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And, even if love wasn't motivation enough for her to come clean
+> with her life, shouldn't truth be? What the hell has she been
+> fighting for all this time? But truth doesn't apply to her?
+> Was it all just a convenient lie to her?
+
+      Ah, but Minbari never tell anyone the whole truth....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Mar 1997 22:55:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Is The Great Maker Here?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Can you give us any hints about what will happen to Garibaldi? He's
+acting stranger and stranger.
+
+      Well...he'll probably start acting stranger and stranger....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Mar 1997 22:55:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: And now for a word...
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I've spoken with several people regarding cons in Germany, but
+all of them take place in 1998, not 1997.  And nothing has been signed
+by me with any of them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Mar 1997 22:55:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mr. Garibaldi
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"There was always irreverence and distrust before -- the irreverence
+has been retained, and the distrust cranked up..."
+
+      Ding....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Mar 1997 23:02:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Needs a Talking To..
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      1) The re-edit is likely going to be paid for by WB.
+
+      2) It's a VERY bad mistake to intervene in business negotiations
+between a production company and a studio...you will ONLY end up
+pissing off the people who you want to pony up the dough to do
+something, and that will be the end of that.
+
+      TNT has been *extremely* enthusiastic about the show, and doing
+all they can to promote it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Mar 1997 20:22:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Atonement
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Was Delenn's clan expecting her to do another transformation to
+> undo her "humanness"? Since the transformation had made her
+> "genetically compatible with the humans", isn't she now
+> genetically incompatible with Minbari? Or would she have been
+> expected to remain childless? Perhaps the equation of Sinclair
+> becoming mostly Minbari was balanced by Delenn becoming mostly
+> human, but what has this to do with migrating souls? It must have
+> migrated!)?
+
+      Yes, some Minbari on the Grey Council think that Sinclair opened
+up the "soul door," for lack of a better term, and Delenn's actions can
+be seen as a kind of back-fire, closing the door again.  Ain't
+necessarily what's true, but what they believe.
+
+      And yes, they would've had Delenn remain childless, but would be
+allowed to marry a Minbari.  And, again, it's a matter of marrying a
+non-Minbari with or WITHOUT kids...it's a very inflammatory sort of
+thing from a cultural perspective.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Mar 1997 21:10:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kirk R. Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Was this Delenn?
+
+ Kirk R. Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Leguin's _Left Hand of Darkness_?
+
+      No, but I know the story...and the idea there is of a race that
+changes sex.  Minbari do not change sex as a rule, it was going to be a
+one-off with Delenn.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Mar 1997 21:10:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard P. Manny <70762.141@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms in Orlando
+
+ Richard P. Manny <70762.141@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Must I send you my schedule so you can it right?!
+
+      I didn't know you could still *go* to cons, given the last
+incident, and the petition, and the restraining order....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Mar 1997 21:10:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Year 5: Catch-22?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Both are true, to varying extents.  The key stations are the
+major market stations, which are getting the most pressure to change,
+whereas the smaller markets are much more willing to stand pat.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Mar 1997 21:10:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Spot the Satai
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does Sheridan know that Delenn was Satai?
+
+      Well, Sheridan knows that Delenn was Grey Council, so he would
+obviously know she was Satai, since that's pretty much the same thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Mar 1997 03:15:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: to sfwa from jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"It's a looooooong jump from that to saying that SFWA 'doesn't
+consider screenwriters real writers.'"
+
+      Ah.
+
+      So, I take it that the letters that appeared in the SFWA Journal
+from SFWA members stating essentially that point did not actually exist
+in our universe, having instead filtered over via some spatial rift
+from the Bizarro Universe version of SFWA...(which would frankly be
+redundent).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Mar 1997 03:44:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: The Real Corwin
+
+      For those who know that one of my chief mentors as a writer was
+(and is) Norman Corwin...who was also one of the main inspirations to
+such other writers as Ray Bradbury, Rod Serling, Charles Kuralt, Stan
+Freberg and others, here's your chance to actually experience some of
+it.
+
+      A number of his radio dramas (and some scripts) have just been
+made available via The Mind's Eye.  They include performances by such
+folks as Jimmy Stewart, Vincent Price, Ray Bradbury, Elsa Lanchester,
+William Shatner, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Orson Welles,
+Jill Eikenberry, Groucho Marx, Robert Benchley and others.
+
+      You can get a catalog from 1-800-411-MIND, or from their website
+at www.lodestone-media.com.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Mar 1997 20:57:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'll probably try it eventually, but for obvious reasons can't
+handle any kind of learning curve right now....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Mar 1997 20:57:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Captain Power <uh oh>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> I was just wondering, what was the last episode of Captain Power?
+> Was that the last episode?
+
+      Yup, that was the last ep, "A Summoning of Thunder," part two.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Mar 1997 20:57:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TNT Air Order
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's what we're trying to work out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Mar 1997 20:57:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TNT Air Order
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      For all intents and purposes, the pilot *is* the director's
+cut...what we want to do is make a producer's cut of more material and
+better editing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Mar 1997 20:57:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New Set of B5 Cards
+
+ PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com> asks:
+> what with all the gender related issues ?
+
+      I could've pulled it off.  Ve haff vays....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Mar 1997 20:57:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: to sfwa from jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      But, see, Mike, there's the contradiction...when you talk about
+SFWA being tolerant and inviting, you're generalizing from the
+individuals to the group.  But when I do the same, you say, "No, no,
+those are just the individuals."  When enough individuals say
+something, it becomes a group opinion, and hence an organizational
+opinion.
+
+      Basically, you're saying that if the action is *positive*, it's
+SFWA the organization speaking...if the action is *negative*, it's just
+the members talking, thus giving the group deniability.
+
+      You can't have it both ways, Mike.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Mar 1997 20:57:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Status Check
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Are you and Harlan still on for I-CON at Stony Brook, Long
+> Island, in three weeks?
+
+      I'm trying to still be there, but I'm working out some problems
+with the convention, when has stuck me on 4.5 to 6.5 hours of panels,
+presentations and the like per day, with little or NO breaks in between
+to eat or rest, and insisting that I *have* to do all of it, and that's
+just plain hideous.  If we can come to a reasonable understanding on
+this, then yeash, I'll be there...if not....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Mar 1997 20:57:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Cherry Red
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      You should've come up and said hello, I didn't know you were
+there.
+
+      Re: the look on my face...it's a sad thing, but at 42 years old,
+having lived the life I've led, and done the things I've done, part of
+me is very iconoclastic and brash, but there's a part of me that's
+still about 12 years old and shy and...okay, I blush.  Easily.  It's
+*really* embarrassing.  (Some women tell me it's cute, which is even
+MORE embarrassing.)
+
+      And yeah, Narns are marsupial, but since Andreas keeps referring
+to himself otherwise, I used it.
+
+      And the commune story...is WAY too long to tell.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Mar 1997 20:57:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: A door
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What did he mean by this?
+> Am I close?
+
+      Close.  They couldn't break the rules of engagement, but he
+did...and started things moving.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Mar 1997 14:40:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: to sfwa from jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Okay, Mike...so the organization speaks for itself.  Over on
+GEnie, George Martin came in, and speaking as Vice President for SFWA,
+speaking for the *group*, said, of my statement to disqualify myself
+from future Nebulas to show that this isn't part of a vested interest
+on my part but rather the principle, "Don't you have enough awards,
+Joe?"  When another fan reminded him of my statement given above, he
+said, "You cannot disqualify yourself from a Nebula, and I suspect Joe
+knew that."  (Which I didn't.)  In essense he first questions my
+motives and my ethics, then assaults my honesty, as his way of dealing
+with my raising the issue.  (I then made it plain that I will not 
+accept any Nebula in future, regardless, if that's what it takes,
+though I think most people knowing you don't want one will tend to
+discourage voting in that area.)
+
+       So now what is this, George speaking as George, or George
+speaking for SFWA the organization?  Because when he came in he sure as
+heck made it clear that he was speaking in his capacity as VP.
+
+       Sorry, Mike, but the organization acts as its members act, and
+speaks as its members speaks, and George's intemperate reaction, to
+immediately and gratuitously go for the personal attack rather than
+discussing the issue, when I had never said a WORD about any one person
+in this discussion, just shows again why many are afraid to pursue this
+issue any more.  They're tired of the petty, personal attacks, and so
+am I, from many of the members AND the organization and its
+spokespersons.  Because an organization doesn't exist as some kind of
+Platonic ideal, outside reality (though in this I sometimes wonder if
+SFWA is outside reality).  It says in the Bible, "You shall know them
+by their works."  An organization is known by what it does, and what
+it says, through its members.  So you can try and divorce the two all
+you want, but they're the same thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Mar 1997 23:47:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Marcon
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, although I'm waiting for some details to be worked out, as
+things stand now I plan to be at Marcon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Mar 1997 23:47:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Becky Murphy <76131.1534@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Directors
+
+ Becky Murphy <76131.1534@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering (since it's not in the Lurker's Guide) who
+> is/will be directing "Racing Mars", "Face of the Enemy",
+> "Intersections in Real Time" and "Between the Darkness & the
+> Light"? Also, are there any new episode titles you can share with
+> us?
+
+      Intersections is John LaFia; Darkness is David Eagle.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Mar 1997 23:47:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: A door
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Wasn't the (planned) complete destruction of every world ever
+> touched by the Shadows a "break" in the rules of engagement?
+
+      FIrst, that *followed* his trip to Z'ha'dum...so yes, the rules
+began to slip after that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Mar 1997 03:53:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TIME NewsWire transcript
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      In private mail, I said the same thing to Ray; in this case, the
+sysops acted correctly.  Fair Use does not in any way cover reposting
+entire articles.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Mar 1997 03:55:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sandra G. Bruckner <76642.3664@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Status Check
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Happily, I spoke to the President of the ICON group today, and
+they seem bent on making this work, and making it right, so I suspect
+this will all work out as soon as I can see a schedule with a more
+reasonable layout.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1997 18:56:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Cherry Red
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Aw, come on; tell us a story, Joooooe. <g>"
+
+      What the heck do you think I've been *doing* these last 4 years?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1997 18:56:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rituals by the Bushel
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      You have far too much time on your hands.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1997 19:12:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TNT Needs a Talking To..
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, the tapes are not coming out shortly, the dealer is
+mistaken.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Mar 1997 20:08:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Thanks for the Mega
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                       that bad, bad man in hollywood
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Mar 1997 12:05:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shelf life
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> That is, are steps taken to prevent or ameliorate this
+> degradation? Or is the question irrelevant for some other reason?
+
+       I think we've got WB more aware of the preservation issues once
+some of the original prints of shots from the pilot were eaten by rats
+while in storage facilities.  (The negatives are safe.)  We spoke to
+them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Mar 1997 12:05:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: sequel series?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       We're still awaiting final word.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Mar 1997 12:05:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow War
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       They did take part in the war, just not to the same extent as
+the religious caste, though toward the end they got much more involved.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Mar 1997 01:43:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kristi Ferebee <75361.1615@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Shadow Within
+
+ Kristi Ferebee <75361.1615@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Hey, has anyone finished the new B5 book "The Shadow Within"?
+> (Or can we?
+
+      The story of the Icarus as presented in this book is considered
+canon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Mar 1997 15:09:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: G'kar - Cross?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Was that intentional?
+> Also, are Narn usually strong enough to break the unweakened
+> chains, or was that just an extra bit of adrenaline or equivalent
+> on G'kar's part?
+
+       I think one can make the argument there is some symbolism in
+there from christian literature, but that kind of scene takes place in
+other belief systems as well, and historically that sort of torture was
+used in many places, including the Roman empire in general.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Mar 1997 15:09:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Prequel Plans?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I've found it's generally best to *see* what one does before
+deciding whether not to be disappointed by it.  And I really have no
+interest in running the story by anyone for approval or to make sure
+they think it'll be okay, and along the way destroy any possible
+interest in *seeing* it since the story is already out there on the
+nets.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Mar 1997 15:09:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dr John A Purvis <100341.1147@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Shadow Within
+
+ Dr John A Purvis <100341.1147@compuserve.com> asks:
+> There was some talk about a Book featuring Catherine Sekai is
+> this still mooted? Also if there is a recurrent theme of lost and
+> missing females, how about Lyta between her disappearance after
+> the gathering until her return?
+
+       Catherine Sakai is one of the major characters in the third of
+the current batch of new B5 novels.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Mar 1997 23:06:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: con in Germany ?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It took me a while to run this down, but I have the info:  I
+have not been formally approached by this convention in Germany, and
+will not be going. The convention was mentioned to Bruce, but he has
+not confirmed and is not going, and is distressed that they are using
+his name.  I do not believe Andrea is going either; only Jerry has so
+far indicated that he will be there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Mar 1997 23:13:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Nine New Eps!!!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      It doesn't bode well or poorly for a season 5; they'd hold back
+a few in either event.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Mar 1997 23:13:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Nine New Eps!!!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, there'd be no rush at all in terms of getting a sequel
+into prep and out the door.  The discussions now are in the area of
+fall 97 to shoot and January 98 to air (with or without a simultaneous
+S5 of B5).  We have a lot of the stuff we'd need for the sequel
+(costumes, uniforms, some sets, prosthetics, that sort of thing), so
+the lead time would be very short.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Mar 1997 13:38:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Nine New Eps!!!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       The fate of the show has little or nothing to do with the final
+five, one way or another...they'll be seen regardless.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Mar 1997 13:38:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shelf life
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> And did the rats listen when you spoke to them?
+
+       The rats are the ONLY ones who listen to me anymore.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Mar 1997 23:00:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: music for pilot movie
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, if you re-edit the pilot, would you be asking Frank to
+> re-score it?
+
+      Yeah, Chirs would re-score it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Mar 1997 23:03:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: R. Thomas <71544.3171@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ITF question
+
+ R. Thomas <71544.3171@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Am I correct in my understanding that the 6 first ones' ships
+> Lorien brought out were from species from this particular galaxy,
+> but that had already gone beyond the rim, and do not reside in
+> the galaxy at all? If so, will the walkers still appear in normal
+> space around sigma 957 from time to time?
+
+      They were all still hanging around here, for one reason or
+another, mostly to do with inertia, familiarity...but finally
+recognized that it was time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Mar 1997 19:36:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Raven & the Dove
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      That was not the specific intended message, no....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Mar 1997 13:52:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Eric Baker <76600.2605@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I-con: Time of Program?
+
+ Eric Baker <76600.2605@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What time are you doing the B5 presentation at I-con?
+
+       I don't have the schedule with me at the moment, but it's
+mid-afternoon Saturday...though there is a second presentation on
+Sunday, apparently.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs97-04 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs97-04
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..25a87c75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/CompuServe/cs97-04
@@ -0,0 +1,1774 @@
+JMS CompuServe messages for April 1997.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+
+Date: 01 Apr 1997 02:36:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Raven & the Dove
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Not a message as such, but more an image, a mood that gives
+subtext to some stuff that happens later.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Apr 1997 02:36:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I-con: Time of Program?
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 8:00-9:00pm Autographs in the Gym 9:30-10:30pm Panel: Home is the
+> Strangest Place of All at Javits 102, with Harlan, Nancy Kress,
+> and ??
+
+      It's definitely going to be changed....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Apr 1997 02:47:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com>
+Subject: UK B5 FAN TO BE SUED!!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Wearing a beard and glasses is not grounds for any kind of suit,
+or I would be in court forever.
+
+      I've been warning people for some time now, particularly those
+who abuse the copyright, that WB is cracking down.  Over two dozen
+*judgements* have been rendered in cases pursued by WB against pirates
+and hackers and others who've imperiled the copyright to B5.  If this
+windows "help" file is what I think it is, it's filled with images and
+material owned by WB, and is being mass distributed.  Whether for free
+or profit isn't the issue, it's the repackaging of material.  The
+"bearded/glasses" thing sounds like smoke to me because the person got
+caught.
+
+      On the one hand, we've gotten WB to be fairly relaxed about web
+sites and fan stuff, as long as the proper copyright info is
+appended...but at the same time, they're cracking down on those who are
+abusing the situation and unquestionably infringing on WB's copyright. 
+(Note to dealers and con organizers: they've been seriously going after
+counterfeiters and pirates, and some cons have had to pay the price for
+not properly policing their dealer's rooms for counterfeit
+merchandise.)  In most cases that I know of, the person is given a
+warning first...then hit when and if they choose to get stupid and 
+ignore the warning.  I don't know the situation with this one, but I
+would guess it's the same.
+
+      WB owns B5, and WB has an obligation to protect it from falling
+into public domain, which *will happen* unless it vigorously goes after
+parties who infringe on that copyright.  There is no corporation on the
+planet that acts otherwise.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 01 Apr 1997 12:24:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: UK B5 FAN TO BE SUED!!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       (sudden light goes on)
+
+       I think I keel Meester Sloan now....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Apr 1997 12:24:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: burrowing bombs
+
+ Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> for your version that is used by the Vorlons, are they based on a
+> concept from another area of SF that I'm not familiar with? or did
+> you come up with them yourself? did you know that the US was
+> developing them?
+
+       No, that's something that we came up with here...if this is
+true, it's an interesting concept.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Apr 1997 22:41:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5 RPG...canon?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Obviously there's a lot of wriggle room here because there's so
+much material covered, but at least the sense of it is canonical, and a
+lot of what they came up with was sufficiently good that I looked at it
+and said, "Okay, I can buy that."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Apr 1997 22:41:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Shadow Within/ITF
+
+ Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What was the timing of the book/episode?
+> I know books require a bit of lead time so did the author see the
+> episode before it aired or was it something you added after the
+> book was in progress?
+
+      It all just sorta came together at the same time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Apr 1997 03:20:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: I-Con Invitation
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      So what was it like seeing 24 episodes in a row?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Apr 1997 22:54:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: I-Con Invitation
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, Claudia never played Ivanova with a Russian accent.  I
+still can't figure out why people keep saying this.  She was very
+formal, but there was never, ever any accent unless she was saying a
+Russian name, but that's all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Apr 1997 01:16:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Belgarde <75347.2324@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5 RPG...canon?
+
+ Scott Belgarde <75347.2324@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I haven't played any RPGs in years, not since my college
+> days--ahhhh...I yearn for those long past halcyon days when I had
+> the time (Classes?
+
+"I'm just hoping the technical manual will be released, either in hard
+copy or on disc, it will make my task a great deal easier.":
+
+      This will be coming out as the B5 Security Manual from Boxtree
+(likely to then be reprinted by Del Rey), and in the B5 informational
+CDrom now being finished.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Apr 1997 01:48:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: Psi Phi Phony jms
+
+      To anyone one the Psi Phi mailing list or web site: someone has
+been logging on to impersonate me over this past weekend.  I have
+never, at any time, posted on this site, and any messages are to be
+discounted, deleted and ignored.  If anyone knows the sysop of this
+system, please notify them and tell them to remove that account.
+
+      There have been, and continue to be, impersonators using my name
+on other systems.  If you see something that looks suspicious, or if I
+show up on an unfamiliar system, please send email to me asking if it's
+actually me or not.  Generally the only places I post *ever* are
+Compuserve, GEnie, AOL, the usenet moderated group, and the B5 fan club
+site.
+
+      To those considering this prank: understand that whereas other
+activities are fuzzy under the law when it comes to the cyberworld,
+falsy impersonating someone is *not*, and you will be arrested.  Count
+on it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Apr 1997 01:48:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kathleen . Keefe <102735.3416@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I-Con Invitation
+
+ Kathleen . Keefe <102735.3416@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who was it?
+
+      I think it was just someone from our walla group.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Apr 1997 01:48:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: holding over episodes
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Fall would be October; they'd use the last episodes to ramp up
+whatever comes next, us or something else, for the November sweeps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Apr 1997 01:48:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Fans vs. Trekkies
+
+ Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where is the line drawn?
+> How do we stay 'healthy' fans, and avoid getting mentioned in the
+> next update of Harlan's Xenogenesis?
+
+      Leaving aside the whole broader questions at work here -- and
+there are many -- I think that on balance, B5 fans would have a harder
+time falling for this sort of thing in general because B5 does not
+offer answers, only questions, and encourages viewers to think for
+themselves and question authority.  This would not make them good
+candidates for cult recruitment drives.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Apr 1997 01:48:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: King Arthur and Delenn
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Had he actually known...it would've been even more apt.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Apr 1997 01:48:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 RPG comments
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What gives?
+
+      They would be a *major* disruption in an environment such as B5,
+so their presence is discouraged in the sense of having an office
+there, though other teeps do pass through on occasion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Apr 1997 01:48:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: I-CON
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks; you should've come up and said hi...every time someone
+asked me to sign a card to Sharon, I said, "...Foster?"  Never worked
+out.
+
+      The con was a lot of fun...hard work, but overall, fun.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Apr 1997 01:48:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: More I-CON Musings....
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, good points...and yeah, I generally try to watch
+X-Files, though I've fallen a bit by the wayside lately due to a) work
+and b) the story getting kinda convoluted (yeah, like I should
+talk)....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Apr 1997 02:05:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: I-CON
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, I was not told that people had left the line and not been
+allowed in.  At one point, a security person pointed to the end of the
+line and told me that now that we'd begun that would be the end of it,
+but that's all. (And I kept insisting that I'd sign more than one
+thing, I'm real fast that way.) I felt that they were a little
+ham-handed in this...but at the same time, particulary Sunday, I was on
+a *very* tight schedule, and that made things tough for everyone.  But
+my policy holds: if someone's in line, they should get an autograph, no
+matter how long it takes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Apr 1997 12:33:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Thanks, & some questions
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Was it your idea to have Marcus singing "I am the Very Model of a
+> Moder Major General" at the end of the last episode, or was it
+> the actor who suggested the specific song? Why has no one begun to
+> put two and two together and think about the possibility that
+> Garibaldi's change in personality may be related to the fact that
+> he he and his ship were obviously abducted?
+
+       The song was in the script; Jason then had to learn it.  And
+Andreas came in and auditioned like others, and we responded to what we
+saw during his audition.  Simple as that.
+
+       And thanks....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Apr 1997 01:12:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: I-CON
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      They cut the line off *outside*, after people had been waiting?!
+
+      I didn't know.  Suffice to say I'm vastly disappointed and more
+than a tad annoyed by this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Apr 1997 12:31:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WesterCon 50
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> for WesterCon 50 worked-out your schedule and will you let us
+> know what it is when you do know?
+
+       No, I don't believe anything's been finalized yet, though I'll
+be sure to mention when it is.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Apr 1997 22:22:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: jms Note to German Fans
+
+      I spoke to Bruce today, and apparently whatever problems may
+have existed have been worked out, and he, Richard Biggs and Jerry
+Doyle are now all confirmed for the German convention this summer.
+
+      Now, that stated, an open letter to the German fan groups.
+
+      Many on the B5 staff and I have been inundated with email from
+fans in Germany, and organizers of various fan groups, and fan
+counter-groups, and counter-counter groups, and insisting -- no,
+*demanding* -- that we get personally involved in the fan situation
+there, that so-and-so has no business working in X area of fandom, that
+this group over here isn't as right or proper as *that* group over
+there, insisting again and again that we issue statements condemning or
+repudiating one group or another....
+
+      Stop it.
+
+      For starters you're making my people crazy.  And some of the
+cast.  You do not endear yourselves with this behavior.
+
+      Second: it is not our place to intervene in fan-vs-fan disputes.
+Not only *would* we not do so, it would be wrong for us to try, and it
+would be resented by the majority of fans, rightly so.
+
+      Granted that there are always, and will always be, schisms and
+politics and back-alley metaphorical knifings between one fan group and
+another, that goes with the territory, and it happens in many
+countries.  But the ferocity of this competition, and the blizzard of
+email to my staffers and others involved with the show from those
+involved in the current dispute has gone beyond the pale.
+
+      If I know from personal experience or knowledge that a given
+convention is going to be trouble, I'll say so...but I (and we) have no
+direct knowledge of the situation in German fandom, and to ask us to
+condemn or recognize one faction or another when we are completely in
+the dark is simply wrong.
+
+      (I should mention that it's primarily those who are actually
+involved in one group or another who are making life difficult for us
+here; we have received only wonderful support from German fans in
+general, who don't get involved in the politics of local fandom.  We're
+very proud of how the show has been received in Germany, and are only
+appreciative of the great response and support and letters we've
+received.  This is primarily addressed only to the specific groups
+involved.)
+
+      The point of B5 is that hu     jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Mar 1997 21:25:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JOHN GRAVES <102735.1124@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Who Killed JMS?
+
+ JOHN GRAVES <102735.1124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just what the heck is going on?
+> What are you folks thinking of?
+
+      As I noted in a message to you in another thread, everything has
+worked out fine, and the sysops have adjusted the structure to allow
+for greater flexibility, for which they are to be commended.
+
+      So I'm still alive and well and here...the reports of my dearth
+are greatly exaggerated....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Mar 1997 21:25:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Starfury model/drwgs
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The models advertised in the UK are pirate and inferior.
+
+      Authorized models will be coming out from Revell/Monogram later
+this year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Apr 1997 11:51:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: I-CON
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, it seemed to us as well that he was having a bit of fun,
+being a renowned satirist, and we figured we'd play into it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Apr 1997 15:18:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Will Gearhart <102147.2670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Timeline question
+
+ Will Gearhart <102147.2670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> To that I would add, if the Minbari couldn't scan Sinclair, would
+> they have just finished earth off and made the whole question of
+> the battle scene, Babylon 5, 4 (all of them) moot? And what kind
+> of race would the Minbari be without Valen? And doesn't believing
+> in Mobius-like temporal paradoxes take a bit more faith than
+> believing in God?
+
+       Sinclair went back because he would always go back and always
+went back; the "alternate" timeline phrase isn't quite correct...it's
+more like the moment when the two possible wave forms of
+*possibilities* must collapse into one probability or certainty, both
+tugging at the same time.  For instance, you've got Shroedinger's cat,
+put into a box, with a 50/50 chance of a poison gas capsule opening and
+killing the cat.  At the instant before you open the box, Shroedinger
+said, the cat is neither dead nor alive, but *both*, until you open the
+box and the two possibilities collapse into one. It isn't that the cat
+had two alternate timelines, only that there were two possibilities 
+fighting it out to become the real one.
+
+       That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Apr 1997 01:33:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: jms Note to German Fans
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      ....sigh...just what I need.
+
+      Okay, somebody get me a fistful of theses, I'll get a nail....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Apr 1997 01:33:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Timeline question
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well, I figure...we saw it from the cat's point of view....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Apr 1997 01:33:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Belgarde <75347.2324@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Timeline question
+
+ Scott Belgarde <75347.2324@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of Schroedinger's Cat, ever read any Rudy Rucker?
+
+      Personally, I think they ought to leave the damn cat alone
+before he scratches somebody's eyes out....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Apr 1997 01:33:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: ICON Postscript
+
+      By the way...since I got the end of the story today in the
+paper, I thought I'd pass this along as a follow-up to the Icon
+coverage.
+
+      On Sunday late afternoon, I finished my last presentation and
+got into the car to head back to the hotel to pack.  Robert Kaiser,
+escort and driver assigned by the con, was driving the van and can
+verify what follows.  We were about halfway to the hotel, on the
+freeway, when I heard this very loud engine right outside, like a big,
+loud motorcycle trying to pass.  I looked to the left, nothing.  Looked
+to the right and behind.  Nothing.
+
+      Then I looked forward...and saw two airplane wheels coming down
+over the edge of the window.
+
+      In any international language you can name, this is the symbol
+for You Are Now In Serious Guano.
+
+      A private plane was literally about five feet above the van.
+
+      And coming down.  Fast.
+
+      It got a little ahead of us, because it was still moving fast,
+and it was obviously looking to try and put down on the freeway. 
+Something was wrong.  It was about three or so car lengths ahead now,
+but there wasn't room to put down, too many cars.  It suddenly lurched
+down.  "It's going to hit the deck right in front of us," I realized. 
+Then it abruptly pitched up again, as a bridge appeared in front of us,
+and banked away to the right.
+
+      The last I saw, it was banking and descending behind a line of
+trees, apparently looking for somewhere, anywhere to set down before
+the plane gave out.
+
+      I didn't want to say anything until I knew the fate of whoever
+was flying it; happily, according to newspaper reports, the three
+passengers of the plane were injured when it crashed into the side of a
+nearby house, but not killed.  They were taken to the nearby Medical
+Center at Stony Brook, there in Long Island, and are now recovering.
+
+      Took us a while to calm down.  After all the other adventures of
+the convention...they threw a plane at us.  And almost got us...within
+five feet, to be precise.  Had it gone down just roughly ninety seconds
+before it did, I would almost certainly not be here to write this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Apr 1997 15:54:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Eric Baker <76600.2605@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Women in the Sequel
+
+ Eric Baker <76600.2605@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 8) What I'm curious about is if you have given any thought to the
+> male/female ratio on the new show? Have you given any thought to
+> it?
+
+      I never ever give thought to ratios, or making a political
+statement, or anything other than the story.  If that meant using 100%
+female cast in the movie, or 100% male cast, or some variation thereof,
+then that's what it'll be.  I think the *instant* you start putting
+agendas ahead of the creative process, of saying "What is the story
+*about*?" then I think you're dead.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Apr 1997 01:04:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
+
+ Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What sort of mutant keyboard is that?
+> Is it wireless?
+> Would you recommend this arrangement for those of us with the CTS
+> and sore neck blues?
+
+      That's a Kinesis keyboard, which I've found very useful.  It's
+cut back the discomfort quite a bit, and I recommend it, though it
+takes a bit to get used to it.
+
+      I've also just ordered a Datahand, which is a very radically
+different design, though there's apparently an 8 week waiting list. 
+I'll let folks know how that one works out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Apr 1997 17:28:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
+
+ Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What do you do for a mouse, though?
+> And how DO you handle the keyboard in your lap- do you have an
+> extra long cord, or a cordless adapter?
+
+      I still have to use a standard mouse, though I hate a mousepad,
+so I usually just run it on the top of my leg.
+
+      The keyboard cable is pretty standard, and should probably be
+longer. I just keep it in my lap, on a lap-cat (a keyboard cushion),
+and sit back and type my little brains out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Apr 1997 17:28:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Eric Baker <76600.2605@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Women in the Sequel
+
+ Eric Baker <76600.2605@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If I recall correctly, didn't you change casting directors
+> between the first and second seasons and wasn't one of the
+> reasons an effort to get more "cultural diversity" into the
+> casting?
+
+      Yes, there we noticed a lapse because the show was getting (and
+still tends to be) a little too white-bread for my tastes, though we've
+gotten a bit better lately.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Apr 1997 17:28:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: General
+
+ Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What are the particulars for choosing the art for the books?
+> Who could she send her portfolio to?
+
+      The book is being done in-house through WB publishing, so it'd
+have to go through that.
+
+      And thanks...good to see you there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Apr 1997 23:11:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
+
+ Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> though then what would my excuse for getting so little done be?
+
+      BTW, before I forget, try checking out www.datahand.com for
+another kind of keyboard, the one I just ordered.  Can't vouch for it
+yet, because I haven't tried it and am trying this on faith, but it's a
+completely radical new design that was initially made for the Post
+Office, and is now being sold commercially.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Apr 1997 23:11:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kirk R. Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Women in the Sequel
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Okay, kids, stop fighting or I'll turn this car *right* around
+and we'll go home.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Apr 1997 23:25:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Francis Rogers <73742.1613@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Illusions of Truth
+
+ Francis Rogers <73742.1613@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, do you know if Kitman was putting us on in his overlong
+> introduction? What are your actual feelins on the matter?
+> 4, Who played the "psychiatrist" in the episode, the one
+> interviewed by Randall?
+
+      I am definitely *not* anti-reporter...I'm against the *control*
+of truth by any government or political agenda.  We are made stronger
+by a multiplicity of voices, and the more those voices are allowed
+access to a level playing field, the more often the truth will come out
+to play.
+
+      The third name was Jarrico, after Paul Jarrico, also
+blacklisted.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Apr 1997 17:22:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Earth Standard Time
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Basically, it's the time zone in Geneva, Switzerland, which is
+the seat of Earth government now, Earthdome, and since all major
+planetary councils, the Senate, the President and other official
+business goes through there, that's the area where EST is determined.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Apr 1997 01:12:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
+
+ Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Not to belabor this line of questioning (she says as she
+> belabors), but where do you get one of these things?
+
+      Unfortunately, I don't remember where I got it, and the label
+has long since fallen off, I only remember that it was called a LapCat.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Apr 1997 01:12:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Eric Baker <76600.2605@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Women in the Sequel
+
+ Eric Baker <76600.2605@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can we stop at McDonalds now?
+
+      Ask your mother.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Apr 1997 01:12:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Personal Agendas?
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So my question is: Is the placement of this story in error, or is
+> the characterization just really out of sync with the series? Or
+> is this criticism entirely unjustified from your point of view?
+
+      No, I've said that while this one is okay, the characterization
+is off, and it tries 'way too hard to be funny, ignoring the notion
+that if everything is funny then *nothing* is funny.  Unfortunately, I
+didn't get the actual manuscript until it was too late to do anything
+short of commissioning a full rewrite, which they wouldn't do.
+
+      Anyway...as I said, it's okay.  But for my money, the Anna
+Sheridan and Jeffrey Sinclair books are the two real gems of this
+batch.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Apr 1997 01:17:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New episodes??
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> When do we get out of the current batch of reruns and back into
+> the new episodes??
+
+      Next week's TV Guide lists the first new episode back.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Apr 1997 01:17:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New episodes??
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, it's got some pretty funny stuff in it...when it ain't
+being tense....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Apr 1997 01:17:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Thomas Rackers <72047.1207@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Blacklists?
+
+ Thomas Rackers <72047.1207@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Basically, were some actors who were blacklisted by the HUAC
+> proceedings able to find work afterwards under other names? Are
+> you aware if pseudonyms were used to get around the blacklists?
+
+      Some writers were able to get around it, but not the actors,
+except by leaving the US and working in England or Paris.  I think
+you're thinking of two different actors.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Apr 1997 23:03:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New episodes??
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is this the one with the cameo by Scott Adams?
+
+      No, I don't believe it is.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Apr 1997 12:45:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Illusions of Truth
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One question this brings to mind, why do we never see anything
+> but ISN? How did ISN get a stranglehold on the news, and if it
+> didn't, then there are likely millions of potential news outlets
+> accessible to everyone, how does Clark keep them under control?
+
+       ISN is the one network that can handle *interstellar*
+broadcasts, which reqire a massive amount of energy, logistics,
+setup...there are other, local, planetary networks around Earth, and a
+few specialized channels for military and some commercial use...but ISN
+is the biggest, and because of that is very much in Earthgov's pocket.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Apr 1997 22:53:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, I just figured that sooner or later you'd stumble onto the
+staple gun solution like the rest of us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Apr 1997 22:53:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Marcia Sampson <103127.1072@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Does all Earth use EST?
+
+ Marcia Sampson <103127.1072@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That got me to wondering: is the entire planet Earth on Earth
+> Standard Time? If the whole Earth is on Earth Standard Time, does
+> this mean that in places well away from the EST meridian, most
+> people work at night and sleep/observe curfew during daylight?
+
+      No, EST is mainly for the seat of government, to which most
+military outposts are synchronized.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Apr 1997 23:56:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hugo News?
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, have you any news to leak to us?
+
+      Well, if there *were* anything to say, it would be with the
+understanding that the Hugo people want to make the announcements on
+nominations, so anything I have to say wouldn't actually exist until
+after then, so what I might have to say now doesn't exist, and what I
+may say in future can't be said, so theoretically what exists, doesn't,
+for the immediate future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Apr 1997 22:21:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hugo News?
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I want to memorize this (with adaptations according to
+> situations) just for the <disengage-brain> effect it would have,
+> sort of like, "Do you feel more like you do now than when you
+> came in?"
+
+      Thanks...I think....
+
+      Though certainly if I were to comment on any nominations, it
+would be an act severed from polite behavior, and one never even dreams
+of such things.
+
+      Now let's all get out our Little Orphan Annie Decoder Rings....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Apr 1997 22:21:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Don Berg <74147.1753@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS,HE on SF:Vortex
+
+ Don Berg <74147.1753@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I heard that you and Harlan Ellison are scheduled to appear
+> together on Sci-Fi Vortex next week is that true?
+
+      Yep, it's true.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Apr 1997 14:29:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mention of B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well, what the heck does it *say*?  I'm stuck at home writing
+and can't get to a store to find out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Apr 1997 18:09:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Mention of B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, we try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Apr 1997 21:27:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Modern Major Miracle
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thank you.  Now go to your room before the scansion police get
+here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Apr 1997 12:22:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: John Leonard Quotes
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Page 125 - "What did it mean--so many cowboys and Indians in
+> outer space, so many SWAT teams and drug-busters, and such a foam
+> and froth of humanoid diversity?
+
+       Thanks for taking the time to transcribe all that.  I figured
+just a synopsis, but you went far beyond the line of duty on that. 
+Many thanks again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Apr 1997 20:34:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Happy Couple
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And why do I have the feeling that, in a society with a declining
+> population, one of the last rituals before marriage may well be a
+> test of fertility? But we'll have to wait and see, won't we?
+
+      I like silly and unbecoming as long as it's believable...which
+is a fine line to walk.  We all do silly things from time to time, and
+that's okay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Apr 1997 00:02:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com>
+Subject: spoiler- new ep
+
+ Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> WHOO HOO?!
+> WHOO HOO?!?!?!?!
+
+"You, sir, are nothing but a big bearded tease!"
+
+      Thankyew....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Apr 1997 16:24:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com>
+Subject: spoiler- new ep
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Your spelling was correct.  And yeah...amazing the kind of
+implications you can make just by chaning one little pronoun....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Apr 1997 12:32:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 S5 - A thought or two
+
+ colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If word of renewal is late, is it likely that the finale may have
+> to be filmed 'just in case' - and if so - how do the cast feel
+> about that? For once, knowing the outcome, how would it affect
+> their actions for the characters?
+>  - Yeah I know - big stretch on my part, again, what do I know??
+> Last thing - my wife came up with a dandy idea - if there is no
+> season 5 - how about WB extending S4 so Joe has a couple of
+> episodes to tie things up - instead of condensing it into one ??
+>  - Freeing him up for more "expression" - Good idea (if unlikely)
+> or wot (or not )?? Thoughts people ??
+> Please ??
+
+       Ain't nobody gonna be disappointed.  That much I feel sure
+about.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Apr 1997 12:40:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Gerrold <70307.544@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hugo Ballot Announced!
+
+ David Gerrold <70307.544@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Comments anyone?
+
+       David...I agree with you completely.  I find the cavalier
+treatment you've received on this to be appalling in the extreme. 
+Everyone who saw that episode knows full well that it used massive
+amounts of your material: your writing, your lines, your ideas, your
+structure...it's all there.  The new stuff is just interwoven into it. 
+That you aren't listed as one of the writers, that they never even
+*paid* you for the use of your material is nothing short of hideous.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Apr 1997 21:07:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Gerrold <70307.544@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hugo Ballot Announced!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"I feel some proprietary interest."
+
+      Yeah...nothing like having your firstborn kid sliced up for
+someone else's dinner and then denied even the claim of parenthood.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Apr 1997 15:19:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Racing Mars<< worries
+
+ Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And to know how pervasive those icky shadow minions seem to be
+> (guess we'll learn more about them next week)...We saw the
+> episode on vacation and can you believe that at times I felt
+> anxious, wondering what could be bothering me, only to realize I
+> was worried about John, Delenn, Garibaldi and Babylon5?
+
+       Thanks...unsettled is just the right reaction.  And yeah,
+someone is going to start wondering soon enough about his behavior.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Apr 1997 15:26:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Gerrold <70307.544@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hugo Ballot Announced!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Obvious question, though, is...are you going to bring this up
+in the ST section as well as areas mainly visited by B5 folks?  I don't
+think they know the situation among the ranks of ST fans, and they
+might be able to do more inside.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Apr 1997 23:42:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Racing Mars<< worries
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did I hear the line "He's not the Pope, he doesn't even look like
+> HER!"?
+
+      Yeah, you heard the "her" line.  Got a fair amount of flack for
+that one, btw.
+
+      And it's Woo Hoo.
+
+      If Yahoo wants a reference they should call me....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Apr 1997 23:59:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Gerrold <70307.544@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hugo Ballot Announced!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Too bad no one's considered the idea that the Hugo here could be
+viewed in another way.  That is...the DS9 episode was really a tribute
+to the original "Tribbles" episode.  That was the whole reason they
+*did* it, and the plot ties directly into that original episode.  If
+you take away the original "Tribbles" script...there's nothing *there*.
+They just weave in and out of your story.
+
+      So if the DS9 episode is a tribute to your episode, then why
+couldn't the Hugo be given *to the original episode*?  After all, it
+was good enough for DS9 to pay tribute to, and in essence, simply
+repackage it...why not follow in their footsteps and their intention?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Apr 1997 23:59:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Gerrold <70307.544@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Gerrold's conclusion
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"...asking Resnick about my integrity is like asking Heidi Fleiss
+about chastity."
+
+      And not nearly as funny as asking Heidi Fleiss about Resnick....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Apr 1997 01:27:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard L. Long <76562.2757@compuserve.com>
+Subject: GARIBALDI
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The character remains on the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Apr 1997 15:26:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SUSAN F. KIRN <76262.2013@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Racing Mars<< worries
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's the ep that starts ramping things up again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Apr 1997 15:26:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Racing Mars<< worries
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Suffice to say some have taken it *very* personally and have
+sent some me fairly abusive email.  But that's showbidness.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Apr 1997 15:26:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: sfVortex Appearance
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+      And I'll fill you in on the Garibaldi line.
+
+      In the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Apr 1997 15:26:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Racing Mars>/Dead Heat
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who is racing Mars?
+
+      Sounds like you've got a Monopoly on the subtext here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Apr 1997 20:41:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Battleground Earth ?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It ain't a ST series, it's a different show entirely.
+
+      Came out of Majel's vault, and apparently they're going to have
+to change the name to avoid any conflicts with Scientology and
+Battlefield Earth.
+
+      They'd asked if I'd be interested in running it, but I declined.
+I think they've now got Rick Okie, from Renegade, on as
+show-runner/writer basing the series on the provided material.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Apr 1997 20:47:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin Wood <100337.272@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Query: Sheridan & Delenn
+
+ Kevin Wood <100337.272@compuserve.com> asks:
+> epitomy when there is large quantities of destructive force in
+> play?
+
+"Why is it that the romance between Sheridan and Delenn always seems
+to reach it's... epitomy when there is large quantities of destructive
+force in play?"
+
+      Maybe that's when we most need someone to hold....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Apr 1997 20:47:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Racing Mars<< worries
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, but that (the vorlon question) is a philosophical issue. 
+You hardly ever run into problems there...what kills you is doctrine,
+based on a belief. If it weren't for doctrine, a lot of the world's
+religions would get along a lot better, because the core roots of their
+beliefs aren't that dissimilar, it's the interpretation and the rules
+that grew up around them that seem to cause all the trouble.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Apr 1997 20:47:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Sinclair--->Delenn
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  If you check the archives, when people said, "But what
+about the relationship between Sinclair and Delenn we see?" (and this
+is back a long time ago), I said that there is a relationship there,
+yes, but it isn't what you think it is.  Now we see what it was.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Apr 1997 00:52:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: B5 Fan Club Note (jms)
+
+      One of the most dangerous things in the world is a writer who
+has finished writing for a while, has met his deadlines, and can now
+address other issues.
+
+      One such issue that has been nibbling at the back of my
+brainstem has been the Babylon 5 Fan Club.  I've felt for some time
+that it was not living up to its potential, and has been laying fallow
+for some while.  The Universe Today newsletter was okay, but it could
+have been better.  The club was okay, but could have been better.
+
+      Okay is never sufficient.  We either move forward or we fall
+back, there is no such thing as holding position.  Especially with the
+fan club, because as a fan myself, I have to feel that people are
+getting their money's worth out of the club, and frankly, I'm not sure
+they have been.  Now that I have time to turn my attention to the
+problem....
+
+      A number of changes have been made to improve the situation for
+the current members, and for future members.
+
+      1) We are going to substantially improve Universe Today and get
+it out on schedule.  To facilitate this, we are announcing that Mike
+Zmuda, publisher of the Centaurian Sentinel, probably the best of the
+B5 fanzines out there, has been made editor of the newsletter.
+
+      Sandra Bruckner, publisher of the Zocalo, has been named
+co-editor. Both begin work effective May 1st.
+
+      Knowing the great work these two have performed individually, we
+have every anticipation that their combined efforts on Universe Today
+will make it the sort of publication we've always wanted it to be.
+
+      2) Sandra has also agreed to take over as website administrator
+for thestation.com, maintaining it and improving it and updating it as
+circumstances warrant.  The B5 Fan Club Web Site has also been
+wandering a bit, and this will correct that problem.
+
+      3) Jim Lockett, founding head of the B5 Fan Club, has moved on
+to other projects, and we wish him all the best in his future
+endeavors.
+
+      4) A more assertive position will be taken in promoting the club
+at conventions, in advertisements, and in developing merchandise
+specific to the fan club.
+
+      5) Finally, because of my sense that the members of the Fan Club
+have not gotten all that they could have out of the club during its
+debut, we are going to ROLL OVER ALL YEAR ONE MEMBERSHIPS to a second
+year.  If you joined prior to April 1, 1997, you are automatically
+comp'd in as a member for a second year without charge.  Doug and I
+will personally swallow the expense of that.
+
+      It is our desire that the Official Babylon 5 Fan Club should be
+the best entity of its kind ever created.  Now that we have made some
+mid-course corrections, we are back on track to becoming that.  And we
+think you will approve of our plans for improving and expanding the
+operation as we move ahead over the rest of 1997.
+
+jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Apr 1997 10:06:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Battleground Earth ?
+
+ Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know if BATTLEGROUND EARTH is based on the two Gene
+> Roddenbury pilots GENESIS II and PLANET EARTH? BTW, any word on
+> season 5 of B5 yet?
+
+       No, it's got nothing to do with either project.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Apr 1997 10:06:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lines of Comm.
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> did you indicate that particular design?
+
+       Yeah, I indicated a flower-like design.  With the lethalness
+behind them, it seemed like a nice contrast.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Apr 1997 10:06:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Strong Signals
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I wonder why that sounds like famous last words now, given the
+> revelations of civil unrest back on Minbar?
+
+       Thanks, and good points.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Apr 1997 14:59:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Battleground Earth ?
+
+ Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> or were you just too busy with your current projects?
+> Did the story idea for Battleground Earth sound promising?
+
+       Thanks.  It was noted to me at the time that a
+Roddenberry/Straczynski collaboration would be very commerical, but on
+looking at the material, I just felt it wasn't strong enough; at least,
+I couldn't see where it could go, and thus felt it better to leave it
+to others who potentially would not be limited by that, and could find
+ways to make it work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Apr 1997 14:59:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Who's the Boss?
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Well, your directorial debut should be over now, right?
+> So, how did it go?
+> Or how is it going, if you're still doing it?
+> Any cute stories or other interesting happening (no spoilers,
+> obviously)? And, above all, did everyone cry?
+
+       I'm only on day 2 so far...long way to go yet before I can
+rest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Apr 1997 14:59:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Racing Mars<< worries
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I find it vaguely frightening that you know all this that well,
+though the scenario you paint is a good one, and I'll try to remember
+all that (though it's sorta complex...the doctrinal version of long
+division).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Apr 1997 19:27:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Gerrold <70307.544@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hugo Ballot Announced!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Glyer's solution is workable unless you can determine if any of
+the other writers involved are baser than you are....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Apr 1997 21:05:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season finale
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm shooting the season finale for year 5 right now, and
+directing it. Assuming a 5th season, this would be aired as 522 instead
+of 422, with 501 moved into the 422 spot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Apr 1997 23:42:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5: A Soap Opera
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"...there's been a really startling lack of adultery, fornication,
+kinky sex, overt blackmail and the sort of tangled family tree that
+makes Sinclair/Valen/Delenn look absolutely pedestrian."
+
+      Damn, I knew I was forgetting *something*....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Apr 1997 11:13:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hugh Kennedy <70042.710@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Racing Mars<< worries
+
+ Hugh Kennedy <70042.710@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why?
+
+       Joe: There is no rest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Apr 1997 22:58:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Fan Club Note (jms)
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'll post the full info again when I feel we're ready to gear
+up.  And thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs97-05 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs97-05
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+JMS CompuServe messages for May 1997.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+Date: 02 May 1997 10:19:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Eric Baker <76600.2605@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Comic Books
+
+ Eric Baker <76600.2605@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, is there a link?
+> Are comics readers predisposed towards TV writing, or is it just
+> another one of those causal fallacies?
+
+       I think that comics fans grow into SF fans, and from SF fans
+come SF writers and (now) SF producers.  Genre domino theory.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 May 1997 10:19:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Racing Mars<< worries
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       "They shot him a week later."
+
+       Well, when in doubt....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 May 1997 00:26:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Science Fiction
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Could you please elaborate a little for me?
+> Since I want to read a little more science fiction, could you
+> reccommend something of Harlan's that you think I might enjoy?
+
+      Just about ANY of Harlan's books are worth reading, though
+Strange Wine and Shatterday (available at most SF stores) are personal
+favorites, and his latest Edgeworks volume just came out.
+
+      Sci-Fi vs. SF...the former is flash-n-dazzle, monsters eating
+people, ID4, lots of action and not much thought.  SF is Blade Runner,
+the first Alien movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Seconds, Charley,
+others. Science Fiction means it examines the impact of technology on
+people, or in some way extrapolates to the future in new and
+interesting or innovative ways.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 May 1997 00:26:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Comic Books
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"When do I start writing <G>"
+
+      As soon as the restraining order expires.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 May 1997 00:26:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Secure Communications
+
+      So they could see him and know by seeing him that he arrived
+safely; a text message could be sent by *anyone* who could've
+intercepted them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 May 1997 18:46:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Science Fiction
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How do you rate Star Wars in this?
+> Or the 6 million dollar man?
+
+      Star Wars: space fantasy.  6 Million Dollar Man: began as
+something close to SF, collapsed shortly thereafter into just plain
+awfulness.  The idea of advanced prosthetics incorporated into a living
+human is an interesting idea...but frittered away here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 May 1997 18:46:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Comic Books
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Don't you hate what they've done with Legion lately...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 May 1997 18:47:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Secure Communications
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The issue of waste of bandwith is not as big a deal to an
+advanced technology (from today's standards); also, any really good
+telepath could rip out those codes and keys in about 10 seconds. 
+Further, they would've had a password to use (as in "the board," which
+he used) to verify that he was all right and not being forced to make
+the call.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 May 1997 18:47:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Mars Traffic
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's a little busier than usual.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 May 1997 17:33:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Comic Books
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What do you mean exactly?
+> Do you mean the new incarnation(post gritty Griffen version 4),
+> or something more recent?
+
+      I think that the thing has gone downhill ever since they redid
+them a few years ago.  They've kind of gone back to the roots of the
+book, but now it seems to be getting a bit silly, and the names of the
+characters have gotten changed, and it's gotten dopey.
+
+      Ah, well...for me, Superman died with the Alan Moore two-parter
+(now on sale as a graphic novel, "Whatever Happened to the Man of
+Tomorrow?")  That, for my money, was the best thing DC did with the
+character in decades.  I don't know who the new guy is....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 May 1997 20:07:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Comic Books
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I haven't done that much comics reading lately; I've been a fan
+since the early 60s/late 50s, as soon as I learned how to read.  Mainly
+DC stuff. The market's gone to hell over the last year or two, so I've
+kinda lost interest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 May 1997 22:22:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark K. Smith <74014.1534@compuserve.com>
+Subject: One pebble's vote
+
+ Mark K. Smith <74014.1534@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Avalanche, anyone?
+
+      Go with Kosh, my son....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 May 1997 14:13:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Die Hard Conflicts
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> As I was watching the Daffy Duck cartoon, I wondered, "Given how
+> hard it is to fit all the good stuff into the forty some-odd
+> minutes of a given episode, why is Joe leaving this thing on for
+> so long?" Did you simply remember that cartoon, did you look for
+> it, or was it just coincidence? And what kind of drugs were you on
+> when you asked for those (not-so-)stock external CGI shots? If so,
+> why? Different actor for Lise?
+> Or did you want to get the *real* farewell, not the one with an
+> unstuck Garibaldi? Does this telepath virus happen to have any
+> connection to the spin off?
+
+       Re: the cartoon...I'm a big WB cartoon fan, and knew that one
+very well, and there were two places where it would've fit with the
+story; the other one, which I almost used, was when you see two Daffy's
+arguing with each other.
+
+       Re: the CGI...we've been fairly conventional with the CGI in
+recent seasons, we're trying to get a bit more adventurous.
+
+       The Lise flashback material is all exactly as was filmed for
+"Babylon Squared."  I think we used a few more pieces of the original
+footage, but it was all stet.
+
+       Re: Delenn...these episodes happen close to one another in
+time, so you have to allow travel time for her to get to Minbar.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 May 1997 14:13:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: this week's ep, no spoil
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How could anyone have *ever* even entertained the idea that all
+> the excitement was over when the Shadow War ended?
+
+       Heck, for my money, what follows in the rest of this season is
+more exciting and more intense than anything we did during the shadow
+war... because it's a lot more personal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 May 1997 14:13:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Attn JMS: Islam on B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       We've shown moslems by dress in the background, and featured
+them in "Parliament of Dreams."  The mecca question is a good one;
+you'd probably have to orient yourself toward Earth...but the station
+rotates you away every 60 seconds.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 May 1997 14:13:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Homosexuality
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I don't think Earthforce cares about sexual orientation; the
+reason we just set it out there without comment is that, having come
+through the realization of other non-human races...a little thing like
+sexual orientation, nobody even cares about anymore.  It ain't an
+issue.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 May 1997 15:52:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Conflicts of Interest 
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Re: Lise...well, everybody can't be a fighter; we've had guys
+and the occasional female character who isn't used to being shot at.  I
+daresay I'm not terribly used to being shot at, and someone who's
+mainly a civilian would probably react about that same way.  It's just
+a matter of showing that diversity realistically rather than saying,
+"Okay, let's have a helpless female now."  Having every female (or
+male) hard-nosed and laughing off PPG bursts is as unrealistic as its
+opposite.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 May 1997 15:52:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: White Star 16, a lemon?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Of course, you have no way of knowing how many previous hits it
+took during the fight, and are assuming it only got two.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 May 1997 01:16:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bob Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lines of Communication
+
+ Bob Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> At any rate, he did ask a question that I thought was relevant:
+> In the end, Delenn's White Star fleet completely overwhelms the
+> Drahk's - so why did she initially "retreat" in the first place?
+
+      As she states in the episode, they were at that time
+*surrounded* and if they turned to fire, would get destroyed. 
+Firepower doesn't solve every problem; one good hand-held Lancet
+missile can put down a full-sized cruiser if it hits right.  They were
+in the MIDDLE of the Drakh, just as they said, and that's NOT a
+defensible position.  They had to get away, outside that group, so they
+could mount an offensive.  This they did.
+
+      So re: Jenoff's comments...another example of a self-styled
+critic who faults the show when the information is right there...the
+problem is the perceiver, not the perceived.  I can't be held
+responsible for critics not thinking through what's said right there on
+camera.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 May 1997 01:16:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: >>Racing Mars<< worries
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> From who?
+
+      From some extremist Catholics...and also got some flack from
+Born Again Rigtists over my comments in TV Guide about being an
+atheist.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 May 1997 01:16:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: this week's ep, no spoil
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"I know you've been telling us that for a while now, but for some
+reason, a few people still acted like they didn't believe you. <g> I'm
+sure they have been disabused of their false sense of calm and order
+and anti-climax after the last couple of episodes."
+
+      Heck, Sharon, what you've seen ain't *nothing*...this is just
+the warm-up....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 May 1997 01:16:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hugh Kennedy <70042.710@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Secure Communications
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      In that scenario, there is no such thing as ANY kind of secure
+communication, which puts us pretty much back where we started.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 May 1997 12:42:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Conflicts of Interest 
+
+ Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do any of these guys have offices in D.C.?
+> PS: Did you see the "Ellen episode?"
+
+       That's exactly what happens.  Happened to Peter David on Space
+Cases; the nitwits at Nickelodeon came in and made a great number of
+stupid changes, which only hurt the show...the ratings went down
+because of those changes, and this led them to conclude the show just
+didn't work (rather than admit the changes were stupid) and thus
+canceled the show.
+
+       Same thing happened on The Real Ghostbusters; we had the #1
+rated animated show on the air at the time.  Then the Experts and the
+Consultants came in to fix it.  Massive and stupid changes.  I could
+either swallow them, or leave.  I left.  And the show went down the
+toilet.  After that, they kinda came around and said that maybe the
+changes were, sorta, kinda, wrong, see...and would I do a few more
+freelance the way it was supposed to be and put it back?  There at
+least they were sufficiently mensches to do the right thing, and be
+open about it.  I have a great deal of respect for them as a result.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 May 1997 21:22:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: this week's ep, no spoil
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      (stunned silence)
+
+      ...*another* holo-character?
+
+      Jeezus....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 May 1997 21:22:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Conflicts of Interest 
+
+ Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Wow, an exec admitted they were wrong?
+> Was there some sort of comet or eclipse or something???
+> End result, fans shaking their heads going, "Are you bloody
+> nuts?" PS: Joe, you're one of the few who might actually have an
+> interesting take on this, so here goes: If a person with multiple
+> personalities threatens to kill himself, is this a hostage
+> situation?
+
+"It all makes me wonder if somedays you don't go running down the hall
+screaming Ahhhhhh at the top of your lungs!"
+
+      Done that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 May 1997 01:30:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season finale
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nothing has been decided yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 May 1997 01:31:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Whadda ya say, Joe?
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you still alive?
+> How did it go?
+> Did you remember to say, "Cut!"?
+
+"I'm sincerely curious about how you found the experience of directing
+your baby -- of being responsible for creating, writing, producing
+*and* directing it."
+
+      My main goal was not to embarrass myself overmuch.  I think I
+came out okay.  I've now seen an editor's assembly of the material, and
+it plays real nice.  Now I get to go in and make the director's cut,
+which will to all intents and purposes also stand as the producer's
+cut.
+
+      The main thing is...this one is *exactly* the way I saw it in my
+head. It has a somewhat different feel than prior episodes, though hard
+to quantify. But I think it came out nicely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 May 1997 01:31:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: S5-not renewal ?
+
+ Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will their knowledge of the ending have adverse effects on the
+> acting from this point forward? Also, if you've neatly tied
+> everything up, what does that really leave for season 5? Filler,
+> non-arc stories?
+
+"You have spent the last 4 years keeping your actors in the dark as to
+their final fates (for the most part).  Will their knowledge of the
+ending have adverse effects on the acting from this point forward?  I
+expect the answer is they are good at their jobs and will continue to
+be outstanding in their performances, but many of them have mentioned
+that the lack of knowledge of their future had  played a part in their
+performances."
+
+      Not really, no more so than seeing G'Kar and Londo strangling
+each other as early as year one...but we didn't know what that *meant*
+until later.  And there's still a long, long way between that episode
+and where we leave off at 421.  A lot happens there that nobody else
+knows, inclusive of the cast.
+
+"Also, if you've neatly tied everything up, what does that really
+leave for season 5?  Filler, non-arc stories?  This has been my biggest
+fear.  That season 5 will now be farmed out to other scriptwriters, who
+don't have the intimacy with the story that you have, and that the
+quality of stories will take a nose dive with filler material."
+
+      Without giving too much away, season 5 would be empire building.
+It wouldn't be filler at all, but a logical extension of what has gone
+before.
+
+      Basically...I often get messages from people worrying about what
+might be...then they see what *is* and it's, "Oh...okay, got it." 
+Generally speaking, I think it's better to react to what is rather than
+what might never in fact be an issue.  I ain't let you down yet....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 May 1997 01:31:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5 Autographs
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I don't know if the Claudia deal is correct, but I'd assume it
+is since I believe the page operates with her blessings.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 May 1997 01:31:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: What qualifies for sign
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's only a problem if the item is mass produced and sold.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 May 1997 01:31:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Conflicts of Interest 
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Funny thing...was returning from Marcon and on the plane was me,
+Tracy Torme (Sliders) and Bryce Zabel (Dark Skies).  I noted as we took
+off that if the plane went down, the SFTV universe would be ceded to
+Piller and Carter by default.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 May 1997 01:31:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Conflicts of Interest 
+
+ O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it a conscious decision NOT to show Lise's husband when he
+> contacted Garibaldi? Is it perhaps that in a century in which
+> video communication is the rule, the outrageously rich and
+> powerful deliberately choose not to show themselves to
+> insignicant people when sending messages?
+
+      As we'll learn shortly, he doesn't want his face seen around.
+
+      But we'll see him soon enough.
+
+      (And the voice belongs to Efram Zimbalist Jr.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 May 1997 01:31:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Daffy!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, no "save budgets" episodes using Vor are planned...besides,
+they always end up being more expensive anyway....
+
+      Re: Daffy...I knew that cartoon, and had that definitely in mind
+when I wrote the script.  Took some maneuvering to get WB to let us use
+that much of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 May 1997 01:53:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: S5-not renewal ?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> And, should there not be a season 5, this would go into the
+> spinoff?
+
+      In large part, yeah....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 May 1997 01:53:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Conflicts of Interest 
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> So did you compare notes with Torme and Zabel?
+
+      A little, yeah, and found that our experiences weren't that far
+apart, particularly Bryce, who struck me as a very nice fellow indeed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 May 1997 14:52:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: S5-not renewal ?
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This would be empire building that takes place *after* the final
+> scene of the final episode that you have said more than once you
+> have *clearly* in your mind? If so, would it be fair to
+> characterize a hypothetical Season Five as a 22 ep prelude to
+> "Crusade"?
+
+       Negative; season 5 would take place in 2262, 19 years before
+the "final scene" you mention.  And no, I wouldn't want season 5 to be
+just a setup for the sequel; it was sketched out long before that
+became any kind of possibility, and I have no interest in doing that
+sort of thing.  We'd do one or two small things, but no more than that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 May 1997 14:52:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Conflicts of Interest 
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Always looking on the bright side aren't we Joe?
+
+       Whaddaya want from me, I'm Eastern European in ancestry, we're
+born depressed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 May 1997 14:52:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       If there were anything I could say, that I knew, I would say
+it.  I don't.  Knowing, I would say.  Do not know.  So cannot say, as
+someone once commented.
+
+       And thanks for the continued support.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 May 1997 22:25:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon5 Omnipedia
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      We're doing a CDrom inhouse, a slightly subversive guide to the
+B5 universe, which we hope to have out by fall.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 May 1997 22:25:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rumors...
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it a case of him having already been through that in his
+> head, or was it a case of them helping his thoughts along? Or was
+> it just a weird coincidence? Did I notice Ivanova's eyes flicking
+> back and forth like she was reading a teleprompter? But could it
+> be addictive? But this isn't quite the same Sheridan, is it?
+
+      Yeah, we had Claudia use a teleprompter there to add to the
+sense of having to read something...and enjoy the happy-go-lucky
+Sheridan...it's the last you'll see of him for a long time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 15 May 1997 16:43:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: S5-not renewal ?
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, how do you do a Season 5 if Season 4 is already in the can?
+
+       Season 5 just follows season 4...don't understand the question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 May 1997 16:43:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: open letter to jms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Stop sending this to me.
+
+       Let me be clear: I have received letters on this situation from
+just about every side, each con accusing the other of being somehow
+inferior, or screwed up, and each asking me to "take sides" in this.
+
+       I do not know the German situation enough to comment any
+further. And I will not, let me repeat that, WILL NOT be pulled into
+fan feuds or convention disagreements, unless I happen to have
+*personal* experience with the situation.  I do not.
+
+       This is the last reply I will make on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 May 1997 16:43:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon5 Omnipedia
+
+ Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Slightly subversive?
+> So, who gets it first, the UK or the US?
+
+       It'll come out in the US the same time as the UK or slightly
+before.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 May 1997 16:43:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Conflicts of Interest 
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> should we presume that there was something important in that
+> message from Lise that Garibaldi deleted unread?
+
+       No, nothing you need worry about.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 May 1997 16:43:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <CoI> Power Play
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Great points and observations.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 May 1997 16:43:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Conflicts Question
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Anyhow, quick question on the missing daughter - please don't
+> interpret this as criticism of the actress, but I gotta ask - was
+> that the person who won the walk-on last year (as I remember it,
+> there was a contest with Delenn where someone was going to win a
+> 4th season walk on, but I don't remember hearing much about who
+> won, or what episode they'd be seen in)??
+
+       No, that had nothing to do with the contest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 May 1997 16:43:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Rumors<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Be careful, though...there are still some surprises coming in
+this thread.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 May 1997 16:43:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Behind The Scenes Video
+
+ Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it ever broadcast and considering it is 3 years old (only
+> Season 1 featured) are there any more B5 Behind-the-scenes
+> programs out there or planned?
+
+       I think that's the one made for the US and broadcast here prior
+to season 1 (with Walter Koenig, yes?).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 15 May 1997 21:22:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: S5-not renewal ?
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you possibly give us a feel as you what you think the odds
+> are of the sequel happening, or do you not want to jinx it by
+> doing so?
+
+      My opinion on the fate of that and S5 changes on a daily,
+sometimes an hourly basis...best to say when I know more for sure.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 May 1997 21:22:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: RB&L - intrusion
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  The Sheridan stuff was fun, in that I got to play
+Sheridan as the one being manipulative for a change, smart for a
+change...not just Londo or the usual suspects.  It made for a nifty
+change of pace.
+
+      And yeah, Mira brought a lot of truth to this episode...and will
+bring even more in next week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 May 1997 00:49:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"could there be 10 _Joes_?"
+
+      Would certainly go a long way toward explaining things....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 May 1997 00:49:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon5 Omnipedia
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, one episode coming up in this batch is, according to
+John Copeland, the single most subversive thing we've ever done on the
+show.  It's a *mean* episode and completely, unabashedly underhanded in
+its way of illuminating certain things.  While, oddly enough, ending in
+a positive fashion, despite George Johnsen's comment at playback during
+the audio mix, "Okay, what sadistic m-----f----- wrote this thing?"
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 May 1997 00:49:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Conflicts Question
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was the result of the contest made public?
+
+      Yeah, it was, and I know there was some press covering it...just
+didn't get a lot of exposure.  It was a guy who came out and played a
+Minbari.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 May 1997 00:49:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian Kornfeld <75703.1340@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Rumors> and Lennier
+
+ Brian Kornfeld <75703.1340@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is Lennier the true bridge between races?
+
+      No, I wouldn't say Lennier is a bridge in any sense along those
+lines.
+
+      Delenn, you must understand, is a True Seeker, and among the
+religious caste there isn't much more admirable than that...combined
+with the fact that she *did* fulfill prophecy, she *was* the chosen of
+Dukhat, she *did* help end the Shadow War...yeah, she's had some
+problems here and there, but what important leader doesn't?  Any one of
+those items would be a sufficient crown on a lifetime of
+achievement...the cumulative effect is quite daunting and impressive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 May 1997 16:02:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Rumors> and Lennier
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Question: Do you feel that anyone else in your story would
+> qualify as a True Seeker (for other reasons, or even the same
+> reasons)?
+
+      There are elements of the true seeker in many of our characters;
+Sinclair for one, G'Kar certainly (now that he's been enlightened a
+bit), and Sheridan didn't start out that way, but in his own stumbling
+way has slowly begin growing into that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 May 1997 16:27:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: our open letter to JMS
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      You still don't seem to get it.
+
+      Let me take off the kid gloves for a moment and explain it to
+you.
+
+      I work 20+ hours a day on B5.  You came on here and began
+demanding I investigate claims made by a German convention.  I didn't
+have time initially to get into it, and in response there was letter
+after letter here demanding that I look into this, even though I had no
+firsthand knowledge of the situation, and then more or less condemning
+me for not getting personally involved in this.
+
+      You (and others involved in this) continued emailing me and
+posting public messages on this, and began emailing members of our
+cast, our crew...becoming, frankly, a pain in the ass.  Email demands
+for me to take a stand, to investigate, to proclaim something, began
+showing up in more than one of my accounts, which are already flooded
+with other requests.
+
+      Finally, I had the chance to sit down with Bruce and a few other
+actors (who were, at that time, already annoyed with the demands for
+explanations put on them by yourself and several other German fans) and
+said, "Are you going to this con?"  I then posted what they told me,
+assuming that would be the end of it...and AGAIN you came at me for it.
+
+      One reaches a point where one says, at last, "A pox on *both*
+your houses."  Or, as the Brits say, "Bugger off."
+
+      You have been rude to myself, and my cast, and several of my
+staff. You have harrassed us with email and demands for our attention
+and our involvement in something we have no direct involvement in.
+
+      If a convention is advertising guests who in fact are not going
+to appear, that is fraud.  Fraud is prosecutable under German laws.  If
+they show up, then it's not fraud.  If they don't, then it is, and they
+can be taken to court.  Our job is not to interfere with German
+jurisprudence or make statements that could GET US SUED under German
+law about people we do not know.
+
+      If you want confirmation about whether or not a guest is coming,
+you can find that out through the actor's agents or find means of doing
+this other than harrassing me about it.
+
+"We don't understand why this is such a big problem to him?"
+
+      Because you're being a pain in the butt, *that's* why, and
+making demands on us that we do things that a) we're not authorized to
+do, b) don't have time to do, c) are best done in Germany, d) you and
+others have been yelling in our ears and filling our email boxes and
+making demands and carrying on cranky and throwing around accusations
+of disinterest in the affairs of our fans now for at *least* three
+months, and frankly neither I nor any of my cast or crew want to hear
+it anymore.
+
+      If you have a local problem, it should be *solved* locally,
+through the means you have there at your disposal.  I am not your
+lapdog to run around and take care of your errands and I am not going
+to jump every time you make demands on my time.  We care *deeply* for
+our fans, who are worldwide, and we do all we can to assist them.  We
+have gone far beyond the call of duty in ways you will never know.  But
+every once in a while, someone shows up who is obnoxious and demanding
+and won't take "please go away" for an answer, and who by their rude
+behavior gives all fans a bad name.
+
+      Neither Babylon 5, nor Babylonian Productions, nor Warner Bros.
+has any direct involvement in this or any other German convention.  Our
+cast sign on as free agents, as individuals.  We do not, and will not,
+get involved in any convention situation unless I *personally* have
+direct knowledge of something involving a con which I will be
+attending.  Not only would it be inappropriate, it would also be
+impossible...our cast members are attending cons now in hundreds of
+cities and many countries around the world.  I can't keep track of it
+all, and shouldn't be expected to.  My cast members are grown adults,
+and the fans in each area should pursue whatever local resources they 
+have in determining a con's legitimacy.  The only way I get involved
+directly in conventions is if I attend personally, or if we should
+reach a point where Babylonian Productions endorses a convention, which
+to date has not happened.
+
+      My problem, in short, is not with the German fans.  It is
+specifically and directly with *you* and a few others who have far, far
+exceeded the limits of polite behavior, harrassed me, harrassed my
+cast, and taken up space on this forum to no good end.  That was the
+intent of my prior note.
+
+      Resolve your local problems locally.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 18 May 1997 19:17:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon5 Omnipedia
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know if this "view-it-and-weep (or throw something --
+> viewer's choice)" ep is among the currently batch or is among the
+> final four being held over until next October?
+
+      I've forgotten which we were discussing....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 May 1997 21:40:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <RB&L> Donkey's 2x4
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One oddball question: Are tears a normal Minbari physical
+> reaction, or is weeping (for Delenn) one of the changes mandated
+> by her chrysalitic experience?
+
+"Are tears a normal Minbari physical reaction, or is weeping (for
+Delenn) one of the changes mandated by her chrysalitic"
+
+      We've seen Delenn cry before, when she and G'Kar were in her
+quarters and she was explining why she did not get involved in the
+Narn/Centauri war.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 May 1997 23:43:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon5 Omnipedia
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Ah...yes, that one will air in this batch.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 May 1997 14:29:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hugh Kennedy <70042.710@compuserve.com>
+Subject: production schedule?
+
+ Hugh Kennedy <70042.710@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you film episodes as they appear to us, that is a discrete
+> entity or do you try to combine things so the filming and SFX for
+> several episodes are combined?
+
+       Every once in a great while we'll nail a scene for one episode
+while we're shooting another, by bringing in the director for that
+episode for just half a day or so, but generally we tend to avoid it
+because it creates complications with the guilds, and it takes a while
+to get the waivers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 May 1997 12:29:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com>
+Subject: production schedule?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Oh, heck, we can get a LOT more subversive than that...and we
+intend to.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 May 1997 16:10:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Moments> question
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you choose the name Bester because it sounds like B-st-ard?
+> My question is, were any of the members of the new Gray Council
+> on the old Council?
+
+       Yeah, some of the new council would've been on the old one.
+
+       And Bester was named for a well-known SF writer, now gone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 May 1997 10:57:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com>
+Subject: How will this play out
+
+ Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If, as you and all of us firmly believe, the Season five decision
+> won't be made till July, what plans have you put in place to
+> ensure that your story gets told? Will you show the last episode
+> (Farewell or Sleeping in Light) in S4 and will that allow you to
+> do Season 5 as you want or will it force some major re-writes
+> thereby causing you to change the arc a little?
+
+       It's an easy answer.
+
+       The final 4 would get aired in October.  If there's no season
+5, then the fourth one aired is 422, "Sleeping in Light."
+
+       If there is a season 5, 422 is yanked out of the mix and moved
+down to occupy 522's slot, and we shoot 501 and get it done in time to
+air in place of 422 in October.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 May 1997 15:52:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com>
+Subject: production schedule?
+
+ Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com> asks:
+> uh, ARE you working for our side?
+
+       Maybe...maybe not....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 May 1997 17:13:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: How will this play out
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       There's no need for confusion.  Season 4, as you know, takes
+place in 2261.  Season 5 would take place in 2262.
+
+       422, or 522, depending on the breaks, takes place in 2281.  So
+it plays just fine either way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 May 1997 23:05:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: production schedule?
+
+ Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> LOTS more subversive??
+
+      Good...'cause I think you'll like it.
+
+      There is one drawback to some of this, though...I've heard that
+some folks on far right/extremist radio stations have looked at some of
+the stuff in the show lately and decided that it constitutes an
+endorsement of the position that the government is fascist, and that
+their pirate stations (voices of the resistance) are the way to go.  I
+can only shake my head.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 May 1997 23:05:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: more <Moments> questions
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, 1) was Delenn in secret communication with Neroon on Minbar?
+> or was it all worked out in advance?
+> 2) were the instructions for Lennier meant to be carried out if
+> she dies in the starfire pit?
+
+      They were worked out in advance, and yes, the instructions were
+for posthumous use.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 May 1997 12:39:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 422
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, if there is a season 5 and 422 becomes 522, wouldn't that
+> leave season 4 with only 21 eps? is that OK with the contracts?
+
+       No.  To repeat what I've said here several times, we would move
+501 into 422's slot and make that the cliffhanger ending, then 502
+becomes the first episode of season 5, and 422 is the last.  So each
+season works out to 22 episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 May 1997 12:39:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: more <Moments> questions
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did Delenn's instructions include a message for Sheridan?
+
+       Almost certainly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 May 1997 21:04:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phyllis Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 422
+
+ Phyllis Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com> asks:
+> the slightest bit interested in the content and development of
+> the art forms they are broadcasting -or would they be just as
+> happy with hours of Mickie Mouse cartoons every night if sponsers
+> would pay for it? Do they ever watch the shows or have any
+> concepts to contribute?
+
+      They want the money from the commercials, and whatever sells
+commercials is fine by them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 May 1997 21:04:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Moments
+
+ Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of which - was that the same fellow who played Dukat?
+> What happened to his backbone?
+
+      Thanks, on all counts...and no, that was a different actor than
+the one who played Dukhat.  Starting from this episode the intensity
+builds and never lets up for the rest of the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 May 1997 23:03:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Harlan's Intro on PI
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, one of Harlan's new books is "Babylon 5 Slippage," is it?
+
+      It was an "oops."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 May 1997 02:27:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 422
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Curious question: How much more difficult is it tackling things
+> from syndication at the very onset as opposed to going the
+> network route?
+
+      Carl...it's a crap shoot.  There ain't no logic to explain. 
+It's a mug's game, and the rules and the money changes day to day, and
+I can't figure it out on the best of days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 23 May 1997 16:30:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: MOMENTS
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> FIRST A QUESTION I HOPE YOU CAN ANSWER - Was / Is there something
+> wrong with Walter Koenig? ANOTHER QUESTION - some of us
+> knuckleheads have been off arguing over who is / was Control -
+> was Control Talia? Was that established?
+> Or is there still another "traitor" in their midst?
+> Oh and did you hear / would you believe the voice-over teaser
+> right before the episode started in LA said "Delenn surrenders to
+> the Warrior Caste, and Sheridan declares war on Earth"????
+
+       Thanks.  As for Walter...he made the decision to play Bester
+with a deformed or useless hand, which he's compensating for as a teep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 May 1997 16:30:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: S.G. Menzel <100537.1517@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Moments
+
+ S.G. Menzel <100537.1517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it possible that Reiner Shone was formerly known as Reiner
+> Schone (and even before that as Reiner Schone)?
+
+       Have no idea offhand.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 May 1997 16:30:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5
+
+ Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So have you already written that episode?
+
+       No, 501 isn't written yet, won't be until we get the final
+word.  We could certainly get it finished in time for the US airing in
+422's spot, and as for getting it done in the UK, assuming a mid-July
+start for season 4, means you'd run episodes through late October/early
+November so again you're okay.
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 May 1997 16:30:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Audio
+
+ Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I don't think it's the stations so perhaps the problem comes from
+> your end?
+
+       No, it's the new satellite uplink facility WB is using, which
+is analog rather than digital, which was the case in the past.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 May 1997 16:30:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rebo and Zooty
+
+ Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If all broadcasts are being jammed to B5 except ISN, how could
+> everyone have seen the Rebo and Zooty episode that Londo was
+> talking about in RB&L?
+
+       Easy.  The incident Londo is mentioning happened prior to the
+blackout. He never said it *just* happened, he said the *last* time
+Rebo and Zooty did their routine, everybody was doing it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 May 1997 16:30:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Moments>: Bester
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Am I right in assuming that it was Bester who told Edgars
+> that Garilbaldi is hiring Lyta, having gotten that information
+> from his mind?
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 24 May 1997 16:34:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Audio
+
+ Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance of getting WB to change back?
+> Do you have any say in this?
+> Perhaps Zathrus could be called in for technical support?
+
+      Alas, I have no say in this, despite having tried to have a say
+in it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 May 1997 16:34:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Moments...
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...and that's as good a description for that moment as
+I've seen.
+
+      In a way, it was the second half of G'Kar's sentence...that life
+can be broken down into moments of transition and moments of
+revelation...and there with Neroon at the end we had both.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 May 1997 16:34:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rebo and Zooty
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is "Rebo and Zooty" a tip o' the hat to anyone in particular?
+> Or are they merely inspired fictional characters?
+
+      No, not intended as tributes to anyone, just a cool sounding
+pair of names (but also annoying sounding).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 May 1997 16:34:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Moments>: Bester
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Not a chance.
+
+      Edgars is played by Effrem Zimbalist Jr., which by itself
+precludes that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 May 1997 02:38:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Moments...
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did he REALLY have an epiphany and realize he belonged to the
+> religious caste? Or, did he just come to believe in Delenn and her
+> "rightness" to lead the Minbari so much that he was willing to
+> die and renounce his caste to prove her point for her and allow
+> her to survive?
+
+      Whether it was true or not, he knew his actions would bring the
+castes back together...so out of respect for the dead, best to leave
+the issue unresolved, and accept his gesture for what it was.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 May 1997 02:38:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com>
+Subject: MOMENTS
+
+ Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If Bester's left hand is useless, though, how does he get his
+> gloves on?
+
+      Ask Walter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 May 1997 14:47:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New Voyager/B5 parallels
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      What I love -- knowing that our EFX guys are now doing the EFX
+for Voyager and to some extent DS9 -- is seeing a ST fan's letter in
+the current SF Universe saying how much he hates B5's EFX and prefers
+Voyager's because we use CGI which looks faker than ST's EFX...which
+are, in fact, being done in large measure in EXACTLY the same way, with
+the SAME EFX that we pioneered, by the SAME PEOPLE.
+
+      You just want to go up to him and plink him in the nose...just
+one finger, just a plink, that's all....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 May 1997 14:47:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: MOMENTS OF TRANSITION
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Bear in mind that Edgars also has Wade working for him right
+there on the station, and he is more or less Garibaldi's liaison with
+Edgars, so logically that would be his source of information.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 May 1997 19:44:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Product Placement
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I hadn't noticed that...hmm...they're supposed to avoid slipping
+in real stuff in the props department...must have a word or two.
+
+                                                                 jms*
+
+(*who wouldn't know good wine from rat whizz)
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 May 1997 19:44:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: moments
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Terri has a question, why did you pick 2258 to start all of this?
+
+"why did you pick 2258 to start all of this?"
+
+      That's when it all happened.
+
+      I just report the news, I don't make it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 May 1997 19:44:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: MOMENTS
+
+ Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm about to mourn the loss of the (sigh) greatest baritone voice
+> we have on B5, but I have a question for you: Does the loss of
+> Neroon indicate we may be seeing John Vickery return in his
+> Nightwatch role?
+
+      No, not as that role, but we're definitely open to using him in
+other roles, as with Wayne Alexander.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 May 1997 19:44:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Moments...
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  I think this concentrated effort has helped me to
+become a better writer, though I still have a LONG way to go before I'm
+qualified to carry Serling's or Corwin's pencil box.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 May 1997 19:44:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <MoT> Starfireworks
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes, the Grey Council stucture, visually, is designed to bring
+the Starfire wheel to mind.  Valen, being something of a smart cookie,
+figured it would be wise to tie in whatever he was doing to the
+traditions that preceded him.  So they're arranged in a circle, with a
+series of lights above them, and the one central light (for Dukhat, for
+instance) reserved for the one who had endured and grown to leadership,
+but through a somewhat less violent means.
+
+"Finally, the diversity of cultures on Babylon 5 must be a
+satisfaction for you as a writer to have so many different voices to
+express. "MoT" for me was almost like seguing between playwrights --
+Damon Runyan (Garibaldi) to Oscar Wilde (Bester) to Aeschylus (Minbar).
+One of the things I have found most appealing about Babylon 5 as a
+whole is that the language is similar to the language of the stage. 
+That seems rare in a television milieu defined for the most part by
+diseases-of-the-week, talk-show spew and courtroom maneuverings."
+
+      Yeah, I like that part a lot, being able to write in lots of
+different voices, lots of different styles.  You have to remember that
+I cut my teeth writing dialogue back when I was writing plays and
+getting them produced.  I love theater, love plays, and love really
+well done or rich dialogue.  So it echoes that now...which as you say
+isn't necessarily the style of dialogue seen on most television (which
+is why a few react weirdly to it), but I like it, and it's my show....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 May 1997 19:44:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Moments> question
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, Jonathan Carroll, who does dark contemporary fantasy, is
+someone I'd definitely recommend.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 May 1997 03:27:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Product Placement
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The Zima thing was a gag...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 May 1997 03:27:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Nelson <70403.1270@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Moments--Question
+
+ Michael Nelson <70403.1270@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Couldn't Lyta have gone to Sheridan or the Command Staff for help
+> instead of taking the Psi-Corp deal? Will Zack & Lyta become an
+> item?
+
+      I think Lyta had just emotionally gotten to the place where she
+had to do something on her own rather than continuing to rely on the
+kindness of strangers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 May 1997 14:05:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phil Lenton <100572.61@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vir question
+
+ Phil Lenton <100572.61@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there a reason why Vir has been absent for so many episodes?
+> Was that a deliberate choice on your part, to have him be a sort
+> of "faceless" enemy and have his intructions carried by minions
+> (as in "Epiphanies") or is there something more sinister in it
+> and Clark is himself being manipualted?
+
+      Yes, I wanted to keep Clark more a force than a person...and Vir
+has just been off doing his usual Vir stuff...he's back this coming
+week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 May 1997 23:11:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Moments of Transition
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Worked great <g> Anyways, I was wondering, if you had been sure
+> that there would be a season 5, and stretched these eps out,
+> would this ep have been the finale for 4?
+
+      No, this could never have been the finale for 4.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 May 1997 22:46:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian Kornfeld <75703.1340@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Rumors> and Lennier
+
+ Brian Kornfeld <75703.1340@compuserve.com> asks:
+> To clarify: I guess I meant to ask if Lennier is unusual for a
+> Minbari? Or, is his almost Zen-like attitude, coupled with a fine
+> sense of humor, and remarkable ability to "stretch" the truth,
+> mark him as a new generation of Minbari, bringing the best of
+> both races to his people?
+
+      No, many Minbari share in those traits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 May 1997 22:46:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Moments of Transition
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> it sounded good <g> Which ep would have been?
+
+      Well...I don't usually comment on this, but...if I had known
+*with absolute certainty* that there would be a season 5, then season 4
+would have ended with 418, "Intersections in Real Time."  So you only
+pull 4 episodes forward, really.  You'll understand when you see it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 May 1997 22:46:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 newsgroup?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The only real newsgroup I tend to participate in is
+rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 28 May 1997 20:17:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: S5-not renewal ?
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did I get that right?
+
+      Correct; specifically, "Crusade" would take place about 3 years
+after the events of season 5, in 2265.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 May 1997 20:17:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Martin Toggweiler <74041.2400@compuserve.com>
+Subject: How will this play out
+
+ Martin Toggweiler <74041.2400@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If 4/522 is set in 2281, what time span will "B5:Crusade" take
+> place in? 2262+ or 2281+ ?
+
+      2265-2270.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 May 1997 20:17:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Length of TV movies?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> If so, what will be the films' length?
+
+      TNT is a commercial cable network, so there will be commercials.
+As I recall, the running time to which I wrote the scripts was 94
+minutes 10 seconds.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 May 1997 20:17:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Martin Toggweiler <74041.2400@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Moments--Question
+
+ Martin Toggweiler <74041.2400@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why couldn't Lyta's lie-detecting abilities be used to oversee
+> the negotiations between the station command and the smugglers
+> who are bringing in suppiles? Why should they care that Lyta
+> doesn't have the stamp of approval of an Earth organization that
+> was in cahoots with the Shadows? Or are there plentiful telepaths
+> of their own races available for hire on B5? Could Neroon have
+> walked out after saving Delenn? Was there something about the
+> Wheel that prevented the last person from exiting? If not, why did
+> Neroon feel that HE must die after having the revelation that his
+> heart is religious? Guilt over not seeing the "truth" sooner?
+
+      Because telepaths only function in very limited ways due to
+privacy laws.  You couldn't just use them broad-based as lie detectors
+in the way you suggest, because it first requires getting the
+*permission* of those involved, and you can be reasonably sure that
+smugglers aren't going to want people poking around in their heads;
+second, there was a large group there, and a midrange teep can usually
+handle only one or at most two people with any degree of accuracy; it
+goes down dramatically after that.
+
+      I specifically set up rules for telepaths to avoid letting them
+become the deus ex machina, the easy solution to any problem.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 May 1997 20:17:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: News on Pilot/2ndy Chars
+
+ Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Should we expect the final word on re-editing the pilot to occur
+> with the renewal decision notice, or is there news on that front? 
+> Refa, Morden, Neroon: Have you always been this hard on secondary
+> characters, or is this a side effect of B5's epic structure?
+
+      No new on the recut yet...and yeah, it's a hard show on the
+recurring and secondary character.
+
+      Ain't been much of a picnic for the big guys, either.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 30 May 1997 11:45:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shows
+
+ Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> PS: Do you have a hamock in your office?
+
+       I find it scary that somehow I must have known this...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
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+JMS CompuServe messages for June 1997.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+
+Date: 31 May 1997 21:48:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Is the cast under contract for season five, should it happen?.  Now
+that you've wrapped the final episode, is there any danger of losing
+Bruce, Claudia, Jerry, Mira, etc to other committments while you wait
+to see if season is a go?"
+
+      No, the contracts have nothing to do with that episode, we still
+have options on all our cast members.
+
+"You mentioned that you were already shooting Thirdspace, the first B5
+movie. Wasn't "In The Beginning" the Minbari war story going to be
+first?"
+
+      The prequel is aired first, but produced second, because B5
+didn't exist during the prequel time period, so rather than tear and
+and rebuild sets, we're doing Thirdspace first.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 May 1997 21:48:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Converted Ones
+
+ Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So this past week she was here for a visit and the first thing
+> she asks is "so what's up with those people on Babylon 5?"
+
+      That's wonderful, thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 May 1997 21:49:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: News on Pilot/2ndy Chars
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Speaking of cuts, I asked this question of all and sundry, but people
+don't seem to know... Will B5 be released on LaserDisc or DVD ever?
+Even if there are no current plans for such, what do you think of the
+idea / chances?"
+
+      I have every confidence it'll happen in the fullness of time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 May 1997 21:49:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bob Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com>
+Subject: No Surrender No retreat
+
+ Bob Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And Sheridan goes on to say that it's going to get harder??
+> What gives?
+
+"It seems to me that the White Stars (particularly in the numbers I
+perceived in this Ep)  should have been able to deal with the Earth
+ships like lamb to a slaughter."
+
+      Yeah, if all you want is to slaughter fellow humans and
+officers; if you want to try to minimize the body count of your fellow
+officers, who you want to eventually side with you, it's more
+difficult, you have to keep the kid gloves on...which endangers you in
+the long run.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 May 1997 21:49:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: No Surrender, No Retreat
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, the Londo/G'Kar stuff was nifty...and yes, he's struggling
+toward redemption as best he can, making a real effort, which is
+important, because if he's going to end up with a Keeper on him
+eventually, as we've seen, best to feel for him, which you can't if
+he's a bad guy.
+
+      Set 'em up, knock 'em down....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 May 1997 21:49:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Debra dwnSo <104412.1664@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Next Season in Future?
+
+ Debra dwnSo <104412.1664@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do they know something I don't know?
+
+      Your friends are all wrong.
+
+      One episode, "Sleeping in Light," takes place 20 years down the
+road. The B5 series itself is contiguous, so S5 would be in 2262.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 May 1997 21:49:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: < NS,NR > L&G
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...I like the quiet moments a lot...and Londo's trying
+*so* hard.
+
+      Peter does a great job as Londo, even absolutely silent.  You
+can't stop watching him, just to see what he does.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 01 Jun 1997 16:08:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS vs. The Beatles
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> With that in mind, how about a B5 job application?
+> Hey, JMS-won't you use my script?
+
+      Careful...my only response here would be either Helter Skelter
+or the last few stanzas of Norwegian Wood....
+
+      Scripts make a very pretty fire....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jun 1997 16:08:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: NS, NR
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Got a question for ya: Where the heck is Proxima 3?
+> And is it a planet?
+> A moon?
+> How long has it been an Earth colony?
+> What's the population?
+
+      Thanks...those scenes really worked for me as well.
+
+      Proxima 3 is in the Proxima Centauri system, next door to
+Proxima 2, but no one goes there because the tourist season is way too
+short.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jun 1997 16:08:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: C4 Web Site
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I haven't been on the C4 web site in almost a year...if someone
+is there saying it's me, it ain't.  Can you clarify this?  (And leave
+me the web address since I've probably lost it?)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jun 1997 03:07:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: BESTER?!!
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> My instantaneous thought was " Bester!??"
+> Then the camera cut to Kirk and McCoy, and I thought, " What the
+> heck are they doing on Minbair?
+
+      I *think* that's a good thing....
+
+      What's been great about B5 has been the chance to give many
+talented actors like Walter and others a chance to show the many other
+hues and colors they are capable of delivering, but which were rarely
+seen because the material didn't allow them the opportunity.  I know
+Walter's loved it, and it's been great for us as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Jun 1997 11:22:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: < NS,NR > L&G
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I'm not sure there *is* anything scarier than a mom uttering
+those words; even the shadows would run.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jun 1997 11:22:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rob Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com>
+Subject: No Surrender No retreat
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Good point about Joan of Arc...too many people forget that sort
+of thing.
+
+       Which, on reflection, may be the problem in ways a lot larger
+than just B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jun 1997 11:22:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kathryn Drennan's Novel?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I believe it will be out in a few weeks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jun 1997 11:22:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: No Surrender No Retreat
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, I wasn't in the military, just having missed the Vietnam
+draft. The points you mention are all the ones I wanted to get into
+with that episode, and the ones a lot of folks have overlooked in
+suggesting that it should have been an episode about slicing-and-dicing
+the enemy (the enemy in this case being our own species).  The show, at
+root, is about ethics, among other things, and the ethical choices will
+continue to get more difficult the deeper you go.  There is a very fine
+line that Sheridan's walking in all this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jun 1997 11:22:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: NS, NR
+
+ Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How could G'Kar, who has gone through great revelations, not see
+> the validity to Londo's proposition?
+
+       Thanks...if G'Kar came around too easily or quickly, it would
+ring false; it had to go through some time and reflection.  But even
+though one could certainly agree with his anger over what's happened,
+G'Kar has to try and overcome that and even transcend it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jun 1997 17:51:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       They're strictly TNT.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jun 1997 19:24:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: No Surrender No Retreat
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How did the trip to Z, his death, and Lorien shape his feelings
+> on this?
+
+       He's certainly gotten harder, which may be necessary to what's
+ahead.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jun 1997 19:24:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Neroon, NS, NR
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       It's certainly an issue I care about quite a lot, and the
+delicate balance between orders and conscience, between what you think
+you should be doing vs. what you feel you *must* do, is the heart of
+99% of all drama.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Jun 1997 14:19:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Minbari Rangers
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Are there any Minbari rangers, or are all the Rangers human?
+
+       We've shown Minbari rangers from the first time we introduced
+the concept.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jun 1997 14:19:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lorien
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       See, Burhaan, this is what makes me nuts.
+
+       When we have shows like "Rumors" or "Epiphanies" lots of people
+post message saying, "What's wrong with the show, it was going great
+and now it's slowed down."  Then we have a show like "Fire" or
+"Surrender" and then lots of people start posting messages saying
+"What's wrong with the show, it's going too fast."
+
+       It's like having a driver sitting behind you in the car
+alternately saying "Speed up!  Slow down!  Faster!  Slower!"
+
+       Yes, some threads have been isolated from year 5 a bit, but all
+in the accelleration has not been overmuch; year 4 would've ended at
+418 in the original notes, so you're only looking at 4 episodes
+difference.
+
+       This is the latter part of the story no matter how you look at
+it; so you have to start speeding things up a bit in places because
+that's what the latter half of a novel is *for*.  Let's all remember
+basic literature 101: introduction, rising action, complication, climax
+and denouement.  It gets tenser and faster the deeper you get into it.
+
+       Why this is striking people as unexpected is utterly beyond me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jun 1997 14:19:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vital Powers
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or were they?
+> Edgars' miracle drug is actually a poison or virus, eh?
+> BTW, is Sheridan off-station now for the rest of the season?
+
+       Yeah, it's a very different feel...leisurely, in a way, but no
+less tense.  A good addition to the mix.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jun 1997 18:16:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kristi Ferebee <75361.1615@compuserve.com>
+Subject: EVP Review
+
+ Kristi Ferebee <75361.1615@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this where technology is heading?
+> Are we going to abolish animal testing only to have corporations
+> start doing human testing? *Is this little lab of horrors the
+> truth that Edgars is going to show Garibaldi when he brings
+> Sheridan in? Why would they have wanted him to hate telepaths?
+> Or is he a plant in Edgars' organization, with the PsiCorps
+> watching through his brain or something? *Exactly what _is_
+> Sheridan planning to do with the telepaths on B5? One thing:
+> Wouldn't Franklin be obligated to tell Lyta what she's reviving
+> her "comrades" for? *Whatever this top-secret telepath project of
+> SHeridan's is, does Delenn approve? "_Think_ _Like_ _Them_?!"
+> "Yes," "_No!_") Will Delenn even find out before Garibaldi takes
+> Sheridan to Mars? True, Clark would begin to put on the pretense
+> of a trial, but who's gonna stop him from hiring a loyal
+> brainwashed Earther to become a crazed assassin? * On the
+> commercial: But who's really in control? PsiCorps, Shadowfriends,
+> Clark, or an unknown enemy? Garibaldi?
+> Bester on the trailers?
+
+       Actually, Garibaldi's said he doesn't trust telepaths ever
+since the pilot movie.  It's a question of degrees at this point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jun 1997 18:18:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: News on Pilot/2ndy Chars
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I've been here since 1984/85...I have always been here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Jun 1997 13:45:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lorien
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Hadn't considered that prospect; who knows, you could be right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jun 1997 13:45:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: BESTER?!!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks, will do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jun 1997 13:49:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dr John A Purvis <100341.1147@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       The movies will almost certainly be released overseas, and
+since I think TNT is carried on Sky TV, that would in theory mean that
+it would hit there the same time as here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jun 1997 02:37:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS/B5 in Newsweek!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      TNT has come in and has begun getting us some long overdue
+publicity.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jun 1997 02:37:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Fan Club
+
+ John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's the URL?
+
+      www.thestation.com.
+
+      Welcome to the madhouse.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jun 1997 02:37:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <NSNR> Tight Focus
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> G'Kar seems to know that it's Mollari at his door -- why else
+> would he wait so long to call, "Enter?" But how did he know -- was
+> it an official request by Londo? Both characters' natural
+> inclination is to the bombastic, but both operated in a quite
+> muted fashion -- does this indicate honesty?
+
+"G'Kar seems to know that it's Mollari at his door -- why else would
+he wait so long to call, "Enter?"  But how did he know -- was it an
+official request by Londo?"
+
+      If you recall, when Garibaldi visited Vir, Vir mentioned that
+Londo was arranging a meeting with G'Kar, so it was definitely set up
+in advance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jun 1997 02:37:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Irritation Threshold
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      We try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Jun 1997 23:15:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Length of TV movies?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+How far along are you into filming "Thirdspace"?
+
+      Day 12.
+
+Will it continue throughout the month of June?
+
+      Another couple of days.
+
+And when will filming of "In the Beginning" start.
+
+      The very next day, wrapping on June 30th.
+
+And approximately when will these movies air on TNT?
+
+      January 1998 for the prequel, the second movie either 18 or 36
+weeks thereafter.
+
+One more question...Will these movies chronicle the path of all the
+characters(past & present)to B5?
+
+      Two hours ain't enough time to fit them all in.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jun 1997 23:26:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS/B5 in Newsweek!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm with you...TNT has been nothing but great in how they're
+handling B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jun 1997 23:26:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 'Drop Dead' Date?
+
+ Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that we're close to it, what's the last day that the renewal
+> news must get to you by, to continue the actors' options? Is it
+> after the two movies wrap?
+
+      Because Warners is working on several options to keep the show
+on the air in the absence of PTEN, and a crowded syndication market,
+they've asked for, and received, a 30 day extension on the drop dead
+day from the cast.  So now they have until July 15th to make it work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jun 1997 23:26:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Vorlon Homeworld
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      People can *try* to go there....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jun 1997 23:26:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Mike Willmoth <76170.1037@compuserve.com>
+Subject: News on Pilot/2ndy Chars
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"So the Vorlons really look like you, then :-)"
+
+      Well, when *I* look at them, yes....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jun 1997 23:26:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bob Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com>
+Subject: No Surrender No retreat
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Not a problem...and yes, that is *precisely* the dilemma faced
+by any military officer in this kind of situation.  There is no easy
+answer, and rarely a *right* answer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jun 1997 23:26:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Fan Club
+
+ John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ever hear of a hockey team called "The Detroit Red Wings"?
+
+      I'm sorry, but that *does* constitute a story idea, please
+refrain from this in future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jun 1997 03:26:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS/B5 in Newsweek!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"I get Newsweek by subscription, and the weird thing about the B5
+article was that it was *not* listed in the Table of Contents!"
+
+      It was a Shadow article....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jun 1997 03:26:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Big Day!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The info was wrong.  The new date is July 15th.  WB asked for
+and got an extension from the cast.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Jun 1997 12:42:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: logo copyright?
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> the B5 logo, and put it on a T shirt and wear it myself, then
+> it's OK, as long as don't mass produce and sell it? what about
+> using actual screen shots from the TV on a Tshirt?
+
+       That sounds about right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jun 1997 12:42:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Big Day!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Well, it's the first time they've done it.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jun 1997 12:42:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Irritation Threshold
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Tell her to hold on for just a bit more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 Jun 1997 21:32:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 'Drop Dead' Date?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      If there were not hope, WB wouldn't have asked for the
+extension.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jun 1997 03:53:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 'Drop Dead' Date?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, it isn't really a problem...the worst that could happen is
+that the show might have to go on in January rather than November, but
+that's only a small gap.  The stations haven't locked down their
+January schedules yet, and there's always fallout from what goes out in
+November, so there are still many possibilities.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jun 1997 03:53:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Marcia Sampson <103127.1072@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Grey Council composition
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      While I was aware of the pre-Revolutionary French parliament, to
+be honest, no, that wasn't the model I was using for B5.  Unless my
+subconscious is far smarter than I have been led to believe all this
+time.  Also sneakier.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jun 1997 03:53:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Official Web Site
+
+ Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How doing something like that with just you talking to the fan
+> club members at thestation.com?
+
+      We're looking into some stuff like that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jun 1997 03:53:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Newsweek
+
+ Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you know the writer?
+> Will TNT be doing similar types of hype as we get closer to
+> January, 1998?
+
+      No, didn't know the writer prior to the article.
+
+      TNT has a big campaign planned for the January launch...for the
+first time, really, B5 is getting the full-fledged PR campaign it (in
+my opinion) has deserved for a long time.
+
+      TNT has been nothing other than terrific.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jun 1997 03:53:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Movies
+
+ Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What can you tell us about the filming so far?
+> How has that impacted the overall production?
+
+      Actually, we don't really have that much more money.  Each
+episode costs a tick under $1 million; for purposes of discussion,
+let's round that up to 1. So you're now talking 2 million for 2 hours. 
+Now you've got another million to spend.  *But* ALL the prices go up by
+union scale and whatever else can be negotiated.  Actors fees go up,
+writers fees go up, directors fees go up, crew fees go up...so at the
+end of the day, you find you have a *little* more to spend, but not
+really that much.
+
+      As for how everyone's handling it...really no different than the
+series. Actors learn their lines, directors do their shots, the
+atmosphere on set really isn't much different.  The only substantive
+difference is that, because we know we won't be airing these until
+January and March/April, at soonest, we have more time in post and can
+therefore do more EFX.
+
+      George calculated that there are as many EFX in "Thirdspace" as
+in the entire first season of B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jun 1997 03:53:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lorien
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It was a perfectly *fine* question...don't worry about it.  My
+reply was more oriented toward the recent series of inquiries than
+yours. Remember, sometimes the only way to get pertinent information is
+to ask impertinent questions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jun 1997 03:53:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lorien
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"the way in which you broaden themes by making apparent antagonists
+sympathetic while consistently creating a plausible future history  is
+nothing short of amazing."
+
+      Thanks.  That really is a large part of the fun for me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jun 1997 03:54:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: B <71513.2510@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 5th Season/EVP
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      When I know, believe me, you'll know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jun 1997 16:16:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 'Drop Dead' Date?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, the final four of season 4 are committed to airdates in
+October, that's inviolable, whichever happens to be the last one, 422
+or 501.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jun 1997 16:16:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Newsweek
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, they're great at TNT.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jun 1997 16:17:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Movies
+
+ Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will Chris be doing anything special for the movies, new score,
+> themes, etc? Any chance there will be a new CD with music from the
+> movies?
+
+      He'll be scoring the movies, but nothing's set yet for a
+soundtrack for either of them (commercially).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jun 1997 16:17:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A question on influences
+
+ colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this instigated by you, or did they approach you with the
+> idea? Given that you commented that you have never heard of this
+> happening before - how did it make you feel when you found out? 
+> surprised / relieved? Her constant moan being that she forgets the
+> timeline of certain parts of the story because there is so much
+> to it, "was that Season 2 or 3 - eh?? one?
+
+      Thanks for all the kind words, from you and your wife.
+
+      Yes, my philosophy, from what you've said and others have said,
+seems close to Pal's, in that if you leave creative people alone, and
+give them the creative freedom to go nuts, they'll do more for you than
+if you bash them down all the time.  It's a simple notion but for some
+reason unfathomable to many suits.
+
+      As for the extension, that was something WB asked for, it didn't
+originate from our side.
+
+      And I'm very happy that the show has gotten the reception it
+has; makes it all kinda worthwhile.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jun 1997 23:58:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Big Day!
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Care to give me a clue?
+
+      It's a means of making time for them to work out the limitations
+of the PTEN contract, and the new syndicated market, which has been
+going through massive changes in the last year or two; basically the
+market has collapsed or been driven out (depending on the market you're
+in) by all the new networks and program glut.  Virtually every
+syndicated show has dropped from last year to this year; the only ones
+that have improved over last year are B5 (7%) and Xena (18%).  Just
+about everything else has dropped bigtime.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jun 1997 23:58:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phyllis Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 'Drop Dead' Date?
+
+ Phyllis Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com> asks:
+> all of year four's shows in year four?
+
+      Because TV defines a year as being from November to November, so
+you jump across a year in the process.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jun 1997 23:58:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Newsweek
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does TNT broadcast in stereo?
+
+      Good question...I dunno.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jun 1997 23:58:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TNT Movies
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> This makes me think of a question -- and I'm not trying to be
+> nosy here, just curious -- when you pull double-duty on an
+> episode, like when you write the episode as well as produce, and
+> in one case even direct, are you paid for each job?
+
+      There is a script fee that one receives as a writer, and if you
+are also a producer there is a separate negotiated fee.  The former is
+set by the WGA, and can be improved by negotiation; the latter is
+strictly a matter of negotiation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jun 1997 23:58:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Isometic <Excercise...)
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Stephen's assurance of "You're safe; no-one's gonna hurt you," is
+> ironic -- who knows how further damaged they will be after what
+> Sheridan has planned for them?
+
+      Thanks...again, excellent points.
+
+      One thing on the line Wade speaks...the actor consistently got
+the line wrong.  It read, "Everything is illusion, Mr. Garibaldi;
+constructs of light, language, metaphor," rather than concepts.        
+~~~~~~~~~~
+                                 ~~~~~~~~
+      There is a subtle but distinct difference.  But the points you
+raise obtain in any event.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Jun 1997 16:38:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kosh2 Ship Message
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What was the message?
+
+       "Welcome to Hawaii."
+
+       There was apparently a hideous malfunction...they never talked
+about it thereafter....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Jun 1997 16:38:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Paperback Books
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Joe, Which of the paperback books is true to the story?
+
+       The Drennan book, just hitting the stands now, is 100% canon;
+the Cavelos book, out for a bit now, is about 90% canon.  (Those are
+books 7 and 9.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1997 14:58:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Gillman <100724.1646@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The age of a Minbari
+
+ Michael Gillman <100724.1646@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How can this be?
+
+       She saw an *image* of Valen, not Valen in physical form.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1997 14:58:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TNT Movies
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       CGI will certainly continue to become more affordable and more
+flexible in its uses, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1997 14:59:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Face of Enemy> question
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I have a question; the things that Lyta told Stephen, was that
+> what Bester was threatening her as her "past", back in
+> Epiphanies?
+
+       No, Franklin's comment to Lyta didn't involve her past, though
+we will find out more about that in a bit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1997 03:28:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Influence
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      As a writer, the influences would really tend to be early ones,
+so I'd cite Eric Frank Russell, HP Lovecraft, Bradbury, Ellison,
+Tolkein, Clarke and "Doc" Smith as being at the top of the roster.  In
+terms of television, it'd be Serling, Matheson, Corwin, again Bradbury
+and Ellison, and Charles Beaumont.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1997 03:28:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mr. Chamberlain
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any plans to use his very distinctive voice in the
+> future?
+
+      If the opportunity arises, we'll use him, rest assured.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1997 18:04:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Sick Telepaths
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Were these scars from removal?
+
+       No, just standard lesions.
+
+       Remember, a man as smart and rich as Edgars can surely afford
+private lesions for his "kids."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1997 22:46:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Face of the Enemy
+
+ Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How did that happen?????
+
+      Thanks...I do think this is one of our best to date.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1997 23:03:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The age of a Minbari
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      What Delenn says, if we all go back to the episode in question,
+that a Minbari appeared to her, when she was a child lost in the city
+and wandered into the temple; a vision, telling her that "I will not
+allow harm to come to my little ones here in my great house."  (Note:
+"my little ones" being a coy bit of foreshadowing to her being a child
+of Valen, but never mind that for now.)
+
+      Obviously there were many drawings and pictures and records of
+Valen, but most were destroyed in the Great War.  And those that
+survived have been, over a thousand years, idealized and distorted by
+whichever caste is currently claiming him as theirs.  (Valen refused to
+belong to any one caste.)
+
+      Which, btw, is also what Delenn referred to in season one, when
+she was lost and in fear of death, and she looked to Sinclair with
+reverence and said, "I knew you would come for me."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Jun 1997 13:38:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Face of the Enemy
+
+ Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you read "The Sandman" and if so, what do you think?
+
+       I loved "The Sandman," though I haven't read it lately (haven't
+read much of anything lately).  Gaiman's a tremendous talent, and I
+will always go out of my way to find his stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Jun 1997 13:38:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The age of a Minbari
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just how far back DID Delenn know that Jeff Sinclair was Valen??
+
+       You'll find out in the TV movie.
+
+       And there's some measure of difference between what she *knew*
+and what she *suspected*.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Jun 1997 00:25:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5
+
+ John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If you are going to tear down the sets, what are you going to
+> film Season 5 on (Suits willing)?
+
+      By "tear down" I simply mean move off the stages so we can move
+the other sets in; we don't destroy them, just fold-n-hold.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Jun 1997 00:25:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The age of a Minbari
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The letter that Sinclair/Valen sent to Delenn from the
+> past......did she get it just before the events of WWE, or did
+> she have it for some time before that?
+
+      No, she got the letter at the time of WWE.  Remember, though,
+that she was at the Battle of the Line when Sinclair was scanned and
+found to contain a Minbari soul...so that would be the basic start of
+it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Jun 1997 16:46:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The age of a Minbari
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      You'll get some more on this in the prequel.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Jun 1997 16:46:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Face of the Enemy
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's a hoot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Jun 1997 16:46:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Face of the Enemy
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...I agree that it's probably one of the best we've done. 
+I've now watched it at least a dozen times in finished form, and it
+still works for me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Jun 1997 16:46:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <FotE> Holy $#%!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+         Thanks.  One thing I've been doing with the latter part of
+season 4 is to experiment a little more, try different things.  I feel
+that we need to push visually to try new things, the sort of visual
+techniques you don't see much in SF-TV, which for the most part is
+fairly prosaic as these things go. And to push the writing, to try some
+things that may succeed, or may fail, but you learn something either
+way.  In its way, next week's ep is just as experimental, but in a very
+different direction.
+
+      Mike Vejar definitely did a great job with this episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Jun 1997 16:46:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Face of the Enemy
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Re: your kind words about the episode...thank you.
+
+"On a completely different and impertinent tack, I am curious to know
+if you feel any impact from being perhaps the most visible atheist
+since Ms. O'Hair?"
+
+      Not really.  I think that a large sector of the religious
+community is still trying to figure me out...because yes, I'm an open,
+avowed atheist, but I've done stories about religion and spirituality
+that -- if the mail from priests and rabbis and ministers and even a
+few folks from other, non-western religions is to be believed -- are
+more fair and respectful than just about anyone else in TV is doing,
+even according to last week's Christian Science Monitor.
+
+      They openly ask, "How is it that an atheist is able to get
+stories of great faith on the air when nobody else will do it?"  To
+which I generally have started replying, "Only Nixon could go to
+China."
+
+      I think that if I were using my show as a bludgeon to convey my
+own personal beliefs, or lack thereof, as an atheist, that would be a
+whole different kettle of fish.  But I don't.  I have an obligation as
+a writer before anything and everything else...that means that if I
+create a character who is religious, I must treat that character with
+respect and, just as importantly, *authenticity*.  I must, in short, be
+*fair*.
+
+      Where this works to my benefit is that if I, as an atheist, do
+an episode showing a religious character in a positive light, the mail
+comes in thanking me for being fair to points of view I don't agree
+with.  Then, when I do a show implying Ivanova and Talia were briefly
+lovers, or when you have Marcus and Franklin undercover as a married
+couple, they start to go to the keyboards to complain...then remember
+what they said about fairness to other points of view.
+
+      As a result, even with all the very subversive and challenging
+shows we've done in four years, and even being an open atheist, I can
+count the harrassing religious fringe-mail on one hand.  (Thinks for a
+moment...okay, maybe two hands, but that's all.)  As long as I stay
+honest with the writing, I'll be okay.  The moment I start to use it as
+propaganda, they'll be all over me...and rightly so.
+
+      BTW, on the issue of Madalyn O'Hair...or O'Hare, I can never
+remember which it is...interesting thing is, I worked for her magazine
+for a while, doing a couple of columns and articles.  At the time, I
+did so because I felt (and still to some extent feel) that atheists are
+easy targets in society. You will never see an avowed atheist in the
+White House or Congress, whatever it may say in the constitution about
+this being a secular government with separation of church and state. 
+When then-Vice President Bush could say, at a press conference at an
+airport in Chicago, "Well, I don't really see how an atheist can be a
+patriot, this is after all one nation under God," then you see how bad
+things can get.
+
+      But in working for her magazine, I gradually figured out that
+she wasn't oriented toward equal respect on both sides, for atheism and
+religion, which is where I am...she was anti-religion and looking to
+sabotage that element of society, which I do not condone.  It's simply
+wrong.  I've always said, the day they try to shut down the churches,
+I'll be the first one on the firing line to fight back...I just hope
+that the other side will join me when they try to shut down the
+libraries.  Which, finally, is why I resigned from her magazine.  I'm
+pro-tolerance, and don't have time for bigots of any stripe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1997 01:48:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kirk R. Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Face of the Enemy
+
+ Kirk R. Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you think it was a matter of the programming that kept him
+> from stopping the fight?
+
+      Also, Wade specificially says Lise wasn't there when they got
+back, so that eliminates her from the scenario.
+
+      BTW...there's apparently going to be a positive review of 418,
+"Intersections in Real Time" in the Monday USA Today.  I haven't seen
+it yet, though, so don't know what spoilers it may contain.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1997 14:44:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Face of the Enemy
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Nope.  You're just seeing what you've seen before as your point
+of reference.  We don't tend to do that intentionally.  We're in
+Rohrscharch territory here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1997 14:44:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Face of the Enemy
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yep...and he's bugged, and we'll see where *that* goes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1997 14:44:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Face of the Enemy
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      There's a web page with the full text; don't have the info at
+hand.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1997 14:44:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <FotE> Holy $#%!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nope, not a Prisoner homage at all, in any way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1997 14:44:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New FX...
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nope, just the constant striving for perfection that is typical
+of all our production elements.  We get better or we die.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1997 14:44:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Face - congrats
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Zimbalist did a great job for us...he took huge gobs of
+exposition and not only delivered them, he made them interesting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1997 16:43:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ivanovas 'Talent'
+
+ colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now, assuming to big "IF's" - IF season 5 is a go and IF Claudia
+> agrees to stay for S5, will her talent be explored in any depth,
+> or is it just a character trait, she has it but no-one will know
+> to what level it goes?
+
+      That element of her personality will come in to play eventually;
+there ain't much waste on this show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1997 16:43:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Face of the Enemy
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Also, they wanted it to look like it was done by the Resistance;
+too much "attention" to his death would've drawn attention to the
+Corps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1997 22:46:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 CD Vol. 2
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Franke used?
+
+      Don't know offhand which instruments were used, but I'll convey
+the praise to its source.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1997 22:46:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kirk R. Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Face of the Enemy
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      They're not that close.  Certainly not on a first date to a bar
+like that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1997 22:46:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Face of the Enemy
+
+ Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In the first act after the opening credits when Sheridan is on
+> the bridge of the White Star, did we see the "automatic repair
+> systems" at work on the wall next to where he was standing, or
+> was that just some sort of display?
+
+      Yes, those were the autorepair systems at work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1997 22:46:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <FotE> Face-off/Face Off
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+""The Face of the Enemy" might represent the flipside of young
+Delenn's claim in "Atonement" that the most dangerous enemy is the one
+you know nothing about.  Now the face of the enemy is the one you know
+all too well, one which you take for granted until it's revealed that
+the face is actually a mask."
+
+      Yep.  It's one thing facing implacable, vast enemies...it's
+quite another when you friend betrays you.  That's personal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1997 22:46:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JOEL ARAUJO <76016.122@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <FaceOfE-Song
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Dunno offhand.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1997 22:46:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dimitri M LaBarge <71501.3353@compuserve.com>
+Subject: "Enemy" - congrats
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  Gradually, we're learning and acquiring more tools to
+use in the storytelling process...refining what we have, and every so
+often, we try to use them in new ways.  It's an experiment, and a risk,
+but one worth taking when it gets a reaction like this.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1997 22:46:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Guest Star
+
+ Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was he familiar with the show prior to getting the guest role?
+> If not what, if any, information do you provide to a guest about
+> the story to date? Zimbalist?
+
+      Nope, just figured he'd be great for the job, and cast him
+without audition.  He didn't know anything about the show before that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1997 22:46:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Intersections
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yep...it is that.  At last I have a proper cliffhanger and a
+proper wait afterward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Jun 1997 13:42:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Intersections
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"You must have known, or at least suspected, they'd hold back the last
+4 again.  I think I've figured out one of the reasons you're as good a
+writer as you are.  You can take your story and mold it into the shape
+you need it to, in order to tell it, regardless of the blockades,
+changes, whims and opportunities the current syndication market throws
+at you.  You're the most flexible damn writer I've ever seen.  Then
+again, no one's ever HAD to do the things you're doing either."
+
+       All I'll say is that no one will ever truly know how difficult
+this process has been.  And no matter what they throw at us, we catch
+it, turn it around, figure out how to use it for our own purposes, and
+somehow make the story better for it.
+
+       It ain't easy, though, m'friend...it ain't easy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jun 1997 16:55:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Face of the Enemy
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Actually, no, you're right, ther isn't that much direct,
+personal violence in the show.  My feeling is that if you do that a
+lot, it loses any potential for impact.  You only pull out that card
+when you really need it, to best effect...don't waste it.  It's like
+harsh language, after you've heard someone going on using all the more
+remarkable Anglo-Saxon words for a while, it loses all impact.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1997 00:05:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Guest Editorial
+
+ Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (they even gave a picture of him) The question posed was, "What
+> makes someone a fan of science fiction?"
+
+      Actually, I'd more or less forgotten having done the article,
+and then when I remembered having done it after your comment, took me a
+while to remember what the heck I'd said.  (This is why I'm a terrible
+liar, and thus stick almost exclusively to the truth...I ain't smart
+enough to be a very good liar.)
+
+      Anyway...thanks.
+
+      The question was one that I get a lot, and I finally decided to
+redefine the question and attack it from my own perspective.  I'm glad
+it came out reasonably coherent.
+
+      And as for being a fan...yeah, that about covers it.  This is a
+show for fans, by fans.  Which is why it works.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1997 00:05:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Face of the Enemy
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I have to watch it at least 6-9 times just in the production
+process as we edit, make changes, mix, all that...then 3-4 times
+afterward just so I can get the process out of my head and be able to
+"see" it for the first time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1997 00:05:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anne Stallcup <102436.203@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Face of the Enemy
+
+ Anne Stallcup <102436.203@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And when is Ivanova going to learn to quit saying things like
+> "We'll be OK as long as nothing goes wrong."?
+
+      Thanks...and I've always been a big believer in the notion that
+we can purchase redemption if we are willing to go to the wall, not for
+ourselves, but for someone else...so there's a chance for all of
+them....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1997 00:05:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <FotE> telepathy
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Obviously some, like the Minbari, dealt with it more easily than
+others; and in some places it came through Vorlon interference, while
+in others it came about naturally.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1997 00:05:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A Sad Time
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I mean, he has nothing else really to live for at the moment,
+> does he? I really wonder what the rest of our heroes were doing
+> during the several days (judging by his beard growth) that
+> Sheridan was in captivity? Could he be a vision as well?
+> As Delenn was a reminder of John's hopes and dreams, might the
+> Drazi be a reminder of his dreads and nightmares? Was there a
+> conscious decision on your part to cast Wayne for a role in an
+> episode that had such an obvious common theme with his first role
+> in the series? Won't everyone be royally pissed when you reveal in
+> 419 that John was really in a CyberNet all along?
+
+      The Drazi was really there...has to be, or the ep loses some of
+its teeth.
+
+      And yeah, we kinda liked the symmetry of Wayne being in this ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1997 01:49:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruce "Firestorm" S. <72571.1722@compuserve.com>
+Subject: sequel
+
+ Bruce "Firestorm" S. <72571.1722@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What made you change your mind on the sequel now that you're
+> pushing for a sequel about the Rangers?
+
+"As I recall, previously, you said that you wouldn't do any Babylon 5
+sequels and that you would go to other projects like writing novels &
+etc.  What made you change your mind on the sequel now that you're
+pushing for a sequel about the Rangers?"
+
+      Nope.  I said that the B5 story per se ended in 5 years.  I have
+also said, *from the very start*, as the old timers here, and at
+conventions, will testify, that there was always a side-story that
+could go off and be a different novel set in the same universe.  So
+you'll understand why I can't really defend a statement that I never
+made.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Jun 1997 12:45:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Face of the Enemy
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"I thought the fight was a bit too long for much the same reason as
+you. All I can suggest is that John's metabolism isn't "normal" any
+more, and perhaps this had an effect. (And maybe the bullyboys were
+doing less damage than we think, simply to prolong the "fun".)"
+
+       1) It was for dramatic/stylistic effect.  Not everything done
+with some style has to have a scientific explanation.
+
+       2) Having been mugged myself, time expands and slows down.
+
+       3) It's the TV cliche that fights are over in a second.  Ask
+anyone who's ever been in a real knock-down fight.  It goes on a heck
+of a lot longer than we showed here.  When I got mugged it went on for
+10 minutes.
+
+       One of the ironies in other messages on this (not this one here
+specifically) is that some have noted the fast-paced editing, which is
+supposedly associated with music video/short attention span
+material...and then turn around and say it wasn't over fast enough.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Rerun redux...
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The schedule of new episodes is designed to accommodate sweeps
+periods.
+
+      As for the coming reruns, the theory there is to back up from
+419 to the number of weeks preceding it so that the reruns ramp up to,
+and run right into, 419 (first new ep back) so that folks who dived in
+late will be able to catch up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: More Novels?
+
+ SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is DELL planning any more novels past the latest one?
+
+      They have always licensed 3 at a time, waited for renewal news,
+then licensed 3 more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sanjiv S. Purba <102735.1770@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Fan Club Note (jms)
+
+ Sanjiv S. Purba <102735.1770@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do we join the fan club?
+
+      You can get info at www.thestation.com.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Face of the Enemy
+
+ O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this line inspired by some of the recent Neanderthal finds?
+> Or was this part of your orignial conception for the story?
+> Did Edgars really believe the Earthgov propaganda that Sheridan
+> was operating under the malignant influence of aliens? Is Bester
+> really done with Garibaldi? Was this a deliberate historical
+> reference? Any further developments in the works here?
+> By the way, I think that Marcus' plaint, "Susan!?"
+
+Wade had a great line about the clash of homo sapiens and Neanderthals
+in Carthage.  Was this line inspired by some of the recent Neanderthal
+finds? Or was this part of your orignial conception for the story?
+
+      Not recent stuff, just a general knowledge of this area.
+
+Did Edgars really believe the Earthgov propaganda that Sheridan was
+operating under the malignant influence of aliens?
+
+      Nope.
+
+Is Bester really done with Garibaldi?
+
+      For the moment.
+
+One of the captains of the Earth vessels is named Leo Frank.  Was this
+a deliberate historical reference?
+
+      Not intentionally.
+
+Franklin and Number One seem to have cooled their relationship.   Any
+further developments in the works here?
+
+      Any more personal stuff got set aside when Franklin showed up a)
+with another female, and b) she was a teep.  When #1 calms down, they
+might take another shot at it.
+
+Lastly, there is a bit of irony in the fact that the stage for
+Sheridan's capture is set when he steps aboard his old ship, the
+Agamemnon.  Agamemnon was the supreme commander of the Greek forces at
+Troy, who survived that long war, but who was betrayed and murdered by
+his wife when he returned home. He blindly and arrogantly stepped into
+a trap, as Sheridan also seemed to do.
+
+      Yeah...that's one of many reasons why I picked that
+image/reference. It plays on a LOT of levels in the story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Martin Toggweiler <74041.2400@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Face of the Enemy
+
+ Martin Toggweiler <74041.2400@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there anymore a fan can do help bring about a season 5?
+
+      Thanks...it's a good one.  We'll have to see how soon we can
+find any reassurance....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Guest Star
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...and my best to Barbara.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Guest Star
+
+ Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do guest stars just look at roles like these as "another day in
+> the office"? Do the guests ever comment about that, do they even
+> notice any difference?
+
+      Usually guest stars show up with "another job" in their
+head...but by the time they leave we've converted 'em, and we often get
+notes from them saying how great the experience was, and wanting to
+come back.  Sometimes they become part of the extended family, and just
+come by to hang out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Intersections
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was that your intention?
+> Also, what's to stop Clarke asking Psi Corp to alter Sheridan's
+> mind, somehow reprogramme him, to confess?
+
+      Because they don't want him reprogrammed; as William says,
+another teep could see that he'd been altered.  They want him
+*sincerely broken*.  Not just rewired.
+
+      And yeah, I wanted this to function almost as a play in
+structure.  In fact, when we shot it, we did it in full-act chunks. 
+The actors would come in in the morning, rehearse it as they would a
+play, then we'd shoot it the way we'd shoot a play, straight through.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: This is ITS story
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Each narration is from that character's point of view, it's not
+an auctorial intrusion.  And each is specific *to that time*.  It's not
+a policy statment.  It's a means of tracking the show at various points
+over the five year arc.  If it's JUST about keeping peace...then you
+don't have an arc.
+
+      The show is about change.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Great Stuff - 418
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> We're left with the uneasy question -- how many times can this
+> loop play out before he edges toward despair?
+
+      Thanks.  I like this one a lot.  It takes some real chances, and
+it has some nasty twists and turns.  I like that in a story....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Intersections
+
+ John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now we've got 3 cliffhangers: 1) What happens to Sheridan?
+> 2) How long do we have to wait to find out?
+> 3) Do we get season five or will Joe wrap this in just 3 more
+> episodes, at least one of which is already in the can?! Are
+> _Between the Darkness and the Light_ and _Endgame_ being deferred
+> to maintain wriggle room still for season 5, are they done, or
+> did you film enough so you could edit them down to work with
+> either 4 or 5 season runs after the cast was done shooting?
+
+      Best to wait and see what's in mind for those later episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vorlons in new novel
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, now that it's been established in the novel that Vorlons
+> have names, is it correct to say that Kosh 2 actually have
+> another name but he wouldn't let people know? also, is the other
+> Vorlon on Minbar the same one that was in WWE?
+
+      Yes, he had another name or designation (Naranek is actually a
+title, not a name, hence why they both had it) and was primarily being
+a pain in the butt.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Cliffhangers -- Why?
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So what is the payoff for the author?
+> What benefit outweighs the breaking of the
+> storytelling/storyviewing dynamic?
+
+      It's basically a means to get the audience, which has been away
+for a long time, to come back to resolve a hanging point and jump-start
+them into the episodes.  If it ends cleanly, apparently a lot of folks
+in any series will just forget to tune in the following season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:36:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kathleen . Keefe <102735.3416@compuserve.com>
+Subject: It had to happen.....
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Would love it if you could send me a copy of the clipping; I'll
+give it to Mira myself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+(Address as always is me via B5 at 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260,
+Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.)
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:36:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com>
+Subject: UK Videos - S3
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Apparently they took the episode from an early copy delivered to
+PR, not the final version with all the comps in it.  It'll be corrected
+down the road...consider it an inadventant collector's item.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Jun 1997 13:06:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kirk R. Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Intersections Kudos
+
+ Kirk R. Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What was going on with Ivanova?
+
+       Thanks...you hit all the subtleties right on the head.
+
+       "You understand the concepts of breaking down a human psyche."
+
+       (shrugs)  Well, sure...I work for Warner Bros.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jun 1997 13:06:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Intersections
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But don't all teeps, official ones anyway, work "for" Clark?
+> so why does it matter?
+> also do they still have the technology that reprogrammed Talia,
+> or did that go away with the Shadows?
+
+       It matters because there are plenty of alien teeps out there as
+well as human ones, and you can always get a rogue in there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jun 1997 13:06:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <FotE> Holy $#%!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       You're wrong.  The costumer has never even *seen* the Prisoner,
+as far as I know, and the suit he wore was one of our standard earth
+suits which we've used before on the show, just tailored it to fit his
+form.  And the set design is just your basic black room with chairs,
+nothing more.  I also doubt muchly that Flinn has ever seen The
+Prisoner...which was a very well and brightly lit show, whereas this
+played to darkness.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jun 1997 13:06:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I, ROBOT
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Have you given any consideration to producing I, ROBOT based
+> on Harlan's script?
+
+       No, I don't produce other people's work.  Personally, I think
+Whoopee Goldberg would be perfect as Dr. Calvin, though.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jun 1997 13:07:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vorlons in new novel
+
+ David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Um, do you mean Naranek is a name, and Kosh is a title, or am I
+> just confused?
+
+       Kosh Naranek and Ulkesh Naranek; Naranek is a
+title/designation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jun 1997 17:45:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Friel <100647.753@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Warner Brothers Address
+
+ Philip Friel <100647.753@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do Warner Bros pay any attention to the opinions of overseas
+> viewers, or are only the opinions of viewers in the US taken into
+> consideration? In other words, would it be a waste of time writing
+> to them, or would it do some good? Also, what is preferable, an
+> email, or a written letter? If your answer is in the affirmative,
+> could you please give me the email or snailmail address (and
+> name) that it would be most useful to send the letter to?
+
+       Thanks, and I think you're right about the long-term success of
+the show.
+
+       As for WB, strangely they almost exclusively consider the
+American market when making their decisions; they still view European
+markets as an after-market.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jun 1997 17:45:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Face of the Enemy
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Was that tube on Edgars' compound?
+> Was Garibaldi acting under the influence of his telepathic
+> instructions and leaving anyway as to get word to Bester?
+
+       If anybody could slip away, Garibaldi could.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Jun 1997 23:03:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: UK Videos - S3
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, it was never re-edited later...it's a screwup on WB's part
+in getting the wrong version out there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jun 1997 23:03:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5
+
+ Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Also, at the end of the episodes will we see a preview of the
+> next episode like we do now? After TNT runs Bablon 5, would you
+> ever consider doing a Babylon 5 motion picture?
+
+      Of all the questions, the only one I know offhand is the last
+one, and yeah, I'd love to do a B5 feature, and have discussed this
+with WB for down the road a piece.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jun 1997 23:03:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Intersections
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...our cast invariably comes in knowing full scenes, and
+can hit them without breaking or blowing a line.  So we have a tendency
+at times to just let the master play out, keeping the intensity, which
+can sometimes be broken by too much cross-editing.  (Note that the
+Zathras/Ivanova scene a few episodes back is *entirely* one shot, four
+minutes.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jun 1997 23:03:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Intersections
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Why was this episode titled "Intersections in Real Time"?
+
+      Each act took place in real time, no time jumps...the
+conversation happened as it happened.  Since you had act breaks in
+between them, those became intersections...in real time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jun 1997 23:03:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Intersections Kudos
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What's always been difficult for me to grasp in the ancient hero
+> myths has been "What does this have to do with me?" (Or was that
+> "Brave New World"?
+
+      Thanks...the message is just that, that we *all* have to choose
+to resist from time to time, and that one individual can fight the
+system.  And we are all that individual at one time or another.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jun 1997 23:03:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: City of Sorrows
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In the scene of William's death, the part where it begins "Where
+> is the shuttle craft? Please tell me again how much you were
+> involved with the story line; did you just say "let's do a story
+> with Sinclair on Minbar" and Kathryn came up with all the
+> threads?
+
+      I gave Kathryn a bare-bones stucture on the Marcus thing -- the
+death of his brother, his trip first to B5 and then to Minbar -- but
+she took on the rest on her own.  The process was pretty much as I
+describe it in the intro, asking what X meant, how A related to B, and
+then her pulling all the threads together in a story that filled in all
+the blanks.  The credit is entirely hers on this.  I consulted and
+read, but she did all the creative work on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1997 22:01:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Questions
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Has B5 been renewed for a fifth season?
+> And why do I see people on B5 wearing glasses and using paper and
+> pen? What ever happen to corrective (lens) surgery and a paperless
+> society?
+
+      Nothing has been decided yet, formally, on season 5.  As for
+wearing glasses in the future...not everybody's going to want to get
+corrective eye surgery.  I could get it right now...but I don't let
+*anybody* touch my eyes for any reason, it's probably the one phobia I
+have.  (Every year when my optometrist has to do the standard glaucoma
+test, requiring touching my eye with a blue dot thingie, he dreads it,
+because he knows one of us is going to go through the wall...probably
+him.)  As for a paperless society...every time somebody says we're
+coming into a paperless society, as Ivanova once said, I get 10 more
+forms to fill out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1997 22:01:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Intersections Kudos
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      You got every single one of the points of that one.
+
+      And that's one reason (among many) that I kept Sheridan silent
+for the most part; a) because the less he says the better overall from
+his position, and b) the audience would want to respond for him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1997 22:01:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jon A. Bell <74124.276@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Intersections Kudos
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Exactly.  The banal face of evil.  You look at most of the guys
+who ran Treblinka, or Bergen-Belsen, and they're largely ordinary
+looking guys, who could be accountants or repair men or car salesmen. 
+They're *us*...and this was designed to remind us of that.  The evil,
+mustache-twirling villain is too easy, and too far from the truth of
+it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1997 22:01:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <IiRT> K-Martyr
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...there was a lot of give-and-take in that episode, and
+at times maybe the interrogator was near the truth, or a form of
+it...but always distorting it, using it for his benefit.  Slippery
+slopes indeed....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1997 22:01:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Truth
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Where do these notions of yours originate?
+
+"Theres alot of truth to your notion of the TRUTH.  It raises points
+I'd rather not think about.  Where do these notions of yours
+originate?"
+
+      Usually at 3 in the morning when I can't sleep....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1997 22:13:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: City of Sorrows
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why is this important?
+
+      I'll pass that along.
+
+      On the technical nit...you're right.  Another fan brought this
+up, and she couldn't believe she screwed it up, because she'd *done*
+the research on this.  So she went back and checked her research, and
+she'd basically transposed the two, being tired and on deadline.  She
+plans to correct it in the next edition.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1997 03:30:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Intersections: Good Eyes
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"One of the guards, I believe, was the fellow who shot Garibaldi in
+the back in Chrysalis."
+
+      Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1997 23:03:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>415-418<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's been a good run.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1997 23:23:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Questions
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      There are discussions about this, but I can't say more for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1997 23:23:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rob Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Last Episode
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"He asked me to pass along his congratulations to you and to the
+actors and to tell you that you are just as disturbed as that episode
+for making it the "cliffhanger.""
+
+      Why, thank ye kindly....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Jun 1997 13:29:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: From jms re: yr 4/5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       It's all in the hands of the network gods now....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jun 1997 13:36:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: City of Sorrows
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       The coming comic will deal with some of the situation after
+Sinclair became Valen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jun 1997 22:34:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Cherns Major <75026.3723@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New episodes
+
+ Cherns Major <75026.3723@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I thought that this was very insightful and fairly subtle social
+> commentary, but now I wonder: was this theme also directly
+> related to the "nature red in tooth and claw" philosophy we later
+> found espoused by a certain other, shadowy, crowd? Or, maybe, just
+> showing that certain ideas pop up all over? Oh, yeah: one more
+> question: is the character Captain Jack a reference to the Billy
+> Joel song of the same name? Later, after seeing _Intersections in
+> Real Time_: did I see, in a scene near the end involving a
+> gurney, a tip of the hat to a scene, also towards the end, in a
+> Frankenheimer film, recently released to video, that you've
+> mentioned admiring?
+
+      I think those are pretty much no's across the board.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1997 21:39:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Legacy?
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Of what would you feel most proud as a legacy of B5 to the
+> television culture?
+
+      I'd say the introduction of an epic or saga-like structure to
+the TV format.  A novel for TV, using all the literary devices of
+fiction, over the course of years.  I think, in the long run, that's
+what B5 will be most noted for.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1997 21:39:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Future Thread
+
+ Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Might this be a thread for year 5?
+> Or the sequel?
+> Or is it not cinematographic enough (episodes of people staring
+> at each other), and thus scheduled to occur between the two
+> series (possibly to be used in a later movie)? Or should I just
+> wait for October? Also, is your talk scheduled yet at next month's
+> San Diego Comic Con yet?
+
+      I don't introduce threads I don't plan to play out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1997 21:58:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ship names
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah...I won an auction....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1997 12:47:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Delenn`s background
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is that just my imagination?
+> Just how much do we know about Delenn's background?
+> Does John know more?
+> Are they out there somewhere, and I just missed them?
+> Is there a bio of her in the lurkers guide?
+
+       Your perception is basically correct; I kept Delenn's
+background more vague to add to her mystery, and made Sheridan's more
+specific and grounded to tie him more to Earth and more accessible.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1997 01:40:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: Updates from jms
+
+      A number of items, from fairly important to not at all.
+
+      If you are anywhere in the Atlanta area, I suggest -- fairly
+strongly -- that you exert every effort to be present at the B5
+Presentation on Sunday afternoon (I think it's 1 or 2 p.m.) featuring
+B5 producer George Johnsen. He will have the usual assortment of
+bloopers, clips from the two movies now in production, and other
+stuff...and the "other stuff" is something folks should be around for.
+
+      You may possibly also want to tune in to Entertainment Tonight
+tomorrow (Friday) night.
+
+      And definitely buy a copy of the TV Guide issue that hits the
+stands Monday on the West Coast, and Saturday on the East Coast.  In
+fact, I suggest you buy two.
+
+      All of this will make sense in the fullness of time.
+
+      Also...on a wholly different note...we're continuing our updates
+on the B5 Fan Club.  The new edition of the newsletter is in its final
+stages, and will likely hit the printers next week.  We're going to be
+releasing some new items from thestation.com, including the new set of
+B5 trading cards from Fleer at a very competitive price, with another
+bunch of them for sale with the box autographed by some guy named
+jms...and next week we should be putting up our first in a series of
+B5-special ball caps, this one the exact same cap, made by the same
+people, used in "Knives": Sheridan's Agamemnon cap, which has 
+a silhouette of the Aggy and its ship construction ID number below. 
+It's *very* spiffy.  More caps will be forthcoming.  (The cards are now
+available via thestation.com, and the caps will be available there next
+week.)
+
+      We're also totally redesigning the membership kits for those
+joining in the next few months, and are planning a massive facelift for
+thestation.com as well.  We'll be announcing more improvements over the
+next 4-5 weeks.
+
+      Keep watching the skies....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1997 12:25:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: book <The Babylon Files>
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, do you have any comments on Andy Lane's unofficial book "The
+> Babylon Files"? how does it compare to the Lurker site?
+
+       Since it's unauthorized, I really can't comment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1997 12:27:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Delenn`s background
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Now is Mir mother, father or some other?
+> (Clan founder comes to mind as a possible "other.") Is it fair to
+> try to pin you down that far?
+
+       It's the family Mir, not daughter of Mir.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1997 12:27:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Updates from jms
+
+ Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> can you show any?
+
+       I will definitely be bringing clips to Blackpool.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1997 15:59:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: E.T.'s announcement
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this official?
+
+       Alas, I'm still in a position where I can't comment officially
+until WB makes an actual, *official* pronouncement.  Corporate
+structure hath its privileges.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1997 17:45:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 - tnt and WB
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I can't comment in specifics until WB issues its formal press
+announcement on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1997 17:49:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 on ET 5th Season Info
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       In the Beginning will air in January, on a Sunday, in a 4 hour
+block the other half of which is the original B5 pilot, and then it
+will go to daily M-F runs of the first 4 seasons at 6 or 7 p.m.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1997 23:39:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Best 5 episodes/Newbie
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"It's Johnny who's "alone in the dark", facing unrelenting pressure to
+give up, knowing that if he dies under torture his friends may never
+know for certain what happened to him."
+
+      Which is what the Inquisitor said he would have to face.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1997 01:59:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 on ET 5th Season Info
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, the TNT contract is not in any way affected; WB will be done
+with the show this fall, as far as syndicated stations is concerned,
+and then it goes to TNT.
+
+      And the prequel will segue right into the pilot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1997 15:59:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, the movies are TNT only for now...and we're fully booked on
+stories.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1997 15:59:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 - tnt and WB
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> As soon as you can comment, would you please tell us who at TNT
+> we should send our thank you's to?
+
+      Thanks should probably be conveyed to Brad Siegel, president of
+TNT, who fought hard to get the show, initially beating the Sci-Fi
+Channel out in a bidding war for the reruns, and who believes very
+strongly in what we're doing for the future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1997 15:59:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 on ET 5th Season Info
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The prequel/pilot pair up is slated to air in January.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1997 15:59:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phil Lenton <100572.61@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Garibaldi
+
+ Phil Lenton <100572.61@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is is true that Jerry Doyle does not appear in the TNT TV movies?
+
+      We weren't able to work out a deal with Jerry for the two
+movies, but he will be in the fifth season, and a third TV movie which
+TNT has indicated they'd like us to do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1997 15:59:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: E.T.'s announcement
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's next week's issue, for July 5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1997 15:59:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Les P. George <76162.1250@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Congrats and Questions
+
+ Les P. George <76162.1250@compuserve.com> asks:
+> actual run time minus commercials)?
+> Will Season 5 have room for Harlan's sequel to "Demon with a
+> Glass Hand"?
+
+      Future episodes would be the same running time as the current
+versions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1997 03:49:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: JMS in Seattle July 4th
+
+      BTW, a quick note to all in the Pacific Northwest...I'm slated
+to be one of the Guests of Honor at Westercon in Seattle over the
+coming (4th) weekend, so I'll see you there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1997 04:02:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Batman <104635.1044@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Updates from jms
+
+ Batman <104635.1044@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Makes sense?
+> Other than it's about damn time those pin-heads at TV Guide woke
+> up and realized there's more to Sc-Fi TV than Star Trek? Is this a
+> hint that there will possibly be two different covers???? How
+> about the B5 ball cap worn by Sheridan during batting practice
+> (or is this what you were talkng about)????? Was that KNIVES?
+> The one where he gets "possessed"????
+> How about T-Shirts, or long-sleeve T's printed up to look like
+> the "Army Of Light" Uniforms? Or how about T-Shirts with the B5
+> Sword logo on them? And when may we expect the line of action
+> figures?????
+
+      Yes, the ball cap is the same one he wore at batting practice. 
+(Wore it today, in fact, meeting Neil Gaiman and Harlan for dinner.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1997 04:02:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 - tnt and WB
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Does this mean that your (you the entire organization) residuals
+> will actually bring in some money?
+
+      Thanks...and cable residuals are only a fraction of regular,
+broadcast residuals.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1997 04:02:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: E.T.'s announcement
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      One heart attack at a time, please....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1997 04:02:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Congratulations & Thanks
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thank *you*...because the story exists to be told to you.  Thank
+you for being there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1997 04:02:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: You the man
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I've just spent the better part of the evening laying out the
+basic structure of S5, uncorking all the notes I set aside for 5 in
+case we got the renewal, playing off the themes and incidents we
+brought up in year 4...and believe me, filler it *ain't*.
+
+      And thanks.....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1997 04:02:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sweeping Question
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you happen to know off-hand if TNT will continue the same
+> pattern of new/repeat/new/repeat that WB/PTEN used? I haven't, in
+> the past, watched TNT enough to know, but do they follow the same
+> ratings sweeps practices as other networks?
+
+      They want to show it straight through, no repeats.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1997 04:02:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Directing big screen
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Now that you have some directorial experience under your belt,
+> would you reconsider if you could both write and direct?
+
+      Don' wanna direct no movie.  Wanna live.  Writer.  Not director.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
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+JMS CompuServe messages for July 1997.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1997 11:58:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Delenn`s background
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Considering how they refer to "The Children of VALEN" and don't
+bother to mention the name of the WIFE of Valen, I'd say patriarchal."
+
+      Or they pick the more well-known of the two.  We often say "Mick
+Jagger's kid" because he's the more well known of the pair.
+
+      Or they could be rather subtly ignoring what they might consider
+just a bit of scandal....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1997 11:58:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Last 4 - have to redo?
+
+ Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will you now have to rewrite/refilm the last 4 episodes?
+
+"Will you now have to rewrite/refilm the last 4 episodes? I assume
+they were ending the arc and now you have another year."
+
+      No, there's just the replacement for 422, that's all.  There's a
+difference between *ending the arc* and providing a *sense of
+resolution.* By the end of 421, things had been settled in a lot of
+areas...but far more were made very clear as being Out There.  You
+could view it as an epilog, or a set-up for more down the road,
+depending on whether or not there was a fifth season.  Hell, there's a
+great big fat setup for season 5 right smack in the middle of the
+Franklin/Lyta scene on Mars in "The Face of the Enemy."
+
+      This isn't directed at you so much, Vadim, as in general...some
+days I wonder what the hell I'm doing on the nets.  We busted our butts
+to get year 5, same as we do every year (though moreso this year),
+because it would be *the most satisfactory way to end the story*.  It
+*could* end in year 4, I was prepared to do that if necessary, but it
+wouldn't be as satisfactory to all concerned as year 5.  So now we have
+year five.  And right out of the woodwork come people -- such as a
+particularly twit-like message forwarded to me from one of the usenet
+groups -- saying that the fifth season was going to be just filler now,
+that the story was over, used up, it's all tied up, there's nothing but
+"dumb old personal stories."  No more arc.
+
+      And I would love nothing more than to just thump them.
+
+      I sometimes wonder if they think I was walking down the street
+one day, and I came across this Arc laying in the road.  And it's a
+finite package, and once it's used up, it's used up.  People, I THOUGHT
+THIS STUFF UP.  You watch it, but I make it...and I'm not doing this
+for my health, I didn't fight this hard to do a season of filler. 
+Where's the common sense here?  My vested interest in making this a
+solid story is a hell of a lot higher than ANY viewer could POSSIBLY
+bring to the table.  But again and again, not to you Vadim but in
+general, it's "Oh, it's all done now, it's just filler."
+
+      Yes, I fought and bled to get a season 5 so I could do filler,
+instead of going back to a network show where they'll pay me double
+what I get on B5. Absolutely.  That makes a LOT of sense.
+
+      I dunno...maybe I'm over-reacting...hell, I probably *am*
+over-reacting, but it seems like they never let you rest.  The end of
+the Shadow War came, and folks said, "Oh, the arc is over now, nothing
+interesting can happen now," and I said there was MORE interesting
+stuff even than that coming up, and sure enough that happened, and it's
+"Oh...okay," and this happens time and time again, and now we have a
+fifth year, and it's "Oh, the arc is over, nothing interesting can
+happen now."
+
+      You'd think that by now we would've proven the point...but every
+year it seems like we have to prove ourselves again and again and
+again.  The confetti has barely hit the ground and they move in the
+funeral draping.
+
+      I just get tired of it some days.
+
+      Jerks.
+
+      (Not you, Vadim, a very nice man, just venting.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1997 16:11:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Last 4 - have to redo?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I know, I know, I know...I think it's just the way we're all
+hard wired.  You can get 100 plaudits, but it's the one meroon who
+busts your chops for something you didn't even *do* that sticks in your
+mind.  Never met anyone yet that was different.  Ah, well...onward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1997 16:11:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 - tnt and WB
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yes, TNT is definitely a better home.  For one thing, B5 would
+get lost on the SciFi channel among all the other shows; here, TNT will
+treat it as something special.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1997 16:11:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: You the man
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will you be writting all of season 5, or is the remarkable streak
+> soon to end?
+
+       No, I have no intention of writing all of S5...I'll probably do
+about what I did in S1-2, writing 11-15, with the rest being assigned
+out of the arc.  And Neil Gaiman has said he's now in a place where he
+can tackle one, so I hope to work out something with him, a story worth
+his doing, to make that happen at last.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jul 1997 02:15:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Guest Editorial
+
+ Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> There are generally two questions I get that are on this level:
+> "Why do you like *that* stuff?" (after answering "yes" to "You
+> really like that stuff, don't you?") and "Why are you involved
+> with Boy Scouts?" On a somwhat related note, did you happen to get
+> the Kingdom Come limited edition slipcover? Whose will be done?
+
+      Exactly.  And the question is phrased to put you on the
+defensive when there is *nothing* one needs to be defensive
+about...it's "how long have you been beating your wife?"  You have to
+redefine the question to something a tad closer to reality.
+
+      Re: the Kingdom Come ltd. edition...no, I didn't know about
+that.  Will definitely go out and pick it up next chance I get; that
+was one of the few series I read this year, and I liked it a lot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jul 1997 02:15:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: You the man
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I was planning to speak to both those folks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jul 1997 02:15:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Last 4 - have to redo?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"I say do that same thing you did when you first had this idea-write
+for yourself. Focus on what you want to express. Develop those ideas
+you deem important."
+
+      That's the only way I can do this; only way I ever have or ever
+will.
+
+"And if you ever need a break, drop by Vegas and share some Corona's,
+limes, and a can of salt with me. We can laugh at the world together in
+the summer sun, watch some showgirls, and throw some bucks at the
+blackjack table."
+
+      I don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs, don't gamble...I
+write. Sad, innit?
+
+"I'll steer you away from any Tyson boxing matches, though."
+
+      I'm just *waiting* for him to get mad at somebody, and have that
+person reel back saying, "Hey, sorry, jeez, don't bite my head off,
+man."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jul 1997 02:15:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Warners...
+
+ Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Actually, the show didn't REALLY change hands, did it?
+> This was more of a lateral than a punt....true?
+
+      Not really, no...because the two organizations are *affiliated*
+but they continue to operate as wholly different companies, and neither
+side takes orders from the other.  TNT *actively pursued* both the
+reruns (before the companies merged) and the fifth season.  And they
+fought like hell to make the deal work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jul 1997 02:15:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 on TNT
+
+ Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In hindsight, do you think that a deal like you've got now with
+> TNT would have helped the show if you'd gone that route in 93/94? 
+> Or is that, like, a totally stupid question?
+
+"In hindsight, do you think that a deal like you've got now with TNT
+would have helped the show if you'd gone that route in 93/94?"
+
+      Oh...probably, but only about 200%.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 01 Jul 1997 12:43:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Last 4 - have to redo?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I hadn't noticed that in the article...well, interesting....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jul 1997 12:43:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: John Vickery in future?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Couldn't you have John Vickery portray a nephew or cousin or even
+> a son of Neroon, who also became a ranger?
+
+       We'll keep our eyes out for a way to bring him around again,
+same as with Wayne.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jul 1997 12:43:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 on TNT
+
+ Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you have gotten a TNT like deal back then?
+
+       Since TNT wasn't making those kinds of deals back then, the
+point is moot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jul 1997 12:43:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Last 4 - have to redo?
+
+ Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, do you or did you write anything besides science fiction or
+> consider to write it? I think you would write excellent "global
+> adventure", I mean something like Frederik Forsait (sp?
+
+       Yeah, I've often done non-SF stuff...comedy, cop shows, mystery
+shows, historical stuff, horror, essays, articles...a little of
+everything.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jul 1997 12:43:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: makeup in new movies
+
+ Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question: For the move In The Beginning, which is then to be
+> followed immediately by The Gathering on TNT in January, how will
+> you be handling the makeup? Will it be some kind of blend between
+> the pilot and the series? Closer to the series and forget that it
+> looks different from the pilot?
+
+       No, we're using the series makeup, rather than add one more
+permutation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jul 1997 12:44:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Last 4 - have to redo?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I'm cutting back on salt, I never see the sun anyway, and the
+showgirls can take care of themselves.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jul 1997 12:44:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 *only* on cable now??
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       It'll only be on cable, that's correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jul 1997 22:40:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Last 4 - have to redo?
+
+      Waitaminnit...just looked at the name again...is this *the*
+James Morrow?  As in the writer?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jul 1997 22:40:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The 5th Season
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...not too bad for a day's work....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Jul 1997 13:44:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Last 4 - have to redo?
+
+ Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Whats the score with Mr Garibaldi?
+> Ditto Valen/Sinclair - his descendants?
+> How did Babylon 5 get destroyed?
+> (from flash forwards) Who/what was on the ship escaping?
+> Will the Narn and Centari find peace?
+> Who where the enemys referred to in War without End (Delann in
+> the future) Does Sheridan Die (in 20 years) or evolve Like
+> Lionheart? Whats the score with Lionheart?
+> Did the Vorlons genetically engineer Telepaths?
+> What else did they genetically engineer?
+> Will Clark get booted out?
+> What happens to Centari Prime (in the future - war without end)
+> What will Sheridans Son be like- Do? If Lyta can be "enhanced2 by
+> the Vorlons, what did the shadows do to their servants? How does
+> the army of Light cope with that? If "Mankind" has some of that
+> technology, what will we do with it? Whats "The Rim" and whats
+> beyond it? Why wont there be a Babylon 6?
+> Will Mars become independent or unify with earth?
+> Now the big boys have gone, are the children gonna fight?
+> Will JMS let someone else write a script?
+> And their are plenty of other loose ends if I take time to think
+> about it, so the question isnt if you will have a season 5 of
+> fillers, but will you have enough episodes to wrap up everything
+> by the end of season 5?
+
+       At least a third of those are resolved in the next batch; and a
+bulk of the rest in the fifth season, plus a lot of other threads you
+missed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jul 1997 13:44:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Last 4 - have to redo?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       No big books, though I've had two medium-sizednovels published
+so far.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jul 1997 21:36:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 *only* on cable now??
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I don't know the Canadian situation yet, but can't imagine that
+they would let that market go by the boards for long.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jul 1997 21:36:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Now this is Scary...
+
+ Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And I didn't think the father that rabid of a fan?!?
+> Remember the Pinky & the Brain's Beany & Cecil spoof?
+> What are you REALLY creating here???
+
+      Give me them until they're 10 and they're mine for life...insert
+evil cackle here....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jul 1997 21:36:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Honor the achievement
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...y'know, someone else said that the other day, a
+reporter during an interview, that there were now two paradigms of the
+best SF ever prouduced in this country: ST and B5.  That's a weighty
+compliment, and my first reaction was to get really, really tired...but
+bottom line, we did what we set out to do, kept every promise we made,
+and nothing can ever take that away. We went the distance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jul 1997 21:36:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: What might be different?
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This has been bugging me a bit every since the great news about
+> the fifth season got reported, and I can't help but wonder ....if
+> you had been assured of a fifth season going into season four,
+> are there many things you would have done differently? Is season
+> five a mixed blessing for you, coupled with any regret about
+> having had to expedite the arc to end by season four, a year
+> ahead of your predetermined five year game plan?
+
+"...coupled with any regret about having had to expedite the arc to
+end by season four, a year ahead of your predetermined five year game
+plan?"
+
+      This is, again, a misnomer.  The arc didn't *end* in year 4, nor
+did I end it.  Which becomes utterly evident once you see the final
+episodes.  All I did was to more or less isolate the incidents in year
+5 from the preceding year, so we could go into them or not.
+
+      What you have to do, which I've noted before, is to step back
+for a moment and look at the series as a whole.  Every season, we do
+basically the same thing: we end on a cliffhanger, then the first 4-5
+episodes of the next season resolve the threads and the cliffhanger
+from the prior season, and then we're off onto the next thread.  They
+overlap by about 4-5 episodes.
+
+      So what I did was to pull those 4 episodes from the start of
+season 5 into season 4, which would otherwise have ended at 418 as the
+cliffhanger. So there wasn't really that much crammed into 4, and
+everything that was going to be in 5 is still there, with room for
+about 3-4 standalones, which will be a nice break.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jul 1997 03:20:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The 5th Season
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"When you look back and reflect on what you've accomplished down the
+road, I hope the reality matches the vision you had when you were
+pitching the idea lo those many years ago."
+
+      A few glitches notwithstanding...it *exceeds* the vision.  I'm
+happy. It's the main piece that I will end up putting on the mantle to
+remind folks I was here.
+
+"Now, when you're done, could you please do a fantasy series, so I can
+find a job for the troll in the well at the bottom of the hill near my
+barn?  He's irritating the hoses and I think he'll work for scale. . ."
+                           ^^^^^
+
+      Irritating the hoses?
+
+      May I suggest, rather than fantasy, perhaps a version of "Enema
+Mine."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jul 1997 03:20:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: makeup in new movies
+
+ Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In that case, for the newbies, will there be some explanation of
+> why Delenn changes looks from In the Beginning to The Gathering
+> and then back for the episodes?
+
+      Well, I could run a crawl on the bottom of the screen...or
+insert a commercial explaining it...otherwise, I think just letting it
+go would be best.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jul 1997 03:20:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 *only* on cable now??
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Columbia House will be releasing the show on cassette via
+mail-order this Fall, I believe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jul 1997 03:21:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 finally on Video.DVD?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      We're *talking* to the DVD folks, and things look positive, but
+that's still a long bit down the road.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jul 1997 03:21:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Tapes and DVD
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, Columbia House has called to get graphics, so I would
+suggest that it's confirmed on tapes.  Don't know the status on the
+movies, but I would imagine they'd be included...DVD is still in
+discussions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Jul 1997 13:36:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Last 4 - have to redo?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...there's an awful lot in those characters and
+situations.  I've tried, as best I can, to create a living, breathing
+universe, with stories you follow in any direction and find something
+interesting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jul 1997 13:36:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: General
+
+ Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why?
+> You don't drink, do drugs, etc?
+
+"I know that season 5 won't be filler, because that's not what a
+Master of his craft does.  You wouldn't tolerate it from anyone else,
+so you surely will not do it yourself."
+
+      Bingo.  Sometimes when I try to describe what's happening on my
+side of things, I don't find the right words.  Thanks for doing so.
+
+"You don't drink, do drugs, etc?"
+
+      Also don't smoke or gamble.
+
+"Wow, talk about the clean cut, all american boy! <g>  No vices, eh?"
+
+      Two: Chocolate and coffee.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1997 02:49:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5
+
+ John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is season 5 going to be broadcast where I can see it or am I
+> going to have to break down and buy cable?
+
+      If you're in the US, it's only available on TNT.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1997 02:49:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Congratulations & Thanks
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+"And I notice that one episode made the TV Guide list of the top 100
+shows ever."
+
+      No...don't think so, though it's a great idea.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1997 02:49:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Last 4 - have to redo?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1997 02:49:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Last 4 - have to redo?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, but if it were easy, I guess everybody'd do it.
+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1997 02:49:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 *only* on cable now??
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Will they still be aired by the syndicated stations or will TNT
+> show them?
+
+      No, the final 4 of S4 will show in October, on regular stations.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1997 02:49:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 *only* on cable now??
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will this be something like Columbia House's special collector
+> subscriptions? For example, you sign up and get a B5 tape every
+> four weeks? Or would they offer the tapes individually or each
+> season as a boxed set?
+
+      Dunno.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1997 02:49:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 *only* on cable now??
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Insofar as I know, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1997 02:49:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Renegade???
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Did you write the episode of Renegade that aired (well...cabled)
+> tonight on USA? Or did my ears deceive me?
+
+      I don't write for Renegade, and thus have no information on this
+other than what you just told me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1997 02:49:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com>
+Subject: S5 in the UK?
+
+ colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you think it likely that TNT will be showing S5 in the UK?
+
+      I haven't been apprised of the UK situation in full yet, but
+imagine that it'll go through WB as before, not TNT.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1997 02:49:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Script Smart
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This was a technical manual, wasn't it?
+
+      Thanks...I'm very proud of that book.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1997 02:49:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: General
+
+ Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you do the gourmet coffee?
+> Joe, any chance that you'll be at the big B5 convention in
+> Pasadena in November?
+
+      No one's talked to me yet about a B5 con in Pasadena in October,
+so I dunno.
+
+      And yeah, I do the gourmet coffee thing.  Big on Arabian Mocha
+Sanani, and Silewesi, and Sumatran.  It's the one "trendy" thing I
+allow myself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1997 03:03:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Updates from jms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Basically, Warner Bros. was not willnig to fund a fifth season of B5
+for syndication."
+
+      Incorrect.  Not just incorrect but *massively* incorrect.
+
+      In the past, the PTEN deal had WB and the indie stations putting
+up the money for B5.
+
+      For year 5, TNT *and* WB are both footing the bill for the fifth
+season. WB *wanted* to do the show, but was finding trouble in the
+current syndicated marketplace with more and more stations, and
+timeslots, being committed to other programs and networks like UPN. 
+TNT provided a window, and WB went through it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1997 03:03:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: season5 cast (rumor)
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Jerry Doyle will be in season 5 of B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1997 20:45:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Last 4 - have to redo?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The two novels are currently out of print.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1997 20:45:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Even more congrats
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Do you envision writing the entire 5th season?
+> 2) Whose idea is that "AOL Keyword" stuff at the end of the
+> show??
+
+      No, no desire whatsoever to write all of S5, nor is there a need
+to.
+
+      And the difference is that AOL has set aside an entire *area*
+just for B5, so they get the notation.  It would be as if they renamed
+the sfmedone section the B5 section, there's a massive difference in
+commitment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1997 20:45:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Mars Pathfinder
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      There's nothing I can say about the current Mars mission that
+cannot be summed up in the word "cool."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1997 20:45:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: General
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Creation counter-programed Loscon?
+
+      That bites.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jul 1997 02:10:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com>
+Subject: San Diego Con plans?
+
+ Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's the difference between the Saturday show and the
+> Friday/Sunday ones? And is anyone else from the show scheduled to
+> be at the con?
+
+      I don't actually know what the difference is, except that I
+think the Friday/Sunday presentations involve the videos, and the
+Saturday one *may* just be me running my mouth.  (I just sent a note
+asking about this, btw.)
+
+      I think they've learned what other cons have learned: that it's
+best to take extraordinary measures to deal with B5 presentations. 
+People show up. LOTS of people.  And a cuter and more inherently spiffy
+bunch I can't imagine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1997 21:10:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: jms in san diego
+
+      Just a quick note to let folks know that I'll be in San Diego
+this coming weekend for ComicCon, at the convention center downtown. 
+I'll be doing two (fairly identical) major B5 presentations Friday and
+Sunday at 11 a.m., and a "spotlight on jms" presentation (whatever the
+hell that is) Saturday at 1:30.
+
+      A word to the wise: in the past, these have always been the
+largest events held at ComicCon, which has about 25,000 guests on
+average.  The room they set aside for B5 stuff tends to hold about 2400
+people, so seating is kind of at a premium.  Translation: try and get
+there early.
+
+      I'll be bringing the season 4 bloopers, clips from upcoming
+shows, some nifty videos, and trailers for the two new B5 TV movies for
+TNT.  Also, the official B5 fan club will be making its debut at a
+table in the dealer's room this weekend at SDCC, selling some nifty
+stuff including bunches of the Agamemnon cap worn by Sheridan in
+"Knives."  It's identical to the prop in just about every way.
+
+      See you there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1997 21:50:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Updates from jms
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How can I sign up to the fan club?
+> Also, how can I get one of these boxes signed by someone going by
+> the handle "jms?"
+
+      You can get info on the boxes, and the fan club, at
+www.thestation.com.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1997 21:50:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Congratulations & Thanks
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, I know all about the project...they'd asked me to write
+it, and I read the material, but finally had to pass.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1997 21:50:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Internet World Article
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the story they have true?
+
+      Yeah, it happened.  I haven't seen the article, but apparently
+they chide me for not using a virus checker...but what did the most
+damage was the trojan horse program that use deltree to systematically
+start deleting my hard drive, and no checker can find those.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1997 21:10:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms in san diego
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      It's okay, I know what date they hit the place, so I can be out
+of town when it happens.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1997 21:10:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: jms in san diego
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  I don't do any convention with a direct link to Trek in
+its name, so that would leave Toronto Trek out, despite many friendly
+talks with the con organizers.  Bottom line, I get gigged by ST fans
+for "poaching," and it just ain't worth the grief I get.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1997 21:10:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5 Credit Card
+
+ Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that true?
+
+      It's been discussed with other ideas, but nothing more.
+
+      The Agamemnon caps made their debut at San Diego Comic Con, and
+were a huge hit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1997 21:11:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5 - The Cult
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Hmmm...I don't know.  I'll have to check.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1997 21:11:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Claudia C fired!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      You must understand that Claudia is one of 10 or so actors on
+the show. The other actors understood and understand that we cannot
+renegotiate contracts in mid-stream, and they are *supportive of the
+show*, and gave us extensions on their contracts so that WB could have
+time to make the TNT deal work.  They are all, to a man and woman, on
+board otherwise.
+
+      Claudia opted to not give the extension, where the other cast
+did, and now wants (or says she wants to) renegotiate, now that all the
+other cast members are locked down.  To do so in her case, when she did
+not give us the extension, and deliberately embarrassed WB by having an
+article appear in the trades saying she was out and looking for other
+work, would be an insult to all the other cast members who have worked
+with us to date.
+
+      Further, yes, she's right, in that the contract could not be
+changed so that she could go out and do movies at a moment's notice. 
+By contract, we must have first call on an actor's services.  That is a
+requirement of ANY TV contract with an actor who is a series regular. 
+That cannot be changed for ANY actor, ANYwhere.
+
+      That said...I already *told* Claudia that, even though we
+couldn't put it in the contract, I would be happy to work with her
+*informally* on this, and that if she said she needed to be gone from
+X-date to Y-date, I would write her out of those episodes so that she
+could do the movies.  SHE ALREADY GOT FROM ME THAT PROMISE.  I've
+already done similar things for her and other cast members on the show,
+which is how many of them have appeared in other projects.  So this is,
+for me, a non-issue.
+
+      No, from my standpoint, she wanted off the show, and I have no
+idea why she is running up the fans like this unless she wants to avoid
+responsibility for this.
+
+      Again, this isn't a case of my word against hers.  EVERY SINGLE
+CAST MEMBER was there when this went down, and MANY of them tried to
+talk her out of walking off the show.  If you don't want to take my
+word for it, ask any one of them who was there, especially Bruce or
+Jeff.
+
+      I would suggest the fans *not* get into this, because a) you're
+not getting solid or reliable information from Claudia, and b) it is
+simply too late.  She opted to pass on season 5, whether she wants to
+admit this or not, whether she's running from responsibility from that,
+I don't know...but it was her choice.  I sat with her on Thursday night
+at Midnight and told her, flat out, that I would accommodate her
+request on a personal basis, and that she *had* to either contact WB
+herself or have her agent do so the next day, or she was off the show,
+because we HAD to get the show going.  The train was leaving, and she
+could be on it or not as she chose.  She chose not to get on board.
+
+      What you also don't understand is that we start shooting season
+5 in less than one month.  We're in the process of writing scripts
+*right now*, and have been since we got the production order right
+about the time we went to Blackpool.  You can't whipsaw the writing
+back and forth -- is she in, isn't she in, maybe she is, maybe she
+isn't -- and hope to have anything in shape to shoot.  That was why we
+had to know at that date.  Normally we have a longer lead time; this
+time we didn't, and this has already put the scripts back a bit.  The
+script with the new character is written and in; if I take it out now I
+have to replace it, and there isn't *time*.
+
+      Claudia knew this.  WB knew this.  We were up against it.  She
+had to choose to be in, or out.  She chose out.  It's no longer our
+responsibility, and it's flatly too late to bring her back.  The door
+is closed on season 5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1997 21:11:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia C fired!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I answered this in the other thread.  Once you read it, you may
+think differently.
+
+      As for your tone, please take it elsewhere.  I have no interest
+in hearing it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1997 21:35:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: C Christian in Season 5?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I personally told Claudia that we would work out the time for
+her to do a film project prior to the deadline coming for her decision.
+Other cast members knew this, and confirmed it to her.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1997 21:35:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan L. Ravitch <73627.3126@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia sez this..
+
+ Alan L. Ravitch <73627.3126@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ask yourself this: why would I have done the TNT promos for the
+> 5th season if I did not want to be involved? This fax was received
+> on Friday, so what kind of game was being played by giving me
+> false hopes throughout the weekend in England?
+
+      1) This confirms what I said in my note to Brian, that I
+personally assured Claudia of the chance for time off (so Kevin, bugger
+off).
+
+      2) Neither I nor anyone else in B5 told her that she had until
+Monday. I sat with her Midnight Thursday and said she had to talk to
+her agent and get this to WB *the very next day*, Friday, or that was
+it.  Jeff took it upon himself to try and talk Claudia into trying to
+work it out on Monday, out of his concern and a hope that this could be
+saved.
+
+      3) Her agent was notified several days prior to the deadline
+that it was in place by WB business affairs.
+
+      4) As noted in my other message, there wasn't time to sit down
+leisurely after Blackpool and discuss this.  The first script had to be
+in on July 6th. The second on July 12th.  The third one on July 18th. 
+Those are the hard and fast deadlines in order to meet production
+requirements for season 5.  It is not July 20th.  By the time anyone
+could "sit down" we'd be deep into episode 5 or 6, and then what do we
+do?  Rewrite all 5 or 6 at the last minute?
+
+      It's an unfortunate situation.  Nobody's denying that.  But what
+happened, happened.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Jul 1997 01:54:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Script Smart
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It's hell being popular, ain't it?
+
+      Finally I'm popular....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jul 1997 01:54:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Claudia C fired!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"I do have a question though.  Why did you opt for a new character,
+instead of simply promoting Corwin?  Was this simply to save changing
+Corwin's role in S5 or is there another reason?"
+
+      It involves some things that happen later this season that
+require a certain grade officer in place in S5, and would require
+Corwin to jump several ranks.  He's too young and inexperienced for
+that job.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jul 1997 01:54:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia C fired!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The information on residuals is not correct.  NO ONE was aske to
+give up residuals on season 5 forever.  That simply never took place.
+
+      To explain:
+
+      There are different residuals formulas for the various forms of
+TV. The best one is for network, where the fee paid per rerun is quite
+high; then you have syndication, which starts at a much lower level;
+then there is the basic cable residual, which is lowest of all.  In
+year 5, B5 is going from syndication to basic cable.  That means it
+must now use the basic cable residuals formula.  But the cast had to be
+informed of this, and agree to it, otherwise there could not BE a fifth
+season.
+
+      The basic cable deal is spelled out very clearly in the Screen
+Actors Guild (SAG) agreement, which is standard for all parts of the
+Industry.  The rule is that the amount paid to an actor over
+double-scale is *credited against* residuals.  Once that amount is
+earned out, the residuals come again. That is standard for basic cable.
+(The closest parallel would be a print author, who is paid an advance
+against royalties; once that advance is earned out, the royalties come
+to the author.)
+
+      So to make it clearer: let's say for the sake of argument that
+scale is $5,000 per episode.  (It isn't that exact figure, but I don't
+have the SAG book in front of me; still, that's close.)  Double scale
+would be $10,000 per episode.  So if an actor is paid, let's say,
+$12,000 per episode, then $2,000 over double scale per episode is
+credited against residuals, for a total of $44,000.  That amount would
+get burned through pretty fast, and then the actor would again start
+getting residuals.
+
+      That was the situation explained to *all* the actors.  NO ONE
+was asked to permanently give up S5 residuals.  That simply never
+happened, and *could not* happen under SAG rules.  And the rule as
+specified above can be verified in the SAG agreement.
+
+      BTW...it was stated to Claudia's people that WB *could* drop her
+down to 18 episodes if she wanted to be paid for only those 18
+episodes, but her reps demanded that she should be paid for all 22
+regardless, and didn't take that deal.
+
+      You must understand that this sort of thing is common.  For
+instance, when Stephen Furst wanted to do fewer episodes so that he
+could appear as a regular in the sitcom "Misery Loves Company," he
+said, "Look, I really want to do this, so if you could cut me down to,
+say, 8 episodes, and just pay me for those 8 instead of the contracted
+13, that'd be great."  And that deal was made, and made quickly.  If an
+actor wants to be reduced in the number of episodes, but still be paid
+for the full number, that makes things difficult for a studio to go
+along with.
+
+      And as of now, it's a moot point.  The boat has left the pier. 
+This is no longer an issue that can be altered.  She opted out, for her
+own reasons. Heck, that was announced in the trades long before we knew
+what was going on. We have had no choice but to move on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Jul 1997 17:15:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Troy Starr <74752.3172@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia Opts Out-JMS
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"In the back of my mind, I wonder why Claudia, her agent, Joe, and the
+WB/TNT folks couldn't sit down together (or conference call, or
+whatever) and talk with each other on that final day."
+
+      I did.  That Thursday night, I sat with her for half an hour,
+urging her to call her agent, and have her agent call WB.  Didn't
+happen.  We never even heard anything from her or her people until
+literally 1 week after the deadline for scripts to start coming in.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jul 1997 17:51:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia C fired!
+
+ Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are the actors who played Major Ryan or Captain McDougal being
+> considered to replace Claudia? Or would that be telling?
+
+      I'd prefer to put a female in that position, to keep the cast
+relatively balanced.  I've actually come up with some very interesting
+ideas on this, which are kinda fun...a way to put a lot more conflict
+into the inner circle, if you will.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jul 1997 17:51:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian Meloche <75570.2732@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia C fired!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, this would be much simpler if it *were* a
+communication breakdown.  But it ain't.
+
+      Onward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jul 1997 17:51:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Clauduia
+
+ Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If, in the past, you've given your word to someone regarding
+> something specifc, and you've kept it, why all of a sudden is
+> your word not good? How many in your profession would extend that
+> courtesy?
+
+      Thanks.  Yeah...ask any cast member, and they'll tell you that
+when I make a promise, it's kept, no matter what it takes.
+
+      On the reaction...it goes with the territory.  What's been
+difficult have been the emails that have come in suggesting that I
+"watch my back" at the next few conventions I attend.  Disagreement or
+discussion is one thing; threats are another.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jul 1997 21:46:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Troy Starr <74752.3172@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia Opts Out-JMS
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      There was no pay cut for the fifth season for the cast.  And the
+residulas formula is standard for basic cable.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jul 1997 21:46:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Clauduia
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Joe could write sa character out of an episode or 4, yet the suits
+could insist that the actor be present on the set anyway (or be in
+breach of contract)!"
+
+      Nope.  Wouldn't happen.  Has never happened.  Would never
+happen.  WB has not even given us a creative *note* in almost 2 years.
+
+      This one's a non-starter.  That would simply not happen.  If
+you're not in the script, there's no need for you to be there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Jul 1997 20:47:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steven K. Andeweg <72143.674@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms in san diego
+
+ Steven K. Andeweg <72143.674@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When will they be available through the club via mail order?
+
+      Yes, the caps can be purchased through the fan club, and
+thestation.com.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jul 1997 20:47:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia C fired!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      One of the problems not just in this, but in general, is that
+there is so much mythology about how TV is done, and so much bad
+information.  Any time that can be cleared up, the better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jul 1997 20:47:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Clauduia
+
+ Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm just as disappointed as everyone else, but it happens, yes?
+> Why can't everyone just appreaciate you for the sick, twisted,
+> lovable, demented, tortured, bizarre, clever, witty, devious,
+> genius that you are? PS: Being as I'm only 5'2", it will be
+> difficult for me to watch you're back and see what's coming also,
+> perhaps my 6'5" boyfriend will help?
+
+"Why can't everyone just appreaciate you for the sick, twisted,
+lovable, demented, tortured, bizarre, clever, witty, devious, genius
+that you are?"
+
+      Kill me...just kill me now and get it over with....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1997 00:52:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steven K. Andeweg <72143.674@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms in san diego
+
+ Steven K. Andeweg <72143.674@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When will they be available through the club via mail order?
+
+      They're probably available right now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1997 00:52:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bancroft Gracey <100532.1747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia Opts Out-JMS
+
+ Bancroft Gracey <100532.1747@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  -bpg- Uncle-at-Large "....'Great Maker', huh?"
+
+"They wouldn't like it, but they had to let a certain Mrs Roddenberry
+set a precedent..."
+
+      1) Majel isn't a series regular, with the contract requirements
+thereof.
+
+      2) Nobody messes with the Roddenberrys.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1997 00:52:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia Opts Out-JMS
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      There is nothing amiss with an actor seeing work as a
+contingency if the current show is not renewed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1997 00:52:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia Opts Out-JMS
+
+ Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If that's the case, then why wouldn't/couldn't he put it into
+> writing?
+
+"If that's the case, then why wouldn't/couldn't he put it into
+writing? So far as I can tell, that's because although he can do
+everything in his power to keep Ivanova out of four episodes, there are
+higher powers within WB/TNT who could say otherwise.  They're the ones
+who hold CCs contract, not JMS."
+
+      Every studio holds the contract on its actors; that's the same
+for every show.
+
+      Nothing could be put into writing in the form of a renegotiation
+because all of the actors are on a favored nation basis...if one
+renegotiates in his/her favor, they all get to renegotiate.  Any of our
+cast can take fewer episodes if they agree to be paid for fewer
+episodes since that favors WB.  Or they can come to me and we'll do it
+unofficially, as has been done with every single cast member for 4+
+years now.  Peter wanted to do "The Late Shift," I wrote him out for a
+couple of episodes to accommodate that; Andreas wants to do a movie, he
+asks, and I write him out.  This has never, ever been a problem.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1997 00:52:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia Opts Out-JMS
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Again, I'm not saying that JMS did anything wrong, but if the studio
+can supercede Joe (i.e. Joe can verbally say 'I'll do it', but the
+studio still has the right to say 'no'), then I can't blame CC for
+wanting something in writing <shrug>"
+
+      Any studio can supercede the authority of an executive producer.
+
+      The question, though, is one of logic.
+
+      If Character X is not in an episode, is not written in an
+episode, there is no grounds on earth for a studio to force the actor
+to hang around the studio for that episode.  Never been done to my
+knowledge on ANY show, anywhere, at any time.  Nor would there be any
+reason to do so here.
+
+      And WB doesn't write the scripts.  I do.  And they don't bother
+us on that one.  We haven't had a creative note since year 2, episode
+2, and that was mainly on a scene they wanted clarified.
+
+      In the past, with every actor on the show, I have said, "Come to
+me, and we'll work out unofficially time for you to get away."  There
+are some occasions when I say, "Look, I *need* your character for this
+episode, I can't do "Severed Dreams" without Sheridan," but that
+doesn't happen too often.  We have never had a problem with WB over
+this.  And never once have I given my word to an actor about being
+available, and not had it work out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1997 00:52:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia Opts Out-JMS
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"In her message, CC has quoted Copeland as saying that if TNT/WB want
+her to do the 22 episodes, there's nothing that can be done about it."
+
+      What John said was that if she wanted to be paid the full amount
+(the 22 episode fee) she had to be in all 22.
+
+"However, there still seems to be a question as to whether or not she
+was informed of the correct deadlines or if WB/TNT withdrew whatever
+offer was on the table before that deadline arose."
+
+      She was.  They didn't.
+
+      On the Thursday before the final Friday deadline, I sat in the
+bar of the DeVere Hotel in Blackpool with Claudia and said, "Claudia,
+the press has announced your departure from the show.  WB takes it
+seriously, and I have to start writing *yesterday*.  We have to know if
+you're in or out, and we have to know by mid-day (noon) tomorrow.  If
+we don't get an indication from your agent that you're in, the offer
+will be withdrawn."
+
+      The offer was withdrawn at mid-day Friday, as indicated. 
+Because to wait any longer would damage the show, and our chances of
+getting going without missing airdates.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1997 00:52:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia Opts Out-JMS
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"CC trusts that JMS will do what he can, but feels that things might
+be out of his hands and puts the question to Copeland who tells her
+(via her agent) that what JMS offered is "Not possible."
+
+      It is not possible only if one wishes to be paid for all 22.
+
+"5.  A deadline is set for CC to get in touch with WB to confirm S5.
+According to CC, she was told this by Conaway and not informed via
+normal channels (i.e. via agent, manager, WB).  She tries to contact
+her agent regarding this but they miss each other over the weekend."
+
+      Ken Parks of WB Business Affairs informed her agent.  I
+personally informed her as well.
+
+"JMS says she had a Friday deadline.  CC says she was told Monday by
+Conaway and that neither her agent or manager were informed of this
+deadline."
+
+      After the Friday deadline passed, Jeff took it upon himself to
+try and convince her to go back to the show.  He went to her and said
+that if she or her agent contacted WB on Monday, there might be a
+chance to patch things up. That was the full extent of it.  Jeff does
+not represent the show, and was not asked to convey this to Claudia,
+and was acting on his own good will to try and help her out.  It had
+nothing to do with deadlines.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1997 00:52:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia Opts Out-JMS
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Nothing was said about any of this online until Claudia began
+talking about it at a convention Toronto and indicating that she had
+been fired, which was not the case.
+
+      She passed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1997 00:52:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Claudia C fired!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      We'll probably start casting in the next 7 days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1997 00:52:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia C fired!
+
+ Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The only 3 women that come to mind are: Lyta (unlikely but we can
+> expect anything from you, can't we? I assume that the idea of
+> keeping this affair to humans is still in effect, isn't it?
+
+      Nothing to do with being "politically correct," this is the
+least PC show on record.  I just like to have a mix of male and female
+characters, and when it tilts too much in o, including Claudia, who has
+three or four web sites devoted to her.  She's not exactly out in the
+cold here.  Her comments at the convention were here instantly, the
+Variety and Reuters articles were here very quickly, and her online
+note showed up within hours.  I don't exactly see that as only one side
+being presented.
+
+      Second, your observation is cynical and untrue.  I've been
+online at CIS since 1984-85; I was one of the first people on CIS on my
+block.  I've been here for going on 13 years.  I got on here to hang
+out with fellow fans, and talk about shows, and meet people.  I'm still
+here now for the same reasons. You can speak to events and specifics
+all you want, but stay out of my motives unless and until you can hire
+a teep to probe around in my cerebellum.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1997 00:52:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Claudia C fired!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"I merely wanted to point out that JMS has seemed to USE this forum to
+put over a very onesided point of view."
+
+      You're right.  I put across one side.  Mine.  You put across
+yours. How many people are supposed to inhabit my body?  It's not my
+place to speak for Claudia or you or anybody else.
+
+      I have not used words in the same way you have used them,
+either; unlike you, I have not characterized the people here.  You have
+called me arrogant without a) any meaning of the word, or b) anything
+to back that up other than bile and spirit messages.  I have not called
+anyone in this stupid, or malicious, or arrogant.
+
+      In reviewing your messages here, however, I'm nearly prepared to
+make an exception to the rule.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1997 00:52:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Claudia C fired!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"I do not have to sound like I'm in control ALL THE TIME."
+
+      I don't think you will find anyone in this forum who feels, on
+reading your messages, that you're in control.
+
+      Mission objective achieved.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1997 00:52:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Couch Critic-Jeff Ja
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> There's a compliment in there somewhere...but for whom?
+
+      I think it's the closest he will ever come to speaking well of
+the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1997 00:52:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Script Deadlines
+
+ John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why then, was the deadline for Claudia to make up her mind left
+> so short? Is the problem the lack of reruns (meaning you have to
+> get further ahead in case you fall behind without the planned
+> holds in the countdown)? (Also, will Claudia appear in 501 aring
+> as 422, and how does she get paid for 422, since that whole
+> residual problem raises its ugly head?
+
+"With the exception of 501 (airing in the 422 slot), you should have
+about 2 extra months to get the episodes in the can.  They won't, after
+all, air until January, when they previously aired in November.  Why
+then, was the deadline for Claudia to make up her mind left so short?"
+
+      Because you can't just come in and shoot one episode, then tell
+everyone, "Okay, we're taking a break for two months."  The moment you
+begin shooting, the clock is ticking.  SAG regulates the span of time
+you have the actors, equipment is rented...on and on.  We had to come
+back in time to shoot 501/422, and it's going to be close as it is.  It
+takes 52 days of post to finish an episode once it's filmed, so with
+501/422 shooting August 18th, just do the math to see how close this is
+going to be.
+
+      And once we pull the trigger on 501, we have to go immediately
+into 502. And on and on.
+
+      Even if this were not an issue with the 422 business, we would
+*still* have to start shooting in August because of the schedule of
+holidays, and TNT's desire to run S5 *straight through* without reruns
+or breaks.  That means you have to start early and be finished with a
+lot of shows, and vault them, to be able to then run through them all
+sequentially in 22 weeks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1997 00:52:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Clauduia
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Even if Claudia had no doubt that Joe could steer her around any
+trouble with the suits, the verbal agreement wouldn't carry any weight
+in the outside world."
+
+      <thud>
+
+      Y'know, up until this very moment, the whole 4-eps-in-writing
+thing hadn't made sense to me, I couldn't get my brain around it.
+
+      I don't know if that's it, but it's a helluvan interesting
+thought.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1997 00:52:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Clauduia
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, it's another chance to make the show even more
+interesting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1997 00:52:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New Character
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it'll be an interesting addition to the mix, given what
+happens in the latter part of the season.
+
+      And no, she won't be "dead and gone forever."  There's the third
+TNT movie, and a possible feature film, and if she wants to approach us
+about those projects, we'll be more than happy to have the discussion. 
+That's precisely why I'm not recasting the role.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1997 20:42:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Claudia C fired!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"all I was really saying is that he should keep the business side  of
+the show off of this forum."
+
+      Then you miss two important points.
+
+      1) This came up at Claudia's convention appearance, and the
+result has led people to ask questions.  As in, "What the hell's going
+on?"
+
+      2) The whole reason I'm *here* is not publicity, but to create
+and maintain a dialogue about How Television Is Done and Why Things Are
+Done The Way They're Done.  The business side of it has comprised about
+60% of the discussion from day one.  To answer questions about all the
+other business aspects, but pointedly *not* answer them here, goes
+against the reason I'm here, and would imply there's something to hide.
+
+      Besides, last I heard, you didn't define the range of what can
+be discussed here, that's up to the sysops.  If it's jake by them, it's
+jake by me.  The problem is yours.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1997 20:42:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New Character
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The Sisters of Zathras...now *there's* a convent worth joining.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Jul 1997 14:30:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia Opts Out-JMS
+
+ Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question then is, what about the supposed conversation between
+> CCs agent and Copeland? Did this never take place?
+> is the agent lying?
+
+      The conversation was not fully reported.  If an actor wants to
+be paid for 22 episodes, then yes, it is impossible for ANY studio to
+put in writing that they will pay for 22 while getting only 16 or 18. 
+None of them will ever do that.  Now, if an actor wants to 16-18 and be
+paid for only 16-18, then that's another issue.  But the former is not
+possible, and that was what John was addressing.  He's kind of gotten a
+bad rap in this, without cause.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jul 1997 14:30:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia Opts Out-JMS
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I have little to quarrel with in any of that, though I will make
+the point that there isn't really *that* much dissimilarity in our
+reports, as others have pointed out...it's the behind the scenes stuff
+and conversations and dates that get jumbled up in some of the reports.
+
+      It's also a matter of perception...here you perceive that my
+"side" of it, if you want to call it that, is getting more support. 
+But on other nets, I've gotten a hideous amount of hate mail, and some
+threats, disguised and outright.  So it's a matter of what you see, vs.
+what is.  (Kinda like the overall situation.)
+
+      Finally...as you say, you have no reason to give more weight to
+one side or another in this.  But there is one aspect of this to bear
+in mind. People can argue after the fact about how a tossed coin came
+down, can debate whose coin it was, whether it was a dime or a quarter,
+who said what about the ground it came to rest upon...and no one down
+the road may have any reason to believe one report or another...but it
+*did* come down, and it *did* come down either heads, or tails.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jul 1997 14:30:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia Opts Out-JMS
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"No offense, but it's your word against hers, and my point is that we
+don't have any reason to believe either one of you over the other."
+
+      Actually, that's not quite correct.  There were approximately 10
+actors there in Blackpool when all this went down...and they can all
+verify the account that I have described in all this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jul 1997 14:30:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Tim's Apology
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"I am still of the opinion that this business side of the show should
+be kept under wraps and that a simple request for such, on this forum,
+by yourself would have dealt with this matter more swiftly."
+
+      (sound effect: hysterical laughter)
+
+      New to the nets, ain'tcha?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jul 1997 14:30:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia C fired!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...I'll try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jul 1997 14:30:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Claudia C fired!
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Every character but Ivanova has undergone great changes, I
+> presume that her's were to come now with the challenges and
+> stresses of the battle with Psi Corp/Earth and her assumption of
+> Army of Light command? Will the new character be used, more or
+> less, to complete Ivanova's development or will her thread be
+> dropped? Will the new character only have a lifespan of nine
+> years? Could he be assistant king/commander?
+
+      Whatever you're drinking, you're either not drinking enough of
+it or too much of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jul 1997 14:30:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hugh Kennedy <70042.710@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Pathfinder pix?
+
+ Hugh Kennedy <70042.710@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I seem to remember that your CGI people were able to work in some
+> hubble shots as backcloths for some of the earlier scenes? Is
+> there any chance of featuring a certain well known piece of Mars
+> territory? Its just nice to tell sci-fi averse people, ok - its
+> just a story but how can it be purely sci-fi when the backdrops
+> are real?
+
+      We do get lots of Mars shots from the Space folks, and those
+have been used in the establishing shots this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jul 1997 14:30:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Scripts; 501/422
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, 1) will 501/422 have season 4 or 5 title screens?
+> 2) since you're shooting S5 straight through, is it going to cost
+> less money?
+
+"1) will 501/422 have season 4 or 5 title screens?"
+
+      It will be a season 4 title sequence.
+
+"2) since you're shooting S5 straight through, is it going to cost
+less money?"
+
+      No, we're not shooting any differently than we ever do.  We
+always start in the Summer, usually July, then have a one week hiatus
+midway toward Christmas, then there's the Christmas break, then we come
+back in January, and shoot through to the conclusion with one more
+one-week hiatus, which are given to keep from burning out the crew. 
+TNT will be airing them straight through, without breaks for reruns, so
+we're going to have everything done ASAP to meet those deadlines.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jul 1997 14:30:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Boon <100334.657@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hour of the Wolf
+
+ Tom Boon <100334.657@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were any publicity shots taken of G'Kar wearing Garibaldi's hat?
+
+"Were any publicity shots taken of G'Kar wearing Garibaldi's hat?"
+
+      None that I know of.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jul 1997 14:30:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruce "Firestorm" S. <72571.1722@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Clauduia
+
+ Bruce "Firestorm" S. <72571.1722@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is a creative note kind of like a warning or an order?
+
+      A creative note is often, "Can you clarify this scene a little
+so that new viewers will get it?"  That was, I believe, the last
+creative note we got, back in episode 2 of year 2.  They're mainly in
+the form of story suggestions, rarely if ever a Do It Like This
+situation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1997 15:22:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia Opts Out-JMS
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, it's almost impossible for an actor to be a regular on two
+shows at the same time; to make the Stephen Furst thing work, for
+instance, allowing him to be a regular on "Misery Loves Company," we
+had to support his request, and we were happy to do that.  Most
+producers would rather not.
+
+      In terms of guest stars, though, it's pretty wide open.  Armin
+has even auditioned for B5 on one occasion.  And some of our regulars,
+like Pat, have done work on ST, as well as Andreas, who reprised his
+character there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1997 15:22:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia Opts Out-JMS
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"JMS was simply not at that fatful alledged meeting between Claudis
+and managment (or at least I've never seen him claim to be there) so he
+only knows what others have told him about that meeting."
+
+      There was no such meeting.
+
+"Now Claudia was alledgely present at that alledged meeting where they
+are alledged to have told her to find another job."
+
+      Again, there was no such meeting.  Claudia was in the UK, at the
+same convention I was attending, when all this went down.  And *I* was
+the one who told her that she had to have her agent contact WB to tell
+them she was in, or they'd withdraw the offer.
+
+      Kinda sticks a pin in that particular balloon....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1997 15:22:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Claudia C fired!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"case in point - Claudia's cut-of date was last week - yet Joe claimed
+that he had written stories that would have to be re-fitted around
+claudia and he didn't have time... but if thats so then he never had
+any intention of writing her in - so there is a whole there."
+
+      No, the date is incorrect.  This all happened at Blackpool,
+which was over the weekend of July 10th-13th.  The Friday deadline that
+we have been discussing was July 11th.  The weekend of the 17th I was
+in San Diego, which is when Claudia started talking about this at a
+convention elsewhere.
+
+      I could not have been sitting in a hotel pub with her on
+Thursday night in Blackpool if I was in San Diego at the time.  All
+this went down while we were in the UK.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1997 15:22:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ok, how about this...
+
+ Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com> asks:
+> CC has 2 major plot threads hanging over her, right?
+> Is it plausible?
+> Is it paranoid?
+> Is it likely?
+> Is it totaly stupid and inane?
+
+      Gone off the Prozac again, I see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jul 1997 00:57:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ian & Kathy Taylor <100331.2651@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia Opts Out-JMS
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"reminds me very much of what I was told by someone with good reason
+to know about the loss of Michael O'Hare from the show i.e. that the
+people in charge of the purse-strings basically made the decision."
+
+      See, here's what kills me about all this.
+
+      When the Michael situation took place, I came out very openly
+and I said, "No, this was my decision, working with Michael," and very
+few held *me* accountable, they tried to blame WB...here, I came out
+openly and said I tried everything I could to keep Claudia on the show,
+and that her eventual departure was not my decision, it was hers, and
+I'm being given the rap for it.  I didn't get it when I *did* make the
+decision (with Michael), and I'm getting it now when I *didn't* make
+the decision.
+
+      Some days it's enough to make me lose my hair.
+
+      Waitaminnit....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jul 1997 00:57:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Friel <100647.753@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia C fired!
+
+ Philip Friel <100647.753@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And the coupla guys that I notice giving you a load of crap
+> around here - I don't ever recall seeing you give *them* any crap
+> (if you had, it might've been different, 'cos then it's
+> *personal* - guns at fifty paces, and all that <bg>), so just
+> what *is* their problem?
+
+"I won't say that there won't ever be an SF show as good as B5, as
+you've now set the yardstick, and the rest have something to aim at.
+Maybe, someday, someone will reach or pass it"
+
+      I'm looking forward to that.  I'll be the first one to stand up
+and cheer when it happens.
+
+"I'll say one thing about Trekkies, even though B5 fans often beat up
+on them <g,d,&r> - if Gene Roddenberry were alive today, and were
+active online, I just couldn't see him taking even a fraction of the
+flack from online Trekkies as you do from these excuses for B5 fans"
+
+      Noooo...I don't think so...ask Majel about some of this
+sometime. Believe me, if Gene were online, he'd get the same thing. 
+It's the medium, not the person, that's the problem.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jul 1997 00:57:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Tim's Apology
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yep, that's what precipitated the discussion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jul 1997 00:57:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Tim's Apology
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      What smug?
+
+      You said that if I asked people not to talk about it, they would
+automatically stop.  I've been on the nets a long time, and that sort
+of thing is so unlikely as to engender the response I noted.  Hence my
+question.
+
+      As if my saying, "Now, stop that" would work.
+
+      How much power do you think I have?
+
+      The problem isn't what I'm saying, it's your sensitivity over
+it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jul 1997 00:57:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Third TNT film???
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this true?
+
+      Yes, that's correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Jul 1997 22:54:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: An Open Letter
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, to everyone on the J&D mailing list.  There's been quite
+a bit of positive feedback lately, which has certainly helped.
+
+      I'm considering strongly pulling back from the nets for a while.
+What a number of people don't seem to understand is that amidst all
+this, with all the name-calling and dead-catting and
+tar-and-feathering, I have to launch the fifth season.  I have to write
+these first 5-6 episodes, and make them not just as good as year 4, but
+better.  The only way I can write is to push away all the other voices
+until I can hear the small, still voice at the back of my head that
+speaks in the place of the characters.  There has been so much going on
+(see above) that this has become difficult at best.
+
+      Come January, if the shows are crap, from crap scripts, and
+people yell, "How come the stories suck?" it does no good for me to
+yell back, "BECAUSE EVERYBODY WAS YELLING AT ME!"  That is a pretty
+silly excuse.  The bottom line is: angry email is ephemeral; the shows
+will be on the air for a lot longer. And that is where I have to put my
+emphasis right now.
+
+      So I'm not yanking the modem out of the wall, but my presence
+will be somewhat reduced over the next little bit, because I've fallen
+*desperately* behind due to all the turmoil over this.  If people think
+they're upset over Claudia leaving, and the grief this has caused, the
+truth is they have no idea what those words mean until they've sat
+behind my keyboard and tried to push through it to find the words.  And
+then to get yelled at for things I'm not responsible for...I can either
+read it, and get angry, or take a break and get the show in place. 
+Even the positive email, welcome as that's been, and there's been a
+lot, has been a reminder of the whole situation, so I basically just
+have to pull back for a bit.
+
+      I'll be here...but quietly, until I'm caught up.  Similarly,
+with regrets (and as soon as I can find the darned email address for
+them), I'm going to have to cancel out on RebelCon in Massachusetts in
+order to try and catch up.  I can't justify the time away when we're so
+close to the bone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1997 00:14:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: DS9 = Babylon 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"But then I never watched B 5 even if Chekov was on it.  I always
+thought of it as a copy of DS9 because DS9 was in the works longer."
+
+      Just to correct: DS9 was not developed until about 1991/1992
+(I'll have to go check which one for sure)...B5 was being shown around
+town in full pilot-script and artwork form dating back to 1987.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1997 00:14:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Claudia Opts Out-JMS
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Re: Turhan...yeah, everybody on the set yelled at me when we had
+to kill off Turhan's character.  He was one of the genuinely sweetest
+and nicest persons to come work on the show, and they all fell in love
+with him.  If there's EVER a way I can figure out how to bring him
+back, I'm up for it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1997 00:14:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia Opts Out-JMS
+
+ John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com> asks:
+> how did the British rags figure out what she was GOING to say
+> while she was still saying "I'll be there"?
+
+      No...let me stress this again: there was never any meeting here.
+
+      The meeting you *might* be thinking of was the one where we
+brought in the actors to explain to them the differences in syndication
+vs. cable residuals formula.  That took place some weeks before.
+
+      If it helps, let me break down the dates for you a bit:
+
+      July 9th: the Variety and Reuters pieces appear saying Claudia's
+has left the show.  WB wants to know where Claudia stands, and we need
+to know because at this point I've finished writing the new 422, and am
+about to start on 502 (actually the first S5 episode).  I hear about
+this when Claudia, I and the rest of the cast are in the UK at
+Blackpool.  The WB need for urgent clarification is conveyed to
+Claudia's agent.
+
+      July 10th: I reinforce to Claudia, at the pub in the DeVere
+hotel, that unless she confirms through her agent by noon Friday, the
+11th, that she wants to be on the show, the offer will be withdrawn,
+that she will have, to all intents and purposes, passed on the offer.
+
+      July 11th: there was no "final comment," no meeting...again, we
+are still in the UK.  For there to be a final comment, she or her agent
+would have had to actually *speak* to someone.  But no call came from
+either Claudia or her agent.  There was NO response at all.  Thus, the
+offer was finally and reluctantly withdrawn because we were simply out
+of time, and having been told that silence = a pass on the offer, there
+was no longer any reason to maintain the offer.  She passed.
+
+      July 12th: Jeff goes to Claudia and on his own, tries to
+convince her to try and work this out on Monday, that if her agent
+makes contact first thing, maybe this can be worked out.  This is not a
+position that I told him to advance to her, he did this entirely on his
+own, hoping that she could still come back from her decision.  Bruce
+and other cast members also try to talk to her about this, concerned
+about her decision.
+
+      July 14th (Monday): Claudia leaves the convention mid-day,
+announcing that she is going to go to a photo shoot.
+
+      The weekend of July 19th-20th: I'm at ComicCon in San Diego,
+where I learn that Claudia, at another convention, has announced that
+she was fired from B5.  And that, to paraphrase, is where the blitz hit
+the fans.
+
+      I know you keep trying to find some way that maybe I wasn't
+there, perhaps to save me from the situation...but I was there for
+every bit of it; having the room 4 doors down from Claudia at the time,
+I couldn't be *more* in the thick of it unless I slept on the floor of
+her room.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1997 00:14:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Claudia Opts Out-JMS
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Ray: extremely, extremely well said.  Better than I could have
+said it, and probably better than I *have* said it.
+
+      You really ought to give this writing thing a shot sometime,
+y'know...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1997 00:14:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia C fired!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Before coming to this forum today I was reading through a ST
+newsgroup on the internet. John Ordover was busy defending himself
+against criticism for things like ignoring rude messages. I'm sure you
+don't find this at all surprising."
+
+      Yeah, well, John also announced *definitively* (and with
+considerable joy, I suspect) on AOL that B5 had been canceled, and
+there would be no fifth season, so I'm probably the last person to ask
+about this....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1997 00:14:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Tim's Apology
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Surely you have the power to not reply to certain messages?"
+
+      Of course I do.  And I do frequently.
+
+      The problem is that the nets are best able to spread complete
+misinformation even faster than they can spread real information.  If
+something is stated once in error -- like the person who thought the
+deadline was the 19th rather than the 11th -- others pick it up and
+within a matter of a day or two, there are 10,000 people all with the
+same wrong information, and if you go back to them to correct it later,
+they say, "Well, no, that's not what I heard," even though they may not
+be able to remember where they got that info from.
+
+      On the nets, the line between "speculation" and "fact" is very
+blurry on the best of days.  My feeling has always been that in that
+kind of situation, you put out the facts as best you can, on the theory
+that the folks interested in the discussion are sharp enough to suss
+out the truth, and those not interested in it wil simply not bother to
+read the threads.
+
+      Also, bear in mind that there was a request put out to email
+bomb me by people concerned about Claudia's situation.  A request put
+out *by* Claudia and her people.  Now, I can either spend ten thousand
+hours a day responding to each one of those in email, or by public
+messages put a lot of those concerns to rest and save a fair amount of
+hassle when I'm *trying* to put on a show here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1997 00:14:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Your Pasadena payback
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Well, certainly the more folks retell the story at cons, the
+less I can tell it, so there's that...but the joke has gone about as
+far as it's going to.
+
+      Until I can think of something better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1997 00:14:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard P. Manny <70762.141@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Onward and upward
+
+ Richard P. Manny <70762.141@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Cavellos' book (I certainly didn't find anything that jumped out
+> at me as contrary to the tv series)?
+
+      I'd say that the Cavelos book is pretty canonical, yes...I
+didn't work with the author as closely as with #9, but I agree with
+just about all of the major strokes there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Jul 1997 20:51:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: DS9 = Babylon 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, that would be me...and the finale's been filmed, so it's
+out of my encrypted file at last.  Look for it at the end of season 5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jul 1997 20:51:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: DS9 = Babylon 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The show starts the weekend of January 4th on TNT, first with a
+newly filmed prequel, "In the Beginning," then the original pilot, then
+the next day, Monday, it starts from the very first episode of season
+one and goes straight through, Monday through Friday, 5 nights a week,
+at 7 p.m. Eastern. The fifth season starts mid-January.
+
+      With the new airings on TNT, we will run through the entire
+first 4 years in 18 week cycles, so everyone will have a chance to
+catch up and see the whole thing.
+
+      But this thread more properly belongs in the B5 section, so any
+further questions should probably go there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1997 00:57:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: but
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Boy shaves his head.") Is there any way for me to strengthen this
+> authorial muscle? Advice?
+> Hints?
+
+      Basic approach: if you know your characters, then find out what
+they want, how far they will go to get it, and how far someone else
+will go to stop them.  From this comes structure, and from this comes
+plot.
+
+      Put them in *motion*.
+
+      As someone noted, "The king died and then the queen died" is not
+a story; "The king died and then the queen died of grief" is a story. 
+Cause and effect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1997 00:57:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan L. Ravitch <73627.3126@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Bailing on Rebelcon?
+
+ Alan L. Ravitch <73627.3126@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe...is that a definite that you're now NOT going to do
+> Rebelcon?
+
+      Yeah...I notified the con people the other day.  I'm *really*
+distressed by this, because it's the first time I've ever had to bail
+on a con due to work commitments (or any OTHER reason, there's never
+been one before this). But given the distance, the work involved, the
+deadlines looming up ahead of me, and all the rest...I can't justify
+doing it.  The show has to come first.
+
+      And I'm *really* bummed because it's John Flinn's first
+convention, and I really wanted to be there to see his reaction.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1997 19:37:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com>
+Subject: but
+
+ Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Out of curiousity, what do you think of Dibell's PLOT?
+
+"Out of curiousity, what do you think of Dibell's PLOT?"
+
+      Dunno, never read it.
+
+      Don't read books on sex, either.
+
+      Some things you have to learn on instinct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
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+JMS CompuServe messages for August 1997.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+Date: 01 Aug 1997 01:56:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: wolf 359
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"I would like to express my appreciation for the way that you and all
+the members of the cast at Blackpool gave no hint of the turmoil going
+on over that weekend."
+
+      Thanks.  You are kinder than honesty would warrant.  We were all
+more than a bit upset as we watched things unravel in front of our
+eyes; Bruce was about as upset as I've ever seen him, although he
+buttoned it up beautifully when the fans came around, because they
+deserved only the best.  I did my best there, but there were lapses...I
+was sharper tempered than I should have been with a couple of stewards,
+because I was more at the direct center of the whole situation, and
+immensely frustrated and bugged at the whole thing. I guess that's why
+I'm a writer and not an actor.  But it's been nagging at me ever since
+I left, frankly, because they had no way of knowing what was going on,
+or why I was in that state, and they certainly didn't do anything to
+merit that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Aug 1997 01:56:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Casting Process
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since the you are undoubtedly being besieged by "you should cast
+> <insert name of choice> for your new character," could you shed
+> light on the casting process, whether it be for a regular or a
+> guest shot? You've said that you (as execprod) wait for someone to
+> come in and knock you socks off (or something to that effect),
+> but is there a sort of cabal of casting directors (now there's a
+> term of venery for you <g>) who get together from time to time
+> and trade promising people ("Whoziwhatsis wasn't right for the
+> show we're casting, but he/she might be dynamite for your
+> show...")? Do casting directors actively seek out actors they've
+> seen do guest shots on other shows, or do they wait for the more
+> savvy actors' agents to do their thing?
+
+      Our casting director, Fern Champion (and I can't tell you the
+amount of humor we have with that name), like all casting directors,
+makes the rounds of theaters and movies and TV shows to see who's hot. 
+So she has her own list. On top of that, once a role comes out in a
+script, it goes out to actor's agents in what's called a "breakdown," a
+two- or three-paragraph description of the character: age, sex,
+attitude, the part itself, guest or recur or regular...all that.  The
+various agents then send the info on to their clients who seem to fit
+the bill.  Then if the actor is interested, the agents sends "sides,"
+meaning pages from the script in which the character appears.
+
+      If the actor likes the sides, and the character, the agent then
+contacts the casting director and tries to get their client into the
+audition.  There's some prescreening...if we see the resume ahead of
+time, and actor X doesn't have the training or experience, we move
+on...but in the end, we get anywhere from 5-9 people in for an
+audition.  If we like one of those, we cast that person.  If we're
+caught on two, we do a callback with those two and decide. (We = the
+CD, me, John, Doug and the director.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Aug 1997 01:56:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ->402
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I could write all of S5, but at this point there is no *need* to
+do so, so why do it?  Just for the record?  No...I'm just as happy to
+bring in a few outside scripts.  Not many, only about 5, just to break
+it up a little.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 01 Aug 1997 16:35:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ->402
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Any chance of another Peter David Script???
+
+      Yes, Peter David and Bill Mumy will jointly be writing at least
+one script.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Aug 1997 01:51:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Casting Process
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So <g> ...any ideas so far concerning who may stand to replace
+> Claudia?
+
+      No, we're totally open to whoever walks in the door for the
+part.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Aug 1997 01:51:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Casting Process
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, our casting director at the time (not the same as
+Fern) apparently didn't feel Wayne had enough credits for our show, and
+it took John Copeland (who'd seen his work) finally pulling rank to get
+him in the door to where I could see him.  Once in...that was that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Aug 1997 01:51:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Outside proj/scripts?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The problem over there isn't the material, it's the restraints
+put *on* the material by Paramount.  Jeri Taylor is one of the best
+writers and best show runners in town; give her room to flex her
+muscles, and she can flatten any show around and blow the doors off SF
+TV.  Unfortunately, due to the Paramount heavy-handedness and
+restrictions on all their writers, you have a situation with a Ferrari
+sitting in a garage and never allowed to go more than 20 miles around
+the block.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Aug 1997 02:10:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5FC Merchandise
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"A three week turn-around time for mail order isn't too shabby but I'm
+getting spoiled by online merchandise vendors. I'd like to see the B5FC
+offer merchandise online using current technologies.:"
+
+      Already in process; we just changed providers at thestation.com
+in search of a really stable and safe charge system, and should have an
+online credit charge system up and running very shortly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Aug 1997 02:10:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5FC Merchandise
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"We haven't ordered anything from the B5 Fan Club website because we
+can't get into it without Netscape..."
+
+      This is one of the things we're now correcting, with the change
+in providers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Aug 1997 14:10:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5FC Merchandise
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Meanwhile, on the subject of merchandise, I assume the
+> collectible card game I just plunked down pre-order money on is
+> legit? comments than "What's that?"
+
+      Thanks, and yes, the collectible card game is legit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Aug 1997 14:10:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ->402
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm keeping DC and David in my hip pocket for the moment; there
+are an awful lot of writers who've wanted desperately to write for the
+show in the last few years, who couldn't because I did two seasons
+alone.  I have kind of a moral obligation to give those folks a shot,
+and since there are only about 5 open assignments, I have to be very
+selective.  If I can in good conscience give one to David or DC, I will
+definitely consider doing so.  But the new guys deserve a shot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Aug 1997 21:04:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Nelson <70403.1270@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Last Four of Season 4
+
+ Michael Nelson <70403.1270@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do the PTEN stations have an obligation to show the remaining
+> episodes of Season 4? I have not called the station yet, but if
+> they (and other stations) have decided to not show any more
+> episodes, will the debut on TNT in January take care of this
+> problem? Would TNT begin with the last four episodes of Season 4
+> and then go immediately into Season 5?
+
+      No, the final four contractually belong to the local stations;
+they may not be showing it *now*, but should be showing it in October.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Aug 1997 21:04:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ->402
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One thing that has me curious -- when another writer does a B5
+> ep, and you feel the need to ask for revisions, does it tend to
+> be because they don't have the characters' "voices" quite right,
+> or do they throw in elements that skew your arc? In other words,
+> is it character or plot that more frequently needs adjusting
+> before going to film?
+
+      It's never any one thing...it always varies from writer to
+writer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Aug 1997 16:28:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Shadow Within> <COS
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> could you comment on what isn't?
+> I'm pretty sure I get what that means, can you comment on whether
+> that figures in to the remainder of the TV series?
+
+      "Going beyond" was left deliberately vague...we may see
+something of this in time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Aug 1997 23:02:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Nelson <70403.1270@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Bureau 13 Question
+
+ Michael Nelson <70403.1270@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any plans for Bureau 13?
+> Has it been mentioned in any episodes after its introduction?
+
+      No, Bureau 13 was subsumed into the larger organizations.  After
+we did the episode, we learned of a rpg called bureau 13, and decided
+not to use it again just to avoid confusion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 Aug 1997 13:50:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Casting Process
+
+ Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com> asks:
+> mission, sheep farm and/ or afterlife)?
+
+       It's a different character, not a recast...Ivanova's away on
+another assignment.
+
+                       jms (who still remembers the new Darrin)
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Aug 1997 12:51:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neville White <100335.2721@compuserve.com>
+Subject: the Summoning - doink!
+
+ Neville White <100335.2721@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this what they meant when they said 'we are not ready yet'?
+> Where they waiting to get this monster grown/finished/whatever?
+> Don't believe in half measures, do they?
+
+       Thanks...we do try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Aug 1997 12:51:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Third TNT film???
+
+ Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any details available?
+
+       Lemme get S5 off the ground, then I'll deal with this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Aug 1997 13:07:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <NSNR> <EVP>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...the key is to always stay true to what the *character*
+thinks is true...whether that came genuinely, or he convinced himself
+of a certain position, you have to advance that position honestly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Aug 1997 23:02:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Casting Process
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Will we be hearing about her from time to time throughout
+> the season?
+
+      No, there are no plans for Ivanova to appear in S5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Aug 1997 23:02:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: S5 Episode Titles
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, just that since I ain't doing that story, the title became
+available, and it was most apt for this episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Aug 1997 23:02:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Summoning: Translation
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Hatrack would, of course, be a loose interpretation of the bony
+crest at the top of a Minbari's head.
+
+      (long pause to see if he buys it or not)
+
+      Okay, okay...bear in mind that if you misuse the language you
+can create words that don't actually exist.  In German, for instance,
+they create new words by adding suffixes and prefixes to previous words
+(as Mark Twain said, they eventually acquire a perspective, like a
+train receding into the distance).  The fact that Ivanova came up with
+that word -- taking English in her head and trying to find Minbari
+equivilants -- doesn't mean that it *is* a word to the Minbari.  I can
+say, "uberfleidermaus," which would mean "the supervising bat," but
+that ain't a word the Germans would recognize, even though it is in
+German.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Aug 1997 23:02:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ->402
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Harlan is working on something now, and suggested something that
+I then based an episode on, so we share story credit on "A View from
+the Gallery."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Aug 1997 23:12:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Casting Process
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Will we be hearing about her from time to time throughout
+> the season?
+
+      She'll be mentioned here and there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Aug 1997 23:12:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Big Picture
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      There will be closure provided to that relationship.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Aug 1997 22:24:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ->402
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Trent or totally unrelated?
+
+      It's an unrelated story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Aug 1997 23:39:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: DS9 = Babylon 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      B5 was created in 1987; the pilot was shot actually before the
+DS9 pilot was shot, but they rushed their version out before B5 could
+air.  There were only a few weeks between the airing of the two pilots.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Aug 1997 23:39:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Son of B5 Benchmark
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, a number of shows are now adapting the B5 storytelling
+model, with an overarching arc and shows that keep it going.  The new
+Roddenberry series has a five year arc of its own, apparently.  More
+will follow, now that we've broken the ice.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Aug 1997 21:25:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Son of B5 Benchmark
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I honestly don't know how important the web has been because
+frankly, if you added up all the web-users out there, it wouldn't be a
+blip on the ratings charts.  That said, our audience has definitely
+increased over the last 4 years, one of the few syndicated shows that
+has grown while nearly all the rest have fallen.  Xena has grown, and I
+think one or two others, but that's it.
+
+      It just takes any show a while to find its audience, or in this
+case, for our audience to find *us*, given scheduling.  We've begun
+doing that, and are nearly at critical mass.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1997 11:58:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Son of B5 Benchmark
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       There's a follow-up story in the works...we'll see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1997 11:58:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New Cast Member
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       No, we're still in the process of casting.  We have some
+interesting prospects, but nothing's been finalized yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1997 18:11:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carol Naylor <100645.2613@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Son of B5 Benchmark
+
+ Carol Naylor <100645.2613@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ever since I realised that you'd been on-line long before B5 got
+> off the ground, I've wondered whether your on-line participation
+> as the show's producer was something you'd conciously decided to
+> do or whether it was something that, like Topsey, just 'growed'?
+
+       No, it was just a natural extension of already being online. 
+The only deliberate decision involved was, "Do I *change* my life and
+what I do for pleasure just because I'm more well known now than
+before?"  I'm still the same person, so the answer was no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1997 03:49:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Story Arc challeges
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      One of the first things I had to do, in plotting out the
+storyline, was to set aside trap doors for *every single character*,
+because you never know when or how the real world is going to impinge
+upon you.  An actor can quit, or get hit by a car, or slammed by a
+meteor...there's no way to control the characters the way you do in a
+novel.  That's a given.  But you can't bring X-million viewers along to
+a certain point, then say, "Well, all the stuff we were going to do we
+can't because X isn't here."
+
+      So in a way, the structure of the story is kind of like a
+computer game tree...pull out a piece along the way, and it goes down a
+different path, but ends up at exactly the same point at the end.  It's
+the difference between different *results* and different ways of
+*getting* there.
+
+      You can do a story about a platoon in WW II, for instance, and
+some of the platoon may live, die, be injured, whatever...but the story
+of WWII is the story of WWII.
+
+      Beyond that, a challenge is just that: a call to see just how
+good you *really* are, kid.  If you've ever seen GLORY, there's the
+scene in which one of the Massachusetts 54th is being taught to shoot. 
+He does just fine, hits the target, reloads fine...when nobody's
+shooting at him.  At which point the colonel starts firing a revolver
+right next to his head, teling him to try and do it NOW, and do it
+FAST, with ten thousand guns firing at him.
+
+      That's when the art comes in, that's when the skill comes
+in...in dealing with what you *don't* expect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1997 03:49:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Summoning: Translation
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Danke.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1997 17:40:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Scripts
+
+ Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are these legal?
+> Are they being sold legally?
+> Would appreciate any info you might have and if you or one of the
+> cast is presented with one of these, would it get signed or would
+> I get a smack in the head?
+
+       No, these scripts are *not* legitimate or legal.  I know they
+say they buy from "script dealers," but that translates out to "people
+who stole scripts from studios."  WB is aware of this one, and
+preparing to go after them.  The actual ownership of the physical
+*script* itself is shared and/or alternated by the studio and the
+writer, and it *cannot* be sold without the permission of the writer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1997 21:42:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Story Arc challeges
+
+ Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you considered writing it once you are finished with the
+> series (assuming your time doesn't get monopolized by the next
+> show)?
+
+"It would be interesting to read an outline of the original arc, and
+the various changes which you have had to make along the way. I'm sure
+there is quite enough inside information for a book. Have you
+considered writing it once you are finished with the series (assuming
+your time doesn't get monopolized by the next show)?"
+
+      One heart attack at a time.
+
+"You might consider a writing a more general book rather than one
+directed towards aspiring scriptwriters. You'd have a lot more
+competition, but a considerably bigger potential audience."
+
+      See above.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1997 14:09:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Stephen Burrow <70640.40@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Bruce on Pol. Incorrect
+
+ Stephen Burrow <70640.40@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What happened, and was it any big deal?
+> Have you ever been invited on PI?
+> Would you even be interested?
+
+       Yes, the union came in on season 3, on a Wednesday, if I
+recall, and by the end of the week it was resolved, and that was the
+extent of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1997 14:09:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Scripts
+
+ Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When you do the marketing thing, will you be making any of the
+> scripts available, or is that one of those things that you
+> haven't really been able to give a lot of time/attention to?
+
+       Selling B5 scripts is something I'd like to do, with the
+difference that the writers involved -- David, Larry, Peter, everybody
+ -- would get a percentage, just as with a book publication.  That's the
+way it *should* be done.  These guys who sell scripts through stores
+and mail order don't give a penny to the creators or writers whose work
+they are selling.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1997 14:09:15 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: Bruce on Claudia
+
+       For those who've wanted to hear another point of view on the CC
+thing, check out http://www.tvguide.com/tv/circuits/0815A.htm for Bruce
+Boxleitner's comments, since Bruce was there when it all went down, and
+saw everything firsthand.  His comments are as straightforward and
+uncensored as ever.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1997 21:20:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jimmy K <110435.632@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New B5 Novels
+
+ Jimmy K <110435.632@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you decided what the new B5 novels from Dell will be about?
+> Will they be more canon, like Book #9 was?
+
+      There's something very exciting in the works for the next batch
+of B5 novels, but I can't or shouldn't say anything until the
+announcements come at WorldCon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1997 21:20:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Bruce on Claudia
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"I went over to the site with the address you gave and got a file not
+found on server error.  I ended up just using
+www.tvguide.com/tv/circuits and then clicking on the Bruce B. story
+from there.  I looked at the url at that point and saw
+"www.tvguide.com/tv/circuits/0815a.htm".  The only difference I see is 
+that small "a" after the 0815, where you had a capital.  I don't know
+if that's what the problem was or not."
+
+      Yeah, apparently that makes all the difference...so anyone
+looking on, make the a lower case not upper case, or just go to the TV
+Guide main menu.
+
+"From what I've seen of Bruce B. on shows like PI and the like, he
+must be one of the most unpretentious TV stars I've seen.  I wonder how
+much this has to do with him working with James Arness."
+
+      I don't know if it's specifically that, but yeah, Bruce does
+have a kind of outspokenness and frankness and "ah, hell," attitude
+that comes from his long association with westerns.  He's absolutely a
+straight shooter.
+
+"I can't imagine what B5 would have been like without Bruce.  Bruce
+has brought a LOT to the show.  You, and the fans, really lucked out by
+Bruce getting on board."
+
+      Bruce has done a great job.  He loves the role, he *is* the
+Captain, and around the stage he's the show's cheerleader, team
+captain, and resident bright spirit.  Peter also does a lot of that, as
+does Rick, but Bruce is just an amazing team player.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1997 21:20:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Bruce on Claudia
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Huh...I totally missed that one...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Aug 1997 15:52:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Scripts
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Am I out of touch, but doesn't the Basic Agreement with the Guild
+give the writer the exclusive to sell the physical copies of the work? 
+Or is that something that died with the Strike of '61?"
+
+      Yes and no.  For instance...my script for "The Coming of
+Shadows" is being published in the UK by Boxtree, and subsequently in
+the US.  There is no ancillary payment for this other than the general
+licensing fee that goes against the overall merchandising revenue
+stream.  (Showbiz talk, folks, pay no attention.)  So I don't get any
+kind of royalty on the script book per se at all.  I called the WGA,
+and this is entirely within their purview.  Also, Fox is selling
+X-Files scripts by their writers, and I believe the arrangement is the
+same, or close to it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Aug 1997 15:52:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Claudia's replacement
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No; we're still in the process of casting, and no offer has been
+put forth yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Aug 1997 23:54:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Son of B5 Benchmark
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Sound like anybody we know??
+
+      I haven't seen much of Buffy, due to work schedules, but what
+I've seen, I've liked.  I also commend Tales from a Parallel Universe
+on the Movie Channel to you...great stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Aug 1997 00:02:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Bruce on Claudia
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes, Bruce is definitely a history buff, from the civil war
+period up through WWII and beyond.  That's one thing he and John
+Copeland share, a real interest in WWII history and the like.  Bruce,
+being something of a cowboy in real life, also has a substantial
+interest in, and familiarity with, the old west and native american
+histories.  He also reads and enjoys SF.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Aug 1997 16:06:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia's replacement
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, you've written the first 4-5 scripts, but don't have the role
+> cast? How much slack do you have to cast and begin shooting?
+> Or, can you write the character out of 501 if there's a delay in
+> casting?
+
+      No, you almost always write the character long before you have
+the actor; you just find the actor that fits the character, then slowly
+the two begin to merge once the role is cast.  When Bruce came on
+board, I think we already had the first 4-5 scripts in hand.
+
+      In the case of Lochley, she isn't in 501 anyway, that's the 422
+replacement...she's in 502, and we still have time on that one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Aug 1997 16:07:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Claudia's replacement
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"One of the magazines have said that Bill Mumy and Stephen Furst will
+NOT appear in front of the camera for season five....Say it aint so
+Joe..."
+
+      Ain't so.  They're both in 503, and will appear thereafter as
+well. Also in the main credits as usual.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Aug 1997 16:07:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5, TNT, and Censorship
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Will TNT silence out words unacceptable to their bizarre
+> standards from the original episodes of B5 (pilot and seasons one
+> through four) and from the new fifth season and it's
+> "made-for-cable" movies?
+
+      Dunno...nobody's said boo to us about this one yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Aug 1997 20:42:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: No Word on Fifth Season
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      PTEN is more or less defunct as of this year.  The syndicated
+stations that normally carried B5 were not available.  TNT rode to the
+rescue.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Aug 1997 22:08:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Scripts
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Oh...got it.  Yes, the places that are under discussion, like
+scriptshop.com, which sell scripts without the permission of the
+writer, who does control the physical script, are ripping the writers
+off.  Yes, they are definitely in violation of the basic
+agreement...but then, they aren't signatories, either.  They're just
+crooks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Aug 1997 22:09:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Don Crossman <75147.175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B'more Sun Article
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+         Thanks, I didn't know it was out, will check it asap.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1997 00:18:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jimmy K <110435.632@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The future of Draal
+
+ Jimmy K <110435.632@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the actor that plays him available for the show or has he
+> permanently left to do other things?
+
+      The actor is on Broadway playing in Hello, Dolly, which makes
+his appearance in Hello, Draaly improbable for the moment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1997 15:45:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Bruce on Pol. Incorrect
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Like virtually all syndicated shows, we were non-union below
+the line (meaning not counting actors, directors, and writers).  There
+actually wasn't a syndicated TV contract in existence...which is why
+most shows shoot out of LA, because they were afraid to work something
+out with the union. So we then negotiated the first syndicated TV
+contract that I'm aware of for shooting here in LA, and which is now
+being used to bring other shows back to LA that had left previously.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1997 15:45:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Bruce on Claudia
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Certainly a number of cast members are very upset with her, so
+we'll have to see where that goes.  We're finalizing the casting now on
+the part of Lochley.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1997 15:45:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Scripts
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Because we're siccing Warner Bros. on 'em instead...and letting
+the other studios know about it.  Let the big boys go in there and slug
+it out with 'em.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1997 15:45:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Stathis in Cinescape!!!
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Guess who turned up in Cinescape magazine's letters column?
+> Is this guy for real?
+> Has he paid any attention to the actual practice of TeeVee?
+
+       He's a bitter, mean-spirited person who feels he has to tear
+down the show.  It's his obsession.  Trying to explain it rationally is
+like trying to play golf without those tiny holes in the ground, you've
+got no basis for the conversation to take place.
+
+       As for his prediction...back when B5 was first getting going,
+and I was at a convention in San Francisco that actually booed me when
+I said that this show might eventually give Star Trek a run for its
+money, one woman in the audience -- two Presidential elections ago --
+yelled out, "Yeah, right, and Clinton will be President."
+
+       'nuff said.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Aug 1997 00:19:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Bruce on Claudia
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Either a) it's been replaced, it's a daily column, or b) try a
+lower-case a in the address, not a capital A.  Either way, if you do a
+search on the names involved, the article will show up in the archives.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Aug 1997 15:11:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kristen Cloke on B5 ;>)
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I think it would be the wrong choice because she played a very
+similar role over on SAAB.  I'd rather go for someone who hadn't been
+that closely identified with another military space series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Aug 1997 21:23:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Kristen Cloke on B5 ;>)
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Wouldn't she be too young for the part anyway?
+
+      You're quite correct, she's definitely too young to be
+realistic. Which is why all the actors we're seeing are in their late
+30s to early 40s range.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Aug 1997 21:23:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard P. Manny <70762.141@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Action Figures
+
+ Richard P. Manny <70762.141@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this correct?
+
+      Yep, they'll be out soonish.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1997 12:09:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: August 29th 1997
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Re: Judgement Day....
+
+       Oh...is *that* what that sound was...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1997 15:40:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: UT vs. Shadow Within
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you shed some light on which way this really works?
+
+       Nuts...I missed that when I went over the text.  I guess I got
+so used to seeing him in relation to the Aggy that I just went past it.
+No, the mining incident took place when he was first officer on the
+Lexington, under Captain Sterns.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1997 15:40:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JOEL ARAUJO <76016.122@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 sims
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       No, it's WB's position that sims constitute copyright
+infringement.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1997 11:39:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JOEL ARAUJO <76016.122@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 sims
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Since the copyright rules are made by Congress, no, I'd imagine
+not.
+
+       "Whenever a copyright law is to be made or changed, the idiots
+assemble."
+
+       "One thing is impossible for god: to make sense of any
+copyright rule in any country in the world"
+
+                                       (both from Mark Twain)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1997 11:39:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neville White <100335.2721@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TLN - Minbari phrase
+
+ Neville White <100335.2721@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you tell me what the minbari phrase was that Ericsson used
+> at the end of the conversation, and again just before he died?
+
+       The Minbari phrase was the standard way for Rangers to end a
+conversation, with a salute to the Entil-zha, the head of the Rangers,
+which is Delenn in this case.
+
+       And thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1997 22:58:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Big Picture
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"I expect that new fans who are introduced to the show by 522
+sequential episodes - daily - are going to be in dire need of
+industrial strength tranquilizers."
+
+      Cool....
+
+                                  jm(getting kickbacks from the AMA)s
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1997 22:58:39 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Gathering done?
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I assume the re-editing and re-scoring is complete and you have
+> delivered it to TNT?
+
+      No, TNT still hasn't commissioned the re-edit and re-mix of the
+pilot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1997 22:58:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Angela
+
+ Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What was it like working with Angela Landsbury?
+> Had you heard that too?
+> Would you work with her again?
+> Any chance she could do B5 or Crusade?
+
+      The improvements were instituted when David Moessinger was
+brought on as Executive Producer.  He did a year of the show and then
+left when Angela was named exec.  The improvements were already in
+place by then.
+
+      Re: Angela...I have to say I enjoyed working with her.  She
+struck me as a woman of tremendous integrity and honesty, not to
+mention skill.  As an example...when she took over as exec, there was
+one episode being directed by her son, who had been doing them here and
+there for about a year.  As I watched the dailies, I found he had
+gotten the episode *completely* wrong and was, in my view, undercutting
+the whole episode.
+
+      I went out, very upset and angry, and confronted him in front of
+the whole crew.  Suffice to say it's bad form (I was angry, it was
+stupid, I make no excuses) to do after a director in front of his crew
+in *any* event, even if you are a writer/producer but to go after the
+*son* of the *star and executive producer*?
+
+      I got back to the offices and everybody was just
+dead-white...they said, "You're going to be fired the second she hears
+about this."  About an hour or two later, the phone rang, and she
+wanted to see me.  I went to her office, and she asked, "What happened,
+and why did you do what you did?"
+
+      I explained the situation, why I was upset, and explained how
+the episode was being killed in the directing because he didn't
+understand a large part of it.  She considered it for a moment...and
+finally nodded.  "You did the right thing," she said, and that was the
+end of it.
+
+      That took a lot of guts and integrity on her part.  She knew me
+well enough to know that I leave my ego at the door, and all that
+concerns me is doing what's best for the show, and the story. 
+Sometimes, on some shows, that ain't enough.  With her, it was.  'nuff
+said.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1997 22:58:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 'Science Fiction Age'Mag
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      It was a very flattering editorial, and they are very kind over
+at SFA. As are your comments.
+
+      Re: shooting...yes, it started on Monday the 18th and is
+proceeding apace.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1997 15:09:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 TV Guide
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How the heck did he know that I was going to get water stains on
+> my first copy?
+
+       Actually, the B5 cover has become an instant collector's item,
+selling for anywhere from $20-50 in some places, and more overseas, so
+those who bought multiple copies now have a good little investment on
+their hands.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1997 15:19:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JOEL ARAUJO <76016.122@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 sims
+
+ JOEL ARAUJO <76016.122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It is not a against copyrights to post everything and anything
+> about the series on any given website but it is totally agaisnt
+> copyrights to host a sim? WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?
+
+       Because posting material already existant about a show is one
+thing (and WB requires that the proper copyright be appended to all
+such web sites in any event).  A different situation is a sim, which
+*uses* copyrighted characters and situations, creating a *game* which
+is not licensed, which also results in *story material* that also
+infringes on the copyright and could create further complications.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1997 15:19:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: To Kill a Cow?
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since the machine obviously works on alien life, why wouldn't it
+> work on, say, cattle? Why couldn't some sort of animal raised for
+> food (such as cattle) be used on the "killing" end to save (or at
+> least help) a dying patient? I mean, the animal would be killed
+> anyway for its meat, so why not? And, BTW, how's Captain
+> Freakdaddy doing now that filming has started again?
+
+       I think that one could argue that the life force of a sentient
+creature is considerably different from that of a cow or dog...unless
+one wanted one's loved one to start moo'ing....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1997 17:29:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Gathering done?
+
+ Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But has it been rescored, as it has been re-edited, in
+> preparation of a late commissioning? If not, might it be?
+> BTW, is the price tag still around the previously mentioned
+> $150K?
+
+       No, the re-editing has not been completed; the editors jumped
+in and did some of it, based on my notes, in their spare time, because
+they want to see it done, but the actual
+sitting-with-the-editors-and-slogging-through-it that John and I do is
+yet to be done, and that's where the main part of the work happens.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Aug 1997 03:15:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 sims
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What about hosting an RPG using a website AND using the properly
+> licensed RPG The Babylon Project? Wouldn't that be seen as a
+> proper use of the game? Or, does the fact that it's on the Web
+> mean you're publishing a new story?
+
+"What about hosting an RPG using a website AND using the properly
+licensed RPG The Babylon Project?  Wouldn't that be seen as a proper
+use of the game?"
+
+      My guess is that yes, that would be kosher...but then, I ain't a
+lawyer and am basically pulling that answer out of my butt....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Aug 1997 22:42:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 TV Guide
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> You *are* joking, right?
+
+      Nope, quite true.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1997 00:47:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Enigmatic Credits
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How does one sort out the creators from the funders in this
+> salad?
+
+      One really can't tell these things from the credits...it's kind
+of an industry-wide concern, actually.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1997 00:47:37 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 TV Guide
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Are you starting to catch up with season five?
+> How's the stress?
+
+      Racing as fast as I can to keep up...got hit with a flu bug for
+a few days, which put me behind, but working now to catch up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1997 02:03:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: DS9 = Babylon 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Originally, the creators of B5 went to the ST folks with the concept.
+They thought it would be easier to launch the B5 concept in the ST
+Universe. However, after much talk, the Trek folks turned it down. 
+Soon after, DS9 was launched."
+
+      This has been repeated elsewhere and needs to be corrected.
+
+      1) B5 was *never* at any time submitted to anyone at Star Trek.
+
+      2) B5 was *never* considered by me, or anyone involved with B5,
+or discussed with anyone, as taking place in the ST universe.  This
+story could flatly and simply not take place within the confines of the
+ST universe as set up and maintained.
+
+      3) B5 was *never* turned down by the ST folks for reasons 1 and
+2 above.
+
+      4) B5 *was* submitted (treatment, artwork, series bible, pilot
+screenplay) to Paramount Television, which did review the material for
+some time before deciding to try other avenues.
+
+      Just to clarify....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1997 17:51:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: DS9 = Babylon 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, the concept for DS9 was not put forth to Paramount
+until about 2 months after the announcement was made in the trades
+about B5 going into production as a pilot.  The B5 material was in
+Paramount's hands in 1989. Just trying to keep the timeline straight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1997 17:56:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: !intense Garibaldi News
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The only thing that is intense about this news is that it's
+massively untrue.
+
+      Jerry is *in* the fifth season...he just finished shooting his
+stuff for 501, and has a major personal arc throughout the first part
+of this season, another toward the end of the season, and is on board
+for all 22 episodes.
+
+      He didn't make it into the movies because of agent stuff, but
+that's only the two movies, and we have every intention of having him
+in the third one.
+
+      This is one of the problems with the internet...someone mishears
+something, posts it, and because it came from "an authoritative
+source" in this case Peter, it gets picked up as real.  And then I have
+to spend days correcting and "contradicting the cast, so who's telling
+the truth?"  You misheard.  He's *in*.  Has been from day one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Aug 1997 00:11:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: B5 Fanclub Merchandise
+
+I have the information a lot of folks have been asking for on the
+merchandise being put out by the B5 fan club.  Orders can be sent to
+the Babylon 5 Fan Club, P.O. Box 856, North Hollywood, CA 91603.
+
+T-SHIRTS - B5 club logo on front, saying on back, shirt color
+indicated:
+
+FCS-01 "We have always been here."  Black on white.
+FCS-02 "We stand between the Darkness and the Light." (black on grey)
+FCS-03 "No Boom Today, Boom Tomorrow.  There's Always a Boom
+Tomorrow." White on black.
+
+Cost: (blocked)
+members, $18.95 non-members
+
+FAN CLUB POSTER
+
+Sent rolled $8.00 members, $10 non-members
+
+SOUNDTRACKS
+
+Original sountrack, and "Messages from Earth" available.  Each selling
+for $14.95 members, $16.95 non-members.
+
+EPISODE SOUNDTRACKS
+
+Chris is now releasing soundtracks for each individual episode on its
+own special CD: "A Late Delivery from Avalon," "Z'ha'dum," "Shadow
+Dancing," "Severed Dreams" and "Walkabout."  $11.95 members, $13.95
+non-members.
+
+AGAMEMNON CAPS
+
+Worn by Sheridan in "Knives."  Has the silhouette of the Agamemnon
+embroidered on the front, on a grey cap, with the ID# of the Aggy
+beneath (OCG-05, standing for Omega Construction Group, Hull 5) and the
+name above the silhouette.  $16 members, $18 non-members.
+
+Members should include membership number on all orders.  The Fan Club
+can do Visa and Mastercard as well as check, but be sure to include the
+expiration date, total amount to be billed, and daytime phone number.
+
+Shipping and handling: (blocked)
+$35.01-50        $8.50 $50.01-75        $10.50 $75.01-100      $12.95
+Over $100       $15.50
+
+For 2nd day air add $10, for Next Day Air add $15.
+
+We will have prices and info on international shipping soon.
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Aug 1997 12:39:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Fanclub Merchandise
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Aren't these being put together in a single compilation?
+> Or is this our only chance to get them?
+
+       Selected bits of music from these have ended up in the first
+two main soundtracks, but these contain *all* the music, sequentially,
+from the episodes named.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Aug 1997 12:39:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CC
+
+ Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will Ivanova be in "Sleeping in Light"?
+
+       We already shot her in SiL, so yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Aug 1997 12:39:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: DS9 = Babylon 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I believe that some development execs at Paramount may have
+guided the development process along parallel lines, without those at
+ST knowing what was going on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1997 13:34:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Fanclub Merchandise
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> No, I mean, aren't all 5 going to be released in a collection?
+
+       No, the Cult soundtrack is from a variety of TV series, using
+only a piece of each, and not the original music from Chris in this
+case.  It's another party just re-recording the music (and not as
+well).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1997 13:34:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Fanclub Merchandise
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any info as to when they will actually be available?
+
+       They can be ordered now via the fanclub.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1997 13:34:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: !intense Garibaldi News
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I understand, and that's fine, but then you should have posted
+the message as an inquiry, not an annoucement of "news."  Because too
+many people take what they read on the nets uncritically.  The way I
+first found out about your message was through a number of *extremely*
+angry, offensive and insulting emails I got on another account saying
+how dare I "get rid of" both Ivanova and Garibaldi in the same season,
+accusing me of trying to sneak the "firing of Garibaldi" under the
+radar while everyone was off looking at the Claudia situation...so I
+spent a great deal of time calming people down, then backtracking it to
+the original source (which would've been faster if I'd just done a
+tapcis sweep here, but the notes all came to me from the internet,
+from those with shared CIS accounts, or who knew someone who had a CIS
+account). The root for all of them was your note, or someone who'd seen
+your note and went ballistic.
+
+       People need to understand that when they post unverified
+information as "news," and it's wrong...and it's wrong about 9 times
+out of ten... ultimately, I'm the one who pays the price for it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1997 13:34:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ep 502
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How did her first day go ???
+
+       Her first day is today.  She's working out swimmingly. 
+Everyone is finding her a real joy to work with.  She took home about
+30 tapes of prior shows to watch over the weekend, has buried herself
+in homework studying scripts and articles about the show, and has
+basically impressed the hell out of the cast and crew.
+
+       And no, I can't tell you yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1997 13:41:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Fanclub Merchandise
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> No, I mean, aren't all 5 going to be released in a collection?
+
+       Oops, confused Chris's the Cult with the CultTV
+soundtrack...never mind.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1997 22:13:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Into the Fire
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, when Emperor Turhan asked Kosh "How will it all end?"
+> Is that why the episode where the Vorlons left called "Into the
+> Fire" or was it just a coincidence?
+
+      One of the reasons, yeah.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1997 22:13:34 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: !intense Garibaldi News
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, he wasn't named after a fish, rather he was named after a
+famous Italian war hero.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1997 22:17:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: what next?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, Judith...the TNT only rule applies only to the US.  WB
+International will be selling the show to broadcast stations in Canada
+and all other countries.  This ONLY affects the U.S.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1997 16:54:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: DS9 = Babylon 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Actually, this is not "a stupid rumor," in that Paramount did
+have the material dating back well before DS9 was conceived.  It's a
+rumor if it comes from somebody outside.  It's my show, I was there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1997 22:25:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WorldCon and B5
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or maybe not?
+
+      We'll have to see...should be interesting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1997 22:25:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ep 502
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The news should be out in the next 24 hours or so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1997 22:25:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Wrong Spoiler apology
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Over and done with.  We move on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Aug 1997 02:44:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Creative Screenwriting
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, I didn't know the review was there...can you pass along the
+comments, if they were brief?  (If long, I'll go out and try to find a
+copy.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Aug 1997 02:44:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Get outta my GALAXY!
+
+ Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So no more Shadows?
+> No more Vorlons?
+> No more First Ones?
+
+      Thanks...it's an amusing little entertainment....
+
+      Now (well, after a few episodes designed to provide a bit of a
+break) it gets serious.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Aug 1997 13:24:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Future
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, no plans to put B5 into book form; it was designed to be
+told for TV, and that's where it should stay...and the sequel is still
+being negotiated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Aug 1997 13:24:26 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ep 502
+
+ SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm assuming the info there is correct?
+
+       Yep, the info is correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Aug 1997 17:47:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Vir on a diet?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, he's worked hard to lose weight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Aug 1997 22:34:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Free Polazzo <72653.47@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Creative Screenwriting
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks (thanks three times, actually).  Good luck to all of you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Aug 1997 15:18:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ruth Spradlin <73477.3155@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Indigo Slam
+
+ Ruth Spradlin <73477.3155@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you a mystery fan?
+
+      That's funny, I hadn't known Bob had done that.  (Bob Crais is a
+friend.)  Gotta remember to thank him next time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
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+JMS CompuServe messages for September 1997.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+Date: 01 Sep 1997 19:47:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS on SFVortex
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's Harlan...that's how he is most of the time.  And yeah, I
+got in my stuff earlier.  When Harlan gets a full head of steam going,
+best to just get out of the way and watch with wonder.  I think it's a
+couple of months old, though I don't know if this is a first or second
+run of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Sep 1997 19:47:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Francis Rogers <73742.1613@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia's Leaving?
+
+ Francis Rogers <73742.1613@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why would she do this?
+> Was it a desire for more money, to have her part beefed up, or
+> what? In view of the fact her character seems to be pretty
+> popular, could you give her a second chance or something, or is
+> it too late?
+
+      She asked for things that were not in our power to give, and
+when they were not received, she passed on the offer to return.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Sep 1997 19:47:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steven K. Andeweg <72143.674@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5 Main Title
+
+ Steven K. Andeweg <72143.674@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you finished the Season Five one, or is it too early?
+> Have you saved the best for last?
+
+      No, I'm in the process of designing the S5 titles now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Sep 1997 19:47:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hemi-Demi-Semiotics
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> does a storyteller such as yourself or others you admire ever
+> start from the semiotic and discover characters that can express
+> it, or is it the more natural process to have the characters tell
+> their stories and later find out that they have semiotic
+> resonance simply because the storyteller has read enough and seen
+> enough that the semiotic bit comes without thinking?
+
+      I really don't think you can think in those terms, either way. 
+You pick up the tools of the *story*, not the tools of the *analysis of
+the story*, and as you begin to line them up, you may have a sense of,
+"Okay, this character is something of an archetype, so I need certain
+elements to come into this, but only in service of the story."  I find
+that what truly makes for myth does not come from conscious effort, but
+from *unconscious* effort, this is where Jung's notion of a collective
+unconscious comes into play.  We may not know *why* a sword raised by a
+bloodied soldier over a battlefield strewn with bodies has power with
+us, it's enough to know that it *does*.  When you ride a bicycle,
+you're not thinking about pressure vs. force or force = propulsion, or
+how many cycles per minute equals X-speed, you're just Riding The
+Bike.
+
+      I just Write.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Sep 1997 23:02:54 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Kristen Cloke on B5 ;>)
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, Carl is correct.  If you're going to be realistic, a
+captain in this position would be in her late 30s or early 40s, which
+definitely puts Kristen out of the running.  I don't want to do a
+Wesley and stick somebody way too young into an unrealistically high
+position.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Sep 1997 23:02:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Action Figures
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The Revell kit isn't out yet, so be careful that you're not
+buying a knockoff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Sep 1997 23:02:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lochley=Tracy Scoggins!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I played a scene of Tracy's at WorldCon this weekend, and the
+audience responded *very* favorably.  I think this is gonna work out
+just fine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Sep 1997 23:03:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lochley=Tracy Scoggins!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I wouldn't cast someone who was less than ideal for the role. 
+If you don't find the right person, you just keep going until you *do*.
+We had a goodly amount of time on this one, and we saw a LOT of very
+talented people. But she rose right to the top.  We put her in
+secondary auditions with our other top contenders, and she blew *them*
+out.  Then we put her in a scene with Jerry Doyle, in one of their
+nose-to-nose, toe-to-toe confrontational scenes, and I told her to pull
+out all the stops and try to bury her...and Jerry can be a very strong
+presence when he wants to be.  She held her ground and gave back as
+good as she got, maybe more.  And at the end, even Jerry said, "It's
+her."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Sep 1997 23:03:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS on SFVortex
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, the Sci-Fi Channel has approached Doug and I about
+maybe doing something for them as a dramatic series while the other
+shows are ongoing. Will advise as (and if) that develops.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Sep 1997 16:06:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Fanclub Merchandise
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       We didn't know how much demand there would be for the
+stuff...now we know a little better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Sep 1997 16:11:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Congratulations
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks, and welcome to the party...it's okay to come late as
+long as you enjoy yourself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Sep 1997 12:35:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rob Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com>
+Subject: !intense Garibaldi News
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I've got the original Baltimore one, so I have it covered,
+thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Sep 1997 12:35:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: DS9 = Babylon 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I was irritable about it at first.  Very much so, since it
+jeapordized B5 ever being picked up as a series.  We had a huge battle
+to fight on the premise that there was room enough for two space SF
+series (virtually all the studios had conceded that one), then to say
+that there was room for, and the market could sustain, two *space
+station* SF series, well, suffice to say it caused us a lot of hassle.
+
+       But in the final analysis, you come down to some basic
+fundamentals. First, it comes down to making a good show.  I'd rather
+compete in the marketplace of free ideas; if we make a good show, it'll
+succeed...if not, not, and it's a moot point.  Second, as much as I may
+suspect that the development of DS9 was guided by some of the execs at
+Paramount who had access to all our material, I don't *know for sure*
+that it was...and if you're going to be fair you *have* to allow for
+the possibility of simultaneous, independent creation.  So I'm fairly
+sanguine about it, as much as can be, anyway.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Sep 1997 22:16:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5 Main Title
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you still thining of using silence during the opening
+> credits?
+
+      Playing with several options....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Sep 1997 22:41:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Kristen Cloke on B5 ;>)
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"But we *don't* have to follow the US Navy command structure, or
+faithfully capitulate the command structure of ANY historical service. 
+B5 is a fictional universe.  And I maintain that by the internal logic
+of that fictional universe, a younger captain would not entirely be out
+of line."
+
+      Speaking as the guy who made up that internal logic and that
+fictional universe...there is a profound difference between the
+examples you were citing from the Revolutionary and Civil Wars and the
+situation in B5.  To command a starship you have to have experience in
+combat situations, and also in how to be level-headed enough to talk
+your way out when you have to.  The average career military person may
+enter at 18 years of age, or wait until finishing college or OTS
+(Officer Training School) at 20-21.  You may enter respectively as an
+ensign, or as a Lieutenant, and be assigned to your first unit at that 
+point.  This has nothing to do with any particular country's military
+scheme as simply with the math involved.
+
+      Promotion in EVERY military is based in large measure on combat
+experience.  (Which is why women officers are fighting so hard to get
+access to battlefield postings.)  Working your way up the ranks simply
+takes *time*.
+
+      There's a profound difference between an Air Force captain, who
+is responsible only for his own plane, and a Captain of a large vessel
+who must command a staff and be responsible for the lives of hundreds
+of crew members. Before they will entrust you with that responsibility,
+you have to have proven yourself over the long-haul.  This is all the
+more true with something like B5, where the CO also operates as a
+military governor of sorts.  With a quarter-million lives on the line,
+a person in his or her 20s simply does not have the years of experience
+required for the job...and there is no way to gain that experience
+other than with time.  It's not strictly a question of maturity, it's a
+question of experience as well, and the bureaucracy that comes with
+*any* military structure that says "you must pay your way, and earn 
+your stripes."
+
+      Just because something is SF doesn't mean we must throw away
+*external* logic in our attempt to make the *internal* logic into
+something just because we want it to be so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Sep 1997 22:41:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Kristen Cloke on B5 ;>)
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, it isn't specifically or exclusively based on the US Navy,
+no, but also bear in mind that if you're going to look outside the US
+military system, you will find that promotions generally take even
+*longer* than in our own system...so that may not be in the best
+interests of your argument.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Sep 1997 18:14:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lochley=Tracy Scoggins!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       You're mixing up your terms.  You don't use "better" in the way
+that you are using them here.  You look for the actor who most embodies
+the character you're looking for.  When we were casting Cartagia, for
+instance, there were several actors who you could look at and say,
+"Okay, this actor has more technique than *that* actor."  But that
+ain't the issue.  Wortham Krimmer is mainly noted for being an actor on
+daytime soap operas, and he was competing against people trained at the
+Royal Shakespeare Academy in some cases.  The latter may have been more
+classically trained...but Wortham WAS Cartagia.
+
+       And we knew it in the first five minutes.  The hard part was
+then sitting through all the other auditions knowing that we had
+already decided instantly on Wortham.
+
+       The casting director's job is to winnow down the list to those
+who are real prospects.  So by the time they get to me, the selection
+is already very solid.  When Tracy walked in, we instantly felt, "Okay,
+this is the character."  One other person came in and was also the
+character, with a somewhat different take.  So we brought both of them
+back and had them audition one after the other, so we could compare and
+see which worked best for the character.  It was Tracy, hands down.
+
+       The casting process was no different for this character as any
+other. We knew within moments.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Sep 1997 18:24:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: DS9 = Babylon 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       And of course there's the red-headed Leeta on DS9, and the
+red-headed Lyta on B5....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Sep 1997 18:24:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 5th season
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Lochley is going to be anything *but* a sex kitten....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Sep 1997 03:05:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ghostbusters goes PC
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What the heck is this?
+> Why?
+
+      Sigh....
+
+      Oh, well, thus does the past glow brighter in memory....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Sep 1997 15:23:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lochley=Tracy Scoggins!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, you don't seem to understand the point.  Of course the
+actors you cast have technique.  Where did you get this from? 
+Especially the "some actors are just being themselves" part in this
+context.  Wortham wasn't "just being himself" as Cartagia, nobody is. 
+Neither is Andreas, and neither is Scoggins.  She didn't just walk into
+the room and do herself, she created a character.  Lochley is nothing
+like Scoggins.  Scoggins made a number of actor's choices, and when she
+entered the room, she *was* Lochley.
+
+       I don't mean to be rude, but it's hard to have this
+conversation when it's clear you don't really know what's involved in
+casting or acting or creating a character, and are using your
+misunderstandings to justify ragging on Scoggins.  Andreas was
+neck-and-neck with Morgan Shepard for the role of 
+G'Kar...fundamentally, Andreas' approach was more in line with what I 
+envisioned.  Tracy was the same way.  We cast the person who was right
+for the role.  If the person's not right, we don't cast them.  The only
+time it hasn't worked out as well as I'd've liked was when we cast Mary
+Kay Adams, who was very strong in the auditions, and then made an
+actor's choice to play the character very quiet, to not push against
+Andreas...but you fade into the woodwork if you do that.  So it's not a
+question of technique there, but of choice.  She was right in the
+audition, but her choice later wasn't what we'd initially hoped for.
+
+       And Tracy is *great* as Lochley in all the dailies.
+
+       But basically, this is a stupid conversation.  You're obviously
+hoping to get me to be defensive about her, and there's no need.  Every
+sesaon the same thing happens, a cast member comes in or goes out, or
+there is another change, and some people cry that the sky is
+falling...and in the end, the choices have been right.  There is
+nothing to defend.  Either the work succeeds, or it does not.  And that
+will be borne out in the episode, not the talking.  I had to deal with
+this with Bruce, Stephen, even Claudia, I would point out, from the
+Takashima fans out there, which a lot of folks have conveniently
+forgotten.  Lots of folks online were saying that Tamlyn was a strong
+female character and that in casting Claudia we were just putting in a 
+"babe," and pilloried me for it, and at the end of the day, when they
+actually *saw* what she was doing, they were fine with it.
+
+       So I'm kinda tired of playing that game.
+
+       See what she does first, *then* we'll talk.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Sep 1997 15:23:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 on CNN Headline News
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> They mentioned something that I did not know; that B5 is one of
+> the very few (or perhaps only?
+
+       The original ST won two years running, and just before that, TZ
+won three years running.  In the 30 years or so since the original ST,
+no other show has gotten 2 in a row, correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Sep 1997 15:57:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Voyager: Hugo Stumping
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       No, frankly, I don't think Paramount cares about the Hugo, or
+even knows what it represents.  I don't believe (though I could be
+wrong) that they even *had* anyone at the Hugos in case they'd won. 
+No, Paramount's concern is that the franchise shows are losing ratings,
+and they're doing everything they can to bolster them and make them
+more exciting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Sep 1997 15:57:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SPOILER
+
+ Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will Sheridan really become a president???
+
+       The spoiler is not correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Sep 1997 17:01:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phyllis Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lochley=Tracy Scoggins!
+
+ Phyllis Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm missing something- who is Tracy Scoggins and what role is she
+> cast in?
+
+      Scoggins is on board for season 5 as Captain Elizabeth Lochley,
+who is going to full the void in the command structure left by Ivanova.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Sep 1997 17:01:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lochley=Tracy Scoggins!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Maybe I am naive to say that I don't think that you are 100% in
+charge of your destiny on the show, naive to say that there are outside
+presures that effect some of the decisions you have to make, and naive
+to say that budget and time contraints effect who you cast or when you
+cast them."
+
+      Okay, you're naive.
+
+"Maybe I just don't understand."
+
+      A distinct possibility.
+
+"If I am naive, then when it comes down to it,everything that is less
+than brilliant on the show is your responsibility:  everything."
+
+      I'll accept that only if by the same token I am responsible for
+everything that is *more* than brilliant on the show.  Otherwise it's
+lopsided.  And both statements are inaccurate.  If an actor blows a
+line on the set, if a director doesn't get his coverage, if a prop
+breaks seconds before it was supposed to be used, if a lens doesn't
+show up from Panavision in time for a particular shot...no, I'm not
+responsible for those things.
+
+      For those things that are done deliberately, by choice, by me,
+on the show, I will take full responsibility, whether they work or not,
+except insofar as that may result in stealing thunder from any of our
+actors or crew, in which case the good stuff was their responsibility.
+
+"But then maybe you do think the show is perfect, that when you say
+that there is still room for improvement you don't really mean it..."
+
+      Nope.  That I think your statement is flawed does not mean that
+I think my show is not flawed.  Two vastly different issues.  If it
+were perfect, I would not be struggling every year to make the show
+better than the previous year.  We learn by doing.
+
+      As you just did.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Sep 1997 17:01:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rob Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ghostbusters goes PC
+
+ Rob Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com> asks:
+> YOU wrote for The Real Ghostbusters?
+
+      Wrote for it, heck, I story edited the first network season and
+the syndicated season *simultaneously*, for a total of 78 episodes, and
+wrote 22 episodes (5 of which came after that first season) including
+the Halloween ABC special for which I wrote a couple of songs.  It was
+a great deal of fun to work on, until they messed up Janine, which is
+why I left.  Later, when they realized that had been an error, they
+asked me to write some more with her pretty much as she had been, and
+then to fix the continuity error in an episode called "Janine, You've
+Changed."
+
+      Some of the ones I wrote were Xmas Marks the Spot, Mr. Sandman
+Dream Me a Dream, Citizen Ghost, Ragnarok and Roll, The Thing in Mrs.
+Faversham's Attic, No One Comes to Lupusville, Chicken He Clucked,
+Doctor Doctor, and a bunch of others.
+
+      TRGBs is now playing on syndication again, in the Amazing
+Adventures package...uncut, as far as I can tell.  (I think it airs
+Sundays at 2:30 here in LA.)  It was a hoot, and it's one of the things
+I'm still very proud of.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Sep 1997 17:01:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ronald Legro <75136.2066@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 on CNN Headline News
+
+ Ronald Legro <75136.2066@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is winning a Hugo news?
+
+      Actually, CNN aired the Hugo news last year as well, before TNT
+got into the picture.  That's because a lot of the folks over at CNN
+are big B5 fans.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Sep 1997 17:08:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rob Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ghostbusters goes PC
+
+ Rob Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com> asks:
+> YOU wrote for The Real Ghostbusters?
+
+      BTW, when they did the second season without me, they introduced
+the odious "Junior Ghostbusters," and at one point asked me if I'd be
+willing to write a script using them.
+
+      "Only if I get to drive a truck over them," I replied.
+
+      They never asked me again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 Sep 1997 17:45:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lochley=Tracy Scoggins!
+
+ colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> At that time Claudia *seemed* to be in for S5, now that's not the
+> case, do you intend to shift the ability as another part of a
+> different character, or will it be one of life's little
+> mysteries? (You know - like why is there always 1 spoon left in
+> the bowl after washing up? On another issue, (sorry if you've been
+> over this before), but I just read in SFX that you won't be
+> attending anymore Wolf conventions due to "queueing?" and
+> "treatment of the fans" ?
+>  - Could I ask if that was for sure, or could we all persuade you
+> that you are worth lining up for? Anyways, in parting, can I just
+> say, season 4 is "doing my head in" as we say hereabouts, you
+> don't believe in static characterization do you?
+>  - Anyone asked about yur reaction to Diana's death yet?
+
+      The stuff Ivanova would've done this season will be shifted in
+part to another, but not Lochley.
+
+      Re: Wolf...no, I won't be doing any further Wolfs due to my
+ongoing concerns with the way they are being run, the way that the fans
+are being treated, the unreasonable lines, and other genuine concerns I
+have with Brian and the organization.  They promised that all illegal
+good would be kept out; the dealer's room was *chockablock* with
+unlicensed, pirated stuff, forcing me to have to go and police the
+thing, which was not what I was there for, and put me in some difficult
+situations...they promised that the lines would be dealt with fairly,
+and they were not...I had yelled before at Brian for showing 4th season
+material, as yet unaired in the UK, at conventions, he said he would
+not do so, and yet the music videos were full of this footage (he says
+he only promised not to show full episodes, so that isn't the same
+thing, which is nonsense...he says that he got the videos from others
+so they're not his fault, which is also nonsense)...I have asked him,
+repeatedly, to follow through on his offer to let us inspect the
+records of the charitable donations made by the convention, because I
+have heard that a goodly amount the money never reached its proper
+destination, and I would like to know the facts one way or the other,
+but thus far he has consistently refused to do so, even after having
+said at first that they were available for inspection...I've heard
+enough times that he has been muscling other conventions by telling 
+people he has a lock on our cast that I'm concerned... and so on.
+
+      I have an obligation to associate myself and this program only
+where I feel things are being done properly.  My concern here is that
+they are not, and thus I cannot and will not involve myself or
+Babylonian Productions with any further Wolf conventions.  My cast are
+free agents, and can do what they wish, but there will be no further
+cooperation with Babylonian Productions until these areas are addressed
+and fixed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Sep 1997 17:45:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ghostbusters goes PC
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...yeah, wrote two other books, OtherSyde (novel) and an
+anthology, Tales from the New Twilight Zone, as well as short stories
+appearing in Pulphouse, Amazing Stories, Midnight Grafitti, Shadows 6,
+and a brand new (and rather long) story coming out next Spring in the
+Death Out West anthology edited by Martin Harry Greenberg
+(mystery/crime stories), called "We Killed Them in the Ratings."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Sep 1997 17:45:42 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Stuart C. Hellinger <70402.1371@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 on CNN Headline News
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's enlightening to have all that put into
+perspective.  Most interesting.  Thanks again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Sep 1997 17:45:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Books
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Del Rey has signed a deal with WB to do the B5 novels
+henceforth, and as part of that will be doing a series of three, 3-book
+arcs (for a total of 9 in addition to stand-alone B5 novels) which will
+feature an overall story that I'll assign to the writers involved.  The
+goal is to keep them within canon, but allow the writers some degree of
+freedom, and to fill in some of the corners in the B5 universe.  For
+instance, one 3-book arc may be the story of the fall of Centauri
+Prime; another might be the history of the Psi Corps and what made
+Bester what he is; and the third set strongly on the B5 station itself.
+
+      These stories are still being determined, natch, so this ain't
+final.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Sep 1997 17:45:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rachel McPhaden <101751.474@compuserve.com>
+Subject: scoggins as lochley
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...we always try to get better each season, no matter
+what.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Sep 1997 23:48:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 5th season
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The article re: Andrea is essentially correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Sep 1997 23:54:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ghostbusters goes PC
+
+ SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That was one of yours, wasn't it?
+
+      Yeah, "Dream Me a Life" was one of my TZs and as it happens one
+of the TZs I'm most proud of, followed by "The Mind of Simon Foster,"
+"Our Selena is Dying" and "Rendezvous in a Dark Place."  Eddie Albert
+did a terrific job in "Dream."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Sep 1997 23:55:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phyllis Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lochley=Tracy Scoggins!
+
+ Phyllis Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is captain lochley supposed to be the captain of one of the earth
+> force ships that defect? Who is Diana?
+> What about her death?
+
+      No, Lochley's ship did not defect.
+
+      And the Diana of whom others are speaking is Princess Di.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Sep 1997 23:55:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Congratulations
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> BTW, is this the first consecutive winning award or did TOS or
+> TNG do this before? What episode will you propose when you go for
+> the threepeat? G Give MEmphis Tennessee What the heck is a
+> Tennessee Oiler? Does anybody really care?
+
+      Classic Trek won twice in a row, the original TZ did three in a
+row.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Sep 1997 13:59:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lochley=Tracy Scoggins!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I'd mainly rather look at them myself at this stage, and I want
+to emphasize here that I'm not saying they've done anything *wrong,*
+rather that very little has been done *right* in some very crucial
+areas.  The distinction is an important one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Sep 1997 13:59:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SPOILER
+
+ Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> isn't it a standard in american movies/shows that "bad guy"
+> always dies at the hand of a "good guy" and doesn't public always
+> know that it would happen?
+
+       Please refrain from story suggestions in future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Sep 1997 13:59:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: casting
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> the physical presence of the actor tells you she's the one?
+> or do you mean as soon as the actor opens her mouth to speak as
+> herself, or as soon as she goes into the audition routine as the
+> character?
+
+       The funny thing is, you usually know within, oh, 25-30 seconds
+of the actor actually starting the audition if this is the wrong person
+or not. And in that same amount of time, someone else can either nail
+it completely, or end up on the short-list for callbacks.  It's totally
+subjective and intuitive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Sep 1997 14:30:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SPOILER
+
+ Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (Is that a sufficient disclaimer?
+
+       Actually, no, it's not.  Disclaimers don't work.  If they
+appear too much when I'm around I'll have to leave.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Sep 1997 14:31:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Writing Wish List
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       We have two different views of what the characters should do
+and who they are.  We agree to disagree.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Sep 1997 21:35:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ghostbusters goes PC
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is one of those the one that Rod Serling started and you
+> finished?
+
+      "Selena" is the one I wrote based on Rod's outline.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1997 17:25:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ghostbusters goes PC
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Shane just asked about you collecting your own short stories?
+> In the same vein, would you consider (after year 5) authorizing
+> an anthology of fan fiction about B5?
+
+       I'm open to all sorts of fiction prospects down the road, once
+the show is out of production.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1997 17:25:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Delenn's voice
+
+ T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was that the proposed process to be used on Delenn's voice?
+> And also did Mira's contralto voice give her an edge to be cast
+> for Delenn?
+
+       No, the process on the Minbari voice wasn't the same as the one
+we were going to use on Delenn...and Mira's voice was secondary to her
+overall performance in casting her.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1997 17:25:53 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Abandon Ship
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks, and I'll see you on the net....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1997 17:25:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lochley=Tracy Scoggins!
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> That begs the question does B5 need a professionally run
+> convention? What do we fans get if we don't get Wolf 359 type
+> conventions?
+
+       I've always preferred the fan-run convention format to the
+other sort, so there has to be a way to maintain that structure, and
+I'm looking into that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1997 17:32:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Ordover-Trek Editor <72674.1362@compuserve.com>
+Subject: DS9 IS A COPY !
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's correct...but it's a matter of a space station, with a
+female in command, that is a trading outpost, with a religious leader
+in the midst of it, next to a gateway, with a shapeshifter in its
+pilot, with a name followed by a number...well, one could go on...it's
+the specifics, not the generality, that is of interest.
+
+       BTW, you apparently announced over on AOL with some enjoyment
+that B5's fifth year had been canceled and was not going to happen.  In
+future you might refrain from prognostication until properly qualified
+by the gypsy of your choice.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1997 22:37:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ghostbusters goes PC
+
+ Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance that you'll be collecting the short stories?
+
+      Collecting which short stories?  Mine?  Eventually...when there
+are enough of them for a collection.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1997 22:37:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 5th season
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"It's surprising that anyone would ever think of a five-year story arc
+ - keeping it moving forward despite changes in the cast must be almost
+as hard as putting it together in the first place. It must have been
+one of those things you realise nobody can do after you've done it."
+
+      Boy, you got that right....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1997 02:25:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: DS9 IS A COPY !
+
+      I meant to say female *second-in-command*, both were in command
+though during the attack on the station in both pilots.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1997 02:25:29 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard P. Manny <70762.141@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ST:Voyager
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Didn't see it, so can't comment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1997 20:27:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lochley=Tracy Scoggins!
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Can the producers of shows run fan events as well?
+> What if fans' reactions do not agree with the official line?
+> How many hats can you comfortably wear?
+
+"Can the producers of shows run fan events as well?"
+
+      No, nor was that the intent of my message.  We've talked about
+doing just one, a one-off convention, here in LA at some point in the
+future, but that's all, we can't and wouldn't want to get beyond that. 
+No, my only point was that maybe something can be done to make the
+profit conventions hew more closely to the rules by which the fan run
+conventions operate, and perhaps we can try to influence that in
+future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1997 00:06:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com>
+Subject: DS9 = Babylon 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"I am looking forward to this season's arc on retaking DS9."
+
+      From a conversation I had the other day with a DS9 actor, this
+thread is resolved by episode 6, so it won't go a season, but duration
+is not the issue, the quality of approach is what matters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1997 00:06:49 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lochley=Tracy Scoggins!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Speaking of which...John Copeland and I just did the producer's
+cut on 502, the first S5 episode...and Tracy it *terrific*.  I think
+she's going to to over like gangbusters.  It's a solid episode, and her
+presence adds a great deal to the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1997 00:06:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lochley=Tracy Scoggins!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"What does concern me is the future of the fan convention which, I
+understand, is particularly strong in the Uk compared to the US which
+is mainly professionally run conventions ( Correct me if I have
+misunderstood the situation in the States.)"
+
+      That's definitely, 100% incorrect.  The professional conventions
+are only a very small percentage of the overall conventions that take
+place in the US.  Most are local, fan-run conventions, and a large
+number of regional or state conventions, and those covering several
+states.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1997 00:06:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Grand Theft, drama!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"I completely disagree. B5's Mindwar was HARDLY an original concept
+and was, in fact, ripping off other material. Akira for instance."
+
+      In 43 years, I have never seen more than 5 seconds of Akira, and
+generally have no idea what the story is about.  Anime is one of those
+things that does nothing for me.
+
+      To rip off is to steal intentionally.  I suggest you use that
+term sparingly in future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1997 17:32:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ST:Voyager
+
+ Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know that Jeri Taylor is a friend of yours, but who the heck
+> has control and is making these aweful decisions?
+
+       I'd seen the 5-minute South Park pilot, and last week's episode
+was the first one I'd watched through.
+
+       Sick and twisted and funny....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1997 17:32:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Leesons Learned
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I think what I learned was, never ever do this again....
+
+       It's hard to pin it all down, really.  Since no one's ever
+really done this sort of thing before, you have to make up the rules as
+you go. Every day is a new decision, a different fork in the road...I'm
+not even sure how I'd pin it down to any one thing in specific.  It's
+like saying "what did you learn different going from an automatic
+transmission to a manual?"  It's just different ways of thinking and
+working.
+
+       And it was the EAS Furies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1997 17:32:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Can you check something
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Last I heard he was still planning to be there, but that was a
+bit ago. He's left for the day, will try to remember to ask when I see
+him next week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Sep 1997 02:07:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lochley=Tracy Scoggins!
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> So you think you can run a BIG fan convention well enough to
+> satisfy gusets and attendees on purely voluntary labour?
+
+"So you think you can run a BIG fan convention well enough to satisfy
+gusets and attendees on purely voluntary labour?"
+
+      Happens all the time.  About a month or two ago, I was at
+Westercon in Seattle, about 3,000 people showed up...and it was one of
+the most efficiently run conventions I'd ever attended...all on
+voluntary work by those involved (who were comp'd into the convention).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Sep 1997 02:07:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 on CNN Headline News
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Weird thing is, about next year's Hugo possibilities, I keep
+forgetting No Surrender, No Retreat, possibly one of our best eps from
+this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Sep 1997 02:08:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 on CNN Headline News
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Much as I like IiRT, I agree that it ain't Hugo stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Sep 1997 02:08:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Convention Concerns
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Actors usually charge a much higher appearance fee than a fan
+convention can shell out."
+
+      Actually, a lot of our cast do fan run conventions...Jerry and
+Richard were at Shoreleave and a cruise, Rick has been to Marcon, a
+slew of other local fan-run conventions as well as others overseas,
+Stephen was at Rebelcon a few weeks ago, Pat does an assortment of fan
+conventions, so this ain't as true as might be assumed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Sep 1997 15:14:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Convention Concerns
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  My main concern at these things is always with the
+fans.  My belief is that these people came a long way, and paid a fair
+amount of money, and they deserve to get what they paid for with the
+least amount of inconvenience.  I tend to be very hands-on when my name
+is attached to ANY convention.  At my first Wolf, for instance, I made
+it a point to check out the area where we'd be doing our main
+presentations the night before, and found that a number of the chairs
+had been set up behind pillers and supports so that their view would
+be, essentially, blocked.  When I talked to one of the people doing the
+arranging, and was told that no, that was the way it had to be ("that's
+why we've got some monitors back there, so they can watch it on 
+TeeVee," I was told, which was a completely unacceptable response), I
+(and Kathryn) got in there and personally began rearranging the chairs,
+spending a fair amount of time doing so until we found a configuration
+that would let people see the stage.  (We drew quite a few startled
+glances from some fans who happened to wander in at one point.)
+
+      Having been (and still being) a fan for most of my life, I can't
+condone anything which, in my view, ends up with the fans getting
+shafted. If that means being a pain in the ass on occasion, them's the
+breaks.  But I'd rather do that than something that violated my
+conscience.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Sep 1997 15:14:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Convention Concerns
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, Pat and Bill are, I think, our only cast members who had
+any real convention experience prior to B5, which is why I've taken
+pains to try and help them understand the whole fan scene...which is
+where the "nobody gets cut off the autograph line" notion came from,
+for instance.  By helping them understand the venue, they're more
+comfortable with it, and thus spend time not just hiding in their rooms
+as is often the case with other shows, but instead go down to the bar,
+the lounge, the room parties, and hang out with the fans.  (The tales
+of Richard Biggs dancing on tables at Marcon, Bill Mumy at the parties
+in the UK, others...they go on and on.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Sep 1997 20:29:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: DS9 IS A COPY !
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"And as for B5 being the number one Sci-Fi show, does it really come
+any close to the worldwide popularity of The X Files?"
+
+      Oddly enough, the show tends to do much better overseas than it
+does here.  Well, not oddly, actually, since overseas it tends to end
+up on actual networks, which give it a regular time period, whereas
+here you have to have a hunting dog and a Ouija board to find the
+darned thing.  The videotapes are invariably in the top-10
+sell-throughs overseas, in fan polls it comes out ahead of X-Files
+(having just won the SFX Magazine poll for best SF series of all time),
+and the ratings are comparable.  If anything, X-Files has gotten a bit
+soft lately, while B5 has been improving.  Most of the B5 licensing to 
+date has been overseas, with a huge line of books in the UK, along
+with a monthly magazine.
+
+      That's expected to change when the show hits TNT, with a regular
+schedule, starting in January.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Sep 1997 20:30:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Grand Theft, drama!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Either (a) it's right or (b) it's wrong to make such
+accusations....you can't have it both ways. <shrug>"
+
+      Incorrect.  It's right if it's true, and wrong if it's not.  The
+statement itself is neither wrong nor right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Sep 1997 01:31:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: When TNT reruns...
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's an interesting question.  When I sat down to write In the
+Beginning, my feeling was that I should look at the long term.  Would
+the hole in Sinclair's mind be the same mystery it was in season one,
+or would it be kind of known thereafter?  If so, then do you want to
+play with the mystery, or set up what actually happened?  I figured,
+okay, let's go for the latter...let's let the audience know (which will
+mostly know by now anyway), and set up the background, with the
+characters not knowing the first season. I took basic greek tragedy as
+my model, with ItB functioning more or less as a Greek chorus that sets
+things up.
+
+      If you want to play it as a strict mystery, then no, probably
+don't go near ItB...but frankly, if I were going to start someone off
+on B5, I'd definitely want to start with ItB, which sort of skims in
+and out of the overall storyline in a beautiful fashion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Sep 1997 21:17:18 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lyta inconsistency
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, it's an inconsistency; because humans are inconsistent. 
+But it's only an inconsistency subject to Lyta's
+rationalizations...which are quite reasonable.
+
+      She didn't know the Centauri; she knew Garibaldi...they knew
+beyond a shadow of a doubt that Brother Edward's *life* was in
+jeapordy, and that this person may hold the key to saving his life and
+every instant they waited meant he could be dying, whereas there is no
+such crisis in the Garibaldi situation...they were able to hide her
+identity from the Centauri whereas they would not be able to do so with
+her and Garibaldi....
+
+      The decision to scan or not to scan is essentially a moral or
+ethical decision.  When someone's life is on the line, that raises one
+ethical concern, as opposed to Zack just having a vague suspicion about
+Garibaldi's character and asking her to engage in a fishing expedition.
+There is a quantum difference between the two of them.
+
+      Would a physician give someone the tools necessary to end his
+life? No. Would he do so if the person were chronically ill and in
+constant, terrible pain?  Very possibly.  It's the *context*.  You
+can't expect people to act the same in every situation regardless of
+context, context is everything.
+
+      People are not robots, they rationalize, they are inconsistent,
+but they generally have *reasons* for it that they can justify.  As
+somebody once said, rationalizations are more important than sex,
+because you can *go* a day without sex....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Sep 1997 21:17:21 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ST:Voyager
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> If the studio is holding back the writing on Voyager, why aren't
+> they doing the same for DS9?
+
+      I think Paramount is now more concerned with Voyager than DS9
+because DS9 is a syndicated show whereas Voyager is the linchpin of
+their network. The more visible you are, the more they want to..."help"
+you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Sep 1997 21:17:23 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Grand Theft, drama!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      You keep saying proof, but what sort of proof do you require? 
+The fact is that you say "proof" in such a way that no such proof can
+be supplied outside of a courtroom.  What constitutes proof?  If you've
+said this is what you want, then you must now define it otherwise it's
+unfair.  And it has to be reasonable proof...bearing in mind that there
+are no smoking guns, no videotapes, no bloody gloves here.
+
+      What can be suggested, in the case of B5, is to provide certain
+facts, which are next door neighbors to truth.  It is a *fact* that
+Paramount was given the B5 bible, treatment, sample screenplay, and
+artwork.  This is not open to dispute; we have the paperwork from the
+Paramount development execs.
+
+      It is a *fact* that Paramount and WB were both trying to launch
+networks at the same time, UPN and PTEN, and that there is a *fierce*
+competition between them that has been well and widely documented,
+enough so that Paramount would have a vested interest in attempting to
+co-opt anything that Warner Bros. was doing.  One way to do this (enter
+supposition stage left) would be to put out their *own* space station
+series, under the ST banner, which would hopefully undercut the other
+show and drive it (and PTEN) out of the marketplace.
+
+      It is a *fact* that the development of ANY TV show for a studio
+is guided by that studio's development execs.
+
+      It is a *fact* that the two pilots for DS9 and B5 are extremely
+similar on major, non-generic points.  It is also a fact that the two
+diverge quite a bit therafter, showing that the writers there were
+capable of doing their own stuff, putting us back again at the studio
+level.
+
+      It is a *fact* that I have never, at any time, implied, stated
+or said that either of the individuals who created DS9 had ever seen
+the B5 material, or consciously took it.  I think that if asked to do
+so, they would have declined.  What I have always questioned, or
+strongly suspected, was the degree to which the development or
+inception of that show was guided by the Paramount development execs. 
+So I have NOT accused either of them of "ripping off" B5, and thus
+don't fall prey to your accusation of being unfair, whereas Joel's
+comment about Mindwar *was* a statement about a story being ripped
+off, hence my reaction.  There is not a contradiction there.
+
+     From day one, Paramount has done everything conceivable to
+subvert, sabotage, and drive this show out of the market short of
+firing a LAWS rocket into the middle of stage A.  They hate us over
+there, because they want to have the exclusive lock on space SF.  So
+yeah, I'm quite willing to believe that they could've decided to co-opt
+our format...and it almost worked, too, when WB wondered if the market
+could sustain two space station series, and we came within an inch of
+losing the show before we'd even shot a frame of film...but I've never
+accused either of the two folks who created DS9 of deliberately ripping
+us off because I don't believe they did so.  I have no reason to
+believe they are anything other than honorable, stand-up men.  My area
+of concern has always been in the area of corporate influence and
+intent.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Sep 1997 23:36:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Original "Final Four"???
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Do you know if they are planning to broadcast the "original"
+> final four episodes that were done before Season 5 was renewed? Do
+> they have a special deal or are they just confused?
+
+      No, they'll be showing "Deconstruction" as the last S4
+episode...the rest is just silliness.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1997 11:19:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: When TNT reruns...
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       It's mainly the war, doesn't get into the shadow stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1997 17:41:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New B5 Calendars
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Dunno, that's done by WB and I never see 'em until they're put
+out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1997 17:41:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Severed Dreams DVD
+
+ Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was that just idle gossip as I've seen nothing on it since ?
+
+       The release of SD on DVD is still not confirmed, though we're
+still in discussions and it looks good.  There was talk about a
+widescreen version of WWE on tape but I don't know what the current
+status of that is.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1997 01:19:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phil Herscher <73107.3470@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Severed Dreams DVD
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I just recently got DVD, and I have to say I'm very impressed. 
+I'd thought that it would be a marginal difference...but it's actually
+a quite substantial difference.  The resolution on-screen is amazing. 
+When I'm watching a laserdisk, I'm still aware of this being a film of
+the thing; here, it's just the thing...like watching a glossy photo
+that moves.  It has more features, better quality, killer audio, more
+flexibility, and costs less than LDs.  I'm sold.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1997 12:15:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: DS9 = Babylon5 So what?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Here's the "so what" part of it....
+
+       If we allow for the moment, just the moment and no more, that
+perhaps it did happen as I and others think it might have
+happened...that Paramount influenced the development of DS9 to co-opt
+B5....
+
+       Imagine that you have just spent five years building a custom
+car. And before you can even take it out of the garage, someone nabs
+it.  And every day thereafter, they drive it up and down your street,
+and everyone talks about what a great car it is, and how the other car
+you still have is okay, and should't we be happy that the neighborhood
+has *both* cars to look at?
+
+       And if you commented on it, and someone told you, "so what?" I
+wonder what your reaction would be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1997 17:58:17 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Severed Dreams DVD
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Well, eventually...but when that will be is anyone's guess.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1997 17:58:19 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Severed Dreams DVD
+
+ O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does DVD have reverse and forward still frame and reverse and
+> forward slo-mo?
+
+       It has 2x and 8x forward and backward, with perfect clarity of
+picture, and perfect still frame.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1997 18:06:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Atonement
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> HOW did they do so much damage?
+
+       They targeted visually, it was close enough to do so.
+
+       A hit with full guns of a major destroyer and accompanying
+ships will kill damn near any single ship that does not have some kind
+of defensive screen going (fighers or counter-lasers or missiles or the
+like).
+
+       The fightes wer launched in main while on approach.
+
+       Franklin and Marcus *were* strapped in, which if you look more
+closely you can see.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1997 22:55:51 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com>
+Subject: DS9 = Babylon5 So what?
+
+ Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you think Paramount's development of DS9, as opposed to airing
+> B5, hurt you financially--would you have better distribution,
+> ratings, and/or profits if not competing with DS9 for stations?
+
+      Well, I have a piece of the net of B5, which means that there
+will never BE any profits to me from the show itself, except the
+standard writers guild residuals and a little merchandising.  (In TV
+and often movies, the studios make sure that, on paper at least, no
+show EVER shows a profit, so they never need to pay out anything.)
+
+      The two shows being side by side didn't help us, I think, only
+hurt us. Yes, there was some press about two such shows at the same
+time, but it's kind of like having lots of articles about how you were
+partially eaten by a shark...all things considered, you'd rather have
+avoided the situation in the first place.  It hurt us because they
+rushed their show out onto the air first, so that a lot of people
+assumed *we* were copying *them* when in fact we'd been around for five
+years preceding, trying to sell the show.  It hurt us because some
+stations felt they had to choose between us, and there were a number of
+reporters who came to us with stories of stations being told by 
+Paramount that they had to choose between B5 and DS9, advertisers
+being told that our show was going to be crappy with lousy EFX and that
+they shouldn't buy commercials on our show, editors being told that if
+they covered B5 that DS9 interviews would be withheld...the first two
+years were just nonstop trench warfare by Paramount, which seemed
+determined to drive us into the sea so that they'd have a monopoly on
+this area.  Finally, by year three, they seemed to grudgingly accept
+that we were here, and we weren't going anywhere.
+
+      One producer working on another SF project with Paramount called
+John Copeland after a meeting with one of the top execs at the studio,
+to relay what happened when -- after having some problems with the EFX
+on the project they were working on -- he suggested maybe using the
+same EFX company that B5 used.  The exec reportedly went on a five
+minute rampage about B5, quite profane, saying "It took us 25 years to
+build up this franchise, and those (expletives deleted) are screwing it
+up!  Nobody who works on that show will EVER work for Paramount."
+
+      So yeah, it's been tough...at the corporate level, even though I
+know a number of people who are associated with both ST shows on a
+creative level, and we get along fine.  All the problems have emanated
+from the corporate brass, not the creative people.  We were at ground
+zero for a long, long time...but we're still here, in spite of it all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1997 22:55:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Silly Question
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Say Joe, do you know if there will be a September Windows
+> wallpaper calendar or not?
+
+      Dunno...I think they've kind of let us fall between the cracks
+here with the shift over to TNT, and some turnover in the WB online
+division.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1997 22:55:56 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: jms in Tulsa
+
+      For those in the vicinity of Tulsa, Oklahoma, I'll be at DefCon
+this weekend, to be held in the vicinity of the Adams Mark Hotel.  Will
+be bringing clips from the final batch of episodes, plus clips from the
+two movies, a bit of Tracy Scoggins stuff from S5, bloopers and other
+fun stuff. The main presentation is 1:00 Saturday, with another on
+Sunday.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1997 12:52:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Severed Dreams DVD
+
+ Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know will it just be SD on the DVD or will it be packaged
+> with a second episode? Do you know what background info, if any,
+> will be included? Are you involved at all in the decision making
+> process on this?
+
+       I don't know...all our discussions to date have just concerned
+SD, so we'll see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1997 12:52:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Lord Helmchen <113137.22@compuserve.com>
+Subject: DS9 = Babylon5 So what?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       You should not apologize when you have done nothing to
+apologize *for*. We're talking here, and we learn by doing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1997 12:52:59 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Severed Dreams DVD
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Trying to remember, I'm at the office...I think I got the
+Toshiba. There isn't really that much difference between the various
+models.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1997 23:33:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: DS9 = Babylon5 So what?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, issue 2 is out just now, in fact...it's coming out monthly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1997 22:44:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Del Rey B5 Trilogies
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What has me curious is will each trilogy be penned by the same
+> author (which seems the natural thing to me) or will each book of
+> the trilogies have a different author (which seems strange, but
+> something I can imagine due to the increasing oddities of the
+> publishing business)?
+
+      Each three-book arc will be written by one author, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1997 22:44:48 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Captain Power
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      It's news to me...I have nothing to do with it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1997 22:44:50 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: robert simmons <101671.630@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Congrats
+
+ robert simmons <101671.630@compuserve.com> asks:
+> PS Approx how long before series 4 is released on video?
+
+      Thanks...don't know yet when S4 will be released to video....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1997 22:44:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com>
+Subject: DVD tech talk
+
+ O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which brand and model is this, may I ask?
+
+      I believe I got the Toshiba, baseline model, on the theory that
+they'll upgrade soon, and went for a mimimum investment for the moment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1997 13:44:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: CC Situation
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> She claims there was no offer for 18 episodes made to her --
+> maybe her agent didn't pass such an offer along? Jeff Sigh Corps -
+> Pat Tallman Division Great Maker huh?
+
+       "She claims there was no offer for 18 episodes made to her."
+
+       That's correct, and not correct.  What was relayed to her was
+that if she wanted to be in just 18, and wanted to be paid for just
+those 18, then that was fine...her people insisted that she be paid for
+the rest of the episodes, constituting a per-episode pay increase,
+which couldn't be done without violating the contracts of all the other
+cast.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1997 21:38:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Franklin Closure
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Im not saying Paul Winfield's guest starring specifically, but
+> any dialogue??? Have you gotten similar feedback from fans?
+> Was that creature everyone killed a shadow?
+> Plan on comming to Ny, NJ, or PA anytime soon?
+
+      I'm still leaving General Franklin's line open for the moment;
+the creature with Amis was a shadow servant...and I'll be in Baltimore
+and Taunton, Mass next spring for conventions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Sep 1997 23:24:55 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arthur Stoppe <73710.2014@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CC Situation
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      She was definitely not booted.
+
+      There was absolutely no reason for ANYone to boot her.  No one
+has yet provided one plausible reason why anyone at this side would
+want her gone.  I certainly didn't want the character to go away, WB
+didn't want the character to go away...she left when we couldn't give
+her what she wanted.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Sep 1997 23:24:57 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark Derrick <72317.3662@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From Babylon 5 Magazine
+
+ Mark Derrick <72317.3662@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it true that the serialized comics in the back will soon
+> feature new stories? If so, I wonder if they will be published in
+> the US?
+
+      The new B5 comic to be serialized in the B5 UK magazine will be
+gathered in a graphic novel and published in the US by DC in January.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Sep 1997 23:24:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: jms absent a bit
+
+      Just to let you know...I haven't been online at all in the last
+2 days, and may not be on for a bit over the next day or so, or at most
+sporadically. I threw my back out badly last Sunday, and didn't know
+how much damage I'd done until it reached the point of nearly
+incapacitating me by Wednesday.  So what little time I can put in
+behind the keyboard over the next few days, until the medication can do
+its job, will mainly be spent on writing episodes. It's just a muscle
+thing (fortunately) and I have all the right drugs I need, so it's
+simply a matter of time and healing.
+
+      What apparently complicated matters was that it happened about
+90 minutes before I was scheduled to do my second presentation at a
+convention in Tulsa (I slipped in the shower) and refused to cancel the
+presentation or the 90 minute autograph session following, knowing that
+some folks had come as far as 5 hours drive-time to be there.  Ah,
+well...live and learn.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Sep 1997 23:50:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: CC Situation
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Jeff Sigh Corps - Pat Tallman Division Great Maker huh?
+
+"Sounds just like I figured it was.... her agent(s) screwed her by not
+passing the offer along to Claudia.  <sigh>"
+
+      Nope again.  I was there, in Blackpool, with her and the other
+cast members, and I sat across from her in the hotel pub at midnight
+and told her that unless we got a yes or no by the next day, after all
+that had gone in during the preceding days, the offer put out to her by
+WB would be withdrawn.
+
+      She had all the information.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Sep 1997 00:02:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Whatever Happened to B5?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Yeah, I've been waiting for the 'you're just a trekkie with nothing
+better to do than bash B-5' or 'Oh, look!  Another drive-by flamer'
+comments. But as you said, Martin did outline his points quite nicely!"
+
+      So in other words, you object to the sort of person who
+uncritically goes after someone for giving a negative opinion.
+
+      Okay, that's fair.
+
+      I would also point out, however, that in all the time I have
+seen your posts here, it seems like the only time you come out of the
+woodwork is to uncritically support someone who says somethilng
+negative about the show. Doesn't matter if they say it's too fast, or
+too slow...you're right up there the instant it's posted cheering it
+on.  Not the positive reactions, ONLY the negative ones, insofar as I
+have ever seen, and on every possible issue.
+
+      I would say that the one uncritical kneejerk response is just as
+wrongheaded as the latter...wouldn't you?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Sep 1997 15:54:43 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Whatever Happened to B5?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Because I believe first in foremost in the right of everyone's
+opinions to be considered equally.  That *is* my opinion."
+
+      I disagree.  It is the right of everyone's *informed* opinion. 
+If someone were to come in here saying that all (pick an ethnic group)
+were slovenly, lazy and genetically inferior to (pick an ethnic group),
+I suggest that you would object, because it's bigotry and not an
+informed opinion.
+
+      The B5 forum has its share of strafers...people who buzz in,
+drop an inflammatory message, and zoom back out again, letting the
+bombs crash and the arguments that follow...and have no interest in any
+kind of discussion. Often they never even come back, as was the case
+with the person who said the show was boring.  I notice that none of
+the replies to his messages had the (X) that says it was received by
+him.
+
+      So the quote above is untrue on the face of it.  Also, it does
+sound as if you're saying it's good to be negative, but to be negative
+*about* the negative statement, that needs to be fought back
+uncritically, regardless of the validity of the original statement. 
+The result is that you sign a blank check on your conscience and
+credibility.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1997 11:37:40 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CC Situation
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, there are reasons someone can fall into disfavor, but
+this was not the case with Claudia...if it were, everyone here, myself
+included, would not have been so upset by her leaving, or tried to hard
+to persuade her to stay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1997 17:36:35 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms absent a bit
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Believe me, I fully understand....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Sep 1997 11:32:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 1998 Calander
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       There will be two calendars coming out shortly for 1998, one
+from Slowdazzle, the other from Antioch...and if you forced me to say
+which was better, I'd say it was the Antioch calendar, which from a
+design point of view is just absolutely spectacular, probably one of
+the best pieces of licensing done yet in the pubishing area.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Sep 1997 11:32:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CC Situation
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       I guess it's fair to say you don't know which to buy...I'd just
+note that in 5 years of being online and talking about the show, good,
+bad and indifferent...in thousands of postings over five long years...I
+have never yet been caught out in a contradiction or a fabrication.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Sep 1997 11:32:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS to get royalties ???
+
+ PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So Joe, are you gonna get hefty royalties for Voyager Season 4
+> then ?? Where is Gerry's hair going ?
+
+       "Where is Jerry's hair going?"
+
+       Same place as mine...beyond the rim....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs97-10 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs97-10
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+JMS CompuServe messages for October 1997.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1997 00:29:33 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS to get royalties ???
+
+ PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just wondered if Peter was stealing it for a new hair piece for
+> Londo ?? How's season 5 going ?
+> Have you let Stephen direct any more episodes and if so has he
+> developed a 'mean streak' yet ?
+
+      Stephen has directed 501, and I think is on tap for at least one
+more at this point.  Overall filming is going great, and I think this
+may be one of our best, certainly one of our most interesting seasons
+to date.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1997 00:29:36 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: It's Getting Dark
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Did you finish it?
+
+      OtherSyde is actually the better book of the two, in my view.
+
+      It's Getting Dark I shelved when I came up with a better
+story...which I will write in that wonderful moment when I have
+sufficient time.  About the only extracurricular project I can slip in
+now on a fairly regular basis is a play I'm working on....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1997 00:29:38 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Terry Cotant <70313.1103@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Phrase?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+                                 Judas Iscariot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1997 12:37:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CC Situation
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"We have an alleged meeting which she says she was booted and you say
+never happened."
+
+      John...let me try this again.
+
+      The weekend this supposed meeting took place Claudia was in
+Blackpool, in the UK, in front of 3,500 fans who can verify she was
+there, and not in the US, let alone at a meeting with WB.  It's not "me
+vs. her" on this... there are 3,500 people who saw her that weekend,
+8,000 miles from the WB offices.
+
+       This has nothing to do with who do you listen to, it's just
+looking at the logistics and the realities that have nothing to do with
+any personalities whatsoever.
+
+       Unless she is capable of transubstantiation and nobody told me,
+there WAS no meeting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1997 12:37:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS to get royalties ???
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks..."Racing Mars" and "Lines of Communication" are more or
+less transitional episodes to get the pieces in place for the rest of
+the season. But once things start cranking, they don't let up for the
+rest of the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Oct 1997 03:43:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: CC Situation
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"...her stated view is that she was told it was 22 eps. or nothing by
+the Turner people.  No possible time off."
+
+      Again, this is only a partial statement.  She was told that if
+she wanted to be *paid* for 22 episodes, then the contract would have
+to stipulate that she was hired for 22 episodes.  The probelm was that
+she wanted to have the contract read that she was being paid for 22
+episodes, but appearing in 18, which constitutes a per-episode pay
+increase, which would invalidate our contracts with all the other cast
+members, who are on a favored-nation basis. Had her people said, "Just
+pay us for 18 episodes and we'll just do 18 episodes," there would
+never have been a problem.  We did the same thing for Stephen Furst.
+
+"Yes, when she didn't /couldn't agree to that, she was  "booted"."
+
+      One clarification.  You cannot fire someone who does not work
+for you. That is the one part of this conversation everybody keeps
+forgetting.  As of June 15th, when Claudia did not give the extension,
+her contract expired and she no longer worked for B5, or WB; neither
+had any call or hold on her. What had to happen then was for WB to put
+an offer on the table for her services. This was done.  A deadline was
+finally put on for a Friday, because of the pressures of production. 
+She did not accept the offer, and by that Friday, the offer was
+withdrawn.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Oct 1997 03:47:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS to get royalties ???
+
+ Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question is, was an entire 22 episode package sold to each
+> station--in which case KMSS is choosing not to air four episodes
+> which they've presumably paid to air--or were the final four sold
+> as a seperate package to the stations?
+
+      I don't know the situation on a station-by-station basis,
+unfortunately.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Oct 1997 16:59:27 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS to get royalties ???
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is that the 501 that is now in place of 422, or the first new TNT
+> ep?
+
+       That's the new 422.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Oct 1997 17:05:24 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 1998 Calander
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> US or Brit???
+> Will we be able to get both here in the States?
+
+       The Antioch calendar is a US calendar, the Slowdazzle calendar
+is a UK calendar.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Oct 1997 17:05:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Help Me Promote Season 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       There's really nothing you can tell these people that will
+work. They will always doubt and say it's doomed...then see what comes
+along, and go "...oh..." and then the next thing will happen, and
+they'll do it again, on and on.  When Stephen came in, when Michael
+went out, when the shadow war ended, when we got year 5...I'm more or
+less used to it by now.
+
+       Give them something to believe?
+
+       I did.
+
+       The fifth season.
+
+       Either it's there, or it ain't...and anything I say doesn't
+mean a damned thing, since there's always somebody who'll counter,
+"Well of COURSE he'd say that."  The show stands on its own.  Always
+has.  Always will.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Oct 1997 13:52:52 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Help Me Promote Season 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Nope...no intentions of doing that.
+
+       I have something MUCH better in mind....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Oct 1997 18:36:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 1998 Calander
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I wonder if THIS is why we haven't seen any new calendar
+> wallpaper pages in the B5 web page Special_Elements area???
+
+      No, it's because with the departure of Troy, and B5 being a lame
+duck show in WB's view, there's nobody at the helm over there right
+now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Oct 1997 18:36:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS to get royalties ???
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Does that mean that you will be finish filming season 5 before
+> the serie starts on TNT? Can we expect a new B5 episode once a
+> day?
+
+      No, we'll be shooting through March, and the new eps go on in
+January.
+
+      You definitely won't be seeing *new* B5 eps once per day; you'll
+get the first 4 seasons daily, and a new S5 episode once per week for
+22 weeks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Oct 1997 18:36:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5 Great songs
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's an old gospel song, been around since the 1700s.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Oct 1997 00:29:45 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Pam Jernigan <75540.2554@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS to get royalties ???
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, the new schedule has been set for S5 episodes at
+Wednesday at 10:00 p.m. Eastern, 7:00 p.m. Western, which is a terrific
+slot, I think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Oct 1997 00:29:47 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: No season 4 ender
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, What prompted the new B5 Forum?
+> How's that for fan dedication?
+
+      Good luck with the dish, and I look forward to hearing your
+reactions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Oct 1997 01:26:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 1998 Calander
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"HQ people have never heard of B5, and since they overloaded on Star
+Trek merchandise which didn't sell, they figured it was more of the
+same."
+
+      This kills me...and I've heard it before...because when we went
+on the air, some places didn't want to carry our stuff (like the
+micromachines) because it wasn't (or wasn't like) like Star Trek and
+only Star Trek sells...and now they are reluctant to carry us because
+they think we're like Star Trek and Star Trek DOESN'T sell anymore....
+
+      Some days you just can't win.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Oct 1997 01:26:16 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CC Situation
+
+ Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I've never known her to lie, have you?
+
+"She also says she was never told she could do 18 shows at 18 episodes
+of pay. (whether it was her agent that didn't tell her or someone else,
+I don't know)"
+
+      Actually, if you read her statement, she does NOT say that.  She
+says only that she was told that the contract would read she would have
+to do 22 (if she were being paid for 22).  The 18-payment issue was
+never addressed by her in any of her messages one way or another. 
+You're reading something in that was never actually stated.
+
+      Meanwhile...let me put this to you concisely.  Her manager was
+told about the 18/22 situation in no uncertain terms by John Copeland. 
+Now, I have an agent, same as Claudia has an agent.  When I'm in
+negotiations with someone, as we're currently in negotiations with WB
+for the sequel series, the agent takes detailed notes and relays
+everything back to the client on terms and conditions.  Everything.  An
+agent doesn't just say, "Oh, I think I'll tell my client about A, B and
+C but not D, because s/he doesn't need to know that."  It simply
+doesn't happen.  And at no time has Claudia EVER said, "My agent didn't
+tell me this." She's simply never mentioned this aspect in any of her
+posts.
+
+"I've never known her to lie, have you?"
+
+      Not to say otherwise, but...how long have you known her that you
+can say this?  Have you known her...or have you known the character? 
+I'm not saying she did here...because an omission is not a lie...I just
+find it a curious thing for you to say.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Oct 1997 01:26:20 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CC Situation
+
+ Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So she was psyched for season five at a con, then something
+> happened a month later that is ambiguous at best and this means
+> she was lying about being psyched for seaons 5?
+
+"That's just it, Carl.  They're your *conclusions*.  Unless I have
+evidence to the contrary, I'll take someone's stated facts over what
+happened to them over the conclusions of someone who's using second
+hand knowledge any day."
+
+      A statement is not a fact.  If that were true, then my statement
+would be a *fact*, and someone else's would be a *fact*.  And in that
+case, nothing is true anymore.
+
+      Let me put this to you for a change, Sue: you keep saying you
+want "evidence."  Just to be brusque for a second...what the hell do
+you mean by "evidence?"  What would qualify to you as "evidence?"  Be
+specific.  Be as concrete as you're asking others to be.
+
+      The cast, Bruce and Jeff and Stehen and others, have supported
+everything I've said here, right down the line.  Okay, that's not
+enough for you.  What is?
+
+      You keep asking for "evidence," so you must have some concrete
+notion as to what constitutes evidence.  Because short of producing
+audio tapes of phone conversations (none exist), there IS no such
+evidence, and you're asking for things that either do not exist, or
+would violate confidenatiality (i.e., notes between Claudia and her
+agent).
+
+      You keep demanding evidence, Sue.  Okay, now I'm asking you: if
+my statements, and the statements of those who were in the UK when all
+this happened, are not enough...statements from credible witnesses,
+myself included, that would stand up as testimony in court but are
+apparently not enough for you...then what, realistically, is evidence
+that could reasonsably be obtained?
+
+      Because I think you're deliberately asking for things that don't
+exist, so you can continue to split hairs and make everybody else's
+opinion *just* an opinion, while you state *facts*, at least in your
+mind.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Oct 1997 01:26:22 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: from jms: merchandise
+
+I'm putting this in a few different places, so forgive any
+redundency....
+
+We're starting to pull together the licensed B5 merchandise being put
+out by the fan club, and I'm very pleased by it...especially the pins,
+as noted below.  For a long time now, pirate dealers have been putting
+out fake B5 Earth Alliance pins, and they've been crummily made, either
+flimsy or breakable or thick and clumsy, and charging fair-sized bucks
+for rotten, inferior products.  No more.  Now you can get the real
+things, identical to the acual props in every single respect, and
+overseen directly by Babylonian Productions to ensure that they're
+accurate.  (Along with everything else here.)  But that's been a real
+sore point for me for a long time, and I'm glad to have it taken care
+of once and for all.
+
+The following products are now available via the Fan Club website,
+located at http://www.thestation.com (I'm omitting prices as per CIS
+policy, but will say that the fanclub members get a discount on all
+items).
+
+1)  product # FCM - Fan Club Membership
+
+This gets you the quarterly Universe Today, access to the Gold Channel
+personal logs on thestation.com, and discounts on all FC products.
+
+2) product # FCTC-01 - Fleer/Skybox Special Edition box with JMS
+autograph
+
+3) product # FCTC-02 - Fleer/Skybox Special Edition box with Bruce
+Boxleitner autograph.
+
+4) product # FCJ-01 - Earth Alliance Pin
+
+Baked Enamel blue and gold-tone pin, just like the real ones.
+
+5) product # FCS-04 - "The Great Maker" T-shirt
+
+When I directed "Sleeping in Light" (422), during lunch a substantial
+number of cast and crew disappeared from the set, and returned wearing
+these shirts as a surprise.  A lot of people asked for these to be made
+available, and now they are.  Front reads, "Shh...The Great Maker is
+Directing". The back reads, "And on the seventh day we wrapped".
+
+6) product # FCP-02 - Recognition Chart Poster
+
+This one I like a lot because it's just stinking cool...it's a perfect
+replica of the recognition poster seen in pilot ready room on B5,
+struck from the same master.  It has Minbari, Shadow, and Earth ship
+silhouettes, as you'd see on a WWII battleship.
+
+7) product # FCH-01 - Aggie Hat
+
+The product number may be revised.  This is the crew cap for The
+Agamemnon, Sheridan's ship prior to being assigned to B5, seen in
+"Knives" and which will be seen in the fifth season as well.  (And
+thosext item:
+
+8) product # FCH-02 - Psi Corps Hat
+
+This is another one we've been asked to produce by fans.  The cap is
+black with the Psi Corps logo on front. "The Psi Corps is your friend"
+is embroidered on the back.
+
+9) product # FCBK - Antioch Babylon 5 Calendar 1998
+
+This is possibly the best graphic product associated with B5
+publishing to date.  It's just gorgeous, with montage prints, quotes
+from the series, photos galore, and many of the major events in the B5
+storyline noted by date.  This is a limited edition with serialized
+numbers. We have the lowest numbers available on the market.
+
+And there are the CD's available from us, done by Christopher Franke:
+
+  product # FCCD-01 - Original Soundtrack
+  product # FCCD-02 - Messages From Earth
+  product # FCCD-03 - Avalon
+  product # FCCD-04 - Z'Ha'Dum
+  product # FCCD-05 - Shadow Dancing
+  product # FCCD-06 - Severed Dreams
+  product # FCCD-07 - Walkabout
+
+Again, all this can be obtained via the Fan Club site, which has an
+order form.  Some of this has yet to be added to the form, so in the
+case of short or limited orders, this will let you get a jump on things
+before they're sold out.
+
+What we're doing here is what I think should be done with this stuff:
+you make what you personally would want just because you think it's
+just cool....
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Oct 1997 15:59:25 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CC Situation
+
+ Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Me> "I've never known her to lie, have you?"
+> You> Not to say otherwise, but...how long have you known her that
+> You> you can say this? Have you known her...or have you known the
+> You> character? Did Claudia want to do season five?
+> You> Why should I believe she doesn't?
+> You> Is there some reason that a new contract couldn't be drawn
+> You> up for a few episodes such as has been done with Tracy Scoggins?
+
+      I note in the beinning that nowhere in your note did you cite
+what you would consider "evidence."  So please refrain from doing so in
+future, since apparently you can't define it.
+
+"If someone were to tell me that *you* were lying in this situation, I
+would be just as offended and just as strong in defending you."
+
+      Sue, by taking the position you have taken in this, you are de
+facto calling me a liar.  I have said clearly that the situation was X.
+You have said, repeatedly, that the situation could be Y.  If it's Y
+then I'm a liar. You may think this is just an academic exercise in
+intellectual fairness; you are, however, calling my honesty into
+question.
+
+"I don't know any of the people involved, and therefore I'm not going
+to draw any negative conclusions about anyone unless there is a first
+hand account."
+
+      Yes, you *do* know at least one of the people involved, you know
+*me*, and I *do* have a first hand account.  There ain't much in the
+show that is MORE first hand than me.  You don't seem to grasp here
+that I *run* Babylon 5. No offers are made to agents or actors that I
+don't know about.
+
+"If you were to say "I told Claudia she could do 18 episodes for 18
+pay" then I would see a direct conflict."
+
+      Then there's a direct conflict because that is EXACTLY what she
+was told.
+
+"Claudia says she was never offered 18 episodes at 18 episodes of
+pay."
+
+      No, she doesn't say that.  Look back at what you posted again. 
+I quote you quoting her.
+
+      "I was never offered 18 episodes at a different price."
+
+      Not the same price.  A DIFFERENT PRICE PER EPISODE.  That's what
+I've been trying to get you to understand for months now.  There was a
+desire on their part to get her a pay raise per episode, which would
+violate our contracts with the other actors.  She wanted to do 18
+episodes for the 22 price.  That only confirms what I have been saying
+here from day one.
+
+"You keep saying that *I* don't think your statements are enough. 
+I've never contradicted or disbelieved your statements."
+
+      Yes you have, by implication.  Maybe you don't see it that way,
+but I and others here do.
+
+"1.  Was Claudia told that she could do 18 episodes for 18 episodes of
+pay. If you say "yes, I told her" or "I was there when she was told" or
+"My good friend Bob who I know and trust told her" then fine, I would
+be prone to take your word for it."
+
+      YES, SHE WAS TOLD THAT.  FOR THE TEN THOUSANDTH TIME, SHE
+THROUGH HER MANAGER WAS TOLD THIS.  WHAT PART OF THIS SENTENCE IS IN
+SWAHILI?
+
+"However, so far as I can tell, there has been no statement from
+anyone who can say that she was informed."
+
+      Sue, I sat across from her in a pub in the UK.  I talked to her
+at length.  This was referenced in the conversation by me.  She was
+aware of it.
+
+"2.  Did Claudia want to do season five?  She stated before, during
+and after that she wants to do B-5.  Why should I believe she doesn't?"
+
+      I think -- and this is speculation -- she wanted to do S5, but
+she wanted a pay raise, something confirmed by her comments in the TV
+Guide Online magazine.  Go read it, she wanted an increase that none of
+the other cast members were getting.  (And as part of that interview,
+she says that all the other male actors were paid more than her, which
+is, by the way, an absolute and outright fabrication.)
+
+"Is there some reason that a new contract couldn't be drawn up for a
+few episodes such as has been done with Tracy Scoggins?"
+
+      If she wouldn't go for 18 episodes at 18 episodes pay, why
+should she go for 8 episodes at 8 episodes pay?  At the point we're
+talking about, we got every indication that she did not want to return
+to the show, period. There were no phone calls from her or her people
+saying so, nothing, absolute silence.  Now, you'll pardon me for being
+realistic, but I've got a show to run, and that means we have to have
+scripts ready 4-5 weeks prior to shooting, and the first one was due
+the day we GOT this information.
+
+      What was I supposed to do?  Say, "Oh, no, wait around for a few
+months, until right before filming, so we'll have plenty of time for
+her to come back to us.  We won't have any scripts, of course...."  No.
+I needed that gap in the command structure filled from the very first
+episode.  So now what do I do?  Bring in a character for 2 episodes,
+then turn the show upside down AGAIN and get rid of Tracy?  Because we
+don't make this show for a hell of a lot of money; every dime goes to
+the show.  If we brought back Ivanova for 8, we'd have to fire Tracy.
+
+      No...it's real simple, Sue.  Whatever was in her head at the
+time, the reality is that she walked off the show.  She made a
+deliberate, conscious decision to go.  My obligation is to the 10 other
+members of our cast, the 200 people in our crew, and the 5 million
+viewers to move on and make the best show I can.  There were no
+misunderstandings here.  It was a business decision on her part.
+
+      Now can we please, finally, drop this, so I can put in the time
+I'm spending arguing here back into making the show?  Or do you still
+want to doubt the veracity of me, my crew, John Copeland, and others
+just so you can give Claudia the benefit of the doubt?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Oct 1997 23:37:41 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 1998 Calander
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I thought, "Huh?"
+> Which brings me back to the beginning sort of: what prompted me
+> to call Galoob about the B5 Micro Machines?
+
+      The problem, as I heard it, was that the stores simply wouldn't
+put them out.  They'd sit in the back room because the owner didn't
+know what B5 was, and didn't want to take up the shelf space.  The nets
+are full of tales of people who were told there were no B5 micros, then
+after having the back room checked, found 'em...bought 'em...but the
+rest never hit the shelves, just sat back there until they could be
+sent back.
+
+      Meanwhile, Galoob was being deluged with phone orders for the
+things. They ran out fast, then as the store sets started to come back,
+were able to fill orders of stuff that had been out of stock before.
+
+      On the other hand...these are the sorts of stories you tell
+years later at conventions...like when Mark Hammil sat for 3 hours at a
+comics convention and nobody talked to him because no one had yet heard
+anything about this "Star Wars" movie....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Oct 1997 23:37:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 1998 Calander
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I guess you're right...we've done all we can at this end, from
+here on out it depends on the fans.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Oct 1997 23:37:46 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CC Situation
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Change happens.  Sometimes it's good, sometimes not.  We (the fans)
+still don't know how this change will affect the show."
+
+      Lemme tell you a true thing.
+
+      And I'll bank my rep on this one.
+
+      The Lochley character has added so much to season 5, I can't
+even begin to describe it.  Everyone who's seen her, has responded very
+well, and likes the character enormously.  Where Ivanova's character
+was sometimes a hammer to the head, Lochley is a stiletto blade between
+the eyes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Oct 1997 14:00:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Help Me Promote Season 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah...you'd think some people would figure that out by now.
+
+       But in this case, don't worry...what I have in mind is
+absolutely discreet and classy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Oct 1997 23:57:58 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Goodbye. Probably
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'd hold off on that decision for just a bit....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Oct 1997 00:07:31 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CC Situation
+
+ Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com> asks:
+> issue of Dreamwatch?
+> Do you *really* expect us to believe that you don't just throw
+> scripts together the day before shooting like the DS9 production
+> staff apparently does?
+
+      Actually, this is the one area (since you brought it up) where
+we tend to shine.  Our scripts are finalized usually 4 in advance of
+shooting, so the director has about a month to plan out his or her
+episode.  We've found this makes all the difference in the world on
+budget, and the whole look of the show.  The only changes that
+generally get made are in set locations, to make things easier for the
+art department.  But beyond that, there aren't massive changes (often
+any changes) to dialogue, story, character, any of that; we rarely get
+past 2 drafts, and again, those are mainly for production reasons.
+
+      We've kind of fallen a bit behind this season, due to my back
+and other problems, but we're catching up again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 Oct 1997 11:33:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: CC Situation
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       Well, Corwin is technically Lochley's XO, but she's definitely
+involved in the day-to-day stuff.  You'll understand when you see it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Oct 1997 11:33:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Help Me Promote Season 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+       It's discreet...but not obscure.
+
+       And best of all...it's eternal...and the whackos who've bugged
+me for five years are not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Oct 1997 03:33:28 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: DS9 = Babylon 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"I think B5 has had a similar effect on science fiction. And the
+viewer like myself has benefited."
+
+      This has been our clarion call for the last 4-5 years.  I have
+felt strongly from the beginning that the more SF on television, the
+more there is competition, the less shows can rest on their laurels. 
+Everybody will have to work hard to produce the best show possible when
+there is competition, and the ultimate beneficiary of that is the
+viewer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Oct 1997 03:33:30 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CC Situation
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I will confess that there are momets when I'll be looking at an
+outside script with multiple names on it, and think, "It took TWO of
+you to write this?"
+
+      I think the reliance on big writing staffs is an error.  It
+leads to the frequent creation of little "pocket universes" where each
+staffer has kind of his vision or version of the show, and because it's
+political at that level, nobody wants to step on anybody else's
+toes...and you get a very uneven show, where everyone's also pulling at
+everybody else's script, and delays result.
+
+      The best shows of the past tended to have one writer/producer or
+one story editor at the core of it, not big writing teams.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Oct 1997 03:33:32 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Anthropology
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will you, in S5, be giving us any more of the sense of history
+> for the Drazi, Gaim or Pak'Mara that you have given us for the
+> Narn, Minbari and Centauri?
+
+      Interesting timing on that question...one thing I'm getting into
+this season, which I didn't have time to do before, is the other races
+we've seen but haven't delved into much...the Hyach, the pak'ma'ra, a
+bit more on Minbari culture, others...they've tended toward being
+window dressing, and I'd like to fix that just a tad.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Oct 1997 00:49:44 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 in LA: Sat or Sun???
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It gets broadcast again later that same Sunday, at Midnight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Oct 1997 01:26:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Shadow Tech
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Are they susceptible to telepaths like the shadow vessels were?
+> I forget, will there be a Aggy model?
+> Do John Copeland and Bruce B have an interest in airship history?
+
+"These new EA ships with Shadow tech...Are they susceptible to
+telepaths like the shadow vessels were?"
+
+      Negative...they don't have living beings as CPUs, they're still
+working at adapting the basic tech, the other stuff is still a bit
+advanced.
+
+"By the way, the EA adaptation to the shadow tech is accurately done.
+Keep the basic Omega design and modify where needed."
+
+      Got it in one.
+
+"Do John Copeland and Bruce B have an interest in airship history?"
+
+      Please...these guys are the biggest airplane buffs I've ever
+met.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Oct 1997 16:35:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Current Station List?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I don't have a list like that...maybe the Lurker's Guide does.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Oct 1997 01:07:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Congrats on the Forum.
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  I know there are still a few official glitches to get
+out of the way, but this is a great idea, and it's an honor to have a
+forum here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Oct 1997 01:22:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New Forum Logo?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'm logging on via Tapcis, and didn't know until I read this
+stuff that my face was on this.
+
+      Well, that'll send users away in droves....
+
+      The horror, the horror....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Oct 1997 21:44:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New Forum Logo?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Did you get the copy of "Over the Hedge" I mailed you?
+
+      Comic strip received and copied and placarded on the wall of
+stage B. Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Oct 1997 01:22:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Welcome!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Just sent you a private note on how this may be fixed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Oct 1997 01:07:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Will we see CIS credits?
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Very glad thats changed, now do we get any publicity?
+
+"Very glad thats changed, now do we get any publicity? :)  And di d
+this go through quickly cause CIS and AOL are now one big happy
+family?"
+
+      1) We can but hope, 2) actually, it's complicated things...but I
+hope it'll all work out fine in the long run.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Oct 1997 21:34:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Sierra software?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The first thing out the gate is going to be the B5 guide CDrom,
+which will be out next month or so.  It was done in-house by us, and
+Sierra is distributing it.  It's the authoritative guide to the races,
+weapons, ships, and the world of B5 itself, the locations, other
+stuff...with a LOT of video from the show, and your choice of three
+different guides.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Oct 1997 15:10:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Sierra software?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The other game is still being developed, and it's too early to
+get into the details yet.  Christy Marx is involved, though.
+
+      RE: the guides...in the informational CD rom, you arrive by
+shuttle at the station, and at customs you can choose from three
+different guides: the official station tour guide (rather stuffy,
+formal, only encourages you to go to the nice places), a rather shady
+character who knows all the best (worst) places, and a Gaim.  The
+commentaries on the places you go vary from guide to guide.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Oct 1997 01:26:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Susan <100537.1517@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Sierra software?
+
+ Susan <100537.1517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we be able to order this one via the fanclub Emporium?
+
+      Yes, the fan club will also carry a limited number of the
+CDroms.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1997 02:19:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Terry C <70313.1103@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Sierra software?
+
+ Terry C <70313.1103@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Then what's the title that's on the shelves today?
+> It says "Limited to 100,000 units" (that's limited?
+
+      That's not a strategy game...it's primarily a screen saver with
+a small game element as an added feature.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Oct 1997 22:28:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Sierra software?
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the B5 Guide CDRom the one you considered putting passwords &
+> locks into to release spoiler information as the new seasons
+> progressed?
+
+      No, this was something we couldn't work into this
+version...though there is one little extra hidden in the disk
+somewhere...sort of an easter egg, something that won't come around for
+almost a year in the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Oct 1997 15:19:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Petition for Ivonava
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      And to whom would you send the petition?  And when?  It wasn't
+WB's decision that she leave, it was hers.  She was offered the same
+deal as the rest of the cast, at the same salary bumps as everyone
+else...she wanted more than could be given without a renegoatiation
+that would violate our favored nations contracts with everyone
+else...so here are your choices, there are no others:
+
+1) You give her the increase (18 episodes for 22 eps pay, in the
+contract), and violate the contracts of all your other actors, and
+anger them and destroy the sense of fairness you've worked hard to
+create over 5 years.
+
+2) You choose to be fair and renegotiate *everyone's* contracts, and
+end up without enough money to make the show anymore.
+
+3) You offer the same deal as all the other cast members have, with
+the same salary increases guaranteed in their contracts for each
+season, and leave it to her to decide whether or not to come back.
+
+We did #3.  She chose to walk away.  So if you're going to send a
+petition, you may as well send it to her because it was *her* decision,
+not WB, not TNT's, and not mine.
+
+Finally, I'm finishing script #12 right now, we're more than halfway
+through the writing season.  Frankly, it's too late for petitions, and
+they wouldn't have any effect in any event, because it was never our
+choice.  It was hers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Oct 1997 01:37:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Susan <100537.1517@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Petition for Ivonava
+
+ Susan <100537.1517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Wanna know why?
+> You don't want to believe JMS?
+> But you DO believe Claudia?
+
+      Oh, please, send this to (Hero Games) Sue...at last, a witness
+that can verify what I've been saying from day one...thank you, thank
+you, thankyew... I owe you my firstborn child....
+
+      Can I repost this?  Finally, I have someone, SOMEone, outside
+the company who can confirm what I've been saying, someone who doesn't
+have a vested interest in the situation....
+
+      Thank you....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Oct 1997 01:26:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Darkness
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...yeah, it's a nice, quiet little episode.
+
+      Well, at least, in comparison to what's coming....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Oct 1997 01:40:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Darkness
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I think you just paraphrased most of the Book of Job....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Oct 1997 23:59:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Darkness
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Well, it is the best written book in the Bible."
+
+      Well...the best *story*, with some of the best writing...but
+there's stuff in Proverbs, Psalms, and the Song of Solomon (which
+sometimes gets a bit over-written and racy) that can give it a run for
+its money.
+
+      There was some good writing back in the old testament...before
+it got all showbiz and high-concept....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1997 16:04:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Darkness
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Oct 1997 01:26:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 420: Victory!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"...the symmetry and symbolism in how you structured that final
+battle.  The story of Babylon 5 basically started with the Minbari
+fleet coming to Earth to destroy it at the Battle of the Line.   To
+have the Minbari fleet return to Earth, not to destroy humanity, but to
+save it, especially along side Earth fighters and capital ships was
+stunning."
+
+      Noticed that little touch, did you....?
+
+      What goes around, comes around.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Oct 1997 01:41:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: A. R. Aikman <102335.2072@compuserve.com>
+Subject: D&L: Sheridan=Christ?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"...as I am a visual artist, I tend to notice lighting and
+structure,etc., especially on the second (or 3rd) viewing, and the
+thorny crown was striking to  my eyes, as was the sad,
+dark-circles-under-the-eyes, immensely tired look on his face, which
+lent to the illusion."
+
+      It's interesting when that happens.  There's a halo around
+Sheridan's head at one point when he's yelling at Delenn in the big
+room in "Z'ha'dum," and, just as a pointer to something you won't see
+for another year....
+
+      When I was directing "Sleeping in Light," there's a scene with
+Sheridan and a mirror.  (That's all I'll say about it, so there's no
+spoiler info there.)  As John Flinn lit the shot, and angled the
+mirror...I froze at what I was seeing on the monitor.  I called John
+over, and pointed to it.  "Do you see what I see?"  It took him a
+moment, but then his eyes went wide, and by his own reckoning, "the
+skin on my arms crawled."  He turned to the guys dressing the set and
+said, in a very loud, clear voice, "NOBODY TOUCHES THAT MIRROR!  YOU
+HEAR ME!?  NOBODY!"
+
+      It's not a big...but it's a pretty cool unintended illusion
+(though once we saw it, we kept it).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Oct 1997 22:28:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Sierra software?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Apparently, Hamilton tested the plates in their usual areas
+(with regular consumers and ST fans) and this "research" told them
+there wasn't any kind of market for B5 collectibles.
+
+      I let this pass without comment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Oct 1997 22:28:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Gathering re-edit?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Could you confirm/deny?
+> Also, what changes exactly will be made?
+
+      Yep, we're working on the re-edit now.  There's still just so
+much that can be done, we can't shoot new material...but it's still
+going to be tighter, with additional material, new music, and new CGI
+in many places.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Oct 1997 22:28:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: BTWN Darkness/Light
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"If we want to be logical here, it really seems improbable that a
+White Star could run into a piece of debris.  Ok, the pilot (Marcus)
+wasn't paying attention, they were at high speeds and visability was
+poor."
+
+      Well, if you want to go back and listen to what's being said in
+the episode, Marcus calls out that the navigational system was damaged,
+and they were trying to repair when the big chunk of debris hit them. 
+They couldn't get out of the way for that reason.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Oct 1997 23:59:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Nick and Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Compliment : Endgame<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      That's about the right response....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1997 16:04:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Compliment : Endgame<<
+
+ David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does a possible resolution have the ring of truth, or is it a
+> contrivance or cop-out? If Marcus were to use the machine, but
+> survive, what would be the consequence of his decision?
+
+      Exactly.  As for Marcus, that's precisely the point.  If we do
+what we do to Ivanova, then let her get bailed out, then do the same
+for Marcus, it becomes a double-cheat, and that's not fair to do to the
+audience.  If you bail her out but only at great cost to someone else,
+it's not a cheat on either level.
+
+      And yeah, generally, if you follow the threads, you can pick up
+on where things are going.  It's something I learned on Murder, She
+Wrote, where at the end, when the killer's been revealed, you should be
+able to back up the tape, watch it again, and this time see all the
+little bits that point to his (or her) identity.  It's basically about
+playing fair with the audience.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1997 19:18:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Pam Jernigan <75540.2554@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>EG: Where's Delenn?<<
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Re: Delenn's business...it's in the next episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1997 16:04:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Gathering
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I noticed that in Dean Treadway's latest press release he makes
+> reference to the "RE-EDITED, RE-SCORED pilot movie 'The
+> Gathering' " as being set to premiere in January on the same
+> night as "In the Beginning," so I guess it's safe to assume that
+> you guys finally got the official go-ahead with that, correct?
+
+      Yes, TNT has approved us to re-edit parts of The Gathering, and
+to re-do the music and much of the CGI.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1997 16:04:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon Project: Crusade
+
+ Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has the situation now changed?
+> Is it now a done deal for us seeing the new spinoff series in the
+> upcoming future?
+
+      With luck, we hope to have this puppy finally negotiated and a
+Real Deal within the next few weeks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1997 16:04:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: My license plate :-)
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well, that's great for now, but once the war starts, you're
+going to be seen as a sympathizer....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1997 22:45:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Endgame
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"BTW --- I would like to see a female portrayed as an "evil dictator"
+once in a while. We've gotten to the point where we can routinely
+portray women in power...but we seem to have a problem believing that
+somehow they are immune to the same faults that a man in power can
+have."
+
+      Ah.
+
+      So...still single, then?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1997 22:12:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Darkness
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, and welcome to the party.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1997 22:12:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 421/Empire of Light
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> P.S. Minneapolis?!  :-)
+
+"If this had been it, I would've walked away with a great big smile
+and a full heart."
+
+      Exactly..it doesn't *end* the story, as people kept saying, "Oh,
+the arc is being finished in year 4," it provides a sense of
+*resolution*, which is different altogether, and leaves plenty of room
+for other planned stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Oct 1997 23:42:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 421/Empire of Light
+
+ David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was anything different done for that cgi scene?
+
+      Thanks...the only really different thing about the shot is the
+length of it; usually our shots average 5-8 seconds; that one was about
+15 seconds, so you have more time to get used to what you're seeing,
+and absorb it, and make it real.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Oct 1997 23:42:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Endgame Critique
+
+ Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was he good guy or a bad guy?
+
+      Exactly.  Lefcourt does not think that his job is to set policy
+or overthrow presidents.  The military executes orders that emanate
+from the head of the government, through the chain of command.  Once
+that chain of command was changed, the orders were no longer valid.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Oct 1997 23:42:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Soul mates (endgame)
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Was this by design or accident?
+
+      I think tyrants all tend to have one thing or another in common.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Oct 1997 23:42:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Gathering
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Will the re-mastered version of The Gathering be released on
+> Video here in Europe ???
+
+"Will the re-mastered version of The Gathering be released on Video
+here in Europe ???"
+
+      I've no idea if it'll be released that way anywhere, here
+included.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Oct 1997 23:42:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Green Mars?
+
+ David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has Mars been terraformed to the point where the pressure is
+> similar to very high altitudes on Earth?
+
+      My feeling is that there's been some small terraforming, which
+has helped a little, but there's still a long way to go.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Oct 1997 23:42:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: You know what I want?
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It's so trivial in the overall scheme of things, but who the heck
+> cares? Is there any chance at all of us seeing, in season five, my
+> absolute favorite guest character, Ta'Lon? What the heck has
+> happened to the guy?
+
+      I'm considering a way to slip him back in again for a bit....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Oct 1997 23:42:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Endgame Question
+
+ Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How then did Marcus manage to get a computer link to B5 to dig up
+> the information on the Alien Healing device?
+
+      Because Marcus sent the signal to B5 before the fleet jumped
+into hyperspace, leaving Mars, toward Earth.  We in hyperspace for the
+result, the search being concluded based on what was downloaded.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Oct 1997 23:42:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Comic Book tidbit
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      So what's in it?  I can't get to a comics store for a while.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Oct 1997 22:51:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Susan <100537.1517@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia
+
+ Susan <100537.1517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> do you read the files in here?
+> Will this never end?
+> So what would be the point of bringing Claudia back?
+> If Claudia really wanted to stay, why did she demand more money
+> for less work then, while everyone else accepted a cutback due to
+> the reduced budget (caused by the shift to TNT)? Losing Sinclair
+> didn't take away from the show, did it? Don't you think that he
+> can create more interesting characters? That the new character
+> played by Tracy Scoggins will probably turn out to be equally
+> interesting - didn't Sheridan turn out to be a good character? 
+> I guess you are a "Babylon 5" fan, aren't you? Or rather a Claudia
+> Christian fan?
+
+"If Claudia really wanted to stay, why did she demand more money for
+less work then, while everyone else accepted a cutback due to the
+reduced budget (caused by the shift to TNT)?"
+
+      One of the annoying tragedies of this whole thing is that the
+above misinformation has gotten coin.  Nobody was asked to, or
+accepted, a cutback in salary.  Every cast member got their salary
+bumps this year.  The ONLY change in that respect is that series
+produced for cable operate on a different residuals structure than
+network (big residuals) or syndication (medium residuals)...in cable,
+the amount an actor receives over double-scale is applied as an advance
+against royalties.  Once that advance is burned through, which in the
+case of some actors on B5 happens in just a few runs of the show, the
+residuals kick in again.
+
+      Thanks again for standing up for the facts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Oct 1997 22:51:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Green Mars? <<Endgame>>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, there was no change to the gravity...what should we see to
+show that the gravity was still less?  Someone like Garibaldi is still
+going to weight about 75 pounds, so he's not about to go around
+floating or bouncing, that's pretty solid.  I don't see many
+13-year-olds walking around like they're on the moon....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Oct 1997 22:51:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Susan <100537.1517@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia
+
+ Susan <100537.1517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> do you read the files in here?
+> Will this never end?
+> So what would be the point of bringing Claudia back?
+> If Claudia really wanted to stay, why did she demand more money
+> for less work then, while everyone else accepted a cutback due to
+> the reduced budget (caused by the shift to TNT)? Losing Sinclair
+> didn't take away from the show, did it? Don't you think that he
+> can create more interesting characters? That the new character
+> played by Tracy Scoggins will probably turn out to be equally
+> interesting - didn't Sheridan turn out to be a good character? 
+> I guess you are a "Babylon 5" fan, aren't you? Or rather a Claudia
+> Christian fan?
+
+"If Claudia really wanted to stay, why did she demand more money for
+less work then, while everyone else accepted a cutback due to the
+reduced budget (caused by the shift to TNT)?"
+
+      One of the annoying tragedies of this whole thing is that the
+above misinformation has gotten coin.  Nobody was asked to, or
+accepted, a cutback in salary.  Every cast member got their salary
+bumps this year.  The ONLY change in that respect is that series
+produced for cable operate on a different residuals structure than
+network (big residuals) or syndication (medium residuals)...in cable,
+the amount an actor receives over double-scale is applied as an advance
+against royalties.  Once that advance is burned through, which in the
+case of some actors on B5 happens in just a few runs of the show, the
+residuals kick in again.
+
+      Thanks again for standing up for the facts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Oct 1997 22:51:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: Did I see a Vulcan?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, no Trek ears, no Vulcans.  Wrong universe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Oct 1997 22:51:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Engame COmments
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"I've been thinking about the rapidity of her return to ISN.  I agree
+that there wasn't time to break her out of prison and get her old
+dressing room back for the morning news"
+
+      When the Soviet Union fell, and the prison doors were thrown
+open, a number of reporters who had fallen out of favor with the Party
+and were sitting in cells walked out, went across the street, and went
+on the air within a matter of hours.
+
+      Humans are resilient and determined sorts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Oct 1997 17:59:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: EndGame
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks for the info...interesting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Oct 1997 17:59:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Martin Toggweiler <74041.2400@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Endgame
+
+ Martin Toggweiler <74041.2400@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It seemed strange that those coming to arrest Clarke did not have
+> to fight through any guards, or were these his once most loyal
+> troops who turned on him in the end? Are there many if any scenes
+> from season 4 that never made it to TV, but could be edited in
+> for release on video? Is this Greenwich Mean Time?
+> Geneva Time?
+
+      Yes, EST = GMT.
+
+      And this episode wasn't rushed; it's what you do when you're
+bringing any story to its climax.  It's like watching Aliens, going
+away before the last 20 minutes, coming back and saying, "Well, it
+moved awfully fast."  It has to, you're in the big moment.  No, there
+isn't time for everything, there is NEVER time for everything, there's
+always stuff we might want to see...but what's in Endgame is what was
+always going to be in Endgame.  If I'd known there would be a 5th
+season at the time, I still would've written it exactly the way it was
+written.
+
+      The collapsing was done for the most part *long* before we ever
+got to this part of the season.
+
+      It's just fast because that's what you need to do at this point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Oct 1997 17:59:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Star
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's a good resolution to one thread, while setting up
+what's still to come.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Oct 1997 17:59:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Pam Jernigan <75540.2554@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Star
+
+ Pam Jernigan <75540.2554@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was that filmed for this spot, or recycled?
+>  Worlds, or LAW... <g>
+
+      No, that's a new shot (Claudia at the window).  She was shot for
+that episode for that voice-over...we just changed one line.  The basic
+thrust was that she was going to take some time to *decide* whether to
+take on B5, or to take on a Warlock class destroyer.  So we just went
+with the decision.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Oct 1997 18:13:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Claudia
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"That's where I'm hopeful...that we can let the studios know our hopes
+to see her in any future movies or Crusade.  Encourage other fans to
+write, but to pair enthusiasm with courtesy...<G>."
+
+      Two things:
+
+      1) It wasn't the studio's choice in the first place, it's not
+like they wanted her gone...she left, so there's not much point in
+writing them.
+
+      2) It's not their call in many ways on future projects in ANY
+event; they basically let me write whatever I want, so it's my call.
+
+      What the fans need to know...is that by constantly bugging me
+about this and haranging me and hassling me about it...they are not
+leaving me well disposed toward that prospect.  I have a tendency, when
+pushed and generally honked off, to go in the exact opposite direction
+of where I'm being pushed.
+
+      Yeah, it's probably stupid and immature, and I should deal with
+such hassling better...but I'm human, rumors to the contrary...and in
+that respect, writers are like violins...finely tuned and highly
+strung.  Don't mess with the strings.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Oct 1997 18:13:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Soul mates (endgame)
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      You're thinking of "Anthem for the Common Man."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Oct 1997 22:57:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Susan <100537.1517@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Sorry got that mixed up...."
+
+      Not your fault.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Oct 1997 22:57:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Green Mars? <<Endgame>>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Were these things addressed before?
+
+      One thing we've noted is that there's been some minor
+terraforming on Mars over the 175 or so years we've been there.  It's
+still a hostile climate, but not as bad as it is right now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Oct 1997 22:57:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Green Mars? <<Endgame>>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Worth spending 30 seconds on it?
+> Isn't artistic license good for anything anymore?
+> Did I miss some dialog in past episodes that established him as
+> obeying an order to kill civilians? Can you tell us yet what "The
+> ascension of the ordinary man" meant to Clarke?
+
+"If you had time to spare in the episode (ho ho), you might have
+suggested the different ratio of inertial mass to weight by having
+character's feet skid out from under them when stopping, bouncing off
+walls while turning corners, overbalancing on turns, or catching things
+they had dropped two seconds after dropping them.  Maybe tossing a CGI
+grenade."
+
+      Except, of course, this would've looked awfully silly on camera.
+
+      BTW, remember that Number One and Garibaldi, as well as Lyta,
+have experience with living on Mars, so they would automatically
+compensate.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Oct 1997 22:57:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ATTN: JMS Taken in Vain
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      All good points...you may be right (on most of them).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1997 01:16:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 501: Or is it 422?
+
+ David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you catch the dedication at the end?
+> Also, did notice that the episode was described as "Sleeping in
+> Light" when the satellite feed first came on, before changing at
+> the last second to the correct title? Fess up, Joe, where you
+> having a bit of fun with us? David
+
+"My personal nit is that JMS has the sun going nova in only a million
+years. This seems several orders of magnitude too soon for me."
+
+      Actually, the computer voice specifies that it is continuing to
+note atypical solar emissions...atypical meaning something unusual is
+going on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1997 15:39:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Rising Star
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"I'd just like to know why this info was important enough to pass
+along to the ambassador of minbar... :)"
+
+      Because Lennier is quite familiar with the concept of unrequited
+love, and because hope burns eternal.
+
+      Which is probably the most damnable part of unrequited love.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1997 01:16:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 501: Or is it 422?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"My personal nit is that JMS has the sun going nova in only a million
+years. This seems several orders of magnitude too soon for me."
+
+      Actually, the computer voice specifies that it is continuing to
+note atypical solar emissions...atypical meaning something unusual is
+going on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1997 15:39:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arthur Stoppe <73710.2014@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Endgame
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Well, unless its a coincidence, the "circled doodled message left by
+madman after he commits suicide" is VERY similar to what happens in Dr.
+Strangelove. Again, maybe its JMS's homage to Kubrick (like the "2001"
+style spacesuit that appeared in a second or third season episode, I
+forget which, of B5)."
+
+      Just to clarify this....
+
+      Re: the note...the script as written calls only for the finding
+of a note with the words "scorched earth" on it.  It was John
+Copeland's idea to do the note as shown, and yes, he's said quite
+openly over on AOL that it was his nod to Strangelove.  (John directed
+that episode.)
+
+      Re: the suit...that wasn't an intentional 2001 nod...we went to
+Modern Props to get a space suit for Babylon Squared, and the only one
+they had on hand that would work for us was one left-over from 2010,
+which I asked the folks in costume to change as much as
+possible...though it was pretty much what it was regardless.  So that
+one wasn't intentional.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1997 11:39:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: GIF arrived
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes, it did...thanks...lots of fun.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1997 11:39:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Endgame
+
+ Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> She thoroughly enjoyed it, as did I, but she was baffled by some
+> medical questions: IV bags? Garibaldi having his wound sutured?
+> Ivanava in a head restraint?
+> She couldn't help but ask, if this is 300 years (give or take a
+> few) in the future, why do the medical sets look more like 20th
+> century medicine than 23rd century? Bob
+
+      Our shipment of medsupplies from the 23rd century hasn't arrived
+yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1997 12:51:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: The Dark jedi <110014.2055@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Marcus> [spoilers...]
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thank you...it was hard doing that to the character, but it was
+the only way to handle the situation with any integrity and honesty. 
+Very hard to write.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1997 12:51:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Con in Pasadena, CA
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Last I heard, as of last week, yeah, he was going.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1997 22:42:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 421: Structure
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would it be at all possible for you to help clarify the structure
+> of the new Alliance for us? Or is this something that will be made
+> clear in the series?
+
+      The Rangers are independent in authority, answering only to
+Delenn and Sheridan and the members of the Alliance council and
+advisory board.  (In roughly descending order.)  But their jurisdiction
+is exclusively in interplanetary situations between various member
+races.  Each member race has the sovereign authority to govern its
+people in its own way.
+
+      The closest comparison is that overall, the states are free to
+enact their own laws, but the US Government has sole claim over
+international matters.  Except here the states would have far more
+autonomy than is currently the rule; more like pre-Civil War America.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1997 22:42:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >> Rising Star End <<
+
+ Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If you had known that a fifth season was coming would you have
+> done Delenn's speech differently, and if so how?
+
+      I don't know if I would've done hre speech differently or not,
+to be honest...knowing it now, I'm not sure how I'd improve it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1997 22:42:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >> John and Delenn <<
+
+ Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Anyway after watching, John and Delenn in bed my wife looks over
+> at me and asks "Do you suppose that her side of the bed raises up
+> since she doesn't like to sleep lying down?"
+
+      They will alternate, as you'll see soon....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1997 22:42:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 421: Garibaldi
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Quick question: Are Garibaldi and Lise now married?
+> What's the scoop?
+>  -- Brent
+
+      No, they're not yet married.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1997 14:03:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Luchenko returns?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Would love to use her again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1997 22:51:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Last episode #
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's officially tagged as 422.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1997 22:51:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kirk Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Star
+
+ Kirk Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How long do Minbari live?
+> Does Lennier have a chance after Sheridan's time runs out?
+
+      Minbari can live to about 120, with some rare exceptions going
+beyond that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1997 22:51:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Gathering re-edit?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"What was wrong with the original?"
+
+      I was new at exec producing, and deferred 'way too much to the
+director, whose cut was, frankly, slow and left all the best character
+moments on the cutting room floor.  We lost 14 minutes of good stuff,
+which is now going to go back and we're going to tighten and make it
+better, the way we do our cuts on all the episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1997 22:51:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ATTN: JMS Taken in Vain
+
+ Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the SF R/T there still running and are you still as active as
+> you used to be or either CIS or AOL more or less your "homeports"
+> now?
+
+      I'm still kind of everywhere...and they've got much faster
+access over at GEnie now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1997 22:51:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Another conversion
+
+ Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Roseann "Does the noise in my head bother you?"
+
+      Thanks...that's how it happens, one by one by word of mouth....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1997 22:51:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Rising Star> Bravo
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...and from our current position, 12 scripts (and 9 shot
+so far) into S5, I think you're going to be pleased at what's coming.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1997 00:34:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylonian Model/Movie
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Should you get the go-ahead (under acceptable terms to you) to do
+> a B5 feature film, would you be able to do it at the current
+> Babylonian facilities, or would the scope of such a project force
+> you to relocate? And, as a corollary, would you be able to apply
+> the "Babylonian model" of efficient production to a feature film,
+> or does it best serve the interlocking demands of a TV series?
+
+"Should you get the go-ahead (under acceptable terms to you) to do a
+B5 feature film, would you be able to do it at the current Babylonian
+facilities, or would the scope of such a project force you to
+relocate?"
+
+      We'd do a lot of the indoors stuff here, to take advantage of
+standing sets for some of it, but for other parts we'd have to go on
+location and other stuff.
+
+"And, as a corollary, would you be able to apply the "Babylonian
+model" of efficient production to a feature film, or does it best serve
+the interlocking demands of a TV series?"
+
+      Yes, but in different ways.  For instance, the CGI is not
+rendered at a level greater than can be handled by TV screens
+(including HDTV) because it's a waste, you'll never see the
+difference...but for a feature you'd have to render at a higher
+resolution.  So there's a lot that would apply, and some that wouldn't.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1997 00:34:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Star
+
+ Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  thinking her character wasn't expendable.
+
+"I wonder if, knowing she was to in command of B5 for the 5th season,
+made her overconfident in negotiations, thinking her character wasn't
+expendable."
+
+      jms hums quietly to himself, looking around the room, saying
+nothing
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1997 10:54:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steven K. Andeweg <72143.674@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Endgame
+
+ Steven K. Andeweg <72143.674@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When you started the computer program that ran the CGI for that
+> episode, just exactly how many homeowners in southern California
+> lost power? I mean, the Agamemnon coming through that flaming
+> explosion?
+
+      Thanks...a hideous amount of rendering power and time went into
+that episode, and the result is all there on-screen.  The only bigger
+CGI feast is in the prequel, which is approximately 21% EFX, most of it
+pure CGI and composites.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1997 10:54:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Rising Star> Ivanova VO
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Christian?
+
+      Does kinda resonate, doesn't it?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1997 21:21:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randy <75464.1275@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Last ep (wow)
+
+ Randy <75464.1275@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How can this story ever end??
+
+      And of course we had those who wondered what else there would be
+to fill in a fifth year...not understanding that I have this story
+worked out in at least broad strokes for the next 1,000 years....
+
+"How can this story ever end??"
+
+      The story never ends.  It's this part of the telling that will
+end.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1997 22:02:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Gathering re-edit?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Basically, it's new scenes with the characters, new CGI in many
+places, and new music.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1997 22:02:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Rising Star> Bravo
+
+ Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In the pilot and the first few eposides you say that Sinclair is
+> the last commander of Babylon 5- I find that very confusing??? Do
+> you plan to bring him back for another eposode?
+>  Spinoza too) I haven't had this much fun with a series for a
+> long, long time.
+
+      Actually, Sinclair is never specified by name as the last
+commander.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1997 22:02:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: to nitpick or not
+
+ Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why should I tell you how to do yours?
+
+      Thanks....
+
+      I think a lot of the nitpicking comes out of people feeling they
+*have* to express an opinion about something.  It's something you learn
+as a writer; if somebody goes into a bookstore and buys a book, they
+bring it home, read it, and if they like it, they like it; if they
+don't, they don't, and that's really kind of it, just the broad
+strokes.  If you write a book and give it to a friend, the friend will
+feel s/he has to go through it and give you critical responses..."I
+just didn't buy it when John bought the vanila ice cream cone on page
+47, a guy like that would buy chocolate."
+
+      Once the creation of the show is over, I think that it'll fall
+back into the general reaction category.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Oct 1997 11:42:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Deconstruction
+
+ Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just how much of it has been altered or edited to satisfy the
+> sensibilities or agendas of a given time? How will Watergate look
+> in 2072? How did WWII *really* look?
+> And again - how much of what we read in the news has been altered
+> or spun by the authors, their papers or networks, etc.? Di Conlin,
+> Wielder of the Lesser Salmon of Discipline, TUS (AKA Tigger)
+> Great Maker, huh?
+
+      The interesting thing about revisionism is, as you say, that so
+much of it goes on already.  John Copeland over lunch the other day was
+outraged over a situation where new Japanese textbooks are being
+introduced indicating that the rape of Nanking never happened, and that
+the bombing of Pearl Harbor was in retaliation for Hiroshima.
+
+      I'm constantly amazed....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Oct 1997 11:42:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Pam Jernigan <75540.2554@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Deconstruction
+
+ Pam Jernigan <75540.2554@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 2262 (ISN NightSide): Was it just my imagination, or did the
+> Paris speechwriter seem an awful lot like James Carville? Wonder
+> why Delenn lives so long, considering that Minbari live to 120,
+> tops, and humans live less than that? 2762 (propaganda holograms):
+> My, we humans don't improve with age, do we? he doesn't know his
+> own history, does he? I noticed the little roman numerals that
+> kept appearing in the lower left hand corner of the screen - I'm
+> guessing they referred to cameras? Part of the automatic tracking
+> system that Brother Alwin mentioned? More clues here, too: "the
+> blessed Sheridan, who lived and died and lived again and who was
+> taken bodily into heaven"? "Marcus the Purehearted," anyone?
+> I wonder if the Rangers are all recruited on Earth, or if a lot
+> of them come from the old colonies? So, humans are now energy
+> beings, with encounter suits? PJ ^^^^
+
+      Good comments.  One note:
+
+"The credits were interesting.  Claudia Christian has been almost
+completely excised from them, which, considering that Jason Carter
+still has a credit, seems kinda petty."
+
+      WB called us after we'd done the credits for that episode, about
+5 days before the uplink, after realizing that if her credits were in
+that episode, AND in "Sleeping in Light" which appears in S5, that it
+could very possibly trigger another salary payment, which is
+substantial.  So we could credit her in one or the other, and since she
+wasn't in DoFS, it's S5, that was the one to take out.  Since Jason
+wasn't in "Sleeping," it was okay to leave him in.
+
+      It was a WB mandate from business affairs, nothing more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Oct 1997 11:58:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Terry C <70313.1103@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylonian Model/Movie
+
+ Terry C <70313.1103@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, what are the chances of a feature film?
+
+      There have been talks, but we'll have to see what happens.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Oct 1997 11:58:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randy <75464.1275@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Last ep (wow)
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Oct 1997 11:58:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: the "old" Anna
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have/Will/Can you change that?
+
+      It's one of those things we'll do when we get enough round
+tuits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Oct 1997 12:09:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Star
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"it came down to contractual language vs personal assurances (thats as
+short a summation as I've ever seen of this :) )... and CC  / agent
+were more concerned with the former, and jms thought the latter should
+be adequate"
+
+      It was also contractual language on other sides, since giving
+what was asked for would've violated our contracts with every other
+member of our cast, and we couldn't do that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Oct 1997 12:09:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: New B5 Logo on Ace Awds
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      For those planning to watch the Cable Ace Awards this
+weekend...be on the lookout, there's going to be a clip from B5 (with a
+twist at the end) which will lead off with a new B5 logo which we're
+introducing for the fifth season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
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+JMS CompuServe messages for November 1997.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+
+Date: 01 Nov 1997 22:26:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New B5 Logo on Ace Awds
+
+ SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What day/time will it be?
+
+      Oops, I may have the wrong date, it may be next weekend.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Nov 1997 22:26:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New B5 Logo on Ace Awds
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it possible that the Cable Ace awards are taking place this
+> weekend but being televised at a later date? I could find no
+> reference to them for this weekend in the TV Guide (and what with
+> chasing B5 eps all over the schedule one becomes a rather intent
+> reader of TV Guide <g>)?
+
+      I think it's next week, I screwed up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Nov 1997 22:35:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ronald Legro <75136.2066@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Deconstruction
+
+ Ronald Legro <75136.2066@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Three-camera setup?
+> Or just a well-done sim?
+> The female senator?
+
+      Stephen filmed that sequence by having all of the cast on the
+set at the same time, running multiple film cameras to get each version
+"live."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Nov 1997 22:26:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Doug Gordon <71610.247@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Deconstruction
+
+ Doug Gordon <71610.247@compuserve.com> asks:
+> a direct decendant of Brother Theo's order on Babylon 5?
+> And, if it doesn't reveal any great secrets, is there any chance
+> we'll see Brother Theo in Season 5?
+
+"By any chance, is the post-apocalyptic religious order shown in
+"Deconstruction . ." a direct decendant of Brother Theo's order on
+Babylon 5?"
+
+      It's altogether possible....
+
+      And Theo is only awaiting a story worth bringing him in for.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Nov 1997 22:26:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: New B5 Logo
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I was advised to repost this here rather than the technical
+section...
+
+      A new Season 5 B5 logo will be debuting on the Cable Ace awards
+in a snipped from the show...just a word to the wise....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Nov 1997 19:45:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New B5 Logo on Ace Awds
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The Ace Awards have honored such genre shows as The Outer Limits,
+> if I'm not mistaken, so am I right in thinking that they might be
+> more open than the Emmys to considering B5 for the more
+> first-tier awards such as acting, writing and directing?
+
+      I think we'll have better shots at everything, across the board,
+once we're over on TNT.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Nov 1997 19:45:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: faith manages
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Exactly (and thanks).  A few people have interpreted the final
+card as "meanspirited" (when it's on one level a reaction *to* five
+years of constant carping and meanspiritedness from lots of sectors,
+from the nets to the press and elsewhere)...but what it is, is a
+statement of hope.  That whenever you try something different, there
+are going to be naysayers, and people who say it can't be done, and
+certainly can't be done by *you*.
+
+      It ain't just B5, it's any dream out there.
+
+      And in the end, they are wrong.
+
+      Faith manages.
+
+      That's the message of the card.
+
+      That, and the truth that in 10 years the naysayers will be
+forgotten, and made irrelevant...but the show, the *show*...goes on. 
+And will be around long after they and I have gone to dust.  And all
+people will know when they see that card, 50 years from now, was that
+some jerks said it couldn't be done, and they were wrong, because they
+are *always* wrong.  If you have the dream, the ability and the
+passion, you can bring your dreams to life despite overwhelming
+opposition.  That's the message.
+
+      But for those on the other side, they will never see anything
+other than meanspiritedness because that's all they can *ever*
+see...because that's all they can bring to the table.
+
+      There's an old saying about books, which I'll rephrase to
+include B5: Babylon 5 is like a book, and a book is like a mirror: if
+an ass peers in, you can't exactly expect an apostle to peer out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1997 00:15:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: faith manages
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Happily your note could only be read as mean-spirited by someone
+feeling a bit guilty. It is a mirror: you get out of the comment what
+you put into it's creation. You see it as a redemption/accomplishment
+of a plan, I see it as a confirmation of my own fandom, and a critic
+will see it as an insult on his/her own unkind words."
+
+      Something for everyone....
+
+"But have you had many negative comments about it? I hope not as many
+as you've had positive."
+
+      No, not that much...and what there is, is mainly from the
+weasels for whom it was somewhat intended.
+
+"BTW: was my interpretation of the fiery emergence of the Agamemnon an
+over-interpretation on my part? Or will you remain enigmatic - it
+means whatever it means!"
+
+      It seemed an appropriate placeholder when WB told us we had to
+omit Claudia's credit because she also appears in (the new) 522,
+"Sleeping in Light," to avoid incurring fees.
+
+"It's been said B5 represents a paradigm shift in science fiction -
+and we're all better for it."
+
+      Sometimes I think maybe we've actually done it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1997 00:00:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A Call for Help
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'd just like to add that I've met Cecelia, and we've exchanged
+any number of emails, and I've been following her condition for some
+time.  If anybody out there is able to help, consider this a definite
+encouragement to do so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Nov 1997 19:45:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Decon->/Recon-struction
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...as always, thoughtful and cogent and pulling together a
+lot of the threads introduced in the show.
+
+      Stop that, you know the rules on being sensible on the nets....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Nov 1997 19:45:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jose Cabanillas <71020.3316@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Endgame:Teep & ?
+
+ Jose Cabanillas <71020.3316@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Second - will we ever see Major Morris again?
+> Actor problems?
+
+      The other teep was an extra, and extras generally go uncredited,
+and there wasn't time to work in the other Major at this point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1997 00:15:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<DFS>> -Crusades?
+
+ John Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com> asks:
+> is about?
+
+      Thanks...no, that part isn't the crux of the Rangers series,
+because that takes place 'way down the road, but monks have always been
+around on the show, starting with Brother Theo, so I imagine we'll see
+them in future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1997 23:19:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Last ep (wow)
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Was this a deliberate act on the part of _Man_?
+> they caused Sol to explode?
+> Your input?
+
+      If you play back the segment, the computer notes that the
+"atypical solar emissions" are getting stronger...so clearly something
+not natural is going on with the sun.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1997 23:47:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Last episode #
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is this true?
+> If so, why is B5 being discontinued?
+
+      Nope, it's still going on...S5 begins next January on TNT.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1997 23:47:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com>
+Subject: DoFS
+
+ Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What say ye?
+> If you have time, after watching this ep half a dozen times, what
+> were you attempting to convey?
+
+      Your friends should understand that the actors credits are
+always given in an episode; so no, that wasn't Jason.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1997 23:47:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Gathering re-edit
+
+ SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will the 14 minutes being restored to "The Gathering" include
+> Marianne Robertson's "hostage" scene?
+
+"Will the 14 minutes being restored to "The Gathering" include
+Marianne Robertson's "hostage" scene?"
+
+      Yup.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1997 23:47:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The One <Deconstruction>
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is Sheridan the "One Who Will Be" because he stops the
+> Vorlon/Shadow war and ends the reign of the First Ones? Is it
+> because he is the founder of the new Interstellar Alliance? Or is
+> there yet another (currently unrevealed) reason? Did Zathras see
+> the founding of the new Alliance, or just the end of the
+> Vorlon/Shadow war? Does "The One" take on a different meaning
+> beyond the Sinclair/Valen-Delenn-Sheridan trilogy in the
+> *future*?
+
+1.  Is Sheridan the "One Who Will Be" because he stops the
+Vorlon/Shadow war and ends the reign of the First Ones? Is it because
+he is the founder of the new Interstellar Alliance?  Or is there yet
+another (currently unrevealed) reason?
+
+      That's part of it, and what he grows into.
+
+2. Did Zathras see the founding of the new Alliance, or just the end
+of the Vorlon/Shadow war?
+
+      I think he had a sense of it.
+
+3.  Does "The One" take on a different meaning beyond the
+Sinclair/Valen-Delenn-Sheridan trilogy in the *future*?
+
+      Depends on how you look at it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1997 23:47:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The One <Deconstruction>
+
+ Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I have a couple problems with deconstruction- I watched it twice
+> and still can't figuer out how the future was transmitted? was it
+> a sheridan dream and not a real future? The time periods seemed
+> disjointed perhaps it needed two or three programs to develop? 
+> There is also the one who is to come in the Grey council's circle
+> of Naroon?
+>  Phyllis
+
+      The future wasn't being transmitted back; we were seeing the
+records of the past from the point of view of the final character, one
+million years hence, who has come to collect them prior to the final
+chapter in Earth's history.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1997 23:47:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Deconstruction
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, Stephen also directed The Illusion of Truth.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Nov 1997 23:47:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New B5 Logo on Ace Awds
+
+ Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com> asks:
+> what, what????
+> You screwed up????
+
+      Of course I make the same mistake.
+
+      I just never make the same mistake *twice*.
+
+      I go on to find new ones....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1997 21:21:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Darkness
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Well it's been a great ride and I have used up a lot of pantyhose!"
+
+      Then I will be brief.
+
+"What if anything do you have in store for us series or movie wise in
+the future?"
+
+      Well, there's Crusade (the follow-up series), the B5 prequel,
+the 2nd B5 TV movie ThirdSpace, a third TNT movie now in development,
+and several other series notions I have in various stages of
+development, a couple of novels I'm working on, a play, WB wants to
+talk about a B5 feature film....
+
+      Other than that, not much.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1997 22:11:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arthur Stoppe <73710.2014@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Deconstruction
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The painted letters were on the *right* side of the shuttle as
+it went in.  The CGI inside the bay showed the left side.
+
+      We don't miss these things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Nov 1997 02:20:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Deconstruction
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What was the insignia on the Human "vorlon" ship as it apparently
+> went with humanity beyond the rim? Is there a need for symbols in
+> 1,000,000 years? Do the humans take their social grouping needs
+> beyond the rim?
+
+      It's a Ranger symbol.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1997 22:11:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Censors
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What scenes, if any, have you written in reference to that?
+> IOW, what have you written that takes advantage of the lack of
+> censors?
+
+      Mainly it's been in terms of the violence and language...I don't
+think we ever could've done G'Kar's whipping scene on network TV, for
+instance.
+
+      What I was thinking of at the time I said it, though, was the
+sudden realization that I could have Cartagia talking to a bunch of
+heads on his desk....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1997 22:11:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: George N. Ortiz <110060.613@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Sierra software?
+
+ George N. Ortiz <110060.613@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I think I already know the answer to this question but will ask
+> it for the people who are not masochists and have Macintosh's;
+> When will a Mac version of the B5 CD-Rom come out? I imagine a
+> year after the Windoze version?
+
+      The mac and pc versions of the B5 informational CDrom should be
+out at the same time; they were designed for both platforms going in.
+
+      They should be for sale around the 15th or so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1997 22:11:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Live chats OnLine
+
+ Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you by any chance sell prepaid admission tickets for the next
+> one? One of the things I was gonna ask you,is: How's your back?
+
+      The back is better, though I'm being careful.
+
+      Now if only I could get over the last of the Martian Death
+Flu....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1997 22:11:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Last episode #
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> If WB is involved in making production decisions, why don' t they
+> carry the show in their primary market? Is this a marketing
+> decision, or was 5 years the predetermined duration of the
+> original story line?
+
+      B5 was always designed to be, and announced as, a 5 year story.
+
+"If WB is involved in making production decisions, why don't they
+carry the show in their primary market?"
+
+      I don't know what you mean here by "primary market," since
+"market" is usually taken to mean a particular area or region, so the
+term is being used here incorrectly.  If you mean syndication, the
+influx of new shows and the other mini-networks has chewed up available
+time-slots...and remember, TNT is now owned by WB, so one could argue
+about what is now their "primary" venue.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1997 22:11:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Last episode #
+
+ Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is TNT still trying to twist your arm to do a *sixth* season?
+
+      I think they finally realized it's not something I want to
+do....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1997 22:11:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Gathering re-edit
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"What else are these re-introduced cuts?"
+
+      Watch and see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1997 22:11:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <DOFS> - Bro. Theo
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this what was intended - in the passage of time this became
+> only routine? Was the line played the way you intended?
+>  - Was the incident 500 years earlier the "Great Burn" Theo is
+> helping Earth recover from? Could one speculate that the "Great
+> Burn" affected Earth terribly, but not all the colonies?
+>  interstellar community?)
+
+      Yes, it was mainly Earth that bore the burden of the great Burn,
+and yes, that was the one Garibaldi got into....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1997 22:11:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: faith manages
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think you can look at a *lot* of the pieces of that episode
+and find some resonance there....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1997 22:11:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<DFS>> -Crusades?
+
+ Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question, in light of the events of DoFS, is, isn't the climax
+> of Crusade a foregone conclusion? I mean won't knowing how it will
+> end ruin the suspense for people? But are there that many people
+> who would feel the same?
+
+      I don't think it's anticlimatic at all; putting on our logic
+hats for the moment, do you really think that I intend to wipe out all
+of humanity and decimate the earth in Crusade?  No.  In any show, this
+is going to be a given, the question is how do you *get* there?  The
+premise exists to push us out on a mission...it's what happens in
+pursuit of that mission that's going to be especially interesting.
+
+      As with Londo/G'Kar, you saw them strangling each other...but it
+was in the learning of *how* and *why* this happened that the fun
+started.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Nov 1997 02:20:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Nick and Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >>Deconstruction<<
+
+ Nick and Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If and when will we learn what this is all about?
+
+      When I write it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1997 22:11:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: from jms on stuff
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Some general stuff....
+
+      Today, John Copeland and I finished re-editing "The Gathering,"
+the B5 pilot movie.  While there were some areas we couldn't get into
+because of the complexity in redoing the mix, virtually every scene got
+tinkered with to one degree or another, and most important, the roughly
+14 minutes of footage left out of the original version is now back in. 
+The whole thing is tighter and faster, and there's more recent CGI,
+we'll have Chris Franke re-score it, and it's just in general a lot
+better.  (Some parts of it even make more sense now.)
+
+      One additional change: because of the desire on PTEN's part to
+have as many commercial breaks as possible, the 6-act script was
+jerry-rigged and broken down into 9 acts.  One side-effect of this is
+that 9 acts wears on you, and wears you out, more than the standard 6. 
+You start to get a feeling of being led up to things too often, and
+there isn't time to dwell on the acts you're in.  I was finally able,
+with this re-edit, to move scenes back around again to what I
+originally wanted in a 6-act structure (you'll see a number of scenes
+juxtaposed from their original order).
+
+      Anyway...the TNT Special Edition is much improved over the
+original.
+
+      Other stuff: the fanclub site continues to expand and improve. 
+If you haven't been around in a while, you may want to check it out
+again sometime soon (http://www.thestation.com).  The chat room is
+running better than ever before, there are new graphics, and the B5
+Emporium should be online in a matter of days allowing purchase of B5FC
+stuff online with credit cards. (Mail order stuff is still being
+processed.)
+
+      Latest additions to the lineup: Psi Corps hats and pins, patches
+of various sorts, Earth Alliance pins, Ship Recognition charts in
+poster form, and others.
+
+      Finally, I'll be a Guest of Honor at this year's LosCon, held
+Thanksgiving weekend in L.A. at the Burbank Airport Hilton.  My 2-hour
+B5 presentation will be Sunday afternoon, where I'll be showing clips
+from the two TNT tv-movies (including lots of stuff from the finished
+prequel), from upcoming S5 episodes, new bloopers and so on.  I'll also
+be joined by John Copeland, producer, and Harlan Ellison, our
+conceptual consultant.  This is always an SRO venue for us -- LosCon
+has been a part of B5 from the start -- so you may want to get there
+early.  (Or even go the day before; it's a fun convention.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Nov 1997 02:20:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: from jms on stuff
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Will you be the same when you go big business?
+> Will you remeber to call home?
+
+"Will you be the same when you go big business?"
+
+      I suppose one could make the argument that I'm already "big
+business" since the show is on worlwide and there's so much going on:
+figures, models, books, soundtracks, you name it....
+
+      But to your question....I'm too old and cranky to start changing
+now. I is what I is.  Which is as scary a thought as I'm allowed to
+have on medication....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Nov 1997 02:20:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Rising Star
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Will TNT be promoting the actors who did not survive the entire 5
+> year arc in their ads? WIll they be involved in any active TNT or
+> Babylonian promotions? Where's Zack?
+> Where's Draal?
+
+      Funny thing is, while re-editing the pilot this afternoon, there
+was Sinclair saying, "Babylon 5 is more important than any of her crew,
+am I CLEAR?"
+
+"Will TNT be promoting the actors who did not survive the entire 5
+year arc in their ads?  WIll they be involved in any active TNT or
+Babylonian promotions?"
+
+      Dunno...will be getting a clearer view of this in the coming
+weeks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Nov 1997 02:20:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Baseball 1,002,662
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Wasn't that an Atlanta Braves emblem on the side of the Human
+> "vorlon" ship as it went beyond the Rim? Any time for another
+> Sheridan batting practice on B5's field in S5?
+
+"Wasn't that an Atlanta Braves emblem on the side of the Human
+"vorlon" ship as it went beyond the Rim?"
+
+      Even Zathras say, Braves suck.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Nov 1997 12:55:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Deconstruction
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, no, it wasn't an urban myth...the web site he found
+the info on actually posted the pages of the textbook, as I recall.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Nov 1997 12:54:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Marcus Aurelius
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Can you please give me any insight on this book?
+> PS, What was Jason Carter's reaction to his character being
+> killed off?
+
+      Kathryn's the big fan of Marcus Aurelius, though I'm familiar
+with his work.  I can't recall offhand which part she was referring to,
+though, but will ask.  (She tends to quote him to me all the time...I
+think she's working on my moral and ethical development.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Nov 1997 01:44:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Marcus Aurelius
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> is a good example?
+
+      Actually, I was watching a debate on PBS a few weeks ago, and
+they made the point that Christianity may have been the *cause* of the
+fall of the Roman Empire, rather than its saving grace...apparently it
+began to take the church structure as its own model in how to operate
+(when its own infrastructure began to collapse), and put religious
+leaders into positions they should never have occupied for reasons of
+simple incompetence, and in short order things began to fall apart.
+
+      I wish I could've made that paragraph more sensible, but I was
+writing while listening, and I only got the sense of it...perhaps
+someone else out there who heard it can fill in the gaps, but that's
+the gist of the idea.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Nov 1997 01:44:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Susan <100537.1517@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Sierra software?
+
+ Susan <100537.1517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will they be available via the Fan Club, as well?
+
+      Yes, the informational CDrom will be available through retail,
+through Sierra directly, and through the fan club (FC members will get
+a discount).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Nov 1997 01:44:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Will we see it again?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, that's the point...there will always be short-term
+setbacks, but as long as we climb back a few inches higher than we were
+before we fell down, we keep moving toward the goal of becoming a
+better people, and getting off the planet.  Taking our place among the
+stars.  While it's vaguely possible that I may *see* a Mars colony
+sometime within my lifetime, I know that I will never live there...but
+that ain't the point, it isn't a victory if *I* do it, and a failure if
+*I* don't, it's if *we* do it or not.  Maybe we'll do it today, maybe
+we'll do it tomorrow, the point is to decide to DO it, and then by god 
+DO IT.
+
+      And yeah, that little closing card is going to remain on the
+show for its life...which will be long, long after its detractors (and
+admittedly myself) have gone to dust.  On the one hand, it is a
+statement of hope to anyone else out there who has a dream, to follow
+it no matter who speaks against you, no matter the odds, no matter what
+they say to or about you, no matter what roadblocks they throw in your
+way.  What matters is that you remain true to your vision.
+
+      On the other hand, for the reviewers and the pundits and the
+critics and the net-stalkers who have done nothing but rag on this show
+for five years straight, it is also a giant middle finger composed of
+red neon fifty stories tall, that will burn forever in the night.
+
+      In billiards, we call that a bank-shot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Nov 1997 01:44:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Last episode #
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Why did the story of Ishmael end at the last page of Moby Dick?
+
+      Because that's when the story ended.
+
+      A story is a slice of a continued and continuous world; the
+world exists before, and continues after.  The story never ends; you
+just pull out pieces of it long enough to tell to other humans, who are
+finite and cannot wait for infinity to unravel itself and tell us what
+everything meant. Certainly, amazing things would continue to happen in
+the B5 universe.  But our telling of this piece of the story, is
+finite.
+
+      We are finite.  Zathras is finite.
+
+      The story is eternal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Nov 1997 01:44:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Bar-Raising
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I understand what the difficulty with that would be, and I'm
+glad they stuck with it...it's gorgeous.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Nov 1997 01:48:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5 TNT Site
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does it connect anywhere?
+
+      The TNT site is not ready for anyone, and the information should
+not have been released; they're just trying out the software, and the
+log-ons are causing them problems (and some annoyance).  Please (to all
+looking on) hold off on the TNT site until it's ready; there's nothing
+there yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Nov 1997 12:59:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Last episode #
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> If "Deconstruction" was written as a hedge against the fifth
+> season not being produced (as indicated in another comment),
+> doesn't it disrupt the original story line? Where would the fourth
+> season have ended if TNT had renewed the series earlier?
+
+"lt writing a 5-year series if you're left hanging at the end of every
+season. If "Deconstruction" was written as a hedge against the fifth
+season not being produced (as indicated in another comment), doesn't it
+disrupt the original story line?"
+
+      You've got it backward; "Deconstruction" was written AFTER we
+got word about the S5 renewal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Nov 1997 00:02:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Marcus Aurelius
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Have you read Elaine Pagels book, "The Gnostic Gospels?"
+
+      That's an odd perspective since so much of Medeival christianity
+ran on money...pilgrims providing a constant stream of money to various
+churches and shrines to saints, leading to competitions between
+shrines, and (of all things) the "sub-letting" of shrines by taking the
+bones of saint A and sending on bone to shrine B, another to shrine C,
+and generating money in those regions.  And of course the buying of
+spiritual favors, patrons, the rich folk sending others to do penance
+for them...it was all about money.
+
+      (Source: Finucane's MIRACLES AND PILGRIMS, a fascinating book,
+btw.)
+
+      Interesting aside...for the last 6-8 months, I've been doing a
+fair amount of research into medieval England, especially the medieval
+church, for a play I'm writing (which may become a novel if I'm not
+careful).  Dumped several hundred dollars on a massive order from
+Amazon.com back a few months ago to fill out what I needed.  That was
+what tangentially led me into the post-Burn sequence in
+"Deconstruction."  My brain has been full of monks for the last 8
+months or so, and knowing the role they played in maintaining secular
+knowledge from about 500 AD and for some time thereafter, that seemed 
+the perfect route to go that would also resonate with the look of the
+Rangers and the religious caste Minbari and the whole feel we were
+setting up.
+
+      It was only when I was about halfway into the act that I
+thought, "Oh, crud, this is the same area Canticle explored."  And for
+several days I set it aside and strongly considered dropping it, or
+changing the venue (at one point considered setting it in the ruins of
+a university, but I couldn't make that work realistically...who'd be
+supporting a university in the ruins of a major nuclear war?  Who'd
+have the *resources* I needed?  The church, or what would at least LOOK
+like the church.  My sense of backstory here is that the Anla-shok
+moved in and started little "abbeys" all over the place, using the 
+church as cover, but rarely actually a part of it, which was why they
+had not gotten their recognition, and would never get it.  Rome
+probably didn't even know about them, or knew them only distantly.)
+
+      Anyway...at the end of the day, I decided to leave it as it was,
+since I'd gotten there on an independent road, we'd already had a
+number of monks on B5, and there's been a LOT of theocratic science
+fiction written beyond Canticle...Gather Darkness, aspects of
+Foundation, others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Nov 1997 00:02:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Colin Heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Peter in N.S.N.R.
+
+ Colin Heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Eh???
+> Wassat??
+>  - What about you??
+
+      Thanks...will pass that along.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Nov 1997 00:02:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Last episode #
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of which.....is there any news on Crusade yet?
+
+"Speaking of which.....is there any news on Crusade yet?"
+
+      Did you think I would forget to mention it?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Nov 1997 00:02:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <DOFS> - Bro. Theo
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Some probably would offer to help...but if technology is now
+suspect, some might not want that help...other colonies might be of the
+"screw 'em, they got what they deserved" perspective...often politics
+gets in the way of charity.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 Nov 1997 11:37:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: "Destruction" from CIS?
+
+ Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> inspired you to write this episode?
+
+      One can find any number of pains in the butts reflected in that
+show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Nov 1997 12:06:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Marcus Aurelius
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What period is the book you just cited about?
+> I'd bet it was from Roncesvalles (sp?) to the Rennaisance, or
+> maybe 1000 to 1500? In your reading about medieval England, did
+> you get Georges Duby's "William the Marshall?"
+
+      You're correct; the part where the money got to be bigtime for
+the church was in the 13th-15th centuries.  That was where the saint
+business went bigtime, to the point where the church bosses had to
+start hammering the local branches where the saints were getting too
+powerful, and began creating challenges to the main line of authority.
+
+      I love the competition that broke out among them...some saying
+that their saint was better at miracles than the one down the road, and
+if you're stupid enough to *go* to the one down the road, why, things
+could actually get worse for you....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Nov 1997 01:36:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: DougP <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Deconstruction
+
+ DougP <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was that what you had in mind, or am I sitting too close to the
+> screen again? Doug
+
+      One can read that scene in many ways.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Nov 1997 01:36:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Live chats OnLine
+
+ Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You've got that too Joe?
+
+      Yeah, I've got the last of it, and that was a big part of it,
+the total and absolute fatigue.  Combined with only getting a few hours
+sleep here and there, it's kinda taken a toll, but fortunately I'm at
+the tail end of the thing finally, and should be back up to snuff in a
+few days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Nov 1997 01:36:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Live chats OnLine
+
+ Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You've got that too Joe?
+
+      PS...chewable Vitamin C and Zinc lozenges.  Trust me on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Nov 1997 01:36:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Stephen Burrow <70640.40@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sol going nova
+
+ Stephen Burrow <70640.40@compuserve.com> asks:
+> doing as the Vorlons and Shadows did when they left the galaxy,
+> and destroying their home planet to prevent the younger races
+> from obtaining their technology? Also, I have seen it suggested by
+> others, but not confirmed by you: were the humans in fact leaving
+> the galaxy, or simply relocating? Stephen Burrow
+
+      No point in leaving the galaxy; stars go nova, it only affects
+the immediate vicinity (big as that is).  By this point, they were in
+the position of the Vorlons, and now have to take their (our) place
+guiding the younger races, the next wave, while not getting in the way
+and remembering the lesson of the shadow/vorlon conflict.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Nov 1997 02:43:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Deconstruction
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is it OK to ask how many of the remaining episodes are written at
+> this time?
+
+      I'm writing #14 right now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Nov 1997 22:47:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Live chats OnLine
+
+ Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  -Gardner L. Harris
+
+      The zinc lozenges are absolutely positively the #1 item to have
+as soon as you start to feel a cold or flu coming on.  Trust me, I've
+learned the hard way on this one (and they can alleviate the symptoms a
+bit once you've got it).  You can get the cherry flavored ones, which
+take some of the onus off it (the throat-candies with zinc aren't as
+effective, btw).  Alternate zinc lozenges (NOT the pill form, letting
+the lozenge dissolve slowly in the mouth) and the vitamin C (ditto) as
+often as you can, eating to counteract any acidic effect...and lemme
+tell you, it makes a HUGE difference.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1997 23:19:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jan Robb <110543.731@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rebo & Zooty
+
+ Jan Robb <110543.731@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were these two on your wish list or were they suggested by
+> someone else? Is there something that they've done that I/we know
+> about?
+
+      Their name came up in discussions, and they just seemed a
+perfect match.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1997 12:44:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Star
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Things can sometimes be black and white without being right or
+wrong. If I say a thing is hot and dry and you say it is wet and cold,
+those are bipolar distinctions; neither is morally right nor wrong, but
+there is a very definite and demonstrable difference.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1997 13:38:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Marcus Aurelius
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Neroon's description of it "We fight, they work, you pray." was
+lifted whole from the church's description of proper societal roles.
+You took it word for word (which I assume was the intention)."
+
+      Actually...no, I wasn't even aware of that until you mentioned
+it just now.  But I can see how it would fit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1997 13:38:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Gerrold's Tribute...
+
+ Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How can you say no to someone who has such big sad brown eyes?
+> ...are you going to stand for sort of thing?!
+
+      There's nothing I can possibly say about that tribute that could
+not be better said in open court before a jury.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1997 13:38:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rebo & Zooty
+
+ Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you willing to tell us if both characters have lines or not?
+
+      Do both characters have lines?
+
+      Yes and no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1997 13:52:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Marcus Aurelius
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Jeff Sigh Corps - Pat Tallman Division Great Maker huh?
+
+"Personally, I'm quite amazed that he and the rest of the cast were
+able to keep themselves from spouting off on the last day in
+Blackpool."
+
+      More or less.  I was talking to Julie Caitlin Brown the other
+day, who commented that she saw Bruce shortly after learning of
+Claudia's decision, and he was upset, angry, nearly in tears over the
+whole thing.  A lot of people in the cast were very upset over her
+decision.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1997 13:52:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New B5 Logo on Ace Awds
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is this the same logo that appears on TNT's web site?
+
+"Is this the same logo that appears on TNT's web site?"
+
+      Negative.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1997 23:01:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sinclair
+
+ Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the whole thread regarding Sinclair over with?
+> Theres bound to be someone asking, "Whatever happened to
+> Sinclair?"
+
+      I generally try to avoid closing doors definitively.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1997 13:59:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ronald Legro <75136.2066@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Will we see it again?
+
+ Ronald Legro <75136.2066@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Trek speaks to "what do you want?"
+> Bill "Jump" Gates, "where do you want to go today?"), while B5 is
+> "who are you?"
+
+      Agreement on every point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1997 23:01:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Star
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"I'm not sure in this case that it was necessarily a "morally" right
+or wrong position on either side"
+
+      I'm back and forth, but on balance, yeah, I agree with that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1997 12:05:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian Kornfeld <75703.1340@compuserve.com>
+Subject: roman-a-clef
+
+ Brian Kornfeld <75703.1340@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can I be the only one to catch these 2 things here?
+> Can a certain "conceptual consultant" with the same initials be
+> the inspiration for this character? Coincidence?
+
+      No, Henry Ellis was not in any way named for Harlan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1997 12:20:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jan Robb <110543.731@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Merchandise - New
+
+ Jan Robb <110543.731@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has there been any more word?
+> Does anyone know when that will be???
+> Will these be available through the Fan Club, as well?
+
+      The card game should be out shortly; the Sierra CD rom will be
+available via retail, from Sierra directly, and from the B5 fan club at
+a discount to members (and generally to non-members).  We should have
+it in hand by the first of next week.  Keep an eye on the B5 fan club
+website for more information (www.thestation.com), which will shortly
+have an on-line credit card emporium to make ordering simpler.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1997 12:49:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: DOFS - THANKS!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Re: speechwriters and others hanging around after the
+fall...look at the remains of the Soviet Union.  After the fall of the
+communist party, you'd think they would all have been run out of town
+on a rail.  But many of them just shifted over and found similar
+positions, or kept the communist party going, after everything they'd
+done.
+
+      The problem with most people is that they don't hold a grudge
+near long enough.
+
+      I'd have to check, but yeah, I believe we stuck a ranger symbol
+on the encounter suit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1997 01:25:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: characters
+
+ Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When you create a character for a book, is it different when you
+> create it for TV? When creating a character in a book, because
+> you're not going to see it on the screen, you would tend to be
+> more descriptive, yes? Does this make any sense?
+
+      No, no difference at all, from my perspective.  You find out who
+the character is, what they want, how far they'll go to get it, and how
+far someone else will go to stop them...and the rest attends to itself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Nov 1997 18:32:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5 Videos
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, the tapes are for now only available through Columbia House.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Nov 1997 18:32:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: George Gillburg/CA <73137.1733@compuserve.com>
+Subject: DOFS - THANKS!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"I think one of the problems in N. Ireland is some people hold a
+grudge for way too long."
+
+      Granted.
+
+      I was talking to one of the guys who worked on the shoot for
+"The Quiet Man," filmed in Ireland.  At the end of the shoot, they were
+going to have a huge wrap party, all the stars, crew, studio folk, the
+whole bit.  A big deal, lots of money.  The guy was setting it up
+through his aide over the phone from England, and after everything was
+all set, just a few days before, he called himself just to make sure
+everything was going ahead on schedule. The person in Ireland said it
+was all fine, and could he have the name of the person to whom he was
+speaking?
+
+      "Cromwell," the guy said.
+
+      They canceled the whole thing the instant he said that name.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Nov 1997 18:32:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: roman-a-clef
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Have you determined the ultimate fate of Alfie Bester?"
+
+      Yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Nov 1997 18:32:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Marcus Aurelius
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"The fight work pray cycle representing Knights, Serfs and Clergy and
+written *word for word* as Neroon said it is about *eight hundred*
+years old.  I'll see if I can dig up an exact reference. I was certain
+you cribbed it from the Dominicans."
+
+      Nope...though the knights/serfs/clergy thing makes sense in that
+context of work/serve/pray.  It's also warrior/worker/religious caste. 
+It just kinda made sense when I thought it up.
+
+      So now I have to figure out if I'm ahead of my time or behind my
+time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Nov 1997 18:32:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Marcus - ADD?(<Endgame>)
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Just out of curiosity, did you create the character of Marcus to
+> be an ADD person?
+
+      Vas machst du, "ADD person?"
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Nov 1997 18:32:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jan Robb <110543.731@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New B5 Logo
+
+ Jan Robb <110543.731@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it really there somewhere?
+
+      Sigh...here's the situation.
+
+      I am an idiot.
+
+      I was told they wanted the clip for the Cable Ace Awards.  And
+they did. And it was shown.  But apparently it went out on the
+*unbroadcast* night, the day before, rather than the one they aired. 
+They wanted to split up the B5 stuff for maximum result, so thaty had a
+clip on the non-broadcast night, and Bruce for the broadcast night.
+
+      Me, I'm just in perpetual night.
+
+                                                yrs, the idiot,
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1997 23:02:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5 Videos
+
+ Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> rather than VHS tape?
+
+      One can only hope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1997 23:02:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Marcus Aurelius
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, he didn't set up the castes, but he did come up with a
+better way for them to work together constructively.  And yeah, that
+model would fit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Nov 1997 22:54:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New B5 Logo
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, that ain't the new logo.  Ah, well...all in good time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Nov 1997 18:18:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Lenier <101671.630@compuserve.com>
+Subject: letter
+
+ Lenier <101671.630@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Also have you noticed that teh Babylon website has not been
+> updated for 3 months?
+
+      The Warner Bros. B5 site hasn't been updated, but the main B5
+fan site, www.thestation.com is constantly being updated.  If you
+haven't gotten your stuff yet, send a note to reelkosh@aol.com and
+it'll be taken care of.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1997 00:09:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Request from Harlan
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Many thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1997 00:09:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: directors
+
+ Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who picks the director for the show?
+> How is that done?
+> Do you ever use fairly new people even though they might be young
+> and have little experience? How much are you involved in the
+> process? Have you heard of it?
+
+      I and John Copeland select all of the directors on the show.
+
+      Parenthetical to this: there are only 3 people who are in charge
+of this show: me, my partner Doug Netter (who mainly gets into the
+business aspect and casting), and producer John Copeland.  That's it. 
+Ain't nobody else.  We're very producer light on this show.
+
+      End parenthetical.
+
+      We go for directors whose work we know as a rule.  In some
+cases, an agent will send us a reel (clips) of a director whose work we
+don't know, and if the material looks good, we'll sit down with the
+director (whichever way he/she came in) and see if their philosophy of
+production is the same as ours. If so, we give 'em a shot.  If they
+work out, they do more; if not, not. We've actually got a pretty good
+track record on picking directors, and have rarely made a mistake we
+couldn't recover from.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1997 15:28:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Columbia House tape
+
+ Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the tape of 'The Gathering' from Columbia House going to
+> include the new footage and new score, or is it going to be as
+> originally aired? Di Conlin, TUS , Wielder of the Lesser Salmon of
+> Discipline Supreme Dominatrix, RMES "Great Maker, huh?
+
+      No, it'll be the original pilot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1997 15:28:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: directors
+
+ Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How much longer do you shoot for?
+> When do you break for the holidays and for how long?
+> How much is left of the shooting season when you come back?
+
+      We'll be off for Thanksgiving weekend, then we shoot until
+December 19th, which takes us through 514.  We're on hiatus until
+January 2nd, then we come back and shoot 515-522 (actually the 21st
+episode of S5 since 422 is now 522 and 501 was made 422), wrapping
+production on March 20th.  Then we take a few weeks off to let the cast
+and crew catch their breath, and shoot the third TNT TV-movie in April.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1997 22:06:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: directors
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, the third movie has yet to be shot.  Thirdspace and the
+prequel are already filmed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1997 15:28:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Lenier <101671.630@compuserve.com>
+Subject: letter
+
+ Lenier <101671.630@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you find time to answer so many letters and messages, as
+> well as write, produce, direct etc the best show on TV?
+
+"Wow, a letter from the great maker himself!  How do you find time to
+answer so many letters and messages, as well as write, produce, direct
+etc the best show on TV?"
+
+      Multiple personalities.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1997 21:42:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: STOP PRESSES!!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Apparently, this is news to the producers....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1997 21:42:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I am not a Number !!!!
+
+ PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 'Where has Garibaldi's hair gone ?'
+
+      Do me a favor.
+
+      Join PEN International some time, as I did years ago.  Read the
+accounts of how journalists and dissidents are put in small rooms, and
+mentally, emotionally and physically turned inside-out by
+interrogators. You'll find the same techniques used in this show
+described in considerable detail there. Join Amnesty International
+while you're at it, and read more about how this sort of thing is done
+every day in dozens of countries around the world.
+
+      And while you're at it...join the real world.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1997 23:05:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Where did B5 go?
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has anyone else heard something similar?
+
+      Nope, totally untrue.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1997 22:53:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Voice-over on TNT ads
+
+ Shane Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Is the voice-over on the TNT ad's being done by Ken Nordine
+> of WORD JAZZ fame?
+
+      I've actually no idea, TNT produced them and I didn't get that
+info.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1997 23:05:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Emporium & ordering?
+
+ Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any comments,suggestions?
+
+      Send a note to reelkosh@aol.com with the full info, and it'll be
+taken care of.
+
+      BTW, the B5 emporium received 100+ orders in just the first 24
+hours of operation, without any real publicity about it.  And all
+orders went out the very next day.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1997 22:53:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: directors
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"any idea when Channel 4 in the UK will show the movies?"
+
+      No, that information has not yet found its way to me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1997 22:53:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Howard Cherniack <75026.3723@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Last ep (wow)
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks; it's one of the things I try to do sometimes...I
+basically give you my playbook, I tell you I'm coming right up the
+middle, which makes the challenge on this side that much harder...you
+already know where I'm going to be, now I have to do it in such a way
+that it comes as a surprise regardless.
+
+      This is actually more a literary device than a TV device; there
+are any number of books (and some movies) which start at the end,
+proceed to the middle, and end on the beginning.
+
+      Because my background is in theater and prose, my natural
+inclination is to play with the form as much as possible.  So each
+season there's been at least one episode that's "off-format" for
+us...Intersections was one, And Now for a Word was another, The
+Illusion of Truth, Deconstruction...and in S5 so far almost half the
+episodes have been off-format in one fashion or another. With this as
+the last year, I figure I may as well go for broke and try some unusual
+things.  If you can't do these things when you're starting out, because
+it's too odd, you should at least do them when you're doing well and 
+can afford the risk.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1997 22:53:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: directors
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"This sounds like the basis for a Danny Kaye patter song..."
+
+      "The vessel with the pestle has the potion with the poison, the
+flagon with the dragon holds the brew that is true...."
+
+      Something is seriously wrong with me that I know that by heart.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1997 15:44:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phil Lenton <100572.61@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Directors
+
+ Phil Lenton <100572.61@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is Michael Vejar going to be directing any upcoming episodes of
+> B5?
+
+      Yup, Mike is doing a number of S5 episodes for us.  And he
+directed the prequel.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1997 20:59:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan L. Ravitch <73627.3126@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Emporium CD-ROMs?
+
+ Alan L. Ravitch <73627.3126@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Sandy...will Emporium be offering the SoundSource CD-Rom
+> Entertainment Utilities (esp the new one!) and the Interactive B5
+> Guide?
+
+      The informational CD rom is available at thestation.com...look
+again under Media, it's toward the bottom.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1997 20:59:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Emporium & ordering?
+
+ SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, do you know if the fan club will have tables at either
+> LosCon or the Creation Con next weekend?
+
+      There should be a B5 fan club table at LosCon, yes.  Probably
+not Creation Con.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1997 20:59:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Claudia
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The part of Lochley is very different from any of those roles;
+it was almost certainly the character you were responding to.  Having
+now seen her in a number of episodes, I think she's one of the best
+additions we've had on the show, quite honestly.  And she's going to be
+very popular...though in an offbeat sort of way, because of who *this*
+character is.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1997 00:26:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Columbia House tape
+
+ Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It's really making me crazy - please, what does it say???
+> Di Conlin, TUS , Wielder of the Lesser Salmon of Discipline
+> Supreme Dominatrix, RMES "Great Maker, huh?
+
+      Sic transit ingloria mundi...thus passes the glory of the world.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1997 23:11:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Columbia House tape
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Did the sign actually say "ingloria?"
+
+      It does say gloria...sorry, I had a brain-fart...see, there's a
+famous New York Times headline pun that appeared the Monday that the
+subways went on strike that slips into my brain whenever I write the
+original latin version; the headline read SICK TRANSIT, INGLORIOUS
+MONDAY.
+
+      It's like one of songs you get in your head and it won't go
+away.
+
+      (The other famous Latin pun they did was on a building being
+demolished, which read EDIFICE WRECKS.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1997 23:11:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Directors
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> While you're on the subject, what about Janet Greek?
+
+      Janet has done work for us this season, including "No
+Compromises," the debut 5th season episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1997 23:11:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Claudia
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Does Tracy have an e-mail box at thestation?
+
+      I'm not sure; if not, she will soon.  We've been trying to get
+her online officially...I know she lurks about, and has an eye on AOL
+and others, but I kinda need to nudge her out into the light a bit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1997 23:11:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Creation Convention
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Bruce mentioned about a week or two ago that he would be at
+Creation this weekend.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1997 23:11:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robert A. Matern <70012.3660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: directors
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Fatigue Psychosis, obviously!   YOU MUST SLEEP NOW...."
+
+      Boy, don't I know it...worked all weekend on 515, "Meditations
+on the Abyss," finished it at 2 a.m. last night (Sunday night/Monday
+morning), turned my attention to finishing the outline for the second
+B5 novel in the Psi Corps trilogy coming out next year from Del Rey
+until 4 a.m., then from 4-4:45 a.m. viewed the director's cut of 510
+and made my notes so I could go in this morning, getting up at 9 a.m.
+to do my producer's cut.
+
+      I hate Mondays.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1997 23:11:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: a recommendation
+
+ Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any coffee houses, hole-in-the-wall restaurants with really good
+> food, anything like that you can recommend we check out?
+
+      For hole-in-the-wall, try Salome Indian Restaurant at the corner
+of Magnolia and Lankershim in Studio City...what I like about it is
+that it doesn't back up and bite you an hour after eating it, which
+(for me) a lot of Indian food does, though I'm very fond of it
+nonetheless.  You don't go for the decor, but the food is great.  Try
+the Chicken Tikka, the meat samosa for appetizer, or the Dal soup, the
+Beef or Chicke Korma, Poori bread, maybe some nice vegetable biryani. 
+I tend to eat there regularly.  (Another terrific Indian restaurant is
+Taj Majal on Ventura Boulevard in Encino, around the 16000 block or so.
+They do a mango-corn chowder that's terrific, and just about everything
+else is good as well.)
+
+      For Chinese, the Panda Inn in Glendale, at Wilson and Brand. 
+They turned into a chain, but this is one of the original Panda Inns,
+and the food is spectacular.  I recommend the Lemon Chicken, the Hot
+Braised Sliced Fish, the Panda Beef (crispy, very nice), the Crab/Corn
+soup, and if you like shrimp, the walnut shrimp is very nice.
+
+      For coffee shops, Priscilla's in Toluca Lake (all these
+references are in the Valley...I don't get out much) near Riverside and
+Hollywood Way is a common hangout for studio types, and the Horseshoe
+Cafe on Ventura near Van Nuys Boulevard is a trendy college place. 
+Both make great mochas.
+
+      Beyond that, I don't tend to go to clubs or trendoid places, I
+stay home and I write.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1997 13:58:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Lenier <101671.630@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Episode Guide
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      There are 4 more new season 4 episodes coming.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1997 13:58:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I am not a Number !!!!
+
+ PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's up Joe, hectic schedule or too many late nights on the web
+> ?
+
+"Touchy, touchy!  What's up Joe, hectic schedule or too many late
+nights on the web?"
+
+      No, I do sometimes get annoyed by people whose worldview is so
+small that they think that interrogation began with "The Prisoner" TV
+show and don't seem to know anything about the real world...and want to
+narrow you down to their view by saying that what you did springs from
+there, rather than the aforementioned real world.  Fine, I'm glad that
+you've seen the Prisoner...now read a book or two about what happens to
+political prisoners in the real world.  Then we'll talk.
+
+     Further, as a writer you strive to create something
+original...and when someone comes along and says, of something based on
+the real world, on research, on stuff I encountered while getting my
+degree in clinical psychology, on years spent supporting PEN and
+Amnesty International, "Oh, you were just doing "The Prisoner"...it
+tends to grate.
+
+"So where did the inspiration for the interrogators attire come from.
+You know dark suit, the hint of gold trim and buttons on the collar."
+
+      Well, if you paid attention to the show you'd know that's a
+standard business suit which we've used many times before and
+thereafter; we literally pulled it off the rack in wardrobe.  You saw
+that as a Prisoner suit because that's what you wanted to see.
+
+      The problem isn't in the object being perceived; the problem is
+in the narrow world view of the perceiver who bends everything to fit
+what he knows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1997 12:57:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: I am not a Number !!!!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  Yes, there are themes that are eternal and metamorphose
+and are reinvented regularly; that's the point of myth and the art of
+storytelling, so I agree with your premise.  Each generation sees these
+elements differently.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1997 12:57:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I am not a Number !!!!
+
+ PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, why the problem with being 'associated' with The Prisoner
+> anyway ? From The Prisoners 'Rover' killer beachballs, to the
+> 'Glade' air freshener used as the drive section for the
+> Liberator, so have we lost the ability to differentiate
+> lampoonery from ridicule ? Do you think the producers of Voyager
+> will be pleased or miffed to have parallels drawn between the
+> 'year of hell' and B5 ?
+
+      The *problem* is that it didn't happen that way, for starters,
+and it makes it into something more appropos for a fanzine.  Basically,
+if you spent all summer building a car, and somebody said you just
+bought it from somebody else, no matter how nice that other car might
+be, how good it would be to be associated with it...you put in a hell
+of a lot of work building it, and to be offhandedly told otherwise is
+annoying.
+
+      And, again, it just diminishes the implications, makes it
+safe...it's not about the real world, it's just about the Prisoner.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1997 03:30:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Between
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"What was needed was at least talk of a major Mars resistance attack
+occuring at the same time to draw off the security."
+
+      There was.  Go back to the scene on the Apollo when the first
+word of attacks comes in...it says specifically that they're hitting a
+number of places *including* a White Star hitting that particular base.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1997 23:03:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: LOSCON: Sunday Still On?
+
+ Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (My guess...) Will you still be there for the main talk Sunday?
+
+      Yes, the Sunday 1:30 presentation is still on.  What follows
+after is not clear; I'm supposed to be autographing, but the program
+mentions the HE interview, so I'm not sure what's up there.  The
+opening ceremony was over quickly, so you missed it...but I did a
+couple of other panels during the day, as well as a quick blip-in at
+Hour 25.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
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+JMS CompuServe messages for December 1997.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1997 20:45:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Between
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why were there no cameras monitoring Sheridan?
+
+"Why were there no cameras monitoring Sheridan?"
+
+      Torturers rarely videotape their work, thus assuring that it can
+never be used against them should things not go their way all the time.
+This is kinda pro forma in South America, for instance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Dec 1997 00:42:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Illegal Script sales
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      This is an iffy area; if someone has just one copy of a script,
+it tends to fall into the area of collectibles.  It's when someone is
+making up multiple copies of scripts that we generally go and nail
+them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 01 Dec 1997 22:44:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com>
+Subject: from jms on stuff
+
+ John Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where do I find out information on attending LosCon and schedule?
+
+      It's over, it was this Thanksgiving weekend.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Dec 1997 22:44:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com>
+Subject: LOSCON Presentation
+
+ John Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that something you put together for TNT as a teaser?
+> Do you have her interacting with G'Kar much in season 5?
+
+      The third one I showed was a music video I commissioned a while
+back to pull together the show overall for TNT and conventions.
+
+      We haven't had many scenes between Lochley and G'Kar yet, but
+that will likely change.  And yeah, Tracy's doing a great job.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Dec 1997 00:55:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Between
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Understood, but why were there no surveillance cameras watching
+> (not taping) such an important prisoner, especially when he
+> wasn't being "interrogated"? Did they just not think of it?
+
+      Mainly because, in the research I'd done, it's just rarely if
+ever done in real life, and real life was my template here.  There's TV
+logic, and there's what tends to happen in the real world, and I tend
+to err in the direction of the latter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Dec 1997 01:12:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CD-ROM
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, it came out well, I think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Dec 1997 01:12:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Airship Photos
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What would the best way be to do that?
+> Dont know if its propoer etiquette to ask you to pass them Bruce?
+
+      You can send them on to me via the B5 mail drop, 14431 Ventura
+Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.  I'll see they get to
+Bruce and John.  (Or you can send them directly to John and Bruce via
+that address.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Dec 1997 01:14:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS new Series?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      A first season hasn't been committed to, at least in contractual
+terms to me, and I can assure you that the series would be
+season-by-season, like any other show.  It's never been broached to us
+as a five-year deal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Dec 1997 01:12:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Claudia
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...the spinoff is still in negotiations, but going well
+there.
+
+      And I can't wait for January either.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Dec 1997 12:47:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New Logo?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Diamond's December catalog has a modified B5 logo (standard
+> Babylon 5 logo with the words "Earth Alliance Space Station") on
+> the page with the new 6 inch action figures (yay!) -- is this the
+> new logo you mentioned or is it one I've just never seen? Jeff
+> Sigh Corps - Pat Tallman Division Great Maker huh?
+
+      No, that ain't it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Dec 1997 02:19:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I got my pin! <G>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The club's gotten about 400 orders in the last week, and we're
+getting them out as fast as possible...a huge batch went out today, and
+we're pretty much caught up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Dec 1997 02:19:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I got my pin! <G>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...yeah, we can finally put those pirated pins out of
+business, there's no way they can produce the same quality pins as you
+just got.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Dec 1997 00:04:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Between
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And wouldn't Sheridan qualify more as a legally detained prisoner
+> than a political prisoner?
+
+      Yeah, he's legally detained, but he's being *illegally*
+tortured. That's the distinction.  Nothing here is being done for the
+prisoner's benefit, but for the interrogators.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Dec 1997 20:50:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS new Series?
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Stephen Furst mentioned at Creation last weekend that he just
+> signed a 5 year extension - is that standard stuff?
+
+"Just a curiousity side question... Stephen Furst mentioned at
+Creation last weekend that he just signed a 5 year extension - is that
+standard stuff?"
+
+      No, that was a result of having amended Stephen's contract when
+he did "Misery Loves Company" a while back.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Dec 1997 20:50:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jose Cabanillas <71020.3316@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Thanks to the cast
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      They're a good bunch.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Dec 1997 20:50:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp_Dupa_T._Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Link comm device
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Cool...I want one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Dec 1997 20:50:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Peter Deeks <113213.3222@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5ers do it very late.
+
+ Peter Deeks <113213.3222@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do I get the impression you get the same problem in the States?
+> It's crazy, isn't it?
+
+      Thanks....
+
+      Bear in mind that the C4 programmers put it late because they
+received many calls from B5 viewers asking for a later slot, since they
+said C4 was treating the show as a kid's show...so this is a situation
+where C4 gets yelled at whichever way it goes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Dec 1997 21:08:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Rumors
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      It's utter crap, like all such rumors.  These people put them up
+and come up with ways to make it sound real, but it's crap.  TNT is in
+love with what they're seeing, we've had no problems with them, they've
+given us the biggest PR campaign in their *history* to launch the new
+show and reruns... these rumors are put there by people who enjoy
+making others jump around and respond to them, and put out fires. 
+They're no different than the kinds of folks who light grass fires near
+homes and watch from cover giggling as the firefighters come out to
+deal with it all...makes them feel important, because their lives are
+sad and pathetic and basically irrelevant.
+
+      Like the rumor that I had a heart attack on the way to the
+stage; the phone calls that came into the stage tied up phone lines and
+ended up as a huge hassle for everyone.
+
+      Look, it's really this simple...and I'm not mad at you, I'm mad
+at them...if there's a problem, I WILL TELL YOU.  I've been doing that
+for five years now.  Every time one of these rumors comes up, everybody
+goes running around like chickens with their heads cut off until I can
+calm everyone down, and then two weeks later it's the same thing over
+and over, one manufactured crisis after another that takes up your time
+and my time in responding.
+
+      So this is just one more BS stupid rumor by an online jerk, of
+which there are many.  Just take that line and cut and paste it on the
+next stupid BS rumor.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Dec 1997 15:34:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Rumors
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"But I'm not certain that in this case the people putting up the posts
+are the jerks responsible for the rumors.  In at least one case I'm
+pretty sure it was a somewhat panicky *fan* of the show who heard
+something and didn't think it through to see how ludicrous it was."
+
+      I've been on the nets for a long, long, very long time, and I've
+yet to see a case of this where the person actually *heard* this, until
+after it had long gotten into the fan community.  People *say* they
+heard these things just to give it some credibility and someone to
+blame so they don't have to take the rap for it themselves.  If they
+*really* heard it from someone, then post that person's name.  They
+were willing to post the rumor, which caused hurt and confusion and
+distress, why not post the person's name who said it, so that this
+person can be enlightened and corrected?  But they never do, because 
+there never IS "the other person."
+
+      They're sickos, liars, flakes, yoyos, yipyops, yahoos, bozos and
+kadodies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Dec 1997 15:34:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: PAUL REYNOLDS <110152.1243@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rumors
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Interestingly enough...I saw what they were doing for
+commercials initially, and it wasn't really what I had in mind, it was
+the same basic actino stuff WB did that didn't get the right audience. 
+So I wrote up a commercial and had our editors put it together.  I sent
+it to TNT and said this is kinda what I had in mind.  I also showed it
+at a couple of conventions as an example of what I thought the promos
+should be like.
+
+      To TNT's credit, they decided that our approach was better, and
+went in that direction.  This is really quite extraordinary, as most
+corporations get very entrenched and it's their way or no way, but TNT
+wants to do right by this show, they believe that we know the show well
+enough to know how to promote it, and make it, and they've given us
+tremendous leeway and support.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Dec 1997 22:24:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Rumors
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Yes, but what do you *really* think of them?
+
+      Not your fault, you have nothing to apologize for.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Dec 1997 21:08:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: PAUL REYNOLDS <110152.1243@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rumors
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"...well half of this one was probably true from what i've heard
+nobody liked the pilot as aired including JMS."
+
+      Well, actually, if NObody liked the pilot we *wouldn't* have
+become a series.  But the ratings were very good, and a lot of folks
+*do* and did like the pilot.  It just could've been better, which is my
+take on it, and now that we've gone in and adusted it it, is *is*
+better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Dec 1997 12:53:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Rumors
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Go to your room.
+
+      It's the one with the alligators.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Dec 1997 12:53:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Status check?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How is filming coming?
+> What episodes are done?
+> etc.?
+> How is the special effects work going?
+> Is anything new or interesting happening there?
+
+"How is filming coming?  What episodes are done?"
+
+      Filming is going great; we're shooting 513 as I speak, with John
+Copeland directing (John did "Endgame").  We shoot through 514 then we
+break for Christmas, coming back on the 4th.  The first 6 episodes have
+been completely finished (technically mixing the sixth one tomorrow,
+but it's a fine distinction), and delivered to TNT, which has had
+nothing but praise for the stuff this season.
+
+"How is the special effects work going?  Is anything new or
+interesting happening there?"
+
+      Fine there; the most interesting stuff has been in the prequel,
+and now in Thirdspace as we start producing stuff for that, since both
+movies are very ambitious.  We're doing more compositing stuff for the
+series, trying some new things, getting progressively closer to the
+objects in the show to give a dynamic realism to them.  But most of the
+interesting stuff this time around tends to be in the story and the
+personal relationships, and changes everyone's going through.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Dec 1997 01:11:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Link comm device
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of watches, have you seen Men In Black yet?
+
+      Yeah, same watch on all counts, it's the Hamilton Ventura.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Dec 1997 01:11:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rumors
+
+ Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I may be missing something but I haven't seen any adds for the
+> show in the paper or promo's(but I don't watch tv often)-where
+> are they?
+
+      There are ads all over the place...especially on TNT.  You'll
+see more as we get closer to air.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Dec 1997 01:11:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I got my pin! <G>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      It's the same design and materials used in the ones being sold
+by the fan club.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Dec 1997 01:11:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rumors
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Also flips, twists, gleeps, geeks and creeps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Dec 1997 12:08:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: DotD Schedule question
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      We shot it out of story-sequence to give us more time to prep
+512, which was a big episode.  So it'll actually be aired as 513.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Dec 1997 12:08:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ll
+
+ Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you know that the executives at Paramount didn't want to do
+> that? How do you not take them in a head lock down the hall and
+> hold their heads in the toliet and flush it a few times? Do they
+> not *know* how to market the shows or what?
+
+      Here's the stupid thing about the syndication worry: it's
+nonexistent. The stations invariably grab shows in production order
+unless something is specifified to the contrary on the inventory
+sheets.  Every so often, some of the animated shows I worked on years
+ago will show up...and they're *still* being played in correct order,
+and I doubt very much the station is trying to do so, it's just a
+matter of going in numerical order off the charts.  This is a concern
+that goes back to very early syndication that doesn't hold anymore.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Dec 1997 23:04:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ll
+
+ Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this the only way they can feel important?
+> So, can we do a JMS and Harlan in 2000 for the white house?
+
+"So, can we do a JMS and Harlan in 2000 for the white house? <just
+kidding>"
+
+      If nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve, if
+impeached I will burn the tapes, write a book, build a library and
+become an elder statesman.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Dec 1997 23:04:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Marshall Teague returns?
+
+ Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that true, is Ta'Lon making another appearance?
+
+"Is that true, is Ta'Lon making another appearance?"
+
+      Yup.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Dec 1997 23:04:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp_Lee_Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rumors
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, they also plan on bus posters, billboards, subway posters,
+you name it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Dec 1997 23:04:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Link comm device
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You don't happen to know if they still sell them, do you?
+
+      Yeah, they still sell 'em.  Interesting history...the Hamilton
+Ventura was the first electric watch produced.  When the art deco case
+went out of fashion (as if art deco *ever* goes out of fashion), they
+discontinued it. As I understand it, and this is only based on what
+I've been told, I have no first-hand knowledge here, back a few years
+ago, when I bought mine, they had found some of the original parts and
+pieces and casings and released a small number of them.  They were all
+snapped up, and Hamilton decided it might be a good idea to release
+them for real in a newly manufactured line.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Dec 1997 12:55:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Books, Music & ???
+
+ Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> He's a pretty smart kid, but a little emotionally immature (but
+> after all he is ten), would the B5 books be "over his head" or do
+> you think he would grasp it? Any suggestions on other titles I
+> could get for him?
+
+      That's an okay one to start with...I'd also suggest the Hobbit,
+and if you can find it the Mad Scientists Club and A Wrinkle in Time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Dec 1997 22:17:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Dolls
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The ones under discussion, the 6" figures, are killer...they're
+even closer in appearance, sleeker, their faces are great...and
+apparently they'll be available from both Toys R Us *and* Diamond (via
+comics stores).  These are definitely the ones that'll go on my desk.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Dec 1997 22:17:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TNT's Rumor Responce
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"What about the one that jms isn't really from this planet, and TNT is
+knowingly collaborating with (albeit) benevolent alien races that just
+dig good scifi"
+
+      Oh, well, that one's true...but how did YOU find out?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Dec 1997 13:13:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Great Maker Photo
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Does Andrew Porter have a time machine?
+> Have you seen the photo of yourself on page 15 of the November
+> Science Fiction Chronicle? What's that about?
+
+      No, I haven't seen it yet.  Will look it up.  On the other
+project, not much to say until paperwork comes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Dec 1997 13:13:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neville White <100335.2721@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Superlatives fail me..
+
+ Neville White <100335.2721@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would you care to share any pointers about what might have
+> happened to the character Ivanova in the future?
+
+      Thanks...as for what Claudia would've been doing this season,
+some bits of that have been sliced off and put into other characters,
+so I can't comment until it hits the air.
+
+      And thanks again...it's a good end for the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Dec 1997 02:22:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Official Guide CD-ROM
+
+ Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I could be wrong,but I'm pretty sure jms himself even said
+> so,since he still uses 3.1? To any of you who already have it,does
+> it run *at all* on Windows 3.1? Am I just being silly to think
+> that there's even a small chance that it'll work?
+
+      No, it's specifically for Win 95.  A version I got for proofing
+stuff was for 3.1 but for release purposes, it has to be one or the
+other to have all the bells and whistles.  Virtually *everything* out
+now is for nothing less than Win95.  (Just bought Riven, the Myst
+sequel, and can't play that either until I upgrade, which I'll do when
+I have time.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Dec 1997 00:55:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp_Dupa_T._Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Great Maker Photo
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  I haven't been able to find the issue; can you tell me
+what specifically it said?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Dec 1997 22:48:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Cd-ROM Comments
+
+ Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who chose the characters for the directory?
+> Could you give a bit of a hint where I should start looking?
+
+"Who chose the characters for the directory? There are a few noteable
+exceptions that probably should have been included. I'm talking about
+Bester, Talia, Morden and both Koshs."
+
+      The conceit of the disk is that it's a guide to the station as
+of the end of the 4th season.  That's why neither Vorlon is listed,
+since they're gone by that time, ditto for Morden who was never
+actually a resident or officially a part of B5 and wouldn't be listed
+in any event, and of course Talia was gone a while back.
+
+"You mentioned that there is kind of an easter egg hidden on the disk
+somewhere. Could you give a bit of a hint where I should start
+looking?"
+
+      Just keep poking around until you find something that sounds
+right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Dec 1997 15:22:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Colin Heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Star
+
+ Colin Heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> As for Ivanova's departure, isn't it amazing what a 10-second
+> voice-over can achieve? One complaint though, what am I going to
+> do with my time until season 5 comes around?
+
+      Thanks, and after we're gone...well, yer on yer own.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Dec 1997 23:51:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: re: jms email
+
+      Just a note to remind folks that my email address is to be used
+only for stuff that can't or shouldn't be discussed publicly, for
+personal stuff. It's starting to fill up with general questions about
+the themes of the show, plot stuff and the like, questions which would
+serve better in the open forums where the answers would profit other
+people, and save me from having to answer the same question X-times
+privately.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Dec 1997 11:36:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: the wedding
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, it was never shot, so there's no still from it either.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Dec 1997 23:16:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: DougP <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Ads
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Cool...with luck I'll get a copy soonish.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Dec 1997 23:22:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 ITB TNT trailers
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"JMS indicated once the budget for these movies wasn't much greater
+than the shows (basically that of two episodes if I remember right). I
+don't believe it! It looks a lot better... do I have some wrong info or
+something?"
+
+      We did the movie for less than $3 million, which *technically*
+is 3 episodes worth to pay for 2 episodes worth of running time,
+*except* that rates tend to go up across the board for movies, so when
+you adjust for that, yeah, it ain't much above episodic stuff.  What
+you're seeing is the result of what we've been learning as we've gone
+along over the 4 years of the show. Remember, our blood oath has been
+the same from the start: each year we *have* to do better than the year
+before, we don't have the luxury of any sort of established name,
+quality is our only recourse.
+
+      We implemented more of the lessons we've learned there, and in
+the fifth season.  It's more a philosophical thing, in how we do what
+we do, than a money thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Dec 1997 13:55:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 ITB TNT trailers
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Which makes me wonder if you've ever heard from a viewer that they
+started watching due to Boxleitner or someone...?"
+
+      Lots of folks, actually.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Dec 1997 13:55:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Columbia House old/new
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I've no idea if CH will do the special edition or not...my guess
+is not, since TNT will likely want to remain the only place to find it
+for a while.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Dec 1997 13:55:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <100563.322@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ThirdSpace
+
+ Darran Williams <100563.322@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any comments ?
+
+      No, it would be about mid-fourth season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Dec 1997 00:15:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Stephen Edwards <101741.771@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Last episode #
+
+ Stephen Edwards <101741.771@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know you do not want to do a sixth season of B5 but are you
+> planning to do any spin off's set in the B5 universe, Like Star
+> Trek did with Voyager ??
+
+      Yes, there are plans for a follow-up series.  A back issue of
+Dreamwatch has a lot of info about it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Dec 1997 18:04:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Premiere Parties
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Short answer before the long one...obviously I cannot go into
+any establishment, or have TNT do so, and have them contravene their
+usual policies on smoking or drinking on our behalf...that's not
+something that's in my purview.
+
+      I got the list of places last week that will be part of the
+series of open parties, and I'm pretty sure they're all bars of one
+sort or another, for the primary reason that they all have
+satellite/TNT feeds, and have the resources for a party other than one
+that is catered.  Most average restaurants don't have those kind of
+facilities.  Jeffrey Willerth advised me about this in a memo, because
+he knows my feelings about alcohol.  So I asked hilm (he's the one in
+touch with the folks at TNT) to try and find some additional, non-bar
+venues.  Whether or not this is possible, especially at this late date,
+remains to be seen, but TNT was nice enough to say they'd try and find
+something.  The problem, as noted above, is finding places that have 
+the necessary facilities.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Dec 1997 18:04:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Toronto, Canada
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since you are going to be in NY, it's such a short hop to T.O.,
+> would you consider coming up here to do promo if the offer is
+> reasonable??
+
+      I'll generally go anywhere to help the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Dec 1997 12:26:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Toronto, Canada
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So where does one start to contact you about appearances for
+> promos?
+
+      They would go through TNT publicity.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Dec 1997 12:26:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Last episode #
+
+ Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is dream watch and where do we get it?
+> A friend(ex's sister had a book dedicated to her(Asimov's
+> Bicential man) she is also a writer and a Friend of Fari Ackerman
+> (Naomi Gordon(Magazner) ) want's to know if you have any plans of
+> doing anything with Bicentenial man?
+
+      Dreamwatch is a magazine in the UK.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Dec 1997 22:26:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Superlatives fail me..
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> However, if it was tampered with [ie, had it's mass or gravity
+> (and yes, I'm an engineer and I know these two things are usually
+> intimately related] increased) in an effort to increase it's
+> output, who know's WHAT is possible? If the human decendants a
+> million years from now are as advanced as they seem, who know's
+> what technology they could have mastered?
+
+      And what if you, say, interfered substantially with the mass of
+the sun by, say, causing a series of jump points to open up *inside*
+the sun across several days?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Dec 1997 22:33:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Deconstruction of Sol
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Would that amount to injecting some hefty chunks of hyperspace?
+
+      You'd also substantially decrease the mass of Sol, which as I
+understand it, would result in the sun going nova.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Dec 1997 22:33:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Guide my Gatherings?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Do you recommend viewing it first,before seeing the newer re-edited
+version looming on TNT?"
+
+      No, see the new one first.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Dec 1997 22:33:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Gathering Additions
+
+ Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you spare a few words on how you went about the re-edit?
+> Did you start with what you wanted to get back in, or trying to
+> find out how much time you could recapture? I see in the Lurker's
+> Guide you originally had 25 extra minutes of material to re-add:
+> did this trim down to 14, or was that all the room you could
+> make? (or were the other minutes not on the A-list?) Of what you
+> wanted to do, how much were you able to?
+
+"Can you spare a few words on how you went about the re-edit?  Did you
+start with what you wanted to get back in, or trying to find out how
+much time you could recapture?"
+
+      The first thing I did was to sit down with the editor assigned
+to the re-edit, Suzie, and go through the original script for the
+pilot.  My first words to her were, "Put everyhing in that ain't
+there."  To that end, she redigitized all of the footage from missing
+scenes, and had available all of the available footage of the other
+scenes for digitizing as we went.
+
+      Note that I said all the *available* footage.  The folks at WB
+who held custody of the film (we don't keep that stuff, we're not
+allowed to by contract, they store film, negative, prints, all that
+stuff) put the negative canisters into storage...and at one point in
+the intervening 4 years, there had been water damage, and on another
+occasion, apparently rats had gotten in there and chewed some of the
+original negatives (and in most cases there weren't positive struck of
+those takes).
+
+      Take your reaction to the foregoing, put it in front of the
+Hubble telescope, and you will have mine.
+
+      However, we lucked out...where there were some takes that are
+gone, we were able to find enough others (masters instead of a
+two-shot, or a close-up instead of an over-shoulder) and B-camera
+footage that we were able to build solid versions of those scenes.  We
+didn't always have as many choices as we're used to but there was more
+than enough for our needs.
+
+      Suzi then dumped all of the newly edited additional scenes into
+the existing pilot, and that gave us the new running time (we added
+about 14 minutes).  So at that point, John and I went in and worked to
+slice down the previously existing scenes, doing what we do with B5:
+tightening every loose screw and nut as much as we could.  One or two
+incidental, unimportant scenes in the original pilot went out, because
+they added nothing and shouldn't have been there in the first place (a
+total of about 3 minutes).  The remaining 11 minutes we made up in just
+tightening scenes, which were *so* lax and slow that it's amazing at
+times.
+
+      In some cases, we substituted one take for another in the
+pre-existing pilot when we had a better reaction, or played scenes
+closer for more intimacy.  (One of the problems with the pilot is that
+it kept the audience far from the action, and the actors far from each
+other, something we changed in our shooting style for the series...here
+we tried to change it when we could and when we had the coverage.)
+
+      Tiny example: when Kosh falls down upon arriving at B5, that
+sequence ends with a big honking wide downshot of a nearly empty
+docking bay, with Kosh far from us, and Sinclair looking down (away
+from us) when he says "Damn." Then we go from that to a wide shot of
+the medlab.  Same framing. So I had Suzie look for a take where we
+panned up from a close on Kosh, to a close on Sinclair for that line,
+so it's more immediate, more personal, and the jump to the next scene
+doesn't feel like the one before.
+
+      See, directors like to stay wide in their cuts, so you can see
+their nifty camera angles, see the set, the lighting...but after you've
+established where we are, most people want to see the *characters*, not
+the walls or how the camera moves.  That was what we tried to fix where
+we could.
+
+      We couldn't totally re-edit the pilot, because we hadn't been
+given the money for something that intensive (the main expense is in
+opening up all the audio stems in the sound mix).  But all the stuff I
+wanted back in, is now in, and the scenes I wanted to fix, I fixed.
+
+      I also got the thing back to its original format.  All TV movies
+are 6 acts.  Because PTEN wanted more commercial breaks, I had to
+re-jig the structure of the thing into 9 acts, which meant moving some
+scenes into places where they weren't as effective, and frankly after 9
+acts you just get tired of watching.  Here I was able to move scenes
+around and get back to the original 6 act structure that was intended
+for the thing, and that alone makes a huge difference in how the film
+feels.
+
+      One of the biggest changes is the one least immediately
+apparent. After we finished the original pilot, some folks at WB felt
+that Laurel was too...strong.  They will rarely put it in terms quite
+as blatant as that, but that was the message...she was "unlikeable,
+unsympathetic, harsh."  Meaning some of the guys felt she was too
+strong, let's cut to the chase, okay?
+
+      They wanted her to loop her lines, soften their (her) delivery. 
+I fought this tooth and nail.  I fought this until finally I was pulled
+aside and it was communicated to me that B5 was, after all, still an
+unknown property, could be a big failure, and if we ever wanted to see
+this thing on the air, we'd accommodate this note (which was, I have to
+admit on balance, one of the few they had).  The advice was, in
+essence, "Pick your battles."
+
+      So, reluctantly, I let it get looped by Tamlyn.
+
+      But now, when the re-edit was commissioned, and with the person
+at the studio who insisted on this now no longer AT the studio, I told
+Suzie, "Screw it, put back her original production track and trash the
+loops."  Instantly, Laurel's energy level comes up, the performance is
+better...it just *feels* more natural now.
+
+      So basically, we did a lot...some of it may not be immediately
+apparent (improving a sound here, altering coverage, adding additional
+sound layers, redoing a composite shot of the garden), but over the
+duration of watching it, it's just *better*.  It's still a *tad* slower
+around the middle than I would've liked, but that's a WP (writer
+problem), nothing that can be fixed in an edit.  It's just
+exposition-dense there, and nothing of a sort that can be cut.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Dec 1997 15:48:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Conference
+
+ Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering if you are planning on doing any online
+> conferences on Saturday, January 3?
+
+      Nothing's been scheduled, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Dec 1997 00:01:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: from jms on stuff
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      There are 9" figures out currently at Toys R Us, and 6" figures
+due out any time now.  Also, the Starfury model is apparently out in
+stores now from Revell.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Dec 1997 00:01:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Sinclair
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      There's a faq about this in the library.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Dec 1997 00:01:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 ITB TNT trailers
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you see Star Trek listed...do you see a seperate section for
+> B5? to all of this, did you find it interesting that the biggest
+> objection that the Trekkies had to First Contact was that Picard
+> actually *showed anger* about having been kidnapped, mutilated,
+> and forced to assist in the destruction of his own race?
+
+"You may soon wish to reconsider this POV. IMHO you will soon be
+bigger than Star Trek (why am I suddenly reminded of the Beatles?)."
+
+      It's certainly a wonderful thought, but here's why I think it
+won't happen.
+
+      At its core, B5 is a thinking man's (and woman's) show.  A
+viewer has to bring a lot to the table, pay attention, and be willing
+to be reflective to get out of it all that the show has to offer.  That
+pretty much precludes it from being a big pop-culture phenomenon.  I
+think we'll always do well, and we'll be around for a long, long
+time...but as a cult show, as the Prisoner is a cult show.
+
+      Which is absolutely aces by me.  I got to tell my story, and
+make something that'll endure, and that's why I entered the race in the
+first place.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Dec 1997 00:01:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Dolls
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will their be a JMS action figure, and will it have a Kung-Fu
+> Grip (tm)?
+
+      Given my luck when still dating, perhaps there should be a jms
+"no-action" figure....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Dec 1997 19:33:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sinclair
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"It does, however, make it interesting in that I think this is the
+first incidence of an AMERICAN made show surviving the loss of it's
+lead actor."
+
+      Actually, not correct...there have been many cases of this, from
+MASH to Bewitched to other shows.  It's not common, certainly, but not
+unheard-of.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Dec 1997 21:42:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TNT Guide
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is this a first?
+
+      I didn't catch the credit, but if so, yeah, that'd be my first
+as Joe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Dec 1997 01:05:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: My new home theater
+
+ Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What are the good brands of S-VHS tapes, and what are good places
+> to find them at reasonable prices? What are people's favorite
+> surround-effect scenes in seasons 2 through 4 (which are the ones
+> I have on tape)?
+
+      Don't forget the subwoofer....
+
+      I generally go for the TDK SVHS tapes, in general I've had fewer
+problems with those than any other brand.
+
+      We had good surround when Sinclair is getting "What do you
+want?" bounced back and forth at him, also when Talia is listening to
+the many voices in "A Race Through Dark Places."  Overall, you'll get
+most or all of the ship-bys we do, and you'll get the nice separation
+of voices in the S5 title sequence.  We use the surrounds to give a
+sense of place, and ambiance, more than anything else.  Pop in any
+really busy action sequence and you'll get a good sense of movement.
+
+      In general, the basic pro-logic setting is usually fine for B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Dec 1997 22:34:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Hi
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Better yet, is there somewhere I can go to get the low-down on all
+this?  I want to buy stuff!"
+
+      http://www.thestation.com
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Dec 1997 18:01:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Sinclair
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Bewitched changed Darrens, and he was as much a major character
+as Elizabeth's character was.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Dec 1997 18:01:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp_Dupa_T_Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Guide To B5 on TNT
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, it's a struggle, and hard work, no mistake, but we also
+have our fair share of fun as well.  What makes it more bearable is
+that we've instituted a humane system of film-making.  Most shows shoot
+16 hour days and then some.  We shoot 12 and that's it.  If you plan
+out what you're doing properly, and don't get reckless, you can do
+that.  The Directors' Guild has been fighting for 12 hour days for
+years, and been told that it couldn't be done.  Then recently they
+heard about us, and their jaws dropped, and they're coming out to do an
+article that says, in essence, see, it CAN be done.  And has been done
+successfully for 5 years.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Dec 1997 22:44:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Guide To B5 on TNT
+
+ Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Doesn't the sound of all those jaws dropping give you a headache?
+
+      I think the only reason we're still amazing them is that they're
+only now finding *out* about us.  We're doing what we've been doing for
+5 years now, it's just taken folks this long to notice us (which is
+about what I figured would be the case going in).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Dec 1997 22:44:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Guide
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can I assume that this was a different Patrick Stewart?
+> Was the Joe Straczynski - Master of the Universe header an inside
+> joke (considering your He-Man stint), or just a strange
+> coincidence?
+
+      Yeah, that's a coincidence, they either didn't know about that
+prior stint, or it just didn't occur to them.
+
+      I find I'm alternately pleased and chagrined by the attention. 
+When I saw that part of it, I kind of cringed, but what they tell me is
+that this is the sort of thing that's useful to promoting the show in
+general.  The firsts represented by B5 mainly come from the
+storytelling aspects of it, and that it's really one vision in an
+intense sort of way not really done much before. So that's something
+they can pin their promotion on.  It comes out of their real respect
+for what we've done here.
+
+      It's very weird to look around one day and discover, by doing
+what you've been doing in fair anonymity for as long as you can
+remember, that suddenly you're a celebrity, even a minor-league one. 
+You're talking to a guy here who couldn't get a date in high school,
+for cryin' out loud....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Dec 1997 04:06:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Guide
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"It looks as if TNT will not give B5 anymore respect than the
+independent TV stations did as to when they will air it.  They have to
+be bettter than WSKB though.  This torked me off too."
+
+      This only happened due to the game.  There won't be games coming
+on before the episodes themselves, so we'll be on time.
+
+      And believe me, they've *already* given this show more respect
+than the syndicated stations did.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Dec 1997 21:26:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TNT Guide
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> You too?
+
+"betcha the girls that used to know you are more chagrined than the
+ones that used to know me..."
+
+      Keed, take my word for it, having gone to my 20th reunion a bit
+ago, none of them even remembered me to *be* chagrined....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Dec 1997 21:34:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon Project: Crusade
+
+ Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any updates about the status of Crusade?
+
+      There's nothing I can say about Crusade for the moment.
+
+      Soon, though.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Dec 1997 21:37:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Guide To B5 on TNT
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I agree...it's just common sense, really.
+
+      Who knew it was in such short supply?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Dec 1997 21:37:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TNT Guide
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Oddly, the newspapers had it right, TV Guide didn't.
+
+      But they're going to be airing the Guide sandwiched in between
+the two TV movies airing next Sunday, so we're golden.
+
+      (ItB got a great review in TV Guide...called it "stunning" and
+"riveting.")
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Dec 1997 21:37:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com>
+Subject: "The Guide" on TNT
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The scary thing is to look at the promos John and I did for WB
+for the pilot and first season.  I didn't have a grey hair on my head,
+and there was more of it; John had a few, but has since gone totally
+grey-white from the rigors of this show, all in five years.
+
+      Thing is, though, I look at the promises we made in those early
+interviews, and by golly, we kept every one of them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Dec 1997 21:37:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon Project: Crusade
+
+ Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com> asks:
+> True,untrue?
+
+"I have heard that Thirdspace might be the pilot or lead-up to
+Crusade. True,untrue?"
+
+      Untrue.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Dec 1997 21:37:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 on DVD
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      There may be one episode to test the waters, but nothing's been
+discussed yet about anything broader.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Dec 1997 02:21:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Guide To B5 on TNT
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      It's both.  Even in the first two years of the show, we kept to
+12 hour days by virtue of making sure we were always 3-4 scripts ahead
+of where we were shooting, which is what makes all the difference in
+the world (on most shows you're lucky if you're one ahead, and
+sometimes pages are landing on the stage while you're shooting).  You
+get your writers working early, and make your notes clear, to minimize
+mistakes.
+
+      Also, bear in mind that with the exception of maybe a half-dozen
+scripts, most of them by Larry, all but one of the freelance S1-2
+scripts were based on premises I assigned to the writers...which in
+turn were based on my notes, which I give to John each season as a kind
+of crib sheet for the overall production of that season's shows,
+allowing our people to have months of cognitive lead time (where
+possible) on sets, costumes, that sort of thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Dec 1997 21:37:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Each Episode Intro
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nowhere available but the episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Dec 1997 21:37:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Guide
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"I suppose now would not be the time to bring up the old one about the
+starlet who was so new to Hollywood she slept with the writer..."
+
+      But that was only because she heard that in Hollywood,
+*everyone* screws the writer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Dec 1997 21:37:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 ITB TNT trailers
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"I know you did this story for people like us, but I suspect you may
+open wider the gates of speculative fiction in doing so."
+
+      If that should turn out to be the case, then all the effort was
+worth it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Dec 1997 21:37:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Dolls
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Well you could give it "attributes" and show all the girls what they
+were missing..."
+
+      Too dangerous...the accompanying magnifying glass could get
+broken during shipping.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Dec 1997 02:26:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp_Dupa_T_Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Guide
+
+ SysOp_Dupa_T_Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> is that from ITB?
+> (if so, he sure lost a LOT of hair between ITB and The Gathering
+> <g>) Or did Londo do Rogane? is that from a season 5 episode?
+> Or is B5 hosting the World Cup?
+
+"Regarding the one shot of Londo with hair down to his forehead... is
+that from ITB? (if so, he sure lost a LOT of hair between ITB and The
+Gathering."
+
+      Yeah, well, so did I....
+
+"Also, the scenes of what looks likes a riot on the station... is that
+from a season 5 episode? I don't recall those scenes in season 4."
+
+      They're from Thirdspace.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Dec 1997 23:33:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TNT Guide
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I have a directTV satellite dish, and I have to tell you I would
+*never* go back to cable.  The quality is substantially better, you
+have far more options, it never goes out, the per-month charges are
+about the same, for more services, and the initial cost of the setup
+has dropped dramatically in the last few months to just a couple
+hundred bucks for a basic system.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Dec 1997 23:45:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Guide
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      And in an NC-17 movie everybody gets the girl and one guy gets
+the guy and everybody feels bad about it later while they sit around in
+a French cafe reading Kirkegaard....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs98-01 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs98-01
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8c645633
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/CompuServe/cs98-01
@@ -0,0 +1,3488 @@
+JMS CompuServe messages for January 1998.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+Date: 01 Jan 1998 23:32:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: season 5
+
+ Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Q: With the rebroadcast of S1-4 on TNT, how will you handle NEW
+> fans who suddenly want to ask you all the same questions we've
+> been asking you through the first runs? Will you repeat yourself,
+> keep a lower profile and send them to review the Lurker's Guide,
+> what? Is The Gatherine still scheduled for right after In The
+> Beginning?
+
+      Yes, the Gathering will be aired after In the Beginning.  I
+think they'll run the Guide again in-between, though.
+
+      I'll deal with the new fans as I have with the old timers...with
+as much courtesy as I can, because I owe them no less.  One thing that
+*would* help is if people continue what they've been doing, and if a
+question comes up where the answer is known, or the questioner can be
+pointed to a faq, if they can continue to dive in and point the person
+to the relevant info, thus saving me the effort, that would be
+wonderful as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jan 1998 23:32:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: NAV Crew Pays Homage
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, I'll look for it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jan 1998 23:32:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp_Dupa_T_Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TZ Marathon
+
+ SysOp_Dupa_T_Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you catch any of the classic Twilight Zone shows on the SciFi
+> Channel's TZ marathon?
+
+      I saw some of it, was working most of the time.  They did shoot
+a few select shows on videotape, as an experiment, which they later
+dropped.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jan 1998 23:32:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp_Dupa_T_Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 in the news
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, thanks, I'm looking forward to seeing the article and
+review.
+
+      They had MY picture in there?  Oh, dear, there go their sales
+figures, down the toilet....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jan 1998 23:32:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kosh (Spoilers to ITF)
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Will we ever learn more about Kosh I and why he was more
+> sympathetic to the Second Ones than Kosh II, or is the Vorlons'
+> place in the saga over?
+
+      That's a good question, and one of the things I'd like to do
+(but which I can't see any way to do in the series) is the whole story
+of who Kosh was, how he got to be who and what he was, why he felt the
+way he did toward humans (part of it was knowing Valen)...maybe this
+will have to go into one of the novels.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jan 1998 23:32:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TZ Marathon
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Didnt you meet him once?
+
+      Yes, I did meet Rod once, though it wasn't until it was too late
+that he was identified to me, at which point he'd left (typical).  He
+was the best of us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jan 1998 23:32:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Were four sections okay?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I don't think I've much noticed or cared what sections there
+were, or how many there were.  I just mainly look at what messages come
+to me directly, and what new ones there are, using Tapcis...there could
+be 50 sections or 5, the number of questions tends to remain the same.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Jan 1998 00:17:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: StarFury Model Found
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Not warlord.  Warlock.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1998 20:33:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Magazine Error
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Feh....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1998 22:51:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Magazine Error
+
+ Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, was there a specific reason that the original DeLenn facial
+> prosthetics were not more closely duplicated for the prequel?
+
+      It made more sense to put it in line with the series, since
+there's 22 of the first season, and only 1 of the pilot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1998 20:33:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ItB - Zowie!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it's a terrific little story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1998 22:51:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: from jms on stuff
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, that was the logic, but we never showed it before...I didn't
+know if it'd be confusing at that point, since we were a new show.  So
+I decided to drop it in here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1998 23:03:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: from jms on stuff
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Kosh's voice always becomes clearer with the passage of time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1998 22:51:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Congrats on ITB
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Congratulations on a superb movie."
+
+      Thanks, it's a good one.
+
+"Far better than many of the "blockbuster" films that appeared  in the
+theaters this past year.  Hmm, I wonder what you could do with $200
+million for one movie?"
+
+      I don't know offhand, but for that kind of money you should
+expect at least a 50% cardiac arrest scenario....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1998 23:03:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ITB & TG:SE
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, does this mean the shadow-helpers didn't actually do the
+> destruction? Perhaps the Centauri did it trying to drive them out?
+
+      That Kosh, always a mumbler.
+
+"Londo said "...look what _we_ did to _ourselves_...." when he looked
+out the window.  So, does this mean the shadow-helpers didn't actually
+do the destruction?  Perhaps the Centauri did it trying to drive them
+out?"
+
+      You'll get the answer to that one soon enough.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1998 23:03:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ItB Questions
+
+ Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you know at the outset of Season 2 that Franklin, G'kar and
+> Sheridan had met before? If so how come no mention was ever made
+> of that fact?
+
+      Yeah, in my notes on Sheridan I had him meeting Sheridan before,
+but never did much with it at the time...we never see the first time
+Sheridan and Franklin meet in the second season, and when we do they're
+hanging out pretty casually, as people who've met each other before
+might.  Bear in mind, also, that there's about 11 years between the two
+incidents, and at best they were casual acquaintances on one mission.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1998 23:03:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ITB> and <TG
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+"I know you probably couldn't have made a movie about the
+Earth-Minbari War without giving away the ending, but I was kind of
+hoping the details would be left more vague than they were for the
+benefit of new viewers."
+
+      I came to that part of my decision-making process, and realized
+that in 2, 5 or 10 years, the secret ain't gonna be secret anymore...so
+why not play into that, and make the audience aware up front, which
+adds a different kind of tension, like seeing the bomb under the table
+when the characters eating dinner don't know it's there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1998 00:22:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 in Canada
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      CFMT and one other Canadian network will be carrying the show
+shortly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1998 13:28:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Congrats on ITB
+
+ Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Di Conlin, TUS , Wielder of the Lesser Salmon of Discipline
+> Supreme Dominatrix, RMES, your fearless leader "Great Maker, huh?
+
+      Thanks...always hated the Zoo scene myself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1998 13:28:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Claudia
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Tracy Scoggins, but it's a very different role.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1998 23:48:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Claudia
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Trap doors have always been in place for all the characters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1998 13:28:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Congrats on ITB
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1998 13:28:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Congrats on ITB
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Here's another thought: $200 million = ten years of the B5
+series and 8 TV movies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Jan 1998 15:47:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ken Mayer <103721.3257@compuserve.com>
+Subject: In the Beginning
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's a very moving and emotional movie in a lot of
+places, which was the goal.  If it doesn't touch you, there ain't much
+point to doing it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1998 23:48:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Peter Godfrey <100545.3607@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Calendar
+
+ Peter Godfrey <100545.3607@compuserve.com> asks:
+> By showing this on equipment obviously supplied from the future,
+> mean that the time line was disturbed ?
+
+"By showing this on equipment obviously supplied from the future, mean
+that the time line was disturbed ?"
+
+      Good grief, if that's true then I'm seriously out of phase, and
+at any second I could completely disappea
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1998 13:28:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neville White <100335.2721@compuserve.com>
+Subject: PPG science follows art!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Always ahead of our time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1998 13:28:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steven K. Andeweg <72143.674@compuserve.com>
+Subject: In the Beginning
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...if we don't keep trying to get better, what's the
+point?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jan 1998 15:47:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steven K. Andeweg <72143.674@compuserve.com>
+Subject: In the Beginning
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      And the thing is..."In the Beginning" cost us a tick under $3
+million bucks, which is almost nil in terms of budgets for TV movies. 
+It looks like it's a $12 million feature film.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jan 1998 21:23:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: In the Beginning
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      We got the ratings, and I can't release them yet, that has to
+come from TNT, but suffice to say they're dancing in the aisles over at
+TNT.  Again, I can't give specifics yet, but they had a very specific
+rating in mind that they felt was the best we would probaby get, which
+we beat handily, and they felt that the pilot, being a rerun, wouldn't
+do that well...and it ended up doing as well as the maximum they'd
+hoped the prequel would get.
+
+      They're stunned.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1998 13:28:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ITB and TG:SE
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> ITB used the current uniform, why wasn't it filmed using the old
+> TG uniforms? Will TNT show the original version of TG?
+
+      No, I don't think TNT plans to show the first version.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jan 1998 15:47:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <ITB> thoughts
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Londo's "What do you want?"
+> Is it possible he would've been firmer with the Captain about the
+> orders to avoid contact they had received, and that the entire
+> incident and thus the war might've been avoided? At what age do
+> Centauri boys have their hair start to stick up? How do they know
+> this? Do they have additional information they're not mentioning
+> about Minbari war strategy? Are they just guessing?
+> Or are they just making it all up as propaganda, thinking that it
+> will motivate the Earth Forces to fight harder?
+
+      Londo's first wife was a dancer, who he was forced to divorce by
+his family.
+
+      Adira reminds him of her a lot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1998 23:48:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: In the Beginning
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, it's been a real struggle, and we've had to overcome a
+lot to get to this point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1998 13:28:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: One Gathering
+
+      Thanks...it's much improved.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1998 23:48:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ItB - Zowie!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, there was supposed to be a commercial there, but instead
+TNT ran straight through into act 2, and inserted a commercial in act
+6, right before they go to see Sinclair.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1998 23:48:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp_Dupa_T_Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ItB and The Gathering
+
+ SysOp_Dupa_T_Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, are ya planning to go to Australia in 1999?
+> Is that correct?
+
+      That was his interior monologue, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jan 1998 02:03:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <ITB> thoughts
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, it's been established that Londo's first wife was a dancer,
+who he was forced to divorce by his family.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jan 1998 16:14:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <ITB> thoughts
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"But that still doesn't explain the "cared for them all deeply" part
+in relation to the other three... <bg>"
+
+      We remember what, and how, we choose to remember.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1998 23:48:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steve Ringley <73727.1202@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <TG> Zoo Scene
+
+      The idea was just to go through the sector, pass some aliens,
+see the exteriors of some quarters...the director made it into a zoo.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1998 23:48:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: In the Beginning
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jan 1998 15:47:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Biracree <75173.2021@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ItB: Dilgar War ? 
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      There's a fair amount about the Dilgar in "Deathwalker," first
+season. And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jan 1998 15:47:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Marcus....why
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...as for the alien machine, no, it definitely won't work
+on a dead person.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jan 1998 15:47:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael L. Wonch <73373.3533@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia
+
+ Michael L. Wonch <73373.3533@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Assuming Sheridan and his wife will still be main characters????
+
+      Oh, Sheridan and Delenn will definitely be sticking around.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jan 1998 21:23:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael L. Wonch <73373.3533@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia
+
+ Michael L. Wonch <73373.3533@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I can't remember his real world name(sin of sins, I know), but
+> when Seridan replaced Sinclair, was that planned from the
+> beginning? I mean, did the actor leave the show, for some reason?
+
+      No, that's something that developed over time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jan 1998 21:23:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Gathering re-edit
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I've no idea why they didn't promote that aspect of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jan 1998 16:14:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ItB - Zowie!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"I nearly cried when the President asked the military to "hold the
+line" so that a pitiful few hundred could escape. In that single
+moment, you feel that even if the Minbari had done it, those few
+refugees would have sired a people who, eventually, would have made it.
+Just at that moment, you see the echo to the ball of light flying into
+the encounter suit a million years hence."
+
+      It's a very moving scene, even for me.  There's something in
+particular about a female president making that request, and giving
+those orders, that is especially strong.  I don't know why that should
+be, but somehow it is. We as a people tend to forget our own strength,
+and as Londo says, our stubborn nobility.  We only seem to remember it
+when we stand on the edge of the abyss, when it's almost too late to do
+anything about it.
+
+"I always have felt this show is about him."
+
+      Yeah, in many ways, it is.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jan 1998 21:23:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <TG> Zoo Scene
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Also, the reworking of Sinclair's narration of the Battle of the
+Line, with Requiem for the Line and the battle transmissions was just
+gripping, it really showcased Michael O'Hare's strengths as an actor."
+
+      Yeah, that was an experiment I wanted to try.  When we did the
+audio spotting (me sitting with the sound folks, Chris, others), I
+explained what I wanted done with that scene, and they kinda got it but
+were a little dubious as to whether or not this could or would work. 
+When we came to the day of the audio mix, it was kind of a jumble...so
+I worked with the music and the voices to basically fill in the gaps
+between Sinclair's words.  Then I backed up and chose the ones that
+most related to what he had just said, or was about to just say.  It
+took about half an hour to get that 30 second piece down pat.
+
+      One of the least visible things I do is mess with the music and
+how the music lays out on the track.  I'm often at the front of the
+mixing room, working with the mixers, bringing up one instrument
+(percussion, for instance), bringing down the horns for one piece, up
+in another.  In "In the Beginning," for instance, there was percussion
+all through the Battle of the Line itself...and we had big EFX of guns
+and explosions going off, and the two muddied together.  So I went with
+the explosions for the first of it, then replaced some of the
+gunfire/explosions with percussion, then ducked down the SFX altogether
+and just let the music take it.  You kind of have to be a conductor in
+these instances.
+
+      (Which is why the astute will notice a slight change in the main
+title music starting with 507.  I was down sick when they had to do the
+main title mix, and couldn't get into it.  When we had to modify some
+voice stuff for 507, I went in and pulled out all the music stems and
+rebalanced stuff to bring out the themes more, which kind of got buried
+a little in places.  All the same individual pieces are there, but in
+different perspectives.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jan 1998 21:23:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Kosh (Spoilers to ITF)
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Is Naranek a title and if so what does it mean?
+> 2) Is Kosh a title and if so what does *it* mean?
+> 3) Why are all Vorlon Kosh?
+> 4) What was the relationship between Kosh 1 and Kosh 2 (they
+> always seem to be together, as on B4, in Dukhat's quarters,
+> backing each other up on B5), and if they were close, it that why
+> Kosh 2 was such a hardass in the aftermath of Kosh 1's death? Am I
+> close?
+
+      Zha is the usual reference for the future, whose meaning changes
+depending on whether it's a suffix or a prefix, and what it's up
+against. Isil-zha usually means change, changing the future, coming of
+a new age; entil-zha is the one who creates or guides the forces
+creating the future; and z'ha'dum (with the broken zha) is the death of
+the future, or the dark future.
+
+      And yes, Kosh and Ulkesh were contemporaries, though Ulkesh was
+the more military of the two, very isolationist, while Kosh was the
+curious one, interested in the younger races, and more willing to
+extend himself (with sometimes unfortunate results).  Kosh always
+worried what Ulkesh would do without his moderating presence...and
+ultimately had to be the one to take him down to allow the younger
+races to step forward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jan 1998 21:23:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ItB - Zowie!
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did Kosh set the Vorlons *and* the Shadows up?
+> Was he sick of the conflict and so arranged events, that he was
+> *certain* that the outcome would be a final end to it all?
+
+      You're right, as far as it goes...I think Kosh came late to the
+table. I don't think he came to B5 with that intent, but it grew in him
+over time that this cycle had to end, and he could be instrumental to
+that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jan 1998 21:23:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Earth Firsters and Truth
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Any organization like that has to proceed from a stance that
+either has the potential to make sense, or can sound reasonable.  So
+yeah, one can make an argument for their position.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jan 1998 21:23:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS in NY
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is this trip still on, and if so, do you have any info about it?
+
+      I'm having to buckle down and finish writing S5 and getting the
+third movie written, so I'm stuck out here.
+
+      It's a curious thought...I just turned in 519, which means with
+just these last 3 scripts, I'm done writing the Babylon 5 series.  (The
+third movie is outside the series in terms of one-hour episodes.) 
+After ten years, I'm 3 scripts away from being done with this thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jan 1998 02:05:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Joy of Resonance
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are the Soul Hunters (as a civilization) actually *wrong* in
+> "preserving" souls? So, is Lorien's "preservation" of Sheridan
+> really that different?
+
+      That's the question I wanted to ask in writing TSH...is it a
+Good Thing, or is it a Bad Thing, to retain these essences?  So yeah,
+that was always a part of it...and as for the resemblance, that's a
+valid point also, since when I met with the costume and prosthetics
+divisions, I mentioned that I wanted a soul-hunter sort of feel.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jan 1998 02:05:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Claudia promo
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> When were the Ivanova promos that run at the end of the season 1
+> shows filmed? Before or after the contract difficulties?
+> If after, does this mean we really might see some guest roles for
+> Christian? If before, do you have to get additional permission (?)
+> or pay actors for these promo spots in addition to their
+> contract?
+
+      Those promos were shot during the end of the fourth season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 Jan 1998 12:26:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: In the Beginning
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      There were a number of big fans of the show in TNT programming
+who kept bugging management to pick up the show, do the movies...and
+whose necks were on the line if it didn't work...who are now dancing in
+the aisles.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jan 1998 12:26:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <TG> Zoo Scene
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, I'm real happy with that sequence, starting with the top
+of the act and straight through to the President's speech...I think
+it's one of those moments when we committed art.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jan 1998 12:26:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Kosh (Spoilers to ITF)
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were they friends?
+
+      No, I wouldn't call them friends.  They had a certain respect
+for one another, but Ulkesh always thought Kosh was soft, and Kosh
+always worried that Ulkesh was dangerous.  In their own ways, both were
+right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jan 1998 12:26:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com>
+Subject: In the Beginning
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Turns out we virtually tripled our regular audience, and *built*
+each quarter hour, which means folks were jumping in all through, and
+those who came, stayed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jan 1998 12:26:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Nick and Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Congrats on ITB
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+      Eowyn?  I may be wrong, but it sounds like somebody's a Tolkein
+fan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jan 1998 23:56:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Congrats on ITB
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, I named them Shadows after the Jungian notion of the Shadow,
+which is the part of the mind which is all desire, and is destructive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jan 1998 12:26:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: In the Beginning
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you say if you broke and cable network records?
+
+      No, didn't break records, but we didn't have to and didn't
+expect to.
+
+      We just had to succeed.
+
+      We did.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jan 1998 12:26:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Kosh (Spoilers to ITF)
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since Kosh and Ulkesh seem to have the authority to dictate
+> Vorlon policy from what you've said, can we assume that they were
+> near the top of the Vorlon heirarchy (whatever THAT may be)?
+
+      It's not a hierarchy as you or I would understand it...and the
+weird thing is, though I kinda know how it functions, I'll be damned if
+I can figure out how to explain it in words.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jan 1998 12:26:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com>
+Subject: In the Beginning
+
+ Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance on rebroadcasting the re-edited pilot given the
+> suprisingly high ratings? Also, will the re-edited version of "The
+> Gathering" ever be released on video (VHS, DVD or Laserdisc)?
+
+      I think the rebroadcast will happen in a couple of months on TG;
+the rest is in the works but nothing's happening in the short run.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jan 1998 23:56:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark Fountain <74023.221@compuserve.com>
+Subject: cudos & such
+
+ Mark Fountain <74023.221@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you consider putting the scene of the hunter confronting the
+> Minbari at the battle of the line into the movie? Was that a once
+> considered story line that didn't make the cut?
+
+"Did you consider putting the scene of the hunter confronting the
+Minbari at the battle of the line into the movie?"
+
+      Yeah, for some time, in fact...but the logistics involved in
+staging a full-scale assault, dozens of soul hunters, the fight itself,
+would've taken up about 10-15 minutes minimum, which would have had to
+come out elsewhere, and I can't find 15 minutes in that movie that's
+expendable.  One can only do so much in the amout of space, and time,
+and money, one has.
+
+"One is a picture of what appears to be a soul hunter craft crashed
+into a jungle scene beside a Mayan looking temple.  At the time I just
+assumed that eventually an episode would bring that to light, but
+nothing ever has."
+
+      No, that's an image Ron did on his own, had nothing to do with
+the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jan 1998 23:56:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Terry Berkes <75050.2767@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Star: boffed
+
+ Terry Berkes <75050.2767@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In the scene with Franklin and the very upset Ivanova, when she
+> uses the word "boffed" (like Marcus), was this intended as just a
+> cute scene or a hint that the transfer would have had lasting
+> effects?
+
+"In the scene with Franklin and the very upset Ivanova, when she uses
+the word "boffed" (like Marcus), was this intended as just a cute scene
+or a hint that the transfer would have had lasting effects?"
+
+      No, nothing more was intended than what was seen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jan 1998 23:59:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TNT Ratings
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      If the release is up, then by all means, repost it.
+
+      And thanks...we did killer numbers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Jan 1998 16:57:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Overwhelmed
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's so strange to see the show starting all over
+again....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jan 1998 16:57:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Soul Hunters
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Omission?
+> Something that is on the cutting room floor?
+
+      No, there wasn't time to do it in the movie...it would've taken
+about 10-15 minutes to set it up and pay it off properly, and I
+couldn't find 15 expendable minutes in ItB.  There's a brief window
+after the body's death where the soul hunters can still move in, so
+there was time...we showed their ships moving in in Atonement, and to
+do so again here would get in the way and really confuse new viewers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Jan 1998 21:55:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 101 thru 104 (I think)
+
+ Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Di Conlin, TUS , Wielder of the Lesser Salmon of Discipline
+> Supreme Dominatrix, RMES, your fearless leader "Great Maker, huh?
+
+      It's uneven in places, but yeah, there's some good stuff there
+amid the dross.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Jan 1998 21:55:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: A moment of B5 beauty
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it's so odd, to in a sense go through it all over
+again....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Jan 1998 00:26:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Airship Package
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, much appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jan 1998 00:34:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Pat Frank <102016.1015@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Centauri... REPUBLIC??
+
+ Pat Frank <102016.1015@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why chose the word "republic" if it isn't one?
+
+      Why call the United States a democracy when it's a republic?
+
+      You must understand that there is always some difference between
+what a country calls itself, and what it actually is...further, though
+the Centauri Republic may have been more of a republic than it is now,
+it almost certainly wouldn't change thousands of years of history books
+just to accommodate a slight shift in direction.  No matter what form
+its government takes, it will always call itself the Centauri Republic,
+because that's their whole identity, their history.  We lie to
+ourselves all the time...that's what most governments are built on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Jan 1998 00:34:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ben <106774.313@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Aganemnon/ Shadow Models
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      There are currently no shadow or vorlon ships licensed to
+anyone; Revell will likely do them in future, but at this point, anyone
+out there who sees or hears of any other models, know that they are
+pirated kits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jan 1998 00:26:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Missing Hour?
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So what I'm asking here is, which is correct?
+> The episode or the movie?
+> Or can both be correct?
+> Did Londo call them before the hour was up?
+> Was he referring to other prisoners?
+
+      We're really only talking about an hour's distinction
+here...time is fluid in dramatic terms.  (How many times have we seen a
+bomb timer showing 3 minutes, and the process of defusing the bomb
+takes 15?)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jan 1998 00:34:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: In The Beginning
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"There was one notable flashback scene that did not make it into the
+movie, in which Sinclair rushes Delenn and pulls her hood off.  Also we
+never saw Sinclair surrounded by the Grey Council and blasted by the
+staff.  Given how "In the Beginning" progressed I'm not sure how those
+scenes could have fit in."
+
+      This happened shortly after the events shown.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jan 1998 19:14:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: In The Beginning
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What arrangements does a production make with an actor like
+> Michael York or Michael O'Hare when footage shot for one episode
+> is used in another?
+
+      You just call up their agent and work out an arrangement.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jan 1998 19:14:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Good TV Again !
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      TNT did some market research prior to the launch of B5, and the
+two questions they wanted answered were, what does a new viewer need to
+tune in to B5, and what do the current viewers need to bring them in to
+watch again?
+
+      The research told them all the things they had to include, and
+do, and say, to get the new viewers...and then when they got to what
+the current viewers need:
+
+      "They just need to know when it's on."
+
+      I think that's when they began to sense something rather massive
+lurking just beneath the radar nets....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jan 1998 19:14:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Claudia
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Why did Sinclair leave and Sheridan take over B5?
+
+      Check the library...I've answered this question a zillion times,
+and some kind souls have archived it all in the library.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jan 1998 19:14:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kosh (Spoilers to ITF)
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Was Kosh II really Ulkesh?
+> Why call himself Kosh?
+
+      The new Vorlon was Ulkesh, yes...the Kosh thing was meant in a
+Vorlon philosophical sense.  They ain't wired up like the rest of us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jan 1998 19:14:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin Wood <100337.272@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Did I _really_ see...?
+
+ Kevin Wood <100337.272@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this just a figment of my overactive imagination, and a desire
+> to get more B5, or is there something more to it? PPS - is it true
+> that the BtVS crew whipped the B5 crew at paintball?
+
+      Optic Nerve, the ones who do B5 prosthetics, also do them for
+Buffy, so there some understandable similarities from time to time
+(like when they used a good chunk of n'grath for one shot).
+
+"PPS - is it true that the BtVS crew whipped the B5 crew at
+paintball?"
+
+      Nope.  We beat them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Jan 1998 00:19:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Centauri... REPUBLIC??
+
+ Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So are we looking at civil war, or a Narn invasion?
+> Maybe that's all to be explained in S5?
+
+      It's coming.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Jan 1998 11:37:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: In The Beginning
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, I presume the original contracts with all the actors
+> specified residuals for the first "X" broadcasts, and that since
+> TNT will actually be broadcasting the episodes beyond that limit
+> (where PTEN probably wouldn't), that all involved are seeing
+> money they'd otherwise hope for but not expect? Am I right in that
+> (convoluted as it may be <g>)?
+
+      This is all standard stuff with the various guilds.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Jan 1998 11:37:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: In The Beginning
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Am I wrong to ask you about this, or do you see it at all
+> similarly?
+
+      No, he spoke to me about his approach to the role in WWE, and he
+said that he wanted to play it distant, that in a way, Sinclair had
+already gone beyond, was more mystical and reserved.  Hence the
+difference.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Jan 1998 23:09:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin Wood <100337.272@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Did I _really_ see...?
+
+ Kevin Wood <100337.272@compuserve.com> asks:
+> MOI, how do you handle things like this?
+> Do you copyright the appearance of certain races, or what?
+
+      The way it usually works is this...most such companies do
+recycle stuff, it's a given.  They are just under the obligation to
+change 50% minimum between what's done for a different show and the new
+item.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Jan 1998 23:09:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Newton's Laws...
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Shouldn't the exterior portion of the station counter-rotate in
+> relation to the interior portion? Or did I miss something and the
+> inner section is divided into two halves that spin in opposite
+> directions? Or should I not eat spicy food late at night just
+> prior to going to sleep??
+
+      There is a counter-rotating flywheel configuration...it only
+looks like it's stationary because it's maintaining that relative speed
+against the rotation of the lower section.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Jan 1998 23:09:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sam Waas <73052.2644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Marcus....why
+
+ Sam Waas <73052.2644@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And when B5 finishes its run (sob) we are on the lookout for the
+> JMS touch in other projects -- maybe you'll be involved in
+> another feature film?
+
+"And when B5 finishes its run (sob) we are on the lookout for the JMS
+touch in other projects -- maybe you'll be involved in another feature
+film?"
+
+      I dunno...film really isn't my venue.  In TV, the writer is in
+charge; film is conceded as a director's medium.  I'm too cranky to
+turn it over to a director, and too busy writing to direct...so I guess
+that leaves me to TV.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Jan 1998 23:09:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: In The Beginning
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"That would be the only place they would fit, but then I wonder why a
+Grey Council member would blast Sinclair after they already know he has
+Valen's soul."
+
+      Remember that Sinclair was going for them at that moment, and
+the blast didn't hurt him, only knocked him out...they were
+deliberately *not* trying to hurt him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Jan 1998 23:09:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Be These Truly Reruns?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Very occasionally one catches a nuance that was  missed on the first
+go-round.  But with the B5 reruns it's an entirely new experience,
+because one doesn't catch a mere nuance, but entire leitmotifs that may
+have been originally delineated, but are only fully visible in
+retrospect. The best of TV or movies have a 3-dimensional feel from the
+depth of the characters moving in an engrossing plot....B5 more and
+more feels like a flamin' tesseract!  It is truly amazing to sense the
+layers from later episodes blooming from incidents and statements in
+early episodes like a Web-page with all of the hyperlinks "active"
+simultaneously."
+
+      And lemme tell you something...this has been INCREDIBLY hard to
+pull off.  If I'd known just how hard, I don't know if I would've tried
+to tackle it.  The only reason this got done was that I didn't know it
+couldn't be done until I'd already done it.
+
+      One of the hard things was putting this stuff in, and having a
+number of folks at the beginning say, "Where's the story?  Where's this
+so-called arc? It's nothing."  I knew it was there, and knew that
+they'd know it was there...but like life, we don't see the patterns
+until afterward.  That was a real risk.  But I always wanted to plan
+this story for the long-haul, timing it and measuring it out with the
+knowledge that -- though it ran on a weird schedule for each of its
+original years -- in the long run it would show every day for years. 
+So it had to serve two masters, the short term goal and the long-term
+one.
+
+      It's what I promised when I talked about holographic
+storytelling 4 years ago...the more you see, the more you can see
+*through* the layers to the patterns they form, one behind the next. 
+It's not a form that's really been done much before, so I kinda had to
+find ways to make it work on the fly.  You have to have a mind like a
+rabbit warren to keep all the pieces together, running simultaneously,
+to write this stuff.
+
+      What's been rewarding is seeing so many people now coming
+forward to say much the same thing as you just said.  It means I did it
+right.  I gambled on the intelligence of viewers, and that gamble has
+paid off.
+
+      All of which is one big reason why I'm going to be glad to be
+finished with B5, as much as I'm going to miss it.  It's been a hideous
+struggle to get all this down on paper, and to stay ahead of the
+Machine, the camera, which chews through stories at the rate of 24
+frames per second.  In a way, now I kinda know what John Henry felt
+like, going up against the steam engine.  Just a few more steps, and
+I'll have beaten the damned thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Jan 1998 15:58:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Returning Fan
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"It's a very clever ploy, but it had the danger of turning off those
+of us who didn't realize that there was an underlying plan."
+
+      Yeah, it was a risky thing to do...but I figured that if we did
+it right, that would turn around eventually.  You just have to hold
+true to your plan and not get discouraged and wait until the rest of
+the world catches up to you.
+
+"In retrospect, it's *all* right there, but initially, I had to many
+prejudices to allow myself to see it.  I expected an attempt to copy
+Star Trek by someone who didn't understand SF, and I was going to see
+that, no matter what."
+
+      Don't worry about it...this happened to a *lot* of people.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Jan 1998 21:49:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Pat Frank <102016.1015@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Returning Fan
+
+ Pat Frank <102016.1015@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe: Are you guys aware of what kind of mind share you're getting
+> right now, in the _meanstream_ audience?
+
+      Yeah, we're getting in the demographics, and they're terrific so
+far. TNT is pleased.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Jan 1998 12:36:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Status check?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, Bruce is definitely an SF fan.  He tends to show up every
+so often at a couple of SF bookstores here in LA, startling the hell
+out of everybody, picking up the latest stuff.  And he and Jerry have
+built up a great working relationship with NASA, having gone out to the
+Cape to watch several launches and help promote the space program on
+their own time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Jan 1998 22:37:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steve Ringley <73727.1202@compuserve.com>
+Subject: In The Beginning
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"At the end of A Sky Full of Stars which aired tonight, a Minbari
+tells Delenn Sinclair must be killed if he remembers the encounter. 
+One of my friends considers this the greatest gaffe in the series."
+
+      Here's the reasoning on this.
+
+      First, understand that Minbari believe in reincarnation.
+
+      Second, as noted in ItB, if the Sinclair/Valen/soul issue got
+out, it would likely tear Minbari society apart.  The repercussions
+would be devastating on every possible level, if it came before they
+could be prepared properly.
+
+      In light of that, with or without a Minbari (or Valen's) soul,
+better to sacrifice Sinclair (who will be reborn anyway, and maybe next
+time in a proper Minbari body) than see Minbar damaged.  Remember, they
+don't know about the time loop, they see it as a straight-line
+progression.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jan 1998 11:47:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5 Intro
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And was that your name I saw painted on the butt of the station
+> as if it were a great big bumper sticker?
+
+      Thanks...yeah, this in some ways is my favorite title sequence. 
+It took a long time to make it, and it was very difficult to assemble. 
+Usually I can design the title sequence on paper, and the working with
+the editors part doesn't take that long...here it took a Long Time to
+painstakingly choose the images, use counterpoint dialogue, pick the
+high moments and make it all flow from one year to the next, sort of a
+Cliff's Notes version of the history of the show.  And the music is
+terrific...very mature, solid sounding.
+
+      As for the back of the station...y'know, those damn taggers are
+everywhere, aren't they?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jan 1998 11:47:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Starfury Question
+
+ Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Should those be open all the way through, or should the be closed
+> off partially through the tunnel? Or does it not make a bit of
+> difference?
+
+      Shouldn't really make any difference...you can close 'em if you
+want, but it's okay either way.
+
+      Revell did a good job and they were very patient...we kept
+coming back to them with corrections, and even when they didn't have to
+do them, as the deadline came up, they made the changes anyway.  I
+can't speak highly enough of them.
+
+      If you want to own a starfury, folks, now's your chance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jan 1998 22:53:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Starfury Question
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, What's the story with these ..."models"?
+> Are they available through order over the internet?
+
+      I dunno...you'd have to check with Revell on that one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jan 1998 22:53:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Space Battle Scenes
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Given that a long battle would range all over the place, with
+multiple ships acting simultaneously, sometimes miles apart from one
+another, I think it would be nearly impossible to do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jan 1998 22:53:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5 Title Sequence
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...in about two dozen comments so far about the S5 title,
+only one has been negative, the rest loving it.  It helps to place each
+season for the new viewers, recaps things, hits the high points, and
+the new music gives it a more mature sound.  I'm pleased.  (Since I
+designed it, I guess I'd better be....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jan 1998 22:53:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ITB and The Gathering
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The shipment of com links from Earth to the new B5 was delayed,
+and --
+
+      Look, a comet!
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jan 1998 22:53:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season 5 Uniforms
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is it going to remain like this?
+> wouldn't Franklin feel weird, being the only one still with the
+> "Delenn" uniform?
+
+      It's a mix-and-match world this season, showing the disparate
+parts of the B5 world after the various worlds as they have kind of
+blown apart, as they gradually come back together again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jan 1998 22:53:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season 5 Uniforms
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is it going to remain like this?
+> wouldn't Franklin feel weird, being the only one still with the
+> "Delenn" uniform?
+
+      PS, Zack is also in the black uniform.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1998 12:51:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Formulaic Television
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What do you think about the possibility that Babylon 5, a program
+> that dared the throw away the industry formulas and cliches, is
+> becoming a new industry formula and cliche? But how do you feel
+> about the possibility of so many others emulating your style, not
+> because they want to be creative, but because they want to jump
+> on the bandwagon of what is looking to be a successful concept
+> and application?
+
+      I don't feel we've yet achieved sufficient visibility on the
+Hollywood radar screens for that to be much of a problem at the moment,
+and at this point I only have time for problems of the moment....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1998 12:51:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Vorlon's Attitude.
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's a cover.  They want to seem aloof and disinterested,
+because they want to hide their activities.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Jan 1998 17:49:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steve Ringley <73727.1202@compuserve.com>
+Subject: In The Beginning
+
+ Steve Ringley <73727.1202@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If the Minbari kill him before he fulfills his destiny as it
+> were, doesn't everything change?
+
+      Yes, it would change history, if it happened...but since it did
+not happen, history was unchanged.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jan 1998 22:10:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ITB and The Gathering
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any seconds?
+
+      Yeah...that's the ticket...that's what I meant to
+say...doubleplus good.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jan 1998 22:10:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: In The Beginning
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Absolutely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jan 1998 22:10:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5 Uniforms
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> will we be seeing Vir's wife this final season?
+> any chances of Harlan sitting down with DM, since he's already
+> been on Politically Incorrect so often?
+
+      No, no plans for Vir's wife this season.  He has enough troubles
+to deal with....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jan 1998 22:10:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: S5 Intro: Model Request
+
+ Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now, is there any chance of Revell adding it as a decal to their
+> station model? How about a sheet of optional model decals via
+> thestation.com?
+
+      Yeah, it does kinda break the fourth wall just a bit...but
+again, I figure, what the heck, why not?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jan 1998 22:10:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp_Dupa_T_Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Commercials and TNT
+
+ SysOp_Dupa_T_Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does TNT run fewer commercial minutes per hour than the PTEN
+> stations did?
+
+      I think they may run fewer, yes, but haven't done a precise
+comparison to be sure.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Jan 1998 02:49:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robert A. Matern <70012.3660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: PTEN Intro Music
+
+ Robert A. Matern <70012.3660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who owns the rights to that PTEN intro music now that PTEN is
+> defunct???
+
+      No, that belongs to PTEN, which is now defunct...it announced
+the distributer.  TNT is the new distributer, so it's gone...as you
+wouldn't see the NBC logo if ABC started carrying the former's show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jan 1998 02:49:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: In The Beginning
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      We all rationalize this stuff every day...and we are never quite
+as good, at all times, as our PR and self-image would suggest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jan 1998 02:49:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5 Intro
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...took a bit to pull that one together, but I like it a
+lot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jan 1998 02:49:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Lovitt <75021.1731@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lyta and the Vorlons
+
+ Mike Lovitt <75021.1731@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will Lyta ever reveal what she knows about the Vorlons?
+
+"Will Lyta ever reveal what she knows about the Vorlons?"
+
+      You may have your answer sooner than you expect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Jan 1998 02:29:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Lennier <101671.630@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Official Guide CD-ROM
+
+ Lennier <101671.630@compuserve.com> asks:
+> On the B5 CD you said there was an 'Easter Egg', is this the
+> little clips spread around the CD, like Londos Bar Guide, or is
+> there something special to try and find?
+
+      No, it's somewhere else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jan 1998 14:19:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Lennier <101671.630@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Official Guide CD-ROM
+
+ Lennier <101671.630@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any clues whatsoeveras to where or what the 'egg' is?
+
+      Look in the least interesting part of the cd.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1998 17:06:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5 Intro
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I think the newbies will be fine...unless and until you know the
+context of the scenes from S1-4, they're just pretty pictures.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1998 14:12:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Lennier <101671.630@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5 intro
+
+ Lennier <101671.630@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where did they see it?
+> Will there be a movie clip of it uploaded onto this forum?
+
+      You can find the clip at the tnt site,
+www.tnt.turner.com/babylon5, or you can watch it tonight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1998 14:12:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: WhiteWitch <104047.2451@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sheridan, the Messiah?
+
+ WhiteWitch <104047.2451@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this intentional?
+> Or have I been watching King of Kings, Ben Hur, and that lot way
+> too much?
+
+      There's certainly a messianic streak running through the
+character, though he himself might challenge that notion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1998 17:07:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A thought...
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Turhan - "How will this end?"
+
+      It all interweaves, don't it...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1998 22:54:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: No Compromises
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"That last one is what hooked me. I figured you'd be spending the next
+few weeks explaining how you really hadn't broken the cardinal rule of
+B5 by introducing little Simon."
+
+      That means you went for the okeydoke...and thus didn't see the
+last bit coming.  That was the intent.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1998 22:54:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Question about Kosh
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      If I can, I'll try to work that in someday.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1998 00:41:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <NC (501)> thoughts
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> After seeing the Signs and Portents rerun tonight, we see Lochley
+> ask *the* question of Byron - "What do you want?" Had we ever seen
+> what a Gaim looked like without the mask before? Will the "public"
+> ever find out that the entire oath of office taken by Sheridan
+> was "Put your hand on the book and say 'I do'"? We now know that
+> Sheridan washes his own socks, but we still don't know the real
+> issue -- sock sock shoe shoe or sock shoe sock shoe?
+
+"Does anyone know whether Byron's "The geometries that circumscribe
+your waking life draw narrower until nothing fits inside them anymore"
+came from anywhere. My first (rather obvious) guess was that it was a
+line from Byron."
+
+      No, that was me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1998 01:45:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5 Intro
+
+ Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was that a glitch in post or intentional on your part?
+
+      We've always done that with the jumpgates.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1998 11:47:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: No Compromises
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...yeah, Tracy's doing a bang-up job for us, and fits
+right in. So much for the few who worried we'd bring in a "babe" with a
+softer, more submissive attitude, which I heard endlessly in some
+corners.  Amazing how often people are willing to dismiss stuff out of
+hand.  She's gonna be great.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1998 11:46:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5 Intro
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Except, of course, that the Clark aspect is mentioned several
+times over the course of season 5.
+
+      Basically, it seems to me a tad over the top to expect that the
+new season 5 episodes should not contain information that's a spoiler
+for 1-4; you may as well not MAKE the show on that basis.  If you're
+going to tune in to S5 after not seeing 1-4, you're going to learn
+things you didn't know; that can't be helped, and I can't see the
+wisdom in hobbling the show for all the rest of the years to come to
+protect a few newbies in the current season who, if they're THAT
+concerned about being spoiled, shouldn't be watching.
+
+      This seems to me at times a bit like the v-chip discussion...do
+we have to protect everybody all the time and let them never assume any
+kind of responsibility for their own actions?  Seems that deprives them
+of free will and free choice, all in the name of "protecting" them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1998 12:41:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5 Intro
+
+ Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, I loved that Lorien's question, "Do you have anything worth
+> living for?"
+
+      If they don't want any reference to what happened in S4, why are
+they watching S5?  That line is no more specific than any other
+discussion about the fall of Clark in S5 episodes.
+
+      This is a silly conversation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1998 11:47:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dave Latorre <76172.473@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Londo and G'Kar
+
+ Dave Latorre <76172.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it difficult to find these characters in the casting line?
+> What lead you to make these important choices?
+
+      When they came in the door, they *were* those characters as they
+read the script.  It was a no-brainer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1998 19:56:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <NC (501)> thoughts
+
+ Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you get mistaken for dead poets that often?
+
+"Do you get mistaken for dead poets that often?"
+
+      Only when they see my picture.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1998 19:56:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Formulaic Television
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> You're a hell of a storyteller; what made you choose television
+> as the medium?
+
+      I picked TV because this sort of saga has been *done* for print
+before, but nobody's done it for TV in the US before.  It's more of a
+challenge to do it here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1998 02:06:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season 5 - Final 10?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Any truth to this report?
+> Am I reading too much into this, or are we going to get a "bonus
+> episode" somewhere along the line in S5?
+
+      No, this season you get 22 episodes, no extras in the series.
+
+      Re: the schedule...it was brought to our attention that the NBA
+coverage would lead to episodes being shunted around and pre-empted for
+a number of weeks.  Obviously this concerned us, and would concern
+viewers, so we discussed it with TNT, and they came back to us with the
+notion that we would continue new episodes until hitting #100, break
+for the NBA games, then come back (starting with another possible
+half-hour special) afterward at the same time to finish the season.
+
+      It was either this, or get shuffled around the schedule due to
+the NBA, and the former is infinitely preferable.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1998 02:06:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5 Intro
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thing is, I think we're taking the term "spoilers" and taking it
+to a new level of definition that simply isn't valid.  A spoiler means
+getting information on an episode that hasn't aired yet in one's area,
+it doesn't refer to things that a) have happened long ago, or b) one
+may not have seen the first time it aired.  I just don't think it's a
+valid approach on the face of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1998 12:41:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season 5 Intro
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...each season's intro ep is a bit easier going, designed
+to bring newbies into the show by introducing the characters and
+universe and backstory...the next one is pretty darned intense.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1998 19:56:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <NC (501)> thoughts
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      There is, but it's something you kind of have to put together
+after meeting more of his folks...it's not necessary to the storyline,
+it's just a little something I put in.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1998 11:47:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steven K. Andeweg <72143.674@compuserve.com>
+Subject: NC/Main title
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1998 02:13:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Compromise or No
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But you've driven me nuts with the music box -- character quirk
+> or portent of something?
+
+      Thanks...it's a good stew.  I've got the ingredients in place
+now, all that remains is to start stirring the pot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1998 02:13:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Won't Show All...?
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Sure, they push it like crazy, but they tend to start it slightly
+> off the top of the hour, run inane little tie-in clips that
+> insult the show (transporters for the Rough Cut crew?
+
+      This came out of discussions with TNT when it came out that we
+would have to be pre-empted and shuffled around for the NBA playoffs. 
+It made more sense to let them go through unobstructed, then come back
+afterward in the same slot rather than forcing fans to go hunting
+again.  It's not a big.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1998 12:41:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Bendel <73447.741@compuserve.com>
+Subject: No Compromises
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...she's a good character and a fine performer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Formulaic Television
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Has it, ultimately, been worth the struggle for you?
+
+      Has it been worth it for me?  Yeah, I think it has...it's been
+tough, but worthwhile.  What matters is if, in the long run, viewers
+will think it was worth it.  Me, I was gonna be here anyway, and the
+story was gonna tell itself in my brain anyway, so I may as well have
+gone along with it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Formulaic Television
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> expand?
+> So, tell us, is Netter already thinking along these lines?
+
+      Certainly, it's our intent to keep the production team together
+on Crusade, once that gets going...if I sold any other shows, we've
+discussed the possibility of splitting the team in half, bringing in
+some new guys on the current show (whichever that is), and putting half
+our current team on the new show, so that both can learn from one
+another....
+
+      But in terms of doing other writers' shows...that's not
+something I'm interested in doing.  It's just too damned hard to do all
+this for someone else's story.  I don't want to be the exec supervising
+somebody else's show; that would turn me into a Suit, and that would be
+the end of me.
+
+      NDEI, as a separate entity, is better able to handle some of
+this sort of thing, but I'm not directly involved with any of that.  I
+know they've got another project of their own that's nearly solid now,
+called Rail Runners (steampunk SF), and I'm confident that they will
+use the lessons we've learned on B5 in doing that show, or any others
+down the road.
+
+      We're having an effect on TV more by osmosis than by making it
+ourselves in terms of doing other shows...the term 5-year arc is
+showing up more and more, first in Dark Skies then Earth: Final
+Conflict, and now others in the works...the CGI we pioneered for TV is
+now showing up in a lot of other series...and other shows are studying
+our methods.  The Directors Guild magazine has already done one major
+article on some new things we're doing, and another one is due out
+soon.  We've given tours to other producers to show them how we do what
+we do.  And our directors, some of whom were fairly new to dramatic TV
+(having done documentaries and afternoon specials and the like) before
+coming to B5 have now become in demand on other shows (you'll note
+that a lot of B5 directors are now doing ST shows because they've
+learned our methods...which is kinda ironic since no ST directors have
+done B5 because of studio pressure not to)....
+
+      So the impact is already there, and will continue to grow over
+the coming years.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season 5 Intro
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's Sinclair's reading.
+
+"My only criticism is that the end of it is a bit too Sheridan heavy,
+and it would have been nice to have a Garibaldi line somewhere,
+although I can't think of one offhand which would have fit."
+
+      Neither could I...which is why it ain't there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Jan 1998 23:54:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Evan Zucker <73067.1455@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I prefer Star Trek f/x
+
+ Evan Zucker <73067.1455@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What do other people think?
+
+      I always find remarks like yours amusing...since the Star Trek
+shows are currently using the same systems, CGI, and in many cases, the
+same animators who worked on the first 3 years of B5 via the same
+company that we helped to set in place, Foundation Imaging.
+
+      The difference is not in the perceived, but in the perceiver.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jan 1998 23:54:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Daniel Barer <74033.167@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ITB: Minb. ship trashed?
+
+ Daniel Barer <74033.167@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean that Sheridan's was not the only ship that
+> destroyed a Minbari battleship during the war? Was his the only
+> ship to do so and survive? Or did the Minbari ship actually
+> survive, albeit with a big hole in the middle? What do you think?
+
+"In the "2 years" montage in "In The Beginning", we see an Earth
+Alliance ship ram a Minbari cruiser amidships, blowing a hole through
+its middle. Does this mean that Sheridan's was not the only ship that
+destroyed a Minbari battleship during the war?"
+
+      Sheridan was the only one to score a *victory* against a Minbari
+war cruiser.  Meaning he survived.  Ramming one, and dying in the
+process, ain't a victory...at best it's a draw.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: No Compromise
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question is, are we to assume G'Kar actually did the things he
+> is given to do in the books?
+
+      I don't think any characterization of the Narns as simply
+victims is correct...even in the series, we showed that the Narns, once
+free of Centauri oppression, turned around and were in the process of
+doing to others what had been done to them.  They did a lot of awful
+things, no mistake.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 23:09:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: No Compromise
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of Narns, what is G'Kar's position now?
+> Has the Ka'Ri been reestablished?
+> Is he finally First Circle?
+
+      A lot of that will be established this season, but technically,
+he's still the Ambassador from Narn.
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Hairy decisions
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Who decided that Garabaldi should be bald this season and that
+> Sheridan would have a beard? In general are hair-style decisions
+> for television characters made in the same way as wardrobe
+> decisions? Did Delenn's makeup take longer before or after her
+> transformation? On another matter, how do you collaborate with the
+> book authors?
+
+      Jerry has been shaving his head, getting shorter each year, and
+it worked for where his character is going, so I let it stay...Bruce
+would love nothing more than to get rid of the beard (I suspect Melissa
+doesn't like it also), but for me it's important to make the character
+visually different, and to give him a more mature look, so Bruce
+graciously indulges me.
+
+      Re: the novels...in the first few, the writers came up with
+outlines and then manuscripts which they ran past me.  I subsequently
+decided that this didn't work because too many non-canonical things
+were slipping in, and if I was reading the ms. late at night I'd miss
+things, and generally they didn't feel like the show.  The last few
+from Dell, and the new ones from Del Rey, will proceed from outlines
+assigned out from my office, based on my notes about the B5 universe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Of course I was wrong
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Gracious apology just as graciously accepted.
+
+      It's happened before.  We're pretty much used to it by now.  But
+we just don't create uninteresting characters or choose uninteresting
+actors to play them.  Never have, never will.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 18:48:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Of course I was wrong
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"I'd hate to see what you do with B5's janitor! <bg>"
+
+      Don't laugh...wait about 5 episodes and you'll find out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:45:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: In praise of MO'H
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      A lot of folks are coming to that conclusion now...and I kinda
+wish they could've seen it then, because I can tell you that a lot of
+the criticism Michael endured (rather stoically, I have to say) was
+unfair and hurtful and needlessly mean-spirited.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Rubinstein <74012.147@compuserve.com>
+Subject: "No Compromises": 2 q's
+
+ Michael Rubinstein <74012.147@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Faith manages, right?
+> Isn't the Psi Corps still formally a branch of EarthGov?
+> If so, then wasn't Captain Lochley duty-bound to report Byron's
+> people to the Psi Cops as soon as she found out that they were
+> rogues? Or is she really not working for Earth anymore?
+> If that is the case, then why the EarthForce uniform?
+> If the interests of B5 and of Earth should ever diverge, then
+> whose interests is Captain Lochley *supposed* to serve?
+
+      You're correct; we always start out slow each
+season...especially in this case, knowing that we're going to get a lot
+of new viewers, I structured the show so it would bring folks up to
+date asap on who everybody is, and where things stand.  Believe me,
+there's plenty of tragedy and pathos lurking right around the corner. 
+It picks up at the end of the season, after some very rough things for
+the characters, because I can't end it all on a downer, but at the same
+time, it has to have meat to it.
+
+"Isn't the Psi Corps still formally a branch of EarthGov? If so, then
+wasn't Captain Lochley duty-bound to report Byron's people to the Psi
+Cops as soon as she found out that they were rogues?"
+
+      You'll find that question answered soon enough.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season 5 Intro
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No reason to change until something formally gets worked out.
+
+      And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: No Compromises
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's easy to mistake the actor for the character in
+situations like this.
+
+      It's a vastly different character from Ivanova also, not meant
+to fit in the same place, do the same things, or be the same person. 
+They're both strong characters, but different in their approach. 
+Ivanova tended to be a shouter, and on the impatient side...Lochley is
+a thinker, and more inclined to the blade than the ball-bat.  But both
+are equally lethal.
+
+      Lochley, I think, also has the maturity of character you need to
+rise to the rank of captain in the military, and the voice of moral
+authority, which both Sinclair and Sheridan had, in comparable
+positions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 18:48:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arthur Stoppe <73710.2014@compuserve.com>
+Subject: No Compromises
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Oh, she has a sense of humor...but we don't see it here in this
+episode any more than when Ivanova first came in, because both are in
+new situations and that requires a certain degree of seriousness. 
+We'll see some of her humor along the way...it's also different from
+Ivanova's, more a sly kind of humor, the sort that slips past you and
+ricochets around the corner half an hour later to nail you between the
+eyes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com>
+Subject: No Compromises
+
+ Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> He asked - if a telepath walked into a bathroom and someone was
+> "hidden" behind a shower curtain, could that telepath do anything
+> to that person?
+
+      Depends on the strength of the telepath.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SaP & TKO
+
+ Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> morden visits Delenn, what was that glowing triangle?
+> Morden?
+> Regarding TKO, he grabbed me in the office the day after it aired
+> and asked, "What's with the "Bloodsport" rip off (the movie with
+> Jeanne Claude von Damme)?
+
+"In SaP, when Mr. morden visits Delenn, what was that glowing
+triangle?  He thinks he recalls also seeing it in ItB and he thinks it
+has something to do with the Triluminary, but he hasn't  seen it since.
+What did it mean in the case of Mr. Morden?"
+
+      It's something the Grey Council have that allows them to sense
+the arrival of the Shadows and their minions.
+
+"Regarding TKO, he grabbed me in the office the day after it aired and
+asked, "What's with the "Bloodsport" rip off (the movie with Jeanne
+Claude von Damme)?  I didn't care and thought it was well done but I
+told him I'd ask you on his behalf."
+
+      Dunno...didn't write it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp_Dupa_T_Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: No Compromises
+
+ SysOp_Dupa_T_Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You once said that season 5 would be all "Wham" episodes; is that
+> still your plan? So does this mean that B5 will invade the Super
+> Bowl?
+
+      Thanks...haven't actually seen the cheeseheads one, though I had
+to rewrite the copy (and the other one with the football player)
+because they didn't quite get the show or the character.  Don't know if
+they stuck with my changes or not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Leadership
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's certainly an approach that would benefit the chain
+of command in a lot of situations.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 22:54:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Akua Lezli Hope <71220.1665@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <NO COMPROMISES> Spoiler
+
+ Akua Lezli Hope <71220.1665@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The resounding of familiar visual themes: the asassin reminded us
+> of the shadow-agent, especially in killing the "Queens" (was that
+> their name? having to deliver it himself?
+> Of course he was hungry, hadn't he gone without sleep and
+> sustenance to create the unsaid words? Will we ever get to read
+> the oath of office, or was this a sublimely clever device to
+> spare JMS from creating one?
+
+"Why couldn't the young telepath just broadcast his discovery to the
+others, vs. having to deliver it himself?"
+
+      Line of sight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 18:48:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: Cards/Comic Due Soon
+
+      Just a general FYI...the Fleer S4 card set has just come in, and
+should be appearing soon at stores.  They're gorgeous cards, with not
+only the pictures on one side, but also on the same side, a line of
+dialogue associated with that character that can only be seen if you
+tilt the card; plus some nice (but not excessive in number) chase
+cards...real nice.
+
+      And the first issue of the DC comic Valen miniseries just got
+into my hands; should be hitting stores the coming week or so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 23:09:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Cards/Comic Due Soon
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would you ever consider doing something like this with the Valen
+> character somewhere down the line for television, such as in
+> "Crusade"?
+
+      I think there may be some way to tell the story of Valen down
+the road in one form or another.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 23:09:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Formulaic Television
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you been watching Earth: Final Conflict?
+> Ya wanna be a actor Joe?
+
+"Ya wanna be a actor Joe?"
+
+      Not if you hung me by the short-and-curlies off the World Trade
+Center on a windy day.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 23:09:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Formulaic Television
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Suit have to lose?
+
+      Phil, honest and true, I'd rather have a root canal....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1998 23:18:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: "Big Screen B5"?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is there any truth to this story?
+> Will you be at the London premieres?
+> Should I start planning trips to London in July and October?
+
+      No one's said anything to me about it thus far...the first I
+heard of it was in that article.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1998 23:18:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kirk Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com>
+Subject: No Compromises
+
+ Kirk Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com> asks:
+> jms, does that imply that in some future eps, Lockley will be
+> right and Sinclair will be wrong?
+
+"jms, does that imply that in some future eps, Lockley will be right
+and Sinclair will be wrong?"
+
+      Assuming you mean Sheridan here...the answer is yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1998 23:18:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: EYES guest star
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, he just did the one for us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Jan 1998 12:18:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ivanova Question...again
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"This was unfair to the B5 brass and said no. CC was in England
+promoting the show, the time-limit on the contract signing passed, and
+she was fired and replaced."
+
+      Just to clarify...since she had declined to sign the same
+extension the rest of the cast signed, she was no longer working for B5
+at that time, and hadn't been for over a month.  You can't fire someone
+who isn't working for you.  All WB could do was make an offer, which
+she could accept or not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jan 1998 21:06:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ivanova Question...again
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No question you were being neutral, and admirably so...I was
+just looking to clarify one point.  You did great.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1998 00:27:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: acheron
+
+      Actually, the Acheron is the river of woe....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1998 23:18:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: acheron
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It helps to have a background in the classics...I was reading
+greek mythology while still in grade school, and minored in philosophy
+in college.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1998 23:18:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: No Compromises
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      There's a reason behind that name...though that wasn't it, it's
+a nice bit of lagniappe.
+
+      And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jan 1998 20:59:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: No Compromises
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How about the title of the episode, Joe?
+> Any reason other than the theme which might have prompted your
+> choosing it?
+
+      I picked "No Compromises" because that was my approach for this
+season: we aren't going to give an inch on the quality of the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1998 23:18:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 501: Crooked?
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> looks a little crooked," or should I get my hearing checked?
+
+      It was an inside bit of humor on his part, yeah, but that's it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jan 1998 12:25:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: EYES guest star
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is he no longer allowed to do B5 by virtue of pressure from "The
+> Mountain"?
+
+      No, there's been no pressure there, just a matter of finding the
+right role.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1998 03:38:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Formulaic Television
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I can't say, all I know is that it happens, and it's pretty much
+ignored when it does.  It's the biz.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1998 03:38:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Last 10 in Canada?
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, if TNT is holding back on the last 10, are you still going
+> ahead with the production ? if so, are you going to deliver to
+> them regardless of the hiatus?
+
+      Yeah, we're still proceeding along with production.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1998 11:35:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Last 10 in Canada?
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And you will continue to deliver them to TNT without a break?
+
+"And you will continue to deliver them to TNT without a break? thanks"
+
+      That's what I said.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1998 11:35:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Cards/Comic Due Soon
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, there's a full cast set of autographs.
+
+      I just heard today that all 800 cases of the B5 cards have sold
+out before even being shipped, which is the first time that has
+happened in the history of the Fleer entertainment division.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1998 20:49:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Cards/Comic Due Soon
+
+ Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will the following parts be shipping weekly or monthly?
+
+"Will the following parts be shipping weekly or monthly?"
+
+      I suddenly realized that I don't know...my guess is monthly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1998 20:49:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Official Guide CD-ROM
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> RE: the "Easter Egg" - is it the "fourth question"?
+
+      Yup.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1998 20:49:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com>
+Subject: No Compromises
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, given that these are one-time-only aliens, it seemed unwise
+to spend all the time and attention to create a detailed language for
+them.
+
+      And thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1998 20:49:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TVLNOLM
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'll have that corrected asap.
+
+      Sigh...it never ends....
+
+      And yeah, good ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1998 02:03:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Shedule & Quick Qs
+
+ Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you have someone check and clarify this?
+> Quickies: G'Kar's replacement eye: this wasn't because of Andreas
+> starting to have problems with the contacts, was it? Will Lockley
+> or anyone that stayed loyal to Clark ever answer the question
+> about what they expected to happen to Clark? Or was Edgar's
+> description all we'll get? Perhaps the answer is too simple to
+> relate: they thought it would clear up somehow, and just didn't
+> want to get involved themselves...?
+
+      No, the contact omission was kept because of the story and the
+character; it'll be dealt with down the line in more detail, but for
+now, that's why it's there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1998 23:38:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TVLNoLM
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...I'm proud of that one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1998 13:19:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TVLNoLM
+
+ Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could Delenn have interceded and prevented the Rangers from
+> accepting Lennier? Obviously, she absolutley *would* not, but
+> could she have?
+
+      Thanks...and yes, she could have...but it would have devastated
+him and undermined the Ranger structure.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1998 13:19:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: The Dark jedi <110014.2055@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TVLNOLM
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...like you, I'm fascinated by the relationship between,
+and the characterizations of Londo and G'Kar.  Writing those two is the
+most fun I can have with my clothes on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1998 22:57:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 502: Ummm... Wow.
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When the episode opened with Sheridan and Delenn in their
+> quarters, I asked, "Is this going to be the way every episode of
+> season five starts?" But can Delenn let it go so easily?
+> Londo knows about John's twenty years?
+> Just how common is this knowledge?
+> Boy, when you say that the first episode is just to get the new
+> viewers up to speed, and then you take off in the second, you
+> ain't kiddin', are ya?
+
+"Boy, when you say that the first episode is just to get the new
+viewers up to speed, and then you take off in the second, you ain't
+kiddin', are ya?"
+
+      Rangers never bluff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1998 13:19:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TVLNoLM
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1998 22:57:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Shedule & Quick Qs
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+         No, the delay is only until the playoffs are over, then we're
+back.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1998 23:12:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <VLN> Heartbreak Hotel
+
+      Thanks.  It's a somewhat off-format for us, and those are always
+fun and nervous-making.  I'm really glad it worked out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Jan 1998 15:54:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Frank McCloy <74541.3464@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia
+
+ Frank McCloy <74541.3464@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Hmmm, They must have ironclad contracts, hey?
+
+"I, for one, would like to see the Ivanova character return.  I don't
+know if it's possible, but I would still like to see it."
+
+      a) Wasn't my decision, b) given that I'm writing 522 right now,
+I'd say that the odds are zero, barring "Sleeping in Light," shot last
+year and held over to this one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jan 1998 23:34:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are we gonna see/hear about little David before Sleeping in
+> Light? Any chance?
+> Pretty please?
+
+      Sorta kinda.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jan 1998 23:34:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: George Gillburg/CA <73137.1733@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Previews
+
+ George Gillburg/CA <73137.1733@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this change permanent?
+> Or is this even anything you have any control over?
+
+      I think the preview now is actually between acts 3 and 4.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jan 1998 23:34:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Mira Furlan Signed Card?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The real cards have a white area at the bottom for signatures;
+none of the other cards have that white area.  If it's anything other,
+it's a fake.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs98-02 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs98-02
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f7cc5dfc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/CompuServe/cs98-02
@@ -0,0 +1,2004 @@
+JMS CompuServe messages for February 1998.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1998 17:42:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: S5 Title
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Just out of curiosity, knowing that the Voices of Authority track
+> was the only mostly original one on the 2nd CD, did you sort of
+> have it picked out as the S5 title 'just in case?'
+
+      Yep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1998 17:42:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tim <106273.3321@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mira Furlan Signed Card?
+
+ Tim <106273.3321@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you sure about this?
+> That doesn't seem like very many?
+
+      Oh...the CCG cards...I thought you were referring to the Fleer
+cards.
+
+      Then ignore what I said; I'm an idiot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1998 17:42:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dave Latorre <76172.473@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Story Line
+
+ Dave Latorre <76172.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you keep things straight with so many threads and
+> characters over the course of the full arc? Babylon 5 has a
+> Cannon, but how does a written document account for
+> plot/character shifts over the years? Perhaps you have a vast
+> story board of post-it slips and yarn connecting push-pins to
+> keep things straight?!?
+
+"How do you keep things straight with so many threads and characters
+over the course of the full arc?  Babylon 5 has a Cannon, but how does
+a written document account for plot/character shifts over the years? 
+Perhaps you have a vast story board of post-it slips and yarn
+connecting push-pins to keep things straight?!?"
+
+      This may sound kinda scary, but aside from my original notes, I
+keep it all in my head.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1998 17:42:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: I prefer Star Trek f/x
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, I might've been able to get a piece of Foundation, and I was
+offered a piece of the new company set up to take over, but I declined,
+on the theory that to make honest decisions, based on what's best for
+the show and nothing else, I couldn't afford any other agendas...I had
+to approach this stuff with, as Balzac said, "clean hands and
+composure."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1998 17:42:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Formulaic Television
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...I hope history will bear out your reaction.  We try 
+and make it a moving, personal show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1998 17:42:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TVLNoLM
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  I think a writer has to constantly challenge the last
+thing he did if he's to be worth a damn to the audience.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1998 17:42:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Cards/Comic Due Soon
+
+ Shane Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Will the cards be offered through www.thestation.com?
+
+      Some boxes will come through there, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1998 23:46:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp_Dupa_T_Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TVLNoLM
+
+ SysOp_Dupa_T_Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are the remaining two a sign and/or portent of things to come in
+> season 5 (he asked foolishly)?
+
+      Could be....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1998 23:48:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Minbari Warrior Women
+
+ Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It seems that the warrior caste of the Minbari is mostly male; or
+> have I just missed seeing the female members of the warrior
+> caste?
+
+      It's more male than female, but they're there.
+
+      (I can see it now...Xenonn, Warrior Princess....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Feb 1998 23:20:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: G'Kar vs. Delenn
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Was it ever revealed why a member of the Kah'Ri was playing a
+> "lowly ambassador" on Babylon 5? Or is that something yet to be
+> revealed?
+
+      G'Kar's position was widely known; the Kha'ri is a large group
+like Parliament, as opposed to a 9 person, secretive ruling body.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Feb 1998 23:20:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robert A. Matern <70012.3660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia
+
+ Robert A. Matern <70012.3660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you have to "adjust" anything to explain her sudden
+> reappearance...?
+
+"Did you have to "adjust" anything to explain her sudden
+reappearance...?"
+
+      Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Feb 1998 11:24:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dave Latorre <76172.473@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Story Line
+
+ Dave Latorre <76172.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Scary?!?
+> Yes?!?!?
+
+      Essentially, yeah, that's it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Feb 1998 23:44:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Thomas W. Rackers <72047.1207@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT & accuracy
+
+ Thomas W. Rackers <72047.1207@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (Actually caught myself saying the other night, "DS9?
+> Was that on tonight?
+> Sherman?
+
+      TNT is doing what it can to improve in all those areas.  We're
+working with them on it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Feb 1998 23:44:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia
+
+ Shane Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, What are your feelings, now that the final episode of your
+> "brainchild" is stored in your computer, and nearing birth?
+
+      I'm so caught between different emotions, I can't even begin to
+sort them all out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Feb 1998 23:44:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Paragon
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...I like the declaration a lot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Feb 1998 16:56:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Paragon
+
+ Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This was really a writer's episode, wasn't it?
+
+      The funny part of it is...the editors made a point of dropping
+in my writing credit just when G'Kar says his muse is talking to
+him....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Feb 1998 23:44:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TPoA: Powerful Themes
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You thought we wouldn't notice that you cast G'Kar to play you,
+> did you? Are you referring to recorded human history here?
+> Wouldn't he really like to know how they feel?
+
+      Byron's feelings about mundanes comes out later in more
+detail...I wouldn't call it a hatred.  A resentment, yes, and certainly
+there's a sense of having been mistreated...but he's surprisingly not a
+violent person, as we'll find.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Feb 1998 23:44:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Episode numbers...
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which is it?
+> Will SiL also be 422?
+> Or will it be 522?
+
+      It'll be 522a.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Feb 1998 16:56:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Frank McCloy <74541.3464@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Beyond Season 5
+
+ Frank McCloy <74541.3464@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any chance that B5 will be renewed for seasons beyond
+> Season 5 or have you written a definitive END to the series?
+
+      B5 was written to end in year 5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Feb 1998 16:56:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Voice in the Wilderness
+
+ Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If TNT is showing episodes uncut, does that mean that the above
+> scene was deleted from the US broadcast?
+
+      I talked to TNT about this, and apparently a technician plugged
+in the wrong timecode for the act out.  Nothing more than that; nothing
+else has been snipped, it was a one-time incident.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Feb 1998 23:44:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Any Seas.1-4 re-edited?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> May I ask if any of the Season 1-4 episodes have been re-edited
+> for TNT re-broadcast?
+
+      No, we haven't had a chance yet to get into any revionist
+editing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Feb 1998 23:44:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <tPoA> Piece of Work
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Isn't part of clinical depression a sense of dislocation from
+> one's surroundings? Random Moments -- Sheridan's impression of
+> Mollari was delightful -- Garibaldi's "never met a fact I didn't
+> like" made me remember the "Deconstruction" byplay of "goodfacts"
+> -- your introduction of ambiguity in the stupidity of Sheridan's
+> decision vis-a-vis the telepaths foretold in "Deconstruction"
+> (was his mistake to allow them to live on the station, to allow
+> them to be used as info-operatives, or something we have yet to
+> see?
+
+      A really very nice analysis of the themes and counterpoints in
+the thing.  I hope somebody's collecting these things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Feb 1998 00:59:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Paragon> thoughts
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are any teeps the tactical/intelligence geniouses that Garibaldi
+> is? Do they have the charismatic leadership abilities of Sheridan
+> or Delenn? Can they heal people as well as Franklin?
+
+"I wouldn't be surprised to see Byron realize that the mundanes have
+talents that teeps generally do not."
+
+      Clog dancing...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Feb 1998 23:44:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TPoA: Delenn...
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was that wine I saw both Sheridan and Delenn drinking at dinner?
+> So I take it the minbari inability to consume alcohol went away
+> with her transformation?
+
+      Nonalcoholic wine, at worst...I sometimes have it myself, since
+I don't drink.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Feb 1998 23:44:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <Paragon>thought blocks?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Quick question: regarding what Byron said about the amount of effort
+it takes to block out the thoughts of mundanes, I was wondering--have
+any non-teep humans given thought, time, or effort to creating any sort
+of artificial 'shielding' device to keep their thoughts to themselves? 
+Is it impossible, or just not something they would bother with,
+figuring it's up to the teeps to deal with it?"
+
+      Some of them have trained at it a bit, and learned little tricks
+that can help...one such tries it later this season.
+
+"As for Lyta, I felt like she was sort of an abused child, always
+looking for that benevolent authority figure."
+
+      Yep, that's what she's doing, looking for someone to believe in.
+
+"I don't know if I buy the idea of death of the soul, but if it
+explains Bester, I guess I can swallow it.<g>"
+
+      Bear in mind, though, that Lyta also said that that's the mind's
+only way of interpreting what it's seeing, not that it *is* what she's
+seeing, so it doesn't necessarily validate or invalidate the notion of
+a soul.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Feb 1998 23:44:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Paragon of Animals
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      He does tend to play Drazis a lot, primarily the ambassador, for
+purposes of continuity, unless he's not available.
+
+      Re: Hamlet...one of the wonderful aspects of Shakespeare's work
+is that it lends itself to reinterpretation and reinvention; cynical
+lines can be read with hope, and vice versa, and somehow, the darned
+thing tracks.  One recent version of Hamlet mounted by Joseph Papp
+starred a woman actor in the title role, and it worked beautifully.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1998 00:03:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Director Kevin Dobson
+
+ Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Garibaldi" the same person who starred in "F/X: the Series"?
+
+      No, the actor is a different person from the director.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1998 00:03:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B2
+
+ Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know you don't explain what's going to happen regarding B5, but
+> can you elaborate on this scene? When in time did this scene
+> occur, where, and what happened?
+
+      No, as it stated in WWE, the point is to *prevent* that future,
+which they did.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1998 00:57:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Paragon
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is important is what are we going to do about it?
+
+      That's fine, if this were a constitution or something based on
+coming out from under an opressive government, as the colonies did. 
+This is an incremental process; get the principles in place, and then
+build the laws and the constitution on that.  Get them on board for one
+thing they can sign, and then use that as a platform to get them to
+sign the more restrictive stuff. And bear in mind you only heard part
+of it; the full thing would go on for many many pages.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1998 00:57:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Paragon of Animals
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> JMS, 1) was Mira told in seaon 1 about Delenn's role in the
+> Earth-Minbari war? 2) how long is a "cycle"?
+
+      Remember though that the purpose of the teeps is to gather
+covert intelligence.  There are two operative words there: covert and
+intelligence.
+
+      Intelligence against whom?  Logically, this would involve in
+part keeping tabs on worlds not in the Alliance...and some that *are*
+in the Alliance.  If you think the Drazi are up to something, and you
+have Drazi telepaths on your team...are they going to cooperate against
+their own government?  If you leave them out, won't they find out if
+they're in the company of the other teeps on a daily basis?  The covert
+part also goes out the door.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1998 19:11:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Paragon of Animals
+
+ Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But if the hypothetical Drazi teeps are Rangers, would they have
+> loyalty to the Drazi government, or to Entil'zha? And are there
+> any telepathic Rangers?
+
+"But if the hypothetical Drazi teeps are Rangers, would they have
+loyalty to the Drazi government, or to Entil'zha?"
+
+      Maybe they would..one hopes they would...but why take that
+chance if you're in Sheridan's shoes, trying to make this thing work?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1998 00:57:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT Orders 4th Movie!
+
+ Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you verify this sneaky revelation?
+> Also, what is the genre for the optioned miniseries?
+> Mystery, horror, sf?
+> And it gives me pain to bring it up, but might you be checking
+> with Claudia's people to see if she is willing to be in at least
+> one of these last two movies at the available price? Or is that
+> situation still too painful?
+
+      Two of the points I can't comment on; on the third, the original
+miniseries I just sold is based on a true story about a year
+researching some time ago.  I've been trying to find the right market
+for a long time, and finally came across the right company, which
+believes in telling this story. There's still mountains to cross before
+it can get produced, lots of things can still go wrong, but now at
+least a studio is involved and spending money, that's a big jump.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1998 00:57:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com>
+Subject: >> Future First Ones<<
+
+ Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which brings me to my question, did the Minbari, the Narn, or the
+> Centari also achieve the evolutionary state of the first ones?
+
+      The Minbari eventually make it; the Narn and Centauri do not. 
+They don't die out, they just don't hit a state of First One-ishness,
+which is darn close to immortality (barring violence).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1998 00:57:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Londo's Journey
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      He can learn, yes, and he can better himself...but because of
+his actions, so many have died, so much grief has occured, that perhaps
+no amount of self-revelation can cover the blood on the floor.
+
+      There's an excellent moment in the Night Gallery movie, where a
+prison camp commandant has fled to Brazil and, years later, is trying
+to live out his life in peace, realizes that mistakes were made, is
+actually trying to find a better life...but as one man dies at his
+hands says, "You have hung too many Christs on crosses for any god to
+forgive you."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1998 00:57:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Paragon of Animals
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, I'm sure that some Minbari teeps could be trusted...but
+would they function well in a covert situation?  They're mainly out in
+the open.
+
+      One other thing I forgot to mention in my note to Nancy...if you
+put out the word that you want 2 teeps from each world...that kind of
+kills any chance of putting together a group of telepaths that's going
+to operate IN SECRET, a covert unit, yes...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1998 00:57:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: tPoA:Imphili
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Coincidence.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1998 00:57:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robert R. Wiggins <76703.3036@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Any Seas.1-4 re-edited?
+
+ Robert R. Wiggins <76703.3036@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that include the credits?
+> Since I know credits are usually fiercely negotiated, was this a
+> magnanimous gesture on Peter's part, or did Andreas' agent kill
+> Peter's agent?
+
+      No, Bill had a credit from the start; and each year, Andreas and
+Peter trade off the last position in credits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1998 00:57:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Delenn's role in war
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, 1) was Mira told in seaon 1 about Delenn's role in the
+> Earth-Minbari war? 2) how long is a "cycle"?
+
+"1) was Mira told in seaon 1 about Delenn's role in the Earth-Minbari
+war? coz Delenn looked like she was lying about something when talking
+about the war."
+
+      She was told some...but not all, only what was needed for that
+scene: that she was holding stuff back.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1998 18:55:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <tPoA> Piece of Work
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Shakespeare...Hamlet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1998 03:41:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Marcus....why
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, never spoke to Lucas, only saw him once at the Emmys, from
+the back; that's it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1998 19:11:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Great Acting
+
+ Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering did he get any pointers from Peter for that line
+> or has he just picked that up on his own over time?
+
+      EVERYone does Londo on the set.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1998 22:56:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Story arcs - way fwrd?!
+
+ Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What do others think?
+
+      Actually, having seen the original material (I was asked
+initially if I would work on E:FC in terms of writing/rewriting the
+pilot), there wasn't really a worked out arc on that; this is something
+you can credit to the other producers currently working on the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Feb 1998 22:56:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ben <106774.313@compuserve.com>
+Subject: More models on the way!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Those models are unlicensed and illegal.  No one has the rights
+to produce a White Star, no model company other than Revell/Monogram is
+licensed to produce models.  Anyone else is a pirate.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Feb 1998 23:57:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bryan Cooney <100551.1656@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Claudia on "Highlander"
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Since you have now surfaced again....
+
+      1) Photos were taken of myself, cast and crew at your behest for
+a full print run, signed by everyone, for sale to benefit charity.  You
+said that every person who participated would receive copies of this
+photo.  To date, several of those involved, myself included, have not
+yet received copies. When do you intend to fulfill your promise?
+
+      2) These photos were to be sold to benefit charity.  Can you
+supply me with the number of photos sold, and the amount of money
+raised, and to which charity they have gone?  And how many others
+remain in your custody?  As one of those who participated, at your
+request, I have the right to this information.
+
+      3) You have stated in the past that your books on charitable
+donations are open to inspection.  I have now asked, at least half a
+dozen times, for you to provide me with copies of that information. 
+You said after my last request that it would take several months for
+you to assemble that data.  It has now been almost a year.  I have not
+yet received the promised accounting on this, or the prior Wolf
+convention, where I participated to help you allegedly raise money for
+charity.  When will this accounting be forthcoming?
+
+      4) You have been repeatedly instructed not to show, or
+facilitate the public showing, of episodes in the UK prior to their
+official airing.  I am reminding you of your obligation not to do so,
+or to use clips from said unaired episodes at your conventions.  If you
+do so, I cannot be held responsible for the consequences.
+
+      5) You stated that pirated merchandise would not be available at
+the prior conventions.  Yet in both cases, substantial amounts of
+illegal merchandise was being sold openly at your conventions.  Will
+you, or will you not, honor your obligation to keep out illegal
+merchandise in future conventions?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1998 02:46:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Claudia on "Highlander"
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Negative.  Rick delivered John's, that was all that he was
+given.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1998 00:20:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Stephen Furst, Director
+
+ Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Anything to this, or is it just a coincidence?
+
+      It's been the luck of the draw, but yeah, Stephen has chanced to
+do the lion's share of our off-format shows; I commented on this to him
+not long ago.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1998 00:20:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Great Acting
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One other thing, whose idea was the accent?
+> Didn't some bit player (Centauri Minister of Intelligence) once
+> say "the details are everything"? hey Joe...so how long *did* you
+> work for the CIA?
+
+      We were open to accents and non-accents on all the roles...Peter
+came up with one that worked.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1998 02:44:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <tPoA> Piece of Work
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust?
+
+      Yup...and the quote becomes more apt when reproduced in full.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1998 00:20:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: hello old friend(s)
+
+ Richard M Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just out of curiosity, when is your next visit to sunny Florida
+> going to be?
+
+      Welcome back....
+
+      Yeah, caught the Uncle Sam book, and liked it a lot.  I haven't
+had much chance to read comics lately, but when I saw the Alex Ross
+stuff, I knew I had to pick it up.  (Currently trying to catch up on
+the Astro City arc.)
+
+      Thanks for all that...it's a nifty little season.
+
+      A 4.0 average?
+
+      Listen to my voice...watch more TeeVee...you will watch more
+TeeVee... you will forget all about Barnabas....
+
+      Oops, wrong show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Feb 1998 02:00:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Another circle completes
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Nice bit of closing the circle 4 years later there..."
+
+      What goes around, comes around.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Feb 1998 18:28:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: hello old friend(s)
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Entering rant mode....
+
+      Of course the president screwed around...hell, it's one step
+away from being a requisite for the job.  Every president does...what
+the heck's the point of BEING president otherwise?  Some get caught,
+some don't, that's the only difference.
+
+      If you were to remove every member of the senate and house who
+was screwing around, you'd end up with maybe a dozen people, including
+Strom Thurmond, who *would* be screwing around except that the
+necessary parts withered up and fell off 15 years ago along with what
+little remained of his common sense.
+
+      Frankly, I don't care who the president screws as long as it
+ain't the country.  And right now, the country is doing better than
+it's done in the last 20 years.  That's what will be noted in history. 
+The rest is marginalia.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1998 01:53:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: hello old friend(s)
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> He may have a 79% approval rating, but is this what we really
+> want running the country? Didn't Richard Nixon get ousted because
+> of an obstruction of Justice by trying to cover up a third rate
+> attempt at a robbery after he found out about it? Why shouldn't
+> the same standards apply here?
+
+"What's really at issue concerning this latest scandal is whether or
+not he *suborned perjury* and *actively engaged in an obstruction of
+Justice,* and I think we both know the answer to that question."
+
+      No, actually, we *don't*.  We have a great deal of rhetoric, but
+that's the full extent of it.  One of the things about the American
+justice system is that it is based on the concept of innocent until
+proven guilty.
+
+      You say scandals...but after eight years, and $30 million of my
+(our) tax money spent, not one servicable charge against Clinton has
+come out of Whitewater.  Not one.  You spend $30 million on lawyers and
+you can get something on darn near anyone in the country...but they
+*still* haven't been able to tag him with anything.  Now we have this
+new batch of unproven charges and allegations, which for all anyone
+knows is as bogus and trumped up as the Whitewater situation.
+
+      I would also suggest that there is a difference (by several
+orders of magnitude) between (possibly) having an affair with someone
+on the one hand, with or without any later concerns about it, and on
+the other hand Nixon with the systematic utilization of dirty tricks,
+wiretapping, character assassination, burglaries, and general thuggery
+practiced by Richard Nixon and his cronies.  The harrassment of campus
+dissidents by FBI, break-ins following the leak of the Pentagon Papers,
+fake press releases issued under Muskie's name on his stationery during
+the election, the Democratic National Headquarters break-in, kickbacks
+and bribes made to Spiro the Zero Agnew (and it didn't take 8 years and
+$30 million to document that one), the creation and maintaining of
+enemies lists, use of the IRS to harrass political enemies, and 
+deliberate destruction of evidence (the 18.5 minute gap), among many
+others.
+
+      Nixon was a mean, venal, destructive creature who used the
+system to destroy his enemies.  At his worst in this situation, if
+guilty, Clinton was massively stupid and exercised poor judgement.
+
+      There's a substantial difference.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Feb 1998 23:30:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: s j nicholson <76574.1663@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Gallery
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, it's one of my favorites as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1998 13:00:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Provoking Discussion
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Corey: <<If your style of provoking discussion is to say
+> outrageous things that you don't really believe yourself, please
+> let me know so I can refrain from responding.>> Vadim: << What
+> would be the point of provoking a discussion if noone responds? 
+> What would be the point of answering a question with a question? 
+> What would be the point of disputing an outrageous opinion that
+> not even the poster believes? Bester as a "a nice guy"?
+> Goodnik?
+> Corey: >>RMES Minister of Cathode Ray Inspection and Appreciation
+> << Vadim: What does it mean?
+
+      Bester is NOT a nice guy...but not everyone sees him in that
+light, which is why I did one episode from inside the Psi Corps this
+season, to show how others in the PC see him....
+
+      Even Hitler painted roses.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1998 23:47:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Provoking Discussion
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How do you make characters so real and so likeable so quickly?
+> Are they Rebo and Zooty?
+
+      No, thank *you*...and yeah, it's gonna be odd when this ends....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1998 23:55:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anthony J. Bryant <71233.3035@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lochley has just lost me
+
+ Anthony J. Bryant <71233.3035@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does she not have any idea what Covert means?
+
+      No, there's nothing secret in Garibaldi being head of covert
+intelligence, any more than it's secret who the head of the CIA is. 
+There was no reason she couldn't say that in front of them, or anyone
+else; it's common knowledge.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1998 23:47:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Gallery Comments
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> You just love that cavalry at the last minute thing dont you?
+> Where were the League ships at?
+> Same for Robin?
+> Did Bruce and John like the airship photos?
+
+      They LOVED the photos; John in particular ooh'd and ahh'd over
+them. They were big hits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1998 23:47:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <tVftG> Prismatic View
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The main thing you show us in "View" is a change in perspective,
+> which is the inherent possibility of the holographic viewpoint,
+> no? Given that "View" was written much earlier, would you ever
+> have imagined that your "rumors" Bo & Mack conversation (although
+> delightfully reflective of the whole
+> casting/cash/Internet-response dynamic)would wind up to be so
+> eerily concise a statement about the sate of our "ISN?" Who among
+> us would not be a better person for expanding their range of
+> acceptible possibilities?
+
+      Thanks...as always, you catch all the nuances, and pick up on a
+few things that I wasn't consciously aware of doing (the subconscious
+is a sneaky, subversive thing that cannot be trusted).
+
+      One of the things I always do is look for ways to turn the
+series format on its head, and show us our characters from other
+perspectives, since perspective is so much at the heart of the show. 
+Whether that's jumping forward in time, or an ISN documentary, or
+seeing everything through the eyes of a third party (or two), it's
+always a risk, because it's never what one expects to see, and a lot of
+people like to see what they expect to see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1998 23:47:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: thanks for the gift
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1998 00:36:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <tVftG> Prismatic View
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, it's still a problem for some groups of fans...the core of
+it is, you have to do some strong character stories amid the arc
+stories, because if you don't, if you don't continue to make the
+characters into people you *care* about, then the arc stuff doesn't
+matter.
+
+      We had a couple of arc-light episodes to start off this season,
+in part due to knowing that we were going to get a lot of new viewers
+who had to be brought up to speed, and due to introducing Lochley, and
+there's this group that goes over the edge saying that the arc is
+faltering, it's going too slow....
+
+      But then you turn around, and if you do 3-5 arc episodes in a
+row, the same group goes over another cliff saying that it's all moving
+too fast.
+
+      If something's resolved in 6 episodes they say it should've been
+done in 8; if in 8, they say it should have been 6...if it isn't a
+strong SF-based story it shouldn't be in the show at all...if it
+doesn't hew to our format, it's frivlous and self-indulgent and a
+waste, get back to the arc....
+
+      One could go mad, quite easily.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1998 00:36:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The View
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"1) Back in a college creative writing class my professor expressed
+that a person would have to be either a fool, a genius or insane to
+write a story from the POV of a minor charters.  Which do you consider
+yourself?"
+
+      Your professor's worst nightmare.
+
+"2) Last week you pointed out that your writing credit was put up as
+G'kar was talking about his muse.  This week it Mac was saying "Let's
+go eat" when you credit was displayed.  Any comment?"
+
+      It didn't mean anything that I could see.
+
+"3) Can Zac arrest the Rough Cut guy?  He impersonates a doctor, and
+busts into Sheridan's office.  There has to be some offence he's
+committed (other than insulting our intelligence and your show).  Or,
+better yet, lets see him in the vacuum of space already!"
+
+      We try....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1998 15:06:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Thank You
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, I appreciate all of that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1998 15:06:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: J_Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Official Guide CD
+
+ J_Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where is the virtual shuttle that leaves every 10 minutes?
+> Is the BABCOM supposed to malfunction?
+> Also, though you may not be able to help with this one: How come
+> the Music CD won't play on my computer, though it plays in my CD
+> stereo system (note, other CD's play music fine in my computer)?
+
+      Don't know the music answer...as for Babcom, yes, it's a broken
+unit, which when you tap it with the mouse, allows you to eavesdrop on
+bits and pieces of converstion around the station.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1998 15:06:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com>
+Subject: VFtG
+
+ Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The Lurker's Guide asked the same question that was in my mind
+> after viewing this Ep - where was the Great Machine in all of the
+> desperate fighting? Twice now B5 has been in danger of destruction
+> (Zha-ha-dum was the first) and yet where was Draal?
+
+      I don't think Draal wants to be bothered each and every time B5
+is in a hassle.  He specifically said he wanted to be left alone. 
+Otherwise you also get into a "god in the box" deus ex machina
+situation where, "Oh, we're in trouble, quick, get Draal."  Truth is,
+if they called him every time they got in trouble, he'd never get ANY
+sleep.
+
+      Now, if B5 had failed in stopping this advance force, and the
+main fleet came in, then yeah, they might very well call him.  But this
+was just an advance force, and she knew they could take it, and she was
+right...so where's the need for Draal?  He should be a last resort
+ONLY.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Feb 1998 00:47:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Skybox rip off
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I would suggest that maybe it's the luck of the draw.  I make it
+a point, when the cards come out, of getting some regular boxes out of
+the distribution line to check.  Although one was a bit light, in the
+other two I checked, I got a complete set of the basic cards, and all
+but maybe 6-8 of the chase cards, and one autographed card.  That seems
+pretty reasonable to me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1998 15:06:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dave Latorre <76172.473@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Bo and Mack remind me of
+
+ Dave Latorre <76172.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But tell me, was the "Bo and Mack get caught in the cross fire"
+> scene a wink in an obvious direction?
+
+      Thanks.
+
+"But tell me, was the "Bo and Mack get caught in the cross fire" scene
+a wink in an obvious direction?"
+
+      If it was, I didn't know about it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Feb 1998 00:57:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <tVftG> Prismatic View
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, how long did the actors portraying Bo and Mack sit around
+> with you and Harlan in order to pick up on your respective
+> personalities?
+
+      No, they didn't.  What they did do...they got along famously,
+the two actors, and they spent their off-hours rehearsing the scenes,
+over and over, until they got it down to a patter, very natural.  They
+loved the roles.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Feb 1998 03:33:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: J_Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Official Guide CD
+
+ J_Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now where are Mac and Bo when I need them?
+> Also, is there supposed to be some sort of virtual shuttle or
+> not?
+
+      No, there's no virtual shuttle; that's just the arrival section.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Feb 1998 03:32:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kirk Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lochley has just lost me
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Well, actually she still wouldn't discuss it in public."
+
+      What public?
+
+      These are two STATION PERSONNEL, who work for her, who are part
+of the military command structure, who have the same loyalty oaths as
+she has.  They didn't have this conversation in the Zocalo, in front of
+civilians, it was in a closed area with two other STATION PERSONNEL,
+who are entrusted with a high enough security clearance that they can
+work on C&C firing consoles during heavy action, in a situation where
+every second counts in getting things ready for the next wing of an
+imminent attack.
+
+      This is a non-starter issue, frankly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Feb 1998 03:33:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <tVftG> Prismatic View
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I've been bugging her to do more...we'll have to see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Feb 1998 03:33:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Price of Revell Starfury
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      There's nothing I can do about a local store overcharging you,
+I'm afraid.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Feb 1998 03:33:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: VFtG
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Hmmm, wouldn't Draal likely be aware of what was happening so close
+anyway? And would it not be possible that he may also be aware of how
+strong the force was, how soon the white stars would arrive, etc, and
+thus know if he was needed as a last resort?"
+
+      You're not describing Draal, you're describing God, and he ain't
+in this show.  For one thing, we couldn't afford him....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Feb 1998 03:37:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <VftG> thoughts
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"The "let them attack someone else, just not us" was actually a little
+startling to me. If they were going to blow these guys up, I kinda
+wished they'd put a little more effort into it rather than just
+foisting them off onto the next, perhaps less-fortunate people."
+
+      Given that this is a little-known, distant, entire *race* out
+preying on weaker races, of which this was just an expeditionary force,
+how (short of planetary genocide) would you have stopped them? 
+Moreover, is that really Lochley's (or B5's) mandate, to eliminate
+every hostile race out there?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Feb 1998 03:37:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Price of Revell Starfury
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Well, then there we are going to have to disagree.  Virtually
+every other person I've heard from who's bought the starfury has
+thought it was extremely well made.  We worked very hard with Revell to
+assure the quality of the model in every detail, and it's a solid,
+quality model.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Feb 1998 12:46:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Fred Topol <76626.774@compuserve.com>
+Subject: VFtG
+
+ Fred Topol <76626.774@compuserve.com> asks:
+> As a military officer, wouldn't one of Lockley's objectives be to
+> win any battle with the minimum amount of casualties?
+
+      True, but is it *her* resource to do with any time she wants? 
+It is a separate institution and operation, that has said, politely and
+not terribly politely, that on balance it would prefer to be left
+alone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Feb 1998 12:46:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Price of Revell Starfury
+
+ PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How's your back Joe ??
+> Remember at Blackpool when you asked how many of us had seen
+> Season 4 episodes before Channel 4 had started the TV run ?
+
+      The back is better...I still have to be careful, but it's
+better.
+
+      Nothing's been formally set yet re: the UK screening.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Feb 1998 22:03:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Price of Revell Starfury
+
+ Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> With this possibility of a UK screening of 'In The Beginning',
+> does a film print actually exist of the movie, as it's my
+> understanding that although shot on film all the post production
+> stuff, editing, fx etc is done on video?
+
+      Not at this time, no, it'd have to be a video projection system,
+same as we had for the cast and crew screening.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Feb 1998 12:46:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Price of Revell Starfury
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I vaguely doubt that that's the case, but in any event...if I go
+to my local comics store and buy stuff from the UK, it's always a lot
+more expensive than when I buy it IN the UK, even with the exchange
+rate.  It's the nature of the export/import business.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Feb 1998 12:45:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Acting Question
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What do they talk about?
+> DO they have little script to follow?
+
+      When there's no dialogue written because it will never be heard,
+the actors just wing it.  Since it's all background stuff, from time to
+time I hear it gets kinda...whacky.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Feb 1998 22:03:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian Makuch <104125.736@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mr. Bester
+
+ Brian Makuch <104125.736@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Bester an homage?
+
+      Yep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Feb 1998 22:03:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Turhan Bey (sp?)
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Will we see his character again?
+
+      We'll have to see.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Feb 1998 22:08:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 506: The Three
+
+      I deleted this from the board because it had information that
+was not in the episode that just aired, and that's unfair, since people
+would think this would be a safe thread to read, having just aired,
+only to find out it contained information from later episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Feb 1998 02:14:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian Makuch <104125.736@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mr. Bester
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"who is wondering to himself where jms finds the time to reply to all
+these questions..."
+
+      I keep a spare box of time in my desk.  Only problem is when the
+sand runs out all over the floor, and the mice begin aging backwards.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Feb 1998 12:39:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin Mack <75424.2124@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Enjoying the series
+
+ Kevin Mack <75424.2124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you feel that the medium was a bit of a constraint here?
+> Was this something you intended?
+> Was this the inspiration for Bester's label?
+> What other TV shows or films has he appeared in?
+> How closely did his voice match up to what you "heard" when you
+> created Kosh? How did you go about finding an actor who had the
+> vocal qualities you were looking for? 4) Have you had a chance to
+> see some of the better sci-fi features in the past couple of
+> years, such as "The Arrival" or "Contact", and what did you think
+> of them? What's your opinion of this series?
+
+      The Lyta-outsider view was to further reinforce her on the
+outside of the group...Ardwight looks just like Kosh only slightly
+taller...thought "Contact" was better than "The Arrival," but enjoyed
+both.  I actually don't get much chance to see movies at theaters, only
+one in the last year, so I have to catch them on satellite.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Feb 1998 23:07:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Speculation/Spoilers
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why would she be angry with him if any of those other
+> possibilities were true? Was that planned on your part, or was it
+> just an accident?
+
+      Who knows where this stuff comes from?  Sometimes I think it's
+all being beamed into my head along with the Martian bozo-rays.
+
+      One thing, however, is that I have *no* intention of handling
+this in a conventional soap-opera fashion, because that's precisely
+what will be expected.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Feb 1998 12:52:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 506: The Three
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It wasn't labeled as speculation, but rather as fact, and since
+this info is out there on a spoilers page, that's where I assumed that
+it came from.  Had it been labled speculation, that might've been
+different...but it was stated as fact, and that's a different
+situation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Feb 1998 12:54:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: WhiteWitch <104047.2451@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lochley has just lost me
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      That might apply in a straight hierarchical organization, but
+Garibaldi is not her superior; they are on parallel lines of command,
+not vertical, he doesn't answer to her, she doesn't answer to him.  She
+has total and complete authority over the station and is answerable
+only to Earthdome and, in political matters, to Sheridan.
+
+      You may not think this sort of thing happens, but it does, and
+it would. You're talking to the only producer to go out and berate
+Angela Lansbury's son who was then directing an episode of Murder, She
+Wrote, in front of his whole crew, and still remain employed afterward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Feb 1998 18:23:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: which eye?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What speculation has there been for what this signifies?
+> And when will we find out for sure?
+
+      No, it's the left eye...trouble is, the patch, a rag, kept
+slipping, and it's hard to read that part of it...but it's the same
+eye.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Feb 1998 18:32:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lochley has just lost me
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"That sounds like a compliment to Angela Lansbury."
+
+      Actually, it is.  After I came back from yelling at her
+son/director, everybody was white as a sheet..."You're gonna be fired."
+Within the hour she called me into her office (she was then exec
+producer) and asked me what that was all about.  I told her, very
+specifically, how I felt he had completely gotten the intent wrong on
+several scenes, lost some clues, and otherwise was blowing it on this
+one important sequence.  She listened, considered it, and finally said,
+"You did the right thing."
+
+      It was *extremely* classy on her part, and I've never forgotten
+that. Never will.  It was a good example to me of how to conduct myself
+when I got to this position.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Feb 1998 18:32:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Starfury
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think that when Revell has a better sense of how this one has
+sold, that that's the time to bring up the other possibilities.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Feb 1998 18:32:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: A view from the gallery
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      While there was a little of Harlan in Mack, there wasn't
+intentionally any jms in Bo.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Feb 1998 00:45:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Episode is Great
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, I hope you're right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Feb 1998 12:28:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Deck <75712.2517@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Checks?
+
+ Mike Deck <75712.2517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any B5 checks for, you know, writing checks for bills
+> and stuff?
+
+      Nope, not yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Feb 1998 21:20:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Guy Schwartz <103343.116@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Politics, sort of
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Re: Nixon as one of our "best presidents"....
+
+      Tell me, I'm just curious...what color is the sky in the world
+where you live?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1998 00:38:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robert A. Matern <70012.3660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Politics, sort of
+
+ Robert A. Matern <70012.3660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Tell me, I'm just curious...what color is the sky in the world
+> where you live? How many even understood it at the time?
+
+      That Nixon got his butt on a plane and went to China doesn't do
+a whit to change the fact that he damn near tore the country apart.  If
+anything, he was pushing the foreign aspects of his administration
+because he simply couldn't lead here at home...everything he did, he
+did for Nixon, and Nixon's perceived place in history.  He was a mean,
+spiteful, venal little man who was also more than a little bit nuts. 
+No president since him has stirred so much chaos and hatred at home, or
+seen such dramatic social turmoil erupt as the result of his actions. 
+It started with LBJ, who just couldn't handle the burden of it all, but
+it spiraled out of all control with Nixon.
+
+      The tone of a country is set in some measure from the top, and
+this was a tone that empowered the Howard Hunts and the Joe Haldemans
+and the Gordon Liddys, the creeps (historical pun intended) and the
+thugs who used the FBI to harrass anyone who spoke out against the
+administration, bugged offices illegally, broke into psychiatrists
+offices, and created the us vs. them paranoia that set the stage for
+Kent State.  Under red-baiter Nixon, if you criticized the government
+for any reason, you were a Commie stooge, and should be treated
+accordingly.  He engendered an atmosphere of fear and distrust the 
+likes of which I have never seen since, and hope never to see again in
+my lifetime.
+
+      Up until Nixon, there was still a vague, tenuous sense, or hope,
+that the government was still sorta kinda on our side...his behavior
+pretty much drove a stake into the heart of that idea, and the events
+of Watergate so tarnished the office that it bred a cynicism about our
+elected leaders that is still profoundly present in the American
+consciousness.
+
+      Whatever Clinton did or didn't do in this current situation --
+and let us still remember the policy about innocent untli proven
+guilty, odd how those who most support the constitution forget that
+part of it when it is convenient -- NOTHING he has done has torn the
+country apart so vividly and so violently as what Nixon did during his
+years in office.
+
+      To me, this isn't a democrat/republican, liberal/conservative
+thing; I had little patience with Carter, who was a good man but
+absolutely inept as a president, Ford was a crash-test dummy ahead of
+its time, basically harmless and good natured but a doofus, the less
+said of Reagan the better, Bush just didn't get it, and Clinton's about
+middle of the road for presidents, in my view, kind of in the
+Eisenhower mold, maybe...for me, this is a reality thing and a non-
+revisionist thing.
+
+      I remember the Nixon years...and this ain't *nothing* like them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1998 19:05:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Strange relations
+
+ Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When will we see that episode?
+
+      It'll be one of the first eps up after the NBA playoff delay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1998 23:38:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael L. Wonch <73373.3533@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Thirdspace - WHEN?
+
+ Michael L. Wonch <73373.3533@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Anyone happen to know when Thirdspace is supposed to be aired?
+
+      I believe it's July 6th.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Feb 1998 21:23:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael L. Wonch <73373.3533@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Thirdspace - WHEN?
+
+ Michael L. Wonch <73373.3533@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that REALLY necessary?
+
+      Clarification...I checked my figures, and apparently it's either
+the 9th or the 19th of July for Thirdspace...they've moved it up at TNT
+from their original November plans as sort of a way of giving a present
+to B5 fans after having to wait for the NBA Playoffs to finish.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Feb 1998 22:37:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robert R. Wiggins <76703.3036@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Interesting Quote
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Could you tell me what page that's on?  Because I have that
+issue, but couldn't find the ST article that's bannered on the cover.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
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+JMS CompuServe messages for March 1998.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+Date: 02 Mar 1998 00:04:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael L. Wonch <73373.3533@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Thirdspace - WHEN?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Just got clarification and verification: Thirdspace does indeed
+air July 19th, and another B5 TV movie airs November 23rd, and one more
+on January 3rd.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Mar 1998 00:24:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Interesting Quote
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Trivia...actually, the original Latin phrase (if I have this
+right from memory) is "exceptio probat regulum," a colloquialism which
+actually means "the exception puts the rulte to the test of proof." 
+It's the bastardized interpretation which comes out to "exception
+proves rule."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 01 Mar 1998 14:26:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robert R. Wiggins <76703.3036@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Interesting Quote
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Got it, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Mar 1998 00:04:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael L. Wonch <73373.3533@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Thirdspace - WHEN?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Just got clarification and verification: Thirdspace does indeed
+air July 19th, and another B5 TV movie airs November 23rd, and one more
+on January 3rd.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Mar 1998 00:24:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Interesting Quote
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Trivia...actually, the original Latin phrase (if I have this
+right from memory) is "exceptio probat regulum," a colloquialism which
+actually means "the exception puts the rulte to the test of proof." 
+It's the bastardized interpretation which comes out to "exception
+proves rule."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1998 11:39:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael L. Wonch <73373.3533@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Thirdspace - WHEN?
+
+ Michael L. Wonch <73373.3533@compuserve.com> asks:
+> After all that great B5 stuff, any plans for the Big Screen of a
+> periodic return with the occassional movie after the Season 5
+> run?
+
+      We'll have to see on that one; I'm in no major rush.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1998 11:39:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com>
+Subject: "Big Screen B5"?
+
+ Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Also, I heard WAY back that there was a possible third movie in
+> the plans that might touch on the Valen/Sinclair story?
+
+      There have been discussions, but nothing firm as of this time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1998 11:39:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Thirdspace - WHEN?
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> another one?
+> These the ones already in the can or is TNT just going hog wild?
+> Have you asked if they would be willing to give you two hours to
+> go out on and make up the additional time with something like a
+> big wrap up of the making of the show?
+
+      No, the episode is the episode; the only reason I could get in
+15 minutes back in the pilot was because I could find 15 minutes to cut
+*out* to make room for it easily, and still maintain the same basic
+running time.  SiL is as tight as it's ever gonna get.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Mar 1998 01:54:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Secrets of the Soul
+
+ Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has that show been moved up to March 11?
+> How does this relate to how the Centauri did the same thing to
+> the race that developed in parallel with them? ("What did the last
+> (parallel-Centauri-race) say as he died?
+
+      Yes, Neil's episode is up next...and as for the Xon, the
+difference is that the Centauri main-line clashed with the Xon when
+both were primitive and fighting for food, resources, that sort of
+thing, similar to our Neanderthal - Cro Magnon struggle, whereas the
+Hyach did it when they were more advanced, and it wasn't a struggle,
+more of a program of extermination.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Mar 1998 13:11:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Episode resuffle
+
+ Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was just curious as to why Day of the Dead has been moved
+> forward to March 11th?
+
+      We felt it wise to adjust the airing order so we could ramp up
+the following episodes prior to the NBA delay without having any
+interruption in the tone of the episodes (i.e., 2 tense, 1 funny, 2
+tense vs 1 funny and 4 tense in a row).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Mar 1998 13:11:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <SotS> Soul of Secrets
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Good stuff, as always...btw, the pak'ma'ra used a translator
+before in "Legacies."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Mar 1998 13:11:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ballpark <74541.3464@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rebo & Zooty
+
+ Ballpark <74541.3464@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When is the famous (uh Infamous) "Rebo & Zooty" episode set to
+> air?
+
+      It's next week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Mar 1998 13:11:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Secrets of the Soul
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Who was broadcasting Lyta's memories while she was making love to
+> Byron? Was Lyta's mental "power" so strong that the other teeps
+> couldn't help but "hear" it? Was the "joining" of Lyta's and
+> Byron's minds such a strong force that it "leaked" into the other
+> teeps minds? Or was Byron broadcasting what should have been very
+> private information without asking Lyta for permission first?
+
+      It was everything being stimulated, and coming to the surface,
+mainly from her, but echoing off him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Mar 1998 00:03:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Secrets of the Soul
+
+ Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In that society is love making not considered a private/personal
+> matter? A more mundane question: was the scene difficult to shoot;
+> was Pat concerned about doing a nude scene or was it shot so that
+> a body double was used for all nude/semi-nude shots? Any comments?
+
+      I had the group there to further reinforce their tightness, and
+that it's a different way of living...as for Pat, no, no body double
+was used.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Mar 1998 00:03:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dan Deckert <74156.1432@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <SotS> Soul of Secrets
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      1) It wasn't filler, it's setting up one of the major arcs of
+the story.
+
+"It sucked, IMHO, and I expect you to do better from now on! <grin>"
+
+      2) "grin" at the end of a note does not excuse bad manners.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Mar 1998 22:05:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Progress of Year 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...I agree with pretty much everything in your note.  The
+thing about this show, one of many, is that I do tend to look at each
+season as a separate volume in the story, and I try to give each season
+a unique and distinct flavor...from the main titles (the book's "cover)
+to the stories, and the *way* those stories are told.  The first few
+episodes are always the transition point, the plateau, where the
+changes are worked out.
+
+      The other thing is that in the past, I've generally said "this
+is part of the arc" by doing a lot of finger-pointing, flag-waving and
+jumping up and down.  I figured that after 4 years of seeing that the
+first third of the season is generally setup for the consequences that
+will follow, that I wouldn't have to do so much "fireworks-pay-
+attention" to this stuff...but I may have been wrong in that respect. 
+No, I haven't *said* "this is meaningful" even though it is, and will
+be more obviously so in hindsight, because I figured by this time in
+the game everybody knew the routine and I wouldn't have to red-flag it
+in advance.
+
+      I was talking about this to some of the folks on the show, and
+they had the same reaction, offering: this is a history, and sometimes
+when a major event takes place, nobody knows it's happened yet.  On the
+day the stocks began to fall, could someone have stood up and said,
+"And from this came the great depression?"  When Archduke Ferdinand was
+killed, could someone have said, that day, "And from this comes World
+War One and World War Two and the Cold War."  You only see the pattern
+in hindsight.
+
+      What's being laid out in the first part of this season are the
+threads that will become increasingly important, and fundamentally
+change the lives of everybody in the show...but because it's not being
+flagged as such, some people tend to dismiss it as filler.
+
+      As one person noted to me today in email, it's as if someone
+wrote to Tolkein and said, "Listen, the book is okay, but on page 248
+why the hell did you spend so much time on hobbits when the story is
+about Aragorn?  What the hell is it with you and hobbits?  I'm not
+saying that I'm going to stop reading the book, but unless you get back
+to Strider fast the story is going to suck and wander."
+
+      Bottom line...I'm doing now exactly what I have done with the
+show from day one: I'm writing this to please myself, to tell the story
+that *I* want to see.  If others want to see that, great; if others
+don't, that's fine too, because the exercise is getting the story told
+the way I want it told.  And that I have done.  And in the long run,
+that's what's pulled people to this show: it's a singular vision, a one-
+man story, told the way one person wants it to be told, as in any novel
+off the shelf.
+
+      I just hope, when all the shouting and hand-wringing is done,
+and the season is over, and all the threads of the story lead right
+back through to the beginning of this season, showing the filler to be
+nothing of the sort, that these same folks will come out and say they
+were wrong, as those who said at the time that there was no arc in
+season 1 have done since the show has gone into reruns and the arc has
+become totally evident.
+
+      I can hope that because I specialize in writing fantasy, you
+know....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Mar 1998 22:05:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Strange relations
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Good question...I don't know.  I will have to inquire.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Mar 1998 22:05:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <tVftG> Prismatic View
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Cool....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Mar 1998 00:14:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Robert R. Wiggins <76703.3036@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Dramatic Structure
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...the denouement or falling action is where you get to
+show the consequences, that's often where a lot of the more interesting
+things happen. Otherwise, it's just "okay, it's over" and that's it. 
+I'm a big subscriber to the notion of proper dramatic structure, and I
+try to hew to it on a large scale with the overall arc, and each
+individual episode.  You can track every episode, and every season,
+from the progression of introduction, rising action, complication,
+climax and denouement.  I figure it's a solid literary framework that
+has worked for several thousand years, it's *got* to be good enough for
+TeeVee....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Mar 1998 00:14:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Robin Atkin Downes
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did that first appearance lead to the subsequent roles?
+> was he cast as Morann first or Byron first?
+
+      We were impressed by his portrayal of Minbari, and that led to
+him coming in for Byron.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Mar 1998 15:51:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Ratings
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (The militant Trekker agitators over there are out to milk this
+> one for whatever mileage they can get out of it.) While I've had
+> the good sense not to get involved in their ongoing scuffle
+> concerning this, I find myself wondering about one thing with
+> respect to B5's ratings now that it's being shown on cable: are
+> the two separate airings of the season 5 episodes tabulated
+> cumulatively, or separately?
+
+      No, the ratings are added for the two showings in a week.
+
+      As for the ratings...we are TNT's second-highest rated show. 
+Where does it say we have to be in the top 15 of everything on cable or
+it's not a success?  Voyager's and DS9's ratings would put it at the
+bottom of the network pile, but it's closer to the high-middles in
+syndication.  The only ratings figure that matters is this: have the
+ratings been high enough for the show to stay on the air, and let me
+tell the story that I wanted to tell?  And the answer to that is yes. 
+And now the show is out there; nobody cares 10 years from now if it was
+in the top 15, or 5, or 50...the show is the show is the show.
+
+      And those who come in from the Trek camp to badmouth B5 because
+of the ratings should be reminded that the original Star Trek was
+canceled in its third year because of poor ratings...and was considered
+a failure by the networks and the studio.  But the show was the show
+was the show, and now it has grown.
+
+      As will B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Mar 1998 23:59:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Ratings
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Much the opposite; for a fanatical portion of them, this is a
+religious war, and the more B5 succeeds, the more they become unhinged.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Mar 1998 23:59:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Ratings
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      B5 has *killer* demographics, substantially better than Lois and
+Clark, which did very good demos.
+
+      But see, this is the trap...you let the other guy define the
+argument for you, and the second they do that, they win the argument. 
+"Unless B5 does as good as ST, then it ain't worth squat."  Well,
+you're comparing a 5 year show against a 30 year franchise...apples and
+oranges.  Now, if you want to compare B5 in its 5 years against the
+original ST...then B5 wins, because we're on two years after they were
+CANCELED.
+
+      The fight is a dopey one on the face of it...caused by people
+who want a fight between the shows, and want to define the argument
+such that it makes everybody feel they have to defend something that
+does not require *any* defense.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Mar 1998 23:59:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard P. Manny <70762.141@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Secrets of the Soul
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+         Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Mar 1998 23:59:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Kosh figures
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS,do you have a date for the Kosh (& Ivanova) figures?
+> are they just 9" ones?
+
+      No date that I can remember...but I know they're coming out
+(both in 9" and 6", and a whole line of B5 chracters in pewter figures,
+which are gorgeous).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1998 22:04:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Kosh figures
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Any date for pewter figures?
+
+      Should be soon, I've already approved the final versions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1998 22:04:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Note in a Bottle
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thing is, I stared at that message, and tried to draft a reply,
+for 10 minutes...I can't think of any decent answers.  I think I'm
+zoned.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Mar 1998 20:27:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Your religious past?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Have you ever studied Gurdjieff or Sufism, or any of the Eastern
+religions like Bhuddism?"
+
+      I think studied is too formal a word...I've read just about
+every religious book out there, in whole (the Bible) or in part (the
+Gita, others). It's a good idea to be well-rounded.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Mar 1998 13:33:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com>
+Subject: DotD Writing Question
+
+ Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you give them a framework and let them run with it?
+> How do you maintain the continuity while working with someone
+> from the outside?
+
+      It varies, I get involved to different degrees with different
+writers; with Neil, it was more "What do you want to write?"  He
+noodled around with some ideas, ran one past me that he liked, and I
+liked it...he asked for a truckload of scripts for reference, picked
+the characters he wanted to use, researched them, we talked on the
+phone and via email a number of times as he refined his ideas further,
+then wrote the script.  I tucked and nipped a little here and there,
+but pretty much left it alone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Mar 1998 00:07:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Day of the Dead
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Neil kept the humor sort of off-base...operating on the
+assumption that there are some things that become au courant or funny
+because of context: Steve Martin's "excuuuuse me," for instance.  Now,
+it ain't funny, it's just annoying...at the time, EVERYbody was saying
+it and laughing.  R&Z are similar cultural phenomena...their "with a
+machine" catchphrase, for instance, which the crowd new and reacted to.
+To us, and Lochely, it didn't mean anything. Lochley's reaction was
+tailored to be EXACTLY the same as most women's (and some guy's)
+reaction to the Three Stooges: either it's funny, or you can't figure
+out why people are laughing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Mar 1998 00:07:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: News from AOL?
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this correct?
+> Have you already made your choices regarding the casting of both
+> of the new movies and the new series? Is there anything you can
+> comment on here?
+
+      This is not quite correct, but that's all I can say for now. 
+There are one or two actors who might slide to Crusade, depending on
+circumstances, and we have spoken to them on the QT about it...which is
+probably why this was said, because I asked the actors in question not
+to say anything until we got closer to seeing how things were going to
+work out; the inquiries were mainly of an "if we had this role, would
+you be interested in doing it?" nature, checking avails and
+possibilities so we could plan accordingly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Mar 1998 23:11:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sam Waas <73052.2644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rebo & Zooty
+
+ Sam Waas <73052.2644@compuserve.com> asks:
+> area?
+> How did this guest appearance evolve?
+> I mean, you couldn't sit down at your computer to write the
+> episode and say to yourself "Let's see -- I need some external
+> thread to bind the episode together as a plotline B to supplement
+> the Day of Dead plotline A -- mmmm -- Why not have Penn & Teller
+> guest star?" In other words, how could you write the characters of
+> Rebo & Zooty into the script without prior communication from
+> P&T? You modified the character to fit the guest stars, right?
+
+      Neil wrote for R&Z, and we looked around for casting...it
+occured to someone -- may have been me, maybe casting, I don't remember
+ -- that it might be better to use a real comedy team than create one. 
+B5 called P&T, and they said yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Mar 1998 23:11:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Day of the Dead
+
+ SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was the laughter mostly acting or mostly genuine?
+
+      Depending on which take was being shot...half and half.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Mar 1998 00:50:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Episode Name Change?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Cat and Mouse)" part simply because this was the working title
+> that we've all seen on the upcoming episode lists, or is there
+> something more to it? Is there anything to the "Tradgedy"
+> spelling, or is it a TNT mistake?
+
+      It's a typo on their parts...and Cat and Mouse was a) a working
+title which I kept out there to b) avoid possible spoiling of various
+directions for as long as possible.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Mar 1998 00:09:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Day O' Dead Mistake?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> When we got the first look at the gold comet symbols that the
+> group was hanging around the station, did you mean for them to
+> look like they did?
+
+      It was...it was...plastic surgery, see...yeah, that's what it
+was, plastic surgery, that's the ticket....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Mar 1998 14:54:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Episode Name Change?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah...I figured, a flock of geese, a herd of buffalo, a tragedy
+of telepaths...actually, though, the credit for that must go to John
+Copeland, who came up with it over lunch one day.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Mar 1998 14:54:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Richard Biggs
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...they're all great folks, and Richard's a real kick.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Mar 1998 23:35:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Rebo & Zooty
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Was it always part of the script for Zooty to speak through a
+machine, or was that something added so that Teller won't have to speak
+on camera?"
+
+      The latter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Mar 1998 16:37:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 hiatus in Toronto
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this a deal made by Warner?
+
+      Yeah, I'm sure it was done to ensure that the US doesn't lag too
+far behind.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Mar 1998 16:42:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ItKofB
+
+ Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Had you toyed with the idea of including a quick peek?
+
+      No, I think some things are best left to the imagination.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Mar 1998 22:31:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Extended Thanks
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Will do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Mar 1998 23:36:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Congratulations
+
+ Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you feel now that the 5 year arc is completed?
+> How was the feeling on the set today while filming "Wheel of
+> Fire" compared to "Sleeping in Light"? What do you plan to do now
+> that the series has been completed?
+
+      Thanks, for all that.
+
+"How do you feel now that the 5 year arc is completed?"
+
+      Exhausted, but relieved; we made it to the end.  We did what we
+said we were going to do, and nobody and nothing can take that away
+from us.
+
+"How was the feeling on the set today while filming "Wheel of Fire"
+compared to "Sleeping in Light"?"
+
+      The last ep filmed today is "Objects at Rest."  The attitude was
+a bit different than SiL, because there was some hope of a fifth season
+that took some of the edge off SiL...but here it's clear: I said this
+was a 5 year series, and it ends at five years, so everyone knew this
+was it, at least for the series.  There were a lot of tears, hugging,
+some speeches...it was hard.
+
+"What do you plan to do now that the series has been completed?"
+
+      Make the next TV movies, and get going on the next project.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Mar 1998 23:36:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Severed Dreams
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I didn't have any particular battle in mind, no, but I have a
+passing familiarity with battle tactics, and wanted to create that
+sense in a battle of pieces...you never really see the whole battle,
+each soldier sees his or her part of it, and at the end, we call it the
+battle of X.  That sense of out-of-control events.  It was something I
+wanted very much to get right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1998 00:11:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Congratulations!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it was a long and hard road, but we finally got here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1998 00:11:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian F. Swisher <74642.2701@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Corwin
+
+ Brian F. Swisher <74642.2701@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it something to do with the still-independent nature of B5's
+> status, or is there some other reason? Or is there something going
+> on behind the scenes that we're not aware of?
+
+      Actually, I seem to recall he got a promotion from LT junior
+grade to full lieutenant a couple of years ago...he'd probably get one
+in year six.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1998 00:11:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Severed Dreams
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think it comes from being a depressing person to be around.
+
+      "Oh, look, you got a present!"
+
+      "Yeah, well, I'll probably get a paper cut opening it...."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1998 00:11:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: End of the run
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1998 00:11:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Loose Ends
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...there are times I've felt the same way, not wanting to
+deal with it because I knew this was it.  It's natural and
+understandable. Endings are always hard.  And, of course, beginnings
+are also hard.  Then again, middles are particularly hard.  So I guess
+if we consider it all hard, then one shouldn't be any worse than the
+other.
+
+      Fitting too that the last day of shooting was the first day of
+spring, a new beginning....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1998 21:12:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Congratulations
+
+ Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> TV, books, play?
+
+      Thanks...though there's no nap yet, with what all else needs to
+get done.
+
+      It's been a heck of a ride, no mistake.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1998 23:27:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season 5 in UK?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Maybe earlier....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1998 21:12:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Extended Thanks
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1998 21:12:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Corrupting the kiddies
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...and that's the darndest thing...I never anticipated
+that kids that young would get into it.  Or even *get* it.  Who'd'a
+thunk it?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1998 21:12:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Severed Dreams
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Given the amount of lousy TV around, you must be an optimist, since
+you dug into the manure and found the pony."
+
+      Damn thing bit me, too....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1998 23:30:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: casting minor characters
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, do you personally interview all the actors who had speaking
+> roles?
+
+      Yes, I'm there for 99% of all auditions; the final decision is
+mine, Doug's, John's and the Director's (3 out of 4 is all we need). 
+Only the really, really minor characters -- two words, one sentence,
+that's all -- get past me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Mar 1998 16:58:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Lenier <101671.630@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 6?
+
+ Lenier <101671.630@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know, or thought I knew that B5 followed a 5 year arc, so what
+> is the truth?
+
+      No, there is no season 6, whatever you may have read in SFX
+(which also got the facts wrong with the Caitlin Brown interview).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Mar 1998 16:58:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: PPG Prop Gun
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Hey, JMS, Since filming is over could I buy one of the PPG prop
+> guns for REAL?
+
+                                       no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Mar 1998 16:58:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lyta/Mars Rebs mistake?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Lyta did go through the Resistance, but didn't *tell* them she
+was a teep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Mar 1998 22:47:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Script Standards?
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you write a script intentionally just a bit over, since it
+> would be easier to edit down than to scramble to add the
+> necessary after editing? If so, have you ever written a script
+> that came in *exactly* as you wrote it?
+
+      You never know exactly how long it's going to be on film; you
+ballpark the page count, and sometimes you come in a bit long,
+sometimes you come in a bit short.  We're usually pretty close to time,
+and only have to do small line cuts.  Easier to trim than to add after
+the fact.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Mar 1998 22:31:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Word on Severed DVD yet?
+
+ Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any word on the "Severed Dreams" DVD yet?
+> If you do go ahead with the DVD, do you know if it will be
+> released in 16:9 "anamorphic" widescreen (aka enhanced wide
+> screen)? Does that mean that the character name will be cut off
+> when viewed in widescreen? Do you have any idea if/when Babylon 5
+> is released there will be 3 episodes on each DVD?
+
+      Haven't heard anything new, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Mar 1998 22:47:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Arthur on Narn
+
+ Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we hear about any of "Arthur's" exploits in the Narn
+> resistence?
+
+      It's one of those stories I doubt we'll hear much about.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Mar 1998 13:02:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 after TNT?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Interestingly, one of the requirements of the shows that began
+under PTEN is that they must show a profit *the very first year*,
+rather than having to wait for the long run...so B5 has been turning a
+profit for WB since the first day.
+
+      Not that my statement reflects this, natch, and never will,
+because then they'd have to actually *pay* me some of those profits....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Mar 1998 23:36:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 after TNT?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> I look forward to the final chapters, and especially to getting
+> onto to the TNT board and saying, "*Now* do you see what he was
+> doing?!" Without saying too much, I've heard that we should keep
+> our ears open around April 2? Should we?
+
+      Exactly.  What a number of people tend to overlook is that if
+you look at the structure of the show, the bigger the zetz that you're
+about to get, the more I allow you a bit of breathing time in between
+zetzes.  So it's a safe bet that the longer the breathing time, the
+bigger the ball bat....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Mar 1998 23:36:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon Squared
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      We did deal with the B4 issue in a later episode, War Without
+End.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Mar 1998 23:36:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Newbie comments
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Cool...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Mar 1998 22:06:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TNT ALERT S5 Schedule
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      You're correct; a number of folks have told TNT that they're
+waiting until seeing all the S1-4 episodes before watching season 5, so
+they're timing the new cycle of S5 eps, starting from the beginning, so
+these folks can catch up after the end of the S1-4 episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Mar 1998 22:06:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon Project: Crusade
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      One part or another of that may be accurate; one part or another
+may not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Mar 1998 22:06:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Lovitt <75021.1731@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vir's wife
+
+ Mike Lovitt <75021.1731@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is Vir still married?
+
+      He was never married, she came to B5 for a pre-marriage visit,
+but remember that it got postponed indefinitely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Mar 1998 02:34:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Netter Digital
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Cool....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Mar 1998 02:34:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Na'toth - yay
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      SAG rules specify where credits go; it's sometimes a bummer if
+you're trying to keep something secret, but there you go.
+
+      The Na'Toth thing was something I wanted to do, called Caitlin,
+she was up for it, and I wrote the ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Mar 1998 02:34:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lyndisty
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, different person.
+
+      Remember, the Credits are our Friends....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Mar 1998 23:41:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Channel 4 UK B5 showing
+
+ Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would you not agree that you aim B5 squarely at the 16-adult
+> group - rather than children and young teenagers? If at all
+> possible, - as the creator and executive producer of the show,
+> are you able to lend credence to any campaign to get Channel 4 to
+> reschedule? As an artist, does it not aggreive you that your
+> masterpeice is not being shown as it was intended?
+
+      I have zip influence on when anyone screens B5...it's not in my
+jurisdiction.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Mar 1998 23:41:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Vir's wife
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Some terrors even Vir cannot escape....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Mar 1998 23:41:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Na'toth - yay
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      You have to join SAG after having done a certain amount of work
+in SAG jurisdiction.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
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+JMS CompuServe messages for April 1998.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+Date: 01 Apr 1998 20:44:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: I&E - Unwoven threads
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> First, since "War Without End" takes place AFTER "Interludes",
+> wouldn't Kosh have already known that he was destined to die on
+> that day (learning this from the "history of the future")? Knowing
+> that his death was necessary AT THAT VERY MOMENT, why be so rough
+> with Sheridan when Sheridan was playing the part that he always
+> had played and always would play? Second, if Kosh didn't know that
+> he had to die *that night*, was he really planning to go to
+> Z'ha'dum with Sheridan later? What was he planning to do there?
+> What could he have accomplished on the Shadow homeworld?
+> Was he planning to speak to Lorien?
+> Were/are we ever going to find out what that was?
+> And third (and the most puzzling), if the Vorlons only know the
+> "future" up to the time Sinclair goes back in time, how did Kosh
+> know that Sheridan was going to die at Z'ha'dum?
+
+      Kosh may have known that this moment would come, but knowing the
+price that he would almost certainly have to pay...it wasn't easy, and
+one can forgive Kosh for his outburst.  I think, in the end, he was
+afraid, for a moment, a human thing...but he did what was necessary.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Apr 1998 20:44:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: IaE
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Cool....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Apr 1998 20:44:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TNT ALERT S5 Schedule
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Joe, do you know if they're rerunning all 17 before they move on
+> to the last five?
+
+      Yes, they're rerunning all 17 before the final 5, so the folks
+who've been waiting can catch up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Apr 1998 21:54:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: I Hate nasty Rumors
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      See, here's what I don't understand in all this.
+
+      It's not that the cast was let go, THE SHOW IS OVER.  You can
+only "let go" of an actor if the show continues and the actor is out. 
+THE SHOW IS OVER. I've been saying for five years, "This is a five year
+story.  When it's over, it's over."
+
+      I think part of the problem was that some in the cast didn't
+want to ever deal with the reality of that until it hit them.  I read
+many interviews where they said, "Well, Joe says it's a five year
+story, but I don't see any reason why this can't go on."  If you
+cushion yourself from it, then it can only hit you in the face later. 
+(On the last few days of shooting, several people asked, "Why couldn't
+it have been a *six* year arc?  Why the arbitrary five?"  It is what it
+is.
+
+      Toward the end of filming, we spoke to all the cast, apprised
+them of the work progressing toward a feature film, the likelihood of
+additional TV movies before then, and so on.  But we also said,
+specifically, "Babylon 5 the series is over."
+
+      But you must admit that it's quite a jump between "the series is
+over" and "the actors were fired."  Technically speaking, EVERYONE is
+fired when a show is over.
+
+      As for Crusade, there are a couple of people who might
+transition over, but that is *a different series*.  And must have its
+own identity (should it go into production).  You maybe do one or two
+B5 feature films, with the whole cast, as Crusade runs on a separate
+track on TV.
+
+      As for John Flinn...same situation.  John was the DP on B5 for
+all five years, minus those episodes DPd by Fred Murphy.  Babylon 5 is
+now over, and so that task is over.  Crusade (see previous disclaimer)
+should have an entirely different look from B5, to make it its own
+show, and that generally requires a different DP.  That's pretty much
+standard in the business.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Apr 1998 23:20:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Na'toth - yay
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, no plans for Na'Toth at this time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Apr 1998 23:20:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: I Hate nasty Rumors
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You said it once yourself -- you write with passion, otherwise,
+> why bother?
+
+      Absolutely, there's no question that I'm going to be hit by
+those with an interest in hitting me on any side of these issues. 
+Crusade would be done because I want to have some *fun* after doing 5
+years of angst...so there are bound to be those who say it's selling
+out because it's not the same as B5 in that respect...if I have a
+primarily new cast, I sold out the old cast, if I have a primarily old
+cast, I'm being afraid of change...if it's too much like B5 some will
+complain, if it's too different some will complain....
+
+      Which is why, at the end of the day, you can never let the
+complaints (or, for that matter, the praise) tilt you one way or
+another.  The only thing you can do is follow the small, still voice at
+the back of your head that tells the stories, and write for yourself. 
+If you write well, enough people will stay around to keep you on the
+air...if you don't, they won't. That's always struck me as the fairest
+bargain around.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Apr 1998 16:35:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com>
+Subject: L.A. B5 mall tour Ques.
+
+ Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Mall stop this weekend?
+> Has he cancelled, or was never a positive to go?
+
+      No, at this point it's Jerry Doyle, then Rick Biggs, then Jason
+Carter on Saturday from 12-3:30 or so, then on Sunday it's Tracy, Peter
+and (I think) Jeff from 12-3:30, both at the Glendale Galleria.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Apr 1998 16:35:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Claire T. Nollet <71232.2556@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Psi-Corps Warning/Advice
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, that should be "I wish I *were* an orphan," if one
+wishes to be technically correct....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Apr 1998 16:26:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Susan <100537.1517@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 doll
+
+ Susan <100537.1517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does EVERY doll carry that tag, meaning that it is one OUT OF
+> 12.000 ones or are they actually numbered 1 through 12.000?
+
+      Yeah, they all carry that tag.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Apr 1998 23:57:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul Knibbs <106345.2745@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 6?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Vast amounts of your information are incorrect; WB owns B5, for
+starters.  Additionally, TNT puts up a portion of the production
+budget, WB puts up the rest, same as with any network show.  There was
+some initial talk of a sixth season by some folks over there, but I
+made it clear that this is a five year story, and it ends in five
+years, and asked them to respect my wishes.  They did.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Apr 1998 23:57:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ian Clasper <113131.2620@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Accomidating Adverts
+
+ Ian Clasper <113131.2620@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have strict guide lines saying "Advert every 10mins" for
+> instance , or is it a bit more free form ?
+
+      It's not free-form, but it's not by the minute, either.  We have
+an overall running time of about 42 minutes (plus credits), and that
+gets divided into teaser, 4 acts and a tag.  The duration of those
+varies; an act can be 8 minutes or 12, as long as the aggregate is
+within the limits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Apr 1998 23:57:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: L.A. B5 mall tour Ques.
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I haven't heard anything to that effect, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Apr 1998 16:45:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: DS9 title ripoff
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The phrase "A Call to Arms" goes back several centuries, and is
+not owned by anyone, DS9 did not invent it.  You can only "rip off"
+something that is specific to that item or thing; if they came up with
+a title "Chief O'Brien's Hairdresser Dreedle," and we used that, then
+you'd have a point. But this is, frankly, a case of fan myopia.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Apr 1998 12:19:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: Crusade Confirmed
+
+      Today the news hit: CRUSADE: THE BABYLON PROJECT (a new series
+set in the B5 universe) is a go for production starting July 27th, to
+go on the air January 6th on TNT.
+
+      Also: if you can get a copy of tomorrow's Hollywood Reporter, do
+so: they have dedicated the issue as a special B5 issue, and there is
+going to be a lot of coverage of the show.  The issue will almost
+certainly become a hard-to-find item in future, and is a testament to
+the success not only of the show, but recognition within the industry
+of what we've done to improve the way television is made.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Apr 1998 16:49:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Confirmed
+
+ Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the Hollywood Reporter a general newsstand pub, or do you
+> pretty much have to be in LA or the biz to get it? Will you begin
+> working on casting very soon, or is that something for further
+> down the line?
+
+      You can find the Reporter at many larger newsstands in big
+cities.  And we won't get to any real casting until the first few
+scripts are in-hand, so we know what we're getting into.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Apr 1998 16:49:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Gillman <100724.1646@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Confirmed
+
+ Michael Gillman <100724.1646@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Anyway to get the 'Hollywood reporter' in the UK <G>?
+> Also, do you know if there are any plans for Kathryn Drennan to
+> Write another B5 novel?
+
+      I keep bugging her about doing one...it's up to her.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Apr 1998 01:30:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Confirmed
+
+ Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you find outside writers?
+> You're a fan of his and vice versa, but for other potential
+> writers do you solicit resumes/writing samples/outlines?
+
+"With Neil Gaiman, it was obvious. You're a fan of his and vice versa,
+but for other potential writers do you solicit resumes/writing
+samples/outlines?"
+
+      Usually, I know the writer's work, so it's just a matter of
+getting them in and handing them a premise (or in some rare cases,
+asking them to come up with a story pitch).  If it's someone whose work
+I don't readily know -- and this is rare for me to do on a first
+season, when I know that every episode has to kick -- I'll call the
+person's agent and get some samples of their prior produced work.
+
+      Since there are only 11 available slots for this season, that
+doesn't leave a lot of room right off the bat, and I have about 6-7
+writers in mind for the rest, so it's already close to being locked
+down before we've even started.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Apr 1998 01:30:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Crusade Confirmed
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...and yeah, I want it to be as much on the edge as B5,
+but in a slightly different way.  Why can't an SF show be as much on
+the cutting edge in its storytelling as a Homicide or NYPD Blue?  So
+I'm going to gradually start playing with the format, and see where it
+takes me.  If it ain't gonna be better than what we did before, ain't
+much point to doing it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Apr 1998 01:30:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Crusade Confirmed
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It'll have a five year arc, but not as rigorous as the B5 arc.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Apr 1998 16:49:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Any new pieces into old?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think we've done it a couple of times, and in other cases
+recreated scenes in earlier episodes that we knew we would play out in
+later episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Apr 1998 01:30:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Peter David and ITB book
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, Peter added that stuff on his own.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Apr 1998 01:30:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Rock Cried Out
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, it's an offbeat favorite of mine....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 Apr 1998 23:19:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Confirmed
+
+ Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance Kathryn Drennan will be one of those writers?
+
+      It's something I've discussed with her...if she comes up with a
+story she wants to tell, she's said she'll do one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Apr 1998 23:19:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Crusade Confirmed
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I imagine we'll keep about 95% of the production crew on the
+move to Crusade.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Apr 1998 23:19:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Debbie Knowles <75331.312@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Rock Cried Out
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I have a lot of favorites...too many to break out, and one
+should favor all one's children equally...even the occasional idiot
+child.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Apr 1998 23:19:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Phil Herscher <73107.3470@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Confirmed
+
+ Phil Herscher <73107.3470@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But don't you ever take a vacation?
+> Or are the stories so insistent about getting made?
+
+      As best I can determine, my first real free time (a week or
+better) is in May 1999.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Apr 1998 23:07:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Any new pieces into old?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Oh...in that case, no, that hasn't been done (must've
+misunderstood the question).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Apr 1998 23:07:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Confirmed
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> ;) Still, do you _ever_ just sit back to smell the roses or watch
+> a sunset?
+
+"Still, do you _ever_  just sit back to smell the roses or watch a
+sunset? I find myself wondering where you would find the time."
+
+      I would like to, some time...my fantasy is having just one day,
+to go out and do nothing...no deadlines hanging over my head...no
+frenzied phone calls from actors or agents or studios or networks...I
+realized how much I'd like this when I was writing Londo's speech in
+"In the Beginning," about giving anything for just five minutes on a
+beach...and I realized that it wasn't entirely just Londo talking.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Apr 1998 23:07:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Walter Koenig's book
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, it was a play, The Boys in Autumn, but I'd wanted to
+work with him long before then.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Apr 1998 23:07:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Crusade Confirmed
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nah...occasional wistfulness notwithstanding, I wouldn't have it
+any other way.  Understand that I'm in the best position imaginable:
+people are paying me for something I'd have to do for free, because I
+can't not write. I get to write, and tell my stories my way, and make a
+decent living.  How much more can anyone ask for?  And with all that,
+it seems inappropriate to complain about the hours.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Apr 1998 14:53:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Progress of Year 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'm used to it.  Happens every year.  Then the next year is the
+sucky one, and last year was cool.  It's pro forma.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Apr 1998 11:27:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: VALAN
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It was a typo; that name shouldn't have been in the message, it
+slipped past.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Apr 1998 00:42:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Rock Cried Out
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Rock is an old spiritual going back to the Civil War; the bar
+song was developed by Chris Franke; and Byron's little ditty was
+something I came up with.
+
+      Some of the songs (as from Walkabout) are on the CDs.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Apr 1998 00:57:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vorlon-Shadow Conflict
+
+ Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So what I've been wondering is this: Did the Shadow's try to work
+> their evolutionary magic on the Vorlons and the other first ones
+> while they were still young races? Is this the explanation for
+> Delenn's statement that the first ones have battled the Shadows
+> over millions of years? Would this indicate that the Vorlons
+> stayed behind because they were the most militant of the anti-
+> Shadow faction or perhaps the race least able to evolve beyond
+> the eye for an eye concept?
+
+      No, the shadows definitely didn't try their advancement routine
+on the vorlons; they were cases of parallel evolution at similar
+periods.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Apr 1998 17:17:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Guy Schwartz <103343.116@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Potentially Epitaphical
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...as words to live (and die) by, those ain't bad.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Apr 1998 17:17:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carrie Foreman <76400.1170@compuserve.com>
+Subject: TeeVee technical query
+
+ Carrie Foreman <76400.1170@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know you pay actors a second time when previous footage is
+> reused, is that true for the Season 5 opening credits, for Ed
+> Waser & Walter K?
+
+      Yeah, they get re-use fees every time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Apr 1998 17:17:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: No more UK Fan Club ?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The UK fan club was never "official."  They were never a branch
+of the official B5 fan club.  We do not have, and have never had, the
+authority to convey official status to ANY outside fan group, only WB
+can authorize such things through an official license.  We were
+concerned in that the UK group was being perceived as such by fans
+there, some of whom had begun sending us (and me) email with complaints
+or general notes about the UK fan club asking me to deal with it since
+this was an officially sanctioned fan club, so it became important to
+clarify that.  You cannot "disenfranchise" someone or something that
+was never a part of the "franchise" (a term I hate) in the first place.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Apr 1998 17:17:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon, California???
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, This has been bothering me on and off for a good two weeks
+> now, so I've simply got to ask you if an article published in the
+> April 6th Issue of National Review, titled "Babylon, California"
+> written by Rob Long refers to you or not?
+
+      To my knowledge, I've never spoken with Mr. Long, so that kind
+of narrows down the possibilities.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Apr 1998 17:17:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5 ep order in UK
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      It should be aired in the originally intended order, as will
+subsequent reruns of the show here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Apr 1998 21:26:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Sakai Query
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> at the end was Sinclair referring to Catherine Sakai?
+> And if so did she arrive before or after he did?
+> CT, so what else is new?
+
+      She arrived after.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Apr 1998 23:03:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Corps is Mommy, Daddy
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How many conversations have you had with cows?
+
+"How many conversations have you had with cows?"
+
+      In or out of the TV business?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Apr 1998 14:59:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Gathering, Next Week
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> is this the "special edition" or the original version?
+
+      It's the special edition.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Apr 1998 22:32:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sam Waas <73052.2644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Scares PsiCops?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I don't consider it a mistake at all...you never heard much of
+other Psi Cops talking about Bester, and they would have more knowledge
+of him than anyone else.  As with Dirty Harry, some of the other
+officers above and below him liked him...and he scared the crap out of
+others.  Same here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Apr 1998 14:59:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ian Clasper <113131.2620@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Signature Tune
+
+ Ian Clasper <113131.2620@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Am I right in assuming that you are trying to reflect a "new
+> world order" even form the signature tune ?
+
+      Each season's music reflects the content of the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Apr 1998 12:29:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: No more UK Fan Club ?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Will this "clarification" effect the operation of the UK club in
+> any way?
+
+      Not that I'm aware of.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Apr 1998 12:29:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ian Clasper <113131.2620@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Signature Tune
+
+ Ian Clasper <113131.2620@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A very good touch too, How many main themes are there ?
+
+      There are five themes, one per year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Apr 1998 14:32:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Crader <104635.1044@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5 Schedule
+
+ David Crader <104635.1044@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we see THIRDSPACE before this, or is that going to be held
+> for a prime-time fall spot, leading into the "final five"?
+
+      ThirdSpace will air July 19th, with The River of Souls airing
+November 22nd.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Apr 1998 20:36:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bancroft Gracey <100532.1747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: UK Showing - ep 502
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'd say from the way that Sheridan replied -- "You didn't ask
+where I stood during the big fight back home" "You're right, I didn't" -
+ - the implication is there that he knows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Apr 1998 13:58:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ever want to do Lit Clas
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, I'd rather do my own stuff, for the most part, and for now,
+though if a classic book landed in my lap, and it was a favorite, I'd
+be hard pressed to say no....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Apr 1998 00:42:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: PAUL REYNOLDS <110152.1243@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ellison recommendation ?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Of his previous titles, I suggest SHATTERDAY, DEATHBIRD STORIES,
+or STRANGE WINE, all of which are available at any decent SF bookstore.
+(His stuff is also being reprinted in the Edgeworks volumes.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs98-05 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs98-05
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..66a23a11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/CompuServe/cs98-05
@@ -0,0 +1,1538 @@
+JMS CompuServe messages for May 1998.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+Date: 02 May 1998 20:03:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lighting of season5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The color of the sets varies by location; DownBelow tends to be
+more in the red end and brown end of the spectrum (hence the term Brown
+Sector that sometimes applies), where most of the command sectors are
+blueish.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 May 1998 19:56:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com>
+Subject:  Kosh Poison
+
+ Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was Kosh actually poisoned or did he just fake it for the
+> natives?
+
+      No, he wasn't faking it.  Understand that their appearance as a
+being of light is only how they want to appear; they are life forms
+much the same as many others, and can be poisoned if one knows the
+right combination of substances.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 May 1998 19:56:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: My Email
+
+      A reminder to all and sundry:
+
+      My private email box is only to be used for confidential or
+deeply personal matters.  It is not to be used for jokes, uploads
+without asking permission or informing me in advance (I have had my
+hard drive trashed by viruses sent to me), plot questions or the like. 
+You may decide, "Oh, that's a funny joke, I'll foward that to Joe," but
+if 500 of you do that my mailbox becomes completely unmanageable and
+important stuff scrolls off.
+
+      If you have a general question or comment or something to pass
+along, please do so in the public forums, where others can benefit from
+the answer. The private mail box should be used only as a last resort,
+for truly personal or confidential matters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 May 1998 11:19:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: jms at MIT Monday
+
+      For those in the Boston area, I'll be speaking at MIT on Monday
+the 4th from 7-10 p.m.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 May 1998 22:18:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon Emporium Help!
+
+ David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you please have him or her contact me?
+> Do you have any idea what Mira Furlan's next project is and what
+> Bruce Boxlietner's next project is?
+
+      Thanks...and try reelkosh@aol.com that may work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 May 1998 22:18:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Crusade Confirmed
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Many thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 May 1998 00:32:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: San Diego Comic-Con?
+
+ Shane Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> and will you be giving a B5/Crusade presentation?
+
+      At this point, I don't know if I can do SDCC or not this year; I
+had to cancel out one convention already around that time, because of
+the need to gear up Crusade.  I'd assumed that I wouldn't have anything
+going this Summer, so I booked a number of conventions all in the same
+two month period of time, kind of a post-B5 blitzkreig.  Then all hell
+broke loose.  So I may either not go (first time for that in 12 years)
+or just pop down on one day for a quick Dealer's Room run-through and
+out.  I can't just go for the one day if I do my full
+presentation...I'm too whacked afterward for shopping at the DR, and I 
+can do so beforehand because I'm prepping for the presentation.  So
+I'm kinda unsure right now what to do, and what I'll have time for.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 May 1998 00:32:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Confirmed
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, A Call to Arms isn't a Crusade pilot, it's a B5 movie that
+somewhat sets the stage for the new show, but is not a part of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 May 1998 23:34:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: CC Debate: Over
+
+      Okay, from the beginning of the Claudia Christian departure,
+I've been saying that she quit.  At the time, she said she was fired. 
+And a lot of people said, "Well, we'll never really know."  This
+despite all the basic facts being confirmed by both sides.
+
+      I quote from an interview with Claudia just published in the
+Summer issue of Sci Fi Invasion:
+
+      Question: By you quitting, Straczynski lost Ivanova.  He
+couldn't have been happy about that.
+
+      Claudia: I think he feels like I put them out or something by
+quitting the show, when in essence I don't really think it affected
+anything.  (small snip)  I just didn't think there'd be a lot for me to
+do, and I didn't want to be relegated to one more year of not having my
+any challenges.
+
+      She has finally confirmed it: I told the truth from the
+beginning.  She quit.  She wasn't fired.  She quit.
+
+      This debate is now over.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 May 1998 03:31:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CC Debate: Over
+
+ Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any comment on those assertions, or at least a word on why you
+> won't comment on them?
+
+      I have commented on them.  Understand that this is an ensemble
+show. We have (and have had) anywhere from 11-14 regular/recurring
+characters, and it is common for any number of them in a crowd that big
+to feel that they are being under-utilized.  I use each of the cast
+members as much as the story requires.  That's all I *can* do, because
+nothing else makes sense.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 May 1998 13:28:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CC Debate: Over
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Guess what?
+
+      Bingo...that is as true a statement as I have ever read about
+this stuff in general, and this case in particular.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 May 1998 00:52:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New Show
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's the funniest rumor I've seen in months.
+
+      Where do they GET these things?  And why on earth don't they
+just ASK ME before printing something as silly as this?
+
+      It's not like I'm hard to find....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 May 1998 00:48:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: San Diego Comic-Con?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Again, that's not 100% sure yet, it's all kind of in a state of
+flux. What's the latest the folks at SDCC would have to know either way
+on this?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 May 1998 00:48:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com>
+Subject:  Kosh Poison
+
+ Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Following up on my Kosh question, had Kosh learned what was
+> coming from Valen?
+
+      Thanks...and there are some questions I'd like to pass on for
+now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 May 1998 00:48:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Thanks/Regrets
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...there's been much that was annoying in the online
+conversation, but more that was positive and enjoyable, and in the long
+run, that's what matters.  I don't regret having made the decision to
+stick with it and stay accessible.  It's been a trial, no mistake...but
+I'm glad I did it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 May 1998 00:48:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+      Victories come in all sizes; in some ways, this is a small one,
+in other ways this is a big one.
+
+      For four years, we bugged Warner Bros. Home Video about
+releasing B5 on videocassette in retail outlets.  But WB has never
+released a series before on tape, it's not something they *do*, not
+sufficiently prestige when compared with their big movies.  Eventually
+they were persuaded to let Columbia House try it for mail-order, for
+the first season.
+
+      And CH was *swamped* with orders.  Phones rang off the hook, and
+tapes were back-ordered to try and fill the demand.
+
+      And Warner Bros...noticed.
+
+      And this month, they made a big announcement about the coming
+release of Babylon 5 on video through retail outlets all over the
+country.  I've seen the cover designs for the first batch, and they're
+extremely good looking montages, each specifically designed for that
+tape.  They're putting a lot of thought and effort and time into this,
+and a big campaign.  I believe the first batch hits the stands in July
+or August, somewhere in there.
+
+      This is a big victory for us.  On a grand scale, it may seem
+minor, but it's the most direct statement of "you were right" we've
+ever had from WB, and they were sufficiently mensches to say so, and
+act on it.
+
+      If these go well, they're also talking laserdisks and DVDs down
+the road, and should THAT happen, I'm going to push like hell to have
+them release the widescreen versions.
+
+      But that's the next campaign.  For now, this is a big victory
+for us, and we're mighty pleased.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 May 1998 23:40:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: CC Debate: Over
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, I don't feel I need to defend it...but a lot of people made
+a big deal about who you should believe...and now it's clear what was
+going on at the time was what I said it was...and a few folks are
+saying, "Well, now it doesn't matter."  Well, it does matter, when it's
+my integrity and honesty that's at issue.  If the original question was
+worth some folks making a big deal out of it, then getting the facts
+straight should merit as much attention.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 May 1998 00:34:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: More Good News
+
+      TNT has moved up the airdate for "The River of Souls" to
+November 8th (from November 22nd) so that a) B5 fans won't have so long
+to wait, and b) to make sure both that and Sleeping in Light both get
+equal promotion, and one doesn't get lost in the other.
+
+      Also...when the fifth season begins again from "No Compromises"
+in the first week of July, it will coincide with the debut of TNT's new
+satellite relay which means that the 5th season episodes will air at
+the same time on both the East and West coasts (I think 8:00 p.m., I
+haven't heard the final on that yet)...AND they're adding a repeat of
+each new episode the same night at 11 p.m.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 May 1998 02:06:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: CC Debate: Over
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"It just seems to me that in the final analysis you have nothing to
+fear. History will be kind to JMS."
+
+      In light of the circumstances of most of my life, it would be a
+kindness both welcome and uncommon.
+
+      I will, however, hope for the best.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 15 May 1998 15:33:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lennier the traitor
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Maybe you ought to wait to see what happens this season, and act
+from an informed point of view, than from gossip.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 May 1998 23:31:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, you have better resolution on a good PC monitor than
+the average TV, so it's bound to be sharper there than on the TV.  (I
+have a DVD player in my new system, and it's amazing....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 May 1998 22:07:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's two episodes per tape, and I think it's about $14.95 per
+tape.  As for DVD, that's going to be a long ways down the road, so I'd
+grab these while we can.  (And if they do well, the odds of DVD
+increase.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 May 1998 22:07:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Level 12 Blocks
+
+ Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since Lyta was able to break them thanks to Vorlorn modification,
+> cant she also break Garibaldi's current block ( not being able to
+> kill Bester )??
+
+      You'll see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 May 1998 00:57:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think a second audio/commentary thing might be do-able down
+the road, but only for certain select episodes, not all of 'em.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 May 1998 00:57:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul Weddell <110213.1364@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+ Paul Weddell <110213.1364@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you considered putting those scenes back in for the video
+> releases - a sort of director's cut - or were the shows that
+> aired exactly as you wanted them?
+
+      No, we can't put the scenes in because it would mean a full
+audio remix, which is very expensive.  The director's cut (which is
+often extremely changed when John and I go in to do our version, so
+you're basically getting the producer's cut from which we then cut
+lines and bits) only exists on computer disk, not on film.  We'd have
+to go back into the thing and that would take a massive amount of
+money.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 May 1998 19:36:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I love AC3...and we've arranged that when we do Crusade, we'll
+be doing a THX quality mix with full 5.1 separation...it's gonna be
+bitchin'....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 May 1998 02:47:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+ Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How are you going to transport the AC-3 signal over the Channel?
+> Or is this for the DVD / LD release only?
+> IF you find a way to send it over normal ways, will it also be
+> available in countries outside the US?
+
+      It's my understanding that this is one of the things that will
+be facilitated by the changeover to HDTV format.  But either way, the
+delivery is up to WB, we're just focusing on making it as good as we
+can in this respect, so we're ready for whatever comes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 May 1998 19:36:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The funny thing is, the DVDs already cost less than laserdisks,
+and will continue to come down, simply because they're smaller and
+easier to produce.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 May 1998 21:29:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, the WB tapes will also be available via online
+ordering, through their site and thestation.com, so it'll be just about
+as easy to do so, and cheaper.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 May 1998 19:56:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 3 voiceover
+
+ Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My sister turned to me and asked, "Why does she say that?
+> Isn't peace more important than victory?"
+> As one person put it, we're just about swimming in the
+> interpretations at this point, so I'd like to ask you: what was
+> your intention with those lines?
+
+      Peace can be a surrender as well as an achievement, especially
+when facing an enemy dedicated to something unpleasant.  Chamberlin
+returned from a visit to Germany with a so-called agreement in his
+hands, and announced that by granting concessions to Hitler, he had
+achieved "peace in our time."
+
+      Peace is a byproduct of victory against those who do not want
+peace.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 May 1998 02:48:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Will Columbia House still offer the B5 tapes?
+
+      I don't know; I think they had a one-year trial on this thing
+for the first season's worth of tapes, and with WB getting into it, I
+don't know how this will break out down the road when that trial
+expires.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 18 May 1998 14:17:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 3 voiceover
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes, but liberty is never given, only won.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 May 1998 14:17:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you film B5 in theater dimentions so that it would represent
+> an easily available series which could provide HDTV content for
+> the new stations which will be scrambling for it?
+
+      Yes, B5 was filmed in widescreen and cropped for contemporary TV
+format; same will be the case for Crusade.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 May 1998 22:13:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New Show
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You don't hide under the bed anymore?
+
+"You don't hide under the bed anymore?"
+
+      Not since the monsters moved in down there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 May 1998 22:13:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Balancing Act
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And, as you're preparing Crusade, are you aware of an optimum
+> cast size, or is it that you see the story, and the story
+> dictates the cast size? In other words, the main difference I've
+> seen between B5 and other series attempting to establish long-
+> term storylines is that other series seem to require continuing
+> guest appearances -- so, how much was the larger cast size of B5
+> (and presumably, Crusade) dictated simply by the story you wanted
+> to tell or your awareness as someone experienced in TV production
+> of the best regular cast-size to accomplish long-term
+> storytelling?
+
+      There's really no best regular size.  B5 generally had about 9-
+11 regulars and recurring (i.e., in the main credits) actors in any
+given season, which was necessary because you had 4 different,
+competing forces, each of whom required some representation (Earth/B5,
+Minbar, Narn, Centauri Prime). With an ambassador plus aide, that's 8
+minimum, plus at least one or two others for station operations.
+
+      In Crusade, we're really dealing with one force encountering
+others on a per-episode basis (mostly), so we've got 6 regulars/recurs,
+with a subset of reappearing characters (a la Morden, Bester or Corwin
+in B5).  That feels about right to me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 May 1998 03:24:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: jms TV Guide Online Chat
+
+      FYI...John Copeland and I will be doing a live chat on the TV
+Guide online site today (Tuesday) at 7:00 p.m. Pacific, 10:00 p.m.
+Eastern.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 May 1998 14:00:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, as far as I know, the only two shows that were shooting in
+widescreen was us, and Lois and Clark.  To my knowledge, though I'm
+willing to be corrected, nobody else is doing it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 May 1998 14:00:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New Show
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we be seeing any of these monsters in the first season of
+> Crusade?
+
+      Depends on their agents.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 May 1998 14:00:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+ Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How is the stage being build?
+> How is this with B5 or was this toally bullshitting ?
+
+      What I think they're referring to is the level of detail put
+into finishing a set; there are imperfections you'll never see on the
+average 27" TV screen that will be huge and obvious on a 35' movie
+screen.  So that may be what they mean.  It's common to go for the
+former level of detail than the latter on most TV.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 May 1998 23:49:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+ Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Yes, and how is this handled with B5 and soon to come Crusade ?
+
+"Yes, and how is this handled with B5 and soon to come Crusade ?"
+
+      It will be handled...well, of course.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 May 1998 14:00:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steven Gaskell <101700.2032@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lochley - No Of episodes
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I think she ended up doing about 10 for us.  And "Corps" was
+Bester's last episode for B5 the series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 May 1998 23:49:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Season 6?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Then be of good cheer, there's the CRUSADE follow-up series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 May 1998 23:49:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: unauthorized books
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm surprised...no, astounded, really, that you would ask me
+this.
+
+      What you are saying is that you want me to help your friend to
+find a way around the problem of publishing an unauthorized book that
+would not exist were it not for Babylon 5, but for which your friend
+does not want to share any of the money or profit for that book with
+the studio and entity that created it.  Granted that my portion of any
+of this is barely enough to register...nonetheless, he is going to be
+basing those trivia questions based on characters, dialogue and
+situations that I created...but he does not see any reason why I, as
+the person responsible for the material he is going to print, should
+benefit from this book.
+
+      If your friend wants to do a B5 trivia book, then I suggest he
+take the very simple steps involved in doing so in an authorized, legal
+and responsible fashion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 May 1998 23:49:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Loveunrequited lennier
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, Lennier is in next week's episode...and as for the outraged
+few: frankly, if folks go around reading spoilers that are taken wildly
+out of context and get bugged by what they see (but don't
+understand)...they got what they deserved.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 May 1998 01:19:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gar Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+ Gar Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Question Joe: When you shoot on wide screen do you block so that
+> the primary action is centered for the 4:3 TV screen or does post
+> have to do a pan and scan process to make it work on today's TV?
+
+      We protect for the center of frame, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 May 1998 11:38:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: unauthorized books
+
+ Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What would someone have to do if he would be interrested in
+> writing a part of the B5 Universe history?
+
+      That's something we're discussing in-house.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 May 1998 11:38:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Guy Schwartz <103343.116@compuserve.com>
+Subject: More Good News
+
+ Guy Schwartz <103343.116@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that add to $$$ for WB, or you, or do they allready pay for
+> the right to air twice, thrice, etc?
+
+      No, they paid for the rights for a given period of time, during
+which they can run it as many times as they want.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 May 1998 11:38:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Sean P Reiser <110427.1773@compuserve.com>
+Subject: unauthorized books
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I considered that, but the original message was exploring WB's
+"level of comfort" with an unauthorized book, you don't inquire about a
+"level of comfort" if you're just going to go ahead and do something
+authorized.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 May 1998 01:29:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Pilot?
+
+ Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You said recently that 'A Call to Arms' was a lead-in to Crusade
+> and not a pilot, does this mean will be doing another feature
+> length pilot for Crusade or will the first episode be of normal
+> length ?
+
+      No, the first episode will be of normal length.  A Call to Arms
+is primarily a B5 movie, which sets the incidents in place that lead to
+Crusade, which then hits the ground running with its first episode,
+regular length, same as the other 21 TNT has signed for.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 May 1998 01:29:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: unauthorized books
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Final question: can you point him in the right direction with a
+> name/phone/email or whatever so that he can attempt to become
+> 'authorized"?
+
+      There's not much secret that Del Rey Books is doing the licensed
+B5 books these days.  That would be the place to go.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 May 1998 01:29:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian Makuch <104125.736@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Creating Crusade?
+
+ Brian Makuch <104125.736@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there a chance something like that might come to fruition?
+
+      I'm sure somebody will do it eventually.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 May 1998 01:29:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Don Berg <74147.1753@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lochley - No Of episodes
+
+ Don Berg <74147.1753@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean the Garibaldi / Bester arc is left hanging?
+
+      Yes and no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 May 1998 18:06:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How much of a cost does that impart?
+
+"That was smart. How much of a cost does that impart?"
+
+      It's negligible, it's mainly a little more time-consuming.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 May 1998 18:06:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Pilot?
+
+ Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When will you start filming Crusade?
+
+      We start filming around the end of July/first of August.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 May 1998 18:06:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: A Word of Support
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it's been a hard road, but in the final analysis, it
+was the right thing to do.
+
+      But it does illustrate the weaknesses in the Usenet system,
+however well intentioned, that I've practically *never* had to post a
+note like that here on Compuserve, which doesn't allow such behavior.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 May 1998 18:06:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: More Good News
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So there's no real roadblock to the B5 Network?
+
+      I like it...All B5, All the Time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 May 1998 18:06:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      On the other hand, as far as I know, Columbia only acquired the
+rights to sell the first season, because they weren't sure how it would
+all work out. So it might dovetail well into the WB tapes for the
+episodes thereafter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 May 1998 18:06:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul Knibbs <106345.2745@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 6?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I've no idea at this time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 May 1998 17:43:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I don't think misled is the word...I think they were intent upon
+acquiring them down the road, but now that WB is doing all of them,
+that may become more problematic.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 May 1998 17:43:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WorldCon
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      If I can swing by, I will, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 May 1998 17:43:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: FRANK J. FURFARO <74031.1005@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 video release
+
+ FRANK J. FURFARO <74031.1005@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that how WB is handling the release, or will they also be
+> available individually? Also, do you know how many eps are going
+> to be in the first release?
+
+      I think the 3 pack is the initial release, but all will be
+available individually.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 May 1998 23:25:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com>
+Subject: More Good News
+
+ Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But what about Crusade?
+
+      Funny thing is...I've written about 200 or so produced episodes
+of TV. Assuming a bit over one third of that is animation, figure 80
+half hours and 120 one-hour shows...that's 160 hours of TV...the
+average network programs series from 8-11 p.m. 7 days a week, that's 21
+hours a week...so it would fill 8 weeks of prime-time programming on
+one network, plus the five B5 movies.
+
+      Suddenly I have the profound urge to take a nap....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 May 1998 17:43:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: No more Bester?
+
+ Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it true?
+> Will he be in Crusades?
+
+      It's possible that Bester would appear elsewhere, whether in a
+TV movie or elsewhere, maybe even Crusade, we'll have to see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 May 1998 23:37:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 in Toronto, Canada
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I haven't really been plugged into this, and while on the one
+hand I can see how it's a pain in the butt, at the same time I can
+understand why TNT would feel this way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 May 1998 01:22:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Easter Egg in Guide?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Play in the alarm sounds area.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 May 1998 01:22:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com>
+Subject: More Good News
+
+ Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now, was that the animated "Ghostbusters" that aired back in the
+> eighties?
+
+"Now, was that the animated "Ghostbusters" that aired back in the
+eighties? My memories are dim because I was only maybe seven at the
+time (showing my youth here) but my brother and I absolutely loved the
+animated "Ghostbusters"."
+
+      Yeah, that was my show.  I did the first network season of 13
+episodes, and the syndicated season of 65 episodes...of which I wrote
+something like 16 or 18 episodes.  Left it when they insisted on
+changing Janine into a mommy character and knocked all the edges off
+the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 May 1998 16:45:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jeff Peterman <75361.430@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Easter Egg in Guide?
+
+ Jeff Peterman <75361.430@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there two versions of the Guide?
+> So, are they just a little slow in thier reviews or is their a
+> new version?
+
+      They're just a little slow...there's only the one version.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 May 1998 16:45:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: More Good News
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thing was, the show was successful *across the board*...all
+ages.  It was ABC's number one rated animated series.  That's when they
+came to the "Well, anything can be improved...let's call in some child
+psychologists and consultants," which is when the whole thing went to
+hell.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 May 1998 22:56:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm with you, I want 'em on DVD myself (have also made the
+transition, and have to say I love the format, it's massively cool).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 May 1998 01:56:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      And btw, good to see you back around the old cyberhearth
+again....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 May 1998 22:00:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: No more Bester?
+
+ Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does it mean you haven't decided or you just don't want to tell
+> us? BTW, out of curiosity - how old are you (at least the age
+> group)?
+
+      Meaning I know but I ain't telling.
+
+      And I'm 43.
+
+      Funny story there...I had occasion to take a cab recently, and I
+get in, and the driver is this Russian guy, medium-accent.  He looks
+back, and he says, "I am trying to decide which of us is older, you or
+me."  Jokingly, I suggest that it's probably me, and he says, "No, it
+is probably me.  I am 52. I am guessing you are...48."
+
+      "Actually, I'm 43," I said.
+
+      "FORTY THREE?!" he says...and damn near drives off the road.
+
+      I shrug.  "I've had a hard life."
+
+      "Must be," he said, shaking his head.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 May 1998 23:20:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: No more Bester?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      It would take a hell of a lot more than greying hair and
+wrinkles to make me look respectable.
+
+      And yeah, the show has definitely aged me.  I recently saw a
+friend whom I haven't seen face to face since about year 1 of B5, and
+the first words out of his mouth were "Jesus Christ what happened to
+YOU?"  (Thanks, great to see you, too....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 May 1998 23:20:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: No more Bester?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      All my characters are in some way based on stuff I either see in
+myself, or would like to see in myself were I a nobler and smarter
+person.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 May 1998 22:00:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+ Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any suggestions on how to convince WB to release B5
+> on DVD?
+
+      If the tapes sell, they'll almost certainly do DVD.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 May 1998 22:00:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: More Good News
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I go for what someone at the BBC once said: "There are some
+people we WANT to offend."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 May 1998 22:00:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Laura <102701.3660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lochley - No Of episodes
+
+ Laura <102701.3660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But, what about Garibaldi?
+> How is he going to get back at Bester if Bester isn't going to be
+> on the show anymore?
+
+      Watch, and learn.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 May 1998 04:02:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Cast Decline Crusade
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      To clarify:
+
+      Jerry was never offered a contract on Crusade.  When he
+negotiated his deal on "A Call to Arms," WB attempted to get an option
+on him for the series, as a matter of due course.  They did so for
+everyone appearing in the movie, including Jeff and Tracy, since it is
+in many ways a set-up for Crusade.  This is a pro-forma thing done in
+such situations by any studio when they're dealing with a new series
+being set up.  It doesn't exclude any kind of appearance in Crusade on
+a guest basis or more than that.
+
+      Frankly, I think Jerry would do better on a per-episode
+negotiation (and would be better featured that way) than to get tied up
+with an option. And told him so when he approached me for advice on
+whether or not to let himself get saddled with an option.
+
+      The best possible situation would be a central core of new
+characters who can move through the B5 universe, and run into our
+familiar characters, on an as-needed basis, as determined by the story.
+It gives the story maximum flexibility, and lets the actors negotiate
+sort of "a la carte," if you will, which means they'll almost certainly
+get more than if they get locked down and have to do X-number of
+episodes at a pre-negotiated price.
+
+      And that seems to be pretty much what we're heading toward.  In
+addition, I think we need to have the B5 cast available for a feature
+film that is getting more and more probable by the day.  That, to be
+honest, is where they're finally going to make the kind of money
+they've all earned by staying with this show for this long.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 May 1998 12:53:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Cast Decline Crusade
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      One last follow-up to underline why I suggested Jerry not go for
+the option.  A CONTRACT is a *guarantee* that you will pay X actor Y
+dollars to appear in Z episodes.  An OPTION ensure's the studio's
+*right* to your services, but does not *guarantee* them.  So you can be
+under option, and at the last moment, the studio can decide not to
+exercise that option...and you get nothing.
+
+      Why is this important?  Because all of the actors are out now
+looking to build on what they've established in their careers over 5
+years of B5, with possibilities of leads on other better-paying network
+gigs, features, who knows.  But if you go to network A and they want
+you, but find out that someone else has an option on you that may
+preclude you from working for them, then they're going to find someone
+else.
+
+      An option like this ties you down, with the possibility of not
+getting any other work, and in the end may not even be exercised. 
+Coming hot off the big fifth year promotion, I can see why this might
+not be high on someone's list of possibilities.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 May 1998 14:11:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steven Gaskell <101700.2032@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Cast Decline Crusade
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      As far as I know they'll be handled by WB international, same as
+B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 May 1998 12:43:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Meditations on the Abyss
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 30 May 1998 17:52:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Crader <104635.1044@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 video release
+
+ David Crader <104635.1044@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How many episodes per tape???
+> Will they go the excellent Fox route ala The X-Files and put two
+> on a tape, or will they take the Paramount Star Trek screw-job
+> route and have only one?????
+
+      It's two per tape.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 31 May 1998 23:10:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon Project: Crusade
+
+ Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering who owns the rights to Crusade, Warner Brothers
+> or TNT? How is Crusade's development going?
+
+      WB owns the rights to Crusade...and we're in serious
+preproduction now on Crusade (casting, design work, other stuff).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
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+JMS CompuServe messages for June 1998.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+Date: 01 Jun 1998 18:08:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Furst directing
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> " Was that intentional on your or his part, or accidental?
+
+      It just sorta worked out that way; it wasn't something we did or
+he asked for intentionally.  Some things happen through a weird,
+organic kind of synchronicity.  That's one of them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jun 1998 16:17:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: UK B5 Screening Now Free
+
+      The London screening of "In the Beginning" late in July was
+always intended to be a free screening.  When I learned that twenty
+pounds and more was being charged per ticket for a free screening, I
+and Warner Bros. got into this situation, causing a bit of a stir with
+the organizers who insisted that this was the way it was supposed to
+be, first trying to fob off the money as being for the actors, then
+saying that WB wanted the money.
+
+      Well, WB has just confirmed the following: the Wolf con
+organizers have been taken out of the loop; the screening is now free,
+as it was intended to be; any monies paid will be refunded; and
+tentatively, Bruce has agreed to stop by one or both of the screenings
+without cost to the fans (this last bit depending on his
+schedule/arrival times in the UK).
+
+      This event was always meant to be free to the UK fans as
+recognition for their support.  And now it is what it was meant to be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Jun 1998 12:55:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: UK B5 Screening Now Free
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I have no idea.  But they're going to be at the convention, are
+they not?  And virtually everyone who got tickets is also going to the
+convention, as far as I've heard.  Either way, though, I  haven't heard
+one way or another on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jun 1998 12:55:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: UK B5 Screening Now Free
+
+ Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Pardon, any chance that we will see such an event in Germany?
+
+      I don't know, that's something that will have to be looked into
+by the WB video division in Germany.  Maybe if fans push for it there,
+they may be able to do something.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jun 1998 12:55:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: UK B5 Screening Now Free
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Also, when you say Warner Brothers, to which company are you
+> referring to?
+
+      I'm sorry, but there is only ONE Warner Bros.  There are offices
+of the company, as with any company, but they are all owed by Warner
+Bros. in the United States, here in Burbank, and it was from the main
+office that this has come.  There are some folks involved here who are
+trying to muddy the situation by saying there are all these different
+companies, but there aren't. There is only one IBM, and only one Ford,
+and only one Warner Bros. And it's that main office that I've been
+dealing with on this.
+
+      Sorry, I am *not* confusing the situation.  It's others who are
+trying to blur the facts here.  Perhaps if you were less obviously
+trying to justify their activities, you might be able to see that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Jun 1998 00:57:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: UK B5 Screening Now Free
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That I don't know...I can guess that the folks who had signed up
+to pay for them will get them by default, but I don't know that for a
+fact.  (I try to stick to what I actually know to be true on these
+things.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jun 1998 00:57:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon Project: Crusade
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Appreciative treatment by TNT, a follow-on series, two episodes
+> on a tape and maybe a movie? What is this?
+> Excellence on television - being *rewarded*?
+> What's the world coming to?
+
+      Thanks...yeah, I can't figure it out either.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jun 1998 03:16:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Darkness Ascending
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> OK, so is anyone going to try to pass *this* one off as non-arc
+> "filler"? You'd think the Royal Court asking about the other races
+> shipping schedules would be a dead giveaway on that one - what
+> legitimate reason could they *possibly* have for asking about
+> that? And what the *hell* was going on with Lyta and Garibaldi's
+> dream? Was she just in the dream, or was she actually involved in
+> some fashion? And, either way, what does it mean?
+
+"OK, so is anyone going to try to pass *this* one off as non-arc
+"filler"?"
+
+      Exactly.  See, that's where I get nuts about some of the other
+comments. A number of folks said last week's was just filler...but last
+week we saw the process by which Lennier was sent to White Star 27,
+what he was looking for, and why...we were introduced to the captain,
+the mission...and now this week it pays off.  It seems like the
+*result* is considered arc, and the set-up is considered "filler."
+
+      Similarly, Lyta's actions in this episode (and those that are
+going to follow) are a direct result of the whole Byron thread, which
+is going to spiral further in some interesting directions.  Some said
+the Byron stuff was just filler...but it was there to move Lyta into a
+whole new direction that will have a substantial effect on the show and
+her character (and at least one other).
+
+      It seems to me that repeatedly, people dismiss something new in
+the mix as filler or non-arc...when in fact it's ABSOLUTE arc stuff
+once you've seen the whole thing.  (Except for those who only seem to
+feel that results are arc, not setups, which is as nutty a view as I've
+ever heard.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jun 1998 03:16:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Darkness Ascending
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I wouldn't say she has any sexual interest in G'Kar...she had
+her pleasure threshold expanded with Byron just recently, and as for
+her parting comment, I think it came more under the category of "you
+ain't getting it, but since you were still wondering..."  A friendly
+plink.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jun 1998 03:29:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: UK B5 Screening Now Free
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"so that means they were in the loop at some point, and WB knew about
+it..."
+
+      That's certainly the party line, being spouted on the Wolf web
+site, and repeated by you almost verbatim.
+
+      But nobody ever said Wolf wasn't in the loop...obviously they
+were in contact with various people at WB in the first place or the
+screening couldn't have been planned in ANY event, at cost or
+otherwise.  So this new comeback is utterly silly and absolutely
+meaningless.
+
+      The question at hand is how well they were handling the loop.
+
+      Obviously some folks are trying to save face any way they can,
+regardless of whether the latest statement actually makes sense or
+not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Jun 1998 12:38:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Darkness Ascending
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I know...if I do a bunch of arc episodes in a row, certain
+people say it's "obviously rushed."  If I take a more leisurely pace to
+develop certain characters and themes, the same folks say it's
+"wandering, lost its way."
+
+      The show is what the show is, and what the show is, is what I
+wanted to write.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jun 1998 12:38:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jeff Peterman <75361.430@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Darkness Ascending
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I go by Joe.  Call me Joe.  Joe is fine.  Joe is simpler to
+spell, quicker to type, friendlier on-screen, one syllable.  Michael is
+two syllables, and I don't respond to it.
+
+      Straczynski, pronounced just right and with the proper force
+behind it, can actually strike a cow dead at twenty paces.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jun 1998 21:35:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Darkness Ascending
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Having spent a lot of time on Earth at the end of S4, I'd rather
+do a few other things this time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Jun 1998 14:56:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Pam Jernigan <75540.2554@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Darkness Ascending
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      s'okay....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jun 1998 14:56:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Darkness Ascending
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, I tend to agree...they are indeed very hard to pull off,
+and we only get a few here and there.
+
+      The remarkable thing is...there are at least 4 or 5 of them in
+the next 3 episodes alone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Jun 1998 22:27:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Darkness Ascending
+
+ Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> how *would* a human and a Narn mate, anyway?
+
+      Well, as G'Kar said in the pilot, there would have to be rather
+substantial genetic manipulation and adjustment to allow for the
+different DNA structures to mix.
+
+      After that, it would require the usual: dinner, flowers, and
+being willing to sit through a chick-flick....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Jun 1998 12:43:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jim Levy <105315.155@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Creating Crusade?
+
+ Jim Levy <105315.155@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the sketch of the 'Excaliber' shown in the June issue of 'Cult
+> Times #33' gonna basicly be what we see in the show? ...or is this
+> a initial rough draft shot?
+
+      It's an early conceptual design; we've modified it a fair amount
+since then.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1998 00:44:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Darkness Ascending
+
+ Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In space?
+
+      That might be a more reasonable concern if it were more of what
+one would consider a standard crew that would be concerned about such
+things.
+
+      Which is all I can say about it for now.  More in two weeks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1998 21:57:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: An Effect Goes Astray?
+
+ Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Even if the fighters shown were only part of the escort, leading
+> Redstar 9 away, shouldn't they have been a bit more active? What
+> was your intent?
+
+      No, they were fighting...they were just more running away than
+they were fighting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1998 21:57:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Director's Viewpoint
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Given (for those of us who have read your TCOS script in your
+> scriptwriting book) that you give quite detailed visual details
+> in your scripts (angles of shots, focus-points, mood), what is
+> the contribution of the director as far as the visual outcome?
+
+      It was shot for shot what I wrote...but at the same time, a
+director can realize that well, or poorly.  I thought that Goran did a
+terrific job.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1998 22:43:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rick and Cindy <71561.3255@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Latest Ep 6/10/98
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well, do bear in mind that the events in "War" were 17 years
+after the fact, so the shadow allies could have come at any time;
+Sheridan didn't fully understand what a keeper was, and also bear in
+mind that there is no reason to suspect anything in this situation. 
+People can indeed start wars without having keepers on them, you know. 
+We do it all the time.  He would have to have some overwhelming
+proof...and even then, if he says anything to Londo, he might risk
+changing the timeline, and that would have potentially disasterous 
+consequences.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1998 13:10:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Director's Viewpoint
+
+ Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That was Goran's episode??
+
+"I have to say this was one of the best episodes of the entire series.
+If this is any indication of what the rest of the season is
+like.......watch out."
+
+      Well, the next episode is even more so...and the one after that,
+more so still.  You get a slight breather for an episode or so -- still
+very strongly arc, though, just not as in-your-face hardhitting -- and
+then the last are whammers.
+
+"I suspect a stream of apologies to your are about to begin."
+
+      Yeah, right, and pandas will fly out of my butt.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1998 13:10:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 on UK Sci-Fi Channel?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes, the Sci Fi channel in the UK/Europe have indeed acquired
+the rights to show B5, which I think will begin in the fall or
+thereabouts, and we've been told that they will show the series uncut.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1998 13:10:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Director's Viewpoint
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I am, however, moved to ask, are you getting a lot of repeat
+> business from the naysayers?
+
+      Oh, I still hear plenty from the naysayers...they can't argue
+with the quality of the episodes now, so they say, "Well, it's too
+little, too late," totally ignoring all that went before to set this
+up.
+
+      Screw 'em.  This season, there wasn't any pressure, there wasn't
+any fighting for renewal since we knew this was gonna be it, so I wrote
+exactly the show that I wanted to write.  As long as more folks like it
+than don't, which is precisely the case here, that's all that matters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1998 22:49:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Director's Viewpoint
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, that was a visual pun written into the script, the other
+shoe dropping...but also reflecting that kind of low energy thing in
+the morning, when you put one slipper on, and you just *don't* want to
+leave...and you just let the energy drain away, and the slipper falls
+from your hand...which also overlaps the gavel dropping, as scripted.
+
+      I took a great deal of care in blocking out every shot in that
+one, as opposed to some other cases, as with Mike Vejar, where I wrote,
+in "The Face of the Enemy," "They pull down Sheridan like a pack of
+wolves bringing down a lion" knowing that he would then take that and
+turn it into art.  And he did.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1998 22:49:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: UK B5 Screening Now Free
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I don't know how tickets are now available; I suspect they'll go
+to those who had originally volunteered to pay for them, but I don't
+know that for a fact.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Jun 1998 02:11:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Latest Ep 6/10/98
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The fifth season ends in 2262.
+
+      The telepath war: 2264/5.
+
+      Crusade: 2267.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Jun 1998 15:23:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Latest Ep 6/10/98
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes, we will know...some things...about how the telepath war
+ended. It's certainly moved a number of the pieces around.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Jun 1998 23:38:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ansawdd <113556.402@compuserve.com>
+Subject: UK B5 Screening Now Free
+
+ Ansawdd <113556.402@compuserve.com> asks:
+> could "In the Beginning" be the first B5 movie?
+> And another thing - a screening in July?
+> Which year?
+> I suppose that this is mostly down to the use of Computer
+> Graphics?
+
+      ItB is the B5 prequel TV movie, which aired here in the US in
+January, and will be released on tape in the UK shortly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Jun 1998 23:38:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Director's Viewpoint
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I come from a similar background.  Hence the truthfulness in
+some of this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Jun 1998 21:09:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: DougP <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, I appreciate that.  And actually, there are 5 more eps
+to go; 501 was moved to the end of year 4 as "Deconstruction," so
+you've got this next one, then the wait, and the final four.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Jun 1998 13:11:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Darkness> glitch
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who is responsible for these little mistakes?
+> the director?
+> editor?
+> actor?
+
+      Such things are tracked by the dialogue/continuity editor on-
+set, but they can also occur when you trim up a scene a bit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Jun 1998 23:40:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Darkness> Lyta/G'kar
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Except, of course, that Lyta has no reason to think that G'Kar
+is lying, and she considers him a friend or at least a potential ally,
+and that alone would mitigate against the need for any scan.  She
+doesn't go around scanning everybody she talks to.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1998 02:17:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: Harlan/jms on Sci-Fi Ch
+
+      For those who get the Sci-Fi Channel, the series MASTERS OF
+FANTASY will be doing a half-hour show on Harlan Ellison (Thursday at
+5:30 and 9:30, don't know if that's broken down by time zone, and the
+following Wednesday at the same times).
+
+      Interviewed were me, Robin Williams, Willam Gibson, Leonard
+Nimoy, and other folks.  It actually came out pretty cool.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1998 13:05:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Actress?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, they're the same person, Beata Poznia.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1998 23:02:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Garibaldi's Song
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, it's a song that's been around for a long time, and been
+used in many places.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1998 23:02:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Where's the WHAM?????
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> And we have to wait FOUR MONTHS to find out what happens
+> NEXT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
+
+      Well, it's kinda what I've been saying all along...the bigger
+the planned wham, the longer the quiet ramp-up.  And, again, the arc
+was there when it didn't seem to be: this whole thing started when the
+raids started to take place, which goes back quite a ways.  And Lyta
+would not be in this position, not this assertive with her abilities,
+had she not gone through the fire (literally and figuratively) with
+Byron, whose fate more or less kicked her out of her shell.  The old
+Lyta would never have just up and gone to the Drazi homeworld on her
+own; but the money, needed to follow her and Byron's dream, propelled
+her.
+
+      It was ALL there, more or less in plain view.
+
+      And without it, without all that careful and deliberate setup,
+this episode (and especially those that follow) would never have played
+as well, if at all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1998 23:02:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Harlan/jms on Sci-Fi Ch
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"you are a perniciously base wickedly depraved conniving vile
+detestably abhorrent..."
+
+      Why, thankyew.
+
+"...and utterly undenieably blindingly brilliant author."
+
+      And you were doing SO well there for a moment.
+
+      I gather this episode has had the desired effect....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1998 23:56:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Movements
+
+ Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com> asks:
+> and you do that to them?
+> or are going to do to them <maybe, next episodes>?
+> Hey, after all the sweet talking I did to you at the start of
+> this note, when do the fall episode (full) previews begin? Huh?
+> Huh?
+> huh?
+> can-ya can-ya can-ya?
+
+      Thanks...it's a cool one, exceeded only by those yet to come.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Jun 1998 13:43:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Harlan/jms on Sci-Fi Ch
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      We didn't become friends until years later.  Some time
+thereafter, I recounted that incident to him.  He distantly remembered
+it, and asked "Did I offend you?"  I said, "If you'd been wrong I
+would've been offended."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Jun 1998 17:21:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Harlan/jms on Sci-Fi Ch
+
+ Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which of his books would you recommend I start out with?
+> Why oh why did TNT have to leave us hanging with *that* one??!!
+
+      I'd try Shatterday, or Strange Wine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Jun 1998 13:43:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Darkness> glitch
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How in the hell do things like that get on broadcast?
+> Are their tiers of editors?
+> Do these guys have a journeyman while B5 got a master?
+> I understand that they have essentially the same budget as you
+> (in the neighborhood of a million an ep give or take), so what's
+> the deal?
+
+      Not knowing the situation, it would be inappropriate for me to
+comment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Jun 1998 14:32:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Where's the WHAM?????
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Actually, it's possible that this is all just a coincidence of
+timing. After all, JMS didn't write these episodes knowing when the
+breaks in the season would take place. On the other hand, I hate
+coincidence and this is one hell of a big one..."
+
+      Funny thing about that.  When I wrote this, this was the first
+part of a very tight two parter (well, actually, it's part 4 of a five
+parter; if you watch them straight through, one dovetails right smack
+into the next, it's one really huge episode).  Anyway, for the fifth
+one, the next one to air, I decided to do a recap in the teaser, a
+"Previously on Babylon 5..." compilation.  Hadn't done it with the
+others, but just decided to do it with this one, since it picks up
+seconds after the other.
+
+      Later, after putting it together, in a phone call with TNT, they
+told me about the decision to put in a break after this episode.  "So
+you may want to consider putting a recap into the teaser, since this is
+a two-parter and it's been a long time and that's something you didnt'
+anticipate."
+
+      "Well, actually...I already did that."
+
+      A long pause.  "How did you know?"
+
+      "I didn't."
+
+      Scared 'em real good with that one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Jun 1998 14:32:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kirk Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Movements... HOLY COW
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"and i guess we now know why the attacking centauri vessels wouldn't
+have noticed lennier exchanging a little breathing--since they weren't
+really using it thmselves."
+
+      Ding!
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Jun 1998 23:17:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Movements... HOLY COW
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"It's almost as if you do some of these things on purpose.  I can see 
+it now......"This'll get those little nitpickers.  They'll think I've
+screwed up for a few weeks and then I'll make them eat crow."<G>"
+
+      Not that, no, but when some people do jump on these things,
+figuring it's a screwup on my part, I can't help but think..."don't you
+know what show you're dealing with here?  This is Babylon 5, we don't
+MAKE those kind of mistakes."
+
+      I recognize that that's a very self-indulgent thought...but at
+the same time, it's true.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Jun 1998 17:21:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Movements
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      A man must have hobbies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Jun 1998 23:17:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Where's the WHAM?????
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      There are some long-range plans for the teep crisis, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Jun 1998 23:17:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Episode WHAM!!!!
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Does every post here that goes, "You SADIST, you set us UP, blah,
+> blah, blah" bring you the sheer orgasmic joy of knowing just how
+> well you pulled this off? Please tell me you're human enough to
+> enjoy that little self-righteous glow of, "DAMN, I'm good!"????
+
+"Does every post here that goes, "You SADIST, you set us UP, blah,
+blah, blah" bring you the sheer orgasmic joy...."
+
+      Not while I'm sitting at the keyboard.  I just *bought* this
+system....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1998 14:57:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Harlan/jms on Sci-Fi Ch
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is is my imagination or did some choice comments on "City on the
+> Edge of Forever" end up on the cutting room floor?
+
+      Dunno....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Jun 1998 00:50:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Process Servers
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this something that you've passed on to your actors and tech
+> people?
+
+      To a certain extent, yes, plus I've always encouraged our people
+in every department to come out into the spotlight and take the credit
+and applause for what they do, so we encourage them to do the comlink
+stuff and other appearances.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jun 1998 02:50:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Movies
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Will this movie be dependent on any of the season 5 episodes?  I've
+been watching the reruns and have only seen through season 4."
+
+      Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1998 00:07:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Harlan/jms on Sci-Fi Ch
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"FWIW, and I speak from no direct knowledge, only overheard
+scuttlebutt, Paramount *couldn't* film what Harlan wrote.  They simply
+didn't have the budget.  It got "hacked", I grant you, but it got
+hacked into a filmable format.  The world's best screenplay is
+worthless if it can't be filmed."
+
+      Except that in this case, it *was* filmable...the rest is the
+mythology that's grown up around it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1998 00:17:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SiFiChannel:Harlan
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"I also thought it was terrific for all -your- new fans, who finally
+got to see the face and hear the voice that go with the heart and soul
+of what we lovingly call B5 :-)"
+
+      Yeah, and the next sound you hear will be millions of remote
+controls turning the channels on millions of TV sets around the country
+to find something less frightening....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1998 00:07:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: Free New B5 Screening UK
+
+      Six years ago, we screened a rough cut of the pilot B5 TV movie
+"The Gathering" at Wishcon on the East Coast here in the US.  Those who
+saw it have said ever after, "I was there."
+
+      For the first time since then, I'll be screening a work in
+progress at the Wrap Party conventin in the UK in August.  This will be
+either "The River of Souls," with Martin Sheen and Ian McShane, or "A
+Call to Arms," the segue TV movie to Crusade, which introduces some of
+the new characters.  (Which I'll bring with me will depend on which is
+most done.)  This will be shown free to all convention members.  (Any
+kind of screening is going to require a venue in which to show it, and
+equipment; the Wrap Party is donating space at a convention that was
+already a going event in order to allow me to hold this free screening
+for attendees.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1998 16:21:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Julie Mehta <113367.1506@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS and "Ghostbusters"
+
+ Julie Mehta <113367.1506@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does anybody know how extensive JMS's involvement with the
+> cartoon "Ghostbusters" actually was? Did he write many episodes?
+
+      I think I wrote close to 20 or so episodes for that one.  I left
+when they decided to make Janine into a mommy-character instead of a
+strong character, then did a few more later when they realized they'd
+made a mistake and wanted her pulled back again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1998 00:30:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS and "Ghostbusters"
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"JMS also had his claws into an episode or two of Captain Power:
+Soldier of the Future. Perhaps the less said about that the better (the
+show had issues - but it actually tried to be more than a kiddie show  -
+but it was gruesomely tied down to a toy that they were forced to
+market for). I think JMS was just a writer - though I believe Doug
+Netter was a producer (he also of B5 fame).
+
+      I was story editor on that one (wrote 11 episodes), Larry
+DiTilio (also of B5 and elsewhere) wrote a bunch, Doug Netter was co-
+exec producer, and John Copeland was producer, with some EFX work by
+Ron Thornton and set design by John Iacovelli.  It was, in many ways, a
+test/launching pad for what would become B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1998 00:24:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Dreams/Asunder Title
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does the title for "All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" derive from a
+> quotation? If it doesn't derive from a quotation, how about a
+> quotation derived from it?
+
+      No, as far as I can remember, it's just something I thunk up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1998 00:24:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SiFiChannel:Harlan
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Nonsense, there are much more scarier things on television these
+days. Case in point: Fox's "When <insert-entity-here> Attack""
+
+   Next on FOX:
+
+                     "WHEN WRITER-PRODUCERS ATTACK!"
+
+      "Well, er...um...nobody notices...so maybe we shouldn't...never
+mind."
+
+   NEXT ON FOX....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1998 00:24:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shane Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Harlan/jms on Sci-Fi Ch
+
+ Shane Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Is there a good chance that Harlan will be on board for
+> B5:Crusade?
+
+      I'd say so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1998 20:22:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS and "Ghostbusters"
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, between that and the animated shows I worked on, it gave
+me a real wariness toward merchandising.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1998 20:13:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS and "Ghostbusters"
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Does that explain your treatment of the shortlived "Babylon 5
+> Souvenir Shop" in the Zocolo? Or could you just not resist
+> "Bearbylon 5"?
+
+      That informed that story a bit, yeah....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1998 20:13:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS and "Ghostbusters"
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Really?<startled> I can see the beginnings of Mr Thornton's CGI
+> designs, but the sets were not much like B5<G> (to many pieces of
+> polystyrene rock for my taste<slightly embarrassed g>) Is this a
+> reflection of the behind the scenes development rather than the
+> visual elements? what actually WAS going to happen in captain
+> power? I know you had said that the suits would become defective,
+> and the group would be in a lot of trouble, but is it possible to
+> point me at any place where i can see how the planned 3 year arc
+> would have come out?
+
+      I think there's a CP site out there somewhere (try Yahoo) that
+has the full message I posted about the long-term arc.
+
+      RE: the different art direction between CP and B5...it's not so
+much development as choosing the right look for the right show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1998 22:32:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS and "Ghostbusters"
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Were there merchandising issues with Ghostbusters?"
+
+      Moreso with other shows I did, like HeMan and SheRa and Jayce;
+in TRGBs we just ignored whatever the toy company wanted.
+
+"BTW: always wondered, who thought up the movie-within-the-cartoon
+thing with the Ghostbusters toon? I just loved they showed scenes from
+the movie in one of the episodes..."
+
+      I wrote that one.  I *think* it was called "Take Two."
+
+      To this day, as a result, there are bunches of kids who *swear*
+up and down that the animated series came first, THEN the movie, much
+to the dismay of their siblings and parents.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Jun 1998 13:47:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Town Has Turned to Dust
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"So, what do YOU think, Joe?  Do you think Rod Serling would approve
+of the new adaptation or his name being attached to it?"
+
+      Unfortunately, I haven't seen it, and tend to shy away from
+making any kind of sweeping comments about things I haven't seen.  If I
+can take your description as accurate, then my answer would probably be
+no.  I would think that by now, we could do the story as he had
+intended it to be done. Certainly every generation stories get
+reinterpreted; I once saw Two Gentlemen of Verona produced in a 1920s
+context, and if the Bard can be shuffled about in time, anybody can.
+
+      That is somewhat different, however, from altering the text or
+the dramatic intent.  Herein lay the dilemma.  Do we have any copies of
+Rod's original work, as he had intended it to be done?  Or were they
+working off the only version, the altered one?  If so, then it's
+altered one more iteration from something that was not the proper
+version anyway, so yes, it's off course, but is it demonstrably more
+off-course than the original softened version?
+
+      On the other hand, if they did have the original version, it
+would have been better served to go with that...however, if they did
+so, the odds are that the SciFi Channel would never have produced it,
+since there's nothing SF about it.
+
+      I dunno...again, I haven't seen it, so I'm trying to be measured
+in my comments.
+
+"Also, to get this somewhat back on topic, do you agree with Harlan
+Ellison's "scorched earth" policy with regard to unfinished works?  If
+you had suffered a fatal stroke a year or so ago, would you have
+approved of someone else stepping in to finish B5 "just the way Joe
+would've wanted it" or for B5 to have died with you?  Would you want
+your unfinished works archived, with the ever-present possibility that
+someone might later acquire "rights" to produce them, or used as fuel
+for your funeral pyre?"
+
+      I don't want anybody rifling through my stuff and putting it out
+there after I'm gone, especially in unfinished form.  I come to this
+opinion by a hard road; when doing Twilight Zone, I was assigned to
+write a teleplay based on one of Rod's unproduced outlines, and for me
+that was one of the highlights since it let me kind of see into his
+creative process a little, and the story was a good one.  At the time,
+the issue of posthumous literary use really hadn't occured to me. 
+Since then, I've had a great deal of time to think about it, and have
+finally come down on the side of "no."  If I had expired prior to
+finishing B5, I would rather let it end at that than have someone else
+finish it for me, in a way not what I would've wanted...as a painter 
+would not generally let someone else finish his painting after his
+passing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jun 1998 13:47:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Free New B5 Screening UK
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      However there are a lot of hidden costs in the Wolf conventions.
+For instance, at the SFX awards, we (John Copeland and I) were under
+the impression that that was just a part of the convention's overall
+umbrella, only to discover that the fans attending sprung for an
+additional 30 pounds each to be at the tables.  (When we discovered
+this, rather to our horror, John and I decided we had better be damned
+more entertaining, and used our drink chits to take care of the table
+all night, so it would balance out at lesat a little.)  At the end of
+the day, when you add up the hidden costs, it works out about the same,
+as when they tried to charge for the ItB screening that was supposed to
+be free to convention attendees.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1998 21:33:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS and "Ghostbusters"
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"To this day, when I am trying to explain B5 and it's attention to
+detail to newbesI just show them that RGB and say "this guy is so
+obsessed about details he couldn't stand not explaining why the cartoon
+characters looked different and were voiced by different people.""
+
+      "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
+
+                     - Michelangelo
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1998 21:33:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS and "Ghostbusters"
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"What was Jayce?"
+
+      An adventure/SF series "Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors," a dopey
+concept I again hijacked in an attempt to make it into something more.
+
+"BTW: what was the situation with that other Ghostbusters show?"
+
+      Dunno...they revived it, I heard about it, they dumbed it up,
+that's all I know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1998 21:33:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: One for the Wish-List
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      One more for the list....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1998 22:35:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Art of Babylon 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I believe the book is currently on hold at this end.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1998 22:35:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS and "Ghostbusters"
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"You seem to have a lot of exposure to cartoons and/or kids shows.
+Would you ever go back?"
+
+      Only if it were my show, top to bottom, and no toy company
+creative input.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1998 01:06:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carol Naylor <100645.2613@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS and "Ghostbusters"
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Just had a really twisted thought - the only way that Joe can stop
+anyone marketing a toy simply called BaBearlon (no logos or anything)
+is to trademark the name."
+
+      Well, it's the only way only IF you set aside the use of certain
+medeival torture instruments applied in utterly innovative and
+colorful ways.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1998 19:17:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Episode Order (again)
+
+ Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Therefore would it make more sense to have 'Day of the Dead'
+> after 'The Ragged Edge' and before 'Corps..'?
+
+      We'll probably juggle this about down the road, once we're into
+reruns full time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1998 19:17:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Inspiration
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think that's great.  Best to upload them here, so that others
+can see them as well.  I look forward to seeing them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jun 1998 00:11:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Showers&Baths
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"PS: This is something that gnaws at my subconscious...  In one of the
+very 1st episodes wasn't the gender of Santiago given as female by an
+ISN reporter speaking about the coming election?  There are so few
+flubs in the story arc that I almost feel sure it is my immagination
+BUT it gnaws..."
+
+      It's your imagination; that was the candidate running against
+Santiago, not the guy himself.  I know because we used Doug's picture
+for Santiago, and a picture of our wardrobe designer for the
+opposition.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jun 1998 00:11:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS and "Ghostbusters"
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"I think he meant the Filmation thing taken from the Forrest
+Tucker/Larry live show that got into all the legal hassle over the
+naming (I think you once said that was why you added "Real" into the
+name)."
+
+      Oh, that...yeah, there was a live-action show called
+Ghostbusters that those two (Larry Storch) did, which sued over the
+name Ghostbusters, and won the right to do an animated series by that
+name.  Which is why ours was called The Real....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1998 21:33:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS and "Ghostbusters"
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"To this day, when I am trying to explain B5 and it's attention to
+detail to newbesI just show them that RGB and say "this guy is so
+obsessed about details he couldn't stand not explaining why the cartoon
+characters looked different and were voiced by different people.""
+
+      "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
+
+                     - Michelangelo
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1998 21:33:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS and "Ghostbusters"
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"What was Jayce?"
+
+      An adventure/SF series "Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors," a dopey
+concept I again hijacked in an attempt to make it into something more.
+
+"BTW: what was the situation with that other Ghostbusters show?"
+
+      Dunno...they revived it, I heard about it, they dumbed it up,
+that's all I know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1998 21:33:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: One for the Wish-List
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      One more for the list....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Jun 1998 13:47:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Town Has Turned to Dust
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"So, what do YOU think, Joe?  Do you think Rod Serling would approve
+of the new adaptation or his name being attached to it?"
+
+      Unfortunately, I haven't seen it, and tend to shy away from
+making any kind of sweeping comments about things I haven't seen.  If I
+can take your description as accurate, then my answer would probably be
+no.  I would think that by now, we could do the story as he had
+intended it to be done. Certainly every generation stories get
+reinterpreted; I once saw Two Gentlemen of Verona produced in a 1920s
+context, and if the Bard can be shuffled about in time, anybody can.
+
+      That is somewhat different, however, from altering the text or
+the dramatic intent.  Herein lay the dilemma.  Do we have any copies of
+Rod's original work, as he had intended it to be done?  Or were they
+working off the only version, the altered one?  If so, then it's
+altered one more iteration from something that was not the proper
+version anyway, so yes, it's off course, but is it demonstrably more
+off-course than the original softened version?
+
+      On the other hand, if they did have the original version, it
+would have been better served to go with that...however, if they did
+so, the odds are that the SciFi Channel would never have produced it,
+since there's nothing SF about it.
+
+      I dunno...again, I haven't seen it, so I'm trying to be measured
+in my comments.
+
+"Also, to get this somewhat back on topic, do you agree with Harlan
+Ellison's "scorched earth" policy with regard to unfinished works?  If
+you had suffered a fatal stroke a year or so ago, would you have
+approved of someone else stepping in to finish B5 "just the way Joe
+would've wanted it" or for B5 to have died with you?  Would you want
+your unfinished works archived, with the ever-present possibility that
+someone might later acquire "rights" to produce them, or used as fuel
+for your funeral pyre?"
+
+      I don't want anybody rifling through my stuff and putting it out
+there after I'm gone, especially in unfinished form.  I come to this
+opinion by a hard road; when doing Twilight Zone, I was assigned to
+write a teleplay based on one of Rod's unproduced outlines, and for me
+that was one of the highlights since it let me kind of see into his
+creative process a little, and the story was a good one.  At the time,
+the issue of posthumous literary use really hadn't occured to me. 
+Since then, I've had a great deal of time to think about it, and have
+finally come down on the side of "no."  If I had expired prior to
+finishing B5, I would rather let it end at that than have someone else
+finish it for me, in a way not what I would've wanted...as a painter 
+would not generally let someone else finish his painting after his
+passing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Jun 1998 13:47:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Free New B5 Screening UK
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      However there are a lot of hidden costs in the Wolf conventions.
+For instance, at the SFX awards, we (John Copeland and I) were under
+the impression that that was just a part of the convention's overall
+umbrella, only to discover that the fans attending sprung for an
+additional 30 pounds each to be at the tables.  (When we discovered
+this, rather to our horror, John and I decided we had better be damned
+more entertaining, and used our drink chits to take care of the table
+all night, so it would balance out at lesat a little.)  At the end of
+the day, when you add up the hidden costs, it works out about the same,
+as when they tried to charge for the ItB screening that was supposed to
+be free to convention attendees.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1998 20:13:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS and "Ghostbusters"
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Does that explain your treatment of the shortlived "Babylon 5
+> Souvenir Shop" in the Zocolo? Or could you just not resist
+> "Bearbylon 5"?
+
+      That informed that story a bit, yeah....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1998 20:13:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS and "Ghostbusters"
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Really?<startled> I can see the beginnings of Mr Thornton's CGI
+> designs, but the sets were not much like B5<G> (to many pieces of
+> polystyrene rock for my taste<slightly embarrassed g>) Is this a
+> reflection of the behind the scenes development rather than the
+> visual elements? what actually WAS going to happen in captain
+> power? I know you had said that the suits would become defective,
+> and the group would be in a lot of trouble, but is it possible to
+> point me at any place where i can see how the planned 3 year arc
+> would have come out?
+
+      I think there's a CP site out there somewhere (try Yahoo) that
+has the full message I posted about the long-term arc.
+
+      RE: the different art direction between CP and B5...it's not so
+much development as choosing the right look for the right show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1998 22:32:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS and "Ghostbusters"
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Were there merchandising issues with Ghostbusters?"
+
+      Moreso with other shows I did, like HeMan and SheRa and Jayce;
+in TRGBs we just ignored whatever the toy company wanted.
+
+"BTW: always wondered, who thought up the movie-within-the-cartoon
+thing with the Ghostbusters toon? I just loved they showed scenes from
+the movie in one of the episodes..."
+
+      I wrote that one.  I *think* it was called "Take Two."
+
+      To this day, as a result, there are bunches of kids who *swear*
+up and down that the animated series came first, THEN the movie, much
+to the dismay of their siblings and parents.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1998 14:39:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: UK B5 Screening Now Free
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Do you now accept that you were actually wrong to accuse Wolf in
+> THIS matter?
+
+      Gerard, I have already told you, weeks ago, in response to your
+emails, that I will not respond to you further.  Take it somewhere
+else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs98-07 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs98-07
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e2147a03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/CompuServe/cs98-07
@@ -0,0 +1,833 @@
+JMS CompuServe messages for July 1998.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+Date: 01 Jul 1998 14:10:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Rebelcon/Worldcon
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Have you made any decisions on this?
+
+      There's nothing definite set yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1998 02:15:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sentient Sphincters
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Unfortunately, the geek was using AOL, and they're notorious for
+not doing anything...though the last 24 hours has been quiet, so either
+he's laying low for now, or they nailed him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1998 02:15:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Sentient Sphincters
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> I realize that it's sort of a barn door/horse issue right now,
+> but have you considered getting another e-mail address someplace
+> and keeping it private from everyone who doesn't need it for
+> business?
+
+      Thing is, I use the main address for email interviews with
+magazines and the like...and as soon as I gave that address to one
+reporter, everybody'd have it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1998 02:15:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sentient Sphincters
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"I can't begin to imagine the grinding aggravation it must be for
+you."
+
+      And then some.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1998 11:37:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Lyta & the Drazi
+
+ Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How much were you influenced by this movie when you wrote the
+> part of Lyta (particularly the character development)? Or is my
+> imagination running on overtime again?
+
+      No, you're just seeing similarities in performance; all I wanted
+was a strong performer, and I saw one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Jul 1998 11:37:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sentient Sphincters
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So waddaya think, a netstalker or a 9 year old trekkie with a
+> shiny new modem?
+
+      Net-stalker.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Jul 1998 21:01:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gregory Carnes <103400.444@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5 LD question
+
+ Gregory Carnes <103400.444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Also if the LDs are coming out does that mean there will be DVD
+> editions also?
+
+      As this is the first I've heard about it...your guess is as good
+as mine.  We'll get into it, though, to do all we can to make sure this
+is as good as it should be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jul 1998 00:45:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5 LD question
+
+ Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you think I should hold out for DVD?
+
+      I don't know the full situation yet, so can't advise.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jul 1998 21:01:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sentient Sphincters
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The crummy part is he's also spamming my cis account, so I can't
+get any new email here either.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jul 1998 00:45:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Sentient Sphincters
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's taking an act of god to get it done...and since I'm an
+atheist, I'm in serious trouble.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jul 1998 21:01:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hello, old friend
+
+ Richard M Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of Spidey, did you catch the "Identity Crisis"
+> storyline? So, when are you going to talk to Stan Lee about
+> getting you to write for Spidey?
+
+      That's the key: find what excites you, and do it.  Follow your
+joy; the rest will take care of itself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jul 1998 21:06:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Corps
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Babylon means Gate of God.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jul 1998 21:01:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Chron. of the Lensmen V1
+
+ SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was your quotation done for the book cover or for the SFBC?
+
+      The quote appears on the book.  It's kind of lovely, since that
+was one of the first books that got me hooked on sagas...and now I can
+turn around and return the favor and help to get it out there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Jul 1998 15:33:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Crusade Cast Address ??
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> 1) Will snail-mail for the cast work with the same mail drop
+> address as the old B5 one? 2) Will the new cast members have e-
+> mail addresses @thestation.com? 3) The {USA} latest Starburst says
+> that Carrie Dobro has been signed for the role of Dureena for
+> Crusade? Is that correct?
+
+1)  Will snail-mail for the cast work with the same mail drop address
+as the old B5 one?
+
+Yes, though I'd suggest using the fan club mail address rather than
+the Sherman Oaks drop.
+
+2)  Will the new cast members have e-mail addresses @thestation.com?
+
+Almost certainly.
+
+3)  The {USA} latest Starburst says that Carrie Dobro has been signed
+for the role of Dureena for Crusade?  Is that correct?
+
+She played in the pilot, but we never confirm for series until after
+we pick up an actor's contract.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jul 1998 23:53:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Crusade Cast Address ??
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Will you post the cast here, after it's settled?
+
+      Yeah, I'll post the info when I can.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jul 1998 15:33:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Sentient Sphincters
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Interesting...thanks for the info, apparently this guy is even
+more of a twist than I'd first thought.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jul 1998 15:33:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Joe: Music recommendatio
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Will check 'em out, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Jul 1998 16:02:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sentient Sphincters
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It this someone who has given trouble before or is it a *new*
+> nutball? What sorta stuff is he doing?
+> I mean, I know he's sending you lots of email, but is there any
+> content? Does he have an agenda?
+
+      No, apparently said nutball did the same thing to others, who
+have sent me email mentioning receiving as many as 14,000 emails from
+this guy who feels that anyone who is fan of, or involved with, B5
+should behave toward him in a certain way, or he will teach them a
+lesson.
+
+      The content of the email is long and rambling and designed, I
+think, to be inoffensive...it's that there are 1,000 of them at a time
+that is the issue.  Fortunately, there haven't been any problems in the
+last 48 hours or so, so I conclude that AOL took care of it...it's just
+that they never tell you when they've done this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Jul 1998 01:40:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+ Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com> asks:
+> just wondering.. what dvd format does WB uses?
+
+      Huh?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Jul 1998 23:20:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: More B5 Fans
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Very cool....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Jul 1998 17:51:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade: Pre Production!
+
+ WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What have you in the way of juicy items and tasty tidbits to
+> share? Are you ready for August 3?
+
+      Well, the Excalibur set is finished, cleaned up after the
+shooting of A Call to Arms, and we're building the rest of the interior
+of the ship, halls, a medbay, the flight deck, a bullet car for moving
+around the place, and other locations.  Also in the final stages of
+casting for the various regulars.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Jul 1998 17:51:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Mexico
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I honestly don't know....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Jul 1998 17:51:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 and PDAs
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, John Copeland has that B5 guide on his Palm Pilot, and
+uses it a lot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Jul 1998 01:26:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ivanova
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Bear in mind, though, that the debate on whether or not she was
+fired or quit -- she originally said that she was fired -- is over, as
+she finally admitted in a magazine interview that she was the one who
+quit.  So that part is at least over and done with.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Jul 1998 00:49:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Crusade Casting
+
+"Also rumors that Tracy Scoggins might play Dr. Lochcly. The Captain's
+Twin Sister. I hope that is wrong"
+
+      Utterly and totally untrue.
+
+      Never believe everything you read on the nets.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1998 16:42:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade: Pre Production!
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does the Excalibur (we need a shorthand for this ship folks)
+> figure in aCtA?
+
+      Yes, it's there, and its sister ship, the Victory.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1998 23:02:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WB Home Video Does B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Haven't got a clue.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1998 11:24:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Third Space
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I've heard, though have not yet confirmed, that C4 may delay the
+final 5 until they can air closer to/just after/simultaneous with the
+US airings. But I've only heard that from UK fans who've heard it from
+C4, I have no direct info on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1998 11:31:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Crusade Casting
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Here's the problem...and SFX is probably the one magazine most
+vulnerable to fall for this, though others do it as well.
+
+      Somebody on the net posts something utterly wrong-headed...i.e.,
+"I was at this convention and Jeff Conaway said that he'd been signed
+to appear in Crusade."  (This is an actual example, btw, on the
+Gallifrey website, I believe.)  For starters, what Jeff and others
+signed were *options* on their services in case we should choose to use
+them, which were applied ACROSS THE BOARD to anyone and everyone
+appearing in "A Call to Arms," because it's pro forma for such movies
+that are either pilots or segues to new shows.  That's all it is.
+
+      But now it gets picked up and repeated on other web sites...and
+then the magazines start printing it, saying, "But we saw it on the
+web, we have a source for it."  Other web sites see the magazine, and
+pass on the info, saying, "But we saw it in a magazine."  And it just
+goes on and on, a self renewing implausibility generator...all this
+because one fan didn't understand what he was hearing, or got it wrong,
+because he didn't understand what an option is or what it means...and
+suddenly we're getting calls from agents asking what the hell is going
+on, and I have to spend time straightening it out.
+
+      The tendency to cite web sources in magazines has been one of
+the most troubling aspects of the cyberworld lately.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1998 12:54:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Another one?! :-)
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Frmph.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1998 00:09:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Artifact Construction
+
+ Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One thing I wasn't clear on: Did the Vorlons build the artifact
+> or did they find it?
+
+      The Vorlons built it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Jul 1998 03:16:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Crusade Web Page
+
+ Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering is this web address going to be the official
+> Crusade web page? When will you be announcing the cast of Crusade?
+> Has there been any news regarding a possible Babylon 5 theatrical
+> movie?
+
+      More when I can talk about this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1998 00:30:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com>
+Subject: River of Souls
+
+ Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that you wowed us with Thirdspace, and mentioned on Usenet
+> that it came from your desire to do something Lovecraftian, can
+> you say anything about what your purpose was behind, or what we
+> should look forward to in River of Souls? I don't know how you
+> afforded all the effects in Thirdspace, and wonder, due to less
+> cast members being involved, if the budget's a bit less on River?
+
+      The budget on all 4 of the TNT movies is the same.  As for
+"River," it's a much more in-depth script than "Thirdspace," which was
+mainly just for fun. River gets into the question of identity, the
+nature of the soul, it has some very funny but also some very moving
+stuff...while there are some things I prefer about "In the Beginning,"
+in some ways "River" is a better movie.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1998 14:30:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ch4: Series 5: Last 4Eps
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Wasn't their choice; I believe WB took the position that they
+shouldn't air the final 5 there until they were aired here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1998 14:30:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Wolf 359/ The Crusade
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Have any of those who went experienced an American Creation Con?
+> Or even one of the early '95/96 Stargazer cons?
+> Dealers rooms - a very nice selection of items for sale, except (
+> you knew that there had to be an except ) why do they always put
+> the tables so close together?
+
+      This goes pretty much along with what I've heard from others who
+were there, if a bit harder in places.  The general concensus I'm
+getting back is that many of the areas I felt were in need of
+improvement, and said so, vocally, have indeed been improved, from the
+general organization, to the treatment of stewards and fans, and the
+way autographs are set up.  (I suspect they gave the bigger room to
+autographs because either a) that's where they make the lion's share of
+their money from selling photos, or b) to handle the long lines.)
+
+      There are obviously still areas that can be improved, but this
+does seem to indicate progress.
+
+      However, I have still to hear any definitive response to the
+requests by me and others who lent Wolf their names about the profits
+that were supposed to go to charity.  As far as I've heard, unless a
+check was made out directly to the charity by the attending fan, as
+during the auctions, nothing ever got there.  If that's incorrect, I'd
+like to know about it, but the continued silence, even and especially
+stating that the information would be provided, is ominous.
+
+      That aside, at least organizationally they seem to have made
+some of the improvements a lot of people, myself included, felt were
+necessary.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jul 1998 00:47:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Alan L. Ravitch <73627.3126@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Logo Font
+
+ Alan L. Ravitch <73627.3126@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Hi Joe....a quick question for you....just as you told us the B5
+> font was serpentine, can you tell us the font used in the new
+> Crusade logo on the new web site?
+
+      Don't remember....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Jul 1998 17:22:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Twin Brother?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I hear that a lot; each community seems to have one guy who
+looks just like me (or one guy who gets around a lot).  Actually, I
+have a cousin who is a dead ringer for me, living in or around New
+York.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jul 1998 17:22:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: River of Souls
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is Peter David doing a novel of River?
+
+      No, Yvonne Navarro is adapting River of Souls, and Robert
+Sheckley is adapting A Call to Arms.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jul 1998 23:13:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Susan C Wiederhold <110630.603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: River of Souls
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, that's great to know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Jul 1998 23:13:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael R. Marks <104504.455@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Gary Cole
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      We start shooting on Monday, with the series; Arms was shot in
+June.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1998 00:23:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Gary Cole
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since the first day of shooting is so near, can we expect a full
+> cast announcement within the next few days?
+
+      One can expect many things...how many of them happen, who can
+say?
+
+                                                                 jms*
+
+      *(down with pnumonia, gooned on codeine)
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1998 15:18:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 on Laserdisc
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, we're in discussions now with Image and WB Home Video
+to see if we can nudge them toward widescreen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1998 15:29:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Gary Cole
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I've done all the doctor stuff, taking the antibiotics, chugging
+cough syrup with codeine (the colors, man, check out the
+collllloooooorrrrrsssss), doing half-days at the office until I'm up
+and at 'em again.
+
+      But in this somewhat drugged state, I can only *imagine* what
+the script I'm writing is gonna look like when it's done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1998 15:29:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: River of Souls
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, Jonathan is an amazing writer....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Jul 1998 01:05:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Alien Voices live radio
+
+ Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you ever thought of having the B5 cast do something like
+> this?
+
+      Actually, Peter and Andreas just did a radio drama for the sci-
+fi channel, which should be available shortly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Jul 1998 22:09:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: PTG
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, it's a good one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
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+JMS CompuServe messages for August 1998.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+Date: 01 Aug 1998 22:08:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 on Laserdisc
+
+ Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But are there actually fully edited widescreen versions of the
+> entire series?
+
+"But are there actually fully edited widescreen versions of the entire
+series?"
+
+      Yep, everything but the pilot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Aug 1998 22:08:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Gary Cole
+
+ Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or is that just another Hollywood legend ?
+
+      No, that one's true.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Aug 1998 22:08:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Gary Cole
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'm starting to worry about WorldCon...this thing isn't letting
+go as fast as I'd've liked.  I'll be seeing a doctor again on Monday to
+let me know if I'm in any condition to go.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Aug 1998 13:51:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 on Laserdisc
+
+ Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why not the pilot?
+> Is the movie not in Widescreen available?
+> are already available for a Widescreen release?
+
+"Why not the pilot? Is the movie not in Widescreen available?"
+
+      Wasn't shot that way.
+
+"Also I read somewhere that B5 has been broadcasted in Widescreen in
+Portugal, does this mean that all the SFX etc. are already available
+for a Widescreen release?"
+
+      That's correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Aug 1998 00:50:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: River of Souls
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"In all honesty, I suspect that scene cut a little too close to home
+for some guys.  I know it left me squirming uncomfortably in my chair
+wanting it to just end."
+
+      Then it had the desired effect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Aug 1998 02:05:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Julie Mehta <113367.1506@compuserve.com>
+Subject: UK Showing - ep 517
+
+ Julie Mehta <113367.1506@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any more details in it about the devices that might be
+> useful to know?
+
+"I agree the coldness was disturbing, but I feel this reveals the deep
+emotion she feels at Byron's death and her consequent ruthless
+determination to achieve his goals."
+
+      This was the point I was going for with people who were saying
+that the Byron thing was totally extraneous.  To get Lyta to this point
+as a character -- remembering her "I'll sue" tirade as the last time
+she even sorta kinda got mad -- she would *have* to go through the
+fire, and lose something that meant enough to push her to this point. 
+So you had to let the relationship with Byron go full term, follow it
+over time, and see what it meant to her to justify and motivate what
+happens to and with her in the last part of the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Aug 1998 00:50:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: jms out of worldcon
+
+      This is a short version of what I sent to the Internet earlier
+today. In brief, as most folks hereabouts know, I got hit about a week
+ago with walking pneumonia, and have been taking serious antibiotics
+and other stuff to get past it, in the hope of being able to attend
+WorldCon.
+
+      A follow-up today with my doctor resulted in him saying that
+even though I'm past some of the worst of it -- though weak as a kitten
+ -- I'm in that perilous situation where if I push it at *all*, if I add
+stress, I will almost certainly go right into acute or bacterial
+pneumonia, which would result in certain bedrest or even
+hospitalization.  Right now was the worst time to push it.
+
+      So basically, I got bushwacked.  Even Harlan threatened dire
+results if I even tried to board a plane.
+
+      More than anything, I've been looking forward to this, because
+as a fan, I know what it means to be a Guest of Honor at a WorldCon;
+it's one of those once-in-a-lifetime things, and the perfect end to the
+B5 5 year arc. But if I go, I seriously risk falling down, and if I
+fall down, the company falls down, and I *can't* do that.
+
+      So with regrets...I can't go.  The one positive light: we're
+sending B5 fan club director Julie Walker (also previously the head of
+the MST3K fan club) to the con, equipped with all the videotapes I
+would otherwise be showing, so there will be a presence there, and
+you'll see all the stuff I would have been showing.
+
+      So there's that...but I'll confess that I'm seriously bummed
+about this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Aug 1998 17:38:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms out of worldcon
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Because we're shooting this week, the first few days on Crusade,
+I'm still coming into the office, but taking it easy and not pushing
+it.  The main problem was the trip and the stress of a full-blown
+convention, the recirculated hotel air, shaking hands with a whole lot
+of people who may have colds and the like...it was a disaster waiting
+to happen under the current situation.
+
+      At least filming is going well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Aug 1998 12:33:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Dust to Dust
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, it wasn't meant to be in 3D...and I don't have any plans to
+let anyone release those books for a bit; I'd rather my first new book
+out be, well, a new one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Aug 1998 14:42:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms out of worldcon
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you get any more money per ep to make this series?
+> Also, is it going to be more expensive not to have the crutch of
+> the fixed B5 sets (I know your set designer was sorta a genius at
+> creating mix and match theater style sets)?
+
+      We have a bit more money...though not a lot.  We'll do things as
+we always do: smart.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Aug 1998 14:42:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 520 - Title?
+
+ Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any comments?
+
+      Wheel is the correct title.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Aug 1998 17:40:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bancroft Gracey <100532.1747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: UK Showing - ep 517
+
+ Bancroft Gracey <100532.1747@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Quick q's (with a slow answer, I suspect): did you 'see' the
+> Lyta/Byron thing back in the beginning? And, given the cast
+> changes over the seasons, would it have been Lyta at this point,
+> or someone else - a 'revived' Talia, say, or Ivanova?
+
+      It's no secret that I would've had Ivanova becoming somewhat
+linked to Byron romantically (she would see him as a character like
+Marcus, which is why there are certain similarities, and she would take
+a chance only to find it wrong this time, underlining that she'd missed
+her one major opportunity thus far for a good relationship).  This was
+expressed to Claudia toward the last part of S4, so she knew at that
+time that her latent ability would be coming out, and that she'd have a
+big part in S5.
+
+      In this scenario, Lyta would have become a devoted follower of
+Byron's, much as she has, but it would have been more love from afar:
+protective, somewhat unrequited but hoping for more...so that when he
+met his fate, Lyta would end up right where she is now, just by a
+different road.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Aug 1998 23:31:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms out of worldcon
+
+ SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will the new Crusade sets be added to the existing B5 sets or
+> will you have to put some of the older sets in storage?
+
+      Most of the B5 sets are now in storage.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Aug 1998 15:44:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms out of worldcon
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, it's just a matter of preparation and forethought; 30% of
+any series budget goes on waste, frankly.  We cut that down to
+basically zero.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 Aug 1998 15:08:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Lovitt <75021.1731@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Garibaldi
+
+ Mike Lovitt <75021.1731@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How did he and Sinclair meet?
+> Why hasn,t he talked more with Dr. Franklin about Bester's
+> telepathic block?
+
+      They met on Mars, as chronicled in one of the comics.
+
+      Garibaldi has/will try a different approach to his problem.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Aug 1998 23:24:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: sNoW whiTe RedUx
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I have only done one cute thing in my life.  That was it.
+
+      Continue this discussion and I keel you slow....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Aug 1998 23:24:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 at Bucky
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Great report, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Aug 1998 18:59:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Hugos
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, he's correct.  Basically, B5 episodes took up the slots
+from 6 through 11; nearly every episode got nominations.  Any two of
+them put together would've put it atop the nominations.  They were just
+too many episodes that got noms, and spread the thing out too far.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Aug 1998 23:22:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hugos
+
+ SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If a B5 episode or one of the movies makes the Hugo ballot next
+> year, are you going to Australia?
+
+      If I'm up for a Hugo, I'll go anywhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Aug 1998 12:17:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: sNoW whiTe RedUx
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What...pray tell...is "The Shy Stegasaurus of Cricket Creek"?
+> Joe...did you write something "for kids"?
+> ...did you sell out?
+
+      No, didn't sell out...it just came out looking a hell of a lot
+cuter than I had been led to think, and it's kind of a cute
+story...hell, it is what it is....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Aug 1998 12:17:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: History
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And for the last five years, I've been trying to develop a
+> dialogue with the SF communityNot just, "Here's what I'm doing,
+> here's the show, watch it, give us ratings, and be quiet," but
+> rather, "Here's what I'm doing...how close is this to what you've
+> been wishing someone would do? What are you tired of?
+> What do you think of this part over here?"
+
+      Boy, if I'd only known what I was setting myself up for....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Aug 1998 23:07:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: History
+
+ Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will you continue to do this with Crusade?
+> In the same way?
+> More selective?
+
+      No, I'll be pulling back quite a bit after B5 is over.  It's
+that or go mad.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Aug 1998 14:52:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: Recommendation
+
+      Okay...I told you about Squirrel Nut Zippers, and Portishead
+(those of you with good taste got that one, feh on the rest), and
+Cherry Poppin' Daddies and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy before most anybody
+else...and South Park just a bit before they broke out....
+
+      Well, here's another recommendation, in the direction of the
+surreal and the very funny and very weird.
+
+      Sifl and Ollie.  MTV, weeknights at 12:30.  When you see what it
+is, you'll think I've lost my mind to recommend it.  But just trust me
+on this. Give it a chance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Aug 1998 23:07:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ComicCon
+
+ SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's the likelyhood you'll feel up to making it down to San
+> Diego this Saturday for your ComicCon presentation? Or should we
+> expect a telecommuting jms presentation?
+
+      I should be able to make it down for ComicCon, though just for
+the afternoon of the presentation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Aug 1998 15:42:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: History
+
+ WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com> asks:
+> UseNet?
+> AOL?
+
+      I'll still be here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1998 14:01:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: jms out of worldcon
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Are you sleeping at least 8 hours /night?
+
+      Had a bit of a rebound, for that reason, haven't been getting as
+much sleep as I should've wit the first weeks of filming...not
+monstrous, but vastly annoying.  It's exactly what I was told would
+happen, but not as bad as it would've been if I'd've gone to WorldCon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1998 20:54:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms out of worldcon
+
+ SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, Joe, did anyone save a Bucconeer doubloon for you?
+
+      No, don't know anything about it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1998 13:38:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: B5 at ComicCon Canceled
+
+      I've left email for the folks at San Diego Comic Con, but
+haven't yet heard back, and I want folks to have the most time to
+adjust their schedules.
+
+      As the doctor predicted, the pneumonia -- after a week of
+feeling a little better -- has rebouned with a vengeance.  Going back
+in today for a follow-up exam and more workups.  It's not as bad as it
+would've been had I gone to WorldCon (that's what they keep telling me;
+feeling as I do I have a hard time believing it because if it's true, I
+can't even imagine what that would be like given what it's like *now*),
+but it's laid me pretty low.
+
+      Consequently, I won't be able to do the B5 presentation at San
+Diego Comic Con on Saturday, or be there for the autographing session. 
+There isn't any way to set up a replacement person and material, so
+it's going to have to be canceled outright.
+
+      SDCC is one of my two favorite conventions, that and LosCon; I
+haven't missed either in something on the order of 12 years.  (If
+nothing else I go to SDCC just to shop in the dealer's room for cool
+Superman stuff.)  But this record has to be broken, much to my
+considerable dismay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Aug 1998 02:29:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul Worthington <112063.2437@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Real-life B5 technology
+
+ Paul Worthington <112063.2437@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Perhaps the developer was taking notes while watching Babylon 5?
+
+      Cool...we're ahead of our time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Aug 1998 02:29:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JudyL <72520.216@compuserve.com>
+Subject: looking for quote
+
+ JudyL <72520.216@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any suggestions?
+
+      I wouldn't even know where to start.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Aug 1998 01:08:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: THE OFFICIAL UK FAN CLUB
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Just one correction: the UK fan club is a local UK group, and is
+not official in any way, manner, shape or form.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1998 14:51:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Music and Magic
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How are you feeling?
+> Did you have fun at the Wrap Party without making yourself
+> sicker?
+
+      Thanks, it was fun...still a little weak around the edges, but
+better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Aug 1998 00:34:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JudyL <72520.216@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Cross Stitch
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Cool...will check it out when I can.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Aug 1998 12:49:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Dark Genesis
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, could you tell us how closely you are involved in the
+> Psi_Corps trilogy? the concept and name of the "kith", was that
+> from you or the author?
+
+      The kith idea came from the author, and was a perfect way of
+exploring the relationships there.
+
+      Basically, I wrote detailed outlines for all three books, and
+Gregory went away and wrote the books.  Frankly, I think this first Psi
+Corps novel may be the best one to date, and that's saying a lot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs98-09 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs98-09
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,535 @@
+JMS CompuServe messages for September 1998.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+Date: 01 Sep 1998 21:17:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mail Drop
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that still possible?
+
+      Yes, it's still there for that, but it's better overall to go
+for the fanclub mail address.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Sep 1998 12:31:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mike Bjorkman <71603.3207@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Dark Genesis standalone?
+
+ Mike Bjorkman <71603.3207@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm looking forward to reading Dark Genesis, and I'm also
+> wondering - would it make sense to someone who had never watched
+> B5? That is, would it make a reasonable introduction to the B5
+> universe for friends who haven't yet been turned on to the show?
+
+      Actually, it's more accessible to a new reader than any of the
+prior B5 books...it's a totally self-contained work that begins long
+before any of our regular characters are born.  I wanted this to be a
+solid novel that could exist entirely on its own, absent any knowledge
+of B5, but which would tie into the arc for anybody who knows the show.
+I think it succeeds admirably.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Sep 1998 17:09:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Crusade Crisis??????
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      At this time, officially, I cannot confirm or deny the report.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1998 16:19:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Crisis??????
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"...now all those old uniforms are going to go to waste more than
+likely, meanwhile, they're a hell of a lot better than that cheesier
+new design they've come up with; a pity."
+
+      Funny, everybody said that about our Earthforce uniforms when
+the first pictures appeared.  Now they're the preferred standard.
+
+      Further, those uniforms are specific to the mission of the
+Excalibur, as uniforms vary within the real military.  The regular
+Earthforce uniforms are still very much in use in the Crusade universe.
+
+      Y'know, I'd've thought that, after learning the lessons on B5
+about not judging things too quickly -- the costumes are stupid, who's
+the guy with the big hair -- that people would have learend to not
+prejudge things before they actually see them on film.
+
+      Guess I was wrong.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1998 16:19:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Uniforms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Let me suggest that the photo does not show the uniforms off to
+best advantage.  They are based strongly on West Point uniforms, with
+some variation.  The photo is an awful photo, it looks like a polaroid,
+and makes them look pretty flat and unattractive.  On actual film, lit
+well, they look very nice.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1998 16:35:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael J. Kersey <73642.3137@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Dark Genesis standalone?
+
+ Michael J. Kersey <73642.3137@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It worked for me in Ken Burns "Civil War" documentary, how about
+> fiction?
+
+      Thanks, and yeah, it's pretty damn canon.  The rest, we'll see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1998 21:00:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Uniforms
+
+ Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW - how are YOU feeling?
+> How long do we have to wait now?
+
+      I've been looking at that photo some more, and the more I stare
+at it, the more it bugs me, because it's just awful in how it was
+taken: you can see the shadows from the flashbulb, it's not composed
+well, it looks like a snapshot taken by somebody non-professional, and
+the more I think about it, the more I'm not sure where the hell that
+shot came from.  We sure as heck didn't provide it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Sep 1998 23:48:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Gideon Symbolism
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So was the biblical reference related to the genesis (pardon the
+> pun) of this character's name?
+
+      There are certain reasons for that name choice, yes, which is
+all I'll say for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1998 20:04:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5 (general)
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Wasn't any kind of particular inspiration, just hard work on a
+concept until it made sense.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1998 16:38:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Crisis??????
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The TNT memo was apparently real; however, the egregious points
+have now been withdrawn, and on top of that, TNT has allocated a big
+chunk of change to let us build some new sets and expand stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1998 22:59:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Crusade Crisis??????
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Joe, how is everything going with production?
+> And, more importantly, how are you feeling?
+
+      Things are going well overall; we've filmed 5 episodes, and have
+just extended a planned 1 week production hiatus (we take two such
+hiatuses -- hiati? -- every year, one in the fall, one in the spring)
+and added three paid weeks in order to allow time for construction on a
+number of new sets.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1998 22:59:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Crisis??????
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think that to dwell on the thing would be to just open wounds
+that are better left healed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Sep 1998 15:07:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Crisis??????
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+> The TNT memo was apparently real; however, the egregious points have
+> now been withdrawn, and on top of that, TNT has allocated a big chunk
+> of change to let us build some new sets and expand stuff. 
+
+> Hey!  That's WONDERFUL news!
+
+      What we've done is to try and expedite this so we can have the
+new stuff in hand for the maximum number of episodes as quickly as
+possible.  We always take a one-week hiatus in every block of episodes
+we shoot, all the way through B5's history and now.  One week around
+the start of October (depending on the start of filming), then the
+Christmas break, then another one-week hiatus midway through the last
+10 episodes.
+
+      So what we did here was to add on three weeks to the hiatus,
+starting Tuesday.  Well, three paid weeks off for most of the crew
+directly involved with the actual filming, anyway.  Construction, art
+department, props, wardrobe and other departments will still be working
+away to build and dress the sets and stuff so we can get right back
+into shooting on with the new stuff in place.
+
+      We're talking here improvements to the corridors, to the
+quarters to enlarge them, adding a wardroom/mess hall, an exercise
+area...other stuff. We generally add sets each season, and wanted to do
+these down the road, but now we have the chance to do them now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Sep 1998 22:22:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Music
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is Christopher Franke still part of the team, or do you bring in
+> someone new?
+
+      We haven't yet set a composer for Crusade; we're giving a shot
+to Evan Chen, a chinese-born classical composer with a strong jazz
+background, on A Call to Arms.  How that turns out will determine much
+that follows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Sep 1998 00:25:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Music
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Evan's an amazing composer...he came out of Shanghai, studied
+music in Russia and Germany, was fast becoming a leading, classically
+trained composer, and discovered jazz in his twenties, dropped
+everything to come to Chicago and study under some of the best jazz men
+around (even if it meant washing dishes to get by).  His stuff is the
+most amazing blend of asian influence, classical instrumentation, jazz
+and rock backbeats I've ever heard, even using asian scales (somewhat
+different from western musical scales) in unexpected places to make
+western music sound totally different.
+
+      For a show as different as this, I wanted a completely
+different, totally unique sound, something I've never heard before, and
+Evan Chen has it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Sep 1998 23:17:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Music
+
+ Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is he working with any groups that are recording?
+
+      Not that I'm aware of.  I think we got in and found him before
+anybody else could get their hands on him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Sep 1998 23:17:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Crisis??????
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Withdrawn?
+> I realize you probably can't elaborate too much on the
+> circumstances, butdid they back down because of YOUR fury,
+> because of viewer complaint, or did you go the quick and easy
+> route and sic Harlan on 'em?? On a note of more immediate urgency,
+> how is your recuperation going?????
+
+      All that matters is that wisdom prevailed.
+
+      And I'm well past the pneumonia, and doing much better now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Sep 1998 12:56:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: WB Home Video
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      They'll handle all five years.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Sep 1998 12:56:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rick and Cindy <71561.3255@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mimbari Language
+
+ Rick and Cindy <71561.3255@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there a mimbari word that Means Titanic?
+
+"Is there a minbari word that Means Titanic?"
+
+      Trk'voy-ahgr.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1998 20:59:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mimbari Language
+
+ SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Message text written by JMS: >> "Is there a minbari word that
+> Means Titanic?"
+
+"Well it's taking a bloody long time to sink to the bottom."
+
+      That Celine Dion just *won't* let go, will she?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1998 20:59:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steve Kuziel <74150.350@compuserve.com>
+Subject: WB Home Video
+
+ Steve Kuziel <74150.350@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will it also include the movies subsequent to "The Gathering"?
+
+      No, I was referring to the WB deal, which was what you asked
+about.  I do know that the WB home video covers all five seasons, I
+don't know about Columbia House for sure.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1998 20:59:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Joe- Spec vs Story Idea?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"So, how do you want to work wild-eyed speculation on plots for a
+program that hasn't hit the airwaves yet?  Or shall I sit on my twisted
+speculation (ouch!) until January?"
+
+      Well, since nothing's aired yet, I think speculations are
+probably best suited until after one sees the show...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Sep 1998 22:14:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mimbari Language
+
+ SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, who (or what) would you choose to sing the B5 theme song (if
+> any)?
+
+"BTW, who (or what) would you choose to sing the B5 theme song (if
+any)?"
+
+      Billy Joel.  No contest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Sep 1998 21:41:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Dark Genesis spoilers
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, it's a great book, thanks...I really wanted it to be one
+that stood entirely on its own.  If you never saw a frame of B5, you
+could pick up this book and enjoy it.  It's a kick.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Sep 1998 21:41:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Mimbari Language
+
+ SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The obvious next question: Is there a B5 theme song?
+> Or is this waiting for "Babylon 5: The Musical?"
+
+"The obvious next question: Is there a B5 theme song?"
+
+      If there is, it's probably aired on Dr. Demento by now....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Sep 1998 15:42:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Ponderings of a B5 fan
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      1) He was speaking metaphorically.  You're being too literal.
+
+      2) No.
+
+      3) There are language derivations in common dating back to prior
+encounters.
+
+      4) He would've gotten security to assist with this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Sep 1998 20:57:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carol Naylor <100645.2613@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Minbari Language
+
+      Or from Fastball....
+
+      "You can see the Shadows wandering off somewhere
+      They won't make it home but they really don't care
+      They wanted the highway
+      They're happier there today...."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs98-10 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs98-10
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ccce6c68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/CompuServe/cs98-10
@@ -0,0 +1,467 @@
+JMS CompuServe messages for October 1998.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+
+Date: 01 Oct 1998 23:58:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Lyta Question
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Why did Lyta train as a Psi Cop if she was only a P5?
+
+"I was under the impression teeps needed to be at least P10 before
+becoming Psi Cops. Why did Lyta train as a Psi Cop if she was only a
+P5?"
+
+      You are misremembering.  She said she interned with the Psi
+Cops, not that she was training to be one.  Psi Cops need people
+beneath them at various levels as assistants, collectors of evidence,
+and all the more ordinary stuff they don't have time to do as the
+elite.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Oct 1998 16:55:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rick and Cindy <71561.3255@compuserve.com>
+Subject: acting systems
+
+ Rick and Cindy <71561.3255@compuserve.com> asks:
+> whats your opinion on the Stanislavski system, and the actor who
+> use it?
+
+      I don't know enough about it to have an intelligent opinion....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Oct 1998 02:09:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Prodution probs......???
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I wonder if this will ever reach some sort of critical mass, and,
+> if so, what the result will be?
+
+"Whether it be in CIS fora or on the wider Net, it seems that more
+people are spreading more rumors more widely with more reaction.  I
+wonder if this will ever reach some sort of critical mass, and, if so,
+what the result will be?"
+
+      A slight but measurable increase in the greenhouse effect....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Oct 1998 20:31:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Music
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, nothing commercially available.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Oct 1998 22:56:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joel Araujo <76016.122@compuserve.com>
+Subject: What Book to believe
+
+ Joel Araujo <76016.122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is cannon when two books contratict themselves?
+
+      Where there is a contradiction, defer to City.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Oct 1998 22:57:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Zathras Confused
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      You can never count out the Zathri....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 Oct 1998 10:11:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: ALL 
+Subject: re: jms email
+
+      Just a note to remind folks that my email address is to be used
+only for stuff that can't or shouldn't be discussed publicly, for
+personal stuff. It's starting to fill up with general questions about
+the themes of the show, plot stuff and the like, questions which would
+serve better in the open forums where the answers would profit other
+people, and save me from having to answer the same question X-times
+privately.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Oct 1998 12:20:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Zathras Confused
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      He also never *stops* saying things....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Oct 1998 00:17:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Who's going to V.O.R.
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Be advised that Tracy Scoggins will not be there, and that
+others may not be there, and that this is not an official, sanctioned
+convention (many have emailed me to say that they thought it was
+sanctioned).  The companies listed as "sponsors" -- Precedence
+Publishing and Sierra FX -- are making it clear, and making VorCon make
+sure it's clear, that they may be sponsoring events at the convention
+but they do not endorse the convention itself; also, Optic Nerve will
+not be bringing down an exhibit of any sort.  In addition, by now they
+either have received or are about to receive official warning from 
+Warner Bros. regarding the showing of *any* video material from the
+show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Oct 1998 22:46:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dr John A Purvis <100341.1147@compuserve.com>
+Subject: S5book tells all
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, it was published ahead of schedule, and we're all kinda
+pissed about it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Oct 1998 15:39:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: IslanderUK <100545.3607@compuserve.com>
+Subject: S5book tells all
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      WB does have that control over publishing as well...the thing
+was published by accident, there was a drop in communication and it
+happened when everyone was looking elsewhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Oct 1998 22:58:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: EW disses B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      On the other hand, the actual description they used for the show
+was nothing other than glowing...beats the heck out of me....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Oct 1998 23:43:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gar Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Exec Producer powers?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      It variers; in some cases, an exec producer is just the money
+person; in other cases, it can even be a studio person assigned to a
+project; there can be numerous exec producers with various
+responsibilities.  Some sell the show, move on, and just collect fees.
+
+      That's why the term exec producer has become almost meaningless
+in terms of knowing what the person actually *does*, and why it's been
+replaced in many ways with the term "show runner."  That's the person
+who actually runs the show, determines the creative direction for the
+series, writes and oversees scripts, that sort of thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Oct 1998 13:09:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: EW disses B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Or maybe they were working in base 50....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Oct 1998 23:54:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Vertical Vertigo
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> As someone who's had dealings with agencies of one of the four
+> vertical-integration giants cited (Time-Warner), would you align
+> yourself with the "many creative types" who "decry vertical
+> integration, seeing it also as a major reason for the decline in
+> the quality of TV shows?" Since you've previously mentioned that
+> you have other projects in development, is the possibility of
+> getting any of them to market made more difficult by vertical
+> integration?
+
+         ....joe does not understand vertical integration...joe
+wonders if that means that all standing people all have the right to
+use the same washroom and the same fountain and stand in the front of
+the bus...joe not business type...barely understands these things...joe
+will read article, fall down, try to reply at a later date....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+                                                 (brother to zathras)
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Oct 1998 11:37:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5 in Siberia?
+
+ Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's with TNT relegating season 5 to Siberia?
+> 12 o'clock mid-night for the rest of the season?
+> Can you shed some light on this (no pun intended regarding the
+> last ep)?
+
+      The first new S5 ep is on next Wednesday at 10, not midnight; I
+don't know what you're referring to.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1998 16:53:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: new jms comic
+
+      Posted this over on another system, figured I'd put it here as
+well.
+
+     Just thought I'd get this thread moving, though it's still a bit
+  early, since news has started to break in other places.  Basically:
+I've
+  always loved comics (no secret there), and have always wanted to do
+a
+  title of my own, try to make it something special, as B5 was/is
+special.
+
+      I created the premise, went to Top Cow (my first and only choice
+on
+  this one), we met, we agreed...and now RISING STARS is set to debut
+next
+  April.  I've already turned in the first script (for the preview
+issue),
+  and will be getting down to writing issues 0 and 1 shortly.
+
+      The story follows the events after the small town of Pederson,
+  Illinois, is struck by a mass of energy from an unknown, but non-
+  terrestrial source.  Everyone who was in utero at the time of the
+flash
+  is affected, resulting in 113 individuals who develop abilities of a
+most
+  unusual and highly individual form.  (The power is to some degree
+shaped
+  by who they are, just as they are shaped to some degree by the
+power.)
+
+       It is set in a realistic universe, timed to real-world events
+(it
+  covers a span of about 60 years, starting in about 1969), where
+there
+  have never been super-powered individuals before.  It looks at how
+the
+  world reacts to them, and how they react to the world.  We follow
+these
+  characters through their early years, into adulthood and to the ends
+of
+  their lives, mapping all the changes they go through, and how they
+change
+  the world.
+
+       It's an extremely ambitious 24 issue miniseries (with the
+potential
+  to go back and further develop any of the stories presented earlier
+along
+  the way).
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1998 13:27:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: new jms comic
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well, they'll have the scripts in plenty of time, so I can't see
+any reason why there would be any problem in schedule.  I've learned in
+B5 how to maintain a schedule.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1998 13:27:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com>
+Subject: new jms comic
+
+ Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will they be made into a graphic novel, i.e as In Valen's Name,
+> seemed to be?
+
+      Probably, but that's down the road a bit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1998 23:07:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Andrew S. Troth <74663.3614@compuserve.com>
+Subject: new jms comic
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...what's great is that I've already heard from a number
+of folks who don't generally buy comics, but will do so for this
+particular title, so given B5's coverage, it may mean a good influx of
+new people to discover the comics world.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1998 23:03:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Allison E. Kaese <71330.1055@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Thank you
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, thank *you* for the kind words, and for being part of the
+family.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1998 20:32:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: new jms comic
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any possibility that we'll be able to purchase it from
+> the Emporium? BTW, when are they going to update the Emporium?
+> What's the deal with that?
+
+      There's been some problems with the company providing the web
+site, and we're working to address that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1998 20:32:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Andrew S. Troth <74663.3614@compuserve.com>
+Subject: new jms comic
+
+ Andrew S. Troth <74663.3614@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, do you mind if I repost this announcement over in the Comics
+> & Animation Forum?
+
+      Sure, by all means.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
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+JMS CompuServe messages for November 1998.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Nov 1998 15:43:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Morgan <71513.2510@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Londo's Tragic Fate
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes, the capital was getting beat up, but there's a difference
+between thousands of dead and billions dead...Londo sacrified himself
+to save the lives of billions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Nov 1998 15:43:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JonathanKass > [JEKass] 
+Subject: Who's going to V.O.R.
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No actors were ever told they could not attend; never happened. 
+And my problem with the Wolf conventions and some of their organizers
+is their *lack* of organization, and their refusal to honor such ideas
+as not using clips without permission, and otherwise making a mess, and
+refusing (after promising to make them available) to provide copies of
+the books to verify that the charities they say they promote actually
+received any of the profits from the con.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1998 15:18:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Another two cents....
+
+ Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Heard that Jeri Taylor left Star Trek, any chance that she'll
+> come and work with you on Crusade? Any chance that you will work
+> with Angela Landsbury on Crusade? Do you know what a vacation is?
+> Have you ever owned, been owned by or currently residing with any
+> cats and if so, got any good stories for us? Is that just on the
+> 'Net or here as well? Is there anyone in the business (actor,
+> director, writer, etc) that you haven't yet worked with, but
+> would like to?
+
+1.  Heard that Jeri Taylor left Star Trek, any chance that she'll come
+and work with you on Crusade?
+
+      No, she's hoping to move to Northern California and enter
+semi-retirement with her husband, also a friend of mine.  After X-
+number of years in the business, we're all entitled to escape.
+
+2.  Any chance that you will work with Angela Landsbury on Crusade?  I
+think she's pretty cool.
+
+      I don't think she does cable episodic.
+
+3.  Do you know what a vacation is?
+
+      Does it have fur?
+
+4.  Have you ever owned, been owned by or currently residing with any
+cats and if so, got any good stories for us? (you write about them as
+if you know them well)
+
+      Yes, but the cat cabal is very chary of its secrets, and if I
+betray them they will come after me.
+
+5.  I know that you plan on pulling back regarding your online
+presence.  Is that just on the 'Net or here as well?
+
+      Mainly pulling back on the newsgroups, somewhat here.
+
+6.  Is there anyone in the business (actor, director, writer, etc)
+that you haven't yet worked with, but would like to?
+
+      Yeah, but it wouldn't be fair to name folks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1998 17:31:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Another two cents....
+
+ Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you going to stick to pretty much writing your own stuff or
+> will you still consider guest writing for any other shows? Would
+> you consider asking Chris Carter to write and episode of Crusade? 
+> Have they asked you yet?
+
+      I don't believe anyone has spoken to me about Icon yet...as for
+other shows, I'm kinda spoiled...I don't like to have my words mucked
+about with, and on somebody else's show, that's inevitable.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1998 17:31:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Another two cents....
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Organized?  If they had an opposable thumb and could hold a
+screwdriver, we'd all be doomed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Nov 1998 23:34:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Moving Out
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's a good way of looking at it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Nov 1998 11:53:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Using snips and quotes
+
+ Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How is this accomplished?
+> Is there some giant archive somewhere where people can type in
+> key words and get a list of movies where that word/phrase is
+> used? Are there experts who just know all this stuff?
+
+"How is this accomplished? Is there some giant archive somewhere where
+people can type in key words and get a list of movies where that
+word/phrase is used? Are there experts who just know all this stuff? It
+seems like finding a character saying exactly the right sentence out of
+the thousands of movies in existence would be a difficult and laborious
+task."
+
+      No, none that I'm aware of.  You just happen to know something,
+and if you can license that snip, you acquire the rights to use it. 
+The DD stuff was just stuff that I knew 'cause I'm a cartoon nut.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Nov 1998 16:27:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WoF> Lyta
+
+ Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can we interpret from this that teeps in general aren't her
+> people; just those who aren't willingly Corps?
+
+      This is, of course, the key to the whole reason for the Byron
+thing. If it had not gone on as long as it had, had not had the impact
+it had on her, she would not be where she is now in the storyline.  You
+really needed something *major* to bring her to this point, and that
+was it.  Some couldn't figure why the emphasis...well, now they know.
+
+      Everything points somewhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Nov 1998 22:25:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <WoF> Lyta
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      If you saw the arrows initially, then they would have been 'way
+too obvious.
+
+      And yeah, the wheel of fire visually has spokes proceeding out
+from a central flame; the center burns outward.  And several of the
+fires smoldering lately have done that; with Byron it was a literal
+flame that has now gone out along the spokes and had substantial
+repercussions, with more to come years down the road.
+
+      It's also a Shakespeare quote, "I am bound upon a wheel of fire,
+that mine own tears do scald like molten lead."  Which tends to
+describe Londo's situation as well.  (King Lear)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Nov 1998 17:06:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <WoF>Sheridan's memory
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Y'know, this discussion kinda baffles me to some extent.
+
+      For starters, Sheridan was only in the future briefly; he was
+being beaten and was confused and not sure how much of it was real; he
+doesn't know if his going to Z'ha'dum *changed* any of that
+future...the events he did see were 20 years down the road, and there's
+no way for him to know (as we know, the audience) what connects to
+what...he sees only destruction, and that could have happened two weeks
+before (there's no rule that says a capital city can be bombed only
+once)...no way to know if the keeper may have been implanted days or
+months before.  To try and impose a quick understanding of events 20 
+years down the road on things happening right now, without knowing the 
+context, would be madness...you don't need a keeper to start a war, or
+half our own leaders here would have had keepers on them.
+
+      As for Delenn...yes, he heard her talk about their son, but at
+the same time, again, that's 20 years down the road.  Their son could
+be any age, so the news that she's pregnant will still be a shock
+whenever it comes; you may know that you're planning to have kids, that
+the doctor says its possible, but when you actually hear the news, it's
+a stunner every time.
+
+      His question is a natural one...he doesn't know if the kid in
+the future had to be taken out of utero to be sustained until it came
+full term, doesn't know if extreme measures had to be taken...his
+question is a sensible and justifiable one.
+
+      People are assuming that what *they* know as the audience,
+Sheridan knows, which he does not...and assuming that he knows
+everything that is to come, or what it means, or how it happens, or in
+what context, which he does not.
+
+      His memory is not faulty.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Nov 1998 12:15:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: River of Souls: Shyster
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Oh, and then some....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Nov 1998 16:56:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <<WOF>> Garibaldi
+
+ Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So the question is, are we going to see in the last 2 episodes
+> before SIL what Franklin's answer to that question was?
+
+      Franklin's solution really wouldn't have worked...only a teep
+can undo the damage here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1998 12:28:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hey, Joe! <ROS>
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> ...What did Tracey say when she saw the lengths you went to to
+> get her into a bustier and garters?
+
+      Her reaction on reading the script was to go on an immediate
+crash diet, saying, "I want to make the boys cry."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1998 14:10:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hey, Joe! <ROS>
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, nobody seemed to think twice about it...and it's
+another nod to the reality that there are all kinds of people out there
+of divergent interests.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1998 20:47:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Another two cents....
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Why is the inevitable always a surprise when it happens?
+
+      Thanks, I appreciate that...the characters are a lot of fun to
+play with.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1998 20:47:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Susan C Wiederhold <110630.603@compuserve.com>
+Subject: River of Souls: Shyster
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Cool...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1998 23:18:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS/B5 Flashback - 1991
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"And just to make you all--and me!--feel old, I was only ten when that
+message was written <G>"
+
+      If you need me, I'll be up on the roof....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1998 21:51:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
+Subject: River of Sheen
+
+ Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If this really was what Sheen was doing, was this something he
+> came up with or did you have any say with how you saw the
+> character of the Soul Hunter being approached?
+
+      What we had discussed (actor, director and me) was that soul
+hunters don't generally get much chance to hang out and talk to people;
+they can empathically sense the language, however, when they encounter
+others.  At first, he didn't know the language very well, and gradually
+became more able to express himself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Nov 1998 17:45:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bancroft Gracey <100532.1747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Soul Hunter q (SFLIT)
+
+ Bancroft Gracey <100532.1747@compuserve.com> asks:
+> when, at the end of Soul Hunter (season 1), Delenn is releasing
+> 'souls', is she only releasing minbari 'souls', or all the
+> 'souls' in the renegade Soul Hunter's collection?
+
+      It would be any and all so imprisoned.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Nov 1998 21:39:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: DougP <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Objects at Rest
+
+ DougP <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> when Sheridan and Lorien are together and Lorien asks him "do you
+> have any reason worth living?" Did you make any special notes in
+> the script of Objects at Rest?
+
+      Yeah, my instructions to Chris were the same there as for
+another scene next week, "break our hearts."  And the two themes are
+actually pretty much the same, since they proceed from similar
+contexts.  That section of "Rest" just puts me away every time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1998 17:31:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Objects at Rest
+
+ Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  Rest" be available to us on CD?
+
+      Nothing's been set yet on the next CD.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I have thoughts aplenty...but they are for the quiet moments
+tonight. Thank you....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: It's over.
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, thank you...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: SiL
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: SiL - tears
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, that's the scene that gets me too, every damned time.
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SiL - tears
+
+ Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you recall what was going on in your mind for that scene?
+> Is it not too personal that you are willing to share it?
+
+      It's too hard to put into words...I looked around, knowing that
+this could well be it, the last time I'd see this place.  It was just
+real hard.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Thomas W. Rackers <72047.1207@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Well done, sir.
+
+ Thomas W. Rackers <72047.1207@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was that, or was that not, you as the tech who shut off the
+> lights?
+
+      Thank you, I appreciate hearing all that...and yeah, that was
+me....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: DougP <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SiL
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"On a personal note, I have been dreading this last episode, not so
+much because of the story, but more because of it's being the end of
+Babylon 5. Now that I have watched it I must tell you that I don't feel
+depressed or sad. Yes, it was a very moving episode but also an
+uplifting story, and I actually feel good.  Like I just finished a good
+book, which of course I have except that I watched it rather than read
+it."
+
+      That's pretty much the reaction that others have had, which is
+what I was hoping for...because in a strange way, as much as it's an
+ending, it's also about hope and new beginnings and renewal.
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SiL, Z'ha'dum and Thanks
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks for the kind words, and my best to your wife.  What the
+eye sees is always second to what the heart sees in any event.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joseph Schierer <76326.3124@compuserve.com>
+Subject: unanswered questions?
+
+ Joseph Schierer <76326.3124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> "Will we ever find out what happened to the missing day in
+> Sinclair's life, and will we ever find out what happened to
+> Babylon 4?" now, the show is over - but did I miss something?
+> the "little surprise" Londo left Sheriden & Delenn for their
+> child - whatever happens to it? does Londo & G'Kar meet their
+> mutual end, as "fortold" in War without end?
+
+      Seems to me we answered all those questions except for the David
+one in the course of the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 00:01:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS Thank you
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thank you, and good luck with your own stories.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: SiL - A Couple Things
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and yeah, there's symmetry there, to be sure.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: That was a good story
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thank you...for the kind words and the flashback.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:31:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Bravo!!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it's been great.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gar Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, Vir did not have a Keeper.  He helped to free Centauri
+Prime.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rick Shelton <72560.3114@compuserve.com>
+Subject: That was a good story
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: That was a good story
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, and yeah, it was definitely pretty intense on-set for
+that ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Bendel <73447.741@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Many thanks
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it's been a terrific ride.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: How did it feel?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      As noted elsewhere here...it was just real hard.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SiL
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, and I suggested the wave 'cause it's what he would do. 
+Stephen agreed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SiL
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"My boy toy was saying he couldn't believe that you had Sherridan go,
+but not have DeLenn with him; but I found it appropriate that he would
+do that.  My guess was (correct me if I'm wrong), that like David, he
+didn't want anyone to remember him any other way.  He wanted their last
+thoughts of him to be not of him dying but who and what he was before
+that."
+
+      Exactly.
+
+      And thanks for the kind words.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SiL - tears
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it's hard to let it go, but every book has a back
+cover.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Evan Zucker <73067.1455@compuserve.com>
+Subject: unanswered questions?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It'd be hard to pick up the David arc since he'll only be about
+4 years old at the time Crusade starts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JonathanKass > [jekass]
+Subject: SIL / B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SiL and a Question
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It was the station blowing up, and the shuttle leaving, and the
+coda, and the sunrise.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The End of a Dream
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The thanks are all mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <SiL> - the story
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, and you're right, it's in many ways the story of the
+station. Which is why it's such a moment when it goes up.  That is the
+icon, and the way into so much of what happens in the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SiL
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+      Yeah, that was me...and rewriting somebody else is as easy or
+hard as the other person makes it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The End of a Dream
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, it's appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: That was a good story
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Giving Thanks for B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks; a lot of folks have come out of lurker-zone on this one,
+and it's been great to hear the voices.
+
+      As for Eep, I guess I picked it because it's so small that you
+might miss it, it was vague enough not to get me in trouble, and it's
+kind of a mouse sound.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SiL broke my VCR!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      We didn't have the 1997 Hugo when this was filmed.  And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:31:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Bravo!!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it's been great.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SIL / B5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SiL
+
+ John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Your idea or Stephen's?
+> Was it the producer, writer or director who talked the creator
+> into becoming an actor?
+
+      Thanks, and I suggested the wave 'cause it's what he would do. 
+Stephen agreed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Evan Zucker <73067.1455@compuserve.com>
+Subject: unanswered questions?
+
+ Evan Zucker <73067.1455@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I am purposely avoiding any spoilers for Crusade so I can enjoy
+> the episodes as I see them, but since I've read there is some
+> connection between B5 and Crusade, can you tell us whether the
+> David arc will be picked up in Crusade? Do you also appear in one
+> of the Producers photos just before the closing credits?
+
+      It'd be hard to pick up the David arc since he'll only be about
+4 years old at the time Crusade starts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gar Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5
+
+ Gar Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The sole remaining question is - did Vir have a Keeper?
+
+      No, Vir did not have a Keeper.  He helped to free Centauri
+Prime.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SiL and a Question
+
+ Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was Delenn looking out at the sunrise this scene?
+> If so it why would it provoke that sort of reaction?
+> If this was not the final scene, what was it going to be?
+
+      It was the station blowing up, and the shuttle leaving, and the
+coda, and the sunrise.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SiL
+
+ Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Um, that was you, right?
+
+"My boy toy was saying he couldn't believe that you had Sherridan go,
+but not have DeLenn with him; but I found it appropriate that he would
+do that.  My guess was (correct me if I'm wrong), that like David, he
+didn't want anyone to remember him any other way.  He wanted their last
+thoughts of him to be not of him dying but who and what he was before
+that."
+
+      Exactly.
+
+      And thanks for the kind words.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SiL
+
+ Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That was you that turned off the lights?
+> Knowing how much it bothers you to have your work edited and
+> rewritten by others, was it/is it tough for you when you have to
+> do that to a collegue? It must be a necessary evil in some cases,
+> yes? Do you tend to or try to keep it to a minimum?
+> Or does it depend on the story, writer's experience, etc?
+> Has it ever been an intimidating experience for you?
+
+      Thanks....
+
+      Yeah, that was me...and rewriting somebody else is as easy or
+hard as the other person makes it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rick Shelton <72560.3114@compuserve.com>
+Subject: That was a good story
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Bendel <73447.741@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Many thanks
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's been a terrific ride.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The End of a Dream
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The thanks are all mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The End of a Dream
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, it's appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: How did it feel?
+
+ Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I am sure you got this message at least a 100 times, but how did
+> it feel to flip the switch that everything ended, after 4 years,
+> and how was the feeling after you could carry on with your Story?
+
+      As noted elsewhere here...it was just real hard.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SiL - tears
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's hard to let it go, but every book has a back
+cover.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: That was a good story
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and yeah, it was definitely pretty intense on-set for
+that ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: <SiL> - the story
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, and you're right, it's in many ways the story of the
+station. Which is why it's such a moment when it goes up.  That is the
+icon, and the way into so much of what happens in the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
+Subject: That was a good story
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Giving Thanks for B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks; a lot of folks have come out of lurker-zone on this one,
+and it's been great to hear the voices.
+
+      As for Eep, I guess I picked it because it's so small that you
+might miss it, it was vague enough not to get me in trouble, and it's
+kind of a mouse sound.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SiL broke my VCR!
+
+ SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where was the 1997 Hugo hidden?
+
+      We didn't have the 1997 Hugo when this was filmed.  And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1998 23:24:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gar Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <SiL> - the story
+
+ Gar Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Let's see, where's that Indian restaurant?
+
+      It's never been done before; and likely won't again, at least
+for a long time.  But the interaction, for me, has been worth it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1998 23:24:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...and that's the desired sense of it, that this is a
+place that goes on, and we saw this part of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1998 00:06:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sleeping In Light
+
+ Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why was the station destroyed?
+> A hazard to navigation?
+> Why?
+> And why wouldn't it be kept as a permanent museum?
+
+      Remember how much money and maintainance it would take to keep a
+5 mile long station running.  They could barely do it when there was a
+lot of tourism and business coming through; absent that, it's unviable,
+and you don't just want to leave it there for folks to come in and take
+over.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1998 23:24:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Objects in Plain Sight
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Wasn't much else hid...few have noticed the Hugo so far...and
+yeah, that was a shot glass...just playing the irony of his finding it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1998 23:24:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com>
+Subject: More soggy tissues :-)
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1998 00:06:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The End of a Dream
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, to you and all the other folks up north who just got the
+end of the story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A little bit of history
+
+ Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's the moral of this?
+> Who knows?
+
+"The biggest difference I noticed in your old posts was the "tone" --
+you seemed more "upbeat". I guess the past 5 years of working 26 hour
+days, dealing with online jerks, and fighting with the various suits
+over renewal EVERY DAMN YEAR have taken a toll on your overall
+outlook."
+
+      It was a number of different factors, really...those wars, the
+daily grind of writing and producing this show, the online experiment
+(which was 90% terrific and 10% nutcases)...over time, it all takes a
+real toll.
+
+      (Somewhat related aside...I was redoing my list of credits the
+other day for the PR file, which goes to reporters, and started adding
+up how much of what I've written has been produced, on a per-hour
+basis.  These are just the produced TV episodes -- half-hour and hour --
+and TV movies, nothing else.
+
+      (Came out that if you started watching it all, no repeats, 8
+hours a day, it would take you slightly over 3 weeks to see it all.  I
+went to lie down for a while after that one.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com>
+Subject: From my husband...
+
+ Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com> asks:
+> There were several years of wondering "who the hell are the
+> Shadows" (and the Vorlons) and what do they want? What else can I
+> say, but "a job well done"? Do you get tired of the constant
+> accolades from your fans? If this has been an experiment, after
+> seven years what are the results?
+
+      Thanks for the kind words, and good luck with your ventures.
+
+      What's the final result?  I hope a document, thousands of pages
+long, that chronicles the making of a show on every level, so that
+average folks can better understand the process and, thus, better
+communicate what it is they want, on the theory that you can never have
+what you want until you know how to ask for it, and what your options
+are.
+
+      That, and maybe making some people think...if even that is
+accomplished, then the experiment was worthwhile.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SIL Credits
+
+ Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering is TNT not going to run a voice over or squish
+> the credits at the end of the broadcast?
+
+      Dunno....
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs98-12 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs98-12
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,871 @@
+JMS CompuServe messages for December 1998.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1998 12:18:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Steve Ringley <73727.1202@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Start Date Slips
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, Call is still slated for January 3rd.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1998 22:25:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Thanks JMS!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, I very much appreciate the generous words.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1998 12:29:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: George Gillburg/CA <73137.1733@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Hugo?
+
+ George Gillburg/CA <73137.1733@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of which, in the scene where General Ivanova (and thanks
+> for getting her back for this last episode) receives here
+> summons, was that a Hugo award on her desk?
+
+      Yeah, that was our first Hugo...just sorta slipped it in with
+Ivanova's other awards.  It was kind of a nod back to our fans...and I
+think the first time that a Hugo has been shown on-screen in a series
+that has *won* a Hugo.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1998 22:46:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SiL
+
+ Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> We LOVED SiL, BUT, my newly converted office mate fans of B5
+> asked me to query you regarding this ep - why did you leave SO
+> many questions unanswered? The Drak and Centari Prime?
+> Londo?
+> Lyta?
+> Bester and the Psi Corps?
+> G'Kar?
+> Garibaldi and Bester?
+> B5's seemingly needless and useless destruction?
+> Sheridan's son - we guess he survived the Drak and their intended
+> keeper? Are we to assume we'll never know the answers to any of
+> these questions?
+
+The Drak and Centari Prime?
+
+      Vir is Emperor now.  Londo asked Sheridan to free his people; we
+can assume he did this...but we will also be showing this in the
+Centauri Prime trilogy of books in more detail.
+
+Londo?
+
+      We saw Londo's fate in War Without End Part 2.
+
+Lyta?
+
+      The telepath crisis and events surrounding it will provide a lot
+of the background to Crusade.
+
+Bester and the Psi Corps?
+
+      Ditto.
+
+G'Kar?
+
+      We saw his fate in WWE2 also.
+
+Garibaldi and Bester?
+
+      This will be covered in the Psi Corps trilogy, of which volume 1
+is out now, and volume 2 is in my hands for editing.
+
+B5's seemingly needless and useless destruction?
+
+      Neither needless nor useless.  It was built cheapest of all the
+stations, and it takes a lot of money to maintain it.  With trade
+routes now going around it, there isn't enough income to support it. 
+So do you leave it intact, for others to occupy or raid for weapons
+systems and other systems too difficult to yank out?  Or take it out,
+the same way we implode buildings now?
+
+Sheridan's son - we guess he survived the Drak and their intended
+keeper?
+
+      This will also be covered in the Centauri Prime trilogy...but if
+you sit back you can do some of the work to figure out a large part of
+this. As Londo states, his situation in WWE2 (Sheridan and Delenn
+captured on Centauri Prime) takes place 18 years after the events in
+2260, which would put it at 2278. The urn, given to Sheridan in 2262,
+is supposed to be given to the heir at the occasion of his/her 16th
+birthday, by Centauri tradition.
+
+      That would put the urn presentation at...ding!...2278.
+
+      In 2278, Sheridan and Delenn have been drawn to Centauri Prime. 
+We know their son is involved, because Delenn says "David is safe."  So
+they were somehow able to save him, because we know that in 2281, David
+is alive and well and serving in the Rangers (SiL).
+
+      You can see the shape of the events there...once again the clues
+are more or less in plain sight...but again, this will be drawn out in
+the books in more detail.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Dec 1998 15:32:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SIL - Babylon 5
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, I appreciate it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Dec 1998 15:32:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SIL - Babylon 5
+
+ Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since SIL was filmed in season 4, was there anything that you
+> would have changed had you known ahead of time that B5 was
+> renewed for season 5 with respect to Ivanova and Lochley and
+> others?
+
+      I had the option to change stuff if I'd been so inclined...but
+felt it was right as it was.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Dec 1998 15:32:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <SiL> - ship
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, the ship that Sheridan took, is that the new Earth/Minbari
+> ship? is it still a White Star?
+
+      It's a smaller, personal version of a White Star.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Dec 1998 15:32:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: SiL:Pakh'mara singers
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> BTW, did SiL remain completely untouched in the can during the
+> fifth year?
+
+      Yeah...everybody figured the pak'ma'ra were just a waste...which
+is why this seemed so right.
+
+      And yes again...SiL was untouched since I finished my producer's
+edit at the end of year 4.  No need.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Dec 1998 15:41:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS did not reply to me
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Understand: I get several HUNDRED messages a day.  Every day. 
+Day in and day out.  Public and private.  I cannot reply to all of
+them, and there is no requirement that I must reply to each of them. 
+If I feel it requires a response, I do so; if not, I don't. 
+Complaining about it to the forum is not the appropriate response.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1998 21:11:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Dreaming in Light/Thanks
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it's sometimes odd for me to consider that a number of
+folks have grown up on my work over the years...suddenly I feel old....
+
+      Nonetheless: thank you for the kind words.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1998 21:11:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: SiL
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      All three of the Psi Corps books are by J. Gregory Keyes, from a
+jms outline.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1998 21:11:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Andy Ihnatko <72511.204@compuserve.com>
+Subject: About Final Episodes
+
+ Andy Ihnatko <72511.204@compuserve.com> asks:
+> No more, for they made the same frustrated laments: "But what
+> about Londo and G'Kar? Did Garibaldi...?
+> And will David...?"
+> (aside: Why is it that all of the shows in this last category
+> seem to have one-word titles and be about former standup comics?
+
+      Thanks...and you're right on all counts.  Additionally, you have
+to really decide *Who is the story about?*  You can really only track a
+couple of characters to the end...here we tracked a number there or
+nearly there. This story is a history -- told from a future perspective
+ -- about the events of the Babylon station, and those who passed
+through it, during a specific period in its history.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1998 21:11:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS did not reply to me
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Over and done with them.  We move on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1998 21:11:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Many thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1998 21:11:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SiL:Pakh'mara singers
+
+ Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But, was that the same thing Sheridan heard during his "momement
+> of beauty?"
+
+      No, that was something else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Dec 1998 21:11:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Garibaldi's Drinking
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it's a point that can't be made too often.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Dec 1998 13:42:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Dreaming in Light/Thanks
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah?  How'd the CP figures come out in the poll?
+
+      (Knew I should've bought some more of them....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Dec 1998 13:42:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Have you ever or will you ever do an interview with him?
+> Has he ever tried to make contact with you or any of the cast?
+
+      We are proud of all our fans.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Dec 1998 13:42:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 franchise?
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  your comments?
+
+      They're nitwits.
+
+      Look...first off, nobody *has* to buy anything.  If you want to
+learn more about the characters after the duration of the show, and you
+want to buy the novels or whatever, fine, you have that option.  But
+you didn't have to buy them to enjoy the series...and I'm working hard
+to make sure you don't even have to have watched the series to enjoy
+the novels.
+
+      There are two fundamental choices here, given that fans want
+more stuff in the B5 universe.  Either you do novels that have nothing
+to do with anything, or you make them canon.  Fans wanted the books
+canonical, as do I. That's the point of a coherent, consistent,
+sustained universe.
+
+      The Psi Corps novels, for instance, track Bester's life from
+birth to death, and the development of the Corps.  Is that essential
+reading to follow any of the B5 episodes?  No.  Is it cool if you want
+to learn more about it and enrich the experience?  Yes.  So where here
+is the problem?
+
+      Look...some folks have always looked for an excuse to rag on
+this show, so they could bug me and anybody who likes the show.  First
+it was that B5 couldn't possibly be as good as Trek because there
+wasn't any merchandise; now there's merchandise and they say now THAT
+means it can't be good.
+
+      If you never bought a single book or outside material, you could
+still enjoy the series.  None of it is required.  So the complaint is
+unjustified and silly.
+
+      Should we not give fans of the show a chance to acquire more
+info about the B5 universe and characters because a few folks complain
+that it's a franchise?  Nonsense.  The problem is theirs, nobody
+else's.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Dec 1998 22:11:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Thank you
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, and for the Crusade question...that's going to have to
+wait, but I've found a way to do it, in spades.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Dec 1998 22:11:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: SiL
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      You couldn't tow something as massive as a 5 mile long station
+like this through hyperspace; it'd tear apart.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 Dec 1998 15:09:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com>
+Subject: More soggy tissues :-)
+
+ Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What am I saying?
+
+      That's wonderful, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Dec 1998 15:09:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Thank you JMS
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thank you for those terrific words, they're appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Dec 1998 14:54:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: missing Sil credits
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it a problem with distribution?
+>  separated out?
+
+      I don't know...I'll have to check.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Dec 1998 23:13:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SiL:Pakh'mara singers
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      My sense was that in general, most folks didn't want to know,
+they just wanted it to happen as it happened.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Dec 1998 13:41:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Kirk Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SiL
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      It can be moved, sure, but can it *survive* the move?  Also,
+you'd have to bring B5 through a jump point in order to bring it
+anywhere, and the stresses involved in that would be hideous.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Dec 1998 15:42:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 Swords?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      We just go for the coolest blades....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Dec 1998 15:42:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Crusade
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Dec 1998 15:42:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: O.C.D in Babylon 5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, all that stuff is still there.  We're not going to evolve
+past all that in just 200 years, any more than we did from 1799 to
+1999.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Dec 1998 18:25:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Joseph Schierer <76326.3124@compuserve.com>
+Subject: level of satisfaction
+
+ Joseph Schierer <76326.3124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, now that it is done - just how big a feeling of satisfaction
+> did it give you? with the benefit of hindsite, would you do it all
+> over again?
+
+      It's an immense satisfaction to get it all done, and out the
+door, when nobody thought it could be done.  Would I do it again?  I
+don't know...I had no idea how hard this would be when I got into it. 
+The only way it got done was that I didn't know it was impossible at
+the time.  I think I would, though.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Dec 1998 18:25:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ken Adams <74065.751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Dropped Into The Abyss
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      That's great, thanks...and if it does stimulate conversation,
+then the goal was achieved.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Dec 1998 13:28:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Mark McGehee <75720.2420@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Arragont Response
+
+ Mark McGehee <75720.2420@compuserve.com> asks:
+> However, I receieved a very "flip" response from somebody named
+> Michael?????
+
+      It wasn't me.
+
+      And I didn't need to have this copied to me in email because you
+can't read an address line to see who sent you mail.
+
+      And it's arrogant.  Not arragont.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Dec 1998 15:31:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brad Walrod <76702.1043@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 in Dec. Macworld mag
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Coolness....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Dec 1998 23:45:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ken Adams <74065.751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Re: IMage Laserdisks
+
+ Ken Adams <74065.751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Question: Is the cut of "The Gathering" the original version or
+> your re-mastered and re-edited version shown on TNT this past
+> year?
+
+      I think it's the original....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Dec 1998 23:45:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rob & Nancy Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A little bit of history
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I appreciate hearing that...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Dec 1998 23:54:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Got my Link & PPG!!!
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      If you've purchased a PPG, it's unlicensed.  And if the link
+came from aywhere other than the official B5 fan club, that, too, is
+unlicensed.  Just FYI.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Dec 1998 23:45:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade name
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, it is still "Crusade, the Babylon Project"?
+
+"JMS, it is still "Crusade, the Babylon Project"? just wondering what
+the "Babylon" is doing there if it doesn't deal with the station."
+
+      It's just Crusade.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Dec 1998 23:45:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JudyL <72520.216@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Cross Stitch
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Gotta get there to look...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Dec 1998 23:45:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rob & Nancy Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com>
+Subject: what would you say?
+
+ Rob & Nancy Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This person asks you "What do I need to know?"
+> What would you say?
+
+      I wouldn't even know where to begin....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Dec 1998 21:46:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Re: IMage Laserdisks
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Sonuvagun...thanks for the info.  I'd better go look at the
+darned thing myself.  I've watched "In the Beginning" on disk, and
+thought it looked gorgeous...practically a luminous copy, struck from
+fresh masters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Dec 1998 18:04:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jeff Peterman <75361.430@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade name
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The intro movie, "A Call to Arms," is still slated for January
+3rd; the series initiall was going to go in January, then they moved it
+to June 2nd to make room for the NBA playoffs, and now that it looks
+like the playoffs may not happen, I'm hearing March/April.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Dec 1998 18:04:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Re: IMage Laserdisks
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> *sigh* Any word on a possible DVD release?
+
+"Even more than the weekday strip, *this* is the way the series was
+made to be watched.  Without interruptions, without a 24 hour (still
+less 7 day or several month) gap between episodes it becomes a whole
+different experience. And the earliest episodes look different when
+watched again after each season."
+
+      This is pretty much the reaction of everyone who's sat and
+watched the show through in a concentrated form; it's a whole other
+show.  It's all contiguous, even when it looks like it ain't, and the
+artificial breaks were pretty much ignored in the writing.
+
+"This is a staggering achievement, especially within the confines of
+American commercial television.  I don't think anyone yet realizes what
+you've done here. And when they get the first dim glimmers of the idea,
+and try to copy it, they'll only see the surface mechanics of a
+continuing story and never see the sheer *work* that went into crafting
+almost every line and gesture of each of each show so that it could pay
+off two or three years down the road."
+
+      I'm okay with that; I always said that B5 wouldn't really be
+appreciated for what it is for several years down the line.  This is a
+part of the reason for that.  It has to run through several times, and
+become a part of the general consciousness, and be perceived for what
+it is.
+
+"This is the first series I've ever seen that *can't* be fully
+appreciated the first time through.  Reruns aren't a commercial
+byproduct of this show, in a curious way they are the point.  I'm
+finally starting to see what you meant long ago when you mentioned a
+"four dimensional hologram.""
+
+      (Actually the term was holographic storytelling, but the point
+obtains.) Usually, reruns are considered an aftermarket...here the show
+was written with that in mind to some extent.  It was written for the
+long haul, so to speak.
+
+      I'll be very curious to see the perception of the show ten years
+hence.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Dec 1998 23:39:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Re: IMage Laserdisks
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It might just be that particular disk; all the ones I've seen
+are just gorgeous.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Dec 1998 21:17:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ken Adams <74065.751@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Re: IMage Laserdisks
+
+ Ken Adams <74065.751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Thanks, Joe. If you find it IS the TNT version, could you post a
+> word here?
+
+      The Gathering is, apparently, the TNT version on disk.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Dec 1998 15:17:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Re: IMage Laserdisks
+
+ SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Okay, NEXT question - will Columbia ever have the TNT version of
+> The gathering?
+
+      Dunno...nobody tell me nathink....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
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+JMS CompuServe messages for January 1999.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+
+Date: 01 Jan 1999 22:27:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Beyond the End.
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jan 1999 22:27:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: jms - SiL - thanks
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thank you, I appreciate hearing that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jan 1999 22:27:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Holden <100650.243@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Thanks
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jan 1999 22:27:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Season 5 Cards
+
+ SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know if the cards will be available through the usual
+> retail sources?
+
+      Yeah, they'll be out.  I've seen the final versions, and I think
+this may actually be the best set to date.  What they do, which none of
+the prior sets do, is to choose one key image per episode, and put the
+key phrase from that episode on the back...so that each card kind of
+recreates the feel of the episode.  They're very very cool.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Jan 1999 18:07:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Thank you ...
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thank you, and my best to you both.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Jan 1999 19:15:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: jms - SiL - thanks
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, that was me...I couldn't do it before the very last ep for
+the reasons I'd always stated, and because I was holding it out for
+this moment. Of course I couldn't *say* that since it would give stuff
+away....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jan 1999 19:15:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Manders <100641.1115@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The End
+
+ David Manders <100641.1115@compuserve.com> asks:
+> May I add my congratulations?
+> Assuming that your cameo of turning off B5 was among the last
+> scenes shot, that must have been quite an emotional moment for
+> you - or are you too involved in films or spin-off programmes (
+> History of the Alliance, or Mollari's 'Career' perhaps )<g>?
+
+      Thanks...and yeah, it was tough to do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jan 1999 21:07:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A Call To Arms
+
+ SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> May we assume that there will be no more B5 specific TV movies
+> while Crusade is in production?
+
+"May we assume that there will be no more B5 specific TV movies while
+Crusade is in production?"
+
+      As far as I've been told.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jan 1999 21:13:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: A Call To Arms
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What didn't I like?
+
+"(BTW, Joe, is Evan Chen doing the music for Crusade?)"
+
+      Yup.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Jan 1999 21:51:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ACTA -- Even Chen
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, I think he did a great job.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1999 13:36:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Re: IMage Laserdisks
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> How much less likely are they to care about preserving something
+> as ephemeral as a TV show?
+
+      This was a problem on the pilot; WB stored the film and
+negatives, and rats got to a number of film cans, chewing through
+prints and negatives alike. As we found when we went to re-edit, some
+takes are gone forever.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1999 23:06:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Re: IMage Laserdisks
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Isn't it reassuring to know that some things *never* change?
+
+      I suppose we could've stayed with the safe choice, with Chris,
+or done a nice, safe, droning Voyager style score that you don't even
+notice, but we're looking to take chances, and that means some people
+will like what you do, some won't.  Some won't like it because it's
+different.  Neil Gaiman told me that a number of fans of any form,
+including his own, say they want something new and challenging that
+takes chances...but it they don't like the form of that chance, they
+blame you for somehow doing it wrong...and they want the next new thing
+to be just like the last thing you did.
+
+      I can't tell you the number of people who said "why can't you
+just do the John Williams style music instead of this?"  Because it's
+been done, and it's cliche, and by god we're going to push what's
+"expected" to try some new things.  Otherwise what the hell's the
+point?
+
+"Of course, you've been through this before.  I seem to recall a lot
+of people complaining when Christopher Franke replaced the composer for
+the pilot.  I don't doubt that a lot of the people screaming loudest
+now are the very ones who complained about Franke when he started."
+
+      I don't know about the latter, but I can sure confirm the
+former.  And that's why I sometimes wish the viewer responses were
+logged as much as my own have been.  When we brought in Chris to
+replace Stewart Copeland, you can't *believe* how much email I got from
+people saying to trash him, fire him, it's that "euro-trash techno-
+crap" most called it.  "He uses sounds and banging instead of music,"
+people complained (which he did mainly in the first two seasons), "it's
+distracting and it's not appropriate, get rid of him."
+
+      But we didn't.  I told people to give him time to settle into
+the show, and on the other hand to let them get used to a different
+kind of sound than what they expected.  ("I guess you couldn't afford
+to hire a real composer like TNG uses," was another popular line.)
+
+      Evan ain't Chris, nor should he be, nor should he *have* to be. 
+He is a brilliantly talented composer.  This is his first shot at a
+dramatic series, and as he settles in (as Chris settled in), I think
+people are going to be as loyal to what he's doing in Crusade as they
+were to Chris in B5. He's a classically trained composer, who threw it
+all away to come study jazz under some of the best jazz men in
+Chicago...washing dishes to support himself when he had been at the top
+of his field in China...because he loves music, and loves to
+experiment.
+
+      In the course of Crusade, we're going to see some places we've
+never seen before...and thanks to Evan, we're going to hear some things
+we've never heard before.  He's a find, and a genuine, fresh talent,
+and I stand behind him 100%.
+
+      And the people who say they are fans of Chris Franke's should
+think twice before doing to him what so many people did so rudely to
+Chris when he first came aboard.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1999 13:36:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Nick and Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ACTA Awesome
+
+ Nick and Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A year's worth of his doing the dishes maybe?
+
+      I'm glad it went over well...it's a fun movie.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1999 13:36:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sleeping in Light
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thank you...it's a deeply moving episode for all of us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1999 13:36:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: A Call To Arms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, Chris Franke is sufficiently impressed with Chen --
+who has never scored a TV show before, this is his first shot and he
+shows much potential, we're very happy -- that he's going to release
+Chen's score to ACtA and later episodes via his own label.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1999 23:06:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: A Call To Arms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Is Franke gone then with the end of B5 and is Chen the Man behind
+Crusade's music? Or is Call an interim step music?"
+
+      Yes and no.  If there are any other B5 TV movies, or features,
+we'll almost certainly use Chris.  For Crusade, it's Evan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1999 23:06:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A Call To Arms
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Submitted for your consideration: sometimes the music and sound
+> effects became confused - was that a weapons discharge/hit, or a
+> techno-percussion note? Were the repeated clashing/crunching
+> sounds at the end of the battle mood conveying music, or the
+> sound of the Drahk hatches opening to spew out the bio-weapon?
+
+"Submitted for your consideration: sometimes the music and sound
+effects became confused - was that a weapons discharge/hit, or a techno-
+percussion note?  Were the repeated clashing/crunching sounds at the
+end of the battle mood conveying music, or the sound of the Drahk
+hatches opening to spew out the bio-weapon?  I also thought that the
+music was occasionally mixed too loudly."
+
+      The first part of that is a common problem in an action show;
+most of the really interesting music happens at the bottom, using the
+lower frequencies.  But the lower frequencies are also where you'll
+usually find explosions, clashing, crunching, banging and the like...so
+sometimes the two get muddy.  You clear out one or the other as much as
+you can, but sometimes it overlaps and you get fuzziness in the track.
+
+      As for mixing it loudly...yeah, I've generally done that on B5. 
+I like my music loud.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1999 23:19:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David Manders <100641.1115@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Secondary Actors
+
+ David Manders <100641.1115@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How, in general, are the 'frequent irregulars' contracted, and
+> how are their parts shot? Are they contracted to be 'on call' or
+> are all their scenes for a series shot in one set of sessions, or
+> perhaps a mixture of both?
+
+      You contract with an actor for 8, 13, 18 or 22 episodes.  You
+then use them for those episodes within a given period of time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1999 23:19:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Review - Hurrah
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      FYI, it's Dureena Nafeel.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1999 23:06:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: A Call To Arms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm content to wait until the SW movies are done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1999 23:06:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: A Call To Arms
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Was this deliberate, or was it just an outgrowth of Chen's
+> different style? Or was it just my imagination?
+
+      I spot the music on everything, from movies to the episodes. 
+That means sitting with the composer and saying "music in at 1:07:13
+(one minute, seven seconds, 13 frames), out at 2:23:18."  When we did
+the pilot, I wasn't sure how much music it did or didn't need, never
+having done this before, so I went drier than I should have.
+
+      In the case of CtA, I knew we were going to have some wall-to-
+wall music later, so I held back a bit earlier on, otherwise you do way
+too much to fit in, and you over-burden the composer.  River was also
+spare at the top.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1999 23:19:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Call to Arms
+
+ Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ramming Speed?
+> What the heck is that?
+
+      Ramming Speed.
+
+      If you are approaching a target at speed X, you still have a
+chance to peel away at the last moment.  If you are approaching a
+target at the top speed your engines can provide, such that you cannot
+turn away or be deflected, that's speed Y.  Speed Y is ramming speed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jan 1999 23:06:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael R. Marks <104504.455@compuserve.com>
+Subject: ACTA, Fantastic
+
+ Michael R. Marks <104504.455@compuserve.com> asks:
+> March, right?
+
+      I haven't heard firmly on that yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1999 14:11:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian Makuch <104125.736@compuserve.com>
+Subject: That was great!
+
+ Brian Makuch <104125.736@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What the heck is up with TNT?
+
+      I am in total darkness when it comes to understanding TNT's
+philosophy of promotion.  They did little for this, I guess because it
+was the last of B5 in someone's view, promoted the hell out of the
+Houdini flick, which cost about 3 times more than we did...and we ended
+up getting exactly the same ratings.  With a little real promotion, we
+could've done even better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1999 21:56:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: That was great!
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If you don't mind my asking --and I'm glad to hear that the movie
+> performed well-- but just what were the numbers?
+
+      It did 2.8, which was a higher number than they were expecting
+(they'd sold the ads at 2.7, which means they made money off it), and
+equal to the Houdini movie.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1999 14:11:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Re: IMage Laserdisks
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> (Interesting note: One post asked "What $@%&# idiot hired this
+> guy, anyway?"
+
+      It kind of goes to show you how thin the layer of trust
+goes...you'd think by now, after doing 5 years of B5, people would
+think to cut a little slack and give a chance, assume that there's an
+intent here, rather than saying suddenly I'm an idiot for not putting
+in the kind of music they expected.
+
+      What's most interesting, and in some ways most galling, is the
+number of posts I've seen in the last day or so from people who watched
+CTA again, and said, "On second viewing, the music didn't bother me as
+much, and I kind of like it in places."  Maybe they should've been a
+little less quick on the trigger and the condemnation.
+
+      As for some of the comments I've seen, basically saying he
+should be killed (literally, someone suggested putting a gun to his
+head and pulling the trigger) to some *very* xenophobic comments about
+his being asian and that's the problem, with *that kind* of
+music...they do not even merit a reply.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1999 21:56:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Re: IMage Laserdisks
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Re: Lyta in SiL...okay, if they mentioned Lyta, I'd get nailed
+for not mentioning Na'Toth...or Sinclair...or Keffer...or somebody
+else.  You can't do five minutes of roll call in a TV show.  That would
+be deadly.  They each picked one character to name, because they had a
+close relationship in some way with that character.  Who among them
+really had a close relationship with Lyta?  Name me that person.  (Not
+directed at you, just generally.)
+
+      Had Zack been there, then yeah, maybe he would've named Lyta (or
+not, given what happens with her later).  THAT would have been
+appropriate.  But it would NOT have been appropriate to have her named
+just because somebody wants to hear her name called.
+
+      The persons named were ones to whom they had an emotional
+attachment... Vir to Londo, Garibaldi to G'Kar, Ivanova to Marcus,
+Sheridan to Londo, Delenn to Lennier.  Lyta did not have that
+connection to anyone at that table that would be on an equal footing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1999 14:11:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A Call To Arms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      A woman of infinite taste and discretion...but we knew that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1999 21:56:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Call to Arms
+
+ Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why not maximum speed or full speed ahead?
+> Does EF rules provide for ramming of other starships?
+
+"Seems an odd order.  Why not maximum speed or full speed ahead?  Does
+EF rules provide for ramming of other starships?"
+
+      Because it also implies "...and we're going to HIT that ship." 
+Ramming speed says both.  You could say, "Give me maximum speed, set a
+course to RAM the ship," or you could say "Ramming speed."  Same exact
+content, shorter terms.  Brevity is our friend.  Pedantry is not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1999 21:56:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: A Call To Arms
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It was produced contractually as a B5 movie under the order TNT
+gave for 4 such movies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jan 1999 00:02:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: ACTA
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      We have covered all three of the virus concerns in the way we
+built this particular virus, thanks to help from the Jet Propulsion
+Laboratory, which consulted with us on its design.  Trust me, it's
+solid, and totally thought-through.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jan 1999 21:56:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: That Music Hubub
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I like the music.  I like the edginess of it.  I wouldn't do
+that particular style on a regular basis, because I think it would wear
+thin after a while, but for this movie it was right.  He's doing more
+thematic stuff for the series, but keeping the approach of using a
+variety of styles, including Chinese scales and stuff, which makes the
+episodes sound nifty and exotic.
+
+      So yeah, I like it...but I also like the kind of edgy, growly
+stuff Ry Cooder did for LAST MAN STANDING, so go figure.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Jan 1999 13:59:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: academic study
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      There's also a book of academic papers published in the UK based
+on an academic conference on B5 last year.  It's called THE PARLIAMENT
+OF DREAMS, published by Foundation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jan 1999 14:10:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Evan Zucker <73067.1455@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Review - Hurrah
+
+ Evan Zucker <73067.1455@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this her first role on the big or small screens?
+
+      That's the character; the actress is Carrie Dobro.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Jan 1999 14:18:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Re: IMage Laserdisks
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I couldn't agree more.
+
+      We (John Copeland and I) just finished designing and building
+the main title for CRUSADE...and it may be the best one we've done to
+date.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Jan 1999 23:08:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Call to Arms
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      BTW, regarding Wolf, which you mention...I've now heard that a
+number of our cast members got stiffed for all or part of their fees
+for the Vorcon convention...Michael O'Hare, Peter Jurasik, Pat, Mira,
+others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Jan 1999 23:02:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: What's canon?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That question would take me hours to answer...more of it is now
+than was before, because I started to get more hands-on with it. 
+Certainly the new novels from Del Rey that I'm writing the outlines for
+are canonical, the Drennan novel is nearly all canonical, much of the
+Cavelos novel is canon, and so on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Jan 1999 13:43:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael J. Kersey <73642.3137@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylonian Productions
+
+ Michael J. Kersey <73642.3137@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was just curious if Babylonian productions has been looking at
+> producing any outside (B5) projects or if it has been focusing
+> just on "Crusade"?
+
+      It's all we can do to focus on one project at a time just now,
+particularly at the launch of a new show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1999 20:59:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Rising Stars
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...no, the book is my own creation, a 24 issue miniseries,
+and I'll be writing all 24 of them.  Issues 1, 0 and the Preview Issue
+script are all in, and they're planning to make it their main big event
+for the year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Jan 1999 22:33:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Rising Stars
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think #1 is slated for May or June.
+
+      Because the Wizard Top Cow issue is coming out a month sooner
+than they had anticipated, apparently the 0 issue will have the Preview
+script, and the Preview issue will have the 0 script, 'cause it's
+essential that the Preview come out first, one way or another.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jan 1999 22:33:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JudyL <72520.216@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Cross Stitch--Boom Today
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, will have to check it out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Jan 1999 17:30:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rick Shelton <72560.3114@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Stars
+
+ Rick Shelton <72560.3114@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Wow, you don't take too much time off, do you?
+
+"Wow, you don't take too much time off, do you?"
+
+      Not since I was 17.  That was when I started writing, at a level
+of 10 pages per day, and I haven't stopped running since.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Jan 1999 16:02:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Stars
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Didn't you tell me last year that after season five wrapped that
+> you were going to make more of an effort to take some time off
+> and enjoy some of the simpler things in life that you never have
+> time for, such as watching a sunrise or something?
+
+      No, for me it's never a problem as far as the writing goes. 
+It's usually all the OTHER stuff that makes me nuts...the dealing with
+studios and networks and suits and the like.  The writing is the reward
+for dealing with the rest.  In particular as far as RISING STARS
+goes...this is a form that is still fairly new to me, so it's an
+ongoing learning experience, and that's great, it uses parts of the
+brain that don't normally get used in this way.
+
+      I don't think you can ever get burned out on something you love
+doing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jan 1999 16:02:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Stars
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So the "Top Cow" issue will have the preview?
+
+      The Top Cow/Wizard issue will have the script for the preview
+issue, which will be published as issue 0...and the book that will be
+published as the preview will have the script for what would be issue
+0...the thing is to make sure that the various parts and pieces come
+out in the correct sequence.
+
+      They're both 16 pages, both similar in all the same production
+elements, it's just the sequence of the story we're trying to make sure
+stay right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Jan 1999 23:40:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS would never ruin B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      There are continuing references to B5 in the series...we just
+finished shooting one last week that brought the Excalibur to B5
+itself, in fact.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1999 14:26:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brad Walrod <76702.1043@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Stars
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"My new Crusade hat is off to you!"
+
+      Available now at www.thestation.com.....
+
+      Thankyew....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1999 14:26:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS would never ruin B5
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      VISITORS FROM DOWN THE STREET is a very funny and very unusual
+episode that kind of puts the conventions on their head...and for
+another reason, which I won't even comment on for now, because it kinda
+has to be seen to be appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1999 00:40:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS would never ruin B5
+
+ Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A visit to the old homestead?
+> How much of an increase has been necessary to allow for the
+> continuing requirements of new sets for the locations in Crusade?
+
+      There was a slight increase in budget for Crusade, but all in it
+averages out to only about $20,000 per episode.  We're still mainly
+doing things smart, not expensive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1999 00:40:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Stars
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Will we be able to purchase RISING STARS online once it gets
+> released? Will it be available through the Emporium perhaps?
+
+      What you have to remember is that at one time or another, with
+the rare exception of celebrities, every published novelist was an
+unknown, unpublished novelist...every screenwriter or television writer
+was an unknown, untested writer.  I came to LA with no friends or
+contacts in the industry.  I came out of the streets of New Jersey and
+elsewhere, sans silver spoon in mouth.
+
+      The work, and the quality of the work, is what ultimately makes
+the difference, if you're willing to stay with it and if the qualitiy
+is, in fact, there.  I'm an annoying person; I'm a perfectionist; I'm
+cranky and far from politic.  By all rights I should be hard-core
+unemployable; I've always been this way.  And I've always worked. 
+Because when the moment comes to put black marks down on a white sheet
+of paper...I do it fairly well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1999 18:15:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Stars
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah...it's always a mug's game.  I've been fairly lucky that
+way; I'd say that about 80% of what I've written has been either
+published or produced. The one area where things have sold or been
+optioned but never produced has been in the area of non-TV movie
+screenplays.  I guess it's in part because my heart isn't in it as much
+as television, and because the stories I tend to do in screenplay form
+tend to be little character stories, which are fun, but not big
+smash'up adventures, which seems like all they're buying these days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1999 22:20:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS would never ruin B5
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> does that mean you had to rebuild B5 sets?
+
+"does that mean you had to rebuild B5 sets?"
+
+      No, we still have the lion's share of the main ones available to
+us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1999 21:29:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: GEnie
+
+      I know this is the wrong service to ask on, but...does anybody
+know what the heck happened to GEnie?  I've been trying for days to get
+on, via various access numbers, and none of them seem to be working.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1999 20:28:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 sim
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I believe it's slated for July.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jan 1999 01:01:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Psi Corps Book thanks
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, it's one of our best books to date...and the second one,
+which features Bester throughout, is a total knock-out.  I'm very
+pleased with them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1999 20:28:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Comics Types 
+Subject: Rising Stars
+
+      I just got back from a meeting at Top Cow (a division of Image),
+which is publishing RISING STARS, a 24 issue miniseries I'm writing. 
+I've turned in the preview issue, issue 0, 1 and 2...and they've
+decided to make this their number one priority for this year.  Some
+copies of the preview script have been leaked to a few places by TC,
+and the reaction has been enormous. A number of comics retail chains
+are going to throw their weight behind it, several magazines are
+planning major stories on it, there have already option inquiries by
+studios...anyway, it's fun.  This is an arena I haven't played in that
+much, and the reception that the material is getting is just nifty.
+
+      For those who've inquired, here's more of the skinny: the
+preview issue, and issue 0, will be published in March/April.  The
+former will be packaged free with bagged copies of Wizard Magazine
+(it'll be the Top Cow issue).  It really gives you a sense of the book,
+and where it's going.  So if you want to check it out, I'd strongly
+suggest getting the preview book.
+
+      The first actual issue appears on newsstands in June.  They want
+the two months for heat to rise after folks see what's in the preview
+and the zero issues.
+
+      Basically, what I've tried is to do in the comics form what we
+did with B5...and so far, it seems to be working.  A few reporters I've
+spoken to who've seen the material think it may be the big event of the
+year in comics (which is very flattering, but I'm always skeptical of
+such pronouncements; only the readers can decide that).
+
+      Anyway, for those who are B5 or comics fans and want to check it
+out, them's the figures.  There may be shortages, I'm told, even though
+they're going for a huge print run on issue 1 and the preview issue, so
+you may want to place an order with your local comics store to hold 'em
+for you.
+
+      The great thing, for me, is that even though we're doing this
+story for adults, with a lot of hard hitting stuff, it's a) at heart,
+in the end, an optimistic story, and b) though it has adult themes, and
+some elements that may be controversial, they're handled in a way that
+parents shouldn't worry about their kids seeing 'em, as B5 dealt with
+themes in such a way that they crossed generational lines.
+
+      Anyway, if you couldn't tell, I'm *real* proud of the book, and
+wanted to pass that along.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Jan 1999 20:55:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Paul Weddell <110213.1364@compuserve.com>
+Subject: GEnie
+
+ Paul Weddell <110213.1364@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did I hear you're on Prodigy as well?
+
+      Never been on Prodigy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jan 1999 20:55:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Andrew S. Troth <74663.3614@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Stars
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks for providing that; hopefully some kind soul will place
+that info elsewhere, such as the newsgroups, so they won't get shorted
+when the things hit.  Thanks again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1999 22:26:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brian Makuch <104125.736@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Psi Corps Book thanks
+
+ Brian Makuch <104125.736@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any word on the release date for volume II?
+
+      It should be out literally at any time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1999 22:26:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bill Dugan <71016.576@compuserve.com>
+Subject: GEnie
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The area code changed to 323, that's what threw me, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1999 22:38:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: FRANK J. FURFARO <74031.1005@compuserve.com>
+Subject: More Crusade rumors....
+
+ FRANK J. FURFARO <74031.1005@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance of you setting us straight on this latest rumor?
+
+      The plug has not been pulled by TNT, which cannot pull the plug
+because we don't work for TNT, we work for WB.  TNT is a distributer.
+
+      All I can say for now is that, like Oliver Stone's project for
+TNT, Witchblade, we have found that TNT (known primarily for westerns,
+historical dramas and wrestling) is not SF-friendly in terms of really
+getting what SF is about, and it may not entirely reconcile with what
+their core audience expects from them...and that a new, more SF
+friendly venue is being explored.
+
+      So if folks wanted to drop an encouraging note to, let's say,
+the Sci-Fi Channel, for instance, that would certainly be okay by me.
+
+      But in the interim...no, we're not canceled.  We're taking off
+next week to allow WB to work its magic, but that's about it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/cs99-02 b/ftp/CompuServe/cs99-02
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+JMS CompuServe messages for February 1999.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Jan 1999 20:20:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jeff Peterman <75361.430@compuserve.com>
+Subject: More Crusade rumors....
+
+ Jeff Peterman <75361.430@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So where does SF fit in?
+> Meanwhile, maybe there is enough demand for you to go directly to
+> video?
+
+      No, you can't do a series to video, it has to be aired.  And DTV
+is considered a poor man's venue, for stuff that couldn't make it
+elsewhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Jan 1999 20:20:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: I'll Write SciFi Channel
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Jan 1999 23:23:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Write to networks
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      WB Network is out of the question, due to the way WB is
+structured. It's a very long, corporate story, just take my word for
+it...SFC is the best option for us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1999 21:29:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Write to networks
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  contract with Warner International?
+
+      No, it should have no impact on that market.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Feb 1999 21:29:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jeff Peterman <75361.430@compuserve.com>
+Subject: More Crusade rumors....
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Those are one-shots, very different than a regular series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Feb 1999 20:43:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: WizOp Wilma Meier <76701.274@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Stars
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Cool, I didn't know about the GO COMICS forum.  Yeah, that
+should make it easier to get the things, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Feb 1999 20:43:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Novels
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since you mentioned you had consulted with NASA on various
+> scientific details, I wonder if authors of the novels have the
+> same benefit? or are they entirely on their own when it comes to
+> scientific research?
+
+      No, often the authors send along questions, those get relayed to
+us, and in some cases, as with Keyes first book, they get referred to
+JPL which then answers 'em.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 03 Feb 1999 20:45:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: More Crusade rumors....
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+> For the life of me, I STILL don't what some people see in a bunch of
+> big sweaty loud-mouthed men in fluorescent spandex throwing each
+> other around a ring!
+
+      Sorry, I'm lost, I didn't know that the subject had changed to
+Congress....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Feb 1999 22:58:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon foreshadowing
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The awful thing is that the line is a "HUNTING dog and a Ouija
+board," not a "honey dog."  I don't even know what that is....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Feb 1999 22:58:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Faith Manages
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"I just watched Deconstruction of Falling Stars for the 6th time and I
+have to tell you a lot of people are predecting gloom and doom for
+Crusade but I belive that it will be shown and I belive that It will be
+as good as Babylon 5"
+
+      Same crap happened when we did B5..."it's just a DS9
+ripoff"..."it's going to be another stupid SF show with dopey people
+and lousy writing and EFX..."
+
+      Been there, done that, got the series....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1999 21:52:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Faith Manages
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, I appreciate it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Feb 1999 22:44:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Next book
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Should be out in a couple of weeks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Feb 1999 20:36:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon foreshadowing
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you ever get sick of this?
+> WHAT GOD@MN PART OF SUCCESS DON'T THESE IDIOTS WANT!?!??!
+
+      The job of being a writer means constantly proving your talent
+to those who have none.  I'm used to it.
+
+"On top of that, did you notice in the last Voyager "movie" the Borg
+planning to assimilate Earth by introducing a nano-based plague that
+would take a few years to do the job...gaaaaagghh"
+
+      Say what...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Feb 1999 15:04:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon foreshadowing
+
+ Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Given life in the Federation, WHO THE HELL IS *GONNA*
+> NOTICE!?!?!? Do you get royalties for this stuff?
+
+      Terrif.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1999 16:09:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: AICN says no Crusade =(
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      All 13 eps produced so far will be shown; we'll be doing post
+production (CGI, music other stuff) through April 22nd.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1999 16:04:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Why the change of heart?
+
+ Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What happened?
+> Why the sudden change of heart?
+
+      One element to the whole discussion is that B5 was already an
+entity in its own right, and taking on the fifth year entailed
+basically buying what was already there, as opposed to becoming
+involved with the creative process of influencing a new series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1999 13:12:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: Crusade Gone For Now
+
+      Well, we took our best shot.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it
+don't.
+
+      The SciFi Channel programming guys wanted the show; they wanted
+it a lot.  They crunched numbers for almost two weeks trying to make it
+work.  But at the end of the day, the problem was that they had already
+allocated or spent their budget for the year, and couldn't come up with
+the huge chunk of change necessary to get an entire season.  Had this
+come up prior to January 1st, things would almost certainly have gone
+differently.  But they have their budget, as we have ours, and it was
+already allocated.
+
+      So TNT will now air the full 13 produced, and that's the end of
+it for now.  I say for now because WB has told us to fold and hold all
+the sets, rather than scrap them, because they believe strongly in the
+show, and feel that when the ratings come in we may well be able to
+pick up a second season. We'll see.
+
+      Meanwhile, I'm taking the day off, and deciding which of a
+number of offers from networks and studios, sitting on my desk since B5
+finished, to pick up.  I had declined to go that route so I could do
+Crusade and keep playing in this universe, but absent that, there's no
+reason not to go back to the networks and apply there some of what
+we've been able to do in B5 and Crusade.
+
+      My thanks to all those who wrote, and called, and emailed, and
+lent their support to the process.  And I think that when you see the
+show, you'll be quite pleased by what we did.  We're all very proud of
+it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1999 21:50:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Gone For Now
+
+ SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Well, next time you do better, eh?
+> So, has the success of B5 brought more offers than before?
+
+"So, has the success of B5 brought more offers than before?"
+
+      Definitely.  It showed that I could run a series and keep it on
+budget and make it an international success.  Right now those elements
+are in heavy demand at the networks.  Even though the pay is half in
+cable what you get at the network level, I was content to stay with
+Crusade if it meant keeping our team together, and playing in the B5
+universe a bit longer.  Absent that, then there's every reason to take
+up one or two of those offers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Feb 1999 18:29:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Gone For Now
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One question: do you think that the success of such writers as
+> Carter, Kelley and Whedon on the regular networks will make it
+> easier for you to win battles of artistic control in future
+> projects? "Are you trying to Londo me?"
+
+"One question:  do you think that the success of such writers as
+Carter, Kelley and Whedon on the regular networks will make it easier
+for you to win battles of artistic control in future projects?"
+
+      Probably not.  Those are always fought one at a time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Feb 1999 18:29:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: AICN says no Crusade =(
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Last I heard they're still on-target for June 2nd or thereabouts
+on the 13 made so far.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Feb 1999 18:29:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Why the change of heart?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Now is the time to turn this to advantage.  The offers you have may
+give you a chance to produce some quality material for a larger market.
+Please keep your little family here posted on what you decide to do."
+
+      Will do.  One thing has already hit; as word got out Friday, one
+of the networks called and asked me to write a non-SF TV movie for them
+to shoot late summer/fall, with a name star.  I said sure, so that's
+now in process. Can't talk much about it for now, though.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Feb 1999 18:29:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: AICN says no Crusade =(
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Do you have any idea what kind of promotion TNT will give the
+> show? Do you mean picked up by TNT or by SciFi?
+
+"Joe, I am so amazed that you can still have any kind of faith in the
+business of television the way you've been jerked around from the
+beginning of Babylon 5 and now this. Every season you've had to
+struggle to stay on the air, but you've kept at it and kept at it.
+We're really looking forward to your work on the other projects you've
+said you've been offered.  You must have the tenacity of a bulldog."
+
+      You just accept certain things about the business going in.  You
+can't look to anybody else with faith to give you want you want, you
+have to be willing to work for it.  The faith has to be in the work,
+and only in the work, because in the end, that's the only thing that
+matters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Feb 1999 18:29:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Gone For Now
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One *or two*?
+> How do you make the time?
+> Or are the duties "lighter" in the network jobs?
+
+" > Absent that, then there's every reason to take up one or two of
+> those offers.
+One *or two*?  How do you make the time?  Or are the duties
+"lighter" in the network jobs?"
+
+      There's different kinds of deals, timings of deals, and
+different kinds of positioning (first position, second position,
+contractual stuff) that can give you the flexibility to have a couple
+of different gigs going at somewhat the same time.  The TV movie I
+mentioned uptopic for instance doesn't interfere with anything else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/doyle-95-07-20 b/ftp/CompuServe/doyle-95-07-20
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+Transcript of a Jerry Doyle chat session on CompuServe.  Thanks to Sunil
+Karve and Nathan Wallace.  Edited for clarity by Nathan Wallace and
+Steven Grimm.  Jerry Doyle's answers were typed in by Eliot Stein, the
+chat moderator, who led off with some questions of his own.
+
+
+********** 7/20/95 8:50 PM  Forum CO
+                     | Hello Jerry thanks for joining us!!!
+                     | JD: A pleasure!
+                     | What are you filming tonight?
+                     | JD: I'm doing a guest starring shot on 
+                     |   "Renegade" a CBS show.
+                     | THanks for taking this break during filming.
+                     |   Tell us ...
+                     |   You were a stockbroker just five years ago...
+                     |   HOW did you go from Wall Street to Tinsel 
+                     |   Town Ave. in just five years?
+                     | JD: I quit Wall Street in 1990...
+                     |   I was bored not happy...despite being 
+                     |   wealthy...I wanted to get into
+                     |   something exciting...I was either going 
+                     |   to buy a boat and head for the
+                     |   islands OR decided to give acting a try. 
+                     |   I got very lucky fast in Hollywood!
+                     | Jerry, what did you think about the role on 
+                     |   the show when you first saw the script?
+                     | JD: I thought Garibaldi was a screwed-up , 
+                     |   confused, funny character...
+                     |   and I liked the fact that he had so many 
+                     |   problems...there would be so many ways to 
+                     |   play the character!
+                     | How much of the character is your 
+                     |   interpretation and how much did the producers
+                     |   tell you to do?
+                     | JD: As an actor, you rea the script and the 
+                     |   words are a map to where the story
+                     |   is going...you use your own "Spin" on the 
+                     |   character...
+                     |   as the series progresses,the ...the 
+                     |   writers get to know you better...you know 
+                     |   them better...you start
+                     |   working together to develop he character!
+                     | How old are you Jerry?
+                     | JD: 39 years old.
+                     | what were your media influences? TV, 
+                     |   music..etc???
+                     | JD: My favorite movies were "Sound of Music," 
+                     |   "Animal House,"...
+                     |   "Dark Shadows," "I Dream of Jeannie," ...
+                     |   music--Eric Clapton, Elton John, Doobie 
+                     |   Brothers.
+                     | Since you hit stardom relatively quickly...
+                     |   is it all that people think it is...or just a 
+                     |   really fun job?
+                     | JD: The job is a blast!...
+                     |   when you break down what an actor does on 
+                     |   a given day....
+                     |   they feed you, make-you-up, tell you what 
+                     |   to say...
+                     |   there's 175 people involved with the 
+                     |   show...and you only see 10 of us...
+                     |   it's the crew members that are as 
+                     |   important as the actors!
+                     |   They stay and work on the show after we 
+                     |   have gone home!
+                     |   ALL jobs are importnat on the set!
+Eliot Stein [WIZOP]  | JOE RUFFOLO GO AHEAD!!!!
+Joe Ruffolo          | Jerry, You make the charecter look so easy. 
+                     |   When it it fall into place for you?
+Eliot Stein [WIZOP]  | JD: I fooled you all!!!!...
+                     |   I think he's an easy character to play 
+                     |   because he's so screwed up...
+                     |   we all have our own faults...and if you 
+                     |   try and deal with them as you
+                     |   go through lie day to day--with a sense 
+                     |   of humore...
+Joe Ruffolo          | Ahhh, Thank You!!
+Eliot Stein [WIZOP]  | JD: who knows? Maybe I was as screwed up as 
+                     |   the character and they needed me! 
+Eliot Stein [WIZOP]  | Cynthia Hardesty...
+- Visitor            | will you be apperaring at any east coast 
+                     |   science fiction conventions this fall and 
+                     |   what do you think of conventions.
+Eliot Stein [WIZOP]  | JD: Really East...England and Ireland...
+                     |   conventions are GREAT!!!...
+                     |   you get ideas, suggestions...it's great 
+                     |   to have such positive feedback...
+                     |   from the audience at these conventions...
+- Visitor            | What's the significance of ending the show 
+                     |   after five years.  Why do that?
+Eliot Stein [WIZOP]  | JD: I will keep doing them!
+Eliot Stein [WIZOP]  | Sunil Karvel...are you ready with your 
+                     |   question? Please acknowledge!
+Sunil Karve          | Hi Jerry.  I want to know if you are as big a 
+                     |   fan of the Looney Tunes as 
+                     |   Garibaldi is.  Any "Duck Dodgers" posters 
+                     |   hanging anywhere at home?
+Eliot Stein [WIZOP]  | JD: NO to the DUck Dodgers....I don't care 
+                     |   that much about cartoons...
+                     |   But I do like Tweety the BEST!!!!
+Sunil Karve          | Thanks Jerry!
+Eliot Stein [WIZOP]  | KEVIn FISHER...are you reay?
+kevin fisher         | Jerry, how much of the plot arc does JMS let 
+                     |   the cast in on?
+Eliot Stein [WIZOP]  | JD: As much as you want!!!...with certain 
+                     |   little twists and teases.
+                     |   Sometimes I DON'T like knowing where we 
+                     |   are going!
+                     |   Thanks!
+kevin fisher         | Thanks and congrats on the best show on 
+                     |   TV!!!!!
+Eliot Stein [WIZOP]  | Wendy Sarrett...are you ready?
+- Visitor            | Thanks, Jerry now that youve left Wall street 
+                     |   do you still follow the market - if so bull 
+                     |   /bear 
+                     |   /bunny??
+Eliot Stein [WIZOP]  | JD: I wasn't very good then...I'm not very 
+                     |   good now...
+                     |   Don't take my advice...but I do play the 
+                     |   market quite often...I need the write-off!
+- Visitor            | Thanks jerry - keep up the good work LOVE the 
+                     |   show!!!!
+Eliot Stein [WIZOP]  | The topic is JERRY DOYLE star of Babylon 5 is 
+                     |   lIVE..
+                     |   NEXT question....
+                     |   JASON...are you ready? Please respond if so.
+JASON                | Do you really like doing Science-Fiction, or 
+                     |   would you rather do drama or some other form of 
+                     |   acting?  
+                     |   How do like the cast of Babylon 5?
+Eliot Stein [WIZOP]  | JD: BABYLON 5 is a drama that happens to be 
+                     |   in the science fiction genre...
+JASON                | Thank you very much.
+Eliot Stein [WIZOP]  | JD: so regardless of whether it is a western 
+                     |   or a courtroom drama...
+                     |   what's important is the STORY!...
+                     |   I don't view Babylon 5 as one type of 
+                     |   show. If somebody wants to pay me
+                     |   $20 million I'll do any kind of acting!
+                     |   We have a great cast...alot of fun...
+                     |   the whole cast is upbeat...enthusiastic! 
+                     |   It's a great environment!
+Eliot Stein [WIZOP]  | PAM HEATH...are you reay with a question?
+Pam Heath            | O.K.  What was your favorite scene to do on 
+                     |   B5, and why?
+Eliot Stein [WIZOP]  | JD: Second season, first episode...I was in a 
+                     |   coma...said nothing...got full pay!
+Pam Heath            | Thanks a lot, both for your time tonight and 
+                     |   your enjoyable characterization!.
+Eliot Stein [WIZOP]  | JD: And the producers thought it was some of 
+                     |   my best work!!!!
+Eliot Stein [WIZOP]  | Patti T. do you have a question???
+Patti T.             | do you have any prior military service?
+Eliot Stein [WIZOP]  | JD: NO...none at all!
+Patti T.             | thanks, and my reguards to the whole crew!
+Eliot Stein [WIZOP]  | JD: If you don't count military jesuit 
+                     |   all-boys high school...
+                     |   which probably counts for why I am so 
+                     |   screwed up.
+                     | Bret Ladewig...a question?
+- Visitor            | Can you tell us any of the story line for the 
+                     |   next season? And are there any funny antics 
+                     |   that occur between the cast on the set?
+Eliot Stein [WIZOP]  | JD: Storylines---...
+                     |   I think you can tell from the end of the 
+                     |   second season what is going to happen...
+                     |   a big war is coming...a big mother 
+                     |   battle...
+                     |   it's going to be great...
+                     |   NON-STOP fooling around from the minute 
+                     |   you get there till the minute you
+                     |   leave...we have a great deal of
+                     |   fun doing the show...and we hope the 
+                     |   audience enjoys it as much!
+                     | JERRY has been called back for filming. He 
+                     |   thanks you all. PLEASE thank him for coming!
diff --git a/ftp/CompuServe/index.html b/ftp/CompuServe/index.html
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+<html>
+<head>
+<title>CompuServe information</title>
+<link rel="parent" href="../index.html">
+</head>
+<body>
+<h1>B5 information from CompuServe</h1>
+
+<h2>JMS messages</h2>
+
+<p>
+Transcripts of executive producer/writer J. Michael Straczynski's
+messages on CompuServe's Babylon 5 message areas.  Compiled by John
+Hardin &lt;jhardin@wolfenet.com&gt;.
+
+<p>
+The collections here contain abbreviated quotes from the messages JMS
+is replying to; for the full versions, visit
+<a href="http://www.dejanews.com/">DejaNews</a>
+and search for "JMS CIS Digest" in the rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.info newsgroup.
+
+<p>
+<a href="latest">Collection point for new messages</a>
+
+<dl>
+
+<p>
+<dt>1999
+<dd>
+<nobr><a href="cs99-01">January</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs99-02">February</a></nobr>
+
+<p>
+<dt>1998
+<dd>
+<nobr><a href="cs98-01">January</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs98-02">February</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs98-03">March</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs98-04">April</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs98-05">May</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs98-06">June</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs98-07">July</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs98-08">August</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs98-09">September</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs98-10">October</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs98-11">November</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs98-12">December</a></nobr>
+
+<p>
+<dt>1997
+<dd>
+<nobr><a href="cs97-01">January</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs97-02">February</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs97-03">March</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs97-04">April</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs97-05">May</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs97-06">June</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs97-07">July</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs97-08">August</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs97-09">September</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs97-10">October</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs97-11">November</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs97-12">December</a></nobr>
+
+<p>
+<dt>1996
+<dd>
+
+<nobr><a href="cs96-01">January</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs96-02">February</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs96-03">March</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs96-04">April</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs96-05">May</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs96-06">June</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs96-07">July</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs96-08">August</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs96-09">September</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs96-10">October</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs96-11">November</a> --</nobr>
+<a href="cs96-12">December</a>
+
+<p>
+<dt>1995
+(Compiled by The Green Meddler &lt;kilgalen@tde.com&gt;.)
+<dd>
+
+<nobr><a href="cs95-03-15">March/mid-April</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs95-04">Late April</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs95-05">May</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs95-06">June</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs95-07">July</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs95-08">August</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs95-09">September</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs95-10">October</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs95-11">November (missing Nov. 5-15)</a> --</nobr>
+<a href="cs95-12">December</a>
+
+<p>
+<dt>1994
+(November and earlier months compiled by 
+Michele Worley &lt;michele_l_worley@yahoo.com&gt;)
+<dd>
+<nobr><a href="cs94-08">??? - Aug 25</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs94-09-01">Aug 24 - Sep 11</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs94-09-02">Sep 12 - Sep 30</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs94-10-01">Oct 1 - Oct 7</a> --</nobr>
+<nobr><a href="cs94-11-01">Oct 26 - Nov 11</a> --</nobr>
+<a href="cs94-12-01">December</a>
+
+</dl>
+
+<h2>Real-time chat transcripts</h2>
+
+<ul>
+   <li> <a href="doyle-95-07-20">Jerry Doyle, 20 July 1995</a>
+   <li> <a href="jms-95-12-02">JMS, 2 December 1995</a>
+   <li> <a href="jms-96-04-06">JMS, 6 April 1996</a>
+   <li> <a href="jms-96-11-02">JMS, 2 November 1996</a>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../index.html">To the Babylon 5 ftp directory</a>
+</body>
+</html>
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+The following is a transcript of a formal conference with J. Michael Straczynski
+held on December 2, 1995 in the Compuserve Convention Center sponsored by
+the Science Fiction & Fantasy Media 1 Forum (GO SFMEDONE).
+
+      ************************************************************   
+
+SysOp Lee W: % Moderation of this conference has begun
+SysOp Lee W: % Your moderator is [76044,502] SysOp Lee W
+SysOp Lee W: % The floor is now CLOSED
+SysOp Lee W: % Moderator recognizes [71016,1644] jms
+SysOp Lee W: % Recognized [71016,1644] jms
+
+jms: Good afternoon one and all.
+Sysop Mike Willmoth: Welcome, Joe!
+SysOp Adrienne Chafee: Welcome, Joe!
+
+SysOp Lee W: Welcome to the Babylon 5 conference, featuring J. Michael
+SysOp Lee W: Straczynski, creator of the popular syndicated show
+SysOp Lee W: "Babylon 5".  This conference is hosted by the Science
+SysOp Lee W: Fiction & Fantasy Media 1 Forum (GO SFMEDONE).
+SysOp Lee W: This is a moderated conference, so questions will be taken
+SysOp Lee W: into the question queue and selected by the moderator.
+SysOp Lee W: In ASCII, enter "/Question" to enter a question into the queue.
+SysOp Lee W: in WINCIM, click the "Ask ?" box.
+
+jms: Good to be here.  Good to be anywhere.  Heck, just good to be had.
+jms: Good to be.
+jms: (my standards are dropping fast)
+
+SysOp Lee W: Alright Joe, I'm going to start the questions flowing unless you have anything you'd like to say first.
+
+jms: Never eat anything bigger than your head.  And a fool and his money were
+jms: lucky to get together in the first place.  
+jms: That's all the wisdom I have.
+
+SysOp Lee W: OK, I'l start with the questions waiting in the queue.
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Richard D. Bardini asks: Will Sinclair be back and will M O'Hare still play him?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: (I'd ask people not to SENd me messsages here privately; I've got a lot of 
+jms: them on my screen now; ask publicly if you can, please.)
+jms: Lee, is the question from Richard on my screen in public view to be answered
+
+SysOp Lee W: Since this is a moderated conference, I will be processing questions through the message queue
+SysOp Lee W: Yes, the one from Richard is the first one.
+SysOp Lee W: Joe is on using ASCII, I believe, so please don't send him any private messages.
+
+jms: Okay...the answer is yes, Sinclair will return, in a two parter that will
+jms: be produced as 16/17 this season, and he will be played by Michael O'Hare.
+jms: He will be returning to B5 as Head of the Rangers on a mission involving
+jms: Babylon 4.  And that's all I can say for now.  ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Mitchell A.Kaplan asks: I understand that the plots have all been essentially written, what about the change to Sheriden, was that anticipated at the beginning of the series
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: There seems to be this notion in SF TV that you can't change characters
+jms: once you're into it.  This worked best for the story.  Characters have
+jms: to be free to grow and change and be replaced, if necessary.  That adds
+jms: a certain level of jeapordy.
+jms: To answer now more specifically....
+jms: The change wasn't specified *in* the outline, but came *out* of the outline
+jms: (any writers in the audience know that an outline rarely survives contact
+jms: with the finished product, the script or the novel....
+jms: What I found in year two was that Sinclair was left off on his own a lot,
+jms: holding everyone else's bags, because his ties were all to the Minbari,
+jms: and I needed someone with a personal tie to the Shadows.  That was
+jms: Sheridan.  To give that to Sinclair would be stretching credulity to the
+jms: breaking point, I thought.  (Not finished here yet.)
+jms: So by moving him off the chessboard, and bringing in Sheridan, I was able
+jms: to do more with the storyline, and faster.  Life is change.  People complain
+jms: when Riker doesn't change position for 7 years, well, characters change 
+jms: here.
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Adam D asks: I wondered what is going on with peripheral merchandising for the show?  Will there be other CDs, games, etc.?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Now, to the merchandising question....
+jms: There will be a few other things here and there, I'm mainly dragging my
+jms: feet on merchandising, 'cause I've seen situations where the tail begins
+jms: wagging the dog.  We'll do a few things, the screensaver, the books, the
+jms: comic will return for 12 more issues....
+jms: We're looking to do a cdrom of the show, and some other items of interest
+jms: to collectors, some of which we hope to do through the B5 fan club, which
+jms: will entail products made by the same people who make our props, so they
+jms: will be 100% identical and authentic to what's in the show.  But....
+jms: I really, really don't want this to become a franchise, a cash cow; I'm
+jms: here to tell a story.   Now, to what writers influenced me...
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+JamesC asks: Which science fiction authors have influenced you the most? Who are your favorites?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: I'd say: Bradbury, Corwin, Serling, Ellison, Lovecraft, Dunsany, 
+jms: Bloch, Eric Frank Russel, Tolkein...oh heck, just forgot the name of the
+jms: woman who wrote The Haunting of Hill House....those are the biggies.
+jms: GA
+jms: Shirley Jackson.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Rage & Tate asks: If G'Kar was involved in the last war against the Centauri, and that was
+about 100 years ago, how *old* is G'Kar?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: The war wasn't 100 years ago; the Centauri were *there* for 100 years.  
+jms: The resistance finally kicked the Centauri off homeworld about 40 years
+jms: ago.  G'Kar is about 70-80 years old, which is young in Narn terms, given
+jms: that they live to about 200 in many cases.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Mark V. Urda asks: Will we ever get tp see the Vorlon Homeworld?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: But of course.
+jms: This season you'll see Minbar, up close and personal.  The Vorlons will be
+jms: a bit later.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Mark Pruett asks: You've said before that you built "trap doors" into the story for all the characters. The Talia Winters/Sleeper Agent sub-plot seems like it could have been used as a generic "trap door" for any of the characters.  Any connection?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Jim Marshall asks: Was the exit of the Talia character planned?  It seemed you where building her up into an important person (her gift from Ironheart ect..).
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: No, I don't think the trap door there really would've worked as well; the
+jms: whole operation was tightly Psi Corps, and we established in the comic that
+jms: she was seen on Mars in a processing center of some kind...no, that one
+jms: was set really for her.
+jms: Quite correct, I was setting her up that way.  Why, does everything that's
+jms: set up have to actually work out?  We have great hopes during any war that 
+jms: this thing or that thing will work, but often they don't.  We're used to
+jms: the TV convention that everything our heroes plan will work.  Here, that
+jms: ain't always the case.  I wanted to knock the pins out of people a little.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Magelone asks: Will we see Dwight Schultz again?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: No immediate plans for Dwight, but if I come up with a good story for him,
+jms: I'd love to do it.
+jms: ga
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Larry Rosenblum asks: Joe, recently you said that a twist in the story later this season "surprised you".  How did that happen?  Who is in charge here?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Kosh.
+jms: I dunno, it's just something that happens with writers....
+jms: you're going along at a reasonable pace, everyone's doing what they're
+jms: expected to do, then suddenly one of them sits up and says HEY! LOOK
+jms: HERE, BUSTER, and you have to fall in line, because they're LIVING there,
+jms: you're just writing about it.....
+jms: which is why I've always built room into the outline for variations and
+jms: changes, so it's fluid and can adapt.  Suffice to say it startled the 
+jms: hell outta me and everyone else I've shown the script to.
+jms: ga
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Gimli t. Dwarf asks: How much of the history did you plan? Further than the Minbari war? Back to our time?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: I've got a rough timeline that extends back to the year 2000, but as far as
+jms: a detailed history, it's for the 20-30 years prior to 2256, and the 20 years
+jms: after the events chronicled in B5.  The Minbari war is pretty detailed,
+jms: the story of the last few shadow wars...that's pretty thorough. 
+jms: ga
+------------------------------------------------------------
+JohnE Johnson asks: What is Harlan's involvement?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Whatever Harlan wants.  He is free to wander into any department he so
+jms: desires and make suggestions.  He suggested the Ombuds, he added to the
+jms: first season narration, did the voice over at the credits for year two
+jms: (most of it), and has a big voice-over part in an upcoming episode called
+jms: "Ceremonies of Light and Dark."
+jms: ga
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Ian Plowman asks: JMS: Recent stories have been appearing on the internet about Stephen Furst leaving B5, can you clarify this.
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Douglas S asks: Will we be seeing Steven Furst (Vir) as seldom as we now see Michael O'Hare
+(Sinclair)?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Stephen got a lead in "Misery Loves Company," so we freed up his schedule
+jms: (which we didn't have to do, we had first call on his services) to give him
+jms: a chance to be a lead in a series; he did that, and the series went away;
+jms: he just did a 2-part Chicago Hope, he is NOT joining that show; the piece
+jms: in TV Guide is poorly worded.  We've used Stephen in...
+jms: about 5-6 episodes so far this season, and he's got a *huge* role in an
+jms: upcoming script which we begin shooting next week, "Sic Transit Vir."
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Orb asks: How many of the next block of episodes are 'serious arc' episodes?
+The last block was light...
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Yeah, I'd intended to end with "Voices of Authority," which is a HUGE arc
+jms: episode this week, but the EFX weren't ready yet (huge requirements), so we
+jms: put "Passing" in its place.  Of the next batch, we've got....
+jms: "Voices" (big), "Exogenesis" (stand alone, mainly, some threads); "Dust to
+jms: Dust" (an arc episode disguised as a non-arc episode), then three of the
+jms: biggest arc shows of the series to date, which change the whole show: 
+jms: "Messages From Earth," "Point of No Return," then "Severed Dreams."
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Jason Montgomery asks: Does the change in the B5 opening music for this year supposed to give us a feeling of impending doom?  We know that the standard B5 theme has been replaced with the music from the Battle of the Line, so does this mean anything?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: It's certainly intended to give a more serious, threatening, but heroic
+jms: mood, yes.  Things are getting Just A Little Nuts this year in the
+jms: storyline, and that particular music is emblematic of sacrifice, struggle
+jms: and change.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Walter G. Tarrow asks: How does Delenn know she's a/the Chosen One?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: She knows the full prophecy.  She has looked around at the world, at how
+jms: the prophecy seems to be coming true around her, and if this person in the
+jms: center of it all is a Chosen One, and she is that person, then quid pro quo,
+jms: she is a Chosen One.  Others, natch, don't believe her.  Never do.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Randy L. asks: Lando seems to have gotten himself in DEEP doo-doo. Will he ever be able to get his reputation back, or will he eventually be written out of the series?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: No, Londo is planned to be present in the B5 storyline for the full five
+jms: years, so he won't be written out.  Will he get his reputation back?  Hmmm.
+jms: Depends on how you define "reputation."  Can he be redeemed?  It's possible,
+jms: but the deeper he goes, the greater the price that will have to be paid for
+jms: redemption.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Joe M. asks: Is there any significance to the naming of Earth Force ships after characters in Greek tragedies?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Here and there, yes.  I like playing games with ship names, giving subtle
+jms: little undercurrents and hints to those hip enough to pick up on them; we
+jms: have a character who causes trouble in "Voices" leaving on the transport
+jms: Loki...god of mischief...but yes, there's often significance there, to
+jms: varying degrees. 
+jms: ga (give me 2 mins to go grab a pepsi real fast...zoom)
+SysOp Lee W: OK, while joe is getting his Pepsi....
+jms: ok, back, ga
+SysOp Dupa: <Hey! No Product Placement in B5!>
+SysOp Adrienne Chafee: <grin>
+Sysop Mike Willmoth: <chickle>
+Sysop Mike Willmoth: <chuckle>
+SysOp Lee W: We've got quite a few messages in the queue.  I'll try to get through most of them and then open it for some more.
+jms: back
+
+SysOp Lee W: OK, One quick one from me, what is the status on the fan club?
+jms: We've been fighting WB to get it approved for almost *two years* 'cause
+jms: they felt there wouldn't be any interest.  (Sound effect: gun to own head
+jms: going BANG)  We *finally* got the final paperwork in this week, so we hope
+jms: to have this finalized in the next week or so.
+jms: ga
+SysOp Adrienne Chafee: Great news!
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Lee A. Phebus asks: I truely enjoy the series, particularly the discrete references to the old "Prisoner" series...be seeing you!    Are these your idea...do you understand the implications?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: I've only done a couple, actually; others have interpreted a few things
+jms: that aren't nods.  But yes, I did a couple of them, including "be seeing
+jms: you," as a fan of that show, and to again add an undercurrent of
+jms: understanding to those who Get It.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Sysop Mike Willmoth asks: Joe, what hardware and software do you use to access the online services and the net?  With the new technology you use on the show, I was curious what you use yourself.  Thanx.
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: I'm an old timer around here; I've been online, first with CIS, since
+jms: about 1984.  You get into habits.  So I use Smartcom for most stuff, like
+jms: GEnie and a few others, Smartcom alternating with Tapcis here for CIS, and
+jms: natch the supplied software for AOL.  
+jms: ga
+jms: Oh, hardware is a Courier v.Everything.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Julia asks: Joe: Is Theo really as complicated as he's beginning to appear? One minute he is a fairly patient holy man and then he seems somewhat creepy. Or am I mistaking his beliefs for something else?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: I don't think there's anything creepy in Theo, he is very sincere in his
+jms: beliefs.  The "seems" is subjective; certainly isn't intended.
+jms: ga
+jms: (We've gotta have ONE certifiable good guy in the mix.)
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Mara K. Malovany asks: Do you have anymore light-bulb jokes or other B5 humor you can share with us?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: god i hope not
+jms: ga
+jms: (the other B5 humor is unrepeatable)  
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Herb/Carol Mattord asks: I have the mass market Franke CD and enjoy it very much.  Will there be later versions released to incorporate new music from after the second season?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: To the second question, I've spoken to Chris, and he'd love to do another
+jms: CD.  We'll have to see.  (And hi, Mara, just saw it was you.)
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Catherine Jones asks: Did you get an increased budget for B5's third season, and if so, how did you choose to spend the extra money?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: We got about a 3% increase in our budget, which was swiftly consumed by
+jms: improvements in sets, costumes, standard actor/crew salary increases.
+jms: We're a lean operation.
+jms: ga
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Karl Antle asks: What was your inspiration to create Babylon 5?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Define inspiration.
+
+SysOp Lee W: I'll need to recognize Karl for that, hold on. Here's another question while I do that.
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Convention asks: I want to know, if technical information abot Bab5 will be available in Germany
+I also want to know if the will be a roleplaying game abot Bab5
+I've read there will be Bab 5 after the first 5 seasons
+is this true?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: If by tech info you mean a technical manual, no, nothing's planned for now
+jms: in the US or overseas.  There are discussions about an RPG, but so far
+jms: nothing's concluded that I know of.  Doug would love to do a side story or
+jms: spinoff after the 5 years of B5, which has always been available, but I 
+jms: doubt if it'd happen.
+
+Karl Antle: Where did you come up with the idea for Bab5?
+jms: Karl: it ain't an easy answer.  It came from knowing history, and modeling
+jms: this after ancient Babylon; from wanting to do a Saga for TV; from feeling
+jms: that so many TV SF shows are out of control financially; from wanting to do
+jms: an SF show that would respect the intelligence of fans....
+jms: I knew that the best series set up places where the stories come to you,
+jms: in a police station or a hospital or a law office, and decided in an SF
+jms: environment a space station would work well for that...added the backdrop
+jms: of myth and archetype, constructed a Hero's Journey, and took it from 
+jms: there.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Kadota asks: It seems that Sheridan and Delenn are on their way to some sort of romantic entanglements.  Is that part of why Delenn became more human?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: That's about 50% of the reason.  The other reason will be revealed later
+jms: this season.  
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+STEVE MARQUIS asks: What exactly happened to the Shawdow ship chasing the White Star when the jump gate blew in "Matters of Honor"?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Blowed up real good.'
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Andrew Lunt asks: What are your thoughts on making Babylon 5 movies should the TV stations kill the show before the end of its natural life?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: I can't even allow the thought that we won't get the full 5 years without
+jms: my head exploding...this series has been an act of sheer will.  The only way
+jms: it will get finished is if I decide it *will*, period...so the question is
+jms: one I really can't consider.  (Doug also wants to do a movie...but then Doug
+jms: wants to conquer Latvia, so go figure.)
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Randy Petersen asks: Would you like to comment on your resignation from the rastb5 Usenet newsgroup, and on what conditions would need to be met to allow you to return to an active role on Usenet?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: There is, in my mind, a difference between critical, negative opinions,
+jms: which are fine, and outright personal attacks, defamation of character,
+jms: libel, fraud, deception, and outright lies.  I exposed myself to that for
+jms: a year and a half, thanks to a few disturbed, dysfunctional individuals,
+jms: and finally couldn't stand it any longer.  If there....
+jms: were a moderated newsgroup that allowed for free discussion but prevented
+jms: the psychopathic abuse of others, the net stalking we've seen in usenet,
+jms: the personal attacks and villification, then I'd be there in a hot minute. 
+jms: But for now, with the rules of the group as they currently stand...
+jms: If these individuals are there, I won't be there.  I refuse to tolerate
+jms: that kind of behavior any longer, and there's no reason on earth why I
+jms: should, or why the group itself should tolerate being taken hostage by a
+jms: disturbed few individuals and having the place become toxic.  That, for me,
+jms: is the bottom line.  
+jms: ga
+
+SysOp Lee W: Spoiler Warning on this next question!
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Charles Keith-Stanley asks: What *were* Kosh and Lyta doing at the tag to PtG?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Good question.
+jms: ga
+SysOp Dupa: <I hate it when he does that>
+Sysop Mike Willmoth: <good>
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Phoenix Polymorph asks: How much of the story are you writing, and how much is writing itself?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Well, I'm writing it in one way or another, there's nobody else behind the
+jms: keyboard...but in terms of the story taking control of itself, I'd say it's
+jms: about 70% to 80% what I'd planned starting back in 1986/7, and the rest is
+jms: coming out of the story as you actually write it, and the characters begin
+jms: talking back to you....
+jms: Writing is a *living* process, once you get into the work, it ALWAYS
+jms: surprises you; if it doesn't, you're not doing your job right.  You can't
+jms: ever predict everything that happens.  A general can plan his strategy to
+jms: the nth detail, but that strategy rarely survives contact with the enemy.  
+jms: Same here.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Kevin F asks: Joe, first let me congratulate you on the best show on TV! My question - How much of the plot arc do you let the actors in on? 
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Only as much as is required for a scene.  We shot the year 1 cliffhanger
+jms: 1/2way through year 1; to make it make sense, I had to explain what had
+jms: happened in between (in scripts not yet written), and what was going to
+jms: happen down the road several years for "Coming of Shadows."  Most of them
+jms: really don't want to know the details...
+jms: because then they end up playing the *result* rather than the *process*.
+jms: ga
+
+SysOp Lee W: Couple of related questions here....
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Jim Kirk asks: How much of an influence was Tolkien in the germination of the B5 story?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Anne and Scott Cald asks: Is Babylon 5 supposed to be a parallel world to Tolkien's Lord of the Rings?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: None, really, except that it was one of many sagas that I loved.  There is
+jms: no 1-1 corrolation.  No.  Why should I want to do that, instead of telling
+jms: my own story?  He and I used the same tools in our writing; archetypes and
+jms: mythic structure, and the hero's journey, so some tools are reflected, as in
+jms: sagas going back to the Illiad and the Odyssey and Sir Gawain....
+jms: and Camelot and endless other mythic stories.  You're mistaking *tools* for
+jms: *story*, two different things.  I constantly get mail from people saying, '
+jms: "Oh, you're doing WW II, or you're doing ancient Babylon, or you're doing
+jms: Kennedy, or Camelot,"  and they're all sure they're correct, and they all
+jms: find evidence...but they can't be all correct, and they're not....
+jms: you tend to see whichever Big Mythic Story you're most familiar with.  
+jms: And that's the extent of it.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+JohnE Johnson asks: Are all those fantastic outside shots still produced on personal computers?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: On Dos machines now, yes.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Dawn M. Swingle asks: Will there be more B5 magazines, Quarterly or otherwise?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: We hope so, haven't heard a final determination that.
+jms: ga
+jms: (btw, dupa, how long is this scheduled for, just curious.)
+SysOp Dupa: JMS - ask Lee
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Jim Marshall asks: In the opening of the show you show several scenes, most of which are from season 2, a couple from season 3, and one that I can't place.  It shows a starfury blowinf away another starfury.  When will this happen?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Sooner than you might expect.
+jms: ga
+
+SysOp Lee W: Joe, however long you want to go.  If needed, I can compile the remaining questions and have you answer them at your leisure.
+jms: is 3:30 (my time) a reasonable end point?  
+jms: don't want to leave folks hanging if can be avoided
+SysOp Lee W: That should work.
+jms: ok....NEXT?
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Simon Bagshaw asks: I read somewhere that Londo will later be redeamed in his own private arc. Will Morden have his own happy ending/redemption?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Not if I have anything to say about it.  (And I do.)  The character deserves
+jms: what's coming to him.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Jerry G. Anning asks: What do you plan to do after the B5 story runs its course?  Continue it?  Independent material in the same world?  Unrelated SF?  Something completely different?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: If B5 runs its full 5 years, barring a side-story/spinoff (highly unlikely),
+jms: the plan is to retire from TV and go back to writing novels and plays.  
+jms: Maybe move to England and teach on the side.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Mike DeSisto asks: Will we ever have a chance to see the pilot show again? 
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: In the fullness of time, yes.  I'm sure it'll end up in the TNG syndie
+jms: package with the rest of the series beginning in 1998.
+jms: ga
+jms: ER, TNT, not TNG.  (urk)
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Preston Anderson asks: I missed the entire first season and haven't seen a single episode.  I was in the Orient. Is there anywhere to get copies of the episodes. 
+thanks...
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Not currently, no; WB doesn't think anyone wants to buy them, so we're
+jms: investigating the possibility of doing it ourselves.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Mark P. asks: You referred to a "throw away" statement about "souls" in the beginning of year three.  Was the statement by Lennier regarding Valen being Minbari but not being born of Minbari this statement?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Who can say?
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Ambard asks: Will the spiritual significance of the Vorlon to the religions of the universe be explored more?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Most definitely. 
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Brett Sherris asks: You state that you've had a hard time getting WB to approve the fan club.  How come WB is so unaware of the shows popularity?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Studio execs often come from different, non-mammalian evolutionary chains;
+jms: I think squid rather than fish came onto land and evolved, mutated, and
+jms: began running networks and studios and have kept this fact from us.  I 
+jms: dunno, Brett, I wish I had a clue.  I've considered shipping 'em all off to
+jms: Lourdes to see if it'd help.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Drew Stephens asks: When will we be seeing Kosh out of his "suit" again?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Very very definitely.  And maybe other vorlons....
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Trev asks: JMS, will we see the creature/ship from Mind War, at Sigma 957 ever again. Is it one of the 'first'? 
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: You will see this ship again, yes, and soon.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Mark Pruett asks: You've said that around mid-third-season, a lot of what we know about the current characters and situations gets turned on its head.  Could you give us a bit more of a hint, or point to scenes we've already seen that may have more meanin
+
+g than we thought?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Hmm...well, there's a reason "Hunter/Prey" was chosen out of the rerun 
+jms: block to precede the new episodes.  So watch it to re-acquaint yourself
+jms: with some of the plot elements that are going to resurface swiftly in the
+jms: next batch of eps.  Suffice to say that we've been setting up a lot of
+jms: growing conflict between B5 and the EA, and that sooner or later....
+jms: SOMETHING has to be done about this, something has to give, and that will
+jms: happen, in a big way...and when the dust has settled, it aint' the same
+jms: show no more.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Freedom asks: Will there be more women representing other worlds in B5? There seems to be a galaxy wide theme that puts women in an inferior role.  Thanks for a great show.
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Yes, and we have a female political officer arriving in the next new
+jms: episode, who's quite intersting.  I love strong female characters like
+jms: Ivanova and Lyta and Delenn and others, so they'll continue to be there.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Toni asks: All your characters are quite deep and complex - lots of shades of grey! Do you base your characters on people you know?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Wendy Sarrett asks: How much of your inspriation for the characters is based on people you've known??? BTW - absolutely LOVE the show!!!!!!!
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Not really; often I slice off parts of my own character (what there is of
+jms: it) and invest it into all of my characters.  There's a lot of me in
+jms: Ivanova, Delenn, G'Kar, and the others.  
+jms: ga
+
+SysOp Lee W: Some Kosh related questions for which we may get Kosh-like answers.
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Gayle Yetter asks: Can you tell us any more about Kosh's ship? We know it's alive, but will we ever see inside it?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Yes, but distantly.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Phoenix Polymorph asks: Why didn't Londo see Kosh out of his encounter suit.....  Or *did* he....?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: He's gone over too far to the shadows.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+ED asks: Do you think REAL aliens will be a lot like KOSH?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: I think they'll be a lot like Andy Rooney.
+jms: Especially the eyebrows.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Sarah Johnson asks: Will we see Talia again or find out any more of why Kosh had her mind probed during that business transaction early on?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Yes and no.
+jms: ga
+jms: (and I won't tell you which parts are yes and which no)
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Steve W. asks: You probably won't answer this Joe, but I will ask anyway! I Kosh using Lyta to travel where he/she would not otherwise be able to?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: An *inspired* question!
+jms: Next question.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Al Kuntzler [Zenith asks: Have you ever had a scene which looked/felt perfect while writing it but which just would not work when attempting to shoot it?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms:                                      nope.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Mark "Miles" Musant asks: How did you get conned into having your picture in the B5 card set, and how come Bester doesn't have a card of his own?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: WE had room for one psi corps card, and that one has Walter's wife Judy, so
+jms: it was a good tradeoff for Judy, as a nice thing.  Me, I just fell for the
+jms: okeydoke, would've preferred a better pix of me for the card, but that's 
+jms: all WB *has* because they don't generally think the writer/creator is very
+jms: important, so who'd want pictures?
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Si asks: When will we be seeing season 3 in the UK ?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Spring sometime, I hear.
+jms: ga
+jms: (Bug C4 to pay for the widescreen versions, like Germany and France)
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Jim Marshall asks: Will the dream sequence from "All Alone int he Night" be fully explained at some point?  If so when?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: It's been explained a bit here and there, but yes, there will be a fuller
+jms: explanation coming.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Rae & Craig asks: After the 5-year run of the B5 TV show is up, will you still allow novels and comics to be published? Will you open them up to more speculative sorts of fiction? 
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: I'm open to the idea, depending on what the stories are.  I may be able to
+jms: turn loose of my notes and let others do canonical stories.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Neil Blevins asks: Are there many Inquisitors, or just sebastien?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Other inquisitors, for varying needs.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Drew Stephens asks: My earlier question was misread.
+My question was WHEN will we see Kosh out of his "Suit" again. 
+By the way, love the show. It's my fav.
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: In the next batch of new eps.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Richard D. Bardini asks: Any word on being picked up for season 4. Or is it still to early to know?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Still too early to know.
+jms: ga
+jms: (but they've been encouraging to us)
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Convention asks: will we see the shadows in their 'real' form?
+
+I have to say, that I'm really 'addicted' to Bab5
+It's a great show!
+
+Your answers sound sometimes like Kosh <grin>
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Good.
+jms: My answers have always been here.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Martin Shaw asks: How large a role will Sinclair now take in the story arc.. Will he still be around by year 5 ?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Wait for the two-parter, then we'll talk.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+William R. Francis asks: With developments indicating a great war, how long do you think the series can last? I would like to see it be viable for a long time, but we know it is the last of the Babylon stations. I recall Cmdr. Sinclair in an episode indic
+
+ating future battle too.
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: The series can last 5 years.  That's all that it's meant to last.  And
+jms: that's how long it will last, if I have to throw down heaven and hell to
+jms: make it happen.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Phoenix Polymorph asks: Since you admited you put in the Prisoner references, will we see McGoohan in the series?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: I'd love for that to happen, and he's up for it, depending on the script.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Phil Stracchino asks: Thanks for confirming my theory about Kosh "riding" Lyta.  Is there a connection between the Vorlons and the energy creature which entered Sheridan in Knives, and subsequently left him in exactly the same way that Kosh left Lyta to r
+
+eturn to his suit at the tag of PtG?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: No, not a direct connection per se.  (And Phil, talk to Ron about your
+jms: notion re: a server.)
+jms: ga
+
+SysOp Lee W: Joe, any other things you want to mention before I give you the last batch of questions?
+jms: Not offhand. ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Kim Schneider asks: Have we heard the last of Talia Winters, or will we see her in a future episode (perhaps complicating matters with PsyCorps)?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: You'll certainly hear *of* her in some surprising revelations in the next
+jms: batch of episodes.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Joe M. asks: Will we discover the origin of the berserker probe?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Probably not.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Jim Marshall asks: Is WB going tobreak up the season lioke they have the past 2 years?  In that the last 3 or 4 eps are held until the fall (in the US)?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: I haven't heard a final schedule yet; I hope not.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Rage & Tate asks: Has the feedback from the various computer networks helped you refine your
+show?  Did the public perception of various things sometimes differ from
+what you had expected/intended?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Actually, the public opinion polls of episodes has always been very close
+jms: to my own perception.  And the bbs's haven't changed or shaped the show,
+jms: the story is the story, you can't do this by committee or be swayed from
+jms: your own vision, or you're betraying the show they've come to like.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Arwel Parry asks: Has the 2-parter been filmed yet? (So I can ask Michael O'Hare when he's in London in 2 weeks!)
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: No, it'll be filmed after the first of the year.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Steve W. asks: Are you still planning on attending Babcom 96?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: No, not at Babcom, at the Encounter, later, in June.
+jms: ga
+jms: Wasn't invited to Babcom.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+SysOp Dupa asks: Joe, how much of you is in Zathras?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Self-analysis not Zathras...er...jms strength.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+The Thing & Meeeeee asks: Does anyone apart from yourself  know what is going to happen in B5 and if not then how can you give actors contracts if for example their character is going to die?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Actors have contracts for *options* on years, not guarantees.  Standard in
+jms: Hollywood.  Only 2-3 other people know the arc in any detail.  If they
+jms: talk, I keel them.
+jms: ga
+
+SysOp Lee W: I'll summarize a couple of questions on the Widescreen issue.  
+SysOp Lee W: When will Germany, etc. have widescreen episodes and how does that fit into the UK getting them (as well as the US)?
+jms: Season 4.  They're paying, with France, part of the money required to follow
+jms: us through post-prod and re-telecine the film stock back to its original
+jms: aspect ratio.  If the UK jumps in, they can have it as well.
+jms: ga
+
+SysOp Lee W: OK, I think time is up.  
+jms: Okay, gotta go, Harlan's waiting.
+SysOp Dupa: <waving to Harlan>
+jms: My best to all the CISers who showed up; you've been my bunch ever since
+jms: 1984, and it's been great.
+Sysop Mike Willmoth: Thanks again for everything, Joe!
+jms: take care, and watch out for shadows....
+SysOp Adrienne Chafee: Thanks, Joe!  <applause>
+SysOp Dupa: Thanks, Kosh!
+Sysop Mike Willmoth: Suits him :)
+SysOp Lee W: Thank you Joe!
+
+SysOp Lee W: As always, you can log onto SFMEDONE and leave Joe a message there.
+SysOp Lee W: I'm about to open things up for any general questions.  
+SysOp Dupa: <and get a cryptic answer <g>>
+Sysop Mike Willmoth: <plug plug>
+
+
+
+Transcript prepared by SysOp Lee Whiteside
+
+Transcript Copyright (C) 1995 by CompuServe Information Service's Science
+Fiction and Fantasy Media 1 Forum.  All rights reserved.
+
+
+
+Lee Whiteside    leew@indirect.com, 76044,502 CIS, L.WHITESIDE GEnie
+Magrathea/SFTV Web page at "http://www.indirect.com/www/leew/index.html"
+"Hey Pizza Man, I'm Space Ghost, I'm hungry, I've got a talking voodoo 
+doll taking chunks out of my horse and I WANT MY PIZZA!" -Space Ghost
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+
+The following is a transcript of a formal conference with Babylon 5
+creator J. Michael Straczynski held on April 6, 1996 in the 
+Compuserve Convention Center sponsored by
+the Science Fiction & Fantasy Media 1 Forum (GO SFMEDONE).
+
+========================================================
+
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: Welcome to the SF and Fantasy Forum's Babylon 5 Conference
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: with Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski.
+
+
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: Hello All, I'm Lee Whiteside, SysOp of the Babylon 5 areas 
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: in SF Media One.
+
+SysOp Dupa: <applause>
+SysOp JSL: There is nothing wrong with your screen.
+
+
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: This is a moderated conference.
+
+SysOp JSL: We control the horizontal, we control the vertical. <>
+
+jms: heLlo I ar a riter
+
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: You will need to submit your questions into the question 
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: queue and we will then select them for joe to comment on.
+
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: SysOp Adrienne Chafee will be assisting.
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: Several other Sysops from the forum are here as well.
+
+SysOp JSL: On behalf of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Forums, we would like...
+SysOp JSL: ...to welcome J. Michael Straczynski. <applause>
+
+
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: Welcome Joe!
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: Do you have any opening things to say?
+
+jms: Thanks, happy to be here.  Happy to be anywhere.  Just...happy.
+
+SysOp JSL: Remember: if you haven't visited the SF Media Forums, GO SFMEDIA!
+SysOp Dupa: <happy happy! Joy joy!>
+SysOp Adrienne Chafee: Welcome, JMS!
+
+jms: Never eat anything bigger than your head.  Never eat food at a place called
+jms: Pops, never shoot pool at a place called Mom's, and a fool and his money
+jms: were lucky to get together in the first place.
+
+jms: How's that for an opening statement?
+jms: ga
+
+
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: Sounds good.  One note, please do not send Joe any private
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: messages during the conference.
+
+
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: If you have a question, send a message to one of the 
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: Sysops hanging around. 
+
+jms: Or we keel you. 
+
+SysOp Adrienne Chafee: okay, here's the first question......
+SysOp Dupa: <grin>
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Shawn D. Ratner asks:  Mr. Straczynski, What do you feel was your most 
+challenging episode to make? Thank You!
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: It's a tie between the one that just aired this week, Severed Dreams, and
+jms: the one airing at the end of May, the two-parter.  Both were production
+jms: and/or CGI nightmares.  Took us to the wall and then some.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+John R. Finnan asks: Joe, despite your modesty, does the rapturous 
+applause and adulation you get at conventions like Wolf 359, 
+ever make an impression on you?
+
+
+P.S. Elevator Boy says 'Hi.'
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: (Hi back to elevator boy.)  On one level, yes, it means a great deal; a
+jms: writer writes to affect people, and I take the response as an indicator
+jms: that I've done my job properly, I've affected people....
+jms: the hard part is that I have a hard time relating it to myself; it's for
+jms: the SHOW, and that's a different entity.  For the totality of it, more
+jms: than for me.  It's moving, but I sometimes feel...I dunno...almost like a
+jms: fake for accepting any part of it.  The story is its own creation.
+jms: (I guess it's hard to buy it because when I look in the mirror I see a
+jms: goofball.)
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Mark Baker asks: Are we any closer to completing arrangements to 
+have past B5 episodes released on video?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: We're measuring the progress in the movement of glaciers, the slow progress
+jms: of tectonic plates beneath the surface of Western America.  Slowly, slowly,
+jms: we'll get there.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Doz asks: JMS, Hi. What is your definition of an 'Arc' storyline?      
+Does one have to be completly pre-defined from the start ? 
+or can a theme be added to and expanded as a series progresses ?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: An arc storyline is that which advances the totality of the story, as
+jms: opposed to a one-off personal story which fills in the characters, but may
+jms: not actually advance the over-arching plot.  Most of these are pre-designed
+jms: episodes from the outline, others I kinda stumble into.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Ken Grumer  asks: Will the "Creating Babylon 5" and "Babylon 5 A to Z" 
+books be availible in the United States?
+
+-Ken Grumer
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Dunno, actually.  I *suspect* not, because they're tailored more to the UK
+jms: audience, but the publisher may distribute some here in the US.  More
+jms: succinctly...joe has *no* idea and is vamping.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Ken Isley asks: Will there ever be a B5 game along the lines of 
+Wing Commander... Rebel Assault etc..?
+Thanks
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: I'd certainly love to see one, yes.  There have been some conversations
+jms: about the possibility, probably using a starfury simulator as the basis,
+jms: but thus far nothing concrete has emerged.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Barbara J. Pfieffer asks: When will filming be done for the current season?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: This coming Tuesday, the 9th.  At that point, we will have finished a
+jms: total number of 66 episodes, plus the pilot, for 68 hours of B5.  (Why am
+jms: I suddenly tired?)
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Charles H. Riggs, III asks: In terms of favorable responses, has Severed 
+Dreams broken all records?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: From what I've seen, plus preliminary reports on the P5 survey, yeah, this
+jms: one seems to have set a new record.  It's been a terrific response, making
+jms: the grief involved in doing it eminently worthwhile.  (Thanks to all.)
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Steve Augustine asks: Has the fourth season been confirmed, 
+or is it still up in the air?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: We're still waiting; we won't know for sure either way until early May.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Kosh asks:  Howdy JMS!!...What Is Harlan Ellison like to work with?? 
+Escpecially in regards to the flac he has taken from trekkies for 
+City on the Edge of Forever???
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Harlan is nothing less than terrific to work with.  Where you run into a
+jms: problem is if you mess with his words and don't accord the respect that he
+jms: is due given his talent, record and suchlike.  I respect Harlan immensely,
+jms: value his contribution, and thus have never, EVER had a problem.  He's a
+jms: joy to work with.  (And Joy is also fun to work with.)
+jms: ga
+
+SysOp Adrienne Chafee: Here's a question from JSL:
+jms: oh rapture
+
+SysOp JSL: Yup!  Hey, Joe... 
+SysOp Adrienne Chafee: <g>
+SysOp JSL: <grin>  During Severed Dreams, they had a "Mystery Alien Sweepstakes"...
+SysOp JSL: I'm wondering, since one of the prizes is an appearance on B5, is 
+SysOp JSL: that a "good sign" for renewal? <grin>
+SysOp JSL: ga
+
+jms: No, I'd say it really isn't a guarantee.  There's an out clause in any
+jms: such contest.  If we do get the nod, then the person's in; if we don't,
+jms: they'd pay the person off, find some other compensation, maybe an afternoon
+jms: with Jim S. Lyon (if they weren't nice about it), that sort of thing.
+jms: ga
+SysOp JSL: Thanks a heap. <grin>
+jms: I live to serve.
+
+SysOp Adrienne Chafee: next question.....
+------------------------------------------------------------
+JohnE Johnson asks: How did Majel Barrett find her way to your B5 universe?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: You take the 5 freeway to the Roscoe offramp and turn right.
+jms: More seriously....
+jms: She had long been praising the show to ST fans at conventions, and urging
+jms: them to give the show a chance.  She said it was the only other intelligent
+jms: SF on the air.  We heard about this, and thanked her, and asked if she'd
+jms: like to do the show sometime.  She said yes....
+jms: I was then writing a new script, and crafted a role with her in mind.  I
+jms: gave it to her at a con in England, she read it overnight, and the next
+jms: morning, she said she'd love to do it.  And that, as they say, was that.
+jms: She was terrific to work with, btw.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+William H. DiPaola asks:  Joe, will there ever be a Feature Film set in 
+the B5 universe either before or after the series has ended its run?      
+I'm a great admirer of yours, and thanks for taking the time to answer 
+the question. 
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: WB has broached the idea with us from time to time, and they want me to
+jms: come in and talk to them about it sometime soon, but I'm kinda holding off
+jms: while I finish the season, and to decide if it's something I really want
+jms: to do.  But it's just talk for now, we'll see.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Neil Blevins asks: In what ways will the PTEN situation affect the 
+daily life of B5?
+
+You mentioned you won't write all of season 4, but you wrote all 
+of season 3 because so much happened. Does that mean season 4 will 
+have less arc episodes?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: No, not really.  You can still have the same or greater number of arc
+jms: episodes and still assign out a few smaller ones, or even some arc stuff,
+jms: to freelancers.  
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+uj asks: Are there any major characters we have yet to be introduced to?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Depends on how you define "major characters."  Major impact?  Yes, I'd say
+jms: there's a few more yet to come.  Recurring or regular characters?  I'm
+jms: still playing with this notion.
+jms: ga
+jms: (Oops, actually, there is one recurring coming, I forgot.)
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+John R. Finnan asks: Since By Any Means Necessary was SO well received 
+by both cast and audience, is there any possibility of your 
+Spousal Overunit penning another show? (I know you hate nepotism, 
+but she *is* good.)
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Not at this time, no.  
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Zakalwe asks: How involved were you in the process of desinging the 
+spaceships for B5?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Depends.  For the regular, main ships -- Minbari cruisers, Vorlon ships,
+jms: others -- I was directly involved, working with Ron and the others in
+jms: discussing and going over the designs.  If it's an incidental ship, which
+jms: we'll only see once, it's often left to their discretion.  They ask what I
+jms: need, I tell them, and they do it.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Chris Johnston asks: You say the story is it's own creation.  
+Does that mean that it's starting to develop a life of its own, 
+perhaps developing away from what you originally set out to produce?  
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: The direction of the show per se hasn't changed that much; a bit here and
+jms: there.  A story does come to life, though, and things happen that surprise
+jms: you, which is good, because a writer needs to be surprised if he is to have
+jms: any hope of surprising anybody else.  So yes, that's definitely happening.
+jms: ga
+
+SysOp Adrienne Chafee: Okay, I'm going to turn the reins over to my co-moderator, 
+SysOp Adrienne Chafee: SysOp Lee Whiteside.......
+SysOp Adrienne Chafee: (and get myself some more chocolate. <g>)
+
+jms: (suddenly it's a relay race)
+SysOp Adrienne Chafee: <g>
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: Had some difficulty with the moderation software.  
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: Here's more questions.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Lee Burke/Toronto asks: Take it that Talia Winters is gone for good ?
+...dissected or something ?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: There are no plans for Talia's return, no.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Penny J. Legner asks: Are you using the script for B5 to intentionally 
+comment on some of the current issues in our society?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: No, I like for the scripts to be as culturally and contextually vacuous as
+jms: possible.  
+jms: Kidding...
+
+jms: Yes, I think that you have to have some elements of this.  Mark Twain said
+jms: that "If you want your fiction to live forever -- and by forever I mean
+jms: 50 years -- it must not overtly preach or overtly teach, but must covertly
+jms: teach and covertly preach."...
+jms: So I do try and make the material relevant, but WITHOUT telling people what
+jms: they should think about the issue, asking questions and provoking discussion
+jms: rather than moralizing.  It *has* to be ABOUT something, or what's the
+jms: point?  
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Grey Culberson asks: Hi, is Mojo still working on B5 or has he 
+switched totally to HyperNauts?  The CGI continues to just get 
+better and better!
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: As for Mojo, he's still doing B5 stuff, did most of the Severed Dreams
+jms: stuff.  Beyond that, I don't know what else Mojo does in his spare time,
+jms: and I'm too frightened to ask.
+jms: ga
+SysOp Dupa: <g>
+
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: Couple of questions in regards to the fan club...
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Sandra Bruckner asks: I received the application for the B5 Fan Club 
+in the mail today from Jim Lochett.  Would it be OK to publish 
+the information request form in this week's Zocalo to get out 
+the information needed to become members of the club?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Reece McLean asks: What is the latest regarding the fan club?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Yes, it would.
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: I take it the mailing has all the pertinent details?
+jms: We're moving forward now, and taking applications/memberships.  Folks will
+jms: get a membership kit, lots of goodies, and access to the B5 web page which
+jms: we're building, which will have a virtual B5 where you can actually set up
+jms: residence, build your room, be an ambassador, hang out in the zocalo,
+jms: whatever.  It's gonna be cool.
+jms: ga
+SysOp Adrienne Chafee: sounds great!
+jms: Lee: yes, the mailing has the pertinent details; I have all the
+jms: impertinent details.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Jonathan Kass asks: Joe, loved this weeks episode, but here in LA, 
+channel 13 really pasted the commercials right up against the 
+scenes... which job title at a TV station should receive the 
+"constructive criticism" from the audience?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: I think any criticism of that sort should probably go to the program
+jms: director.  Assuming it wasn't clipped when WB did the commercial layoffs
+jms: and insertions.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Joel Hilke asks: Which episode of B5 do you think of as your finest 
+work or your personal favorite?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: At this point, I'd say it's again a tie between Severed Dreams and War
+jms: Without End, the two-parter.  The latter is the most ambitious thing we've
+jms: done from a *production* standpointt; the former from a CGI standpoint.  
+jms: There's a lot crammed into both.  So as of now, those are probably my two
+jms: favorites...
+jms: Although, I gotta tell you, the two personal stories coming up in 2 weeks,
+jms: one with Vir at the center, the other with Michael York (that's the order
+jms: of broadcast) are just *nifty*, and I love 'em to bits.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Barbara J. Pfieffer asks: Any hints you can give on the name of the 
+season finale?  Maybe an article?  "Of"  "The" something??
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Barbara: sorry, I'm holding that back as long as I can.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+randy asks: Will we see a return of Sinclair?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: In the two-parter, yes.  He's there a lot, all through it.  I think folks
+jms: are going to be very pleased with the chemistry between Sinclair and
+jms: Sheridan; they made a great team.  It's a *good* story for the two of them.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Nick Coe asks: Joe,  would you please suggest some eps to prepare 
+UK viewers for the start of S3 here in a couple of weeks?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Shadow of Z'ha'dum.  Fall of Night.  (terminal brain fart...I can't think
+jms: of others.)
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Joe Kubasek asks: Reglion and faith seem to play key roles in 
+many of B5's themes.
+What responses have you gotten from different religious organizations?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Ranges from support to puzzlement.  Sometimes I get letters from folks who
+jms: assume that because I put in a particular religion, I believe in that, and
+jms: I'm "slipping in" my own/their own beliefs, and they don't quite know how
+jms: to take it when I tell them I'm an atheist...
+jms: Other times I get mail saying thank you for presenting a minority point of
+jms: view, for being open-minded and even-handed for showing religion...then I
+jms: indicate that maybe Talia/Ivanova had a fling, and they start to object,
+jms: when they remember that I did *both* of my own volition, to be even-handed,
+jms: and that to criticize would be a contradiction...
+jms: and at THAT point they don't know WHAT to say...it's sort of like playing
+jms: theological Whack-A-Mole.
+jms: ga
+SysOp Dupa: <or Whack-A-Lawyer>
+
+
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: OK, some spoiler type questions if you haven't seen Severed Dreams yet..
+jms: RUN AWAY!
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Ken Nichols asks: What was the significance of the staff Delenn broke 
+in Severed Dreams and why the electric charge from it?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Asha asks: When Delenn broke the staff did she use her own power or 
+an outside power?  What is the Staff? Is it's power symbolic or actual? 
+Is there a story behind the staff? If so, what?  What was the blue lightning?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: It's the symbol of the Grey Council, made from one of the Triluminaries
+jms: they encountered a long time ago.  It's also a power source, hence the
+jms: reaction.
+jms: ga
+
+
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: One which dissapeared before I could send it wanted 
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: to know if this was the episode where Jerry Doyle 
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: broke his arm.
+
+jms: Yes, the final scene where you see Jerry being helped down to the floor
+jms: (without giving too much away) was shot moments after he broke his right
+jms: arm.  If you watch the scene, you'll see his arm bending in directions never
+jms: intended by evolution as he drops the helmet.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Mark Baker asks: Joe, I've read that you, Harlan Ellison and Walter 
+Koenig are confirmed for the Chicago Comicon, is there any chance 
+we may see other members of the production crew or cast?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Not at this time, no.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Tim Chandler asks: Joe, are any of the characters you've written in 
+B5 inspired from someone you knew directly?  Thanks!
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: No, not really.  I mainly drew on my own background, splitting it into
+jms: diferent people...there's a little or a lot of me in all of the characters,
+jms: aspects that I like or dislike about myself, what I'd hope I could be, or
+jms: I'd fear I could be.  It's one massive task of psychoanalysis.  Then again,
+jms: sometimes a Centauri is just a Centauri.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Doz asks: If Babylon 5 fails to reach a fifth season, How would you 
+continue the storyline ? and if it does how would you react from 
+pressure to continue it.
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: I can't even allow that question in my head, much less answer it.  From day
+jms: one, this show has been an act of sheer will.  I can't even consider the
+jms: question because of that.  We'll tell this story.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Kosh asks: Who's idea was it for Chief G. to be a Looney Tunes fan?? 
+Are you??
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: That was my idea, I wrote that.  And yes, I *love* the old WB cartoons, and
+jms: have virtually all of them on disk.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+David P. Watkins asks: Many people (including myself) compare BAB5 in 
+import to TOS.  TNS, DS9, and Voyager have all failed to glean this 
+comparison from many.  What do you think it is about your show that 
+makes it stand out among the others?   DPW
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: I was thinking about this earlier today, and what I think it comes down to
+jms: is passion.  I feel strongly about the stories I'm telling, the actors feel
+jms: strongly about their characters, and in the episdoes the tales are rendered
+jms: with emotion, and passion, and weight, and that's all too rare on most
+jms: American TV.  I try desperately to make the audience *feel* something, to
+jms: construct something that echoes myth and the sagas we grew up on in SF....
+jms: to reinterpret myths for contemporary times, and point to our past and our
+jms: future simultaneously.  B5 is *history*, a history of the future, and it
+jms: speaks with the voice of our ancestors and our inheritors simultaneously,
+jms: and that's a very powerful voice.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+James R. Kapesis asks: Will we see Garibaldi follow up on the data crystal 
+Kosh made from Talia?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Not for the immediate future.  It's there as a weapon of sorts if needed.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Colin Glassey asks: Di Delenn use her "ring" in a recent episode?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Nope.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Brian Cooney UK asks: Hi Joe how are you looking forward to a visit 
+to Engaland this year.
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Well, I would except for this guy Brian Cooney who's organizing the thing,
+jms: he's a pain in the butt to work with and...oops!  Er, that is, yes, I'm
+jms: looking forward to it EVER so much, it's bound to be GREAT fun, and they're
+jms: all a lot of fun to work with.  Especially Brian.  (OH, HELLO, Brian.)
+jms: ga
+SysOp Dupa: <g>
+SysOp Adrienne Chafee: <chuckle>
+
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: Somene else wanted to know if Bester will be returning?
+
+jms: Oh, most certainly.  He's up in 4 weeks in "Ship of Tears," which to quote
+jms: Walter, gave him more to do in one hour than he's done in 30 years of ST.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+uj asks: How canonical are the B5 comics and books? 
+How far does your involvement with them go?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: The books, because they're so large, and go through so many hands, tend to
+jms: be canonical in the *broad strokes* but often the details don't get done
+jms: quite right, or things slip past me.  The comics I've tried to keep close
+jms: as possible, and will work harder to make the next batch even closer, even
+jms: though I won't directly be writing for them this time.
+jms: ga
+
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: A couple of questions/comments on how PTEN has been 
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: handling promotion of the show recently
+jms: As well as they ever have.
+jms: ga
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Dean S. Arashiro asks: PTEN, along with just about everyone else, 
+seems to schedule new episodes during sweeps months.  This is driving 
+me nuts, especially with regard to B5.  Do you think this is something 
+we're just going to have to live with, or can we -- the public 
+(and consumers) -- do something alter this practice?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Short of storming Warner Bros. and throwing tapes out the windows into the
+jms: hands of waiting folks (which, on reflection, ain't necessarily a bad idea)
+jms: no, they air only during sweeps as a rule; this April batch is an exception.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Greg & Scott asks: What other work (scripts, books) have you done ?
+And how did you eventually get B5 on the air ? 
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: I've written 145+ produced scripts, as story editor/writer/producer on shows
+jms: like THE TWILIGHT ZONE, MURDER SHE WROTE, NIGHTMARE CLASSICS, others, plus
+jms: 2 novels, 1 anthology and 1 nonfiction writing book being republished this
+jms: fall, plus 500 published articles, 12 produced plays, 12 produced radio
+jms: dramas, and Lots Of Other Stuff....
+jms: We got B5 on the air by traveling from network to studio for 5 years like
+jms: Diogenes with his lamp, looking for an honest man, for *someone* who would
+jms: understand what we wanted to do with the show.  After 5 years, we found
+jms: them at WB and Chris Craft, Dick Robertson and Evan Thompson, respectively.
+jms: They've been our angels all through this.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+David E. McCloud asks: Have members of the cast ever given you ideas 
+about their roles,inadvertantly or otherwise?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Not as such, no.  I do, however, listen to them, and learn about them, and
+jms: sneak in things that I know will resonate with them, knowing that it will
+jms: make their performance more real.  Listen to Delenn talking to the council
+jms: in "Severed," and remember she's from Yugoslavia, which tried for years to
+jms: get others to intervene and help stop the bloodshed....
+jms: and suddenly you understand the truth behind the performance, she *knows*
+jms: what she's talking about, Mira's been there, lived it.  The cast knows that
+jms: I do this, that I'm absolutely not beneath manipulation, and they're I think
+jms: fascinated and horrified by the aspects of themselves that slip into scripts
+jms: that they didn't know I'd noticed.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Ken Isley asks: Besides writing our local TV stations, and being rabid 
+followers of B5, how can we let the Cast and Crew know how much we 
+love/support their work?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Mainly by doing what you're doing; writing your stations and WB itself
+jms: (esp. 
+jms: Bob Daly, head of WB), and thus assist with the process of keeping us on
+jms: the air.  Internet comments and some from CIS do get posted on the stage
+jms: wall for them to see, however.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+DANIEL ALLEN asks: how do you feel the series has been received in 
+Britain and do you think the start of the new series will generate 
+good or negative reaction compared to the us reaction?
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: We've *always* been better received in the UK than the US due to the fact
+jms: that there we have a regular time slot and good PR.  Frankly, I think the
+jms: reaction there to this new season will be nothing short of cerebral
+jms: melt-down.  They won't be disappointed.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Sandra Bruckner asks: Will we see Ambassador Sinclair again after 
+the two-part episode has aired?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Ask me again after the two-parter.  To answer now would be to give too
+jms: much away.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Reece McLean asks: When will your script-writing book be available (overseas)?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Don't know when or if or how it'll be available there.  It might be only
+jms: via mail order direct from the US publisher.  I'll be sure to post the info
+jms: when it comes out.  
+jms: ga
+jms: (It's published here in the US in the fall.)
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Rick L. Sharer asks: Is there a bigger and more dangerous species 
+than The Shadows lurking around the corner?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Isn't there always?
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+DChip asks: Long Live B5!
+At the end of "Severed Dreams" was the last shot cropped in order 
+to show only the NightWatch poster or was there more to that cropped shot?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: No, there's no more to that.  We end on the poster.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Mara K. Malovany asks: Joe, my software zapped me out, but I got 
+back in time to see that you answered my question about Jerry's arm.  
+Are threre any other interesting/funny/strange happenings on the set 
+you can share with us?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Not until the statute of limitations runs out on some of this stuff.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Orion asks: JMS.. Some people have compared the Dark Ones with H.P 
+Lovecrafts cthulu beasties ..was this intentional or a coincidence? 
+
+Also love the show you really brought GOOD SF back to Television... 
+Thanks   Dan
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Not really...it's a mythic kind of structure, you can compare the First
+jms: Ones to a lot of that kind of fiction, also Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith,
+jms: August Derleth, others...but if you go further, it has metaphors with
+jms: Egytp
+jms: er, egyptian culture, some Indian cultures, it's kind of universal.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Darksun asks: Are there any plans to market models, toys, etc. 
+(other than the Micro Machines)?  
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: We're doing a few small things, there may be some porecelain figures coming
+jms: along this year, some collector's plates, maybe a new card set from Fleer,
+jms: a new soundtrack from Chris Franke, but not a whole lot; again, we don't
+jms: put a lot of emphasis on merchandising.  Tell the story first; the rest
+jms: will follow if we tell the story *right*.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Tim Chandler asks: Joe, What's the scene that you find funniest that 
+you've written in B5?   Thanks again.
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: It's a scene later to come, with Ivanova and a Minbari bed.  Well, that and
+jms: a certain conversation between Vir and Ivanova in about 2 weeks about....
+jms: no, I can't say, but it's just fall down funny.  You'll know it when you
+jms: see it.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+DMI asks: Hello, JMS.  The situation faced by EF personnel is similar 
+to the one faced by U.S. Army and Navy personnel at the outbreak of 
+the American Civil War.  Are you a student of ACW history?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: To say I'm a student of it would be self-indulgent and greater than the
+jms: truth; I'm a historical dabbler, I look into lots of things, so I know a
+jms: little about a lot but not a lot about anything, just enough to either get
+jms: into hideous trouble or find what I *do* need.  But yes, I know a fair
+jms: amount about the Civil War, and other big historical events.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Joel Hilke asks: Was the gobs of scientic and technical information 
+gathered for the Berzerker Probe a way to make it  more realistic 
+for Babylon 5 to go private (so to speak)?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: No, not at all.  (If I correctly perceive the question.)
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Jim De Vico asks: Joe, you have such a presence on-line.  Very unique 
+in the industry.  How has this presence affected the overall story, 
+feel or direction of the show?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: It really hasn't, and can't be allowed to.  Too much TV is done by
+jms: committee; the last good things done by committee were Stonehenge and the
+jms: pyramids.  Viewers, much as they like a show, and have good thoughts, are
+jms: nonetheless a HUGE committee, and if you let that pull you one way or
+jms: another, the story would become mushed around, directionless, and fall
+jms: apart after a while.  The only thing I can do...
+jms: is write what feels correct to me to write, and tell the story as it demands
+jms: to be told, and hope that an audience exists that is as sick and perverted
+jms: as I am.  (And thank you all for coming tonight.)
+jms: ga
+SysOp Dupa: <Yeah, that's us all right>
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+karen surtees asks: when the five year arc for b5 has finished do you 
+have any plans for another sf show?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: If it goes it's full five years, I dunno...if they hand me an anthology
+jms: show, I'd have to say yes.  Barring that, or something similar, I think I'd
+jms: prefer to then retire from TV and go back to writing plays and novels, 
+jms: having said pretty much everything I want to say for TV.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+DANIEL ALLEN asks: Where did you come up with the name for Kosh and 
+who would you compare him to in the modern world?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: I went by the sound of the name, something short, one syllable, without ANY
+jms: clear subtext to the name, a complete cypher.  Which fits the character.  
+jms: Who would I compare him to?  He's an ALIEN.  He thinks like an alien.  He
+jms: shouldn't be comparable to ANY human.  (Well, maybe Buddy Hackett.)
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Greg & Scott asks: Ever think of doing a cameo appearance?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Nope.  Don't want to.  If I see me on the show, it blows the illusion.  I
+jms: need to believe in this place, as much as I can, and if I know I'm in it,
+jms: then it ain't a real place anymore.  So no, you won't see me.  Darn near
+jms: everybody ELSE in the crew, but not me.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Dean S. Arashiro asks: Any thought been given to an "Official" B5 
+convention, one where you guys can shoot the works?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: We've had some conversations about that...maybe in about a year, via the
+jms: fan club.
+jms: ga
+jms: (We'd do the convention as both educational and entertainment, btw, with
+jms: lots of workshops.)  
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Grey Culberson asks: An important question: Proxima 3, Epsilon 3, 
+Babylon 5, Orion 7, and a slew of primary worlds.  Are there any even 
+numbered planets in the B5 universe? <g>
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: No, all planets with life on them are odd.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+JohnE Johnson asks: Could you comment on "And Now For a Word," 
+one of my favorite episodes.
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Comment how?  
+jms: "Good show.  Joe like.  Hulk smash."
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: Something along the lines of the approach of the episode and such?
+jms: Well, it's an episode that at first fans didn't know how to take, they got
+jms: thrown by the narrative device...but on the rerun, a lot have come around to
+jms: saying they like it *better* on reflection.  It's something I've felt was
+jms: under-rated.  We feel it's imprortant to break the rules from time to time,
+jms: do something *different*.  If we fail, we fail.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Anne/Soolin asks: Will we see the Rangers play a bigger role 
+now that you've upped the stakes and will we see more of Marcus?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Absolutely.  The Rangers continue to come forward into the story, and we do
+jms: a lot more with Marcus; he's a great character, and I enjoy using him in the
+jms: story.  (There's a coming confrontation between him and a Warrior Caste
+jms: minbari that should prove quite interesting.)
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Darksun asks: How many other ancient races, akin to the Vorlons, 
+will we eventually get to see?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Only a few.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Ken Isley asks: Will we see a return of Brother Theo/Monks in 
+future episodes?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Most of them have passed beyond the rim.  Yes, Theo and his gang appear in
+jms: "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place."  
+jms: ga
+jms: (Those are two answers; Theo hasn't passed beyond the rim.)
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Steve Willer asks: Hi there, JMS. I just saw Severed Dreams, and I 
+must say you've outdone even Captain Power now! :-) 
+I noticed that you killed Haig in this episode -- was "cutting off 
+of the character" a response to their sudden change of heart?
+Would Haig have survived if the actor stayed in the episode?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Hague would've stayed alive, yes, with others having died on his crew.  But
+jms: in the long run, this worked out better dramatically.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Bancroft asks: Do you have a favourite author or authors? (SF or non-SF)
+Has any particular author's work influenced B5 directly? 
+(eg. in 'look & feel', or background).
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: No, not really.  It's its own creation.  Favorite authors in general?  
+jms: Bradbury.  Ellison.  Lovecraft.  Eric Frank Russell.  Tolkein.  Heinlein.  
+jms: Lots of others.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Friends of Elevator Boy asks: "Will we see Anna Sheridan sooner or LATER"
+
+Thanks
+Gerard Keating (Dublin, Ireland)
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Define sooner.
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: Will track Gerard down for a further definition.
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: in the meantime...
+SysOp Dupa: <Sooner: one who lives in Oklahoma>
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Kwicker asks: You sure do get around, Joe. <g>  Btw, one of things 
+you've been proud of is successfully doing a space sf tv series--on budget.  
+How would you spend the money if your budget was doubled?  
+on the crew? the fx? on advertising? make a 10-year story? 
+or double everyone's salary, fx, everything?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: I'd pay the cast a lot more, right off the bat, because they earn it in
+jms: spades.  I'd do more planet-based stuff, build more ships, basically make
+jms: the story *bigger*.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+John R. Finnan asks: Will the monks on B5 (who went there because it 
+was blessed) see the war with the Shadows in terms of REVELATIONS?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Not exactly, no.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Kosh asks: With regards to the Talia and Ivanova relationship....
+Will a similar situation come up again for Ivanova???
+------------------------------------------------------------
+David P. Watkins asks: Did Ivanova and Talia have a "fling"??
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Ivanova will get involved again with someone, yes; and yes, they did.
+jms: ga
+jms: (This will be clarified further in the very next episode, btw.)
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Stephen Burrow asks: Regarding the 4th season, how have the ratings 
+been overall?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: I think he actually means third season...
+
+jms: Very good.  The problem overall is in keeping timeslots given the number of
+jms: stations with commitments to UPN, WB and Fox shows; lots of shows, like
+jms: Lonesome Dove, have been pulled even though their ratings were good; they
+jms: just couldn't find enough slots.  So we're doing fine, but fighting for
+jms: timeslots.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Sandra Bruckner asks: Will the blooper tapes and music videos be made 
+available via the Fan Club?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: That's something we're still trying to determine, nothing's set yet.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Friends of Elevator Boy asks: What part of Earth does Sheridan come from, 
+Sheridan is a good irish name, but we irish have spead to the four corners.
+
+Thanks
+
+Gerard Keating (Ireland)
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Sheridan himself comes from the Midwest US.
+jms: ga
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: Clarification on his question about Anna Sheridan . 
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: Sooner is as in the next few episodes?
+jms: Then the answer is no.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Z. Michael Milutinovic asks: I have a question about G'Kar.  
+Now that he's "Changed", do his followers, fellow Narn, believe 
+what G'Kar believes?  In Severed thier actions looked "single minded", 
+"no doubts" side by side with the humans.
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: (Look, over there, a comet.)
+jms: I'm not sure they all believe exactly as he believes, but they're willing
+jms: to follow where he leads.]
+jms: For now, anyway.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Neil Blevins asks: How strong are the narn? I've seen one getting 
+beaten up by a human, and I've seen G'kar smash a giant stone tablet 
+with his bare hands.
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Well, we have no idea from that shot if the Narn in question was wounded,
+jms: if he'd been through several fights already...because then there's another
+jms: Narn picking up a human right off the floor as another goes for her.  
+jms: Also the marines were pretty well armored.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+DANIEL ALLEN asks: Is their any character in the show who you would think 
+of as being similar to yourself in outlook and drive?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: I'd like to think Delenn.  But that's again rather self-indulgent.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Joel Hilke asks: Were you particularly proud of the first season 
+episode "Believers"?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Yes, because it was absolutely unflinching, it didn't compromise, didn't
+jms: blink, didn't turn away when it came time to show the logical consequences
+jms: of the actions involved.  
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Kwicker asks: Sheridan's not from IOWA like a certain other captain 
+who worked in space?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Definitely not.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Stephen C. Smith asks: Perhaps one unforeseen benefit of your success 
+with B5 is that it begat other shows, such as HYPERNAUTS and SPACE CASES.  
+After B5 ends its run, would you have an interest in shepherding to the 
+air other quality SF created by others, or do you want to remain just 
+a master storyteller? GA
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: I'm a writer.  I never really wanted the pointy hat that says PRODUCER.  If
+jms: I were offered staff writer, for crappy money, no power, but they wouldn't
+jms: change the words, I'd take it in a hot second.  No, I'd rather let others
+jms: find their own dreams, than sit as shepherd on their creations.  
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Kosh asks: Will we "see" more Vorlons??? Kosh is one of my all time 
+favorite characters....
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Oh, yes, most definitely.  Sooner than you might think.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Tim Chandler asks: Joe, Will G'Kar find out that Kosh manipulated him 
+(seems like good drama to me...) ?  Thanks again.
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Well, look at that, another comet, imagine that....
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Grey Culberson asks: I especially enjoyed GROPOS, mostly because we 
+were introduced to a number of non-arc/minor characters which most 
+shows never indulge in (unless they need somebody to kill off).  
+Any plans for another similar episode?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+SysOp Dupa: <that's Uranus>
+jms: Not as such, no, but in broader terms all our characters get in that
+jms: position.
+jms: (And let's not get personal here, Dupa.)
+jms: ga
+SysOp Dupa: <g>
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Jim H.(SJ,CA) asks: Are they still using a network of Amiga's to do the CGI 
+work?  How long does the post production special effects take to do?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Nope, they've ported all the software over to PCs now, and they're pretty
+jms: fast; don't have the figures here, though.
+jms: ga
+SysOp Dupa: <Intel and Dec Alpha RISC systems>
+jms: Overall, it take 52 days from the last day of shooting to finish an episode
+jms: in post.)
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+James R. Kapesis asks: Are Lyta's Psi powers enhanced now that she went 
+to the Vorlon Homeworld?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Certain elements of Lyta's makeup have been altered, yes.  It's...it's...
+jms: my gosh, it's another comet!  Do you know the odds on this?  They're
+jms: well, astronomical.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+JohnE Johnson asks: How did Delenn learn about pilots merging with a 
+Shadow ship?  Is she holding back information from Sheridan?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Yes, she is.  She's holding back a lot, more than anyone suspects.  And
+jms: this is going to cost her dearly soon enough.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Colin Glassey asks: Use of force: If the use of the "great machine"
+would have saved many lives under Sheridan's command, how can he 
+justify NOT asking for Draal's help?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: I think it was a matter of feeling this was an internal situation between
+jms: EA and B5; that if he just called in Draal, it'd be them being saved by
+jms: another rather than taking a stand themselves.  And he's right, he wants to
+jms: hold back the info that he's made an *alliance* with Draal at this time...
+jms: because right now, the *ownership* of B5 was in danger, but they likely
+jms: weren't going to destroy the station itself.  Soon that threat may come,
+jms: and you don't want someone knowing you have an ally, then taking out that
+jms: ally, so you're defenseless against the HUGE threat coming your way to
+jms: destroy the place completely.
+jms: ga
+
+SysOp JSL: Folks, we're going to wrap this up in about eight minutes, so... 
+SysOp JSL: last questions!  Thanks!
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Troy Starr asks: JMS -
+You've mentioned that B5 isn't just about the Shadow war.  What can we expect
+to see on B5 once the war is over?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Well, Earth still has to be dealt with, and then all the falllout from the
+jms: shadow war.  Lots of stuff has to happen.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Darksun asks: Will we eventually learn as much about the Vorlons and their 
+culture/technology as we've been learning about the Minbari?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: You will learn more, but never as much as the rest.  They're sneaky that
+jms: way.
+jms: ga
+
+SysOp JSL: Joe, are the Minbari now "officially" at war with Earth due to 
+SysOp JSL: Delenn's actions?
+
+jms: No, Clark isn't that stupid.  He'd also hope to do internally and quietly
+jms: what he'd hope to accomplish in a confrontation.  He can't fight a war on
+jms: too many fronts; he's going to have a hard enough time holding things 
+jms: together back home without starting a war with the very race that nearly
+jms: wiped out Mankind.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Sandra Bruckner asks: One of the things I loved about Severed Dreams was 
+the strong characterization of Delenn.  She's not been a strong force 
+since the first season and I've missed that.  Is the change due to the 
+fact that she's now more comfortable with her transformation?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Yes, her whole world and self-perception was changed after that, she didn't
+jms: know where she fit in, everyone rejected her practically; she's had to
+jms: adjust, find herself again.  She's done that.  We all go through periods of
+jms: adjustment, change, reflection.  It's realistic.  
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Jonathan Kass asks: Will you be bringing back the actor who played the 
+Major (replacing Admiral Hague)?  I remember him from other series, 
+always like his work (he was in the Quantum Leap finale (?))
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: It's possible.
+jms: ga
+
+SysOp JSL: Three more questions!
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Perry Maniaci asks: Was earths first encounter with aliens the Centari? 
+And did they give them jump gate technology?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Yes to both questions.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Kosh asks: Will we ever find out what Londo saw when Kosh revealed 
+himself???? Or did he see nothing as he said??....
+------------------------------------------------------------
+SysOp Dupa: <give? sell?>
+jms: He said just what he saw.  (And yes, it was a trade deal, Centauri never 
+jms: GIVE anything to anyone.)
+jms: ga
+
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: In the blooper reel: Londo says "I tawt I taw a Putty Cat, I did"
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Gordon J. asks: Will shows from the first season be aired again?  
+I would love to see those again to see the story and characters grow.
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: At this point, not until TNT begins showing the series in its totality,
+jms: after we've finished production, starting around 1998.
+jms: ga
+jms: You'd believe a Centauri over me?
+SysOp Adrienne Chafee: <g>
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+James R. Kapesis asks: How will this end?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: In light.
+jms: ga
+SysOp JSL: Not in fire?  Sheesh! <g>
+SysOp Dupa: <or a Whimper?>
+SysOp Adrienne Chafee: <G>
+jms: Last episode title is "Sleeping in Light."
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Stephen C. Smith asks: Any interest at all in doing other projects 
+with your current cast after the run is over?  Sorta like Orson Welles 
+and the Mercury Theater, only without the weight gain? GA
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: I'd love to, frankly, if I can come up with something appropriate.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+John R. Finnan asks: As a writer, and an atheist  your writing is the 
+one thing you're leaving behind. How would you like to be remembered 
+after the "game is called, on account of Darkness"? 
+
+I know it's morbid, but it's gone midnight over here.
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: He told a good story.  He entertained us and made us think.  He tried never
+jms: to hurt anybody.  And he never started a fight...but he always finished it.
+SysOp Dupa: <and "BOOM!">
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+DChip asks: In the elevator scene with Londo and G'Kar, was 
+any of the dialogue ad-lib?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Not that I can recall.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Tim Sartain asks: Would the WB network pickup B5 if you were'nt under 
+contract with PTEN or has it ever been considered and do you think 
+you would get better publicity and time slots with them?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+jms: Well, one of G'Kar's echoes, I believe.
+jms: No, WBN is a diferent, competitive branch of WB, and they wouldn't do it.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Pat Clifford asks: Is that "Sleeping in The Light" ANYTHING TO 
+DO WITH vONNEGUTT?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Nope.
+jms: ga
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Bancroft asks: How accurate is Londo's 'vision' of his death?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Extremely.
+jms: ga
+jms: (But there's two pieces of information about that scene you don't have yet.)
+jms: ga
+
+SysOp JSL: This will be the last question, everyone!
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: Putting pressure on me to pick a good one  :)
+SysOp Dupa: JMS - Ooooooo!
+SysOp Adrienne Chafee: :)
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Jim H.(SJ,CA) asks: Is President Clark _really_ that smart?  
+Or is he just a puppet of the Shadows?
+------------------------------------------------------------
+jms: Hes' a very smart puppet.
+jms: ga
+
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: Shaun, did we need to end things now?
+SysOp JSL: Yes, Joe's a busy man... <grin>
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: OK, that's all the questions for this conference. 
+SysOp Adrienne Chafee: <applause>  thanks for being our guest this afternoon, JMS!!!
+SysOp JSL: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for attending today...
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: Thanks for joining us Joe!
+jms: The pleasure was entirely mine.
+
+SysOp JSL: A reminder: visit the Babylon 5 Sections in SFMEDONE...
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: And for those of you who sat in with us.
+SysOp Dupa: Joe - Thanks! (and watch out for Comets)
+SysOp JSL: the SF & Fantasy Media 1 Forum.
+SysOp JSL: The online home of B5 on CompuServe!
+SysOp Adrienne Chafee: Go SFMEDONE
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: We'll have a transcript available, likely sometime 
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: tomorrow in the Babylon 5 Text/General library.
+SysOp JSL: Our very special thanks to Joe for such a terrific conference.
+jms: The preceding commercial brought to you by the Psi Corps.
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: Trust the Corps.
+SysOp JSL: You are all welcome to stay here (the psi corps) and chat amongst 
+SysOp JSL: yourselves (are your friends)...
+SysOp Dupa: We're Everywhere for your convienence.
+SysOp JSL: And now we'll open it up to general discussion.
+jms: Gotta zip now, boyz and girlz...see you on the flip side.
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: Thanks Joe, I'm about to open up the floor to general chaos now..
+SysOp Dupa: Bye, Joe
+SysOp Lee Whiteside: % The floor is now OPEN
+SysOp Dupa: Lee - as opposed to Specific Chaos?
+James R. Kapesis: Zog
+Blackadder: cost ya! <g>
+Sandra Bruckner: Bye JMS  Thanks.
+Grey Culberson: We lie prostrate in your magnificence!
+Z. Michael Milutinovic: By Joe
+John R. Finnan: Good night all, from the 4 question man!
+Kwicker: Should that be the "Sy Corp"?
+Orion: Bye JMS See ya in Chicago
+Tim Chandler: Comets make the universe a brighter place.
+Friends of Elevator Boy: Hello Floor
+Mara K. Malovany: well, that was fun
+James R. Kapesis: 3 ques. here
+MichaelJ: WhAGREAT SHOW
+Jim H.(SJ,CA): Thanks, Joe, don't get hit by any comets! ;-)
+Don: Thanks for being everywhere for our convenience, Joe!
+David P. Watkins: THanks!
+Ruth Ballam: John - Gone on rub it in why don't you ! :-)
+Gordon J.: Thanks for the conference, I really enjoyed it. Long Live B5!
+MichaelJ: Great show
+Kosh: 4 ques here.........
+Friends of Elevator Boy: Thanks for a great sesson joe.
+SysOp Dupa: <Gone>
+Grey Culberson: Your aura is devastating!
+Kwicker: maybe Joe discovered ANOTHER "string" of comets like the ones that hit juptier
+David P. Watkins: Bye
+Debra Banach: thanks Joe!
+Kwicker: thanks,joe!
+James R. Kapesis: JMS is the great maker!
+DChip: Thank's joe
+Gavin(U.K): Thanks Joe
+Grey Culberson: Standing O.
+Tim Chandler: Thanks Joe.
+Bancroft: Great show. Thanks, Joe (& sysops!)
+John Creigh: Thanks.
+SysOp JSL: For your info... Joe Straczynski has left...
+Friends of Elevator Boy: Hi sandra
+Sandra Bruckner: Fantastic.
+SysOp JSL: ...and you are most definitely welcome!
+Jim H.(SJ,CA): Thanks, Sysops!  Great conference!
+Kwicker: nice conference, sysops
+Carol Naylor: Ruth> You lucky thing. I can't even get back in time forHammersmith
+Bancroft: Bye, all
+SysOp JSL: EVERYONE: PLEASE MAKE CERTAIN TO CHECK THE CONFERENCE SCHEDULES...
+Ruth Ballam: gerard: Um, I'd have to scroll back to check but I think he did
+SysOp JSL: ...IN SFMEDONE & SFMEDTWO.  We have some GREAT guests coming up very soon!
+SysOp JSL: If you haven't done so, make sure "Notices" is turned ON!
+SysOp JSL: So you'll see announcements about them!
+
+
+======================================================================
+
+Transcript prepared by SysOp Lee Whiteside
+
+Transcript Copyright (C) 1996 by CompuServe Information Service's Science
+Fiction and Fantasy Media 1 Forum (GO SMFEDONE).  All rights reserved.
+
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+ The following is a transcript of the non-spoiler
+ portion of a real-time chat conference held with
+ J. Michael Straczynski (JMS) on CompuServe,
+ November 2, 1996 at 22:00 GMT.
+
+ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+ THE FOLLOWING MATERIAL IS THE COPYRIGHT OF THE
+ RESPECTIVE PARTICIPANTS AND COMPUSERVE
+ INFORMATION SERVICE.  
+ 
+ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+  Archives of this material may be found at:
+
+   ftp://ftp.speedlink.com/pub/bbarrett/cis/
+                    - or -
+   http://www.speedlink.com/bbarrett/b5/
+
+ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+JMS: hello all, just hanging out until we begin.
+
+JMS: thanks, all
+
+JMS: good heavens, but the room got kinda rambunctious, didn't it?
+
+JMS: dupa, shall we get started so we don't have these gentle folks just hanging
+     around waiting?
+
+Moderator: ATTENTION!  We're about to go into formal moderated conference mode.
+
+Dupa: JMS - Suits me <g>
+
+Moderator: Hold off on your question submittals until we get things set up and ready to go!
+
+Moderator: Here we go!
+
+JMS: i do what i can
+
+Moderator: OK, moderation has now started.
+
+JMS: So let that be a lesson to you, and never darken our towels again!
+
+Moderator: I need to get a couple of people recognized here so hold on for a sec...
+
+JMS: (glaciers move, we wait)
+JMS: (tectonic plates move, we wait)
+
+Lyon: Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the CompuServe..
+
+JMS: (my shorts ride up, we...well, this has just taken an ugly turn)
+
+Lyon: Science Fiction and Fantasy Forums (GO SCIFI)
+      we cordially welcome you to our live Formal Conference
+      with Babylon 5 executive producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI.
+
+JMS: noted chicken strangler
+
+Lyon: Those of you who are unfamiliar with formal conferencing, just
+
+JMS: run like hell
+
+Lyon: sit back and enjoy.  Meanwhile, you can (geez, Joe! <g>) queue your
+
+Dupa: <squawk!>
+
+Lyon: questions to our moderator, Lee Whiteside.
+
+JMS: newly released from prison
+
+Moderator: Let me spit out my canned intro...
+
+Lyon: As you can see, we're a very organized bunch.  <grrr>
+
+Moderator: Welcome to our live conference with J. Michael Straczynski
+           sponsored by the Science Fiction Media One forum )SFMEDONE)
+           which is part of the Compuserve Science Fiction Forums all
+           accessible from SF Central at the SCIFI go word here on
+           Compuserve.
+
+           With us today is J. Michael Straczynski, creator and executive
+           producer of the Babylon 5 TV series.  He has also just released
+           through Writer's Digest books a Revised and Expanded edition of
+           "The Complete Book of Scriptwriting" (ISBN 0-89879-512-5).
+           Of interest to Babylon 5 fans is a sample script included in
+           the book of the Hugo award winning episode "The Coming of Shadows".
+
+           I'm SysOp Lee Whiteside, your moderator.  Helping out today is
+           SySop Mike Willmoth and SysOp Jim Shaun Lyon.
+
+           This will be a moderated conference, with all questions going
+           through the question queue.  The first part of the conference
+           (30-45 minutes) will be spoiler free in deference to those
+           who have not yet seen the season finale "Z'Ha'Dum".  I won't
+           pass through any potential spoiler questions until I let you
+           know its time.
+
+           A transcript will be available in the SF Media One forum of this
+           conference.  Check the What's New or the Babylon 5 General Message
+           Base for details when it is available.
+           That should do it for the canned intro, so let's get on to the
+           conference!
+
+Willmoth: Us, organized?
+
+JMS: well, that's whipped everyone up into a tepid fervor
+
+Lyon: So organized!
+
+Willmoth: Hi, Joe!  Loved Z ep...
+
+JMS: thanks
+
+Lyon: How about our first question, Lee?
+
+Moderator: OK, let me get to the questions here.
+
+JMS: (the planet turns, we wait)
+JMS: (stars fall from the sky, we wait)
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Trevor B
+How do you flesh out your characters?
+How do you make them real?
+
+JMS: That's the easy part.  All you have to do is create them as realistically in
+     your head as you can, by investing in the emotions and feelings and the kind
+     of personality you have within yourself....
+     you slice off bits of yourself and invest them into other characters.  That
+     way you *know* them, and when you drop them into a given situation, there's
+     no doubt about what they'd do...
+     it's like imagining your best friend (if you don't have one, borrow the best
+     friend of the person next to you) walking across the living room late at
+     night, and banging their shin on the coffee table....
+     because you know your friend, you don't have to *hesitate* to know what they
+     will say when this happens.  It's just a process of getting to know them
+     yourself.
+
+Question from SEATTLE, WA: Andi Shechter
+Joe, in a recent ep, the Narn homeworld had some amazing graphics with half
+broken domes that were, to me very much like what Hiroshima looked like post
+bomb. Knowingyou look at the details, was this deliberate?
+
+JMS: Yes, there was some element of that.  It's not a moral judgment thing, but a
+     referential point.  As for Narn architecture overall, I told them I wanted
+     sort of an alien culture as the Soviet Union might've designed it....
+     everything tending toward the blocky, the functional, less aesthetic than
+     you would find on Minbar.  This is a culture that has crawled up from war,
+     and functionality is more important.
+
+Question from EAQ: Shawn Ratner
+Mr. Straczynski,
+
+Babylon 5 is a great series! Will Babylon 5 ever be part of the Earth Alliance a
+gain since they have suceeded?
+
+Thank You!
+Shawn Ratner
+
+JMS: Well, they've certainly succeeded at what they were attempting.  As for the
+     future, who can say?  (Well, yeah, I can, but I won't.  Which brings me to a
+     point...
+     asking me "is X going to happen?" in a conference, or at a convention, can
+     turn into a frustrating experience for others, because generally I prefer to
+     let things be done in the show rather than blow it out here.  Just FYI.)
+
+Question from CFP: Jim Marshall
+Will we ever know what was written on the side of the new Kosh's ship when it sa
+w sheridan on the forks outside the station?
+
+
+JMS: What, do I look like someone who can speak Vorlon?  Oh, sure, a few words,
+     mainly "Where is the bathroom" and "What's that smell?" but to translate
+     something like that...pfsh, please.
+     (Answer: probably not.)
+
+Question from DENVER, CO: Tim Orel
+What was the inspiration for that scene back in late season one or early two whe
+re the aliens were being sued by the earthman for the humiliation to their ances
+tor in New Mexico?  That was one of my favorite scenes of all time, in spite of
+the fact it hasn't (yet) anything to do with the main plot.
+
+
+JMS: Yeah, it's a lovely scene.  I dropped it into Christy's script because it
+     was something I always wanted to do.  I just figured, okay, if these things
+     really ARE happening, and it gets found out, and we make contact with
+     aliens, and find the ones responsible....
+     somebody's gonna want to sue their butts off.  So it became a very logical
+     extension of the judicial system (tongue somewhat in cheek).  And...well, it
+     was a hoot.  I'll forgive much if it's a hoot.
+
+Question from SAN MARCOS, CA: Don Berg
+At a Creation Convention in San Diego last weekend, the host claimed that
+JMS was shorting the Babylon 5 arc to 4-years instead of 5-years.
+Can you assure us that this is FALSE?
+
+JMS: Nothing has been firmed up or finalized about the fifth year.  At a meeting
+     at WB just three days ago, it was brought up as a continuing possibility. 
+     (brought up *by them*)
+
+Question from ALBUQUERQUE, NM: Collin Anderson
+In the first season Sinclaires wife or was it girlfriend(I cant remember) encoun
+tered a ship at a planet that drained all her  ships energy. I remember that GKa
+r warned her not to go there. Is there going to be any more exploration of this
+plot line(Who these beings were that she encountered)?
+
+JMS: Yes, we'll see that ship and those beings again soon; we've seen them once
+     already, in "Voices of Authority," and we'll see them again.  GA
+
+Question from DJN: Rich B
+Was PsiCop Al Bester named after author Alfred Bester who wrote..'The Stars My D
+estination'?
+
+JMS: Yeppers.
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Trevor Hart
+JMS, hello, is Othersyde going to go to reprint as I cannot find a copy?
+
+
+JMS: There aren't any current plans for taking either of my two published novels
+     or my published anthology back to print; I wrote them a long while ago, and
+     my feeling is that they're good for what they are, first attempts....
+     but as much as some who've read them (and are doing better now) have
+     encouraged me to do so...I dunno...I just think I'd be best letting them go
+     for now.
+
+Question from CZL: Michael Lieber
+why are the seasons so irregular in length with the season just ending now in
+the U.S. and starting again next week?  love the show
+
+JMS: They program episodes specifically for sweep periods in February, May,
+     occasionally July, and November.  That's when stations set their advertising
+     rates, and they  hold 'em for that period.  So now they use October...
+     to ramp up the ratings for the November sweeps, since it takes folks a while
+     to find out we're on the air again with new episodes (due to the new and
+     daring approach to our PR, stealth programming).
+
+Moderator: From ratings info I've seen, things seem to be very much on the
+           upswing, right?
+
+JMS: Absolutely.  We just cracked the top 20 the other week, the first time we've
+     been that high in a while; the following went to 26, but that was because of
+     the World Series, which killed everything.  WB is very pleased.
+
+Question from NEWPORT BEACH, CA: Stephen C. Smith
+     Joe, you contended a few months back that 1/3 of the fans would agree with
+the Shadows' motives after seeing "Z'ha'dum."  Having read the posts from viewer
+s who've watched the episode, does that seem to be the case?
+
+JMS: Well...maybe closer to 20%.  Some have made arguments for the logic, but not
+     the methods.  A few have come forward and said they see the point...and now
+     that we know who they are, we can take care of them. 
+
+Question from LONDON: JM
+who is your favourite B5 character?
+
+JMS: All of them, for different reasons.  I love writing for Londo; sometimes you
+     have to work a little to get a character to talk to you; with Londo it's the
+     opposite.  Getting him to shut up.  I love 'em all. 
+
+
+
+     (I stunned them, it seems.)
+
+Moderator: argh.  All the questions I've been asking have been deleted...
+
+JMS: smooth.
+     KILL HIM!
+
+Dupa: BANG!
+
+Willmoth: And they call it moderation :-)
+
+JMS: well, moderation is good if not taken to extremes
+
+Moderator: The Question Queue works fine, sometimes.
+
+JMS: (operator error, don't say anything to him about it)
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Pink Planet
+Greetings from Pink Planet (our german fanzine)!
+My question: What is Mordens first name?
+
+JMS: What is Mordens first name?  Mister.  (Actually, I'm trying to avoid giving
+     that out, as it would personalize him too much, and I prefer him as a force
+     of nature.)  
+
+Question from PROVIDENCE, RI: Ed Jusczyk
+Why does Ivonova wear only one gold stud earring in her left ear?
+
+JMS: It's a testimony to the character's fictional brother, who died in the war,
+     and Claudia's real brother, who passed away.  
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Mary Broderick
+Are the portions of the eloquent passages spoken by G'Kar at the end of Z'Ha'Dum
+ foreshadowing in regard to things to come for Sheridan and Geribaldi?  {e.g., S
+heridan - "The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be
+born in moments of revelation."
+
+JMS: Hrrmmmm.....could be, could be.  (WHO SENT YOU?  HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS?  WHY
+     HAVE YOU BEEN PEEKING IN MY WINDOW AT NIGHTS!  THAT'S IT, I'M CALLING 911!)
+     (next...)  
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: G'Kane
+Are there any news about the spin-off? And if it is made, will the story be inte
+resting enough for you to stay with it and write at least some episodes?
+
+JMS: Yes, there's been some movement; WB has asked for a treatment, which has
+     been given to them, and they like it.  There are more conversations going on
+     this coming few weeks.  We'll see.  If we do get a go on it....
+     yes, I'll stay with it.  Babylon (in whatever form) is my baby.  You don't
+     toss your kid out into the world undefended.
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Markus Tiedtke
+What is your favourite episode?
+
+JMS: It'd probably be a toss-up between Severed Dreams and Z'ha'dum, if you only
+     look at the first 3 years.  If you toss in year 4, I'd have to say "Falling
+     Toward Apotheosis."  
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: William Smith
+JMS, your show is the greatest! Can't wait for the season finale tomorrow! I wan
+t to ask you, 1) do you have any advice to a future writer, 2) what did that com
+ment, "We are ALL Kosh" mean, and 3) will the entire show be published as a nove
+l sometime?
+
+P.S. Could you send me a copy of the "Ark"?
+
+JMS: 1) Keep writing, don't let anything stop you IF that's what you want to do,
+     don't mistake a love of reading for a passion to write; 2) it's a metaphor,
+     operating on a different level, 3) who knows, but there are no plans....
+     currently for that.  And I can't send you a copy of the Ark as it wouldn't
+     fit into the mailbox, what with 2 of every kind of animal in it. 
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Norman
+We liked very much the songs in sung by Erika Gimpel in "Walkabout" and the Gosp
+el in "The rock cried out, no hiding place". Is there any chance they might be a
+vailable on some of the Babylon5-related CDs ?
+
+JMS: Re: the Rock song, no.  Re: the Walkabout songs...Chris and I keep going
+     round and round about that.  I'm against it, as I like the soundtrack to be
+     kept instrumental.  We'll see who survives the discussion.  
+
+Question from LONDON: Darran
+Joe, at 'The Encounter' con in Blackpool this year you reeled off a list of name
+s you would like to appear in B5. One of them was Paul Darrow (Avon from Blakes7
+). If you had him on the show what sort of roll would you envisage for him.
+
+
+JMS: I haven't a clue at this point.  I'd have to give that serious thought.  (I
+     rarely write a part for a person, but find the right person for the part.)
+     I see we have 217 people here...wow.)  
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Angela
+I've read that TNT plans to pick the show up in syndication... Will they start a
+iring immediately, or will we be forced to wait x-years?  Also, any news on movi
+es?
+
+JMS: No, they'll go with the show a few months after it's over, the exact timing
+     depending on when that happens.  If we were to finish in summer, they'd go
+     in November; if in fall, then January.  On TV movies, nothing I can comment
+     on for now.  
+
+Question from EBB: Susan Christ
+When John had the ritual dinner with Delenn & Lennier, what did Lennier say when
+ John left, and what was Delenn's reply? I've been wondering all this time!  Tha
+nks for the translation of Marcus' Minbari line in "Shadow Dancing", BTW.
+
+JMS: Now I'm supposed to speak Minbari?  What, do I look like a linguist to you?
+     Do you have any IDEA the subtleties of the Minbari language?  Why, if I were
+     to even TRY to translate that, I could start a war!
+
+Moderator: I thought the translation in the blooper reels was the
+           acurate one!  :)
+
+Question from EBB: SysOp J. Shaun Lyon
+Joe, any word on how many Season 4 episodes (3 or 4) in this run through Novembe
+r?  The Lurker's Guide isn't sure about "Falling Through Apotheosis".  ga.
+
+JMS: OKay, buddy, but you'll be the first on the new battle of the line.
+     We're playing 401-404 in November, then the next batch in February.
+
+Question from DJN: Rich B
+Any word on B5 being released on video in the US and sold in stores rather then
+mail order.
+
+JMS: (Oh, I'd also put "The Long Night" at the very top.)  No, no word on
+     releases yet...WB doesn't sully its hands with piddly little TV shows when
+     they can put big-budget movies out where they are guaranteed big incomes....
+     (feh)
+     (thud)
+     (wubble)
+
+Dupa: <Wubble?>
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Rebecca Grigsby
+Jms, will we ever see Talia Winters again?
+
+JMS: Not in my universe.  
+
+Question from LONDON: James&Deb's
+Jms you stated that you have just realized that you have no sensors.Have you
+changed any scripts because of this.
+
+JMS: (sigh...the ravages of a public school educational system)...not so much
+     changed, as went into them now knowing I can do more than I thought.
+     Suffice to say it gets really really weird(er).  
+
+Question from ROCHELLE PARK, NJ: Mara K. Malovany
+I heard an actor speak at a convention once where he said that one of the jobs
+an actor has is to "physicalize" the script.  Do you think that is accurate,
+and, if so, can you think of a scene where the actor really nailed the
+subtext, in a way which surprised/pleased you?
+
+
+JMS: Yes, I think that's accurate.  The most obvious place where it worked was
+     where Londo looks through the window to Narn being bombed below.  There's no
+     dialogue, and he has to convey a range of emotions just through his face....
+     which is a terribly difficult thing to do, and he did a superb job of it.  
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Mike Casady
+what other projects have you worked on?
+JMS, are there any special guest stars planned for this season?
+
+JMS: Nobody major, no.  We've got Wortham Krimmer, noted for daytime stuff, and
+     Victor Londo, and of course Walter Koenig returns 4 times this season, but
+     no, this season is primarily about our characters in deep guano. 
+     Er, Victor London.
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Ken Weaverling
+Why has Philadelphia been forsaken, and how can season 5 ever be a reality with
+the fourth largest viewer market without a station?
+
+
+JMS: I don't know.  The programming part is beyond my comprehension.  I know
+     they're working on it, but the problem is that station prospects are
+     shrinking rapidly.  They make whole night-time committments to Fox, or
+     UPN....
+     and with only 1 or 2 independent stations around, and 14 hours per week
+     available, and literally 250 syndicated programs, you can get squeezed out.
+     It's not WB's fault, it's the shrinking marketplace.  There are only...
+     so many stations.  If local fans want the show, they have to pressure the
+     stations, cause WB can't do squat about it otherwise. 
+
+Moderator: Do you think that WB will spend more effort on the new
+Mad Max series as opposed to B5 next fall?
+
+JMS: I hear that's been scrubbed.
+
+Question from SAN MARCOS, CA: Don Berg
+Has there been any correlation between higher Babylon 5 ratings and
+favorable comments on the Howard Stern radio show?
+
+JMS: I dunno.  It certainly hasn't hurt us.  Probably helped, though he was
+     saying the same things when we were lower-rated.  I just think primarily
+     we're just finally finding our audience.
+
+Question from HONOLULU, HI: Mark Ambard
+You have written with a spiritual bent. The three parts of the Minbari are like
+the Trilogy, the  purity of the cult in Grey 17 evokes Leviticus etc.  What 
+is your background spritually and where are you now. I know you wrote a couple gospel
+songs that you seem to be very quiet about. Regrets?
+
+JMS: My background...is not terribly relevant to this.  (I sit and look at the
+     monitor for a moment.)  Okay, that's a lie.  It is, however, personal to me,
+     and thus not fodder for this discussion.  Where I am....
+     is that I'm an atheist.  I have, however, read nearly every religious book
+     from cover to cover, including the bible, twice, and the Bahagavad Gita, and
+     parts of the Koran, the Torah, you name it....(or Quoran, depending)....
+     and I look for those elements that are dramatic and interesting and human,
+     and I use them shamelessly, but with respect. 
+
+Question from EVANSVILLE, IN: Seeker
+How does Harlan Ellison influene the show?
+
+JMS: How does the sun influence your day?  He's there as needed, chiming in with
+     the idea of the Ombuds, for a killer weapon we needed in year 4, other
+     stuff.  He's peripatetic and ubiquitious.  (That for the person who spelled
+     secede "succeed". 
+
+Question from EAL: Les P. George
+Greetings Great Maker,
+
+Has there been any progress on B5 merchandise like videos?
+
+Also, if Harlan's health will not permit his writing the proposed sequel to the
+OL episode "Demon with a Glass Hand"  by himself,  would it be possible 
+for you and he to work on it together?
+
+Les
+
+JMS: Videos, no.  (Didn't I juat answer this?)  Other merchandise, though, is
+     coming out; a second CD, Hamilton Collector's Plates, the Fleer cards, new
+     models next year from Revell/Monogram, other stuff....
+     as for Harlan's script, we'll see. 
+
+Question from NEWPORT BEACH, CA: Stephen C. Smith
+Which character has surprised you the most, i.e. has led you in a direction diff
+erent than you'd planned?   GA
+
+JMS: Probably Vir.  He's surprised me on many levels.  Suffice to say that in the
+     first 6 somewhere next season, there's something I'd slotted for another
+     character to do.  I'd intended for that character to do it right up....
+     until the page before that other character was going to do it, when Vir
+     stepped up in my brain and said, "No, *I* should do this."  And as soon as
+     he said it, I knew it was right.  You'll see. 
+
+Question from CGZ: Al Kuntzler
+Joe, I was wondering what the status was concerming new novels and comics?
+
+
+JMS: There are 3 new novels coming out from Dell, the first being a terrific book
+     by Jeanne Cavellos following the events of the Icarus and Anna Sheridan;
+     then two more, one following Sinclair to Minbar, the other one....
+     a Londo/Vir story that ties into the first part of year 4.  There are plans
+     for the comic to start coming out again next year. 
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Victoria Martindale
+A friend who started watching the show at the end of Season 2 has a hard time be
+lieving that Londo was ever a sympathetic character, while I feel in many ways,
+he still is.  Can you give us some insight into the evolution of his character?
+
+
+JMS: Well, what level of sympathy we show, and to whom we show it, is often more
+     a factor of the person doing the perceiving than that which is perceived.
+     For me, he's a fascinating character, sometimes sympathetic....
+     and sometimes not.  You want to beat the crap out of him one minute, and
+     you're in love with something he's done the next.  The first part of year 4
+     takes his evolution a step further, and it's probably some of the most....
+     dynamic, interesting and emotional stuff we've ever seen Londo do, and it
+     puts you right back to re-evaluating his character.  Lovely stuff.  
+
+
+ [ End of non-spoiler section of chat from November 2, 1996
+   The next section contains the remainder of the conference,
+   including possible spoilers.  -- Brent ]
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Moderator: Spoiler warning! I'm going to start selecting questions
+           in regards to Z'Ha'Dum and after!
+
+Question from DUBLIN, OH: Troy Starr
+What kind of title sequence can we expect in season 4?
+
+
+JMS: (wow, 229 people now)  It's a *nifty* title sequence, dynamic, exciting, the
+     best music we've ever had, and a very interesting approach to the
+     narration.  (What, you thought I'd tell you?) 
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Bob Koslosky
+JMS,
+
+I have a hord of Star trek fans on my back... in Walkabout they say you should 
+rename it "The Search for Kosh".  In Zha'a'dum they sat that they could 
+swear the y heard Obe Wan telling Sheridan to jump.  What gives?
+
+JMS: How can you walk with so many people on your back?  It must be terribly hard
+     on you.  Tell your friends to get a wider frame of reference.  The Spock
+     thing was a one-shot done to find a way to bring him back....
+     We've always established that Vorlons are putting pieces of themselves in
+     others, and this will be stated explicitly in year 4, that's how they get
+     around, by putting pieces of themselves in others like hermit crabs....
+     which ties into what happened at Z'ha'dum.  If their frame of reference is
+     so small as to think only of those two things, the problem is theirs, not
+     mine.  Let them look into mythology, and legendry, about mythical creatures..
+     who put themselves into other people, possession, American indian myths, on
+     and on and on.  There's an old saying about books:  "A book is like a
+     mirror, if an ass peers in, you can't expect an apostle to peer out."
+
+Question from SEATTLE, WA: Andi Shechter
+On behalf of the Fans of Michael, are we gonna see more of Mr. Garibaldi in
+season 4? Btw, used to see you all the time when I hung with the Grid
+Epsilon Irregulars.
+Thanks,
+Andi
+
+JMS: Oh, most definitely.  We have some very interesting plans for Mr.
+     Garibaldi.  But bear in mind that when I get gleeful about this sort of
+     thing, it's always dangerous for the character.  
+
+Question from SACRAMENTO, CA: Brent Barrett
+Hello, Joe, What episode are you up to in writing currently?  Any new titles
+to share with us?
+When can we expect to get a title for season four? :-)
+Thanks a bunch,
+  -- Brent
+
+JMS: I'm finishing #11, "Lines of Communication."  Other titles: "The Illusion of
+     Truth," "Atonement," "Racing Mars," others.  
+
+Lyon: Where does 'Racing Mars' show up in the lineup of episodes?
+
+JMS: #10.
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Lee Burke
+What was it like for melissa gilbert to act as Sheridans wife ...along side of 
+her real husband....nice touch of casting !
+
+JMS: That's more a question for her, but for us, it was great, she did a terrific
+     job.  
+
+Question from DJO: Michael B. Truitt
+The B5 series is great.  Will the relationship between  Captain Sheridan and 
+Deleen continue to be a focus of the show?
+
+Mike T.  Albuqueruque NM
+
+JMS: Absolutely.  That relationship will have its continued ups and downs, as do
+     all relationships, but it's a vital and integral part of the show.  
+
+Question from NEWPORT BEACH, CA: Orb
+Are there any things we should watch for in the first Season 4 eps?  Minor
+between-season improvement types of things...
+
+JMS: Well, we do more off-station stuff: we go to Minbar, Narn, Centauri Prime,
+     Mars, colonies...it gets consistently bigger.  Then there's a small break,
+     so we can catch our breath (from about 8-10), then all hell breaks loose.  
+
+Question from LONDON: Hubby
+We've pretty much seen President Clark in one dimension (as the bad guy).  
+Knowing the character as you do, what's his real motivation?  What does the 
+world look like through his glasses?
+
+
+JMS: That's one of those "let me answer that in the show" questions.  
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: SysOp Dupa
+Joe,
+After "The Fall Of Night" I was under the impression that you said we would see
+what a Vorlon *really* looks like in Season three. Since that didn't happen (did
+it?), will we see it in season four?
+
+
+JMS: Yep.  
+
+Dupa: <g>
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Kay Duff
+Have you ever gone walkabout yourself?
+
+JMS: Well....yeah, kinda.  Back when I was living in San Diego (before it got
+     nuked...well, that hasn't happened yet, but soon)...I got into a kind of
+     similar mode of thought, and would go for walks through....
+     downtown San Diego at 2-4  in the morning.  Hours, hours, hours, just
+     walking through parts of the area where I could've gotten killed.  When
+     folks asked me why, I couldn't answer, all I could come up with...
+     was that I was looking for something.  And I found it, kinda, and in a
+     somewhat similar situation...but that gets into some other personal areas,
+     and this may not be the right forum for that.  Suffice to say I was....
+     almost killed myself, and leave it at that.
+
+Moderator: Here's one that fell out of the queue but got captured
+           before it disappeared.... (from Martin Toggweiler)
+           I noticed in "Z' ha' dum" that the Shadow city didn't
+           look too "alien", in many ways the buildings resembled  a human city skyline.
+           Is this meant to imply that there were many humanoids
+           in this city, and not too many Shadows?
+
+JMS: That wasn't the intent, no.  I think it's more the way it ended up. And it
+     does have some nice elements, but it could've been stranger...if we'd had
+     more time and more money.  
+
+Question from LONDON: Darran
+Joe, do you expect Warner Brothers to be a little more relaxed about next years
+Con in Blackpool, England or is there still a lot of things they unlikely to 
+allow e.g. the showing of clips from future episodes etc..
+
+BTW: I'm not in LONDON, I'm 150 Miles further north.
+
+JMS: We've worked out a deal on clips, but not on episodes.  WB has an obligation
+     to protect its copyright, and sometimes that comes into conflict with what
+     we'd like to do.  
+
+Question from EBB: Susan Christ
+On this weekend's Sci-fi Vortex, your make-up guy (Sorry, can't remember his 
+name) said that the make-up for season 4 was, so far, more like that for horror
+than for sci-fi.  Would you please elaborate on that?
+
+JMS: ......heh
+     ......heh
+     ......no.
+
+Question from LONDON: JM
+Having seen Bruce Boxleitner's wife, Gerry Doyle's wife, Walter Koenig's wife...
+..are we going to see any more spouses?
+
+JMS: I think we're fresh out.  
+
+Question from DUBLIN: John R. Finnan
+Joe, if you decide to go with the new series of Babylon, will this put back...
+the 1000page dark fantasy novel you've been planning? Some of us would like...
+to read that...<g>
+
+JMS: Probably.  But them's the breaks.  It'll still be there when I get to it.
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Buzz Lightyear
+Bruce Boxleitner has commented on "two wars" in season 4. Shadow war and what 
+else?
+
+And what are your favourite show's at the moment?
+
+JMS: well, if one were to end the shadow war, there's still something very
+     obvious that needs attending to.  And my favorite show is 60 Minutes.
+     Then you got X-Files, Simpsons, and Millennium. 
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Mary Broderick
+Any luck bring Darin Morgan into your writing staff?  I agreed with your 
+comments in SFX magazine ... he is very talented, and might help to lighten 
+your what-must-be incredible workload!
+
+JMS: I'd actually called his agent about this last hiatus, and he said that
+     Darren was taking time off from TV to write comedy screenplays.  He's the
+     only one I called about.  
+
+Question from NEWPORT BEACH, CA: Stephen C. Smith
+Getting back to the subject of a potential sequel/spinoff TV series ... Would 
+it also be an "arc" series with a finite limit, or would you go with the 
+more typical TV formula of an open-ended storyline?
+
+JMS: It would have a looser arc than B5, and would be more adventure oriented
+     than drama oriented.  B5 has always had a certain darkness at its core, and
+     after X-years of writing that, it can start to creep into your soul...
+     so I'd like to do something different, personally and for the viewers, play
+     out some new colors rather than do the same thing.  Have fun with it.
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: G'Kane
+OK, you KNOW the overall tile of season 4, but can you TELL it?
+
+JMS: Of course I do.  Of course I won't.   
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Nick & Sharons
+theres ben a lot of talk about physics in relations to sheridans fall, how much
+affects your interpretation of the reason for his not being killed ?
+
+JMS: Zip.  
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Michael Rubinstein
+If the Shadow's objective is to pit the races against each other and give a gold
+star to the winner, then why are they now attacking directly? That just makes 
+the races unite against a common foe.
+ 
+JMS: Nope.  First they attacked careful to not let anyone know who was doing it,
+     so they'd accuse each other.  Then they'd let another take the credit/blame
+     for it, the Centauri in this case.  That'd spin off new alliances and new...
+     wars, and everyone's scurrying for cover.  THEN they reveal themselves, and
+     now you've got re-scurrying, some who try to make deals, and then attack
+     others (as stated) thinking they have an unbeatable ally....
+     most of the killing up until this point was done by the others, not the
+     shadows.  This current campaign would also lead to scattering the pins, and
+     watching as they restructure, and they'd pull out again to let them scurry..
+     and keep chewing at each other, only coming out when necessary to tip things
+     over, then recede again into the....shadows.  
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: RANGER 13
+Hi there jms
+
+Is there anything that did not get put into the arc that you wanted to be 
+included? and in the Minbari religion it says thet Valav will return, did 
+Sinclair mean his birth will be his return?  Also have you read a book called 
+"In search of Aeincietn Gods" by Erich Danikin?
+
+JMS: I think if the arc had anything else in it it'd explode.  RE: Valen's
+     return, well, that's still a mystery there, open to interpretatin.  As for
+     Van Daniken, yeah, but ages ago.  
+
+Question from DUBLIN, OH: Troy Starr
+Now that there is a "power vacuum" on Minbar, how is Minbari society 
+functioning?
+
+
+JMS: not as well as it might, which will become an issue soon.  
+
+Question from LONDON: James&Deb's
+Jms i hope no typo's this time :)
+Any news on when season 4 will come to england and if it will be wide screen.
+
+JMS: I don't know for sure, but it'd have to be middle or early spring at the
+     soonest.  Don't know about widescreen, that's up to C4.  
+
+Question from VANCOUVER, BC: kelly
+Will Ivanova be involved in any sort of a romantic relationship in the upcoming
+season?
+
+JMS: Could be.  
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: B5Lurker
+Joe, now that we have seen the finale, will Sheridan be the same Sheridan?
+
+JMS: Yes and no.  There's always a price to pay.  Even if he comes out of this,
+     that price cannot be avoided.  
+
+Question from TORONTO, ON: CAROLINE M. LEWIS
+I really love the use of prophecy, telepathy and living
+technology in the show. Will there be more of
+a scientific or whatever background given to this in
+the future episodes?
+
+
+JMS: I'll certainly try to work it in, and have, where possible.  It's an
+     interesting area.
+     (hang on)....
+     Here's a funny thing.
+     Well, funny weird.
+     See, every so often, someone will ask, "How much of you goes into a script?"
+     and I'll answer, "More than I know at the time," and they ask for an
+     example.  A few questions ago, someone (Kay) asked about if I'd ever gone...
+     on walkabout, and I thought of the San Diego thing...and it suddenly dawned
+     on me that that was behind the Franklin thing.  Long story short: I got
+     attacked and mugged by a gang, and beaten nearly to death....
+     and survived only by a sheer act of will.  And I'd honestly never, ever put
+     that together with Walkabout, until the question, and suddenly there it was,
+     I was working out *exactly* what I'd gone though, denying it to myself...
+     the whole time that it was going on.  Well.  Anyway.  That just hit me like
+     a ton of bricks, and thought I'd pass it along.  
+
+Dupa: <so that's why he nuked SanDiego!>
+
+Question from LONDON: Entil Marcus Cole
+As a hopeful future author, I began a while ago writing my own book. I started 
+with a simple Idea and it has spiraled out of all control, into this 
+gargantuan *Thing*. What advice would you give to someone staring a *Big* 
+story like this in the face.
+
+
+JMS: Write 2 pages a day.  Don't think about how big it is.  Just do it in small
+     bites.  Never look down, never let them see fear in your eyes.  
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Jim O
+my wife was upset when some major characters were missing in last episode from
+season 3.  1.) Will any of them be back  2.) any hints for next season 
+3.) will you still quit at 5 1/2 yrs?
+
+JMS: All our regular/recurring cast return for year 4.  No hints; it's right
+     around the corner, so there's no point.  
+
+Question from CINCINNATI, OH: David Kuhn
+How's Netter handling the job of the CGI so far this year.  I saw previews of 
+tommorrow's feed.  Was the CGI in ep 1 stock footage or all new for this year 
+created by netter or foundation?
+
+
+JMS: The new CGI looks great, even better, frankly.  There's plenty of new CGI in
+     the episode, and a nifty shot in the new title sequence...I defy anybody to
+     tell the difference except by recognizing stuff.  
+
+Question from LONDON: Hubby
+What kind of fan behavior annoys you the most?  (Here's your chance to get 
+something off your chest! ;-)
+
+
+JMS: You mean aide from someone sending me a trojan horse and virus which knocked
+     down my computer so I had to spend 4 days rebuilding it, or the reposted
+     rumor yesterday that I'd had a heart attack...?
+     Can't think of a thing.  
+
+Question from LONDON: Nick Coe
+Joe,
+  You said summat a while back about S4 having a 'Filmic' quality.  Can you 
+elaborate on what you meant?
+
+
+JMS: It's a tonality thing...the feel of it is mature, grander, more film like.
+     It's hard to quantify, but if you watch, you'll feel it.  It's the best
+     we've ever done.  
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Angela
+Since you brought it up, what are the circumstances surrounding the "nuking" of
+San Diego?  Where did that come from?
+Angela    Dayton (hu-hum) Ohio
+
+JMS: Terrorists who snuck it in to retaliate for something, and felt that they
+     should strike at something relatively untouched and pristine.  It was a
+     dirty nuke, and a good sized one.  
+
+Question from DUBLIN: John R. Finnan
+Have you any room in Season 4 to "farm" out scripts to other writers? Or are...
+you going to attempt 2 seasons in a row???
+
+JMS: So far, it's jms scripts.  I may die.  (Well, there go the rumors again.)  
+
+Question from LONDON: Toni
+Hi Joe
+
+Brilliant Series!!
+What do you consider to be the best moment on the show - the one that worked 
+best and came out right?
+
+Toni - Scotland
+
+JMS: general note to people: don't page me with private questions or I will hurt
+     you.  Now, to the question:
+     It's hard to pick one.  The elevator scene with G'Kar and Londo is just
+     lovely; the death of the emperor in Coming; but probably the bombing of
+     Z'ha'dum with that whole montage is as close to art as we've gotten.
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Jones
+In New York City we just saw Z'hadum, and there's people on a call in cable show
+talking about how great t was....  We love  B 5!
+
+
+
+JMS: That's great, thanks!  
+
+Question from DUBLIN, OH: Richard Long
+why the name Babylon, what prompted you to use this name.
+
+JMS: It was an attempt to create a place of commerce, industry, drawing people
+     from many places...the tower of Babel being an intersection of many voices,
+     so it fit.  
+
+Question from EAQ: Shawn Ratner
+JMS,
+
+Does the cast get together when Babylon 5 is not in production during the week?
+
+
+
+JMS: Constantly.  They go on vacation together, have dinners together, hang out,
+     go to air shows, same for the crew.  It's a very tight bunch, and we like
+     each other, and they all hang out.
+
+Question from CFQ: dan r. tilley
+Have others from the scifi community (ie George Lucas, etc.) commented on B5?
+
+JMS: Not really, no.  
+
+Lyon: I think Majel Barrett's appearance qualifies as a comment from the scifi
+      community. <grin>
+
+Willmoth: And the fact that DS9 keeps using what has been used on B5 :-)
+
+Whiteside: We're reaching the 90 minute mark.  Did you have anything specific
+           you'd like to mention (say your script book or something).
+
+JMS: (holds up copy of The Complete Book of Scriptwriting)  "Yo.  Buy my book."
+
+Dupa: ISBN and price?
+
+Whiteside: ISBN was in the blurb at the beginning of the conference.
+
+JMS: I don't wanna hawk it too much...it's there.  Beyond that...I'd just note
+     that the first 6 episodes of B5 are the most intense, character driven
+     episodes we've ever done.  They've all done good.
+
+Whiteside: We have more than enough questions to keep going for a while.
+
+Lyon: Also, folks, remember to visit the SF & Fantasy Forums, specifically the
+      SFMEDONE Forum, for all three Babylon 5 message sections and lots of witty
+      repartee with jms. <grin>  GO SCIFI.
+
+Dupa: <plug>
+
+JMS: commercials.  I can't escape them.
+
+Willmoth: Everyone needs an outlet :-)
+
+Dupa: and I'll be in the lobby selling my jams and jellies.
+
+Whiteside: OK, I'll continue with a few more questions, then.
+
+Question from DUBLIN, OH: Troy Starr
+How weakened are the forces of the Army of Light after their engagement with 
+the Shadows?
+
+JMS: They're okay, tired but okay.  And the big fleet hasn't even assembled 
+yet.
+
+Question from SEATTLE, WA: Andi Shechter
+Will we ever see the Technomages again?  They were a wonderful creation.
+
+JMS: Actually, yeah, but I'm looking at the sequel for that.  
+
+Question from LONDON: GAIL
+Any chance of giving Marcus Cole a lot more action?
+
+JMS: Most definitely.  And some funny moments soon with Franklin that should
+     drive folks nuts.  
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Dave
+In Shadow Dancing, Deleen looked surprised when Sheridan stated that his dream 
+sent by Kosh may be just that, a dream. Was this intentional?
+
+JMS: Delenn is always surprised.  
+
+Question from LONDON: John Morris
+
+Joe,
+Did Valen have children?  Does his "line" continue in the year 2260?
+
+JMS: Ah, a question that...will be dealt with in one of the novels, and the
+     series, but I'd rather hold that for then. 
+
+Question from EAE: Paul Hachey
+It would seem logical that the Vorlons would know the Shadows true "purpose",  
+why did Kosh not share this with Sheridan and expose it all?
+
+JMS: Because they don't trust us.  They know what's best for us, and would rather
+     make the decisions for us.  That means controlling information.  
+
+Question from LONDON: Martin Shaw
+Hi, I really enjoyed the play between Ivanova and Corwin in Exogenesis. Are we 
+going to see more of Corwin in future eps?
+
+
+JMS: Not in the first batch, but later, I do want to do more with it.  
+
+Question from LONDON: Colkai
+In a recent interview, with yourself and BB, Bruce was like a kid with a 
+new toy about S4, how do you manage to keep such enthusiasm in your cast 
+and crew, (Foundation excluded natch.)
+Kai - St Helens
+
+JMS: You push them to try new things, let them explore new colors, give them
+     proper respect for their work, and make work a good place to come to.  It's
+     real simple.  
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Karl Behrendt
+In the months in which we see no new episodes, is there any chance of seeing
+some repeats from the first season?
+
+JMS: Nada.  
+
+Question from SANTURCE, PR: Ricky Cruz
+Every think of directing an episode?
+It's telepaths now, but what was the shadow's weakness during the original war?
+Thanks for always taking time out of your busy schedule for your fans.
+
+
+JMS: The shadows' original weakness was Cadbury Chocolate.  And telepaths.  As
+     for directing an ep, it'd have to be just once, to experience it.  But we'll
+     see.  
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: G'Kane
+Sorry to hear about the gang attack! Anyway, are there any plans to do a 
+"technical manual" for B5 in the near future, or will the background in 
+the RPG be detailed enough? And are the new ships you mentioned for s4 
+going with new races, or just other shipclasses?
+
+JMS: Yeah, Boxtree (UK) is doing a tech manual, and we'll see new ships from
+     familiar races and new ones.  
+
+Question from LONDON: PhiLL
+On Z'Ha'Dum, how big was the hole that JS fell into. There seemed to be a
+deliberate lack of perspective. thanks for a great ride!
+
+JMS: Several miles deep, maybe a lot more.  
+
+Question from EAI: Marco Peacock
+JMS, have you ever wanted anything too "outrageous/weird"" in your series, but 
+for some reason wasn't allowed to? Please ask WB to promote B5 more in The 
+Netherlands, because they're still airing season two here! Thanks!
+
+JMS: I can't think of anything; I get pretty weird sometimes, but nobody ever
+     says don't do that.  They don't bother me.  I think I scare them.  
+
+
+Question from HONOLULU, HI: Mark Ambard
+Will there be a Hallmark holiday ornament? A White Star would be nice. Or a 
+B5.
+
+
+JMS: Nope.  
+
+Question from SAN MARCOS, CA: Don Berg
+I saw lots of Babylon 5 VHS videos (1st and 2nd season) being sold
+at last weekend's San Diego creation convention.  Is this legal?
+
+JMS: (Wouldn't Morden's head make a great Hallmark ornament?)
+     No, the sale of those videos is definitely NOT legit.  
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Laurence R. Justus
+You state there are plans from Revell-Monogram for models to come out. At the 
+recent RCHTA (Hobby) Show in Chicago nothing was mentioned, just the release 
+of models from Battlestar Galactice. Can you be a little more elaborate on this.
+
+Thanks.
+
+JMS: No, because the deal was just made a few weeks ago; they don't roll out or
+     promote stuff until they have stuff to promote.  They're now deciding which
+     models to make and so on.  
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Trevor Hart
+Will we ever see the explorer class ship with Sheridan's friend as captain 
+again?
+
+JMS: No immediate plans, no.  
+
+Question from EXTERNAL NETWORK: Norman
+In "The Making of Babylon 5" Jerry Doyle pointed out ' Is there no woman for 
+Garibaldi ?' - 'No ? Then I quit !' -- So is this going to change ? Will there 
+be any woman for him ?
+
+JMS: Depends on how much longer this will continue to annoy Jerry.  As soon as
+     it's no more fun, he'll get laid.  
+
+Question from EBB: SysOp J. Shaun Lyon
+>From Brenda Sulley: You've said that by end of S/3 you pretty much have all your
+ "cards on the table," but it looks like there's still much to tell in 2 years!
+ Are we really seeing the full picture now, or is the "3rd age of mankind" just
+the story of the battle with the Shadows?
+
+JMS: The 3rd age goes beyond that...but as it happens, we'll spell out what that
+     means exactly in the first third of year 4.  And then we move on to other
+     stuff.  Life is change.  
+
+Question from AUSTIN, TX: Richard K.
+In "Shadow Dancing", the scene with Dr. Franklin in down below and the little 
+girl with the ball.  I smell a hint.  Is there?
+
+
+JMS: Whatever you're smelling, it's got nothing to do with me.  
+
+Question from ALBUQUERQUE, NM: Joe Walters
+Since there is some talk of possible spinoffs (I know you've got at
+least one under consideration somewhere), I'd like to request another.
+We'd REALLY like to watch a continuing series of "The Adventures of
+Zathras."
+
+
+JMS: Be very, very, careful what you ask for.  
+
+Dupa: <Zathras can never have own show>
+
+Whiteside: OK, that's the end of the questioning for Joe.
+
+JMS: Thanks for coming, and for supporting the show.  It's much appreciated, more
+     than you can ever know.
+
+Lyon: Thanks again everyone for joining us for our conference with Joe Straczynski,
+      and be sure to join us in the SF Forums (GO SCIFI) (yes, another
+      commercial...last one!)
+
+JMS: Oh, the RPG sourcebook is GREAT!
+
+Willmoth: Thanks again, Joe!
+
+Whiteside: Those who didn't get their question in can always ask Joe in the 
+forum.
+
+Dupa: Author! Author!!
+
+JMS: Where?  Where?
+     Wherewolf?  Therewolf.
+
+JMS: Okay, I'm ducking out so Stephen and the others can talk.  Thanks again,
+     everyone, and I'll see you on the other side.
+     BYE!
+
+ [ End of transcript ]
+
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+JMS CompuServe messages for March 1999.  Collected by John Hardin
+<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Mar 1999 00:17:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Andy Ihnatko <72511.204@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Elia Kazan?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I will almost certainly be out of the TV room during the
+presentation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Mar 1999 00:17:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Crusade Gone For Now
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Your words are most kind, and appreciated...thank you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Mar 1999 21:17:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Why the change of heart?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Those matters can never be addressed contractually before the
+start of a project.  They only come up in the process of making a show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Mar 1999 21:17:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 13 worth watching?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think they stand up just great on their own.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Mar 1999 21:06:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 13 worth watching?
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, Have you thought about telling the story in any other way,
+> if no more TV shows are to be made?
+
+      Not planning to do so, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Mar 1999 15:40:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Movie Rumour
+
+ Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> As this has only appeared on the Ch4 website and noone else seems
+> to know anything about it, I suspect its just someone joking
+> about but has anyone here heard anything ? Joe ?
+
+      This is the first I've heard of it, so the likelihood of this
+having any basis in fact is about zip.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1999 14:04:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JudyL <72520.216@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade cross stitch
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, I'll check it out (and have seen the others, good work).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Mar 1999 13:38:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Writing "Crusade"
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> "If they make a season 2 of 'Crusade', will you come back and
+> write it, or will someone else write it? And, if I can sneak in a
+> question of my own, anything new on a possible "B5" DVD release? 
+> Widescreen? Supplements?
+
+      One thing at a time; as Ted Kennedy (might've) said, I'll drive
+off that bridge when I come to it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1999 15:09:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: jms comic preview out
+
+      So for those who've asked....
+
+      The current issue of WIZARD MAGAZINE, hitting the stands this
+week, has a long article about, and a preview issue of, "Rising Stars,"
+my new comic from TOP COW, a division of IMAGE comics, publishers of
+Spawn and Fathom.
+
+      This is gonna be fun....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Mar 1999 22:50:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms comic preview out
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Cool, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Mar 1999 22:50:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms comic preview out
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  design work. Does the artist present you with sketches for  your
+> approval?
+
+      Yes, Keu does a rough pencil sketch, it's run past me for
+approval, then it goes to inks, after any changes, if needed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Apr 1999 20:17:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: jms comic preview out
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think that it's available via Forbidden Planet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Apr 1999 00:30:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: SFWA Bradbury to JMS
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's a niceness.  And given that I've managed to honk off about
+80% of SFWA's membership at one point or another, you know it sure as
+hell ain't a popularity contest thing....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Apr 1999 00:34:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Crusade Gone For Now
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+       I haven't heard on this one way or the other.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Apr 1999 00:34:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Thomas W. Rackers <72047.1207@compuserve.com>
+Subject: SFWA Bradbury Award
+
+ Thomas W. Rackers <72047.1207@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So this is only the second time the award has been given?
+> And what have *I* accomplished in those years?
+
+      Thanks, and yeah, I've seen Babylon Park...most funny.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Apr 1999 00:43:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: SFWA Bradbury to JMS
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Congratulations - be nice if a Crusade ep wins the reinstated drama
+award..."
+
+      Not in any Star Wars year...won't happen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Apr 1999 18:25:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: "Severed Dreams" on DVD?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, it ain't on DVD, none of them are at present, though all the
+show is being released on VHS and LD in stages.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Apr 1999 20:18:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: have you wrote any plays
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I first began writing dramatic stuff by writing for the stage;
+I've had about 12 plays produced, a combination of one-acts and full-
+length, though none are currently out there, with the exception of one
+thing I did a long time ago that got published in book form.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Apr 1999 20:18:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 in Amazing Stories
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, are your 3 stories going to be in consecutive issues of
+> Amazing Stories?
+
+      I don't know; I think so but don't know for sure.  There's an
+amazing stories website that may have the info.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Apr 1999 20:18:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: "Severed Dreams" on DVD?
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But "Severed Dreams" on DVD?
+
+      They're releasing them in groups, so eventually it'll be out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 21 Apr 1999 20:24:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Amazing Stories
+
+ Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know how one might subscribe to Amazing Stories?
+
+      There's a website for Amazing Stories magazine, though I don't
+have the URL about.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Apr 1999 20:21:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Hollywood Video promo
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Can they DO this?
+> Speaking of DVD rentals <g> - any news?
+
+      I can't see any reason why they couldn't, since it was a
+promotional thing, as opposed to a piece of mass-marketed merchandise
+for sale.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Apr 1999 16:37:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Again, congrats
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance you'll be squeezing in dropping in on Book Expo
+> America in Anaheim before you head out to receive the SFWA award?
+
+"I've seen the grousing (as you undoubtedly have) that "SiL" received
+the nomination only because it was impossible to give the nomination to
+the entire series and that it doesn't stack up against the other
+nominated works for brilliance in advancing the SF in SF dramatic
+works."
+
+      My response would be two-fold: first, that I didn't know that
+advancing SF in SF dramatic works was the requirement, only that it BE
+SF.  The Truman Show, also nominated, doesn't present any new
+ideas...heck, I did a TWILIGHT ZONE episode in 88 that had *exactly*
+the same story and structure (simultaneous creation, I'm not saying it
+was cribbed, it wasn't). ST:Insurrection likewise doesn't exactly
+advance the field of SF by bringing in new ideas...it's another ST
+movie, and the core is the fountain of youth idea, not exactly
+innovative.  Pleasantville has its roots in the Purple Rose of Cairo,
+the Last Action Hero and others.  Of all the other entries, I'd say 
+only Dark City really does anything really innovative.
+
+      But all are equally in the genre, and thus equally viable
+candidates.
+
+      As to what SiL might bring that advances the SF in SF dramatic
+works, I'd say that it brings something quite new: an ending.  This is
+the preplanned ending toward which the 5 years of B5 have been working.
+We said at the beginning that B5 has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
+All SF shows have a beginning, most have a middle...but this is
+something new, an ending toward which all has been leading.  This
+really hasn't been done before in SF TV.  B5 introduced the concept of
+the 5 year arc to TV...this is the end of that arc, to which all has
+been pointing.
+
+      (Funnily enough, I think this is the first time that a Hugo
+nominated entry has actually had a Hugo visible *in* it.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Apr 1999 15:17:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Again, congrats
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      In the opening of act one, the camera pans around Ivanova's desk
+to reveal her.  In foreground in that shot is a small area with several
+of what look like medals or frame.  In the midst of that is a long
+rocket pointing upward, on a round bronze disk.  That's the Hugo.  The
+camera continues on past it to reveal her, so it's in the first few
+moments of the act.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Apr 1999 18:54:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Futurerama penned by JMS
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'd love to do one, just haven't been asked...hadn't even
+thought about it.  We're certainly alike in that we've both been
+through the wars on our respective shows.  I dunno, we'll have to see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Apr 1999 19:27:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: TNT schedule change !
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's really a rather cruel joke.  According to the latest on the
+website, they're looking at 7 a.m. or 8 a.m. M-F.  And they want input
+on this poll from fans who are given nothing for options on where to
+put it.
+
+      If anyone were to ask me, I'd be *happy* to tell TNT where to
+put it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Apr 1999 19:24:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Deep Space 9
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I haven't seen 'em...only have heard that the last DS9 ep is
+pretty much the same as what we did in SiL.  Don't know that for a
+fact, but the word on the street is that Sisko goes off with the
+ancient ones, never to return, and the station gets blowed up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 May 1999 17:53:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: David L Trahan <110714.3375@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Deep Space 9
+
+ David L Trahan <110714.3375@compuserve.com> asks:
+> No offense, sir, but could you please put a spoiler warning next
+> time you give spoilers for non-B5 shows like that?
+
+"No offense, sir, but could you please put a spoiler warning next time
+you give spoilers for non-B5 shows like that?  I mean, I know this is a
+B5 forum, but some people here, such as me, watch shows like DS9, and
+do not want to know stuff like that about episodes yet to air."
+
+      Sorry, figured it couldn't be much of a spoiler since we'd
+already done it on our show....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 May 1999 20:42:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: IslanderUK <100545.3607@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Deep Space 9
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"I seem to recall reading in one of the B5 magazines that when JMS was
+first trying to sell the idea of B5, he was aware that DS9 was also in
+the pipeline, so to say that DS9 is a knock-off is not strictly true
+although some of the later story lines are similar."
+
+      Negative.  We began trying to sell the B5 series to everyone in
+town, including Paramount, 5 years prior to getting a Go order.  The B5
+series was announced in early November of that year.  There was NO set
+ST series by that point.  Over the following Christmas weekend, I got a
+phone call from someone very closely involved with Trek, who said,
+"They just decided what the new Trek show is going to be.  It's about a
+space station that's a center of commerce, with a travel gate nearby."
+
+      So your information is quite incorrect.  Nor did it come from
+the B5 magazine (there's only one).
+
+"Still JMS must be quite pleased if it is a knock-off, as to copy ones
+ideas is the greatest form of praise."
+
+      Let me steal your car and see if you feel the same way
+afterward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 May 1999 17:51:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: Rock Star!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The info from Kitt Peak Observatory also mentioned that the
+asteroid has "a moderately eccentric orbit."  Suffice to say this has
+been cause for some considerable humor around the office....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 May 1999 13:37:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: IslanderUK <100545.3607@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Deep Space 9
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"...infact I think it first aired about 6 weeks before the B5 pilot."
+
+      Yeah, they pushed through their post production specifically to
+beat us into the marketplace.
+
+"I can certainly understand you being "devastated" to find out about
+DS9 and am surprised, given the penchant for court action in the USA,
+that you have never started legal action for plagiarism."
+
+      It was discussed with WB for some time, but they felt that it
+would be like getting into a protracted land war in Asia, and the
+litigation might prevent B5 from getting a fair shot by being embroiled
+in a conflict right out of the gate.
+
+"As far as stealing your car is concerned, if your car was stolen you
+would not have use of it. You still retained use of the B5 idea and the
+fact that it is similar <g> to DS9 did not prevent it being produced."
+
+      Actually, it almost did.  WB came within an inch of canceling
+the whole thing because they weren't sure the market could sustain two
+space station series.  It also hurt us in that fans thought that *we*
+were the copycats, since we aired second.  And Paramount played a lot
+of games with the stations to try and keep us off the air so they'd
+have the field to themselves.  It took us almost two years to really
+recover from the damage, it's still an annoyance that we seem to be
+providing DS9 with R&D free of charge, and we still have a lot of fans
+who think we copied them since our pilot aired second.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 May 1999 19:56:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A HOMer for SiL
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      That's great news, thanks.  It's a wonderful thing, and I'm duly
+grateful.
+
+      BTW, I've never actually *seen* a Homer before...what's it look
+like?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 May 1999 22:44:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A HOMer for SiL
+
+ SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you recall receiving it?
+
+"You should have received a HOMer certificate for "The Coming Of
+Shadows" sometime in May, 1996. Do you recall receiving it?"
+
+      Not offhand.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 May 1999 21:16:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade eps on TNT site
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, who wrote the synopses on the Crusade eps at the TNT site?
+
+      I've no idea....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 May 1999 21:27:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 4 weeks to Crusade
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"I swear, the folks at TNT are being shown different versions of this
+stuff than the rest of us.  It's the only way to explain some of this."
+
+      We've gotten used to it.  Their promotions department is one of
+the most inept I've ever seen.  I finally snagged the Crusade promo,
+and not only did they make terrible selections of footage, a) about
+half the footage isn't even FROM Crusade, it's from B5 and A Call to
+Arms (inclusive of Keffer getting gakked in season 2), and b) the
+little Crusade footage they DO use is repeated several times (first one-
+frame each, then again, mostly people just standing around).
+
+      We've delivered virtually all of the episodes, there's plenty of
+stuff to draw on...why on *earth* would they go to B5 for footage?  And
+why on earth would they use the same uninteresting Crusade footage
+repeatedly, all this in a 20 second promo, where every second counts?
+
+      The only possible answer I can come up with is that these
+promotions people are totally and completely inept...which would
+explain why the majority of their shows are doing terribly right now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 15 May 1999 18:25:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 4 weeks to Crusade
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"The only thing I can think of is that they hope to catch the eye of
+existing B5 fans by showing the footage."
+
+      Given that the footage used was absolutely unremarkable --
+guards standing outside the B5 council chambers, a woman in a starfury
+cockpit from ItB, Keffer getting burned, a few others -- that prospect
+seems thin at best.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 May 1999 21:48:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com>
+Subject: JMS: Rock Star!
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"The bad puns must be oh, several feet deep by now on the floor..."
+
+      Right alongside the punsters....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 May 1999 17:17:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Tim <106273.3321@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Deep Space 9
+
+ Tim <106273.3321@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So whats stopping you from starting litigation now ?
+> Personally I would love to see the mountain having its peak
+> lopped off <g> At the very least you could use the publicity to
+> correct all those misinformed sci-fi fans out there ?
+
+      Because, again, I do not *own* B5, not now, not before, not once
+WB bought it.  The copyright belongs to WB, and they don't like to get
+into these kinds of tussels.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 May 1999 17:17:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade promo
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Cool, I'll try to find it...is it available on newsstands?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 May 1999 19:40:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade promo
+
+ SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The usual address?
+
+      Yeah, that's be great, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 May 1999 16:49:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade promo in Canada
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do they give you copies of this stuff?
+
+      Haven't seen it, no.  Interesting....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 May 1999 00:15:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 on PBS show
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      What's interesting is that there was an apparent incident
+reported in the news lately where some Star Trek fans showed up en
+masse to picket and pick a fight with a line of Star Wars fans waiting
+to get into a screening of TPW because they didn't like the publicity
+SW was getting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 24 May 1999 21:19:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: Fan Mail Reroute
+
+      Just a quick note: the mail drop for all B5 cast and crew is
+being shifted from the Ventura Blvd. mail drop to the official Fan Club
+address, which is PO Box 856, North Hollywood, CA 91603.  All mail for
+those folks should go to that address henceforth.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 May 1999 19:52:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Fan Mail Reroute
+
+ SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that include you?
+
+      I'll keep the Ventura Blvd. box open for my own stuff for a
+while, but it will eventually be closed down.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 May 1999 12:58:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 4 weeks to Crusade
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The marriage was going great until the wacky inlaws showed up
+with Cousin It from Atlanta....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 31 May 1999 15:48:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: 4 weeks to Crusade
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, I've finally figured out TNT's marketing strategy for
+Crusade, and I've come to realize that I'm wrong, it's an utterly
+innovative and unprecedented campaign.
+
+      See, the more PR you put out there about a show, the more you
+are going to prejudice a potential audience for or -- possibly --
+against the program. So the best way to combat this is to put out
+little or no PR so that the audience can come to the show without *any*
+prior preconceptions whatsoever.
+
+      It's breathtaking, I tell you...breathtaking.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+(PS, there's a very good Crusade article in the current issue of
+Dreamwatch Magazine, from the UK but available out here, that really
+gets into the nuts and bolts of what happened.)
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Jun 1999 00:53:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: 4 weeks to Crusade
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I've actually been just about as busy now as before, so who has
+time?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Jun 1999 18:06:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Going to Wolf 359 ????
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> I was also wonder of the "mix" of people going, is it mainly B5
+> people?
+
+      Since you're (as usual) fronting for Wolf 359 and Brian Cooney,
+may I inquire as to whether or not the B5 cast members who got stiffed
+the *last* time by Brian's VorCon (a situation verified independently
+by Dreamwatch Magazine) -- such as Peter Jurasik, Mira, Bill, Jerry and
+others -- ever got paid what they were due for their appearance fees?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 07 Jun 1999 01:33:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Episode order?
+
+ Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this your decision,like the eps were shot out of sequence for
+> some reason? Or if not,then what does it mean?
+
+      The numerical sequence was massively juggled due to changes and
+stuff...so ignore the production numbers *entirely*.  We start at 108,
+then go all over the place, with the final 5 being 103, 101, 102, 104
+and ending on 105.  Just go by the titles.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Jun 1999 14:19:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Gar Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Episode order?
+
+ Gar Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But you are saying that dispite the numerical sequence being
+> disordered, Crusade remains a contining story rather than
+> standalone episodes? Also would you answer the question I asked
+> about storyboards not being used in episodic TV?
+
+"But you are saying that dispite the numerical sequence being
+disordered, Crusade remains a contining story rather than standalone
+episodes?"
+
+      They're somewhat stand alone that was introducing characters and
+setting up the details that would kick the arc into gear with #14.
+
+"Also would you answer the question I asked about storyboards not
+being used in episodic TV?"
+
+      We used them all the time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Jun 1999 14:19:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Another Crusade Promo
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's great, though I don't need a copy, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Jun 1999 17:02:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 in Academe, Again
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Most cool....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Jun 1999 17:08:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CRUSADE
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      My take on #1 is that this is the weakest of the bunch, because
+this is the only one written at the behest of TNT; it's exposition
+heavy, too much swaggering macho stuff, no real depth, just stuff
+blowing up.  The ones that follow are much better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1999 00:15:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CRUSADE
+
+ SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And the passing reference to SOMETHING happening with the teeps -
+> Will we ever find out what that something was? That Drakh - Wayne
+> Alexander? That new twist - "Who do you trust?"
+
+      All that exposition is what TNT wanted...and one of the reasons
+was that they weren't going to rerun ACtA before it...then they were,
+which made it all unnecessary...then they ran ACtA AFTER the ep...which
+makes NO kind of sense.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1999 00:15:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: CRUSADE
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"The mutiny was clumsy, but I like Gideon, Galen, Dureena and Trace.  
+(And from the way it opened, my first thought was, "this must be some
+of the extra violence TNT wanted.  Ugh.")
+
+      Ding.
+
+"Will we find out why Gideon wouldn't have his exec scan the Drakh?"
+
+      The rules about unauthorized scans still apply.  Matheson has to
+operate even under stricter rules re: privacy now than before.  You'll
+see more on this later.
+
+"The only really weak spots, to me were the " Earth in a panic"
+scenes, which looked an awful lot like newsreel footage"
+
+      TNT note: we need to SEE Earth in turmoil, if we just hear about
+it nobody's going to get it.  They had us insert that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1999 00:19:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael R. Marks <104504.455@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CRUSADE
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"The opening scene cracked me up. Look there's a fight, as close to
+wrestling as you can get on a starship."
+
+      Yep.  That's one of the mandates they put on the first ep...they
+wanted to start with a fist-fight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1999 21:54:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: CRUSADE
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> I do have one question; how much of the riot scenes were real new
+> footage?
+
+      It was all real footage.
+
+      As for the exposition...one reason they asked for so much was
+because they said it was going to air months after ACTA, and nobody'd
+remember, and it wouldn't get rerun...then after we shot WZ they
+decided they *would* rerun ACTA before WZ...then a few weeks ago they
+decided to run ACTA -- which has all the info needed for WZ -- AFTER
+WZ.
+
+      Now perhaps you get a small sense of what we've been up against.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1999 21:54:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: CRUSADE
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Somehow I get the feeling that the reason the Detroit Free Press
+reviewer said that Crusade looked "like it came from the planet Cheez-
+Whiz" can be summed up in 3 letters.... TNT.  Unfortunately, if the
+first episode were all I had to go by I'd have to agree with him."
+
+      And I would as well.
+
+      That's the thing about all this...in the negative comments about
+War Zone -- and actually there have been far fewer than I'd anticipated
+ -- there ain't much that I'd disagree with.  If anything, they've
+tickled me because they reflect EXACTLY what I'd said when these things
+were asked for.  It's been a massive validation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1999 21:54:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CRUSADE
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"And the differences were SO transparent (the fist fight, the earth
+scenes, the posturing, etc.)  I sure wish I could have seen a JMS
+script as opposed to a "JMS with TNT" script."
+
+      The other 12 fit the bill.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1999 21:54:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: CRUSADE
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Was this scene editted back together from separate filmings?
+
+"In the scenes with the Senator on Mars I wasn't sure Cole was in the
+same room with the other two during the dialogue.  Too many cuts back
+and forth and his eyes seemed to move around oddly.  Was this scene
+editted back together from separate filmings?"
+
+      At one point in editing we needed some close-ups, and there
+weren't any in that part, so we kind of borrowed some from earlier in
+the sequence. We do this a lot, when there isn't coverage of some parts
+of scenes, rarely does anyone notice the eyeline difference.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1999 21:55:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: CRUSADE
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1999 00:19:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: My take Crusade
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Will a CD on Chen's music be put out>  I can't wait..."
+
+      Yep, in fact, I have it right here, having gotten the first
+pressing of the thing for approval.  Chris's company will be putting it
+out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1999 21:04:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dan Deckert <74156.1432@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CRUSADE
+
+ Dan Deckert <74156.1432@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you set the bar too high?
+
+"She had trouble understanding Crusade ep 1, and she's smarter than I
+am.. Have you set the bar too high?"
+
+      Nope.  Check out next week's for proof.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1999 21:10:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Lee Gordon <75030.1144@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CRUSADE
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"And yet I don't recall a scene in B5 in which you fragged the head of
+ITN or any other network."
+
+      No, but there were occasional little hidden messages in the
+episode, as when a character says, "We've had to make some compromises
+to get this show on the road."  No one noticed that one, despite being
+rather literal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1999 21:10:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: CRUSADE
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> "Or, WHERE is ship security?!"
+> Did they at least give you a blindfold and a cigarette?
+
+"Did they at least give you a blindfold and a cigarette? <wry>"
+
+      Not orally, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1999 21:10:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CRUSADE
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I've seen it, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Jun 1999 16:32:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dan Deckert <74156.1432@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CRUSADE
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks for the info.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Jun 1999 16:32:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Crusade over here
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It'll be on SkyTV, I'm told.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 12 Jun 1999 16:32:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Ratings In!
+
+ Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this true?
+> Is this good?
+
+      It's a good start...I think they were anticipating less, and so
+was I, given the nearly total lack of PR.  It also built every
+quarter...it went from 1.8 to 1.8 to 1.9 to 2.0 by the end of the show,
+which means we held our audience and built.
+
+      The real test will be next week...from what I understand, a lot
+of folks didn't even know it was on until after the fact.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Jun 1999 22:08:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Doug Allen <75020.3071@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade Ratings In!
+
+ Doug Allen <75020.3071@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any other place than SciFi Channel we should write
+> letters to encourage them to pick up Crusade ?
+
+      Not that I know of, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Jun 1999 16:38:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: the new intro <VBG>
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Much amusings....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Jun 1999 16:38:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Zapnudo > [zapnudo]
+Subject: CRUSADE
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"Did you agree with this?"
+
+      Nope.
+
+"I admit, I'm one of the folks who didn't particularly warm to the
+footage. It seemed not to fit."
+
+      It didn't.  Moreover, the order for that stuff came in about two
+days before we were supposed to begin shooting, so we had to hurriedly
+redesign the set to include the wall monitor, and change other aspects
+of the filming, then hurriedly find some footage that would work
+(sorta).
+
+"I suppose there were few options."
+
+      None.  What you have to understand is that we were at this
+point, in the writing of this episode, on hiatus...awaiting the okay to
+go back into filming.  And though it was never said overtly, there was
+always the undercurrent of "If TNT doesn't get this one script the way
+they want it, they may not give the OK.  So give them what they want
+just this one time."
+
+      I did what I could with what they demanded, and tried to fight
+as much as I could.  For instance, in one scene, where Gideon tells the
+others to meet him in the conference room, the TNT note was, "How does
+Gideon know where the conference room is?  We should have a scene where
+he's shown the conference room."
+
+      My reply: "He knows where the conference room is because when
+he's escorted to the bridge by Matheson, *HE CAN SEE IT FROM HIS
+CHAIR*."
+
+      (It was one of those bang-your-head-against-the-wall moments.)
+
+      The overall problem, which many folks don't understand, is that
+in a script you have a finite number of minutes and pages.  Let's say
+42 pages. Now, the script is written the way you want, kinda, with some
+nice character moments and stuff.  Then they want more exposition.  You
+can't just append it to the page count, you have to stay at 42 pages. 
+So you have to cut stuff *out* to make room for the stuff they want put
+*in*.  The first thing out the door is character, followed quickly by
+humor.
+
+      There was, for instance, a nice clash with the senator and the
+intelligence guy over Gideon's background, why he's the wrong person
+for the job, why Sheridan picked him specifically for the job...which
+had to go in order to put in more exposition (and lengthen the opening
+fight scene in the teaser by about a third, another TNT request).
+
+      For me, a lot of what makes an episode fun are the character
+moments, but there was no longer room for them...they had to go out to
+make room for dry expositional stuff or stuff blowing up.
+
+      Which is why I picked "The Long Road" as the one to follow in
+the broadcast order...it's one big character piece, with a fair amount
+of humor, and just fun.  A little expository in the second act, but
+nothing unreasonable.
+
+      Stil, I'm proud of what we did with "War Zone," because it was a
+little like someone handing you an inner tube and a tree branch and
+telling you to make a radio telescope out of it.  It ain't pretty, but
+it does the job we had put in front of us.
+
+      (One aside...some folks on the net picked up my comments about
+War Zone made here earlier and said I was apologizing after the fact
+for the episode, once the reactions came in...but the date stamp on the
+message, here and on the nets, clearly indicate that I made those
+statements BEFORE the episode aired.  I know *exactly* where the faults
+are in the eps, where they work and where they don't work, and have
+always tried to be the first one on record about them because that
+seems right to me.  This is, after all, about the process of educating
+people about how TV works, the decisions that get made and how you deal
+with them.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Jun 1999 21:33:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JudyL <72520.216@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CRUSADE
+
+ JudyL <72520.216@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ummm, ok....why?
+
+"      There was, for instance, a nice clash with the senator and the
+intelligence guy over Gideon's background, why he's the wrong person
+for the job, why Sheridan picked him specifically for the job...which
+had to go <
+
+Ummm, ok....why?"
+
+      Because something had to go time-wise to make room for other
+stuff.  If we'd kept *that*, then something ELSE of similar time would
+have to go, such as Dureena's scene in the cell with Gideon, or the
+like.  The amount of air time we have per episode does not change.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Jun 1999 21:37:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JudyL <72520.216@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CRUSADE
+
+ JudyL <72520.216@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ummm, ok....why?
+
+      Also...they said the senator scene was too long (which it
+*wasn't* before the big montage/video/the senator explains it all for
+you sequence was added in), and to cut stuff out of that scene and add
+it to the fight in the beginning.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Jun 1999 22:08:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: JudyL <72520.216@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CRUSADE
+
+ JudyL <72520.216@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Actually, I meant why is he the wrong person for the job and why
+> did Sheridan specifically pick him for the job, but I imagine
+> (hope) we'll be filled in on that little story along the way?
+
+      Sheridan picked him for the qualities that made him exactly the
+*wrong* person from their point of view...obstinate, difficult,
+independent, not prone to following orders from home, not politically
+astute...but he'll get the job done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Jun 1999 16:38:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roberto Micheri <102701.435@compuserve.com>
+Subject: My take Crusade
+
+ Roberto Micheri <102701.435@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any more materials on Crusade coming out?
+> Comics?
+> Have you considerd continuing the story as a series of books?
+
+      I just finished reviewing his sountrack CD demo, and I like it. 
+I think it'll go over well.
+
+"Are there any more materials on Crusade coming out?  Comics?
+Cards....  Have you considerd continuing the story as a series of
+books?  The Del Rey publications have been nice."
+
+      The technomage trilogy follows Galen through his training,
+becoming a full-fledged technomage, through the shadow war exodus, and
+into the events of Crusade...and the Centauri trilogy also gets into a
+lot of Crusade territory, both trilogies involving a secret behind
+Galen's involvement in our story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Jun 1999 16:38:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CRUSADE
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Exactly...check my note to Zapnudo elsewhere in this thread.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Jun 1999 16:38:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CRUSADE
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+         Yeah, those are also applicable.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Jun 1999 21:33:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roberto Micheri <102701.435@compuserve.com>
+Subject: About tha book series...
+
+ Roberto Micheri <102701.435@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it true?
+> What happened to the Role-Playing game?
+> Have you considered another comapny?
+> Perhaps generic role-playing games supplements, where some
+> guidelines are given to adapt the material to other systems? Are
+> you into Role-Playing at all? Have you ever considered a visual
+> dictionary for Babylon 5, like the ones done by DK for Star Wars?
+
+      Peter David is doing the Centauri trilogy, Jeanne Cavelos the
+Technomage trilogy, and I believe the RPG company went out of business.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Jun 1999 22:08:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roberto Micheri <102701.435@compuserve.com>
+Subject: About Role Playing
+
+ Roberto Micheri <102701.435@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any other company showing interest in a posible RPG?
+
+      I think there have been some inquiries, but nothing substantive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1999 15:50:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roberto Micheri <102701.435@compuserve.com>
+Subject: About Role Playing
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"All the fans at the office asked me to express how much they love
+your creations.  One of them asked if you plan on writing any of the B5
+novels yourself.  Thant would be a thrill..."
+
+      Right now it's been all I can do to get out the 9 outlines for
+the 3 B5 trilogies....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Jun 1999 22:08:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CRUSADE
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And if you don't mind my asking, have there been any promising or
+> potentially promising developments regarding getting "Crusade"
+> back into production again for another network?
+
+      The word "limited" was their choice to try and put a positive
+spin on things from their side, "Oh, we meant to do it this way."
+
+      And we probably won't have any clearer ideas on the future of
+the show until the very last minute, around the second week of July. 
+That's typical TV business stuff these days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Jun 1999 22:27:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Karen S. Hayes <112230.2454@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Long Road (spoilers)
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, it's a favorite of mine...nice character and humor
+stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1999 17:22:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Long Road
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, yeah, they're both fun characters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1999 17:22:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jeff Peterman <75361.430@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Tecnomages
+
+ Jeff Peterman <75361.430@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Maybe, but what about their technology?
+> By that I mean have the technomages always had abilities just
+> slightly ahead of their contemporaries (and used in a way to
+> APPEAR miraculous), or have they had the benefit of technology
+> from another civilization?
+
+"By that I mean have the technomages always had abilities just
+slightly ahead of their contemporaries (and used in a way to APPEAR
+miraculous), or have they had the benefit of technology from another
+civilization?"
+
+      This is a question that we were going to build, and answer, in
+the latter part of the first season...a lot of which will also be in
+the 3 technomage novels.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Jun 1999 22:54:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Tecnomages
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      It's beyond even what technomages know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1999 17:18:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Long Road (spoilers)
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, there was a definite "chomp" there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Jun 1999 22:54:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Long Road - Ratings
+
+ Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know what the ratings were for The Long Road?
+> Do you know where one can get them without pestering you?
+
+      We got a 1.4 on The Long Road, which from what we're being told
+was down because of being up against the first night of the NBA Finals;
+the East Coast was down as a result, so the numbers dropped even though
+they were about right for the west coast.  And the demographics are
+great.  (Everything on TNT's lineup and elsewhere got hit by the
+Finals, and of all that, we got hit generally the least of everyone.)
+
+      Interestingly enough, I just got a note from one of the people
+at SPACE, the Canadian channel carrying Crusade, and he says that the
+ratings on WarZone *doubled* the usual B5 ratings (which were very good
+to start with).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Jun 1999 23:55:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: JMS, why do they do it??
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+1.  I understand how a blue screen is used for optical effects. Many
+    times on Entertainment Tonight (or other shows in this genre) they
+will
+    do a behind-the-scenes story and I notice that a green screen is
+being
+    used.  Why use a green screen over a blue screen?
+
+      Green is often used for video, blue for film.  And if you have
+blue uniforms, you can't shoot bluescreen behind them.
+
+2.  A strange questions concerning commercials, TV shows, and movies. 
+When
+    a car is shown driving on a road, the road appears to have been
+hosed
+    down with water.  On one hand, it may have rained before shooting
+began.
+    But on the other hand, what are the odds that it always rains
+before a
+    commercial is filmed!!  Do they water down the road to improve
+lighting?
+
+      It looks cooler.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1999 18:25:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Pam Jernigan <75540.2554@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Well of Forever
+
+ Pam Jernigan <75540.2554@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What I wanna know is, how did Matheson get to such a (relatively)
+> high rank so quickly? Just a few short years ago, teeps weren't
+> allowed to join EarthForce, so where did he get his experience?
+
+      The original air order would have spread out the Galen episodes,
+so that he would appear every second or third episode...that changed
+with the short order, and they all got bunched together.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1999 18:25:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: CRUSADE Bible Available
+
+      To all interested:
+
+      For the many who have asked over the years for such material,
+copies of the Writers Bible for CRUSADE are now available at
+www.thestation.com.  This is the actual series bible (with some digital
+photos inserted) used in Crusade, and contains a fair amount of
+information that will be revealed in the later episodes.  This is the
+first time we've made a writer's bible available from the B5 universe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1999 00:03:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5
+
+ Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it possible to have Babylon 5 moved back into syndication?
+> Would it be possible to move Crusade into syndication?
+> Have your plans for making a Babylon 5 Theatrical Movie been
+> moved because of Crusade?
+
+"Is it possible to have Babylon 5 moved back into syndication? I'm
+sure many networks would give B5 the respect it deserves. I know the
+local station here always supported B5 from the beginning. They also
+advertised it on the network many times. The reason I ask this is
+because I have seen ER in syndication on a local network while its also
+shown on TNT."
+
+      No, I think they bought it exclusively,
+
+"Have your plans for making a Babylon 5 Theatrical Movie been moved
+because of Crusade? I've read that you are waiting till all the Star
+Wars movies are released before considering a B5 movie."
+
+      I'm in no rush.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1999 00:03:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sam Spade
+
+ SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, how does it feel to be warping the minds of future
+> generations?
+
+      Coolness....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1999 00:15:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Pam Jernigan <75540.2554@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Well of Forever
+
+ Pam Jernigan <75540.2554@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would you be able to reassure her?
+
+      No, it doesn't end on a cliffhanger.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1999 00:15:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Well of Forever
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  replace by "seducing with sex" ?
+
+      Yup.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1999 00:13:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: Schedule Change
+
+      Just an advisory: the next Crusade episode will air at 11:30
+p.m. Eastern time and 8:30 p.m. Pacific.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1999 20:22:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: "Z'ha'dum" derivation?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Not really, no...I always imagined that Z'ha'dum was originally
+the Minbari word for the place, and the Z'ha has echoes in Entil-zha
+and Isil-zha. The dum (doom) part is obvious.  Not to say I wasn't
+aware of Khazad-dum, but it wasn't on my mind at the time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Jun 1999 19:55:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Bendel <73447.741@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Well, Whatever
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"I'm very curious where Joe's going with Galen's character."
+
+      Actually, Galen has quite a secret he's carrying around with
+him.  It formed the basis of scripts 114 ("To the Ends of the Earth")
+and 116 ("End of the Line," which would've been the cliffhanger).  It's
+also a major element of the coming technomage novels.  There's a very
+small reference to it in the episode airing this week, when Galen
+mentions that he and someone else have been "betrayed by our own kind."
+
+      It also ties into why they were in such a rush to get the hell
+out of known space during the shadow war.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1999 22:34:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roberto Micheri <102701.435@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Amazing Stories
+
+ Roberto Micheri <102701.435@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When will this issues be coming, or came, out???
+
+      It's hitting stores this week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 01 Jul 1999 22:39:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Path of Sorrows
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, this one is a favorite of mine as well.  It was one of
+the scripts written while we were still shooting the first 5, before
+TNT got into the process.  When that happened, they made it clear that
+they *hated* this story, felt that nobody would be interested in all
+this backstory...and asked for it all to be taken out, let them run
+into this alien and make him an evil character, an emotional vampire
+who drives them insane.
+
+      This was one of the first scripts where I dug in my heels
+bigtime and refused to do what they asked.  I knew it would be
+powerful; they thought it would be utterly uninteresting.  They were
+wrong.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jul 1999 22:39:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Path of Sorrows
+
+ Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that I know how you held out, let me also praise the
+> inclusion of the non-sequiter Apocalypse Box - why should every
+> "emotion revealed" by the forgiveness being "only" emphasize and
+> reflect on plot points we are aware of?
+
+      Re: the Matheson scene...that one was cut back by about 40%
+because the episode ran long.  (That sometimes happens on dialogue-
+intensive episodes.) The original version had it go over a longer
+period of time, and showed him coming over gradually.  It is a bit
+abrupt as it is now, though I still think it plays.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jul 1999 22:39:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Path of Sorrows
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...and yeah, Daniel is just terrific.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jul 1999 22:39:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Path of Sorrows
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Deriving sustenance from *giving* forgiveness?
+> From experiencing others receiving forgiveness?
+> From experiencing others forgiving themselves?
+> Were you implying that he simply didn't have time to warn the big
+> shots, or didn't have time if he wanted a seat on the Last Flight
+> Out, or that he shared the captive's distaste for PC veeps and
+> wanted them to burn? If you're in a mood for answering multiple
+> questions, why cut the transponder out of her skin if she only
+> had to send a thought to activate it? To convince Matheson that he
+> had better flee? Was that explosion the whole telepath war in ten
+> seconds, or is more to come? Do you have a strong feeling either
+> way about regarding the critter as analogous to Catholic
+> confession?
+
+      A device that small would run out of power if it were on all the
+time, and might be detected.  My feeling was that it was switched off
+and had to be removed to power it up, then the telepathic signal would
+activate the beacon and bring in the troops.  You'd have a two-stage
+process to a) avoid detection, and b) ensure that if it *were* found it
+couldn't be used by anyone else to stage a trap.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Jul 1999 20:15:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Path of Sorrows
+
+ Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's up with that Shadow vessel?
+> Was it a Shadow vessel?
+> Or was it an experimental EarthForce ship (considering the
+> intensity of the interr....errr....debriefing)?
+
+      That remains to be revealed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Jul 1999 22:39:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Path of Sorrows
+
+ Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this that ep?
+> If so what happened that prevented using Lyta in this role?
+> For the curious of us out here was the new ship we saw a Shadow
+> ship?
+
+      Yeah, Lyta would've been in that ep but Pat was on a movie at
+the time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Jul 1999 17:17:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Roberto Micheri <102701.435@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Amazing Stories
+
+ Roberto Micheri <102701.435@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you, or any other member of the Forum know of any online store
+> I can pick it up?
+
+      I believe you can subscribe via their website.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Jul 1999 22:03:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: www.thestation.com?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's down while it's being overhauled, changed, modified, and
+one hopes, improved in terms of service.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jul 1999 22:06:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: You're Wired
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, I saw the piece, it's short but nice.  And the book is fun
+(see my post just sent to all re: Rising Stars).  Even if you're not a
+comics fan per se, I think you'll like this book.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jul 1999 22:03:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: jms rising stars info
+
+I posted this elswhere, and figured I'd put it here as well, even
+though it's not technically B5 per se.
+
+A quick update on the latest RISING STARS news:
+
+I've now seen the inked and colored final pages on issue 1, and I have
+to say that I'm very, very pleased by the final result.  It took a bit
+of doing to get there, but the result is quite nice.  It has the *feel*
+of a very different sort of book than everything else out there,
+something a bit special.
+
+That first issue of RISING STARS, "Nova Placenta," will debut at the
+Chicago Comic Con in two weeks, where I'll be attending and signing
+stuff and talking and the like.  (My main presentation has been moved
+from Sunday to Saturday at around 5ish, I think.)
+
+It will hit comic stores/newsstands around the 28th of this month.
+
+Advance orders have already topped 100,000 (before re-orders) and it
+looks like that may not be enough.
+
+This is a comic that I feel very strongly about, it's something I've
+wanted to do for a long, long time.  I think it's something that will
+appeal to most B5 folks, because it has many of the same elements in
+the sense that it treats the genre seriously, tries new and different
+approaches to characterization, has an overall story arc with a
+beginning, middle and end (24 issues from now), and so on.  I think
+it'll appeal equally to non-comics fans and those familiar with the
+form.  It's also something that I think can be read by a variety of age
+ranges, all of whom will get something different out of it.
+
+In any event...I'm very happy with the thing, and wanted to put the
+word out there about it.
+
+I'm especially pleased that the first issue will have a forward by
+Neil Gaiman, a name that should be familiar to both B5 folks ("Day of
+the Dead") and comics readers around the planet.
+
+The book is being published by TOP COW (a division of Image Comics,
+publisher of SPAWN), also the publishers of FATHOM and DARKNESS.  It
+should be available at any goodly-sized comics store, and there are
+several places on-line where one can find comics.
+
+It's gonna be a fun book.
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 08 Jul 1999 17:24:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brad Walrod <76702.1043@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms rising stars info
+
+ Brad Walrod <76702.1043@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since you've got so many pre-orders, do you think Image might
+> consider offering a subscription (don't know if they do that with
+> their other stuff)?
+
+      I actually don't know if they do subscription or not...I think
+you can also order it from www.anotheruniverse.com.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Jul 1999 20:08:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Okay, I don't get it!?
+
+ Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Turner is a Time Warner company, so WHY is it up to TNT to decide
+> if they prolong the series??? Couldn't Warner (IF they believe in
+> the series) not simply push it through?
+
+      Because they're totally independent organizations (that's how
+Time/Warner is structured), and one division cannot force another to
+do anything.  It is, in my view, just a tad dysfunctional.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Jul 1999 23:12:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Okay, I don't get it!?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Normally I would say this is good, but if the parent company is
+loosing money through this, you would imagine that the parten company
+steps in.... Well, maybe I am too positive about this"
+
+      Part of the WB/B5/TNT hassle has always been getting caught in
+the switches on who IS the parent.  Time/Warner says we own TNT (which
+they do), but then TNT says the biggest shareholder in TW is...Ted
+Turner (which is also true).  Part of this massively ugly struggle has
+been that fight for power, and we've been kind of the football on many
+occasions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jul 1999 23:59:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Okay, I don't get it!?
+
+ Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any chances that they might consider to put it on the
+> WB Network?
+
+      No, for much the same interdivisional reasons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Jul 1999 23:58:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Path of Sorrows
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      We'll learn  more about the box as we go.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jul 1999 00:02:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Path Ratings?
+
+ Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, can you tell us what the ratings were for Path of Sorrows?
+
+      I haven't heard on the ratings yet, because everybody kinda
+split early for the 4th holiday, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if
+it came in well under a 1 rating, since it didn't air until midnight on
+the East Coast, a number of folks didn't know it had been moved and
+tuned in at the usual time, and many of those who did know about the
+change gave up on waiting on the draft's conclusion.  GIven all that, I
+would be *vastly* surprised if it did even a .7 or so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jul 1999 20:37:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Schedule Change
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, he's Peter's father.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jul 1999 20:37:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Path of Sorrows
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      He was referenced as an Ensign in the Cerberus scene, and a
+Lieutenant in the box scene...hence the box came later.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Jul 1999 23:14:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dan Deckert <74156.1432@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Patterns of the Soul
+
+ Dan Deckert <74156.1432@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Besides, why go to Sheridan when he's able to work out a solution
+> on his own?
+
+      Bear in mind also that Sheridan is totally *outside* Gideon's
+chain of command.  His authority goes up to the president of the Earth
+Alliance, not the ISA.  It would be like a field commander in NATO
+going to Clinton with a problem.  He has to go through the chain of
+command first.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Jul 1999 23:14:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Path of Sorrows
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"As for "all lies", the only lie he saw was secret execution of rebel
+leaders, which, BTW, makes perfect sense."
+
+      I don't think it was so much the *lie* about them as the
+executions themselves that were rather the point....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Jul 1999 23:14:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Brad Walrod <76702.1043@compuserve.com>
+Subject: jms rising stars info
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'm glad to hear that, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Jul 1999 14:43:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Dan Deckert <74156.1432@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Patterns of the Soul
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"This is the Gideon that I think that you've created for us.  He's a
+lot like Sheridan, making his own decisions based on his own real-time
+understanding of the situation at hand.  He's also a lot unlike
+Sheridan, playing his cards close to the chest and willing to "cheat"
+as a first solution rather than as a fallback position.  Sheridan was
+Ben Cartwright. Gideon is Brett Maverick. <g> Am I close? :-)"
+
+      'zactly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jul 1999 15:13:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Bendel <73447.741@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Star issues
+
+ John Bendel <73447.741@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, who's right?
+> More importantly, if they are out where can I get them?
+
+1. Rising Star #0 and #1 were out but are no longer available.
+
+      The 0 issue was published in the Wizard Magazine FATHOM special
+a couple months ago and can still be found; the Preview issue was
+published in a special limited edition around the same time and is
+harder to find.
+
+2. They are very late and there is no release date.
+
+      Issue 1 was put back one month so it could debut at the Chicago
+comic con next weekend (where I'll be attending).  It will hit comic
+stores July 28th.
+
+3. They aren't being published.
+
+      Bull ka-ka.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Jul 1999 22:10:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Patterns of the Soul
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, since Dr. Chambers is visable on the ship before it's seen
+> to be destroyed, is she also officially dead? or perhaps that
+> footage would not be seen by anyone else so it doesn't matter?
+
+      It's only ever going to be seen by the general, and bear in mind
+that in that shot Chambers was WAY in the background, it was only seen
+for a moment on the monitor, with the General more concerned about
+what's happening in FG, and in any event he would have to instantly
+recognize her by sight, and he didn't know her.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Jul 1999 16:13:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Stephen Furst's audition
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were you present?
+> Peter Jurasic was there too (as well as Wortham Krimmer - the 3
+> Centauri emperors!), he's never heard of the story and blurted
+> out something very much like the punch line, "Is there any doubt
+> who Vir is?"
+
+      That was probably the pre-casting session, which is held before
+the final auditions for the producers (me et al).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 13 Jul 1999 16:21:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Path of Sorrows
+
+ Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What can one do with enemies if they won't stop fighting except
+> destroy them? Would Corps kill them if they voluntarily gave up
+> fighting and came back to Corps? How can a person advance from a
+> civilian to a first officer so fast? If it is not a secret, will
+> we see Bester in Crusade?
+
+"If it is not a secret, will we see Bester in Crusade?"
+
+      You would have, in episode 15, "Value Judgments," by Avery. 
+Walter considered it one of the best Bester scripts to date.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1999 20:28:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Seanchai <75754.3567@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Path of Sorrows
+
+ Seanchai <75754.3567@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any news on that front?
+
+      No news to report.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1999 20:32:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Gideon's ring
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is it anything special?
+> Earthforce Academy class ring or something?
+
+      It's his Earthforce Academy graduation ring.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Jul 1999 00:50:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Drew Carey B5 Bits
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> My question is this: Did the Carey show producers have to get
+> your (or somebody's) permission to use the B5 stuff in this ep? 
+> Did you know about it?
+
+      Actually, those WERE our costumes and prosthetics, loaned to
+them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jul 1999 00:50:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Happy Birthday JMS
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, and a bah humbug to you, too.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+(45...blech)
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Jul 1999 00:50:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ruling From The Tomb
+
+ SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, was I seeing things or not?
+
+"I noticed the fellow with the "Copeland" sign early in the show. I
+saw another sign-holder who was out of focus and that sign looked like
+"Straczynski." So, was I seeing things or not?"
+
+      Yes on the first, no on the second.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jul 1999 00:50:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: <Path of Sorrows> ship
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, the mystery ship in <Path of Sorrows> reminds me a lot of
+> the Burgess Shale fossil "Hallucigenia" (the upside-down
+> interpretation of it.) Do you know if it was an inspiration for
+> the design?
+
+      Not that I'm aware of.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jul 1999 00:50:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Any official word?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Has there been any official decision?
+> Is another season still possible?
+> Is it desirable?
+> Is there any balance possible that gives you a life, and us
+> Crusade?
+
+      Have the actor's options expired?  Yes.  Does this close the
+door?  No, another channel could say yes even after #13, it would just
+mean negotiating new contracts, which is quite do-able.  If it happens
+I can deal with it; if not, I have plenty of other options.  I've never
+been a one-trick pony.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Jul 1999 16:41:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Any official word?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> I think part of what I was trying to ask is, what do *you* want
+> about Crusade? Do you really want to continue it, or would you be
+> just as happy to move on? You've been answering "who are you?"
+> So I'll still ask, "what do you want?"
+
+"I think part of what I was trying to ask is, what do *you* want about
+Crusade?  Do you really want to continue it, or would you be just as
+happy to move on?  You've actually had several months in "moving on"
+mode, it seems.  I don't think I'm getting my questions out of
+sequence.  You've been answering "who are you?" in this forum since
+before I joined.  So I'll still ask, "what do you want?"  In a very
+limited context."
+
+      You have to understand that the only thing I want, the only
+thing I've *ever* wanted, is to tell good stories about interesting
+characters.  I'm fairly simple that way.  I would love to continue
+telling stores in the B5 universe...but then, I'd love to tell stories
+in *other* universes.  If one market stays open, I'll stay there...if
+it closes, I move on.  It's what I've always done.
+
+      Would I like to keep doing Crusade?  Sure, but not under the
+conditions that made these 13 eps so onerous.  I have a real simple
+philosophy: if it ain't fun, don't do it.  Because this job is too hard
+to do it if you're not enjoying the process.
+
+      It's all about story.  Since Crusade stopped I've been offered a
+couple of exec producer gigs on other shows, but passed on them because
+they weren't really stories I either wanted to do or that I felt I
+could do a good job with.  One gig that I *did* want I just missed out
+by an inch because at the last moment some big names came into the
+scenario and they got the gig (and they will probably do very well with
+it).  Them's the breaks.  You wait for a show to come along you would
+like to do, meanwhile you try to get your own show off the ground.
+
+      Which is where I am now.  I'm in the final stages of negotiating
+a deal for one series pilot (98% mainstream 2% speculative fiction)
+that would be as innovative as what I did with B5...it's a story
+nobody's ever done before, and it's been fast-tracked.  I literally
+thought it up two weeks ago, had one meeting about it with a major
+entity (known to everyone), did a rough treatment, and 3 days later
+they called to start negotiations on the deal. If that goes, I'll be
+excited, because it's something utterly on the bleeding edge not just
+storywise but in terms of production and EFX and it's on a huge scale.
+
+      In any event, as I said, in the end, it's simply about telling
+stories, in conditions that allow me to do my best work.  "The exercise
+of vital powers along lines of excellence in a life affording them
+scope," to quote the Greek definition of happiness.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1999 21:39:01 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: "B5" on DVD
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> "Several others"???
+> will presumably want to remaster the episodes for HDTV broadcast
+> anyway (wasn't this one of the reasons you shot the show the way
+> you did?) why should the time and expense be an issue? While I
+> would very much like to see "Crusade" return, I'm just as excited
+> at the prospect of something totally new from your pen (word
+> processor, whatever.) Any chance you could do *both*? Or shouldn't
+> I wish that much work on anybody <g>?
+
+      Interesting...all I can say is that I gave up trying to
+understand the ways of Warner Bros. years ago.  None of it makes much
+sense.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1999 21:39:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Wizard World
+
+ SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What did you show there?
+
+      Not much, just a music video and took questions; they only had
+me in there for 45 minutes so there wasn't much time.  Mainly there to
+promote Rising Stars.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1999 22:00:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Karen S. Hayes <112230.2454@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Ama-a-azing stories!
+
+ Karen S. Hayes <112230.2454@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (in a good way!) BTW, will he ever realize what was meant by
+> "saving the eye that does not see?" Am I correct in guessing that
+> you learned it mainly from writing screenplays?
+
+"I paid a price for my eagerness in reading this story before any of
+the others in this issue. You can say so much in so few words, that
+afterwards I found myself a bit impatient with the wordiness of a
+couple of the other stories, which lessened my enjoyment of them. I've
+learned to make every word count from the rigorous demands of article
+word limits.  Am I correct in guessing that you learned it mainly from
+writing screenplays?"
+
+      That's about half it, the other half being a background in
+journalism, where you learn to get to the point quickly and
+efficiently.  I'm actually quite pleased with the story.
+
+"I've also just read the page proofs of Final Reckoning to review it
+for B5 magazine. I would have read it  in one sitting, except that
+around page 175 I had to take a break. I was afraid I would start
+hyperventilating. 'Nuff said, until we can all talk about it here."
+
+      It really is a kick in the gut, isn't it?  When I was outlining
+it for Greg, I remember thinking a) I don't envy him the job of making
+this happen, and b) feeling really excited about what was going to
+happen.  It's about the closest I've come to Greek tragedy outside the
+Londo arc.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1999 22:10:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rules of the Game
+
+ SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I presume that Mr. Kitty was yours?
+
+"I presume that Mr. Kitty was yours?"
+
+      Yup.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 22 Jul 1999 22:15:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rules of the Game
+
+ Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who played the "concilatory" Lorcan at the end?
+
+      No, it wasn't Wayne, and the name slips away at the moment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 23 Jul 1999 23:05:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Lee Gordon <75030.1144@compuserve.com>
+Subject: How's Peter?
+
+ Lee Gordon <75030.1144@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How is he doing?
+
+      I've spoken with him a couple of times since then, and he seems
+to be doing great.  Also had lunch with Jeff Conaway a few days ago,
+and he said pretty much the same thing.
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Jul 1999 14:47:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Seanchai <75754.3567@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Who is Fiona Avery
+
+ Seanchai <75754.3567@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can (will) you tell us about Fiona Avery's connection to B5 and
+> Crusade?
+
+"Can (will) you tell us about Fiona Avery's connection to B5 and
+Crusade? I just picked up the first PsiCorp novel and she was in the
+dedication. Got me to wondering..."
+
+      We brought Fiona aboard during the last part of S5 as a
+reference editor to keep the continuity straight, and for Crusade
+(about which more in a bit). There was a growing problem keeping the
+licensees and licensed material accurate; stuff slipped through the RPG
+books and elsewhere (this was before she got here).  She was brought on
+to stop the problem, and to annoy the licensees in the sense that it's
+often easier not to get things right, and she has to stay on top of
+them and make them crazy in order to ensure that the accuracy the fans
+(and I) expect is maintained.
+
+      She was also brought on with an eye toward Crusade because she
+has a degree in Archaeology and Crusade's an archaeological SF series. 
+Along the way, she began writing spec scripts for Crusade which ended
+up being good enough to buy, and we bought 4 of which 2 were produced,
+Well and Patterns. The last one she did, Value Judgments, was probably
+the best of the bunch; it's a Bester script that Walter considered one
+of his best roles, and would tie in directly with the Psi Corps books.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Jul 1999 23:31:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: Rising Stars Debuts 7/28
+
+      For those keeping track...the first issue of RISING STARS hits
+comics stores this Thursday.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 01 Aug 1999 23:15:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: South Park
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I thought the Cartman ep was terrific, didn't see the latest,
+and the movie is a kick.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Aug 1999 14:14:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5
+
+ Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there plans for a Babylon 5 2000 Calendar?
+> Have you had the opportunity to watch the progress of the Babylon
+> 5 Space Combat Simulator? Are there any plans for new merchandise?
+
+      Yes, there's going to continue to be new merchandise coming
+out... there's a new set from Fleer, another company just acquired the
+license to do limited edition pewter and gold figurines (good sixed
+ones) of the varius B5 ships (and the Excalibur), more novels, special
+collector's cards with a sound chip imbedded that play 30 seconds of
+stuff...and so on.  I don't know about a calendar yet, we usually don't
+get those things in until around September.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Jul 1999 23:51:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Appearances & Deceipts
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"But since this was one of the episodes that was probably shot first
+(as evidenced by the uniforms), I must say that I'm a little surprised
+that the actors seemed more at home here than they did in other
+episodes that were probably shot later."
+
+      Actually it was the very last one shot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1999 15:07:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Randy Pastrone <76436.2204@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Have you been poking fun
+
+ Randy Pastrone <76436.2204@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In the last episode were all the references to color schemes and
+> the new uniforms a deliberate poke at Star Trek? Excalibur?
+
+"In the last episode were all the references to color schemes and the
+new uniforms a deliberate poke at Star Trek?  The colors of the new
+uniform are a cross between the jackets that Captain Picard wore and
+the colors of the cadet's uniforms.  And the reference to being able to
+breath in the high collars which were part of the NG uniform from about
+season 2 on.  I don't know if it was intentional but you got a snicker
+out of me."
+
+      No, it had nothing to do with ST, it was a shot at TNT.
+
+"Also more out of curiosity were you aware that the new ship in the
+Star Trek New Frontier book series which started in 1997 is call the
+U.S.S. Excalibur?"
+
+      I didn't know this until well into the process, and basically,
+screw 'em, they don't own Camelot.
+
+      This is not a Trek-centric solar system.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 01 Aug 1999 23:15:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Arthur Stoppe <73710.2014@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Have you been poking fun
+
+ Arthur Stoppe <73710.2014@compuserve.com> asks:
+> "In the last episode were all the references to color schemes and
+> the new uniforms a deliberate poke at Star Trek? Was this the
+> intent?
+
+"I thought the designer character  was played a lot like the Victor
+Spinetti TV director character from "A Hard Days Night", -you know, the
+same kind of fidgety nervous quirkiness, which I thought was really
+cool.  I thought its was too similar to be anything other than a
+tribute of sorts and not merely a coincidence.  Was this the intent?"
+
+      No.  Never even occured to me.
+
+      I *am* capable of making up my own characters, you know....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1999 15:07:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade So Far
+
+ Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you feel (personally) about the ratings so far?
+> Is this about what you expected?
+> Better?
+> Worse?
+> Then the question that everyone's asking (couldn't help
+> it)...what do you feel about it's chances on being picked up by
+> SciFi (or someone else)?
+
+      The ratings are about what I'd expect given the level of support
+(you'll note they're not even providing TV Guide with loglines any more
+for the listings, something that would've been decided upon weeks ago
+given the lead time of a magazine like that).  All during production
+they kept talking about the first six episodes being their main
+interest, which signaled then what's happened since, that they wouldn't
+support it past the first 6, which is the bare minimum required.
+
+      I have no information yet on whether it'll finally end up
+somewhere else; could be, might not, no way to know.  Either way, I'm
+sanguine.  All I can do is make the show that I feel I have to make for
+reasons of conscience, to the best of my ability to make it.  I did
+that.  There are other projects in the works, so if it doesn't go, or
+if it does, either way I'm covered.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Aug 1999 20:56:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Appearances & Deceipts
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, the episode was written that way from the git-go, there was
+no prior version.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Aug 1999 16:50:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A Lost Clue?
+
+ Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this a reference to the Plague/Cure?
+
+"As Gideon was preparing Greenberg's body for Airlock'nLoad,the
+alienwithin was pleading:"Don't do this! Iknow what you're looking
+for!" Was this a reference to the Plague/Cure?"
+
+      Yep.  But since the body couldn't talk aloud, it couldn't
+communicate this effectively.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Aug 1999 21:48:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com>
+Subject: A Lost Clue?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, that's exactly what it was.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Aug 1999 21:29:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Racing the Night
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Aug 1999 21:32:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Seanchai <75754.3567@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade's Future
+
+ Seanchai <75754.3567@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you legally able to tell us how Crusade would have ended and
+> share some of its secrets? Would you be able to outline a set of
+> books similar to what you did with PsiCorp and the Technomages? In
+> other words, do you own the unwritten parts of Crusade or does
+> TNT?
+
+      Not knowing the final word, I really can't get into this...but
+if there were to be no more eps, I'm not sure that I would want to get
+into a long dissertation of what would've been...because what would be
+the point?  It was made to be *done*, not talked about.  In addition,
+for myself, it would be better to move on to other projects at that
+point rather than stay immersed in that one universe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Aug 1999 15:21:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Seanchai <75754.3567@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade's Future
+
+ Seanchai <75754.3567@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you think Del Rey would - would be able to - put out a series
+> of novels?
+
+      Dunno....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Aug 1999 15:38:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Stars
+
+ Richard M Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (this week's episode changed their opinion though) A question
+> from class, in the scene where we see Gideon and Lochley heading
+> toward the shower together, did you intentionally pick that
+> specific ship to dock with the station? The ship docking was
+> obviously placed for its subliminal value, but did you
+> intentionally use that ship design? Who was Mr. Kitty?
+> Was he your cat?
+> How are things going with you?
+> Have you played the South Park or Star Wars Racer games yet?
+> When you play as Jesus and he gets hit, his comment is "You don't
+> want to go to hell, do you?" What else can you say about racing
+> your friends at 600 MPH? So, when is the next time you'll be in
+> Florida? Is Top Cow bringing you back to Megacon next March?
+> (Maybe next year though) Speaking of which, have you gotten back
+> into your comic book habit yet? What books are you reading lately?
+
+      Don't know about Marcon yet; nothing's set.  As for the image of
+the ship docking at that particular moment...yeah, that was most
+definitely deliberate.  When I, er, inserted it during editing, the
+editor just *looked* at me and said "you are just sick and wrong."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 07 Aug 1999 15:40:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Racing the Night
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      "Things change...long time gone."
+
+      And in later instances when the box talks, it's Gideon's/Gary's
+voice. You may take that as foreshadowing if you wish.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Aug 1999 14:51:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Racing the Night
+
+ Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, why didn't we see anything of the box in the "first"
+> episodes?
+
+"BTW, why didn't we see anything of the box in the "first" episodes?"
+
+      You did, in Path of Sorrows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Aug 1999 15:09:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Racing the Night
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Also, no one else on the crew knows about the box.  Well,
+officially. One other person knows about it, but he's not supposed to
+know.  And Galen suspects something amiss from his passing comment at
+the end of the ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Aug 1999 16:21:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Racing the Night
+
+ Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that make sense?
+
+      Remember, you're seeing things with the broadcast order all
+kafuffled due to the TNT situation, so it would've been better layered.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Aug 1999 16:57:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Karen S. Hayes <112230.2454@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Racing the Night
+
+ Karen S. Hayes <112230.2454@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do we find out who this is in the remaining four (*sniff*)
+> episodes? And if not, can you give us a little hint?
+> On the other hand, that uses up all the "he's" doesn't it?
+
+"Do we find out who this is in the remaining four (*sniff*) episodes? 
+And if not, can you give us a little hint?"
+
+      Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Aug 1999 15:09:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Racing the Night
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Well, that was TNT's doing, not Joe's, though I wonder if they would
+have had this episode ready to air first anyway because it was so SFX
+heavy."
+
+      Racing was finished last December.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 08 Aug 1999 15:09:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Racing the Night
+
+ Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But it begs the question, "How long do you keep being polite when
+> there are billions of lives at stake?"
+
+"I disliked the actions of the EA strip mining the planet at the
+expense of the people living there, and liked Gideons solution to it. 
+But it begs the question, "How long do you keep being polite when there
+are billions of lives at stake?"
+"That's the potential of the arc that has been set up here.  As time
+passes, the EA is going to be under more and more pressure to find a
+cure by any means possible.  That may mean by violent means at times. 
+This will mean conflicts between the members of the IA and even
+conflicts within the EA itself."
+
+      Exactly.
+
+      As Eilerson said, "Wouldn't you sacrifice a hundred Narns to
+save Earth?"  It was a question Gideon didn't answer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Aug 1999 16:21:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Chris Shepard > [chrisvshep]
+Subject: Crusade and WB Network
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"If Warner Bros. really believes in the future of Crusade, then why
+don't they just save the show themselves and put it on the WB Network?"
+
+      Because there IS no one Warner Bros.  It was constructed as a
+series of competing and structurally independent fiefdoms...WB Domestic
+TV competes with the WB Network and so on.  Each division actively
+competes and to a large degree won't *cooperate* with other divisions. 
+A network also wants its own stamp on the development process, so they
+simply wouldn't take another show they didn't develop, from a competing
+division.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Aug 1999 17:08:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Karen S. Hayes <112230.2454@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Racing the Night
+
+ Karen S. Hayes <112230.2454@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And in a way, the darkest part is Gideon's flashback, when the
+> ambassadors, looking after their own interests as usual, force
+> him into this devil's bargain of abandoning his search in 4 years
+> if he's unsuccessful (Too bad, I used to like the Brakiri
+> ambassador!) It makes me wonder whether, if push came to shove
+> and the cure hadn't been found at the end of 4 years, Gideon
+> would actually keep his word?
+
+"JMS has hinted elsewhere that the cure might be found before the end
+of the series. He's also said the show we think we're watching will
+turn out not to be the show we're actually watching.  Put these two
+together, and I wonder greatly if, had the next few years played out,
+he might have gradually uncovered some other, greater theme or conflict
+that would overshadow the plague, and take over the plot for the last
+year or so."
+
+      If not sooner....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Aug 1999 21:10:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Memory of War
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+""The Memory of War" by JMS brings a level of intensity to Crusade
+that is surprising for what would have originally been the second
+episode."
+
+      That's because we knew what the show was from the git-go.
+
+      Second one we shot, and we were already fully up to speed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1999 22:20:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Memory of War
+
+ SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are they?
+
+      I've no idea.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Aug 1999 14:22:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade scripts
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But what about the 4 scripts that are already written?
+> will you be able to sell the scripts, publish them somehow?
+> If the series does get a new home, will the finished scripts be
+> the start of a new season?
+
+"JMS, you have indicated that you have no interest in continue to work
+with the Crusade storyline if it doesn't get picked up. But what about
+the 4 scripts that are already written? will you be able to sell the
+scripts, publish them somehow? I think I can speak for all the fans
+that WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!"
+
+      The only one that I know will be available: this Friday at
+NASFIC (at a table set aside for SFFNET folks) Fiona Avery will be
+selling a limited number of copies of her script for "Value Judgments,"
+the unproduced CRUSADE script featuring Bester (which Walter considered
+had some of the best Bester stuff to date).  I believe it's in the
+afternoon at some point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Aug 1999 21:07:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Seanchai <75754.3567@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade scripts
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Just to clarify...she'll be selling 'em at 11:30 that Friday
+morning, though folks should check the schedule to confirm.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Aug 1999 21:07:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade in syndication?
+
+ Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If the Sci Fi Channel doesn't pick up "Crusade" as some people
+> fear won't happen, would you consider trying to prepare the show
+> for the syndicated market for next year?
+
+      Unfortunately, the syndicated market has become much more
+crowded and much tighter since B5 went on the air, with Tribune and Fox
+and UPN and others now claiming vast tracts of exclusive airtime. 
+Which is a long way of saying there's no room in syndication.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1999 17:56:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Your new Movie
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, actually, it's a murder mystery story.  Fairly
+straightfoward, not a lot of deep meaning, written mainly for fun.
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1999 18:01:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Roddenberry's new shows
+
+ Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you heard much about any of the three?
+> Do have any thoughts about them?
+
+      Don't know much of anything about 'em, sorry....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1999 22:31:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Michael R. Marks <104504.455@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Fiona Avery
+
+ Michael R. Marks <104504.455@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you watch Crusade when it airs?
+
+      No, if that were to happen, it won't make a major difference,
+since at most a few hundred people will ever see the script, and that
+ain't hardly a blip on the ratings.  More folks than that see a script
+when it's sent out for actors to use for auditions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1999 19:35:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Needs of Earth
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think you also need only read the ongoing battle over the
+National Endowment of the Arts to realize that the battle is still an
+ongoing one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1999 17:52:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: What was up TNT's butt
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's way too long an answer for me to go over again...there's
+probably a long dissertation on this over on the Lurker's guide. 
+Suffice to say that the short answer to the question in your heading
+is: me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1999 17:52:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Morgan <71513.2510@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Going down w/ the Ship
+
+ John Morgan <71513.2510@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  can still pick up the show for next season?
+
+      Dunno....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1999 14:17:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Seanchai <75754.3567@compuserve.com>
+Subject: What was up TNT's butt
+
+ Seanchai <75754.3567@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How can you stand being up there like that?
+
+">>Suffice to say that the short answer to the question in your
+heading is: me.<<
+   How can you stand being up there like that?"
+
+         I brought a flame-thrower.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Aug 1999 21:00:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Babylon 5 Audio Books?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's a great idea, don't know if they'll do it or not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1999 18:21:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Amazing Stories
+
+ Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But, with your schedule maybe we should just enjoy this one,
+> right?
+
+      Thanks, the story was fun.  I have another, a Lyta/G'Kar story,
+coming out in abouta month in AS also.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1999 18:21:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: NASFIC schedule
+
+      Just an FYI to let folks know that my apperance at NASFIC in
+Anaheim has been moved from Sunday to Saturday (tomorrow) at 1:00 p.m.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Aug 1999 00:06:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Amazing Stories
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, it'll be in the issue after the next one; the next one
+is a Star Trek issue, and they figured it might not be appropriate....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Aug 1999 21:00:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: What was up TNT's butt
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      "Appearances" was written to explain the change from black to
+grey; after the 5 grey-uniform eps in 116 Gideon arranged for a
+hideous...accident to happen to the grey uniforms, so they'd go back to
+the black ones again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1999 21:18:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Visitors
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"I'm glad to see somewhat else comment on the 'Y' in the window. That
+was absolutely classic -- and pure Joe!"
+
+      Y makes it the show right next door to that other show....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1999 17:14:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Saving the Best for Last
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"I have seen that concept before, but with the last five supposedly
+being the first five intending to be shown, how do they rationalize the
+uniform change? The order shown has them going from the nice looking
+dark uniforms to the ugly things of late.  Were they going to change
+back or were they really shown in order, just not the production order
+(or the 'preferred' order)?"
+
+      It's not a "concept," it's what happened.  "Appearances" was
+written to set up the change to the grey original uniforms, and we
+would've gone to black again in "To the Ends of the Earth."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1999 21:12:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: DVD
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Were you qouted accurately?
+> If so, can you add anything to the initial report?
+> (Aspect ratio, number of eps per disc, supplementary material?)
+> Any idea when we can expect an official announcement from Warner
+> Home Video? Will you be invited to participate in preparing the
+> DVD release (unlike the LDs?) If so, will you have the time?
+
+      All I know is what I've been told...that the DVDs will be out
+sometime next year; I don't know in what format; I do know they're
+going to be releasing "River of Souls" in full widescreen in the UK
+(don't know if that's DVD or tape) and if it does well they'll do
+widescreen elsewhere (same disclaimer); and no, haven't been asked to
+participate in the thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Sep 1999 15:31:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Excalibur's fighters
+
+ Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com> asks:
+> whats the name of those space/atmospheric star fury type
+> fighters?
+
+      Thunderbolts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 14 Sep 1999 15:31:12 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: transitions
+
+ Richard M Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Keep the website, or maybe expand it; I'd love to have and e-mail
+> address at like rmperry@thestation.com, how cool would that be? 
+> (of the tail wagging the dog) I wonder how the member discount
+> will work if there isn't a formal membership? How much pain are we
+> willing to suffer? into death?"
+
+      I appreciate all of that...at the same time, however, what you
+suggest would mean, in a sense, taking advantage of the fans to some
+extent, charging for not getting much, and a) I can't do that, and b) I
+think the majority, however attached to the show, would not want that
+situation.
+
+      In time, if we can get the thing into the black, we will
+certainly revisit the structure of the thing and see what can be done
+at that time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1999 00:00:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Excalibur's fighters
+
+ Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  season 4-5?
+
+      Pretty much the same model, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1999 23:09:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Sci Fi Channel Poll
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+"I read in SFX August 99 the only response I've heard from TNT. They
+claimed they were promised, and though they were buying, a high paced
+action series, and got something a lot slower. So that's why they
+cancelled it."
+
+      You've seen the final five (the first five produced, and the
+show the way we wanted to make it)...do YOU think it was a slow
+program? That it wasn't high-paced action?  If not, then one begins to
+wonder at the honesty of the statement.
+
+      Though anything in SFX regarding B5 or TNT is going to be
+specious at best.  When they exceeded the snark-limit, early when
+Crusade was still in production, with endless cheap personal shots and
+the like, we phantom zoned them, meaning they were cut off from press
+kits, photos, and interviews... after which they would take any
+possible opportunity to go after me or my shows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1999 16:10:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: transitions
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Do these messages mean that you're disbanding the Fan Club?
+
+      To a certain degree...the forthcoming Universe Today will have
+all the info.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1999 23:09:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Sci Fi Channel Poll
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The only thing wrong with your argument is that it doesn't have
+anything to do with why and what TNT did, which stems from incompetence
+and testosterone, not logic or business.
+
+      Re: the B5 reruns...yes, the ratings dropped, because they would
+run 5 in a row, then rerun the same five right afterward, rather than
+giving it a good run, so you're showing eps that just aired a few weeks
+earlier, and which everyone's seen.  And on top of that, you have your
+on-air ads announce "all new episodes," when they're those very same
+reruns, and you can onlyh pull that crap so many times before people
+give up...and on top of THAT they began moving it all over the schedule
+to the point where even *I* didn't know when it was on at various
+points....
+
+      The series had done well enough in the ratings, and had grown,
+across four seasons.  When did it run into problems?  When it hit TNT. 
+The primary reason that it was initially going to end with S4 was
+because PTEN was gone, the WB network didn't want competition in the
+marketplace, and the distribution mechanism was effectively gone. 
+That's why TNT *bought* a fifth season, because it had been doing well.
+And it's done extremely well, up to and including S5, everywhere else
+on the planet *except* TNT.  That kind of points to the reality that
+the problem was in how TNT handled it.
+
+      As for Crusade...because we wouldn't make it the show TNT wanted
+ -- Baywatch meets Wrestling in Space -- they wrote it off and did
+everything they could to make damned sure it wouldn't succeed, because
+if it DID succeed, it would prove that we were right and they were
+wrong, and they absolutely would not allow that to happen.  And since
+they never coughed up much in the way of production money -- leaving
+nearly all of that to WB to pick up -- they had nothing to lose in
+doing so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1999 18:33:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bob Ingria <70373.1164@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sci Fi Channel Poll
+
+ Bob Ingria <70373.1164@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is it with SFX regarding B5/Crusade?
+> Was there any specific event that triggered this?
+
+"What is it with SFX regarding B5/Crusade?  I've noticed that, aside
+from rare lapses into good taste, they seem to adopt a hostile, or at
+best, cool tone towards you/the show.  Was there any specific event
+that triggered this?  It was quite noticeable and rather puzzling."
+
+      As noted in my prior message, it's specifically because we
+phantom zoned them because many of their articles were, quite simply,
+unfair and sometimes cheap shots masquerading as objectivity.  I don't
+mind if somebody does or doesn't like a show or an episode, I got no
+beef with that...but some of what was being done by them was wrong, I
+felt...and finally, they were cut off from all PR material for Crusade.
+At which point they went balls out to attack the show, or myself, at
+any given opportunity; it's got nothing to do with journalism and
+everything to do with being pissed-off jumped-up fanboys.
+
+      By contrast, Dreamwatch has often had both good and bad things
+to say about the show, but always one gets a sense that they're being
+fair about it, and that their criticisms are well considered and as a
+result are often hard to argue with.  As opposed to SFX, which takes
+cheap ad hominum shots at anyone who even writes in to dare and say
+they like B5 or Crusade.  You can tell that it's personal with
+them...and the moment it becomes personal, you can kiss goodbye even
+the pretension to journalistic integrity.
+
+      When the situation came out about some B5 cast members not being
+paid for their appearances at VorCon, Dreamwatch went out and
+independently verified the situation.  SFX, because it's close with
+some of the people involved with VorCon, did not.  This is typical of
+their bias.  And that bias and that open negativity is, I think, why
+their circulation is reportedly shrinking while the circulation of some
+of the other magazines, notably Dreamwatch, is increasing, especially
+here in the States.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Sep 1999 15:41:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Sci Fi Channel Poll
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Which brings us to the "Short Attention Span Theater" syndrome.  Most
+of the complaints I saw were from people who were expecting something
+else and were unwilling to wait and see what developed.  This is often
+the norm for TV viewers and explains why we get a lot of the cr@p we
+do."
+
+      This is, unfortunately, all too often all too true.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1999 20:54:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Game cancelled???
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yup, their restructuring hit a number of games, and this was one
+of them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Sep 1999 15:54:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Value Judgements
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Except of course that would totally destroy Garibaldi's
+character.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Sep 1999 22:41:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Karen S. Hayes <112230.2454@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Value Judgements
+
+ Karen S. Hayes <112230.2454@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance that the other unproduced Crusade scripts might become
+> available to your insatiable fans?
+
+      It's something we're considering.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Sep 1999 14:58:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Even Chen CD?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      The cover artwork is sitting on my desk for approval; once
+that's done, it should be out soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1999 15:48:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: RISING STARS #2 OUT
+
+      As an FYI to those who've been waiting, RISING STARS #2 makes
+its appearance this week at a comics store near you.  It's a good one,
+concerning invulnerability, what it *really* would mean, what good or
+bad results would come of living with it...and the mystery of how you
+kill someone who can't be killed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 03 Oct 1999 20:54:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Final Reckoning
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, it's a heckuva book...and we did plan to get into some of
+the Bester storyline in the show.  Ah, well....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 04 Oct 1999 16:31:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Final Reckoning
+
+ SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So I can safely assume Bester's story is canon, right?
+
+"So I can safely assume Bester's story is canon, right?"
+
+      Absolutely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Oct 1999 17:55:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: B5 Crew Jackets Here
+
+      Pitchman mode on:
+
+      One of the main questions I get at conventions, when I show up
+flying the colors, is "Where can I get that jacket?"  As those've
+who've been there will attest, my answer has always been, "You can't. 
+They're only for cast and crew."
+
+      So there've been a lot of requests for this particular item over
+the years...so for this month only, www.thestation.com will be offering
+a limited number (about 200) of B5 jackets.  These are essentially
+identical to the other crew jackets, same material, same manufacturer,
+same detailed logo embroidered on the back.  It's a *nice* jacket (and
+available for a hell of a lot less than the $500-1000 some of them have
+been sold for in the past on ebay and convention auctions).
+
+      But they're going to go fast.  Same as with the Gathering
+script, which was only available in September, and is now off market. 
+(The next one for sale, this month only, is the script for Midnight on
+the Firing Line.)
+
+      Pitchman mode off.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 05 Oct 1999 23:13:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Crew Jackets Here
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Note to self: you are an idiot.  What you MEANT to say was that
+CRUSADE jackets are available, but you WROTE B5 jackets...one might
+almost think you had a glitch in your brain in that regard.
+
+      Not only THAT, but it turns out that the Gathering is going to
+be available until October 8th because the web site was down for about
+a week.
+
+      Can't you get *anything* rite?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Oct 1999 17:42:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade cancellation
+
+ T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) when TNT stopped production 2) when the cast contracts expired
+> 3) after the airing when no one picked it up 4) still some hope
+> left??
+
+      In technical terms it's always when you're told to stop
+production and that's it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Oct 1999 19:45:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5/Crusade Keyrings?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I don't *think* they're official, but I can't be 100% sure. 
+Certainly they never came through for approval, which makes me think
+they're not official.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1999 17:03:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Andrew S. Troth <74663.3614@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5/Crusade Keyrings?
+
+ Andrew S. Troth <74663.3614@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Really?
+
+      The B5 keychains are legit; the question was in regards to
+Crusade keychains.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1999 18:36:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Is there a Best Episode?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> What episode(s) of Crusade deserve consideration for this?
+
+"As you know, the SFWA reinstated the Dramatic Nebula.  What
+episode(s) of Crusade deserve consideration for this?"
+
+      I dunno...maybe THE MEMORY OF WAR, though if anything deserves
+it, it's THE MATRIX.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1999 14:22:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Final Reckoning
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"SiL was written and filmed before Season 5 and would have been the
+final episode of Season 4 had Season 5 not happened.  In that light,
+this comment more likely refers to the problems they had in Season 4
+than any as-yet-untold problems."
+
+      Except of course that Garibaldi's whole future arc was known to
+me; whether or not there was a S5, his future was his future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1999 14:27:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Is there a Best Episode?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"The only nomination so far is a Swedish porn flick that is only
+incidentally SF.  The group that nominated that one want to embarrass
+the organization into re-abolishing the award.  It's a very sorry
+mess."
+
+      Of course.  It's SFWA.
+
+      Never have I seen a group that writes about technology so
+frightened of a form of technological storytelling.  They're the writer-
+equivilents of Luddites.  (Meaning the ones pulling this crap.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Oct 1999 20:01:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Is there a Best Episode?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"As to "The Matrix", I think you may be betting on the winner there,
+but strangely I found the story a trifle weak.  Perhaps because it was
+so overshadowed by the extravagant visual effect.  I'd hate to have to
+pay the tab for just 10 seconds of that film."
+
+      The story is fairly straightforward and parts of it do not bear
+close scrutiny, but the mythology of the thing is very well done, and
+obviously the action stuff is the best I've ever seen.  The DVD is
+particularly cool; it has the movie, commentaries, the ability to dive
+out of the movie to see the sequence done segment by segment, then see
+the whole thing, and you can see it from script to storyboard to filmed
+end-product.  I've probably watched the whole thing through about 4-5
+times.
+
+      As much as I have a personal investment in Crusade and all
+things Babylonian, I can't think of much that could compete with the
+Matrix in terms of quality.
+
+      (And to the question of what episode I'd consider...absent the
+Matrix for a moment, it occurs to me that A Call to Arms and River of
+Souls are both also elibigle for this year.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 20 Oct 1999 20:12:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bob Ingria <70373.1164@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Final Reckoning
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"By the way, I note that SiL clearly does refer to 'events that had
+not yet happened when SiL was filmed '.  For example, there's Lennier's
+death. (Remember that Lennier is toasted as one of the 'absent friends,
+in memory still bright'.)  Franklin being the head of Xenobiology back
+on earth. Garibaldi being head of Edgar's Industries (although this is
+implicit in 'Rising Stars')."
+
+      Exactly so.  Franklin's situation even predates any thought at
+all about Crusade as a series.
+
+      Garibaldi's death (a much quieter passing than he would have
+imagined waiting for him), Franklin's final fate on a distant,
+unexplored planet, Delenn's final journey (a quest involving Valen,
+though no one else around her believes it), Lennier's sacrifice...it's
+all mapped out, on the theory that whether or not it ever gets used,
+*I* had to know it.
+
+      (Incidentally...in a coming issue of the B5 magazine, there is a
+canonical timeline that covers the history of the B5 universe from the
+Big Bang to a million years in the future...and it's really nifty to
+see the whole thing laid out like that, to realize that, sonuvagun, it
+really does work.  I commend it to everyone in the highest possible
+terms.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Oct 1999 16:53:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bob Ingria <70373.1164@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Final Reckoning
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      Except, of course, that as I recall (and my memory could be off
+here), Bester's parents were never part of the Corps, and thus would
+not have had their DNA on file there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1999 15:59:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: The Babylonia Method
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have your heard of any more new series (or old) that have adopted
+> the Babylonian method of organized production?
+
+      Not that I've heard, in terms of production, though in terms of
+story arc, the guys who do E:FC have said in print that they want to do
+a B5 style arc, and a few others are doing the same.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1999 15:59:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Bernard Dowdy <76550.347@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Columbia House Videos
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I don't have any direct knowledge of this, only what other fans
+have conveyed, which is that for whatever bizarre reason, CH doesn't
+"have access" to those episodes.  I don't know or understand why that
+would be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 01 Nov 1999 17:25:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Babylonia Method
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nope, never seen it, no time for much TV these days.
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Nov 1999 15:23:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: The Babylonia Method
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Funny stuff, thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 02 Nov 1999 21:11:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rumor Mill
+
+ Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you heard anything about this?
+
+      No, I haven't heard anything about it; I suspect it's just a
+rumor.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 09 Nov 1999 23:03:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 Sightings
+
+ Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who edits this thing anyway?
+
+"However, the real hoot for me is that Joe is dressed in a sport coat,
+turtle neck, and *blue jeans*.  Just my kind of outfit.  A snappy
+dresser to the end :)"
+
+      It was either that or wear proper slacks with a Superman tie.  I
+just can't take anything seriously....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Nov 1999 21:18:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: Rising Star 11/22/99
+
+     Just as an FYI, the next issue of RISING STARS will be out at
+newsstands around the 22nd.  It's a particularly good one, following
+the story of pyrokinetic Lee Jackson after he fled at the beginning. 
+We also learn a very possible motive for the series of murders.  It's a
+good one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Nov 1999 21:18:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: B5 Bible/Treatment!
+
+Also posted to the net:
+
+For the last six years, I've been asked repeatedly -- in email and at
+conventions -- "Are you ever going to make the original B5 series
+writers' bible available?"  My general reaction was to simply
+say...maybe someday.
+
+After considerable reflection, and as a Solstice present to B5
+viewers... we're finally going to make it available.
+
+TWO such *its*, to be precise.
+
+First: The original Babylon 5 Series Treatment
+
+This is the 23 page document, written in September 1988, that was used
+to sell the series for the five years it took to find a buyer.  It has
+different characters than were ever seen in the show, such as Dr.
+Chakri Mendak (a role that later became Dr. Stephen Franklin) and more
+background on Vice-Commander Laurel Chang... Sinclair's background is
+also quite different from what we eventually ended up with... Delenn
+was a male...the Vorlons were warlike, squabbling aliens....
+
+This was the first attempt to put B5 down on paper, in a process that
+would change and evolve over the next 5 years. Ideas that were never
+used, characters who would never be seen again, the first stirrings of
+the Minbari War story (including a never used alternate explanation for
+why they surrendered), Delenn was a male character... Kosh had a mate
+who came with him to B5...on and on and on.
+
+Second: The original Season One Babylon 5 Writer's Bible
+
+This massive tome weighs in at over 60 pages, with comprehensive
+backgrounds on all the characters as well as guidelines for writing SF
+for TV in ways that would be different than all of our predecessors. It
+lays out the first year of the arc and warns potential writers away
+from areas we plan to explore in later years, has additional
+backgrounds on regular characters never actually used in the series
+(such as a strange fellow named Mr. Jones who would have been
+alternately a bane and ally to Garibaldi), stories that would
+eventually be filmed, other stories that would never be used,
+information on the the history and technology of the B5 universe, Psi
+Corps, Earthforce, the various governments, and other areas...this is
+the Big One, the Grail of the B5 fictional world.  The table of
+contents alone covers 2 pages.
+
+This bible was ONLY given to prospective writers, who were in turn
+asked to keep the material totally confidential. The treatment was ONLY
+given to network/studio. heads and others in a position to buy the
+series.
+
+In addition, BOTH of these documents will be peppered with the
+original illustrations by Peter Ledger used to sell and visualize the
+series in its earliest stage, including the original keyhole logo, many
+of them reproduced in full color, others b&w.  Some of these images
+have shown up in various places, but others will be seen here by the
+world at large for the first time.
+
+I debated long and hard about whether or not I would ever make these
+available, but finally decided to give in to the many requests for the
+release of this material.
+
+This material will shortly be made available at www.thestation.com and
+via phone orders. I don't know how long we'll make them available, but
+I suspect it may not be very long.
+
+In reading through the documents, it's like taking a trip back through
+time to what was, to the very beginnings of the series, what would be,
+what might've been, what never was...what got abandoned on the side of
+the road, what was kept. At times the material is coy, informative,
+deliberately misleading in a couple of places where I wanted to avoid
+leaks, rude and sometimes it actually makes a rough kind of sense.
+
+They're going to cost a bit more than the scripts, because at 60+
+pages in the case of the bible, and with the color illustrations,
+they're more expensive to produce, and we're only doing a limited
+number of these.
+
+Expect the full info to go up on thestation.com in a few days.
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1999 17:07:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Star 11/22/99
+
+ SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this issue 2 or 3?
+
+      It's issue 3, 2 came out last month.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Nov 1999 23:20:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: John Morgan <71513.2510@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New 2 HR B5 Movie?
+
+ John Morgan <71513.2510@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  true & what is the general plot?
+
+      I haven't heard anything about it, and thus don't think it's
+true.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 18 Nov 1999 23:20:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Art of Collaboration
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What do you feel are your strengths in a collaborative effort,
+> and what do you look for in a collaborator? What are the pitfalls
+> to avoid, and what are the benefits?
+
+      I'm actually the worst person to ask about this, because I
+almost never collaborate with another writer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1999 17:18:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New 2 HR B5 Movie?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      Those rumors are *always* coming...doesn't mean anything.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Nov 1999 15:47:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Lee Gordon <75030.1144@compuserve.com>
+Subject: New 2 HR B5 Movie?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"Probably wishful thinking on the part of the originators."
+
+      Except, of course, that the *originators* KNOW that it's not
+true.  It may be wishful thinking on the part of those who *hear it*,
+but the person who tells a fib knows that he is telling a fib.
+
+      On the internet, inside information is currency, and there will
+always be counterfeiters among us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1999 22:43:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jamichie > [jamichie]
+Subject: Crusade's Future
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's nothing to do with Crusade as a *product*.  It's Crusade
+and the writing thereof as an *art form* that is at issue here.  If a
+composer was stopped from finishing a symphony, and someone said,
+"Well, can you talk about what you *would* have done?" it's an
+impossible question...a symphony is meant to be *heard* not talked
+about.
+
+      Further, it would mean my spending a great deal of time dwelling
+on something that I won't be able to *do*.  For me, it's not an
+academic exercise, it's a point of great personal frustration...why in
+heaven's name should I choose to enhance that any further by dwelling
+on all the cool things I could've/would've done had TNT not pulled the
+plug?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1999 22:36:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Jamichie > [jamichie] 
+Subject: Crusade's Future
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, I know where the story was going to go, that ain't the
+point; the point is in spending that much emotional time going over
+something that somebody canceled.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1999 22:36:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: B5 on home video
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Does anyone at WB know what they're doing?
+> Who is in charge over there?
+
+      I'm astouned that they would do that to the two movies...there
+was no reason to do so unless they just didn't want to spend the
+additonal money on two more transfers.  I'm afraid the ways of WB
+utterly defy explanation....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1999 14:12:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Star 11/22/99
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      The book, I'm told by TC, will definitely be out this Wednesday;
+the holiday kind of cut into their schedule.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 01 Dec 1999 21:10:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Star 11/22/99
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      It's officially out now....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Dec 1999 22:39:06 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Rising Star 11/22/99
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      There are 24 issues slated for the run, planned at 1 per
+month...or at Top Cow's production schedule, that should bring us
+through 2010....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 04 Dec 1999 14:27:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carolyn Dodson <76337.3460@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Star 11/22/99
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      It takes me a week or three to write a comics script because I'm
+still kinda learning the form...after that production seems to take
+about a year and a half...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Dec 1999 23:21:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carolyn Dodson <76337.3460@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Star 11/22/99
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      I appreciate it, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Dec 1999 22:39:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Star 11/22/99
+
+ Richard M Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And what was it, a year after the announced release that Wing
+> Commander III finally hit the shelves? Did you get Batman War on
+> Crime?
+
+      Yeah, got War on Crime...I mean, c'mon, it's Alex Ross, to NOT
+get it would be sacrilege.  As always, he does a great job, though I
+thought the script was not quite on the same level as the art.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Dec 1999 22:39:10 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Richard M Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com>
+Subject: MegaCon 2000
+
+ Richard M Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (I already booked a room at the Marriott) Is there any chance
+> that Top Cow, or Harlan, will be dragging you along with them
+> this year? Top Cow is there every year and I thought they might be
+> working on you to go again to promote the current issue of Rising
+> Stars which should be what 5 by April?
+
+      Nothing's really been set yet as far as I know....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Dec 1999 00:03:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carolyn Dodson <76337.3460@compuserve.com>
+Subject: B5 versus ST:TNG
+
+ Carolyn Dodson <76337.3460@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In all fairness I will admit to one problem I have in B5 plotdom
+> and I would like to know if this bothers anybody else? Has anyone
+> ever raised this issue or read an explanation from JMS on this -
+> Mr. Straczynski, are you out there - what's the deal? Is this
+> going to be elaborated on in the "Legions of Fire" series?
+
+"In all fairness I will admit to one problem I have in B5 plotdom and
+I would like to know if this bothers anybody else? Why doesn't Sheridan
+remember that Londo has a freakin Keeper. How can you go forward in
+time and remember that Delenn says "do not go to Z'ha'dum" but you
+forget that a one-eyed, ugly, creepy looking sucker is sticking out of
+someone's neck. I mean I don't think that is something I would forget.
+I mean Franklin found a Keeper on Mars and I assume he put it in a
+report which I assume Sheridan read - he should be able to put 2 and 2
+together. Has anyone ever raised this issue or read an explanation from
+JMS on this - Mr. Straczynski, are you out there - what's the deal? Is
+this going to be elaborated on in the "Legions of Fire" series? Just 
+wonderin'"
+
+      It's real simple.  That vision was almost 20 years in the
+future.
+
+      At what point should Sheridan assume the Keeper landed on Londo?
+For all he knows, it got there a week before.  Nothing in Londo's
+behavior in the present B5 storyline says "keeper."  People start wars
+all the time without the necessity of having keepers.  Londo has
+certainly had his changes and swings in mood prior to having a Keeper. 
+WE know this because we have privileged information which Sheridan does
+not.
+
+      If Londo had said "I got this thing in x-year," then that's one
+thing, but absent that...there's no way for Sheridan to know that he
+didn't get it 10 or 15 years down the line...and, equally, no way to
+know what future events he might change -- possibly for the worse -- by
+trying to warn Londo. (And, in fact, if he did try to tell Londo about
+this, the Drakh would realize that Londo had been compromised, and they
+would probably simply kill him and bring someone else into that
+role...so Sheridan's right in that respect.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Dec 1999 22:29:09 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Unauthorized books?
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think that unauthorized books fall into a grey area; on the
+one hand, they're exploiting a known commodity (a show) but none of the
+creative people involved with the project actually benefit from the
+book; that's sort of the bottom-feeder aspect to the thing...on the
+other hand, an unauthorized book can sometimes (but may not always) be
+more objective in telling the story of a given show.  I've generally
+tried to make sure that anything associated with B5 is more than just
+fluff; the B5 magazine is probably the best example of this, and
+they've shown both the warts and the good stuff, and have in fact 
+published any number of very critical articles and reviews of episodes 
+(teeth-grindingly so, in some cases, but I let it go through on
+principle).
+
+      The Lane books fall into the "may not always be more objective"
+category stated above, especially the second one, in which the author,
+feeling that the series didn't go the way *he* would've wanted it to
+go, totally distorts situations and events to underscore his theme,
+even at the expense of honest reporting.  The whole book is, frankly,
+skewed and even fans have considered it mainly a personal
+attack/fannish venting than a book about the show...it's about the
+author's frustrated desires and not about the show at all, in the final
+analysis.  There's a lot of incorrect information in the book, which
+in an authorized book could have been caught, but here there was no
+safeguard against misinformation and personal opinion disguised as
+fact.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Dec 1999 20:45:02 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Unauthorized books?
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+"But, like you, I was rather taken aback by the attitude of the author
+in the second book.  He was clearly miffed and allowed that to color
+what could otherwise have been a well done second book.  Clearly, the
+objectivity was gone."
+
+      Yup.
+
+"Still, he did manage to put in a couple of things worth seeing.  In
+particular, he quoted the entire 'Declaration of Principles' from
+'Paragon of Animals'."
+
+      Which a) he didn't write, b) I did, and get nothing for the
+reuse of my material, c) is widely available online, and d) can be
+transcribed by anyone from the episode, so you don't need the book to
+do that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Jan 2000 00:35:00 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CBS special
+
+{original post had no questions}
+
+      It's apparently going to be tomorrow (Sunday) morning during CBS
+Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 02 Jan 2000 22:45:07 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: CBS special
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+Message text written by George & Lynn Dimock: "Hope it went well."
+
+It was okay...I never much like the way I look or talk on TV.  I
+always suspect that the next day America's Most Wanted will start
+getting phone calls saying "THAT'S HIM!  THAT'S THE GUY!"
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Jan 2000 23:10:04 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: CBS special
+
+{original post unavailable}
+
+Message text written by Troy Starr: "Does NASA have a time table for
+building their Star Furies?  Or were they just asking permission for
+the indefinite future? "
+
+In general.
+
+jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 06 Jan 2000 23:11:03 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Karen S. Hayes <112230.2454@compuserve.com>
+Subject: CBS special
+
+ Karen S. Hayes <112230.2454@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How did they hook up with you for this segment?
+
+Message text written by Karen S. Hayes: "How did they hook up with you
+for this segment? I ask out of professional curiosity, because I know
+that often--not always, but often-- finding the right interview subject
+for a piece is pure luck and serendipity on the part of the
+interviewer. "
+
+Apparently the segment producer was a big B5 fan, so she called one
+day.
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Jan 2000 23:43:08 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: All 
+Subject: Rising Stars 4 is out
+
+Just as an FYI, this past Thursday the fourth issue of Rising Stars
+came out. It's kind of a fun issue.
+
+jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Jan 2000 17:41:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Carolyn Dodson <76337.3460@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Rising Stars 4 is out
+
+ Carolyn Dodson <76337.3460@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW noticed your post time - do you suffer from Delayed Sleep
+> Phase Syndrome also?
+
+Message text written by Carolyn Dodson: "BTW noticed your post time -
+do you suffer from Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome also?  "
+
+No, I just sleep whacky hours.  I generally work in the evenings until
+about 3 or so in the morning, then crash.
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Jan 2000 20:24:14 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Boon or Bane?
+
+ Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does it seem like a whole new crateful of chainsaws to juggle?
+
+Message text written by Rebecca Eschliman: "I'd be interested in your
+reaction as either (or both) a writer or producer to the AOL/T-W
+merger, not as it applies to B5 specifically, but what it bodes for the
+future in getting new shows launched and supported.  Does it seem like
+a whole new crateful of chainsaws to juggle? "
+
+Unfortunately, I really don't know/understand enough about the
+situation to have an informed opinion.
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Jan 2000 23:19:13 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: Gallifrey Convention
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Do you know when your presentations/events are scheduled yet?
+
+Message text written by Martin Roth: "I spotted your name on the guest
+list for Gallifrey next month, and by an amazing set of coincidences
+I'm actually going to be there part of the time.  Do you know when your
+presentations/events are scheduled yet? "
+
+I'm told Sunday at 4.
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Feb 2000 23:45:11 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
+Subject: Crusade on eBay
+
+ Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this legit, or has someone ripped off something?
+
+Message text written by Graham Smith: "There is a Crusade "Workprint"
+copy of "Racing the Night" for sale on eBay, Item# 244480063.
+
+Is this legit, or has someone ripped off something? "
+
+It's definitely not legal for people to be selling that stuff.
+
+jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 16 Feb 2000 23:46:05 -0700
+From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
+To: (blocked)
+Subject: New 2 HR B5 Movie?
+
+ (blocked) asks:
+> Is this true & what is the general plot?
+> and then produce something lame withOUT you at the helm?
+> Do you have any form of insurance against "creative pollution"?
+
+Message text written by Rick Corey: "Is there even a remote, horrid
+possibility that WB could say "Since we own all rights to B5, we're
+going to put out a B5 movie" ... and then produce something lame
+withOUT you at the helm? "
+
+Odds are slim and none.
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/000.The-Gathering b/ftp/Credits/000.The-Gathering
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3cd78505
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/000.The-Gathering
@@ -0,0 +1,182 @@
+                          MICHAEL O'HARE
+                          TAMLYN TOMITA
+                           JERRY DOYLE
+                           MIRA FURLAN
+
+                          Guest Starring
+                           BLAIRE BARON
+                            JOHN FLECK
+                           PAUL HAMPTON
+                          PETER JURASIK
+                         ANDREAS KATSULAS
+                           JOHNNY SEKKA
+                         PATRICIA TALLMAN
+
+                             Music by
+                         STEWART COPELAND
+
+                            Edited by
+                     ROBERT L. SINISE, A.C.E.
+
+                       Production Designer
+                          JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+                     Director of Photography
+                          BILLY DICKSON
+
+                             Producer
+                       ROBERT LATHAM BROWN
+
+                           Co-Producer
+                          JOHN COPELAND
+
+                            Written by
+                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+                           Directed by
+                         RICHARD COMPTON
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+[end credits]
+
+                        Executive Producer
+                          DOUGLAS NETTER
+
+                      Co-Executive Producer
+                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+                            Casting by
+                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+                             Starring
+        MICHAEL O'HARE                  Jeffrey Sinclair
+        TAMLYN TOMITA                   Laurel Takashima
+        JERRY DOYLE                     Michael Garibaldi
+        MIRA FURLAN                     Delenn
+
+                          Guest Starring
+        BLAIRE BARON                    Carolyn Sykes
+        JOHN FLECK                      Del Varner
+        PAUL HAMPTON                    The Senator
+        PETER JURASIK                   Londo Mollari
+        ANDREAS KATSULAS                G'Kar
+        JOHNNY SEKKA                    Dr. Benjamin Kyle
+        PATRICIA TALLMAN                Lyta Alexander
+
+                           Co-Starring
+        STEVEN R. BARNETT               Eric
+        WILLIAM HAYES                   Traveler
+        LINDA HOFFMAN                   Tech #2
+        ROBERT JASON JACKSON            Tech #3
+        F. WILLIAM PARKER               Business Man #1
+        MARIANNE ROBERTSON              Hostage
+        DAVE SAGE                       Business Man #2
+        ED WASSER                       Guerra
+
+                     Unit Production Manager
+                       ROBERT LATHAM BROWN
+
+                      1st Assistant Director
+                          JOHN RADULOVIC
+
+                      2nd Assistant Director
+                    JOSEPH N. (J.J.) LINSALATA
+
+                         Costume Designer
+                         CATHERINE ADAIR
+
+                    Visual Effects Designed by
+                           RON THORNTON
+
+        Art Directors                   DEBORAH RAYMOND
+                                        DORIAN VERNACCHIO
+        Assistant Art Directors         TED HAIGH
+                                        CHRIS MULLER
+        Set Designer                    COLIN DeROUIN
+        Set Dresser                     MICHAEL MORA
+        Key Scenic Artist               RUTH GILMORE
+        Conceptual Artists              PETER LEDGER
+                                        SUSIE WILSON
+
+        Wardrobe Supervisor             ALAN TRUGMAN
+        Wardrobe Key Set                SUSAN ROBERTS
+        Key Makeup                      SUZANNE SANDERS
+        Key Hair                        MYKE MICHAELS
+        Property Master                 GUY PEPIN
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual Effects Coordinator      SHANNON CASEY
+        Animators                       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        RICHARD PAYNE
+                                        MARK SWAIN
+        Special Effects Coordinator     JOHN STEARS
+
+
+        Special Effects
+        Makeup Supervisor               JOHN CRISWELL
+        Shop Foreman                    GREG ARONOWITZ
+        Makeup Supervisor               ROB SHERWOOD
+        Makeup Sculpture & Application  RON WILD
+
+        Assistant Editor                JOE BINFORD, JR.
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+        Director of Sound Services      PAUL RODRIGUEZ
+        Supervising Sound Editor        GEORGE JOHNSEN
+        Sound Designer                  HARRY COHEN
+
+        Dialogue/ADR Editor             CATHIE SPEAKMAN
+        Re-Recording Mixers             KEN TEANEY
+                                        BILL FREESH
+                                        GEORGE JOHNSEN
+        Script Supervisor               HALY McLANE
+        Production Coordinator          ALYSON EVANS
+        Asst. Production Coordinator    KAREN MEISELS
+        DGA Trainee                     CLARE DURAND
+        Prodcution Accountant           MARGE ROWLAND
+        Asst. to Executive Producer     SCOTT ROSS
+
+        Camera Operator                 STEPHEN COLLINS
+        1st Assistant Camera            STEVEN R. MONROE
+        2nd Asistant Camera             JAMES BALL
+        Sound Mixer                     JIM TANENBAUM
+        Boom Operator                   CINDY GESS
+        Gaffer                          JOHN K. FARR
+        Key Grip                        JAN M. HeyNEKER
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSAL
+        Stunts FRANK J. SPARKS
+
+                  Video Toaster Rendring System
+                          NEW TEK, INC.
+
+            Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+           Digitally Edited on the AVID MEDIA COMPOSER
+
+       Pin Register Transfers & Digital Optical Compositing
+                     ACTION VIDEO, HOLLYWOOD
+
+                             Color by
+                     PACIFIC FILM LABORIORIES
+
+            Electronic Laboratory(tm) by LASER-PACIFIC
+
+                  Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                            VARI LITE
+                          Chatsworth, CA
+
+                 Filmed at Santa Clarita Studious
+                        Santa Clarita, CA
+
+                     (c) 1993 PTEN Consortium
+                       All Rights Reserved
+
+      Country of first publication United States of America
+    Elliot, Friedgen & Co., Inc. is the author of this motion
+       picture for purposes of the Berne Convention and all
+               national laws giving effect thereto.
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/001.Midnight-on-the-Firing-Line b/ftp/Credits/001.Midnight-on-the-Firing-Line
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..08bff1c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/001.Midnight-on-the-Firing-Line
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+presented in
+DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+CAITLIN BROWN                   as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                  "MIDNIGHT ON THE FIRING LINE"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+PAUL HAMPTON                    as      The Senator
+
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Co-Producer                     RICHARD COMPTON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     RICHARD COMPTON
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                           Co-Starring
+PETER TRENCHER                  as      Carn Mollari
+
+                            Featuring
+JEFF AUSTIN                             Centauri #1
+ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN                    Kosh
+MAGGIE EGAN                             Newsperson
+MARK HENDRICKSON                        Narn Captain
+DOUGLAS E. McCOY                        Delta 7
+MARIANNE ROBERTSON                      Tech #1
+
+        Story Editor                    LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          JOHN RADULOVIC
+        2nd Assistant Director          MICHAEL J. SCHILZ
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Directors                   DORIAN VERNACCHIO
+                                        DEBORAH RAYMOND
+        Property Master                 BARBARA COLE
+        Set Decorator                   NANCY S. FALLACE
+        Leadman                         JASON HOWARD
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Make-up Artist              MARY KAY MORSE
+        Key Hairstylist                 MYKE MICHAELS
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+
+        Camera Operator                 EYAL GORDIN
+        1st Assistant Camera            PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     PATRICK MITCHELL
+        Sound Design                    JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E.
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        BILL FREESH
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          LISA M. CITRON
+        Assistant Editor                KATHIE BURR
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH FISCHER
+        Script Coordinator              REBECCA LANGENFELD
+        Executive Producer's Assistant  TRACIE ESPARZA
+        Producer's Assistant            KELSEY KLINE
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                    Pin Registered Transfers &
+                   Digital Optical Compositing
+                     Action Video, Hollywood
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 103
+
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/002.Soul-Hunter b/ftp/Credits/002.Soul-Hunter
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4aabe2ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/002.Soul-Hunter
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+presented in
+DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+CAITLIN BROWN                   as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                          "SOUL HUNTER"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+W. MORGAN SHEPPARD              as      The Soul Hunter
+
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Co-Producer                     RICHARD COMPTON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     JIM JOHNSTON
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                           Co-Starring
+JOHN SNYDER                             Soul Hunter #2
+
+                            Featuring
+TONI ATTELL                             Med Tech #1
+JIM BENTLEY                             Man
+MARK CONLEY                             Tech #1
+DAVID D. DARLING                        Guard #1
+TED W. HENNING                          Guard #2
+MARIANNE ROBERTSON                      Tech #2
+
+        Story Editor                    LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          SKIP BEAUDINE
+        2nd Assistant Director          MICHAEL J. SCHILZ
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Directors                   DORIAN VERNACCHIO
+                                        DEBORAH RAYMOND
+        Property Master                 BARBARA COLE
+        Set Decorator                   NANCY S. FALLACE
+        Leadman                         JASON HOWARD
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Make-up Artist              MARY KAY MORSE
+        Key Hairstylist                 MYKE MICHAELS
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+
+        Camera Operator                 EYAL GORDIN
+        1st Assistant Camera            PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     PATRICK MITCHELL
+        Sound Design                    JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E.
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        TODD ORR
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SKIP ROBINSON
+        Assistant Editor                MARLA K. BECHTEL
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Production Accounting           
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH FISCHER
+        Script Coordinator              REBECCA LANGENFELD
+        Executive Producer's Assistant  TRACIE ESPARZA
+        Producer's Assistant            KELSEY KLINE
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                    Pin Registered Transfers &
+                   Digital Optical Compositing
+                     Action Video, Hollywood
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 102
+
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/003.Born-to-the-Purple b/ftp/Credits/003.Born-to-the-Purple
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cdf1190a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/003.Born-to-the-Purple
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+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+MARY WORONOV                    as      Ko D'Ath
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                       "BORN TO THE PURPLE"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+FABIANA UDENIO                  as      Adira Tyree
+CLIVE REVILL                    as      Trakis
+
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Co-Producer                     RICHARD COMPTON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+        Directed by                     BRUCE SETH GREEN
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                           Co-Starring
+JIMM GIANNINI                           Ock
+ROBERT PHALEN                           Andrei Ivanova
+
+                            Featuring
+ROBERT DITILLIO                         Norg
+TOM LOWE                                Gunman #1
+KATHERINE MILLS                         Dancer
+MIKE NORRIS                             Butz
+LAURA PETERSON                          Gera Akshi
+MARIANNE ROBERTSON                      Tech #1
+MOMO YASHIMA                            Dr. Goyokin
+                                        
+                                        
+
+        Story Editor                    LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          SKIP BEAUDINE
+        2nd Assistant Director          MICHAEL J. SCHILZ
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Directors                   DORIAN VERNACCHIO
+                                        DEBORAH RAYMOND
+        Property Master                 BARBARA COLE
+        Set Decorator                   NANCY S. FALLACE
+        Leadman                         JASON HOWARD
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Make-up Artist              MARY KAY MORSE
+        Key Hairstylist                 MYKE MICHAELS
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+
+        Camera Operator                 EYAL GORDIN
+        1st Assistant Camera            PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     PATRICK MITCHELL
+        Sound Design                    JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E.
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        TODD ORR
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        Assistant Editor                MARLA K. BECHTEL
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Production Accounting           
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH FISCHER
+        Script Coordinator              REBECCA LANGENFELD
+        Executive Producer's Assistant  TRACIE ESPARZA
+        Producer's Assistant            KELSEY KLINE
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                     3D Visual Effects System
+                       The Video Toaster(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 104
+
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/004.Infection b/ftp/Credits/004.Infection
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a73e2b41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/004.Infection
@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+presented in
+DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+CAITLIN BROWN                   as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                           "INFECTION"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+DAVID McCALLUM                  as      Dr. Vance Hendricks
+MARSHALL TEAGUE                 as      Nelson Drake
+
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Co-Producer                     RICHARD COMPTON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     RICHARD COMPTON
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                           Co-Starring
+PATRICIA HEALY                          Mary Ann Cramer
+
+                            Featuring
+SAV FARROW                              Tech #1
+DANIEL HUTCHISON                        Security Guard
+SYLVA KELEGIAN                          Tech #2
+TONY RIZZOLI                            Guard
+MARIANNE ROBERTSON                      Tech #3
+PAUL YEUELL                             Customs Guard
+
+        Story Editor                    LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          JOHN RADULOVIC
+        2nd Assistant Director          MICHAEL J. SCHILZ
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Directors                   DORIAN VERNACCHIO
+                                        DEBORAH RAYMOND
+        Property Master                 BARBARA COLE
+        Set Decorator                   NANCY S. FALLACE
+        Leadman                         JASON HOWARD
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Make-up Artist              MARY KAY MORSE
+        Key Hairstylist                 MYKE MICHAELS
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+
+        Camera Operator                 EYAL GORDIN
+        1st Assistant Camera            PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects Coordinator     JOHN STEARS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     PATRICK MITCHELL
+        Sound Design                    JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E.
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        TODD ORR
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        Assistant Editor                KATHIE BURR
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH FISCHER
+        Script Coordinator              REBECCA LANGENFELD
+        Executive Producer's Assistant  TRACIE ESPARZA
+        Producer's Assistant            KELSEY KLINE
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 101
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/005.Parliament-of-Dreams b/ftp/Credits/005.Parliament-of-Dreams
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8c60748e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/005.Parliament-of-Dreams
@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+presented in
+DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+CAITLIN BROWN                   as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                    "THE PARLIAMENT OF DREAMS"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+JULIA NICKSON                   as      Catherine Sakai
+THOMAS KOPACHE                  as      Tu'Pari
+
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Co-Producer                     RICHARD COMPTON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     JIM JOHNSTON
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+JOY HARDIN                              Narn #1
+MARK HENDRICKSON                        Du'Rog
+CALVIN JUNG                             Guard
+RANDALL KIRBY                           Businessman #1
+MICHAEL McKENZIE                        Pilgrim
+MARIANNE ROBERTSON                      Dome Tech
+GLENN ROBINSON                          Head Waiter
+ERICH MARTIN VON HICKS                  Businessman #2
+
+        Story Editor                    LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          SKIP BEAUDINE
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    DEBORAH RAYMOND
+        Property Master                 BARBARA COLE
+        Set Decorator                   NANCY S. FALLACE
+        Leadman                         JASON HOWARD
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Make-up Artist              MARY KAY MORSE
+        Key Hairstylist                 MYKE MICHAELS
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+
+        Camera Operator                 EYAL GORDIN
+        1st Assistant Camera            PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     PATRICK MITCHELL
+        Sound Design                    JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E.
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        TODD ORR
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SKIP ROBINSON
+        Assistant Editor                MARLA K. BECHTEL
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH FISCHER
+        Script Coordinator              REBECCA LANGENFELD
+        Executive Producer's Assistant  TRACIE ESPARZA
+        Producer's Assistant            KELSEY KLINE
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                     3D Visual Effects System
+                       The Video Toaster(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 108
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/006.Mind-War b/ftp/Credits/006.Mind-War
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1c9ae490
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/006.Mind-War
@@ -0,0 +1,171 @@
+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+CAITLIN BROWN                   as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                            "MIND WAR"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+WILLIAM ALLEN YOUNG             as      Jason Ironheart
+FELICITY WATERMAN               as      Kelsey
+JULIA NICKSON                   as      Catherine Sakai
+
+                               AND
+WALTER KOENIG                   as      Bester
+
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     BRUCE SETH GREEN
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                           Co-Starring
+DON DOWE                                Earth Fighter
+ELISA PENSLER GABRIELLI                 Guest Liaison
+MICHAEL McKENZIE                        Narn Captain
+KEVIN PAGE                              Businessman
+MARK S. PORRO                           Security Guard
+
+                            Featuring
+MACAULAY BRUTON                         Garibaldi's Aide
+MARIANNE ROBERTSON                      Dome Tech #1
+
+        Story Editor                    LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          SKIP BEAUDINE
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    DEBORAH RAYMOND
+        Property Master                 BARBARA COLE
+        Set Decorator                   NANCY S. FALLACE
+        Leadman                         JASON HOWARD
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Make-up Artist              MARY KAY MORSE
+        Key Hairstylist                 MYKE MICHAELS
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+
+        Camera Operator                 EYAL GORDIN
+        1st Assistant Camera            PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     PATRICK MITCHELL
+        Sound Design                    JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E.
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        TODD ORR
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        Assistant Editor                MARLA K. BECHTEL
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH FISCHER
+        Casting Associate               STEVE BROOKSBANK
+
+        Script Coordinator              REBECCA LANGENFELD
+        Executive Producer's Assistant  TRACIE ESPARZA
+        Producer's Assistant            KELSEY KLINE
+    Special Effect Contact Lenses by    BODYTECH
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                     3D Visual Effects System
+                       The Video Toaster(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 110
+
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/007.The-War-Prayer b/ftp/Credits/007.The-War-Prayer
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f89f26f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/007.The-War-Prayer
@@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
+presented in
+DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+CAITLIN BROWN                   as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                         "THE WAR PRAYER"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+TRISTAN ROGERS                  as      Malcolm Biggs
+NANCY LEE GRAHN                 as      Shaal Mayan
+MICHAEL PAUL CHAN               as      Roberts
+RODNEY EASTMAN                  as      Kiron Maray
+DANICA McKELLAR                 as      Aria Tensus
+
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Co-Producer                     RICHARD COMPTON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      D.C. FONTANA
+        Directed by                     RICHARD COMPTON
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                           Co-Starring
+DIANE ADAIR                             Mila Shar
+RICHARD CHAVES                          Alvares
+MARK HENDRICKSON                        Thegras
+
+                            Featuring
+CHUCK BUTTO                             Security Officer #1
+ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN                    Kosh
+MIKE GUNTHER                            Alien #1
+MARIANNE ROBERTSON                      Dome Tech
+
+        Story Editor                    LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          JOHN RADULOVIC
+        2nd Assistant Director          MICHAEL J. SCHILZ
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Directors                   DORIAN VERNACCHIO
+                                        DEBORAH RAYMOND
+        Property Master                 BARBARA COLE
+        Set Decorator                   NANCY S. FALLACE
+        Leadman                         JASON HOWARD
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Make-up Artist              MARY KAY MORSE
+        Key Hairstylist                 MYKE MICHAELS
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+
+        Camera Operator                 EYAL GORDIN
+        1st Assistant Camera            PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+
+        Sound Mixer                     PATRICK MITCHELL
+        Sound Design                    JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E.
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        TODD ORR
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        Assistant Editor                KATHIE BURR
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH FISCHER
+        Script Coordinator              REBECCA LANGENFELD
+        Executive Producer's Assistant  TRACIE ESPARZA
+        Producer's Assistant            KELSEY KLINE
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                     3D Visual Effects System
+                       The Video Toaster(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 107
+
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/008.And-the-Sky-Full-of-Stars b/ftp/Credits/008.And-the-Sky-Full-of-Stars
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..184718c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/008.And-the-Sky-Full-of-Stars
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+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+CAITLIN BROWN                   as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                   "AND THE SKY FULL OF STARS"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+CHRISTOPHER NEAME               as      Knight Two
+JUDSON SCOTT                    as      Knight One
+JIM YOUNGS                      as      Benson
+JUSTIN WILLIAMS                 as      Mitchell
+
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Co-Producer                     RICHARD COMPTON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     JANET GREEK
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                           Co-Starring
+JOE BANKS                               Guard
+GARY CERVANTES                          Strongarm #1
+MARK HENDRICKSON                        Grey Council #1
+FUMI SHISHINO                           Security Guard
+
+                            Featuring
+MACAULEY BRUTON                         Aide
+MARIANNE ROBERTSON                      Tech #1
+
+        Story Editor                    LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          SKIP BEAUDINE
+        2nd Assistant Director          MICHAEL J. SCHILZ
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Directors                   DORIAN VERNACCHIO
+                                        DEBORAH RAYMOND
+        Property Master                 BARBARA COLE
+        Set Decorator                   NANCY S. FALLACE
+        Leadman                         JASON HOWARD
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Make-up Artist              MARY KAY MORSE
+        Key Hairstylist                 MYKE MICHAELS
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+
+        Camera Operator                 EYAL GORDIN
+        1st Assistant Camera            PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     PATRICK MITCHELL
+        Sound Design                    JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E.
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        TODD ORR
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          LISA M. CITRON
+        Assistant Editor                MARLA K. BECHTEL
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH FISCHER
+        Script Coordinator              REBECCA LANGENFELD
+        Executive Producer's Assistant  TRACIE ESPARZA
+        Producer's Assistant            KELSEY KLINE
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                     3D Visual Effects System
+                       The Video Toaster(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 106
+
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/009.Deathwalker b/ftp/Credits/009.Deathwalker
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/009.Deathwalker
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+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+CAITLIN BROWN                   as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                          "DEATHWALKER"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+SARAH DOUGLAS                   as      Jha'dur
+ROBIN CURTIS                    as      Ambassador Kalika
+COSIE COSTA                     as      Abbut
+AKI ALEONG                      as      Senator Hidoshi
+
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+        Directed by                     BRUCE SETH GREEN
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN                    Kosh
+ROBERT DITILLIO                         Ambassador #1
+SAV FARROW                              Tech #2
+MARK HENDRICKSON                        Ashok
+MARIANNE ROBERTSON                      Tech #1
+
+        Story Editor                    LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          JOHN RADULOVIC
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    DEBORAH RAYMOND
+        Property Master                 BARBARA COLE
+        Set Decorator                   NANCY S. FALLACE
+        Leadman                         JASON HOWARD
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Make-up Artist              MARY KAY MORSE
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+
+        Camera Operator                 EYAL GORDIN
+        1st Assistant Camera            PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     PATRICK MITCHELL
+        Sound Design                    JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E.
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        TODD ORR
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        Assistant Editor                KATHIE BURR
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH FISCHER
+        Casting Associate               STEVE BROOKSBANK
+
+        Script Coordinator              REBECCA LANGENFELD
+        Executive Producer's Assistant  TRACIE ESPARZA
+        Producer's Assistant            KELSEY KLINE
+    Special Effect Contact Lenses by    BODYTECH
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                     3D Visual Effects System
+                       The Video Toaster(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 113
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/010.Believers b/ftp/Credits/010.Believers
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index 00000000..55b69723
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/010.Believers
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+presented in
+DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+CAITLIN BROWN                   as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                           "BELIEVERS"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+TRICIA O'NEIL                   as      M'ola
+STEPHEN LEE                     as      Tharg
+JONATHON CHARLES KAPLAN         as      Shon
+SILVANA GALLARDO                as      Maya Hernandez
+
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Co-Producer                     RICHARD COMPTON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      DAVID GERROLD
+        Directed by                     RICHARD COMPTON
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN            as      Kosh
+
+        Story Editor                    LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          JOHN RADULOVIC
+        2nd Assistant Director          MICHAEL J. SCHILZ
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Directors                   DORIAN VERNACCHIO
+                                        DEBORAH RAYMOND
+        Property Master                 BARBARA COLE
+        Set Decorator                   NANCY S. FALLACE
+        Leadman                         JASON HOWARD
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Make-up Artist              MARY KAY MORSE
+        Key Hairstylist                 MYKE MICHAELS
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+
+        Camera Operator                 EYAL GORDIN
+        1st Assistant Camera            PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     PATRICK MITCHELL
+        Sound Design                    JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E.
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        TODD ORR
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SKIP ROBINSON
+        Assistant Editor                KATHIE BURR
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH FISCHER
+        Script Coordinator              REBECCA LANGENFELD
+        Executive Producer's Assistant  TRACIE ESPARZA
+        Producer's Assistant            KELSEY KLINE
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                     3D Visual Effects System
+                       The Video Toaster(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 105
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/011.Survivors b/ftp/Credits/011.Survivors
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c4d8a234
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/011.Survivors
@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+CAITLIN BROWN                   as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                           "SURVIVORS"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+ELAINE THOMAS                   as      Lianna Kemmer
+TOM DONALDSON                   as      Cutter
+
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      MARC SCOTT ZICREE
+        Directed by                     JIM JOHNSTON
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                           Co-Starring
+DAVID AUSTIN COOK                       Special Agent #1
+DAVID CROWLEY                           Lou Welch
+MAGGIE EGAN                             ISN Reporter
+JOSE ROSARIO                            Nolan
+ROBIN WAKE                              Young Lianna
+
+                            Featuring
+MARK HENDRICKSON                        Alien #1
+ROD PERRY                               General Netter
+MARIANNE ROBERTSON                      Tech #1
+
+        Story Editor                    LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          JOHN RADULOVIC
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    DEBORAH RAYMOND
+        Property Master                 BARBARA COLE
+        Set Decorator                   NANCY S. FALLACE
+        Leadman                         JASON HOWARD
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Make-up Artist              MARY KAY MORSE
+        Key Hairstylist                 MYKE MICHAELS
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+
+        Camera Operator                 EYAL GORDIN
+        1st Assistant Camera            PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     PATRICK MITCHELL
+        Sound Design                    JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E.
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        TODD ORR
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SKIP ROBINSON
+        Assistant Editor                KATHIE BURR
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH FISCHER
+        Casting Associate               STEVE BROOKSBANK
+
+        Script Coordinator              REBECCA LANGENFELD
+        Executive Producer's Assistant  TRACIE ESPARZA
+        Producer's Assistant            KELSEY KLINE
+    Special Effect Contact Lenses by    BODYTECH
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                     3D Visual Effects System
+                       The Video Toaster(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 111
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/012.By-Any-Means-Necessary b/ftp/Credits/012.By-Any-Means-Necessary
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dcb7a5f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/012.By-Any-Means-Necessary
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+presented in
+DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+CAITLIN BROWN                   as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                     "BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+KATY BOYER                      as      Neeoma Connally
+JOHN SNYDER                     as      Orin Zento
+AKI ALEONG                      as      Senator Hidoshi
+
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      KATHRYN M. DRENNAN
+        Directed by                     JIM JOHNSTON
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+PATRICIA HEALY                          Mary Ann Cramer
+MICHAEL McKENZIE                        Narn Captain
+JOSE REY                                Eduardo Delvientos
+RICARDO MARTINEZ                        Worker #2
+MARIANNE ROBERTSON                      Tech #1
+FLOYD VAUGHN                            Worker #1
+
+        Story Editor                    LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          SKIP BEAUDINE
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    DEBORAH RAYMOND
+        Property Master                 BARBARA COLE
+        Set Decorator                   NANCY S. FALLACE
+        Leadman                         JASON HOWARD
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Make-up Artist              MARY KAY MORSE
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+
+        Camera Operator                 EYAL GORDIN
+        1st Assistant Camera            PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     PATRICK MITCHELL
+        Sound Design                    JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E.
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        TODD ORR
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SKIP ROBINSON
+        Assistant Editor                MARLA K. BECHTEL
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+        Casting Associate               STEVE BROOKSBANK
+
+        Script Coordinator              REBECCA LANGENFELD
+        Executive Producer's Assistant  TRACIE ESPARZA
+        Producer's Assistant            KELSEY KLINE
+    Special Effect Contact Lenses by    BODYTECH
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                     3D Visual Effects System
+                       The Video Toaster(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 114
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/013.Signs-and-Portents b/ftp/Credits/013.Signs-and-Portents
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2ba1b5bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/013.Signs-and-Portents
@@ -0,0 +1,170 @@
+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+CAITLIN BROWN                   as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                       "SIGNS AND PORTENTS"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+GERRIT GRAHAM                   as      Lord Kiro
+FREDI OLSTER                    as      Lady Ladira
+WHIP HUBLEY                     as      Raider #1
+
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     JANET GREEK
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+ANITA BRABEC                            Dome Tech #3
+ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN                    Kosh
+JOSHUA COX                              Dome Tech #2
+GARRY KLUGER                            Man
+LEE MATHIS                              Fighter #1
+DOUGLAS E. McCOY                        Fighter #2
+HECTOR MERCADO                          Pilot
+MARIANNE ROBERTSON                      Dome Tech #1
+ROBERT SILVER                           Reno
+ED WASSER                               Morden
+LYNN RED WILLIAMS                       Customs Guard
+
+        Story Editor                    LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          SKIP BEAUDINE
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    DEBORAH RAYMOND
+        Property Master                 BARBARA COLE
+        Set Decorator                   NANCY S. FALLACE
+        Leadman                         JASON HOWARD
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Make-up Artist              MARY KAY MORSE
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+
+        Camera Operator                 EYAL GORDIN
+        1st Assistant Camera            PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     PATRICK MITCHELL
+        Sound Design                    HARRY COHEN
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        TODD ORR
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        Assistant Editor                MARLA K. BECHTEL
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+        Casting Associate               STEVE BROOKSBANK
+
+        Script Coordinator              REBECCA LANGENFELD
+        Executive Producer's Assistant  TRACIE ESPARZA
+        Producer's Assistant            KELSEY KLINE
+    Special Effect Contact Lenses by    BODYTECH
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                     3D Visual Effects System
+                       The Video Toaster(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 116
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/014.TKO b/ftp/Credits/014.TKO
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index 00000000..24981711
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/014.TKO
@@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+CAITLIN BROWN                   as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                              "TKO"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+GREG McKINNEY                   as      Walker Smith
+SOON-TECK OH                    as      The Muta-Do
+DON STROUD                      as      Caliban
+THEODORE BIKEL                  as      Rabbi Koslov
+
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+        Directed by                     JOHN C. FLINN, III
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+JAMES JUDE COURTNEY                     Gyor
+ROBERT PHALEN                           Andrei Ivanov
+LENORE KASDORF                          ISN Reporter
+MICHAEL McKENZIE                        Migo
+MARIANNE ROBERTSON                      Tech #1
+
+        Story Editor                    LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          JOHN RADULOVIC
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    DEBORAH RAYMOND
+        Property Master                 BARBARA COLE
+        Set Decorator                   NANCY S. FALLACE
+        Leadman                         JASON HOWARD
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Make-up Artist              MARY KAY MORSE
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+
+        Camera Operator                 EYAL GORDIN
+        1st Assistant Camera            PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     PATRICK MITCHELL
+        Sound Design                    HARRY COHEN
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        TODD ORR
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        Assistant Editor                KATHIE BURR
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH FISCHER
+        Casting Associate               STEVE BROOKSBANK
+
+        Script Coordinator              REBECCA LANGENFELD
+        Executive Producer's Assistant  TRACIE ESPARZA
+        Producer's Assistant            KELSEY KLINE
+    Special Effect Contact Lenses by    BODYTECH
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                     3D Visual Effects System
+                       The Video Toaster(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 119
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/015.Grail b/ftp/Credits/015.Grail
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/015.Grail
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+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+CAITLIN BROWN                   as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                             "GRAIL"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+DAVID WARNER                    as      Aldous Gajic
+WILLIAM SANDERSON               as      Deuce
+TOM BOOKER                      as      Jinxo
+JIM NORTON                      as      Ombuds Wellington
+
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Co-Producer                     RICHARD COMPTON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      CHRISTY MARX
+        Directed by                     RICHARD COMPTON
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                           Co-Starring
+LINDA LODGE                             Mirriam Runningdear
+
+                            Featuring
+ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN                    Kosh
+JOHN FLINN                              Mr. Flinn
+MARIANNE ROBERTSON                      Tech #1
+
+        Story Editor                    LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          JOHN RADULOVIC
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    DEBORAH RAYMOND
+        Property Master                 BARBARA COLE
+        Set Decorator                   NANCY S. FALLACE
+        Leadman                         JASON HOWARD
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Make-up Artist              MARY KAY MORSE
+        Key Hairstylist                 MYKE MICHAELS
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+
+        Camera Operator                 EYAL GORDIN
+        1st Assistant Camera            PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     PATRICK MITCHELL
+        Sound Design                    JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E.
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        TODD ORR
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          LISA M. CITRON
+        Assistant Editor                KATHIE BURR
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH FISCHER
+        Script Coordinator              REBECCA LANGENFELD
+        Executive Producer's Assistant  TRACIE ESPARZA
+        Producer's Assistant            KELSEY KLINE
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                     3D Visual Effects System
+                       The Video Toaster(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 109
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/016.Eyes b/ftp/Credits/016.Eyes
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/016.Eyes
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+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+CAITLIN BROWN                   as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                              "EYES"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+GREGORY MARTIN                  as      Colonel Ari Ben Zayn
+JEFFREY COMBS                   as      Harriman Gray
+
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+        Directed by                     JIM JOHNSTON
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+MACAULEY BRUTON                         Tragedy
+MARIE CHAMBERS                          Sofie Ivanov [sic]
+DAVID L. CROWLEY                        Lou Welch
+FRANK FARMER                            General Miller
+DREW LETCHWORTH                         Comedy
+MARIANNE ROBERTSON                      Tech #1
+
+        Story Editor                    LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          JOHN RADULOVIC
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    DEBORAH RAYMOND
+        Property Master                 BARBARA COLE
+        Set Decorator                   NANCY S. FALLACE
+        Leadman                         JASON HOWARD
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Make-up Artist              MARY KAY MORSE
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+
+        Camera Operator                 EYAL GORDIN
+        1st Assistant Camera            PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     PATRICK MITCHELL
+        Sound Design                    HARRY COHEN
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        TODD ORR
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        Assistant Editor                KATHIE BURR
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+        Casting Associate               STEVE BROOKSBANK
+
+        Script Coordinator              REBECCA LANGENFELD
+        Executive Producer's Assistant  TRACIE ESPARZA
+        Producer's Assistant            KELSEY KLINE
+    Special Effect Contact Lenses by    BODYTECH
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                     3D Visual Effects System
+                       The Video Toaster(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 122
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/017.Legacies b/ftp/Credits/017.Legacies
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/017.Legacies
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+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+CAITLIN BROWN                   as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                            "LEGACIES"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+JOHN VICKERY                    as      Neroon
+GRACE UNA                       as      Alisa Beldon
+
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      D.C. FONTANA
+        Directed by                     BRUCE SETH GREEN
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+JOSHUA COX                              Tech #2
+RICHARD HENRY                           Security Man
+PATRICK O'BRIEN                         Cart Owner
+MARIANNE ROBERTSON                      Tech #1
+
+        Story Editor                    LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          JOHN RADULOVIC
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    DEBORAH RAYMOND
+        Property Master                 BARBARA COLE
+        Set Decorator                   NANCY S. FALLACE
+        Leadman                         JASON HOWARD
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Make-up Artist              MARY KAY MORSE
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+
+        Camera Operator                 EYAL GORDIN
+        1st Assistant Camera            PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     PATRICK MITCHELL
+        Sound Design                    JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E.
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        TODD ORR
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          LISA M. CITRON
+        Assistant Editor                KATHIE BURR
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+        Casting Associate               STEVE BROOKSBANK
+
+        Script Coordinator              REBECCA LANGENFELD
+        Executive Producer's Assistant  TRACIE ESPARZA
+        Producer's Assistant            KELSEY KLINE
+    Special Effect Contact Lenses by    BODYTECH
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                     3D Visual Effects System
+                       The Video Toaster(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 115
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/018.A-Voice-in-the-Wilderness-1 b/ftp/Credits/018.A-Voice-in-the-Wilderness-1
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index 00000000..5fc6357e
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+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+CAITLIN BROWN                   as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                   "A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS"
+                              PART I
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+LOUIS TURENNE                   as      Draal
+CURT LOWENS                     as      Varn
+
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     JANET GREEK
+
+[end credits]
+
+                        To Be Continued...
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+CRAIG BARNETT                           Security Guard
+LANGDON BENSING                         Derek Mobotabwe
+KELLY COYLE                             Earthforce Liaison
+KATHRYN CRESSIDA                        Bartender
+JIM ISHIDA                              Dr. Tasaki
+LENORE KASDORF                          ISN Reporter
+MARIANNE ROBERTSON                      Tech #1
+PATTY TOY                               PSI Corps Rep
+JERRY WEIL                              Technician
+
+        Story Editor                    LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          SKIP BEAUDINE
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    DEBORAH RAYMOND
+        Property Master                 BARBARA COLE
+        Set Decorator                   NANCY S. FALLACE
+        Leadman                         JASON HOWARD
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Make-up Artist              MARY KAY MORSE
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+
+        Camera Operator                 EYAL GORDIN
+        1st Assistant Camera            PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     PATRICK MITCHELL
+        Sound Design                    HARRY COHEN
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        TODD ORR
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SKIP ROBINSON
+        Assistant Editor                MARLA K. BECHTEL
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+        Casting Associate               STEVE BROOKSBANK
+
+        Script Coordinator              REBECCA LANGENFELD
+        Executive Producer's Assistant  TRACIE ESPARZA
+        Producer's Assistant            KELSEY KLINE
+    Special Effect Contact Lenses by    BODYTECH
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                     3D Visual Effects System
+                       The Video Toaster(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 120
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/019.A-Voice-in-the-Wilderness-2 b/ftp/Credits/019.A-Voice-in-the-Wilderness-2
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index 00000000..98a69586
--- /dev/null
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+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+CAITLIN BROWN                   as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                   "A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS"
+                             PART II
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+LOUIS TURENNE                   as      Draal
+RON CANADA                      as      Captain Ellis Pierce
+CURT LOWENS                     as      Varn
+DENISE GENTILE                  as      Lise Hampton
+AKI ALEONG                      as      Senator Hidoshi
+
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     JANET GREEK
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+JOSHUA COX                              Tech #2
+CHIP HELLER                             Rowdy #1
+LENORE KASDORF                          ISN Reporter
+MICHELAN SISTI                          Takarn
+MARIANNE ROBERTSON                      Tech #1
+
+        Story Editor                    LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          SKIP BEAUDINE
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    DEBORAH RAYMOND
+        Property Master                 BARBARA COLE
+        Set Decorator                   NANCY S. FALLACE
+        Leadman                         JASON HOWARD
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Make-up Artist              MARY KAY MORSE
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+
+        Camera Operator                 EYAL GORDIN
+        1st Assistant Camera            PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     PATRICK MITCHELL
+        Sound Design                    HARRY COHEN
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        TODD ORR
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          LISA M. CITRON
+        Assistant Editor                MARLA K. BECHTEL
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Production Accounting           
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+        Casting Associate               STEVE BROOKSBANK
+
+        Script Coordinator              REBECCA LANGENFELD
+        Executive Producer's Assistant  TRACIE ESPARZA
+        Producer's Assistant            KELSEY KLINE
+    Special Effect Contact Lenses by    BODYTECH
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                     3D Visual Effects System
+                       The Video Toaster(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 121
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/020.Babylon-Squared b/ftp/Credits/020.Babylon-Squared
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+CAITLIN BROWN                   as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                        "BABYLON SQUARED"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+KENT BROADHURST                 as      Major Krantz
+TIM CHOATE                      as      Zathras
+DENISE GENTILE                  as      Lise Hampton
+
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     JIM JOHNSTON
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+FRANK COSTA                             B4 Guard
+MARK HENDRICKSON                        Grey Council #2
+DOUG E. McCOY                           Alpha Seven
+TOMMY ROSALES                           Panicked Man
+MARIANNE ROBERTSON                      Tech #1
+
+        Story Editor                    LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+        2nd Assistant Director          DOUG CORRING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    DEBORAH RAYMOND
+        Property Master                 BARBARA COLE
+        Set Decorator                   NANCY S. FALLACE
+        Leadman                         JASON HOWARD
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Make-up Artist              MARY KAY MORSE
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+
+        Camera Operator                 EYAL GORDIN
+        1st Assistant Camera            PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     PATRICK MITCHELL
+        Sound Design                    HARRY COHEN
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        TODD ORR
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          LISA M. CITRON
+        Assistant Editor                MARLA K. BECHTEL
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Production Accounting           
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+        Casting Associate               STEVE BROOKSBANK
+
+        Script Coordinator              REBECCA LANGENFELD
+        Executive Producer's Assistant  TRACIE ESPARZA
+        Producer's Assistant            KELSEY KLINE
+    Special Effect Contact Lenses by    BODYTECH
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                     3D Visual Effects System
+                       The Video Toaster(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 118
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/021.The-Quality-of-Mercy b/ftp/Credits/021.The-Quality-of-Mercy
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/021.The-Quality-of-Mercy
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+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+CAITLIN BROWN                   as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                      "THE QUALITY OF MERCY"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+JUNE LOCKHART                   as      Dr. Laura Rosen
+KATE McNEIL                     as      Janice Rosen
+MARK ROLSTON                    as      Karl Mueller
+DAMIAN LONDON                   as      Centauri Senator
+JIM NORTON                      as      Ombuds Wellington
+
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     LORRAINE SENNA FERRARA
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+LYNN ANDERSON                           Rose
+PHILIPPE BERGERON                       Lurker
+DAVID CROWLEY                           Second Guard
+KEVIN McBRIDE                           Guard
+CONSTANCE ZIMMER                        Young Woman Patient
+
+        Story Editor                    LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          JOHN RADULOVIC
+        2nd Assistant Director          DOUG CORRING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    DEBORAH RAYMOND
+        Property Master                 BARBARA COLE
+        Set Decorator                   NANCY S. FALLACE
+        Leadman                         JASON HOWARD
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Make-up Artist              MARY KAY MORSE
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+
+        Camera Operator                 EYAL GORDIN
+        1st Assistant Camera            PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     PATRICK MITCHELL
+        Sound Design                    JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E.
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        TODD ORR
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SKIP ROBINSON
+        Assistant Editor                KATHIE BURR
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Production Accounting           
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+        Casting Associate               STEVE BROOKSBANK
+
+        Script Coordinator              REBECCA LANGENFELD
+        Executive Producer's Assistant  TRACIE ESPARZA
+        Producer's Assistant            KELSEY KLINE
+    Special Effect Contact Lenses by    BODYTECH
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                     3D Visual Effects System
+                       The Video Toaster(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 117
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/022.Chrysalis b/ftp/Credits/022.Chrysalis
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--- /dev/null
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+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+CAITLIN BROWN                   as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                           "CHRYSALIS"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+JULIA NICKSON                   as      Catherine Sakai
+
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     JANET GREEK
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                           Co-Starring
+MACAULAY BRUTON                         Garibaldi's Aide
+LIZ BURNETTE                            Lurker #1
+EDWARD CONERY                           Devereaux
+MAGGIE EGAN                             News Anchor
+CHERYL FRANCIS HARRINGTON               Senator
+MARK HENDRICKSON                        Narn Pilot
+JAMES KIRIYAMA-LEM                      Med Tech
+WESLEY LEONG                            Paramedic
+GIANIN LOFFLER                          Lurker #2
+DAVID ANTHONY MARSHALL                  Stephen Petrov
+GARY McGURK                             Morgan Clark
+JOHN RIOJAS                             Guard
+MARIANNE ROBERTSON                      Tech
+FUMI SHISHINO                           Screaming Woman
+ED WASSER                               Morden
+BERGEN WILLIAMS                         Security Guard
+
+        Story Editor                    LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          SKIP BEAUDINE
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    DEBORAH RAYMOND
+        Property Master                 BARBARA COLE
+        Set Decorator                   NANCY S. FALLACE
+        Leadman                         JASON HOWARD
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Make-up Artist              MARY KAY MORSE
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+
+        Camera Operator                 EYAL GORDIN
+        1st Assistant Camera            PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     PATRICK MITCHELL
+        Sound Design                    JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E.
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        TODD ORR
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          LISA M. CITRON
+        Assistant Editor                MARLA K. BECHTEL
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Production Accounting           
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH FISCHER
+        Casting Associate               STEVE BROOKSBANK
+
+        Script Coordinator              REBECCA LANGENFELD
+        Executive Producer's Assistant  TRACIE ESPARZA
+        Producer's Assistant            KELSEY KLINE
+    Special Effect Contact Lenses by    BODYTECH
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                     3D Visual Effects System
+                       The Video Toaster(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 112
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/023.Points-of-Departure b/ftp/Credits/023.Points-of-Departure
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/023.Points-of-Departure
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+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+ROBERT RUSLER                   as      Warren Keffer
+MARY KAY ADAMS                  as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                      "POINTS OF DEPARTURE"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+RICHARD GROVE                   as      Kalain
+ROBIN SACHS                     as      Hedronn
+
+                      SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY
+ROBERT FOXWORTH                 as      General William Hague
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     JANET GREEK
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+JENNIFER ANGLIN                         Deeron
+JONATHAN CHAPMAN                        Ambassador #1
+JOSHUA COX                              Tech #1
+KIM DELGADO                             Dome Tech #3
+RUS FEGA                                Merchant #1
+BENNET GUILLORY                         Merchant #2
+CATHERINE HADER                         Young Woman
+MARK HENDRICKSON                        Ambassador #2
+KRISTOPHER LOGAN                        Ambassador #3
+MICHAEL McKENZIE                        Vastor
+DEBRA SHARKEY                           Tech #2
+BRIAN STARCHER                          Other Pilot
+KIM STRAUSS                             Ensign
+THOMAS VALINOTE                         Security Guard #2
+GREG WRANGLER                           Security Guard #1
+
+        Executive Story Editor          LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+                                                  AND
+                                        STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          SKIP BEAUDINE
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual FX Supervisor            MITCH SUSKIN
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   DANIEL A. SAKS
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        On Set Costumer                 LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY "BOOBIS" SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Design                    HARRY COHEN
+        Sound Editor                    PAUL MENICHINI
+        Re-recording Mixer              TERRY O'BRIGHT
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        Assistant Editor                KATHIE BURR
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+        Apprentice Editor               JASON NETTER
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producer's Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        KELLY COYLE
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lense Consultant    JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                       Lightwave 3D(R) and
+                     Video Toaster Systems(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(tm)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 201
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/024.Revelations b/ftp/Credits/024.Revelations
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6d8efce7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/024.Revelations
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+presented in
+DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+ROBERT RUSLER                   as      Warren Keffer
+MARY KAY ADAMS                  as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                          "REVELATIONS"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+BEVERLY LEECH                   as      Elizabeth Sheridan
+MACAULAY BRUTON                 as      Garibaldi's Aide
+
+                      SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY
+BETH TOUSSAINT                  as      Anna Sheridan
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     JIM JOHNSTON
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+DAVID L. CROWLEY                        Lou Welch
+MARK HENDRICKSON                        Narn Captain
+JAMES KIRIYAMA-LEM                      Med Tech
+GARY McGURK                             President Clark
+MICHAEL McKENZIE                        Narn Navigator
+WARREN TABATA                           Guard
+ED WASSER                               Morden
+
+        Executive Story Editor          LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+                                                  AND
+                                        STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          JOHN RADULOVIC
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       MITCH SUSKIN
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   DANIEL A. SAKS
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        On Set Costumer                 LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY "BOOBIS" SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Design                    HARRY COHEN
+        Sound Editor                    PAUL MENICHINI
+        Re-recording Mixer              TERRY O'BRIGHT
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          DAVID FOSTER
+        Assistant Editor                MARC ELMER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+        Apprentice Editor               JASON NETTER
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting           
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producer's Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        KELLY COYLE
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect                  
+            Contact Lense Consultant    JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                       Lightwave 3D(R) and
+                     Video Toaster Systems(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 202
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/025.The-Geometry-Of-Shadows b/ftp/Credits/025.The-Geometry-Of-Shadows
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cef76ce0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/025.The-Geometry-Of-Shadows
@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+ROBERT RUSLER                   as      Warren Keffer
+MARY KAY ADAMS                  as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                    "THE GEOMETRY OF SHADOWS"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+MICHAEL ANSARA                  as      Elric
+WILLIAM FORWARD                 as      Refa
+DAVID L. CROWLEY                as      Lou Welch
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     MIKE LAURENCE VEJAR
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+KIM STRAUSS                             Green Drazi
+JONATHAN CHAPMAN                        Green Drazi #2
+NEIL BRADLEY                            Purple Drazi
+JOSHUA COX                              Tech #1
+EDWARD CONERY                           Devereaux
+WARREN TABATA                           Guard
+
+        Executive Story Editor          LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+                                                  AND
+                                        STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          SKIP BEAUDINE
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       MITCH SUSKIN
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   DANIEL A. SAKS
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        On Set Costumer                 LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY "BOOBIS" SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Design                    HARRY COHEN
+        Sound Editor                    PAUL MENICHINI
+        Re-recording Mixer              TERRY O'BRIGHT
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SKIP ROBINSON
+        Assistant Editor                KATHIE BURR
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+        Apprentice Editor               JASON NETTER
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producer's Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        KELLY COYLE
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lense Consultant    JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                       Lightwave 3D(R) and
+                     Video Toaster Systems(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 203
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/026.A-Distant-Star b/ftp/Credits/026.A-Distant-Star
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/026.A-Distant-Star
@@ -0,0 +1,175 @@
+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+ROBERT RUSLER                   as      Warren Keffer
+MARY KAY ADAMS                  as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                         "A DISTANT STAR"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+RUSS TAMBLYN                    as      Captain Jack Maynard
+DANIEL BEER                     as      Patrick
+ART KIMBRO                      as      Ray Galus
+MIGUEL A. NUNEZ, JR.            as      Orwell
+PATTY TOY                       as      Ogilvie
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      D.C. FONTANA
+        Directed by                     JIM JOHNSTON
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+JOSHUA COX                              Tech
+KIM DELGADO                             Comm Tech
+SANDEY GRINN                            Teronn
+
+        Executive Story Editor          LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+                                                  AND
+                                        STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          JOHN RADULOVIC
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       MITCH SUSKIN
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   DANIEL A. SAKS
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        On Set Costumer                 LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY "BOOBIS" SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Design                    HARRY COHEN
+        Sound Editor                    PAUL MENICHINI
+        Re-recording Mixer              TERRY O'BRIGHT
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        Assistant Editor                MARC ELMER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+        Apprentice Editor               JASON NETTER
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producer's Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        KELLY COYLE
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lense Consultant    JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                       Lightwave 3D(R) and
+                     Video Toaster Systems(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 204
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/027.The-Long-Dark b/ftp/Credits/027.The-Long-Dark
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..008da14b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/027.The-Long-Dark
@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+ROBERT RUSLER                   as      Warren Keffer
+MARY KAY ADAMS                  as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                         "THE LONG DARK"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+ANNE-MARIE JOHNSON              as      Mariah Cirrus
+
+                               AND
+DWIGHT SCHULTZ                  as      Amis
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      SCOTT FROST
+        Directed by                     MARIO Di LEO
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+JENNIFER ANGLIN                         Alien #1
+NEIL BRADLEY                            Alien #2
+JAMES KIRIYAMA-LEM                      Medlab Tech
+KIM STRAUSS                             Markab Ambassador
+WARREN TABATA                           Guard
+
+        Executive Story Editor          LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+                                                  AND
+                                        STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+        2nd Assistant Director          JOE KONTRA
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       MITCH SUSKIN
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   DANIEL A. SAKS
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        On Set Costumer                 LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY "BOOBIS" SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Design                    HARRY COHEN
+        Sound Editor                    PAUL MENICHINI
+        Re-recording Mixer              TERRY O'BRIGHT
+        Sound Supervisor                ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          DAVID W. FOSTER
+        Assistant Editor                KATHIE BURR
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+        Apprentice Editor               JASON NETTER
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producer's Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        KELLY COYLE
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lense Consultant    JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                       Lightwave 3D(R) and
+                     Video Toaster Systems(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 205
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/028.Spider-in-the-Web b/ftp/Credits/028.Spider-in-the-Web
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a623a536
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/028.Spider-in-the-Web
@@ -0,0 +1,180 @@
+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+ROBERT RUSLER                   as      Lt. Warren Keffer
+MARY KAY ADAMS                  as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                       "SPIDER IN THE WEB"
+
+                        SPECIAL GUEST STAR
+MICHAEL BECK                    as      Abel Horn
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+ADRIENNE BARBEAU                as      Amanda Carter
+JAMES SHIGETA                   as      Taro Isogi
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               AND
+JESSICA WALTER                  as      Senator Elise Voudreau
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+        Directed by                     KEVIN G. CREMIN
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                           Co-Starring
+ANNIE GRINDLAY                          Thirteen/Psi Cop
+
+                            Featuring
+JOSHUA COX                              Tech #1
+
+        Executive Story Editor          LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+                                                  AND
+                                        STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          JOHN RADULOVIC
+        2nd Assistant Director          JOE KONTRA
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       MITCH SUSKIN
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   DANIEL A. SAKS
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        On Set Costumer                 LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY "BOOBIS" SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Effects Editor            PAUL MENICHINI
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        PETER CARLSTEDT
+        Supervising Sound Editor        ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SKIP ROBINSON
+        Assistant Editor                MARC ELMER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+        Apprentice Editor               JASON NETTER
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producer's Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        KELLY COYLE
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lense Consultant    JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                       Lightwave 3D(R) and
+                     Video Toaster Systems(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 206
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/029.Soul-Mates b/ftp/Credits/029.Soul-Mates
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/029.Soul-Mates
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+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+ROBERT RUSLER                   as      Lt. Warren Keffer
+MARY KAY ADAMS                  as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                           "SOUL MATES"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+KEITH SZARABAJKA                as      Matthew Stoner
+LOIS NETTLESON                  as      Daggair
+BLAIR VALK                      as      Mariel
+DAVID L. CROWLEY                as      Lou Welch
+CAREL STRUYCKEN                 as      Trader
+
+                               AND
+JANE CARR                       as      Timov
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      PETER DAVID
+        Directed by                     JOHN C. FLINN, III
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+BRIAN MICHAEL McGUIRE                   Man
+
+        Executive Story Editor          LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+                                                  AND
+                                        STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          JOHN RADULOVIC
+        2nd Assistant Director          JOE KONTRA
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       MITCH SUSKIN
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   DANIEL A. SAKS
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY "BOOBIS" SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Effects Editor            PAUL MENICHINI
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        PETER CARLSTEDT
+        Supervising Sound Editor        ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          DAVID W. FOSTER
+        Assistant Editor                MARC ELMER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+        Apprentice Editor               JASON NETTER
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producer's Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        KELLY COYLE
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lense Consultant    JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                       Lightwave 3D(R) and
+                     Video Toaster Systems(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 208
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/030.A-Race-Through-Dark-Places b/ftp/Credits/030.A-Race-Through-Dark-Places
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e4c80b79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/030.A-Race-Through-Dark-Places
@@ -0,0 +1,178 @@
+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+ROBERT RUSLER                   as      Lt. Warren Keffer
+MARY KAY ADAMS                  as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                   "A RACE THROUGH DARK PLACES"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+APESANAHKWAT                    as      Telepath #1
+BRIAN COUSINS                   as      Rick
+DIANE DILASCIO                  as      Telepath #2
+GIANIN LOFFLER                  as      Lurker
+
+                        SPECIAL GUEST STAR
+WALTER KOENIG                   as      Bester
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         FRED V. MURPHY, II
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     JIM JOHNSTON
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+EDDIE ALLEN                             Man
+KATHRYN CRESSIDA                        Bartender
+JUDY LEVITT                             Psi Cop
+CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL                     Shooter
+WILLIAM ALLEN YOUNG                     Jason Ironheart
+
+        Executive Story Editor          LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+                                                  AND
+                                        STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+        2nd Assistant Director          JOE KONTRA
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       MITCH SUSKIN
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   DANIEL A. SAKS
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY "BOOBIS" SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          DAVID H. NEALE
+        Key Grip                        RICK STRIBLING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Effects Editor            PAUL MENICHINI
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        PETER CARLSTEDT
+        Supervising Sound Editor        ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        Assistant Editor                KATHIE BURR
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+        Apprentice Editor               JASON NETTER
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producer's Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        KELLY COYLE
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lense Consultant    JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                       Lightwave 3D(R) and
+                     Video Toaster Systems(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 207
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/031.The-Coming-of-Shadows b/ftp/Credits/031.The-Coming-of-Shadows
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0afe5cb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/031.The-Coming-of-Shadows
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+presented in
+DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+ROBERT RUSLER                   as      Lt. Warren Keffer
+MARY KAY ADAMS                  as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                     "THE COMING OF SHADOWS"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+FREDRIC LEHNE                   as      Ranger
+MALACHI THRONE                  as      Centauri Prime Minister
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+WILLIAM FORWARD                 as      Refa
+TURHAN BEY                      as      Centauri Emperor
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     JANET GREEK
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                           Co-Starring
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Ambassador Jeffrey Sinclair
+
+                            Featuring
+NEIL BRADLEY                            Kha'Mak
+ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN                    Kosh
+JONATHAN CHAPMAN                        Narn Pilot #2
+BRYAN MICHAEL McGUIRE                   Customs Guard #1
+KIM STRAUSS                             Narn Pilot #1
+
+        Executive Story Editor          LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+                                                  AND
+                                        STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          SKIP BEAUDINE
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       MITCH SUSKIN
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   DANIEL A. SAKS
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY "BOOBIS" SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        JOHN "J.W." WARNER
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Effects Editor            PAUL MENICHINI
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        PETER CARLSTEDT
+        Supervising Sound Editor        ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SKIP ROBINSON
+        Assistant Editor                KATHIE BURR
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+        Apprentice Editor               JASON NETTER
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producer's Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        KELLY COYLE
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lense Consultant    JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                       Lightwave 3D(R) and
+                     Video Toaster Systems(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 209
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/032.GROPOS b/ftp/Credits/032.GROPOS
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..14ddf613
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/032.GROPOS
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+presented in
+DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+ROBERT RUSLER                   as      Lt. Warren Keffer
+MARY KAY ADAMS                  as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                             "GROPOS"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+PAUL WINFIELD                   as      General Richard Franklin
+DAVID L. CROWLEY                as      Lou Welch
+RYAN CUTRONA                    as      Sgt. Major Plug
+KEN FOREE                       as      P.F.C. Large
+MORGAN HUNTER                   as      Pvt. Kleist
+MARIE MARSHALL                  as      P.F.C. Dodger
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+        Directed by                     JIM JOHNSTON
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+ART CHUDABALA                           Pvt. Yang
+JOSHUA COX                              Tech #1
+MAGGIE EGAN                             ISN Reporter
+ELISA BETH GARVER                       Tech #2
+MOWAVA PRYOR                            Tonia Wallace
+
+        Executive Story Editor          LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+                                                  AND
+                                        STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          JOHN RADULOVIC
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       MITCH SUSKIN
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   DANIEL A. SAKS
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      DOUGLAS CORRING
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        JOHN "J.W." WARNER
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Effects Editor            PAUL MENICHINI
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        PETER CARLSTEDT
+        Supervising Sound Editor        ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        Assistant Editor                MARC ELMER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+        Apprentice Editor               JASON NETTER
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        KELLY COYLE
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                       Lightwave 3D(R) and
+                     Video Toaster Systems(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 210
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/033.All-Alone-in-the-Night b/ftp/Credits/033.All-Alone-in-the-Night
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6d9e3649
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/033.All-Alone-in-the-Night
@@ -0,0 +1,177 @@
+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+ROBERT RUSLER                   as      Lt. Warren Keffer
+MARY KAY ADAMS                  as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                     "ALL ALONE IN THE NIGHT"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+NICK CORRI                      as      Lt. Ramirez
+MARSHALL TEAGUE                 as      Narn
+ROBIN SACHS                     as      Hedronn
+JOHN VICKERY                    as      Neroon
+
+                      SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY
+ROBERT FOXWORTH                 as      General William Hague
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     MARIO Di LEO
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN                    Kosh
+JOSHUA COX                              Tech #1
+
+        Executive Story Editor          LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+                                                  AND
+                                        STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          SKIP BEAUDINE
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       MITCH SUSKIN
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   DANIEL A. SAKS
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      DOUGLAS CORRING
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        JOHN "J.W." WARNER
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            HARRY WOOLWAY
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        PETER CARLSTEDT
+        Supervising Sound Editor        ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          DAVID W. FOSTER
+        Assistant Editor                KATHIE BURR
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+        Apprentice Editor               JASON NETTER
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        KELLY COYLE
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                       Lightwave 3D(R) and
+                     Video Toaster Systems(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 211
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/034.Acts-of-Sacrifice b/ftp/Credits/034.Acts-of-Sacrifice
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/034.Acts-of-Sacrifice
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+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+ROBERT RUSLER                   as      Lt. Warren Keffer
+MARY KAY ADAMS                  as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                       "ACTS OF SACRIFICE"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+PAUL WILLIAMS                   as      Taq
+CHRISTOPHER DARGA               as      Narn #1
+GLENN MORSHOWER                 as      Franke
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               AND
+IAN ABERCROMBIE                 as      Correlilmurzon
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     JIM JOHNSTON
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+PAUL AINSLEY                            Centauri #1
+JENNIFER ANGLIN                         Narn Second
+JOSHUA COX                              Tech #1
+KATHRYN CRESSIDA                        Bartender
+SANDEY GRINN                            Narn Captain
+DAVID SAGE                              Centauri Merchant
+
+        Executive Story Editor          LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+                                                  AND
+                                        STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          JOHN RADULOVIC
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       MITCH SUSKIN
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   DANIEL A. SAKS
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      DOUGLAS CORRING
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        JOHN "J.W." WARNER
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            HARRY WOOLWAY
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        PETER CARLSTEDT
+        Supervising Sound Editor        ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SKIP ROBINSON
+        Assistant Editor                MARC ELMER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+        Apprentice Editor               JASON NETTER
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        KELLY COYLE
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                       Lightwave 3D(R) and
+                     Video Toaster Systems(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 212
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/035.Hunter-Prey b/ftp/Credits/035.Hunter-Prey
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/035.Hunter-Prey
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+presented in
+DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+ROBERT RUSLER                   as      Lt. Warren Keffer
+MARY KAY ADAMS                  as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                          "HUNTER, PREY"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+BERNIE CASEY                    as      Derek Cranston
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+WANDA DE JESUS                  as      Sarah
+TONY STEEDMAN                   as      Dr. Everett Jacobs
+RICHARD MOLL                    as      Max
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     MENACHEM BINETSKI
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+JOSHUA COX                              Tech #1
+ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN                    Kosh
+BRYAN MICHAEL McGUIRE                   Guard #2
+DAMON C. REISER                         Lurker
+DEBBY SHIVELEY                          Aide
+ROBERT SILVER                           Merchant
+
+        Executive Story Editor          LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+                                                  AND
+                                        STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          SKIP BEAUDINE
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       MITCH SUSKIN
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   DANIEL A. SAKS
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      DOUGLAS CORRING
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        JOHN "J.W." WARNER
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            HARRY WOOLWAY
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        PETER CARLSTEDT
+        Supervising Sound Editor        ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        Assistant Editor                KATHIE BURR
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+        Apprentice Editor               JASON NETTER
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        KELLY COYLE
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+                    Filmed with PANAVISION(R)
+                         Cameras & Lenses
+
+                       Lightwave 3D(R) and
+                     Video Toaster Systems(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 213
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/036.There-All-the-Honor-Lies b/ftp/Credits/036.There-All-the-Honor-Lies
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7041ebe8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/036.There-All-the-Honor-Lies
@@ -0,0 +1,183 @@
+                                                    presented in
+                                                    DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+ROBERT RUSLER                   as      Lt. Warren Keffer
+MARY KAY ADAMS                  as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                    "THERE ALL THE HONOR LIES"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+JULIE CAITLIN BROWN             as      Guinevere Corey
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               AND
+SEAN GREGORY SULLIVAN           as      Ashan
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      PETER DAVID
+        Directed by                     MIKE LAURENCE VEJAR
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+NEIL BRADLEY                            Minbari #3
+ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN                    Kosh
+JONATHAN CHAPMAN                        Minbari #2
+VINCENT DUVALL                          Centauri Envoy
+ELIOTT HAROLD                           Human Customer
+MARK HENDRICKSON                        Human/Alien Customer
+OSSIE MAIR                              Store Owner
+MICHAEL McKENZIE                        Alien Customer
+
+        Executive Story Editor          LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+                                                  AND
+                                        STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          SKIP BEAUDINE
+        2nd Assistant Director          DOUG CORRING
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       MITCH SUSKIN
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   DANIEL A. SAKS
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        JOHN "J.W." WARNER
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     NEAL SPRITZ
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            HARRY WOOLWAY
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        PETER CARLSTEDT
+        Supervising Sound Editor        ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SKIP ROBINSON
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editor                JASON NETTER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        KELLY COYLE
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                       Lightwave 3D(R) and
+                     Video Toaster Systems(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+          "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from
+                       Sonic Images Records
+                            SI#8502-2
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 215
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/037.And-Now-For-a-Word b/ftp/Credits/037.And-Now-For-a-Word
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f044736d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/037.And-Now-For-a-Word
@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+presented in
+DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+ROBERT RUSLER                   as      Lt. Warren Keffer
+MARY KAY ADAMS                  as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                       "AND NOW FOR A WORD"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+KIM ZIMMER                      as      Cynthia Torqueman
+CHRISTOPHER CURRY               as      Ronald Quantrell
+GRANVILLE AMES                  as      Psi Cop
+JOHN CHRISTIAN GRAAS            as      Johnny
+LESLIE WING                     as      Mother
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     MARIO Di LEO
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+JOSHUA COX                              Tech #1
+JOSE REY                                Dock Worker
+
+        Executive Story Editor          LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+                                                  AND
+                                        STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          JOHN RADULOVIC
+        2nd Assistant Director          DOUG CORRING
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       MITCH SUSKIN
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual FX Producer              SHANNON CASEY
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   DANIEL A. SAKS
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        JOHN "J.W." WARNER
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     NEAL SPRITZ
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            HARRY WOOLWAY
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        PETER CARLSTEDT
+        Supervising Sound Editor        ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          DAVID W. FOSTER
+        Assistant Editor                KATHIE BURR
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        KELLY COYLE
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                       Lightwave 3D(R) and
+                     Video Toaster Systems(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+          "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from
+                       Sonic Images Records
+                            SI#8502-2
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 214
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/038.In-the-Shadow-of-Z-ha-dum b/ftp/Credits/038.In-the-Shadow-of-Z-ha-dum
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6f9c1531
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/038.In-the-Shadow-of-Z-ha-dum
@@ -0,0 +1,175 @@
+presented in
+DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+ROBERT RUSLER                   as      Lt. Warren Keffer
+MARY KAY ADAMS                  as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                   "IN THE SHADOW OF Z'HA'DUM"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+ALEX HYDE-WHITE                 as      Pierce Macabee
+ED WASSER                       as      Morden
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     DAVID J. EAGLE
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN            as      Kosh
+
+        Executive Story Editor          LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+                                                  AND
+                                        STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          SKIP BEAUDINE
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       MITCH SUSKIN
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual Effects Producer         SHANNON CASEY
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   DANIEL A. SAKS
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      DOUGLAS CORRING
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        JOHN "J.W." WARNER
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            HARRY WOOLWAY
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        PETER CARLSTEDT
+        Supervising Sound Editor        ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          DAVID W. FOSTER
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editor                JASON NETTER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        KELLY COYLE
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                       Lightwave 3D(R) and
+                     Video Toaster Systems(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+          "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from
+                       Sonic Images Records
+                            SI#8502-2
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 217
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/039.Knives b/ftp/Credits/039.Knives
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..90f54939
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/039.Knives
@@ -0,0 +1,175 @@
+presented in
+DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+ROBERT RUSLER                   as      Lt. Warren Keffer
+MARY KAY ADAMS                  as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                             "KNIVES"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+CARMEN ARGENZIANO               as      Urza Jaddo
+WILLIAM FORWARD                 as      Lord Refa
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+        Directed by                     STEPHEN L. POSEY
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+JOSHUA COX                              Tech #1
+ELISA BETH GARVER                       Tech #2
+WILLIAM DENNIS HUNT                     Centauri Noble
+
+        Executive Story Editor          LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+                                                  AND
+                                        STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          JOHN RADULOVIC
+        2nd Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       MITCH SUSKIN
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual Effects Producer         SHANNON CASEY
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   DANIEL A. SAKS
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      DOUGLAS CORRING
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WENDY THACKERY
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        JOHN "J.W." WARNER
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            HARRY WOOLWAY
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        PETER CARLSTEDT
+        Supervising Sound Editor        ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editor                ADAM BUCKNER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        KELLY COYLE
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                       Lightwave 3D(R) and
+                     Video Toaster Systems(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+          "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from
+                       Sonic Images Records
+                            SI#8502-2
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 216
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/040.Confessions-and-Lamentations b/ftp/Credits/040.Confessions-and-Lamentations
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8b11a021
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/040.Confessions-and-Lamentations
@@ -0,0 +1,181 @@
+presented in
+DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+ROBERT RUSLER                   as      Lt. Warren Keffer
+MARY KAY ADAMS                  as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                  "CONFESSIONS AND LAMENTATIONS"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+JIM NORTON                      as      Dr. Lazarenn
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         FRED V. MURPHY, II
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     KEVIN G. CREMIN
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+DIANE ADAIR                             Markab Mother
+ANDREW CRAIG                            Human
+MAGGIE EGAN                             ISN Reporter
+MIKE MANZONI                            Guard
+MICHAEL McKENZIE                        Markab Victim
+BLUEJEAN ASHLEY SECRIST                 Markab Girl
+KIM STRAUSS                             Markab Ambassador
+DAN WOREN                               Bartender
+ROSIE MALEK-YONAN                       Doctor
+
+        Executive Story Editor          LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+                                                  AND
+                                        STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          JOHN RADULOVIC
+        2nd Assistant Director          DOUGLAS CORRING
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       MITCH SUSKIN
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual Effects Producer         SHANNON CASEY
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   DANIEL A. SAKS
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      BRAD MICHAELSON
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        JOHN "J.W." WARNER
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            HARRY WOOLWAY
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        PETER CARLSTEDT
+        Supervising Sound Editor        ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SKIP ROBINSON
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editor                ADAM BUCKNER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        KELLY COYLE
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                       Lightwave 3D(R) and
+                     Video Toaster Systems(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+          "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from
+                       Sonic Images Records
+                            SI#8502-2
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 218
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/041.Divided-Loyalties b/ftp/Credits/041.Divided-Loyalties
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0b50131b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/041.Divided-Loyalties
@@ -0,0 +1,180 @@
+Transcribed by Dan Dassow (dand@seas6.mdc.com)
+
+presented in
+DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+ROBERT RUSLER                   as      Lt. Warren Keffer
+MARY KAY ADAMS                  as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                       "DIVIDED LOYALTIES"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+PATRICIA TALLMAN                as      Lyta Alexander
+JEFF CONWAY                     as      Zack Allan
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III, A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     JESUS TREVINO
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+DOUGLAS BENNETT                         First Man
+ARDWRIGHT CHAMBERLAIN                   Kosh
+JOSHUA COX                              Tech #1
+DANNY DE LA PAZ                         Running Man
+JANI NEUMAN                             Med Tech
+GEORGE SIMMS                            Security Guard
+
+        Executive Story Editor          LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+                                                  AND
+                                        STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMAN
+        1st Assistant Director          SKIP BEAUDINE
+        2nd Assistant Director          DOUGLAS CORRING
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       MITCH SUSKIN
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual Effects Producer         SHANNON CASEY
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   DANIEL A. SAKS
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      BRAD MICHAELSON
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        JOHN "J.W." WARNER
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            HARRY WOOLWAY
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        PETER CARLSTEDT
+        Supervising Sound Editor        ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          DAVID W. FOSTER
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editor                ADAM BUCKNER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        KELLY COYLE
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                       Lightwave 3D(R) and
+                     Video Toaster Systems(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+          "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from
+                       Sonic Images Records
+                            SI#8502-2
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 220
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/042.The-Long-Twilight-Struggle b/ftp/Credits/042.The-Long-Twilight-Struggle
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fa8fb01c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/042.The-Long-Twilight-Struggle
@@ -0,0 +1,181 @@
+Transcribed by David Henderson (davidh@bradley.edu)
+
+presented in
+DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+ROBERT RUSLER                   as      Lt. Warren Keffer
+MARY KAY ADAMS                  as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                  "THE LONG, TWILIGHT STRUGGLE"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+JOHN SCHUCK                     as      Draal
+RIF HUTTON                      as      ISN Reporter
+WILLIAM FORWARD                 as      Lord Refa
+W. MORGAN SHEPPARD              as      Warmaster G'Sten
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         FRED V. MURPHY, II
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     JOHN C. FLINN, III
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+NEIL BRADLEY                            Narn #2
+JONATHAN CHAPMAN                        Narn Second
+JOSHUA COX                              Tech #1
+ELISA BETH GARVER                       Tech #2
+
+        Executive Story Editor          LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+        2nd Assistant Director          DOUGLAS CORRING
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       MITCH SUSKIN
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual Effects Producer         SHANNON CASEY
+        Digital Effects Animation       KEVIN KUTCHAVER
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   DANIEL A. SAKS
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      BRAD MICHAELSON
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        JOHN "J.W." WARNER
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            HARRY WOOLWAY
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        PETER CARLSTEDT
+        Supervising Sound Editor        ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editor                JASON NETTER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        KELLY COYLE
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                       Lightwave 3D(R) and
+                     Video Toaster Systems(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+          "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from
+                       Sonic Images Records
+                            SI#8502-2
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 219
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/043.Comes-the-Inquisitor b/ftp/Credits/043.Comes-the-Inquisitor
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..838c0692
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/043.Comes-the-Inquisitor
@@ -0,0 +1,181 @@
+Transcribed by David Henderson (davidh@camelot.bradley.edu)
+
+presented in
+DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+ROBERT RUSLER                   as      Lt. Warren Keffer
+MARY KAY ADAMS                  as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                      "COMES THE INQUISITOR"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+WAYNE ALEXANDER                 as      Sebastian
+JACK KEHLER                     as      Mr. Chase
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     MICHAEL VEJAR
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+DIANE ADAIR                             Narn Mother
+ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN                    Kosh
+JIM CHIROS                              Centauri #1
+JOSHUA COX                              Tech #1
+MARK HENDRICKSON                        Narn #1
+MICHAEL FRANCIS KELLY                   Guard
+KIM STRAUSS                             Narn #2
+CRAIG THOMAS                            Human
+
+        Executive Story Editor          LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+        2nd Assistant Director          DOUGLAS CORRING
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual Effects Producer         SHANNON CASEY
+        Digital Effects Animation       SHERRY HITCH
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   DANIEL A. SAKS
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      BRAD MICHAELSON
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        JOHN "J.W." WARNER
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            HARRY WOOLWAY
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        PETER CARLSTEDT
+        Supervising Sound Editor        ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SKIP ROBINSON
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editor                ADAM BUCKNER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        KELLY COYLE
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                       Lightwave 3D(R) and
+                     Video Toaster Systems(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+          "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from
+                       Sonic Images Records
+                            SI#8502-2
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 221
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/044.The-Fall-of-Night b/ftp/Credits/044.The-Fall-of-Night
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ac4dd196
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/044.The-Fall-of-Night
@@ -0,0 +1,182 @@
+presented in
+DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             STARRING
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          ALSO STARRING
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+ANDREA THOMPSON                 as      Talia Winters
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+ROBERT RUSLER                   as      Lt. Warren Keffer
+MARY KAY ADAMS                  as      Na'Toth
+
+                               WITH
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+                               AND
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                       "THE FALL OF NIGHT"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+ROY DOTRICE                     as      Frederick Lantze
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allen
+JULI DOLAND                     as      Pilot #1
+RICK HAMILTON                   as      Mitch
+ROBIN SACHS                     as      Na'Kal
+JOHN VICKERY                    as      Mr. Welles
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     JANET GREEK
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+DONOVAN BROWN                           Pak'Ma'Ra Ambassador
+JOSHUA COX                              Tech #1
+ELISA BETH GARVER                       Tech #2
+MARK HENDRICKSON                        Narn #1
+JOSHUA PATTON                           Human/Minbari Kosh
+KIM STRAUSS                             Drazi Ambassador
+
+        Executive Story Editor          LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Casting by                      MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A.
+
+        Unit Production Manager         KEVIN G. CREMIN
+        1st Assistant Director          SKIP BEAUDINE
+        2nd Assistant Director          DOUGLAS CORRING
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual Effects Producer         SHANNON CASEY
+        Sr. Computer Animators          ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        EVERETT BURRELL
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   DANIEL A. SAKS
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      BRAD MICHAELSON
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          MARSHALL ADAMS
+        Key Grip                        JOHN "J.W." WARNER
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            HARRY WOOLWAY
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Supervising Sound Editor        ERIN HOIEN
+
+        Editor                          SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editor                JASON NETTER
+        Post Production Coordinator     SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           SARAH MORSE-FISCHER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        KELLY COYLE
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                       Lightwave 3D(R) and
+                     Video Toaster Systems(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+          "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from
+                       Sonic Images Records
+                            SI#8502-2
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 222
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/045.Matters-of-Honor b/ftp/Credits/045.Matters-of-Honor
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..38a1fbdf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/045.Matters-of-Honor
@@ -0,0 +1,190 @@
+presented in
+DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               With
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+                               And
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                        "MATTERS OF HONOR"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+TUCKER SMALLWOOD                as      David Endawi
+ED WASSER                       as      Morden
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     KEVIN G. CREMIN
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                           Co-Starring
+NILS ALLEN STEWART              as      Large Man
+
+                            Featuring
+ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN                    Kosh
+JONATHAN CHAPMAN                        Drazi Pilot
+KITTY SWINK                             Senator
+ANDREW WALKER                           Psi Cop
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+        2nd Assistant Director          DOUGLAS CORRING
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual Effects Producer         SHANNON CASEY
+     On Set Visual Effects Supervisor   TED RAE
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+        Senior Computer Animators       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Composite 2D Animator           SHERRY HITCH
+        System Engineer                 STEVE PUGH
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Make-up Effects Artists         GREG FUNK
+                                        WILL HUFF
+                                        FIONAGH CUSH
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MARK GARBARINO
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        JOHN WARNER
+        Best Boy Electric               DAVID H. NEALE
+        Best Boy Grip                   BRUCE CAROTHERS
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      JAMES A. DENNETT, II
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      PAUL SOKOL
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            MICHAEL MOSER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                ROBERT PARIGI
+
+        Editor                          SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editor                JASON NETTER
+        Apprentice Editor               JOHN BURRIS
+        Post Production Supervisor      SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+          "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from
+                       Sonic Images Records
+                            SI#8502-2
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+           or use may result in civil liability and/or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 301
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/046.Convictions b/ftp/Credits/046.Convictions
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c2f5b191
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/046.Convictions
@@ -0,0 +1,193 @@
+presented in
+DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               With
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+                               And
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                           "CONVICTIONS"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+PATRICK KILPATRICK              as      Robert Carlson
+LOUIS TURENNE                   as      Brother Theo
+                                AND
+CARY-HIROYUKI TAGAWA            as      Morishi
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     MICHAEL VEJAR
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+JOHN FLINN                              Obnoxious Man
+RICK JOHNSON                            Security Guard #1 [Jay]
+JASON LARIMORE                          Lurker
+GWEN McGEE                              Med Tech
+MIKE McKENZIE                           Drazi #1
+TOM SIMMONS                             Security Guard #2
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          RONNIE CHONG
+        2nd Assistant Director          DOUGLAS CORRING
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual Effects Producer         SHANNON CASEY
+     On Set Visual Effects Supervisor   TED RAE
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+        Senior Computer Animators       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Composite 2D Animator           SHERRY HITCH
+        System Engineer                 STEVE PUGH
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Make-up Effects Artists         GREG FUNK
+                                        WILL HUFF
+                                        FIONAGH CUSH
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MARK GARBARINO
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        JOHN WARNER
+        Best Boy Electric               DAVID H. NEALE
+        Best Boy Grip                   BRUCE CAROTHERS
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      JAMES A. DENNETT, II
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      PAUL SOKOL
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            MICHAEL MOSER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                ROBERT PARIGI
+
+        Editor                          SKIP ROBINSON
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editor                JASON NETTER
+        Apprentice Editor               JOHN BURRIS
+        Post Production Supervisor      SUSAN NORKIN
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                    Electronic Laboratory(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                           EFX SYSTEMS
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+          "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from
+                       Sonic Images Records
+                            SI#8502-2
+
+[Note: smaller font than usual from here to end]
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 302
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/047.A-Day-In-the-Strife b/ftp/Credits/047.A-Day-In-the-Strife
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0ca93f6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/047.A-Day-In-the-Strife
@@ -0,0 +1,196 @@
+presented in
+DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               With
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+                               And
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                       "A DAY IN THE STRIFE"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+STEPHEN MACHT                   as      Na'Far
+                                AND
+MARSHALL TEAGUE                 as      Ta'Lon
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     DAVID J. EAGLE
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+ANNE BETANCOURT                         Dr. Gonzales
+NEIL BRADLEY                            Narn #1
+JOSHUA COX                              Corwin
+MARK HENDRICKSON                        Narn #2
+LARITA SHELBY                           Med Tech
+JOHN ST. RYAN                           Troublemaker
+MICHAEL BAILEY SMITH                    G'Dok
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+        2nd Assistant Director          DOUGLAS CORRING
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual Effects Producer         SHANNON CASEY
+     On Set Visual Effects Supervisor   TED RAE
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+        Senior Computer Animators       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Composite 2D Animator           SHERRY HITCH
+        System Engineer                 STEVE PUGH
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Make-up Effects Artists         GREG FUNK
+                                        WILL HUFF
+                                        FIONAGH CUSH
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MARK GARBARINO
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        JOHN WARNER
+        Best Boy Electric               DAVID H. NEALE
+        Best Boy Grip                   BRUCE CAROTHERS
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      DAVID McWHIRTER
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      PAUL SOKOL
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            MICHAEL MOSER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                ROBERT PARIGI
+
+        Editor                          DAVID W. FOSTER
+        Post Production Supervisor      SUSAN NORKIN
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editor                JASON NETTER
+        Apprentice Editor               JOHN BURRUS
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                       [unintelligible]
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+          "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from
+                       Sonic Images Records
+                            SI#8502-2
+
+[Note: smaller font]
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 303
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/048.Passing-Through-Gethsemane b/ftp/Credits/048.Passing-Through-Gethsemane
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e2c4953a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/048.Passing-Through-Gethsemane
@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+presented in                                                []
+DD SURROUND(TM)                                              '
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               With
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+                               And
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                   "PASSING THROUGH GETHSEMANE"
+
+                          GUEST STARRING
+BRAD DOURIF                     as      Brother Edward
+PATRICIA TALLMAN                as      Lyta Alexander
+LOUIS TURENNE                   as      Brother Theo
+
+        Edited by                       SKIP ROBINSON
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     ADAM NIMOY
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                           Co-Starring
+ROBERT KEITH                    as      Malcolm
+
+                            Featuring
+LYNN BLADES                             News Anchor #2
+NATALIE BRUNT                           Business Person
+ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN                    Kosh
+MARK FOLGER                             Centauri
+STEVEN GOLZALEZ                         News Anchor #1
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+        2nd Assistant Director          DOUGLAS CORRING
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual Effects Producer         SHANNON CASEY
+     On Set Visual Effects Supervisor   TED RAE
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+        Senior Computer Animators       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Composite 2D Animator           SHERRY HITCH
+        System Engineer                 STEVE PUGH
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Make-up Effects Artists         GREG FUNK
+                                        WILL HUFF
+                                        FIONAGH CUSH
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MARK GARBARINO
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        JOHN WARNER
+        Best Boy Electric               DAVID H. NEALE
+        Best Boy Grip                   BRUCE CAROTHERS
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      DAVID McWHIRTER
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      PAUL SOKOL
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            MICHAEL MOSER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                ROBERT PARIGI
+
+        Post Production Supervisor      SUSAN NORKIN
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editor                JASON NETTER
+        Apprentice Editor               JOHN BURRUS
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Assistant            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+		     THE SOUND OF PICTURES
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+          "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from
+                       Sonic Images Records
+                            SI#8502-2
+
+[Note: smaller font]
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 305
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/049.Voices-of-Authority b/ftp/Credits/049.Voices-of-Authority
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..66cfc7ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/049.Voices-of-Authority
@@ -0,0 +1,193 @@
+presented in                                                []
+DD SURROUND(TM)                                              '
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               With
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+                               And
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                       "VOICES OF AUTHORITY"
+
+                          Guest Starring
+JOHN SCHUCK                     as      Draal
+                               And
+SHARI SHATTUCK                  as      Julie Musante
+
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Edited by                       SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     MENACHEM BINETSKI
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+JAMES BLACK                             Security Guard #1
+JOSHUA COX                              Corwin
+VIMI MANI                               ISN Anchor
+GARY McGURK                             Vice President Clark
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          RONNIE CHONG
+        2nd Assistant Director          DOUGLAS CORRING
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual Effects Producer         SHANNON CASEY
+     On Set Visual Effects Supervisor   TED RAE
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+        Senior Computer Animators       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Composite 2D Animator           SHERRY HITCH
+        System Engineer                 STEVE PUGH
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Make-up Effects Artists         GREG FUNK
+                                        WILL HUFF
+                                        FIONAGH CUSH
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MARK GARBARINO
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        JOHN WARNER
+        Best Boy Electric               DAVID H. NEALE
+        Best Boy Grip                   BRUCE CAROTHERS
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      DAVID McWHIRTER
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      PAUL SOKOL
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            MICHAEL MOSER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                ROBERT PARIGI
+
+        Post Production Supervisor      SUSAN NORKIN
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editor                JASON NETTER
+        Apprentice Editor               JOHN BURRUS
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Associate            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                      The Sound of Pictures
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+          "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from
+                       Sonic Images Records
+                            SI#8502-2
+
+[Note: smaller font]
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 304
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/050.Dust-to-Dust b/ftp/Credits/050.Dust-to-Dust
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1adf26c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/050.Dust-to-Dust
@@ -0,0 +1,199 @@
+presented in                                                []
+DD SURROUND(TM)                                              '
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               With
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+                               And
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                          "DUST TO DUST"
+
+                          Guest Starring
+JULIAN NEIL                     as      Lindstrom
+JIM NORTON                      as      Narn Image
+                        Special Guest Star
+WALTER KOENIG                   as      Bester
+
+        Edited by                       DAVID W. FOSTER
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     DAVID J. EAGLE
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN                    Kosh
+HARRY HUTCHINSON                        Security Guard #1
+JOHN-FREDERICK JONES                    Centauri Diplomat
+S. MARC JORDAN                          Shop Owner
+JUDY LEVITT                             PSI Cop
+GWEN McGEE                              Med Tech
+PHILIP MOON                             Ashi
+WALTER ONEIL                            Crazed Man
+DAVID SHARK                             Man
+KIM STRAUSS                             Vizak
+DANI THOMPSON                           Ombuds
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          RONNIE CHONG
+        2nd Assistant Director          DAVID McWHIRTER
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual Effects Producer         SHANNON CASEY
+     On Set Visual Effects Supervisor   TED RAE
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+        Senior Computer Animators       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Composite 2D Animator           SHERRY HITCH
+        System Engineer                 STEVE PUGH
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Make-up Effects Artists         GREG FUNK
+                                        WILL HUFF
+                                        FIONAGH CUSH
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MARK GARBARINO
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        JOHN WARNER
+        Best Boy Electric               DAVID H. NEALE
+        Best Boy Grip                   BRUCE CAROTHERS
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      DOUGLAS CORRING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      PAUL SOKOL
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            MICHAEL MOSER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                ROBERT PARIGI
+
+        Post Production Supervisor      SUSAN NORKIN
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editor                JASON NETTER
+        Apprentice Editor               JOHN BURRUS
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Associate            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                      The Sound of Pictures
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 306
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/051.Exogenesis b/ftp/Credits/051.Exogenesis
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c059de84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/051.Exogenesis
@@ -0,0 +1,198 @@
+presented in                                                []
+DD SURROUND(TM)                                              '
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               With
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+                               And
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                           "EXOGENESIS"
+
+                          Guest Starring
+JAMES WARWICK                   as      Matthew Duffin
+WYLIE SMALL                     as      Jacque Lee
+AUBREY MORRIS                   as      Duncan
+
+        Edited by                       SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     KEVIN G. CREMIN
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                           Co-Starring
+JOSHUA COX                              Corwin
+ROSS GOTTSTEIN                          Vendor
+ERIC STEINBERG                          Samuel
+DONALD WILLIS                           Trader
+
+                            Featuring
+MICHAEL McKENZIE                        Man
+CARRIE DOBRO                            Dr. Harrison
+KAT CRESSIDA                            Kat
+ROGER ROOK                              Lurker
+LESLIE PRATT                            Woman
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+        2nd Assistant Director          DOUGLAS CORRING
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual Effects Producer         SHANNON CASEY
+     On Set Visual Effects Supervisor   TED RAE
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+        Senior Computer Animators       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Composite 2D Animator           SHERRY HITCH
+        System Engineer                 STEVE PUGH
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Make-up Effects Artists         GREG FUNK
+                                        WILL HUFF
+                                        FIONAGH CUSH
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MARK GARBARINO
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        JOHN WARNER
+        Best Boy Electric               DAVID H. NEALE
+        Best Boy Grip                   BRUCE CAROTHERS
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      DAVID McWHIRTER
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      PAUL SOKOL
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            MICHAEL MOSER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                ROBERT PARIGI
+
+        Post Production Supervisor      SUSAN NORKIN
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editor                JASON NETTER
+        Apprentice Editor               JOHN BURRUS
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Associate            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                      The Sound of Pictures
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 307
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/052.Messages-from-Earth b/ftp/Credits/052.Messages-from-Earth
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fe03e384
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/052.Messages-from-Earth
@@ -0,0 +1,188 @@
+presented in                                                []
+DD SURROUND(TM)                                              '
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               With
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+                               And
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                      "MESSAGES FROM EARTH"
+
+                          Guest Starring
+NANCY STAFFORD                  as      Dr. Mary Kirkish
+VAUGHN ARMSTRONG                as      Security Guard #1
+
+        Edited by                       SKIP ROBINSON
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     MICHAEL VEJAR
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+MERRIN DUNGEY                           Security Guard #2
+VIMI MANI                               ISN Anchor
+LORRAINE SHIELDS                        Cook
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          RONNIE CHONG
+        2nd Assistant Director          DAVID McWHIRTER
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual Effects Producer         SHANNON CASEY
+     On Set Visual Effects Supervisor   TED RAE
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+        Senior Computer Animators       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Composite 2D Animator           SHERRY HITCH
+        System Engineer                 STEVE PUGH
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Make-up Effects Artists         GREG FUNK
+                                        WILL HUFF
+                                        FIONAGH CUSH
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MARK GARBARINO
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        JOHN WARNER
+        Best Boy Electric               DAVID H. NEALE
+        Dolly Grip                      KENNY "SHAKES" YAKKE
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      DOUGLAS CORRING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      PAUL SOKOL
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            MICHAEL MOSER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                ROBERT PARIGI
+
+        Post Production Supervisor      SUSAN NORKIN
+        Assistant Editors               JASON NETTER
+                                        JOHN BURRUS
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Associate            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                      The Sound of Pictures
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 308
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/053.Point-of-No-Return b/ftp/Credits/053.Point-of-No-Return
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..88bdc7de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/053.Point-of-No-Return
@@ -0,0 +1,198 @@
+presented in                                                []
+DD SURROUND(TM)                                              '
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               With
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+                               And
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                       "POINT OF NO RETURN"
+
+                        Special Guest Star
+MAJEL BARRETT                   as      Lady Morella
+
+                          Guest Starring
+MARSHALL TEAGUE                 as      Ta'Lon
+VAUGHN ARMSTRONG                as      Security Guard #1
+LEWIS ARQUETTE                  as      General Smits
+
+        Edited by                       DAVID W. FOSTER
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     JIM JOHNSTON
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                           Co-Starring
+ED TROTTA                       as      Lt. General O'Reilly
+
+                            Featuring
+JONATHAN CHAPMAN                        Passing Minbari
+JOSHUA COX                              Lt. Corwin
+MAGGIE EGAN                             ISN Reporter #1
+MILTON JAMES                            Centauri Official
+GUNTHER JENSEN                          Nichtwatch Guard
+TONY RAYNER                             Man
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+        2nd Assistant Director          DOUGLAS CORRING
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual Effects Producer         SHANNON CASEY
+     On Set Visual Effects Supervisor   TED RAE
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+        Senior Computer Animators       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Composite 2D Animator           SHERRY HITCH
+        System Engineer                 STEVE PUGH
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Make-up Effects Artists         GREG FUNK
+                                        WILL HUFF
+                                        FIONAGH CUSH
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MARK GARBARINO
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        JOHN WARNER
+        Best Boy Electric               CHRIS "TROLL" LEWIS
+        Company Grip                    TOMMY FLANAGAN
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      DAVID McWHIRTER
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      PAUL SOKOL
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            MICHAEL MOSER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                ROBERT PARIGI
+
+        Post Production Supervisor      SUSAN NORKIN
+        Assistant Editors               JASON NETTER
+                                        JOHN BURRUS
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Associate            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                      The Sound of Pictures
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 309
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/054.Severed-Dreams b/ftp/Credits/054.Severed-Dreams
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..81d10428
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/054.Severed-Dreams
@@ -0,0 +1,196 @@
+presented in                                                []
+DD SURROUND(TM)                                              '
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               With
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+                               And
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                         "SEVERED DREAMS"
+
+                          Guest Starring
+KIM MIYORI                      as      Captain Sandra Hiroshi
+RANCE HOWARD                    as      David Sheridan
+PHIL MORRIS                     as      Bill Trainor
+                               And
+BRUCE McGILL                    as      Major Ryan
+
+        Edited by                       SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     DAVID J. EAGLE
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                           Co-Starring
+JAMES PARKS                     as      Drakhen
+
+                            Featuring
+JONATHAN CHAPMAN                        Religious Minbari
+JOSHUA COX                              Lt. Corwin
+MAGGIE EGAN                             ISN Reporter #1
+MATT GOTTLIEB                           ISN Reporter #2
+KIM STRAUSS                             Narn
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          RONNIE CHONG
+        2nd Assistant Director          DAVID McWHIRTER
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual Effects Producer         SHANNON CASEY
+     On Set Visual Effects Supervisor   TED RAE
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+        Senior Computer Animators       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Composite 2D Animator           SHERRY HITCH
+        System Engineer                 STEVE PUGH
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Make-up Effects Artists         GREG FUNK
+                                        WILL HUFF
+                                        FIONAGH CUSH
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MARK GARBARINO
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        JOHN WARNER
+        Best Boy Electric               CHRIS "TROLL" LEWIS
+        Company Grip                    JAMES B. IRONS
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      DOUGLAS CORRING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      PAUL SOKOL
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            MICHAEL MOSER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                JOHN CAGGIANO
+
+        Post Production Supervisor      SUSAN NORKIN
+        Assistant Editors               JASON NETTER
+                                        JOHN BURRUS
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Associate            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                      The Sound of Pictures
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 310
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/055.Ceremonies-of-Light-and-Dark b/ftp/Credits/055.Ceremonies-of-Light-and-Dark
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..97e0986d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/055.Ceremonies-of-Light-and-Dark
@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+presented in                                                []
+DD SURROUND(TM)                                              '
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               With
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+                               And
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                          "CEREMONIES OF
+                          DARK AND LIGHT"
+
+                          Guest Starring
+WILLIAM FORWARD                 as      Lord Refa
+DON STROUD                      as      Boggs
+                               And
+PAUL PERRI                      as      Sniper
+
+        Edited by                       SKIP ROBINSON
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     JOHN C. FLINN,III [sic]
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                           Co-Starring
+KIM STRAUSS                     as      Lennan
+
+                            Featuring
+VINCENT BILANCO                         Maintenance Man
+JOSHUA COX                              Lt. Corwin
+HARLAN ELLISON                          Sparky the Computer
+DOUG McCOY                              Guard
+ED WASSER                               Morden
+JIM CODY WILLIAMS                       Thug#1 [sic]
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+        2nd Assistant Director          DAVID McWHIRTER
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual Effects Producer         SHANNON CASEY
+     On Set Visual Effects Supervisor   TED RAE
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+        Senior Computer Animators       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Composite 2D Animator           SHERRY HITCH
+        System Engineer                 STEVE PUGH
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Make-up Effects Artists         GREG FUNK
+                                        WILL HUFF
+                                        FIONAGH CUSH
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MARK GARBARINO
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        JOHN WARNER
+        Best Boy Electric               DAVID H. NEALE
+        Best Boy Grip                   BRUCE CAROTHERS
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      ROSEMARIE UNITE
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      PAUL SOKOL
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            MICHAEL MOSER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                JOHN CAGGIANO
+
+        Post Production Supervisor      SUSAN NORKIN
+        Assistant Editors               JASON NETTER
+                                        JOHN BURRUS
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Associate            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                      The Sound of Pictures
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 311
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/056.Sic-Transit-Vir b/ftp/Credits/056.Sic-Transit-Vir
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b6ba18f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/056.Sic-Transit-Vir
@@ -0,0 +1,185 @@
+presented in                                                []
+DD SURROUND(TM)                                              '
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               With
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+                               And
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                        "SIC TRANSIT VIR"
+
+                          Guest Starring
+CARMEN THOMAS                   as      Lyndisty
+DAMIAN LONDON                   as      Centauri Official
+
+        Edited by                       SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     JESU'S TREVIN~O
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+JAMES JUDE COURTNEY             as      Narn #1
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+        2nd Assistant Director          DAVID McWHIRTER
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+     On Set Visual Effects Supervisor   TED RAE
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+        Senior Computer Animators       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Composite 2D Animator           SHERRY HITCH
+        System Engineer                 STEVE PUGH
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Make-up Effects Artists         GREG FUNK
+                                        WILL HUFF
+                                        FIONAGH CUSH
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MARK GARBARINO
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        JOHN WARNER
+        Best Boy Electric               DAVID H. NEALE
+        Company Grip                    TOMMY FLANAGAN
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      ROSEMARIE UNITE
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      PAUL SOKOL
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            MICHAEL MOSER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                JOHN CAGGIANO
+
+        Post Production Supervisor      SUSAN NORKIN
+        Assistant Editors               JASON NETTER
+                                        JOHN BURRUS
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Associate            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                      The Sound of Pictures
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 313
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/057.A-Late-Delivery-from-Avalon b/ftp/Credits/057.A-Late-Delivery-from-Avalon
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cd21c7b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/057.A-Late-Delivery-from-Avalon
@@ -0,0 +1,192 @@
+presented in                                                []
+DD SURROUND(TM)                                              '
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               With
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+                               And
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                         "A LATE DELIVERY
+                            FROM AVALON"
+
+                          Guest Starring
+MICHAEL YORK                    as      Arthur
+MICHAEL KAGAN                   as      Emmett Farquaha
+
+        Edited by                       DAVID W. FOSTER
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     MICHAEL VEJAR
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                           Co-Starring
+ROGER HAMPTON                           Merchant
+DONA HARDY                              Old Woman
+MICHAEL FRANCIS KELLY                   Security Guard #1
+JAMES KIRIYAMA-LEM                      Med Tech
+ROBERT SCHUCH                           Lurker
+JERRY O'DONNELL                         Security Guard #2
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          RONNIE CHONG
+        2nd Assistant Director          DAVID McWHIRTER
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+        Visual Effects Producer         SHANNON CASEY
+     On Set Visual Effects Supervisor   TED RAE
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+        Senior Computer Animators       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Composite 2D Animator           SHERRY HITCH
+        System Engineer                 STEVE PUGH
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Make-up Effects Artists         GREG FUNK
+                                        WILL HUFF
+                                        FIONAGH CUSH
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MARK GARBARINO
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        JOHN WARNER
+        Best Boy Electric               DAVID H. NEALE
+        Dolly Grip                      KENNY YAKKEL
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      DOUGLAS CORRING
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      PAUL SOKOL
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            MICHAEL MOSER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                JOHN CAGGIANO
+
+        Post Production Supervisor      SUSAN NORKIN
+        Assistant Editors               JASON NETTER
+                                        JOHN BURRUS
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Associate            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                      The Sound of Pictures
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 312
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/058.Ship-of-Tears b/ftp/Credits/058.Ship-of-Tears
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f5ae905b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/058.Ship-of-Tears
@@ -0,0 +1,189 @@
+presented in                                                []
+DD SURROUND(TM)                                              '
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               With
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+                               And
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                          "SHIP OF TEARS"
+
+                          Guest Starring
+JOAN McMURTREY                  as      Carolyn
+DIANA MORGAN                    as      Alison
+                               and
+                        Special Guest Star
+WALTER KOENIG                   as      Bester
+
+        Edited by                       SKIP ROBINSON
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     MICHAEL VEJAR
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+DEBRA SHARKEY                   as      Med Tech
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          RONNIE CHONG
+        2nd Assistant Director          DAVID McWHIRTER
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+     On Set Visual Effects Supervisor   TED RAE
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+        Senior Computer Animators       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Composite 2D Animator           SHERRY HITCH
+        System Engineer                 STEVE PUGH
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Make-up Effects Artists         GREG FUNK
+                                        WILL HUFF
+                                        FIONAGH CUSH
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MARK GARBARINO
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        JOHN WARNER
+        Best Boy Electric               DAVID H. NEALE
+        Company Grip                    JAMES B. IRONS
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      ROSEMARIE UNITE
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      PAUL SOKOL
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            MICHAEL MOSER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                JOHN CAGGIANO
+
+        Post Production Supervisor      SUSAN NORKIN
+        Fist Assistant Editor [sic]     KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editors               JASON NETTER
+                                        JOHN BURRUS
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Associate            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                      The Sound of Pictures
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 314
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/059.Interludes-and-Examinations b/ftp/Credits/059.Interludes-and-Examinations
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b19bd8d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/059.Interludes-and-Examinations
@@ -0,0 +1,193 @@
+presented in                                                []
+DD SURROUND(TM)                                              '
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               With
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+                               And
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                         "INTERLUDES AND
+                           EXAMINATIONS"
+
+                          Guest Starring
+JENNIFER BALGOBIN               as      Dr. Lilian Hobbs
+RANCE HOWARD                    as      David Sheridan
+JAN RABSON                      as      Vendor
+ED WASSER                       as      Morden
+
+        Edited by                       DAVID W. FOSTER
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     JESU'S TREVIN~O
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN                    Kosh
+JONATHAN CHAPMAN                        Brakiri
+MAGGIE CIGLAR                           Tech
+GLENN MARTIN                            Ranger
+DOUG TOMPOS                             Med Tech
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+        2nd Assistant Director          DAVID McWHIRTER
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+     On Set Visual Effects Supervisor   TED RAE
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+        Senior Computer Animators       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Composite 2D Animator           SHERRY HITCH
+        System Engineer                 STEVE PUGH
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Make-up Effects Artists         GREG FUNK
+                                        WILL HUFF
+                                        FIONAGH CUSH
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MARK GARBARINO
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        JOHN WARNER
+        Best Boy Electric               DAVID H. NEALE
+        Best Boy Grip                   BRUCE CAROTHERS
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      ROSEMARIE UNITE
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      PAUL SOKOL
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            MICHAEL MOSER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                JOHN CAGGIANO
+
+        Post Production Supervisor      SUSAN NORKIN
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editors               JASON NETTER
+                                        JOHN BURRUS
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Associate            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                      The Sound of Pictures
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 315
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/060.War-Without-End-1 b/ftp/Credits/060.War-Without-End-1
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+                                                     presented in
+                                                  DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               With
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+                               And
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                         "WAR WITHOUT END"
+                             Part One
+
+                          Guest Starring
+TIM CHAOTE                      as      Zathras
+TIME WINTERS                    as      Rathenn
+                        Special Guest Star
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Ambassador Jeffrey Sinclair
+
+        Edited by                       SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     MICHAEL VEJAR
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+JOSHUA COX                              Lt. Corwin
+KEVIN FRY                               Centauri Guard
+ERIC ZIVOT                              Spragg
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          RONNIE CHONG
+        2nd Assistant Director          DAVID McWHIRTER
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+     On Set Visual Effects Supervisor   TED RAE
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+        Senior Computer Animators       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Composite 2D Animator           SHERRY HITCH
+        System Engineer                 STEVE PUGH
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Make-up Effects Artists         GREG FUNK
+                                        WILL HUFF
+                                        FIONAGH CUSH
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MARK GARBARINO
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        JOHN WARNER
+        Best Boy Electric               DAVID H. NEALE
+        Dolly Grip                      KENNY YAKKEL
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      ROSEMARIE UNITE
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      PAUL SOKOL
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            MICHAEL MOSER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                JOHN CAGGIANO
+
+        Post Production Supervisor      SUSAN NORKIN
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editors               JASON NETTER
+                                        JOHN BURRUS
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Associate            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                      The Sound of Pictures
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 316
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/061.War-Without-End-2 b/ftp/Credits/061.War-Without-End-2
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+                                                     presented in
+                                                  DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               With
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+                               And
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                         "WAR WITHOUT END"
+                             Part Two
+
+                          Guest Starring
+TIM CHAOTE                      as      Zathras
+KENT BROADHURST                 as      Major Krantz
+BRUCE MORROW                    as      B4 First Officer
+                        Special Guest Star
+MICHAEL O'HARE                  as      Ambassador Jeffrey Sinclair
+
+        Edited by                       SKIP ROBINSON
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     MICHAEL VEJAR
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+KEVIN FRY                               Centauri Guard
+EDDIE MUI                               B4 Tech
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          RONNIE CHONG
+        2nd Assistant Director          DAVID McWHIRTER
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+     On Set Visual Effects Supervisor   TED RAE
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+        Senior Computer Animators       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Composite 2D Animator           SHERRY HITCH
+        System Engineer                 STEVE PUGH
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Make-up Effects Artists         GREG FUNK
+                                        WILL HUFF
+                                        FIONAGH CUSH
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MARK GARBARINO
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        JOHN WARNER
+        Best Boy Electric               DAVID H. NEALE
+        Company Grip                    TOMMY FLANAGAN
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      ROSEMARIE UNITE
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      PAUL SOKOL
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            MICHAEL MOSER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                JOHN CAGGIANO
+
+        Post Production Supervisor      SUSAN NORKIN
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editors               JASON NETTER
+                                        JOHN BURRUS
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Associate            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                      The Sound of Pictures
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 317
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/062.Walkabout b/ftp/Credits/062.Walkabout
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+                                                     presented in
+                                                  DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               With
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+                               And
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                            "WALKABOUT"
+
+                          Guest Starring
+ERICA GIMPEL                    as      Cailyn
+PATRICA TALLMAN [sic]           as      Lyta Alexander
+JENNIFER BALGOBIN               as      Dr. Lilian Hobbs
+ROBIN SACHS                     as      Na'Kal
+
+        Edited by                       DAVID W. FOSTER
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         FRED V. MURPHY II
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     KEVIN G. CREMIN
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+ARDWRIGHT CHAMBERLAIN                   Kosh
+MICHAEL McKENZIE                        Minbari Captain
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+        2nd Assistant Director          DAVID McWHIRTER
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+     On Set Visual Effects Supervisor   TED RAE
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+        Senior Computer Animators       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Composite 2D Animator           SHERRY HITCH
+        System Engineer                 STEVE PUGH
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Make-up Effects Artists         GREG FUNK
+                                        WILL HUFF
+                                        FIONAGH CUSH
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MARK GARBARINO
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        JOHN WARNER
+        Best Boy Electric               DAVID H. NEALE
+        Company Grip                    JAMES B. IRONS
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      ROSEMARIE UNITE
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      GEOFF BREWIS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            MICHAEL MOSER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                JOHN CAGGIANO
+
+        Post Production Supervisor      SUSAN NORKIN
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editors               JASON NETTER
+                                        JOHN BURRUS
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Associate            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                      The Sound of Pictures
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 318
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/063.Grey-17-Is-Missing b/ftp/Credits/063.Grey-17-Is-Missing
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..49f9289f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/063.Grey-17-Is-Missing
@@ -0,0 +1,190 @@
+                                                     presented in
+                                                  DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               With
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+                               And
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                       "GREY 17 IS MISSING"
+
+                        Special Guest Star
+ROBERT ENGLUND                  as      Jeremiah
+
+KATHERINE MOFFAT                as      Supervisor
+EAMONN ROCHE                    as      First Man
+JOHN VICKERY                    as      Neroon
+TIME WINTERS                    as      Rathenn
+
+        Edited by                       SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     JOHN C. FLINN, III
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+THOM BARRY                      as      Maintenance Worker
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          RONNIE CHONG
+        2nd Assistant Director          DAVID McWHIRTER
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+     On Set Visual Effects Supervisor   TED RAE
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+        Senior Computer Animators       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Composite 2D Animator           SHERRY HITCH
+        System Engineer                 STEVE PUGH
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Make-up Effects Artists         GREG FUNK
+                                        WILL HUFF
+                                        FIONAGH CUSH
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MARK GARBARINO
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        JOHN WARNER
+        Best Boy Electric               DAVID H. NEALE
+        Best Boy Grip                   BRUCE CAROTHERS
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      ROSEMARIE UNITE
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      GEOFF BREWIS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            MICHAEL MOSER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                JOHN CAGGIANO
+
+        Post Production Supervisor      SUSAN NORKIN
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editors               JASON NETTER
+                                        JOHN BURRUS
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Associate            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                      The Sound of Pictures
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 319
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/064.And-the-Rock-Cried-Out b/ftp/Credits/064.And-the-Rock-Cried-Out
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c31684a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/064.And-the-Rock-Cried-Out
@@ -0,0 +1,196 @@
+                                                     presented in
+                                                  DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               With
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+                               And
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                 "AND THE ROCK CRIED OUT, NO HIDING PLACE"
+
+
+                          Guest Starring
+ERICK AVARI                     as      Rabbi Leo Mayers
+WILLIAM FORWARD                 as      Lord Refa
+LOUIS TURENNE                   as      Brother Theo
+MEL WINKLER                     as      Reverend Will Dexter
+
+        Edited by                       SKIP ROBINSON
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     DAVID J. EAGLE
+
+[end credits]
+
+                        Z Minus 10 Days        
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Co-Starring
+FRANCOIS GIRODAY                as      Virini
+PAUL KEITH                      as      Drigo
+
+                            Featuring
+WAYNE ALEXANDER                 as      G'Dan
+MARVA HICKS                     as      Singer
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          RONNIE CHONG
+        2nd Assistant Director          DAVID McWHIRTER
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+     On Set Visual Effects Supervisor   TED RAE
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+        Senior Computer Animators       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Composite 2D Animator           SHERRY HITCH
+        System Engineer                 STEVE PUGH
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Make-up Effects Artists         GREG FUNK
+                                        WILL HUFF
+                                        FIONAGH CUSH
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MARK GARBARINO
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        JOHN WARNER
+        Best Boy Electric               DAVID H. NEALE
+        Best Boy Grip                   BRUCE CAROTHERS
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      ROSEMARIE UNITE
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      GEOFF BREWIS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            MICHAEL MOSER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                JOHN CAGGIANO
+
+        Post Production Supervisor      SUSAN NORKIN
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editors               JASON NETTER
+                                        JOHN BURRUS
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Associate            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                      The Sound of Pictures
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 320
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/065.Shadow-Dancing b/ftp/Credits/065.Shadow-Dancing
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/065.Shadow-Dancing
@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+                                                     presented in
+                                                  DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               With
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+                               And
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                         "SHADOW DANCING"
+
+
+                          Guest Starring
+SHIRLEY PRESTIA                 as      Barbara
+
+                        Special Guest Star
+MELISSA GILBERT                 as      Anna
+
+        Edited by                       DAVID W. FOSTER
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     KIM FRIEDMAN
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Co-Starring
+JOHN GRANTHAM                           Thug #2
+J. GORDON NOICE                         Man
+
+                            Featuring
+JONATHAN CHAPMAN                        Brakiri
+JOSHUA COX                              Lt. Corwin
+MARK HENDRICKSON                        Drazi Ambassador
+NICHOLAS ROSS OLESON                    Thug #1
+DOUG COX                                Husband
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          RONNIE CHONG
+        2nd Assistant Director          DAVID McWHIRTER
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+     On Set Visual Effects Supervisor   TED RAE
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+        Senior Computer Animators       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Composite 2D Animator           SHERRY HITCH
+        System Engineer                 STEVE PUGH
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Make-up Effects Artists         GREG FUNK
+                                        WILL HUFF
+                                        FIONAGH CUSH
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MARK GARBARINO
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        JOHN WARNER
+        Best Boy Electric               DAVID H. NEALE
+        Dolly Grip                      TOMMY FLANAGAN
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      ROSEMARIE UNITE
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      GEOFF BREWIS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            MICHAEL MOSER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                JOHN CAGGIANO
+
+        Post Production Supervisor      SUSAN NORKIN
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editors               JASON NETTER
+                                        JOHN BURRUS
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Associate            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                      The Sound of Pictures
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 321
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/066.Z-ha-dum b/ftp/Credits/066.Z-ha-dum
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6e12452c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/066.Z-ha-dum
@@ -0,0 +1,192 @@
+                                                     presented in
+                                                  DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+
+                               With
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo
+
+                               And
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                            "Z'HA'DUM"
+
+
+                          Guest Starring
+JEFF COREY                      as      Justin
+RON CAMPBELL                    as      Messenger
+ED WASSER                       as      Morden
+
+                        Special Guest Star
+MELISSA GILBERT                 as      Anna Sheridan
+
+        Edited by                       SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     ADAM NIMOY
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              GEORGE JOHNSEN
+
+                            Featuring
+ARDWRIGHT CHAMBERLAIN                   Kosh
+JOSHUA COX                              Lt. Corwin
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                          SYMPHONIC FILM
+                                            ORCHESTRA
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+        2nd Assistant Director          DAVID McWHIRTER
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Designed by      RON THORNTON
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      FOUNDATION IMAGING
+        Computer Imaging Supervisor     PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT
+     On Set Visual Effects Supervisor   TED RAE
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+
+        Senior Computer Animators       ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ
+                                        JOHN TESKA
+        Composite 2D Animator           SHERRY HITCH
+        System Engineer                 STEVE PUGH
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        Make-up Effects Artists         GREG FUNK
+                                        WILL HUFF
+                                        FIONAGH CUSH
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MARK GARBARINO
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ
+        Set Decorator                   ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN
+        Property Master                 MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 TRACI SMITHE
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        JOHN WARNER
+        Best Boy Electric               DAVID H. NEALE
+        Company Grip                    JAMES B. IRONS
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      ROSEMARIE UNITE
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      GEOFF BREWIS
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  PAUL MENICHINI
+        Sound Effects Editor            MICHAEL MOSER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                JOHN CAGGIANO
+
+        Post Production Supervisor      SUSAN NORKIN
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editors               JASON NETTER
+                                        JOHN BURRUS
+
+        Production Coordinator          CHRIS O'CONNOR
+        Script Supervisor               HALEY McLANE
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+    Executive Producers' Assistants     TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Associate            E.J. KAVOUNAS
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                      The Sound of Pictures
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 322
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/067.The-Hour-of-the-Wolf b/ftp/Credits/067.The-Hour-of-the-Wolf
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/ftp/Credits/067.The-Hour-of-the-Wolf
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+                                                           presented in
+                                                        DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir Cotto
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+PATRICIA TALLMAN                as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+                               And
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo Mollari
+
+ 
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                     "THE HOUR OF THE WOLF"
+
+
+                          Guest Starring
+ED WASSER                       as      Morden
+WORTHAM KRIMMER                 as      Emperor Cartagia
+WAYNE ALEXANDER                 as      Lorien
+DAMIAN LONDON                   as      Minister
+
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Edited by                       SUZANNE STERNLICHT
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Co-Producer                     GEORGE JOHNSEN
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     DAVID J. EAGLE
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              SUSAN NORKIN
+
+                            Featuring
+ARDWRIGHT CHAMBERLAIN                   Kosh
+MARK HENDRICKSON                  Drazi Ambassador
+RICK RYAN                 Brakiri Ambassador
+
+
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+        2nd Assistant Director          DAVID McWHIRTER
+
+        Digital Casting by              MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                        SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       TONY DOW
+
+        C6 Design and Animation Team    SHANT JORDAN
+                                        GEOFFREY MARK
+                                        JEFF MONTRAY
+                                        PATRICK PEREZ
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+        Compositor                      BRIAN E.BATTLES
+
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        SpecialMake-up Effects Artists  GABE LOZANO
+                                        LIZ DEAN
+                                        ROB SHERWOOD
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MIKE MEASIMER
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Set Decorator                   JASON HOWARD
+        Property Master                 DARK HOFFMAN
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+        Scenic Artist                   MATTHEW PLUMMER 
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 BARBARA WILDER PEARLMAN
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        ROBERT D.BLAIR
+        Best Boy Electric               NATHANIAL ROBERTS
+        Dolly Grip                      CHARLES S.LANTZ, JR.
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      ROSEMARIE UNITE
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      PAUL SOKOL
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  HARRY COHEN
+        Sound Effects Editor            JEFF WITCHER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                GORDON D.HOOKAILO
+
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editors               JOHN BURRUS
+
+        Production Coordinator          HEIDI ERL
+        Script Supervisor               KEN GILBERT
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+        Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Associate            JEFFREY WILLBERTH
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                      The Sound of Pictures
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 401
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/068.Whatever-Happened-to-Mr-Garibaldi b/ftp/Credits/068.Whatever-Happened-to-Mr-Garibaldi
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index 00000000..24d081a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/068.Whatever-Happened-to-Mr-Garibaldi
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+                                                           presented in
+                                                        DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir Cotto
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+PATRICIA TALLMAN                as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+                               And
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo Mollari
+
+ 
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                 "WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MR. GARIBALDI"
+
+
+                          Guest Starring
+
+WAYNE ALEXANDER                 as      Lorien
+LENNY CITRANO                   as      Isaac
+ANTHONA DeLONGIS                as      Harry
+WORTHAM KRIMMER                 as      Emperor Cartagia
+DAMIAN LONDON                   as      Minister
+
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Edited by                       DAVID W. FOSTER
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Co-Producer                     GEORGE JOHNSEN
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     KEVIN JAMES DOBSON
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              SUSAN NORKIN
+
+                            Featuring
+ARDWRIGHT CHAMBERLAIN                   Kosh
+RICK SCARRY                             Centauri
+
+
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          DOUGLAS E. WISE
+        2nd Assistant Director          DAVID McWHIRTER
+
+        Digital Casting by              MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                        SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       TONY DOW
+
+        C6 Design and Animation Team    SHANT JORDAN
+                                        GEOFFREY MARK
+                                        JEFF MONTRAY
+                                        PATRICK PEREZ
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+        Compositor                      BRIAN E.BATTLES
+
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        SpecialMake-up Effects Artists  GABE LOZANO
+                                        LIZ DEAN
+                                        ROB SHERWOOD
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MIKE MEASIMER
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Set Decorator                   JASON HOWARD
+        Property Master                 DARK HOFFMAN
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+        Scenic Artist                   MATTHEW PLUMMER 
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 BARBARA WILDER PEARLMAN
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        ROBERT D.BLAIR
+        Best Boy Electric               NATHANIAL ROBERTS
+        Dolly Grip                      CHARLES S.LANTZ, JR.
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      ROSEMARIE UNITE
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      PAUL SOKOL
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  HARRY COHEN
+        Sound Effects Editor            JEFF WITCHER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                GORDON D.HOOKAILO
+
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editors               JASON NETTER
+
+        Production Coordinator          HEIDI ERL
+        Script Supervisor               KEN GILBERT
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+        Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Associate            JEFFREY WILLBERTH
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                      The Sound of Pictures
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 402
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/069.The-Summoning b/ftp/Credits/069.The-Summoning
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--- /dev/null
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+                                                           presented in
+                                                        DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir Cotto
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+PATRICIA TALLMAN                as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+                               And
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo Mollari
+
+ 
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                          "The Summoning"
+
+
+                          Guest Starring
+
+WAYNE ALEXANDER                 as      Lorien
+WORTHAM KRIMMER                 as      Emperor Cartagia
+
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Edited by                       SKIP ROBINSON
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Co-Producer                     GEORGE JOHNSEN
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     JOHN McPHERSON
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              SUSAN NORKIN
+
+                            Featuring
+KRIS IYER                               Dome Tech
+ERIC ZIVDT                              Verano
+RON CAMPBELL                            Ambassador # 1
+ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN                    Kosh
+JONATHAN CHAPMAN                        Ambassador Lethke
+WILLIAM SCUDDER                         Ambassador # 2
+
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          PAMELA EILERSON
+        2nd Assistant Director          DAVID McWHIRTER
+
+        Digital Casting by              MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                        SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       TONY DOW
+
+        C6 Design and Animation Team    SHANT JORDAN
+                                        GEOFFREY MARK
+                                        JEFF MONTRAY
+                                        PATRICK PEREZ
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+        Compositor                      BRIAN E.BATTLES
+
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        SpecialMake-up Effects Artists  GABE LOZANO
+                                        LIZ DEAN
+                                        ROB SHERWOOD
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MIKE MEASIMER
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Set Decorator                   JASON HOWARD
+        Property Master                 DARK HOFFMAN
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+        Scenic Artist                   MATTHEW PLUMMER 
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 BARBARA WILDER PEARLMAN
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        ROBERT D.BLAIR
+        Best Boy Electric               NATHANIAL ROBERTS
+        Dolly Grip                      CHARLES S.LANTZ, JR.
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      ROSEMARIE UNITE
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      PAUL SOKOL
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  HARRY COHEN
+        Sound Effects Editor            JEFF WITCHER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                GORDON D.HOOKAILO
+
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editors               JOHN BURRUS
+
+        Production Coordinator          HEIDI ERL
+        Script Supervisor               KEN GILBERT
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+        Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Associate            JEFFREY WILLBERTH
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                      The Sound of Pictures
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 403
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/070.Falling-Toward-Apotheosis b/ftp/Credits/070.Falling-Toward-Apotheosis
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0f712437
--- /dev/null
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+                                                           presented in
+                                                        DD SURROUND(TM)
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+BRUCE BOXLEITNER                as      Captain John Sheridan
+CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+JERRY DOYLE                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+MIRA FURLAN                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+RICHARD BIGGS                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+BILL MUMY                       as      Lennier
+JASON CARTER                    as      Marcus Cole
+STEPHEN FURST                   as      Vir Cotto
+JEFF CONAWAY                    as      Zack Allan
+PATRICIA TALLMAN                as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+ANDREAS KATSULAS                as      G'Kar
+                               And
+PETER JURASIK                   as      Londo Mollari
+
+ 
+
+        Created by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[production credits]
+
+                    "Falling Toward Apotheosis"
+
+
+                          Guest Starring
+
+WAYNE ALEXANDER                 as      Lorien
+WORTHAM KRIMMER                 as      Emperor Cartagia
+ED WASSER                       as      Morden
+
+
+        Music by                        CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+        Edited by                       SUZANNE STERNLIGHT
+        Production Designer             JOHN IACOVELLI
+        Director of Photography         JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           HARLAN ELLISON
+        Co-Producer                     GEORGE JOHNSEN
+        Produced by                     JOHN COPELAND
+        Written by                      J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+        Directed by                     DAVID J. EAGLE
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              DOUGLAS NETTER
+        Executive Producer              J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              SUSAN NORKIN
+
+                            Featuring
+TOM BILLET                              Guard
+TERRY CAIN                              Young Woman
+ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN                    Kosh
+KHIN-KYAW MAUNG                         Worker
+
+
+        Unit Production Manager         SKIP BEAUDINE
+        1st Assistant Director          DOUGLAS E. WISE
+        2nd Assistant Director          DAVID McWHIRTER
+
+        Digital Casting by              MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A.
+
+        Casting by                      FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A.
+                                                  and
+                                        MARK PALADINI, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                                               AND
+                                            THE BERLIN
+                                        SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
+
+        Costume Designer                ANN BRUICE ALING
+
+        Visual Effects Supervisor       TONY DOW
+
+        C6 Design and Animation Team    SHANT JORDAN
+                                        GEOFFREY MARK
+                                        JEFF MONTRAY
+                                        PATRICK PEREZ
+        Matte Artist                    ERIC CHAUVIN
+        Compositor                      BRIAN E.BATTLES
+
+
+    Series Make-up Effects Created by   OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                                        JOHN VULICH
+
+        SpecialMake-up Effects Artists  GABE LOZANO
+                                        LIZ DEAN
+                                        ROB SHERWOOD
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      MIKE MEASIMER
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        JOHN WHEATON
+
+        Art Director                    MARK-LOUIS WALTERS
+        Set Decorator                   JASON HOWARD
+        Property Master                 DARK HOFFMAN
+        Graphic Artist                  ALAN KOBAYASHI
+        Construction Coordinator        CURTIS LASETER
+        Scenic Artist                   MATTHEW PLUMMER 
+
+        Costume Supervisor              KIM M. HOLLY
+        Key Costumer                    LINDA HUSE
+        Key Make-up Artist              CINZIA ZANETTI
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        KIM M. FERRY
+        Key Hairstylist                 BARBARA WILDER PEARLMAN
+
+        Camera Operator                 PETER B. KOWALSKI
+        1st Assistant Camera            WALLY SWEETERMAN
+        Gaffer                          "THE" JOHN SMITH
+        Key Grip                        ROBERT D.BLAIR
+        Best Boy Electric               NATHANIAL ROBERTS
+        Dolly Grip                      CHARLES S.LANTZ, JR.
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      ROSEMARIE UNITE
+        Special Effects by              ULTIMATE EFFECTS
+        Special Effects Supervisor      PAUL SOKOL
+        Stunt Coordinator               KERRY ROSSALL
+
+        Sound Mixer                     LINDA COFFEY
+        Sound Designer                  HARRY COHEN
+        Sound Effects Editor            JEFF WITCHER
+        Re-recording Mixers             TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S.
+                                        KEITH ROGERS
+        Sound Supervisor                GORDON D.HOOKAILO
+
+        First Assistant Editor          KATHIE BURR
+        Assistant Editors               JASON NETTER
+
+        Production Coordinator          HEIDI ERL
+        Script Supervisor               KEN GILBERT
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD.
+        Production Accountant           MIKE HOOVER
+
+        Script Coordinator              CAROL HENRY
+        Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA
+                                        JOANNE HIGGINS
+        Producer's Associate            JEFFREY WILLBERTH
+        Special Effect
+            Contact Lens Consultant     JONATHAN GORDING, O.D.
+
+            Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+                         Lightwave 3D(R)
+                     Furnished by NewTek, Inc.
+
+                             Color by
+                    PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES
+                   Electronic Laboratories(TM)
+                          LASER-PACIFIC
+                        MEDIA CORPORATION
+
+                 Digital Sound & Re-Recording by
+                         ///// ///// ////
+                        ///// ////   //
+                       ///// //    ////
+                      The Sound of Pictures
+
+                      DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM)
+
+              Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by
+                               (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+            This motion picture is protected under the
+               laws of the United States of America
+              and other countries.  Any unauthorized
+          duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition
+          or use may result in civil liability and / or
+                      criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 404
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/071.The-Long-Night b/ftp/Credits/071.The-Long-Night
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+                                                           presented in
+                                                         DD SURROUND TM
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+Bruce Boxleitner                as      Captain John Sheridan
+Claudia Christian               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+Jerry Doyle                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+Mira Furlan                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+Richard Biggs                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+Bill Mumy                       as      Lennier
+Jason Carter                    as      Marcus Cole
+Stephen Furst                   as      Vir Cotto
+Jeff Conaway                    as      Zack Allan
+Patricia Tallman                as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+Andreas Katsulas                as      G'Kar
+                               And
+Peter Jurasik                   as      Londo Mollari
+
+        Created by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[production credits]
+
+                       "The Long Night"
+
+                        Guest Starring
+Bryan Cranston                  as      Ericsson
+Wortham Krimmer                 as      Emperor Cartagia
+
+        Music by                        Christopher FrankE
+        Edited by                       David W. Foster
+        Production Designer             John Iacovelli
+        Director of Photography         John Flinn, III A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           Harlan EllisoN
+        Co-Producer                     George Johnsen
+        Produced by                     John Copeland
+        Written by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+        Directed by                     John Lafia
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              Douglas Netter
+        Executive Producer              J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              Susan Norkin
+
+                         Co-Starring
+Mark Bramhall                           Centauri #2
+Ron Campbell                            Drazi Ambassador
+Carl Reggiardo                          Centauri #1
+Kim Strauss                             G'Lorn
+
+                          Featuring
+Tim Barron                              Humanoid
+William Scudder                         Jester
+
+        Unit Production Manager         Skip Beaudine
+        1st Assistant Director          Pamela Eilerson
+        2nd Assistant Director          David McWhirter
+
+        Original Casting by             Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+
+        Casting by                      Fern Champion, C.S.A.
+                                    and Mark Paladini, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              Christopher Franke
+                                    and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra
+
+        Costume Designer                Ann Bruice Aling
+
+        Supervising Animator            Patrick Perez
+        CG Design and Animation Team    Phillip Giles
+                                        Shant Jordan
+                                        Geoffrey Mark
+                                        Jeff Montray
+        Matte Artist                    Eric Chauvin
+        Compositor                      Brian E. Battles
+
+Series Make-up Effects Created by       John Vulich
+                                        Optic Nerve Studios
+
+        Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano
+                                        Liz Dean
+                                        Rob Sherwood
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      Mike Measimer
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        John Wheaton
+
+        Art Director                    Mark-Louis Walters
+        Set Decorator                   Jason Howard
+        Property Master                 Dark Hoffman
+        Graphic Artist                  Alan Kobayashi
+        Construction Coordinator        Curtis Laseter
+        Scenic Artist                   Matthew Plummer
+
+        Costume Supervisor              Kim M. Holly
+        Key Costumer                    Linda Huse
+        Key Make-up Artist              Cinzia Zanetti
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        Kim M. Ferry
+        Key Hairstylist                 Barbara Wilder Pearlman
+
+        Camera Operator                 Peter B. Kowalski
+        1st Assistant Camera            Wally Sweeterman
+        Gaffer                          "The" John Smith
+        Key Grip                        Robert D. Blair
+        Best Boy Electric               Nathanial Roberts
+        Dolly Grip                      Charles S. Lantz, Jr.
+
+        2nd 2nd  Assistant Director     Rosemarie Unite
+        Special Effects by              Ultimate Effects
+        Special Effects Supervisor      Dayton Osmond
+        Stunt Coordinator               Kerry Rossall
+                                        [Sic: ROSSALl]
+
+        Sound Mixer                     Linda Coffey
+        Sound Designer                  Harry Cohen
+        Sound Effects Editor            Jeff Whitcher
+        Re-recording Mixers             Terry O'Bright, C.A.S.
+                                        Keith Rogers
+        Sound Supervisor                Gordon D. Hookailo
+
+        First Assistant Editor          Kathie Burr
+        Assistant Editor                John Burrus
+
+        Production Coordinator          Heidi Erl
+        Script Supervisor               Ken Gilbert
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd.
+        Production Accountant           Mike Hoover
+
+        Script Coordinator              Carol Henry
+Executive Producers' Assistant [sic]    Tracie Esparza
+                                        Joanne Higgins
+        Producer's Associate            Jeffrey Willerth
+Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant  Jonathan Gording, O.D.
+
+        Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+        Lightwave 3D(R) Furnished by    NewTek, Inc.
+        Color by                        Pacific Film Laboratories
+                                        Electronic Laboratories TM
+                                        [logo] Laser-Pacific
+                                        [    ] Media Corporation
+        Digital Sound & Re-Recording by    ///// ///// ////
+                                          ///// ////   //
+                                         ///// //    ////
+                                        The Sound of Pictures
+                                        DD Dolby Surround TM
+        Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+      This motion picture is protected under the laws of
+      the United States of America and other countries.
+     Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution,
+       exhibition or use may result in civil liability
+                 and/or criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 405
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/072.Into-the-Fire b/ftp/Credits/072.Into-the-Fire
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+                                                           presented in
+                                                         DD SURROUND TM
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+Bruce Boxleitner                as      Captain John Sheridan
+Claudia Christian               as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+Jerry Doyle                     as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+Mira Furlan                     as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+Richard Biggs                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+Bill Mumy                       as      Lennier
+Jason Carter                    as      Marcus Cole
+Stephen Furst                   as      Vir Cotto
+Jeff Conaway                    as      Zack Allan
+Patricia Tallman                as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+Andreas Katsulas                as      G'Kar
+                               And
+Peter Jurasik                   as      Londo Mollari
+
+        Created by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[production credits]
+
+                       "Into the Fire"
+
+                        Guest Starring
+Wayne Alexander                 as      Lorien
+Julian Barnes                   as      Durano
+Damian London                   as      Minister
+Ed Wasser                       as      Morden
+
+        Music by                        Christopher Franke
+        Edited by                       Skip Robison
+        Production Designer             John Iacovelli
+        Director of Photography         Fred V. Murphy II
+        Conceptual Consultant           Harlan EllisoN
+        Co-Producer                     George Johnsen
+        Produced by                     John Copeland
+        Written by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+        Directed by                     Kevin James Dobson
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              Douglas Netter
+        Executive Producer              J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              Susan Norkin
+
+                        [Co-Starring]
+[Ardwight Chamberlain                   Kosh]
+
+        Unit Production Manager         Skip Beaudine
+        1st Assistant Director          Douglas E. Wise
+        2nd Assistant Director          David McWhirter
+
+        Original Casting by             Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+
+        Casting by                      Fern Champion, C.S.A.
+                                    and Mark Paladini, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              Christopher Franke
+                                    and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra
+
+        Costume Designer                Ann Bruice Aling
+
+        Senior Animators                Shant Jordan
+                                        Patrick Perez
+        CG Design & Animation Team      Phillip Giles
+                                        Andrew Hofman
+                                        Geoffrey Mark
+                                        Jeff Montray
+
+        Compositor                      Brian E. Battles
+        Matte Artist                    Eric Chauvin
+        Ship Design                     Luc Mayrand
+
+Series Make-up Effects Created by       John Vulich
+                                        Optic Nerve Studios
+
+        Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano
+                                        Manny Case
+                                        Jerry Gergely
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      Mike Measimer
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        John Wheaton
+
+        Art Director                    Mark-Louis Walters
+        Set Decorator                   Jason Howard
+        Property Master                 Dark Hoffman
+        Graphic Artist                  Alan Kobayashi
+        Construction Coordinator        Curtis Laseter
+        Scenic Artist                   Matthew Plummer
+
+        Costume Supervisor              Kim M. Holly
+        Key Costumer                    Linda Huse
+        Key Make-up Artist              Cinzia Zanetti
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        Kim M. Ferry
+        Key Hairstylist                 Barbara Wilder Pearlman
+
+        Camera Operator                 Peter B. Kowalski
+        1st Assistant Camera            Wally Sweeterman
+        Gaffer                          "The" John Smith
+        Key Grip                        Robert D. Blair
+        Best Boy Electric               Nathanial Roberts
+        Dolly Grip                      Charles S. Lantz, Jr.
+
+        2nd 2nd  Assistant Director     Rosemarie Unite
+        Special Effects by              Ultimate Effects
+        Special Effects Supervisor      Paul Sokol
+        Stunt Coordinator               Kerry Rossall
+
+        Sound Mixer                     Linda Coffey
+        Sound Designer                  Harry Cohen
+        Sound Effects Editor            Jeff Whitcher
+        Re-recording Mixers             Ken Teaney, C.A.S.
+                                        Keith Rogers
+        Sound Supervisor                Gordon D. Hookailo
+
+        First Assistant Editor          Kathie Burr
+        Assistant Editor                Jason Netter
+
+        Production Coordinator          Heidi Erl
+        Script Supervisor               Ken Gilbert
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd.
+        Production Accountant           Mike Hoover
+
+        Script Coordinator              Carol Henry
+Executive Producers' Assistant [sic]    Tracie Esparza
+                                        Joanne Higgins
+        Producer's Associate            Jeffrey Willerth
+Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant  Jonathan Gording, O.D.
+
+        Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+        Color by                        Pacific Film Laboratories
+                                        Electronic Laboratories TM
+                                        [logo] Laser-Pacific
+                                        [    ] Media Corporation
+        Digital Sound & Re-Recording by    ///// ///// ////
+                                          ///// ////   //
+                                         ///// //    ////
+                                        The Sound of Pictures
+                                        DD Dolby Surround TM
+        Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+      This motion picture is protected under the laws of
+      the United States of America and other countries.
+     Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution,
+       exhibition or use may result in civil liability
+                 and/or criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 406
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/073.Epiphanies b/ftp/Credits/073.Epiphanies
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+                                                         presented in
+                                                         DD SURROUND TM
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+Bruce Boxleitner              as      Captain John Sheridan
+Claudia Christian             as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+Jerry Doyle                   as      Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+Mira Furlan                   as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+Richard Biggs                 as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+Bill Mumy                     as      Lennier
+Jason Carter                  as      Marcus Cole
+Stephen Furst                 as      Vir Cotto
+Jeff Conaway                  as      Zack Allan
+Patricia Tallman              as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+Andreas Katsulas              as      G'Kar
+                             And
+Peter Jurasik                 as      Londo Mollari
+
+        Created by                    J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[production credits]
+
+                          "Epiphanies"
+
+                        Guest Starring
+Damian London                   as      Minister
+ 
+                      Special Guest Star
+Walter Koenig                   as      Bester
+
+        Music by                        Christopher Franke
+        Edited by                       Suzanne Sternlicht
+        Production Designer             John Iacovelli
+        Director of Photography         John C. Flinn III, A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           Harlan Ellison
+        Co-Producer                     George Johnsen
+        Produced by                     John Copeland
+        Written by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+        Directed by                     John C. Flinn III
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              Douglas Netter
+        Executive Producer              J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              Susan Norkin
+                        
+                        Co-Starring
+        Victor Ludlin                   Psi Corps Official
+        Robert Patteri                  EA Pilot
+        Lauren Sanchez                  News Anchor
+
+        Unit Production Manager         Skip Beaudine
+        1st Assistant Director          Pamela Eilerson
+        2nd Assistant Director          David McWhirter
+
+        Casting by                      Fern Champion, C.S.A.
+                                    and Mark Paladini, C.S.A.
+
+        Original Casting by             Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              Christopher Franke
+                                    and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra
+
+        Costume Designer                Ann Bruice Aling
+
+        Senior Animators                Shant Jordan
+                                        Patrick Perez
+        CG Design & Animation Team      Phillip Giles
+                                        Andrew Hofman
+                                        Geoffrey Mark
+                                        Jeff Montray
+
+        Matte Artist                    Eric Chauvin
+        Concept Designs                 Luc Mayrand
+                                        Timothy M. Earls
+
+Series Make-up Effects Created by       John Vulich
+                                        Optic Nerve Studios
+
+        Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano
+                                        Manny Case
+                                        Jerry Gergely
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      Mike Measimer
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        John Wheaton
+
+        Art Director                    Mark-Louis Walters
+        Set Decorator                   Jason Howard
+        Property Master                 Dark Hoffman
+        Graphic Artist                  Alan Kobayashi
+        Construction Coordinator        Curtis Laseter
+        Scenic Artist                   Matthew Plummer
+
+
+        Costume Supervisor              Kim M. Holly
+        Key Costumer                    Linda Huse
+        Key Make-up Artist              Cinzia Zanetti
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        Kim M. Ferry
+        Key Hairstylist                 Barbara Wilder Pearlman
+
+        Camera Operator                 Peter B. Kowalski
+        1st Assistant Camera            Wally Sweeterman
+        Gaffer                          "The" John Smith
+        Key Grip                        Robert D. Blair
+        Best Boy Electric               Nathanial Roberts
+        Dolly Grip                      Charles S. Lantz, Jr.
+
+        2nd 2nd  Assistant Director     Rosemarie Unite
+        Special Effects by              Ultimate Effects
+        Special Effects Supervisor      Dayton Osmond
+        Stunt Coordinator               Kerry Rossall
+
+        Sound Mixer                     Linda Coffey
+        Sound Designer                  Harry Cohen
+        Sound Effects Editor            Jeff Whitcher
+        Re-recording Mixers             Ken Teaney, C.A.S.
+                                        Keith Rogers
+        Sound Supervisor                Gordon D. Hookailo
+
+        First Assistant Editor          Kathie Burr
+        Assistant Editor                John Burrus
+
+        Production Coordinator          Heidi Erl
+        Script Supervisor               Ken Gilbert
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd.
+        Production Accountant           Mike Hoover
+
+        Script Coordinator              Carol Henry
+        Executive Producers' Assistant  Tracie Esparza
+                                        Joanne Higgins
+        Producer's Associate            Jeffrey Willerth
+Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant  Jonathan Gording, O.D.
+
+        Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+        Color by                        Pacific Film Laboratories
+                                        Electronic Laboratories TM
+                                        [logo] Laser-Pacific
+                                        [    ] Media Corporation
+        Digital Sound & Re-Recording by    ///// ///// ////
+                                          ///// ////   //
+                                         ///// //    ////
+                                        The Sound of Pictures
+                                        DD Dolby Surround TM
+        Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+      This motion picture is protected under the laws of
+      the United States of America and other countries.
+     Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution,
+       exhibition or use may result in civil liability
+                 and/or criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 407
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/076.Racing-Mars b/ftp/Credits/076.Racing-Mars
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--- /dev/null
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+                                                         presented in
+                                                         DD SURROUND TM
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+Bruce Boxleitner              as      Captain John Sheridan
+Claudia Christian             as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+Jerry Doyle                   as      Michael Garibaldi
+Mira Furlan                   as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+Richard Biggs                 as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+Bill Mumy                     as      Lennier
+Jason Carter                  as      Marcus Cole
+Stephen Furst                 as      Vir Cotto
+Jeff Conaway                  as      Security Chief Zack Allan
+Patricia Tallman              as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+Andreas Katsulas              as      G'Kar
+                             And
+Peter Jurasik                 as      Londo Mollari
+
+        Created by                    J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[production credits]
+
+                         "Racing Mars"
+
+                        Guest Starring
+Jeff Griggs                     as      Dan Randall
+Clayton Landey                  as      Number Two
+Marjorie Monaghan               as      Number One
+Mark Schneider                  as      Wade
+Donovan Scott                   as      Captain Jack
+
+        Music by                        Christopher Franke
+        Edited by                       Suzanne Sternlicht
+        Production Designer             John Iacovelli
+        Director of Photography         Fred V. Murphy II
+        Conceptual Consultant           Harlan Ellison
+        Co-Producer                     George Johnsen
+        Produced by                     John Copeland
+        Written by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+                                                   _
+        Directed by                     Jesus Trevino
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              Douglas Netter
+        Executive Producer              J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              Susan Norkin
+                        
+                        Co-Starring
+        Geoff Meed                      Smuggler #1
+                        Featuring
+        Carrie Dobro                    Brakiri
+        Timothy Starks                  Guard
+        Brian Tahash                    Smuggler #2
+
+        Unit Production Manager         Skip Beaudine
+        1st Assistant Director          Douglas E. Wise
+        2nd Assistant Director          David McWhirter
+
+        Casting by                      Fern Champion, C.S.A.
+                                    and Mark Paladini, C.S.A.
+
+        Original Casting by             Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              Christopher Franke
+                                    and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra
+
+        Costume Designer                Ann Bruice Aling
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      Netter Digital Animation
+
+        Senior Animators                Shant Jordan
+                                        Patrick Perez
+        CG Design & Animation Team      Phillip Giles
+                                        Andrew Hofman
+                                        Rich Jeffreys III
+                                        Geoffrey Mark
+                                        Jeff Montray
+
+        Compositors                     Phillip Giles
+                                        Ken Busick
+        Matte Artist                    Eric Chauvin
+        Concept Designs                 Luc Mayrand
+                                        Timothy M. Earls
+
+Series Make-up Effects Created by       John Vulich
+                                        Optic Nerve Studios
+
+        Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano
+                                        Manny Case
+                                        Jerry Gergely
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      Dean Mercil
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        John Wheaton
+
+        Art Director                    Mark-Louis Walters
+        Set Decorator                   Jason Howard
+        Property Master                 Dark Hoffman
+        Graphic Artist                  Alan Kobayashi
+        Construction Coordinator        Curtis Laseter
+        Scenic Artist                   Matthew Plummer
+
+
+        Costume Supervisor              Kim M. Holly
+        Key Costumer                    Linda Huse
+        Key Make-up Artist              Cinzia Zanetti
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        Kim M. Ferry
+        Key Hairstylist                 Barbara Wilder Pearlman
+
+        Camera Operator                 Peter B. Kowalski
+        1st Assistant Camera            Wally Sweeterman
+        Gaffer                          "The" John Smith
+        Key Grip                        Robert D. Blair
+        Best Boy Electric               Nathanial Roberts
+        Dolly Grip                      Charles S. Lantz, Jr.
+
+        2nd 2nd  Assistant Director     Alisa Matlovsky
+        Special Effects by              Ultimate Effects
+        Special Effects Supervisor      Dayton Osmond
+        Stunt Coordinator               Kerry Rossall
+
+        Sound Mixer                     Linda Coffey
+        Sound Designer                  Harry Cohen
+        Sound Effects Editor            Jeff Whitcher
+        Re-recording Mixers             Ken Teaney C.A.S.
+                                        Marshall Garlington
+        Sound Supervisor                Gordon D. Hookailo
+
+        First Assistant Editor          Kathie Burr
+        Assistant Editor                Jason Netter
+
+        Production Coordinator          Heidi Erl
+        Script Supervisor               Ken Gilbert
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd.
+        Production Accountant           Mike Hoover
+
+        Script Coordinator              Carol Henry
+        Executive Producers' Assistant  Tracie Esparza
+                                        Joanne Higgins
+        Producer's Associate            Jeffrey Willerth
+Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant  Jonathan Gording, O.D.
+
+        Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+        Color by                        Pacific Film Laboratories
+                                        Electronic Laboratories TM
+                                        [logo] Laser-Pacific
+                                        [    ] Media Corporation
+        Digital Sound & Re-Recording by    ///// ///// ////
+                                          ///// ////   //
+                                         ///// //    ////
+                                        The Sound of Pictures
+                                        DD Dolby Surround TM
+        Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+      This motion picture is protected under the laws of
+      the United States of America and other countries.
+     Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution,
+       exhibition or use may result in civil liability
+                 and/or criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 410
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/077.Lines-of-Communication b/ftp/Credits/077.Lines-of-Communication
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+                                                         presented in
+                                                         DD SURROUND TM
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+Bruce Boxleitner              as      Captain John Sheridan
+Claudia Christian             as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+Jerry Doyle                   as      Michael Garibaldi
+Mira Furlan                   as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+Richard Biggs                 as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+Bill Mumy                     as      Lennier
+Jason Carter                  as      Marcus Cole
+Stephen Furst                 as      Vir Cotto
+Jeff Conaway                  as      Security Chief Zack Allan
+Patricia Tallman              as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+Andreas Katsulas              as      G'Kar
+                             And
+Peter Jurasik                 as      Londo Mollari
+
+        Created by                    J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[production credits]
+
+                    "Lines of Communication"
+
+                        Guest Starring
+Marjorie Monaghan               as      Number One
+Paolo Seganti                   as      Phillipe
+G. W. Stevens                   as      Forell
+
+        Music by                        Christopher Franke
+        Edited by                       David W. Foster
+        Production Designer             John Iacovelli
+        Director of Photography         John C. Flynn III, A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           Harlan Ellison
+        Co-Producer                     George Johnsen
+        Produced by                     John Copeland
+        Written by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+        Directed by                     John C. Flynn III
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              Douglas Netter
+        Executive Producer              J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              Susan Norkin
+                        
+                        Featuring
+        Carolyn Barkin                  ISN Reporter
+        Jean-Luc Martin                 Emissary
+
+        Unit Production Manager         Skip Beaudine
+        1st Assistant Director          Pamela Eilerson
+        2nd Assistant Director          David McWhirter
+
+        Casting by                      Fern Champion, C.S.A.
+                                    and Mark Paladini, C.S.A.
+
+        Original Casting by             Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              Christopher Franke
+                                    and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra
+
+        Costume Designer                Ann Bruice Aling
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      Netter Digital Animation
+
+        Senior Animators                Shant Jordan
+                                        Patrick Perez
+        CG Design & Animation Team      Tom Helmers
+                                        Andrew Hofman
+                                        Rich Jeffreys III
+                                        Geoffrey Mark
+                                        Jeff Montray
+
+        Compositors                     Phillip Giles
+                                        Ken Busick
+        Matte Artist                    Eric Chauvin
+        Concept Designs                 Luc Mayrand
+                                        Timothy M. Earls
+
+Series Make-up Effects Created by       John Vulich
+                                        Optic Nerve Studios
+
+        Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano
+                                        Manny Case
+                                        Jerry Gergely
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      Dean Mercil
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        John Wheaton
+
+        Art Director                    Mark-Louis Walters
+        Set Decorator                   Jason Howard
+        Property Master                 Dark Hoffman
+        Graphic Artist                  Alan Kobayashi
+        Construction Coordinator        Curtis Laseter
+        Scenic Artist                   Matthew Plummer
+
+
+        Costume Supervisor              Kim M. Holly
+        Key Costumer                    Linda Huse
+        Key Make-up Artist              Cinzia Zanetti
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        Kim M. Ferry
+        Key Hairstylist                 Barbara Wilder Pearlman
+
+        Camera Operator                 Peter B. Kowalski
+        1st Assistant Camera            Wally Sweeterman
+        Gaffer                          "The" John Smith
+        Key Grip                        Robert D. Blair
+        Best Boy Electric               Nathanial Roberts
+        Dolly Grip                      Charles S. Lantz, Jr.
+
+        2nd 2nd  Assistant Director     Alisa Matlovsky
+        Special Effects by              Ultimate Effects
+        Special Effects Supervisor      Dayton Osmond
+        Stunt Coordinator               Kerry Rossall
+
+        Sound Mixer                     Linda Coffey
+        Sound Designer                  Harry Cohen
+        Sound Effects Editor            Jeff Whitcher
+        Re-recording Mixers             Larry Benjamin
+                                        Liz Sroka
+        Sound Supervisor                Gordon D. Hookailo
+
+        First Assistant Editor          Kathie Burr
+        Assistant Editor                John Burrus
+
+        Production Coordinator          Heidi Erl
+        Script Supervisor               Ken Gilbert
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd.
+        Production Accountant           Mike Hoover
+
+        Script Coordinator              Carol Henry
+        Executive Producers' Assistant  Tracie Esparza
+                                        Joanne Higgins
+        Producer's Associate            Jeffrey Willerth
+Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant  Jonathan Gording, O.D.
+
+        Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+        Color by                        Pacific Film Laboratories
+                                        Electronic Laboratories TM
+                                        [logo] Laser-Pacific
+                                        [    ] Media Corporation
+        Digital Sound & Re-Recording by    ///// ///// ////
+                                          ///// ////   //
+                                         ///// //    ////
+                                        The Sound of Pictures
+                                        DD Dolby Surround TM
+        Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+      This motion picture is protected under the laws of
+      the United States of America and other countries.
+     Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution,
+       exhibition or use may result in civil liability
+                 and/or criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 411
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/078.Conflicts-of-Interest b/ftp/Credits/078.Conflicts-of-Interest
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+                                                         presented in
+                                                         DD SURROUND TM
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+Bruce Boxleitner              as      Captain John Sheridan
+Claudia Christian             as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+Jerry Doyle                   as      Michael Garibaldi
+Mira Furlan                   as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+Richard Biggs                 as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+Bill Mumy                     as      Lennier
+Jason Carter                  as      Marcus Cole
+Stephen Furst                 as      Vir Cotto
+Jeff Conaway                  as      Security Chief Zack Allan
+Patricia Tallman              as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+Andreas Katsulas              as      G'Kar
+                             And
+Peter Jurasik                 as      Londo Mollari
+
+        Created by                    J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[production credits]
+
+                   "Conflicts of Interest"
+
+                        Guest Starring
+Tim Choate                      as      Zathras
+Denise Gentile                  as      Lise Hampton
+Mark Schneider                  as      Wade
+Charles Walker                  as      Ben
+
+        Music by                        Christopher Franke
+        Edited by                       Skip Robinson
+        Production Designer             John Iacovelli
+        Director of Photography         John C. Flynn III, A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           Harlan Ellison
+        Co-Producer                     George Johnsen
+        Produced by                     John Copeland
+        Written by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+        Directed by                     David J. Eagle
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              Douglas Netter
+        Executive Producer              J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              Susan Norkin
+                        
+                        Co-Starring
+        Richard S. Horvitz              Mark
+
+                        Featuring
+        William John Murphy             Man #1
+        Ebony Monique Solomon           Young Woman
+        Wiley Pickett                   Man #2
+
+        Unit Production Manager         Skip Beaudine
+        1st Assistant Director          Douglas E. Wise
+        2nd Assistant Director          David McWhirter
+
+        Casting by                      Fern Champion, C.S.A.
+                                    and Mark Paladini, C.S.A.
+
+        Original Casting by             Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              Christopher Franke
+                                    and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra
+
+        Costume Designer                Ann Bruice Aling
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      Netter Digital Animation
+
+        Senior Animators                Shant Jordan
+                                        Patrick Perez
+        CG Design & Animation Team      Phillip Giles
+                                        Andrew Hofman
+                                        Rich Jeffreys III
+                                        Geoffrey Mark
+                                        Jeff Montray
+
+        Matte Artist                    Eric Chauvin
+        Concept Designs                 Luc Mayrand
+                                        Timothy M. Earls
+
+Series Make-up Effects Created by       John Vulich
+                                        Optic Nerve Studios
+
+        Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano
+                                        Manny Case
+                                        Jerry Gergely
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      Dean Mercil
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        John Wheaton
+
+        Art Director                    Mark-Louis Walters
+        Set Decorator                   Jason Howard
+        Property Master                 Dark Hoffman
+        Graphic Artist                  Alan Kobayashi
+        Construction Coordinator        Curtis Laseter
+        Scenic Artist                   Matthew Plummer
+
+
+        Costume Supervisor              Kim M. Holly
+        Key Costumer                    Linda Huse
+        Key Make-up Artist              Cinzia Zanetti
+        Assistant Hair & Make-up        Kim M. Ferry
+        Key Hairstylist                 Barbara Wilder Pearlman
+
+        Camera Operator                 Peter B. Kowalski
+        1st Assistant Camera            Wally Sweeterman
+        Gaffer                          "The" John Smith
+        Key Grip                        Robert D. Blair
+        Best Boy Electric               Nathanial Roberts
+        Dolly Grip                      Charles S. Lantz, Jr.
+
+        2nd 2nd  Assistant Director     Alisa Matlovsky
+        Special Effects by              Ultimate Effects
+        Special Effects Supervisor      Dayton Osmond
+        Stunt Coordinator               Kerry Rossall
+
+        Sound Mixer                     Linda Coffey
+        Sound Designer                  Harry Cohen
+        Sound Effects Editor            Jeff Whitcher
+        Re-recording Mixers             Larry Benjamin
+                                        Liz Sroka
+        Sound Supervisor                Gordon D. Hookailo
+
+        First Assistant Editor          Kathie Burr
+        Assistant Editor                Jason Netter
+
+        Production Coordinator          Heidi Erl
+        Script Supervisor               Ken Gilbert
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd.
+        Production Accountant           Mike Hoover
+
+        Script Coordinator              Carol Henry
+        Executive Producers' Assistant  Tracie Esparza
+                                        Joanne Higgins
+        Producer's Associate            Jeffrey Willerth
+Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant  Jonathan Gording, O.D.
+
+        Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+        Color by                        Pacific Film Laboratories
+                                        Electronic Laboratories TM
+                                        [logo] Laser-Pacific
+                                        [    ] Media Corporation
+        Digital Sound & Re-Recording by    ///// ///// ////
+                                          ///// ////   //
+                                         ///// //    ////
+                                        The Sound of Pictures
+                                        DD Dolby Surround TM
+        Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+      This motion picture is protected under the laws of
+      the United States of America and other countries.
+     Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution,
+       exhibition or use may result in civil liability
+                 and/or criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 412
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/079.Rumors-Bargains-and-Lies b/ftp/Credits/079.Rumors-Bargains-and-Lies
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+                                                         presented in
+                                                         DD SURROUND TM
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+Bruce Boxleitner              as      Captain John Sheridan
+Claudia Christian             as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+Jerry Doyle                   as      Michael Garibaldi
+Mira Furlan                   as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+Richard Biggs                 as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+Bill Mumy                     as      Lennier
+Jason Carter                  as      Marcus Cole
+Stephen Furst                 as      Vir Cotto
+Jeff Conaway                  as      Security Chief Zack Allan
+Patricia Tallman              as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+Andreas Katsulas              as      G'Kar
+                             And
+Peter Jurasik                 as      Londo Mollari
+
+        Created by                    J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[production credits]
+
+                    "Rumors, Bargains and Lies"
+
+                        Guest Starring
+Ron Campbell                    as      Drazi Ambassador
+Chard Haywood                   as      Religious #2
+Guy Siner                       as      Religious #1
+John Vickery                    as      Neroon
+
+        Music by                        Christopher Franke
+        Edited by                       Suzanne Sternlicht
+        Production Designer             John Iacovelli
+        Director of Photography         John C. Flynn III, A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           Harlan Ellison
+        Co-Producer                     George Johnsen
+        Produced by                     John Copeland
+        Written by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+        Directed by                     Mike Vejar
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              Douglas Netter
+        Executive Producer              J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              Susan Norkin
+                        
+                        Co-Starring
+        Jonathan Chapman                Brakiri Ambassador
+
+        Unit Production Manager         Skip Beaudine
+        1st Assistant Director          Pamela Eilerson
+        2nd Assistant Director          David McWhirter
+
+        Casting by                      Fern Champion, C.S.A.
+                                    and Mark Paladini, C.S.A.
+
+        Original Casting by             Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              Christopher Franke
+                                    and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra
+
+        Costume Designer                Ann Bruice Aling
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      Netter Digital Animation
+
+        Senior Animators                Shant Jordan
+                                        Patrick Perez
+        CG Design & Animation Team      Tom Helmers
+                                        Andrew Hofman
+                                        Rich Jeffreys III
+                                        Geoffrey Mark
+                                        Jeff Montray
+
+        Compositors                     Phillip Giles
+                                        Ken Busick
+        Matte Artist                    Eric Chauvin
+        Concept Designs                 Luc Mayrand
+                                        Timothy M. Earls
+
+Series Make-up Effects Created by       John Vulich
+                                        Optic Nerve Studios
+
+        Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano
+                                        Manny Case
+                                        Jerry Gergely
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      Dean Mercil
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        John Wheaton
+
+        Art Director                    Mark-Louis Walters
+        Set Decorator                   Jason Howard
+        Property Master                 Dark Hoffman
+        Graphic Artist                  Alan Kobayashi
+        Construction Coordinator        Curtis Laseter
+        Scenic Artist                   Matthew Plummer
+
+
+        Costume Supervisor              Kim M. Holly
+        Key Costumer                    Linda Huse
+        Key Make-up Artist              Cinzia Zanetti
+        Hair & Make-up                  Kim M. Ferry
+        Key Hairstylist                 Barbara Wilder Pearlman
+
+        Camera Operator                 Peter B. Kowalski
+        1st Assistant Camera            Wally Sweeterman
+        Gaffer                          "The" John Smith
+        Key Grip                        Robert D. Blair
+        Best Boy Electric               Nathanial Roberts
+        Dolly Grip                      Charles S. Lantz, Jr.
+
+        2nd 2nd  Assistant Director     Alisa Matlovsky
+        Special Effects by              Ultimate Effects
+        Special Effects Supervisor      Dayton Osmond
+        Stunt Coordinator               Kerry Rossall
+
+        Sound Mixer                     Linda Coffey, C.A.S.
+        Sound Designer                  Harry Cohen
+        Sound Effects Editor            Jeff Whitcher
+        Re-recording Mixers             Liz Sroka
+                                        Keith Rogers
+        Sound Supervisor                Gordon D. Hookailo
+
+        First Assistant Editor          Kathie Burr
+        Assistant Editor                John Burrus
+
+        Production Coordinator          Heidi Erl
+        Script Supervisor               Ken Gilbert
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd.
+        Production Accountant           Mike Hoover
+
+        Script Coordinator              Carol Henry
+Executive Producers' Assistant [sic]    Tracie Esparza
+                                        Joanne Higgins
+        Producer's Associate            Jeffrey Willerth
+Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant  Jonathan Gording, O.D.
+
+        Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+        Color by                        Pacific Film Laboratories
+                                        Electronic Laboratories TM
+                                        [logo] Laser-Pacific
+                                        [    ] Media Corporation
+        Digital Sound & Re-Recording by    ///// ///// ////
+                                          ///// ////   //
+                                         ///// //    ////
+                                        The Sound of Pictures
+                                        DD Dolby Surround TM
+        Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+      This motion picture is protected under the laws of
+      the United States of America and other countries.
+     Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution,
+       exhibition or use may result in civil liability
+                 and/or criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 413
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/080.Moments-of-Transition b/ftp/Credits/080.Moments-of-Transition
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+                                                         presented in
+                                                         DD SURROUND TM
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+Bruce Boxleitner              as      Captain John Sheridan
+Claudia Christian             as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+Jerry Doyle                   as      Michael Garibaldi
+Mira Furlan                   as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+Richard Biggs                 as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+Bill Mumy                     as      Lennier
+Jason Carter                  as      Marcus Cole
+Stephen Furst                 as      Vir Cotto
+Jeff Conaway                  as      Security Chief Zack Allan
+Patricia Tallman              as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+Andreas Katsulas              as      G'Kar
+                             And
+Peter Jurasik                 as      Londo Mollari
+
+        Created by                    J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[production credits]
+
+                    "Moments of Transition"
+
+                        Guest Starring
+Bart McCarthy                   as      Shakiri
+John Vickery                    as      Neroon
+
+                       Special Guest Star
+Walter Koenig                   as      Bester
+
+        Music by                        Christopher Franke
+        Edited by                       David W. Foster
+        Production Designer             John Iacovelli
+        Director of Photography         John C. Flynn III, A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           Harlan Ellison
+        Co-Producer                     George Johnsen
+        Produced by                     John Copeland
+        Written by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+        Directed by                     Tony Dow
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              Douglas Netter
+        Executive Producer              J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              Susan Norkin
+                        
+                        Co-Starring
+        Christy Noonan                  Bussinesswoman
+
+                          Featuring
+        Scott Adams                     Mr. Adams
+        Carl J. Pfeifer                 Guard
+
+        Unit Production Manager         Skip Beaudine
+        1st Assistant Director          Douglas E. Wise
+        2nd Assistant Director          David McWhirter
+
+        Casting by                      Fern Champion, C.S.A.
+                                    and Mark Paladini, C.S.A.
+
+        Original Casting by             Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              Christopher Franke
+                                    and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra
+
+        Costume Designer                Ann Bruice Aling
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      Netter Digital Animation
+
+        Senior Animators                Shant Jordan
+                                        Patrick Perez
+        CG Design & Animation Team      Tom Helmers
+                                        Andrew Hofman
+                                        Rich Jeffreys III
+                                        Gary Lavarack
+                                        Geoffrey Mark
+                                        Jeff Montray
+
+        Compositors                     Phillip Giles
+                                        Ken Busick
+        Matte Artist                    Eric Chauvin
+        Concept Designs                 Luc Mayrand
+                                        Timothy M. Earls
+
+Series Make-up Effects Created by       John Vulich
+                                        Optic Nerve Studios
+
+        Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano
+                                        Manny Case
+                                        Jerry Gergely
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      Dean Mercil
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        John Wheaton
+
+        Art Director                    Mark-Louis Walters
+        Set Decorator                   Jason Howard
+        Property Master                 Dark Hoffman
+        Graphic Artist                  Alan Kobayashi
+        Construction Coordinator        Curtis Laseter
+        Scenic Artist                   Matthew Plummer
+
+
+        Costume Supervisor              Kim M. Holly
+        Key Costumer                    Linda Huse
+        Key Make-up Artist              Cinzia Zanetti
+        Hair & Make-up                  Kim M. Ferry
+        Key Hairstylist                 Barbara Wilder Pearlman
+
+        Camera Operator                 Peter B. Kowalski
+        1st Assistant Camera            Wally Sweeterman
+        Gaffer                          "The" John Smith
+        Key Grip                        Robert D. Blair
+        Best Boy Electric               Nathanial Roberts
+        Dolly Grip                      Charles S. Lantz, Jr.
+
+        2nd 2nd  Assistant Director     Alisa Matlovsky
+        Special Effects by              Ultimate Effects
+        Special Effects Supervisor      Dayton Osmond
+        Stunt Coordinator               Kerry Rossall
+
+        Sound Mixer                     Linda Coffey, C.A.S.
+        Sound Designer                  Harry Cohen
+        Sound Effects Editor            Jeff Whitcher
+        Re-recording Mixers             Larry Benjamin
+                                        Liz Sroka
+        Sound Supervisor                Gordon D. Hookailo
+
+        First Assistant Editor          Kathie Burr
+        Assistant Editor                Jason Netter
+
+        Production Coordinator          Heidi Erl
+        Script Supervisor               Ken Gilbert
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd.
+        Production Accountant           Mike Hoover
+
+        Script Coordinator              Carol Henry
+Executive Producers' Assistant [sic]    Tracie Esparza
+                                        Joanne Higgins
+        Producer's Associate            Jeffrey Willerth
+Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant  Jonathan Gording, O.D.
+
+        Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+        Color by                        Pacific Film Laboratories
+                                        Electronic Laboratories TM
+                                        [logo] Laser-Pacific
+                                        [    ] Media Corporation
+        Digital Sound & Re-Recording by    ///// ///// ////
+                                          ///// ////   //
+                                         ///// //    ////
+                                        The Sound of Pictures
+                                        DD Dolby Surround TM
+        Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+      This motion picture is protected under the laws of
+      the United States of America and other countries.
+     Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution,
+       exhibition or use may result in civil liability
+                 and/or criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 414
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/081.No-Surrender-No-Retreat b/ftp/Credits/081.No-Surrender-No-Retreat
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+                                                         presented in
+                                                         DD SURROUND TM
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+Bruce Boxleitner              as      Captain John Sheridan
+Claudia Christian             as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+Jerry Doyle                   as      Michael Garibaldi
+Mira Furlan                   as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+Richard Biggs                 as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+Bill Mumy                     as      Lennier
+Jason Carter                  as      Marcus Cole
+Stephen Furst                 as      Vir Cotto
+Jeff Conaway                  as      Security Chief Zack Allan
+Patricia Tallman              as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+Andreas Katsulas              as      G'Kar
+                             And
+Peter Jurasik                 as      Londo Mollari
+
+        Created by                    J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[production credits]
+
+                  "No Surrender, No Retreat"
+
+                        Guest Starring
+Marcia Mitzman Gaven            as      Commander Sandra Levitt
+Richard Gant                    as      Captain Edward MacDougan
+Ken Jenkins                     as      Captain Trevor Hall
+
+        Music by                        Christopher Franke
+        Edited by                       Skip Robinson
+        Production Designer             John Iacovelli
+        Director of Photography         John C. Flynn III, A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           Harlan Ellison
+        Co-Producer                     George Johnsen
+        Produced by                     John Copeland
+        Written by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+        Directed by                     Mike Vejar
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              Douglas Netter
+        Executive Producer              J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              Susan Norkin
+                        
+                        Co-Starring
+        Joshua Cox                      Lt. Corwin
+        Skip Stellrecht                 Guard
+                        Featuring
+        Neil Bradley                    Philby
+
+        Unit Production Manager         Skip Beaudine
+        1st Assistant Director          Pamela Eilerson
+        2nd Assistant Director          David McWhirter
+
+        Casting by                      Fern Champion, C.S.A.
+                                    and Mark Paladini, C.S.A.
+
+        Original Casting by             Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              Christopher Franke
+                                    and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra
+
+        Costume Designer                Ann Bruice Aling
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      Netter Digital Animation
+
+        Senior Animators                Shant Jordan
+                                        Patrick Perez
+        CG Design & Animation Team      Tom Helmers
+                                        Andrew Hofman
+                                        Rich Jeffreys III
+                                        Gary Lavarack
+                                        Geoffrey Mark
+                                        Jeff Montray
+
+        Compositors                     Phillip Giles
+                                        Ken Busick
+        Matte Artist                    Eric Chauvin
+        Concept Designs                 Luc Mayrand
+                                        Timothy M. Earls
+
+Series Make-up Effects Created by       John Vulich
+                                        Optic Nerve Studios
+
+        Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano
+                                        Manny Case
+                                        Jerry Gergely
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      Dean Mercil
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        John Wheaton
+
+        Art Director                    Mark-Louis Walters
+        Set Decorator                   Jason Howard
+        Property Master                 Dark Hoffman
+        Graphic Artist                  Alan Kobayashi
+        Construction Coordinator        Curtis Laseter
+        Scenic Artist                   Matthew Plummer
+
+
+        Costume Supervisor              Kim M. Holly
+        Key Costumer                    Linda Huse
+        Key Make-up Artist              Cinzia Zanetti
+        Hair & Make-up                  Kim M. Ferry
+        Key Hairstylist                 Barbara Wilder Pearlman
+
+        Camera Operator                 Peter B. Kowalski
+        1st Assistant Camera            Wally Sweeterman
+        Gaffer                          "The" John Smith
+        Key Grip                        Robert D. Blair
+        Best Boy Electric               Nathanial Roberts
+        Dolly Grip                      Charles S. Lantz, Jr.
+
+        2nd 2nd  Assistant Director     Alisa Matlovsky
+        Special Effects by              Ultimate Effects
+        Special Effects Supervisor      Dayton Osmond
+        Stunt Coordinator               Kerry Rossall
+
+        Sound Mixer                     Linda Coffey, C.A.S.
+        Sound Effects Editor            Jeff Whitcher
+        Re-recording Mixers             Larry Benjamin
+                                        Liz Sroka
+        Sound Supervisor                Gordon D. Hookailo
+
+        First Assistant Editor          Kathie Burr
+        Assistant Editor                John Burrus
+
+        Production Coordinator          Heidi Erl
+        Script Supervisor               Ken Gilbert
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd.
+        Production Accountant           Mike Hoover
+
+        Script Coordinator              Carol Henry
+        Executive Producers' Assistant  Tracie Esparza
+                                        Joanne Higgins
+        Producer's Associate            Jeffrey Willerth
+Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant  Jonathan Gording, O.D.
+
+        Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+        Color by                        Pacific Film Laboratories
+                                        Electronic Laboratories TM
+                                        [logo] Laser-Pacific
+                                        [    ] Media Corporation
+        Digital Sound & Re-Recording by    ///// ///// ////
+                                          ///// ////   //
+                                         ///// //    ////
+                                        The Sound of Pictures
+                                        DD Dolby Surround TM
+        Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+      This motion picture is protected under the laws of
+      the United States of America and other countries.
+     Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution,
+       exhibition or use may result in civil liability
+                 and/or criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 415
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/082.The-Exercise-of-Vital-Powers b/ftp/Credits/082.The-Exercise-of-Vital-Powers
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2db4ff8d
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+                                                         presented in
+                                                         DD SURROUND TM
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+Bruce Boxleitner              as      Captain John Sheridan
+Claudia Christian             as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+Jerry Doyle                   as      Michael Garibaldi
+Mira Furlan                   as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+Richard Biggs                 as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+Bill Mumy                     as      Lennier
+Jason Carter                  as      Marcus Cole
+Stephen Furst                 as      Vir Cotto
+Jeff Conaway                  as      Security Chief Zack Allan
+Patricia Tallman              as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+Andreas Katsulas              as      G'Kar
+                             And
+Peter Jurasik                 as      Londo Mollari
+
+        Created by                    J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[production credits]
+
+                  "Exercise of Vital Powers"
+
+                        Guest Starring
+Denise Gentile                  as      Lise Hampton
+Mark Schneider                  as      Wade
+
+                      Special Guest Star
+Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.            as      William Edgars
+
+        Music by                        Christopher Franke
+        Edited by                       Suzanne Sternlicht
+        Production Designer             John Iacovelli
+        Director of Photography         John C. Flynn III, A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           Harlan Ellison
+        Co-Producer                     George Johnsen
+        Produced by                     John Copeland
+        Written by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+        Directed by                     John Lafia
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              Douglas Netter
+        Executive Producer              J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              Susan Norkin
+        
+                        Co-Starring
+        Shelley Robertson        as     Ms. Constance
+                
+                        Featuring
+        Kenneth Cortland                Patient
+        Sandy Grinn                     Patient #2
+
+        Unit Production Manager         Skip Beaudine
+        1st Assistant Director          Douglas E. Wise
+        2nd Assistant Director          David McWhirter
+
+        Casting by                      Fern Champion, C.S.A.
+                                    and Mark Paladini, C.S.A.
+
+        Original Casting by             Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              Christopher Franke
+                                    and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra
+
+        Costume Designer                Ann Bruice Aling
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      Netter Digital Animation
+
+        Senior Animators                Shant Jordan
+                                        Patrick Perez
+        CG Design & Animation Team      Tom Helmers
+                                        Andrew Hofman
+                                        Rich Jeffreys III
+                                        Gary Lavarack
+                                        Geoffrey Mark
+                                        Jeff Montray
+
+        Compositors                     Phillip Giles
+                                        Ken Busick
+        Matte Artists                   Chuck Carter
+                                        Eric Chauvin
+        Concept Designs                 Luc Mayrand
+                                        Timothy M. Earls
+
+Series Make-up Effects Created by       John Vulich
+                                        Optic Nerve Studios
+
+        Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano
+                                        Manny Case
+                                        Jerry Gergely
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      Jeff Farley
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        John Wheaton
+
+        Art Director                    Mark-Louis Walters
+        Set Decorator                   Jason Howard
+        Property Master                 Dark Hoffman
+        Graphic Artist                  Alan Kobayashi
+        Construction Coordinator        Curtis Laseter
+        Scenic Artist                   Matthew Plummer
+
+
+        Costume Supervisor              Kim M. Holly
+        Key Costumer                    Linda Huse
+        Key Make-up Artist              Cinzia Zanetti
+        Hair & Make-up                  Kim M. Ferry
+        Key Hairstylist                 Barbara Wilder Pearlman
+
+        Camera Operator                 Peter B. Kowalski
+        1st Assistant Camera            Wally Sweeterman
+        Gaffer                          "The" John Smith
+        Key Grip                        Robert D. Blair
+        Best Boy Electric               Nathanial Roberts
+        Dolly Grip                      Charles S. Lantz, Jr.
+
+        2nd 2nd  Assistant Director     Alisa Matlovsky
+        Special Effects by              Ultimate Effects
+        Special Effects Supervisor      Dayton Osmond
+        Stunt Coordinator               Kerry Rossall
+
+        Sound Mixer                     Linda Coffey, C.A.S.
+        Sound Effects Editor            Jeff Whitcher
+        Re-recording Mixers             Larry Benjamin
+                                        Liz Sroka
+        Sound Supervisor                Gordon D. Hookailo
+
+        First Assistant Editor          Kathie Burr
+        Assistant Editor                Jason Netter
+
+        Production Coordinator          Heidi Erl
+        Script Supervisor               Ken Gilbert
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd.
+        Production Accountant           Mike Hoover
+
+        Script Coordinator              Carol Henry
+Executive Producers' Assistant [sic]    Tracie Esparza
+                                        Joanne Higgins
+        Producer's Associate            Jeffrey Willerth
+Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant  Jonathan Gording, O.D.
+
+        Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+        Color by                        Pacific Film Laboratories
+                                        Electronic Laboratories TM
+                                        [logo] Laser-Pacific
+                                        [    ] Media Corporation
+        Digital Sound & Re-Recording by    ///// ///// ////
+                                          ///// ////   //
+                                         ///// //    ////
+                                        The Sound of Pictures
+                                        DD Dolby Surround TM
+        Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+      This motion picture is protected under the laws of
+      the United States of America and other countries.
+     Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution,
+       exhibition or use may result in civil liability
+                 and/or criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 416
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/083.The-Face-of-the-Enemy b/ftp/Credits/083.The-Face-of-the-Enemy
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/083.The-Face-of-the-Enemy
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+                                                         presented in
+                                                         DD SURROUND TM
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+Bruce Boxleitner              as      Captain John Sheridan
+Claudia Christian             as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+Jerry Doyle                   as      Michael Garibaldi
+Mira Furlan                   as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+Richard Biggs                 as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+Bill Mumy                     as      Lennier
+Jason Carter                  as      Marcus Cole
+Stephen Furst                 as      Vir Cotto
+Jeff Conaway                  as      Security Chief Zack Allan
+Patricia Tallman              as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+Andreas Katsulas              as      G'Kar
+                             And
+Peter Jurasik                 as      Londo Mollari
+
+        Created by                    J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[production credits]
+
+                    "The Face of the Enemy"
+                      Special Guest Star
+Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.            as      William Edgars
+
+                        Guest Starring
+Richard Gant                    as      Captain Edward MacDougan
+Denise Gentile                  as      Lise Hampton
+Marjorie Monaghan               as      Number One
+Diana Morgan                    as      Alison Higgins
+David Purdham                   as      Captain James
+Ricco Ross                      as      Captain Frank
+Mark Schneider                  as      Wade
+
+                      Special Guest Star
+Walter Koenig                   as      Bester
+
+        Music by                        Christopher Franke
+        Edited by                       David W. Foster
+        Production Designer             John Iacovelli
+        Director of Photography         John C. Flinn III, A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           Harlan Ellison
+        Co-Producer                     George Johnsen
+        Produced by                     John Copeland
+        Written by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+        Directed by                     Mike Vejar
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              Douglas Netter
+        Executive Producer              J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              Susan Norkin
+                        
+                        Featuring
+        Harlan Ellison                  Psi Cop
+
+        Unit Production Manager         Skip Beaudine
+        1st Assistant Director          Pamela Eilerson
+        2nd Assistant Director          David McWhirter
+
+        Casting by                      Fern Champion, C.S.A.
+                                    and Mark Paladini, C.S.A.
+
+        Original Casting by             Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              Christopher Franke
+                                    and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra
+
+        Costume Designer                Ann Bruice Aling
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      Netter Digital Animation
+
+        Senior Animators                Shant Jordan
+                                        Patrick Perez
+        CG Design & Animation Team      Tom Helmers
+                                        Andrew Hofman
+                                        Rich Jeffreys III
+                                        Gary Lavarack
+                                        Geoffrey Mark
+                                        Jeff Montray
+
+        Compositors                     Phillip Giles
+                                        Ken Busick
+        Matte Artist                    Eric Chauvin
+        Concept Designs                 Luc Mayrand
+                                        Timothy M. Earls
+
+Series Make-up Effects Created by       John Vulich
+                                        Optic Nerve Studios
+
+        Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano
+                                        Manny Case
+                                        Jerry Gergely
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      Jeff Farley
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        John Wheaton
+
+        Art Director                    Mark-Louis Walters
+        Set Decorator                   Jason Howard
+        Property Master                 Dark Hoffman
+        Graphic Artist                  Alan Kobayashi
+        Construction Coordinator        Curtis Laseter
+        Scenic Artist                   Matthew Plummer
+
+
+        Costume Supervisor              Kim M. Holly
+        Key Costumer                    Linda Huse
+        Key Make-up Artist              Cinzia Zanetti
+        Hair & Make-up                  Kim M. Ferry
+        Key Hairstylist                 Barbara Wilder Pearlman
+
+        Camera Operator                 Peter B. Kowalski
+        1st Assistant Camera            Wally Sweeterman
+        Gaffer                          "The" John Smith
+        Key Grip                        Robert D. Blair
+        Best Boy Electric               Nathanial Roberts
+        Dolly Grip                      Charles S. Lantz, Jr.
+
+        2nd 2nd  Assistant Director     Alisa Matlovsky
+        Special Effects by              Ultimate Effects
+        Special Effects Supervisor      Dayton Osmond
+        Stunt Coordinator               Kerry Rossall
+
+        Sound Mixer                     Linda Coffey, C.A.S.
+        Sound Designer                  Harry Cohen
+        Sound Effects Editor            Jeff Whitcher
+        Re-recording Mixers             Larry Benjamin
+                                        Liz Sroka
+        Sound Supervisor                Gordon D. Hookailo
+
+        First Assistant Editor          Kathie Burr
+        Assistant Editor                John Burrus
+
+        Production Coordinator          Heidi Erl
+        Script Supervisor               Ken Gilbert
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd.
+        Production Accountant           Mike Hoover
+
+        Script Coordinator              Carol Henry
+        Executive Producers' Assistant  Tracie Esparza
+                                        Joanne Higgins
+        Producer's Associate            Jeffrey Willerth
+Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant  Jonathan Gording, O.D.
+
+        Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+        Color by                        Pacific Film Laboratories
+                                        Electronic Laboratories TM
+                                        [logo] Laser-Pacific
+                                        [    ] Media Corporation
+        Digital Sound & Re-Recording by    ///// ///// ////
+                                          ///// ////   //
+                                         ///// //    ////
+                                        The Sound of Pictures
+                                        DD Dolby Surround TM
+        Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+      This motion picture is protected under the laws of
+      the United States of America and other countries.
+     Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution,
+       exhibition or use may result in civil liability
+                 and/or criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 417
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/084.Intersections-in-Real-Time b/ftp/Credits/084.Intersections-in-Real-Time
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/084.Intersections-in-Real-Time
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+                                                         presented in
+                                                         DD SURROUND TM
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+Bruce Boxleitner              as      Captain John Sheridan
+Claudia Christian             as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+Jerry Doyle                   as      Michael Garibaldi
+Mira Furlan                   as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+Richard Biggs                 as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+Bill Mumy                     as      Lennier
+Jason Carter                  as      Marcus Cole
+Stephen Furst                 as      Vir Cotto
+Jeff Conaway                  as      Security Chief Zack Allan
+Patricia Tallman              as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+Andreas Katsulas              as      G'Kar
+                             And
+Peter Jurasik                 as      Londo Mollari
+
+        Created by                    J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[production credits]
+
+                  "Intersections in Real Time"
+
+                        Guest Starring
+Raye Birk                       as      William
+Wayne Alexander                 as      Drazi
+Bruce Gray                      as      Interrogator
+
+        Music by                        Christopher Franke
+        Edited by                       Skip Robinson
+        Production Designer             John Iacovelli
+        Director of Photography         John C. Flynn III, A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           Harlan EllisoN
+        Co-Producer                     George Johnsen
+        Produced by                     John Copeland
+        Written by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+        Directed by                     John Lafia
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              Douglas Netter
+        Executive Producer              J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              Susan Norkin
+                        
+                        Featuring
+        Peter Brown                     Minister
+
+        Unit Production Manager         Skip Beaudine
+        1st Assistant Director          Douglas E. Wise
+        2nd Assistant Director          David McWhirter
+
+        Casting by                      Fern Champion, C.S.A.
+                                    and Mark Paladini, C.S.A.
+
+        Original Casting by             Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              Christopher Franke
+                                    and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra
+
+        Costume Designer                Ann Bruice Aling
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      Netter Digital Animation
+
+        Senior Animators                Shant Jordan
+                                        Patrick Perez
+        CG Design & Animation Team      Tom Helmers
+                                        Andrew Hofman
+                                        Rich Jeffreys III
+                                        Gary Lavarack
+                                        Geoffrey Mark
+                                        Jeff Montray
+
+        Compositors                     Phillip Giles
+                                        Ken Busick
+        Matte Artist                    Eric Chauvin
+        Concept Designs                 Luc Mayrand
+                                        Timothy M. Earls
+
+Series Make-up Effects Created by       John Vulich
+                                        Optic Nerve Studios
+
+        Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano
+                                        Manny Case
+                                        Jerry Gergely
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      Jeff Farley
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        John Wheaton
+
+        Art Director                    Mark-Louis Walters
+        Set Decorator                   Jason Howard
+        Property Master                 Dark Hoffman
+        Graphic Artist                  Alan Kobayashi
+        Construction Coordinator        Curtis Laseter
+        Scenic Artist                   Matthew Plummer
+
+
+        Costume Supervisor              Kim M. Holly
+        Key Costumer                    Linda Huse
+        Key Make-up Artist              Cinzia Zanetti
+        Hair & Make-up                  Kim M. Ferry
+        Key Hairstylist                 Barbara Wilder Pearlman
+
+        Camera Operator                 Peter B. Kowalski
+        1st Assistant Camera            Wally Sweeterman
+        Gaffer                          "The" John Smith
+        Key Grip                        Robert D. Blair
+        Best Boy Electric               Nathanial Roberts
+        Dolly Grip                      Charles S. Lantz, Jr.
+
+        2nd 2nd  Assistant Director     Alisa Matlovsky
+        Special Effects by              Ultimate Effects
+        Special Effects Supervisor      Dayton Osmond
+        Stunt Coordinator               Kerry Rossall
+
+        Sound Mixer                     Linda Coffey, C.A.S.
+        Sound Effects Editor            Jeff Whitcher
+        Re-recording Mixers             Larry Benjamin
+                                        Liz Sroka
+        Sound Supervisor                Gordon D. Hookailo
+
+        First Assistant Editor          Kathie Burr
+        Assistant Editor                Jason Netter
+
+        Production Coordinator          Heidi Erl
+        Script Supervisor               Ken Gilbert
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd.
+        Production Accountant           Mike Hoover
+
+        Script Coordinator              Carol Henry
+Executive Producers' Assistant [sic]    Tracie Esparza
+                                        Joanne Higgins
+        Producer's Associate            Jeffrey Willerth
+Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant  Jonathan Gording, O.D.
+
+        Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+        Color by                        Pacific Film Laboratories
+                                        Electronic Laboratories TM
+                                        [logo] Laser-Pacific
+                                        [    ] Media Corporation
+        Digital Sound & Re-Recording by    ///// ///// ////
+                                          ///// ////   //
+                                         ///// //    ////
+                                        The Sound of Pictures
+                                        DD Dolby Surround TM
+        Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+      This motion picture is protected under the laws of
+      the United States of America and other countries.
+     Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution,
+       exhibition or use may result in civil liability
+                 and/or criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 418
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/085.Between-the-Darkness-and-the-Light b/ftp/Credits/085.Between-the-Darkness-and-the-Light
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c9d8d5f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/085.Between-the-Darkness-and-the-Light
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+                                                         presented in
+                                                         DD SURROUND TM
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+Bruce Boxleitner              as      Captain John Sheridan
+Claudia Christian             as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+Jerry Doyle                   as      Michael Garibaldi
+Mira Furlan                   as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+Richard Biggs                 as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+Bill Mumy                     as      Lennier
+Jason Carter                  as      Marcus Cole
+Stephen Furst                 as      Vir Cotto
+Jeff Conaway                  as      Security Chief Zack Allan
+Patricia Tallman              as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+Andreas Katsulas              as      G'Kar
+                             And
+Peter Jurasik                 as      Londo Mollari
+
+        Created by                    J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[production credits]
+
+               "Between the Darkness and the Light"
+
+                        Guest Starring
+Marc Gomes                      as      Eisensen
+Bruce Gray                      as      Interrogator
+Marjorie Monaghan               as      Number One
+David Purdham                   as      Captain James
+Musetta Vander                  as      Felicia
+
+        Music by                        Christopher Franke
+        Edited by                       Suzanne Sternlicht
+        Production Designer             John Iacovelli
+        Director of Photography         John C. Flinn III, A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           Harlan Ellison
+        Co-Producer                     George Johnsen
+        Produced by                     John Copeland
+        Written by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+        Directed by                     David J. Eagle
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              Douglas Netter
+        Executive Producer              J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              Susan Norkin
+                        
+                        Co-Starring
+        Greg Poland                     Guard
+                        Featuring
+        J. P. Hubbel                    Evan
+        James Laing                     First Guard
+        Anneliza Scott                  Assitant
+
+        Unit Production Manager         Skip Beaudine
+        1st Assistant Director          Pamela Eilerson
+        2nd Assistant Director          David McWhirter
+
+        Casting by                      Fern Champion, C.S.A.
+                                    and Mark Paladini, C.S.A.
+
+        Original Casting by             Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              Christopher Franke
+                                    and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra
+
+        Costume Designer                Ann Bruice Aling
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      Netter Digital Animation
+
+        Senior Animators                Shant Jordan
+                                        Patrick Perez
+        CG Design & Animation Team      Tom Helmers
+                                        Andrew Hofman
+                                        Rich Jeffreys III
+                                        Gary Lavarack
+                                        Geoffrey Mark
+                                        Jeff Montray
+
+        Compositors                     Phillip Giles
+                                        Ken Busick
+        Matte Artist                    Chuck Carter
+                                        Eric Chauvin
+
+        Concept Designs                 Luc Mayrand
+                                        Timothy M. Earls
+
+Series Make-up Effects Created by       John Vulich
+                                        Optic Nerve Studios
+
+        Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel DeCunto
+                                        Manny Case
+                                        Jerry Gergely
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      Jeff Farley
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        John Wheaton
+
+        Art Director                    Mark-Louis Walters
+        Set Decorator                   Jason Howard
+        Property Master                 Dark Hoffman
+        Assistant Graphic Artist        Cathy Coultas
+        Construction Coordinator        Curtis Laseter
+        Scenic Artist                   Matthew Plummer
+
+
+        Costume Supervisor              Kim M. Holly
+        Key Costumer                    Linda Huse
+        Key Make-up Artist              Cinzia Zanetti
+        Hair & Make-up                  Kim M. Ferry
+        Key Hairstylist                 Barbara Wilder Pearlman
+
+        Camera Operator                 Peter B. Kowalski
+        1st Assistant Camera            Wally Sweeterman
+        Gaffer                          "The" John Smith
+        Key Grip                        Robert D. Blair
+        Best Boy Electric               Nathanial Roberts
+        Best Boy Grip                   Chris Nagle
+
+        2nd 2nd  Assistant Director     Alisa Matlovsky
+        Special Effects by              Ultimate Effects
+        Special Effects Supervisor      Dayton Osmond
+        Stunt Coordinator               Kerry Rossall
+
+        Sound Mixer                     Linda Coffey, C.A.S.
+        Sound Designer                  Harry Cohen
+        Sound Effects Editor            Jeff Whitcher
+        Re-recording Mixers             Larry Benjamin
+                                        Liz Sroka
+        Sound Supervisor                Liz Sroka
+
+        First Assistant Editor          Kathie Burr
+        Assistant Editor                John Burrus
+
+        Production Coordinator          Heidi Erl
+        Script Supervisor               Ken Gilbert
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd.
+        Production Accountant           Mike Hoover
+
+        Script Coordinator              Carol Henry
+        Executive Producers' Assistant  Tracie Esparza
+                                        Joanne Higgins
+        Producer's Associate            Jeffrey Willerth
+Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant  Jonathan Gording, O.D.
+
+        Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+        Color by                        Pacific Film Laboratories
+                                        Electronic Laboratories TM
+                                        [logo] Laser-Pacific
+                                        [    ] Media Corporation
+        Digital Sound & Re-Recording by    ///// ///// ////
+                                          ///// ////   //
+                                         ///// //    ////
+                                        The Sound of Pictures
+                                        DD Dolby Surround TM
+        Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+      This motion picture is protected under the laws of
+      the United States of America and other countries.
+     Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution,
+       exhibition or use may result in civil liability
+                 and/or criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 419
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/086.Endgame b/ftp/Credits/086.Endgame
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/086.Endgame
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+                                                         presented in
+                                                         DD SURROUND TM
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+Bruce Boxleitner              as      Captain John Sheridan
+Claudia Christian             as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+Jerry Doyle                   as      Michael Garibaldi
+Mira Furlan                   as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+Richard Biggs                 as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+Bill Mumy                     as      Lennier
+Jason Carter                  as      Marcus Cole
+Stephen Furst                 as      Vir Cotto
+Jeff Conaway                  as      Security Chief Zack Allan
+Patricia Tallman              as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+Andreas Katsulas              as      G'Kar
+                             And
+Peter Jurasik                 as      Londo Mollari
+
+        Created by                    J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[production credits]
+
+                           "Endgame"
+
+                        Guest Starring
+Ungela Brockman                 as      Earthforce NCO
+J. Patrick McCormack            as      General Lefcourt
+Marjorie Monaghan               as      Number One
+David Purdham                   as      Captain James
+Carolyn Seymour                 as      Senator Crosby
+Julian Stone                    as      Captain Mitchell
+
+        Music by                        Christopher Franke
+        Edited by                       David W. Foster
+        Production Designer             John Iacovelli
+        Director of Photography         John C. Flinn III, A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           Harlan Ellison
+        Co-Producer                     George Johnsen
+        Produced by                     John Copeland
+        Written by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+        Directed by                     John Copeland
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              Douglas Netter
+        Executive Producer              J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              Susan Norkin
+                        
+                        Co-Starring
+        Maggie Egan                     Anchor
+        Karen Fineman                   Kelley
+        Rick Cramer                     Earthforce Officer
+
+                        Featuring
+        Kenneth Cortland                Telepath
+        Gary McGurk                     President Clark
+
+        Unit Production Manager         Skip Beaudine
+        1st Assistant Director          Douglas E. Wise
+        2nd Assistant Director          David McWhirter
+
+        Casting by                      Fern Champion, C.S.A.
+                                    and Mark Paladini, C.S.A.
+
+        Original Casting by             Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              Christopher Franke
+                                    and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra
+
+        Costume Designer                Ann Bruice Aling
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      Netter Digital Animation
+
+        Senior Animators                Shant Jordan
+                                        Patrick Perez
+        CG Design & Animation Team      Tom Helmers
+                                        Andrew Hofman
+                                        Rich Jeffreys III
+                                        Gary Lavarack
+                                        Geoffrey Mark
+                                        Jeff Montray
+
+        Compositors                     Phillip Giles
+                                        Ken Busick
+        Matte Artists                   Eric Chauvin
+        Concept Designs                 Luc Mayrand
+                                        Timothy M. Earls
+
+Series Make-up Effects Created by       John Vulich
+                                        Optic Nerve Studios
+
+        Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel DeCunto
+                                        Manny Case
+                                        Jerry Gergely
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      Jeff Farley
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        John Wheaton
+
+        Art Director                    Mark-Louis Walters
+        Set Decorator                   Jason Howard
+        Property Master                 Dark Hoffman
+        Graphic Artist                  Alan Kobayashi
+        Construction Coordinator        Curtis Laseter
+        Scenic Artist                   Matthew Plummer
+
+
+        Costume Supervisor              Kim M. Holly
+        Key Costumer                    Linda Huse
+        Key Make-up Artist              Cinzia Zanetti
+        Hair & Make-up                  Kim M. Ferry
+        Key Hairstylist                 Barbara Wilder Pearlman
+
+        Camera Operator                 Peter B. Kowalski
+        1st Assistant Camera            Wally Sweeterman
+        Gaffer                          "The" John Smith
+        Key Grip                        Robert D. Blair
+        Best Boy Electric               Nathanial Roberts
+        Dolly Grip                      Charles S. Lantz, Jr.
+
+        2nd 2nd  Assistant Director     Alisa Matlovsky
+        Special Effects by              Ultimate Effects
+        Special Effects Supervisor      Dayton Osmond
+        Stunt Coordinator               Kerry Rossall
+
+        Sound Mixer                     Linda Coffey, C.A.S.
+        Sound Effects Editor            Jeff Whitcher
+        Re-recording Mixers             Larry Benjamin
+                                        Liz Sroka
+        Sound Supervisor                Liz Sroka
+
+        First Assistant Editor          Kathie Burr
+        Assistant Editor                Jason Netter
+
+        Production Coordinator          Heidi Erl
+        Script Supervisor               Ken Gilbert
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd.
+        Production Accountant           Mike Hoover
+
+        Script Coordinator              Carol Henry
+        Executive Producers' Assistant  Tracie Esparza
+                                        Joanne Higgins
+        Producer's Associate            Jeffrey Willerth
+Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant  Jonathan Gording, O.D.
+
+        Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+        Color by                        Pacific Film Laboratories
+                                        Electronic Laboratories TM
+                                        [logo] Laser-Pacific
+                                        [    ] Media Corporation
+        Digital Sound & Re-Recording by    ///// ///// ////
+                                          ///// ////   //
+                                         ///// //    ////
+                                        The Sound of Pictures
+                                        DD Dolby Surround TM
+        Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+      This motion picture is protected under the laws of
+      the United States of America and other countries.
+     Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution,
+       exhibition or use may result in civil liability
+                 and/or criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 420
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/087.Rising-Star b/ftp/Credits/087.Rising-Star
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--- /dev/null
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+                                                         presented in
+                                                         DD SURROUND TM
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+Bruce Boxleitner              as      Captain John Sheridan
+Claudia Christian             as      Commander Susan Ivanova
+Jerry Doyle                   as      Michael Garibaldi
+Mira Furlan                   as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+Richard Biggs                 as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+Bill Mumy                     as      Lennier
+Jason Carter                  as      Marcus Cole
+Stephen Furst                 as      Vir Cotto
+Jeff Conaway                  as      Security Chief Zack Allan
+Patricia Tallman              as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+Andreas Katsulas              as      G'Kar
+                             And
+Peter Jurasik                 as      Londo Mollari
+
+        Created by                    J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[production credits]
+
+                        "Rising Star"
+
+                        Guest Starring
+Joey Dente                      as      Luko
+Denise Gentile                  as      Lise Hampton Edgars
+Rance Howard                    as      David Sheridan
+Michael Potter                  as      General Foote
+Beata Pozniak                   as      President Susanna Luckenko
+
+                      Special Guest Star
+Walter Koenig                   as      Bester
+
+        Music by                        Christopher Franke
+        Edited by                       Skip Robinson
+        Production Designer             John Iacovelli
+        Director of Photography         John C. Flinn III, A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           Harlan Ellison
+        Co-Producer                     George Johnsen
+        Produced by                     John Copeland
+        Written by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+        Directed by                     Tony Dow
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              Douglas Netter
+        Executive Producer              J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              Susan Norkin
+                        
+                        Co-Starring
+        J.J. Boone                      Med Tech
+        Alex Cobo                       Max
+        Maggie Egan                     Anchor
+        Julie Ow                        Med Tech
+
+        Unit Production Manager         Skip Beaudine
+        1st Assistant Director          Pamela Eilerson
+        2nd Assistant Director          David McWhirter
+
+        Casting by                      Fern Champion, C.S.A.
+                                    and Mark Paladini, C.S.A.
+
+        Original Casting by             Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              Christopher Franke
+                                    and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra
+
+        Costume Designer                Ann Bruice Aling
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      Netter Digital Animation
+
+        Senior Animators                Shant Jordan
+                                        Patrick Perez
+
+        CG Design & Animation Team      Tim Everitt
+                                        Tom Helmers
+                                        Harry Hendrickson
+                                        Rick Jefferys III
+                                        Geoggrey Mark
+                                        Jeff Montray
+                                        Don Neudecker
+                                        Josh Prikryl
+
+        Compositors                     Phillip Giles
+                                        Ken Busick
+        Concept Designs                 Luc Mayrand
+                                        Timothy M. Earls
+
+Series Make-up Effects Created by       John Vulich
+                                        Optic Nerve Studios
+
+        Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel DeCunto
+                                        Manny Case
+                                        Jerry Gergely
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      Jeff Farley
+        Make-up Effects Sculptor        John Wheaton
+
+        Art Director                    Mark-Louis Walters
+        Set Decorator                   Jason Howard
+        Property Master                 Dark Hoffman
+        Graphic Artist                  Alan Kobayashi
+        Construction Coordinator        Curtis Laseter
+        Scenic Artist                   Matthew Plummer
+
+
+        Costume Supervisor              Kim M. Holly
+        Key Costumer                    Linda Huse
+        Key Make-up Artist              Cinzia Zanetti
+        Hair & Make-up                  Kim M. Ferry
+        Key Hairstylist                 Barbara Wilder Pearlman
+
+        Camera Operator                 Peter B. Kowalski
+        1st Assistant Camera            Wally Sweeterman
+        Gaffer                          "The" John Smith
+        Key Grip                        Robert D. Blair
+        Best Boy Electric               Nathanial Roberts
+        Best Boy Grip                   Chris Nagle
+
+        2nd 2nd  Assistant Director     Alisa Matlovsky
+        Special Effects by              Ultimate Effects
+        Special Effects Supervisor      Dayton Osmond
+        Stunt Coordinator               Kerry Rossall
+
+        Sound Mixer                     Linda Coffey, C.A.S.
+        Sound Designer                  Harry Cohen
+        Sound Effects Editor            Jeff Whitcher
+        Re-recording Mixers             Larry Benjamin
+                                        Liz Sroka
+        Sound Supervisor                Liz Sroka
+
+        First Assistant Editor          Kathie Burr
+        Assistant Editor                John Burrus
+
+        Production Coordinator          Heidi Erl
+        Script Supervisor               Ken Gilbert
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd.
+        Production Accountant           Mike Hoover
+
+        Script Coordinator              Carol Henry
+        Executive Producers' Assistant  Tracie Esparza
+                                        Joanne Higgins
+        Producer's Associate            Jeffrey Willerth
+Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant  Jonathan Gording, O.D.
+
+        Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+        Color by                        Pacific Film Laboratories
+                                        Electronic Laboratories TM
+                                        [logo] Laser-Pacific
+                                        [    ] Media Corporation
+        Digital Sound & Re-Recording by    ///// ///// ////
+                                          ///// ////   //
+                                         ///// //    ////
+                                        The Sound of Pictures
+                                        DD Dolby Surround TM
+        Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+      This motion picture is protected under the laws of
+      the United States of America and other countries.
+     Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution,
+       exhibition or use may result in civil liability
+                 and/or criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 421
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/088.The-Deconstruction-of-Falling-Stars b/ftp/Credits/088.The-Deconstruction-of-Falling-Stars
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a7915c21
--- /dev/null
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+                                                         presented in
+                                                         DD SURROUND TM
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+Bruce Boxleitner              as      Captain John Sheridan
+Jerry Doyle                   as      Michael Garibaldi
+Mira Furlan                   as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+Richard Biggs                 as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+Bill Mumy                     as      Lennier
+Jason Carter                  as      Marcus Cole
+Stephen Furst                 as      Vir Cotto
+Jeff Conaway                  as      Security Chief Zack Allan
+Patricia Tallman              as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+Andreas Katsulas              as      G'Kar
+                             And
+Peter Jurasik                 as      Londo Mollari
+
+        Created by                    J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[production credits]
+
+                "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars"
+
+                        Guest Starring
+Roy Brocksmith                  as      Brother Alwyn Macomber
+Alastair Duncan                 as      Latimere
+Eric Pierpoint                  as      Daniel
+Neil Roberts                    as      Brother Michael
+
+        Music by                        Christopher Franke
+        Edited by                       Kathei Burr
+        Production Designer             John Iacovelli
+        Director of Photography         John C. Flinn III, A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           Harlan Ellison
+        Co-Producer                     Skip Beaudine
+        Produced by                     John Copeland
+        Written by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+        Directed by                     Stephen Furst
+
+[end credits]
+
+                        DEDICATED TO ALL THE
+                        PEOPLE WHO PREDICTED
+                          THAT THE BABYLON
+                        PROJECT WOULD FAIL IN
+                             ITS MISSION.
+
+                            FAITH MANAGES.
+
+        Executive Producer              Douglas Netter
+        Executive Producer              J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              Susan Norkin
+                        
+                            Co-Starring
+        Rob Elk                         Henry Ellis
+        Bennet Guillory                 Leif Tanner
+        Doug Hale                       Derek Mitchell
+        Kathleen Lloyd                  Elizabeth Metarie
+        David Anthony Smith             Man
+        Joane Takahashi                 Dr. Tashaki
+        Ken Taylor                      Jim Bitterbane
+        Nick Toth                       Exeter
+
+        Unit Production Manager         Skip Beaudine
+        1st Assistant Director          Douglas E. Wise
+        2nd Assistant Director          David McWhirter
+
+        Casting by                      Fern Champion, C.S.A.
+                                    and Mark Paladini, C.S.A.
+
+        Original Casting by             Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              Christopher Franke
+                                    and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra
+
+        Costume Designer                Ann Bruice Aling
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      Netter Digital Animation
+
+        Senior Animators                Shant Jordan
+                                        Patrick Perez
+        CG Design & Animation Team      Tim Everitt
+                                        Tom Helmers
+                                        Harry Hendrickson
+                                        Rich Jeffreys, III
+                                        Geoffrey Mark
+                                        Jeff Montray
+                                        Don Neudecker
+                                        Josh Prikryl
+        Systems Engineer                Larry Stanton
+
+        Compositors                     Phillip Giles
+                                        Ken Busick
+        Concept Designs                 Luc Mayrand
+                                        Timothy M. Earls
+
+Series Make-up Effects Created by       John Vulich
+                                        Optic Nerve Studios
+
+        Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto
+                                        Manny Case
+                                        Jerry Gergely
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      Jeff Farley
+        Make-up Effects Sculptors       John Wheaton
+                                        Glenn Eisner
+
+        Art Director                    Mark-Louis Walters
+        Set Decorator                   Jason Howard
+        Property Master                 Dark Hoffman
+        Graphic Artist                  Alan Kobayashi
+        Construction Coordinator        Curtis Laseter
+        Scenic Artist                   Matthew Plummer
+
+        Costume Supervisor              Kim M. Holly
+        Key Costumer                    Linda Huse
+        Key Make-up Artist              Cinzia Zanetti
+        Hair & Make-up                  Kim M. Ferry
+        Key Hairstylist                 Barbara Wilder Pearlman
+
+        Camera Operator                 Peter B. Kowalski
+        1st Assistant Camera            Chuck Whelan
+        Gaffer                          "The" John Smith
+        Key Grip                        Robert D. Blair
+        Best Boy Electric               Nathanial Roberts
+        Best Boy Grip                   Charles Lantz, Jr.
+
+        2nd 2nd  Assistant Director     Carlos E. Ramirez
+        Special Effects Supervisor      Mike Del Genio
+        Stunt Coordinator               Kerry Rossall
+
+        Production Sound Mixer          Don H. Matthews, C.A.S.
+        Sound Designer                  Harry Cohen
+        Sound Effects Editors           Jeff Whitcher
+                                        Elisabeth Flaum
+        Re-recording Mixers             Larry Benjamin
+                                        Liz Sroka
+        Sound Supervisor                Mike Payne
+
+        First Assistant Editor          John Burrus
+        Assistant Editor                Mike Hackett
+        Apprentice Editor               Maritza Suarez
+        Post Production Coordinator     Pam Oseransky
+
+        Production Coordinator          Heidi Erl
+        Script Supervisor               Linda Giffin
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd.
+        Production Accountant           Mike Hoover
+
+        Script Coordinator              Carol Henry
+        Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza
+                                        Karen Harrell
+                                        Joanne Higgins
+        Producer's Associate            Jeffrey Willerth
+Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant  Jonathan Gording, O.D.
+
+        Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+        Color by                        Pacific Film Laboratories
+                                        Electronic Laboratories TM
+                                        [logo] Laser-Pacific
+                                        [    ] Media Corporation
+        Digital Sound & Re-Recording by    ///// ///// ////
+                                          ///// ////   //
+                                         ///// //    ////
+                                        The Sound of Pictures
+                                        DD Dolby Surround TM
+        Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+      This motion picture is protected under the laws of
+      the United States of America and other countries.
+     Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution,
+       exhibition or use may result in civil liability
+                 and/or criminal prosecution.
+
+                Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+               PTN Consortium is the author of this
+             film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                     Production Number - 422
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/089.No-Compromises b/ftp/Credits/089.No-Compromises
new file mode 100644
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+                                                         presented in
+                                                         DD SURROUND TM
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+Bruce Boxleitner              as      President John Sheridan
+Jerry Doyle                   as      Michael Garibaldi
+Mira Furlan                   as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+Richard Biggs                 as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+Bill Mumy                     as      Lennier
+Tracy Scoggins                as      Captain Elizabeth Lochley
+Stephen Furst                 as      Vir Cotto
+Jeff Conaway                  as      Security Chief Zack Allan
+Patricia Tallman              as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+Peter Jurasik                 as      Londo Mollari
+                             And
+Andreas Katsulas              as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                    J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[production credits]
+
+                        "No Compromises"
+
+                        Guest Starring
+Joshua Cox                      as      Lt. Corwin
+Anthony Crivello                as      John
+Robin Atkin Downes              as      Byron
+
+        Music by                        Christopher Franke
+        Edited by                       Skip Robinson
+        Production Designer             John Iacovelli
+        Director of Photography         John C. Flinn III, A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           Harlan Ellison
+        Co-Producer                     Skip Beaudine
+        Produced by                     John Copeland
+        Written by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+        Directed by                     Janet Greek
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              Douglas Netter
+        Executive Producer              J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              Susan Norkin
+
+                            Co-Starring
+        Timothy Eyster                  Simon
+        Mauricio Mendoza                Ranger
+
+        Unit Production Manager         Skip Beaudine
+        1st Assistant Director          Carla McCloskey
+        2nd Assistant Director          David McWhirter
+
+        Casting by                      Fern Champion, C.S.A.
+                                    and Mark Paladini, C.S.A.
+
+        Original Casting by             Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              Christopher Franke
+                                    and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra
+
+        Costume Designer                Ann Bruice Aling
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      Netter Digital Animation
+
+        Senior Animators                Shant Jordan
+                                        Patrick Perez
+        CG Design & Animation Team      Tim Everitt
+                                        Tom Helmers
+                                        Harry Hendrickson
+                                        Rich Jeffreys, III
+                                        Geoffrey Mark
+                                        Jeff Montray
+                                        Don Neudecker
+                                        Josh Prikryl
+        Systems Engineer                Larry Stanton
+
+        Compositors                     Phillip Giles
+                                        Ken Busick
+                                        Kim Anderson
+
+        Matte Artists                   Eric Chauvin
+
+        Concept Designs                 Timothy M. Earls
+
+Series Make-up Effects Created by       John Vulich
+                                        Optic Nerve Studios
+
+        Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto
+                                        Manny Case
+                                        Jerry Gergely
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      Jeff Farley
+        Make-up Effects Sculptors       John Wheaton
+                                        Glenn Eisner
+
+        Art Director                    Mark-Louis Walters
+        Set Decorator                   Jason Howard
+        Property Master                 Dark Hoffman
+        Graphic Artist                  Alan Kobayashi
+        Construction Coordinator        Curtis Laseter
+        Scenic Artist                   Matthew Plummer
+
+        Costume Supervisor              Kim M. Holly
+        Key Costumer                    Linda Huse
+        Key Make-up Artist              Cinzia Zanetti
+        Hair & Make-up                  Kim M. Ferry
+        Key Hairstylist                 Barbara Wilder Pearlman
+
+        Camera Operator                 Peter B. Kowalski
+        1st Assistant Camera            Mike McEveety
+        Gaffer                          Carlos Torres
+        Key Grip                        Robert D. Blair
+        Best Boy Electric               Nathanial Roberts
+        Dolly Grip                      Chris Nagle
+
+        2nd 2nd  Assistant Director     Alisa Matlovsky
+        Special Effects Supervisor      Mike Del Genio
+        Stunt Coordinator               Kerry Rossall
+
+        Production Sound Mixer          Don H. Matthews, C.A.S.
+        Sound Designer                  Harry Cohen
+        Sound Effects Editors           Jeff Whitcher
+                                        Elisabeth Flaum
+        Re-recording Mixers             Larry Benjamin
+                                        Zeke Salas
+                                        Liz Sroka
+        Sound Supervisor                Mike Payne
+
+        First Assistant Editor          John Burrus
+        Assistant Editor                Mike Hackett
+        Apprentice Editor               Maritza Suarez
+        Post Production Coordinator     Pam Oseransky
+
+        Production Coordinator          Heidi Erl
+        Script Supervisor               Ken Gilbert
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd.
+        Production Accountant           Mike Hoover
+
+        Script Coordinator              Carol Henry
+        Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza
+                                        Karen Harrell
+                                        Joanne Higgins
+        Producer's Associate            Jeffrey Willerth
+Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant  Jonathan Gording, O.D.
+
+        Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+        Color by                        Pacific Film Laboratories
+                                        Electronic Laboratories TM
+                                        [logo] Laser-Pacific
+                                        [    ] Media Corporation
+        Digital Sound & Re-Recording by    ///// ///// ////
+                                          ///// ////   //
+                                         ///// //    ////
+                                        The Sound of Pictures
+                                        DD Dolby Surround TM
+        Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+      This motion picture is protected under the laws of
+      the United States of America and other countries.
+     Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution,
+       exhibition or use may result in civil liability
+                 and/or criminal prosecution.
+
+                (c) 199? Warner Bros. Pay TV Cable Network Features
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+            Warner Bros. Pay-TV Network Features is the
+        author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                        Production - 502
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/090.The-Very-Long-Night-of-Londo-Mollari b/ftp/Credits/090.The-Very-Long-Night-of-Londo-Mollari
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+                                                         presented in
+                                                         DD SURROUND TM
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+Bruce Boxleitner              as      President John Sheridan
+Jerry Doyle                   as      Michael Garibaldi
+Mira Furlan                   as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+Richard Biggs                 as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+Bill Mumy                     as      Lennier
+Tracy Scoggins                as      Captain Elizabeth Lochley
+Stephen Furst                 as      Vir Cotto
+Jeff Conaway                  as      Security Chief Zack Allan
+Patricia Tallman              as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+Peter Jurasik                 as      Londo Mollari
+                             And
+Andreas Katsulas              as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                    J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[production credits]
+
+                     "The Very Long Night
+                       of Londo Mollari"
+
+                        Guest Starring
+Ross Kettle                     as      David W. Foster
+
+        Music by                        Christopher Franke
+        Edited by                       David W. Foster
+        Production Designer             John Iacovelli
+        Director of Photography         John C. Flinn III, A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           Harlan Ellison
+        Co-Producer                     Skip Beaudine
+        Produced by                     John Copeland
+        Written by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+        Directed by                     David J. Eagle
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              Douglas Netter
+        Executive Producer              J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              Susan Norkin
+
+                            Co-Starring
+        Akiko Ann Morison               Med Tech
+
+        Unit Production Manager         Skip Beaudine
+        1st Assistant Director          Douglas E. Wise
+        2nd Assistant Director          David McWhirter
+
+        Casting by                      Fern Champion, C.S.A.
+                                    and Mark Paladini, C.S.A.
+
+        Original Casting by             Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              Christopher Franke
+                                    and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra
+
+        Costume Designer                Ann Bruice Aling
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      Netter Digital Animation
+
+        Senior Animators                Shant Jordan
+                                        Patrick Perez
+        CG Design & Animation Team      Tim Everitt
+                                        Tom Helmers
+                                        Harry Hendrickson
+                                        Rich Jeffreys, III
+                                        Geoffrey Mark
+                                        Jeff Montray
+                                        Don Neudecker
+                                        Josh Prikryl
+        Systems Engineer                Larry Stanton
+
+        Compositors                     Phillip Giles
+                                        Ken Busick
+                                        Kim Anderson
+
+        Concept Designs                 Timothy M. Earls
+
+Series Make-up Effects Created by       John Vulich
+                                        Optic Nerve Studios
+
+        Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto
+                                        Manny Case
+                                        Jerry Gergely
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      Jeff Farley
+        Make-up Effects Sculptors       John Wheaton
+                                        Glenn Eisner
+
+        Art Director                    Mark-Louis Walters
+        Set Decorator                   Jason Howard
+        Property Master                 Dark Hoffman
+        Graphic Artist                  Alan Kobayashi
+        Construction Coordinator        Curtis Laseter
+        Scenic Artist                   Matthew Plummer
+
+        Costume Supervisor              Kim M. Holly
+        Key Costume                     Linda Huse
+        Key Make-up Artist              Cinzia Zanetti
+        Hair & Make-up                  Kim M. Ferry
+        Key Hairstylist                 Barbara Wilder Pearlman
+
+        Camera Operator                 Peter B. Kowalski
+        1st Assistant Camera            Mike McEveety
+        Gaffer                          Carlos Torres
+        Key Grip                        Robert D. Blair
+        Best Boy Electric               Nathaniel Roberts
+        Dolly Grip                      Charles Lantz, Jr.
+
+        2nd 2nd  Assistant Director     Alisa Matlovsky
+        Special Effects Supervisor      Mike Del Genio
+        Stunt Coordinator               Kerry Rossall
+
+        Production Sound Mixer          Don H. Matthews, C.A.S.
+        Sound Designer                  Harry Cohen
+        Sound Effects Editors           Jeff Whitcher
+                                        Elisabeth Flaum
+        Re-recording Mixers             Larry Benjamin
+                                        Zeke Salas
+                                        Liz Sroka
+        Sound Supervisor                Mike Payne
+
+        First Assistant Editor          John Burrus
+        Assistant Editor                Mike Hackett
+        Apprentice Editor               Maritza Suarez
+        Post Production Coordinator     Pam Oseransky
+
+        Production Coordinator          Heidi Erl
+        Script Supervisor               Ken Gilbert
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd.
+        Production Accountant           Mike Hoover
+
+        Script Coordinator              Carol Henry
+        Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza
+                                        Karen Harrell
+                                        Joanne Higgins
+        Producer's Associate            Jeffrey Willerth
+Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant  Jonathan Gording, O.D.
+
+        Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+        Color by                        Pacific Film Laboratories
+                                        Electronic Laboratories TM
+                                        [logo] Laser-Pacific
+                                        [    ] Media Corporation
+        Digital Sound & Re-Recording by    ///// ///// ////
+                                          ///// ////   //
+                                         ///// //    ////
+                                        The Sound of Pictures
+                                        DD Dolby Surround TM
+        Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+      This motion picture is protected under the laws of the
+       United States and other countries. Any unauthorized
+      duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use
+    may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution.
+
+
+         (c) 1997 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+         Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the
+        author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                      Production Number - 503
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/091.The-Paragon-of-Animals b/ftp/Credits/091.The-Paragon-of-Animals
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+                                                         presented in
+                                                         DD SURROUND TM
+
+                            BABYLON 5
+
+                             Starring
+Bruce Boxleitner              as      President John Sheridan
+Jerry Doyle                   as      Michael Garibaldi
+Mira Furlan                   as      Delenn
+
+                          Also Starring
+Richard Biggs                 as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+Bill Mumy                     as      Lennier
+Tracy Scoggins                as      Captain Elizabeth Lochley
+Stephen Furst                 as      Vir Cotto
+Jeff Conaway                  as      Security Chief Zack Allan
+Patricia Tallman              as      Lyta Alexander
+
+                               With
+Peter Jurasik                 as      Londo Mollari
+                             And
+Andreas Katsulas              as      G'Kar
+
+        Created by                    J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[production credits]
+
+                          The Paragon
+                          of Animals
+
+                        Guest Starring
+Tony Abatemarco                 as      Verchan
+Robin Atkin Downes              as      Byron
+Kim Strauss                     as      Drazi Ambassador
+
+        Music by                        Christopher Franke
+        Edited by                       Kathie Burr
+        Production Designer             John Iacovelli
+        Director of Photography         John C. Flinn III, A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           Harlan Ellison
+        Co-Producer                     Skip Beaudine
+        Produced by                     John Copeland
+        Written by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+        Directed by                     Mike Vejar
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Executive Producer              Douglas Netter
+        Executive Producer              J. Michael Straczynski
+
+[closing credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              Susan Norkin
+
+                            Co-Starring
+        Daniel Bryan Cartmell           Merkat
+        Bart Johnson                    Ranger
+
+        Unit Production Manager         Skip Beaudine
+        1st Assistant Director          Pamela Eilerson
+        2nd Assistant Director          David McWhirter
+
+        Casting by                      Fern Champion, C.S.A.
+                                    and Mark Paladini, C.S.A.
+
+        Original Casting by             Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              Christopher Franke
+                                    and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra
+
+        Costume Designer                Ann Bruice Aling
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      Netter Digital Animation
+
+        Senior Animators                Shant Jordan
+                                        Patrick Perez
+        CG Design & Animation Team      Tim Everitt
+                                        Tom Helmers
+                                        Harry Hendrickson
+                                        Rich Jefferys, III
+                                        Geoffrey Mark
+                                        Jeff Montray
+                                        Don Neudecker
+                                        Josh Prikryl
+        Systems Engineer                Larry Stanton
+
+        Compositors                     Phillip Giles
+                                        Ken Busick
+                                        Kim Anderson
+
+        Concept Designs                 Timothy M. Earls
+
+Series Make-up Effects Created by       John Vulich
+                                        Optic Nerve Studios
+
+        Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto
+                                        Manny Case
+                                        Jerry Gergely
+        Make-up Effects Supervisor      Jeff Farley
+        Make-up Effects Sculptors       John Wheaton
+                                        Glenn Eisner
+
+        Art Director                    Mark-Louis Walters
+        Set Decorator                   Jason Howard
+        Property Master                 Dark Hoffman
+        Graphic Artist                  Alan Kobayashi
+        Construction Coordinator        Curtis Laseter
+        Scenic Artist                   Matthew Plummer
+
+        Costume Supervisor              Kim M. Holly
+        Key Costume                     Linda Huse
+        Key Make-up Artist              Cinzia Zanetti
+        Hair & Make-up                  Kim M. Ferry
+        Key Hairstylist                 Barbara Wilder Pearlman
+
+        Camera Operator                 Peter B. Kowalski
+        1st Assistant Camera            Mike McEveety
+        Gaffer                          Carlos Torres
+        Key Grip                        Robert D. Blair
+        Best Boy Electric               Nathaniel Roberts
+        Best Boy Grip                   Chris Nagle
+
+        2nd 2nd  Assistant Director     Alisa Matlovsky
+        Special Effects Supervisor      Mike Del Genio
+        Stunt Coordinator               Kerry Rossall
+
+        Production Sound Mixer          Don H. Matthews, C.A.S.
+        Sound Designer                  Harry Cohen
+        Sound Effects Editors           Jeff Whitcher
+                                        Elisabeth Flaum
+        Re-recording Mixers             Larry Benjamin
+                                        Zeke Salas
+                                        Liz Sroka
+        Sound Supervisor                Mike Payne
+
+        First Assistant Editor          John Burrus
+        Assistant Editor                Mike Hackett
+        Apprentice Editor               Maritza Suarez
+        Post Production Coordinator     Pam Oseransky
+
+        Production Coordinator          Celeste Healy
+        Script Supervisor               Ken Gilbert
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd.
+        Production Accountant           Mike Hoover
+
+        Script Coordinator              Carol Henry
+        Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza
+                                        Karen Harrell
+                                        Joanne Higgins
+        Producer's Associate            Jeffrey Willerth
+Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant  Jonathan Gording, O.D.
+
+        Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses
+
+        Color by                        Pacific Film Laboratories
+                                        Electronic Laboratories TM
+                                        [logo] Laser-Pacific
+                                        [    ] Media Corporation
+        Digital Sound & Re-Recording by    ///// ///// ////
+                                          ///// ////   //
+                                         ///// //    ////
+                                        The Sound of Pictures
+                                        DD Dolby Surround TM
+        Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR)
+
+       "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from  \-^-/
+                    Sonic Images Records                / \
+                         SI#8502-2                      `^'
+
+      This motion picture is protected under the laws of the
+       United States and other countries. Any unauthorized
+      duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use
+    may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution.
+
+         (c) 1997 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features
+                       ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                   Country of first publication
+                     United States of America
+
+         Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the
+        author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of
+            Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and
+             all national laws giving effect thereto.
+
+                      Production Number - 504
diff --git a/ftp/Credits/111.In-the-Beginning b/ftp/Credits/111.In-the-Beginning
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Credits/111.In-the-Beginning
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+Note: Actors who appeared in earlier printed versions of the credits
+but not in the onscreen credits are noted in {braces.}
+
+                         TNT Presents
+
+                                                         presented in
+                                                        DD SURROUND TM
+
+                          BABYLON 5
+                       In the Beginning
+
+                           Starring
+Bruce Boxleitner                as      Lt. Commander John Sheridan
+Mira Furlan                     as      Delenn
+Richard Biggs                   as      Dr. Stephen Franklin
+Andreas Katsulas                as      G'Kar
+                             And
+Peter Jurasik                   as      Londo Mollari
+{Claudia Christian              as      Susan Ivanova}
+
+                        Guest Starring
+Theodore Bikel                  as      Lenonn
+Reiner Schone                   as      Dukhat
+
+        Music by                        Christopher Franke
+        Edited by                       Skip Robinson
+        Production Designer             John Iacovelli
+        Director of Photography         John C. Flinn III, A.S.C.
+        Conceptual Consultant           Harlan Ellison
+        Executive Producer              Douglas Netter
+        Executive Producer              J. Michael Straczynski
+        Produced by                     John Copeland
+        Created by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+        Written by                      J. Michael Straczynski
+        Directed by                     Mike Vejar
+
+[end credits]
+
+        Associate Producer              Susan Norkin
+
+                       Special Appearance By
+Michael O'Hare                          [Lt. Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair]
+
+                            Co-Starring
+Robin Atkin Downes                      Morann
+J. Patrick McCormack                    General Lefcourt
+
+Tricia O'Neil                           President
+Robin Sachs                             Coplann
+James Patrick Stuart                    Presidential Aide
+
+                             Featuring
+Jason Azikiwe                           Captain Sterns
+Yasemin Baytok                          Centauri Woman
+Kristin Birch                           Woman 1
+Justin Carroll                          Comm Officer
+Ardwight Chamberlain                    Kosh
+Jacob Chase                             Luc
+Tim Colceri                             Captain Jankowski
+{Lane Davies                            Callier}
+Timothy Davis-Reed                      Man 1
+Pancho Demmings                         Alpha 7
+Steven Ford                             First Officer
+Mio R. Jakula                           Ganya Ivanov
+Nick Jameson                            Minbari Pilot
+Mike Kennedy                            General Fontaine
+Erica Mer                               Lyssa
+Mark Rafael Truitt                      Minbari Warrior
+
+        Unit Production Manager         Skip Beaudine
+        1st Assistant Director          Douglas E. Wise
+        2nd Assistant Director          David McWhirter
+
+        Casting by                      Fern Champion, C.S.A.
+                                    and Mark Paladini, C.S.A.
+
+        Original Casting by             Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+
+        Music Performed by              Christopher Franke
+                                    and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra
+
+        Costume Designer                Ann Bruice Aling
+
+        Visual Effects Produced by      Netter Digital Animation
+        Senior Animators                Shant Jordan
+                                        Patrick Perez
+
+        CG Design and Animation Team    Tim Everitt
+                                        Tom Helmers
+                                        Harry Hendrickson
+                                        Rich Jeffreys III
+
+                                        Geoffrey Mark
+                                        Jeff Montray
+                                        Don Neudecker
+                                        Josh Prikryl
+        Systems Engineer                Larry Stanton
+
+        Compositors                     Phillip Giles
+                                        Ken Busick
+        Matte Artist                    Eric Chauvin
+        Concept Designs                 Luc Mayrand
+                                        Timothy M. Earls
+
+Series Make-up Effects Created by       John Vulich
+                                        Optic Nerve Studios
+
+        Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto
+                                        Manny Case
+                                        Jerry Gergely
+        Make-up Effects Supervisors     Jeff Farley
+                                        Mark Garbarino
+        Make-up Effects Sculptors       John Wheaton
+
+        Art Director                    Mark-Louis Walters
+        Set Decorator                   Jason Howard
+        Property Master                 Dark Hoffman
+        Graphic Artist                  Alan Kobayashi
+        Construction Coordinator        Curtis Laseter
+        Scenic Artist                   Matthew Plummer
+
+        Costume Supervisor              Kim M. Holly
+        Key Costume                     Linda Huse
+        Key Make-up Artist              Cinzia Zanetti
+        Hair & Make-up                  Kim M. Ferry
+        Key Hairstylist                 Barbara Wilder Pearlman
+
+        Camera Operator                 Peter B. Kowalski
+        1st Assistant Camera            Wally Sweeterman
+        Gaffer                          "The" John Smith
+        Key Grip                        Robert D. Blair
+        Best Boy Electric               Carlos Torres
+        Best Boy Grip                   Charles S. Lantz, Jr.
+
+        2nd 2nd Assistant Director      Alisa Matlovsky
+        Special Effects by              Ultimate Effects
+        Special Effects Supervisor      Dayton Osmond
+        Stunt Coordinator               Kerry Rossall
+
+        Production Sound Mixer          Don H. Matthews, C.A.S.
+        Sound Designer                  Harry Cohen
+        Sound Effects Editors           Jeff Whitcher
+                                        Elisabeth Flaum
+
+        Re-recording Mixers             Larry Benjamin
+                                        Zeke Salas
+                                        Liz Sroka
+        Sound Supervisor                Mike Payne
+
+        First Assistant Editor          Kathie Burr
+        Assistant Editor                John Burrus
+
+        Production Coordinator          Heidi Erl
+        Script Supervisor               Ken Gilbert
+        Production Accounting
+            Services Provided by        Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd.
+        Production Accountant           Mike Hoover
+
+        Script Coordinator              Carol Henry
+        Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza
+                                        Karen Harrell
+                                        Joanne Higgins
+        Producer's Associate            Jeffrey Willerth
+Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant  Jonathan Gording, O.D.
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+These credits are compiled by Jack Holt.  If you should notice any
+errors, please notify me by email to <genoa@mit.edu>.
+
+Except for the pilot, all episode credits are in exactly the same
+format, so you can use 'diff' or something similar to look for
+changes from episode to episode.
+
+--Jack;
+
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++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+       Official Transcript of a formal real-time Conference with
+        J. Michael Straczynski, held Sunday, May 21st, 1995, in
+                DELPHI's Science Fiction & Fantasy SIG.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+
+.Gordie>  
+   Good evening, everyone, and welcome to DELPHI's Science Fiction & 
+   Fantasy SIG.  For the last few months, we've been having special 
+   Conferences with authors, giving them an opportunity to share a 
+   little insight into how they work, and where they might be going.  
+   Tonight, while seemingly unlike our last few Conferences, we 
+   actually have a rather similar situation.  Joe Straczynski is a 
+   writer and not just of individual television episodes, although he 
+   most certainly does that, too.  He has written a couple of novels 
+   as well, and as soon as he finishes with some, ah, other commitments, 
+   I suspect he will write others.  But what sets Joe apart from the 
+   rest of the crowd is a vision he has.  A vision to create a whole 
+   new form of storytelling.  The vision we have all come to know 
+   as Babylon 5.  I hope Joe will share some of his vision with us 
+   tonight, both for that literary form in general, and for the 
+   television gem, Babylon 5, specifically.
+
+   <Guidelines for online behavior snipped.>
+
+   With that out of the way, I'll open the floor to Joe for any opening 
+   comments he might like to make.  Joe?
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Many folks have noticed that I'm on a LOT of systems, and have 
+   wondered if it's really me making all these replies.  I wish to 
+   state categorically that it IS me writing all those messages, but 
+   since there is a limit on time, obviously this is not actually me 
+   in this conference, but rather someone that I have hired to pretend 
+   to be me while I'm off pretending to be Rondo Hatton, standing on 
+   the ledge of a large building, and I'll jump, I swear, I'll jump.
+
+   Go ahead.  Ask questions.  See if I care.  (Boy, is that a long 
+   drop.)  ga
+
+ALLBELL> 
+   Do you ever lurk in newsgroups for other shows? Do you find your 
+   reactions differ when you're in the groups for the other shows? ga
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   No, in general, I don't much lurk in other groups for other shows; 
+   I have a hard enough time keeping up with all the B5 groups.  
+   Though I do from time to time lurk on other B5 groups, so that I 
+   can see what folks are saying when they don't think I'm around, 
+   because I'm concerned that my presence sometimes may influence a 
+   group.  Unvarnished opinion is a sobering but educational thing.  ga
+
+ALLBELL> 
+   Have you gotten any ideas about universe building from the flamewars, 
+   etc. that go on on the Internet?
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Negative.  The only thing that flamewars do is to give me the chance 
+   to try out new Ivanova lines (or lines that BECOME Ivanova lines) 
+   about one's genetic ancestry, cerebral capacity, and other 
+   wonderfulnesses.  ga
+
+.Lemming> 
+   What became of the unmade season 1 Gerrold scripts?  Will they be 
+   made?  Will there be more Gerrold scripts?  Thanks, GA
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   There are no unproduced Gerrold scripts.  There were, as I recall, 
+   two outlines that never got to script, but no scripts per se; one of 
+   those outlines will be coming out as a two-parter in the B5 comic, 
+   so nothing goes to waste. ga
+
+.Lemming> 
+   This is not really unrelated, but bothering me, in _Knives_, Londo 
+   went one way, his sword the other, then it's back in his hand.  Is 
+   this a production glitch or did a shadow push it over?  Thanks, keep 
+   up the great work! GA
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   I think that's a camera thing; we shot that in master and close 
+   during that sequence, and the thing landed where it was supposed to; 
+   Londo grabbed forward for it, but I think in the close shot we used, 
+   you can't really see how far he's had to reach forward, which may 
+   account for the discrepency. ga
+
+.Elric> 
+   I have a two part question. 1, It seems that the FOX affiliate in this 
+   area has pushed the B5 episodes back to the wee hours of the morning 
+   instead of the 10:00 slot it once had. Is the B5 series in danger of 
+   being dropped (God forbid) ?!?!? And secondly, in an episode several 
+   weeks ago, they opened the novelty shops and I noticed some models of 
+   the B5 station and of a Starfury. Can fans order these things? If not 
+   will they ever be available? ga
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Stations have the option of airing the show pretty much whenever 
+   they so desire; sometimes they shift it good, sometimes they shift 
+   it bad.  It has no real impact on our chances, except in the 
+   cumulative ratings, if enough put us in crummy slots...  
+   As for the toys used, they were just made up for that episode, and 
+   don't exist in reality, nor are they for sale anywhere though you 
+   can take a pretty good guess where the Londo and G'Kar dolls ended 
+   up, and where the station model will end up after the series is 
+   finished.  ga  (Daffy duck voice: MINE, MINE, MINE!)
+
+.Gumby> 
+   Any truth to the rumour that Sheridan is history and that Sinclair 
+   is back as Station Commander in the 3rd season? ga
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   The rumor is not true. ga
+
+.Gumby> 
+   As well, how much input do you have in the novels and comics (which 
+   are both great, by the way)... ga
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Total and complete.  I review both in detail in outline and in 
+   draft form, I approve the script/pencils/inks in the comic, suggest 
+   stories, and I'm writing a 4-issue arc.  The 3rd novel was a bit 
+   off-kilter (no fault of John's), and I sent it back for considerable 
+   revisions, which put it back a month, but I'd rather have it right 
+   than fast. ga
+
+.Gumby> 
+   Right on !!
+
+.Gordie> 
+   Are there any plans to do some kind of multimedia product?
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Yes, a CD rom is in the works, but not for a while yet.  I'm less 
+   interested in ancillary marketing, merchandising, and all that 
+   than just Telling The Story.  I've seen merchandising get in the 
+   way too often.  ga
+
+.John> 
+   Will Commander (ambassador) Sinclair and his organization play a larger 
+   part in the upcoming season or is he bowing out of the show? ga
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   All I can say for now is that we will see a lot more of the Rangers 
+   in the coming season (assuming we're renewed).  As for the rest, I'd 
+   rather hold back just now. ga
+
+.CompuJohn> 
+   Are the rumors true that the last 4 episodes of season 2 won't be 
+   shown in the US until October ?
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Yes, they are correct.  Ain't my decision.  The Powers That Be 
+   figure that if they hold off the last 4, they can use them to lead 
+   up to the start of the (hopefully) new season in November, and get 
+   us off to a good start.  They say that HUTS (Households Using TV) 
+   figures are very low for June, July and August, since everybody's out. 
+   In September, you're right up against the new blockbuster network 
+   shows, and their PR machine, so that leaves October.  My opinion...  
+   ...is my opinion.  ga   (I can chew glass too when required.)
+
+.CompuJohn> 
+   B5 has just the right amount of humor sprinkled in... Is the wall 
+   hanging of Daffy Duck in Garibaldi's room available in stores? GA
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Yeah, I think it's a commercial print, so it probably is.  ga
+   (It may be on velvet.)
+
+.Neil> 
+   Hi Joe.  Dunno if you remember me, but I was six inches and 90 
+   degrees to your left at the I-Con banquet last year.  I've heard a 
+   rumor that you're considering compressing the series should a year 
+   four not look to be in the cards.  Total BS?  Or is it still a total 
+   fight for survival on your end?
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   I'm not sure it CAN be condensed, and certainly I have no current 
+   plans in that area.  But it's always a fight to get this thing done 
+   right, and to see it through to the end.  But if it was easy, 
+   everybody'd be doing it.  ga
+
+.Neil> 
+   Yeah, the offer I made before to send a screener of that film I 
+   translated still stands.  Interested at all?
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Would you like to see the stack of tapes on my desk that I haven't 
+   looked at yet?  I appreciate the offer, but....
+
+.Neil> 
+   Gotcha...  Maybe some year...
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   ...my time is zilch; the only films I've seen in the last 9 months 
+   have been on airlines.  24 hours a day, B5 is my life. ga
+
+.Colin> 
+   There are many subtle (and not so subtle) references to classic SF. To 
+   what extent have you been influenced by EE Doc Smith's Lensman series? 
+   (Humans bail out the galaxy.) (Or for that matter, Heinlein, Clarke, 
+   movies, etc...)  ga
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   I've been influenced in a generic sense, rather than in any 
+   particulars; I grew up on the big sagas of SF and fantasy literature 
+   and I'd always wondered why nobody ever did something on that scale 
+   for TV, and the answer is, "Because nobody's done it." ....
+   So I figured, may as well be me.  As for specifics, I grew up on 
+   all the main writers of the genre... Heinlein, Clarke, Bradbury, 
+   Ellison, Matheson, Asimov, you name it...plus my models in many other 
+   ways were writers like Norman Corwin, Rod Serling, Paddy Chayefsky, 
+   Reginald Rose and others who loved language and weren't afraid to 
+   have someone talking for more than 2 lines at a time. ga
+
+.Colin> 
+   Thanks. Just wanted to say that I really look forward to each episode, 
+   and enjoy everything except the size (or rather lack thereof) of the 
+   comic. Any plans to expand it? ga
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   No, all DC comics are the same length, 24 pages.  That's immobile. ga
+
+.NumberSix> 
+   This follows nicely upon Colin's question.  The references to 
+   _The_Prisoner_ in B5 are fairly clear, and I've started some 
+   discussions here and elsewhere as to whether there is an equivalent 
+   to No. 6 in B5.  Any comments? ga
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   First, there is a difference between a nod and a one-to-one 
+   reference or template; if you look for ANY character in B5 to echo 
+   somebody else in another story or series, you won't find it; I didn't 
+   work 5 years to sell this thing just to do the Prisoner or Lord of 
+   the Rings with the serial numbers filed off; this is a unique and 
+   independent story; I nod out of respect, not to leave a knive where I 
+   have extracted something.  Second: the REAL number six would NEVER 
+   identify himself as such... so I conclude that you are an IMPOSTER!  
+   Delphi police, arrest this man! ga
+
+ALLBELL> 
+   He is not a free man. He is a number.
+
+.NumberOne> 
+   Thanks!  And yes, there is much more to B5 than a Prisoner clone.
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   (The B5 CD soundtrack is playing as I type this.  Buy it.  It's 
+   great.)
+
+.Rich_L> 
+   Was it your intention to make the Shadows insectile to generate a fear 
+   reflex in the viewers, or did it just end up that way? GA
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Certainly when I thunk them up, I wanted them to scare the bejeezus 
+   out of people when they appeared; we went through several different 
+   design elements, and that was the one that creeped me out the most, 
+   and thus we went with that one...  I'm not sure I said, going in, 
+   "I want big honking bugs," but what we got, I like, and when you look 
+   real close they're not quite as insectlike as they may appear.  Very 
+   alien looking.  ga
+
+.Rich_L> 
+   It scared my wife enough to give her nightmares for a week... Any 
+   chance we will see more of the enigmatic aliens that Sinclair's 
+   fiance encountered that one episode? I liked them a lot.
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Hurm.........no comment.  ga
+
+GRAGEM> 
+   Do you know when the pilot will be released or rebroadcast?
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   My hope is that it'll be soonish, summer or fall, but I don't know 
+   that for a fact.  ga
+
+.Rob> 
+   Artifical intelligence is already under development in today's time.  
+   Will we learn that sophisticated, human-level artificial intelligence 
+   has been been perfected by B5's time and is in commercial and/or 
+   govermental use?  As an aside, I *want* a Sheridan Bear (I assume you 
+   can be bribed?:)
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   I can't be bribed, but I can be rented...
+
+.Gumby> 
+   <lol> :)
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   I've kind of set aside a lot of the AI stuff, on the grounds that 
+   it kinda gets in the way, and once all the fooforah is done with, I 
+   suspect that people will want their computer systems to be seen and 
+   not heard, and reasonably obedient.  Certainly the B5 system is very 
+   intuitive, but not AI in the sense that we've come to expect it might 
+   be.  I dunno...every time I think about trying it, I see Twikki, and 
+   I fall down.  "Open the pod bay doors, Hal."  Ehhh...I just dunno. ga
+
+.Rob> 
+   ::chuckle::  What's up with Keffer?  Will he back?  Will he stick 
+   around?  Will he play a more involved role in the story?
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   The last four episodes of this season show Keffer a lot more.  (We 
+   build a little of that in the next ep) ga
+
+DEBGREEN> 
+   How do feel about using things routinely today, that were SF 50 years 
+   ago?
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   I suppose on one level, it's amazing, as you say, but at the same 
+   time, what was incredible 100 years ago was perfectly real 50 years 
+   ago, it's part of human social and scientific evolution.  I think if 
+   we weren't constantly amazed, we'd be dead, but on one level, I think 
+   we kind of take it for granted after a while.  (I used to own a Kaypro 
+   II with 64K and a 180K floppy, and now I have 2 gig, a 17" monitor, 
+   with amazing facilities and 64MEGS ram and it ain't enough yet.  We 
+   are engaged in the parade of humanity toward the future, and imagining 
+   it is fascinating for what is, and what isn't done...  
+   "Just Imagine," a B&W SF MUSICAL in the 1930s showed life in the 1980s, 
+   50 years hence, with private aircars, pills instead of food, people 
+   with numbers instead of names, and little/none of it's true.  It's 
+   scattergun.  We live in the future; it's ALL amazing.  ga
+
+DEBGREEN> 
+   When do you expect to find out about next season's pick-up/cancellation?
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   We keep hoping on an almost daily basis to get the word; the folks 
+   who make the decision will be back in town come Monday, so with luck 
+   we'll hear something this week.  ga
+
+SLOMICHAEL> 
+   If KOSH is one of the few remaining old ones, and the Vorlons helped 
+   fight with the old ones a 1000 years ago, does this mean he is not 
+   a Vorlon or there is only one Vorlon-him?  Also I believe that the 
+   Minbari on the planet below Babylon 5 will be seen again in the fifth 
+   season. ga
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Kosh is a Vorlon.  The Vorlons fought the Shadows.  There are many 
+   Vorlons, back home.  (The Writer committed an error in that he used 
+   too many pronouns in that segment of dialogue.)  And we'll see Draal 
+   again *this* season.  ga
+
+.Lor> 
+   Will we see the original doctor (from the pilot) again or hear more 
+   about what happened to him?
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   See?  No, no plans for now.  Hear about?  Yes.  ga
+
+.Lor> 
+   This season? Or later? GA
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Sorta/kinda both. ga
+
+.Lor> 
+   Thanks! GA
+
+CEKELLEY> 
+   With the war started, and only two seasons down with three to go 
+   how much/how often can we expect to see space and or GroPo combat 
+   scenes? ga
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Not that much gropo stuff, but you're going to be seeing a LOT more 
+   space combat stuff, particularly later this season.  There's some 
+   amazing stuff coming, including probably the single biggest engagement 
+   we've shown yet.  Something on the order of a dozen fleet-sized capital 
+   ships, plus a couple hundred fighters wizzing around, new and unusual 
+   weapons, and some long-range tactical strategy, rather than everything 
+   at close range (several thousand klicks apart). Nifty stuff.  ga
+
+.Gumby> 
+   Cool !
+
+PATGIBBS> 
+   What are the prospects for a successful letter writing campaign to 
+   reverse the PTN decision to delay broadcast of the last 4 Season 2 
+   episodes from June to October?  ga
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   If I were to comment on this, or suggest anything, it could be 
+   problematic in my relationship with PTEN.  Verstehen Sie?  ga
+
+PATGIBBS> 
+   Does PTEN know and or care about the success of B5 on the net? GA
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Stark cold reality: if you added up every single person on the nets 
+   who watches B5, it wouldn't be .0001 in the ratings and that's all 
+   they care about.  I'm here out of respect for the fans, as part of an 
+   experiment, to get a sense of the room and to learn more about my 
+   characters by answering questions; I don't think the networks really 
+   understand/care about the nets sui generis. ga
+
+.Clint> 
+   Can you give us a hint about why Mars is important?  Is there a link 
+   to the Shadows? ga
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Possible.  Look for the conclusion of, and the current story arc 
+   in, the comic as now being published.  GA
+
+.High Res> 
+   In comic #1, Rathenn tells Sinclair that the soul migration has been 
+   going on for nearly six thousand years.  In "Points of Departure," 
+   Lennier tells Sheridan that it's been going on for a much shorter time 
+   period--one or two thousand years, I forget which.  Would you be 
+   willing to comment on the discrepancy between the two time periods? ga
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Rathenn spoke incorrectly.  ga
+
+.High Res> 
+   In book #2, Accusations, why does G'Kar appear on the cover and not 
+   in the book? And, on page 252, there's a brief reference to Sinclair. 
+   Was that a typo? That's all. ga
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   The covers were done in advance of the books being written; I'm not 
+   thrilled about this, because it can be as misleading as our promos 
+   tend to be.  This will, one hopes, be amended in future.  ga
+
+.High Res> 
+   And the reference to Sinclair? ga
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Which reference?
+
+.High Res> 
+   Right after the Joint Chiefs of Staff schedule a review for Ivanova,
+   and it cuts to action with the Asimov docking on the station. The next 
+   sentence starts out "Sinclair" and then switches to Sheridan. ga
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Typo.  Not My Fault.  ga
+
+.phil athans> 
+   Is there any opportunity for freelance writers like me to write 
+   for B5?  And if so, how does one start that process? ga
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   In the past, I've always tried to stay open to newbies, and the 
+   like, but in this case, bear in mind that we're not looking for 
+   outside stories.  We've GOT all the stories.  I don't take pitches, 
+   I assign stories out of my outline to writers, usually writers I've 
+   worked with before, or who come with sterling credentials.  So, alas, 
+   we're kinda closed. ga
+
+.phil athans> 
+   Oh well... Have you thought about a role-playing game based on B5? ga
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Would love one.  Nobody's approached us formally yet. ga
+
+.phil athans> 
+   I'd be willing to try. ga
+
+52RANGER> 
+   A steely eye just opened at Wizards of the Coast ;)
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   You have to have your company, or A company, approach WB and 
+   formally license the thing. ga
+
+.Gordie> 
+   Let me sneak one in here...  How do you decide how much of the greater 
+   arc to reveal each week?  The balance between saying too much and not 
+   saying enough has to be tricky.
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Mainly, you just have to feel your way through on instinct and 
+   planning.  For instance, in planning for the (hopefully) third year, 
+   I pulled out my notes, and 22 index cards.  Went through my series 
+   outline, and picked the eventsI needed at the start of 2260, and the 
+   end; then pulled out all the other incidents that had to happen in 
+   that year, and began assigning one-two to each card, putting the cards 
+   in order so I could see the whole season at a glance if an item seems 
+   light, I may pair it up with another incident, or if it's too arc-heavy, 
+   pull it out and pair it up with a lighter episode.  It's all very 
+   subjective.  ga
+
+.Gordie> 
+   So the pacing really got locked in when you came up with the whole arc.
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Mostly.  There's some room to maneuver in there, so I can slide stuff 
+   around to make things interesting, and keep the arc fresh but in 
+   general, yeah, it's set.  It's a novel, with outline.  You always veer 
+   a bit once you hit the book/script, but for the most part, it's set. ga
+
+.Brendan> 
+   I've missed several crucial episodes both this season and last. Are 
+   there any plans to release old eps into syndication or on video once 
+   the series' run is complete? ga
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   This season will be rerun to within an inch of its life.  First 
+   season will not, on the theory that folks'll get confused by seeing 
+   a new CO, though I understand that the tapes for year one will be 
+   out later this summer.  ga
+
+.Gordie> 
+   Your theory, or Someone Else's?  <g>
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Not mine, jack. ga
+
+.Brendan> 
+   One more quick yes-no question: Was Sinclair's departure planned from
+   the start?
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   That's a much harder question to answer than you know; but I'll try 
+   to surround it a bit; this may take a while...  I always knew, going 
+   in, that I was going to have a hard time folding all of this baggage 
+   into Sinclair's duffel; survivor of the line, head of B5, missing 24 
+   hours, Minbari soul, AND with a connection to the shadows?  It 
+   stretched credulity to a tremendous extent.  I figured, once I got 
+   into the writing, it would work itself out.  It did so by saying, 
+   "Y'know, it'd be a better solution to bring in a new character, and 
+   move Sinclair off the chessboard.  It'd let you focus more on Minbar, 
+   bring in the Rangers more smoothly, have someone to bounce new info 
+   off of for newbies to the show, tie in the Shadows, and allow more 
+   conflict and an escalation of the arc."  So I looked at that, and saw 
+   that it fillled the areas of the outline that sagged a bit.  Remember, 
+   nothing to me is sacred but the telling of the whole story.  Nothing 
+   gets in the way of that, including any personal relationships I may 
+   have with cast, writers, crew, anybody.  So I went to Michael, and 
+   said, "If we do this, I can do a lot more things than I can do now."  
+   He liked the idea and there were some things he wanted to do, so we 
+   parted company amicably, with the notion that down the road, we might 
+   intersect again for some elements of the story.  So parts of the 
+   parting were *indicated* or prefaced by the story going in, but I 
+   didn't know the *shape* of that resolution until I got there.  ga
+
+.Brendan> 
+   OK, thanks! ga
+
+.Scott> 
+   Any plans for a map of the galaxy, where the homeworlds are in relation 
+   to each other and such?
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   We have one, kinda, in the office, for our use, but no plans for a 
+   general map.  ga
+
+.Scott> 
+   Loved the baseball in "knives"...is football far behind?  Thanks for a 
+   great show. ga
+
+.Matt> 
+   When will we learn what the Third Age of Mankind is? ga
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Eventually.  ga
+
+.Matt> 
+   Hehehe..Well, that's definitely non-specific :)   We've heard rumors 
+   that there will be new actors for season 3 - Is that true?  If so, 
+   can you give us names?
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Yes, and no names.
+
+.Matt> 
+   Ok, thanks...All of us at StMOO (telnet moo.ravenet.com 1701) would 
+   also like to say thanks :)
+
+.Karen> 
+   I appreciate that B5 mentions God routinely...but Why?
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Karen...why not?  (Stand by, folks, looking for her reply.) ga
+
+.Karen> 
+   No, no, I really glad. Your characters have more depth.. and you've put 
+   a Jew in space!
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Okay, background here...  I'm an atheist.  My attitude is that we must 
+   respect those who wish to believe, and those who choose not to, in 
+   equal terms.  Consequently, I must properly respect the notion that 
+   in 250 years, religion will still be here and people will still be 
+   wrestling with it in many ways...  Bear in mind that, in early history, 
+   science and religion emerged as ways of trying to understand the 
+   universe around us, using very different methods - faith vs. the 
+   scientific method - but the desire and the intent are twin impulses so 
+   why not give respect to the idea that some believe?  Hence, I 
+   don't keep religion out of my show.  It seems to me that it's the only 
+   way to go if I am to be HONEST in how I portray the future, and my 
+   characters.  And the first obligation of a writer is to be honest in 
+   his writing.  ga
+
+.Karen> 
+   Well an atheist who can include an ex-Jessuit and a Jew can't be all 
+   bad!
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Absolutely.  I'm just a wonderful human being and a force for good in 
+   my time.  Also a snappy dresser.  ga
+
+.Brendan> 
+   LOL
+
+.Rich_L> 
+   rotflmao
+
+.Robert> 
+   (geez, it's Bill Shatner)
+
+.Gumby> 
+   <LOL> :)
+
+.John_Drake> 
+   Sorry to keep switching names & numbers, but it's hard to find oneself 
+   in v-space...  Since Ellison is 'conceptual consultant,' do you know 
+   if he's still as adamant about the terms 'speculative fiction' as 
+   opposed to 'sci-fi' as ever?  BTW, thanks for providing hours of work 
+   tracking down the multitudes of literary, historical, and cultural 
+   references.  ga
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   That's m'job.  As for Harlan, yeah, he hates Sci-Fi; says it's the 
+   sound of crickets screwing.  ga
+
+.Brendan> 
+   LOL again
+
+.Gumby> 
+   Definitely ROFL !!
+
+.Rich_L> 
+   snorts of disgust.
+
+.John_Drake> 
+   Quick followup; any comment on Inonova's possible telepathy?
+
+.Brendan> 
+   Oh don't be such a stick in the mud Rich :)
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Who said she had telepathy?  I never said this.  How could I 
+   comment on something I've never said?  Such a strange question.  ga
+
+.John_Drake> 
+   My wife said she does :)
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   I should believe somebody who married YOU?
+
+WARGAMERDAVE> 
+   Thanks, have any any TV and/or movie stars asked to be on the show?
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   From time to time, yes.  We've had folks come to us, but I'm not 
+   sure if it would be correct for me to say who.  ga
+
+WARGAMERDAVE> 
+   If for some reason there is no season 3 would you consider doing 
+   some theatical movies to tie up the show?
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   I can't even consider that possibility. The only way this show has 
+   been made is as an act of sheer will.  I decided that it would have a 
+   pilot, that we'd get the series order, and we'd go the full run; if I 
+   allow myself the slightest doubt on that, it'll never happen.  ga
+
+WARGAMERDAVE> 
+   Thank You..
+
+C_HAMER> 
+   Is there an earth based outlet for the JS bears? (and B5 soundtrack 
+   CD), or do I have to scrape one off the nose of a starfury? GA
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   No bear boutiques.  Soundtrack CD is available at any record store 
+   now, from Sonic Images.  (The end credits on the show now list the 
+   ID # for the soundtrack.) ga
+
+C_HAMER> 
+   Followup: What is the count of Amigas in the rendering farm?
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   14,287.   How the hells hould I know, they tell me it's faerie dust, 
+   and I believe them.  (I think it's actually 10.)
+
+.Brendan> 
+   (nearly spewed my coffee there...)
+
+.Gordie> 
+   Matthew, I missed you earlier.  You're the host of the B5 Custom Forum, 
+   invite the nice folks over, and ask your question.
+
+.Matthew> 
+   Ok.. thanks.. :)  The CF is 118, btw.  And my question is when, if at 
+   all, will Zathras be making a return appearance?
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Eventually, yes.  What should I do when I get there?  (Can't stay 
+   long, either, btw.)  Even though we don't have an order yet for 
+   year three, I have to get X-number of scripts ready regardless. ga
+
+.Matthew> 
+   Well, I was going to show you around the forum, if you have the time.
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Oh....s'okay, I stopped by yesterday and ran around the place 
+   naked.  (You should get a heater in there.)  ga
+
+.Matthew> 
+   hehe..
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Check your logons and you'll see my tracks.  (Alas, nobody noticed, 
+   except one user who pointed and said, "MY husband has one just like 
+   that, but bigger.)
+
+.Brendan> 
+   ROFLMAO
+
+.Robert> 
+   Ouch, hot tea out the nose!
+
+.Elric> 
+   I must say that your team along with Ron Thortons team is a perfect 
+   match! Do those guys have time for any other projects?  And thanks 
+   for a GREAT SHOW!
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   I've developed several other projects, which are in various stages 
+   with variuos studios, but haven't pushed too hard since B5 remains 
+   my first priority, and I wouldn't be running those shows as a result 
+   the same way I run b5.  ga
+
+GRAGEM> 
+   Will Sinclair make another appearance before the end of this season?
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Not this season, no.  But as I peek over at my outline, I see a 
+   possible two-parter... ga
+
+52RANGER> 
+   Opening a jumpgate back to reality...2 quick thankyous JMS...One for 
+   B5...One for your WD Book & column work...Keeps me from straying too 
+   far :)
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Thanks.
+
+.Gumby> 
+   Is Babylon 5 going to released on laser disc any time soon?  This show 
+   BEGS to be seen on laser disc !!
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Eventually, yes; but to do so, we would have to re-telecine all of 
+   the footage back to its original aspect ratio, then reassemble it all.  
+   Which we've discussed, and I've volunteered (at great personal 
+   sacrifice) to screen the first set of disks for QC when this happens.  
+   But because of the massive work involved, it won't be for a bit 
+   yet.  ga
+
+.Gumby> 
+   Rats !!
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Mice
+
+.Gumby> 
+   <LOL> :)
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Okay, let's see...  How about the narration for year three?  Though 
+   I doubt anybody'd be interested in that... Nah, never mind.
+
+.Gordie> 
+   Vir?
+
+C_HAMER> 
+   please.. go ahead
+
+.Robert> 
+   Daffy Duck?
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   You sure?
+
+.Brendan> 
+   YES!
+
+C_HAMER> 
+   Yes...Kosh perhaps?
+
+.Colin> 
+   Yes, please!
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Wouldn't want to be a bother.  (Not who, but what's said.)
+
+.Gordie> 
+   Bother away!
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Okay, here t'is.
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   "The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace.  It failed.
+   But in the year of the shadow war, it became something greater: our 
+   last, best hope...for victory. The year is 2260. The place: Babylon 5."
+
+.Scott> 
+   cool
+
+.Rich_L> 
+   Oh, damn...
+
+ALLBELL> 
+   Victory is not a greater thing than peace.
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Depends on the war.
+
+.Colin> 
+   Definite Coolness!
+
+ASCHMUECKER> 
+   wow!
+
+GRAGEM> 
+   whoa..
+
+.Brendan> 
+   You'd think these characters would notice sooner or later that 
+   something earth shattering happens every January.. :)
+
+.Gumby> 
+   Tres Cool !!
+
+.Karen> 
+   YES!
+
+C_HAMER> 
+   Please tell me Lando is going to read it again.
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   You'll get a hint in the last ep to who reads it.
+
+.Gordie> 
+   _Our_ last, best hope...  Ivanova'd be my guess.
+
+.Karen> 
+   YES, please
+
+WARGAMERDAVE> 
+   gotta be her
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Could be.
+
+.Gumby> 
+   Damn straight !!
+
+C_HAMER> 
+   Which won't be till October. :(
+
+.Gordie> 
+   Could be Keffer, too...
+
+.Brendan> 
+   In which ep did the war break out?
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   One sorta slides into the other.  As wars do.
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Oh, HR, yours is the last question.  No pressure.  All these folks 
+   waiting to see what YOU'RE going to ask.
+
+.High Res> 
+   How do you define atheism?
+
+STRACZYNSKI>
+                             ...you call that a question?
+   All these people, who gave you their chance to ask a question, and 
+   THAT'S IT?
+
+.High Res> 
+   It fits the standard definition of a question... Yeah!
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Well, yes, gramatically, it does, subject, object, punctuation... 
+   Now you want DOCTRINE on atheism?  Hasn't the world got enough 
+   problems?
+
+.High Res> 
+   Hey, you make us go nuts _every_week_.  I thought I'd see if I could 
+   reciprocate. <g>
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   I don't believe it.  (There, THAT'S your definition.)
+
+.Gumby> 
+   ROFL
+
+.Gordie> 
+   Author!  Author!
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   (It's true, ANYBODY can get on Delphi.)
+
+.High Res> 
+   Very...elusive. <g>
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   This is kinda like one of those moments when you go to McDonald's 
+   and the guy in the next booth is screaming about that damned Roosevelt.
+
+.Gordie> 
+   Well, I want to thank Joe for taking time to spend with us tonight.  
+   And all of you out there for joining us.
+
+.Colin> 
+   Thanks for the Conference, and most of all, thanks for the show.
+
+STRACZYNSKI> 
+   Thanks, everyone, for supporting the program.
+
+.Gordie>
+   This CO is officially over!
+==========================================================================
+     This transcript was edited to enhance clarity and correct typos.
+==========================================================================
+       For more information on upcoming guests for DELPHI's monthly
+             Author's Conference series, please send email to:
+                   Gordie Meyer <biblinski@delphi.com>
+=======
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+Transcript of real-time chat session with J. Michael Straczynski on August
+12, 1995 on Delphi.  This transcript has been shuffled around somewhat to
+make it wasier to follow.
+
+
+|.John Z.> I'd like to welcome J. Michael Sttaczynski to our group..
+|.John Z.> He's the creator and exec producer of Babylon 5.
+|.Straczynski> Thanks glad to be here.
+
+|.John Z.> I'd like to start by telling you all that B5 has recieved three Emmy
+|  nominations.
+|.Straczynski> With a possibility of a fourth announced Monday, we'll see.
+
+|.John Z.> JMS do you think that the acdemy ignores SF shows?
+|.Straczynski> ..............it's SF.
+
+|KLEVE> Which categories, please?
+|.Straczynski> Hair, cinematography, makeup.
+
+|GREATSARGON> is jms here yet?
+|.Straczynski> No, no sign of him yet.
+|GREATSARGON> hahah!!  great to meet u!!
+|.Robert> ::chuckle::
+
+|.Straczynski> Anyway, yes, the TV academy never takes SF seriously for the big
+|  awards.
+|.High Res> - signed off -
+
+|KLEVE> Why were actors changed for the commander on Bab5?
+|.Straczynski> Because it let me do stuff with the story that would've been
+|  difficult....
+|.Straczynski> otherwise; before we could do a, b and c, now we can do a,b,c, and
+|  D, and...
+|.Straczynski> D is very cool; I needed someone with a personal connection to the
+|  shadows...
+|.Straczynski> which Sinclair didn't have, but Sheridan could.  It made things
+|  easier.
+
+|.John Z.>  Will we see Sinclair this season?
+|.Straczynski> Tentatively, yes, in a two-parter in which Ambassador Sinclair
+|  comes to B5.
+|** .High Res just joined "JMS Conference" (17 members now) **
+
+|GREATSARGON> jms: how important were the Amiga's in the production?
+|.Straczynski> Amigas were important, then they went bye-bye, and now we're on a
+|  dos platform.
+|GREATSARGON> ohwell
+
+|KLEVE> Great to have you here!
+|.Straczynski> Thanks.
+|.Straczynski> We're now 2 days into shooting episode 2, season 3, "Convictions."
+|.Straczynski> Going very well indeed.
+|.High Res> - signed off -
+
+|.John Z.> Will we learn more about Kosh and his interest in humans?
+|.Straczynski> Oh, very definitely.
+
+|KLEVE> Will there be new additional Bab5 crew members?
+|.Straczynski> Not crew members, no, but a new recurring character, a ranger
+|  named....
+|KEKKER> Bob?
+|.Straczynski> Marcus Cole, portrayed by Jason Carter, a terrific young British
+|  actor.
+|** .High Res just joined "JMS Conference" (19 members now) **
+|.Straczynski> (Young = late 20s/early 30s...I just turned 41, and everyone's
+|  young to me.)
+|.John Z.> grin
+
+|GREATSARGON> Unfortunately we are in an area which pre-empts B5 frequently, any
+|  plans for video?
+|.Straczynski> We're leaning on WB to releasd video; they're not sure anybody'd
+|  want to buy the tapes.
+|.Robert> You're joking.
+|.Straczynski> They never really know what they've got with this show.
+|.Straczynski> Nope.
+|SCRIPTESE> Let's write letters folks!
+|KLEVE> Could Kosh's ship be the real ambassador?
+|.Straczynski> Nopers.
+|.Robert> Well it's getting more respect here.
+|.Straczynski> Slowy but surely, yeah.
+
+|KEKKER> What kind of support would a small model production run get from the
+|  show?
+|.Straczynski> Total support, assuming it was licensed.
+
+|ALLBELL> Do WB executives monitor the newsgroups at all?
+|.Straczynski> They didn't before, but they do now, for one reason....
+|.Straczynski> somebody sent WB faxes with everybody offering massive videotaping
+|  of the...
+|.Straczynski> final four eps from the UK, and that...
+|.High Res> - signed off -
+|.Straczynski> sent Legal Affairs into meltdown...so now they're here.
+
+|ALLBELL> Why doesndon't the studios allow the formation of a legal company that
+|  would make small runs
+|ALLBELL> of videotapes?
+|.Straczynski> Small runs aren't profitable, and any distribution of tapes would
+|  be through...
+|.Straczynski> Warner Bros. Home Video, per contractual obligations.
+|.Straczynski> ga
+
+|** .High Res just joined "JMS Conference" (20 members now) **
+|.Straczynski> high res is having some low res modem problems.
+|ALLBELL> Somehow this sounds rather shortsighted.
+|.Straczynski> no shit
+|.High Res> yes >:
+
+|.John Z.> Londo made a Faustian deal with the Shadows and seems to realize he's
+|  a pawn now.Will we learn more about the shadows and the results of that deal
+|  this season?
+|.Straczynski> Londo is going to have to deal with the consquences of his
+|  arrangement with Morden, no mistake, and try to get out of it; but that isn't
+|  going to be as easy as he thinks.
+|.Straczynski> He's caught in a web of his own making, and that's going to
+|  isolate him bigtime over this season.
+
+|KEKKER> How obvious to the average viewer will it be what Kosh is when he (it)
+|  is finally revealed?
+|.Straczynski> I'd say...pretty obvious.
+|.Straczynski> Well...each to his own.
+|.Straczynski> It depends on your perspective.
+|.Straczynski> Have I obfuscated enough?
+|KEKKER> Almost!
+|.Robert> Nope.
+|.High Res> - signed off -
+
+|.John Z.> Will we be seeing more of Zack Allen?
+|.Straczynski> Definitely.  He's getting dper into Nightwatch, and that's going
+|  to catch up with him.
+
+|."T"> Will we be seeing "Lou Welsh" getting more airtime, too?
+|.Straczynski> The actor is off doing other stuff, and has been for a while;
+|  depends on availability.
+|.Straczynski> We don't have, and can't get under SAG rules, locked optoions on
+|  recurs.
+
+|ALLBELL> What about Mira Fulan (sorry if I mangled her name)?
+|.Straczynski> What about her?
+|ALLBELL> It seemed like she was missing from some episodes last year. Was that
+|  planned or
+|ALLBELL> because she was doing other projects?
+|.Straczynski> No, I generally use people as they're required for the story,
+|  neither more no less; but Delenn's part of the story...
+|.Straczynski> is getting much more...intense as we go into year three, so we'll
+|  be seeing a lot more of her, in more active ways...
+|.Straczynski> she kinda had a crisis of conscience to go through this season,
+|  and now having done that..
+|.Straczynski> she's able to move on and be more active.
+|ALLBELL> Maybe she can get a perm.
+
+|.John Z.> Will Talia's no psi abilities affect the people on B5 soon?
+|.Straczynski> Wait and see.
+|.John Z.> grin
+|.Straczynski> We have something interesting planned for Talia.
+|.Robert> Good.
+
+|SCRIPTESE> Anything interesting gor Garibaldi?
+|.Straczynski> Yeah, mainly (in three) in making him more active again, more
+|  directly involved in crimes on the station, investigations....
+|.Straczynski> he sometimes fell into becoming an expository tool, and that needs
+|  to be adjusted.
+|KEKKER> Good. He's a great character.
+|.Straczynski> Yeah, he's a hoot.
+
+|."T"> Any comments on comic #9?
+|.Straczynski> ....................it's out?
+|.Straczynski> (that as comment.)
+|.Straczynski> It's kind of a whacky issue, which David Gerrold is good at.
+|.Straczynski> We figured, let's bend the format a little, take a chance.
+|.Robert> Oh no, not tribbles on B5.
+
+|ALLBELL> Is there some one who manages  the station at a level below Sheridan,
+|  Garibaldi, etc., or do th people we see manage it all by themselves?
+|.Straczynski> Yes, there are, and yes, we see them from time to time; we saw a
+|  bunch of them in...
+|.Straczynski> "Confessions," we see them in other major meetings of full command
+|  and support staff...
+|.Straczynski> it's just hard to work them into stories unless they've got
+|  something to DO, you don't just have someone wander in....
+|.Straczynski> without having a purpose in the story, and we've got 14-16
+|  recurring characters as it IS who don't get nearly...
+|.Straczynski> enough screen time.
+
+|KLEVE> My daughter (10 yrs.) asks "Are there going to be any new love affairs?"
+|.Straczynski> Tell your daughter yes, and then some.
+|.Straczynski> I try to avoid creating relationships/love affairs between crew
+|  members.
+
+|CASI> Will the relatWilll the relationship between Delenn and sheridan escalate
+|  this season?
+|.Straczynski> I should think so.
+
+|.High Res> A number of months ago you said in Usenet that someone was going to
+|  "buy it" soon.  Will that be in the next batch of new eps, or has it been
+|  postponed?
+|.Straczynski> Actually, depending on how you define "buys it," there could be
+|  TWO, both in the final four eps.
+
+|ALLBELL> When B5 characters "die," do they necessarily stay dead?
+|.Straczynski> They stay dead.
+
+|.John Z.> Is Morden analygous to Mordred in the Arthurian legend or Mordor in
+|  Tolkien <g>.
+|.Straczynski> No, John, neither.  I don't deal in 1to1 analogies like that.
+
+|.Andy> SO, all of the new season's storylines are already locked?
+|.Straczynski> All this season's storylines are locked, yes, but then, all five
+|  years are
+|.Straczynski> pretty muchlocked.
+
+|KLEVE> On the first episode with Sheridan, who thought up that crazy "fruit
+|  fetish theme"?
+|.Straczynski> Kleve: whose name is on the episode as writer?
+|KLEVE> Sorry, didn't do my homework
+|.Straczynski> Okay...mine.  If it's in my script, I thought of it.
+|.Straczynski> This seems to me something puzzling...
+|.Straczynski> there seems to be this notion of TV writing as somehow a bunch of
+|  people just sorta throw stuff in there...
+|.Straczynski> and I'm always being asked, "In this episode of yours, who
+|  tjhought up the idea of X?"  Well, I did...
+|.Straczynski> anway, onward....
+|KLEVE> Well my family enjoyed the fruit theme in a strange way it gave the
+|  developing character some dimension
+|.Straczynski> Yeah, it actually makes sense, if you're ship-bound that long, to
+|  start dreaming about fresh fruit.
+|.Straczynski> Space travel is very isolating, and difficult, and we need to get
+|  back to that concept.
+|.Straczynski> It ain't like going to the nearest 7-11 for pepsi.
+|.Straczynski> ga
+
+|JIMFLEXX> As you are more than half way through your 5 years, what has been the
+|  most difficult aspect of this project for you?
+|.Straczynski> The most difficult aspect, really, is pushing the quality of the
+|  show forward a step each season...
+|.Straczynski> we try and get more ambitious, we need to make the writing better
+|  constantly, and to try and always top yourself every time is tough
+|.Straczynski> and a little scary sometimes.
+
+|WAJ106> When will final four begin airing?
+|.Straczynski> The final four air starting in October, then new season 3 eps air
+|  right after, starting in November.
+
+|KLEVE> No replicators in the real world?
+|.Straczynski> Nossir.
+
+|MFK> Any chance Babylon Squared will be shown again?
+|.Straczynski> They've said they're holding off on year three episodes in reruns
+|  because...
+|.Straczynski> they're afraid the different commanders will confuse audience
+|  members.
+|.Straczynski> (I just report the news, folks, I don't make it.)
+|.Straczynski> ga
+
+|KLEVE> Again my daughter asks "Will there be any exotic pets on B5?"
+|.Straczynski> Not planned, no.
+|KLEVE> She loves your show!
+|.Straczynski> Your daughter has infinite taste.
+|KLEVE> and infinite questions!
+
+|.John Z.> What to do think as a writer of the Canadian law that prevent US
+|  writers from writing for US productions filmed in Canada?
+|.Straczynski> Did the laws change?  Originally, I thought they said you could
+|  have an American writer OR an American director, but not both.
+|.Straczynski> Anyway, it's their country, and they have the right to make what
+|  laws they choose.
+|.Straczynski> (Waitaminnit...in fact, on Kung Fu, an American show, they have
+|  American writers, so the rule hasn't changed.)
+|.John Z.> Grin... I wasn't aware that it only excluded both.
+|.Straczynski> Not both, one or the other in combination.
+
+|.Straczynski> Opening episodes for year 3: Matters of Honor, Convictions, A Day
+|  in the Strife, A voice in the Wilderness...
+|.Straczynski> ooops...Voices of Authority (the previous was a year 1 ep)...
+|.Straczynski> Passing through Gethsemane, and Dust to Dust.
+|KEKKER> There was mention that Gesthemane was also the name of a cheese.
+|.Straczynski> I don't believe it's a cheese.
+
+|ALLBELL> Were labor disputes a one-time problem or could they crop up again?
+|ALLBELL> I was thinking of the big strike. I thought there was just the one big
+|  strike.
+|.Straczynski> No, we've had no labor disputes.  And we're shot in the US.
+|.Straczynski> Oh, you mean the WGA strike, no, that's a dead issue, there won't
+|  be a strike, and SAG and DGA seem fine just now.
+|ALLBELL> I meant the strike on the show. (I can't figure out the ZSEND command,
+|  sory)
+|.Straczynski> Oh...well, there will be some interesting *changes* regarding
+|  labor and employee stuff in the show per se.
+
+|.John Z.> Will Babylon 5 be open to free lance writers through their agents?
+|.Straczynski> Not at this time, no.  If there's a writer I want, I go after him.
+
+|MFK> Who keeps the jumpgates out on the Rim in repair, like the one were the
+|  narn ship checking out the shadows was destroyed?
+|.Straczynski> They're pretty sturdy, made to last for a very long time.
+|MFK> No one tries to destroy the jumpgates?
+|.Straczynski> Sure, and some are destroyed, some aren't.  That one wasn't.
+|.Straczynski> (Actually, keep this question in mind in episode one, you'll see
+|  this in action.)
+
+|DDEBBIE> Hi JMS!  Thanks for appearing on Delphi live!  ? B5 reminds me of
+|  "Blade Runner."  I was wondering what you thought of that movie?
+|.Straczynski> I *love* Blade Runner; as it happens, I recently saw/bought the
+|  director's cut, and have to say it's infinitely better...
+|.Straczynski> than the one they futzed with, minus the narration and other dumb
+|  stuff.  It works greast.
+|.Straczynski> great.
+|.Straczynski> Or like greast lightning.
+|.Straczynski> Or something like that.
+
+|.High Res> My Dad heard somewhere that somewhere on the show there's a reference
+|  to "Prestident Clinton being impeached in her third term." I can't place this
+|  at all.  Is there any truth to it?
+|.Straczynski> Absolutely no truth to that whatsoever
+|.High Res> I'm glad.
+|ALLBELL> Yeah. Don't want Chelsea screwing up in office.
+
+|.John Z.> What's the best way to give you imput about the episodes?
+|.Straczynski> Watch them, and speak frankly.
+|.Straczynski> Also, define input.
+|.Straczynski> Story suggestions are a *big* no-no.
+|.John Z.> Critiques.
+|.Straczynski> The show is constantly critiqued on the nets.  And in letters.
+|  Believe me, at 500+ messages per day...
+|.Straczynski> I never lack for critiques.
+|.Straczynski> ga
+
+|ALLBELL> How do you decide which free-lance writers to pursue? How do you spot
+|  them?
+|.Straczynski> We have a sniper on the roof.
+|ALLBELL> :-)
+|.Straczynski> Mainly, it's writers I know from other shows, whose work I have
+|  enjoyed, and I track them down.  I'd kill for a script by...
+|.Straczynski> Neil Gaiman, for instance, and I'm going to keep after him until
+|  he surrenders.
+
+|SCRIPTESE> Did you like the writeup in TV Guide?
+|.Straczynski> I thought the TV Guide piece was very fair, all things considered.
+|.Straczynski> In a way, Star Trek has given SF fans a wrong and bad idea...
+|.Straczynski> as to how TV shows work; the idea of fans submitting story ideas
+|  and scripts...
+|.Straczynski> is absolutely not representative of how all the other shows work,
+|  that's only how ST works, because they're constantly...
+|.Straczynski> running out of ideas, and that's not a slam, that's what they
+|  themselves say about the issue.  We just don't have that problem.
+|.Straczynski> ga
+
+|.High Res> This has probably been asked before, but will Delenn be having a
+|  crossbreed baby? (Please tell me it won't look like Tasha Yar.)
+|.Straczynski> An excellent question.
+|.Straczynski> Next question.
+
+|KLEVE> Frankly initially I thought there would not be enough room for TWO space
+|  station shows!
+|.Straczynski> So did every other studio in town.
+|.Straczynski> Nobody thought we'd get past 6 episodes.  They figured ST would
+|  wipe us out....
+|.Straczynski> but the truth is, we can't challenge ST for budget, for PR, for
+|  history, studio support, but...
+|.Straczynski> we can challenge the *hell* out of them artistically.  Behind the
+|  keyboard, we're all equal.
+
+|HESIGMAN> I'm sure I missed the answer since I just gat her but what is
+|  happening with Talia's sexuality?
+|.Straczynski> Talia's interests are better defined in the final four.
+|.Straczynski> ga
+
+|.John Z.> Sheridan is developing a relationship with Kosh. Will we see it
+|  develope this season?
+|.Straczynski> Yes, there's something there, and a reason for it to be there, and
+|  Kosh is part of Sheridan's journey, which is...
+|.Straczynski> the hero's journey, transformational in its way; he has to go
+|  through hell to get to his goal.
+
+|ALLBELL> Who do you think is to blame for the Voyager script problems
+|.Straczynski> I won't comment on Voyager scripts, because I've only seen a
+|  couple of episdoes, and more than that....
+|ALLBELL> I guess it's too tragic of a subject.
+|.Straczynski> Jeri Taylor over there is a good friend, and one of the best
+|  writer-producers in town.  My only sense of things over there....
+|.Straczynski> is that the writers are generally handicapped by the fact that
+|  Paramount won't let them blow the doors off the show...
+|.Straczynski> by trying anything new or experimental, for fear of losing the
+|  franchise.
+|.Straczynski> ga
+
+|GREATSARGON> are there any new storylines coming up featuring Ivanova?
+|.Straczynski> No, we plan to give Ivanova nothing whatsoever to do in future.
+|.Straczynski> ....
+|.Straczynski> OF COURSE there are.  She's one of my favorite characters.
+|DDEBBIE> One of your 3 favorite things in the universe? ;-)
+|.Straczynski> All I can say on details, is that she continues to broaden out her
+|  areas of responsibility...
+|.Straczynski> becoming again more active, as with all the other characters.
+|.Straczynski> My sense is that year one was galumphing around the galaxy; year
+|  two was our
+|.Straczynski> characters taking it on the chin; year three is our characters
+|  fighting back. So she will be an integral part of that.
+
+|CASI> Will we learn more of the shadows motives other then what we know nown
+|.Straczynski> Basically, you can't set up something and not pay it off; we have
+|  to learn more avbout the shadows,a nd the vorlons...
+|.Straczynski> and grey up the vorlons and make the shadows motives more
+|  interesting than just blowing stuff up, there's more at work than that.
+|.Straczynski> ga
+
+|KLEVE> Can you comment on the allegory of the current proposed space station
+|  concerning international cooperation of former enemies and B%
+|.Straczynski> I don'tknow  enough about the current space station situation to
+|  comment intelligently.
+
+|.John Z.> Paramount has threatened us with violation of copyrite for uploading
+|  Trek graphics. How do react to that considering the simularities between DS9
+|  and B5?
+|.Straczynski> As for uploading graphics...gee, we've made, and will continue to
+|  make available, lots of B5 graphics, wav files...
+|.Straczynski> avi files, gifs, jpgs and bmps...we don't have a problem doing
+|  this.  Well, we're just a friendly bunch, y'know?
+|.Straczynski> Interesting comment re: ds9/b5 recently from Majel Barrett...
+|.Straczynski> where she said at a convention she went to talk to Rick Berman
+|  about asking for my phone number, so she could...
+|.Straczynski> apologize for something that happened, and he said don't bother,
+|  they're already pissed at us for stealing their show, they say....
+|.Straczynski> and she said, "Well, *didn't* you?"  This at a recent convention.
+|  I find this very intersting that she would come out and say t
+|.Straczynski> this openly.
+|.John Z.> I love it and the lady's resonse!
+|ALLBELL> Speaking of copyright Nazis, what do you think of the Disney/ABC deal?
+|.Straczynski> Soon the entire world will be just one big Mouseschwitz.
+|HESIGMAN> ouch
+|ALLBELL> Sieg Mickey!
+|.Straczynski> ah doesn't like disney, ah doesn't.
+|.Straczynski> john: what was the lady's response?
+|.Straczynski> I haven't heard any reactions from fans in the audience.
+|.John Z.> "Well *didn't* you?" in regards to stealing the storyline. <g>
+|.Straczynski> Oh, that part, I thought you referring to somebody in the
+|  audience.
+|.Straczynski> ga
+|ALLBELL> You all stole from me because I developed a station like B5/DS9 when I
+|  was 12.
+|ALLBELL> Only the story never left my drawer.
+|.Straczynski> Well, I think we'd all be happier if you left this stuff in your
+|  drawers.
+|.Straczynski> You know what they say, youl'l go blind.
+
+|."T"> How's the B5 web page coming along?
+|.Straczynski> The B5 web page is going slowly, figure sometime late Fall.
+|.Straczynski> ga
+
+|HESIGMAN> after the 5 year arc is done. you are planning on taking B5 off,
+|  right?  will you be doing another show in that universe(if they let you)
+|.Straczynski> There's always been the potential for a follow-up show in the B5
+|  universe, as I've noted elsewhere...
+|.Straczynski> but barring that, my general sense is that B5 is my swan song in
+|  TV, and I'll have said all I want to say in TV, so get off the stage.
+
+|GREATSARGON> OK, well I must be off now, but I want to THANK YOU for this forum
+|  mr JMS!!! and B5 is my FAVORITE SHOW!!!
+|.Straczynski> Thanks, Sargon.
+
+|.John Z.> Can you tell us about the new show you're developing with Doug Netter?
+|.Straczynski> Not at this time; when and if it goes further, yes, but not now.
+
+|.Robert> What if you're cancelled before season 5.  Will we ever find out the
+|  end of the arc?
+|.Straczynski> I can't even consider the notion that we wouled get canceled.  I
+|  can't allow that possibility in my brain.  This show...
+|.Straczynski> has been an act of sheer will; I decided in 1987 that we'd get the
+|  pilot, we'd get the series...
+|.Straczynski> and we'd run 5 years, and we're going to.
+|.Straczynski> ga
+
+|ALLBELL> Has anybody ever optioned Andre Norton's galactic empire books?
+|.Straczynski> I really don'tknow about Norton's books.
+
+|.Mike> Besides Jason Carter, any new guest stars that you can mention?
+|.Straczynski> Louis Turrene, who played Draal in our first season, but wasn't
+|  able to reprise the role for various reasons, returns as a recurring...
+|.Straczynski> character whose name is Theo, and to tell you more than that would
+|  be to give away a great addition to the show...
+|.Straczynski> so I'll have to leave it at that.  Suffice to say it's a *great*
+|  character.
+
+|.John Z.> Has WB shown more support for Babylon 5?
+|.Straczynski> Gradually, yes, but it's been a very slow, painful process of
+|  getting them to understand and recognize what we're doing here....
+|.Straczynski> we're not produced by WB in-house, so we're kind of the step-child
+|  of the studio, and as a result, we get forgotten a lot...
+|.Straczynski> when it comes time for advertising and PR and the lot, but slowly
+|  they've tipped to what we're doing, and how well we're doing it...
+|.Straczynski> and now, finally, we have a person assigned to B5 full-time from
+|  the PR department, and getting more recognition inside the industry...
+|.Straczynski> so I think it's finally coming around.  g
+|.Straczynski> ga
+|ASTRAEA> It's taken them long enough.  Doesn't surprise me with that bunch.
+
+|KEKKER> Have you seen any of Fox's new "Space", I mean more than the
+|  commercials, And what do you think of it?
+|.Straczynski> I haven't seen enough of Space to form an intelligent opinion yet.
+
+|PEREGRYN> Is the end of your story arc set in stone or do you a vague idea
+|  that...
+|PEREGRYN> changes with time?
+|.Straczynski> I have a detailed outline, but as any writer knows, an outline
+|  rarely survives contact with the actual book or script...
+|.Straczynski> so there's room to play around, but the overall direction of the
+|  story line has not diverged from the outline at all.
+|PEREGRYN> thank you.
+
+|KLEVE> What or who do you credit for your career path into SciFi?
+|.Straczynski> Can you phrase that question a different way?  There are various
+|  answers to that, but I'm not sure which way to go.
+|KLEVE> Please pick one
+|.Straczynski> See, "career" is the work, and that's different from the interest
+|  in SF.
+|.Straczynski> I go into SF via Bradbury, Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, Lovecraft,
+|  Ellison, Ashton-Smith, Dunsany, Russell, Simak and others.
+|.Straczynski> The career part is a long and detailed answer.
+|.Straczynski> ga
+|KLEVE> Highlights please?
+|.Straczynski> Started writing and selling at 17, got into articles, plays, go
+|  them published and produced, started in radiodrama...
+|.Straczynski> then lurched back into journalism for the LA Times, TIME Inc.,
+|  others, then went straight, and got into TV via animation...
+|.Straczynski> which led to live-action with The Twilight Zone, Murder She Wrote,
+|  other shows, then B5.
+|.Straczynski> ga
+
+|.John Z.> Will harlan Ellison write any scripts?
+|.Straczynski> We hope so.
+
+|ALLBELL> Other than youare there any other writers who will be working on the
+|  coming season of episodes?
+|.Straczynski> That's still being determined.  (RE: writers)
+
+|JIMFLEXX> How much input from the actors do you get while working on the
+|  scripts/ characterations?
+|.Straczynski> While working on the script?  Zero.  The scripts are written
+|  without comment or input from actors, directors, or anyone else....
+|.Straczynski> once they're done, the director and I sit down and work out
+|  production details, and that's about it.  On the stage, if an actor...
+|.Straczynski> hits a line he has a problem with, they send back to my office 15
+|  feet away and ask if it can be modified with a word change, and if I
+|.Straczynski> say yes, it is, if I say no, it isn't.
+
+|CASI> Have you ever read Marion Zimmer Bradleys Darkover series, and what do you
+|  think?
+|KLEVE> Speaking of animation have you seen "Reboot"?
+|.Straczynski> Haven't read Darkover, I'm afraid, just never jumped out at me.
+|  Never seen Reboot, either.
+|.Straczynski> ga
+
+|.John Z.> Do you use outlines while writing a script?
+|.Straczynski> I sketch out the acts on one sheet of paper, divided into 6
+|  sections (4 acts, teaser and tag), so I can see...
+|.Straczynski> the whole episode ata  glance, then start writing.  Sometimes I'll
+|  write without...
+|.Straczynski> an outline at all, if I can see it clearly enough in my head to
+|  chance it.
+|.Straczynski> ga
+
+|ALLBELL> Do you find your experiences with WB affecting your portrayal of Psi
+|  Corps?
+|.Straczynski> Not at all; they've been great, creatively; they let us do what we
+|  want; I haven't
+|.Straczynski> had a script note since episode 3 of season 2, and haven't had a
+|  note on a cut of an episode...
+|.Straczynski> since season one.  So they leave us totally alone, and they've
+|  been very supportive when we want to take chances.
+|.Straczynski> ga
+
+|KLEVE> What are the chances that you have already taken?
+|.Straczynski> The Believers script, the plague episode, others have been chancy.
+
+|CASI> Are thereany major twists to season 3?
+|.Straczynski> There are some *major* twists to season three, mainly in the form
+|  of changes to the whole direction of the show....
+|.Straczynski> every show has a "format," you know how it's going to be, but we
+|  make a change that is absolutely radical in year three...
+|.Straczynski> to the very structure of the B5 universe, which totally, logically
+|  grows out of what we've seen to date.
+|.Straczynski> Life is constant change.
+
+|.John Z.> Will we see  more of Talia's Telekinetic abilities?
+|.Straczynski> We'll see.
+|.Straczynski> ga
+
+|KEKKER> Will you have a blooper reel making the rounds?
+|.Straczynski> WE've discussed releasing it vaiia the fan club once it gets
+|  going.
+
+|DDEBBIE> JMS are the rumors re: Andrea Thompson and her character true?  Or what
+|  is the "story" here...?
+|.Straczynski> I'd rather wait to answer that after the show in question airs.
+|DDEBBIE> Arrghhh - ok
+
+|ALLBELL> Were the actors who wanted to be busy during hiatus able to get good
+|  parts? What was demand like? I hope producers were smart enough to want them)
+|.Straczynski> I know Bruce did a miniseries with Melissa, Peter Jurasik did a
+|  part for the HBO movie "Late Shift"....
+|.Straczynski> Jerry did an episode of Renegade, took some time off; Mira
+|  traveled; Richard did a movie (I forget which one)....
+|.Straczynski> mainly they took the time to recoup, because a series is a very
+|  grinding business.
+
+|KLEVE> Could you give a short background on the actress that plays Delenn, where
+|  from etc.?
+|.Straczynski> Mira's from the former Yugoslavia, one of their premiere
+|  actresses.
+|KLEVE> Her accent was too good to be acting!
+
+|.John Z.> I'd like to thank JMS for visiting us and welcome him back soon.
+|KEKKER> Thank you, JMS! More producers should do this!
+|.Straczynski> Thanks, John, not a problem.
+|JIMFLEXX> Thanks, JMS! Keep up the great work!
+|CHRISROSEANN> Good luck on season three!!!!
+|RAULER> Yes, thanks for creating some great entertainment! :)
+|.Robert> Does this mean that the fat lady sang?:)
+|.John Z.> We love that you came to visit us!
+|.Straczynski> Thanks, all.
+|ALLBELL> love love love love love
+|KLEVE> Thanks!
+|.Mike> If she tries to sing before year five, we shoot her
+|.George> Thanks, keep up the good work!!
+|CHRISROSEANN> The universe is a wonderful and strange place.
+|.John Z.> Thanks to everyone that came to visit too!
+|.Robert> You're welcome.
+|.Straczynski> By the way, did I mention that Kosh is revealed to be a
+|.Straczynski> - signed off -
+|.George> smartass!!!
+|DDEBBIE> lol
+|KEKKER> Arrrrrgh!
+|.John Z.> LOL
+|.Robert> Rumor is he's Daffy Duck.
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+BABYLON 5                                                 Last Update:
+Dictionary                                                5/17/94
+ 
+Abbai - one of the non-aligned worlds
+
+Abbut - a "vicar" (VCR, q.v) who helped Kosh gain information about
+Talia Winters
+
+Babylon 1, Babylon 2, Babylon 3 - B4's predecessors; all three stations
+were destroyed
+
+Babylon 4 - B5's predecessor; disappeared soon after becoming
+operational
+ 
+Battle of the Line - final battle of the Earth-Minbari war
+ 
+Bester - Psi Cop (P12)
+ 
+Biggs, Malcolm - Ivanova's former lover; member of the Homeguard;
+arrested for militant, anti-alien crimes
+ 
+Centauri Republic - one of the five major governments in the B5
+universe (so far)
+
+Children of the Egg - people of a small planet who hatch from an egg; they
+are a deeply religious people who feel that their "souls" will escape if
+their body cavity is punctured
+
+Connally, Neeoma - a labor leader on B5
+ 
+Cotto, Vir - Londo's assistant
+
+Cutter - member of the president's security force; tried to destroy
+a fighter wing of B5 but was stopped by Garibaldi
+
+Deathwalker - an epithet for Jha'Dur (see Jha'Dur)
+ 
+Delenn (Satai) - the Minbari ambassador
+
+Dilgar - a race that went to war against the non-aligned worlds (and Earth)
+30 yeras ago; known for their brutality
+
+Dilgar War - the war that ensued after the Dilgar invaded the non-aligned
+worlds 30 years ago; Earth came to the defense of the non-aligned worlds
+and helped to repel the Dilgar
+
+Drazi - one of the non-aligned worlds
+ 
+Dukhat - the late leader of the Grey Council
+ 
+Du'Rog - an old enemy of G'Kar; sent Tu'Pari to kill G'Kar, but
+Tu'Pari failed
+ 
+Earth Alliance - one of the five major governments in the B5 unive-
+rse (so far)
+
+Earthdome - the seat of the Earth Alliance government, located in
+"what used to be Geneva"
+
+Earthforce - the Earth Alliance's military organization
+
+Earth-Minbari War - war between the Earth and the Minbari that occurred
+ten years ago; the Minbari, on the verge of victory, surrendered for no
+*apparent* reason
+
+Fire Wings - one of the Minbari warrior clans
+ 
+Franklin, Steven - B5 medical chief of staff 
+ 
+Garibaldi, Michael - B5 security officer
+ 
+G'Kar (Third Circle) - the Narn ambassador
+ 
+Grey Council - the religious ruling body of the Minbari
+ 
+Hendricks, Vance (Dr.) - Dr. Franklin's old teacher; tried to get
+rich by selling dangerous artifacts--when he brought them aboard B5
+to have Franklin check them, they became "alive" and threatened the
+station
+ 
+Homeguard - a militant, pro-Earth (anti-alien) organization
+
+Ironheart, Jason - Talia's old lover; evolved into a different
+life-form after being given drugs that induced telekenesis;
+apparently gave Talia the "gift" of telekenesis
+ 
+Ivanova, Andrei - Susan Ivanova's father
+ 
+Ivanova, Susan - second-in-command of B5
+
+Jha'Dur - a brutal Dilgar war criminal who was killed by the Vorlons
+after she developed an immortality serum
+ 
+Jumpgate - the primary means of interstellar travel in B5
+
+Kalika, Ambassador - a leading ambassador of the non-aligned worlds on B5
+ 
+Kelsey - dead Psi Cop (P12)
+
+Kemmer, Frank - a friend of Garibaldi seventeen years ago; Frank was
+killed and his death was blamed on Garibaldi's negligence
+
+Kemmer, Lianna - Frank's daughter, who is now on the presidential
+security staff; when she came to B5, she finally forgave Garibaldi
+for her father's death (but not before driving Garibaldi to the bottle
+by prosecuting him for a crime he didn't commit)
+
+Knight One - member of a group which wanted to show a connection
+between Earth officials and Minbari during the Earth-Minbari war;
+killed by Sinclair in self-defense
+ 
+Knight Two - member of a group which wanted to show a connection
+between Earth officials and Minbari during the Earth-Minbari war;
+tried to find out what happened to Sinclair at the Battle of the
+Line, but had his [Knight One's] brain "fried" in the process
+ 
+Ko D'ath - G'Kar's former assistant
+
+League of Non-Aligned Worlds - a group of the "minor" alien governments
+("Non-Aligned" because they have not sided with any of the five major
+governments)
+ 
+Lennier (of the Third Fane of Chu'Domo) - Delenn's assistant
+ 
+Maray, Kiron - Vir's cousin; Aria Tensus's lover
+
+Mars Colony - an Earth colony on the planet Mars; birthplace of Sinclair
+ 
+Mayan, Shaal - famous Minbari poet; friend of Delenn
+ 
+Minbari Federation - one of the five major governments in the B5
+universe (so far)
+ 
+Mollari, Carn - Londo's nephew
+ 
+Mollari, Londo - Centauri ambassador
+
+Moon Shields - one of the Minbari warrior clans
+ 
+Naranek, Kosh - the Vorlon ambassador
+ 
+Narn Regime - one of the five major governments in the B5 universe
+(so far)
+ 
+Na'Toth - G'Kar's assistant
+
+Night Walkers - one of the Minbari warrior clans
+ 
+Nine, the - another term for the Grey Council (referring to its
+nine members)
+
+Non-Aligned Worlds - see "League of Non-Aligned Worlds"
+
+Pak'ma'ra - one of the non-aligned worlds
+ 
+Quantium 40 - a valuable material necessary for jumpgate construc-
+tion
+
+Raiders - space pirates who prey on merchant vessels
+ 
+Ragesh 3 Colony (spelled "Ragesh" in subtitle in "Midnight on the
+Firing Line," but spelled "Raghesh" in the Universe Today newspaper
+in "And the Sky Full of Stars") - A Centauri colony attacked by the
+Narns; the attack was eventually withdrawn
+
+Rush Act - an Senate act that calls for the arrest of workers who
+illegally strike
+ 
+Sakai, Catherine - a planetary surveyor; Sinclair's girlfriend
+
+Santiago, Luis - president of Earth
+ 
+Satai - honorific applied to members of the Grey Council
+ 
+Sigma 957 - a planet near which "strange things happen," according
+to G'Kar
+ 
+Sinclair, Jeffrey - B5 Commander
+
+Shon - a "Child of the Egg" whose parents killed him after he underwent
+a surgery procedure that punctured his body cavity
+ 
+Soul Hunter - immortal race of beings who steal people's "souls" at
+the moment of death
+
+Star Riders - the oldest of the Minbari warrior clans
+ 
+Tensus, Aria - Kiron Maray's lover
+ 
+Thenta Makur - Narn assassins' guild
+ 
+Trakis - Adira Tyree's former master
+ 
+Tu'Pari - member of the Thenta Makur; sent by Du'Rog to kill G'Kar,
+but failed in his mission
+ 
+Tyree, Adira - a Centauri ex-slave with whom Londo once fell in
+love
+
+Vicar - pun on "VCR"; a part-cybernetic, part-organic lifeform which
+lend their services as recording instruments; vicars can record many things,
+including telepathic activity (to some degree)
+ 
+Vorlon Empire - one of the five major governments in the B5
+universe (so far)
+
+Wind Swords - the most militant of the Minbari warrior clans (according to
+Lennier)
+ 
+Winters, Talia - B5 station telepath (P5)
+ 
+Xon - native race of Centauri Prime which was eventually killed off
+by the Centauri
+ 
+Zento, Orin - a somewhat rude negotiator who convinced the Senate to
+invoke the Rush Act against B5 laborers
+
+Zocalo - the social center of B5
+ 
+============================
+Additions and corrections are welcomed.
+
+Note that I use B5's time frame in describing these entries (e.g., the
+Dilgar war occured 30 years *ago*, etc.)
+ 
+Shawn Bayern
+bayern@cshl.org
+============================
+Copyright 1994, Shawn Bayern.  All rights reserved.  Babylon 5 is
+a copyright of the PTN Consortium; no infringement of that copyright is
+intended by writing this file.  Permission granted to freely distribute
+noncommercially as long as the text and this copyright notice remain
+intact.  No guarantee is made about the validity of the information
+included herein.
+
+Thanks to Dan Wood <danwood@pobox.com> and David Tanguay
+<dat@thinkage.on.ca> for comments and suggestions.
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+Transcripts of executive producer/writer J. Michael Straczynski's
+messages on GEnie's Babylon 5 message areas.
+
+latest      - Collection point for new messages.
+
+jms96-09    - Sep 1996
+jms96-08    - Aug 1996
+jms96-07    - Jul 1996
+jms96-06    - Jun 1996
+jms96-05-15 - May 15, 1996 - May 31, 1996
+jms96-04    - Apr 1996
+jms96-01    - Jan 1996
+jms95-12    - Dec  7, 1995 - Dec 31, 1995
+jms95-09    - Sep 10, 1995 - Oct 28, 1995
+jms95-08-22 - Aug 22, 1995 - Sep  9, 1995
+jms95-07    - Jul 1995
+jms95-06    - Jun 1995
+jms95-05-15 - May 15, 1995 - May 31, 1995
+jms95-03-01 - Mar  1, 1995 - Mar 15, 1995
+jms95-02-01 - Feb  1, 1995 - Feb 28, 1995
+jms95-01-01 - Jan  1, 1995 - Jan 15, 1995
+jms94-12-15 - Dec 15, 1994 - Dec 31, 1994
+jms94-12-01 - Dec  1, 1994 - Dec 15, 1994
+jms94-11    - Nov  1, 1994 - Nov 30, 1994
+jms94-10    - Oct  1, 1994 - Oct 31, 1994
+jms94-09-15 - Sep 15, 1994 - Sep 30, 1994
+jms94-09-01 - Sep  1, 1994 - Sep 15, 1994
+jms94-08-15 - Aug 15, 1994 - Aug 31, 1994
+jms94-08-01 - Aug  1, 1994 - Aug 15, 1994
+jms94-07-16 - Jul 16, 1994 - Jul 31, 1994
+jms94-07-01 - Jul  1, 1994 - Jul 15, 1994
+jms94-06-15 - Jun 15, 1994 - Jun 30, 1994
+jms94-06-01 - Jun  1, 1994 - Jun 15, 1994
+jms94-05-15 - May 15, 1994 - May 31, 1994
+jms94-05-01 - May  1, 1994 - May 15, 1994
+jms94-04-15 - Apr 15, 1994 - Apr 30, 1994
+jms94-04-01 - Apr  1, 1994 - Apr 12, 1994
+jms94-03-15 - Mar 15, 1994 - Mar 31, 1994
+jms94-03-01 - Mar  1, 1994 - Mar 14, 1994
+jms94-02    - Feb  1, 1994 - Feb 28, 1994
+jms94-01    - Jan  1, 1994 - Jan 31, 1994
+jms93-12    - Dec  2, 1993 - Dec 31, 1993
+jms93-11    - Oct 31, 1993 - Dec  2, 1993
+jms93-10    - Sep 24, 1993 - Oct 27, 1993
+jms93-09    - Sep  1, 1993 - Sep 30, 1993
+jms93-07    - Jul  1, 1993 - Aug 31, 1993
+jms93-01-15 - Jan 16, 1993 - Jan 31, 1993
+jms93-01-01 - Jan  1, 1993 - Jan 18, 1993
+jms93-01    - Jan 1993
+jms92-12    - Dec 1992
+jms92-11    - Nov 1992
+jms92-10    - Oct 1992
+jms92-09    - Sep 1992
+jms92-08    - Aug 1992
+jms92-07    - Jul 1992
+jms92-06    - Jun 1992
+jms92-05    - May 1992
+jms92-04    - Apr 1992
+jms92-03    - Mar 1992
+jms92-02    - Feb 1992
+jms92-01    - Nov 21, 1991 - Jan 31, 1992
+
+Real-time conference transcripts:
+
+furlan.rtc.940809 - RTC with Mira Furlan, 9 August 1994
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+From: gblake@mis.nu.edu (Gregory "snooze" Blake)
+Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5
+Subject: Transcript of Mira Furlan on genie RTC...
+Date: 11 Aug 1994 12:56:47 -0700
+Organization: National University, San Diego
+Message-ID: <32dvpv$mj8@mis.nu.edu>
+
+What follows is the transcript of Mira Furlan's visit to Genie on
+Tuesday.  I thought maybe people over here might find it interesting...
+
+
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+ <------------> 
+ 
+ In Attendance
+
+MIRA.FURLAN                  STARR                    [Tom K.] T.KNUDSEN1
+[4] LYRE                     [Penny] P.MESSIER1       SANDY.W
+[Kathy] K.COSTELLO           [Claire] C.MAIER         [Susan] S.FOX-DAVIS
+[Rand] R.WILSON63            [SHOWMAN] J.VENGROUSK1   [Jan] SF-VENTERS
+[Daniel] D.KORN1             [Alan] A.RAVITCH         RHONDA.M
+[Doug C] EDITOR.A2           ABLE-DAVE                SF-HENIGAN
+[Brett] B.SHERRIS            [C.J.] C.LAMB            [Dave] REPLAYER
+[Mark] M.WHITMAN10           [Bear] C.BRYANT3         WALTS
+N.GOLDSMITH                  [Shannon] S.HARRIS7      K.DRENNAN
+W.LEE18                      [Kip] L.GAMACHE          [Peter] NTH.DEGREE
+[P12+] BOB-WALKER            [Barb] B.CLASS           [Fenn] J.HUDGENS
+[Kurt] K.HARVEY              [Michael] M.SCHWARTZ19   [snooze] G.BLAKE2
+SMC                          [Kevin] G.W.HOFFMAN      [Fluffy Frog] BILL.HIRST
+[Brett/CA] B.JAFFEE          [Phil] P.POSNER          J.SANDLER1
+[Glo] G.PEARL2               [Longshot] A.COOKSON     MIKE.AA
+[Kris] LYSERA                [The Poobah] B.SMALL2    D.DIETRICH2
+K.MOHRING                    S.NOTLEY                 PROF.MARK
+BLUEJEANS                    IFORGE-1                 C.AYLOTT
+[Allen W] A.WILKINS          [Mischief] L.WELLS8      G.LAWRENCE6
+YTHIASIS
+			
+
+<STARR> Okay listen up.
+<STARR> First, I'm going to put the room in read only.
+<STARR> And we are going to do that now...Ready...?
+.
+Room is now in listen-only mode.
+
+<STARR> Do not raise hands yet...
+<STARR> First we will ask for you to /RAIse your hand and you'll be put in line
+        to ask questions.
+<STARR> We are limited to one hour due to committments.
+
+<STARR> I will open up each individual person to say your question and there
+        will be no follow-ups.
+<STARR> End your sentence with GA.[ For Go Ahead.]
+<STARR> Okay get on your mark ...get set...raise your hands...
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> Hi, everybody. Here I am. Ask me questions and I'll try to do
+              my best.
+
+<STARR> OKay go ahead Alan.
+
+<[Alan] A.RAVITCH> Hi Mira...I'm sure I speak for all in applauding your
+                   performance.
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> Thank you so much.
+
+<[Alan] A.RAVITCH> Simple question, I know JMS didn't alter your voice as
+                   originally planned, but is Delenn's pattern of speech your 
+                   own or did you create for the character & how.   GA
+
+<STARR> Use your Type Aheads if you got 'em.
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> It's a matter of acting, not a matter of technical solutions.
+              The role and my own ways are intertwined, as is usual in acting.
+
+<[Claire] C.MAIER> Hello, Mira, I really enjoy your work on B5.  Joe has told
+                   us a bit about the new commander and that the Minbari didn't
+                   approve him.  What does/will Delenn think of him?  ga
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> I think we all have to wait and see. It's to early for me to talk
+              about it.  ga
+
+<STARR> Go CJ
+
+<[C.J.] C.LAMB> I read that you are from Yugoslavia.  Why/When did you come to
+                the US and how did you get your role on B-5?
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> I came to the US two and a half years ago, when the war broke
+              out. I auditioned for the role in New York. ga
+
+<STARR> Go Tom
+
+<[Tom K.] T.KNUDSEN1> Hi Mira and Goran. I hear that you and Goran have been
+                      "lurking " here for a while.  What do you think of all 
+                      the commentary? GA
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> Sometimes it's fun. Sometimes you can be very cruel. It's tough 
+              to deal with criticism, of course. But, it's definitely 
+              interesting, altough not always pleasant.ga
+
+<[Megatron] P.MESSIER1> Hi Mira. Nice to meet you. Does your headpiece bother
+                        you while your performing?  GA
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> It's definately not the most pleasant thing to wear on your head.
+              But, I'm dealing with it. I see it as a task that I have to 
+              endure in order to play my part. Acting is very often the 
+              overcoming of obstacles. On the other hand, It helps me create 
+              the character.ga
+
+<[Michael] M.SCHWARTZ19> Hello!  I have many friends and co-workers who left or
+                         fled from various countries in Eastern Europe.  On 
+                         your arrival in the U.S.,what was your first 
+                         impression of American culture and society?  GA
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> I have been in America before. I fell in love with the city of 
+              New York ten years ago.But our impression was that it's TOUGH!ga
+
+<[SHOWMAN] J.VENGROUSK1> I enjoy and admire greatly what you've done with the
+                         character; Wonder and Class come across. What would 
+                         you recommend for someone wanting to see some of your 
+                         other work?  What about any of your husband's work? GA.
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> You can rent a movie called "When Father Was Away on Business", 
+              that was nominated for an Oscar in 1986. Or maybe 85, I can't
+              remember. That one was released on video here. Other films of 
+              mine have played in Europe, but not here. My husband and I made a
+              movie together, before we left. It's called "Dear Video" and it's 
+              a comedy.  GA
+
+<[Fenn] J.HUDGENS> Any chance those others will be released soon over here? Or 
+                   a way we can get them? (hint) ga
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> The American market, as you know, is pretty closed for European 
+              movies. Everything that has subtitles scares people. Maybe they 
+              are just too lazy to read them. ga
+
+<[Glo] G.PEARL2> Hi!  How much of the states have you seen so far?  And do you
+                 like the city better or the country?  GA
+.
+<MIRA.FURLAN> I haven't seen much. I still love New York. I've just returned 
+              from Nebraska, where I played in Willa Cather's "My Antonia", so 
+              I saw the "wild West" (I also went to South Dakota), which amazed
+              me, because for me it was always a myth, not reality. I saw that 
+              cowboys are real, not just  characters from movies. That was an 
+              amazing experience for me.ga
+
+<[Kip] L.GAMACHE> My wife wants to know if you think we'll ever see a love 
+                  interest for your character on the show?  She also says she 
+                  never really liked Sci-Fi until she saw B-5.  As for me, I'd 
+                  like to say your facial expressions are my favorite part of 
+                  the Delenn character.  They are priceless!  You do a great 
+                  job on them! GA
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> Thank you very much. It' nice to hear good things about one's 
+              work. I can't say anything about my possible love interest. We 
+              will all see what happens and what the future brings.ga
+
+<[Norma] N.GOLDSMITH> Hi, Mira.  How long does it take to get the make up and 
+                      prosthetics on? GA
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> About 3 hours. Sometimes I have to be on the set at 4am. ga
+
+<[Phil] P.POSNER> Hi Mira - I would simply like to say how much I enjoy your 
+                  work on Babylon 5. I really appreciate the depth that you 
+                  have given to the character Delenn.  I also particularly like
+                  the nuances of your facial expressions and body language. One
+                  question: How do you like playing the mysterious and complex 
+                  Delenn, compared to other parts? GA
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> I love playing Delenn. It's so often that female characters just 
+              fulfill a function in the story, they completely depend on the 
+              male characters, they don't have any power, brain or independence,
+              so this is a wonderful change. I like her strength, her mystery.
+              I'm enjoying it. I also come from a very, very macho culture, so 
+              I'm appreciating it even more.ga
+
+<SF-HENIGAN> Mira, Goran ,it is so nice to have you both with us. Have you 
+             found that it is different in the way you act/direct here in the 
+             US than from Yugoslavia/Europe?  GA
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> It is and it isn't different. The basics are the same, of course.
+              But there are all these business things here (agents, unions, 
+              etc.) that we are not used to dealing with. ga
+
+<[Susan] S.FOX-DAVIS> What was show business like in Yugoslavia?  What sort of
+                      productions were you involved with when you lived there?
+                      Plus, an unrelated question.  When is your birthday?  
+                      I am working on a birthday list.  <smile> GA
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> The market was, of course, much smaller and, also, I was a very 
+              well known actress, with a lot of stage, TV and movie credits. 
+              Here It's a constant fight, not only for me, but for everyone. 
+              Many more elements are involved, besides the quality of one's
+              work (publicists, agents, etc.)....My birthday is September 7.ga
+
+<[Mark] M.WHITMAN10> Hi Mira. Thanks for taking the time to be with us. As an 
+                     actress, which first season episode of B-5 was your 
+                     favorite. And why? GA
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> I loved "Soul Hunter", "Legacies", the two last ones, "And the 
+              Sky Full of Stars"... I loved playing with David Warner, John 
+              Vikery...ga
+
+<STARR> The last ones are Quality Of Mercy and Chrysalis.(And Babylon Squared 
+        too)
+
+<WALTS> I have heard other actors state that they are only one or two scripts 
+        ahead in a series plot development.  How is it for you in B5.  And do 
+        you find your fans confuse your character with you?   GA
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> I can't say that I know much ahead of time. That's how it works. 
+              My fans probably don't recognize me when I'm outside my make-up,
+              which has its good and bad sides. I try to concentrate on the 
+              good sides.ga
+
+<[Kurt] K.HARVEY> Hello to you Mira & your husband  from way out in the Pacific
+                 :)   To me there seems to be a resemblance between the Minbari
+                 and the Elves of folklore. Is this intentional?  GA
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> I wouldn't know, but there probably are many element from various
+              mythologies involved in my and other alien makups on the show.ga
+
+<[Bear] C.BRYANT3> Welcome to both of you.  How do fans in the US differ from 
+                   the fans in your native country?  GA
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> I don't know much about fans here, except from their letters that
+              are usually very sweet. But they don't bother me in the street 
+              and all that, which they used to do in Yugoslavia and which I 
+              hated.ga
+
+<[Kevin] G.W.HOFFMAN> Early in the season, there was this character in Delenn's
+                      room. Delenn reacted furiously. There was a glowing 
+                      triangle on her forehead. I would like to know more about
+                      the triangle. ga
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> The triangle is the sign of the Grey Council, to which Delenn 
+              belongs, as you might have noticed during the last  few episodes.
+              That is all I can say. GA
+
+<[Daniel] D.KORN1> Science Fiction as a genre, both on the screen and in books,
+                   has a certain uniqueness (due to the "fantastic" elements) 
+                   that can't often be seen outside of the genre.  What 
+                   exposure, if any, did you have to SF (screen or print, 
+                   American or not) before you began casting for B5?  GA
+
+<STARR> Next question will be the last one...   I'll open up briefly for you 
+        to all say goodbye.
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> I did not have much exposure, but I had the basic ones. I've read
+              Bradbury, Asimov, I've seen Kubrick, "Star Wars"etc. etc. ga
+
+<[P12+] BOB-WALKER> In not knowing much ahead of time, have you ever had a 
+                    script handed to you where you thought "if I had known this
+                    last month, I would have played that differently"? GA
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> There were moments like that. But sometimes it's actually 
+              interesting not to know what's ahead of you. Just like in life...
+
+<STARR> just a moment...
+
+<MIRA.FURLAN> I have to go now. Thank you so much for all your sweet words to
+              me. it means a lot to me. Keep on watching...Love Mira.   ga
+
+<[SHOWMAN] J.VENGROUSK1> lovely!
+
+<[Kathy] K.COSTELLO> Thanks for being here with us Mira.
+
+<[Kurt] K.HARVEY> Mira, thanks so much for coming here and I wish you well in 
+                  your work.
+
+<[Fenn] J.HUDGENS> g'night Mira! (and Goran) Great to have you here... and 
+                   don't be a lurker!  :)
+
+<[Phil] P.POSNER> Thanks for being here Mira and Goran.  Hope to see you in the
+                  B5 topics soon!
+
+<SMC> Thanks, Mira. Best acting in SF. Knew you must have had a strong 
+      background.
+
+<[Megatron] P.MESSIER1> Goodnight Mira and Goran. Thanks for your time :)  Good
+                        luck tomorrow :) (note: This RTC took place the evening
+                        before the first day of shooting of season two/ B-5)
+
+<[Alan] A.RAVITCH> Bye Mira & Goran. Again, thanks for the great performances &
+                   thanks for visiting tonight.  Looking forward to lots more 
+                   enjoyment of your work!
+
+<[Tom K.] T.KNUDSEN1> Goodbye Mira and Goran.  Thank you for coming and 
+                      spending some time with us.  Please feel free to post if 
+                      you want to (we'll try not to be too cruel to you <G>).  
+                      Take care and keep up the great job you have been doing 
+                      on Babylon 5!!!!
+
+<[Kevin] G.W.HOFFMAN> Goodbye!
+                          Kevin P. Reid
+
+<[Kip] L.GAMACHE> Mira, Could you get us, here on GEnie, a picture of you 
+                  without your makeup on? I'm sure one of the staff could 
+                  explain how you can get us one.  Bye!  Thank you. We think 
+                  you are wonderful!
+
+<[Jan] SF-VENTERS> Night, Mira!!! Thanks for joining us!
+
+<[C.J.] C.LAMB> Whoa
+
+<BLUEJEANS> Thank you for being our guest, Mira.
+
+<[Bear] C.BRYANT3> Night Mira and Goran!
+
+<[Longshot] A.COOKSON> Go well.
+
+<[Mike] SF-HENIGAN> Thanks Mira and Goran!
+
+<[Barb] B.CLASS> Night Mira and Goran
+
+<[Dave] REPLAYER> Thanks for coming Mira!  Best of luck in the new season!
+
+<[Susan] S.FOX-DAVIS> Good night!  do drop in again and surprise us some time.
+
+<[Kathy] K.COSTELLO> G'Night Mira and Goran
+
+<[Sam] MYTHIASIS> Night, Mira!  Ummm....There isn't a hole in my mind, is there?
+
+<[Allen W] A.WILKINS> Goodnight.
+
+<[Claire] C.MAIER> Thanks for being with us tonight!
+
+<SANDY.W> Thanks for coming! This has been very interesting.
+
+<WALTS> Mira, if I may quote Frank Herbert from Chapterhouse: Dune "Seek 
+        freedom and become captive of your desires.  Seek discipline and find 
+        your liberty"  ...ciao
+
+<K.MOHRING> We all had a real good time
+
+<[C.J.] C.LAMB> Be cool, Mira  
+
+<[Susan] S.FOX-DAVIS> Sam:  naw, but there's a hole in my head
+
+<[4] LYRE> Mira: Thank you for coming and the excellent portrayal of Ambassador
+           Delenn.
+
+<[Bear] C.BRYANT3> Arne, thanks for moderating.  Jan, thanks for being 
+                   moderate!  ;)
+
+<[P12+] BOB-WALKER> Best case of progesterone sweetening I've ever seen. <g>
+
+<[SHOWMAN] J.VENGROUSK1> BOB!!!!
+
+<[Jan] SF-VENTERS> LOL, Bear!
+
+<[Kurt] K.HARVEY> :)
+
+<[Fenn] J.HUDGENS> thwap! <-Bob
+
+<[Susan] S.FOX-DAVIS> Progesterone Sweetening?  the opposite of testosterone 
+                      poisoning?
+
+<[Dave] REPLAYER> Well, we've ALL got holes in our minds.  :)
+
+-- 
+------------------------------------PLUR---------------------------------------
+ Gregory Blake  - snooze@DeepSeas,TooMUSH]I[,fantasia,etc -  snooze@mis.nu.edu
+   619-563-2595<w> | 619-528-4531<h> | home: 4783 Utah St, San Diego 92116
+                  "Understanding is a three edged sword."
+
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+<html>
+<head>
+<title>GEnie information</title>
+<link rel="parent" href="../index.html">
+</head>
+<body>
+<h1>B5 information from GEnie</h1>
+<h2>JMS GEnie messages</h2>
+<p>
+Transcripts of executive producer/writer J. Michael Straczynski's
+messages on GEnie's Babylon 5 message areas.
+
+<p>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="latest">Collection point for new messages</a>
+
+<p>
+<li><a href="jms96-09">Sep 1996</a>
+<li><a href="jms96-08">Aug 1996</a>
+<li><a href="jms96-07">Jul 1996</a>
+<li><a href="jms96-06">Jun 1996</a>
+<li><a href="jms96-05-15">May 15, 1996 - May 31, 1996</a>
+<li><a href="jms96-04">Apr 1996</a>
+<li><a href="jms96-02">Feb 1996</a>
+<li><a href="jms96-01">Jan 1996</a>
+<li><a href="jms95-12">Dec 7, 1995 - Dec 31, 1995</a>
+<li><a href="jms95-09">Sep 10, 1995 - Oct 28, 1995</a>
+<li><a href="jms95-08-22">Aug 22, 1995 - Sep 9, 1995</a>
+<li><a href="jms95-07">Jul 1995</a>
+<li><a href="jms95-06">Jun 1995</a>
+<li><a href="jms95-05-15">May 15, 1995 - May 31, 1995</a>
+<li><a href="jms95-03-01">Mar  1, 1995 - Mar 15, 1995</a>
+<li><a href="jms95-02-01">Feb 1995</a>
+<li><a href="jms95-01-01">Jan  1, 1995 - Jan 15, 1995</a>
+<li><a href="jms94-12-15">Dec 15, 1994 - Dec 31, 1994</a>
+<li><a href="jms94-12-01">Dec  1, 1994 - Dec 15, 1994</a>
+<li><a href="jms94-11">Nov  1, 1994 - Nov 30, 1994</a>
+<li><a href="jms94-10">Oct  1, 1994 - Oct 31, 1994</a>
+<li><a href="jms94-09-15">Sep 15, 1994 - Sep 30, 1994</a>
+<li><a href="jms94-09-01">Sep  1, 1994 - Sep 15, 1994</a>
+<li><a href="jms94-08-15">Aug 16, 1994 - Aug 31, 1994</a>
+<li><a href="jms94-08-01">Aug  1, 1994 - Aug 15, 1994</a>
+<li><a href="jms94-07-16">Jul 16, 1994 - Jul 31, 1994</a>
+<li><a href="jms94-07-01">Jul  1, 1994 - Jul 15, 1994</a>
+<li><a href="jms94-06-15">Jun 15, 1994 - Jun 30, 1994</a>
+<li><a href="jms94-06-01">Jun  1, 1994 - Jun 15, 1994</a>
+<li><a href="jms94-05-15">May 16, 1994 - May 31, 1994</a>
+<li><a href="jms94-05-01">May  1, 1994 - May 15, 1994</a>
+<li><a href="jms94-04-15">Apr 15, 1994 - Apr 30, 1994</a>
+<li><a href="jms94-04-01">Apr  1, 1994 - Apr 12, 1994</a>
+<li><a href="jms94-03-15">Mar 15, 1994 - Mar 31, 1994</a>
+<li><a href="jms94-03-01">Mar  1, 1994 - Mar 14, 1994</a>
+<li><a href="jms94-02">Feb  1, 1994 - Feb 28, 1994</a>
+<li><a href="jms94-01">Jan  1, 1994 - Jan 31, 1994</a>
+<li><a href="jms93-12">Dec  2, 1993 - Dec 31, 1993</a>
+<li><a href="jms93-11">Oct 31, 1993 - Dec  2, 1993</a>
+<li><a href="jms93-10">Sep 24, 1993 - Oct 27, 1993</a>
+<li><a href="jms93-09">Sep  1, 1993 - Sep 30, 1993</a>
+<li><a href="jms93-07">Jul  1, 1993 - Aug 31, 1993</a>
+<li><a href="jms93-01-15">Jan 16, 1993 - Jan 31, 1993</a>
+<li><a href="jms93-01-01">Jan  1, 1993 - Jan 18, 1993</a>
+<li><a href="jms92-12">Dec 1992</a>
+<li><a href="jms92-11">Nov 1992</a>
+<li><a href="jms92-10">Oct 1992</a>
+<li><a href="jms92-09">Sep 1992</a>
+<li><a href="jms92-08">Aug 1992</a>
+<li><a href="jms92-07">Jul 1992</a>
+<li><a href="jms92-06">Jun 1992</a>
+<li><a href="jms92-05">May 1992</a>
+<li><a href="jms92-04">Apr 1992</a>
+<li><a href="jms92-03">Mar 1992</a>
+<li><a href="jms92-02">Feb 1992</a>
+<li><a href="jms92-01">Nov 21, 1991 - Jan 31, 1992</a>
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Real-time conference transcripts</h2>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="furlan.rtc.940809">August 9, 1994: Mira Furlan</a>
+</ul>
+<p>
+<a href="../index.html">To the Babylon 5 ftp directory</a>
+</body>
+</html>
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS for November 1991 through Jan, 1992
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+ ************
+Topic 22        Wed Nov 20, 1991
+SOARON [Bio-Dread]           at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5                          
+
+TWCNBN has been been named!  J. Michael Straczynski has managed to bring a new
+quality to television and promises to do justice to TV and SF with a new
+action-adventure SF series of his own design.  (NO story suggestions, please.)
+447 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 1         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+SOARON [Bio-Dread]           at 19:41 EST
+
+  That Which Cannot Be Named has finally been named, and the name is BABYLON
+5.  An action-adventure SF series set in space.  To premiere sometime next
+year with a two-hour TV movie, soon followed by regualar episodes if ratings
+are good.  J. Michael Straczynski has said that people always complain about
+SF not being done right on TV, well now it has a chance.
+
+This series has a shot of making it if has the support of fandom.  So leave
+your comments here and perhaps JMS will leave news and info here as the series
+develops.
+
+Soaron
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 2         Thu Nov 21, 1991
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 00:13 EST
+
+     Babylon 5 is the name of a particular place where our story takes place.
+
+     It is numbered 5 because 1 through 3 were sabotaged/destroyed, and 4
+mysteriously vanished within days of becoming operational.  No one knows what
+happened to it.  All of which makes those involved with #5 just a trifle
+uneasy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+     P.S.  It might be useful if one of the sysops could move the initial
+announcement message (or, rather, copy it) here for archival purposes.
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 3         Thu Nov 21, 1991
+SF-LAWRENCE [Katherine]      at 04:29 EST
+
+We live to serve.
+
+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
+     Well, now that the official announcement has been made, here's the
+straight skinny on BABYLON 5.
+
+     For the last three years, this project has been in secret development
+with some of the Major Players at Warner Bros.  Because everyone realized the
+potential of what we had, we all played things VERY close to the vest.   Part
+of the reason for secrecy was that it was slated to be one of several projects
+that would spearhead what is, essentially, a new network formed between Warner
+Bros. and a consortium of TV stations, similar in some ways to Fox
+Broadcasting.  And that deal as well had to be kept secret.  It, too, was
+announced today at the conference.
+
+     I created the concept of BABYLON 5 somewhere in between working on
+CAPTAIN POWER and TWILIGHT ZONE.  I'd seen so many SF shows by then that
+backed into a budget, and thus went forever OVER budget, that I wanted to
+challenge myself to develop a show that met several important criteria:
+
+     1) It would have to be good science fiction.
+
+     2) It would have to be good TELEVISION, and rarely are SF shows both good
+SF *and* good TV; there're generally one or the other.
+
+     3) It would have to take an adult approach to SF, and attempt to do for
+television SF what HILL STREET BLUES did for cop shows.
+
+     4) It would have to be affordable, done on a reasonable budget.
+
+     5) It would have to look unlike anything ever seen before on TV, and
+present not just individual stories, but present those stories against a much
+broader canvas.
+
+     The result was BABYLON 5.
+
+     After creating the bible and writing a 2-hour script, I commissioned
+artwork for the series, knowing full well that it would be difficult for most
+execs to fully understand what I was trying to communicate unless they could
+see it with their own eyes.  I then linked up with my producer from POWER --
+who had previously run MGM studios -- and we formed a partnership to get the
+show produced.  He and I will both serve as Executive Producers on the
+project.
+
+     Our first thought was syndication, and took it to the head of one of the
+biggest consortium of stations around.  We didn't at that time know that this
+group was putting together the Warners project, and in short order they
+snapped up the material.  Because the fate of B-5 was linked to the new
+"network," of sorts, we had to wait for that deal to go through.  Which  has
+gone through various permutations, on-again, off-again, for three years.  They
+never gave up on us once, and we never gave up on them.  Our support came from
+the very top of both operations.
+
+     It was our initial thought to begin with either one or two television
+movies, and then proceed onto the series.  The reason for the movies had to do
+with 1) a desire to bring down the per-show budget by building the lion's
+share of our sets via the movie(s), and 2) because we wanted to hit the
+airwaves with a big story, more an event via a movie than the series pilot,
+which at one hour would probably get lost.
+
+     And after three years, this has finally come to pass.  Phase One of
+BABYLON 5 has been approved to production, and the financing is now in place,
+and we have an approximate airdate and production schedule.  We have assembled
+a REMARKABLE production team, some of whom are classified (on current projects
+that they will leave to come work on B-5), but they include some of the best
+EFX and art direction people around, including many responsible for HONEY, I
+SHRUNK THE KIDS and the Henson-shop-supplied DINOSAURS.  People are coming out
+of the woodwork to work on this show, threatening us with dire consequences if
+they aren't allowed to work on it.
+
+     As for the storyline and characters of BABYLON 5...I'm going to hold off
+just a little while longer, until I know how much I can say at this point.
+Some of it we're trying to keep fairly secret, but some other parts we can
+probably talk about.  I just want to be sure I stick to protocol.
+
+     I *will* say that it's set in the future, in space, that it isn't a
+battle-oriented show, though it has more than its share of action.  One person
+described it (for commercial purposes) as CASABLANCA in space, though that
+doesn't quite hit the mark.
+
+     More will be revealed as I am able to do so.
+
+     The only other thing I will say is that we are going to need as much
+support as we can get from the fan community.  By choosing to go the route of
+a movie first as a pilot, we basically have one shot at the ratings.   It's
+better than a single pilot, but still chancy, so we will need support and
+every ratings point we can get our hands on to guarantee the number of
+episodes ordered subsequent to the movie.
+
+     For years, at conventions, I have heard fans lament, and even sat in on
+panels entitled WHY CAN'T THEY GET IT RIGHT?  This, I firmly believe, is a
+chance to do exactly that...to Get It Right, to take SF seriously, to build
+characters for grown-ups (not a Wesley in the bunch), to incorporate real
+science but keep the characters at the center of the story.  Over the next 11
+months, they will have ample opportunity to voice their desire to finally Get
+It Right.  And I hope they will.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 4         Thu Nov 21, 1991
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 15:20 EST
+
+     Some other info that I've been cleared to state:
+
+     Phase One of BABYLON 5 -- the movie -- should air around October of  the
+coming year.
+
+     Phase Two -- the series -- is now slated for the following March.  We
+figured close to that, but now it's on the dockets.
+
+     Stations set to carry the project include: WWOR New York KCOP Los Angeles
+WPWR Chicago KBHK San Francisco WDCA Washington D.C. KTXA Dallas KTXH Houston
+WUAB Cleveland WTOG Tampa KMSP Minneapolis WDZL Miami KPLR St. Louis KRBK
+Sacramento KUTP Phoenix WNUV Baltimore WTXX Hartford KPTV Portland, OR WSTR
+Cincinnati KSMO Kansas City
+
+     More stations will be added as we go.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 5         Fri Nov 22, 1991
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 01:52 EST
+
+     For those into computer stuff, you may want to check message 403 in my
+topic on Cat 8 for some info on what's being developed here in that area.
+
+     In brief, we're going to be taking a completely different approach to EFX
+than has ever been done before, using cutting-edge technology in creating the
+images.  We've received massive support from one of the computer EFX companies
+that's on the very edge of this stuff, one of the largest around.  We've
+assembled quite a brain-trust.
+
+     And here's a surprise for you: if you will find a copy of MILLIMETER
+magazine -- I think it's either this month or the one just preceding it -- you
+will find a computer-generated photograph that is described only as "a work in
+progress" for an SF series.
+
+     That is the first published photograph of BABYLON 5.
+
+     (You see how sneaky we've been?  How quietly this has been going on?)
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 6         Sat Nov 23, 1991
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 04:13 EST
+
+     There is going to be a VERY strong female character.  Although there is a
+male who operates as the titular head of BABYLON 5, and is more or less a de
+facto representative of...a certain group, BABYLON 5 itself is actually *run*
+on a day to day basis by (oh, what the heck, give her name) Vice-Commander
+Laurel Takashima.
+
+     Now, this may not mean much until you understand what BABYLON 5 the
+actual *place* is, and how it works.  Which will come soon enough.  If I were
+to look at that OTHER sf show, hers is a much more authoritatve and
+independent role than, say, that of Riker.  And there are other very strong
+female characters.
+
+     I have a tendency to gravitate toward female characters in stories.
+Those who might remember CAPTAIN POWER will recall that the lion's share of
+personal stories were about Jennifer Chase, and those were generally our best
+stories.
+
+     As for cast...we're not going to go for big names, in large part because
+we don't want to bring on people with a lot of baggage from other shows.  (No,
+no Gil Gerard.)  New faces to television, but with a background in classical
+training.  We want ACTORS, with CHARACTER in their faces, not models or
+"hunks."
+
+     See, by virtue of working on a number of SF shows, and knowing others
+who've been involved in still others, I've had the chance to find out what
+does, and doesn't work, and how to capitalize on that.  By talking to the
+fans, and appearing at cons, and using this and other systems, I've been able
+to find out what the fans want, and to combine that with my own personal
+vision.  So when I'm asked, "Will there be strong females?" I think of TNG,
+and "Why can't there be a female #2 or captain?"  And I remember the other
+concerns, from BOTH sides of the fence.
+
+     Those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.  Life's too
+short for those kinds of mistakes.
+
+     Which is why, from the very beginning of this project, three years ago, I
+sought out and began laying the foundation for bringing on the best and the
+brightest, to give the project a look unlike anything ever seen before on
+television.
+
+     But frankly...talk is cheap.  Judge us by what we *do* now what we say.
+SF fans have heard this stuff before...and have been disappointed.   I'm
+determined not to go that route...but don't want ANYONE to take my word for
+it.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 7         Sat Nov 23, 1991
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 19:52 EST
+
+     Agree re: female characters.  I very much want to see a woman in a
+position of power who is perfectly well-adjusged, has good relationships, the
+same basic number of character flaws as any other individual in the show...in
+other words, a Person, not a stereotype.
+
+     As for being "in the planning stage" above...incorrect.  We've been IN
+the planning stage for three years.  Now we have a Go order for production,
+which will commence in the spring on Phase One.
+
+     As for the location...no, it's not a saloon or anything of that nature.
+
+
+     And regarding the various characters...I *like* a mix of good and not-so-
+good characters as regulars, people who are flawed, who you might enjoy
+talking with, but you wouldn't necessarily turn your back on them.
+
+     In terms of explaining the show, I've decided that the best way to use
+this particular medium is to schedule out information.  We have about 10 or 11
+months before Phase One hits the airwaves (which is actually fairly short for
+a show of this scale).  Since there are 9 main characters in B-5, plus the
+location itself, I figure one big release of info per month will carry us
+through to broadcast.
+
+     So on or about December 1st, I'll post here the info about exactly what
+(and where) (and why) BABYLON 5 is.  Then one character description per month.
+I'll also post a revised list of TV stations some time prior to broadcast to
+handle the added locations.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 8         Mon Nov 25, 1991
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 03:59 EST
+
+     For those who might be interested, I have just uploaded a file -- #3085 --
+into library 5.  It's a .PCX graphics file that contains the BABYLON 5 logo.
+I did the scanning myself, so it's a little rough around the edges, and it's
+based on the initial draft of the logo, which is now being cleaned up.  But
+this is fundamentally it.
+
+     One note: please understand that this logo is both trademarked and
+copyrighted, and is uploaded here ONLY for individual viewing.  Any other use
+is strictly prohibited.
+
+     Most graphics display programs like Compushow (CSHOW) will work just fine
+on the file, as will Microsoft Paintbrush.
+
+     For the show, the logo will be split at a diagonal, raggedly.  We will
+see the two parts in space, rotating toward one another.  The line where the
+two should join will begin to glow.  Music rises.  The two halves come
+together with a FLASH of light, and we get a metallic looking complete logo,
+looking like it's made out of heavy-gauge steel.  We then PAN OVER the logo to
+reveal Babylon 5 in all its glory.
+
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 9         Tue Dec 03, 1991
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 00:42 EST
+
+     Thanks for the vote of confidence.  I don't think you'll be disappointed.
+
+     And now, at last, some hard info.
+
+     The date: 2257 A.D.
+
+     We have gone to the stars, and found that we are not alone.  We have
+moved quickly out, establishing relations with other civilizations that has
+let us leapfrog technologies via an information and cultural exchange with at
+least one other culture.  Many contacts have been friendly.  Some have not
+been quite so benign.
+
+     From 2250 through 2252, war raged between the Earth Alliance and the
+Minbari, an alien federation.  The EA was losing, badly.  As a last resort, a
+suicide perimeter was set up around Earth, known as the Line.  Every last ship
+we had was on the Line, in a desperate defense of Homeworld.
+
+     And on the brink of winning the war, just as they were breaking through
+the Line...the Minbari surrendered.  To this date, no one knows why.  They
+could have won, but chose not to.  The secret behind their surrender will
+gradually play a part in our story.
+
+     But that was now 5 years ago, in our story.  There is now an uneasy peace
+between the Earth Alliance and the four other alien federations.  To help
+cement that peace, the EA has constructed BABYLON 5.
+
+     BABYLON 5 is a five-kilometer-long space station in neutral space more or
+less central to all five of the different alliances, human or alien.  To get
+to one or the other, you have to pass through this sector of space.  Thus,
+Babylon 5 has been created as a sort of port-of-call for travelers, statesmen,
+emissaries, traders, refugees and other, less savory characters.  Five
+kilometers long and two kilometers wide, Babylon 5 is divided into separate,
+discreet sections that rotate at differing speeds to provide different
+gravities to accommodate those who come to the station.  There are also
+sections with alternate atmospheres.
+
+     The station boasts living quarters, customs areas, docking bays, meeting
+areas, a casino, several bars/nightclubs, command and control spheres fore and
+aft, and a decent defensive grid.  In addition, each of the various
+federations has one official representative aboard the station (with the
+station's commander representing the Earth Alliance), so that it also
+functions as a sort of mini-U.N.
+
+     It is home to humans and aliens in various roles, some arriving or
+departing every day, others working there full-time.  They live on the very
+edge of the frontier, in the sense that if they get into trouble, there's no
+one who can arrive in time to help them.  Because of the nature of the
+travelers, they bring their stories with them to Babylon 5 rather than having
+to seek them out.  The stories are of people in flight, seeking sanctuary;
+stories of smugglers, assassins, traders, mappers, dignitaries and others, all
+on urgent missions of one sort or another.
+
+     If STAR TREK was "Wagon Train to the Stars," then BABYLON 5 is Casablanca
+in space.
+
+     It is humanity's last hope for peace, a single hope in the middle of an
+uneasy, fragile peace.
+
+     And it *is* fragile, and dangerous.  It is called BABYLON 5 because the
+first three efforts to build the station were sabotaged and  destroyed.  The
+fourth one disappeared without a trace 24 hours after becoming operational.
+No one knows what happened to it.
+
+     And *that*...is only the beginning of our story.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 10        Tue Dec 03, 1991
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 14:01 EST
+
+     Thanks.  As mentioned, I'll probably layer out one character or setup per
+month, rather than shoot it all out at once.  So for now, I'll be talking
+about the world of Babylon 5, the background, Earth history and the like.  For
+now, I'll say that there are basically five major Earth Alliance characters
+who run the station, and four representatives, each from the other alien
+confederations.
+
+     And for those who've been asking repeatedly on another show for a woman
+in a position of great responsibility, wait until you meet Laurel Takashima in
+a month or two.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 11        Wed Dec 04, 1991
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 00:13 EST
+
+     Thanks to all for the good thoughts.  (And my Visual Consultant is
+already on me about making patches...sigh.)
+
+     There will be a novelization, though we haven't yet set a publisher.
+
+     Today the finalized artwork on the B-5 logo came in (what's uploaded here
+is a rough version).  It's absolutely *gorgeous*.  The Warner Bros. publicity
+guys are working like busy little beavers, putting together the hardcover
+presentation volume about the show for the stations, they're absolutely stoked
+about the show.
+
+     In a couple of weeks, right before the Christmas break, we're going to
+assemble the full production team, the First Team as we're calling it now, for
+an all-day meeting to go over the original 2-hour script and see what
+production suggestions there are.  Then the rewrite will be done over the
+Christmas break, which will lock down the draft until we actually  get close
+to production, which will necessitate some additional changes for set and
+other requirements.  We're starting to add on other production staff now --
+assistants and the like -- since things are starting to heat up a little.
+
+     Thus far, we've got two Executive Producers (me and Doug Netter, with
+whom I worked on CAPTAIN POWER, a man every bit as grumpy and curmudgeonly as
+me, and he's a hoot to work with...particularly since he tends to leave me
+alone story-wise), a Line Producer (John Copeland, also from C.P.), a
+Conceptual Artist/Visual Consultant (Peter Ledger, the artist who did the
+artwork now in hand), a computer effects wizard (Ron Thornton of NewTek,
+inventers of the Video Toaster, folks who are on the cutting edge of EFX
+technology), a Production/Set Designer (John Acavelli, from such movies as
+HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS) and about half a dozen others, mostly young, eager,
+bright folks with a chip on their shoulder in the sense that they want to show
+what this show, and they, can do.  It's not enough for ANY of us that the show
+succeed; we want it to kick ass.
+
+     We won't start casting until after the first of the year, when the script
+has been locked down.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 12        Wed Dec 04, 1991
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 01:34 EST
+
+     I know what happened to B-4.  And to B-3, 2 and 1.
+
+     Bear in mind, this thing has been in secret development for three years.
+During that time, with the script and artwork and bible finished, all I COULD
+do was background the story to the Nth degree.  I now know far more than I
+ever thought I would about the universe of BABYLON 5.
+
+     And what happened to B-4 will at one point come back to, um, "haunt"] B-
+5.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 13        Thu Dec 05, 1991
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 00:40 EST
+
+     Hmm...I'd appreciate any more info you may have about those patches (from
+computer or video).  Could be very handy.
+
+     As for the REAL GHOSTBUSTERS episode, yeah, that one -- "Janine, You've
+Changed" -- came out pretty well.  One of my personal favorites.
+
+     I don't think the collected CAPTAIN POWER episodes will *ever* be made
+available, sadly.  I don't think even *I* have a complete set; I have those I
+wrote, or co-authored, and maybe one or two others, but I'm missing a few here
+and there.
+
+     As for actors...we will be using standard channels.  We will have a
+casting director chosen by the first part of the year, and that person will be
+available to agents same as any actor or casting director.  The drill is well
+known.  As co-exec producer on the show, I will have quite a bit of input into
+casting, based on what's recommended to me.  I would mainly concentrate on
+classically-trained actors with a lot of stage work behind them, some film/tv
+work, but who aren't yet over-exposed.
+
+     The only role that I've cast in my head is that of the station's resident
+telepath (NOT an empath, a telepath, who is available to sit in on business
+negotiations, sort of a "Rent-A-Telepath," to make sure that the man on the
+other side of the table isn't lying to you).  There's an actress I've seen
+who's *perfect* for the role, and has some genre experience, though she isn't
+over-exposed yet.  (Memo to myself: I have to call her agent tomorrow and see
+if I can set up a meeting.)  Beyond that, the field's wide open.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 14        Thu Dec 05, 1991
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 03:22 EST
+
+     Well, lemme comment on that.  One of the reasons -- and there are many
+others -- for coming out here like this and, as you say, putting myself and
+the work on the line is my belief that this is right, and this is the kind of
+show that the fans have been looking for.
+
+     And I'm willing to stand behind that, and be open about it, without
+giving away the real surprises in the project.
+
+     For the better part of a decade, I've been on panel after panel, and gone
+to convention after convention, and listened to the fans talk about what
+they'd like to see in an SF series.  How they want solid characters,
+imaginative stories, no kids or cute robots, using science the way it should
+be used, not talking down to the audience.  That desire has been noted.
+
+     I think there is a certain frustration among a large percentage of media
+fandom that they aren't listened to.  This is my way of saying that you HAVE
+been listened to, somebody HAS been paying attention.  What forms the stories
+and the characters must, perforce, come from one voice, you can't create
+anything worthwhile with a committee...but in terms of tone and sophistication
+and attitude and range, that's where you can be open to giving the fans what
+they want, and what they have been asking for now for a long time.
+
+     This is simply one more effort undertaken to make the fan community a
+part of the process.  One noteworthy thing about the creative and production
+team that we've assembled is that they're ALL fans of the SF genre.  They've
+grown up on it, and they want to give something back to it, to stand on the
+shoulders of the giants that preceded us and try and do something *different*.
+
+     I stand foursquare for communication.
+
+     For this series to be special, it helps for the communication to be just
+as special, and open.  This is a part of that process.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 15        Sat Dec 07, 1991
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 20:17 EST
+
+     Well, the other day I got to see the official Warner Bros. -- well, I
+don't know what to call it, exactly, it's a lot more than a brochure, but not
+a book, and not a flyer...it's what they've made to send to the various TV
+stations (allied and non-allied), and for the Warner Bros. salesmen to take
+around with them to the stations, and for the overseas market.
+
+     It's a three-part foldover on slick, card stock, photographic grade
+stock.  The front piece has the main B-5 artwork of the station in space, a
+binary sun in BG, a planet, and several surrounding ships coming in to dock,
+beneath the final version (for now) of the B-5 logo.  It's reproduced in
+stunning color.  You open that up, and you find text on the inside of the
+flap, and continuing down inside are character descriptions and the artwork on
+each of the main characters.  The second flap (folded beneath the first) is a
+cut-out all along on side, the cut-out conforming to the profile of the B-5
+station.  Open up that flap, and you find the artwork of the interior of B-5.
+
+     It's absolutely *gorgeous*, full color, and everyone who's seen it has
+gone nuts for it.  The overseas folks, normally reserved, are already asking
+for dibs.  We're getting a terrific response.  What was also fun for me,
+personally, was turning the whole thing over and seeing, there by the Warner
+Bros. logo, "Rattlesnake Productions in Association with Synthetic Worlds,
+Ltd."  (The latter is my production company.)  Cool.
+
+     Having worked on this for so long, it's taking a while for it to come
+through to me that this is finally REAL, that every day more and more people
+are getting involved with something that came out of my head one day, that
+folks in England and Italy and Japan and other countries are getting into the
+picture, that layout and graphics guys are putting together whole campaigns
+around the program...jesus, it's amazing.
+
+     Also received a preliminary copy of the final budget, and it looks good.
+Now we're looking at real money, and the responsibility starts to really come
+through.  Now we have to DO IT, and do it the way we've been planning all
+these years.
+
+     I think I'll go lie down for a while....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 16        Wed Dec 11, 1991
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 23:57 EST
+
+     Two responses: on the input side, we don't have a strong network hand to
+worry about on the material.  Thus far, they've had zero creative notes.  One
+individual had one suggestion, which made sense, and has been implemented.
+That's it.  Nothing from Warners at all.  My associate on the project, Doug
+Netter, also tends not to get involved in story.  "I'm not the writer, you're
+the writer, you figure out what you want to do with this" is his usual
+comment.  When we worked together on CAPTAIN POWER, he said he would never
+give me a creative note because he wasn't a writer, and he held to that
+promise.
+
+     So to all intents and purposes...it looks like I'm going to be pretty
+much left alone.  If we succeed, great, if we fail, this time I'll have no one
+to blame but myself.
+
+     As for alien-aliens vs. humans with bumps...bear in mind that as much as
+we'd like to use REAL aliens, thus far we haven't encountered any.  So all of
+the roles will have to be portrayed by humans, and we'll do as much as we can
+to make them look as alien as possible.  And in some cases, as mentioned, we
+won't ever SEE them because they'll be concealed inside atmosphere-controlled
+encounter suits.  In the background, and where we can, we'll pepper really
+unusual looking aliens into the show, but bear in mind that if we're going to
+relate to these characters, and have our main cast relating to them, they have
+to be understandable (to varying degrees), and because they'll have to emote
+to one degree or another, we will have to leave some facial aspects free.
+
+     But within those parameters, we're going to try some interesting stuff.
+None of us much likes the "humans with head bumps" look, and we are all
+dedicated to doing as much as we can to change that and come up with something
+new.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 17        Fri Dec 13, 1991
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 03:00 EST
+
+     Yeah, we're trying to come up with new ways of doing stuff.  Makes it
+more interesting.
+
+     Quite a day today for B-5...exhausting.  First in come the color
+portfolios at last, then we have THE FOCUS GROUP!
+
+     I know, I know...you're wondering what a focus group is.
+
+     The studio pays lotsa bucks to engage a research group to bring in two
+groups, one group of women, one group of men.  They are then given synopses of
+the movie, the series episodes, the characters, all the stuff that for now
+can't be posted here.  And they get to react, giving us some parameters in
+terms of marketing and, to a smaller extent, the story and presentation.
+
+     Going in, we were told how it would probably break down: "The women will
+love the character stuff, the relationships, and hate the action, and the men
+will love the action, but hate the character stuff and the relationships as
+'soap opera.'"
+
+     Sonuvagun, but that's how it turned out.  And after having worked for so
+long to convince studio heads that SF fans want other than EFX, there were
+these guys saying, "Oh, yeah, special effects is the most important thing to
+me...and action, heck, science fiction MEANS action, fights and stuff."  I'm
+surprised they couldn't hear me banging my head against the wall through the 2-
+way observation mirror.
+
+     That stuff aside, though, we tested VERY positively, and even got some
+good ideas out of it.  It was strange, as the person who created all this, to
+look out through a 2-way mirror and see, for the first time, "civilians"
+discussing the characters and situations of Babylon 5.
+
+     One more step on the long road set before us....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 18        Fri Dec 13, 1991
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 20:51 EST
+
+     Believe me, I have no patience with or interest in focus groups or
+research or anything of that nature.  My feeling is quite simple: in the early
+stages of a project, you should be willing to at least *listen* to anyone.
+Because sometimes good ideas come from the damndest places.   But you can't
+WRITE that way.  You take all the input, but finally you as the writer have to
+sit down and use what makes SENSE in the story.   The day I abdicte that
+responsibility is the day I get out of the business.
+ I've never seen a project that was Made by research or studio suits.  If it
+works, it's because the project stems from one clear vision, and one clear
+voice.
+
+     Just as one example...while I didn't agree with many reactions of the
+"civilians" -- especially since they were working off a summary, not the
+complete script -- the one point that *did* strike home was that it takes a
+while to get going.  We set up suspense, and a lot of time introducing the
+characters.  But a nice little hook at the beginning, I realized, just a
+little fillip, would be a good idea to goose things a bit.  Now, I may change
+my mind when I get behind the keyboard to revise the script over the Christmas
+break (mainly for myself, and my own desire to strengthen the script, which
+has been around, after all, for quite some time, and I've learned a lot since
+that initial draft), I may decide to jettison that notion, I don't know.  But
+it's worth considering at the very least.
+
+     Fundamentally, if you're going to create a series, write and produce it,
+you've got to follow your instincts.  Besides, the whole POINT of the exercise
+is so that you won't have anyone making decisions for you  anymore, you do
+what YOU want to do with it, and let the chips fall as they may.  To do
+otherwise, given the angst involved in getting a series this far, is dirt-
+stone-stick stupid.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 19        Thu Dec 19, 1991
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 13:49 EST
+
+     Btw...for those who might be interested, apparently -- and I haven't seen
+it, I can only relay what I've been told -- there will be an article on
+NewTek, our computer guys on B-5, in the next STARLOG SPECTACULAR, and the
+article will contain a half-page or so photo of Babylon 5.  (This is probably
+one of the early, rough versions of the station, so I don't know exactly the
+configuration.
+               
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 20        Thu Dec 19, 1991
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 19:51 EST
+
+     Yes, at this stage, we're going to use computer-generated images for the
+exterior of Babylon 5.  Done right, you won't notice the difference between
+that and a model.  (In fact, some of the SFX guys to whom we've shown a later
+version of the demo tape were absolutely unaware that they were looking at
+computer EFX; they thought it was a model...and these guys are experts.  They
+also thought it must've been one hell of a miniature, given the detailing and
+depth of the thing.)
+
+     The cost is *slightly* less than with a model...but what it gives us is
+truly ASTONISHING options.  For instance...we have a ship waiting outside B-5,
+awaiting the word to proceed into the docking bay.  We can go from the POV of
+the ship to B-5, out of the ship, approach the station, go up to a viewing
+port, through which we see our characters in a live, filmed scene, and push
+THROUGH the port RIGHT INTO THE SCENE, all in ONE CONTINUOUS CUT.  And what's
+cool is to see them from the space side of the "glass" first, and we can't
+hear what's being said, since there's no sound in space.  Then just as we push
+through into the room, THEN we suddenly hear the dialogue, as if we've
+penetrated a membrane.
+
+     There are some really amazing things that we can do that, again, have
+never been seen before, using the technology that's come along in the last few
+years.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 21        Wed Jan 01, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 06:13 EST
+
+     Since it is now January 1st, time for another piece of information about
+the B-5 storyline, which as mentioned will be parceled out one per month (and,
+again, I'm talking about the *major* points, each of the main characters and
+the backstory, though the plot of the movie will be kept confidential).
+
+     Here's an interesting bit of backstory.
+
+     The story of BABYLON 5 takes place in 2257.  In 2236 or thereabouts, the
+Earth Alliance made First Contact with a race known as the Minbari.   They
+were, at that time, only the second major civilization we'd encountered,
+though we had certainly come across a number of non-aligned worlds and smaller
+governments, one or two worlds each.  The Minbari represent a *major* force on
+every level, resources, technology, sheer number of worlds involved, on and
+on.
+
+     The Minbari are the oldest of the different alien civilizations, and
+largely kept to themselves.  Their interests were (and are) in attaining
+perfection: physical, mental, spiritual, emotional.  They answer to a Council
+of Elders, whose pronouncements are considered law in an almost biblical
+sense.  Though deeply religious in their way, they have also pursued the ways
+of technology, and as such they are easily the most advanced of the various
+alliances.  But they view technology as transitory, a means to an end rather
+than an end in itself.  Like Tom Bombadil in LORD OF THE RINGS, they can hold
+the Ring of Technology but it has no hold over them.                      
+
+
+     And from 2236 until about 2247, we were at war with them.
+
+     The Earth/Minbari war began as a misunderstanding.  The first time a
+Terran ship encountered a Minbari starship, they studied each other closely.
+The Minbari ship made a move that they thought would be considered non-
+threatening.  It wasn't.  Even in the present of our story, no one is quite
+sure who fired first.  The Minbari ship was greater in power, but taken by
+surprise, was destroyed, and the Earth ship limped back to base with tales of
+a terrible new enemy.  Minbari ships, arriving to investigate, were
+interpreted to be the first wing of an invasion force by the base commander,
+and ships were launched in response before receiving formal authorization from
+Earth Central.
+
+     The war put a great strain on the Minbari, who have always been strongly
+divided between the religious caste, and the military caste, who were now
+forced to work together.  The religious caste were quietly opposed to the war,
+but were generally vague about their reasons when asked.
+
+     The climax of the war was the Battle of the Line.  Earth had all but lost
+the war.  In a last-ditch attempt to save Homeworld, every available ship left
+in the armada was positioned around Earth itself.  It was, everyone knew, a
+suicide mission.  And that's, indeed, how the Battle of the Line started out
+to be.
+
+     In the course of that battle, a lone ship -- a one-man fighter with very
+little in the way of armaments -- took several heavy hits.   His instruments
+failing, other ships blowing up all around him, he aimed his ship at the
+nearest Minbari cruiser, deciding to ram it in the hopes of destroying at
+least that one ship.  He kept his ship on course for as long as he could hold
+out.  Then, abruptly, he blacked out.
+
+     When he awoke, he was still in his ship.  Drifting.  He fired up the
+engines, ready to continue, only to discover two things: first, that he had
+been out of it for a full 24 hours.
+
+     Second...the war was over.
+
+     And, incredibly, the Minbari had surrendered.  On the very verge of
+success in the war, they had rolled over and sued for peace.  No one in the
+Earth Alliance quite knew why, but they weren't about to debate the issue, and
+accepted minimal compensation for the war.
+
+     Now, ten years later, the Earth Alliance is no closer to figuring out why
+the Minbari surrendered.  It is, in fact, one of the great puzzles of that
+era, debated on a hundred different worlds.  Only a few strange clues have
+slipped out.  One is that the military genius who led the Minbari into the war
+committed suicide the day of the surrender, though it is unclear if his death
+took place before or after the surrender.  And the rift between the military
+and religious castes apparently came to some sort of climax, with the
+religious caste taking complete control.   There are rumors of some sort of
+religious vision, of a prophecy of great things, and a prophecy of complete
+doom.  But since almost nothing is known of Minbari religion, what this might
+be, no one knows.
+
+     At the conclusion of the war, those Terrans who fought in the Battle of
+the Line were proclaimed heroes.  One of these men was Captain Jeffrey
+Sinclair...the pilot who still cannot account for the 24 hours he was out of
+contact with Earth Central.
+
+     Commander Jeffrey Sinclair has come far in the 10 years since the war.
+He's had some rough times, but overall he's progressed.  And he has at last
+been given a major assignment, perhaps the most important job of his life,
+concomitant with his promotion to Commander.
+
+     Jeffrey Sinclair is the Commander in charge of the Babylon 5  space
+station.
+
+     Although the station (and its prededessors, Babylons 1 through 4, which
+were either destroyed (1, 2 and 3) or mysteriously vanished (4)) was always
+intended as a sort of mini-U.N. as well as a free-port, with an Ambassador
+from each different alien alliance present, the Minbari refused to name an
+ambassador until the station commander was named first.
+ Shortly after Sinclair was named Commander, the Minbari assigned their first
+ambassador to the station.
+
+     His name is Delenn.  And he stays very close to Commander Sinclair.
+
+     Some say he is keeping a close eye on Sinclair.
+
+     Some say he is Sinclair's friend.  And some say there may well be
+something very lethal behind those unreadable Minbari eyes.
+
+     And there are quite a few others, including a shadow-group in the Earth
+Alliance, who would very much like to know what happened during the 24 hours
+that disappeared from Commander Sinclair's life.
+
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 22        Wed Jan 01, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 06:19 EST
+
+     Small typo in the preceding: it should read that the Earth/Minbari war
+lasted from 2236 to 2247, not 1147.
+
+     This, by the way, represents only one small segment in the overall
+history of the world of Babylon 5.  I've literally worked out a couple hundred
+pages of condensed notes.
+
+     So...whadaya think?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 23        Wed Jan 01, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 19:54 EST
+
+     I would very much like to go for a soundless explosion...though logically
+the shock wave from any near-proximity explosion would cause some disruption
+in anything nearby, I would think.  So if, for instance, something exploded
+near B-5, the ext. space shot of the blast would be soundless, but if we cut
+to the int. of B-5, there would be some sort of vibration or similar
+disruption, I should think.  (Hmm, I'd better look into that further,
+since...well, never mind why.)
+
+     Yes, some of this will be in the 2-hour movie, just enough to set the
+stage.  As for Delenn, yes, he is of a somewhat philosophical bent, but he
+takes great pleasure in his emotions, which is another difference.  And he
+will look quite different.
+
+     I've been trying to come up with a very off-beat plot turn to pull in
+seasons 3 or 4 (assuming we ever GET that far, again, I'm working all this out
+in advance and hoping for the best), and this morning I came up with something
+SO neat, SO unusual, I practically slipped in the shower.  It's something that
+has never, EVER been done in an SF series involving a major character.  And
+boy, will this have major ramifications!  Too bad I have to wait so long to
+pull it off.
+
+     Oh...I forgot to mention one other thing about (then) Captain  Sinclair's
+curious incident above (and yes, this will come up peripherally in the movie).
+When he lost consciousness, he had 16 hours of oxygen left in his ship.  When
+he awoke 24 hours later...he had 12 hours of oxygen left in his ship.
+
+     Funny, ain't it...?
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 24        Sat Jan 04, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 04:48 EST
+
+     There are, in fact, a number of splinter groups in the world (or the
+universe, I suppose) of B-5.  There are individuals who claim residency in no
+particular group or government, they're free-traders of the purest sort.
+Within the Earth Alliance, things are structured more or less along the lines
+of the Commonwealth of Independent States we're seeing now, with one
+monolithic voice that speaks in tersm of foreign policy, but within the
+framework of everything else -- domestic policy, economics and the like -- the
+independent state makes its own rules.
+
+     So their are colonies and fringe areas that consider themselves  by and
+large independent.  And, from time to time, there will be sparks of secession
+and the like.  I've never much liked the Gleaming Steel Of A Perfect
+Federation approach; I like things a little more tentative, less sure.  And
+for that matter, even WITHIN the E.A., there are factions and problems and
+power struggles and the like.  Wheels within wheels.
+
+     As for locations inside B-5...we've designed a number of very different
+looks and locations to give it a non-claustrophobic feel.  By virtue of being
+patterned physically after the work of such scientists as Gerard K. O'Neil,
+the absolute center of the elongated station (which revolves to provide
+gravity) is a sort of hollow-world look, with fields and hydroponic gardens
+along the 386-degree circular section (which is about a half-mile, or a mile
+across)...and as you get closer to the absolute center, where a transport tube
+cuts from one end of the station to the other, naturally you get less and less
+gravity until you can literally hang suspended.
+
+     And there are living areas designed to accommodate different
+environments and atmospheres and conditions.  The alien sectors are off-limits
+to humans without protection (breathing gear and other measures).  Similarly,
+a heavy CO2 breather or methane breather would have to wear an encounter suit
+to travel among the humans on the station.  In addition, the B-5 station is
+actually made up of several independent (though connected) sections, each
+revolving at a different speed in order to create alternative areas of
+gravity.
+
+     Parts of the station are still under construction, and parts are
+finished.  Some sections are in daylight, some in night, alternating by level
+and sector.  On the very outer ring, the viewports are in panels ON THE FLOOR,
+so you're looking down and out into space, revolving beneath your feet.
+
+     BTW...the Babylon 5 station isn't just floating there.  It's at the L-5
+point in a binary star system between a moon and a barren, lifeless planet.
+
+     Well, a *theoretically* barren and lifeless planet, anyway....
+
+     But that's Year Two....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 25        Sat Jan 04, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 19:28 EST
+
+    Cam: yes, exactly.
+
+    Psion: whoof!  What a bunch of questions!  Some of the areas you hit are
+areas we're still discussing.  We *will* have jump-drive technology using
+hyperspace.  About 5 klicks away from B-5 is a...well, I haven't yet decided
+WHAT to call it...it's a jump-point through which most ships enter normal
+space to approach B-5 from hyperspace.  There are two constructs, about a half-
+mile long each, paralleling each other, and both fairly thin, which produce a
+dampening field that helps ships decelerate as they come out of hyperdrive.
+The effect as the ships come through the jump point should be quite
+spectacular.
+
+     We do plan to touch on some of the medical/biological issues you raise,
+though that'll have to wait for the series, naturally.  I thnk that's a VERY
+fertile area for not only scientific and story exploration, but sets some
+profound moral and human questions as well.
+
+     The technology on ships and weaponry will not be consistent.  I think
+this is very important.  In ST, the technology levels are all pretty
+standard...phasers/disrupters, and warp drives and transporters...except for
+the packaging they could all be buying from the same K-Mart.
+
+     We're devising as many new technologies as we can, and dividing them up
+between the different species/groups.  Each group is constantly trying to
+upgrade to the next level, and get the other group's technology.  We even have
+tech-runners, smugglers who trade primarily in data.
+
+     As for the look of things...I like things bulky and functional.  I want a
+gun that looks like it WORKS.  I want uniforms with POCKETS.  A too-clean
+future doesn't interest me.
+
+     How's that for a start?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 26        Sun Jan 05, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 04:58 EST
+
+     If we didn't think we could do the show up right for the money we've got,
+we wouldn't be doing it.
+
+     Given that I can log on here even in the midst of production on the show
+I'm currently doing, MURDER, SHE WROTE, I figure I can keep on showing up
+throughout the B-5 production.
+
+     To the question of vision...yes, this is entirely my baby in that
+respect.  There has to be direction, firm and complete, from the top for ANY
+show to be successful, I think.  But what you then have to do is get people
+you trust involved AND LISTEN TO THEM.  You tell your tech guys, "Okay, what I
+want to do in this scene is X, how can we do that?" and they give you options.
+Let them run with it.  Then take whatever works best visually and for the
+story.  By giving every person the freedom to be creative, the show works
+better, the attitude is better, and it all accrues to the benefit of the
+person running things.
+
+     We don't at this time have a science advisor per se, though that's
+something we're considering when we get to series.  There's certainly a solid
+brain-trust available at JPL, which is practically down the street.  (Curious
+thought...we don't normally expect SF writers to hire science advisors, they
+tend to do their OWN work...and I think that as much as possible, I'd like to
+try and hew to that standard.  I'm not a major science guy, but I know enough
+to hold a conversation, and by going to writers who ALREADY ARE SF WRITERS, I
+think that will go a long way toward taking care of the problem.  But one way
+or another, we're still thinking about it.  We already have a visual
+consultant, and we'll have a creative consultant when we get to series to make
+sure we don't accidentally duplicate any stories already in the SF
+literature.)
+
+     One last note re: the B-5 logo.  Again, that's an early version.  The
+finished (for now at least) version is in, and it's being used on all of our
+mailings and the like.  It's the same basic design, but it's in burnished
+copper and gold against jet black, and it looks like it's been carved out of
+solid steel, with a slightly 3-D look.  That symbol, btw, will also be used IN
+the show.  The upper, pyramidal section will be incorporated into rank
+insignia, with a separate bar below finishing off the symbol.  The symbol will
+be altered to fit various professions and status.  That, at least, is the plan
+for now.
+
+     Almost 2/3rds finished revising the movie script.  I hope to have the
+darned thing finished soon.  We can't do SQUAT until it's in hand.  So here I
+am, an exec producer, waiting impatiently for the damned writer to finish his
+rewrite...and it's me.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 27        Sun Jan 05, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 19:18 EST
+
+     Mayhap it was the parrot that threw them off....
+
+     As for language...most times, since other groups know that they're going
+to a station run by the Earth Alliance, they'll take time to get the basic
+language down.  But, of course, there are always equivilants of the Ugly
+American who doesn't have the time.  In those cases, there will be a
+computerized translator, under which we will faintly hear their actual
+language.  And, from time to time, it could be fun to have two different
+species at an impasse because neither understands the other.
+
+     One of our regular characters will normally use the second method of the
+computerized translator because we will never see his....
+
+     Oops.  Too soon.
+     Never mind.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 28        Sat Jan 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 00:08 EST
+
+     Here, after many consultations with Wise Men Who Weild Great Power, is
+where things stand for now, I think.
+
+     1) Apparently, B-5 met with a *very* positive reception at the INTV
+conference in San Francisco.
+
+     2) Our contract with WB and the independents stations guarantees our
+production as a movie, with the series still very solid.
+
+     3) The B-5 movie is going to air this year, in the fall/winter.  There is
+no conceivable way that anyone else can beat us to the punch on that.  It WILL
+be made, and it WILL be aired on schedule.
+
+     4) Given that there is going to be a lot of PR attendent upon the airing
+of B-5, it would seem counter-productive for any other studio to watch a well-
+publicized movie being aired in 1992, and then come out with a similar concept
+in 1993.  There would be no question as to who was there first, and the
+newcomer would, I think, be viewed as less than original.
+
+     So for now, we're hanging fire and waiting.  In two weeks is NATPE the
+*main* marketing gathering for independent TV stations.  And stations will
+have to decide whether they want a show that's ready to go NOW, or something
+very tenuous that will take another year.  And, again, we are LOCKED IN to the
+stations that form the consortium, and they include many of the top stations
+and top markets in the country.
+
+     So we'll see.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 29        Sun Jan 12, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 05:14 EST
+
+     Haven't heard of POINT CENTRAL, and I think I'll avoid it for the time
+being, for obvious reasons.
+
+     In terms of "literary or visual influences," frankly...well, I thunk it
+up.  Somebody has to start SOMEwhere.
+
+     Where it began, really, was an Einsteinian thought-experiment.  I'd seen
+SO many SF shows ruined by backing into a budget that ended up always being 2-
+3 times what they'd said it would be, that I sat down, very deliberately, and
+said, "Okay, let's see if we can come up with a show that's SF, that isn't one
+of the TV Generics (Man On The Run, Man In  Search Of New Worlds, Man Trying
+To Find His Way Home), and that can be contained."
+
+     The major source of expense on a show is creating new worlds every week.
+So I figured, this should be stationary.  I thought about the sorts of shows I
+liked in TONE...Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, even M*A*S*H, and in each
+case, there was created a center of operations and YOUR STORIES CAME TO YOU.
+Look at L.A. LAW (which I can't abide)...you set up a law office, and people
+with problems come to you.
+
+     So: a stationary locale, where people in trouble come to you.  This led
+me to also think of post WW II Germany, where American, French and British
+forces (and, I think, some Russian) patroled equally to make sure that no one
+side got the upper hand.  It also put me in mind of the early free-ports of
+the 19th century, which were noted for some pretty rough characters, for
+adventure, for intrigue and smuggling.
+
+     Put those various elements together...and you've got BABYLON 5.
+
+     That's where it came from.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 30        Sun Jan 12, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 18:00 EST
+
+     J.LAHUE....clearly you haven't been getting NEARLY enough sleep.   Does
+your mom know you're doing this?
+
+     Regarding the WW II stuff...bear in mind that was the feathering of my
+mind in the early stages.  That does not represent where the show is NOW, only
+what process took me to this.  While I don't like any sort of analogy to what
+went before -- only because it creates images and expectations that may not be
+exactly the same, and for that matter should not be exactly the same -- the
+"Casablanca In Space" log-line is the most accurate.
+
+     As for SF influences in more general terms...I don't want to leave the
+wrong impression.  I LIKE SF, and grew up reading it.  I don't have any
+particular school (Analog vs. F&SF) that I belong to, I just find what I like
+and read it.  I suppose you could find the scope of the show in my
+appreciation from youth of such books as the LENSMEN and FOUNDATION books, and
+the CHILDHOOD'S END material.  That is the KIND of saga that I'd like to
+present.  Too-hard, meaning too technical SF doesn't terribly interest me.
+The technology is a means into the story, and should not (in most cases)
+BECOME the story, unless you've got something really extraordinary on your
+hands.  The story is how it AFFECTS someone.  (Kurt Vonnegutt's "Report on the
+Barnhouse Effect" being a good comparison.)
+
+     I suspect, as the program progresses, you'll catch little influences of
+Bradbury, and Serling, and THE PRISONER (there's a certain surrealness in some
+later stories I've planned out), with a healthy dollop of Clarke and Asimov
+and Ellison.  But I don't think there's enough of any ONE to make a clear
+distinction.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 31        Thu Jan 16, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 03:43 EST
+
+     Absolutely.  And to anyone else...feel free to transfer the material in
+this topic to any other system (kindly noting whence it came), and to give it
+to friends or whomever.  The only systems to which this permission is NOT
+given are the Idle Gossip BBS and the TFI BBS, which will only mean anything
+to those who know what it is/they are, and beyond that I won't elaborate.
+
+     Next week is NATPE, the main marketplace for selling shows to TV
+stations.  Anyone out there who wants to call their independent local TV
+stations (Fox is included in this), or ALL their independent stations, and
+suggest that they pick up B5 is more than welcome to do so.  It could be of
+help.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 32        Fri Jan 17, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 00:18 EST
+
+     At this point, we're looking at same-diameter sections rotating at
+different speeds.  My feeling is...if you can buy hyperdrive, you can buy that
+we've got some spiffy new construction technologies.
+
+     Regarding the NewTek tape...did the video you saw feature a ship entering
+the docking bay of the station?  And were there huge solar collectors at one
+end?  Were sections rotating at different speeds?  If so, then yes, that was
+BABYLON 5.  (Though that must be an odd copy, or they've done some strange
+color correcting, because B5 is steel grey in color, augmented by black in
+some areas and the solar collectors are a metallic blue, though not garish.)
+My *suspicion* is that yes, that was BABYLON 5, especially since you mentioned
+the flickering stars, which are present in the rough test demo (was there also
+a ringed planet in the background)?
+
+     What I'm *pretty sure* you must've seen was the very first test demo of
+the Babylon 5 station.  Later, the length of the video was expanded, we
+layered in an early version of the B5 logo, music was added, plus the shot of
+a single ship docking.  (That was for perspective; for those who might see
+this, the ship at the beginning of the sequence is about the size of a Boeing
+727...and when we first see it from a distance approaching the station, it
+looks practically like a fly until you zoom in on the docking bay.)
+
+     So, based on what you saw, I gather you approve?
+
+     Regarding ads and publicity, yes, thus far I've been consulted, as was
+the case with the color brochure.  As we gear up more, I'll be further
+involved in all aspects of publicity, in order to control the image that goes
+out.  I'm not that involved in the NATPE stuff mainly because that's a
+specialization of the marketing guys, and they know that aspect more than I
+do.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 33        Sat Jan 18, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 01:55 EST
+
+     I don't yet know which stations in Canada will be carrying B5.  Once I
+have a comprehensive list of stations, I'll post it.
+
+     Okay, folks, listen up:
+
+     You say you've been hearing about this Babylon 5 station.  You say you'd
+like to know what it's gonna look like.  You say you'd like to know how big it
+is.  Well, step right up, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, here's your
+chance to see just what the heck we're talking about.
+
+     Proceed immediately to your nearest magazine rack.  Pick up issue #4 of
+STARLOG SPECTACULAR, which just hit the stands.  Turn to page 54.  And there,
+in full color, is a half-page photo of the Babylon 5 space station from a
+frontal three-quarter angle shot.  The little ship about to pull into the
+docking bay is about the size of a 727, and the station is built to scale.
+You can see the main airlock starting to iris open, and the blue things right
+on the very edge of the picture are the solar collectors.
+
+     You'll notice the modular sections, for the varying gravities, as
+discussed.  And there are ports, an observation deck, and the like.
+
+     Now mind you, this is a *fairly* early version of the station, so it's a
+bit cleaner than what we'll see in the final version.  But this is pretty
+close.  (We'll also make the station a bit darker, closer to steel grey...the
+photo has it kind a bit lighter than that.)
+
+     Anyway, there is it.  Anyone who'd like to digitize it and upload it here
+as a GIF file is welcome to do so.
+
+     (Note: the photo doesn't identify the station as B5 because at the time
+the article was being prepared, B5 was still TWCBM, That Which Couldn't Be
+Mentioned.  Top-secret.  And we didn't yet know what the time-frame was.
+NewTek is permitted to use the material to show its capabilities, but at that
+time was not allowed to identify it.  In future, that proviso will not be in
+force.)
+
+     It's rough, and it's being revised, but it's there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 37        Sun Jan 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 03:26 EST
+
+     Thanks for the info.  And yes, that spaceship-breaking-orbit shot is also
+from the B5 demo.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 39        Sun Jan 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 17:22 EST
+
+     I will pass this on to our tech guys, who can probably answer most of it
+better than I can.  Two things that I can comment on: the crops grown in the
+very center of B5 will be grown under artificial lighting conditions to
+replicate natural light.  Heck, we've already got lights that can be used
+underground and in nurseries for that purpose...and creating such an
+environment that way is easier than a complex system of mirrors and windows
+(and windows are at best problematic, now matter how strong they are).
+
+     Second it *does* take quite a bit of time to fully decelerate for
+docking.  One option you have to save time is the energy-dampers positioned
+quite a ways outside B5.  We're still working out the technology on that one,
+but it *seems* to hold up.
+
+     Oh...and yes, we're looking at a gravity range from 0 to 2Gs.  Anybody
+not content with that can bloody well deal with it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+     "Babylon 5: We're A Space Station, Not The Club Med In Space"
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 41        Sun Jan 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 18:50 EST
+
+     Why not?
+
+     Besides, don't forget that humans have to be able to at least GET into
+some of these areas if necessary, even though it may be extremely
+uncomfortable.  (So okay, maybe 3Gs.)  Otherwise you find yourself in a
+situation where an alien can do something destructive, escape to the high-G
+sections, and no human can follow.  Seems kind of impractical.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 45        Sun Jan 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 20:47 EST
+
+     Okay, for those interested, I now have a more specific schedule to work
+from, based on our latest discussions with all parties.
+
+     I finish my revisions on the 2-hour screenplay (entitled "The Gathering,"
+for those interested) by February 1, about two weeks, give or take.  Then two
+weeks to get in the notes from Warners.  Two more weeks to attend to whatever
+suggestions they may have.  The screenplay is then locked down by March 1st.
+
+     We go into design and casting March 1st.  Production design, art
+design/directing and tech teams begin work.  We begin checking out the
+director we're going to use.  First part of April we begin blueprinting of
+sets and construction.
+
+     We finalize cast and director by the end of May, and begin shooting June
+1.  We finish shooting June 26th.  We go into editing and post production, and
+come out with the finished film by early or middle October, and deliver to
+Warners and the stations.  (By the first part of October we also deliver a
+three-minute trailer to the stations for use in promoting B5.)
+
+     BABYLON 5: The Gathering then airs the third week in November, during
+sweeps.  Probably on a Tuesday night.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 48        Sun Jan 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 21:44 EST
+
+     Thanks, any publicity helps.
+
+     The NewTek scene being shown around is the early stage of the B5 concept.
+There won't be a full-scale model built, it will exist entirely within the
+computer EFX realm.  And the latest stuff I've seen is photo quality; you
+can't tell.  I showed the new material to SFX guys who know the field inside
+and out, and not ONE of them picked up on the fact that it was computer
+generated until I told them.  They all thought it was a model.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 59        Tue Jan 21, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 00:36 EST
+
+     BABYLON 5 is a deep-space station located in a strategic sector of space
+that is heavily traveled, a jump point for journeys, with representatives from
+various civilizations on board.
+
+     DEEPSPACE 9 is a deep-space station located in a strategic sector of
+space that is heavily traveled, a jump point for  journeys, with
+representatives from various civilizations on board.
+
+     Funny...I don't see what's similar about them at ALL...even if there ARE
+some other points of comparison that I can't reveal for fear of compromising
+my OWN story.
+
+     As for the reason for rebuilding B5...it was an idea that was right, and
+those responsible refused to knuckle under to what was, in effect, terrorism.
+During WW II, someone asked Winston Churchill what he would do if a V-2 took
+out Big Ben.  "We shall rebuild it," he said.  And what if they knock THAT
+down?  "We shall rebuild it again, and again, as many times as is required.
+Because it is not theirs to destroy, it is OURS."
+
+     B5, at this crucial time, is the last, best hope for peace, and there are
+people dedicated to pursuing that peace, whatever the cost, however many times
+others may try to destroy it.  Those aboard B5 know the risk, but come because
+they believe in what it stands for, just as U.N. observers go into a country
+knowing fully that they may be killed.
+
+     Why rebuild the Enterprise?  Why make more shuttles after one blows up,
+even though you KNOW that the odds indicate that at least one more will go,
+sooner or later?  Why continue with the Gemini space program even after those
+astronauts died in that terrible fire?
+
+     Because the universe doesn't reward you for doing what's safe, and easy.
+Because courage and persistence is what pulled us out of the seas and onto
+land and dragged us through millions of years of evolution.   What sets the
+human race apart from everything else is our persistence, the stubborn, noble
+dignity that propelled Washington's men, when offered the chance to stand down
+during the revolutionary war, when they were tired and bleeding and
+frostbitten, to refuse to knuckle under, and to go on.
+
+     During WW II, again, there were cases of planes sent in to bomb strategic
+sites...and when one batch was shot down, another wing went off.  And another.
+And another.  Until finally SOMEONE got through.   Because it had to be done.
+The consequences were too terrible otherwise.
+
+     We have come into an age when it seems passion is passe, when the very
+common coin of our shared humanity, the willingness to put our lives on the
+line for a cause or a belief, seems somehow suspect.  Why do people rebuild
+BABYLON 5 even though it's not safe?  Why do they go there when it's not safe?
+
+     Because the Earth/Minbari war ALONE almost wiped out humanity.  We can't
+afford NOT to be there.
+
+     And these people are willing to put their lives on the line to see' that
+that never happens again.  Because they damn near won the first time, and the
+next bunch might well finish the job.
+
+     One of my favorite pieces of verse is from Tennyson's ULYSSES.  And it is
+at the core of what BABYLON 5 is about.  It concerns the final voyage of
+Ulysses...older, tired, who has lost his family and most of his kingdom and
+most of his men, betrayed and saddened...and he gathers up those few surviving
+members from his earlier journey, and as they prepare to push off, he
+concludes with a final benediction: "Though we are not now that strength that
+in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are: one equal
+temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate but strong in will, to
+strive, to seek, to find and not to yield."
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 61        Tue Jan 21, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 03:07 EST
+
+     Because of Babylon 5's function as a free port, the laws are a bit dodgy.
+Outside B5 it's neutral territory, it's only when you set foot inside the
+station that you fall under Earth Alliance regs.  Even so, you have to tread
+carefully.  You raise some good points, and that is an issue that's going to
+have to be dealt with.  Some sort of preventive measure would seem to be in
+order...it's just a question of figuring out WHAT.
+
+     Thanks for the comments...and the opinion, which is one that a lot of
+others are coming to share re: the situation with That Other Show.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 62        Tue Jan 21, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 03:10 EST
+
+     BTW...this Friday's HOUR 25 will be dedicated to the question of how one
+gets a show on the air, the rigors and traps involved therein, and will follow
+the long history of BABYLON 5 as an example.  (What a coincidence!)  Joining
+me and my co-host Larry DiTillio will be B5 line producer John Copeland, and
+EFX wiz from NewTek, Ron Thornton.
+
+   Anyone in the LA area, feel free to tune in.  And if anyone wants to comment
+on anything, the phones are open midway through the show....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 70        Tue Jan 21, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 20:29 EST
+
+     For info on HOUR 25 -- the SF talk show I host, with others on
+alternating nights -- check out the topic in Cat 19.  Topic 3.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 81        Wed Jan 22, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 01:29 EST
+
+     Yes, it was BABYLON 5 in the CNN Showbiz Today clip from Newtek.   For
+those who missed it (*I* didn't know it was on until I heard it on another
+system!), it'll be on again tonight at 2 a.m. Pacific, 5 a.m. Eastern time.
+
+     I *think* I know what you're referring to re: Jello aliens, and will
+check out the message.  If it is what I think, I may have another comment on
+all this.
+
+     Interestingly enough...originally the new TREK show was supposed to begin
+PRODUCTION in Spring 93 for a debut Fall '93.  When we announced that we were
+going to air the B5 movie in Fall '92, suddenly they moved the airdate for
+*their* show to January 1993.
+
+     This is, honestly, NOT a coincidence.  And I'm going to be amused to
+watch them try to catch up...we've got a screenplay, a production team, visual
+concepts, a bible, EVERYthing...and I *know* that they have only a
+treatment...no series bible, no screenplay, nothing.
+
+     This is getting more interesting by the moment....
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 82        Wed Jan 22, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 01:43 EST
+
+     Okay, I just read the pertinent notes on 21/21 regarding the new TNG
+spinoff, and the "Jell-O Man," clearly (as indicated in the prior messages
+there) a morph/shapechanger.
+
+     Guess what?
+
+     As I mentioned in 21/21, there was also a shapechanger on the B5 station
+in the screenplay that Paramount has had now for some time.
+
+     What *I* like is the fact that in the current version of the script, I'm
+omitting the shapechanger because that technology is, in my view, overexposed
+right now.  By the time it hits the air, morphing will be so common that it's
+old hat.  (It WASN'T old hat when I wrote the original screenplay several
+years back.  That was the goal with the current rewrite...to make the script
+as far in advance NOW as it was when I first wrote it.)
+
+     And the coincidences just keep on coming....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 85        Wed Jan 22, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 02:20 EST
+
+     We're keeping all of our options open at this time.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 93        Wed Jan 22, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 13:29 EST
+
+     Regarding the NewTek B5 demo...no, that wasn't done with the Video
+Toaster.  In this case, NewTek is noted because it's the company that MADE the
+VT, but this isn't an aspect of that, insofar as I know.  They've come up with
+some startling new technologies for computer-generated EFX, and in fact Ron
+Thornton, our one-man brain trust, is completely REWRITING THE CODES
+specifically to accommodate B5.
+
+     When the opening sequence is completed, the trailer will be one
+continuous take of the starship pulling away from the planet, scooting across
+space, then we pan in from FIVE MILES OUT, join up with the ship as it enters
+the docking bay, and go THROUGH the docking bay...ending up right on a live-
+action face of one of our characters inside.
+
+     And yes, we'll be slowing down the animation a bit, partly for
+aesthetics, partly because real objects should have mass and weight and
+shouldn't move *quite* that fast.  Also, I have some additional ideas on how
+the B5 station should look, and we'll be incorporating those in as well.  The
+*basic* form and shape will, I suspect, stay pretty close to what you've seen.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 100       Thu Jan 23, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 00:05 EST
+
+     Yes, the ship arcing away from the planet, as you describe, is part of
+the B5 demo.  The sequence is reversed; first the ship leaves the planet, THEN
+it arrives at B5.  Look carefully at the front of B5 and you can see it
+pulling in.
+
+     I initially roughed out what I wanted in the station; basic shape and
+configuration, the use of rotating sections, docking bay at the front, that
+sort of thing.  Peter Ledger then did the preliminary artwork, and then Ron
+Thornton did the computer version.
+
+     I have to tell you, it was way cool to turn on the TV and see the Babylon
+5 station on CNN after all this time.  Even with the hassles, it was kinda
+nifty.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 103       Thu Jan 23, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 01:57 EST
+
+     B5 is a "hollow-tube" type station, similar in some ways to the  Gerard
+K. O'Neil stations.  And I don't know what platform is being used,
+unfortunately.  (Metal?  Wood?  Just kidding...)
+
+                                                         jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 133       Sat Jan 25, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 22:04 EST
+
+     Sorry for the absence; was up to my ears in alligators.  Just time for a
+quickie...the show has now been sold into a LOT more markets, and I should be
+able to post the new station list here in the next week or so.  It met with a
+VERY enthusiastic response.  Nothing but continued support.
+
+     Will bring in some new info in another week or so also regarding the show
+per se.  And while I'm not sure exactly what's meant by "expand" the idea, I
+*do* like a show that grows and changes a little from time to time.  Shifting
+relationships, the occasional character who goes off or gets croaked, changes
+in character that catch you by surprise, so that will definitely be the case.
+
+     My problem right now, in looking over the B5 screenplay, "The Gathering,"
+is one of personal overload.  There's so much that I want to get into this,
+but if you lay in *too* much backstory and exposition, you get dull REAL fast.
+So that points you in the direction of action.   Too much action undercuts the
+character/backstory/offbeat stuff that will make the project DIFFERENT.  It's
+got to be accessible enough for reg'lar folks, at least for the movie, but
+strange/SFish enough to let the fnas (or fans) of the genre now we mean
+business.  Agh!
+
+     I think I'll go lie down....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 143       Sun Jan 26, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 20:59 EST
+
+     Actually, Eric, you're right one one important count...the hydroponics
+will be at the center of the station, as you describe...and that section will
+indeed be known as The Garden.  Which has both resonance from the original
+Gardens of Babylon, to a certain Judaeo/Christian myth, both of which will
+gain more resonance as the story develops over the long term.
+
+     Found a way around the problem I'd mentioned, and now things seem to be
+back on track.  Also found out Friday that a really NIFTY effect I'd hoped for
+can, indeed, be done for the show.  I won't elaborate except to say that we
+can show a ship arriving like nobody's ever seen before.  It's gonna be nifty.
+
+     Also got some other good news on Friday from NATPE, but I'll have to wait
+a few days before I can announce anything about it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 147       Mon Jan 27, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 00:44 EST
+
+     As stated, the picture of B5 in Starlog is from a VERY early stage of
+development.  The actual version, in later renditions, is darker and -- for
+lack of a better term -- more *massive* in its feel.  And there will be
+considerable polishing in terms of how it looks.
+
+     This is *strictly* my own opinion (though it's a pretty solid one, I
+think)...but frankly, I don't think it's even REMOTELY possible for the Other
+Show to begin filming in June.  At present, there's neither a bible nor a
+script for it.  If you're going to start filming in June, you need a script
+NOW.  Or at least by the first of February (which is when "The Gathering" is
+due).  You need to run your script past the studio, then start conceptual
+design (and in our case, we're ahead and it's STILL going to be tight),
+construction, casting...and none of that can happen until you've got a script.
+
+     I don't see that happening (filming) on the Other Show until the fall or
+VERY late summer.  Even at that late date, though, there's still every chance
+that they could hit air by February '93.
+
+     And bear one other thing in mind: if they could shoot in June, they could
+release in November, when B5 airs.  And they're not.
+
+     So phooey on them.
+
+     Just finished another act on the script.  Closing in on the end.  The fun
+part of this is trying to imagine the future, and trying to come up with ways
+in which things can be done differently for TV, ways no one has really dealt
+with in TV.  One of our recurring characters (not a regular, in that sense,
+but someone we'll see from time to time) is a woman who is, for lack of a
+better term, a Rent-A-Telepath.  She works for B5, but she is available for
+businessmen who need to make sure that the person across the table can really
+deliver what's promised.  (Note: she is not the only one, they're pretty
+common in business at this time in the future.)
+
+     Not an empath, by the way, but a proper, licensed (Psi-Corps, Level 5)
+TELEPATH.  Bound by all the regs of the P-C.  No random scanning, no access to
+the gaming tables, no unauthorized dipping, all deals must be on record.  And
+there's the privacy question that TNG has never really dealt with.  A telepath
+peeping into someone's mind or emotions without that person's permission (or
+that of the next of kin) can likely have his or her license revoked.  It's a
+basic right of privacy...whereas a Certain Other I can think of is constantly
+peeping into people's emotions and feelings without so much as a by-your-
+leave.  And, again, this will be the very exacting reading of thoughts, rather
+than a, "I sense discomfort" sort of thing.
+
+     In the focus group, that character elicited considerable interest from
+the subjects.  I suspect the idea of a Rent-A-Telepath is appealing for a LOT
+of reasons....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 150       Mon Jan 27, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 03:17 EST
+
+     Actually...we're using hand puppets.
+
+     I'll get the specs and try to put the info here as soon as I can get it
+in a form I can understand.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 161       Tue Jan 28, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 01:09 EST
+
+     Actually, I hadn't yet given the planets in the neighborhood of B5 names
+yet, only numerical designations.  Hmm.  I have to confess I rather like
+Tigris and Euphrates.
+
+     As for the jump-point...as it turns out, I moved it out QUITE a bit from
+the station after my original posting.  The more I thought about it, the more
+it seemed best to move it back.  (For one thing, I need to buy about five
+hours from the moment A Certain Ship arrives through the jump-point, until it
+decelerates enough to dock at B5, so that seems to indicate pushing it away a
+bit.)
+
+     Finally, as regards t-shirts...maybe.  Will advise.  How about this: the
+B5 logo (the FINISHED version, which is 'way cool) on the front, and ACCEPT NO
+IMITATIONS on the back...(smile, couldn't help myself).
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 166       Tue Jan 28, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 03:13 EST
+
+     I think someone else here might have the info on the GIF file.
+
+     As for characters and story...that remains the first concern.  The
+discussion here got a little EFX/tech heavy, but ain't nothing wrong with
+that.  Bear in mind, also, that I can only reveal so much here without
+compromising the movie.  There will already be, doubtless, folks who've seen
+so much here that what would ordinarily have been suprising when the movie
+airs will now seem expected...because they read it here.
+
+     I'll pass on what I can, as I can.  Be assured, as a writer, story is and
+will always be my first concern.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 185       Wed Jan 29, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 03:09 EST
+
+     I'm trying to decide if I actually want to upload the final version or
+not.  Well, not so much if I *want* to...I do...but whether or not I should.
+The problem, basically, is one of control.  How can you tell if something -- a
+flyer, a release, a piece of art or a shirt -- is an authorized piece from B5
+Central, or something counterfeit?  That logo is a pretty good means of
+telling the difference.
+
+     Once the final image is uploaded, it becomes easily distributed, and that
+*may* open up difficulties.  It's something I'm going to have to think about a
+bit longer.  In the interim, take what's there and imagine it rendered in
+solid, stainless steel, with a silver trim running around the edge of the
+whole thing, giving it a 3-D look, and instead of solid colors, as it is now,
+the colors look airbrushed or reflectorized, as though made of coppor and gold
+catching the light and throwing it back.  THAT is the final (for now) version.
+If that undergoes further changes -- I'm giving thought to making the word
+BABYLON bigger, as though cut from a solid steel template -- then I will have
+no compunction about putting up Logo 2.0.
+
+     Does that make sense?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 195       Thu Jan 30, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 01:14 EST
+
+     YAAAAAGGGGHHHH!
+
+     Stop-stop-stop-stop-stop.
+
+     One hard-nosed Absolute Enforceable here: tech stuff is one thing, but
+the telepath discussion is ranging into concrete story ideas, and that opens a
+LOT of danger for me, particularly since a couple of things hit upon here are
+in the script as it stands now.  (Answer: yes, I *am* ahead of you, Correa.)
+
+     Please, that's the only request I have to make in this regard: NO STORY
+IDEAS OR SUGGESTIONS.  We are in deeply litigious times.  Just today I
+received a legal piece of paper from a pinhead in Georgia who thinks I swiped
+his idea for a ZONE, and that's probably going to involve lengthy legal stuff
+to prove that I didn't do it.  (The script, and the material on record BEFORE
+the script predates his material by a long, long, LONG time.  He knows this,
+but is going ahead anyway in hopes of harrassing the studio and me into making
+a settlement to dispense with this...which AIN'T gonna happen.)
+
+     Anyway, the point being this becomes very problematic.  So while we will
+let stand what's here, please, no more on this approach.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 206       Thu Jan 30, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 13:44 EST
+
+     I'm not worried overly about anything here thus far, I only wanted to cut
+it a little short before it got too problematic.  (Especially since one of the
+points suggested is actually one of the main events in the movie.)  Don't mean
+to inhibit anything, just a reminder, that's all.  And the Tigris/Euphrates
+thing is something that's intriguing, and is still being considered, as is a
+great deal of the tech stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 212       Fri Jan 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 00:04 EST
+
+     B5 doesn't use fusion.  It uses *nothing* but the very FINEST in fairy
+dust.  (Actually, I haven't stated, though it *does* have solar collectors,
+big ones.)
+
+     KL, please give me 24 hours notice before you archive this topic so's I
+can do a fast download me own self.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 215       Fri Jan 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 00:47 EST
+
+     Insofar as we can tell, the EFX work via computer will be easier and
+faster.  The B5 demo that's floating around was done literally in about a
+week, by one guy working part time.  Look at that and imagine what we can do
+once we get our full team working full-time.
+
+     I don't know if you'll see more or less such EFX on B5 as opposed to TNG
+because I haven't really counted.  We'll use them as required by the story.  I
+think the mix on "The Gathering" is a little light on EFX, because so much of
+this story is establishing the characters and the relationships.  So we'll
+take what efx we DO have in that episode and make them REALLY spiffy.
+
+     I'm *pretty* sure that Ron Thornton told me we can generate 5-8 NEW
+minutes of EFX every week once we get to series.  Bear in mind that many of
+the space EFX you see on a show like TNG are recycled or composited using a
+mix of old and new film.  We can do all that PLUS put out a very substantial
+amount of new EFX.  And we'll be using those EFX in interesting ways that I
+think will be fairly original in look and feel.
+
+     One thing that I'm planning toward now is a mid-season crisis, and we'll
+be squirreling away bits of EFX for that episode early on, since the script
+will be finished well in advance of the shooting.  What I want to do -- and
+again, this is the series part -- is have one episode where we just kick over
+the table and go for it: a major, armed conflict between dozens, maybe even
+HUNDREDS of individual ships.  Think some of the sequences in RETURN OF THE
+JEDI as a boilerplate.  And what will be cool, what the EFX guys have sketched
+out for me, is that we can begin from the POV of one ship, move away as it's
+blown up, move THROUGH AND BETWEEN the other ships, change direction, and pull
+back to the B5 POV, all in one continuous take.  It means preparing WELL in
+advance, but I suspect that the result is going to be worth it in spades.
+
+     Which is, again, one of the benefits to working things out on a show or
+film far in advance, as with a novel.  Instead of lurching from one script to
+another, never knowing what's coming next, we'll have a full time-line to work
+from...what approximate EFX will be required, what sort of sets we will need
+down the road, that sort of thing, which means we can make things look better
+overall.
+
+     I just wish we were PAST the movie already, and moving on.  But one
+crisis at a time....
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 220       Fri Jan 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 14:01 EST
+
+     Regarding jump-points and how they're used...I'm going to hold back on
+that for now.  In talking to our EFX people and the usual neepers, I've come
+up with a really cool technology and a visual to go with it, and given that
+there's another show, I shouldn't mention names, you should never speak ill of
+the...anyway, ANOTHER that will use a sort of transit point/wormhole effect,
+I'm sitting on that info for now.
+
+                                                                   jms
+------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 222       Fri Jan 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI                  at 23:52 EST
+
+     Also you're a day early.  February has 31 days.
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------@
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS for April, 1992
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+ ************
+Topic 22        Wed Nov 20, 1991
+SOARON [Bio-Dread]           at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5                          
+
+TWCNBN has been been named!  J. Michael Straczynski has managed to bring a new
+quality to television and promises to do justice to TV and SF with a new
+action-adventure SF series of his own design.  (NO story suggestions, please.)
+681 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 388       Wed Apr 01, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:48 EST
+
+     Okay, two things: I put in the order today for the shirts (which, on
+seeing what was there, I decided at the last would look better on royal blue
+than black, with the emblem in white).  Those of you who need to hedar -- er,
+hear -- further details, will.  Watch your private mail in the next two weeks.
+(You know who you are.)
+
+     And now something very, very serious, folks, and I want you all to listen
+good.
+
+     I have a favor to ask.
+
+     I need those of you who have any real interest in seeing B5 hit the
+airwaves to check into this topic at least twice a day between now and Friday
+morning/early afternoon.  I may need something from you, in a big way.  This
+is *important*, people.  I can't go into detail at this time, and maybe the
+situation will fix itself...but for now let's just say that you may have a
+chance to influence a major situation.  I don't know how large the B5 group of
+shock-troops is, but there may be a major role for every single one of you to
+play.
+
+     I don't want to sound apocalyptic.  I *do* want to convey to you that
+there is something very important in the works and, as they say, to Watch This
+Space.  The call may never need to go out, but if it does, stay tuned.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 421       Thu Apr 02, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:55 EST
+
+     Many thanks to all the volunteers.  All I can say is to stand by.   The
+next 24-36 hours are make-or-break.
+
+     The outpouring here is very much appreciated, and very warming.  Thank
+you.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 425       Thu Apr 02, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:02 EST
+
+     No reason to feel foolish.  The cause and situation is quite real, and
+believe me, I would not be doing this if there weren't sufficient cause.
+
+     And check-ins needn't be during prime-time, that's something I should
+have mentioned, but didn't.  And yes, I will very *definitely* note here when
+and if the crisis passes.     
+
+     Please continue to bear with me.  This is, as someone noted, truly an
+extraordinary situation...and there may be a chance to take part in a
+democratization of the process of television that may be something of a
+benchmark.
+
+     Thanks again, and as soon as I can come out with the full story, I  will
+do so immediately.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 452       Thu Apr 02, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:56 EST
+
+     Several things...first, thanks to one and all, especially the lurkers (so
+where've you BEEN all this time?).
+
+     Second, it *looks* as if the deadline for the resolution for the current
+situation has been extended to Monday, which lets us all take a moment to
+breathe.  So you needn't check in on the twice-daily schedule for the next
+couple of days, though I strongly suggest a check-back on Monday.  
+
+     In the interim, because there's some time, and because we've now gone
+through so much set-up, I think it is incumbent upon me to kind of explain a
+*little* of the situation.  Mind, I can't say a lot; I have to be circumspect
+because that's the nature of the business.  At least, I have to be circumspect
+at the moment...we'll see what Monday at the close of business day brings.
+
+     What I *can* say is this...that from the very first day, as those of you
+who've been around the longest know, everyone associated with B5 has dedicated
+him/herself to doing this one *right* in every possible sense of the word.
+Budget, effects, the deal, control, the script, you name it, we've been *very*
+careful, and very dedicated to that singular proposition.
+
+     In any situation like this, if you're worth your salt, you come to one
+pivotal moment when you have to be willing to put *everything* on the line, to
+risk it all on one throw of the dice.  In order to get the last elements we
+need, that's what I've had to do...we will either do this show right, on every
+level, or....
+
+     You get the idea.
+
+     I've put it all up to a roll of the dice...four years work, my team,
+everything.  In order to do it *right*, or not at all.  One of my prize
+possessions is a RAF wing-insignia from WW II.  The motto read only, "Who
+Dares, Wins."  And I believe that.
+
+     If I can mix my gambling metaphors for just a moment, in this little game
+of chance I have one card up my sleeve...and that's all of you.  If the
+balance begins to tip, those of you who believe in what we're trying to do
+will all have your part to play.  And it may be *extremely* instrumental.
+That's all I can say at the moment.  My decision to put everything up for
+grabs, winner-take-all, has been supported by all th ose involved with B5, and
+that's immensely gratifying.  It's a very, *very* dangerous game, but with a
+little luck, and with a sudden possible ride by the cavalry over the hill,
+it's *just* possible thatt we'll pull it off, and make a little history in the
+process.
+
+     So stay watchful, though a little less often between now and Monday, and
+we'll see what happens.  And know that your support and your interest means
+more than I can possibly describe.
+
+     Thanks again, and as soon as I can explain further, or make an
+announcement one way or another, be assured that it'll be here within minutes.
+
+
+     (Oh...and before I forget...the t-shirts are being silk-screened even as
+I type this, and will be ready within about 10 days, at which time there will
+be a system whereby those whats wants 'em will be able to get them without
+charge.  This batch will be set aside only for use at and distribution at
+conventions, and to the 470/18/22 folks who've been here from the start.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 495       Fri Apr 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:55 EST
+
+     Two marginally off-topic replies...DS9 will film in August for a early
+spring 93 airdate.  That's solid.  And no, there's no involvement here with
+Angela's other project, which at this time is dormant anyway.
+     That said...there's news.
+
+     What propelled this current situation was a confluence of things: the
+importance of getting some foot-draggers to move so we could still hit the
+November play-date and other details, but *most* important was the issue of
+the creative focus, the long-term plan for the show, and control over what we
+felt the show could become.  Without that, you've got nothing on a project
+like this.
+
+     I'm leaving a lot out, of necessity, but from the foregoing it should be
+clear that what was at stake was the creative and organizational *heart* of
+the show, as well as other things.
+
+     So at some point in the game, you've got to push all your chips onto the
+table and turn the game into winner-take-all.
+
+     This was then conveyed.  There was resistance.  At 11:45 this morning, a
+call came indicating that if this was indeed the stance, then it looked like
+the project was dead in the water.  My agents wondered if maybe there should
+be some flexibility.  My associates were willing to stand by our decision.
+
+     "Let it ride," I said.
+
+     If it has to die, then let it die here and now.
+
+     As the clock ticked on, I began to think about the people we'd involved
+in this project, the years of work, the dedication that so many have already
+shown B5 within the team of production staff we've brought aboard.  Had my
+inflexibility ruined something for all of them?
+
+     At 12:20, 35 minutes later, the phone rang again.
+
+     They blinked.
+
+     We're on...and all the provisos I'd held out for were accepted.
+
+     It's a terrible thing to look into the abyss...and thus a wonderful thing
+when you realize that you're not going to fall after all, that you've somehow
+skated past the precipice and come out alive at the other end.
+
+     The crisis is over, the situation fixed, and now at long last, we can
+settle down to the business of casting and building and rolling film.
+
+     The "we" who won in this situation is, I believe, everyone...thanks in
+large measure to people at Warners and at the Television Consortium who
+believe in this project, have believed in it from the beginning, and
+understood what it was that was at stake...and came through for us at the end.
+
+
+     And thanks as well to those here, who Quixotically volunteered to go
+forth and attack dragons in service of a place they had never even seen, which
+is, I suppose, the higest calling one can aspire to, to fight not for
+acquaintances, or the familiar, but for an *idea*.
+
+     So once again, my utmost appreciation.  That the goal was achieved
+without the necessity of firing a shot does not in any way diminish the thanks
+due the volunteers in this extraordinary company.  When next we assemble, I
+hope, it will be in the cause of celebration.
+
+      And today I have amended the B5 bible to include the following notation:
+"The Babylon 5 station is located in neutral territory, in grid epsilon, at
+coordinates 470/22/18."
+
+     Onward!
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 531       Sat Apr 04, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:28 EST
+
+     Comalite...yeah, you're the first person to pick up on the Grid Epsilon
+reference.  Maybe I'm being too obscure for my own good....
+
+     Regarding sound...we've hooked up with a terrific studio out here that's
+been after us to get this show off the ground for about three years now so
+that they can try some new stuff they've been cooking up.  We're going to be
+looking at using sound in new ways in terms of EFX, such as weapons and
+equipment and other devices -- and acoustics.  I tend to lean toward sound
+that *feels* solid.  The opening sequence in ALIENS, for instance, when the
+laser starts cutting through the door, sizzling and crackling, and then the
+door falls to the floor with a CLANG! that says This Is Solid, This Is Real.
+
+     Because we're in a station, or sometimes in ships, we're going to have to
+adjust the acoustics to match, and probably layer in an assortment of
+environmental noises, from machinery to transports to background voices to
+pages to...um, some other stuff.  The sound should be as textured as our
+visuals, I think, which is why we'll be shooting and producing in surround
+sound, even though not all stations are equipped to broadcast same.  It still
+adds a better sound, even on plain stereo receivers, and increases the shelf
+life of the movie/series.
+
+     Music is probably the one area in which I'm chasing my own tail the most.
+It kinda bothers me that most TV SF in the last 10 years or so has utilized
+quasi-classical music almost exclusively...the sort of quasi-John Williams
+stuff you see on Battlestar, or TNG, or others.  I'd like to see a mix of
+musical motifes, and am not at *all* opposed to laying in a rock- or new-wave-
+style soundtrack over the opening credits of the series...the question is
+which way I want to go...a hard-driving theme like the one Copeland did for
+The Equalizer, or a softer theme of the sort you have in Hill Street.  My
+basic problem is that I like  ALL music, and trying to pick which will form
+the "theme" behind the opening credits is really tough.  (Correction: all
+music *except* country/Western.  Yuccch.)
+
+     Tomorrow, Ron (EFX Are My Life) Thornton will be coming by the house to
+show me the new video renderings of the redesigned B5 station.   Some others
+saw them today, and apparently their jaws just dropped straight to the floor.
+I'm reserving judgement until I see the thing with my own eyes.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 574       Sat Apr 04, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:08 EST
+
+     Whew...40 messages since yesterday...yipes!  (And to the question of my
+prior work, you might want to add 11 episodes of the new TWILIGHT ZONE, and my
+adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," for Showtime,
+which got a bunch of nominations, including the WGA Award nomination.)  And on
+the question of music...yeah, that's something I've already been working on,
+picking an appropriate kind of music for the various species.  I'm going to
+have to sit down with some real sharp composer and just start trying things
+out.
+
+     Meanwhile....WOW!
+
+     Ron Thornton just left here a little while ago, having brought over the
+*NEW* and pretty much final version of B5...both in photos off thde video, and
+on tape.  If you've seen the B5 demo on the NewTek tape, you can forget
+it...this is *so* much better, so 3-dimensional, so real and detailed that
+it's absolutely astonishing.  It makes the earlier B5 look like a hand-puppet.
+We've worked out most of the tech on it, including a new way to handle the
+centrifugal force question...and yes, to whoever inquired 'WAY up-topic, there
+are heat dissipators and optical routing panels on the station to channel cool
+light inside...and we've dropped the solar panels, incorporating the idea of
+edges rising out of the sides with the heat dissipators.  It's also been
+created in such a way as to provide a) Earth normal gravity, b) various
+incrementally greater gravities, and c) a completely weightless environment
+not only at the center, but in one other area as well.  And we've worked out
+most of the problems inherent in docking with a moving object.
+
+     The point being...it looks really, really, *REALLY* cool.  This is the
+version that I'll be shlepping around to cons this Spring, though by then the
+footage will probably be a bit longer and more elaborate, with music and the
+series logo and ships and other spiffinesses layered in.
+
+     Anyway, I'm now even more confident that when you see this thing, it's
+not going to be like *anything* you've ever seen before.
+
+     Oh...and I also saw, while Ron was here, the cover of VIDEO TOASTER
+magazine, the issue that'll be out, I think, next week...and the whole cover
+is taken up by a shot of the earlier B5 shot.  It looks absolutely stunning
+there, and Ron is featured in the article, which will explain a lot more about
+how we're doing stuff.  (In other words, hard core neepery.)
+
+     The momentum is gathering as we move toward Day One of filming.
+
+     Which is about 2/3 months from now.  We're going to have a photog on
+stage every day to chronicle production, and may link up with someone to film
+a "making of" short.  During production, I'll try to log on here every couple
+of days (expect me to vanish a *lot* when we're filming) to provide updates
+direct from the stage.
+
+     Onward...and just *wait* until you see the new, Even Better Babylon 5.
+Yikes!
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 585       Sun Apr 05, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:35 EDT
+
+     Thanks for the thoughts, all.  One thing I forgot to ask Ron while he was
+here -- and perhaps some of you Amiga-types can supply the info -- is for a
+contact phone number for Video Toaster Magazine.  It occured to me after the
+fact that some folks here might want to order up a copy of that issue.  So if
+I can't dredge it up in the next few days, if someone who knows could post the
+info, it'd be much appreciated.
+
+     Something else I forgot to mention was that I saw the preliminary color
+designs on the Vorlon ship as well, though they haven't been set down on video
+yet.  Again, a *very* different sort of look....
+
+     I just sat here and tried to come up with some way to describe it without
+giving away the specifics of the design, and the closest I got was "If Close
+Encounters had been designed by H.R. Giger," but even *that* isn't it. Ah,
+well.  Y'all will see it soon enough.
+
+     As I've said before (repeatedly) about casting, that won't happen until
+early or mid-May, so hang loose on that one.  We have to do things in *order*.
+That means locking down some of the additional production positions this week
+and next week, finalizing production designs so we can begin transferring them
+to blueprints for construction purposes, and we're ALL going to have to sit
+down for as much as two very long days just starting our discussions on props
+and the look of the future...remember, we have to build a world from scratch
+and determine what it'll look like.
+
+     Cast is just about the last thing you worry about and deal with; first
+come a million and one other details that have to be designed well in advance.
+It takes time to build a set, and an actor generally comes pre-constructed.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 596       Sun Apr 05, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:41 EDT
+
+     To whomever inquired uptopic (so many flash past I can't remember now who
+said what), I may have agreed to an interview for Synthesis, and if they say
+it, I probably did...this is one of the problems in having the basic memory
+capacity of a small kitchen appliance....
+
+     To Arne, if you're looking on...thanks!  And BTW, I'm rethinking some of
+our prior discussion, and maybe something can be worked out after all in terms
+of supplementary venues for the story.
+
+     On music, I'm frankly torn between Copeland, something like Ennya, or
+Brad Fiedel's work (T2).  I like the latter's use of "metal" sounds, of
+machinery in works, which would fit well in a station like this.
+
+     This week, we'll begin storyboarding the opening title sequence, and
+we've worked out a *really* nifty approach to, again, give it a very different
+look.  (I scrapped my prior notion in favor to something nifty that Ron
+thought up, something that the tech will allow us to do that I never
+realized.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 607       Mon Apr 06, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:25 EDT
+
+     Thanks, all.  One note about a preceding message...I've indicated that
+I'm *not* looking for specific ideas from outside, for the very legal reasons
+you mention.  Rather, this is an area kind of used for airing ideas about
+technology, and music, and sound, and EFX, sort of a roundtable bull session.
+Once or twice someone has suggested a specific idea or story, and I've had to
+put on my Harsh Producer's Hat and step in fast.   And within that context,
+the discussions have proven *very* useful in airing what fans of the genre
+want, don't want, and what technical and scientific points require addressing.
+
+     Which is rather like a conversation I had this evening with the well
+known writer of SF and other forms who has agreed to work on the B5 series as
+Creative Consultant.  (Not the movie, the series, just to clarify.)   I
+outlined, over dinner, the broad strokes of the 5-year storyline, with some
+elements that *no* one has heard before, not even my associates on the show.
+And I got a but when, once discussed, were absolutely right and brilliant
+suggestions...and added a whole new layer to the project.
+
+     With luck, I'll be able to announce the identity of the Creative
+Consultant before year's end.  I just don't want to announce the name until we
+have money flowing and the series is in production and so on.  Suffice to say
+that those who know me may also know this writer as well.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 621       Mon Apr 06, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:53 EDT
+
+     Not to get too off into this tangent, but there *is* 3-D sound, though it
+has mostly been used for radio dramas and other all-sound productions.
+
+     The foremost piece of tech used for this is the (and I *hope* I'm
+spelling this right) Kuntskopf Binaural Sound System...essentailly a plastic
+"head" with speakers in either ear, which is literally taken to locations in
+question and the actors or actions move around it, with the result that when
+you put on headphones, you can hear the sound moving on either side, in front,
+and *behind* you, passing clearly in a circle.
+
+     It can actually be a fairly unnerving experience the first time you
+experience it.  If you contact ZBS Media out on the East Coast, you *might*
+still be able to get their production of Stephen King's THE MIST, which used
+this technology.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+*lot* out of the resulting conversation in terms of establishing
+the world, different layers of the world that I hadn't even *thought* about,
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 648       Tue Apr 07, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:37 EDT
+
+     Re: the details of the last go-around...once things have quieted down, it
+generally serves *no* good cause to start throwing the details all over the
+place.  All parties concerned must work together, and to do as you ask would
+be to throw a monkey wrench into that process.
+
+     As for new inside stuff on the project itself...will post some on the
+coming weekend.  You'll understand if things have been a bit hectic and I've
+been a tad distracted over the last few days....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 653       Tue Apr 07, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:07 EDT
+
+     Trying to think of the next character bit I can lay out here...have I
+mentioned either Carolyn Sykes or Ambassador Jackarr here thus far?  I can't
+for the life of me remember....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 667       Wed Apr 08, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:02 EDT
+
+     Actually...no, the name of the rent-a-telepath is Lyta Kim, and we will
+be hearing more about her later.
+
+     Carolyn Sykes is Commander Sinclair's...darn, what's the right word these
+days?  Signifcant other?  Lady-friend?  Lover?  Main squeeze?  (I keep having
+this recurrent flash from "Young Frankenstein," as Frau  Blucher calls out,
+"He vas....my BOYFRIEND!")*
+
+     Carolyn has been romantically involved with Sinclair for a couple of
+years when we meet her.  She knows quite a bit about him, but there are some
+things he still hasn't told her.  They have a very adult, sexual relationship,
+and they are both independent and equal.  She is the owner, and pilot, of the
+trading vessel ULYSSES...a self-made woman who's an established and respected
+trader in a variety of goods.  She works mainly within the Earth Alliance
+colony worlds, though in the last few years she's added routes in the Centauri
+sector.
+
+     She's sophisticated, sharp, and no-nonsense...screw around with her too
+much, change the terms of your agreement in hopes of taking unfair advantage
+of her, and she'll jettison the cargo right into the sun.  She has a
+reputation to protect, and would rather lose the deal than be dealt with
+unfairly.  It sets a bad precedent...and on some of the worlds she has to deal
+with, the perception of strength is vital.
+
+     Her feelings about Sinclair's position are mixed.  On the one hand, she
+feels that he's the right man for the job, and he's doing a terrific job.  On
+the other hand, she knows that part of him longs to be back in the pilot's
+seat of a starship, and when things start to get bad, she offers him that
+chance...to tell them all to piss off, and the two of them will pool their
+resources, buy a bigger ship, and go off on their own.
+
+     Because of their schedule, she must find time together when they can,
+
+stolen hours before the next run to another world, another system.  They are
+both supportive of each other, though that doesn't remove the occasional
+conflict common to any relationship.  She isn't dark and driven, she's a
+strong female character who's *happy* in her work, she enjoys it -- the
+freedom, being responsible -- and wouldn't change it for the world.
+
+     They are very much involved with each other, but because of their
+different lives, both know that there's every chance that this might all end
+between them.  So they don't often deal with that question, though it's a
+thought that is sometimes expressed in the bedroom, at night, in soft tones.
+They might drift apart, find someone else, or something co uld happen to one
+or both of them; their jobs are not exactly conducive to longevity.  So they
+seize every moment and enjoy it as best they can.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+                                           * (whinnnnnnny!)
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 682       Wed Apr 08, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:18 EDT
+
+     Re: CP, yes, the base in question was built on the ruins of Detroit
+(which makes a lot of sense, if you stop and think about it), and Power's HQ
+was indeed in the rockies...though I don't think we ever specifically picked
+which one, just beneath one of the mountains.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 392       Thu Apr 09, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:08 EDT
+
+     What do the ships look like?
+
+     They look like this (he said, holding up a sheet of paper with a Vorlon
+ship on it in all its glorious color).
+
+     What?  You can't see it through the monitor?  Oh.
+
+     Although there are very few areas that I'm keeping mum about, that's one
+of them.  See, what happened is, one afternoon, I was sitting across the table
+from Ron Thornton, who sat slumped forward, hands cupping either side of his
+face, elbows on table, glowering out at me from partially opened eyes.  In
+other words, he was in Mad Genius mode.  We could tell he was percolating, and
+adopted a courteous silence.  Did I mention that Ron is English?
+
+     Anyway, finally he leans forward and says, "You know what every damn
+bloody show on Star Trek *doesn't* have that we can do?"
+
+     "What?" we said.
+
+     "It would be really cool."
+
+     "What?" we said again.
+
+     "I mean, they can't even come close, they've never even *thought* of it,
+but it's so bloody simple."
+
+     "WHAT IS IT?"
+
+     So he told us.  And one by one, a light bulb went on over each of our
+heads (except for Doug Netter, the other exec producer on the project; a
+candle went on over his head....why, we still don't know).
+
+     One thing, though...Ron was right.  It *was* really cool.  So cool that
+if we tell *anyone*, they'll think it's cool, too.  Lots of people, all
+*kinds* of people would think it's cool.
+
+     So *this* we're keeping to ourselves.
+
+     Suffice to say for now that we're astonished that no one else has thought
+of this yet, and that it's going to look absolutely unlike what you've seen
+before.
+
+     Oh, yeah...and it's *really* cool.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 393       Thu Apr 09, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:10 EDT
+
+     Stupid Joe...what you *meant* to type was Ron saying "You know what every
+damn bloody *ship* doesn't have on Star Trek that we can do," not every
+*show*.  We're discussing ships.  That's what I meant to type.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 418       Fri Apr 10, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:42 EDT
+
+     Whew...okay, let's see....
+
+     That we're going to see the bathroom on B5 is not news, I've mentioned
+that before.  Insofar as the ships are concerned, what I'm referring to,
+however vaguely, is the *look* of the ships, design elements and the like.
+Once Ron said it, it was so absolutely obvious an omission that we knew it was
+perfect.
+
+     As for clothes...you have to divide those into two different areas:
+clothes for the B5 human regulars, and those on everybody else.
+
+     Yes, there will be an assortment of clothes for the former, and some for
+the latter as well.  I'm leaning in the direction of really kickass uniforms,
+punctuated by more casual, almost civilian clothing.
+
+     As for the alien stuff...we're looking now at a costume designer who has
+come up with some *astonishing* new techniques not just for design, but for
+the fabrics used.  There's one fabric she's developed that -- how do I
+describe this? -- it's not any color you recognize.  It's very much affected
+by lighting, and folding, but it's *not* that very reflective, shimmery crap
+you tend to see...it's very subtle and subdued and your eye just sorta slides
+right off it.  It's really the most alien looking stuff I've ever seen...as if
+someone said, "We've just discovered a new color," and somebody asked you to
+describe it after looking at it.
+
+     It's fairly expensive, and difficult to produce in quantity, so it'll
+probably be used sparingly, as highlights in most cases, and occasionally in
+larger sections or whole costumes.  There will be, overall, a good use of
+color and design, in some cases taking our cue from the protective coloration
+nature gives out freely (but which we'll have to pay for).
+
+     I should be getting some preliminary costume sketches around the end of
+the month, and should be able to discuss this in more detail at that time.
+(At least, as much detail as I can chance.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 421       Fri Apr 10, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:11 EDT
+
+     I don't think you're anywhere close, Ken...so what's this cool idea (or
+both of them) that you've been struck by?
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+     P.S.  Oh, I forgot to mention...the New And Improved video demo of the
+New And Improved Babylon 5 station has now been seen by the execs in charge,
+and the result is *fantastic*.  They're absolutely blown-out by it.  The PR
+folks are bringing in top-flight illustrators to do detailed renderings of the
+new station for all their outgoing artwork, and the whole place is abuzz about
+it.  The most amazing thing about it, I think, is the incredible *detail* on
+the thing, the subtle use of colors, and the rigorous attempts that Ron and
+our tech folks are going through to try and build what something like this
+would actually look like...working out the crucial points involved in creating
+varying areas of rotation and gravity, counter-weights, balance points, zero-g
+sections inside and outside, heat dissipation and light conservation, energy
+resources, storage questions, everything.
+
+     I asked an associate at JPL to examine the video, and after studying it
+for the better part of an hour, and discussing how it would work, he finally
+concluded that yes, if we had the technology to get all the parts and pieces
+there, this is *exactly* how it would be built (or at least one
+version...there are plenty of possibilities).  But this was absolutely solidly
+grounded.
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 435       Sat Apr 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:11 EDT
+
+     Will: yes, that sounds kinda close to the effect...now imagine it used in
+a fabric, and you'll be at least a little close to the effect.
+
+     Good ideas on the non-gravity ships, though that's not what we'll be
+doing.  (Nicely composed.)  Apparently the one person who *does* know Ron's
+work has a good idea of where we're going, though....
+
+     To answer Peter's question, and expand a bit on it, check out the current
+issue of Video Toaster Magazine, which just hit this week.  (I haven't seen
+the issue yet, but it arrived at the office.)  The cover story on B5 gives
+good info on how we'll be using the Toaster (and efx that are literally months
+old in terms of their technology) for the show.  Those into neepery will find
+plenty there to draw your interest.  Again, when you see the cover, remember
+that this is the Prior version of B5, not the new Improved version (though
+it's *still* way cool).  To get what we needed for this show, we literally had
+programmers rewriting codes customized to our needs, which go beyond what this
+stuff has ever been used for before.
+
+     If anyone here reads the piece (which is 3+ pages long, in addition to
+the cover), lemme know what you think.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 441       Sat Apr 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:07 EDT
+
+     Actually, David, you're closer than you know...but I can't go any further
+than that.  We have to keep some stuff quiet until we hit the air.  Which is,
+frankly, my only other concern here...that as a result of this much
+communication, one of two things can happen: 1) no matter HOW good it is,
+expectations will be raised to a point that it's not up to the perceived hype,
+or 2) the surprises are gone.
+
+     So other issues aside, that's why some things have to be held back.
+
+     I'm very cognizant of how these things tend to work...fans are fed the
+usual line of how this is going to be New and Different and Spiffy, and what
+you end up with is the same-old same-old, or nothing *near* the actual
+product.  I'd like to try and walk that line a little more closely, so that we
+deliver *more* than we promise, but promise enough to get folks interested
+while not giving away any surprises.
+
+     Yikes!
+
+     There are no plans to change this line of communication, but please try
+to understand that that is the conundrum I constantly face when here.
+
+     That said....
+
+     A few days ago, I sat down with our line producer, John Copeland, and
+production designer John Iacovelli, and we were talking about the need to move
+quickly on some stuff, and how painful the process is to have the whole story
+in your head, already told, really, and then have to make it all over again so
+we can put it on film.  "You think you've got it bad," I noted, "I've already
+worked out the last scene in the last episode of the last season (#5)...and
+I've still got to make Movie #1."  They called me on it and asked what that
+scene was.
+
+     Just to see their reaction, I told them.
+
+     They looked at me as if I'd suddenly sprouted three heads and feathers.
+It was worth it.  (Happily, they're sworn to secrecy.)  It was also good
+because I think that, even without filling in the beats in between, it gave
+them a good sense of where the series was going to go.
+
+     Meanwhile...as I type this, I'm wearing this spiffy new shirt, royal
+blue, with this funny triangular symbol on it...can't read it upside down like
+this...it says something like BABYL-- something.  I hear there are only a few
+hundred others like this.  Hmm.  I wonder where it came from...and what on
+earth I'll do with them....hmmmmmm.....
+
+     Because of the need to parcel them out carefully, a certain number will
+initially go out to randomly selected Old Timers here first.  To those
+individuals...keep an eye on your e-mailboxes for instructions.
+
+     They look really, really, REALLY boss.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 462       Sun Apr 12, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:17 EDT
+
+     Something a submarine doesn't have also...hmm...what doesnt' a submarine
+have...well, feathers, big floppy clown shoes, a merry go round....
+
+     This is actually rather amusing.  It's going to be *so* obvious when you
+see it.
+
+     Yes, there will be a botanical area...actually, this is going to be a
+*very* special and integral part of the show.  It's the Garden, and it is at
+the center, lengthwise, of B5.  If you've seen the O'Neil station concepts,
+you can look straight up to the other side of the rotating section.  Lining
+the circular wall are fields and trees and greenery and artificial lakes and
+the rest.  (A shuttle runs through the center of the garden, in the zero-g
+section where there is no rotation.)  It's going to be an amazing setpiece for
+the show.
+
+     Funny thing...as with other shows, when you start creating a show in the
+future, you have to Create The Future, down to the last detail.  I was
+thinking about silverware, and utility, everyday items...and we were out at a
+store and I saw a *very* unusual set of tumblers/glasses that are almost
+freeform sculptures, just gorgeous and very strange looking.  I picked one up
+immediately, and I suspect that these will be used in the show.  Absolutely
+utilitarian, but just very different looking.
+
+     Spent yesterday sketching out a cool piece of communications hardware for
+personal use on the show.  Again, trying to think out what might actually be
+useful that far down the road, which took me in some directions very different
+from the communicators we're used to seeing.  I definitely plan on
+commissioning the prop guys to make one extra of these gadgets just so I can
+have it (one of the perks of running a show).
+
+     I begin to see now the process whereby, to quote history, a pair of salt
+shakers can become medical scanners....creating the future out of the present.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 486       Sun Apr 12, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:36 EDT
+
+     Hmm...I suddenly get the sense that I've lost control of our merry little
+group....
+
+     No point in further speculation, though again one or two of you came
+close.  Nothing will be confirmed or denied in any event.
+
+     One thing, though...yes, we *will* be able to go in through the windows
+of ships and B5 itself.  And to see what's inside.
+
+     Mark...will get that file and take a look.  I keep wondering what a "B5
+uniform" will look like since we haven't made *our* version yet.  On that
+point, I have some ideas, mostly in the area of practicality of use and that
+they should look fairly tough.  And stylish.
+
+     BTW...saw the Lawnmower Man yesterday, and now I finally understand what
+the heck Ron Thornton was trying to communicate to me about some of the things
+that we can do with the new technologies we'll be bringing to bear.  It
+totally turned around my thinking to new possibilities.  And as Ron pointed
+out, much of the tech used in L.M. is now a couple  years out of date.
+Apparently, he thinks we can do equal to or better than L.M.
+
+     I must go away and think now...this could be most interesting....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 495       Sun Apr 12, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:30 EDT
+
+     The Grid Epsilon graphic is neat.  Good work on that.  Re: the final B5
+logo, it's done, and has been for a while, but I haven't yet moved the scanner
+card into my new system so I can scan it over into a PCX file.
+
+     One of the first things we'll be doing soon is working out all of the
+"environmental" stuff, meaning insignia, rank, government, and other symbols
+so we can use them in costume and background stuff.  When I have all that
+collected, and my scanner back on line, I may put together a file containing
+it all, or most of it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 511       Mon Apr 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:46 EDT
+
+     (tapping a ball-bat against the palm of one hand...don't make me come up
+there...just wait until your father gets home...one more peep and we'll turn
+this car RIGHT around and go home....)
+
+     Now where was I?
+
+     Corridors...yes, all kinds corridors, different shapes and areas and
+atmospheres...some small, one or two REALLY BIG ones.  Don't know about fast
+food joints, but we have something that I think you'll like just about as
+much.
+
+     By the way...can SOMEBODY here tell me how the heck to send more than one
+carbon copy in EMAIL at a time?  I'm trying to send out, umm, certain
+*instructions*, and it's taking me forever to do it one CC at a time.
+
+     Thanks.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 525       Mon Apr 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:37 EDT
+
+     I don't know about the syndex situation, but suspect it's probably
+something well out of my control.  As to how many people live on B5 at any
+given point...jeez, *lots*, given that there's always folks coming and going.
+It's about 5 miles long, and frequently crowded, so you're talking about a
+goodly-sized community.
+
+     Have pretty much nailed down the SF writer who'll do the novelization of
+the B5 movie.  I'd wanted to do it myself, but time constraints just don't
+allow that.  He agreed, we agreed, now we just have to let the business guys
+work out the details.  Given the venue, the need to emphasize humor, action
+and characterization at various times, I think it's a perfect choice.
+
+     And known to all and sundry.  Watch this space for the news over the next
+few weeks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 526       Mon Apr 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:40 EDT
+
+     Oops, a cross-post...briefly, the B5 buttons and the B5 t-shirts are both
+limited pressings, just 500 of each, all made at my own personal expense,
+supervised by yrs truly, and thus separate from other Warners publicity or
+giveaways or Cool Stuff yet to come.  These are the only ones of their kind
+that will be made; subsequent shirts, for instance, will probably not have the
+Accept No Substitutes line on back, and the logo was changed after the silver
+buttons were made, so those also won't be duplicated as originally made.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 528       Tue Apr 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:13 EDT
+
+     BTW...I've tried hard to make sure that nearly everyone who's posted
+substantially in this topic is on the list.  After scanning a 500 message
+packet (eyes melting), I think I've got everyone.  If, after a few days, you
+find you haven't gotten a note...please try not to take it to heart; there are
+only so many to go around.  (And if you're a Constant Poster who's slipped
+through the net, drop me a private note.)
+
+     Info should go out tonight, system willing.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 538       Tue Apr 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:49 EDT
+
+     Kath...tried using the cc function, but if I put it all on one line, it
+came back with Line Too Long, Try Again...and if I put it on separate lines,
+it ended as soon as it hit the carriage return.
+
+     Anyhow, I think I got it licked now....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 541       Tue Apr 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:10 EDT
+
+     A one-page summary, eh?  Hmm...okay, I'll see what I can do.  If I don't
+put the info up in the next day or two, drop a note here to remind me, you
+know how I am, one thing always pushing out another....
+
+     (And a genuine Marvel No-Prize to anyone who can figure out THAT
+reference.)
+
+     Oh, and Kath, since the folks at Rattlesnake know you, you can pick one
+up directly, if you prefer (use my name, and have John call if there's a
+problem, but there won't be, so why do I worry these things to death, never
+mind, it was a rhetorical question and I'm going to lay down for a while....).
+If you prevail upon John or Susan you can *maybe* get one of them to show you
+the new B5 demo, otherwise it'll wait until Christy gets here.
+
+     (Why am I having a private conversation here?  In public?  Surely these
+people have better things to do than watch all this scroll past.)
+
+     We expect to be setting up and moving into the new B5 offices in that
+same building in the next few weeks, as more staffers are hired.  We'll
+basically be taking over one-half or so of a floor in the TV Academy Building,
+so I'll actually be shuttling between *three* offices, my office at Universal
+(a spiffy new office they moved me into in the main producers  building), the
+B5 office in North Hollywood, and the office on the B5 stage, which is located
+at....
+
+     Oops.
+
+     State secret.
+
+     Until tomorrow, Comrades.  I'm now retiring for the night.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 556       Tue Apr 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 13:33 EDT
+
+     Good, all.  I know the stuff got out, so we're clear from here on.
+
+     Mark: Jeez, but that's fast!  Yes, you caught the reference.  (And here I
+thought it was *so* subtle.)  That's really amazing.
+
+     As for commercialism or future products...when we do use them, we're
+taking the approach that over 200 years, a lot of new companies have come up,
+and a lot of older ones have merged, sometimes in unlikely pairings.  So you
+might have Sony-Grumman (sp?) Starship Construction Company.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 581       Wed Apr 15, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:59 EDT
+
+     Oh, man...24 messages, and most of them questions.  Okay, I'll try to
+deal with this in some manageable fashion.
+
+     In no particular order: Evisc...I don't keep a mental log of who  posts
+what here, or when, or what the attitude is.  And because of that, when time
+came to make the list, I yanked out 500+ continuous messages and wrote down
+every name I saw.  I knew offhand there were a few names that I knew well and
+weren't in that batch, and inserted them on my own.   Other than that, that
+was it...I'm sorry, but I don't have the time to go through all 2,000 or so
+messages on this topic to find every single solitary person who's left a note
+at one time or another.  I *said* it was relatively random, and it was.  I'm
+sorry that you feel left out.  I logged on today to find 40 letters in my
+mailbox from lurkers who never posted, and THEY felt that it was unfair, that
+it should be publicly noted so that everyone could get one.
+
+     I just don't have that kind of money.  Yes, there *will* be stuff that
+one can purchase down the road.  And I hope this won't interfere with your
+feelings about the show...there had to be some sort of cut-off method, and the
+randomization seemed the best one I could think of, and the fairest.
+
+     As for the $1 checks or money orders...yes, Rattlesnake is the name to
+use.
+
+     That done...onward.
+
+     Ethnic Diversity: yes, most definitely.  Leaving the aliens aside for the
+time being where sexuality may not necessarily be as we know it, and ethnic
+background is a bit different, and since the question concerned itself with
+humans...our *main characters* consist of the following: a male caucasian
+commander; a female Japanese vice-commander; a male Italian security chief; a
+black Xenobiologist male; a female telepath whose ethnic background we haven't
+yet determined; a female caucasian trader (Sinclair's S.O.); and (for the
+series, later) a female environmental specialist (probably Hispanic).  My
+feeling here is that we have *all* gone to the stars, and I want there to be a
+good ethnic mix in both the main characters, and the guest-starring and cameo
+actors.  And I *especially* want to see a nearly 50/50 mix of men and women in
+equally significant jobs and responsibilities.
+
+     Relationships: My sense of the story is that things are a lot more
+relaxed in that respect.  Some folks get married.  Others don't.  There are
+open-ended relationships.  It's not a big deal one way or another; there are
+always going to be those who prefer monagomy, and those who tend to roam.
+
+     And bear in mind one *crucial* aspect to B5...there is a constant mix of
+not only ethnic groups, but alien races, religions, thought, standards, mores,
+and sexual practices.  This will present a constant opportunity to explore
+alternate ideas, and to mix-and-match.  By our exposure, humans may adopt some
+alien notions, and vice versa.  B5 is the ultimate melting pot, just as the
+early Ports of Call were a hodge-podge of dialects, backgrounds, beliefs and
+other elements, whose only real commonality was that their business or
+personal lives brought them to the same place at the same time.  Same with B5.
+
+     Re: action...a lot of the action will take place aboard B5, just as a lot
+of the action in a cop show or mainstream drama takes place in a city...and B5
+is exactly that, a self-contained city or world of its own.  There's *plenty*
+of opportunity for drama in that, when you stop to consider the staggering
+conflicts possible between people, races, and technologies.
+
+     But there will also be some action outside...there's a good amount of
+that in the pilot movie, and there will be potential for more as we go along.
+The one thing I want to *avoid* is the New Threat Of The Week story, in terms
+of somebody attacking B5.  I think that would get old REAL fast.  The best
+terrain for conflict is, as Fitzgerald said, the human (or alien) heart in
+conflict with itself.
+
+     Will there be zealots?  Oh, yes.  To be sure.  Keep an eye on the
+Minbari....
+
+     Great song, btw.  It's fun to see this sort of thing bouncing back from
+the other side of the screen...though the comment about a fandom for a show
+that doesn't exist yet is well taken.  I don't *want* people signing on to
+something they haven't seen yet, at least not to excess, because up until the
+*minute* that we hit the airwaves, this is all just balloon juice.  You
+shouldn't give this project too much support, just as you shouldn't start
+handing around blank checks that you've signed.
+
+     Let us *prove* what we can do.  SF fans are *constantly* being hustled by
+one person or company or another.  They/you are shilled at conventions, hyped
+on nonexistent projects, and get your hopes up only to have them dashed.
+
+     If what I write here is interesting, if it gives a sense of how a show
+like this comes together...terrific.  But the only thing that fundamentally
+matters is what's on the screen.  Until then, take everything here with a
+pound of salt.
+
+     Force us to prove the point.  If we are fortunate enough, once we hit the
+air, to find fans and others who appreciate the show, we want those who will
+challenge us and force us to put up or shut up.  Because talk is cheap.  Mine
+included.
+
+     End of sermon.
+
+     Yes, the Warners Television Consortium is the correct name for the beast.
+
+
+     Finally, on sets and the "look" of the place...again, there will be a
+mix.  Some places will be beautifully finished and neat, and other areas will
+be very rough and in-the-works.  (Remember, B5 only recently went operational,
+and thus there are still some parts being constructed.)
+
+     In talking with our production designer, John Iacovelli, the one term he
+kept using, over and over, was "travelogue."  We should get a real sense in
+this show of a world turned inside out...with varying textures, lighting,
+angles, and a mix of looks.  There will *not* be a  homogeneous look to this
+place, if I or Iacovelli have anything to say about it.  You can walk from the
+carefully and neatly appointed Council Chamber room, to the high-tech control
+room, to a section of the station under construction and exposing beams and
+wires, to the Garden, to....
+
+     You get the idea.
+
+     I *think* that covers the majority of the questions/comments.  If I've
+missed anything, let me know, and if I can answer it, I will.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 592       Wed Apr 15, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:20 EDT
+
+     Thanks for the kind words, folks.  Sometimes, writing for TeeVee, you
+start to think you're writing into a vacuum...you rarely ever get any sort of
+feedback (99.9% of all letters go to the stars, as, I suppose, is proper).
+Anyway, thanks.
+
+     To the questions:
+
+     The suggestion above about names was a good one.  Overall, I'd say don't
+worry about it too much, we'll figure it out.  Just send it as you would
+normally, we'll figure it out.
+
+     (The preceding paragraph, lacking a noun, rather using the pronoun "it"
+refers to money orders.)
+
+     Regarding the last scene/last episode note, and "is every single episode
+mapped out," I should explain.
+
+     I know where each season will end, and where the next season will begin.
+Those episodes are locks.  Within each season, I have set aside
+benchmarks...certain events that much happen at some point in that given
+season.  Assuming a 22 episode season, about half, or 11 out of each 22, will
+be benchmark episodes.  The other 11 will be up for grabs in terms of the
+general arc of the show.  I think you *have* to be open to what some
+freelancer hits you with unexpectedly, be open to surprises and things you
+never considered.
+
+     It's a very fine line.  The goal is that if you didn't know about the
+show, had no sense of history or any of the characters, you could tune in to
+Episode 18, Season 3, and be able to enjoy the show *immediately*.  The
+problem with a show like, say, TWIN PEAKS (which I enjoyed enormously, by the
+way), was that if you missed an episode or two, you were pretty much lost.
+Each and every episode of B5 ***must*** be able to stand completely on its
+own.
+
+     What happens is that you start laying down threads that, over time, as
+you watch more and more episodes, tells a much larger story.  The more you
+watch, the more you'll get out of it.  If you watch one, you'll be able to
+enjoy that one strictly on its own terms.
+
+     It's a trick I learned while writing/story editing, of all things, The
+Real Ghostbusters.  Those were written on two levels; one for younger viewers,
+one for older.  If you didn't get the older stuff, it didn't get in the way of
+enjoying the show.  If you *did* get the more sophisticated stuff, it added
+another *layer* to the experience.
+
+     Another comparison, out of my league as it might be, would be the
+Hieronymous Bosch painting, Garden of Earthly Delights.  You can go in to any
+panel or section of that triptych, and that could almost be a painting on its
+own terms, it's so detailed.  When you pull back, though, you begin to see a
+much larger story, a wider and more varied tapestry.
+
+     It's a challenge, from a writing point of view, but it's eminently do-
+able.  We started to do some of that in Power; that show changed dramatically
+at the end of season one, and we were starting to develop threads that, in
+toto, would tell a much different story.  There were clues all over the place.
+(Soaron saying, of his programming, "There is something in my program I do not
+understand...there is something in the dark," referring, as we would later
+discover, to a program that would force him to kill Dredd; the fate of Power's
+mother; the *real* agenda behind what was going on; wheels inside wheels
+inside wheels....)
+
+     Maybe it's my Eastern European heritage, but I *love* sagas, and B5 will
+present a chance to tell that kind of saga.  When I was assigned the V
+miniseries job, I took a similar approach, trying to create a whole and
+consistent world.
+
+     But this is hardly revelation; the world of SF print has been doing this
+now ever since the Lensman books.  The job now is translating that approach to
+television, and bring it up to, oh, at least where SF was 20 years ago....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 593       Wed Apr 15, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:26 EDT
+
+     Oh...one other thing...it might not be a bad idea for some erstwhile
+sysop or forum leader to, say, advise the friendly folks running GEnie about
+all of what's going on around here...the Grid Epsilon Irregulars, the Grid
+Epsilon/470-18-22 coordinates, that sort of thing.  Might be an article in
+this somewhere....
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 610       Wed Apr 15, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:40 EDT
+
+     Re: WorldCon in Orlando...I don't have any plans at the moment, but I
+suppose they could always be added.  When does it take place?  If it's after
+the initial airdate, that could be why I flensed it from memory.
+
+     As far as Laurel is concerned, her job differs in that Sinclair's is more
+diplomatic/political, and is involved with the Big Picture of running B5,
+where Laurel is hands-on in terms of the day-to-day operations of actually
+managing the station.  If an ambassador has a problem with what the E.A. is
+doing, he'll go through Sinclair first; if that same ambassador is annoyed
+that his resupply ship isn't being allowed to dock because they won't comply
+with the silly request for a weapons scan, that tends to be Laurel's problem
+to deal with.
+
+     Naturally, there is some overlap and shifting of responsibility.  If the
+station is ever attacked, she is as qualified to sit in the command chair and
+organize/dictate the defense as Sinclair.  Having run Mars Colony Security for
+five years before coming to B5, she's quite capable of handling the tough
+stuff.
+
+     As for the earth/minbari war, yes, its repercussions will still be felt
+throughout the show, and in time will form a major plot point.  There are also
+some deep resentments remaining on both sides that we'll have to deal with.
+What we show of it will depend on many factors, but I wouldn't be surprised to
+see some scenes from it down the road...maybe late in the first season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 623       Thu Apr 16, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:06 EDT
+
+     Two quickies:
+
+     1) I wanted the station to have a real kickass look, so if in the right
+light it looks forbidding, all the better.  Glad you like the new design.
+
+     2) A word about the t-shirts....
+
+          a) the XXL's won't be in until Monday, just FYI.  The others
+     are going out now.
+
+          b) Joe screwed up.
+
+     As I mentioned, I went through about 500 messages and pulled out names I
+saw of regulars, and just about everybody else.  In a separate file, I had the
+60 or so names that were in one message here during the Loud Period who had
+volunteered to help, and had been compiled.  In my mind, I kept cross-
+referencing between them, making sure that there was no duplication, and no
+one was missed.
+
+     My error was in doing this at 2 a.m.
+
+     There are about 4 or 5 people who *should* have been included, and were
+not...only through oversight.  (At least, 4 or 5 that I know of.)   Two were
+regular messagers whose name I'd seen so many times that I just assumed it was
+on one or the other of the lists.
+
+     Point being...if you've been here, posting, since the early days, and you
+haven't received the information...please leave me a private note.  There is
+no snubbing going on, it's just Yr Obedient Servant's own error and sloppiness
+in trying to get this stuff out fast.
+
+     My apologies to any of our regulars who might have been unintentionally
+omitted.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 639       Fri Apr 17, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:19 EDT
+
+     Bubble-views (or real ports) ain't a bad idea at all.  And the points
+about fighters are well taken.  And there will definitely be strategy in some
+of what happens, if a series of ships should decide to engage a larger foe.
+
+     BTW, Larry, did Ron show you the rough on the Vorlon ship?  Just curious.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 642       Fri Apr 17, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:05 EDT
+
+     I think Dabney should get together with Bob Walker's aliens....
+
+     BTW, spoke today with the leading SF writer who I approached about doing
+the B5 novelization of "The Gathering."  It's a job I'd very much wanted to do
+myself, but the time factor won't allow for that.  So of all the writers I
+could think of, this was my first choice.  Was very curious to see his
+reaction, since this would be the first time anyone well known in the SF
+writing community has seen the thing.
+
+     Let's just say that he's agreed to do the novelization, and that he
+thinks it's terrific.  And that the novelization should be no tribble at all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 645       Fri Apr 17, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:18 EDT
+
+     Boy, but messages fly thick and fast here...the Business Affairs people
+still have to set the terms of the deal, but tentatively the novel will have
+to come out probably late October.
+
+     Interestingly enough, at one time our Xenobiologist was Indian, named
+Chakri Mendak.  It was only after careful deliberation that I decided to
+change the character to an african-american, which was done for several
+reasons, not the least of which being that it would let me bring in some
+Indian characters in other roles that could be quite interesting.   And yes,
+overall I want to draw from a number of different ethnic groups and heritages,
+because they each add something new to the mix.  And the context throws into
+relief the fact that those OTHER guys are all aliens, but we -- whatever the
+ethnic background -- are all equally human, and I think that will do a lot to
+ease or even eliminate racism.
+
+     At least, within the human species.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 666       Fri Apr 17, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:28 EDT
+
+     And spoil the thrill of self-discovery?
+
+     Regarding Warners...yes, they're all part of the overall package of
+shows.  Just as when you sign onto a network, you carry all of their shows as
+a package.  As for the Paramount presentation...haven't seen it, and thus
+can't comment (and probably wouldn't in any event).
+
+     BTW...and before I forget again...I finally got my hands on the issue of
+Video Toaster with the B5 cover story.  Anyone who'd like to get a copy should
+contact that magazine at 21611 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino, CA 95014.  It's
+the April/May issue.  The cover price is $4.00, but I don't know what they
+might require for postage and handling on a single-issue order.  (Note: the
+b&w photos inside are *not* at this time part of B5, but rather other examples
+of related work.)  The colors are a bit off in repro as well, but not
+seriously so.  (Mainly the ship, which is a bright orange/red, which is
+different from the demo, from which the photos were composited.)
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 673       Sat Apr 18, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:54 EDT
+
+     I will tell you a true thing: in Hollywood, the one thing you hear over
+and over again is the wish to direct.  Camera-men want to direct, writers want
+to direct, actors want to direct, producers want to direct, cinematographers
+want to direct....
+
+     Me, I *don't* wanna direct.
+
+     No interest in it, no aptitude for it.
+
+     I'm a *writer*, period.  As it is, the only reasons I decided to move up
+the ladder and become a producer are:
+
+     1) So nobody rewrites my stuff.
+
+     2) To create the kinds of shows that I would want to write for.
+
+     3) To acquire control over the physical production of my writing by being
+the one who HIRES the director.
+
+     That's the totality of it...I became a producer simply as an act of self-
+defense and to protect the material.  I *hate* dealing with numbers, and
+dollars, and haggling with business affairs guys, and worrying about budgets
+and hirings and corporate structures and completion bonds and film stock costs
+and how many Teamsters we're gonna need...but it's the only way to get the
+control of my writing that I really want.
+
+     The one thing I hate more than almost anything in the world is taking
+Stupid Notes from somebody.  The solution?  Become a producer.  That way you
+get to GIVE the stupid notes....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 679       Sat Apr 18, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:56 EDT
+
+     Well, excitement galore...and I may be off-line a bit because of it.  Big
+winds in the valley last night, and at 3 a.m. the sun came up in the form of a
+power cable that came down in my back yard, sparking and arcing and spitting
+blue-red-white light.  Right now, the whole house is dead, and has been since
+last night.  I'm logging on now via my notebook, but I don't know how long the
+batteries will last.  (Jeez, sounds like a distress capsule ejected from a
+ship, doesn't it?)  Anyway, will be on again when the power returns.  Expect
+me when you see me.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 687       Sat Apr 18, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:58 EDT
+
+     Ah, Luis, it arrived.  Good.  Sufficiently neat?
+
+     Have got the ol' 486 back on line, power's back, at least for the time
+being.  We'll see.
+
+     So now it's back to work...too bad, I supposse, I was *finally* getting
+around to reading the latest Lewis Thomas book on language.  Ah, well...later
+for that, I guess.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 693       Sat Apr 18, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:45 EDT
+
+     Yes, I was referring to Etc/Etc...a wonderful piece of work.  Who else
+can make the history of the word "sew" absolutely entrancing?
+
+     We've selected a studio for audio post production, but can't release the
+name at this time.  Soon.
+
+     I suspect -- Mojo willing and the crick don't rise -- I'll be able to
+release a *lot* of production information by the end of this coming week.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 696       Sat Apr 18, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:55 EDT
+
+     Mt. Joe, thanks for the info.  We'll see what now becomes of it all.
+
+     I don't have Memphis or Little Rock on the list in front of me, but I
+know they've added some stations in recent weeks.  Will bug the guys at
+Warners for a more complete list.  The only super-station that I know of
+currently signed to carry B5 is WOR New York.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 700       Sun Apr 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:25 EDT
+
+     Understood.  Well, we'll stay on top of this, I'm confident it'll work
+out one way or another.
+
+     BTW...along with some of the things that have been discussed here that we
+*are* going to be doing, I thought I'd pass along one thing that we will NOT
+be doing.
+
+     We've been slotted in on a number of conventions, and as things pick up
+speed, others will be coming.  But one convention that I've decided we will
+*not* be a part of is any of the Creation Conventions.
+
+     Granted, they've covered other shows beyond TREK, including the
+Terminator, Quantum Leap and others...but frankly, I've heard *so* many horror
+stories from fans about them, they're *so* commercially oriented, treating
+people like cattle, just to separate them from their money, and having had
+some less than salutory experiences with them myself simply as One Of Many
+Congoers, I feel that in all good conscience, I can't lend my support to that
+organization.
+
+     Fans are not sheep awaiting shearing.  And that, I feel, is the Creation
+Con mentality.
+
+     Keep it.  We'll go elsewhere.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 66        Sun Apr 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:55 EDT
+
+     Thanks for the support re: the con decision.  It does seem the right
+thing to do.
+
+     On the Wild West...no, I'm not involved with that, the only connection is
+that it's being done by the same company with whom I'm doing B5.
+
+     Finally, regarding the illustration in the double-page ad...I should
+clarify.  B5 has gone through *several* stages of visualization.  The very
+first thing done to help sell the show was a painting of the B5 station done
+by Peter Ledger, a leading graphic artist/illustrator.  THAT is the
+illustration you saw, NOT what's being done now.  (That drawing is about four-
+five years old.)  Stage 2 of the B5 station development was the video demo on
+the NewTek tape, which many here have seen (and which bears little resemblance
+to the original illustration).  Stage 3 was the new and pretty much final
+version that Lawrence Conley and I and a very few others have seen.
+
+     Now that video slides have been made of Stage 3, *that* is the only
+version that will be used in illustrations and ads henceforth, either through
+the slide itself, or an artist's rendering of that slide/image.   The
+publicity people at Warners went bonkers when they saw the final version, just
+loved it and have located a top-flight illustrator to do various renderings of
+that image.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 75        Sun Apr 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:36 EDT
+
+     Yes, I definitely intend to hit a number of other cons in the course of
+this year, some large, some medium-sized...it's a question of time, market
+(whether or not the area will be covering B5), resources, and the usual
+scheduling conflicts...there are several conflicts that I have to  choose
+between.  And much as I want to hit them all, it's a) expensive, and b) I
+suspect that CBS would occasionally like me to WRITE on a weekend (I know,
+what an inconvenience...).
+
+     I hope to finalize travel plans for the summer/fall in a few weeks, and
+will post that info as soon as it's availaable.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 80        Mon Apr 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:58 EDT
+
+     Jay: damn...I *told* them that the xxl's were coming in this week.   If
+you want to send it back, I'll have them send you a new one.
+
+     Oh, man, hope they haven't sent others like this...damn....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 90        Mon Apr 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 13:28 EDT
+
+     Just a quick response to one point above...the only reason I haven't said
+who's doing the illustrations for PR purposes is 1) I don't know the name, and
+2) it's not anyone who'd be known to the SF world anyway, as far as I know.
+Just a top-flight graphics illustrator.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 92        Mon Apr 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:48 EDT
+
+     Okay.  For the rest...only 3 XLs went out instead of XXL's, so we pretty
+much caught it in time.  If you got one and it ain't right, send it back.
+
+     (I've got to put some B5 info up soon, lest this turn into the All T-
+Shirt Channel....)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 101       Tue Apr 21, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:58 EDT
+
+     Always interested in letters for the Suits.  Today alone we got in 25,
+which we'll hold on file for an opportune moment.
+
+     On other matters, and not to go into specifics (which are boring and
+irrelevant to any viewer), while most of the time the process of getting a
+show on the air is fun and exciting and interesting...at other times, I tell
+you in all honesty, it's like trying to stack marbles in a corner or nail
+Jello to a wall...man oh man....
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 110       Tue Apr 21, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:00 EDT
+
+     About the details...there's just a lot of backing-and-forthing with
+business affairs and contracts and paper work and the like...I wasn't so much
+bringing it up as just sort of thinking out loud...which I probably shouldn't
+do unless I intend to be more specific.
+
+     As for the B5 photo on the magazine...what you're looking at is a shot of
+the docking bay in the front of B5 Phase Two.  The independent sections you
+see in a sort of grid behind it are the rotating sections that create gravity.
+At the sort of right-bottom corner, that corner of blue you see is part of a
+system of solar panels which have subsequently been dropped from the design.
+The ship (orange, which is actually sort of brown-silver in the video demo) in
+front is just sorta there, taken from another shot (which kinda throws off the
+perspective a little).
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 126       Wed Apr 22, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:55 EDT
+
+     Boy, a lot to cover in just a few hours...before which, a quick
+disclaimer...if you've sent a private note to me in the last few days, it may
+take me a while to respond (assuming I don't just forget, in which case, if
+it's a timely matter, re-message me) since I'm generally logging 15 or so
+letters per day in mail.
+
+     To the questions, in no particular order....
+
+     Do I believe there's life out there?  I dunno...it would seem to me
+unlikely that there would NOT be some sort of life elsewhere.  Intelligent?
+  Well, that's the $64,000 question, isn't it?  The question I hear a lot is,
+"If they're intelligent, why haven't they contacted us?"
+
+     Frankly, if they were intelligent, they probably *wouldn't*.  Keeping in
+mind that we're beaming Wally George and Howard Stern and World Federation
+Wrestling into the general ether at the speed of starlight, I wouldn't be
+surprised if sooner or later Pioneer came across a series of floating orange
+cones with yellow tape strung between them reading DO NOT CROSS -- THESE FOLKS
+ARE NUTS.
+
+     Will we eventually go to the stars?
+
+     Do we have a choice?
+
+     In another few hundred years, we will outstrip the earth.  We must move
+on or die.  To ask "Will we go to the stars?" is to ask "Will the eagle crack
+out of its shell?"  Yes...or it will die.
+
+     On other topics: yes, I do plan to be at Media*West, though what sorts of
+freebies I'll be bringing, if any, is still an open issue.  Our first and
+foremost concern now is getting the show on the air; most of the goodies will
+come later.  But I will be giving a B5 presentation there, and maybe appearing
+on a couple of panels as well, depending on schedule.
+
+     I've had WishCon mentioned to me today; any further information, let me
+know and I'll look into it.
+
+     Do I get the Warner Bros. Catalog?  DO I GET THE WARNER BROS. CATALOG?
+  Here...look at these cel reproductions lining my hall!  Here!  Look at this
+Flash mug, this Bugs Aviator Flight Jacket, these shirts with the Looney Tunes
+characters stitched in...this Acme Products T-Shirt, these pins,
+this......YAAAAAGGGHHHHH!
+
+     When it comes to the Warners catalog, I'm a doomed man.
+
+     Finally, to the education issue...yes, that's something that has
+attracted me to this medium and this topic from the beginning.  Although
+creative *decisions* have to be internal, what this technology allows is the
+chance to bring others in and see how that process functions, to make SF fans
+a part of that process through the interchange of ideas, by seeing How Things
+Work (minus the dull business/contracts/negotiations stuff).
+
+     Whether it's been in my writing book, the WD column, or here, I've always
+worked from an agenda that says, in essence, Let's be open, and let's get the
+process out where people can see it, and thus de-mystify it.  When I started
+out as a writer, absolutely unaware of the processes involved, I would have
+KILLED for this kind of information...and thus figured it could be of value to
+others.  I think that those who get through the barbed wire and the mine
+fields and the machine gun turrets have a rough obligation to at minimum
+*inform* those who follow about the traps and hurdles ahead.
+
+     If all one gets out of this topic is entertainment, and diversion, that
+is sufficient (and more than sufficient).  If it actually ends up helping one
+or two people down the road, all the better.
+
+     So believe me, I will continue to report in here throughout the
+process...from set construction through casting, pre-production, shooting,
+editing, scoring, dubbing, publicity and finally preparations for broadcast.
+The result, I hope, will be a step-by-step documentation, or manual, on how a
+show is assembled, from concept to final product.
+
+     Which is why the questions here have been so very helpful.  Often, when
+you're working in a fishbowl, you can't SEE the fishbowl anymore; in this
+case, I often don't know what information is most useful to anyone.  Also,
+some of the questions have been challenging, and have made me think about
+things I might not otherwise have considered, so let me assure you that this
+has been as helpful to me as to anyone else.  Look back and you'll see
+discussions of telepathy, biology, religion, fashion, social structure,
+language, music, weaponry, on and on...and by putting my feet to the fire on
+some of these issues, a great good has been done, and I've come up with
+answers I didn't know I had...answers that will now go into the B5 mix.  (For
+instance, I hadn't given that much thought to how a beam-weapon would sound
+until the question was asked here, and I had to sit down and talk to some high-
+IQ types, whose background and skills helped me refine a good answer to that
+question.)
+
+     Anyway, the point being that the process will continue until y'all get
+bored with it.  For me, it's part of the democratization of  television...and
+an enjoyable process, at that.
+
+     It's tough...as I write this, it's 1 a.m., and I'm exhausted from a long
+day of haggling and reading and scriptwriting and meetings and everything
+else, but I figure it's probably every bit as tiring at your end of the modem,
+and I'm game for as long as you are.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 129       Wed Apr 22, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:13 EDT
+
+     The gesture is appreciated, but the problem with electronic
+communications is that there's no way to verify that the person typing on
+screen under a given name is actually that person, absent actual hardcopy
+signed by the person at hand (and even THERE it's oen to -- make that open to -
+- challenge).
+
+     Technology...Our Friend.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 141       Thu Apr 23, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:18 EDT
+
+     The point about (for lack of a better term, clumsy as this is) role
+models is well taken.  And too detailed for a quick answer.  Let me just try
+to answer by saying this...I have always believed that televison must be used
+*responsibly*.  (Note: individuals determine what is responsible; as soon as a
+committee decides it, I'm out of the business.)
+
+     Mark Twain said, "If you would have your work last forever -- forever
+usually being considered to be fifty years -- it must neither overtly preach
+nor overtly teach...but if MUST CO-vertly preach and CO-vertly teach."  This
+is a thread that has *always* run through my work.  It's there in almost
+everything.
+
+     It was never my intent that B5 should be just an action show.  It should
+be a metaphor, and a goal, and a mirror...an instrument to challenge as well
+as to entertain.  Otherwise, quite frankly, what the hell's the point?
+
+     Having come out of New Jersey myself -- Newark, to be precise -- I got
+out by having role models and examples of people who strove to become more
+than their environment promised they could become.  First it was guys in the
+Boys Club who kept me off the streets and out of trouble; then teachers; then -
+- when I began to feel the words -- certain writers, Harlan first among them.
+I fully understand what those individual inspirations can mean...how they can
+be the flashpoint that ignites another vision.
+
+     Having also come out of a fractured family life, you can be sure that
+that aspect will also come into play at times.
+
+     The point being...wait.  Watch.  And over time, as the stories continue,
+I think that your concerns will be addressed.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 145       Thu Apr 23, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:12 EDT
+
+     Dave, if you ordered an XXL, then it'll be a while longer; there's been a
+delay, and those won't be arriving or going out until Friday.  So it may not
+be the P.O. system.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 170       Sat Apr 25, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:31 EDT
+
+     There are definitely a lot of areas to consider regarding medicine, and
+it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to run some of this stuff past a medical
+advisor...and I probably will.
+
+     Insofar as crew relations are concerned...bear in mind that on any show,
+a *lot* of that comes about as you introduce the characters, and the actors
+get to know each other.  Chemistry can't be predicted.  What we  do have, for
+now, is that Laurel Takashima met Cmdr. Sinclair when she was working Mars
+Colony security, and because she refused to go along with kickbacks to some
+corrupt E.A. officials, was being held back.  He was transferred there in an
+advisory capacity, saw her potential, and pulled her back from some
+potentially dangerous (and self-destructive) stuff she was getting into out of
+frustration at being passed over repeatedly for promotion.
+
+     He's also known Garibaldi, the B5 security chief, for some time, but has
+never actually worked with him for any prolonged period of time.  He has
+elected, over the objections of Earth Central, to give Garibaldi this
+position, and it's his last chance to make good.  But from time to time, the
+requirements of a security chief don't reconcile with the needs of the
+commander.  He's only recently begun working with the resident xenobiologist
+and the newly-arrived station telepath.
+
+     Is there conflict between them?  Yes, at times severe.  They all deeply
+respect one another, but conflict arises as it must given the situation, and
+the close proximity, and the problems they encounter.  The basic requirement
+of ANY good drama is interpersonal conflict.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 171       Sat Apr 25, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:32 EDT
+
+     To the cross-post...yes, Laurel will be very close to her roots; she' s
+the most earth-oriented of all those at our core.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 184       Sun Apr 26, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:03 EDT
+
+     On continuity: you bet.  I'm as big a stickler for that as anyone.   You
+get inconsistency when you're casting about in every possible direction,
+without a clear vision.  If you're telling a continuous story, the odds of
+being consistent are better.
+
+     As far as Suits are concerned...I've always divided it up into two areas.
+There are Studio Execs Who Care, people like Dick Robertson at Warners, and
+Evan Thompson at Chris-Craft TV, whose unflagging support of B5 has made it
+possible to get this far.  They are our patron saints.
+
+     And they are NOT "suits."
+
+     A "suit" is basically that...a suit of clothes with nothing inside, no
+personality, no judgment, no creativity.  It's not what's worn, it's what's
+*inside*.  Every studio has suits...people who are frightened of making any
+judgment, who obfuscate and don't give an opinion, who are roadblocks on the
+journey to getting ANYthing done, who are cynical and  interested only in not
+making waves.  An empty suit.
+
+     Two very different classes.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 193       Sun Apr 26, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:12 EDT
+
+     There's a fair amount of the backstory behind B5 that will make it into
+the pilot, but not near as much as later.  The problem with ANY pilot for ANY
+television show is that you're going to have breadth, but not depth.  After
+you subtract the commercials, you have well under two hours in which to: 1)
+Establish 9 major, recurring characters; 2) Establish four minor characters;
+3) Establish the history of the Earth/Minbari war; 4) Establish the
+relationships between the various ambassadors, 5) Establish exactly what B5 is
+and how it works, 6) Establish the physical operations of a station like this
+who don't know from SF (gravities, atmospheres, technology and the like); 7)
+Establish the main plot for this particular movie; 9) Set aside some amount of
+time for action as well as the exposition needed to establish 1-8; 10) Set up
+the series to follow.
+
+     That's an *awful* lot to establish in about 100 or so minutes.
+  Especially when you're dealing with a story as potentially complex as
+Babylon 5.
+
+     It also has to be done in a fairly accessible fashion, so that non-SF
+fans can Get It, and then slowly be led into the more esoteric stuff in the
+series.
+
+     Which is why I've always tried to maintain here that you should hold
+diminished expectations for the movie, and build up from there.  It ain't
+gonna have ALL this stuff in it (being the context and content discussed here
+over the last several months) simply because there isn't time to do all that
+AND establish our characters, situations, etc.
+
+     What the movie is designed to do is to build a platform or foundation
+upon which we then build the series.  So I'm in the position of a real estate
+developer who's been promising you this bright, gleaming, architecturally
+gorgeous art deco building, and I call you to tell you that Phase One has been
+completed, and you hurry down to the site to see what is, in essence, a great
+big hole in the ground.  Where's the art deco?  Where's the gleaming steel and
+glass?  Where's the elevators and murals and...and....
+
+     They will come.  But you've *got* to start with a solid foundation first.
+And often it ain't pretty.  But if it isn't there, your building is gonna fall
+over in the first good wind.
+
+     And if that prolonged reply doesn't metaphor all of us right into a coma,
+I don't know what will.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 203       Sun Apr 26, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:50 EDT
+
+     Thought is going into the ships, and forms of propulsion, but that's
+still in flux as we determine the needs of the show, and the station, and get
+our tech people working on stuff that goes far beyond what I can ever hope to
+understand.
+
+     And yes, there's *definitely* an economy...both in terms of those coming
+to do business on B5, and the resources available.  B5 is a necessary element
+to preserving the peace, but that doesn't mean it's free from bureaucratic
+meddling and cost-cutting.
+
+     Remember, again, that unlike the Federation, this is not a monolithic,
+all-controlling entity (Earth Central).  There's a *lot* of factionalizing and
+splintering and wheels-within-wheels, so that leaves lots of room for
+conflict.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 208       Mon Apr 27, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:30 EDT
+
+     By the way, appropos of the Creation Con discussion earlier in this
+thread....
+
+     This past Friday, my guest on the SF radio show that I host, HOUR 25, was
+David Gerrold.  My co-host, Larry DiTillio, brought along his brother and a
+friend of his brother who he thought might be interesting to have on that
+night during the "nattering" part of the show (the first 15-20 minutes we put
+in on news and small-talk).  "He just came from Nimoy's place, where he
+directed a photo shoot to promote a traveling show Nimoy's doing with
+Shatner."
+
+     A shrug, I dunno if that's worth the time, any stories he might have.
+
+     "He's also one of the main guys running Creation Cons," Larry said.
+
+     Imagine, if you will, a pause vast as space.  "Oh really?" says I.
+"Sure, put him on."
+
+     So we go on the air, live, we natter, we bring in this guy, stick him in
+front of a mike, we chat a bit about this nine-city tour Nimoy and Shatner are
+going to be doing, then from left field: JMS - "So, would you like to comment
+on why Creation Con has such a crummy reputation among the fan community, the
+way it treats fans like cattle, the high prices, the rotten commercial
+attitude it takes toward its conventions?"
+
+     Let's just say, of the rest of the 10 minutes before we moved on to the
+heart of the show, was more fun than I've had on that show in a long time.
+
+     Are we having fun yet, or what?
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 221       Mon Apr 27, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:02 EDT
+
+     Is it still fun?  There are moments when you shouldn't ask me that
+question.  On the topic of television, and trying to get ANYthing done, Eric
+Severeid once commented that the process is "like being nibbled to death by
+ducks."  So yeah, that plays a part from time to time.
+
+     But on balance, most of the time, yeah, it's fun.  The part of the
+process that I think I like the most is seeing what happens when you get other
+people involved with the project, and what they develop.  The first time I saw
+the sketch of a Vorlon ship by Ron Thornton, which absolutely surprised
+me...the reactions by the SF community...the media campaign put together for
+NATPE...it's the fun of creating a universe, and sending it spinning out into
+space for others to play in.
+
+     The rest...ehhh.  It's business.  You try not to let it get you down or
+make you crazy.
+
+     As for the Creation guy...not very many highlights, just a general sense
+of...fun.  When I brought up the first statement, he came back with, "I didn't
+know we were gonna talk about Creation Conventions."
+
+     "Of course not," I said, "that's half the fun."
+
+     There's much to be said, I'm learning, for ambush journalism.
+
+     Some of the complaints he tried to dismiss as "baseless."  I pointed out
+that I'd personally seen some of it.  He tried to get around it.  And I have
+to hand it to him, he comported himself real well.  And he openly acknowledged
+(after a bit) that yes, there *have* been problems...and ended by promising
+that they *will* do better in the future.
+
+     We'll see.
+
+     At the end of the show, after we all went out for a bite (to show him
+there were no hard feelings, and on the theory that you must administer the
+rod and the sugar cane in equal proportion if you're going to get anything
+done), he added, on parting, that the main job that now awaited him was
+"getting the barbecque sauce and fish-hooks" out of his ass.
+
+     There are moments I love this job.
+
+     Severeid's ducks notwithstanding.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 224       Mon Apr 27, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:02 EDT
+
+     Okay...since SOMEone here is monitoring this topic for Creation, and
+since SOMEone high up in Creation is such a weasel as to blame one of his
+employees for *my* bushwacking said unwitting employee on the air, when it was
+NOT his fault, let me make something perfectly clear:
+
+     The person who showed up on my show is not at fault.  He came in and I
+lit a firecracker under him NOT for anything that he had done, but for the
+problems that I and others have had with those running Creation; probably the
+same weasel who's now upset about all this.
+
+     Our last-minute guest that evening knew nothing of this, and did a
+commendable job defending what would be hard for ANYone to defend.  He
+defended Creation well, indicated that while there had been problems in the
+past, those were all now history, and spoke well of his bosses and indicated
+that all the problems had been dealt with and things would go swimmingly in
+future.
+
+     He did an admirable job for someone who didn't know he was going to get
+hit upside the head with a ball-bat.  I'm not sure *I* would have done as good
+a job under those circumstances.  (And I suppose it was less than mature of me
+to have gone on here at such length about it.)
+
+     Point being that our last-minute guest did a fine job, under very
+difficult circumstances, should NOT be penalized for it, and if certain
+weasels were to a) mind their own business, b) develop a sense of humor, and
+c) run a convention properly (as they will in future, I hear), these
+situations wouldn't arise in the first place.
+
+     And this ESPECIALLY goes for the weasel(s) monitoring this topic and
+running off to Creation with it.
+
+     Ain't like this topic contains anything top-secret...the radio show is
+heard from as far south as San Diego, and as far north as Bakersfield, so I
+fail to see the point.
+
+     (All of which just confirms the rightness of my decision not to take B5
+to Creation.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 243       Tue Apr 28, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:24 EDT
+
+     Yikes, that'll teach me not to log on for the balance of the day to get
+some work done....
+
+     Agreement with the sentiments above in the sense of letting the issue die
+down.  Point's been made, no sense in belaboring anything, at least not here.
+Any good that DOES come out of confrontation is, I've learned, lost if you
+dance in somebody's face for the next 24 hours.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 254       Wed Apr 29, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:03 EDT
+
+     Just checking in to say...er...nothing much to say.  We're in what can
+best be described as the eye of the storm period...deal stuff and other issues
+have been taken care of, we're lining up various pieces, and the real Busy
+Stuff won't come for a little while yet.  I think we'll see the finished
+motion tests on B5 this week or next, and the storyboard for the opening
+sequence.
+
+     Exhausted otherwise, having turned in my first M,SW script for the coming
+season.  A real toughie to write, and ended up working non-stop the last 48-72
+hours or so to get it turned in before hiatus starts.  I figure, last season,
+my first really writing mysteries, I learned how to skate more or less in a
+straight line.  Now I'm trying to do some basic circles, see if I can write
+any better this season than last.
+
+     So this'll be brief...gotta go sack out.  Hope to have some interesting
+info by week's end, but I ain't promising at this point.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 260       Wed Apr 29, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:28 EDT
+
+     Note to myself: talk to some international economists, maybe raid a local
+university....yikes...nobody told me there was gonna be math involved....
+
+     GREAT looking gif file, Luis.  I like the color useage a lot, and it has
+given me much to consider.  (The current version has the triangular part in
+burnished/airbrushed copper, the 5 in gold...but there's much to be said for
+red and black.)  Hmmmmm.....
+
+     Insofar as I know, the overseas stuff is already taken care of, to a
+large degree.  I *do* know that it was well received in any number of
+countries, but don't have specifics.  Will try to remember to look into that.
+I suppose I should know where it's playing....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 263       Wed Apr 29, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:34 EDT
+
+     Actually, that's been a vital part of B5's design from the very start.
+The dead center of B5 is The Garden, similar to an O'Neill  station, with food
+and other crops grown on the 360-degree walls.  It runs through the center of
+B5, so the very VERY center is zero-G.  It's through this center that the
+shuttle runs.
+
+     A small joke in the script finds Delenn (the Minbari ambassador) in the
+Garden, and someone asks him about it.  He'd thought that Sinclair had named
+it after just what you suggest, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, which he's
+read about...but it seems Sinclair named it after some other garden...a Square
+Garden of Madison, or something like that...and he's trying to find the
+cultural references and figure it out...probably thinks it's something to do
+with mythology....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 274       Thu Apr 30, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:19 EDT
+
+     Getting mentions is very tough, we're discovering.  And we're still
+trying to figure out *why*.
+
+     As for "Time Trax," it's a Harve Bennet show for the same consortium of
+stations as B5.  It's about a guy from the future who comes into the present
+hunting down Bad Guys from the future.  TERMINATOR 1 and 2 meets Soldier meets
+Demon With a Glass Hand meets....well, you get the idea.
+
+     Oh, forgot one thing on the Madison Square Garden reference...it leaves
+Delenn doubly confused since this garden is *round*.
+
+     I *think* that's the first and so far only direct reference I've made to
+what happens specifically in the 2-hour script.  Have to remember to keep
+those down to a mild roar....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS for May, 1992
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+ ************
+Topic 22        Wed Nov 20, 1991
+SOARON [Bio-Dread]           at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5                          
+
+TWCNBN has been been named!  J. Michael Straczynski has managed to bring a new
+quality to television and promises to do justice to TV and SF with a new
+action-adventure SF series of his own design.  (NO story suggestions, please.)
+681 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 288       Fri May 01, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:17 EDT
+
+     Things are okay here, seem to be quieting down.  The amazing thing was
+going into the Universal backlot, way at the top of the hill, and looking out
+over the LA basin...and seeing a wall of black smoke.  When I saw it, lining
+the horizon as far as the eye could see, like some terrible black shroud, the
+only thing I could think was, "Mordor."
+
+     That, and "Okay, who brought the marshmallows?"
+
+     (Hmm...how about a Tolkienesque detective series...a wizened old P.I. and
+his short companion..."Mordor, She Wrote.")
+
+     I'm now going to run very far and very fast, before the bricks and mordor-
+shells start coming in...and if you're all *very* good, I'll tell you about
+Ambassador Jackarr tonight or tomorrow....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 296       Sat May 02, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:32 EDT
+
+     For those taking notes, you'll remember Ambassador Londo Mollari, of the
+Centauri Republic...likened in some ways to the fading Roman or British
+empires.  At one time, their fist could be felt across most of what is now
+inhabited space.  Now...they live on old stories and fading glories.
+
+     The Narns once were very much under Centauri control, and they received
+in many ways the most brutal treatment of any "protectorate" in Centauri
+jurisdiction.  A little under a hundred years ago, as the power of the
+Centauri Republic was fading, the Narns broke their chains in open revolution
+and expelled the occuping army, achieving independence.
+
+     The way they were able to achieve independence was through a strong
+military mindset and sense of pride...which though useful then, has since
+become something other...something darker and more menacing.  Still smarting
+from two centuries of occupation, they launched a major effort to build up
+their own forces.  They strip-mined their economy to get their hands on the
+latest weapons tech, most of it illegally obtained.   They began slowly to
+convince themselves that they had a Destiny among the stars...a destiny of
+conquest.
+
+     And over the last few decades, they have been tentatively extending
+themselves, taking over unalied planets here and there on the fringe of the
+Narn system, small places that offered strategic and economic value, but which
+were too far away to fight for, and of too little importance to (in many
+cases) the Centauri republic, which was busy dealing with its own internal
+problems.
+
+     The Narn Regime now is in many ways the X-factor, the new kid on the
+block with something to prove.  They're growing awfully strong, awfully fast.
+They're cunning, and determined, and quite deadly.
+
+     Which brings us to Ambassador Jackarr (pronounced JAH-karr), of the Narn
+Regime, married to a female war hero, whose fathers on both sides were also
+distinguihed veterans of a hundred campaigns.  In the main, his task is to use
+the facilities of B5 wherever possible to Narn advantage == from arranging
+tech-smuggling to military objectives and so on -- while doing all possible to
+interfere with the basic purpose of the station, to create the peace.  Peace
+is not in their best interests, though they give the opposite impression.
+They want to keep all sides divided and at each others throats so that they're
+occupied while the Narns grow and expand quietly in the background.  The last
+thing they want is an alliance aimed against them before they're ready.
+
+     One last note about Jackarr...I wanted to create someone specifically who
+folks would gradually come to expect is behind anything that goes wrong or
+afoul.  "Oh, he's the bad guy."  And to a large extent, for the first part, he
+will be...then something quite surprising will happen, and everything you
+THINK you know about Ambassador Jackarr will be turned completely upside down.
+We've all seen the SF standard of The Villain Who Chews Scenery...I wanted to
+take that and use it just long enough to get folks comfortable with the
+convention...then pull the rug out from under them.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 304       Sat May 02, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:34 EDT
+
+     Jackarr's past is...a contradiction that I'm going to hold back on for
+the time being.  There's what he *says*, there's what's on the official
+records...and there's the truth.  And that, along with some other surprises,
+is what will turn the character and a goodly part of our story around.
+
+     So for the nonce...I'll pass on any more detailed answer to that
+particular question.
+
+     As for the XXLs, they *still* haven't come in yet, I'm sorry (and vastly
+annoyed) to say.  Something about difficulty finding the required number, in
+that size, in Royal Blue.  Worse case scenario, they may end up black...making
+them special editions WITHIN a special edition.
+
+     As for Londo, I know he was discussed *somewhere* uptopic, maybe someone
+else here has the specific message number.
+
+     So let's see...I think I've covered all of the Ambassadors: Londo,
+Jackarr (I'm thinking of re-spelling his name G'kar), Kosh and Delenn.   I've
+covered Commander Sinclair, Vice-Commander Laurel Takashima, the telepath Lyta
+Alexander, and I *think* I've mentioned Security Chief Michael Garibaldi, so
+that leaves Xenobiologist Benjamin Kyle, is that right?  Just so I know where
+to pick this up.
+
+     BTW...to those who are associated with Con-Fiction in Utah, please relay
+the following: Reluctantly, and kinda as I figured, I won't be able to attend.
+I'd hoped to be able to send along some material to be used at the con, but as
+matters stand now, many of the designs and materials are in a BIG state of
+flux, and there's some business stuff that I've got to attend to that could
+affect some of our plans in a small way, so due to all of that, I alas can't
+even send anything along.  This will all be remedied in time for Media*West,
+happily, but not for Conduit (Oops, I misspoke myself in the first line of
+this paragraph, I said confiction when I meant to say Conduit...sorry.)
+
+     My regrets on this matter, and my best to the con organizers.  Next year,
+however, be assured that there will be a big B5 presentation made available to
+Conduit.  On my word.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 426       Mon May 18, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:05 EDT
+
+     Yikes...111 messages since I left...okay, several points.  I'm going on
+no sleep in -- let's see -- over 24 hours now, so if there are typos, or it
+gets sloppy, or brief, please bear with me.
+
+     One quick piece of business out of the way: the XXLs are *finally* in.
+They'll arrive at the office Monday, and will start going out this week.  And
+yes, they ran out of blue, so they'll be in black.  Haven't seen them yet, but
+I hear they look terrific.
+
+     Okay...so where have I been?
+
+     I haven't been away from a keyboard, not working, for more than two days
+at a time in over 4 years.  With B5 gearing up, and another season of M,SW to
+take care of along the way, I needed to escape and clear my head and prepare.
+I also needed to do some research on areas of use to B5, and to get a sense of
+*time*, odd as that may sound.
+
+     So for 11 days I was in Ireland, mainly in Dublin, then down south of
+there in (and I'm gonna mess up htis name bigtime) Glendalough (or
+Glendaloch), and then up north in New Grange, visiting the neolithic burial
+mound that was 1,000 years old when Stonehenge was being built; it's the
+oldest human made edifice on the planet, older even than the pyramids.
+ Stood in the very center of the burial chambers.  Talk about getting a sense
+of time....
+
+     Then finished there, and spent a few days in London before returning
+today to L.A. nonstop from Heathrow.  (The Irish had considerable cause for
+amusement at my name...the usual reaction I got was a widening of eyes, a
+shaking of heads, and a muttered, "God bless you" said with something  between
+pity and awe.  So after a while I started saying it was Gaelic.  I don't think
+they believed me.)
+
+     To the message way uptopic...stra-chin-ski or stra-zin-ski are both
+equally acceptable; the former is Old Country, the latter the New World
+pronunciation.
+
+     One bit of information I should pass along:
+
+     The plan, initially, was to air B5 on November 17th, with the other two
+series/projects to air in February.  Now this has always been a little
+problematic, not from a production standpoint -- we've been ready to go for a
+long time -- but logically, if you're running a new consortium of  stations,
+it kinda behooves you to start it all at once.  Because we would be ready
+early, and the other two shows, which got later starts, wouldn't be, the
+initial decision was to split them as mentioned above.
+
+     As of this time, all three will be airing at the same time, in February,
+instead of splitting them.  I will admit that I wasn't exactly thrilled about
+the delay, for obvious reasons (mainly because it would put us head to head
+with another certain show, rather than giving us a head start), but grudingly,
+it does make a certain sense: you put it all on line at the same time, you get
+more bang for your PR buck, there's cross promotion, and in the final analysis
+it'll probably bring *more* viewers to B5 than would have seen it on its own.
+There are also a number of good business reasons for it as well, including
+details about actors options and the like.
+
+     The new airdate for the B5 movie will probably be in the third or so week
+of February, whenever Sweeps happens to be.  We've re-adjusted our production
+schedule to accommodate the new airdate, and on one level, even that works
+out.  It'll give us more time to polish the effects and maybe do even more
+than we'd planned.
+
+     Not a crisis, not a problem, just business.  And while I'd like to be
+cranky about it, it *does* make considerable sense.  (And I have reason to
+believe that at February, we'll *still* beat DS9 to the punch, given that
+there's still not even a completed script, or wasn't when I left two weeks
+ago.)  So we're now scheduled to begin filming the second week of August.
+Tomorrow (Monday), I meet with one of the candidates for cinematographer, and
+will see the new designs that were developed in my absence for approval.  The
+final edits (mine, mainly, plus a few cuts for time) on the script go in on
+March 24th.
+
+     Meanwhile, on all other fronts, things continue to go well.  The studio
+still has no script notes, loves the draft, has approved our final budget, and
+we're hiring more people.  Figure casting at about early or middle July.  (And
+to an earlier query...yes, we'll be casting mainly actors who are good,
+classically trained performers, but who may not be household names...yet, as
+was the case was Jonathan Frakes and others.)
+
+     As to the question above, how do you prevent B5 from becoming space
+opera...define "space opera" a little more in detail and I'll let you know.
+
+     Anyway, that's it for now.  I'm physically exhausted, absolutely dead on
+my feet, but mentally refreshed, which is what I needed before launching into
+the main prep work on B5.  Also took the opportunity to just *think* about the
+show, and the script, and work out some more details in my head that I'd
+missed in the current draft.  Saw many interesting things (went up to the seat
+of the old High Kings on the hill of Tara in Ireland, and generally had a fine
+time).
+
+     Will post more info once I've had some sleep, and have had a chance to
+check in with my associates and see what's transpired in my absence.   ("Ron?
+Who said anything about putting 1950s fins on a Narn ship?  Ron?   Ron?")
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 445       Mon May 18, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:28 EDT
+
+     I hope you're right, Soaron...I just got my Media*west mailer, and the
+ONLY things on it were two Sunday panels, one on TRGBs and the other on BBSs,
+*nothing* for B5.  And a second letter (this was all in the mail I picked up
+today, which filled a 3x3' box) from the video guy said he  only now heard
+that I'd be bringing the B5 movie (!?), and it wasn't on the schedule, but I
+could run it by  myself after 10:30 pm if I so desired.  Obviously, someone's
+miscommunicating.
+
+     If there isn't a B5 presentation scheduled, there's absolutely no point
+to my going...so if anyone here can clarify this (calling Lori got me nothing,
+she knew nothing of it), I'd appreciate it, because otherwise I'll have to
+cancel.  I ain't flying to Michigan to do the two above panels alone.
+
+     About up and down...there won't be one really in this show, because
+remember, the B5 station *rotates*.  So we will always be reminded of this
+fact.  Ships coming in to dock will have to adjust their rotation to match
+that of the station.
+
+     Had a bunch of B5 meetings today with the ever-growing production
+team...including the director, Ron Thornton, and the guy we're considering for
+director of photography, who we think is right.  To cap the meeting, Ron
+showed the Vorlon ship(s) on video.  Now, I'd just been expecting still
+frames, no motion...and then it came on the screen, and it MOVED.   And it did
+stuff that no other ship I've seen before on TV has ever done (yes, back to
+that again).
+
+     I have to tell you -- and this isn't hype, even though *I'm* hyped at
+this moment over it -- I was just absolutely wog-boggled, as was every person
+in the room.  Ron Thornton is an absolute *genius*, I swear to you.   And the
+ship is simply the most alien-looking thing that I have ever seen.   (Which
+makes sense, since Ron is about as close to an alien mind as you will find.)
+I had them keep running it back and showing it again, over and over.  It's not
+just technically interesting, it's actually *beautiful*, in a strange and
+wonderful way, and you just enjoy watching it.
+
+     It's *so* neat looking.  I can't stand it.
+
+     We also got to see the first actual B5 movement tests, with the various
+sections rotating.  And a good shot of the Vorlon ship against the background
+of the planet and moon in the vicinity of B5, and the planet also looke nifty.
+It's just amazing stuff.  If you know Ron's work at all (and some of you do),
+you know that what he brings to this kind of project is not just the
+scientific background on how it should work, but he ALSO has the tech
+background on computer graphics, AND he's an incredible artist.  Put those
+elements together with a mind that has clearly escaped from the Hitchhiker's
+Guide to the Galaxy, and you have something wonderous indeed.
+
+     Now that the studio has approved our director, I guess I can now announce
+who he is: Richard Compton, an *extremely* well-regarded director from both
+film and TV, who has just fallen in love with the project.  He has been
+working with us to make it more visual, he'll be involved in the casting
+process, and he's absolutely brilliant.  For television, he's directed such TV
+movies as "Desperado" (very nice stuff there), ST:TNG, a whole *bunch* of
+episodes of "The Equalizer" (which is close in some ways to the look we want
+for B5), "Hill Street Blues" (lots of those, too) and other shows and movies
+and TV movies.
+
+     This is a very exciting time right now on the project.  In a way, we will
+also be served by the new airdate because we'll still be delivering the
+finished film before the end of the year, so that gives us about 6 to 8 weeks
+to let the stations publicize the film, and get reviews, and show either
+portions or the whole thing at conventions between December 28th (our delivery
+date), and the final airdate in February.
+
+     Anyway, just thought I'd pass all that along.  Much better today, was
+semi-conscious at best when I posted the other note.  More news as it
+develops.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 454       Tue May 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:08 EDT
+
+     The motion tests are *complete*, fully ray-traced, full color, the whole
+bit.  That's what makes it so spectacular.
+
+     I'll see Ron this afternoon, and will ask about a Genie RTC.  I'm sure
+he'd be up for it, probably sometime later in the year, closer to airdate
+would be best.
+
+     May have something interesting to upload later today.  Or not.   Depends
+on what Ron has for me.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 457       Tue May 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:05 EDT
+
+    Okay, everybody, here's something spiffy.
+
+     I just uploaded two GIF files to the televison library here in the SFRT.
+They are numbers 4238 and 4239.  The first is a shot of the planet around
+which B5 orbits, and the moon, and just emerging out of shadow...a Vorlon
+ship.  It's a little dark around the ship, and that's deliberate, because
+there are some details we're trying to keep, um, fairly secret from prying
+eyes.  But this should give you a pretty good idea.
+
+     The second file is a shot of the new B5 station itself.  It's a nearly
+straight-on shot, with the docking bay in the foreground, the station trailing
+away in the distance, against space.
+
+     These are not, I hasten to mention, simply illustrations or paintings,
+these are the actual shots from the film.  I mention that because they're SO
+gorgeous that it's hard to believe that they'll actually move.  But they do.
+
+     The files will be available as soon as the sysops clear them.
+
+     Let me know what you think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 459       Tue May 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:45 EDT
+
+     To avoid charring this topic, I'm going to leave my screed about
+Media*West in that topic.  Those involved there can check it out.  The
+rest...stay tuned here.  I mention this here only because of the B5
+presentation originally "slated" to take place there.
+
+     We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 462       Wed May 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:33 EDT
+
+     Well, Katherine, you're always welcome to come by the house or the office
+to see the actual video anytime, y'know....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 465       Wed May 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:14 EDT
+
+     Mind, this isn't a 24 bit Amiga image, though it *began* that way,
+certainly, but it would take an hour to download.  So it's been converted to a
+standard 640x480 (or in one case, 751x520) 256 color image.  But it still
+looks pretty spiffy, though the blue nebula got a bit "chunky" in the
+transition to a Gif image.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 468       Wed May 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:03 EDT
+
+     The shirts arrived this past Monday, the 18th.
+
+     I guess CSHOW, available on most BBSs, will work even on a 16 color
+monitor, though I don't know how good it'll be.  Might be okay.  Regular 256
+color VGA is pretty good, though a little ragged.  Looked at here, on an NEC
+4FG and an Orchid Fahrenheit card with 1 meg video memory, it looks terrific.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 478       Wed May 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:49 EDT
+
+     I'll talk to Ron, see about a 24-bit JPEG.  My main thought was not so
+much in excellence of individual gifs, but to get the most accessible files to
+the most amount of people in the least amount of time.  (I get the feeling
+that there's a math equation in there somewhere....)
+
+     A funny aside, btw...it's an uphill battle getting the word out about B5
+to *most* places...but you would not believe how many TNG production people
+have been calling over the last week or so, offering to jump ship.  So I guess
+SOME people are hearing about it....
+
+     I'm *really* looking forward to reactions to the photos here.  I've been
+rattling on about all this stuff for so long, and the majority of you here are
+pretty much taking me at face value, which is okay, but I think it's so much
+better when one can PROVE the point.  As stated: talk is cheap.  Now just
+about any person with a color VGA monitor (or even a CGA, I suppose) can
+actually get a visual sense of what we're doing, and SEE for themselves at
+least a little of what we have in mind.  And to me, that's exciting.
+
+     So now that the Media*West stuff has finally been ironed out, I'm really
+looking forward to seeing the reactions there when I trot out the new
+tape...with a moving B5 station...and a moving Vorlon ship...and some other
+neat stuff.  We *really* want to knock people's socks off, Ron most of all.
+Every night, he goes to bed muttering to himself, "Emmy...Emmy...
+Emmy...Emmy."
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 480       Wed May 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:14 EDT
+
+     Yep.  The numbers I had for them were 4238 and 4239.  I'm in the process
+of finalizing some edits on the script, tightening a bit here  and there, a
+nip, a tuck, cleaning up the dialogue, all by hand on the manuscript, and I
+keep the Vorlon gif on my monitor while I work to keep me "inspired."
+
+     I've got to get a life....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 492       Thu May 21, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:18 EDT
+
+     The reason that the sections are round is because that's the most logical
+and accepted scientific approach that we can figure out.  Which is something
+also different about this show, and the look of the station: though some of
+the inner sections will be flat floors, by and large all of the main corridors
+will be *rounded* or curved.  Hence, a curved exterior.
+
+     Glad you're enjoying the "view" -- and, again, just a reminder that these
+aren't illustrations, but actual video from the project.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 499       Thu May 21, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 13:37 EDT
+
+     Thanks for the thoughts.  (And I wish I'd had that info on the Orchid
+Fahrenheit before I spent DAYS trying to find a program that would show gifs
+with it, ending with VPIC at last.)
+
+     The upper right hand portion of the station is the cargo loading and
+unloading area, which is in zero-g.  If you look at it, you realize that the
+flat top that runs the length of the station is connected at either end, so
+that the components revolve, but the top remains motionless, rather like a
+barbeque spit.  (There will be a counterweight at the end to balance it
+out...our techhies say that this is the correct way to build such a
+station...remember the ship from 2010, and the counterweight there.)
+
+     As for the Vorlon ship being a bit dark...remember, that's actually
+deliberate.  I picked the one shot of them coming out of shadow and into
+light, and had it further darkened down just enough to conceal some stuff that
+I don't want revealed for the moment.  But enough remains clear that as others
+have noted, it's still pretty cool looking.
+
+     The rectangular opening in the front is the docking bay, and ships
+approaching will adjust their own rotation to match that of the opening so
+that it appears to be motionless from their POV.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 504       Thu May 21, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:54 EDT
+
+     Thanks, all...now you're starting to understand what I've been trying --
+inadequately at times -- to convey all this time.  And bear in mind that I'm
+only letting out the *least* of the images we now have on hand.   Take the B5
+image, get it moving, layer in the planet in the background, have it
+surrounded by ships moving in and out like bees, and NOW you're talking.
+
+     Remember when I said this show would have a look unlike anything you've
+ever seen before on television?  Now you have at least some indication that I
+was telling the truth.
+
+     If you haven't gotten your shirts yet, it's probably because you ordered
+XXL, and those only came in this week, and they're now in the process of going
+out.  Be patient.  If you don't get  your stuff by the end of next week, lemme
+know and I'll look into it.
+
+     After that, I may open up a window for others to purchase the shirts
+straight out -- about $10, I guess, including shipping and handling -- until
+they're gone.  The other half of the order I'm keeping for handing out at
+conventions.
+
+     Had a great meeting today at Warners.  Showed them the new tape, and they
+were just astonished.  When we first proposed this project, there were a lot
+of folks who didn't think we could actually DO it, at least not  without
+spending billions on the budget.  (And I can't blame them in the least...what
+we proposed was, and still is, pretty amazing...inclusive of stuff that I
+haven't even MENTIONED here, because I want *some* things to be a
+surprise...so that skepticism was absolutely warranted.)  But now that they're
+actually seeing what we've been doing, they've become some of our strongest
+supporters.  One fellow in the room, who's worked on quite literally *dozens*
+of SF projects for the studio, after viewing the new tape said, "I've NEVER
+seen anything like this.  Amazing."  We've really broken through a whole new
+level of technology...Ron estimates we're at least two years ahead of nearly
+everyone else in the country, and one  year ahead of ILM, which is the only
+one that comes close to what we can do.
+
+     There are, I confess, times that I just sit here and smile.  Makes up for
+the four years of effort and grief that it took to get here.
+
+     Mostly.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 506       Thu May 21, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:51 EDT
+
+     Quick aside...if you're going to MWC, you'd best check out that
+topic...where I'll probably be stoned to death momentarily.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 533       Fri May 22, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 13:38 EDT
+
+     To the two questions raised above...as indicated before, B5 will use a
+mix of storytelling elements.  I'm a strong believer in the notion that each
+episode of a series MUST be able to stand on its own.  Although I loved it
+dearly, that was the problem with TWIN PEAKS.  If you missed even one episode,
+you didn't know WHAT the heck was going on.  And, further, that show asked
+questions that it never seemed willing to answer.
+
+     I've constructed the B5 writing scenario more or less as follows:
+
+     1) Each episode will be able to stand alone.  If you come in on season
+two, without having seen anything else, you'll be able to get into it.
+
+     2) Questions asked in the course of an episode or a season will be
+answered in that episode or season.
+
+     3) BUT...if you continue to watch the show, then over time a story writ
+on a much larger scale will begin to emerge.  Consider it like a triptych,
+something out of Hieronymous Bosch...each individual panel is sufficient unto
+itself, but put them all together, and suddenly you see connections and a
+whole picture that wasn't there a moment earlier.
+
+     Relationships will change.  People will live, and die.  Alliances wll
+shift.  And at one point or another, everything you THINK you know about these
+characters will be turned upside down.  But there won't be cliffhangers or
+that sort of thing between episodes.  There may be such between seasons, but
+not in the course of a season.
+
+     Funny thing...there are two characters in the show whose roles are going
+to be COMPLETELY reversed by the middle of the run.  But I wasn't absolutely
+clear on how to do that, I had only a general notion in my head.  Then, in
+Ireland, while standing on the hill of Tara, in the seat of the old High
+Kings...it hit me.  And the last bit of information I needed came through.
+
+     There will be continuity.  I've mapped out what will happen, in general,
+in about half the episodes in any given season...incidents that will
+eventually form the tapestry of the larger story.  But the other half of any
+given season are left completely open to what our writers might come up with.
+I like being surprised, and want the show to remain open to changes in tide
+and wind.
+
+     As for the Toaster stuff...Ron would know more about that than I would.
+All I know is what I saw when I visited his digs the other day: he's got --
+let's see -- six? seven? computers, all with 3 accellerators each, hooked up.
+There's new cards and devices and programs that very literally didn't exist
+two weeks ago; he's having them designed to his specs.  Speed-wise, in terms
+of rendering, it now functions as fast as a Cray computer.  Walking into that
+place was like walking into Frankenstein's lab...amazing stuff.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 540       Fri May 22, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:25 EDT
+
+     Quickies: in the Vorlon gif, yes, the ship is moving from left to right.
+And regarding the B5 gif...bear in mind that there are no other objects in the
+frame to give it a sense of perspective.  Absent that, there is no way to tell
+how big it is, which is why there will be stuff there at all times later on.
+The actual dimensions we've worked out in terms of length is that B5 is ten
+kilometers long.  The rest you can work out from there.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 545       Fri May 22, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:33 EDT
+
+     The components are spherical, yes, arranged one after another with
+bridging between.  Rounding kilometers to miles, if you figure on about 5
+miles length, the width is about 2 or 2.5 miles, so it's fairly rectangular.
+
+     Marymom: just send the note and the money to the same address, and tell
+Susan the situation, saying you checked with me and it was okay.  No problem.
+(And just $10, please, not $11.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 572       Sun May 24, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:32 EDT
+
+     Long day, so this'll be quick, but I just wanted to let y'all know that
+there's an interesting mention of B5 in the current (June) issue of STARLOG,
+in Kerry O'Quinn's "From the Bridge" column.  Kinda reinforces what we've been
+saying all along in terms of our attitude and approach on this show.
+
+      Other than that...I'm bushed.  Very productive and good day, some major
+stuff got done.  Will try to get through some of the issues raised on a later
+post.  And will talk to Ron about getting a 24-bit image at some point in the
+future.  Right now he's mainly focusing on getting the main B5 stuff done, and
+anything else is a distraction.  Give me time.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 584       Sun May 24, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:49 EDT
+
+     On average, neither TNG nor DS9 come up in topic much over at the B5
+offices.  When it does at all, it's often in the sense that they seem to have
+grown rather complacent.  Really, when you come right down to it, they haven't
+had much competition over these last five years, and that's bound to lead to a
+sense of complacency.
+
+     We hope, very shortly, to release a mouse in the elephant's cage.
+
+     Imagine if there were only one cop show on the air.  No competition, and
+a nominally captive audience...if you like cop shows, this is the only game in
+town.  The first time something else comes along, though, it forces you to
+maybe work a little harder, do a little better.  It challenges you and that's
+always a good thing, I believe.
+
+     As I think I mentioned before, as soon as all the personnel are ensconced
+in their offices, I plan to have a large metal sign made up, which will go
+right over the inside front door: IF YOU'RE NOT HERE TO KICK ASS, GET OUT.
+Though I don't think that will be much needed, given the team we're
+assembling.  That attitude comes through in many ways.  In both the Vorlon and
+B5 gifs, for instance, you'll notice the blue nebula in the background.  Blue
+is very difficult to deal with in EFX.  It's a flare to all concerned.  Ron
+points to that and to the objects in the foreground and keeps smiling as he
+says, "See?  NO MATTE LINES!"
+
+     It's that kind of attitude that, I think, will lead to the general
+betterment of BOTH sides.  Nothing makes your mind work with astonishing
+clarity than to suddenly find yourself being chased around the room by a
+lunatic with a ball-bat....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 588       Mon May 25, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:34 EDT
+
+     What will happen next year...only next year can tell.  Who knows, I may
+be on the corner of Hollywood and Vine selling pencils.
+
+     By the way, on Friday David Gerrold and D. C. Fontana came by the house
+to see the new B5 effects (moving Vorlon ship, moving B5, other stuff) on
+tape.  They were both absolutely stunned, and said so.  David in particular --
+having also read the script -- has taken up the task of spreading the word,
+telling people that this is "the show TNG should have been."  Coming from two
+of the primary lights of the original Trek, their support means quite a lot.
+
+     I've gotten a number of private messages and calls from people asking
+what they can do.  And really, it comes down to two things: 1) Tell your
+friends.  As many as possible, *if* you like what you're seeing.  We don't
+have as well-known a name as TNG, or the ST coat-tails to ride on, all we have
+is the goodwill of the fan community, and word of mouth.  And 2) When the show
+finally airs, and if again you like what you see, then it is of the utmost
+importance that you communicate this to the television station in your area
+that broadcast B5.  This one is absolutely crucial to continuing to enjoy the
+amount of creative freedom we've experienced so far.
+
+     Rarely in life are we afforded an opportunity to make a difference.  I
+believe, down to my marrow, that B5 can make that difference.  And I equally
+believe that the viewing/fan community can make every bit as big a difference
+in supporting that endeavor, and getting the word out to others.
+ That, to me, would be the best gift of all.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 598       Mon May 25, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:28 EDT
+
+    I see no conflict with being able to attend, and since we'll have just
+finished filming about a week earlier, I should have all KINDS of stuff to
+bring.  What I have to do now is contact the programming people there and try
+to set it up.  Given the magnitude of the con, it's one that I think I should
+definitely attend.
+
+     Basically, what I plan to do during filming is to set aside certain
+scenes from dailies as we see them, and thus cumulatively build up a demo reel
+as we go.  Then lay in the EFX shots (some of them, anyway), and by the time
+we're finished, the demo should be ready to go.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 599       Mon May 25, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:31 EDT
+
+     Ray...given what came back to me about your earlier "discussion" with Mr.
+Gerrold, don't you think you ought to stay out of his face for a while?
+
+     (cross-posting is so much fun)
+
+     BTW...by the end of this coming week, we should be able to announce the
+full production staff.  We have all but the casting director and one of the
+line producers, who we'll lock down this week, but have been holding back
+announcing the others until contracts are signed.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 609       Tue May 26, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:04 EDT
+
+     All sorts of ships use the B5 facilities.  It's the only game around for
+several light-years in any direction, so it's a vital place for travelers.
+(Well, maybe "light years" might be a slight exaggeration, but you get the
+idea.)  Some military ships come through, from all sides, but there are VERY
+strict regulations...anyone coming on board must be scanned for weapons.  None
+are allowed on the base.
+
+     Most of the ships at this time are set for interstellar travel, but there
+are exceptions or variations.  For instance, a military mothership would come
+into that space bearing the short-range fighters which would then come out.  A
+lone fighter might not be able to make it back without that support.
+
+     As for the Vorlon ship -- believe me, it ain't comic relief, in any sense
+of the word.  I've seen what it can do.  And there *is* a utilitarian reason
+behind its design.  In addition, we want to show something VERY alien in
+design and construction...and frankly, there's NO reason a ship that isn't
+ever going to enter atmosphere needs to look  aerodynamic.  In time, you'd
+move toward things that are visually or aesthetically interesting.  In this
+culture (Vorlon), art and science are closely allied, so this extension into
+the look of their ships is quite natural.  Concepts about what ships are have
+become very rigid and inflexible thanks to the preponderance of SF-TV shows.
+We want to loosen that up.  And that look DOES, as stated, have a practical
+aspect about it as well, which will be seen down the road.
+
+     As for conventions, yes, I'll announce them here.  There's currently
+Westercolt, and SD Comic Con, and as more are lined up, I'll note them here.
+Will write to Priscilla about MagicCon asap.  And I'm always at LosCon...that
+convention saw the very first presentation of the show, and will probably be
+among the first to see something very close to a finished product, given its
+November schedule.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 618       Wed May 27, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:53 EDT
+
+     Jeez, what a day...between MURDER, SHE WROTE and B5, coming back from
+hiatus has been a trip.  Today was my first full day back on both
+projects...and the B5 stuff is looking good.
+
+     Met today with the woman we're pretty sure we're going to use as our
+casting director, and as planned, we're not going for "name" actors, no
+"hunks" per se, no one with a lot of SF baggage (no Gil Gerards or Marc
+Singers).  We're going for actors with character in their faces, who have some
+classical or general theatrical training...we're going to be scouting L.A.,
+Chicago, New York and London for performers.  Big emphasis on fresh faces.
+
+     Also met again with the director, and other members of the production
+staff, got the EFX schedule and budget nailed down, and so on.  As you  begin
+to gear up in earnest, you begin to realize how many decisions there are to be
+made...seemingly a million, some days.  It's fun, in a rather tiring way, but
+still exhilirating.  (The casting director *loved* the script, and commented
+that it was the first time in over three years that a script has sent her to
+the dictionary to look up new words.)
+
+     Onward!
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 627       Thu May 28, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:17 EDT
+
+     What came out of the meeting was some good stuff, and strong support for
+some needed areas, and as you can tell I'm limited to generalities.   Some
+meetings and conversations have to respect privacy.  If execs think that what
+they have to say is going to be splashed all over systems, they have a
+tendency not to have meetings.
+
+     Don't know if Houston is on the list or not, but I'll look into it as far
+as casting is concerned, and a con.
+
+     Absolutely bushed today.  In the midst of everything else, I got a call
+from one of my editors at Writer's Digest, asking if I'd be willing to
+contribute an article to their scriptwriting issue, due out in November.  It'd
+sort of be the thematic article that ties all of the other articles together.
+I wondered if he REALLY wanted me to tell the truth.  He said absolutely.  So
+I came home, and pounded out 3,000 words that will either inspire a lot of
+folks, or scare the hell out of them.
+
+     We'll see.
+
+     More meetings the rest of the week.  Will advise as there's anything
+specific to report.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 630       Thu May 28, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:46 EDT
+
+     I don't know the impact yet that the Fox move will have, if any, on the
+B5/Warners lineup, but I'll inquire when I'm over at the studio this Friday.
+It's almost a sure bet, though, that Fox sped up its schedule in order to try
+and block the Warners move.
+
+     Y'know, I have worked on a lot of shows.  A LOT of shows.  And I have
+NEVER seen a situation like this where it seems everyone on the planet is in
+our face...that Other Show, Fox, the press (which keeps forgetting we
+exist)...David and Goliath, I don't mind.  David and a LOT of Goliaths is a
+*real* pain in the butt.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 631       Thu May 28, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:26 EDT
+
+     Just a quote from David Gerrold over on another system: "The (B5) effects
+that I've seen are the best I've ever seen done for television, and better
+than many of the effects done for major feature films."  This after viewing
+the most recent reel.
+
+     Meanwhile, our director flies to New York next week, during which time
+he'll start scouting around for possible cast.  As cast members are nailed
+down during the next month, I'll pass them along here as soon as we can
+confirm with Warners that it's okay to release the names (meaning that the
+contracts have been finalized).
+
+     What I'm going to say now is going to sound a little strange, but there
+are reasons for it.  Though we already have some ideas, when we end up casting
+the actor for the part of Delenn, that is the only role and the only actor
+that I will try very hard NOT to announce prior to airdate.  So that's one
+topic that I'm afraid I'm going to have to keep mum about for as long as
+conceivably possible.  (No, it's not likely to be a Big Name, anyone you're
+familiar with, so that's not the reason.)
+
+     When the time comes, you'll understand why.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 633       Thu May 28, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:14 EDT
+
+     Actually, funny thing about the WD article...the focus of the piece, and
+the issue, is "Breaking In."  I was told the deadline was the end of July.
+But the more I thought about it, the more I began to see what I really wanted
+to say.  I jotted down a couple of notes.   Then an opening paragraph.  Next
+thing I knew, I was well into it, and burned through the 3,000 words almost
+all in one sitting.
+
+     Whether or not it's what anyone really wants to hear, I'll find out, I
+guess.
+
+     (And I *did* catch the reference, Sue.  So, YOU'RE the one who reads my
+column....)
+
+    BTW, there's something familiar about your name, but I can't place it for
+some reason...though maybe I'm just hallucinating again.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 638       Thu May 28, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:40 EDT
+
+     There's a text file in the library here that should function as a press
+release, I think...that is, I *think* I uploaded it...take a look, and if
+there's not a release file, let me know and I'll upload it.
+
+     The Gifs may be further uploaded, with the copyright information
+contained in the library here attached.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 658       Fri May 29, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:26 EDT
+
+     On the shirt, Elissa...I'm about to log off, so if you can leave me a
+note in mail, I'll send you the info.
+
+     On the topic of the LA visit in June...I'd have to say that's really up
+in the air.  I don't know yet what my schedule is going to look like.   My
+suggestion: once you get into town, call me at Universal Studios.  If nothing
+else works, we can say hi over the phone.  If things aren't as crazy as they
+tend to be, maybe we can do it in person.
+
+     I *suspect* that the B5 picture in AmigaWorld is the earlier version of
+the station, though I haven't seen it.  If it's grey/white, then that's what
+it is.  Still cool, but not as cool as the current version.  But I'm glad to
+know it's there, and the word is getting out.
+
+     Will see what I can do about putting up some information on Ben Kyle
+sometime soon.
+
+     Up to my butt in meetings today re: B5.  All good stuff.  Met with our
+director again, who's going out of town for a bit, to discuss the latest
+revisions on the script that I've made.  Also met with the studio exec who's
+our liaison, and -- well, this probably isn't going to make much  sense to
+anybody, but see, all this time, I've been using my own script binder for the
+B5 screenplay, the color logo, that sort of thing.  Well, when the studio exec
+showed up, he'd brought along a copy of the script as generated by Warner
+Bros.' script department, with the WB logo, and all of the things that come
+with a studio's name...and it was just cool, it made it seem strangely real
+all of a sudden.
+
+     And speaking of becoming real, we're gearing up more and more, with
+additional hirings and stuff.  By June 10th, we're actually going to have our
+SET MODELS!  Our production designer has been busily constructing them and
+sculpting them and doing floor plans and blueprints, and within two weeks,
+we'll actually be able to see three-dimensional renderings of what the station
+is going to look like.  We then have about a week to futz with the designs,
+then it has to be nailed down so we can begin actual set construction.
+
+     *Everybody's* jazzed.  Everyone loves the script, we've got a great crew
+assembled -- top-flight from top to bottom, some of the best and the brightest
+-- the EFX are stunning, all that remains now is the cast...the sense you get
+from everybody is that this one is *different*, it's got something special
+about it.  And the work everyone's putting into it really demonstrates that.
+Everyone's going above and beyond the call of duty, beginning even before
+they're being paid, just to be able to spend that much more time working it
+out and getting it just *right*.  In a town where it seems everyone's out for
+the bucks, to see people saying, "Look, it's gonna take a week to set the
+deal, how about if I just start now, screw the payments right now," is just
+astonishing.
+
+     This is *such* a kick.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 663       Sat May 30, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:30 EDT
+
+     Hmmm....maybe it IS the current version...I must investigate.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 680       Sun May 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:28 EDT
+
+     That's one of the good things about Ron...he knows the Toaster and
+related technologies inside out.  In addition, he has an associate -- I
+believe provided by NewTek -- who is providing new codes, and new systems, and
+new hardware customized per Ron's requests.  Stuff that no one had ever
+thought to put into a computer because there'd never been a call for it
+before.  As a result, Ron has capabilities and software that very literally
+did not exist two months ago or, in one particular case, two WEEKS ago.
+
+     The other result will be in everyone's benefit, in that this stuff is
+fast becoming VERY advanced, much more powerful than anyone had previously
+conceived.  Which fundamentally benefits the consumers.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS for June
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+
+ ************
+Topic 22        Wed Nov 20, 1991
+SOARON [Bio-Dread]           at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5                          
+
+TWCNBN has been been named!  J. Michael Straczynski has managed to bring a new
+quality to television and promises to do justice to TV and SF with a new
+action-adventure SF series of his own design.  (NO story suggestions, please.)
+826 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 92        Mon Jun 01, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:01 EDT
+
+     ComiCon is August 13-16.  We begin filming on August 10th, so it's hard
+to know exactly what sort of footage (if any) we'll have to show at that time;
+that's awfully fast.  But there will certainly be the current EFX reel, plus
+whatever new stuff Ron has come up with by then, and we may have some slides
+as well...we'll see.  (You mean I'M not enough?)
+
+     The core group of stations carrying B5 are themselves paying part of the
+production costs, so that's an interesting development in terms of delivery
+and who'll carry what.  (This to a question about 11 messages ago.)
+
+     BTW, we'll have a film crew on premises during our *own* filming, for a
+Making Of documentary.  Gee, suddenly I'm a star....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 95        Mon Jun 01, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:26 EDT
+
+     At this point, it looks like I'll be arriving on Thursday, and returning
+on Sunday.  I *imagine* that the B5 presentation will be on Saturday, at least
+that's what I'm going to push for.  Once I know for sure, I'll post the info
+here.  I just learned this evening that the B5 presentation at WesterColt is
+going to be on a Saturday, though I don't yet have a firm time.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 102       Mon Jun 01, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:54 EDT
+
+     I've already talked to Ron about doing an RTC sometime closer to airdate,
+and he's agreed.  Frankly, I'd rather he continued pounding away at the EFX
+than here, for the time being.  (I can afford to take the time, the script's
+already written...all I have to do now is, oh, produce the damned
+thing...besides, I'm just plain nuts.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 114       Wed Jun 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:03 EDT
+
+     Ah, THAT explains why the picture wasn't in the issue I picked up (June).
+Will look for the new one next week.
+
+     In addition to our main casting director, we've now nailed down our
+supplementary casting directors in New York and elsewhere.  Scouting starts
+next week.  Don't expect any announcements on cast soon; for one thing, it
+should go through Warners first, and for another, we're going to be VERY
+picky.  We don't have to rush, and we're not going to.  Sets you can change,
+lighting you can modify, but your cast is your cast.
+
+     BTW, one of your number will be seeing the B5 script *and* the B5 demo
+tomorrow afternoon.  If he sees this and would like to comment at all
+(necessarily vaguely on the script, please), he's welcome to do so.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 118       Wed Jun 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:47 EDT
+
+     BTW, for those who might be interested in finding out what your loyal
+correspondent has gotten himself into THIS time, if you're on the East Coast,
+check today's (Wednesday's) BOSTON GLOBE, or yesterday's NEW YORK TIMES page
+12 (art theft info, which ties into the Globe), or the trades or USA Today
+over the next day or two.
+
+                                                     jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 131       Thu Jun 04, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:29 EDT
+
+     I'm hesitant to put the name of our casting director up here, only
+because I'm afraid she'll be flooded.  If people want to inquire in mail, I'll
+pass it along, however.  When there get to be too many requests, I may at that
+point stop.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 136       Fri Jun 05, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:04 EDT
+
+     There are indeed times that TREK has been, to varying degrees,
+Paramount's only real profit-maker.  It is, in essence, a license to print
+money.  Put the ST symbol on something, and it sells.
+
+     Which is, fundamentally, the reason behind DS9 in the first place.   One
+thing I've kind of avoided was talking much lately about DS9, even though I've
+been hearing a *lot* from people inside Paramount lately.   But the one
+overwhelming fact is this: TREK is what's called in this business a
+"franchise," like McDonald's or Burger King.  (In more general terms, a
+franchise is a cop show, or a doctor show...you get the idea.   Every studio
+or network looks for a certain number of "franchise shows" before then setting
+out to look for New Stuff.)
+
+     Anyway...and I know some people are going to yell at me, but this really
+is the truth...DS9 is basically a fiscal repackaging of TNG.  For the
+following reasons:
+
+     1) Stations don't like to get one show that runs too long, over the six-
+seven year mark.  It becomes unweildy for them, and the cost of buying a big
+show package is just a lot larger.
+
+     2) A series only begins to make money for the studio when it goes into
+full-syndication (meaning they stop making new episodes and just rake in the
+cash).  This is particularly true when a show has been on the air for a long
+time.  See, each year, programmed increases in salaries and other areas go up
+and up and up.  By year six, you're paying a HELL of a lot more than you paid
+for year one.
+
+     So how are they saving money by doing a NEW series?
+
+     3) Pay scales for production staff and cast are always lower for a new
+series.  It's sort of the studio Going Rate.  Apparently a number of TNG
+production people have been told that if they want to stick around after TNG
+is finished, and go onto DS9, they're going to have to take cuts in salary.
+Actors fees will be lower overall.  So you're starting at a lower baseline,
+and the really expensive show (TNG) is now over, and in full syndication,
+earning back some money.
+
+     When you take all of that into consideration, and factor in the fact that
+the series takes place in the same universe, with the same basic scenario,
+same races, same Federation, even some of the same characters, what you come
+down to is essentially this: that DS9 is a repackaging of the same thing,
+under a different name, for basically economic reasons.   There is no sudden
+new vision behind it, it's just a less costly extension of the old show.
+
+     Which is not to say it ain't gonna be a good show.  It might be a  very
+good show.  If it is, that's terrific, the more good SF around, the better.
+It's important for anyone reading this to make that distinction: this issue is
+completely apart from quality, it's strictly economics.   This is the reason
+there IS a DS9.  Where they go from that point _ good, bad, or indifferent _
+is another discussion entirely.
+
+     There's nothing wrong with re-selling the same show to somebody under a
+different name if you liked the original show in the first place.
+
+     Which is really all I can say, or have to say, about DS9 at this
+juncture.  I already heard that they're going to push for January.  I also
+know that it's going to be just about impossible for them to do that (plus the
+marketing folks at Paramount would much prefer the show debut in February,
+during Sweeps).  This is in some degree an effort to beat B5 onto the
+airwaves.
+
+     And from what I hear, that's going to be next to impossible.  They only
+got a good, workable draft in about a week or so ago (and, to be fair, I hear
+from my sources there that it's "pretty good," and that's fine), and it just
+takes *time* from that script to sets to casting to the shoot itself.  One
+concession to time, apparently, is that there's going to be a LOT of time
+spent on the Enterprise, since those sets are already finished and available,
+so it'll be more like an expanded TNG episode than a real pilot.  It's what
+they already do there: the Enterprise encounters a new situation, a new
+location, deals with it, and moves on.  The difference is, we will now have
+characters who remain on that place and follow them.
+
+     The only way they can beat B5 to the air is if they really go toward
+making it an extended TNG episode, and make the EFX as minimal as possible.
+ Which is, after all, their purview.  It's their show, and their right.   If
+they want to do it with hand-puppets, that's their prerogative.
+
+     I was going to go on originally and talk a little about a small shoot
+tomorrow (a film for the marketing guys on B5, which with luck I'll be able to
+bring to cons), and some casting stuff, but this has already gone on longer
+than I'd anticipated.  Next time.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 140       Fri Jun 05, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:54 EDT
+
+     Ah, but you've always been such a seductress....
+
+     Some nifty stuff going on, boys and girls, some of which I can't talk
+about yet, but hope to soon.  See, at this stage of the game, the magic box
+opens, and suddenly all SORTS of people are let into the process...agents,
+casting associates on both coasts and in the midwest, licensing guys,
+marketing guys, advertisers...and usually the response to a new show is,
+"Okay, yeah, sure, come back to us after you've been on for a while."  I can't
+betray anything just yet, but let's just say that that has NOT been the case
+here...the phone is practically ringing off the hook.
+
+     People are Getting It.  Some of them are even coming to us, having heard
+about the show on the grapevine.
+
+     There's a point when a show begins to hit critical mass, when you've
+spent four years trying to get people excited, and suddenly there are excited
+people coming out of the woodwork at you, and now everyone begins to get some
+sense of what we've got here.
+
+     (God, I'm *dying* to tell you what one of those calls was...this is so
+spiffy, so neat, so BIG...wait, Joe, be patient, wait until the ink dries,
+keep your mouth SHUT for once, fer chrissakes....)
+
+     Tomorrow I go On Camera.  Warners _ which is really supporting us in a
+big way _ is sending over some of their people to do an on-camera interview
+with me, Ron Thornton, possibly a couple of others, and include some of the
+EFX we've developed.  The film is to be shown at a large gathering of execs,
+advertisers, marketing guys, the whole bit.  I'll probably nab a copy to slip
+into the reel I've been making that shows the progress of B5, from early
+artwork to the first EFX reel, the new stuff, now this...eventually I'll add
+on new EFX, then maybe some actor stuff, and as we get into shooting, some
+snippets here and there, so that the reel is always absolutely current for
+conventions.
+
+     What you get the sense of, finally, when something like this really gets
+going, is of an army of people, and you have to play Patton, getting everyone
+where they're supposed to be, when they're supposed to be there.   (Or maybe
+army ants would be a better comparison.)  There's silence for a very long time
+at the beginning, then gradually it gets louder,and louder, and after a
+while...yikes!
+
+     For years, nobody knows you...you start to look for your face on milk
+cartons...then suddenly everybody wants to talk to you.
+
+     Y'know what?  It's fun.
+
+     By the middle of next week, I should start getting video of actors
+auditioning in NY, and the 3-dimensional renderings of the set.  Today I had
+to pick out the "audition sides," meaning those pages (sides of pages) of the
+script that an actor goes through in a session with the casting director to
+see if s/he's right...so you have to pick what amount to mini-scenes, and they
+have to be separate enough so that the actor can get a grip on it, but
+important enough to the plot to see how they handle exposition, and emotional
+enough to see how they project feelings of anger or joy or fear...all in 2-3
+pages a shot.
+
+     It's tough being a writer, but I gotta tell you, it's a walk in the park
+compared to being an actor.  It's rough work, and I have an endless respect
+for those who do it well.
+
+     Gotta crash now...have to look good on camera tomorrow.  If that doesn't
+qualify for a miracle, I don't know what does....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 150       Sat Jun 06, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:00 EDT
+
+     The novelization process has begun.  I wish I could've adapted it myself,
+but time constraints prohibit that.  The writer who's agreed to take on the
+project is one of the best, though, and a well-known SF writer to boot.  More
+on this as it develops.
+
+     We've finally locked down our line producer/unit production manager, who
+rides herd on the physical production side...comes to us straight from JEDI
+and INDIANA JONES and other high-profile films.
+
+     Meanwhile....WOW!  Had the largest production meeting yet: me, my
+associate and the other exec producer Doug Netter; producer John Copeland;
+production designer John Iacovelli; Ron Thornton; our new line producer, and
+others.  And the newly finished sketches and blueprints for the sets were
+rolled out.
+
+     I had no idea....
+
+     See, Iacovelli's been promising me a new, different, radical look for the
+show.  I've had a kind of general idea in my head from what he said, but it
+came nowhere NEAR the reality of what he unrolled onto the table in front of
+my boggled eyes.  Take BLADE RUNNER, mix in a little ALIEN, add a touch of
+Japanese design, some deconstructionist architecture, and an eye for colors,
+and you've got something absolutely nifty.  He's also made the most ingenious
+use of soundstage space that I've ever seen; he has really pioneered some new
+ways of doing things involving forced perspective, elevated sets, new uses for
+trance lights, gymbaled sets, you name it.
+
+     Anyway, it's *really* cool.  The amount of thought he's put into this,
+into making this absolutely new and different, is staggering.  See, if you're
+doing a new TREK, for instance, a lot of the homework is done for you.  The
+doors open like THIS, in the middle...a turbo lift looks like THIS when it's
+in operation.
+
+     But because this is a different show, in a different universe, we have to
+go back to ground zero and think of ways we'd do this stuff based on new tech,
+and different ideas.  John came up with a new way of doing doors, and ports,
+and transport tubes.  Endless ingenuity.
+
+     After the meeting, Ron Thornton and I were talking, and he said, "Okay,
+what's the deal on Babylon 4?  I mean, are we ever going to see what happened
+to it, or see it again?"
+
+     I smiled.  "Do you REALLY want to know?"
+
+     He considered it for a moment.  I think he gets nervous when I smile like
+that.  "Okay...sure."
+
+     So I told him.  And his eyes went wide as pancakes.  It was a wonderful,
+Tex Avery effect.  "Get out of here," he said, at first sure I was kidding.  I
+explained that I was quite serious.
+
+     Last I saw him, he was wandering off, muttering to himself, but growing
+increasingly enchanted with the idea....
+
+     The shoot today (the behind-the-scenes preview shot at the office for
+publicity purposes) went well.  I *hate* being filmed, but I think I got my
+main points across.
+
+     One other interesting thing Ron mentioned: apparently the GIFs from here
+have been uploaded onto the Star Trek Echo Network (or whatever it's called)
+BBS system, where apparently it's causing quite a stir.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 158       Sat Jun 06, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:39 EDT
+
+     I'll announce as soon as I can.  If you haven't yet recieved your shirt,
+after ordering one, re-contact the same address and check with Susan.  Gently.
+We don't want to startle her.
+
+     Still lining up cons on the East Coast.  I've kinda unofficially agreed
+to be at WishCon in NY, so that's a start.  Will expand from there.  The hard
+part is stealing time away from work here on two shows at the same time.
+Thank Mojo for notebook computers....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 166       Sun Jun 07, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:07 EDT
+
+     Yes, Warners is distributing B5 through the newly-formed Warner Bros.
+Consortium of Stations.  WWOR New York has just been purchased and added to
+the Chris-Craft line of stations that's at the core of the consortium, so
+doubtless they'll be carrying B5 as well.
+
+     I'm already on tap for a con over Labor Day, so that let's out Tri Con,
+and as for Shorleave...for reasons that are probably obvious, I'm trying to
+avoid cons which have a prime connection to ST at this time.  First, I don't
+think all parties concerned would be comfortable with it.  Second, we're
+trying to establish our own image, and don't want to piggyback on anyone else.
+So my general rule of thumb is that if the con has the words ST in its title,
+or that title derives from ST, then we steer clear.  There are plenty of
+others, though, that will fit the bill nicely.
+
+     International distribution is being taken care of by, natch, Warner
+Bros. International Distribution, and though I haven't yet received the
+specifics, I have heard that it's been doing EXTREMELY well in that regard.
+When I have more details, I'll pass them along.
+
+     Over the last week, we've really been getting into the details of
+creating our universe, and sometimes it's overwhelming the extent of it all.
+How do we tell where we are on the station?  Okay, so we color code the
+sections, so that rather than saying "I'm in sector seven, level five," you
+say, "I'm in blue-five," and the background _ occasional color-coded panels _
+can visually confirm this.
+
+     What about language?  Signs?  Ron's having a guy come up with a whole
+raft of alien fonts to use.  If you have directional signs in the halls, what
+do you do with them?  (Remember, this is a freeport, so you're going to have a
+lot of folks coming through, not all of whom can communicate well with one
+another.)  So do you have one sign in one language showing where you are,
+where you've been, which way to the bar...or several?  If several, which do
+you choose?  (We've worked this out kind of ingeniously, so I'll let it go at
+that for now.)
+
+     There's just an awful lot to consider...decisions of the smallest sort.
+What do the cups look like?  The tables?  The ports?  How do you handle
+lighting?  How do you avoid the standard configuration rooms we've seen a
+hundred times before in SF-TV?  How does the construction of the station
+affect architecture, design, function?  What sorts of things would someone be
+allowed to bring with them from Earth or wherever?  Are the quarters made from
+natural or synthetic materials?  Are all the quarters the same, or
+different...if different, how, and along what lines, given that there should
+be some consistency in rationale.
+
+     This is one of the things that really sets tv aside from fiction.  In
+fiction, you can describe a control room or observation deck in a few words,
+and move on, letting the reader's mind fill in the gaps.  Same with radio.
+But in TV, you have to BUILD it.  You can't just say, "He sits at his desk."
+What does the desk look like?  What does the chair look like?   Does he use a
+pen and paper?  Computer?  How do you do the communications console
+differently than before?  What sort of decoration does he have on the desk?
+Pictures?  Holograms?  Souveniers?  Awards?  Models of ships?  Then after you
+decide, you have to MAKE them all, and make sure they look real.
+
+     It can get daunting after a while.  That's why you've GOT to surround
+yourself with people you can trust, so that when they bring ideas and designs
+to you, you don't just go nuts and throw it out, but you know that what they
+bring will be good, and may just need a suggestion or two to bring it more in
+line with what you want.  Then they go away and do it.
+
+     As an exercise, just look around any room in your house, and ask
+yourself, "What do I have here that I would not have 200 years from now?
+What's not here that I *would* have 200 years from now?  How would it look?"
+There's not a square foot of space that's not somehow affected by that
+scenario.
+
+     I think I'll go lie down for a while....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 168       Mon Jun 08, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:49 EDT
+
+     Thanks, Joe.  Glad you're enjoying it.
+
+     Joe...hmm...that reminds me....
+
+     I've never been real big on formality.  And I know that typing
+Straczynski can be a fearsome thing indeed.  Fingers were never meant to move
+in that particular configuration, I think, and more than one person has had to
+dial 911 with his nose when his fingers tangled on the keyboard.
+
+     Point being..."Joe" is just fine.  If there's another Joe in a thread (as
+above), "Mr. S." is is also fine if you need to make the distinction.  (One or
+two have called me Big S.  Some comment that I'm the biggest S in town...and I
+wish they wouldn't smile quite so broadly when they say it, or hold it quite
+so long.)
+
+     In any event, we're all in this together, so I think we can let formality
+slide.
+
+                                                         jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 171       Mon Jun 08, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:46 EDT
+
+     Actually, that's something we've discussed...what if someone only sees in
+the ultraviolet spectrum?  Or infrared?  For those individuals, the color
+coding is different...though you won't be able to see it on your television
+screens, because YOU can't see in the ultraviolet range, but it'll be there.
+
+     Would this face lie?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 190       Tue Jun 09, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:41 EDT
+
+     Okay, okay, I can take a hint....
+
+     Dr. Benjamin Kyle is Babylon 5's resident xenobiologist.  He's in his
+late forties or early fifties, black, very thoughtful, very dignified...with a
+sly sense of humor (not sarcasm) that tends to catch one off guard.  He began
+as a physician on Earth, and was a leading researcher into xenobiology there,
+gaining a quick grasp of the ins and outs of the few alien cultures that we
+(then) were in contact with.
+
+     Naturally inquisitive, early on as a much younger man he began to "hitch-
+hike" onto deep-space ships, always hungery for new information that could be
+used by humans and outworlders alike.  (His deal was that he would act as
+ship's physician without charge, in exchange for a bit of freedom whenever
+they made planetfall somewhere.)
+
+     He has seen, catalogued and operated on more alien lifeforms than just
+about any other Earther in this time.  And had his share of close scrapes, as
+well.  Some races consider is sacrilege for any other race to "enter" their
+bodies through surgery...Ben will take the risk if it means saving a life.
+
+     He's detailed, methodical, single-minded...and if one route is closed,
+he'll go another, even if it means getting into a fair amount of trouble.
+(Which happens in the pilot.)
+
+     One scene omitted from the script for purposes of time is kind of
+illustrative of Ben's humor.  During a crisis _ there's someone in the
+medical area (I'm being deliberately vague) who's in trouble, and Ben's on
+stims, staying awake to see the patient through _ he at one point has to talk
+to Sinclair.
+
+     Sinclair is asleep, Carolyn beside him, when the call comes in via the
+bedside monitor.  Noting Carolyn's state of undress, Sinclair tells the
+monitor to receive the call, "audio only."  Ben starts in on his report...then
+stops.  He can't see Sinclair.  Sinclair, noting Carolyn who stirs beside him,
+says, of the monitor, "Slight malfunction."   
+
+     "Ah," Ben's voice comes..."Hello, Carolyn."  He knows she's there, and
+tells Sinclair c'mon, let me see you while I'm talking to you...I'm a doctor,
+I'm not going to see anything I haven't seen before.
+
+     With a shrug from Carolyn, Sinclair switches on the video.
+
+     Ben's face appears on the monitor.  He looks over to Carolyn.  Smiles.
+ "Nice tan."
+
+     Carolyn's response...is best left unstated.
+
+     Ben volunteered to come to Babylon 5 for several reasons: as the best in
+his field, he's most capable of dealing with any emergencies, and this is the
+sort of place where that is most needed.  In addition, he's getting a little
+old to be hitch-hiking on starships...why not settle down somewhere where the
+aliens come to *you* instead of the other way around?
+
+     He's single, his wife having passed away some five years ago, one more
+reason he's come to B5.  There's nothing left at home for him now that she's
+gone.  He has two grown children, one of whom is successful, the other...well,
+less so.
+
+     He's been offered research grants from some of Earth's biggest
+corporations, universities have offered him important posts, the government
+would LOVE to have him come work for them (where, he suspects darkly, they
+would have him work on alien biological warfare)...but he's said no to all of
+them.  His place is as a working physician and xenobiologist, at a place where
+he will have ample time to study the new species they encounter, and do his
+part for peace.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 205       Thu Jun 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:40 EDT
+
+     What else they would call it...hmm..........home?
+
+     I have some names for y'all, for those keeping track.  We've finished
+assembling our crack first team on the production side, and I can pass along
+most of the names now.  We're astonished at the sheer level of quality we've
+gotten on this stuff.  And tickled to have them.
+
+     Director: Richard Compton.  One of the prime directors for The Equalizer
+and Hill Street Blues and Miami Vice.
+
+     Director of Cinematography: Billy Dickson.  Billy has an amazing eye for
+color and shadow and composition that many of you may have seen on the
+Desperado programs.  First-class.
+
+     EFX Director: Ron Thornton.  Main EFX fellow behind The Addams Family,
+Highlander II, Plymouth, Dr. Who The Movie and others.
+
+     Production Designer: John Iacovelli.  Award winning production designer
+direct from Honey, I Shrunk The Kids and other projects.
+
+     Production Manager/Line Producer: Bob Brown.  Previously producer or
+production manager on War of the Roses, Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom,
+Return of the Jedi, Iceman and the three Childs Play movies.
+
+     Casting Director: Mary Jo Slater.  Mary Jo has cast untold numbers of
+movies and TV programs, from the revived Dark Shadows to the recent Intruders
+mini-series to Star Trek VI.
+
+     Plus others we've nabbed from James Cameron's company, Steven Spielberg's
+company, George Lucas' company, Jim Henson's company, and others.  Names as I
+can release them.
+
+     This is a team that most any movie or TV series would *kill* for, and
+we're very happy to have them all aboard.
+
+     Today I saw the new suite of offices we've acquired.  People begin moving
+in this week.  The numbers of people involved are expanding with astonishing
+speed.  I strolled about in my new office, and that's when things begin to
+become very real.  Have to acquire new furniture to fill it.  That'll make
+three offices: my home office, my office at Universal, and my office at the
+Babylon 5 location, plus a smaller office at the set which I'll be sharing
+with my other executive producer, Doug Netter.
+
+     It is now exactly 2 months to the day when we will begin rolling film.
+From this point on, the clock is ticking, and there's a LOT to be done.  But
+we're in very good shape, and I'm looking forward to it immensely.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 211       Thu Jun 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:09 EDT
+
+     The boxed episode was wrong; several of my episodes (not the best ones,
+but okay) appear in the other volumes of CP episodes; only about one-third
+made it onto cassette.
+
+     As for how Carolyn got a tan...she's a trader, remember, and she's
+frequently planetside during her travels.  So NYAH!
+
+                             jm(I think of everything)s
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 215       Thu Jun 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:27 EDT
+
+     Doug Netter is Exec Producer on BABYLON 5.  I am Co-Executive Producer.
+I worked with Doug on several projects in the past, including CAPTAIN POWER,
+where he was, again, producer.  He's irascible, and every bit as much of a
+pain in the butt as I am.  He grouses, carries on... one day I expect to
+wander into the offices and find him wearing a patch over one eye, a knife
+between his teeth, talking to a parrot and preparing to board the building
+next door.
+
+     And I trust him implicitly.  Doug is a straight-shooter.  I have three
+rules I live by when I work on a project: I never lie, I never BS, and I
+never, EVER bluff.  Doug's the same way.  When he tells you he will do X, it
+happens.  Period.  He's a pro, and was previously the head of production at
+MGM.
+
+     When we were working together on CP, Doug made me a promise.  He said,
+"Look, Joe, you know me, I'm not a writer, that's not what I'm good at.  So I
+will never give you a creative note.  Production notes, hell yes.  Creative
+scripts notes...no."
+
+     And he kept that promise.
+
+     Which is why, when it came time to show someone what I'd come up with on
+BABYLON 5, instead of going righ off the bat to a big studio or a network...I
+went to Doug.  He liked it, and we formed a partnership to pruce the movie and
+the series.  He's invested a lot of time and effort over the last 4 years,
+when it seemed it would never happen, but he never lost faith in the project.
+
+     We have a great relationship: we insult each other shamelessly.  I've
+even learned to somewhat mimic his voice, so I can return fire with his own
+words, in his own voice.  When our casting director met with us for the first
+time and started going over how much she *loved* the script, he broke in, "No,
+no, no, jeez, what're you saying, you can't say that, we NEVER say that, I'm
+telling you you can't work with the man if you say that kind of thing.  You
+gotta tell him it's *sufficient*, but just barely, and with luck we can save
+it in post.  Jeez, no, don't ever do that again."
+
+     He's a very funny man.
+
+     I'm having him roughed up on Friday.
+
+     THAT'S who Doug Netter is.
+
+     Meanwhile...interesting things are happening.  See, normally, when you do
+a syndicated show, it's tough finding the actors you want, because syndicated
+rates are across the board lower than network.  That's a given on ANY show.
+So all parties were prepared for a long, hard search.
+
+     Scripts started going out Monday.
+
+     Growing since, then and particularly in the last 48 hours as scripts have
+arrived at homes, actors have been coming out of the woodwork at us, from all
+sides.  Not just newcomers, we're talking *name* actors who read the script
+and fell in love with one or more of the characters and want to play them.  My
+jaw fell at some of the names I heard over the phone today...actors who will
+do it for what we have, and want to do it very much.
+
+     Big name or newcomer, though, we're going to see and consider everybody.
+You don't want to cast a Big Name just because he's a Big Name if he's wrong
+for the part...you screw yourself over bigtime if you do that.  Similarly, if
+you don't cast a newcomer for a part even though he's *perfect* for the role,
+you again screw yourself over.
+
+     But it looks like our range of choice is going to be a *lot* bigger than
+I'd expected.  A *lot* bigger....
+
+     Meanwhile...think good thoughts.  I've always had one composer in mind
+for this show.  People thought I was nuts.  But we've got a good, not a great
+but a *good*, chance of nailing him.  If we can, I'll be in heaven.  Won't
+know for a while, though, so don't expect word on this one anytime soon.
+
+     Boys and girls, THIS is the fun part!
+
+     (In the voice of Dr. Smith, "'We can save it in post' indeed.  Hmf!   Oh
+the pain, the pain...come here, you clattering, clanking concatonation of
+useless cogs!")
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 231       Fri Jun 12, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:04 EDT
+
+     When we get to the series, there will doubtless be guest stars, some of
+whom have already been arranged for.  But not in the movie; we want to
+concentrate on our regulars and the ensemble at this point.
+
+     The scene cut for time won't be filmed; you don't film what you know
+you'll have to leave on the cutting room floor.  Later, though, when the
+series gets going...who knows, it might surface.
+
+     I was sure I'd spoken more about Garibaldi.  Okay, remind me in, say, 3
+weeks (top of July) and I'll go into more detail.
+
+     About Frank Welker...I've actually enjoyed working with him over the
+years on TRGBs.  Extraordinarily funny.  By himself, he could get things so
+funny that we'd have to stop down, nobody could stop laughing.
+
+     The absolute *worst* such incident _ and thus the best _ came on the
+last episode of mine.  See, we had to always keep Maurice, Frank and _ ogod,
+the new Peter, I've forgotten the actor's name _ apart, because if they sat
+together, this weird comedy loop would start, and they'd get funnier, and
+funnier, and soon all hell would break out.  (Once, when Lorenzo Music was
+still doing the show, Frank learned to mimic his voice.   So one day, in
+taping, when Lorenzo missed his cue, Frank supplied  his line...in his voice.
+Lorenzo looked around with a "What the hell was THAT?" look on his face.)
+
+     Anyway...on this one day...all three of them were seated together, Frank,
+Maurice and the Other Guy Whose Name I Can't Remember.  And they started
+improvising.  And they went into Celebrity Farts.  What would the farts of
+various celebrities sound like?  (We're talking in the middle of a taping, for
+chrissakes.)  Soon, Frank took the lead...Cher's fart,  Twiggy's fart, Raymond
+Massie's fart, the Pope's fart....
+
+     ...and then...and then...he let fly with...William Conrad's fart.
+
+     And flattened the entire place.
+
+     People were *literally* on the floor.  No one could talk.  Laughter and
+shrieking and carrying on for Twenty Minutes.  Someone would try to get out a
+line...and just dissolve.  And every time we *thought* we had it in control
+again...out would come another William Conrad Special.
+
+     I thought I would die.
+
+     Wonderful thing is, I have that on videotape, I think.
+
+     I think I'll go find it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 237       Fri Jun 12, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:31 EDT
+
+     David Coulier, right-right-right, that's the guy.
+
+     Took a look at the videotape, and remembered one other thing.  It took
+nearly 20 minutes to get things calmed down after Welker let fly.  We had to
+take a break so everyone could get their heads screwed back on again.
+Everyone went back into the recording studio.  Sat.  A moment of silence as
+they get ready....
+
+     And there comes Frank Welker's voice, "Y'know...you ever wonder what
+Charlton Heston's fart would sound like...?"
+
+     The director lunged for the studio mike, "DON'T....YOU...***DARE***"
+
+     He just smiled.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 245       Sat Jun 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:04 EDT
+
+     Paula...being only nominally computer literate, that's a question far
+beyond my understanding.  When Ron Thornton does his RTC with me prior to B5
+airdate, you might want to address that question to him.
+
+     I seem to recall that the Conrad incident was *after* I'd finished
+working on the show, which made it just that much funnier.  I mean, it just
+went on and on and on...windows were blown out...birds fell from the
+sky...women went into labor...animals keeled over and died...passing airplanes
+momentarily lost power...dogs for five miles in any direction suddenly looked
+around and wondered "What the hell was THAT?"....
+
+     I can't believe it...I've degenerated my *own* topic into fart jokes.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 253       Sat Jun 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:09 EDT
+
+     "What about sin?"
+
+     Personally, I'm for it.
+
+     And all of the areas you mention will fall under the eye of B5 from time
+to time.  There's nothing more boring than someone who's overcome all his or
+her vices...so all of our characters will be prey to one problem or another.
+Ambassador Londo Mollari has a BIG gambling problem (and a secondary problem
+with women), Garibaldi has a history with alcohol and other substances that
+almost got him kicked out of his prior jobs...I find the most interesting
+people those who are always fighting to be better, to be more, to avoid
+falling into vice despite terrible temptation.
+
+     And some will not survive that temptation.
+
+     At the central core of our humanity is the fact that we are flawed, and
+it's overcoming those flaws that makes for real drama.  Or, in some cases,
+being overcome BY those flaws.
+
+     You have to understand the key issue that has always been, and will
+always be, at the *heart* of Babylon 5.  In 99.9% of all SF-TV in the last
+twenty years or so, there have always been the Noble Good Guys and the Awful
+Bad Guys.  I don't buy that.  Whether it's 20 years from now or 200, we will
+still be humans.  Some will be better or more noble than others, and some will
+be constantly on the lookout for the next scam, the next vice, the next thrill
+or danger or target.
+
+     In Babylon 5, I want to hew as closely as possible to how REAL people
+would react in this situation.  I haven't labored at this for four years to do
+one more Good Guy In Shoot-Em-Ups With The Bad Guys Show.
+
+     Garibaldi will lapse in his rehabilitation.  Londo will get in very
+serious trouble because of his vices.  Laurel will have a run-in with certain
+chemicals.  Even Sinclair will fall prey to a weakness of his own.
+ The question is...what do each of them now DO about it?  THAT is what makes
+it interesting.
+
+     There's a short story entitled "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg," by
+Mark Twain.  In that story, we meet a town of people who have put up a sign
+outside their town, "Lead Us Not Into Temptation."  And they have scrupulously
+avoided temptation for years.  One day, into this town of self-proclaimed and
+self-satisfied virtue comes temptation, in the form of a bag of gold which
+someone, offering the right phrase, is supposed to collect.  The man who
+really left it (and we find later it's lead), gives the town's most virtuous
+people fake phrases, to see if they will try and collect that which is not
+theirs.
+
+     Every one of them fall for it...and the town is embarrassed and
+ashamed...and many are wonderfully vindicated by this.  And now the sign in
+front of the town reads, "Lead us INTO Temptation."  Because it's only when we
+are truly tested that our virtue means a damn thing.
+
+     "The human heart in conflict with itself," William Faulkner said, is the
+only thing worth writing about.  Mainstream shows explore that question in
+hospitals, in police stations, in lawyers offices, on the frontier.  Now B5
+will explore it on the frontier of space, in a self-contained world of its
+own.  If that wasn't the whole point, I'd have given up on this a long long
+time ago.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 261       Sun Jun 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:33 EDT
+
+     Dan Quayle badmouthing the "elite" ... right ... a sissyfied, pantyassed,
+country-club-and-golf-swinging rich daddy's boy who couldn't knot his tie
+without an instruction manual and three aides calling somebody ELSE "elite."
+Well, at least we all know that "culturalelite" is not one word the way he
+says it, but two words.  What a waste of genetic material.  The man's an
+intellectual cul-de-sac and ought to be dropped down a sewer.
+
+     It doesn't bother me.
+
+     Meanwhile...I think it would be an error to blame the "non-internal-
+conflict" mode on the "suits."  In the case of TNG, that came straight from
+Roddenberry, for instance.  It is *still* firm policy that those aboard the
+Enterprise cannot _ CANNOT _ have internal doubts or fears.
+
+     The execs at Warners never once mentioned anything about that, and have
+been unstintingly supportive of the project.  Understand: I've now put the
+script through 3 drafts, all on my own initiative, and we have not gotten
+*one* note from Warners.  We had a meeting on the last version, and except for
+a thought that it still might be a few pages too long, they had no suggestions
+at all.  They WANT a different vision, something with teeth.  And they've been
+endlessly supportive of that.
+
+     B5 toys?  Well, there's been contact with the licensing people.  I sure
+hope so, I want some myself.
+
+     As for Walter Koenig...I've already asked if he'd be willing to a) write
+a script for us (he's done a LOT of TV writing, something not generally
+known), b) guest-star in an episode, and c) do a cameo early on with, um, some
+other people you'd recognize.  (sly smile)
+
+     BTW...I've been thinking about it, and what do y'all think of the idea of
+a B5 newsletter?  Nothing fancy, VERY bare-bones, but just something in
+writing that chronicles the inside info, profiles those involved, maybe shows
+some of the early designs, that sort of thing?  What would be good about that
+is that it would thus be accessible to people who don't have a modem...if you
+want to turn somebody on to what's going on, you let him know about, or sign
+him on for, the newsletter.
+
+     Would there be enough interest to support that?  I don't know if
+contributions should be requested when subscribing, or just send it out
+freebie (or if there's enough interest for anyone to want to shell out a
+couple bucks for it).  I happen to know somebody who does newsletters (hi, you-
+know-who), and have been considering hiring her to do the job if there's
+enough interest.  At this point, probably just one per month to start, maybe
+getting fancier as we go.
+
+     If it's even a good idea.
+
+     What do y'all think?
+
+     Oh...and there's a new B5 logo in the works.  The more we've looked at
+the current version, the more we've thought maybe something else would work
+for the show.  (We'd still use the old one, but for other purposes.)   I gave
+Ron a write-up of what I thought would look *really* cool, and he is working
+on it now.  Just FYI.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 288       Sun Jun 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:04 EDT
+
+     Yikes, 21 messages since last night...okay, I think I'll go ahead and
+investigate the newsletter issue seriously.  (Spoke to someone last night who
+can do the job, so we'll see.)  As for the "should I/shouldn't I?" stuff...I
+actually wasn't being cute or ingenuous; I sometimes use this forum for
+thinking aloud.  I really hadn't decided one way or another when I posted my
+message.  Was actually looking for an opinion (and boy, did I get them!).
+
+     The one thing I'm going to have to consider further along these lines is
+the fee question.  One thing that I swore at the beginning of this whole
+process, long before I ever posted a single word about B5 (back even before it
+was That Which Could Not Be Named), was that I was very, very, VERY unhappy
+with the way media fans have been shilled and ripped off and exploited over
+the years, and that I would NOT do the same.  Thus I have to be very careful,
+simply for my own peace of mind.
+
+     Once the show gets up and going, running regularly, that's one thing.
+But right now, a newsletter almost benefits *this* end more than any other,
+because the show hasn't aired yet.  (Yes, as you can see, I'm thinking aloud
+again.)
+
+     So the *best* way to handle this might be as follows: it'll be nominally
+free for the time being.  (Because printing costs and the cost of actually
+putting it together will be absorbed by Yr Obdnt Srvnt, not Warners, it won't
+be really fancy, but the guts will be there.)  If somebody wants to contribute
+a buck or two, that's fine, but optional.   Nor should anyone send in ANYthing
+until receiving one issue at least and determining at that time if it's worth
+it.  (As I've said here before: take NO ONE, including me, at face value; be
+critical consumers.)
+
+     Once we're on the air regularly, at some point it'll probably go into
+subscription mode (at the least possible fee, just enough to cover production
+costs).  But not until then.
+
+     I *think* that's fair.
+
+     Anyway, for the moment, do nothing.  I've got to make some phone calls
+and some arrangements.  We already have a decent sized mailing list from those
+who've received shirts, so you're already on-line.  At some point, we'll open
+it up and have anyone else who's interested send their addresses.  But not
+until I have everything set up.
+
+     Like I said...it won't be fancy.  Just informative.
+
+     (As for the schematics, I know that Ron has some cool ideas along the
+lines you mention, but I don't know the details yet.  Will post when I do.)
+
+     Somebody the other day, noting the enthusiasm in the fan community for a
+virtual outsider, described B5 as "the Ross Perot of science fiction
+television."  I don't know if that's good or bad....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 301       Mon Jun 15, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:31 EDT
+
+     Agreed, the simpler the better.  No ads for now.  Just info.
+
+     Phil, send me the B5 text file, and I'll approve it ASAP, just want to
+make sure I didn't say anything a) stupid, or b) no longer correct.
+
+     I'm giving thought to opening up the shirts for general order at cost.
+When I decide on that one way or another, will post that info (and the
+address) here.  Just being careful...there's only 500 of those things, and I'm
+not sure how many I'll be lugging to conventions.
+
+     The "Making Of" documentary will be made during the filming of B5, so
+where it'll be appearing or when is an open question.  I imagine it'll be
+supplied to E! and ET and other news organizations, and to the TV stations
+carrying B5 as promotional material.  Since we don't want to blow our wad too
+early, I can't imagine it'd appear in general distribution anytime before
+December/January, though if I can get my hands on it, it may appear at a
+convention or two....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 332       Tue Jun 16, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:20 EDT
+
+     Excuse me while I fall down....
+
+     It has been a *looooooooooooong* day.
+
+     Met with some execs and showed them our progress...blew them away.   They
+had no *idea* we had come so far, or were capable of so much.  Also during
+this, they (and I) got to see the foam-core models for the first time of the
+B5 sets.  They're really something else.  We're taking a completely different,
+but very logical approach to building the sets than anyone is going to expect.
+Everything about them, the angles, the composition, is unique.  Really cool
+stuff.
+
+     Then went over sound stuff and other production details.  For those
+keeping track, it does seem that we're going "non-whoosh" for our space
+sounds, to keep it closer to reality.  Went over alien langauges, how we're
+handling sound in environmental respects, that sort of thing.  And THEN met
+with the wardrobe designer we've selected, who kept laying out designs and
+photos and magazine pictures and ethnic clothing styles from various
+countries, "Is it like this?  Or more like this?"  And you're confronted with
+shadings and degrees and liens, and what is going to be the style 200 years
+from now?
+
+     It's just a blur of decisions, and you're constantly surrounded by five
+or six people who need the answers to what the world looks like NOW so they
+can begin building it.
+
+     After a while, you can't even see straight anymore, and all you want to
+do is go somewhere *far* away for a long long time.
+
+     Not that it ain't fun, and not that it ain't exciting, but yikes!
+
+     Will be seeing the audition tapes from New York tomorrow.  We have
+already found some nice prospects.  Will advise when I have a better idea.
+Going to collapse now.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 342       Wed Jun 17, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:33 EDT
+
+     By all means, go ahead with the badge et al.  Sounds cool.
+
+     Who are some of the actors we're getting in terms of shows?
+
+     (Again, these are just *auditions,* not confirmed people; in fact, some
+we know we won't use at this point, but it's interesting to see who we're
+getting.)
+
+     Got a call on the last bunch of people to come through, all of them very
+good.  Person read down the list of names, and when I heard one of them I
+stopped dead.  "WHO?!" I asked.  She read the name again, and _ assuming, I
+suppose, that I didn't recognize it _ noted, "You know, from THE
+AVENGERS...?"
+
+     Oh.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 363       Thu Jun 18, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:01 EDT
+
+     No further comments on casting for the time being.  And just FYI, I've
+formally changed Jackarr's name (as I once considered here, again thinking
+aloud).  It's now spelled G'Kar, more in line with the way it's pronounced.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 376       Fri Jun 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:05 EDT
+
+     Still thinking about music.  And sound.
+
+     Tomorrow will be an interesting day.  We're doing a read-through.   What
+that means is, we assemble the *full* production team: line producer,
+production manager, production designer, art director, director, director of
+cinematography, writer/producer (me), efx director, wardrobe person, and a
+bunch of others, along with several actors (just for that job, not on the
+series) who then read through the entire script, page by page, and everyone
+gets a chance to stop it and ask questions and discuss what's needed.  It's a
+long and painstaking process that will probably take at least half the day.
+
+     As well as doing all the production stuff with the rest of the team, I'm
+going to be listening very carefully to the dialogue, since this will be the
+first time I've heard the whole thing spoken aloud.  Invariably, once you see
+how your words fit in somebody's mouth, you trim, rearrange, and otherwise
+futz with things.  The goal to make the whole thing as airtight as possible.
+
+     Sat and talked for a long time with the director today, Richard Compton,
+and he's even more excited about the project than when he began and he was
+pretty excited *then*.  And found out something I didn't know until we spoke.
+
+     Our script was "published" a week ago Wednesday.  (Published here means
+that the script has been broken down and each scene numbered for production
+purposes, and that draft, now called the shooting script, is given to all
+production staff, sent to agents locally, that sort of thing.)  The following
+day, Thursday, Richard arrived in New York to  help with casting.  What he
+discovered was that suddenly he was getting calls from practically every
+actor's agent in town about the show, AND THAT THEY ALL HAD THE SCRIPT AND HAD
+ALL **READ** THE SCRIPT!
+
+     These were agents to whom we had not SENT the script.  Apparently, as
+near as he was able to determine, the script was being bootlegged all over
+town, faxed and messengered and people were demanding copies.  It's sort of
+"the" ticket in town now is to get a copy of the script.  And the agents, and
+their clients, went nuts.  I'd heard that people were coming out of the
+woodwork (and I'd mentioned it in passing here), but I had no idea really how
+it was happening.  Actors were circulaing copies of the script among
+themselves and calling their agents and the casting director trying
+everywhichway to get in on the auditions, convinced from what they saw in the
+script that it was going to be a hit.
+
+     None of this I knew in detail until today.  I was astonished.  The
+director just sat there and smiled.  "You've never heard your script read,
+have you?" he asked.  I allowed as how I hadn't.  That smile again: "You're
+always mentioning how much you know of the story that isn't in the
+script...well, there's things *in* the script that I'd bet even YOU don't know
+are there, because they're things you put in subconsciously...but an actor can
+find them.  And during the auditions, they did.  They just chewed the
+dialogue, savored it.  Loved it.  Found all these wonderful little corners and
+subtext.  Wait," he said, "just wait until you see the audition tapes
+tomorrow.  You'll die."
+
+     This sounds awful, I know, but the truth is, I just sat there and beamed.
+
+
+     Sonuvabitch...y'know, this might actually *work*.
+
+     We've decided, btw, to extend casting another 2 weeks.  We've got some
+GREAT prospects, but Richard feels, and I agree, that since we've got the
+time, don't rush.  Make the best choice possible.  We've got the script, we've
+got the production team, we've got the EFX, we've got the director, we've got
+a terrific design on the sets...the last thing and the most important thing we
+need is the cast.  If we can pull that part off...we've got it nailed.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 378       Fri Jun 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:53 EDT
+
+     Someone who has no flaws to overcome is, in my view, a pretty crappy role
+model.
+
+     You have to stop for a moment and ask yourself, seriously, what a role
+model *is*, or should be.
+
+     Is a "role model" someone of privilege, or station, who is utterly absent
+of self-doubt or flaw?
+
+     Someone, in other words, who is almost alien to us?
+
+     Or is a real role model someone who has gone through the same things we
+have, experienced the same problems and frustrations and dead-ends as we have,
+but who has managed to overcome those problems and lead a life of dignity and
+grace?
+
+     It's like saying which is the better role model for an explorer: someone
+who's ranged all over the plains, fallen down, gotten lost, cut his feet, but
+managed to find his way back safely...or the guy who reads plenty of maps, but
+never leaves his living room?
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 381       Fri Jun 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:55 EDT
+
+     We'll probably end up getting an intern via one of the local
+universities.
+
+     (Wonder if it'd be better to go for a creative writing student than a
+film student...the latter can be such a pain....)
+
+     When did I get over being nervous and anxious at someone reading my
+words?
+
+     Well, I'll tell you the truth: as soon as I hit that point, I'll let you
+know.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 393       Sat Jun 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:28 EDT
+
+     Thanks, all.  I suspect that Warners will splash the "Making Of" thing
+all over the place, and will thus leave that to them.  As for the newsletter,
+I've pretty much made up my mind, but still have to at least run it past
+Warners as a formality.
+
+     Had the run-through today, with actors on hand reading through the whole
+script (sort of a reader's theater rendering).  Every so often, we'd stop and
+discuss how to do this effect or that sequence, but the interruptions were
+few.
+
+     It was really a blast, I gotta tell you.  See, when it's just in your
+head, you *think* you know how it'll work, but even then there's no way of
+knowing it'll work when it hits the stage.  There's always some doubt.  Barely
+slept at all last night, wondering, worrying the script in my head the way a
+dog worries a bone.  Dragged my ass in early this morning, met the actors who
+were going to read through it with us, met everybody else (some of whom I
+hadn't met before...it was a *big* room and a *big* crowd from every branch of
+our production), grabbed a bagel and water (I don't think I could've handled
+coffee this morning), and sat at the long table facing the actors, hoping for
+the best.
+
+     And like I said...it was a blast.  See, a script is *meant* to be
+performed.  It's still an art form unto itself, while it's on the printed
+page, but it's *meant* to be spoken, the way you can appreciate a musical
+score on a page, but it's only really alive when an orchestra gets its hands
+on the notes and brings it out into the world.
+
+     Today I heard the birth cry of Babylon 5.
+
+     The characters spoke, out loud, for the first time.
+
+     In short, it went an *awful* lot better than I had dared to hope.
+
+     The character stuff worked, the humor worked wonderfully (the whole room -
+- people who'd read the script dozens of times by now _ broke up repeatedly,
+and after one long laughing fit, one of the actresses called to me, "You are a
+very sick puppy.  I like that in a man"), and the action was paced much faster
+than I'd thought, just seeing it on the page.  (If anything, I may have to
+extend the scenes just a little during some of the action set-pieces...if it's
+too short, it feels perfunctory.  I wanted it to move fast-fast-fast, but now
+I see that I can take just a beat or two more to give it more weight in
+places.)
+
+     Some members of the crew felt that they'd finally "seen" the story for
+the first time, and everyone left the meeting absolutely jazzed.
+
+     We wrapped at about 2:00.  Five hours straight, and not one person left
+to go to the bathroom or stopped for a break.  Nobody *wanted* to stop.   
+
+
+     Today was a very good day.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 408       Sun Jun 21, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:51 EDT
+
+     ...and, Arne?  What was the reaction?
+
+     As for the new logo...I love it a lot.  Won't be uploading it for a
+goodly time, because like I said, I want to hold some things back.  But it's
+*way* cool.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 431       Tue Jun 23, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:27 EDT
+
+     Located quite some distance away from B5 (a safe distance in case
+something goes wrong) is the jump point, which is a device which creates an
+"exit-point" from hyperspace.  It's tremendously powerful, allowing smaller
+ships to use the system without lugging around the massive amount of
+equipement and power sources to burst back in.
+
+     The area itself is several miles across.  You go into one at point A, and
+emerge at point B.  Big ships _ BIG ships _ can create their own entrances
+and exits (which explains how the gates or jump points got somewhere), and
+they construct the gates as exploration continues, leaving gates the way you'd
+leave bread crumbs.
+
+     At least, that's the theory.
+
+     Meanwhile, spent 6 hours watching tapes of actors auditioning,and sat in
+on some live auditions as well (the tapes were from New York).  We have some
+REALLY good candidates.  The hardest to cast, I figured, would be Delenn, for
+many reasons...but we may have lucked out right out of the _ um_ gate.
+
+     There are times when you see a face, and just go, "Nahhh, that ain't it"
+and fast-forward...but you really do feel for these actors, the work it takes
+to get in the front door.
+
+     Anyway, if we find nothing else, we've got strong prospects for at least
+half our cast, and two weeks more to go on casting, so we're in very good
+shape.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 433       Wed Jun 24, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:18 EDT
+
+     Here's an important lesson:
+
+     When someone comes to videotape you, and they tell you to sit back in
+your chair, SIT BACK IN YOUR CHAIR!  Augh.  I saw the videotape of the behind-
+the-scenes piece Warners did on us.  And it's fine, really, it's got good
+stuff, it looks nice, it's just...everybody else sat back, so they used a lens
+with a slightly fisheye effect to bring them forward, but I have this tendency
+to get passionate when I talk, and I sit forward, and _ well _ I look like I
+gained 50 pounds at *least*.  Combine that with the tendency of television to
+make you look heavier to begin with, and yikes!
+
+     Anyway, that aside (I may never eat a pizza again), it came out well.
+
+     More meetings today, costume and prosthetics and wardrobe and the like.
+Have some interesting new techniques we're going to try; don't know if they'll
+work yet or not, we have to do some tests, but if they do, it'll be cool.
+Also saw a still of the Narn ship for the first time.  Not bad.
+
+     This will be brief; have been on the go since forever today, and am about
+ready to fall flat on my face.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 443       Thu Jun 25, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:24 EDT
+
+     To a prior message...yes, I'll be at Comic Con.  I'm slated to do the
+Westercon/Westercolt presentation on that Saturday at 1:00.
+
+     I sometimes think that EVERYBODY knows somebody who's auditioning for B5.
+Good look to him.  We've found a good prospect, but we're keeping our minds
+open.  (We found a *very* interesting prospect for Londo the other day.)
+
+     This is going to sound awful, and I shouldn't take pleasure in it, but I
+*swear* it's true, there were other people in the room, I wouldn't make
+something like this up...COULDN'T...I was sitting in on auditions the other
+day, hiding behind the camera, didn't want the actors to know that the
+writer/producer was hanging around.  So this one actor comes in to audition,
+saying all these wonderful thigns about the script, and then pulls a sour face
+and says, "Yeah, I was auditioning yesterday for that other show.  DeepSpace
+Whatever.  Man, what a piece of sh!t."
+
+     I practically fell out of my chair.
+
+     Forgive me.  I'm a sick man.
+
+     (And, of course, there's every possibility that he said EXACTLY the same
+thing in reverse.  The one thing I'm learning is never to take  easy
+compliments too seriously.  That way lies madness.)
+
+     Anyway....
+
+     Interesting prosthetics discussion the other day.  We're trying to find
+different or offbeat things to do with the look of characters, and their
+wardrobe...which is *tough*, because so much has been done over time.  We've
+absolutely ruled out the Forehead approach, but then you've got other problems
+to consider.  See, that's the one part of an actor's head that's relatively
+unused (boy, what a straight line).  For instance, you don't want to cover the
+eyes or the mouth, since that's where an actor does 90% of his or her work.
+So you start looking at other options: cheeks, necks, arms, head-shapes,
+coloration, texture, on and on, while trying to avoid the obvious dumbnesses
+(no metallic skin coloration, it either doesn't show up well on camera, or
+looks like something out of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea).
+
+     There's the question of how MANY alien species you're going to see on
+camera, how many of each, what sizes, do you use appliances that take less
+time than straight makeup?  How many costumes are required?  If a race has
+several representatives on board, do they all dress exactly the same (more
+cost effective), or do they all dress with variations of the same (more
+expensive)?  Do you mix mechanicals with costumes?  How do you deal with the
+lighting as it affects makeup and wardrobe?  How much color do you want to go
+for?  How will wardrobe vary depending on location of the set?
+
+     The process of asking those questions entailed locking me in a room with
+our EFX guys, the director, prosthetics and wardrobe people, and they just
+kept hitting me with this stuff for about 2 or 3 hours.  (You get kind of
+punchdrunk after a while..."What did you have in mind when you described the
+(blank)?"  "I had in mind *exactly* what the wardrobe guy is going to give us
+because I knew intuitively, being able to see into the future, that he would
+know *exactly* what I meant, he wouldn't require further explanation, and once
+
+
+     (Sometimes they hit me.)
+
+     Fortunately, they all *do* seem very much in tune with what I saw in my
+head when I wrote the script, so it went fairly smoothly overall.
+
+     May have some interesting licensing news to pass along soon.
+
+     Meanwhile, we now begin the process of further organizing our PR with
+Warners so we can get the most bang for our buck, and coordinate our efforts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 448       Thu Jun 25, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:45 EDT
+
+     Yeah, we're looking at that kind of approach as well.  I think the best
+way to go is a mix of things, different techniques and looks.
+
+     S.Schaper...dead on re: the military/tactical stuff.  And you will get to
+see some of that in the pilot.
+
+     Man, it's a sharp crowd around here....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 456       Fri Jun 26, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:51 EDT
+
+     Boy, another long day, and lots of questions here.  I think I'll tackle
+the questions first, then some news.
+
+     Yes, there will be classes of ships, and we've come up with some
+interesting ideas on how to play some of that.  You will *definitely* see some
+of those variations in the 2-hour pilot.
+
+     And yes, more than one-on-one.  That's all I can say for the moment on
+those two topics.
+
+     I imagine, down the road, we'll be more flexible on the forehead
+issue...it's just that, to start, we want something that's consistently
+different.  One of the most important aspects to all of this is that we
+establish a completely different identity to anything else around.  So we
+make some concessions to that.  But over time, we'll be flexible.
+
+     Re: a B5 roleplaying game...if someone at a roleplaying company wants to
+license one, or for that matter if ANY licenser (toys, games, whatever) wants
+to license B5 stuff, they should go through the Licensing Company of America,
+Warners' in-house licensing company.
+
+     Yes, I was adjacent to the Penguin's Lair set, which was across from my
+office at Universal.  Got to hang around the set and stuff.  My (then)
+secretary stopped appearing at her desk after a while, and could almost
+invariably be found down at the penguin tank, feeding the birds.
+
+     The budget is, natch, classified.  At least for the time being.  But we
+are absolutely staying within the budget allocated.  The difference between
+any other SF show and this one is that we're doing things in a very different
+way, looking at ways of making sets or using our resources such that we get
+more bang for our buck.  There's an *awful* lot of waste in TV.  We're putting
+every dollar up there on the screen, and our people have found some
+wonderfully ingenious ways to make everything bigger, better, and more
+flexible.  In addition, most times a budget gets out of control is when you
+back into your set design, you start making changes, throw out one thing or
+another....
+
+     We've had four years to plan this out.  And that advance planning is
+showing in every aspect of the show, including set design, production, EFX,
+prosthetics, you name it.  We've already locked down the blueprints for all of
+our sets.  That's well in advance of where most shows are at this point.  We
+already know in advance roughly how many episodes in the first season we will
+be using various characters, so that helps us set the acting budget.  Why pay
+an actor for 22 episodes if you're only planning to use him for 11?  Most
+times, nobody KNOWS how many shows an actor is going to appear in, and pay him
+for the run of the show, only to use him for half the episodes.  Happens all
+the time.
+
+     Most shows are not run terribly responsibly.  I believe right down to my
+socks that if someone is going to give me several million dollars to go make
+something, it behooves me to use that money *responsibly*.  And in this case,
+because *so* much is known ahead of time about the requirements of the show,
+it's eminently easy to work to a budget, and yet wind up with something that's
+not simply acceptable, but which will simply blow your socks off.
+
+     On to the news:
+
+     More casting today.  Saw a *dynamite* Sinclair.  And, for the first time,
+a *really* good Lyta.  (Oh, and by the way...since the actors all come in with
+different pronunciations, I figured it might not be generally known...it's
+pronounced "Leeta.")  Also had a meeting with the publicity people at Warners,
+who're starting to gear up for the B5 publicity campaign.  Not much has been
+done until now because we don't hit the air until February, and nobody wants
+to blow the momentum ahead of time.
+
+     Managed to get a copy of the short B5 promo film with interviews, and
+will add that to the convention tape I bring around.
+
+     And now, as for the newsletter: it's now a go, having checked with
+Warners to be sure we didn't overlap.  No working title yet.  (Hmm...how about
+this: the person who comes up with the best title for the BABYLON 5 newsletter
+gets one of the rare, early B5 color portfoios?  If you decide to go for it,
+post the stuff here, but try to put several into one message, rather than a
+bunch of separate ones.)
+
+     The editor/writer of the XXXX, The Official Newsletter of Babylon 5, is
+Katherine Lawrence (known to locals as sf-lawrence).
+
+     I'll have her get the current mailing list of folks who've gotten t-
+shirts from the B5 offices.  We plan on adding as many of the convention
+programmers from around the country as possible.  How she wants to add other
+names from here is up to her...whether she wants them now, via email, or
+later, or what.  (KL: don't have 'em come via the B5 offices, we'd be
+swamped.)
+
+     Target date for Issue #1 is August 1st.
+
+     That said...it's now out of my hair.  I'll let Katherine handle any and
+all inquiries about the newsletter.  I don't wanna know from it for a while;
+I'm up to my ears in production at the moment.
+
+     There's a lot more news breaking, but I'll save some of it for another
+time.
+
+     One kind of fun thing...I was playing with the set models today at the
+office, and found that if you pick them up, and peer through the plastic
+portholes and/or entrances, you can sort of get a camera's eye view of the
+thing...like actually being on set in miniature.  Talk about a thrill...I
+can't *imagine* what it's gonna be like to actually stand on the set of the B5
+observation dome when it's finished.  (These sets, by the way, are *big*, boys
+and girls; I'm talking BIG.)
+
+     Onward!
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 461       Fri Jun 26, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:52 EDT
+
+     Yes, there will be married couples.  And singles.  And unmarried couples.
+And sex.  And on and on.
+
+     Interesting ideas..."The Tower of Babylon 5" ain't bad, but we've got a
+long ways to go until we get a final title.  (I think that "Straczynski's Log"
+is...well...a little *personal*...not to brag, of course....)
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 493       Sat Jun 27, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:42 EDT
+
+     Some good names here; some I rather like.
+
+     The circulation of the newsletter is going to be much broader than just
+to Genie-ites; if that were the extent of it, then we wouldn't  NEED a
+newsletter.  It's to plug in the...er..un-plugged-in.
+
+     Saw some more actors today, some more cool EFX, and for the first time,
+sketches of the prosthetics we'll be using for some of the actors.   WAY neat.
+G'Kar is especially interesting.
+
+     Long day (those who listen to HOUR 25 know why), so this'll be brief.
+Good things coming.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 529       Sun Jun 28, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:39 EDT
+
+     All suggestions are equally considered...even the loony ones.
+
+     Yes, when I'm finished with the B5 movie, I'll continue with M,SW (as I
+am now, in fact), until the season concludes in February...which is about when
+we'll dig in seriously on the B5 series.  What that means is that I'm really
+doing double duty...I steal a few early-morning hours for B5, then go to M,SW,
+put in a full day, leave around 5ish, then go to B5 and don't return home
+again until sometimes 10 or 10:30 p.m.  (And of course there are days when I
+have to be at B5 all day, for casting and other reasons.)  So I'm sometimes on
+the go as much as 18-20 hours a day, depending on what's up.  Fortunately, the
+producers at M,SW are fully aware of the situation, and support it, and as
+long as I continue to handle my workload, have no problem with it.
+
+     There is a tendency to forget where one lives sometimes, though....
+
+                                                           jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 540       Mon Jun 29, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:13 EDT
+
+     Trying to decide what and where to go now that Lady K. has opted out.
+Sigh.  One more decision.....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 548       Tue Jun 30, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:59 EDT
+
+     (pant-pant-pant) Barely a few minutes here to log on and update.
+
+     Meetings galore.  Today we locked down the actual, physical look of our
+main alien characters, and man, they're great.  Just great.  We've got Steve
+Burg, one of the main conceptual designers behind Terminator 2, and John
+Criswell, one of the main guys from the Henson Creature Shop, linked to handle
+prosthetics and related areas.  They've both always wanted to cut loose with
+what they can do, and we're hoping to give them that opportunity.
+
+     So now the look of Londo, G'Kar, Delenn and Kosh is (are?) set.  I think
+you'll approve (sly smile).
+
+     Will lock down some of the cast in the next few days; the rest of the
+cast in the next 7-10 days.  Set design has been approved by the studio.
+We're now in the process of making deals for actors, construction firms, efx
+shops and the like.  We're *really* starting to move now.
+
+     That's the funny thing about a production like this...it takes a long
+time to get moving; it's like slowly pushing a huge boulder inch by inch until
+gradually it begins to pick up momentum...goes faster...and then it's all you
+can do to keep it from speeding out of control, which is something you always
+have to guard against when you've got *so* many people running in different
+directions, doing different things.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 550       Tue Jun 30, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:04 EDT
+
+     I'll answer that question the second week in August.  Trust me, I have a
+reason for delaying the answer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS for July
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+
+ ************
+Topic 22        Wed Nov 20, 1991
+SOARON [Bio-Dread]           at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5                          
+
+TWCNBN has been been named!  J. Michael Straczynski has managed to bring a new
+quality to television and promises to do justice to TV and SF with a new
+action-adventure SF series of his own design.  (NO story suggestions, please.)
+826 message(s) total.
+ ************
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 567       Wed Jul 01, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 13:58 EDT
+
+     "Onward" is nice...and something that had simply not occured to me.
+There was one other earlier that I thought was good, and I'll have to go back
+and check it out.  I hope to have the new disposition of the newsletter
+announced some time after I return from WesterCon, at which I'll be doing a
+full B5 presentation.
+
+     As to the reference above to me as the Creator with a capital C... let's
+keep it lower-case.  If I were the Creator with a capital C, I would have more
+hair, a deeper voice, and a *much* snappier wardrobe.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 573       Thu Jul 02, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:09 EDT
+
+     Well, if we go with that, it'd have to be ONWARD: The Official Newsletter
+of Babylon 5 (or somesuch).  Still considering.
+
+     We think we've locked down (in our own minds, at least) all but two of
+our main characters.  Put their photos all up together on the wall of my
+office in the B5 wing, and they look good together...a nice mix of faces,
+varying age ranges, not a "pretty-boy" or bimbo in the bunch.  They all have
+faces with character, the majority of them come from classical training,
+Juliard or the Royal Shakespearean company...really a good bunch.  With luck,
+we'll have these nailed down by sometime next week, though I won't be able to
+announce anything until Warners is ready to do so...we have to coordinate this
+stuff.
+
+     Had one minor production-heart-attack today, but I think it's nothing we
+can't get over.  Meanwhile, the EFX are looking better and better and better.
+Next week I meet with the sound guys to start mapping out our strategies.
+
+     And for those in the Phoenix area...the B5 presentation is scheduled for
+WesterColt on Saturday at 1 p.m.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Second SF&F RT
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 717       Thu Jul 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:52 EDT
+ 
+     Catherine Adair ended up with another gig, so we now have Ann Bruice, who
+was tied in our decision for a costumer for the pilot, but in that case she
+was busy on another project.  Now she's available, and she is doing *terrific*
+work.  Just amazing stuff...her work on the Grey Council is particularly nice.
+
+                                                                 jms
+_____
+Second SF&F RT
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 189       Thu Jul 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:12 EDT
+
+     Tim: no one's said a word about it to us, and I don't think it'll really
+have an effect on us, one way or another.
+
+                                                                jms
+_____
+Second SF&F RT
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 17        Thu Jul 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:13 EDT
+
+     Probably late summer.  We have an awful lot of time before airdate, so
+there's really no rush to get the cameras running, which is nice.
+
+                                                               jms
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS for August, 1992
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 511       Sat Aug 01, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:22 EDT
+
+     Will try to get a revised list posted here ASAP.  And yes, there is now a
+new name for the Consortium of stations, as noted in a few of the trades; it's
+being called the Primetime Network.
+
+     As for the dialogue...I come from a different place on that stuff.   My
+sense is that whatever one comes up with for future-dialogue that' is
+noticeably different than what we speak now, it's a) invariably not what's
+going to happen, and b) sometimes interferes with the drama.  On one hand are
+the cyberpunk types who think we'll speak in tech-talk, and then there's
+everybody else.
+
+     We're trying to tell a story *now* to be heard by people *now*.   When
+Shakespeare wrote about folks long turned to dust, he didn't change the
+language, he wrote his current language...look at "The Lion in Winter," by
+
+ago...but it works.
+
+     At the other end of the spectrum, you've got SF movies like "Just
+Imagine," made in the 30s about people in the 80s, and the way they talked,
+the artificialities and stilted nature of dialogue and names, is absolutely
+wrong and out-of-date for today.  Had they just written it as they would any
+other movie, it would sound fresher today.
+
+     Ten days and counting....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 516       Sat Aug 01, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:48 EDT
+
+     I'll be at Comic Con for a couple of days; I go for the shopping....
+
+     Don't know yet about the other cons...as for the military, we're trying
+to keep it correct.  As it happens, my Spousal Overunit is a military
+historian (a *major* one, able to recite considerable information about every
+major battle of the Civil War and discuss strategy in the Carthaginian battle,
+you name it).  She's been very detailed in nagging me to stay correct when it
+comes to this stuff.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 532       Sun Aug 02, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:20 EDT
+
+     Just curious...did you see the old white station, or the new blue station
+in motion?
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 544       Sun Aug 02, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:43 EDT
+
+     In space there is no up and down (though I *think* the station was, from
+our perspective, right-side up...haven't looked at it in a while).
+
+     Well, as of tomorrow, Monday, we are exactly one week from filming.   Our
+costume designer pointed out that making a project like this is a lot like
+making Thanksgiving dinner...you set a dozen different things going at
+different times, and hope they all come together at the right moment in the
+right way.  So far, I think we're on track.
+
+     Costumes are almost finished; we'll have all the command uniforms by
+Tuesday or so, and the rest by week's end.  Most of the on-screen displays
+you'll see live on consoles in the observation dome and suchlike are finished
+(and are really amazing in their detail)...there's one shot where they do a
+navigational location on Kosh's ship that's really quite lovely.
+
+     One thing that I haven't mentioned to date is the lighting, because we
+were looking at our options; everything else in the show is state of the art,
+and we wanted to find something equally innovative.  It took a while, but we
+found a company that does very different sorts of lighting, and will give the
+show a unique look and texture in most every shot.
+
+     Construction is finished on most of our primary sets, and now they're
+being painted and dressed.  We've spent a lot of this past week going over
+props...guns and glasses, displays and dice, you name it.  There are a number
+of things that can actually transfer pretty well to the future without
+modification, but a lot more that have to be redesigned or modified.
+
+     Prosthetics are in place.  The full cast assembles either tomorrow or
+Tuesday and we begin rehearsals.  The shots have already been blocked out by
+the director, A.D. and cinematographer.  We were getting a little cramped for
+space on the sets, so we've co-opted another soundstage, and now there's a
+real spacious feel to some of this stuff.
+
+     The miniature of the Garden (with its infamous Death Pizza cap) is about
+finished, and most of the other physical items are done.
+
+     I'm going through the script tonight, and tomorrow, one last time to
+adjust lines, make them stronger, scratch for every possible inch of
+characterization.  Then we'll lock it down Wednesday, so from that moment on,
+there shouldn't be any further changes of substance.  Which is great for the
+cast, since they don't have to constantly be learning new lines.
+
+     Monday is our last major production meeting before filming starts.
+After that, it's simply a matter of holding on and hoping for the best... even
+under the best of conditinos, something can screw up at the lasat _ last _
+moment, and I live in dread of that.  And as a writer, you can never be 100%
+sure that what works on the page will work on the stage until you get there.
+(Just glanced up; contitinos could be conditions four lines up.  Sorry for the
+typos, long day.)
+
+     I try to get very zen about these things.  It's like firing the arrow;
+you do all you can to line it up, but once you let go of the arrow, you have
+to also let go mentally.  You've done all you can, now live with it.  Our
+director has indicated that he's going to spend most of the Sunday before we
+begin filming sleeping...on a project of this size, that means a lot of short
+night and long days, so that's important.   Me, I'll probably spend the whole
+night staring up at the ceiling, eyes like poached eyes, looking like a still
+from the Ren and Stimpy show or a Tex Avery cartoon.
+
+     I'll close with a funny story told to me by one of our crew.  He was
+working on a project in New York with a producer, and in the producer's office
+was this elaborate grid of vertical and horizontal boxes, laid out on a large
+sheet of paper.  He asked the producer what it was, but the producer only
+shrugged, adding that he'd find out in time.
+
+     About two weeks later (he *swears* to me that this is true), he was in
+the other room when the producer yelled for him to get inside.  The producer
+was standing at the window, which overlooked a hotel right across the street,
+and was very close to this office.  Now it became clear...the paperwork grid
+corresponded to the rooms in the hotel across the street.  "Three up, two
+across," the producer said.  The guy checked the grid, found the room, and
+looked across the streeet at the corresponding room.
+
+     In the hotel room, a lone guy had come in, had taken off all of his
+clothes, and taken a seat by the window where he was...er...wanking off.
+Overlooking the street.  The producer gave it just a moment, then checked the
+grid, found the room number, called the hotel's front desk, asked for room
+311.  They could see the guy in the hotel room reach for the phone (with his
+other hand).
+
+     In his deepest voice, the producer said, into the phone, "THIS IS GOD!!!
+CUT IT OUT!"  And hung up.
+
+     This, apparently, was how he liked to spend his afternoons....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 566       Mon Aug 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:51 EDT
+
+     Those of you into films may know the work of John Stiers, who's done most
+of the physical SFX for the James Bond films, for Outland and other films.
+He's an academy award winner who *never* works in television, out of choice.
+Turns out, he heard of what we were doing with B5, and asked to see a copy of
+the script, not believing what he'd heard, that anyone would even TRY
+something like this for television.  Read the script...and he's aboard B5 in
+that capacity.  Turned down a film job that would have paid 3 times as much.
+At the production meeting today, he commented that he hasn't seen a group of
+people, or an operation, or an attitude like this in television EVER...and
+that the last time he ran into something like this in film was on the first
+James Bond movie, where everyone knew they were creating something special.
+
+     It really is astonishing, the calibre of people we're attracting, and
+have attracted.  We've got academy and emmy award winners working right
+alongside what are practially kids, pulling together to create something
+special.
+
+     Funny stuff, btw...over the weekend, a bunch of the guys (Ron, our
+director Richard Compton, the prosthetics team, and some guys from our crew,
+including UPM Bob Brown, who came to us from Lucasfilm) shot some, well, for
+lack of a better term...commercials.  They'll run on monitors in some of the
+corridors and business areas.  If you have a VCR and tape this show, you may
+want to run it back and pay closer attention to some of what's going on in the
+background.  It's *very* funny stuff, and only occasionally sick and twisted.
+
+     (And again, that's indicative of our team...we didn't *have* to have this
+sort of thing...it's a hassle, the prosthetics team out there en masse, doing
+some location stuff out in the desert in 100+ degree heat, all on their own
+time, giving up a weekend without pay, just to *do* it and make something
+neat.  And only occasionally sick and twisted....)
+
+     Nobody else would be crazy enough to DO this on television.  Some of the
+stuff they filmed...oh, man.  Wait until you see it.
+
+     But that, again, is part of the point...letting creative people like
+these do stuff that nobody else will LET them do.  It's very nice.  And it
+doesn't worry me a bit.  No, really.  Well, maybe the alien faith healer just
+a *tad*...and...well, never mind.  Some things are too weird to even TRY and
+describe.
+
+     Tomorrow we start rehearsals in earnest.  I've turned in the last few
+revisions for pink-pages, in some cases just changing one word on a page, if
+that made it the *right* word.  And adding in one new scene.
+
+     And for those who liked the other funny story, here's another, also true:
+a prosthetics guy was running behind on another film, designing one of the
+most crucial puppets of the piece.  Finally, in desperation, the producer went
+down to the prosthetics guy, got right in his face, and bellowed, at the top
+of his lungs, "EITHER THAT PUPPET'S READY BY TEN O'CLOCK TOMORROW MORNING, OR
+I'M GOING TO COME TO YOUR HOUSE, PAINT YOU GREEN, STICK MY HAND UP YOUR ASS
+AND **YOU'RE** THE PUPPET!"
+
+     Needless to say, the puppet was ready.  At 9:59 a.m.
+
+     I love this business....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 574       Tue Aug 04, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:00 EDT
+
+     Make that two of us.
+
+     Ah, well....
+
+     BTW, if anyone would like to, oh, I dunno, get on a mailing list for the
+Babylon 5 Newsletter (name to be announced soon), send a POSTCARD _ not a
+letter, a postcard _ with your name and address to BABYLON 5 NEWSLETTER, c/o
+Moonfire Productions, Box 2325, Oakhurst, CA  93644.
+
+     Right now, we're shooting for mid-September for the first issue, around
+the time we finish filming.
+
+     It is now T-minus 6 and counting....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 577       Tue Aug 04, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:30 EDT
+
+     No, if you were on the T-shirt list, you're already on the B5 newsletter
+list.
+
+     And while I'm thinking about it...Katherine...I've been running off at
+the mouth here about how remarkable the EFX are that we're doing, but clearly
+I have an agenda, and a stake involved, and there's no reason why anyone
+should take my word for it (skepticism is a virtue).  Now, you've seen some of
+the new FX...so as an objective voice, did you want to go into any detail
+(without getting *too* specific) about what you saw, and what you feel is
+different about it, or anything like that?
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 582       Tue Aug 04, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:42 EDT
+
+     And you didn't even mention the nifty screen displays....
+
+     Okay, so it's a given: anything I say here has to be considered from the
+point of view that I have an agenda.  And is thus suspect.  So with that out
+of the way...I saw the pilot for "Space Rangers" the other day, a network star
+cops type series.  ILM did some CGI space effects for the pilot, and I was
+curious to see it.
+
+     Oh, man...what a piece of...well, this is a public forum.  On a writing
+level, it's one of those scripts that mistakes banter for dialogue, and
+annoying, stupid people for characterization.  Just awful.  As for the CGI
+stuf...there were only a handful of shots, they looked prosaic for the most
+part, one or two were very nice, and one or two were dreadful.  (By
+comparison, where they did 5-6 CGI shots for that one-hour show, we're doing
+51 CGI shots for our two-hour show.  And it will cost half of what ILM
+charged.  And look better.)
+
+     Really annoying.
+
+     Anyway....
+
+     Today we assembled all but one of the cast members of B5 for a *full*
+read-through of the script for the first time.  We'd done scenes before, and
+had an early run-through with generic actors doing the lines, but this was the
+first time we went from FADE IN to FADE OUT with pretty much the entire cast.
+When you do a rehearsal like that, invariably you make changes, there are
+awkward moments as the cast settles into the roles.
+
+     My pen hit the paper a total of five times, each just a word here or
+there.  That's it.  And the wonderful part is that there was a chemistry among
+the full cast right from the word Go.  It was as though they had been working
+together for years already.  We cast *just* right.  And they're a nice,
+professional bunch of people, not a prima donna ni the bunch.  (Make that *in*
+the bunch.)
+
+     It went so well that, even though we'd set aside Friday for further
+rehearsal, our director thinks, and I agree, that they won't need it; they hit
+everything _ dialogue, attitude, delivery, pacing _ just right.  (You always
+block out and work through a scene before you shoot it, on the stage, this is
+different.)  You always go into any situatoin with the expectation that no one
+is going to really Get It.  Here, they all got it, and I don't think Richard
+asked for more than three or four re-dos of scenes with different attitudes.
+And on those where he did, they Got It immediately on the second try.
+
+     This is *so* rare.  I can't tell you.
+
+     T-minus 6 and counting.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 597       Wed Aug 05, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:36 EDT
+
+     CGI = Computer Generated Imagery.
+
+     Re: bloopers and commercials...yes, there will be a Christmas reel for
+crew with some of this stuff...don't imagine it'll get out...(Hah!   I've seen
+how this stuff spreads!).
+
+     If your address has changed, yes, send a new one to the address given
+above.  And yes, it's okay to post that address elsewhere.
+
+     I'm going to continue to try to post at least once every couple of days
+during filming.  Can't guarantee it, but that's my target.
+
+     Makeup, wardrobe and camera tests over the next 2 days.  The cast will
+walk the sets for the first time.  After today's meeting, the atmosphere all
+over the place is overwhelmingly positive...from every side...the cast, the
+production team, Warners, people on the outside tracking the show for
+magazines and elsewhere...comes the sense that we've really GOT something
+here.
+
+     What it really shows, I think, more than any one other single element, is
+the fact that just about everyone on this show *loves* the science fiction
+genre...these are people who grew up on Forbidden Planet and Lucas and
+Spielberg and Zone and everything in-between, and that care is going into
+every frame.  And they don't want to leave.  One fellow who's been doing some
+of our computer displays found out his contract was about over.  He didn't
+want to leave the show, even though there were other job prospects
+elsewhere...he was willing to do anything, be a runner, a production
+assistant, a gopher, anything, paid or otherwise, just to stay with it as long
+as he could.  (And we found something for him, for pay; that kind of attitude
+is worth ten times the financial value of the work itself.)
+
+     If this show doesn't kick serious butt...I'm getting out of the business.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 604       Wed Aug 05, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 13:28 EDT
+
+     For reasons I can't go into now (all of them good), I can't answer that
+question just now.  But I will.  Soon.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 608       Wed Aug 05, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:14 EDT
+
+     Hurm...actually...a word about Magicon....
+
+     We finish shooting on September 4th.  There's likely to be a wrap party
+that night.  Which means I'd either have to take the red-eye to be in Florida
+by the next morning...or get a 5 a.m. flight out, either way arriving a wreck
+for the Saturday presentation.
+
+     Meantime, something else has come up.
+
+     I've been contacted (again) by Creation Entertainment, and there have
+been a number of phone calls between us.  I've been very straightforward about
+my concerns, the things that I've heard from fans, all the things that I've
+stated here on this forum.  They have gone out of their way to be
+accommodating, and to make clear that they are aware that there have been
+problems in the past, but that they have been corrected.
+
+     So I'm going to give it a shot _ my suspicions intact _ and see how it
+works out.  If it does, terrific, everybody wins.  If not...then at least it
+was given a fair shot, and I have always tried to be fair.
+
+     Consequently, to those of you in the San Francisco area...I'll be doing a
+B5 presentation at the Creation Con over the weekend of September 5th and 6th.
+(A short hop up to San Francisco is a LOT more palatable than an excursion
+cross-country.)  I'll be able to bring a lot of neat stuff with me to show at
+the convention.
+
+     Now I have to let Magicon know.  And my regrets to those who may have
+been anticipating the presentation there; I'd planned on just gritting my
+teeth and, on the last day of shooting, getting no sleep and just bulling my
+way through it...but I know I'm gonna be absolutely dead by then, and it's
+just too much to put what's left of my body through at that point.
+
+     T-minus 5 and counting.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 624       Thu Aug 06, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:28 EDT
+
+     The main reason is strictly personal.  As I said, the Magic Con is on
+Saturday, that's when my presentation was scheduled, around noon.  Now, we
+finish shooting the day before, on Friday.  As it's scheduled now, we will
+probably finish the actual shoot around 7 or 8 o'clock, longer if we need any
+pickup shots.  Then will come the wrap party, which has to be that night
+because the day after, everyone goes off in different directions until we get
+moving on the series.
+
+     Which gives me only two options: 1) Take the redeye out of LAX and arrive
+in Orlando around 2 a.m. (assuming that I could even get it), or 2) get zero
+sleep, catch a flight out of LAX at the crack of dawn, get to Orlando with
+maybe an hour to spare, rush to the hotel, rush to the presentation, find the
+room....
+
+     Madness.  Especially knowing the shape I'm going to be in when we finish
+shooting.  By contrast, San Francisco is a half-hour or so flight, I can take
+it late in the morning on Saturday, and all will be well.
+
+     It's simply a question of *time* and *distance*.  It's not a matter of,
+"Why choose THIS convention over THAT convention," I'm not choosing EITHER
+convention; I'm choosing a location, and not killing myself in the process.
+If the Magic Con were in San Francisco, or even Phoenix, or Portland, that'd
+be different.  It's just flying cross-country under those conditions that has
+finally pushed me in this direction.  My spousal overunit has been nudging me
+for weeks now on this, "You KNOW you're not going to be in any shape for a
+cross-country flight the same night you finish filming," that kind of thing.
+And, finally, I realized that she was right.  I have a tendency to try and
+push myself beyond what I should, and I simply realized that this was what I
+was doing.
+
+     That is the entirety of my reasoning.  I'm going to be a wreck ANYway, no
+matter where I am...since I'll probably get no sleep at all during the last
+two days of filming...but at least it won't be *as* bad this way.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 625       Thu Aug 06, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:29 EDT
+
+     Just an addendum...the concerns I raised with the Creation people were
+not on my own behalf, but upon those who come to the cons, voicing what I've
+heard here and elsewhere.  It's their determination that they have fixed these
+concerns that prompted me to give them a chance.  (If I weren't doing that con
+that weekend, frankly, I'd probably stay home and try to recover).  Anyway,
+it's not been an easy decision, but it's the only one that makes any kind of
+sense at this time.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 642       Fri Aug 07, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:37 EDT
+
+     K.NOTO: Yes.
+
+     Re: the Fox station mentioned...have them contact the Warner Bros.
+Television Consortium via Warners Domestic Television.
+
+     Currently am planning to be at Westercon.
+
+     (I think that covers the main questions.)
+
+     It has been a long, and very astonishing day, first with meetings, than
+at the soundstage all day for makeup and wardrobe and camera tests.   First,
+just to let y'all know, the E! channel will be doing a half-hour "Making of
+Babylon 5" documentary (which will also air on the commercial stations
+carrying B5 prior to broadcast).  We went over the territory today, decided
+which days they'd be on-set to cover, and showed them some of the new EFX (and
+they were amazed...commenting that it looks like a high-budget feature film).
+
+     Went to the stage after that.  Oh, man...the place is really buzzing now,
+this close to filming.  Carpenters and painters finishing up their work,
+costume and makeup people running around, and for the first time that I've
+seen it there (though it was there yesterday when I was busy at MURDER)...a
+*camera*.  The green screen is up, the massive main corridor is almost
+finished (and I do mean *massive*, almost 120 feet long), the council chambers
+are virtually finished...and to try variations with the look of the lighting,
+they pumped in a little haze to see what happened.   (Looks cool.)
+
+     And today...I saw aliens.  An actor in full Narn wardrobe AND
+prosthetics...the first time I'd seen it.  The narn is absolutely dynamite.
+Major prosthetics work.  And the costume is *gorgeous*, rich and textured.
+Also saw Delenn today, and at first, it wasn't quite right, and we had to try
+some variations in coloration and texture before finally deciding on a look.
+Now I think we're all happy with it.
+
+     Kosh also came in today.  Peered out at us through his iris.  We liked
+it.  He left.  Kosh doesn't say much.  Kosh doesn't have to.
+
+     Also saw the wardrobe and make up test on Lyta  Alexander, and she looks
+terrific.  Ditto for the tests (which were on dailies...our first dailies!) on
+Garibaldi, Sinclair and Carolyn Sykes.   Looks great.
+
+     One other casting piece now to announce...the role of Commander Jeffrey
+Sinclair.  The actor cast in that role is Michael O'Hare, who we discovered
+while casting out of New  York, and who we have flown out to L.A. for this
+role.  He's a classically trained actor, a graduate of Juliard, who just
+knocked us out when he came in to audition.  He has a tremendous presence, and
+a voice vaguely reminiscent of Clint Eastwood at times.  His face has a
+curiously haunted look, but at the same time is (I'm told by the women who go
+"yum" whenever he enters the room) quite appealing.
+
+     Michael has appeared in such films as "By a Thread," "Short Term Bonds,"
+"Into Thin Air," "Pursuit," "The Promise," and others, as well as on
+television in "Blue Revolution," "Case of Deadly Force," "Rage of Angels,"
+"The Adams Chronicles," and in such episodic television shows as "The
+Equalizer," "L.A. Law," "Kate and Allie" and others.
+
+     He is also a VERY accomplished stage actor, having appeared on Broadway
+to tremendous reviews in "A Few Good Men," "Players," "Man and Superman" and
+"Galileo," among many, many others.
+
+     The one thing we did NOT want, which we knew from the start, was one more
+pretty-boy TV actor...we wanted someone with character in his face, with a
+broad dramatic range.  And we got all of it in Michael O'Hare.
+
+     Only one more piece of casting to announce _ Ambassador Delenn _  and
+when that happens in a few days, I think you'll be most...intrigued.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 649       Fri Aug 07, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:47 EDT
+
+     Moving the date of the presentation seemed marginal at best...and
+would've entailed catching a redeye BACK and screwing up Monday.  Bear in
+mind, I'm working two shows simultaneously...both of them full time jobs....
+
+     How many people are now involved with B5?  Jeez...I know it covers about
+5-6 pages of crew, so that's at least 75-100 people minimum, probably
+more...plus the main cast, which is about 15, plus day players, about another
+20, plus anywhere from 35-50 extras for some scenes.  Then you have to add on
+the people you DON'T see...those who aren't directly part of the crew, but are
+hired out to work on costumes and the like.
+
+     This doesn't even include the sound crews, the editing people, the
+composer, others...man, we're talking here several hundred people when all the
+bills come in, though the *core* would be, I'd say, maybe a bit over 100.  It
+amazes me sometimes to think that something I came up with one afternoon could
+now, almost five years later, so directly and significantly affect the lives
+of so *many* people.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 663       Sat Aug 08, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:17 EDT
+
+     I think the E! documentary will air about a month after they do the
+filming...so figure about 6-8 weeks.  Then again on commercial stations
+shortly before the B5 airing.
+
+     You don't have to buy Comic Con tickets in advance, they can easily be
+purchased the day you arrive, for all or part of the con.
+
+     Height: roughly 6'4", maybe a smidge over.
+
+     On music...as I've mentioned here before (really, Stephen, all you'd have
+to do is download the previous 3000 messages, and you'd know all this
+stuff...), the LAST thing I want is one more self-indulgent, bloated, pseudo-
+classical pompous John Williams ripoff.  I enjoy all forms of music (except
+country/western, a man's got to have SOME standards)...soft rock hard rock,
+SOME heavy metal (but not a lot), classical, Japanese, Eastern European,
+(some) New Age, folk rock, Gilbert and Sullivan...I'm very eclectic in my
+tastes.  So I'm really open to just about anything.
+
+     I *do* know that I want something that's really kickass, driving, with a
+strong percussive backbeat.  I loved the Stewart Copeland theme for "The
+Equalizer," and Brad Fiedel's score for T2, and those would certainly be
+appropriate for our show as well in terms of the type of music.  I wouldn't be
+averse to making it slightly rock-oriented, PROVIDED that we could avoid
+dating ourselves in the process.  (Or go for something driving yet
+traditional, like the "Glory" or "Red October" soundtracks.)  I just think
+it's time for science fiction television to admit that there's been some good
+music composed after the 18th century.
+
+     (If we could afford it, I would LOVE to have, playing in the background
+in the casino, something alien...and then segue into a Beatles song or some
+Buddy Holly or some Motown...that stuff will be with us forever, and will go
+with us into space.)
+
+     (Sudden thought...I wonder if Ennya is available to do soundtracks?)
+
+     Busy day today.  We're on the Friday before the Monday morning on which
+we begin rolling film, and there's a LOT yet to be done.  Did the final hair,
+makeup and prosthetics tests on Londo...and I have to say, when I first saw
+the complete effect, I was...startled, to say the least.  And I really wasn't
+sure, even though the actor *loved* it, and everyone else was just going nuts
+for the thing.  But after a while, the longer I looked at it, the more I began
+to like it.  It's extreme, but it fits the character.
+
+     More camera and lighting tests, the construction crews hurrying to get
+everything done in time.  Even though it's busy, more than one person
+mentioned how surprisingly calm everyone is...it's all going as it should be,
+there aren't any major crises, it's just *busy*.
+
+     Saw dailies on the makup/wardrobe/prosthetics tests we ran the other day
+on Delenn, G'Kar, Lyta and Laurel Takashima.  Very nice stuff.  G'Kar is just
+astonishing.  Of all the wardrobe/makeup we're doing, it's the most colorful,
+the most elaborately detailed, and probably the one that will start showing up
+first in convention masquerades.
+
+     By late this evening, I was exhausted, and went up into the B5 central
+corridor, climbed up the steps to the second level, and sat there for a while,
+watching as they moved the lights up and down and sideways, casting filtered
+beams of light through catwalks and grids to form curious shadows on the
+floor...amid the sound of hammers banging and saws shearing through wood, and
+the constant drum of footsteps on the set below...sitting in the Babylon 5
+station, having now seen all of the major aliens and characters in the flesh,
+on screen, in full regalia, thinking that all of this _ and all that it
+represents for those who are now involved with the Babylon 5 project _ began
+with one sentence:
+
+FADE IN:
+
+EXT. BABYLON 5
+
+     People on the set keep coming up to me and asking, "Is this exciting for
+you?"  And I don't know what to say in response.  More than anything else
+(when I'm not being tired and wishing I was asleep somewhere), I'm quite
+simply *stunned*.  It all has a vague air of unreality about it.   I imagine
+that I'll be excited when it's done, when I can actually hold a cassette of
+the show in my hand, and see the reaction it gets in front of an audience.
+
+     What usually happens during the day is that I go into the production
+offices at the studio, sit in my room in the back, and play Godfather: people
+come to me and ask questions.  I give them answers.  And then t hey go
+away...and I turn into this statue.  Just stunned.  Until someone else comes
+in with a question.  Then I go out onto the soundstage.  And sit.   Stunned.
+Then I go home.  Stunned.
+
+     Every so often, though, when I can force myself out of the haze, I find
+myself thinking, "This is really going to be SOMETHING.  I mean, really,
+really, SOMETHING."
+
+     T-minus 3 and counting.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 695       Sun Aug 09, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:19 EDT
+
+     Yikes, 28 messages since last I logged on.  This is going to get
+consistently tougher as more time is taken by production.
+
+     To try and answer some of the preceding messages....
+
+     Yes to the idea of trying an article, go for it.
+
+     On the article about B5 now in the ST newsletter...I'd love to hear more
+specifics about it.
+
+     I imagine we'll have a first, rough cut of "The Gathering" by the end of
+September.  What's interesting is that Ron will have ALL of the computer EFX
+finished within the next 10 days.  So we don't have to wait around for EFX to
+be delivered, slowing the editing process, we'll have them well in advance of
+our completion of principal photography.  (Which is also good for the actors,
+since they can know EXACTLY what it is they're reacting to, rather than having
+to look at a blank screen and react to a guess.)
+
+     How would I describe it in a TV Guide log-line?  At this stage, I don't
+know that I could.  I'm just too close to it right now.
+
+     Will get a station list up soonest; I know some stations have been added
+to the list, so there's some hope.
+
+     The credits sequence is still being storyboarded, will advise when we
+have it finalized.
+
+     Meanwhile....
+
+     It is now just a tick over T-minus one and counting.  We'll hit that as
+soon as the second hand clicks past midnight.  Spent all day today at the
+soundstage, checking, trying not to get in the way, watching and giving
+suggestions when asked.  (Funny sight...a newly painted set outside which
+someone had posted a sign, "Wipe Your Feet Before Entering!   (Especially
+Aliens!)")  They're doing lighting checks, finishing painting some of the
+sets, setting up dolly tracks and doing camera checks for angles and lighting.
+Not really that much for me to do anymore; it has now reached terminal
+velocity, having gathered its own momentum over time, and there's a certain
+point where you just have to stand back or impede the process.  So I spent a
+little time with the wardrobe guys, making the logical progression of rank
+insignia we'll be using.
+
+     (For those who know of "Captain Power," Sven Thorson, who played Tank in
+that show, came by the stage to say hello and inquire about where the babes
+were, and to ask where the hell his part is...he'll play an alien, a fern,
+whatever...as long as the part calls for a Danish accent.)
+
+     On Monday, we (in directorial terminology) "pull the trigger."  I won't
+be at the studio Sunday...at that point I know I'm going to be just a little
+twitchy, and better to take that time to rest, knowing what's ahead of
+us...lots of long days and longer nights.
+
+     What's nice is that, where you normally get a still photographer for only
+a few days out of a shoot, at most half, we're going to have one on set for
+every day of the shoot, to chronicle the whole thing for the archives.
+Warners, as with us, has come to the realization that this is going to be
+something different, and they want to record it.
+
+     The actors are gearing up, reading lines together, getting ready for the
+first scenes to be filmed (two meetings of the Babylon 5 Advisory Council, at
+which someone's fate is decided, and a bunch of stuff in the central corridor
+set).  They're primed and ready to go.
+
+     The kind of lighting we're using, by the way, has never before been used
+to this extent on any other television series.  It's going to look  quite
+dramatic.
+
+     And then there's Ambassador Delenn.  He, as you know, is the Minbari
+ambassador assigned to B5.  His makeup/prosthetics has taken the longest to
+work out, but now we're happy with his look.  And the performer who will play
+Ambassador Delenn is Mira Furlan, whose work is extremely well known in
+Europe.  A native Yuglosavian who has appeared in such highly regarded films
+as "When Father Was Away On Business" (which received the Palme D'Or at
+Cannes, as well as an Oscar nomination), "Three For Happiness" (which took the
+Grand Prix at the Valencia Film Festival), "Dear Video," "Southbound," "The
+Condemned," "The Beauty of Sin," and nearly a dozen others, ALL of them
+starring roles.  There have also been starring roles in major European
+productions and half a dozen major film awards.  BABYLON 5 will be Mira
+Furlan's entry into American television.
+
+     (pausing, waiting as the brain cells work....)
+
+     T-minus one and counting.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 710       Sun Aug 09, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:27 EDT
+
+     Well, I was wondering who'd come close to picking up on this, and Tal
+comes closest.  Yes, if you look at the message in which I introduce the actor
+playing Delenn, there are no pronouns used except as they describe the
+character.
+
+     Ideally, what you want to do when you create an alien character is to go
+for a look that's, well, *alien*, something that's not quite right about it.
+You can do this from the outside in, with really weird makeup, or from the
+inside out.  We have some of the former, and Delenn is one of the latter.
+
+     What we have, basically, is a female actor playing a male character.
+Women simply *move* differently than men do; the gestures, the tilt of the
+head, the smile, it's just a shade different.  So you now take that, and wrap
+it inside a male character, aided by prosthetics to make the face and body
+more masculine.  Now, when you look at the finished product, you are looking
+at a male, but there's something wrong about it somewhere, and it makes you a
+little uncertain.  The first time I saw Mira in full makeup, it looked great.
+And there was something very unusual about it, that sense that your eyes and
+your brain are in conflict somewhere about what you're seeing.
+
+     That was a decision made early on, and that's what's different about
+Delenn (to respond to Tal's comment).
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 711       Sun Aug 09, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:36 EDT
+
+     P.S.  Nearly forgot...got the galleys in yesterday for my new short
+story, "Say Hello, Mister Quigley," which will be appearing in Pulphouse in
+September.  (This was not a plug, it was an incredible simulation.)
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 736       Mon Aug 10, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:59 EDT
+
+     The series question is taking care of itself at this point.  Will advise
+as this develops.
+
+     Meanwhile, I am sitting here going quietly bananas.  I expected that the
+night before I'd be in quite a state, but man...I wish I could describe it for
+those looking on, but it's not any one thing.  Yes, there's a certain amount
+of excitement mixed with anticipation, terror, fear, uncertainty...it's like
+going out on a first date, and you go back to her place, and you suddenly
+realize that you're going to be going to bed for the first time together, and
+you're wondering if your mouthwash is still holding up, if she's protected, if
+you're protected, if those handcuffs beside her bed are really just for
+show...and whether or not you forgot to lock the car door downstairs....
+
+     I keep playing every scene, every line, over and over in my head, making
+sure it's all there...worrying about the makeup, the prosthetics, if the
+actors are comfortable with it all, if the sets will register properly on
+film, if I made the right decision on one of the costumes...
+
+     Argh.
+
+     I really hate this part of it.  It's great, don't misunderstand me, it's
+just...you understand.  I was sitting earlier, trying to read, and my spousal
+overunit announced that if my foot were shaking any faster, it would vibrate
+right off my leg and smash out a window across the room.
+
+     I'm fine.  I'm cool.  It doesn't bother me.
+
+     If you need me, I'll be up on the roof....
+
+     T-minus 9 hours and counting.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 770       Tue Aug 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:25 EDT
+
+     I'm sure that at some time in the past, I have been more tired than I am
+right now, but I'm darned if I can think of it.
+
+     Got zip sleep last night.  Would wake up almost every ten minutes, my
+brain chewing on something or other, wondering if everything's in place,
+worrying over the hair on one of the characters (honest), if it was too
+extreme...constant bedspins.
+
+     Dragged my butt out early this morning and down to the studio by an
+ungodly hour of the morning.  Makeup and prosthetics took their usual time,
+and some time was taken up re-rigging some of the video in the set we were
+using today, adjusting some other stuff along the way.  (Richard Compton, our
+director, picked one of the most visually difficult scenes to start with,
+figuring that if we could get past this one, the rest would be a piece of
+cake, except for the one big scene toward the end of the shoot.)
+
+     We pulled the trigger and got off the first shot on-camera at about 9:30
+a.m.  I tried, where possible, to stay out of the line of fire, since by this
+time I was vibrating enough to slide into another dimension, and didn't want
+to infect anybody else.  Went off perfectly.
+
+     The main thing, for me, was that today the whole world came alive at the
+same time (the world of B5).  Up until now, it's been pieces...we see the
+actors.  We see the sets.  We see the costumes.  We see the actors in the sets
+but not in costume.  We see the actors in costume but not on the sets.
+Finally, there it was at last...all of our characters, in full  costume or
+uniform (and the uniforms look DYNAMITE!), on the sets.  It was finally,
+fully, completely *real* at last.
+
+     Andreas Katsulas took a great approach to Ambassador G'Kar, which is a
+VERY dynamic looking alien, very intimidating...giving him an educated,
+mellifluous voice, a wonderful counterpoint to his appearance.  Peter Jurasik
+was terrific as Londo Mollari, playing even the Advisory Council scenes as
+though half in the bag and trying not to show it.  Delenn was exotic and
+mysterious, Tamlyn Tomita was senSATIONAL at Laurel, great strength of
+character and presence...and I cannot begin to tell you what star material
+we've found in Michael O'Hare.  He's got a voice and a presence that could
+give Sean Connery or Clint Eastwood a run for their money.  Jerry Doyle was
+great as Garibaldi, as was Johnny Sekka as Dr. Kyle.  (We've cast two strong
+leading men in Doyle and O'Hare, and they are dynamite together...and there's
+a *very* nice chemistry emerging between Sekka and O'Hare as well.)
+
+     Our Warners liaison came by today for the first time to the set, and he
+couldn't believe the sets, how much we've done, the details, the elaborate
+stuff we've pulled off.  He was absolutely blown away.
+
+     Long story short...it went *great*, better than I'd hoped.  Richard was
+magnificent behind the camera, coming up with some very difficult and
+challenging shots, great angles...it's going to look wonderful.  Very
+cinematic, almost film-noir in its use of textures and shadows.
+
+     Later in the day, I had some friends come over, whose opinion I trust,
+and who are very well versed in SF for television and film.  (These included
+Marv Wolfman and Len Wein, known to the comics fans here, and Craig (Mr. SF)
+Miller, who was involved with the first STAR WARS, and is not generally easily
+impressed.)  They knew of B5 only peripherally, and were in NO way prepared
+for what they saw on the set.  Add to that the new EFX that I showed them
+today...their eyes melted right out of their sockets.
+
+     Got back just a little while ago (it's now about 11:30 p.m. as I type
+this).  Got some M,SW work to do before I can crash for the night, and begin
+the whole thing again tomorrow (where I'll finally see the dailies from
+today's filming).
+
+     Day One finished.  On time, on schedule, on budget.  And it looks spiffy.
+
+     I am a happy man.  Exhausted, right down to the marrow, but happy.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 772       Tue Aug 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:29 EDT
+
+     P.S.  Boy, oh boy, have I got something wonderful to show at the Comic
+Con...a little something Ron handed me today...heh, heh...you say talk is
+cheap?  Well, wait until you see what *I've* got this Saturday....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 803       Wed Aug 12, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:11 EDT
+
+     Some interesting things are happening re: the broadcast debut of the B5
+pilot.  Good things.  Will advise.
+
+     As to how Richard directs...pretty much like most directors, he walks
+through the scene with the actor(s), having already a fairly clear idea in
+mind how he wants to play the scene.  Blocks out each of hte _ the _ moves,
+rehearses them a few times, and then shoots it.  Then goes in for coverage
+(overs and unders, close-ups and mediums, that sort of thing).
+
+     Day Two went quite well, after a slow start.  (A people mover we planned
+to use _ nicknamed the  Being Mover, since it's used by others than humans _
+didn't work out as well as planned, so rather than go with something less than
+perfect, we scrapped it and yanked it...which took an hour or so, and then we
+were able to get down to filming.)
+
+     We used our Big Impressive Set today, and suspect it'll look pretty cool.
+Also saw dailies from yesterday's filming, and for the first time the cast got
+to see themselves on film, and see how it was being filmed, and they're all
+*very* jazzed.  It looks like a motion picture.  Rich textures, nice use of
+shadows, good depth of field...very nice.  The uniforms and prosthetics come
+out wonderfully on film, and the performances are sparkling.  Some good drama,
+and some *very* funny stuff as well.
+
+     Anyway, all continues to go well.  We remain on schedule.  The cast is
+happy.  Warners is happy.  We're happy.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 824       Thu Aug 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 13:52 EDT
+
+     Sorry I haven't been able to log on in over a day; things are going well,
+and the main problem was that last night I came home to edit together some
+Neat Stuff to show at Comic Con, and I'm not very good at it, and it took me
+HOURS to pull it together, by which time it was all I could do just to fall
+into bed.
+
+     But there's gonna be some fun stuff seen at Comic Con....
+
+     A few responses to the preceding:
+
+     Not a few of the Warners reps are carrying around old or incorrect
+information, as evidenced by the guy saying that the show would be on in
+November (that got changed a LONG time ago).  The other information is also
+incorrect.  We're aware of the problem, and it's being (shall we say) attended
+to.  It's really a communications problem, which happens in the early stages
+of a project as big as a new network.
+
+     What makes the lighting different?  Well, the reason I'm not saying what
+the *specifics* are is so that some other show won't find out about it and
+start using it.  Suffice to say for the moment that no other show has used
+this, certainly not to this extent.  (I'll comment more fully on the lights
+in, say, a month.  So re-ask the question at that time.)
+
+     There's actually a fair amount of rehearsal that goes on, first in full
+read-throughs, and on the set.  First a walk-through, then a camera rehearsal,
+so by the time we roll film, the actor has said the lines in that particular
+scene (which could be as short as 30 seconds) five or six times, in addition
+to reading through the scene backstage before we bring them out.  What's great
+about this particular team of actors is that they are all *thorough* pros, and
+they show up knowing every line, every word, there's virtually no coaching on
+the lines, they just come out and NAIL it.
+
+     Re: taping the Comic Con presentation...the answer to that is a big No,
+*especially* during the film part of the presentation.  If I see a red light
+anywhere in the audience, I'm going to stop the clip immediately and that'll
+be it.
+
+     What's interesting to me is watching the actors as they grow into their
+parts.  The greatest degree of prosthetics are on Andreas Katsulas, and he's
+commented that instead of being a burden, the "mask" of the headpiece has
+freed him...and he's *wonderful*.  Every time he comes on set, he just
+energizes everyone.
+
+     And the actor's craft in action is fascinating to behold.  There is a
+scene (well, two, actually) in which Londo Mollari (Peter Jurasik) has very
+little to say.  But you always have to do a close-up for coverage.   And
+despite the fact that he has nothing much to *say*...he totally and completely
+and wonderfully steals the scene.  Subtle, small things that register
+magnificently on the screen.
+
+     I have a strong hunch that Londo and G'Kar are going to be real break-out
+characters.
+
+     So far, we've shot scenes in the main corridor, the outside of the
+casino, the council room, various quarters, the conference center and a few
+other places.  We're really steaming along nicely.
+
+     I'll be down in Comic Con, and thus unavailable here for a few days, but
+will log on when I'm next near a keyboard.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 871       Sun Aug 16, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:41 EDT
+
+     Just got in...absolutely bushed (it's 106 degrees outside, a real
+killer).
+
+     I've only skimmed the reactions here, will discuss more later, but in
+brief...just a reminder that what was shown was culled from only the first 2
+days of dailies.  The more exotic-looking aliens come in other scenes.
+
+     And again, my apologies for the darkness of the dailies clip; these were
+many generations down: from the film, to a 3/4" tape, to a VHS, to another VHS
+onto which I made the edited cuts, and then onto a final VHS to add the music.
+Four generations down.  (I'd wanted to do only 3 generations down, but I
+couldn't find a way to totally knock out the soundtrack on the edited footage,
+so had to transfer it again and mix in the music at that time.)
+
+     Overall, I was fairly pleased with how the presentation went.  I'm always
+hyper-critical of my own performance, wondering if I'd gotten out all the
+important information.  I'd thought I'd have 90 minutes, but only had 60, and
+that kinda closed things down a little bit.
+
+     Anyway, too bushed now for much more, just a quick check-in.  Will sign
+on again either later today or at the end of day tomorrow, after another day
+of filming.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 878       Mon Aug 17, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:55 EDT
+
+     The ship you refer to is known in the script as the spider transport,
+though it looks a little more tick-ish than spider-ish.  (BTW, there wasn't a
+problem with the lights, it turns out...some idiot thought it would be fun to
+turn them on and off during the presentation.  Which is why it stopped when I
+saw a shadow toward the back of the room at the controls and commented that if
+someone was messing with the lights, I'd hurt him...bad.)
+
+     As for the lens flare, yeah, it's just one of the extras Ron's cooked up
+to make things more real, though we over-used it a bit at the start.  The
+reasoning behind it was simply giving the sense of a camera out in space,
+again replicating what a real lens would pick kup.
+  (Or pick up.)
+
+     You know you're tired when you're too tired to type....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 891       Mon Aug 17, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:24 EDT
+
+     (sitting here, saying nothing, hands jammed over mouth, unable to say
+what I know, just as I could say nothing when the Babylon 5 project was only
+That Which Could Not Be Mentioned, but knowing what was coming down the road,
+and the news was good, *is* good, but he can't say, not yet, not until he's
+allowed to...but trust me, QC, all is well.)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
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+Babylon 5 posts on GEnie by JMS for September, 1992
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie).  
+
+
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 65        Tue Sep 01, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:57 EDT
+
+     One nifty thing in today's dailies...I have to say that Patricia  Tallman
+makes one heck of a telepath.  Wonderful.  One thing I've never liked much
+about most treatments of telepaths on TV is that they've never really SOLD the
+idea...meaning, made it visual and dynamic, it's usually someone putting their
+hands to their head and muttering about images or feelings.  Sort of your dime
+-
+store psychic stuff.
+
+     In the script, I came up with a way of making the process dynamic and
+mysterious and visual, but without breaking the reality (if one could call it
+that) of how the process would or should work.  Didn't know for sure if it
+would work until I saw the dailies today.  Oh, man....it's lovely.  And
+powerful as hell.
+
+     Some very nice scenes today with Sinclair and his love interest, Carolyn
+Sykes.  Nice grown-up adult relationship stuff.
+
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 95        Thu Sep 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:07 EDT
+
+     Hello?  Is there really a world out there?  Haven't had a chance to log
+on until now.  Lots of interviews as well as production to worry about.
+Broadcasting Magazine again for a follow-up, then CNN/Showbiz Today this
+afternoon, on and on.  Don't know yet when some of this will be hitting the
+stands or the airwaves (respectively), but will advise when I do.
+
+     There's a lot of good stuff coming down the road, some exciting news
+brewing...but as with the time when this was That Which Could Not Be Named, I
+can't say anything.  Let's just say that the disparitites between the coverage
+between B5 and the other series (and the reason for same) should evaporate
+very soon.  In addition, promos are now being shot to air on all the TV
+stations set to carry B5 which will include scenes from the movie.  These may
+begin airing as soon as a month or two from now.
+
+     Just two more days of filming left.  It's sometimes hard to believe; it
+took us five years to get here, and now this part of it will be over in just
+two more days.  But as is so often said in television, boys and girls, there
+is more to come....
+
+     The footage continues to look spectacular.  David Gerrold came by this
+evening to pick up a few things for the Worldcon auction, and saw some of the
+footage (efx and dailies).  His comment: "Every so often, the science fiction
+media world undergoes a paradigm shift.  There was one with Star Trek, another
+with Star Wars...and what I just saw amounts to a major paradigm shift."
+
+     Newsletter is coming together, most of the interviews are concluded, and
+I expect it to be out sometime around the end of the month, so those who've
+sent postcards, watch your mailboxes around the first part of October.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 117       Fri Sep 04, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:23 EDT
+
+     The last two days, we've been shooting stuff in the observation dome,
+basically the B5 command and control room, which has a huge port that looks
+out into space.  (The design is kinda, but not really, reminiscent of the
+Spirit window from the strip of the same name.)  Saw the dailies today, and it
+looks great.  And there's something nifty about standing there in the middle
+of this thing, looking out at space, black and white and the blue of a nearby
+nebula, rendered outside the port so we can do some of this in-camera.  It
+feels very real when you're inside.
+
+     Last day for the pilot shoot tomorrow.  And probably one of our most
+lavish sets as well.  Will log on after we've finished the last shot.  Really
+tired, but we've got just about everything in the can now, and it's all 99.9%
+of what I originally saw in my head, or in many cases, better.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 188       Sun Sep 06, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:54 EDT
+
+     Er, actually, any reposts of my messages should only be noted as
+copyright by me.  Just a formality.
+
+     Just returned from the San Francisco con, and about ready to drop, which
+sums up pretty well my status for the last few days.
+
+     We wrapped Friday night at 2 a.m., and there wasn't a party (we were all
+too bushed) but a general well-wishing sort of thing.  Didn't get home until
+nearly 3:30 a.m., or asleep until 5 a.m....and then could only grab two or so
+hours sleep before having to get up and nab the plane in time for the B5
+presentation in San Francisco.
+
+     Emotions were really riding high Friday night as we got off the last shot
+of the pilot.  No one really wanted to leave, despite the late hour.  They're
+a good bunch.
+
+     Anyway, I'm going to go and put my feet up, try to eat around my broken
+tooth, take some aspirin, and try to get better.  It's as if my body were able
+to stand the strain just long enough to finish the job of the last four weeks,
+and then imploded....
+
+     Later.
+
+                                                         jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 277       Sat Sep 12, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:59 EDT
+
+     It occured to me that I hadn't left a really *substantive* post since we
+finished filming last Friday.  There's a certain burn-out that happens after
+you finish a major project like this; you just sort of shut down for a while
+and stare at the walls a lot.  So between that and catching up on M,SW
+work...you understand.
+
+     Most everyone is now taking a sorely needed rest from the grueling
+schedule; Michael O'Hare and Mire Furlan have headed back to New York, and the
+rest are out here, working on other stuff while we gear up for Phase Two on
+B5.  The film is now being edited together, and the editor is now close to
+finishing the first rough assembly.  (They've been doing some of this all
+along.)  The assembly will be in-hand Tuesday, but that's for our director's
+eyes only.  Right now, we're running a bit long, but the cuts, I hear, are
+*very* loose, and can be trimmed quite easily.
+
+     The editor is quite astonished at what he's seeing; the scope of the
+thing, the look of it.  I share that feeling.  What happens when you make a
+project like this is that you spend a whole day on one set, doing X-number of
+scenes in that set.  Then the next day, you watch the dailies from that set.
+And soon you lose track, a bit, of how it will all look when you cut it
+together, and you're in LOTS of sets, and scenes.  It's like thinking of your
+house ONLY in terms of the kitchen, or the dining room, without putting it all
+together in your head into a dynamic system...a home.
+
+     And that's what happens during editing.  I spent the first part of the
+week going over ALL of the dailies, tape after tape, pulling out shots to be
+used in promos.  And so for the first time saw the WHOLE movie, not
+necessarily in order, but all of the scenes, all of the sets, the whole look
+of the thing.  And the overwhelming sense that I get is of the sheer,
+seductive feel involved, the sumptuous sets, the gritty darker stuff...thanks
+to Richard and John Iacovelli and so many others, it's really a feast for the
+eyes.  I honestly, truly believe that it's going to leave a lot of people
+boggled.
+
+     We're trying to continue the momentum now that we have film to show.
+Watch for a big photo layout in the next STARLOG SPECTACULAR, and a *huge*
+story, 20 pages or so, with lots of photos, in CINEFANTASTIQUE around
+December/January.  (There'll be a smaller piece in, I believe, the next issue,
+with a photo or two from the set.)  I'm pretty sure that BROADCASTING MAGAZINE
+will also have a story in next week or so.
+
+     In a way, this is the really hard part...you've *made* the film, so by
+all rights this is where you should be able to relax and savor it, but there's
+a lot of ground to cover, a lot of work to get out the word about the show,
+lots of post-production to do...and we haven't even gotten to the sound for
+the show, audio mapping,any of that.  (I hope to be able to announce a
+composer in the next week or so; I think you'll all be quite pleased by who we
+think we've got, pending the fine points in the deal being nailed down.)
+
+     There's an *awful* lot of movement going on behind the scenes, all of it
+wonderful, but I can't say anything about it for the time being.
+
+     Picked up the Don McLean CD collection today, and was surprised to hear
+his song "Babylon," which I'd practically forgotten.  The song triggered off
+an image that just slammed into my head; it comes not from anything IN the
+song per se, but the tone, the mood, and I think I'm going to work an entire
+episde around that image, maybe year 3 or so.
+
+     Meanwhile, as indicated, we're currently in the eye of the storm, the
+quiet between the end of filming and the delivery of the first  real cut.
+Expect to see a *lot* of activity when the eye passes and we're back in the
+thick of it.
+
+     (Final aside...in looking at the scenes, there's one in which Londo is
+mourning the loss of the great Centauri empire, and talking about  how they've
+gone from running everything to being just a few worlds, living on memories
+and stories, selling trinkets...and I found myself wanting to tag on that line
+from THE PRODUCER, "...AND I'M WEARING A CARDBOARD BELT!")
+
+     Oh...and there *is* a blooper reel.  I've seen the first part of it.
+ Very funny stuff...sick and twisted, but funny.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 411       Sun Sep 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:57 EDT
+
+     To the query above, yes, BABYLON 5 has a definite beginning, middle and
+end.  I've always enjoyed shows like that, such as THE PRISONER, which has a
+beginning (he arrives at the village) and an end (he escapes from the
+village...sorta), and good stuff in between.
+
+     All of this effort is so that we can tell A Story.  A very long and
+involved story, about one person, mainly, but how that person's future can
+affect the course of history.  A saga.
+
+     The key is to do that without making it impossible for the viewers.   I
+dearly loved TWIN PEAKS,  but if you missed an episode, you were screwed.
+Similarly, you can't make the end of every episode a thematic or plot-
+cliffhanger, leading directly into the next episode.  Each episode MUST stand
+on its own, and it should be structured so that you can come into it at any
+point, and be able to track what's going on, no matter what season it is.
+It's very much a writer's challenge, but I love challenges.
+
+     (Now, of course, the saga continues in my own head long after the end of
+the five-year storyline, because they're real people to me, and their lives
+and the lives of those they touch continue, but at this point that's more than
+I even want to think about.  Let's get this puppy on the air first, then we'll
+see if we even last two years, let alone five.)
+
+     On Monday afternoon, I'll be seeing a good cut of the BABYLON 5 pilot.
+Will let you know if it lives up to expectations.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 430       Mon Sep 21, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:09 EDT
+
+     What are you missing?  The stuff about the story that only I know.
+
+     Re: the 10 years and 1-4 Babylon stations.  Remember, first, that they
+were not completed.  In one case only the superstructure was completed, in
+another inferior materials were used (deliberately), and so on.  So it's not
+like they built 5 fully operational stations.  Only B4 actually made it to
+operational status.  B5 was/is intended to be the last effort.  If this one
+doesn't make it...screw it.
+
+     Applying the resources from the full EA was deemed vital because, as
+stated, we as a race were almost wiped out in the Earth/Minbari War.  We might
+BE wiped out by a technologically superior race next time it happens...IF we
+allow it to happen.  B5 is the first line of self defense, and from our close
+call, everybody knows it.
+
+     Re: shipping materials, I posted somewhere upline how the jump points
+work.  In brief, large ships (cruiser and above) can generate their own entry
+points to hyperspace; gates are used mainly for smaller ships without their
+own field generators, and larger ships that want to conserve power.  So all
+that was required was to drop 1 jump point when they started building B1, and
+that was it.  There was no long supply line.  (To clarify, the larger ships,
+Explorer class, leave behind 3 or 4 jump gates at pre-arranged points as they
+move through space.)
+
+     As for Sinclair's status as both commander and ambassador...that is
+something we're going to deal with in the series.  By all rights, he shouldn't
+even BE there.  EA tried to stick an Admiral or some other high-ranking
+officer there.  The first race to sign onto the station, the Minbari, had
+approval over who was sent to that post.  They rejected everyone suggested,
+right down the line, until Sinclair.  EA Officials are still wondering why HE
+was selected.  (There is a reason.)
+
+     That post was previously designed to either include representing Earth as
+an ambassador (to avoid in-station conflicts) or as an adjunct to one.  And at
+one point, an ambassador will arrive, and they will hash this out once and for
+all.
+
+     Your question proceeds from the assumption, "How can everyone agree that
+this is the right thing to do?", which is understandable, given how monolithic
+some shows make the future.  But in the case of this show, there is constant
+disagreement, and there are a LOT of people in the Earth Alliance who think
+that this is NOT the right thing to do,and will try to take action to
+"correct" it....some for understandable reasons, some out of another agenda
+entirely.
+
+     What you have picked up on are not flaws, but story points in the
+making...areas that will be explored down the road.  These questions WILL be
+answered.  It would have been very easy to make him Admiral or Ambassador
+Sinclair.  He was given this lower rank for a reason...and there are an awful
+lot of people who look at this, and wonder if  Sinclair isn't just a *tad* too
+cozy with their former enemies in the war, and just where ARE his loyalties,
+*really*?
+
+     I've always taken pride in the fact that my stories are generally
+airtight.  I hate loose ends and unanswered questions and inconsistencies.  So
+feel free to poke and prod.  It'll either be something I've deliberately built
+into the show, or something that I should attend to.
+
+     As for the question above about how long this access will continue, only
+time will tell.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 451       Tue Sep 22, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:23 EDT
+
+     Well, I saw the first cut today.  Overall...not bad.  The one drawback to
+doing a screening like this is that you can't just sit back and enjoy/watch
+the show.  You have to look for problems, have to keep reminding yourself not
+to get sucked into it and lose objectivity.  You don't go to have a good time,
+you go to find ways to give yourself grief.
+
+     Fortunately, it all seems to hang together nicely.  There were a few
+scenes and partial scenes that need to be cut, that're fun but don't advance
+the plot.  (It's a tad long, so we could use the cuts.)  And a few shots need
+to be restructured for clarity.  But overall...it's good.   (It's also one of
+those situations where you've now seen something 15 or 20 times, and you lose
+all sense of perspective.)
+
+     I imagine we'll have the revised cut in by week's end.  Tomorrow our
+tentative composer views the cut.  Will advise as soon as I know how this
+finally works out.
+
+     In the interim, some scenes were dubbed with bits of music, whatever they
+had on hand...and it's amazing how much music adds to a scene.  Just makes the
+whole thing come alive.
+
+     Once we have the next cut in hand, I think I'm going to show it to a few
+selective people, all of whom are very critical of my work, and invite them to
+beat the crap out of it.  The tougher we make it, the better the odds of
+survival out in the world....
+
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 475       Wed Sep 23, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:21 EDT
+
+     I am trying very, very, *very* hard not to lose it at this moment.
+
+     Someone put the copy of the current ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY in my hands,
+with the DS9 cover story, and said "I think you should see this."  And I saw
+some full-head makeup prosthetics that look an *awful* lot like ours.   But
+worse yet...the sets.  The Promenade looks amazingly like our bazaar; their
+casino/bar looks a lot like our casino/bar, on and on and on....
+
+     This is getting just a *little* out of hand.  The visual aspect comes on
+top of the story aspect...that both shows are about a space station that
+functions as a port of call for businessmen, smugglers, diplomats and others,
+located near a jump-point/worm-hole, has an open marketplace, a casino, a bar,
+hookers, original draft screenplays in which a shape changer played a
+substantial role, a female second in command, a head of the station with the
+same initials (J.S.) both with the rank of Commander, and an attack scene near
+the end with the female second in command being in charge of the defense...oh,
+yeah, and both commanders carrying a trauma from a recent war or battle.
+
+     And there are more points of similarity, those are just the ones that
+spring immediately to mind.  And now they will even have much the same look,
+similar sets, similar makeups....
+
+     I'm calm.  I'm quiet and collected.  How that desk got tossed out the
+window is anybody's guess.
+
+     Well, at least there's some good news.  We screened the rough cut of B5
+for the composer we'd like to work with, and he seemed to go for it.
+ Now we just have to see how our mutual schedules mesh.  (This is a very
+special composer, and so there's a fair amount of courtship going on.)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 478       Wed Sep 23, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:42 EDT
+
+     (Entering calm, philosophic mood....)
+
+     Personal involvement aside, I'd say that B5 looks *better*.  And I just
+got the news this afternoon, now that the final production report is in (minus
+what's set for post).  We've come in UNDER budget.
+
+     Hey, Paramount!   Phthpfttttt!
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 491       Thu Sep 24, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:36 EDT
+
+     Television is like a train; once it leaves, you then know how long it
+will take to get from A to B.  We could've still made the November airdate if
+we'd gotten the go when originally discussed.  That didn't happen.  Given when
+we started, it's simple math to determine when we can air.  (And remember, we
+aren't all by ourselves here; Warners has to consider many factors, like the
+rest of the network, and where we fit in in that area.)
+
+     We will have a pretty solid cut in about 2 weeks.  A fine-cut by the end
+of October.  We start spotting (looking for music cue locations) November 3rd.
+Scoring will take place around December 14th.  We'll deliver shortly before
+Christmas.  Nothing can happen then until January or February.  And the Prime
+Time Network goes on line in February, and they want B5 to air during the
+February sweeps, where it will get the most attention and exposure.
+
+     Sweeps also puts us up against the MOST deadly competition; that's when
+the networks, syndicators and cable outfits pull out their big guns in stunts
+and high-profile programs to kill off everything else in sight.
+ So we're very much walking right into the lion's den, with everything in the
+world stacked up against us.
+
+     Seems like fair odds to me....
+
+     And it wouldn't be the first time.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 516       Fri Sep 25, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:30 EDT
+
+                        *** YES! ***
+
+     The composer we've wanted, who we've been courting, has seen the rough
+assembly and likes what he sees!  He wants to do it!  Insofar as I know,
+there's only one deal point remaining to be resolved.  Once that's done, and
+Warners has approved, I can probably make some sort of announcement, all
+things being equalized.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 539       Fri Sep 25, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:46 EDT
+
+     As I write this, we are starting to come out of the lull between storms.
+First there was the production itself, then things quiet down while the
+editors and our director assemble their cut, which is now ongoing.  The closer
+the cut comes to being finished, the more things begin to pick up speed.
+
+     We're starting to pick up a *little* on the PR stuff.  Gave some
+interviews to different magazines, and remember, the E! channel 30 minute
+Making Of documentary should be hitting the air in the next few weeks to a
+month.  Now that we have something to show people, it's a bit easier to get
+their attention.
+
+     On Tuesday I'll be seeing one of the four-minute promos for the show.
+The fellow handling that aspect over at Warners is *very* excited by the look
+of the thing, and commented today that the task we'd had was to make a TV
+movie as a pilot.  What we ended up with, in his view, is a Motion Picture
+that just happens to have been made for television.  "The best I can describe
+it is, imagine if someone had made STAR WARS just the way it was made, but for
+television," he said.
+
+     That's one of the problems with working on a project for so long; after a
+certain point, you're no longer capable of really viewing it or evaluating it
+objectively.  To some degree, you don't even SEE it anymore, there's no
+surprise after you've seen each take 5-10 times at least.  So we all kind of
+take it for granted; it's only when someone sees the whole thing for the first
+time that we can even begin to gauge the film.
+
+     We're getting absolutely amazing support from Warners, which is just in
+love with the project and really smells something special.  And that's nice.
+They're still amazed that we came in under budget (the precise figure: $1,190
+under), given that a certain OTHER show, with fewer sets, fewer EFX, a wealth
+of standing sets (the ship-board stuff), established uniforms and some
+prosthetic precedents, has apparently, as George Martin mentions above, gone
+WAY over budget even at having been budgeted at something between $9-12
+million, which is hideous even to start with.
+
+     The key to that, frankly, is something where we have a definite edge:
+planning.  We weren't rushed, we had the script a long time in advance, and
+were able to schedule our set construction and other areas to control the
+costs.  And this will apply to the series as well; we know roughly what half
+the stories will be about, so we can spread out the construction, start in on
+the required EFX well in advance, so that they look good, and aren't
+rushed...simple, basic planning.
+
+     At the core of that is something that occured to me today, the one thing
+that no one can take from us, and which no one can touch: the other show is
+about a space station at which stories take place; ours is a show about one
+particular story, one saga, which happens to take place on a space station.
+If there is any one thing that distinguishes B5 from everything else, that's
+probably it.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 600       Mon Sep 28, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:26 EDT
+
+
+     An aside, hopefully the last one for a while on the Other Show, only
+because I know it's being discussed elsewhere, along with the question of why
+it SHOULD be discussed...so I thought I'd take a moment to deal with it here.
+Some of it appeared in the now-deleted message, but presented here in calmer
+terms.
+
+     There's always disagreement between genre fans regarding shows; some like
+TNG over TOS, some vice-versa, some like STAR WARS but not TREK...and there
+will doubtless be that same discussion between B5 and DS9.  Which is all fine
+and good, and had nothing much to do with the topic at hand.
+
+     What it comes down to, really, is history and context.
+
+     BABYLON 5 is the culmination of five years of work, five years of my
+life, and that of many others.  Five years of meetings, of pitches, of return
+meetings, of second pitches, of raised hopes and bitter disappointments.  It
+would have been very easy, at any point, to just pack it in.  I cannot even
+begin to convey to you the grief and hte heartbreak when the deal seemed
+absolutely solid...only to fall apart at the very last second.  The long
+nights of frustration, of people (wiser than I) saying, "Look, let it go, it's
+not going to happen, it's consumed four years of your life, you could probably
+sell another show a lot easier...give it up."
+
+     But we refused.  I refused.  And in between pitches and meetings and
+deals in the offing, I stole hours from other work, from desperately needed
+sleep, to write out character descriptions, to write down the five year story
+arc, the history of the BABYLON 5 universe, two hundred single spaced pages
+and more, because I *believed* in this project, because I had a story to tell.
+
+     To see that five years of work jeapordized or threatened....
+
+     Let me put it in terms that might clarify the situation.
+
+     Let's say that, the same month that the original STAR TREK went on the
+air, some other network debuted SPACE TREK, about a starship on a five year
+mission...a starship with a tubular hull connected to a saucer section at one
+end, and two nacelles at the other...commanded by a Captain Clerque, and his
+alien first officer Smock....
+
+     How would you have felt?  Perhaps more to the point, how would
+Roddenberry have felt?
+
+     And that, really, is the context in which this discussion has to be
+framed.  It's not competition, it's not sniping, it's a serious issue that has
+to be confronted.  With one last aspect to be considered:
+
+     One of the reasons that this show was so hard to get going was that it
+was so unique, so challenging to television, so different in many ways, some
+of which you will only begin to see in the series.  And I know full well that
+even if the Warners PR machine got working 24 hours a day on this, half of all
+viewers will see this show, coming out after DS9, and think it's just a last-
+minute knockoff or ripoff of DS9.
+
+     And for a *writer*, any writer, especially if you take any degree of
+pride in the originality of your work, that appearance is hurtful in the
+extreme.
+
+     Anyway, that's really all I have to say about this whole issue at this
+time.  There's much going on (the hints to which the previously referenced
+sysopatrix alluded to), and there's all kinds of news coming down the pike.
+All of it good.
+
+     As stated before, the post-production lull is just about over....
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 607       Mon Sep 28, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:39 EDT
+
+     One can but hope.
+
+     Incidentally, and not entirely as an aside, I spoke to Michael O'Hare
+today, who's in New York at the moment.  (Michael, you'll all remember, is our
+lead, Commander Jeffrey Sinclair.)  Basically called to bring him up to speed
+on a few things, and we got to talking about heroes.  And how much he wants to
+bring out that aspect, for his own kid, and for others.  One thing that
+Michael and I have in common is that we both resolutely and stubbornly
+continue to believe in heroes, and the need for same.  Not bluff-and-bluster
+heroes, but ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances, and
+rise above what they believe are the limits of their endurance.
+
+     Someone said recently of HILL STREET something rather profound, I thought
+at the time.  That it was about the redefinition of heroes; the hero as
+bureaucrat (Furillo), the hero as ordinary man (Hill and Renko), the hero as
+psycho (Belker), the hero as sleazebag (Buntz), and that genuinely struck me
+as the core of that show...that heroes aren't always what we think they're
+supposed to be, and that there is that spark that can be found in the
+unlikeliest of places.
+
+     Anyway, just your Thought For Today....
+
+                                                            jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 661       Wed Sep 30, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:42 EDT
+
+      If it were only a matter of set design, you wouldn't hear
+ a peep from me.  For what I hope will be the last time, here's
+ how it lays down:
+
+              BABYLON 5                       DEEP SPACE 9
+ Commander Sinclair                        Commander Sisko
+ Casino                                    Casino
+ Bar                                       Bar
+ Female second in command                  Female second in command
+ Shapechanger in original script           Shapechanger in pilot script
+ Located near a jump-point (warp)          Located near wormhole (warp)
+ Number-designated space station           Number-designated space station
+ Hookers                                   Hookers
+ Similar prosthetics                       Similar prosthetics
+ Similar sets                              Similar sets
+ Female 2nd fending off attack at end      Female 2nd fending off attack
+ Bazaar                                    Promenade
+ Cmdr. haunted by recent war               Cmdr. haunted by recent battle
+ Cmdr. is unmarried                        Cmdr. is (now) unmarried
+ Freeport/port of call                     Freeport/port of call
+ Travelers/diplomats/smugglers             Travelers/diplomats/smugglers
+
+      Those are the highlights.  There's more, but this point has
+ been belabored far more than is reasonable at this point.  With
+ one bit of new information...I've heard that Majel Barrett-Roddenberry
+ has been quoted as saying that B5 has borrowed from DS9...now I
+ can't personally confirm this, I wasn't there, but if those who
+ sent me private mail testifying to this want to come forward, they're
+ welcome to do so (though no onus is attached if they don't).
+
+      Can such things happen by accident?  That's more a question for
+ others.
+
+      Now, again, I don't want to go on about this in extremis.  The
+ only reason I replied was because you asked, and seemed to think that
+ the only similarity was in the set design.  As has been stated
+ (repeatedly), they will be very different shows, in many ways, in
+ terms of the stories and the characters and the fact that we just
+ operate in a completely different fictional universe.
+
+      So that said...let's move on.  In future, if anyone wants to
+ get the details, they should be referred to this message.  There's
+ going to be a lot to discuss, and a lot of new stuff coming down
+ the road in terms of B5, and I'd hate for this topic to end up
+ just a constant rehashing of point-by-point similarities.  Best to
+ talk of B5 in terms of B5, not via comparison to others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+
+
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS for Oct, 1992
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+NOTE:  This is when the GEnie category was being reorganized.
+Undoubtable there were more posts in October... but they have
+apparently been sacrificed to the bandwidth gods.
+----------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 681       Thu Oct 01, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:23 EDT
+
+     In my copious spare time, and obviously unofficially, I've been laying
+out the first season or two, sketching out which episodes would hypothetically
+go first, where to lay in the saga, and I find that I keep getting dragged
+more to saga-episodes rather than the stand-alones.  It's as if, having had
+this thing waiting to be told for so long, there's the overwhelming desire to
+just GET IT ALL OUT...sort of projectile storytelling.  But you can't do that,
+you've got to parcel it all out a bit at a time, just like the information
+here (which, he reminded himself, I've generally released far more quickly and
+in more detail than I'd originally anticipated).
+
+     What interesting is how some things expand in your mind once you've
+filmed a pilot like this.  Here's Character X, who you always saw a certain
+way, had a few stories in mind...and suddenly the *performance* and the
+casting makes you realize that there's a MUCH broader potential here than
+you'd originally thought...a character likely to steal the show...and now
+suddenly you begin spinning out new stories for that character...but if you
+emphasize THAT person, how does it affect a) the over-arching storyline, and
+b) the other characters?
+
+     My first impulse is to give every major character an episode right up
+front, give everyone a chance to establish him- or herself.  But on the flip
+side of the argument, that means (since we have 9 regular or recurring
+characters) spending as many as 8 episodes with our PRIMARY character,
+Sinclair, less involved or held at some remove.  Which seems counter-
+productive.
+
+     Telling the stories...that ain't hard.  Putting it all in the right
+sequence, now that we have the benefit of having cast, THAT's the challenging
+part.
+ 
+   BTW, for those who are curious, there are two photos of Yr Obdnt Srvnt in 
+the new Hollywood edition of WRITER'S DIGEST.  And if, as they say, every 
+picture tells a story, these tell quite a story (though one I just can't look 
+at any more, it's too painful).
+
+                                                          jms
+ ______
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS for Nov, 1992
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+NOTE: This is right after the GEnie SFRT split into three groups, creating a
+Babylon 5 category in the process.
+
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-FANTASY [Yog Sysop]       at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5                          
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category!  As always, offering or requesting copies
+of copyrighted material, whether it's the B5 Newsletter, photos, or the actual
+movie/episodes violates copyright law and SFRT policy.
+334 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 68        Sun Nov 08, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:53 EST
+
+     Actually, there *is* such a logo already uploaded as a GIF file in the
+library.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 88        Wed Nov 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:38 EST
+
+      Thanks for the reminder.  I'll probably bring a copy of the show with
+me, and may try to drag our director or a cast member to the con, to answer
+questions.  This is, btw, the first time I've ever been a guest of honor at
+ANY convention...and that it's in San Diego, where I got my real start as a
+writer, is a special thrill.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 96        Wed Nov 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:43 EST
+
+     I've saved the megafile to disk, so no need to resend at this point.
+
+     Don't yet know about Media*West, mainly because of scheduling stuff.   My
+*guess* would be no, but we'll see.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 104       Fri Nov 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:26 EST
+
+     Yes, you need to subscribe to get the remaining 4 issues.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 121       Wed Nov 18, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:49 EST
+
+     Is that 9:30 eastern, central or pacific?  Just as a reminder, some cable
+stations don't repeat at the same times in different areas, so when posting
+this sort of info, please be sure to mention whether that's in all areas, or
+just in some.  Thanks.
+
+     (Remembering to set my own VCR....)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 129       Wed Nov 18, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:29 EST
+
+     I wonder sometimes if everyone has problems with their PR.  The E! piece
+(which should show up every 3 hours or so for the next little while) was okay.
+My main concern with it was that they concentrated on the
+prosthetics/makeup/puppetry because that's easiest to do.  If I were at home
+watching, having had no familiarity with the show, I don't think I would have
+learned anything from this.  It was...cute.  I hate cute.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 147       Thu Nov 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:13 EST
+
+     The more I've had a chance to think about it, the more I've gotten
+comfortable (minus my own loudmouth comments) with the Cinefantastique
+article(s), and the more I've gotten annoyed with the E! piece.  It never
+fails...people who don't know anything about the genre ALWAYS go for the cute
+stuff...when they cover conventions for TV, they *always* find the one guy
+with the spock ears, and when they cover a show with prosthetics, they
+*always* go for the critters.  They turned B5 into a puppet show, and that
+annoys me; used characters that have NOTHING to do with our show, who don't
+appear in it, and THAT annoys me.
+
+     It's my lot, I suppose....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 153       Fri Nov 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:30 EST
+
+     Correct on the two points above.  The creature they used, which they
+nicknamed "Bad Bob" (they refers to the prosthetics guys) appears in about two
+seconds of the show, same with the other critter you see, neither of them
+speaking, just background stuff.  And here, that came to be what the promo was
+ABOUT, implying that's what the SHOW was about.  It basically ignored the
+*show* in deference to playing with toys.
+
+     I've tried overall to leave the media guys alone, just let them wander,
+go where they will.  We have nothing to hide and everything to be proud of.
+Then someone goes off on this tear...it's very discouraging, and I'm going to
+have to seriously rethink this approach.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 157       Fri Nov 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:36 EST
+
+     The set where Richard and I were interviewed is the central corridor, or
+at least a corner of it; it's so large that you really can't see that much of
+it in any shot.
+
+     Yes, we're adjusting Mira's voice in post to make it masculine.  I've
+seen the tests, and it definitely twists your mind around.  The look is
+neutral, and when the voice is female, your mind buys female; when you change
+the voice, the voice is male, the look is neutral, and the *moves* are
+female...and now your brain doesn't know WHAT to make of it.  It's actually a
+little unsettling...which is the goal.
+
+     RE: Lyta's eyes...yeah, that's what drew me to her for this role from the
+start.  They're HUGE, which is what I always figured you'd get from a
+telepath, that sense of seeing right through into your soul.  She's great.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 185       Mon Nov 23, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:05 EST
+
+     Well, it looks like there will be some changes made in the E! piece (he
+said, setting down his baseball bat, the one with the nails stuck through it).
+Comprehensive changes.  Will advise when and how the new one will be shown and
+made available.  (Which makes the one airing now a collector's item, I
+suppose, since eventually it'll be replaced and, if I have anything to do with
+it, never seen again by human eyes.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 191       Tue Nov 24, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:39 EST
+
+     Yes, it is a bad joke...and deliberate disinformation.  Please let me
+know who posted that piece of...information.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 215       Thu Nov 26, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:42 EST
+
+     BTW, since y'all might not check, TRGBs fans should check out cat 16,
+topic 2, message 125 for something really rather annoying about the show's
+current run on USA.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 241       Mon Nov 30, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:24 EST
+
+     Specific comments should probably go in the spoilers topic.  One request:
+please try not to give away the "beep" stuff since it functions best with a
+surprise element.
+
+     Still recovering from the con...the reception was terrific.  I'll let
+others comment on the specific crowd reactions, because I've tried in general
+to avoid that...it's just too direct a hype, I feel.
+
+     But it was a very gratifying weekend.  Thanks all.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 244       Mon Nov 30, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:51 EST
+
+     Well, Pat had been to other cons before, so it wasn't that new an
+experience for her, ditto for Mojo (Pat's connection came via her work on
+Romero films).  It was Jerry's first experience, though, and he did seem quite
+astonished by it all (as much as Jerry is astonished by anything, which ain't
+much).  But they all seemed pleased and gratified by the reaction.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 261       Thu Dec 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:06 EST
+
+     Well, here's the situation....
+
+     My timing has always been off, and the story of Babylon 5 has been one of
+struggle against odds from the very first chapter.  WhereEVER did I get the
+notion that this would change?
+
+     A little history for those looking on...last year, when we brought B5 to
+the stations involved in the Consortium, and to Warners, everyone was hot and
+ready, having just formed this new consortium, to get things moving.  They
+were all ready to commission a B5 series right off the bat, until one or two
+people near the top said, in essence, "Look, this sounds totally unproduceable
+for television, something on this scale can't be done for TV, maybe there
+should be a pilot made *first*, just to show that it can be done.  Then we'll
+go with the series if it can come in on budget and on schedule."  There was
+some disagreement, but eventually that came to be what was done.
+
+     So now, it's a year later.  As well as B5, the new network commissioned
+two series, Kung Fu and Time Trax, and a Wild West Miniseries.  Over the last
+few days, everyone was re-convened in the hopes of moving ahead now on B5 and
+one other project.  Just one problem: human psychology.,
+
+     If you add up the amount spent on series, B5, miniseries, publicity,
+other expenses, you're up to the $25 million range and counting.  That's a lot
+of dough and thus far none of it has been aired.  And to come to them now and
+ask for more...well, it wasn't the time.  They've bought shows, and they want
+to know _ correctly, one must come to understand _ that those shows will
+WORK, that the money spent so far has been a wise investment.
+
+     Consequently, everything is now ratings (like it ever wasn't, when it
+comes to TV?).  We're so close to airdate now _ two months _ that the
+general concensus was, "Let's see how it does in the ratings."  Then we will
+get the go.
+
+     It's frustrating, but Warners has made it clear that they continue to
+stand behind the show, that this really has nothing to do with B5 at all
+because no other shows were picked up during the meeting, which was part of
+the desire, it's simply a matter of people having spent a lot of money wanting
+to know that they invested wisely.
+
+     That's showbiz.
+
+     Which means that now, once again, all of you play an important role in
+this saga.  The word has to continue to go out, that's a given...but perhaps
+even more important, if you like what you see when B5 airs, it's absolutely
+vital to write or fax both your local TV station and Warners to let them know.
+It's the stations who have the voice on this, and the one voice they hear
+clearest is yours, as the viewer.  (Or use the GEnie system to fax stuff,
+which may be quicker and easier.)  Not now, after the airing.
+ If you *don't* like what you see...then don't.  What matters is doing it only
+if it's right.
+
+     More on this as it develops.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 263       Thu Dec 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:36 EST
+
+     All that info will be available at the time.
+
+     Just to clarify...the ironic thing is that this really has nothing to do
+with B5.  The reaction conveyed back to us from the stations was nothing short
+of overwhelmingly enthusiastic.  The question to be decided was, "Do we open
+up a second night of programming (of which B5 was only one of SEVERAL shows to
+be picked up during that meeting) or do we wait to see if the *first* night of
+programming works out?"
+
+     By way of comparison, it would be as if you bought a car, and the
+salesman tried to sell you a *second* car before you'd even taken the first
+car out of the driveway.  It's personally frustrating, but when you come right
+down to it, you really can't fault that reasoning.
+
+     Meanwhile, nothing has changed...the B5 pilot goes on in February, and
+apparently there will be a press tour arranged by Warners because of their
+continued excitement, merchandising is continuing, there's going to be a big
+PR push in January...that it's going to be a series has never been a question,
+once we met the on-schedule/on-budget requirement; it's only a matter of a
+couple months difference.  The only reason an early push for a second night
+was made was because of the excitement about B5, and the desire to use it as
+an anchor for that second night...if you go back into the original message
+base, we talked then about the importance of letting the stations know your
+feelings after it airs.  We thought we might be able to strike even before
+that, so we pushed early.  The stations, in a very understandable position,
+want to at least put some shows on that first night before commissioning #2.
+
+     I wish I could find some fault in that reasoning, but I can't.
+
+     So we press on.  As Harlan said when I spoke to him about this earlier,
+"It's not SUPPOSED to be easy."  You look back at the nightmare of yes/no,
+maybe/maybe not, interference, grief and nonsense that preceded TWILIGHT ZONE,
+STAR TREK, OUTER LIMITS, and you begin to realize that when you come right
+down to it, we've actually had it pretty easy.
+
+     It's just part of the process, boys and girls.  Nothing's changed.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 271       Fri Dec 04, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:46 EST
+
+     Warners *is* committed to the show, that isn't the question.  What has to
+be remembered is that this (the Prime Time Network) is a new venture...people
+have spent a lot of money on programming, and the stations (NOT Warners) want
+to show some of it before proceeding.  The meeting was originally called BY
+Warners primarily because they ARE excited about B5, and were hoping that they
+could use it to open up a second night *earlier than had been planned*.  The
+stations decided that they would rather keep to the original schedule.
+
+     These things happen.  It's *not* a step back...we tried to take two steps
+forward at once, and found that we have to go the old fashioned way...one step
+at a time, which has been how this show has been from Day One.
+
+     After five years of one-step-at-a-time, you learn....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 275       Fri Dec 04, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:27 EST
+
+     I appreciate the sentiments, but let me emphasize that this *ain't* that
+big a deal.  It doesn't actually change anything.  In and of itself, it
+probably wouldn't be worth mentioning except for the fact that I've promised
+here that I'll try and report the news in general, good, bad or indifferent,
+which should sorta help control rumors overall (and has, so far).  The other
+purpose, of course, is to use the forum to show the various ins and outs, ups
+and downs, and details involved in a project such as this.  Just one more of
+the same.
+
+     Bottom line...there's a lot of excitement about the project, so much so
+that a lot of people tried to make things move faster than scheduled.   The
+general sense is, "Let's stay with the schedule."  Not exactly the sort of
+thing one can get all wound up about....
+
+     Meanwhile, the final stages of B5 production are nearing.  We do the last
+of the looping over the next 7 days, and the sound efx guys are working out
+the last details in that area.  We'll deliver the finished pilot _ no more
+tweaking, no backsies _ around January 1st, which will  give the stations
+nearly two months to preview the show and promote it.
+
+     At some point we'll have a screening for cast and crew, and we're giving
+*some* thought to opening up whatever seats are left over to local fans.  If
+we go that route, will advise.  It'd be kind of nice to see B5 in a real
+theater....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 287       Fri Dec 04, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:01 EST
+
+     I'll put it this way...if anyone wants to write to anyone prior to the
+airdate, I have no opposition to that idea.
+
+     Re: cast and crew...this doesn't cause any complications at all, since,
+again, this still conforms to the original schedule.  Insofar as I know,
+everyone is contractually covered for the series through the period of time we
+thought we might have to deal with, which is what we still have.  It isn't a
+change of timing, it's the same timing that we've had all along.
+
+     BTW, I just changed modems, and anyone out there who has a Practical
+Peripherals 14400 FXSA v.32 bis modem, and uses Smartcom Exec, if you could
+answer a question or two, I'd really appreciate it.  I can log on here using
+the standard network stuff provided, but as faor (for) dialing up local BBSs,
+it just won't connect.  It hears only "silence" at the other end, even though
+I can clearly hear it connect via the speaker.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 300       Sat Dec 05, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:33 EST
+
+     Just so it's clear...I've tried EVERYTHING...PC Plus, WinComm, QuickLink
+II, Smartcom Exec, NOTHING I use can get me onto some local modems, especially
+the WGA-BBS (for which at least some are doubtless grateful).  I'll try the
+new initialization string to see if that makes a difference, but I kinda doubt
+it.  It baffles me....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 315       Sun Dec 06, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:31 EST
+
+     Okay, I finally got the thing to work by slipping a command into the init
+string (I'd been typing the whole string into the provided window, not
+realizing that the window ADDED to the original string, rather than replaced
+it, which is what I'd thought I was doing...so I was ending up with two
+strings at once which just confused the hell out of the modem.   Anyway, it's
+all better now (I think).  Many thanks for the assists.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 320       Mon Dec 07, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:49 EST
+
+     I don't know yet what the schedule is going to be re: promo interviews, I
+imagine that's something that'll get resolved in the next couple of weeks.  As
+soon as I know the details, I'll pass them along here.
+
+     Re: Tom Shales...knowing he's a fan of SF, I figured on sending him a
+copy of the show on the chance he might like it.  Any advance bugs in his ear
+are all to the good...basically, anybody out there who wants to write a
+letter, make a call, more power to you.
+
+     Just finished my column for the second issue of the B5 newsletter, which
+I'll be modeming off to Christy later tonight or tomorrow.  The theme: "With
+Great Power Comes Great Responsibility" (quoting Peter Parker).  It's about
+viewers.  You'll see it in a few weeks, with any luck.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 327       Mon Dec 07, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:52 EST
+
+     Re: Harlan's involvement with the show...it's on two levels.  First, he
+is currently writing a Manifesto for the show.  If you've seen CITIZEN KANE,
+you'll remember that the first thing Charles Foster Kane did on taking
+possession of a newspaper was to publish a Declaration of Principles,
+outlining what a good newspaper should strive for, the standards it should try
+to achieve.  Harlan is doing the same thing with the Babylon 5
+Manifesto...setting the standards and pointing out the things an SF tv series
+should strive to accomplish, and the dumbnesses to avoid.
+
+     Second, once the series is up and running, he will be involved as a
+Creative Consultant.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+SOARON [Bio-Dread]           at 19:41 EST
+Sub: General Information                
+
+Babylon 5 will premiere with a two-hour movie entitled "The Gathering" early
+in 1993.  The creator of the series, J. Michael Straczynski joins us on-line
+to answer your questions.  (No story ideas please...)
+
+523 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 3         Thu Nov 05, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:10 EST
+
+     Sure.  Why not?
+
+                                                     jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 5         Thu Nov 05, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:27 EST
+
+     Just a follow-up, something I've been thinking about lately.
+
+     A couple of days ago, I got a letter in my mailbox here on GEnie.  Not
+real news there, I generally find 2-4 every time I log on.  This one asked
+"How can I help B5?"
+
+     And I've been thinking about that...and it reminded me of something.
+Back at one of the early conventions I went to, to promote B5 after it had
+been announced, I voiced an opinion that this could be fair competition for
+DS9.  And a woman in the audience said, "Yeah, right, and Clinton will be
+president."
+
+     Now, in retrospect, it's funny, because of how that's all turned out.
+But it's emblematic of the reality of the situation we're in at this time: up
+against a monolith, with very little press, and not a lot of people aware yet
+that we even exist.
+
+     So to the question of, "How can I help B5?" that got this train of
+thought going...it really comes down to grassroot activities.   Twentieth-
+Century Fox had originally thought STAR WARS would be a flop, and gave it
+*very* little support, just threw it out there to die.  But on opening night,
+there were people lined up around the block for the first showing...because
+word had gotten out, and around.
+
+     If, based on what you've read here, on the photos that have now begun to
+appear, the promos, the presentations (and we're trying to get as much Out
+There as we can so nobody will have to take my word for anything, but can
+rather judge for themselves) that BABYLON 5 is something you want to support,
+then there are two very important things that one can do:
+
+     1) Spread the word.  Tell everyone you can about it.  Here on GEnie it's
+easy to forget that this is a fairly insular environment, and that in reality
+only a fraction of people log on here.  It has to go outside.
+
+     2) When B5 airs, if your opinion is the same, to tell the stations
+(specifically, the station in your area) what you feel.  Because the stations
+are directly involved in the process here, the more support they have after it
+airs, the more they'll return the favor.
+
+     I often find myself whipsawed between tremendous optimism and excitement
+when I see what we're actually *doing*...and tremendous pessimism and
+unhappiness when I see how few people still don't know we even exist, and how
+little coverage we're getting in a media that's set to promote shows that come
+with pre-packaged and recognizeable names.
+
+     I know that many of you are already doing this, and this note isn't for
+you so much as the new folks we've gained.  This has always been a project
+which has held SF fandom in respect, and tried to be true to its origins.
+Five years on "Why Can't They Get It Right?" panels at SF conventions really
+helps you understand what fans of the genre want.  We've tried very hard to
+deliver on that.  In return for which, we need your voice if we are to
+continue to be YOUR voice (to quote Clinton).
+
+     Anyway, there it is, for what it's worth...midnight ramblings from
+somewhere aboard Babylon 5....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 15        Fri Nov 06, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:56 EST
+
+     Don't know if WB will be sending any more promos, but I would guess that
+they will.  Will advise if I hear about any more.
+
+     Phil: I'm still going over the new material (25 pages?! single spaced?!
+oh, man!), but insofar as I can tell, it looks fine.  I may add a bit here and
+there, but overall, looks great.  And I'll be curious to hear your reactions
+to the promo when you see it.
+
+     This weekend, btw, I'll be at Wishcon (for those who don't yet know) to
+talk about B5 and give a presentation.  If you know anyone who's going,
+suggest they especially clear out Saturday early afternoon.  I've given
+several B5 presentations, but I'm very much looking forward to this one.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 58        Sun Nov 08, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:37 EST
+
+     Just got in a little while ago from Wishcon, and overall it was a
+terrific experience.  There was just one blemish on the weekend.
+
+     Prior to the B5 presentation, someone mentioned to me that Majel was
+furious that B5 was being given any exposure there, and that something would
+be done about it.  I dismissed this upon hearing it, figuring it was the usual
+rumor-stuff that invariably encircles cons like this.
+
+     The progression was a panel by Wil, a panel by Majel, then the B5
+presentation.  Wil ran about 5-10 minutes over.  Majel went 5 over.  Then 10.
+Then 15.  Then 20.  The con organizers were indicating to her to wrap it up.
+She refused, saying that she wasn't going to give up the microphone.  25
+minutes.  She noted my presence, commented upon it, but kept on going.  30
+minutes plus, and finally she surrendered the stage.
+
+     What happened next comes to me from people who were there.  One of the
+con organizers apparently went to Majel, who was signing autographs outside,
+and asked point-blank if she'd done that on purpose to try and foul up the B5
+presentation.  She smiled, very satisfied, and refused to comment.  "What did
+you think we'd do?" he asked her.  "Cut the presentation off?  Or in half?
+Won't happen.  All you've done is to cut into the auction, and all that does
+is hurt the kids."  (Wishcon is part of a fundraiser for the Oak Hill School
+for the Blind and the Make a Wish Foundation, for terminally ill children.)
+She still only smiled and didn't answer...and the auction lost 15-20 minutes
+of fundraising time.   It would have lost more, but I cut my own comments
+short at the end, even though I wanted to say more to the large group, and
+instead moved to a smaller room.  (I would've originally had 15-20 minutes in
+the big room before moving over, if the schedule had been kept.)  Better that
+I should have a little less time than cut further into the fundraising
+efforts.
+
+     I'm not angry about it, more saddened that a good cause, with the
+interests of terminal children at heart, would be held hostage to someone's
+pique.  And astonished that she'd do this so plainly in front of over a
+thousand witnesses, plus all the people standing in line outside for the
+latter part of the story.
+
+     Ah, well.  As was said in "Phantom of the Opera," these things do happen.
+
+     That incident pales, though, before the reaction to the B5 presentation.
+One of the con organizers told me subsequently that in the con's history,
+including showing "Unification" prior to broadcast, no such preview has ever
+gotten a standing ovation.  It left me utterly flummoxed, and pleased, and
+grateful.  It was at that point that I began to think that maybe, just maybe
+we had something here.
+
+     Because truth is, you never know.  You're too close to the situation to
+be objective anymore.  So the response to the presentation has provided a
+considerable boost in energy and enthusiasm, which has been conveyed back to
+my associates already.
+
+     It was fun meeting all the GEnie-ites (even Cindy...I think) (oh, and by
+the way, Tamlyn isn't as young as you mentioned; she's in her early 30s, which
+is a fine age for that kind of job, she just looks very young, darn it, said
+the fellow who was looking old long before his time).  To put faces with names
+is always a fascinating experience.  It's a strange sensation...to come into a
+town where you don't know anyone, to find that you know people.
+
+     Anyway, good to meet y'all, and thanks for the support.  It was a hell of
+a weekend.
+
+     (Oh, and before I forget, to respond to the note above about the name of
+Babylon...it was only later in its history that it gained the rep that has now
+come down to us.  It was a place of great plans for commerce and culture.  The
+name Babylon comes from Bab El, which means the Gate of God, hardly an evil
+place.  But it declined, and eventually was overthrown.  Will B5 go through a
+similar arc?  Who knows...?)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 60        Sun Nov 08, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:52 EST
+
+     It's a reference to the Warner Bros. Roadrunner cartoons.
+
+     (And, well, as a matter of fact...that's *exactly* what it is.)
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 65        Mon Nov 09, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:01 EST
+
+      I don't care about revenge.  Not interested in it, frankly.  All that
+matters is the work.  Which is why, despite the timing on the E.W.
+article...to me, it doesn't matter.  I've said it before, I said it at
+Wishcon, and I'll say it again here: if DS9 and B5 are both around and healthy
+and successful 5 years from now, that's terrific.  The world is big enough to
+support more than one view of the future.  That's the whole notion behind B5,
+that SF fans, after 25 years, might like another view of a spacefaring mankind
+in the future.  So the flip side is also true; the more the merrier.
+
+     I should mention that if I kept a low profile at Wishcon, it wasn't for
+lack of ambition.  On Friday, I flew out in the morning, and due to a plane
+going nonfunctional at the boarding gate in DFW, didn't change to another
+plane for a long time, and thus didn't arrive in Springfield until around
+11:30 or thereabouts.  Planes just beat the crap out of me physically, so I
+crashed.  Didn't adjust well to the time difference, and what with being
+nervous about the presentation, and then the 90-minute "town meeting"
+afterward, was just gonesville.  Next time, I hope to be more amiable...and
+closer to home.
+
+     I didn't blush at the ovation, did I?  Really?  I *hate* it when that
+happens.  I have a very low blush threshold, and it is constantly a sore
+point.  Ah, well...(embarrassed sigh).
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 67        Mon Nov 09, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:56 EST
+
+     Don't know yet, but hope to find out SOMEtime soon.  Will post the info
+here as soon as I have it.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 77        Mon Nov 09, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:58 EST
+
+     Majel should have no reason to be frightened; as I said, it would be only
+wonderful for me (and, I suspect, viewers) if both shows were around and
+healthy five years from now.
+
+     And so we move on, in a spirit of conciliation.
+
+     BTW, I don't suppose anyone *taped* that interview on the sci-fi
+channel...?  Would love to get it for the B5 archives.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 92        Mon Nov 09, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:37 EST
+
+     I kinda agree; the "beep" stuff is a private joke, and probably shouldn't
+clutter up the forum.
+
+     As for how the picture looks on a regular TV...it looks great.  We've
+looked at it on screens of all sizes, and you don't reallly lose anything.
+
+     It's good that we worked it out so it'd look equally okay on both small
+and large screens (in fact, we were less sure it would look good on a big
+screen, given how great it looked on a standard monitor) since there's already
+some serious inquiries about releasing it as a theatrical film overseas.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 109       Tue Nov 10, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:39 EST
+
+     Whew, that's a lot of stuff to digest.  In brief, since the bulk of your
+message has scrolled past my screen, a number of the points you raise are
+things we've noted in-house.  The plan is to have a big post mortem meeting
+some time around early December to go over every detail of the show and decide
+which elements worked, and which didn't.
+
+     Only about two points stick in my mind offhand...on costumes, one of the
+problems that we ran into was jettisoning one costume designer, and then
+bringing in the other with like 4 weeks to go, not *nearly* enough time to
+design all the required elements.  More will be done with that in future, now
+that we have enough time.  Part of the problem is that in this kind of show,
+you've got HUGE amounts of people, all from different worlds, and you've got
+to dress them ALL.  So it really adds up fast.
+
+     As for the doors...oddly enough, they're very functional.  We talked to
+some design guys, who indicated that in a situation where one level or another
+might lose pressure, you want VERY strong doors all over the place that can
+serve as pressure doors.  The jagged look comes from the fact that once a door
+closes, large pins extrude into the sections that are covered, making it a
+VERY solid door.  (Sound effects will further help explain that.)  That
+design, we're told, is the most practical for that reason.  And yes, there is
+some question about aliens as well; we have some very large, and very non-
+humanoid shapes coming through, such as Kosh, or larger/stranger, and
+consequently the doors should accommodate that.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 116       Wed Nov 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:32 EST
+
+     Thanks, yeah, I *love* the uniforms, though we're going to do some minor
+redesigns on some things here and there, just to make them a bit stronger.
+The uniforms and other costumes are by Catherine Adair, most recently from
+Mann and Machine, and she's *quite* good at what she does.
+
+     And if I attempt to give her the prescribed big kiss, she'd likely deck
+me, so I may pass on that part of it....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 121       Wed Nov 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:01 EST
+
+     That's already the plan, re: episode titles.  And groundswell or no, I've
+been thinking about it, and suspect that Warners would probably nix the bumper
+stickers thing.  All I can suggest is that people write to Warners and ask to
+be put on mailing lists for merchandising and catalogs and suchlike when the
+show gets going.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 125       Wed Nov 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:45 EST
+
+     Except, of course, B5 ends at the five year mark....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 127       Wed Nov 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:52 EST
+
+     Doesn't matter.  The Babylon 5 story ends at the final episode of year
+five.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 145       Thu Nov 12, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:20 EST
+
+     Speculation will get you nowhere.  And there will never be a Babylon 6.
+
+     Nyah!
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 166       Sat Nov 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:21 EST
+
+     BTW, I'll be giving a Babylon 5 presentation at Loscon on Saturday the
+28th at 2:00 p.m.  I'm going to try to get a cast member to come along, maybe
+the director, depending on circumstances, but can't promise anything at this
+time.  We'll see.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 168       Sat Nov 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:41 EST
+
+      I'm told there should be a new newsletter out in a couple of weeks, or
+thereabouts.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 175       Sat Nov 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:13 EST
+
+     It's five years our time.  How many are now working unofficially...
+varies.  And it's very likely that the official word will come after the
+delivery of the final mix, yes.  (Have I equivocated enough, d'you think?)
+
+     Don't yet know the final shape that the B5 presentation will take at
+Loscon.  But will advise when I do know for sure.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 182       Sun Nov 15, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:22 EST
+
+     Young, feh...some days I feel 90.  Mainly because of the effort involved
+in getting B5 to the screen.  I showed up the othe day at Harlan's for dinner,
+and he looked at me, eyes wide, "My GOD you're getting grey," he said.  It's
+happened a lot in a little time, kind of like the way Clinton went grey in the
+one year of the campaign.  And now I've had to get multiple pairs of
+glasses...regular, reading, and computer (with one pair of bifocals to go from
+reading to computer)...feh, I say, feh!
+
+     I'm 38.  Hurtling rapidly toward 40.
+
+     "Many decades of JMS."  Hey...don't you threaten ME!
+
+     Now, where the hell was I?  Oh, yeah....
+
+     Basically, everything about the Earth Alliance is fractious, one side
+threatening to pull the whole thing apart, and this applies not only to worlds
+and colonies, but the nations that remain after the E/M War.   That's one of
+the reasons I chose the term "Alliance," because it's anything BUT.  It's at
+best a shaky coalition.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 187       Mon Nov 16, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:20 EST
+
+     Various and sundries to report....
+
+     Today I, other exec producer Doug Netter, and director Richard Compton
+went over to Stewart Copeland's place to hear about 80% of the music for B5.
+It's *really* terrific stuff that just drives the show like a sonuvagun.
+Cross BLADE RUNNER with EQUALIZER in tone and you've got something *close* to
+what Stewart's done for us.  Brilliant stuff.
+
+     Apparently the B5 cover story in Cinefantastique is coming out; Ron and
+his crew got a copy or two (even though I, Chief Babbler, did *not* get one),
+and I haven't yet seen it, though a few pages got faxed to me from Ron's.  I
+think it's okay, though again I've only seen a part of it.   I read parts of
+it through my fingers...and even now, from the other room, where my spousal
+overunit sits reading the article, comes this VOICE in a pitch sufficient to
+shatter lead, "I can't BELIEVE you SAID that!!!"
+
+     Sigh.  I've gotten better, really I have.  And now, when I have to give
+an interview of a couple hours duration, I can be as diplomatic as anyone
+could ask for.  In the case of the CFQ article, we basically gave the reporter
+carte blanche...he could go anywhere, talk to anyone, hang around as long as
+he wanted to...and sometimes, when things are going well, the enthusiasm hits
+you, or you come up with a funny line that you say in an incautious moment.
+Nothing big, just enough to remind me that there is much to be said sometimes
+for Shutting One's Mouth.
+
+     BTW, tomorrow (Tuesday) night, on the Discovery channel, they're goign to
+be broadcasting a show about the video toaster, that I hear will have some B5
+stuff in it.  It's their "Inventions" show, and it airs, I believe, at 9
+eastern/western, 8 central.
+
+     From the other room:  "You said WHAT?"
+
+     I think I have to go now....
+
+                                                          jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 189       Tue Nov 17, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:19 EST
+
+     Marilyn...I just downloaded and saved the Jack London quote to disk.
+That's definitely a keeper.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 193       Tue Nov 17, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:27 EST
+
+     Yes, nanotech is something I'd like to get more fully into.  My basic
+problem is that I'm not as up on the literature as I should be (one reason why
+we'll probably be taking on a scientific advisor on the show, to keep us
+honest and answer these kinds of questions).  We have to find logical and
+interesting ways to make{ use of that tech, but *without* getting bogged down
+in explaining what the heck nanotch IS every time we use it.~r  It{{ {is,
+after all, a difficult concept for a lot of folks to grasp (or seems to be,
+anyway).  But in any event, to the question at hand, yes, we do plan to
+incorporate it, how and where and to what extent has not yet been determined.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 203       Wed Nov 18, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:56 EST
+
+     Ah, well...one can but hope.  I'd thought they would show some, and am
+surprised they didn't.
+
+     Re: the Wishcon presentation...the idiots with the flash cameras were not
+so much a problem, except that they annoyed those around them, and whited out
+the screen (thereby guaranteeing that the cretins who can't follow directions,
+who have no qualms about being rude to others, didn't get a thing for their
+efforts...I *hate* that kind of thing).  The one thing that guaranteed, in my
+mind, a complete shut-down would be if I saw anyone running a video camera.
+At one point, I thought I saw someone, and moved across the room...only to
+discover, much to my relief, that it was someone with a red LED on her
+earring.  Had it been a video camera, I would have had no choice but to stop
+it, and was fully prepared to do so.
+
+     I don't bluff.  Ever.
+
+     Re: the comment above about no insecurities...sounds great, I just wish
+it were true.  Never stopped believing in the dream, but as for my potential
+to realize it...constant insecurity.  And frankly, I think that if I ever
+*stop* being insecure, stop doubting, I may as well pack it in and get out of
+the business.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 209       Wed Nov 18, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:46 EST
+
+     Yeah, I understand Mojo was either going to show up, or has shown up, but
+no confirmation yet.
+
+     BTW, I've now seen the rest of the B5 article in Cinefantastique, and
+it's basically okay.  Some factual errors here and there, and a few misquotes,
+but nothing terminal.  (One note...the caption writer, whenever he had a shot
+of someone holding something that he didn't recognize,  described it in the
+caption as a 'tricorder,' when in one case it was a gun, in another case it
+was a security palmtop passkey device, allowing access to certain areas; we
+don't HAVE tricorders, thank you very much).
+
+     Other than that, seems pretty good, and there's certainly a lot of stuff
+from the show you haven't seen before (and a couple of things you shouldn't
+have seen, but that's life), the budget information is not even close to being
+correct (we had more than they indicate), and it gives you a real sense of the
+people who are involved behind the scenes, the lengths they went to to make
+the show work and look good, and our ideas behind the design and stuff.
+Mistakes notwithstanding _ and I've never seen an article yet that got it
+100% in any magazine, there's always something that's not quite right (calling
+him Captain Sinclair in the article instead of Commander), it's still probably
+the best article to appear yet on B5.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 214       Wed Nov 18, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:31 EST
+
+     Re: the 5 year arc...no network has ever, or will ever, commit to a run
+that long.  It'll all be dependent upon how we do.  And that's the tricky
+part.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 230       Sat Nov 21, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:17 EST
+
+     Yeah, it's quite an involved article (or series of articles).  Some funny
+stuff, too.
+
+     To the question before...yes, the actors are signed (via option) to do
+the series; yes, I am writing material that will be used in the series.  Re:
+the series pickup...I know more than I can say, and as a rule it seems I say
+more than I should.  Something official probably can be said after December
+2nd.  That's all I can say.  For now.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 236       Sun Nov 22, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:39 EST
+
+     No comment.
+
+     (But it's a *polite* no-comment!)
+
+                                                           jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 241       Sun Nov 22, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:30 EST
+
+     Just FYI, I agree with every point about the E! show, and have  drafted a
+note telling them so.  It's just awful.
+
+     The CFQ article(s), however, I like more as I read them.  Once the shock
+wore off....
+
+                                                            jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 248       Mon Nov 23, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:33 EST
+
+     Ron: one crisis at a time, please....
+
+     Jeff: in large part, the question of timing is outside of our control or
+influence.  Here is the situation: we are part of a new network.  That network
+requires shows.  We were initially on tap to be one of the first two shows out
+of the gate (they work in two-hour blocks of shows per night, that's the
+deal).  But in a way, we fell victim to our own dreams...what we were
+promising seemed *so* impossible to do for television that we were asked to
+prove that it could be done at ALL, let alone done well, before a series
+commitment would be made.  As a result, two other shows went into the two
+available slots to be first out of the gate.
+
+     Meanwhile, we went on to try and prove our point, that a show on this
+scale *could* be done.  And we not only delivered to Warners what we promised,
+we delivered more, and we delivered better.
+
+     Only now here's the catch...that one night of programming that the
+network was to begin airing, the two hours, are set.  So now what do they do
+with us?  Basically, you have two options: 1) Remove one show from the lineup,
+or 2) open up a second night of programming.  Just one problem; you can't open
+up a second night of programming with just one show, you need two.  I'm sure
+there are other options that I've missed, but those are the two biggest.
+
+     It isn't like an established network which can drop you in on any night
+of the week.  This is a new concern, like the Fox network in its early days,
+and we have to adjust.  Once the decision is made about how this is going to
+be done, and how soon, is something that will have to  wait for a general
+announcement.  (Would a second night start in the summer, for instance, or the
+fall?  That would depend in large part on how fast the stations wanted to gear
+up, and how fast the second program for that night could get into production.)
+
+     All I'm saying is that there are a LOT of factors at work here, and
+though it looks obscure from the outside, it all makes sense from in here, and
+believe it or not, it's all very positive.  And I hope to not only say more,
+but be *very specific* about it all in a couple of weeks.  At that point, I
+should be able to answer any and all questions about timing without, as you
+say, "equivocation."
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 249       Mon Nov 23, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:39 EST
+
+     P.S.  If you don't normally check, and you live in LA, be sure to note
+message 90 in topic 5.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 257       Mon Nov 23, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:12 EST
+
+                        *** Announcement ***
+
+      The most current edition of BABYLON 5, the full two hours, will
+      be shown at LosCon on Saturday, November 28, from 4-6 p.m.  The
+      cut in question has been color-corrected and includes all of the
+      EFX scenes and other visuals, but still lacks the sound effects
+      and Stewart Copeland's soundtrack (though I may find a way to at
+      least indicate some of what it will sound like).
+
+      Insofar as I know, this will be the ONLY preview to be shown at
+      a convention on the west coast prior to broadcast.
+
+      The room only seats about 300, so if you're in LA and plan on
+      attending Loscon (at the Los Angeles Airport Marriot), you may
+      want to get there early.
+
+      Oh...and those who saw the Wishcon presentation are now free to
+      discuss it at length, but please try and keep the discussion in
+      the B5 spoilers topic.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 265       Tue Nov 24, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:01 EST
+
+            YAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 270       Tue Nov 24, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:42 EST
+
+      Luis...jeezus, you can see how rumors take off...my 665 yell was in
+response to 664, and Ron's suggestion (tongue in cheek) that we "make each
+episode (of the series) two hours."  Just knowing how much angst goes into
+making 22 *one* hour shows, at the idea of doing 22 *two* hour
+shows...YAAAAGGGGHHHHH.
+
+     Got it?
+
+     Context is everything.  If there's a message you don't get, check the one
+preceding.
+
+     Amazing...the rumor mill just cranks out this stuff....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 272       Tue Nov 24, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:06 EST
+
+     Okay, I have now received a copy of the rumor, which started over on
+Usenet, then jumped to Internet, and now here.  And it was not intended as a
+joke.  The person who wrote the original message _ the name on the message
+was Woody Harper, but I doubt very much that's a real name, unless anyone here
+can indicate otherwise _ claimed to be quoting an actual article in Variety.
+Not that he'd heard something, but that he himself had seen the article, and
+then proceeded to "quote" from it at length.
+
+     It's malicious, destructive, sick disinformation of the worst kind.
+We've had some of this before _ I haven't talked about it because it's not
+the kind of thing I think we need to bother people about _ and it's mostly
+from aberrant Trek fans who perceive a threat and want to try and screw us up,
+destroy the word of mouth building about the show.
+
+     (One sure way to tell about these things...the only time I've been
+referred to in print as Joe Straczynski has been in SF stuff, most recently in
+Cinefantastique, and it's doubtless no coincidence that this rumor surfaced
+within days of the CFQ piece coming out.  Whenver I've been mentioned in
+Variety or the other industry trades, it's *always* been as J. Michael, NOT
+Joe.  So that alone would be suspicious...and all anyone has to do is go down
+to the nearest library and check Variety; no such article ever appeared.  But
+rumors have a life of their own, and nobody bothers to check, and hysteria
+results.  Apparently a number of folks on Internet and Usenet actually
+*believed* the story.)
+
+     There is a very destructive, very sick minority in fandom, of which this
+is a part.  I am now in the process of tracking down the alleged Woody Harper.
+And he and I are going to chat.
+
+     And I suspect that I will enjoy it far more than he will.
+
+     Meanwhile...just to head this sort of thing off at the pass in future,
+bear in mind that I have now been on this and one or two other systems for
+just over a year talking about B5.  Whether the news has been good, bad or
+indifferent, I've been right out there with the facts.  If something like this
+had happened, or were even within the REALM of possibility _ which it ain't,
+simply by virtue of my contract with Warners, if nothing else _ you would
+have heard about it directly from me, here.  If you come across something
+bizarre, you can be sure it's bogus unless it's been mentioned here.  There's
+no *need* for these kinds of rumors; they usually arise only when there's no
+access to the persons involved.  But access here is 24 hours a day.
+
+     Having said he saw the article, and quoting it himself "verbatim,"  the
+crank in this case has left no room for saying it was just a mistake.   And he
+has upset a lot of people.  Me, I don't get upset.  I am, however, a carrier.
+This is just one more stupid fan prank, there will doubtless be more.  That's
+the one drawback in achieving even a modicum of visibility in SF, particularly
+SF media...it brings out the loonies who think that this is Good Clean Fun.
+Which is why a lot of SF writers and actors don't do cons anymore, and why
+I've been cautioned against putting myself out so openly on the nets.  But the
+10% who are morons are far outweighed by the 90% who are great, so I have no
+intention of letting this kind of stuff, or the other behind the scenes stuff,
+interfere with this experiment...a direct communication between the makers of
+a show, and the viewers of a show, on this kind of scale.
+
+     Anyway, just wanted to clarify where all this came from.  I'll take it
+from here....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 277       Tue Nov 24, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:28 EST
+
+     Some things one prefers to do oneself.  This one I'm looking forward to.
+
+     (BTW, anyone know anything about the Memory Alpha BBS in Phoenix,
+Arizona?  If so, please respond privately.  If not...pretend you never saw
+this message.)
+
+     Heh.
+
+     As for the question of access, and the amount of same, by curious
+coincidence I was interviewed about an hour ago by a reporter doing a short
+piece for the LA Times Magazine about this little experiment, and the most
+common question asked was, "WHY?"  Most other shows tend to put an
+intermediary out there, at best, or just ignore the nets at worst.
+
+     And I explaned my feelings about the situation, the desire to have an
+open attitude toward SF viewers, to hear what they don't want to see anymore
+on TV, and all that.  But to be honest, the single greatest reason for doing
+this, to my  mind, comes from the long work I've attempted to do in
+popularizing and de-mystifying the scriptwriting and production process.
+
+     What you have, in this topic/category, from November of last year, until
+today, is a day-by-day accounting of how a show goes from concept to pre
+production to production to editing, every stage is discussed at some length.
+And it's my hope that the archiving of this information may be of use to other
+writers who are trying to understand the process involved, and thus not be
+scared of it.  I hope it will be a useful document.  If so, then the
+investment was worth it.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 285       Tue Nov 24, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:23 EST
+
+     Let me state this more clearly: there was no humor meant in the posting.
+It was strictly malicious character assassination, and libleous, and
+potentially damaging.  This person quoted a fake article in the trades
+designed to sound authentic.  Maybe someone might think this is funny...how
+funny would it be if you signed on one day to find messages about how your
+mother had just died overnight, or you had been fired from your job, or your
+wife was having an affair.  And none of it was true, it was posted only to do
+you harm.  This is evidence of a sick mind.
+
+     There is nothing funny about it.  This is one of the problems in fandom,
+finding excuses for this kind of behavior.  I'm not yelling at you, Leviathan,
+but rather the context.  A certain group of obnoxious fans have a tendency to
+do brutal, rude, or malicious things, and other fans, with the best of
+intentions, say, "Well, it's not a big deal," and thus become enablers,
+allowing the behavior to continue.  When one SF writer had warm vomit thrown
+in his face by a "fan," half of those who saw the incident tried to find some
+excuse for it, to play it down.  This is a recurrent problem in the fan
+community, and speaking *as* a fan, if the fan community never takes any
+action or tries to just dismiss the problem, it will *never* be dealt with.
+
+     Which is why I don't ask the fan community to do anything when this sort
+of thing (or the other little nasties that have been visited upon us by rabid
+Trek fans) happens.  Hands-on is good enough for me.
+
+     Not that it doesn't take time away from the work, either; do you know how
+MANY W. Harpers there ARE in Arizona?  I do.  One by one by one....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 291       Tue Nov 24, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:47 EST
+
+     The warm vomit story is true, and has been described in the SF press.
+
+     Meanwhile....
+
+This is probably the last word I'm going to have on this whole issue, and I'm
+doing this only to (one hopes) close the issue and let us move on.
+
+Here is what I found in my mailbox.  I've removed the name of the person who
+sent it on to me as a courtesy.
+     Apparen                            *    *    *
+
+Date:  24-Nov-92 10:18 PST From:   Subject: This was posted to the
+newsgroup... Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 12:16:43 CST From:
+
+Joe, this was posted...  any comment?  With all the work you have done I'd
+hate to see you go.  I know rumors abound.  If you have no cemment.. just say
+so..  This has a lot of people scared who  have been following the progress of
+the show...
+
+___ Forwarded Message
+
+Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 13:08:52 -0500 From: mab@buphy.bu.edu (Michael Burstein)
+Message-Id: <9211241808.AA16142@buphy.bu.edu> To: b5@iastate.edu Subject: JMS
+gone?
+
+I read the following on the USENET. Can anyone confirm this? _________
+_____________________ From
+bu.edu!olivea!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ennews!telesys!
+wierius!memalph!system Tue Nov 24 13:06:11 EST 1992 Article: 4954 of
+rec.arts.sf.tv Path: bu.edu!olivea!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ennews!telesys!
+wierius!memalph!system From: system@memalph.UUCP (Woody Harper) Newsgroups:
+rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.startrek.current
+
+Subject: New Babylon 5 Production Crew Message-ID: <6uoPuB1w165w@memalph.UUCP>
+Date: 23 Nov 92 21:43:28 GMT Organization: Memory Alpha BBS - Phoenix, AZ -
+Lines: 17 Xref: bu.edu rec.arts.sf.tv:4954 rec.arts.startrek.current:17796
+
+Just out of the latest Variety:
+
+Straczynski OUT Kricfalusi IN!
+
+Warner Brothers, parent of the upcoming Prime Time Network  has announced the
+replacement of Joe Straczynski as the head  of the new science fiction
+teledrama Babylon 5. Straczynski's  replacement will be John Kricfalusi,
+formerly of the Nicelodeon  channel owned by HBO productions. Executives at
+Warner Brothers  said that the decision to sack Straczynski was based on
+"artistic"  and "directional" differences. John Kricfakusi is expected to
+bring a nouveau, surreal edge to the show in an attempt to capture  the Twin
+Peaks, Northern Exposure audience. There have been no  public comments by
+Straczynski since the announcement and John  Kricfalusi was unavailable for
+comment.
+
+             Memory Alpha BBS (memalph.UUCP), Phoenix, AZ
+                    -= The Sum of All Knowledge =-
+
+                           *     *     *
+
+Me again.  As you can see, there was nothing of comic intent in the message,
+only a desire to spread deliberately false information and unsettle a lot of
+people (which apparently succeeded, at least in part, judging from the mail
+I've received).
+
+This is the kind of thing I've encountered in the past, and this is the reason
+a lot of SF pros (writers, actors, others) have been driven off systems by the
+10% who screw it up for the remaining 90%.  About a year, two years ago, there
+was one real psycho who began innocently enough, targeting me and David
+Gerrold.  Some of those who looked on thought it was all just fun.
+
+It wasn't, and it escalated...he began coming at us from various systems,
+smearing our careers with false information (we weren't working on any
+projects together, we were just the two who came to his attention).  It went
+past destructive to downright dangerous. So finally I had no choice but to
+take action...I chased him down through 3 national systems and half a dozen
+local BBSs until I finally nailed him, via his mother's phone number, which
+he'd used to get verification on the first system he logged onto.
+
+The rest of the story...is not for delicate ears.  Suffice to say he went
+away.  Since then, I've just had to adopt a stance that says that if someone
+goes out of their way to deliberately plant false, damaging information out of
+sheer maliciousness, then I will do whatever is necessary to shut them down.
+I don't like it, it's time consuming, but the only other alternative is simply
+to stop using systems like GEnie and Compuserve, and I refuse to be driven off
+by a handful of destructive people.
+
+Anyway, I hope we can now move on.  This will be dealt with in the fullness of
+time, I only wanted to clarify a little bit.  There is too much good going on
+right now _ and too much more waiting in  the wings _ to let this interfere.
+
+Onward.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 296       Wed Nov 25, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:51 EST
+
+     Meanwhile, in other news....
+
+     Heard the last of the main soundtrack work being done by Stewart Copeland
+today, and now he's cleared to finish his mix.  It's very exotic in places, a
+cultural mix that goes from classical to choral to seemingly random to
+incorporating Masai chants...on and on.  Which is what we very much wanted.
+
+     Spent last night writing alien walla.  What, you ask, is alien walla?
+Well, when you have a crowd scene, you should be able to hear bits and pieces
+of conversations, just in background, also voices on intercoms, that sort of
+thing.  And you can't just have people making the stuff up as they go, during
+looping.  So somebody has to write it.   That would be me.  So there I am, a
+grown man, writing lines of dialogue like "Ni tupa, dogaren?" for page after
+page, and trying to be consistent and build an informal interlac dictionary.
+And you start to get goofy after a while...in the customs area, I had someone
+saying "Riten venyoo finewerk," which looks non-english until you say it aloud
+and it comes out, "Write when you find work."
+
+     I need a vacation.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 305       Wed Nov 25, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:01 EST
+
+     Ron, DON'T fly out here just for that, you'll see it soon enough on da
+teevee....
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 323       Wed Nov 25, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:39 EST
+
+     Don't currently know if there will be any chance to show B5 at any
+midwest/mideast conventions between now and airdate...after Thanksgiving,
+everything of size pretty much shuts down, and there isn't much going on that
+I'm aware of in January, and then boom, the show airs in February.
+
+     I always get twitch when I hear that someone is going to fly in, or drive
+2 or (in at least one case) 8 hours just to see the B5 thing.  My ever-present
+nightmare is that someone will go through all this effort, see the show, and
+as the lights go up, I'll hear "WHAT?  THAT'S *IT?*  I DROVE EIGHT HOURS FOR
+THIS PIECE OF CRAP?!  I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!!"
+
+     This nightmare ranks right up there with dreaming I've broken a tooth or
+my readyteller card won't work and I'm stranded in the worst part of the city.
+
+     I will probably spend most of Friday night at home, throwing up.   Which
+is what I did before Wishcon.
+
+     After five years...wouldn't you?
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 337       Thu Nov 26, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:57 EST
+
+     BTW, for those in the LA area, there will be a short piece in the Palm
+Latitudes section of the LA TIMES Magazine next week or so about this little
+experiment...direct contact on this scale between the makers of a show, and
+potential viewers, via computer net.  Also, I don't know if it's been
+mentioned, but Issue #2 of SF Age has a piece on B5, though I haven't seen it
+yet.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 340       Thu Nov 26, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:54 EST
+
+     BTW, the copy to be shown at LosCon won't be color-corrected after all;
+the new transfer was going to be made on Friday, but because of the holiday,
+got moved 24 hours to Saturday...which means it won't be ready in time for
+LosCon.  But it's still a very good print.
+
+     And there may be some extras, just to make up for it....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 352       Fri Nov 27, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:37 EST
+
+     Well, we'll think about it...but I refuse to have your children.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 362       Sat Nov 28, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:04 EST
+
+     Apparently there *will* be some marketing prior to the pilot airing in
+February, so I wouldn't be surprised to see some patches, pins and suchlike
+making its way through the stores.
+
+      Re: the Blue-tint Delenn...that particular makeup lasted, oh, about ten
+minutes until the director and I saw it.  Nothing to fault The Amazing
+Criswell and his team of elves, they were pushing the envelope, which is what
+we told them to do.  But on further consideration, we pulled it back to a
+different tone.
+
+     And yeah, I've lost a bit of weight over this thing...though I'm getting
+a bit of it back.  I lost about 1 pound per day as we were actually shooting.
+
+     BTW, re: Loscon...it's confirmed for 4-6 p.m. Saturday, and as well as
+being there myself, also present will be Patricia Tallman, Jerry Doyle, Ron
+Thornton, the alleged Mojo, and possibly one or two others.  But the first
+four are confirmed.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 419       Wed Dec 02, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:14 EST
+
+     Sorry if I've been rather quiet the last few days; I'm somewhat waiting
+for some news to come in, and that kind of makes me forget to post.  "Well,
+I'll wait until *this* comes up, then I'll drop a note."   Like Mr. Ed, I try
+to talk only when I have something to say.
+
+     (Oh, btw...Mr. Harper has been found.  He hid behind a hyphenated name to
+make it hard to find.  Didn't work.  'Nuff said.)
+
+     Today it looks as though Warners has closed the first substantive
+merchandising deal for a B5 computer game (or is about to close it).  When I
+have more details, I'll pass them along.  If preliminary reports are correct,
+it's a good company.  In addition, there will be some additional marketing
+efforts made in the next month or two, some of which may be quite interesting.
+(And I hope *finally* to be able to say something about a B5 comic.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 420       Wed Dec 02, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:18 EST
+
+     Cross-posted there...about the question of color: this is something that
+Ron and I discussed earlier and at some length.  If space in time becomes as
+accessible as the local freeway, people are going to start to look at their
+modes of transportation as more than just plain-white people-movers.  There
+will be color.  And color will vary by species, by ability to see various
+hues, what's considered offensive by some will be quite proper to others.
+
+     The only part of space that's blue-ish is the nearby nebula, which is as
+close as you can get to being astronomically correct.  If you were at that
+distance, that's how it would look.  Some nebulas are truly beautiful in terms
+of their coloration, and they're *huge*, can fill a large part of the sky from
+the right POV.  Everything else, though, is jet-black.  (The nebula is far
+clearer in the color-corrected copy, and space is much blacker.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 431       Thu Dec 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:19 EST
+
+     Nothing that I can say about the game for now, except that it is a very
+good company.  Right now, all that is being worked out is the actual licensing
+of the Babylon 5 name; nothing of the game itself has been worked out yet.
+I'll be directly involved with the game design, so it'll be kept consistent
+with the general B5 storyline.
+
+     As to the Aliens comparison...no, not really, at least not from my POV.
+I didn't want this to be a non-stop action show...that's more SPACE RANGERS.
+My goal with this was a science fiction dramatic series, so the tack required
+is different.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 434       Thu Dec 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:37 EST
+
+     Yes, the effects have been tweaked a bit, made clearer and better.
+
+                                                         jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 440       Thu Dec 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:16 EST
+
+  
+
+                  I guess the package arrived....
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 443       Fri Dec 04, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:47 EST
+
+     Alien walla goes on a separate page, just to give to the voice guys when
+people come in to do looping.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 454       Fri Dec 04, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:03 EST
+
+     Hmm...*I* still haven't received a copy of this alleged apology, so would
+be interested in a copy.  As for V, whether or not that eventually gets
+novelized is an open question, and not one on the top of my list just now.
+When and if anything gets set up, I'll be sure to post the info here.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 461       Sat Dec 05, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:50 EST
+
+     Because everything downward from the core is down, you're always walking
+on a level surface.  And it's Delenn.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 475       Sat Dec 05, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:36 EST
+
+     Yeah, the layout (red/blue, etc) in CFQ is basically correct (it should
+be, we supplied it), but there was a small glitch in the script that didn't
+incorporate that.  Down the road, we'll be more rigorous about that.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 483       Sat Dec 05, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:53 EST
+
+     Yes, the grey and brown (slummier) sections are a deliberate design going
+in; just like in the early days of cross-Atlantic transit, you'd have the
+wealthy folks who could afford to go first-cabin, and the folks who went
+steerage down deep in the hold, looking for a new life and new opportunities.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 494       Sun Dec 06, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:34 EST
+
+     Yeah, in general, I'm quite pleased by the article(s).  It/they really
+give a sense of the details involved in the show.  In some cases, the details
+are so small that sometimes you can only just make them out, but subliminally
+they add to the sense of realism.  Any other specific comments/questions about
+the CFQ piece?
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 502       Mon Dec 07, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:54 EST
+
+     You bring up a good point re: Delenn's makeup.  "Those who don't remember
+the past are doomed to repeat it."  In remembering the very real problems
+Leonard Nimoy had post-Trek _ in which it was him in every way  except for
+the ears, making him at once recognizeable but yet typecast as an alien _ I
+talked to our prosthetics people early on about making very specific designs
+to counter-act that.  Neither Andreas as G'Kar nor Mira as Delenn can even be
+recognized outside their makeup, so that will help to avoid typecasting for
+them.  Londo is very human, and that which is not "normal" is so outrageous
+that when you take it off, you change the whole profile of the actor.  So
+again, it shouldn't have any typecasting effects.  And certainly there's no
+seeing past Kosh....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 508       Mon Dec 07, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:57 EST
+
+     Yes, we're trying to use real stars and constellations in our script
+references, as well as indications of new ones that may have been discovered
+in the 200 years between now and the time of B5.  (At one point, a tech-
+runner's background is being discussed, and they mention that he ran forbidden
+technology into the Vega and Proxima systems, for instance.)  Which star is
+the one Babylon 5 orbits?  One that hasn't been discovered at this point in
+time...but in about 50 years, it'll show up on the starcharts.  It's a fairly
+small star, dwarfed and hidden by several nearby binaries that overwhelm the
+spectrum visible from Earth.
+
+     Yeah, that's the ticket....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 511       Tue Dec 08, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:10 EST
+
+     Re: language...English is the basic language of B5, since it's run by the
+Earth Alliance.  But it's also multi-lingual; there are signs in English,
+Interlac, and Centauri, and as we get into later stories, the question of
+language and communication will play a larger role (and the non-language signs
+are designed to be cross-species in nature).
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 516       Tue Dec 08, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:21 EST
+
+     There's a lot that can be said about the history of the various races,
+and others out there that we may not yet know about as of the time of the
+series...unfortunately, I'm not at liberty to comment.
+
+     Re: the "joke"...this is what people say after the fact to excuse stupid
+or mean-spirited behavior.  When they're caught out and exposed, they come
+back with, "Hey, I mean, I was only joking."  I don't buy it.   Nor does it
+reconcile with other information.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Computer EFX Tech-Talk 
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+184 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 1         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:10 EST
+
+     Well, I figured I might as well start this topic, since it'll have to get
+going one way or another.  Basically, it's for all the stuff that I barely
+understand myself.  Good luck, and stay out of the line of fire.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 8         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:33 EST
+
+     I don't know if the efx were sped up for the Toaster demo, and agian, (or
+again), that's only early stuff.  Apparently when some EFX are made, they're
+produced at 30 frames per second, and then slowed to 24 fps to match the other
+footage.  I think....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 11        Wed Nov 04, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:38 EST
+
+     I'm not sure...I *do* know that Ron has gotten a LOT of beta-stuff that
+won't be released anywhere for a while yet, and has put it all to good use.
+We've got all kinds of nice little secrets we're waiting to spring.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 15        Thu Nov 05, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:44 EST
+
+     I think I got my figures screwed up.  We *did* shoot the pilot (and will
+shoot anything that follows) at 30.  I remember because somebody or other
+groused about the extra film costs.  My error.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 27        Mon Nov 09, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:41 EST
+
+     Okay...in brief, the way standard space EFX are done is that they create
+a plate of a starfield; over this, they put a plate of a planet, then finally
+overlay a plate of, say, a ship going by.  Nothing is really to size or in
+perspective.
+
+     What Ron has done is to create, in the computer, a sector of space about
+as big as a solar system.  He's put the star *here*, Babylon 5 there, the
+bookend planet and moon over there, and anything that enters that system _
+ships or anything else _ are sized to scale.  It's ALL created to the actual
+scale involved.  So that when an object moves through that sector of space,
+it's moving through "real space," with everything in its proper perspective.
+Consequently, the eye accepts it as more real, more 3-dimensional.  Things
+moving away recede into the proper size and distance, and approach growing in
+correct size and perspective.   It's really a stunning effect.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 29        Tue Nov 10, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:47 EST
+
+     Good comments, will pass them on to Ron.  Only points that I can respond
+to: I think the blue sections are just coloration, to help tell the various
+parts apart from a distance, so it isn't monochromatic and visually dull; and
+the jaggies you detect in the starlog photos are from the low-res photos they
+used in places.  Some shots are high-res, some are low; the jaggies are
+generally in the low-res photos.
+
+     Will convey the rest.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 35        Tue Nov 10, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:28 EST
+
+     We'll be able to use a LOT of new footage (EFX) in every episode of the
+series, unlike TNG, for instance, which generally uses the same shots  with
+different planetary backgrounds, and the same fly-by shot.  On average, we'll
+be able to do 3-4 *new* minutes of footage for every show, and can build up
+from there.  Combined with the stock that we will have and which will grow as
+we go, that'll give us a heck of a look.
+
+     Some astronomical data went into the design of the starscape and the
+nebula; how much, I don't know offhand, that's Ron's area.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 39        Wed Nov 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:45 EST
+
+     I'm working on it, I'm working on  it....
+
+                                                       jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 50        Fri Nov 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:42 EST
+
+     BTW, though Ron isn't on now, there's some speculation that Mojo may
+start making appearances here.  Whether this is good or bad, who knows...?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 69        Sun Nov 15, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:26 EST
+
+     The long shot of the B5 Garden was indeed computer-generated.  We'd built
+a full-size model _ about 10 feet long, in fact _ but it just didn't give us
+the look we needed.  In retrospect, we're not completely satisfied either with
+the look of what we got, so we're going to take some different approaches to
+it in the series.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 96        Thu Nov 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:16 EST
+
+     "Ron has faith in me to represent B5."
+
+     Excuse me for a moment..............................
+
+     ......................................................!thud!
+
+     (someone wake me when it's over)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 123       Wed Nov 25, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:44 EST
+
+     "Anyone care to argue with that?"
+
+     Yeah.  Me.
+
+     You got a problem wit' dat?
+
+     It can always be better, Mojo.  And it will be.  Let's start with the
+spider transport, shall we...?
+
+     "Rico, Morello, hold him down...we just wanna talk ta him a minnit, don't
+we boys?"
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 128       Sat Nov 28, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:05 EST
+
+     Fit on the back seat of a Honda Accord?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 149       Wed Dec 02, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:08 EST
+
+     I can't elaborate, but the first script that I've turned in for an hour-
+episode has an *extremely* elaborate EFX sequence (several of them, actually,
+which are linked) which goes considerably beyond anything we demonstrated in
+the pilot.  Ron went over the sequence, and apparently it poses no problem.
+Beyond that, we have general plans to push this new technology to the absolute
+edge of its capabilities.
+
+     The pilot was a test...the GOOD stuff is still to come.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+REPly to topic,   QUIt reading
+STArt new topic,  #,#-# read prior
+PERmanently ignore this topic
+MARk or UNMark this topic
+or <RETURN> to continue ?
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Cast and Characters    
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+210 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 5         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:37 EST
+
+     It's a fine question.  The answer is yes and no.
+
+     In most everyday situations B5 operates fairly autonomously; EA doesn't
+generally get involved unless there's a very good reason.  And  from time to
+time, they do.  That happens right off the bat in the pilot movie, where they
+stomp down hard.  They exercise other authority from time to time _
+"suggesting" that a group of Centauri representatives be given the VIP
+treatment in order to encourage them to invest and help to defray the cost of
+running B5 (an issue that never seems to come up in TV SF...just how much DOES
+the Enterprise cost to run?), and in the series, there's considerable conflict
+planned for down the road between those on B5 and the EA officials (especially
+since not everyone is 100% behind B5, and would love nothing more than to see
+it shut down).
+
+     Wheels within wheels...that's the secret.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 8         Wed Nov 04, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:56 EST
+
+     Well, you can find a comprehensive cast list in the first message in the
+"Behind the Camera" topic here.
+
+     Briefly: Commander Jeffrey Sinclair (Michael O'Hare); Lt. Commander
+Laurel Takashima (Tamlyn Tomita); Security Chief Michael Garibaldi (Jerry
+Doyle); Dr. Benjamin Kyle (Johnny Sekka); Ambassador Delenn (Mira Furlan);
+Ambassador G'Kar (Andreas Katsulas); Ambassador Londo Mollari (Peter Jurasik);
+Telepath Lyta Alexander (Patricia Tallman); Sinclair's love interest, trader
+Carolyn Sykes (Blaire Baron); Ambassador Kosh...an open question.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 10        Wed Nov 04, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:00 EST
+
+     Communications will be instantaneous in *most* cases.  Once a ship enters
+hyperspace, however, communications can become more problematic.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 27        Sun Nov 08, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:43 EST
+
+     The character of Laurel Takashima, and the actor Tamlyn Tomita, ain't
+going NOWHERE.
+
+     (An incredible simulation of a producer putting his foot down.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 33        Mon Nov 09, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:35 EST
+
+     There is a certain degree of ageism and sexism going on here, I think.
+Tamlyn is within striking distance of the ages of Shatner when he first
+appeared as captain of the Enterprise, and of Frakes when he first appeared as
+2nd on the NG Enterprise.  No one seemed to think it was a problem with them,
+since they were men...so why is it inappropriate for a woman?
+
+     This is probably the dopiest (my regrets, but that's my opinion) problem
+I've come across regarding this whole thing.  We cast for the role of Laurel
+Takashima from across a wide age range, from 30s up through the late 40s and
+up a bit.  The BEST PERFORMER was Tamlyn Tomita.  She just knocked us through
+the back wall.  Am I or any producer supposed to say, "No, we can't hire her,
+she looks too good"?  Are we supposed to buy the okeydoke _ proferred by a
+sexist society _ that a woman can't look good and be smart?  Certainly the
+men in our show, if the "yum's" I heard from a lot of women are any
+indication, are attractive.  Should we cast only gnomes?
+
+     The stone cold fact, apart from opinions, is that it is absolutely valid
+that a person in his or her 30s could command that task aboard Babylon 5.
+Whether or not it doesn't fit with someone's political agenda is irrelevant.
+I'm not here to reinforce ANYone's political agenda.  My task is to find the
+best stories, and the best performers to render that story.
+
+     I've made a concerted effort, and will continue to do so, to find as many
+varied actors as possible for the show...ethnic backgrounds, a 50/50 mix of
+sexes and ages.  One character which will recur in the series will be a Latin
+American woman in her late 40s or early 50s, who is in charge of the
+environment aboard Babylon 5, a monumentally vital task.
+
+     There were some concerns that casting Johnny Sekka as Dr. Benjamin Kyle
+would be problematic; born in Africa, educated in England, he has a very
+pronounced accent, and we already have other accents in the show.  We heard
+the concern that he might not be accepted.  I ignored that because he was the
+best person for the role.  Period.  I got hit with the "make him more
+streetwise" notion from some people (not at Warners), since that's what one
+tends to see these days.  But it's important, I think, to show a variety of
+approaches to black (and white and asian and latino) characters.  You tend to
+see few black actors in dramatic roles in television, and I think that's
+scandalous.
+
+     That was why I wanted to make the second in command Japanese, to try and
+counter the Japan-bashing, to make it clear that we're one world.  And now the
+same old stereotypes and divisiveness rears its ugly head.
+
+     There are only two kinds of actor in the world: good actors and bad
+actors.  To take fault in someone's performance is absolutely the right thing;
+to look at someone's genetics or sex or age and say "She's too old" or "She's
+too pretty" or "He's too old"...nonsense.  How old was Amelia Earhart when she
+made solo transatlantic flight?  33.  And she was 30 when she risked being a
+passenger on such a flight.  There are women the same age as Lt. Cmdr. Laurel
+Takashima training and working now in ops on the space shuttle.
+
+     Politics and prejudice make poor partners when linked with drama.  And I
+can't even believe I'm spending time responding to this.
+
+                                                                 jms*
+
+     (*who had his first stage play produced while still in high school, had
+written _ on contract _ his first TV script at 18, his first movie script
+under contract by 21, and was working for the Times and TIME, Inc. by middle
+twenties.  Or, as Tom Servo says in MST3K, "Deal with it, pink boy!")
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 46        Tue Nov 10, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:13 EST
+
+     Cindy...wait.  You're taking something that wasn't meant the way you're
+responding to it.
+
+     The only way that B5 has been able to turn into something of quality is
+because everyone involved checked their egos at the door.  What you have to
+do, in an environment like that, is to invite everyone to express an opinion.
+But you have to remember that it's a two-way street; some of the best things
+about the show came out of arguments that were absolute knock-down drag-outs,
+not against each other, but against or for ideas and concepts and approaches.
+That we all respected each other was a iven,  so we were free to just argue
+relentlessly with each other and we knew it was never personal.
+
+     Everyone down to the guy who make the meals was free to tell me I was
+full of it (and did, often, btw), and I was free to do the same.  What I have
+always respected most is someone who can intellectually counterpunch.  You
+made a point.  Strongly.  I disagreed.  Strongly.  Now don't tell me you're
+hurt, stand your ground and tell me WHY I'm wrong.   You can be hurt and
+wrong, or you can be hurt and right.  You shouldn't be hurt because it wasn't
+meant personally, and was strictly a response to the ideas and context and
+concepts you suggested.
+
+     Neither you, nor I, should have to softpedal our opinions here, because
+as soon as that happens, it becomes about ego rather than about what's
+actually *right* in any given situation.  You felt strongly about your
+opinion.  I could have come back with a "Gee, I'm hurt by that," which btw
+would have been marginally true...and totally irrelevant.  What I had to do
+was come back at you, just as strongly, with why I felt that you were wrong.
+Now it's your serve.
+
+     I don't view this as a game, btw, but rather the ONLY way in which
+anything decent ever gets done.  Case in point...when I was working on TZ, I
+wrote up a first draft of a script that I thought was just spiffy, endlessly
+terrific.  Gave it to my Spousal Overunit to read, expecting she'd love it.
+She did...but had a real problem with the ending.  It just didn't work.  And
+we went round and round on that for DAYS, and gradually, she whittled down the
+arguments and punched holes in some fuzzy logic on my part, and finally I
+stormed off to my office and looked at the script, and was sufficiently
+provoked into taking a different and better approach.
+
+     If you feel every bit as strongly now about your point of view as you did
+then, then say so, and go over my reply and tell me why I'm full  of it.  If
+you can't convince me, I'll come back just as strongly, and if we're actually
+having a DISCUSSION, rather than just trying to score points...if what we're
+after is what's correct, then sooner or later one of us will convince the
+other.
+
+     This is one of the dangers in soliciting opinions.  To an opinion that
+takes exception to the work, there are several responses.  The best and
+easiest is "Yes, you're right," and there've been plenty of those; both the
+day of the presentation, and in the Sunday discussion, some very good points
+were brought up.  Another response, usually an attempt to get rid of someone,
+is "I'll think about it."  Which is just a way to shrug off dissident
+opinions.  I respect a contrary point of view too  much to just dismiss it.
+Better to argue it out, find the strong points or weak points in the argument,
+and see if it holds water.
+
+     If a point of view crumbles under heat, it wasn't strongly held or
+properly explained.
+
+     Joey and others mentioned the viewer, at the promo screening, who took
+great umbrage in my comments that this would run five and no more.  He offered
+his opinion, and seemed genuinely upset that, having said no to studio
+opinions and fought hard to have this my OWN voice, that I wouldn't let myself
+be swayed on this point by HIS voice.  It's okay to fight someone's opinion if
+that person works for the studio or the network; when its the guy in the
+audience, he reacts with "Hey!  Wait a minute!" and gets offended.
+
+     You and others are free to say anything and everything you want; I take
+no criticism personally, however strongly voice.  And it's got to run both
+ways.  If you feel strongly about something, and I come back, it isn't a slap
+in the face, it's a discussion.  Heated, perhaps, but that's all it is, and
+somehow, with luck, the truth will emerge.  Do you want me to softpedal my
+responses or lie out of politeness?  My guess is not.  And I feel the same;
+the first person to softpedal a criticism to me should bug out now, because at
+that point the dialogue has become useless.
+
+     Fight for what you think is right.  I will.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 51        Tue Nov 10, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:52 EST
+
+     Just to differentiate here a bit...I loved Twin Peaks dearly, but if you
+missed an episode, you were utterly lost.  (And I did.)
+
+     What maddened me about TP _ wonderful as it was _ is that it never
+answered any of the questions it raised, and as stated, it was VERY easy to
+get lost.  By contrast, each episode of B5 will stand alone, and every
+question raised will eventually be answered.  Not immediately, in some cases,
+but all will be resolved.  (Generally, questions raised prominently in an
+episode will be resolved that episode; questions raised prominently in a
+season will be resolved that season; and questions that develop over the 5
+year arc will be resolved by the end of the arc.)
+
+     I make that distinction because some questions won't become apparent to
+some viewers until they watch a lot of episodes, and something begins to occur
+to them.  And then they get the answer.  By contrast, someone who watches only
+once in a great while won't think to ask the question...but will eventually
+get the answer along with the rest when it comes up.
+
+     We're talking a VERY tricky writing challenge, sort of a hat-trick, and
+if we can pull it off _ and I wouldn't be doing this if I thought we couldn't
+_ it'll be quite interesting.
+
+     As to whether or not the writing style itself can begin to compare with
+TP, that's for others to determine, not me.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 54        Tue Nov 10, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:25 EST
+
+     Yes, the rocks have meaning.
+
+     And the owls are not what they seem....
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 61        Tue Nov 10, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:50 EST
+
+     As it happens, Joan Chen was considered, but not available.
+
+     And as stated above, we are going to have a mix of things on the
+show...older women, older men, as much as possible.  (I have yet to hear
+anyone complain about the drop-dead *guys* on the show, btw.)  My own sense is
+that they look good, but they're neither hunks on the one hand, or bimbos on
+the other.  Yes, they're attractive, sometimes in quirky ways.  Sinclair has a
+dent in his forehead, his nose has been broken, he's craggy looking...but it
+works, and comes across attractively.
+
+     One thing that I want to reinforce here is that this is a *pilot*, and is
+not intended to represent what will be done in every single show.   It's
+intended mainly to get the ball rolling and introduce the main characters and
+the world they inhabit.  And, one hopes, tell a story.   Be assured that over
+the course of the series, there will be PLENTY of diversity.  What you're
+asking for is something that's already been considered, worked out, and
+implemented.
+
+     (A pilot also exists, btw, so you can fall on your face in some places,
+learn from the error, and move on, correcting them in the series.)
+
+     Overall, I think we came out quite well.  Most of the concerns that I've
+heard are more along the lines of seeing MORE.  And one can't get a five-year
+story into one movie, you have to spread these things out.  That it makes
+people want more of one thing or another, I think, speaks well.
+
+     Two last points: to the implied question above, yes, I compose all of my
+replies on-line, off the cuff.  If I didn't, I'd never reply at all.
+
+     Also, I just want to make sure that our director, Richard Compton, gets
+sufficient credit for what has been seen.  Much of the visual style and
+sensibility _ the majority of it, in many cases _ is his.  We absolutely
+could never have done it without him.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 66        Tue Nov 10, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:37 EST
+
+     Regarding Richard Compton, what we'd like to do is to bring him on as a
+director-producer, as is done, for instance, in a lot of the Bochco shows.
+Such a person directs every third episode, and works with the other directors
+to *insure* a continuity of vision, consistency in the look of the film and
+the performance of the characters, and generally making sure all goes
+smoothly, taking full advantage of all the stuff that a marginal outsider
+might not know about.  I'm a bit of a continuity-bug, and that has been shown
+to be a remarkably efficient way of keeping it all together.
+
+     Regarding the arcs...the best way I can explain it is that every other
+episode will be used to propel the five year storyline (that's a rough
+estimate; sometimes it'll be two in a row, or one in three, but you get the
+idea).  This means that half of our shows in any given season are developed by
+outsiders, in the select group we'll be using, and that will help to keep us
+fresh and open to new ideas.
+
+     The way it'll work is something like this: you set something up in
+episode 7, for instance, and then pay it off in episode 13.  But you do so in
+a way that incorporates the information passed along in #7, so that if you
+missed #7, you can still follow the story.
+
+     I've always believed in the importance of challenging oneself; and I've
+tried to do it on everything I've written, books, stories and TV.   This is
+probably the most textured approach to TV storytelling that I've ever tackled,
+requiring scale and subtlety at the same time.  What you end up doing is
+telling your A story, your B story, and giving people the thread of a C story
+without them KNOWING they're being given a third story...then paying off the
+3rd story, the C story, without making people think they've missed something
+in case they didn't pick up on anything the first time out.
+
+     From a creative perspective, it's kind of like juggling chainsaws,
+playing a kazoo and frying eggs, all at the same time...for five years.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 69        Wed Nov 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:40 EST
+
+     Sure, yeah, easy for YOU to say...I was doing just *fine* until Cindy
+asked for bacon.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 77        Wed Nov 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:47 EST
+
+     Not to be a smartass, really, but if I *ever* suggest a story where our
+main characters become children...someone whap me upside the head with a
+ballbat.  Shades of Muppet Babies....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 79        Wed Nov 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:55 EST
+
+     BTW, to those who saw it, what'd you think of Ambassador Kosh?
+
+                                                                jms
+
+     (P.S.  Do you realize that there have been almost 900 messages posted in
+this category since it went up on the 3rd?)
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 88        Thu Nov 12, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:45 EST
+
+     Yes, the origins of various of our races will be explored, and their
+histories and cultures and backgrounds and languages.  And just a note on the
+"hand" question...it wasn't Lyta's pov of Kosh's hand, it was Kosh's pov of
+Kosh's hand...maybe.  Not everything is what it seems to be.
+
+     Especially the owls.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 97        Fri Nov 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:51 EST
+
+     Cindy...lemme give you a little reality check.  You said you were hurt by
+a cavalier message about a message that took you, oh, what?  Ten minutes to
+write?
+
+     Now you're a performer.  You've worked *years* to perfect your craft.
+ You take a great deal of pride in your work.  You work long hours, long
+beyond when you're being paid, and study nights to learn every single comma in
+a script you're performing in.
+
+     And someone you don't know suggests you be stuffed in a blender.
+
+     How about some proportion and sensitivity here?
+
+     Don't ask for others to give you what you won't give in return.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 100       Fri Nov 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:18 EST
+
+     One can argue that Cindy was confusing herself with the message she wrote
+as well.
+
+    What if I had responded with, "Cindy in a blender.  Cindy meets Freddy.
+Cindy gets her eyes chewed out by ants."
+
+    Whether it's based on a message, or based on a performance, it just seems
+a little bit much to me, and cruel to the person.  Not one person faulted her
+performance; even Cindy admits as much, she just isn't what Cindy's ideal
+would be.  Fine, point taken.  And the "Laurel in an airlock" was funny for
+about five minutes.  Now it's getting just a bit much, and I feel it's
+incumbent to point that out.  Cindy felt she had been hurt by my note; how
+much more would Tamlyn be hurt by her messages here?
+
+     Just my two cents worth.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 102       Fri Nov 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:37 EST
+
+     I like to think that our crew has come a little beyond judging people by
+their appearances.  The "she has to prove herself to be one of the guys" stuff
+has been done and done and done with women characters, and I'm simply not
+going to do it again, especially with this character.
+
+     I don't have a problem with Cindy having a problem with a character (even
+though she's in the minority here).  The ONLY and I repeat ONLY thing that's
+bothered me is the constant death-of-Laurel stuff, which I'm starting to find
+distasteful.  If someone comes on here, and storms off in a rage, saying she
+found a message "hurtful" because she thought it was personal, and takes
+people to task for it, and then turns right around and takes after someone
+else, consistently, in a very  personal fashion, should either a) be more
+willing to accept same oneself, or b) not be doing so.
+
+     It's easy to forget, on a BBS, that we're talking to people.  That was
+Cindy's problem in part, she felt (if I can presume to interpret for a moment)
+that I'd forgotten that I was talking to a person, rather than just writing
+words.  Fair enough.  It's equally possible to forget that performers are not
+just phosphor-dots on a screen, but real people.
+
+     Look, here's my bottom line: I don't have a WORD to say about anyone
+criticizing anything about this show, my writing, my cast, the EFX, ANYthing,
+as long as it's constructive and not just attacking for the sake of attacking.
+And I'll even let THAT slide for a time.  The only thing that I have asked is
+for a little sensitivity and proportion equal in amount to that which was
+asked of me and others.  To speculate gleefully about someone's demise, and to
+portray an actor's work in what amounts to a destructive and hurtful fashion,
+is not pleasant to witness, especially having worked with that performer for
+over a month, having seen her stay past midnight working to get a scene
+exactly right.
+
+     It had just gone over the top, and was getting ugly in here, and I felt I
+had to respond.  Neither am I going to change the shape of my show because one
+person thinks a character is too good looking.  Cindy went ballistic because I
+said the idea of that was "dopey."  She said that it was tantamount to calling
+her dopey, that it's one and the same.  So what then is she saying of Tamlyn
+in HER messages?
+
+     This is an open forum for constructive and frank discussion of  Babylon
+5.  It is not a place to sit there safe behind one's keyboard and snipe, over
+and over and over.  I let it slide the first half-dozen or so times.  I'm not
+letting it slide anymore.  Either we are adults, or we're here to name-call
+and be "fannish" in the worst sens of the word, and I happen to think that
+this crowd in particular is a hell of a lot better than that, and that
+INCLUDES Cindy.  Throughout this process, from November on to now, a year
+later, we've had consistently wonderful and constructive conversations.  I'd
+like to keep it that way.  Because I have no desire to participate in anything
+less.
+
+     I hate to come off sounding hard-assed about it, but that's how i feel.
+You're responding strongly to Cindy's comments and position because you've met
+her; I'm on the opposite side, but in the same position.  All I'm asking is
+for proportion here, and some sensitivity to the fact that we are talking
+about real people, and there's no need for sniping along these lines.  Let's
+keep it constructive and specific.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 113       Fri Nov 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:35 EST
+
+     It was not the joke that I minded, as much as the repition of same at
+some length, and the elaboration thereupon.  That said, we can move on.
+
+     One side-light to all this, as I mentioned before (but likely it got
+missed in the flood of messages) we *are* going to have a wide range of ages
+on both side of the sexes.  The head of the environment for B5, a very
+important post, given that a change could have disasterous effects, is a life-
+sciences expert who is a female hispanic in her late 50s.
+
+     Dr. Ben Kyle is our *chief* physician, but there are actually a number of
+other doctors on board B5; you'd need that for as many people and aliens as
+we've got.  And I'm playing with one story now that features a female doctor
+in her late 40s early 50s.  And some older guys as well.
+
+     You're dealing, really, in the B5 pilot, with the first act in a 110 act
+play.  Trust me, there is more to come.  (And at one point, we'll introduce a
+character _ assuming we haven't already _ who will be around for quite some
+time, and then we'll just drop, quite casually, that the character is gay.  I
+think that this is much better than doing A Gay Story.  Just drop it in and
+move on.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 119       Sat Nov 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:29 EST
+
+     Yeah, the Pied Piper is a *great* analogy.  I thought that was handled
+wonderfully.  (I confess I'm a comics addict; a $40 a week habit, and about
+6,000+ comics.)  A good character, and I liked the way they dealt with the
+lifestyle question.
+
+     Hmm...the witchcraft thing just sent a little bell ringing...y'know, I
+figured on the continuity of most major religions, and carrying on a few newer
+(and maybe even eccentric) ones, but y'know, there's much to be said for some
+retro...would contact with other species lead us back into our own
+pasts...goddess religion revivals, druids, that sort of thing.   And, of
+course, there's going to be the influence of alien religions on humans hungry
+for new stuff (and vice versa, which I touch upon in one script already).
+Hmm.....
+
+     You'll excuse me, the wheels have begun to turn....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 142       Sat Nov 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:26 EST
+
+     On the area of religion...basically, I'm an atheist.  But what has always
+intrigued me is the range of methods people use to try and understand
+themselves, the world, and the universe they inhabit.  If one is honest with
+oneself, that has to include science, philosophy, and religion (among others).
+I don't have to agree with the *conclusions* of any of them to nonetheless
+respect the fact that for some people this is a very valid and important means
+of Understanding.  (One of the best texts I've found on this is Durkheim's
+"Elementary Forms of the Religious Life.")
+
+     So yes, that has to be dealt with and explored.  What B5 is about (in
+addition to a number of other things) is Asking The Next Question, whether
+that's about living environments for the outside (alternate atmosphere
+quarters, f'rinstance, for aliens) to different living environments for the
+INside.  What *would* the reaction be if, upon making Contact, we found a
+culture with a fascinating, involved, textured religion that had been around
+for tens of thousands of years, proffered by a race well in advance of our
+own?  If some science-fiction writer can come up with a system of belief on
+his own time and sell it into one of this country's biggest money-making
+franchises (and we all know of whom we speak), can you even imagine the impact
+something like THIS would have?  You'd likely have converts by the bucket, as
+well as a LOT of anger from the Terran religious community as backlash, as
+they lost converts of their own (though in turn, they would likely make
+converts among the aliens...can you imagine the controversy behind the
+selection of the first Minbari pope?  I _ hey, wait a minute!  That ain't ba_
+er....never mind.  Forget this conversation, it never took place.)
+
+     In any event...he said, changing topics...Monday I get to do Show and
+Tell with Stewart Copeland, and hear the majority of what he'll be doing for
+the B5 soundtrack.  I'm *reallly* looking forward to this, and will give a
+full report later.  I think we do the actual scoring session later this week
+or the first part of next week.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 159       Mon Nov 16, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:02 EST
+
+     Without question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 169       Wed Nov 18, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:32 EST
+
+     No, absolutely not...the "ideas are for public consumption" has been
+tried, and failed.  It opens one up to massive suits.  I know that you're
+responsible, will keep your word, but the next guy to do so might change his
+mind...or not get the word...it's just too much of a risk.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 177       Thu Nov 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:22 EST
+
+     Actually, it's Psi as in the Greek letter Psi, which is the root of
+Psychology, which makes you *both* right.
+
+     As it happens, initially the role of Lyta was considerably smaller.
+Then one day I saw Pat Tallman in the "Night of the Living Dead" remake, and
+was blown out of my chair.  I knew at that moment I had to use her in
+something, and kept her in mind for this role.  When we got the go, I expanded
+the role with her in mind.  Funnily enough, in the 2 years since I first saw
+her in the NoTLD remake, I was at a couple of parties at which she was also
+present (including the Horror Hall of Fame tapings over at Universal).  I
+wanted to say, "Hello, my name is JMS, and I'm a producer, and I'd love to use
+you sometime in a movie," but _ well, you can see how that sounds.  So I said
+nothing, and just waited.  Talk without action is meaningless.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 180       Thu Nov 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:51 EST
+
+     Not insofar as I know, no.  And Pat was my choice a LONG time before we
+started discussing stuff here.  We will be using a wide range of actors and
+characters, however, so be sure that you'll see this in time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 182       Sat Nov 21, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:55 EST
+
+     Just liked the sound of it, really.  Sounded exotic.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 189       Mon Nov 23, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:35 EST
+
+     Check topic 1, Luis...Katherine Lawrence posted a schedule there a few
+days ago.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 196       Sun Dec 06, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:33 EST
+
+     This is an area I've discussed with our prosthetics guys, and we're going
+to do more with it.  I think it's an omission.  At first, Delenn was going to
+have something of a buzz cut, but that got sidetracked somewhere along the
+line.  But it'll show up on others....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 207       Mon Dec 07, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:58 EST
+
+     It's Centuari Prime.  (In the corridor, though you can't see it on
+screen, there's an advertisement inviting people to visit Centauri Prime.)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+REPly to topic,   QUIt reading
+STArt new topic,  #,#-# read prior
+PERmanently ignore this topic
+MARk or UNMark this topic
+or <RETURN> to continue ?
+ ************
+Topic 5         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            (Forwarded)
+Sub: Grid Epsilon Irregulars - News & Info.
+
+This topic is for information about Babylon 5 fan groups, newsletters,
+fanzines, get-togethers, B-5 at conventions, and other general fun.
+121 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 50        Sun Nov 15, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:29 EST
+
+     Let's not get too cute here, boys and girls....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 58        Thu Nov 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:55 EST
+
+     I asked for people to respect a request I made at that time not to
+describe what was shown, how much was shown, and what scenes were shown
+especially in terms of plot.  It's my request, Phil, for the time being, so
+I'm going to have to say that nothing can be said at this time.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 62        Thu Nov 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:19 EST
+
+     No, I don't think it's unfair, as long as it's not being trumpeted (and
+that's something I have kind of asked to cut back on).  But I do agree that
+perhaps we can hold back on the inside remarks and keep them to the spoilers
+category.  Good enough?
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 65        Thu Nov 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:53 EST
+
+     Now, now, one and all...c'mon.  Play nice.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 70        Fri Nov 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:26 EST
+
+     It'll be from 4-6 p.m. on Saturday.  And I may have something more to say
+about it in the next day or so.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 90        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:38 EST
+
+     BTW, for those in the L.A. area, in case you missed this in the top
+topic, I'll be doing a B5 presentation at Loscon this coming Saturday
+(Thanksgiving Weekend) from 4-6 p.m.  Not only will a lot of B5 stuff be
+shown, but we will have (tentatively, at least) several others involved with
+B5 present, possibly the director and one or two cast members.
+
+     This may, or may not, be similar to the Wishcon presentation; I'll know
+in the next 48 hours.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 95        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:16 EST
+
+     Check the announcement re: Loscon in topic 2, by the way.
+
+     Thanks for the reference re: the writing book.  I'd very much _ VERY
+much _ wanted to get the thing rewritten and updated before getting swamped
+by B5 stuff, but I'm something of a perfectionist, and the process thus began
+taking longer than I'd slotted in the schedule, and the next thing I knew, the
+deadline passed.
+
+     I *hate* missing deadlines, I like to be responsible.  Which is why I've
+just turned in a column to Writer's Digest that, basically, invokes a leave of
+absence to get B5 up and running.  (Lawrence DiTillio will be subbing until my
+return.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 100       Tue Nov 24, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:23 EST
+
+     Rico, I don't think I understand the question.  Can you clarify?
+Thanks.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 105       Wed Nov 25, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:49 EST
+
+     Just to clarify (and I swear one of these days I'm gonna put this on a
+macro)...because of the need for consistency and to get ourselves established
+firmly, the first season will be written by two small groups of writers: 1) a
+select group I've trained over the years to my own tastes, and 2) an equally
+select group of leading SF writers.  I don't want anyone spec'ing out scripts
+for that first season...it makes no sense to do so until the show has run
+about a season.  (We've already gotten some people sending in stories, which
+get fired back with a stamped note on the outside, which I've made up, which
+reads ...AND DON'T DO IT  AGAIN!  (This is the only way to deal with
+*unsolicited* scripts; the process is one I've repeated before, Always Contact
+the Producer FIRST.)
+
+     Our second season, however, we will be more open to outside stuff.
+
+     Just FYI, most shows these days are almost 100% staff written.  I have
+always believed in the opposite.  Consequently, there will be only two people
+on staff on the series: me, as exec producer, and Harlan Ellison, as creative
+consultant.  That's it.  The rest of the show will be freelance.
+
+     And yes, the format is the same...a dramatic script is a dramatic script,
+regardless of the genre.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 121       Sat Dec 05, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:51 EST
+
+     You can probably write to Christy and tell her your tale of woe.  It
+might even work....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+REPly to topic,   QUIt reading
+STArt new topic,  #,#-# read prior
+PERmanently ignore this topic
+MARk or UNMark this topic
+or <RETURN> to continue ?
+ ************
+Topic 6         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 06:43 EST
+Sub: Where is Babylon 5? TV stations... 
+
+Babylon 5 is a cornerstone of Warner's new Prime Time Network. Here is where
+one can find the station information....
+126 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 42        Tue Nov 10, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:26 EST
+
+     BTW, although I have as yet no confirmation of this, supposedly WPMI-TV
+in Mobile, Alabama is going to carry B5.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 44        Tue Nov 10, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:38 EST
+
+     Don't tell me, tell your local stations.  They have the Power.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 47        Fri Nov 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:49 EST
+
+     WWOR *does* carry B5, but yes, not on the national feed, only local.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 78        Tue Nov 17, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:21 EST
+
+     I hope so, but do not as yet know of any such stations.  Will advise if I
+hear otherwise.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 92        Sat Nov 21, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:20 EST
+
+     WPWR Chicago.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+REPly to topic,   QUIt reading
+STArt new topic,  #,#-# read prior
+PERmanently ignore this topic
+MARk or UNMark this topic
+or <RETURN> to continue ?
+ ************
+Topic 7         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+J.HUDGENS [Fenn Shysa]       at 23:07 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 _ POTENTIAL SPOILERS    
+
+If you've seen the B5 promos or the sales info packages and want to mention
+specific items or situations without worrying about spoiling it for others,
+post & comment here... THERE BE SPOILERS HERE!
+157 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:40 EST
+
+      Tell me where you saw what you saw and I'll tell you what it was; there
+are several things you could be referring to.  (One note...in the promo, you
+see a red-haired woman standing over a casing in the isolab; that's Kosh.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 5         Wed Nov 04, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:09 EST
+
+     That's...well, I can't say that's "him" because such terms may not even
+apply.  But yes, that's Kosh.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 7         Wed Nov 04, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:02 EST
+
+     There are three phases to the presentation: an early Warners promo for
+the show, the live-action footage that I assembled on my home VCR, and the CGI
+EFX reel put together by Ron's elves.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 21        Sun Nov 08, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:48 EST
+
+     Regarding the promo...the explosion stuff (not Delenn) has been seen in
+lots of places via the downlink, so it's okay to discuss.  The only thing I
+would ask is some degree of being circumspect about plot details until after
+it airs.  But I'll try and leave it to your discretion.  One very nice thing
+about the B5 crew around here is that we keep promises.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 24        Mon Nov 09, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:04 EST
+
+     Correct.  Your eyes are sharp indeed.  Yes, the bar is shaped like a
+large 5, the same stylized 5 used in the title.  The title sequence, and the
+ending shot that pulls back 10 kilometers from B5's observation dome window in
+one take is the one that required 3 hours or so per frame for the computer to
+render.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 32        Mon Nov 09, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:05 EST
+
+     The recorders float on air-jets.  There are two kinds, the solid models
+that sit in one place (which, if you look inside, you can see the basic
+"workings" of the air-thrust system) and the CGI recorders that actually move
+around in the air.
+
+     We may play a little with the design on the observation dome (or command
+center).  The rotating lights are for two purposes: to designate the center of
+power and authority, and to act as sensors...you'll notice that the lights are
+kept fairly dim, to better see all the instruments, and to be able to look
+clearly out into space through the window without being washed out by glare.
+When someone comes in, Laurel turns to address them, and a light automatically
+descends upon her to illuminate her for purposes of the conversation.  When
+she turns back to her command console, the light fades out.  (If you watch
+closely when the pilot airs, you'll see this happening.)  This was better done
+automatically than to have her do it manually every time.
+
+     The window is made of individual sections, joined together by a very
+strong metal alloy in order to better take the strain than one large plate
+glass window.  Hence the different contours and sections of the window.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 53        Fri Nov 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:47 EST
+
+     Some very good observations.  And as for Londo, it's Londo's voice we
+chose to do the narrative at the top of the show.  Would YOU choose someone
+who was just a fuzzy and funny character...or someone who was more than he
+seemed?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 55        Fri Nov 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:37 EST
+
+     I think it's based  in part on his own European background, but I'll have
+to check....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 59        Fri Nov 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:39 EST
+
+     Yeah, the more I delve into Londo's character, the more I find him
+intriguing.  He mourns for the loss of his beloved Empire, and this makes him
+vulnerable to some dangerous temptations.  There are a number of dark corners
+in his personality...but at the same time, a vulnerability, a sadness.
+
+     In the B5 story arc, Londo goes through some *major* changes, some good,
+some tragic, some frightening.  He becomes a major player, but not in the way
+he would ever have anticipated.
+
+     (Hold back, Joe, you've got a long stretch ahead of you here....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 74        Wed Nov 25, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:03 EST
+
+     There will *definitely* be specific rules and limitations for Lyta, and
+there are currently planned 3 first-season episodes which deal very strongly
+with her, and with the whole background of the Psi Corps, how they run, what
+they do, and so on.  This is something I very much want to, and look forward
+to exploring.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 88        Wed Nov 25, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:01 EST
+
+     "Bad Bob" is not seen in the show, except as one of many such alien
+critters WAY in the background, and has nothing to do with the show, and thus
+doesn't need to be shoved out an airlock, since it was never inside to begin
+with.
+
+     Does Lyta need to touch anyone to scan them?  No.  Not at all.   You'll
+notice that she doesn't during the business meeting.  You will notice that she
+wears gloves, and long-sleeved jackets, and always is careful to avoid
+physical contact, though.  The way it works is this:  she can scan fairly
+accurately without contact.  If someone is shielded, and she has permission or
+a court order to scan further, it may require some physical contact to
+"ground" her, if you will.  It's not something she likes to do, however.
+
+     As to the other classes of P-ratings...you'll see them soon enough; there
+are at least 2 stories planned for the first season that deal with this area,
+in quite some detail.  They will deal with quite a few of the issues raised
+here in the last batch of messages.
+
+     Regarding Garibaldi...in the first hour-script that I've turned in, we do
+learn more about his past, and what brought him here.  And yes, there were
+some lives involved, but he was framed.  Doesn't mean he didn't screw up other
+things...and doesn't mean he won't screw up NOW, either.  He's had a problem
+with alcohol, and it may come back.  But there is a strong link to Sinclair
+that prompted him to give Garibaldi what is, essentially, his last chance.
+
+     Because we've created a nice range of characters, I've tried to set aside
+at least two stories apiece for each of the major and supplementary
+characters.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 94        Thu Nov 26, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:12 EST
+
+     Actually, he's not just standing there..he checks down the length of one
+hall, then checks an intersecting hall, to make sure that no one else is there
+before sealing the place off (and assuring himself that Garibaldi hasn't
+followed this far).  THEN he takes off, finishing the last of the order as he
+runs.  A commander's responsibility is to look after the welfare of his
+people.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 116       Mon Nov 30, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:07 EST
+
+     Just a quickie note here...yes, I did attend CVHS.  It's one of four high
+schools I attended: St. Benedict's, Matawan NJ; Matawan Regional High; Lennox
+High, Los Angeles; and Chula Vista High School, San Diego area.  I actually
+finished from CVHS in '72.
+
+     Re: makup costs/prosthetics...we've already built 40 different species,
+so we're set for quite some time....
+
+                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 122       Fri Dec 04, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:05 EST
+
+     I'll try and keep this in mind next time I need someone shoved out of an
+airlock....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 129       Sat Dec 05, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:53 EST
+
+     Skip: yeah, we like to have fun.  And alas, he didn't make the final cut
+(though there's a shot of him during the opening montage), but who knows, we
+may fix that in time.
+
+     Fenn: I suppose we could have you ejected, but at this early date, it
+might be a case of premature ej_ er, never mind.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
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+Topic 8         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:41 EST
+Sub: Behind The Scenes                  
+
+Production Designers, Art Directors, Costumers, Director, others...this is the
+place to discuss the production-aspects of B5...it's look and the process
+involved.
+74 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 1         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:45 EST
+
+      To get the ball rolling, here's a PRELIMINARY list of credits for
+ those involved in producing BABYLON 5.
+
+                             BABYLON 5
+                        Production Credits
+
+ STARRING:
+         Michael O'Hare
+         Tamlyn Tomita
+         Jerry Doyle
+         Mira Furlan
+
+ GUEST-STARRING:
+         Blaire Baron
+         Paul Hampton
+         Peter Jurasik
+         Andreas Katsulas
+         Johnny Sekka
+         Patricia Tallman
+
+ CO-STARRING:
+         Steven R. Barnett
+         John Fleck
+         William Hayes
+         Linda Hoffman
+         Robert Jason Jackson
+         F. William Parker
+         Marianne Robertson
+         David Sage
+         Robert Spillane
+         Ed Wasser
+
+ COSTUME DESIGNER: Catherine Adair
+
+ PRODUCTION DESIGNER: John Iacovelli
+
+ VISUAL EFFECTS DESIGNER: Ron Thornton
+
+ MUSIC BY:  Stewart Copeland
+
+ EDITED BY: Robert L. Sinise, A.C.E.
+
+ DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY:  Billy Dickson
+
+ LINE PRODUCER:  Robert L. Brown
+
+ CO-PRODUCER:  John Copeland
+
+ CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:  J. Michael Straczynski
+
+ EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:  Douglas Netter
+
+ WRITTEN BY:  J. Michael Straczynski
+
+ DIRECTED BY:  Richard Compton
+
+ CASTING BY:  Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+
+ UNIT PRODUCTION MANAGER:  Robert L. Brown
+
+ 1st ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: John Radulovic
+
+ 2ND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Joseph N. Linsalata
+
+ ART DIRECTORS:
+         Deborah Raymond
+         Dorian Vernacchio
+
+ ASSISTANT ART DIRECTORS:
+         Ted Haigh
+         Chris Mueller
+
+ ART DECORATOR:  Deborah Raymond
+
+ SET DESIGNER:  Colin DeRouin
+
+ SET DRESSER:  Michael Mora
+
+ ON SET DRESSER:  Diane Spahn
+
+ KEY SCENIC ARTIST: Ruth Gilmore
+
+ SCENIC ARTISTS:
+         Linda B. Noland
+         Burton Rencher
+         Lisa M. Whaley
+
+ CONCEPTUAL ARTISTS:
+         Peter Ledger
+         Susie Wilson
+
+ WARDROBE SUPERVISOR: Alan Trugman
+
+ WARDROBE KEY SET: Susan Roberts
+
+ COSTUMERS:
+         Donna D. Casey
+         Kelli Hurley
+         Michael Varnen
+
+ KEY MAKEUP:  Suzanne Sanders
+
+ ASSISTANT MAKEUP:  Cristina Criswell
+
+ KEY HAIR:  Myke Michaels
+
+ PROPERTY MASTER:  Guy Pepin
+
+ ASSISTANT PROP MASTER:  Miranda Amador
+
+ VISUAL EFFECTS PRODUCED BY:  Foundation Imaging
+
+ VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR:  Ron Thornton
+
+ SYSTEMS SPECIALIST/DESIGNER:  Paul Beigle-Bryant
+
+ VISUAL EFFECTS COORDINATOR:  Shannon Casey
+
+ ANIMATORS:
+         Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz
+         Richard Payne
+         Mark Swain
+
+ SPECIAL EFFECTS COORDINATOR:  John Stears
+
+ SPECIAL EFFECTS ENGINEER:  Russell Peters
+
+ SPECIAL EFFECTS MAKEUP SUPERVISOR: John Criswell
+
+ SHOP FOREMAN:  Greg Aronowitz
+
+ MAKEUP SUPERVISOR: Rob Sherwood
+
+ BACKGROUND CREATURES: Asao Goto
+
+ MAKEUP SCULPTURE & APPLICATIONS: Ron Wild
+
+ MODEL MAKER:  Ron Mendel
+
+ MECHANICS:
+         John Frassrand
+         Dave Kindlon
+
+ GENERAL EFFECTS:
+         Scott Sirag
+         Dave Snyder
+
+ ASSISTANT EDITOR: Joe Binford, Jr.
+
+ POST PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Susan Norkin
+
+ DIRECTOR OF SOUND SERVICES: Paul Rodriguez
+
+ SUPERVISING SOUND EDITOR: George Johnson
+
+ SOUND DESIGNER:  Harry Cohen
+
+ SOUND EFFECTS EDITORS:
+         Ann Scibelli
+         Ricardo Broadus
+         David Farmer
+
+ DIALOGUE/ADR EDITOR:  Cathie Speakman
+
+ ASSISTANT DIALOGUE EDITOR:  Ben Beardwood
+
+ FOLEY MIXER:  Brian Geer
+
+ FOLEY ARTISTS:
+         Vince Nicastro
+         Greg Barbanell
+
+ RE-RECORDING MIXERS:
+         R. Russell Smith
+         George Johnson
+
+ RE-RECORDING ASSISTANT: Tony Sereno
+
+ SCRIPT SUPERVISOR: Haley McLane
+
+ PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Alyson Evans
+
+ ASSISTANT PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Karen Meisels
+
+ DGA TRAINEE:  Clare Durand
+
+ PRODUCTION ACCOUNTANT: Marge Rowland
+
+ PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS:
+         Steve Kornacki
+         Madeline Falco
+
+ ASSISTANT TO EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:  Scott Ross
+
+ RUNNERS:
+         Mike Bagg
+         Rick Suggett
+
+ CAMERA OPERATOR: Stephen Collins
+
+ 1ST ASSISTANT CAMERA: Steven R. Monroe
+
+ 2ND ASSISTANT CAMERA:
+         James Ball
+         Jennifer Gilroy
+
+ VIDEO PLAYBACK OPERATORS:
+         Paul Contegialomo
+         Steve Irwin
+         Ted Schelling
+
+ SOUND MIXER: Jim Tanenbaum
+
+ BOOM OPERATOR:  Cindy Gess
+
+ GAFFER:  John K. Farr
+
+ BEST BOY:  John G. Raymer
+
+ KEY GRIP:  Jan M. Heyneker
+
+ BEST BOY GRIP:  Gary A. Williams
+
+ STUNT COORDINATOR:  Kerry Rossal
+
+ STUNTS:  Frank J. Sparks
+
+ CONSTRUCTION FOREMAN:  Curtis Laseter
+
+ CONSTRUCTION ELECTRICIAN:  Russell H. Champa
+
+ VIDEO TOASTER RENDERING SYSTEM: New Tek, Inc.
+
+ Filmed with Panavision (r) Cameras and Lenses
+
+ Edited on the Avid Media Composer
+
+ Pin Registered Transfers & Digitial Optical Compositing
+         Action Video, Hollywood
+
+ Color by Pacific Film Laboratories
+
+ Electronic Laboratory - Laser Pacific
+
+ Digital Sound & Re-Recording by EFX Systems
+
+ Vari-Lite, Los Angeles, CA
+
+ Filmed at Santa Clarita Studios, Santa Clarita, CA
+
+ Production Services Provided by Elliot Friedgen
+
+ A Rattlesnake Production, in association with
+
+ Synthetic Worlds, Ltd.
+
+ Distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution
+
+
+
+
+      (Note: all preceding credits are preliminary only.)
+                                                       jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 6         Wed Nov 04, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:06 EST
+
+     To a large degree, starring/guest-starring designations are handled
+during negotiations with agents, and in somc cases yes, do reflect whether or
+not a character is regular (in each episode) or recurring (in one-third, half,
+or two-thirds of episodes).  Here it's a little of both.
+
+     I actually don't know much about Johnny Fleck, so unfortunately can't say
+much except that he did a great job for us as a character named Del Varner.
+
+     Was at Stewart Copeland's today, taking care of last-minute spotting to
+adjust for some minor changes in the first act or two, and he played one
+section of the music for me...an early version of what the music will sound
+like in one sequence, the Vorlon docking.  Oh, man...it's *amazing* what a
+difference music makes just in general, how it makes a scene come alive...and
+all the moreso when it's as good as what I heard just a few hours ago.  It's
+everything I wanted...driving, percussive, mysterious, exotic...perfect.  He's
+going to do a dynamite job for us.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 13        Fri Nov 06, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:58 EST
+
+     If you are referring to the scene where he explains "why Babylon 5,"
+that's Lyta Alexander, our resident rent-a-telepath.  Scott Bakula?  Ewwww.
+  Most people have compared him to a younger Gary Cooper.
+
+     And yeah, Jerry Doyle does look a little like Willis...we rag on him
+endlessly about it.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 45        Fri Nov 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:12 EST
+
+     The bone that grows out of the back of Delenn's head is exactly that, not
+a decoration, but an actual part of the physiology.  It will differ with
+various Minbari in size, configuration and texture (another Minbari seen in
+the show has a darker tint to the bone structure, it's cracked and so on).
+The thought is that it grows from the back of the skull structure, and comes
+forward with age.  You can see the "root" of thed _ the _ structure whenever
+Delenn turns around.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 48        Sat Nov 21, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:12 EST
+
+                          Yes.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 52        Sun Nov 22, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:27 EST
+
+     Hey, I didn't bring it up, y'know.
+
+     Now that we're moving into a new phase on B5, there's one very important
+lesson that I've been trying to drive into my skull, and it's simply this:
+"Shut Up."  Yes, it's completely possible for me to spill the beans on
+everything in this show...and sure, that'd satisfy your curiosity...but now
+what's left for the series?  What surprises are left?
+
+     And it little serves to put ideas out there in the public eye before
+you've done them, on the off-chance they wind up elsewhere.
+
+     I have to be circumspect about a few things.  Problem right now is, I
+have to be circumspect about a *lot* of things.  We go through phases of that;
+between the last day of filming, and the start of real post production, there
+was a lull...then it picked up.  There was a lull just before we started
+filming, lots of "Well, we had another meeting" messages.  In between was
+chaos and lots of interesting info from behind the scenes (at least, that's
+what I like to think).  We'll be coming into a new phase soon enough.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 58        Sun Nov 22, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:03 EST
+
+     It's "Kosh" as in "gosh."  Having been on-site during some of the E!
+shooting, the scenes you refer to were indeed rehearsals, though I *think*
+they did some shooting during our shooting of the medlab scene.
+
+     Re: Kosh's look...the general look of the thing is courtesy of Steve
+Burg, the conceptual designer who came to us from Cameron's T2 crew.  When it
+came time to make the design functional for what we needed to do with it in
+the show, I and the costumers and the prosthetics guys got into it, and we got
+into the stained glass idea, which I think was suggested by either me or Greg
+Aronowitz, I'm not sure now which.  It's one of the designs that, like G'Kar,
+reveals more the closer you get to it; usually it's the other way around, the
+closer you get, the worse it looks.  (Keep a close eye on Londo's
+uniform...the little scarabs and decorations that are on it all mean different
+things, same with G'Kar's and Delenn's clothing.)
+
+     When Kosh was first unveiled, the director insisted on taking a shot of
+it with me.  I normally frown on this _ there are VERY few shots of me on set
+doing stuff, most of the shots I supervised are of others, since it's *very*
+important to me to underline that this is a team effort _ but I went ahead
+and posed anyway.  The photo has now become something of an intellectual
+exercise..."Which of these is the alien?"
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 61        Sun Nov 22, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:53 EST
+
+     Don't know anything about the Zentraedi or the Paranoids, so I can't
+really comment.  Re: the uniforms, yes, there are two kinds, the day uniforms
+and the dress uniforms.  Dress uniforms are used for official events,
+receptions, hearings and the like; day uniforms are used the rest of the time.
+We will be making some *slight* modifications to the uniforms, but the basic
+look will remain about the same.  What helps the uniforms overall, in terms of
+the day uniforms, is to wear them *open*, which in most casual situations
+would be the case.  And we tried to get people to wear them open, which was
+part of the design, but they felt it was important to be official all the
+time, so they stayed closed, which made them look a little more monochromatic
+than should've been the case.   So we're going to adjust it...either by having
+them a bit more varied, or getting the cast to wear them open, or some
+combination.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
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+ ************
+Topic 9         Wed Nov 11, 1992
+T.RESTIVO [Little Guy]       at 18:27 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Humor                    
+
+From *Beep Beep*, to Top Ten Lists to full-blown paradies, this is where to
+put your funny bone in writing!
+34 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 12        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+
+                     Go to your room.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
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+ ************
+Topic 10        Thu Nov 12, 1992
+SANDMAN [Henry]              at 19:25 EST
+Sub: Sex in Babylon 5                   
+
+Can't do without this one!!
+
+
+38 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 3         Fri Nov 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:48 EST
+
+                             Yes.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 5         Fri Nov 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:44 EST
+
+            
+
+
+               (In the voice of Bugs Bunny)
+               Mmmmmmmmmm............could be......
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 10        Fri Nov 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:41 EST
+
+     Let me reverse the opposite question: how do you know if a villain (or a
+good guy) is gay or not?  Unless you show someone in bed, it seems to me that
+anyone could be anything.  Why is it even an issue?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 12        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:31 EST
+
+                        ...and that's always the problem, isn't it?   Keeping
+it going for, oh, more than 10 minutes at a time....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 16        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:34 EST
+
+     RE: sexual bigotry, or racial bigotry for that matter...you have to
+understand the potential psychological consequences of contact with not just
+one, but literally dozens of different species from a hundred worlds.   We are
+singular in our heredity and our humanity, and I think that when you stop to
+look at something 8 feet tall, with feathers, fangs and fur, coming down the
+hall toward you, you have a LOT less of a problem with the person to your left
+who happens to be of a different color or sexual persuasion.
+
+     That doesn't mean that bigotry is going to disappear, however; lilke
+religion, there is some dark impulse there _ the tribal preservation
+instinct, or somedamnthing _ that keeps turning up.  The target keeps
+changing, but the impulse remains.  So likely it'll turn toward the new
+"different" people...the outsiders...aliens.  I think you'll see a lot of
+people taking an "Earth First" (no relation to the current group) mentality,
+hate crimes against aliens, that sort of thing.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 27        Sat Nov 21, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:23 EST
+
+     As it happens, I was trying to get to sleep last night, and this question
+was rolling around in my head.  (I spend so much time with these characters
+every day that when it comes time to collapse, they're still running around
+and chatting in my head, and I have to finally yell WILL YOU PLEASE SHUT THE
+HELL UP SO I CAN SLEEP HERE??
+
+     (Not that they listen, of course....)
+
+     Anyway, I was running the question of how to introduce this aspect, and
+suddenly it came through.  I think I've twigged to a means of doing it that'll
+satisfy everyone.  Subtle, but unmistakeable and to the point.
+
+     And fun.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
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+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B-5 ADRIFT!                        
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+117 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 64        Mon Nov 30, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:54 EST
+
+     Actually...not quite.  We're deliberately holding off on the next issue
+in hopes of having some...well, some news to slap in it that may be of
+interest.  So figure another week or so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 102       Sun Dec 06, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:00 EST
+
+     No, the modem's fine, because it connects to everything else.  What I
+*think* I need is some way to turn off the MNP aspect for the one BBS that I'm
+having the hardest time with...only I can't figure out how to do that.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ______
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+ ************
+Topic 13        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 21:00 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Science and Technology 
+
+Jump gates, nanotech, high-tech weapons, starship drives, sound in space, and
+other subjects of science and technology in Babylon 5.
+34 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 3         Mon Nov 23, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:19 EST
+
+     The guns are the one thing I'm just not very happy with, and we're going
+to rethink the look, as well as the function of them.  At some point after the
+final cut is...er...finalized, there will be a big production meeting of all
+the various departments to do a post mortem on those things that worked, those
+that didn't, and what we should/shouldn't do in future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 18        Thu Nov 26, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:52 EST
+
+     We're going to make the EFX of the guns move as fast as possible, to
+match even slightly the real speed that would be involved (which in complete
+reality would probably be too fast even to see, but one does what one can).
+
+     We've also tried to be fairly rigorous on the question of security.   On
+other shows, they only call up security guys when there's a problem.   If you
+watch the pilot, there are about 7 or 8 security people at the customs
+scanner, and you *constantly* see them moving down the corridor or through the
+bazaar...armed.  Not a big presence, but as you say, with 4 other stations
+lost or destroyed, you have to be careful.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS for December, 1992
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie).  
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-FANTASY [Yog Sysop]       at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5                            
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category!  As always, offering or requesting copies
+of copyrighted material, whether it's the B5 Newsletter, photos, or the actual
+movie/episodes violates copyright law and SFRT policy.
+723 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 335       Tue Dec 08, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:57 EST
+
+     It's still the original special.  It takes time to change things.
+
+     Jeff...you're taking this much too calmly....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 339       Wed Dec 09, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:37 EST
+
+     I think I'm about 6'5" in shoes.  Out of shoes, about 3'2".
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 391       Fri Dec 18, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:39 EST
+
+     With luck, maybe I'll see that particular story myself one of these days.
+Meanwhile, as before, if anyone who's seen the promo(s) or the previews wants
+to convey their feelings to their local station, I sure as heck ain't gonna
+stand in the way....
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 401       Sat Dec 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:25 EST
+
+     The pilot airs the last week in February.
+
+     The guns used are called PPGs (to answer another question), and any space
+battle sequences will use CGI effects for weaponry there as well.
+
+     There may have been a question I missed.  If so, my regrets; there's 64
+new messages since last night (yikes!)!
+
+     Oh, yeah, there was one more...it ain't making Warners watch the promos
+that'll hasten B5 the Series onto the air.  It's deciding, as stated, if it'll
+be in a second night of PTEN programming, or on the same night if something
+doesn't work out, or some other option.  It's the timing that's being
+determined.
+
+     Once the ratings are all in on all the shows, we'll know more.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 405       Sat Dec 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:31 EST
+
+     Frodo...you've wandered off the road.  It goes ever on, but you can't get
+back to it without the facts.  Rather than rehash, just get back into this
+topic and go back to 1 and read forward.  All will become clear to you.  There
+will be a series.  Be patient.
+
+                                                    Gandalf
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 419       Sun Dec 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:28 EST
+
+     The B5 "starter kit," to use that phrase, consists really of two GIF
+files in the library and some of the files compiled by Posner and the brief
+release that I put in some time ago.  That should give a fairly good
+background on the show.  Then you can dive in on the rest.
+
+     Is it my imagination, or have we added a LOT of new folks in the last few
+weeks?  If so, I'm curious to know what brought y'all here.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 432       Tue Dec 22, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:43 EST
+
+     Re: message volume...I usually log on about twice a day, and each time
+I've done that the last week or so, there's been 55-65 new messages each time,
+which means between 110 and 130 messages a day, which is rather
+astonishing...and definitely up.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 439       Fri Dec 25, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:47 EST
+
+     BTW, I spoke today with the promotions people at KBHK San Francisco about
+the B5/DS9 spots, and what they explained is that they have linked all of
+their shows (sf) in one trailer as well as doing individual spots.  In one of
+them, they go from Kung Fu to Time Trax to B5 to DS9.  So it's not a question
+of using B5 material to promote DS9, simply that they appear in the same spot.
+She's going to check their spots just to verify, but that's the explanation.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 449       Sat Dec 26, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:56 EST
+
+     Definitely more discussion here than on the other CiStem.  Largely, I
+think, because it's easier to keep track of discussions here, and the messages
+don't scroll off.  Discussion there is fairly sporadic and limited.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 467       Mon Dec 28, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:28 EST
+
+     Eeeek!  Phil...you mean I didn't get back to you?  I coulda SWORE I did!
+Eeeek!  Yes, Phil, please, by all means, the file is approved.  My apologies.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 473       Mon Dec 28, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:46 EST
+
+     (the grinding of teeth like tectonic plates)...there is no "Bob" in the
+show, not nohow, not noway, that was a background prosthetic critter that the
+E! folks grabbed and used to intro their piece.  It's got nothing to do with
+our show.
+
+     (I'm calm, calm, perfectly calm....)
+
+     Re: the photo...it's amazing how many people tell me, "You know, you look
+JUST LIKE so-and-so."  Just one of those faces, I guess.  Thankfully very few
+people to whom I've been compared have elected to sue....
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 481       Tue Dec 29, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:07 EST
+
+     Yeah, thanks, if you could tape it and send it, that'd be great.  I spoke
+to the promotions people, and they assured me it's separated out; so if you
+could send it along, that'd be great, thanks.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 515       Wed Dec 30, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:10 EST
+
+     The TV Guide writer saw the pilot, as well as the other pilots, so that's
+how that happened.  And you'll note how they approach SF; they want the slang,
+they want to know who the Bad Guys and the Good Guys are, and feel no
+compunction at all about giving away the ending.  Imagine if the shows were
+mystery, what the reaction would be.  SF is treated and viewed differently.
+
+     And re: the date for new shows given in the CFQ article, that ain't
+accurate.  Fact is, as I've noted before, we can be filming new shows within 8
+weeks of getting the word.  If the response on airing is high enough, and with
+other circumstances with the network itself dealt with we could be on the air
+by the end of this summer.  And that remains a very likely possibility.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 518       Wed Dec 30, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:30 EST
+
+     Don't know who's doing the sfx on Rangers.  I know they've gone through
+several different teams, but that's about it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 528       Thu Dec 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:53 EST
+
+     Sue...yeah, there's a lot of traffic here.  Given the usual ratio of
+posted messages to lurkers, there are now probably (and this is just a
+personal guess) 1800 to 2000 people hanging around these days in this
+category.  It might go higher than that, but I'm being conservative, based on
+what's standard in terms of posters/non-posters ratios.
+
+     Re: the CNN piece, it's probably the interview they conducted the last
+day of filming.  There we were, trying desperately to finish the movie, and
+the same day descend the camera crews from CNN, E!, Warners and some other
+places.  It was a *madhouse*.
+
+     BTW, I hear that the music on That Other Show sounds rather like ours.
+
+     I have to make a mental note to go back and re-read the David and Goliath
+story....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 530       Thu Dec 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:06 EST
+
+     I was at a party today at Pat Tallman's place, along with some other B5
+cast members, and we screened some of the pilot for the guests who hadn't seen
+anything before (to considerable ooohs and aaahs), and on the way home, my
+thoughts turned to this forum, as they often tend to.
+
+     I often get asked what it's like to do this show and see the result; the
+reaction tonight got me thinking about the Old Timers here on the B5
+discussion, the ones who've been here over a year now, and those who came
+later, who've seen this go from the secret That Which Cannot Be Discussed
+(remember that one?) to first word of shooting, the countdown to photography,
+the daily reports from the set, the discussion of the characters and the
+world...to now a point where you're finally seeing the result on commercials
+and promos and will shortly be seeing the finished product (and, of course,
+the number of you who have already seen most of the finished product)...and I
+guess I was wondering what it's like from YOUR perspective...?
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 534       Thu Dec 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:34 EST
+
+     The story of Babylon 5 will echo the history of the original Babylon.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 559       Thu Dec 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:22 EST
+
+     I've just gone through the last 24 messages, and I very much want to
+thank you for the responses and the compliments; that honest-to-god wasn't
+what I was going for when I asked the question, it wasn't "fishing."  See, to
+me, because you all *have* been a part of the process of Babylon 5 _ some in
+bigger ways than you might expect _ there should indeed be some sense of
+participation and proprietariness (is that a word?).  And mainly, I just
+wanted to know if that came through, if you were feeling as I did as the thing
+unfolds.  Because that's important.
+
+     Equally important, for me, is that this whole discussion stand as a kind
+of textbook in terms of how a show gets made, to give those who'd like to get
+into the Biz more fully understand what's involved.  And if, when one sees _
+say _ a shot from outside going into the station, one knows now what's
+involved, how the EFX were done, what headaches are behind it, then I think
+that's a positive thing.
+
+     Anyway...I'm blathering.  Many thanks for the warm thoughts; they were an
+unexpected bonus to the day.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 575       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:01 EST
+
+     Will, jeez, that's amazing...you should've said something, the B5 family
+would've been there with cards and letters.  How're you doing now?  I know it
+can be a very traumatic experience, even once you're physically 100%.
+
+     One more thing, Will.  Email me your address.
+
+     On other fronts....
+
+     One week from today, we will (or should) be finished with
+sound/music/looping edits and the B5 pilot will be complete.  It's both
+exhilirating to think about that...and there's also that post partum
+depression that hits whenever I finish a big project, a novel, or an episode
+of a series.  In my head, all I can play over are the things we should've or
+could've done to make it even better...the scenes we should have trimmed, the
+scenes we should've dropped back in again, THIS angle on a fight instead of
+THAT one...you can play with these things forever.   At some point, you just
+have to let go.
+
+     Then the next phase _ the series _ rests in large measure in your
+hands, in terms of how fast we can get this puppy in gear.
+
+     It's kind of funny, meanwhile...I've gotten a number of private responses
+to stuff I asked here, and one person told me a rather remarkable story,
+alongside Will's...without naming names, he'd taken it upon himself to
+proselytize about the show as much as possible, to tell as many people about
+it as he could.
+
+     Apparently, he was on one system, and saw a young woman on-line, and
+called her into chat, something he was normally to shy EVER to do before.
+ They began talking about the show _ she'd apparently heard a little about
+it, but not much _ and over time they began corresponding, and, in the words
+of the person who sent me the note, "We fell in love with each other."
+They've now met, and it looks like it might get serious indeed.
+
+     Amazing.  (When the person gives me his permission, I'll post the full
+note; he's a little sheepish of her finding out he said anything.)
+
+     I think it's really kind of cool.
+
+     Oh...one last thing.  Several people have inquired privately how to send
+notes or stuff hard-copy.  An address where I can be reached is 14431 Ventura
+Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 591       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:21 EST
+
+     What an amazing group of posts...I'm speechless.  It's gratifying to see
+that the process works, that this medium can be used to such good effect.
+Something that has always been important to me is de-mystifying the process.
+Lee mentioned somewhere uptopic that the on-line stuff has been going on for a
+long time, across various shows, from RGBs and Power through Zone and now to
+this.  To de-mystify writing, Harlan writes in bookstore windows...I do this.
+
+     I just got a private note today (oh, and speaking of notes, just address
+hard-copy mail to my name; it's a private mailing address, not a studio) from
+one fellow who just managed to get a development deal with a studio.  It ain't
+big, but it's a start...and because of the discussion here, and elsewhere over
+the years, he has a better idea of what to expect, and how to prepare.
+
+     This is an extremely tough business to crack.  And the largest part of
+the problem is just getting accurate information.  When I came to LA
+originally, I didn't know squat, and a long time _ a LONG time _ was wasted,
+time I now very much regret losing, because I just didn't fully  or accurately
+understand How Things Worked.  If this process can make the entry easier for
+another writer, or de-mystify what happens behind the screen, then all the
+better.
+
+     And, selfishly, it has been great to get the input, to hear the
+questions, especially those I can't answer...because down the road you just
+KNOW that that question will come up eventually, and better to be hit with it
+now than blindsided later on.  It's a rewarding, fascinating and challenging
+exchange.  I suspect that a LOT of shows would be considerably improved for
+this kind of direct communication.
+
+     Oh, yeah...and re the newsletter...if you ask Christy nice, I'm sure
+she'll send you the back issue.  Tell her I said it was okay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 596       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:42 EST
+
+     That would be telling....
+
+                                                                jms
+
+     "And they were carried off to Babylon...."
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 626       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:05 EST
+
+     I really don't know how to make an e-mail mailing list, and it would seem
+inappropriate to ask anyone here to go through the hassle of doing it for all
+1800-2000 people here to accommodate the handful with dishes.  Or silverware,
+for that matter.  If someone here would like to be your "Dish Buddy" and send
+you a note when it goes on, that might be one way of doing it.
+
+     Re: kids/robots...the exact phrasing of that has gone through various
+permutations and paraphrasings; the specific line is "No kids or cute robots."
+The latter specifically entails entities such as Twiki (got the spelling right
+this time, thanks to whoever corrected me), who should be run down by a truck
+at the first opportunity.  (In fact, I can say without hesitation that if you
+ever DO see what passes for a cute robot on this show, keep a close eye on it,
+because you'll probably see somebody drop an anvil on it REAL fast.)
+
+     So this allows us to explore the question of robotics, but to do so in a
+fairly serious context.  Because logically, 200+ years in the future there are
+going to be some changes; robotics will be more common, though likely in some
+different form.  (If you've seen the promos or the pilot, you've seen the
+maintenance 'bot that checks out the hull of B5; it has arms, it moves, it's
+independent, it's a robot.  It just doesn't begin its report with "Bida-bida-
+bida.")
+
+     On the topic of kids...it's a deliberate decision to steer clear of that
+part, not because I think it's invalid, but because a) it's been done on
+another show, and its spinoff, rather intensively, and b) it's part of the SF
+stereotype, "We have to have kids because SF is a kid's genre."
+
+     Might there be a story about a family of refugees who come seeking
+sanctuary, or opportunity elsewhere?  Of course.  But any kids in that family
+won't be at the *center* of the story.  And they'll be gone by the end of the
+episode.  It's also a matter of context; absent the scenario just posed, this
+is a place for businessmen, travelers, mappers, traders, diplomats and others,
+it's not a place for kids.  It's also potentially a very DANGEROUS place.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 628       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:29 EST
+
+     Rumors are exactly that...and as I've indicated, anything that  happens
+of substance _ good, bad or indifferent _ you'll hear it from the source.
+
+     How can PTEN be dead when it hasn't even AIRED yet?  I've hered this same
+rumor from others, and have to say that if Creation is spreading this that
+they are being *highly* irresponsible.  The facts again are these: the first
+night of programming goes on later this month.  B5 airs the following month.
+Based on the ratings for all of the shows, they will then open a second night,
+or modify the first.  And that will determine where (and when) B5 lands.  It's
+a logistical question about when to expand.
+
+     If anyone wanders back in that topic's direction and would like to re-
+post this as an official rebuttal, you're welcome to do so.
+
+     I also hear they're showing the E! piece...guys, if you want to help us,
+there at Creation...don't
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 662       Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:30 EST
+
+     My sense (what there is of it) is that in every show, you have to make
+choices.  What, fundamentally, is the story you are telling?  Who is your
+story about?  Is it for adults, or children?  I don't watch LA Law regularly,
+but I sort of poke my nose in from time to time, and I don't see a lot of
+kid's stories.  One could well go to the producers of that show and say, "Why
+aren't you doing kid stories?" to which the only answer is, "That's not our
+show."
+
+     I already said above that if families come through, there may be kids
+along.  The point of clarification for me is that I don't want to do shows
+with kids at the center.  First to distinguish us from other shows, and second
+because that's not the area that I want to concentrate on just now.  Of course
+people still have kids, and of course some will come through B5; it's where
+one places them in the story that's at issue.
+
+     It's often kinda funny...people say, on the one hand, "Yeah!  Fight them
+studios!  Don't let them tell you the kind of stories you oughta do!" Then,
+"But you've GOTTA do a story with kids!" or "This is the sort of story you
+HAVE to do."
+
+     The only answer to that _ said without sarcasm, honest _ is "Do what I
+did...sell your own show."  I don't mean that in any way harshly, I'm very
+serious about that.  Whether it's a novelist, or a short story author, or a TV
+writer, or a screenwriter, we each of us has to decide fundamentally what it
+is we want to write about it, and define our choices.  Would you call Larry
+Niven and say, "Listen, while you're in the middle of the Mote In God's Eye
+sequel, we need a really good section about kids."  You let the man tell his
+story his way.
+
+     This, for me, is just one of those areas on which I have planted my feet
+and sunk roots clear to the center of the planet.  Now, it's altogether
+possible that some day long down the road, one story will occur to me, and
+I'll deal with that when and if it happens.  But in the interim...it's vital,
+from my perspective, to make B5 a show by, for and about adults in adult
+relationships; not to invalidate the other stuff, but only as a sense of where
+this show's emphasis is.  It's time to let the studios and the suits and the
+networks know that an SF series can survive without putting in the required
+child or teenager.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 664       Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:54 EST
+
+     Postscript to the preceding: that doesn't mean that I (or any other
+member of the B5 team) shouldn't be challenged on stuff like this.
+Challenges are good.  First, they keep you on your toes.  Second, it makes one
+verbalize why one has taken a certain stance, and it's at that point that
+weaknesses and fallacies in the argument become apparent.  "The unexamined
+life" and all that.  As I've noted before, sometimes the only way to get
+pertinent information is to ask impertinent questions.
+
+     I love a good philosophical knock-down-drag-out.
+
+     Meanwhile, on other fronts...
+
+     I will tell you the truest thing I have learned about television in the
+process of making the B5 pilot.  That quality is rare is not really
+remarkable; what's remarkable is that it gets done at ALL.  Any show,
+regardless of quality.  There are millions of details, the tiniest things that
+require constant shepherding.  You're in the midst of doing one thing and
+somebody calls involved with another part of the show and says, "Look, we've
+got some question about whether the doors should go SHOOP! or BLOOP!, George
+thinks SHOOP, and we think he's right...unless you'd rather come listen to
+them youreself."  And it's very easy to say, "Okay, just take care of it,"
+then find yourself sitting there a month later and saying, "Damn, why did we
+end up with a SHOOP! effect?"
+
+     It's physically impossible to be in every place at all times, and you
+particularly don't want to be in a position where you start giving your people
+less room to play and be independent.  There are just so many details that
+it's very easy to say, "Okay, fine, deal with it," or to not bother with
+something, that it becomes quickly apparent why it's so hard to find real
+quality out there.  That kind of attention is a major pain in the butt.  When
+you see it from this side, you're just amazed  that it gets done at ALL.
+
+     Just a thought for the day...
+
+     BTW, for those who might be interested (all four of you), the very last
+episode I wrote for this season's "Murder, She Wrote" will air this coming
+Sunday.  I haven't seen anything on it _ no dailies, no rough cuts _ so I
+have no idea how it came out, though I *hear* it came out well.  Just FYI.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 682       Tue Jan 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:35 EST
+
+     RE: cliffhangers...not between episodes, certainly.  Between seasons,
+it's...hard to explain.  There are, or will be *changes* that happen from one
+season to another (as planned), specific events that take place that should
+bring one up short...but "cliffhanger" in the sense of leaving some guy
+hanging from a string over a lake of fire...no, no plans for such at this
+time.
+
+     RE: kids...boy, that one sure hit a nerve on both sides, didn't it?
+That's good.  An argument like this is what a show or story should do, get
+people discussing the issues.
+
+     Meanwhile, on other areas....
+
+                             ****WOW****
+
+     I was in the editing bay today during the pre-dub of B5 (which I'll
+explain more , which btw has a nifty huge projection screen, twelve or fifteen
+feet across, so I got to see some of the show as if at a theater...plays
+pretty well.
+
+     Anyway...what a pre-dub is, is this: those who saw the earlier version of
+the pilot will remember, for instance, the scenes in the main corridor of the
+station (well, one of them, anyway).  You have Sinclair and Garibaldi talking.
+It's an un-mixed scene...just as filmed, there are just two guys talking.  All
+the rest of the set is silent.
+
+     But now...NOW...you're in the editing bay, and now you add in the
+background voices, human and alien...mechanical sounds nearby...an intercom
+voice advertising station services...then layer in the music, and suddenly
+it's a MOVIE!  Someone said that sound is half of a movie, and you forget that
+until it hits you in the face.
+
+     The pre-dub is where you layer in the voice tracks (original, from the
+production; adr (automatic dialogue replacement) for lines that were not
+sufficiently audible or need to be looped; incidental dialogue  (computers,
+background characters) and walla (general crowd sounds).  You decide how much
+of any of these is too much, how much more you need, what the balance is...if
+you need to use the surround capability to put this voice HERE or THERE....
+
+     Then we previewed some scenes with music, and did a little of the same
+there (we'll do more during the final mix Thursday through Tuesday).   For
+instance...most music cues are anywhere from a few seconds long to maybe a
+minute or more.  Ours tend to be longish...the longest is a cue that lasts 7.5
+minutes, and goes inside the station, outside the station, to different
+*parts* of the station, and the music continues throughout.  We figured that
+we needed to better differentiate the sound inside vs. outside the
+station...so in the music cue, we drop the electric guitar out of the mix for
+the inside scenes, and put it back in for the outside scenes, for instance.
+
+     The result, basically, being that it becomes a *M*O*V*I*E* for the first
+time.  And boy, it cooks, lemme tell you.  There are moments of absolute and
+inutterable self-doubt in a project like this, especially when paired with the
+monumental press machine from elsewhere which is doing everything possible to
+bury us in the interests of preserving an economic monopoly and critics who
+figure we're a clone of another show.   But then you turn around and see
+something like this, and you know it's going to work...and it really helps.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 710       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:44 EST
+
+     Ah, except, Gary, for the reason I picked that particular metaphor; this
+ain't Sudden Death, as with football.
+
+     This one's going to the judges at the end of the round, and the case will
+be decided...win, lose or draw...on the merits of the performance in the ring,
+not on hype (on either side), not on good feelings, but on the quality of the
+work, which is as it should be.  Only thing I've ever asked at any point in my
+life is a fair fight on a level playing field.  Then let things fall as they
+may.
+
+     And as for the judges...look in the mirror.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+SOARON [Bio-Dread]           at 19:41 EST
+Sub: General Information                  
+
+Babylon 5 will premiere with a two-hour movie entitled "The Gathering" early
+in 1993.  The creator of the series, J. Michael Straczynski joins us on-line
+to answer your questions.  (No story ideas please...)
+
+443 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 25        Tue Dec 08, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:01 EST
+
+     Well...it's not walking distance, that's for sure....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 45        Fri Dec 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:15 EST
+
+     A "religious/home shopping" network?  Pieces of the One True Cross on
+sale, 35% off?  Some guy dressed as Moses suggesting that "We'll part the Red
+Sea to give you the best price anywhere on our products"...?
+
+     Thanks re: the photo.  I generally do *not* photograph well at all.
+They get one head *in* focus, the other's out of focus, it takes forever to
+airbrush out the horns, and the tail I don't even want to talk about.   I had
+to finally have some b&w's professionally done (by a woman who concluded that
+the only way to make me loosen up in front of a camera was to dangle toys in
+front of my face, just like she does with 5-year-olds) just to have SOMEthing
+to give out.
+
+     Well, I suppose we all have our cross to bear.  (Now marked down 20%,
+move fast, we only have 5,000 left in inventory.)
+
+     Oh...and Kosh sorta walks/glides.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 51        Sun Dec 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:45 EST
+
+     To some degree, yeah, I can't say a *lot* about this, but in general,
+yes, these are all areas that we plan on exploring.  The economics of trade,
+the effects of the war, all of this.  Again, what we're striving for in B5 is
+to always ask the next question.  Like, "Who pays for B5?"  That's a question
+you don't usually run into in SF show...who foots the bill for all these
+starships running around the galaxy?  With 4 other Babylon stations decimated
+(three before becoming operational, one after), the Earth Alliance skimped on
+the current version, rather like the Shuttle.   They want to see if it will
+last before sinking vast amounts of money into it.  Which is why, in one hour-
+script finished already, there's a reference made to giving some visiting
+Centauri businessmen the Grand Tour in hopes of getting some investment from
+them in B5 to counter the costs absorbed by the EA.
+
+     Economics and the like are things you can happily ignore if your show has
+nothing to do with the real world.
+
+                                                        jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 53        Sun Dec 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:54 EST
+
+     Insofar as I know, B5 airs the last week in February; January 20 is when
+the network overall goes on line.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 62        Mon Dec 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:02 EST
+
+     Yes, that's pretty close to being correct.  We're in the very comfortable
+position of knowing what 50% to 75% of every season's episodes are going to
+be, so you can, for instance, go to a writer on the level of a DC Fontana, for
+instance, and say, "Here, this is the story where X happens.  We need to see
+the following elements introduced in this episode.  Outside of that, you're
+pretty much on your own."  Then you also leave room for outside ideas to
+become episodes as well, and let the writers pitch ideas you may never have
+come up with alone.  One makes sense AND fits within the universe that's
+established, you buy it.
+
+     Nine times out of 10, when you see a lot of names  script done
+consistently, what you have is a situation where they don't really have a firm
+grasp on where they're going.  The producers buy a notion or an idea, they
+then take it in-house, it goes through one draft, that writer can't make it
+work, so they go to another in-house writer, it sits on a shelf after that,
+then finally goes back to the other writer, and finally gets yanked out of
+cold storage 5 days before prep and hurriedly put into production when another
+script falls out.  That's generally what happens.
+
+     As for the "go" on B5, that will come with reaction to the whole PTN
+arrangement.  The greater the ratings, the better the reaction, the faster we
+get into production.  Which is why it's *very* important that if you like the
+show, you write to your local station and Warners to tell them so.  It will
+not only help move things along faster, but will give us more clout in doing
+Our Own Thing without changes.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 69        Mon Dec 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:21 EST
+
+     Many thanks for the offers.  I'll post the full Warners address a little
+closer to the scheduled airdate.  May also provide the fax number, since
+that's easier for many who are modemed into services like GEnie.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 73        Mon Dec 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:25 EST
+
+     Yes, there will eventually be a B5 tech manual, which I believe Ron
+Thornton will supervise.
+
+     Re: telling stations what you think if you've seen the pilot...that's
+something I really hadn't thought about.  On the merits of about ten seconds
+worth of thought, it looks like a good idea.  So yeah...if anyone who's seen a
+preview of B5 (the whole thing) wants to tell your local station that you
+liked it, feel free.  The more heat the better.
+
+     By gosh, the ideas that come up in a place like this....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 82        Wed Dec 16, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:44 EST
+
+     It ain't that they think B5 is a risk.  The situation is simply this:
+they've booked up the first night of the network with two series.   That's
+what they have room for.  Question now is, do they open up a second night, for
+which B5 would be the anchor, or do they replace one of the other shows should
+one of them not perform to expected levels (which is the risk on any network)?
+They won't have the information to make that decision until B5 *and* the other
+shows hit the air.
+
+     That's really the full extent of it.
+
+     Re: music and sound...the music is finished.  About 50 minutes worth,
+sections of which are interpolated and cycled through various portions of the
+movie.  Which for TV is a *lot*, by the way; in final form, it gives you
+almost wall-to-wall music.  (An average TV movie gets maybe 30 minutes worth.)
+I've heard most of the sound effects, and we're now in the process of a)
+finishing the looping, and b) locking down the sound EFX.  We do the final mix-
+down starting January 4 and ending January 8.
+
+     On January 11, I will have two copies of the final, complete B5 movie in
+my hot little hands.  On SVHS.  One for home, one for the archives.  In full
+surround sound.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 87        Wed Dec 16, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:09 EST
+
+     We're trying several approaches to the sound of the weapons; some of them
+incorporate the powering-up/air burn aspect.  We'll see which work best.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 98        Thu Dec 17, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:49 EST
+
+     It's not a big deal if you're just a viewer.  If it's your show, which
+you've nursed and watched over and hoped for and fought for over five long and
+grueling years...it's a big deal.
+
+     Re: ownership...yes, the show is actually *owned* by Warners under the
+terms of the contract, which is standard.  (Which is why you see, on old ST
+and new TNG stuff, copyright by Paramount, not by Roddenberry.)  I have some
+separation of rights in very specific areas.
+
+     Re: sound...yes again, it's in full surround sound, so if your local
+station handles surround, you've got it made.  And do crank it up; I've heard
+sections of it, and it works *real* nice.  (There's this little black box
+we've adapted from fighter plane audio that, for the series, may let us
+*localize* the individual sounds in a 3-D fashion, but we'll have to see if we
+can make the technology downward-compatible first.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 106       Thu Dec 17, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:16 EST
+
+     There's a sign in the docking bay/customs area of B5 which makes it clear
+to visitors that B5 operates on Earth Standard time (or Earth Median time, or
+somesuch, I forget the exact wording).  Just to give it some sense of order.
+
+     Re: changing costumes...that's the funny part.  See, every one of the
+costumes was made to come apart, to be recombined in various ways.   Our
+problem was the cast, who loved the ensemble look of each item, and insisted
+on wearing the whole thing.  Take Londo, for instance...his outfit came with
+the grand coat (his one really good coat), three shirts, three vests, two
+pants, a cape and different boots.  But he wanted to wear the coat at all
+times, and butoned up...so you can't really SEE the change in clothes.  The B5
+personnel (Sinclair, Garibaldi, others) also kept wearing their clothes, which
+were made to be opened, take the jacket off, relax...completely closed 99% of
+the time.
+
+     This will be changed.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 118       Fri Dec 18, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:44 EST
+
+     I honestly don't know what the individual syndex rules will be as they
+apply to various stations.  Your best bet there is to go straight to the
+source...the station itself.
+
+     As for the details of sound and sound effects...maybe the "average
+viewer" (whatever the heck *that* is) will or won't notice, but *I* will know
+it's there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 132       Sat Dec 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:28 EST
+
+     Ron: yes!  That's the black-box I was talking about.  Thanks for the
+clarification.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 144       Sat Dec 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:33 EST
+
+     Which convention?
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 172       Sun Dec 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:39 EST
+
+     Joey: no comment.  (You want I should blow the surprise?)
+
+     Re: comments here...if I found it annoying, I wouldn't be here.
+
+     If this were just about flak, about hyping a series, what you'd get would
+be what you got when they used other systems to plug "Sneakers," for
+instance...a quick or several-month blitzkrieg, a one-way (for the most part)
+outflow of information, and then it stops.
+
+     For me, the best part of writing is *dialogue*.  I'm fascinated by
+dialogue...interpersonal, political, social, electronic, you name it.  And for
+the last five years, I've been trying to develop a dialogue with the SF
+communityNot just, "Here's what I'm doing, here's the show, watch it, give us
+ratings, and be quiet," but rather, "Here's what I'm doing...how close is this
+to what you've been wishing someone would do?  What are you tired of?  What do
+you think of this part over here?"  Not so much specific advice, but
+attitudes, sort of getting a sense of the room.
+
+     My feeling is that SF fans are consistently the most abused and taken-
+advantage-of group around.  Especially when it comes to media.   Every six
+months or so, somebody comes in to shill for a new show, they get everyone's
+hopes up, then either walk away if the show is a hit, or flat out lie.  I
+know, I've been in the audience.  And as a result, many SF fans have grown
+understandably cynical about the whole process, they seem now to *expect* to
+be lied to, to expect that it's going to be  same old crap they got before.
+
+     And to me, this process is about changing that perception.
+
+     In most cases of publicizing a show, there is a buffer between the
+creator or head of a show, and the viewers.  There is no buffer in this case;
+if the show fails, I'm right out here with a "Kick Me" sign on my back.  If it
+works, I convey that back to the other creative people involved.  From
+standard Hollywood perceptions, that is a very risky and dangerous thing to
+do.  For me...it's dialogue.
+
+     SF fans have always stood by their shows and been loyal, often to be
+repaid by being shilled and hyped and thought of as (as one studio person put
+it) vegetables witbooks...as long as they keep buying the products, the
+merchandising, and stay quiet, that's fine.
+
+     I would like this process to be part of a rapproachment, to be more open
+and to encourage a two-way conversation.  That conversation was had during the
+years this show was waiting to spring forth, and will contin afterward.  (When
+I did the LosCon presentation, during the Q&A following, one fellow asked if
+this would stop once the show got on the air, once we had gotten what we
+wanted: ratings.  And that has been the case in the past.  For as long as I
+can type and plug into a modem, that will not be the case here.)
+
+     Like any dialogue, there are moments of conflict and frustration, and
+moments of revelation.  So on all levels, this has been a fascinating and
+intriguing conversation.  I have benefitted from it, and enjoy it despite the
+occasional hassles, and look forward to doing so in future, as long as the
+audience will want to continue the dialogue.
+
+     I hope that somewhere in that flurry of words I've answered your
+question.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 173       Sun Dec 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:50 EST
+
+     For some reason, some letters got lost from my message preceding; the
+abusive studio phrase should be "vegetables with pocketbooks."  It's an ugly
+thought indicative of the ways SF fans are generally taken for granted.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 186       Mon Dec 21, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:20 EST
+
+     I guess the one way in which the feedback has been the most useful has
+been in asking questions that I hadn't thought of.  When you put a show like
+this together, you try to second-guess problems or questions down the road.
+What's been fun here is that I've often been blind-sided by questions that I'd
+never considered.  I then have to find an answer to those questions, which
+then sticks.  There have been questions of sound in space, kinds of weapons
+technologies, that sort of thing.  One person asked about the jump-gates, and
+how they got there, which led me to formulate the idea that big ships
+(cruisers) are big and powerful enough to form their own entry point into
+hyperspace, while smaller ships have to rely on jump-points...so it's the job
+of some of the bigger ships to leave jump-points behind them like bread
+crumbs, enabling us to move further out into space.
+
+     In other words...I come up with pertinent information by being asked a
+lot of impertinent questions.  Which is as it should be.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 196       Wed Dec 23, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:24 EST
+
+     Oh.
+
+     <blink, blink>
+
+     Emily Letilla voice: "Never mind."
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 201       Wed Dec 23, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:30 EST
+
+     Don't know about the ad content, since I haven't seen it yet, but hope to
+soon.  (Producer-types are always the last to know.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 203       Wed Dec 23, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:50 EST
+
+     So far, the show has struck well with both SF fans and non-SF fans, which
+bodes well.  We deliberately exposed the show to people who don't much care
+for the genre, and they were very much taken.
+
+     BTW, about 1/2 the ads for the B5 pilot are now sold, a fair amount of
+time early.  The network folks figured if they had half of the ads sold by mid-
+January, given the economy and how these things go, especially with new
+programs, they'd be doing good.  To be at this point over two weeks early is a
+very positive sign.
+
+     As I write this, a 50 minute cassette is playing here in my office, the
+soundtrack for Babylon 5.  I got a copy of the full soundtrack to a) verify
+that some changes we'd requested were made (they were), and b) to see how the
+soundtrack stood up just on its own terms.  It's very nice stuff.  Stewart
+played with a variety of things, including sampling voices to use in some
+scenes, played almost like an angelic chorus.
+
+     In the next 2 weeks, we will be essentially finished with all of the post-
+production on the movie...1 year and 2 months from when I first announced the
+project here on GEnie.  What a ride....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 214       Thu Dec 24, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:44 EST
+
+      Yep, Stewart's on-line for the series as well.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 223       Fri Dec 25, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:02 EST
+
+     Well, in the interim a friend who's running a show has asked me to come
+in and help out for a little while (wrote a 21 page outline overnight the day
+after I said yes to help meet the production crunch), and I've started my
+third novel, which is actually good timing.  For me, the first 100-200 pages
+of a novel are the hardest; after that, it's a lot easier.   My hope is to
+have some or all of that part done by the time we really get going seriously
+on B5 the series, so that I can continue at a reduced speed from that point on
+until the book is finished.  (I figure it'll take about a year, a year and a
+half to write the book, which I expect will be about 1,200 to 1,500 pages in
+length.)  If I were to wait until B5 began in earnest to start writing the
+novel, it'd never get past the first few chapters because of the other
+pressures.  This is my one window of opportunity to start the thing.
+
+     So that's the main work now: B5 post, the new show, the novel, doing my
+BBSing...oh, yeah, and I've started a few short stories, and obviously will
+continue to do interviews and other promotional work for B5, as well as
+developing the long-term 10-hour project I mentioned a while before, which I
+should hear more about in the next few weeks.  I've been asked to write a
+network pilot, which is kind of interesting, and may tackle that  as well,
+just to see if I can do it.
+
+     Other than that, it's real slow right now.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 227       Sat Dec 26, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:11 EST
+
+     Slow in the sense that I generally have 1-3 more projects going at any
+given moment than is the case just now, but that's mainly due to the holidays,
+and passing on some other gigs.  It's just that I get twitchy if I'm not
+working on something at all times.  I *write*.  It's what I do.  Ten hours a
+day, seven days a week, all year round excluding  Christmas eve (for my
+spousal overunit's sake, mainly), New Year's, and my birthday.  If I stopped,
+I'd go bananas.
+
+     Stephen: the network pilot is mainstream, and the 10-hour project
+is...not.  Which is all I'd prefer to say about it now until we get some firm
+news.
+
+     Generally speaking, I've been very fortunate in that I've never been
+"typed" as one kind of writer or another; I've done comedy, horror, science
+fiction, cop shows, fantasy, mystery, mainstream, originals, adaptations,
+animation, live action, you name it, I've probably written it.  It helps a lot
+the way the business is going these days to be able to show up wearing
+whatever color hat is required for the job.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 239       Sat Dec 26, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:05 EST
+
+     I don't think there is a bibliography contained in any message here, or
+for that matter, anywhere.  It would be just a major pain in the butt to
+compile...there's been a lot of published/produced work, and it's scattered
+all over the place.  I'm not even sure if it's 100% do-able, since there are
+copies of things I've lost or misplaced over the years (I've had something
+like 500 articles published, as one example, and I've always tried to get and
+keep copies of them, but I know there are some holes in the collection where
+copies didn't come through.)
+
+     Let's deal with B5 first, meanwhile, before we even begin talkilng (or
+talking) about what follows.
+
+     Re: a vacation...I've taken exactly two in my whole life.  Both entailed
+trips to England, the latter with a few weeks also spent in Ireland.  Both
+times I promised to leave the writing at home.  And both times I ended up
+secretly purchasing small spiral-bound notebooks and scribbling down ideas and
+stories...I outlined sections of my second novel in bathroomverunit wouldn't
+know I was writing when I said I wouldn't, and I outlined a full length (2
+act) play while I was over in Ireland (and, alas, haven't been able to find
+the notes since returning; I'm sure it's around here somewhere).
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 244       Sun Dec 27, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:45 EST
+
+     The last five years, eh?      
+
+     oboy....
+
+     Let's see...that's 30 columns plus maybe 7-10 major articles for Writer's
+Digest...okay...1987 would include POWER, which means about 12 episodes on
+that (counting stories, and it *may* be higher than that, I'm doing this from
+memory)...12 total Twilight Zone episodes...4 or 5 episodes of Jake and the
+Fatman (plus 1 co-written 2-hour MOW)...the Jekyll and Hyde adaptation for
+Showtime's Nightmare Classics show (which earned Ace and Writers Guild
+nominations for writing)...4 or 5 episodes of the Ghostbusters animated
+series, plus the musical prime-time special... seven episodes of Murder, She
+Wrote...an episode of CBS Storybreak ("The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek,"
+adaptation, which to this day I've never seen)....
+
+     I think that's *most* of the produced stuff, though I'm pretty sure I'm
+missing a few items (oh, yeah...and Babylon 5, natch).
+
+     On the unproduced side, we've got the 4-hour V miniseries, a feature film
+written for Ivan Reitman, another feature written for London Films, another 4
+or 5 unproduced Jake and Murder episodes, another Nightmare Classics
+adaptation for Showtime, several unproduced pilots (live action and animation)
+for various studios...6 scripts, 4 outlines and 10 premises written to put
+together an anthology series which didn't fly...five or six spec feature
+screenplays, and some other stuff, again this is all off the top of my head.
+
+     Then there have been articles in the late lamented L.A. Herald Examiner,
+the L.A. Times, cover stories for the L.A. Reader, articles appearing in Video
+Review and Penthouse...oh, yeah, and a dozen or more articles about Night
+Gallery appearing in Twilight Zone Magazine ("A Viewer's Guide to Rod
+Serling's Night Gallery") co-written with my spousal overunit...short stories
+in Amazing Stories, Shadows 6, Midnight Graffiti, Pulphouse....
+
+     Then there have been the two novels, Demon Night and Othersyde, both from
+Dutton, and the Twilight Zone anthology for which I adapted my TV scripts into
+short stories....oh!  And comic books!  How could I forget that?  One issue of
+the Star Trek book, "Worldsinger," an issue of Teen Titans Spotlight ("Face to
+Face to Face to Face," pitting Cyborg against Two Face), and an issue of the
+Twilight Zone comic.  Jeez, I almost forgot that stuff.
+
+     And for almost all of those 5 years I was host of the weekly radio talk
+show, Hour 25 (first alone, then with a cohost, then with a cohost and
+alternating weeks the last year or two), 2 hours of talk with SF writers,
+actors and directors, among others.  Somewhere in there, along with the WGA
+and Ace nominations, I picked up nominations for the Bram Stoker Award for
+Demon Night, and for a Gemini Award (the Canadian equivilent of an Emmy)
+nomination for an episode of Power.
+
+     That's a partial list of the last 5 years.  I've missed a lot, but that's
+probably the major stuff, in any event.  (Under the category of "unproduced,"
+I also adapted Elfquest to a series for CBS, along with a co-writer, but can't
+just now remember if that was 87 or 86.)  If anything else comes to mind, I'll
+drop it in later.
+
+     But that's really as specific as I can be without dragging out boxes and
+other stuff...I hardly remember titles anymore, or which month which articles
+appeared where.  Eventually I'm going to have to get someone in here to
+straighten it all out and put it all in order.  Because there's literally
+stuff that I've done that I've *completely* forgotten about; I'll be rummaging
+through tapes or boxes of manuscripts and come across something I'd utterly
+forgotten about.  Senility, I suppose....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 245       Sun Dec 27, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:57 EST
+
+     Oh, yeah...as it turns out, that was 11 original scripts and 5-6
+collaborations on Power for a total of 16 episodes.  And one of my GB episodes
+was the one that got the show nominated for an Emmy for best animated series.
+
+
+     I also forgot the movie developed for Shelley Duvall, another feature
+screenplay for DIC (unproduced), also in the unproduced category an animated
+series for ABC of my own creation, plus an early development (bible and two
+scripts) for a Batman series for the same network.
+
+     That's the major stuff.
+
+     I think....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 251       Sun Dec 27, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:26 EST
+
+     Actually, my percentage of produce to unproduced, and published to
+unpublished, is rather high in favor of the former in each category.  I've
+been quite fortunate that way.  The main unproduced stuff comes under the
+category of screenplays, and that's par for the course.  Only about 1 out of
+100 scripts ever gets NEAR production.  I have friends who've been writing
+nothing BUT screenplays, all on assignment, all unproduced.  They get very
+frustrated after a while.  That's one of the benefits of working in
+television, the odds are better.  During the 91-92 season of MURDER, for
+instance, I wrote six scripts, of which 5 were shot.
+
+     One thing that didn't occur to me to mention is the fact that during
+these five years I've been on staff (story editor/producer) on five and a half
+projects.  My main responsibility when on staff is to do what I refer to as
+"dialog-ectomies," where the structure is fine on a freelance script, but the
+dialog just isn't cutting it.  So I go through and replace all the dialogue,
+leaving the structure intact.  These are completely new scripts in that sense;
+they're rewrites from page one through Fade Out.
+
+     If I were to have arbitrated any of those scripts (attempted to put my
+name on them as co-writer, for which you only have to show that you've
+contributed 50% of the material), there'd be another 20 or 30 scripts out
+there with my name on them.  But I strongly don't believe in doing that.
+There's a lot of credit poaching in this town, and it hurts the freelancer.
+ When I'm on staff, I'm getting a salary in addition to script fees, while the
+freelancer only has script fees in addition to residuals, and if a producer or
+story editor puts his or her name on the script, that cuts the residuals by
+half.  I don't think that's right.  Out of something like 200 scripts that
+I've edited, I think I've put my name on about 5, each under very specific or
+unusual conditions.
+
+     It's tough enough for writers to make a living in this town without
+contributing to picking their pockets.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 256       Mon Dec 28, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:51 EST
+
+     Haven't written any SF novels.  When I work in prose, I tend to favor
+dark fantasy.  Which is the same genre as the new novel I'm now working on.  I
+just have a preference for contemporary dark fantasy in my reading _ Jonathan
+Carroll, and many of the South American writers of "magic realism" _ so
+that's what I tend to write, in prose.
+
+     Haven't yet seen any of the promos on 13, but I've heard from others who
+have seen them.  (Including the preceding note from Prof Mark.) I'm looking
+for this stuff as eagerly as everybody else.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 258       Mon Dec 28, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:43 EST
+
+     The most recent M,SW that I wrote was a ghost story set in Ireland, which
+aired about a month or so ago, maybe two.  The last one that I wrote for the
+current season will air sometime this month, I believe; it's about an old
+friend of Seth's, an actor, who returns to Cabot Cove to begin his theatrical
+career again.  I think Peter Donat is the guest star; it was shot after I'd
+left M,SW, so I have *no* idea how it turned out.  The title of the episode is
+"Final Curtain," apt since it was my last for this season.
+
+     The pay differential between live-action and animation is QUITE
+substantial, starting with the fact that there are no residuals in animation.
+If I got residuals on all the animation I've written, I could retire tomorrow.
+Also, there's no one set fee in animation, whereas the fees in live-action are
+mandated by the WGA.  Animation scripts can pay as little as $1500 or $3000,
+and again, no residuals.  My going price is $6,000 to $10,000 per script in
+animation.  (That's half-hour.)  The price for a one-hour network show is
+about $20,000 and with residuals, that can add up fast (the second rerun on a
+network brings in about  another $13,000, and it scales down bit by bit from
+there).
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 262       Tue Dec 29, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:10 EST
+
+     It definitely does.  And that's the trap.  You come here to make it, but
+it costs so much to stay that it eats away at anything you get, so you're
+stuck on the treadmill.
+
+     Rod Serling talked about that in his script for "The Velvet Alley," where
+someone's talking to a TV writer, new in town, and explaining how It All
+Works.  Paraphrasing: "They pay you astonishing amounts of money for what you
+do...then gradually your standard of living goes up, and up, and up...until
+finally you HAVE to have that level of income just to get by, day by day...and
+then they threaten to take it away unless you behave.
+ And then, *then* they own you."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 272       Tue Dec 29, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:21 EST
+
+     The script to the V mini is in my computer, and there aren't many copies
+floating around.  At this point, I'd prefer to keep it that way.
+
+     As for not being dead from exhaustion...I dunno...it's just what I do.  I
+don't really give it much thought (though the last week or so of actual
+filming on B5 was pretty awful, from a physical standpoint; damn near did me
+in).
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 274       Tue Dec 29, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:48 EST
+
+     It may well be adapted to a novel down the road, either by me or by
+somebody else.  It ain't a bad story.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 282       Wed Dec 30, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:47 EST
+
+     How do I stay sitting down that long, you ask?
+
+     You ever own a staple-gun....?
+
+     Re: the "Stegosaurus" adaptation...yeah, it was fun, and based on a fun
+character, although the network didn't actually want the specific story,
+something new using it.  So I got to play in that world a little.   My
+favorite moment, a scene I came up with: the steg is always sneaking up on
+this one kid, and finally the kid's reacion is how can somethilng big sneak up
+on anyone?  The steg thought about it a second, shrugged (as best a steg CAN
+shrug), and said, "You watch rabbits for a hundred thousand years...you
+learn."
+
+     Oh...re: TV Guide...they indicated that B5 came first, not the other way
+around.  It's Newsweek that got it backwards.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 285       Wed Dec 30, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:12 EST
+
+     Really?  Have to remember to set the VCR....
+
+                                                        jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 289       Thu Dec 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:23 EST
+
+    
+
+                  I *HATE* being statesmanlike....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 298       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:06 EST
+
+     When someone asks, "What kinds of specific things have you gotten out of
+this interaction?" I think I will point to the question just uptopic about
+food.  I've given this a *fair* amount of thought, mainly in the sense that
+there are hydroponic gardens (referred to in the script) and other areas for
+oxygen reclamation, I'd figured that there were also areas where alien-
+environment food was to be raised, and finally a third area where food that is
+simply impractical to grow on B5 would be synthesized.  But the question opens
+up additional areas that I haven't given that much thought to...and many
+possibilities.
+
+     Let me (so to speak) stew on this and get back to you.
+
+     Thanks for yanking my blanket.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 302       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:03 EST
+
+     Jonathan....please, for my sake, one question at a time...pick one.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 310       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:23 EST
+
+     K'wicker (than a speeding bullet?)...I ain't fussy.  My friends just call
+me Joe.  (Usually preceded by, "That Pain In The Ass")
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 314       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:44 EST
+
+     The station is owned by the Earth Alliance, and if you're going to be
+staying there, you pay a fee.  Station employees are charged a fee against
+their salaries...which some of them aren't happy about.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 318       Sat Jan 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:39 EST
+
+     Dolphins are another area that I haven't gone into in any great degree
+since the odds of any of them showing up at B5 are minimal, for production
+reasons.  Dolphins make for difficult actors, and their agents are even worse.
+
+     The homeless question brings me to a difficult point in the discussion _
+generalities are okay to discuss, Jonathan, but the more specific the
+questions get about plot points of the series, the less I can say.  The five-
+year arc is triple-encrypted in my computer for a *reason*.  And, as much as
+it pains me, I know that printups of this category go to a certain other
+studio...and would rather not give too many specifics for obvious reaons.  I'd
+like us to do them first.  Alas, we're not having this conversation in a
+vacuum.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 320       Sat Jan 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:17 EST
+
+     Just as with the early days of ocean travel, you would generally have
+three levels of travel: first class, one just below, and down deep below
+decks, those traveling steerage.  A small group can also pool all their
+resources, for instance, charter a ship one-way just far enough as B5, and
+hope to find work or new opportunities on far-away worlds.  When this doesn't
+happen, they linger...sometimes for a long time.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 336       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:56 EST
+
+     Dave: Bingo!
+
+     And re: genetic moofky-fooky...yes, it's a definite issue, and is
+referenced at least once in the pilot.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 345       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:07 EST
+
+     BABYLON 5 meets ATTACK OF THE GIANT CRAB MONSTERS, I like it....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 349       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:30 EST
+
+     Actually just handled this up in topic 1.  Rumors are the bane of science
+fiction...and people at conventions who speak should try and get their facts
+straight first.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 351       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:55 EST
+
+     There's been some disagreement over that...I prefer the idea that he's
+uplifted.  (It's between me and the prosthetics design team.)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 357       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:09 EST
+
+     Hey, there's an idea...come up with a totally bogus B5 five-year arc and
+let it get accidentally uploaded and distributed to throw folks off... except
+of course folks might well believe it, which would work against us in the long
+run.  Ah, well....
+
+     Any telekinetics on board Babylon 5?  you ask?
+
+     No.
+
+     At least, not yet.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 388       Tue Jan 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:49 EST
+
+     Pets is okay.  Ah lahkes pets.  Pets be cool.  And cats be coolest.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 407       Wed Jan 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:31 EST
+
+     There's haze in some scenes where you've got a lot of traffic, and food
+cooking, and braziers, and the like.  The quarters don't have that.
+
+     As it happens, Pat Tallman has pets...two bunnies and two chinchillas.  I
+pointed out to her that she now has both food and clothing concerns taken care
+of.  She's still not speaking to me.
+
+     Saw the DS9 pilot tonight.
+
+     Heh....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 422       Wed Jan 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:01 EST
+
+     Katherine: oh, snarf you....
+
+     Bear: a 16 pound cat?  Wow...some good eatin' there....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 428       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:42 EST
+
+     Eric...imagine two boxers in the ring, each bloodied and exhausted after
+11 grueling rounds.  It's now the last round.  You've each got one last shot
+in your heart.  Your opponent comes in with a big name, with the sports
+critics approval, with fancy clothes and a twelve million dollar windup.  He
+pulls back and lets you have it with everything he's got.       
+
+     Then you look around...and you're still standing.  And you're thinking
+"THAT was their best shot?"
+
+     Because everything he had was intent on one hard shot to knock you out of
+the ring...speeded training, massive amounts of promotion, just to knock you
+out.
+
+     And you're still standing.  And you smile.
+
+     Because now it's YOUR turn.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 441       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:01 EST
+
+     I can't remember when I was last this tired.  (Well, that's a lie, it was
+during the last 2 days of filming on B5, but the former made for a better
+opening line.)
+
+     After getting zero sleep (nervous with anticipation, running the pilot
+through my head over and over again to prepare for today), I went in with a
+number of the production people today on the first day of the final
+sound/dialogue/music mix.  Ten straight hours, one half-hour break during
+which we ate at the mixing tables.  Trying different combinations, re-showing
+scenes with slight modifications, over and over and over, until your eyes _
+focused for 10 hours on the same focal distance, blinking against bright
+lights so you can make notes _ start to melt out of your sockets.  And there
+are three more days to go of this....
+
+     But man, this thing is really coming together.  It's exciting to watch it
+happen.  To the question about music...the music in this thing is just
+terrific...dynamic, evocative, moody, exciting...and while it took me a while
+to get it into my head (as with the theme from the Equalizer, which has
+similar resonances), the theme definitely stays with you.
+
+     Along wund editors, Stewart Copeland came by, as well as various of the
+film editors, the cameraman, others...and Richard Compton, our director, was
+also at the helm for the whole ten hours, as was our line producer John
+Copeland (no relation).  People just wanted to come by and see it.
+
+     It's gonna be a hoot, ladies and gentlemen....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Computer EFX Tech-Talk   
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+430 message(s) total.
+ ************
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 185       Tue Dec 08, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:03 EST
+
+     Someone, somewhere (Ron? Mojo?) said that Cinefex had contacted us and
+was planning an article, but that was a few weeks ago and I haven't heard
+anything more about it.  Will advise.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 196       Fri Dec 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:18 EST
+
+     I imagine that we'll do some interacting (actors/cgi) as noted, but we
+will also do some actual ship-building.  For instance, in the pilot, when Kosh
+arrives in the docking bay, there's a shot past him into the bay, where you
+can see part of his ship (we actually built a fairly large section of it,
+though only a small part is visible).  I think that shot is in the CFQ
+article.  We also built (and then trashed) a spider transport to match the
+CGI, though again you can't really tell because it's pretty demolished by the
+time the actors get to it.  There will be more of this done down the road.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 199       Sun Dec 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:46 EST
+
+     Rico: both, for different reasons.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 202       Mon Dec 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:04 EST
+
+     Mmmmmm....maybe.  And there are some shots that do so in clearer terms;
+in the council chamber are CGI "recorders," floating devices that record video
+and audio of the proceedings.  They float above the heads of the characters,
+and later one of them goes between two characters as they walk out the door.
+So yeah, there's some, just not on the scale of looking at starships...well,
+except for the scene in the garden, which is CGI....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 204       Mon Dec 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:44 EST
+
+     I don't think so...there *were* solid models made (which didn't move),
+and CGI versions which *did* move...and I don't think you can tell them apart.
+If anything, the CGI ones look better.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 206       Mon Dec 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:53 EST
+
+     The sections of CGI shown at Wishcon were part of a non-color corrected
+print, which left it all a little darker and muddier than is now the case.
+Also the projection system muddied some of the shots, which come out much
+sharper on a regular TV.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 209       Mon Dec 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:26 EST
+
+     Combination of air jets and magnetics.
+
+     Would this face lie?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 216       Thu Dec 17, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:51 EST
+
+     Cost.  And the degree to which they would show up on camera; very often
+the lighting required to illuminate an actor just washes out an LCD screen,
+regardless of quality.  Probably by 2357 they will have some that will stand
+up to that level of lighting, but so far no one's shipped any back for our
+use....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 229       Sat Dec 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:30 EST
+
+     Wait, I thought we *did* shoot this show at 30 fps.  I'm confused....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 242       Sun Dec 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:54 EST
+
+     They're not transferred, they're kept on video.  Since the stations want
+deliver either on 3/4" or via sat-link, there's no need for the thing to be on
+film.
+
+     Re: the recorders...one should broaden one's scope of SF beyond the
+latest television shows.  Orbs, recorders, transcribers, floating TV cameras,
+on and on, they have all had a long history in SF.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 257       Sun Dec 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:43 EST
+
+     Will: I don't think I'm getting through.  Perhaps I wasn't clear.
+(Which is the likely prospect.)
+
+     It's not a case of putting CGI efx on film via paintbox or that sort of
+thing.  In cases of full-CGI only in a shot, the computer generates  each
+frame of the sequence, which is then transferred direct into a laserdisk
+recorder for maximum video quality.  This is then transferred  to videotape.
+It never touches film.
+
+     In the case of mixing CGI with live action, the scene in question is
+digitized, transferred into the computer, and mixed there with the CGI, then
+sent back into the laser disk recorder.  Again, it never touches film.  And we
+deliver the final product on videotape, not film.
+
+     If we end up distributing the film theatrically overseas, at THAT point
+it will all be transferred to film, and the quality, I understand, will be
+terrific.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 266       Tue Dec 22, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:12 EST
+
+     Actually, you could be right, it could be 1"...sometimes the Voices talk
+to me all at once, and I get confused and fall down....
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 307       Tue Dec 29, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:23 EST
+
+     Yeah, I caught the referenc to Cavorite as well.  Always loved "First Men
+in the Moon," and have it on disk.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 349       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:27 EST
+
+     I use Windows a little more than I used to, but overall I suspect (well,
+know, really) that I'm not getting the most bang for my buck because I don't
+understand the mechanics of configuring either Windows or the computer itself.
+I'm sitting here with a killer megasystem, and...the best comparison I can
+think of is an australian aborigine who's found an F-16 figher plane and
+mainly uses it to shelter his sheep and goats under the wings when it
+rains....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 385       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:12 EST
+
+     I've tended to lean more in the direction of individual computers _
+multi-gigabyte systems small enough to fit on the wrist, which also serve as
+communications systems called Links _ that are generally networked into the
+B5 database/central computer system.  Ninety percent of any information you're
+likely to need you probably already have in the Link; anything additional you
+need, or if you need a direct interface with Babylon Central Computer, that
+can be accomplished with a simple voice command.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 391       Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:23 EST
+
+     Just as a point of clarification, Links are only used by station
+personnel, not visiting aliens, or any visitor, human or otherwise, for whom
+multi-use terminals have been set up in their quarters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 407       Tue Jan 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:53 EST
+
+     Basically, I think that there should be something on-screen if there
+NEEDS to be something on-screen.  For instance, in both Sinclair's quaters and
+the briefing room, you'll see monitors on the wall in BG and later used for
+important stuff.  (That should be quarters, not quaters, which is what you
+find on the moon.)  When not *actively in use* they display only the B5 logo,
+sort of a carrier wave.  When a signal comes in from local, you get the BabCom
+logo, then the signal.  When a signal comes in from a ship, or the computer
+provides information, you go right from the B5 symbol straight to the display.
+When it's over, you go back to the static symbol until it's needed again.
+
+     The only real exceptions to this are a) the consoles in the observation
+dome, which are going at all times to monitor incoming and outgoing ships, and
+b) displays in the business areas which show the internal B5 Newscast and
+commercials.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Cast and Characters      
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+451 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 214       Fri Dec 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:25 EST
+
+     Actually, though his looks seem to imply otherwise, G'Kar is a mammal.
+(Costume designer Catherine Adair decided that the newborn Narns live in a
+pouch in the father's body, and designed the costume with a slight suggestion
+of that, a bit of a sling-look in the lower part.)
+
+     Don't ask, it wasn't my idea....
+
+     Re: G'Kar and Lyta, two things: 1) It's got nothing to do with romance,
+strictly genetic business, and 2) what's not in the CFQ quote from the script
+is the section where G'Kar mentions the need to alter the genetic structure to
+make any offspring possible.  "We still have to merge your genes with our
+own," he says.  Left alone, such mating is about as likely as a fish mating
+with a bicycle to produce a walrus.  But if the person(s) involved were
+willing to go through *major* genetic restructuring, or be cloned and allow
+*that* to be restructured, then it's possible, though still chancy at best.
+Mixed species offspring are nearly unheard of in the B5 universe.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 223       Fri Dec 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:23 EST
+
+     Just to clarify, the pouch is for *after* birth, not before; the newborn
+Narn leaves the mother's body and enters the father's pouch.  (At least,
+that's what Catherine Adair came up with...it ain't canon yet, I haven't
+decided if that's a Good Idea or not.)
+
+     Re: Non-humanoid...bear in mind, you still haven't seen what Kosh is
+inside that suit...others, very non-humanoid, will make their appearances down
+the road...and there's one race that has not yet been heard from, one shadow
+government so secretive its existence is only whispered about, and when *they*
+make their appearance, and you finally see what *they* look like...well, let's
+just say that I've talked at some length with our EFX people, and it'll take
+about 2 years to work out how to do this and make it credible.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 240       Mon Dec 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:57 EST
+
+     Well, hmm....I guess I can come out with this now.  As you know, it was
+our plan to go for a very androgynous Delenn _ a male voice (which was to be
+computer/electronically altered), female mannerisms, and a very ambiguous
+makeup.  We've now gone through about every possible electronic alteration,
+and frankly, none of them sound as convincing as I'd like.   Many of them
+sound *okay*, but we've taken a hard and fast position on this show that
+"okay" is simply not sufficient.
+
+     So we've decided to leave Delenn female, with the performer's original
+voice intact and unaltered.  Interestingly enough, when the performance was
+shown at Wishcon and LosCon, the audience responded very positively to her
+natural voice, urging that it be left alone.  Which is now what we're going to
+do.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 248       Mon Dec 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:23 EST
+
+     Doesn't change a thing in the arc....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 256       Tue Dec 15, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:11 EST
+
+     Nope.  Nothing changes.
+
+     Because Delenn was *always* going to end up female eventually, one way or
+another.  Start male, end up female.  Using the same performer with some
+adjustments to the prosthetics after the change.
+
+     Which is why I haven't commented upon the gender-change stuff being said
+here.  Some of you guessed right.  So instead of waiting a few months and
+making the change mid-season, we start off with Delenn female.  No changes to
+the overall arc.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 265       Tue Dec 15, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:20 EST
+
+     The consideration I brought to the issue was largely this: when the
+planned male/female shift took place, there should have been substantial
+differences such that the change MADE a difference; if Delenn came out talking
+just the same, sounding the same, then the change becomes trivial.
+ It isn't saying "male voices sound this way," it's s go from A to B, the
+difference should be noticeable."
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 267       Tue Dec 15, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:10 EST
+
+     Yes.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 270       Wed Dec 16, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:46 EST
+
+     We're making up a number of alien languages, and the plan is to use
+multiple terran languages in the series as well, though there wasn't time or
+opportunity to do so in the pilot.  One can only cram so much into a pilot.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 281       Sat Dec 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:33 EST
+
+     Garibaldi is a security chief, and not into karate or stuff on that
+order.  Just a good roundhouse blow.
+
+     When I said "cute robots" (which I still stand behind firmly), I was
+referring largely to things like Tweaky from Buck Rodgers.  We will get into
+the question of robotics and artificial intelligence on the show, but I'm
+going to try for a different take on it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 290       Sat Dec 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:41 EST
+
+     It's hard to know WHAT Jerry's background is...his resume is filled
+with...um...well, stuff like how he belonged to the Dance Company of Harlem,
+and never did...so your guess is about as good as mine.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 293       Sun Dec 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:56 EST
+
+     Yeah, we kinda suspected it.  And he told us so right up-front, there was
+actually no intent to fool anybody, it was just all in there to get some
+attention.  What mattered was what came across.  And he came across
+wonderfully in the audition.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 309       Tue Dec 22, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:48 EST
+
+      Actually she's sitting at a table NEXT to someone reading "Universe
+Today."  Well, let's see...John Iacovelli is in the opening montage at the bar
+with another production designer (John's the one in the beard) when the
+narrator mentions "businessmen and travelers"...Christy Marx can be seen, if
+barely, in a couple of casino shots...you can barely make out Mojo in one
+shot...we had a shot of the Spousal Overunit in another, but that was
+cut...running the wheel of fortune is John Stears (in the beard) and Paul
+Bryant (black sash and tux accompanying him)...Ron Thornton can  be seen as
+one of the two homeless people sitting on the floor in the Brown Sector (he's
+on the right)...one of our production assistants is a hooker just visible
+behind them...there are a bunch of others in other casino shots...there's an
+attractive blond woman sitting at a table in the bazaar who's our stunt-
+woman...and that's all I can think of offhand.
+
+     And to the obvious question: no, I'm not in any of the shots.  Neither is
+our director.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 311       Tue Dec 22, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:13 EST
+
+     Nope.  Not a chance.  Because in large part, I'm telling this story for
+me, to do the show that *I'd* like to see on TV...and if I see me on tv, it
+shatters the illusion.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 332       Wed Dec 23, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:51 EST
+
+     They'll let anyone use a modem these days, won't they?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 349       Sat Dec 26, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:11 EST
+
+     Gary...sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.  Twelve stars were all that
+could fit in the available space.
+
+     BUT...you're right in general, however.  There were very few who survived
+the Line, not as few as 12, but less than 100.  So believe me, it IS a big
+deal.  (Which is also why a lot of folks back home are looking askance at
+Sinclair...how could he survive, unconscious, for 24 hours in a ship floating
+through a war zone without being blown out of the sky?)
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 351       Sun Dec 27, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:19 EST
+
+     Paula:
+
+     Yup.  That's absolutely what would happen.  And I ain't saying a WORD
+beyond that.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 353       Tue Dec 29, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:51 EST
+
+     No, physical contact is not required.  Lyta hasn't tried to read
+Sinclair's mind-block because he doesn't know it's there...yet.  Yes, psi
+ability is genetic, and appears in other races.  There are non-Psi Corps
+members who have the ability, and are not licensed and bonded, and the PC
+would very much like to do something about that.
+
+     Psi rating is based on strength of ability.  The general ranking is P1
+through P10.  Psi Cops _ sent to engage and take out rogue telepaths _ are
+P12s.  They don't talk much.  They don't have to.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 356       Wed Dec 30, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:49 EST
+
+     Curiously, unions and the inner running of the station is something that
+Harlan wants to get into once the series is up and running, so I'll leave that
+to him.
+
+     Re: the other Psi questions...I'll have to pull back because that touches
+on some areas that I want to develop later.  Suffice to say that the questions
+you raise will be answered.  (And no, they're not part of the military...at
+least, not officially....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 361       Wed Dec 30, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:22 EST
+
+     The answer to most of the questions preceding is "yes."  Yes to politics,
+yes to divisions, yes to shields, yes to undergrounds.  And beyond that I'm
+getting into areas I can't talk about just now.
+
+     As far as non-Psi Corps telepaths...you have to remember what I said at
+Wishcon: no one is stomping down non-PC telepaths (at least, not officially).
+Telepaths are recruited for the PC, and the attraction there is that your
+abilities will be honed, and you will be given what amounts to permanent job
+security: you're bonded, you can testify as an unimpeachable witness in court,
+you function as a sort of mental Notary Public, there are an awful lot of
+benefits, plus working with others of your kind.
+
+     If you're a non-PC telepath, you do what you want.  IF you are found to
+have violated someone's privacy and stolen information (and this is hard to
+prove on the best of days), then there are laws under which you may be
+charged.  When you license something like telepathy, there have to be laws on
+privacy.ere diLaws on electronic eavesdropping didn't exist before the devices
+themselves came into existence; once we knew they were there, we legislated.
+
+     Is this at times unfair to telepaths?  Absolutely.  And this is one thing
+that I have to hammer at hardest...this is not the perfect, benign Federation
+style government.  It's flawed, and may not at all times be operating in the
+best interests of its citizens.  There are wheels within wheels, agencies
+within agencies.  After 25 years of Federation-think, people say, "Well, why
+would they do this to this group of people, that's not right."  No, it's not.
+Ours is a different universe.  And this will lead to pressure cooker
+situations.  And conflict.  Which is at the core of good drama...and which
+underlines the present as well, in that things aren't perfect or fair now,
+either.  If everybody agreed on how everybody  else should be treated, we
+wouldn't require courts.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 364       Wed Dec 30, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:32 EST
+
+     Jonathan....you have an uncanny knack for asking the very specific
+questions that I can't answer without revealing more than I feel that I can at
+the moment.  Yeesh....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 376       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:08 EST
+
+     After a crocodile named Leviathan?  Er...I think that it's likely a
+reference to the book of Job, where he is asked by god, "Canst thou draw out
+Leviathan with an hook; or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?"
+(JOB 41:1)
+
+                                                          jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 378       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:04 EST
+
+     They don't exactly get along, that's for sure.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 381       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:28 EST
+
+     There's a mid-season story that deals *precisely* with this issue.
+
+     Hence...I'm forced to remain mute for the moment.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 398       Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:25 EST
+
+     Ta-daaaa...Gary, take another look at the pilot.  Every time you see
+Lyta, you will notice a silver insignia on her lapel.  It's the Psi symbol set
+against a bronze background.  That is, indeed, the preferred form of
+reference.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 401       Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:14 EST
+
+     Bill Warren suspects more than he knows, and knows less than he suspects.
+And any resulting opinions are simply that, and though written are nowhere
+near writ, holy or otherwise.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 406       Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:36 EST
+
+     The amount of contact required varies according to the telepath's
+strength.  Lyta at P5 needs a little help.  A P10 could nail you from across
+the room.
+
+     And I want to have some fun with the commercial funding aspects of
+B5...ads, gov't support, commercials, all that stuff.  That's an issue that I
+feel really needs to be addressed...who pays for this neat stuff? And what
+happens when the money runs out?
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 418       Tue Jan 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:41 EST
+
+     Yes, we'll definitely see them in their civvies, and there will be a
+range of entertainment possibilities, including TV (again, there are shots of
+an internal newscast on B5, and commercials as well).  Thee's _ er, there's _
+one little thing that I'm gonna do the first episode or so to establish that
+that's so off-beat and (one hopes) funny that I'm sure you'll like it.  If
+only I can get Warners to release the footage....
+
+                                                            jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 426       Wed Jan 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:04 EST
+
+     Yeah, that was the hard part with the actors...they're so used to seeing
+one costume actors in SF that even though they HAD other stuff to wear, it was
+hard to shoe-horn them into it.  But that'll change.
+
+     As for skivvies...who knows...there's a shot of Sinclair emerging from
+bed wearing just about nada until he gets his robe on that several women on
+the show kept re-running, saying "yum...".
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 450       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:04 EST
+
+     I can't remember height ever even being discussed, except once, when we
+were debating about two possibilities for a given role.  I don't think it
+really matters.  As it happens, it probably won't ever come up because both
+Michael O'Hare and Jerry Doyle (and I think Johnny Sekka) are all well over 6'
+tall.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 5         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            (Forwarded)
+Sub: Grid Epsilon Irregulars - News & Info.
+
+This topic is for information about Babylon 5 fan groups, newsletters,
+fanzines, get-togethers, B-5 at conventions, and other general fun.
+169 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 124       Wed Dec 09, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:16 EST
+
+     Straczynski the Great was Larry DiTillio getting me back for DiTillio the
+Dwarf in "Ragnarok and Roll," which was me getting him back for Straczynski
+the Butler in "Galaxy High," which was him getting me back for...well, you get
+the idea...we have a friendship based on mutual antagonism and abuse.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 126       Thu Dec 10, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:22 EST
+
+     You can have it...cheap.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 134       Fri Dec 18, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:15 EST
+
+     What shaketh is that Joe got up to his ears in alligators and put off
+writing a brief intro to the current issue.  However, it got turned  in this
+week, and Christy is in town tomorrow to go over my last minute revisions on
+the current issue (faxed to me by her, it's all done otherwise), after which
+she will get it to the printer probably within the coming week.  Expect it
+shortly after Christmas.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 142       Sun Dec 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:00 EST
+
+     Actually, I didn't much like the "next Gene R" stuff.  That line has
+appeared in a lot of places, and while it may help reporters get a grip  on a
+Story Angle, it's misleading and just makes me wince.  Was Rod Serling "the
+next Norman Corwin?"  (If you don't know who that is, find out.)  Was
+Roddenberry the next Joe Stefano?  Is Orson Scott Card the next Piers Anthony?
+(Hmm.....)
+
+     In the voice of the Ren and Stimpy Cartoon Horse, "No, sir, I don't like
+it.  Don't like it at all."
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 149       Sun Dec 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:44 EST
+
+     Kath: did Christy get the message I left at y?
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 152       Mon Dec 21, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:20 EST
+
+                     ...oh, rapture....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+
+Topic 6         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 06:43 EST
+Sub: Where is Babylon 5? TV stations...   
+
+Babylon 5 is a cornerstone of Warner's new Prime Time Network. Here is where
+one can find the station information....
+239 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 139       Sun Dec 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:48 EST
+
+     The Prime Time Network goes on line January 20th.  The airing of B5 is
+still slated for the last week in February.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 163       Fri Dec 18, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:16 EST
+
+     What's the other station in San Diego now carrying B5?
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 230       Wed Jan 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:06 EST
+
+     Leviathan...as a local, mayhap you could ring up Dana Hersey and fill him
+in on the background, just so's he knows it ain't a DS9 riff.
+
+     This is probably the single biggest problem I know we're gonna have with
+reviews.  On every other level, we'll stand on our own; I just don't want that
+inaccuracy surfacing and skewing the review.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 7         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+J.HUDGENS [Fenn Shysa]       at 23:07 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 _ POTENTIAL SPOILERS      
+
+If you've seen the B5 promos or the sales info packages and want to mention
+specific items or situations without worrying about spoiling it for others,
+post & comment here... THERE BE SPOILERS HERE!
+332 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 167       Thu Dec 10, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:37 EST
+
+     This discussion seems to be getting awfully rancorous....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 171       Fri Dec 11, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:26 EST
+
+     I think you're talking cross-purposes, the first one-hour episode vs. the
+two-hour movie....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 184       Wed Dec 16, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:49 EST
+
+     The logic on the door is this (sayeth our designers): the section into
+which the door slides is jigsawed.  When the door closes, pins extrude between
+the walls into the jigsaw sections of the door that fit into the wall.  This
+creates an absolutely *solid* pressure door, much more so than a door that,
+for instance, closes in the middle.  If the whole side of the door had to go
+into the slot, it would be nearly impossible to move given the angles
+involved.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 201       Sat Dec 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:38 EST
+
+     Sue, if you're finding tall people ALWAYS sit in front of you, and you
+sit on the aisle, you may want to consider the fact that these two events are
+related.
+
+     See, I stand about 6'4" or 6'5" (I can never remember which), and going
+to a film can be an amazing experience.  I never knew my knees could actually
+go on either side of my ears.  To minimize this, I (and most tall people I
+know) sit on the aisle, so we can stick our legs out the side while
+desperately trying to avoid tripping anyone.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 220       Sun Dec 20, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:36 EST
+
+     Re: the Lyta face stuff, yes the scene as describes takes place, and is
+definitely deliberate, and was a fairly elaborate effect that only lasts a few
+seconds.  We went through several tests before we got one we were happy with.
+Definitely a story point.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 291       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:17 EST
+
+     If I see one more message with a one-liner on top and then ten zillion
+lines of white space, which at 2400 baud go by too fast for me to read the
+damn thing, so I have to then go back and find the number of the message, and
+replay it time after time while hitting ^S to try adn stop it before it
+scrolls past again, I am going to do someone serious damage.
+
+     (Well, everyone ELSE was having a tirade....)
+
+     Paula...you're responding to and arguing with something that only you
+heard because it doesn't exist in the pilot.  The line that Sinclair says is,
+"I managed to take out a fighter before they hit my stabalizers.  I was losing
+control, I'd lost my team...." etc.  Not vertical stabalizers.   Just the
+device that keeps the ship from spinning end over end by  controlling the
+various thrusts.  No matter WHAT system you're using, you have to be able to
+go from A to B, and the minute adjustments required, particularly if you're in
+the midst of battle, are too complex for one person to make on the fly.  It
+has to go through a computer.  If the  system _ hydraulics, pneumatics, air
+thrust, fusion, whatever power you happen to prefer _ is damaged, it's going
+to screw you up.
+
+     THAT was the line.  And the Line.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 293       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:13 EST
+
+     I keep hearing Alladin's more of a pain than it's worth, which is why I
+generally do all my writing/reading on-line.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 320       Wed Jan 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:13 EST
+
+     Just one other little item you're forgetting, Paula...these are
+individual fighters, which are made to operate in and out of an atmosphere.
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 322       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:21 EST
+
+     Several reasons...first, she wouldn't be able to tell for sure if his
+memory had or had not been "doctored" to eliminate the memory of the action.
+(An upper-level Psi could notice the seams in the memory; she's basically a
+business-transaction person who's a teeny bit over her head in what she's
+doing, and she knows it.)  Second, I'm playing constantly with how our society
+will deal with this kind of telepath.
+
+     The idea is always "innocent until proven guilty."  Now, you can bring
+someone to trial, and a psi can scan them, and boom, you know one way or
+another.  But does that violate our judicial tradition of a trial BY JURY, and
+put 'WAY too much power in the hands of telepaths?  Because bear in mind, we
+still have to take their word for what they "see" in someone's mind.  They can
+function as key witnesses, but it's my sense that they would be SPECIFICALLY
+PROHIBITED from going into the mind of an accused person to determine their
+innocence or guilt, *even if so invited*.
+
+     There are others, but those are, in my mind, the key reasons for this.
+It's a matter of trying to be logical and consistent in how these things are
+used; you don't want to have something (or someone) become the Magic Wand that
+solves every problem, a Deux Ex Lyta, so to speak.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 324       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:47 EST
+
+     Yes, Lyta's always had an affinity for alien races from a telepathic
+standpoint.  As for telling reality from subjective; as soon as it goes in
+your eyes, it becomes subjective.  So that's the only POV from which she can
+act.  It's easiest when it's straightforward visual or auditory impulses, not
+much open to coloring by the subjective aspect.  If the person being scanned
+is unbalanced, then 1) it becomes VERY uncomfortable for the psi, and 2) there
+are signature aspects of the scan (colors, hallucinations, delusions) that
+would tip off any good psi that this may not be a very valid perspective.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 332       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:09 EST
+
+     Yes, there are shields available, mainly implants, sometimes drugs, and
+cyberalteration techniques to mind-wipe people temporarily so they can't be
+read easily.
+
+     Re: perjury, there are Psi review boards, as with the AMA (and of equally
+debatable power) that could be called into play in the case of suspected
+perjury, as well as other abuses of the Psi-Corps authority.   If a review
+board or other PC arm finds you're in violation of standards, the next step is
+the psi-cops.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 8         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:41 EST
+Sub: Behind The Scenes                    
+
+Production Designers, Art Directors, Costumers, Director, others...this is the
+place to discuss the production-aspects of B5...it's look and the process
+involved.
+122 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 90        Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:01 EST
+
+     I'm finishing B5 post production this coming week, and writing my third
+novel, and am helping out a friend on another series (said friend having
+gotten in over his head a bit, through no fault of his own) doing rewrites and
+a few scripts.  Just something to keep me busy while waiting to gear up for
+the series.  (Also took time to write out a synopsis of each of the first 22
+episodes for B5's first season, which will then be assigned as needed,
+interposing new ideas as they're suggested by other writers.  Also finished an
+hour-length B5 script, which will be one of the mid-season shows to be shot.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 94        Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:19 EST
+
+     All I can say is when Warners gives us the production go, we'll be ready.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 97        Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:39 EST
+
+     That'll probably be decided by forces wiser than I.  And just FYI, all
+the PTEN shows are given 22 episode committments per season.
+
+                                                       jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 99        Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:00 EST
+
+                                Who...?
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 102       Tue Jan 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:56 EST
+
+     That's simply a standard unit of measure.  Some series do more than 22,
+but those are more rthe MURDseasons generally ran 22 episodes.
+
+     22 x 3 seasons is 66, which is enough for long-term syndication, if
+barely.
+
+     And there won't be a Joe Jr.  One doesn't go through a vasectomy for lack
+of anything better to do on a Friday night....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 106       Tue Jan 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:45 EST
+
+     Nope, B5 is shot right here in LA County.
+
+     It helps that my Spousal Overunit is also a writer, and understands what
+it means when I come out, eyes like poached eggs, staggering towrad the coffee
+pot, mumbling, "Deadlines...deadlines...."
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 110       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:22 EST
+
+     They sure do cost a lot.  We plan to do some such shots for the series,
+in the zero-g section of the garden, and possibly in the zero-g cargo section
+that rides on top of  B5.  My mandate to Ron is to come up with a way of doing
+it that looks good.  Once we have that, we'll do the story.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 120       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:10 EST
+
+     The series standard opening will be a variation on Londo's narration at
+the top of the pilot.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 122       Fri Jan 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:43 EST
+
+     Yeah, Londo seems like the *least* likely person to do the opening
+narration for a show like this; you don't even see him for nearly two full
+acts, and it's the kind of thing you'd expect the Commander to do.
+
+     But there are reasons for everything....
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 9         Wed Nov 11, 1992
+T.RESTIVO [Little Guy]       at 18:27 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Humor                      
+
+From *Beep Beep*, to Top Ten Lists to full-blown paradies, this is where to
+put your funny bone in writing!
+107 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 40        Thu Dec 17, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:55 EST
+
+     Okay.  That's it.
+
+     I'm running away from home.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 55        Fri Dec 18, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:48 EST
+
+     Y'know what's funny, though?  The crossover points illustrate better than
+anything I could say the kinds of things we *won't* have, the kinds of things
+we *will* have, and the difference in philosophy between the two shows.
+
+     No whiz-kids saving ships, no Q's....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 72        Sat Dec 19, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:43 EST
+
+     No fanfic for the time being.  I have to back up KL on this one.
+
+     We'll see Londo's _ spouse/spouses, I'm avoiding saying which _ in
+time.
+
+     Looking at this crossover stuff brings to mind a decision I had to make
+early on.  I at one point thought, "Wouldn't it be great if we could make B5
+the nexus point between ALL SF television and film universes?"  So you could
+head down toward the customs area, and find somebody with a light sabre, walk
+past a cylon, that sort of thing.  And part of it was very appealing, if
+legally a nightmare given what would be required to get permission.  But
+finally decided that the show has to be its own universe, unique and distinct.
+
+     But part of me still longs to see a British phone box just sitting in the
+middle of the central corridor....
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 10        Thu Nov 12, 1992
+SANDMAN [Henry]              at 19:25 EST
+Sub: Sex in Babylon 5                     
+
+Can't do without this one!!
+
+
+91 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 63        Mon Dec 28, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:53 EST
+
+     Suffice to say that this is a question that we will indeed be dealing
+with.  What you'd probably get is a "mirrored" effect, where you are making
+love, and seeing it from both sides.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 66        Tue Dec 29, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:13 EST
+
+     Yes, but strong feelings can bleed through.  And it's easier for a more
+advanced Psi to shut it all out; Lyta, at P5 rating, is about in the middle,
+and B5 is her first major assignment.  Her position (in terms of psi-rating)
+is one reason why she wears gloves and long-sleeved outfits that cover as much
+as possible; it makes it easier to shut things out if there's no direct
+contact.  When and if she makes it up to a P7 or P8, it becomes less of a
+problem.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 78        Wed Dec 30, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:24 EST
+
+     Yes, precisely.
+
+     Sinclair will have a steady relationship with one woman for most of the
+first two seasons; same for a couple of other characters as well.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 84        Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:20 EST
+
+     Actually, I said that Sinclair will have a steady VERTICAL relationship
+with....
+
+     Don't hit me, I'm a sick man.
+
+     And nothing in life is permanent, not even relationships.
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B-5 ADRIFT!                          
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+273 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 118       Tue Dec 08, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:07 EST
+
+     BTW, speaking of ancient Babylon, with all the people interested in
+what's going to happen in Babylon 5, I'm surprised more haven't gone into
+their history books and tracked the history of the station's namesake.  It
+isn't *all* there...but a lot of it is.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 161       Wed Dec 16, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:15 EST
+
+     Since I have access to you computer whizs (whizes? whizzes? whizi?), let
+me pose a question.
+
+     For my sound card, I have the Media Visions Thunderboard for Windows.
+Now, it works fine on such DOS programs as "Carmen San Diego"  (though a
+couple it seems to have a problem with).  But when I try to use it in Windows
+(for which after all it was intended), nothing happens.  It hums for a second,
+but that's all.  For instance, when I run After Dark, it clicks for a second,
+but nothing comes out.
+
+     I moved the system.ini interrupt for the driver to 2 from 9, but that
+doesn't seem to work either.  I installed the driver, but that doesn't work.
+I tried to run a sound program off a floppy (the pro demo that comes with the
+card) and the first time, it worked.  The second time, I got two error
+messages; the first said "selected MIDI out port is not available or is in use
+by another application."  The MIDI in port also got the same message.  When I
+then used the MIDI setup on the floppy, it said "General protection fault in
+module timemidi.dll."  And the thing crashed.
+
+     I went through system.ini and the only thing I could find that looked
+like a midi port control was MIDI=msadlib.drv, which I deleted, and tried
+again.  Same result.
+
+     Any suggestions?
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 165       Thu Dec 17, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:57 EST
+
+     But I *did* that.  I went into Windows drivers, picked the new driver,
+put Windows disd 3 in, loaded it on, and selected that as the driver.  Still
+nada.  I *don't* understand.  So I may pick up Microsoft Sound, having heard
+it's easier to use.  Otherwise...I'm doomed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 187       Wed Dec 23, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:25 EST
+
+     No story suggestions, please.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 190       Wed Dec 23, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:41 EST
+
+     What's this yellow snow doing here?
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 219       Sat Dec 26, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:15 EST
+
+     "Even if it succeeded in court...."  In that one little phrase is
+encapsulated a year, possibly two, of depositions, interrogatories, counter-
+interrogatories, legal fees up the yinyang, court appearances, and legal
+maneuvering that can kill months of time that should otherwise be used in
+writing.
+
+     People can be crazy sometimes.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 271       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:12 EST
+
+     I've lost all track of how much time I spend on BBSs; two-three hours a
+day here, plus 1-2 per day on CIS, and then other services.  I'm on several
+where I don't post messages, and the folks there engaged in SF-TV discussions
+don't know I'm looking over their shoulder.
+
+     Why?  Because if people know you're there, they tend to speak more
+politely about you, and your projects.  They're free to be brutally
+honest...and lemme tell you, it brings one up short sometimes.  But I think
+that's both good and essential.  Sort of a control group approach...see what
+the opinion is like of folks who don't have direct access, and only hear stuff
+second-hand.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                  
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+159 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 28        Sat Dec 12, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:16 EST
+
+     For those keeping track of new items in the press about B5....
+
+     * Expect a round up of new SF series, including B5, to appear in USA
+Today in the next 7-10 days.
+
+     * Another round up of shows, including B5, is tentatively slated to
+appear in the January 9 issue of TV Guide.
+
+     * The piece on the B5/Genie connection for the LA Times Magazine "Palm
+Latitudes" section should likely appear December 20th or 27th.
+
+     (Not directly related to B5, but I just *have* to mention it
+somewhere...my short story, "Say Hello, Mister Quigley," which appeared
+recently in both Pulphouse and the Midnight Grafitti softcover anthology ended
+up in the Recommended Stories section of the December Locus.  It was the only
+story selected from that issue of Pulphouse, and it's right alongside stories
+by Brian Aldiss and John Varley and others.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 32        Sun Dec 13, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:53 EST
+
+     Yes, "Quigley" originally began as a TZ script, which the studio (MGM)
+loved, my exec producer loved...EXCEPT they thought the subject matter _
+incest _ was too controversial.  (Many of the folks at MGM operated out of
+the conventional wisdom that says that SF should not have anything to do with
+the real world, should be nice bunny fantasies about neato aliens and strange
+but funny people-weeples who live in scary but basically good houses and
+YYYYAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!
+
+     (Sorry, that was my head exploding.)
+
+     Anyway, they said they'd produce the episode IF I removed that  aspect of
+the story.  Which, to me, was the *point* of the damned thing.   So I pulled
+it, gave back the money, and squirreled it away until I could adapt it to
+fiction later.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 36        Mon Dec 14, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:08 EST
+
+     Yes, that's a gun, a PPG.  I'm not thrilled with the way it looks, and
+we're going to re-design it for the series.  They don't strike that pose in
+the pilot, but that's from an actual sequence, yes.
+
+                                                        jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 43        Tue Dec 15, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:12 EST
+
+     Check my original message; I believe I typed PPG, not PPC.  PPG is what's
+in the script.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 74        Thu Dec 24, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:41 EST
+
+     Don't know if I've mentioned this, but Computer Gaming World will be
+doing a cover story on B5 shortly.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 88        Mon Dec 28, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:56 EST
+
+     The basic logo is my design.  We'd gone throug none of which were quite
+right, and finally I wrote a memo to Ron Thornton about what I thought would
+be correct.  I described the word Babylon in silver appearing backlit by a red
+laser shooting across frame, with the 5 in black behind it.  Big metallic
+silver letters, and a much darker, jet-black metallic 5.  "The main thing," I
+said in the memo, "is that it should look way cool on a leather jacket."  Ron
+then executed the logo as described, it came out right, and it *does* look
+swell on a jacket.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 98        Tue Dec 29, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:00 EST
+
+     Maybe twelve or so.  Just for the EFX team, me, my spousal overunit, our
+director and another producer.  (They were a gift from Ron.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 103       Tue Dec 29, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:24 EST
+
+     Yes, there is a separate B5 commercial, which will begin airing around
+mid- or late-January.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 133       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:48 EST
+
+     Aquila: give me the name of the paper and the reporter who wrote the
+article.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 13        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 21:00 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Science and Technology   
+
+Jump gates, nanotech, high-tech weapons, starship drives, sound in space, and
+other subjects of science and technology in Babylon 5.
+93 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 39        Wed Dec 23, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:40 EST
+
+     I believe it stands for Phased Plasma Gun.
+
+     Re: the jump-ship scenario described just above...since the "exit ramp"
+jump-gate is usually (but not always) under the control of a nearby base, as
+B5 is tied into its local gate, it could *probably* contact the local base and
+request activation of the gate.  But it's a good point to consider, and I want
+to dwell on that for a while before I lock it down.
+
+     It opens up some interesting possibilities.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 52        Tue Dec 29, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:20 EST
+
+     Yes, you would.  Yes, they have tried.  No, they have not succeeded.
+Probes tend to meet with unfortunate "accidents"....  They also use a tight-
+beam form of communication, rather than the more broad-based radio waves.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 54        Wed Dec 30, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:53 EST
+
+     I'm sure I covered it somewhere...somewhen....
+
+                                                            jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 57        Wed Dec 30, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:34 EST
+
+     So they tell me....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms93-01 b/ftp/GEnie/jms93-01
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS for Jan 1, 1993 - Jan 18, 1993
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic.  The posts are copyright 1993 by 
+J. Michael Straczynski with compilation copyright by GEnie. 
+
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-FANTASY [Yog Sysop]       at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5                            
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category!  As always, offering or requesting copies
+of copyrighted material, whether it's the B5 Newsletter, photos, or the actual
+movie/episodes violates copyright law and SFRT policy.
+397 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 73        Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:01 EST
+
+     Will, jeez, that's amazing...you should've said something, the B5 family
+would've been there with cards and letters.  How're you doing now?  I know it
+can be a very traumatic experience, even once you're physically 100%.
+
+     One more thing, Will.  Email me your address.
+
+     On other fronts....
+
+     One week from today, we will (or should) be finished with
+sound/music/looping edits and the B5 pilot will be complete.  It's both
+exhilirating to think about that...and there's also that post partum
+depression that hits whenever I finish a big project, a novel, or an episode
+of a series.  In my head, all I can play over are the things we should've or
+could've done to make it even better...the scenes we should have trimmed, the
+scenes we should've dropped back in again, THIS angle on a fight instead of
+THAT one...you can play with these things forever.   At some point, you just
+have to let go.
+
+     Then the next phase _ the series _ rests in large measure in your
+hands, in terms of how fast we can get this puppy in gear.
+
+     It's kind of funny, meanwhile...I've gotten a number of private responses
+to stuff I asked here, and one person told me a rather remarkable story,
+alongside Will's...without naming names, he'd taken it upon himself to
+proselytize about the show as much as possible, to tell as many people about
+it as he could.
+
+     Apparently, he was on one system, and saw a young woman on-line, and
+called her into chat, something he was normally to shy EVER to do before.
+ They began talking about the show _ she'd apparently heard a little about
+it, but not much _ and over time they began corresponding, and, in the words
+of the person who sent me the note, "We fell in love with each other."
+They've now met, and it looks like it might get serious indeed.
+
+     Amazing.  (When the person gives me his permission, I'll post the full
+note; he's a little sheepish of her finding out he said anything.)
+
+     I think it's really kind of cool.
+
+     Oh...one last thing.  Several people have inquired privately how to send
+notes or stuff hard-copy.  An address where I can be reached is 14431 Ventura
+Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 89        Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:21 EST
+
+     What an amazing group of posts...I'm speechless.  It's gratifying to see
+that the process works, that this medium can be used to such good effect.
+Something that has always been important to me is de-mystifying the process.
+Lee mentioned somewhere uptopic that the on-line stuff has been going on for a
+long time, across various shows, from RGBs and Power through Zone and now to
+this.  To de-mystify writing, Harlan writes in bookstore windows...I do this.
+
+     I just got a private note today (oh, and speaking of notes, just address
+hard-copy mail to my name; it's a private mailing address, not a studio) from
+one fellow who just managed to get a development deal with a studio.  It ain't
+big, but it's a start...and because of the discussion here, and elsewhere over
+the years, he has a better idea of what to expect, and how to prepare.
+
+     This is an extremely tough business to crack.  And the largest part of
+the problem is just getting accurate information.  When I came to LA
+originally, I didn't know squat, and a long time _ a LONG time _ was wasted,
+time I now very much regret losing, because I just didn't fully  or accurately
+understand How Things Worked.  If this process can make the entry easier for
+another writer, or de-mystify what happens behind the screen, then all the
+better.
+
+     And, selfishly, it has been great to get the input, to hear the
+questions, especially those I can't answer...because down the road you just
+KNOW that that question will come up eventually, and better to be hit with it
+now than blindsided later on.  It's a rewarding, fascinating and challenging
+exchange.  I suspect that a LOT of shows would be considerably improved for
+this kind of direct communication.
+
+     Oh, yeah...and re the newsletter...if you ask Christy nice, I'm sure
+she'll send you the back issue.  Tell her I said it was okay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 94        Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:42 EST
+
+     That would be telling....
+
+                                                                jms
+
+     "And they were carried off to Babylon...."
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 124       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:05 EST
+
+     I really don't know how to make an e-mail mailing list, and it would seem
+inappropriate to ask anyone here to go through the hassle of doing it for all
+1800-2000 people here to accommodate the handful with dishes.  Or silverware,
+for that matter.  If someone here would like to be your "Dish Buddy" and send
+you a note when it goes on, that might be one way of doing it.
+
+     Re: kids/robots...the exact phrasing of that has gone through various
+permutations and paraphrasings; the specific line is "No kids or cute robots."
+The latter specifically entails entities such as Twiki (got the spelling right
+this time, thanks to whoever corrected me), who should be run down by a truck
+at the first opportunity.  (In fact, I can say without hesitation that if you
+ever DO see what passes for a cute robot on this show, keep a close eye on it,
+because you'll probably see somebody drop an anvil on it REAL fast.)
+
+     So this allows us to explore the question of robotics, but to do so in a
+fairly serious context.  Because logically, 200+ years in the future there are
+going to be some changes; robotics will be more common, though likely in some
+different form.  (If you've seen the promos or the pilot, you've seen the
+maintenance 'bot that checks out the hull of B5; it has arms, it moves, it's
+independent, it's a robot.  It just doesn't begin its report with "Bida-bida-
+bida.")
+
+     On the topic of kids...it's a deliberate decision to steer clear of that
+part, not because I think it's invalid, but because a) it's been done on
+another show, and its spinoff, rather intensively, and b) it's part of the SF
+stereotype, "We have to have kids because SF is a kid's genre."
+
+     Might there be a story about a family of refugees who come seeking
+sanctuary, or opportunity elsewhere?  Of course.  But any kids in that family
+won't be at the *center* of the story.  And they'll be gone by the end of the
+episode.  It's also a matter of context; absent the scenario just posed, this
+is a place for businessmen, travelers, mappers, traders, diplomats and others,
+it's not a place for kids.  It's also potentially a very DANGEROUS place.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 126       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:29 EST
+
+     Rumors are exactly that...and as I've indicated, anything that  happens
+of substance _ good, bad or indifferent _ you'll hear it from the source.
+
+     How can PTEN be dead when it hasn't even AIRED yet?  I've hered this same
+rumor from others, and have to say that if Creation is spreading this that
+they are being *highly* irresponsible.  The facts again are these: the first
+night of programming goes on later this month.  B5 airs the following month.
+Based on the ratings for all of the shows, they will then open a second night,
+or modify the first.  And that will determine where (and when) B5 lands.  It's
+a logistical question about when to expand.
+
+     If anyone wanders back in that topic's direction and would like to re-
+post this as an official rebuttal, you're welcome to do so.
+
+     I also hear they're showing the E! piece...guys, if you want to help us,
+there at Creation...don't
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 160       Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:30 EST
+
+     My sense (what there is of it) is that in every show, you have to make
+choices.  What, fundamentally, is the story you are telling?  Who is your
+story about?  Is it for adults, or children?  I don't watch LA Law regularly,
+but I sort of poke my nose in from time to time, and I don't see a lot of
+kid's stories.  One could well go to the producers of that show and say, "Why
+aren't you doing kid stories?" to which the only answer is, "That's not our
+show."
+
+     I already said above that if families come through, there may be kids
+along.  The point of clarification for me is that I don't want to do shows
+with kids at the center.  First to distinguish us from other shows, and second
+because that's not the area that I want to concentrate on just now.  Of course
+people still have kids, and of course some will come through B5; it's where
+one places them in the story that's at issue.
+
+     It's often kinda funny...people say, on the one hand, "Yeah!  Fight them
+studios!  Don't let them tell you the kind of stories you oughta do!" Then,
+"But you've GOTTA do a story with kids!" or "This is the sort of story you
+HAVE to do."
+
+     The only answer to that _ said without sarcasm, honest _ is "Do what I
+did...sell your own show."  I don't mean that in any way harshly, I'm very
+serious about that.  Whether it's a novelist, or a short story author, or a TV
+writer, or a screenwriter, we each of us has to decide fundamentally what it
+is we want to write about it, and define our choices.  Would you call Larry
+Niven and say, "Listen, while you're in the middle of the Mote In God's Eye
+sequel, we need a really good section about kids."  You let the man tell his
+story his way.
+
+     This, for me, is just one of those areas on which I have planted my feet
+and sunk roots clear to the center of the planet.  Now, it's altogether
+possible that some day long down the road, one story will occur to me, and
+I'll deal with that when and if it happens.  But in the interim...it's vital,
+from my perspective, to make B5 a show by, for and about adults in adult
+relationships; not to invalidate the other stuff, but only as a sense of where
+this show's emphasis is.  It's time to let the studios and the suits and the
+networks know that an SF series can survive without putting in the required
+child or teenager.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 162       Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:54 EST
+
+     Postscript to the preceding: that doesn't mean that I (or any other
+member of the B5 team) shouldn't be challenged on stuff like this.
+Challenges are good.  First, they keep you on your toes.  Second, it makes one
+verbalize why one has taken a certain stance, and it's at that point that
+weaknesses and fallacies in the argument become apparent.  "The unexamined
+life" and all that.  As I've noted before, sometimes the only way to get
+pertinent information is to ask impertinent questions.
+
+     I love a good philosophical knock-down-drag-out.
+
+     Meanwhile, on other fronts...
+
+     I will tell you the truest thing I have learned about television in the
+process of making the B5 pilot.  That quality is rare is not really
+remarkable; what's remarkable is that it gets done at ALL.  Any show,
+regardless of quality.  There are millions of details, the tiniest things that
+require constant shepherding.  You're in the midst of doing one thing and
+somebody calls involved with another part of the show and says, "Look, we've
+got some question about whether the doors should go SHOOP! or BLOOP!, George
+thinks SHOOP, and we think he's right...unless you'd rather come listen to
+them youreself."  And it's very easy to say, "Okay, just take care of it,"
+then find yourself sitting there a month later and saying, "Damn, why did we
+end up with a SHOOP! effect?"
+
+     It's physically impossible to be in every place at all times, and you
+particularly don't want to be in a position where you start giving your people
+less room to play and be independent.  There are just so many details that
+it's very easy to say, "Okay, fine, deal with it," or to not bother with
+something, that it becomes quickly apparent why it's so hard to find real
+quality out there.  That kind of attention is a major pain in the butt.  When
+you see it from this side, you're just amazed  that it gets done at ALL.
+
+     Just a thought for the day...
+
+     BTW, for those who might be interested (all four of you), the very last
+episode I wrote for this season's "Murder, She Wrote" will air this coming
+Sunday.  I haven't seen anything on it _ no dailies, no rough cuts _ so I
+have no idea how it came out, though I *hear* it came out well.  Just FYI.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 180       Tue Jan 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:35 EST
+
+     RE: cliffhangers...not between episodes, certainly.  Between seasons,
+it's...hard to explain.  There are, or will be *changes* that happen from one
+season to another (as planned), specific events that take place that should
+bring one up short...but "cliffhanger" in the sense of leaving some guy
+hanging from a string over a lake of fire...no, no plans for such at this
+time.
+
+     RE: kids...boy, that one sure hit a nerve on both sides, didn't it?
+That's good.  An argument like this is what a show or story should do, get
+people discussing the issues.
+
+     Meanwhile, on other areas....
+
+                             ****WOW****
+
+     I was in the editing bay today during the pre-dub of B5 (which I'll
+explain more , which btw has a nifty huge projection screen, twelve or fifteen
+feet across, so I got to see some of the show as if at a theater...plays
+pretty well.
+
+     Anyway...what a pre-dub is, is this: those who saw the earlier version of
+the pilot will remember, for instance, the scenes in the main corridor of the
+station (well, one of them, anyway).  You have Sinclair and Garibaldi talking.
+It's an un-mixed scene...just as filmed, there are just two guys talking.  All
+the rest of the set is silent.
+
+     But now...NOW...you're in the editing bay, and now you add in the
+background voices, human and alien...mechanical sounds nearby...an intercom
+voice advertising station services...then layer in the music, and suddenly
+it's a MOVIE!  Someone said that sound is half of a movie, and you forget that
+until it hits you in the face.
+
+     The pre-dub is where you layer in the voice tracks (original, from the
+production; adr (automatic dialogue replacement) for lines that were not
+sufficiently audible or need to be looped; incidental dialogue  (computers,
+background characters) and walla (general crowd sounds).  You decide how much
+of any of these is too much, how much more you need, what the balance is...if
+you need to use the surround capability to put this voice HERE or THERE....
+
+     Then we previewed some scenes with music, and did a little of the same
+there (we'll do more during the final mix Thursday through Tuesday).   For
+instance...most music cues are anywhere from a few seconds long to maybe a
+minute or more.  Ours tend to be longish...the longest is a cue that lasts 7.5
+minutes, and goes inside the station, outside the station, to different
+*parts* of the station, and the music continues throughout.  We figured that
+we needed to better differentiate the sound inside vs. outside the
+station...so in the music cue, we drop the electric guitar out of the mix for
+the inside scenes, and put it back in for the outside scenes, for instance.
+
+     The result, basically, being that it becomes a *M*O*V*I*E* for the first
+time.  And boy, it cooks, lemme tell you.  There are moments of absolute and
+inutterable self-doubt in a project like this, especially when paired with the
+monumental press machine from elsewhere which is doing everything possible to
+bury us in the interests of preserving an economic monopoly and critics who
+figure we're a clone of another show.   But then you turn around and see
+something like this, and you know it's going to work...and it really helps.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 208       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:44 EST
+
+     Ah, except, Gary, for the reason I picked that particular metaphor; this
+ain't Sudden Death, as with football.
+
+     This one's going to the judges at the end of the round, and the case will
+be decided...win, lose or draw...on the merits of the performance in the ring,
+not on hype (on either side), not on good feelings, but on the quality of the
+work, which is as it should be.  Only thing I've ever asked at any point in my
+life is a fair fight on a level playing field.  Then let things fall as they
+may.
+
+     And as for the judges...look in the mirror.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 223       Fri Jan 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:41 EST
+
+     Yeah, I agree, the pointing-rods-and-magically-changing-colors on hair
+and stuff is kinda old (though it surfaced in Total Recall).  No plans for it,
+that's for sure.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 230       Fri Jan 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:46 EST
+
+     Aquila...let me try this again, since you may have missed it in other
+postings.  Our current situation is ironic in that it has nothing really to do
+with our show, but rather with the network.
+
+     The chronology, and our situation, is simple.
+
+     1) November 1991: Time Trax, Kung Fu and B5 contend among each other for
+the first night of programming on the new network.  There are ONLY TWO SLOTS
+AVAILABLE, two hours.  B5 and TT have the inside track, but there's a question
+as to whether or not B5 can be done for TV *at all* given what we were
+promising (a huge saga, state of the art EFX, a large cast, that sort of
+thing).  So we have to answer that question by making a pilot.  The other two
+shows go into series production at that time.
+
+     2) They start filming episodes in August, about the same time we start
+the pilot.
+
+     3) We finish the pilot (barring our current last phase of post
+production).  Warners LOVES the show.  The stations, which have always been
+big on the show, WANT the show.  Warners tries to convince the local stations
+to open up a second night of programming, with B5 as the anchor.  The stations
+love the idea...but don't want to open up a second night until they get the
+ratings on ALL THE SHOWS.  Not just B5.  If all the shows are big hits, then
+they open the second night with Bt as the anchor.  If one doesn't perform,
+then B5 becomes the replacement.
+
+     Point being...and I can't stress this enough...there is no _ repeat, NO -
+- problem with Warners or the stations in terms of confidence or anything
+else.  They're chomping at the bit to go with it.  The only problem is that
+their "box" in which to put programs currently can only fit two one-hour
+shows.  Either they take one out, or get another box, but they can't give us a
+go until one or the other  happens.  It's not like a big network that has 7
+days of programming a week and can just drop in a show wherever it wants...or
+a straight-ahead syndicated show.  This is part of a new network, and is
+dependent upon the internal workings of  that network.  Which is fine by me,
+it's just the way things are just now.
+
+     Does that address your question?
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 243       Fri Jan 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:43 EST
+
+     Ninety percent of the stations taking the PTEN lineup have news from 10-
+11, so that only leaves 8-10 for programs.
+
+     The deal is that the stations and Warners pay 50/50, as I understand it
+from the trades, for the shows, and I don't think Warners would want to set
+the precedent of paying 100% for any given number of shows.  And because
+they're 50/50 partners, it would be politically inappropriate for one arm to
+unilaterally order X-episodes of anything.  As for the rest, there are options
+on top of options, all in our favor.
+
+     Re: post production timing and budget...we budgeted plenty of time and
+money for post production.  When the sound folks came back and asked for an
+additional day, just so we can be sure we have time for whatever little
+corrections are required by then, that wasn't a problem.  As it is, we'll be
+delivering the show next Thursday to Warners, and it won't even go out on the
+satellite to the stations for a full month, and doesn't air for nearly six
+weeks from the time of completion, so we're WELL ahead of schedule in that
+respect.  They only actually needed the show 4 weeks ahead for
+screening/reviewer purposes; we extended that by two full weeks.
+
+     Another busy day in post today...but it's coming together well.  We have
+basically just two more acts to finish, and will probably give all of Monday
+to one of them, since it's massively complex.  (Usually you can do at least
+two or three acts in a day.)
+
+     BTW, and totally aside...I finally saw the tape of my last MURDER, SHE
+WROTE episode, and it actually came out quite well, minus one or two very
+minor glitches.  It airs Sunday.  (And there's a bonus to the Captain Power
+fans contained in the name of one of the characters....)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 257       Sat Jan 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:09 EST
+
+      I can understand about the feeling re: coming information and the wait
+until February.  It's very easy to post info as we go into production, and
+during production...but once it's finished here, which it will be as of this
+coming Tuesday, the process is more or less complete.  I've tried hard over
+this process not to blather on, but to say something if there's something
+worth hearing.  I hope I can find new items to keep the topic(s) going as we
+near airdate.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+     (P.S.  The current newsletter is finished, and will be going out in the
+mail this week, I'm told.)
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 269       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:14 EST
+
+     I have no problem with married couples, none whatsoever, serving the EA.
+And, as I've said before, there is no problem having a kid in the background,
+as one of a family passing through, for instance, but I do not wish to center
+a whole *story* around one.  Someone said "But they can do it on TNG and DS9,"
+which is one more reason for NOT doing it here, to keep the identities
+separate and distinct.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 275       Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:26 EST
+
+      Mark, I've answered this question about as many times as I intend
+to...if you want to go back into the discussion and read the info, you're
+welcome to.  That article, for starters was put together LONG before the
+general meeting with the stations at which point a true reading was gotten re:
+the show.  Warners *cannot* commit unilaterally on any series without the go
+from the stations, and that won't come until they've got a fix on how ALL the
+shows are doing.  You're asking Warners to do something they wouldn't do for
+ANY show at any time.
+
+     I'm not cranky, it's just that I've now answered this about six times
+here.
+
+     Now exiting harrumph-mode.
+
+     Re: supernatural elements...not per se, no.  There is some element of
+mysticism and spirituality, but (one hopes) not quite so ham-handed.  My
+feeling is that if it's there, DO something with it other than use it as a way
+into (and out of) a plot device, thereafter dropping it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 278       Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:49 EST
+
+     I don't think we have to worry about Warners, folks, really...it's okay.
+And we've got contingencies up the wazoo.  All is well.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 288       Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:39 EST
+
+     You can jump into the B5 story at *any* point...only thing is, the more
+you watch, the more you get the nuances.  PICKET FENCES is a great example of
+this.
+
+     And if the waiting to hear when and under what umbrella B5 will be picked
+up is killing YOU....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+     (Umbrella = same night/second night, not to start any rumors.)
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 295       Tue Jan 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:45 EST
+
+     I am NOT stubborn.  I don't care WHAT you say, I'm not changing my
+opinion about that, I'm NOT stubborn.
+
+     And yes, the plan is to definitely have the PTEN expand to additional
+night, just as Fox has done.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 299       Wed Jan 13, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:03 EST
+
+     There's been some talk of my appearing on H25 the Friday before the
+broadcast, but nothing firm.  And offhand...I'm sorry, but I don't  recall the
+date of the show with Ron.  I'm sure it's written down somewhere...but you've
+never actually SEEN my desk, have you?
+
+     Then again, as I think of it, *I* haven't seen my desk lately....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 310       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:20 EST
+
+     The inter-relationships between FOX, PTEN, the FCC and any and all other
+acronymical organizations is utterly beyond my ken, and I would no sooner try
+to explain it or understand it than I would attempt to build a tesseract in
+the back yard.
+
+     In what I *hope* will be a relatively definitive word on this kid
+topic...yes, I can write a story with kids.  I've done it...I did it for the
+Twilight Zone and other shows.  The question is still one of making choices.
+Is that what this series is ABOUT?  You could drop in a chapter on badminton
+techiques into The Lord of the Rings or Debbie Does Cleveland, the question
+is, does it BELONG there?  Is that what the show or the story is attempting to
+address?
+
+     If there were no other shows with kids around, then I would be more
+inclined to do one with kids at the center.  But there are plenty of them
+around, particularly in SF...you've got kids aplenty on TNG, on DS9, I just
+saw a kid story on Space Rangers...this is simply a different kind of show.
+
+     My point is simply this: B5 is meant, in a very real sense, as noted in
+my message on 2, to be an SF novel for television.  If it were just random
+stories skittering hither, thither and yawn, that would be one thing.  But as
+any novelist can tell you, you have to ask, "Whose story is it?" and stick
+pretty close to that, even though you may swerve in and out of other POVs and
+indulge in omniscient narrative.  That requires certain choices about tone and
+attitude and what you include, and what you choose to exclude.  Doesn't
+invalidate one type of story or another, it only says "THIS is what my story's
+about."
+
+     There are plenty of other SF shows with kids.  Let's have something a
+little different.
+
+     (That's one of the ironies that crops up about this show...often people
+say "We want innovation," and when asked for specifics, they ask to make it
+more like other shows.  "Well, TNG does this kind of story, why can't you?"
+We can, but we're not.  Because we're not TNG.  Just as we will do some
+stories that I *guarantee* you ST wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 325       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:55 EST
+
+     Yes, there's considerable training involved.  In the pilot, Lyta talks
+about it in one exchange, about the "years of training" required for a P5
+classification, and that most of those who try "burn out."
+
+     As for the Fox station question...bear in mind that most stations that
+broadcast Fox shows are not actively OWNED by Fox, they are only loosely
+AFFILIATED with Fox.  They're still independent stations that have a deal to
+buy X-number of programs from Fox Television.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 337       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:36 EST
+
+     Actually, JoJo's...uhm...outfit is probably the best thing about the
+show...not for pure asthetics, of course, just...I dunno...I just kinda like
+the dynamics of it...
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 342       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:22 EST
+
+     Indeed, they might withhold such participation, which the PC would be
+obligated to honor.  Non-PC telepaths would be a different situation entirely,
+of course...and a danger...which only a PC (or one of the other government's
+own 'paths, if any) could work against.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 355       Sun Jan 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:01 EST
+
+     The "Making of B5" piece is being re-edited; originally, the E! piece was
+going to be the one shown, but...well, no need to rehash all of that.  The
+piece is being recut, and new stuff put in to replace the old stuff.  It
+should be finished next week, I hear, and then provided to the stations.
+
+     Great news about Arisia, Arne.  Any other reactions come to mind?
+
+     Re: using my posts for articles...by all means, proceed.
+
+     BTW, it appears that the deal for a B5 game has been closed, and the
+winner is Electronic Arts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 358       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:47 EST
+
+     This goes back to a very basic philosophical question: can you have
+thought without language, or language without thought?  At one point in our
+evolution, we became conscious...was there language, or did language then come
+as a *result* of consciousnes?  Or did the slow development of language *lead
+to* the development of true consciousness?
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 375       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:38 EST
+
+     I'll know more about the game in the weeks ahead.
+
+     Apparently, Creation has licensed some stuff...mainly shirts and mugs and
+patches and the like, nothing major, but it's there.  I got the first t-shirt
+design roughs today, and have some notes, but nothing too major.  More as this
+is developed.
+
+     BTW, does anyone know if there are any SF conventions this coming weekend
+in Dallas?
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 379       Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:00 EST
+
+     Licensing Corporation of America.  Based in New York.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+REPly to topic,   QUIt reading
+STArt new topic,  #,#-# read prior
+PERmanently ignore this topic
+MARk or UNMark this topic
+or <RETURN> to continue ?
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+SOARON [Bio-Dread]           at 19:41 EST
+Sub: General Information                  
+
+Babylon 5 will premiere with a two-hour movie entitled "The Gathering" early
+in 1993.  The creator of the series, J. Michael Straczynski joins us on-line
+to answer your questions.  (No story ideas please...)
+
+699 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 298       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:06 EST
+
+     When someone asks, "What kinds of specific things have you gotten out of
+this interaction?" I think I will point to the question just uptopic about
+food.  I've given this a *fair* amount of thought, mainly in the sense that
+there are hydroponic gardens (referred to in the script) and other areas for
+oxygen reclamation, I'd figured that there were also areas where alien-
+environment food was to be raised, and finally a third area where food that is
+simply impractical to grow on B5 would be synthesized.  But the question opens
+up additional areas that I haven't given that much thought to...and many
+possibilities.
+
+     Let me (so to speak) stew on this and get back to you.
+
+     Thanks for yanking my blanket.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 302       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:03 EST
+
+     Jonathan....please, for my sake, one question at a time...pick one.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 310       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:23 EST
+
+     K'wicker (than a speeding bullet?)...I ain't fussy.  My friends just call
+me Joe.  (Usually preceded by, "That Pain In The Ass")
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 314       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:44 EST
+
+     The station is owned by the Earth Alliance, and if you're going to be
+staying there, you pay a fee.  Station employees are charged a fee against
+their salaries...which some of them aren't happy about.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 318       Sat Jan 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:39 EST
+
+     Dolphins are another area that I haven't gone into in any great degree
+since the odds of any of them showing up at B5 are minimal, for production
+reasons.  Dolphins make for difficult actors, and their agents are even worse.
+
+     The homeless question brings me to a difficult point in the discussion _
+generalities are okay to discuss, Jonathan, but the more specific the
+questions get about plot points of the series, the less I can say.  The five-
+year arc is triple-encrypted in my computer for a *reason*.  And, as much as
+it pains me, I know that printups of this category go to a certain other
+studio...and would rather not give too many specifics for obvious reaons.  I'd
+like us to do them first.  Alas, we're not having this conversation in a
+vacuum.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 320       Sat Jan 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:17 EST
+
+     Just as with the early days of ocean travel, you would generally have
+three levels of travel: first class, one just below, and down deep below
+decks, those traveling steerage.  A small group can also pool all their
+resources, for instance, charter a ship one-way just far enough as B5, and
+hope to find work or new opportunities on far-away worlds.  When this doesn't
+happen, they linger...sometimes for a long time.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 336       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:56 EST
+
+     Dave: Bingo!
+
+     And re: genetic moofky-fooky...yes, it's a definite issue, and is
+referenced at least once in the pilot.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 345       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:07 EST
+
+     BABYLON 5 meets ATTACK OF THE GIANT CRAB MONSTERS, I like it....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 349       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:30 EST
+
+     Actually just handled this up in topic 1.  Rumors are the bane of science
+fiction...and people at conventions who speak should try and get their facts
+straight first.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 351       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:55 EST
+
+     There's been some disagreement over that...I prefer the idea that he's
+uplifted.  (It's between me and the prosthetics design team.)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 357       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:09 EST
+
+     Hey, there's an idea...come up with a totally bogus B5 five-year arc and
+let it get accidentally uploaded and distributed to throw folks off... except
+of course folks might well believe it, which would work against us in the long
+run.  Ah, well....
+
+     Any telekinetics on board Babylon 5?  you ask?
+
+     No.
+
+     At least, not yet.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 388       Tue Jan 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:49 EST
+
+     Pets is okay.  Ah lahkes pets.  Pets be cool.  And cats be coolest.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 407       Wed Jan 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:31 EST
+
+     There's haze in some scenes where you've got a lot of traffic, and food
+cooking, and braziers, and the like.  The quarters don't have that.
+
+     As it happens, Pat Tallman has pets...two bunnies and two chinchillas.  I
+pointed out to her that she now has both food and clothing concerns taken care
+of.  She's still not speaking to me.
+
+     Saw the DS9 pilot tonight.
+
+     Heh....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 422       Wed Jan 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:01 EST
+
+     Katherine: oh, snarf you....
+
+     Bear: a 16 pound cat?  Wow...some good eatin' there....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 428       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:42 EST
+
+     Eric...imagine two boxers in the ring, each bloodied and exhausted after
+11 grueling rounds.  It's now the last round.  You've each got one last shot
+in your heart.  Your opponent comes in with a big name, with the sports
+critics approval, with fancy clothes and a twelve million dollar windup.  He
+pulls back and lets you have it with everything he's got.       
+
+     Then you look around...and you're still standing.  And you're thinking
+"THAT was their best shot?"
+
+     Because everything he had was intent on one hard shot to knock you out of
+the ring...speeded training, massive amounts of promotion, just to knock you
+out.
+
+     And you're still standing.  And you smile.
+
+     Because now it's YOUR turn.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 441       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:01 EST
+
+     I can't remember when I was last this tired.  (Well, that's a lie, it was
+during the last 2 days of filming on B5, but the former made for a better
+opening line.)
+
+     After getting zero sleep (nervous with anticipation, running the pilot
+through my head over and over again to prepare for today), I went in with a
+number of the production people today on the first day of the final
+sound/dialogue/music mix.  Ten straight hours, one half-hour break during
+which we ate at the mixing tables.  Trying different combinations, re-showing
+scenes with slight modifications, over and over and over, until your eyes _
+focused for 10 hours on the same focal distance, blinking against bright
+lights so you can make notes _ start to melt out of your sockets.  And there
+are three more days to go of this....
+
+     But man, this thing is really coming together.  It's exciting to watch it
+happen.  To the question about music...the music in this thing is just
+terrific...dynamic, evocative, moody, exciting...and while it took me a while
+to get it into my head (as with the theme from the Equalizer, which has
+similar resonances), the theme definitely stays with you.
+
+     Along wund editors, Stewart Copeland came by, as well as various of the
+film editors, the cameraman, others...and Richard Compton, our director, was
+also at the helm for the whole ten hours, as was our line producer John
+Copeland (no relation).  People just wanted to come by and see it.
+
+     It's gonna be a hoot, ladies and gentlemen....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 465       Sat Jan 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:59 EST
+
+     Leslie, the stuff you mention is in either the computer EFX topic in this
+category, or the B5 science topic, one or the other.
+
+     My messages can by all means be sent elsewhere; just not anyone else's
+unless you secure permission.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 482       Sat Jan 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:13 EST
+
+     There's something about the Lyta/Garibaldi dynamic that I like, as others
+here have noted as well.  I keep playing with one scene I'm dying to write,
+where he's trying to pick up on her, and says, "Listen, what do you say we go
+by my quarters, I'd like to show you my favorite thing in the whole world."
+She gives him THAT look.  "Okay-okay-okay, my SECOND favorite thing in the
+whole world."
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 492       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:04 EST
+
+     Right...and there was a lengthy discussion of how the Links tie into the
+B5 central computer, and how it operates in relation to those Links (which are
+computer segments themselves) in either the SFX or the B5 Science topics.
+
+     BTW, a thought, for anyone to jump in on who wants to...as noted uptopic,
+on Tuesday my job is basically done.  The B5 pilot will be finished.  Between
+now and the show's airing 5 or so weeks from now, what areas would you be
+interested in discussing?  What things would you like to see done here?  (I
+briefly considered the idea of uploading one page of the script per day
+between now and the time B5 airs, but then I realized that a lot of folks
+would probably prefer to see it produced, not see the script _ the ultimate
+spoiler _ and thus jettisoned that idea.)  I guess my main fear is being
+dull...not that that's *too* likely to happen with this crowd...but I take the
+"okay, so now what?" note uptopic somewhat to heart.
+
+     Or we can just keep doing what we're doing....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 511       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:22 EST
+
+     I'll have to check w/Wareners re: the script thing, but under the WGA
+contract, I own the physical script and its disposition.  Maybe the idea of
+excerpts _ filmed stuff, or stuff we cut, missing scenes _ might be the best
+way to go.  (And even at the rate of 1 page per day, you'd only get through
+the first third of the script by the time it aired anyway.)  Will advise.
+
+     To the question of promotion above...Warners will begin a real push on
+this subsequent to the 18th of January.  They want to concentrate  their
+efforts on the month just prior to airing.  So far, we've been dragged into
+articles often on the basis of the controversy between the various shows...but
+both Warners and I feel strongly that it's important to establish our separate
+identity, not in relation to anything else.  Now that the other shows have
+aired, we can now have an easier time doing this.
+
+     What can I ask others to do?  Mainly to just keep the word out there; if
+you see a local article mistakenly labeling B5 a copy, to let the guy know the
+facts.  But probably the single *most* important thing is what can be done
+when the show itself airs...and that's to write to both your local station and
+Warners to let them know your feelings.  But that's if and ONLY if you
+genuinely like what you see, and for no other reason.
+
+     Will think about this stuff some more, maybe post some thought later.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 518       Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:29 EST
+
+     Synopses of upcoming episodes....?
+
+     No.
+
+     I'd much prefer to see them first on B5 than elsewhere.
+
+     All good things come to those who wait...or as someone once said, "Good
+news can wait, and bad news will refuse to leave."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 528       Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:43 EST
+
+     Re: sign off tags...pruff...that stuff's for sissies.  The jms is
+sufficient for my needs (and looks kinda like a revolver pointed right).
+
+     Have seen the whole movie now with final EFX, sound, music, dialogue, all
+that jazz.  Looks better than I'd hoped possible.  Will be cleaning up a few
+spots in the next two days, and then watching the final product one more time,
+this time on a regular TV set rather than the studio's projection system and
+sound system, to better gauge what will and won't be audible on a home TV.
+
+     By mid-day Wednesday, we be done.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 532       Tue Jan 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:23 EST
+
+      Haven't yet seen Time Trax, so can't comment.  I don't see "a lot" of
+shows "taking place on space stations," at this point, only two, unless you
+count the outpost stuff in Space Rangers.  Personally, my feeling is that the
+more good SF, the better.
+
+     It's my understanding that very likely B5 *will* be released theatrically
+overseas as a feature.  More on this as I can talk about it.
+
+     Guest stars?  Of course.  Many and varied.
+
+     Re: scripts...for the first year, there will be only two people on staff:
+me, and Harlan Ellison, as creative consultant.  So the majority of the
+scripts will be freelance.  For that first season, we've already locked down
+our writers.  They will come from one of two groups: a) a small group of
+writers who I've worked with over the years and have trained to my tastes, and
+b) another small group of leading SF writers, many of whom don't work for TV
+anymore, but will break that absence for B5.
+
+     Part of the reason for this is to establish ourselves firmly during the
+course of that first season, get our feet wet, firm up our identity, and other
+hits by the same name.  It does no good for freelancers on the outside to try
+a script until they've seen at least one season, as well.   Finally, because
+there will be a certain amount of continuity and developing storylines from
+episode to episode, that requires a certain  degree of direction from in-house
+on stories.  Very often we'll go to a writer and say, "Here...in this story, X
+has to happen.  Beyond making sure that X is included, do what you want."  An
+outsider won't have access to knowing what that X is.
+
+     Still, there will be episodes totally separate from the arc, and those
+are far more wide open.
+
+     One disservice that TNG has done the SF writing community is its _ in a
+way _ tendency to *use* SF fans as idea mills.  Hundreds of scripts arrive
+each month, they're read through, good ideas are plucked out, they pay a
+couple hundred bucks for the premise, then write it in-house.  Part of the
+reason they're always so desperate for material, and driven to this length of
+soliciting scripts from fans, is that they don't have a terrific reputation in
+the writing community.  Some of it is undeserved, a hanger-on from previous
+administrations, and some of it seems to have some basis in terms of the fact
+that you will never have the chance to see your script through to the end.
+
+     That problem does not exist with B5.  Our writers are already lined up
+and ready to go.
+
+     Starting with the second season, assuming we get that far, we will open
+things up more and be willing to look at finished scripts with a release form.
+I think that providing that opportunity is important.  But it won't be such a
+cattle-call in the way it's handled.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 547       Tue Jan 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:15 EST
+
+     Yes, I've asked David (and he's agreed) to write the novelization, which
+will probably commence within days of the series go being given.   And there
+have been many screenplays published over the years, in script form/via
+paperback or hardcover; I have a rather extensive collection of same
+(including the aforementioned T2 book, which is extraordinarily good).  It
+might be a good idea to do one for B5, with annotations, but not including the
+"how to write for tv" material mainly because that's a) covered in my writing
+book, which b) I intend one of these days to finish updating to Writers Digest
+Books can stop yelling on me.
+
+     Some random observations and thoughts which might be of interest....
+
+     We've pretty much finished the final mix, as stated, which we'll review
+tomorrow morning to be sure that it sounds okay on a small set.   But for
+those of you out there with surround systems, and stations that will broadcast
+in surround...me boyos, have YOU got a treat coming your way.  We did a *lot*
+of work on this thing to emphasize the surround.   One act had over 100 passes
+to make the sound as layered as possible (an average show has maybe 30 per).
+The movement is quite distinct and compelling.  The sound EFX are also quite
+good...the sound made by the weapons is also quite good.
+
+     One thing we did with the weapons is to try, again, to be fairly logical.
+If it's a BIG weapon _ rifle size or better _ then you're going to have a
+quicker recharge time (if any) between firings, though you may have to change
+packs more often.  At one point, you'll see a smaller, hand-sized gun being
+fired a few times.  And each time, you'll hear a power whine as it builds up
+the required power to fire off another round.  A gun that small simply
+wouldn't have the capability to fire off one after another after another
+without some power buildup that might not be present in a larger gun.
+(Smaller guns are generally things you'd want to smuggle on board, and might
+be as useful, in those ways, as a Derringer, which could only fire one or two
+shots, as opposed to a machinegun  or gattling gun brought openly into battle,
+and which is  intended to be used a lot.)
+
+     Someone mentioned the positive aspects to building the maximum population
+of a space station around available supplies and other very real
+considerations.  We're trying, consistently, to ask "How would this work in
+reality?  What are the SCIENCE considerations in doing SF?"  In general, we've
+found that if you Ask The Next Question and try to be logical, you get MORE
+options, and you get more INTERESTING options than if you just throw all that
+to the winds.  (Often networks say, "Ah, screw the science on it, you'll just
+limit yourself."  Not true.)
+
+     During the final mix-down, a group of cub scouts came through the mixing
+facility on a tour.  So we invited them in for the play-back on the next-to-
+the-last act...this is the one where we kick over the table and it's pretty
+much nonstop action.  Wanted to see the reaction of kids to the show, because
+if there's a more relentlessly honest audience than kids that age, I don't
+know what it is.  The fidget factor is enormous when they get bored.
+
+     They didn't BUDGE.  For some of the shots, they sat there, slack jawed,
+at what they were seeing.  Which is also good to know, that the show can
+appeal to kids as well as adults WITHOUT making any dumb compromises (i.e.,
+writing down, sticking in kids) to that audience.  I heard them later talking
+about it among themselves, and though one kid was a bit unnerved by the whole
+thing, the rest just went on and on about it..."awesome"..."cool"..."that was
+great."  So far, so good.
+
+     Onward.
+
+     In thinking a little about the discussion, and what role I've tried to
+play (and if I've seemed a bit brief or short of late, my apologies; the
+workload is immense just now), and I don't want anyone to think that I'm
+playing coy or just teasing about the series when questions about same come
+up, insofar as story possibilities or plot stuff is concerned.
+ Obviously, I don't want to give out stuff that would constitute the Ultimate
+Spoiler.
+
+     But there are generalities that I *can* talk about.  When this topic
+first began, I was able to talk a little about what was hoped for in the
+movie...to let people know what we were talking about, and what to expect in
+exchange for the interest.  (I've always believed that you have to put your
+money where your mouth is and earn loyalty by keeping promises and being
+straightforward in what you do.)
+
+     So what *can* be said about the series, what would you have to look
+forward to?
+
+     You will find out what happened to Sinclair, for starters, during the
+Earth/Minbari war.  In that respect, the pilot movie is like the first chapter
+of a novel.  For nearly 10 years, Sinclair has worked to convince himself that
+nothing happened to him on the Line other than what seems to be the case: that
+he blacked out for 24 hours.  He's just managed to convince himself of this.
+Now, suddenly, someone comes into his life and with seven words _ you'll know
+them when you hear them _ completely unravels the self-deception.  He knows
+then that something DID happen to him, that someone DID mess with his
+mind...and he is going to find out who, and why.
+
+     This he will do.  And the ramifications of that discovery will have a
+major influence on the series, on his relationships, and the future of not
+only his character but many others.
+
+     You will see what a Vorlon is...and what it represents.  And what it may
+have to do with our own saga, and a hidden relationship to some of our other
+characters (watch the reception scene carefully).  We'll discover that there
+are MANY players in this game.
+
+     One thing that separates this show from others is that on other shows,
+very often you do things to them to make for interesting drama...you take them
+prisoner, you make them kids, whatever...in this show, it's what's INSIDE the
+characters that will pose the greatest problems...and the greatest
+possibilities for drama.  Most every major character is either running to, or
+away from something in their hearts, or their pasts, or their careers.
+Garibaldi's past will catch up with him in a very  difficult way that will
+affect his role and make him a very different  character for as much as a full
+season, and have lasting effects thereafter.  Lyta will take part in a voyage
+of discovery that will very much change her character.
+
+     Some of the established empires will fall.  Some will rise.  Hopes and
+fortunes will be alternately made or destroyed.  At least one major group not
+yet known even to EXIST will make its presence known, but only gradually.
+Some characters will fall from grace.  Others will make bargains whose full
+price they do not understand...but will eventually come to realize, and
+regret.
+
+     At the end of the first season, one character will undergo a major, MAJOR
+change, which will start the show spinning on a very different axis.  The
+first season will have some fairly conventional stories, but others will start
+the show gradually moving toward where I want it to go.   One has to set these
+things up gradually.  Events in the story _ which is very much the story of
+Jeffrey Sinclair _ will speed up in each subsequent season.
+
+     Someone he considers a friend will betray him.  Another will prove to be
+the exact opposite of what Sinclair believes to be true.  Some will live.
+Some will die.  He will be put through a crucible of terrible force, that will
+change him, and alter his destiny, in a profound and terrible way...if he goes
+one way, or the other, will determine not only his own fate, but that of
+millions of others.  He will grow, and become stronger, better, wiser...or be
+destroyed by what fate is bringing his way.  In sum, it is a story of hope
+against terrible adversity and overwhelming odds.
+
+     That, in broad brush strokes, is a *taste* of what I plan to do with the
+series.  I note this here because when the pilot airs, I am going to ask for
+your continued help in supporting the endeavor for the series, and it occurs
+to me that you ought to have at least SOME idea of what you're buying, and
+being asked to support.  One should never be asked to sign a blank check on
+the bank of one's conscience.
+
+     Reactions?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 549       Tue Jan 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:42 EST
+
+     What happens at the end of the five year arc?  The "Babylon 5" series
+ends...if I have anything to say about it (and I do).  If something esle
+follows, we'll see what that is, but it won't be the same series, or the same
+title, or really the same characters.
+
+     Barring that very distant possibility, at the end of the five year arc, I
+take a very, very, VERY long nap....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 582       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:42 EST
+
+     Thanks, all.  My only mortal dread in putting this stuff out there is
+based upon the fact that the basic *story* of the pilot movie is fairly
+straightforward, the way you make a prologue to a novel fairly simple, but
+plant the seeds for that which will follow.  My terror is that people will
+look at it, expecting ***GALACTIC EMPIRES IN COLLISION!*** and see a rather
+basic story, and say, "Huh?  Where's all the other stuff?"
+
+     It's in the series.  Trust me.  I wouldn't lie on you.
+
+     In a way, it's a question of establishing context.  Take, for instance,
+the two TERMINATOR movies.  The plots of both are incredibly simple, and
+essentially identical: Character A comes out of the future to kill Character
+B; Character C also comes out of the future to stop Character A.  When you
+come *right down to it*, that's all the story there is.  But it introduces the
+background, and the context, and that informs the story.  The actual *story*
+in the B5 pilot is similarly basic (also for the reason that it became easier
+to slip past folks)...it's the context and the characters that are introduced
+that matter.
+
+      And there's a *lot* to introduce...a new universe, new technologies, new
+races, NINE regular characters, histories, wars, alliances...there ain't much
+room for anything too complex.
+
+     It's like a foundation poured of concrete; it ain't pretty, but it's
+*solid* enough to hold one hell of a house.
+
+     And speaking of which....
+
+     Basic fact: all you can do is the *best* you can do.  You do your job,
+second-guess yourself into hysteria, and hope it works.
+
+     Which is a long way of saying...the B5 pilot is now complete.   Nothing
+remains to be done.  We had the final run-through and playback on TV set
+speakers (modifying a few things here and there, but not much), and now it
+goes to the studio, and from there, the stations.
+
+     There was only one other modification I made today: remembering some of
+the confusion and uncertainty here about how the Kosh hand scene was framed _
+why it was the way it was, he said vaguely _ I decided at the last minute to
+bring in Pat Tallman to record one additional line of dialogue to clarify
+things.  Once again, the discussion here has directly affected something in
+the pilot.  The criticisms, I felt, were accurate, and needed to be addressed.
+This was done.
+
+     That said...it's a strange feeling knowing that this stage is now
+complete.  No take-backs, no second chances, nada.  The film lives or dies now
+on its merits, as it should be.  There's exhiliration, and a measure of _ I
+dunno _ hollowness, I suppose.  And now the need grows to get Phase Two
+going.  And one way or another, it *will* get going.
+
+     For five years, people told me that B5 could never be made, that even if
+you could find a studio to back it, it might never get aired; and even if you
+got both those two, you'd never be able to exercise the creative control
+required to make it worth the agony.  Five years is just a whole lotta NOs.
+But it got done.  And, of course, the chorus returns about the series...but it
+will get made, if I have to move heaven and earth to do it.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 602       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:03 EST
+
+     Re: using the background TVs to show newscasts of recent events... what
+an utterly, utterly, majorly COOL idea.  The frown on my face is only from
+wondering why the hell none of US thought of that.  (Hmm... y'know, there were
+invariably one or two guys in the crew running around videotaping everything
+and anything...if you could have them also videotaping scenes as we were
+filming them...splice in EFX footage as needed...wrap the whole thing around
+the B5 Newscast Logo (and yes, we have one, it's in the pilot, albeit in BG),
+it'd give you something nifty to have going on, and would make sense.
+
+     What a wonderful and simple and effective idea....
+
+     Thank you.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 605       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+n
+the other day, and as we were watching it, he kept shaking his head at all the
+things he would've done differently if he'd known then what he knows now, and
+if he'd had the programs/techniques then that he has now.  Just the few months
+since we finished photography have given him  a number of tools that he didn't
+have then.
+
+     We talked a little about what's capable now, what he can do now, and
+what's coming up, and it makes what's in the pilot look like nothing by
+comparison.  (A lot of the critics talked about the extensive work that went
+into the DS9 jello-man effect, not to mention the cost involved; he turned his
+associate Paul into the same thing in a test that worked just as well and took
+one night and no money, just a little while behind the keyboard.)  Once we get
+the go, he and I are going to spend a couple of days just sitting and talking
+about what can be done now, so that I can take full advantage of this new
+stuff.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 627       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:46 EST
+
+     "Bob" will never be seen talke, for any reason,
+in B5.  I'll personally run a truck over him first, newscast or not (unless I
+think I can get a good gag out of it...).
+
+     Re: my mental state...I'll know better in a week or so.  I try not to get
+too personally involved with my own life.  Basically, itf
+in ever___
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 652       Sun Jan 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:05 EST
+
+     BTW, to correct an erroneous statement of mine earlier, there is not a
+species named Vee'lons that will be introduced on DS9.
+
+     The Vee'lons will be introduced on Space Rangers.
+
+     Some days, I just can't get a break....
+
+                                   s
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 672       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:42 EST
+
+     I take great joy in being politically *incorrect* at every possible
+opportunity.  I believe in the motto someone at the BBC once voice:  "There
+are some people we WANT to offend."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 685       Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:47 EST
+
+     Re: starships from Earth...yes, you'll be seeing a wide range of  ships,
+from smaller transports and trading vessels to big mothers.  It is something
+of an empire, and the ships come in as many varied forms as we have cars and
+trucks and semis and tanks and on and on....
+
+     Re: talking vs. action...there's a shade more exposition than I'd like in
+the pilot, mainly because there's so damned MUCH background to establish, so
+much ground to lay...it'll be more evenly proportioned in the series.  I like
+action.  For me, the #1 crime of any TV show or movie is that it should bore.
+When in doubt, kill somebody.
+
+     Or blow something up.
+
+     Re: technology...yes, the point about the sudden jump via new
+technologies is exactly dead on.  It *did* have a tramautic impact, and to
+varying degrees still does.  The effect of technology, and the desire for
+same, will be a recurrent thread.  There are some technologies that are
+considered too radical for some species, and are thus kept off limits, with
+prison sentences or even death sentences for smuggling certain kinds of
+technologies.  One such tech-runner appears in the pilot.  The parallel, I
+suppose, would be our current concerns with the spread of nuclear technology.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
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+ ************
+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Computer EFX Tech-Talk   
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+497 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 349       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:27 EST
+
+     I use Windows a little more than I used to, but overall I suspect (well,
+know, really) that I'm not getting the most bang for my buck because I don't
+understand the mechanics of configuring either Windows or the computer itself.
+I'm sitting here with a killer megasystem, and...the best comparison I can
+think of is an australian aborigine who's found an F-16 figher plane and
+mainly uses it to shelter his sheep and goats under the wings when it
+rains....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 385       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:12 EST
+
+     I've tended to lean more in the direction of individual computers _
+multi-gigabyte systems small enough to fit on the wrist, which also serve as
+communications systems called Links _ that are generally networked into the
+B5 database/central computer system.  Ninety percent of any information you're
+likely to need you probably already have in the Link; anything additional you
+need, or if you need a direct interface with Babylon Central Computer, that
+can be accomplished with a simple voice command.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 391       Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:23 EST
+
+     Just as a point of clarification, Links are only used by station
+personnel, not visiting aliens, or any visitor, human or otherwise, for whom
+multi-use terminals have been set up in their quarters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 407       Tue Jan 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:53 EST
+
+     Basically, I think that there should be something on-screen if there
+NEEDS to be something on-screen.  For instance, in both Sinclair's quaters and
+the briefing room, you'll see monitors on the wall in BG and later used for
+important stuff.  (That should be quarters, not quaters, which is what you
+find on the moon.)  When not *actively in use* they display only the B5 logo,
+sort of a carrier wave.  When a signal comes in from local, you get the BabCom
+logo, then the signal.  When a signal comes in from a ship, or the computer
+provides information, you go right from the B5 symbol straight to the display.
+When it's over, you go back to the static symbol until it's needed again.
+
+     The only real exceptions to this are a) the consoles in the observation
+dome, which are going at all times to monitor incoming and outgoing ships, and
+b) displays in the business areas which show the internal B5 Newscast and
+commercials.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 447       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:05 EST
+
+     Isn't Lexicor the company owned by Lex Luthor...?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Cast and Characters      
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+501 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 376       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:08 EST
+
+     After a crocodile named Leviathan?  Er...I think that it's likely a
+reference to the book of Job, where he is asked by god, "Canst thou draw out
+Leviathan with an hook; or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?"
+(JOB 41:1)
+
+                                                          jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 378       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:04 EST
+
+     They don't exactly get along, that's for sure.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 381       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:28 EST
+
+     There's a mid-season story that deals *precisely* with this issue.
+
+     Hence...I'm forced to remain mute for the moment.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 398       Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:25 EST
+
+     Ta-daaaa...Gary, take another look at the pilot.  Every time you see
+Lyta, you will notice a silver insignia on her lapel.  It's the Psi symbol set
+against a bronze background.  That is, indeed, the preferred form of
+reference.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 401       Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:14 EST
+
+     Bill Warren suspects more than he knows, and knows less than he suspects.
+And any resulting opinions are simply that, and though written are nowhere
+near writ, holy or otherwise.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 406       Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:36 EST
+
+     The amount of contact required varies according to the telepath's
+strength.  Lyta at P5 needs a little help.  A P10 could nail you from across
+the room.
+
+     And I want to have some fun with the commercial funding aspects of
+B5...ads, gov't support, commercials, all that stuff.  That's an issue that I
+feel really needs to be addressed...who pays for this neat stuff? And what
+happens when the money runs out?
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 418       Tue Jan 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:41 EST
+
+     Yes, we'll definitely see them in their civvies, and there will be a
+range of entertainment possibilities, including TV (again, there are shots of
+an internal newscast on B5, and commercials as well).  Thee's _ er, there's _
+one little thing that I'm gonna do the first episode or so to establish that
+that's so off-beat and (one hopes) funny that I'm sure you'll like it.  If
+only I can get Warners to release the footage....
+
+                                                            jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 426       Wed Jan 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:04 EST
+
+     Yeah, that was the hard part with the actors...they're so used to seeing
+one costume actors in SF that even though they HAD other stuff to wear, it was
+hard to shoe-horn them into it.  But that'll change.
+
+     As for skivvies...who knows...there's a shot of Sinclair emerging from
+bed wearing just about nada until he gets his robe on that several women on
+the show kept re-running, saying "yum...".
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 450       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:04 EST
+
+     I can't remember height ever even being discussed, except once, when we
+were debating about two possibilities for a given role.  I don't think it
+really matters.  As it happens, it probably won't ever come up because both
+Michael O'Hare and Jerry Doyle (and I think Johnny Sekka) are all well over 6'
+tall.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 458       Sat Jan 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:01 EST
+
+     Lonnie, let us not tempt the universe....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 467       Sat Jan 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:16 EST
+
+     Jack...er...so, you noticed those initials, eh?  Probably noticed that
+Garibaldi's first name is Michael, too, huh?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 469       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:06 EST
+
+     The two tallest are Michael O'Hare and Jerry Doyle...and I think they're
+about the same height...unless Jerry's just a squidge taller.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 473       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:24 EST
+
+     Just checked their resumes, and their heights aren't indicated.  I will
+have to get back to you on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
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+ ************
+Topic 5         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            (Forwarded)
+Sub: Grid Epsilon Irregulars - News & Info.
+
+This topic is for information about Babylon 5 fan groups, newsletters,
+fanzines, get-togethers, B-5 at conventions, and other general fun.
+222 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 172       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:08 EST
+
+     The current newsletter is due out this week, and any who sent in subs
+requesting #1 will probably receive them at the same time.
+
+     Re: merchandising...we have several deals in the works, the only one I
+know for sure involves a computer game from a major company.  There will be
+some supplementary stuff...shirts and mugs and hats and patches and
+stuff...around the time of the pilot, at least so I'm told.  Luckily, my
+contract with Warners requires my consultation on marketing, so nothing
+embarrassing will come out if I have anything to say about it.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 174       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:31 EST
+
+     Don't know yet; will probably have more info in a few weeks.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 182       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:26 EST
+
+     The software company involved is a good one, and the designers are first
+rate.  As soon as I can announce the details, I will.
+
+     And yeah, I get one of everything.  I may need a bigger house....
+
+     The best way to make sure one gets in on any upcoming marketing is
+probably to write Warners marketing (I believe it's the Licensing Corporation
+of America...maybe someone here has an address) and ask to get on a mailing
+list for info.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 189       Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:32 EST
+
+     Great, Rob, many, many thanks.  So yeah...anybody who wants to get on a
+mailing list for merchandise related to B5, drop a note to the address
+contained in message 187.  Be the first on your block....
+
+                                                       jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 218       Wed Jan 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:00 EST
+
+     Yep...the "beep" stuff will all be clear by the end of the pilot.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
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+ ************
+Topic 6         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 06:43 EST
+Sub: Where is Babylon 5? TV stations...   
+
+Babylon 5 is a cornerstone of Warner's new Prime Time Network. Here is where
+one can find the station information....
+290 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 230       Wed Jan 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:06 EST
+
+     Leviathan...as a local, mayhap you could ring up Dana Hersey and fill him
+in on the background, just so's he knows it ain't a DS9 riff.
+
+     This is probably the single biggest problem I know we're gonna have with
+reviews.  On every other level, we'll stand on our own; I just don't want that
+inaccuracy surfacing and skewing the review.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 252       Tue Jan 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:19 EST
+
+     WVTV Milwaukee.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 287       Wed Jan 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:02 EST
+
+     I'm scheduled for Gallifrey One Goes Forth?
+
+     Oh....
+
+     Er...when exactly is that, again?
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ______
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+ ************
+Topic 7         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+J.HUDGENS [Fenn Shysa]       at 23:07 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 _ POTENTIAL SPOILERS      
+
+If you've seen the B5 promos or the sales info packages and want to mention
+specific items or situations without worrying about spoiling it for others,
+post & comment here... THERE BE SPOILERS HERE!
+429 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 291       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:17 EST
+
+     If I see one more message with a one-liner on top and then ten zillion
+lines of white space, which at 2400 baud go by too fast for me to read the
+damn thing, so I have to then go back and find the number of the message, and
+replay it time after time while hitting ^S to try adn stop it before it
+scrolls past again, I am going to do someone serious damage.
+
+     (Well, everyone ELSE was having a tirade....)
+
+     Paula...you're responding to and arguing with something that only you
+heard because it doesn't exist in the pilot.  The line that Sinclair says is,
+"I managed to take out a fighter before they hit my stabalizers.  I was losing
+control, I'd lost my team...." etc.  Not vertical stabalizers.   Just the
+device that keeps the ship from spinning end over end by  controlling the
+various thrusts.  No matter WHAT system you're using, you have to be able to
+go from A to B, and the minute adjustments required, particularly if you're in
+the midst of battle, are too complex for one person to make on the fly.  It
+has to go through a computer.  If the  system _ hydraulics, pneumatics, air
+thrust, fusion, whatever power you happen to prefer _ is damaged, it's going
+to screw you up.
+
+     THAT was the line.  And the Line.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 293       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:13 EST
+
+     I keep hearing Alladin's more of a pain than it's worth, which is why I
+generally do all my writing/reading on-line.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 320       Wed Jan 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:13 EST
+
+     Just one other little item you're forgetting, Paula...these are
+individual fighters, which are made to operate in and out of an atmosphere.
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 322       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:21 EST
+
+     Several reasons...first, she wouldn't be able to tell for sure if his
+memory had or had not been "doctored" to eliminate the memory of the action.
+(An upper-level Psi could notice the seams in the memory; she's basically a
+business-transaction person who's a teeny bit over her head in what she's
+doing, and she knows it.)  Second, I'm playing constantly with how our society
+will deal with this kind of telepath.
+
+     The idea is always "innocent until proven guilty."  Now, you can bring
+someone to trial, and a psi can scan them, and boom, you know one way or
+another.  But does that violate our judicial tradition of a trial BY JURY, and
+put 'WAY too much power in the hands of telepaths?  Because bear in mind, we
+still have to take their word for what they "see" in someone's mind.  They can
+function as key witnesses, but it's my sense that they would be SPECIFICALLY
+PROHIBITED from going into the mind of an accused person to determine their
+innocence or guilt, *even if so invited*.
+
+     There are others, but those are, in my mind, the key reasons for this.
+It's a matter of trying to be logical and consistent in how these things are
+used; you don't want to have something (or someone) become the Magic Wand that
+solves every problem, a Deux Ex Lyta, so to speak.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 324       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:47 EST
+
+     Yes, Lyta's always had an affinity for alien races from a telepathic
+standpoint.  As for telling reality from subjective; as soon as it goes in
+your eyes, it becomes subjective.  So that's the only POV from which she can
+act.  It's easiest when it's straightforward visual or auditory impulses, not
+much open to coloring by the subjective aspect.  If the person being scanned
+is unbalanced, then 1) it becomes VERY uncomfortable for the psi, and 2) there
+are signature aspects of the scan (colors, hallucinations, delusions) that
+would tip off any good psi that this may not be a very valid perspective.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 332       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:09 EST
+
+     Yes, there are shields available, mainly implants, sometimes drugs, and
+cyberalteration techniques to mind-wipe people temporarily so they can't be
+read easily.
+
+     Re: perjury, there are Psi review boards, as with the AMA (and of equally
+debatable power) that could be called into play in the case of suspected
+perjury, as well as other abuses of the Psi-Corps authority.   If a review
+board or other PC arm finds you're in violation of standards, the next step is
+the psi-cops.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 349       Sat Jan 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:19 EST
+
+     The background on that business meeting is similar to all such uses of
+telepaths: both sides agree to the presence of a telepath to monitor the
+negotiations.  If one were to demur, the deal would be off because the person
+clearly has something to hide.  Which is why there is a good market for
+various kinds of shields that don't LOOK like or feel like shields unless the
+telepath knows what to look for.  You can also just try and hide it and hope
+that the telepath isn't looking too deep or isn't really paying attention,
+which is what that guy was doing.  (May have been reciting the "tensor" rhyme
+trying to keep his brain occupied.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 353       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:31 EST
+
+     How much combat is in the movie?  Not terribly much...I wanted more of a
+dramatic series with action than an action series with drama.  The series will
+alternate...some with lots and lots of action, some with less.
+
+     The budget is classified.
+
+     Re: the total population of B5...this is something that I went round and
+round with as the designers and I worked on this thing.  They haven't given me
+an exact figure yet; I imagine I'll get it eventually.  It's in the *area* of
+a couple hundred thousand, though.  I *think* they said the max capacity was
+around 250,000 but I could be wrong.
+
+     (This is one of those things where the writer can't just set a figure and
+wave a magic wand.  B5 is a particular given size...now you have to figure out
+how much space is required by hydroponics, station systems, infrastructure and
+so on...subtract that from the total available volume, determine how large the
+individual living quarters are, with some variance, and then finally zero in
+on how many people that could accommodate without squeezing everyone in like
+sardines.  All I know is that there's math involved....)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 361       Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:45 EST
+
+     No, they're not.
+
+     And someone trained to know what to look for in a scan would pick up on
+it...but those are few and far between.
+
+     Ah hates math.  I failed bonehead math twice in junior college, and only
+passed the third time when the professor, seeing me one more time in his
+class, said in despair, "Just...go.  I'll give you a C-, just go."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 366       Tue Jan 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:23 EST
+
+     I can more or less hold my own in math UNTIL such time as suddenly we're
+dealing with numbers AND letters.  For some reason, I'm absolutely hard-wired
+for language.  Letters are part of a word, a number is for math.  When someone
+says "A = 9" my immediate response is, "A what?  *A* dog?  *A* horse?  What?"
+I know what the theory is on all this, that there are groups, sub-groups,
+universes, all that jazz...the theory is fine...but when I look at a number
+AND a letter in an equation, my brain goes into vapor lock, I get confused and
+fall down.
+
+     I don't even want to TALK about the scams I ran in order to pass my
+semester of Statistical Psychology to get my B.A. in clinical psych.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 369       Wed Jan 13, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:05 EST
+
+         .
+          .
+           .
+            .
+             .
+               <thud>
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 377       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:51 EST
+
+     To get past the language requirement, I took two semesters of German.
+German I and German II.  Simultaneously.  From 9-10:30 twice a week we were
+nice and safe and snuggly in a very basic German class...and from 10:30 to 12
+noon twice a week (same days), we were dropped screaming like souls into
+Dante's Ninth Circle masquerading as German II, where the instructor would
+ONLY speak to us in German.  Which we didn't understand.  It was kind of a
+trial run, an experiment to see if it would work, and the conclusion at the
+end of the semester...at which point half of us were stark, staring mad, and
+the other half were plotting to annex the Sudetenland...was that it didn't
+work.  My basic problem (even though I passed) was that I was always week on
+English grammar...so when I had to slam a word through the various forms and
+declensions, I would...well, you've seen what happens when someone throws an
+equation at me...it's a lot like that, only with a bunch of umlauts thrown in
+for color.
+
+     That was the same semester in which I realized that I wanted to get the
+hell OUT of college and into writing full time, and started cramming courses.
+I think I had something on the order of 23 or 27 credits that semester alone,
+in violation of university limits (I crashed courses that were beyond the
+proscribed limits).  And they weren't monkey classes, either, lemme tell
+you...6 units of German, plus classes in Statistical Psychology, Biology,
+Literature, Philosophy, and some other stuff (along with the 1-2 writing
+workshops I took every semester).  To this day I'm still amazed that I
+actually got THROUGH that semester.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 398       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:50 EST
+
+      There are actually several languages heard on B5, though you have to
+work to hear them.  (Those with surround will have an easier time.)  For
+instance, in the customs area, announcements are made first in English, then
+in Interlac.  In the bazaar area, you'll hear chirrups and whistles and clicks
+and a wide range of language-sounds.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 400       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:12 EST
+
+     There are about as many as now...with a few extras developed on the Mars
+and other colonies.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 408       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:29 EST
+
+     Re: asking telepaths on a date...it would be verbal, assuming we're
+talking PC hrized scans are illegal, and thus they would not be "dipping" to
+know your intentions.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 416       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:48 EST
+
+     (A job like that could take YEARS....)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+REPly to topic,   QUIt reading
+STArt new topic,  #,#-# read prior
+PERmanently ignore this topic
+MARk or UNMark this topic
+or <RETURN> to continue ?
+ ************
+Topic 8         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:41 EST
+Sub: Behind The Scenes                    
+
+Production Designers, Art Directors, Costumers, Director, others...this is the
+place to discuss the production-aspects of B5...it's look and the process
+involved.
+306 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 90        Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:01 EST
+
+     I'm finishing B5 post production this coming week, and writing my third
+novel, and am helping out a friend on another series (said friend having
+gotten in over his head a bit, through no fault of his own) doing rewrites and
+a few scripts.  Just something to keep me busy while waiting to gear up for
+the series.  (Also took time to write out a synopsis of each of the first 22
+episodes for B5's first season, which will then be assigned as needed,
+interposing new ideas as they're suggested by other writers.  Also finished an
+hour-length B5 script, which will be one of the mid-season shows to be shot.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 94        Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:19 EST
+
+     All I can say is when Warners gives us the production go, we'll be ready.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 97        Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:39 EST
+
+     That'll probably be decided by forces wiser than I.  And just FYI, all
+the PTEN shows are given 22 episode committments per season.
+
+                                                       jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 99        Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:00 EST
+
+                                Who...?
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 102       Tue Jan 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:56 EST
+
+     That's simply a standard unit of measure.  Some series do more than 22,
+but those are more rthe MURDseasons generally ran 22 episodes.
+
+     22 x 3 seasons is 66, which is enough for long-term syndication, if
+barely.
+
+     And there won't be a Joe Jr.  One doesn't go through a vasectomy for lack
+of anything better to do on a Friday night....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 106       Tue Jan 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:45 EST
+
+     Nope, B5 is shot right here in LA County.
+
+     It helps that my Spousal Overunit is also a writer, and understands what
+it means when I come out, eyes like poached eggs, staggering towrad the coffee
+pot, mumbling, "Deadlines...deadlines...."
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 110       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:22 EST
+
+     They sure do cost a lot.  We plan to do some such shots for the series,
+in the zero-g section of the garden, and possibly in the zero-g cargo section
+that rides on top of  B5.  My mandate to Ron is to come up with a way of doing
+it that looks good.  Once we have that, we'll do the story.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 120       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:10 EST
+
+     The series standard opening will be a variation on Londo's narration at
+the top of the pilot.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 122       Fri Jan 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:43 EST
+
+     Yeah, Londo seems like the *least* likely person to do the opening
+narration for a show like this; you don't even see him for nearly two full
+acts, and it's the kind of thing you'd expect the Commander to do.
+
+     But there are reasons for everything....
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 126       Sat Jan 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:07 EST
+
+     Re: the voices....I can't do it, I can't tell him....
+
+     Re: the narration at the beginning...actually, I suppose there's no
+reason why I can't put it up here.
+
+     LONDO (older voice): "I was there at the dawn of the Third Age of
+Mankind.  It was the Earth year 2257.  Babylon 5 was the last of the  Babylon
+stations, located deep in neutral space.  It was a port of call for
+businessmen, smugglers, diplomats, businessmen and travelers from a hundred
+worlds.  It could be a dangerous place, but we accepted the risk because
+Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace.  Under the leadership of its
+final commander, Babylon 5 was a dream given form...a dream of a galaxy
+without war, where species from other worlds could exist in mutual respect...a
+dream that was endange one man on a mission of destruction.  Babylon 5 was the
+last of the Babylon stations.  This...is its story."
+
+     That's from memory, and as I look at it, some of it ain't *exactly* right
+(that should be "species from different worlds" not "other worlds," for
+instance, but the sense of it is correct, and it's probably 90% textually
+correct.  (I also see I repeated businessmen twice...which means I left
+something out, but having now been up about 20 hours, I'm too tired to
+remember what or to look it up in the script.)
+
+     I'll try to remember to dig out the exact wording and put it up, if
+anyone's interested.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 137       Sat Jan 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:23 EST
+
+     "I was there at the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind.  It began in the
+Earth Year 2257.  Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations, located deep
+in neutral space.  It was a port of call for refugees, businessmen, smugglers,
+diplomats and travelers from a hundred worlds.  It could be a dangerous place,
+but we accepted the risk because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace.
+Under the leadership of its final commander, Babylon 5 was a dream, given
+form.  A dream of a galaxy without war, where species from different worlds
+could exist, side by side, in mutual respect...a dream that was endangered, as
+never before, by the arrival of one man on a mission of destruction.
+
+     "Babylon 5...was the last of the Babylon stations.  This...is its
+story...."
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 140       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:10 EST
+
+     That is the only narration in the show.  When we get to the series, I
+plan to adjust the narration and keep it as a stet opening.  Probably it'll be
+something along the lines of, "I was there at the dawn of the Third Age of
+Mankind.  It began in the Earth year 2257.  Babylon 5 was the last of the
+Babylon stations.  This is its story...."
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 147       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:38 EST
+
+      Oh, yeah, the "mission of destruction" thing ONLY relates to this
+particular episode, the pilot.  It'll be gone from regular episodes.
+
+     For the series, my feeling is that the intro should be as short as
+possible, almost more for mood than for information.
+
+     The intro may also change slightly each season....
+
+     As for software, I use plain old Word for my writing, though I just got
+7.0 and will change over as soon as I decide I have nothing else of value in
+my life to deal with.  I am but a simple man from a simple land of simple
+values....
+
+     The computer itself is kind of a hum-dinger...a 486/50mhz, 330 meg hard
+drive, 650 meg rewriteable optical drive (for a total on-line of about 1
+gigabyte), NEC 4FG monitor, 64 megs of RAM, SCSI 32 bit system, and due to
+arrive any day now, the 6-disk Pioneer CD-ROM jukebox.  Also have the
+Thunderboard sound card, Diamond Speedstar 14F video card, and a bunch of
+other goodies.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 150       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:52 EST
+
+     Actually, there's a weird typo in there; it should be Wordstar 5.5, not
+Word (ecch).
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 161       Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:37 EST
+
+     The background visuals for the narrative will be much the same for the
+series as the pilot...a montage of the station, people and locales.
+
+     Difference between an exec producer and a producer?  A producer can be a
+line producer, who handles mainly production problems, or a writer producer,
+who mainly writes, sits in on casting and stuff.  An exec producer is the guy
+In Charge...otherwise referred to as a Show Runner, who sets the direction for
+the series or project, makes final decisions on casting, music, sets, all that
+jazz.  On B5, I share exec producer status with Doug Netter...basically, we
+divide it up that Doug handles most of the deal making (which he loves) with
+agents, other business stuff, and I get to play.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 167       Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:54 EST
+
+     "Mankind" was being used by Londo specifically in relation to humans, not
+sentient aliens including his own race.  Earthers.  Which was one reason (of
+many) I wanted his character to be the narrator, someone looking in from the
+outside.
+
+     As for the Third Age, it's _ oh, darn, look at the time, have to go....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 178       Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:50 EST
+
+     I only said that the story will *concentrate* on B5 the first two years
+in terms of locations.  We'll branch out, certainly, after that.
+
+     Mike: your Third Age thought is very close to being correct.  It's only
+the object of your sentence that's incorrect.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 184       Tue Jan 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:29 EST
+
+     Yes, it's repetitive.  Yes, it's deliberate.  It brings you back to the
+beginning of the narrative, which is a space shot that more or less matches
+the other shot.  (Makes a visual loop, in other words.)
+
+     Telestro: certainly one of our characters might go the way of
+Saruman....and one might go the way of Aragorn...and Gandalf...ah, well,
+that's always uncertain, isn't it?  "Expect me when you see me."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 185       Tue Jan 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:33 EST
+
+     And then again...maybe not.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 194       Tue Jan 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:28 EST
+
+     WHO TOLD YOU ABOUT PLANET GAWOOMPKI?!  EGADS!  THERE'S A LEAK IN OUR
+OPERATION!
+
+     (Actually, there *is* a leak in our organization...the funny thing is
+that it's me.)
+
+     Re: Sinclair and Ambassador-ship...there's a very logical questoin (or
+question) that has to be dealt with.  (Again, we go back to that same point,
+asking the next question.)  Why is a *Commander* serving on the station, and
+the Advisory Council, and representing Earth?  Wouldn't they have a regular
+Ambassador present?
+
+     This is a question that we will resolve.  As well as the one implicit in
+the foregoing: why is a *COMMANDER* _ lower in rank than a Captain _
+entrusted with this responsibility, rather than an Admiral or some other high-
+ranking individual?
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 195       Tue Jan 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:33 EST
+
+     BTW, ironically, this is the only area that worries me in showing the
+pilot.  People are going to say, "Waitaminnit!  This doesn't make any sense!
+Why is a COMMANDER running this thing?  And what about this bit over here...?"
+It's kinda risky to deliberatly program in what look like errors, but are
+story points that will be raised and resolved later.   Ah, well...you gotta
+take chances....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 205       Wed Jan 13, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:10 EST
+
+     Yeah, I'm *pretty much* staying to Naval terms, mainly because the
+introduction of starships will probably be under that heading as vessels, and
+that seems to follow.  Additionally, if all of the various major militaries of
+various countries were combined into one Earthforce, then there would be some
+standardization, and naval terms *seem* to be more standard than others across
+services, but my research there isn't as deep as it probably should be.  Would
+be nice to work in some variations, however....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 224       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:57 EST
+
+     The EA is governed by political figures, just as today, though some of
+the structures have altered to accommodate a more world-spanning form of
+government.  (Instead of senators elected from states, they're now elected by
+country, and so on.)
+
+     As for language...the DICTIONARY defines language, PEOPLE screw with it
+until distinctions blur...as with the distinction between "fewer" and "less."
+"There were less people in attendence this week."  No.  There  were FEWER
+people in attendence.  This is what people do.  This is your language.  This
+is your language in people...any questions?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 233       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:11 EST
+
+     That's an extremely good point about species/races; I'll be careful about
+that.  I don't *think* that came up in the pilot, and now it won't in the
+series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 238       Fri Jan 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:27 EST
+
+     BTW, it's my understanding that the monitor screens on TNG are not
+inserted in post; they're regular TV screens with edges that come out and
+cover any bends in the tube, thereby giving it a flat look.  At least, that's
+what I hear....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 251       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:53 EST
+
+     I agree re: universal translators.  Most everything in the ST universe is
+bent toward making the process easier, less challenging; I want to show the
+process of overcoming.  I think it's great if an alien shows up from a
+previously unvisited planet, and they spend days trying to communicate with
+it.  I think that some computerized stuff might work, as in the case where
+someone programs a machine to go from one specific language to another (sort
+of a species-specific interpreter), but thats about it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 261       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:37 EST
+
+     The language facilities of aliens will vary; probably the most fluent (by
+virtue of necessity) are the ambassadors, whose english is perfect or nearly
+so (cyberlink to the brain dumping the English equivilants of their own
+language and grammar directly into the brain, very expensive and not a little
+painful).  The drawback is that some cultural references or some contextual
+areas may not be as clear as required.  (Londo wondering about ramoras, Delenn
+unsure for a moment about poetry....)
+
+     Re: language in general...I agree that all languages must be "living
+languages" in that they are free to grow and expand and add new terms.   There
+is a difference between this and a *collapsing language* in which the
+distinction between terms (the aformentioned less and fewer) becomes degraded,
+and meanings blur through misuse.  Ase gradually becomes less precise.  A
+language should be graded on how well it manages to communicate the thoughts
+of one to the other.  If it begins to fail in that regard, then it is not a
+living but a dying language.
+
+     (Another example: the way that "anxious" and "eager" have come to mean
+the same thing.  "Anxious" carries with it some degree of worry or dread or
+fear; "eager" is a pleasant term, connoting something wonderful and nice for
+which one is longing.  So when someone says, with a smiling and expectant
+attitude, "Yeah, I'm really anxious to see the new Lucas movie," it's a misuse
+of the term, unless there's some reason for worry.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 268       Sun Jan 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:11 EST
+
+     In terms of the EFX, I think it's all Amigas, with some IBMs being used
+for general computing (letters, schedules, etc.).
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 281       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:49 EST
+
+     Re: TRON v2.0....I'd rather write kids in space.
+
+     Re: places of origin...my sense is that they have their own unique names.
+We don't call our planet Terra (well, not really), or Hum (for Human) or
+Planet Human.  Because some of the names are difficult to pronounce, the
+logical approach is to note them by designation, i.e., "And shall be shipped
+off to the Narn homeworld."  That is the only time or I should say context by
+which we refer to their places of origin.  The only exception to this, and I
+don't recall if this is in the pilot or not, is the Centauri homeworld,
+designated Centauri Prime.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 288       Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:35 EST
+
+     Yes, there are definitely other human settlements...colonies and outposts
+and co-operative projects on other worlds with other species.   It's mainly
+from this overlap that the EA draws its non-human members, though a few worlds
+have chosen to ally themselves directly with the EA.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+REPly to topic,   QUIt reading
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+or <RETURN> to continue ?
+ ************
+Topic 9         Wed Nov 11, 1992
+T.RESTIVO [Little Guy]       at 18:27 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Humor                      
+
+From *Beep Beep*, to Top Ten Lists to full-blown paradies, this is where to
+put your funny bone in writing!
+162 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 122       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:11 EST
+
+     I...no...never mind...forget it...some things are too gross even for me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 132       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:13 EST
+
+     Suddenly sounds began emitting from the producer's office...witnesses
+later described them as twin shrieks....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 150       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:24 EST
+
+     Kosh as in "gosh."  There's actually a last name, btw...Naranek.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 156       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:50 EST
+
+     Pronounced Nuh-RAH-nek.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+REPly to topic,   QUIt reading
+STArt new topic,  #,#-# read prior
+PERmanently ignore this topic
+MARk or UNMark this topic
+or <RETURN> to continue ?
+ ************
+Topic 10        Thu Nov 12, 1992
+SANDMAN [Henry]              at 19:25 EST
+Sub: Sex in Babylon 5                     
+
+Can't do without this one!!
+
+
+99 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 84        Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:20 EST
+
+     Actually, I said that Sinclair will have a steady VERTICAL relationship
+with....
+
+     Don't hit me, I'm a sick man.
+
+     And nothing in life is permanent, not even relationships.
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ______
+REPly to topic,   QUIt reading
+STArt new topic,  #,#-# read prior
+PERmanently ignore this topic
+MARk or UNMark this topic
+or <RETURN> to continue ?
+ ************
+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B-5 ADRIFT!                          
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+367 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 271       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:12 EST
+
+     I've lost all track of how much time I spend on BBSs; two-three hours a
+day here, plus 1-2 per day on CIS, and then other services.  I'm on several
+where I don't post messages, and the folks there engaged in SF-TV discussions
+don't know I'm looking over their shoulder.
+
+     Why?  Because if people know you're there, they tend to speak more
+politely about you, and your projects.  They're free to be brutally
+honest...and lemme tell you, it brings one up short sometimes.  But I think
+that's both good and essential.  Sort of a control group approach...see what
+the opinion is like of folks who don't have direct access, and only hear stuff
+second-hand.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 274       Fri Jan 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:45 EST
+
+     Yes, GEnie is still my first choice.  You'll note I didn't call the
+locale for B5 Central Interstellar System or anything dopey like that; only
+referring to it (in bible now, eventually in script) as Grid Epsilon (GE).  I
+post only a few messages there per week; this is home.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 296       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:13 EST
+
+     Yes, we'll definitely see some EVA suits of various kinds, human and
+alien.  In the pilot, though it's farther away than I would've liked, you can
+see a shot along the side of B5, with a couple of ships streaking past, and a
+flashing light up in the upper left-hand corner on the hull of the station.
+Freeze the frame, and look closely, and you'll see th at it's a guy in an EVA
+suit repairing a micrometeor puncture (or some other problem) with a welder of
+sorts.
+
+  We'll do more, better, and closer, later on.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 303       Tue Jan 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:30 EST
+
+     Apparently, it's not difficult at all to digitize an actor's face and put
+it inside an EVA suit's facemask.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 319       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:19 EST
+
+     Someone back a while ago suggested "Fivers," and that's kinda nice.
+
+     Re: Captain Power...yeah, that's a show that is an example of what to
+strive for, and how sometimes good intentions can get derailed.  We genuinely
+wanted to come up with a long-term story, and by and large, we succeeded.  The
+problem was the marketing in front of the show, and the merchandising behind
+the show...we got killed from both sides.
+
+     There's an entire second season of unproduced CP scripts, story edited by
+Larry DiTillio, in which he follows up on the arc that I and others
+established during the first season.  You would have found out what Dread
+became, what happened to Power's mother, where Eden was (and there would be
+direct contact), what the secret was in Soaron's programming, and so on.
+
+     It was a good experience, though, and it let me cut my teeth on multi-
+season story construction.  It was the experience on Power that led me to
+believe that something like B5 could be done.  (And yeah, I still have much
+the same reaction to the last episode...it's a real tough one to watch...which
+was the point.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 323       Fri Jan 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:48 EST
+
+     Definite no on the question of matter transmitters.  That's a little too
+much in the magic/science-fantasy area for my preferences.  Space travel is
+done in ships.
+
+     Re: Captain Power...it aired in 1987/88 in syndication.  Was set in the
+future, after the MetalWars, in which one man, who caused the war (in the best
+interests of humanity) decided that to save humanity it must be digitized and
+stored in machines for the day when perfect metalloid bodies could give
+mankind immortality.
+
+     Re: Twilight Zone...yes, I worked on the syndicated version.  Among the
+episodes I wrote (I was also story editor) are "The Mind of Simon Foster,"
+with Bruce Weitz; "Dream Me a Life," with Eddie Albert; co-wrote "The Curious
+Case of Edgar Witherspoon," with Harry Morgan, and co-wrote "Our Selena is
+Dying" posthumously with Rod Serling, from a long lost TZ outline.  Other TZs
+that I wrote around that time, but whose stars I can't consistently recall:
+"The Wall," "The Call," "What Are Friends For?" "Something in the Walls,"
+"Acts of Terror," "Special Service," "Rendezvous in a Dark Place," and have
+another shared writing credit on "The Trance."
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 356       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:50 EST
+
+     No, I wasn't previously aware of "Agony" (except what I've gone through
+these last six months), but will look for it in future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+REPly to topic,   QUIt reading
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+or <RETURN> to continue ?
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                  
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+166 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 133       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:48 EST
+
+     Aquila: give me the name of the paper and the reporter who wrote the
+article.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
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+ ************
+Topic 13        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 21:00 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Science and Technology   
+
+Jump gates, nanotech, high-tech weapons, starship drives, sound in space, and
+other subjects of science and technology in Babylon 5.
+163 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 63        Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:08 EST
+
+     Rob:  from where?  Re: telepaths...there are definite limits, and I most
+definitely do NOT wanta it to be a deus ex machina, the solution to every
+problem.  If anything, it IS a problem itself.
+
+     M.Morgan...yes, absolutely, that's what I had in mind all the time. Yeah,
+that's it, that's the ticket....
+
+     And tachyons...can't forget those pesky tachyons....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 72        Sat Jan 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:39 EST
+
+     The computer system is quite good, based on a crystalline technology
+that's a mesh between alien and human-developed stuff.  As for defense, you'll
+see a full demonstration of this in the first season; for now, let's just say
+that that smooth looking exterior is laced with sections that can open and
+reveal all kinds of interesting things.  Imagine a five mile long Swiss Army
+knife....
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 75        Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:03 EST
+
+     Yes, the middle section of the station is the Garden, and is still an
+O'Neill type environment.  And over the course of the series, it's my
+intention to bring in all the various organizations and sub-organizations
+required to make a place like this work.  I really want to try and convey the
+sense of a Working Environment, not a set.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 82        Tue Jan 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:52 EST
+
+     Doctrines and Covenants?  Are we talking here Mormonism or Scientology?
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 85        Wed Jan 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:12 EST
+
+     HEY!  NO FAIR!  NOBODY TOLD ME THERE WAS GOING TO BE MATH INVOLVED!   I
+DIDN'T STUDY!  I WASN'T TOLD THIS WAS GONNA BE ON THE TEST!  AAAKKKK!
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 88        Wed Jan 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:09 EST
+
+     I forget....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 103       Fri Jan 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:54 EST
+
+     I'm still hammering down the rules on hyperspace...what can and can't be
+done.  My first thought was that they travel blind, but given that it's
+heavily traveled, I realized after a while that you'd *have* to be able to see
+your surroundings in order to avoid collisions.
+
+     The point you raise is quite conceivable.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 117       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:40 EST
+
+     Keyboards are still in use, mainly because there are always going to be
+things that you don't want someone to hear, so you'll always need some kind of
+non-verbal input system.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 119       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:50 EST
+
+     I dunno...I kinda like glasses...but I know the reality is that it may be
+fixed by then...there are some in the pilot, in BG.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 121       Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:39 EST
+
+     It looks cool.
+
+     Also, bear in mind that often different gravities require different
+atmospheres; alternating atmospheres between floors in the same section is a
+bit more difficult than setting aside one whole sector that would be, say, for
+methane breathers, and which has a varied gravitational level as a further
+accommodation.  (If they require standard 1g, there are other areas.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 134       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:58 EST
+
+     Yep.  You'll see 'em in both the pilot and the series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 136       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:16 EST
+
+     I agree.  I wear glasses.  I could go to contacts (glass or plastic), try
+surgery, all this stuff...but ain't nobody going near my eyes with pieces of
+glass or knives or lasers, I don't care HOW safe it is.  Just my luck to hit
+the one in a million power surge and I'll end up looking backward out where my
+brain stem used to be.
+
+     It's interesting to see how in pop SF, there is a tendency to assume that
+Major Changes will take place.  Take a look sometime at a film _ the first SF
+musical motion picture _ called "Just Imagine," produced during the 30s.  It
+talked about a future world in which everyone would have personal flyers, no
+one would have names any longer, only numbers, children would be manufactured
+and people would eat pills instead of food.
+ The time-frame in which all this amazing stuff was to take place?  The 1980s.
+As somebody said, the future ain't what it used to be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 152       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:02 EST
+
+     The defense system for B5 consists of a system of moderate level
+defensive grids, hull-mounted weaponry (which is generally concealed behind
+large plates, which would be blown off with explosive bolts to reveal the
+weapons beneath), and a small number of individual fighter  craft stored in a
+docking bay at the rear of the station.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 158       Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:37 EST
+
+     The two things on front _ the spikes, as it were _ are on either side
+of a second loading bay, this one expressly for cargo held in the zero-g cargo
+hold.
+
+     The vanes in the back are heat radiators, as I recall from the original
+design notes.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
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+ ************
+Topic 14        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:59 EST
+Sub: Lurkers/Introductions: Please Sign In
+
+A place for newcomers to come in, say hello, whether you want to jump into the
+conversation or not, just to let us know you're here.
+151 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 14        Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:13 EST
+
+     Great!  A hi to all the folks who've come out and introduced themselves.
+Good to have you aboard.  It's interesting to know who all is out there...the
+varied backgrounds and fields and "what brought me me here" is intriguing.  A
+fine buncha folks....welcome.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 78        Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:15 EST
+
+     Actually...y'know...it's funny, but I've been trying to come up with a
+name for the folks who just sorta roam B5, the "homeless" or others who have
+enough resources to get there in hopes of jobs or new worlds, and don't have
+enough to get off again...and who play a running game of tag of sorts with B5
+security..."Lurkers" ain't bad....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 132       Sun Jan 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:15 EST
+
+     Hey, Mark, good to have another H-25er around.
+
+     Pat: I taught at Grossmont College for about one semester, it's a pretty
+good place.  (Went to San Diego State and  meself.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 135       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:52 EST
+
+     I taught writing (what else?)...I *think* it was around 1979 or 80.
+After a while, everything blurs.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 143       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:59 EST
+
+     Re: SDSU, no, I had very little to do with the cinema/telecom dept.
+there.  I crashed two courses _ mainly because I wanted to learn from a
+particular instructor, Norman Corwin _ and had one or two others, but that's
+it.  My interest was in other areas...one degree in Clinical Psychology with a
+minor in Philosophy; another in Sociology with a minor in Creative Writing,
+that sort of thing.
+
+     BTW, if you go down to the offices of the Daily Aztec, and ask to see the
+archive volumes of the paper around 1977/78 or thereabouts, you'll see several
+zillion articles by me in there.  At more or less the same time, I was the
+resident book reviewer, film reviewer and theater reviewer, had two weekly
+humor columns ("A View from the Rabbit Hole" and "A Modern Cynic's
+Dictionary"), as well as regular feature articles and profiles, and the
+occasional investigative article, including one on the CIA.  The frequency of
+articles led some to describe the paper as The Daily J. Michael.  At the same
+time I was doing cover stories for the San Diego Reader, the Daily
+Californian, features for the SD edition of the Los Angeles Times, and
+entertainment reviews for KSDO-AM Newsradio.
+
+     But the Daily Aztec stuff was great fun.  I worked without pay, the only
+one on staff who did, in fact...because I didn't want to be beholden to
+anybody, could write what I wanted, nobody had any leverage.  Which was all
+for the good, given the massive numbers of angry letters and the occasional
+bomb threats elicited by what I wrote.
+
+     Can't imagine why....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 147       Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:57 EST
+
+     Yes, a VERY large blunt object.
+
+     The one point of any possible interest to draw from this comes from
+something I tried to beat into incoming students when I was an orientation
+counselor at SDSU: if you go to college, and all you see are the class rooms,
+the bathrooms, the parking lot and the cafeteria, you will cheat yourself of
+99% of your possible education.  Any university or college has vast
+opportunities for writers and others.  In the former case, write for the
+university newspaper, or the university theater (and most schools have an
+ongoing one-act production program)...take classes in acting or film, to get a
+sense of history, or the hands-on process of being on stage...the range of
+experience open to you is enormous.  Don't just follow your major to its
+conclusion.  There is a world of experience you can get while you're there
+*that you may never have the chance to experience again*.   Take it.
+
+     End of sermon.  I shouldn't even be here, frankly, this is for the new
+folks and others to sign in and introduce themselves...both for the interests
+of our own private party, so we know who's come into the room, and for any
+possible future mailings or opportunities.
+
+     Let's hear from y'all.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
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+ ************
+Topic 15        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:29 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Alien races              
+
+Aliens races in Babylon 5... their politics, abilties, technology, history,
+and any other discussion specificly about non-humans.
+
+80 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 2         Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:19 EST
+
+     I'll have to be a little circumspect here (damn it, you're doing it
+again....).  The Narn Regime is not currently at war with the Centauri
+Republic, which occuped the Narn homeworld for nearly a century before finally
+being driven off by the Narn resistance.  Their resources depleted they are
+not currently in a position to make war on anyone; being naturally rather
+paranoid, and having just been more or less enslaved, they have a dread of
+other races getting together and possibly harming them, as well as a hunger
+for the technology that might protect them down the road (as Russia feared
+invasion its Eastern Front after WW2).
+
+     There's a rough alliance between the Earth Alliance and the Centauri,
+since theirs was the first race we encountered.  (They told us at that time
+that they were the biggest guys around, that they ran everything, that we were
+a lost colony of theirs...which eventually was disproven by genetic
+examination.  The rest of their claims were also BS.  They were trying to
+impress the natives.)
+
+     There's some movement toward making nice with the Minbari, but also a
+GREAT deal of resistance, given the recent war.
+
+     Here's one little extra for you: only one person aboard Babylon 5 has any
+idea of what a Vorlon is, inside that suit, and only one race has had dealings
+with the Vorlons before.  Watch the reception at the end, and see if you
+notice anything unusual in the way the various people respond to Kosh.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 8         Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:13 EST
+
+     Jonathan...............YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!  One at a time, please!
+
+     The only questions I can remember...the vorlons have never fought a war
+with any other race.  (At least none has ever been recorded.)  And right now
+in the Minbari race there's a big split that took place after the
+Earth/Minbari war between the religious leaders and the military leaders,
+which culminated with the suicide of the Minbari commander at the conclusion
+of the war.  They've now arrived at an uneasy truce, but with time, who knows?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 12        Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:50 EST
+
+     Anyone who will take the job.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 27        Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:41 EST
+
+     By the way...someone on another CIStem posted a note about one of the two
+upcoming DS9 episodes, that one of the alien species they would encounter are
+named Vaa'lons...anyone else heard this?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 34        Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:43 EST
+
+     Actually, I disagree...the basic "model" of the human form is very well
+tailored and may be more general than we might suspect.  Legs for walking,
+probably two because all closed up sideways we present less of a silhouette
+for predators, and two legs are more nimble, can slip through narrower places
+than three.  Arms to lift, and hands to manipulate objects (show me a culture
+without a good opposable thumb) required for the birth of technology.  Sensors
+(eyes/ears/nose) at the very highest part of the body, best for observational
+purposes, hunting and the like.
+
+     There are zillions of species on Earth, but you rarely seen anything
+above spider-level with more than six legs.  Now, I'm not saying that it's
+impossible to have other forms, not at all...only that the humanoid form may
+in fact be far more common than anyone suspects.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 45        Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:19 EST
+
+     Heh...I like that....I have sudden images of two aliens, one in a
+mustache, curly black hair, glasses and a big mustache...the other in a
+triangular cap, curly black hair, pushing an ice cream cold-box...his name is
+pronounced Chee-KO, the other Gro-CHooo..."Getta you tootsey frootsey ice-a
+cream, getta you tootsey frootsey ice-a cream...."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 49        Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:29 EST
+
+     Actually, for the pilot in particular, Kosh only has to move very stately
+and slowly from point A to point B, so there wasn't much that needed to be
+told.  For a longer period, on the series, he would be played more as a
+cypher...the less that can be revealed, the better.  The only people directly
+involved who had to know was the director (for certain attitudes) and the
+costume designer (to incorporate certain elements and leave room in
+appropriate sections).
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 71        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:01 EST
+
+     Yeah, that's one thing I've kind of slated in as a B story in a given
+episode...an alien comes aboard and they just can't quite manage to
+communicate, it's just too damned foreign in its thinking.  (What I'd love is
+for them to find out at the end that it's some other alien's damned cat or
+something, and they've been spending all this time trying to communicate with
+something that ain't sentient...but with aliens, how can you tell sometimes?)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
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+Topic 16        Fri Jan 15, 1993
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 01:02 EST
+Sub: "No kids or cute robots, ever!"      
+
+This is a topic for discussion of the unofficial slogan of Babylon 5.
+35 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 2         Fri Jan 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:31 EST
+
+     On the other hand...maybe it might be better if our Sysoptrix took the
+last, oh, 100 or so messages from 1 about this and transplanted 'em here.  Get
+the whole context in place.
+
+     And lord knows, it's not like she has anything ELSE to do, other than
+nudzhing me....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message  10       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            (Forwarded)
+
+     The inter-relationships between FOX, PTEN, the FCC and any and all other
+acronymical organizations is utterly beyond my ken, and I would no sooner try
+to explain it or understand it than I would attempt to build a tesseract in
+the back yard.
+
+     In what I *hope* will be a relatively definitive word on this kid
+topic...yes, I can write a story with kids.  I've done it...I did it for the
+Twilight Zone and other shows.  The question is still one of making choices.
+Is that what this series is ABOUT?  You could drop in a chapter on badminton
+techiques into The Lord of the Rings or Debbie Does Cleveland, the question
+is, does it BELONG there?  Is that what the show or the story is attempting to
+address?
+
+     If there were no other shows with kids around, then I would be more
+inclined to do one with kids at the center.  But there are plenty of them
+around, particularly in SF...you've got kids aplenty on TNG, on DS9, I just
+saw a kid story on Space Rangers...this is simply a different kind of show.
+
+     My point is simply this: B5 is meant, in a very real sense, as noted in
+my message on 2, to be an SF novel for television.  If it were just random
+stories skittering hither, thither and yawn, that would be one thing.  But as
+any novelist can tell you, you have to ask, "Whose story is it?" and stick
+pretty close to that, even though you may swerve in and out of other POVs and
+indulge in omniscient narrative.  That requires certain choices about tone and
+attitude and what you include, and what you choose to exclude.  Doesn't
+invalidate one type of story or another, it only says "THIS is what my story's
+about."
+
+     There are plenty of other SF shows with kids.  Let's have something a
+little different.
+
+     (That's one of the ironies that crops up about this show...often people
+say "We want innovation," and when asked for specifics, they ask to make it
+more like other shows.  "Well, TNG does this kind of story, why can't you?"
+We can, but we're not.  Because we're not TNG.  Just as we will do some
+stories that I *guarantee* you ST wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 21        Sun Jan 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:19 EST
+
+     Something I forgot to mention uptopic, when asked if I can write a story
+with kids...it's appeared in a lot of my prose.  The two leading protagonist
+in my most recent novel, OTHERSYDE, were around 16...the lead character in one
+of the first short stories of mine ever to be published ("Your Move," in
+Amazing SF) was about 13, and the second story of mine published ("A Last
+Testament for Nick and the Trooper," Shadows 6)  featured two kids maybe 19.
+
+     Provided only for the sake of completeness.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 26        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:03 EST
+
+     Absolutely.  I love being proven wrong.
+
+     Though there are few survivors to carry the story....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+REPly to topic,   QUIt reading
+STArt new topic,  #,#-# read prior
+PERmanently ignore this topic
+MARk or UNMark this topic
+or <RETURN> to continue ?
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Merchandising            
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+11 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 3         Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:00 EST
+
+     I'll know more about the computer game next week or so.  Best thing in
+general is to write to Licensing Corporation of America to get on their
+mailing list for future B5 promotional stuff and merchandising.
+
+     The Creation designs for shirts look okay, if a tad prosaic...there has
+got to be one central image to promote this show, but I'm darned if I can
+figure out what it is at this stage.  The logo looks swell, though, in any
+event.
+
+                                                                 jms
+______
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-FANTASY [Yog Sysop]       at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5                            
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category!  As always, offering or requesting copies
+of copyrighted material, whether it's the B5 Newsletter, photos, or the actual
+movie/episodes violates copyright law and SFRT policy.
+555 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 337       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:36 EST
+
+     Actually, JoJo's...uhm...outfit is probably the best thing about the
+show...not for pure asthetics, of course, just...I dunno...I just kinda like
+the dynamics of it...
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 342       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:22 EST
+
+     Indeed, they might withhold such participation, which the PC would be
+obligated to honor.  Non-PC telepaths would be a different situation entirely,
+of course...and a danger...which only a PC (or one of the other government's
+own 'paths, if any) could work against.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 355       Sun Jan 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:01 EST
+
+     The "Making of B5" piece is being re-edited; originally, the E! piece was
+going to be the one shown, but...well, no need to rehash all of that.  The
+piece is being recut, and new stuff put in to replace the old stuff.  It
+should be finished next week, I hear, and then provided to the stations.
+
+     Great news about Arisia, Arne.  Any other reactions come to mind?
+
+     Re: using my posts for articles...by all means, proceed.
+
+     BTW, it appears that the deal for a B5 game has been closed, and the
+winner is Electronic Arts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 358       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:47 EST
+
+     This goes back to a very basic philosophical question: can you have
+thought without language, or language without thought?  At one point in our
+evolution, we became conscious...was there language, or did language then come
+as a *result* of consciousnes?  Or did the slow development of language *lead
+to* the development of true consciousness?
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 375       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:38 EST
+
+     I'll know more about the game in the weeks ahead.
+
+     Apparently, Creation has licensed some stuff...mainly shirts and mugs and
+patches and the like, nothing major, but it's there.  I got the first t-shirt
+design roughs today, and have some notes, but nothing too major.  More as this
+is developed.
+
+     BTW, does anyone know if there are any SF conventions this coming weekend
+in Dallas?
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 379       Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:00 EST
+
+     Licensing Corporation of America.  Based in New York.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 403       Fri Jan 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:03 EST
+
+     You say, "New characters and sets apparently do not work."  The basic
+problem, you seem to feel, is that it's the same show, and how do we go about
+making B5 different?
+
+     I think that the question is more accurately phrased as, "How does one
+make DS9 more like TNG?"  I'm going to do this absolutely as non-pejoratively
+as humanly possible, because this is fundamentally the truth.
+
+     When TNG first went on the air, a lot of the legwork was done for them
+already.  Much of the universe was established: phasers, the Enterprise,
+starfleet, klingons, warp speed, doors, terminology, on and on.  There was
+additional material added on, but the basic *foundation* is the same.  This is
+neither good nor bad.  One can do (and there have been) good stories within
+this format.  What it *is* is a continuation of the same universe.  You can do
+good stuff with that, but it's still fundamentally the same universe.
+
+     Now comes DS9, and again, it's much the same situation: it builds upon
+and integrates what went before.  We have the Federation, stuff introduced in
+TNG (Bajorans, Cardassians), some overlapping characters, and a carry-through
+of many pre-existing stories and themes.  Once again, and let me be clear
+about this, this doesn't mean you can't do good stories here.
+
+     It's just that it's the same universe.  It's not a question, really, of
+"sets and characters," it's a question of the universe overall, and the fact
+that it's really a repackaging of the same show, with some modifications.
+
+     B5 simply does not take place within that universe.  Every frame of film
+reminds you of this.  Without making a qualitative judgment for a moment,
+consider ST vs. Battlestar Galactica.  Both are space shows, but very
+different in tenor, tone and universe.  (BG and Star Wars is, of course, a
+very different discussion.)
+
+     The comparison I've always made has been to say "What if all the space
+science fiction stories ever published were written by Larry Niven?"
+ Yes, they would be fine stories...but one kinda wants something different
+after a while.  He might change characters, create different empires, but it's
+still a Niven point of view.
+
+     And that _ to get to the heart of your question _ is the point re: B5.
+It's a question of *voice* as well as all the physical elements you see on
+your television.  The *voice* is the underlying philosophy of a show and its
+creators, the perspective they bring to it.  Babylon 5 brings in a whole
+different voice.  Better or worse, that's a question for the viewer to
+decide...but it IS different.
+
+     We don't really have to try to be different from DS9 or TNG because we
+were never like them in the first place.  As opposed to DS9, which is linked
+to another show, and proceeds from the same producers/writers, and to which
+they have an obligation to make it, to whatever degree, much the same as TNG.
+
+
+     Those who have seen the two shows have no problem telling them apart.
+And future B5 stuff will continue to remain separate and fresh for the same
+reason that the pilot is different and fresh: because it proceeds from another
+voice.  Just as Clarke's stories have always been different from Asimov's has
+been different from Ellison's have been different from Bova's have been
+different from...well, you get the idea.
+
+     No comparison of quality implied there, only as examples of voice.   (One
+final note: B5 has always been conceived as, fundamentally, a five year story,
+a novel for television, which makes it very different as well.)
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 405       Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:33 EST
+
+     That's not a bad notion.  As it is, the date given in each season of the
+show will change.  I.e., "I was there at the dawn of the third age of mankind.
+It began in the year 2257."  Then, "I was there at the dawn of the Third Age
+of Mankind.  It was the year 2258."  And so on.  So it not only tracks the
+storyline, it'll be easier for folks to know which season they're coming into
+as soon as they tune in.
+
+     BTW, y'know, I was thinking about this discussion as I sat chewing my
+lemon sesame chicken at the Good Earth Restaurant in Glendale this evening (my
+Spousal Overunit insists that I eat something healthy once in a while,
+apparently not believing that one can actually SURVIVE on beef jerky and
+little chocolate donuts and Crystal Pepsi)...and I was thinking about how this
+on-line discussion has now generated _ what? _ 7,000+ messages even before
+the show airs.
+
+     So I got to thinking...what's going to happen AFTER this sucker airs?
+ I kinda suspect that either a) we will see a lot of "I WUZ ROBBED!" notes
+followed by a silence vast as space, or b) this category is going to explode
+in the biggest blast since Tunguska.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 421       Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:28 EST
+
+     So, Denny, any comments of David's that you'd like to repeat here, or
+provide for PR use?  If not, that's okay.
+
+     Yeah, I'm inclined to think that there will be an upswing in interest.
+ What intrigues me is the notion that we actually will have two audiences out
+there: those who've followed this discussion, and will be able to read into
+things the various background information posted here...and those who will see
+it totally absent any background on the characters or the universe.  An
+offhand comment in the pilot would have more meaning for those who've been
+following this, and can fill in the blanks.
+
+     As a writer, though, you can't expect anyone to bring prior knowledge of
+your story TO the story, it has to be self-sufficient, so we'll see how well
+it functions on that level when the new folks arrive.
+
+     I'm sorry if it seems like there's an awful lot of self-examination going
+on here...my tendency is toward being hyper-critical of the work, rather than
+to try and make excuses for it.  And again, I must selfishly admit that I
+learn a *lot* from these exchanges, and the diversity of opinions here, and
+the depth of the answers to questions asked, is quite striking and most
+invaluable.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 436       Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:47 EST
+
+     Funny thing is, I hadn't checked to see when the pilot would be aired in
+L.A.  Kind of amusing...and appropriate, given the probability that the
+audiences will overlap.
+
+     (The article to which Brett refers, btw, is a piece in the Palm Latitudes
+section of the LA Times Magazine that hit the newsstands today, which talks
+about the discussion here on GEnie, and has a photo of yr obdnt srvnt stuck
+inside a computer monitor which should probably be burned...the photo, that
+is...and as if that weren't bad enough, it's a Mac.)
+
+     One other aside...Denny's friend David is the *first* civilian on theh
+planet to see the totally completed B5 pilot, with sound, music and credits.
+Hence the current sub rosa exchange.
+
+     Katherine: yeah, I know there's a Good Earth in Studio City...was hoping
+Spousal Overunit wouldn't find out about it, but she did...sigh.   By gosh,
+give me a hamburger, fries and a chocolate shake!  The heck with this so-
+called health food.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 447       Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:02 EST
+
+     Hah!  Phooey!  Why do you think I grew up...as much as I did, anyway?  So
+I wouldn't have to eat that stuff anymore.  When I'm found dead at 90 in front
+of my TV watching Babylon 5: The Next Generation, let it be with a coke in one
+hand and a chocolate bar in the other.  As Mark Twain said, "If you can't get
+to 70 by a comfortable road, don't go."
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 450       Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:37 EST
+
+     BTW, I'm giving some thought, since I'm going to be appearing at Con-Dor
+in San Diego this March as GoH, to bringing along some of the scenes we ended
+up cutting from the pilot, just to see folks' reaction to the stuff.  (Filmed
+and cut, not cut before filming.  There are about half a dozen extensive
+scenes available.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 454       Tue Jan 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:57 EST
+
+     Don't know if these will ever show up down the road; in a few cases,
+where they're set pieces, we may actually be able to take one whole scene
+which is pretty much independent of the plot and drop it into an episode as
+part of a teaser.  (One, for instance, is an encounter with an alien hooker,
+the other invovles a smuggler.)  They were cut for reasons of time: we were 25
+minutes over length, and something had to go.  Several somethings,
+actually....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 470       Wed Jan 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:34 EST
+
+     Correct, that's the shot seen in the magazine.
+
+     Re: the B5 commercials...please drop me a line reminding me of this prior
+to con-dor, or I'll forget.  (Jeez, between the commercials and the cut
+scenes, this is starting to add up to some considerable viewing time.)
+
+     Coke, Pepsi, who cares as long as it's got caffeine?
+
+     Katherine: I made a discovery, a better deli than Jerry's or Arts:
+Solley's, on Van Nuys two blocks up from Ventura, in the same complex as the
+multicinema.  A good deli, and a great restaurant, with stuff I haven't seen
+elsewhere.  (Corned beef and fried egg sandwich...might as well inject the
+cholesterol right into your veins and get it over with.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 478       Wed Jan 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:45 EST
+
+     How the various shows interface, and how one is linked to the other, is
+best understood only by deities and studio guys; we'll have to see.
+
+     Only problem with coke is that they changed the formula and now use
+sweeteners other than sugar.  Though apparently they put out kosher Coke at
+passover.  Eventually I'll have to get a proper dispenser with Coke syrup and
+seltzer, since the syrup apparently *does* still have the s ugar in it.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 494       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:57 EST
+
+     No, I have no knowledge of the article in question; could you upload it
+to me in email?
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 519       Fri Jan 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:00 EST
+
+     Katherine: my condolences on your recent assignment to a previously
+undiscovered circle of Dante's Inferno.  Surely your current task is
+prohibited under the Geneva Convention....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 535       Sat Jan 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:13 EST
+
+     So, I like the number 5.  Actually, the length was something set with Ron
+at the time, and he produced the 5 miles figure (which is a bit short, in
+fact, of the "actual" length as it came out).
+
+     And I didn't make up the L5 stuff...hey, it's synchronicity.  Ohmygosh _
+and I've been typing this with five fingers on either hand (well, nine
+actually, the left thumb doesn't actually DO anything that I'm aware of).
+
+     Re: NATPE...Warners DID have a presentation doing on B5 there.  Not a big
+presence, because they've already sold it to just about all the stations
+that'll be carrying it, and selling is pretty much the point of NATPE, but in
+any event, it was there.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 548       Sat Jan 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:41 EST
+
+     (BTW, Walter Koenig saw the pilot and said it was "a winner," adding that
+he thinks it "should get a lot of the Trek fans, plus a lot of more mainstream
+viewers.")
+
+     How much of the basic "saga" is in the pilot?  Some...bits and pieces.
+The problem, always, is that we have a whole new universe to establish, with
+all the backstory that goes with that.  As it is, it's fairly "information
+intensive," as one person put it.  We find out about the Earth/Minbari war,
+the curious surrender, Sinclair's past, the missing 24 hours, the relations
+between the various governments and their own personal agendas, and a hint of
+what's to come.  This while establishing the backstory of all our characters,
+and telling a story in present time (for them).
+
+     I think you will find indications of what we've talked about for the
+series present in the pilot.  Which is why it bears watching more than once;
+you'll pick up more information and more of a sense of the world the more
+closely you inspect it.  (We tried to come up with a pilot that actually
+BENEFITS from close inspection, rather than falling apart if you look at it
+too closely.)
+
+     Had a meeting the other day with the folks who're going to be doing the
+B5 games.  (As to platform...variations are being planned for ALL of the
+various platforms...CD-ROM, IBM, Amiga, Mac, Sega and so on.)  It was a
+terrific meeting, with top of the line people.  What was interesting was the
+fact that they seemed shell-shocked from dealing with other producers, the
+heavy restrictions, the interference, the hassles...my attitude on this show
+has always been, "Here...we're creating a whole universe for you to go and
+play in.  Do so."  So they're going to have a lot of freedom to come up with
+stuff.  I *want* to be surprised.  Hell, I want to play the games.
+
+     Because of the need to avoid any substantial conflicts with the general
+arc of the story, I gave them a peek into the five year arc, a few things that
+had to happen.  As long as things didn't cross into these areas, the territory
+was completely open.  And knowing that going in, there are no surprises down
+the road to sabotage them.  They seemed...well, there were a lot of very wide
+eyes when I explained some of what we were going to do.  They also saw the
+pilot at the screening that night, and apparently loved it.  We're cooking
+along, folks....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+SOARON [Bio-Dread]           at 19:41 EST
+Sub: General Information                  
+
+Babylon 5 will premiere with a two-hour movie entitled "The Gathering" early
+in 1993.  The creator of the series, J. Michael Straczynski joins us on-line
+to answer your questions.  (No story ideas please...)
+
+394 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 114       Fri Jan 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:25 EST
+
+     Speaking of EFX, I was talking to Ron Thornton during the final mix down
+the other day, and as we were watching it, he kept shaking his head at all the
+things he would've done differently if he'd known then what he knows now, and
+if he'd had the programs/techniques then that he has now.  Just the few months
+since we finished photography have given him  a number of tools that he didn't
+have then.
+
+     We talked a little about what's capable now, what he can do now, and
+what's coming up, and it makes what's in the pilot look like nothing by
+comparison.  (A lot of the critics talked about the extensive work that went
+into the DS9 jello-man effect, not to mention the cost involved; he turned his
+associate Paul into the same thing in a test that worked just as well and took
+one night and no money, just a little while behind the keyboard.)  Once we get
+the go, he and I are going to spend a couple of days just sitting and talking
+about what can be done now, so that I can take full advantage of this new
+stuff.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 127       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:46 EST
+
+     "Bob" will never be seen talking anywhere, at any time, for any reason,
+in B5.  I'll personally run a truck over him first, newscast or not (unless I
+think I can get a good gag out of it...).
+
+     Re: my mental state...I'll know better in a week or so.  I try not to get
+too personally involved with my own life.  Basically, it's lots of fatigue.
+During the five days of editing, there was so much going on (the
+music/sound/dialogue edit), I was so obsessed with making sure it all fit
+together, that for two nights out of that I got no sleep at all, not so much
+as a minute...I'd crash, and just stare at the ceiling, brain chasing itself
+in ever-smaller circles, until gradually light started to come in through the
+window slats.  (Did you know that Danger Mouse is on at 6:30 a.m. out here?
+I'd wondered where that show had gone.)  This happened two nights in a row, so
+by the end of the fourth day, without really any sleep at all, I had elevated
+to a whole new plane of consciousness.  The day after we finished, I slept for
+something like 18 hours straight.
+
+     I tend to live crisis to crisis, and I guess right now my mental state is
+mainly one of concern for how the show does when it airs.  First was the
+concern about getting the show made; then the concern about getting the show
+made RIGHT; then the conern about post-production; then the concern
+about...well, you get the idea.
+
+     There's this great character in Eric Frank Russell's "Men, Martians and
+Machines" about a photographer who, on return starflights from the ship's
+exploratory missions, sits and does nothing but worry about his pictures
+coming back intact.  The one time he DIDN'T worry, they were destroyed.  So
+now that's what he does: sits, stares, and worries.  That's about how I get
+through on shows like this.
+
+     BTW, for those interested, the magazine Aboriginal SF has an article by
+Susan Ellison about B5, including an extensive commentary from Harlan about
+his involvement with the show.  (The issue just hit the stands.)
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 152       Sun Jan 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:05 EST
+
+     BTW, to correct an erroneous statement of mine earlier, there is not a
+species named Vee'lons that will be introduced on DS9.
+
+     The Vee'lons will be introduced on Space Rangers.
+
+     Some days, I just can't get a break....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 172       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:42 EST
+
+     I take great joy in being politically *incorrect* at every possible
+opportunity.  I believe in the motto someone at the BBC once voice:  "There
+are some people we WANT to offend."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 185       Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:47 EST
+
+     Re: starships from Earth...yes, you'll be seeing a wide range of  ships,
+from smaller transports and trading vessels to big mothers.  It is something
+of an empire, and the ships come in as many varied forms as we have cars and
+trucks and semis and tanks and on and on....
+
+     Re: talking vs. action...there's a shade more exposition than I'd like in
+the pilot, mainly because there's so damned MUCH background to establish, so
+much ground to lay...it'll be more evenly proportioned in the series.  I like
+action.  For me, the #1 crime of any TV show or movie is that it should bore.
+When in doubt, kill somebody.
+
+     Or blow something up.
+
+     Re: technology...yes, the point about the sudden jump via new
+technologies is exactly dead on.  It *did* have a tramautic impact, and to
+varying degrees still does.  The effect of technology, and the desire for
+same, will be a recurrent thread.  There are some technologies that are
+considered too radical for some species, and are thus kept off limits, with
+prison sentences or even death sentences for smuggling certain kinds of
+technologies.  One such tech-runner appears in the pilot.  The parallel, I
+suppose, would be our current concerns with the spread of nuclear technology.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 205       Fri Jan 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:05 EST
+
+     Matt: the most entertaining thing for a writer is creating a character;
+the second most entertaining thing is killing off a character.  Believe me, as
+you'll see in the Fight To The Death in the pilot, I have no problem dropping
+a body.  And as far as I'm concerned, only 2 or 3 characters in this series
+are indispensible...the rest are open to all kinds of interesting fates.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 206       Fri Jan 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:10 EST
+
+     P.S.  If you want," check out the Captain Power two-parter I wrote,
+"Retribution."  That should answer the question....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 216       Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:35 EST
+
+     Yes, I *strongly* believe that there has to be diversity among our alien
+races...accents, political beliefs, religion, name it.  I think that is VERY
+important.  Yes, from time to time, you want the monolithic, perfectly
+homogeneous aliens, but if so, you want them to stick out a bit in contrast to
+the rest.
+
+     As has been noted, there's a *big* split currently going on between the
+Minbari warrior and religious castes, for instance.  More will come later.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 227       Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:31 EST
+
+     What happens if something happens to one of the actors?
+
+     We'll deal with that when it happens.
+
+     (Was that okay, Mr. Director...?)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 230       Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:03 EST
+
+     "Do not tempt the hand of fate...."  Gee, I'm getting good at this.
+There may be a political career ahead of me.
+
+     The best way to help the show get the attention it deserives, and to get
+feedback on everyone's efforts, is to contact your local station and Warners
+after the show airs.  (Er, that should be "deserves" above.  One of these days
+I'm gonna try Aladdin.)  Right now, it's all in the hands of the one-eyed god
+of television PR....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 231       Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:09 EST
+
+     BTW, before I forget, in addition to the People Magazine ads (and others
+that'll be popping up soon enough), there's an article on Andreas Katsulas
+(G'Kar) in the current Starlog, which came out pretty well, and an A.P. story
+that features B5 that should show up in various papers in the next day or so.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 240       Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:56 EST
+
+     The comment re: Twin Peaks is correct; I loved TP dearly, but if you
+missed one episode, you were screwed.  The way the story is constructed, you
+can come in at any point, even miss episodes, and still be able to follow the
+thing.  It's just that the *more* you watch, the more you'll get out of it,
+the more things you'll pick up on.  It's a very difficult task from a writing
+point of view, but worth the effort, I think.
+
+     Re: the actors...yes, there was a great degree of comitment on their
+part.  The head/hairpiece for Londo worked fine, but just to add to the
+authenticity, Peter Jurasik shaved his head for the duration of the shoot.
+ All of the actors did research into their characters, got books on SF if they
+didn't know much about the genre, on and on.  They *very much* got into it,
+down to consulting about their wardrobe and having input into prosthetics (to
+some degree).  We want them to be comfortable, otherwise they can't do their
+best work.
+
+     They're all certainly committed to doing the 5 year stint; as for being
+forever inserted into SF...there's the question of typecasting, and we've
+tried to circumvent that in some sneaky ways (who's going to recognize Mira or
+Andreas outside of their makeup?).  Nimoy had problems because it was his face
+and head, just a pair of ears stuck on.  If we have lots of alien makeup, we
+try to hide the actor's face (while allowing for varied expression) so they
+can do other stuff.  I think it's important to try and think of your actor's
+well being and career...because then you create a good and healthy environment
+for them, and it serves you well in the long run.
+
+     I've not been consulted re: closed captioning, and must confess that I
+don't have the info on this.  Will see if I can find out.
+
+     Yes, I was consulted about the ads, and while accepting the graphics,
+provided alternate copy for the ads, which I thought were a tad heavy handed.
+But overall, I'm quite happy with the approach that's being taken.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 242       Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:16 EST
+
+     I think that talk would be premature; let's see if it GETS that kind of
+attention, or if folks want to run us out of town.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 250       Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:29 EST
+
+      A video index...oh man...you're *deliberately* trying to make my
+ life a living hell, aren't you?  (More than it is already.)
+
+      We'll see.  It's something I'll mention, and see how they react.
+
+      Meanwhile, here's a little something I came across in my computer
+ this evening.  I had always sensed that the Londo introduction/narration
+ at the top of the pilot was the way to go.  But it never hurts to try
+ other avenues...you discover the darndest ideas that way.  Anyway, I came
+ up with an alternate introduction, just to see if it worked or not.  I
+ rather liked it...and still do, to some degree...but finally opted to go
+ with the Londo intro instead, which is what we'll stick with.
+
+      But since it's not going to be used, I figured...why not let y'all
+ take a look at what would've been an alternate opening for the pilot?
+
+                             BABYLON 5
+                          Insert/Prologue
+
+ FADE IN:
+
+ ON STATIC.  Then: a BLACK SCREEN, OVER which we HEAR the FEMALE
+ voice of a news broadcast in progress:
+
+                              FEMALE VOICE (vo)
+                _ continue to bring you updates on
+                the Interplanetary News Network.
+
+ And now, gradually, a PICTURE begins to emerge from the darkness
+ _ grainy, slightly washed out, a VIDEO IMAGE of Babylon 5.
+
+                              FEMALE VOICE (vo)
+                In other news, the Earth Alliance
+                space station Babylon 5 celebrates
+                its first year in operation with the
+                imminent arrival of an ambassador
+                from the Vorlon Empire.
+
+ And now: a MONTAGE of shots from within B5, and some EFX shots
+ from outside...the casino, the customs area, the bazaar and other
+ areas.  During this, the IMAGE BEGINS TO SHRINK, to recede into
+ the distance, and gradually the stars begin to come out on all
+ sides of the picture, framing it.  This UNDER:
+
+                              FEMALE VOICE (vo)
+                Located in neutral territory, Babylon
+                5 has exceeded all expectations in
+                dealing with the many life forms that
+                pass through the five mile long
+                station.  As a result, Earth Central
+                has approved an appropriations bill
+                to keep the orbiting freeport open to
+                travelers, businessmen and diplomats
+                for another five years.
+
+ And now the image shifts, and the picture continues to recede
+ into the distance, now only a few inches across...a grainy black
+ and white image:
+
+                              FEMALE VOICE (vo)
+                Meanwhile, a new binary star
+                discovered by Mars colony scientists
+                has been named Kennedy Proxima, after
+                20th century president John F.
+                Kennedy, born 340 years ago this
+                week.
+
+ And now, in the small picture framed by stars, receding more
+ rapidly from view, we SEE footage of JFK speaking before the
+ Democratic convention the eve of his presidential nomination:
+
+                              KENNEDY
+                I believe that the times require
+                imagination, and courage, and
+                perseverance.  I'm asking each one of
+                you to be pioneers toward that New
+                Frontier.  My call is to the young at
+                heart, regardless of age; to the
+                stout of spirit, regardless of party;
+                to all those who respond to the
+                scriptural call, "Be strong and of
+                good courage.  Be not afraid, neither
+                be dismayed."  For courage, not
+                complacency, is our need today.
+
+ UNDER this, Kennedy's image recedes further into the distance,
+ growing smaller and smaller until he is now one of the many
+ surrounding stars splashed across the blackness of space.  A
+ moment, and the MUSIC RISES, brave and martial, as we
+
+ TILT and PAN ACROSS to reveal Babylon 5 itself, up close and
+ personal in all its huge splendor.  PUSH IN on the station as
+ a ship approaches, and we HEAR:
+
+                              LAUREL (vo)
+                Confirmed, Delta Gammer Niner, you
+                are clear for docking.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 251       Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:33 EST
+
+     That should be Delta Gamma Niner, not Gammer Niner.  Typo.  Sorry.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 265       Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:17 EST
+
+     Generally speaking, I agree with the sentiments expressed, and what
+you've picked up on are the reasons that I decided against using this
+particular form, even though there are things I like about it.  What was, for
+me, the #1 reason for not using it is that it's...for lack of a better term,
+fairly prosaic.  A news cast as opposed to the voice of the story teller, a
+sense of future-history you get through Londo's voice and the identification
+of him as the storyteller.
+
+     Although I agree about the Kennedy tie, and that it can be somewhat
+problematic, what I like about it is that it fed into what I've been after
+with this show from day one...to tie our past, our present and our future.
+Done properly, it could've been fairly classy, I think.  And there's Kennedy's
+voice _ I have the tape of his speech _ which rings powerful and true in
+that speech.  It set a tone.  But as has been noted here before, writing and
+acting and directing are fundamentally about making choices...this move rather
+than that, this attitude over that attitude.  The Londo choice was the
+*better* of the two, even though there's much about this version to commend
+it.
+
+     (A quick aside re: the MURDER question...the episode you cite was one
+done under my watch, but not the one I mentioned as the last I'd have anything
+to do with for this season.  That one, which I wrote, aired about two weeks
+ago.  The one you saw this weekend was from last season, as is the one coming
+up this Sunday, an episode of mine called "The Committee," a fairly gothic
+episode that actually came out quite well.  The mystery element may or may not
+be that strong, but for me, MURDER was always a character story first, onto
+which you graft a puzzle.)
+
+     Well, review copies of the pilot are going out, and have gone out.  I
+heard through back channels that a major reviewer for a major magazine saw the
+pilot on Thursday last and his head exploded, thought it was terrific.  The
+one comment that I keep hearing back from people is that it redefines SF on
+television.  Now, that doesn't necessarily mean it's the best thing since
+sliced bread, but in terms of character and SFX and the general, more adult
+approach, it redefines what you can get away with.  Which is all to the good.
+
+     As for what I'm doing now...writing a script for a friend who's in a
+bind, ratcheting up the PR on the show a little more, giving interviews and
+suchlike, trying to get a leg up on my next novel so I'll be able to  continue
+with it once this thing gets going to series, and some other stuff that, for
+the moment, is classified.
+
+     It's now less than a month until this thing shows nationally.  And just a
+tick over two weeks until those with satellite dishes pull the show out of the
+general ether.  By February 22nd, I fully anticipate being a complete and
+total basket case.
+
+     Fortunately, it's unlikely anyone will notice....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 272       Tue Jan 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:09 EST
+
+     Rob: the scenario you posit is a viable one.  Nuff said.
+
+     RE: the making of stuff...rather than a half-hour show, the stations
+(which in some cases had a hard time breaking loose a full half hour) will be
+getting promos from a minute-thirty to 20 minutes in length, which they can
+drop in as they wish, giving them more flexibility.
+
+     It *may* go out to them along with the B5 downlink, but I'm not sure.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 275       Tue Jan 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 07:17 EST
+
+     (What the hell am I doing up at 4:15 a.m. my time?  Watching B5 for the
+ten zillionth time.  Picking it apart.  Making notes.  This is nuts.   I'm
+going to bed.  See you all in the afternoon.....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 288       Tue Jan 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:58 EST
+
+     Artisan: I think j.roy's got some graphics that qualify; nudge him into e-
+mailing them.
+
+     Nothing to pick at?  Oh, dear.  Stand with your face half an inch from
+the mirror, and tell me you see no imperfections.  We all see the things
+others miss.  Tell you what...at some point after the pilot's aired, after
+things have settled down, I'll go through my list of things to do better in
+the series, things we should've done different in the pilot, on and on.  But
+that's the *purpose* of a pilot, to try a show out for size, see how it fits,
+and make adjustments.
+
+     But no matter how good it gets, everything is open for improvement in
+some way.  You have to keep constantly questioning and re-evaluating.   The
+unexamined life and all that jazz.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 294       Wed Jan 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:36 EST
+
+     Hmm...y'know, given the reaction here, maybe I'll fax the intro over to
+Warners PR and see if they can use it for a promo.  Like I said, I liked it as
+well, it just wasn't up to the level of the rest of the show, I thought.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 295       Wed Jan 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:53 EST
+
+     From the Associated Press article by Scott Williams on the new crop of SF
+TV series (specifically here, DS9, Space Rangers and B5), quoting David
+Gerrold.  "I've seen the pilot, and it's [Babylon 5 is] the best looking of
+the three.  I really do think that Babylon 5 will be the one for grownups to
+watch."  (Article appeared in various newspapers over the last few days across
+the country.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 302       Wed Jan 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:01 EST
+
+     "The Committee," which airs Sunday, is an episode of Murder, She Wrote,
+for which I was producer/writer until recently.  Sorry, thought I was clearer.
+
+     BTW, I recently made a horrific discovery about GEnie posting.  In the
+past (since I compose on-line), I'd hit the carriage return at the end of a
+line...and nothing would happen.  I'd wait.  Hit CR again.  Then I'd get the
+new line...and figured it just took a second to kick in.
+
+     Turns out that every time that happened, apparently the buffer or
+something was getting full, and half the line wasn't getting through each time
+it happened...so there have got to be some sentences of mine that make even
+less sense than usual.  Now that I'm aware of it, I'm going back and revising
+the line when I see the delay at CR.
+
+     I'm meeting Friday with the computer game design people for a few hours
+to kick around the structure for the thing.  Should be interesting; main thing
+will be determing the degree to which this thing should interface with the
+overall acr of the story, or exist totally outside of that arc.
+
+     To the question raised 'way uptopic about comics _ yes, there may in
+fact be one.  And I'm actually quite pleased with the idea (being a comics
+fan).  Imagine what could be done by a Neil Gaiman or a Grant Morrison could
+do with the B5 concept.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 314       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:18 EST
+
+     Y'know, when I posted the original idea for an introduction, I had no
+idea it would generate so many different responses.  And all with some merit.
+Rob, the points you raise are correct: I've always felt very strongly that in
+this show, and in SF in general, it helps to connect the future to the
+present, to show the continuity of the species, of the common coin of our
+shared humanity, our cultures, our languages.  I think  there are other ways
+of doing it, and will do so.  But given the "pro" response, maybe there might
+be some way of using this thing, whether it's as a promo or somehow using it
+in the show.  (Y'know, it *could* be used in the course of a regular episode,
+as I think of it; no reason why it couldn't....)
+
+     Well, one thing's for sure...if it ever DOES get used, it'll in large
+part be because of the reaction here.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 318       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 06:54 EST
+
+     Well, it's almost 4 a.m.  I was going to give you three guesses as to
+what I've been watching _ again _ but I figure by now that's kinda
+pointless.  I know, I know, obsessive/compulsive.  Sue me.
+
+     It's now 2 weeks and 1 day until those of you with satellite dishes see
+the pilot.  I'll be very interested in seeing (well, reading) your reactions.
+I must confess that as this dialogue continues, I find myself learning more,
+and questioning more, and digging deeper for information that had been glossed
+over before.  I very much appreciate your comments, your suggestions, even the
+occasional outbursts of Attitude.
+
+     There will shortly be a private screening of the pilot on a real movie
+screen, just for cast and crew.  The only time that I know of that this thing
+will be shown in the US on a big screen.  Have been going over what I'm going
+to say to the assembled folks...how does one properly thank another for the
+fulfillment of a dream?  How do you quantify five (now six) years of struggle,
+now given life by people you had hardly met one year before, but have given
+their blood and time and effort to see  someone else's dream realized?
+
+     During the filming, as I would be standing on stage, off camera, and we'd
+take a break between shots, invariably someone _ the camera  operator, the
+costumer, an actor, a carpenter _ would come up alongside and say, "Is this
+close to what you saw when you wrote it?  How are we doing on the dream?"
+They knew what it meant, the long road to get here, that it wasn't just a
+*job* for me and many others; it was something we wanted to do out of passion.
+And they responded to that...slept nights on the set rather than going home,
+produced work above and beyond the call of duty...how do you properly thank
+someone for reaching into your head and pulling out a vision and giving it
+form and weight and light and substance?  I don't know.  I don't know.
+
+     Whatever the future holds _ win, lose or draw _ I think we've done
+something special here.  And it's interesting to see how that sense pervades
+everything...the casting, the production...and now even this.  I have noticed -
+- I do a LOT of bbsing, much to my spousal overunit's dismay _ that the tone
+on this category seems vastly different than it is elsewhere.  I don't
+know...a give and take, no flame wars, a sense of community, the VERY SAME
+sense present on the set, in the dressing room, behind the camera.
+
+     In the cold light of morning (when I manage to see it, when I'm not
+coming at 4 a.m. from the opposite direction), I tell myself it's just a
+television show, and six months from now, or ten years from now, no one will
+notice or remember.  At night, as I watch the show again for I no longer know
+how many times, I allow _ just for a second _ the notion that we've carved
+out a little piece of history.  Win, lose or draw, we got it on film, when
+everyone said we couldn't.
+
+     And now it's yours.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 325       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:57 EST
+
+     Bear: you're an evil man.
+
+     I like that.
+
+     Re: "Night of the Living Dead," yeah, that's Patricia Tallman in the lead
+role.  Which is where I saw her for the first time, and decided at that moment
+that I *had* to use her in something.  She's dynamite.  I saw her at a number
+of gatherings in LA, including the Horror Hall of Fame parties at Universal,
+but didn't say anything because...well, when someone comes up to you and says,
+"Hi, I'm a producer, I'd like to use you in my next big project," it's
+invariably perceived as a come-on.  So I waited until the right opportunity
+arose.
+
+     Knowing she'd be perfect for B5, I had her called in to audition.  As she
+was waiting in the hall, nervously practicing her lines, I stepped outside to
+tell her that I'd seen her work, that she was terrific, and that I looked
+forward to working with her.  Apparently she didn't have any idea who I
+was...but found out when she was brought in to do the actual audition a few
+moments later.  There was never any question in my mind about her doing the
+role, and it was one of the smartest decisions I made in this thing.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 345       Fri Jan 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:49 EST
+
+     Re: the Trek story...no, that was very much of its form and of that
+universe; it wouldn't fit in the B5 universe.
+
+     Anything else in the past to compare with B5?  Probably the closest has
+been the novel writing, especially the one I'm working on now.  But overall,
+no, this is the biggie.  If it works, it'll probably be the single largest
+task of my career.  If there's any one thing that I'd want to be remembered
+for, it's a B5 series.
+
+     BTW...just a general note for those who are cycling in and out of the
+conversation...be sure to be around a week or so before the airing of the
+pilot.  Many folks have asked how they can help; at that point, I just may put
+you to work, and take you upon that generous offer...
+
+                                                                jms
+     (that should be up on, not upon...)
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 353       Fri Jan 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:21 EST
+
+      EEEEEEEEEKKK!!!!!
+
+      I just read the first eight messages in the new topic 19 (mine).   Jeez,
+what a flashback.  What redundencies.  Did I really sound that gleepy?  Oh,
+man.  It's like looking at your high school yearbook photo.   Are you guys
+*really* sure you want to do this?
+
+      Eek, I tell you, Eek!
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 363       Sat Jan 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:20 EST
+
+     Agreed on LBJ...he was something of a thug.
+
+     Flat-out wasted tonight...we had a private screening this evening for
+cast, crew, some critics and some Warners execs.  About 400+ people at the
+theater in the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in North Hollywood (in
+the shadow of a 50 foot Emmy).  I don't think I've ever been as nervous,
+because here's where all the people who worked their butts off get to see if
+we screwed it all up for them or not.  Everyone liked it bigtime.  The few
+critics who said anything (most headed out, as is standard, you don't want to
+tip your hand) loved it...one CNN person said he hoped it would run for 10
+years, another critic said it was the best SF television pilot he'd seen in
+the last 10 years...I think they liked it.
+
+     Sitting here now with a MASSIVE headache from fretting over all this, so
+will probably make this short tonight.  (Harlan kept hitting me in the
+shoulder after the screening, smiling and saying, "Will you for chrissakes
+ENJOY this?  It's your night!  It's a hit!  It's wonderful!  This kind of
+night only comes once in your life!  Enjoy it!"  I will...as soon as we get
+the series Go.  Nothing can be allowed to distract from that.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 374       Sat Jan 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:50 EST
+
+     The sound system at the theater was great; we ran it off the D2, the
+master tape, and it came out very well.
+
+     The point you raise re: Starlost is one Harlan's made to me.  When I was
+at times feeling a bit low _ I want the series NOW _ he would point out that
+no matter what happens, we made my show the way I wanted it made, no
+interference...as opposed to what happened with Starlost, which just yanked
+his heart out.  And it's a valid point.
+
+     Thing is, it took five years to get this made, and that it HAS been
+made...it's almost an act of sheer will.  I decided five years ago that no
+matter what happens, this pilot WILL be made.  You have to focus in on the
+goal like a laser beam (tm Bill Clinton).  That's been done.  Now the next
+step: the series WILL be made...and now I have to focus in on that one with
+equal conviction.  It's quite literally the only way ANYTHING ever gets made
+in this town.  Ask George.  He's been down the same road.
+
+     As for the question of the show working with non-SF fans...we've actually
+shown it to a number of people who don't know from SF, and the result has been
+that they've liked it enormously.  The reason, basically, is that it's not a
+hardware-driven story.  It's a character drama with a mystery story element.
+The solution doesn't come from cross-wiring the ramaframmit with the
+zigamakawanna, and computing the resonance factors.   (And I have to confess
+that those kinds of stories bore me to tears.)   You start and end with
+character, and drama...and if you're true to those elements, the audience will
+follow you even into unfamiliar terrain.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 379       Sun Jan 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:21 EST
+
+     (btw...anyone here know of any major conventions between now and February
+22nd around the country?)
+
+     What has been said that's *negative* about the show?  Do you actually
+believe I'll provide *NEGATIVE* information about my own show?
+
+     You do?  Oh.  Then okay.
+
+     Probably the number one comment, when there are any negatives voiced, is
+that the first half-hour is slow when compared with the rest of the episode.
+And I have to agree...there's SO much to establish, so much  ground to cover,
+that the first half hour is very dense.  Once we've established the
+foundation, that changes fast, because we now have a common ground of
+understanding about the universe in which the story is taking place.
+
+     Let's see...one fellow from Starburst Magazine who was at the preview
+said that if it were his, he would've rearranged the last few shots.  The
+current sequence is, Action Scene, Transition with Kosh, Confrontation with a
+Major Character and Sinclair, the Reception, Delenn and Sinclair in the
+Garden, and the final shot with Laurel in the observation dome.  He would've
+put the Confrontation with a Major  character as the LAST scene, and cut the
+shot of Laurel altogether.  His sense is to end on a big scene...my sense is
+that it's better to end on a note that sets up the series to follow.  Not so
+much a negative as a difference of opinion.
+
+     Let's see...some didn't like the gun designs (others loved it), some felt
+we didn't do as much as we could've with the background aliens (some thought
+we did too much)...mainly they've been matters of taste, rather than someone
+finding something that Just Doesn't Make Sense, or an EFX shot that looks
+crummy.  There aren't any Real Big Plot Holes, and insofar as I know, nothing
+major to pick on which is *objective*, only differences of opinion.  (As we've
+seen here with the Kennedy stuff; some liked it, others didn't.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 390       Sun Jan 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:24 EST
+
+     I'll be getting in touch with Mr. Jonas.
+
+     Re: the uniforms...yes, there's a certain traditional look to them, and
+this is deliberate.  Look at any uniform from 200 years ago, and you have
+certain lines and forms that repeat, and which stay part of the uniform.
+There is a STRONG sense of tradition and history in any branch of the
+military.  Heck, the navy not long ago went BACK to a more traditional dress
+after making some modifications.  The basic dress uniform for your basic
+soldier on leave looks about the same now as it did during WW II.
+
+     Much of what passes for SF uniforms/costuming in the future simply
+pretends that all that history and tradition just suddenly came to a
+screeching halt.  In B5, we're trying to connect our past, our present and our
+future, to show the continuity of the human species.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Computer EFX Tech-Talk   
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+549 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 498       Thu Jan 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:20 EST
+
+     While we may indeed have a CGI character down the road, it most assuredly
+*won't* be a shapechanger.  I don't like to swim in somebody else's pond.
+
+     Re: observatories...we'll be introducing the many other specialists who
+work at B5 as we go along, from environmental techs to astrophysicists, so
+we'll definitely find a place for this.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 505       Fri Jan 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:37 EST
+
+     Insofar as I can remember (problematic on the best of days), I never
+cited that the CGI character would be a shape-changer.  Because such is not
+planned...though I suppose I could've been momentarily possessed by an
+idiot...it could happen.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 520       Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:45 EST
+
+     My reaction...it's an interesting idea, yes.  It's also a story
+suggestion, but one K.L. should let slide because I don't think it's a B5 kind
+of story...more of a TNG story.  But the notion of different forms of
+communication than what we have come to accept or recognize as such is
+certainly valid and filled with dramatic possibilities.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 523       Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:19 EST
+
+     The hardest thing, of course, is making the muscles beneath the skin move
+realistically and correctly.  That apparently has just been licked, though.
+Ron mentioned the other day that he just got some new software in that will
+let him do for TV what Spielberg's whole computer operation  is required in
+order to do Jurassic Park.
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 531       Tue Jan 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 07:11 EST
+
+     I'll ask re: Ron's new stuff.  As for the changing technology, I'd like
+to keep things looking *pretty* much the same, so there isn't a big or
+noticeable jump, but things just sorta look clearer and better and more real
+over time, rather than changing things per se.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Cast and Characters      
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+505 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 505       Fri Jan 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:06 EST
+
+     Also, the contracts with the actors for the series extend to the window
+at which time Warners *must* either give us a decision.  So we're covered.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 5         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            (Forwarded)
+Sub: Grid Epsilon Irregulars - News & Info.
+
+This topic is for information about Babylon 5 fan groups, newsletters,
+fanzines, get-togethers, B-5 at conventions, and other general fun.
+288 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 218       Wed Jan 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:00 EST
+
+     Yep...the "beep" stuff will all be clear by the end of the pilot.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 267       Wed Jan 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:39 EST
+
+      Hmm...two 3.5 floppies, that's...2.4 megabytes...my last novel was about
+600k, so that's....FOUR NOVELS!?
+
+     Okay, that's it.  Everybody pony up a quarter....
+
+     Yikes!
+
+     I was far less tired before I read that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 269       Wed Jan 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:34 EST
+
+     (Hmm...that sounded vaguely like a threat....)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 6         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 06:43 EST
+Sub: Where is Babylon 5? TV stations...   
+
+Babylon 5 is a cornerstone of Warner's new Prime Time Network. Here is where
+one can find the station information....
+374 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 287       Wed Jan 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:02 EST
+
+     I'm scheduled for Gallifrey One Goes Forth?
+
+     Oh....
+
+     Er...when exactly is that, again?
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 291       Thu Jan 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:21 EST
+
+     Yes, we've got WOR, which will only be blacked out if your local station
+requests it.  If no one locally is carrying it, then it might indeed be
+available that way.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 305       Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:54 EST
+
+     Okay, here's the deal on the "Making Of" stuff.  Many of the stations
+indicated that they might have a hard time knocking loose a half hour on TOP
+of the 2 hour running time for B5.  So Warners is providing shorter pieces _
+90 seconds, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, 15 minutes and 20 minutes _ to the
+stations, giving them some flexibility.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 309       Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:37 EST
+
+     Don't know the answers to the questions, but will post as soon as I do.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 318       Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:35 EST
+
+     If you're seeing promos for KF and TT, then yes, you'll probably get B5
+on the same station.  As for the 2 1/2 hour feed...I don't know for certain,
+but it's *likely* that the making of clips will be included in that feed.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 320       Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:05 EST
+
+     To the questions about airdates and times...there's no one central source
+for this information, alas; the best thing to do, unless someone else here
+happens to have the information, is just to give your local station a call and
+ask the programming or publicity departments.  They'll be happy to supply the
+information.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 323       Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:52 EST
+
+     BTW, a belated but *substantial* thank you to Jim Partridge for sending
+in the KBHK tape.  Yep, they used B5 footage to promote DS9, all right.  We
+just got it over to the Big Boys, and they'll take care of it from here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 342       Tue Jan 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:11 EST
+
+     Enough stations *are* airing them together that it still causes a
+problem.  Additionally, a "second night" also has financial meanings; the
+doubling of resources to acquire two more programs, making four series rather
+than two.  So it applies in both ways.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 351       Wed Jan 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:42 EST
+
+     Yeah, I'd gotten it, I was just swamped.  (Also there was no letter
+inside, and I had to tear through bags of discarded envelopes set to be
+recycled to find the mailing label with the correct info.)  Would've mentioned
+it before, it's just...my head explodes sometimes, y'know...?
+
+     Gary: that's *great* news re: KUSI.  San Diego's my old home town, so
+it's good they're pushing it.  Wish I'd known about the promo, I could have
+bugged some people down there to tape it for me.  Ah, well....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 7         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+J.HUDGENS [Fenn Shysa]       at 23:07 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 _ POTENTIAL SPOILERS      
+
+If you've seen the B5 promos or the sales info packages and want to mention
+specific items or situations without worrying about spoiling it for others,
+post & comment here... THERE BE SPOILERS HERE!
+467 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 398       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:50 EST
+
+      There are actually several languages heard on B5, though you have to
+work to hear them.  (Those with surround will have an easier time.)  For
+instance, in the customs area, announcements are made first in English, then
+in Interlac.  In the bazaar area, you'll hear chirrups and whistles and clicks
+and a wide range of language-sounds.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 400       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:12 EST
+
+     There are about as many as now...with a few extras developed on the Mars
+and other colonies.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 408       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:29 EST
+
+     Re: asking telepaths on a date...it would be verbal, assuming we're
+talking PC hrized scans are illegal, and thus they would not be "dipping" to
+know your intentions.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 416       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:48 EST
+
+     (A job like that could take YEARS....)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 433       Thu Jan 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:32 EST
+
+     It's a very difficult area, and I thank Katherine for making the call for
+me...it becomes hard at this end sometimes to call.  My sense, really, is that
+if there are VERY SPECIFIC plotlines put forth, then it becomes an issue
+suddenly.
+
+     As an aside, though, one thing I did hear from the message was the
+Vorlons as Minbari question.  This I can say definitively ain't so.  They are
+two completely different species, with no common points of origin.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 451       Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:38 EST
+
+     Cindy: smug because I've *GOT* the script?
+
+     Cindy baby, I *WROTE* the script!
+
+     I have not BEGUN to smug....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 8         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:41 EST
+Sub: Behind The Scenes                    
+
+Production Designers, Art Directors, Costumers, Director, others...this is the
+place to discuss the production-aspects of B5...it's look and the process
+involved.
+336 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 238       Fri Jan 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:27 EST
+
+     BTW, it's my understanding that the monitor screens on TNG are not
+inserted in post; they're regular TV screens with edges that come out and
+cover any bends in the tube, thereby giving it a flat look.  At least, that's
+what I hear....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 251       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:53 EST
+
+     I agree re: universal translators.  Most everything in the ST universe is
+bent toward making the process easier, less challenging; I want to show the
+process of overcoming.  I think it's great if an alien shows up from a
+previously unvisited planet, and they spend days trying to communicate with
+it.  I think that some computerized stuff might work, as in the case where
+someone programs a machine to go from one specific language to another (sort
+of a species-specific interpreter), but thats about it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 261       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:37 EST
+
+     The language facilities of aliens will vary; probably the most fluent (by
+virtue of necessity) are the ambassadors, whose english is perfect or nearly
+so (cyberlink to the brain dumping the English equivilants of their own
+language and grammar directly into the brain, very expensive and not a little
+painful).  The drawback is that some cultural references or some contextual
+areas may not be as clear as required.  (Londo wondering about ramoras, Delenn
+unsure for a moment about poetry....)
+
+     Re: language in general...I agree that all languages must be "living
+languages" in that they are free to grow and expand and add new terms.   There
+is a difference between this and a *collapsing language* in which the
+distinction between terms (the aformentioned less and fewer) becomes degraded,
+and meanings blur through misuse.  Ase gradually becomes less precise.  A
+language should be graded on how well it manages to communicate the thoughts
+of one to the other.  If it begins to fail in that regard, then it is not a
+living but a dying language.
+
+     (Another example: the way that "anxious" and "eager" have come to mean
+the same thing.  "Anxious" carries with it some degree of worry or dread or
+fear; "eager" is a pleasant term, connoting something wonderful and nice for
+which one is longing.  So when someone says, with a smiling and expectant
+attitude, "Yeah, I'm really anxious to see the new Lucas movie," it's a misuse
+of the term, unless there's some reason for worry.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 268       Sun Jan 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:11 EST
+
+     In terms of the EFX, I think it's all Amigas, with some IBMs being used
+for general computing (letters, schedules, etc.).
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 281       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:49 EST
+
+     Re: TRON v2.0....I'd rather write kids in space.
+
+     Re: places of origin...my sense is that they have their own unique names.
+We don't call our planet Terra (well, not really), or Hum (for Human) or
+Planet Human.  Because some of the names are difficult to pronounce, the
+logical approach is to note them by designation, i.e., "And shall be shipped
+off to the Narn homeworld."  That is the only time or I should say context by
+which we refer to their places of origin.  The only exception to this, and I
+don't recall if this is in the pilot or not, is the Centauri homeworld,
+designated Centauri Prime.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 288       Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:35 EST
+
+     Yes, there are definitely other human settlements...colonies and outposts
+and co-operative projects on other worlds with other species.   It's mainly
+from this overlap that the EA draws its non-human members, though a few worlds
+have chosen to ally themselves directly with the EA.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 325       Fri Jan 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:08 EST
+
+     The command level uniforms (Sinclair, Laurel, Garibaldi) are pretty much
+the same in cut, though Garibaldi's (and all of securityard grey more than
+blue.  Medical uniforms have a somewhat different cut and lean toward charcoal
+grey.
+
+     There's a slightly different cut for grunt-level security, and a slightly
+greener look.  Station techs (maintainance crews and the like) generally get
+yellow outfits with the B5 logo (and are not directly part of the EA
+structure; they work at and for the station per se).  Control techs, in the
+observation dome, for instance, generally don't wear jackets on duty, but
+rather shirts with the B5 logo.  The shift commander, though, does wear a
+jacket with his uniform.  (When B5 opens, you see Laural give a command to the
+shift commander, who then relays it to others.  You can trace the line of
+command in the dome from there.)
+
+     There are, and will be, other variations in uniform, but those are pretty
+much the ones you'll see in the show.  (In addition, of course, to more
+conventional clothing such as that worn by casino workers, marked only by a
+glitter-B5 logo.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 327       Sat Jan 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:26 EST
+
+     If the Garibaldi outfit you refer to is on page 30, that's the same cut
+of uniform as Sinclair's on 34, just a different angle on it.  (And there's no
+white shirt under the outfits on page 28; those are high  collars with gold
+braid.)  Now, there *is* another outfit that both he and Sinclair wear, it's a
+black outfit (pants and long shirt) under a grey flak-jacket, which is a
+combat uniform.  (The flak jackets are composed of various reflective
+substances that help refract and dissipate some of the impact of energy
+weapons.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 329       Sat Jan 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:53 EST
+
+     Oops!  Nope, you're right, yes, there *are* shirts under the jackts
+(actually, there are shirts under ALL the jackets, as you'd expect of
+clothing).  I thought you were referring to the collar.  My error.
+
+     Actually, *ALL* of the costumes are layered.  G'Kar can remove six
+different layers of his outfit, Londo can wear the jacket with or without the
+vest (which can also be removed for the shirt below), the Minbari wardrobe is
+equally layered and can be played with as well, on and on.
+
+
+                                                       jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 331       Sun Jan 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:27 EST
+
+     Rob: so what would you suggest?
+
+     If B5 succeeds, there will be comics published in the same basic
+universe, as well as novelizations.  These will be specifically encouraged to
+go in different directions, partly for selfish reasons, so they won't mess
+with my time/character line, and partly because I'd like to see what others
+can do with this universe...sort of like a shared world anthology.  So yes,
+there's room to play, and with luck, we'll see it there and elsewhere.
+
+     What other options would you suggest?  If I've missed something, let me
+know.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 335       Sun Jan 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:31 EST
+
+     Rob...my friend, it took me five years to get this one show into
+production.  The rest...I'll leave those to somebody else.
+
+     Re: colors and uniforms...we decided against using color that much as
+service designation (red for security, and so on) for two reasons: one is that
+it's so associated with Trek.  We're not Trek.  We allowed a touch of it in
+the insignia, but in a very limited way.  Second reason, you're dealing with
+aliens who see various colors and don't see others, and alien sectors where
+the lighting may wash out or totally change the color codes, which is why we
+went for specific *symbols* for different areas (security, maintainance,
+command and so on).  If you're in the alien sector that uses red light
+heavily, and you need help fast, you don't want to try and figure out of
+that's a blue stripe or a purple stripe  when asking somebody for help.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 9         Wed Nov 11, 1992
+T.RESTIVO [Little Guy]       at 18:27 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Humor                      
+
+From *Beep Beep*, to Top Ten Lists to full-blown paradies, this is where to
+put your funny bone in writing!
+172 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 150       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:24 EST
+
+     Kosh as in "gosh."  There's actually a last name, btw...Naranek.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 156       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:50 EST
+
+     Pronounced Nuh-RAH-nek.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 10        Thu Nov 12, 1992
+SANDMAN [Henry]              at 19:25 EST
+Sub: Sex in Babylon 5                     
+
+Can't do without this one!!
+
+
+104 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 101       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:49 EST
+
+     Yep.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B-5 ADRIFT!                          
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+373 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 323       Fri Jan 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:48 EST
+
+     Definite no on the question of matter transmitters.  That's a little too
+much in the magic/science-fantasy area for my preferences.  Space travel is
+done in ships.
+
+     Re: Captain Power...it aired in 1987/88 in syndication.  Was set in the
+future, after the MetalWars, in which one man, who caused the war (in the best
+interests of humanity) decided that to save humanity it must be digitized and
+stored in machines for the day when perfect metalloid bodies could give
+mankind immortality.
+
+     Re: Twilight Zone...yes, I worked on the syndicated version.  Among the
+episodes I wrote (I was also story editor) are "The Mind of Simon Foster,"
+with Bruce Weitz; "Dream Me a Life," with Eddie Albert; co-wrote "The Curious
+Case of Edgar Witherspoon," with Harry Morgan, and co-wrote "Our Selena is
+Dying" posthumously with Rod Serling, from a long lost TZ outline.  Other TZs
+that I wrote around that time, but whose stars I can't consistently recall:
+"The Wall," "The Call," "What Are Friends For?" "Something in the Walls,"
+"Acts of Terror," "Special Service," "Rendezvous in a Dark Place," and have
+another shared writing credit on "The Trance."
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 356       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:50 EST
+
+     No, I wasn't previously aware of "Agony" (except what I've gone through
+these last six months), but will look for it in future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 372       Wed Jan 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:43 EST
+
+     Shot on 35mm film.  Transferred to tape for post.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                  
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+190 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 174       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:22 EST
+
+     I think you'll see the biggest push 7-10 days before, yes; and given that
+the PTEN ratings have been quite good overall, it's kinda hard to argue too
+strenuously with that approach.  I imagine that reviews and stuff will be
+coming out about the same time.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 176       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:01 EST
+
+     BTW, I've been hearing more and more from our Warners liaison that the
+reviewers who've gotten copies of the B5 pilot have had their corneas melted
+by what they've seen.  Half a dozen have already scrapped plans for other
+covers in their weekly television magazine/supplements in deference to a cover
+story on B5 (and this during Sweeps Week, no less!).
+
+     Keep your eyes peeled, folkses...the stuff should start hitting the
+streets in the final week of our countdown.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 186       Sun Jan 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:29 EST
+
+     Getouttatown...really?  I know Somtow, and I'm surprised he didn't tell
+me he snuck this in.  That's funny....
+
+     Oh SOMMMMMMtow...c'mere...I wanna talk wit'cha....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 13        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 21:00 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Science and Technology   
+
+Jump gates, nanotech, high-tech weapons, starship drives, sound in space, and
+other subjects of science and technology in Babylon 5.
+269 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 152       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:02 EST
+
+     The defense system for B5 consists of a system of moderate level
+defensive grids, hull-mounted weaponry (which is generally concealed behind
+large plates, which would be blown off with explosive bolts to reveal the
+weapons beneath), and a small number of individual fighter  craft stored in a
+docking bay at the rear of the station.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 158       Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:37 EST
+
+     The two things on front _ the spikes, as it were _ are on either side
+of a second loading bay, this one expressly for cargo held in the zero-g cargo
+hold.
+
+     The vanes in the back are heat radiators, as I recall from the original
+design notes.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 164       Thu Jan 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:26 EST
+
+     Yes, there are definitely different levels in each section of B5.
+
+     And yes again, down the road there will be both small flyers and
+individuals with air-packs in the zero-G section at the center of the Garden.
+Ron's worked out how to do it.
+
+     How's it illuminated?  Quite nicely, actually....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 172       Fri Jan 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:41 EST
+
+     250,000 is the *maximum* number of beings who can be there at one time;
+that's not necessarily the maximum number of living quarters.  In some ways,
+B5 is like an airport; you come in, linger, then move on to your eventual
+destiny (catching a few winks in the customs area waiting for the right ship
+to come in or go out).
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 187       Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:07 EST
+
+       Yes, if a big ship went into hyperspace on its own power, it would
+likely have to accellerate first, but if it were near B5, it might well just
+use the jump-gate that's already there to save on energy and fuel.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 189       Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:49 EST
+
+     I'll ask Ron.
+
+     This is one of those areas in which I'll have to defer until such time as
+we get a regular science advisor on the show.  I know *some* of this stuff,
+but fact is, I ain't a techie, and this genre is best served by getting that
+kind of information from someone who knows what the hell he's talking about.
+
+     (Which means we *will* be getting a science advisor once this thing gets
+rolling, btw...no one's set yet, but will probably cull from one or two strong
+possibilities over at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  My plan is to also bring
+on a freelance linguistics consultant to invent a few languages for us...and
+that may be somenoe I encountered right here on GEnie, as a matter of fact,
+but will wait until something Happens to give more info on that.)
+
+                                                              jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 199       Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:04 EST
+
+     As to what happens to their inertia/velocity when they come out, if they
+accelerate going in...yep, we deal with that.  It's in the pilot, and we make
+it clear that they have to take time to decelerate prior to docking.  I think
+in Kosh's case it took something like 2-3 hours to decelerate.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 214       Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:22 EST
+
+     MATH!  MATH!  YOU SAID THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY MATH ON THIS TEST!  I DIDN'T
+STUDY!  HOW MUCH OF MY GRADE WILL THIS BE?!  AAAUUUGGGHHH!!!
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 219       Tue Jan 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:59 EST
+
+     That's actually fairly close to what we were planning...have you been
+hanging around Ron again...?
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 221       Tue Jan 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:40 EST
+
+     Disagreement: the coolest show ever made is THE PRISONER.  I hope to
+capture a little of the flavor of that show, mainly by playing a little with
+surrealism, what's real and what's not...but it'll pale beside that show.  THE
+PRISONER, for me, is the perfect television program.  I've never really seen
+its equal.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 241       Wed Jan 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:24 EST
+
+     I'd expect a comment like that from someone who watches GI Joe....
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 243       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:24 EST
+
+     Nope, the music is all original to our composer, Stewart Copeland.
+
+     And it be WAY cool.
+
+     (On the B5 blooper reel, there's a shot of all these alien faces, and
+that rock song with the lyric, "Everyone's strange, when you're a stranger,
+faces look strange, when you're alone" going on in BG.  Very funny.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 246       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:59 EST
+
+     That's probably something that'll have to be worked out between the
+Language Person and Warners.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 253       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 06:34 EST
+
+     Okay, okay, I got the lyrics wrong, but I got 'till *right*.
+
+     Thing is on the language stuff...it honestly isn't my choice.  There is a
+little thing called "separation of rights."  Publishing rights would probably
+accrue to whoever does the language stuff.  It's not my call.  I would be
+giving away something that ain't mine to give.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 266       Sun Jan 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:30 EST
+
+     Just for clarity, I don't want to "slip Prisoner elements in" in the way
+described.  Was only referencing the show as the kind of show to emulate with
+a beginning, middle and end, and a sometimes surreal aspect that leaves you
+questioning what's real and what isn't.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 14        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:59 EST
+Sub: Lurkers/Introductions: Please Sign In
+
+A place for newcomers to come in, say hello, whether you want to jump into the
+conversation or not, just to let us know you're here.
+187 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 132       Sun Jan 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:15 EST
+
+     Hey, Mark, good to have another H-25er around.
+
+     Pat: I taught at Grossmont College for about one semester, it's a pretty
+good place.  (Went to San Diego State and  meself.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 135       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:52 EST
+
+     I taught writing (what else?)...I *think* it was around 1979 or 80.
+After a while, everything blurs.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 143       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:59 EST
+
+     Re: SDSU, no, I had very little to do with the cinema/telecom dept.
+there.  I crashed two courses _ mainly because I wanted to learn from a
+particular instructor, Norman Corwin _ and had one or two others, but that's
+it.  My interest was in other areas...one degree in Clinical Psychology with a
+minor in Philosophy; another in Sociology with a minor in Creative Writing,
+that sort of thing.
+
+     BTW, if you go down to the offices of the Daily Aztec, and ask to see the
+archive volumes of the paper around 1977/78 or thereabouts, you'll see several
+zillion articles by me in there.  At more or less the same time, I was the
+resident book reviewer, film reviewer and theater reviewer, had two weekly
+humor columns ("A View from the Rabbit Hole" and "A Modern Cynic's
+Dictionary"), as well as regular feature articles and profiles, and the
+occasional investigative article, including one on the CIA.  The frequency of
+articles led some to describe the paper as The Daily J. Michael.  At the same
+time I was doing cover stories for the San Diego Reader, the Daily
+Californian, features for the SD edition of the Los Angeles Times, and
+entertainment reviews for KSDO-AM Newsradio.
+
+     But the Daily Aztec stuff was great fun.  I worked without pay, the only
+one on staff who did, in fact...because I didn't want to be beholden to
+anybody, could write what I wanted, nobody had any leverage.  Which was all
+for the good, given the massive numbers of angry letters and the occasional
+bomb threats elicited by what I wrote.
+
+     Can't imagine why....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 147       Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:57 EST
+
+     Yes, a VERY large blunt object.
+
+     The one point of any possible interest to draw from this comes from
+something I tried to beat into incoming students when I was an orientation
+counselor at SDSU: if you go to college, and all you see are the class rooms,
+the bathrooms, the parking lot and the cafeteria, you will cheat yourself of
+99% of your possible education.  Any university or college has vast
+opportunities for writers and others.  In the former case, write for the
+university newspaper, or the university theater (and most schools have an
+ongoing one-act production program)...take classes in acting or film, to get a
+sense of history, or the hands-on process of being on stage...the range of
+experience open to you is enormous.  Don't just follow your major to its
+conclusion.  There is a world of experience you can get while you're there
+*that you may never have the chance to experience again*.   Take it.
+
+     End of sermon.  I shouldn't even be here, frankly, this is for the new
+folks and others to sign in and introduce themselves...both for the interests
+of our own private party, so we know who's come into the room, and for any
+possible future mailings or opportunities.
+
+     Let's hear from y'all.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 152       Thu Jan 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:28 EST
+
+     KBHK Channel 44 in San Francisco.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 160       Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:08 EST
+
+     Shane...imagine, if you will, a slow fuse being lit...as I stare at the
+name, thinking, "There was something...something I was supposed to do,
+something...writing?"  Then, finally, the fuse works its way through the dense
+foliage I laughingly call my cerebral cortex and explodes with the words "THE
+ARTICLE, STUPID!  YOU NEVER FINISHED PROOFREADING THE ARTICLE HE SENT YOU!"
+
+     A thousand apologies, Shane.  The piece came in right when I was in the
+midst of finishing B5 and leaving M,SW, my life was degenerating into stark,
+staring madness, and I put it down, intent upon taking care of it that
+evening, and next thing I know...I see your message here.
+
+     Hope I didn't screw anything up....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 165       Tue Jan 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:13 EST
+
+      I forget...which one of us was wearing the rabbit outfit that night?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 15        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:29 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Alien races              
+
+Aliens races in Babylon 5... their politics, abilties, technology, history,
+and any other discussion specificly about non-humans.
+
+128 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 71        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:01 EST
+
+     Yeah, that's one thing I've kind of slated in as a B story in a given
+episode...an alien comes aboard and they just can't quite manage to
+communicate, it's just too damned foreign in its thinking.  (What I'd love is
+for them to find out at the end that it's some other alien's damned cat or
+something, and they've been spending all this time trying to communicate with
+something that ain't sentient...but with aliens, how can you tell sometimes?)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 88        Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:40 EST
+
+     Yeah, you kinda need binocular vision for survival purposes and the
+utilization of tools.
+
+     Re: alien plans...that's something that we'll have to work out down the
+road with our prosthetics people.  I don't think we used the full range of
+aliens (both versions) as well as we might have in the pilot.   We get only
+one medium-long shot of Black Eyes, for instance, and that's one that I feel
+came out VERY well and should be highlighted more.  Some of the others were
+less effective, but were kept to the background.
+
+     I'd like to keep a mix going, about 50/50.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 96        Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:51 EST
+
+     An entire planet of mimes.....AN ENTIRE PLANET OF MIMES!?!
+
+     NUKE 'EM!
+
+     NUKE 'EM TILL THEY GLOW THEN SHOOT 'EM IN THE DARK!
+
+   YAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 118       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:02 EST
+
+      till (til) conj. & prep until
+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
+                                        Oxford American Dictionary
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 122       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 06:38 EST
+
+     Your teacher was wrong.  The dictionary accepts till.  If required, I can
+call Mrs. Nash, assuming she survived the process.
+
+     Re: aliens...yeah, there was a somewhat naturalistic look to the things
+that I'd like to experiment with come the series.  This was a deliberate
+choice on Criswell's part.  And by and large, it worked out okay.  I just
+think that for the series, it would limit us.
+
+     Criswell's elves actually did a *lot* of research, trying various
+textures and color combinations drawn from nature.  Of course, that's all
+nature as would evolve in an oxygen atmosphere, 1g.  We have to go beyond
+that, and I think there's some nifty stuff that can be done down the road.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 16        Fri Jan 15, 1993
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 01:02 EST
+Sub: "No kids or cute robots, ever!"      
+
+This is a topic for discussion of the unofficial slogan of Babylon 5.
+99 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 2         Fri Jan 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:31 EST
+
+     On the other hand...maybe it might be better if our Sysoptrix took the
+last, oh, 100 or so messages from 1 about this and transplanted 'em here.  Get
+the whole context in place.
+
+     And lord knows, it's not like she has anything ELSE to do, other than
+nudzhing me....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 21        Sun Jan 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:19 EST
+
+     Something I forgot to mention uptopic, when asked if I can write a story
+with kids...it's appeared in a lot of my prose.  The two leading protagonist
+in my most recent novel, OTHERSYDE, were around 16...the lead character in one
+of the first short stories of mine ever to be published ("Your Move," in
+Amazing SF) was about 13, and the second story of mine published ("A Last
+Testament for Nick and the Trooper," Shadows 6)  featured two kids maybe 19.
+
+     Provided only for the sake of completeness.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 26        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:03 EST
+
+     Absolutely.  I love being proven wrong.
+
+     Though there are few survivors to carry the story....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 42        Fri Jan 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:25 EST
+
+     Ah LAHKES Crow an' Tom Servo....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 57        Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:47 EST
+
+     If you can find Harpo, we'll book him on the show....
+
+     Or Chico, or Groucho...but definitely not Zeppo...or Flammo, the Marx
+Brother who ended up on the cutting room floor.
+
+     "Getta you tootsie-fruitsie ice-a cream...."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 64        Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:29 EST
+
+      Rob: that was very funny stuff.  And believe me, I know from Gummo;
+ the Flammo reference was from a play by Louis Phillips, "The Last of the
+ Marx Bros. Writers," very surreal, where they mention Flammo.  The play
+ is about...well...the last surviving Marx. Bros. writer, who is living in
+ a one room flat, doesn't go out, and keeps having delusional conversations
+ with God.  "Make Me Laugh," God says.  The writer starts a joke.
+
+      "Heard it," God says.  Which is, of course, the problem...he's heard
+ ALL of them.
+
+      BTW, if you're a true-blue Marx Bros. fan, you might want to find (if
+ you already haven't) the book "Flyweel, Shyster and Flywheel," which
+ contains many of the radio scripts of that Marx Bros. show, no surviving
+ audio copies of which have survived.  Very, very funny stuff.
+
+      "How much do you charge to perform?"
+      "Ten dollar."
+      "How much to perform but leave out the rehearsal?"
+      "Twenty dollar."
+      "How much not to perform at all?"
+      "Oh, no, boss, you couldn't afford it...."
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 81        Wed Jan 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:36 EST
+
+     KL: though it galls me to quote commercials, I heard something on one the
+other day that's actually quite telling...some restaraunter quoting something
+his father told him: "The guy who says he never had a chance, never TOOK a
+chance."
+
+     What you say is correct: write it, send it out, write another, send it
+out, write another...on and on and on...if it's good, sooner or later
+somebody'll notice.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Merchandising            
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+55 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 3         Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:00 EST
+
+     I'll know more about the computer game next week or so.  Best thing in
+general is to write to Licensing Corporation of America to get on their
+mailing list for future B5 promotional stuff and merchandising.
+
+     The Creation designs for shirts look okay, if a tad prosaic...there has
+got to be one central image to promote this show, but I'm darned if I can
+figure out what it is at this stage.  The logo looks swell, though, in any
+event.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 21        Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:59 EST
+
+     Jack's message is correct.  The only "sale" aspect was that the GEIs in
+question had to send $1 to help cover postage; the shirt was free.  (I hear a
+few have shown up at auctions for sale; $50 for one, in fact.)
+
+     And yes, the triangle logo has been pretty much officially dropped.
+Whether or not we'll find another use for it down the road is an open
+question, but for now...yep.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 25        Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:47 EST
+
+     Oh, yeah, before I forget (again)...look for ads in People Magazine and
+elsewhere to start appearing in the next few weeks.  And local TV reviewers
+are going to start getting their copies this week.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 27        Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:08 EST
+
+     Well, this IS a science fiction topic.....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 32        Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:11 EST
+
+     BTW, for anyone going to NATPE _ wherever the hell it is _ this coming
+week, there's going to be a big B5 display at the Warners booth,  and some
+posters available.  I've asked to get one of the posters for my archives.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 39        Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:30 EST
+
+     Boy, those time distortion fields are tricky, aren't they?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 42        Tue Jan 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 07:13 EST
+
+     Go ahead....YOU tell G'Kar he's ToTo.  Me, I wanna live a while....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 18        Fri Jan 22, 1993
+SF-LAWRENCE [Katherine]      at 01:57 EST
+Sub: Law and Order on Babylon 5           
+
+The sociology of the B5 station is already being discussed and has generated
+so many messages, they deserve their own topic.  Here's where we can discuss
+Law, Order and Penalties for breaking the law, on B5.
+85 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 18
+Message   1       Thu Jan 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            (Forwarded)
+
+     The death penalty question is one I've been debating in terms of B5 for
+quite some time.  Look at the math involved...if you find someone guilty of
+murder, do you spend all the money and time and effort and so on to ship them
+to a penal colony?  The cost would be ENORMOUS.  Do you keep them imprisoned
+on B5?  If so, eventually you'll run out of room.  So the question becomes, Do
+you space them?  Kill them humanely?
+
+     There's a B5 story I have in mind that will explore this question, but
+I'm not yet sure which way I want to go on it.
+
+     And to the question above...some stations air PTEN shows on different
+nights, yes, there's some flexibility.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 18
+Message   4       Thu Jan 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            (Forwarded)
+
+     Ah, but you see, for starters, the issue may not be one of reform; okay,
+A kills B, so we transform A into a better person...this by you is a
+punishment?  What is the purpose of the law, to reform or to avenge?
+
+     Plus you run into the other problem...what of the other species out there
+who may require death for certain offenses, such as murder of their own
+species?
+
+     And consider this: A kills B.  B happens to be your little sister, age
+12.  A gets transformed by the psychs.  And you're now living side by side
+with A, you see him every day, in a closed station...would thisn ot lead to
+MORE murders?
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 18
+Message  31       Fri Jan 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            (Forwarded)
+
+     Yes, but of course the problem *there* (making them work it off) is that
+it begins to institutionalize slavery.  How can you safeguard against
+situations leading to indentured slavery...Person A is *falsely* accused of a
+crime for the purpose of shipping him off to the work colony where he will
+slave away for the Company indefinitely?
+
+     In a way, when you're dealing in this context _ far space _ the
+question of "is murder humane?" is really less and less the operative
+question.  (By "murder" I mean the death penalty in the above.)  You're living
+in *very* small quarters, when you get down to it.  It costs quite a lot in
+time and money to get there.  And to send someone away.  How  much time and
+money do you allocate for extradition across, potentially, x-number of light
+years?
+
+     The best metaphor, I suppose, is a boat at sea.  There are ten people in
+the boat.  A kills B.  You don't really have the resources to rehabilitate
+there.  And barring that option, there's no way of knowing if A won't kill C
+in his sleep...or that D, B's friend, won't kill A at the first opportunity.
+Meanwhile, you've got to put your attention to getting this ship to port
+without totally disrupting operations and sinking before you reach port.
+
+     On Earth, if someone commits a crime, you send them to prison upstate,
+out of sight, out of mind.  But where do/can you send them in such closed
+quarters?  I raise this mainly because what I've always tried to do with B5 is
+to Ask The Next Question.  Very often the answers to those questions aren't
+easy, or comfortable...but they have to be asked, and answered, if your
+universe is to make any sense or have any degree of consistency.
+
+     (And just in general, btw, everyone who comes to B5 operates under EA
+laws, so Earth laws have jurisdiction under *most* circumstances.  But there
+are always exceptions.  And those would be a *real* test.)
+
+     As to the idea that the death penalty costs more than life...yes, that's
+true as far as it goes on Earth...but a station wouldn't have time or money or
+resources for those kind of endless appeals.  Justice wold (would) have to be
+fairly swift, or the entire operation would come to a screeching halt.  So
+what happens to civil rights?  To the question of cruel and unusual
+punishment?  Where does one draw the line?
+
+     They're very hard questions.  And the thing is...there IS no right
+answer.
+
+     On to other things (meanwhile, feel free to keep this discussion
+going...there are a lot of sides to this argument, and it's good to hear all
+of them).
+
+     Yes, there are starmaps around, some are visible in Sinclair's briefing
+room, although they got kinda washed out to a light blue and you really can't
+see them well.  We'll fix this later.
+
+     There are weapons, and we'll see them eventually.  Can the station move?
+Yes, but only marginally, as required to maintain its L5 position.   As for
+the engine room...since this isn't a starship, the engine room is not exactly
+the same.  There's not much of an engine per se; it was built IN one place to
+STAY in one place.  There are maintainance areas and operational sections, the
+blue-collar stuff, though, and that we will be seeing.
+
+     Had something great happen today.  Got a call from a friend, and there
+was a guy in town from Magazine X (I can't give the title), which covers
+computers, and SF, and other related areas.  He wanted to see B5 and do a
+quick interview/review.  Now, this guy is very skeptical and not a little
+cynical, even by his own admission.  I said okay, and he came to the house
+where I cranked up the system and showed him the finished pilot.
+
+     This is the first time a civilian has seen the *completed film*, sound,
+music, pic all.  And a reviewer, no less.  His responce, (response), when the
+pilot was over?  He pronounced it the best SF pilot ever made, the "most
+significant SF event" he had ever seen.  He was just croggled by it.
+
+     I am a happy man.  It's a start.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 18
+Message 41        Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:03 EST
+
+     And there I agree...in our current situation, I much prefer live (er,
+life) imprisonment to the death sentence, first because it allows for more
+time to correct errors if the person's innocent; and second, if the person's
+guilty...deny him an easy way out.
+
+     But again, that's *here* and *now* and may not necessarily reflect  the
+sorts of problems and considerations that may exist on a station such as B5.
+
+     Leviathan: you say that the law should "protect, not avenge."  But
+protect how?  How do you protect against the lover who, in a fit of jealous
+rage, knifes his fiancee to death?  Do we have cameras in every room of every
+house, monitoring for potentially dangerous behavior?  What is the dividing
+point between privacy and endangerment?  Is not the aspect of protection or
+prevention hinged upon the idea of retribution if  caught?  If there is no
+avengement, where then is the prevention?  If there is any privacy at all,
+where is the protection?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 18
+Message 53        Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:52 EST
+
+     I think that, to avoid a western-centered show, you have to work from the
+assumption that the EA has incorporated laws other than those of the good old
+US of A.  Which will add some color to things.
+
+     As for how dangerous a place B5 is...the comment about the prior Babylon
+stations is a good and telling one.  There are almost two levels of
+understanding on this...the sense of those who work there and maintain the
+environment, who know just how fragile this situation really is, and the sense
+of those who come and go, whose sense of safety has to be reinforced if B5 is
+to be commercially viable.  Which opens up some interesting moral and ethical
+dilemmas for some of the crew....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 18
+Message 61        Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:14 EST
+
+     Little Guy: there is, admittedly, a certain advantage to throwing a topic
+out there, and watching a number of intelligent, articulate people who know SF
+debate the thing...it opens your mind to many possibilities.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 18
+Message 66        Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:50 EST
+
+      Jim...hmm...interesting...an inquisitorial system could make for a good
+adjunct to something I'd been thinking of...something Harlan suggested,
+actually, during our first B5 brainstorm session last year.
+
+      Which I'll elaborate on at some point in the future, but in the
+interim...good idea.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 18
+Message 72        Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:32 EST
+
+     Re: the use of psi's in the judicial system...there was a whole long
+discussion of this in another topic...which answered all of the questions
+asked.  In fear of being redundent...does anyone out there remember where that
+discussion took place, so we can send this fellow to the right message(s)?
+
+                                                               jms
+ ______
+ ************
+Topic 20        Fri Jan 29, 1993
+SF-LAWRENCE [Katherine]      at 06:32 EST
+Sub: "Babylon 5" - Information Only 2     
+
+Topic 1 is for old messages, already archived into the library.  This topic is
+for newer posts, and like topic 19, will remain a CLOSED topic. Get your hot
+Straczynski messages here!  Hot off the topics! <g>
+1 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ______
+Category 18,  Topic 20
+Message   1       Fri Jan 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            (Forwarded)
+
+     The command level uniforms (Sinclair, Laurel, Garibaldi) are pretty much
+the same in cut, though Garibaldi's (and all of securityard grey more than
+blue.  Medical uniforms have a somewhat different cut and lean toward charcoal
+grey.
+
+     There's a slightly different cut for grunt-level security, and a slightly
+greener look.  Station techs (maintainance crews and the like) generally get
+yellow outfits with the B5 logo (and are not directly part of the EA
+structure; they work at and for the station per se).  Control techs, in the
+observation dome, for instance, generally don't wear jackets on duty, but
+rather shirts with the B5 logo.  The shift commander, though, does wear a
+jacket with his uniform.  (When B5 opens, you see Laural give a command to the
+shift commander, who then relays it to others.  You can trace the line of
+command in the dome from there.)
+
+     There are, and will be, other variations in uniform, but those are pretty
+much the ones you'll see in the show.  (In addition, of course, to more
+conventional clothing such as that worn by casino workers, marked only by a
+glitter-B5 logo.)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS for Jan 1, 1993 - Jan 18, 1993
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic.  The posts are copyright 1993 by 
+J. Michael Straczynski with compilation copyright by GEnie. 
+
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-FANTASY [Yog Sysop]       at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5                            
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category!  As always, offering or requesting copies
+of copyrighted material, whether it's the B5 Newsletter, photos, or the actual
+movie/episodes violates copyright law and SFRT policy.
+397 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 73        Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:01 EST
+
+     Will, jeez, that's amazing...you should've said something, the B5 family
+would've been there with cards and letters.  How're you doing now?  I know it
+can be a very traumatic experience, even once you're physically 100%.
+
+     One more thing, Will.  Email me your address.
+
+     On other fronts....
+
+     One week from today, we will (or should) be finished with
+sound/music/looping edits and the B5 pilot will be complete.  It's both
+exhilirating to think about that...and there's also that post partum
+depression that hits whenever I finish a big project, a novel, or an episode
+of a series.  In my head, all I can play over are the things we should've or
+could've done to make it even better...the scenes we should have trimmed, the
+scenes we should've dropped back in again, THIS angle on a fight instead of
+THAT one...you can play with these things forever.   At some point, you just
+have to let go.
+
+     Then the next phase -- the series -- rests in large measure in your
+hands, in terms of how fast we can get this puppy in gear.
+
+     It's kind of funny, meanwhile...I've gotten a number of private responses
+to stuff I asked here, and one person told me a rather remarkable story,
+alongside Will's...without naming names, he'd taken it upon himself to
+proselytize about the show as much as possible, to tell as many people about
+it as he could.
+
+     Apparently, he was on one system, and saw a young woman on-line, and
+called her into chat, something he was normally to shy EVER to do before.
+ They began talking about the show -- she'd apparently heard a little about
+it, but not much -- and over time they began corresponding, and, in the words
+of the person who sent me the note, "We fell in love with each other."
+They've now met, and it looks like it might get serious indeed.
+
+     Amazing.  (When the person gives me his permission, I'll post the full
+note; he's a little sheepish of her finding out he said anything.)
+
+     I think it's really kind of cool.
+
+     Oh...one last thing.  Several people have inquired privately how to send
+notes or stuff hard-copy.  An address where I can be reached is 14431 Ventura
+Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 89        Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:21 EST
+
+     What an amazing group of posts...I'm speechless.  It's gratifying to see
+that the process works, that this medium can be used to such good effect.
+Something that has always been important to me is de-mystifying the process.
+Lee mentioned somewhere uptopic that the on-line stuff has been going on for a
+long time, across various shows, from RGBs and Power through Zone and now to
+this.  To de-mystify writing, Harlan writes in bookstore windows...I do this.
+
+     I just got a private note today (oh, and speaking of notes, just address
+hard-copy mail to my name; it's a private mailing address, not a studio) from
+one fellow who just managed to get a development deal with a studio.  It ain't
+big, but it's a start...and because of the discussion here, and elsewhere over
+the years, he has a better idea of what to expect, and how to prepare.
+
+     This is an extremely tough business to crack.  And the largest part of
+the problem is just getting accurate information.  When I came to LA
+originally, I didn't know squat, and a long time -- a LONG time -- was wasted,
+time I now very much regret losing, because I just didn't fully  or accurately
+understand How Things Worked.  If this process can make the entry easier for
+another writer, or de-mystify what happens behind the screen, then all the
+better.
+
+     And, selfishly, it has been great to get the input, to hear the
+questions, especially those I can't answer...because down the road you just
+KNOW that that question will come up eventually, and better to be hit with it
+now than blindsided later on.  It's a rewarding, fascinating and challenging
+exchange.  I suspect that a LOT of shows would be considerably improved for
+this kind of direct communication.
+
+     Oh, yeah...and re the newsletter...if you ask Christy nice, I'm sure
+she'll send you the back issue.  Tell her I said it was okay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 94        Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:42 EST
+
+     That would be telling....
+
+                                                                jms
+
+     "And they were carried off to Babylon...."
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 124       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:05 EST
+
+     I really don't know how to make an e-mail mailing list, and it would seem
+inappropriate to ask anyone here to go through the hassle of doing it for all
+1800-2000 people here to accommodate the handful with dishes.  Or silverware,
+for that matter.  If someone here would like to be your "Dish Buddy" and send
+you a note when it goes on, that might be one way of doing it.
+
+     Re: kids/robots...the exact phrasing of that has gone through various
+permutations and paraphrasings; the specific line is "No kids or cute robots."
+The latter specifically entails entities such as Twiki (got the spelling right
+this time, thanks to whoever corrected me), who should be run down by a truck
+at the first opportunity.  (In fact, I can say without hesitation that if you
+ever DO see what passes for a cute robot on this show, keep a close eye on it,
+because you'll probably see somebody drop an anvil on it REAL fast.)
+
+     So this allows us to explore the question of robotics, but to do so in a
+fairly serious context.  Because logically, 200+ years in the future there are
+going to be some changes; robotics will be more common, though likely in some
+different form.  (If you've seen the promos or the pilot, you've seen the
+maintenance 'bot that checks out the hull of B5; it has arms, it moves, it's
+independent, it's a robot.  It just doesn't begin its report with "Bida-bida-
+bida.")
+
+     On the topic of kids...it's a deliberate decision to steer clear of that
+part, not because I think it's invalid, but because a) it's been done on
+another show, and its spinoff, rather intensively, and b) it's part of the SF
+stereotype, "We have to have kids because SF is a kid's genre."
+
+     Might there be a story about a family of refugees who come seeking
+sanctuary, or opportunity elsewhere?  Of course.  But any kids in that family
+won't be at the *center* of the story.  And they'll be gone by the end of the
+episode.  It's also a matter of context; absent the scenario just posed, this
+is a place for businessmen, travelers, mappers, traders, diplomats and others,
+it's not a place for kids.  It's also potentially a very DANGEROUS place.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 126       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:29 EST
+
+     Rumors are exactly that...and as I've indicated, anything that  happens
+of substance -- good, bad or indifferent -- you'll hear it from the source.
+
+     How can PTEN be dead when it hasn't even AIRED yet?  I've hered this same
+rumor from others, and have to say that if Creation is spreading this that
+they are being *highly* irresponsible.  The facts again are these: the first
+night of programming goes on later this month.  B5 airs the following month.
+Based on the ratings for all of the shows, they will then open a second night,
+or modify the first.  And that will determine where (and when) B5 lands.  It's
+a logistical question about when to expand.
+
+     If anyone wanders back in that topic's direction and would like to re-
+post this as an official rebuttal, you're welcome to do so.
+
+     I also hear they're showing the E! piece...guys, if you want to help us,
+there at Creation...don't
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 160       Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:30 EST
+
+     My sense (what there is of it) is that in every show, you have to make
+choices.  What, fundamentally, is the story you are telling?  Who is your
+story about?  Is it for adults, or children?  I don't watch LA Law regularly,
+but I sort of poke my nose in from time to time, and I don't see a lot of
+kid's stories.  One could well go to the producers of that show and say, "Why
+aren't you doing kid stories?" to which the only answer is, "That's not our
+show."
+
+     I already said above that if families come through, there may be kids
+along.  The point of clarification for me is that I don't want to do shows
+with kids at the center.  First to distinguish us from other shows, and second
+because that's not the area that I want to concentrate on just now.  Of course
+people still have kids, and of course some will come through B5; it's where
+one places them in the story that's at issue.
+
+     It's often kinda funny...people say, on the one hand, "Yeah!  Fight them
+studios!  Don't let them tell you the kind of stories you oughta do!" Then,
+"But you've GOTTA do a story with kids!" or "This is the sort of story you
+HAVE to do."
+
+     The only answer to that -- said without sarcasm, honest -- is "Do what I
+did...sell your own show."  I don't mean that in any way harshly, I'm very
+serious about that.  Whether it's a novelist, or a short story author, or a TV
+writer, or a screenwriter, we each of us has to decide fundamentally what it
+is we want to write about it, and define our choices.  Would you call Larry
+Niven and say, "Listen, while you're in the middle of the Mote In God's Eye
+sequel, we need a really good section about kids."  You let the man tell his
+story his way.
+
+     This, for me, is just one of those areas on which I have planted my feet
+and sunk roots clear to the center of the planet.  Now, it's altogether
+possible that some day long down the road, one story will occur to me, and
+I'll deal with that when and if it happens.  But in the interim...it's vital,
+from my perspective, to make B5 a show by, for and about adults in adult
+relationships; not to invalidate the other stuff, but only as a sense of where
+this show's emphasis is.  It's time to let the studios and the suits and the
+networks know that an SF series can survive without putting in the required
+child or teenager.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 162       Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:54 EST
+
+     Postscript to the preceding: that doesn't mean that I (or any other
+member of the B5 team) shouldn't be challenged on stuff like this.
+Challenges are good.  First, they keep you on your toes.  Second, it makes one
+verbalize why one has taken a certain stance, and it's at that point that
+weaknesses and fallacies in the argument become apparent.  "The unexamined
+life" and all that.  As I've noted before, sometimes the only way to get
+pertinent information is to ask impertinent questions.
+
+     I love a good philosophical knock-down-drag-out.
+
+     Meanwhile, on other fronts...
+
+     I will tell you the truest thing I have learned about television in the
+process of making the B5 pilot.  That quality is rare is not really
+remarkable; what's remarkable is that it gets done at ALL.  Any show,
+regardless of quality.  There are millions of details, the tiniest things that
+require constant shepherding.  You're in the midst of doing one thing and
+somebody calls involved with another part of the show and says, "Look, we've
+got some question about whether the doors should go SHOOP! or BLOOP!, George
+thinks SHOOP, and we think he's right...unless you'd rather come listen to
+them youreself."  And it's very easy to say, "Okay, just take care of it,"
+then find yourself sitting there a month later and saying, "Damn, why did we
+end up with a SHOOP! effect?"
+
+     It's physically impossible to be in every place at all times, and you
+particularly don't want to be in a position where you start giving your people
+less room to play and be independent.  There are just so many details that
+it's very easy to say, "Okay, fine, deal with it," or to not bother with
+something, that it becomes quickly apparent why it's so hard to find real
+quality out there.  That kind of attention is a major pain in the butt.  When
+you see it from this side, you're just amazed  that it gets done at ALL.
+
+     Just a thought for the day...
+
+     BTW, for those who might be interested (all four of you), the very last
+episode I wrote for this season's "Murder, She Wrote" will air this coming
+Sunday.  I haven't seen anything on it -- no dailies, no rough cuts -- so I
+have no idea how it came out, though I *hear* it came out well.  Just FYI.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 180       Tue Jan 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:35 EST
+
+     RE: cliffhangers...not between episodes, certainly.  Between seasons,
+it's...hard to explain.  There are, or will be *changes* that happen from one
+season to another (as planned), specific events that take place that should
+bring one up short...but "cliffhanger" in the sense of leaving some guy
+hanging from a string over a lake of fire...no, no plans for such at this
+time.
+
+     RE: kids...boy, that one sure hit a nerve on both sides, didn't it?
+That's good.  An argument like this is what a show or story should do, get
+people discussing the issues.
+
+     Meanwhile, on other areas....
+
+                             ****WOW****
+
+     I was in the editing bay today during the pre-dub of B5 (which I'll
+explain more , which btw has a nifty huge projection screen, twelve or fifteen
+feet across, so I got to see some of the show as if at a theater...plays
+pretty well.
+
+     Anyway...what a pre-dub is, is this: those who saw the earlier version of
+the pilot will remember, for instance, the scenes in the main corridor of the
+station (well, one of them, anyway).  You have Sinclair and Garibaldi talking.
+It's an un-mixed scene...just as filmed, there are just two guys talking.  All
+the rest of the set is silent.
+
+     But now...NOW...you're in the editing bay, and now you add in the
+background voices, human and alien...mechanical sounds nearby...an intercom
+voice advertising station services...then layer in the music, and suddenly
+it's a MOVIE!  Someone said that sound is half of a movie, and you forget that
+until it hits you in the face.
+
+     The pre-dub is where you layer in the voice tracks (original, from the
+production; adr (automatic dialogue replacement) for lines that were not
+sufficiently audible or need to be looped; incidental dialogue  (computers,
+background characters) and walla (general crowd sounds).  You decide how much
+of any of these is too much, how much more you need, what the balance is...if
+you need to use the surround capability to put this voice HERE or THERE....
+
+     Then we previewed some scenes with music, and did a little of the same
+there (we'll do more during the final mix Thursday through Tuesday).   For
+instance...most music cues are anywhere from a few seconds long to maybe a
+minute or more.  Ours tend to be longish...the longest is a cue that lasts 7.5
+minutes, and goes inside the station, outside the station, to different
+*parts* of the station, and the music continues throughout.  We figured that
+we needed to better differentiate the sound inside vs. outside the
+station...so in the music cue, we drop the electric guitar out of the mix for
+the inside scenes, and put it back in for the outside scenes, for instance.
+
+     The result, basically, being that it becomes a *M*O*V*I*E* for the first
+time.  And boy, it cooks, lemme tell you.  There are moments of absolute and
+inutterable self-doubt in a project like this, especially when paired with the
+monumental press machine from elsewhere which is doing everything possible to
+bury us in the interests of preserving an economic monopoly and critics who
+figure we're a clone of another show.   But then you turn around and see
+something like this, and you know it's going to work...and it really helps.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 208       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:44 EST
+
+     Ah, except, Gary, for the reason I picked that particular metaphor; this
+ain't Sudden Death, as with football.
+
+     This one's going to the judges at the end of the round, and the case will
+be decided...win, lose or draw...on the merits of the performance in the ring,
+not on hype (on either side), not on good feelings, but on the quality of the
+work, which is as it should be.  Only thing I've ever asked at any point in my
+life is a fair fight on a level playing field.  Then let things fall as they
+may.
+
+     And as for the judges...look in the mirror.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 223       Fri Jan 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:41 EST
+
+     Yeah, I agree, the pointing-rods-and-magically-changing-colors on hair
+and stuff is kinda old (though it surfaced in Total Recall).  No plans for it,
+that's for sure.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 230       Fri Jan 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:46 EST
+
+     Aquila...let me try this again, since you may have missed it in other
+postings.  Our current situation is ironic in that it has nothing really to do
+with our show, but rather with the network.
+
+     The chronology, and our situation, is simple.
+
+     1) November 1991: Time Trax, Kung Fu and B5 contend among each other for
+the first night of programming on the new network.  There are ONLY TWO SLOTS
+AVAILABLE, two hours.  B5 and TT have the inside track, but there's a question
+as to whether or not B5 can be done for TV *at all* given what we were
+promising (a huge saga, state of the art EFX, a large cast, that sort of
+thing).  So we have to answer that question by making a pilot.  The other two
+shows go into series production at that time.
+
+     2) They start filming episodes in August, about the same time we start
+the pilot.
+
+     3) We finish the pilot (barring our current last phase of post
+production).  Warners LOVES the show.  The stations, which have always been
+big on the show, WANT the show.  Warners tries to convince the local stations
+to open up a second night of programming, with B5 as the anchor.  The stations
+love the idea...but don't want to open up a second night until they get the
+ratings on ALL THE SHOWS.  Not just B5.  If all the shows are big hits, then
+they open the second night with Bt as the anchor.  If one doesn't perform,
+then B5 becomes the replacement.
+
+     Point being...and I can't stress this enough...there is no -- repeat, NO -
+- problem with Warners or the stations in terms of confidence or anything
+else.  They're chomping at the bit to go with it.  The only problem is that
+their "box" in which to put programs currently can only fit two one-hour
+shows.  Either they take one out, or get another box, but they can't give us a
+go until one or the other  happens.  It's not like a big network that has 7
+days of programming a week and can just drop in a show wherever it wants...or
+a straight-ahead syndicated show.  This is part of a new network, and is
+dependent upon the internal workings of  that network.  Which is fine by me,
+it's just the way things are just now.
+
+     Does that address your question?
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 243       Fri Jan 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:43 EST
+
+     Ninety percent of the stations taking the PTEN lineup have news from 10-
+11, so that only leaves 8-10 for programs.
+
+     The deal is that the stations and Warners pay 50/50, as I understand it
+from the trades, for the shows, and I don't think Warners would want to set
+the precedent of paying 100% for any given number of shows.  And because
+they're 50/50 partners, it would be politically inappropriate for one arm to
+unilaterally order X-episodes of anything.  As for the rest, there are options
+on top of options, all in our favor.
+
+     Re: post production timing and budget...we budgeted plenty of time and
+money for post production.  When the sound folks came back and asked for an
+additional day, just so we can be sure we have time for whatever little
+corrections are required by then, that wasn't a problem.  As it is, we'll be
+delivering the show next Thursday to Warners, and it won't even go out on the
+satellite to the stations for a full month, and doesn't air for nearly six
+weeks from the time of completion, so we're WELL ahead of schedule in that
+respect.  They only actually needed the show 4 weeks ahead for
+screening/reviewer purposes; we extended that by two full weeks.
+
+     Another busy day in post today...but it's coming together well.  We have
+basically just two more acts to finish, and will probably give all of Monday
+to one of them, since it's massively complex.  (Usually you can do at least
+two or three acts in a day.)
+
+     BTW, and totally aside...I finally saw the tape of my last MURDER, SHE
+WROTE episode, and it actually came out quite well, minus one or two very
+minor glitches.  It airs Sunday.  (And there's a bonus to the Captain Power
+fans contained in the name of one of the characters....)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 257       Sat Jan 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:09 EST
+
+      I can understand about the feeling re: coming information and the wait
+until February.  It's very easy to post info as we go into production, and
+during production...but once it's finished here, which it will be as of this
+coming Tuesday, the process is more or less complete.  I've tried hard over
+this process not to blather on, but to say something if there's something
+worth hearing.  I hope I can find new items to keep the topic(s) going as we
+near airdate.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+     (P.S.  The current newsletter is finished, and will be going out in the
+mail this week, I'm told.)
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 269       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:14 EST
+
+     I have no problem with married couples, none whatsoever, serving the EA.
+And, as I've said before, there is no problem having a kid in the background,
+as one of a family passing through, for instance, but I do not wish to center
+a whole *story* around one.  Someone said "But they can do it on TNG and DS9,"
+which is one more reason for NOT doing it here, to keep the identities
+separate and distinct.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 275       Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:26 EST
+
+      Mark, I've answered this question about as many times as I intend
+to...if you want to go back into the discussion and read the info, you're
+welcome to.  That article, for starters was put together LONG before the
+general meeting with the stations at which point a true reading was gotten re:
+the show.  Warners *cannot* commit unilaterally on any series without the go
+from the stations, and that won't come until they've got a fix on how ALL the
+shows are doing.  You're asking Warners to do something they wouldn't do for
+ANY show at any time.
+
+     I'm not cranky, it's just that I've now answered this about six times
+here.
+
+     Now exiting harrumph-mode.
+
+     Re: supernatural elements...not per se, no.  There is some element of
+mysticism and spirituality, but (one hopes) not quite so ham-handed.  My
+feeling is that if it's there, DO something with it other than use it as a way
+into (and out of) a plot device, thereafter dropping it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 278       Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:49 EST
+
+     I don't think we have to worry about Warners, folks, really...it's okay.
+And we've got contingencies up the wazoo.  All is well.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 288       Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:39 EST
+
+     You can jump into the B5 story at *any* point...only thing is, the more
+you watch, the more you get the nuances.  PICKET FENCES is a great example of
+this.
+
+     And if the waiting to hear when and under what umbrella B5 will be picked
+up is killing YOU....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+     (Umbrella = same night/second night, not to start any rumors.)
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 295       Tue Jan 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:45 EST
+
+     I am NOT stubborn.  I don't care WHAT you say, I'm not changing my
+opinion about that, I'm NOT stubborn.
+
+     And yes, the plan is to definitely have the PTEN expand to additional
+night, just as Fox has done.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 299       Wed Jan 13, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:03 EST
+
+     There's been some talk of my appearing on H25 the Friday before the
+broadcast, but nothing firm.  And offhand...I'm sorry, but I don't  recall the
+date of the show with Ron.  I'm sure it's written down somewhere...but you've
+never actually SEEN my desk, have you?
+
+     Then again, as I think of it, *I* haven't seen my desk lately....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 310       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:20 EST
+
+     The inter-relationships between FOX, PTEN, the FCC and any and all other
+acronymical organizations is utterly beyond my ken, and I would no sooner try
+to explain it or understand it than I would attempt to build a tesseract in
+the back yard.
+
+     In what I *hope* will be a relatively definitive word on this kid
+topic...yes, I can write a story with kids.  I've done it...I did it for the
+Twilight Zone and other shows.  The question is still one of making choices.
+Is that what this series is ABOUT?  You could drop in a chapter on badminton
+techiques into The Lord of the Rings or Debbie Does Cleveland, the question
+is, does it BELONG there?  Is that what the show or the story is attempting to
+address?
+
+     If there were no other shows with kids around, then I would be more
+inclined to do one with kids at the center.  But there are plenty of them
+around, particularly in SF...you've got kids aplenty on TNG, on DS9, I just
+saw a kid story on Space Rangers...this is simply a different kind of show.
+
+     My point is simply this: B5 is meant, in a very real sense, as noted in
+my message on 2, to be an SF novel for television.  If it were just random
+stories skittering hither, thither and yawn, that would be one thing.  But as
+any novelist can tell you, you have to ask, "Whose story is it?" and stick
+pretty close to that, even though you may swerve in and out of other POVs and
+indulge in omniscient narrative.  That requires certain choices about tone and
+attitude and what you include, and what you choose to exclude.  Doesn't
+invalidate one type of story or another, it only says "THIS is what my story's
+about."
+
+     There are plenty of other SF shows with kids.  Let's have something a
+little different.
+
+     (That's one of the ironies that crops up about this show...often people
+say "We want innovation," and when asked for specifics, they ask to make it
+more like other shows.  "Well, TNG does this kind of story, why can't you?"
+We can, but we're not.  Because we're not TNG.  Just as we will do some
+stories that I *guarantee* you ST wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 325       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:55 EST
+
+     Yes, there's considerable training involved.  In the pilot, Lyta talks
+about it in one exchange, about the "years of training" required for a P5
+classification, and that most of those who try "burn out."
+
+     As for the Fox station question...bear in mind that most stations that
+broadcast Fox shows are not actively OWNED by Fox, they are only loosely
+AFFILIATED with Fox.  They're still independent stations that have a deal to
+buy X-number of programs from Fox Television.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 337       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:36 EST
+
+     Actually, JoJo's...uhm...outfit is probably the best thing about the
+show...not for pure asthetics, of course, just...I dunno...I just kinda like
+the dynamics of it...
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 342       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:22 EST
+
+     Indeed, they might withhold such participation, which the PC would be
+obligated to honor.  Non-PC telepaths would be a different situation entirely,
+of course...and a danger...which only a PC (or one of the other government's
+own 'paths, if any) could work against.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 355       Sun Jan 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:01 EST
+
+     The "Making of B5" piece is being re-edited; originally, the E! piece was
+going to be the one shown, but...well, no need to rehash all of that.  The
+piece is being recut, and new stuff put in to replace the old stuff.  It
+should be finished next week, I hear, and then provided to the stations.
+
+     Great news about Arisia, Arne.  Any other reactions come to mind?
+
+     Re: using my posts for articles...by all means, proceed.
+
+     BTW, it appears that the deal for a B5 game has been closed, and the
+winner is Electronic Arts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 358       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:47 EST
+
+     This goes back to a very basic philosophical question: can you have
+thought without language, or language without thought?  At one point in our
+evolution, we became conscious...was there language, or did language then come
+as a *result* of consciousnes?  Or did the slow development of language *lead
+to* the development of true consciousness?
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 375       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:38 EST
+
+     I'll know more about the game in the weeks ahead.
+
+     Apparently, Creation has licensed some stuff...mainly shirts and mugs and
+patches and the like, nothing major, but it's there.  I got the first t-shirt
+design roughs today, and have some notes, but nothing too major.  More as this
+is developed.
+
+     BTW, does anyone know if there are any SF conventions this coming weekend
+in Dallas?
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 379       Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:00 EST
+
+     Licensing Corporation of America.  Based in New York.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+REPly to topic,   QUIt reading
+STArt new topic,  #,#-# read prior
+PERmanently ignore this topic
+MARk or UNMark this topic
+or <RETURN> to continue ?
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+SOARON [Bio-Dread]           at 19:41 EST
+Sub: General Information                  
+
+Babylon 5 will premiere with a two-hour movie entitled "The Gathering" early
+in 1993.  The creator of the series, J. Michael Straczynski joins us on-line
+to answer your questions.  (No story ideas please...)
+
+699 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 298       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:06 EST
+
+     When someone asks, "What kinds of specific things have you gotten out of
+this interaction?" I think I will point to the question just uptopic about
+food.  I've given this a *fair* amount of thought, mainly in the sense that
+there are hydroponic gardens (referred to in the script) and other areas for
+oxygen reclamation, I'd figured that there were also areas where alien-
+environment food was to be raised, and finally a third area where food that is
+simply impractical to grow on B5 would be synthesized.  But the question opens
+up additional areas that I haven't given that much thought to...and many
+possibilities.
+
+     Let me (so to speak) stew on this and get back to you.
+
+     Thanks for yanking my blanket.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 302       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:03 EST
+
+     Jonathan....please, for my sake, one question at a time...pick one.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 310       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:23 EST
+
+     K'wicker (than a speeding bullet?)...I ain't fussy.  My friends just call
+me Joe.  (Usually preceded by, "That Pain In The Ass")
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 314       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:44 EST
+
+     The station is owned by the Earth Alliance, and if you're going to be
+staying there, you pay a fee.  Station employees are charged a fee against
+their salaries...which some of them aren't happy about.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 318       Sat Jan 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:39 EST
+
+     Dolphins are another area that I haven't gone into in any great degree
+since the odds of any of them showing up at B5 are minimal, for production
+reasons.  Dolphins make for difficult actors, and their agents are even worse.
+
+     The homeless question brings me to a difficult point in the discussion --
+generalities are okay to discuss, Jonathan, but the more specific the
+questions get about plot points of the series, the less I can say.  The five-
+year arc is triple-encrypted in my computer for a *reason*.  And, as much as
+it pains me, I know that printups of this category go to a certain other
+studio...and would rather not give too many specifics for obvious reaons.  I'd
+like us to do them first.  Alas, we're not having this conversation in a
+vacuum.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 320       Sat Jan 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:17 EST
+
+     Just as with the early days of ocean travel, you would generally have
+three levels of travel: first class, one just below, and down deep below
+decks, those traveling steerage.  A small group can also pool all their
+resources, for instance, charter a ship one-way just far enough as B5, and
+hope to find work or new opportunities on far-away worlds.  When this doesn't
+happen, they linger...sometimes for a long time.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 336       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:56 EST
+
+     Dave: Bingo!
+
+     And re: genetic moofky-fooky...yes, it's a definite issue, and is
+referenced at least once in the pilot.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 345       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:07 EST
+
+     BABYLON 5 meets ATTACK OF THE GIANT CRAB MONSTERS, I like it....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 349       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:30 EST
+
+     Actually just handled this up in topic 1.  Rumors are the bane of science
+fiction...and people at conventions who speak should try and get their facts
+straight first.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 351       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:55 EST
+
+     There's been some disagreement over that...I prefer the idea that he's
+uplifted.  (It's between me and the prosthetics design team.)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 357       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:09 EST
+
+     Hey, there's an idea...come up with a totally bogus B5 five-year arc and
+let it get accidentally uploaded and distributed to throw folks off... except
+of course folks might well believe it, which would work against us in the long
+run.  Ah, well....
+
+     Any telekinetics on board Babylon 5?  you ask?
+
+     No.
+
+     At least, not yet.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 388       Tue Jan 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:49 EST
+
+     Pets is okay.  Ah lahkes pets.  Pets be cool.  And cats be coolest.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 407       Wed Jan 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:31 EST
+
+     There's haze in some scenes where you've got a lot of traffic, and food
+cooking, and braziers, and the like.  The quarters don't have that.
+
+     As it happens, Pat Tallman has pets...two bunnies and two chinchillas.  I
+pointed out to her that she now has both food and clothing concerns taken care
+of.  She's still not speaking to me.
+
+     Saw the DS9 pilot tonight.
+
+     Heh....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 422       Wed Jan 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:01 EST
+
+     Katherine: oh, snarf you....
+
+     Bear: a 16 pound cat?  Wow...some good eatin' there....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 428       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:42 EST
+
+     Eric...imagine two boxers in the ring, each bloodied and exhausted after
+11 grueling rounds.  It's now the last round.  You've each got one last shot
+in your heart.  Your opponent comes in with a big name, with the sports
+critics approval, with fancy clothes and a twelve million dollar windup.  He
+pulls back and lets you have it with everything he's got.       
+
+     Then you look around...and you're still standing.  And you're thinking
+"THAT was their best shot?"
+
+     Because everything he had was intent on one hard shot to knock you out of
+the ring...speeded training, massive amounts of promotion, just to knock you
+out.
+
+     And you're still standing.  And you smile.
+
+     Because now it's YOUR turn.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 441       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:01 EST
+
+     I can't remember when I was last this tired.  (Well, that's a lie, it was
+during the last 2 days of filming on B5, but the former made for a better
+opening line.)
+
+     After getting zero sleep (nervous with anticipation, running the pilot
+through my head over and over again to prepare for today), I went in with a
+number of the production people today on the first day of the final
+sound/dialogue/music mix.  Ten straight hours, one half-hour break during
+which we ate at the mixing tables.  Trying different combinations, re-showing
+scenes with slight modifications, over and over and over, until your eyes --
+focused for 10 hours on the same focal distance, blinking against bright
+lights so you can make notes -- start to melt out of your sockets.  And there
+are three more days to go of this....
+
+     But man, this thing is really coming together.  It's exciting to watch it
+happen.  To the question about music...the music in this thing is just
+terrific...dynamic, evocative, moody, exciting...and while it took me a while
+to get it into my head (as with the theme from the Equalizer, which has
+similar resonances), the theme definitely stays with you.
+
+     Along wund editors, Stewart Copeland came by, as well as various of the
+film editors, the cameraman, others...and Richard Compton, our director, was
+also at the helm for the whole ten hours, as was our line producer John
+Copeland (no relation).  People just wanted to come by and see it.
+
+     It's gonna be a hoot, ladies and gentlemen....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 465       Sat Jan 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:59 EST
+
+     Leslie, the stuff you mention is in either the computer EFX topic in this
+category, or the B5 science topic, one or the other.
+
+     My messages can by all means be sent elsewhere; just not anyone else's
+unless you secure permission.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 482       Sat Jan 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:13 EST
+
+     There's something about the Lyta/Garibaldi dynamic that I like, as others
+here have noted as well.  I keep playing with one scene I'm dying to write,
+where he's trying to pick up on her, and says, "Listen, what do you say we go
+by my quarters, I'd like to show you my favorite thing in the whole world."
+She gives him THAT look.  "Okay-okay-okay, my SECOND favorite thing in the
+whole world."
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 492       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:04 EST
+
+     Right...and there was a lengthy discussion of how the Links tie into the
+B5 central computer, and how it operates in relation to those Links (which are
+computer segments themselves) in either the SFX or the B5 Science topics.
+
+     BTW, a thought, for anyone to jump in on who wants to...as noted uptopic,
+on Tuesday my job is basically done.  The B5 pilot will be finished.  Between
+now and the show's airing 5 or so weeks from now, what areas would you be
+interested in discussing?  What things would you like to see done here?  (I
+briefly considered the idea of uploading one page of the script per day
+between now and the time B5 airs, but then I realized that a lot of folks
+would probably prefer to see it produced, not see the script -- the ultimate
+spoiler -- and thus jettisoned that idea.)  I guess my main fear is being
+dull...not that that's *too* likely to happen with this crowd...but I take the
+"okay, so now what?" note uptopic somewhat to heart.
+
+     Or we can just keep doing what we're doing....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 511       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:22 EST
+
+     I'll have to check w/Wareners re: the script thing, but under the WGA
+contract, I own the physical script and its disposition.  Maybe the idea of
+excerpts -- filmed stuff, or stuff we cut, missing scenes -- might be the best
+way to go.  (And even at the rate of 1 page per day, you'd only get through
+the first third of the script by the time it aired anyway.)  Will advise.
+
+     To the question of promotion above...Warners will begin a real push on
+this subsequent to the 18th of January.  They want to concentrate  their
+efforts on the month just prior to airing.  So far, we've been dragged into
+articles often on the basis of the controversy between the various shows...but
+both Warners and I feel strongly that it's important to establish our separate
+identity, not in relation to anything else.  Now that the other shows have
+aired, we can now have an easier time doing this.
+
+     What can I ask others to do?  Mainly to just keep the word out there; if
+you see a local article mistakenly labeling B5 a copy, to let the guy know the
+facts.  But probably the single *most* important thing is what can be done
+when the show itself airs...and that's to write to both your local station and
+Warners to let them know your feelings.  But that's if and ONLY if you
+genuinely like what you see, and for no other reason.
+
+     Will think about this stuff some more, maybe post some thought later.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 518       Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:29 EST
+
+     Synopses of upcoming episodes....?
+
+     No.
+
+     I'd much prefer to see them first on B5 than elsewhere.
+
+     All good things come to those who wait...or as someone once said, "Good
+news can wait, and bad news will refuse to leave."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 528       Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:43 EST
+
+     Re: sign off tags...pruff...that stuff's for sissies.  The jms is
+sufficient for my needs (and looks kinda like a revolver pointed right).
+
+     Have seen the whole movie now with final EFX, sound, music, dialogue, all
+that jazz.  Looks better than I'd hoped possible.  Will be cleaning up a few
+spots in the next two days, and then watching the final product one more time,
+this time on a regular TV set rather than the studio's projection system and
+sound system, to better gauge what will and won't be audible on a home TV.
+
+     By mid-day Wednesday, we be done.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 532       Tue Jan 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:23 EST
+
+      Haven't yet seen Time Trax, so can't comment.  I don't see "a lot" of
+shows "taking place on space stations," at this point, only two, unless you
+count the outpost stuff in Space Rangers.  Personally, my feeling is that the
+more good SF, the better.
+
+     It's my understanding that very likely B5 *will* be released theatrically
+overseas as a feature.  More on this as I can talk about it.
+
+     Guest stars?  Of course.  Many and varied.
+
+     Re: scripts...for the first year, there will be only two people on staff:
+me, and Harlan Ellison, as creative consultant.  So the majority of the
+scripts will be freelance.  For that first season, we've already locked down
+our writers.  They will come from one of two groups: a) a small group of
+writers who I've worked with over the years and have trained to my tastes, and
+b) another small group of leading SF writers, many of whom don't work for TV
+anymore, but will break that absence for B5.
+
+     Part of the reason for this is to establish ourselves firmly during the
+course of that first season, get our feet wet, firm up our identity, and other
+hits by the same name.  It does no good for freelancers on the outside to try
+a script until they've seen at least one season, as well.   Finally, because
+there will be a certain amount of continuity and developing storylines from
+episode to episode, that requires a certain  degree of direction from in-house
+on stories.  Very often we'll go to a writer and say, "Here...in this story, X
+has to happen.  Beyond making sure that X is included, do what you want."  An
+outsider won't have access to knowing what that X is.
+
+     Still, there will be episodes totally separate from the arc, and those
+are far more wide open.
+
+     One disservice that TNG has done the SF writing community is its -- in a
+way -- tendency to *use* SF fans as idea mills.  Hundreds of scripts arrive
+each month, they're read through, good ideas are plucked out, they pay a
+couple hundred bucks for the premise, then write it in-house.  Part of the
+reason they're always so desperate for material, and driven to this length of
+soliciting scripts from fans, is that they don't have a terrific reputation in
+the writing community.  Some of it is undeserved, a hanger-on from previous
+administrations, and some of it seems to have some basis in terms of the fact
+that you will never have the chance to see your script through to the end.
+
+     That problem does not exist with B5.  Our writers are already lined up
+and ready to go.
+
+     Starting with the second season, assuming we get that far, we will open
+things up more and be willing to look at finished scripts with a release form.
+I think that providing that opportunity is important.  But it won't be such a
+cattle-call in the way it's handled.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 547       Tue Jan 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:15 EST
+
+     Yes, I've asked David (and he's agreed) to write the novelization, which
+will probably commence within days of the series go being given.   And there
+have been many screenplays published over the years, in script form/via
+paperback or hardcover; I have a rather extensive collection of same
+(including the aforementioned T2 book, which is extraordinarily good).  It
+might be a good idea to do one for B5, with annotations, but not including the
+"how to write for tv" material mainly because that's a) covered in my writing
+book, which b) I intend one of these days to finish updating to Writers Digest
+Books can stop yelling on me.
+
+     Some random observations and thoughts which might be of interest....
+
+     We've pretty much finished the final mix, as stated, which we'll review
+tomorrow morning to be sure that it sounds okay on a small set.   But for
+those of you out there with surround systems, and stations that will broadcast
+in surround...me boyos, have YOU got a treat coming your way.  We did a *lot*
+of work on this thing to emphasize the surround.   One act had over 100 passes
+to make the sound as layered as possible (an average show has maybe 30 per).
+The movement is quite distinct and compelling.  The sound EFX are also quite
+good...the sound made by the weapons is also quite good.
+
+     One thing we did with the weapons is to try, again, to be fairly logical.
+If it's a BIG weapon -- rifle size or better -- then you're going to have a
+quicker recharge time (if any) between firings, though you may have to change
+packs more often.  At one point, you'll see a smaller, hand-sized gun being
+fired a few times.  And each time, you'll hear a power whine as it builds up
+the required power to fire off another round.  A gun that small simply
+wouldn't have the capability to fire off one after another after another
+without some power buildup that might not be present in a larger gun.
+(Smaller guns are generally things you'd want to smuggle on board, and might
+be as useful, in those ways, as a Derringer, which could only fire one or two
+shots, as opposed to a machinegun  or gattling gun brought openly into battle,
+and which is  intended to be used a lot.)
+
+     Someone mentioned the positive aspects to building the maximum population
+of a space station around available supplies and other very real
+considerations.  We're trying, consistently, to ask "How would this work in
+reality?  What are the SCIENCE considerations in doing SF?"  In general, we've
+found that if you Ask The Next Question and try to be logical, you get MORE
+options, and you get more INTERESTING options than if you just throw all that
+to the winds.  (Often networks say, "Ah, screw the science on it, you'll just
+limit yourself."  Not true.)
+
+     During the final mix-down, a group of cub scouts came through the mixing
+facility on a tour.  So we invited them in for the play-back on the next-to-
+the-last act...this is the one where we kick over the table and it's pretty
+much nonstop action.  Wanted to see the reaction of kids to the show, because
+if there's a more relentlessly honest audience than kids that age, I don't
+know what it is.  The fidget factor is enormous when they get bored.
+
+     They didn't BUDGE.  For some of the shots, they sat there, slack jawed,
+at what they were seeing.  Which is also good to know, that the show can
+appeal to kids as well as adults WITHOUT making any dumb compromises (i.e.,
+writing down, sticking in kids) to that audience.  I heard them later talking
+about it among themselves, and though one kid was a bit unnerved by the whole
+thing, the rest just went on and on about it..."awesome"..."cool"..."that was
+great."  So far, so good.
+
+     Onward.
+
+     In thinking a little about the discussion, and what role I've tried to
+play (and if I've seemed a bit brief or short of late, my apologies; the
+workload is immense just now), and I don't want anyone to think that I'm
+playing coy or just teasing about the series when questions about same come
+up, insofar as story possibilities or plot stuff is concerned.
+ Obviously, I don't want to give out stuff that would constitute the Ultimate
+Spoiler.
+
+     But there are generalities that I *can* talk about.  When this topic
+first began, I was able to talk a little about what was hoped for in the
+movie...to let people know what we were talking about, and what to expect in
+exchange for the interest.  (I've always believed that you have to put your
+money where your mouth is and earn loyalty by keeping promises and being
+straightforward in what you do.)
+
+     So what *can* be said about the series, what would you have to look
+forward to?
+
+     You will find out what happened to Sinclair, for starters, during the
+Earth/Minbari war.  In that respect, the pilot movie is like the first chapter
+of a novel.  For nearly 10 years, Sinclair has worked to convince himself that
+nothing happened to him on the Line other than what seems to be the case: that
+he blacked out for 24 hours.  He's just managed to convince himself of this.
+Now, suddenly, someone comes into his life and with seven words -- you'll know
+them when you hear them -- completely unravels the self-deception.  He knows
+then that something DID happen to him, that someone DID mess with his
+mind...and he is going to find out who, and why.
+
+     This he will do.  And the ramifications of that discovery will have a
+major influence on the series, on his relationships, and the future of not
+only his character but many others.
+
+     You will see what a Vorlon is...and what it represents.  And what it may
+have to do with our own saga, and a hidden relationship to some of our other
+characters (watch the reception scene carefully).  We'll discover that there
+are MANY players in this game.
+
+     One thing that separates this show from others is that on other shows,
+very often you do things to them to make for interesting drama...you take them
+prisoner, you make them kids, whatever...in this show, it's what's INSIDE the
+characters that will pose the greatest problems...and the greatest
+possibilities for drama.  Most every major character is either running to, or
+away from something in their hearts, or their pasts, or their careers.
+Garibaldi's past will catch up with him in a very  difficult way that will
+affect his role and make him a very different  character for as much as a full
+season, and have lasting effects thereafter.  Lyta will take part in a voyage
+of discovery that will very much change her character.
+
+     Some of the established empires will fall.  Some will rise.  Hopes and
+fortunes will be alternately made or destroyed.  At least one major group not
+yet known even to EXIST will make its presence known, but only gradually.
+Some characters will fall from grace.  Others will make bargains whose full
+price they do not understand...but will eventually come to realize, and
+regret.
+
+     At the end of the first season, one character will undergo a major, MAJOR
+change, which will start the show spinning on a very different axis.  The
+first season will have some fairly conventional stories, but others will start
+the show gradually moving toward where I want it to go.   One has to set these
+things up gradually.  Events in the story -- which is very much the story of
+Jeffrey Sinclair -- will speed up in each subsequent season.
+
+     Someone he considers a friend will betray him.  Another will prove to be
+the exact opposite of what Sinclair believes to be true.  Some will live.
+Some will die.  He will be put through a crucible of terrible force, that will
+change him, and alter his destiny, in a profound and terrible way...if he goes
+one way, or the other, will determine not only his own fate, but that of
+millions of others.  He will grow, and become stronger, better, wiser...or be
+destroyed by what fate is bringing his way.  In sum, it is a story of hope
+against terrible adversity and overwhelming odds.
+
+     That, in broad brush strokes, is a *taste* of what I plan to do with the
+series.  I note this here because when the pilot airs, I am going to ask for
+your continued help in supporting the endeavor for the series, and it occurs
+to me that you ought to have at least SOME idea of what you're buying, and
+being asked to support.  One should never be asked to sign a blank check on
+the bank of one's conscience.
+
+     Reactions?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 549       Tue Jan 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:42 EST
+
+     What happens at the end of the five year arc?  The "Babylon 5" series
+ends...if I have anything to say about it (and I do).  If something esle
+follows, we'll see what that is, but it won't be the same series, or the same
+title, or really the same characters.
+
+     Barring that very distant possibility, at the end of the five year arc, I
+take a very, very, VERY long nap....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 582       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:42 EST
+
+     Thanks, all.  My only mortal dread in putting this stuff out there is
+based upon the fact that the basic *story* of the pilot movie is fairly
+straightforward, the way you make a prologue to a novel fairly simple, but
+plant the seeds for that which will follow.  My terror is that people will
+look at it, expecting ***GALACTIC EMPIRES IN COLLISION!*** and see a rather
+basic story, and say, "Huh?  Where's all the other stuff?"
+
+     It's in the series.  Trust me.  I wouldn't lie on you.
+
+     In a way, it's a question of establishing context.  Take, for instance,
+the two TERMINATOR movies.  The plots of both are incredibly simple, and
+essentially identical: Character A comes out of the future to kill Character
+B; Character C also comes out of the future to stop Character A.  When you
+come *right down to it*, that's all the story there is.  But it introduces the
+background, and the context, and that informs the story.  The actual *story*
+in the B5 pilot is similarly basic (also for the reason that it became easier
+to slip past folks)...it's the context and the characters that are introduced
+that matter.
+
+      And there's a *lot* to introduce...a new universe, new technologies, new
+races, NINE regular characters, histories, wars, alliances...there ain't much
+room for anything too complex.
+
+     It's like a foundation poured of concrete; it ain't pretty, but it's
+*solid* enough to hold one hell of a house.
+
+     And speaking of which....
+
+     Basic fact: all you can do is the *best* you can do.  You do your job,
+second-guess yourself into hysteria, and hope it works.
+
+     Which is a long way of saying...the B5 pilot is now complete.   Nothing
+remains to be done.  We had the final run-through and playback on TV set
+speakers (modifying a few things here and there, but not much), and now it
+goes to the studio, and from there, the stations.
+
+     There was only one other modification I made today: remembering some of
+the confusion and uncertainty here about how the Kosh hand scene was framed --
+why it was the way it was, he said vaguely -- I decided at the last minute to
+bring in Pat Tallman to record one additional line of dialogue to clarify
+things.  Once again, the discussion here has directly affected something in
+the pilot.  The criticisms, I felt, were accurate, and needed to be addressed.
+This was done.
+
+     That said...it's a strange feeling knowing that this stage is now
+complete.  No take-backs, no second chances, nada.  The film lives or dies now
+on its merits, as it should be.  There's exhiliration, and a measure of -- I
+dunno -- hollowness, I suppose.  And now the need grows to get Phase Two
+going.  And one way or another, it *will* get going.
+
+     For five years, people told me that B5 could never be made, that even if
+you could find a studio to back it, it might never get aired; and even if you
+got both those two, you'd never be able to exercise the creative control
+required to make it worth the agony.  Five years is just a whole lotta NOs.
+But it got done.  And, of course, the chorus returns about the series...but it
+will get made, if I have to move heaven and earth to do it.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 602       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:03 EST
+
+     Re: using the background TVs to show newscasts of recent events... what
+an utterly, utterly, majorly COOL idea.  The frown on my face is only from
+wondering why the hell none of US thought of that.  (Hmm... y'know, there were
+invariably one or two guys in the crew running around videotaping everything
+and anything...if you could have them also videotaping scenes as we were
+filming them...splice in EFX footage as needed...wrap the whole thing around
+the B5 Newscast Logo (and yes, we have one, it's in the pilot, albeit in BG),
+it'd give you something nifty to have going on, and would make sense.
+
+     What a wonderful and simple and effective idea....
+
+     Thank you.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 605       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+n
+the other day, and as we were watching it, he kept shaking his head at all the
+things he would've done differently if he'd known then what he knows now, and
+if he'd had the programs/techniques then that he has now.  Just the few months
+since we finished photography have given him  a number of tools that he didn't
+have then.
+
+     We talked a little about what's capable now, what he can do now, and
+what's coming up, and it makes what's in the pilot look like nothing by
+comparison.  (A lot of the critics talked about the extensive work that went
+into the DS9 jello-man effect, not to mention the cost involved; he turned his
+associate Paul into the same thing in a test that worked just as well and took
+one night and no money, just a little while behind the keyboard.)  Once we get
+the go, he and I are going to spend a couple of days just sitting and talking
+about what can be done now, so that I can take full advantage of this new
+stuff.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 627       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:46 EST
+
+     "Bob" will never be seen talke, for any reason,
+in B5.  I'll personally run a truck over him first, newscast or not (unless I
+think I can get a good gag out of it...).
+
+     Re: my mental state...I'll know better in a week or so.  I try not to get
+too personally involved with my own life.  Basically, itf
+in ever-------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 652       Sun Jan 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:05 EST
+
+     BTW, to correct an erroneous statement of mine earlier, there is not a
+species named Vee'lons that will be introduced on DS9.
+
+     The Vee'lons will be introduced on Space Rangers.
+
+     Some days, I just can't get a break....
+
+                                   s
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 672       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:42 EST
+
+     I take great joy in being politically *incorrect* at every possible
+opportunity.  I believe in the motto someone at the BBC once voice:  "There
+are some people we WANT to offend."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 685       Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:47 EST
+
+     Re: starships from Earth...yes, you'll be seeing a wide range of  ships,
+from smaller transports and trading vessels to big mothers.  It is something
+of an empire, and the ships come in as many varied forms as we have cars and
+trucks and semis and tanks and on and on....
+
+     Re: talking vs. action...there's a shade more exposition than I'd like in
+the pilot, mainly because there's so damned MUCH background to establish, so
+much ground to lay...it'll be more evenly proportioned in the series.  I like
+action.  For me, the #1 crime of any TV show or movie is that it should bore.
+When in doubt, kill somebody.
+
+     Or blow something up.
+
+     Re: technology...yes, the point about the sudden jump via new
+technologies is exactly dead on.  It *did* have a tramautic impact, and to
+varying degrees still does.  The effect of technology, and the desire for
+same, will be a recurrent thread.  There are some technologies that are
+considered too radical for some species, and are thus kept off limits, with
+prison sentences or even death sentences for smuggling certain kinds of
+technologies.  One such tech-runner appears in the pilot.  The parallel, I
+suppose, would be our current concerns with the spread of nuclear technology.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
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+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Computer EFX Tech-Talk   
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+497 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 349       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:27 EST
+
+     I use Windows a little more than I used to, but overall I suspect (well,
+know, really) that I'm not getting the most bang for my buck because I don't
+understand the mechanics of configuring either Windows or the computer itself.
+I'm sitting here with a killer megasystem, and...the best comparison I can
+think of is an australian aborigine who's found an F-16 figher plane and
+mainly uses it to shelter his sheep and goats under the wings when it
+rains....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 385       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:12 EST
+
+     I've tended to lean more in the direction of individual computers --
+multi-gigabyte systems small enough to fit on the wrist, which also serve as
+communications systems called Links -- that are generally networked into the
+B5 database/central computer system.  Ninety percent of any information you're
+likely to need you probably already have in the Link; anything additional you
+need, or if you need a direct interface with Babylon Central Computer, that
+can be accomplished with a simple voice command.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 391       Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:23 EST
+
+     Just as a point of clarification, Links are only used by station
+personnel, not visiting aliens, or any visitor, human or otherwise, for whom
+multi-use terminals have been set up in their quarters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 407       Tue Jan 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:53 EST
+
+     Basically, I think that there should be something on-screen if there
+NEEDS to be something on-screen.  For instance, in both Sinclair's quaters and
+the briefing room, you'll see monitors on the wall in BG and later used for
+important stuff.  (That should be quarters, not quaters, which is what you
+find on the moon.)  When not *actively in use* they display only the B5 logo,
+sort of a carrier wave.  When a signal comes in from local, you get the BabCom
+logo, then the signal.  When a signal comes in from a ship, or the computer
+provides information, you go right from the B5 symbol straight to the display.
+When it's over, you go back to the static symbol until it's needed again.
+
+     The only real exceptions to this are a) the consoles in the observation
+dome, which are going at all times to monitor incoming and outgoing ships, and
+b) displays in the business areas which show the internal B5 Newscast and
+commercials.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 447       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:05 EST
+
+     Isn't Lexicor the company owned by Lex Luthor...?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
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+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Cast and Characters      
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+501 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 376       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:08 EST
+
+     After a crocodile named Leviathan?  Er...I think that it's likely a
+reference to the book of Job, where he is asked by god, "Canst thou draw out
+Leviathan with an hook; or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?"
+(JOB 41:1)
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 378       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:04 EST
+
+     They don't exactly get along, that's for sure.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 381       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:28 EST
+
+     There's a mid-season story that deals *precisely* with this issue.
+
+     Hence...I'm forced to remain mute for the moment.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 398       Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:25 EST
+
+     Ta-daaaa...Gary, take another look at the pilot.  Every time you see
+Lyta, you will notice a silver insignia on her lapel.  It's the Psi symbol set
+against a bronze background.  That is, indeed, the preferred form of
+reference.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 401       Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:14 EST
+
+     Bill Warren suspects more than he knows, and knows less than he suspects.
+And any resulting opinions are simply that, and though written are nowhere
+near writ, holy or otherwise.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 406       Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:36 EST
+
+     The amount of contact required varies according to the telepath's
+strength.  Lyta at P5 needs a little help.  A P10 could nail you from across
+the room.
+
+     And I want to have some fun with the commercial funding aspects of
+B5...ads, gov't support, commercials, all that stuff.  That's an issue that I
+feel really needs to be addressed...who pays for this neat stuff? And what
+happens when the money runs out?
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 418       Tue Jan 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:41 EST
+
+     Yes, we'll definitely see them in their civvies, and there will be a
+range of entertainment possibilities, including TV (again, there are shots of
+an internal newscast on B5, and commercials as well).  Thee's -- er, there's --
+one little thing that I'm gonna do the first episode or so to establish that
+that's so off-beat and (one hopes) funny that I'm sure you'll like it.  If
+only I can get Warners to release the footage....
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 426       Wed Jan 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:04 EST
+
+     Yeah, that was the hard part with the actors...they're so used to seeing
+one costume actors in SF that even though they HAD other stuff to wear, it was
+hard to shoe-horn them into it.  But that'll change.
+
+     As for skivvies...who knows...there's a shot of Sinclair emerging from
+bed wearing just about nada until he gets his robe on that several women on
+the show kept re-running, saying "yum...".
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 450       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:04 EST
+
+     I can't remember height ever even being discussed, except once, when we
+were debating about two possibilities for a given role.  I don't think it
+really matters.  As it happens, it probably won't ever come up because both
+Michael O'Hare and Jerry Doyle (and I think Johnny Sekka) are all well over 6'
+tall.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 458       Sat Jan 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:01 EST
+
+     Lonnie, let us not tempt the universe....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 467       Sat Jan 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:16 EST
+
+     Jack...er...so, you noticed those initials, eh?  Probably noticed that
+Garibaldi's first name is Michael, too, huh?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 469       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:06 EST
+
+     The two tallest are Michael O'Hare and Jerry Doyle...and I think they're
+about the same height...unless Jerry's just a squidge taller.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 473       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:24 EST
+
+     Just checked their resumes, and their heights aren't indicated.  I will
+have to get back to you on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+ ************
+Topic 5         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            (Forwarded)
+Sub: Grid Epsilon Irregulars - News & Info.
+
+This topic is for information about Babylon 5 fan groups, newsletters,
+fanzines, get-togethers, B-5 at conventions, and other general fun.
+222 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 172       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:08 EST
+
+     The current newsletter is due out this week, and any who sent in subs
+requesting #1 will probably receive them at the same time.
+
+     Re: merchandising...we have several deals in the works, the only one I
+know for sure involves a computer game from a major company.  There will be
+some supplementary stuff...shirts and mugs and hats and patches and
+stuff...around the time of the pilot, at least so I'm told.  Luckily, my
+contract with Warners requires my consultation on marketing, so nothing
+embarrassing will come out if I have anything to say about it.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 174       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:31 EST
+
+     Don't know yet; will probably have more info in a few weeks.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 182       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:26 EST
+
+     The software company involved is a good one, and the designers are first
+rate.  As soon as I can announce the details, I will.
+
+     And yeah, I get one of everything.  I may need a bigger house....
+
+     The best way to make sure one gets in on any upcoming marketing is
+probably to write Warners marketing (I believe it's the Licensing Corporation
+of America...maybe someone here has an address) and ask to get on a mailing
+list for info.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 189       Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:32 EST
+
+     Great, Rob, many, many thanks.  So yeah...anybody who wants to get on a
+mailing list for merchandise related to B5, drop a note to the address
+contained in message 187.  Be the first on your block....
+
+                                                       jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 218       Wed Jan 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:00 EST
+
+     Yep...the "beep" stuff will all be clear by the end of the pilot.
+
+                                                               jms
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+Topic 6         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 06:43 EST
+Sub: Where is Babylon 5? TV stations...   
+
+Babylon 5 is a cornerstone of Warner's new Prime Time Network. Here is where
+one can find the station information....
+290 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 230       Wed Jan 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:06 EST
+
+     Leviathan...as a local, mayhap you could ring up Dana Hersey and fill him
+in on the background, just so's he knows it ain't a DS9 riff.
+
+     This is probably the single biggest problem I know we're gonna have with
+reviews.  On every other level, we'll stand on our own; I just don't want that
+inaccuracy surfacing and skewing the review.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 252       Tue Jan 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:19 EST
+
+     WVTV Milwaukee.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 287       Wed Jan 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:02 EST
+
+     I'm scheduled for Gallifrey One Goes Forth?
+
+     Oh....
+
+     Er...when exactly is that, again?
+
+                                                                      jms
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+ ************
+Topic 7         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+J.HUDGENS [Fenn Shysa]       at 23:07 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- POTENTIAL SPOILERS      
+
+If you've seen the B5 promos or the sales info packages and want to mention
+specific items or situations without worrying about spoiling it for others,
+post & comment here... THERE BE SPOILERS HERE!
+429 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 291       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:17 EST
+
+     If I see one more message with a one-liner on top and then ten zillion
+lines of white space, which at 2400 baud go by too fast for me to read the
+damn thing, so I have to then go back and find the number of the message, and
+replay it time after time while hitting ^S to try adn stop it before it
+scrolls past again, I am going to do someone serious damage.
+
+     (Well, everyone ELSE was having a tirade....)
+
+     Paula...you're responding to and arguing with something that only you
+heard because it doesn't exist in the pilot.  The line that Sinclair says is,
+"I managed to take out a fighter before they hit my stabalizers.  I was losing
+control, I'd lost my team...." etc.  Not vertical stabalizers.   Just the
+device that keeps the ship from spinning end over end by  controlling the
+various thrusts.  No matter WHAT system you're using, you have to be able to
+go from A to B, and the minute adjustments required, particularly if you're in
+the midst of battle, are too complex for one person to make on the fly.  It
+has to go through a computer.  If the  system -- hydraulics, pneumatics, air
+thrust, fusion, whatever power you happen to prefer -- is damaged, it's going
+to screw you up.
+
+     THAT was the line.  And the Line.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 293       Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:13 EST
+
+     I keep hearing Alladin's more of a pain than it's worth, which is why I
+generally do all my writing/reading on-line.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 320       Wed Jan 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:13 EST
+
+     Just one other little item you're forgetting, Paula...these are
+individual fighters, which are made to operate in and out of an atmosphere.
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 322       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:21 EST
+
+     Several reasons...first, she wouldn't be able to tell for sure if his
+memory had or had not been "doctored" to eliminate the memory of the action.
+(An upper-level Psi could notice the seams in the memory; she's basically a
+business-transaction person who's a teeny bit over her head in what she's
+doing, and she knows it.)  Second, I'm playing constantly with how our society
+will deal with this kind of telepath.
+
+     The idea is always "innocent until proven guilty."  Now, you can bring
+someone to trial, and a psi can scan them, and boom, you know one way or
+another.  But does that violate our judicial tradition of a trial BY JURY, and
+put 'WAY too much power in the hands of telepaths?  Because bear in mind, we
+still have to take their word for what they "see" in someone's mind.  They can
+function as key witnesses, but it's my sense that they would be SPECIFICALLY
+PROHIBITED from going into the mind of an accused person to determine their
+innocence or guilt, *even if so invited*.
+
+     There are others, but those are, in my mind, the key reasons for this.
+It's a matter of trying to be logical and consistent in how these things are
+used; you don't want to have something (or someone) become the Magic Wand that
+solves every problem, a Deux Ex Lyta, so to speak.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 324       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:47 EST
+
+     Yes, Lyta's always had an affinity for alien races from a telepathic
+standpoint.  As for telling reality from subjective; as soon as it goes in
+your eyes, it becomes subjective.  So that's the only POV from which she can
+act.  It's easiest when it's straightforward visual or auditory impulses, not
+much open to coloring by the subjective aspect.  If the person being scanned
+is unbalanced, then 1) it becomes VERY uncomfortable for the psi, and 2) there
+are signature aspects of the scan (colors, hallucinations, delusions) that
+would tip off any good psi that this may not be a very valid perspective.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 332       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:09 EST
+
+     Yes, there are shields available, mainly implants, sometimes drugs, and
+cyberalteration techniques to mind-wipe people temporarily so they can't be
+read easily.
+
+     Re: perjury, there are Psi review boards, as with the AMA (and of equally
+debatable power) that could be called into play in the case of suspected
+perjury, as well as other abuses of the Psi-Corps authority.   If a review
+board or other PC arm finds you're in violation of standards, the next step is
+the psi-cops.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 349       Sat Jan 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:19 EST
+
+     The background on that business meeting is similar to all such uses of
+telepaths: both sides agree to the presence of a telepath to monitor the
+negotiations.  If one were to demur, the deal would be off because the person
+clearly has something to hide.  Which is why there is a good market for
+various kinds of shields that don't LOOK like or feel like shields unless the
+telepath knows what to look for.  You can also just try and hide it and hope
+that the telepath isn't looking too deep or isn't really paying attention,
+which is what that guy was doing.  (May have been reciting the "tensor" rhyme
+trying to keep his brain occupied.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 353       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:31 EST
+
+     How much combat is in the movie?  Not terribly much...I wanted more of a
+dramatic series with action than an action series with drama.  The series will
+alternate...some with lots and lots of action, some with less.
+
+     The budget is classified.
+
+     Re: the total population of B5...this is something that I went round and
+round with as the designers and I worked on this thing.  They haven't given me
+an exact figure yet; I imagine I'll get it eventually.  It's in the *area* of
+a couple hundred thousand, though.  I *think* they said the max capacity was
+around 250,000 but I could be wrong.
+
+     (This is one of those things where the writer can't just set a figure and
+wave a magic wand.  B5 is a particular given size...now you have to figure out
+how much space is required by hydroponics, station systems, infrastructure and
+so on...subtract that from the total available volume, determine how large the
+individual living quarters are, with some variance, and then finally zero in
+on how many people that could accommodate without squeezing everyone in like
+sardines.  All I know is that there's math involved....)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 361       Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:45 EST
+
+     No, they're not.
+
+     And someone trained to know what to look for in a scan would pick up on
+it...but those are few and far between.
+
+     Ah hates math.  I failed bonehead math twice in junior college, and only
+passed the third time when the professor, seeing me one more time in his
+class, said in despair, "Just...go.  I'll give you a C-, just go."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 366       Tue Jan 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:23 EST
+
+     I can more or less hold my own in math UNTIL such time as suddenly we're
+dealing with numbers AND letters.  For some reason, I'm absolutely hard-wired
+for language.  Letters are part of a word, a number is for math.  When someone
+says "A = 9" my immediate response is, "A what?  *A* dog?  *A* horse?  What?"
+I know what the theory is on all this, that there are groups, sub-groups,
+universes, all that jazz...the theory is fine...but when I look at a number
+AND a letter in an equation, my brain goes into vapor lock, I get confused and
+fall down.
+
+     I don't even want to TALK about the scams I ran in order to pass my
+semester of Statistical Psychology to get my B.A. in clinical psych.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 369       Wed Jan 13, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:05 EST
+
+         .
+          .
+           .
+            .
+             .
+               <thud>
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 377       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:51 EST
+
+     To get past the language requirement, I took two semesters of German.
+German I and German II.  Simultaneously.  From 9-10:30 twice a week we were
+nice and safe and snuggly in a very basic German class...and from 10:30 to 12
+noon twice a week (same days), we were dropped screaming like souls into
+Dante's Ninth Circle masquerading as German II, where the instructor would
+ONLY speak to us in German.  Which we didn't understand.  It was kind of a
+trial run, an experiment to see if it would work, and the conclusion at the
+end of the semester...at which point half of us were stark, staring mad, and
+the other half were plotting to annex the Sudetenland...was that it didn't
+work.  My basic problem (even though I passed) was that I was always week on
+English grammar...so when I had to slam a word through the various forms and
+declensions, I would...well, you've seen what happens when someone throws an
+equation at me...it's a lot like that, only with a bunch of umlauts thrown in
+for color.
+
+     That was the same semester in which I realized that I wanted to get the
+hell OUT of college and into writing full time, and started cramming courses.
+I think I had something on the order of 23 or 27 credits that semester alone,
+in violation of university limits (I crashed courses that were beyond the
+proscribed limits).  And they weren't monkey classes, either, lemme tell
+you...6 units of German, plus classes in Statistical Psychology, Biology,
+Literature, Philosophy, and some other stuff (along with the 1-2 writing
+workshops I took every semester).  To this day I'm still amazed that I
+actually got THROUGH that semester.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 398       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:50 EST
+
+      There are actually several languages heard on B5, though you have to
+work to hear them.  (Those with surround will have an easier time.)  For
+instance, in the customs area, announcements are made first in English, then
+in Interlac.  In the bazaar area, you'll hear chirrups and whistles and clicks
+and a wide range of language-sounds.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 400       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:12 EST
+
+     There are about as many as now...with a few extras developed on the Mars
+and other colonies.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 408       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:29 EST
+
+     Re: asking telepaths on a date...it would be verbal, assuming we're
+talking PC hrized scans are illegal, and thus they would not be "dipping" to
+know your intentions.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 416       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:48 EST
+
+     (A job like that could take YEARS....)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+Topic 8         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:41 EST
+Sub: Behind The Scenes                    
+
+Production Designers, Art Directors, Costumers, Director, others...this is the
+place to discuss the production-aspects of B5...it's look and the process
+involved.
+306 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 90        Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:01 EST
+
+     I'm finishing B5 post production this coming week, and writing my third
+novel, and am helping out a friend on another series (said friend having
+gotten in over his head a bit, through no fault of his own) doing rewrites and
+a few scripts.  Just something to keep me busy while waiting to gear up for
+the series.  (Also took time to write out a synopsis of each of the first 22
+episodes for B5's first season, which will then be assigned as needed,
+interposing new ideas as they're suggested by other writers.  Also finished an
+hour-length B5 script, which will be one of the mid-season shows to be shot.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 94        Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:19 EST
+
+     All I can say is when Warners gives us the production go, we'll be ready.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 97        Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:39 EST
+
+     That'll probably be decided by forces wiser than I.  And just FYI, all
+the PTEN shows are given 22 episode committments per season.
+
+                                                       jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 99        Mon Jan 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:00 EST
+
+                                Who...?
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 102       Tue Jan 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:56 EST
+
+     That's simply a standard unit of measure.  Some series do more than 22,
+but those are more rthe MURDseasons generally ran 22 episodes.
+
+     22 x 3 seasons is 66, which is enough for long-term syndication, if
+barely.
+
+     And there won't be a Joe Jr.  One doesn't go through a vasectomy for lack
+of anything better to do on a Friday night....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 106       Tue Jan 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:45 EST
+
+     Nope, B5 is shot right here in LA County.
+
+     It helps that my Spousal Overunit is also a writer, and understands what
+it means when I come out, eyes like poached eggs, staggering towrad the coffee
+pot, mumbling, "Deadlines...deadlines...."
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 110       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:22 EST
+
+     They sure do cost a lot.  We plan to do some such shots for the series,
+in the zero-g section of the garden, and possibly in the zero-g cargo section
+that rides on top of  B5.  My mandate to Ron is to come up with a way of doing
+it that looks good.  Once we have that, we'll do the story.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 120       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:10 EST
+
+     The series standard opening will be a variation on Londo's narration at
+the top of the pilot.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 122       Fri Jan 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:43 EST
+
+     Yeah, Londo seems like the *least* likely person to do the opening
+narration for a show like this; you don't even see him for nearly two full
+acts, and it's the kind of thing you'd expect the Commander to do.
+
+     But there are reasons for everything....
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 126       Sat Jan 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:07 EST
+
+     Re: the voices....I can't do it, I can't tell him....
+
+     Re: the narration at the beginning...actually, I suppose there's no
+reason why I can't put it up here.
+
+     LONDO (older voice): "I was there at the dawn of the Third Age of
+Mankind.  It was the Earth year 2257.  Babylon 5 was the last of the  Babylon
+stations, located deep in neutral space.  It was a port of call for
+businessmen, smugglers, diplomats, businessmen and travelers from a hundred
+worlds.  It could be a dangerous place, but we accepted the risk because
+Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace.  Under the leadership of its
+final commander, Babylon 5 was a dream given form...a dream of a galaxy
+without war, where species from other worlds could exist in mutual respect...a
+dream that was endange one man on a mission of destruction.  Babylon 5 was the
+last of the Babylon stations.  This...is its story."
+
+     That's from memory, and as I look at it, some of it ain't *exactly* right
+(that should be "species from different worlds" not "other worlds," for
+instance, but the sense of it is correct, and it's probably 90% textually
+correct.  (I also see I repeated businessmen twice...which means I left
+something out, but having now been up about 20 hours, I'm too tired to
+remember what or to look it up in the script.)
+
+     I'll try to remember to dig out the exact wording and put it up, if
+anyone's interested.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 137       Sat Jan 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:23 EST
+
+     "I was there at the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind.  It began in the
+Earth Year 2257.  Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations, located deep
+in neutral space.  It was a port of call for refugees, businessmen, smugglers,
+diplomats and travelers from a hundred worlds.  It could be a dangerous place,
+but we accepted the risk because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace.
+Under the leadership of its final commander, Babylon 5 was a dream, given
+form.  A dream of a galaxy without war, where species from different worlds
+could exist, side by side, in mutual respect...a dream that was endangered, as
+never before, by the arrival of one man on a mission of destruction.
+
+     "Babylon 5...was the last of the Babylon stations.  This...is its
+story...."
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 140       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:10 EST
+
+     That is the only narration in the show.  When we get to the series, I
+plan to adjust the narration and keep it as a stet opening.  Probably it'll be
+something along the lines of, "I was there at the dawn of the Third Age of
+Mankind.  It began in the Earth year 2257.  Babylon 5 was the last of the
+Babylon stations.  This is its story...."
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 147       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:38 EST
+
+      Oh, yeah, the "mission of destruction" thing ONLY relates to this
+particular episode, the pilot.  It'll be gone from regular episodes.
+
+     For the series, my feeling is that the intro should be as short as
+possible, almost more for mood than for information.
+
+     The intro may also change slightly each season....
+
+     As for software, I use plain old Word for my writing, though I just got
+7.0 and will change over as soon as I decide I have nothing else of value in
+my life to deal with.  I am but a simple man from a simple land of simple
+values....
+
+     The computer itself is kind of a hum-dinger...a 486/50mhz, 330 meg hard
+drive, 650 meg rewriteable optical drive (for a total on-line of about 1
+gigabyte), NEC 4FG monitor, 64 megs of RAM, SCSI 32 bit system, and due to
+arrive any day now, the 6-disk Pioneer CD-ROM jukebox.  Also have the
+Thunderboard sound card, Diamond Speedstar 14F video card, and a bunch of
+other goodies.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 150       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:52 EST
+
+     Actually, there's a weird typo in there; it should be Wordstar 5.5, not
+Word (ecch).
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 161       Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:37 EST
+
+     The background visuals for the narrative will be much the same for the
+series as the pilot...a montage of the station, people and locales.
+
+     Difference between an exec producer and a producer?  A producer can be a
+line producer, who handles mainly production problems, or a writer producer,
+who mainly writes, sits in on casting and stuff.  An exec producer is the guy
+In Charge...otherwise referred to as a Show Runner, who sets the direction for
+the series or project, makes final decisions on casting, music, sets, all that
+jazz.  On B5, I share exec producer status with Doug Netter...basically, we
+divide it up that Doug handles most of the deal making (which he loves) with
+agents, other business stuff, and I get to play.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 167       Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:54 EST
+
+     "Mankind" was being used by Londo specifically in relation to humans, not
+sentient aliens including his own race.  Earthers.  Which was one reason (of
+many) I wanted his character to be the narrator, someone looking in from the
+outside.
+
+     As for the Third Age, it's -- oh, darn, look at the time, have to go....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 178       Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:50 EST
+
+     I only said that the story will *concentrate* on B5 the first two years
+in terms of locations.  We'll branch out, certainly, after that.
+
+     Mike: your Third Age thought is very close to being correct.  It's only
+the object of your sentence that's incorrect.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 184       Tue Jan 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:29 EST
+
+     Yes, it's repetitive.  Yes, it's deliberate.  It brings you back to the
+beginning of the narrative, which is a space shot that more or less matches
+the other shot.  (Makes a visual loop, in other words.)
+
+     Telestro: certainly one of our characters might go the way of
+Saruman....and one might go the way of Aragorn...and Gandalf...ah, well,
+that's always uncertain, isn't it?  "Expect me when you see me."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 185       Tue Jan 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:33 EST
+
+     And then again...maybe not.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 194       Tue Jan 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:28 EST
+
+     WHO TOLD YOU ABOUT PLANET GAWOOMPKI?!  EGADS!  THERE'S A LEAK IN OUR
+OPERATION!
+
+     (Actually, there *is* a leak in our organization...the funny thing is
+that it's me.)
+
+     Re: Sinclair and Ambassador-ship...there's a very logical questoin (or
+question) that has to be dealt with.  (Again, we go back to that same point,
+asking the next question.)  Why is a *Commander* serving on the station, and
+the Advisory Council, and representing Earth?  Wouldn't they have a regular
+Ambassador present?
+
+     This is a question that we will resolve.  As well as the one implicit in
+the foregoing: why is a *COMMANDER* -- lower in rank than a Captain --
+entrusted with this responsibility, rather than an Admiral or some other high-
+ranking individual?
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 195       Tue Jan 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:33 EST
+
+     BTW, ironically, this is the only area that worries me in showing the
+pilot.  People are going to say, "Waitaminnit!  This doesn't make any sense!
+Why is a COMMANDER running this thing?  And what about this bit over here...?"
+It's kinda risky to deliberatly program in what look like errors, but are
+story points that will be raised and resolved later.   Ah, well...you gotta
+take chances....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 205       Wed Jan 13, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:10 EST
+
+     Yeah, I'm *pretty much* staying to Naval terms, mainly because the
+introduction of starships will probably be under that heading as vessels, and
+that seems to follow.  Additionally, if all of the various major militaries of
+various countries were combined into one Earthforce, then there would be some
+standardization, and naval terms *seem* to be more standard than others across
+services, but my research there isn't as deep as it probably should be.  Would
+be nice to work in some variations, however....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 224       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:57 EST
+
+     The EA is governed by political figures, just as today, though some of
+the structures have altered to accommodate a more world-spanning form of
+government.  (Instead of senators elected from states, they're now elected by
+country, and so on.)
+
+     As for language...the DICTIONARY defines language, PEOPLE screw with it
+until distinctions blur...as with the distinction between "fewer" and "less."
+"There were less people in attendence this week."  No.  There  were FEWER
+people in attendence.  This is what people do.  This is your language.  This
+is your language in people...any questions?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 233       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:11 EST
+
+     That's an extremely good point about species/races; I'll be careful about
+that.  I don't *think* that came up in the pilot, and now it won't in the
+series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 238       Fri Jan 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:27 EST
+
+     BTW, it's my understanding that the monitor screens on TNG are not
+inserted in post; they're regular TV screens with edges that come out and
+cover any bends in the tube, thereby giving it a flat look.  At least, that's
+what I hear....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 251       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:53 EST
+
+     I agree re: universal translators.  Most everything in the ST universe is
+bent toward making the process easier, less challenging; I want to show the
+process of overcoming.  I think it's great if an alien shows up from a
+previously unvisited planet, and they spend days trying to communicate with
+it.  I think that some computerized stuff might work, as in the case where
+someone programs a machine to go from one specific language to another (sort
+of a species-specific interpreter), but thats about it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 261       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:37 EST
+
+     The language facilities of aliens will vary; probably the most fluent (by
+virtue of necessity) are the ambassadors, whose english is perfect or nearly
+so (cyberlink to the brain dumping the English equivilants of their own
+language and grammar directly into the brain, very expensive and not a little
+painful).  The drawback is that some cultural references or some contextual
+areas may not be as clear as required.  (Londo wondering about ramoras, Delenn
+unsure for a moment about poetry....)
+
+     Re: language in general...I agree that all languages must be "living
+languages" in that they are free to grow and expand and add new terms.   There
+is a difference between this and a *collapsing language* in which the
+distinction between terms (the aformentioned less and fewer) becomes degraded,
+and meanings blur through misuse.  Ase gradually becomes less precise.  A
+language should be graded on how well it manages to communicate the thoughts
+of one to the other.  If it begins to fail in that regard, then it is not a
+living but a dying language.
+
+     (Another example: the way that "anxious" and "eager" have come to mean
+the same thing.  "Anxious" carries with it some degree of worry or dread or
+fear; "eager" is a pleasant term, connoting something wonderful and nice for
+which one is longing.  So when someone says, with a smiling and expectant
+attitude, "Yeah, I'm really anxious to see the new Lucas movie," it's a misuse
+of the term, unless there's some reason for worry.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 268       Sun Jan 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:11 EST
+
+     In terms of the EFX, I think it's all Amigas, with some IBMs being used
+for general computing (letters, schedules, etc.).
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 281       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:49 EST
+
+     Re: TRON v2.0....I'd rather write kids in space.
+
+     Re: places of origin...my sense is that they have their own unique names.
+We don't call our planet Terra (well, not really), or Hum (for Human) or
+Planet Human.  Because some of the names are difficult to pronounce, the
+logical approach is to note them by designation, i.e., "And shall be shipped
+off to the Narn homeworld."  That is the only time or I should say context by
+which we refer to their places of origin.  The only exception to this, and I
+don't recall if this is in the pilot or not, is the Centauri homeworld,
+designated Centauri Prime.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 288       Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:35 EST
+
+     Yes, there are definitely other human settlements...colonies and outposts
+and co-operative projects on other worlds with other species.   It's mainly
+from this overlap that the EA draws its non-human members, though a few worlds
+have chosen to ally themselves directly with the EA.
+
+                                                               jms
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+Topic 9         Wed Nov 11, 1992
+T.RESTIVO [Little Guy]       at 18:27 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Humor                      
+
+From *Beep Beep*, to Top Ten Lists to full-blown paradies, this is where to
+put your funny bone in writing!
+162 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 122       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:11 EST
+
+     I...no...never mind...forget it...some things are too gross even for me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 132       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:13 EST
+
+     Suddenly sounds began emitting from the producer's office...witnesses
+later described them as twin shrieks....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 150       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:24 EST
+
+     Kosh as in "gosh."  There's actually a last name, btw...Naranek.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 156       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:50 EST
+
+     Pronounced Nuh-RAH-nek.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+Topic 10        Thu Nov 12, 1992
+SANDMAN [Henry]              at 19:25 EST
+Sub: Sex in Babylon 5                     
+
+Can't do without this one!!
+
+
+99 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 84        Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:20 EST
+
+     Actually, I said that Sinclair will have a steady VERTICAL relationship
+with....
+
+     Don't hit me, I'm a sick man.
+
+     And nothing in life is permanent, not even relationships.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B-5 ADRIFT!                          
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+367 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 271       Thu Jan 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:12 EST
+
+     I've lost all track of how much time I spend on BBSs; two-three hours a
+day here, plus 1-2 per day on CIS, and then other services.  I'm on several
+where I don't post messages, and the folks there engaged in SF-TV discussions
+don't know I'm looking over their shoulder.
+
+     Why?  Because if people know you're there, they tend to speak more
+politely about you, and your projects.  They're free to be brutally
+honest...and lemme tell you, it brings one up short sometimes.  But I think
+that's both good and essential.  Sort of a control group approach...see what
+the opinion is like of folks who don't have direct access, and only hear stuff
+second-hand.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 274       Fri Jan 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:45 EST
+
+     Yes, GEnie is still my first choice.  You'll note I didn't call the
+locale for B5 Central Interstellar System or anything dopey like that; only
+referring to it (in bible now, eventually in script) as Grid Epsilon (GE).  I
+post only a few messages there per week; this is home.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 296       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:13 EST
+
+     Yes, we'll definitely see some EVA suits of various kinds, human and
+alien.  In the pilot, though it's farther away than I would've liked, you can
+see a shot along the side of B5, with a couple of ships streaking past, and a
+flashing light up in the upper left-hand corner on the hull of the station.
+Freeze the frame, and look closely, and you'll see th at it's a guy in an EVA
+suit repairing a micrometeor puncture (or some other problem) with a welder of
+sorts.
+
+  We'll do more, better, and closer, later on.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 303       Tue Jan 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:30 EST
+
+     Apparently, it's not difficult at all to digitize an actor's face and put
+it inside an EVA suit's facemask.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 319       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:19 EST
+
+     Someone back a while ago suggested "Fivers," and that's kinda nice.
+
+     Re: Captain Power...yeah, that's a show that is an example of what to
+strive for, and how sometimes good intentions can get derailed.  We genuinely
+wanted to come up with a long-term story, and by and large, we succeeded.  The
+problem was the marketing in front of the show, and the merchandising behind
+the show...we got killed from both sides.
+
+     There's an entire second season of unproduced CP scripts, story edited by
+Larry DiTillio, in which he follows up on the arc that I and others
+established during the first season.  You would have found out what Dread
+became, what happened to Power's mother, where Eden was (and there would be
+direct contact), what the secret was in Soaron's programming, and so on.
+
+     It was a good experience, though, and it let me cut my teeth on multi-
+season story construction.  It was the experience on Power that led me to
+believe that something like B5 could be done.  (And yeah, I still have much
+the same reaction to the last episode...it's a real tough one to watch...which
+was the point.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 323       Fri Jan 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:48 EST
+
+     Definite no on the question of matter transmitters.  That's a little too
+much in the magic/science-fantasy area for my preferences.  Space travel is
+done in ships.
+
+     Re: Captain Power...it aired in 1987/88 in syndication.  Was set in the
+future, after the MetalWars, in which one man, who caused the war (in the best
+interests of humanity) decided that to save humanity it must be digitized and
+stored in machines for the day when perfect metalloid bodies could give
+mankind immortality.
+
+     Re: Twilight Zone...yes, I worked on the syndicated version.  Among the
+episodes I wrote (I was also story editor) are "The Mind of Simon Foster,"
+with Bruce Weitz; "Dream Me a Life," with Eddie Albert; co-wrote "The Curious
+Case of Edgar Witherspoon," with Harry Morgan, and co-wrote "Our Selena is
+Dying" posthumously with Rod Serling, from a long lost TZ outline.  Other TZs
+that I wrote around that time, but whose stars I can't consistently recall:
+"The Wall," "The Call," "What Are Friends For?" "Something in the Walls,"
+"Acts of Terror," "Special Service," "Rendezvous in a Dark Place," and have
+another shared writing credit on "The Trance."
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 356       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:50 EST
+
+     No, I wasn't previously aware of "Agony" (except what I've gone through
+these last six months), but will look for it in future.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                  
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+166 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 133       Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:48 EST
+
+     Aquila: give me the name of the paper and the reporter who wrote the
+article.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+Topic 13        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 21:00 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Science and Technology   
+
+Jump gates, nanotech, high-tech weapons, starship drives, sound in space, and
+other subjects of science and technology in Babylon 5.
+163 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 63        Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:08 EST
+
+     Rob:  from where?  Re: telepaths...there are definite limits, and I most
+definitely do NOT wanta it to be a deus ex machina, the solution to every
+problem.  If anything, it IS a problem itself.
+
+     M.Morgan...yes, absolutely, that's what I had in mind all the time. Yeah,
+that's it, that's the ticket....
+
+     And tachyons...can't forget those pesky tachyons....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 72        Sat Jan 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:39 EST
+
+     The computer system is quite good, based on a crystalline technology
+that's a mesh between alien and human-developed stuff.  As for defense, you'll
+see a full demonstration of this in the first season; for now, let's just say
+that that smooth looking exterior is laced with sections that can open and
+reveal all kinds of interesting things.  Imagine a five mile long Swiss Army
+knife....
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 75        Sun Jan 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:03 EST
+
+     Yes, the middle section of the station is the Garden, and is still an
+O'Neill type environment.  And over the course of the series, it's my
+intention to bring in all the various organizations and sub-organizations
+required to make a place like this work.  I really want to try and convey the
+sense of a Working Environment, not a set.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 82        Tue Jan 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:52 EST
+
+     Doctrines and Covenants?  Are we talking here Mormonism or Scientology?
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 85        Wed Jan 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:12 EST
+
+     HEY!  NO FAIR!  NOBODY TOLD ME THERE WAS GOING TO BE MATH INVOLVED!   I
+DIDN'T STUDY!  I WASN'T TOLD THIS WAS GONNA BE ON THE TEST!  AAAKKKK!
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 88        Wed Jan 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:09 EST
+
+     I forget....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 103       Fri Jan 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:54 EST
+
+     I'm still hammering down the rules on hyperspace...what can and can't be
+done.  My first thought was that they travel blind, but given that it's
+heavily traveled, I realized after a while that you'd *have* to be able to see
+your surroundings in order to avoid collisions.
+
+     The point you raise is quite conceivable.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 117       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:40 EST
+
+     Keyboards are still in use, mainly because there are always going to be
+things that you don't want someone to hear, so you'll always need some kind of
+non-verbal input system.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 119       Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:50 EST
+
+     I dunno...I kinda like glasses...but I know the reality is that it may be
+fixed by then...there are some in the pilot, in BG.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 121       Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:39 EST
+
+     It looks cool.
+
+     Also, bear in mind that often different gravities require different
+atmospheres; alternating atmospheres between floors in the same section is a
+bit more difficult than setting aside one whole sector that would be, say, for
+methane breathers, and which has a varied gravitational level as a further
+accommodation.  (If they require standard 1g, there are other areas.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 134       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:58 EST
+
+     Yep.  You'll see 'em in both the pilot and the series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 136       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:16 EST
+
+     I agree.  I wear glasses.  I could go to contacts (glass or plastic), try
+surgery, all this stuff...but ain't nobody going near my eyes with pieces of
+glass or knives or lasers, I don't care HOW safe it is.  Just my luck to hit
+the one in a million power surge and I'll end up looking backward out where my
+brain stem used to be.
+
+     It's interesting to see how in pop SF, there is a tendency to assume that
+Major Changes will take place.  Take a look sometime at a film -- the first SF
+musical motion picture -- called "Just Imagine," produced during the 30s.  It
+talked about a future world in which everyone would have personal flyers, no
+one would have names any longer, only numbers, children would be manufactured
+and people would eat pills instead of food.
+ The time-frame in which all this amazing stuff was to take place?  The 1980s.
+As somebody said, the future ain't what it used to be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 152       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:02 EST
+
+     The defense system for B5 consists of a system of moderate level
+defensive grids, hull-mounted weaponry (which is generally concealed behind
+large plates, which would be blown off with explosive bolts to reveal the
+weapons beneath), and a small number of individual fighter  craft stored in a
+docking bay at the rear of the station.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 158       Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:37 EST
+
+     The two things on front -- the spikes, as it were -- are on either side
+of a second loading bay, this one expressly for cargo held in the zero-g cargo
+hold.
+
+     The vanes in the back are heat radiators, as I recall from the original
+design notes.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+Topic 14        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:59 EST
+Sub: Lurkers/Introductions: Please Sign In
+
+A place for newcomers to come in, say hello, whether you want to jump into the
+conversation or not, just to let us know you're here.
+151 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 14        Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:13 EST
+
+     Great!  A hi to all the folks who've come out and introduced themselves.
+Good to have you aboard.  It's interesting to know who all is out there...the
+varied backgrounds and fields and "what brought me me here" is intriguing.  A
+fine buncha folks....welcome.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 78        Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:15 EST
+
+     Actually...y'know...it's funny, but I've been trying to come up with a
+name for the folks who just sorta roam B5, the "homeless" or others who have
+enough resources to get there in hopes of jobs or new worlds, and don't have
+enough to get off again...and who play a running game of tag of sorts with B5
+security..."Lurkers" ain't bad....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 132       Sun Jan 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:15 EST
+
+     Hey, Mark, good to have another H-25er around.
+
+     Pat: I taught at Grossmont College for about one semester, it's a pretty
+good place.  (Went to San Diego State and  meself.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 135       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:52 EST
+
+     I taught writing (what else?)...I *think* it was around 1979 or 80.
+After a while, everything blurs.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 143       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:59 EST
+
+     Re: SDSU, no, I had very little to do with the cinema/telecom dept.
+there.  I crashed two courses -- mainly because I wanted to learn from a
+particular instructor, Norman Corwin -- and had one or two others, but that's
+it.  My interest was in other areas...one degree in Clinical Psychology with a
+minor in Philosophy; another in Sociology with a minor in Creative Writing,
+that sort of thing.
+
+     BTW, if you go down to the offices of the Daily Aztec, and ask to see the
+archive volumes of the paper around 1977/78 or thereabouts, you'll see several
+zillion articles by me in there.  At more or less the same time, I was the
+resident book reviewer, film reviewer and theater reviewer, had two weekly
+humor columns ("A View from the Rabbit Hole" and "A Modern Cynic's
+Dictionary"), as well as regular feature articles and profiles, and the
+occasional investigative article, including one on the CIA.  The frequency of
+articles led some to describe the paper as The Daily J. Michael.  At the same
+time I was doing cover stories for the San Diego Reader, the Daily
+Californian, features for the SD edition of the Los Angeles Times, and
+entertainment reviews for KSDO-AM Newsradio.
+
+     But the Daily Aztec stuff was great fun.  I worked without pay, the only
+one on staff who did, in fact...because I didn't want to be beholden to
+anybody, could write what I wanted, nobody had any leverage.  Which was all
+for the good, given the massive numbers of angry letters and the occasional
+bomb threats elicited by what I wrote.
+
+     Can't imagine why....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 147       Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:57 EST
+
+     Yes, a VERY large blunt object.
+
+     The one point of any possible interest to draw from this comes from
+something I tried to beat into incoming students when I was an orientation
+counselor at SDSU: if you go to college, and all you see are the class rooms,
+the bathrooms, the parking lot and the cafeteria, you will cheat yourself of
+99% of your possible education.  Any university or college has vast
+opportunities for writers and others.  In the former case, write for the
+university newspaper, or the university theater (and most schools have an
+ongoing one-act production program)...take classes in acting or film, to get a
+sense of history, or the hands-on process of being on stage...the range of
+experience open to you is enormous.  Don't just follow your major to its
+conclusion.  There is a world of experience you can get while you're there
+*that you may never have the chance to experience again*.   Take it.
+
+     End of sermon.  I shouldn't even be here, frankly, this is for the new
+folks and others to sign in and introduce themselves...both for the interests
+of our own private party, so we know who's come into the room, and for any
+possible future mailings or opportunities.
+
+     Let's hear from y'all.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+Topic 15        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:29 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Alien races              
+
+Aliens races in Babylon 5... their politics, abilties, technology, history,
+and any other discussion specificly about non-humans.
+
+80 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 2         Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:19 EST
+
+     I'll have to be a little circumspect here (damn it, you're doing it
+again....).  The Narn Regime is not currently at war with the Centauri
+Republic, which occuped the Narn homeworld for nearly a century before finally
+being driven off by the Narn resistance.  Their resources depleted they are
+not currently in a position to make war on anyone; being naturally rather
+paranoid, and having just been more or less enslaved, they have a dread of
+other races getting together and possibly harming them, as well as a hunger
+for the technology that might protect them down the road (as Russia feared
+invasion its Eastern Front after WW2).
+
+     There's a rough alliance between the Earth Alliance and the Centauri,
+since theirs was the first race we encountered.  (They told us at that time
+that they were the biggest guys around, that they ran everything, that we were
+a lost colony of theirs...which eventually was disproven by genetic
+examination.  The rest of their claims were also BS.  They were trying to
+impress the natives.)
+
+     There's some movement toward making nice with the Minbari, but also a
+GREAT deal of resistance, given the recent war.
+
+     Here's one little extra for you: only one person aboard Babylon 5 has any
+idea of what a Vorlon is, inside that suit, and only one race has had dealings
+with the Vorlons before.  Watch the reception at the end, and see if you
+notice anything unusual in the way the various people respond to Kosh.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 8         Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:13 EST
+
+     Jonathan...............YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!  One at a time, please!
+
+     The only questions I can remember...the vorlons have never fought a war
+with any other race.  (At least none has ever been recorded.)  And right now
+in the Minbari race there's a big split that took place after the
+Earth/Minbari war between the religious leaders and the military leaders,
+which culminated with the suicide of the Minbari commander at the conclusion
+of the war.  They've now arrived at an uneasy truce, but with time, who knows?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 12        Fri Jan 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:50 EST
+
+     Anyone who will take the job.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 27        Sun Jan 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:41 EST
+
+     By the way...someone on another CIStem posted a note about one of the two
+upcoming DS9 episodes, that one of the alien species they would encounter are
+named Vaa'lons...anyone else heard this?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 34        Mon Jan 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:43 EST
+
+     Actually, I disagree...the basic "model" of the human form is very well
+tailored and may be more general than we might suspect.  Legs for walking,
+probably two because all closed up sideways we present less of a silhouette
+for predators, and two legs are more nimble, can slip through narrower places
+than three.  Arms to lift, and hands to manipulate objects (show me a culture
+without a good opposable thumb) required for the birth of technology.  Sensors
+(eyes/ears/nose) at the very highest part of the body, best for observational
+purposes, hunting and the like.
+
+     There are zillions of species on Earth, but you rarely seen anything
+above spider-level with more than six legs.  Now, I'm not saying that it's
+impossible to have other forms, not at all...only that the humanoid form may
+in fact be far more common than anyone suspects.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 45        Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:19 EST
+
+     Heh...I like that....I have sudden images of two aliens, one in a
+mustache, curly black hair, glasses and a big mustache...the other in a
+triangular cap, curly black hair, pushing an ice cream cold-box...his name is
+pronounced Chee-KO, the other Gro-CHooo..."Getta you tootsey frootsey ice-a
+cream, getta you tootsey frootsey ice-a cream...."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 49        Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:29 EST
+
+     Actually, for the pilot in particular, Kosh only has to move very stately
+and slowly from point A to point B, so there wasn't much that needed to be
+told.  For a longer period, on the series, he would be played more as a
+cypher...the less that can be revealed, the better.  The only people directly
+involved who had to know was the director (for certain attitudes) and the
+costume designer (to incorporate certain elements and leave room in
+appropriate sections).
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 71        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:01 EST
+
+     Yeah, that's one thing I've kind of slated in as a B story in a given
+episode...an alien comes aboard and they just can't quite manage to
+communicate, it's just too damned foreign in its thinking.  (What I'd love is
+for them to find out at the end that it's some other alien's damned cat or
+something, and they've been spending all this time trying to communicate with
+something that ain't sentient...but with aliens, how can you tell sometimes?)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+Topic 16        Fri Jan 15, 1993
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 01:02 EST
+Sub: "No kids or cute robots, ever!"      
+
+This is a topic for discussion of the unofficial slogan of Babylon 5.
+35 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 2         Fri Jan 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:31 EST
+
+     On the other hand...maybe it might be better if our Sysoptrix took the
+last, oh, 100 or so messages from 1 about this and transplanted 'em here.  Get
+the whole context in place.
+
+     And lord knows, it's not like she has anything ELSE to do, other than
+nudzhing me....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message  10       Thu Jan 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            (Forwarded)
+
+     The inter-relationships between FOX, PTEN, the FCC and any and all other
+acronymical organizations is utterly beyond my ken, and I would no sooner try
+to explain it or understand it than I would attempt to build a tesseract in
+the back yard.
+
+     In what I *hope* will be a relatively definitive word on this kid
+topic...yes, I can write a story with kids.  I've done it...I did it for the
+Twilight Zone and other shows.  The question is still one of making choices.
+Is that what this series is ABOUT?  You could drop in a chapter on badminton
+techiques into The Lord of the Rings or Debbie Does Cleveland, the question
+is, does it BELONG there?  Is that what the show or the story is attempting to
+address?
+
+     If there were no other shows with kids around, then I would be more
+inclined to do one with kids at the center.  But there are plenty of them
+around, particularly in SF...you've got kids aplenty on TNG, on DS9, I just
+saw a kid story on Space Rangers...this is simply a different kind of show.
+
+     My point is simply this: B5 is meant, in a very real sense, as noted in
+my message on 2, to be an SF novel for television.  If it were just random
+stories skittering hither, thither and yawn, that would be one thing.  But as
+any novelist can tell you, you have to ask, "Whose story is it?" and stick
+pretty close to that, even though you may swerve in and out of other POVs and
+indulge in omniscient narrative.  That requires certain choices about tone and
+attitude and what you include, and what you choose to exclude.  Doesn't
+invalidate one type of story or another, it only says "THIS is what my story's
+about."
+
+     There are plenty of other SF shows with kids.  Let's have something a
+little different.
+
+     (That's one of the ironies that crops up about this show...often people
+say "We want innovation," and when asked for specifics, they ask to make it
+more like other shows.  "Well, TNG does this kind of story, why can't you?"
+We can, but we're not.  Because we're not TNG.  Just as we will do some
+stories that I *guarantee* you ST wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 21        Sun Jan 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:19 EST
+
+     Something I forgot to mention uptopic, when asked if I can write a story
+with kids...it's appeared in a lot of my prose.  The two leading protagonist
+in my most recent novel, OTHERSYDE, were around 16...the lead character in one
+of the first short stories of mine ever to be published ("Your Move," in
+Amazing SF) was about 13, and the second story of mine published ("A Last
+Testament for Nick and the Trooper," Shadows 6)  featured two kids maybe 19.
+
+     Provided only for the sake of completeness.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 26        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:03 EST
+
+     Absolutely.  I love being proven wrong.
+
+     Though there are few survivors to carry the story....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Merchandising            
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+11 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 3         Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:00 EST
+
+     I'll know more about the computer game next week or so.  Best thing in
+general is to write to Licensing Corporation of America to get on their
+mailing list for future B5 promotional stuff and merchandising.
+
+     The Creation designs for shirts look okay, if a tad prosaic...there has
+got to be one central image to promote this show, but I'm darned if I can
+figure out what it is at this stage.  The logo looks swell, though, in any
+event.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS for Jan 16, 1993 - Jan 31, 1993
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic.  The posts are copyright 1993 by 
+J. Michael Straczynski with compilation copyright by GEnie. 
+
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-FANTASY [Yog Sysop]       at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5                            
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category!  As always, offering or requesting copies
+of copyrighted material, whether it's the B5 Newsletter, photos, or the actual
+movie/episodes violates copyright law and SFRT policy.
+555 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 337       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:36 EST
+
+     Actually, JoJo's...uhm...outfit is probably the best thing about the
+show...not for pure asthetics, of course, just...I dunno...I just kinda like
+the dynamics of it...
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 342       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:22 EST
+
+     Indeed, they might withhold such participation, which the PC would be
+obligated to honor.  Non-PC telepaths would be a different situation entirely,
+of course...and a danger...which only a PC (or one of the other government's
+own 'paths, if any) could work against.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 355       Sun Jan 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:01 EST
+
+     The "Making of B5" piece is being re-edited; originally, the E! piece was
+going to be the one shown, but...well, no need to rehash all of that.  The
+piece is being recut, and new stuff put in to replace the old stuff.  It
+should be finished next week, I hear, and then provided to the stations.
+
+     Great news about Arisia, Arne.  Any other reactions come to mind?
+
+     Re: using my posts for articles...by all means, proceed.
+
+     BTW, it appears that the deal for a B5 game has been closed, and the
+winner is Electronic Arts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 358       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:47 EST
+
+     This goes back to a very basic philosophical question: can you have
+thought without language, or language without thought?  At one point in our
+evolution, we became conscious...was there language, or did language then come
+as a *result* of consciousnes?  Or did the slow development of language *lead
+to* the development of true consciousness?
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 375       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:38 EST
+
+     I'll know more about the game in the weeks ahead.
+
+     Apparently, Creation has licensed some stuff...mainly shirts and mugs and
+patches and the like, nothing major, but it's there.  I got the first t-shirt
+design roughs today, and have some notes, but nothing too major.  More as this
+is developed.
+
+     BTW, does anyone know if there are any SF conventions this coming weekend
+in Dallas?
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 379       Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:00 EST
+
+     Licensing Corporation of America.  Based in New York.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 403       Fri Jan 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:03 EST
+
+     You say, "New characters and sets apparently do not work."  The basic
+problem, you seem to feel, is that it's the same show, and how do we go about
+making B5 different?
+
+     I think that the question is more accurately phrased as, "How does one
+make DS9 more like TNG?"  I'm going to do this absolutely as non-pejoratively
+as humanly possible, because this is fundamentally the truth.
+
+     When TNG first went on the air, a lot of the legwork was done for them
+already.  Much of the universe was established: phasers, the Enterprise,
+starfleet, klingons, warp speed, doors, terminology, on and on.  There was
+additional material added on, but the basic *foundation* is the same.  This is
+neither good nor bad.  One can do (and there have been) good stories within
+this format.  What it *is* is a continuation of the same universe.  You can do
+good stuff with that, but it's still fundamentally the same universe.
+
+     Now comes DS9, and again, it's much the same situation: it builds upon
+and integrates what went before.  We have the Federation, stuff introduced in
+TNG (Bajorans, Cardassians), some overlapping characters, and a carry-through
+of many pre-existing stories and themes.  Once again, and let me be clear
+about this, this doesn't mean you can't do good stories here.
+
+     It's just that it's the same universe.  It's not a question, really, of
+"sets and characters," it's a question of the universe overall, and the fact
+that it's really a repackaging of the same show, with some modifications.
+
+     B5 simply does not take place within that universe.  Every frame of film
+reminds you of this.  Without making a qualitative judgment for a moment,
+consider ST vs. Battlestar Galactica.  Both are space shows, but very
+different in tenor, tone and universe.  (BG and Star Wars is, of course, a
+very different discussion.)
+
+     The comparison I've always made has been to say "What if all the space
+science fiction stories ever published were written by Larry Niven?"
+ Yes, they would be fine stories...but one kinda wants something different
+after a while.  He might change characters, create different empires, but it's
+still a Niven point of view.
+
+     And that -- to get to the heart of your question -- is the point re: B5.
+It's a question of *voice* as well as all the physical elements you see on
+your television.  The *voice* is the underlying philosophy of a show and its
+creators, the perspective they bring to it.  Babylon 5 brings in a whole
+different voice.  Better or worse, that's a question for the viewer to
+decide...but it IS different.
+
+     We don't really have to try to be different from DS9 or TNG because we
+were never like them in the first place.  As opposed to DS9, which is linked
+to another show, and proceeds from the same producers/writers, and to which
+they have an obligation to make it, to whatever degree, much the same as TNG.
+
+
+     Those who have seen the two shows have no problem telling them apart.
+And future B5 stuff will continue to remain separate and fresh for the same
+reason that the pilot is different and fresh: because it proceeds from another
+voice.  Just as Clarke's stories have always been different from Asimov's has
+been different from Ellison's have been different from Bova's have been
+different from...well, you get the idea.
+
+     No comparison of quality implied there, only as examples of voice.   (One
+final note: B5 has always been conceived as, fundamentally, a five year story,
+a novel for television, which makes it very different as well.)
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 405       Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:33 EST
+
+     That's not a bad notion.  As it is, the date given in each season of the
+show will change.  I.e., "I was there at the dawn of the third age of mankind.
+It began in the year 2257."  Then, "I was there at the dawn of the Third Age
+of Mankind.  It was the year 2258."  And so on.  So it not only tracks the
+storyline, it'll be easier for folks to know which season they're coming into
+as soon as they tune in.
+
+     BTW, y'know, I was thinking about this discussion as I sat chewing my
+lemon sesame chicken at the Good Earth Restaurant in Glendale this evening (my
+Spousal Overunit insists that I eat something healthy once in a while,
+apparently not believing that one can actually SURVIVE on beef jerky and
+little chocolate donuts and Crystal Pepsi)...and I was thinking about how this
+on-line discussion has now generated -- what? -- 7,000+ messages even before
+the show airs.
+
+     So I got to thinking...what's going to happen AFTER this sucker airs?
+ I kinda suspect that either a) we will see a lot of "I WUZ ROBBED!" notes
+followed by a silence vast as space, or b) this category is going to explode
+in the biggest blast since Tunguska.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 421       Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:28 EST
+
+     So, Denny, any comments of David's that you'd like to repeat here, or
+provide for PR use?  If not, that's okay.
+
+     Yeah, I'm inclined to think that there will be an upswing in interest.
+ What intrigues me is the notion that we actually will have two audiences out
+there: those who've followed this discussion, and will be able to read into
+things the various background information posted here...and those who will see
+it totally absent any background on the characters or the universe.  An
+offhand comment in the pilot would have more meaning for those who've been
+following this, and can fill in the blanks.
+
+     As a writer, though, you can't expect anyone to bring prior knowledge of
+your story TO the story, it has to be self-sufficient, so we'll see how well
+it functions on that level when the new folks arrive.
+
+     I'm sorry if it seems like there's an awful lot of self-examination going
+on here...my tendency is toward being hyper-critical of the work, rather than
+to try and make excuses for it.  And again, I must selfishly admit that I
+learn a *lot* from these exchanges, and the diversity of opinions here, and
+the depth of the answers to questions asked, is quite striking and most
+invaluable.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 436       Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:47 EST
+
+     Funny thing is, I hadn't checked to see when the pilot would be aired in
+L.A.  Kind of amusing...and appropriate, given the probability that the
+audiences will overlap.
+
+     (The article to which Brett refers, btw, is a piece in the Palm Latitudes
+section of the LA Times Magazine that hit the newsstands today, which talks
+about the discussion here on GEnie, and has a photo of yr obdnt srvnt stuck
+inside a computer monitor which should probably be burned...the photo, that
+is...and as if that weren't bad enough, it's a Mac.)
+
+     One other aside...Denny's friend David is the *first* civilian on theh
+planet to see the totally completed B5 pilot, with sound, music and credits.
+Hence the current sub rosa exchange.
+
+     Katherine: yeah, I know there's a Good Earth in Studio City...was hoping
+Spousal Overunit wouldn't find out about it, but she did...sigh.   By gosh,
+give me a hamburger, fries and a chocolate shake!  The heck with this so-
+called health food.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 447       Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:02 EST
+
+     Hah!  Phooey!  Why do you think I grew up...as much as I did, anyway?  So
+I wouldn't have to eat that stuff anymore.  When I'm found dead at 90 in front
+of my TV watching Babylon 5: The Next Generation, let it be with a coke in one
+hand and a chocolate bar in the other.  As Mark Twain said, "If you can't get
+to 70 by a comfortable road, don't go."
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 450       Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:37 EST
+
+     BTW, I'm giving some thought, since I'm going to be appearing at Con-Dor
+in San Diego this March as GoH, to bringing along some of the scenes we ended
+up cutting from the pilot, just to see folks' reaction to the stuff.  (Filmed
+and cut, not cut before filming.  There are about half a dozen extensive
+scenes available.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 454       Tue Jan 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:57 EST
+
+     Don't know if these will ever show up down the road; in a few cases,
+where they're set pieces, we may actually be able to take one whole scene
+which is pretty much independent of the plot and drop it into an episode as
+part of a teaser.  (One, for instance, is an encounter with an alien hooker,
+the other invovles a smuggler.)  They were cut for reasons of time: we were 25
+minutes over length, and something had to go.  Several somethings,
+actually....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 470       Wed Jan 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:34 EST
+
+     Correct, that's the shot seen in the magazine.
+
+     Re: the B5 commercials...please drop me a line reminding me of this prior
+to con-dor, or I'll forget.  (Jeez, between the commercials and the cut
+scenes, this is starting to add up to some considerable viewing time.)
+
+     Coke, Pepsi, who cares as long as it's got caffeine?
+
+     Katherine: I made a discovery, a better deli than Jerry's or Arts:
+Solley's, on Van Nuys two blocks up from Ventura, in the same complex as the
+multicinema.  A good deli, and a great restaurant, with stuff I haven't seen
+elsewhere.  (Corned beef and fried egg sandwich...might as well inject the
+cholesterol right into your veins and get it over with.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 478       Wed Jan 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:45 EST
+
+     How the various shows interface, and how one is linked to the other, is
+best understood only by deities and studio guys; we'll have to see.
+
+     Only problem with coke is that they changed the formula and now use
+sweeteners other than sugar.  Though apparently they put out kosher Coke at
+passover.  Eventually I'll have to get a proper dispenser with Coke syrup and
+seltzer, since the syrup apparently *does* still have the s ugar in it.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 494       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:57 EST
+
+     No, I have no knowledge of the article in question; could you upload it
+to me in email?
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 519       Fri Jan 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:00 EST
+
+     Katherine: my condolences on your recent assignment to a previously
+undiscovered circle of Dante's Inferno.  Surely your current task is
+prohibited under the Geneva Convention....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 535       Sat Jan 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:13 EST
+
+     So, I like the number 5.  Actually, the length was something set with Ron
+at the time, and he produced the 5 miles figure (which is a bit short, in
+fact, of the "actual" length as it came out).
+
+     And I didn't make up the L5 stuff...hey, it's synchronicity.  Ohmygosh --
+and I've been typing this with five fingers on either hand (well, nine
+actually, the left thumb doesn't actually DO anything that I'm aware of).
+
+     Re: NATPE...Warners DID have a presentation doing on B5 there.  Not a big
+presence, because they've already sold it to just about all the stations
+that'll be carrying it, and selling is pretty much the point of NATPE, but in
+any event, it was there.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 548       Sat Jan 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:41 EST
+
+     (BTW, Walter Koenig saw the pilot and said it was "a winner," adding that
+he thinks it "should get a lot of the Trek fans, plus a lot of more mainstream
+viewers.")
+
+     How much of the basic "saga" is in the pilot?  Some...bits and pieces.
+The problem, always, is that we have a whole new universe to establish, with
+all the backstory that goes with that.  As it is, it's fairly "information
+intensive," as one person put it.  We find out about the Earth/Minbari war,
+the curious surrender, Sinclair's past, the missing 24 hours, the relations
+between the various governments and their own personal agendas, and a hint of
+what's to come.  This while establishing the backstory of all our characters,
+and telling a story in present time (for them).
+
+     I think you will find indications of what we've talked about for the
+series present in the pilot.  Which is why it bears watching more than once;
+you'll pick up more information and more of a sense of the world the more
+closely you inspect it.  (We tried to come up with a pilot that actually
+BENEFITS from close inspection, rather than falling apart if you look at it
+too closely.)
+
+     Had a meeting the other day with the folks who're going to be doing the
+B5 games.  (As to platform...variations are being planned for ALL of the
+various platforms...CD-ROM, IBM, Amiga, Mac, Sega and so on.)  It was a
+terrific meeting, with top of the line people.  What was interesting was the
+fact that they seemed shell-shocked from dealing with other producers, the
+heavy restrictions, the interference, the hassles...my attitude on this show
+has always been, "Here...we're creating a whole universe for you to go and
+play in.  Do so."  So they're going to have a lot of freedom to come up with
+stuff.  I *want* to be surprised.  Hell, I want to play the games.
+
+     Because of the need to avoid any substantial conflicts with the general
+arc of the story, I gave them a peek into the five year arc, a few things that
+had to happen.  As long as things didn't cross into these areas, the territory
+was completely open.  And knowing that going in, there are no surprises down
+the road to sabotage them.  They seemed...well, there were a lot of very wide
+eyes when I explained some of what we were going to do.  They also saw the
+pilot at the screening that night, and apparently loved it.  We're cooking
+along, folks....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+SOARON [Bio-Dread]           at 19:41 EST
+Sub: General Information                  
+
+Babylon 5 will premiere with a two-hour movie entitled "The Gathering" early
+in 1993.  The creator of the series, J. Michael Straczynski joins us on-line
+to answer your questions.  (No story ideas please...)
+
+394 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 114       Fri Jan 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:25 EST
+
+     Speaking of EFX, I was talking to Ron Thornton during the final mix down
+the other day, and as we were watching it, he kept shaking his head at all the
+things he would've done differently if he'd known then what he knows now, and
+if he'd had the programs/techniques then that he has now.  Just the few months
+since we finished photography have given him  a number of tools that he didn't
+have then.
+
+     We talked a little about what's capable now, what he can do now, and
+what's coming up, and it makes what's in the pilot look like nothing by
+comparison.  (A lot of the critics talked about the extensive work that went
+into the DS9 jello-man effect, not to mention the cost involved; he turned his
+associate Paul into the same thing in a test that worked just as well and took
+one night and no money, just a little while behind the keyboard.)  Once we get
+the go, he and I are going to spend a couple of days just sitting and talking
+about what can be done now, so that I can take full advantage of this new
+stuff.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 127       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:46 EST
+
+     "Bob" will never be seen talking anywhere, at any time, for any reason,
+in B5.  I'll personally run a truck over him first, newscast or not (unless I
+think I can get a good gag out of it...).
+
+     Re: my mental state...I'll know better in a week or so.  I try not to get
+too personally involved with my own life.  Basically, it's lots of fatigue.
+During the five days of editing, there was so much going on (the
+music/sound/dialogue edit), I was so obsessed with making sure it all fit
+together, that for two nights out of that I got no sleep at all, not so much
+as a minute...I'd crash, and just stare at the ceiling, brain chasing itself
+in ever-smaller circles, until gradually light started to come in through the
+window slats.  (Did you know that Danger Mouse is on at 6:30 a.m. out here?
+I'd wondered where that show had gone.)  This happened two nights in a row, so
+by the end of the fourth day, without really any sleep at all, I had elevated
+to a whole new plane of consciousness.  The day after we finished, I slept for
+something like 18 hours straight.
+
+     I tend to live crisis to crisis, and I guess right now my mental state is
+mainly one of concern for how the show does when it airs.  First was the
+concern about getting the show made; then the concern about getting the show
+made RIGHT; then the conern about post-production; then the concern
+about...well, you get the idea.
+
+     There's this great character in Eric Frank Russell's "Men, Martians and
+Machines" about a photographer who, on return starflights from the ship's
+exploratory missions, sits and does nothing but worry about his pictures
+coming back intact.  The one time he DIDN'T worry, they were destroyed.  So
+now that's what he does: sits, stares, and worries.  That's about how I get
+through on shows like this.
+
+     BTW, for those interested, the magazine Aboriginal SF has an article by
+Susan Ellison about B5, including an extensive commentary from Harlan about
+his involvement with the show.  (The issue just hit the stands.)
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 152       Sun Jan 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:05 EST
+
+     BTW, to correct an erroneous statement of mine earlier, there is not a
+species named Vee'lons that will be introduced on DS9.
+
+     The Vee'lons will be introduced on Space Rangers.
+
+     Some days, I just can't get a break....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 172       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:42 EST
+
+     I take great joy in being politically *incorrect* at every possible
+opportunity.  I believe in the motto someone at the BBC once voice:  "There
+are some people we WANT to offend."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 185       Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:47 EST
+
+     Re: starships from Earth...yes, you'll be seeing a wide range of  ships,
+from smaller transports and trading vessels to big mothers.  It is something
+of an empire, and the ships come in as many varied forms as we have cars and
+trucks and semis and tanks and on and on....
+
+     Re: talking vs. action...there's a shade more exposition than I'd like in
+the pilot, mainly because there's so damned MUCH background to establish, so
+much ground to lay...it'll be more evenly proportioned in the series.  I like
+action.  For me, the #1 crime of any TV show or movie is that it should bore.
+When in doubt, kill somebody.
+
+     Or blow something up.
+
+     Re: technology...yes, the point about the sudden jump via new
+technologies is exactly dead on.  It *did* have a tramautic impact, and to
+varying degrees still does.  The effect of technology, and the desire for
+same, will be a recurrent thread.  There are some technologies that are
+considered too radical for some species, and are thus kept off limits, with
+prison sentences or even death sentences for smuggling certain kinds of
+technologies.  One such tech-runner appears in the pilot.  The parallel, I
+suppose, would be our current concerns with the spread of nuclear technology.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 205       Fri Jan 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:05 EST
+
+     Matt: the most entertaining thing for a writer is creating a character;
+the second most entertaining thing is killing off a character.  Believe me, as
+you'll see in the Fight To The Death in the pilot, I have no problem dropping
+a body.  And as far as I'm concerned, only 2 or 3 characters in this series
+are indispensible...the rest are open to all kinds of interesting fates.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 206       Fri Jan 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:10 EST
+
+     P.S.  If you want," check out the Captain Power two-parter I wrote,
+"Retribution."  That should answer the question....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 216       Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:35 EST
+
+     Yes, I *strongly* believe that there has to be diversity among our alien
+races...accents, political beliefs, religion, name it.  I think that is VERY
+important.  Yes, from time to time, you want the monolithic, perfectly
+homogeneous aliens, but if so, you want them to stick out a bit in contrast to
+the rest.
+
+     As has been noted, there's a *big* split currently going on between the
+Minbari warrior and religious castes, for instance.  More will come later.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 227       Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:31 EST
+
+     What happens if something happens to one of the actors?
+
+     We'll deal with that when it happens.
+
+     (Was that okay, Mr. Director...?)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 230       Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:03 EST
+
+     "Do not tempt the hand of fate...."  Gee, I'm getting good at this.
+There may be a political career ahead of me.
+
+     The best way to help the show get the attention it deserives, and to get
+feedback on everyone's efforts, is to contact your local station and Warners
+after the show airs.  (Er, that should be "deserves" above.  One of these days
+I'm gonna try Aladdin.)  Right now, it's all in the hands of the one-eyed god
+of television PR....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 231       Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:09 EST
+
+     BTW, before I forget, in addition to the People Magazine ads (and others
+that'll be popping up soon enough), there's an article on Andreas Katsulas
+(G'Kar) in the current Starlog, which came out pretty well, and an A.P. story
+that features B5 that should show up in various papers in the next day or so.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 240       Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:56 EST
+
+     The comment re: Twin Peaks is correct; I loved TP dearly, but if you
+missed one episode, you were screwed.  The way the story is constructed, you
+can come in at any point, even miss episodes, and still be able to follow the
+thing.  It's just that the *more* you watch, the more you'll get out of it,
+the more things you'll pick up on.  It's a very difficult task from a writing
+point of view, but worth the effort, I think.
+
+     Re: the actors...yes, there was a great degree of comitment on their
+part.  The head/hairpiece for Londo worked fine, but just to add to the
+authenticity, Peter Jurasik shaved his head for the duration of the shoot.
+ All of the actors did research into their characters, got books on SF if they
+didn't know much about the genre, on and on.  They *very much* got into it,
+down to consulting about their wardrobe and having input into prosthetics (to
+some degree).  We want them to be comfortable, otherwise they can't do their
+best work.
+
+     They're all certainly committed to doing the 5 year stint; as for being
+forever inserted into SF...there's the question of typecasting, and we've
+tried to circumvent that in some sneaky ways (who's going to recognize Mira or
+Andreas outside of their makeup?).  Nimoy had problems because it was his face
+and head, just a pair of ears stuck on.  If we have lots of alien makeup, we
+try to hide the actor's face (while allowing for varied expression) so they
+can do other stuff.  I think it's important to try and think of your actor's
+well being and career...because then you create a good and healthy environment
+for them, and it serves you well in the long run.
+
+     I've not been consulted re: closed captioning, and must confess that I
+don't have the info on this.  Will see if I can find out.
+
+     Yes, I was consulted about the ads, and while accepting the graphics,
+provided alternate copy for the ads, which I thought were a tad heavy handed.
+But overall, I'm quite happy with the approach that's being taken.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 242       Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:16 EST
+
+     I think that talk would be premature; let's see if it GETS that kind of
+attention, or if folks want to run us out of town.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 250       Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:29 EST
+
+      A video index...oh man...you're *deliberately* trying to make my
+ life a living hell, aren't you?  (More than it is already.)
+
+      We'll see.  It's something I'll mention, and see how they react.
+
+      Meanwhile, here's a little something I came across in my computer
+ this evening.  I had always sensed that the Londo introduction/narration
+ at the top of the pilot was the way to go.  But it never hurts to try
+ other avenues...you discover the darndest ideas that way.  Anyway, I came
+ up with an alternate introduction, just to see if it worked or not.  I
+ rather liked it...and still do, to some degree...but finally opted to go
+ with the Londo intro instead, which is what we'll stick with.
+
+      But since it's not going to be used, I figured...why not let y'all
+ take a look at what would've been an alternate opening for the pilot?
+
+                             BABYLON 5
+                          Insert/Prologue
+
+ FADE IN:
+
+ ON STATIC.  Then: a BLACK SCREEN, OVER which we HEAR the FEMALE
+ voice of a news broadcast in progress:
+
+                              FEMALE VOICE (vo)
+                -- continue to bring you updates on
+                the Interplanetary News Network.
+
+ And now, gradually, a PICTURE begins to emerge from the darkness
+ -- grainy, slightly washed out, a VIDEO IMAGE of Babylon 5.
+
+                              FEMALE VOICE (vo)
+                In other news, the Earth Alliance
+                space station Babylon 5 celebrates
+                its first year in operation with the
+                imminent arrival of an ambassador
+                from the Vorlon Empire.
+
+ And now: a MONTAGE of shots from within B5, and some EFX shots
+ from outside...the casino, the customs area, the bazaar and other
+ areas.  During this, the IMAGE BEGINS TO SHRINK, to recede into
+ the distance, and gradually the stars begin to come out on all
+ sides of the picture, framing it.  This UNDER:
+
+                              FEMALE VOICE (vo)
+                Located in neutral territory, Babylon
+                5 has exceeded all expectations in
+                dealing with the many life forms that
+                pass through the five mile long
+                station.  As a result, Earth Central
+                has approved an appropriations bill
+                to keep the orbiting freeport open to
+                travelers, businessmen and diplomats
+                for another five years.
+
+ And now the image shifts, and the picture continues to recede
+ into the distance, now only a few inches across...a grainy black
+ and white image:
+
+                              FEMALE VOICE (vo)
+                Meanwhile, a new binary star
+                discovered by Mars colony scientists
+                has been named Kennedy Proxima, after
+                20th century president John F.
+                Kennedy, born 340 years ago this
+                week.
+
+ And now, in the small picture framed by stars, receding more
+ rapidly from view, we SEE footage of JFK speaking before the
+ Democratic convention the eve of his presidential nomination:
+
+                              KENNEDY
+                I believe that the times require
+                imagination, and courage, and
+                perseverance.  I'm asking each one of
+                you to be pioneers toward that New
+                Frontier.  My call is to the young at
+                heart, regardless of age; to the
+                stout of spirit, regardless of party;
+                to all those who respond to the
+                scriptural call, "Be strong and of
+                good courage.  Be not afraid, neither
+                be dismayed."  For courage, not
+                complacency, is our need today.
+
+ UNDER this, Kennedy's image recedes further into the distance,
+ growing smaller and smaller until he is now one of the many
+ surrounding stars splashed across the blackness of space.  A
+ moment, and the MUSIC RISES, brave and martial, as we
+
+ TILT and PAN ACROSS to reveal Babylon 5 itself, up close and
+ personal in all its huge splendor.  PUSH IN on the station as
+ a ship approaches, and we HEAR:
+
+                              LAUREL (vo)
+                Confirmed, Delta Gammer Niner, you
+                are clear for docking.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 251       Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:33 EST
+
+     That should be Delta Gamma Niner, not Gammer Niner.  Typo.  Sorry.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 265       Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:17 EST
+
+     Generally speaking, I agree with the sentiments expressed, and what
+you've picked up on are the reasons that I decided against using this
+particular form, even though there are things I like about it.  What was, for
+me, the #1 reason for not using it is that it's...for lack of a better term,
+fairly prosaic.  A news cast as opposed to the voice of the story teller, a
+sense of future-history you get through Londo's voice and the identification
+of him as the storyteller.
+
+     Although I agree about the Kennedy tie, and that it can be somewhat
+problematic, what I like about it is that it fed into what I've been after
+with this show from day one...to tie our past, our present and our future.
+Done properly, it could've been fairly classy, I think.  And there's Kennedy's
+voice -- I have the tape of his speech -- which rings powerful and true in
+that speech.  It set a tone.  But as has been noted here before, writing and
+acting and directing are fundamentally about making choices...this move rather
+than that, this attitude over that attitude.  The Londo choice was the
+*better* of the two, even though there's much about this version to commend
+it.
+
+     (A quick aside re: the MURDER question...the episode you cite was one
+done under my watch, but not the one I mentioned as the last I'd have anything
+to do with for this season.  That one, which I wrote, aired about two weeks
+ago.  The one you saw this weekend was from last season, as is the one coming
+up this Sunday, an episode of mine called "The Committee," a fairly gothic
+episode that actually came out quite well.  The mystery element may or may not
+be that strong, but for me, MURDER was always a character story first, onto
+which you graft a puzzle.)
+
+     Well, review copies of the pilot are going out, and have gone out.  I
+heard through back channels that a major reviewer for a major magazine saw the
+pilot on Thursday last and his head exploded, thought it was terrific.  The
+one comment that I keep hearing back from people is that it redefines SF on
+television.  Now, that doesn't necessarily mean it's the best thing since
+sliced bread, but in terms of character and SFX and the general, more adult
+approach, it redefines what you can get away with.  Which is all to the good.
+
+     As for what I'm doing now...writing a script for a friend who's in a
+bind, ratcheting up the PR on the show a little more, giving interviews and
+suchlike, trying to get a leg up on my next novel so I'll be able to  continue
+with it once this thing gets going to series, and some other stuff that, for
+the moment, is classified.
+
+     It's now less than a month until this thing shows nationally.  And just a
+tick over two weeks until those with satellite dishes pull the show out of the
+general ether.  By February 22nd, I fully anticipate being a complete and
+total basket case.
+
+     Fortunately, it's unlikely anyone will notice....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 272       Tue Jan 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:09 EST
+
+     Rob: the scenario you posit is a viable one.  Nuff said.
+
+     RE: the making of stuff...rather than a half-hour show, the stations
+(which in some cases had a hard time breaking loose a full half hour) will be
+getting promos from a minute-thirty to 20 minutes in length, which they can
+drop in as they wish, giving them more flexibility.
+
+     It *may* go out to them along with the B5 downlink, but I'm not sure.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 275       Tue Jan 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 07:17 EST
+
+     (What the hell am I doing up at 4:15 a.m. my time?  Watching B5 for the
+ten zillionth time.  Picking it apart.  Making notes.  This is nuts.   I'm
+going to bed.  See you all in the afternoon.....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 288       Tue Jan 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:58 EST
+
+     Artisan: I think j.roy's got some graphics that qualify; nudge him into e-
+mailing them.
+
+     Nothing to pick at?  Oh, dear.  Stand with your face half an inch from
+the mirror, and tell me you see no imperfections.  We all see the things
+others miss.  Tell you what...at some point after the pilot's aired, after
+things have settled down, I'll go through my list of things to do better in
+the series, things we should've done different in the pilot, on and on.  But
+that's the *purpose* of a pilot, to try a show out for size, see how it fits,
+and make adjustments.
+
+     But no matter how good it gets, everything is open for improvement in
+some way.  You have to keep constantly questioning and re-evaluating.   The
+unexamined life and all that jazz.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 294       Wed Jan 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:36 EST
+
+     Hmm...y'know, given the reaction here, maybe I'll fax the intro over to
+Warners PR and see if they can use it for a promo.  Like I said, I liked it as
+well, it just wasn't up to the level of the rest of the show, I thought.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 295       Wed Jan 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:53 EST
+
+     From the Associated Press article by Scott Williams on the new crop of SF
+TV series (specifically here, DS9, Space Rangers and B5), quoting David
+Gerrold.  "I've seen the pilot, and it's [Babylon 5 is] the best looking of
+the three.  I really do think that Babylon 5 will be the one for grownups to
+watch."  (Article appeared in various newspapers over the last few days across
+the country.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 302       Wed Jan 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:01 EST
+
+     "The Committee," which airs Sunday, is an episode of Murder, She Wrote,
+for which I was producer/writer until recently.  Sorry, thought I was clearer.
+
+     BTW, I recently made a horrific discovery about GEnie posting.  In the
+past (since I compose on-line), I'd hit the carriage return at the end of a
+line...and nothing would happen.  I'd wait.  Hit CR again.  Then I'd get the
+new line...and figured it just took a second to kick in.
+
+     Turns out that every time that happened, apparently the buffer or
+something was getting full, and half the line wasn't getting through each time
+it happened...so there have got to be some sentences of mine that make even
+less sense than usual.  Now that I'm aware of it, I'm going back and revising
+the line when I see the delay at CR.
+
+     I'm meeting Friday with the computer game design people for a few hours
+to kick around the structure for the thing.  Should be interesting; main thing
+will be determing the degree to which this thing should interface with the
+overall acr of the story, or exist totally outside of that arc.
+
+     To the question raised 'way uptopic about comics -- yes, there may in
+fact be one.  And I'm actually quite pleased with the idea (being a comics
+fan).  Imagine what could be done by a Neil Gaiman or a Grant Morrison could
+do with the B5 concept.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 314       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:18 EST
+
+     Y'know, when I posted the original idea for an introduction, I had no
+idea it would generate so many different responses.  And all with some merit.
+Rob, the points you raise are correct: I've always felt very strongly that in
+this show, and in SF in general, it helps to connect the future to the
+present, to show the continuity of the species, of the common coin of our
+shared humanity, our cultures, our languages.  I think  there are other ways
+of doing it, and will do so.  But given the "pro" response, maybe there might
+be some way of using this thing, whether it's as a promo or somehow using it
+in the show.  (Y'know, it *could* be used in the course of a regular episode,
+as I think of it; no reason why it couldn't....)
+
+     Well, one thing's for sure...if it ever DOES get used, it'll in large
+part be because of the reaction here.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 318       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 06:54 EST
+
+     Well, it's almost 4 a.m.  I was going to give you three guesses as to
+what I've been watching -- again -- but I figure by now that's kinda
+pointless.  I know, I know, obsessive/compulsive.  Sue me.
+
+     It's now 2 weeks and 1 day until those of you with satellite dishes see
+the pilot.  I'll be very interested in seeing (well, reading) your reactions.
+I must confess that as this dialogue continues, I find myself learning more,
+and questioning more, and digging deeper for information that had been glossed
+over before.  I very much appreciate your comments, your suggestions, even the
+occasional outbursts of Attitude.
+
+     There will shortly be a private screening of the pilot on a real movie
+screen, just for cast and crew.  The only time that I know of that this thing
+will be shown in the US on a big screen.  Have been going over what I'm going
+to say to the assembled folks...how does one properly thank another for the
+fulfillment of a dream?  How do you quantify five (now six) years of struggle,
+now given life by people you had hardly met one year before, but have given
+their blood and time and effort to see  someone else's dream realized?
+
+     During the filming, as I would be standing on stage, off camera, and we'd
+take a break between shots, invariably someone -- the camera  operator, the
+costumer, an actor, a carpenter -- would come up alongside and say, "Is this
+close to what you saw when you wrote it?  How are we doing on the dream?"
+They knew what it meant, the long road to get here, that it wasn't just a
+*job* for me and many others; it was something we wanted to do out of passion.
+And they responded to that...slept nights on the set rather than going home,
+produced work above and beyond the call of duty...how do you properly thank
+someone for reaching into your head and pulling out a vision and giving it
+form and weight and light and substance?  I don't know.  I don't know.
+
+     Whatever the future holds -- win, lose or draw -- I think we've done
+something special here.  And it's interesting to see how that sense pervades
+everything...the casting, the production...and now even this.  I have noticed -
+- I do a LOT of bbsing, much to my spousal overunit's dismay -- that the tone
+on this category seems vastly different than it is elsewhere.  I don't
+know...a give and take, no flame wars, a sense of community, the VERY SAME
+sense present on the set, in the dressing room, behind the camera.
+
+     In the cold light of morning (when I manage to see it, when I'm not
+coming at 4 a.m. from the opposite direction), I tell myself it's just a
+television show, and six months from now, or ten years from now, no one will
+notice or remember.  At night, as I watch the show again for I no longer know
+how many times, I allow -- just for a second -- the notion that we've carved
+out a little piece of history.  Win, lose or draw, we got it on film, when
+everyone said we couldn't.
+
+     And now it's yours.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 325       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:57 EST
+
+     Bear: you're an evil man.
+
+     I like that.
+
+     Re: "Night of the Living Dead," yeah, that's Patricia Tallman in the lead
+role.  Which is where I saw her for the first time, and decided at that moment
+that I *had* to use her in something.  She's dynamite.  I saw her at a number
+of gatherings in LA, including the Horror Hall of Fame parties at Universal,
+but didn't say anything because...well, when someone comes up to you and says,
+"Hi, I'm a producer, I'd like to use you in my next big project," it's
+invariably perceived as a come-on.  So I waited until the right opportunity
+arose.
+
+     Knowing she'd be perfect for B5, I had her called in to audition.  As she
+was waiting in the hall, nervously practicing her lines, I stepped outside to
+tell her that I'd seen her work, that she was terrific, and that I looked
+forward to working with her.  Apparently she didn't have any idea who I
+was...but found out when she was brought in to do the actual audition a few
+moments later.  There was never any question in my mind about her doing the
+role, and it was one of the smartest decisions I made in this thing.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 345       Fri Jan 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:49 EST
+
+     Re: the Trek story...no, that was very much of its form and of that
+universe; it wouldn't fit in the B5 universe.
+
+     Anything else in the past to compare with B5?  Probably the closest has
+been the novel writing, especially the one I'm working on now.  But overall,
+no, this is the biggie.  If it works, it'll probably be the single largest
+task of my career.  If there's any one thing that I'd want to be remembered
+for, it's a B5 series.
+
+     BTW...just a general note for those who are cycling in and out of the
+conversation...be sure to be around a week or so before the airing of the
+pilot.  Many folks have asked how they can help; at that point, I just may put
+you to work, and take you upon that generous offer...
+
+                                                                jms
+     (that should be up on, not upon...)
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 353       Fri Jan 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:21 EST
+
+      EEEEEEEEEKKK!!!!!
+
+      I just read the first eight messages in the new topic 19 (mine).   Jeez,
+what a flashback.  What redundencies.  Did I really sound that gleepy?  Oh,
+man.  It's like looking at your high school yearbook photo.   Are you guys
+*really* sure you want to do this?
+
+      Eek, I tell you, Eek!
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 363       Sat Jan 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:20 EST
+
+     Agreed on LBJ...he was something of a thug.
+
+     Flat-out wasted tonight...we had a private screening this evening for
+cast, crew, some critics and some Warners execs.  About 400+ people at the
+theater in the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in North Hollywood (in
+the shadow of a 50 foot Emmy).  I don't think I've ever been as nervous,
+because here's where all the people who worked their butts off get to see if
+we screwed it all up for them or not.  Everyone liked it bigtime.  The few
+critics who said anything (most headed out, as is standard, you don't want to
+tip your hand) loved it...one CNN person said he hoped it would run for 10
+years, another critic said it was the best SF television pilot he'd seen in
+the last 10 years...I think they liked it.
+
+     Sitting here now with a MASSIVE headache from fretting over all this, so
+will probably make this short tonight.  (Harlan kept hitting me in the
+shoulder after the screening, smiling and saying, "Will you for chrissakes
+ENJOY this?  It's your night!  It's a hit!  It's wonderful!  This kind of
+night only comes once in your life!  Enjoy it!"  I will...as soon as we get
+the series Go.  Nothing can be allowed to distract from that.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 374       Sat Jan 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:50 EST
+
+     The sound system at the theater was great; we ran it off the D2, the
+master tape, and it came out very well.
+
+     The point you raise re: Starlost is one Harlan's made to me.  When I was
+at times feeling a bit low -- I want the series NOW -- he would point out that
+no matter what happens, we made my show the way I wanted it made, no
+interference...as opposed to what happened with Starlost, which just yanked
+his heart out.  And it's a valid point.
+
+     Thing is, it took five years to get this made, and that it HAS been
+made...it's almost an act of sheer will.  I decided five years ago that no
+matter what happens, this pilot WILL be made.  You have to focus in on the
+goal like a laser beam (tm Bill Clinton).  That's been done.  Now the next
+step: the series WILL be made...and now I have to focus in on that one with
+equal conviction.  It's quite literally the only way ANYTHING ever gets made
+in this town.  Ask George.  He's been down the same road.
+
+     As for the question of the show working with non-SF fans...we've actually
+shown it to a number of people who don't know from SF, and the result has been
+that they've liked it enormously.  The reason, basically, is that it's not a
+hardware-driven story.  It's a character drama with a mystery story element.
+The solution doesn't come from cross-wiring the ramaframmit with the
+zigamakawanna, and computing the resonance factors.   (And I have to confess
+that those kinds of stories bore me to tears.)   You start and end with
+character, and drama...and if you're true to those elements, the audience will
+follow you even into unfamiliar terrain.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 379       Sun Jan 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:21 EST
+
+     (btw...anyone here know of any major conventions between now and February
+22nd around the country?)
+
+     What has been said that's *negative* about the show?  Do you actually
+believe I'll provide *NEGATIVE* information about my own show?
+
+     You do?  Oh.  Then okay.
+
+     Probably the number one comment, when there are any negatives voiced, is
+that the first half-hour is slow when compared with the rest of the episode.
+And I have to agree...there's SO much to establish, so much  ground to cover,
+that the first half hour is very dense.  Once we've established the
+foundation, that changes fast, because we now have a common ground of
+understanding about the universe in which the story is taking place.
+
+     Let's see...one fellow from Starburst Magazine who was at the preview
+said that if it were his, he would've rearranged the last few shots.  The
+current sequence is, Action Scene, Transition with Kosh, Confrontation with a
+Major Character and Sinclair, the Reception, Delenn and Sinclair in the
+Garden, and the final shot with Laurel in the observation dome.  He would've
+put the Confrontation with a Major  character as the LAST scene, and cut the
+shot of Laurel altogether.  His sense is to end on a big scene...my sense is
+that it's better to end on a note that sets up the series to follow.  Not so
+much a negative as a difference of opinion.
+
+     Let's see...some didn't like the gun designs (others loved it), some felt
+we didn't do as much as we could've with the background aliens (some thought
+we did too much)...mainly they've been matters of taste, rather than someone
+finding something that Just Doesn't Make Sense, or an EFX shot that looks
+crummy.  There aren't any Real Big Plot Holes, and insofar as I know, nothing
+major to pick on which is *objective*, only differences of opinion.  (As we've
+seen here with the Kennedy stuff; some liked it, others didn't.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 390       Sun Jan 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:24 EST
+
+     I'll be getting in touch with Mr. Jonas.
+
+     Re: the uniforms...yes, there's a certain traditional look to them, and
+this is deliberate.  Look at any uniform from 200 years ago, and you have
+certain lines and forms that repeat, and which stay part of the uniform.
+There is a STRONG sense of tradition and history in any branch of the
+military.  Heck, the navy not long ago went BACK to a more traditional dress
+after making some modifications.  The basic dress uniform for your basic
+soldier on leave looks about the same now as it did during WW II.
+
+     Much of what passes for SF uniforms/costuming in the future simply
+pretends that all that history and tradition just suddenly came to a
+screeching halt.  In B5, we're trying to connect our past, our present and our
+future, to show the continuity of the human species.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Computer EFX Tech-Talk   
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+549 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 498       Thu Jan 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:20 EST
+
+     While we may indeed have a CGI character down the road, it most assuredly
+*won't* be a shapechanger.  I don't like to swim in somebody else's pond.
+
+     Re: observatories...we'll be introducing the many other specialists who
+work at B5 as we go along, from environmental techs to astrophysicists, so
+we'll definitely find a place for this.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 505       Fri Jan 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:37 EST
+
+     Insofar as I can remember (problematic on the best of days), I never
+cited that the CGI character would be a shape-changer.  Because such is not
+planned...though I suppose I could've been momentarily possessed by an
+idiot...it could happen.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 520       Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:45 EST
+
+     My reaction...it's an interesting idea, yes.  It's also a story
+suggestion, but one K.L. should let slide because I don't think it's a B5 kind
+of story...more of a TNG story.  But the notion of different forms of
+communication than what we have come to accept or recognize as such is
+certainly valid and filled with dramatic possibilities.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 523       Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:19 EST
+
+     The hardest thing, of course, is making the muscles beneath the skin move
+realistically and correctly.  That apparently has just been licked, though.
+Ron mentioned the other day that he just got some new software in that will
+let him do for TV what Spielberg's whole computer operation  is required in
+order to do Jurassic Park.
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 531       Tue Jan 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 07:11 EST
+
+     I'll ask re: Ron's new stuff.  As for the changing technology, I'd like
+to keep things looking *pretty* much the same, so there isn't a big or
+noticeable jump, but things just sorta look clearer and better and more real
+over time, rather than changing things per se.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Cast and Characters      
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+505 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 505       Fri Jan 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:06 EST
+
+     Also, the contracts with the actors for the series extend to the window
+at which time Warners *must* either give us a decision.  So we're covered.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 5         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            (Forwarded)
+Sub: Grid Epsilon Irregulars - News & Info.
+
+This topic is for information about Babylon 5 fan groups, newsletters,
+fanzines, get-togethers, B-5 at conventions, and other general fun.
+288 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 218       Wed Jan 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:00 EST
+
+     Yep...the "beep" stuff will all be clear by the end of the pilot.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 267       Wed Jan 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:39 EST
+
+      Hmm...two 3.5 floppies, that's...2.4 megabytes...my last novel was about
+600k, so that's....FOUR NOVELS!?
+
+     Okay, that's it.  Everybody pony up a quarter....
+
+     Yikes!
+
+     I was far less tired before I read that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 269       Wed Jan 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:34 EST
+
+     (Hmm...that sounded vaguely like a threat....)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 6         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 06:43 EST
+Sub: Where is Babylon 5? TV stations...   
+
+Babylon 5 is a cornerstone of Warner's new Prime Time Network. Here is where
+one can find the station information....
+374 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 287       Wed Jan 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:02 EST
+
+     I'm scheduled for Gallifrey One Goes Forth?
+
+     Oh....
+
+     Er...when exactly is that, again?
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 291       Thu Jan 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:21 EST
+
+     Yes, we've got WOR, which will only be blacked out if your local station
+requests it.  If no one locally is carrying it, then it might indeed be
+available that way.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 305       Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:54 EST
+
+     Okay, here's the deal on the "Making Of" stuff.  Many of the stations
+indicated that they might have a hard time knocking loose a half hour on TOP
+of the 2 hour running time for B5.  So Warners is providing shorter pieces --
+90 seconds, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, 15 minutes and 20 minutes -- to the
+stations, giving them some flexibility.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 309       Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:37 EST
+
+     Don't know the answers to the questions, but will post as soon as I do.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 318       Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:35 EST
+
+     If you're seeing promos for KF and TT, then yes, you'll probably get B5
+on the same station.  As for the 2 1/2 hour feed...I don't know for certain,
+but it's *likely* that the making of clips will be included in that feed.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 320       Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:05 EST
+
+     To the questions about airdates and times...there's no one central source
+for this information, alas; the best thing to do, unless someone else here
+happens to have the information, is just to give your local station a call and
+ask the programming or publicity departments.  They'll be happy to supply the
+information.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 323       Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:52 EST
+
+     BTW, a belated but *substantial* thank you to Jim Partridge for sending
+in the KBHK tape.  Yep, they used B5 footage to promote DS9, all right.  We
+just got it over to the Big Boys, and they'll take care of it from here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 342       Tue Jan 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:11 EST
+
+     Enough stations *are* airing them together that it still causes a
+problem.  Additionally, a "second night" also has financial meanings; the
+doubling of resources to acquire two more programs, making four series rather
+than two.  So it applies in both ways.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 351       Wed Jan 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:42 EST
+
+     Yeah, I'd gotten it, I was just swamped.  (Also there was no letter
+inside, and I had to tear through bags of discarded envelopes set to be
+recycled to find the mailing label with the correct info.)  Would've mentioned
+it before, it's just...my head explodes sometimes, y'know...?
+
+     Gary: that's *great* news re: KUSI.  San Diego's my old home town, so
+it's good they're pushing it.  Wish I'd known about the promo, I could have
+bugged some people down there to tape it for me.  Ah, well....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 7         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+J.HUDGENS [Fenn Shysa]       at 23:07 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- POTENTIAL SPOILERS      
+
+If you've seen the B5 promos or the sales info packages and want to mention
+specific items or situations without worrying about spoiling it for others,
+post & comment here... THERE BE SPOILERS HERE!
+467 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 398       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:50 EST
+
+      There are actually several languages heard on B5, though you have to
+work to hear them.  (Those with surround will have an easier time.)  For
+instance, in the customs area, announcements are made first in English, then
+in Interlac.  In the bazaar area, you'll hear chirrups and whistles and clicks
+and a wide range of language-sounds.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 400       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:12 EST
+
+     There are about as many as now...with a few extras developed on the Mars
+and other colonies.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 408       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:29 EST
+
+     Re: asking telepaths on a date...it would be verbal, assuming we're
+talking PC hrized scans are illegal, and thus they would not be "dipping" to
+know your intentions.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 416       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:48 EST
+
+     (A job like that could take YEARS....)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 433       Thu Jan 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:32 EST
+
+     It's a very difficult area, and I thank Katherine for making the call for
+me...it becomes hard at this end sometimes to call.  My sense, really, is that
+if there are VERY SPECIFIC plotlines put forth, then it becomes an issue
+suddenly.
+
+     As an aside, though, one thing I did hear from the message was the
+Vorlons as Minbari question.  This I can say definitively ain't so.  They are
+two completely different species, with no common points of origin.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 451       Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:38 EST
+
+     Cindy: smug because I've *GOT* the script?
+
+     Cindy baby, I *WROTE* the script!
+
+     I have not BEGUN to smug....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 8         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:41 EST
+Sub: Behind The Scenes                    
+
+Production Designers, Art Directors, Costumers, Director, others...this is the
+place to discuss the production-aspects of B5...it's look and the process
+involved.
+336 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 238       Fri Jan 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:27 EST
+
+     BTW, it's my understanding that the monitor screens on TNG are not
+inserted in post; they're regular TV screens with edges that come out and
+cover any bends in the tube, thereby giving it a flat look.  At least, that's
+what I hear....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 251       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:53 EST
+
+     I agree re: universal translators.  Most everything in the ST universe is
+bent toward making the process easier, less challenging; I want to show the
+process of overcoming.  I think it's great if an alien shows up from a
+previously unvisited planet, and they spend days trying to communicate with
+it.  I think that some computerized stuff might work, as in the case where
+someone programs a machine to go from one specific language to another (sort
+of a species-specific interpreter), but thats about it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 261       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:37 EST
+
+     The language facilities of aliens will vary; probably the most fluent (by
+virtue of necessity) are the ambassadors, whose english is perfect or nearly
+so (cyberlink to the brain dumping the English equivilants of their own
+language and grammar directly into the brain, very expensive and not a little
+painful).  The drawback is that some cultural references or some contextual
+areas may not be as clear as required.  (Londo wondering about ramoras, Delenn
+unsure for a moment about poetry....)
+
+     Re: language in general...I agree that all languages must be "living
+languages" in that they are free to grow and expand and add new terms.   There
+is a difference between this and a *collapsing language* in which the
+distinction between terms (the aformentioned less and fewer) becomes degraded,
+and meanings blur through misuse.  Ase gradually becomes less precise.  A
+language should be graded on how well it manages to communicate the thoughts
+of one to the other.  If it begins to fail in that regard, then it is not a
+living but a dying language.
+
+     (Another example: the way that "anxious" and "eager" have come to mean
+the same thing.  "Anxious" carries with it some degree of worry or dread or
+fear; "eager" is a pleasant term, connoting something wonderful and nice for
+which one is longing.  So when someone says, with a smiling and expectant
+attitude, "Yeah, I'm really anxious to see the new Lucas movie," it's a misuse
+of the term, unless there's some reason for worry.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 268       Sun Jan 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:11 EST
+
+     In terms of the EFX, I think it's all Amigas, with some IBMs being used
+for general computing (letters, schedules, etc.).
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 281       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:49 EST
+
+     Re: TRON v2.0....I'd rather write kids in space.
+
+     Re: places of origin...my sense is that they have their own unique names.
+We don't call our planet Terra (well, not really), or Hum (for Human) or
+Planet Human.  Because some of the names are difficult to pronounce, the
+logical approach is to note them by designation, i.e., "And shall be shipped
+off to the Narn homeworld."  That is the only time or I should say context by
+which we refer to their places of origin.  The only exception to this, and I
+don't recall if this is in the pilot or not, is the Centauri homeworld,
+designated Centauri Prime.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 288       Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:35 EST
+
+     Yes, there are definitely other human settlements...colonies and outposts
+and co-operative projects on other worlds with other species.   It's mainly
+from this overlap that the EA draws its non-human members, though a few worlds
+have chosen to ally themselves directly with the EA.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 325       Fri Jan 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:08 EST
+
+     The command level uniforms (Sinclair, Laurel, Garibaldi) are pretty much
+the same in cut, though Garibaldi's (and all of securityard grey more than
+blue.  Medical uniforms have a somewhat different cut and lean toward charcoal
+grey.
+
+     There's a slightly different cut for grunt-level security, and a slightly
+greener look.  Station techs (maintainance crews and the like) generally get
+yellow outfits with the B5 logo (and are not directly part of the EA
+structure; they work at and for the station per se).  Control techs, in the
+observation dome, for instance, generally don't wear jackets on duty, but
+rather shirts with the B5 logo.  The shift commander, though, does wear a
+jacket with his uniform.  (When B5 opens, you see Laural give a command to the
+shift commander, who then relays it to others.  You can trace the line of
+command in the dome from there.)
+
+     There are, and will be, other variations in uniform, but those are pretty
+much the ones you'll see in the show.  (In addition, of course, to more
+conventional clothing such as that worn by casino workers, marked only by a
+glitter-B5 logo.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 327       Sat Jan 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:26 EST
+
+     If the Garibaldi outfit you refer to is on page 30, that's the same cut
+of uniform as Sinclair's on 34, just a different angle on it.  (And there's no
+white shirt under the outfits on page 28; those are high  collars with gold
+braid.)  Now, there *is* another outfit that both he and Sinclair wear, it's a
+black outfit (pants and long shirt) under a grey flak-jacket, which is a
+combat uniform.  (The flak jackets are composed of various reflective
+substances that help refract and dissipate some of the impact of energy
+weapons.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 329       Sat Jan 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:53 EST
+
+     Oops!  Nope, you're right, yes, there *are* shirts under the jackts
+(actually, there are shirts under ALL the jackets, as you'd expect of
+clothing).  I thought you were referring to the collar.  My error.
+
+     Actually, *ALL* of the costumes are layered.  G'Kar can remove six
+different layers of his outfit, Londo can wear the jacket with or without the
+vest (which can also be removed for the shirt below), the Minbari wardrobe is
+equally layered and can be played with as well, on and on.
+
+
+                                                       jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 331       Sun Jan 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:27 EST
+
+     Rob: so what would you suggest?
+
+     If B5 succeeds, there will be comics published in the same basic
+universe, as well as novelizations.  These will be specifically encouraged to
+go in different directions, partly for selfish reasons, so they won't mess
+with my time/character line, and partly because I'd like to see what others
+can do with this universe...sort of like a shared world anthology.  So yes,
+there's room to play, and with luck, we'll see it there and elsewhere.
+
+     What other options would you suggest?  If I've missed something, let me
+know.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 335       Sun Jan 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:31 EST
+
+     Rob...my friend, it took me five years to get this one show into
+production.  The rest...I'll leave those to somebody else.
+
+     Re: colors and uniforms...we decided against using color that much as
+service designation (red for security, and so on) for two reasons: one is that
+it's so associated with Trek.  We're not Trek.  We allowed a touch of it in
+the insignia, but in a very limited way.  Second reason, you're dealing with
+aliens who see various colors and don't see others, and alien sectors where
+the lighting may wash out or totally change the color codes, which is why we
+went for specific *symbols* for different areas (security, maintainance,
+command and so on).  If you're in the alien sector that uses red light
+heavily, and you need help fast, you don't want to try and figure out of
+that's a blue stripe or a purple stripe  when asking somebody for help.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 9         Wed Nov 11, 1992
+T.RESTIVO [Little Guy]       at 18:27 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Humor                      
+
+From *Beep Beep*, to Top Ten Lists to full-blown paradies, this is where to
+put your funny bone in writing!
+172 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 150       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:24 EST
+
+     Kosh as in "gosh."  There's actually a last name, btw...Naranek.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 156       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:50 EST
+
+     Pronounced Nuh-RAH-nek.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 10        Thu Nov 12, 1992
+SANDMAN [Henry]              at 19:25 EST
+Sub: Sex in Babylon 5                     
+
+Can't do without this one!!
+
+
+104 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 101       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:49 EST
+
+     Yep.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B-5 ADRIFT!                          
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+373 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 323       Fri Jan 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:48 EST
+
+     Definite no on the question of matter transmitters.  That's a little too
+much in the magic/science-fantasy area for my preferences.  Space travel is
+done in ships.
+
+     Re: Captain Power...it aired in 1987/88 in syndication.  Was set in the
+future, after the MetalWars, in which one man, who caused the war (in the best
+interests of humanity) decided that to save humanity it must be digitized and
+stored in machines for the day when perfect metalloid bodies could give
+mankind immortality.
+
+     Re: Twilight Zone...yes, I worked on the syndicated version.  Among the
+episodes I wrote (I was also story editor) are "The Mind of Simon Foster,"
+with Bruce Weitz; "Dream Me a Life," with Eddie Albert; co-wrote "The Curious
+Case of Edgar Witherspoon," with Harry Morgan, and co-wrote "Our Selena is
+Dying" posthumously with Rod Serling, from a long lost TZ outline.  Other TZs
+that I wrote around that time, but whose stars I can't consistently recall:
+"The Wall," "The Call," "What Are Friends For?" "Something in the Walls,"
+"Acts of Terror," "Special Service," "Rendezvous in a Dark Place," and have
+another shared writing credit on "The Trance."
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 356       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:50 EST
+
+     No, I wasn't previously aware of "Agony" (except what I've gone through
+these last six months), but will look for it in future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 372       Wed Jan 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:43 EST
+
+     Shot on 35mm film.  Transferred to tape for post.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                  
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+190 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 174       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:22 EST
+
+     I think you'll see the biggest push 7-10 days before, yes; and given that
+the PTEN ratings have been quite good overall, it's kinda hard to argue too
+strenuously with that approach.  I imagine that reviews and stuff will be
+coming out about the same time.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 176       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:01 EST
+
+     BTW, I've been hearing more and more from our Warners liaison that the
+reviewers who've gotten copies of the B5 pilot have had their corneas melted
+by what they've seen.  Half a dozen have already scrapped plans for other
+covers in their weekly television magazine/supplements in deference to a cover
+story on B5 (and this during Sweeps Week, no less!).
+
+     Keep your eyes peeled, folkses...the stuff should start hitting the
+streets in the final week of our countdown.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 186       Sun Jan 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:29 EST
+
+     Getouttatown...really?  I know Somtow, and I'm surprised he didn't tell
+me he snuck this in.  That's funny....
+
+     Oh SOMMMMMMtow...c'mere...I wanna talk wit'cha....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 13        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 21:00 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Science and Technology   
+
+Jump gates, nanotech, high-tech weapons, starship drives, sound in space, and
+other subjects of science and technology in Babylon 5.
+269 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 152       Sat Jan 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:02 EST
+
+     The defense system for B5 consists of a system of moderate level
+defensive grids, hull-mounted weaponry (which is generally concealed behind
+large plates, which would be blown off with explosive bolts to reveal the
+weapons beneath), and a small number of individual fighter  craft stored in a
+docking bay at the rear of the station.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 158       Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:37 EST
+
+     The two things on front -- the spikes, as it were -- are on either side
+of a second loading bay, this one expressly for cargo held in the zero-g cargo
+hold.
+
+     The vanes in the back are heat radiators, as I recall from the original
+design notes.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 164       Thu Jan 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:26 EST
+
+     Yes, there are definitely different levels in each section of B5.
+
+     And yes again, down the road there will be both small flyers and
+individuals with air-packs in the zero-G section at the center of the Garden.
+Ron's worked out how to do it.
+
+     How's it illuminated?  Quite nicely, actually....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 172       Fri Jan 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:41 EST
+
+     250,000 is the *maximum* number of beings who can be there at one time;
+that's not necessarily the maximum number of living quarters.  In some ways,
+B5 is like an airport; you come in, linger, then move on to your eventual
+destiny (catching a few winks in the customs area waiting for the right ship
+to come in or go out).
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 187       Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:07 EST
+
+       Yes, if a big ship went into hyperspace on its own power, it would
+likely have to accellerate first, but if it were near B5, it might well just
+use the jump-gate that's already there to save on energy and fuel.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 189       Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:49 EST
+
+     I'll ask Ron.
+
+     This is one of those areas in which I'll have to defer until such time as
+we get a regular science advisor on the show.  I know *some* of this stuff,
+but fact is, I ain't a techie, and this genre is best served by getting that
+kind of information from someone who knows what the hell he's talking about.
+
+     (Which means we *will* be getting a science advisor once this thing gets
+rolling, btw...no one's set yet, but will probably cull from one or two strong
+possibilities over at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  My plan is to also bring
+on a freelance linguistics consultant to invent a few languages for us...and
+that may be somenoe I encountered right here on GEnie, as a matter of fact,
+but will wait until something Happens to give more info on that.)
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 199       Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:04 EST
+
+     As to what happens to their inertia/velocity when they come out, if they
+accelerate going in...yep, we deal with that.  It's in the pilot, and we make
+it clear that they have to take time to decelerate prior to docking.  I think
+in Kosh's case it took something like 2-3 hours to decelerate.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 214       Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:22 EST
+
+     MATH!  MATH!  YOU SAID THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY MATH ON THIS TEST!  I DIDN'T
+STUDY!  HOW MUCH OF MY GRADE WILL THIS BE?!  AAAUUUGGGHHH!!!
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 219       Tue Jan 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:59 EST
+
+     That's actually fairly close to what we were planning...have you been
+hanging around Ron again...?
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 221       Tue Jan 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:40 EST
+
+     Disagreement: the coolest show ever made is THE PRISONER.  I hope to
+capture a little of the flavor of that show, mainly by playing a little with
+surrealism, what's real and what's not...but it'll pale beside that show.  THE
+PRISONER, for me, is the perfect television program.  I've never really seen
+its equal.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 241       Wed Jan 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:24 EST
+
+     I'd expect a comment like that from someone who watches GI Joe....
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 243       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:24 EST
+
+     Nope, the music is all original to our composer, Stewart Copeland.
+
+     And it be WAY cool.
+
+     (On the B5 blooper reel, there's a shot of all these alien faces, and
+that rock song with the lyric, "Everyone's strange, when you're a stranger,
+faces look strange, when you're alone" going on in BG.  Very funny.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 246       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:59 EST
+
+     That's probably something that'll have to be worked out between the
+Language Person and Warners.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 253       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 06:34 EST
+
+     Okay, okay, I got the lyrics wrong, but I got 'till *right*.
+
+     Thing is on the language stuff...it honestly isn't my choice.  There is a
+little thing called "separation of rights."  Publishing rights would probably
+accrue to whoever does the language stuff.  It's not my call.  I would be
+giving away something that ain't mine to give.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 266       Sun Jan 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:30 EST
+
+     Just for clarity, I don't want to "slip Prisoner elements in" in the way
+described.  Was only referencing the show as the kind of show to emulate with
+a beginning, middle and end, and a sometimes surreal aspect that leaves you
+questioning what's real and what isn't.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 14        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:59 EST
+Sub: Lurkers/Introductions: Please Sign In
+
+A place for newcomers to come in, say hello, whether you want to jump into the
+conversation or not, just to let us know you're here.
+187 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 132       Sun Jan 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:15 EST
+
+     Hey, Mark, good to have another H-25er around.
+
+     Pat: I taught at Grossmont College for about one semester, it's a pretty
+good place.  (Went to San Diego State and  meself.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 135       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:52 EST
+
+     I taught writing (what else?)...I *think* it was around 1979 or 80.
+After a while, everything blurs.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 143       Mon Jan 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:59 EST
+
+     Re: SDSU, no, I had very little to do with the cinema/telecom dept.
+there.  I crashed two courses -- mainly because I wanted to learn from a
+particular instructor, Norman Corwin -- and had one or two others, but that's
+it.  My interest was in other areas...one degree in Clinical Psychology with a
+minor in Philosophy; another in Sociology with a minor in Creative Writing,
+that sort of thing.
+
+     BTW, if you go down to the offices of the Daily Aztec, and ask to see the
+archive volumes of the paper around 1977/78 or thereabouts, you'll see several
+zillion articles by me in there.  At more or less the same time, I was the
+resident book reviewer, film reviewer and theater reviewer, had two weekly
+humor columns ("A View from the Rabbit Hole" and "A Modern Cynic's
+Dictionary"), as well as regular feature articles and profiles, and the
+occasional investigative article, including one on the CIA.  The frequency of
+articles led some to describe the paper as The Daily J. Michael.  At the same
+time I was doing cover stories for the San Diego Reader, the Daily
+Californian, features for the SD edition of the Los Angeles Times, and
+entertainment reviews for KSDO-AM Newsradio.
+
+     But the Daily Aztec stuff was great fun.  I worked without pay, the only
+one on staff who did, in fact...because I didn't want to be beholden to
+anybody, could write what I wanted, nobody had any leverage.  Which was all
+for the good, given the massive numbers of angry letters and the occasional
+bomb threats elicited by what I wrote.
+
+     Can't imagine why....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 147       Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:57 EST
+
+     Yes, a VERY large blunt object.
+
+     The one point of any possible interest to draw from this comes from
+something I tried to beat into incoming students when I was an orientation
+counselor at SDSU: if you go to college, and all you see are the class rooms,
+the bathrooms, the parking lot and the cafeteria, you will cheat yourself of
+99% of your possible education.  Any university or college has vast
+opportunities for writers and others.  In the former case, write for the
+university newspaper, or the university theater (and most schools have an
+ongoing one-act production program)...take classes in acting or film, to get a
+sense of history, or the hands-on process of being on stage...the range of
+experience open to you is enormous.  Don't just follow your major to its
+conclusion.  There is a world of experience you can get while you're there
+*that you may never have the chance to experience again*.   Take it.
+
+     End of sermon.  I shouldn't even be here, frankly, this is for the new
+folks and others to sign in and introduce themselves...both for the interests
+of our own private party, so we know who's come into the room, and for any
+possible future mailings or opportunities.
+
+     Let's hear from y'all.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 152       Thu Jan 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:28 EST
+
+     KBHK Channel 44 in San Francisco.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 160       Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:08 EST
+
+     Shane...imagine, if you will, a slow fuse being lit...as I stare at the
+name, thinking, "There was something...something I was supposed to do,
+something...writing?"  Then, finally, the fuse works its way through the dense
+foliage I laughingly call my cerebral cortex and explodes with the words "THE
+ARTICLE, STUPID!  YOU NEVER FINISHED PROOFREADING THE ARTICLE HE SENT YOU!"
+
+     A thousand apologies, Shane.  The piece came in right when I was in the
+midst of finishing B5 and leaving M,SW, my life was degenerating into stark,
+staring madness, and I put it down, intent upon taking care of it that
+evening, and next thing I know...I see your message here.
+
+     Hope I didn't screw anything up....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 165       Tue Jan 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:13 EST
+
+      I forget...which one of us was wearing the rabbit outfit that night?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 15        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:29 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Alien races              
+
+Aliens races in Babylon 5... their politics, abilties, technology, history,
+and any other discussion specificly about non-humans.
+
+128 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 71        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:01 EST
+
+     Yeah, that's one thing I've kind of slated in as a B story in a given
+episode...an alien comes aboard and they just can't quite manage to
+communicate, it's just too damned foreign in its thinking.  (What I'd love is
+for them to find out at the end that it's some other alien's damned cat or
+something, and they've been spending all this time trying to communicate with
+something that ain't sentient...but with aliens, how can you tell sometimes?)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 88        Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:40 EST
+
+     Yeah, you kinda need binocular vision for survival purposes and the
+utilization of tools.
+
+     Re: alien plans...that's something that we'll have to work out down the
+road with our prosthetics people.  I don't think we used the full range of
+aliens (both versions) as well as we might have in the pilot.   We get only
+one medium-long shot of Black Eyes, for instance, and that's one that I feel
+came out VERY well and should be highlighted more.  Some of the others were
+less effective, but were kept to the background.
+
+     I'd like to keep a mix going, about 50/50.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 96        Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:51 EST
+
+     An entire planet of mimes.....AN ENTIRE PLANET OF MIMES!?!
+
+     NUKE 'EM!
+
+     NUKE 'EM TILL THEY GLOW THEN SHOOT 'EM IN THE DARK!
+
+   YAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 118       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:02 EST
+
+      till (til) conj. & prep until
+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
+                                        Oxford American Dictionary
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 122       Thu Jan 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 06:38 EST
+
+     Your teacher was wrong.  The dictionary accepts till.  If required, I can
+call Mrs. Nash, assuming she survived the process.
+
+     Re: aliens...yeah, there was a somewhat naturalistic look to the things
+that I'd like to experiment with come the series.  This was a deliberate
+choice on Criswell's part.  And by and large, it worked out okay.  I just
+think that for the series, it would limit us.
+
+     Criswell's elves actually did a *lot* of research, trying various
+textures and color combinations drawn from nature.  Of course, that's all
+nature as would evolve in an oxygen atmosphere, 1g.  We have to go beyond
+that, and I think there's some nifty stuff that can be done down the road.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 16        Fri Jan 15, 1993
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 01:02 EST
+Sub: "No kids or cute robots, ever!"      
+
+This is a topic for discussion of the unofficial slogan of Babylon 5.
+99 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 2         Fri Jan 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:31 EST
+
+     On the other hand...maybe it might be better if our Sysoptrix took the
+last, oh, 100 or so messages from 1 about this and transplanted 'em here.  Get
+the whole context in place.
+
+     And lord knows, it's not like she has anything ELSE to do, other than
+nudzhing me....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 21        Sun Jan 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:19 EST
+
+     Something I forgot to mention uptopic, when asked if I can write a story
+with kids...it's appeared in a lot of my prose.  The two leading protagonist
+in my most recent novel, OTHERSYDE, were around 16...the lead character in one
+of the first short stories of mine ever to be published ("Your Move," in
+Amazing SF) was about 13, and the second story of mine published ("A Last
+Testament for Nick and the Trooper," Shadows 6)  featured two kids maybe 19.
+
+     Provided only for the sake of completeness.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 26        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:03 EST
+
+     Absolutely.  I love being proven wrong.
+
+     Though there are few survivors to carry the story....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 42        Fri Jan 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:25 EST
+
+     Ah LAHKES Crow an' Tom Servo....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 57        Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:47 EST
+
+     If you can find Harpo, we'll book him on the show....
+
+     Or Chico, or Groucho...but definitely not Zeppo...or Flammo, the Marx
+Brother who ended up on the cutting room floor.
+
+     "Getta you tootsie-fruitsie ice-a cream...."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 64        Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:29 EST
+
+      Rob: that was very funny stuff.  And believe me, I know from Gummo;
+ the Flammo reference was from a play by Louis Phillips, "The Last of the
+ Marx Bros. Writers," very surreal, where they mention Flammo.  The play
+ is about...well...the last surviving Marx. Bros. writer, who is living in
+ a one room flat, doesn't go out, and keeps having delusional conversations
+ with God.  "Make Me Laugh," God says.  The writer starts a joke.
+
+      "Heard it," God says.  Which is, of course, the problem...he's heard
+ ALL of them.
+
+      BTW, if you're a true-blue Marx Bros. fan, you might want to find (if
+ you already haven't) the book "Flyweel, Shyster and Flywheel," which
+ contains many of the radio scripts of that Marx Bros. show, no surviving
+ audio copies of which have survived.  Very, very funny stuff.
+
+      "How much do you charge to perform?"
+      "Ten dollar."
+      "How much to perform but leave out the rehearsal?"
+      "Twenty dollar."
+      "How much not to perform at all?"
+      "Oh, no, boss, you couldn't afford it...."
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 81        Wed Jan 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:36 EST
+
+     KL: though it galls me to quote commercials, I heard something on one the
+other day that's actually quite telling...some restaraunter quoting something
+his father told him: "The guy who says he never had a chance, never TOOK a
+chance."
+
+     What you say is correct: write it, send it out, write another, send it
+out, write another...on and on and on...if it's good, sooner or later
+somebody'll notice.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: BABYLON 5 - Merchandising            
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+55 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 3         Tue Jan 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:00 EST
+
+     I'll know more about the computer game next week or so.  Best thing in
+general is to write to Licensing Corporation of America to get on their
+mailing list for future B5 promotional stuff and merchandising.
+
+     The Creation designs for shirts look okay, if a tad prosaic...there has
+got to be one central image to promote this show, but I'm darned if I can
+figure out what it is at this stage.  The logo looks swell, though, in any
+event.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 21        Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:59 EST
+
+     Jack's message is correct.  The only "sale" aspect was that the GEIs in
+question had to send $1 to help cover postage; the shirt was free.  (I hear a
+few have shown up at auctions for sale; $50 for one, in fact.)
+
+     And yes, the triangle logo has been pretty much officially dropped.
+Whether or not we'll find another use for it down the road is an open
+question, but for now...yep.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 25        Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:47 EST
+
+     Oh, yeah, before I forget (again)...look for ads in People Magazine and
+elsewhere to start appearing in the next few weeks.  And local TV reviewers
+are going to start getting their copies this week.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 27        Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:08 EST
+
+     Well, this IS a science fiction topic.....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 32        Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:11 EST
+
+     BTW, for anyone going to NATPE -- wherever the hell it is -- this coming
+week, there's going to be a big B5 display at the Warners booth,  and some
+posters available.  I've asked to get one of the posters for my archives.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 39        Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:30 EST
+
+     Boy, those time distortion fields are tricky, aren't they?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 42        Tue Jan 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 07:13 EST
+
+     Go ahead....YOU tell G'Kar he's ToTo.  Me, I wanna live a while....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 18        Fri Jan 22, 1993
+SF-LAWRENCE [Katherine]      at 01:57 EST
+Sub: Law and Order on Babylon 5           
+
+The sociology of the B5 station is already being discussed and has generated
+so many messages, they deserve their own topic.  Here's where we can discuss
+Law, Order and Penalties for breaking the law, on B5.
+85 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 18
+Message   1       Thu Jan 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            (Forwarded)
+
+     The death penalty question is one I've been debating in terms of B5 for
+quite some time.  Look at the math involved...if you find someone guilty of
+murder, do you spend all the money and time and effort and so on to ship them
+to a penal colony?  The cost would be ENORMOUS.  Do you keep them imprisoned
+on B5?  If so, eventually you'll run out of room.  So the question becomes, Do
+you space them?  Kill them humanely?
+
+     There's a B5 story I have in mind that will explore this question, but
+I'm not yet sure which way I want to go on it.
+
+     And to the question above...some stations air PTEN shows on different
+nights, yes, there's some flexibility.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 18
+Message   4       Thu Jan 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            (Forwarded)
+
+     Ah, but you see, for starters, the issue may not be one of reform; okay,
+A kills B, so we transform A into a better person...this by you is a
+punishment?  What is the purpose of the law, to reform or to avenge?
+
+     Plus you run into the other problem...what of the other species out there
+who may require death for certain offenses, such as murder of their own
+species?
+
+     And consider this: A kills B.  B happens to be your little sister, age
+12.  A gets transformed by the psychs.  And you're now living side by side
+with A, you see him every day, in a closed station...would thisn ot lead to
+MORE murders?
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 18
+Message  31       Fri Jan 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            (Forwarded)
+
+     Yes, but of course the problem *there* (making them work it off) is that
+it begins to institutionalize slavery.  How can you safeguard against
+situations leading to indentured slavery...Person A is *falsely* accused of a
+crime for the purpose of shipping him off to the work colony where he will
+slave away for the Company indefinitely?
+
+     In a way, when you're dealing in this context -- far space -- the
+question of "is murder humane?" is really less and less the operative
+question.  (By "murder" I mean the death penalty in the above.)  You're living
+in *very* small quarters, when you get down to it.  It costs quite a lot in
+time and money to get there.  And to send someone away.  How  much time and
+money do you allocate for extradition across, potentially, x-number of light
+years?
+
+     The best metaphor, I suppose, is a boat at sea.  There are ten people in
+the boat.  A kills B.  You don't really have the resources to rehabilitate
+there.  And barring that option, there's no way of knowing if A won't kill C
+in his sleep...or that D, B's friend, won't kill A at the first opportunity.
+Meanwhile, you've got to put your attention to getting this ship to port
+without totally disrupting operations and sinking before you reach port.
+
+     On Earth, if someone commits a crime, you send them to prison upstate,
+out of sight, out of mind.  But where do/can you send them in such closed
+quarters?  I raise this mainly because what I've always tried to do with B5 is
+to Ask The Next Question.  Very often the answers to those questions aren't
+easy, or comfortable...but they have to be asked, and answered, if your
+universe is to make any sense or have any degree of consistency.
+
+     (And just in general, btw, everyone who comes to B5 operates under EA
+laws, so Earth laws have jurisdiction under *most* circumstances.  But there
+are always exceptions.  And those would be a *real* test.)
+
+     As to the idea that the death penalty costs more than life...yes, that's
+true as far as it goes on Earth...but a station wouldn't have time or money or
+resources for those kind of endless appeals.  Justice wold (would) have to be
+fairly swift, or the entire operation would come to a screeching halt.  So
+what happens to civil rights?  To the question of cruel and unusual
+punishment?  Where does one draw the line?
+
+     They're very hard questions.  And the thing is...there IS no right
+answer.
+
+     On to other things (meanwhile, feel free to keep this discussion
+going...there are a lot of sides to this argument, and it's good to hear all
+of them).
+
+     Yes, there are starmaps around, some are visible in Sinclair's briefing
+room, although they got kinda washed out to a light blue and you really can't
+see them well.  We'll fix this later.
+
+     There are weapons, and we'll see them eventually.  Can the station move?
+Yes, but only marginally, as required to maintain its L5 position.   As for
+the engine room...since this isn't a starship, the engine room is not exactly
+the same.  There's not much of an engine per se; it was built IN one place to
+STAY in one place.  There are maintainance areas and operational sections, the
+blue-collar stuff, though, and that we will be seeing.
+
+     Had something great happen today.  Got a call from a friend, and there
+was a guy in town from Magazine X (I can't give the title), which covers
+computers, and SF, and other related areas.  He wanted to see B5 and do a
+quick interview/review.  Now, this guy is very skeptical and not a little
+cynical, even by his own admission.  I said okay, and he came to the house
+where I cranked up the system and showed him the finished pilot.
+
+     This is the first time a civilian has seen the *completed film*, sound,
+music, pic all.  And a reviewer, no less.  His responce, (response), when the
+pilot was over?  He pronounced it the best SF pilot ever made, the "most
+significant SF event" he had ever seen.  He was just croggled by it.
+
+     I am a happy man.  It's a start.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 18
+Message 41        Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:03 EST
+
+     And there I agree...in our current situation, I much prefer live (er,
+life) imprisonment to the death sentence, first because it allows for more
+time to correct errors if the person's innocent; and second, if the person's
+guilty...deny him an easy way out.
+
+     But again, that's *here* and *now* and may not necessarily reflect  the
+sorts of problems and considerations that may exist on a station such as B5.
+
+     Leviathan: you say that the law should "protect, not avenge."  But
+protect how?  How do you protect against the lover who, in a fit of jealous
+rage, knifes his fiancee to death?  Do we have cameras in every room of every
+house, monitoring for potentially dangerous behavior?  What is the dividing
+point between privacy and endangerment?  Is not the aspect of protection or
+prevention hinged upon the idea of retribution if  caught?  If there is no
+avengement, where then is the prevention?  If there is any privacy at all,
+where is the protection?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 18
+Message 53        Sat Jan 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:52 EST
+
+     I think that, to avoid a western-centered show, you have to work from the
+assumption that the EA has incorporated laws other than those of the good old
+US of A.  Which will add some color to things.
+
+     As for how dangerous a place B5 is...the comment about the prior Babylon
+stations is a good and telling one.  There are almost two levels of
+understanding on this...the sense of those who work there and maintain the
+environment, who know just how fragile this situation really is, and the sense
+of those who come and go, whose sense of safety has to be reinforced if B5 is
+to be commercially viable.  Which opens up some interesting moral and ethical
+dilemmas for some of the crew....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 18
+Message 61        Sun Jan 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:14 EST
+
+     Little Guy: there is, admittedly, a certain advantage to throwing a topic
+out there, and watching a number of intelligent, articulate people who know SF
+debate the thing...it opens your mind to many possibilities.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 18
+Message 66        Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:50 EST
+
+      Jim...hmm...interesting...an inquisitorial system could make for a good
+adjunct to something I'd been thinking of...something Harlan suggested,
+actually, during our first B5 brainstorm session last year.
+
+      Which I'll elaborate on at some point in the future, but in the
+interim...good idea.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 18
+Message 72        Mon Jan 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:32 EST
+
+     Re: the use of psi's in the judicial system...there was a whole long
+discussion of this in another topic...which answered all of the questions
+asked.  In fear of being redundent...does anyone out there remember where that
+discussion took place, so we can send this fellow to the right message(s)?
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 20        Fri Jan 29, 1993
+SF-LAWRENCE [Katherine]      at 06:32 EST
+Sub: "Babylon 5" - Information Only 2     
+
+Topic 1 is for old messages, already archived into the library.  This topic is
+for newer posts, and like topic 19, will remain a CLOSED topic. Get your hot
+Straczynski messages here!  Hot off the topics! <g>
+1 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 20
+Message   1       Fri Jan 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            (Forwarded)
+
+     The command level uniforms (Sinclair, Laurel, Garibaldi) are pretty much
+the same in cut, though Garibaldi's (and all of securityard grey more than
+blue.  Medical uniforms have a somewhat different cut and lean toward charcoal
+grey.
+
+     There's a slightly different cut for grunt-level security, and a slightly
+greener look.  Station techs (maintainance crews and the like) generally get
+yellow outfits with the B5 logo (and are not directly part of the EA
+structure; they work at and for the station per se).  Control techs, in the
+observation dome, for instance, generally don't wear jackets on duty, but
+rather shirts with the B5 logo.  The shift commander, though, does wear a
+jacket with his uniform.  (When B5 opens, you see Laural give a command to the
+shift commander, who then relays it to others.  You can trace the line of
+command in the dome from there.)
+
+     There are, and will be, other variations in uniform, but those are pretty
+much the ones you'll see in the show.  (In addition, of course, to more
+conventional clothing such as that worn by casino workers, marked only by a
+glitter-B5 logo.)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS for July and August, 1993
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 category.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5                            
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category!  As always, offering or requesting copies
+of copyrighted material, whether it's the B5 Newsletter, photos, or the actual
+movie/episodes violates copyright law and SFRT policy.
+288 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 189       Thu Jul 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:12 EDT
+
+     Tim: no one's said a word about it to us, and I don't think it'll really
+have an effect on us, one way or another.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 211       Sun Jul 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:57 EDT
+
+     Actually, my plan is to show a *lot* of what's happening back on Earth,
+because that will tie into what happens on B5.  Social changes, politics,
+religion, sports...again, this relates to one of the themes of B5 from my
+point of view, the continuance of our species,the thread that connects our
+past, our present and our future.  And again, that's something that'll become
+fairly evisode on.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 220       Mon Jul 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:15 EDT
+
+     Prof Mark...you may want to go lie down with a cool, moist towel across
+your forehead until this passes....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 225       Tue Jul 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:20 EDT
+
+     Gerry: I think GEnie must've eaten part of my message.  I suspect it was,
+"fairly evident from episode one on."
+
+     Either that or I've started speaking in tongues again....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 229       Wed Jul 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:49 EDT
+
+     Perianne: later this summer.  That's all I can say for the moment.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 244       Sun Jul 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:43 EDT
+
+     You really have to do whatever's right by the story.  Some adult themes
+have to be handled in an adult fashion.  There are some very adult themes in
+B5.  Some you may like, some you may not.  I don't think we'll be able to go
+in for nudity or the like because I don't think the stations would permit it.
+If they did...I still don't know if I'd use it or not, because it would really
+depend on the story.
+
+     Pandering, I think, is when you put it in regardless of whether or not it
+is actually *important* to the story.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 283       Mon Aug 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:04 EDT
+
+     Insofar as I know, no, we're not using them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 287       Fri Aug 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:06 EDT
+
+     No, we'll have bumpers, but they'll just be the series/station logo.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+     (What you're thinking of is a series recap at the top of show, which we
+won't be doing, no, because we're not a *continuous* story in quite the same
+way.)
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+SOARON [Pifgdog!]            at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!!            
+
+On May 28th, 1993, it became official -- "Babylon 5" will be a series. There
+will be 22 episodes, to air on Wednesdays at 8pm, starting January of 1994.
+
+622 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 15        Thu Jul 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:52 EDT
+
+     Catherine Adair ended up with another gig, so we now have Ann Bruice, who
+was tied in our decision for a costumer for the pilot, but in that case she
+was busy on another project.  Now she's available, and she is doing *terrific*
+work.  Just amazing stuff...her work on the Grey Council is particularly nice.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 17        Thu Jul 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:13 EDT
+
+     Probably late summer.  We have an awful lot of time before airdate, so
+there's really no rush to get the cameras running, which is nice.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 26        Sat Jul 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:42 EDT
+
+     You still have to create some kind of wardrobe, you can't just have folks
+show up in levi's and kill the color.
+
+     As for Doug, he's my equal partner in the project.  Doug's been in the
+business as long as there's *been* a business, once serving as head of MGM.
+He was my producer on POWER, and he and I made a deal: he will never give me a
+creative note on that series.  And he kept that promise.  If it came in long,
+or short, or there was an effect we couldn't do, that was  one thing, but
+creatively, he left me alone.  "I'm not a writer, that's your job," he said.
+There are very few people in this town who'll deal straight with you, and
+Doug's one of them.  So when I created B5, of all the choices available about
+who to partner up with, Doug was on top of the list.  He handles most of the
+business stuff, and I handle the creative stuff.  (Which isn't exactly true in
+some ways; I have to get into some of the business, and he has to get into
+some of the creative, but those are are general areas of expertise.)
+
+     His name generally appears in books about the film business, and in one
+of these books, it explains that when he was at MGM, his nickname was the
+Rattlesnake...hence, Rattlesnake Productions.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 27        Mon Jul 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:25 EDT
+
+     In posting this info elsewhere, it occured to me that I didn't remember
+if I'd mentioned it here or not.  So in case I didn't...I'm working it so that
+real-time comes close to paralleling story-time in the series.  The events of
+the series will pick up approximately six months after the events of the
+pilot.  We'll have crossed into another year, so the first "year" in which the
+series takes place is 2258, year two of the series (if we get that far) would
+be 2259, and so on.
+
+     "And the Sky Full of Stars" is, I think, going to be our biggest episode
+of the first season, followed close behind by "Midnight on the Firing Line."
+It's a very complex script, and it has a LOT of effects in it.  It's also our
+most intense episode to date, since it deals with the Battle of the Line and
+some of its after-effects.  Ron figures that this one episode will have more
+CGI than the entire 2 hour movie.
+
+     I've also seen some new storyboards for some of our action and CGI
+sequences, and we're carrying through on the image of this place being BIG.
+(Our main storyboarder was Lucas' main storyboarder for some time.)  Some of
+the scenes are just breathtaking.  I keep looking at them and asking, "Are you
+SURE we can do this?" and they tell me yes.  The scope of some of this stuff
+is just incredible.
+
+     And not only that, but I got my official B5 business cards in the other
+day, which makes it all very real..."Executive Producer" and all that
+jazz...though I can't help but think of Steve Martin calling out, "The new
+phone books are here!  The new phone books are here!"
+
+     It's all starting to get very exciting...and very real.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 33        Mon Jul 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:47 EDT
+
+     Alan: sure, go ahead.
+
+     I actually don't *have* a .gif of the SW logo.  I must remember to put
+that on my list of things to do....
+
+     As for "season finale cliffhangers," that depends on how you define that.
+If you mean a cliffhanger that, once resolved at the start of the next season,
+ends up having been more or less meaningless...no, we won't be doing that.
+But the end of each planned season will make a left turn designed to bring the
+show in new directions that will have long-erm (or long-term) effects on all
+of our characters.
+
+     Whether it's a chapter ending in a book, or an act break in a TV series,
+you build to a moment of change and transition, upping the stakes at each
+turn.  That's how our season-enders are constructed.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 39        Tue Jul 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:22 EDT
+
+     Hope to have more shortly.  Pat Tallman will, of course, be returning.
+And so far, stations; I imagine it'll be pretty much the same bunch, but
+that's only me speaking.
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 45        Wed Jul 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:57 EDT
+
+     I'll be able to say more about casting over this coming weekend.
+
+     The pilot movie should be rerun in, I think, November.
+
+     A TV Guide blurb for Episode One would be...telling too much at this
+early stage of the game.  This, again, is my dilemma...I want to keep the
+dialogue going, but some things we just have to sit on for the time being.
+Not until airdate, certainly; but not this quickly.  Basically, as time goes
+on, I will be able to talk more as we go, because then we'll be in a position
+where no one else can jump on the bandwagon.
+
+     All I can say about episode one is to say that it has Narn warships, lots
+of action, some surprising character revelations, several people who want to
+kill each other, a foretelling of things yet to happen, and the introduction
+of some new characters.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 47        Wed Jul 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:57 EDT
+
+     I never said that the Narn warships were menacing Babylon 5.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 52        Wed Jul 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:47 EDT
+
+     Each new season will advance one year in story time, to parallel real
+time, yes.
+
+     We're getting a terrific list of guest stars who want to do the show,
+including many well known to SF viewers.  I should be able to pass along some
+of these names fairly soon, as we decide where and when to use them.
+
+     Now that we've definitely decided that Delenn is female, we're in the
+process of designing new costumes for her, some very exotic, but always in the
+dignified Minbari style.  Her aide, Lennier, will have a very monk like look,
+very subdued.
+
+     We're also modifying the prosthetics a bit.  Again, because Delenn is
+definitely female, we can use a little less in the way of heavy overlays on
+the head and face to convey ile keeping the desired androgynous look.  This
+lets us get the same basic image, but make a lighter and more easily applied
+mask that will allow Mira greater degrees of comfort and free her up to act
+without being hampered in any way.  We're also doing some minor modifications
+to G'Kar's prosthetic, making the chin less squared, the mouth a little
+broader, and the whole thing again easier to put on and take off.  It will
+also look far more realistic; parts of it LOOKED like a prosthetic when you
+got up close.
+
+     It's one thing to throw heavy prosthetics on an actor who's only going to
+wear it for the 4 weeks required for the pilot.  But to wear something day in
+and day out for 22 episodes...you have to think about that.  Our own concern
+was making it look even *better* for both of them, and we've found a way to do
+that.
+
+     Same with Londo.  We're going to re-create an entire new hairpiece that
+will lay flatter and look better from the back, which I felt was one of its
+drawbacks.  Also, we don't want to have Peter shave his head for the whole
+series, as he did for the pilot, so we're coming up with a longer  prosthetic
+that'll come all the way over the top of the head to the eyebrows, where we'll
+blend it in unnoticeably.  This will make Peter's life just that much easier.
+
+     As mentioned before, we learned an awful lot about how to do this show
+because of the po implement what we learned to make every aspect, from
+wardrobe to prosthetics to CGI right across the board, better than before.
+The usual road in SF-TV is that you dump all your quality into the pilot, and
+then the series is a bit less spiffy than the pilot, but by then you've got
+your audience.  Here we want the series to be *substantially* and noticeably
+BETTER than the pilot, and so far I think we're doing it.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 62        Thu Jul 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:29 EDT
+
+     Rob: it makes a difference.
+
+     We're not changing Londo's hair to make it anything less than what it is.
+It'll still be as outrageous as it was in the pilot.  What I was referring to
+specifically was the way it bunched up at the back of the head, just above the
+nape of the neck.  What they had done was take a conventional wig and shove
+the hair up and lock it into place; in this case, we're stringing a new,
+custom wig that will gently come up in the back, as if growing naturally in
+that direction.  The top part will be the same, it's only a matter of cleaning
+up the back, which simply didn't work aesthetically.
+
+     Re: episode one...no, episode one is episode one, the pilot was the
+pilot.  You have to have a clear vernacular.  An episode is one hour; the
+pilot was a movie.  If we'd gone directly into series at that time, then yes,
+it would've counted.  But since we've had to re-jig some things to accommodate
+the transition across time, we're making that distinction.
+
+     I don't know how B5 will affect Pat's appearances on DS9/TNG, though I
+suspect that that may come to an end.  We don't have a problem about it, but I
+can't speak for Paramount.
+
+     We're making a pretty fair assortment of background Narns, Centauri and
+Minbari, in addition to picking a number of other aliens and making multiples
+of those.  And we're being careful to give them definitely different looks and
+personalities.  We're finding a lot of room for variation and individuality.
+
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 68        Sat Jul 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:14 EDT
+
+     Correct.  Just as you change your watch to match up with wherever you're
+going, in different time zones, when you come to B5 you operate on Earth Mean
+Time.
+
+     By the way, David Gerrold has turned in a lean, mean little story that
+does have a kid in it, though in a subdued sort of fashion.  This is a very,
+very *tough* story, very much unlike anything David's done before, and I think
+it'll be terrific.
+
+     Marc Scott Zicree has also turned in a story in which Garibaldi's past
+catches up to him...with some fairly disasterous consequences that will linger
+long after the episode is finished.
+
+     D.C. Fontana's script should be in on Monday. 
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 71        Sat Jul 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:30 EDT
+
+     I have a simple policy: I don't ask Pat anything about her work over on
+other shows.  I don't think it's correct to put her in that position, and she
+doesn't volunteer anything...which is as it should be.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 81        Tue Jul 13, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:43 EDT
+
+     Corgi: very doubtful.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 82        Tue Jul 13, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:48 EDT
+
+     Here's something with which to occupy your time for a bit, while I'm
+between things we can announce...one thing we're considering is bringing in
+actors known to the SF genre elsewhere, or people known to SF who may not
+necessarily be actors to do cameos, as opposed to featured roles.  An example
+of the former (these are just my thoughts we have NOT contacted anyone, these
+are examples *only*) would be someone like Mark Hammil, an example of the
+latter would be Arthur Clarke.  If you had a wish list, of just one or two
+people (to keep it from becoming a flood) you'd like to see in B5, what would
+they be?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 142       Fri Jul 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:37 EDT
+
+     To explain, when we were discussing this, it was only intended as an
+occasional thing to do, and not as a gimmick.  Our feeling is that we can get
+any number of good, solid actors for our shows.  We will always cast the best
+person suited for the job.  In among these, the thought occured that there are
+a few performers (to stick with that for the moment) who are solid actors, not
+necessarily known for one role, who have worked in SF who people might like to
+see used in a different kind of role.
+
+     The worst thing in this town is a little thing called "stereotyping."
+It's the reason people like Shatner and Nimoy and Koenig and others couldn't
+get work after Trek...everybody said, "Oh, he's too well known as the guy with
+the ears," and here's an actor who has given to the genre, who has helped
+create a marvelous show...and he can't get work.  This happens a lot more than
+you might think.  And it seems to me that we kind of owe an obligation to
+these people, who were actors long before,and long after, they played X on Y
+series.
+
+     We would never have an actor come onto B5 and do a character from another
+show; or even anything close to it.  Our universe is our universe, period.
+But to say, "No, you shouldn't use that actor because he was X character in Y
+series," is, to my mind...cruel.  If he created a great performance, it means
+he's a quality actor.  So let's find the one or two who fans of the genre
+would like to see again, in a very different kind of role -- since we can't do
+a lot of this -- and give them a chance to show what they can do in a very
+different sort of role.
+
+     If B5 has a debt to fans of the genre, it also has a debt to those who
+came before.  And I will not allow it to tamper with the B5 universe, I will
+not let it become a gimmick...but if I can use this show to repay, just a
+little, that debt, then I'm happy to do so.  It  seems to me a simple
+courtesy.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 144       Fri Jul 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:57 EDT
+
+     So let me see if I understand you: if an actor works in a series, and
+creates a character, then he should never be used again because it would
+destroy the illusion of the story?  Actors build up their skills by doing lots
+of work over time.  An actor is a regular in one series one year in dramatic
+TV series...a year or two later appears as a regular in another dramatic
+series...William Conrad (for a bad example) is first Cannon, then something
+else, then the Fatman...and that's okay.  So why is it not okay in SF?  Why
+this feeling that an actor who's worked in one SF series should never appear
+in another?  Why don't the rules that the rest of the world applis to dramatic
+series be somehow invalid for SF?
+
+     I sometimes think that this perception stems from the "the actor IS that
+character" point of view.  And as for the MST3K thing, that was a thought
+about seeing the 'bots, which was only half-serious...and those are very
+specific to their show.  Which is why we're not doing it.
+
+     I'll confess I'm really astonished by this.  Viewers of non-SF dramatic
+series seem to have no problem accepting an actor playing another character,
+as a regular, recurring or guest character in another series in the same
+genre...why is this a problem for some SF viewers?
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 156       Fri Jul 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:24 EDT
+
+     Cameos was what I was NOT referring to.  For instance...with Walter, who
+will be playing a character named Knight One in "And the Sky Full of Stars,"
+he's there for the whole episode, and the character is very different from
+what we've ever seen before...very dark.  And very strong.
+
+                                                                jms*
+
+     (*who did not do a cameo in the pilot, and definitely won't do any in the
+series; this sort of thing should be left to professionals.)
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 160       Sat Jul 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:20 EDT
+
+     A bit of new info....
+
+     Not long ago, we decided to change prosthetics companies, not for any
+problem with the first company, they did terrific work, but because we wanted
+to go for more than they were really set up to handle.  We went over to
+another group that has a long history of great prosthetics, and have been
+working with them in designing stuff.  And for those of you who have been
+asking for more than funny foreheads...you're going to get it bigtime.  They
+are absolutely pushing the envelope in terms of the size, the scale, and the
+complexity of prosthetics.
+
+     Also the number involved.  We're making anywhere from 5-8 background and
+guest Minbari, and equal numbers of Narns and Centauri, plus on top of THAT,
+multiples of other alien groups.  So from now on, you won't just see singles
+of any race, you'll see multiples.  Each different.
+
+     And I saw a little something today that'll scare the hell out of you.
+ Our prosthetics people have absolutely outdone themselves.  No one has ever
+done anything on the scale they're doing, not for television.
+
+     We've got one of George Lucas' favorite storyboarders lined up to do our
+EFX storyboards, and a few more conceptual artists to draft some of our more
+alien technologies.
+
+     This show is going to have an *amazing* look to it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 168       Sat Jul 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:17 EDT
+
+     I picked this up in mail off Internet from David Navas, but got bumped
+and don't know how to respond via GEnie to Internet...so I thought I'd post
+this here, since it may be of general interest, figuring that someone could re-
+post it there.
+
+     The questions concerned B5 and the political situation on Earth at this
+time.  Back home, there is an Earth Senate, which is made up of elected
+representatives from each nation-state; the larger and more powerful the
+nation, the more reps they get.  Which annoys the smaller nations no end.
+(And there's quite a bit of conflict between them; the smaller nation-states,
+with limited resources, keep grousing about why they should support B5
+financially, as well as other space endeavors, when their economy really isn't
+set up to take as much advantage of the situation as the larger nation-states.
+
+     In the 10 years (not 17 as Navas suggests) since the Earth/Minbari war,
+there haven't been any major dictatorships, but we've strayed awfully close on
+more than one occasion.  As for the nature of B5, yes it is a (let me try this
+again) there is a military component to it, but for the most part it is a
+civilian operation.  In the same sense that, in the early history of our
+country, you sometimes had a military governor assigned to a state or
+province.
+
+                                                         jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 177       Sun Jul 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:37 EDT
+
+     Nope, I was nowhere in the pilot, not under makeup, not nohow, not no-
+way.  Nor will I do so in the series.  That just ain't my thing.
+
+     By the way, here's something interesting: an outline got turned in this
+week for an episode which I won't identify just now.  Came in from one of our
+writers, based on an assigned premise.  It's something you've never seen done
+in ANY SF-TV series, and I don't think has ever been done in TV overall.  A
+very daring little story.
+
+     Word finally came back from our liaison with PTEN.  "Number one, this is
+absolutely against the demographics on the show.  Number two, no studio or
+network executive in his right *mind* would EVER approve this story in a
+million years.  Number three...it's a hell of a story, I love it, let's do
+it."
+
+     This has been emblematic of our relationship with PTEN: they've left us
+alone, and are trusting us in our storytelling.  We want to go right out to
+the very edge, and they're letting us, which is wonderful.  They've been, and
+continue to be, terrific to work with.
+
+     If the end of this particular story doesn't absolutely floor you, nothing
+will.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 188       Mon Jul 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:35 EDT
+
+     Nope.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 200       Tue Jul 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:14 EDT
+
+      I have a few things to say about the new issue of TV Guide that is
+hitting the stands.  About half a dozen things that I'd like to say.  But I
+can't.  So let me just remark that it's unfortunate that when a book like TV
+Guide does a roundup of SF shows, it has to break them all down by Who's the
+Good Guy, Who's the Bad Guy, What's the Gimmick on and on...all of the things
+they never do with a dramatic TV series.  One also wishes that the people they
+assign to do an article on SF television would have a background in SF that
+extends earlier than Star Trek.
+
+     Beyond that, respondent sayeth not.
+
+     The article does give away some information, though, that I feel I should
+comment upon, since it involves our cast.
+
+     When you cast a television series, what you look for, among other things,
+are compatibility, chemistry, energy and synergy.  This is all the more vital
+when you're producing an *ensemble* series.  The individual cast members may
+be wonderful performers; may have turned in fine performances.  The question
+becomes, when you put them all together in the same room, does the energy
+level go up, or down?  Is the whole more or less than the sum of its parts?
+
+     After we produced the pilot, as stated before, we did a long and very
+frank in-house analysis, which had one point and one point only: how do we
+make the series even *better* than the pilot?  Everything was on the table:
+efx, music, writing, directing, costuming, set design, and all went through
+changes that will make the series even better.  Casting was also on the table,
+along with everything else.  It has to be.
+
+     As stated, we were very happy with the individual performances.  The
+question that remained, though, was *can it be better*?  Is it possible to
+increase the energy, the chemistry, between the various roles?  The answer,
+after long and considerable debate, was "yes, it is."
+
+     As a result, modifications were made.  Which, again, should not be taken
+as a reflection on anyone.
+
+     The modifications affected three roles: the lieutenant commander, the
+doctor, and Sinclair's love interest.  We're not recasting those specific
+roles (in other words, there won't be a new Sykes), but other actors playing
+other characters.  This is in part because we would like to at some point in
+time bring back one or more of the original actors in other capacities as
+guest stars for an episode or two.  Because they did good work.  The matter at
+hand is what's the best *combination*?
+
+     Here's the new breakdown.
+
+     Being of Byelorussian descent, I've always wanted to write for an ethnic
+Russian character.  Not someone with an accent, any more than I have an accent
+even though I have a last name with 10,000 consonants and no vowels.  There's
+a wry and formal and stiff-necked and sometimes very passionate streak that
+runs through the Russian spirit, and a certain rough-hewn mysticism, a sense
+of absolute fatality and doom punctuated by moments of great belief in
+humanity.  It's a mix of traits you don't much see in American television.
+
+     Which is why the new second in command is Lieutenant Commander Susan
+Ivanova, who will be played by Claudia Christian, a fantastic and very strong
+performer who just knocked us out of the room.  Very much a commanding
+presence, a little quirky when she wants to be, a shade on the pessimistic
+side.
+
+     Having come out of an Eastern European background, I've long lamented the
+stereotyped roles usually written for that kind of character, and look forward
+to drawing upon the real thing for her character.
+
+     For the role of Dr. Stephen Franklin we have found an intense and
+powerful african-american actor named Richard Biggs.  He's younger, in his mid-
+to late thirties, dedicated, sharp and...again, the word I keep coming back to
+is *intense*.  Consider a younger Dr. (and I'm going to misspell this)
+Debakke: self-assured, confident almost to a fault.  He comes largely out of
+an experimental background, so his bedside manner isn't all it should be.
+He's often impatient.  His character is the newest addition to the B5 "team"
+of characters, and this will lead to a fair amount of conflict.
+
+     To balance out his personality, we plan to introduce another doctor (one
+of many who work under Franklin, since he is medical chief of staff on B5,
+which has several medlabs in different locations), an older Hispanic doctor.
+
+     Finally, having gone his separate ways with Caroline -- she wanted him to
+leave his job, he wouldn't -- Sinclair renews a longstanding relationship with
+Catherine Sakai, a role we are going to cast sometime fairly soon.
+
+     Catherine works for an Earth Corp surveying asteroids and planets for
+minerological exploitation, making sure they're uninhabited, and finding items
+that might present the greatest possibility for profit.
+
+     On a classified mission (which I hope we will be able to get into at some
+point), Laurel has been reassigned out on the Rim, and Dr. Kyle is now working
+with the EA President on the issue of alien migration to Earth, a growing
+problem to some, a benefit to others.
+
+     We believe that the synergy between these new characters will be
+genuinely terrific.  Some very funny things are coming out of it, and some
+very moving, personal stories are also coming out.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 215       Wed Jul 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:12 EDT
+
+     Tom: yup.
+
+     While I was on Twilight Zone Mark III, Christy Marx did a story for us
+that had a hard, tough ending (the episode was "Cat and Mouse").  An absolute
+killer of an ending.  That's what this script is...it takes no prisoners.
+It's very tough, a very hard episode.  And it's a killer emotionally.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 228       Wed Jul 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:40 EDT
+
+     I can't think of any actor who, upon not getting the series gig,  would
+be willing to come in for one episode at the top of the show to say goodbye,
+unless s/he had been on the show for X number of seasons.  Also to follow that
+model means we have to deal with 3 characters going, and 3 characters coming,
+for 6 exchanges, in a one-hour episode, which leaves little time for a decent
+plot.  It's simply not workable.
+
+     We will, though, be phasing in the changes over time; Ivanova in the
+first episode, Dr. Franklin in the second, Catherine well down the road.
+This spreads out both the exposition and the impact, and lets us focus on the
+stories, where our attention really needs to be placed.  There was an awful
+lot of exposition in the pilot, and I'd rather not fall down that particular
+rabbit-hole again for a while....
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 252       Sun Jul 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:13 EDT
+
+     Hi, all, was out of state for a few days, just got back and am catching
+up.  Re: story alterations in changing cast...won't be any.  The basic layout
+remains the same, only a few small pieces get rearranged in terms of the
+overall 5-year arc.  We get to the same place in the end.
+
+     This is very much what happens in a novel, having written a few: y ou
+start out with X characters, and at some point discover that you need to skew
+things to or away from certain characters once you get into it.  Same thing
+here.
+
+     Still planning on using Copeland for the scoring, plus some of his people
+to round out incidental music.  And yes, I worked on TZ 3 as a story editor,
+and did a freelance episode for TZ 2.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 256       Sun Jul 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:43 EDT
+
+     Actually, if you are talking specifically shows created for syndication,
+the *first* one, and the one which blew open the doors for many other shows,
+was "He Man and the Masters of the Universe," which was out around 1983.
+Granted it's animation, but it *was* specifically produced for syndication,
+and was very successful.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 262       Mon Jul 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:32 EDT
+
+     Digger: yes, what you report is correct.  Also if we allow for some
+Russian/American or Russian/English intermarrying, you could end up with Susan
+Ivanova, with a middle name much as you indicate.  That's  also one of the
+differences between an ethnic Russian, and a Russian born outside the country.
+The first name on my birth certificate, and the first name I was referred by
+colloquially within my family were very different for quite some time.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 271       Tue Jul 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:16 EDT
+
+     Re: B5 and movement...no, it ain't going anywhere.  Nor will it.
+
+     Re: panoramic Rama-like vistas...that's fine if you've got an unlimited
+budget and can build on a huge scale for visual effect, but the reality is
+that even in the future, there are budgets to be dealt with, and neat as the
+view is, it's wasted space in many ways.  Form follows function; this place is
+set up as a way station, which means you have to squeeze every possible inch
+of useable space out of the place.  You have a few exceptions to that, such as
+the Garden, but that's it.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 287       Fri Jul 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:03 EDT
+
+     Yes, I spoke with Walter earlier today, and he seems to be holding up
+well.  We're trying every trick we can to move back the episode he was going
+to do for us, in order to accommodate this.  It came as quite a shock to all
+of us, but knowing Walter, he'll come through great.  He's stubborn and
+strong.
+
+     I know that I've been noticeably silent the last week or so, because
+things are moving along out here, and I wish there were more that I could say.
+Again, we're keeping things close to our collective vest for the time being.
+I wish you could see the scripts that are starting to come in, could see the
+new blueprints for sets, see the rough storyboards and  EFX designs coming
+from Ron's place.  The series is going to be just amazing, and *much* stronger
+than the pilot.  As word gets out to the street about what we're planning on,
+we're getting an amazing list of actors expressing interest in doing an
+episode.  We'll definitely be using David McCallum in one of our first
+episodes.
+
+     It looks like we're coming into a pretty clean breakdown where you get
+one or two very serious episodes, then a light one to balance it out.   And a
+lot of our stories are dealing with issues of significance without  getting
+didactic or preachy about it because we're trying to keep them very *personal*
+stories.
+
+     There are times I feel like the first guy over this big mountain, and I
+can see what's on the other side, and I'm torn between yelling back to
+describe it all, and waiting silently to avoid spoiling the surprise.
+
+     It's going to be a fun show.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 308       Sat Jul 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:46 EDT
+
+      Phil: the info on Internet was first posted here, so I don't think we
+need to repeat.
+
+      Re: Walter...I didn't comment one way or another on the surgery here.
+Simple reason.  I spoke with Walter when he called me from the hospital on
+Wednesday.  He then told me that he would be going into  surgery very soon.
+Respecting Walter's privacy, I held back that info, figuring that was the
+thing to do.  One of the problems that comes when you gain any kind of
+notoriety -- as I'm slowly learning in my own case -- is that you absolutely
+lose all privacy.  Your smallest business becomes public knowledge.  If I were
+to pass on a *fraction* of what I hear from some of the people I know...they
+wouldn't trust me again, nor should they do so.  It's the differencof
+someone's work, and being a *friend*...they carry different obligations.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 316       Sun Aug 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:16 EDT
+
+     The alterations in cast didn't affect the scripts very much, since while
+the through-line for the series has long ago been worked out, the individual
+scripts didn't start getting written until after we'd made our decisions.
+
+     What's great so far about the scripts is that they all have a point of
+view, but they're not didactic or preachy about it.  (And sometimes the point
+of view isn't what you'd expect it to be.)  We're definitely going to take on
+some difficult issues here.
+
+
+moment in a script where Londo is talking about homeworld, where marriages are
+still arranged, to someone who doesn't want any part of that life.  "Here," he
+says, pointing to three photos, "these are my three wives: Pestilence, Famine
+and Death.  You think I married them for their personalities?  Their
+personalities could shatter entire *planets*.
+ Arranged marriages, every one.  But it worked out.  They inspire me.
+Knowing they're at home, waiting for me, is what keeps me here, 75 light years
+away...."
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 323       Sun Aug 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:55 EDT
+
+     There is some connection, yes.
+
+     As to how I came up with the new characters, it was done the old
+fashioned way: I thunk them up.  This series doesn't work like many others;
+this isn't done by committee, we don't bat stuff around on this kind of level.
+(And, in fact, until recently adding Harlan, there *was* no one with whom to
+bat stuff around, this has been a one-man writing and editing team.)  I knew
+the functions these characters had to fill, and tried to come up with what I
+thought would be strong, interesting characters.  People I'd be interested in
+watching.  And from that came the characters.
+
+     We've recently, as of this past week, added a story editor to the staff,
+Larry DiTillio.  Which now makes three.  But there's an implicit understanding
+that this is a story that I want to tell, and I generally need to have final
+word on characters, stories and everything else that involves the scripts.
+Both Harlan and Larry are willing to defer to the reality that this is my
+universe.  I don't mean that to sound like an ego thing, because it's not.
+It's no different than writing a novel; I know where the story has to go when
+it hits the end, and we have to be sure not to fall off the tracks.  I didn't
+fight six years to get this show on the air to turn it over to a committee.
+
+     I know already that that is going to be probably my biggest problem when
+it comes to this series: turning over parts of it to other people.   Letting
+go.  But it's necessary.
+
+     It's important, though, to clarify the difference between letting people
+go where they want within a script, so that I can let Larry or Harlan or
+others have their own head, as opposed to general changes that might affect
+the story arc, which is a different category altogether.  The two of them have
+already had some great ideas on fleshing out some of the characters now that
+they're established, have expanded the universe and clarified many of the
+rules, the ideas, background stuff and so on.
+
+     I selected Larry as story editor because he's someone I've worked with
+dozens of times over nearly ten years; we know how one another works, to the
+point where we can shorthand a lot of stuff in meetings, which saves a lot of
+time.  He's an excellent script doctor when it comes to rewriting freelance
+scripts.  And he's one of the country's foremost role playing game designers;
+he's great on campaigns and coming up with huge sagas, and I need someone who
+can think on that kind of scale.
+
+     The other reason I had for selecting Harlan and Larry to work with, aside
+from their skills as writers, is that they're both two very strong individuals
+who won't be intimidated...*can't* be intimidated...and will fight for what
+they think is right.  I feel that's very important.  So they both give me an
+endless hard time.  Which is needed for the mix.
+
+            
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 357       Sun Aug 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:15 EDT
+
+     Larry has designed a number of games, some way back when he was working
+for Flying Buffalo, but his most well-known games were for (and are still
+available from) Chaosium.  He worked on "Call of Cthulhu," he wrote (or co-
+wrote) "Masks of Nyarlathotep," "The Grey Knight" and a bunch of others.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 360       Sun Aug 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:06 EDT
+
+                      ...heh....
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 366       Mon Aug 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:56 EDT
+
+     Which is Katherine's not-terribly-subtle way of saying I get killed a
+lot, and quickly.  Which is why I don't do it much.
+
+     ETA for B5 the series to be 1994.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 379       Wed Aug 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:24 EDT
+
+     Okay, time for some news.
+
+     Some of you have noted my marked absence here the last month or so, just
+the occasional quick note, and gone again.  There's a reason for this that I
+haven't revealed until now.
+
+
+     To the question, "When will we begin filming?" the answer is...some time
+ago.  We started shooting mid-July.  I've withheld that information so that
+our crew and cast could get started in less of a pressure-cooker environment,
+without feeling that the world was peering in over their shoulders.  It's a
+very tense process to get a series up and running, and the more breathing
+space you can give your people, the happier they'll be.
+
+     I didn't want to withhold that information, but I felt that it was best
+for the team.  Getting the show made has to take precedence, and you have to
+do right by your people.
+
+     We've been rolling film for some time now, and as of this moment we are
+on schedule, and on budget, and the performances we're getting are absolutely
+wonderful.  The shows are coming in with energy, they're crisp, they're
+funny...there's some VERY dramatic stuff, good action and good character drama
+going on.  I've been chomping at the bit to give you some insights into and
+reports from the front lines...and now I feel comfortable in doing so.
+
+     (And I'd like to parenthetically thanks J.HUDGENS and K.A.LAWRENCE for
+keeping their lips zipped.  Both visited our sets, the latter a day or so
+before we were actually slated to begin filming, and I asked of both that they
+not mention this until later.  So Katherine, NOW you can make the observations
+that I yelled on you about posting last time....)
+
+     The cast is working wonderfully together.  Jerry and Michael are a great
+team.  And there are some scenes, in which Jerry has to be very serious, when
+he just lights up the screen.  And as for Michael...I think that after you've
+seen what he's doing now, nobody's going to use the term "stiff" ever again.
+He's strong, and personable, and likeable, and the character is really coming
+out strongly.  Delenn is absolutely terrific; elegant and mysterious and
+exotic.  And our new additions are going to be very popular, I think,
+particularly Claudia Christian as Ivanova, who has a very wicked, mischievous
+take on the character.
+
+     We've got episodes already in the can, being edited in post production,
+and they're tight, and fast-paced, and the look is *very* different from the
+show in that now we have time to get the look of each shot right.  Our
+director of photography is John Flynn, who was the main DP on Hill Street
+Blues, who's brought a wonderful, moody look to the show, a great deal of
+style, playing with lights and colors and shadows.   On every conceivable
+level, it's a quantum improvement over the pilot.
+
+     But the most important news, again, is that we're *filming*, and have
+been, and the stuff is terrific.  I don't think anyone here is going to be
+disappointed in the results.  THIS is the show I've been working six years to
+bring off.  In the months to come, I'll try to bring you bits and pieces of
+background stuff about the shooting, as I did on the pilot, though not in as
+concentrated a form.
+
+     The train has again left the station, and this time we're on for the long
+haul...twenty-two episodes.  And if what I've seen on film so far is any
+indication, it is gonna be one hell of a ride.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 385       Wed Aug 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:48 EDT
+
+     Bear in mind, though, we're not shooting in the order in which th e shows
+will be broadcast.  Also, the one we're currently shooting is one of the few
+classified titles.  Next up is "Midnight on the Firing Line," that much I can
+say.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 397       Thu Aug 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:11 EDT
+
+     Licensing is still in progress.  Haven't heard any firm info yet, but
+apparently there's some interesting stuff cooking.
+
+     We have a VERY long lead-time; we'll be delivering finished episodes
+nearly 4 months before airdate in some cases.  This is not typical of much of
+TV.  Also, where most series usually have, at best, 2-3 scripts on hand, we
+now have 10 final scripts in hand, practically half the series, which gives us
+mountains  of time in which to prep, making sure each episode is as good as
+possible.
+
+     What's very interesting is seeing how more than one director handles the
+series, the different approaches they take.  Same for the writers we're using.
+One thing that's fun for me as the creator of this thing is letting others
+play in this universe; I like to be surprised, and from time to time one of
+our writers will hit on something that never occured to me about our
+characters, but which makes perfect sense.
+
+     It's very hectic, but exciting.  The main thing is that you're just tired
+all the time; I get to the stage early, which for me is between 9 and 10, and
+I'm there until 8 p.m. minimum, sometimes later.  Today I didn't get home
+until around 10:30.  I tend to try to lock myself in my office, because if I
+stick my head out, there's always any number of people who want opinions or
+decisions or need to know what was intended with one thing or another, because
+they're dedicated to getting the show right, down to the smallest elements.
+When I can, I try to get over to the stage, just to keep an eye on filming.
+Now that everyone's had a chance to think about their characters, and do some
+more work in that universe, the characters are *really* starting to come out,
+as the actors become more familiar with their roles.  And they're starting to
+add a lot from their own personalities as well.
+
+     It is a hoot.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 406       Fri Aug 13, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:59 EDT
+
+     Just wrapped another episode today, and tomorrow we begin work on
+"Midnight on the Firing Line."  This one also has all of our major ambassadors
+-- Kosh, Delenn, Londo and G'Kar -- as well as Lond's new aide, Vir, played by
+Stephen Furst.  In this episode, you will hear Kosh speak for the first
+time...and what he says may not bode well for B5.
+
+     G'Kar's makeup has been greatly refined, and now looks like real skin;
+it's very eerie.  Also, "Midnight" will have as much as 5 minutes of
+CGI...basically, it has 60% as much CGI as was used in the entire pilot, all
+of it new stuff.
+
+     There's a great excitement on the set that hasn't diminished now that
+we've been rolling for a while; every finished episode is met with applause
+and high-fiving and the like.  The director who just finished is Jim Johnston,
+who's a very highly regarded actor, an award winner, who is VERY good with
+actors.  Also signed to direct, starting with "And the Sky Full of Stars," is
+Janet Greek, who did a lot of Northern Exposures, among other shows, and is a
+*stone* SF fan.
+
+     We're shooting on a lot of new sets never seen in the pilot, so we have
+all the breaking-in required of a new (and sometimes very complex) set...but
+the result should be a locale that looks even larger and more city-like than
+the pilot.  If you saw the last ST movie, you'll recognize the lead of one of
+the shows we just finished: Morgan Shepherd, who was the warden of the prison
+planet Kirk and McCoy were sent to.  He's a fine actor who brought a regal
+touch to the episode.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 424       Sun Aug 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:02 EDT
+
+     The current crop of directors we're using include Richard Compton, Bruce
+Seth Green, Jim Johnston and Janet Greek.  All are terrific directors, on
+solid shows ranging from "Hill Street" to "Northern Exposure."  The one area
+where we're not generally drawing from people who've worked in SF is the area
+of the director.  We want the show to have a very real look to it, as if you
+were making a dramatic series in the year of the story.  Our head of post
+production has a screen-saver on his computer that flashes "This Isn't Science
+Fiction, This Is REAL" after a few minutes.  Not because he doesn't like
+SF...he's a stone fan, as is Janet Greek...but because that's the feel we're
+trying to get across in the series: this is *real*...real people, real
+problems, a realistic style to the look and feel of the show and the
+characters.
+
+     And the show is picking up a *very* nice visual style...non-direct
+lighting, shadows, not murky, but crisp.  It's beautifully lit and
+photographed; you could frame just about any shot and it'd look great.
+
+     (For those of you who like the in-stuff, by the way...look for a cameo of
+sorts.  We needed photos to run in background on a monitor of two EA
+officials.  We "volunteered" Doug Netter and our costume designer, Ann Bruice.
+You'll see them in "Infection.")
+
+     The dizzying thing about being exec producer on a show like Babylon 5 is
+that you have to wear so many hats *simultaneously*.  The shows get grouped
+together in ways that directors or writers don't have to worry about.  In
+other words: you're editing show A, at the same time that you're shooting show
+B, and prepping show C, while at the same time doing the final script polishes
+and casting for show D.  So you end up having to juggle them all in your head
+constantly, going from meetings on show B, then D, then A, then C, then B.
+
+     This was something we didn't have to do on the pilot, since in that case
+we did just the one show, and edited it afterward.  Now it all goes on
+simultaneously.
+
+     Here's a basic breakdown on a fairly average day at B5 for me:
+
+     Arrive around 10 a.m. (usually after staying up until 2 or 3 a.m. writing
+or editing scripts).  On this past Friday, it went like this after arrival:
+Visual EFX meeting on "Born to the Purple."  Quick script notes to clarify a
+scene now being shot on "Midnight."  Prop concept meeting (general).  Screen
+dailies from Thursday's shoot.  Review CGI sketches by Ron for Minbari heavy
+cruiser for "Sky."  (Very, very cool, btw.)  Director's meeting.  Meeting with
+PTEN marketing division people, who stop by the stage.  Review new prosthetics
+for background aliens.  Get in a few minutes working on "Parliament of Dreams"
+script.  Supplementary casting session on "Believers."  Then I and producer
+John Copeland dive  out to the editing bay to work on the final edit of
+"Infection."  I get home around 10 p.m., after checking in with the stage
+throughout the evening to make sure we wrap on time.  Make some B5 related
+calls from 10-10:30, download a script from one of our writers, review the
+script for notes between then and midnight, write some more on "Parliament"
+until 2 a.m., and finally crash.
+
+     Every day is like that.  After a while, you get this look in your
+eyes...you just sorta zone out, mentally going to another meeting.  It's
+amazingly grinding...and yet amazingly invigorating.  There are moments when
+it's an amazing high...and moments when you just want to cut and run because
+you can't bear watching one more cut of the same scene for the ten zillionth
+time.
+
+     Half the fun of doing a series is being on the stage...to see it being
+done right in front of you...but even though my office door is maybe 20 feet
+from the stage, I find that I only make that journey 3-4 times in a day, for
+maybe 5-10 minutes at a time.  Such is life.
+
+     The editing, by the way, is a fascinating process.  Television is the
+process of making choices: you choose how to write the scene, you choose who
+you want to play the scene, the actor chooses how he wants to play the
+character, the director chooses how to stage the scene, the cinematographer
+chooses how to light and frame the scene, and then you and the editor choose
+how to structure that scene using the finished film.
+
+     What you have in your hands (not literally, since we're all computerized
+now, and hardly anyone uses film anymore in editing) is the film for a scene.
+You've got the master shot, showing everyone.  You may have 1, 2 or 3 takes of
+that shot.  Then you get the medium, close, and two-shots, as well as
+reverses.  You get 2-3 of those, times the number of characters in the scene
+(i.e., 2 close-ups of Sinclair in the scene, 2 or 3 close-ups of Garibaldi,
+plus the over-the-shoulder shots of both, on and on).  Though the staging is
+the same, the pacing of lines varies, the delivery varies, inflection, stance,
+attitude...there are subtle differences that become terribly important when
+you start cutting film.
+ Maybe the first close-up has the intensity you want in the first half, but
+falls off in the second part, so now you use part two of take two, which
+*does* finish with the required intensity.  But in that take, the actor
+visible in the same scene isn't quite where he's standing in the master shot,
+and you have to go back to the master for the next shot because that's where
+you need to see X entering the room....
+
+     It's a complex, complicated, exhausting process that requires you to hold
+the various scenes and shots all in your head at the same time,  particularly
+if you want to do any last-minute restructuring, or "borrow" a shot from
+another scene to fill out this scene because there was a problem on the angle
+in what you've got.
+
+     But I'd be a liar if I didn't say it's an awful lot of fun.  You can make
+a scene play 50 different ways, depending on how you edit it.  And we've got
+some *great* editors working with us.
+
+     Anyway...just a quick report from the field....it's back to work now.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 436       Sun Aug 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:09 EDT
+
+     We're using some state of the art computers for our editing work, in some
+ways in advance of EditDroid.  The first line is the Avid editor, which
+digitizes all of the printed takes from an episode and stores them in full-
+motion video/audio the same way you store a .gif file.  You can have instant
+access to everything; you don't have to swap disks in or out, and it's all
+immediate.  Once you've edited the thing to where you want it, you save the
+information to the system.  Then you provide all of the required prints to the
+major computer system at the editing house which then *automatically*
+assembles the entire cut overnight.  Operates almost entirely without
+supervision.  You come in in the morning, and your cut is waiting for you.
+
+
+we're able to stay further toward the cutting edge of technology because we're
+small, new, and can react faster than something that has to work through an
+entrenched studio bureaucracy that has already invested major bucks in its old
+systems, and doesn't want to re-tool since what it has basically works fine.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 446       Tue Aug 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:52 EDT
+
+     Well, I just saw a cut of the episode that's going to air second, the one
+guest-starring Morgan Shepherd.  Oh, man...on the question of Did you learn
+anything from the pilot...this thing *moves* like a sumbitch.   It's a very
+unusual, very *creepy* episode in many ways.  And filled with character
+stuff...and a good bit of background about some of our characters rendered in
+active ways.  I'm really dying to see what people think of this one when it
+airs.  It manages to take what would normally be considered a science
+*fantasy* issue, and deal with it from a  science fiction perspective, without
+compromising on the latter at all.   It's a very, *very* strong episode.
+
+     Incidentally...as long as I'm here...an advisory.  We've got about as
+much security as anyone can *have* on a stage...but as with TNG and other SF
+shows, we've had our share of things suddenly vanishing.  We lost a biggie the
+other day, swiped by someone.  As mentioned, we re-examined G'Kar's
+makeup/prosthetic, and did some minor redesigning.  Prior to final approval, a
+full-size (head and neck) sculpture was done, painstakingly hand-painted.
+There's only the one.  And someone swiped it, right out of Doug Netter's
+office, where it was hanging on the wall.  I couldn't even begin to tell you
+how much it's worth; just the physical value alone would be considerable, let
+alone collector's value.
+
+     I'm putting this out here so that, if anyone here should see it at a
+convention, or a dealer's room, you should know that it's stolen merchandise,
+and should be reported to the police.  There's no chance of mistaking this for
+something else, since there's literally only the one in existence.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 474       Sun Aug 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:25 EDT
+
+     Louise: thanks for the support.  There ain't much more to do now that
+we're up and running, but the offer is appreciated.
+
+     Re: airdates...no, even though we'll be delivering in September fully
+completed episodes, this is part of a network, and networks debut their shows
+in a group, en masse.  So we'll be on in January regardless.
+
+     Just got back from Comic Con, so I'm a bit breathless now.  Will just
+skim for a bit, and do more later.
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 475       Sun Aug 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:41 EDT
+
+     P.S.  Before I forget, someth8ingat the Con that I should mention here:
+in deference to other opportunities which she felt were more promising, Pat
+Tallman passed on returning to the B5 project.   Our new telepath will be
+played by Andrea Thompson, with the character name Talia Winters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 479       Sun Aug 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:01 EDT
+
+     She's been in a lot of stuff...but for some damned reason all I can
+remember is her recurring role as the woman trying to nail Selby in Falcon
+Crest.  She's done a lot of film work as well.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 481       Mon Aug 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:11 EDT
+
+     Basically, yes, it's not a problem in this case.  The psi corps thread is
+much larger than any one person; that person has to serve down the road as a
+catalyst, but that catalyst can be anyone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 483       Mon Aug 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:21 EDT
+
+     The main task was to get the telepath in trouble with the psi cops.
+There's another way of doing that with Talia that's just as effective.
+
+     What it *does* give me, which is kinda nice, is that the only two people
+to have ANY direct contact with a Vorlon...have been transferred back to
+Earth.  Which plays wonderfully into something sinister I'd kinda like to
+develop that the Earth Alliance is working on behind the scenes....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 496       Tue Aug 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:11 EDT
+
+     I forwarded the pictures, don't know what she thought.  She decided to
+pass shortly before we began filming the first episode.  These things happen.
+
+     No one else seemed to have any trouble following what was happening; to
+be charitable, the specific actions and purpose of the Hunter came even
+clearer in the following scene, which wasn't shown.
+
+     That the ball is not always caught is not necessarily a reflection on the
+throw....
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 506       Wed Aug 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:27 EDT
+
+     I'd be hard pressed to say whichg the best work, because they're *all*
+doing wonderfully.  The makeup on Andreas is much more fluid, more skin-like
+this time around, so he can do a lot more with it than he could in the pilot.
+All of our ambassadors are doing great...Delenn is very mysterious, exotic,
+and Londo is...well...LONDO.   He's often right over the top, but it works.
+(It's part of our perverse logic on the show that the first person to end up
+in bed with a member of the opposite sex isn't our Commander, but Londo, who
+gets involved with a Centauri dancer.)
+
+     Claudia has settled nicely into the role, with this great edge to her
+performance.  Pessimistic, fatalistic, occasionally sarcastic, but in a funny
+way...that can turn right around and tear your heart out.  Michael and Jerry
+are, of course, a hoot to watch.
+
+     During the con appearance, Jerry told a story that *I* hadn't heard
+before.  There's a scene in the script "Midnight on the Firing Line" in which
+Talia (Andrea) goes into a transport tube, finds Garibaldi, and asks some
+questions about Ivanova.  They rehearsed it several times, this being Andrea's
+first time on the set, and filmed one take.  She comes down the hall, comes to
+thepen...and Garibaldi's pants are down around his ankles.  Needless to say,
+that shot did NOT end up in dailies....
+
+     There are days I think -- between Jerry, Harlan, me and some others
+involved on the show -- we ought to name this Loose Cannon Productions....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 510       Wed Aug 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:14 EDT
+
+     Re: new cast members...it wasn't only females that were replaced,
+remember...there was also Dr. Kyle.  But to the point of your question: all of
+our performers were great.  The question becomes how do they work and come off
+as a *unit*?  In the best of all possible worlds, the whole is greater than
+the sum of its parts.  Here, we felt that there wasn't a strong synergy
+between the characters.  We felt we had to strengthen that.
+ And that's really all there is or was to it.  Is that the best possible role
+for this actor, and is this the best possible combination?
+
+     And that was the reason behind adjusting the roles otherwise occupied by
+Caroline, Laurel and Ben Kyle.  That's 2 and 1.  We were just as amazed as
+anyone else when word came back from Pat's rep that she was passing on the
+role of Lyta in order to pursue other opportunities, and we wish her nothing
+but luck in the future; it's my personal hope to find some project down the
+road where I can work with her again.  And I'm sure that this will happen.
+
+     That is the whole of the story.
+
+     Now for an aside.
+
+     Let us all go back in time, for a moment, and consider the description by
+Jeff Jarvis and a few others of the B5 pilot's CGI effects as being "cheesy."
+(Jarvis as in TV Guide's Jeff Jarvis.)  Well, guess what?
+
+     We got a phone call today.  Foundation Imaging, Ron's company, which did
+the CGI EFX for the pilot, was notified today that they have received an Emmy
+Award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for their  work on the
+B5 pilot.  We are now an "Emmy Award Winning Show for Best Special Effects in
+a Television Movie."
+
+     And that ain't *nothing* compared to what's going to be in the series.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 516       Thu Aug 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:18 EDT
+
+     Not much point to a major PR push now; it'd just get lost in the fall
+season opening.  Best to wait that out, since we won't hit air until January.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 532       Fri Aug 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:49 EDT
+
+     The ethnic mix has nothing to do with any changes in the series.  We
+ended up keeping the mix intact.  Lost was one Caucasian woman, one black
+male, one asian female.  What we're adding is one Caucasian woman (Lt.
+Commander Ivanova), one black male (Dr. Stephen Franklin), and one asian woman
+(Catherine Sakai).  In addition, we're introducing a Hispanic doctor who will,
+we hope be a recurring character from time to time (look for her in
+"Believers" to start with).  And we will be doing more of this, not just in
+small parts, but larger ones as well.  We have been very careful to keep a mix
+of actors that reflects what our thesis is: that if we go to the stars, we're
+ALL going to the stars.
+
+     In fact, we just recently -- when we found out it was going on --
+instructed our casting people not to put any ethnic background information
+into the breakdown sheets that go out to actor's agents.  (In other words,
+usually you need a white male actor 30-40, with a mustache, that kind of
+specificity is commonplace in breakdowns.)  We have instituted open
+casting...anyone, of any ethnic background, is eligible for any role at any
+time.  We hope that this will *further* help us to broaden out the tapestry of
+our series.
+
+     This is a very committed show, on a lot of different levels, with the
+idea of trying to live out what we're preaching.  We have an almost equal
+breakdown of males to females in our crew and every aspect of our production.
+(I say almost equal because I'm *fairly* sure there are actually more women on
+the show, many in non-conventional jobs, than there are men.)  Our casting is
+open.  We've instituted recycling on an everyday basis.  I'm working on
+getting the styrofoam cups at the snacks table replaced by recycleable paper
+cups, and trying to set up a deal where we can give any leftover food from the
+catering truck to a shelter.  We've got women in the writer and director
+categories, and two of our three editors (a very dominantly male business) are
+women.
+
+     I don't like the way Hollywood works either.
+
+     That's why we're not DOING it that way.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 544       Sat Aug 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:04 EDT
+
+     The Borgia...?
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 550       Sat Aug 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:21 EDT
+
+     What we did with the uniforms was to toughen them up a bit.  We took the
+basic class-A uniform we used on the pilot, and retailored them for a better
+fit.  Then we added leather to the right front panel, quite a bit of it
+actually, from the middle of the chest about three-quarters of the way to the
+arm.  Then replaced the waist section/belt, cuffs, collar and epaulets with
+leather.  (The blue class-A's got brown leather; the olive class-A's got black
+leather.)  We added burnished bronze clasps, rank insignia, and a REALLY cool
+Earth Alliance belt-clasp to the base of the jacket.  I personally think it's
+very attractive, and had my original class-A from the pilot (yes, I paid to
+have one made for myself) altered to the new "look."
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 553       Sat Aug 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:48 EDT
+
+     Well, I didn't *know* who you were, I was frantic settting things up
+before hand, it was all a blur, I couldn't see your badge, you WERE wearing a
+blue shirt, and...and there WAS someone behind you who had his hand up who was
+wearing a similar color shirt, and I had to find SOME way of distinguishing
+between you from the stage...and...and....ack!
+
+                                      the hormone case in the b5 jacket
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 554       Sun Aug 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:02 EDT
+
+     Onto other (and safer) topics....
+
+     It's amazing how fast time is zipping past...we've got a number of shows
+now complete and in the can, starting "Believers" on Tuesday.  We have D.C.
+Fontana now working on the outline for her second episode,  tentatively
+entitled "Legacies."  Her first s goes before the cameras in about 3 weeks.
+
+     We're currently finishing up production on "Born to the Purple," with
+Clive Revell and Fabiana Udeno.  It's a very offbeat and funny story (by Larry
+DiTillio, natch) which adds a new side to Londo's character.  It puts our
+characters into different situations than we're used to, and it's fun seeing
+how they react to these new conditions.
+
+     I'm just now starting my next script, "Mind War," which will bring the
+Psi Cops to Babylon 5.
+
+     For those out there who still think the skin-tab-getting-through- Kosh's-
+encounter-suit was an error...we're going to be dealing with that, and some
+other interesting threads in "The Parliament of Dreams" episode.  Sinclair
+comments on the whole question of how the poison ever got into him...and notes
+how curious it is that, within weeks of that incident, Dr. Kyle was
+transferred back to Earth to work directly with the Earth Alliance President
+on matters of alien immigration...and Lyta Alexander was similarly transferred
+a week or so after that.  The only two people to have personal knowledge of a
+Vorlon have been shipped off and possibly locked up.
+
+     (Interesting, how one can take real-life developments and weave them into
+the tapestry.  This will feed into the main line of the story even better than
+what I had originally planned.)
+
+     The one I'm most looking forward to writing just now, though, is "Babylon
+Squared," in which we finally show what happened to Babylon 4, and in the
+process ask more questions than we answer (though at least we DO answer the
+questions we asked about the fate of that station in general...you'll know
+what happened to it, just not yet what it means).
+
+     There continue to be the usual hassles, and it's as bone-wearying as
+ever, but I think we're having fun...and I know it's going to be a good show.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 560       Sun Aug 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:57 EDT
+
+     This isn't so much a spoiler, since it concerns an abandoned story like
+(or, let me rephrase that...a modified story line).  I mention this here since
+I just mentioned it elsewhere, and might as well do so here.
+
+     Think hard about the pilot for a moment.  Whose job is it in the
+observation dome to monitor incoming ships...but apparently let the spider
+transport slip through unnoticed?  The station's skin should have (and likely
+did) detect something clamping onto it...but apparently someone over-rode that
+for the spider transport.  Someone had to PRE-arrange access via the computer
+for the assassin, since it easily palms its way into Varner's quarters.  (And
+what is the name of the person the access computer recognizes?)  Someone had
+to arrange for the transport tube to be delayed, and then *erase* that
+information from the computer system.  Someone who knew *exactly* when the
+Vorlon ship would be docking.  We see, at various times, the following people
+interacting with the assassin, in different capacities: Garibaldi, Lyta,
+G'Kar, Londo, Dr. Kyle, and of course, much later, Sinclair.  Who did we never
+see in direct contact with the assassin?  Who was put in charge of the station
+after Sinclair was removed?
+
+     Do you notice a pattern developing?  Do certain things here point to a
+certain individual...who may, or may not, have been acting on her own
+volition?
+
+     And yes, this is something we planned to explore, though it wasn't on a
+*direct* line to the arc of our story.  It definitely impinged upon it, of
+course.  This has been modified due to the change in the character of the
+Lieutenant Commander, and this now won't go where it was going to go...but we
+still have some very interesting plans for our secondary character, not at all
+along the Takashima lines (which is why this isn't a spoiler), but certainly
+intriguing on their own terms.
+
+     (Re: the preceding questions...the class-A's are the day uniforms, not
+the dress uniforms.  And the preceding Babylon stations did have some
+differences between them, some moderate, some extensive.)
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 571       Sun Aug 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:35 EDT
+
+     Now, I didn't say she was a villain.  I said that certain things may or
+may not have been done of her own free will, her own volition.  What this
+means...we'll see.
+
+     Will: to the concern you raise...my feeling is that, unlike Twin Peaks,
+you *cannot* extend things indefinitely.  In other words, you don't have to
+wait five years to find out what's going on now, in questions you have in
+season one.  Questions raised in season one will be *answered* in season one.
+It's just that, we hope, *new* questions will arise over the course of season
+one that we can then answer in season two.  And so on.  I don't think it's
+right, or fair, or smart to keep people on the hook that long.  Which is why
+we'll find out what happened on the Battle of the Line midway through season
+one...it's just what this then MEANS that will become the new question.
+
+     As for managing to log on here...I wish I could do more, frankly, but the
+press of time is astonishing.  It's the Lewis Carroll bit, you have to run
+just as fast as you can to stay in one place.  If you don't, little details
+begin to slip between the cracks...and in a story, and i television, details
+are *everything*.  I think it was Michelangelo who said that "trifles make
+perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 587       Tue Aug 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:11 EDT
+
+     Yes, there will be a Confrancisco presentation on B5..two, actually.
+
+There will be new footage spread across both days, and there may be an extra
+guest or two at the 4:00 panel.  Can't promise that at this time, but it's a
+possibility.
+
+     Thinking back on San Diego Comic Con, something comes to mind that I
+wanted to mention.  When I'm doing my number at a con, I kind of glaze over a
+bit; I get mentally pointed toward performance, and things that would normally
+be obvious get missed.  Thus...if you're one of the regulart (regular) folk
+around here, and you come up to me, *introduce yourselves*, because I rarely
+read badges (at 6'4" it's tough sometimes), and even when I do I'm often too
+stupid to put names and handles together.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 590       Tue Aug 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:56 EDT
+
+     Not that I'm aware of at this time.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 603       Wed Sep 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:00 EDT
+
+     Will: relax.
+
+     You have to understand the way this show is going to be structured.
+There aren't going generally going to be a lot of loose threads hanging
+around.  Episodes will resolve themselves.  It's just that, from time to time,
+we'll carom off some point that seems tangential, but which will later become
+significant.  You don't have to watch every episode.  Hell, if I do this right
+-- and this is one hell of a hat trick, lemme tell you, when it comes to
+structure -- you can even watch them out of ORDER, within a season, and still
+follow what's going on.  The trick is to make it so that if something slips
+past, the viewer doesn't trip over it.  And when you do an episode that you've
+set up before, that set-up should in some subtle, non-heavy-expository way, be
+re-established for those who might not have seen the episode.
+
+     Telling people "This is a five year arc" in a big way almost as a warning
+is actually more destructive than constructive; it might lead people to think
+that they need to commit five years of their lives to get the whole story, and
+it's hard to get people to commit to even one ten-hour miniseries.  You can
+watch any part you want, and get a good, solid, independently enjoyable hour-
+show out of it.  You can come in at any point you want.  The key is that the
+more you watch, the more you will pick up on the nuances and the threads we're
+going to be playing with.  Generally, we're going to keep those threads a bit
+light in the first season, then begin to draw in more of the general story arc
+in the second and subsequent seasons.  Let's use the first year to get the
+audience comfortable with the B5 universe, and with our characters, and in a
+handful of episodes, carefully begin leading everyone where we want them to
+go, so that when we start to accellerate things in year two, those who've been
+with us from the start can get right into it, and those who come to the show
+late can play catch up without any problem.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 610       Wed Sep 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:44 EDT
+
+     The 5 year arc is worked out in considerable detail; 200 single spaced
+pages in a triple-encrypted file.  I can't allow myself ever to even so much
+as *consider* not hitting the full five years on this, so the rest of the
+question I can't answer.
+
+     CopperCon is apparently a couple weeks after ConFrancisco, and Larry
+DiTillio will be there with a B5 presentation.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 615       Thu Sep 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:37 EDT
+
+     If they can't figure out there's more than meets the eye...they don't
+have an eye to meet.  If the series doesn't stand on its own right from the
+git-go, the hell with a five-year arc, it doesn't matter, because we'll never
+get that far.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Computer SFX Tech-Talk   
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+363 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 319       Sun Jul 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:44 EDT
+
+     I think the morph winked on that shot.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 328       Sat Aug 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:30 EDT
+
+     Dunno nuthin' about no screamers...only screamers I know is the rest of
+us whenever Ron tries to explain how this stuff works....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 339       Thu Aug 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EDT
+
+     The 8 hours per frame figure is GREATLY exaggerated; at most it was an
+hour, maybe two or three, but certainly not 8.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Cast & Characters        
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+357 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 315       Sat Jul 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:42 EDT
+
+     Yes, Pat Tallman was used in Jurassic Park; and yes, she was mis-
+identified in the credits.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 339       Sat Aug 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:30 EDT
+
+     I try to keep my characters separate; Ivanova has a very different
+personality from Takashima.  To me, they're all just separate, distinct
+individuals, people in their own right; I try to decide what's best for that
+person, rather than going over a laundry list of character traits.
+
+          
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 344       Sun Aug 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:05 EDT
+
+     It's a standard bed, works fine.  Though we *did* have a thing in mind
+where Londo sits up in bed, having just had wonderful sex, and his hair is now
+hanging limp...but in a sudden burst of sanity we decided against it.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 5         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            (Forwarded)
+Sub: Grid Epsilon Irregulars - News & Info.
+
+This topic is for information about Babylon 5 fan groups, newsletters,
+fanzines, get-togethers, B-5 at conventions, and other general fun.
+275 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 274       Wed Jul 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:14 EDT
+
+     Christy's been delayed with the new issue because I diverted her.  I
+emphasized that her outline was late, and if I didn't have it by the end of
+this week, I'd come up to Oakhurst and saw her feet off at the ankles.
+
+     It's coming in this evening.
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 9         Wed Nov 11, 1992
+T.RESTIVO [Little Guy]       at 18:27 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Humor                      
+
+From *Beep Beep*, to Top Ten Lists to full-blown paradies, this is where to
+put your funny bone in writing!
+305 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 196       Tue Jul 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:27 EDT
+
+     Wonderful stuff...and the funny thing is, 1) "spoo" is actually a word
+used in episode #1, and 2) I've been looking for another word to describe
+flashing lights in production meetings (right now we're using "nernies" for
+shorthand) and "derblinkens" sounds like a good replacement.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 284       Tue Aug 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:55 EDT
+
+     As reward for the humor, here's what Kosh will *really* say, when he
+utters the first words we hear.  He's on the Observation Dome, looking out
+through the window as a ship passes overhead, the lights shining down at him
+through a window.
+
+     "Ahhh....beautiful."   Long beat as he looks around the place.  Then:
+ "I will miss this...when it is gone."
+
+     And then he exits, as Garibaldi mutters to Ivanova, "I *really* hate it
+when he does that."
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B5 Adrift!                           
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+322 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 301       Fri Jul 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:06 EDT
+
+     Actually, it's a script for a 4-hour miniseries written on spec, and
+while there are currently about half a dozen people who want to buy it, I'm
+sitting on it until I make some changes.  The problem is finding the time to
+make those changes with B5 moving ahead.  At some point I hope to be able to
+carve out just a couple of days to finish my revisions and get it out for the
+proposed auction.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 306       Sat Jul 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:48 EDT
+
+     I really don't know, and wouldn't want to speak for our cast members.  I
+imagine there will be different deals with different actors.  If I were asked,
+I'd suggest that they avoid becoming monopolized by *any* one group, but that
+really isn't my call to make.  That's between them and their agents.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 319       Sun Aug 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:27 EDT
+
+     It looked very, very cool....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                  
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+344 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 310       Tue Jul 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:40 EDT
+
+     Which issue of VTU has the ad from Foundation?  The June/July issue?
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 321       Sun Aug 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:26 EDT
+
+     For those interested, there's a brief thing about B5 in the media column
+in this mont's WIZARD magazine (covering the comics industry).
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 323       Fri Aug 13, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:05 EDT
+
+     BTW, an upcoming issue of -- I believe -- Computer Graphics World due out
+shortly has a cover done by Ron, using one of the new ships we'll be using in
+one of our stories.  It's head-first into the ground near what looks like a
+Mayan pyramid; the ground and pyramid have nothing to do with our show, btw,
+only the ship.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 333       Sat Aug 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:41 EDT
+
+     "No emotion?"
+
+     Heh.  Heh, heh.....
+
+     PULL!
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 339       Wed Aug 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:23 EDT
+
+     Nah, that's okay.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 344       Wed Aug 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:28 EDT
+
+     I'm told it's for 2:00 that Friday.  Which is too bad; if the thing had
+been scheduled for Saturday instead, we could've had some of our cast members
+attend.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 13        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 21:00 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Science & Technology     
+
+Jump gates, nanotech, high-tech weapons, starship drives, sound in space, and
+other subjects of science and technology in Babylon 5.
+347 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 292       Wed Jul 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:00 EDT
+
+     Civilian spacecraft are fairly common; they're expensive, to be sure, and
+if you're just going from point a to point b, it makes more sense just to book
+passage on something, but many folks now make their living in space, so
+transport is required.
+
+     Most of the non-aligned worlds have a less technologically advanced
+society, but mainly what constitutes membership in the Big 5 is the size of
+the government in question.  If it's just one planet and maybe a sister world
+or two, that's not enough to qualify.
+
+     It's based very much on the security council of the UN in that respect.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 298       Thu Jul 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:41 EDT
+
+     Except that most combat of that nature would be to protect something,
+usually in close proximity, such as a colony or planet.  Also, bear in mind
+that a ship or convoy of ships in hyperspace can be anywhere, can go anywhere.
+Once they exit hyperspace, particularly if they have to travel any real
+distance, are more vulnerable because they're caught having to operate at sub-
+light speeds.  So if you're going to hit them, best to wait until they're out
+of hyperspace, which they have to leave sooner or later because part of
+warfare is hitting targets...and most targets of real value are outside
+hyperspace.  (Which is why carriers, capable of making their own jump points,
+are of greatest strategic value.)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 301       Sat Jul 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:16 EDT
+
+     Ron: no, I don't recall ever saying that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 305       Sat Jul 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:34 EDT
+
+     I have some rough notes on space travel rules in the B5 universe,' but
+probably won't release them for a bit; we're in the process of adding some
+technical advisors (i.e., guys who know math), and I want to run my stuff past
+them for review.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 307       Sun Jul 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:23 EDT
+
+     In many cases, it's more ship-to-gate, with a relay bounce to B5 to let
+it know what's coming in.  It can of course be re-routed so that B5 can lock
+something out, if they know it's coming, but for general everyday purposes, it
+works the first way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 309       Tue Jul 13, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:18 EDT
+
+     Anything can fail.  Nothing is failsafe.  Chaos theory takes care of
+that.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 325       Sun Aug 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:25 EDT
+
+     Actually, she says "activate defensive grid," which is a slightly
+different thing.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 328       Mon Aug 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:20 EDT
+
+     I'd rather let you see the defense grid in action than define it just
+now...wait for episode #2, where you'll see it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 14        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:59 EST
+Sub: Lurkers/Introductions: Please Sign In
+
+A place for newcomers to come in, say hello, whether you want to jump into the
+conversation or not, just to let us know you're here.
+422 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 380       Mon Jul 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:49 EDT
+
+     Kevin: glad to have you aboard.  Welcome to the asylum....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 399       Fri Jul 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:40 EDT
+
+     The Toaster is being used by Spielberg for their SeaQuest series.
+
+     Filk magazine?  B5?  Which one had the thing?  (And am I sure I really
+want to know this...?)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 404       Sun Jul 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:39 EDT
+
+     The planet will also look a *lot* better this season, btw.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 15        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:29 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Alien Races              
+
+Aliens races in Babylon 5... their politics, abilties, technology, history,
+and any other discussion specificly about non-humans.
+
+359 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 305       Tue Jul 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:29 EDT
+
+     They do grow in over time, and they are very individual, yes.
+
+     You win the toaster oven.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 310       Sun Jul 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:43 EDT
+
+     The teaser in the very first episode planned for airing will deal with
+the similarity between Centauri and Humans...down the road, we will be seeing
+more of Londo, and his people, and realize that they aren't as human looking
+as they first appear.  There's more there.
+
+     It was Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, Vorlon Empire
+and Earth Alliance, for anyone keeping track.  And yes, most all of them have
+some other alien species within their sphere of direct influence.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 312       Mon Jul 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:37 EDT
+
+     Yes to both.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 314       Tue Jul 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:42 EDT
+
+     (!)
+
+     Hmmmmmmmmm......
+
+     Let me get back to you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 323       Sun Jul 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:18 EDT
+
+     Matt: I like it when people lie in television, and we find out about it
+over time.  The "lost colony" routine was one such.  At one point, Garibaldi
+confronts Londo with this as reason for why he doesn't trust  the Centauri.
+Londo shrugs it off as a "clerical error."  There will be a few points in the
+series when we'll get information, and we'll buy into it...and discover after
+a while that that character bald-facedly lied to the other character (and, by
+proxy, to us).  And naturally there will be consequences to this....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 326       Mon Jul 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:37 EDT
+
+     Actually, at one point or another, just about *everyone* lied in the
+course of the pilot...including Sinclair, who lied to G'Kar, and of course
+Delenn lying to Sinclair in the Garden...and so on.
+
+     Basically, I have this theory that there are five kinds of truth.  (This
+is Joe's Theory of the Five Truths.)  There is the truth you tell to casual
+strangers and acquaintances.  There is the truth you tell to your general
+circle of friends and family members.  There is the truth you tell to only one
+or two people in your entire life.  There is the truth you tell to yourself.
+And finally, there is the truth that you do not admit even to yourself.  And
+it's that fifth truth that provides some of the most interesting drama.....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 334       Sun Aug 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:22 EDT
+
+     Those are Mira's and Andreas' natural speaking voices, though  Andreas
+makes it just a tad more lilting.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 338       Sun Aug 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:01 EDT
+
+     You have to really dig to get any good material on Babylon; it's not a
+big topic among commercial publishers, you really have to go for the academic
+publishing houses.  (Beware of religious publishing houses in this area; they
+have their own spin on things that tends to infect the text.)
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 346       Tue Aug 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:13 EDT
+
+     I believe n'grath qualifies for a non-humanoid lifeform with an
+exoskeleton of sorts....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Merchandising            
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+366 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 345       Mon Jul 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:38 EDT
+
+     I'm sure at some point there'll be a B5 soundtrack album, but when, I
+don't know.  My guess is that it'll wait until we have more stuff from the
+series to plug in.  I want to buy a copy for myself....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 363       Sun Aug 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:36 EDT
+
+     Look for another Babylon 5 cover story late this year, sometime just
+before the series goes on the air.
+
+     (Referring to CFQ, he noted.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 21        Wed Feb 10, 1993
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 17:32 EST
+Sub: "The Gathering" - B5 pilot movie     
+
+BABYLON 5 premieres with "The Gathering," a 2-hour made-for-tv movie written
+by series creator J. Michael Straczynski.  Come, join the discussion of this
+pilot!
+
+415 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 21
+Message 267       Sat Jul 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:43 EDT
+
+     Yes, that's a baseball diamond.  Craters?  What craters?  I thought it
+was just a stylized painting.  Lemme look at that again....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 21
+Message 269       Sun Jul 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:59 EDT
+
+     No, I don't think so...but I wasn't on set for that shot, so I may be
+wrong.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 21
+Message 279       Sat Jul 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:53 EDT
+
+     It was a dust being a very specific drug with very unusual properties.
+We cut the sequence in which he tries to get on board the station, is caught,
+takes a hostage and is taken down.  But when you cut a scene like that, you
+still have to list the actors used in it.  Hence the credit deal.
+
+     Here's the one thing that amazes me, speaking of seeing the pilot for the
+gadzillionth time...there is one great big huge gaping visual
+anomaly/inconsistency in the pilot that so far no one has noticed.  It's so
+massive that when I first saw it, I just about fell out of my chair.   But the
+director said "No one's ever gonna see it, no one's ever gonna notice it,
+*trust* me on this."  I was absolutely convinced that he was wrong.
+Apparently he was right.  At some point in the future I'll tell you what it
+is...and when you see it, you're going to wonder how the hell you avoided
+seeing it before, it's *that* big.  But not for a while yet.   (And the few
+smaller things mentioned here...ain't it.)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 21
+Message 308       Thu Aug 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:50 EDT
+
+     If anyone had guessed what it was, I'd have said so.  But no one has ever
+seen it.  That was my point.  And again, it's not a story point, it's a
+visual.  (And the thing about Kosh's hand is *not* an inconsistency; it is a
+story point for future reference.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 21
+Message 318       Fri Aug 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:58 EDT
+
+     If someone got it right, I would say so.
+
+     The incoming starship only looks like it's going to hit the station
+because you're not bearing in mind the perspective.  B5 is *huge*, almost four
+miles long.  By the time the ship would get close enough to the station to hit
+anything, it would look a *lot* smaller.  It's a matter of perspective; we're
+not used to seeing things that size.
+
+     As for laserdisks in 16:9 aspect ratio, you may get your wish, a lot
+sooner than you think (for the series, in any event).  Well, at least not 5-10
+years, anyway.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 21
+Message 323       Sat Aug 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:31 EDT
+
+     It's inconsistent from one shot to the next.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 21
+Message 328       Sun Aug 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:17 EDT
+
+     No, the wall was there in both shots.  Television makes for strange
+angles sometimes.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 21
+Message 334       Mon Aug 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:23 EDT
+
+     Nope.  As you'll see in the series, we've worked out the docking bay
+stuff very clevely.  A ship enters dead center.  It is then taken and lowered
+into one of a number of different bays deeper within the station (by deeper I
+mean lower, more toward the hull).  That's how we can have a series of
+different docking bays in the first place.
+
+     There's a nifty CGI shot we'll be using at some point in the series where
+you can see the entirety of the docking bay, with the various ships arrayed
+inside.  Then there are the more secure bays areas, with restricted access, as
+when Kosh arrived.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 21
+Message 346       Sun Aug 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:51 EDT
+
+     The commander was not following proper safety procedures in the first
+shot.  He has a problem with this.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 21
+Message 359       Wed Aug 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:28 EDT
+
+     Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 21
+Message 381       Sun Aug 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:36 EDT
+
+     I got bumped by one of those damned computer phone calling thingies, so I
+didn't get all of the message I think, but what I can remember to reply to:
+
+     There are more aliens than just the 5 major groups.  In addition to them,
+there's *bunches* of oththe classification of the League of Non-Aligned
+Worlds.  The Big Five constitute what is in  essence the Security Counsel,
+while the rest are the General Assembly.  We will see these groups
+participating in that capacity in "Midnight."
+
+     In the reception scene for Kosh, at the bay, Garibaldi says that the
+"others" are waiting down the hall.  That would include everyone, plus the
+ambassadors, except Londo, who he specifies.
+
+     The encounter suit opened at the touch of a button (you can hear him
+press the button with a *click*).  Only for Lyta did it open on its own.
+
+     All psi corps members must wear their symbol whenever they are out among
+non-PC members.  That's the law.
+
+     For the record...thtch has something to do with the second trial scene.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 21
+Message 383       Sun Aug 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:01 EDT
+
+     I don't think I did.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 21
+Message 390       Tue Aug 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:13 EDT
+
+     The alt.tv.b5 post is not correct.  One other person here (at least)
+knows what the glitch is, but has been asked not to say until others figure it
+out independently.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 21
+Message 394       Wed Aug 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:29 EDT
+
+     Nothing gets past Phil....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 21
+Message 407       Wed Sep 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:46 EDT
+
+     My favorite shot so far is the new shot of the Starliner Asimov parked
+next to Babylon 5 and sending over a shuttle....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 23        Fri Feb 12, 1993
+V.VAIDY1 [Vijay]             at 23:00 EST
+Sub: "OtherWorks" by JMS                  
+
+Before there was "B5" and when "JMS" was just another Plain Joe, there was
+OtherSyde
+ [A discussion of the other works of J. Michael Straczynski]
+120 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 119       Thu Sep 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:39 EDT
+
+
+     I confess, I slipped in a "Babylon 5" reference in that episode of CP.
+Which was 1986/87.  I do that sometimes....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 24        Fri Jun 04, 1993
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:11 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Weapons and Warfare!     
+
+For discussion about the weapons, counter weapons, armor, shielding, tactics,
+logistics, and so forth, of small combat and large scale war in the Babylon 5
+universe.
+182 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 131       Tue Jul 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:30 EDT
+
+     Life's full of mysteries and unanswered questions, ain't it?
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 25        Fri Mar 12, 1993
+S.SHELLENBAR [>> SHANE <<]   at 08:47 EST
+Sub: J. Michael Straczynski Speaks in Public
+
+This is the place to find out where and when JMS will be appearing next.  JMS
+has honed his skills as a public speaker and is taking his act on the road.
+266 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 172       Sun Jul 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:20 EDT
+
+     I would suggest to anyone within striking range that they be at Comic
+Con.  Some interesting things are planned for that presentation.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 182       Sun Aug 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:03 EDT
+
+     Comic Con is *more* than worth the cost.  It's the one convention I make
+it a point *never* to miss; it's just spiffy.  As for a comic book, maybe
+we'll have something to say on that by the date of the con (though not
+necessarily).
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 194       Mon Aug 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:26 EDT
+
+     By the way...at the B5 presentation at San Diego Comic Con, there will
+likely be more people than me on stage that afternoon.  Tentatively, it looks
+like it'll be me, plus one or more of the following: Jerry Doyle, Michael
+O'Hare, Harlan Ellison, and possibly Mira Furlan.
+
+     Just in case anyone's interested....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 197       Mon Aug 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:59 EDT
+
+     Surround sound is added in post production, that's way down the road for
+us.  And again, the letterbox is only for down the road use; we're looking to
+broadcast, and use for immediate purposes, standard aspect ratio.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+     (P.S. It's "Mefisto In Onyx," not "Mephisto And Onyx."  Just FYI.
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 211       Thu Aug 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:15 EDT
+
+     Don't know yet....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+     (Gary, haven't received any sort of confirmation yet...are you *sure* all
+the other details are worked out?)
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 218       Fri Aug 13, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:02 EDT
+
+     Jerry is tall.  Michael is tall.  Claudia Christian is also pretty tall,
+around 5'10" or better.  Richard Biggs is fairly tall, close to the height of
+Jerry and Michael.
+
+     Hey, what'd you expect?
+
+                                                  jms(6'4")
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 241       Wed Aug 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:32 EDT
+
+     During.
+
+     The tape was dark because it was made from dailies, which haven't been
+color corrected, and because the setup lent more darkness to them; by the time
+anyone figured how to lighten the picture, it was half done.
+
+     As Harlan commented...yes, there may be a sequel to "Demon With a Glass
+Hand," in which that character, played by Culp, would come to B5, still living
+out the centuries as programmed.  We'll see....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 245       Wed Aug 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:18 EDT
+
+     I thought long and hard about the question of mixing universes, and
+allowed it only in this one case, because the events that propelled Trent (the
+character from Demon) into the past (our present) don't take place for another
+thousand years or so.  Thus it doesn't do my arc any harm at all.  One could
+say that the events in "Demon" will happen at some point in the future of the
+B5 universe...unless some events change them.  On this one occasion,
+therefore, I decided to allow it.  But that's the ONLY one.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 250       Sat Aug 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:24 EDT
+
+     By the way...just for funsies I slipped a reference into one of our
+scripts to a location being at grid coordinates 471-18-25.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 260       Wed Sep 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:04 EDT
+
+     Yes, Friday and 2, and Saturday there's a follow-up presentation at 4.
+One note, btw: Harlan will be at the con, and will be at the Saturday
+presentation.
+
+     If you live in San Francisco, or are planning to be at the con as of
+tomorrow, Wednesday, read on:
+
+     Harlan needs someone to wear a sandwich board announcing the signing
+session for the limited edition of "Mefisto in Onyx."  Apparently the ad
+didn't make it into the program book.  By way of repayment (other than simply
+being part of an Ellison Event, and getting to hang with Mr. E. a bit),
+there's some cash involved, and a free, autographed and personalized copy of
+the "MiO" book.  If you're interested, drop me a note in private mail.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 26        Sun Jun 06, 1993
+G.PLANA [Gary]               at 01:51 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Episode titles and info  
+
+This topic is for information about individual episodes -- their titles,
+writers, and any other information JMS may leak!
+86 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 45        Sun Jul 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:00 EDT
+
+     The series will start with regular one-hour episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 47        Wed Jul 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:09 EDT
+
+      Titles more or less in shooting order (this is NOT the order in
+ which they'll be broadcast):
+
+      "Infection" - JMS
+      <second title is classified> - JMS
+      "Midnight on the Firing Line" - JMS
+      "Amaranth" - Larry DiTillio
+      "The War Prayer" - D.C. Fontana
+      "And the Sky Full of Stars" - JMS
+      "Believers" - David Gerrold
+      "A Knife in the Shadows" - Marc Scott Zicree
+      <ninth title is classified> - JMS
+
+      Other episode titles are "Metaphors and Body Counts," "Chrysalis,"
+ "Babylon Squared," "Mind War" and "Target: Unknown," plus others still to
+ come.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 50        Fri Jul 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:42 EDT
+
+     Marc worked a couple seasons on Friday the 13th, Beyond Reality, did some
+work on Captain Power, and is the author of "The Twilight Zone Companion."
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 55        Wed Aug 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:38 EDT
+
+     New title for you: "The Parliament of Dreams."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 70        Fri Aug 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:02 EDT
+
+     "The Parliament of Dreams" is "Carnival!" retitled, and "Amaranth" has
+been retitled "Born to the Purple."
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS for September, 1993
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 category.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category and main topic for the new series. Here is
+the place for all general information on the series. Topic 2 is the location
+for SPOILERS. And please, NO STORY IDEAS are to be posted either.
+403 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 294       Thu Sep 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:33 EDT
+
+     The problem, of course, with DeVito or Lloyd or (as some suggested) Mel
+Gibson or others it that their salaries would be, individually, equal to our
+entire production budget for 3-4 episodes.  Which means we'd have to shoot
+only 18 rather than 22.
+
+     As for a production report...things are going swimmingly.  Today we
+started getting dailies on our first day of shooting on "And the Sky Full of
+Stars," which deals with the Battle of the Line.  This is not going to look
+like your conventional episode of television.  We've brought in equipment that
+you don't normally see on a television set, certain kinds of cranes and lenses
+and lighting packages that will give this particular episode a very strange,
+almost surreal look.  It's quite remarkable.
+
+     And Ron's pushing the envelope on the CGI...compositing some live action
+stuff with CGI that'll blow your TV out.
+
+     It's going *well*.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 301       Sat Sep 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:09 EDT
+
+     The details of the budget per episide are classified...but you could
+easily take DS9's budget, cut it in half, and you'd still have more than we've
+got.
+
+     Which is, again, part of the overall plan...if we can prove that you can
+do quality SF on a budget comparable to non-SF series, it'll open the gates
+for more shows down the road.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 303       Sat Sep 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:31 EDT
+
+     Now here's comedy...we're fielding a Babylon 5 softball as one of the
+showbiz leagues.  (Many shows in town have softball teams, and th ey've
+organized into something that has grown quite substantially into a Big Deal.)
+We're making up jerseys for the team, and on the front there will be the B5
+logo, and on the back, for the team player number, there will be 5.  That's
+all.  The only number.  Which will make calling the game a WONDERFUL
+challenge..."And on shortstop we've got number five...out in center field is
+number five...with number five pitching and catching."
+
+     Everything about this show is surreal.
+
+     BTW...our first game is against the SeaQuest team.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 305       Sat Sep 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:13 EDT
+
+     If you like, sure.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 317       Sun Sep 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:47 EDT
+
+     I'm afraid I wasn't much impressed with the SQ CGI.  You really couldn't
+SEE anything, there were no shadows, I still don't really know what the SQ
+looks like...what Ron's doing is years beyond what you saw.
+
+     Speaking of which, I was with Ron and the Foundation crew tonight at the
+technical Emmys presentation, where we picked up the visual EFX award for his
+work on B5.  (In this category, more than one show can win, so we got one,
+Lucas' Indiana Jones series got one,and DS9 got one.  Lucas was quite
+intrigued by the B5 footage on the screens, as I noted from my table, which
+was next to his.)  It's quite rewarding, our first time out of the door, to be
+in that company.
+
+     It's my *understanding* that the E! channel will show the technical emmys
+on Monday, but that's not confirmed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 330       Mon Sep 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:58 EDT
+
+     And y'know...it's absolutely in keeping with the Straczynski luck, and
+the history of this show, that the year B5 wins an Emmy is the first year that
+they DON'T do the recap of last night's technical awards.  Ah, well....
+
+     BTW, there were several odd JMS/B5 connections with other aspects of the
+Emmys this year.  Performers are nominated for the full season of their
+work...and Angela Lansbury was nominated for the year in which I worked on the
+show as writer/producer (ditto on the previous year during my tenure).  Of
+course, she's nominated every year, so a hamster could work as writer
+producer, that hardly counts.  One of the other technical Emmy nominations --
+for music -- went to an episode of Murder, She Wrote entitled "The Wind Around
+the Tower," which I wrote; set in Ireland, it was designed to open the way for
+some different styles of music in the show.  Also, John Copeland, line
+producer on the B5 series, was nominated for his work on the Wild West
+documentary miniseries, and B5 pilot costume designer Catherine Adair was the
+designer for Angela's gowns tonight.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 333       Tue Sep 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:38 EDT
+
+     How You Know You're Finally Going Bananas, by JMS.
+
+     So there I was, lying abed, at 3 a.m., unable to sleep, and I come up
+with the Fart Classification System (FCS).  Basically, they break down into
+three categories: small farts are squibs, medium farts are crackers, and
+really huge farts are zeppelins.
+
+     I desperately need to get a life....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 357       Thu Sep 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:45 EDT
+
+     We are shooting in 16:9 aspect ratio, cutting it down to normal TV aspect
+ratio for its initial broadcasts.  When a) the laserdisks are in time
+released, and b) when HDTV becomes more of a standard, the full letterboxed
+aspect ratio will be available.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 361       Thu Sep 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:59 EDT
+
+     Let me just stick my neck out a little here...though I know I won't be
+sticking it out very far, having seen what I've just seen.
+
+     I've always been *very* careful in what I say, to avoid over-hyping
+anything, or to make promises I can't fulfill.  That's why I ask, when I go to
+conventions, "Did I keep my promise?"
+
+     Here's a promise for you.  Which I make without hesitation.
+
+     "And the Sky Full of Stars" is absolutely unlike anything ever produced
+before for television.  It is, so far, the high-water mark of the season.
+Directorially, and in terms of the visual effects, the CGI, the performances,
+(the writing, one hopes)...right across the board, it's a stunner.  And
+just...I can't convey this enough...*different*.  It just takes TV science
+fiction and yanks it to a whole other level of complexity.
+
+     Knowing that I'll eventually be hitting conventions after this show airs,
+at which time I'll get reactions, I say that without hesitation.  I think you
+will find this promise kept.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 364       Thu Sep 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:19 EDT
+
+     There will be merchandising, but we're just not going to let it be what
+drives the show.  And it really isn't set up to be a theatrical project.  As
+for being a show with integrity, there's plenty of them out there.  "Picket
+Fences" is probably the best example of that, just offhand.  How we're doing
+what we're doing...is a combination of things: the right technology at the
+right time, the right people, the right stories, and the right environment.
+Sometimes you catch lightning in a bottle, and sometimes you catch fireflies.
+That this show proceeds from a definite, personal vision, and is not the
+product of a committee, likely has a great deal to do with it.
+
+     Though the reaction to what we're doing within the studio and network
+arenas has been very positive and extremely supportive, I don't think anyone --
+even, to some degree, those of us doing the show -- *really* understood what
+we had until we finished "Sky."  This episode has sent ripples all OVER the
+place.  I can honestly say it's not like any other television episode you've
+seen...people will be dissecting this one for a long, LONG time after it airs.
+
+     The other episodes we've made are all good..."Midnight," "Believers,"
+"Soul Hunter"...there's not a dud in the bag so far.  But with "Sky" we have
+created something quite amazing.  I still haven't seen a final cut on this
+episode, but if it's in keeping with the way it's falling together so
+far...when they add up the balance at the end of my life, I think that "Sky"
+will be remembered.  I know this sounds awfully overblown, and I'm not really
+comfortable talking about anything like this, but jeezus....
+
+     Ladies and gentlemen, it's a corker.  Honest to god, I think we've just
+made a little history.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 366       Thu Sep 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:24 EDT
+
+     "Sky" will air roughly around episode number nine.
+
+                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 373       Fri Sep 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:33 EDT
+
+     Just to clarify: we'll be delivering *finished* episodes as early as mid-
+October.  That's everything, music, EFX, everything.  PTEN doesn't begin its
+new "season" until January, so that's when they'll begin airing.  But we'll
+have nearly a dozen or so episodes in the can when we begin airing.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 382       Fri Sep 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:30 EDT
+
+     Jon...I sympathize.  I generally carried a pretty heavy load in college.
+My next-to-last year, just to get the hell OUT of there, I managed to crash
+courses and evade the university limits and ended up with 28 units in one
+semester...and none of them basket weaving stuff, either...statistical
+analysis (imagine ME in that one), physiological psychology, 6 units of
+German, biology....
+
+     I was, shall we say, insane....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 385       Sat Sep 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:47 EDT
+                                     
+     As an aside...one of the things that's been great to watch over the last
+few months is how the crew and cast have really come together.  On a lot
+(though certainly not all) of shows, once you finish the day, the crew goes
+off in as many different directions as possible.  Ditto with the cast.
+
+     But now, on top of the B5 softball team, now there's a B5 golf team, both
+in-house for B5 tournaments, and to play others.  Softball is on Saturday,
+golf is on Sunday.  Groups of the crew get together socially on the weekends,
+have barbeques and dinners.  When we wrap for the day, there is generally a
+large contingent that heads down to a nearby restaurant to hang out together
+and get coffee and something to eat.  The other softball teams have been
+astonished because we generally have lots of cast come out to play as well.
+At the last game, Michael O'Hare, Jerry Doyle, Richard Biggs (pitching) and
+Andrea Thompson all showed up and played.   (Jerry hit a homer.)
+
+     There are always hassles, and last minute problems, and the occasional
+bursts of crankiness that come with TV production, but for the most part it
+seems that the cast and crew are genuinely having a good time on the show, and
+that's always a good sign.
+
+     No special reason for mentioning it, except I was thinking about it, and
+it's kinda nice....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 397       Sat Sep 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:08 EDT
+
+     So far, the team's 1 for 2; their first game against SeaQuest (our team
+came to play and have a good time, the other team came to WIN) went to the SQ
+team.  Our people spent the week practicing between setups and at lunch -- we
+set up a milk carton for our new pitcher to practice his shot -- and this time
+we won over "Dave's World."  Though I wasn't there -- everyone ELSE gets to go
+play, *I* have to stay chained to a keyboard -- apparently it was a repeat on
+one level, in that there were maybe 8 from the "Dave's" side in the stands,
+and we had something 50-60 people from our side show up to cheer on the team.
+(Though we had a core bunch of players, anybody who wanted to play, played.)
+Again Jerry, Andrea and Richard Biggs showed up; Michael was otherwise
+engaged.
+
+     Just recently, btw, I gave Larry DiTillio a printout with just a little
+of the coming 5 year arc...if he's going to story edit, he needs to know what
+lines not to cross, and I can't ride herd on that all the time.  He took it
+home, read it.  Called me.  Didn't even say hello.   Began the conversation
+with, "You are out of your f'ing mind."  I asked for some small clarification
+of his position.  He indicated that he thought it was absolutely great,
+something that'll really go down in the rolls when the final tally is done,
+"But you GOT to be out of your f'ing mind to try and pull something like this
+off.  It *can* be done...but it takes a lunatic to do it."
+
+     Sounds about right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+May 28th, '93, Babylon 5 officially became a series. There will be 22 hours,
+plus the 2 hours of the pilot, for season one. Airs Wednesday's at 8PM in most
+places starting Jan. '94. This is the Spoiler topic where anything goes.
+
+571 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 287       Tue Aug 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:11 EDT
+
+     Yes, there will be a Confrancisco presentation on B5..two, actually.
+One will take place Friday at 2 p.m., with a follow up on Saturday at 4 p.m.
+There will be new footage spread across both days, and there may be an extra
+guest or two at the 4:00 panel.  Can't promise that at this time, but it's a
+possibility.
+
+     Thinking back on San Diego Comic Con, something comes to mind that I
+wanted to mention.  When I'm doing my number at a con, I kind of glaze over a
+bit; I get mentally pointed toward performance, and things that would normally
+be obvious get missed.  Thus...if you're one of the regulart (regular) folk
+around here, and you come up to me, *introduce yourselves*, because I rarely
+read badges (at 6'4" it's tough sometimes), and even when I do I'm often too
+stupid to put names and handles together.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 290       Tue Aug 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:56 EDT
+
+     Not that I'm aware of at this time.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 303       Wed Sep 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:00 EDT
+
+     Will: relax.
+
+     You have to understand the way this show is going to be structured.
+There aren't going generally going to be a lot of loose threads hanging
+around.  Episodes will resolve themselves.  It's just that, from time to time,
+we'll carom off some point that seems tangential, but which will later become
+significant.  You don't have to watch every episode.  Hell, if I do this right
+-- and this is one hell of a hat trick, lemme tell you, when it comes to
+structure -- you can even watch them out of ORDER, within a season, and still
+follow what's going on.  The trick is to make it so that if something slips
+past, the viewer doesn't trip over it.  And when you do an episode that you've
+set up before, that set-up should in some subtle, non-heavy-expository way, be
+re-established for those who might not have seen the episode.
+
+     Telling people "This is a five year arc" in a big way almost as a warning
+is actually more destructive than constructive; it might lead people to think
+that they need to commit five years of their lives to get the whole story, and
+it's hard to get people to commit to even one ten-hour miniseries.  You can
+watch any part you want, and get a good, solid, independently enjoyable hour-
+show out of it.  You can come in at any point you want.  The key is that the
+more you watch, the more you will pick up on the nuances and the threads we're
+going to be playing with.  Generally, we're going to keep those threads a bit
+light in the first season, then begin to draw in more of the general story arc
+in the second and subsequent seasons.  Let's use the first year to get the
+audience comfortable with the B5 universe, and with our characters, and in a
+handful of episodes, carefully begin leading everyone where we want them to
+go, so that when we start to accellerate things in year two, those who've been
+with us from the start can get right into it, and those who come to the show
+late can play catch up without any problem.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 310       Wed Sep 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:44 EDT
+
+     The 5 year arc is worked out in considerable detail; 200 single spaced
+pages in a triple-encrypted file.  I can't allow myself ever to even so much
+as *consider* not hitting the full five years on this, so the rest of the
+question I can't answer.
+
+     CopperCon is apparently a couple weeks after ConFrancisco, and Larry
+DiTillio will be there with a B5 presentation.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 315       Thu Sep 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:37 EDT
+
+     If they can't figure out there's more than meets the eye...they don't
+have an eye to meet.  If the series doesn't stand on its own right from the
+git-go, the hell with a five-year arc, it doesn't matter, because we'll never
+get that far.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 362       Wed Sep 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:12 EDT
+
+     At risk of rehashing this one more time, what's missing from the pilot is
+25 minutes of additional material that further fleshed out the characters.
+
+     Each of the characters is being solidly rounded out in the series,
+showing multiple sides to each character.  All I can say is that I think
+you'll like what we're doing.  On the topic of music, I'll have more to say in
+a few days or so.
+
+     Still bushed from the convention, and have leapt fully back into the
+show, so this'll be brief.  But it was a great time, and I'm glad that the
+clips went over so well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 377       Thu Sep 09, 1993
+
+
+     Frankly, I can't imagine that other show *ever* doing a show about soul
+stealing.  Re: the "hard-SF" note, I noted earlier that there are some hard SF
+aspects to the show, and some elements that could best be described as science
+fantasy...but in those cases, as with "Soul Hunter," we leave it ambiguous: is
+he actually doing what he says he's doing, or basically encoding a simulation
+of someone's brain wave patterns to create a duplicate of someone's memories
+and personality?
+
+     I have to say I'm a little dismayed at the *detail* of the spoilers
+given; I'd imagined that there would be some description of what was seen, but
+not in this exhaustive detail.  Which is all I'll say about it; you pays your
+money and you takes your chances.
+
+     I'm pretty much running on fumes right now, between running from editing
+room to stage to keyboard to production meeting.  I think I also picked up a
+slight trace of the creeping crud, which I'm trying to fight, but with the
+hectic schedule, that's hard.
+
+     I've now seen the completed CGI EFX from "Midnight," which has some
+considerable space fight stuff, and it's simply the most amazing thing I've
+ever seen done for television.  Ron has so far exceeded what's in the pilot
+that I can't even begin to describe it to you.
+
+     Late next week we begin shooting "And the Sky Full of Stars," which is
+going to be a VERY surreal, unusual episode, not just story wise, but from a
+directorial standpoint as well.  Very stylistic.  (Janet Greek, of Northern
+Exposure, is directing.)  It's really one of those "kick over the table"
+episodes.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 378       Thu Sep 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:35 EDT
+
+     BTW, apparently there's some silly fannish thing going on...someone
+called someone I know and said that there's a bunch of people getting together
+so that "when Babylon 5 fails miserably, as we all know it will, and Harlan
+Ellison quits, we'll all send him telegrams saying 'You knew the job was
+dangerous when you took it.'"
+
+     I look forward to disappointing them *terribly*.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 387       Fri Sep 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:31 EDT
+
+     I always kinda figured that the shows would be synopsized *when they get
+aired* in this kind of detail, not this far in advance.
+
+     Re: the pickup on the series, it's definitely 22 episodes.
+
+     Today David Gerrold came by the set to watch some of the shooting o9n
+(on) his episode, "Believers."  Unlike many shows, which basically throw the
+writer off the set, our writers are welcome to hang around.  It's not only
+okay, it's *expected* that the writer will be there at some point, to be a
+part of the process.  David was quite ebullient about the whole thing; he
+thinks that this is the best script he's ever written, and it's being filmed
+exactly as he'd hoped, if not better.  So there he was, getting autographs,
+muttering something about somebody named "Hugo...."
+
+     What was interesting was one comment he made, which echoed almost
+verbatim something D.C. Fontana said when she came by the stage: that the
+atmosphere on set, with the crew, the cast, the production people is exactly
+the same as it was on the first season of the original Star Trek.
+
+     We continue to chug along....
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+     (P.S.  The clips that Larry's bringing to CopperCon include the montage,
+and the same segments from "Midnight on the Firing Line," with one difference:
+the clips shown at WorldCon were missing about 40% of the CGI shots.  This
+version lacks only one or two shots, and there's some very cool new stuff in
+there.)
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 399       Fri Sep 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:55 EDT
+
+     Agreed; I wouldn't expect to see anything significant in TV Guide for a
+while yet; better that way, so it won't get lost in the fall preview.
+
+     Re: the pilot...I've hashed and rehashed this, and the bottom line is to
+see what we do in the series and judge the series by the series.  The DS9
+pilot had to explain very little that wasn't specific to the plotline: you
+already knew what a bajorran was, what a wormhole was, what the Federation
+was, what the cardassians were, on and on and on.  Because they didn't have to
+introduce any of that, they could spend time on other character moments.
+
+     We didn't have that luxury in the pilot.  We had to do what, in essence,
+ST has done over 25 years: establish our universe, painting it in broad
+strokes, as broad're done with that aspect.  And now we can do our character-
+based stories.  Which is exactly what we're doing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 404       Sat Sep 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:27 EDT
+
+     Better now, having gotten a little sleep (albeit in the office, at
+lunch).  As for some people gleefully hoping for failure...I think in part
+it's the Titanic syndrome of people loving big disasters.  Also, if you look
+at most SF shows produced in the U.S., there haven't been that many long-lived
+success stories.  And a LOT of bombs.  So it comes down to a conditioned
+reflex: it won't last, or it'll be a bomb, or both.  They just naturally
+assume this will be the case.
+
+     Having now seen final cuts on a number of episodes, I look forward to
+disappointing them.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 406       Sat Sep 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:50 EDT
+
+     Sorry, I keep missing it...correct, I don't yet know what the final
+airdate/schedule is going to be.  I'll probably know closer to December or
+November.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 412       Sat Sep 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:53 EDT
+
+     Rich...ah, there you are.  Wondered when you'd show up.
+
+     Here's one of those interesting little things that happen sometimes
+during production.  We're shooting "Believers," David Gerrold's story.   Now,
+when we break for lunch, we all eat together -- crew, cast, writers,
+producers, everybody -- in this little area behind the stage.  I try to
+encourage everybody to stick around for lunch rather than split so that we can
+maintain that sense of being a real unit.
+
+     Anyway, I'm sitting across from someone I've seen on set a few times,
+who's apparently the teacher for a young actor we're using (Jonathon Kaplan)
+in "Believers."  I don't make a big deal out of my position on the show, dress
+like everybody else, so the guy sitting across from me at the table asks, "So,
+who do you play in this?"
+
+     Unable to resist the temptation, I say, "I play the executive producer."
+
+
+     The fellow on the other side of the table was Rich, who has now seen
+behind the scenes of one of our episodes...what I think will be a very
+powerful and moving episode.  So Rich, you're welcome to post your thoughts on
+the week...with a few caveats: the location is secret, for obvious reasons,
+and obviously the story is classified.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 416       Sun Sep 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:35 EDT
+
+     Katherine: do tell more.  How did the presentation go?  How did the
+audience react?  Details, woman, details!
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 423       Sun Sep 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:42 EDT
+
+     Well, that's about 8 things Larry said that he shouldn't have said.
+
+     I'll definitely be waiting outside his door with a ball-bat upon his
+arrival back in Los Angeles....
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 424       Sun Sep 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:49 EDT
+
+     Well, that's now also several not entirely correct things.  (Larry should
+come to more story meetings.)
+
+     The deal with Stewart isn't about money.  That part of the deal was fine.
+The problem is that he also a) wants to do an album or two, and b) wants to do
+some touring, which means he can't take a long-term  assignment, which a
+sereis represents.  If we wanted to pay what an album and tour would bring,
+that's possible, but no show can afford that.
+
+     I hope to have an announcement on this later this week.  It's pretty much
+nailed down now, but (unlike certain story editors I could name) I tend to
+wait until things are official before talking about them.  Suffice to say,
+it's someone whose name you may recognize from a rock and roll background.
+
+     The "Demon" story is on the schedule.  I don't know what Larry was
+talking about in that regard, unless he was dealing with the question of
+Harlan's health.
+
+     We will reveal what Kosh is a LOT sooner than year 5.  Closer to the end
+of year 2.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 429       Sun Sep 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:55 EDT
+
+     Re: Abbott...I suspect Larry was pulling your collective legs.
+
+     This is why we don't let Larry out of his cage very often.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 435       Sun Sep 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:14 EDT
+
+     Brett: this isn't a case of jack-of-all-trades.  Garibaldi *has* to be a
+qualified fighter pilot as head of security of a *space station* where
+problems can come up in the space surrounding the station.  Also, as mentioned
+here before (I think) and certainly in one of our scripts, during the period
+between Garibaldi's last security job, and now, when eh (he) couldn't get a
+job as security chief, he was a pilot, running transport shuttles on a couple
+of ice mining operations.  (It was not a good period for him.)  Nothing is
+done arbitrarily with these characters.   All three of our main EA characters -
+- Sinclair, Garibaldi and Ivanova -- are qualified fighter and transport
+pilots.  Having Talia suddenly going off in one of these would be absolutely
+wrong, and a case of what you describe.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 439       Sun Sep 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:07 EDT
+
+     Actually, that was another error on Larry's part.  We'd gone after
+McGoohan for the role of Knight One in "And the Sky Full of Stars," after we
+had to reschedule Walter.  He read the script, loved the script, and wanted to
+do the episode.  (Which is *very* hard, he's very choosy about what scripts he
+does, and we were delighted.)  Alas, we learned that at  the time we would be
+shooting, he was slated to be out of the country on a gig that couldn't be
+changed.  So that, as they say, is that.
+
+     At this point, we've signed Christopher Neame for that role, with Judson
+Scott as the other Knight character in the episode.
+
+     (Btw, at this point, McGoohan's main work is as a director on the Columbo
+movies.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 444       Mon Sep 13, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:49 EDT
+
+     Quick sketch of Ivanova: Russian, pessimistic, wry, very sharp.  She
+isn't in "Believers" because there was a one-week overlap with a prior
+committment on a film project, which we accommodated.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 464       Tue Sep 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:09 EDT
+
+     Brett: the fighter craft release mechanism does use the rotational
+gravity aspect to shoot the fighters away from the station, yes.  In a really
+neato looking fashion.
+
+     Re: fighters...it would make sense that any command personnel in a
+situation like this would be thoroughly checked out and qualified to fly *the
+fighters which the ship carries*.  So even if they flew other kinds of
+fighters, logically they would be trained on these as well prior to
+assignment.  (Though for most purposes, the EA fighters are all very similar
+in most respects.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 476       Wed Sep 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:17 EDT
+
+     Of course, these aren't shuttle mission specialists.
+
+     Carlos: it's hard to get McGoohan.  The script has to be just *so*.
+"Sky" was that way, probably one of the most unusual scripts I've ever
+written, and one I knew would get him.  Later...we'll see.  But we'll
+definitely keep trying.
+
+     Re: the end of the 5th year...I've noted before that there is a thread
+raised during the B5 run that could be extended into its own series.  But it
+wouldn't be B5.  The story of Babylon 5 ends at the end of the fifth year,
+regardless.
+
+     BTW, since as mentioned Stewart Copeland is going to be off touring and
+doing an album and other stuff, we've had to lock down someone else as our
+resident composer.  Someone suggested here numerous times has now been
+confirmed: Christopher Franke, of Tangerine Dream, who has done the
+soundtracks for such projects as Thief, Angel Falls, Universal Soldier,
+Tommyknockers and others.  In addition to being a solid percussion man and a
+great musician, he's a real techie, up on the latest technologies involving
+music and sound, and will be able to give B5 a VERY unique sound.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 480       Wed Sep 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:43 EDT
+
+     What Ron points out is something that I very much want from the B5
+series: to start arguments (or at least discussions).
+
+     It's the difference between an episode with a Moral at the end that says
+"We're all people and we should get along better and play nice," and is gone a
+moment later...or something that provokes a real discussion marked primarily
+by greys.  (And if someone hasn't figured out the prior moral by now, a quick
+TV show ain't gonna do it.)  The two sides to the question Ron raises are both
+right, both correct.  At least in their own minds, and one can make a case
+that they're right on a much larger scale.
+ It's all dependent upon what actually happens to the soul...and on THAT one
+you can weigh in on all kinds of sides.
+
+     Many of our stories are like that.  We raise an issue within a dramatic
+context, and we deal with that dramatic context.  There isn't a loose thread
+hanging.  But we open some questions that can be, and we hope will be
+continued after the show is over.  David Gerrold's "Believers" definitely
+falls in this category.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 493       Thu Sep 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:40 EDT
+
+     In no particular order:
+
+     Who's right, the soul hunter or the minbari?  Yes.
+
+     It was the discussion early on here about composers, in which Chris
+Franke's name was mentioned, that bumped him to the top of our list and helped
+motivate us to take a look.  One more way the interaction has been positive.
+
+     And yes, he will be doing the entire season.  And composing a new B5
+theme.  (I keep suggesting something along the lines of "Bali High" from
+"South Pacific."  They keep hitting me with week old halibut.   "Babylonnnnnnn
+FiiiiiiIIIIve.....")
+
+     January 24, eh?  Good.  Glad to hear it.  (Producers are always the last
+to know.)
+
+     Finally...yes, there are leftover clothes.  Why not?  There are in real
+life.  What you'll often see Sinclair wearing, when he's off duty in his
+quarters, is an old scruffy sweatshirt/sweater from the EA flight school.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 516       Sat Sep 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:18 EDT
+
+     Rich, you worked with Meatloaf, eh?  Cool.  I've always enjoyed his work,
+on camera and on records, and am only dismayed that there's so little of it
+generally available.  (I found more of it in London than I've seen here in the
+states.)  His songs have a very sharp wit to them that's lacking in a lot of
+other stuff.  ("I want you...I need you...but there ain't no way I'm ever
+gonna love you...But don't feel sad...'cause two out of three ain't bad.")
+
+     I have very weird, very eccentric and eclectic tastes in music.  In
+addition to Meatloaf, I'm big on Leon Redbone, Indigo Girls, Enya, I'm
+starting to like Digable Planets...classical, jazz, big band, hard rock,
+celtic, blues, just about anything *except* country, which I couldn't warm up
+to even if I were cremated in a crate of Garth Brooks albums.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 546       Wed Sep 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:42 EDT
+
+     One thing about having a career that's as eclectic as mine has been --
+dark fantasy/horror novels to mystery series to SF stories to comedy -- is
+that you learn a lot of techniques that you don't normally encounter.   So
+yes, I definitely carried over a few lessons I learned from that experience.
+My theory is that if you're doing any sort of mystery for TV, once the full
+story is laid out, you should be able to go back and watch the show again, and
+suddenly all the pieces lay out, they make sense.  The trick is to get the
+viewer to interpret the clues one way, then tilt the mirror slightly to show
+what they *really* mean.
+
+     In the series, G'Kar won't be hitting on the station's resident telepath,
+but he will try a few more times via other means to get his hands on a
+telepath.
+
+     We're going to be doing a lot on the Psi Corps toward the middle of the
+series, btw.  There's quite a bit in D.C. Fontana's new story, "Legacies," and
+in a script I just finished, "Mind War."  The more I play around with the
+notion of legalized, licensed telepaths, the more room there is for all kinds
+of intrigue.
+
+     Today, incidentally, I finished the outline for "Chrysalis," which will
+be the last episode of this season, though we'll be shooting it much earlier,
+about 2/3rds through the run.  It's a real corker in which we absolutely kick
+over the table and all hell breaks loose *bigtime*.  This one I'm *really*
+looking forward to writing.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 547       Wed Sep 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:52 EDT
+
+     Crossed with Brett.  Yes, there's a reason.  There are always reasons for
+what I write, and I try to make them good ones.  In the case of "Soul Hunter,"
+there's a First Contact protocol at work here, and for something like that
+Sinclair moves in.  (He also loves flying these things, and will seize on any
+opporunity to get in one.)  He also takes off in "Midnight," but again there's
+a specific reason that he has to be there rather than someone else.
+Otherwise, it's someone else who goes.   (In "Midnight," when there's word of
+another kind of problem, which may affect station security, it's Garibaldi who
+goes out.)
+
+     We will also, from time to time, put Ivanova in the cockpit as head of a
+fighter wing.  They're all qualified.
+
+     Glad you liked the CGI.  We are, as you note, working *very* hard to get
+the science right...and discovering that what I assumed from the start is
+correct: that if you take the time to do it accurately, it doesn't limit your
+possibilities, it gives you MORE possibilities, and it looks better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 556       Thu Sep 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:52 EDT
+
+     We're doing some stuff with newscasts, but it's more directly related to
+each show than connective material.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 563       Fri Sep 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:45 EDT
+
+     The various characters take their own stands,which vary.  Franklin only
+considers the possibility of cloning someone's personality matrix, for
+instance.  And again, it depends on how you *define* soul.  The Soul Hunter
+defines it not as something supernatural, but as the collection of thoughts,
+personality, feelings and the very essence of the person that dies with the
+body.  That definition is broad enough to encompass just about anything.  Then
+you get into the more specific ideas of what a soul is.
+
+     One person at a post production house we've used has indicated that he
+has "theological problems" with working on that episode; not because it's
+*against* what he believes -- he's worked on horror movies and stuff with
+devils and the like -- but because it takes a point of view he doesn't much
+like...in that he has to sit and defend the whole *context* of his
+ideas...meaning, it's making him think.  He can just poo-poo the stuff against
+what he believes, support what he does believe in...but he isn't quite sure
+where this show comes down, or where it makes *him* come down.  I've had any
+number of problems with people on a show before, but this is the first time
+I've run into a theological problem.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Computer SFX Tech-Talk 
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+430 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 366       Thu Sep 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:45 EDT
+
+     No progress.  We'll see what happens.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 370       Sun Sep 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:59 EDT
+
+     If you liked that sequence, wait until you see what comes up later in
+that episode...imagine 9 B5 fighters vs. about a dozen raider ships, all in
+pure x-y-z axis movement, in accurate flight patterns for a zero gravity/zero
+atmosphere environment.  It's dizzying to watch, but very cool.  Absolutely
+unlike anything ever done for television before.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 374       Sun Sep 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:11 EDT
+
+     The fighters are built on a cross-wing structure (four wings), but very
+different from either X-wing or tie fighters.  The four wings have fore, aft,
+top, bottom and side thrusters, so that they can move in any direction...they
+can fly left to right, turn backwards, and continue to fly left to right,
+flying backwards, and thus fire right to left. They're perfectly designed for
+zero-g environments.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 382       Tue Sep 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:11 EDT
+
+     What's also funny is that in the scripts, the hologram in the tube is
+referred to as "Mentor."  Anyone out there who remembers CP might get a kick
+out of that one....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 403       Sat Sep 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:21 EDT
+
+     There's one new thing you'll be seeing in the B5 series that you  didn't
+see much in the pilot, and that's compositing digital CGI with live action.
+There was the observation dome shot in the pilot, where you push in and see
+the Lt. Cmdr, but that was about it.  We're doing a lot more in the series,
+and some of it looks absolutely *stunning*.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 406       Sun Sep 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:43 EDT
+
+     Brett: some surprises I don't want to spoil.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 409       Sun Sep 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:09 EDT
+
+     They can put out pretty much the same amount of thrust in any direction.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 411       Mon Sep 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:00 EDT
+
+     Yes and no and sometimes...all I can say is that there's a Black Project
+hidden somewhere in this conversation, and Ron will skin me alive if I so much
+as *hint* to what it is, so don't even ask.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 414       Tue Sep 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:34 EDT
+
+     Boy, you go nuts trying to do good EFX, and then people get worried about
+"effects for effects sake."  (Said complaint on my end being only half
+hearted, and with some humor.)  (I'm sorry, but I'm constitutionally incapable
+of doing those little smiley glyphs.)
+
+     Trust me, the story *always* comes first.  The EFX are always and only in
+the service of the story.
+
+     Yes, the ship was a soul hunter vessel (damaged), and the pilot was
+Sinclair.  About the starfield...the funny thing is, the other day I was
+watching CNN and they showed a starfield shot from aboard the shuttle, looking
+out at only what the eye can see.  And y'know what?  It looked EXACTLY like
+the line-of-sight rendering Ron did for our starfield, and what it looksout
+the observation dome window.
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 417       Tue Sep 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:09 EDT
+
+     Ah, yes, if that says creative arts, then yes, it's probably the same
+thing.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 426       Thu Sep 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:48 EDT
+
+     They were teensy, weensy examples of compositing.  Now...pfffft.
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+352 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 348       Sun Sep 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:34 EDT
+
+     It probably won't be, unless it's quickly referenced in the quick
+overview of last night's awards.   (Apparently the E! broadcast of the
+technical awards is slated for 4:00 p.m. Monday here on the West Coast, so
+that means it'll either be on at 1 or 4 on the East Coast.  FYI, the award to
+Ron went out very early on; it was the second category, and he was the third
+up in that category.  So figure about 20 minutes in.  It would've been faster,
+except the DS9 crew didn't pay attention to the request to appoint one
+spokesperson, and everybody on the stage took their turn.  Natch, Ron and the
+rest abided by the rules.)
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 351       Mon Sep 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:52 EDT
+
+     We'll see where it ends up next year.  After Ron picked up the Emmy and
+returned to the table, amidst  much oohing and aahing of the prize, he leaned
+over to me and quoted an old English saying: "Start the way you mean to carry
+on."  We'd gotten one; now we have to carry on at the same level.
+
+     I've seen Ron's surprises for the series, and I can virtually guarantee
+that he'll pick up another nomination next year, and very likely the Emmy as
+well.  I'd be very much surprised if we didn't get nominations in costuming,
+makeup, art direction and cinematography (especially for "And the Sky Full of
+Stars," which is just remarkable looking on every level).  Series, writing,
+acting, directing...nobody bets on those unless he wants to look like a fool.
+I have hopes, but we'll see.
+
+
+                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 13        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 21:00 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Science & Technology   
+
+Jump gates, nanotech, high-tech weapons, starship drives, sound in space, and
+other subjects of science and technology in Babylon 5.
+390 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 349       Sun Sep 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:26 EDT
+
+     In the teaser scene you refer to in "Midnight," you've got a couple dozen
+fighters coming in alongside about 3-4 motherships (or capital ships, either
+term will suffice).  We've always said that big ships can punch through and
+form their own jump points.  That's how the jump gates get there in the first
+place: a big ship comes through, on its own, and leaves behind a jump gate.
+There's no contradiction.  One (or more) of the big ships was creating the
+point of entry as it went.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 355       Wed Sep 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:44 EDT
+
+     Both...but more energy-hungry than anything else.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 358       Thu Sep 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:42 EDT
+
+     It costs a pretty fair amount.  Which is one of the concepts behind the
+Lurkers on B5.  Folks who save their earnings for years to come to B5 in
+search of new lives...new opportunities...and when they don't find the dream
+(and not everyone does), they've expended their funds, and don't have the
+money for a ticket back.  So they basically work their way down into
+DownBelow, sort of the homeless area.  Space travel costs MONEY.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 369       Wed Sep 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:46 EDT
+
+     Okay, let me throw the question back at you: what DO you do about it?
+Shipping them off somewhere costs a LOT of money.  Does the station pay for
+that?  Do Earth voters object to paying for free tickets for lurkers?  Do you
+shove them out the airlock and casually murder the whole lot of them?  Do you
+dragoon them into a slave labor deal to pay off their debts or buy their way
+off the station?  Do you isolate them and keep them as much to themselves as
+you can, and hope they eventually find gigs or move on?  It's a moral dilemma
+based on technologies and limited budgets and resources.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 376       Thu Sep 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:49 EDT
+
+     Of course, your solution omits two factors: 1) not all lurkers are human,
+and 2) not all human lurkers are from Earth.  Do you pay to send hundreds of
+people or more back, one at a time, on various high-priced transports which
+are already backed up on reservations, to a dozen or more different
+worlds...some of which may not WANT them back?  Do you divert limited B5
+resources to track each lurker, find out his/her/its homeworld, make
+arrangements with people who may not WANT to make arrangements (at home, and
+the people lurking)...the paperwork and details would be simply immense.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 385       Sat Sep 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:15 EDT
+
+     Scenario Number One: sending the Lurkers back to Earth.  Comes a call
+from Earth Central: "Hell, no, you're NOT shipping them back here, we're
+overcrowded enough as it is, we will NOT give you permission to send them back
+here."
+
+     Scenario Number Two: turning them over to their representatives on B5.
+G'Kar: "Thank you very much for bringing this to my attention, Commander, I'll
+have him sent back at once."  Beat.  The commander leaves.
+
+     G'Kar: "Get OUT of here and don't come back!  I don't have time to deal
+with the likes of you, we're NOT paying to send you back to Homeworld, just
+get out!"
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 15        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:29 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Alien Races            
+
+Aliens races in Babylon 5... their politics, abilties, technology, history,
+and any other discussion specificly about non-humans.
+
+398 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 346       Tue Aug 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:13 EDT
+
+     I believe n'grath qualifies for a non-humanoid lifeform with an
+exoskeleton of sorts....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Merchandising          
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+373 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 370       Fri Sep 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:33 EDT
+
+     There won't be any major merchandising stuff until about the time the
+series hits air.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 373       Sat Sep 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:54 EDT
+
+     No firm info on this yet.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 21        Wed Feb 10, 1993
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 17:32 EST
+Sub: "The Gathering" - B5 pilot movie   
+
+BABYLON 5 premieres with "The Gathering," a 2-hour made-for-tv movie written
+by series creator J. Michael Straczynski.  Come, join the discussion of this
+pilot!
+
+490 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 21
+Message 407       Wed Sep 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:46 EDT
+
+     My favorite shot so far is the new shot of the Starliner Asimov parked
+next to Babylon 5 and sending over a shuttle....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 21
+Message 417       Fri Sep 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:08 EDT
+
+     Farming out ship design makes for massive legal headaches, in that B5 has
+to own what it shows, and the multiple contracts and legalities and payment
+disbursements and all the rest add up to far more trouble than it is worth.
+
+     Yes, someone said fighter.
+
+     Re: the future of CGI...I'm *fairly* sure that the Emmy for B5's EFX is
+the first time one has been given for CGI.  That by itself is a very strong
+validation of CGI within the industry.  It's definitely here to stay.
+
+     We couldn't show the Starliner Asimov to Isaac because we named it after
+him following his passing.  Seemed an appropriate nod in that direction, given
+his body of work.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 21
+Message 450       Fri Sep 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:35 EDT
+
+     We've made some minor modifications to the jumpgate effect, in the
+texture and color of the warp EFX.  It looks a little less computer-y, and
+some science guys suggested that there should be red-shift built into the
+thing.  So now when objects come *out* of hyperspace, and we're looking into
+the jumpgate, the warp effect is blue; when you enter the jumpgate, it shifts
+toward orange/red.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 21
+Message 483       Sat Sep 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:25 EDT
+
+     The newscast was about a crashed starship and the controversy over the
+Pinto Personal Cruiser's tendency to blow up on impact....
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 23        Fri Feb 12, 1993
+V.VAIDY1 [Vijay]             at 23:00 EST
+Sub: "OtherWorks" by JMS                
+
+Before there was "B5" and when "JMS" was just another Plain Joe, there was
+OtherSyde
+ [A discussion of the other works of J. Michael Straczynski]
+137 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 119       Thu Sep 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:39 EDT
+
+
+     I confess, I slipped in a "Babylon 5" reference in that episode of CP.
+Which was 1986/87.  I do that sometimes....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 121       Fri Sep 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:09 EDT
+
+     The Babylon 5 Genetic Engineering colony.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 125       Sat Sep 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:57 EDT
+
+     You watched B5 from a *motel room*?  How the hell did THAT happen?
+
+     I should probably make up a credits list one of these days, it just seems
+so tedious, and I dunno, uninteresting to anyone, from my POV.  If there's
+really a demand for this, I'll do it, but to recite one's credits ad
+infinitum....I dunno.  I'll leave it to your preference.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 127       Sun Sep 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:44 EDT
+
+      Okay, because they've been requested (I got another couple of
+ notes in email asking for this), here's a quick rundown on my prior
+ work.  This isn't everything...this is about half of the body of
+ work...but this is probably the more interesting stuff.
+
+  ...BOOKS
+
+ THE COMPLETE BOOK OF SCRIPTWRITING, Writer's Digest Books (now out
+ of print, mainly because I'm about 2 years behind delivering the
+ new edition, THE (EVEN MORE!) COMPLETE BOOK OF SCRIPTWRITING.
+
+ DEMON NIGHT, horror/dark fantasy novel, hardcover, E. P. Dutton.
+ Nominated for Bram Stoker Award, Horror Writers of America.
+
+ OTHERSYDE, dark fantasy novel, hardcover, Dutton.
+
+ TALES FROM THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE, softcover, anthology of my
+ adaptation of my TZ3 episodes.  Bantam.
+
+  ...SHORT STORIES
+
+ "Your Move," Amazing Stories Magazine.
+ "A Last Testament for Nick and the Trooper" Shadows 6 anthology.
+ "Say Hello, Mister Quigley," Pulphouse Magazine, and the Midnight
+ Grafitti anthology.
+ (There are others, but those are the good ones.)
+
+  ...ARTICLES/JOURNALISM
+
+ 500+ published articles -- ranging from feature articles, to reviews,
+ investigative articles and others -- appearing in PENTHOUSE, VIDEO
+ REVIEW, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (for which I was a regular Special
+ Correspondent), THE LOS ANGELES HERALD EXAMINER (ditto), TIME, INC.
+ (where I was on staff at various points), SAN DIEGO MAGAZINE, THE
+ SAN DIEGO and LOS ANGELES READER(s), WRITER'S DIGEST (10 years worth
+ of columns and articles as a Contributing Editor), and others that
+ I've forgotten and am too lazy to dig out.
+
+  ...RADIO
+
+ On-air reviewer and entertainment editor for KSDO Newsradio, San
+ Diego, for about 2-3 years.
+
+ Host, HOUR 25, a weekly SF talk show in L.A. for 5 years.
+
+ Radio drama writer for ALIEN WORLDS, MUTUAL RADIO THEATER, and
+ writer/producer/director on other radiodrama projects.
+
+  ...THEATER
+
+ A dozen produced plays, including "The Apprenticeship," a full-
+ length play which played at the Marquis Public Theater in San
+ Diego for 20 weeks.  Includes many one-act plays.  One play
+ published in book form by Baker's Plays.  (No, I'm not telling
+ you what it is.)
+
+  ...COMICS
+
+ Wrote issue of TEEN TITANS SPOTLIGHT: Two Face vs. Cyborg, "Face
+ to Face Two Face."
+
+ Wrote issue of STAR TREK comic for DC: "Worldsinger."  (Cover of
+ "Worldsinger" is now Star Trek trading card.)
+
+ Wrote issue of NOW's TWILIGHT ZONE comic, "Blind Alley."
+
+  ...TELEVISION
+
+ Animation:
+
+ Writer/story editor, Filmation Studios, HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF
+ THE UNIVERSE, then subsequently, SHE-RA.  Wrote about 20-25 episodes.
+
+ Writer, JAYCE AND THE WHEELED WARRIORS, about 11-12 episodes.
+
+ Writer/story editor, THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS, writing about 15-20
+ episodes or more.  (I actually have no idea how many, really.)
+
+ Live Action:
+
+ Story editor, CAPTAIN POWER, writing or co-writing about 16 episodes.
+ Nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Series
+ (the Gemini is Canada's version of the Emmy).
+
+ Story editor, THE TWILIGHT ZONE, writing about 12 episodes.  (1 for
+ the network Zone, 11 for the syndicated Zone.)
+
+ Writer, NIGHTMARE CLASSICS: THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR.
+ HYDE, for Showtime.  Nominated for Writers Guild and Ace Awards.
+
+ Story Editor, JAKE AND THE FATMAN, writing 4-5 episodes and one
+ TV movie.
+
+ Co-producer/Producer, MURDER, SHE WROTE, writing about 9 episodes.
+
+ Supervising Producer, WALKER, TEXAS RANGER, writing 1 episode.
+
+ UNPRODUCED CREDITS:
+
+ Developed (with Larry DiTillio) ELFQUEST animated series for CBS.
+ Wrote MR. FREEZE, SF/comedy motion picture for Ivan Reitman.
+ Wrote 4-hour "V" miniseries, "V: The Next Chapter" for Warners.
+ Wrote series development on a dozen different projects.
+ Wrote other feature film screenplays for DIC and London Films.
+
+      Anyway, those are the highlights.  I've left out a lot of stuff, and
+ subsets of stuff (like the prime-time TRGB's special, for which I cowrote
+ a couple of songs with Brian O'Neal of the Busboys, and other song
+ related stuff...I've had about half a dozen songs get out there, plus one
+ on record), but those are the main items.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 131       Sun Sep 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:07 EDT
+
+     Not at this time, no.  It was a very nifty idea, but it's taken so long
+to get off the ground that in the interim, somebody ate our lunch.   A similar-
+concept movie is now in production.  (Here's a difference when it comes to
+this particular problem.  The other studio developing this other movie had no
+access to our material, which was developed quietly in house with Ivan.  It's
+a pure example of simultaneous creation.  From time to time, these things
+happen.)
+
+     Anyway, the concept was this: a present-day cop is accidentally quick
+frozen in a cryogenics lab during a shoot out.  He remains in suspended
+animation for a hundred years and change.  He's revived in a world in which
+crime is virtually non-existent, because it's been programmed out of people
+through genetic alterations and early conditioning.  There's still a police
+force, of sorts, but mainly serve tickets for safety violations and other non-
+criminal offenses.
+
+     Just one problem: along comes one man on whom the programming has
+glitched, failed.  And he's been committing murders.  They've hushed it up,
+but gradually our character finds out, and goes after the guy, who is totally
+deranged, sees it as his mission to keep the darkness alive.  He commits his
+murders in the same style as the famous murderers of the past (a la Jack the
+Ripper, for instance).  It comes down to a face-off between these two
+characters.
+
+     It had a dramatic through-line, but a lot of humor as well, as the cop
+tries to fit into this new world.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 24        Fri Jun 04, 1993
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:11 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Weapons and Warfare!   
+
+For discussion about the weapons, counter weapons, armor, shielding, tactics,
+logistics, and so forth, of small combat and large scale war in the Babylon 5
+universe.
+262 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 229       Sun Sep 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:28 EDT
+
+     Don King's hair?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 239       Sun Sep 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:13 EDT
+
+     One idea for weaponry that we've temporarily shelved, but which we may
+revive at some point, was using a kind of projectile weapon, which would
+function more or less as follows: you throw up a line of shrapnel type devices
+in the way of a ship before it can veer away (or surround it with same).  It's
+a veritable cloud of small debris, and when the ship hits it, the shrapnel
+basically shreds the ship, rips the skin right off it.  Some early tests look
+pretty gruesome, so we're looking at some alternate avenues, or modifications.
+
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 243       Mon Sep 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:01 EDT
+
+     Brutal is another good word.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 247       Thu Sep 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:49 EDT
+
+     The EA fighters get generally what any ship gets: serial numbers, the
+colors or signature of its "flag," and so on.  And yes, the pilot is in a more
+or less standing position, though inside a chair that supports comfortably.
+If you're going to be flying forward at that kind of speed, it seemed to us
+that a standing mode was better for blood circulation and response than
+sitting.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 250       Thu Sep 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:55 EDT
+
+     There's variance in the fighters.  What you saw was a general fighter
+Sinclair grabbed.  The actual fighter wings ARE personalized with -- for lack
+of a better term -- nose art, a la WW II bombers.  Some are abstract,
+Sinclair's being tiger-stripes, basically, while others are more realistic,
+with very elaborate paintings.
+
+     And there is some recline built into the seats, so they can be
+comfortable (after all, we have to have actors in these things for hours at a
+time, so they'd better be comfortable).
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 252       Thu Sep 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:49 EDT
+
+      We built a full-size cockpit, inside and out.  The rest is CGI.
+
+                                                         jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 255       Fri Sep 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:37 EDT
+
+     There's a line of sight display in front, joystick and foot controls, and
+voice control of the ship's computerized navigation and firing  controls as
+well.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 25        Fri Mar 12, 1993
+S.SHELLENBAR [>> SHANE <<]   at 08:47 EST
+Sub: J. Michael Straczynski Speaks in Public
+
+This is the place to find out where and when JMS will be appearing next.  JMS
+has honed his skills as a public speaker and is taking his act on the road.
+311 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 260       Wed Sep 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:04 EDT
+
+     Yes, Friday and 2, and Saturday there's a follow-up presentation at 4.
+One note, btw: Harlan will be at the con, and will be at the Saturday
+presentation.
+
+     If you live in San Francisco, or are planning to be at the con as of
+tomorrow, Wednesday, read on:
+
+     Harlan needs someone to wear a sandwich board announcing the signing
+session for the limited edition of "Mefisto in Onyx."  Apparently the ad
+didn't make it into the program book.  By way of repayment (other than simply
+being part of an Ellison Event, and getting to hang with Mr. E. a bit),
+there's some cash involved, and a free, autographed and personalized copy of
+the "MiO" book.  If you're interested, drop me a note in private mail.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 284       Sat Sep 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:59 EDT
+
+     I'd rather not, frankly.  I'm quite happy with television for B5.
+
+     I'm being very careful not to let B5 turn into a *franchise*.  It's a
+story, created in X-parts, for television.  This thing will turn into an
+industry over my dead body.  The most that the framework will permit is a 2-
+hour TV movie that caps year 5.  That's it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 286       Sun Sep 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:42 EDT
+
+     Only at LosCon, which is in November, though thus far I haven't been
+asked.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 293       Tue Sep 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:23 EDT
+
+     For me, merchandising is one of those aftershocks of the creative
+process, sort of an, "Oh, yeah, there's *that* part over there, too."  I'm not
+disdainful of it, it's just not something that I think about a lot, because
+first and foremost it's a *distraction*.  You start thinking about the
+*P*R*O*D*U*C*T* and not about the story.  Then you start bending the story to
+work in the product.
+
+     And that's something I've fought against as long as I've *been* in  TV.
+When I was at Filmation, I fought tooth and nail against *any* interference in
+content from the sponsor, Mattel.  Especially when they started forcing in
+characters simply so they could market them.  That was the reason I resigned
+from Captain Power after the first season; my sense was that too much
+attention was being given to the merchandise aspect of the show, to the
+detriment of the series.
+
+     If a deal is set, I want to be part of the process afterward to insure
+the quality of the product, so it won't be a slapdash or cheap thing.  And it
+should be representative of the spirit of the show.  But that, for me, is
+about it.
+
+     Re: Sci-Fi Buzz...haven't spoken with them about any more pieces, but I
+imagine there will be, closer to airdate.  Trust me, as this thing cranks
+closer to airdate, there will be plenty of coverage.  I suspect that we will
+*both* be absolutely sick to death of ads and coverage by the time this hits
+air.  Because we're pretty much tuned into it already; it's the remaining
+portion of the population we also have to reach.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 310       Sun Sep 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:24 EDT
+
+     BTW, those Hour 25 posters, of which there are only a limited number
+left, are in a sense the first (and possibly most interesting) collectible for
+B5 afficianados.  The poster is of the logo for Hour 25, a radio show hosted
+by Harlan, and then me.  It was on H25 that the first mention was made of B5;
+also, the poster was designed by Peter Ledger, who did the art for B5 that
+helped get the project sold; and it's autographed by Peter, me, Harlan Ellison
+(conceptual consultant) and Larry Ditillio (our S.E.).  And of course it's set
+in space.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 26        Sun Jun 06, 1993
+G.PLANA [Gary]               at 01:51 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Episode titles and info
+
+This topic is for information about individual episodes -- their titles,
+writers, and any other information JMS may leak!
+101 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 89        Fri Sep 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:39 EDT
+
+     The name of the character is Maya Hernandez.  The actor's name I'll post
+after I can get the cast sheet from the office so I spell it correctly.
+
+     Catherine Sakai, played by Julie Nickson-Soul, will first appear in "The
+Parliament of Dreams," which will be *around* episode 7.
+
+     There will be some time between episodes in the B5 universe; in some
+cases it's about a week, in some cases much longer, as long as we end up
+covering roughly a year.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 93        Sun Sep 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:10 EDT
+
+     I don't think I said much of anything I wouldn't want to see repeated
+(unlike Larry).  And Harlan's first script is "Midnight in the Sunken
+Cathedral," not chapel.  I would of course urge no spoilers be placed in
+public view.  Let's have some measure of surprise when the show finally does
+hit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 100       Thu Sep 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:44 EDT
+
+     Yes, we will.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+
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+6. BROwse new msgs 15. SCRoll setting
+7. REAd messages   16. NAMe used in BB
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+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 category.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+Posts are from late September 1993 through Oct 31, 1993
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category and main topic for the new series. Here is
+the place for all general information on the series. Topic 2 is the location
+for SPOILERS. And please, NO STORY IDEAS are to be posted either.
+616 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 73        Fri Sep 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:33 EDT
+
+     Just to clarify: we'll be delivering *finished* episodes as early as mid-
+October.  That's everything, music, EFX, everything.  PTEN doesn't begin its
+new "season" until January, so that's when they'll begin airing.  But we'll
+have nearly a dozen or so episodes in the can when we begin airing.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 82        Fri Sep 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:30 EDT
+
+     Jon...I sympathize.  I generally carried a pretty heavy load in college.
+My next-to-last year, just to get the hell OUT of there, I managed to crash
+courses and evade the university limits and ended up with 28 units in one
+semester...and none of them basket weaving stuff, either...statistical
+analysis (imagine ME in that one), physiological psychology, 6 units of
+German, biology....
+
+     I was, shall we say, insane....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 85        Sat Sep 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:47 EDT
+
+     As an aside...one of the things that's been great to watch over the last
+few months is how the crew and cast have really come together.  On a lot
+(though certainly not all) of shows, once you finish the day, the crew goes
+off in as many different directions as possible.  Ditto with the cast.
+
+     But now, on top of the B5 softball team, now there's a B5 golf team, both
+in-house for B5 tournaments, and to play others.  Softball is on Saturday,
+golf is on Sunday.  Groups of the crew get together socially on the weekends,
+have barbeques and dinners.  When we wrap for the day, there is generally a
+large contingent that heads down to a nearby restaurant to hang out together
+and get coffee and something to eat.  The other softball teams have been
+astonished because we generally have lots of cast come out to play as well.
+At the last game, Michael O'Hare, Jerry Doyle, Richard Biggs (pitching) and
+Andrea Thompson all showed up and played.   (Jerry hit a homer.)
+
+     There are always hassles, and last minute problems, and the occasional
+bursts of crankiness that come with TV production, but for the most part it
+seems that the cast and crew are genuinely having a good time on the show, and
+that's always a good sign.
+
+     No special reason for mentioning it, except I was thinking about it, and
+it's kinda nice....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 97        Sat Sep 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:08 EDT
+
+     So far, the team's 1 for 2; their first game against SeaQuest (our team
+came to play and have a good time, the other team came to WIN) went to the SQ
+team.  Our people spent the week practicing between setups and at lunch -- we
+set up a milk carton for our new pitcher to practice his shot -- and this time
+we won over "Dave's World."  Though I wasn't there -- everyone ELSE gets to go
+play, *I* have to stay chained to a keyboard -- apparently it was a repeat on
+one level, in that there were maybe 8 from the "Dave's" side in the stands,
+and we had something 50-60 people from our side show up to cheer on the team.
+(Though we had a core bunch of players, anybody who wanted to play, played.)
+Again Jerry, Andrea and Richard Biggs showed up; Michael was otherwise
+engaged.
+
+     Just recently, btw, I gave Larry DiTillio a printout with just a little
+of the coming 5 year arc...if he's going to story edit, he needs to know what
+lines not to cross, and I can't ride herd on that all the time.  He took it
+home, read it.  Called me.  Didn't even say hello.   Began the conversation
+with, "You are out of your f'ing mind."  I asked for some small clarification
+of his position.  He indicated that he thought it was absolutely great,
+something that'll really go down in the rolls when the final tally is done,
+"But you GOT to be out of your f'ing mind to try and pull something like this
+off.  It *can* be done...but it takes a lunatic to do it."
+
+     Sounds about right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 105       Sun Sep 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:22 EDT
+
+     Brett...there was a situation in which the GEIs might have been called
+upon to make a whole lotta phone calls, send faxes, and do other stuff to save
+the project.  There was one brief moment when it looked like things were going
+to fall apart.  But they didn't.  The crisis passed, and the details are
+really not worth getting into now.  What's past is past.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 116       Tue Sep 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:35 EDT
+
+     I've seen all of the episodes to date, and it ain't bad.  It has a funky
+kind of quality that I find appealing.  I rather wish we could SEE some things
+once in a while, rather than just getting glimpses out of the corner of one's
+eye (except for the landing field shot), but I kind of like it.
+
+                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 118       Tue Sep 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:54 EDT
+
+     It needs a rewrite.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 120       Wed Sep 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:19 EDT
+
+     Friday night veg time, *definitely*.
+
+     Well, we deliver our first final finished totally done episode on about
+October 8th.  Christopher Franke has some *great* ideas on how to handle the
+music, and plans a curious blending of music and sound effects in some places,
+plus instruments from other parts of the world not normally heard in the US,
+to try and create a "new music" kind of sound.
+
+     I'm in the strange position of writing the season end episode now, to
+shoot #12, since it's going to require a lot of post production work, and it
+definitely puts one in a very strange state of mind.  I have to be careful to
+refer to things that've happened in the past episodes, from the perspective of
+the last episode of the season, but which haven't yet been written or filmed
+in real-time.  So I'm writing the second half of some stories before having
+written the first half (though I obviously know where they're all
+going)...which really bends your brain around after a while.
+
+     This episode is going to be highly classified; we're going to limit
+distribution of scripts, and parts of scripts, put canary traps in all of the
+scripts that *are* distributed, and otherwise keep this one quiet.   All I can
+say is that we're going to kick over every table we've got.   In any season
+finale, there are maybe 4-5 things you know when you sit down to watch the
+show that they'll NEVER ever do.  So we're doing all of them.  If this one
+doesn't keep you glued to your seats, you've lost your chair.
+
+     Tomorrow morning I'll get to see an edited version of "Sky," and I can't
+wait.  I think this one will take over from "Soul Hunter" as our strongest
+episode to date.
+
+     BTW, for all  you who ride the pause button and jack up the stereo volume
+(we're doing Dolby Surround, incidentally), I assigned Larry DiTillio to write
+a bunch of walla (background dialogue) for the Zocalo, the observation dome,
+customs and other areas.  Some of it's sane...but the rest...oh, man....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 122       Wed Sep 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:36 EDT
+
+     I am.  I'm exhausted all the time...running on 3-4 hours of sleep a
+night, producing during the day, writing all night...but it *is* fun.   The
+only hard part is that because of my close involvement in this show, and
+creating the characters, and assigning the stories, and working with the
+actors...I have Londo and G'Kar and Kosh and Garibaldi and all the rest
+running around in my head and yelling at each other 24 hours a day, and
+sometimes that can make you just a little nuts...you wanna tell them to shut
+the hell up for five minutes...and then they look at you with this wounded
+expression...you ever see a Narn sulk?  It's not a pretty sight.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 133       Thu Sep 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:18 EDT
+
+     No episodes have aired...unless your friends are operating in an
+alternate universe, in which case please have them send them to me so that we
+can save time and money producing them.  I have no idea what your friends saw,
+but suspect their experience may yet end up on the X-files.
+
+     Re: audience reaction...here's the sad part.  When I'm up on stage, I'm
+in ***PERFORMANCE MODE*** thinking up the next line, setting up the next
+segment, whatever...and combined with the fact that despite what I cobble
+together in my JMS "persona" I'm actually very shy (as KAL will confirm)...I
+don't hear the applause.  I'm so riddled with anxiety that I don't hear it.
+I'm thinking three beats ahead.  It really is kinda sad at times, because
+afterward I have to ask someone -- usually Spousal Overunit -- "What did they
+think?  Do you think they liked it?" because I have no recollection
+whatsoever.
+
+     BTW, we're putting in some more cutting-edge tech equipment, including
+stuff that'll let us downlink dailies and cuts direct from the lab to our
+stage via fiber optic cable...computerized harry work (the adding of sparks
+and light effects usually done by painstakingly painting each frame, now to be
+handled by computers and software we're beta testing), and other stuff.  We're
+right on the leading edge now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 136       Thu Sep 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:16 EDT
+
+     This system has nothing to do with CGI, so screamers aren't a part of it.
+This is other new stuff.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 144       Sat Oct 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:36 EDT
+
+     Well, we finished casting for the role of Lennier, who is Delenn's
+aide/attache.  We were looking for someone who could give us the most as a
+quiet, restrained, almost monk-like character, fairly innocent in his way.
+
+     And in a very nice bit of synchronicity, the person who came in and
+knocked us out with his audition was Bill Mumy, who has now been cast in the
+role.  Aside from his work in Lost in Space, Bill is a terrific actor whose
+role, I think, may sometimes have become a stumbling block from time to time,
+as did the roles of Shatner, Nimoy and others from Trek.   Here he will be a
+very different kind of character, barely recognizeable beneath the Minbari
+makeup, and can show a very different sort of approach to his work.  We're
+very excited to have him on the team.  (I think it will also be good to have
+someone around from a prior successful SF TV series who can help our cast
+prepare for the reception this show is likely to receive...and I suspect that
+very few if any of them really understand yet what that will mean.)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 148       Sat Oct 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:21 EDT
+
+     The only thing that makes me more nuts than performing is seeing myself
+on videotape...or photographs...ick.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 156       Sun Oct 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:48 EDT
+
+     I was going to swing by the box today, but ended up...well, here at the
+computer.  Sigh.  It's turned into "Next year in Israel...."
+
+     Yeah...I dimly seem to remember making a GBs presentation that year, so
+that may have been me.  (In fact, I lost my copy of the tape I brought with me
+in a hotel restaurant...which did contain special footage, and is thus gone
+forever, at least for me.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 161       Sun Oct 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:04 EDT
+
+     Hmm...maybe I should amend it to "No cute kids, no cute robots, and no
+filkers, ever...."
+
+     Nothing personal, but given the choice between listening to two hours of
+filking, and having my eyeballs scooped out, popped, spread on toast as jam
+and fed to me for breakfast...I'll take the latter.
+
+     BTW, something I forgot to mention (and I guess this should really go
+under B5 Sightings, but I'm here, I'm lazy, and I'll forget again), Danica
+McKillar (I think I've got that spelling right) has a modest but interesting
+part in an episode we just finished filming.  The crew from Entertainment
+Tonight came by and did some filming of her in wardrobe (as a young Centauri
+woman), and I think it'll probably show up Monday or Tuesday or thereabouts.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 162       Sun Oct 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:15 EDT
+
+     Oh, yeah...something else, before I forget...Monday I'll finally be
+hearing some of the new B5 music from Christopher Franke, for "Soul Hunter."
+This, for me, is the really exciting part, because it's amazing how much good
+music can add to a show, and this signals the very last phase of post-
+production.  I think we're doing our final mix-down on "Soul" around mid-week,
+with full sound EFX and music...and then that's it.
+
+     We're now in the process also of storyboarding out our main title
+sequence, and we're hoping to do something a little different, if we can get
+the studio to sign off on the idea.  It'll give the show a very unique look.
+
+     And just so everybody knows...so you don't gig me on this later...I have
+spent more time than I want to *think* about lately talking with our sound
+people about the sound-in-space issue.  We've literally spent HOURS locked up,
+discussing various options, middle grounds, extremes and some off-beat
+possibilities.  I still don't know what we're going to do exactly, but for
+what it's worth, believe me, this has been examined to within an inch of its
+(and my) life.  What it comes down to now is this: we will have all of the
+options we discussed available to us at the final mix-down, and we will try
+them in different combinations.  Whatever works best is what we'll go with.
+And we won't know what that is until we get there.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+     (And for those who inquired...yes, we'll be doing our final mix in full
+Dolby Surround Stereo.)
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 178       Mon Oct 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:39 EDT
+
+     I haven't a *clue* to who will be watching the show, and to start
+thinking that way, frankly, is like asking the centipede which foot it moves
+first...it'll paralyze you every time.  What I'm doing is writing and
+commissioning stories that I myself find interesting.  If my instincts are
+right, others will like them as well...if not, well, that's showbiz.   I hate
+the whole idea of demographics and testing, and generally won't listen when
+the subject is brought up.  Tell the story first; if it's a good story, you'll
+get viewers; if not, not.
+
+     Mumy's role, to answer that question, is a recurring role; I think he'll
+be in about half a dozen episodes or so for us.  To the best of my knowledge,
+this won't interfere with any other obligations Mumy has.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 184       Tue Oct 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:17 EDT
+
+     Well, we're currently in a one-week hiatus, to give our camera crew and
+cast a well-earned break, so we were missing many of our core members at the
+Sunday game, so Love and War won.
+
+     Today, at Christopher Franke's, I heard the music for "Soul Hunter," and
+it's brilliant.  It's very hard to describe...it's not rock, but it's
+aggressive, and powerful, not at all synth sounding.  And I think that he just
+may have resolved the sound in space question for the most part.  He tried
+some things we discussed, and it works great.  So this may be the solution
+we've been looking for.  (Though the first one who tells me there's no
+orchestra in space gets it in the eye.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 187       Tue Oct 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:01 EDT
+
+     1) No sound in space.
+
+     2) Surround sound in space.
+
+     Pick one.
+
+     You can't have both.  I think I'll get gigged less with the former, and
+certainly the music and interior SFX can be surround.
+
+     (This isn't a poll, only a response, just to be clear.)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 197       Tue Oct 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:59 EDT
+
+     Joe does not learn math in one episode.  Joe does not learn math in one
+*year*.  I took bonehead math in college three -- count 'em three -- times,
+and only passed the third semester because the class was taught by the same
+instructor, and the third time I wandered into his class, he siad, (or said),
+"Here...just go, I'll give you a C, just...leave."
+
+     Brett: no idea if there'll be previews or not.
+
+     Spent a very, very, very long day today in editing...not out of any
+problems, but because of the *astonishing* amount of detail we're putting into
+"And the Sky Full of Stars."  Leaving out all the live-action shots, there are
+25 CGI shots in one and a half minutes in one sequence alone.   (By way of
+comparison, there were 55 or so in the full two hour pilot for B5.)  So we go
+frame by frame, making sure that everything meshes properly, through some
+pretty intense logistics.  You'll understand when you see it.
+
+     I've never seen the like of this particular episode before.  It's a real
+gem.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 200       Wed Oct 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:22 EDT
+
+      "Surround Silence."
+
+      Don't do this to me....
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 209       Wed Oct 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:50 EDT
+
+     If it works in one, it'll work in all, the way it seems now.
+
+     BTW, add David Warner to the list of first-season guest stars.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 231       Fri Oct 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:23 EDT
+
+     Yeah, Warner'll be a great addition to that episode; we may have another
+name in connection with that episode shortly.
+
+     For those who're interested, Walter Koenig has come through the heart
+problem admirably, is up and running around, and will be assaying the main
+guest role in "Mind War," which will begin shooting around mid-November.
+
+     Re: the industry reactions to B5...everyone seems fairly amazed at what
+we're doing, given that our budget is far less than DS9, TNG or SQ.   (In
+fact, at a recent SQ party, sources tell me, the main topic of  discussion was
+B5, and how the hell are we managing to pull off what they have heard we're
+doing.)  One editor at a major entertainment magazine was calling Amblin',
+Paramount and other shows to ask about their EFX, and where CGI is going, and
+every one said, "You really ought to talk to the people at Babylon 5."
+
+     The show is picking up a *lot* of heat in the industry.  And for us, it's
+kind of a validation of what we said we were going to do years ago.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 236       Fri Oct 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:53 EDT
+
+     You wanna hear really dopey?  Of all the things that can bug you --
+literally, in this case -- it's always the small ones that get under your
+skin.  The goofy ones.
+
+     Take crickets for instance.
+
+     Crickets.  Cute little critters, welcoming the twilight, equipped with
+top hat and umbrella to usher Pinnochio into his long-sought humanity....
+Crickets.
+
+     Ah hates crickets.
+
+     A cricket family -- at least one that we know of -- moved into a corner
+of one of our sets.  The medlab, to be precise.  Now, when we're moving things
+around, building stuff, moving stuff, it's silent, as a cricket will generally
+be when made nervous.  But make it all nice and quiet -- as you would do for,
+say, filming -- and he becomes downright rambunctious.  And sure enough, there
+is is, deep in the audio background on a few shots.  Oh, we can hide the audio
+easily enough...but Getting The Cricket has become something of a cause around
+here.
+
+     We absolutely cannot find him.  I stood back there for ten minutes, eyes
+closed, trying to triangulate and draw a bead on the little sucker.   We've
+tried exterminators, smoke, nitrogen, assassins and psychics; we've tried
+scaring him and coaxing him, to no avail.  He is as invisible as god but with
+a MUCH louder voice.
+
+     You ever fire up a daily to hear, at the top of the take, the off screen
+director saying, as fast as he can, "Okaythecricket'ssilent,ACTION!"
+
+     Like I said...not really a problem, just one of those little things that
+niggle at you when there's nothing else going on.  So we're going to wait him
+out.
+
+     Anybody know offhand the lifespan of your average cricket...?
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 240       Sat Oct 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:36 EDT
+
+     The shooting schedule won't conflict with WishCon.  BTW, a note for
+anyone who's sent anything to the address I posted here a few times before:
+ one of the problems with shooting a series is that, well, time shoots past
+you with remarkable speed...one minute you look up and it's August, the next
+minute you look up and it's October, and...and....
+
+     Okay, long story short: I forgot all about the mailing box, and it got
+closed up.  Stuff was sent back.  I only just found out today, and re-opened
+it.  Apologies to anyone who sent stuff there in the last few weeks.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 241       Sat Oct 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:38 EDT
+
+     P.S.  Add William Sanderson to the same episode as the one with David
+Warner.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 249       Sat Oct 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:08 EDT
+
+     I can't remember if I mentioned this here or not...but did I note that
+apparently the B5 pilot is the #1 best selling/renting tape these days in
+Croatia?  What this means I have no idea....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 256       Sun Oct 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:01 EDT
+
+     Mira was in a Croatian choir?!  I didn't know this.  She's never
+mentioned it.  I know that she was an actress there, but this part is news to
+me.  I must ask her about it when she comes in next week.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 262       Mon Oct 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 13:28 EDT
+
+     Don't we all....
+
+     Meanwhile...let's have some fun.
+
+     Part of the deal with producing a series is that you have to clear all
+the names you use in an episode, both in terms of people names and corporate
+names, even the names of various substances or objects you use.  There's a
+clearances department that checks names and titles against registered
+trademarks, copyrights and other stuff and tells you when something is or
+isn't clear.  I never cease to be amazed at the number of names that one makes
+up, sure that it's bogus, only to find out that somebody out there has
+actually made a business with that name.
+
+     Anyway, on the production report that came in the other day, two names
+didn't clear; one is for a company that does interstellar planetary surveying
+(a megacorporation that then exploits the resources of those planets), and the
+other is a name for a certain mineral/compound used in the manufacture of jump
+gates, very rare, very expensive.
+
+     (The name I came up with for the megacorp I won't mention here; because
+when I found out there *was* a corp with this name, I asked what it was,
+because it's the kind of name that could ONLY apply to what was just described
+above...and the answer came back that it's classified, and why did I want to
+know?  Suffice to say I let the matter drop there.  This is something like the
+second or third time this has happened with a name I've come up with, and by
+now my name is probably on a list or two somewhere....)
+
+     Anyway, I was just about to sit down and come up with a pair of new names
+for this, when I thought...let's have some fun.  So I'll take some suggestions
+here for names for the two items listed above.  Whichever sounds coolest (not
+extreme, not parody, real but cool sounding), I'll slip into the script.
+(This is, of course, contingent upon the clearances department clearing the
+name.)  The competition ends Midnight tonight, Pacific time.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 296       Tue Oct 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:25 EDT
+
+     Okay, time's up.  Tomorrow I'll make my choices, and run them past
+clearances.  Will advise which one we go with.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 314       Wed Oct 13, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:04 EDT
+
+     Uh, oh...sounds like the fan is giving out on my computer.  Does this
+mean I have to replace the whole power source, or just the fan?  Any
+suggestions appreciated.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 320       Wed Oct 13, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:48 EDT
+
+     Unfortunately, I don't know the internal configuration; the computer was
+custom assembled by someone who's no longer local.  It's a hodgepodge of
+components collectively named the Deathstar 2000 Megasystem.  So the only way
+I can find out is to open the sucker up, which I suppose I'll have to do...as
+soon as I can move aside the stacks and stacks of comic books in front of
+it...and scare away the balrogs....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 331       Thu Oct 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:25 EDT
+
+     Will advise on names when I have clearances.  These things take time.
+
+     BTW, for those who might be interested in such things...continuing the
+Earth tradition, all of our various fighter wings have their own names.  The
+fighter unit that Ivanova belongs to, for instance, is the Ghost Riders.  The
+name of Sinclair's Earth/Minbari War Fighter unit was Death's Hand.  We've had
+patches made of these and other insignia, which get used at appropriate
+moments on their flight suits in the cockpit.  (I don't remember offhand the
+name of the primary fighter unit on B5, which is technically Delta Wing, but
+it has a specific name beyond that, and it just fell out of my head.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 335       Thu Oct 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:13 EDT
+
+     In case it hasn't aired in your area yet, look for a brief piece on
+tonight's Entertainment Tonight with Danica McKellar as a B5 centauri.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 339       Thu Oct 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:30 EDT
+
+     Pass....
+
+     BTW, speaking of satellite stuff, 35 minutes of B5 promos and other
+stuff, some of it edited to include the Emmy info (but based insofar as I know
+only on the pilot material, nothing new) will be downlinked on Galaxy 4,
+Channel 21, same audio figures as Fenn gave, Friday the 15th from  9-9:45 ET,
+Sunday the 16th from 8-8:45 ET, and Monday the 18th from 1:15 to 2:00 p.m. ET.
+(The first two times given are also PM.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 344       Fri Oct 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:44 EDT
+
+     As it happens, btw, Michael O'Hare's brother is a Commander in the
+Gunfighters fighter squadron, running weapons, mainly, and flying an  F-14.
+At some point we'll probably stick him in a B5 cockpit, and stick Michael in
+an F-14 cockpit....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 347       Fri Oct 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:14 EDT
+
+     I actually felt kind of awkward watching the ET piece, because here we've
+got all these amazing prosthetics, many of which you could see on the wall,
+and this "oooh, we're alien" process of becoming a centauri is basicall a bald
+head and ponytail.  I dunno...just felt funny, given what goes into making the
+REALLY alien characters we're using.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 366       Sun Oct 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:21 EDT
+
+     BTW, this week will Bill Mumy's first week on B5, and he's done a very
+nifty job as Lennier.  He brings a wonderful sense of absolute innocence...the
+proverbial innocent abroad...to Lennier's character.  The Minbari prosthetics
+look great on him, enhancing the sense he brings to the character.  He's also
+great with the cast, and keeping things up during shooting.  At one point, as
+they're leaving camera, Delenn says to Lennier, who has just arrived at the
+station, "Now tell me of home; I have been away far too long."  His ad-libbed
+off-camera response: "Beatlemania is back."  (Another ad-lib for another shot:
+"Minimalls...they're everywhere," and "Well, we just got Pizza Hut and
+cable.")
+
+     There's one truly remarkable shot we did for the current episode, shot
+Friday evening.  Generally, in any shot with a crowd, you need about 20-45
+people.  That's usually enough to fill out the shot in any set you can go to.
+More than that gets costly, and isn't really noticeable unless you frame your
+shot just *so*.  Yesterday's shot has 160 extras.  It's a very impressive, and
+very moving shot.  It appears in the tag of "the Parliament of Dreams."  It's
+the kind of shot you just don't see anywhere else.  We had some people from
+PTEN and a film crew for a behind-the-scenes piece on hand, and they all
+commented on how only this show would do this  shot...and how significant it
+is.  (I can't tell you what it was, because that gives it away, and I want it
+to be kind of a surprise; suffice to say you'll definitely know it when you
+see it.)
+
+     "Parliament" is also shaping up to have both some serious moments, and
+some that are just fall-down funny.  There's a Centauri religious festival
+that has to be seen to be believed....
+
+     We're having far too much fun on this show....
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 369       Sun Oct 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:12 EDT
+
+     We've already instituted the need for translation devices on several
+characters.  There are basically three dominant languages on B5, a kind of
+interstellar esperanto, Centauri, and English, which is the more or less
+official military/diplomatic language.  But not everyone is going to know
+those languages, so you need another way.  We have translation teams
+(referenced though not seen in "Soul Hunter"), and physical translation
+devices for use after we've had sufficient contact with a given group or
+individual to be able to decode two languages into one another.
+
+     (Incidentally, we're going with a slightly different version of English
+for things like airlocks and such, alongside the visual pictograms.  Not
+everyone who can speak english will have an immediate grasp of the intricacies
+of the language, and there have been multi cultural/esperanto like influences
+on English over the next 200 years.  So for things like Universe Today, you
+have standard conventional English, since that's primarily an Earther-oriented
+publication.  But then you have signs that read, for instance SECUR AREA, with
+an accent over the U.  We've taken the liberty of simplifying some aspects of
+english for nonhumans, as well as trying to figure out how the impact of multi-
+culturalism might affect language ovese of 200 years.)
+
+     We've shot our first scenes between Sinclair and his new love interest,
+Catherine Sakai (as played by Julia Nickson).  This is a very, very strong
+character, and she brings a wonderful vibrancy to Sakai.   They have a unique
+relationship that looks and sounds like a real relationship, with all its ups
+and downs and dumb moments.  One way that I've reinforced this is that...well,
+in the first episode in which they meet again (they were involved before),
+just about every scene between them is lifted almost directly from personal
+experience.
+
+     And given some of the awkward, even painful conversations that take
+place, it was very, *very* hard to watch this being rehearsed.  (Michael and
+Julia worked over a weekend with the director to get the nuances just right.)
+When it came time to shoot the scenes, much as I wanted to be on-set, I just
+couldn't do it.  My heart just kept falling right down to my shoes.  I can't
+wait for the first person to say "I don't buy this as a real relationship"
+just so's I can whap him upside the head.  But I have a hunch that won't
+happen.  It comes across as very real, and as a very vulnerable moment for
+both characters.
+
+     "Write what you know," they said.  Right.  How about I just take a power
+drill and stick it in my ear...it'd be faster, less painful, and after a while
+I might even come to like it....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 377       Mon Oct 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:23 EDT
+
+     "It may be a simple matter of a loose screw."
+
+     Don't get personal, and I've heard that before.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 379       Mon Oct 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:01 EDT
+
+     Matt: thanks.  To be honest, I don't know any other way to write.   Those
+here who've known me for a while now can testify that there's a lot of
+personal stuff in just about everything I write.  And sometimes that's very
+hard on an emotional level.  (And people in my life have to understand that
+everything is fair game; I won't violate a trust, won't betray a confidence,
+but it's altogether possible that the *sense* of an argument or a hushed
+midnight conversation might someday show up in something, never in its
+entirety, never wholecloth, but informing the sense of a scene or a
+character.)
+
+     It's very easy, in this town and in this business, to fall into writing
+from non-primary experiences.  We've grown into a nation where we watch TV as
+we grow up, and then when we get the chance to write TV, cycle back to things
+we've seen before...recycling themes and stories rather than using our own
+primary experiences.  I think that film/TV schools are the worst perpetrators
+of this attitude, teaching how to emulate the past rather than seeking out the
+present.  That's why I chose NOT to get my degrees in TV or Film or Creative
+Writing.  A writer has to be a *generalist*.  Know a little about everything,
+and able to find out whe she/he doesn't know quickly.  I've been far better
+served by a degree in clinical psychology (minor in philosophy) and a second
+degree in sociology (minor in literature) than I would've been served getting
+a degree in film production.
+
+     This is something I've been thinking about a lot lately, after one person
+asked me, on another system, if I was concerned about the very real likelihood
+that at some point or another, our show would be touching on some of the same
+areas dealt with on other shows.  There's been so much covered in SF, and when
+you have two shows on space stations, well, you're inevitably going to hit
+some common themes.  I've thought about the question a lot since then, and as
+I review the scripts, it comes more clear to me every day just how much this
+show comes from a very subjective and personal viewpoint.  It's very
+eccentric, and as much as we engage in the larger issues and the story arc,
+our stories tend to have a very personal edge to them, an attitude that can't
+be copied because attitudes are formed inside, over years, and you can't copy
+them any more than you can copy fingerprints.  And the result will always be
+different.
+
+     I don't mean to ramble, but I'm in a thoughtful mood, and just sorta
+working things through...thinking out loud, if you will.
+
+     The pilot notwithstanding -- and I've gone over the problems there with
+exposition and character stuff cut ad nauseum -- the one thing that draws me
+in, as a writer, a reader, and a person, is intense emotion.   The more
+intense, the better.  There's much of it in Captain Power, where I could slip
+it in while no one was looking, even in some of the animation work.  I think
+we all live for moments of revelation and outbreaks of passion.  And the only
+way to find those moments is by writing about the things you find hard to
+write about.  You have to write what scares the hell out of you.
+
+     I've never talked about this before -- said I was in a thoughtful mood --
+but I've known several people, friends, who've taken their own lives.  In one
+case, I spoke to her just beforehand.  Tried, through the phone lines, to
+reach her one more time, pull her back from the edge.  I couldn't.  Years
+pass.  Time comes for me to write the last filmed episode of Power.  Jennifer
+Chase is going to die, partly of her injuries, partly of her own volition.
+Part of my life went into that scene, in the way it was constructed, and what
+was said.  And what was not said, what never had the chance to be said, and
+thus still burns.  I knew that, at the crucial moment of that scene, he
+couldn't be near her, as I wasn't near my friend...it had to be long-distance,
+hearing but not seeing her, and the terrible pain of arriving too late.
+
+     I cannot watch that episode without crying.  Ever.
+
+     Flash forward again.  About two, three months ago, I got a note on the
+Internet/GEnie railroad from a young woman whose name I won't mention here.
+She had lost a friend to suicide not long before that episode aired.  When she
+saw it, she started crying and couldn't stop, something she hadn't been able
+to do since the real death of her friend.  It helped purge her of the feelings
+she'd been carrying around.  Helped her deal with them, because I'd been
+honest in how I'd portrayed it.
+
+     On Twilight Zone, I wrote an episode called "Acts of Terror" that
+concerned wife beating...something with which I'm more familiar than I ever
+wanted to be, due to some things in my family's history.  It was a terrible
+and painful experience to write that script; it hurt and angered me beyond the
+capacity to explain it to you.  I fought desperately to make it true.
+
+     Flash forward.  That episode is now used in many counseling sessions for
+battered wives, to help them deal with their anger and find their own self-
+worth.  I've received literally dozens of letters from people about that one
+episode, many from women who finally found it in their hearts to leave an
+abusive situation.
+
+     Writing is a powerful tool; broadcast to millions of viewers, it is too
+powerful to be relegated to rehashes of Adam and Eve stories.  It may not be
+fashionable anymore, which is unfortunate, but I feel that there is an
+obligation to use the form for more than selling soap.  Not to be preachy, but
+at least to be *honest*, to write from primary experiences, to take a
+position, even if it pisses somebody off.  I was on a TV talk show a few years
+ago, debating that very episode of Power referenced above, and a viewer called
+in to say that he thought it was wrong because the episode left him upset.  I
+wanted to lunge through the phone at him.  Yes it upset you.  It was MEANT to
+upset you.  It SHOULD upset us when someone dies, it can't be just a dramatic
+hook bracketing commercials; when we lose someone we care about, we should be
+moved, or else what the hell are we doing here?
+
+     The role of the writer is to touch passion, and not be destroyed by it,
+then come back and report what it was like.
+
+     I wish I could find a great concluding thought, a benediction to wrap all
+this up in a neat little package, but I haven't got one.  I'm rambling, and I
+know it, and my apologies if this has gone on too long; just contemplative
+tonight, I guess.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 394       Tue Oct 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:03 EDT
+
+     Unrelated to anything that's preceded (thank goodness), here's a little
+something for consideration...thoughts to conjure with, when it comes to our
+season-ending episode/cliffhanger.
+
+     On Power, leaving out the things that unnerved people too much to let me
+do, I was still able, in the final episode/cliffhanger of that first season,
+to destroy the protagonist's base of operations totally and completely and
+beyond recall, set up a major change in the antagonist's appearance (the final
+mechanized stages of Lyman Taggert), eliminate all or nearly all of our
+Jonathan Power's supply lines and support personnel, totally turn around the
+direction of the show, and kill one major regular character.
+
+     So if that's what happens on a show where I'm not allowed full reign to
+do *everything* want...stop to consider for a moment what happens when there's
+no one to stop me from going all the way....
+
+     "Chrysalis" is going to be one heck of an episode....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 399       Tue Oct 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:13 EDT
+
+     Harlan very much believes and supports what we're doing here, and if you
+know Harlan, you know what that means.
+
+     Kiwi...understand that no changes are just made willy-nilly (to use your
+term).  This is a STORY.  As with any story, any novel, you have your moments
+of surprise, of sudden turns where you kick over all of the tables and watch
+the pieces scatter.  But the writer already knows where the pieces will land.
+It's all according to plan.  Nobody's going to be screwed over.  Anymore than
+when somebody reading, say, a Stephen King book feels screwed over when
+suddenly Salem's Lot, a nice quiet little town, suddenly gets filled with
+undead and characters are suddenly going through some remarkable
+changes...it's all part of the story.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 407       Wed Oct 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:36 EDT
+
+     BTW, for those in the Los Angeles area, channel 13 will be showing the B5
+pilot again a week from this Friday at, I believe, 8 p.m.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 416       Thu Oct 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:14 EDT
+
+     BTW, to a question someone asked somewhere...I believe that the B5
+fighters are technically SA-20 Starfuries.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 420       Thu Oct 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:48 EDT
+
+     No agents allowed.
+
+     Funny...I sometimes make up little clips from shows and put them to music
+for myself or for convention appearances...and I was giving some serious
+thought to assembling a montage and using "I Am the Walrus" by the Beatles as
+the music...and then realized that it would probably give away too much if I
+composed the pictures correctly with the lyrics.
+
+     I am the walrus...coo-coo ka choo....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 428       Fri Oct 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:23 EDT
+
+     It's hard to mention companies in a TV show without getting permission.
+(In my heart I'd love to see an ad for "IBM...a  Division of the Sony
+Corporation.")
+
+     What's the problem with passion?  Multifold.  Networks and studios are
+often put off by it.  Passion isn't fashionable, and isn't usually very
+saleable.  Also, so many have now been trained by film school to replicate
+what they grew up with...combined with the many who've learned the Formula
+from others or from the Script Gurus and hesitate to vary from that
+formula...that it's just not done very often.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 447       Mon Oct 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:11 EDT
+
+     Actually, in speaking off the top of my head, I was off a bit on the
+Starfuries thing.  I checked, was going to write it verbatim, but once again
+forgot, and now I'm back to working off memory (which is always a scary thing
+for me).  Anyway, I seem to recall that it's not SA, and it has a longer name.
+It's the FA-23 Mitchell-Hyundyne Starfury.  I'll try to get the full specs and
+post 'em sometime soon.
+
+     Incidentally, B5 is in this month's WIRED magazine, in the Wired vs.
+Tired column.  We're "wired."  (Sort of their "What's In" and "What's Out"
+column.)  Not bad for a series that's not even on the AIR yet.
+
+     Spent almost all of Saturday in the editing room, working on the main
+title sequence for B5, which looks very good.  This coming Thursday and Friday
+are big days for B5...we're going into the final mix stage.  On those two
+days, we finish laying in EVERYTHING...sound, music, EFX, you name it.  And in
+theory, at the end of Friday, we'll have our first episode totally and
+completely finished.  It's both an exhilirating moment and a scary one...once
+done, it's *done*, we have to let go, we can't tinker with it anymore.  At
+some point, you have to just walk away nad (and) what it is is what it is.
+And so far, what it is looks pretty darned good.  (Our first full mix is "Soul
+Hunter.")
+
+     Our sound designer has finished working on the gun-sounds, and they sound
+very impressive.  We've come up with a different way of handling the gun
+sequences -- firing, impact, and sound -- based more on how these things would
+actually work if they existed.  And let me tell you, if you EVER ran into or
+heard one of these things coming your way, you'd get the hell out FAST.  We
+actually sat down for hours and tried to determine the effects on impact, on
+firing, on the surrounding atmosphere, and how to avoid the 30 mph problem
+usually associated with TV lasers.  (That is, you trace the "laser" across
+screen, you see it move, which means that this beam of light is moving slower
+than a bullet...which is silly.)  By all rights, it should be nearly invisible
+and nearly instantaneous...but then you don't see anything.  We've managed to
+come up with a nifty little solution to the problem.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 452       Tue Oct 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:32 EDT
+
+     For various story reasons, the narration now shifts to Sinclair, who has
+a slight variation on it.
+
+     BTW, look for a piece in the November Film/TV (or Film/Video, I can never
+remember) magazine on B5's EFX team.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 464       Wed Oct 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:38 EDT
+
+     Yes, we're going to keep the general structure of the narrative, from
+black to the star rising, to B5, though the new narrative will be a bit more
+historical in nature.
+
+     BTW, guess which certain series just acquired a whole bunch of Toasters,
+is under pressure to lower the budget, and is trying frantically to catch up
+with a certain other show's use of CGI...?
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 471       Wed Oct 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:40 EDT
+
+     Okay, the element's name is set as Quantium-40, and the name of the
+Megacorporation is Universal Terraform.  Just FYI, neither ScanCor nor Terra
+Astra cleared, so those are real corporations.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 477       Thu Oct 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:14 EDT
+
+     I culled only the names I thought might work for us.  One problem with a
+number of the suggestions was that while the names in question might work well
+in writing, on a page or a screen, actors have to *say* these words out loud,
+and some of them would've been very difficult to pronounce.  The name also has
+to be recognizeable as, say, a corporation.   A couple of names sounded nice,
+but could end up sounding just a part of the sentence, and we don't realize
+that a corp name has gone by until too late.  This is the difference between
+writing for a printed medium, and a dialogue/verbal medium.
+
+     An interesting exercise, in any event.  Which is why I suggested it,
+instead of just going with my own.  Again, we're here in part to go into the
+process a bit.
+
+     Meanwhile, back at the ranch....
+
+     Have been down for a few days with the Babylon Bug, the flu that's ripped
+through the stage and the offices and has hit just about everyone.  REALLY
+nasty.  But the show, as they say, must go on, so we've been pushing ahead.
+One slight alteration in schedule...on Monday some of the last scenes we
+needed came in after the rotoscoping work was done, and since we finally had
+all the parts, we went ahead and did the final mix on "Soul Hunter" over
+Monday and Tuesday.  So I'm proud to say that that first episode is now 100%
+complete and in the can.
+
+     It makes a MAJOR difference to see these shows on film, color corrected,
+with music, sound EFX, visual EFX, cgi and the rest.  It's a very solid
+episode, very intense, and in many ways a one-hour movie, which is what I'd
+like to see in the series overall...a cinematic style of storytelling.  The
+music really drives the action, and the visual EFX (i.e., guns, rays, other
+visual stuff that doesn't involve CGI) are just terrific.
+
+     We do the final mix on "Midnight" next Monday, and will probably be doing
+one mix per week thereafter, until the holidays.
+
+     (Kevin, who does our visual EFX rotoscoping stuff does all this in his
+home facility, on a Mac.  We got word this morning at 6:30 a.m. that his house
+is right on the fire line at one of the big L.A. fires going on today.
+Refusing to evacuate, he has spent all day alternatively on his roof, spraying
+down the house and grounds, and in his home office, backing up all the B5 EFX
+onto optical removeable drives, with a B5 runner standing ready, right there,
+to yank the stuff and evacuate if need be.  It's some measure of the
+dedication on this show that where other people might be loading up personal
+belongings, he was mainly concerned with getting the B5 efx out the door in
+case the worst happened.)
+
+     (Apparently, as of this writing, all is still well with Kevin, and it
+looks like the worst is past, as far as he's concerned, at least, though the
+rest of the valley is burning....)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 479       Thu Oct 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:34 EDT
+
+     BTW, today I was gifted by some folks in B5 with a collection of some of
+the patches we've used on the fighter pilot suits.  You'll see these on the
+front breast and arms (both sides of each) of the suits, if only in the
+occasional glimpse.  Even though they'll probably never bee fully seen, we
+felt the need to make 'em real looking and finish them off to the last
+stitched detail.
+
+     These include the Earth Forces Off-World patch (gold-handled sword
+against a starburst within what looks like a cross between a mobius strip and
+human DNA), Earth Force Command (similar, but minus the starburst, with
+transverse red stripes against a black background), a B5 Fighter Wing Squadron
+patch (Flying Nightmares, B5FA-1013 on the outer ring, with a B5 symbol on the
+left side outlined by up-and-down red stripes, and on the right a black up and
+down stripe bordered by 2256), a rectangular Earth Alliance Fighter
+Identification patch (five-pointed command insignia circled by red and gold,
+overlaid with gold wings over Joe Straczynski), and the insignia worn by those
+on the Battle of the Line, a triangular patch with Star Fury on the upper left
+angle in silver on black, FA-23E in silver on black on the right upper angle,
+with the inner part of the triangle divided in two by a vertical silver
+stripe, blue on the left, gold on the right, over which is the design of one
+of the fighters in full accelleration, leaving trails behind it, with the
+squadron number 361st - TFS, with UGLY beneath it, and on the lower left angle
+of the patch, in black on silver, the words BUT WELL HUNG.
+
+     Which refers, of course, to the figher craft itself.
+
+     (They hang upside down prior to launch, you'll recall.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 480       Thu Oct 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:35 EDT
+
+     P.S.  No, sorry, they're not for sale.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 482       Thu Oct 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:52 EDT
+
+     Insofar as I know, stations that have pledged to take the current
+programs will continue to show the current programs (which includes B5).
+There doesn't seem to be any direct impact on B5 at this time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 487       Thu Oct 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:56 EDT
+
+     We're assuming that the navy and airforce have more or less merged into
+Earthforce, so there's influences from both sides.
+
+     The fighters are in regular configuration when the pilot boards.   Then
+the drop doors open, the ship tilts down on a massive pair of arms, and then
+they're released, the centrifugal force of the station sending them out the
+drop doors.  When they've gotten a bit away from the station, they hit their
+engines.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 489       Thu Oct 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:31 EDT
+
+     Just heard that the winds have changed,, and Kevin's place is in danger
+again.  We're sending runners to help yank equipment.  Which means driving
+right into the fire-line.  This could go either way.  We'll see.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 494       Thu Oct 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:32 EDT
+
+     It's the name on the patch, not the picture.
+
+     According to press material released by Paramount, the "ST: Voyager "
+series will involve a crew of young cadets on their first training mission.
+
+     Don't yet know how the Paramount deal will affect us, if at all.  No one
+at Warners seems terribly concerned about it, so my guess is that it really
+won't affect us one way or the other, but that's only a guess.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+     (P.S. Kevin's place escaped the fire, all is well.)
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 511       Sat Oct 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:18 EDT
+
+     Makes sense...I spend my entire life in a state of spontaneous human
+confusion....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 513       Sun Oct 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:48 EDT
+
+     Just an update...on Monday we a) do the final mix on "Midnight on the
+Firing Line," so we'll have two finished and in the can, and b) finish
+shooting Christy's episode of "Grail."  (And those of you who've been asking
+for nonhumanoid alien stuff...hold onto your hats for this one.)   On Tuesday
+we start shooting "Mind War," with Walter Koenig, William Allan Young and
+Felicity Waterman.  Both "Grail" and "Mind War" have been heavy on EFX, both
+visual (on set) and CGI.
+
+     In looking at all the episodes shot to date, from a story point of view,
+I think that "Sky" is still my favorite, in how it ties into the whole 5 year
+arc.  From a personal point of view, I'm very fond of "The Parliament of
+Dreams," which is a very funny show, and at times a very emotional show.
+"Parliament" is all over the place...it's got all of our major characters, our
+ambassadors, their seconds, we see lots of group scenes, we're all over the
+station, dipping in and out of three different but interconnected
+stories...it's really a matter of keeping a lot of balls in the air at one
+time, and I think we pulled it off nicely.
+
+     BTW, we've finished assembling the main title sequence, and we're going
+to do one extra little thing to it that's kinda neat...more on this closer to
+airdate.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 523       Sun Oct 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:29 EST
+
+     There are a lot of little in-jokes...but I'd rather let you see them than
+ruin the surprise.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+May 28th, '93, Babylon 5 officially became a series. There will be 22 hours,
+plus the 2 hours of the pilot, for season one. Airs Wednesday's at 8PM in most
+places starting Jan. '94. This is the Spoiler topic where anything goes.
+
+385 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 163       Fri Sep 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:45 EDT
+
+     The various characters take their own stands,which vary.  Franklin only
+considers the possibility of cloning someone's personality matrix, for
+instance.  And again, it depends on how you *define* soul.  The Soul Hunter
+defines it not as something supernatural, but as the collection of thoughts,
+personality, feelings and the very essence of the person that dies with the
+body.  That definition is broad enough to encompass just about anything.  Then
+you get into the more specific ideas of what a soul is.
+
+     One person at a post production house we've used has indicated that he
+has "theological problems" with working on that episode; not because it's
+*against* what he believes -- he's worked on horror movies and stuff with
+devils and the like -- but because it takes a point of view he doesn't much
+like...in that he has to sit and defend the whole *context* of his
+ideas...meaning, it's making him think.  He can just poo-poo the stuff against
+what he believes, support what he does believe in...but he isn't quite sure
+where this show comes down, or where it makes *him* come down.  I've had any
+number of problems with people on a show before, but this is the first time
+I've run into a theological problem.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 184       Wed Sep 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:37 EDT
+
+     For this new season: nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 204       Sat Oct 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:31 EDT
+
+     Say Hi back for me.
+
+     Y'know...it's a funny old world.  And sometimes it just astonishes you.
+
+     About 2 months ago, one of our freelancers turned in a script that has to
+do with a hate group, in the course of which a guest character -- a Minbari --
+is attacked and has her head branded with the symbol of the group.
+
+     So you will doubtless understand my astonishment when I turned on DS9 and
+saw the same thing happen.
+
+     Unfortunately, we've already shot that episode, it's in the can, so
+there's nothing we can do about it now.  Further -- and let me be totally
+clear about this -- there's no way that DS9 could've borrowed the idea from
+us, or in any way been influence by us, and no way we could've been influence
+by them.  To get on the air now, they would've had to shoot their episode some
+time before the writer turned in that draft for our show.  And none of us were
+in any way aware of what was going on there until we saw it the night of the
+broadcast...and came in the next day with looks of absolute shock.
+
+     These things do happen...and when you're dealing with similar general
+areas -- humans vs. aliens, or one alien group vs. another alien group -- then
+something like this becomes inevitable.  And given the foreheads on Ferengi,
+and the foreheads on Minbari, the obviousness of that target  becomes clear.
+Still, it's amazing when it happens.  And I guess I just wanted it to be clear
+when this thing airs that the sequence in our show was in the can and done
+when the DS9 episode aired.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 208       Sun Oct 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:50 EDT
+
+     Kiwi...yeah, I know.  We're in discussions to see if there's any way we
+can cut this from the show...the only problem is that the brand stays on
+throughout the show.  If it were just in one shot, we'd cut the shot and find
+some other way around it.  The only way we can lose it now would be if we
+literally wiped off the brand by going into every frame in which it appears
+and digitally removing it from the frame...which is a *real* pain in the
+butt...but we are considering it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 219       Mon Oct 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:48 EDT
+
+     The points made above are essentially correct; the brand goes on in the
+very top of the show, in the teaser, and stay on throughout the episode...and
+part of the story is dealing with this, and what it means.   An offer is made
+to remove it, but the victim decides *not* to have it removed, because there
+are lessons in these things...and it becomes almost a badge of defiance.
+
+     In addition to the notes here, I've received a whole bunch of email notes
+saying to leave it in, on the grounds that it *does* happen in real life (or
+incidents close to it), and how we're handling it *is* very different.  (Some
+indicated that it can illustrate how the two shows handle their themes in
+different ways.)  So it's a tough call...to change would also mean some re-
+shooting...but given the responses here, I think it's okay to leave it in
+place.
+
+     File this one away the next time someone asks, "What sort of ways has the
+BBS discussion actually affected Babylon 5?"
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 238       Fri Oct 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:25 EDT
+
+     Actually, "beep-beep" was always there in the script; it was the part
+where we learn AFTER that that Sinclair only told G'Kar about the homing
+beacon, didn't really plant it, that came up during filming.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 243       Tue Oct 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:47 EDT
+
+     Hey,  have you ever seen me when I effervasn't?
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 255       Thu Oct 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:11 EDT
+
+     Let me introduce you to something called the Budget....
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 262       Sun Oct 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:24 EDT
+
+     You have to understand that when I said "Let me introduce you to the
+budget," I was talking primarily in TV terms.  The actors sometimes named here
+-- from Mel Gibson on -- generally command salaries of $4-10 million per
+movie.  Those actors are generally outside the reach of *any* TV series.  As
+it is, we've managed to pull in some pretty amazing actors who would generally
+be unattainable, but loved the scripts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 267       Tue Oct 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:33 EDT
+
+     Guest stars so far include David McCallum, Clive Revell, David Warner,
+Danica McKellar, William Sanderson, Morgan Shepherd, Marshall Teague, Judson
+Scott, Christopher Neame, and shortly, Walter Koenig.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 273       Thu Oct 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 13:29 EDT
+
+     Clive Revell is a Tony-award winning actor, member of the Royal
+Shakespeare Company, and one of the most  regarded actors around.  Judson
+Scott was in ST II, as Khan's second, and had his own short-lived series, "The
+Phoenix."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 291       Sun Oct 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:01 EDT
+
+     That was, indeed, Morgan Shepherd on SQ.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 304       Sat Oct 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:53 EDT
+
+     The starfury fighter is launched by a drop straight out, nose pointed
+"downward," toward space.  Upon release, it flies pretty much straight out,
+still containing some of the momentum from the rotation, so it would appear to
+be going straight away from the station because its position in relation to
+the station, like a geosynchronous satellite, is still more or less correct.
+Shortly after getting out of the bay, the fighters fire up their engines,
+which lets them take any angle or direction they choose.  So they can very
+quickly head away on any trajectory.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 309       Sat Oct 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:23 EDT
+
+     The fighters enter via the main docking bay, where they are shunted back
+into the Starfury launch bays.  (BTW, for those who've asked, and let it never
+be said that we're unresponsive...we asked Ron to develop a CGI sequence that
+shows how ships get from the interior of the main docking bay down to the
+customs and loading bays.  I've seen it, and it looks pretty spiffy.  Look for
+it in "Grail."
+
+     Re: the mask...yes, form follows function.  It should cover the whole
+face (done), be transparent (done), be easy to slip on and off (done), and
+contain its own atmosphere cartridges (done).  We could've gotten fancy, but
+it made sense for a station like B5 to order just what they need, not add on a
+whole lot of bells and whistles, and I'm not really sure what more you NEED in
+a mask.
+
+     BTW, the triangular ships are Raiders.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 312       Sun Oct 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:50 EDT
+
+     The bay is pressurized, with drop doors beneath each fighter.  A ramp
+extends to the fighters individually, bringing on pilots.  The bays are
+depressurized as the pilots (in flight suits) prepare.  Then the drop doors
+open, the fighters pivot to nose-down position, and launch.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Computer SFX Tech-Talk   
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+497 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 432       Thu Sep 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:18 EDT
+
+     We beat the crap out of Ron.  There will be lens flare where it's needed.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 449       Sun Oct 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:15 EDT
+
+     Bear in mind that the amount of counterthrust diminishes the more
+detailed and precise your movements become.  You need a big thrust at one or
+two points for the big configurations, then as you start to narrow it down,
+the thrusts get smaller and more precise and are less visibly noticeable.
+We're talking microthrusts here.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 452       Mon Oct 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:21 EDT
+
+     Yes.  It's all covered.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Cast & Characters        
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+385 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 360       Sun Oct 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:02 EDT
+
+     I commented in that topic.  You can check there if you want.  I have no
+desire to drag this out here.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 363       Wed Oct 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:36 EDT
+
+     Walter will appear in one episode this year, "Mind War," and that
+character may well return next season in a couple of episodes.  Which is all I
+can say about it at this time.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 365       Thu Oct 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:52 EDT
+
+     I'd rather it weren't.  Someone talked out of school who shouldn't have,
+didn't get things correctly, and it was awkward for all concerned, and the
+person who initially posted the info apologized.  I'd like to leave it at that
+and not drag it over here.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 5         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            (Forwarded)
+Sub: Grid Epsilon Irregulars - News & Info.
+
+This topic is for information about Babylon 5 fan groups, newsletters,
+fanzines, get-togethers, B-5 at conventions, and other general fun.
+285 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 277       Fri Oct 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:35 EDT
+
+     I'm told it'll be soon.  The problem was multifold: 1) Christy had this
+really impatient producer yelling on her for a script, which she finally
+turned in, and will star David Warner; 2) she's in the process of buying a
+house and moving; 3) she's been yelling on me for an intro piece, which I keep
+missing; and 4) because of the changes in cast, she had to interview all of
+the new cast members, who will be featured in the next issue.  There are only
+two issues left in the run in any event, and in a way, the later the issue,
+the more complete the information will be.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 280       Sun Oct 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:03 EDT
+
+                              oops.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 282       Mon Oct 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 13:30 EDT
+
+     Whether it's two or three...who can keep count?...the newsletter was a
+private thing developed in-house for the movie, and to segue into the series;
+it was never meant to be a permanent fixture.  (And I'm sure that PTEN will
+probably initiate its own publication after a while, if we're properly
+successful.)  After the initial full run, it's really up to Christy whether or
+not she decides to carry on with the thing for a while.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 6         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 06:43 EST
+Sub: Where is Babylon 5? TV stations...   
+
+Babylon 5 is a cornerstone of Warner's new Prime Time Entertainment Network.
+Here is where one can find and post station information.
+
+347 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 312       Mon Oct 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:53 EDT
+
+     I'm reasonably sure that the B5 pilot will be repeated on KCOP the next
+day, Saturday.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 330       Thu Oct 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:34 EDT
+
+     Actually, the funny thing is, I don't much mind if people who hadn't seen
+the pilot don't catch the rebroadcast.  What we're doing now is SO radically
+better than the pilot that I almost can't watch it now.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 9         Wed Nov 11, 1992
+T.RESTIVO [Little Guy]       at 18:27 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Humor                      
+
+From *Beep Beep*, to Top Ten Lists to full-blown paradies, this is where to
+put your funny bone in writing!
+375 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 327       Sun Oct 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:26 EDT
+
+     There are moments I think it would be a wonderful idea....
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 331       Sun Oct 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:02 EDT
+
+     Yes, Mike, very nice, now finish putting your pajamas on and get to bed,
+you've got a busy day ahead of you.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B5 Adrift!                           
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+412 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 348       Thu Oct 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:04 EDT
+
+     I've always found for basic space adventuring stuff, Eric Frank Russell
+is terrific....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 365       Sun Oct 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:53 EDT
+
+     I have absolutely no idea how it works.  I use the command mode in GEnie
+mail, where the Internet stuff comes in.  I then type REP #, and reply.  Then
+save.  After that, it's all in the hands of the modem gods.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 376       Tue Oct 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:15 EDT
+
+     One way to get around all that, of course, is to transfer all of your CGI
+directly to film at some point, and use that down the road.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                  
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+402 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 355       Fri Oct 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:39 EDT
+
+     I understand it'll be sometime close to airdate, possibly a few weeks
+after we go on the air.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 357       Fri Oct 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:58 EDT
+
+     Mark Altman.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 360       Sat Oct 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:18 EDT
+
+     The photo was from the pilot; the line about stations was not altogether
+incorrect.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 395       Fri Oct 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:45 EDT
+
+     She was talking to Vir, not Londo.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 13        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 21:00 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Science & Technology     
+
+Jump gates, nanotech, high-tech weapons, starship drives, sound in space, and
+other subjects of science and technology in Babylon 5.
+473 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 385       Sat Sep 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:15 EDT
+
+     Scenario Number One: sending the Lurkers back to Earth.  Comes a call
+from Earth Central: "Hell, no, you're NOT shipping them back here, we're
+overcrowded enough as it is, we will NOT give you permission to send them back
+here."
+
+     Scenario Number Two: turning them over to their representatives on B5.
+G'Kar: "Thank you very much for bringing this to my attention, Commander, I'll
+have him sent back at once."  Beat.  The commander leaves.
+
+     G'Kar: "Get OUT of here and don't come back!  I don't have time to deal
+with the likes of you, we're NOT paying to send you back to Homeworld, just
+get out!"
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 394       Wed Sep 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:39 EDT
+
+     "Jiggery-pokery"...that's a codename for math, isn't it?  YOU CAN'T FOOL
+ME!  I GOT MY CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT DECODER BADGE!  NOTHING GETS PAST ME!
+
+     I need a vacation....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 407       Fri Oct 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:54 EDT
+
+     Beats me...you ask my opinion, that docking bay entrance looks a LOT
+like the Chevy symbol, so what the hell do I know?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 416       Mon Oct 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:42 EDT
+
+     The breather units now cover the whole face, yes.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 425       Thu Oct 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:06 EDT
+
+     I'd say that's pretty close to what we've been doing....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Merchandising            
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+394 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 375       Tue Sep 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:52 EDT
+
+     Hmmmm....I guess they sold out...which means they owe me money....
+
+
+                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 378       Tue Sep 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:37 EDT
+
+     Right, that's what I was referring to, HOUR 25 posters, not B5 posters.
+I hope no one here was confused by this.
+
+                                                         jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 381       Wed Sep 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:21 EDT
+
+     No, there's no reference to B5 in the Hour 25 poster...only that it was
+painted by the same man who did our original B5 artwork, used to help sell the
+series, and is signed by him (Peter Ledger), as well as by me, Larry DiTillio
+and Harlan Ellison...the first official grouping of what would become the B5
+core.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 387       Thu Sep 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:20 EDT
+
+     Not yet....
+
+                                                         jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 390       Fri Oct 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:41 EDT
+
+     I genuinely don't think you'll be seeing much *anywhere* until just about
+the time we hit the airwaves.  You want to put these things into catalogs and
+stores when you think people will buy them...and right now, a lot of folks
+still don't know about the show.  Don't worry, you'll be sick to death of the
+merchandising soon enough....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 22        Fri Feb 12, 1993
+R.FURR [Rob Furr]            at 00:19 EST
+Sub: Governments and Trade in B5          
+
+Most SF shows simply posit a government of sorts, and blithely ignore it ever
+afterwards. You might see a freighter (with a big "shoot me!" sign on it) but
+no other mention of trade. How about B5?
+143 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 141       Mon Oct 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:43 EDT
+
+     It's a general storage area.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 23        Fri Feb 12, 1993
+V.VAIDY1 [Vijay]             at 23:00 EST
+Sub: "OtherWorks" by JMS                  
+
+Before there was "B5" and when "JMS" was just another Plain Joe, there was
+OtherSyde
+ [A discussion of the other works of J. Michael Straczynski]
+146 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 140       Fri Oct 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:46 EDT
+
+     Actually, "The Wall" is one of my weaker episodes.  I much prefer
+"Rendezvous," though there's much in "Special Service" to commend it.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 142       Tue Oct 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:18 EDT
+
+     I've never felt the need, as a writer, to be didactic about this stuff.
+No, I don't believe in an afterlife...I also don't believe in the actual
+existence of Vorlons, either, but I write about them.  I don't think it's a
+requirement.  H.P. Lovecraft was one of our best writers of supernatural
+fiction, but I very much doubt that he believed in the Old Ones, or made bi-
+weekly offerings to Cthulhu.
+
+     All areas of human endeavor should be open to exploration, discussion and
+analysis, for what we can learn from them.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 145       Tue Oct 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:34 EDT
+
+                              ...ehhhhh....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 24        Fri Jun 04, 1993
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:11 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Weapons and Warfare!     
+
+For discussion about the weapons, counter weapons, armor, shielding, tactics,
+logistics, and so forth, of small combat and large scale war in the Babylon 5
+universe.
+317 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 255       Fri Sep 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:37 EDT
+
+     There's a line of sight display in front, joystick and foot controls, and
+voice control of the ship's computerized navigation and firing  controls as
+well.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 268       Thu Sep 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:21 EDT
+
+     You're looking at the wrong part of the station.  Run the tape, and
+you'll see several segments that track alongside the round front of the
+station, and revolve along with it.  (Remember where the spider transport
+attached itself?  I seem to recall that was on one of the cobra arms.)   So
+we're still using centrifugal force to launch.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 270       Fri Oct 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:59 EDT
+
+     A couple of the cobra bays aren't yet finished and loaded.  The last
+fighter wing will be arriving in "Survivors."
+
+                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 274       Fri Oct 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:56 EDT
+
+     "Survivors" is the new title for "Knife in the Shadows," by Marc Scott
+Zicree.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 289       Tue Oct 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:19 EDT
+
+     Except in this case, "Survivors" ended up being a more apt title for the
+episode.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 304       Thu Oct 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:50 EDT
+
+     There's really no one answer to that; the approach would vary depending
+on the logistics and tactics and who was where.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 306       Sat Oct 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:28 EDT
+
+     Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnope.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 308       Tue Oct 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:35 EDT
+
+     An earlier model, yes.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 310       Wed Oct 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:35 EDT
+
+     There are no current military alliances, though some might like that.
+
+     There have never been any survivors of a Vorlon war, so there's no  way
+of knowing....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 25        Fri Mar 12, 1993
+S.SHELLENBAR [>> SHANE <<]   at 08:47 EST
+Sub: J. Michael Straczynski Speaks in Public
+
+This is the place to find out where and when JMS will be appearing next.  JMS
+has honed his skills as a public speaker and is taking his act on the road.
+349 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 310       Sun Sep 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:24 EDT
+
+     BTW, those Hour 25 posters, of which there are only a limited number
+left, are in a sense the first (and possibly most interesting) collectible for
+B5 afficianados.  The poster is of the logo for Hour 25, a radio show hosted
+by Harlan, and then me.  It was on H25 that the first mention was made of B5;
+also, the poster was designed by Peter Ledger, who did the art for B5 that
+helped get the project sold; and it's autographed by Peter, me, Harlan Ellison
+(conceptual consultant) and Larry Ditillio (our S.E.).  And of course it's set
+in space.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 313       Sun Sep 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:24 EDT
+
+     Well, I've got some, maybe about 100, Christy has some, and it's possible
+that Dangerous Visions in Sherman Oaks has a handful left, but that's it.
+Nobody at KPFK has any.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 318       Mon Sep 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:11 EDT
+
+     Didn't get your note until too late re: the poster.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 325       Tue Oct 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:21 EDT
+
+     Okay, here's the info: I, Larry DiTillio, and possibly others will be
+making a presentation at LosCon that Thanksgiving weekend on Saturday from 11
+a.m. to 1 p.m.  We got a two-hour block because we may have some stuff to
+unveil.  If you're in the L.A. area, and interested in B5, I wouldn't miss
+this one.  As well as the possibility of some cast members, those who come may
+get more than just a preview....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+     (That's Thanksgiving weekend at the Burbank Airport Hilton.)
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 26        Sun Jun 06, 1993
+G.PLANA [Gary]               at 01:51 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Episode titles and info  
+
+This topic is for information about individual episodes -- their titles,
+writers, and any other information JMS may leak!
+136 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 107       Sun Oct 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:12 EDT
+
+     Several corrections.  Neither Knight One nor Knight Two are Psi Cops.
+Everyone assumed that they were, but I never said that, and it's not the case
+at all.
+
+     Danica McKeller does not appear in "Sky," she appears in "The War
+Prayer;" David McCalllum appears in "Infection."  Christy Marx's episode is
+entitled "Grail," and that's the one with David Warner, William Sanderson and
+Tom Booker.  "Metaphors" and "Target" have been retitled.
+
+     Those are the errors I caught just in passing.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 109       Sun Oct 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:42 EDT
+
+     I no longer have any idea what we're talking about, and frankly it scares
+the hell out of me....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 115       Mon Oct 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:19 EDT
+
+     Yeah, easy for YOU to say, KAL...I've got Londo, Garibaldi, G'Kar, Kosh
+and half the Psi-Corps running around inside my head and yelling at each other
+24 hours a day...YOU try to sleep with all that racket.
+
+     I either need to find a better neighborhood, or a worse one, I can't
+decide....
+
+     "AH, my GOOD, CLOSE FRIEND, GariBALdi --"
+
+     That's it!  Everybody outta the pool......!
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 119       Mon Oct 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:42 EDT
+
+     Behind-the-scenes humor: because it had been so long since the pilot, it
+took a few of our actors a bit of time to get back into their characters, to
+find the characters' "fingerprints" for lack of a better term.  This is quite
+understandable given the long waiting period.  When he needed to find his
+character for a scene, Peter Jurasik mentioned that he would just stand up
+straight and yell, "MISter GariBALdi!" and he'd be right back in character.
+Sort of the B5 version of "Shazam!"
+
+     Minus the lightning bolt, of course.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 126       Sun Oct 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:01 EDT
+
+     No, the series is one-to-one on the passage of years.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
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+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 category.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+Posts are from Nov 1, 1993 through Dec 2, 1993
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category and main topic for the new series. Here is
+the place for all general information on the series. Topic 2 is the location
+for SPOILERS. And please, NO STORY IDEAS are to be posted either.
+368 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 113       Sun Oct 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:48 EDT
+
+     Just an update...on Monday we a) do the final mix on "Midnight on the
+Firing Line," so we'll have two finished and in the can, and b) finish
+shooting Christy's episode of "Grail."  (And those of you who've been asking
+for nonhumanoid alien stuff...hold onto your hats for this one.)   On Tuesday
+we start shooting "Mind War," with Walter Koenig, William Allan Young and
+Felicity Waterman.  Both "Grail" and "Mind War" have been heavy on EFX, both
+visual (on set) and CGI.
+
+     In looking at all the episodes shot to date, from a story point of view,
+I think that "Sky" is still my favorite, in how it ties into the whole 5 year
+arc.  From a personal point of view, I'm very fond of "The Parliament of
+Dreams," which is a very funny show, and at times a very emotional show.
+"Parliament" is all over the place...it's got all of our major characters, our
+ambassadors, their seconds, we see lots of group scenes, we're all over the
+station, dipping in and out of three different but interconnected
+stories...it's really a matter of keeping a lot of balls in the air at one
+time, and I think we pulled it off nicely.
+
+     BTW, we've finished assembling the main title sequence, and we're going
+to do one extra little thing to it that's kinda neat...more on this closer to
+airdate.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 123       Sun Oct 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:29 EST
+
+     There are a lot of little in-jokes...but I'd rather let you see them than
+ruin the surprise.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 133       Tue Nov 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:11 EST
+
+     We sneak in GEnie coordinates from time to time....
+
+     We now have just under half the episodes now filmed, and just finished
+the final mix on "Midnight," so that's two totally completed.  It takes a long
+time after an episode is finished to do a final mix, particularly on a show
+like this, since you've got to work out sound, score music, and do any
+rotoscope/Viz EFX stuff.  Once you do the first one, after that they fall into
+place on a weekly basis (so next Monday we should have the final on "Purple,"
+then the following Monday we'll finalize "Infection," and so on).
+
+     "Midnight" is very cool, by the way.  Christopher Franke's music really
+brings the action scenes to life.  It's amazing how much that adds to a show.
+
+     Had an interesting conversation today with one of our crew.  I was
+talking to someone else about the writing philosophy on the show, and how it's
+comparable to a tryptich...you line up the stories and you begin to see a much
+broader story after a while.  A series of interconnected images.
+
+     And this crew person said that I was wrong, that wasn't how the show is
+being done.  Now lemme tell you...we encourage people on every level to speak
+frankly, at any time, to any one, but it takes considerable cojones to say
+something like that to one's exec producer, that he has his own series wrong
+in the description.  "Oh?" says I.
+
+     He explains that what it is, is "holographic storytelling."  I asked him
+what the hell this meant.  He said that the image of pictures side by side,
+linear storytelling, wasn't right.  That after he read two scripts, he went
+back and reread the first one, and now he could see things in it that he
+hadn't seen before.  When he'd read three, again he glanced over the first,
+and new things had come out.
+
+     "What it IS," he said, "is not side-by-side images, but *overlaping*
+images, like old fashioned photographic plates stacked up one on top of the
+other.  Each has a piece of the whole picture.  When you line them all up, one
+behind the other, and look through all of them at once, you realize what the
+picture is.  It's three-dimensional storytelling."
+
+     I had to think about that one a long time, but frankly, he's right, and
+I'm wrong.  That *IS* what we're doing, and I've been describing it
+incorrectly all this time.
+
+     Holographic storytelling...well, live and learn, I say.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 137       Tue Nov 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:21 EST
+
+     Not this season, no.  Nor are there currently any plans for same.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 148       Thu Nov 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:38 EST
+
+     Now that we've finished mixing some shows, we've now seen how Kosh
+speaks, followed through to the end.  It's a very unusual system that he's got
+there, and it's *real* creepy to watch/listen to it.  The kind of thing that
+makes your skin crawl after a while.
+
+     I love it.
+
+     Today,ter Koenig's 2nd day working in the B5 universe, as a Psi Cop in
+"Mind War."  He's doing well, taking part in some very difficult scenes (fight
+scenes and the ilke), and it's a very powerful performance, not at ALL what
+people have seen before.  He's a terrific performer when given a role with
+some meat to it.  And the dailies look great.  I think this episode will wake
+up a lot of people who have never seen Walter as anything other than Chekov.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 157       Fri Nov 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:35 EST
+
+     Yes, people will go to the bathroom.  ANd yes, they will speak in their
+own languages when amongst their own kind...but just as with a WW II movie,
+when you show the germans talking to one another, it'll be English.  On those
+occasions when someone speaks Narn around humans, then of course it's another
+language, and will sound that way.
+
+     The pilot was a tad too dark looking; we've taken a slightly lighter look
+for the series, while keeping the shadows and textures that we want.
+
+     What a weird day...I just get over the flu, this is my first really
+healthy day, and on the way back from the lunch trucks I slip spraining my
+ankle.  Now, after I've had the flu, I generally tend to dress warmly for a
+few days, wear my slippers, to avoid falling back.  So now here I am typing
+this with a bag of ice on my foot.  Either way...I'm doomed.
+
+     Funny incident today, though, also at lunch.  Walter Koenig joined some
+of the cast members at their table for lunch, and as he came to the table,
+they all stood up at attention.  When asked why, they explained that it's
+protocol for junior officers to stand when a senior officer comes to the
+table.  It was kind of a nice moment.
+
+     Shooting on "Mind War" continues to go well.  Great stuff from Walter.
+Also, I've finally seen the final version of the B5 main title, with the
+addition of Christopher Franke's B5 theme music...and it's just terrific, a
+huge step over the pilot, much as I liked some aspects of that music.  It's
+rich, romantic, full, aggressive, and it stays in the mind afterward.
+
+     Looking good....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 164       Sat Nov 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:39 EST
+
+     The B5 soundtrack for the series is built from many different kinds of
+pieces, synthesized (based on one of the most extensive collection of
+musical/audio samples in the world, which Christopher has been in the process
+of collecting ever since he practically hand-assembled his first Moog), and
+symphonic, since we're using the Berlin Symphonic Orchestra for some elements
+of our score.  It changes dramatically depending on the subject.
+
+     Re: gunfire...in a way, you'll see them...and in a way, you won't.   I
+know that sounds like a Zen koan, but it'll make sense when you see how they
+work.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 174       Sun Nov 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:35 EST
+
+     The main problem with using sub-titles under an alien language to any
+real degree is, of course, the probelm with the blind viewership, which is
+especially large in SF, it appears.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 196       Thu Nov 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:16 EST
+
+     Well, we've finished finalizing our main/opening titles sequence, and
+done the on-line editing, and now will put it into the process and start
+putting whole shows together.  We've decided, in order to emphasize the
+cinematic aspects of our show, that it's taking more of a movie approach to TV
+SF...to do the main titles in letterbox format.
+
+     And it looks really, really cool.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 198       Thu Nov 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:38 EST
+
+     Yes, the main titles will be in letterbox format for conventional
+televisions...we're taking the footage that we've shot in 16:9 aspect ratio,
+and shrinking it down just enough to fit, so there's black on top and bottom,
+the same way that, for instance, TNT shows movies in their full aspect ratio.
+And we've custom designed some CGI that also is in  that format.  (In the case
+of series footage that we're using, there you'll be able to compare the
+regular aspect ratio of the broadcast with what's in the main titles.  In
+other words, there's a scene in "Parliament" of a Minbari gathering.  In
+regular aspect, as part of the show, you'll see it one way.  We've clipped a
+section of that for the main titles and used the full aspect ratio, and in
+that you'll see the far right and left sides normally clipped for standard TV
+aspect ratio.)
+
+     Apparently this is also done on Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, I learned the
+other day, so that'll give you some sense of it.  It's very effective at
+giving a real cinematic feel to your main titles.
+
+
+                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 202       Thu Nov 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:13 EST
+
+     No, it won't be rare.  And that's the reason why we're NOT doing
+subtitles.  This is the difference between something sounding neat on paper,
+but not in reality, and especially not on a TV series.
+
+     If you're doing a feature film, and only have one or two shots of aliens
+talking in subtitles, for brief periods, you can do this; also if you're doing
+an SF series in which you're mainly talking to humans, and only rarely among
+your own kind.
+
+     But in B5, a LOT of our time is spent with our various alien characters.
+And sometimes the conversation can get quite detailed, quite complex or
+political.  In one script, for instance, there's a 2 1/2 minute scene with
+G'Kar and Na'Toth, followed by two lengthy scenes with Londo and Vir, and
+Delenn and Vir.  So you're talking about maybe 5  minutes here.  The
+conversation is very detailed, very elaborate.  So are you a) going to put all
+of this complex dialogue on screen, line by line, and b) use subtitles for
+FIVE UNBROKEN MINUTES?
+
+     You'd kill yourself as a series.  No one would stand for it, and they'd
+be right.  Again, not every good idea is a workable or practical idea.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 208       Fri Nov 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:26 EST
+
+     I don't offhand know the answer to the more tech question; the info is at
+the office, and I always get them confused in my head.  I'm fairly sure it's
+option c, though.
+
+     RE: composition...the monitor on which the director and DP can watch and
+see what the camera sees has on it demarkations to show the regular aspect
+ratio, as well as the widescreen view.  Which pretty much allows them to
+compose for both, for the most part.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 216       Sat Nov 13, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:12 EST
+
+     We're not shooting on videotape, so it's kind of a moot point.  We're
+shooting on film, which can be converted to HDTV standards *very* easily.  The
+pixel density is a function of where you go once you decide to convert the
+film.  It's now being converted to video at standard resolution; when HDTV
+comes into existence commercially, the film will be reprocessed out and
+transferred to video at that level.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 224       Mon Nov 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:54 EST
+
+     I really don't know that much; apparently there's something in the works
+about toys, but I don't have specifics.  Ditto for comics and the like.  I
+tend not to get my head too far into that part of it, because I think that as
+soon as you do, you can get lost in merchandising, and the next thing you know
+you're doing things not necessarily because they belong in the story, but
+because they make great merchandise prospects.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 229       Tue Nov 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:44 EST
+
+     Our head of post production, associate producer George Johnsen, pulled a
+number on me today that just struck me as hilarious, and I pass it on to you.
+(We do a lot of silly stuff behind the scenes.)
+
+     Take your hands.  Fold in the thumb until it's pointing in toward the
+palm of your hand, but not entirely.  Fan out your other four fingers on each
+hand as far as you can.  Now put the two hands together so that the index
+fingers touch, and the pinkies are on either side of one another (i.e., you've
+formed a crown or fan).  Raise your hands so that your wrists are settling on
+either side of the top of your head.
+
+     Now look at the person sitting next to you and say, "Live, Londo, and
+Prosper."  This is the unofficial B5 crew greeting.  Apparently some have been
+doing it when they arrive for work in the morning.
+
+     We're a sick bunch, but we're fun.
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 234       Wed Nov 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:00 EST
+
+     The following is *not* a shot, I repeat, the following is NOT a shot,
+okay?  It's just...last night, I got in from the stage late, and the last 15
+minutes of the latest TNG effort was on, about the destructive warp engines.
+And I watched, astonished, as the Enterprise was buffetted by rift forces,
+damaged, another ship was damaged, the rift grew, the other ship was
+destroyed...and *all of it* until the very end, at which point they interfaced
+some stock footage with a bit of new stuff, ALL of that other material was off-
+camera, we saw *NONE* of it!  It was just like radio drama...we *hear* about
+the ship getting hit, the rift doing this, ships blowing up, but we never see
+ANY of it.
+
+     This came to mind today when I saw some of the new CGI footage from "Mind
+War," which is starting to look quite extraordinary.  About every four-five
+episodes, we seem to take a jump in what we can do, how much we can do, and
+how good it looks.  The latest batch of stuff is absolutely breathtaking.  And
+in addition to everything else, the one thing that I come away with, the one
+thing that *no one* is doing, is the absolute SCALE of the show.  In addition
+to sets and CGI as standalones, we're doing some groundbreaking work in
+composites, mattes, virtual sets and other stuff.
+
+     There are moments when I can't *wait* to get this show on the air to show
+people what we've done, and what we're doing.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 248       Sat Nov 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:22 EST
+
+     Well, today we finished shooting on episode #11, meaning that we are now
+exactly halfway through production on the Babylon 5 series.  This is the fifty
+yard line, still a long way to go, but it's no further ahead of us than it is
+behind us.
+
+     After we'd finished shooting, I fired up bits of our first couple of
+finished episodes for John Flinn, our DP.  He watched a bit, then went to get
+some others in the crew.  And more came.  Before I knew it, the room was full
+of people watching the finished show (or portions) for the very first time.
+The atmosphere was electric...yells of delight and pleasure, cheers and
+applause, whistles...everyone left absolutely stoked.  A real boost at the
+halfway mark.
+
+     Monday we begin shooting "Chrysalis."  Yowza!  After that follows
+"Deathwalker" (with Sarah Douglas in the lead role) by Larry the D.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 250       Sat Nov 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:26 EST
+
+     The time for prep on year two, if we were to get picked up, would be
+equal to year one, with the exception that we won't have to build all of these
+sets.  We'll have more time in that sense.  Again, the stories are pretty much
+mapped out for five years, so that's already done.  If we get renewed, we'll
+probably get the word around March, shoot beginning in July '94, and air year
+2 in January '95.  But again, this is very premature at the moment.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 259       Sun Nov 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:22 EST
+
+     I'd rather wait on that until the series airs....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 277       Thu Nov 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:56 EST
+
+     I have no objections other than those that will likely be raised at your
+sanity hearing.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 281       Thu Nov 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:07 EST
+
+     There's been a film crew here already, some time ago, during shooting,
+and several behind-the-scenes pieces have been cut of various length; one
+promotional piece of 8 minutes has already been downlinked.  More, of greater
+length, will follow.
+
+     We've now deliered 4 complete episodes to PTEN, and the reaction we've
+heard back has been off-the-scale enthusiastic.  They're convinced we've got
+something very special here.  I let Walter Koenig see a coupe of shows,
+including the director's cut of the one he's in, and he like what he saw a
+lot, and is convinced it'll be a success.
+
+     So far, so good....
+
+     Today was crash day.  I've been running on 4 hours sleep, running around
+like a demented creature, for weeks on end now.  (Larry made it a point to
+tell me that if I were to kill myself on this show that he would  have to take
+over, and run the show.  I pointed out that I've got an Egyptian King clause
+in my will...if I die during production, he gets entombed with me.  If I go,
+I'm taking him with me.)  So today I never even saw the sun; crashed around 3
+a.m. and didn't open my eyes again until 5 p.m.  I feel vaguely human for the
+first time in ages.
+
+     (And kind of a personal triumph; I bought a 4-pack of John Lennon CDs,
+and can finally listen to them.  I wasn't a stone Beatles fan, wasn't a
+hardcase Lennon fan, but when he was killed, when that genius was stilled, I
+got so angry, so blindly *furious*...and my heart just died.  Ever since that
+time, I haven't been able to listen to Lennon's work without that same rage
+killing my pleasure in the music.  I'm finally, finally able to listen to it
+again, and it's playing in the background even as I type this.)
+
+     Saturday is the "Midnight" screening, and we'll see what we see....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 285       Fri Nov 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:21 EST
+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                       jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 304       Mon Nov 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:02 EST
+
+     In that "no one here is what they appear" scene, G'Kar is talking to
+Catherine Sakai (Julia Nickson), the same one later in the restaurant scene.
+It's a different look for her because that that moment she's in business mode,
+and about to head out to her survey ship, the Skydancer, for which she is
+captain and owner.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 318       Tue Nov 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:19 EST
+
+     A few folks have noted in email that I've been kinda quiet here of late,
+and I just wanted to note that there are two reasons for this:
+
+     1) Whenever something of mine is aired, or shown, as with "Midnight," I
+tend to adopt a low profile in order to avoid influencing or directing the
+conversation.
+
+     As for 2)...a word in the ear of every person reading this who uses the
+keyboard incessantly: *BUY WRIST GUARDS*.  For the last year or so, I've been
+fighting carpal tunnel syndrome.  The problem is that I write 10-12 hours a
+day, and when I'm going at white-heat, I've been clocked at nearly 120 words
+per minute...one person who listened noted that during one particular session
+the click-click-click didn't pause, didn't slow for nearly twenty minutes
+straight.  I fall through the screen and come out somewhere else, hours later.
+
+     The downside of which being...I'm having *real* problems with CTS right
+now.  As we gear up for the last part of the season, I'm behind the keyboard
+constantly, when I'm not in editing.  During the Thanksgiving break, I was
+averaging 20 pages a day.  Early in that process, the CTS settled in bigtime.
+The pain is nearly constant, all day, all night.  To pick up a can of soda is
+an exercise in profound discomfort.  To *type* is beyond description.  I'm
+doing everything I can to minimize it, including sending for some new wrist
+supports and wrist braces, but apparently this stuff is cumulative.
+
+     It's not stopping the writing, not by so much as a comma, but it makes me
+more inclined to quick, short messages than my usual mini-novels.
+ I learned a long time ago how to burn through pain, so it's not a problem on
+that level.  Once the season's over, we'll evaluate where things stand, and
+whether this can be ameliorated by exercises or surgery or whatever.   But I'm
+a *writer*, and that means I'll write if they cut off my arms and legs and I
+have to type with my nose.  Nor is this message intended for sympathy.  No
+sympathies are expected or requested.  This is just one more challenge to B5.
+
+
+     My only thought at this moment is with those reading this: if you do lots
+of work behind the computer, take breaks, wear wrist braces, get a support for
+your keyboard, do wrist-hand exercises.  You wouldn't like this.  Trust me.
+
+     This show has been an act of sheer will now for nearly seven years.   So
+what else is new?
+
+     By Friday we finish shooting "Chrysalis," which looks *gorgeous*.   Then
+comes "Deathwalker," with Sarah Douglas and Robin Curtis.  It's another of our
+very tough episodes, written by Larry the D.  With "Chrysalis" it's 12 down
+and 10 to go.  We're on the downward slide, and it's coming up fast.
+
+     Later.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 322       Tue Nov 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:03 EST
+
+     Happily, the energy level here isn't flagging at all; if anything,
+there's been an infusion of energy, partially through being able to show some
+of our crew finishd episodes, so they can see the whole elephant rather than
+only isolated parts (to great reaction), and partly through the reactions at
+the con.  We're all feeling very renewed and rededicated toward the show.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 330       Wed Dec 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:13 EST
+
+     I can't dictate as fast as I can type; and I don't think in verbal terms,
+I have to see it on the scren.  I tried it once, but found I'm just not a very
+good dictator (crew comments notwithstanding).
+
+     A guest actor really can't add much beyond the episode in which he or she
+appears.  But behind the scenes...some of our cast learned a lot while working
+with Revell, and McCallum, and some of our other classically trained guest
+actors.  They were enjoyable experiences.  As far as the experience they
+had...all of our guests have to date expressed a hope to return in other roles
+at some point.  They've uniformly been treated well, and with respect,
+particularly those who've made their careers in SF, and are viewed as "senior
+officers" in a sense.  Some have described it as the best working experience
+they've had.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 331       Wed Dec 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:17 EST
+
+     Have just uploaded starfury.gif to the Babylon 5 library here in the
+SFRT, file #730.  Just FYI.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 341       Thu Dec 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:39 EST
+
+     If the file takes 6 minutes to download at 2400, why did it take me 18
+minutes to upload at 2400?
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 343       Thu Dec 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:54 EST
+
+     Just uploaded two more; 749 and 750...rescue.gif and starlit.gif.   The
+former is a shot of a Starfury alongside the starliner Asimov; the latter is
+an unusual angle on B5 angled with the star behind it.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 352       Thu Dec 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:21 EST
+
+     Part of the problem is that I was using compression/error-free protocol.
+I turned that off, and the others went up faster.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 354       Thu Dec 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:03 EST
+
+     Darn, I hadn't noticed that.  See, starfury.gif is one of the very
+earliest graphic renderings we had of the fighter, mainly for in-house.   The
+logos had been put on mainly for place orientation.  It's not like that
+elsewhere...I'll upload a more current version.  I simply didn't notice that.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 362       Fri Dec 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:47 EST
+
+     If Job could take it, I can take it.
+
+     And yes, that's the bottom of the starfury.
+
+     The GIF of the Starfury is letterboxed/wide.  Most of the others that'll
+be uploaded are conventional aspect ratio.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+May 28th, '93, Babylon 5 officially became a series. There will be 22 hours,
+plus the 2 hours of the pilot, for season one. Airs Wednesday's at 8PM in most
+places starting Jan. '94. This is the Spoiler topic where anything goes.
+
+415 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 312       Sun Oct 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:50 EDT
+
+     The bay is pressurized, with drop doors beneath each fighter.  A ramp
+extends to the fighters individually, bringing on pilots.  The bays are
+depressurized as the pilots (in flight suits) prepare.  Then the drop doors
+open, the fighters pivot to nose-down position, and launch.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 322       Tue Nov 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:12 EST
+
+     Tom: the rotating lights were dumb and we dropped them.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 324       Wed Nov 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:58 EST
+
+     Yup.  We learn.  Slowly, but we learn.
+
+     Food...good.  Fire...bad.
+
+             
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 337       Sat Nov 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:40 EST
+
+     It's "Your time has come and gone!  It's OUR turn now!"
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 341       Sat Nov 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:56 EST
+
+     Christopher Neame was an unvarnished joy to work with, and he did a truly
+spectacular job as Knight Two in "Sky."  Forceful, dynamic, and his
+performance at the very end in a much quieter scene with Sinclair will make
+your hair stand on end.  It's just something he says, but the implications of
+what he says, and the way he says it, is just killer.  I'd love to find a way
+to bring Knight Two back at some point, and the door was somewhat left open to
+facilitate that possibility.
+
+     In any event, both Christopher and Judson Scott were both terrific to
+work with.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 347       Sun Nov 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:24 EST
+
+     Because the promo wasn't put together by us, but by others, whose main
+concern is finding good images which may not necessarily be associated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 360       Tue Nov 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:47 EST
+
+     No, on balance, I'd say that it has not given me a dislike for all things
+Trek.  I think it comes with the turf.
+
+     There are three things that I put to *some* degree on the same level, at
+least from a sociological level (though there are obvious differences in true
+or perceived quality): the Beatles, Star Trek, and Stephen King.  All are
+media phenomenon, all are very much of their time.  When people say, "Oh, so
+and so is the next Stephen King," that's nonsense, because King fills a
+particular slot that no one else can really hit; same with the Beatles.
+Groups may come along that may sell more records than the Beatles ever sold,
+may be even more popular, but no one else will ever play the specific social
+role that the Beatles played in their time; no one else will ever be at that
+specific juncture.  They are all icons.
+
+     When the Rolling Stones made Phase Two of the British invasion of the
+1960s, they were constantly being compared to the Beatles, evaluated in terms
+of the Beatles, and it pissed them off mightily, because they weren't the
+Beatles, didn't play the same kinds of songs as the Beatles, and the only
+thing they had in common was that they were both British.  But the American
+media, basically unfamiliar with the British scene, lumped them into the same
+category.
+
+     Star Trek played a pivotal role in TV SF.  There can be no mistake about
+that.  Other shows may someday supplant it in longevity, or ratings, or
+popularity, or following, but no other show will ever take that show's place.
+No other show will ever be "the new Star Trek."  Not even the, well, the new
+Star Trek(s).  Trek provided a terrific foundation; it's unfortunate that in
+25+ years, not much has been done really to build upon that foundation and
+take SF-TV to the next logical level.  Maybe B5 can do that.  I certainly hope
+so.  Maybe not.  I could be living in a fool's paradise.  But if not us, then
+sooner or later, someone will take that next step.
+
+     I've always liked the original Trek series, and always will.  Even wrote
+an issue of the ST comic, "Worldsinger," for DC.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 364       Wed Nov 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:48 EST
+
+     Next up is "Survivors."
+
+     "Born to the Purple" got mixed this past Monday.  We'll be delivering all
+three episodes this Friday to PTEN; after that, it'll be once a week.   Just
+like clockwork.  We're well into the groove now.
+
+     Christopher Franke is developing themes for each of the characters, plus
+themes for the station, for space in general, and for our various
+aliens...something that carries a sense of the minbari, the grey council,
+others.  He even wrote a wonderful little Narn libretto for G'Kar, a la
+Gilbert and Sullivan.  Some elements carry across shows, but in each show
+there are new and different pieces that work wonderfully.  He's nothing less
+than terrific.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 372       Thu Nov 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:20 EST
+
+     Actually, I think it is "turn."
+
+     Sinclair's opening narrative over the series main titles:
+
+     "It was the Dawn of the Third Age of Mankind, ten years after the
+Earth/Minbari War.  The Babylon Project was a dream given form, its goal: to
+prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out
+their differences peacefully.  It's a port of call, home away from home for
+diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs and wanderers.  Humans and aliens wrapped
+in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal...all alone in
+the night.
+
+     "It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last, best hope for peace.
+
+     "This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations.
+
+     "The year is 2258.
+
+     "The name of the place...is Babylon 5."
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 379       Fri Nov 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:31 EST
+
+     My sense is that we have Sinclair narrating from some point in the
+future.  The transition of grammar takes place as we push into the station,
+from the outside in.  This was the last of the Babylon stations, and this
+particular segment of it is set in 2258.  (Season two would say, "The year is
+2259."  And so on.)
+
+     Many here will remember a show called "You Are There."  The usual
+narrator would say, paraphrasing here but keeping the grammar, "The year 1776
+was crucial to our nation's history.  The founding fathers were on the brink
+of declaring independence.  It's a moment of great importance.   The year is
+1776...and You Are There."  It's along those lines.  The purpose of the
+narrative changes to transition us into the story.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 383       Fri Nov 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:37 EST
+
+     The tense shifts are intentional, and go with the scenes we're seeing.
+They're *supposed* to shift, with the visuals, in order to bring us into the
+present from the future, at which point this story is being introduced.
+
+     BTW, does anyone know if the GEnie/Internet relay is down or something?
+Usually there's 50 or so messages a day in my mailbox here from the Internet
+relay, and the last 2 days or so there's been nada.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 399       Sat Nov 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:08 EST
+
+     Yes, he's a nifty guy, no mistake.  And I think we might be able to work
+out something....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 402       Tue Nov 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:25 EST
+
+     Because PTEN is very high on the shows we're delivering, there may be
+some modification in airdate scheduling, to create real momentum, but I don't
+know anything firm about that yet.
+
+     The date I hear most often re: the debut is January 26th.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 405       Wed Nov 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:24 EST
+
+     The rotating sphere you saw was probably the starliner Asimov; the thing
+in the asteroid field is...a command and control vessel.  A command and
+control vessel for *what*...I won't say.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 406       Wed Nov 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:27 EST
+
+     So, Fenn...you liked it, eh?  I forgot to mention that I haven't yet seen
+the material; it should be arriving at the office tomorrow.  I imagine they
+highlighted the action, and the CGI, and the aliens (which is pretty much
+stet), since it's hard to really indicate characterization in a quick promo.
+Any other reactions?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 409       Thu Nov 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:00 EST
+
+     Just saw the promo.  The Narn woman is Caitlin Brown (Na'Toth).  What is
+in the promo is taken almost entirely from the first two episodes, with just a
+smidge from #3.  Which may give you some indication of how much action is *in*
+the first couple episodes (and in many epiosodes thereafter)
+ -- definitely keeping the thing moving.
+
+     I'd say that n'grath would count as a non-humanoid alien, yes?  (Just
+keeping an eye on my promises here....)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Computer SFX Tech-Talk   
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+211 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 167       Tue Nov 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:14 EST
+
+     No comment at this time.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 192       Wed Nov 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:52 EST
+
+     Actually, we're not using the Harry.  First, it wasn't up to the level we
+wanted to strive for, and second the best harry guy we could find had some
+"theological problems" with "Soul Hunter" and we felt that we weren't getting
+as good as we could.  So we've switched over to a new system.
+
+     The rotoscope and other visual EFX are now being done on computer, as are
+the cgi.  On a Mac, to be precise, by an EFX designer who's one of the best in
+town, possibly the best, who's known locally as "Mr. Electricity."  He did the
+same kind of work on T2, Total Recall and other features.  He's interfaced
+with our other technical people, and the result is really *very*
+extraordinary, considerably more extensive and better looking than what's
+usually done on TV.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 195       Fri Nov 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:31 EST
+
+     Nope.  Kevin Kutchaver.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 201       Sun Nov 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:52 EST
+
+     We did some library stuff in the first few eps, but as we've ben (been)
+spending more time, we've built up more, and generally we have 3-4 new
+establishers per ep.  So there's less and less of it the deeper you get into
+the series.  (And when you come down to it, a shot of the station against a
+planet is going to be pretty much the same in general, unless there's specific
+activity going on around it.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 206       Wed Dec 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:14 EST
+
+     And airplanes will never be commercially successful.
+
+     BTW, I've gotten permission to upload a few images after all, and may do
+so in the next week or so....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Cast & Characters        
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+424 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 378       Wed Nov 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:53 EST
+
+     Once the decision was made to make her definitely female, that led us to
+modify the makeup.  Also, the original make up was done with very little lead
+time, and some things we liked, some things we didn't.   It's now sleeker,
+more attractive, and easier to apply and take off.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 380       Thu Nov 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:12 EST
+
+     Since we only really got a good look at one Minbari, it's kind of a moot
+point.  The new lines are generally consistent throughout Minbari.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 408       Tue Nov 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:21 EST
+
+     If it's the pilot review, which I've seen...yeah, the only thing the guy
+likes is ST, it seems.  We had a long go-round.  Old news.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 410       Tue Nov 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:01 EST
+
+     We've just delivered tapes to PTEN publicity, so critics should be
+getting it soon enough.  My *hunch* is that they'll probably get copies of
+"Midnight" and "Soul Hunter."
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 413       Wed Dec 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:02 EST
+
+     If the CGI were cheesy, please explain to me the Emmy currently sitting
+on Ron Thornton's desk....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 420       Thu Dec 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:44 EST
+
+     Fast question: I saw a flier at LosCon for some room party, over a couple
+of days, that had @! inside an Earth Alliance badge silhouette, and talked
+about docking bays, open for business, that sort of thing.  Do any of you who
+attended know *anything* about what this was?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                  
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+448 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 406       Thu Nov 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:29 EST
+
+     He tried.
+
+     I was.
+
+     It isn't.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 413       Fri Nov 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:01 EST
+
+     I haven't seen it, but understand there's a piece on Ron Thornton in the
+new WIRED...page 88-89.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 13        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 21:00 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Science & Technology     
+
+Jump gates, nanotech, high-tech weapons, starship drives, sound in space, and
+other subjects of science and technology in Babylon 5.
+504 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 442       Thu Nov 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:31 EST
+
+     There is nothing wrong with the launch sequence.  It causes them to move
+directly away from the station, on a slight spiral, facing out to the stars
+from the pilot's POV.  Whether or not it looks funky has little to do with
+whether or not this is the most efficient means of doing this.  I think it's
+kind of funky that the space shuttle flies upside down while in orbit, its
+cargo bay facing down toward Earth, but that's the way it's done, and there
+are good reasons for it.  We sat down for a very long time with a bunch of
+designers and techies who know physics and know math and know flight dynamics,
+we ran computer models, and the physics are right.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 463       Mon Nov 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:34 EST
+
+     If what you think I said is correct, then what you think I said is what I
+said.  If what I might have said was not correct, then what I might have said
+is not what I said, incorrectly.
+
+     This message will self-destruct as soon as anyone manages to parse the
+grammar....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 481       Sun Nov 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:49 EST
+
+     There are no tractor beams in use, or available, for the most part.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 484       Sun Nov 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:44 EST
+
+     Our medical advisor tells us that regen technology should be well in hand
+within the next 100 years, so you can grow back damaged internal organs and
+the like, and avoid having to do transplants.  Also that the system of surgery
+is moving toward non-invasive procedures, using light in more and different
+ways.
+
+     He went on past that, but there was some math involved...
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 491       Wed Nov 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:14 EST
+
+     Many of the huge transports that'll be coming to B5 were never meant to
+operate within an atmosphere, they're strictly deep range starships, to which
+you transfer using atmosphere-capable shuttles.  We're not talking little
+flits, we're talking about ships that can be as big as a mile across.
+Dropping something that huge down into the gravity well of a planet is just
+unworkable.  If you want something that can handle lots of big ships, it *has*
+to be in space...as in a station.
+
+     You could park a big ship near a planet, and use lots of shuttles to
+unload it down to the planet (gravity well, heavy cargo, lots of fuel, lots of
+time, more accidents), then haul it right back *up* again when it's sold or
+transferred...or you could build a station in zero G where your big transport
+just parks alongside, loads or unloads its cargo in zero gravity, and transfer
+it where needed.
+
+     And the atmosphere of the planet is no longer breathable.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 500       Wed Dec 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:41 EST
+
+     The explosion damaged the auto-configuration system which keeps the
+rotation/flywheel system working smoothly.  (This is also indicated in
+dialogue in the observation dome.)  That more than anything else would cause
+real problems.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 24        Fri Jun 04, 1993
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:11 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Weapons and Warfare!     
+
+For discussion about the weapons, counter weapons, armor, shielding, tactics,
+logistics, and so forth, of small combat and large scale war in the Babylon 5
+universe.
+323 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 322       Fri Dec 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:04 EST
+
+     They are both guns.
+
+     The canopy closes and locks.  If hit, there's at least the  opportunity
+for the canopy section to eject from the rest of the craft before it's
+destroyed.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 25        Fri Mar 12, 1993
+S.SHELLENBAR [>> SHANE <<]   at 08:47 EST
+Sub: J. Michael Straczynski Speaks in Public
+
+This is the place to find out where and when JMS will be appearing next.  JMS
+has honed his skills as a public speaker and is taking his act on the road.
+394 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 351       Wed Nov 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:40 EST
+
+     I get the sense that this room -- large as it is -- may end up packed.
+We will be showing "Midnight."  Plus some scenes from other shows.  Plus we
+may have some cast members present.  Plus the funniest out-take from the show.
+
+
+     Better grab your seats early; this'll be a biggie.  And probably the only
+West Coast showing of an episode prior to airing.  (Probably the only showing
+anywhere, at least as of this writing.)
+
+     (Those who've seen sections of both at cons...I assume that "Midnight" is
+the better episode to show, since it's got more action, and takes the time to
+reintroduce all of our characters...though I like "Soul" as a character
+episode a *lot*.  Thing is, only Delenn is there of our group of ambassadors.
+I'd love to show "Mind War," but it won't be ready, since we just finished it,
+same with "Parliament."  What does one do when there are so many good episodes
+it's hard to decide?  Anyway, "Midnight" seems the best choice to me.  Those
+who've seen the two clips...thoughts?)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 358       Thu Nov 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:33 EST
+
+     Matt: okay, if you're sure...I always worry.  I've seen the damn thing so
+many times, I lose perspective.  I keep thinking it's a tad on the slow side
+at times.  Then I look at it again and think otherwise.
+
+     Last year, when we showed the pilot -- its West Coast debut -- there was
+a near-riot over seating.  From what I'm hearing, the Saturday screening is
+likely to be *packed*.  Come early.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 366       Fri Nov 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:41 EST
+
+     I think I'll probably go with "Midnight" since there may well be some
+cast members attending, and of our various ambassadors, only Delenn appears in
+"Soul," and if we're going to have any of the others there, it would be a good
+idea to have an episode in which they all appear.
+
+     BTW, just saw the cut version of "Mind War."  It's even better than I'd
+hoped.  It *moves* like an express train.  And Walter is absolutely
+terrific...those of you who've only seen him as Chekhov will get a whole new
+perspective on him as an actor after this one.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 371       Sun Nov 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:22 EST
+
+     Confirmed for LosCon's B5 presentation: Michael O'Hare, Mira Furlan,
+Peter Jurasik, and maybe more to come.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 381       Fri Nov 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:23 EST
+
+     Just as a reminder...I zone out when I do these things, so if I don't
+immediately recognize you, or note the name, by all means say, "Hey, I'm Brett
+Jaffee," or note your handle, which should be enough to jar me out of my
+trance.  When I'm in performance mode, I get vague and just sorta smile and
+nod a lot....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 387       Sun Nov 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:19 EST
+
+     The one thing I asked, as a personal favor, was that a detailed blow-for-
+blow summary *not* be posted for the time being; we've got two months to air,
+and I don't want the show to become old in that time.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 392       Sun Nov 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:13 EST
+
+     There were no problems with the projector.  We started promptly, and on
+time.  I'm a big punctuality nut; we showed the out-take at 11:00 sharp (as a
+bonus to those who were there spot on time), and launched into the screening
+itself by about 11:10-15.
+
+     (I'm one of those terrible people who always shows up on time for a
+meeting, or early...and is, despite my best efforts, always the first person
+to arrive at a party.  People hate me.)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 26        Sun Jun 06, 1993
+G.PLANA [Gary]               at 01:51 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Episode titles and info  
+
+This topic is for information about individual episodes -- their titles,
+writers, and any other information JMS may leak!
+141 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 130       Sat Nov 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:10 EST
+
+     By the way...on the Kosh poisoning thread, which was originally to be
+discussed in "Parliament"...we ended up about 3 minutes long on  "Parliament,"
+and three minutes short on D.C. Fontana's "War Prayer."  So we lifted that
+scene and inserted it into her episode, doing a small bit of ADR to facilitate
+the move.  It's now quite seamless.
+
+     There's some small amount of blurring that goes on in this show; a
+freelancer turns in a script, and things get added.  For instance, there was a
+need to really tighten up the story in "Believers," which could best be done
+by bringing in a small B story, which would allow us to streamline and
+intensify the main story.  So I wrote the B story and slipped it in.   In
+"Grail," for instance, there's a courtroom scene with a character named Mr.
+Flinn that was added to the script (I won't reveal what happens, but it's very
+funny.)
+
+     And of course nearly all of the freelance scripts have been based on
+assigned stories, something that's developed in-house (particularly if it's an
+arc story) and then given to a writer to do the full outline and script.  So
+far the only story developed *outside* our offices first is D.C. Fontana's
+second script, "Legacies."
+
+     In none of these, however, will you see more than one writer's name on
+the script.  Just the writer who did the draft.  This is a policy I've had for
+a long time, starting on JAKE.  It's somewhat pro forma for some story editors
+or producers to do a rewrite, or add a scene, and then slap their name on the
+finished script...which cuts into the freelance writer's residuals forever
+thereafter.  My feeling is that if you're on staff, you are being compensated
+well for your work, and should leave the freelancers alone.  The residuals are
+really their only way of making any real money off these things.  So we had a
+non-arbitration policy on JAKE, also on MURDER, and now on B5.  You'll never
+see a gang credit on this show.   Having been a freelancer myself, this sems
+the only fair way to run things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 135       Thu Nov 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:13 EST
+
+     That's correct.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 138       Wed Dec 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:17 EST
+
+     There's a mistake.  Which episode(s) have her listed?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 140       Thu Dec 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:46 EST
+
+     The scene was cut for time; it may yet appear elsewhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS for December, 1993
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 category.  The posts are copyright by
+JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category and main topic for the new
+series. Here is
+the place for all general information on the series. Topic 2 is the
+location
+for SPOILERS. And please, NO STORY IDEAS are to be posted either.
+739 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 318       Tue Nov 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:19 EST
+
+     A few folks have noted in email that I've been kinda quiet
+here of late,
+and I just wanted to note that there are two reasons for this:
+
+     1) Whenever something of mine is aired, or shown, as with
+"Midnight," I
+tend to adopt a low profile in order to avoid influencing or
+directing the
+conversation.
+
+     As for 2)...a word in the ear of every person reading this who
+uses the
+keyboard incessantly: *BUY WRIST GUARDS*.  For the last year or so,
+I've been
+fighting carpal tunnel syndrome.  The problem is that I write 10-12
+hours a
+day, and when I'm going at white-heat, I've been clocked at nearly
+120 words
+per minute...one person who listened noted that during one
+particular session
+the click-click-click didn't pause, didn't slow for nearly twenty
+minutes
+straight.  I fall through the screen and come out somewhere else,
+hours later.
+
+     The downside of which being...I'm having *real* problems with
+CTS right
+now.  As we gear up for the last part of the season, I'm behind the
+keyboard
+constantly, when I'm not in editing.  During the Thanksgiving
+break, I was
+averaging 20 pages a day.  Early in that process, the CTS settled
+in bigtime.
+The pain is nearly constant, all day, all night.  To pick up a can
+of soda is
+an exercise in profound discomfort.  To *type* is beyond
+description.  I'm
+doing everything I can to minimize it, including sending for some
+new wrist
+supports and wrist braces, but apparently this stuff is cumulative.
+
+     It's not stopping the writing, not by so much as a comma, but
+it makes me
+more inclined to quick, short messages than my usual mini-novels.
+ I learned a long time ago how to burn through pain, so it's not a
+problem on
+that level.  Once the season's over, we'll evaluate where things
+stand, and
+whether this can be ameliorated by exercises or surgery or
+whatever.   But I'm
+a *writer*, and that means I'll write if they cut off my arms and
+legs and I
+have to type with my nose.  Nor is this message intended for
+sympathy.  No
+sympathies are expected or requested.  This is just one more
+challenge to B5.
+
+
+     My only thought at this moment is with those reading this: if
+you do lots
+of work behind the computer, take breaks, wear wrist braces, get a
+support for
+your keyboard, do wrist-hand exercises.  You wouldn't like this. 
+Trust me.
+
+     This show has been an act of sheer will now for nearly seven
+years.   So
+what else is new?
+
+     By Friday we finish shooting "Chrysalis," which looks
+*gorgeous*.   Then
+comes "Deathwalker," with Sarah Douglas and Robin Curtis.  It's
+another of our
+very tough episodes, written by Larry the D.  With "Chrysalis" it's
+12 down
+and 10 to go.  We're on the downward slide, and it's coming up
+fast.
+
+     Later.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 322       Tue Nov 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:03 EST
+
+     Happily, the energy level here isn't flagging at all; if
+anything,
+there's been an infusion of energy, partially through being able to
+show some
+of our crew finishd episodes, so they can see the whole elephant
+rather than
+only isolated parts (to great reaction), and partly through the
+reactions at
+the con.  We're all feeling very renewed and rededicated toward the
+show.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 330       Wed Dec 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:13 EST
+
+     I can't dictate as fast as I can type; and I don't think in
+verbal terms,
+I have to see it on the scren.  I tried it once, but found I'm just
+not a very
+good dictator (crew comments notwithstanding).
+
+     A guest actor really can't add much beyond the episode in
+which he or she
+appears.  But behind the scenes...some of our cast learned a lot
+while working
+with Revell, and McCallum, and some of our other classically
+trained guest
+actors.  They were enjoyable experiences.  As far as the experience
+they
+had...all of our guests have to date expressed a hope to return in
+other roles
+at some point.  They've uniformly been treated well, and with
+respect,
+particularly those who've made their careers in SF, and are viewed
+as "senior
+officers" in a sense.  Some have described it as the best working
+experience
+they've had.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 331       Wed Dec 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:17 EST
+
+     Have just uploaded starfury.gif to the Babylon 5 library here
+in the
+SFRT, file #730.  Just FYI.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 341       Thu Dec 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:39 EST
+
+     If the file takes 6 minutes to download at 2400, why did it
+take me 18
+minutes to upload at 2400?
+
+                                                                  
+ jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 343       Thu Dec 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:54 EST
+
+     Just uploaded two more; 749 and 750...rescue.gif and
+starlit.gif.   The
+former is a shot of a Starfury alongside the starliner Asimov; the
+latter is
+an unusual angle on B5 angled with the star behind it.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 352       Thu Dec 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:21 EST
+
+     Part of the problem is that I was using compression/error-free
+protocol.
+I turned that off, and the others went up faster.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 354       Thu Dec 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:03 EST
+
+     Darn, I hadn't noticed that.  See, starfury.gif is one of the
+very
+earliest graphic renderings we had of the fighter, mainly for
+in-house.   The
+logos had been put on mainly for place orientation.  It's not like
+that
+elsewhere...I'll upload a more current version.  I simply didn't
+notice that.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 362       Fri Dec 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:47 EST
+
+     If Job could take it, I can take it.
+
+     And yes, that's the bottom of the starfury.
+
+     The GIF of the Starfury is letterboxed/wide.  Most of the
+others that'll
+be uploaded are conventional aspect ratio.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 371       Fri Dec 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:28 EST
+
+     Here's a thought to conjure with.  It takes about an hour to
+render a CGI
+frame that's very complex; 45 minutes if it's not terribly complex.
+ With the new Screamer, we can cut down that time by about half, so
+that a
+highly complex scene can be rendered in 15-30 minutes.  Average
+length for a
+CGI scene is about 60 frames, so figure 30 hours.  You can do a
+full show's
+worth of CGI in about a week, give or take.
+
+     Today we turn over the raw footage for a special scene that'll
+be in one
+of our episodes.  (Several scenes, actually, in the same episode.) 
+ Ron's
+elves will be rendering 24 hours a day (on automatic at night) for
+the next
+THREE WEEKS to do something very special with this episode.  If
+it's done
+right, it won't really draw attention to itself, it'll just be
+very, very
+cool.
+
+                                                                
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 377       Sat Dec 04, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:44 EST
+
+     Today was "Men In Skirts Day" for many in the Babylon 5 crew.
+
+     There are some things man was not meant to know....
+
+                                                                
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 397       Sun Dec 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:10 EST
+
+     Have just uploaded 2 more gif files...772 and 773...swarm.gif
+and
+skydance.gif.  The former is a shot of a group of Starfuries
+leaving B5 with
+the planet in BG, the latter is a shot of Catherine Sakai's survey
+ship, the
+Skydancer, exiting a jump gate (NOT the one near B5, but another).
+
+                                                                
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 408       Mon Dec 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:50 EST
+
+     Don't show 'em the pilot first.  Let 'em dive right in.
+
+     Yeah, we do a LOT of ships this season.  I have gifs of them
+all, and
+some of them are mind-bogglingly nifty.  What I like about Ron's
+work is that
+many of the space shots are works of art you could practically
+frame.  And
+he's done one very important thing: he's brought COLOR into space,
+in a big
+way.  Ships are personalized, painted, textured and made into
+things you enjoy
+looking at.  The Starfury nicknamed the Sea Witch is a great
+example of
+this...as well as a bunch of others.
+
+     Not all Starfuries are the same, btw...you'll be seeing a
+different
+category of them in "Mind War," and they're gorgeous.  Also very
+scary.   Not
+as scary, but more nifty, are the ones in "Survivors" and
+"Chrysalis."
+
+     Ah LOVES spaceships....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 410       Mon Dec 06, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:37 EST
+
+     And the program should be pretty nifty, from what I'm
+heaing....
+
+     Just uploaded another gif, the last for a little bit; 774,
+named
+cockpit.gif.  It's a composite shot of the interior of a Starfury
+that's being
+fired upon, the incoming blast whiting (or in this case greening)
+out the
+cockpit.  Is this shot from "Sky?"  Could be.
+
+     It's a bit hard to look at because of the lighting, but it'll
+give you
+some idea of the interior of these things.
+
+     BTW, tomorrow we do the final mix on "Sky."  And for that
+episode,
+Christopher Franke has composed a piece entitled "Requiem For the
+Line," which
+is very moving...at the same time brave and sad, hopeful and
+ominous, martial
+and doomed...one of the best things I've heard for TV.
+
+     The other day, a reporter asked me what I wanted to accomplish
+with
+B5...and I remembered this commercial showing a viewer plastered
+against the
+wall opposite the TV...and that seemed about right.  I don't want
+viewers to
+see a show and say, afterward, "Well, that was a nice story."  
+There has to
+be more than that.
+
+     And while we certainly have our episodes that are paced just
+a little
+more slowly, less intensely, because you have to have variation,
+have to allow
+time for character stories...there are some episodes, like "Sky,"
+that just
+hit the viewer right between the eyes with a 2 by 4 *real* hard and
+say "HEY!
+PAY ATTENTION!  WE'RE NOT KIDDING HERE!"
+
+     Take no prisoners....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 425       Tue Dec 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:47 EST
+
+     Re: time per scene rendering...you have to understand that the
+Toasters
+render 24 hours a day.  Ron et al set 'em going before they leave
+for the
+night, and the next morning come in to pick up the finished scene. 
+So you can
+do a LOT of CGI in the course of a week.  Generally several minutes
+of new
+stuff per week...and yes, that includes long, panning shots.  Trust
+me,
+there's a LOT of CGI in just about every  episode of the series. 
+A couple of
+character-based stories are light, but they're more than
+compensated for in
+heavy-CGI stories like "Midnight," "Sky," and "Raiding Party," to
+name a few.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 429       Tue Dec 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:58 EST
+
+     That's the logo for Starfury squadrons in general.  On the
+opposite arm
+goes the individual squadron name, such as Death's Hands
+(Sinclair's squadron
+on the Line), Ghost Riders (Ivanova's wing), and so on.
+
+                                                                
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 430       Tue Dec 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:59 EST
+
+     Flash!  Babylon 5 short promos will be downlinked on satellite
+on the
+following dates: Thursday December 9th, 9:45-10 p.m.; Friday
+December 10th,
+12:30-12:45 p.m.; and Monday December 13th, 3:30-3:45 p.m.  (All
+times given
+are Eastern times.)
+
+     Feeds are on Galaxy 4, Channel 21, audio: 5.8 stereo left, 6.2
+stereo
+right, 6.8 mono mix.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 431       Tue Dec 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:02 EST
+
+     BTW, there's an error in the "Infection" listing; Patricia
+Healy is the
+name of the actress, Mary Ann Cramer is the name of the character;
+Kiron is in
+"War Prayer," as is Chan.   Is this how they came to you, Arne? 
+Because if
+so, they're going out riddled with errors.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 444       Wed Dec 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:32 EST
+
+     It's briefly green when the incoming blast shoots past, and
+sort of
+"whites" out (or in this case greens out) the cockpit for just a
+second.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 448       Wed Dec 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 13:50 EST
+
+     Er, Arne, just checked the revised "Infection" description in
+19...
+neither Kiron nor Roberts appear in that episode.  They're in "The
+War
+Prayer."
+
+     I got the erroneous file listings today, and have advised PTEN
+of the
+mistakes, and they're being corrected.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 452       Wed Dec 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:46 EST
+
+     Here's the interesting thing...ever since July, when we began
+shooting,
+we've been sitting here, doing our show quietly...and now, as
+January nears,
+slowly we've been growing aware of a sound...the PTEN and Warners
+]MACHINE[
+gearing up.  Press, promotion, photographers on the set, calls with
+International and books divisions, and now the sound is quite
+pervasive, like
+a jet engine gearing up for flight.  Suddenly it comes clear, "Oh,
+yeah, we're
+not just making our little show here for ourselves, this is bigger
+than just
+us."  The energy level is definitely powering up around here.
+
+     Had a reporter in here the other day, and he asked if it
+bothered me that
+other shows were getting all the ink...meaning, I suppose, TNG and
+DS9 and
+SQ:DSV...and my response really said it all, I think.  It's like
+the Rocky
+movie.  Let the other guys get all the press, do the big flashy
+stuff, wave
+around big budgets...we'll just stand here in a meat locker,
+pounding slabs of
+meat with our bare hands....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 463       Thu Dec 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:15 EST
+
+     The one thing that I'd like to point out is that Warner/PTEN
+isn't in the
+programming business.  This isn't a normal part of their PR
+strategy.  The
+only reason they have done this at all -- the B5 computer promo --
+is in
+recognition of the online support here and elsewhere.  They have
+had to
+contract out for this, and because this isn't a proven (yet)
+strategy, could
+only carve out so much for it.  No, not every platform is covered;
+doubtless
+that will change with time.  But it's generally never done at ALL. 
+So I would
+just temper the discussion with that reality.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 468       Thu Dec 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:20 EST
+
+     I have just seen the director's cut of "Chrysalis," which will
+be the
+last episode of this season...and I think it has just displaced
+"Sky" as the
+most heavy-weight episode of the season.  Even knowing what was
+coming, I just
+sat here, stunned, at the end of it.  Seeing dailies, bits and
+pieces, doesn't
+really prepare you for the whole thing.
+
+     What I like most about it are two things: one, by about
+halfway in, you
+really begin to understand that anything can happen, to anyone, and
+the rules
+that normally carry you through a television episode no longer
+apply.  It's a
+very dangerous, dislocating feeling.  Two: you get the very real
+feeling that,
+after this episode, nothing is the same anymore.  The show has
+taken a very
+profound and *irrevocable* turn that will have lasting effects on
+all of our
+characters.  Of all the episodes so far, this one has the most
+feeling of
+being the chapter end in a novel.
+
+     The really hard part will not avoiding the temptation to show
+this to
+people...because it really can't be allowed to get out prior to
+airing.  There
+are too many twists and turns and revelations that spin one off
+into another.
+
+     One other thing's certain: after you've seen "Chrysalis,"
+you're going to
+want to go back and check out three prior episodes...because
+something that
+you will have read/interpreted one way, without question or
+hesitation
+accepting it as what it obviously appears to be, will suddenly be
+turned on
+its head, and a brand new interpretation will emerge.  And it's
+*real*
+creepy....
+
+                                                                
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 474       Fri Dec 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:56 EST
+
+     I doubt there would be much problem at all in translating it
+to the other
+platform.
+
+     Arne: slight correction to your correction.  No scene with
+Chan or
+Eastman was "removed," it's simply an incorrect listing.  Chan and
+Eastman are
+both in "The War Prayer," they were never in "Infection" in any
+way, manner,
+shape or form.  It was simply a typo on the part of the person who
+wrote up
+the lists, putting names from one show into the wrong sheet.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 483       Fri Dec 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:41 EST
+
+     When we did the research on how a fighter could best operate
+in zero
+gravity, it seemed to require a four-wing axis with thrusters on
+every side.
+We've thus taken every possible step to make them NOT look like
+x-wings,
+particularly since there's no long, sleek forward section at *all*,
+it's a
+snub-nose, and the wings don't move, plus they have the unusual
+thruster
+combination.
+
+     "Trax" is/or was still running new eps as of a few weeks ago. 
+The
+schedule was deliberate, to make what they had stretch.  That may
+change this
+season; we'll have to see.  Haven't heard yet re: the final
+schedule.  For our
+part, we have 6 finished (completely done, music, sound, all that)
+episodes in
+hand now, and will have one more by the christmas break.  By the
+time we go on
+the air, we'll have a total of 12-14 in hand, so we're in great
+shape in terms
+of scheduling stuff.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 489       Sat Dec 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:46 EST
+
+     Although in the new laserdisk set of SW movies, the matting is
+FAR less
+noticeable.
+
+     Re: the crew...today was Pajama Day.  Don't ask.
+
+     Some thoughts on the crew, btw...which besides being
+sensational on its
+own terms, is a very caring bunch of guys.  Some of them have been
+making
+expeditions to the post office lately, gathering Santa letters and
+circulating
+them to grant wishes for toys.  There's a wall of letters that have
+been
+answered so far with presents.  Just one example; there are more. 
+They're
+good people.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+     (Cindy: I'm writing more individual messages, just shorter.)
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 501       Sun Dec 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:02 EST
+
+     Oh, I know...I saw the (g) the first time...I just kneejerk
+respond
+sometimes, take things seriously just in case the g didn't mean
+what it seemed
+to mean (and nothing is what it appears yes?).
+
+     Re: the Oliver Stone thing...that's a comment made during the
+edit on
+"Chrysalis" as well.  I'm dying to see how people will react to
+what's done
+and revealed and advanced in that episode, but we have to sit on
+it; though
+we'll be mixing and finishing it in the next few weeks, we won't be
+turning it
+over to PTEN until shortly before airdate, because we don't want
+this getting
+all over town.  There's not a single major character who's not
+profoundly
+affected...or strongly set up for profound changes in the very near
+future.
+
+     I love it...it's my favorite of the season, without question.
+
+                                                                  
+  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 516       Mon Dec 13, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:37 EST
+
+     PTEN licensing is handled by the Licensing Corporation of
+America, which
+can be reached via Warner Bros.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 528       Wed Dec 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:17 EST
+
+     For those who might be interested, I thought I'd pass along a
+quick view
+of the process of producing a show like B5, step by step (though
+briefly).
+
+     Day Minus 21: The script is finalized and distributed to all
+cast and
+crew.
+
+     Day Minus 14: The episode goes into serious pre-production,
+with meetings
+on visual effects, wardrobe, CGI and so on.  Props are designed and
+construction begun on both props and wardrobe and any sets that are
+specific
+to that episode.
+
+     Day Minus 10: Tone meeting with director and producers to make
+sure all
+parties see the story the same way.  Casting, begun on day 14, is
+finalized
+about this time.
+
+     Day Minus 6: Major production meeting with all departments, at
+which each
+scene is gone through in detail, examining and reinforcing what
+props,
+costumes, extras and lighting requirements are needed per scene.
+
+     Day One: Filming Starts.
+
+     Day Seven: Filming finishes.  Editing has been going on since
+day 2, as
+dailies arrive at the studio, with editors making rough assemblies
+of the
+scenes as they come in.
+
+     Day Eight/Nine: the director works with the editor to make the
+first,
+Director's Cut of the episode, relying to some degree on the
+preliminary
+Editor's Cut.
+
+     Day 10/11: Producers begin making their cut.  (Mainly me and
+John
+Copeland.)  Sit with editor and view each scene, picking out
+various takes and
+angles, integrating CGI.  Sometimes the cut varies a lot from the
+Director's
+Cut and is a whole new version...or it is very close to the
+Director's Cut.
+Producer's Cut finished around day 12/13.
+
+     Day 15: Producer's Cut is sent to primary editing bay for
+on-line
+editing, at which the frames of actual film are slugged and readied
+for the
+real thing (as opposed to editing computer images on the Avid).
+
+     Day 20: Episode is color-timed to make sure color values are
+correct.
+
+     Day 25: Spotting session...producers, sound designer,
+composer, dialogue
+editors meet and review the on-line edit or CTM (color timed
+master) to
+determine where sound and music should be placed, the kind of sound
+or music
+required, and number of frames/seconds duration.  Second spotting
+session with
+visual EFX supervisor to determine rotoscoping or other non-CGI EFX
+placement.
+
+     Day 39: Final mix-down of all elements: music, sound, looping,
+visual
+effects and other elements.  For this we sit in the mixing bay from
+9 a.m. to
+7 p.m. nonstop, bringing in lunch, to determine balance of sound to
+music,
+music to dialogue, which elements to use or lose, and so on.
+
+     Day 46: Finished episode delivered to PTEN and in-house.
+
+     Total time required: 57 days.  And during this period, we are
+simultaneously editing at least 4-5 other shows, and have shot
+roughly
+another 6 episodes, which are also in various stages of editing.
+
+     I've glossed over a few things, but that should give you some
+idea of the
+process and the highlights thereof.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 530       Wed Dec 15, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:49 EST
+
+     Not a lot, but sometimes...you can easily lose track of where
+the hell
+you are at any given moment.
+
+                                                                
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 537       Thu Dec 16, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:26 EST
+
+     We're still working out book details.  One possibility is also
+to take
+the most heavily arc-related episodes, stitch them together into a
+novelized
+form, and publish them so that there in one book is the major part
+of that
+year's arc.  Other approaches are still being investigated.
+
+     And yes, in TV, it's the exec producer who generally gets the
+final cut,
+whereas in film it's often the director (or, in some cases, the
+studio).
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 554       Fri Dec 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:51 EST
+
+     We took care of 'em.
+
+     Quick updates: expect some coverage of B5 in Entertainment
+Weekly, TV
+Guide and CNN.  There will be full-page color ads for B5 in People,
+Sports
+Illustrated, TV Guide, and other major magazines.  The Clippers
+game on
+Channel 13 L.A. the night before our debut will be "Brought to you
+by Babylon
+5," and after the game, around 9:30, there will be the half-hour
+"Making Of
+Babylon 5" documentary.  Also expect to start seeing ads on the
+back covers of
+DC comics books in the next week or so.  There will be a slow but
+steady
+increase in print, TV and radio ads over the next few weeks.  It's
+estimated,
+with the huge PR campaign that's been developed, that 90% of the
+country will
+have seen at least one B5 ad, and 50% of the country will have seen
+roughly 10
+ads.  Those of you who have been eagerly looking for this
+stuff...will
+probably, like me, be so sick of seeing them after a while...but
+it's part of
+the process of bringing the show to the non-modemed.
+
+     After the Christmas break, we'll be two-thirds finished with
+our
+production on the first season.  It's just *zipped*
+past...amazing....
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 560       Sat Dec 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:43 EST
+
+     "Backlash" has been retitled "By Any Means Necessary."
+
+     Re: Kinko's...I wouldn't give them permission in any event. 
+I've had
+nothing but trouble with them.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 562       Sat Dec 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:02 EST
+
+     For starters, the Orion constellation would not look like the
+Orion
+constellation from another POV, say, 30 light years from here. 
+Another
+cluster of stars might *look* the same, or similar, but anyone
+expecting to
+see the constellations as we recognize them from here is going to
+be
+disappointed.
+
+     As far as I know, from what Ron's said re: constellations,
+while it may
+look like Orion, it isn't.  It's perception, the mind looking for
+patterns it
+recognizes.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 572       Sun Dec 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:13 EST
+
+     Mike: you needn't worry.  I find all-powerful beings of any
+stripe
+incredibly boring.  I find it more interesting when ordinary people
+are
+summoned to do extraordinary things, and must rise above their
+limitations
+without losing their limitations; succeeding in spite of them. 
+Sinclair is a
+man, period.  He may have a great calling ahead of him, as did
+Churchill or
+Lincoln or Alexander or (for all we know) Rondo Hatton, but they're
+all just
+men in the final analysis.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 579       Sun Dec 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:09 EST
+
+     "World" was retitled "Sunken."  Yes on laserdisks, one hopes. 
+No relief.
+And so it goes.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 583       Mon Dec 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:24 EST
+
+     Catherine Sakai is all business.  Not much for display.
+
+     It's "J. Michael Straczynski" on title credits mainly because
+that's the
+way it looks best, frankly.  Lets you sneak up on the whole name in
+progressively larger bites.  Joe Michael Straczynski looks kinda
+dumb to me,
+also too long; Joe Straczynski is too short, and unbalanced in
+terms of layout
+(he said quickly).  My friends call me Joe.  My crew calls me Joe. 
+One person
+on the crew kept calling me Mr. Straczynski, which you should try
+saying out
+loud sometime.  Even *I* can't do it.  It was so painful to listen
+to that
+after a while I kept calling back "Joe" at him until he got the
+message.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 584       Mon Dec 20, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:01 EST
+
+     Starting Thursday, we're on Christmas break (well, for
+everybody else
+maybe; I've got to finish "The Ressurectionist" and then start on
+my next
+script, taking advantage of the quiet time to plow through some
+work).  We're
+roughly two-thirds finished with production on the first season.
+
+     One thing I can mention now, since it's nearly finished: see,
+I have this
+real problem with nepotism.  Specifically...I hate it.  As a
+result, I make
+people I know work twice as hard.  The closer the tie, the more the
+person has
+to work to prove him or herself.
+
+     Kathryn Drennan, my Spousal Overunit, is also a writer, and
+has written
+for many other shows, primarily in animation, but with some forays
+into other
+areas.  (She was co-author on the Night  Gallery series of articles
+I wrote
+for Twilight Zone Magazine, as one fr'instance, and was a producer
+with public
+televison for some time.)
+
+     Anyway, she desperately wanted to write a B5 script.  But
+because of my
+feelings about nepotism, I refused to give her an assignment.  (I
+can be a
+REAL pain in the ass.)  Something similar happened when I was
+working on The
+Real Ghostbusters; she loved the show, and wanted to write for it. 
+I put her
+through the wringer: she had to submit written premises, just like
+any other
+freelance writer, which were then sent on to the producers for
+final approval.
+They did not know of any relation between her and me; they based
+their
+approval only on the merits of the story.  Period.  And she ended
+up writing
+two episodes: "Egon's Dragon" and "The Man Who Never Reached Home." 
+(The
+former is considered a favorite by many viewers of the show.)  Only
+long after
+we finished production did the exec producers on TRGBs learn that
+there was a
+relationship there; it was all based on the quality of the work.
+
+     But in the case of B5, I *am* the exec producer, so it became
+more
+difficult.  At first I said simply no.  Finally, I set into place
+a number of
+conditions/provisions.  NOT because she wouldn't do a great script,
+but only
+because I don't like the look of nepotism; I hate it, and I hate
+the way this
+town operates on the principles of nepotism.  The conditions were
+that she had
+to write the script completely on spec, no assignment; not a spec
+outline,
+which is shorter, but a spec *script*.   It would then have to pass
+muster in-
+house; if even one person thought it wasn't up to snuff, it got
+deep sixed.
+And revisions would not be handled by me, for the most part; she
+would have to
+work with Larry, who has a reputation (as Katherine Lawrence can
+attest) to
+not pulling his punches.   No favoritism.  Then the script would
+have to pass
+muster with Warners.   IF, after all that, the script was approved,
+then it
+would be bought, and not a moment before.  If anywhere along the
+line it
+didn't meet one of those criteria...then it would be a 50 page
+learning
+experience and nothing more.
+
+     Well, I'm pleased to say that it *did* pass muster with
+everyone, and "By
+Any Means Necessary" is now over halfway through production, with
+a number of
+people -- including Michael O'Hare -- saying it's their favorite so
+far,
+mainly for very odd reasons.  The premise is one that ST would
+never, EVER do,
+which is one thing I like about it; it also shows us more on the
+inner
+workings of B5, the blue-collar types who keep the whole place
+operational...and what happens when that falls apart.  The B story
+gets into a
+confrontation between G'Kar and Londo when Londo interferes in an
+important
+Narn religious observation.
+
+     We brought back John Snyder (Soul Hunter #2) minus prosthetics
+for one
+guest role, and Katy Boyer as our other guest star.  They're both
+doing
+terrific jobs, and it's a very intense script in which we basically
+put
+Sinclair through the wringer for 48 hours and try and make him 
+absolutely
+nuts.  And succeed, for the most part.
+
+     Anyway...there you have it.
+
+     (Incidentally..."Mind War" has come out so well that it looks
+like we're
+going to move it up in the schedule a bit.  It was orignally slated
+to run
+about episode 10 or so, but the studio is so hot on it that it'll
+probably run
+#6, right after "Parliament."  And Walter has agreed to be the
+voice-over and
+on-camera narrator for the Behind the Scenes/Making of Babylon 5
+documentary.)
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 605       Tue Dec 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:35 EST
+
+     Will try the black magnetite tapes.  (Is that like red
+kryptonite?)   I
+almost exclusively use TDK hi-fi or SVHS otherwise.
+
+     Work on the documentary should be finished sometime early next
+week, and
+transmitted to the stations sometime thereafter, by about a week or
+so.
+Walter seems fine.
+
+     Me...I'm glad it's the production break.  I need to sleep in
+a bit, and
+catch up with some work, and find the floor of my home office
+again, which is
+currently covered by scripts, comics, and reams of paper.  I've
+worked on
+shows before, but never in this major a capacity, running the
+damned thing,
+especially the way this has to be run...meaning you can't let any
+details slip
+past, no matter how small...and frankly, as Arnold said in T2, "I
+need a
+vacation."  When we hit the Thanksgiving break, I crashed one night
+and didn't
+even see the next day, slept right through until that night. 
+There's nothing
+that can really prepare you for a job like this.
+
+     Re: moving "Mind War" up...no, doesn't affect continuity at
+all.  If it
+did, it wouldn't have gotten moved.  It's what's called in the biz
+a "moveable
+piece," able to go *almost* anywhere in the schedule, as long as
+it's after
+episode 3 and before episode 15, since stuff in the first few set
+it up, and
+15 pays off part of it.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 613       Wed Dec 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:20 EST
+
+     Apparently the Paramount shows now being made are at an equal
+running
+time with B5, I'm told.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 653       Fri Dec 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:08 EST
+
+     (I have no idea what anyone is talking about anymore....)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 658       Fri Dec 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:45 EST
+
+     "Babylon Squared" hasn't been filmed yet; it'll probably be in
+the last
+batch of five episodes filmed, and will likely air around #19 or so
+in the
+lineup.  The script is in my head, but hasn't been written down
+yet.  It'll
+probably be turned in in the next couple/three weeks.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 668       Sun Dec 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:18 EST
+
+     No other episodes of B5 have been aired other than the pilot
+movie.   No
+episodes were *finished* until roughly two months ago, or less.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 669       Sun Dec 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:18 EST
+
+     For no discernible reason, except perhaps that I am a glutton
+for
+punishment, I have uploaded a file I don't think was previously in
+the B5
+library: jms.gif.  I stumbled across this on another system. 
+Insofar as I can
+tell, it's a scan of the B&W photo that appears on the back cover
+of my second
+novel, "Othersyde."
+
+                                                                
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 672       Sun Dec 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:43 EST
+
+     As I write this, we are now exactly one month, 30 days, from
+the launch
+of the series.  In one month, you will know if I've been blowing
+smoke up your
+CRTs, or if we've been telling the truth.  Starting in one month,
+as the
+ratings come in, we'll know if our experiment is a success, or if
+we've missed
+the target.
+
+     There are moments when I'm utterly convinced that we've got a
+hit on our
+hands...and moments when I'm just as convinced that nobody is going
+to hear
+about us, or notice...and that the future of B5 will be consumed by
+a vast,
+cosmic yawn.  Alternating moments of exhiliration and terror,
+confidence and
+doubt.
+
+     I know that the series contains some of the best writing I've
+ever done;
+if in my entire life, I never do anything other than "Chrysalis,"
+I will still
+be content, because that's the single best thing I've ever done,
+and it came
+out even better than I'd hoped, on every level.  Maybe my best is
+good enough.
+Maybe it ain't.  Fundamentally, despite all the planning, and
+production, and
+advertising, and good will...it's still a crap shoot.  You never
+know what'll
+click.  "Picket Fences" is arguably the best-written show on TV,
+but it's in a
+constant battle to survive.
+
+     It's been a very, very long haul...from the 1986/87 writing of
+the script
+and bible, to the time of TWCBN, and from the pilot to the series.
+ To some extent, it's become the focus for a lot of people's hopes
+and
+expectations of what *they* think the perfect SF series would be. 
+And some of
+those people are bound to be disappointed, simply because no show
+can equal
+every single person's expectations and personal preferences.   All
+we can do
+is tell a story, as best we can, and hope that others like that
+story as much
+as we do.  It won't be the Babylon 5 that's in your head; it'll be
+the Babylon
+5 that's in my head...and we'll have to see if that is sufficient
+to hold the
+interest of viewers.  Sometimes I think it's too eccentric. 
+Sometimes I think
+we haven't dared enough.  Sometimes I think there's too much humor. 
+Sometimes
+I think there isn't enough humor.  And on and on and on....
+
+     In one month, the reality of what Babylon 5 is will begin to
+be seen
+across the country.  And then we shall see what we shall see.  I
+showed Harlan
+two episodes recently, "Sky" and "Parliament."  He has always been
+our hardest
+critic to please.  And he said that there wasn't a single false
+note in it
+anywhere.  I've gotten similar reactions to episodes from D.C.
+Fontana and
+David Gerrold and Terry Dowling and others known in the SF
+community.  Which
+gives me some measure of hope.
+
+     Every once in a while, I allow myself the luxury of thinking
+we've really
+*got* something here.  But in one month, I won't need to wonder,
+and *you*
+won't need to wonder anymore.  It'll be right out there for all to
+see.
+
+     Yikes....
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 675       Sun Dec 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:58 EST
+
+     Generally speaking, in television, you're lucky to get on
+screen about
+half of what you had in mind when you saw it in your head.  So far,
+the
+average here is about 80%.  In a very few cases, I don't think the
+finished
+episode delivers as well as it might on the script, but for the
+clear majority
+of them, the episodes come through.  And in some cases, like "Sky"
+and
+"Parliament" and especially "Chrysalis," I got *over* 100% of what
+I had in
+mind...it came out even better than what I'd had in my head when I
+wrote it.
+It's a confluence of many factors...the guest star and how much
+he/she *gets*
+it, the EFX, the direction, and other things.   But across the
+board, I'd have
+to say that I'm very satisfied.
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 682       Mon Dec 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:20 EST
+
+     I'm not sure, from my perspective, that there's any one
+definition of
+success that I'd use.  There are several: 1) How much is the
+project in its
+final form what I conceived it to be?  This is something that
+Harlan keeps
+hammering home at me, pointing to what happened to him on  the
+Starlost by way
+of comparison...it was dreadful, and he had to take his name off
+it.  It's the
+show I wanted to make, made the way I wanted to make it, so on that
+level, I'm
+content.
+
+     2) The ratings.  Is what we conceived of interest to other
+people, or
+have we missed the mark?  Television, like any other medium, is
+aimed at an
+audience.  If the audience isn't there, then it comes down to "does
+the tree
+make a noise when it falls in an empty forest?"  Whether it's good
+or bad
+becomes nominally irrlevant.  And 3) Whether or not anyone talks
+about the
+show, or remembers the show, years down the road.  Something can
+get a lot of
+attention, critical acclaim, ratings, be what the creators
+envisoned...and be
+gone in a year, the flavor of the month.
+
+     If I had to pick one, it'd be #3.  As an atheist, my sense is
+that one
+achieves immortality by the effect one has on others.  If the show
+lives on
+beyond me, then I am satisfied.  Twain observed: "If you want your
+work to
+live forever...and by forever I mean fifty years...it must neither
+overtly
+preach nor overtly teach...but it must *covertly* preach and
+*covertly*
+teach."
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 694       Wed Dec 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:06 EST
+
+     Lemme finish the first season, then I'll know better where I
+stand on
+some of this stuff....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 708       Fri Dec 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:42 EST
+
+     Which episode it would be depends on when it's done.  Ah,
+me....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 729       Sun Jan 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:40 EST
+
+     I am an atheist, a total atheist, and am more than happy. 
+What I write
+is what I write, what I am is what I is.
+
+     Yes, much of my own background goes into what I write.  In the
+case of
+religion, and spirituality...a writer's job is to be as honest as
+he can in
+telling a story.  My canvas (for lack of a less grandiose term) is
+the human
+condition.  And since the dawn of sentience, humanity has been
+trying to
+figure out its place in the universe.  The religious impulse is as
+much a part
+of that process as anything else, and it must be treated with
+integrity and
+respect, as I would have my own views respected.  I try not to
+exclude
+something just because I don't agree with it, because that corrupts
+the whole
+purpose of writing, which requires an honest look at the subject.
+
+     And as a writer, there are parts of the religious impulse that
+I want to
+examine, and explore, and raise questions about, just as much as
+I'd like to
+explore the scientific aspects of living in space, and the more
+personal,
+emotional repercussions of this.  It's all a part of trying to
+figure out who,
+and what, and *why* we are.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
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+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+May 28th, '93, Babylon 5 officially became a series. There will be
+22 hours,
+plus the 2 hours of the pilot, for season one. Airs Wednesday's at
+8PM in most
+places starting Jan. '94. This is the Spoiler topic where anything
+goes.
+
+532 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 428       Fri Dec 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:58 EST
+
+     It's a planetary security base.  And your correspondent
+assumes no
+responsibility for ad copy....
+
+                                                                
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 444       Sun Dec 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:14 EST
+
+     I actually don't think much has changed; we've moved some of
+the chairs
+around, but the general thrust hasn't much changed, as I recall.  
+But in any
+event, posts are always free to be reposted.
+
+                                                                  
+ jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 447       Sun Dec 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:50 EST
+
+     Yup.  As I thought.  It all still applies.  Nothing in that
+has changed.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 451       Sun Dec 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:10 EST
+
+     Much of the Lyta arc will now go to Talia, but there's now a
+different
+way of getting her into that arc.
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 456       Tue Dec 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:51 EST
+
+     Since Mike mentioned it...yes.  "Babylon Squared" answers the
+B4
+question...though posing new questions about *why*.  Basically,
+every question
+we ask going into the first season we will answer, because I don't
+think it's
+right or fair or smart to keep people hanging around 3 years to get
+a simple
+answer to a simple question.  Season 1 of B5 is what I generally
+call the
+"what" season...you find out WHAT the Psi Corps is, WHAT happened
+at the
+Battle of the Line, WHAT happened to Babylon 4, and so on...whereas
+Season 2
+is the "why" season...WHY did that happen to Sinclair?  And so on. 
+New
+questions arise, and we proide new answers, generally within the
+course of the
+following season, but while at all times making sure that each
+episode stands
+alone, regardless of where and which season you enter the series as
+a viewer.
+
+     (It's kinda like being one of those guys on the old Ed
+Sullivan show,
+spinning plates on top of long, thin rods...there's a LOT to keep
+in motion at
+all times.)
+
+     I'd classify the pilot movie as "who."
+
+                                                                
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 466       Thu Dec 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:35 EST
+
+     Season one will generally answer 90% of the questions raised
+in season
+one; season two will answer the remaining 10%, and answer 90% of
+the questions
+raised in season two...and so on.  There will not be a sense of
+unfulfilled
+waiting.  Also, by January I will personally fly under my own power
+from New
+York to Paris.
+
+     I reallly, *really* need a vacation....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 471       Fri Dec 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:05 EST
+
+     Well, this sucks...I finally get my break in schedule...and
+here I am
+with the flu or at least a whopper of a cold.  Started in literally
+within
+hours of leaving the studio.  I get a respite and I can't even
+enjoy it.
+
+     Why does the universe hate me?
+
+                                                                
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 482       Fri Dec 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:40 EST
+
+     "Chrysalis" is a JMS script, yes.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 487       Sat Dec 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:15 EST
+
+                        ....courtesy of NyQuil.
+
+     The colors, man, check out the
+*colllllllllllllooooorrrrrsssss*****...
+
+     ("May induce drowsiness" my ass...you're lucky if you make it
+across the
+room with this stuff....)
+
+                                                             jm
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 497       Sun Dec 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:49 EST
+
+     And makes one wonder if her house would be considered an
+auditorium.
+
+                                                                  
+  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 502       Mon Dec 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:08 EST
+
+     I hate to burst any bubbles, but I can go just about anywhere
+in the U.S.
+and find that nobody knows the name Straczynski, and the only time
+I've caused
+a mob scene at a K-mart was in a tussle over the last Captain Power
+figures...or was that when I wandered into the lingerie section
+and...well,
+never mind.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 510       Tue Dec 28, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:47 EST
+
+     Fenn....send me the name of the contact person re: the
+t-shirt.  I gonna
+have to make me a little phone call....
+
+                                                                  
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 514       Wed Dec 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:17 EST
+
+     The creation shirts have a black 5, not a silver 5.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 517       Thu Dec 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:27 EST
+
+     Don't know really how much more there is to say; it's getting
+to that
+time when all the worthwhile talking will be done by the series
+itself.
+
+     There will definitely be a two-parter this season; PTEN is so
+much in
+love with what they're seeing that they've allocated a bit more on
+budget to
+let us really go to town on a 2-part episode.  I'll be either
+writing both
+parts, or sharing the task with Larry DiTillio, depending on when
+he gets free
+with his next script.
+
+     There are now about five scripts remaining to be written,
+including
+"Babylon Squared," which will probably be finished sometime next
+week.  We
+begin shooting D.C. Fontana's second script for us, "Legacies,"
+starting next
+Monday, then two JMS scripts, the first of which is "Raiding
+Party," which
+will probably tie up Ron's computers for *ages*.  I finished
+another script
+the other day, which I think came out fairly well.
+
+     So far, this season you'll learn a lot about all the cultures
+of our
+ambassadors, especially the Big Four; you'll see the League of
+Non-Aligned
+Worlds in action; you'll learn a LOT about the Psi  Corps, Earth
+government
+and economics, the inner workings of Babylon 5, the history of the
+Babylon
+project, Sinclair's background (also a lot about Ivanova's and
+Garibaldi's
+past)...you'll see a darker side of Londo, a lighter side of G'Kar,
+a more
+ambiguous side of Delenn, some very weird sides of Kosh...and
+you'll come away
+with a real sense of B5 as a *place*, a habitat, where things are,
+what they
+do, how it works.  There will be an awful lot of action, and an
+even greater
+amount of humor...there are parts of the show that, even having
+seen them 16
+times, are still fall-down funny.
+
+     Other than that...not much to say.
+
+                                                                  
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 519       Thu Dec 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:23 EST
+
+     English transplanted to America.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 527       Sat Jan 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:44 EST
+
+     Kathryn's last name is Drennan.  Her full credit is Kathryn M.
+Drennan.
+Not Straczynski.  Probably displaying considerable wisdom on her
+part.  Ten
+thousand letters, no vowels.
+
+     Absent a collaboration on a series of articles for TZ Magazine
+a few
+years ago (a guide to the Night Gallery series), we don't
+collaborate.   Ever.
+I also don't collaborate with Larry D., or any other of my writer
+friends.  As
+I learned before, particularly on the one occasion when Larry and
+I tried it --
+we co-wrote a pilot and bible for CBS based on the "Elfquest" books
+-- all
+parties concerned will live a LOT longer by keeping a respectable
+distance.
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 531       Sun Jan 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:41 EST
+
+     No.
+
+     Had a couple days clear of the bug, and today hit a relapse. 
+Sigh.
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 532       Sun Jan 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:14 EST
+
+     By the way, if anyone's curious, here's how I'd rank the first
+six
+episodes in terms of my own personal preference, from 1-6: "The
+Parliament of
+Dreams," "Mind War," "Soul Hunter," "Born to the Purple," "Midnight
+on the
+Firing Line," and "Infection."  We'll see how close this coincides
+with your
+own reactions.
+
+                                                            jms
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+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Computer SFX Tech-Talk 
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be
+revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and
+this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+236 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 206       Wed Dec 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:14 EST
+
+     And airplanes will never be commercially successful.
+
+     BTW, I've gotten permission to upload a few images after all,
+and may do
+so in the next week or so....
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 234       Sun Jan 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:41 EST
+
+     We did it already.  Plus using composites for other shots.
+
+                                                                 
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+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Cast & Characters      
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life
+with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the
+airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+484 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 408       Tue Nov 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:21 EST
+
+     If it's the pilot review, which I've seen...yeah, the only
+thing the guy
+likes is ST, it seems.  We had a long go-round.  Old news.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 410       Tue Nov 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:01 EST
+
+     We've just delivered tapes to PTEN publicity, so critics
+should be
+getting it soon enough.  My *hunch* is that they'll probably get
+copies of
+"Midnight" and "Soul Hunter."
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 413       Wed Dec 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:02 EST
+
+     If the CGI were cheesy, please explain to me the Emmy
+currently sitting
+on Ron Thornton's desk....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 420       Thu Dec 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:44 EST
+
+     Fast question: I saw a flier at LosCon for some room party,
+over a couple
+of days, that had @! inside an Earth Alliance badge silhouette, and
+talked
+about docking bays, open for business, that sort of thing.  Do any
+of you who
+attended know *anything* about what this was?
+
+                                                                
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 429       Tue Dec 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:52 EST
+
+     I had to sit and think about this for a while...oddly enough,
+I think we
+haven't had to do either yet.  I think we've generally used the
+person's title
+("Yes, Commander") consistently throughout.  Now I'll have to think
+about this
+some more and decide....
+
+                                                                
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 434       Wed Dec 22, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:01 EST
+
+     Not only do I envision it, but we've already shot it....
+
+                                                                
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 445       Fri Dec 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:06 EST
+
+     She's a medical doctor, running one of the many medlabs on B5. 
+(Dr.
+Franklin, as chief of staff, runs the primary medlab, supervising
+other
+doctors on-station.)
+
+                                                                  
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 451       Fri Dec 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:41 EST
+
+     As Walter says in "Mind War," about rogue telepaths, "Only Psi
+Cops are
+qualified to bring them down, so we're afforded
+greater...latitude."
+ (That's a paraphrase from memory.)
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 466       Mon Dec 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:07 EST
+
+     A "coyboy?"
+
+     Methinks you've confused this with "Midnight Cowboy."
+
+                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 470       Mon Dec 27, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:12 EST
+
+     Mike: we're not going to see a lot of Sinclair in the past,
+only what is
+necessary to understand the present...and there are going to be
+transformations, but I prefer to see my transformations take place
+in the
+present, pointing toward the future, than in flashback.
+
+     The difference, I suppose, is that in many shows, characters
+arrive at
+Point X in a series at the very beginning, and stay there for the
+duration,
+and we are sometimes shown what made them that way.  In B5, what
+I'm trying
+for is to take a certain set of characters, and move them all
+toward
+substantive changes in their lives, their characters, their beliefs
+and their
+allegiances.  Just about everyone on B5 is running to, or away from
+something.
+I don't want that simply as backdrop, I want that something to
+*catch up with
+them*.  That, to me, is where the fun starts.
+
+                                                                  
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+Topic 6         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 06:43 EST
+Sub: Where is Babylon 5? TV stations... 
+
+Babylon 5 is a cornerstone of Warner's new Prime Time Entertainment
+Network.
+Here is where one can find and post station information.
+
+406 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 359       Wed Dec 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:16 EST
+
+     We're the lead-in for TNG?
+
+     So, like, if we do well, we end up helping TNG...and if we
+don't, we drag
+TNG down with us....
+
+     It's a funny old world.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 402       Thu Dec 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:42 EST
+
+     The current "Making Of" won't be finished for about a week
+yet, so maybe
+they saw some quick snippets uplinked to the stations; the
+half-hour version
+is now being finished.  (Walter did the on-camera and VO stuff
+today, in
+fact.)
+
+                                                                  
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+ ************
+Topic 8         Mon Jun 14, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 19:16 EDT
+Sub: First Amalgamated Church of Joe    
+
+A place where we can gather to worship Joe, the creator, praise his
+creations,
+and buy t-shirts from me! :)
+69 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 60        Thu Dec 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:39 EST
+
+     No, no, dignity and restraint, please...I think simple
+levitation on the
+part of the acolytes should be more than sufficient....
+
+                                                                  
+ jms
+ ------------
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+ ************
+Topic 9         Wed Nov 11, 1992
+T.RESTIVO [Little Guy]       at 18:27 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Humor                    
+
+From *Beep Beep*, to Top Ten Lists, to full-blown parodies, this is
+where to
+put your funny bone in writing!
+510 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 454       Sun Dec 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:23 EST
+
+     You misspelled "pre-requisite."
+
+                                                               mjs
+ ------------
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+ ************
+Topic 10        Thu Nov 12, 1992
+SANDMAN [Henry]              at 19:25 EST
+Sub: Sex in Babylon 5                   
+
+Can't do without this one!!
+
+
+238 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 210       Sat Dec 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:41 EST
+
+     I can imagine it because we did it....that was one of the
+sections filmed
+for the pilot that ended up on the cutting room floor....
+
+                                                                
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 214       Sun Dec 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:26 EST
+
+     Nope.  Not a hallucination.  We filmed it.  (In the montage in
+the pilot,
+there's a shot of a woman in the casino who sort of shimmies in a
+very sexual
+fashion...that's the one.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 217       Sun Dec 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:01 EST
+
+     It was...and it is.
+
+                                                                
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 227       Wed Dec 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:19 EST
+
+     He's not paying her to eat him...when he finds out what she
+is, he
+backpedals fast..and that's when she tries to induce *him*.  Or
+that was the
+theory, anyway.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 231       Wed Dec 29, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:54 EST
+
+                             Yup.
+
+     More on this in "Mind War."
+
+                                                                  
+ jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 234       Thu Dec 30, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:35 EST
+
+     She was operating off the assumption that people did NOT know
+what she
+was...Sinclair tells her to 'stick to the list,' meaning only her
+own species.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
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+ ************
+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B5 Adrift!                         
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere
+else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+526 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 456       Sun Dec 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:22 EST
+
+     It's possible that I may also be at Icon.  Not confirmed yet,
+but looks
+good at this time.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 500       Sun Dec 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:50 EST
+
+     Cool....
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 512       Fri Dec 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:49 EST
+
+     No, the closest parallel to the Centauri would, I suppose, be
+ancient
+Rome.  I tend not to go that much to contemporary sources for
+metaphor, since
+it's too obvious and over-done.  Much of what's in B5 is drawn from
+much older
+sources.  The only exception, the only means of creating a metaphor
+for the
+present, is one that will take some time before it's even
+perceptible, though
+by the end of the season, you'll see what it is pretty clearly.
+
+                                                                
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 519       Fri Dec 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:49 EST
+
+     Consumer Reports looks at the baseline requirements for most
+people, and
+the majority of videotape users aren't videophiles, they're folks
+who maybe
+reecord a show off the air for later viewing, record somebody's
+wedding, that
+sort of thing.  Things like signal to noise ratio and video
+dropouts really
+don't mean much.
+
+     The degree of difference increases the higher you go into
+video
+equipment.  A small 21" old color TV won't show much difference
+between tapes.
+A 32" fairly new Sony Trinitron will.  Similarly, if you're piping
+your audio
+through the TV speaker, you won't notice much difference.  If
+you're sending
+it through a surround system, you will.  For the majority of the
+population,
+and the majority of available equipment, yes, there's not much
+point in
+distinguishing between them.
+
+     If you want the real skinny on videotapes, go to such consumer
+oriented
+publications as Video Review or Video Magazine, which do very
+comprehensive
+tests on videotapes.  You'll find out more than you could possibly
+want to
+know.  Generally, TDK comes out at or near the top every year. 
+Same for
+Maxell in general.  Which is why I use TDK almost exclusively, and
+have never
+had a problem.
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 523       Sat Jan 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:45 EST
+
+     Hey, you brought it up.
+
+     We just took a picture of it.
+
+                                                                
+jms
+ ------------
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+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on
+Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see
+it, too.
+577 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 450       Fri Dec 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:00 EST
+
+     It's worth pointing out that in the 20+ years that CFQ has
+been around,
+they've never done a cover story about any TV series other than
+Trek...and B5.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 469       Tue Dec 07, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:50 EST
+
+     I can't imagine there'd be any problems with scanning the
+poster.
+
+     And a certain executive producer wouldn't mind getting hold of
+one of
+those posters his own self....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 475       Wed Dec 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:18 EST
+
+     Look for a long piece about SF oriented shows in the current 
+November
+issue of Film and Video, out now, and another piece in
+Connotations, put out
+by the Arizona SF folks, also out now.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 478       Wed Dec 08, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:58 EST
+
+     I think the material will be repeated, but I'm not 100% sure. 
+I know
+there will be two 30 second spots, two 15 second spots, and three
+10 second
+spots, so I doubt they'd need 45 minutes total to do all of that.
+ But don't take my word for it.
+
+     BTW, the interactive B5 computer program should be available
+online by
+around January 10th.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 481       Thu Dec 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:22 EST
+
+     The uplinked promos today (and yes, they are the same on all
+three days,
+I've learned) are fairly generic in nature, about the series
+overall.  There
+are bits and pieces from "Purple," "Infection," "Soul" and
+"Midnight."
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 485       Sat Dec 11, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:26 EST
+
+     JPEG and GIF for most flexibility, I suppose; and if you put
+the (c) PTEN
+info in the description when you upload, that should be fine.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 508       Tue Dec 14, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:38 EST
+
+     The February Cinefantastique has a two-page story on B5, just
+sort of a
+quickie intro to the series.  Has an interesting photo of n'grath,
+and a
+blurry photo of me (mainly because I'm generally blurry).
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 518       Fri Dec 17, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:53 EST
+
+     Films are difficult because the level of resolution required
+to make an
+image that'll stand up to scrutiny on the big screen is still a
+major pain in
+the butt.  But that'll change in time.
+
+     Here's a Joe Predicts for you: by this time next year, ST will
+have gone
+either completely to CGI, or 95% to CGI.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 523       Sat Dec 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:45 EST
+
+     The ship *might* be the Asimov; I've never seen the tape, do
+can't (er,
+so can't) be certain.  The tumbling ship is probably the Soul
+Hunter craft.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 554       Sat Dec 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:18 EST
+
+     It speaks in cicada-like chirps and whistles, which are
+translated by the
+translation device on its chest (the lighted thingie).
+
+                                                                
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 565       Fri Dec 31, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:51 EST
+
+     And our information is that they *have* avoided it....
+
+     (imagine a smile as big as all outdoors....)
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 571       Sat Jan 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:48 EST
+
+     BTW, in Larry DiTillio's latest edition of the "Scripts"
+column, in
+Writer's Digest Magazine, there's a fairly lengthy section on B5. 
+For those
+interested in hearing some stuff from another viewpoint than mine.
+
+     Also look for some syndicated articles to appear in newspapers
+over the
+next week, including the Tribune News Service, and the Teledata
+News service,
+which between them cover something like 2,500 newspapers and
+magazine.  Also
+the Boston Globe will have a piece on B5, as will Entertainment
+Weekly.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
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+ ************
+Topic 13        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 21:00 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Science & Technology   
+
+Jump gates, nanotech, high-tech weapons, starship drives, sound in
+space, and
+other subjects of science and technology in Babylon 5.
+560 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 500       Wed Dec 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:41 EST
+
+     The explosion damaged the auto-configuration system which
+keeps the
+rotation/flywheel system working smoothly.  (This is also indicated
+in
+dialogue in the observation dome.)  That more than anything else
+would cause
+real problems.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 526       Sun Dec 12, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:35 EST
+
+     Actually, it knocked the hamster out of its wheel, and then
+the  whole
+thing just went to hell....
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 536       Sun Dec 19, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:57 EST
+
+     I think you're seeing a glitch, actually....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 540       Tue Dec 21, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:55 EST
+
+     What an astonishingly good question....oh, Ronnnnnnn.....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
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+ ************
+Topic 15        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:29 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Alien Races            
+
+Aliens races in Babylon 5... their politics, abilties, technology,
+history,
+and any other discussion specificly about non-humans.
+
+412 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 401       Sat Dec 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:19 EST
+
+     Centauri males wear their hair in this fashion, the length of
+which is
+determined by the person's status.  Centauri women scorn such
+symbols of
+status and go bald except for a knot of hair from the back.  (Sort
+of a
+peacock approach.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 403       Sat Dec 25, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:43 EST
+
+     Londo's people go for jewelry and ornamentation such as medals
+and
+sunbursts and the like; Minbari don't do a lot of ornamentation,
+going instead
+for fabrics, textures and colors.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 405       Sun Dec 26, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:28 EST
+
+     Yeah, fairly much, as far as it goes.  There's some Jananese
+influence,
+as well as some early European influences, as well as middle
+Eastern
+influences.  (There are three Minbari castes: the worker, warrior
+and
+religious castes.)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
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+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Merchandising          
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out
+(hopefully)
+soon
+410 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 398       Fri Dec 10, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:05 EST
+
+     Is it the color logo on the shirt, or the black-and-white
+logo?
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
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+ ************
+Topic 22        Fri Feb 12, 1993
+R.FURR [Rob Furr]            at 00:19 EST
+Sub: Governments and Trade in B5        
+
+Most SF shows simply posit a government of sorts, and blithely
+ignore it ever
+afterwards. You might see a freighter (with a big "shoot me!" sign
+on it) but
+no other mention of trade. How about B5?
+160 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 145       Thu Dec 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:19 EST
+
+     As soon as the ship comes through, its signature is registered
+and the
+fees debited against their account, if they have one at the
+station.   If not,
+the incoming person is asked for payment before being allowed onto
+the
+station.  In some cases, as with transports, corporations buy jump
+gate access
+in bulk, and then assign the routes to their various transports. 
+(Believe it
+or not, this actually comes up in dialogue in "Midnight.")
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 147       Thu Dec 09, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:33 EST
+
+     Ah, but remember, the government is the one who put the jump
+gate in; no
+one individual or corp could afford to do that.  When your ship, if
+Earth
+registered, comes through, you're automatically billed, just like
+income
+tax...it goes against your credit.  If you're not Earth registered,
+you pay
+when you arrive at an Earth port or orbital transfer station. 
+Either way, you
+pay.  If you try to land somewhere without proper authorization,
+you'll be
+arrested and your ship confiscated.
+
+     Now, you could probably come through the gate, hang in space
+for a while,
+and go back in again (IF you're a non-Earth registered ship) and
+not pay
+anything...but in that case, what's the point?  It'd be like taking
+a
+difficult trip in a small ship across the Atlantic, and not getting
+out or
+going ashore once you arrive.
+
+                                                                
+jms
+ ------------
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+ ************
+Topic 24        Fri Jun 04, 1993
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:11 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Weapons and Warfare!   
+
+For discussion about the weapons, counter weapons, armor,
+shielding, tactics,
+logistics, and so forth, of small combat and large scale war in the
+Babylon 5
+universe.
+358 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 322       Fri Dec 03, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:04 EST
+
+     They are both guns.
+
+     The canopy closes and locks.  If hit, there's at least the 
+opportunity
+for the canopy section to eject from the rest of the craft before
+it's
+destroyed.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 338       Sat Dec 18, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:48 EST
+
+     For those who might be interested, we've come up with some
+name for the
+various clans of the Minbari warrior caste.  The primary five are
+the Star
+Riders (the oldest), the Moon Shields, the Wind Swords, the Night
+Walkers and
+the Fire Wings.  (The first three refer to the early Minbari
+version of a
+mounted force, for which you need riders with shields and swords,
+with #4
+referring to foot soldiers, and the last to those whose clan first
+used flying
+machines in battle.)
+
+     (Oh, and Star Riders refers to those mounted soldiers who were
+trained to
+use the stars for navigation.  Behind them came the foot soldiers,
+who were
+expert at traveling by night.)
+
+                                                                  
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 347       Thu Dec 23, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:47 EST
+
+     In "Infection," Garibaldi tells one person, who's been looking
+for
+Sinclair (and whom Sinclair is ducking) that "the commander'll take
+any
+opportunity to take out a fighter; he's like that."  Sinclair is
+first and
+foremost a *pilot*, this is what he loves.  And thus he does it
+wherever he
+can (also to continue his flight pay, he like any other officer
+needs to log
+in X-hours of flight time per month).
+
+     In "Soul," there's only room for one ship to go out and link
+up with
+another ship that's out of control, it's not a combat situation, so
+it makes
+sense for Sinclair, since he has the most combat/flying time on the
+station,
+to go out after it.  It's also a potential first-contact situation,
+which
+doubles the importance of a command officer.  I "Midnight" he goes
+out because
+there's something that he knows that others wouldn't know to react
+to.
+
+     But at the same time, in "Midnight," when the first distress
+calls come
+in, it's Garibaldi who takes out a ship; in "Believers" it's
+Ivanova.  In the
+combat-heavy "Raiding Party," it's Garibaldi and Ivanova in ships,
+while
+Sinclair stays behind in C&C.  In "Believers," Ivanova states that
+regulations
+require the presence of a command officer in long-range flights
+that may
+involve combat.
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 349       Fri Dec 24, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:09 EST
+
+     Yes, there are instances where other EA officers come aboard
+with
+equivilent or close ranks to our characters.  In one particular
+episode it
+makes for some considerable conflict....
+
+                                                              jms
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+ ************
+Topic 26        Sun Jun 06, 1993
+G.PLANA [Gary]               at 01:51 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Episode titles and info
+
+This topic is for information about individual episodes -- their
+titles,
+writers, and any other information JMS may leak!
+175 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 138       Wed Dec 01, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:17 EST
+
+     There's a mistake.  Which episode(s) have her listed?
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 140       Thu Dec 02, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:46 EST
+
+     The scene was cut for time; it may yet appear elsewhere.
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 150       Sun Dec 05, 1993
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:36 EST
+
+     Yes, Clive was in "Purple," not "Prayer."
+
+                                                                  
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+
+1. CATegories      10. INDex of topics
+2. NEW messages    11. SEArch topics
+3. SET category    12. DELete message
+4. DEScribe CAT    13. IGNore category
+5. TOPic list      14. PROmpt setting
+6. BROwse new msgs 15. SCRoll setting
+7. REAd messages   16. NAMe used in BB
+8. REPly to topic  17. EXIt the BB
+9. STArt a topic   18. HELp on commands
+Enter #, <Command> or <HEL>p
+18 ?
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS for January, 1994
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 category.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie).
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category and main topic for the new series. Here is
+the place for all general information on the series. Topic 2 is the location
+for SPOILERS. And please, NO STORY IDEAS are to be posted either.
+594 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 28        Sun Jan 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:40 EST
+
+     I am an atheist, a total atheist, and am more than happy.  What I write
+is what I write, what I am is what I is.
+
+     Yes, much of my own background goes into what I write.  In the case of
+religion, and spirituality...a writer's job is to be as honest as he can in
+telling a story.  My canvas (for lack of a less grandiose term) is the human
+condition.  And since the dawn of sentience, humanity has been trying to
+figure out its place in the universe.  The religious impulse is as much a part
+of that process as anything else, and it must be treated with integrity and
+respect, as I would have my own views respected.  I try not to exclude
+something just because I don't agree with it, because that corrupts the whole
+purpose of writing, which requires an honest look at the subject.
+
+     And as a writer, there are parts of the religious impulse that I want to
+examine, and explore, and raise questions about, just as much as I'd like to
+explore the scientific aspects of living in space, and the more personal,
+emotional repercussions of this.  It's all a part of trying to figure out who,
+and what, and *why* we are.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 44        Mon Jan 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:38 EST
+
+     Actually, religion isn't totally irrelevant to B5 in that in several
+episodes we'll be dealing with, or touching upon that issue...there's a bit of
+it in "Soul Hunter," "By Any Means Necessary," "The Parliament of Dreams,"
+"Legacies," "Believers" and a couple of others.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 46        Mon Jan 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:10 EST
+
+     Nobody tells me nuttin' 'bout no laserdisks 'r tapes 'r any of that thar
+stuff....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 54        Tue Jan 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:49 EST
+
+     Cooney: I wasn't offended...very little offends me...EXCEPT THIS DAMNED
+FLU THAT REFUSES TO GO AWAY, AND EVERY NIGHT IT'S FEVER TIME, AND I'M GOING
+OUT OF MY MIND, YOU HEAR?  I'M GOING MAD!  I'M SPENDING MY DAYS AND NIGHTS
+TRYING TO WRITE IN TWO STATES OF MIND: DELUSIONAL OR CONFUSED (which on the up
+side is one more state of mind than is normal for me) AND I'M TIRED OF IT, YOU
+HEAR?  TIRED OF IT!
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 67        Wed Jan 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:41 EST
+
+     Fever broke a little today, so that helps.  May even go in to work for a
+few hours tomorrow.
+
+     Re: the Universe Today piece....sigh.  I wish they'd let us proof these
+things before they sent them out.  That should be "Minbari POET accorded
+honors," not "Minbari PIRATE."  I haven't had a chance to check out the
+program yet -- no macs at home -- but plan to look at it as soon as I can.
+There are a few glitches here and there apparently, plus in the electronic
+trading card gifs, but easily straightened out.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 88        Fri Jan 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:26 EST
+
+     "Why is there this permanently cold stone at the entrance to the Walt
+Disney Story movie....?"
+
+     That's where they're keeping Michael Eisner's heart these days.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 143       Thu Jan 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:17 EST
+
+     Well, we've finished shooting "Legacies," and have begun shooting
+"Raiding Party."  I think "Legacies" came out very well (guest-starring John
+Vickery).  "Raiding Party" will guest star Gerrit Graham.
+
+     We finally delivered "Chrysalis" to Warner/PTEN, and heard back: our
+liaison over there was stunned, describes it as the best season-ending
+cliffhanger he's ever seen, unlike anything done before.  Suffice to say we're
+pleased.
+
+     There's not a lot of CGI in either "Legacies" or "The Quality of Mercy"
+(which will follow "Raiding Party" in the production lineup), because neither
+story really called for it.  But there's a *lot* in "Raiding Party," some of
+it very elaborate.  By way of comparison, in an average B5 episode, a script
+from beginning to end has about 60 or 70 setups (a setup is a numbered scene
+or shot, i.e., INT. SCOCKPIT or INT. ZEN GARDEN).  "Raiding Party" has around
+112 setups.  That's more than in some movies.  It's a *very* busy script.
+
+     We're now just about two weeks from our debut.  Lots of behind the scenes
+action...meeting with journalists and some critics, buckets of interviews, and
+a general sense of *anticipation* among the crew.  People are now either
+seeing, or about to see what we've been quietly doing here ever since July.
+
+     Once "Babylon Squared" is turned in, probably on Friday or Monday, there
+will be just 4 scripts left to write (of which 2 are the two-parter).
+ It seems like just yesterday we had 22 in front of us to write.  The time has
+just zipped past with unparalleled speed.  It feels like it took forever to
+GET the series, and suddenly before we really have a chance to think about it,
+ZOOM, the first season is nearly over.
+
+     This is going to be a very interesting few months....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 163       Fri Jan 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 13:50 EST
+
+     No studio in its right mind would give a second season go without getting
+in a fair number of ratings nights first to determine whether or not it's a
+viable show.  Not every good show gets amazing ratings, and not every crummy
+show fails....
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 164       Fri Jan 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:01 EST
+
+     On the topic of B5 being a novel for television, consisting basically of
+five "books" (as Lord of the Rings was three books)...some figures for your
+consideration.
+
+     The total page number of script pages for season one: 1,100 (give or take
+about 10-20 pages).  Basically two 550 page novels, or one very long (275,000
+words) novel.
+
+     At this point, it looks like the total for season one scripts written by
+JMS is 12 scripts, or a total of about 600 pages (equal to a 150,000 word
+novel).
+
+     Assuming the show runs 5 years, that's 5,500 pages, equal to 11 average-
+sized (100,000 words) novels.  Given that I'll probably continue to write
+about half the scripts, that's 2,500 pages/5.5 novels just in JMS scripts.
+
+     (Why do I suddenly feel very tired...?)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 168       Sat Jan 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:18 EST
+
+     Oh, forgot two things: 1) Though this may never appear anywhere, my title
+for the Year One/Book One arc is "Signs and Portents."  2) We just cast June
+Lockhart as our guest lead in "The Quality of Mercy."
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 176       Sat Jan 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:22 EST
+
+     Yes, this is the actual text of a script.  And a script contains scene
+descriptions, dialogue, directions.  (Contrary to popular opinion, the actors
+don't just make up their lines when they hit the stage, based on loose ideas
+by somebody.)  My scripts tend to be *very* detailed, with camera movement
+suggestions, optical notes, indications of dissolves vs. cuts, on and on.  A
+typical scene might look like this:
+
+EXT. BABYLON 5 - ESTABLISHING
+
+A scuttleship unloads cargo from a transport parked alongside the station.
+PAN ACROSS with the scuttleship, tracking with it until it passes into the
+docking bay, then DOWN TO the observation dome window, where we can just see
+into
+
+INT. OBSERVATION DOME
+
+where Lieutenant-Commander IVANOVA stands at the console, cup in hand, staring
+bleakly out into the starscape as SINCLAIR comes up alongside.
+
+                             IVANOVA
+                  I hate mornings...I've always had a
+                  hard time getting up when it's dark
+                  outside.
+
+                             SINCLAIR
+                  We're in space.  It's always dark
+                  outside.
+
+                             IVANOVA
+                        (forlornly)
+                  I know...I know....
+
+     (That, by the way, is a slight re-do of an actual shot from "Raiding
+Party.")
+
+     A script page, single-spaced, works out to about the same wordage as a
+double-spaced prose fiction page, about 225-250 words per.
+
+     On this whole "costs less = not as good" question, the one thing that
+galls me is the knowledge, accumulated through 120+ produced TV episodes, that
+30% *or more* of any show's budget is wasted.  It comes because you don't get
+a script until maybe 3-4 days before you have to shoot, and everybody works
+round the clock, ringing in double- and  triple-overtime on EFX, costumes,
+sets, you name it.  So items that should by all rights cost maybe $150,000 end
+up costing you $300,000 or more.
+
+     In B5, we're generally 3-5 scripts ahead of ourselves at any one moment.
+Directors and crew get their scripts *weeks* before we have to shoot.  And
+even earlier than that, because I know what's coming down the road for the
+whole season, I can give someone literally *months* of advance warning on
+major EFX, or set requirements.  As a result of all this, items that normally
+cost $150,000 either cost exactly that, or we actually end up *saving* a
+little money.
+
+     A lot of television production is absolutely irresponsible.  That we are
+penalized in the press for acting responsibly is something that I just can't
+figure....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 189       Sat Jan 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:38 EST
+
+     Sci-Fi Buzz was on the set this week, in fact, and did some quick
+interviews with cast, me, and Harlan (who is returning to Sci-Fi Buzz as
+commentator).  More on this when I get a date.
+
+     Yes, much to my chagrin, I'm in the Making Of piece.  I hate me on
+camera.  I get twitchy, my head disappears into my neck, my neck disappears
+altogether, I suddenly gain about 20 pounds, and I look for all the world like
+some kind of demented, myopic turtle.
+
+     And yes, Bill Mumy is also in "Mercy," but has no scenes with June.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 200       Sun Jan 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:06 EST
+
+     Actually, there are newer black leather B5 jackets, which we made up for
+cast and crew for Christmas, as a gift.  They're *gorgeous* black leather-and-
+cloth letterman jackets, with a slightly redone B5 logo on the back (better
+metallic thread for the sunburst, some other minor variations).  Mine has
+something a little extra: the patches worn on the uniforms of those who fought
+at the Battle of the Line.  A Starfury patch on the left arm, squadron
+name/number on the right arm, EA Command  Patch with name on the left breast,
+Earthforce Off Worlds patch on the right breast.  Very, very cool.
+
+     BTW, a request for a favor: reviews are going to be coming out this week
+on our first episode.  I know they're slated to appear in People,
+Entertainment Weekly, and TV Guide.  (Apparently Jarvis will be doing a
+review, about which he would only say to some people, "It's *brief*," which
+sounds like another hatchet job in the offing.)  I know that the East Coast
+gets deliveries of these magazines a few days before they arrive here on the
+West Coast.  If anyone sees these (or other) reviews prior to Tuesday, lemme
+know, and post as much as you can from it.  Thanks.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 211       Sun Jan 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:44 EST
+
+     Re: the PPG firing...we talked to some high-IQ types about how a plasma-
+firing weapon might work.  There would be superheated bursts, some marginal
+escape of the gases used, and it would burn through the air, creating a small
+thunderclap-like sound.  So this is what we did.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 218       Sun Jan 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:47 EST
+
+     Mainly I just came up with a general sense of where things were, and went
+from there.   ]
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 222       Mon Jan 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:06 EST
+
+     BTW...since we've been discussing script stuff here, a little bonus: from
+1990-1991, I wrote a new 4-hour "V" miniseries, entitled "Rebirth."   It was
+to be the comeback for the V series, until they realized that the show -- like
+its predecessor -- would be too expensive to produce for syndication.  This is
+the only official, Warners-sanctioned follow-up to the V series, even though
+the script wasn't produced.
+
+     I've gone ahead and uploaded the first three acts of that miniseries to
+the SFTV library, file #893.  For those who followed the V story, you might
+find this of some interest....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 286       Tue Jan 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:51 EST
+
+     Logging on from the computer at work.  Still no power at home, so my
+system there is dead.  So this'll be brief.  Terrible couple nights,
+especially the Sunday, when the big one hit.  Lights out, blind terror, the
+sound of plaster tearing and glass breaking and objects flying through the
+room.  The house shaking as though in the maw of a large, terrible animal.
+Fireplace fell down in the den, will probably have to rebuild the whole
+fireplace.  Sundeck/patio is now separated from the house.  Massive cracks
+elsewhere.  Dust and grit over everything.  To enter a room you have to clear
+a path through debris...cd's, books, magazines, videotapes, everything's off
+the shelves and on the floor, 6-12" deep.  Couldn't even open the office door,
+blocked by debris.
+
+     Fortunately, no injuries here or in the B5 crew/cast.  Andreas' house
+took a major pounding, might be a total loss, we'll have to see.   Our
+cinematographer (the same one who escaped the fire by inches) is in similar
+straits.  We offered cast and crew the chance to stay home, but everyone
+wanted to come in to work, get back on the horse again, show their support for
+the show.
+
+     More as I'm able.
+
+                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 360       Fri Jan 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:45 EST
+
+     The sector of space occupied by B5 is more or less central to all of the
+major governments.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 430       Mon Jan 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:35 EST
+
+     Hmm...I haven't heard anything more on the satellite number, so it may
+have been canceled due to the quake.  Well, if not before now, it is now,
+since I don't know squat about it at this juncture...
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 442       Tue Jan 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:34 EST
+
+     We've got lots of people of various color in the show, including Dr.
+Franklin (black), Catherine Sakai (asian), Dr. Hernandez (hispanic), plus a
+wide range of others in many kinds of roles.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 470       Wed Jan 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:20 EST
+
+     We found an old logo for an actual aircraft company called Sinclair
+Aircraft.  So a piece of an original logo ended up in Sinclair's quarters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 520       Fri Jan 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:23 EST
+
+      Well, the ratings are starting to come in.  We won't know the full
+ story on the ratings until next week, because syndication doesn't work
+ quite the same as network shows.  Some places are yet to air the first
+ episode, and as with the ST shows, you add both airings to get a
+ cumulative total.
+
+      That said...we have some ratings/shares from the first night's
+ single airings.  (By comparison, and I pass this along only as a
+ benchmark, the ST shows generally get around an 8 or 9 rating and about
+ an 11 share.  That's the *cumulative* rating, not a single-night rating.)
+
+      So when you consider the following numbers, realize that they're
+ not complete, and will increase maybe another 30% after the second
+ airing (give or take).
+
+      New York: 7.2 rating, 10 share.
+      Los Angeles: 12 rating/17 share.
+      San Francisco: 7.4 rating, 11 share
+      Washington DC: 7.7 rating, 11 share
+      Seattle: 10.4 rating, 16 share
+      Minneapolis: 7.1 rating, 11 share
+      Orlando: 8.8 rating, 16 share
+      San Diego: 9 rating, 15 share
+      Portland OR: 9.6 rating, 14 share
+      Kansas City: 9.4 rating, 13 share
+
+      In many markets, we beat in one night what it takes the ST shows
+ two showings to pull, ratings-wise.  In many markets we beat network
+ shows.  The LA showing beat "Beverly Hills 90210."  In some places, the
+ ratings shot up 220% over what they normally get in that time period.
+
+      Translation: we're not a success.
+
+      We're a bona fide *hit*.
+
+      Most significant of all are the quarter-hour breakdowns.  All the
+ PR in the world might get you to tune into a show, but PR won't *keep*
+ you there.  If the audience finds the show uninteresting, the numbers
+ will fall each quarter hour.
+
+      Practically across the board, the ratings either built or didn't
+ change by quarter hours.
+
+      To say that the people at Warner Bros./PTEN are stunned would be
+ a considerable oversimplification.
+
+      We did it.  Now the interesting thing will be to see if we can
+ sustain it.  Onward and upward....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 580       Mon Jan 31, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:30 EST
+
+     The darkness is caused by a shadow from the huge blast doors on either
+side of the central docking bay.  Because of its position relative to the sun,
+you're *always* going to get a shadow there.  We could've done the effect with
+or without the shadow.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+Babylon 5 offically became a series on May 28 '93. There will be 22 hour eps
+for season one (in addition to the pilot). Airs Wednesdays at 8PM in most
+places starting Jan. 26 '94.  This is the SPOILER topic where anything goes.
+
+531 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 227       Sat Jan 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:44 EST
+
+     Kathryn's last name is Drennan.  Her full credit is Kathryn M. Drennan.
+Not Straczynski.  Probably displaying considerable wisdom on her part.  Ten
+thousand letters, no vowels.
+
+     Absent a collaboration on a series of articles for TZ Magazine a few
+years ago (a guide to the Night Gallery series), we don't collaborate.   Ever.
+I also don't collaborate with Larry D., or any other of my writer friends.  As
+I learned before, particularly on the one occasion when Larry and I tried it --
+we co-wrote a pilot and bible for CBS based on the "Elfquest" books -- all
+parties concerned will live a LOT longer by keeping a respectable distance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 231       Sun Jan 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:41 EST
+
+     No.
+
+     Had a couple days clear of the bug, and today hit a relapse.  Sigh.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 232       Sun Jan 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:14 EST
+
+     By the way, if anyone's curious, here's how I'd rank the first six
+episodes in terms of my own personal preference, from 1-6: "The Parliament of
+Dreams," "Mind War," "Soul Hunter," "Born to the Purple," "Midnight on the
+Firing Line," and "Infection."  We'll see how close this coincides with your
+own reactions.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 271       Sat Jan 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:28 EST
+
+     Our other directors are terrific.  There's Bruce Seth Green, who's done
+an awful lot of work on various series (I think he also did some episodes of
+V, btw), Jim Johnston, Janet Greek and Deborah Navarra (the first episode for
+Deborah is coming up in the rotation soon).  I don't have their credits in
+front of me, though I know Deborah's done a lot of Homefronts, and Janet comes
+from a mainstream directing career, though she's an SF fan herself.  (Janet's
+directing/has directed "And the Sky Full of Stars," "Chrysalis," "Raiding
+Party," and our two-parter.  She's absolutely amazing.)
+
+     Jim's done "Survivors," "Soul Hunter," "By Any Means Necessary," and will
+likely do "Babylon Squared."  Bruce has done "Born to the Purple," "Mind War,"
+and "Legacies" so far.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 278       Sun Jan 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:41 EST
+
+     Of course there's going to be some element of recoil sometimes when the
+fighters fire at someone (more noticeable at some speeds than others, and at
+some angles more than others).  Still trying to hew close to reality....
+
+     And it's "to start a war over blood spilled so long ago...."
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 300       Wed Jan 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:04 EST
+
+      My problem is that I have little or no interest in defending B5 as good
+SF to anyone.  I think his definition is arbitrary.  Ray Bradbury said that
+good SF is whatever one points to and says that's good SF.  It seems to me
+that those most interested in defining SF are the ones who most profit from,
+and hew to, their own definitions.  It's as inherently silly a discussion as
+the folks from the War of the Worlds series insisting that their show was NOT
+a science fiction series (excuse me? aliens, and starships, and interplanetary
+warfare, and it's NOT an SF series?).
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 319       Fri Jan 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:49 EST
+
+     I don't think it would be entirely appropriate for me to comment on the
+Ellison/Koenig question, as it kinda violates the privacy on both sides....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 364       Fri Jan 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:12 EST
+
+     Re: not hearing thundering explosions...that's because there's no sound
+in space.  We're trying to take a more *science* fiction approach to the show.
+Along with the neat dynamics of motion in space, there has to be the
+correlation in terms of how explosions are presented if the science is to have
+any integrity.  Just an explanation for why a thing was done...in other shows,
+in internal-station stuff, you'll get *plenty* on the sub-woofer.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 375       Sat Jan 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:49 EST
+
+     Those who made the "Making Of" added sounds to the space stuff.  Also the
+commercials have done the same.  Guess they didn't understand the concept....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 380       Sat Jan 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:30 EST
+
+     Subsonics, and there's what's called a "by", as in "a ship passes
+
+by," a sense of motion, but the explosions are carried by music, insofar as I
+know.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 402       Mon Jan 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:41 EST
+
+     There was a whole discussion about this over in Internet, and maybe
+someone can grab that thread and put it all in here...suffice to say for now
+that Psi Corps telepaths are ****NOT**** allowed to scan defendants in any
+official way connected to a criminal act.  It violates the right  to due
+process.  Even if requested, it's simply not allowed.  You do NOT want to even
+open the door a *crack* in letting a government-regulated agency begin making
+determinations about who is and isn't guilty of a crime.  That way lies
+dictatorship, Thought Police and Big Brother.
+
+     We'll get more into this question in an episode entitled "The Quality of
+Mercy."
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 411       Tue Jan 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 06:22 EST
+
+     "...and if our future lies on the firing line, are we brave enough to see
+the signals and the signs...."  -- Harry Chapin.
+
+     Just a thought.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 423       Wed Jan 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:15 EST
+
+     1) The markings are on top of the starfuries, not beneath.  The
+"disappearances" you refer to are shots in which we're looking UP at the
+fighters.
+
+     2) Re: the Psi Corps...let's have a moment of logic for a moment.   Does
+anyone here think that the Judicial System will, for a *moment*, let another
+government agency come into their courts with pronouncements of guilt or
+innocence?  Lawyers wouldn't have it, judges wouldn't have it, the Supreme
+Court would rule against it.  Also, please remember that the Corps is viewed
+with some measure of suspicion by the rest of the government.  As you'll see
+in the course of the series.  They aren't perceived automatically as the Good
+Guys.
+
+     You MUST set up checks and balances, and policies.  You can't say,
+"Okay, a telepath can scan sometimes, but not others, with some people, but
+not others."  The law is a defined creature.  A telepath *may not* scan
+someone accused of a crime, and have that as admissible evidence.  A telepath
+*may* scan a victim who is unable to remember the events of a crime,
+BUT...that is not admissible in its own terms, it must then be bolstered with
+actual, physical evidence.  Even an eyewitness testimony can be challenged,
+and hearsay evidence is open to challenge as well, there are *already*
+limitations on second-party testimony.
+
+     Allowing the Psi Corps to function within a criminal court setting is one
+step removed from tyranny, and a government controlled court.  If you actually
+look at the *reality* of it...it wouldn't happen.  And that is the position
+we're taking with our series.  Is it debateable?  Of course it's open to
+debate.  We like fostering debate.  Is everything fair?  No, it's not, just as
+in life.  But as someone said (actually, the person looking on over my
+shoulder as I type this), it's my show....
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 425       Wed Jan 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:24 EST
+
+     It's *not* inconsistent.  There is a VAST difference between taking part
+in a supervisory capacity in a business deal, and testifying in a courtroom on
+a case where someone could be sent to jail for the rest of his or her natural
+life.  Neither did I at any point indicate that any business use of a telepath
+is useable in court.  It's something that one businessman pays for, to make
+sure the other guy's on the up-and-up, not a legal thing.
+
+     The right to privacy is a definite interest, yes...but to the courts, the
+more significant issue is checks and balances, and an unwillingness to
+surrender control of or influence over the judicial arm to  another government-
+regulated agency with questionable military influences.
+
+     There are many times that these and other laws may come into
+conflict...and sometimes they won't be fair to all people at all times.   Our
+government has a quit-smoking priority...and then goes out and underwrites
+tobacco farmers.  There's an inconsitency for you.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 437       Thu Jan 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:44 EST
+
+     Added notes...1) B1-B3 weren't completed prior to going up; they were
+sabotaged during construction at various points.  Only B4 was actually
+completed.  2) Just a thought...you may want to take a gander at "Mind War" in
+re: all the telepathy discussion.  You may walk away from that show with a
+somewhat better understanding of the need to keep these people away from a
+courtroom than I can convey here.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 443       Thu Jan 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:52 EST
+
+     (I'm keeping a low profile overall just now, to avoid getting in the
+way...but quickly....)
+
+     I *love* "Duck Dodgers."  I have virtuall all of the WB cartoons on tape
+or disk, and from where I sit, that's wonderful stuff that'll be around for a
+long, long time.  No omens, just something I thought would be fun.  (Again,
+connecting past/present/future, sort of our B5 theme.)
+
+     So far, so good...ratings in San Diego are a 9 rating with a 15 share,
+beating all the network affiliates, delivering 150% over what the station
+normally gets...this could bode *very* well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 475       Fri Jan 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:28 EST
+
+     Thanks, all.  Matt...to your question, there's something I wish I could
+tell you, but I can't without spoiling something in regards to the commander
+running off all the time.  All I can say is watch the last act of "Infection."
+You'll learn something very interesting there which impacts this discussion.
+It's a scene between Garibaldi and Sinclair in the latter's quarters.  Believe
+me, you'll know it when you see it.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 482       Fri Jan 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:31 EST
+
+     Hmmmm...lemme check this and get back to you....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 490       Sat Jan 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+
+     Generally, one pilot is "attached" to one ship, hence the individual and
+matched markings.  In some cases, as in "Soul Hunter," there may not be time
+to trot out your specific ship, so you grab whatever's ready.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 498       Sat Jan 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:42 EST
+
+     The Starfuries are stored in the launch bays, yes.
+
+     Re: Sinclair getting into a fighter...there were a number of reasons for
+this, one of which being he wanted a good reason to avoid being in on the
+counsel vote, given his marching orders.  But more than that...I would point
+out that this isn't Star Trek, and Sinclair isn't Picard; he is first and
+foremost a pilot.  He loves to get into a fighter and take it out  He's a
+fighter.  That's when he is most at ease.  That's what his character *is*.
+
+     At the same time, however, there are consequences for that kind of
+behavior, as you point out.  And there are deeper reasons for what he is doing
+than even he want to admit.  Tell you what...table that aspect until after
+you've seen the last part of "Infection," which deals *with this exact issue*.
+
+
+     Re: Vir...that was the first episode filmed with his character, and he
+wasn't directed as well as he might have been.  We pulled him back a lot in
+later episodes.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 506       Sun Jan 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:53 EST
+
+     Here, for what it's worth, is my take regarding Londo's hair.
+
+     I find it interesting that people can accept spots, scales, fur,
+foreheads, reptiles and parasites...but not a different style of hair, used to
+denote one's rank or position (as is done in some primitive societies right
+here).  Look at the history of hair just around us in the last hundred or so
+years...long hair, powdered wigs, crew-cuts, braids, dreadlocks, spikes,
+mohawks....
+
+     Among those I've talked to, it seems that folks from other places --
+England, Europe, some from Japan -- have *zero* problem with the hair.
+ It seems genuinely an American reaction.  I was talking to someone about this
+earlier this evening, and the comment came back that Americans in particular
+are absolutely *obsessed* with not being embarrassed, or being made fools of.
+When they (we) see someone who doesn't match our view of what's the norm, we
+imagine how we would feel in that position.  And to make ourselves more
+secure, as in high school, we make fun of what would personally embarrass us.
+When the underground/subculture of the 60s got ANY chance to express its
+views, what did people focus on?  Their hair.   Sometimes other personal
+traits, but usually the hair.  "Damn longhaired  freaks."
+
+     To see *hair*, of all things, being somehow less acceptable than funny
+foreheads, scales, or other aspects of alien-ness flatly astonishes me.  (It
+was also pointed out to me that in the first season of the original Trek,
+there was a *lot* of mail to Paramount about losing the pointy ears on Spock,
+that they just looked stupid.)
+
+     It just seems sad to me, and somehow informative, that people are unable
+to see past the hair to the person.  Are we really that conservative and
+ethnocentric?  I particularly feel strongly about this for Peter, who is
+absolutely *out there*, taking a great risk with this character, who is doing
+an amazing performance...and all people can talk about is the hair, as though
+that somehow diminishes the performance.
+
+     Amazing, really....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Computer SFX Tech-Talk   
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+315 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 234       Sun Jan 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:41 EST
+
+     We did it already.  Plus using composites for other shots.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 238       Sun Jan 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:02 EST
+
+     No, that was a computer-generated composite shot.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 246       Sun Jan 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:42 EST
+
+     Don't have a clue; those are Ron questions, and beyond my ken.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 248       Mon Jan 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:38 EST
+
+     This kind of comment is really pointless now because the show is about to
+hit the air.  Lots of people have been badrapping it during the months of
+waiting.  Now you get to see for yourself, and all this "it ain't great" stuff
+will be shown for the BS it is.  If you've seen it, judge for yourselves.
+They're full of it.
+
+     It's dismaying that we've gotten to this point of, if we're not wasting
+millions of dollars on EFX, it can't be any good.  Wrong.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Cast & Characters        
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+531 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 499       Wed Jan 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:16 EST
+
+     Ko'Dath met with an unfortunate accident with an airlock.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 503       Thu Jan 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:45 EST
+
+     In a tip of the cap to an SF writer, the Koenig character in "Mind War"
+is named Bester.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 512       Fri Jan 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:31 EST
+
+     Gold bars on the chest are for command staff, silver bars are for lower
+command staff (i.e., Sinclair has gold, the techs in the observation dome have
+silver).  As 2nd, Ivanova's bar is split, half gold and half silver.  Medical
+division gets a red bar, Security gets a green bar.
+
+     Rank are denoted in the brass pieces on the shoulder.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 6         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 06:43 EST
+Sub: Where is Babylon 5? TV stations...   
+
+Babylon 5 is a cornerstone of Warner's new Prime Time Entertainment Network.
+Here is where one can find and post station information.
+
+546 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 424       Thu Jan 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:10 EST
+
+     I've seen a nearly-finished cut of the Making Of piece, and it's pretty
+good.  Could be a bit smoother here and there, and we had a few notes, which I
+hope will be taken care of, and there's a lot more shown of forthcoming scenes
+than I'd like, and not nearly enough of the interviews, but overall, I think
+it's okay.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 538       Sun Jan 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:17 EST
+
+     Bastards.
+
+                                                     jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 8         Mon Jun 14, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 19:16 EDT
+Sub: First Amalgamated Church of Joe      
+
+A place where we can gather to worship Joe, the creator, praise his creations,
+and buy t-shirts from me! :)
+195 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 86        Thu Jan 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:14 EST
+
+     Go toward Los Angeles, and stick the pin in about 10 miles offshore.
+ If the show isn't a hit, that's where you'll find me.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 111       Sat Jan 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:30 EST
+
+     Got my cap today.  Thanks.  It will now go into a place of honor at the
+B5 offices.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 187       Sat Jan 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:37 EST
+
+     Yes.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 8
+Message 190       Sat Jan 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:45 EST
+
+     Shane: not good.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 10        Thu Nov 12, 1992
+SANDMAN [Henry]              at 19:25 EST
+Sub: Sex in Babylon 5                     
+
+Can't do without this one!!
+
+
+324 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 289       Sat Jan 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:24 EST
+
+     Travis:
+
+     You're wrong.  I've announced my plans in this regard before.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B5 Adrift!                           
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+303 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 223       Sat Jan 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:45 EST
+
+     Hey, you brought it up.
+
+     We just took a picture of it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 287       Mon Jan 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:49 EST
+
+     Re: magazines...I'm actively not cooperating with Starlog, so that takes
+care of that venue.  There's deals in process for a comic, and for
+novelizations, but I've kinda urged people not to hurry that process too much,
+on the grounds of, "Let's do the *show* first, and make it as good as we can,
+and *then* worry about the merchandising."  Too often people in this business
+put the merchandising cart before the horse.  If we do our job right, then
+there'll be plenty of all that down the road.  If not, why jump in and try to
+exploit it?
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                  
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+440 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 271       Sat Jan 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:48 EST
+
+     BTW, in Larry DiTillio's latest edition of the "Scripts" column, in
+Writer's Digest Magazine, there's a fairly lengthy section on B5.  For those
+interested in hearing some stuff from another viewpoint than mine.
+
+     Also look for some syndicated articles to appear in newspapers over the
+next week, including the Tribune News Service, and the Teledata News service,
+which between them cover something like 2,500 newspapers and magazine.  Also
+the Boston Globe will have a piece on B5, as will Entertainment Weekly.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 279       Sun Jan 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:03 EST
+
+     Haven't heard otherwise, so I assume so.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 289       Wed Jan 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:48 EST
+
+     Don't know if Ron's named that ship or not; will try to remember to
+inquire.
+
+     Advance word: look for a big story in Entertainment Weekly, probably
+hitting the stands next week (the following week latest); stories via the
+Tribune and Teledata syndicators; we got the cover in the L.A. TIMES Sunday
+color TV magazine for the week we air; other newspapers will be doing the same
+(specifics when and if I get them).  Expect to see pieces on CNN and Showbiz
+Today over the next 2 weeks, and Starburst should have a very long piece on
+the show sometime soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 301       Fri Jan 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:47 EST
+
+
+     Did we save anything for the rest of the season?  Lemme put it to you
+this way...you ain't seen *nothin* yet.  "Midnight" makes just about
+everything done before for TV look lame...but there's stuff coming down the
+pike that'll make "Midnight" look pale by comparison.  With each show we get
+better, we learn more, and we can *do* more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 326       Tue Jan 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:38 EST
+
+     Apparently they're going to have me, and probably Claudia, doing one more
+of these satellite-interview things, probably on the 25th.  Oh, but my life is
+a festival of joy....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 355       Sat Jan 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:43 EST
+
+     I was told this stuff would be uploaded to GEnie at the same time; I
+don't yet have this stuff myself.  Will bug the right people.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 406       Fri Jan 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:08 EST
+
+     Here is the one and only thing I really have to say about critics (at
+least until otherwise provoked).
+
+     When "Lost in Space" went on the air, every critic hated it; they hated
+the cast, they hated the writing, they hated the sets...they panned it
+royally.  About a year later, when LiS was a big hit, and was selling magazine
+covers, a lot changed.  Then "Star Trek" appeared...and was crucified by the
+critics.  They hated the cast, they hated the writing, they hated the
+sets...TV Guide in particular.  They roundly dismissed it as an attempt to
+cash in on "Lost in Space"'s success.   Critics attacked Patrick Stewart in
+TNG for being stiff and unappealing, attacked DS9 on similar grounds.....
+
+     They *always* attack SF.  Always have, always will.  And always unfairly.
+
+                                                         jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 410       Sat Jan 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:59 EST
+
+     FYI...the L.A. Times and Orange County Register both have cover stories
+on B5 in their respective TV magazines.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 13        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 21:00 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Science & Technology     
+
+Jump gates, nanotech, high-tech weapons, starship drives, sound in space, and
+other subjects of science and technology in Babylon 5.
+400 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 288       Sun Jan 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:45 EST
+
+     Actually, I'd argue that there's a difference between FTL travel, and
+removing oneself from the standard reference by entering hyperspace.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 326       Fri Jan 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:59 EST
+
+     We'll imply some of the geography in the series, but the interactive
+computer program coming out soon has a map of the station, and shows where
+what is in relation to everything else.  As for the fighters, they wait until
+they clear the arms to launch.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 335       Fri Jan 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:52 EST
+
+     Since I sat on a panel with Niven, who said that in his view nothing good
+is written for TV, and implied basically that TV writers were people who'd
+sold out and were just a shade above prostitutes in the food chain, I doubt
+very much that Niven would be interested in writing scripts, nor would I be
+terribly much inclined to ask.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 342       Sun Jan 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+
+     It's a tachyon channel.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Merchandising            
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+464 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 448       Mon Jan 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:05 EST
+
+     Understood.  But I don't want the full script out there being sold at
+conventions, also because I eventually would like to novelize this thing, when
+I have time....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 25        Fri Mar 12, 1993
+S.SHELLENBAR [>> SHANE <<]   at 08:47 EST
+Sub: J. Michael Straczynski Speaks in Public
+
+This is the place to find out where and when JMS will be appearing next.  JMS
+has honed his skills as a public speaker and is taking his act on the road.
+410 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 399       Sat Jan 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:50 EST
+
+     I still plan to continue to go to cons, but probably at a somewhat
+reduced level, simply due to the requirements of exec producing this show and
+writing a smidge over half the episodes.  Probably hit the major cons,
+WorldCon and the like.  And always, *always* ComicCon.
+
+     Quake...ehhh.  Yeah, had some damage.  The fireplace in the living room
+is now *IN* the living room...the chimney/fireplace has to come totally
+down...a wall or so is going to be knocked out...there are cracks all over the
+place...the sun deck is now separated from the front of the house, the stairs
+leading up to the house are separated at one point... a closet is pretty much
+demolished and will have to be yanked and re-done...lots of other minor
+damage...couldn't get into my office for about a day because of the debris
+piled up in front of the other side of the door...didn't have power from
+Sunday night through Thursday, only today was told that the water's
+okay...spent most of the nights writing scripts on a notebook computer by
+flashlight....
+
+     It hasn't been pretty around here for a while.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 404       Sun Jan 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:06 EST
+
+     Last anyone talked to me, it was me and Larry being interviewed by David.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 26        Sun Jun 06, 1993
+G.PLANA [Gary]               at 01:51 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Episode titles and info  
+
+This topic is for information about individual episodes -- their titles,
+writers, and any other information JMS may leak!
+191 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 177       Thu Jan 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:18 EST
+
+     Yes, that is the plan, though we're still trying to work out how it can
+be done without violating the integrity of either universe; if we can do so
+cleanly, we'll do it; if not, we won't.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 179       Fri Jan 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:51 EST
+
+     Just completed another script, "The Quality of Mercy," which I wrote
+almost entirely while down with the flu, and can literally not remember
+writing any of it because of that.  Totally on autopilot, though it seems
+pretty good.  (Might've been in Flemish, for all I knew.)  Also, we just cast
+Gerrit Graham in "Raiding Party," which starts shooting next week, by which
+time I hope to have "Babylon Squared" completed in first-draft form.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+
+1. CATegories      10. INDex of topics
+2. NEW messages    11. SEArch topics
+3. SET category    12. DELete message
+4. DEScribe CAT    13. IGNore category
+5. TOPic list      14. PROmpt setting
+6. BROwse new msgs 15. SCRoll setting
+7. REAd messages   16. NAMe used in BB
+8. REPly to topic  17. EXIt the BB
+9. STArt a topic   18. HELp on commands
+Enter #, <Command> or <HEL>p
+18 ?
+
+ ************
+Topic 3         Sat Oct 16, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 10:43 EDT
+Sub: The Gathering -- the pilot film      
+
+This topic is for discussion of the 2 hour pilot film.
+
+89 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 3
+Message 39        Tue Jan 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:14 EST
+
+     No, for which I give some measure of thanks.  Eventually, though, I'm
+confident it'll be rebroadcast.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 3
+Message 44        Wed Jan 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:50 EST
+
+     We've re-lit and touched up the forced perspective to make it look
+better.
+
+     Also, Ron did *substantial* modifications to the B5 station itself,
+making it the biggest single object to render.  It has something like (and
+this is only my memory) 100 times the resolution of the station used in the
+pilot, so you can get right in close for paint-scraper shots.  It's much more
+detailed and substantial looking.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 3
+Message 47        Wed Jan 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:42 EST
+
+     Not necessarily...it may have been 100-times in resolution, or it may
+have been 1000-times in resolution...actually, as I think of it (via the fog
+that's in my head) I think you're right...I knew there was a 1 and some 0s
+involved in it...and it was a big deal...so maybe it *was* 1,000x.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 3
+Message 55        Thu Jan 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:20 EST
+
+     The forced perspective is inside the station, not in the CGI outside.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 3
+Message 87        Sat Jan 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:51 EST
+
+     The smuggler was not gunned down.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 3
+Message 89        Sat Jan 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:33 EST
+
+     PPG = Phased Plasma Gun, and yes, the settings work about the way you
+describe.  At full settings, it burns right through the body (and you can see
+this in some shots, albeit briefly and discreetly).  We also deal with the
+reality of what such a weapon *does* to you...internal burns, clothes melting
+into the skin, that sort of thing.  We don't get gross about it, but we try to
+stay with the reality of what we're creating.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Sat Oct 16, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 10:46 EDT
+Sub: Midnight On The Firing Line  (#103)  
+
+The first episode of the new series appearing in late January.
+
+137 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 4
+Message 24        Sun Jan 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:34 EST
+
+     In the "Midnight" teaser, Garibaldi mentions that Ivanova's "new here."
+Also in "Midnight," Talia introduces herself to Ivanova and mentions that she
+was "assigned here a few weeks ago."  In "Soul Hunter," Franklin arrives to
+take on the task of chief of medical staff.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 4
+Message 31        Sun Jan 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:45 EST
+
+     My thought, at the time, was that if we play the reality of this for a
+moment, probably *all* of the ambassadors have some kind of weapon, smuggled
+in via diplomatic pouches.  Garibaldi and Sinclair know they're
+there...question is, is it worth starting a diplomatic incident over, as long
+as they're not being used?  Garibaldi is saying, in essence, "Okay, you know
+it's there, and I know it's there, but now you've made a point about it.  Lose
+it or hide it, or I'm going to have to charge you, and we're BOTH going to be
+up to our ears in it."  If Garibaldi confiscated it, there'd be a whole
+diplomatic hassle...and Londo would just have another one sent to him via
+diplomatic pouch.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 4
+Message 46        Wed Jan 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:30 EST
+
+     You may think it was obvious that the nephew was reading at gunpoint, and
+in fact, he was...but thinking something or suspecting something isn't the
+same as proving it.  Londo could say, "He was reading at gunpoint!"  And G'Kar
+could say, "No, he wasn't."  Where do you go from there?  (And, in fact,
+that's *exactly* what Londo said...only to have G'Kar deflect it.)
+
+     Re: why Londo didn't show the clips...at this point, there's not any
+question in anyone's mind about the attack taking place.  The Narns say they
+were invited in to help quell internal strife.  That the events took place
+isn't at issue; it's *why* and whether or not they were invited in.   (As with
+Germany in WWII indicating that some places "invited" them in.)
+
+     Had Sinclair shown the evidence, it probably would've just hardened
+G'Kar.  Also, most politics is back-room dealing.  You do this in public, and
+you make a terrible enemy who'll strike back as soon as he has a chance.  Let
+him have his dignity, save face, BUT get what you want, and there's room to
+maneuver in future.  It's the difference between being a punch'em-out hero,
+and someone who has to be diplomatic, within limits.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 4
+Message 60        Thu Jan 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:59 EST
+
+     Which episodes are central to the story arc?  I'd say the episodes that
+you should keep in that regard would be "Soul Hunter," "The Parliament of
+Dreams," "Mind War," "And the Sky Full of Stars," "Babylon Squared,"
+"Chrysalis," and maybe "Legacies" and the two-parter, "A Voice in the
+Wilderness."
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 4
+Message 90        Fri Jan 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:34 EST
+
+     Yeah, the Sea Witch is the one that rotates and fires at one of the
+Raiders.  It's a woman's face in a green and blue background.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 4
+Message 94        Sat Jan 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:38 EST
+
+     Sounded cooler.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 4
+Message 115       Sun Jan 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:40 EST
+
+     There is some history there with Sinclair's father, but I'm not getting
+into it this season because there are some other family issues involving our
+characters that I want to delve into initially, and I don't want to step in
+the same stream too many times, as it were.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 4
+Message 117       Sun Jan 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:18 EST
+
+     No, nothing autobiographical in it.
+
+     Vir calms down.  Trust me.
+
+     He even manages to nail Londo from time to time...as he does when Londo
+suffers a rather nasty hangover in "Born to the Purple."
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 4
+Message 120       Sun Jan 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:08 EST
+
+     No, just two: reddish/orange (red shift) when entering a gate, and blue
+(blue shift) for emerging.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 4
+Message 128       Sun Jan 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:42 EST
+
+     No, the Takashima character did not have a problem with the Psi Corps.
+This would have been part of a different thread.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 4
+Message 130       Sun Jan 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:38 EST
+
+     When Doug and I, to simplify things, created a separate corporation to
+handle the massive paperwork of a series.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 4
+Message 133       Mon Jan 31, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:23 EST
+
+     She was kidding.  Typical Russian humor.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 5         Sat Oct 16, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 10:49 EDT
+Sub: Soul Hunter  (#102)                  
+
+by JMS. The second sheduled episode of the new series.
+
+25 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 5
+Message 14        Sat Jan 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:05 EST
+
+     You'll find out by the end of this season.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 5
+Message 16        Sun Jan 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:57 EST
+
+     Snakes generally move slowly...until they strike.
+
+     Re: the medical tools...we brought in a medical science consultant, who
+helped us design our instruments.  His sense was that we're moving more and
+more toward light as a system of treatment, non-invasive procedures, that sort
+of thing.  No, there aren't anything like those devices in today's operating
+rooms...but this is 250 years from now.  In any event, it *is* based on the
+latest info we're getting on new science from our medical advisor.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+
+1. CATegories      10. INDex of topics
+2. NEW messages    11. SEArch topics
+3. SET category    12. DELete message
+4. DEScribe CAT    13. IGNore category
+5. TOPic list      14. PROmpt setting
+6. BROwse new msgs 15. SCRoll setting
+7. REAd messages   16. NAMe used in BB
+8. REPly to topic  17. EXIt the BB
+9. STArt a topic   18. HELp on commands
+Enter #, <Command> or <HEL>p
+19 ?
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS on GEnie for February, 1994
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 category.  The posts are copyright by
+JMS (and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category and main topic for the new series. Here is
+the place for all general information on the series. Topic 2 is the location
+for SPOILERS. And please, NO STORY IDEAS are to be posted either.
+455 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 6         Tue Feb 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:19 EST
+
+     Boy, this has been some kinda day....
+
+     Phone goes off *early* in the morning, "Just making sure you know about
+the satellite interviews today."  I'm in bed.  Scratch.  Snuffle.   Look at
+clock.  Snuffle.  Scratch.  "Satellite interviews...when?"
+
+     "In about two hours, across town."
+
+     WAAAAAAUUUGGGHHHH!
+
+     Never a jump gate when you need one.  Haven't moved that fast in ages.
+Me and Claudia for about 5 hours, on and off, giving interviews to TV stations
+around the country.  Plus one segment with just Claudia and Peter...of which
+the *funniest* stuff was in-between, while waiting for NY to come on line, a
+mass of improv, all of it going out over the station...Peter and Claudia
+improv'ing lunch at a NY deli, a fashion conversation between J. Edgar Hoover
+and Eleanor Roosevelt...on and on and on, put *everyone* away.
+
+     The camera loves them both.  Me...at the moment I went on camera,
+hundreds of people around the country no doubt started calling America's Most
+Wanted and screaming, "I SAW HIM!  HE'S ON TV!"
+
+     Then a zip back to the studio to meet with Larry and give story notes on
+his new script, "TKO," which has a *very* interesting Ivanova B-story; then
+another meeting; then race across town to spot (slug where music and sound EFX
+go) one episode, finish the mix on another episode, race back to the stage for
+a final meeting, leave late this evening, find literally *hundreds* of
+messages on various systems now that the show is airing (this in the last 24
+hours), plow through those...and now will be up the rest of the night writing
+the second part of the two-parter we're shooting this season, "A Voice in the
+Wilderness."
+
+     Yikes!
+
+     (And lest anyone think I'm not paying attention...*many* thanks for the
+many kind comments here.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 13        Tue Feb 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:13 EST
+
+                                 eeeek!
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 41        Thu Feb 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:37 EST
+
+     Oh, god, did the Dance Theater of Harlem line get in there?  I don't
+believe it....
+
+     Yes, you'll see places in the show where they can and do congregate; the
+briefing room, the conference room, the mess hall...the observation dome is a
+place to *do* stuff, not so much talk about stuff.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 44        Thu Feb 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:33 EST
+
+     Re: blue collar nuts and bolts types..."By Any Means Necessary."
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 48        Thu Feb 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:05 EST
+
+    Yes, post away.
+
+                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 73        Sat Feb 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:31 EST
+
+     What a weird day...filming "Babylon Squared," and one minute I'm standing
+in the anteroom/hallway of a Minbari cruiser that leads into the Great Hall
+and the chambers of the Grey Council...a few minutes later I'm standing in a
+section of Babylon 4, and the whole atmosphere of the crew is *very*
+different, the whole sensibility is strange...very strange.
+
+     Just cast Theodore Bickell in an episode entitled "TKO," written by Larry
+DiTillio.  Also Greg McKinney appears in that episode.
+
+     Finished writing the second half of our two-parter, "A Voice in the
+Wilderness."  We go off the station for this one.
+
+     Just one last episode to write, and we're finished with the scripts for
+this season.  How weird.  Seems like we barely started.  Finishing filming on
+#17.
+
+     "Babylon Squared" has a *very* different look to it, and a very eerie and
+foreboding feel about it, which I like a lot.  Jim Johnston, who directed
+"Soul Hunter" and several others is doing it.  Very moody.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 84        Sat Feb 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:19 EST
+
+     At some point this season we will go down to the planet, yes.
+
+     And yes, Babylon 4 is the one that vanished.  And the end of this one
+should raise a LOT of new questions....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 98        Sun Feb 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:51 EST
+
+     Chris and Terry...general agreement.  With a point to add: when I've
+spoken highly of this series, from my POV I'm talking about the series as a
+whole being something very different.  Yes, you'll see it in flashes here and
+there, but the cumulative effect is what I'm going for.  (Now obviously you
+can't expect everyone to see the whole thing, that's not going to happen, and
+I'm not planning on it, every episode *must* still stand nominally by itself
+and be entertaining on its own terms.)
+
+     To use a metaphor, this is a marathon.  I intend for this show to go
+further than has been seen before.  Some people, seeing that only a faew first
+steps have been taken on that journey, say they're not impressed because it
+hasn't gone very far.  And they're missing the point.  We're barely out of the
+starting gate, and we have miles to cover.
+
+     But they're *entitled* to feel this way, and I have no real problem with
+it.  I have been very patient for seven years; now we wait, we put the show
+out there, we ride out the ST comparisons...and then, gradually, as the show
+goes on week after week, people are going to begin seeing where we're
+going...and wondering just how far we'll manage to go with it.
+ So by the end of the season, the full cumulative effect will be there.
+
+     Fortunately, most folks will have a pretty good sense of what that is
+after episode #6, "Mind War."  I don't think someone should have to wait
+around a full season to start picking up stuff and seeing, for lack of a more
+original term, the shape of things to come.
+
+     This is going to be a revolutionary series, with the emphasis on the word
+SERIES.  Some episodes -- like "Parliament," "Sky," "Mind War" and others --
+are definitely extraordinary.  But for me, it's always been the series as a
+whole.
+
+     I'm glad the episodes are doing well, and glad they hold up to some
+pretty close scrutiny.  But this is a marathon...and we have far to go.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 108       Sun Feb 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:47 EST
+
+     I watch *every* version.  I watch the daililes.  I look at the director's
+cut.  Then John Copeland and I go in to make the producer's cut.  We watch it
+again a few times, futzing with it as we go.  I watch the on-line version.  I
+watch the color-corrected version.  I watch it again after we've added in the
+SFX.  I watch it while we spot the episode (determing where music and sound
+effects go).  I watch it again when we do the mix-down to add music and sound.
+I watch it again to make sure it's all cohesive, on my home system, to make
+sure it translates okay (we mix in a fancy sound stage, with killer speakers,
+which most folks won't have).
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 123       Tue Feb 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:40 EST
+
+     I've only had B5 related dreams a few times...thankfully.  I need SOME
+time away from it.
+
+     Re: the statement that it took the soul hunter's ship "literally seconds"
+to reach B5...nope.  Sinclair left the observation dome, went down to the
+bays, got into his EVA suit, and had the ship prepped.  So it was more than 2
+seconds.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 127       Tue Feb 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:17 EST
+
+     We've had a couple of dj's on the show, don't recall the names off hand.
+And yes, in general, for most practical purposes, P12 is about the upper
+limit.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 136       Wed Feb 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:42 EST
+
+     I'm confused...I got a note today about an RTC here tonight, but it's not
+on the schedule  or on the opening screen.  Is it tonight that I'm due on, or
+Friday night?
+
+                                                       jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 147       Thu Feb 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:56 EST
+
+     Major fan of The Prisoner, yes.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 150       Thu Feb 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:32 EST
+
+      Here's the tentative schedule for episodes past "Mind War," which
+ airs in three weeks:
+
+      March 9 -  "The War Prayer," by D.C. Fontana
+        "   16 - "And the Sky Full of Stars," by jms
+        "   23 - "Deathwalker," by Larry DiTillio
+        "   30 - "Believers," by DAvid Gerrold
+      April 6  - "Survivors," by Marc Scott Zicree
+
+      At first it looked like there was going to be a batch of reruns
+ after "Mind War," but PTEN is so happy with the ratings that they do NOT
+ want to interfere with the momentum.  Which makes me very happy as well.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 158       Thu Feb 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:29 EST
+
+     There was a fairly negligible drop in #2, from 7.0 to 6.5 rating, mainly
+because the week of the second show was the beginning of sweeps period, which
+is when all the networks and local stations drag out their big guns and the
+competition increases *considerably*.  In addition, a show generally drops 1
+or 2 ratings points after its premiere; only  one-half of one-percent is
+extremely good.  Apparently, from PTEN ratings research, we're performing well
+above their expectations.
+
+     The demographics are *extremely* good...hitting exactly the audience that
+advertisers want.  For a series with no franchise going in, we're still far
+beyond expectations.  The overnight from L.A. -- which is all I have in hand
+at the moment -- from "Purple" is a 7.4 rating with an 11 share, which is
+consistent with the prior weeks, so we're holding steady.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 163       Fri Feb 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:14 EST
+
+     Well, open mouth, insert foot....as I said, it had been *tentatively*
+decided to fully revise the schedule, for the reasons given.  Then someone
+remembered the November sweeps.  If we do all new episodes through as
+planned, we'd have *nothing* for the November sweeps, we'd be done.  So we had
+to ajust a bit, so there will be 2 or 3 more after "Mind War" that're new,
+culminating in "Sky," then 3-4 reruns, then picking up again.  Sweeps are
+*very* important for the stations, and since the show is doing well, they
+don't want to waste episodes in non-sweeps periods.
+
+     Meanwhile...it occured to me the other day that I've finished the last
+script I'm going to write for this season of B5.  Seems like we just got
+started, and now I ain't got no more scripts to write for a while, until PTEN
+decides whether or not to pick us up.  It's weird; kinda like coming home one
+day to find your car is no longer in your garage.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 169       Fri Feb 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:35 EST
+
+     Don't you threaten me....
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 204       Sun Feb 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:22 EST
+
+     A couple of network affiliates have bumped their regular programming and
+have just taken on B5.  Including an ABC affiliate.  Interesting...
+
+     Took a bit of a day to myself, got out, saw "Fool Moon" in its L.A.
+appearance (saw it in NY last year, off-broadway), with Bill Irwin and his
+partner, and if you're in L.A., *see* this thing.  Just wonderful.  Went with
+Harlan and Susan, and just before it stared, in comes Mick Jagger with his
+wife and three kids, and they sit in the row in front of us, and Harlan (who
+toured with 'em for a while for some articles) and he strike up a
+conversation, and we're all chatting.  A very nice fellow, very quiet believe
+it or not.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 236       Tue Feb 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:12 EST
+
+     Groups like the Grey Council, the Bene Gesserit, and others are part and
+parcel of mythology...whether it's the council of the gods, the twelve
+apostles, the councils of wizards and elves in Lord of the Rings...they are
+consistent with the myths we have created for ourselves, and thus pop up all
+over the place.  (Did I mention the Round Table of Camelot?)
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 241       Tue Feb 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:44 EST
+
+     Well, we're doomed...I just realized today that our first *really* strong
+episode, "The Parliament of Dreams," airs the same night (in most markets, the
+23rd) as the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan face off in the olympics.
+
+     Imagine a silence vast as space...that sound is neilsen ratings meters
+stuck unmovingly on CBS....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 249       Wed Feb 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:22 EST
+
+     Remember, the bears are not what they seem.....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 262       Thu Feb 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:15 EST
+
+     Okay...here's a request for a favor.
+
+     As of this week, "Infection" is more or less past us, and now two of our
+better shows are coming up; two real favorites, "The Parliament of Dreams" and
+"Mind War."  These give a much better sense of what this show is *really*
+capable of doing.  (BTW, add "Raiding Party" and "Babylon Squared" to my list
+of favorites from this season; the former shows that you can come damned close
+to the level of action-oriented space EFX in "Return of the Jedi" in TV.
+Really amazing stuff.)
+
+     Anyway...if there are people you know who haven't given the show a look,
+or have been uncertain...these are the shows to have them watch.   You can
+tell commend these two episodes to them without reservation.  If you would
+want to convey that to those you know, we'd appreciate it.  This is really a
+chance were B5 can shine.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 265       Thu Feb 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:39 EST
+
+     We'd gotten Patrick for Knight 2 in "Sky," based on his reaction to the
+script...only to discover that he was going to be out of the country when we
+were going to shoot it.  He's *very* particular about what he does, and the
+scripts he does, so this was something of a compliment (and I think he
+could've related to where we were going with it), but we'll just have to try
+again on something else; I'd love to have him in an episode sometime.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 273       Thu Feb 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:08 EST
+
+     Dana: please list for me any promises that I have not kept.  I have
+spoken about the series overall, and I have spoken about those individual
+episodes that I think are terrific.  I said that "Sky" would be like a leap
+ahead of most anything produced for american SF-TV before. And I stand by
+that.  "Sky" hasn't aired yet.  It will in 4 weeks.  I said that I liked
+"Soul," loved "Parliament" and "Mind War," and wasn't terribly big on
+"Infection," with "Midnight" and "Purple" somewhere toward the back of the
+pack of this first batch.
+
+     I am, and have been, *very* careful about what I say here, and to avoid
+over-hyping.  You're keeping me to promises that I haven't made, or applying a
+promise made about one episode to another, which is more than a little unfair.
+Show me what I've said here that has been inaccurate.   Otherwise, I have
+nothing to apologize for.
+
+     And one other thing: I'm not "begging" fans to do anything.  I'm pointing
+out that the next two are killer episodes, and if there's anyone somebody
+knows who hasn't been wowed yet, *those* are the shows that'll do it.  That's
+all.
+
+     Dana, if you don't like it, don't watch it.  It's really that simple.
+I've said before that this show will stand or fall on its own quality, not on
+anything I've said here.  And I stand behind that.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 289       Fri Feb 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:39 EST
+
+     Dana, I've sat here for ten minutes trying to figure out how to explain
+and answer your question...but I think that the very best way of conveying
+that information is contained in the next two episodes, with "Sky" as the
+capper.  We've barely been on the air yet, have shown only the basic episodes
+designed to slowly bring people into our unvierse before getting weird...I've
+said from the start: don't give us a season to get interesting.  Just six
+episodes.  If we don't grab you by then...switch channels.
+
+     The other element to all this -- and I said this many times, here, prior
+to the episodes -- is that if someone says to you, "This is gonna be a great
+series," you or I begin to imagine and see in our heads the show WE would
+consider perfect.  And the product is destined never to be that show, unless
+you're actually creating it.  Some people will hate or be disappointed by ANY
+series, regardless of quality, and some people will love a show, again
+regardless of quality.  There's a bell-curve of viewers.  The question is
+where does the curve skew the most, toward the positive or the negative?  We
+talk about HIll Street a lot...but there are a LOT of people who couldn't
+*stand* the show.  Still can't.
+
+     In a hit series -- *major* hit -- 50% of the people really enjoy the
+show, 30% think it's okay, and 20% think it's absolutely horrible.   That
+happens.  As long as those numbers don't reverse themselves, you're okay.
+
+     But like I said...when TNG hit the air, everybody was willing to give it
+the benefit of the doubt for the *entire first season* and hope it got better
+in the second year.  We're not asking for that.  All I can say is that
+"Parliament," "Mind War" and "Sky" are far more emblematic of what this show
+is, and will become, than any of the other episodes.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 290       Fri Feb 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:57 EST
+
+     P.S.  Just as a reminder to anyone looking on...before we began airing
+episodes, I posted my list of favorite episodes of the first six.
+ I'll repost that here now:
+
+     1) "The Parliament of Dreams"
+     2) "Mind War"
+     3) "Soul Hunter"
+     4) "Midnight on the Firing Line"
+     5) "Born to the Purple"
+     6) "Infection"
+
+     Plugging in the addition of two new episodes that'll be aired after "Mind
+War," I'd put the new lineup of the first eight in this order of personal
+favorites:
+
+     1) "The Parliament of Dreams"   
+     2) "And the Sky Full of Stars"       (A tie with "Parliament")
+     3) "Mind War"
+     4) "Soul Hunter"
+     5) "Midnight on the Firing Line"
+     6) "Born to the Purple"
+     7) "The War Prayer"
+     8) "Infection"
+
+     I think that the first list comes pretty close to the majority of views
+I've seen expressed here thus far.  We'll see more after the next two air.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 294       Fri Feb 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:14 EST
+
+     I dunno...I think there's a difference between a genuine difference of
+opinion, and a hatchet job.  Reactions to a show are going to vary, and all
+observations can be learned from.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 334       Sat Feb 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:23 EST
+
+     I'd be inclined to ask your friend at the store to hold back any such B5
+vs. DS9 debate until we've aired the first season.  Otherwise it's really not
+very fair.  It's like comparing two books, one of whom you've read completely,
+the other of which you've read only the first couple of chapters.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 351       Sun Feb 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:56 EST
+
+     ST/B5 definitely isn't an either/or situation, neither is it a
+competition since in most markets, they're on the *same station*.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 360       Mon Feb 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:44 EST
+
+     BTW...for those in the L.A. area...our Conceptual Consultant on B5,
+Harlan Ellison, is having a special presentation, "On Being a Writer, An
+Evening with Harlan Ellison."  It's being put on by the Learning Tree
+University one time only on March 1st from 7-10 p.m.  He'll be talking about
+writing, ethical standards, cultural illiteracy and politica (political)
+correctness, among many and varied other topics.
+
+     The price is a pittance -- $39 -- and information can be had on this by
+calling 818-882-5599.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 403       Thu Feb 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:40 EST
+
+     Na'Toth is played by Caitlin Brown.
+
+                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 404       Thu Feb 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:42 EST
+
+      BTW, for the satellite-people among us, the uplink of B5 has been moved
+to Fridays at 2 p.m. pacific time.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 443       Sun Feb 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:58 EST
+
+     It depends; in most places, it's held solid, other places it dips if
+there's something of local interest on another channel (i.e., a local sporting
+event), other places it's gone up.  As long as it stays overall within a point
+or two of the goal, if it generally builds over the previous hour, and the
+demographics are good (which they are), you're in good shape.  There's a *LOT*
+of variance in syndicated ratings.
+
+     Needless to say, though, we got *creamed* by the Tonya/Nancy Show.
+Which got a 64 share, the 3rd biggest ratings for a sporting event in history.
+But then, *everybody* got beat up by that one, so again it's okay.
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 448       Mon Feb 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:30 EST
+
+     B4 never got as far as having a commander attached to it.  The last
+stages of construction on Babylon 4 were supervised by one Major Krantz,
+assigned specifically to that task.  He managed to get the station completed,
+and on-line, and Earthforce was just beginning the process of selecting a
+commanding officer to run the station when, 24 hours after the station became
+operational, it vanished, taking roughly 1,200 of its skeleton crew with it
+(including Major Krantz).
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 449       Mon Feb 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:42 EST
+
+     BTW...before I forget (again), the syndicated radio show, the Mike and
+John Show will be broadcast *live* from the B5 studios this Monday (tomorrow)
+from 3-7 p.m. EST.  It's on WJFK in D.C., and also carried in Baltimore,
+Miami, Tampa Bay, Indianapolis, Reno, Rochester, Buffalo and Fresno.  Most of
+the cast will be interviewd, along with me and some of the other producer-
+types.  Walter Koenig will also be on the air.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+Babylon 5 offically became a series on May 28 '93. There will be 22 hour eps
+for season one (in addition to the pilot). Airs Wednesdays at 8PM in most
+places starting Jan. 26 '94.  This is the SPOILER topic where anything goes.
+
+557 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 244       Wed Feb 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:05 EST
+
+     The alien sector is *primarily* for those who require alternate
+atmospheres; oxygen-breathing aliens can live elsewhere.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 251       Thu Feb 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:59 EST
+
+     Many aliens (all who require alternate atmosphere) live in the alien
+sector.  Those who can breathe oxygen can live in other areas, but tend to
+congregate with other non-humans in the oxygen sections of the alien sector.
+The ambassadors have their own environment supported quarters in the Green
+Sector, which is the high-security area for diplomats.
+
+     Humans have the highest clearance level because this is a human run and
+operated (for the most part) station.  This isn't the Federation; the Earth
+Alliance would *never* allow a non-human to have highest clearance.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 274       Fri Feb 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:57 EST
+
+     Re: Sinclair's actions toward the Soul Hunter...the device he uses was
+trained on Delenn.  It was spiraling up to full power throughout the scene.
+Just as Sinclair's thrown, you see it starting to come to critical mass...it's
+shooting at Delenn.  There isn't/wasn't time to sit there and figure out how
+it works, and shut off the right button.  He turned it so that it faced away
+from her...and the Hunter was caught in his own machine.
+
+     There was nowhere else to go with the machine.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 295       Sat Feb 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:23 EST
+
+     To the question about a Soul Hunter's strength...yes, it is *very*
+considerable.  Even with one arm he was able to slam the hell out of the
+commander, pick him up and again slam him against a wall before throwing him
+about 10 feet across the room.  Had he not been stopped, and stopped good,
+yes, he would've torn Sinclair to ribbons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 320       Tue Feb 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:43 EST
+
+     It was "Med-Alert."  Not "Bab-Alert."
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 385       Thu Feb 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:03 EST
+
+     Louise: thanks.
+
+     Anything else in response would be redundent.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 421       Sat Feb 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:31 EST
+
+     Nope, we don't do the threaten-ambassadors stuff much; in fact, as I
+think of it, that *might* be the last real biggie, though certainly they get
+into considerable trouble from time to time in other ways.  That's too easy a
+story, thus it behooves us not to do it overmuch.
+
+     And like I said...I have problems with "Infection" as well, so there is
+no flame from me.  I guess part of it is knowing what was in the script that
+should've been carried off better, but wasn't.  And part of it is my fault; I
+tried to use the Nelson/machine as a metaphor; it wasn't supposed to be about
+the Nelson/machine, but about the kind of people who would create it, the kind
+of people who would sell it, and the kind of people who would confiscate it
+even KNOWING what it was (and of course the kind of people who would *use*
+it).  Unfortunatly, when you put  somebody in that kind of suit, that
+*becomes* the story, and from that point on you're pretty much doomed.  It was
+also in places too much an obvious metaphor, and the "hand of the author" is
+showing too much.  It was the first script written for this season, after the
+long break after the pilot, and I think I was trying to find the characters'
+"fingerprints" and getting into the flow of the series, which took a script or
+two.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 426       Sun Feb 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:09 EST
+
+     Mike: for you to say that the racism issue is one that has been beaten to
+death in the last X-years, that including it in the first 22 episodes is "a
+sad tale:"
+
+     I live in L.A.  Does the name Rodney King ring a bell?  Or the L.A.
+riots?
+
+     Maybe you don't like the treatment of an issue -- that's fine -- but I
+reserve the right to try and address issues that I consider important.   Maybe
+you think it's been said.  But it bears repeating.  As someone once noted, "Of
+course everything has already been said.  But since no one was listening, we
+must begin again."
+
+`                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 429       Sun Feb 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:58 EST
+
+     I'd slice this a little finer and suggest that it wasn't so much the
+*stupidity* of racism and the whole genetic purity aspect, but the
+IMPRACTICALITY of such ideas.  If you follow the idea to its logical
+conclusion, *nobody* is pure.  Which was kind of the point.
+
+     And oddly enough, there's a pro-genocide discussion in "Deathwalker."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 450       Thu Feb 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:22 EST
+
+     A parliament is a gathering of representatives, in this case the
+representatives of various belief systems; the dreams are the religions
+themselves.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 453       Thu Feb 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:04 EST
+
+     I think it would've done better as a Short Subject.
+
+     Sorry; there's no one more critical of my work than me, and when it comes
+to "Infection," I'd just kinda prefer it if it kinda vanished in the night.  I
+feel that way about only two episodes out of 22, so that's not too bad, I
+suppose.  But in any event, I don't think there's *nearly* enough there to
+make into a two-parter.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 456       Thu Feb 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:30 EST
+
+     The Xon?  Dead.  All of them.  And good riddance.
+
+     RE: the glasses...it's not something I've been able to figure out how to
+mention, but the Narn pride themselves on their physical perfection.  Hence
+there is no market for physical aides; it's something to be ashamed of.  So
+they have to crib stuff from other species, like glasses that have a
+prescription close enough to be useful.
+
+     I have *no* idea how to work that into a script, and am not sure it is
+even a good idea to do so.
+
+     Kosh was otherwise engaged....
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 465       Thu Feb 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:13 EST
+
+     Actually, many of the alien races do *not* have monolithic religious
+beliefs.  You'll note that G'Kar didn't take part in the festival from the
+Narn POV.  You'll see Narn beliefs in "By Any Means Necessary," and there it's
+mentioned that there are many different beliefs among Narns, G'Quon and G'Lan
+being the two larger systems.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 478       Fri Feb 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:46 EST
+
+     The problem with "Infection" from a writing POV is that it was the FIRST
+one written for this season, and I was having a hard time finding the
+"fingerprints" of the characters again after so much time had passed after the
+pilot (it was nearly a year between the revising/shooting of the pilot, and
+the writing of the first series script).  As on *any* show, it takes a while
+to get up to speed once you hit series.  That was the real problem, and there
+wasn't any real way to get past it except to write it, re-acquaint myself with
+the characters, and move on.  I probably would have opted out of doing it had
+we had more scripts on hand, but we didn't.  And oddly, many on the production
+team *liked* the script quite a lot, and kept saying it had to be done.
+
+     Of all the scripts I've written, the only one that I'm less than
+absolutely 100% thrilled with is "The Quality of Mercy," because I wrote it
+while absolutely sick with the flu, and have NO memory even of writing it.  As
+it is, though, I'm about 90% happy with it, particularly the B-story with
+Londo and Lennier, which came out great.
+
+     So out of 12 scripts that I've done for this season, I'm absolutely
+pleased with 10 and 1/2 of them.  I created this show because I wanted to
+write for it; to not do so kind of misses the point.  I think that my scripts
+for "Parliament," "Mind War," "Sky," "Babylon Squared," "A Voice in the
+Wilderness," and "Chrysalis" represent some of the best work I've ever done.
+And I think you'll agree.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 481       Sat Feb 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:23 EST
+
+     Is this 470/13/5?  I haven't been in a while...maybe I'd better look....
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 483       Sat Feb 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:23 EST
+
+     They don't.  Never said they did.  Centauri have a pantheon.  The Narns
+(as we'll see in "By Any Means Necessary") have several different competing
+religions.  Only two religions -- Centauri and Ikarran -- have a similar
+historical thread in the Great Maker, with the small addition of those worlds
+conquered by the Centauri which have adopted Centauri religion (or been forced
+to do so, as has happened here on our own world).
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 496       Sat Feb 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:23 EST
+
+     Sure, I could've gotten them into bed by the second act...but that wasn't
+the point.  What I wanted to show, what interests me, is the give and take
+leading up to that moment, the feints and parries and "how do we get past
+this?"  That to me is some of the most interesting stuff in a relationship.
+
+     Re: the newspaper...it's not printed in conventional fashion.  You
+program in your interests, and every morning a pre-filtered copy of UT is
+printed up in your quarters, on synthetic recycleable material.  You ript it,
+carry it, toss it.  Very simple, and probably within our own grasp in the next
+5 years.
+
+     (I.e., imagine a computer set to scan the wire services, look for certain
+keywords, download the articles, and during the night load the articles into a
+pre-set design format and automatically print them up on your laser printer so
+they're waiting in the morning.)
+
+     I didn't say that Earth was the ONLY one with diverse religions.  I don't
+understand why it is that when ONE thing is shown, it means that's the ONLY
+thing.  It's not.  Narns, as we'll see in "By Any Means Necessary," have
+several competing beliefs.  The idea of the festival wasn't to compare and
+contrast, only to show what *we* (whoever *we* is) believes.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 500       Sat Feb 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:21 EST
+
+     Oh, there's *lots* more surprises and sucker punches than that in the
+show...trust me.
+
+     BTW...someone dropped me an email note mentioning in passing that
+somewhere else there's a discussion going on about *this* discussion, and
+indicating that my presence here inhibits criticism of B5.
+
+     First, if I believed that, I wouldn't be here.  Second...it ain't true.
+
+     Along with logging on here and on a number of other systems under my own
+name, there are a few BBSs -- regional and national -- which have B5
+discussions giong on where I also hang out...but either under a pseudonym, or
+without leaving messages, thus no one knows I'm lurking.  I do this in order
+to get an unbiased view of the show, without my presence affecting the
+discussion one way or another.  Call it a control group, if you will.
+
+     And on those forums where I'm not known to be there, what you get are
+generally "I liked it" or "I didn't like it," about as broad as that.   Very
+little of the (to use the phrase of others) nits and detailed analyses that go
+on on the systems where I *am* known to hang out.  Since there's a conduit for
+direct feedback to the show, people here and on the other services where I'm
+on as myself tend to provide MORE criticism of the show, not less.  In some
+cases, the occasional person may feel that he HAS to find something to nit at,
+because there is the implicit request for feedback.
+
+     Nor do I try to get in the way of negative feedback; if I think that
+someone is getting personal in an attack, or making an unfair accusation, or
+blaming me for something that the show never did...I fire back.  I try to
+answer all questions as non-judgmentally as possible, and if someone asks if
+something's going to be done, point to the forthcoming episode where it *is*
+done.
+
+     I don't try to change people's opinions here (I let the show do that),
+don't try to intimidate people into silence (I don't think it's *possible* to
+intimidate this particular group in *any* event), and I have a much lower
+estimation for those who skulk off in dark corners to mutter their criticisms
+of the discussion here than speak openly.  I'm insulted by the allegation, and
+frankly think that anyone here who has been taking part in the discussion here
+should feel insulted about being portrayed as spineless and toadying, which is
+the implicit statement behind the allegation.
+
+     If I *ever* got the impression that my presence here was inhibiting an
+open discussion, inhibiting criticism, I'd log off.  But near as I can tell,
+being here *encourages* criticism, in greater volume than elsewhere.  The day
+that changes, I'm outta here.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 520       Sun Feb 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:11 EST
+
+     Yes, the meal *was* very expensive, as much as a room for a week.   If
+you're going to go after something as costly to import as wine (the major
+expense), then you're going to pay *bigtime* for it.
+
+     Mr.T...it was my intent to imply in the scene with the guard and Bester
+("nothing, just a drill") that he DID scan the guard's mind.  He found out
+what he was hiding (which is how he managed to show up to try and cut
+Ironheart off from his escape), exchanged a glance with Kelsey, and headed
+away quickly.  If this didn't come through, it might not have been
+sufficiently clear.  Note that the guard doesn't finish his sentence, and
+sorta drifts off....
+
+     Shane: am I unaffected by what I see here?  How could I be?  I'm as much
+flesh and blood as anyone here (well, most anyone).  I listen.  I learn.
+Someone once asked the Pope how he'd describe his job: "See everything.
+Ignore a lot.  Change a few things."  I generally listen hard to ANY opinion,
+and if it makes sense, modify my own.  I've been iffy on how n'grath has been
+presented, and with the reactions, I've pretty much decided to either kill him
+off or modify the way he is handled come next season (PTEN willing).  On an
+emotional level, sure, it's hard, but that comes with the territory.  If
+you're going to stay out here on the net, you're going to hear opinions and
+reactions -- often stated without much politeness -- that you really don't
+want to hear.  That's life.  To quote master philosopher Tom Servo, "Deal with
+it, pink boy."  It's kind of like being in a workshop with, oh, 3,000 people
+giving you notes on what you've just written, and very rarely do any two of
+them agree.  It can make you crazy.  But since I'm long past crazy, I get by.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 529       Sun Feb 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:15 EST
+
+     (Trying to run it all through my head...I don't think we see Kosh for a
+while...he's not in "Mind War," not in "The War Prayer" or in "Sky," and the
+first one up after reruns is, I believe "Believers," in which Kosh *does* make
+an appearance, being as cryptic as ever.  We tend to use Kosh sparingly.  The
+one story in which he plays a significant role and has a lot of on-camera time
+is "DeathWalker."  He's also in "Grail," and "Chrysalis," and some others,
+though they slip my mind at the moment.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 533       Mon Feb 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:32 EST
+
+     Here's the thing...I never said once, *anywhere*, that the Minbari change
+sex.  When I mentioned that we were going to have a female playing a male,
+somehow this came up...but I *never said it*.  This was just another
+speculation that took off and accumulated a life of its own.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 538       Mon Feb 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:08 EST
+
+     The Xon weren't any more evil or good than the race that survived; two
+equally sentient species emerged on the Centauri homeworld over the course of
+evolution.  They were more or less separated by distance and land masses and
+oceans, so there was little contact until either side developed the technology
+required to find the other.  It was the next best thing to a first contact
+situation, except it's on their own world; they were very much alien to one
+another.  Somewhere along the line, it was decided that this world wasn't big
+enough for both of them, so they began a campaign of slaughter against each
+other.  Londo's people won.
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 541       Mon Feb 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:32 EST
+
+     The quote is incorrect in any event; that was one *possibility* that we
+had discussed, that's not set in stone.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 546       Mon Feb 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:36 EST
+
+     No, I said that if I genuinely believed that my presence here was
+inhibiting open and frank discussion, I would withdraw, because that's unfair
+to those using the system.
+
+     Re: the difference as to why Sinclair reacted the way he did...they SPOKE
+to him in his head, the same way they did to the guard in customs.   This is
+different than just "listening" to someone's thoughts, so to speak.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 551       Mon Feb 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:54 EST
+
+     No, I never said the *Minbari* change sex.  And I didn't.  I indicated
+that Delenn would end up female.  There's a difference.  And that's all I can
+say on it for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+     (And the Minbari *don't* change sex.)
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Cast & Characters        
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+372 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 239       Tue Feb 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:53 EST
+
+    T.Schell...you mean like the hispanic doctors that appear in such B5
+episodes as "Believers?"  And "Chrysalis?"  And "Deathwalker?"  And the native
+american in "Parliament?"  And the many other black, asian and other-ethnic
+guest characters we've used in "Mind War" and other episodes?
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 269       Sat Feb 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:25 EST
+
+     For the most part, lower level types don't know the names of those in the
+Grey Council (speaking of Minbari for a moment).  They are kept fairly
+anonymous to avoid the cult of personality arising.  You'll see the full
+extent to which they preserve their anonymity in some of the upcoming
+episodes, specifically "Sky" and "Babylon Squared."
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 275       Sun Feb 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:50 EST
+
+     I try to keep things to a need-to-know basis.  Sometimes you don't want
+the future to influence an actor's performance now.  And sometimes you *do*.
+Some know a little, some know a lot, some know only what's necessary for an
+individual episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 280       Tue Feb 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:44 EST
+
+     Better television reception.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 291       Fri Feb 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:15 EST
+
+     The computer voice belongs to Haley, our script supervisor.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 5         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            (Forwarded)
+Sub: Grid Epsilon Irregulars - News & Info.
+
+This topic is for information about Babylon 5 fan groups, newsletters,
+fanzines, get-togethers, B-5 at conventions, and other general fun.
+328 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 318       Thu Feb 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:24 EST
+
+     Ask Katherine to ask Christy....
+
+     I made it clear I've got nothing to do with this, it's their (Christy's)
+responsibility.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 10        Thu Nov 12, 1992
+SANDMAN [Henry]              at 19:25 EST
+Sub: Sex in Babylon 5                     
+
+Can't do without this one!!
+
+
+367 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 337       Tue Feb 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:47 EST
+
+     Well, of course, the other thing to remember about Paul is that he had a
+real problem with women doing much of *anything*.  His letters about the role
+of women in church came out of his concern that women were taking too big a
+place in the church, and had to be pushed down.  If someone wants to yank out
+a biblical quote to put women "in their place," it's almost *always* one of
+Paul's.  He had a real problem with women.  (Yoko in particular.)
+
+                            jm(who has actually read the bible twice)s
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 349       Sun Feb 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:26 EST
+
+     Let's just say for now that you'll learn something very unusual about
+Centauri "intimacy" in "The Quality of Mercy."
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                  
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+511 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 447       Fri Feb 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:41 EST
+
+     Look for a B5 piece on Sci-Fi Buzz this Sunday; on KPCC on February 20th
+at 3:30 p.m. (or thereabouts); and on Channel 13 L.A. this coming wednesday
+(as part of their newscast).
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 455       Sun Feb 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:52 EST
+
+     ...i hate being interviewed...i don't want my mug on teevee...the STORY
+is the star, as far as i'm concerned....feh, feh, and in case you missed it
+the first time...feh.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 497       Thu Feb 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:53 EST
+
+     The 2nd B5 issue of Cinefantastique is already out.  Picked up a few
+copies the other day.  (They shipped with two different covers; one cover has
+Stephen King's The Stand on it, the other has B5 on it.)
+
+                                                      js
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 506       Fri Feb 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:32 EST
+
+     No, I don't think there's a 100% correlation; sometimes a show is
+absolutely awful, and is panned appropriately.  Sometimes a show tries to
+introduce a paradigm shift, and gets unfairly nailed.  And all of the other
+possibilities in-between.
+
+     I have learned from this experience one very important lesson: no matter
+what you do, somebody'll gig you for it.  If you put in action, they'll say
+the show has nothing to say and is shallow; if you put in esoteric stuff,
+they'll say it's pompous; if you spend time building your characters, they'll
+say it's slow; if you do a complex plot, they'll say there's no
+characterization; if you have no EFX, they'll say you're cheap; if you put in
+lots of EFX, they'll say you're just doing the old razzle-dazzle with nothing
+of substance...and on and on and on.
+
+     So, fundamentally, the only thing you can do is keep doing what it is
+you're doing, and be patient, letting people gradually see the full picture of
+what you're doing.  (Oh, yeah, and if you start off going for ambitious stuff,
+they'll say you're confusing; if you start gradually and work your way into
+the more complex stories after you've introduced the world and the characters,
+they'll say you're not innovative.)
+
+     I am content to be patient, and to continue telling the story I want to
+tell.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 13        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 21:00 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Science & Technology     
+
+Jump gates, nanotech, high-tech weapons, starship drives, sound in space, and
+other subjects of science and technology in Babylon 5.
+523 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 411       Thu Feb 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:33 EST
+
+     Actually, there's only one jump gate near B5, which can take you into or
+out of hyperspace.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 414       Thu Feb 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:38 EST
+
+     Of course, the station *does* have a VERY comprehensive defense system,
+which could've blown the ship (or any other incoming object) out of existence
+at any time; the only reason for waiting as long as possible was because of
+the first contact reprecussions....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 421       Fri Feb 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:04 EST
+
+     They weren't amazed that the ship activated the gate; they weren't
+expecting any ships in for a while (so sayeth Laurel), and thus were surprised
+that he arrived early.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 457       Tue Feb 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:50 EST
+
+     I loved the lensman books, and own first editions of just about the whole
+cycle.
+
+     Re: the helmets reflecting a tactical display...we actually tried this,
+and put in displays where they would actually be.  Problem is, unless you're
+shooting at an up-angle, which looks really weird, it's not bright enough to
+reflect much, unless you also REALLY make it bright, in which case it looks
+REALLY funky.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 459       Tue Feb 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:06 EST
+
+     That was our first excursion into DownBelow; we began modifying the
+wardrobe fairly quickly thereafter to present a more broad-based look.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 520       Sat Feb 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:34 EST
+
+     It's made to be adhesive to skin, but easily removed.
+
+                                                    jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 14        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:59 EST
+Sub: Lurkers/Introductions: Please Sign In
+
+A place for newcomers to come in, say hello, whether you want to jump into the
+conversation or not, just to let us know you're here.
+534 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 496       Tue Feb 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:47 EST
+
+     Re: Vertigo...some of the best writing being done today is by Neil Gaiman
+in the SANDMAN books...amazing stuff....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 502       Thu Feb 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:15 EST
+
+     Americanized version: struh-zin-ski.
+
+     Byeloruss (native) version: strah-chin-ski.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 533       Mon Feb 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:44 EST
+
+     Victoria...long as you're here...at this point it looks as if I won't be
+able to make it to the con.  I knew there was something brewing in August, and
+there are several somethings, primarily including San Diego ComicCon about a
+week earlier.  When we're in the middle of production, I can get away for
+*maybe* one con a month, but two is just impossible.  There's one slim chance
+that I might be around there for business purposes at some point around there,
+but that's still very much up in the air just now.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 15        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:29 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Alien Races              
+
+Aliens races in Babylon 5... their politics, abilties, technology, history,
+and any other discussion specificly about non-humans.
+
+451 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 421       Sun Feb 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:26 EST
+
+     Well, *I* always figured they did, but then I always figured they were
+marsupials, not reptilian...but that perception has gotten so much out there
+that I don't know if it can be recalled, and if I may have to just give on in
+that point.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 445       Thu Feb 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:07 EST
+
+     Don: Minbari is in part derived from a minbar, which is the name for the
+pulpit in a mosque.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Merchandising            
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+489 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 476       Tue Feb 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:38 EST
+
+     I have consultation rights on everything merchandised, to keep it within
+the proper B5 framework.  I'd like to keep that hand as light as possible,
+though...like I said, I'm curious to see what *others* can do with the show.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 486       Thu Feb 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:25 EST
+
+     BTW, Lee, next time you and I end up at the same con, give me some
+advance word, to bring something in exchange for the poster.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 24        Fri Jun 04, 1993
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:11 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Weapons and Warfare!     
+
+For discussion about the weapons, counter weapons, armor, shielding, tactics,
+logistics, and so forth, of small combat and large scale war in the Babylon 5
+universe.
+453 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 374       Sat Feb 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:29 EST
+
+     Correct; the distortion you're seeing is caused by superheating the air.
+When it collapses again -- the heat literally burns through the atmosphere,
+the same as lightning -- it would logically make a sound like a small
+thunderclap...so we sampled some thunder sounds, and interlaced some of the
+PPG sound with that as well.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 378       Sun Feb 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:41 EST
+
+     I'd thought Brett had answered that well, about the magnetic field
+keeping the stuff in.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 380       Sun Feb 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:52 EST
+
+     Yup.  Cumbersome.  And they say, "Here I am, shoot me."
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 383       Sun Feb 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:46 EST
+
+     There is a cycle-up period.  Whenever the PPG is going to be used, you
+can hear it powering up.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+    (Of course, once powered up, it doesn't need to do it again until after it
+fires the charge.)
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 387       Mon Feb 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:49 EST
+
+     Re: bullets...you're essentially shooting bullets inside a tin can.   The
+problem with ricochet is *incredible*.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 396       Tue Feb 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:52 EST
+
+     Yes, there are other divisions, including the Marines.  We'll see them,
+too, from time to time....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 398       Tue Feb 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:57 EST
+
+     Yes to both questions.
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 411       Thu Feb 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:16 EST
+
+     There are non-lethal weapons, including shock-sticks, which can be used
+to disable someone.  It looks something like a large baton and works kind of
+like a taser, only moreso.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 431       Wed Feb 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:31 EST
+
+     Oh, you will, you will....
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 434       Fri Feb 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:33 EST
+
+     The article is confused; the station has Alpha, Delta, and Gamma
+squadrons, composed of starfuries.  The final squadron, Zeta flight, will
+arrive in "Survivors."
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 436       Sat Feb 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:24 EST
+
+     Nope.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+     (Larry's last name is misspelled throughout.  A small joy for me.)
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 441       Sun Feb 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:13 EST
+
+     The photo caption is correct.  And I very much wish it weren't.
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 443       Sun Feb 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:23 EST
+
+     I didn't think anything was revealed about that...will go back and check.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 444       Sun Feb 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:26 EST
+
+     Wait...just checked.  No, don't worry...odd as it sounds, that doesn't
+reveal anything at all about Kosh.  You'll understand when you see the
+episode.  (Scared me for a minute there....)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 448       Sun Feb 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:16 EST
+
+     Trust me, that ain't it either.  That's all I can say without making this
+a spoiler.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 451       Mon Feb 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:33 EST
+
+     Nope.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 25        Fri Mar 12, 1993
+S.SHELLENBAR [>> SHANE <<]   at 08:47 EST
+Sub: J. Michael Straczynski Speaks in Public
+
+This is the place to find out where and when JMS will be appearing next.  JMS
+has honed his skills as a public speaker and is taking his act on the road.
+426 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 416       Sun Feb 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:38 EST
+
+     Wait...it's *11:30*?  I was told 1 p.m.  Can this be verified?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 26        Sun Jun 06, 1993
+G.PLANA [Gary]               at 01:51 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Episode titles and info  
+
+This topic is for information about individual episodes -- their titles,
+writers, and any other information JMS may leak!
+195 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 192       Tue Feb 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:27 EST
+
+     I can't comment on that last part for a while yet; will do so soon.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 27        Fri Feb 04, 1994
+W.SUDLOW [Raffles]           at 19:56 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 and Religion               
+
+A place to discuss Soul Hunters, Minbari reincarnation beliefs and other
+>metaphysical subjects. Feel free to compare and contrast with human
+religions, but *please* be considerate, and avoid entering realworld
+theological debates.
+32 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 27
+Message 2         Sat Feb 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:02 EST
+
+     Because we deal with religion a *lot* in this first season, we're giving
+it a break...but yes, there is some cross-fertilization.  I'd written a scene
+for one script, cut for time, featuring an alien in Catholic collar, a priest.
+And there should be humans who'd get into alien religions that are thousands
+of years older than our own.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 27
+Message 10        Tue Feb 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:58 EST
+
+     Speaking of handing someone a hot potato, if you think this one is a
+toughie, just wait for "Believers."  Yikes.
+
+     What the soul was, who's right, and even whether this is SF or Science
+Fantasy, was it explained enough to merit one over the other... how can I put
+this...?  I don't want to spoon-feed stuff to people.  What I want is not to
+hit someone with a MORAL, or a message, or "This is what a soul is," or "This
+is what makes it an SF series," I want to start discussions.  Arguments.
+Preferably a bar fight or two.
+
+     We present an issue.  Here are the sides.  Now...what do YOU think about
+it?  I want this show to ask, "Who are you?  Where are you going?"  That's
+half the fun.  Some of my favorites pastimes in college were sitting in the
+commons, or the library, arguing this stuff from every possible angle.  You
+think I'm gonna tell you what to think?  What it means?  No.  The goal is to
+provoke discussion.  Preferably passionate discussion.
+
+     Otherwise I might as well just start renting billboards and putting up
+signs.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 27
+Message 14        Thu Feb 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:59 EST
+
+     Yes, I do.
+
+     No, you don't.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+
+ ************
+Topic 4         Sat Oct 16, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 10:46 EDT
+Sub: Midnight on the Firing Line  (#103)  
+
+The first episode of the new series appearing in late January.
+
+190 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 4
+Message 151       Tue Feb 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:07 EST
+
+     Somone crossing *bang-banged* on the grate in the middle of the central
+corridor, and so Doyle hesitated, and we found we didn't have the coverage to
+collapse that one moment, or a replacement take.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 5         Sat Oct 16, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 10:49 EDT
+Sub: Soul Hunter  (#102)                  
+
+by JMS. The second sheduled episode of the new series.
+
+268 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 5
+Message 34        Wed Feb 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:52 EST
+
+     Mira's makeup is the same between episodes, and we'll be keeping the act
+structure you're seeing now.  Many thanks.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 5
+Message 36        Wed Feb 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:47 EST
+
+     Normally, I don't tend to respond to negatives, because I don't generally
+want to get in the way or be perceived to be getting in the way of criticism.
+I don't.  But I feel I have to respond to some of this.   If the show is open
+to criticism, then it seems to me that some of the critiques should be open as
+well.  And some of these I think are quitge unfair.
+
+     1) When did they move the jump gate (re: the time required to get from
+the gate by Kosh's ship, as opposed to the Hunter ship).  They/we didn't.
+Once again, and I wish people could remember this, Kosh's ship BEGAN TO
+DECELERATE the instant it emerged from the gate, in order to dock with B5
+without smashing into it.  The Soul Hunter ship was out of control, careening
+in at full speed.  (This was a widely discussed reason why the Vorlon fleet
+got to B5 so quickly as vs. Kosh's ship.  They were moving fast to get into
+striking position.)
+
+     2) The Hunter's ship was on autopilot, set to come out of the first  gate
+it came to.
+
+     3) There was still time for the station's defense grid to blow the ship.
+Yes, pieces would have continued onward, but a hell of a lot of its inertia
+would've been taken out by the incoming fire, and any remaining pieces
+would've either been taken out as well, or would have been so small as to not
+damage the hull (which is *very* thick at that point) given its blast-enforced
+deceleration.
+
+     4) Yes, Sinclair would've gone up with it.  You pays your money, you
+takes your chances.
+
+     5) There was no "the Earth is going to explode" story here; you have a
+ship colliding with the station, that has to be stopped.  It has to be stopped
+within the period between when it emerges from the gate, and the time it would
+collide.  You want to know how much time you have to work in.  Maybe it's a
+dramatic device, but it's also exactly what you would do.  What would you
+prefer?  "Lieutenant Commander, how much longer until impact?"  "Uh...I
+dunno...can you hang on a second?"
+
+     6) Re: the "funny forehead" comment...it was not what I've understood the
+FF syndrome to mean...a regular head with a little treatment on the front.
+This was a whole-head prosthetic, covering the entire back of the head.  So
+wrong on that one.  And re: n'grath having 6 legs rather than 4...who're you
+to say that?  Ever seen a praying mantis?  Do all insects all over the galaxy
+have to have six legs to qualify?  You don't like minimal makeup, you don't
+like full-body prosthetics...you understand that this comes out as "nothing
+will please me except a real alien."  You tell me where to find one in Central
+Casting, and I'll hire him.
+
+     7) Okay, here's my biggest gripe: the note that the soul aspect was Trek
+and "katra."  Let me be clear on this: I don't give a damn what Trek has or
+has not done now, long ago, or will do in the future.  We can't be constantly
+looking over our shoulder, limiting our universe because of another show.  If
+your only frame of reference when it comes to discussing the soul is Star
+Trek, then that's profoundly disappointing, but it's got nothing to do with
+me.  The basic concept goes back to the beginnings of civilization (that your
+soul can be captured somehow).  Further, there were no soul hunters in ST, it
+was placement of one's spirit in another body.   I'm getting real tired of the
+notion that if Trek did something, nobody else ever can do it.  Like the
+person who said that Trek invented nanotechnology, and thus when we used it in
+the pilot episode in the nanotech machine G'Kar swallows, we were just copying
+Trek's nanites.
+
+     I refuse to surrender creative control of this series to the ghost of
+Star Trek's used notions.  From time to time, we'll cross into areas they have
+also touched.  We'll touch it differently.  Deal with it.  But please don't
+put a Star Trek (tm) tag on the soul, and the history of the soul.
+
+     8) You say a guard's gun was taken *twice* in this episode.  Where is #2
+(if #1 is the medlab guard)?  I see a guard being attacked from behind, but
+not his gun being taken.
+
+     9) Re: the second soul hunter's makeup being "inferior" to the first:
+they were essentially exactly the same...same material, same design, minus the
+stone, which varied...I'm sorry, but they were made, applied and used in
+exactly the same way.
+
+     10) Why drain her of blood?  Why the hell not?  In some countries, that
+was  used as a means of execution.  Bleeding was also used (in theory) to
+heal.  Okay, let's say he used poison.  "Why use poison?" you probably
+would've asked.  "Oh, it was the old poison gag, and they find a convenient
+antidote."  There's no difference.
+
+     11) How did the hunter relate his sense of death to a wall map?  I ask
+again...why not?  If you can buy it happens at all, why not?  How is that any
+different than walking through a hall, or being drawn to a planet?  This is
+strictly a straw-man example, as is much of what you cite.
+
+     This, frankly, is what I find so offensive in your note.  You take things
+that as a matter of opinion you might have done differently, and then try to
+hold it up as a fault.  You set up straw man arguments that could be just as
+easily turned around on anything, mischaracterizing something in order to take
+a cheap shot.
+
+     12) Why didn't Sinclair link in when he found the hunter?  Because he
+only "found" the hunter when he was being SHOT AT.  And at that point you
+don't want to raise your voice because you'll be shot at again.
+
+     13) You complain that the soul globes seemed to wait until the moment
+Sinclair freed them to act (as though it were the bag that had been holding
+them in).  Sure, they could've emerged...and floated.  A lot of good that
+would've done them.  What they needed was someone who could stop him, and that
+was Sinclair's task.  They were able to distract the hunter long enough for
+that to happen.  Minus Sinclair, what were they supposed to do, bedazzle him
+to death?
+
+     14) Re: shining things into the camera = NBC Mystery Movie.  See point
+11a above.  I'm not responsible for your cultural reference points.
+
+     I don't mean to yell, but thing is, I don't mind genuine criticism, if we
+specifically do something that is objectively *wrong*.  If you don't like
+something, that's also fine.  But I'm tired of people who confuse opinion with
+fact, and that if it isn't done their way, then it isn't somehow *right*...and
+the notion that Star Trek has invented,  patented and qualified for sole claim
+on whole aspects of our history, literature, culture, theology and language,
+and that anybody who touches on these areas is just doing Trek stuff.
+
+     As far as I'm concerned, the Trek-soul-katra thing treated the soul as
+little more than a misplaced pair of sunglasses.  Here we tried to get into
+the issues *behind* the soul...where does it come from, where does it go, does
+it survive the death of the body, or does it go on...to give some mystery and
+beauty to the notion.  To have it dismissed as just another riff on katra is
+offensive and insulting and narrow.  And all of those issues just seemed to
+flit by without comment.
+
+     I don't mean to get angry, but this is one I'm very proud of, and to see
+it sideswiped and mischaracterized and straw-man'd to death in this fashion is
+just something that I had to respond to.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 5
+Message 41        Wed Feb 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:02 EST
+
+     Just one note...as I mentioned in my reply to your email, Torville, I
+have received and waded through literally *thousands* of critiques of B5, from
+the pilot to the first two episodes.  In all but maybe 5-6 of those, I keep my
+mouth shut.  The only time I can't avoid the tendency to respond is if I see
+something that I think is unfair, as I felt your message was unfair.  (And
+again in your latest, that the ship being on a collision course "doesn't
+advance the story."  That's simply silly.   The soul hunter is unconscious at
+the start.  Thus, his ship has to be on autopilot.  Thus if it comes in, once
+it's past the gate, it's out of control.  Sure, I suppose that I could've had
+it flying off at a whole different tangent, or just laying there in
+space...but this is a series with some measure of *action* to it.  I like to
+keep a good pace going.   Pacing is part of the story, advances the story.
+Thus it *does* advance the story.)
+
+     I have accepted, without comment, a *lot* of things that I disagreed
+with...sometimes holding to my own original view, sometimes altering my views
+when someone hits me over the head with a fact.  But I reserve the right,
+every 3,000 messages or so, to get, as you say in your signature, "miffed."
+And I'd note that *you* got miffed after just *one* critique of something you
+wrote...try 3,000 on for size some time.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+     ("I can see you're really upset about this, Dave...Dave...?)
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 5
+Message 61        Thu Feb 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:29 EST
+
+     Delenn was shattering the soul globes in order to let the souls escape,
+rather than playing with them.  Look on the floor around her, and you'll see
+shattered globes.  There should also be a sound of them breaking in her hands,
+the light goes out, and something escapes....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 5
+Message 78        Fri Feb 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:38 EST
+
+     One thing we discovered after making the pilot was that we had gotten so
+dark and moody in the thing that in some cases we walked into what (as I
+recall) are referred to as "illegal blacks."  Meaning it was *too* dark in
+places, and some foreign distributers (which apparently is where this is a
+problem) would balk at picking up the pilot.
+
+     The other thing, BTW, is that I haven't been much aware of any *major*
+lighting difference; we've upped it a bit, but not that much.  The other day I
+watched (for the first time) one of our shows actually being broadcast, and
+noticed that they cranked the luminescence WAY up there.   (This is a problem
+rampant through TV; when I was on "Murder," we'd do these great, moody scenes,
+and CBS would dial it up until it was nearly daylight.)  Some of the music was
+also stomped down, cutting out most of the low frequency stuff.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 5
+Message 104       Sat Feb 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:22 EST
+
+     Actually, it's "Med-Alert."
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 5
+Message 131       Sun Feb 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:14 EST
+
+     The spelling is Satai.  There are nine members of the Grey Council.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 5
+Message 145       Sun Feb 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:42 EST
+
+     Why is part of me tempted to decide that around the year 2223 the most
+revered figure in Earthforce Command was General Ira Asimov, a brilliant
+strategist for whom the liner was named....?
+
+     There are certain benefits to a design-your-own-future universe....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 5
+Message 167       Mon Feb 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:48 EST
+
+     John Drew: regarding your note that naming the starliner the Asimov is
+"not original" and "cliche"...I deeply admired Asimov.  Harlan Ellison, this
+series consultant, was as dear a friend to Asimov as anyone could be.
+ I named the starliner after Asimov shortly after his death, because I will
+personally miss him, and for Harlan, as his friend.
+
+     So regarding your "cliche" line...not to put too fine a point on it,
+screw off.  Get your own damned show.  This is mine.  The starliner originally
+was named something else.  If I choose, as an expression of loss, to name this
+ship after him, that's my right.  As far as I am concerned, that is the end of
+this discussion.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 5
+Message 185       Tue Feb 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:37 EST
+
+     Well, John, you can say it's unprofessional...but in your case, as
+someone who hosts/produces a talk show on SF, you of all people should be
+aware of the death of Asimov, of the place he held, of the affection many of
+us held for him...and to dismiss something meant to honor that memory (and his
+death is still fresh for many of us) as "cliche," frankly, as far as I'm
+concerned...you should've known better.  It's got nothing to do with me, and
+everything to do with knowing SF.
+
+     And maybe next time you'll wait, and inquire, before dismissing someone
+else's work as "lazy" and "unimaginative" and "cliche."  Yes, this is a place
+for opinion.  And if someone's opinion is based on fuzzy thinking, rudeness,
+prejudice or inaccurate information, I reserve the right to bonk that person.
+Hard.  Or are you saying that you can critique my writing, but I can't
+critique yours?  As I understand BBSs, it's an interactive service...one gives
+as well as receives.  I am not here to be a silent punching bag.  This has
+been a process of *give and take*.
+
+     And it is as blessed to give as to receive.
+
+     So I am twice blessed.  And so are you.
+
+     Deal with it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 5
+Message 193       Tue Feb 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:18 EST
+
+     John...when you go around shooting off your mouth and calling names and
+making cheap shots, you're going to have someone hand you your head from time
+to time.
+
+     There seems to be this perception of BBS etiquette as, "I can say
+anything I want about you, be as unfair as I like, but if you call me on it,
+if you respond in the same kinds of terms I use, then that's being
+unprofessional."
+
+     But then there have always been people who don't like it when the target
+fires back.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 5
+Message 201       Tue Feb 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:23 EST
+
+     He split before the third one could be shown to be also empty; when you
+know it's not going your way, split fast.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 5
+Message 225       Fri Feb 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:46 EST
+
+     BTW...someone sent me a note mentioning that somewhere or other  somebody
+was citing Dukhat (S.H.) and Dabo (BTtP) as "obvious pull-overs from ST," the
+first being a name in DS9, the latter being a game Quark plays.
+
+     In reverse order...the world mentioned isn't Dabo, it's Davo; second,
+Dukhat is a name that goes back as far as the original treatment, seven years.
+I am consistently amazed at how everyone thinks that everything emanates from
+ST.
+
+     This show does not DO "obvious pull-overs from ST."  Period.  We don't
+have to.  We're perfectly happy being our own show.  Why would ANY show,
+trying to make its own identity, do this stuff?
+
+     There are times I just despair....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 5
+Message 250       Mon Feb 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:57 EST
+
+     No, the coffin was named Jarvis.
+
+                                     jm(tongue firmly in cheek)s
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 5
+Message 259       Thu Feb 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:57 EST
+
+     Cindy: I don't find your 258 funny in the least regard.  I didn't "get"
+the idea from Buck Rodgers, and resent your comment.  Reconsider it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 5
+Message 264       Fri Feb 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:18 EST
+
+     I don't think that's correct, since the same feed went to both monitors.
+I think that the film camera may have *pushed in * on the other console, so we
+saw less of the picture on the monitor, but as far as I know, it was the same
+piece of tape running on both monitors.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 6         Sat Oct 16, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 10:50 EDT
+Sub: Born To The Purple  (#104)           
+
+by Larry DiTillio. A Londo episode.
+120 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 6
+Message 19        Sun Feb 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:43 EST
+
+     Yeah, that's a favorite line of lots of folks.  BTW, how did the preview
+of "Infection" look?  I haven't seen it yet.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 6
+Message 26        Wed Feb 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:26 EST
+
+     Regarding Ivanova...it's not really an attempt to pull at heart strings,
+as it is to establish that this is someone who's had, and is still having, a
+pretty rough life.  It's a real roller-coaster for her, and the way she
+survives it is to absolutely bottle it up inside.  She has had angst
+throughout her life, and she's in for more.
+
+     We start to track that in little ways that probably no one will notice,
+as well as making it the occasional story point.  A little way nobody'll
+notice: after this episode, she starts messing with her hair, which we'd
+deliberately set as extremely tight until now.  Suddenly she doesn't have
+someone for whom she has to be a certain way, and she has to start finding her
+*own* identity, and it ain't easy.
+
+     Re: the club owner recognizing Sinclair (or not)...this is something we
+discussed.  Can Sinclair go places in the station and not be recognized?  In
+some cases, no.  In a place like the Dark Star, maybe so; this isn't the kind
+of place he generally hangs out in.  It's a question of how much day-to-day
+interaction somebody would have with him.  Yes, he's an important figure; but
+I'm not sure if I'd immediately recognize L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan at first
+glance, particularly in different style of dress, in an unusual location.
+We're *not* going to do it a lot -- just once this season -- but we thought it
+was a reasonable approach.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 6
+Message 58        Fri Feb 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:30 EST
+
+     This was a bit cut from the script for time; Gold Channels are ONLY for
+official use, they're high-priority channels that can go anywhere back on
+Earth.  Commercial communications are less reliable and only have a few
+channels available; you've got to wait for a call to go through.  To use a
+Gold Channel for personal communications is a No-No.
+
+     Sinclair is shot at in "Infection," yes...but then, EVERYONE is shot at
+in "Infection."  However, he *isn't* shot at in the majority of our
+episodes...isn't shot at in "Parliament," "Mind War," "By Any Means,"
+"Survivors," "Believers," "Chrysalis" or many others.  Like I said, the amount
+of personal danger into which he puts himself cuts down a bit after  the
+discussion at the end of "Infection."
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 6
+Message 60        Fri Feb 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:34 EST
+
+     There's a definite improvement arc in the show; the deeper we got into
+production, the better the stories generally became, and the better the
+production values.  (With a few exceptions.)  The biggest change in the show
+came once we began writing scripts *after* we'd begun shooting episodes, so
+that we/I could again see the actors and find their fingerprints.
+"Parliament" is the first one I wrote after we started filming; "Soul,"
+"Infection" and "Midnight" were all written prior to filming starting.
+
+     Re: the GURU reference in this ep...could someone here, in as precise a
+manner as possible, indicate the reference, what it was, wehre (where) you saw
+it, and what it refers to?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 6
+Message 97        Mon Feb 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:08 EST
+
+     Yep.  Same guy.  (We briefly considered having this poor shlub get tossed
+in various shows, but wisely came to our senses.)  BTW, he's Chuck Norris'
+son.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 8         Sat Oct 16, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 10:51 EDT
+Sub: Infection   (#101)                   
+
+By JMS. The first shot episode though not the first shown.
+130 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 8
+Message 9         Thu Feb 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:23 EST
+
+     I'll leave my opinion for after everyone else has seen it.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 8
+Message 11        Fri Feb 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:10 EST
+
+     You don't.  The next two after "Infection" are terrific.  My two
+favorites of this batch.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 8
+Message 53        Fri Feb 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:56 EST
+
+     I think, frankly, that part of the problem here is the misperception that
+all Hollywood writers ever do is rip off other stuff, that nobody out here
+ever has an original thought, that if there are ANY common themes, it MUST be
+because so-and-so ripped off so-and-so.  Which is one reason why I flipped out
+a bit in the Soul Hunter topic; I'm tired of that crap, because it's simply
+not true.
+
+     Look at all the *thousands* of books that've been published in the last
+few years in SF...particularly the sword and sorcery/fantasy books, where you
+can't swing an elf without hitting a unicorn, a short fellow with great
+wisdom, and a princess trying to reclaim her throne.  Common themes all over
+the place.  Nobody thinks twice.  But god forbid somebody should produce a TV
+episode that deals with the same issue as some other  series, and it's
+*immediately* considered to be a rip-off.  It's biased, skewed, untruthful,
+insulting to anyone who works in the field, and just contributes to the
+accepted cliche, which doesn't touch reality at any two contiguous points.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 8
+Message 85        Sat Feb 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:16 EST
+
+     Negative.  The orientation of the control room is correct.  You look at
+the docking bay in the direct center of the station (and the center of
+rotation), which is zero-G.  Now you pan down.  You come to the observation
+dome, *beneath* the docking bay.  (Incoming ships pass OVER the head of
+whoever's standinga the main console.)  Their feet point down to the outer
+hull of the station, and their heads point toward the docking bay.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 11        Sun Oct 17, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 15:14 EDT
+Sub: The Parliament of Dreams   (#108)    
+
+by JMS.
+
+106 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 11
+Message 13        Sat Feb 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:11 EST
+
+     The "stay put" line was ad-libbed by Andreas, because the crawfish kept
+crawling off the table.
+
+     Re: G'Kar being theatrical...that's who he is.  I like theatrical
+characters.  I know many in real life that're much bigger than life, very
+broad...and great fun.  Not every character has to be sonorous and serious and
+restrained.  The whole point of *having* alien characters is that they should
+act differently than the majority of us.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 11
+Message 16        Sun Feb 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:05 EST
+
+     You'll see more about Narn religion and culture in "By Any Means
+Necessary."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 11
+Message 24        Mon Feb 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:18 EST
+
+     Chats: back off.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 11
+Message 39        Thu Feb 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:19 EST
+
+     You're seeing, btw, why this episode, much as it's a favorite, couldn't
+be shown any sooner; there has to be some familiarity with the characters for
+this to be most effective.
+
+     As to the interpretation of the final tag scene...my thought was that
+it's a way of saying, "Our dominant belief is that ALL beliefs are respcted."
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 11
+Message 44        Thu Feb 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:18 EST
+
+     Re: establishing and transitional shots...couple thoughts.  The machines
+used to render establishers are the same ones used to render the show-specific
+shots.  Ron's elves said, in essence, "Pick one."  So for some period of time,
+we had to make do with what we had, and take care of the shots we needed for
+the episodes themselves in terms of the stories.  As we went along, though, we
+gradually began to add new ones.
+
+     The other problem, of course, is that the station isn't going anywhere;
+you can change the angles, but you're still stuck with planet, station, stars,
+maybe a ship or two.  So even if there *were* new shots being rendered as
+establishers/transitional shots for each show, there wouldn't be *that* much
+difference between them.  So again, it made sense to putting those hours of
+rendering time into doing bang-up shots for the main story in each episode.
+
+     You'll get a clearer sense of some of that cool stuff in "Mind War,"
+which has some strictly *gorgeous* CGI, and a LOT of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 11
+Message 49        Thu Feb 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:06 EST
+
+     That was Thomas Kopache as Tu'Pari.
+
+     Re: the establishing shots you describe...yes, we'll be seeing those as
+well.  As I recall there's a nifty one in "Raiding Party," which we just put
+in.  The "starlight" gif is taken from one shot that shows the sun in BG.  We
+diversity more the further in we get.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 11
+Message 52        Thu Feb 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:48 EST
+
+     There was a follower of Islam; right next to the orthodox jew at the
+front of the line.  "Mr. Rashid, a Moslem."  I made sure we put them side by
+side.
+
+     The "fishy" song was composed by Christopher Franke specifically for that
+scene.  I told him I wanted sort of a Narnish Gilbert and Sullivan, and that's
+what we got.
+
+     Re: the camera moves...I really have no idea what your friend is talking
+about.  Virtually all of our sets are constructed for full 360 degree camera
+movement (and we do have a few cases of full 360 degree pans coming along).
+This is not, however, a "cutty" show...some shows, presuming that their
+audience has the attention span of your average gnat, lean toward fast-fast-
+fast- cutting and editing and swishing camera moves.  We *hate* that.  We're
+trying to set a mood, not turn the show into an MTV music video.  (Miami Vice
+was a terrific example of this kind fo thing.)
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 11
+Message 57        Fri Feb 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:29 EST
+
+     The SkyDancer appears in the next episode.  "See you next  Wednesday"
+is...well...it's when she's going to be back on the station.   She has to
+complete her run by Tuesday, and will be back on Wednesday.
+
+     Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar....
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 11
+Message 62        Fri Feb 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:13 EST
+
+     BTW, re: Sinclair remembering all those names...we used many of the real
+names of the people standing in line, many of whom *did* belong to the
+religion they had come to represent.  We went down this line of 250 people,
+and went over their names *twice* with O'Hare.  That's all.  After that, he
+got each name right every time; amazingly quick memorization.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 11
+Message 72        Fri Feb 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:20 EST
+
+     The article is incorrect; the Kosh/skintab discussion is in "The War
+Prayer," airing in 2 weeks.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 11
+Message 84        Sun Feb 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:30 EST
+
+     No, as far as I recall, the company is named in the teaser, during the
+robe-scene with Sinclair.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 11
+Message 86        Sun Feb 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:01 EST
+
+     Well, it was my thought that there will always be folks who don't want
+their eyes messed with.  I still have my tonsils, and though I could afford
+contacts, I won't let ANYbody touch my eyes.  There's surgery that can correct
+it, but you can *really* forget that.  I dunno...it just makes sense to me
+that it'll still be around.  Not everything vanishes with the passage of time.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 11
+Message 98        Mon Feb 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:28 EST
+
+     This is something that Andreas and I discussed, and it's not so much that
+G'Kar *has* to cook, but that he *likes* to cook.  From the singing, it's
+clear he's having a good time....
+
+                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 11
+Message 103       Mon Feb 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:51 EST
+
+     Freud said there are no coincidences....
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 13        Sun Oct 17, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 15:15 EDT
+Sub: Mind War   (#110)                    
+
+by JMS. Co-Starring Walter Koenig.
+31 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 13
+Message 4         Fri Feb 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:34 EST
+
+     The story is *not* about a "freak accident that creates a superman."
+This *is* a B5 story, and could only take place in the B5 universe.
+
+     Just a thought, but before rendering judgment, you might want to see the
+show first....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 13
+Message 10        Fri Feb 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:36 EST
+
+     I don't know what happened to the closed captioning; it was delivered in
+time for the CC, and should've been done.  Will investigate.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 13
+Message 23        Sun Feb 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:03 EST
+
+     BTW...next Thursday, after most folks've seen this ep, somebody here
+remind me to mention what's the one thing I like most about this episode; it's
+kinda wonky, but fun.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 13
+Message 28        Mon Feb 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:55 EST
+
+      "Chrysalis" makes "Mind War" look like a still-life painting by
+comparison....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 13
+Message 30        Tue Mar 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:18 EST
+
+     I'll have to check to see about the glitches; we've tracked down the
+technical difficulties further, and discovered (among other things) that after
+we'd delivered the episode, at one stage along the way they were being
+transferred to 1" *used tape*.  Add in going from D2 to 1" and from that 1" to
+others to do closed captioning and commercials, and you're bound to get some
+weird stuff.  Starting next week, episodes will be going out with most of the
+transfer work done on D2, not 1", so they should be cleaner henceforth.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+     (If you could be as specific as possible on where the glitch is, I can
+check our master vs. the broadcast master.)
+ ------------
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms94-03-01 b/ftp/GEnie/jms94-03-01
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/ftp/GEnie/jms94-03-01
@@ -0,0 +1,1011 @@
+ ************
+Topic 1
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 459       Wed Mar 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+
+      "Target: Unknown" is a David Gerrold story that'll probably get done
+next season sometime.  Ditto for "Metaphors."
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 465       Tue Mar 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            (Forwarded)
+
+     We do plan to restructure the opening montage and narration for next
+season, Neilsen willing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 468       Thu Mar 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:11 EST
+
+     The interior of the station has the capacity for weather; there is often
+a haze and mist in the Garden area, which kinda softens things a bit.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 477       Sat Mar 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:29 EST
+
+     Well, here's a date to write down: March 23rd.  That's the last day of
+filming on Babylon 5: Year One.  It took us seven years to get here, and
+suddenly the last day of the first season is just around the corner.
+
+     We'll know if we get picked up around late April/May.  Look for an "eep"
+if I can't say anything official.
+
+     The weekend after we finish, we're going to take over a bowling alley for
+a B5 wrap party.  Went out today and bought myself a new pair of bowling
+shoes, bowling glove (with wrist support), and actually invested in a proper,
+custom bowling ball.  Will practice a bit between now and the party.  Part of
+this emanates from Your Executive Producer's desire not to stand there
+throwing gutter balls in front of Ye Cast and Crew, and another part emanates
+from the fact that I actually *enjoy* bowling, and have been waiting for an
+excuse to indulge.
+
+     (I actually used to be very good at it.  Practiced every week.  At a
+bowling alley in Richardson, Texas -- and it's noted because it was part of a
+bowling class, monitored by an instructor -- I actually bowled a *perfect
+game*.  Just once.  All that came to an end in 1977 or so, when I got mugged
+and had my hand broken in a couple places, making it both impossible and very
+painful to bowl for years afterward.  I may finally try and work my way back
+into it a bit.)
+
+     Really sad...most TeeVee producers play tennis, or golf, or swim a few
+laps in their olympic pool...I like bowling, and comic books, and watching
+awful movies.  A man of the people.  Unfortunately, the people left town
+without me, and didn't leave a forwarding address....
+
+     We're halfway through filming the two-parter, "A Voice in the
+Wilderness," which is coming along nicely.  From a CGI and sets point of view,
+this is the largest and most ambitious thing we've shot yet, with more of each
+category than in any other episode.  The last episode to be shot will be Larry
+DiTillio's "Eyes," which is sort of a nice wrap-up to the season, almost an
+overview.  Once again, nothing that happens this season is simply
+forgotten...and a *lot* of it comes due in this episode.  It actually manages
+to incorporate references to about 6 prior episodes without being obscure
+about it.
+
+     Even though we don't yet know about Year Two, we have to begin planning
+for it on a story level.  I've begun breaking out the individual threads
+that'll come up then, and have begun laying them out in terms of individual
+episodes.  We'll also have a post-mortem on Year One with all departments, to
+see what we did right, where we can improve, and where we can go beyond what
+we did this season.  In the best of all possible worlds, as the technology
+keeps changing around us and getting better, we would like to keep pace with
+that and constantly upgrade for a more realistic look...and for greater
+options.  How can we do *more*, and do it better?  I don't think we can *ever*
+afford to get complacent, and we have to keep challenging ourselves each
+season to raise the ante another notch.
+
+      Now it's all in the hands of the Neilsens....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 480       Sat Mar 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:27 EST
+
+     Best advice is always to write to your local station carrying B5 if the
+spirit comes over you....
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 492       Sat Mar 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:24 EST
+
+     No, "Eyes" is a new script unto itself.  We're retitling "Raiding Party"
+(which I always figured was a working title, too prosaic) to "Signs and
+Portents."  Figured it'd be nice to have one episode title per (projected)
+year carrying the year-arc title.
+
+     BTW, Compton's has signed to do a CD Rom of the Babylon 5 Universe, which
+is going to be VERY comprehensive...all the alien races, including the League
+of Non-aligned Worlds, background on the war, dictionaries, other reference
+stuff, you name it; it'll also be able to take advantage of the latest voice-
+recognition software, so you can run it exactly as the B5 computer is run.
+("Computer, language search, "Satai.")  There will even be some original CG
+and live-stuff shot for it.  It should be a killer CD Rom.  (Now if only I
+could get my system up and running....)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 497       Sun Mar 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:27 EST
+
+     Kosh shows up in this week's episode, "War Prayer."
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 513       Sun Mar 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:27 EST
+
+     Phil: I see the confusion.  "The Ressurectionist" was re-titled "The
+Quality of Mercy."  So it's 22.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 542       Wed Mar 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:52 EST
+
+     Two quickies, before I forget (again):
+
+     1) Yes, to the pain in the butt who inquired, I bought the Quantum
+bowling ball, and it probably won't bowl any better, but I'm a stooge, and
+there we are.
+
+     2) I've nudged (gently) Christy Marx about the newsletter (as has the
+effervescent Katherine Lawrence) (and did you effer know her when she
+effervasn't?), and Ms. Marx and Ms. Drennan are now focusing in on getting the
+next issue out, which will be a double-issue, twice as big, with more
+interviews, probably a schedule for the full season, and other goodies.
+
+     Amazing what a friendly smile, a soft-spoken request, and a meat axe can
+achieve....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 554       Thu Mar 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:01 EST
+
+     It's easy; hit her while she's asleep....
+
+     BTW, we managed to track down and correct about 50% of the problems in
+video and audio that took place after we'd been delivering episodes, and so
+this and all subsequent episodes should look cleaner and sound a bit sharper,
+staring with "War Prayer."  Anyone else noticing this?
+
+     Also, just as an aside...was talking to someone today about how
+extraordinary a cast this is in terms of sheer intelligence; Michael O'Hare
+attended Harvard; Claudia is a Mensa member (genius IQ); Jerry is a financial
+wizard...they're all extremely sharp people, nowhere near the stereotype so
+many people have of actors.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 582       Sat Mar 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:24 EST
+
+     We'll definitely see Bester again, probably twice next season, in one
+capacity or another.  (And we'll *hear* about him once more this season.)
+
+     Re: the CD-Rom...we're planning some very cool stuff.  I've indicated on
+all pending licensing deals that I don't want them to be just one more media
+tie-in; they should have some independent value.  So in this case, I really
+want to use it to de-mysticize what television is, and how it's produced.
+Something for educational purposes.  So we'll track how the process is done,
+by taking a micro-example: from concept, to a scene in a script, to costume
+designs, production/set design, storyboards prosthetics, filming, editing,
+scoring and mixing.  As a culmination of this, there will be 5-7 brief dailies
+shosts, all from the same scene.   The job then is for the user to edit these
+dailies (establishing shot, medium close-up, close-ups, inserts and the like)
+into a *scene*.  You can literally see the dozens of ways you can create a
+scene from the same footage.  You can then play it back, possibly with some
+music, and see how it works...then play back the real scene as we did it, and
+compare and contrast.
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 593       Sun Mar 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:44 EST
+
+     Just a reminder to all and sundry in the LA area...our Conceptual
+Consultant, Harlan Ellison, will be signing his new collaboration at Forbidden
+Planet Bookstore on April 2nd from 2-4 p.m. (corner Van Nuys and Ventura,
+Sherman Oaks).
+
+     Funny aside...on Friday, my accountant and his 10 year old son came by
+the set for a tour.  His son was wog-boggled by everything.  At one point in
+the filming, Michael O'Hare came over and struck up a conversation with the
+kid.  The kid asked what that thing is on the back of Sinclair's hand.
+"That's my communications device," O'Hare said.  The kid looked chagrined,
+glanced around, whispered to Michael to lean down, and explained -- to save
+Michael further embarrassment in future -- that the communicator was on his
+*chest*.
+
+     I would give my soul for a photograph of Michael's face at that moment.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 596       Sun Mar 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:58 EST
+
+     Quick note...I *may* be doing a one-hour presentation at the Creation
+convention later this month in Pasadena.  This is contingent, thouugh, upon
+the scheduled appearance being put back a bit, since I'll be flying in from
+Houston that morning.  The Space Frontier Foundation is giving us an award for
+Best Vision of the Future.  (They're also giving an award to astronaut Pete
+Conrad that night, and want me to present it.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 560       Tue Mar 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:00 EST
+
+     They're...................................astonished.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 578       Thu Mar 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:53 EST
+
+     The framed item is a sign for Sinclair Aircraft, a real company that goes
+back to the early days of flying (we got permission to use it).
+
+     C&C is military shorthand for Command and Control, which is the function
+of the Observation Dome (sometimes thus referred to as Babylon Control).
+
+     There are hand-holds built into the seats, and on the walls and railings.
+>From that angle, unfortunately, you can't see them holding on, though you will
+be able to see it in "Survivors" and "Chrysalis," among others.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 618       Sat Mar 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:30 EST
+
+     Will: it's very hard to answer that question without specifics; it does
+make me a touch nervous, but at the same time, it doesn't seem correct or
+proper to stop the kind of speculation you suggest, since the show is *bound*
+to elicit such speculations by its very construction.
+
+     I dunno...so I'll leave it to the quiet turning of your own considered
+conscience.
+
+     Re: the cast...they're simply pleased and flattered and moved by the
+attention on-line.
+
+     Re: "Sky"...my theory is to *never* assume prior knowledge of the
+background info that goes into an episode.  If you never saw the pilot, you
+will miss *nothing* going into "Sky" (though it'd be nice because of one
+quickie flashback to know where that came from).  I don't think anyone will
+have a hard time following that one.
+
+     Re: the core shuttle...yes, the exterior was all CGI.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 632       Mon Mar 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:50 EST
+
+     For the Minbari, it's tee'la, which is a kind of poem-song, sort of.
+Delenn was mainly just unfamiliar with the term.
+
+     Yes, the two Harlan scripts are temporarily on hold, due to some health
+problems earlier this season (two heart procedures), the quake and his
+injuries there, and other stuff.  He has, however, served very well as our
+consultant, and it has been more than worthwhile.  His health permitting, we
+hope to continue the relationship in future.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 643       Tue Mar 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:56 EST
+
+     Some notes:
+
+     "A Voice in the Wilderness" is just written by me, not me and Larry
+(either part), and is directed by Janet Greek.
+
+     "Eyes" to be directed by Jim Johnston.
+
+     Jim did not direct "The Quality of Mercy."  It was one of our new
+directors...and her name has *just* fallen out of my head this moment.   Will
+post it tomorrow.
+
+     "TKO" was directed by John Flynn.
+
+     "Deathwalker" was directed by Bruce Seth Green.
+
+     "Grail" and "War Prayer" directed by Richard Compton.
+
+     (Also "Believers" was directed by Compton.)
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 656       Fri Mar 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:02 EST
+
+     You want Garibaldi, who's nearly twice Talia's size and weight, to punch
+her in the gut and walk away...and this is a *good* idea...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 658       Fri Mar 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:32 EST
+
+     Overall, I'd say that "Legacies" came out better than "War Prayer,"
+because Dorothy had more time to get to know the characters, and because it
+was better directed.  (As a parenthetical, Larry DiTillio has developed some
+of his own scripts as well, specifically "TKO" and "Eyes."  "Legacies" is the
+one I'd say was developed "outside the office" in the sense of being a
+freelance effort.  Everything else was either an assigned premise or done in-
+house by staff.)
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 664       Fri Mar 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:20 EST
+
+     He was thrown down the stairs of his house, received a broken nose, and
+contusions and a slight concussion when a large framed painting fell off the
+wall on top of him.  He's better now.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 666       Sat Mar 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:45 EST
+
+     Stories without subplots (or more precisely, B-stories; a subplot can be
+a thread that's not a whole story unto itself): "Sky," "Survivors," "Grail,"
+"A Voice in the Wilderness," and a few others I can't recall offhand.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 682       Sun Mar 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:46 EST
+
+     This was one segment of the battle; there were others going on in other
+areas as well.  It's said that no one ever *saw* the Battle of the Bulge; each
+saw a small part of it.  Same here.
+
+     Reality is, no matter how big we would've made it, more would've been
+wanted.  (If anything, it seems that the more we show, the more is wanted.)
+But all things considered, best to have folks wanting more than wanting
+less....
+
+     (And remember, we're managing to do all this with roughly *half* of TNG's
+budget.  Give us their budget, and I'll show you ALL of the Battle of the
+Line, and the ENTIRE Earth/Minbari War, PLUS all their home worlds.)
+
+     Nonetheless, as we go deeper into the season, the CGI/action sequences do
+get bigger and more detailed in many places.  In "Signs and Portents"
+(formerly "Raiding Party"), you'll see three pretty good sized squadrons of
+ships engaged in a very fast-paced battle that goes on for most of an act and
+a half, as opposed to just a few scenes in "Sky."  Big battles weren't really
+the *point* in "Sky," it was more about his REACTIONS and his personal fate.
+There were a number of action/battle shots we had on hand, but decided not to
+use because we didn't want to dilute the *point* of the scene.
+
+     And as stated elsewhere...yes, you'll be seeing the Minbari war
+cruiser(s) again.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 694       Mon Mar 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:00 EST
+
+     Bear in mind, though, that Sinclair really had no reason to doubt what he
+remembered happening on the Line until the Minbari assassin uttered those
+seven fateful words.  As for others...there have been suspicions, but more
+broadbased...and we'll deal with those a bit here and there.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Cast & Characters        
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 401       Mon Mar 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:02 EST
+
+     Depends on what you mean by "just visiting."  If someone comes on board,
+and we feature him or her, and this person just sorta wanders around without
+ever interacting with our characters...I don't think that would be terribly
+dramatic.  We do have some shows with people who come to see our main
+characters, interact with them, and then leave again.   A basic visit.
+
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 6
+Sub: Where is Babylon 5? TV stations...   
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 590       Sun Mar 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:31 EST
+
+     B5 airs in Orlando on Tuesday night, I believe, around 8 or 9.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 13
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Science & Technology     
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 528       Mon Mar 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:38 EST
+
+     It was always my thought that the weight, as indicated in the narrative --
+"one and a half million tons of spinning metal" -- ONLY referred to the metal,
+not the vegetables or the water or the garbage.  It specifies only the metal.
+And the metal is a high-resistance, very light alloy.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 541       Sat Mar 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:29 EST
+
+     Of course, you're assuming that a Centauri year is the same as our year.
+The speed of light is constant...but defined by us by our own 12-month year.
+For instance, in one episode, we mention that B5 is 12 of our light years from
+the Narn homeworld, which is equal to about 10 of their years.
+
+     So without knowing the Centauri year, the figures are faulty.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 545       Sun Mar 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:50 EST
+
+     There's still an *awful* lot of ground to cover in a war this big.
+
+     Also, check the readout on Sinclair's screen as he's trying to engage the
+enemy.  You'll see "negative lock" popping up.  One problem in fighting the
+Minbari vessels is that they have a kind of stealth tech that makes it very
+hard for our weapons to lock on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 14
+Sub: Lurkers/Introductions: Please Sign In
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 548       Fri Mar 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:07 EST
+
+     You'll see Garibaldi performing very seriously in "Sky," and in both
+"Deathwalker" and "Survivors," the first two eps after the few reruns
+following "Sky."
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 15
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Alien Races              
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 454       Wed Mar 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:15 EST
+
+     Not all aliens of the same species have the same accent; any more than
+all humans have the same accent.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 456       Wed Mar 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:51 EST
+
+     G'Kar has the dominant accent of his people.
+
+     So does Kosh.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Merchandising            
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 491       Sun Mar 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:30 EST
+
+     Confirmed on all points.  The novel deal seems to have closed, but I
+don't think I'm supposed to give any details yet.  It's been asked that I try
+to find time to write the first novel, which is swell, but I don't know if I
+will have the time to do it properly.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 21
+Sub: Quotes from BABYLON 5                
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 21
+Message 20        Sat Mar 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:32 EST
+
+     Very, very little in this show is unintentional....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 24
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Weapons and Warfare!     
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 459       Sun Mar 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:30 EST
+
+     There is a side-button on the gun which arms it (the power whine you hear
+when it's drawn).  It's just over the thumb.  Then the trigger is used to
+discharge the built-up energy.  You can push or pull the trigger to your
+heart's content if it's not armed and it won't fire.  It works as a kind of
+safety; you have to do both or it won't fire.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 26
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Episode titles and info  
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 204       Mon Mar 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:40 EST
+
+     I don't recall either actor's name in connection with B5; will have to
+check.
+
+                                                      jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 8
+Sub: Infection   (#101)                   
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 8
+Message 143       Sun Mar 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:55 EST
+
+     Re: not emitting a visible projectile, and not seeing a pulse zap across
+the room...you're used to seeing "lasers" that travel at about 60 mph in most
+TV SF (and some films).  When somebody fires a regular gun at someone, do you
+expect to see the bullet fly across the room?  No, of course not...so why do
+you expect that on something that is moving a lot FASTER than a bullet?  The
+*reality* (and again, that's what we're going for here), is that you
+*wouldn't* see it.  You'd hear it more than anything else, and at most see the
+muzzle flash.  You're applying a TV and movie cliche which has nothing to do
+with reality.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 9
+Sub: And the Sky Full of Stars  (#106)    
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 9         Fri Mar 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:29 EST
+
+     We actually had a lot more shots we could've used to prolong the
+sequence, but felt we *really* had to get to Sinclair, and go into his point
+of view more.  Also we step-printed the CGI to give it a more dream-like
+appearance, since we're seeing this from inside Sinclair's memory, and he
+wasn't really able to *see* all this, particularly stuff happening around and
+behind him, this is more his *sense* of the events of that time.  The sections
+we didn't step-print were those where he was RIGHT THERE, to make a subtle
+distinction.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 12        Sat Mar 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:10 EST
+
+     The second shot to Knight One is a gut-shot, and the security guard is
+shot through the chest.
+
+     Bear in mind, also, that some of this may be expected by folks here on
+the nets because of the ongoing conversations, speculation and the  bits of
+info I drop here; but for 99.9% of the rest of the nation, this IS new info.
+And even with the nets, I suspect that there are some surprises here....
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 16        Sun Mar 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:37 EST
+
+     Nothing anamorphically distorted, that's how they look.  You will get a
+better look at Minbari war cruisers...umm...later in the season.  Also a much
+closer look.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 21        Sun Mar 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:10 EST
+
+     On the question, "Why *can't* they all be this good?" there is a very
+simple answer: it's not for lack of trying.  It's been said before of
+television that it's a collaborative medium.  Collaboration brings  with it a
+random factor.  The script may be good, but if the director doesn't *get* it,
+if the actor's having a bad day, if the continuity person lets a mis-stated
+line get through, if the CGI doesn't quite cut together right...you begin to
+chip away at the quality.  This happens on every single television series ever
+produced.
+
+     A while ago, in cat 18, someone observed correctly that a bad episode can
+happen on any series through accident; but it's impossible to produce a *good*
+episode by accident.  (Or at least highly improbable.)  And never a great one.
+The job of a producer in my position is to pull the best possible elements
+together, in the hope that the attrition that takes place in the course of
+production doesn't diminish the whole too much.
+
+     Thus, the good episodes are overall far more emblematic of what a series
+is capable of doing than are the weaker ones.  If your best ones are so-so,
+you've got a problem.  If your best ones are *good*, then you're doing okay.
+On any series, if you're *lucky*, you get one-third pretty awful, one-third
+good, one-third very good.  So far, in looking at all the episodes filmed so
+far, I'd say half of them are *very* good, one-fourth of them are good, and
+one-fourth are fair to middlin'.  That is 'WAY ahead of the odds on any show.
+Particularly in a first season.
+
+     (And even then, bear in mind that much of this is subjective.  I'm not
+that keen on a few of them, but some folks considered "War Prayer," for
+instance, their favorite episode.  Even at our worst, I think there is
+something in every episode that will appeal strongly to someone.  Which is why
+I'm a bit leery of the original question; to some people, they ARE all "that
+good."  Tastes vary.  We try very hard to make sure there is something of real
+value in each episode.)
+
+     We really began this process not quite sure how far we could go, what our
+limits were, how far we could push it.  So we started off kind of tentative,
+getting more aggressive as we went in, in terms of story and music and EFX and
+all the rest.  So you will continue to see an escalation in the episodes over
+time.  It's like anything else; as we learn more, and do more, we get better
+at it.  Yes, this series has been planned out for seven years...but it's like
+planning a date.  You can plan to your heart's content for days or weeks or
+months or years, but INVARIABLY some things don't work out when you actually
+go out on that date.  So you learn, and adjust, now that you've encountered
+reality. (As one general once observed, no battle plan every survived contact
+with the enemy.)
+
+     We've worked hard to make this a good show.  And it is a good show. We
+occasionally hit speed bumps, but they're more the exception than the rule.
+To say "Why can't they ALL be this good?" is like saying to a painter or a
+composer, "Why can't your work ALL be on the same level?" There is always a
+learning curve, always some works that are better than others.  It's not like
+turning out widgets in a factory where you can guarantee certain parameters in
+production.  To expect any art form to be consistent misses the point.  We
+could aim lower to avoid falling into the occasional valleys, but I'd rather
+aim high, and occasionally fall on my face, if it means hitting some peaks
+that would otherwise be unattainable.  That's what taking chances means.  And
+I think that's one thing that people find appealing about this show: we're not
+resting on our laurels, or aiming for the safe, lowest-common-denominator;
+we're willing to take chances.  We're right out there on the high-wire without
+a net...no guarantees, no franchises, no built-in fan audience that will watch
+us regardless of what we turn out.
+
+     And shows like "Mind War," and "Sky," and "By Any Means Necessary," and
+"Chrysalis" and "A Voice in the Wilderness" and "Babylon Squared" and other
+kickass episodes are the consequence.  I think that in our first season, we've
+turned out more really nifty episodes than some series do in their entire run.
+Sidney Lumet once observed about his films that if you get just *one* really
+golden moment on film, it's a success.  If we transplant that to television,
+if in one season you get even *one* truly spiffy episode, it's a success.
+
+     And we've got a hell of a lot more than one.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 10
+Sub: The War Prayer   (#107)              
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 10
+Message 6         Sat Mar 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:16 EST
+
+     BTW, how was the "Sky" trailer for next week?  (I never see these things,
+alas....)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 10
+Message 9         Sun Mar 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:56 EST
+
+     There's a Billy Joel song, where one particular lyric (and I'm quoting
+from memory) says, "You still have a pain inside you / That you carry with a
+certain pride / It's the only part / Of a broken heart / You could ever save."
+That's Ivanova.
+
+     She's had her heart stomped on a lot.  And she's been holding it in.
+Even with her father's death, she sucked in the pain, fought back the tears.
+There is one episode, which will be right at the end of the year, where she
+finds she can't run from her pain anymore...can't run from the tears...and
+deals with them in a scene that's very moving and absolutely brings tears to
+the eyes.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 10
+Message 17        Sun Mar 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:59 EST
+
+     Hey, rationalizations are more important than sex.
+
+     Try going a day without a rationalization.....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 10
+Message 21        Tue Mar 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:48 EST
+
+     Directing can add to an episode, making it more than it is, or can make
+it less than it is.  In this case, I think it's more the latter.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 10
+Message 23        Wed Mar 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:49 EST
+
+     Mmmmm...lemme see...I don't think there *are* any more "former lovers"
+stories coming in for pretty much the rest of the season; there's an
+acquaintance who comes back, and a reference to a prior relationship (but it's
+not on the station, and doesn't take place there), but that's it.  No more
+former lovers coming to the station this season, that I can think of.
+
+     (Is weird that the ones we *did* have got grouped like that; hadn't
+noticed until now.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 10
+Message 45        Thu Mar 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:58 EST
+
+     There's very little about one can say about "TWP" that I wouldn't respond
+to with, "Yup."  Dorothy did a bangup job on the script, but so much gets lost
+in translation sometimes.  All added up, there are only three episodes this
+season that, for me, aren't up to the rest: this one, "Infection," and
+"Grail."  That there are only 3 out of 22 is extremely good for ANY TV series.
+(And again, that's only my POV; I know that there are a number of people who
+liked this show, liked "Infection," andf will likely approve of "Grail."
+Tastes vary.  I'm just very, very hard on *all* of our episodes.  I think you
+have to look at your own work with as baleful an eye as possible.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 10
+Message 48        Fri Mar 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:57 EST
+
+     Actually, I think this will be to some extent remedied for you by the end
+of THIS season.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 11
+Sub: The Parliament of Dreams   (#108)    
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 11
+Message 108       Tue Mar 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:28 EST
+
+     One of the things I like about the sets is that they're actually fairly
+large, and we tend to go for lots of extras to help carry through that sense
+of scale.  It's not uncommon for us to have anywhere from 50 to 90 extras in a
+scene, just to fill it out.  One scene had as many as 200-250 extras; many
+others have between 150-200.  This is a *busy* place, and should feel like it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 11
+Message 119       Wed Mar 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:06 EST
+
+     Ninety percent of the time, background business is written into the
+get improv'd (such as G'Kar switching the fruit).  In those cases, we shoot it
+two ways: with the improv, and as scripted, to give us the option of using
+either.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 11
+Message 123       Wed Mar 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:49 EST
+
+     Actually, Jim Johnston's been around a long time; he's one of those
+directors who has made a name for himself, established his own company, and
+only takes on projects he enjoys.  We're very happy to have him here.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 13
+Sub: Mind War   (#110)                    
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 13
+Message 30        Tue Mar 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:18 EST
+
+     I'll have to check to see about the glitches; we've tracked down the
+technical difficulties further, and discovered (among other things) that after
+we'd delivered the episode, at one stage along the way they were being
+transferred to 1" *used tape*.  Add in going from D2 to 1" and from that 1" to
+others to do closed captioning and commercials, and you're bound to get some
+weird stuff.  Starting next week, episodes will be going out with most of the
+transfer work done on D2, not 1", so they should be cleaner henceforth.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+     (If you could be as specific as possible on where the glitch is, I can
+check our master vs. the broadcast master.)
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 13
+Message 34        Tue Mar 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:29 EST
+
+     Zocalo is a South American term, meaning "the Grand Plaza."
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 13
+Message 44        Wed Mar 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:34 EST
+
+     I'd just be more comfortable if you didn't.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 13
+Message 64        Thu Mar 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:45 EST
+
+     Having seen the ship rocked and buffetted by the passing ship, I figured
+that it would be clear that this basically pushed it down, made its orbit
+begin to detriorate.  Her ship was also riding *very* close to the edge of the
+atmosphere.  Perhaps should've been clearer.
+
+     Re: jumpgates...I knew that multiples were used, but was still working
+out the *exact* details of how they work, and I hate to post anything until
+I'm 100% set, since this stuff tends to end up in FAQs....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 13
+Message 67        Thu Mar 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:00 EST
+
+     It's because they dig *deep*.  And to another telepath, who is sensitive
+to begin with...it hurts bigtime.
+
+     (BTW, for those above, the planet is Sigma 957, not Delta Sigma 9 [DS9].
+You t'ink maybe I's crazy?)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 13
+Message 86        Thu Mar 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 13:51 EST
+
+     Bester wasn't killed because a) it took a *lot* out of Ironheart to take
+out Kelsey, and b) Bester *shot him* prior to being taken down, and the pain
+and trauma of being shot has a tendency to have an  adverse effect on one; it
+took all his strength just to knock Bester down before collapsing to the
+floor, his energy (as you can see in the film) fading away....
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 13
+Message 102       Fri Mar 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:28 EST
+
+     Tony: yes, that ambiguity is something to consider.  I like ambiguity.
+ I think.
+
+     Yes, it was supposed to be closed-captioned, and there was a glitch after
+we'd turned in the episode.  It'll be captioned for later broadcasts.  (BTW,
+those who taped MW...I suggest you keep your tapes; there will be a subtle but
+definite difference in one shot in all later airings of the show after this
+next rerun.  And no, I'm not going to tell you what it is...but any copies of
+the first version will probably be a rarity.)
+
+     The core shuttle has hand-holds on the seats, and on the walls and other
+areas.  They were both holding onto the lower hand-rails, though it can't be
+seen in that shot.  It *is* visible in other episodes.
+
+     A Rubik's Cube is a *very* good metaphor.
+
+     The vaporized Starfuries *weren't* from B5, they were a separate wing not
+attached to this station.  Black Omega is a special forces unit.
+
+     "Believers" isn't next; up now comes "The War Prayer" by D.C. Fontana
+(okay, despite some problems, mainly in direction), then "Sky."
+
+     The Soul Hunter was hit by a PPG, but not terribly slowed; you'll see
+others hit and harmed or killed by PPG down the road.
+
+     (Actually, you'll see it in "Sky."
+
+     Re: my favorite thing about this episode...it's that when all is said and
+done, *nobody knows anything*.  Bester doesn't know what Ironheart is turning
+into; Sinclair doesn't know if Ironheart was really telling the truth or not;
+nobody knows where Ironheart went; nobody knows what the alien ship is/who
+they were...the closest I can come to is to compare it to writing a mystery
+novel, without revealing the killer, but *without* frustrating anyone in the
+process, because there's *closure*.
+
+     In so much of TV SF, *everything* has to be explained, often explained to
+death.  I just love that in the B5 universe, it's okay for there to be
+mysteries and wonders and the unexplained.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 13
+Message 105       Fri Mar 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:58 EST
+
+     Wrong.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 13
+Message 145       Mon Mar 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:41 EST
+
+     I mentioned it up-topic; maybe someone has the number.
+
+                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 13
+Message 168       Fri Mar 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:01 EST
+
+     Correct; the gates themselves are complex, extremely so, but they are
+limited in production mainly by available amounts of Q40.  (Also, in most
+cases, a gate is a gate is a gate; there's not much difference between them
+visually.)
+
+     And in the case of Sigma 957, one can put in a gate, start to explore
+that sector of space...and discover to your chagrin that there is one planet
+where you don't dare go near.  It's not like they *knew* that there was a
+problem on Sigma 957 before they (the Narns) put the gate in; that was
+discovered only afterward.  Sort of like buying a house and then discovering
+that one room is haunted; you seal off the room and tell the kids not to go
+near it.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 13
+Message 174       Fri Mar 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:38 EST
+
+     You don't leave one gate and fly light years to another; you use the same
+gate for going in and going out.  Explorer Ship A comes out of hyperspace;
+looks around; decides that there are planets in this area that are worth
+possible colonizing, exploitation, that sort of thing; it's a very quick
+overview.  (Or they go to systems that have been already selected.)  They
+construct a gate, finish the job, and move on.  Other ships can now use this
+gate for entering and leaving this system.  Is this clearer?
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS on GEnie for Second half of March, 1994
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 category.  The posts are copyright by
+JMS (and compilation copyright is by GEnie).
+
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category and main topic for the new series. Here is
+the place for all general information on the series. Topic 2 is the location
+for SPOILERS. And please, NO STORY IDEAS are to be posted either.
+773 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 627       Fri Mar 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:19 EST
+
+     Less than one week left of filming on Year One.  Eek.
+
+]*D,2
+
+     If I can put a word out onto the electronic web...usually, in the network
+shows, a series runs its course, and at the end of the season, the network
+decides whether or not to renew.  Because of the schedule of PTEN, the
+decision to renew or not comes in April/May.
+
+     While the ratings are good -- mention of the B5 ratings got a headline in
+today's "Hollywood Reporter" along with ST -- there's a new wrinkle in the
+situation.  The new Paramount Network.  They're making deals with stations as
+fast as they can, snatching up the independent stations and trying to secure
+the few remaining available timeslots (which with the glut of programs now are
+continually growing smaller in number).  So for a station, it's a choice
+between two or more shows that might rate equally fine, but there's outside
+pressure.
+
+     Point being this (and anyone who wants to upload this entire message to
+other nets, feel free): if -- IF -- you genuinely enjoy the show, and would
+like to see it renewed, this would be a very good time to drop your local TV
+station a letter indicating this.  The stations have a direct input as to
+whether or not shows are renewed.  It certainly couldn't hurt.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 634       Fri Mar 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:35 EST
+
+     The reference was not to "V," but to the military use of this over the
+last several decades, particularly in WW II.  (And I didn't work on the V
+series, only the new (and never produced) 4-hour miniseries that was intended
+to revive the series.)
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 679       Mon Mar 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:37 EST
+
+     Whenever I have spoken of Berman and Pillar to the press, I have
+characterized them as honorable people.  The press goes out of its way to
+foment controversy, and after my initial reaction to the DS9 premise, it was
+my eventual decision to simply produce the show and, at that point, it
+survives or falls on its own merits.  If Pillar is going to get into name-
+calling and characterizations and this kind of playground vernacular, I see no
+reason to join him there.
+
+     BTW...flew back this morning from Houston, where on behalf of B5, I
+received the award from the Space Frontier Foundation for Best Vision of the
+Future.  Based in part on our attempt -- within the confines of dramatic TV --
+to stick with real science...ships that move the right way in space,
+commercial use of space surveying, civilian ships, the use of an O'Neill-type
+station for the first time in TV or movies, and so on.   At my table was co-
+recipient astronaut Pete Conrad.  (I commented to him that, as someone who
+*writes* about space, to sit across from someone who LIVED there, was like
+being a lay priest called upon to say High Mass at the Vatican, before the
+Pope, on Easter sunday.  He laughed.)
+
+     We have worked hard to make B5 as accurate a presentation of a possible
+future as we can, and the receipt of this award, from a national group of
+scientists, engineers, astronauts, researchers and others (some involved
+heavily in the Delta Clipper project) makes it equal to the Emmy, in my view,
+however much more emphasis the media may place on the former.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 719       Sun Mar 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:19 EST
+
+     Some international info...B5 goes on the air May 16th on Channel 4 in the
+UK.  Other places that'll be carrying the show starting around that same time:
+AUM Trinidad; Canal Plus, France; Set Eitz, Germany; RCTI, the Philipines; Sky-
+TV; 7 Network, Australia; and miscellaneous places I don't have full info on
+(some just station IDs, some areas): Taipei, TV3, TVNZ, TTV, IBC, BEC, Canal
+Sinco, ICP, Proziba, and Italy.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 733       Mon Mar 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:31 EST
+
+     Actually, we came very close to doing a black-and-white segment this
+season, and might do so next.
+
+     Well, last night was the B5 wrap party, at Pickwick Bowl here in the
+valley, opposite the equestrian center.  I think I bowled about nine games in
+a row, and currently ache in muscles I didn't know I had.  About 325 cast,
+crew, writers and producers.  Harlan showed up, and after a slow start bowled
+180 and whomped hell out of us.  I averaged about 160 in my later games.  Or
+less.  David Gerrold showed up, Larry, Andreas, Michael, Peter, Mira, Caitlin,
+Bill...and the B5 Blasters, the art department bowling team with their own
+bowling shirts.  When I left, about 12:30 am, things were still going pretty
+strong.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 742       Wed Mar 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:37 EST
+
+      Well, now I've heard it all...was speaking to Walter Koenig tonight,
+ and he mentioned being at a convention this past weekend, and hearing a
+ lot of positive B5 comments.  Along the way, he overheard a discussion
+ between a bunch of folk, many of whom were defending TNG and DS9's rather
+ minimal SFX and smaller cast and other stuff by saying that it wasn't
+ a fair comparison, "since B5 has a lot more money to spend than TNG or
+ DS9."
+
+      I could've plotzed.....
+
+      P.S. A schedule for those interested:
+
+      CONFIRMED schedule....
+      April 20th, "Deathwalker," by Lawrence G. DiTillio
+      April 27th, "Believers," by David Gerrold
+      May 4th, "Survivors," by Marc Scott Zicree
+      May 11th, "Signs and Portents," by jms
+      May 18th, "By Any Means Necessary," by Kathryn M. Drennan
+      May 25th, "The Quality of Mercy," by jms
+
+      Then repeats from June 1 through October 5th, in order to stretch
+ new episodes through the November sweeps.  TENTATIVE schedule of final
+ episodes....
+
+      October 12th, "Grail," by Christy Marx
+      October 19th, "Eyes," by Lawrence G. DiTillio
+      October 26th, "TKO," by Lawrence G. DiTillio
+      November 2nd, "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1," by jms
+      November 9th, "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 2," by jms
+      November 16th, "Babylon Squared," by jms
+      November 23rd, "Legacies," by D.C. Fontana
+      November 30th, "Chrysalis," by jms
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 746       Wed Mar 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:59 EST
+
+     About time you started to put out....
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 760       Thu Mar 31, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:22 EST
+
+     Quickies...apparently (I'm told) Howard Stern mentioned B5 favorably in
+both his Tuesday AND Wednesday broadcasts, though I haven't heard it myself.
+This after a prior mention some time ago.
+
+     We must be doing *something* right.
+
+     Also...apparently, at a convention, Rick Sternbach from ST said that the
+ST shows (DS9 and, subsequently, Voyager) would be shifting over to primarily
+computer EFX rather than models.  They're going to start coming over to OUR
+turf...and engaging in the usual learning curve, trial and erros, which we've
+already gone through.
+
+     Me...I just sit here and smile...and on one level, despite the way it may
+appear, I'm pleased.  It shows we were right.  And if they start doing CGI,
+it'll force both sides to again be competitive in terms of doing more, pushing
+things.  And that friendly competition is good for the blood, it should keep
+both shows on the cutting edge.  It'll also enable other shows to come in
+using CGI, meaning more SF on the air.
+
+     It also ties into what I've heard lately, that Paramount is getting
+hammered by some of the stations asking why the hell DS9 episodes often cost
+1.7 to 2 million dollars an episode to produce, where B5 is doing more, with
+half the budget.  I would love to hear the response to that.
+
+     We're putting the finishing touches on the two-parter this week, and this
+one's really a blow-out episode.  More and bigger sets, more CGI than just
+about any prior episode, and more *elaborate* CGI, a big story...we keep
+trying to get more ambitious as we go along.  So far it looks like we'll have
+at *minimum* one real blow-out action episode in each ratings cycle; "Signs
+and Portents" in May, and the two-parter in November (though I probably should
+include "Babylon Squared" and "Chrysalis" in that same category...November is
+going to be the month we fry VCRs around the country).
+
+     As well as appearing at ICON mid-April, I plan to be at the Chicago Comic
+Convention around July 1-3, and at San Diego ComicCon afterward.
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+Babylon 5 offically became a series on May 28 '93. There will be 22 hour eps
+for season one (in addition to the pilot). Airs Wednesdays at 8PM in most
+places starting Jan. 26 '94.  This is the SPOILER topic where anything goes.
+
+833 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 713       Wed Mar 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:11 EST
+
+     Longshot: it was a tip of the cap to the Prisoner, yes.
+
+     Episodes are all in various stages of post-production; they come out
+helter-skelter, higgeldy-piggeldy, you name it.  We're pretty much caught up
+on all the episodes filmed; we have to finalize editing on the two-parter,
+then edit the last episode, and that's done.  A bunch of the others are still
+being scored, mixed, composited, you name it.  So that's really a very hard
+question to answer.  Just today finished editing on "Babylon Squared," which
+looks really cool, will mix "Signs and Portents" in two days, and finalized
+the mix on "The Quality of Mercy" today.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 767       Tue Mar 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:02 EST
+
+     Teaser, four acts, tag.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 789       Fri Mar 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:39 EST
+
+     Mike: see my comment in 19.
+
+     There's some more fun between Garibaldi and Talia down the road, and one
+elevator scene in particular that I think you'll like.
+
+     We've killed off all of Ivanova's close family, yes.  Maybe some cousins
+are left, but that's about it.
+
+     A little aside for you...at one point this season, Delenn goes to the
+Grey Council.  There's a ritual she has to observe when she joins the ranks of
+the Nine.  Part of it is this statement she makes upon entering the circle: "I
+am Grey.  I stand between the candle, and the star.  We are Grey.  We stand
+between the darkness, and the light."
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Cast & Characters        
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+439 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 418       Sun Mar 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:41 EST
+
+     I don't think Mira or her husband have that much direct communication
+with her countrypersons anymore.  But that's an assumption based on some but
+not a lot of talk with her on this subject.  Obviously it's a delicate
+subject.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 420       Mon Mar 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:23 EST
+
+     Episode 9 and a bunch of others are finished and delivered; have been for
+some time.  The stations need to stretch episodes through the November sweeps,
+hence staggered reruns.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 433       Thu Mar 31, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:28 EST
+
+     Well, I'd love to try to get Patrick McGoohan again...we'll have more
+appearances by Koenig, of course...possible we'll see Christopher Neame again
+(he said mysteriously)...I'd like to use Robert Vaughn,  Robert Culp, and even
+some actors without Robert as their first name.  If I applied a real wish-
+list, it wouldn't do any good, since the actors I'd love most to use are way
+beyond TV syndication prices (Edward Woodward, for instance).  I'd kinda love
+to drag Bill Windom over from M,SW to do a quick episode for us.  Tom Baker,
+definitely.  I've spoken to Colin Baker about the possibility, and that could
+probably be arranged easily enough.  Anyway, a lot of it depends on the
+scripts, and on schedules.  So we'll see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 13        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 21:00 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Science & Technology     
+
+Jump gates, nanotech, high-tech weapons, starship drives, sound in space, and
+other subjects of science and technology in Babylon 5.
+596 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 573       Mon Mar 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:44 EST
+
+     I dunno...that's an *awful* big cruiser, given the specs.  The thing to
+bear in mind is that in space, you don't really have a reference point.  So if
+something is in the foreground, it can look large against the background (the
+cruiser), making the cruiser look small.  (It's the same effect as holding a
+tennis ball in front of your eye, and using it to block out the sun; the
+tennis ball isn't bigger than the sun, it's a matter of where you're
+standing.)  Sinclair's ship is a LONG ways from the cruiser when last you see
+it.  That maw is a massive launch area.   It's really *huge*.  Perhaps you'll
+get a better understanding of how big it is in a certain later episode, where
+you'll be able to see a single ship entering the maw *at* the maw itself,
+which should put it all into the correct perspective.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 575       Tue Mar 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:14 EST
+
+     Will look into some new gifs soonest....
+
+
+                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 23        Fri Feb 12, 1993
+V.VAIDY1 [Vijay]             at 23:00 EST
+Sub: "OtherWorks" by JMS                  
+
+Before there was "B5" and when "JMS" was just another Plain Joe, there was
+OtherSyde
+ [A discussion of the other works of J. Michael Straczynski]
+168 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 163       Mon Mar 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:55 EST
+
+     I wrote a total of, as I recall, 12 or so episodes of new TZ.  Some of
+the better ones of mine include "The Mind of Simon Foster" (which you noted),
+"Dream Me a Life," "Special Service," "Acts of Terror" and "Rendezvous in a
+Dark Place."
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 166       Sat Mar 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:04 EST
+
+     Yep; the Zone with Skerrit was mine, and all the CBS TZs were edited to
+fit into the half-hour slot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 168       Sun Mar 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:43 EST
+
+     Thanks; that one came out pretty well, actually.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 24        Fri Jun 04, 1993
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:11 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Weapons and Warfare!     
+
+For discussion about the weapons, counter weapons, armor, shielding, tactics,
+logistics, and so forth, of small combat and large scale war in the Babylon 5
+universe.
+545 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 504       Mon Mar 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:57 EST
+
+     It's 23E, yes.  And the ships have been somewhat upgraded, but the basic
+configuration remains.  Also, after the war, a LOT of the EA's fleet was wiped
+out, so it's been a very slow process of putting out new ships.  Even B5 isn't
+completely armed as of this time; they'll be getting in their final squadron,
+Zeta Squadron, in "Survivors."  (Right now all they have are Delta and Alpha
+flights.)  The budget is very tight.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 513       Wed Mar 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:31 EST
+
+     Correct; the fighters enter via the main docking bay, are lowered into
+maintainance bays, repaired/recharged, then set back in place.  You will see a
+goodly portion of this in "Survivors."
+
+     And the Narns didn't really have the resources for an invasion of Earth
+at that time.
+
+     Nor would much be gained, either.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 25        Fri Mar 12, 1993
+S.SHELLENBAR [>> SHANE <<]   at 08:47 EST
+Sub: J. Michael Straczynski Speaks in Public
+
+This is the place to find out where and when JMS will be appearing next.  JMS
+has honed his skills as a public speaker and is taking his act on the road.
+434 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 434       Wed Mar 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:32 EST
+
+     Saturday, April 2nd, Burbank Airport Hilton, 2:00, appearing at Phil and
+Ed's convention.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+
+
+ ************
+Topic 3         Sat Oct 16, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 10:43 EDT
+Sub: The Gathering -- the pilot film      
+
+This topic is for discussion of the 2 hour pilot film.
+
+104 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 3
+Message 99        Wed Mar 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:01 EST
+
+      Kosh was the only occupant that we know of, and the ship is still there,
+except when he takes it out on occasion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Sat Oct 16, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 10:46 EDT
+Sub: Midnight on the Firing Line  (#103)  
+
+The first episode of the new series appearing in late January.
+
+197 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 4
+Message 192       Wed Mar 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:21 EST
+
+     The fighters are launched from the cobra bays.  The cobra bays rotate.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 4
+Message 195       Thu Mar 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:52 EST
+
+     No comment.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 9         Sat Oct 16, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 22:58 EDT
+Sub: And the Sky Full of Stars  (#106)    
+
+by JMS. Time to find out about Sinclair's "hole in his mind".
+216 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 32        Wed Mar 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:44 EST
+
+     What?  Who, me?  Near as I remember, the Question was, "What happened at
+the Battle of the Line?"  Answer: Sinclair was taken aboard the Minbari
+cruiser, tortured, interrogated, mind-wiped and shoved back into his ship.
+
+     The Question *now* is, "WHY was Sinclair taken aboard the Minbari
+cruiser, tortured, interrogated, mind-wiped and shoved back into his ship?"
+
+     That question was not asked heretofore...so how could it be still
+unanswered?
+
+                     jm(who took two semesters of Logic in college)s
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 34        Wed Mar 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:34 EST
+
+     Nope.  You can't string folks along that long.  A goodly portion of it
+will be out by season's end.  Not all, but a *lot*.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 58        Thu Mar 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:01 EST
+
+     Goodman: the CGI won't look as good in slow motion because we step-
+printed them deliberately, in order to give them a more dream-like appearance.
+For us, this wasn't about the ships, it was about one of the men in the ship,
+which is why we kept him in sharp focus, and went to step-printing whenever we
+went outside (and since we're seeing this from his memory, clearly he wouldn't
+actually have *seen* most of this, it's his *sense* of what happened).  You'll
+get plenty of clear CGI in "Signs and Portents," airing in May.
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 79        Fri Mar 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:10 EST
+
+     Some random thoughts:
+
+     I would *never* pull a "he wakes up and it was all a dream" on the
+series.  I hate that kind of story.
+
+     There's more in that newspaper than meets the eye....
+
+     Note in the episode that when Sinclair's wheeled down the hall, still in
+his uniform, he's not bloodied up.  But is later.
+
+     This is, as stated, one of my favorites from this season.  (And the
+person behind the lighting is the same one behind all the episodes, John
+Flinn, our cinematographer, working with Janet Greek, our director.)  I would
+put at this approximate level (some better, some as good) the following
+episodes (for varying reasons): "By Any Means Necessary,"  "Babylon Squared,"
+"Signs and Portents," "A Voice in the Wilderness," and of course "Chrysalis."
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 137       Tue Mar 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:10 EST
+
+     What will be revealed over the course of the series?  All of it.
+
+     By the time the series has run its five-year course (Neilsen willing),
+there will only be ONE unanswered question left: "NOW what?"
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 143       Wed Mar 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:45 EST
+
+     The platform is the zero-g cargo area; you'll see it in more detail later
+in the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 162       Fri Mar 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:35 EST
+
+     Let me just offer an observation here.
+
+     A number of people have commented that they weren't much surprised by
+Sinclair being taken aboard, because on the nets -- and this has ONLY taken
+place on the nets -- this speculation has been bandied about for some time.
+We now have ten zillion speculations on the reason *why*.  I will not comment
+on them one way or another (though I suppose I could point, without making the
+real comparison between types of typists, to the idea that an infinte number
+of monkeys typing on an infinite number of keyboards would eventually produce
+Hamlet simply by chance combination; sooner or later, something close to the
+reality might be stumbled upon...and let me ask a simple question: what
+purpose does that serve?  It only lessens the enjoyment of those who would
+simply like to enjoy what happens WHEN it happens).
+
+     Any good detective knows that you can't really begin to speculate about
+motive until you have all the information right at hand.  At this point there
+is information you don't have...and absent that, any guesses will either be
+wrong, or close enough to hinder the fun but still essentially incorrect.
+It's like trying to guess the contents of a box without knowing the size of
+the box...it could be a marble, it could be an elephant or a pre-fabricated
+house.
+
+     All I'm suggesting is that you consider not trying to come up with every
+possible angle, and let the show progress on its own.  Right now everybody
+seems to be scrambling to make sure every even remotely feasible possibility
+is covered, and there an infinite number.  As an organized activity, this will
+in time only prove frustrating.  By the end of the season, as with being near
+the end of a movie, you'll have enough info on hand to start making some
+educated guesses.  To do so now is to begin the process of calling out
+possible endings during the first five minutes of a movie...you'll miss the
+important things, and annoy the people sitting behind you.
+
+     I'm not saying stop; I'm just saying...relax, a little, I guess, and
+simply be aware that you *cannot* scatter-shot this thing without having
+access to all the information.  It's like trying to guess the beginnings of
+World War One without knowing *any* of the background of the countries
+involved.  Suffice to say that the reason would not be simplistic, or cliched,
+or *easily deduced*.  One thing I learned in two years on "Murder, She Wrote"
+was to come up with a fairly complex mystery, something that can't be easily
+solved going in, but which makes perfect sense after you have all the facts
+and know which clues were the real ones, and which were simply red herrings.
+
+     Just a thought....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 170       Sat Mar 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:42 EST
+
+     It's not so much story ideas (though I suppose there is some validity to
+that point) as...I dunno...just seeing one speculation after another after
+another, going through every conceivable possibility and
+combination...granted, some is inevitable, it was just the systematic and
+extremely...*energetic* hammering that made me wonder if this might not end up
+hindering people's enjoyment of the show and its revelations rather than
+assisting it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 178       Sat Mar 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:58 EST
+
+     There are no apologies to be made, and I do understand, that's the point.
+I was just echoing the comments just preceding this one.  Which is all I'll
+say on it henceforth.  Just trying to help.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 191       Sun Mar 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:36 EST
+
+     The episode of "Mind War" broadcast henceforth will be the one with
+slight alteration.
+
+    What's the difference between a story idea and a speculation...eek. The
+problem with this whole discussion -- perhaps the main problem -- is the
+fuzziness, because it *hasn't been defined yet*.  We are now in the OF
+defining it via this exchange.  It's what a person might choose to sue over.
+And there's no way to quantify or predict that.
+
+     I do think there's *some* difference between the two.  I think that
+primary way this discussion can get into trouble is in the level of detail.
+It's pretty much impossible to sue for a brief *idea*; but the more elaborate
+a suggestion or speculation gets, the more points of potential comparison
+emerge, and the greater the liability.  "See, your honor?  My speculation on
+what happened contained 57 specific plot points, and what Straczynski later
+produced had 54 of those points.  I submit that he saw what I wrote, decided
+it was better, stole my idea, and took it for his own!"
+
+     Bottom line...I only got into this discussion, really, because I didn't
+want people futilely spinning their wheels, because minus the 4 or 5 main plot
+points you don't have yet, it's nearly impossible to guess what's going on.
+It's like trying to determine who committed a murder when all you've been told
+is that there's a dead body...not when it was committed, or where, or how the
+person died, or what clues were found, or where all the suspects were at the
+time.  My primary concern was in not letting the frustration level get too
+high.  The other matter was tangential.
+
+
+     But since it has come up...again, I'd say that the main point of
+differentiation is in the level of complexity.  The longer and more detailed
+the speculation, new histories for characters, new behind the scenes stuff,
+plot complications, motivations, on and on -- the more something is built that
+one could sue over.
+
+     This is a very difficult area, and there are all kinds of ways that it
+can bite you.  Over on CIS, for instance, Paramount came down on a series of
+messages with speculative plot info on ST 7 with lawyers and in injunction and
+major-leage threats against the people involved, CIS itself and anyone else
+they could think of.  We're trying to find a more personable way of handling
+this situation. And for the most part, I think we're doing fine.  But every so
+often this little issue raises its ugly head, and has to be dealt with.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 10        Sat Oct 16, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 22:59 EDT
+Sub: The War Prayer   (#107)              
+
+by Dorothy Fontana.
+
+95 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 10
+Message 83        Wed Mar 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:05 EST
+
+     It wasn't a reference to the Heinlein book, only to the historical use of
+that design.  Re: the breather masks...in cases of riot, sometimes they pump
+in gas.  Also, if they have to chase any of the aliens into the alien sector's
+alternate-atmosphere sections, they have to be wearing breathers.  (Believe
+me, we had a *long* discussion about this.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 13        Sun Oct 17, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 15:15 EDT
+Sub: Mind War   (#110)                    
+
+by JMS. Co-Starring Walter Koenig.
+206 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 13
+Message 202       Wed Mar 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:06 EST
+
+     "Commander" wasn't dubbed onto Walter.  That was Ironheart speaking with
+his back to us.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+
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+
+ Babylon 5 posts by JMS on GEnie for First half of April, 1994
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 category.  The posts are copyright by
+JMS (and compilation copyright is by GEnie).
+
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category and main topic for the new series. Here is
+the place for all general information on the series. Topic 2 is the location
+for SPOILERS. And please, NO STORY IDEAS are to be posted either.
+942 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 792       Sat Apr 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:36 EST
+
+     How much of any episode's dialogue is looped depends on whether or not
+the line was clear on the mike, if there was on off-camera noise, and other
+factors.  Sometimes there's almost none, sometimes there's a lot.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 804       Sun Apr 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:48 EDT
+
+     The ripple is caused by heat from the discharge.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 805       Mon Apr 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:54 EDT
+
+     Personal request: could some enterprising SFWA member here, who might've
+archived the "Ellison vs. Platt" topic in the SFWA category, send me the whole
+thing in email?  Confidentiality 100% assured.  It's for a non-networked
+member.
+
+     (Any SFWA member who objects...take it to email.  Not that I'll be the
+least concerned, of course, I'd just rather not have it clogging this topic.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 809       Mon Apr 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:09 EDT
+
+     Stories become more problematic in direct proportion to the complexity of
+the suggestion.  If it's a one-liner, or a brief thought, that's not too
+problematic.  If it's a lengthy discussion of a possible story...THAT'S a
+problem.  It lets someone say, "Hey!  My story had 52 specific notions, and 52
+of those are in his story, so I wuz robbed."   It's really a question of
+degree, courtesy and intent.
+
+     And the writing credit on MOTFL was jms.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 811       Mon Apr 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:41 EDT
+
+     The refraction depends on the angle you're viewing it from, so it does
+vary a bit.
+
+     Bits and pieces...at Phil & Ed's Excellent Convention in Burbank the
+other day, I saw my first B5 hall costume...very well done, actually, a B5
+command-rank uniform, which was *very* detailed and authentic looking.   It
+actually took me a second to realize that this wasn't one of ours, but rather
+an impressive simulation.
+
+     (VERY strong reaction from folks there about the show, all positive.)
+
+     Also, I'm tentatively planning to show "Signs and Portents" at I-CON that
+Saturday.  There are several to choose from, but since that one's a real blow-
+out, that seemed the best choice.
+
+     I'm also *very* eager to see the audience reaction to something in
+there....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 813       Tue Apr 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:16 EDT
+
+     BTW, did I mention that Mira Furlan is getting a GEnie account...?
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 831       Wed Apr 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:31 EDT
+
+     Actually, no, I don't believe John Flinn was our DP on the pilot movie.
+The series is a *tad* lighter than the pilot, but not much.  Re: the grainy
+aspect...this is happening *after* we turn over the episodes on digital (D2)
+format.  Apparently the company that PTEN uses to drop in the commercials (one
+dub), do the closed captioning (another dub) and other stuff (total: five
+generations down) was doing so on *analog one inch tape*...and, we recently
+discovered, using *USED STOCK*.  Neither PTEN nor anyone else noticed this or
+was aware; we noticed the substantial difference in picture and audio quality,
+and began backtracking it and found this out.  Starting with "War Prayer"
+we've been able to correct some of this (with considerable yelling), and will
+in time correct the rest.  Also, some TV stations are downlinking to less than
+effective stock, which doesn't help.  The image that leaves here on D2 is VERY
+sharp, with nicely saturated colors.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 839       Thu Apr 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:09 EDT
+
+     *What* main debate at ICON?
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 844       Fri Apr 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:54 EDT
+
+     Tom: one word.  Jihad.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 851       Sat Apr 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:46 EDT
+
+     The attack killed the Minbari leader, head of the Grey Council, Dukhat,
+the most evolved and wise soul of all the Minbari.
+
+                                                         jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 867       Sun Apr 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:12 EDT
+
+     Ah...is that why there was a message in my mailbox asking me out on a
+date...?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 872       Sun Apr 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:43 EDT
+
+     Don't write to Seagram's; if you want to help support the show, it's best
+to write your local station.
+
+     I think Mira's coming here simply because she's heard about it from me
+and others, such as Arne.  And yes, I'd say she's coming *here*.
+
+     The minbari warrior caste leader who committed suicide rather than issue
+the surrender command was Sineval.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 881       Sun Apr 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:37 EDT
+
+     Yeah, that's kind of how I figured it would go, and one reason I wasn't
+real sanguine on this from the start.  As for Ordover's behavior, from what
+I've seen of him on the forums, that seems about par for the course.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 887       Mon Apr 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:28 EDT
+
+     BTW, could someone find for me and repost that review of TNG that slammed
+the actors?  A friend asked for it, and I can't find it on my disk...thanks.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+Babylon 5 offically became a series on May 28 '93. There will be 22 hour eps
+for season one (in addition to the pilot). Airs Wednesdays at 8PM in most
+places starting Jan. 26 '94.  This is the SPOILER topic where anything goes.
+
+907 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 846       Wed Apr 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:53 EDT
+
+     We expect to know around the second week of May.  Because of the recent
+entry of Paramount's new network, which is grabbing up stations left and
+right, nothing in the current marketplace is a lock, so we'll see what we will
+see.  They're really hoping that ST spinoff #3 will be sufficient bait --
+offering the guaranteed ST franchise -- to help close down other venues and
+other competing shows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 864       Sat Apr 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:52 EDT
+
+     It has *always* been my sense that the body was slipped out an access
+airlock in the zero-g cargo area.  Every other access -- like the boarding
+area and standard cargo area -- is under close security to prevent this kind
+of thing, or the influx of contraband.  There's really nowhere to GO from the
+zero-g section, so it's a little looser.  As for how he got the body
+there...there is an answer, and a reason, and if you look at this episode
+again after the season is over, even the nitpickers who brought it up will be
+able to figure it out.  I didn't address it in the issue because I didn't
+think anyone would make a federal case out of this, and for other reasons that
+will in time become apparent.  Several other nits picked at this episode will
+*also* be clarified by season's end.  It's not easy to sit quietly, knowing
+the answer, and being unable to tell it, but that's simply what I have to do
+for the time being.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 868       Sun Apr 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:16 EDT
+
+     The zero-g cargo section extends from the front of B5 well into the
+middle of the station, *inclusive* of red sector, which is below it.
+
+     I'm never optimistic.  As far as pickup is concerned, it's very
+basic...the Paramount network, as stated, is making inroads, pressuring
+stations to sign onto the new network or else they won't get the proven,
+guaranteed, franchise, new ST series.  Independent stations only have so many
+available hours, which is putting a real crunch on the syndicated marketplace.
+Whatever people may think, a second season is not a lock.  I wouldn't have
+asked people to express their support, *especially* to the local stations,
+just to jerk people around.  I take that kind of request very seriously, and
+wouldn't ask unless I felt it was useful.
+
+     I am hopeful, and certainly there are many positive signs...but at the
+same time, as I've said before, this is one town where hope can kill you.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 875       Sun Apr 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:58 EDT
+
+     The official end of the season comes with "Chrysalis," airing araound the
+end of November.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 883       Mon Apr 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:22 EDT
+
+     Located above the station proper is the long zero-g cargo loading area.
+You'll see, in later episodes, ships pulling up in front of the area and
+offloading cargo.  That is accessible from many parts of the station.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Computer SFX Tech-Talk   
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+465 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 427       Mon Apr 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:10 EDT
+
+     We're already doing it, and have done it.  We've already begun
+integrating "virtual sets" in with real ones.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 434       Tue Apr 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:17 EDT
+
+     As an example...in the next-to-last shot in "Survivors," someone is
+entering a ship in the docking bay.  The only real object in that room, aside
+from the actor, is a ladder.  Everything else is CGI...but you can't tell.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 438       Wed Apr 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:33 EDT
+
+     Nope, that's not the shot from "Survivors."
+
+     You'll see windows -- BIG windows -- looking out into space in "By Any
+Means Necessary" and "A Voice in the Wilderness."  You'll see windows in the
+Garden from buildings as well, particularly in "Legacies."
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 443       Wed Apr 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:53 EDT
+
+     Well, it's not exactly much of a *challenge* now, is it, since you now
+KNOW where the shot is....
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 452       Sat Apr 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:55 EDT
+
+     Unless you're planning to do monstrous amounts of blue-screen work,
+making stars go left to right (or right to left) is easy; ST uses a star
+curtain, which simply is on a loop running in the right direction (when they
+don't use blue screen).  Stars out of the B5 window would be going in a
+CIRCLE...which would require a star WHEEL of *enormous* size.  We were able to
+trick the camera using camera moves in the pilot to make the stars move, but
+have found it more difficult to do this on the series.  We have some ideas on
+how to fix this for a (hopefully) second season.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 454       Sun Apr 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:45 EDT
+
+     In "Survivors," we attempted a cgi/composite shot out the window, which
+looks pretty spiffy, actually.  It's in the teaser.  We may do this in future.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 460       Sun Apr 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:51 EDT
+
+     I believe that shot was from "Believers."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Cast & Characters        
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+487 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 448       Sun Apr 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EDT
+
+     Some were real, yes.  Some weren't.
+
+     An SF convention on board Babylon 5...oh dear....(slapping self, bad jms,
+*bad* jms).
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 452       Sun Apr 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:26 EDT
+
+     I don't know, but I think I can be *reasonably* sure that there won't be
+anyone there selling Dianetics books in the dealer's room....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 468       Fri Apr 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:58 EDT
+
+      Well, you'll get June Lockhart in "The Quality of Mercy," airing May
+25th.  We live to serve.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 471       Sun Apr 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:45 EDT
+
+     No, no scenes with Bill Mumy, though some consideration was given to the
+notion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 477       Tue Apr 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:47 EDT
+
+     Jerry tells us he is a gourmet cook.
+
+     Jerry also told us he belonged to the Dance Company of Harlem.
+
+     I'd check that tuna *real* careful....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                  
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+541 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 524       Mon Apr 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:44 EDT
+
+     I knew about it...I get all memos on this stuff, and was there the day
+she came by...I just plumb forgot to mention it.  So much goes on in the
+course of an average day that by the time I get home, my brain is melting out
+my ears.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 526       Tue Apr 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:18 EDT
+
+     Only when *you're* talking to me.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 534       Tue Apr 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:28 EDT
+
+     Since they apprently scan this topic...could someone here please notify
+the pinheads at the Prydonians of Prynceton that the Compton's CD Rom of B5 is
+not being done by Richard Compton, B5 director; that it is being done by the
+same people who put out Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia; that Richard
+Compton was also NOT the head of the B5 special effects department...and while
+you're at it, suggest they find a new topic for their top ten...unless they're
+willing to incorporate poor journalism, inaccurate fact checking and typos.
+
+                   jm(yn a slyght snyt but workyng on yt)s
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 15        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:29 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Alien Races              
+
+Aliens races in Babylon 5... their politics, abilties, technology, history,
+and any other discussion specificly about non-humans.
+
+524 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 494       Tue Apr 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:19 EDT
+
+     There are some gender-based differences, yes.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 499       Sat Apr 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:46 EDT
+
+     Very likely.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 506       Sat Apr 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:01 EDT
+
+     No one has seen the entire series outline.  Three people have seen a ten-
+page synopsis of the full five-year story, and are sworn to absolute secrecy
+about it.  Larry, as I mentioned earlier, read it, and his first reaction was,
+"You're out of your f*****g mind."  A second person began crying at the end of
+it.  (Honest to god, I'm not making this up.)  The synopsis contains only the
+broad strokes; not the details, and there's a LOT of odd stuff in the details.
+
+
+     In preparation for a (hopeful) second season, I've broken out the
+individual episodes/stories for year two, and let one person skim through the
+breakdown, only in order to determinen production needs in advance, so we can
+budget accordingly.  That's all.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 24        Fri Jun 04, 1993
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:11 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Weapons and Warfare!     
+
+For discussion about the weapons, counter weapons, armor, shielding, tactics,
+logistics, and so forth, of small combat and large scale war in the Babylon 5
+universe.
+552 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 548       Sat Apr 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:31 EST
+
+     Actually, there's a second shot in which you can see a body being thrown
+out; it's between Mitchell and Sinclair being hit.  Remember that the body is
+strapped in in an angular fashion, and look for it as it blows (as I recall)
+from left to right.  It's there.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 25        Fri Mar 12, 1993
+S.SHELLENBAR [>> SHANE <<]   at 08:47 EST
+Sub: J. Michael Straczynski Speaks in Public
+
+This is the place to find out where and when JMS will be appearing next.  JMS
+has honed his skills as a public speaker and is taking his act on the road.
+453 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 436       Wed Apr 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:55 EDT
+
+     Seemed to go fine, though it's better to ask the audience than the person
+at the front of the room...perceptions can change depending on which end of
+the microphone you're on....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 438       Sat Apr 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:03 EDT
+
+     Still plan on showing "Signs and Portents" at I-CON, though it'll be
+tight getting that one finished in time, given the incredible amount of CGI in
+it.  Also will be doing a panel there with Harlan, Michael O'Hare and Arne on
+the origins of B5, and a one-man Q&A session/workshop on writing for TV.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 440       Sun Apr 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:17 EDT
+
+     At this point it'll just be me, maybe Harlan (who's GoH there) on the B5
+stuff.  Probably just the usual...me rambling insensibly for an hour, some
+clips, maybe an episode for the convention.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 443       Sun Apr 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:02 EDT
+
+     Well, I'll probably bring the gag reel, some clips, and as far as
+episodes go...my *guess* at this point would be either the two-parter, or D.C.
+Fontana's "Legacies."  Just about anything else would reveal stuff too early.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 450       Mon Apr 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:23 EDT
+
+     I really don't know; my suggestion is to leave a message on the ICON
+topic in SFRT3.  I haven't seen a breakdown of the schedule yet.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+
+ ************
+Topic 9         Sat Oct 16, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 22:58 EDT
+Sub: And the Sky Full of Stars  (#106)    
+
+by JMS. Time to find out about Sinclair's "hole in his mind".
+278 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 223       Mon Apr 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:38 EDT
+
+     As another aside...I'm surprised no one here has mentioned what
+transpired just recently on CI$.  A couple of people were posting their
+version of what they thought ST 7 was going to be about, in some detail, and
+Paramount jumped in on jackboots and started threatening lawsuits, against the
+people, against CI$, against everyone and anyone involved.   There may even
+have been an injunction.  In any event, the lawyers descended en masse and
+stomped on it hard.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 227       Tue Apr 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:15 EDT
+
+     I would like to know the 3 times that the specific line, "There's a
+shuttle leaving in two hours, be on it" was used.  I know of only one: in
+"Mind War."  G'Kar said to the assassin, in "Parliament," "That's your flight,
+I suggest you hurry," *in answer to a PA notice, but that's not the same thing
+by any measure.  Please cite the three times you say this exact phrase was
+used.  Because I don't think it's there.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 233       Tue Apr 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:14 EDT
+
+     Cindy: your recollection is incorrect.  The story was *not* the real one,
+so saith the people who were posting it.  They were just making it up.
+
+     Legally, this is a very muddy and difficult area.  Which is why I have
+generally avoided getting into it here.  There are always some who, upon
+getting a request like this, want to drag out the legalities of why they
+should or shouldn't go along with it, who says they can't do it... when from
+my perspective, why are we getting into the legalities of it?  I ask it as a
+*courtesy*.  I spend 3+ hours a day on these systems, and as a rule of thumb I
+never ask much in return.  Even when I'm blind tired after a long day, and I
+log on to find (as today) 1,075 message in my mailbox, I still make it a point
+to come in every day, read everything in both B5 topics, and respond as much
+as I can...and the only thing that I ask in exchange, as a courtesy,
+understanding that it's a difficult area, is to refrain, where possible, from
+posting significant or detailed story ideas.
+ I don't see why legalities have to be argued over each time this gets brought
+up.  One can argue the merits and the specifics and the letter of the law ad
+infinitum...all I've said is that if they *do* start popping up here, I'll
+have to excuse myself from the discussion.
+
+     Anyone who wants to engage in elaborate story speculations and ideas can
+do so privately, in email, to your heart's content.  All I ask is that you not
+do it where I can see it.  I don't like having to make the request, would
+*much* prefer not to do so, but the flat bottom line is that we are a lawsuit
+happy country, and I cannot expose myself, my show, and PTEN to that kind of
+risk.  (And please don't go over the realease form and promises discussion all
+over again...we've hashed and rehashed that one, and it doesn't work.)
+
+     Most people in this town can't believe the amount of effort that I put in
+here, in an exchange which, from a strictly numerical point of view, wouldn't
+notch the ratings up a fraction of a point.  But to me, it's important.  I'm
+just trying to minimize the amount of danger to which I expose my show.  If
+the show matters, then the request matters.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 239       Wed Apr 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:26 EDT
+
+     Talia is nowhere near a P10; her basic telepathic ability remains around
+P5.  The other is totally aside, in terms of mind-scans and the like.  Being
+able to play the fiddle won't make you a better steel worker.
+
+     Re: the non-repeated repeated line...thank you.  You made that statement
+several times, and just felt it was time to call you on it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 262       Sat Apr 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:44 EDT
+
+     Bear in mind, Sinclair was only out about 24-48 hours (I don't recall the
+exact number).  So it wasn't that long a period of time in which to arrange a
+prisoner transfer.
+
+     Pathman...your perception comes from a slight advantage: you're here.
+This has been discussed in great detail on-line, and in the various faq files,
+and in my individual postings.  (About Sinclair and the Line.)  But this
+group, for all its other wonderfulnesses, comprises not enough people to make
+a hiccup on the ratings.  Unless off-line viewers saw the pilot MOVIE -- and
+not all of them did -- this is their *first introduction* to the fact that
+there was a missing 24 hours at ALL.  Most of them didn't have that prior
+knowledge in order to HAVE the suspicions.
+
+     As much as I like the online environment, one can't tailor a show  around
+prior knowledge gained through this exchange.  We have to bring everyone along
+*together*.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 266       Sun Apr 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:41 EDT
+
+     Psi Corps, as a government-regulated agency, is prohibited from endorsing
+candidates or taking a political stance.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 11        Sun Oct 17, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 15:14 EDT
+Sub: The Parliament of Dreams   (#108)    
+
+by JMS.
+
+136 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 11
+Message 136       Sat Apr 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:29 EST
+
+     Bill appeared in, I believe, 6-7 episodes this season, and will likely
+appear in about 13 next year, Neilsen willing.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 14        Sun Oct 17, 1993
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 15:15 EDT
+Sub: Deathwalker (#113)                   
+
+by Larry DiTillio. Co-starring Sarah Douglas and Robin Curtis.
+
+14 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 14
+Message 3         Tue Apr 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:38 EDT
+
+     I have no idea.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS on GEnie for April 15-30, 1994
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 category.  The posts are copyright by
+JMS (and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category and main topic for the new series. Here is
+the place for all general information on the series. Topic 2 is the location
+for SPOILERS. And please, NO STORY IDEAS are to be posted either.
+503 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 351       Thu Apr 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:37 EDT
+
+     Steve...nothing personal, but...what the *hell* are you talking about?
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 386       Sat Apr 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:13 EDT
+
+     I was asked to keep quite about this until April 23rd, which is when the
+announcement is to be made at the Nebulas, but now that it's indeed the 23rd,
+and that announcement either has been made or is being made now, I'm pleased
+to report that the Babylon 5 pilot movie, "The Gathering," has been nominated
+for a Hugo.
+
+     Since we're up against Jurassic Park, I think I pretty much know where
+THAT award is going...but it is a tremendous honor and everyone involved with
+the show is very pleased by it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 417       Sun Apr 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:27 EDT
+
+     Thanks.  As it turns out -- I today saw the list of nominees -- B5 is the
+ONLY TV-SF nominated for the Hugo.  The rest are all feature films (JP, Addams
+Family, Nightmare Before Christmas, Groundhog Day).
+
+     As for questions for Mira...we'll play it by ear, and leave it to her
+discretion.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 422       Mon Apr 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:18 EDT
+
+     Abbut was not -- repeat, NOT -- an imitation of Harlan, as some have
+suggested.  It was originally written for Gilbert Gottfried, who we later
+learned was unavailable.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 451       Wed Apr 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:54 EDT
+
+     Agreed, the pilot movie was much darker...unfortunately, it was SO dark
+that we actually veered into what're called "illegal blacks," that is, the
+picture is too dark, and this causes problems with foreign distributers.
+(This is what they tell me, and through an act of faith I have come to believe
+them.)  We're still about a half-stop or full stop below what's typical.  Be
+advised that many stations, when they broadcast the show, pump up the
+brightness a *lot*.  They just dial it up.
+
+                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 479       Fri Apr 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:19 EDT
+
+     My copies here at the house are SVHS, and they're a *quantum* jump over
+what I see over the air.  So I can only guess what more would come out on
+disk.  Eagerly awaiting the day.  As for the pilot...I ordered a copy (yes,
+folks, I have to pay for one just like everybody else) some time ago; still
+hasn't come in yet.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+Babylon 5 offically became a series on May 28 '93. There will be 22 hour eps
+for season one (in addition to the pilot). Airs Wednesdays at 8PM in most
+places starting Jan. 26 '94.  This is the SPOILER topic where anything goes.
+
+459 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 315       Tue Apr 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:53 EDT
+
+     I knew there was something I liked about Stern.  (And proper that he
+played a sound "bite.")  We sent Howard a B5 cap today, we'll see if it
+actually gets to him or not.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 321       Wed Apr 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:43 EDT
+
+     Jim, your thesis comes from the underlying assumption that, as in the
+Trek universe, All Things Must Be Done Fairly, the government must in the end
+be wise and fair and sensible.
+
+     That ain't our universe.  That ain't even *this* universe.
+
+     Sinclair must follow orders.  He didn't want to escort Deathwalker off
+and on to Earth, those were his marching orders.  *The same marching orders
+would be given to an ambassador representing Earth*.  So your career diplomat
+would be in exactly the same position.  What, do you think that career
+diplomats are independent agents of goodness?  They all work for SOMEone,
+representing their interests.
+
+     Earth put in the majority of the money required to build and operate B5.
+They have the right, as such, to appoint a provisional governor, nad (and)
+that is the function that Sinclair mainly serves.  He runs this place, AND he
+is responsible for maintaining good relations with other  representatives.  He
+is also on a short leash.  And in some cases, as in "By Any Means Necessary,"
+other people are sent in to handle certain kinds of negotiations.
+
+     Yes, it is a conflict of interest.  So what?  Do you think Earth cares
+much about that?  Is it awkward?  Yes, of course.  It *should* put him in
+moral quandries.  The Earth Government is constantly getting him into binds.
+What they wanted him to do in "Deathwalker" was more or less of a dubious
+nature.  But in the end, he found a fairly moral solution to the problem.
+That's what he does.  He finds an honorable way out of very difficult and
+morally ambiguous situations.  What you suggest is that we remove the moral
+ambiguities.  Ehhh.  I find that boring as hell.
+
+     Do the other species like it?  Of course not.  Okay, so what're they
+going to do?  Boycott B5?  And let other species take advantage of all the
+economic and political benefits the station provides?  Let others grow in
+familiarity and form alliances that might in time turn against them?  Not a
+chance.  Fair or not, it's the only game in town.
+
+     So I don't buy your solution because I don't think it's a problem.   You
+do.  That's life.  Political situations are rarely fair, or logical, or
+ethical.  If politics were based on ethics this would be a MUCH better world.
+But politics are generally based on who has the power, and the money, and the
+guts.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 324       Wed Apr 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:28 EDT
+
+     Jose: you are deliberately mischaracterizing the events in "Midnight."
+Sinclair did not -- repeat, did NOT -- "tell Ivanova to defy Earth's orders
+and deceive the council."  He set up a situation in which he would say that he
+was unable to catch up with her and pass along the Senator's instructions
+before he had to leave.  Her line would be that "The Commander never told me,"
+and he would back this up.  (And that he would hedge the truth this way is
+hardly "perfect.")
+
+     Defying the Senator's orders would be telling them that the vote will NOT
+be made as ordered.  That never happened.
+
+     Y'know, I don't mind if folks criticize, but it would be nice if what
+people criticized had actually HAPPENED...like the similar problem over in 19,
+when it was stated that the line, "There's a shuttle leaving in one hour, be
+on it" was made in three different episodes...when in fact it only happened in
+one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 335       Thu Apr 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:34 EDT
+
+     Just to clarify...the Vorlon ship destroyed only Deathwalker's ship, not
+an EA vessel.  And the Vorlon ship waited until Deathwalker's ship was far
+from B5, just before entering the gate, before coming out to strike.   At that
+range, it couldn't miss, and at that distance, B5 couldn't react fast enough.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 352       Fri Apr 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:15 EDT
+
+     The suspect was a) catatonic, b) a missing person's life was at stake, c)
+the next of kin gave permission, d) the information was not used at trial, was
+not admissible, and only the pertinent information on the missing person was
+ever used.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 362       Sat Apr 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:07 EDT
+
+     Tolkien's work had a *profound* effect on me in college; as I later read
+all of the background material, the reams and reams of "history" that he wrote
+to background his novels, I began to realize that *that's* the way to do it.
+So I tried to take that kind of approach, filling out as much as humanly
+possible about the universe, characters and history.  It's the only really
+sensible way to tackle something this large.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 371       Sat Apr 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:12 EDT
+
+     Bugs...very well done.  You're paying attention.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 376       Sun Apr 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:16 EDT
+
+     My notes would have to be *seriously* reworked to be made publishable.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 382       Sun Apr 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:45 EDT
+
+     If you count "Deathwalker," then 9 episodes have aired so far.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 395       Mon Apr 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:47 EDT
+
+     Lennier is not in the cargo area during the beating, nor is he in BG
+during the negotiations.  That's a Minbari of the worker class.  (You can
+generally tell from the orange-ish smock-thingie they wear.)  Sorry.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 400       Tue Apr 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:16 EDT
+
+     The type of Minbari flyer used is a one-person (at most two) ship; she
+came alone to the station, and left alone.  (You'll see this kind of ship, and
+the limit of space, more in another episode.)
+
+     Psi Cops are *authorized* to carry firearms.  The Knights had an in with
+Security, and by virtue of high government contacts, got their stuff on board.
+Those seem to me not requiring much explanation.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 415       Wed Apr 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:55 EDT
+
+     On the "predictable" argument...I can only shrug.  The kid has a 50/50
+chance...he'll survive or die.  And guessing the end isn't, for me, the key;
+this isn't a who-dunit; it's how our characters react on the way there, and
+what it *does* to them, I think.
+
+     And yeah, TV generally doesn't do this kind of ending.  Which is why we
+did it...and our liaison at Warner Bros. deserves a lot of credit for letting
+us do it.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 418       Thu Apr 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:40 EDT
+
+     Since I suggested the ending to David, right down to the candles, I
+suppose I'll take the rap...but the question you're raising isn't the issue.
+There are only two possible results: the kid lives, or the kid dies, there
+ain't much in-between.  You ask, "Who on earth is going to side with people
+who kill their own child?"  The audience isn't being asked to *side* with
+anyone, there IS no easy solution, and no one is 100% in the right.
+
+     There is a wonderful short story, which we adapted for Twilight Zone,
+called "The Cold Equations," where a small shuttle is going from point A to
+point B.  There is enough fuel for the shuttle, and one pilot, and no more.
+The ship is bringing medicine to save 500 colonists.  A young girl has stowed
+away on the ship to see her brother.  She's discovered.  If the pilot does
+nothing, the ship won't arrive, and he and the girl will die, and the
+colonists will die.  If he sacrifices himself, she won't be able/won't know
+how to guide the ship to its destination.  The only way out is to ask her to
+enter the airlock so he can space her and continue the mission.  And that's
+what happens.  You can't argue with math.
+
+     Sometimes, there are no-win scenarios.  And what matters then is how your
+characters react, what they do and say, and how it affects them.   That,
+really, was the thrust of the episode.  And to go back to your question, "Who
+on earth is going to side...."
+
+     The operative word in your question is "Earth."  No, no human is going to
+side with them (although I'd point out in the Bible that there is the story of
+Abraham, who was quite willing to murder his own son at god's request).
+They're not humans.  They have a wholly different mindset, cultural background
+and belief system.  People ask for ALIEN aliens, then judge them by human
+standards, and feel it's wrong if they don't behave like humans.  These
+didn't.  That's who and what they are.   If humans side with them, or accept
+them, doesn't enter into it.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 432       Fri Apr 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:25 EDT
+
+     I can't believe this "explain how the guns get aboard" discussion is
+still going on.  This isn't the Enterprise, to use the cited example,  which
+is a *military vessel*, and only the occasional rare civilian gets on board.
+There are a QUARTER MILLION PEOPLE on board at any given moment.  (People =
+humans and aliens.)  Not staying there, but in a state of flux.  Going and
+coming.  Anywhere from 50 to 100 ships per day dock at B5.  Thousands upon
+thousands of boxes, crates, cargo loads, pallets, you name it.  If you stopped
+and inspected every single box that came through, the system would grind to a
+halt.  So you do the best you can, you catch whatever you can, scan as much as
+possible, and accept that some stuff is bound to slip through.
+
+     Further, this is the kind of explanation that has nothing to do with a
+story, only with someone's need to have something explained to them.  I think
+the time is spent better elsewhere.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 444       Sat Apr 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:18 EDT
+
+     I know from pfingle eggs...I let David have the reference because...
+well, I don't know anymore...I think water torture was involved.
+
+     Drys...no.  The choice *had* to be either/or.  That was the point; to put
+the characters in a situation of conflict and see how they handle it.
+Sometimes in life there are ONLY two choices, neither of them good.  Your
+message comes from a position of trying to avoid the hard choices.  But the
+episode is ABOUT hard choices.  It *has* to be either/or.
+
+     To support your thesis, you bring up the "Cold Equations" alternate
+ending of the pilot cutting off both his legs to make up the weight
+differential.  Lemme explain something to you.  I was there.  When we turned
+in the script, by Alan Brennert, MGM went nuts.  "You can't have a sympathetic
+young woman commit suicide!  It'll kill the ratings!"  So they (the studio
+exec) suggested various "fixes."  One was that instead of stepping willingly
+out the airlock, the pilot shoots her and has to deal with the guilt.  (This
+by them is a *better* idea?)  The other was the notion of the guy cutting off
+his legs to make up the weight.
+
+     First and foremost, it was a dumb idea because he'd be in no shape to
+pilot the ship.  Second it wouldn't be enough weight.  And finally, the very
+*nature* of "The Cold Equations," what the very TITLE means, is that there are
+some occasions in which the choices are stark, and there is NO way around
+them.  If the ship has X-weight, and the fuel is for Y weight, and Y is less
+than X, then you've got a problem that can only -- ONLY -- be resolved by
+someone walking out the airlock.  (And yes, they tried dumping things, but the
+ship is lean, not much to get rid of.)   That's why it's the COLD equations;
+not the LUKEWARM equations.
+
+     I fought like hell to retain the original ending, and won.  (You probably
+read about this, btw, in my articles for TZ Magazine.)  This is studio-think,
+let's find a nice, unthreatening, safe, middle-ground where we can resolve
+this without anybody being upset, threatened or offended by the story.  I'm
+sorry, but life sometimes hands you hard choices, there ARE either/or
+scenarios, in which nobody really wins, and SF should be exploring those as
+well as the fuzzy feel-good stories.  It's time SF grew up a little, damn it,
+and started confronting hard questions that can't always be resolved by
+reversing the polarity on the metaphase unit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 445       Sat Apr 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:34 EDT
+
+     Afterthought: I just wandered into the kitchen, still ranting (as I am
+wont to do), explained it to Kathryn...who brought me up short (as *she* is
+wont to do) by pointing out the antecedent to BOTH stories.  Th  ultimate
+"hard choice" example in SF-TV is of course "The City on the Edge of Forever,"
+from ST.  There are only two choices, both hard: either Edith Keeler dies, or
+the Nazis win WW II.  Kirk *has* to let her die; there's no other choice.
+
+     It is, at the same moment, gratifying and annoying to have someone around
+who's smarter than I am....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 452       Sat Apr 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:14 EDT
+
+     Owning your own space ship isn't cheap, but it also isn't as expensive as
+it might be.  The investment is about the same as starting up your own
+business.  There's not a lot of civilian "touring cars," for lack of a better
+term; better to use the liners and shuttles.  But for businesses, surveyers,
+explorers, traders and the like...yeah, they're within one's grasp.  And these
+sorts of ships are pretty much all run by computer.  No crew required.  Just
+go from place to place.  If it's a scientific survey ship, then you'll have
+some more.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Computer SFX Tech-Talk 
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+492 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 481       Tue Apr 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:35 EDT
+
+     I've told our people that in season two (Neilsen willing), I want a new
+Babcom or general communications standby screen...and if I ever see the old
+one again, someone's going to get hurt....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Cast & Characters      
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+525 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 502       Tue Apr 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:18 EDT
+
+     The female investigator.
+
+     Hell of a makeup job.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B5 Adrift!                         
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+411 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 396       Fri Apr 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:00 EDT
+
+     I was on "Murder" for about two years.  I left about the time we were
+just finishing post-production on the B5 pilot movie.  I think I wrote about 8
+or so episodes of the series.  A couple were Irish type stories, "The Wind
+Around the Tower," and "To the Last Will I Grapple With Thee" (I was in a
+contest to come up with the longest title in the history of the series), the
+murder in the Psycho house "Incident In Lot 7," one or two at the university,
+including "Lines of Excellence," and some others.  It was an enjoyable
+experience, all things considered, and I still think highly of Angela.  I have
+a great deal of respect for her; she's a complete professional.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 13        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 21:00 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Science & Technology   
+
+Jump gates, nanotech, high-tech weapons, starship drives, sound in space, and
+other subjects of science and technology in Babylon 5.
+325 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 299       Tue Apr 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:20 EDT
+
+     You enter the docking bay, and the doors at the other end open.  They
+then close behind you, and begin pressurizing.  Your ship is then lowered down
+to one of the actual bays.  You'll see this in a lot more detail in
+"Survivors" and especially in "By Any Means Necessary."
+
+                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 301       Wed Apr 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:56 EDT
+
+     Well, we put the camera in there and it got crushed....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 306       Fri Apr 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:02 EDT
+
+     The scale of our ships is pretty specific, and those numbers are crunched
+into the animation, so it's all constantly in the correct size relationship.
+It's the eye that is often fooled.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 322       Sun May 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:26 EDT
+
+     The Earth Alliance funded the first few attempts exclusively; after
+they'd dumped all their money into B4, they needed outside funding to get B5
+going, and the Minbari were first to contribute money as a show of good faith.
+Then the Centauri added additional funding.  Those are the only two other
+races that've contributed significantly.
+
+     The world B5 orbits is Epsilon 3.
+
+     PPG = Phased Plasma Gun.
+
+                                                      jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 14        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:59 EST
+Sub: Lurkers/Introductions: Please Sign In
+
+A place for newcomers to come in, say hello, whether you want to jump into the
+conversation or not, just to let us know you're here.
+610 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 579       Sat Apr 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:04 EDT
+
+     I think the term usually used to describe B5 viewers is, "People Of
+Incredible Taste, Perception and Discretion."
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 15        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:29 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Alien Races            
+
+Aliens races in Babylon 5... their politics, abilties, technology, history,
+and any other discussion specificly about non-humans.
+
+250 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 230       Sat Apr 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:07 EDT
+
+     Well, let's see...there's the Drazi (slightly purplish heads, the ones
+who beat the crap out of the guy in "War Prayer," and brought in the Drazi
+Sunhawk in "Deathwalker"), the pak'ma'ra (the ones who shuffle through frame
+in greenish robes, with tentacles where their mouths should be...and about
+whom there is something very weird, rather icky, which you'll see in
+"Legacies"), the Abbai, commonly known around the studio as "fishheads"...will
+post a fuller description later.  Those are the ones you see mainly in DW.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 239       Thu Apr 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:02 EDT
+
+     On the ships...when Ron was pulling together the ships for that episode,
+we talked about it on the phone for a while, and I have to take the rap for
+the saucers...which I still think are cool.  I said, in essence, why the hell
+not?  Ron thought it was a great idea, and went and made it real.  I think if
+we ever see this kind of ship again, it'll need some more work, a little more
+weight and substance, some more detail, but they're okay.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 21        Wed Feb 02, 1994
+S.SHELLENBAR [>> SHANE <<]   at 09:43 EST
+Sub: Quotes from BABYLON 5              
+
+Here is where we show the writers, actors, and even the directors that we
+appreciate WHAT and HOW the characters say the things they say.
+
+25 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 21
+Message 25        Tue Apr 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:21 EDT
+
+     (I really love that line....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 24        Fri Jun 04, 1993
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:11 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Weapons and Warfare!   
+
+For discussion about the weapons, counter weapons, armor, shielding, tactics,
+logistics, and so forth, of small combat and large scale war in the Babylon 5
+universe.
+276 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 256       Sat Apr 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:09 EDT
+
+     Correct, the main difference between pistols and rifles is the range, and
+the number of shots you can get out before slapping in a recharge pod.  A hand
+PPG can give you about 10-12 shots per charge, while a rifle nearly doubles
+that.  (And yes, we have sat down and worked out a goodly part of this stuff.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 263       Tue Apr 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:22 EDT
+
+     Variable settings.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 265       Tue Apr 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:33 EDT
+
+     "I'm hoping that Star Trek will now learn a lesson from Joe."
+
+     Buy low.  Sell high.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 27        Fri Feb 04, 1994
+W.SUDLOW [Raffles]           at 19:56 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 and Religion             
+
+A place to discuss Soul Hunters, Minbari reincarnation beliefs and other
+>metaphysical subjects. Feel free to compare and contrast with human
+religions, but *please* be considerate, and avoid entering realworld
+theological debates.
+95 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 27
+Message 66        Sat Apr 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:11 EDT
+
+     Garibaldi is an agnostic verging on atheism.  Sinclair was taught by
+Jesuits and raised with a religious background.  Ivanova is Jewish, but very
+much lapsed.  Franklin is a Foundationist.  Others TBA.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 27
+Message 68        Sat Apr 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:12 EDT
+
+     The Foundation is a new religion, started close to the year 2000, which
+gradually grew and achieved a fair amount of respectability over  the
+following 200 years (as with mormonism, for instance).
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 27
+Message 74        Sun Apr 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:33 EDT
+
+     Narns would be considered kosher.
+
+     Spoo would simply be considered.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 27
+Message 81        Tue Apr 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:39 EDT
+
+     Boy, you guys are gonna *love* "By Any Means Necessary" and "TKO."   They
+deal with ALL this stuff.
+
+     The Foundation would take a long, long time to explain here.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 27
+Message 87        Wed Apr 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:29 EDT
+
+     Someone once described Jesuits as god's pit bulls...kinda fits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 27
+Message 93        Thu Apr 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:04 EDT
+
+     BTW, Sinclair mentions his Jesuit teachers (and his relationship to them)
+again in "By Any Means Necessary."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+
+ ************
+Topic 7         Sat Oct 16, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 10:51 EDT
+Sub: Believers   (#105)                 
+
+by David Gerrold. Religion comes into play aboard Babylon-5.
+48 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 7
+Message 4         Sat Apr 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:06 EDT
+
+     When I developed the basic Believers story, and was looking for someone
+to assign it to, David was the first person we went to.  He asked me at the
+time why him...he's more generally associated with humorous stuff.  I had my
+reasons.  See, lately, David adopted a young boy, about the same age as Shon.
+So about halfway into the outline, David called and said, "NOW I understand."
+I knew that having a child of his own now would mean that the story would be a
+lot more personal.  Especially the end scene, which I knew would have to be
+done *very* carefully.
+
+     I think David did a great job, and under his guidance it turned into a
+very moving episode.  And with any luck, he'll write more down the road.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 7
+Message 8         Sat Apr 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:50 EDT
+
+     To clarify...I was referring to most of David's TV work, not his novels.
+At least, that was his own estimation of his work at the time.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 7
+Message 33        Fri Apr 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:48 EDT
+
+     I'm not quite sure if we're talking about the same thing; the two parents
+never said that the kid would die if he underwent the surgery, only that his
+soul would escape.  This would leave him "soul-dead," for lack of a better
+phrase.  And how are we to tell that they weren't right?  I don't think it's
+quite as cut and dried as you seem to present.
+
+     (And again, they were acting very much out of their real beliefs of how
+the universe operates.  If someone here is injured, and declared brain dead,
+most folks think it's okay to pull the plug...even though one could make the
+argument that there's still a living soul in the body.  This is the opposite
+situation; one may argue that there is still a mind somewhere in the body, but
+the soul is dead or gone.  The phrase they use is that they put the shell out
+of its misery.  To their mind, he was dead already.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 7
+Message 41        Sat Apr 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:51 EDT
+
+     She got away by long-distance firing as she retreated as fast as she
+could, taking shots as she went.  It wouldn't look real exciting in the long
+run.  And the people of the egg emphasize that the body must be *penetrated*;
+it has to go into the body cavity itself to release the soul.  Paper cuts
+won't do it.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 14        Sun Oct 17, 1993
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 15:15 EDT
+Sub: Deathwalker (#113)                 
+
+by Larry DiTillio. Co-starring Sarah Douglas and Robin Curtis.
+
+156 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 14
+Message 44        Fri Apr 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:12 EDT
+
+     Re: Kosh's voice...though we've fixed *most* of the video crap that's
+being done to our eps after delivery, we're still being clamped, which is
+causing some problems like this.
+
+     Working on it.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 14
+Message 71        Sun Apr 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:15 EDT
+
+     You'll see more about Garibaldi's drinking problem in about two weeks.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 14
+Message 83        Sun Apr 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:23 EDT
+
+     Abbut was screwing around when he said "I'm a 23 myself," just messing
+with her.  And yes, the Windswords were the warrior clan involved in the
+events in "The Gathering."
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 14
+Message 86        Sun Apr 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:11 EDT
+
+     H.Mallette...you're reviewing things that didn't happen, or which YOU are
+twisting to your OWN convenience.
+
+     You assume the crowd meeting Sinclair could be placated.  They make it
+clear, in dialogue: "You will have to kill us all."  They could not BE
+placated.  Your assumption has nothing to do with what happened, or what was
+said.  Maybe in the ST universe, Picard can turn on the charm and just talk
+people out of things.  That doesn't happen here, not easily at any rate.  It
+was turn back or kill them.  Those were the choices.
+
+     You misstate when you say that Dr. Franklin was unable to analyze the
+serum.  He states that his preliminary analysis of the serum DID confirm her
+statements; this was backed up by further evidence that she was Jha'dur, that
+she was impossibly younger than she should be, and that her wounds were
+healing with incredible speed.  "My assumption would be that she'd invented
+something that LOOKED like an antiagapic."  Yes, and your assumption would be
+wrong.  All the evidence pointed to it being EXACTLY what she said it was.
+Further, the agreement between the League and Sinclair was that scientists
+would be on hand during the period of development to *insure* that it was what
+it was supposed to be.  Or did you miss that part?  Nobody was saying to use
+it now...no one.  You' are reacting to an issue that never appeared in the
+show.
+
+     The EA escort got her as far as the gate.  Then peeled away.  And then
+the Vorlon ship came out.  That's what Sinclair said: "They will escort you as
+far as the gate."  And even if they had stayed with her THROUGH the gate, it
+would've made no difference.  Vorlon ship comes through.  Fires at
+Deathwalker's ship.  EA ships fire back.  No visible effec, the cruiser shrugs
+it off and goes back the way it came.  Single Starfuries wouldn't even *dent*
+a Vorlon cruiser.  So same result.
+
+     My bottom line: if you don't like the show, then don't watch the show.
+But please refrain from twisting what happened due to your incorrect
+assumptions, or for your own convenience in attacking something.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 14
+Message 88        Sun Apr 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:39 EDT
+
+     Lennier has no such power; Delenn chose to tell Lennier not to mention
+that she was a member of the Grey Council.  With Sinclair, Lennier was totally
+unaware of Jha'dur's time with the Windswords when it was first mentioned to
+him.  He then went and spoke to Delenn and the Council, which explained the
+situation to him, and gave him his marching orders.   He did not get Sinclair
+to "chat about top-secret information," Sinclair came to him to find out what
+he could about Jha'dur's claim.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 14
+Message 91        Mon Apr 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:17 EDT
+
+     Bear in mind also that until the corridor confrontation, Sincliar had no
+idea that the League knew Deathwalker was there (and they didn't, until G'Kar
+told them just beforehand).  That makes a major difference; once they knew she
+was there, he'd blow the council apart by trying to smuggle her out.  If they
+could get her off-station without the League knowing anything about it, THAT
+was what Earth was counting on.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 14
+Message 107       Tue Apr 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:10 EDT
+
+     H.Mallette...when you have waded through as many as 1,000 messages a day
+about something you've done, some laudatory, many critical, usually all of
+them contradictory, then you can talk to me about knee-jerk defensiveness.
+
+     Once in a while I get cranky -- especially when awaiting word on a pickup
+-- but for the most part, I think I've been pretty good in all of this.
+
+     Re: language...if you're going to America from Russia as an ambassador,
+you're expected to know English fluently.  B5 is funded by (mostly) and
+operated by Earth, and English is more or less the dominant language.  Hence,
+they know it well enough to communicate with us.  (BTW, this is already
+happening here...every airport on the planet, for example, uses english
+consistently in the control tower to planes, and more people outside english-
+speaking countries are educated in english than we are in alternate
+languages.)
+
+     For others, there are 3 basic options: english, Centauri, and an
+interstellar kind of esperanto.  Failing that, mechanical translators, such as
+are seen in "Legacies," are brought into service.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 14
+Message 110       Tue Apr 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:31 EDT
+
+     Yeah, I really thought the Space Rangers line was out of line and
+uncalled for; generally, I react with equal civility to what is first put in
+front of my face.
+
+     And no, that wasn't his brain.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 14
+Message 111       Tue Apr 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:31 EDT
+
+     P.S.  "CAUSTICITY??!"
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 14
+Message 139       Thu Apr 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:21 EDT
+
+     Herb, no, I don't agree with you.  As far as we knew, Lennier was going
+to vote with Sinclair and the League.  So you hold off his change of vote for
+the end.  You get a few no votes, annoy the League, Sinclair raises their
+hope, and then Lennier, much as he hates it, dashes that hope.  It's an arc
+that way, rather than a descending staircase.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 16        Sun Apr 17, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:42 EDT
+Sub: Signs and Portents (#116)          
+
+by JMS. Directed by Janet Greek.  Co-starring Gerrit Graham.
+10 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 16
+Message 3         Mon Apr 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:36 EDT
+
+     If we can keep the discussion fairly general; I know this is a spoilers
+topic, but it's *so* long until broadcast on this one, if we could keep it
+fairly general just for the next couple weeks, that'd be great.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms94-05-01 b/ftp/GEnie/jms94-05-01
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS on GEnie for May 1-15, 1994
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 category.  The posts are copyright by
+JMS (and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category and main topic for the new series. Here is
+the place for all general information on the series. Topic 2 is the location
+for SPOILERS. And please, NO STORY IDEAS are to be posted either.
+772 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 505       Sun May 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:17 EDT
+
+     Not to distract this thread, but the reference to power macs (also I
+believe referred to as power PCs) raises a question...I'm already kinda
+outgrowing the Deathstar 2000 Megasystem that I had assembled as my  primary
+computer.  I'm not thinking of buying immediately, simply because I haven't
+the time, and there seems to be some shakeup going on out there, but I'm
+*thinking* about the Power PC/mac, mainly because I'm tired of rejigging
+things ten thousand ways to find means to make my SCSI card work with my CD
+rom, and the optical drive, and nothing ever seems to work together unless you
+spend zillions of hours configuring your system.  The Macs all work seamlessly
+together, but there's much about the PC that I like.  Is the power system the
+way to go?  Does it all interface as smoothly as the mac, or does it take as
+much configuring?  Simple answers please....I'm an idiot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 510       Sun May 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:55 EDT
+
+     So lemme get this straight, though...dos text files can be read by the
+PowerMac, but Dos software *won't* work?  (That seems to be the implication.)
+In other words...I can't just transfer Wordstar to the machine and get it up
+and running, and my macro programs; it has to be mac-based programs, yes?
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 534       Tue May 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:55 EDT
+
+     If we get the go-ahead, there'll be a few days of frantic action, then
+I'm going to want to get away for a few days or so.  It's been a LONG season,
+I haven't had any kind of real break, and if I don't get some breathing space,
+I'll burn out halfway through the season.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 551       Wed May 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:51 EDT
+
+     Y'know, some people say Ivanova's humor is weird, off-base...and I've
+always felt it was *right* for her, but putting it into words to explain it
+was difficult.
+
+     Tonight, the metaphor becomes clearer.  Today they released new papers
+from the Kennedy assassination.  Leaving aside for just a moment the
+terribleness of the event...one of the papers released was a letter from
+Marina Oswald to some friends.  She wrote, of Oswald's growing discontent, in
+her broken english, "Lee no like USA.  Lee no like Soviet Union.  Lee like
+moon."
+
+     And I just fell off the couch laughing.  It's the *perfect* example of
+Russian humor, and Ivanova's humor...a shrug, a note of absolute
+hopelessness...followed by a punchline.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 583       Sun May 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:26 EDT
+
+     Fairly quiet couple of days here; nothing much eep an official nature to
+talk about yet.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 606       Sun May 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:40 EDT
+
+     What Peter says is essentially correct; we're not quite sure what it is,
+but something about the way Ron's CGI is rendered makes it work to a limited
+extent with some 3D viewers.  Not consistently, and not to best effect, but
+usually just enough to be noticed.
+
+                        jm(saying nothing officially)s
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 610       Sun May 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:50 EDT
+
+     Could someone post for me on Internet that for some reason, the GEnie
+gateway is down, and I haven't seen much of anything new since about the 3rd?
+(Hence my sudden silence.)  With any luck, the gate'll open soon, and I'll
+find my box stuffed with another 2,000 messages or so any day now.
+
+     BTW, did I mention that DC is going to be doing a B5 comic?  And that one
+of our own locals here on the net just may have a little something to do with
+it?  And that Bill Mumy may write a bit for it, and Peter David, and me, and
+some other nifty writers?
+
+                              jm(a man of many secrets)s
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 655       Wed May 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:03 EDT
+
+     I had some lengthy talks with the book's editor, a very sharp and
+perceptive individual, and outlined what I thought would be a good approach to
+the comic.  As a comics reader, what makes me crazy are books published as
+media tie-ins that are ONLY that, just tie-ins, throwaways, unchallenging, and
+restricted by the same rules that limit a TV show.  In a comic, you don't
+*have* the same limitations of budget, and location, and casts.  So why lumber
+a comic with those restrictions?
+
+     The editor and I both feel the same way...that the stories should be
+challenging, and inventive, and sometimes comtroversial, and should try and
+*surpass* the series.  I know they had a problem with another SF show comic,
+where they were constantly being hit with rules, and you-can-do this, you
+*can't* do *that*.
+
+     What I recommended was that the book be written in three-issue story
+arcs, using different writers and some different artists from time to time,
+tailoring the look of the book to the story itself...so you could go from
+realistic to surreal to stylized, depending on the story.  You could then open
+up the book to some terrific comic and SF writers who wouldn't tie themselves
+down to a whole year's worth of stories, but would be willing to do one 3-
+issue arc.  And they will be given a great deal of freedom; my only
+requirement is that it take place somewhere in the B5 universe, and preferably
+have at least one of our characters in it, at any point in the past or present
+or (depending on the story) future.  The whole point of *creating* Babylon 5
+was to see what other writers would do with it, when turned loose.  That's
+half the fun.  Why ride herd on them?
+
+     DC and the editor (I'm not using the editor's name only because I don't
+know if I'm supposed to at this point or not) have been nothing short of
+terrific to work with.  There was a meeting out here in March, another meeting
+in New York just before Icon, and we're *very* much on the same wavelength.
+
+     I'll probably be writing the first issue, which will tie into the first
+episode of Year Two of B5.  What's neat is that in the premiere of season two,
+you'll see a story that references something that happens somewhere else.  The
+comic will *show* that something else.  You can watch and enjoy the show just
+fine without it, but reading the book will show you, for lack of a better
+term, the other side of the story.
+
+     Although I own something like 3-4,000 comics, I've never defined myself
+as a *collector*...I've always been just a comics *fan*.  And as such, I
+really want this to be a book I'd like to pick up as a reader.   And I think
+this has a very good chance of being just such a book.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 657       Wed May 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:39 EDT
+
+     I've always considered my work canon-fodder.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 673       Thu May 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:14 EDT
+
+     Arne's correct.  I think it's important to match artists with
+writers...some looking very stylized, some realistic, some offbeat, to match
+the tone of the story.  It's more of an anthology feel to it, but set in the
+B5 universe.  (I believe the working title we came up with was "Tales from
+Babylon.")  If you've seen any of the Grendel books, and the Grendel Tales
+stuff, you'll have some sense of what we're going for (and, as Arne mentions,
+the dark knight stuff).  It's also a great way to make sure you're always on
+deadline; you can have several writers working at the same time, rather than
+one after the other.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 676       Thu May 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:46 EDT
+
+     I'd *love* to get Matt to do an arc, if he'd be willing.  His work is
+nothing short of brilliant.  (Will we ever see a MAGE followup?)
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 684       Thu May 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:08 EDT
+
+      Ah...well, now at that the news is official (at last), I can talk
+ about this.
+
+      Yes, we have been renewed.  For 22 episodes, same as this year.  And
+ we will be going on the air with our second season in November.  As a
+ result, we will be showing new episodes over the summer.  The November
+ debut puts on the same footing as all the other series, so it'll help get
+ us into TV Guide's Fall Preview, and spread the shows over the proper
+ November/May sweeps period without having to stretch with a lot of reruns.
+
+      What follows is a *tentative* schedule only.  This has NOT been
+ finalized yet, but looks like it's going to be what we run with.
+
+      (Reruns from June 1 - June 29)
+      "Grail," July 6
+      "Eyes," July 13
+      "Legacies," July 20
+      "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1," July 27
+      "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 2," August 3
+      "Babylon Squared," August 10
+      "The Quality of Mercy," August 17
+      "Chrysalis," August 24
+
+      We begin shooting season two on July 18, the day after my 40th
+ birthday.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 705       Thu May 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:20 EDT
+
+     There will be reruns, in sequence, from August 31st or so through the end
+of October, so there's room to catch up.  (Also reruns from June 1 through
+June 29.  The June reruns include "Parliament," "War Prayer," "Mind War",
+"Sky" and "Deathwalker."  The later reruns will pick up starting with
+"Believers.")
+
+     As was also announced today, Time Trax was *not* picked up, which in case
+anyone was doubting the current problem should answer that question.  Re:
+WWOR...apparently Paramount is all upset at the PTEN shows being renewed, and
+is trying to throw its weight around to say that NONE of the stations that
+have signed on to the Paramount network should carry ANY other new programs
+except those produced by Paramount.  (Which is very different from, say the
+Fox network and its arrangements with its affiliates.  Hell, even network
+stations have the option of carrying outside shows.)  They're apparently
+getting very huffy about the whole thing.
+
+                                                              jm
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 718       Fri May 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:56 EDT
+
+     So, like...is this good or bad?
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 732       Fri May 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:28 EDT
+
+     Story-wise, I think year two will see more personal stories along with
+the action stuff; I'm not sure we really had enough opportunity to get to know
+our characters outside the main crisis/storyline.  Give them some breathing
+space.  And we will begin the process of moving the chairs around some more,
+about who's what (taking Londo one direction, and G'Kar in another, neither
+being what you might expect).
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 753       Sat May 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:33 EDT
+
+     Glenn, I suspect the newspaper got it wrong, in that Kung Fu was picked
+up for its third season, and they might've gotten simply confused.  We've been
+picked up for year two; year three will have to wait until we're more into
+year two to decide.
+
+     The Paramount boogie-man seems to have quieted down for a while; I thing
+someone told them to get stuffed.  So I think we're okay for a while.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 758       Sat May 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:22 EDT
+
+     Londo and G'Kar are both married.
+
+     Mike...calm down.  Shooting on our first season began around July 24th.
+We had always planned on starting season two on July 18, even when we thought
+we would still be going on in January for year two.  So nothing up-front
+changes; delivery of scripts and other stuff is exactly the same as it was in
+year one; if anything, we have about a week more time this round than last
+season in terms of prep.  Also, bear in mind that we were finishing episodes
+literally *months* before they were to air.  As I've said, I've had the final
+on episode we'd originally slotted for November (prior to the schedule change)
+since mid-April; in some cases, mid-March.
+
+     The post production schedule is almost identical to season one; if
+anything, because we don't have to take the time to look for a composer this
+year, which kept us from scoring for a while in season one, we again have a
+bit *more* time.
+
+     Trust me, all is well.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 760       Sat May 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:59 EDT
+
+     Btw to Ron Jarrell...I suspect my Internet gateway is down again; I
+haven't seen any new message in my mailbox for about two days.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+Babylon 5 offically became a series on May 28 '93. There will be 22 hour eps
+for season one (in addition to the pilot). Airs Wednesdays at 8PM in most
+places starting Jan. 26 '94.  This is the SPOILER topic where anything goes.
+
+593 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 477       Tue May 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:03 EDT
+
+     There isn't much I can say at this point, except...it's truly a learning
+experience.  Sometimes it ain't pleasant.  That's life.  I feel I have an
+obligation, and I intend to follow it.  As for the flames...hey, I've been in
+story meetings with network suits.  Go ahead, try and scare me.
+
+     Jim...some of what you ask for you will get.  Some of what you ask for
+you *won't* get.  There will be an accounting.  There will be some explanation
+of the people in B5.  And so on.  Not everything you ask for will you get.
+This is also life.
+
+     No, no alternate ending was *ever* considered.  That wasn't the point.
+It wasn't about solving the *problem*, it was about the people.
+
+     And it isn't tendonitis, it's carpal tunnel syndrome.  I get by.  I can
+do a little better now than earlier in the season, when it got so bad that --
+even with the gloves -- I had to write 20 minutes, ice down my arms for 20
+minutes, write for 20, ice for 20, and so on.  It's pretty much constant pain.
+(And believe me, I've heard all the advice, all the suggestions, I use the
+gloves, I do the exercises...it is what it is, and I have to live with it, or
+stop writing.  If I stop writing, I'll vanish in a puff of purple smoke.)
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 480       Tue May 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:29 EDT
+
+     Well, now, lemme defend the Internet for a second...what I find most
+interesting about it is that most of the Internet stuff comes in via major
+colleges, universities, research labs and the like.  So when you're dealing
+with a lot of people of college age, you're going to encounter rough spots.
+BUT...what you *also* get are people who are pretty sharp, have access to
+research material, are academics and scientists and research students...and
+lemme tell you, they keep you on your toes.
+
+     It's easy to hang out in a room where people are generally nice to
+you...and certainly relaxing; I tend to come here more with a sense of
+relaxing with friends, where there is some measure of "put up the persona and
+perform" on Internet...but one should be open to the tough stuff as well.
+Granted, at times it makes me cranky, and I probably respond with more heat
+than I'd like...but again, that's really more the exception than the rule.
+There's a lot of nifty people there.
+
+     Of course, there's more here, natch...he said, remembering where he
+was...and this has been the oldest home of B5 Online, so it occupies a warm
+place in my heart...if I had one....
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 489       Tue May 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:19 EDT
+
+     Maybe we should make it Goys in the Hood....
+
+     Re: "I just feel that good faith gets a bit strained when one of the
+parties to the negotiation has power of live and death over the others."
+
+     Except Sinclair really doesn't have that power.  Not on a wide ranging
+basis (EA is still 'way behind the rest in tech), and not on a personal level.
+The Advisory Council can out-vote him.  If he chooses to exceed his personal
+authority and punish somebody, Earthdome can ream his butt.  (And, from time
+to time, does exactly that.)  He's not a lone agent, free to do whatever he
+wants.  There's a chain of command.  Without giving too much of a spoiler, in
+"By Any Means Necessary," when Earthdome isn't sensing that Sinclair is
+handling the labor action properly, they send in a negotiator to handle it
+*for* him.  He is on a very short leash.
+
+     Re: the screwing-up of "The Star," I don't know what happened with that,
+as it didn't happen on my watch...only that nobody's real happy about it.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 499       Thu May 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:30 EDT
+
+     Shane, are you saying they cut the teaser?  Or do I misunderstand?   No
+disclaimer at this end of the country.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 503       Thu May 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:44 EDT
+
+     ...hrrrmmm...interesting.  Must look into this further.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 504       Thu May 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:06 EDT
+
+     Since I mentioned it over on Internet (but not where it belongs), I give
+y'all a little gift...Kosh's very last line of the season, in "Chrysalis."
+
+     "You have...forgotten something."
+
+     It's not nearly as straightforward as it looks, and that one line will
+carry with it *major* repercussions.  (And no, it doesn't refer to the 24
+hours.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 576       Fri May 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:41 EDT
+
+     Cutter went after Garibaldi only because that's who the dying worker
+named as being responsible for the bomb.  (He didn't know he was dying, and
+wanted to throw blame; and even if he did know, what better than to nail the
+guy who'd hassled him before?)  Cutter only took advantage of the situation.
+
+     Luis Santiago is playing it both ways, allowing more trade and certain
+kinds of immigration, while preserving earth *culture*; this isn't the same
+thing as a trade embargo.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 592       Sat May 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:41 EDT
+
+     No, no rest for the wicked.  I've got 4-5 scripts to write between now
+and July 18.  (We want to have 6-8 scripts on hand the day we begin shooting,
+to again continue our tradition of having *lots* of lead time to work on
+episodes.)
+
+     We're talking to all of our actors, and discussing possibilities for the
+season, though one or two are wondering about other opportunities and how to
+balance all that out.  So we'll talk some more, see what we can work out.
+
+     Re: the president's bill...remember, Nixon was anti-communist, but it was
+eventually Nixon who opened the door to China.
+
+     (Not that I want to give him even two cents worth of credit for doing
+what was inevitable.)
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Computer SFX Tech-Talk 
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+524 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 497       Tue May 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:29 EDT
+
+     Yep.  There's some of that in places here and there on the show.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 6         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 06:43 EST
+Sub: Where is Babylon 5? TV stations... 
+
+Babylon 5 is a cornerstone of Warner's new Prime Time Entertainment Network.
+Here is where one can find and post station information.
+
+636 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 620       Wed May 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:57 EDT
+
+     It's probably "By Any Means Necessary."  I think I got the airdates wrong
+earlier.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 635       Sat May 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:43 EDT
+
+     sigh...alas, such things are totally out of my control or influence.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B5 Adrift!                         
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+443 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 417       Mon May 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:58 EDT
+
+     Eerrg...arrghh...okay, look...anyone who gets to a certain position in
+the industry picks up a certain element of the prima donna; that is
+inevitable, and sometimes, frankly the person may *deserve* a bit of special
+treatment.  Yes, there were some eccentricities...but that would describe me
+just as well as it would describe her.  I've seen her be incredibly loyal,
+she's *very* bright, charming, very much of the old school which says you
+treat people with dignity...and when there was one occasion when something
+very hard had to be done on the show, she was the one to step forward to do it
+personally, rather than through intermediaries, and I learned a great deal of
+respect for her through that.  Angela's okay.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 423       Tue May 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:06 EDT
+
+     No, no, no, no-no-no-no-*no*.  I was neither angered nor offended; I
+write what I think...and when I was trying to find words, my fingers typed out
+"argh...ackk" or whatever it was.  That's just the sound my brain makes when
+it tries to gear up and answer a question in a certain way.  No apologies
+necessary; was *not* offended or angered or anything of the kind.  My fault; I
+should've been clearer.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 438       Sun May 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:47 EDT
+
+     Publication of the next newsletter was held back pending news about a
+second season.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 442       Wed May 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:04 EDT
+
+     Thanks.  Christy Marx, the editor of the newsletter, can give you the
+full information on that one (she's here online).  Glad you're enjoying the
+show; there's some nifty stuff coming down the road, and some exciting times.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+563 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 554       Tue May 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:22 EDT
+
+     Yeah, over in LitForum on CI$, they've made me one of the writers of the
+month, to answer questions on writing for TV/film...and natch, what I'm mainly
+getting are qeustions about Star Trek.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 562       Sat May 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:44 EDT
+
+     And it contains pretty much what I expected after we initiated a parting
+of the ways with Richard.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 13        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 21:00 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Science & Technology   
+
+Jump gates, nanotech, high-tech weapons, starship drives, sound in space, and
+other subjects of science and technology in Babylon 5.
+336 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 322       Sun May 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:26 EDT
+
+     The Earth Alliance funded the first few attempts exclusively; after
+they'd dumped all their money into B4, they needed outside funding to get B5
+going, and the Minbari were first to contribute money as a show of good faith.
+Then the Centauri added additional funding.  Those are the only two other
+races that've contributed significantly.
+
+     The world B5 orbits is Epsilon 3.
+
+     PPG = Phased Plasma Gun.
+
+                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 335       Wed May 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:54 EDT
+
+     We shot two guys fighting against black.  No blue screen was used.
+Digitally removed them, shrunk them down to size (Kevin Kutchaver and his
+Miracle Mac to the rescue), and put them into the shot.  Worked real well.
+Y'know, there may be something to this digital stuff....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 15        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:29 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Alien Races            
+
+Aliens races in Babylon 5... their politics, abilties, technology, history,
+and any other discussion specificly about non-humans.
+
+282 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 263       Sun May 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:30 EDT
+
+     The Drazi are a very violent, ill-tempered species; they were the ones
+who first showed up in "Deathwalker" in a Sunhawk to threaten the station;
+they beat up the guy in "The War Prayer;" they show up here in "Survivors;"
+there's an episode about a form of martial arts among the aliens that has a
+Drazi going at it...if there's a fight around, you can often find a Drazi at
+the center of it or at least nearby.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 272       Tue May 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:01 EDT
+
+     Peter...Von Braun...the V1 and V2...the Star Wars defense system....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 277       Tue May 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:58 EDT
+
+     I think you're taking what I said to the extreme; I didn't say they were
+bloodthirsty savages, only that they had a predilection toward violence, and
+were generally very cranky.  And not all great thinkers have to sit around in
+elizabethan garb, delicate flowers watching the skies rotate.  Aggressive
+people can be good thinkers; it needn't be one or the other.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Merchandising          
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+568 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 517       Tue May 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:31 EDT
+
+     I'd rather hold off on that until we have some more meetings with the
+friendly folks at Compton's, so that we lock it down, and we don't compromise
+any of the nifty stuff we're cooking up that no one's done yet.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 521       Tue May 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:24 EDT
+
+     My copies are transferred directly from the D2 master to SVHS.  And since
+we're so far ahead of schedule, I can watch November's episodes  whenever I
+like....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 528       Thu May 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:45 EDT
+
+     I am *not* teasing.
+
+     Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go watch "Chrysalis" again.
+
+                                 jm(live dangerous, die young)s
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 548       Tue May 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:17 EDT
+
+     Cardz will be doing B5 trading cards.  Also, Creation Entertainment has
+expanded its B5 line to include several kinds of t-shirts, a black shirt with
+the B5 logo embroidered on it, and some rather nifty looking B5 mugs, black
+with a blue Babylon and a metallic silver 5 behind it, very nice.
+
+      (I'm told they want to put me on one of the trading cards...I'm not yet
+entirely sure how I feel about this, though I've said okay.  I keep hearing
+kids' voices in my head, "Trade you three jms cards for a Riker card.")
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 551       Wed May 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:06 EDT
+
+     I think Creation does some mail order; and their conventions are
+nationwide.  I understand that the B5 shirts and stuff were among the bigger
+sellers at the San Diego Creation Con, last weekend.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 560       Thu May 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:19 EDT
+
+     Yeah, I hear the value of ST #16 is edging up a bit because of the B5
+crossover element (and the ONLY time I will ever be involved with ST).  Don't
+know about the card's value, though I have one.
+
+     I'll have to check on the date of the Cardz B5 set; my guess would be
+this fall.  Lee, let me know what you find out re: Starland stuff.
+
+     Noticed on (I believe) another service a great exchange where someone was
+explaining the difference between TNG and B5: Go ahead, imagine Sinclair,
+Garibaldi and Ivanova being changed into children in this series.
+
+     Good point.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 25        Fri Mar 12, 1993
+S.SHELLENBAR [>> SHANE <<]   at 08:47 EST
+Sub: J. Michael Straczynski Speaks in Public
+
+This is the place to find out where and when JMS will be appearing next.  JMS
+has honed his skills as a public speaker and is taking his act on the road.
+468 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 462       Fri May 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:43 EDT
+
+     Nothing we can do about VO's, alas.
+
+     Still plan to be in Chicago.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+
+ ************
+Topic 3         Sat Oct 16, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 10:43 EDT
+Sub: The Gathering -- the pilot film    
+
+This topic is for discussion of the 2 hour pilot film.
+
+115 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 3
+Message 109       Tue May 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:54 EDT
+
+     No indication now about any reruns of the pilot; but may have some good
+news soonish about the rerun schedule.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 7         Sat Oct 16, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 10:51 EDT
+Sub: Believers   (#105)                 
+
+by David Gerrold. Religion comes into play aboard Babylon-5.
+156 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 7
+Message 53        Sun May 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:11 EDT
+
+     About every couple of months, the question is raised about whether or not
+the starfuries fall correctly.  Everybody does the math, we go back and forth,
+and it ends up that yes, they fall correctly.
+
+                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 7
+Message 57        Sun May 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:15 EDT
+
+     Johanna: because it wouldn't have worked.  As Dr. Hernandez noted, the
+growth is *massive* and *rooted*.  It had to be cut from the surrounding
+tissue, and *extracted*.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 13        Sun Oct 17, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 15:15 EDT
+Sub: Mind War   (#110)                  
+
+by JMS. Co-Starring Walter Koenig.
+213 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 13
+Message 209       Sat May 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:18 EDT
+
+          Sigh...okay, okay, okay...it's just stupid, that's all, and it's as
+     much my fault for not seeing it as it is Foundation's for making it.
+It's
+     one of those little glitches that -- like a typo in a manuscript -- you
+     never see, even though you've looked at it a thousand times, until the
+day
+     you ship it off to the publisher, and BAM! there it is.
+
+          So...the day after we deliver the episode, I'm looking at it for the
+     ten zillionth time...and suddenly my head explodes and I rush into John
+     Copeland's office and yell "C'MERETAKEALOOKATTHISOHCRAP."
+
+          And I show him the shot where Jason Ironheart's ship eclipses a
+star.
+     "So?" says he.  "Watch the star," sez I.  And sure enough, you can
+     see the star THROUGH his ship.  "Oops," sez he.  "Oops," sez I.
+
+          So we've replaced that shot, but couldn't do so before it aired
+     the first time.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 13
+Message 210       Sat May 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:19 EDT
+
+     Excuse the glitches in the above; I got bumped while trying to leave the
+prior note, got back on, edited what was still in my program's memory, and
+thought it was okay.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 13
+Message 213       Sun May 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:27 EDT
+
+                                 ...sigh...
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 14        Sun Oct 17, 1993
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 15:15 EDT
+Sub: Deathwalker (#113)                 
+
+by Larry DiTillio. Co-starring Sarah Douglas and Robin Curtis.
+
+190 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 14
+Message 159       Sun May 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:13 EDT
+
+     No, *you* may think there was no dramatic reason.  Only the writer can
+make that choice.  You have to look at how it feels best.  Maybe you wouldn't
+have written it that way.  That doesn't invalidate it.  Sorry.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 14
+Message 166       Tue May 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:53 EDT
+
+     I believe G'Kar is about 50-60 in Earth terms, which is early middle age
+for Narns.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 15        Sun Oct 17, 1993
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 15:15 EDT
+Sub: Survivors  (#111)                  
+
+by Marc Scott Zicree.
+
+94 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 15
+Message 7         Tue May 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:23 EDT
+
+     Yeah, I love the shot of Earthforce One...and the cobra bay area where
+they're working on the starfuries is also nicely done.  I think Jerry did a
+great job with this one.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 15
+Message 22        Thu May 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:41 EDT
+
+     Earthforce One can't fit in the docking bay; never did.  The shuttle
+bringing the president is shown leaving EF1, and the VO comments on the
+presidential shuttle being launched at the same time.  So no, it would never
+fit.
+
+     The capital/center of the Earth Alliance is Earthdome, for anyone who's
+interested.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+     (Oh, nearly forgot...it's located in Geneva.)
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 15
+Message 48        Sat May 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:40 EDT
+
+     I never said it was an isolationist president.  The reporter doing the
+commentary at the election talked about preserving earth culture in the face
+of growing alien influences, which isn't quite the same thing as cutting off
+trade agreements.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 15
+Message 53        Sun May 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:25 EDT
+
+     Yes, the cobra bay shots were all CG, and in the last shot, only Lianna
+and *part* of the ladder are real; the rest is a virtual set.  And yes, we do
+plan to do more of this.  (And so far, in hundreds of messages, here and
+elsewhere, NO ONE else has noticed this.)
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 15
+Message 69        Sun May 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:44 EDT
+
+     I have come up with a new name for nitpickers.
+
+     Skrrt-chasers.
+
+                                                   jm*skrrt*
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 15
+Message 92        Sat May 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:02 EDT
+
+     Actually, to give credit where credit is due, SeaQuest has begun doing
+some stuff with virtual sets, including a shot in the "alien ship at the
+bottom of the sea" episode.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 16        Sun Apr 17, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:42 EDT
+Sub: Signs and Portents (#116)          
+
+by JMS. Directed by Janet Greek.  Co-starring Gerrit Graham.
+26 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 16
+Message 12        Fri May 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:24 EDT
+
+     The other wing is Zeta wing.
+
+     Since the episode has now been downlinked, folks who saw it at ICON can
+now jump into things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 16
+Message 19        Sat May 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:19 EDT
+
+     Just as a note, that wasn't any kind of tribute to Galactica; that's
+simply how ack-ack guns or anti-aircraft (or spacecraft) guns work in terms of
+tracking a target.  BG probably based its actions on those same principles as
+well.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 16
+Message 21        Sat May 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:17 EDT
+
+     If that is true, and I wasn't told, Mojo is going to have his tongue
+ripped out and served to him with french fries.  Lots of salt.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17        Sun Apr 17, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:45 EDT
+Sub: By Any Means Necessary  (#114)     
+
+by Kathryn M. Drennan.
+ Directed by Jim Johnston. Co-Stars John Snyder and Katy Boyer.
+47 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 17
+Message 4         Sat May 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:46 EDT
+
+     The Rush Act only refers to unions, for the most part; it's not a wide-
+ranging law.  It was developed during the Earth/Minbari war to deal quickly
+and effectively with corporations or unions which were being difficult and
+otherwise holding up the war effort.  (The air traffic controllers union would
+be a good example of the government doing whatever it felt necessary to
+resolve the situation.)  The law grants extraordinary power to resolve any
+kind of strike or union action which endangers the operation of a military
+base or other military operation, as Zento states.
+ It applies only to that area, and remains on the books, though (as is also
+pointed out) it hasn't been used in a while.
+
+     Sinclair's decision is legal...but not politic, and it will come back as
+one of many decisions to haunt him in "Eyes."
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 17
+Message 9         Tue May 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:45 EDT
+
+     On the topic of "constructive criticism," Jose...there is a difference
+between "bad" and "I didn't like it."  A *lot* of people liked "Survivors,"
+and many who've seen "By Any Means" also liked it.  Something like, say, "Plan
+9" is simply bad...and those who like it admit that it's bad, and that's half
+the fun.  Many people really enjoy Fred Astaire musicals; much as I like the
+music from that period, I simply can't get into it.  That doesn't make it
+"bad."  When you dismiss something that many people like as "bad," you are
+basically calling them idiots.  Our opinions do not set us at the center of
+the universe.
+
+     Constructive criticism vs. name-calling.
+
+     Would be curious to know, though, what you found didn't work about the
+resolution to the G'Kar/Londo situation.  What I liked about it is that it's a
+genuine science-oriented solution to a story problem, working out the
+distance, vs. the speed of light, and finding a smart solution to the problem.
+It's airtight, as near as I can see.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 17
+Message 16        Wed May 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:38 EDT
+
+     No, actually, I agree..."great" and "bad" fall into the same category as
+discussed above.  There are shows that I love intensely, which others can't
+*abide*.
+
+     As for happy endings...you want some variety, I think; we had a tough
+ending in "Believers," a bittersweet ending in "Survivors," and here things
+worked out for G'Kar and Connoly, but in a way did *not* work out for
+Sinclair.  He's going to be hearing about this decision of his again, in the
+not too distant future.  He's getting further and further behind the eight-
+ball with some of these decisions, and he's going to get hammered about it.
+
+     As for "Signs and Portents," I don't quite know *how* to characterize the
+ending on that one.  Someone gets what they wanted, but this may or may not be
+a good thing.  I'd say basically it has an ominous ending.  We do try to keep
+it a mixed bag...one person may achieve a niceness, but somebody else pays the
+price, or gets nailed.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 17
+Message 34        Fri May 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:36 EDT
+
+     Before this gets too far...the Oxford American Dictionary defines pagan
+as heathen...and heathen as someone not belonging to a respected, established,
+or major religion, or as someone lacking in cultured moral and ethical
+principles.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+     (A pagan is somebody who subscribes to somebody else's religion.)
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 17
+Message 44        Sat May 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:29 EDT
+
+     I dunno...I think it was Asimov who said that SF "is whatever I point to
+and say, 'That's SF.'"  It takes place in the future, 250 years from now, on a
+space station, with laws that don't exist at this time, in a context not quite
+the present.  To use your form of categorization, then there are many stories
+in, for instance, "The Martian Chronicles" that don't qualify as SF.  Also,
+the solution to the G'Kar/Londo problem is a science-oriented solution that
+can *only* work in space, using lightspeed as an aspect of the solution.
+
+     Anyway, I've always thought that the discussion of what was or wasn't SF
+was kind of silly at the heart of it; like arguing over how many angels can
+dance on the head of a pin (the answer to which, by the way, is "As many as
+want to).  Serling created the Twilight Zone, and Roddenberry created Trek, to
+tell good stories that people could relate to.  Some were more SF than others.
+In some cases they simply changed the background of the characters from
+minorities to aliens.  The obligation of a writer is to tell a good story,
+first and foremost, and let others worry abou whether or not it fits the
+"rules" they have assembled for what is or is not SF...rules that will vary
+from person to person to person.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+     (Who just remembered that the other definition of SF is speculative
+fiction...and speculating about the future of unions, and labor laws, and
+government, and finance, is as legitimate as reversing the tachyon field to
+better differentiate the hyperdrive system diagnostics.)
+ ------------
+
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+This file contains messages posted by J. Michael Straczynski on GEnie
+from May 16 - May 30th.  Postings are copyright 1994 by J. Michael Straczynski
+with compilation copyright by GEnie.
+
+NOTE: This file is incomplete.  I am attempting to gather the rest of the
+posts from this time frame.         leew
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 517       Wed May 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:58 EDT
+
+     At this juncture, you probably know as much or more about the CD Rom
+release as I do.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 519       Wed May 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:44 EDT
+
+     "What are you going to tease us with now?"
+
+     Nothing, I don't tease.
+
+     Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go print up the first few acts of the
+season two debut script, "Chrysalis, Part Two," which airs in... November.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 532       Thu May 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:55 EDT
+
+     If you mean the planet beside B5, it's Epsilon 3.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 538       Thu May 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:53 EDT
+
+     I'll be happy to answer the question as soon as you can define for me
+specifically what you mean when you say "soap opera."  Because it seems like
+no two people mean it the same way.  What you seem to be referring to in your
+message is characterization.  Maybe you couldn't care less about G'Kar's
+religious ceremony, but it shows a very different side of G'Kar than we've
+seen before.  That's important.
+
+     I've said it elsewhere, but I'll say it here: I've never bought into the
+strict definitions of what SF is.  If it happens in the future, on a space
+station, involving starships, it's SF.  And I'd also point out that the
+solution to G'Kar's and Londo's problem is a scientific solution using
+lightspeed at its core.
+
+     Also, I've always considered B5 speculative fiction, which isn't as
+narrow as hard-core/technobabble science fiction (or, more properly, some
+aspects of that area, since there has been a goodly amount of hard SF that
+I've enjoyed and continue to enjoy).  To me, SF (either way) isn't about the
+hardware, isn't about reversing the polarity on the tachyon emitter to reflux
+the framitz.  It's looking to the future, and positing social and political
+and religious questions.  How will society change by the year 2258?  How will
+the government work?  How will we handle the development of telepaths?  How
+will we get along with other life forms?   What will commerce be like?  That
+is an *absolutely* valid definition of SF that has been showcased in some of
+the best stories written in the SF genre.  I'd point you to "A Canticle for
+Liebowitz" as just one example of one of the most famous books in SF, without
+a *lick* of hardware/tech in it.
+
+     Some SF fans don't like emotion in their stories.  They don't like
+passion or people yelling or extremes.  They like their SF quiet and
+reasonable and comfortable.  I don't want B5 to be a comfortable show.  I
+don't want it to be spoken in a calm, reasonable voice.  I'm not in my office
+now, but I have several quotes on my walls there (I note this because I can't
+put author with quote from memory)..."Be uncomfortable.  Be sand, not oil, in
+the machinery of the world."  "The point of no return, that is the point that
+must be reached."
+
+     B5 is a show that, at its best, is written at a dead run, that takes us
+right to the edge.  That simply may not be your cup of tea.
+
+     Which, I suspect, is earl grey.  Hot.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 558       Fri May 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:38 EDT
+
+     One thing that got somewhat short shrift this season were the personal
+stories of the humans.  We learn a *lot* more about the Minbari, for instance,
+than we really learn about Garibaldi, for instance.  So we're going to
+increase that side of things a bit, so people can get to know our characters a
+little better.  It's just doing a bit more for the humans what we did for the
+aliens.  And it's really time for that; we now have a pretty good idea who the
+alien players are by now...time to bolster the other side a bit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 560       Fri May 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:57 EDT
+
+ I have some news that must be imparted.  I think that the best way
+ to convey that news is to start at the end of the story, make my
+ way to the middle, and end at the beginning.
+
+ So: the end of the story.
+
+ Everything is okay.  Nothing major really changes.  All is well.
+
+ Now the middle of the story.
+
+ I've been asked, several times, what happens if something *happens*
+ to me, or one of the cast members, during the five year arc, since
+ this is a fully-worked-out novel.  Generally, I blow off the question
+ with humor.  But the truth is, obviously, I've taken every possible
+ step to make sure that no one is disappointed.  In my case, I've
+ made sure the story is available somewhere.
+
+ The trouble, of course, is that unlike writing a novel, where the
+ characters exist only on a sheet of paper, actors and writers are
+ some discussion on the best of days).  They can get sick, they can
+ get into contract disputes, they can be hit by meteors, they can
+ decide to buy a house in Cambridge and raise hedgehogs under an
+ assumed name.  There are, in short, *always* unpredictables in any
+ such endeavor.
+
+ Consequently, in drafting the story for Babylon 5, I made sure to
+ compensate for any possible changes.  For lack of a better term,
+ there is a "trap door" built into the storyline for every character.
+ Obviously, you don't want to lose anyone, but in *every* case any
+ such change momentarily shifts the story about ten degrees to one
+ side for a little bit, and then you're back on track again.
+
+ Case in point: Dr. Benjamin Kyle and Lyta Alexander.  Here are the
+ only two humans who have seen or scanned a Vorlon.  This is Very
+ Important to the storyline.  Alas, as later events unfolded, things
+ did not work out, and the characters were dropped...but their story
+ remained important, in that it was established that they were soon
+ afterward recalled to Earth under mysterious circumstances (as noted
+ in "War Prayer"), which actually *helps* the storyline in many ways.
+
+ This is not meant to sound callous.  As a writer, and as a producer,
+ it's my job to tell the story, to be responsible, and to make sure
+ every possible contingency is covered.  To do anything less would be
+ simply irresponsible.
+
+ Now to the beginning of the story.
+
+ Over the last few weeks, we've been re-activating our cast, making
+ the deals for the coming season.  One aspect of this has been a
+ series of conversations with Michael O'Hare.  Having produced one
+ full season, and having learned a lot, and having fine-tuned the
+ "saga" along the way, it was our goal to expand the show, bring in
+ some new characters, and take the show in some new directions, which
+ will prove quite interesting, I think.  (One sidelight to all this:
+ now that we've established the series, we'll be able to spend a bit
+ more time on personal stories, to let our audience learn more about
+ the characters, particularly the humans, who kinda got short shrift
+ this season.)
+
+ There is also the question, from an actor's point of view, about
+ other opportunities, any possible concern about typecasting, the
+ limitations of a continuing role (and the role of the commander
+ does have some definite "walls," giving more freedom in many ways
+ to other characters).  Now is the point where one needs to take
+ a breath and assess one's future, because the deeper we get into
+ the story, the more problematic it is to change things (though,
+ again, it's do-able, as noted above).
+
+ As a result of these discussions, it has been agreed that we will
+ have a separation, in the role of the commander.  Let me emphasize
+ this very clearly, so there is no chance of miscommunication: this
+ is a mutual, amicable, and friendly separation.  This isn't a Tasha
+ Yar situation.  Moreover, we will be handling this in such a way
+ that, down the road, Sinclair could potentially return to the story.
+
+ The character of Sinclair will achieve an important destiny, and the
+ mystery of the Battle of the Line will be explained, both in the
+ first episode of the new season.  His story will still track.  And
+ the series will still track precisely as planned.  I take pains to
+ mention this because both Michael and I want it clear that we both
+ believe in the show, and want this in no way to interfere with the
+ series.  He has asked me to convey for him his encouragement, his
+ best wishes, and to emphasize that this is, again, an amicable and
+ friendly separation.
+
+ He has said that he is happy to continue to do the conventions, to
+ promote the show, because he believes in it, and because he is an
+ important part of this season's success.  We can think of no
+ finer ambassador for Babylon 5 at conventions than Michael O'Hare.
+ He is a dynamite speaker, he cares about the fans of the show, and
+ his compassion shows.  We think he's a nifty guy.
+
+ On our part, we wish Michael only the very best.  We know that
+ he is very much in demand, and look forward to seeing him in other
+ projects over the next year.  This will also allow us to pursue some
+ new directions avenues for the show that will help to expedite the
+ overall story.  Sinclair disappearing for an indeterminate period
+ after the events of "Chrysalis" will allow us to tighten the screws
+ of the story, and heighten the tension of things going on in the
+ storyline.
+
+ If I can speak personally for a moment...those of you reading
+ this on-line know that I've always talked straight with you.  If
+ I thought this in *any* way would interfere with the story, you'd
+ hear about it from me loud and clear.  When problems have arisen in
+ the past, I've always spoken about them quite bluntly here (much
+ to the chagrin of some people).  This is okay.  We're all still
+ very much friends.  I speak frequently to Michael, and consider
+ him a friend, just as he considers me a friend.  This was a hard
+ decision, but we both knew that it was the right decision, for
+ very different reasons.  We both kinda came to the same place
+ at the same time from different directions.  We've got to do
+ what's right for the show, and for each other, and in many ways,
+ this does just that.
+
+ So both we on the show, and Michael are served by this mutual and
+ amicable separation.  We will go our separate ways for now, with
+ the possibility of meeting Sinclair again down the road a piece,
+ as Gandalf disappeared for a time into Mordor, only to return when
+ needed most.  (We will also be keeping the character of Sinclair
+ alive in the comic, and some of the planned novels, to keep that
+ option available to us.)
+
+ Once again, let me emphasize that the story continues on the path
+ that has been set for it, everything you learn this season sill
+ obtains, the show remains solid, with all of the other cast members
+ coming back for a new season, and that the saga of Babylon 5 will
+ continue to reveal itself exactly as planned.  And I hope you will
+ continue to stay with us for that journey.
+
+                                    Sincerely,
+                                    Joe Straczynski
+                                    Creator/Executive Producer
+                                    BABYLON 5
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 561       Fri May 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:17 EDT
+
+     BTW, could some friendly soul please repost the preceding message to
+Internet?  I've tried to do it from here, and can't get the darned interface
+to work.  Many thanks.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 565       Fri May 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:10 EDT
+
+     The arc remains untouched.  For starters, the arc as written was designed
+to emphasize the aliens and the Battle of the Line in season one; build the
+universe and set the pieces in motion.  Year two brings the humans into play
+in the universe that season one created.  There's a reason Morden didn't go to
+the Earth Alliance.
+
+     Let me be clear on this: *no* arc-related stories will be sacrificed, at
+all.  We're talking mainly in terms of B stories, not A stories.  Most of our
+season 1 B stories concentrated on the alien ambassadors; Ivanova really gets
+only two strong B stories, and some smaller ones; Delenn gets something like
+six.  It's just a question of finding the balance.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 574       Fri May 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:29 EDT
+
+     Thanks to all.  I'll convey what I can of this to Michael when I next
+speak to him.
+
+     Wayne...if your friends feel that way, then they must not like any show
+ever produced in the history of television, because *all* series get five year
+options on their cast.  That's considered pro forma.
+
+     What they, and to some extent you, fail to understand is that there is a
+difference between a *contract* for five years, and an *option* for five
+years.  The former is a guarantee; the latter is at the discretion of the
+producers, though in some cases, as we've just seen, an accommodation  can be
+reached.  An option means that the producer has the right, but not the
+obligation, to pick up an actor for another season.  There's plenty of room
+for random events.
+
+     Other than that, you can tell your pessimistic, insulting friends to get
+a life.  And I mean that in the best possible sense of the word.  I see no
+reason why I have to justify my show to them.  It is what it is.  If they like
+it, fine, if not, still fine.  If they don't like it, tell 'em to stop
+watching.  Nothing make me crazier than what I've seen on the Trek forums for
+all these years, of people who *hate* the show, but still watch every single
+episode just so they can go online and grump about it.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 579       Fri May 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:30 EDT
+
+     I note this here only because it came up on CIS, and I'd kinda like to
+nip this in the bud.  Please don't take out any part of this on Michael.  If
+you're going to be upset with anyone, be upset with me, since in the final
+analysis, it's Doug and I who have to implement any decision, even when
+mutually made.
+
+     What happened at the beginning of the process is that we looked at the
+coming season, and said (as I've noted on another system), that in the second
+year, we can do X and Y, both of which are very cool.  But what if we did
+something unexpected?  What if we took a chance, and tried a slightly
+different direction, and set Sinclair aside for a while?  If we did that, we
+could still do X and Y...and we could *also* do Z...and Z is very, VERY
+interesting.  It opened up some very dramatic possibilities, allowing us to
+expand the series and heighten the tension level.
+
+     We talked to Michael, and he had some thoughts on this as well.  The
+result was, as stated, a *mutual* decision.
+
+     People here know how much B5 means to me.  I would never do anything, or
+allow anyone else to do anything, to harm it.  This is my baby.  And this is
+being done not because we will have to overcome this now somehow, but because
+in the final analysis we think this will help the show, and give Michael some
+flexibility as a side-effect.  I won't ask anyone to trust me, because in
+Hollywood, "trust me" is a euphemism at best.  But this will all work out.
+
+     In any event, though, if anyone's going to be upset in any way by this,
+please direct it toward me, not toward Michael.  Fundamentally, the
+responsibiliy rests on my shoulders, and Doug's.  But since Doug's not here,
+I'll take it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 594       Fri May 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:22 EDT
+
+     Obviously I can't say much about season two plans at this time, since
+doing so would destroy the intent of doing some things folks may not expect.
+All I can say is that the deeper we got into the series, and the more I *saw*
+the dynamics of the characters, the more I kept looking back and forth, from
+the Minbari to Sinclair, Sinclair to Minbari, and thinking...hmmm...y'know
+what'd be *real* neat...?
+
+     Which is all I can say on that for now...except to add that in any novel,
+there's always some surprises that the author didn't plan for, and the key is
+to be open to that.
+
+                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 607       Sat May 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:51 EDT
+
+     Delenn staying while Sinclair goes is part of WHY Sinclair goes and
+Delenn stays.  It's absolutely part and parcel.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 610       Sat May 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:27 EDT
+
+     Linda, you have not been suckered.  Whether or not you believe this, is
+something I can't help.  The story has not been sacrificed.  I would not be
+sitting here as calmly as I am if that were true.  I understand that you are
+upset.  But if you were caught up in the character, it's because the story
+*worked*.  You saw that there is a bigger story here, you saw the bits and
+pieces coming together.  So there *is* a story, and that story will continue.
+All I can ask is that you see what we're going to do, and judge that.  If I
+genuinely thought that the story was screwed, I'd leave the show.  Because the
+only reason to DO the show is to tell this story.  You have invested 13 hours
+into this story; I have invested seven *years*.  And you don't toss aside 7
+years because of an inconvenience.  The concept *is* what was sold to you.
+But again, nothing that I can say will likely convince you of this...just as
+nothing that I could say at the beginning could convince many people that we
+were serious about doing an adult SF series, that would rank with Trek.  (One
+person, prior to the election, upon hearing that ambition, snorted, "Yeah,
+right, and Clinton will be president.")  What I said then, I say now: watch,
+and judge from the reality.  Don't take my word for it.
+
+     And I'm still standing beside that promise to tell the story that I
+intend to tell.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 624       Sat May 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:11 EDT
+
+     Which is one of the interesting things I thought could be explored
+here...up until now, Garibaldi has always had someone who would believe him,
+back him up...how does he deal with someone new?  (Especially after the events
+in "Chrysalis;" you'll understand when you see it.)  For the most part,
+Garibaldi has been pretty self-assured; this, and one other incident, will
+knock the pins out from under him a little, which gives us some *very*
+interesting dynamics to explore, just for starters.
+
+for a while.  He has to go somewhere.  And at some point, at least in my
+planning, he will return from there.  This is far more about the character,
+and the characters *around* him.
+
+     Cyberdad: thanks.  That means a lot.
+
+     It's always interesting, if you have one character upon whom everyone
+else leans, even depends, to *remove* that character for a time.  Because then
+those characters have to *react*...to either stand or fall on their own.  It
+shakes things up a little...and vastly intensifies the characters.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 722       Wed May 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:29 EDT
+
+     KB: thanks.
+
+     Rhonda: Claudia Christian's done a *lot* of stuff, mostly film, including
+"Hexed."  As for why Russian...that's in my blood, and I've rarely seen a
+Russian character really done *right*, not a cliche, not "Yes, ve invent
+everytink goot in world, da?" but the dark, pessimistic humor, the
+introspection, the formality, the heart and the doomed viewpoint that is so
+uniquely Russian.  So if you can't find it anywhere else, do it yourself.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 739       Wed May 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:40 EDT
+
+     Boy, I'm not sure where to start on all this.  So I'll take this in
+reverse order.
+
+     Tom, I'm not sure I see what your problem is.  The situation  concerning
+O'Hare is one that needed to be approached in a constructive fashion, not to
+alarm people, and to set the record as straight as possible.  Perhaps I've
+sounded like I'm trying too hard to be polite.   This is the only way I know
+how to react.  Perhaps I'm over-thinking the  writing.  I don't see a problem
+with this; it's just who and what I am.
+
+     And sometimes I have a tendency to respond to posters in the same tone of
+voice in which they address me.  I probably should be better about this, but
+when someone gets on and leaves an insulting or patronizing message, I fire
+back.  There is nothing in any agreement with GEnie in which it says I must be
+a sitting target.  I have never had a problem with constructive criticism --
+and there's been a lot of it -- or questions of any sort.  People here know
+that.  And I don't think I have to defend myself on that issue.
+
+     The rest of your concerns I really can't suss out from your message
+(which got rather pedantic itself in places, btw; be sure your own stuff
+doesn't do something before you take someone else to task on it) except that
+you don't like people reacting like people.
+
+     Now to turn my attention to Wayne's message....
+
+     Wayne, I don't mean this to sound harsh.  But I could give a flying f'
+what your friends think.  There is this small faction of SF, and of anime
+fans, who simply like to rag on other shows.  They sound very much like this
+group who will never, ever be satisfied by anything other than the one small
+narrow area which they have selected for legitimacy, and in whose relative (in
+American terms) obscurity gives them some kind of cachet.
+
+     I will not revise this show to appeal to Wayne's friends, and I will most
+*certainly* not doing anything as stupid (I'm simply being honest here with
+you, not attacking) as using gamers dice to determine who lives or dies in a
+show.  I'd much rather let the *story* do that.
+
+     What your friends don't seem to grasp is that there is a quantum
+difference between a live-action series and a cartoon.  (Call it anime all you
+want, it's still a cartoon.)  You can kill off a cartoon character, and it's
+not the same as killing a human character, which puts the actor out of work
+(whereas a voice actor dubbing someone just takes on another character), and
+more intimately violates the relationship between viewer and character.  I
+will admit that I have not seen as much japanese animation as I probably
+should, but I have found it singularly uninvolving and the characters flat,
+wrapped mainly around one or two characteristics, making them archetypes
+rather than real characters.
+
+     Live action and anime/cartoons are separate forms, with very different
+requirements.  I've worked in both, and the differences are profound.  You
+might as well start comparing stage plays with movies, and complaining that
+there aren't as many sets and exteriors in the stage play, and thus it can't
+compete with "world theater."  We're talking apples and oranges here.
+
+     You (or your friends) think that characters dying makes the show more
+real.  Wayne, it's *not* real.  It's a TeeVee show.  It's an illusion.
+ It's not real.  And maybe your friends (who are a touch macabre) think that
+dying makes a show real.  Well, that's their opinion, and they're entitled to
+it -- whacky as it sounds -- but people also live, too, in real life.  Police
+veterans and soldiers and ordinary folks very often live to a ripe old age.
+
+     It's also a question of what the show is *about*.  This show is not about
+who's going to die next.  This show is about how people react to some
+monumental changes around them.  It's the journey and the process.   Death is
+a rather abrupt end to the process.  Sure, you could've killed Aragon halfway
+through Lord of the Rings, but frankly I think that seeing him go all the way,
+and seeing his character change, and become the King, is one hell of a lot
+more interesting.  Dead is dead.  Dead is wormfood.
+
+     Anyone can kill a character.  That's the easiest, and cheapest way to
+pump up false drama in a story.  For me, it's more interesting to see  someone
+stay alive and *deal* with problems rather than just die.
+
+     They are trying to apply their own arbitrary quotas to this show that
+have *nothing* to do with the story that I'm trying to tell.  Personally, I
+think you're *far* too worried about what your friends think.
+
+     Finally, on the ethnic casting question...same thing.  You're trying to
+apply geopolitical and population survey figures to telling a story.   We
+don't cast *anyone* based on ethnic background.  We cast the best person to
+walk in the room.  Period.  Which has led to just about every romance on the
+show being between two different ethnic groups.  Further, Wayne, we don't
+*cast* out of the Whole World Population.  We make our show in Los Angeles,
+and our acting pool is drawn out of Los Angeles.  And sometimes you go around
+looking for an Indian actor, and you find a few good ones, but none of them
+are quite right for the part.  Now, do you cast someone who's wrong for the
+part, or adjust the part to the best actor?
+
+     I'm a writer.  I tell stories.  Your friends, and by proxy you, want to
+randomize, politicize, and make arbitrary how a story is done.  You (and/or
+they) want me to compare my show to Japanese cartoons, and try to play in
+their field rather than making our own playing field.
+
+     I'm not here to compete with japanese cartoons, or live up to your
+friends' notion of what is "World Television."  I'm telling my story, my way.
+And I encourage them to find a venue where they can tell their story their
+way.  But it's got nothing to do with me.
+
+     I hope this did not sound pedantic, or hostile, it's simply the reality
+of the situation.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 753       Thu May 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:33 EDT
+
+     Kiwi: I was referring to killing a major (or substantive) character, not
+killing a character in the course of a given story.
+
+     Rhonda: no, not Russian Jew.  Background is byelorussian, White Russian,
+with some polish in there somewhere.  Family came from a village named (I
+believe) Bogdanova, between Minsk and Pinsk (I wouldn't like about that) in
+the Carpathian mountains.  Anyway, that general area.  The family was
+catholic, not jewish.  I'm actually one one-and-a-half generation American.
+My grandparents came here from Europe, fleeing the Russian revolution, my
+father was born here, but lived much of his early life in Germany, Poland and
+Russia when he got caught there at the start of WW II in the blitzkrieg (on
+the run for years as an american).  Harlan keeps telling me that mine is a
+Horatio Alger story...kid from nowhere, immigrant family, goes to Hollywood
+and makes it big.  Sounds more exciting than it is, I suspect....
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 762       Thu May 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:45 EDT
+
+     Mr. T...actually, yes, we did audition a *lot* of Russian actors for the
+part.  And we had to go back and forth, do we want an accent or do we not want
+an accent?  Which kind of russian do we do?  Finally we simply fell back to
+our position of "Whoever walks into the room and blows us away gets the job."
+Claudia did that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 763       Thu May 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:56 EDT
+
+     BTW...while I'm on the topic...for anyone who wonders why I just sit and
+despair some days...I pass along to you the following, from the June 1994
+issue of Satellite ORBIT magazine, page 23, in a roundup of SF series.
+
+     "Deep Space Nine is remarkably close in theme and premise to another
+recent syndicated series, Babylon 5, probably because in Joe Straczynski, they
+share a writer-producer."
+
+     So just for starters, now I'm a writer-producer working on DS9.
+
+     "Michael O'Hare plays the station's commander, in the words of one wag,
+as if he were 'Lorne Greene under hypnosis.'"
+
+     This should start to give you a clue: if a reviewer has to quote another
+reviewer (I think that one came from People), it probably means he hasn't seen
+the show he or she is reviewing.  How can we now verify this?
+
+     "Even the presence of Claudia Christian, who plays Babylon 5's second in
+command with the worst Russian accent you've ever heard, can't redeem this
+one."
+
+     Okay, now, folks, maybe I'm confused, what do I know, I just created the
+show, I just executive produce the thing, I just see every frame of film a
+zillion times...but...am I nuts or am I correct in the notion that Claudia
+doesn't PLAY the part with an accent?  She doesn't DO a Russian accent.
+Anywhere.  Anytime.
+
+     This reviewer-critter, Art Durbano, has clearly never even SEEN an
+episode of the show, and can't even be bothered to get his facts straight.
+
+     We never get a break.  Ever.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 793       Sun May 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:00 EDT
+
+     I have *always* considered life to be composed of equal parts terror,
+hope, pain and silliness.  So it shows in B5.
+
+     Janice: that's a *very* good question, and I think maybe we should answer
+it sometime.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 805       Mon May 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:53 EDT
+
+     I'm going to test myself, and see how much I can say without saying too
+much.
+
+     You have X-number of characters.  They're all in the same place.   You're
+trying to tell a story that has a great deal of scale, and covers all kinds of
+worlds, changing politics, alliances, on and on.  The question becomes, how do
+you *illustrate* that?  To use a line from the original Trek, when a mob guy
+is brought aboard the Enterprise, he says later, "All I saw was a room and
+five guys."
+
+     So now you start saying, "Hmmm...what if I remove Character A from the
+chessboard, and move him over *here* for a while?  He wasn't going to be doing
+much for the next little bit anyway.  And we won't just "deal" with that
+change, it's part of the story...it broadens out the story to include Place A
+*and* Place B.  It has repercussions down the road.  It comes up again in the
+future.  Elements from Place B now become known on Place A.  Character A may
+even make an occasional reappearance to keep us even more closely connected
+with Place B, which is necessary because Place B is very, very important."
+
+     What we have in mind here isn't quite comparable to anything that's been
+done before.  The character will still be alive.  The character will continue
+to have an impact on the story.  The character will be spotted from time to
+time.  The character will continue to show up in the comic and the novels.
+And through this move, you have the benefit of  substantially opening up the
+B5 universe, you help create the realignment of characters and loyalties that
+was anticipated for this season, and it helps kick over the tables, as we did
+in Chrysalis.
+
+     Just a slight refinement on the argument.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 688       Mon May 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:57 EDT
+
+     Here's a little sidelight for you.
+
+     As I've noted before, over the long haul, as you watch episodes, you will
+see things you didn't see before.  Sometimes they're clues, and sometimes
+they're comments which now read a different way than they did the first time
+you saw them.  There's been a number of the latter very subtly sprinkled
+through the episodes aired so far...lines that everyone jumped on as meaning
+one thing, but which will mean something else, and lines which nobody thought
+much of the first time out...but which will elicit a wince of irony later on.
+
+
+     There's a corker in "TKO," but at the moment, it's absolutely invisible.
+It's not a clue, it's not necessary for the story, it's just one of those
+things that, after you've seen all the rest of this season's episodes, you
+will go "Ouch," when you see it next.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 812       Mon May 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:44 EDT
+
+     David: "The Quality of Mercy" title is drawn from the same source as
+Compton's book, Shakespeare.  It has a lot to do with that episode.
+
+     Probably the pilot movie won't be shown again this year, which again is
+actually to the good.  Not much you really need to know from that one to enjoy
+the rest.  (And I think it'll be out on tape eventually.)
+
+     Haven't heard final word yet on the schedule, but that looks right so
+far.
+
+     A little something for your perusal, given recent discussions on
+religion.
+
+     Here's something interesting for y'all...and I wonder very much if the
+news media is gonna cover this or not.
+
+     Before I retire at the end of the day, I go out and watch TV to come down
+a bit.  I cannot just go from the keyboard to bed, I *hate* that.  So about
+1:45 this morning, I settle down in front of the set, and I'm flipping
+channels.  I come across the Trinity Broadcasting Channel, and I stop, because
+the three guys on the screen look actually honestly *scared* by something.  I
+pause and listen.  One of them is saying that they should pray for the
+president.  Now my first thought is, "Ohmygod, something's happened to
+Clinton."  But it doesn't feel right, so I stay a bit longer.
+
+     Now I had to put a lot of this together from the pieces of what they were
+saying, but after about half an hour, enough pieces were there to make sense
+of the conversation.  Apparently, an hour or two before, they had had a guest
+evangelist on (whose name was *never* used during the period I was watching,
+they would only refer to him as their distinguished brother), giving his guest
+speech.
+
+     Well, apparently the evangelist was decrying the state of the country,
+and Clinton signing the anti-abortion protest bill, and declared something to
+the effect that Clinton was the manifestation of the evil in the land, and
+that God had given this evangelist a prophecy that on June 9, the evil in the
+White House would be struck down.
+
+     He was saying that on June 9, Clinton would be killed in answer for his
+crimes against christianity, as near as I could determine.
+
+     My jaw is now squarely on the floor.  And these three guys who followed
+that segment are doing damage control.  And they're clearly scared, because
+making a threat against the president is a federal offense, "prophecy" or no.
+They had to find ways to diminish the prophecy without diminishing the
+prophet, their "distinguished brother."  So they brought Nehemiah into the
+discussion, and how his prophecy that the city would fall in 40 days turned
+out not to happen because the people repented, and so some prophecies
+
+     And one of the three was saying that the worst thing for the church in
+this country would be for some "religious nut" (his own words) to decide that
+he was the instrument of this prophecy, and kill or try to kill the president.
+He also seemed upset with some groups in the christian community who had gone
+too far, and were going to have to be slapped down.
+
+     It was the single most riveting forty-five mintutes I have spent in front
+of the TV, watching these people, knowing who their audience is, knowing that
+if anything happened they'd be called to task for it, knowing the possible
+consequences, *trying* desperately to talk some of the more, shall we say,
+eccentric viewers of this kind of programming out of killing the president.
+*Without* saying that the "prophet" who after all they just put on their
+network...was a nutcase.
+
+     Now, again, this went out on national TeeVee last night/early this
+morning.  I'm gonna be REAL curious to see if the news media picks up on this
+one.
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 821       Tue May 31, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:30 EDT
+
+     Actually, we kinda thought that major intersections like that would have
+light-grids in the floors (there are arrows pointing the way to various
+intersecting corridors) all over the place.  Hence why we didn't change them.
+
+     One problem with putting in a different, replaceable "floor" is the noise
+hassle.  The natural floor is reinforced, and *quiet* when you walk on it.
+Any overlay (or underlay) is going to result in bounceback and creaking and
+other audio problems that'll require dubbing in post.
+
+      But we'll look at it again, and see what else we can do here.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 665       Thu May 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:49 EDT
+
+     "Chrysalis, Part Two" will probably be the first shot, and it will be
+201.
+
+     None of the scripts mentioned were actually completed last season, and
+will have to be considered.  Certainly Harlan's working on his "Demon" script
+even as we speak.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 668       Fri May 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:34 EDT
+
+     I probably could've tried to sell it as just part of the story...and
+would be lying if I said I hadn't briefly considered it.  But it's just what
+it is: a fabrication.  Better to take it on the chin and get it over with....
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 670       Fri May 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:31 EDT
+
+     We won't know more about casting until we've got scripts in hand to begin
+that process.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 476       Wed May 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:36 EDT
+
+     That's a long trip, and we ain't gonna get the Hugo, so I may not make
+the trip, since we'll be hip-deep in production at the time.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 15
+Message 294       Sat May 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:52 EDT
+
+     Mutari are aliens who fight in the Mutai.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 16
+Message 170       Thu May 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:40 EDT
+
+     He didn't exactly become a disembodied voice...he moved away down one of
+the two intersecting corridors, and called back.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 580       Mon May 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:00 EDT
+
+     Since apparently this info was broken in the latest June Locus, I can now
+mention that Dell will be doing the first batch of B5 original novels later
+this fall.
+
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 582       Tue May 31, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:33 EDT
+
+     I'm working to develop outlines/premises for the novels that will allow
+them to be part of B5 canon, same as the comic.  These will then bde (be)
+assigned out.
+
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 585       Tue May 31, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:02 EDT
+
+     I suggested a novel set in the Line, but the editor felt that at first,
+to help marketing the novels should be set in the B5 present; that fans will
+be disappointed and not buy books if they're not using all of the characters
+in their current situation.  At least, that seems to be her take for the first
+batch, but down the road she has no problem with the idea.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 21
+Message 22        Wed May 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:06 EDT
+
+     Zima didn't pay us any money to do that, we just kinda thought it was
+funny....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 21
+Message 38        Thu May 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:41 EDT
+
+     BTW, that's not just a painting.  If you look at the garden shot after
+Ivanova leaves, you can see motion in the upper right corner, as garden
+trackers move along the inner hull.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 21
+Message 58        Fri May 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:29 EDT
+
+     Larry wrote the shiva stuff all on his lonesome.  As for being an
+abbreviated version...apparently shiva lasts 3 days for someone recently
+
+deceased.  If it's been months since the death, the service is usually much
+shorter, and again, there was only Ivanova and Koslov who actually were part
+of or knew the deceased.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 21
+Message 67        Sat May 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:49 EDT
+
+     BTW, there's an interesting couple of articles about this episode in this
+week's Jewish Journal, for another perspective on the show.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 21
+Message 93        Mon May 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:58 EDT
+
+     There were a number of reasons for changing prosthetics people, the main
+one being that we felt that Optic Nerve could deliver more reliably on a
+series basis, given the size and scope of this project.
+
+     And you've got at least two more really alien aliens coming up this
+season....
+
+     (I'm told that shiva need not last 7 full days, if the death was not
+recent, and if the body has already been buried.)
+
+
+
+                                                                 jms
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS for June 1-15, 1994
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 category.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category and main topic for the new series. Here is
+the place for all general information on the series. Topic 2 is the location
+for SPOILERS. And please, NO STORY IDEAS are to be posted either.
+692 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 537       Wed Jun 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:24 EDT
+
+     Gary: I just don't think that's workable, and in any event, we were
+planning to rotate the voice-over between cast members.
+
+     Brett: the one I wrote while utterly sick with the flu was, as I dimly
+recall, "The Quality of Mercy."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 550       Thu Jun 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:02 EDT
+
+     Note to the above: I most emphatically didn't work on the V series; I
+thought it was awful for the most part, except for the mini-series that
+launched it.  (We didn't call it V2 for nothing, he said.)  I wrote a new 4-
+hour miniseries that was to have launched a revived syndicated series closer
+in intent and theme to the original minseries.  It proved too expensive for
+the syndication market, however, and was never produced (though the first 3
+acts are in one of the libraries hereabout).
+
+     Only marginally appropos to the preceding...I lurk on a lot of BBS
+systems, regional and national, 'cause I find that my presence being known can
+affect the discussion, and it's nice to have a "control group," or two, for
+lack of a better term.  And I'm amazed at the amount of misinformation out
+there, preceded by "JMS said...."
+
+     There's "Joe said a homeworld would be destroyed in the cliffhanger,"
+which I didn't say; "Joe said that the Minbari change sex," which I never
+said, and was only implied by our casting initially a female to play a male
+character.  It was sorta assumed, and became accepted, but it was never said.
+(Going with this is, "Joe never referred to Delennin the pilot as "she."
+Which isn't correct; a tech calls to Sinclair and tells him Delenn wants to
+see him.  "She's in the garden," the tech says.)
+
+     There's the rumor that Sinclair left the show, and I'm trying to cover my
+ass (we have options on all our cast, sorry)...the rumor that Michael was
+fired for bad acting (which is easily enough resolved: we will be shooting a
+scene in the next few weeks with Sinclair, which will show up *midway* through
+the first season, and will lay down the foundation for more in the future,
+something you don't do if it's "bad acting").
+
+     I'm not dismayed, just astonished; it's like the ultimate game of
+telephone, with lots of people wanting to be the *first* to give some kind of
+information, backing it up with vague sources, or attributing them to JMS
+comments that were never made.
+
+     I would love, someday, to diagram all this stuff out and just watch the
+progression of it all....
+
+     Anyway, just woolgathering in-between the religious discussions....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 567       Fri Jun 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:09 EDT
+
+     I spoke incorrectly; the scene will be used in year two, not year one.
+
+     We're trying to get them to move the showing of Chrysalis back into
+August, with the rest of the year 1 episodes, rather than just before the
+start of year two.  Warners logic behind that is their belief that a) they can
+generate more publicity for the new season, which will spill into Chrysalis
+and thus get more people to see it, making kind of an event out of it, and b)
+the HUT (households using televisions) for August are notoriously low, so they
+feel it would be wasting what's probably our strongest episodes.
+
+     But I'd still prefer to see it in August, and we're still trying to nudge
+Warners in that direction.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 590       Sun Jun 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:56 EDT
+
+     Cindy...yes, it's the characters that keep us coming back.   I created
+Sinclair.  I made him interesting to the audience.  (I'm not trying to take
+away from the performance of the actor, I'm talking about the *character* per
+se, his dialogue, his past, his phraseology, his interests, everything that
+makes him what he is.)  You found him to be of interest.  That's good, because
+he didn't just land here on the back of an asteroid, Sinclair was
+*created*...the same way I created Kosh, and Garibaldi, and Delenn, and Londo,
+and G'Kar, and Ivanova....
+
+     Those, judging from reactions, are interesting characters.  What makes
+you think that this new character to enter the mix is going to be a shlub?
+They all come from the same pen.  Or keyboard, in this case.  YOU, as I
+recall, kept pushing to shove Takashima out an airlock and bring in someone
+else...even though there were lots of people who *liked* Tamlyn in that role.
+They're all replaceable, you said.
+
+     This isn't a case of someone else taking over Person A's show and
+changing everything around.  These are my characters.  My universe.  And you
+can be sure that the new character will be every bit as interesting all all
+the OTHER characters.
+
+     I just kinda wish people would allow the time and space to actually SEE
+what we have in mind before judging if it's going to work or not.  A lot of
+people pronounced us dead after the pilot.  We made some changes, came back,
+and the series was *considerably* better than the pilot (which you yourself
+said, Cindy, in part because of some character replacements that *you* thought
+would help the show [though that wasn't why they were made]).  Even those who
+*liked* Takashima, and Dr. Kyle, and who said that as far as they were
+concerned if those characters were gone the show was gonna be crap, even THEY
+have come around.
+
+     Our first year of the series was a jump in quality over the pilot.   And
+our second year will be a jump in quality over the first year.  We took a
+blood oath to make this show consistently better.  All I can say, again, is
+what was said when we made changes from the pilot: wait and see what it is
+we're doing before you judge.
+
+     I haven't suddenly developed Alzheimer's or gotten stupid or been
+possessed by a moron.  The characters that appear in this show will continue
+to be as interesting as the first batch.  I don't tend to pull rank very
+often, because it's a stupid and petty and arrogant thing to do...but if you
+like Kosh's enigmatic attitude, it's because I wrote it that way (or my
+writers) and created him to be enigmatic; if you like that Sinclair has a
+missing 24 hours, it's because I decided he did...on and on.  Sometimes I get
+a little tired of this sense I get that people see these characters as having
+sprung fully-developed from the brow of Zeus, and that I'm yanking one out to
+put in some dumb character *I* came up with.
+
+     I'm not asking anyone to take my word for anything, only to maybe cut a
+guy a little slack until you actually *see* what's going to be done, and to
+kinda remember that I came up with these guys to *start* with, and that
+nothing new in the show will be any less interesting than that which precedes
+it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 595       Sun Jun 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:48 EDT
+
+     Thanks, Tom, and really, c'mon, Pee Wee Herman'll make a GREAT
+commander....
+
+                                                    jm(trust me)s
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 616       Mon Jun 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:31 EDT
+
+     It's my understanding that some or all of the Lightwave software is being
+adjusted for a Dos platform, and that Foundation will be more or less
+unaffected by the problem in the long run, though I imagine there will have to
+be some short-run transitional hassles.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 628       Wed Jun 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:55 EDT
+
+     I've always thought that the kind of people who read the last page of a
+book should have their thumbs pinned into one of those chinese thumb-traps,
+then sent into the Nairobi desert to fend for themselves.
+
+     At least that way, we'll *both* know how it ends....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 632       Thu Jun 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:10 EDT
+
+     I'm still reasonably sure that's what I was told about LW...but then
+again, at many of these discussions, I fall asleep and pitch forward onto the
+desk, so there you are.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 633       Thu Jun 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:03 EDT
+
+     Bits and pieces...heard today from Jim Norton, who plays our Ombuds on
+the show, and is currently in England doing a documentary about Gen.
+Montgomery (playing the lead), who was wearing his B5 jacket on Kings Road,
+and just about got mobbed by people.  Apparently the show is going over well.
+
+     Assignments are being made, scripts are in the works.  First draft on
+"Chrysalis, Part Two" is in (JMS), and Larry's working on "A Trick of the
+Mind" and DC's working on "A Distant Star."
+
+     We're doing a pretty fair amount of rethinking on some of our sets and
+costumes, again looking to improve them as much as we can from season to
+season without making major changes.  We'll be doing more with set dressing,
+making it more layered and personal; building some new sets to let us explore
+other sides of our characters' lives; coming up with new costume designs for
+some of the new characters coming in this season, that sort of thing.
+
+     New production schedule came out, and it looks like if we begin shooting
+on July 18 we'll be delivering episodes several months before they're due to
+air.  So we're giving some thought to starting filming a couple weeks later,
+just to give us more time to tinker with the sets and costumes without having
+to rush.  There's a couple of sets in particular that we'll be creating for
+the first couple of episodes we shoot, and the extra time could be useful in
+getting them just right, since they're fairly elaborate.  (And Londo gets a
+new coat this season!)
+ I'll probably have a bit more to say about the new additions to the cast
+later on.  Not regulars, but recurring (6 episodes or so) characters.
+
+     Today went down to Sotheby's in Beverly Hills to look at their stuff for
+their newest auction, mainly comics stuff.  Got the auction catalog, brought
+it home, started marking pages...wish lists...walked out to where Kathryn was
+watching the NBA game..."So, like, exactly how do you feel about a second
+mortgage?"
+
+     Such a look.....
+
+     Sigh...I've long described myself as a collector of Superman stuff.
+HAH!  Trinkets.  There's some SERIOUS stuff out there, boys and girls.
+
+     Bottom line...I'm doomed as doomed can be....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 638       Thu Jun 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:50 EDT
+
+     BTW, for those in the San Diego area, Harlan Ellison will be signing
+books this coming Saturday from 2-5 p.m. at Mysterious Galaxy Books, in the
+Claremont Square Shopping Center, 4679 Claremont Square.  And at 6 p.m., he
+will read a new short story to an audience of those who've bought Mephisto in
+Onyx or Mind Fields *and* purchased $25 in books from the store.
+
+     I'll be there as well, on and off starting about 2, though Harlan is the
+main show.  Any GEIs who want to buy some stuff and come by are of course
+welcome.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 642       Fri Jun 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:55 EDT
+
+     Alas, corridor walls that curve in make lighting and setting up camera
+angles VERY difficult.
+
+     At this point, not much in the way of new aliens planned; we'd like to
+get away from the alien-of-the-week story (which though we didn't do it a
+*lot*, we did it enough that I want to edge away from it a bit), and
+concentrate on the aliens we already have.  If you just keep on throwing new
+aliens into the mix, soon it loses all impact.  We decided to try a whole
+bunch of aliens over season one, and pick the ones that worked, which we would
+then work to refine and integrate more fully into the storyline.   Right now,
+I think we've got about 15 races in addition to our primary groups (Narn,
+Minbari, Centauri).  Concomitant with this, we'll be working to make the
+prosthetics far more detailed and better able to be used in a dramatic
+context.
+
+     We scattergunned a lot in season one; now is the time to adjust, refine,
+focus and improve.  We'll still do the occasional new group, I  just don't
+want that to begin driving the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 645       Fri Jun 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:59 EDT
+
+     The vaguely cthulhoid creature to which you refer is a pak'ma'ra.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 657       Sat Jun 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:39 EDT
+
+     The only things we're doing to the uniforms is adjusting the dress
+uniforms a bit, and adding a bit of seam to the back of the class-A day
+jackets to help them fit a little better, and a bit of slightly different
+piping along the leather collars so they'll read better on camera.  Also we'll
+be making a new set out of a slightly more durable and comfortable gabardine
+than last season.
+
+     Re: production...each episode shoots in 7 days, and yes, when one show
+comes in under the pattern budget (which often happens), we then  apply that
+to other shows.  We came in a bit under budget for the full season, and have
+applied that bit to next season's budget to give us a bit more room to play.
+
+     I write 10-20 pages a day, usually on more than one script or project at
+the same time.  Net messages in total add proably another 5-7 pages a day to
+the list.  (Currently doing 2 B5 scripts, revising a 2-hour pilot for another
+series, editing others, awaiting word on an outline for a third pilot, and
+some other stuff.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 674       Sun Jun 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:26 EDT
+
+     Argus: of course there are capital ships.  We never said otherwise.
+There's one later this season, for instance, the EAS Hyperion, a heavy Earth
+cruiser.  There aren't as many as they'd like -- the majority having been
+wiped out in the war -- but they're building 'em as fast as possible.  (The
+Hyperion, though it's never mentioned, is one of the leftover capital ships,
+not one of the newer ones.)
+
+     The uniforms are *not* being changed dramatically, only nipped and tucked
+and tweaked slightly to make them fit better and come across slightly better
+on-camera, so some details that're being lost now pop better.
+
+     Re: starfury pilots...some of it is actors in cockpit against a blue
+screen, some of it CGI pilots with faces mapped onto them.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 679       Mon Jun 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:34 EDT
+
+     We do see some EA military types from time to time (it was an EA marine
+who kept trying to pick up on ko'dath in "Purple").  And next season there'll
+be a bit more of that, with more supplies and people being moved out to the
+Rim, and stopping off at B5 en route.
+
+     Re: Babylon...while it didn't end up well, for a long time Babylon was a
+center of commerce and industry, an important crossroads.  The name translated
+means "the Gate of God," which has double meaning when attached to the
+jumpgate outside.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 686       Wed Jun 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:54 EDT
+
+     BTW...appropos of nothing...I would urge all and sundry to check out the
+CBS special, "Murrow Vs. McCarthy," Wednesday night at 10/9 central.   If you
+don't know who those two people are/were, all the more reason to watch.  Some
+lessons must never be forgotten.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+Babylon 5 offically became a series on May 28 '93. There will be 22 hour eps
+for season one (in addition to the pilot). Airs Wednesdays at 8PM in most
+places starting Jan. 26 '94.  This is the SPOILER topic where anything goes.
+
+810 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 701       Wed Jun 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:27 EDT
+
+     Err...insofar as I know, "I'm Thinking of Thinking" was not an old music
+hall song.  It was composed by Christopher Franke for us.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 704       Wed Jun 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:47 EDT
+
+     I'll probably be able to say more about the new actor in a couple of
+weeks.
+
+     And yes, Ivanova was born on Earth, in the Russian Consortium, though she
+was educated in large measure overseas.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 724       Fri Jun 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:13 EDT
+
+     A *lot* of background on the characters appears in the faq file, which I
+believe is available here.
+
+     Wouldn't be surprised to see a B5 tech manual sometime next year os (or)
+so.
+
+     Workers employed on B5 earn a weekly salary, paid in earth standard
+credits.  Anyone coming from another culture/system with a different financial
+structure is handled as you would handle going from the US to Germany.  You
+turn over your Drazi currency, and are given a credit chit which is charged
+with X-amount of EA credits, based on the current rate of exchange.  If your
+system is not recognized by EA, things get a little dicier, and you may be
+forced to resort to barter.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 735       Sat Jun 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:21 EDT
+
+     dj...you can tell your spouse that one of my pet bugaboos is loose
+threads left dangling.  I tend to write pretty tightly, and don't like to
+leave things unresolved too long.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 769       Thu Jun 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:54 EDT
+
+     I read Bugs' note, and to his considerable credit, he had pieced together
+a *lot* of stuff.  Moreso than has just about anyone else to date.  It
+ultimately led him to make one final leap that took him onto the wrong track,
+so the destination was in error, but he had done his homework, thought things
+through, and was very much on the right track.   There's just some stuff that
+can't be predicted because the necessary pieces aren't all on the table yet.
+
+     So good thinking, excellent deductions, careful consideration, just off
+by a few decimals.  It is, I suppose, the difference between E=MC2 and E=MC3;
+you kinda had to know where you were going and what you were doing to get that
+far, but the bomb still ain't gonna work.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 796       Sun Jun 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:36 EDT
+
+     I don't think I've really said that much about "Grail."  The trick,
+though, is that I don't approach the episodes in quite the same way that a
+viewer does.  I have somewhat different agendas and goals, and there are times
+when hassles in *doing* the episode -- which in no way affect the show itself -
+- affects my *perception* of the episode.
+
+     I did a small screening of "Grail" here about a week ago, to get some
+other reactions, and they were all very positive; they enjoyed the episode
+quite a bit.  (Similarly, there were people who thought that "Infection" was
+one of the best of the season.)  There is *no one* who is harsher in
+critiquing the episodes than I am.  I want each one to be absolutely perfect.
+And sometimes that means that I see flaws that no one else ever will.
+
+     In any event, I definitely want people to come at this from an open
+minded point of view.  For reasons that have nothing to do with Christy's
+script, it still isn't one of my all-time favorite episodes; if I said
+otherwise, I'd be lying through my teeth.  But different opinions are what
+makes horse races, and as stated, most of those who've seen it so far *do*
+like it, so at the moment I'm considerably outnumbered....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Computer SFX Tech-Talk   
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+600 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 594       Sun Jun 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:43 EDT
+
+     Arne, let me respectfully disagree with you.  An occasional typo is one
+thing; sometimes there can be SO many typos in someone's message that it
+becomes twice as hard to read, it can get annoying, and if the author's intent
+was to say X, a lot of typos can result in communicating Y, or people simply
+not bothering to read it at all.
+
+     "core shuttkle...lety me anylyse...teh shodows...seeming huige...on te'he
+ground...there was abotyher...teh distant...prettyh bnut...."
+
+     Granted, it's a prejudice, but this sort of thing also makes the writer
+look illiterate, though clearly he is not, but that nonetheless prejudices the
+reader, and diminishes the impact of the message.  There is nothing wrong with
+occasional correction; that's one of the problems with SF fandom in general, I
+think...no one ever dares to correct anyone else.
+
+     If I can come on here and take comments criticizing my show, then I think
+that someone critiquing the effects in my show can take a little critiquing of
+his message, done in a positive way.  If he can't take a note or two, then he
+can tell us.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Cast & Characters        
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+656 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 591       Fri Jun 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:14 EDT
+
+     Yes, insofar as can be determined (deals are finalizing tomorrow), all
+other cast members are returning.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 631       Thu Jun 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:34 EDT
+
+     Desiree...you were in *second grade*?
+
+     I suddenly feel very, very, very old....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 640       Fri Jun 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:27 EDT
+
+     Ivanova is exactly who she is; she's not being feminine or tough because
+somebody told her to be.  To call her a "women's liberation activist" in this
+context, where it isn't an issue anymore, is like pointing to any african-
+american without shackles and saying he's an "anti-slavery activist."  Any
+chains she has, she forged herself; they are not the ones society on one side
+or the other forced on her.
+
+     Re: space exploration...I feel much the same way.  Thing is, of course,
+the SF of the 50s and early 60s, really the golden age of SF, fed the popular
+consciousness with the idea of space travel, which culminated  in a general
+awareness, and an urge to try it.  It's the role of SF to nudge people in the
+right direction.  If more and more TV and print points to the future, and to
+the stars, it may help wake people up to that possibility.
+
+     If you make them *want* it today, they will build it tomorrow.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 5         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            (Forwarded)
+Sub: Grid Epsilon Irregulars - News & Info.
+
+This topic is for information about Babylon 5 fan groups, newsletters,
+fanzines, get-togethers, B-5 at conventions, and other general fun.
+542 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 497       Sun Jun 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:45 EDT
+
+     If it were me, and I wanted to have a bit of fun with this, I'd use:
+
+     "Sooner or later, everyone watches Babylon 5."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 525       Wed Jun 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:42 EDT
+
+     They are...all around you.
+
+     And if they ate more fiber, they wouldn't *have* this problem.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 9         Wed Nov 11, 1992
+T.RESTIVO [Little Guy]       at 18:27 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Humor                      
+
+From *Beep Beep*, to Top Ten Lists, to full-blown parodies, this is where to
+put your funny bone in writing!
+565 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 517       Sun Jun 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:25 EDT
+
+     I keep constantly fighting the urge to have G'Kar return from a trip to
+the Narn homeworld with a limp, a cane, and a (temporary) eyepatch, muttering,
+"Boy, the Thenta Makur have *no* sense of humor."
+
+     (Now we'll see how many get *that* one.)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 543       Fri Jun 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:58 EDT
+
+     I dread the very idea of what will happen in this topic after folks
+discover what the pak'ma'ra are....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 563       Mon Jun 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:39 EDT
+
+     In the two-parter, Delenn has quite a few moments when she's laughing,
+and funny, but always in a dignified fashion; it's a strange but very
+appealing combination.  (And there's one scene she's in that is played
+*absolutely* straight, but is fall-down funny.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B5 Adrift!                           
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+496 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 456       Tue Jun 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:03 EDT
+
+     I think that the point he was going after in his original posting is that
+some -- a very few -- take a *proprietary* stance, which I would differentiate
+from criticism (pro or con) in terms of the sense of perceived ownership.
+There are a few ST fans, for instance, who feel, and even state to the effect,
+that as fans they *own* the show.  There was the person who said that he has
+the *right* to *dictate changes* in the show (B5) because he watched it.  And
+the answer to that in both cases is, No, you don't.
+
+     There is a small section of the fan community that will applaud you for
+standing up to and resisting input from the suits, the studios, and the
+network, and then turn *very* cranky when you similarly resist THEIR input,
+because THEY own the show.
+
+     This line becomes somewhat easier to cross when someone from the show
+makes himself available for such things.
+
+     I think that this was the point at hand, rather than criticism vs.
+praise.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 459       Tue Jun 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:38 EDT
+
+     I agree, it isn't prevalent.  Sometimes though it can be noisy out of all
+proportion to its size.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 468       Wed Jun 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:11 EDT
+
+     Re: authors here "inhibiting" criticism by virtue of their presence....
+nope.  There's generally 50% more criticism of B5 on those systems where I'm
+known to be present than on those systems where I just lurk.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 473       Thu Jun 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:37 EDT
+
+     Not true; I am as gentle as a kitten just as long as someone doesn't go
+out of his way to fuq with me.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 489       Wed Jun 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:03 EDT
+
+     The extra footage helps the Abyss a *lot*.
+
+                                                         jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                  
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+591 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 569       Wed Jun 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:24 EDT
+
+     We're discussing it in-house.  Claudia's willing to do it.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 575       Wed Jun 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:58 EDT
+
+     Yeah...well...we went a little nuts....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 579       Thu Jun 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:17 EDT
+
+     I don't think they have time for that kind of heavy-duty rendering; the
+closest they ever got (at least that *I'm* aware of) is a composite shot
+looking through the observation dome window from the outside, to where Ren
+Hoek is strangling Stimpy inside.  (It's a gif.)  And no, you can't have it.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 588       Mon Jun 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:40 EDT
+
+     "Terminal Velocity," a newspaper-stock magazine published out of San
+Diego, and available free there, just did a cover story on B5's EFX.  For more
+info, call 619-487-9589.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 13        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 21:00 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Science & Technology     
+
+Jump gates, nanotech, high-tech weapons, starship drives, sound in space, and
+other subjects of science and technology in Babylon 5.
+428 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 368       Fri Jun 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:14 EDT
+
+     Yikes...and people say *I've* got an evil mind....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 378       Sun Jun 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:08 EDT
+
+     Jump gates are formed in a particular location within a margin of error;
+it's not like throwing a newspaper at a door.  The gate might form in front or
+behind.
+
+     How many ship-mounted generators (which are inside the hull) have you
+seen to be able to say that they can be of any shape?  How do you know they're
+different shapes?  To my knowledge, we've never shown a ship-mounted
+generator.
+
+     A ship-mounted generator can open a fairly small opening, and do it maybe
+twice or three times within a 24 hour period or so, because of the massive
+energy requirements involved.  The rails and chargers along the way are
+designed to facilitate a *lot* of travel in and out during a day, and to make
+the entry a little easier, not as abrupt as a ship-mounted jump.
+
+     We simply haven't shown a jump gate from the side or back yet.  We have
+talked about this at some length, and probably will do so at one point next
+season.
+
+     Why doesn't it manifest itself as a sphere, and why a vortex?  Because
+the rails are at opposite sides one from the other.  They project out opposing
+lines of force which in repelling one another create a tunnel into hyperspace.
+The lines of force on a ship-mounted system are not visible to the human eye,
+and are less stable, hence more uncomfortable when entering (see above).
+
+     In-gates and out-gates *are* identical.  The only difference is in
+coloration, based on red-shift.
+
+     The vortex is *not* an energy booster, which answers that question.
+
+     Seems to me that most of your questions come from incorrect assumptions
+and insufficent consideration of the issues at hand, not really thinking
+things through, rather than logical or scientific flaws on our part.
+
+     Just one man's opinion.
+
+     But it's canon.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 395       Mon Jun 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:32 EDT
+
+     Absolutely.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 408       Sat Jun 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:43 EDT
+
+     Explorer ships *are* jump-capable.  And they survey areas that look like
+they have good resources to exploit.  The problems at Sigma 957 come and go at
+irrgular intervals, and wasn't there when the explorer vessel came, saw a lot
+of good worlds to exploit, and left a gate.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Merchandising            
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+595 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 589       Sun Jun 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:51 EDT
+
+     Currently, to the best of my knowledge, no company has officially
+licensed a B5 RPG, but I'd definitely be interested in seeing it happen.
+
+                                                    jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 24        Fri Jun 04, 1993
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:11 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Weapons and Warfare!     
+
+For discussion about the weapons, counter weapons, armor, shielding, tactics,
+logistics, and so forth, of small combat and large scale war in the Babylon 5
+universe.
+296 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 280       Fri Jun 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:31 EDT
+
+     Yeah, those senatorial funding committees are a real pain in the
+ass...the station doesn't have *half* of what it should have.  Now, B4 had
+EVERYthing...too bad it disappeared....
+
+                                                       jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 283       Sat Jun 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:45 EDT
+
+     Bear in mind, though, when suggesting all this heavy weaponry, that
+Babylon 5 is not a warship.  It's not that major a target.  It generally has
+enough to protect itself against small forces.  If full-scale war were to
+break loose, *nothing* could protect it from a fleet of ships, since it can't
+maneuver and is basically a sitting duck.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 291       Sun Jun 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:52 EDT
+
+     This season you will see missiles, more Narn heavy cruisers, more Narn
+capital ships, a Narn military outpost, and lots of closer shots of a Minbari
+cruiser.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 295       Mon Jun 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:41 EDT
+
+     No, only some of it....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 25        Fri Mar 12, 1993
+S.SHELLENBAR [>> SHANE <<]   at 08:47 EST
+Sub: J. Michael Straczynski Speaks in Public
+
+This is the place to find out where and when JMS will be appearing next.  JMS
+has honed his skills as a public speaker and is taking his act on the road.
+513 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 497       Mon Jun 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:36 EDT
+
+     It's just that I *hate* losing in public.  I've now been nominated for
+four awards: an Ace Award, a Bram Stoker award, a Gemini award, and a Writers
+Guild award, each for writing.  And you just go nuts, you at first don't even
+want to consider winning, then the closer you get to the event you think,
+well, hell, I've got as good a chance of winning as  anybody else...then you
+wait...and you're there, they're opening the envelope...and you're thinking
+maybe, maybe it IS me...no it's not...but it might be...and it ain't...and I
+just *hate* that.
+
+     On the other hand, as I think about it, you go through the same thing
+winning in public.
+
+     That's it.  I'm doomed.  The universe hates me.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS for June 15-30, 1994
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 category.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category and main topic for the new series. Here is
+the place for all general information on the series. Topic 2 is the location
+for SPOILERS. And please, NO STORY IDEAS are to be posted either.
+875 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 686       Wed Jun 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:54 EDT
+
+     BTW...appropos of nothing...I would urge all and sundry to check out the
+CBS special, "Murrow Vs. McCarthy," Wednesday night at 10/9 central.   If you
+don't know who those two people are/were, all the more reason to watch.  Some
+lessons must never be forgotten.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 690       Thu Jun 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:04 EDT
+
+     Here's just how stupid and tragic and destructive that period in our
+history was, and how it affected somebody.
+
+     I have a friend named Norman Corwin.  Some of you, probably the older
+ones, will recognize the name; most won't.  Which is the greatest tragedy of
+all.
+
+     During the height of the radio drama period, Norman Corwin was *the* pre-
+eminent radio drama writer, more widely listened to and respected than Orson
+Welles, Arch Oboler or anyone else in the field.  There was simply no one
+bigger.  He wrote comedies and dramas and jerimiads; when the UN needed a
+cantata to symbolize their goals, they came to Norman; when the Germans
+surrendered on VE day, our nation turned to Norman to write a piece that was
+the ONLY radio broadcast/drama aired on all three radio networks, "On a Note
+of Triumph."  He worked with the greatest stars of our country...Humphrey
+Bogart, Clark Gable, and a list of our  greatest film and radio stars.
+
+     He was, not to put too fine a point on it...*it*.  You couldn't get much
+higher.
+
+     Then came McCarthy, and his vile, paranoid, list-making progeny, who
+deepened the wound in our nation's heart by multiplying it.  One such bastard
+stepchild was a sleazy little rag called "Red Channels" (you get one guess
+what the Red stood for).  It was published by the owner of a chain of
+supermarkets.  Not a senator, not a congressman, not an FBI guy or anyone
+elected to high office...the owner of a supermarket chain, who felt it his god-
+given obligation to ferret out commies...meaning whoever he didn't much like.
+
+     One issue of "Red Channels" included Norman Corwin's name in among the
+lists and lists of names...since after all, he had spoken well of Russia
+during World War II...in documentaries *commissioned by our own government* to
+further our alliance against the Nazis.  But no matter that he was asked to do
+it by his nation, no matter that we were allies once, if you spoke in *any*
+way well of the Russian people...you were either a commie or a commie-
+sympathizer.
+
+     Norman was not blacklisted; that's what happened to those poor hapless
+saps who went before McCarthy hoping for a square deal.  Norman was *grey-
+listed*, not even accused, not summoned, but the fear of the time was so
+palpable that even that one allegation was enough.
+
+     And Norman's career...stopped.
+
+     I cannot think of this without getting so angry that I can barely see the
+monitor.
+
+     If you don't know the work of Norman Corwin, go to your nearest local
+library and look for his books, if they still have them.  Look for any
+recordings of his radio dramas, particularly "On a Note of Triumph," which is
+probably in the hands of university libraries.  If you want some small measure
+of his influence on other writers, pick up a copy of "13 For Corwin," from
+Barricade Books, where this man is celebrated in essays by Ray Bradbury, Studs
+Terkel, Charles Kuralt, Norman Lear, Norman Cousins, Erik Barnouw, Philip
+Dunne, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, among others.  Ask Walter Cronkite
+what Norman meant to him.  Ask Ray about how he began his career as a writer
+trying to write like Norman Corwin.
+
+     Norman is currently in his early 80s.  He continues to write, and has two
+books coming out soon, one a collection of his letters, the other an oral
+history done by the Director's Guild.  I do not see him as often as I would
+like, because we're both very busy.  But he is my friend, and he taught me
+much of what it means to be a writer, and I commend his works to you with the
+greatest enthusiasm conceivable.  I promise that you will not be disappointed.
+There is a sheer and unmitigated power in his use of language that I haven't
+seen anywhere else.
+
+     Corwin.  Norman.  Look it up.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 695       Thu Jun 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:57 EDT
+
+     Wayne...I'm sorry, but I don't define the "Fun Factor" in as narrow a way
+as you do.
+
+     On the referential stuff...you're wrong.  I view Delenn's comment about
+"suffering the interference of others" in regards to matters of the soul in
+"Believers" to be a reference to the Soul Hunter...later this season are
+references, in dialogue, *specifically*, to Deathwalker, the labor
+action/strike, Raghesh 3 and other areas seen before this season.   I just
+wrote (and had to delete for time) a reference to the "Believers" story in a
+season two script; it didn't show up there, but it will show up elsewhere.
+
+     Your error was in jumping the gun.  Season ain't over yet.
+
+     Frankly, you can only spend so much time referencing backstory; you have
+a contemporary story to deal with, and should only reference a past story IF
+it has a DIRECT bearing on the current story.  What you're asking for is an
+agenda, a shopping list...there MUST be references to the past or it isn't
+good, there MUST be injuries or death in a certain numerical proportion to the
+series or it isn't good.
+
+     I'm telling a story.  I don't have time, or inclination, to worry about
+what your friends think the right percentage of death and injury should be in
+a series.  There is a small percentage of fandom that measures its interest in
+terms of how many people get killed, hurt or maimed, the "hurt/comfort"
+fanzine types.  They think that's realism.  It's not.  It's the cheapest way
+to get somebody's interest.  People also live to die of old age, too.
+
+     So howzabout you just let me tell my story.  And wait for the rest of
+this season, so you can see how you're wrong on the other point.
+
+                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 705       Fri Jun 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:20 EDT
+
+     If a question is directed specifically at me, yes, I'm more likely to
+dive in.
+
+     The story of how I met Norman is actually kinda funny...I was at San
+Diego State University, in the Psychology department, when I heard that this
+Norman Corwin fellow was going to be a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer that
+semester, teaching writing in a couple of classes in the Telecommunications
+and Film Department.  Curious, I went to the library to find out what I could
+about him.  Opened up "Who's Who."  And the entry went on...and on...and
+on...and my jaw dropped.  This was a WRITER.
+
+     You could only take one, not both of the two sessions he was teaching
+that semester.  Also, his classes were ONLY open to TCF majors, no one else.
+AND, you had to submit a writing sample to get in.
+
+     I was determined not only to get in, despite being in the wrong (and thus
+closed) department, but also to take *both* classes.  I submitted a piece of
+writing, and though I didn't hear anything from him personally, learned that
+it passed muster.  But I still now had to get the computer cards (back when we
+used such things) from the TCF department, which were, er, under lock and key.
+
+     How I got my hands on the cards...is another story for another time.
+Suffice to say if the Symbionese Liberation Army had had this kind of
+technique, they'd still be around today.
+
+     So...first day of his first session.  I'm there early.  He walks in.  And
+you have to understand that Norman never just enters a room...he is a
+*presence*.  Leonine and elegant.  And he went to the front of the room,
+looked around, and said, "Is there a Joe Straczynski here?"
+
+     I died.  "Well, this is it," I thought.  I'd been nabbed.  I raised my
+hand.  "Could I see you outside?" he asked.  I stepped out into the hall,
+where I was sure several department heads and, for all I knew, campus security
+would be waiting.
+
+     There was no one, just Norman and me.  "Listen, Joe," he said, "I read
+over the material you sent in, and I just have to say that it's  really very
+good, very professional, excellent writing.  So I was thinking that I'd very
+much appreciate your help with the class, if you think you'd like to pitch in
+a bit.  I think they could use your help."
+
+     You could've knocked me over with a feather.
+
+     Later, some in the TCF department figured out what I'd done, and began to
+raise hell.  They went to Norman and felt I ought to be booted.   He felt that
+I really should stay, and stay I did.
+
+     He took me under his wing then, and for a long time thereafter.  He had
+much to teach, and I had much to learn.  I thought I actually knew how to
+write...five minutes with him taught me that I knew *nothing*.   Norman taught
+by word, by edit, and by example.  I went out and read everything he had ever
+written, and you could take any one of them and parse and study it over and
+over, and still not be able to figure out how he did what he did...how, with
+only a few words, he could evoke an image, trigger an emotion, grab you by the
+shoulders and shake you.  It's the nearest thing to close-up magic I've ever
+seen.  He's *that* good.
+
+     Oddly enough, some of what he wrote could be considered (in the loosest
+sense of the word) fantasy, of a sort.  No two pieces were ever quite
+alike...hard dramas, delightful and fanciful pieces, jeremiads that thunder'd
+and lightning'd and corrected like a caring but concerned father attempting to
+pull his children, our nation, back from the brink.
+
+     Long after the session, we continued and grew as friends, visiting,
+having dinner, hanging out.  (Though it's not quite right to describe Norman
+"hanging out;" somehow it just doesn't fit.)  He still teaches once in a while
+at Idlwylde, by the way.
+
+     To quote Ray Bradbury, "He taught us then not only how to open our
+mouths, but how to insert bright pebbles beneath our tongues so that
+eventually we might fire forth a sentence not only worth listening to but
+thinking about."
+
+     And, later: "When I published my first book, Dark Carnival, in 1947, I
+somehow got Norman's phone number and address from a conniving secretary at
+CBS Radio.  I sent Norman my book with a note saying, `If you like my book as
+much as I love you and your work, please let me buy you a drink some
+afternoon.'  A few days later, Norman called and said, `You're not buying me
+drinks, I'm buying you *dinner*."  The dinner has lasted forever.  And what a
+feast."
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 706       Fri Jun 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:49 EDT
+
+      Since I'm talking about Norman Corwin, and like all writers
+ he is best exemplified by his work...some samples.  Fragments.
+
+      Some days after the first atomic bomb was exploded over
+ Hiroshima, Norman wrote about the new power that had been unleashed.
+ His words, in part:
+
+ "...the atom can be more sullen than has yet been shown.
+
+ Attack it with another thrust of algebraic symbols and the
+  cutting edge of an equation, and there will be the grand
+  reaction.
+
+ The first news of it will arrive in your precinct as a shuddering
+  in the sky:
+
+ A glow, far off, brightening: heat beating outward in concentric
+  waves: the atmosphere a band of fire: the seas themselves, the
+  wet seas, tinder:
+
+ The hills that looked on Christ will heave and crackle, and
+  quarries vaporize as eagerly as the dust of Pharoahs:
+
+ The earth, the tamed and tonsured earth, with all its gardens and
+  substances, its places, breeds and patterns, its letters and its
+  airs, will plummet out of grace; will fail its orbit,
+
+ And soon enough will be a blistered ash, its moon trailing lonely
+  and ungoverned, like a dog after its master's corpse.
+
+ Do not smile, do not smile as though knowing better.
+ It could happen.
+ The model is any suicide.
+ The model is Sampson, destroying the temple and himself...."
+
+
+ The following is excerpted from Norman's book "Prayer for the 70s."
+
+ "We print your name on dollars
+ And are sure you stand over everything we say is under God
+ And all nations assume you are on their side and always
+  have been, war in and war out,
+ And every religion understands you better than every other religion,
+  and you in turn lean toward each with special inclinations.
+
+ You are called upon to bless babies and aircraft carriers
+ And you are ceremoniously and endlessly praised on the basis that
+  flattery will get us somewhere.
+
+ But there are those who pray as though tendering a bribe payable
+  on installments
+ So as to accumulate years in this life and credits in the next.
+ Some of us make you out a broker who supplieth needs and wants;
+ Attorney who defendeth against hard claims;
+ Expunger of guilts who cleareth the conscience so we may be free
+  to muck it up again;
+ Housekeeper of the soul who cometh in to clean once a week;
+ King of accountants auditing our secret selves,
+ Liquidating our trespasses as we liquidate those who trespass
+  against us,
+ Keeping batteries of books filled with fateful identifications,
+ Entering as much the fall of a sparrow as the crash of a plane.
+
+ We have heard it said you are not so smart after all, since it is
+  unlikely you could add as fast as a computer or remember half
+  so much;
+ And although you are known to be more than generous in the number and
+  variety of species, there seems to be little rationale for the
+  mosquito, and less for plague bacilli.
+
+ There have been complaints against you, charges of malfeasance,
+ Implications of sleeping on the job, trigger temper, pronenesss
+  to vengeance,
+ Tantrums of wrath that have consumed too many of the innocent with
+  too few of the heinous.
+
+ Some of your public begrudge you the benefit of doubt, and doubt
+  your beneficence
+ Protesting that it was antic of you to have sponsored us to begin
+  with, if we are to swarm like maggots on a rind too meager to
+  support our duplicating billions.
+ Some say the noblest ideas were set down by man
+ And that you have been served by holy ghost writers beyond your
+  desserts.
+
+ They say that the whole conspicuous distance between the worm and
+  Einstein, the drone of the bee and Beethoven,
+ The entire interval, has been filled with struggles trailing blood:
+ Ages of frightened proto-men, heavy with ignorance, recoiling from
+  fangs of fire, drowning in profligate floods, perishing in temblors,
+  staggering into the unknown,
+ Their wails and brute chants and broken grunts fructifying at last
+ into songs and sonnets and hallelujahs to your glory.
+ Well, dissidants suggest that during this grand span you sat it
+  out; that in the vast meanwhile you went off to fish in deeper
+  currents.
+
+ Lately it is announced that you are dead
+ Which means several things besides the receiver being off the hook
+  when we dial you.
+ It means that time must carry on by itself
+ And stars pinwheel through incandescent deserts and bottomless voids,
+  all on an orderly hunch;
+ It means the arching upward from the mud has been a drunken course,
+  and purposeless, and hardly worth the trip;
+ It means the very mansion of existence has no windows, and is just
+  a big white elephant, boarded up and haunted by your mistakes;
+ It means that springtime is a come-on and a put-on, and not at all
+  a show of dogged life, a riot of chlorophyll, a surge of sap and
+  elixers from wells so deep no radar can ever return to tell what
+  and where it touched;
+ It means that the love of man and woman is a table of percentages,
+  and their desire a disease of the id;
+ It means that birth is a happening between pills
+ And old age a phase held together by plastic parts;
+ It means the heart of a man is replaceable as soon as the donor is
+ legally dead
+ And death is a package deal with the best advertised mortuary.
+
+ So, God: if you are alive in that heaven we have come to know is
+  spotty with systems of gravity, each pulling for itself,
+ Then perhaps you must flex the muscle of divine authority to get
+  back into office
+ Because your antique miracles have been trumped by solemn science;
+ Daily the patent office registers intenser magic than the burning bush:
+ The serpent from the rod becomes a ruby laser;
+ The leper is healed by mycins;
+ The blind draw vision from an eye bank.
+
+ That being the case, dear busy God, please manifest thyself again
+  through one superlative, new-minted covenant:
+ Create for the lot of us -- all nations indivisible -- an Act of God
+  more stupendous than mere parting waters or a standing sun
+ A miracle harder to come by, that would, if consummated, cause dry
+  bones from all the hundred holocausts to meet and dance,
+ And charter stars to sing together in the brightest chancel of
+  imponderable space.
+
+ And this is what that miracle would be:
+
+ That man should love his kind in all his skins and pigments,
+ And kill no more.
+
+ Repeat:
+ That we should love our kind
+ And kill no more.
+
+ Yes, granted, such a miracle is asking very much of you
+ But it is long past time to ask."
+
+
+ That, gentle readers...*that* is Norman Corwin.
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 748       Wed Jun 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:55 EDT
+
+     Just got back from a whirlwind trip...too exhausted to write much now.
+Grabbed a flight to Chicago last night, arriving around midnight, and came
+back today around 8 p.m.  Basically 20 hours in Chicago and then turn right
+around and come back to LA.  Without going into details (mainly because I
+can't) at the moment, there's some non-B5 stuff brewing that could be
+interesting.  (I may have to start two new topics here; TWCBN #2 and TWCBN #3,
+for those who understand the reference.)
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 763       Thu Jun 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:25 EDT
+
+     The 30s true story isn't SF.  The two other TWCBNs are.
+
+     What would be considered SF within the B5 universe?  Ummmm....Trek?
+
+     (I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.)
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 772       Fri Jun 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:26 EDT
+
+     Warner buys ads for those shows which are specifically produced BY
+Warners, in-house.  We're an independent company providing programming FOR
+them.  Slight distinction.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 775       Fri Jun 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:48 EDT
+
+     No more details for now, I'm afraid.  Just wanted to let y'all know that
+something's cooking.  Two something's, actually.  We'll see....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 780       Sat Jun 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:39 EDT
+
+     Arne: no, both Kung-Fu and Trax are *in-house* Warners shows (though one
+is through Lorimar, which is still owned by Warners).
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 782       Sat Jun 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:11 EDT
+
+     Babylon 5 will *always* be my first priority; it's my baby.  The other
+two TWCBNs, should they go, would inherit others who would be more involved in
+the day-to-day running, which I would then oversee...as opposed to the direct,
+hands-on way I deal with B5.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 784       Sat Jun 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:13 EDT
+
+     BTW, before I forget (again....), I gave a brief interview to TV Guide's
+Science Fiction column the other day, about the impact of the Moon landing
+(speaking as the creator of an SF series).  Assuming that I said anything
+reasonably coherent and nominally useful, it will likely appear in either the
+next issue, or the one thereafter.
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 788       Sat Jun 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:56 EDT
+
+     Amazing thing, innit...watching someone's brain explode....
+
+     (And yes, Garibaldi was named after *the* Garibaldi of Italian military
+history.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 800       Sun Jun 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:11 EDT
+
+     Errrmmmmm...I don't recall promising to never replace an actor without
+also replacing the character...I don't think I would limit my options in quite
+that manner.  I think my comments were fairly specific to this situation.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 806       Sun Jun 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:26 EDT
+
+     I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks that the Sinclair situation is a spoiler
+and shouldn't be mentioned here...that can't be done.  Further, as I
+understand spoilers, they refer to plot more than casting.  And I try hard NOT
+to throw spoilers into this topic.  The Sinclair situation was news, and it
+had to be communicated to the largest number of people so they would get the
+information straight from the source rather than having to find out through
+rumors and back-channel sources that are usually more wrong than right.
+
+     It was, in my view, a public service, and I stand by my decision to place
+it here, rather than the spoilers section, where fewer read it and the
+information would do less good.  Anyone who thinks that information can really
+be contained is living in a dream world.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 824       Mon Jun 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:32 EDT
+
+     Sounds like this guy doesn't know what he's talking about.  There ARE
+going to be new episodes, starting next week with "Grail," and we're using the
+same writers as last year -- me, Larry, DC Fontana, a couple others -- and
+adding a couple who I kinda want to work with, such as Scott Frost (on outline
+now) and Peter David (ditto).  I've learned that things tend to get awfully
+muddy at the local station level....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 829       Mon Jun 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:57 EDT
+
+     Any time you spend talking at length with local programming people, you
+will generally walk away depressed, because the approach and the emphasis is
+diametrically different from what interests those of us in this discussion.
+I'm not saying it's bad, just different.  Fundamentally, the show is the show;
+phone conversations, reviews, in the long run, none of it matters.  If the
+show is good, it will go on; if not, not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 831       Tue Jun 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:12 EDT
+
+     There was a heavy Frost that year; two Frosts, Mark and Scott, the Frost
+brothers.  Scott subsequently went on to work for X-Files.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 836       Tue Jun 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:52 EDT
+
+     Remember when I said there are things you learn midway into a series that
+you can learn no other way?  Yikes....
+
+     As I've mentioned before, in our season ender, "Chrysalis," we tip over
+every table we've got.  I'm talking here *major* stuff, that profoundly and
+permanently affects many of our primary characters.  Well, you build that as a
+two parter, and even *try* to resolve all of that in the second part.  It
+doesn't work, because the repercussions are so substantial.  (What it is,
+really, is something that'll be felt throughout the entire second season.)
+
+     You can try to pack all the loose thread-tying into part two, but it's
+like trying to pack 10 pounds of potatos into a 5 pound bag.  One other option
+is making it a six parter, but *that's* really silly.  So what I'm doing, I've
+decided, is to take the major elements and play them out over the first five
+or so episodes.  This will give me time to give each of the threads the
+necessary time to play out effectively, rather than rushing things.
+
+     So Chrysalis stands alone as a season ender, and a prelude to the Big
+Stuff in season two.  Episode 1 of year two, therefore, won't be "Chrysalis,
+Part Two," but have its own title, allowing me to spread the stuff over the
+next few episodes.  (Probable title: "Points of Departure.")
+
+     I showed "Chrysalis" to some people the other day, and the reaction was
+across the board astonishment.  Just stunned.  Which was pretty much the
+desired result.  It's an absolute left-turn for the series.
+
+     But because this is the non-spoiler area, I won't comment further.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 849       Wed Jun 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:00 EDT
+
+     Hmmmmm...is *that* who's been signing and cashing my residuals checks...?
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 853       Wed Jun 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:43 EDT
+
+     There are those at the top of the stations, and those below.  What
+matters proceeds from the top.
+
+     Re: the comic...yes, there were discussions of other companies that were
+bidding on it, but I probably shouldn't name who they were, as that might be
+inappropriate.
+
+     The first issue of the B5 comic, which I've written, is entitled "In
+Darkness Find Me," which is the flip-side of incidents that take place in the
+first episode of year one.  And there's a smidge of information contained in
+the book that's *not* in the episode.  I think the script came out pretty
+well.  I've also written brief outlines for two subsequent four-issue cycles,
+which are now being assigned to other writers for expansion into full outlines
+and scripts.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+Babylon 5 offically became a series on May 28 '93. There will be 22 hour eps
+for season one (in addition to the pilot). Airs Wednesdays at 8PM in most
+places starting Jan. 26 '94.  This is the SPOILER topic where anything goes.
+
+838 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 818       Mon Jun 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:41 EDT
+
+     Talked to him back when I was doing Twilight Zone, and he made it clear
+that he has NO desire whatsoever to do TV in any way, manner, shape or form.
+Unfortunate, really.  For TV.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Computer SFX Tech-Talk   
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+606 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 602       Sun Jun 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:08 EDT
+
+     That's not really the kind of correction I was talking about.  I was
+addressing more general, behavioral correction, rather than the debate over
+episode stuff, or details, or how many angels can dance on the head of a pin
+(answer: as many as want to).
+
+     Because SF is supposedly about embracing differences, there is a tendency
+-- usually well-intended -- to ignore it when someone acts boorishly, or
+rudely, or stupidly.  I've been at many gatherings of SF folks which have been
+great, until one or two people really start making it ugly for the rest, and
+unlike non-SF gatherings, nobody says anything or does anything.
+
+     There are certain types of behavior that the outside world (non-SF) does
+not tolerate; and a small portion of fandom thinks that because SF is not like
+the outside "mundane" world, those same rules don't apply, and they can do
+this stuff.  It's a very small percentage that does this, but they tend to
+hold the larger percentage hostage through the feeling of, "Well, I guess we
+shouldn't say anything.  This is our sort of family."   Well, when part of a
+family gets dysfunctional, you have to address it.
+
+     Again, all this applies to only a very small number, but it's enough of a
+number to be a problem.  And I'm not specifically associating the  original
+message with that sort of thing, only saying that there is nothing wrong with
+correction if it is done in a positive form.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Cast & Characters        
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+696 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 665       Sat Jun 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:45 EDT
+
+     We'll know more about guest casting once more scripts are in and we begin
+the casting process.  We can't really do that until we have dates on the
+filming of scripted episodes.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 671       Mon Jun 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:17 EDT
+
+     Clarification: B5 in the UK is not on BBC, but Channel 4.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 5         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            (Forwarded)
+Sub: Grid Epsilon Irregulars - News & Info.
+
+This topic is for information about Babylon 5 fan groups, newsletters,
+fanzines, get-togethers, B-5 at conventions, and other general fun.
+635 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 525       Wed Jun 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:42 EDT
+
+     They are...all around you.
+
+     And if they ate more fiber, they wouldn't *have* this problem.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 575       Mon Jun 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:43 EDT
+
+                                ahem.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 9         Wed Nov 11, 1992
+T.RESTIVO [Little Guy]       at 18:27 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Humor                      
+
+From *Beep Beep*, to Top Ten Lists, to full-blown parodies, this is where to
+put your funny bone in writing!
+624 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 566       Sun Jun 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:39 EDT
+
+     Okay, so I *know* it isn't funny, and I *know* it's tragic, and I KNOW
+it's a terrible thing, and I *know* it's sick...but watching O.J. and Co.
+speeding through Orange County and Santa Ana, all I could think was, "Hey, OJ!
+You just killed your wife and her friend!  Now what're you gonna do?"
+
+     "I'm going to Disneyland!"
+
+                       jm(I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry)s
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 611       Wed Jun 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:02 EDT
+
+     The Minbari Virus: decides at the last moment *not* to infect your
+computer, but refuses to explain why.
+
+     (Waitaminnit...what the hell am *I* doing contributing to this...?!)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B5 Adrift!                           
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+523 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 489       Wed Jun 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:03 EDT
+
+     The extra footage helps the Abyss a *lot*.
+
+                                                         jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 13        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 21:00 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Science & Technology     
+
+Jump gates, nanotech, high-tech weapons, starship drives, sound in space, and
+other subjects of science and technology in Babylon 5.
+442 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 432       Sun Jun 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:37 EDT
+
+     No, in an operation like this, you would sub-contract out stuff like dock-
+work, food preparation and other areas under government contract, but the
+techs working in C&C are strictly Earthforce.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 25        Fri Mar 12, 1993
+S.SHELLENBAR [>> SHANE <<]   at 08:47 EST
+Sub: J. Michael Straczynski Speaks in Public
+
+This is the place to find out where and when JMS will be appearing next.  JMS
+has honed his skills as a public speaker and is taking his act on the road.
+535 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 518       Sat Jun 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EDT
+
+     No details yet; panels and a B5 presentation for sure, though.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 521       Sat Jun 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:59 EDT
+
+     Won't be at Westercon since that's the same weekend as the Chicago Comic
+Con, which I'll be attending, partly to do some work, partly because Harlan's
+guest of honor and he's my buddy.  However, I can say that Larry DiTillio
+*will* be attending Westercon in my absence.
+
+     God help you.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 528       Mon Jun 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:58 EDT
+
+     I'm less than thrilled with the 1:30 Friday timeslot, frankly, and our
+initial conversations had set this for Saturday.  Will investigate.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 532       Wed Jun 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:03 EDT
+
+     Apparently the B5 ep will be rerun sometime Saturday evening; check for
+times upon arrival.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+
+ ************
+Topic 9         Sat Oct 16, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 22:58 EDT
+Sub: And the Sky Full of Stars  (#106)    
+
+by JMS. Time to find out about Sinclair's "hole in his mind".
+322 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 305       Thu Jun 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:30 EDT
+
+     He says, "Minbari...broken through...have to get to my ship."
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 307       Thu Jun 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:31 EDT
+
+     (smile)...call it a bit of fore*shadow*ing....
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 9
+Message 317       Mon Jun 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:04 EDT
+
+     Re: QAQAs...why do I suddenly have this image in my head of B5 viewers
+making duck sounds at the conclusion of episodes...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 16        Sun Apr 17, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:42 EDT
+Sub: Signs and Portents (#116)            
+
+by JMS. Directed by Janet Greek.  Co-starring Gerrit Graham.
+197 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 16
+Message 193       Fri Jun 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:37 EDT
+
+     Actually, that's what *really* happened to Babylon 4...it was replaced by
+Folger's Crystals, to see if anyone would notice.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms94-07-01 b/ftp/GEnie/jms94-07-01
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4e0dabd0
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+++ b/ftp/GEnie/jms94-07-01
@@ -0,0 +1,1488 @@
+Babylon 5 posts by JMS for July 1-16, 1994
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 category.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category and main topic for the new series. Here is
+the place for all general information on the series. Topic 2 is the location
+for SPOILERS. And please, NO STORY IDEAS are to be posted either.
+775 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 617       Wed Jul 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:22 EDT
+
+     Whether or not Babylon 5 survives past a second season...kinda depends on
+the *ratings* in the second season, and we're not *in* the second season yet.
+Many shows tend to take a while to find their audience; the first season or
+two of "Picket Fences" was pretty much in the toilet, ratings-wise.  But it
+grew.
+
+     As for the recent batch of ratings...yeah, we've been clobbered by 1) the
+NBA playoffs and finals, 2) OJ a little, and 3) the fact that this last month
+has been all reruns.  EVERY syndicated drama show has gotten clobbered this
+past week in particular, and this month in general due to the basketball
+games.  We always do much better when (big surprise), we show new episodes.  I
+imagine that our ratings will go back up again when we start showing new ones
+this week, and now that the NBA games are over, and stations stop bumping,
+delaying, or getting rolled over by other stations.
+
+     Re: Michael York...there were some unofficial conversations with York,
+but nothing has ever come of them.  This is ONLY a rumor, and does not have
+any likelihood at this time of being anything more than a rumor.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 618       Wed Jul 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:58 EDT
+
+     BTW...can anyone here tell me *who* said this about York?  All I can
+determine is that *someone* announced this, and I would like to know who,
+specifically, to decapitate.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 628       Thu Jul 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:57 EDT
+
+     To the best of my knowledge, reruns will still continue after we've
+finished with new episodes for this season, and will be interspersed in second
+season, so there will be plenty of chances to catch up.
+
+     BTW, for those who saw the promo for "Eyes" at the end of "Grail," I have
+*no* idea what it has to do with the episode.  Sometimes they "enhance" the
+story to make it promote-able...but I think this time they "enhanced" it right
+into a parallel dimension....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 637       Thu Jul 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:27 EDT
+
+     Creation has licensed some stuff...a few shirts, and a mug, maybe some
+photos, I think that's about it.
+
+     And we hope to get Harlan's "Demon" crossover script this season.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 653       Sat Jul 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:14 EDT
+
+     Booj'...thanks.
+
+     Re: audio...for the *most* part, there won't be a difference in the
+reruns, though there will be a marked difference in the video release of
+episodes, when that happens.
+
+     What happened was this: we went into this using the full dynamic range of
+available audio.  Right to the edge of the red line.  Just one problem...many
+of the stations, and the uplink facility, use audio limiters, which crunches
+down the audio if it goes too far.  It took us a while to find out that this
+was the source of the problem, and we mixed the last few episodes coming in
+just a few decibels under the point where the automatic clamping kicked in.
+We'll keep to this in future.  Video releases won't have this problem.
+
+     What can I say...I'm a rock'n'roll kinda guy...I like stuff *loud*.
+
+     CGI is generally much faster than models.  I have in my hands the major
+CGI sequences from our first episode of year two, and we haven't even started
+*shooting* yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 654       Sat Jul 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:32 EDT
+
+     PS...for those in the LA area, and who enjoyed the excerpts of Norman
+Corwin's work...two of his radio dramas will be performed at the Hollywood
+Roosevelt Hotel, in their theater, on July 13th at 1 or 1:30.  Norman will be
+directing the performance (I think lunch is included).  Expect some
+celebrities in the cast.  The two radio dramas are "The Strange Affliction"
+and "My Client Curly."
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 664       Sat Jul 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:12 EDT
+
+     The teasers and promos are put together by the Warner Bros. marketing and
+promotions department.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 678       Sun Jul 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:07 EDT
+
+     At one time we were working out what the time-reference would be on B5.
+One of the early things we talked about were cycles, but in fairly short order
+I decided against it because it didn't seem to mean much.   But this was,
+sadly, after "Grail" had been produced, and we couldn't dub over the cycle
+references with anything else, so it stayed.  It won't be appearing anywhere
+else henceforth.  One of our few continuity glitches.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 682       Mon Jul 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:54 EDT
+
+     Okay, Ms. Smartypants, then what does "cycles" MEAN?  If it means cycles
+of the station, it cycles once every minute to maintain 1g.  So 300 cycles is
+only 300 minutes.
+
+     Your serve.
+
+     BTW...it comes to my attention that Mark Altman was going on today at a
+Creation Convention in Glendale CA about how O'Hare was replaced because of
+negative comments made about him here on GEnie.
+
+     Okay...now...you're a cute bunch, especially in the aggregate, and I like
+you a lot, but frankly all of us here don't even amount to s (a)
+squiggle...even *one percent* of a squiggle...on the Neilsen charts.
+
+     Though I respect Mark Altman, that was a boneheaded mistake on his part.
+Simply ain't true.  And if he's *going* to say stuff like that, you'd think
+that maybe he'd call me first to verify this stuff before launching it out
+there.
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 697       Mon Jul 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:55 EDT
+
+     Apparently a few places are timeshifting B5 and KF into each other's
+timeslots in order to see if the numbers vary; there's some thought that B5 is
+more of a 9:00 show than an 8:00 show.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 701       Tue Jul 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:39 EDT
+
+     CAll the Writers Guild, and find out how much a copy of their Journal
+costs.  It lists the "contact person" for each show.  If that show isn't
+listed, pick the story editor.  A letter is your way in, but do NOT include a
+synopsis.  State that the script is finished, that you would like to submit it
+(if not through an agent, then using a release form of their choice) for their
+perusal.  After that, it's up to them.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 704       Tue Jul 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:00 EDT
+
+     No, the information/rumor was that York *had* been selected, and it came
+much earlier than Westercon, at a convention in the northeast.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 735       Fri Jul 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:01 EDT
+
+     Bruce; thanks.
+
+     A brief aside...every so often, somebody asks me what the difference is
+between B5 and ST (aside from, like, everything).  Here's one element that I
+think is noteworthy, and of which I'm fairly proud.
+
+     We don't do gang credits here.  Where a writer writes an episode, you see
+ONLY that writer's name.  If DC Fontana writes a script, she gets the credit
+for it.  You don't see three names on the story, two or three names on the
+script.
+
+     One of the injustices in Hollywood is the credit system.  When you're on
+staff, you get a salary plus fees for the scripts you write.  When you are a
+freelancer, you get only the script fees, and the residuals produced by reruns
+of that script.  The more staffers add their names to the script, they cut
+deeper into the residuals, until the freelancer gets very little, if anything,
+really.
+
+     My feeling is, look, we're already getting a salary, why dig into the
+freelancer's pocket as well?  Consequently, we don't arbitrate credit on B5
+scripts, regardless of any rewriting that gets done.  We simply don't do it.
+This is something I feel strongly about.  In all the series I've story edited,
+I think I've only requested (and been granted by WGA arbitration) shared
+credit on maybe 4-5 scripts (out of 200+ that I've edited), and there only
+because they were *very* extreme or unusual situations.
+
+     We try and respect all members of our team, including and especially our
+writers.  They get sole credit on scripts.  They generally get the chance to
+do their own revisions (time permitting).  They are not only welcome on the
+set, they are invited and encouraged to come.  If the director has a question
+on set, and I'm not availble, they go to the original writer.  (At the other
+show, freelancers are generally not allowed on set, and even staff writers are
+discouraged from going there.)
+
+     It's a small area, really, and it doesn't win us even one additional
+point in the ratings, but it's something that pleases me, so I thought I'd
+mention it.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 745       Fri Jul 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:21 EDT
+
+     One other reason the producer credits are out of the way fast is that we
+don't have a big staff of writer/producers, like many other shows.  There's
+me, my story editor Larry...and that's all.  Many shows have anywhere from 4-7
+staffers.  I like lean staffs.
+
+     Re: merchandising...the concensus at Shore Leave is, of course,
+breathtakingly inaccurate.  WB doesn't have to "invest" anything for any
+merchandising to be done; that's done by those who license the show.  As of
+this writing, there are basically about a dozen B5 licensees, and I am
+informed that there are about another dozen or so currently in the process of
+negotiation.  I mean, jeez...we've got a comic from DC, novels from Dell,
+comics from Cardz, shirts, mugs, keychains from Creation and others, a CD-ROM
+from Compton's...what the hell more do they want?  No, B5 is not a ***MAJOR
+FRANCHISE*** like ST with ten zillion licensees, and I don't *want* it to be
+that, and hope it never *becomes* that.  As it is, there is more licensing
+committed to this show than to *any* of the other live-action Warners series,
+with the possible exception of Lois and Clark.
+
+     And, as stated, I resisted licensing during year one to keep our focus on
+the story (as did the creator of Calvin and Hobbes for the first year or two).
+It amazes me how a group of people can look at the licensing of one show on
+less than a year, compare it to the licensing of a show on for 25 years in one
+form or anther, and decide because it's less that somehow Warners doesn't want
+to "invest" in the show, turning this into a negative.  Well, I guess if
+people gotta find something to pick at, they may as well make up stuff as
+anything else.  (Like the bunch of folks in Tennessee who just sent a petition
+to the B5 offices protesting the firing of me, Harlan, and all the other
+writers on the show, and the total recasting of the series.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 752       Sat Jul 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:59 EDT
+
+     The first batch of mugs are from (you'll pardon the expression) Creation.
+
+     Currently about 2/3rds finished writing a second-season ep called
+"Revelations," and though I've written and commissioned others already, this
+one's sizing up to be a major ass-kicker from a story perspective.
+Definitely the flip-side of "Chrysalis."  Some really, really nice stuff.
+
+     The hardest part is always writing Kosh, because you have to be very
+careful how much you use him, and what he says.  Too much and he loses his
+sense of mystery, and you don't want him spouting fortune-cookie  type
+aphorisms.  He has a very deliberate way of speaking in which  everything,
+every smallest nuance and inflection means something, but sometimes not what
+it appears to mean, or comes at it from a very different angle than normal
+conversation.  So I go as minimalist as possible, to get the meaning down to
+the smallest number of words possible.  And in one scene, one of only two he
+appears in, I got him down to *one word*, and that one word -- and it's a
+totally inoffensive, neutral word on its own terms -- should scare the hell
+out of *everybody*.
+
+     Ah loves this show....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 755       Sat Jul 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:22 EDT
+
+     Telepaths are the ultimate minority, and when it comes to the use of
+their talents, and the protection of the rights of the hysterical majority,
+their rights don't mean a whole hell of a lot.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 773       Sat Jul 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:18 EDT
+
+     Yes, Mary Jo is Christian Slater's mom.  She keeps nudging us about an
+appearance, since he loves SF.  We'll see.
+
+     And also correct...the majority of freelance scripts we commission don't
+tend to need a lot of revision.  Certainly not after the first go round.  DC's
+first script needed a bit of work, but that was mainly because she was still
+feeling her way around the characters and the show.  Her second script came in
+almost letter perfect; move around a few commas and that's about it.  And her
+outline for her next script, for season two, is very cool.
+
+     Funny story.  Saw Ed Wasser ("Morden") the other day, and asked him if
+he'd had any reaction to his first appearance on the show.  Just one, he said.
+He was in a florist shop, picking out some stuff for a friend who was sick.
+The proprieter came over, asked, "What do you want?"  Ed sorta mumbled about
+wanting some flowers.  "What do you want?" the owner asked again.  Ed -- still
+not getting it -- said he was looking for some nice stuff for a friend who was
+sick.  "Yes, but what do you *want*?" the owner asked.  At which point Ed
+finally twigged to what was going on.  He said afterward that it really *is*
+an unnerving approach, which was kinda the point.
+
+     Of course, the owner then added that he thought the scene was from DS9,
+but what the hell, it's an imperfect universe.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+Babylon 5 offically became a series on May 28 '93. There will be 22 hour eps
+for season one (in addition to the pilot). Airs Wednesdays at 8PM in most
+places starting Jan. 26 '94.  This is the SPOILER topic where anything goes.
+
+651 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 542       Mon Jul 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:31 EDT
+
+     Longshot: there are some questions that are best left to be answered in
+the fullness of time.  That is one of them.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 553       Thu Jul 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:59 EDT
+
+     In an earlier version of the story, it was indeed Kosh who appeared out
+of nowhere and scragged the Feeder, saying, "Some things we do not allow," but
+it seemed kinda un-Kosh-like on one level, and it repeated the Deathwalker
+finish, so it was dropped.
+
+                                                         jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 556       Thu Jul 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:42 EDT
+
+     The problem with Larry is if you poke him, he tells stuff.  Poking
+doesn't bother me.
+
+     Since he's already spewed a bit...some small details.
+
+     The person coming in to be the new CO on B5 will have a rank higher than
+commander.  Thus it makes sense, given this and other factors yet to be
+revealed, to promote Ivanova to full Commander rank, and expand her duties to
+get her out of C&C a bit.
+
+     We're going to be adding a couple of characters...more of the ISN
+link...and some here (and on other nets) have been correct when they say that
+the Starfury squadrons should have some kind of squad commanders of their own,
+in addition to when Ivanova or others take over.  We'll be developing a
+character to fill that slot.
+
+     On the question of Na'Toth...some background.
+
+     As y'all may remember, originally we had Mary Woronov slated to be
+Ko'Dath, G'Kar's assistant.  She had *very* real problems with the idea of
+wearing prosthetics, and also wouldn't wear the red contacts.  So we went our
+separate ways, and Ko'Dath had an unfortunate accident with an airlock.
+
+     This happened, however, right between shooting two episodes in which we
+*needed* G'Kar's aide present.  So our casting director called in Caitlin
+Brown on about 24 hours notice, and in fact in her first episode, it's mainly
+Ko'Dath's makeup, somewhat modified, rather than the sleeker Na'Toth makeup
+you saw later.  Slight differences.
+
+     If you've seen Caitlin Brown on the "Making Of B5" program, you know she
+is a *gorgeous* young woman, who has mainly played romantic leads in films and
+TV.  She has continued to get offers in that direction, and over the hiatus,
+did a film again as a romantic lead with Marlon Brando and (also in the cast)
+Faye Dunaway.
+
+     And the very real question is, Does she want to hide her face, be known
+for playing an alien, and lose the chance to further expand her feature
+film/romantic lead career?  Her answer, after much agonizing, was no.  She'd
+never really intended to stay with it forever, was only coming in on an
+emergency basis (but we liked her performance so much we kept her in the
+role), and she was the *only* actor on whom we didn't have long-term options.
+
+
+     We very much wanted her to come back, and did everything we could to
+convince her, but this is what she wants to do.  And while this is NOT mutual,
+it is amicable; I fully understand why she wants to continue on the process of
+becoming a major player.  And as she says, she has a very attractive face; why
+hide it forever?
+
+     This being the case, what we're now doing is recasting the role of
+Na'Toth with a different actress.  It won't be a different character, since
+it's got nothing to do with the story, it's an actor thing.  We'll get someone
+the same size, shape, voice and personality, write the character exactly the
+same, same name, and move on.  Which happens all the time.
+ And, obviously, the prosthetic will be the same, so Na'Toth will still look
+the same.
+
+     So, this is entirely her decision, and we wish her luck.  It doesn't
+affect the show or the story, so it doesn't cause us any problems, so why
+treat it in anything other than an amicable fashion?
+
+     Insofar as I know, that's all Larry blabbed about.  Go ahead, tell me
+there's more...tell me Larry blabbed about Sinclair's sex change...go ahead,
+watch a grown man have a cardiac infarction....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 579       Sat Jul 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:17 EDT
+
+     Re: prosthetics...there are two parts, the inner area, which is taken
+from a mold of the actor's face, and the outer part, which is sculpted.  If
+you change actors, you do a different mold from the face of the actor to
+create the inner half, but you can keep the outer part the same (based on the
+sculpture).  Usually you sculpt it to stay close to and accent the actor's
+features.
+
+                                                         jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 589       Sun Jul 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:09 EDT
+
+     Replacing the character of Na'Toth could be done, but at this point she
+knows stuff that is important for us to have access to in year two.   (Stuff
+mainly happening in "Chrysalis.")
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 605       Mon Jul 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:56 EDT
+
+     Lemme dive in here...Bugs sent me his theory, and I noted somewehre or
+other around here that it was well thought out, was on the right track in many
+cases, but just got off at the wrong station.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 621       Wed Jul 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:48 EDT
+
+     PPG = Phased Plasma Gun.  "Domo Arigato" is Japanese.  Grey reached into
+Ben Zayn's head and, for lack of a better term, pushed his "pain button," the
+same way you can stimulate someone's memory or physical sensations with an
+electrode or chemicals.  It was only a second, and he would've shrugged it off
+quickly, had Sinclair not been there to follow up.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 635       Thu Jul 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:42 EDT
+
+     I do not have to speculate.  I know.
+
+     And the further I stay away from topic 29 the better.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Computer SFX Tech-Talk   
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+621 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 609       Thu Jul 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:55 EDT
+
+     Brett: we've already done it.  The CO's office next season will have a
+view of the Garden area, as will some other rooms.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 613       Fri Jul 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:03 EDT
+
+     Coke.  No pepsi.  Cheeseburger.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 620       Sat Jul 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:21 EDT
+
+     Yes, that building is in the Garden.  You can see buildings there in many
+shots, some better than others.  It's a big place.  The Fresh Air restaurant
+is also in the Garden area, and you can see buildings there in "Purple," also
+upcoming in "Quality."
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 5         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            (Forwarded)
+Sub: Grid Epsilon Irregulars - News & Info.
+
+This topic is for information about Babylon 5 fan groups, newsletters,
+fanzines, get-togethers, B-5 at conventions, and other general fun.
+782 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 693       Sat Jul 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:18 EDT
+
+     Correct; we're enhancing many of the sets, making some pleasant changes,
+and building some new ones, and wanted to allow time to do all of this.  The
+goal is always to make each season better than the one before.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 695       Sat Jul 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:02 EDT
+
+     We're re-doing a *lot* of the signage.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 706       Mon Jul 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:59 EDT
+
+     There are plans for some kind of B5 fan group, run out of Babylonian
+Productions, to coordinate stuff and do a very small amount of limited selling
+(just enough to keep us from getting deep into debt on the thing, since it'll
+cost us about $75,000 per year to run it).  This will also be a central
+clearing house for convention organizers.  More on this as we nail it down.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 9         Wed Nov 11, 1992
+T.RESTIVO [Little Guy]       at 18:27 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Humor                      
+
+From *Beep Beep*, to Top Ten Lists, to full-blown parodies, this is where to
+put your funny bone in writing!
+680 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 636       Mon Jul 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:14 EDT
+
+     Actually, Delenn's line is, "It is quite...impressive."
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B5 Adrift!                           
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+583 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 543       Thu Jul 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:03 EDT
+
+     "The last thing I remember about the dream is finding a secret cave
+entrance just at the base of the big vasquez spire and stepping inside."
+
+     Okay...everybody here who *hasn't* heard of Freud please leave the room
+for the next ten minutes....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 548       Thu Jul 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:48 EDT
+
+     Errr....the freudian interpretation of the dream has *nothing* to do with
+being heterosexual *or* homosexual.  It's the classic dream o  entering a womb
+or vagina, or more simply a sexual image that has no particular gender or
+gender preference associated with it at *all*.
+
+     To say there are Freudian implications has *nothing* to do with being
+gay, straight, or anything else.  It did not contain *any* insult.   You are
+reacting to something that wasn't stated, wasn't implied, and doesn't exist.
+
+     It's the old "train entering a tunnel" dream, basically.
+
+     Any other interpretation has more to do with what you may be bringing to
+the table from your own past, than anything that was said.   Look at the
+message again.  It simply ain't there.  Somehow you have come to associate
+Freud with gayness, and Freudian analysis with saying that someone's
+gay...which simply and plainly is not true.
+
+   jms (b.a. clinical psychology)
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 557       Sat Jul 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:29 EDT
+
+     I don't generally have lucid dreams, but there is something very weird
+about 95% of all my dreams.
+
+     (And please, don't noboby cite Lovecraft to me, honest to Irving, this is
+how they are.)
+
+     Nearly all of my dreams take place in the same place...a sort of dream
+city that has gradually grown over the years somewhere in my head.   It's just
+what that implies: a city.  I know the geography of the place pretty well,
+though there are occasionally little places I stumble upon that I hadn't
+noticed before.
+
+     I know where the theaters are, where the stores are, and where the main
+shopping center is.  There's a bus route that takes you up out of the main
+part of the city to a little junior college on the fringe of the suburbs.  You
+take the #2 bus, which goes north about five miles, then hooks left.   You get
+off at the main road, and walk south about three  blocks and you're there.  On
+the return trip, you get off about half a block from a magazine/bookshop.  I
+know the guy who runs it by face, but haven't yet asked his name.  I probably
+will eventually.  In the front of the store are the general magazines and
+paperbacks; in wood bins a little further in are comics and older magazines.
+The window faces south, and covers most of the storefront.
+
+     I'm also a writer here in this "city" as well.  I have a two story house.
+The second level merges with the hillside a bit, so you can walk out onto
+grass, and a stone flagstone walk.  My office is on the second floor.  For the
+last year there's been some renovations in progress, and a bunch of the floor
+on the second floor has been torn up.
+
+     It's the same locale in nearly every single dream.  It's *that* specific.
+There's no real plot, no major danger.  I work there, go to see a movie
+sometimes, do some shopping, threads even cross dreams and recur later on.
+(There was a big flap recently because the city was going to tear down the old
+theater at the corner near the magazine shop, but we managed to postpone the
+development.)
+
+     It is a coherent, consistent city in which 95% of my dreams take place.
+I see the same people, places, things.  Some people get very creeped out when
+I tell them this.  To me, it's just the other place I go when I'm asleep.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                  
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+628 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 602       Wed Jul 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:53 EDT
+
+     You can also look for an interview in an issue of the Michigan Chronicle
+in a few weeks.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 611       Mon Jul 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:55 EDT
+
+     Ah...didn't see this, and responded in #1.  It's balloon juice.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 617       Tue Jul 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:05 EDT
+
+     Brief jms sighting in this coming week's TV Guide (July 16 issue), page
+16, just two pages away from Cindy Crawford's body....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 14        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:59 EST
+Sub: Lurkers/Introductions: Please Sign In
+
+A place for newcomers to come in, say hello, whether you want to jump into the
+conversation or not, just to let us know you're here.
+712 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 706       Tue Jul 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:25 EDT
+
+     This in spite of the petition, I take it...?
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Merchandising            
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+669 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 604       Mon Jul 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:18 EDT
+
+     Just as the episodes are designed to be watched in full, in part, only a
+few, in or out of order (for the most part), similarly the web (comic, books,
+show) will be consistent but not overlapping in any way that requires *anyone*
+to read or watch all of them to follow anything.  I would consider this
+*vastly* unfair.  They should be *consistent* with one another, that's all.
+If a piece of information comes out in the comic, and later that becomes
+useful, it must and will be referenced in dialogue so that it's *totally*
+clear to anyone watching.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 607       Mon Jul 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:39 EDT
+
+     That's the other thing I forgot: yes, there will be cards, from Cardz.
+(Or so I'm told; the deal was made, but I haven't heard much from them
+lately.)
+
+     Cyberdad: if it weren't for the fact that I kinda want some of this stuff
+myself, I'd probably work against *any* merchandising as much as I could.
+Merchandising can begin to drive a show, and suddenly you find yourself
+introducing items just so you can merchandise them, changing the costumes
+every couple of seasons to keep that licensor going...as a fan myself, I hate
+that, and won't do it now that I'm in this position.
+
+     I'm not a salesman, I'm a writer.  If we can do something that adds to
+the story, or that would look real neat on my wall, terrific.  But the day
+that we do Babylon 5 Underoos, as I said at ChicagoCon, somebody just shoot
+me.  (And you'd be amazed at how *quickly* someone volunteered....)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 616       Tue Jul 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:27 EDT
+
+     The B5 theme on the CD that Chris gave me seems to run a bit longer than
+what we air; and the "Requiem" sequence doesn't include the follow up stuff on
+the cruiser (at least mine doesn't), but does seem to have a longer build-up.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 624       Wed Jul 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:27 EDT
+
+     Look for the comic in late November, the novels about the same or a bit
+later.  And I believe it was either Ron or (most likely) John Copeland who
+suggested the nose-art for Starfuries.  (John's a major aviation nut.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 635       Thu Jul 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:05 EDT
+
+     I think the "Requiem" piece is a bit shorter on my CD, only in that it
+doesn't include the follow-up on the Minbari cruiser.  As for the  CD-ROM,
+insofar as I know it's still slated for late Fall.  I'm having a meeting with
+the boys from Compton New Media either later this week or first part of next
+week, and hope to have more info at that time.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 640       Mon Jul 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:32 EDT
+
+     It's going to be both.
+
+     One primary area will deal with the fictional world of B5.  It will have
+backgrounds on all of our characters, plus details about all of the major
+alliances (Narns, Minbari, others).  You'll see their homeworlds, learn their
+culture, see some of their language, that sort of thing.   There will be a
+fairly extensive chronology of events between the present and the time of the
+series, detailing when we first encountered the Centauri, the Dilgar invasion,
+and other stuff.
+
+     It should be a fairly extensive encyclopedia of the B5 universe.
+
+     The other component will deal with the production.  I very much want to
+de-mystify how TV is made.  So there will be extensive sections on that area,
+including one section where you can follow a sequence from script to wardrobe,
+storyboard, sets, to shooting, to the point of having several dailies from
+that finished sequence which you can then edit into any order you want,
+emphasizing people of your choice, close-ups or masters, with the final
+addition of a piece of music so you can then score the finished product.
+
+     It should be very cool.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 650       Tue Jul 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:51 EDT
+
+     You must understand that I *cannot* comment on this publication one way
+or another.  My one request has always been to keep fan fiction out of
+anywhere where I can easily see it or run into it, since I will never directly
+seek it out.  In terms of a fanzine, I cannot legally comment.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 656       Wed Jul 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:43 EDT
+
+     Goodman...*not* to take sides in this, but just to clarify a
+misperception on your part...something need not bring in a profit in order to
+violate copyright.  The act of publishing something, using copyrighted
+characters, is infringement pure and simple.  And many of the studios now
+*are* going after fanzines, for the simple reason that if they don't, you run
+the risk of *losing* your copyright by allowing some things to enter the
+public domain.
+
+     For instance, PTEN recently had to go after a computer company for buying
+ads using B5 photos without copyright attribution on the photo; those photos
+now run the danger of entering public domain.  They had to take sharp legal
+action.  (This happened with some Star Wars stuff, by the way, and some Star
+Trek early stuff.)  The issue is *not* as you represent it.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 663       Thu Jul 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:58 EDT
+
+     It's definitely a book I'd like to see done, but nothing's firm yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 667       Sat Jul 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:23 EDT
+
+     Not yet, but we've been talking about it.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 669       Sat Jul 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:23 EDT
+
+     No, they are not.
+
+     Any script broker selling copies of B5 scripts is doing so without
+permission.  They are engaging in copyright infringement.  The contents of the
+scripts belong to PTEN, but the physical copies belong to the writers, who get
+nothing out of this.  It ruins, for instance, Christy's chance to make a few
+dollars selling what is hers, if her script gets on the open market.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 23        Fri Feb 12, 1993
+V.VAIDY1 [Vijay]             at 23:00 EST
+Sub: "OtherWorks" by JMS                  
+
+Before there was "B5" and when "JMS" was just another Plain Joe, there was
+OtherSyde
+ [A discussion of the other works of J. Michael Straczynski]
+196 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 171       Tue Jul 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:01 EDT
+
+                       ...i hate you...all of you....
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 177       Wed Jul 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:40 EDT
+
+     ...fine...great...next thing you'll be dragging he-man and she-ra into
+this...go ahead...kick a guy when he's down....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 182       Wed Jul 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:12 EDT
+
+     And that's when I shot her, your Honor.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 187       Thu Jul 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:11 EDT
+
+      Well, actually, I'm not really ashamed of any of it...there was some
+ good work done in all of those shows...it's just when I look back at them,
+ it's like looking back at anything you did; your brain goes into vapor
+ lock.  You're tooling along the B5 freeway, minding your own business, and
+ somebody suddenly tosses a Jayce into the middle of the road, and your
+ brain trips over it for a moment.
+
+      About six, seven months ago, I dragged out some of the old animated
+ stuff, and while some of it has worn, a lot of it still plays pretty
+ well.  Out of dozens of episodes, I think there are only 3 or so that I'd
+ like to eliminate from the known universe.  (One of them is the CBS
+ Storybreak I wrote, adapting "The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek," which
+ I finally got to see after 5 years, much to my regret.)
+
+      For anyone who cares:
+
+      HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE - a dozen or more episodes
+      SHE-RA, PRINCESS OF POWER - ditto
+      JAYCE AND THE WHEELED WARRIORS - ditto
+      THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS - close to 20 episodes
+
+      I think that's all of them.  Developed ELFQUEST for CBS, but it
+ never got near the air, and one syndicated show that got so perverted by
+ the producers, in a bad way, that I took my name off the series.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 193       Fri Jul 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:06 EDT
+
+     I believe the episode title in "Jayce" was "Final Ride at Journey's End."
+Someone wants revenge, sets things in motion, realizes to his horror that
+innocents will be killed, and sacrifices his own life to stop his own actions.
+
+     What would Elfquest have been like?  Like the books.  I figure my job in
+adapting something is to stay as close as possible to the original source, and
+not mess with it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 196       Sat Jul 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:24 EDT
+
+     Actually, the eps I wrote for AW were never released; they were part of
+the batch done for the last season, which never got aired or released.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 24        Fri Jun 04, 1993
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:11 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Weapons and Warfare!     
+
+For discussion about the weapons, counter weapons, armor, shielding, tactics,
+logistics, and so forth, of small combat and large scale war in the Babylon 5
+universe.
+317 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 308       Sun Jul 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:53 EDT
+
+     There are definitely PPG assault rifles, which are visible in  "Grail."
+They can fire faster than pistols, but I don't think they could handle the
+power-buildup to fire 3-6 per second.  That's definitely slug-thrower turf.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 312       Sun Jul 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:14 EDT
+
+     Correct, PPG bursts don't bounce off walls/ricochet, or penetrate walls,
+which would imperil others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 25        Fri Mar 12, 1993
+S.SHELLENBAR [>> SHANE <<]   at 08:47 EST
+Sub: J. Michael Straczynski Speaks in Public
+
+This is the place to find out where and when JMS will be appearing next.  JMS
+has honed his skills as a public speaker and is taking his act on the road.
+580 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 563       Sat Jul 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:30 EDT
+
+     I'm told there's also some kinda B5 panel on Friday...?
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 566       Mon Jul 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:34 EDT
+
+     Okay, as I understand it, given a call today from the mysterious  Nancy
+with SDCC, my main panel/episode showing will be Friday, from 2-4 p.m.  I'd
+originally figured that there should be two panels, one a straightforward
+panel, the other mainly a showing, but they got jammed into one.  Initially
+they'd slated it for 3 hours, 2-5, but I can't see subjecting *anyone* to
+three hours in a chair.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 574       Wed Jul 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:41 EDT
+
+     Yeah, I'd *really* wanted Saturday afternoon, and pressed for it,  but
+was told that it was booked (thus breaking the Saturday tradition).
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 30        Mon Jul 04, 1994
+D.KAUFFMAN5 [CyberDad]       at 13:14 EDT
+Sub: Nods, In-Jokes, and References       
+
+Post any nods, in-jokes, or references you have seen here.  For example,
+Babylon 5 refers to the Babylon of ancient Earth; the location of B5 is at
+Grid Epsilon 470/18/22, the location of the original B5 topic on GEnie.
+52 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 30
+Message 6         Mon Jul 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:41 EDT
+
+     Lurkers is indeed a net reference.  Bill Mitchell from "Sky" is a
+reference to General Billy Mitchell; Walker Smith is the real name of Sugar
+Ray Robinson.
+
+     Just a couple to keep the ball rolling.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 30
+Message 16        Tue Jul 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:29 EDT
+
+     Nearly all of our production crew appear in "By Any Means Necessary" at
+various spots; the guy yelling "I say we STRIKE!" is our director, Jim
+Johnston.  And yes, John Flinn was played by John Flinn, our DP.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 30
+Message 28        Thu Jul 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:09 EDT
+
+     Well, it was certainly based on the "classic" UFO alien design, yes.
+(And if there's a saucer parked in front of the B5 offices tomorrow, I'm not
+going in.)
+
+     Both Christy Marx and Kathryn can both be *briefly* seen in the pilot
+movie as BG in the casino...and in the main titles, Kathryn's back is to the
+camera in the wide downshot, though you really can't make it out well in that
+one.  Also in the montage in the pilot movie, seated at the bar under
+narration, the fellow with the beard, is art director John Iacovelli.]
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 30
+Message 30        Fri Jul 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:54 EDT
+
+     Boy, the most obscure reference in the bunch...yeah, I slipped some spoo
+in there once.  A couple of real cute (as in wanna drop a truck on them cute)
+elf-types offer Skeletor a bowl of Spoo.  His reply: (in a mincing tone to
+start) "No, I don't want any SPOOOOOOO.  I *hate* Spoo. (beat)  And I don't
+even know what Spoo IS."
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 31        Sat Jul 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:23 EDT
+Sub: Really Stupid Questions from JMS     
+
+Every so often, I need Information.  (You won't get it!)  Technical stuff,
+research or reference stuff...and given the brain trust here, I figured this
+could be a useful resource from time to time.  With appreciation.
+41 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 1         Sat Jul 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:25 EDT
+
+     Okay, real simple question.  Long discourses and discussions will only
+confuse me and, finally, scare the hell out of me.
+
+     Should I buy the Dell Dimension XPS P90 now, or wait for the 604 chip to
+come out with the Power PCs in the fall?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 12        Sun Jul 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:13 EDT
+
+     Okay...so if you re-buy every 4 years, what the hell does one do with
+one's old computers?
+
+          jm(who still has two old Kaypro systems sitting here)s
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 20        Wed Jul 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:42 EDT
+
+     I want a computer big enough to rule the world.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 38        Sat Jul 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:28 EDT
+
+     Can I get SCSI installed with the computer from Dell?  Does PCI take the
+place of SCSI?  Will Jeff marry Sally?
+
+     Question: the Native American practice of "wars" in which you bonk each
+other with gourds while riding on horseback, not really hurting  anyone but
+racking up points...that's called "counting coup," yes?
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+
+
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 19
+Message 24        Wed Jul 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:17 EDT
+
+     Can I ask for more elucidation about what was shown in the trailer for
+the episode after "Grail?"
+
+     If Londo was mentioned, there may be a glitch, since he doesn't appear in
+either "Eyes" or "Legacies," the next couple up.  Ah doesn't understand....
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 19
+Message 53        Thu Jul 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:53 EDT
+
+     After "Grail," we had a discussion with Chris about funny music.  We do
+not anticipate further discussions.  (In a full season of music for B5, this
+is the only discussion we've had of a critical nature, which is extraordinary
+for any series; he's done a lot of wonderful work for us.
+ In the two-parter, btw, he went absolutely full-out and gave us some of the
+best scoring of the season...gorgeous stuff, second only to either "Sky" or
+"Chrysalis.")
+
+     Mike: re: being "more realistic" in representing alien life...you show it
+to me, and I'll do it.  For now, we don't know *what* is "realistic."  Maybe
+crop circles are a wonderful forgery, abductions a psychological aberration,
+and saucers mass hysteria.  And maybe they're not.  As someone noted, the
+universe is not only stranger than we know, it is stranger than we *can* know.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 19
+Message 61        Thu Jul 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:19 EDT
+
+     On the feeder being sentient...neither Sinclair nor anyone else on "our"
+side of the story ever heard it speaking; all they knew was that it was a
+killer, and it was dangerous, and had to be stopped.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 19
+Message 114       Sun Jul 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:03 EDT
+
+     RE: the PPGs...sorry, Kiwi, I don't agree with you.  We *have* shown burn
+marks on clothing...in fact you'll get a good look at it in several upcoming
+episodes.  Those who've seen "Quality of Mercy" can vouch for that one alone.
+And they do leave *brief* trails, but remember they are moving very fast,
+almost too fast for the eye to see.  These aren't rays, like phasers, they're
+bursts of superheated plasma.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 19
+Message 122       Mon Jul 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:27 EDT
+
+     Yep, virtual ship.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 19
+Message 128       Mon Jul 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:58 EDT
+
+     Thanks.
+
+     Hey, a guy's gotta have *some* fun....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 20        Sun Apr 17, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:50 EDT
+Sub: #122 - "Eyes"                        
+
+by Larry G. DiTillio.  Directed by Jim Johnston.
+70 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 20
+Message 8         Wed Jul 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:09 EDT
+
+     BTW...about the time we were delivering "Eyes," somebody on one of the
+nets was going on and on about how "B5 continuity *stinks*...I'll bet we NEVER
+hear about Deathwalker again, or the strike, or the Vorlons killing
+Deathwalker, or Raghesh 3...."
+
+     And seeing what was at that moment on my TV, I wanted to reach through
+the computer monitor, roll up my forefinger, and *plink* that person right
+upside the nose.
+
+     Unfortunately, I have not yet found a modem program that supports this
+feature.
+
+     But Ron is promising me something by the Fall....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 20
+Message 10        Wed Jul 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:38 EDT
+
+     Actually, we thought about it, but we covered that in an earlier episode
+this season -- I think it was "War Prayer" -- so decided against it.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 20
+Message 29        Thu Jul 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:53 EDT
+
+     Okay...I'm about to lose my temper, so anyone who doesn't want to see it,
+skip to the next message.
+
+     Y'know, I am getting so goddamned tired of people who have no frame of
+reference beyond the latest STAAAAAAAR TREEEEEEEKKKKKK episode labeling stuff,
+to use the phrase uptopic, "little more than a remake of a TNG episode."  Tell
+me, do you *really* think that STAAAAAARRRR TREEEKKKKKKK invented the internal
+investigations/trial story?  If not, I have about 30 movies and a hundred or
+so books to show you.
+
+     The logic of any such investigation is that you're going to come in, and
+you're going to pull in the head of security because that person has
+information you're going to need.  What, do you think Star Trek thunk that up?
+It's SOP in such situations.  But because we did it, that makes it Star Trek.
+
+
+     Are you aware that neither I, nor Larry, ever *saw* "The Drumhead?" So
+now  you tell me how we make this "little more than a remake."
+
+     Further...you don't think.   Damn it, you don't *think* about what you're
+saying.  You just type it in.  Someone who owns the RIGHTS to a story can do a
+REMAKE.  If you lift a story from another series and to it (do it) yourself,
+that's not a remake, that's theft.  That's called plagiarism.  You in essence
+call Larry a thief.  Dance around it all you want to, that's what plagiarism
+*is*.  And that's *precisely* what you accuse in your message.
+
+     Because YOU don't have a frame of reference outside TNG, suddenly Larry's
+a thief.
+
+     Let me state this clearly, so the less synaptically enabled will be able
+to understand it: I do not watch ST in any of its incarnations.  I have no
+desire to do any story that TNG has done.  If I discover that any story we do
+comes close, I try to change it.  My operating theory is that a proper B5
+story would be undoable in the ST universe.  We do NOT do "remakes" of TNG
+episodes.  I did not work seven years of my damned life  to do "remakes" of
+TNG episodes, and I resent the hell out of this crap, which floats to the top
+of the discussion every once in a while, usually from people who should maybe
+watch something other than TNG once in a while and broaden out their
+repertoire.
+
+     If TNG did or did not do a story similar to us is irrelevant to th4e fact
+that we DO NOT do TNG remakes, and we DO NOT borrow stories from TNG, ever, at
+any time, for any reason.
+
+     In the last two weeks, I've had to defend David Gerrold who got hit by
+accusations that the premise for "Believers" was stolen from TNG because THEY
+did a story about religious parents who don't want their kid operated on for
+religious reasons, and lord KNOWS *they* originated that story...DC Fontana
+got a few of the same when "War Prayer" came out, and I'm getting just a
+little tired and cranky about people who do not fully grasp the implications
+of what they are talking about offhandedly saying it's a remake or was
+borrowed.  How'd you like it, Kiwi, if I sat here and casually accused you of
+shoplifting?  Or sleeping around on your wife or girlfriend?  Well, the
+accusation of plagiarism/story borrowing is no less offensive to *any* working
+writer.
+
+     Are we absolutely, crystal clear on this?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 20
+Message 37        Fri Jul 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:57 EDT
+
+      Yeah, well, at least on days when I'm cranky it'll give me the
+opportunity to come up with material that I can sidestream into dialogue for
+Ivanova.  I intend to use "synaptically challenged" the first chance I get.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 20
+Message 41        Fri Jul 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:50 EDT
+
+     Thanks; yeah, it's good to know that we don't seem to have, or need
+people jumping hoops to try and make things work or make sense.  It's a pretty
+good conversation (despite ye olde author's occasional crankiness).  If
+anything, I'm harder on the episodes than anyone else, since I know all the
+elements that might have been stronger or different, and I always, *always*
+want to go back one more time and tweak something, adjust something.  And for
+what it's worth...yeah, the pilot wasn't all it should've been.  But we've
+moved on, and I think so far the season has been very good.  Win, lose or
+draw, I think we've made a mark.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 20
+Message 43        Fri Jul 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:12 EDT
+
+     Kiwi...you're full of it.  This has got nothing to do with  expressing
+negative opinions.  That's a dodge.  There's been plenty of negative opinion
+expressed here and elsewhere, along with all the positive stuff, and I haven't
+said a word about it.  And frankly I'm getting tired of people who mouth off
+about something in an offensive way, then saying when they get called on it
+that I'm trying to suppress  negative opinion.
+
+     And I'm not talking about comparisons here.  I'm addressing what you
+*specifically* wrote, that this was "little more than a remake of Drumhead."
+You didn't say that it explored the same themes, which  would've been fine,
+you didn't say that it stayed in the same areas as cop shows, which also
+would've been fine...you not only said that it was a remake, you then listed a
+point-by-point comparison.
+
+     You're the one dancing around semantics here.  I'm not tired of or
+discouraging comparisons, I'm tired of people who don't know what the hell
+they're talking about saying that we're ripped off/remade/borrowed a Star Trek
+story.  Which is what you said.  It's right there in the message.  It's got
+nothing to do with negative opinions, and everything to do with a false
+accusation on your part.
+
+     You don't like it?  Fine.  But I have a tendency to prefer the truth,
+stated harshly, to a falsehood stated casually.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 20
+Message 51        Fri Jul 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:11 EDT
+
+     The other thing about "Eyes," btw, is that it's not something dumped in
+outta nowhere to make a conflict; it's the direct payoff of events that take
+place throughout the season where Sinclair breaks or bends the rules.  Lots of
+people on the various nets said, "Yeah, there he goes, breaking the rules in
+the strike, but is this every gonna pay off?  No, probably not."  If we're
+consistent with reality, and with our story, and Sinclair's broken some rules,
+and pissed off some people back home, then it is *inevitable* that this will
+eventually come home to roost in the form of an investigation.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 20
+Message 57        Sat Jul 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:20 EDT
+
+     "Memo to myself: don't ever compare an episode of B5 to an episode of
+Star Trek without first researching the entirety of written fiction for non-
+Trek precedents."
+
+     That's a snotty response that has nothing to do with the issue that I
+gigged you on.  You can compare anything to anything, I really don't care.
+All that I have asked you to do is be aware of your language when you accuse
+someone of stealing something?  Why is that so difficult for you to grasp?
+
+     You keep trying to distort my point into something that it's not, and I
+have no intention of letting you get away with it.  You said we did a remake
+of an ST episode.  You didn't discuss the issues, you said it was a remake.
+You implied the story was lifted from ST.  That is what you said.  I'm sorry
+if it's now inconvenient for you, or that you got your nose caught in the
+doorjam, but words mean what they mean, not what you want them to mean.
+
+     And I find it very telling that when confronted, you announced that your
+only options were to slink off or throw this in my face.  Odd that you
+wouldn'd consider something like, "Sorry, it wasn't my intention to indicate
+that Larry had stolen the idea.  I regret if that was implied."
+
+     Guess that never even occured to you, did it?
+
+     You can dance around re-interpretations all you want, Halliwell, but your
+comment was rude, and pejorative, and an insult to Larry, and by association
+to me.  And it's got nothing to do with comparisons or the entirety of written
+fiction.  And that's clear to every person here but you.  You're evading and
+backing and filling.
+
+     You get very cavalier here about other people, about the work that others
+do, their talents or lack thereof...you're always the first in line to
+criticize somebody...but you don't much like it when it's you, do you?  Why
+should I treat you with any more respect than you treat others?  Now, on
+another day, maybe I'd just turn the other cheek, which  I do a *lot* around
+here, and let it go.  But today, now, here, I don't much feel like it.  Maybe
+I've heard this line once too often from people, and you're just the latest
+one to get in my face with it.  Either way, maybe you'll learn something about
+running one's mouth, and that words have meaning, and if you accuse somebody
+of remaking somebody else's idea, you'd damned well better be prepared to back
+it up, or back off and apologize.
+
+     Or is even that modicum of civilized behavior completely beyond your
+comprehension?
+
+     We'll know in your next post whether you intend to act like a man, or a
+weasel.  It's your call.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
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+Babylon 5 posts by JMS on GEnie for July 16-31, 1994
+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 category.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+
+
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category and main topic for the new series. Here is
+the place for all general information on the series. Topic 2 is the location
+for SPOILERS. And please, NO STORY IDEAS are to be posted either.
+732 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 452       Sat Jul 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:59 EDT
+
+     The first batch of mugs are from (you'll pardon the expression) Creation.
+
+     Currently about 2/3rds finished writing a second-season ep called
+"Revelations," and though I've written and commissioned others already, this
+one's sizing up to be a major ass-kicker from a story perspective.
+Definitely the flip-side of "Chrysalis."  Some really, really nice stuff.
+
+     The hardest part is always writing Kosh, because you have to be very
+careful how much you use him, and what he says.  Too much and he loses his
+sense of mystery, and you don't want him spouting fortune-cookie  type
+aphorisms.  He has a very deliberate way of speaking in which  everything,
+every smallest nuance and inflection means something, but sometimes not what
+it appears to mean, or comes at it from a very different angle than normal
+conversation.  So I go as minimalist as possible, to get the meaning down to
+the smallest number of words possible.  And in one scene, one of only two he
+appears in, I got him down to *one word*, and that one word -- and it's a
+totally inoffensive, neutral word on its own terms -- should scare the hell
+out of *everybody*.
+
+     Ah loves this show....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 455       Sat Jul 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:22 EDT
+
+     Telepaths are the ultimate minority, and when it comes to the use of
+their talents, and the protection of the rights of the hysterical majority,
+their rights don't mean a whole hell of a lot.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 473       Sat Jul 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:18 EDT
+
+     Yes, Mary Jo is Christian Slater's mom.  She keeps nudging us about an
+appearance, since he loves SF.  We'll see.
+
+     And also correct...the majority of freelance scripts we commission don't
+tend to need a lot of revision.  Certainly not after the first go round.  DC's
+first script needed a bit of work, but that was mainly because she was still
+feeling her way around the characters and the show.  Her second script came in
+almost letter perfect; move around a few commas and that's about it.  And her
+outline for her next script, for season two, is very cool.
+
+     Funny story.  Saw Ed Wasser ("Morden") the other day, and asked him if
+he'd had any reaction to his first appearance on the show.  Just one, he said.
+He was in a florist shop, picking out some stuff for a friend who was sick.
+The proprieter came over, asked, "What do you want?"  Ed sorta mumbled about
+wanting some flowers.  "What do you want?" the owner asked again.  Ed -- still
+not getting it -- said he was looking for some nice stuff for a friend who was
+sick.  "Yes, but what do you *want*?" the owner asked.  At which point Ed
+finally twigged to what was going on.  He said afterward that it really *is*
+an unnerving approach, which was kinda the point.
+
+     Of course, the owner then added that he thought the scene was from DS9,
+but what the hell, it's an imperfect universe.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 483       Sun Jul 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:52 EDT
+
+     We're re-doing *all* of our computer displays for next year, using some
+nifty graphic designs.  Part of the problem is that the boys at Foundation
+were doing the displays, and they were swamped doing our main CGI, so that
+kinda fell by the wayside.  This year we've got someone who does ONLY our
+computer screens with us in-house.
+
+     Glad you liked the series font, btw; I picked it out me own self.   It's
+Serpentine Medium, for anyone interested.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 499       Sun Jul 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:43 EDT
+
+     Yeah, just about all of our monitor stuff in scenes is done live on the
+stage, rather than in post; gives it a nice sense of reality, I think.
+
+     Re: serpentine medium...about 75% of the reason I picked that font was
+because it looked cool, and 25% because I liked the name and the image it
+brings to mind.
+
+     Re: telepathy...yes, it's bordered and proscribed by physical
+limitations, in many ways; the closer you are, the better you can do.   Even
+Bester, in "Mind War," noted that he could shut Ironheart down, "but we have
+to be on a line-of-sight to do it."  They couldn't just broadcast it into the
+ether, he had to be *there* in front of them.
+
+     The whole telepathy issue is an interesting one in the universe of B5.
+There have always been attempts to prove the existence of telepathy, but in
+general the findings have been inconclusive.  But about 125 years or so ago in
+B5's timeline (2100-2110 and thereabouts) the findings began suddenly to tilt,
+and full-blown telepaths began to be discovered.  There were some abortive and
+confused attempts to legislate around this, most of which failed or were
+overturned in various courts of law.  About 2150 or so, the government
+agencies that regulated and oversaw telepaths were rolled over into the newly
+established Psi Corps, which became a clearing house for locating,
+controlling, and licensing telepaths for commercial, some very restricted
+legal, and military purposes.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 521       Mon Jul 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:51 EDT
+
+     Yes, a businessman can insist on having his own telepath present, or can
+ask not to be scanned during negotiations...though it is a sign that one has
+something to hide, and might screw the deal.  Sinclair could have asked for a
+telepath on his side, but 1) that wasn't the issue, it was allowing NO
+telepath to have that access, and 2) would've requird a Psi Corps military
+liaison-type telepath, and none were available on station.
+
+                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 529       Tue Jul 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:29 EDT
+
+     There's definitely a crew mess, which you can see in "Babylon Squared,"
+and a couple of other episodes.  Next season you'll also be seeing our
+Officer's Club.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 559       Thu Jul 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:44 EDT
+
+     Of course those two options are profoundly unfair.  Some elements of
+EarthGov are very unfair.  Some elements of *our* government are very unfair.
+So now we see what this does to people, and how they react.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 560       Thu Jul 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:49 EDT
+
+     (hrrmmmm...looks like my internet gateway is down again....)
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 580       Fri Jul 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:41 EDT
+
+     One of the Kosh guesses in this category is correct.
+
+     But I'm not telling you which one, or which topic it appears in.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 636       Sun Jul 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:23 EDT
+
+     Re: sound in space...I sent out the word to just about everyone to get a
+consensus on this issue.  And I got back some surprising responses from a
+number of physicists, including none other than Freeman Dyson.  The SF
+community has always accepted, unquestioningly, almost as a shibboleth, the No
+Sound In Space Is Possible theory.  But what came back from Dyson and others
+says, basically, that this ain't necessarily the case.
+
+     Eventually, I'll get around to collating all the info and uploading it
+here.  (But as one example, if a ship of very large size explodes, the
+atmosphere within will expand outward, carrying with it the sound of the
+explosion.  It will fizzle fairly quickly, but if you're within the range of
+the expanding bubble of air and sound, you'll hear something.   Also, if a
+ship explodes, if you're outside the bubble, floating in space without a ship
+or a helmet, no, you won't hear it, but then that doesn't matter because
+you're dead.  If you're in another ship, outside the range of the expanding
+air curtain, you'll hear sounds as the debris, radiation and other effects of
+the explosion strike your hull, causing it to ring or otherwise reflect the
+sound.)
+
+     In any event, I think that this particular shibboleth is going to  have
+to be reconsidered.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 651       Sun Jul 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:29 EDT
+
+     Nothing scanned by a telepath is admissible in court per se.
+
+                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 688       Thu Jul 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:38 EDT
+
+     Neither "Quality," "Babylon Squared" nor "Chrysalis" start with someone
+coming to the station.
+
+                                                       jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+Babylon 5 offically became a series on May 28 '93. There will be 22 hour eps
+for season one (in addition to the pilot). Airs Wednesdays at 8PM in most
+places starting Jan. 26 '94.  This is the SPOILER topic where anything goes.
+
+824 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 653       Sun Jul 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:49 EDT
+
+     We digitally isolated the image of the bike driving away, and then
+composited it into the shot.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 670       Sun Jul 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:22 EDT
+
+     Correct...Internal Investigations = II's = Eyes.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 683       Sat Jul 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:20 EDT
+
+     I try not to hype shows that I like unless I know beyond a doubt that
+it's absolutley kickp-ass.  I like "Voice" a lot; it is the point at which we
+really start cranking, speeding things up as we barrel toward "Chrysalis."  I
+think the CGi is nothing less than terrific, Christopher Franke went balls-to-
+the-wall and did an *amazing* job with the music, the performances are good.
+I like it a lot.  I haven't commented upon it a lot because it's kind of the
+weird child in the brood; when I write, I generally write tight and fast.  By
+the third act, you're *moving*.  In this case, you have to pace yourself out
+*very* differently, so part of my brain keeps doing this "c'mon, speed it up,
+speed it up" when I'm watching the first part because I'm used to a different
+one-hour kind of pacing.
+
+     Kathryn says I'm nuts.  But then this is nothing new.
+
+     Anyway, I do think it's pretty cool, and does a lot with virtual sets and
+composite sets.
+
+     Yesterday, I got the final air-check versions of "Babylon Squared" and
+"Chrysalis" to QC before delivering them to PTEN.  Watched both of them three
+times in the same day.  They're just stunning.  Probably the two best episodes
+of the entire season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 686       Sat Jul 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:36 EDT
+
+     Yeah...I love Londo's song, that whole scene.  The director wanted to cut
+Ivanova's coda after her mantra, but I really felt we needed it, and it played
+perfectly with her Russian character, which tends to have this unusual
+relationship with higher forces (he said vaguely).  I love character based
+humor, because it's very powerful once you know the characters, and it can
+really blind-side you if done right.  Ivanova's reaction in the core area was
+about as real as would probably happen, but it's funny to hear her *say* it.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 689       Sun Jul 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:26 EDT
+
+     Basically, I thought "Legacies" was pretty good, all things considered.
+I'd put it at around the center of the pack.  It didn't exactly leap off the
+boards at me, but I didn't have any major problems with it, as I did with, for
+instance, "Infection."  (Like the CGI composite shot of the rotunda, looking
+out at the garden before panning down a lot.)
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 691       Sun Jul 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:27 EDT
+
+     Generally, that stuff is generated by Ron's elves, since they do the
+rendering and have the specs on-line, and yes, that stuff will show up in the
+CDRom.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 698       Sun Jul 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:32 EDT
+
+     How did I get what CD of my CGI?  I'm not sure I understand the question.
+
+     The CD Rom (I believe these are two separate issues) will be out from
+Compton's around January or so.
+
+     And yeah, we definitely gave Ron's elves a workout on this one....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 717       Tue Jul 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:58 EDT
+
+     This ought to mess you up...take all the stuff we learn and stuff we do
+in "Voice," multiply the whole two hours times two, and  you get some idea of
+what's in "Babylon Squared" and "Chrysalis."  The latter is the closest thing
+I've ever seen to a blipvert...yikes!
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 721       Tue Jul 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:53 EDT
+
+     How does one come up with stuff like Londo's song?  Easy, really; you
+start by putting yourself in the position of an alien trying to understand us.
+And if you step back for a second, we do some *very* weird stuff.  What he
+says about the song is exactly right in terms of its meaning.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 728       Wed Jul 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:49 EDT
+
+     Tom: I just think that you gotta push the car to its limits, and beyond,
+and beyond, cranking it further and further until your buttons fly off, the
+windshield cracks, the roof buckles and the doors blow off.   That, to me, is
+a *ride*.  And I want B5 to be a *ride*.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 739       Thu Jul 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:42 EDT
+
+     And there we get into the contradiction; Ivanova and Sinclair down on the
+planet would be mainly more run-and-jump...Draal talking about his feelings,
+Delenn showing she is upset that her friend is going away and will never be
+seen by her again, their obvious friendship, that to me is characterization.
+And not just throwaway stuff, either, but important down the road.
+
+     But hey, what do I know....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 746       Thu Jul 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:52 EDT
+
+     "...a few minutes of Sinclair and Ivanova telling each other what's going
+on in their heads while they explore the city."
+
+     *zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*nort
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 749       Thu Jul 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:08 EDT
+
+     On the question of dialogue, this comes under the heading of General
+Editorializing, not directed to anyone in particular....
+
+     I love monologues.  They are a legitimate part of any drama.  The MTV
+generation has had its tastes so thoroughly bastardized by quick cuts,
+lowering the attention span further and further, that any bite of more than
+ten seconds and they start to wander, it becomes a block of words and they
+blur out.
+
+     Go rent Network by Paddy Chayefsky, watch nearly any of the TZs by Rod
+Serling, go see "The Lady's Not for Burning" by Christopher Fry...all
+chockablock with moments where you park for a moment and let fly with a chunk
+of dialogue that smashes your head against the wall.  Not every single
+exchange has to be foreshortened so that you lose the *impact* of what's being
+said.  Because people's attention spans have been greatly foreshortened,
+suddenly more than 3 lines at a time is somehow viewed as wrong.  It ain't.
+Just that lots of folks are afraid to try it, afraid to rely on just the words
+and the actors.  And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't.  But it's
+legitimate.
+
+     The monologue in particular, done right, isn't just to convey
+information, it's to create a mood, to paint pictures with words, to expand on
+the obvious.  Yeah, I could've just written, "The narns hate us, we hate them,
+it's equal math."  But that doesn't carry the same meaning, the same sense as
+"so here we are...victims of mathematics."  The use of the word "victim"
+connotes, hey, it's not my fault.  Yeah, the former is shorter, but you lose
+the rhythms, the imagery, and the *sense* of what is intended.  You could say,
+"The narn hate us."  But to say, "if the narns gathered together in one place,
+and hated, all at the same time, that hatred would fly across dozens of light
+years and reduce Centauri Prime to a ball of ash," draws a picture, lends
+power to the emotion.
+
+     Point being...I like 'em, there's nothing wrong with them, and they're
+staying.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 765       Fri Jul 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:46 EDT
+
+     Actually, sadly, that was Londo's first wife, who he was forced to
+divorce later.  Eventually I'll get into this.
+
+     Londo and Garibaldi really are two sides of the same coin, in some ways.
+There's an odd friendship there, almost grudging; Londo had little to gain by
+cheering up Garibaldi, except a drink perhaps, but that's what friends do.
+
+     Re: the XO and second going down...my theory is that there's a First
+Contact Protocol that doesn't currently exist because there's no need for it
+in the present.  No aliens yet.  The Earth/Minbari War started with a botched
+First Contact that nearly wiped out humanity.  You don't want junior officers
+anywhere even *near* the scene.  You send your two best, who are trained in
+FCP (which Sinclair referenced in "Soul Hunter," btw).  If they die, they're
+replaceable.  Earth isn't.
+
+     Two really great quotes above, btw.  We get some more nice ones in season
+two, in the first two episodes.  One is from Lincoln (a little bit about
+saving or losing the last best hope of Earth), the second from Yeats (what
+rough beast slouching toward Bethelehem, to be born).
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Computer SFX Tech-Talk   
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+656 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 620       Sat Jul 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:21 EDT
+
+     Yes, that building is in the Garden.  You can see buildings there in many
+shots, some better than others.  It's a big place.  The Fresh Air restaurant
+is also in the Garden area, and you can see buildings there in "Purple," also
+upcoming in "Quality."
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 632       Sun Jul 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:33 EDT
+
+     Hey...sooner or later...boom.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Cast & Characters        
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+574 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 500       Sun Jul 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:45 EDT
+
+     ...grumble mumble ramma framma overrated tradition bah humbug....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 511       Sun Jul 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:24 EDT
+
+     The address to send the photos is the generic B5 address:
+
+     14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+
+     Re: Jarvis...I have a little something planned in our first episode, just
+a little thing, really...a small stilletto between the ribs....
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 523       Tue Jul 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:30 EDT
+
+     It's okay, both addresses will work fine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 538       Wed Jul 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:53 EDT
+
+     Thank you, thank you, *thank you* for giving me the name of the pinhead
+who's been spreading that information around.  I've been trying to backtrack
+it for a few weeks now.  It's been really infuriating because it simply ain't
+true.
+
+     Oh, good, this means tomorrow I get to call somebody up and yell at him.
+
+
+     I *enjoy* that.  There's nothing more wonderful in all the universe that
+a justified, righteous mad.  I get all tingly just thinking about it.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 552       Fri Jul 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:48 EDT
+
+     Filming begins on August 10th.  Probably some time next week I'll be able
+to give you the name.  We've pretty much closed the deal, after considerable
+and lengthy negotiation, but I don't want to come out with it just yet.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 9         Wed Nov 11, 1992
+T.RESTIVO [Little Guy]       at 18:27 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Humor                      
+
+From *Beep Beep*, to Top Ten Lists, to full-blown parodies, this is where to
+put your funny bone in writing!
+715 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 703       Sat Jul 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:23 EDT
+
+     This is a terrible story, but Paul Simon, in an interview, swears that
+it's true.  Someone asked him about his songs.  He said he was in a restaurant
+down south, stopped in for a sandwich, long time ago.  Asked for a chicken and
+egg sandwich.  The waitress called back the request to the cook, "One mother
+and child reunion."
+
+     And that's where he got the title....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                  
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+642 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 634       Tue Jul 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:24 EDT
+
+     Just did an on-camera interview for E! News Daily.  Expect to see this on
+the E! channel (if you get it) on the 25th of this month.  The topic: on-line
+services.  (Fairly straightforward introductory stuff, frankly.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 13        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 21:00 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Science & Technology     
+
+Jump gates, nanotech, high-tech weapons, starship drives, sound in space, and
+other subjects of science and technology in Babylon 5.
+485 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 456       Sun Jul 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:26 EDT
+
+     Actually, would red light tend to produce red eyes, or green eyes?
+Through a red filter, red on red, everything would kinda vanish, yes?
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 14        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:59 EST
+Sub: Lurkers/Introductions: Please Sign In
+
+A place for newcomers to come in, say hello, whether you want to jump into the
+conversation or not, just to let us know you're here.
+755 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 721       Wed Jul 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:34 EDT
+
+     "JMS is not a god."
+
+     Oh, great, fine, you had to wait until AFTER they found the nails and
+hammer to mention that....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 726       Sat Jul 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:26 EDT
+
+     Regarding why I generally don't respond to flirtings...does the name
+Bobbitt ring a bell?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Merchandising            
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+716 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 667       Sat Jul 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:23 EDT
+
+     Not yet, but we've been talking about it.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 669       Sat Jul 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:23 EDT
+
+     No, they are not.
+
+     Any script broker selling copies of B5 scripts is doing so without
+permission.  They are engaging in copyright infringement.  The contents of the
+scripts belong to PTEN, but the physical copies belong to the writers, who get
+nothing out of this.  It ruins, for instance, Christy's chance to make a few
+dollars selling what is hers, if her script gets on the open market.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 672       Sun Jul 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:28 EDT
+
+     One of the things we're thinking of doing, once and if we can get this B5
+fan liaison office going, is to sell scripts from the show.  But unlike any
+other script house (and a certain other show that sells its scripts), the
+writers of the scripts sold will get a royalty off the sale of their scripts;
+or, if they don't want them sold, we won't do so.   And it won't be exclusive
+in any event.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 674       Mon Jul 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:46 EDT
+
+     That is one of the things we hope to do with the B5 fan liaison office,
+when and if we can get it going; to help defray expenses, we think we can
+market a few things, including scripts of aired shows, with the proviso that
+the original writer gets a royalty off the scripts, and/or can opt not to have
+their script sold if they so desire.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 678       Mon Jul 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:27 EDT
+
+     Probably within a month or so after being aired.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 689       Sat Jul 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:27 EDT
+
+     The EA game fell through, for various and sundry reasons.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 696       Tue Jul 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:56 EDT
+
+     Yeah, I had the same conversation...suggested a structure rather like the
+Winds of War, set during the Earth/Minbari War, in that we have all of our
+characters in different places, seeing the story and the war from their
+perspectives, and how their paths intersect during that time in odd or
+unlikely ways.  Dell didn't think that was the way to go, that unless it was
+set in the present, people would feel disappointed.
+
+     Oh, well...eventually we'll get around to that part of the story.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 707       Fri Jul 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:51 EDT
+
+     John: we discarded a title for this season, "A Trick of the Mind," which
+we changed to "A Spider in the Web."  The former, now available, might work
+well for the book.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 23        Fri Feb 12, 1993
+V.VAIDY1 [Vijay]             at 23:00 EST
+Sub: "OtherWorks" by JMS                  
+
+Before there was "B5" and when "JMS" was just another Plain Joe, there was
+OtherSyde
+ [A discussion of the other works of J. Michael Straczynski]
+201 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 196       Sat Jul 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:24 EDT
+
+     Actually, the eps I wrote for AW were never released; they were part of
+the batch done for the last season, which never got aired or released.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 200       Mon Jul 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:28 EDT
+
+     Didn't write it, your honor.  Had nothin' to do with it.  The ones I
+wrote (and the ones Larry wrote) are the only ones with single writing
+credits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 24        Fri Jun 04, 1993
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:11 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Weapons and Warfare!     
+
+For discussion about the weapons, counter weapons, armor, shielding, tactics,
+logistics, and so forth, of small combat and large scale war in the Babylon 5
+universe.
+331 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 325       Tue Jul 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:59 EDT
+
+     Insofar as I know, the designs entered in on the cruisers hasn't been
+modified at all, so I can't account for any perceived differences.  And I
+believe that the Minbari flyer used was the same model as Deathwalker used,
+though without checking the tapes I can't be 100% sure.  It's a fairly
+standard flyer.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 25        Fri Mar 12, 1993
+S.SHELLENBAR [>> SHANE <<]   at 08:47 EST
+Sub: J. Michael Straczynski Speaks in Public
+
+This is the place to find out where and when JMS will be appearing next.  JMS
+has honed his skills as a public speaker and is taking his act on the road.
+596 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 581       Tue Jul 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:59 EDT
+
+     San Diego Comic Con *Flash*.....I've been asked to do two major B5
+presentations (well, major in that I'll be there...which is kinda major, I
+guess...okay, maybe a lieutenant...second lieutenant...actually, it's not a
+big thing....) at the convention: one is still slated for that Friday from 2-4
+p.m., and they've added a second presentation from 11-1 Saturday.  (If you saw
+the Chicago presentation, there isn't much need to hustle to see the one on
+Friday; but you may want to be there for the Saturday one, which will be in a
+larger room.)
+
+     Possible that Bill Mumy will be there; don't know (doubt it) if Harlan
+will be able to show up in time; John Iacovelli (art/production designer
+extraordinaire) will try to show up for one of these.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 584       Wed Jul 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:57 EDT
+
+     I'll tell you a true thing, and I'm not saying this to get any kind of
+reassurance or pats, this is the god's honest truth...I never  feel that way.
+If one of the cast shows up, if one of our other folks shows up, that's a big
+deal, from my perspective.  Me is just me, and I'm forever *astonished* when
+people actually show up.  I'm constantly sure that I'm going to go to the room
+and find that no one is there.  I'm told by people that I'm supposed to be
+some kind of "celebrity," whatever the hell THAT means this week...but I've
+never transitioned into accepting that notion.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 586       Wed Jul 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:43 EDT
+
+     Nothing that I know of, meself included.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 592       Thu Jul 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:10 EDT
+
+     I'd recommend Saturday.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 31        Sat Jul 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:23 EDT
+Sub: Really Stupid Questions from JMS     
+
+Every so often, I need Information.  (You won't get it!)  Technical stuff,
+research or reference stuff...and given the brain trust here, I figured this
+could be a useful resource from time to time.  With appreciation.
+99 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 38        Sat Jul 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:28 EDT
+
+     Can I get SCSI installed with the computer from Dell?  Does PCI take the
+place of SCSI?  Will Jeff marry Sally?
+
+     Question: the Native American practice of "wars" in which you bonk each
+other with gourds while riding on horseback, not really hurting  anyone but
+racking up points...that's called "counting coup," yes?
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 45        Mon Jul 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:54 EDT
+
+     (as he lay there on the mat, the referee counting slowly to ten, he
+decides whether to get up, and face another barrage, or just lay there
+contemplating how amazing the lights look from this perspective....)
+
+     My problem with my current system is that it works fine with the first
+item on the SCSI system, a rewriteable optical disk.  It's when I plug that
+into the second device, a 6-CD rom jukebox (Pioneer 604X) that suddenly the
+system begins resetting and resetting and resetting when I turn it on.  I can
+only make ti stop resetting by unplugging the jukebox.  There's not a conflict
+in the device number, that seems fine.  And insofar as I can tell, the
+terminatin switches are set fine.  Ultrastor thinks that a jumper of some kind
+needs to be installed on the car.
+
+     All I want...please...is a computer that I can plug in, not have to mess
+with, and will be able to do everything I want it to do with the DOS software
+(sorry, macs) that I've grown accustomed to.  It seems like every computer
+I've ever owned needs massaging, nudging, configuring, constant prayer and
+occasional exorcism.  I just want it to *work right* out of the box.  Is that
+really so much to ask?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 61        Sun Jul 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:33 EDT
+
+     Other stupid question moment.  Back in the 50s, there was an SF series
+called "Planet Patrol."  No, not "Space Patrol" (though that was what it was
+called in England), "Planet Patrol."  Aired in New York on WPIX.  We're
+talking here puppets, okay?  Cool martians and tube cars and rockets and space
+stations and stuff.  Used to watch the show all the time when I was a kid, and
+am looking for copies of the episodes.  (It was made in B&W.)  For *years*,
+nobody even believed it existed; it isn't in ANY book that I'm aware of.
+Finally, about 2 years ago, I got my hands on one copy of one episode from a
+contact, which wasn't much, but was enough to convince everyone from holding
+that planned sanity hearing.  It DOES (or did) exist.  So once every year or
+two, I put out the word...if anyone here has copies of this show, or knows
+where same can be gotten, I'd *very* much appreciate hearing about it.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 69        Tue Jul 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:27 EDT
+
+     Kathy, it'd be great if you could find out.  Basically, if it's a show
+with real actors, it's not the show I'm looking for; if it's got puppets, then
+it is.  (Though sometimes I wonder at the distinction....)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 73        Tue Jul 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:03 EDT
+
+     Klaatu: not the Tom Corbet space patrol, this is a different thing.
+
+     Yeah, finally decided to screw it and bite the bullet (to mix my
+metaphors a bit) and get the damned thing.  Reality is, if you wait for the
+next Big Thing, you'll never buy anything.  I'd gotten paralyzed, and finally
+just figured to do it.
+
+     Going for the Dell Dimension 90mhz Pentium, 32 megs ram, 17" monitor (.26
+mm resolution), 3x CD Rom, 2 1-gigabyte drives, 2 floppies, IDE controller,
+soundblaster 16, peavy speakers, trackball keyboard, and a bunch of other
+stuff that's pretty much maxed out the system.  #9GXEPro video card with 2
+megs memory (option of getting 2 more megs).  It's got everything short of
+warp drive, and that only because it wasn't available.
+
+     We'll see how long this one lasts....
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 81        Wed Jul 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:59 EDT
+
+     The entire Men Into Space series is available from Stephen M. Russo, Box
+3250, McCormack Station, Boston MA 02101-3250 (based on his ads in Filmfax and
+others).
+
+     Re: the video card, it's the #9GXEPro, a 64 bit card.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 88        Thu Jul 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:54 EDT
+
+     It *is* a PCI.  It's already been ordered.  And you may be thinking of
+the Omniplex; the Dimension was rated the highest on winmarks and sysmarks by
+every magazine I could get my hands on.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 96        Sun Jul 31, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:31 EDT
+
+     Pat: thanks.  Unfortunately, I really can't take the risk that everyone
+has seen all prior episodes; the information needed for episode B to be clear
+has to be included, even if it's a restatement of something we saw in a prior
+episode.  Otherwise, I don't think we're really playing fair with the
+audience, and people will start tuning out.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+
+?aut=straczynski dat>940716 noreply
+ ************
+Topic 20        Sun Apr 17, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:50 EDT
+Sub: #122 - "Eyes"                        
+
+by Larry G. DiTillio.  Directed by Jim Johnston.
+113 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 20
+Message 57        Sat Jul 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:20 EDT
+
+     "Memo to myself: don't ever compare an episode of B5 to an episode of
+Star Trek without first researching the entirety of written fiction for non-
+Trek precedents."
+
+     That's a snotty response that has nothing to do with the issue that I
+gigged you on.  You can compare anything to anything, I really don't care.
+All that I have asked you to do is be aware of your language when you accuse
+someone of stealing something?  Why is that so difficult for you to grasp?
+
+     You keep trying to distort my point into something that it's not, and I
+have no intention of letting you get away with it.  You said we did a remake
+of an ST episode.  You didn't discuss the issues, you said it was a remake.
+You implied the story was lifted from ST.  That is what you said.  I'm sorry
+if it's now inconvenient for you, or that you got your nose caught in the
+doorjam, but words mean what they mean, not what you want them to mean.
+
+     And I find it very telling that when confronted, you announced that your
+only options were to slink off or throw this in my face.  Odd that you
+wouldn'd consider something like, "Sorry, it wasn't my intention to indicate
+that Larry had stolen the idea.  I regret if that was implied."
+
+     Guess that never even occured to you, did it?
+
+     You can dance around re-interpretations all you want, Halliwell, but your
+comment was rude, and pejorative, and an insult to Larry, and by association
+to me.  And it's got nothing to do with comparisons or the entirety of written
+fiction.  And that's clear to every person here but you.  You're evading and
+backing and filling.
+
+     You get very cavalier here about other people, about the work that others
+do, their talents or lack thereof...you're always the first in line to
+criticize somebody...but you don't much like it when it's you, do you?  Why
+should I treat you with any more respect than you treat others?  Now, on
+another day, maybe I'd just turn the other cheek, which  I do a *lot* around
+here, and let it go.  But today, now, here, I don't much feel like it.  Maybe
+I've heard this line once too often from people, and you're just the latest
+one to get in my face with it.  Either way, maybe you'll learn something about
+running one's mouth, and that words have meaning, and if you accuse somebody
+of remaking somebody else's idea, you'd damned well better be prepared to back
+it up, or back off and apologize.
+
+     Or is even that modicum of civilized behavior completely beyond your
+comprehension?
+
+     We'll know in your next post whether you intend to act like a man, or a
+weasel.  It's your call.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 22        Sun Apr 17, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:54 EDT
+Sub: #120 - "A Voice In The Wilderness" - 1
+
+by JMS.  Directed by Janet Greek.
+101 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 22
+Message 13        Tue Jul 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:50 EDT
+
+     I believe it's a musical sound, rather than an EFX.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 22
+Message 17        Wed Jul 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:01 EDT
+
+     The Starfuries are absolutely non-aerodynamic, and in the gravity well of
+a planet, would simply plummet; they're not set up to function within that
+kind of environment.  It isn't the re-entry, it's gravity and maneuvering once
+you're *in* the thing.
+
+     One sidelight to the speed question...it's sometimes hard to judge speed
+when there are no handy landmarks.  The shuttle moves with INCREDIBLE speed as
+it orbits Earth...but to look at it from any of the nearby cameras, when they
+do a spacewalk, you can't tell it's moving at ALL.  Basically, we're between a
+rock and a hard place; if we portrayed motion a la the Space Shuttle, nothing
+would seem to move; if we portrayed the pure speed AS pure speed, using some
+kind of landmarks or visual cues, it would go by SO fast that you *wouldn't be
+able to see it*.  If you're moving at 15 klicks a second...it's gone by the
+time you look at it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 22
+Message 23        Thu Jul 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:36 EDT
+
+     The Mars Colony situation will be raising its ugly head on and off again
+for quite some time to come.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 22
+Message 31        Thu Jul 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:50 EDT
+
+     As I recall, as we see Sinclair's ship descend, there are small rockets
+fired from the top of the nose, which points the nose down, and orients it
+toward atmospheric entry.
+
+     No, nothing was missing from the CGI shot that I know of.
+
+     Ivanova's line: "We don't know if we can find our way back or not," not
+that it was closed off.  So showing them wandering around to find another open
+tunnel seemed not dramatically interesting; you have to pick what's important
+and what's not, and what will work dramaticall on screen.  If she had said
+"there's no other way out," then you would've had to show it.  She didn't.
+One can also argue that the alien showed them which way to get out.  Either
+way...all you've got is one hour to tell your story.  You can't show
+everything, you have to let your audience assume some things.
+
+     Roy: there is a quantum difference between a computer game and a TV show.
+It's not "lowest common denominator," which means making the story stupid; I'm
+saying that if you showed the missiles at full speed, YOU WOULD NOT SEE THEM
+AT ALL.  And, again, there's nothing nearby with which to get a sense of how
+fast they're going, no landmarks, so it's very hard to convey that.  Again,
+look at space footage; the shuttle is going *incredibly* fast...but as far as
+we can tell it looks nearly motionless, because there are no landmarks.
+
+     Re: not explaining WHY the Starfuries can't enter the atmosphere, we did
+that.  Ivanova says that they're not built to function within an atmosphere.
+Now, I could stop the scene for a long dissertation on the relative
+aerodynamics of planes with wings vs. starfuries, but here you say only what
+you have to.  You show, don't tell.
+
+     It seems like in the same breath, it's accused of catering to the lowest-
+common denominator, and being over the head of its viewers by requiring them
+to *think* about what they're seeing.
+
+     Which means we're probably doing it right.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 22
+Message 61        Fri Jul 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:39 EDT
+
+     No, a shuttle like this, which is designed to function in alternate
+atmospheres, and may have to evacuate groups, has about 7 standard or most
+common atmosphere cannisters.  Medlab has the same thing, but in larger
+numbers.  This is SOP on the show.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 22
+Message 81        Sun Jul 31, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:07 EDT
+
+     No, the sets weren't redresses of regular sets; they were built new and
+entirely for the two-parter; you can get a better look at them in the second
+part, and some angles of the first.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 22
+Message 85        Sun Jul 31, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:31 EDT
+
+     Don't offhand know what you're referring to; will have to check.
+
+     It's J. Michael Straczynski because the first two let you gradully creep
+up on the last name in increasing increments.  To go from Joe to Straczynski
+in one jump in print always seemed to me a bit much.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 23        Sun Apr 17, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:56 EDT
+Sub: #121 - "A Voice In The Wilderness" - 2
+
+by JMS.  Directed by Janet Greek.
+8 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 23
+Message 4         Sat Jul 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:11 EDT
+
+     Haven't seen the trailer for B-squared; hope nothing much is given away.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 25        Mon Apr 18, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 00:00 EDT
+Sub: #115 - "Legacies"                    
+
+by D.C.Fontana.  Directed by Bruce Seth Green.  Co-stars John Vickery.
+112 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 25
+Message 7         Sun Jul 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:20 EDT
+
+     Yeah, the audio thing with Talia is something I thought of during the
+final audio mix.  We wanted to convey somehow her trying to get through and
+initially it was just distortion.  Then I figured, wait a second, she is going
+to be thinking what she's going to say before she says it, why not pre-lap the
+dialogue?  Unfortunately, for some damned reason, the high-tech studio wasn't
+set up to do that effect, so we took Talia's dialogue, digitized it, laid it
+in on a second side track, and played the one over the other, one preceding
+the other by I think about 20 frames or so.  The key was to make the *second*
+voicing the one synched to her lips, not the first one.  Worked out pretty
+cool.
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 25
+Message 38        Fri Jul 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:36 EDT
+
+     In at least some of those cases, Kiwi, it's not writer's laziness; you're
+not paying attention.  Delenn knew the ship was coming in at the top of the
+episode; when she realized that the gun ports were open, she went immediately
+to Sinclair.  Story logic.  Also story logic for the appearance of Sinclair
+and Garibaldi at the cargo bay; they didn't just "wander in," they determined
+what had happened, and went there knowing that there was a Minbari transport
+about to head out.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 25
+Message 43        Fri Jul 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:22 EDT
+
+     Actually, Anne, I don't agree...I'd say that the majority of comments
+come with constructive observations.  You get unvarnished "it's perfect,
+change nothing," about as often as "it sucks, change everything."  Those are
+rare individuals.  Mostly you get something in between.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 25
+Message 51        Fri Jul 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:38 EDT
+
+     The use of insulting language does not guarantee a response from me.
+What it does guarantee is contempt.
+
+     It also takes a breathtaking degree of stupidity to want to take on a
+writer, any decent writer really, in a written medium.
+
+     Re: the question at hand...no there was still plenty of room for docking.
+It's hard to gauge distances because of the sheer *size* of the station and
+the cruiser.  
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 25
+Message 56        Sat Jul 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:10 EDT
+
+     Generally, the religious caste takes precedence over the warrior caste.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 25
+Message 74        Sat Jul 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:07 EDT
+
+     From cradle to grave, the Minbari are taught that there is no greater
+goal, no nobler thing than to serve.  They are raised to be totally self-
+sacrificing.  The only exception is when someone in the religious caste
+believes he or she has received a calling, which if sincerely felt cannot be
+contravened (since usually this too involves serving).  So for a Minbari
+telepath, this is their means by which they may serve, and they are given
+great respect.  It never even occurs to them to do otherwise.
+
+     Lately, there has been a bit of a change brewing; "a self-involvement
+above the needs of others" (as someone notes in "Voice") that has begun
+creeping into the Minbari race.  And they're not happy about it.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 25
+Message 84        Mon Jul 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:26 EDT
+
+     It's bone, growing from the back of the head outward.
+
+     Originally, this ep was to be broadcast later in the run, because I
+didn't want two PsiCorps episodes back-to-back, and for one little detail that
+will become clearer after "Babylon Squared" airs; it would've been better to
+have followed that episode, but again, these eps are made to be watched in
+just about any order, so it's okay in the long run.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
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+This file contains messages posted by J. Michael Straczynski on GEnie
+from Aug 1  - Aug 15th.  Postings are copyright 1994 by J. Michael Straczynski
+with compilation copyright by GEnie.
+
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category and main topic for the new series. Here is
+the place for all general information on the series. Topic 2 is the location
+for SPOILERS. And please, NO STORY IDEAS are to be posted either.
+406 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 148       Tue Aug 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:39 EDT
+
+                         **** Announcement ****
+
+     Since this information has now been released to the press, and will
+already begin showing up on the news wires by the time I write this, I can now
+make the following announcement.
+
+     The new Commanding Officer for Babylon 5 will be Captain John Sheridan,
+former commanding officer of the Agamemmnon, a deep space Earthforce military
+cruiser, where he was stationed for the last two years.  During the
+Earth/Minbari war, he scored arguably the only real victory in that war, the
+destruction of the Minbar War Cruiser Black Star, and several accompanying
+vessels, through slightly unconventional means.   He has been appointed to B5
+over the strongly-voiced objections of the Minbari Government, which still
+holds a considerable grudge over the Black Star incident.  But the President
+feels strongly that the Minbari have had too much influence in B5, and that
+this has to be reined in.
+
+     Captain John Sheridan will be portrayed by the highly-regarded actor
+Bruce Boxleitner, who starred in "Scarecrow and Mrs. King," such miniseries as
+"East of Eden," "Till We Meet Again," "From the Dead of Night," "The Gambler
+V," and has appeared in such feature films as "The Babe."  Bruce is also a
+long-time SF fan, both in media and print.  He is excited about joining the
+Babylon 5 team, and we're equally excited to have him.  Bruce begins filming
+with our first episode, "Points of Departure," starting August 10th.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 194       Thu Aug 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:39 EDT
+
+     (sigh...internet gateway always goes down when I want to hear some
+reactiosn to stuff....)
+
+     (Er, reactions.)
+
+     Re: Ivanova lines...how about Susanalia?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 205       Thu Aug 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:01 EDT
+
+     Lynn: of course we're going to tie it together.  Right in the first
+episode.  The story is still tracking.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 245       Sat Aug 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:27 EDT
+
+     Well, while here in San Diego for ComicCon (logging in via laptop) I was
+surprised to receive an Inkpot Award at the SDCC banquet for the body (and
+presumably the soul) of my work to date on various shows including B5.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 284       Tue Aug 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:38 EDT
+
+     Well, the "Danger Zone" tape that I played was courtesy of  J.Hudgens
+(Fenn), so you may want to ask him about it.
+
+                                                         jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 290       Wed Aug 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:01 EDT
+
+     Well, tomorrow, at 8 a.m., filming for Season Two of BABYLON 5 begins in
+earnest (minus one establisher the Monday preceding, and a shot we got a
+couple months ago).  Today I saw a camera test of Bruce in his Captain's
+uniform, standing in the Bazaar (a new set).  Looks great.  He has rather
+reddish hair, which contrasts well with the blue (okay, teal) uniform.  The
+uniform was still being sewed, and had the tailor's marks, and loose threads,
+and was still being modified (we're making some small tailoring changes to
+make the uniforms fit better and read better on camera, and to start
+introducing some almost subliminal changes in the way you perceive the Earth
+Alliance)...but it looked great, he was very much at his ease, and this was
+the first frame of film shot for year two.
+
+     The stories are shaping up to be very exciting; things are going to move
+a LOT faster this season, now that we've established our universe in fair
+detail.  It lets us concentrate on our characters.  Some fun titles for
+you..."The Customer is Always Right," "The Very Long Night of Susan Ivanova,"
+"Unnatural Selection," "A Race Through Dark Places," and others.
+
+     It's often hard to get excited about stuff, because you're in the middle
+of it all, racing from one thing to another...but I think I'm now getting a
+little excited, as the reality finally sinks in.  Until the day you start
+rolling film, it's all theoretical.  Now it becomes real.
+
+     So tomorrow commences "Points of Departure."
+
+     The ride begins again.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 296       Wed Aug 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:31 EDT
+
+     Second year narration will be Sheridan.  Third year probably either
+Ivanova or Delenn.  Fourth year G'Kar.  Fifth year...possibly no one.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 326       Thu Aug 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:49 EDT
+
+     I don't know what's in the TBA slot.  It was initially put in on the off-
+chance that we could convince PTEN to show "Chrysalis" early.  As for
+videotapes...probably later in the Fall.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 337       Fri Aug 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:26 EDT
+
+     The internet stuff is, btw, somewhat exaggerated; a bunch of people in
+the same market (Cincinnati) noticed the change, and in some cases didn't get
+the information right.  (They said it was being dropped, when in fact it was
+being time-shifted to Saturday afternoons and Sunday late (very) evenings.)
+This is nothing anywhere near serious enough to warrant anybody writing
+anyone.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 342       Fri Aug 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:52 EDT
+
+     Well, actually, I'm not entirely sure that that's true, that's all.
+"The Quality of Mercy" is a smaller, character-based story, not a big blow-
+out; in fact, it has virtually NO CGI, and no arc stuff.  It's a nice, fairly
+enclosed little story.
+
+     The problem that one encounters, given the specific kind of series we're
+doing here, is that the major stories have to have every single little detail
+dead right, and they're filled with zillions of little clues that only I know.
+To usher a freelancer through that process would require VAST amounts more
+hand-holding than on the personal stories.  And as a result, the freelancers
+*prefer* to do those stories (from wha  they've told me) because they have a
+LOT more latitude to pursue the story where they might like to take it; if
+they do a major arc story/blowout, the parameters are MUCH more strict.
+
+     One other aspect to all this is that big EFX stories can be hideously
+expensive, unless you know exactly how to write it to avoid that.  You can
+write it one way, and it stays in budget; you can write it anther way and
+literally be tens of thousands of dollars over budget.  Because I work very
+closely with the production people, I can turn out a first draft that is
+generally spot-on, money-wise; with a freelancer, who doesn't know the
+parameters, you have to *massively* overhaul the first drafts of a big story
+to bring it down to something you can produce.  (Even Larry has this problem;
+"Deathwalker" in particular was originally 'way beyond what we could do, and
+had to be made producible.)
+
+     Anyway, those are the reasons you generally tend to see my name on the
+Blowout episodes.  But in many ways, I prefer the smaller ones, and this
+coming season I'll be doing more of those.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 358       Sat Aug 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:38 EDT
+
+     Re: narration...yes, the plan is to change it each year, partly because
+it needn't convey the same information every year, partly because it should be
+somewhat from each person's individual point of view.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+Babylon 5 offically became a series on May 28 '93. There will be 22 hour eps
+for season one (in addition to the pilot). Airs Wednesdays at 8PM in most
+places starting Jan. 26 '94.  This is the SPOILER topic where anything goes.
+
+370 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 235       Tue Aug 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:57 EDT
+
+     Mr. T -- force field technology is nowhere within Earth's grasp in 2258.
+(In fact, I don't know for sure that ANY of our races have that particular
+tech at the level you're describing.)
+
+     Also, the second you put that up, if there were such things, then you
+know the station could never be in danger...and suddenly you'd have to start
+finding ways to *disable* the system, have it break down, to have any real
+jeapordy.
+
+     Besides, the jump gate is only used to save energy; any ship big enough
+to pose a real threat to B5 could make its own jump point...and you can't
+build a force field everywhere.
+
+     At any given day, someone on the LA freeway can turn around and see
+somebody with a gun pull up alongside.  Life is dangerous.  B5 reflects that.
+The more implausible safeguards you come up with because you want a nice,
+safe, riskless society, the more elaborate nonsense you have to go through to
+circumvent those safeguards to have any dramatics.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 241       Tue Aug 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:29 EDT
+
+     By the standards of general society, yes, TV writers are hideously
+overpaid.  By the standards of the revenue generated by what these same TV
+shows make for the studios...they are vastly *under*paid.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 246       Wed Aug 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:48 EDT
+
+     ANYONE who says that "it is easy to write an impressive speech" has never
+had to write one.  And I'm sorry, but people *do* speak in blocks from time to
+time and it's PART of a dialogue.  There are no monologues of the kind you
+describe, Jim, which consists of one person talking alone in a room.  They are
+always part of a dialogue, they ARE dialogue, period.  You seem to think that
+dialogue is one sentence from A, one sentence from B, another from A.
+Sometimes it is.  Sometimes it ain't.
+
+     Londo was not alone in the room delivering a monologue about the Narns;
+he was responding to a point raised by Delenn and explaining the situation.
+Sometimes that takes more than one sentence.  As far as I can remember, I
+don't think I've ever had a conversation in my entire life where nobody ever
+said more than three sentences at one time.  You sometimes have to break in,
+"Let me get in a word in edgewise here."
+
+     That is PART of dialogue.  You may not like it.  That's your business.
+ But if you say it's not dialogue, I'm sorry, but you're simply, flatly and
+irredeemably wrong.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 249       Wed Aug 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:53 EDT
+
+     They haven't built 5 Babylon stations.  The first three were
+sabotaged/damaged during the *very* early stages of construction; they never
+got very far with them, so the cost was minimal.  Only #4 was completed, very
+expensive.  When that vanished, they decided to scrimp and (with Minbari
+additional funding) built a half-assed B5; there will never be a B6.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 270       Thu Aug 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:56 EDT
+
+     Yes, in 7 days, we see B4.
+
+     (Do I live to please, or what?)
+
+     Had two Susan russianisms in the two-parter, they slipped past; I
+generally keep them more distinct.  I don't think there are any more for the
+rest of the season.
+
+     RE: similarity in initials...well, a creator has to take some liberties
+in character identification....
+
+     RE: casting Boxleitner and differences in how the character fits in...he
+fits tighter into the events of year two than Sinclair would have, in terms of
+being on B5, due to the desire to increase some of the tension on-station.
+The questin of who you can really trust starts to take on weight next season.
+Also, Sinclair's place of relocation will allow us to bring in some new
+elements that you'll start spotting about mid-season (we'll see who notices
+them first; they'll be in the background to start, then move forward).  And,
+again, we can broaden out the storyline.
+
+     A *lot* of people were considered for this role...because you have to
+look at all of the possibilities, and from there find the one person most
+suited to your show.  Some of the other people who were on the list were
+Anthony Andrews, James Earl Jones, Roger Reece, A. Martinez...but the one name
+that really kept coming to the top of the list, who both Doug and I wanted the
+most, was Bruce.  He has all the right attributes for the character, and Doug
+has worked with him before, knowing him to be a nifty guy...good with people,
+a hard worker, a team player, dedicated to his craft and his show...good,
+decent, honorable people are sometimes hard to find, but Bruce has all of
+those qualities and more.  We spent a couple of hours the other day just
+hanging out in the B5 offices, talking SF (he'd just finished reading Harry
+Turtledove's newest Civil War book, and had started on another...he's a big
+fan of 50s SF as well as such films as Blade Runner, vastly preferring the
+director's cut) and fighter aircraft (he's a buff and collector of aircraft
+memorabilia, and has flown just about every kind of plane)...had a great time.
+
+     He really complements the show because, like those of us who man the
+other areas, he really is a stone SF fan.  (His kids in particular REALLY
+wanted him to do the show.)  He's watched B5 and likes it a lot.
+
+     I think you're gonna like him a *lot*.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 276       Thu Aug 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:04 EDT
+
+     My thought was always that big ships have interceptors to take out
+incoming fire, and other kinds of weaponry to deflect or knock asice (aside)
+other incoming fire.  The key is to overload the defense system so that some
+things get through (and the enemy ship did take some pretty heavy hits at
+various points).
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 308       Tue Aug 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:44 EDT
+
+     Ben: thanks.  For what it's worth...I tend to write *very* tightly; I
+don't like to leave things hanging, and I don't like threads that don't get
+resolved.  Chekhov wrote, "If there is a gun on the wall in act one, scene
+one, then you *must* use the gun by act three, scene three."  You don't put in
+things you don't intend to use.  So the future stuff will all be dealt with.
+When all is said and done...all will have been said and done.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 320       Wed Aug 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:32 EDT
+
+     Is this the *real* TV Guide or a local publication?
+
+                                                         jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 329       Thu Aug 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:48 EDT
+
+     Jim: no, I'm sorry, but you're simply wrong on this.  As of the teaser in
+"Voice," they knew that a world previously thought dead and uninhabited was in
+fact sending out an *extremely* powerful beacon; that alone confirms the
+existence of some new alien tech, probably very advanced.  As soon as that
+beacon was detected, and a report filed (which was almost immediate), the
+Hyperion got its orders.  Remember, Earth is obsessed with getting its hands
+on new technology.  The Hyperion continued to monitor reports as it proceeded
+to B5.  The Captain's line tracks.
+
+     Please don't describe things as "improbable" or "plot contrivances"
+because you haven't thought them through.  You do this frequently.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 352       Sat Aug 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:40 EDT
+
+     Sheridan, the universe willing, will be there throughout the rest of the
+B5 story.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Computer SFX Tech-Talk 
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+384 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 358       Tue Aug 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:58 EDT
+
+     She doesn't mention it in any of the following episodes; stress brings it
+out of her.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Cast & Characters      
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+331 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 298       Thu Aug 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:10 EDT
+
+     "Gary Cooper was a bad actor.  He WAS wooden."
+
+     Say *what*?
+
+     Has the taste of the american public been so diminished by over the top
+hysterics and overemoting and "method" that a performer as restrained and
+intelligent and *talented* as Gary Cooper is now considered BAD?
+
+     Go out and rent HIGH NOON and *watch* it...then tell me he's anything
+less than one of the finest actors this country has ever produced.
+
+     Jesus...just because an actor isn't ripping his shirt of and yelling
+"STELLLLLLLLAAAAAA" at the top of his lungs, somehow he's "bad."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 328       Mon Aug 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:59 EDT
+
+     Shawn Cassidy can write?
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 5         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            (Forwarded)
+Sub: Grid Epsilon Irregulars - News & Info.
+
+This topic is for information about Babylon 5 fan groups, newsletters,
+fanzines, get-togethers, B-5 at conventions, and other general fun.
+292 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 235       Sat Aug 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:21 EDT
+
+                              ...ahem.
+
+                            (Extra-Large)
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 244       Mon Aug 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:43 EDT
+
+                             ...ahem....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+350 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 343       Sun Aug 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:05 EDT
+
+     Many journalists are, frankly, idiots and crude; they look for ways to be
+cruel.  (I'm talking mainly entertainment journalists, not the real kind.)  In
+talking to some who've called for interviews, they go to "so, why'd you kick
+him off?" or "when did he get shoved out?" and it's so damned
+infuriating...they have to find some way to make this News With An Edge, give
+it some controversy, some heat, when none exists.  I hate it a lot.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 14        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:59 EST
+Sub: Lurkers/Introductions: Please Sign In
+
+A place for newcomers to come in, say hello, whether you want to jump into the
+conversation or not, just to let us know you're here.
+482 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 471       Fri Aug 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:29 EDT
+
+     And don't forget PIDATS...People of Infinite Discretion and Taste.
+
+                                                      jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 16        Fri Jan 15, 1993
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 01:02 EST
+Sub: "No kids or cute robots, ever!"    
+
+This is a topic for discussion of the unofficial slogan of Babylon 5.
+180 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 172       Sat Aug 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:44 EDT
+
+     Yes, and they're damned tasty.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Merchandising          
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+443 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 420       Sat Aug 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:24 EDT
+
+     Michelle Sucillon at Warner Bros. licensing, in Burbank.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 23        Fri Feb 12, 1993
+V.VAIDY1 [Vijay]             at 23:00 EST
+Sub: "OtherWorks" by JMS                
+
+Before there was "B5" and when "JMS" was just another Plain Joe, there was
+OtherSyde
+ [A discussion of the other works of J. Michael Straczynski]
+203 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 203       Sun Aug 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:41 EDT
+
+     Ah, yes...that was actually kind of a cool episode, though some cuts in
+the version now on USA kind of remove some of the more personal aspects of the
+show.  (Cindy probably knows more specifically what was cut.)
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 30        Mon Jul 04, 1994
+D.KAUFFMAN5 [CyberDad]       at 13:14 EDT
+Sub: Nods, In-Jokes, and References     
+
+Post any nods, in-jokes, or references you have seen here.  For example,
+Babylon 5 refers to the Babylon of ancient Earth; the location of B5 is at
+Grid Epsilon 470/18/22, the location of the original B5 topic on GEnie.
+115 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 30
+Message 108       Mon Aug 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:39 EDT
+
+     As it happens, the script for that scene said, basically, that Garibaldi
+gives out a YELL that goes on and on as he fires for all h he's worth.  Ye
+Author takes no responsibility for any words that crept in there.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 31        Sat Jul 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:23 EDT
+Sub: Really Stupid Questions from JMS   
+
+Every so often, I need Information.  (You won't get it!)  Technical stuff,
+research or reference stuff...and given the brain trust here, I figured this
+could be a useful resource from time to time.  With appreciation.
+119 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 100       Tue Aug 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:36 EDT
+
+     (The following to be read in the voice of Humphrey Bogart)
+
+     Now listen up, I need a name, see...I gotta lean on somebody and I gotta
+lean hard.  Don't weasel out on me now when I need you, this is for all the
+marbles.  A name, got it?  Somebody who works for Dell Computers, somebody I
+can lean on, somebody who knows somebody who knows Somebody, maybe a
+president, maybe a VP, doesn't matter....
+
+     Oh, and if you hear some noise from the back room...don't look back.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 105       Wed Aug 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:51 EDT
+
+     (waiting, let's see if they can resolve this.)
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 112       Sat Aug 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:26 EDT
+
+     A second 1-gig drive was installed, but never hooked up,and I was told by
+Dell it couldn't be hooked up to deliver more than 500 megs (even though I'd
+paid $999 for the one gig), and wouldhave to be shipped back and exchanged,
+after I'd configured the damn thing.  Well, while I've been away, I'm told
+that Dell has actually fixed the thing; I'll know for sure Monday when I check
+it out again.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 22        Sun Apr 17, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:54 EDT
+Sub: #120 - "A Voice In The Wilderness" - 1
+
+by JMS.  Directed by Janet Greek.
+152 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 22
+Message 104       Mon Aug 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:21 EDT
+
+     Dave...he didn't turn the set off...it was broken up by static, if you'll
+go back and look, because a much stronger transmission was coming in.
+
+     Namely, the one that appeared in his room.  If you'll note, it goes away,
+THEN, puzzled, Sinclair goes to the screen to see why it's gone.
+
+     It is, as you say, "very annoying" to be accused of a "standard TV
+cliche" that in fact only happened in the viewer's memory.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 22
+Message 117       Tue Aug 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:50 EDT
+
+     There is a middle ground here.
+
+     The people who like to speculate do so in print because they want to see
+(and be seen) if they were right or wrong; else why write it?
+
+     You can write to a topic without ever having read it.  So why not
+speculate on voice 2 *in* voice two, then after you've seen the episode, do a
+REA 23 1-whatever the last number is?  This way, you don't see any spoilers
+that you don't want to see, and other folks don't have to worry about it?
+This is fast becoming one of those discussions over who has what *rights* when
+in fact it should be about politeness.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 22
+Message 140       Thu Aug 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:30 EDT
+
+    J.Ward...no, you don't have to read a topic to post there.  You can post
+in, say, part 2, then wait until after you've seen the episode, and THEN read
+all the messages there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 23        Sun Apr 17, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:56 EDT
+Sub: #121 - "A Voice In The Wilderness" - 2
+
+by JMS.  Directed by Janet Greek.
+107 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 23
+Message 25        Thu Aug 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:35 EDT
+
+     RE: predictable...it was never meant to be much of a mystery; this
+particular episode isn't a who-dunit, or who's-gonna-do-it-to-whom.  Some I
+write with that in mind, some are those in which you *know* something is going
+to happen to someone, and you have a fair idea what, but the "how" is
+something you don't know.  It's the ride getting there.
+
+                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 23
+Message 29        Thu Aug 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:21 EDT
+
+     Draal will not get involved in such things.  The fate of B5 must be
+played out without interference.  They can ask, but he will not reply.
+
+     Most pre-War EA warships operated sans gravity, though some of the later,
+larger ones used counterweight-spinning to create a tiny bit of gravity (a la
+2010), but when going into battle, that is disabled to give the ship maximum
+maneuverability.
+
+     (Can't decide if it's wonderful or sad that we've worked this stuff out
+to this amount of detail....you'll probably see one or more of the latter
+kinds of ships next season.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 23
+Message 42        Fri Aug 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:52 EDT
+
+     The captain of the Hyperion specifically states that he was already IN
+hyperspace, en route to another system, when he was ordered to stop here.  His
+ship was already in the area.  Also, there is a fair amount of time between
+the actions on the planet initially, and the arrival of the Hyperion...enough
+to know there's some kind of tech there, based on the initial attacks.  The
+Hyperion continued to monitor reports as they came in.
+
+                                                       jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 24        Sun Apr 17, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:58 EDT
+Sub: #118 - "Babylon Squared"           
+
+by JMS.   Directed by Jim Johnston.
+122 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 24
+Message 15        Mon Aug 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:08 EDT
+
+     A thought to bear in mind re: the whole Sinclair thing...I announced on
+the various forums several *months* ago about the change in his role, moving
+off the chessboard.  If we really were never going to see Sinclair again, one
+particular shot would have been deleted from the episode; it would not have
+caused us any problem since we were still messing with it anyway, and we've
+certainly left things unexplained in other episodes, like "Mind War."  We
+could've left the One unexplained.  We chose not to.   You can read into that
+what you will.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 24
+Message 40        Thu Aug 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:37 EDT
+
+     Cindy: on the one hand, one of the true ingredients of tragedy (or just
+plain drama in some cases) is that you know something that hte (the)
+characters *don't* know, and if you like the characters, and you know
+something just awful may happen to them, but you don't know exactly how or
+when, it adds interest, I think.
+
+     On the other hand, 1) I've never stated that that was where Garibaldi
+does (or doesn't) check out, and 2) go watch "Signs" again; there's a shuttle
+seen leaving B5 instants before it explodes.  Who's on it?  We'll have to wait
+and see.  Certainly, though, this would be one good prospect for a good death.
+But my point is you *don't* know...so the uncertainty remains.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 24
+Message 84        Sat Aug 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:31 EDT
+
+     I don't think one should assume anything about the fate of *any* of our
+characters...it's WAY early to do that, and I wouldn't tip too much at this
+juncture anyway.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 24
+Message 88        Sun Aug 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:54 EDT
+
+     Alas, if I revealed the first two ages, it would reveal the third by
+inference....
+
+     Paulman: you are righter than you know.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 24
+Message 95        Sun Aug 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:34 EDT
+
+     He was looking out a port as the shuttles raced away from B4.
+
+     Mike: it'll all hang together in the end.  If I'd wanted, if that scene
+with the One revealed would've been a problem, I could've easily cut it LONG
+before delivering it to PTEN, and left it a "mystery yet to be explained."  No
+problem.  But I didn't.  It all still tracks.
+
+     Peter: I agree about the exposure the show is(n't) getting.  It's just
+very hard to make people understand what we're trying to do here.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 24
+Message 110       Mon Aug 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:28 EDT
+
+     An interesting (one hopes) sidelight to the episode....
+
+     This is, after all, two stories overlapping...the present story, and the
+future story.  When, eventually, that future story is shown, it has to be
+absolutely consistent with the events in B-squared.  So what was required,
+really, was to block out two scripts...this one, and the one yet to be
+written, so that the events dovetail in the right sequence.  (The best analogy
+would be the last two "Back to the Future" films.)  It was kind of a bear, but
+an interesting thought experiment.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 24
+Message 113       Mon Aug 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:58 EDT
+
+     It's very much a personal philosophy.  This theme -- sacrifice of oneself
+for another -- is one that appears again and again and again in my work.  I
+think that we have lost something important in the "me first" philosophy that
+has become entrenched in American society.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 24
+Message 122       Tue Aug 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:53 EDT
+
+     Actually, I never said that the Minbari all go through changes from male
+to female or vice versa; that became a bit of accepted story because people
+kept repeating it, going from speculation to being "sure" I said it.  Didn't.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms94-08-15 b/ftp/GEnie/jms94-08-15
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f22f0463
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/GEnie/jms94-08-15
@@ -0,0 +1,897 @@
+This file contains messages posted by J. Michael Straczynski on GEnie
+from Aug 15 - Aug 31st.  Postings are copyright 1994 by J. Michael Straczynski
+with compilation copyright by GEnie.
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category and main topic for the new series. Here is
+the place for all general information on the series. Topic 2 is the location
+for SPOILERS. And please, NO STORY IDEAS are to be posted either.
+776 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 411       Wed Aug 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:47 EDT
+
+     Definitive answer: we approached Michael.  Not the other way around.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 426       Thu Aug 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:16 EDT
+
+     Generally, Psi Corps members often have a similar "look," not quite a
+uniform, but a sense of repeated lines.  Just one more little thing to make
+them stand apart.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 432       Fri Aug 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:58 EDT
+
+     Well, as of now, every episode of year one has aired with the exception
+of "Chrysalis," which will be a bit down the road yet.
+
+     A quick thought.
+
+     When this show first went on the air, I had been promising that the
+series would be something different, stuff and an overall approach -- the
+basic arc -- not done before on television.  After "Midnight," and to some
+extent "Soul Hunter" and "Infection," a number of folks on various nets were
+saying it wasn't as advertised.  I read those posts, and at times was
+frustrated by them, because I knew what was coming in "Sky," and "Signs and
+Portents," and "Babylon Squared" and others.
+
+     I think that the point has been made...and the promise kept.
+
+     I think we've done pretty good.
+
+     I will put our first season against the first season of *any* prior SF
+series.  Step back for a moment and look at what we've had just so far:
+
+     Signs and Portents...And the Sky Full of Stars...Babylon Squared... The
+Parliament of Dreams...Mind War...Deathwalker...Believers...and the rest.
+
+     And we're *just* getting started...and "Chrysalis," the best of the
+bunch, is still lurking around the corner.
+
+     Those of you who've been around, and have seen the majority of the aired
+episodes, know what we're trying to do, and where we're trying to go with
+this.  In another topic, the show was described as "a meta SF saga," and I
+guess that covers it as well as anything else.
+
+     I just think it's useful, at this point, to step back from the individual
+episodes -- the details -- and look at the whole first season as a whole
+tapestry...and I think we've covered a LOT of new terrain, and done some
+pretty nifty stuff.
+
+     In the final analysis, I think we've made a little history with this
+show...had an effect on how SF Television will be done henceforth, and brought
+a "screw 'em, let's go for broke" philosophy back to the genre, which
+(personal opinion) had grown, in TV, a bit on the stuffy side.  Bar fights,
+main characters who lie, bad guys who do good things and good guys who do bad
+things, bathrooms, fasten/zip and lessons in Centauri anatomy, we've broken
+some of the taboos, and I think that's a positive thing.
+
+     (Pound for pound, though, on reflection, I'd have to say that the X-Files
+also had about as good a first season as anything I've ever seen, though
+technically it's not SF...not really horror...more in the category of Really
+Weird Stuff.)
+
+     Anyway, just some thoughts at the end of the day.
+
+                                                         jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 455       Sat Aug 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:18 EDT
+
+     Dana...you're quite correct.  Getting a show sold is next to impossible;
+getting it actually produced at *all* and finally actually on the air is even
+unliklier.  With all the ten zillion elements that go into any one episode,
+where any one element -- script, guest star, effects -- can kill the episode
+if it goes wrong, that *anything* gets made with any quality at all is really
+a case of swimming upstream.
+
+     Re: self-sacrifice as a recurring theme...yes, and it's something that
+has become kind of passe; you don't tend to see it much in TV.  It's a very,
+very old-fashioned notion, but I think it's an important one.
+
+     We've now finished shooting episode number one of season two, and today
+began filming on episode two, "Revelations."  The first episode is just
+*gorgeous*.  John Iacovelli, our production designer, absolutely knocked
+himself out improving the look and feel of the sets, making it all look
+bigger, better, more *real*...and Bruce has been doing a bang-up job.  (No
+major guest stars in the first episode, "Points of Departure," just our
+regulars and Bruce.  Guest in "Revelations" is Beverly Leech, playing
+Elizabeth Sheridan, John Sheridan's sister.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 458       Sat Aug 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:02 EDT
+
+     I imagine the pilot will air again eventually, though I don't know when;
+and as for the end of the story...the only way I was able to get this far is
+to focus on only one reality: that the show would get sold, the pilot would
+get made, the series would begin and run five years, to  the end.  If I ever
+allowed any other possibility to enter my fevered brain, it never would've
+come about.  So I can't even *consider* that question, well-meaning as it is.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 555       Wed Aug 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:24 EDT
+
+     Since this just hit the wire services, I figured I'd mention it here.
+
+     The release went out from Classics International, owner of First Comics.
+A deal has been concluded between CIE and Rattlesnake Prods. (owned by my
+partner on Babylon 5 Doug Netter) to form a separate entity to produce a
+feature film based on the Grimjack books by John Ostrander.
+
+     The movie is budgeted for $30 million, and I've been asked, and have
+agreed, to write the screenplay.  (My job, as I see it, is to Leave The Damned
+Thing Alone and *adapt* the book, rather than throw stuff out and make it all
+up.  I loved the book when it was out, and read it regularly.  My hope is to
+do as faithful a transition to film as possible.  I've met with John
+Ostrander, and our feelings on which cycle of the Grimjack story to base the
+feature film on are absolutely the same.)
+
+     The plan is to have the script finished by late fall, probably around
+November/December, and shoot the thing in early or mid-1995.
+
+     (In addition, this Fall we're currently slated to begin production on a
+two-hour pilot for a new contemporary science fiction series which I've
+created and written for first-run syndication.  Current plans are to film the
+pilot in either Vancouver or Portland, with Doug and I serving again as
+Executive Producers, as with Babylon 5.  I can't reveal the title at this time
+-- it's nothing you'd recognize, it's an original concept, but it's a cool
+title and I'd hate to lose it -- but I hope to have more on this over the next
+few months.  Also, there are still one or two more hurdles before we can start
+production, even though we've been unofficially greenlighted, so I'll hold
+back just a bit for now until the ink dries officially.)
+
+     The series that would come out of the pilot would also be exec produced
+by me and Doug, but not with the same degree of direct day to day involvement
+as Babylon 5, which remains our first priority.  We would get a dedicated, SF-
+informed writer/producer to head up the other show, under our direct
+supervision.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 560       Wed Aug 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:41 EDT
+
+      Yeah, the main cycle I've selected for the script is the Demon
+Blood/Demon Wars storyline.  All hell breaks loose....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 573       Thu Aug 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:36 EDT
+
+     Allen...all the rights have been checked, and John is very happy with the
+arrangements.  Everything's copacetic.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 575       Thu Aug 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:20 EDT
+
+     BTW...just thought I'd mention this...over the weekend, Claudia Christian
+was running in her backyard, and broke her foot in three places.  Which led to
+a frenzy of rewriting (by me) of the next couple of episodes to work around
+it.  Was rather complicated by some active things she had to do, but it's all
+worked out.  Turned in the last draft of a biggie for her, and the stories all
+still track.  A gentle reminder that actors are people.  Claudia actually made
+it into the studio today, for one brief scene, with her foot concealed, and
+carried on like a real trooper, keeping everyone else's spirits up, since we
+were concerned about her.  (That's always the way, it seems; you worry more
+about the person who got hurt than the person herself does.)
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 622       Sun Aug 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:53 EDT
+
+     Requested, we deliver...just uploaded cruiser.gif to the B5 library
+(#1260), which is a shot of a Minbari war cruiser.
+
+     Main obstacle to uploading more is that even though I'm free flagged, the
+GEnie access numbers don't allow 9600 baud for such flags, and I have to log
+on at 2400 baud, which means it takes 15 minutes or so to upload a single
+file, as opposed to about 3 minutes on other systems.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 627       Sun Aug 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:57 EDT
+
+     A bit of an update....
+
+     Early last week, we got the director's cut of our first episode of the
+second season, "Points of Departure."  We went in Friday to do our producer's
+cut (me and John Copeland, whom I've dubbed Mister Action, since he's very
+good at action sequences), and that's now finished.  All the CGI is in, absent
+three virtual set shots, so otherwise only music and sound effects are
+missing.  We'll get to those next week.
+
+     The episode is *very* nice.  In some ways, it's almost a whole new
+series.  Right off the bat, what you'll notice is how much better (and bigger)
+many of the sets seem.  We've also modified the lighting just a tick; I like
+it dark, but over the course of the season it was apparent  that it was *so*
+dark in places that you really couldn't see or fully appreciate a lot of the
+details in costume, sets and other areas, so we lightened it just a notch, but
+counterbalanced by greater use of  shadows (no play on words intended) and
+color and textures, so that the show on one level looks moodier, but is more
+accessible.  A shadow on black can't be seen; a shadow that's visible carries
+more impact.
+
+     We've built all new EA uniforms, and added a few small touches to make
+them better; a bit of red piping along the collar and leather to make the
+dividing line pop slightly; a better grade of letter and fabric so that the
+uniforms look and wear better; slight modifications to the cuffs so they'll
+end clean without gathering in a blousy kind of way; shirts of better fabric
+with military tailoring so they wear better.
+
+     Ron's effects continue to get better, both here and in what I've seen of
+the CGI in "Revelations."  There's one particular shot in "Revelations" of a
+Narn ship, very close-up, that I think has finally cracked the line between
+models and CGI...it looks absolutely *solid*.
+
+     As I said, we're doing more with virtual sets and digital effects, and
+we'll be seeing some two-story sets in many places.
+
+     Ivanova is all through the story, in practically every scene (and being
+driven thoroughly nuts by various situations), with Sheridan also coming into
+a very difficult situation.  Both are absolutely excellent in the role.  Bruce
+brings a strength, and a vulnerability, to the role that is very nice to
+watch.  Sheridan and Ivanova play very well together, and I think you'll be
+very pleased.
+
+     Though deliberately not as intense as "Chrysalis" or "Revelations," which
+sandwich it on either side, it's got a lot of twists and turns and surprises
+in it.  It's very much a character driven story, with several arc elements,
+where the other two are very strong arc episodes.
+
+      In any event...I'm extremely pleased.  When you start changing elements,
+you never really know how things will turn out, despite your best intentions.
+In this case, I think this is a great episode, and it actually seems to be
+coming together wonderfully.
+
+     I am profoundly relieved.
+
+     And given what I'm seeing in "Revelations" (we have one more day of
+filming on Monday) in dailies...this is gonna be one hell of a season.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 644       Sun Aug 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:15 EDT
+
+     I'd rather let the virtual sets be more of a surprise.
+
+     An address where you can reach the friendly folks at B5: 14431 Ventura
+Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 672       Tue Aug 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:28 EDT
+
+     For those who watch "Points of Departure" when it airs, keep a sharp ear
+out...our friend Mr. Jarvis gets plinked.
+
+     With maybe one or two exceptions, all *I* get are gif images, since those
+are quickest to make and get off Ron's system.  (John Copeland and I download
+images comprising the top and bottom frames of EFX shots for approval...I've
+got something like 80 megabytes of the stuff.)
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+Babylon 5 offically became a series on May 28 '93. There will be 22 hour eps
+for season one (in addition to the pilot). Airs Wednesdays at 8PM in most
+places starting Jan. 26 '94.  This is the SPOILER topic where anything goes.
+
+586 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 374       Wed Aug 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:57 EDT
+
+     Correction: I did *not* write the outline for the B5 novel that John is
+doing.  I approved it, but he thunk it up all on his own.
+
+     Last day of shooting on "Points" is Thursday.  We shoot seven days, NOT
+counting weekends.  So far shooting is going astonishingly well; Bruce is
+fitting beautifully into the company.  Some great and very funny
+scenes...balanced with some major revelations throughout.  We're doing some
+terrific new sets, including the Earthforce lounge (when I've christened
+"Earhart's," after Amelia Earhart, and a two-story Bazaar that is *very* cool
+indeed.  Janet Greek is directing "Points."  Second up, starting Friday, is
+"Revelations," being directed by Jim Johnston.
+
+     We always have several meetings with the director to make sure we're on
+the same wavelength, culminating in a final tone meeting where we go through
+page by page, scene by scene (done again in a major production meeting later
+with all our crew).  There are no tabled read throughs, though the director
+rehearses as much as required before each scene.  Generally speaking, there
+isn't much rewriting done on many of our scripts once they hit second draft; I
+don't like directors or actors rewriting on set, and won't allow it.  If
+there's a required change, the person involved has to get it approved by me
+or, if I'm absent, Larry.   So far, of the six or so scripts we have in final
+shape, none has gone past pink pages (in order, it's white pages (final draft,
+published to all departments), blue pages (1st revision) and pink pages (2nd
+rev.).   Many shows have a whole rainbow of colors in scripts, through 8-10
+revisions.  We don't do that.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 376       Wed Aug 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:17 EDT
+
+     B5 novel #1, figure late November/early December.  For the CDRom, figure
+January.
+
+     On the comic, the artists will change with each 4-issue cycle; initially,
+they're using Michael Netzer and Rob Leigh.  The first issue is a JMS script;
+2-4 is a JMS premise translated into script by Mark Moretti.
+
+                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 382       Thu Aug 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:20 EDT
+
+     The jury system has *not* been abolished.  Several things to bear in
+mind...first, even now, choice can dictate a jury vs. judge trial (it is often
+in the plaintiff's court, so to speak, to choose which one is preferred in
+civil trials).  Second, if you look back at the history of the US, even in
+jury trial days, you had Circuit Court Judges who traveled through rural
+areas, frontier and unconsolidated regions, and held court by themselves.
+
+     Babylon 5 is a unique environment.  There are only two basic types of
+people (speaking only of humans for now) around: those employed by EA or the
+station (conflict of interest), or travelers, who won't be around long enough
+for a prolonged trial.  So in that kind of situation, the Ombuds arose...a
+2258 version of a Circuit Court Judge.
+
+     It's absolutely in line with what's been done in our own country.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 436       Thu Aug 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:32 EDT
+
+     Kwicker..."What if Joe wrote a story in which a "memory-challenged"
+person DISCOVERED records of who or what he was?"
+
+     I was in the process of developing that as a b-story in an upcoming
+episode.
+
+     Because of that comment, I now have to scuttle the story.
+
+     I understand that this proceeds from enthusiasm on everyone's part, but
+let me repeat this as forcefully as I can: NO STORY IDEAS.  No matter what
+anyone says, what disclaimers are put up, if I see a story idea that is
+something we're doing or contemplating doing...I have to scuttle it to protect
+the series.
+
+     This has just torpedoed what would've been a very compelling little b-
+story.
+
+     Everyone, please, be *very* careful about this...the only other  option I
+have, if it begins happening too much, is to dive out of the discussion, and
+I'd *really* rather not have to do that.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 438       Thu Aug 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:37 EDT
+
+     Nonetheless, it was a *specific* story idea, presented in the B5 area,
+where I saw it.  This is how it has to be handled.
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 444       Thu Aug 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:23 EDT
+
+     K.Wicker...there's a difference between saying, "Will we see a huge
+carrier vessel this year?" and sketching out a story idea.  I've tried to
+drive home this point many times.  As for the speculation on the arc
+topic...I'm keeping my eye on it, and if it starts to get too specific, with
+too many concrete suggestions, I'm going to have to have it closed down.  So
+far, it's okay, though it's dancing a careful dance.
+
+     This isn't news to anyone.  This has always been the situation.  This is
+the fifth time that I've had to scuttle a story (thankfully none of them vital
+arc stuff) because someone suggested the thing on-line; one here, one on CIS,
+and three on Internet (which is more rowdy and with a lot more message
+traffic).  On the up side, that this has only happened five times is a good
+thing...on the other hand, five stories is one fourth of a season....
+
+     I can't budge from this position.  I've said it before.  I have an
+obligation to protect my show.  Sometimes we need reminders, I guess.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 452       Fri Aug 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:39 EDT
+
+     Bruce...no, that doesn't count.  Speculation, discussion...it's when it
+is phrased as a story idea, and/or comes replete with beginning, middle and
+end, that a problem occurs.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 465       Sat Aug 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:17 EDT
+
+     Fanzines (specifically published fan fiction) is a problem for many
+writers; Marion Zimmer Bradley had a book torpedoed by the publishing company -
+- killing a year's work -- because the story was too similar to a fanzine
+story, and they were concerned the person might sue.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 480       Sat Aug 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:47 EDT
+
+     Linda...let me explain how this might work, also for the benefit of
+others.
+
+     Let's start with the assumption that every person currently here on line
+is honest, intelligent, trustworthy and not suit-happy.  (Fill in your own
+punchline.)
+
+     Tomorrow, Billy Ray Marzipan signs onto the B5 conference.  He's big on
+the show, wants to be in the discussion.  We're cool so far.  One day, BRM
+writes, "Hey, Joe, how about an episode where Sheridan is swallowed by a giant
+space whale, discovers an ancient Shadowman text, and escapes."
+
+     Now, it just so happens that let's say we're doing such a story already.
+I can choose to say nothing.  Then, six months down the road, "In Harm's
+Esophagus" airs, and becomes one of the all-time favorite B5 episodes.  BRM is
+sure that I stole his story...he broods over it, gets more and more
+agitated...and one day finally decides to sue.
+
+     Or, I can choose to say, at the time, "Hey, we're doing a story like
+that, just so you know," and do it anyway...but BRM has no objective way of
+knowing *for sure* if I was doing it already...so six months later... same
+result.
+
+     We are a litigious, lawsuit-happy society.  And not everyone out there is
+as sane and reasonable as the people currently here on line.  So the only
+thing I can do, short of signing off every BBS I'm on, is to make it as clear
+as possible that we cannot have story suggestions.  If one is made, I have to
+be sure to either not do it, or if we're doing it...kill it.
+
+     Further, on-line disclaimers are meaningless.  You can't prove that the
+phosphor-dot "signature" was really made by the person.  Further, it can be
+argued that since the agreement not to post story ideas was  required for
+admission, one can say that any such offer of disclaimer was made "under
+duress," and thus not binding.
+
+     It is not a sane or reasonable position to put people in, and I am fully
+aware of that.  But society for the most part is itself neither sane nor
+reasonable, and in the interests of my show I have to put safeguards in place
+that I may neither like nor want.
+
+     On the issue of fanzines...I don't see them, and generally instruct
+people, "don't ask, don't tell."
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 503       Sun Aug 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:17 EDT
+
+     Torville...fine...except left unmonitored, there would be *hundreds* of
+these coming out on a weekly basis...and I think that my time and the time of
+my staff are better served making the series than tracking down hundreds of
+errant story ideas and mailing out releases.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 519       Tue Aug 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:33 EDT
+
+     The pages that I've seen are quite nice.  (Kaluta is doing the cover.)  I
+really enjoy writing comics, though I haven't done as many as I'd like, and
+may contribute one of the arcs down the road (the arc that immediately follows
+my one-shot is by Mark Moretti, based on a premise by jms).
+
+     Here's a spoiler for "Chrysalis," just for fun.
+
+     Something mysterious happens; then something ominous happens; then
+something wonderful happens; then something astonishing happens; then
+something even more mysterious happens; then something *terrible* happens;
+then *another* terrible thing happens; then three more mysterious and ominous
+things happen.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 541       Wed Aug 31, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:13 EDT
+
+     Tom: by all means, keep the statement.  I did it more or less in order
+within the story.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Cast & Characters      
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+420 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 334       Wed Aug 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:57 EDT
+
+     Hell, I was just suprised that Shawn Cassidy could *read*.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 346       Thu Aug 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:23 EDT
+
+     How about Michael Ansara, for one?  Just cast him in "The Geometry of
+Shadows."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 350       Fri Aug 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:40 EDT
+
+     New Na'Toth is Mary Kay Adams.  New character, Warren Keffer, a squadron
+pilot (later a squad leader) is played by Robert Russler, in about 8 episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 380       Wed Aug 31, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:15 EDT
+
+     ...and add Russ Tamblyn in episode #4, "A Distant Star."
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ************
+Topic 6         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 06:43 EST
+Sub: Where is Babylon 5? TV stations... 
+
+Babylon 5 is a cornerstone of Warner's new Prime Time Entertainment Network.
+Here is where one can find and post station information.
+
+383 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 6
+Message 376       Tue Aug 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:34 EDT
+
+     There's nothing I can do about stations at the local level; it's up to
+local residents to bug the stations.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B5 Adrift!                         
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+383 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 359       Thu Aug 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:33 EDT
+
+     If you pursue this further, it could lead to the box being retracted; the
+Neilsen company is *very* sensitive about this, and they hear everything....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Merchandising          
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+483 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 448       Sat Aug 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:28 EDT
+
+      Start with the end of the story.  Then the beginning.
+
+      The end of the story finds jms sitting at his desk, elbows on
+ desktop, hands covering face...as from somewhere behind those hands comes
+ a high-pitched, keening, mournful sound audible only to dachsunds and
+ banshee-groupies.
+
+      The beginning of the story?
+
+      John Copeland, our producer, shows me something that John Iacovelli
+ came into the office bearing...a B5 cap.  It's a very nice Babylon 5 cap.
+  Stitching's a little off, though, I notice...not bad, but noticeable.
+ I learn it's commercially available.  Well, still and all, not a bad
+ thing, I decide, trying to figure out why John's smiling at me in this
+ really weird fashion.  People have been asking for B5 caps, and now they
+ can buy them through, it seems, Creation Entertainment, as this was
+ bought at a Creation store in Glendale (Sci-Fi Universe), and it's a
+ Creation produced item, under their license....
+
+      Then the tag hanging from the back of the cap slips out into my
+ hand, dangling from that little white-plastic-string-thingie they stick
+ through labels.
+
+      And what does the label on that white-plastic-string-thingie say?
+
+      OFFICIAL LICENSED PRODUCT, PARAMOUNT TELEVISION.
+
+      We never get a break...never...ever...the horror...the horror....
+
+                                    ..eeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEeeeee........
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 24        Fri Jun 04, 1993
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:11 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Weapons and Warfare!   
+
+For discussion about the weapons, counter weapons, armor, shielding, tactics,
+logistics, and so forth, of small combat and large scale war in the Babylon 5
+universe.
+419 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 353       Wed Aug 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:20 EDT
+
+     The B5 flak jackets which disperse energy would be a kind of Starlite
+material.  (Are we ahead of our time or what?)
+
+                                                       jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 374       Thu Aug 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:35 EDT
+
+     Mike...that's not far off the mark.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 393       Tue Aug 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:39 EDT
+
+     Just to reinforce the preceding...B5 is not a battlefield, and its
+internal (personnel) defense systems are more basic.  Security guards simply
+don't go into combat, and if they were fully outfitted, they would destroy the
+station in its first engagement.
+
+     We really haven't seen any EA ground soldiers yet (though there is a
+story in the works about them, tentatively called "Gropos," for ground
+pounders).
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 29        Thu Jun 30, 1994
+B.SHERRIS [Brett]            at 00:03 EDT
+Sub: The Master Plan                    
+
+WARNING!  THIS TOPIC MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS VITAL TO THE FIVE YEAR
+ STORY ARC OF BABYLON 5.  DO NOT READ THIS TOPIC IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO
+ POSSIBLY DISCOVER THE PURPOSE OF THE FIVE YEAR STORY ARC!
+109 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 29
+Message 83        Wed Aug 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:59 EDT
+
+     The Hyperion is not typical; it's one of the ships that survived the War.
+Not many did.  There are niftier, newer ships built in the last eleven years
+that you'll be seeing eventually.
+
+                                                       jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 29
+Message 85        Wed Aug 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:21 EDT
+
+     Weapons are *recessed* into the body, and covered to protect them from
+micrometeorites and other bits of debris, and from enemy assault.   When
+prepared for use, the ports are opened, revealing the weapons inside.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 29
+Message 89        Thu Aug 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:24 EDT
+
+     I kinda have to be here, in case the discussions come too close to story
+ideas, in which event I'll have to toss a bucket of cold water in here.  It's
+treading a fine line as it is, but so far hasn't quite crossed it.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 30        Mon Jul 04, 1994
+D.KAUFFMAN5 [CyberDad]       at 13:14 EDT
+Sub: Nods, In-Jokes, and References     
+
+Post any nods, in-jokes, or references you have seen here.  For example,
+Babylon 5 refers to the Babylon of ancient Earth; the location of B5 is at
+Grid Epsilon 470/18/22, the location of the original B5 topic on GEnie.
+181 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 30
+Message 123       Fri Aug 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:41 EDT
+
+     Minbari use base 11, not base 10, so twelve would be eleventy-first
+year, and so on.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 30
+Message 126       Fri Aug 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:05 EDT
+
+     Minbari base eleven includes fingers and head, from which the principle
+of mathematics comes.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 30
+Message 141       Sun Aug 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:10 EDT
+
+     You're also looking at this from a strictly English-speaking perspective;
+in German, for instance, 21 is "Ein und Zwanzig" (pardon any misspellings in
+there, it's been a while) which is exactly the same structure, albeit
+reversed, used for Minbari counting (and, in fact, is more or less what I
+based his "statement" on).
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 30
+Message 144       Sun Aug 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:04 EDT
+
+     Have there been any good "how many X's to screw in a light bulb?" jokes
+in this topic?
+
+                                                         jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 30
+Message 162       Tue Aug 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:32 EDT
+
+     Needed it for a script, but came up with one of my own: How many Minbari
+does it take to screw in a light bulb?  None...they always surrender just
+before finishing the job, but won't tell you why.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 30
+Message 174       Sun Aug 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:01 EDT
+
+     Eleventy-seven = Eighteen base ten.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+ ************
+Topic 18        Sun Apr 17, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:47 EDT
+Sub: #117 - "The Quality Of Mercy"      
+
+by JMS.  Directed by Janet Greek.  Co-Starring June Lockhart.
+94 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 18
+Message 16        Thu Aug 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:28 EDT
+
+     Centauri females, btw, have six narrow...ummm...slots on their backs,
+three on either side of the spine, right around the base of the spine.
+
+     The awful thing is that the two women in props -- who were having  FAR
+too much fun with this -- kept bringing me the tentacle to verify the shape,
+size, consistency, do we see veins or not....
+
+     I tell you here and now: our staff meetings are something else.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 18
+Message 45        Fri Aug 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:59 EDT
+
+     Side-note...Londo baring his teeth had nothing to do with Delenn's vote
+in "The Gathering."  That was gas.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 18
+Message 48        Fri Aug 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:36 EDT
+
+     Fax...means she is participating in the death of a mind.
+
+        jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 24        Sun Apr 17, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:58 EDT
+Sub: #118 - "Babylon Squared"           
+
+by JMS.   Directed by Jim Johnston.
+196 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 24
+Message 122       Tue Aug 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:53 EDT
+
+     Actually, I never said that the Minbari all go through changes from male
+to female or vice versa; that became a bit of accepted story because people
+kept repeating it, going from speculation to being "sure" I said it.  Didn't.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
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+This file contains messages posted by J. Michael Straczynski on GEnie
+from Sep 1 - Sep 15th.  Postings are copyright 1994 by J. Michael Straczynski
+with compilation copyright by GEnie.
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category and main topic for the new series. Here is
+the place for all general information on the series. Topic 2 is the location
+for SPOILERS. And please, NO STORY IDEAS are to be posted either.
+516 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 100       Thu Sep 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:08 EDT
+
+     Actually, the surcharge isn't the problem.  It's just that when my
+account was changed over, and a new one created, my old account (which I still
+pay for separately) is now M.SKI (I didn't do it, that's how it ended up
+somehow).  I just can't bring myself to upload under the name M.SKI.  If this
+could be changed, like to BABYLON or something, then it'd be fine.  (Is this,
+like, a profoundly stupid reason or what?)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 111       Fri Sep 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:42 EDT
+
+     Well, color me stupid.
+
+     Preface: as has been stated before, since no studio facility was big
+enough for our purposes (we now have 20 standing sets and 57 swing sets, some
+120' wide or more), we took over an industrial facility roughly the size of
+Latvia and built three soundproofed soundstages, costume facilities,
+construction areas, dubbing room, prosthetics wings, you name it.  It's sort
+of a Lucas Ranch operation, everything under one roof.
+
+     A number of shows have taken over and converted such facilities to shoot
+series, but I'm proud to note that this is the *first* such conversion to be
+finally, officially and formally redefined by the city as a working studio.
+It's the *first* new studio in town in something like 10 years.  There's
+nothing else like it unless you want to actually go on the lot of a major
+studio.  (And it has the advantage of being off the lot, away from people who
+might wander into your stage and, oh, start giving you notes.  If you're a bit
+away, they have to drive over, and the hassle ain't worth it.)
+
+     Anyway...my office is at the very end of the script wing.  As you walk
+down the hall, my office is on your right.  Then you hit the door at the end
+of the wing, go through into an open space, and twenty feet away is the door
+to stage C.  I picked the office because it was as close as you could get to
+the stage without actually being *in* the stage.
+
+     So I've been in there for, oh, about a year and half now.  Now I noticed,
+upon putting in my new computer, and putting it a bit closer to the far wall
+(the one opposite the stage), that the monitor began to flicker.  I figured it
+was a software problem, or a glitch in the hardware.  Nothing worked...until I
+moved it further away from the wall.
+
+     "Hmmm," says I, "I wonder what could be doing that."
+
+     Then I remember that on the other side of my office wall, roughly 24
+inches from where I'm sitting, is the wall-length set of transformers and
+electrical equipment that powers the entire studio (and we use a LOT of
+power...you could fry Godzilla with what comes into our facility).
+
+     Now I begin to wonder...waitaminnit...just HOW BIG is the EMF
+(electromagnetic field) that I've been sitting in, that's been bleeding
+through this wall?  So we bring in a guy who measures such things, from a
+reputable company.
+
+     The maximum safe amount of EMF is a reading of 0.4.  The guy approached
+my desk, my chair...and his jaw dropped.
+
+     The EMF level was 200.5.
+
+     Which explains why, at the end of the day, for the last year or so, I've
+been practically dragging by mid-day.  I always seemed to get more work done
+at home.  Now I know why.
+
+     And the stupid part is, it's not something you can miss, the
+transformers/generators are huge.  Just never occured to me.
+
+     Since he left ("You've been sitting there HOW LONG?!"), I've had my desk
+moved across the room, to the safe (0.4) area.  And suddenly I'm back to full
+speed (well, not suddenly, it's taken a few days, but I'm there), barrelling
+through drafts and keeping up the pace right until I leave at 7-8 p.m., which
+is what's *normal* for me, and was normal except for the last year and a half.
+
+     Four hundred times the proscribed limits...oh, man....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 115       Fri Sep 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:41 EDT
+
+     I've spoken before of Norman Corwin.  For those who might've missed it,
+Norman Corwin is one of the finest writers that this country has ever
+produced.  At the height of the radio drama age, there was no one better or
+bigger...not Orson Welles or Arch Oboler.  Nobody.
+
+     He has been an inspiration to countless writers.  Charles Kuralt. Rod
+Serling.  Ray Bradbury (who began his career trying to write like Norman).  He
+is, not to put too fine a point on it, a writer's writer. He is the wellspring
+from which many of our finest writers can trace their origin.  Speaking as one
+tiny trickle in this momentous flood, I can certify his influence on my own
+work.
+
+     Some have commented on the style of writing in Babylon 5, and in some of
+my previous work.  While much can be laid at the feet of Harlan Ellison, much
+of my influence can also be traced to Norman Corwin, who taught me not just
+how to write, but what it meant to BE a writer.  I cannot commend his work to
+you highly enough.  If you have a love of language, of a story well told, of
+fiction with a conscience and a  point of view, then Norman's your man.  Some
+of you may remember "A Prayer for the 70s," written by Norman, which I posted
+a while back.   A work of absolute genius, in a career peppered with awards,
+and recognition by the U.N. and others.
+
+     Many of you have asked for more information about Norman's work. To that
+end I offer the following information:
+
+     Norman has a new book out, that is just hitting the stands.  It is
+entitled NORMAN CORWIN'S LETTERS, edited by A. J. Langguth.  It's in hardcover
+from Barricade Books, ISBN #0-9623032-5-9.  It is an amazing volume, full of
+inspiration and humor and the occasional thunder-and-lightning.
+
+     You will find letters to and from such notables -- friends of Norman's --
+as Carl Sandburg, Ray Bradbury, Bette Davis, Stanley Kramer, Groucho Marx,
+Greer Garson, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Edward R. Murrow,
+Anthony Quinn, Rod Serling, Leonard Bernstein, Erik Barnouw, Archibald
+MacLeish, Stan Freberg, Walter Cronkite, Norman Cousins, Studs Terkel, Eric
+Sevareid, Philip Dunne, Bill Moyers, Gregory Peck...the list goes on and on.
+
+     The letters are documents of a life, funny and outraged and
+thoughtful...and beautifully written beyond my capacity to describe it to you.
+If you are a writer, or interested in writing, I can commend no book to you
+higher than this one.
+
+     If as a Babylon 5 viewer you'd like to get a better grasp of what
+inspired me to pursue my career, and has helped make that  dream a reality...I
+recommend to you the works of Norman Corwin, starting with this book.
+
+     If you need any further encouragement to go out *today* and get a copy of
+this book, then let me simply suggest that you call up a copy of Who's Who,
+and look up who Norman Corwin is.  I don't think you'll need additional
+encouragement thereafter.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+     (PS.  I'm still having a hard time uploading prepared messages to
+Internet via the GEnie mailbox; if anyone could be kind enough to take the
+preceding and post it to the B5 rec group, I'd definitely appreciate it.
+Thanks.)
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 132       Sat Sep 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:40 EDT
+
+     Actually, since the vasectomy in college, having kids ain't an issue.
+
+     As for the rest, well, you know what they say, with great power comes
+great resp--     what's that spider doing on my keyboard?
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 152       Sun Sep 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:37 EDT
+
+     At this juncture, we're pretty much shooting in production order; at some
+point about mid-season we may have to shoot a few early to accommodate post-
+production needs, which are going to grow exponentially as we crank through
+the season, but we're going to work our way up to that.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 162       Sun Sep 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:41 EDT
+
+     Two weeks ago, B5 was #20 in the ratings.  This past week it came in #18.
+That's overall, including game shows, talk shows, you name it.  It's a
+definite, strong increase.  We've been increasing our ratings by about 10-25%
+every week, consistently, for the last 7 weeks.
+
+     And as noted above...nope, don't do cameos.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 170       Mon Sep 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:21 EDT
+
+     Given that my office is nowhere near Universal anymore, alas, I could not
+see you, even with my EMF enhanced Producer-Vision (tm).
+
+     During the time I *was* working on the Universal lot -- first on Jake,
+later for two years on Murder -- I did go up to the park a lot, prior to the
+construction of the City Walk, to nab lunch at something other than the
+commissary.  You could walk on and off the park, if you worked at the studio.
+Used to walk past folks from all over the world, who keep peering around
+looking for somebody who might work in TeeVee or movies (and naturally the
+stars never go near the place), not knowing that the person at their elbow
+with the hot dog under the huge poster of Angela Lansbury was a producer on
+that show.
+
+     Naturally, they waited until after I'd left Universal to put up the City
+Walk, which now has all KINDS of places to eat....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 182       Mon Sep 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:16 EDT
+
+     Yes, Pat, there were a lot of rumors.  If the studio had put its foot
+down that there would be a "young hunk" there probably would've been a young
+hunk.  We wanted the best actor we could find, best suited to that role.
+That's Bruce.
+
+     Not to get personal, Pat, but have you ever considered maybe seeing how
+he performs in this role before judging his performance?  I'm just a little
+tired of people pre-judging others.  And especially of the term "wooden,"
+which people seem to use whenever somebody doesn't act in full blown
+hysterics.  (I can mention that Michael was hurt by many of the comments here
+and elsewhere by people saying his performance was "wooden," and later, many
+of those people turned around when they saw what he was trying to connote in
+his performance...but that made the emotional hurt no less real.)
+
+     That said...I have found Bruce's performance in the first three episodes
+to be lively, interesting, fun, dynamic and intense.
+
+     Actors also do better in some roles than in others.  There were some
+movies where Alec Guinesss was awful.  Some where he blew the doors off the
+theater.  I don't know what you've seen him in before; you may well be making
+the mistake of confusing the role with the person.  All I can tell you is that
+on this show, he's doing nothing less than spectacular work.
+
+     Why don't you maybe see a frame or two of film before deciding on the
+merits of someone's performance, Pat?  It's not a matter of rose colored
+glasses...it's giving someone a fair shot and the benefit of an open mind.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 197       Tue Sep 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:12 EDT
+
+     For starters, just as an FYI, I don't provide the actors with print-ups
+of anything here.  Often folks mail them to the actors, and then they come to
+me.
+
+     Second, there is a difference between negativity and constructive
+criticism.  Anyone who has ever taken a class in creative writing learns the
+difference right off.  Don't just say, "It sucks!"  Say why you don't like it,
+what you think can be done to improve it, what elements do or don't work.
+What hurts actors (or anyone, let's be honest) is after you have worked 12
+hour days to do something, people are out there saying,  "Kill 'em!  Shove 'em
+out an airlock!  They suck!"  These are things you would never say to
+someone's face.  And sometimes posters forget that they're talking about
+*people* here.
+
+     Yes, Cindy, your comments *did* get to some of the actors you have
+suggested be shoved out an airlock.  And they *did* hurt them.  And if that
+bothers you, it should.  You shouldn't post anything that you wouldn't feel
+comfortable if that person saw it...because sooner or later, that person WILL
+see it.  Why do you think I was hammering at you so hard to stop coming up
+with inventive ways to kill Laurel Takashima?
+
+     If you don't like someone's style of acting, there is nothing -- NOTHING -
+- wrong with saying so, and saying so as forcefully as you feel is
+appropriate.  I would only ask that you remember that these people are
+probably going to see it eventually, and that you find ways to be both
+specific and constructive.  "I think X's performance in the role just isn't up
+to the standard we expect; he doesn't move smoothly, he delivers his lines as
+though they were prepared rather than working them through and letting us see
+that; she leads with her lips more than thinking about the lines."
+
+     In a way, it's better to say *more*, and be specific, than just to say,
+"Ah, she stinks!  She's terrible!  Kill her!"
+
+     As for the vasectomy...not much of a story to tell.  Had it while I was
+still in college.  Always knew I didn't want kids, mainly because I am
+convinced that I would not be a good father.  Besides, there are already
+enough toys in here....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 204       Tue Sep 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:24 EDT
+
+     I think that to some degree, people haven't come to terms with the
+reality that BBSing is no longer a quiet little corner where nobody ever
+notices us and we can say what we want.  This is now part of the Great
+Information Highway (so they tell us).  This stuff gets circulated all over
+the place.  (Anybody who thinks the writers at ST don't see the often
+astonishing things said about them is quite wrong.)  The little room party is
+now being held in the ballroom...and the whole world is watching....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 281       Fri Sep 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:07 EDT
+
+     Pat...for starters, let me disagree with your thesis in the first place.
+I've read all the messages here, and not every single person here fell over
+dead and drooling over the idea of Bruce doing the show.  Many here *LIKED HIS
+PRIOR WORK*, and said so.  Some said they didn't.  Some said they would wait
+and see.  The "rose colored glasses" you note don't exist.
+
+     When people *did* pose an opinion, and liked him, it was because they
+liked his prior work, as stated.  Now, you didn't.  That's fine.  But what you
+are doing is stating *your* opinion as fact.  "Hey, all you people who spoke
+well of Bruce because you liked his work, HE'S WOODEN!   Your opinions don't
+matter!  I'm the one who's right here, and you should all sober up!"  That's
+not a direct statement, but it's what's implied.
+
+     So okay...you didn't like his work.  You are one of a very few who
+expressed this.  Your opinion is neither more nor less valid than anyone
+else's.  Don't get this sense that you have to correct everybody else by using
+the litmus test of your personal opinion.  Because that's all it is, it's not
+an objective law of nature.
+
+     On the topic of the way things are said around here...what one tends to
+forget is that the GEnie topic(s) are unusual in that unlike many such
+discussions of shows, the executive producer is here, and at least one cast
+member here lurks (Hi, Mira).  This tends to result in more cast and crew
+members peeking in here from time to time than it would in any other forum,
+like Prodigy or AOL.
+
+     Secondarily, again remember that this is part of the B5 experiment, in
+having direct interaction between viewers and production types.  That means
+that the rules are a trifle different.  You can go on any other board and say,
+"So-and-so sucks," and not be expected to behave in any other manner.  Now,
+you can also say "So-and-so sucks" *here* as well; there's no one to stop you.
+It just seems to me that if you have the ear of someone making the show, that
+you might *want* to be a bit more specific.
+
+     There are a LOT of comments that I could make, shots that I could take,
+that I don't, because I try to respect the conversation and the process of
+what we're doing here; I think it has a greater obligation than to insult
+people.  (Granted, once in a great while, if someone *really* goes out of his
+way to provoke me, I'll take his head off...but that is FAR more the exception
+than the rule.)  I try to be respectful of the people at the other end of the
+modem, due to our relationship.  I do not therefore think it is altogether
+inappropriate to ask the same; otherwise one is in the position of fighting
+with one's hands tied behind one's back.
+
+     I've never said, and do not want, anyone to hold back; I like the open
+exchange.  (And, I'd point out, given what I see on the systems where I lurk,
+there is MORE direct criticism and evaluation of the show on those systems
+where I'm known to be present than those where I'm not; knowing that someone
+from the show is here tends to result in people expressing more critical
+opinions because they know that someone's actually LISTENING.)  We are fast
+becoming a discourteous, uncivil society, and I know that we won't ever go
+back to anything other.  I just think that, in the case of our special
+conversation here...and it is special...we should endeavor to rise above "He
+stinks!" to a clarification of WHY you don't (or do) like someone or
+something.
+
+     This ain't your basic forum.  I certainly don't act like it is.  Ask
+Christy or Katherine Lawrence about my "basic" posts someday...you'll get an
+earful.  Here there's a different sensibility.
+
+     (Which is one reason why, btw, both NEWSWEEK and EMMY magazine are doing
+major stories on TV in BBS-land, focusing in large measure on this and a few
+other B5 forums.  We've grown used to what this is; the reporters, when they
+finally understand what this is all about, are simply astonished.  The
+foregoing intended as nothing other than a nudge to the compass....)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 313       Sat Sep 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:16 EDT
+
+     Sarah...you have to understand that I am in a no-win situation on this
+end of the modem.  I have to be *extremely* careful not to let my presence
+here, or things that I say, limit or appear to limit the freedom of people to
+say what they want.  If I told people to lay off because some (not all) cast
+members were reading this...I would get broasted, roasted and toasted, and
+deservedly so.  On the other hand, if I say nothing, then people can say that
+I'm being unfair in the other direction.
+
+     So I tend to err in the direction that I think will encourage the
+greatest degree of open speech.  It's the only thing that I can do.  I only
+referred (after it had already been broached by others) this part of it well
+AFTER the fact, not during it, because I think that serves as a better
+benchmark, or point to consider, than to drag it in DURING the conversation.
+
+     (In one or two occasions, I've offered to post something for one or
+another of the folks who've seen what's said here, but have always been asked
+not to, again on the grounds of not inhibiting the conversation.  I now have a
+third obligation to do as I'm asked, and respect that decision while the
+conversation is ongoing.)
+
+     Finally, often I didn't know about some of this until well after the
+fact.  I recently tried -- simply as an intellectual exercise -- to backtrack
+where some of the excerpts have come from, and it's like trying to trace the
+Watergate money.  They just sorta get handed around; some see them but most
+don't.  It's catch-as-catch-can, and I have no problem with any member of my
+cast or crew doing so.  I encourage them to come on-line directly.  And I have
+no problem with the discussion going on here; I just think that a general
+sense of awareness that words have meaning, and should be used with precision,
+and that we are not writing into a vacuum...these are things worth knowing.
+And now, between seasons, seems a good time to acknowledge that.
+
+     And that said (and at risk of being perceived as trying to lead the
+conversation, which is *always* the danger, as mentioned above)...I think
+we've more or less exhausted this subject, and moving on would be a true
+wonderfulness.
+
+     Maybe this'll work.
+
+     I just finished revising the opening narration for Year Two; it's much
+briefer than before, and now leaves room to show the characters/actors faces
+in quick shots under their names.  Though now abridged, there has been one
+added line in the narration.
+
+     "It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind...the year the Great War
+came upon us all."
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 345       Sat Sep 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:11 EDT
+
+     "Is this going to be a Protestant war or a Catholic war?"
+
+     Maybe an Old Testament War.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 355       Sun Sep 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:23 EDT
+
+     Mene mene tekel....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 356       Sun Sep 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:27 EDT
+
+     P.S.  So far the first 3-4 episodes of B5's second season are in real-
+time order, each separated by a week in story-time as well as in real time.
+It begins a few days into 2259, and the season would end just before the end
+of that year, with season three starting in 2260.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 361       Sun Sep 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:23 EDT
+
+     The new year's eve on B5 at the end of 2258 is definitely memorable.
+
+     BTW, B5 just won an Emmy for Best Makeup Design, our second overall, and
+our first for the series.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 389       Sun Sep 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:48 EDT
+
+     "It seems a certain producer was too busy...to put together a tape for
+WorldCon."
+
+     Now hold on here just one consarned minute...I don't know what was said
+at Conadian, by whom, but this ain't the case.  I told the programming people
+at the con, REPEATEDLY, by email, over a period of about two months, that I
+didn't have a tape, and didn't have the capacity to put one together just for
+this; said, REPEATEDLY, that I wouldn't be able to  attend, nor would anyone
+else on the show, due to production schedules.
+
+     They knew, WEEKS beforehand, that we would not be able to give them
+anything, or be present.  If they went ahead and scheduled something  anyway,
+only to cancel it, that's something *they* have to deal with, it ain't my
+fault, and I'm NOT taking the rap for it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 399       Mon Sep 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:49 EDT
+
+     I wasn't yelling at Perianne, only responding to the info that she passed
+along, which I've heard elsewhere.  If the con knew that I was not coming, nor
+was anyone else on the show, and they *did* know, then that panel shouldn't
+have been on the schedule to begin with.  And then to say that I blithely
+canceled, or just got "too busy" to do something for the con, and didn't tell
+anybody until the last minute...this is cheapjack behavior, and makes me look
+really bad, and I don't like it.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 406       Mon Sep 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:52 EDT
+
+     I think that if any of the characters recognized the parallel arc from
+the original Babylon it would move us too far into metafiction; I'm dancing on
+the edge of that in a few places, but don't want to go too far.
+
+     Mary Jo brings in actors to audition, but final decisions are made by me,
+Doug, John and the director.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 407       Mon Sep 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:55 EDT
+
+     P.S.  Apparently at the Conadian panel on B5, someone (not Perianne, so
+don't yell at me) announced that Dr. Franklin would not be returning in year
+two.  Totally untrue.  He's in for all 22 episodes this season.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+Babylon 5 offically became a series on May 28 '93. There will be 22 hour eps
+for season one (in addition to the pilot). Airs Wednesdays at 8PM in most
+places starting Jan. 26 '94.  This is the SPOILER topic where anything goes.
+
+405 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 247       Thu Sep 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:09 EDT
+
+     I think there is a qualitative difference between saying something, and
+writing it down.  When you write something down, it's protected by commonlaw
+copyright; just saying it doesn't count.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 312       Sun Sep 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:25 EDT
+
+     Not really the war starting in "Chrysalis," unless you are broad  enough
+in your thinking to include the assassin's bullet as the "start" of World War
+I...then in that case, you could say that, yes.  Let's say that the first
+domino falls, and let it go at that.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 348       Thu Sep 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:23 EDT
+
+     Kwicker, Ivanova has *not* said stuff about being Russian "every other
+episode."  I made the error of having her say it twice in the two-parter, now
+everybody's seeing it as a big thing.  It was mentined in Soul Hunter,
+Survivors, and Voice, and insofar as I know, that's it.  (I'll allow for the
+possibility of one more, even though I don't recall any others.)  I don't
+think that 3-4 episodes in a 22 episode season quite qualifies as "every other
+episode."
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 353       Thu Sep 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:29 EDT
+
+     Sinclair is also a strong character throughout issues 2-5 of the B5
+comic.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Computer SFX Tech-Talk 
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+487 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 429       Thu Sep 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:18 EDT
+
+     The funny part is that Berman and Pillar, according to mutual
+acquaintances and interviews, have been swearing up one side and down the
+other that they were never going CGI, were staying models.  And now they are
+coming to play on *our* turf.
+
+     Amblin's got Amigas with ten Screamers.
+
+     We've got only one Screamer.  But we've got Ron.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 436       Fri Sep 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:10 EDT
+
+     RE: 422, 423, 435...I dunno about the rest of you, but when they start
+talking like that, it scares the hell out of me....
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 452       Fri Sep 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:59 EDT
+
+     Of course, let's remember the extensive use of CGI in Jurassic Park.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 460       Sat Sep 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:37 EDT
+
+     Insofar as I know, the objects are all entered into the computer in their
+correct size ratios.  Sometimes perception can be tricked  depending on the
+position of the camera, the proximity of the interim object, and the
+background.  I'll check on this, but insofar as I know this is SOP.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 465       Sun Sep 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:50 EDT
+
+     That is, unfortunately, the problem with "filming" in space; it's ALL in
+focus because of the lack of atmosphere, which provides a slight haze that
+cues us to distance.  (Which was why they put the Hubble in space, after all.)
+If you look at footage from the Apollo missions, or the joint Soyuz missions,
+when one ship moves to dock with the other, it's very disturbing visually
+because from a distance, to close up, the other ship is crystal clear.  It's
+also very difficult to judge size when there's nothing of absolute size beside
+it.  If B5 were floating next to a football field, you'd know instantly how
+big the thing was.  We're trying to find ways to work around this....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 475       Tue Sep 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:45 EDT
+
+     Showman...the end of "Survivors," where Kemmer enters her ship...in
+reality there is only a ladder there.  The ship, the walls, the door she
+enters, all that is CGI/virtual set.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Cast & Characters      
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+497 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 390       Sat Sep 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:42 EDT
+
+     ...and add Dwight Schultz to the list of guest stars for this coming
+season....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 399       Sat Sep 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:43 EDT
+
+     And Walter Koenig returns as everyone's favorite Psi Cop in episode
+seven, "A Race Through Dark Places."
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 422       Mon Sep 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:17 EDT
+
+     Bester will be seen 1-2 times per season.  Perhaps a bit more as time
+goes on.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 432       Tue Sep 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:14 EDT
+
+     Dwight and Walter are in separate episodes, which would make it
+problematic to have them in the same scenes....
+
+                                                           jms
+
+ ************
+Topic 5         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            (Forwarded)
+Sub: Grid Epsilon Irregulars - News & Info.
+
+This topic is for information about Babylon 5 fan groups, newsletters,
+fanzines, get-togethers, B-5 at conventions, and other general fun.
+420 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 370       Mon Sep 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:23 EDT
+
+     Ah!  Now I begin to understand.  Alas, my offices aren't on the Warners
+lot either; we're well and truly off-campus.  Next time look up north a piece
+past the Universal Black Tower, and wave, I'll see you.
+
+     (Though on one level you're right; WB was where we pitched,and sold, the
+series, so in that sense it is the B5 birthplace.)
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 393       Sat Sep 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:13 EDT
+
+     I'm not sure I'm terribly sanguine about the times/places/dates of our
+softball games being posted in advance.  I'm going to have to think about
+this.  It kind of exposes our crew and cast, who don't know they're going to
+be put in that position.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 399       Sun Sep 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:24 EDT
+
+     Yes, got the shirt; just forgot to mention.  Many thanks, it's a Work of
+Art (and Art's a busy guy these days).
+
+                                                                jms
+
+ ************
+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B5 Adrift!                         
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+438 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 375       Fri Sep 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:29 EDT
+
+     There's nothing wrong with Paris that a good 500 megaton fusion bomb
+couldn't fix.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+404 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 373       Sun Sep 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:46 EDT
+
+     Though I don't have specific dates, you may want to be alert for articles
+in Newsweek and Emmy Magazine about B5 and our presence here on the 'nets.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 14        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:59 EST
+Sub: Lurkers/Introductions: Please Sign In
+
+A place for newcomers to come in, say hello, whether you want to jump into the
+conversation or not, just to let us know you're here.
+524 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 491       Mon Sep 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:26 EDT
+
+     A B5 cdrom coming out in the spring will have a lot of that info.   As
+for the filming...yes, we shoot in widescreen but protect for normal aspect
+ratios.  We've now begun the process of reconverting back to the original
+aspect ratio for foreign and eventual laserdisk release.  I will be getting
+the first copies of widescreen versions on tape over the next few months.
+
+                                                         jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 496       Mon Sep 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:20 EDT
+
+     Last date I heard was January 1995, but the main problem is that there's
+just an awful lot of information to codify and assemble, and Compton's has
+been going through some personnel changes of late.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 500       Tue Sep 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:14 EDT
+
+     Expect the B5 soundtrack sometime in November/December.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 25        Fri Mar 12, 1993
+S.SHELLENBAR [>> SHANE <<]   at 08:47 EST
+Sub: J. Michael Straczynski Speaks in Public
+
+This is the place to find out where and when JMS will be appearing next.  JMS
+has honed his skills as a public speaker and is taking his act on the road.
+321 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 302       Mon Sep 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:54 EDT
+
+     Don't know much about the scheduled plans, just what you know.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 304       Tue Sep 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:18 EDT
+
+     Mainly, it's a Q&A seminar...I can't read scripts (for obvious reasons),
+but I'm encouraging everyone to bring questions galore;  anything you wanted
+to know about how to sell scripts.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 309       Thu Sep 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:24 EDT
+
+     I have to have the next essay in by end of this month, so it should be
+shortly thereafter.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 30        Mon Jul 04, 1994
+D.KAUFFMAN5 [CyberDad]       at 13:14 EDT
+Sub: Nods, In-Jokes, and References     
+
+Post any nods, in-jokes, or references you have seen here.  For example,
+Babylon 5 refers to the Babylon of ancient Earth; the location of B5 is at
+Grid Epsilon 470/18/22, the location of the original B5 topic on GEnie.
+230 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 30
+Message 193       Thu Sep 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:34 EDT
+
+One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven
+
+Eleventy-one, eleventy-two, eleventy-three, eleventy-four, eleventy-five,
+eleventy-six, eleventy-seven, eleventy-eight, eleventy-nine, eleventy-ten,
+twelfy
+
+Twelfty-one, twelfty-two, twelfy-three, twelfty-four, twelfty-five, twelfty-
+six, twelfty-seven, twelfty-eight, twelfty-nine, twelfty-ten.
+
+     And so on.
+
+     Who here still has a problem with this?
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 31        Sat Jul 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:23 EDT
+Sub: Really Stupid Questions from JMS   
+
+Every so often, I need Information.  (You won't get it!)  Technical stuff,
+research or reference stuff...and given the brain trust here, I figured this
+could be a useful resource from time to time.  With appreciation.
+134 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 122       Mon Sep 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:27 EDT
+
+      1) Does anyone know which video programs will run VideoVision on a PC?
+
+      2) Anyone here know anything about a computer game company named Merit?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms94-09-15 b/ftp/GEnie/jms94-09-15
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+This file contains messages posted by J. Michael Straczynski on GEnie from
+Sep 15- Sep 30th, 1994.  Postings are copyright 1994 by J. Michael Straczynski
+with compilation copyright by GEnie.
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 category and main topic for the new series. Here is
+the place for all general information on the series. Topic 2 is the location
+for SPOILERS. And please, NO STORY IDEAS are to be posted either.
+26 new messages.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 781       Fri Sep 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:08 EDT
+
+     Don't know how much impact will come from the rerun schedule; you'll know
+when I do.
+
+     And vice-versa.
+
+     Well, I've now seen 3 completed (sans some CGI and other stuff) episodes.
+The first one is very good.  I think "Revelations" is even better (#2), mainly
+in that it feels to me a lot like "Chrysalis," lots of *whams* all over the
+place.  But curiously, my favorite so far I think is #3, "The Geometry of
+Shadows," and I think it'll become a favorite with viewers as well.  It's just
+an *awful* lot of fun.  It's very funny in places.  And here's something that
+may surprise you: a number of folks didn't much like Vir in year one.  I think
+you're going to like Vir a LOT in year two.  We're building up his spine, to
+stand up to Londo, and doing a lot more with him.  Also, Vir is in the
+unenviable position of being the one who sees where Londo is going, and
+despite his attempts to stop things, can't...like someone seeing a car
+accident in slow motion.
+
+     Anyway, I was watching the producers' cut of "Geometry" tonight and just
+*howling*.  It's the kind of show I love most, that's funny one moment, then
+scary and ominous the next.  I love that contrast, and it's very hard to pull
+off without seeming forced.  This one came out just right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 491       Sat Sep 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:33 EDT
+
+     We wrap generally by 7:30 p.m.  Thus far we haven't gone overtime yet.
+Out of 154 shooting days last year, we went overtime precisely 8 times.  We
+sometimes wrap as early as 6 p.m.  We generally hit the standard 12 hour day,
+or less.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 495       Sun Sep 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:41 EDT
+
+
+     Generally speaking, everyone is on the set by 7:45 a.m., including crew.
+Cast arrives anywhere from one hour to two hours earlier, depending on whether
+or not the actor needs to go into prosthetics.  (We try to schedule actors in
+prosthetics later in the day if possible, to give them more time, but it isn't
+always workable.)  The camera operator is there from 7:45 until we wrap for
+the day.  But there are always down times during the day, times when the
+operator isn't needed on set.  Same for other crew members.  Some days when
+we're light on aliens, none of the folks from Optic Nerve need to be there at
+all.  When we've got a full Council and League of Nonaligned Worlds, and
+they're going all day, then they're there non-stop.  It really varies a lot.
+(And we shoot Monday through Friday, with weekends off, and some religious
+holidays.)
+
+     As stated, we're pretty good about getting people out by 7:30 or earlier.
+This past week we wrapped anywhere from 6-7 p.m. most days.  (We found
+ourselves in an odd situation for a few weeks last year when some of the
+directors got into a kind of competition to see who could wrap the
+earliest...and it began crawling toward 5:30, 5:00, 4:30...when was when we
+pulled the plug on it.)
+
+     I'd say that the lion's share of the credit for how well the whole
+operation runs has to go to our crew, which is amazing.  I've worked on a lot
+of shows over the last ten years, and I've never seen one as fast, as skilled,
+and as able to adapt to circumstances.  Every single one of our guest stars
+and visiting directors has commented on them.  The heart of the crew on-set is
+John Flinn, our Director of Cinematography, who keeps the whole thing running
+smoothly.  You don't have to lean on them to hurry; they *move*, and they're
+proud of their efficiency, and they're good at what they do.  We try to
+maintain a good, creative, open attitude on-set.
+
+     Because I'm usually frantic with meetings, or writing, or on the phone,
+or in the editing bays, I only actually get the chance to walk the stage maybe
+3 times a day *at most*; sometimes just once, sometimes not at all, which is
+ironic given that my door is literally 25 feet from stage C.  When I do go on-
+set, where many producers make a big deal out of it on other shows, I try to
+keep a low profile...I slip in as quietly as I can, watch for a bit, then slip
+back to my office, trying not to get in anybody's way or be a distraction.
+(And the *EXECUTIVE PRODUCER* walking onto a set can be quite a distraction.)
+Sometimes I'll walk out there when I know we're not shooting, just doing
+lighting setups, just to watch them work, and the skill with which they
+approach the task.
+
+     One of the ways we try to keep things smooth (and the reason why I *can*
+only be on set a few times a day) is that the script is worked and tweaked to
+the point where by the time it hits the stage, it's DONE.  It requires no
+further tweaking, except for the occasional, rare line change for performance.
+If pages are flying in while you're shooting, and nobody knows what's coming
+next...you're in trouble.  So by the time we start shooting, my part is more
+or less over.  Script's written, I've met with the director to make sure the
+tone and approach is in sync between us, we've had zillions of meetings...at
+that point, you leave the people who know what they're doing on-set alone to
+do what they do best.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 499       Sun Sep 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:56 EDT
+
+     As a rule, no.  In some rare cases, if we're hooking a story to something
+close in the actor's background, we'll talk to them a bit, but the cast never
+sees a script until it's hit Final Draft stage, at which point very little is
+changed.  Sometimes on set an actor may want a line phrased differently for
+performance, but that too is fairly rare.
+
+     Actors are not writers, and writers are not actors.  (In general.)
+There is a gross misunderstanding of the role of the actor in determining what
+happens in a script.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 524       Thu Sep 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:16 EDT
+
+     We've designed much of our medical equipment around suggestions made by
+our medical science consultants, who generally feel that we'll be using more
+light-oriented healing technology and non-invasive procedures.  And we used
+the 3D imaging process for the interior of a body cavity in "Believers."  A
+few weeks ago we got sent a clipping from some medical newspaper overseas
+showing a new kind of medbed that looks a lot like the one we use in medlab,
+with the monitoring cage overhead.
+
+     We *do* consult in this and other areas.  Sometimes what's projected may
+not be what someone else would project, but please don't take that to mean we
+haven't checked.  We have.
+
+     Tom: in general, the schedule is comparable to the best situations I've
+found before, if not better, on network shows.  The bulk of that due, again,
+to the fleet-footedness of our crew.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 528       Sat Sep 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:19 EDT
+
+     Tonight, at 8:30 p.m. Pacific time, noted author and screenwriter Robert
+Bloch passed away from cancer.  He was a kind and generous and good man, and
+one of the brightest lights of his field.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 541       Sun Sep 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:19 EDT
+
+     One of the banes of television, in my humble estimation, is the Focus
+Group.  I hate 'em.  Hate 'em, hate 'em, hate 'em.  (Did I mention I hate
+'em?)  But all the studios insist on them, and each new season every show gets
+tested and re-tested the following season.  My personal estimation is that in
+terms of accuracy they rank somewhere just below the reading of chicken
+entrails.
+
+     This past week, the first two episodes of B5's second season were shown
+to 40+ people here in LA, a group made up of those who had seen the show but
+tuned out, those who'd watched it a few times, and those who were regular
+viewers.  I was very anxious about the whole thing, partly because the
+episodes are still in *very* early stages...producer's cuts, transferred from
+the Avid editing machines, no music, no sound EFX, many unfinished CGI
+effects...but there you are.  I was also concerned because they would be
+seeing these *without* seeing "Chrysalis" (though they would be able to infer
+certain things from seeing the repercussions), and I didn't know how or if any
+of them would be thrown by not having seen that.
+
+     Well, though I put no more stock in focus groups now than I did before,
+I'm pleased to state that the screening went over like gangbusters.  People
+got *very* caught up in it, they liked Bruce a LOT (even the regular viewers,
+without exception, felt that way)...they had virtually no negative comments at
+*all*.  We got the highest ratings we've ever had.  Specific things they
+commented on were that the show *looked* much better in terms of sets and
+costumes and lighting, theyh liked the characters a lot more, they got into
+the story bigtime...it really worked for them on every level.
+
+     The good part about this is that a solid focus group report tends to
+encourage networks and studios to push harder to do advertising and promotion.
+And that has definitely happened here.
+
+     Once we've finished the episodes, added all the sound and music and CGI,
+we should be pretty solid.
+
+     (Oh, and just last night watched the director's cut of D.C. Fontana's
+script, "A Distant Star."  Looks *very* good.)
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 580       Thu Sep 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:42 EDT
+
+     It's my understanding that B5's second season will start in the UK in
+December/January.
+
+     Bruce will be on the Mike and Maddy (Mike and Matty?) show this Friday
+morning; a couple hours later, for those in LA, he'll also be on Good Day LA.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 587       Thu Sep 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:31 EDT
+
+     Here's something to consider.  I pass this along for whatever use it may
+be down the road a piece.
+
+     Apparently, the contract for B5 and the stations expires at the end of
+the year, with a few exceptions.  What this means is that, for all intents and
+purposes, the decision on whether or not to pick up the show will be made
+based on the November sweeps.
+
+     We've done well this year; they're expecting us to do even better next
+year.  To be precise, they'd like us to be a bona fide hit.  What's the reason
+for this?  The syndication market is going through MAJOR  changes.  Networks
+and fledgling networks are grabbing up stations by the handful, making lots of
+elaborate promises, bringing highly-rated network shows in many cases in as
+inducement.  Robocop is, apparently, already either dead or near-death.  Other
+series will be falling in the next few weeks.
+
+     When running new episodes, we're come in around a 5.3 rating, which puts
+us at about #17 in the ratings overall, and #4 in dramatic series.   Our
+demographics, btw, are nothing less than *amazing*.  But because we're making
+the show better, and doing more, and with the shape of the market for
+syndicated TV changing, more is expected.  What we hear is that the stations
+would like us to bring in a rating between 6.0 and 7.0, which would put us at
+about #10 in the overall rankings, #3 in dramatic series overall.  If we can
+do that, we're golden.  If not...I don't know.
+
+     Point being, if there's any last-minute conversions anybody wants to do,
+now's the time to do it.  November will be very important to the whole fate of
+Babylon 5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 593       Thu Sep 29, 1994
+P.DAVID2                     at 17:30 EDT
+
+Actually, Joe, what you're really saying is...if anyone out there knows anyone
+who is a Nielsen family...GET 'EM TO WATCH THE SHOW!!!!
+
+PAD
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 594       Thu Sep 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:37 EDT
+
+      Ladies and gentlemen...the world famous Peter David, whose script
+ for B5 goes into production in a few weeks....
+
+                                              ^^^
+                                               |
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 612       Fri Sep 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:01 EDT
+
+     Let me be absolutely clear: if B5 should fall in the syndicated market,
+the WB network will *not* pick it up.  Neither could we take it to any other
+network for a period of 2 years (by contract), which is the same as preventing
+it altogether since you'd lose your cast and crew in that amount of time.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+Babylon 5 offically became a series on May 28 '93. There will be 22 hour eps
+for season one (in addition to the pilot). Airs Wednesdays at 8PM in most
+places starting Jan. 26 '94.  This is the SPOILER topic where anything goes.
+
+17 new messages.
+ ************
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 363       Sat Sep 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:30 EDT
+
+     Re: two contradictory spoilers...what, you think this sort of thing
+happens by accident?  Simple: just use the old "blind men describing an
+elephant" trick.  Gets 'em every time.
+
+     Dave: I think that covers the really essential episodes from 1.  The
+essentials so far for season two are "Points of Departure," "Revelations," a
+goodly portion of "The Geometry of Shadows," snippets of other episodes, with
+the next big bang being "The Coming of Shadows," which like "Signs and
+Portents" carries the overall season title, and is another blow-out.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 367       Sun Sep 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:53 EDT
+
+     Telepathic scans of suspects in a criminal case are *absolutely NOT
+admissible* in court.  They are prohibited from it.  Because it puts FAR too
+much power in the hands of telepaths, power that the judicial system would
+never, ever in a million years part with.  It destroys the idea of due
+process.  You have to be sure that the telepath isn't lying, which means you
+bring in a second telepath to verify the first, and a third to verify the
+second.  Further, a person may feel responsible for someone's death ("I said,
+`I hate you, I hope you did,' and then she did, it's my fault!"), without
+being so.
+
+     The recent introduction of telepaths into the military is a very
+controversial decision, and is being fought vigorously.  It was put in on the
+theory that in wartime, soldiers do not have quite the same rights as
+civilians.  This is being contested hotly back in the Earth senate, and I
+wouldn't be surprised to see it overturned.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 369       Sun Sep 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:47 EDT
+
+     Can I dive in here for just a second to say that this is one of those
+accepted cliches that has nothing whatsoever to do with reality?  It's like
+the other one, "All these cartoons are violent," but when you ask the person
+to show which ones, they can't back it up.
+
+     The *norm* in television is to NOT script religious people as loonies.
+I'm sorry, I know that's generally what one's told, but that's simply not the
+case.  Religious people have gotten FAR better treatment in general than
+atheists, that's for certain.  FATHER MURPHY, THE FATHER DOWLING MYSTERIES,
+HELLTOWN, HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN...there have been *many* series headlined by
+religious people, or in which religious people appear in a favorable light.
+(DR. QUINN in particular comes to mind.)
+
+     It seems like if you show *one* religious nut, suddenly it's taken as a
+statement that ALL are like this.  No, it's not, that's just that one person.
+And religion has gotten PLENTY of good air on TV.  Some groups just don't
+think it's enough yet, want to feel persecuted, exaggerate the situation,
+publicize inaccuracies and misinformation, and generally won't be happy until
+such figures are everywhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+  
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 384       Tue Sep 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:44 EDT
+
+     Re: religious people not necessarily *acting* religious, or doing a
+religious thing in the course of a show...hey, I was on Murder, She Wrote for
+two years...don't recall one episode where we showed Jessica Fletcher typing
+for any period of time.
+
+     ST's treatment I would put in a separate category, because there does
+seem to be some element of an agenda there (or, stated less pejoratively, a
+different point-of-view on the subject).  Mainstream TV has, I think, done
+very well in this area, all things considered.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 387       Tue Sep 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:40 EDT
+
+     Speaking as a writer, I *am* defined in many ways by my keyboard; it is
+in my lap nearly every hour of the day when I'm not eating or sleeping.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 391       Tue Sep 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:15 EDT
+
+     Yes, Ivanova is already second in command; she gets promoted to Commander
+rank in episode 3.  They got it wrong.  Also...lemme see if I've got this
+straight...we put 50 ships in an episode, introduce new Earthforce ships,
+carriers, you name it...TVG doesn't blink...DS9 puts ONE new ship in their
+show and they get a two-page spread?
+
+     Linda: thanks.  "Stupid fan remarks" are always welcome, just as one hope
+stupid producer remarks are sometimes welcome.....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 413       Sat Sep 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:27 EDT
+
+     Keffler should be Keffer.
+
+     Kevin Cremins will be directing "A Spider in the Web."
+
+     Mario DiLeo is directing "The Long Dark."
+
+
+     Jim Johnston will be directing "A Race Through Dark Places."
+
+     "Pestilence, Famine and Death" has been retitled "Soul Mates."
+
+     Jessica Walters also appears in "Spider," with Barbeau and Beck.
+
+     "The Coming of Shadows" will receive a new director, either Janet Greek
+or Jim Johnston.
+
+     "Unnatural Selection" is being retitled; current working title is "All
+Our Songs, Forgotten," though that may change; being written by D.C. Fontana.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 422       Sat Sep 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:59 EDT
+
+     I've tentatively spiked "The Customer is Always Right" (a non-arc story)
+because ST did something on a similar topic, and I think I've got something
+better for that slot anyway.
+
+     I love "The Coming of Shadows."  It's one of those episodes that just
+knocks the breath out of you.  You know those moments when you're in the
+passenger seat of a car, and the person driving is doing something crazy, and
+your foot automatically keeps searching for a brake pedal that isn't there
+because you know something awful's going to happen?  That's the feeling you
+get all through that script.  This episode, like "Sky," "Signs," "Chrysalis"
+and "Revelations" again changes the direction and ratchets everything one
+notch tighter.  It's also a very visual script, and I like that, since I
+sometimes do rely too much on dialogue from time to time, and it's good to go
+in a different direction.
+
+     Kosh has just two words in this episode...and, again, they'll send a
+chill right down the spine.
+
+     Ah loves it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 441       Thu Sep 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:32 EDT
+
+     You'll note, btw, how the "new planetary leader" (meaning a leader of the
+Grey Council) dovetails with "Babylon Squared."  As I promised, we're trying
+for real continuity here....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+
+
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 448       Fri Sep 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:05 EDT
+
+     The comic should be out in late November/early December.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+
+
+
+ ************
+Topic 23        Fri Feb 12, 1993
+V.VAIDY1 [Vijay]             at 23:00 EST
+Sub: "OtherWorks" by JMS              
+
+Before there was "B5" and when "JMS" was just another Plain Joe, there was
+OtherSyde
+ [A discussion of the other works of J. Michael Straczynski]
+226 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 206       Fri Sep 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:02 EDT
+
+     EEK!
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 25        Fri Mar 12, 1993
+S.SHELLENBAR [>> SHANE <<]   at 08:47 EST
+Sub: J. Michael Straczynski Speaks in Public
+
+This is the place to find out where and when JMS will be appearing next.  JMS
+has honed his skills as a public speaker and is taking his act on the road.
+412 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 309       Thu Sep 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:24 EDT
+
+     I have to have the next essay in by end of this month, so it should be
+shortly thereafter.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 319       Wed Sep 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:28 EDT
+
+     Thanks; some of the writing for the column on the personal side was very
+difficult...glad to hear it was useful.  Re: OK cons...nothing at this time
+scheduled.  I try to keep it down to a minimum, usually maybe 5-6 in a year,
+not much more than that.  I just don't think I have that much of interest to
+say to folks....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 325       Thu Sep 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:23 EDT
+
+     I had heard that, yes...and discouraged our cast from signing any
+exclusive deal with ANYbody, for any reason.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 337       Tue Sep 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:37 EDT
+
+     Hard to confirm much of anything, since I was only just notified of the
+presentation late this evening; nobody had said boo to me about it prior to
+this.  So my info is as good as yours at this point, so thus far, yes, it'll
+be Sunday (hadn't even *heard* about anything Saturday).
+
+                                                                jms
+ ************
+Topic 30        Mon Jul 04, 1994
+D.KAUFFMAN5 [CyberDad]       at 13:14 EDT
+Sub: Nods, In-Jokes, and References   
+
+Post any nods, in-jokes, or references you have seen here.  For example,
+Babylon 5 refers to the Babylon of ancient Earth; the location of B5 is at
+Grid Epsilon 470/18/22, the location of the original B5 topic on GEnie.
+281 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 30
+Message 193       Thu Sep 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:34 EDT
+
+One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven
+
+Eleventy-one, eleventy-two, eleventy-three, eleventy-four, eleventy-five,
+eleventy-six, eleventy-seven, eleventy-eight, eleventy-nine, eleventy-ten,
+twelfy
+
+Twelfty-one, twelfty-two, twelfy-three, twelfty-four, twelfty-five, twelfty-
+six, twelfty-seven, twelfty-eight, twelfty-nine, twelfty-ten.
+
+     And so on.
+
+     Who here still has a problem with this?
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 30
+Message 206       Sat Sep 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:35 EDT
+
+     I hate to mention this, but ALL language consists of made-up words.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 31        Sat Jul 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:23 EDT
+Sub: Really Stupid Questions from JMS 
+
+Every so often, I need Information.  (You won't get it!)  Technical stuff,
+research or reference stuff...and given the brain trust here, I figured this
+could be a useful resource from time to time.  With appreciation.
+168 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 135       Fri Sep 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EDT
+
+     In an active-matrix notebook computer screen, what's the difference
+between TFT and STN?
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 144       Sun Sep 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:38 EDT
+
+     So in other words...TFT is, like, better than STN...okaydoke.
+
+                   jm(who likes to boil it down to terms he understands)s
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 147       Mon Sep 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:42 EDT
+
+     How does the Dell notebook TFT (Latitude) compaare with the Stager?
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+
+ ************
+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Computer SFX Tech-Talk
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+
+
+                                                             jms
+
+319 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 152       Fri Sep 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:59 EDT
+
+     Of course, let's remember the extensive use of CGI in Jurassic Park.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 160       Sat Sep 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:37 EDT
+
+     Insofar as I know, the objects are all entered into the computer in their
+correct size ratios.  Sometimes perception can be tricked  depending on the
+position of the camera, the proximity of the interim object, and the
+background.  I'll check on this, but insofar as I know this is SOP.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 165       Sun Sep 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:50 EDT
+
+     That is, unfortunately, the problem with "filming" in space; it's ALL in
+focus because of the lack of atmosphere, which provides a slight haze that
+cues us to distance.  (Which was why they put the Hubble in space, after all.)
+If you look at footage from the Apollo missions, or the joint Soyuz missions,
+when one ship moves to dock with the other, it's very disturbing visually
+because from a distance, to close up, the other ship is crystal clear.  It's
+also very difficult to judge size when there's nothing of absolute size beside
+it.  If B5 were floating next to a football field, you'd know instantly how
+big the thing was.  We're trying to find ways to work around this....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 175       Tue Sep 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:45 EDT
+
+     Showman...the end of "Survivors," where Kemmer enters her ship...in
+reality there is only a ladder there.  The ship, the walls, the door she
+enters, all that is CGI/virtual set.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 199       Sat Sep 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:00 EDT
+
+     My info comes from some folks at Amblin', and yes, the same folks do the
+SeaQuest EFX.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 202       Sun Sep 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:05 EDT
+
+     I know Foundation is working on some other projects, so there is time for
+that, they just assign different animators to different projects.  I think ST
+would never come to Foundation.
+
+     Lately the CGI work has been fairly intensive because of some very
+effects-intensive shows, specifically parts of "Geometry" and "A Distant
+Star."
+
+     A number of people have asked if we'll ever see the inside of hyperspace,
+or the POV of a starfury pilot as he drops...and the answer  to both is yes.
+Ron's first pass at hyperspace was, I thought, a bit too
+Spielberg/Disney/pretty pictures.  I really felt strongly that hyperspace
+should be a *scary* looking place, a dangerous place.  And Ron came back with
+some really nifty stuff, a vaguely dream-like/nightmarish quality to it.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 206       Sun Sep 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:31 EDT
+
+     Yes, you do see a jump point forming from within hyperspace.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 210       Tue Sep 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:26 EDT
+
+     Not a problem of any kind.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Cast & Characters    
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+543 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 172       Fri Sep 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:01 EDT
+
+     Centauri were available to be slapped under a microscope if they WISHED
+to be slapped under a microscope.  To them, we were the ones they chose to
+study, and wouldn't be so undignified to submit to our examination.  They're
+rather haughty sometimes.  It was a long time before we were able to get some
+decent material to examine.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 177       Sat Sep 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:32 EDT
+
+     Other actors: Michael Beck, Anna Marie Johnson, Adrienne Barbeau.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 182       Sat Sep 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:41 EDT
+
+     Kiwi: "heh" yourself...it's Ladira, not Akira.
+
+     I don't much like japanese animation, don't watch it.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 193       Sun Sep 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:58 EDT
+
+     Definitely human, though raised on Mars.
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 194       Tue Sep 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:41 EDT
+
+     Did I mention that Robert Foxworth is also in our first episode?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 200       Sat Sep 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:31 EDT
+
+     Hawk: exactly.
+
+     I think that if somebody is bad or good from day one, there's no real
+interest in what happens to them on one level.  But take someone who you kinda
+liked, and thought was fun....and slowly they begin to slide into something
+dark and terrible...you *feel* for them, you worry about them, you're watching
+it like a car accident in slow motion.  And then there's the one you thought
+was rotten to the core...and now that character seems to be moving toward
+something noble, but tragic...again, you get caught up in it.
+
+     Life, and good storytelling, is about *change*.  Or as Mr. Dylan said,
+"Any man not busy being born is busy dying."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 208       Sun Sep 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:06 EDT
+
+     Y'know what it'll take?  It'll take one well-known, nationally recognized
+reviewer to come up to the plate and say that this is something *different*.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 210       Sun Sep 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:32 EDT
+
+     Would love to hear any more detailed reports from folks who were
+there....
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 214       Mon Sep 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:42 EDT
+
+     Meatloaf *again*?!
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 216       Mon Sep 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:31 EDT
+
+     Tape hell...laserdisk.  (Also a big Meatloaf fan.)
+
+     First time I ever saw "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" it was in college,
+with a young woman who dragged me to it.  As we stood in line, a cool but not
+terribly cold night, I noted that she was wearing a rather large overcoat.
+She explained that it was the kind she tended to wear to TRHPS
+screenings...she showed me how she'd cut the ends off of the pockets, allowing
+her hands to come through to the inner part of the coat.  I inquired about why
+this was done.  "So I can diddle myself while I watch the movie," she said.
+
+     I have absolutely no recollection of the rest of the evening.
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 225       Fri Sep 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:38 EDT
+
+     Let me repeat again what I said before: we've *already shot* a sequence
+with Michael to be used later in season two.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 5         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            (Forwarded)
+Sub: Grid Epsilon Irregulars - News & Info.
+
+This topic is for information about Babylon 5 fan groups, newsletters,
+fanzines, get-togethers, B-5 at conventions, and other general fun.
+422 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 110       Sat Sep 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:33 EDT
+
+     Yeah, it really is a cool book.  It's a very personal way of doing a bio,
+and at the same time providing a good look at America from 1927 through
+1994...through wars, and blacklisting, and social changes.  The fake letters
+sent to the DGA documentary committee alone are worth the price of
+admission....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 117       Wed Sep 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:30 EDT
+
+     The command would be REA ALL NEW AUT=LOUDMOUTH.HOTAIR
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 122       Thu Sep 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:27 EDT
+
+     And add Jessica Walters.
+
+     (Y'know, this is starting to shape up as a pretty good list of guest
+stars...Jessica Walters, Dwight Schultz, Robert Foxworth, Adrienne Barbeau,
+Russ Tamblyn, Michael Ansara, Walter Koenig, others...and that's just in the
+first 7 episodes or so.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 130       Sat Sep 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:05 EDT
+
+     Trying to decide which makes a better Kosh....
+
+     *             or               ?
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B5 Adrift!                       
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+344 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 151       Fri Sep 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:14 EDT
+
+     "You have forgotten something."  Kosh
+
+     "Nothing's the same anymore."  Sinclair
+
+     "If the primates we descended from had known that politicians would
+someday come out of the gene pool, they would've stayed in the trees and
+written evolution off as a bad idea.  Hell, I always thought the opposable
+thumb was over-rated."    Captain John Sheridan
+
+     "The universe works through the complex interaction of three things:
+energy, matter, and enlightned self-interest."   G'Kar
+
+     "I work for Ambassador Mollari.  After a while, nothing bothers you."
+Vir Cotto
+
+                                                              jms
+
+     (Numbers 3 and 5 are from season two)
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings              
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+217 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 101       Wed Sep 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:26 EDT
+
+     Should be an article on Michael O'Hare coming out in this month's Starlog
+(out now in some places) that should put to rest a lot of the rumors.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Merchandising        
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+556 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 193       Sat Sep 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:39 EDT
+
+     Did you get hardcopy copies of my notes, or did they just read 'em to you
+over the phone?  (Wasn't much, really, mainly just a few line  changes, some
+background stuff, and how the Psi Corps does and doesn't work.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 212       Thu Sep 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:21 EDT
+
+     BTW, a company named All-U, which does t-shirts and other stuff, has
+signed on to do some B5 shirts as well...and I gotta tell you, these are
+really very cool.   Nicely done, well designed...a lot of thought went into
+them.  And what's really amazing is that they've come up with some process
+that lets them put down photographic-level images, and lots o white (and color-
+on-white) WITHOUT bulking up the colors so that you can feel them stubbing out
+from the shirt.  The designs feel like any other part of the shirt.  *Very*
+nice (in fact, I'm wearing one as I type, a multicolor shot of the station,
+the nebula, the logo, and "The Last, Best Hope...Babylon 5").  Really nifty.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 217       Thu Sep 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:47 EDT
+
+     I know the guys from All-U are over on Prodigy, looking for some quotes
+for shirts (or AOL, I can never keep them separate), so someone from there
+probably has more info.  But they should be generally  available soon.  The
+one I nabbed was the prototype.
+
+     To try and keep the novels canon, I'm going to *try* and work in a brief
+reference to the event on B5 that takes place in "Voices," made after the
+fact, just a throwaway.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 228       Mon Sep 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:54 EDT
+
+     Aside from mentioning in the first novel that everyone in the show dies
+in the end, what could remotely be considered a spoiler?
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+ ************
+Topic 16        Sun Apr 17, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:42 EDT
+Sub: #116 - "Signs And Portents"      
+
+by JMS. Directed by Janet Greek.  Co-starring Gerrit Graham.
+291 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 16
+Message 223       Sat Sep 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:47 EDT
+
+     No, no funky pyramid stuff.  The mural that dominates the casino traces
+human history/technology.  It goes from the beginnings of civilization in
+Egypt, the "cradle" of civilization in that region (left hand corner) and as
+it moves left-to-right shows horse-drawn carriages then villages then cities
+then megacities, planes, jets, starships, and finally ends with B5 up in the
+right-hand top corner.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 16
+Message 247       Thu Sep 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:33 EDT
+
+     Ron chose a blue nebula because you can't do bluescreen effects with a
+blue nebula background without showing hideous matte lines; he knew it was
+something a Certain Other Show couldn't do.  "Look, ma, no matte lines!"
+
+
+                                                                   jms
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms94-10 b/ftp/GEnie/jms94-10
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/GEnie/jms94-10
@@ -0,0 +1,1044 @@
+This file contains messages posted by J. Michael Straczynski on GEnie
+for October, 1994. Postings are copyright 1994 by J. Michael Straczynski
+with compilation copyright by GEnie.
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 General category.  This is the main topic for  the
+hit SF series.  We discuss all general information on the series in this
+topic.  Topic 2 is for SPOILERS!  DO NOT POST STORY IDEAS!
+
+643 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 28        Sat Oct 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:10 EDT
+
+     Haven't heard any audio king commercials, so I don't know, but I'll try
+and keep an ear out.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 32        Sat Oct 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:26 EDT
+
+     The clause serves the stations, which want flexibility.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 60        Sun Oct 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:00 EDT
+
+     I received a lot of response, as noted above, from scientists (no less
+than Freeman Dyson, for instance) who had frankly never really been ASKED
+about the whole sound in space issue...and when they put their thoughts to it,
+indicated that yes, there *would* be sound, of varying kinds and orders of
+magnitude.  I've got it all in a big textfile, and hope to get around to
+editing it for space and uploading it one of these days.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 71        Mon Oct 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:39 EDT
+
+     I dunno about Chrysalis parties...mainly because whenever we've shown
+anyone the episode, the usual reaction at the end is a long, prolonged stunned
+silence.  Might kinda cut into the jovialities....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 242       Mon Oct 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:53 EDT
+
+     T.J.Terru...ah, the famous archeaologist...my regards to Ruby and the
+Android Sisters.
+
+     Yes, have been in England, having left a week ago Saturday, and just
+returning today.  Will post a longer note about this when I've fully recovered
+(vacation, ha!).  We always give cast and crew a week break mid way between
+the start of filming and the Christmas hiatus.  Tomorrow we begin shooting "A
+Race Through Dark Places," with Walter Koenig.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 252       Tue Oct 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:42 EDT
+
+     Re: any discussions in Showbiz or elsewhere about O'Hare, which I have
+answered and answered until I'm blue in the face, and another new "true story"
+comes out two weeks later that I have to deal with...I'll make a deal with
+Warren and anybody else over there: I'll be happy to discuss this some more if
+they'll give me the names and phone numbers of their last three or four
+employers, so that I may inquire and find out the circumstances under which
+they left THEIR last employment.  After all, by virtue of being on the nets,
+which are public, and published electronically worldwide, they're public
+figures as well...if they think this is fair game for others, then it should
+be fair game for them as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 270       Wed Oct 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:44 EDT
+
+     There were a lot of ganged repeats due to the fact that we went on the
+air in January, and they wanted new shows to stretch to the November sweeps.
+Now we're going on in November, and can last fairly easily  through to the May
+sweeps with fewer reruns (not as long a stretch), so there may be some relief
+here.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 289       Thu Oct 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:21 EDT
+
+      So what was the (non-spoiler) reaction of the crowd at Farpoint to the
+"Chrysalis" showing?
+
+     Filming started this week on "A Race Through Dark Places," with Walter
+Koenig back as Bester.  Going well.  Late next week we start shooting Peter
+David's script, "Soul Mates," guest-starring Lois  Nettleton and Jane Carr as
+two of Londo's wives, and Keith Sarabeca (not one of Londo's wives) (and I
+think I just misspelled his name).
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 311       Fri Oct 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:21 EDT
+
+     At this point I plan to show "Chrysalis" at the Dallas convention on
+Saturday, a few days ahead of its airing there.  And maybe some other
+stuff....
+
+                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 315       Fri Oct 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:38 EDT
+
+     Part of this discussion that intrigues me is the literalness of it.
+
+     When you watch a cop show, and the cop fires his gun, do people really
+think it makes that BOOM! sound?  Listen to a real gun; it's usually sort of a
+*pop*.
+
+     When a car screeches around the corner, does it *really* make that huge
+noise?
+
+     When someone gets punched in a TV episode, and you hear a sharp CRACK! as
+fist impacts chin, do people really think it makes that sound, rather than a
+kind of barely-audible fleshy *thud*?
+
+     Is the microphone in space, is the microphone enclosed, is the microphone
+a person...the microphone *isn't there*.
+
+     Nothing in television is intended as absolute reality, even when it
+aspires to that.  The most rigorous of all documentaries nonetheless must cull
+quotes.  When we mix an episode, we add in footsteps (because you couldn't
+hear them otherwise), we add voices in the background via walla groups that
+weren't there in the first place, dub in lines that didn't exist, add the
+sound of punches, add the sound of PPGs firing, enhance the sound of a punch,
+add bleeps and beeps to machinery...the argument that adding sound to space
+isn't real doesn't hold up because *virtually none* of the sound you hear is
+real, and again virtually NONE of it is there when the microphone and camera
+are present.
+
+     It just seems odd to me to concentrate on this one issue, when in truth
+the sound is false throughout *ALL* television.  Why this and not the other?
+
+     One of the researchers I contacted at the High Altitude Observatory
+stated the case very eloquently: he said that to date, *no one* has ever stuck
+a microphone out into space to see what anyone could hear; and no one has ever
+stuck their head out of a shuttle, minus helmet, to find out  either.  It's
+*all* conjecture.  So you might as well assume there is  sound of some sort as
+there isn't, until someone does the actual experiment.
+
+     Another scientist there at the HAO, Steve Smith, PhD (plasma/
+astrophysicist) wrote me saying, "Space is not empty, it's full of plasma
+(ionized gas) and full of the plasma equivalent of sound waves.   Since plasma
+is ionized and generally contains a magnetic field, there are a lot more types
+of waves than just sound waves (usually the only form of atmospheric wave we
+encounter).
+
+     But here's a real killer: from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,
+CA, a scientist who worked on the Voyager mission noted that "probes like
+Voyager do register bow-shock as they cross the speed of sound in the
+interplanetary medium."
+
+     That was *monitored* at JPL.  So if there's no sound in space...what was
+that bow-shock?
+
+     There's plenty of evidence that there IS sound in space.  How much, or
+little, can't be known until experiments on this have been conducted by
+researchers, and thus far this has not been done.  Until it has, there seems
+nothing amiss with the direction we've taken.
+
+     I am just intrigued at how much of a bugaboo this is in the SF community,
+which swallows the BLAMMMMM! of a beat cop's .38 without ever even questioning
+if it would *really* make that sound or not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 321       Fri Oct 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 13:59 EDT
+
+     BTW, this weekend I'll be at Stellar Occasion Convention in Dallas, at
+the Executive Hotel in Love Field.  Claudia Christian will also be present.
+I'll be giving two presentations, at noon and six p.m. Saturday, including a
+showing of "Chrysalis."
+
+     And maybe some other stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 419       Tue Oct 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:15 EDT
+
+     Every so often, a screwup takes place that is so breathtakingly stupid
+that it defies all logic and reason.  I just learned of one this evening, and
+I'm still reeling a bit from it.  Consequently, this is address to anyone who
+watched the satellite uplink of "Chrysalis" or has seen it in the US in the
+last day or so.
+
+     Once we deliver an episode, it goes to two places: Modern Video and CVC.
+CVC checks an episode of any series prior to uplink to make sure it's okay.
+Though they've had it for four months, they only got around to checking it the
+day before uplink.  During this, they found a couple of small audio pops.  The
+kind of thing that could be fixed in about five minutes.  But since it was the
+evening, Modern Video decided to fix it for us...by *rebuilding the entire
+episode*.
+
+     Without calling us, notifying us, or checking with us, when we could've
+easily had someone on-hand there to supervise at a moment's notice.
+
+     Well, when they rebuilt the episode...they didn't use all the correct
+footage.  Some of what was used was RAW FOOTAGE.  Example: when Londo goes to
+meet someone in the Garden, there's supposed to be a great composite shot
+there of the interior of the Garden area, and a hedge maze.  (The UK saw this
+version of it last month.)  But when the episode was rebuilt, they used the
+raw footage segment showing Londo and a partial hedge IN THE SOUNDSTAGE, where
+you can see the stage wall, and the pipes, and the EXIT sign.  No composite.
+Nada.
+
+     We don't yet know what else has been included incorrectly, because we
+won't see a copy until morning.  Suffice to say that this is being taken care
+of *our* way overnight, and a correct version will  be sent out via satellite
+in time for the Wednesday first airings in most markets, and the reruns in
+those markets where it's already aired.
+
+     At this moment, I am preternaturally calm about all this, having passed
+beyond anger earlier this evening into a kind of zen state of consciousness,
+utterly unable to wrap my brain around the absolute stupidity of something
+like this for more than two minutes at a time.
+
+     By morning, this will have worn off.
+
+     I'm looking forward to it immensely.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 427       Tue Oct 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:16 EDT
+
+     John: yeah, you definitely should've said something; we'd never put out
+something like that.  As it turns out, we discovered that there were TWO comp
+shots missing (including one in DownBelow), and that's how the "to be
+continued" got added in at the end.  We rousted our people out of bed and had
+them at the Modern Video facility at 2:30 a.m. fixing other people's mistakes,
+rebuilding the entire episode so it could be birded out this afternoon.
+
+     BTW, for those interested, Bruce will be on Tom Snyder show tonight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 445       Tue Oct 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:54 EDT
+
+     The Minbari in the clip was a one-shot.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 488       Thu Oct 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:01 EDT
+
+     BTW, I'm pleased to note that Christopher Franke's company has gotten the
+contract to do the B5 soundtrack...AND that there will be an effort made to
+have a *limited edition* version available ONLY for LosCon over the
+Thanksgiving weekend.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 495       Thu Oct 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:15 EDT
+
+     Phil: if you saw TBC at the end of the episode, it was NOT the correct
+version.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 500       Thu Oct 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:42 EDT
+
+     A notice already went out to ALL tv stations.  He may just not want to
+exert the effort to put in the correct version.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 517       Fri Oct 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:39 EDT
+
+     What episodes to watch for in year two that are, variously, very
+important or moderately important to the storyline....
+
+     "Points of Departure," "Revelations," a piece of "The Geometry of
+Shadows" but not all of it; portions of "The Long Dark," "GROPOS" and "A
+Spider in the Web," and all of "A Race Through Dark Places" and "The Coming of
+Shadows," with the latter two of critical importance.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 560       Sat Oct 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:16 EDT
+
+     Losing the characters she's come to enjoy?  No.  But the characters are
+changing.  That's the point, and that's been the intent from day one.   But
+what's the alternative?  I've heard ST fans complain loudly and bitterly that
+after 7 years of TNG being on the air, nobody's really changed, nobody's been
+promoted into different ships or major changes in responsibilities...they've
+had Riker as XO for seven years, which in the real military would mean his
+career is *over*.
+
+     Change is the only other option.
+
+     The goal, from the start, was to create an overall story, but which would
+also require arcs for every single major character.  They're all going
+somewhere.  In many cases, that "somewhere" plays into the larger arc; in some
+cases, not.  If a woman is single, then gets married, then gives birth, and
+she's your friend, have you "lost her" just because she's gone through these
+changes?  Of course not.  She has changed, in good or bad ways, but she's
+still the same person.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 574       Sun Oct 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:24 EST
+
+     I do not believe it...I simply, fragging do not believe it...after all
+that, after airing the right version on Wednesday, Channel 13 in LA ran the
+wrong Chrysalis tonight at midnight.
+
+     The universe hates me.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 593       Sun Oct 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:28 EST
+
+     Newkirk...re: post-launch thoughts..."Once ze rockets go up, who cares
+vere they come down, that's not my department, says Werner Von Braun...."
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+Babylon 5 is moving into a second season of 22 episodes.  This series can be
+seen at 8 Pm on Wednesdays, in most areas.  This topic is for SPOILERS only.
+Just remember our NO STORY IDEAS rule and we'll let you live. <g>
+
+661 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 453       Sat Oct 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:12 EDT
+
+     That's *exactly* what the soundtrack that Christopher has put together
+sounds like...he's orchestrated music from all the episodes so that they segue
+cleanly into one another, extending some, interpolating a bit here and
+there...it's an hour or so of nonstop music, one big symphony.  Lovely,
+absolutely lovely.
+
+     (Again, I have one of the very few CDs he made to test this, and it's
+terrific.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 455       Sat Oct 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:27 EDT
+
+     Should be out in November or December; what exactly it'll be like will
+depend to some degree on whether it goes to Chris's company or another.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 457       Sun Oct 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:13 EDT
+
+      I don't see a contradiction there; people I know here who are Jewish
+seem to have no problem classifying themselves as Americans.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 463       Sun Oct 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:02 EDT
+
+     Re: LDS and separation of church and state...tell that to anyone living
+in or around Salt Lake City....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 468       Mon Oct 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:40 EDT
+
+     Personally, despite my ethnic background, I tend to think of myself
+mainly as a large left-handed wrench.
+
+     But I guess that's pretty common....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 473       Mon Oct 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:51 EDT
+
+     Hey...could be worse...could've said Wench...which as we all know is the
+feminine version of a Mensch....
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 481       Wed Oct 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:13 EDT
+
+     One was an Earthforce atmospheric-capable shuttle; the other was a
+Centauri personal transport.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 608       Fri Oct 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:24 EDT
+
+     It may be wise, about now, to start opening up the cat 19 spoilers topics
+for season two, since "Points" goes out on the big bird tomorrow morning.
+(And those who downlink it will be among the first to see our rather spiffy
+new main title sequence.)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 614       Sat Oct 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:46 EDT
+
+     Generally speaking, Warners/PTEN leaves us alone.  Each season, as with
+all TV shows, they tend to get involved in the first couple of episodes,
+giving notes and wanting to see early cuts.  Since they have more time to
+become involved, they do so.  This quickly phases down; we got a fair number
+of notes on the first episode of both seasons of B5; less on the second;
+single note on a script or cut since about #3, and we're currently up to #10,
+script-wise.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 619       Sat Oct 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:20 EDT
+
+     There really wasn't/isn't time in PoD to get into the angst everyone has
+over Sinclair leaving (though some of that is given to Sheridan, oddly
+enough).  But it WILL get brought up in subsequent episodes, especially from
+Garibaldi.
+
+     RE: Warner notes...mainly they're in areas of clarification, making sure
+that we don't get obscure with some of the arc stuff.  Each episode HAS to be
+clear to anyone coming in mid-stream, so they're helpful on that aspect.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 629       Sun Oct 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:27 EST
+
+     Hey, folks said the answers were coming too slowly, now too quickly...
+what's a producer to do?
+
+     I said, from the very beginning, that once the series got rolling, no
+single primary question could be allowed to go more than about one season
+before answering it, otherwise you get into a frustrating Twin Peaks situation
+where *nothing* is resolved.  Basically, the events begun in "Chrysalis" bleed
+over into three episodes; the Battle of the Line answers were initially only a
+couple of episodes further down in my outline, about episode #3.  Making the
+change, for one thing, allowed me to move that storyline forward to episode
+#1, blow through it and get the story moving in year two faster, rather than
+delaying further with loose threads from season one.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 637       Sun Oct 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:33 EST
+
+     Klaatu...I can probably answer your question a little better after you've
+seen the second episode of this season.  For now, let's just say this: in
+working out the story for year two, Sinclair's main line of connection was to
+the Minbari.  But the Minbari storyline was diminishing in ways connected to
+the war in year two; obviously we all know what is on the upswing in year two,
+certain dark forces.  I needed someone who has a connection to *that* side of
+the story to personalize it, and Sheridan brings that connection to the mix,
+although he doesn't know it yet.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 5         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            (Forwarded)
+Sub: Grid Epsilon Irregulars - News & Info.
+
+This topic is for information about Babylon 5 fan groups, newsletters,
+fanzines, get-togethers, B-5 at conventions, and other general fun.
+575 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 542       Mon Oct 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:05 EDT
+
+     ND = NonDescript (an extra, no one who should be noticeable)
+
+     A/B = Blood types.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 9         Wed Nov 11, 1992
+T.RESTIVO [Little Guy]       at 18:27 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Humor                    
+
+From *Beep Beep*, to Top Ten Lists, to full-blown parodies, this is where to
+put your funny bone in writing!
+599 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 580       Sat Oct 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:29 EDT
+
+     I've told others on the show that you'll know I've really, really, really
+sold out the day I approve the licensing of Babylon 5 Underoos.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B5 Adrift!                         
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+478 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 462       Sat Oct 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:08 EDT
+
+     Nope; never went to school in Cincinnati; never even *in* that state for
+longer than required to drive through it.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 472       Fri Oct 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:02 EDT
+
+     At last, someone else who has seen the Leningrad Cowboys movie.  I
+stumbled upon it on Bravo one night, about 45 minutes into it, and sat riveted
+to the seat.  Literallly did not move, and discovered after a  while that my
+arm was aching from where I'd been holding the remote the whole time.  Very,
+very weird....
+
+     Liked it.  Not sure why....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 476       Tue Oct 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:56 EDT
+
+     IT'S ON VIDEO!?
+
+     >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>zooooooooooooooooooooom!
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+463 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 441       Mon Oct 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:13 EDT
+
+      I believe some of the interviews for FutureQuest were performed in the
+B5 central corridor.
+
+     Re: magazines...yes, in the UK there are even some mainstream mags  and
+newspapers discovering the show.  The Radio Times gave it a glowing review,
+the Times called it superior, the Evening Standard called it
+spiffing...Starburst has done one or two covers on the show, as has TV Zone
+(to whom I gave an interview while in London).
+
+     In the US, Cinefantastique has given it the cover twice.  Note that
+Starlog has not done so once.  Personally, I won't have anything to do with
+the magazine, because of their tendency to get stuff wrong, and because
+they're primarily a ST/Paramount mouthpiece.  The editor there has told people
+that even though they give covers to less highly rated shows like Highlander,
+they'll *never* do a B5 cover because it would piss off Paramount.  And they
+never have.  (Just one more reason why I won't in any way cooperate; I can't
+prevent, and wouldn't try to prevent, my cast from doing so, because it's a
+free country and they deserve the exposure.  I  don't think the second-rate
+treatment is appropriate, personally.  Just shows you where their head is.)
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 448       Thu Oct 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:23 EDT
+
+     The grey-alien trial scene from "Grail" will be excerpted for a two-part
+"Sightings" on alien abduction.
+
+     I'm *still* laughing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Merchandising          
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+593 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 568       Fri Oct 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:24 EDT
+
+     BTW, for those interested, Chris Claremont is a *major* B5 fan (a man of
+impeccable taste); anybody who wants to lean on him to do one of the B5 arcs
+is more than welcome to do so....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 574       Sun Oct 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:04 EDT
+
+     Confirmed on the Galoob Micro-Machines.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 586       Mon Oct 31, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:45 EST
+
+     Insofar as I know, the micros are coming out in sets, I think it's either
+8 or 12 to a set.  Don't know about any subsequent group boxes.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 22        Fri Feb 12, 1993
+R.FURR [Rob Furr]            at 00:19 EST
+Sub: Governments and Trade in B5        
+
+Most SF shows simply posit a government of sorts, and blithely ignore it ever
+afterwards. You might see a freighter (with a big "shoot me!" sign on it) but
+no other mention of trade. How about B5?
+179 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 22
+Message 177       Tue Oct 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:44 EDT
+
+     Talia is on retainer with B5, with Psi Corps paying her rent and food,
+and taking the majority of money from her commissions, which she generally is
+free to select, except in cases where they may insist.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 25        Fri Mar 12, 1993
+S.SHELLENBAR [>> SHANE <<]   at 08:47 EST
+Sub: J. Michael Straczynski Speaks in Public
+
+This is the place to find out where and when JMS will be appearing next.  JMS
+has honed his skills as a public speaker and is taking his act on the road.
+376 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 359       Tue Oct 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:04 EDT
+
+     Johann...ah, was that you?  Should've identified yourself.
+
+     (BTW, I was rather nonplussed when, upon arriving at the con, I was told
+that my escort/runner/driver for the duration of the con was a fellow who went
+by the nickname Shadow (albeit spelled Shaddo).  Sort of caught me up short,
+to say the least (they ARE everywhere).
+
+     Nothing firmed up yet about other cast/crew at LosCon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 366       Thu Oct 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:06 EDT
+
+     Johann...you must understand that I have the worst memory for faces in
+the long history of mankind.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 372       Sat Oct 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:21 EDT
+
+                          #9.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 29        Thu Jun 30, 1994
+B.SHERRIS [Brett]            at 00:03 EDT
+Sub: The Master Plan                    
+
+WARNING!  THIS TOPIC MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS VITAL TO THE FIVE YEAR
+ STORY ARC OF BABYLON 5.  DO NOT READ THIS TOPIC IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO
+ POSSIBLY DISCOVER THE PURPOSE OF THE FIVE YEAR STORY ARC!
+143 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 29
+Message 139       Sat Oct 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:52 EDT
+
+     Granted there is metaphor in the construction of the B5 story, but it's
+not point-for-point in any linear fashion.  The coming conflagration will look
+a hell of a lot more like a cross between WW II and the breaking of the seals
+in "Revelations" than Vietnam.  (Probably the Earth/Minbari War could be made
+the closest approximation of Vietnam; "peace with honor" and all that.)  The
+point of metaphor, I think, is not to draw a straight parallel, but to tilt
+the mirror a bit, shift the focus and see how this change of perspective
+illuminates reality.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 30        Mon Jul 04, 1994
+D.KAUFFMAN5 [CyberDad]       at 13:14 EDT
+Sub: Nods, In-Jokes, and References     
+
+Post any nods, in-jokes, or references you have seen here.  For example,
+Babylon 5 refers to the Babylon of ancient Earth; the location of B5 is at
+Grid Epsilon 470/18/22, the location of the original B5 topic on GEnie.
+267 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 30
+Message 255       Wed Oct 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:15 EDT
+
+     Weren't her.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 30
+Message 257       Tue Oct 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:45 EDT
+
+     *What* Piperism?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 30
+Message 262       Wed Oct 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:49 EDT
+
+      Oh....*that*.  Yeah, that's something we've done, but just because it
+seemed right.  Never even considered Piper.  Having met an african american
+named O'Reilly, and Irish-born Jews, and the like, it just seems this is gonna
+continue.  So we just write the names of the characters, and cast whoever
+comes in the door as the best actor, regardless of ethnic background, but
+don't change the name.  Gives us some interesting random combinations.
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 31        Sat Jul 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:23 EDT
+Sub: Really Stupid Questions from JMS   
+
+Every so often, I need Information.  (You won't get it!)  Technical stuff,
+research or reference stuff...and given the brain trust here, I figured this
+could be a useful resource from time to time.  With appreciation.
+165 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 151       Sat Oct 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:30 EDT
+
+     What the hell happened to NVN?  For the last few months, when I try to
+log on using the same script and number as ever, it goes halfway through the
+process, then just stops dead.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 32        Sun Aug 14, 1994
+J.DREW [C. Rift 17/6]        at 10:21 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 Actors in Other Roles    
+
+Post here when you see a B5 actor or guest star in another role, either
+television or movie.
+43 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 32
+Message 33        Sun Oct 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:03 EDT
+
+     Sanderson also did a "Twilight Zone" for me, did an okay job.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 35        Sun Sep 18, 1994
+R.FELDMAN [Chats]            at 17:15 EDT
+Sub: Softball in Grid Epsilon           
+
+Here is where I'll report the results of the Babylon 5 Softball games. As we
+have no known Telepaths here, I'll have to wait until AFTER the games have
+taken place....
+33 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 35
+Message 9         Mon Oct 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:44 EDT
+
+     I think this is sorta unconscionable, spiking some poor old nanny at home
+base...hell, how could they not win up against a bunch of old  ladies...?
+
+                     jm(oblivious and proud of it)s
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 35
+Message 14        Tue Oct 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:50 EDT
+
+     Mainly Narns, Drazi and a few Pak'ma'ra.
+
+     Umpires are all Vorlons.  But isn't that what we all kinda suspected
+anyway...?
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 35
+Message 18        Wed Oct 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:18 EDT
+
+     And Umpire-speak is certainly Vorlonish.
+
+     "Strike."
+
+     "Foul."
+
+     "Safe."
+
+     "Out."
+
+                                                         jms
+ ------------
+
+ ************
+Topic 16        Sun Apr 17, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:42 EDT
+Sub: #116 - "Signs And Portents"        
+
+by JMS. Directed by Janet Greek.  Co-starring Gerrit Graham.
+291 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 16
+Message 286       Tue Oct 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:34 EDT
+
+     Bluescreen.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17        Sun Apr 17, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:45 EDT
+Sub: #114 - "By Any Means Neccessary"   
+
+by Kathryn M. Drennan.
+ Directed by Jim Johnston. Co-Stars John Snyder and Katy Boyer.
+88 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 17
+Message 86        Sat Oct 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:38 EDT
+
+     Correct: B5 is a distribution point, and many objects are stored in the
+zero-G area and never brought into the station proper.
+
+     Johanna: reality check.  If I put in all the staff (or even most of the
+staff) you suggest, huge diplomatic staffs, trade envoys, political attaches,
+military, etc...and did this times 5 ambassadors...even totally leaving out
+the League of Non-Aligned Worlds...there wouldn't be any money left to
+actually make the show.  You'd have all the cast you suggest, but no money for
+film, or cameras, or crew.  Right now we have 14-16 regular and recurring
+characters, and another 8 or so who appear periodically (like Lou Welch).
+This is the biggest cast ever put together for an SF series, and we're
+straining as it is to accommodate all of this.  To have more just to have them
+is pointless, and would bankrupt the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 26        Mon Apr 18, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 00:03 EDT
+Sub: #112 - "Chrysalis"                 
+
+by JMS. Directed by Janet Greek.  Season finale.
+165 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 26
+Message 9         Thu Oct 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:35 EDT
+
+     Arne's seen it.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 26
+Message 34        Thu Oct 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:14 EDT
+
+     It's a weird promo, because if you see it, it makes it look like season
+two starts next week (well, that's what it says), showing you Bruce and
+others...but if you tune in, you get "Chrysalis."  Weird....
+
+
+                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 26
+Message 46        Fri Oct 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 13:56 EDT
+
+     "Chrysalis" is more questions than answers; the next two episodes are
+more answers than questions.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 26
+Message 62        Tue Oct 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:53 EDT
+
+     We used the LBJ swearing-in photograph in staging that shot; odd
+coincidence: the day we filmed that was the anniversary of the day that LBJ
+did this in real life.  The mood on set that day was thus *very* weird.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 26
+Message 91        Thu Oct 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:13 EDT
+
+     Phil: there *is* a parting resolution/explanation for the Sinclair
+situation in the first episode of next season.
+
+     In two episodes, you will discover: a) what happened during the 24 hours
+missing from Sinclair's memory; b) why the Minbari surrendered at the Battle
+of the Line; c) what Delenn has turned into; d) what G'Kar found on his
+expedition; e) the fate of Garibaldi...and a bunch of other stuff.
+
+     How's that for starters?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 26
+Message 164       Tue Nov 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:14 EST
+
+     That's correct.  "Chrysalis" was filmed last November, as episode #12.
+We are now, for instance, shooting #8, and will again be shooting around #11
+or so in November.  (We started shooting a few weeks later this year than
+last.)
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 27        Mon Aug 29, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 (Forwarded)
+Sub: #201 - "Points of Departure"       
+
+by JMS. Directed by Janet Greek.
+6 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 27
+Message 5         Mon Oct 31, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:37 EST
+
+     I agree about the theme this year; I kinda wanted it a little on the
+ominous side, something unsettling about it.  Chris did a great job.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms94-11 b/ftp/GEnie/jms94-11
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/ftp/GEnie/jms94-11
@@ -0,0 +1,1946 @@
+This file contains messages posted by J. Michael Straczynski on GEnie
+for November, 1994.  Postings are copyright 1994 by J. Michael Straczynski
+with compilation copyright by GEnie.
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 General category.  This is the main topic for  the
+hit SF series.  We discuss all general information on the series in this
+topic.  Topic 2 is for SPOILERS!  DO NOT POST STORY IDEAS!
+
+444 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 652       Tue Nov 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:41 EST
+
+     The stations were put on notice *by* Warners about the error made by
+Modern Video, and told which one NOT to air.  This isn't between us and PTEN,
+but a station thing.
+
+     "Chrysalis" will be rerun in time, but don't offhand know when (my guess
+would be sometime around Christmas/New Year).
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+
+
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 675       Thu Nov 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:16 EST
+
+     We're dedicated to improving all of these elements on a regular basis;
+CGI, sets, directing, lighting, name it.
+
+     The music will change every year, to get in sync with where the season is
+going; the tone and tenor and mood will shift.
+
+     Re: the narration...last year, Michael had the benefit of being able to
+see the sequence prior to reading the narration, and reading with the images.
+That was when we were shooting in July to air in January.  In this case,
+shooting in August to air in November, Bruce had to wing it, without any
+images for reference, just text.  Now that we've got the opening completed
+(and we weren't satisfied with it or done tinkering with it until a few days
+before delivery), we'll probably let him do it again with the visuals before
+him, so he knows what he's reading to, since it'll have a *big* impact on how
+he delivers the stuff.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 392       Fri Nov 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:42 EST
+
+     As noted elsewhere...we have previously established that the Dome is
+periodically on Standby Mode, when the system is performing autmoated
+(automated) backups, routine maintenance, that sort of thing.  It was in
+"Midnight," when Garibaldi informs Ivanova that that's where he likes to go,
+when it's on standby, and is quiet.  It was in "Sky," when Ivanova asks Tech 1
+if there are any more ships due in for a while, is told no, and she puts her
+feet up on the console, nobody else around.
+
+     Also, B5 tends to run on human cycles of day and night, something we try
+to reflect in the sets and effects, showing the Garden bright during day
+times, and dark during night stuff (as around dinner time in the Fresh Air
+Restaurant).  Maintaining such cycles has been found to be critical in these
+kinds of environments.
+
+     The standby mode only happens every 36-48 hours, for about an hour.
+Most departments also have their own control areas, using C&C mainly when
+command personnel are required.  In addition, there are folks monitoring C&C,
+and if anything *should* happen, someone could be there within seconds.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 394       Fri Nov 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:41 EST
+
+     In fact, we just re-did the narration yesterday, now that we have the
+visuals in hand, and it's MUCH improved.  And since we're re-dong (er, re-
+doing) that part anyway, we had Ron re-do the faceplate pull back shot, which
+I think is good, but can be better.  Now it is.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 396       Fri Nov 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:58 EST
+
+     Probably episode 4.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 410       Sat Nov 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:25 EST
+
+     Yes, Delenn does explain why she entered the cocoon after emerging.
+
+     Not that it's the truth, of course....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 411       Sat Nov 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:44 EST
+
+     BTW, having now edited seven episodes, and seen several finished ones, I
+think that of the first three, "The Geometry of Shadows" (#3) is my personal
+favorite.  "Revelations" is certainly a biggie, a staggering chunk of the
+arc...but "Geometry" is just an absolute hoot, something of a breather from
+the intensity, and largely for fun with some undertones.   If you liked "The
+Parliament of Dreams," you'll probably love "Geometry."
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 431       Sat Nov 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:01 EST
+
+     Actually, G'Kar's makeup wasn't changed this year; the actor put on a few
+pounds over hiatus, which shows in the face, which changes how the prosthetic
+looks.  This was dropped very quickly by Andreas, however, and the makeup has
+adjusted itself.  (Hell, we all put on a few pounds during hiatus.)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 443       Sun Nov 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:55 EST
+
+     The voice of B5 is done by Haley, our script-person on the set.
+
+     Re: the theme music...to me, one is neither worse nor better than the
+other.  They're *different*, and meant to convey different moods and themes.
+Each year it'll change.  This year was heavy on strings and brass; next year
+it'll be heavy on percussion.  The main theme will be reinterpreted and
+interpolated in different ways.  In the B5 universe, change is the only
+constant.
+
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 467       Sun Nov 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:11 EST
+
+     Because of the many actors we have in our main title sequence, we have
+roughly two seconds in which to show their faces (the minimum SAG will allow).
+If you show someone in action, you won't see their faces well enough to
+recognize them, and there isn't enough time to do any kind of action.
+
+     Now, we could, as stated, do both...we could show some action on each
+character, and then a closeup.  But the opening title sequence as it is now
+isn't long enough for all of the actors.  So our choice is as follows: 1)
+exclude some of the actors, or 2) make the main title longer, and cut time out
+of the episode to compensate.
+
+     Those are the ONLY two options.
+
+     There is a point where reality and art intersect.  This is one of them.
+
+     If we're going to show their faces, then we need to show them in closeup.
+And there isn't time for anything else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 479       Mon Nov 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:44 EST
+
+     After the hassle last year with Kawasaki and Zima, I'm inclined NOT to do
+brand names anymore.
+
+     Re: split-screen...you end up seeing less of both in the final analysis.
+It's TOO busy.  And either you put the name of the actor over one half of the
+picture (meaning you squeeze it down, all the more so since the titles are
+letterboxed, making them practically unreadable), or you spill them across the
+two sides of the split screen which'll look real bad.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 527       Tue Nov 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:42 EST
+
+     (He coughs and speaks in his Executive Producer Voice:)  "I *LIKE* the
+opening title sequence."
+
+     Now...onto other matters.
+
+     We re-mixed the narration and music today in the titles, and it's a LOT
+better.  I slightly shifted the placement of some of the lines, and Bruce's
+rendition is very nice.  Really carries the weight.  Look for it to appear
+starting in episode #4.
+
+     Also, yesterday I turned in script #11, "All Alone in the Night," which
+now marks the half-way point through season two.  Just eleven more scripts to
+go....
+                                                                jms
+
+------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 576       Fri Nov 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:16 EST
+
+     This is something we've discussed with Christopher, and as long as we're
+messing with the main title, he's going to slightly adjust his music cue so
+that, rather than kind of a sustained note after the big B5 logo
+(monologue/gallery transition), it'll be cleaner and bigger going in.  This,
+btw, is kind of emblematic of what we do in the show; we are constantly
+looking for ways, big and small, to improve things; often we never mention
+them.  We continue to improve the sets as we work; after we finish shooting an
+episode in a set, we'll sometimes go in and refine it a bit more.  I wasn't
+very happy with some of the screen displays in the observation dome, so they
+were changed last week, and will probably show up starting around episode 8 or
+9.  We made a very tiny modification in one CGI shot in the main title that
+probably nobody will notice, but it's better.  And cleaned up another shot in
+the title sequence.
+
+     The only real aberration here is that generally, we do this fairly
+quietly, over a long time.  Because this time it's in the main title, it's a
+bit harder to do it discreetly.  No detail is too small to be noticed and
+improved.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 585       Fri Nov 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:11 EST
+
+     I'm sorry, Lynda, but your friends are pinheads who seem to have no
+broader reference in their lives than Star Trek.
+
+     Boxleitner was not "doing" Kirk consciously or otherwise; he brings his
+own natural speech qualities and movements to the character.  The way he is as
+Sheridan is very close to how he is in real life.  Those are his natural
+speech inflections, and his natural movements.  I know, I've sat across from
+him at lunch.  That's just him.
+
+     You'll excuse me if I'm a bit cranky here, but I'm getting pretty damned
+tired of people who, themselves unable to see past Star Trek, naturally assume
+everybody else is trying to *do* Trek.  I did not work seven years to get this
+show on the air to "do" Trek, and Boxleiter has not worked to perfect his art
+as a performer to suddenly "do" Shatner or Kirk.  The problem here is in the
+person doing the observation.
+
+     "I think the actor did it subconsciously, trying to get a feel for the
+role."  The role is not Kirk.  So why would someone do someone who is NOT the
+role in order to get a feeling FOR the role?
+
+     "...because I didn't notice any similarity to Kirk in episode two."
+Because there IS no similarity in EITHER episode, or in the performance.
+
+     I'm sorry to be angry about this, but I've heard this from people again
+and again whose frame of reference extends no further than Star Trek, and they
+make it OUR fault that THEY can't get beyond their own narrow frame of
+rerence, and you'll excuse me if I'm getting a bit tired of it.  Looking at
+Boxleitner's performance, which is NOTHING like Shatner, to see him get gigged
+on THIS of all things is pathetic and laughable.  Like or don't like his
+performance, fine, but does anyone  even VAGUELY think that this guy is
+sacrificing his chance to create his on character in order to "do" Kirk?
+C'mon, that's fanboy thinking of the lowest order, and frankly deserves
+nothing more than contempt and ridicule.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 589       Sat Nov 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:21 EST
+
+     I did not call her a pinhead, I called her friends pinheads.
+
+     Jose: this has got nothing to do with slamming B5 or slamming Trek.   I'm
+not defending B5 against a Trek slam, and I have no interest in defending
+Trek.  I'm talking about the weird individual mindset that  can't see past
+that.  Nowhere in  my message do I slam Trek, nor do I ask people to stop
+comparing B5's quality to Trek's quality.  Your message has nothing to do with
+the message that I wrote, or the topic.
+
+     Y'know, I sit here, reading 500+ messages a day, some with the most rude,
+snide, condescending, insulting content I've ever seen...nobody ever thinks
+twice.  I get a little tired of the same attitude on the part of a few people,
+leave one message, and suddenly I'm being taken to task.   If I'm upset, I
+have a right to state that.  Jose, you have been pretty damned vicious, and
+insulting in many of your messages.  Even when you find something positive to
+say, you phrase it in an insulting way 99.9% of the time.  So please take your
+lectures somewhere else.
+
+     If Lynda's friends think Boxleitner is "doing" a James Kirk imitation,
+consciously or otherwise, they are exactly what I stated: pinheads.  If that
+doesn't sit well, if it isn't politically correct, I'm sorry, but I don't do
+that.  It's simply one of the most breathtaking moronic things I've heard this
+year.  If that hurts, I'm sorry, but it's true.  Should I sit here and pretend
+it's not a stupid idea?  Everyone here is quite free with their opinion;
+should I not be allowed equal freedom?  I spend half my time on various
+systems biting back replies to some pretty mean spirited comments; I let them
+slide.  Sometimes, though, something rises out of the background noise enough
+that I have to notice it, and respond.
+
+     Reality check: anybody who could conceivably believe, and tell others,
+that an accomplished actor with successful series, and highly rated movies,
+one of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood, would suddenly, one day,
+turn around and start doing a William Shatner imitation in what is his lead
+role in a series is simply out of his or her respective gourd.  I'm sorry if
+that offends, but it's true.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 20        Sat Nov 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:11 EST
+
+     1) Restatement, especially to Lynn: this has nothing to do with anyone
+comparing the quality of show A and show B, but rather the insinuation that
+person A is copying person B's behavior, which is untrue.
+
+     2) Personal attacks name individuals.  You can't personally attack a
+group you don't know.
+
+     3) If that "personal attack" rule were exercised here as stated, you
+could not post half the messages in this forum.  When actors are called "lame-
+o," is that not a personal attack?  And there the actor is named.   That has
+happened here *countless* times.  But nobody ever seems to have a problem with
+that.  So you'll forgive me if I think this is just a bit skewed.
+
+     I have seen my work, and that of my actors, and directors, on this system
+and others, characterized as "lame, stupid, mindless, boring, ridiculous,
+cheesy," and about a hundred other adjectives I could bring up.  Nobody
+blinks.  No discussions about whether or not that person should be allowed to
+say that, or the person was out of line.  If you're going to allow one, it's
+hypocritical not to allow the other.
+
+     If everyone here is supposed to express their opinions, in whatever harsh
+terms they choose, except me, then just say so, and I'll keep my opinions to
+myself from now on.  Either we all play by the same rules, or we don't.  And
+if we don't, you'll forgive me if I feel that's more than a tad unfair.
+Message after message about Michael O'Hare, right here in this forum, calling
+him wooden, calling him a bad actor, calling for actors to be spaced,
+replaced, fired...that's fine...but one comment from me and the fabric of the
+universe begins to unravel?
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 24        Sat Nov 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:55 EST
+
+     I've been called a hell of a lot worse on these nets, and here; including
+a liar, untrustworthy, a shill, a sellout...please.  Pinhead?
+ I don't think I'd even notice.
+
+     Y'know what this reminds me of?  Ever play Whack-A-Mole?  I had this
+image while I was shoving a carton of Kung Pao Chicken down my gullet prior to
+getting back to the writing, of the Whack-A-Mole game, and for two years,
+everybody whacks the mole, whack-whack-whack-whack-whack, and one day, the
+mole -- with stuffing leaking out of his ears, one eye missing, nose hanging
+on by a thread -- mutters, under its breath, "...pinhead"...and suddenly
+everybody runs around screaming "EEK!  EEK!   Get it!  Get it!"
+WHACK!WHACK!WHACK!WHACK!WHACK!
+
+     Really stupid thing is, the mole was a volunteer.
+
+     Ah, well...I knew the job was dangerous when I took it....
+
+                                                       jmoles
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 33        Sun Nov 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:11 EST
+
+     I guess I do tend to get defensive on the part of other people,
+because...I don't know, I guess I'm just wired-up funny that way.  It may come
+from being raised in the kind of family I was raised in, and those of you
+who've come from families with heavy drinking above you will know instantly
+what I'm talking about: you start protecting others around you, whatever the
+personal cost might be.
+
+     When it comes to stuff directed at me...unless it's absolutely off the
+wall stuff like allegations of lying...it tends to just wash off because I
+can't take myself very seriously on the best of days, and thus it doesn't
+bother me.  I'm goofy on the best of days, I sometimes screw up
+*monumentally*...the kind of screw-ups that can just take your breath away and
+make one *very* relieved that I've had a vasectomy...so when someone points
+out that I committed a dumbness, it basically goes into the pile with all the
+others that creep out from under the bed at night and dance behind my eyes
+when I'm trying to get to sleep.
+
+     John: thanks for the good words, and my condolences (I guess) on your
+change in perspective.  More than anything else, I wanted to create with
+Babylon 5 something that would outlive me, that would *excite* people and get
+them talking, thinking, debating, arguing.  We're not here to preserve a
+franchise, we're here to tell a story.  If we succeed in that attempt, then
+everything, *everything*, was worthwhile.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 56        Sun Nov 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:00 EST
+
+     ...intellidrivel?  What an interesting new word.
+
+     One of the things we've noticed at the B5 offices, from mail from folks
+and in some cases teachers (not that they're different), is that we seem to be
+cutting across all age groups.  A *lot* of kids are hooked on the show.  But
+we also seem to be getting the old-time SF types, and seem to be drawing more
+or less equally from print and media SF fans (though, curiously, slightly more
+from those who consider themselves print SF fans than media SF fans).
+
+     BTW, late notice...there will probably be a B5 piece on EXTRA tonight.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 78        Mon Nov 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:30 EST
+
+     Actually, that kind of dedication and attention is really only required
+if you're trying to figure out what's going to happen BEFORE it happens, which
+is primarily a thing on the nets.  Most folks non-wired in seem content to see
+what happens WHEN it happens...and there, *all* of the information needed to
+follow it is always provided in the episode in question.  (You don't need to
+have seen "Quality" to understand what the healing machine was, and what it
+was designed to do, for instance, in "Points."  Franklin recaps that info for
+the viewer.)  One person, just as an experiment, watched the episodes
+completely out of order, and found that he could follow it just fine either
+way.
+
+     On an unrelated note...just finished another script tonight, "Acts of
+Sacrifice," which despite its rather ominous title is more a slice of life
+episode...and contains probably the funkiest, weirdest sequence that I have
+ever written.  Full tilt whacko.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 85        Mon Nov 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:15 EST
+
+     Might it be better to say that Star Trek is the best Star Trek that has
+ever been made, and that Babylon 5 is the best Babylon 5 that has ever been
+made...?
+
+     Some level of competitiveness is good, in the sense that it should
+promote us and the ST folks to work harder to out-do one another; in that
+fashion, the viewers win every time.  At the same time, remember that a lot of
+the hard-core ST fans *really* dumped on B5 bigtime when it first came out,
+and may be perhaps a bit annoyed at having the tables switched around and for
+the first time being asked hard questions (whcich, or which, if answered, will
+make both shows continue to improve).
+
+     The thing to remember is that this marks the *first time* since the
+original Star Trek that there has been an American series set in our future,
+with humans as spacefaring entities building colonies and forming relations
+with other races.  (Space Rangers came after, and is now gone in any event,
+and Battlestar was about others coming here in our present.)  So on that
+level, we're going toe to toe, but with the goal, one hopes, of wedging the
+door open enough for MORE shows to come down the pike of this sort.  Can you
+*imagine* the Lensman books, or the Foundation books, done for television?
+That will NOT happen untiland unless it can be shown that just one other such
+spacefaring futuristic show can be done successfully for television.
+
+     My criterion has always been, what does the show bring to the table that
+is new?  The original ST brought transporters, phasers, starships,
+communicators, medical scanners, air-injectors and warp speed into common
+parlance; they weren't throwaways, they were important parts of this new
+universe.
+
+     Babylon 5 has introduced O'Neil stations, gravity through rotation, jump
+gates, non-aerodynamic Starfuries, use of the full x-y-z axis in showing
+movement, non-atmospheric combat (flying backwards and firing forwards),
+alternate atmosphere sectors, and other stuff.  I think that this will in time
+become common parlance and part of the culture, assuming we stay on the air
+that long.
+
+     (What new elements -- not one-episode throwaways, but new, regular
+technologies like transporters -- TNG and DS9 have developed, I don't know,
+only because I don't tend to watch.  So I'll leave that to others.)
+
+     Which is all a long and roundabout way of saying that I think the whole
+question of "better" is less the issue than what the series leaves in its
+wake; does it contribute, does it ennoble, does it illuminate, does it
+educate?  And that generally can't *really* be known until well after the
+fact.  The original ST was considered a failure when it was cancelled; there
+was little evidence of it affecting society, the ratings were low...it was
+only with the passage of time that it took on a new life, and became part of
+the popular culture.
+
+     Now if only I can lean on Bruce to stop saying the new Enterprise looks
+like a park fountain....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 106       Tue Nov 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:20 EST
+
+     Elissa: I think your analysis is quite good.
+
+     Doc: actually, funny thing is, I'd say about half of the message I see
+(make that messageS) are from folks either directly or indirectly involved
+with real space...from NASA, from JPL, the High Altitude Observatory, various
+space science research organizations...so I'm sure this aspect will come in
+time.
+
+     Some rather astonished reactions at the studio today to a just published
+script...lots of folks found out somebody isn't entirely who they've been
+assuming.  I love doing this....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 123       Tue Nov 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:41 EST
+
+     Actually, I think the positronic brain/android brain was introduced in
+TOS, as were replicators.
+
+     BTW, I heard the other day about planned Mars observers and landers to be
+launched every two years starting in '96, but haven't heard more about it
+since.  Anybody got the skinny on this?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 148       Tue Nov 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:22 EST
+
+     What I found weird about the Mars thing was the comment from somebody at
+NASA that they were sending the lander/observer missions in order to "learn
+more about the patterns of extinction."  Which seemed an awfully odd comment,
+and wasn't followed up on.  If a planet has ALWAYS been dead, then sending a
+probe to look into patterns of extinction seems kinda pointless....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 155       Wed Nov 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:54 EST
+
+     Arne: I generally don't let the actors know what's coming unless it's
+important to the current performance.  Otherwise you risk having the actor
+play the *result* instead of the *process*.  Had to make one divergence from
+this recently, so that Peter could understand better a sequence in "The Coming
+of Shadows," which you'll understand when you see it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 175       Thu Nov 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:23 EST
+
+     Yeah, the actors love being surprised by turns in their characters,
+because it gives them more opportunity to explore the range of their craft
+rather than playing the same attitude week after week after week.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 197       Fri Nov 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:50 EST
+
+     Random 2 AM thoughts...can you go into an International House of Pancakes
+in Germany and order Luftwaffles...?
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 215       Fri Nov 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:57 EST
+
+     That's Mira's hair, yes...and barring genetic engineering or alteration,
+reproduction between varying species is not possible in the B5 universe.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 219       Fri Nov 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:54 EST
+
+     I covered the aspect of genetic engineering in the course of G'Kar's
+conversation with Lyta.  He said he could clone her, "...but we'd STILL have
+to alter its genetic structure," same as with anything she would do.   And,
+frankly, he was more just trying to get laid than anything else.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 256       Sun Nov 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:44 EST
+
+     I heard the news about Peter early this morning, but didn't want to say
+anything here until Christy had allowed the news to come out.
+
+     It's very strange...you kind of have to understand who and what Peter
+was.  He was close to my height, maybe 6'3 or 6'4, and just MASSIVE, muscular,
+solid from toes to fingertips.  Solid in his voice.   Solid in his views.
+Solid in his appetite.  We sometimes referred to him as Peter "The Mad
+Australian" Ledger.  He could take over an entire table and turn it into a
+party with himself as huckster, ringmaster, cannonballer and fireworks show
+all rolled into one boisterous, funny, irresistible force of nature.  We all
+burn from time to time, but Peter burned brightly twenty-four hours a day.  He
+was full of turns of phrases that could put you away; "slippery as a bucket of
+monkey's foreskins" being one of the more...memorable.  He was into exercise,
+food, had endless stories about the Australian outback, hunting, traveling the
+world...he was a gourmet cook and a sculpter and an artist and a
+raconteur...when he used to look at how I eat (red meat, everything fried or
+broiled to within an inch of its life), live (haunting the midnight hours,
+"the vampire people" he  called Kathryn and I in our cave, not getting enough
+exercise), he said that I was doomed and he would be sure to come by and pay
+his respects when my entire cardiovascular system seized up finally in protest
+and pulled a work stoppage.
+
+     And it was easy to believe, that Peter would go on forever.
+
+     I have lost too goddamned many friends to traffic accidents, and this one
+is hardest of all.  Though we hadn't spoken much since he moved up  north,
+schedules and work being what they are, it is a loss, for those who knew him,
+and those who now won't have the chance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 324       Wed Nov 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:07 EST
+
+     This is kind of an alert, more of a heads-up, I suppose....
+
+     I have now had something on the order of half a dozen reports from people
+who have either been told, or heard indirectly, that stations are being
+pressured to drop B5 or they won't get Voyager.  I suspect the reason for this
+is fear; DS9 support was always soft; according to some of the demographics,
+it looks like DS9 has been steadily losing viewers, albeit gradually...at
+about the same rate that B5 has been *adding* viewers...leading to the clear
+implication that they're going here from there.
+
+     If anybody out there knows about this, or has any first-hand info, or can
+*find out*...please let me know in email.  It has to be specific, with names
+and dates, and we'll need a letter, possibly an affidavit.   (Some viewers in
+Rochester, NY were apparently told this flat-out by their local cable
+company.)
+
+     The seriousness of this comes from the fact that there's a certain
+threshold of markets required to maintain enough coverage to suit  national
+sponsors; if you drop beneath that threshold, they drop out, and you're in
+serious yogurt.  We're nowhere near that at the moment -- we'd have to lose 20-
+30 stations for that to happen -- but we'd like to try and nip this in the
+bud.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 347       Thu Nov 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:12 EST
+
+     I have no problem with the monolog being posted.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 355       Fri Nov 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:47 EST
+
+     I have *no* idea what they're talking about, since "the distributer"
+is/was the satellite uplink, and everybody ELSE got it...I dunno....
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 356       Fri Nov 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:11 EST
+
+      Just an update to stuff like ratings...and while the ratings continue to
+ be strong, and build in the overnights, the demographics are improving at a
+ buying commercials, this is very good news.
+
+      Overall, B5 comes in #3 in ALL syndicated dramatic series, as opposed to
+ talk shows and game shows, which are in a separate category and fill up the
+ upper echelons of the syndie ratings.
+
+      Here's the breakdown for one week:
+
+                       M 18-34  M 18-49  M 25-54  W 18-34  W 18-49  W 25-54
+ Star Trek: DS9           5.4      6.1      6.5      5.2      5.4      5.5
+ Baywatch                 4.7      4.3      4.1      5.3      4.9      4.6
+ BABYLON 5                3.3      3.8      4.0      3.3      3.4      3.3
+ Renegade                 2.5      2.3      2.3      2.0      2.3      2.5
+ Kung Fu                  2.4      3.0      3.7      2.1      2.2      2.5
+ Forever Knight           1.8      1.3      1.1      1.6      1.4      1.4
+ Time Trax                1.8      1.9      2.1      1.9      2.0      2.2
+ Highlander               1.4      1.5      1.6      1.9      2.0      2.1
+ Thunder in Paradise      1.3      1.2      1.3      1.4      1.2      1.2
+ Lonesome Dove (series)   1.1      2.2      2.6      1.9      1.9      2.3
+ Sirens                   1.1      1.3      1.5      1.7      1.6      1.9
+ High Tide                1.0      1.1      1.0      1.7      1.4      1.5
+ Heaven Help Us           0.8      1.0      1.2      1.7      1.6      1.4
+ Robin's Hoods            0.8      0.9      1.1      2.1      1.8      1.5
+ Space Precinct           0.8      0.9      0.8      1.2      1.0      0.9
+ Hawkeye                  0.3      0.9      1.0      0.9      1.3      1.4
+
+      Number 3 out of 17 dramatic series is VERY good placement, and PTEN is
+ very encouraged by this, very pleased.  (You'll note a fairly big drop
+between
+ #3 and #4, while the difference between, say, 20 and 21 are not (is not) as
+ substantial.
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 381       Sun Nov 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:29 EST
+
+     Never said Kosh was going to get an assistant anytime soon.
+
+     BTW...as an aside...for the last 3-5 days, my GEnie Internet gateway has
+been down, which means it has to be re-opened...but I'm wondering if that's
+such a smart thing after all.
+
+     The problem ain't negative opinions, or anything like that; I get plenty
+of comments everywhere, of all kinds.  And I'd say 90% of those on rec.arts.b5
+are only terrific; intelligent, funny, thoughtful, critical, insightful...but
+the problem with rec.arts.b5 is that because there's no fee, and anybody can
+get on, and there's no moderation, it tends to attract people who come in
+*deliberately* trying to cause trouble mainly because *they know I'm there*.
+I hear from time to time from folks on the alt.b5 area, and apparently there's
+a lot less trouble there.  What's the main difference?  Well, the knowledge
+that some folks can come in and screw with the producer of the show for
+fun...which by itself isn't a problem, I can handle that...but I'm getting
+genuinely concerned that it's poisoning the well for everybody *else*...that
+they're getting into fights, for only the best of reasons, and the atmosphere
+is just getting really tense, making it difficult for those using the service.
+
+     I'm really in kind of a quandry over the whole thing.  It's like enjoying
+the company you get at a local bar, but you know that every time you go in,
+somebody's going to pick a fight or drag the whole place down, so is it really
+fair to everybody else to keep going there?  And it's only a small number, but
+they seem obsessed with making life unpleasant for everybody else.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 417       Wed Nov 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:01 EST
+
+     Well, in today's Variety, B5 climbed back into the top 20 again, and the
+third highest dramatic series overall (not counting the Action Pack, since
+it's a movie each week).  DS9, Baywatch, B5, then everything else.   We're
+hanging in there.
+
+     (These are, again the syndicated ratings, not the network ratings.)
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 427       Wed Nov 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:59 EST
+
+     That's a great story.
+
+     Mira's makeup is now a notch closer to her regular skin tone in general.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+Babylon 5 is moving into a second season of 22 episodes.  This series can be
+seen at 8 Pm on Wednesdays, in most areas.  This topic is for SPOILERS only.
+Just remember our NO STORY IDEAS rule and we'll let you live. <g>
+
+293 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 78        Thu Nov 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:19 EST
+
+     We decided on visuals, showing our cast with their names and their
+characters names because it's clear, after a season, that a LOT of people
+still don't know which actor goes with which character, or how the characters'
+names are spelled.  We need to identify them more clearly.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 124       Mon Nov 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:45 EST
+
+     Actors contracts specify where, and how often, they appear in the
+credits.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 159       Fri Nov 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:36 EST
+
+     It ain't B4, basically a different display.
+
+     BTW, to those who've inquired, the correct spelling on the name of the
+Shadowmen world is Z'ha'dum.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 193       Tue Nov 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:22 EST
+
+     Oh, I'm quite sure there was backup made of the data.  But step back for
+a moment and ask what that entails, and will any of it stand up in ANY court
+of law?  There's a difference between that which we knor or (make that know
+or) believe, and that which we can prove.  Without the one most important
+piece of all, Garibaldi's aide, the rest is speculative, inconclusive,
+circumstantial and conjectural.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 213       Thu Nov 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:48 EST
+
+     I'm starting to get the impression that our pals at Modern Video may have
+done it to us again; they are the company that also inserts the national
+sponsors into the show prior to uplink, and I'm beginning to suspect that
+somehow they clipped some acts at the last clear frame before the fadeout;
+we're currently investigating.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 227       Sat Nov 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:07 EST
+
+     We do our own cut on film, and deliver to Modern Video.  MV then handles
+the closed captioning (about which the less said the better), and readies the
+film for uplink, puts in the national spots, leaving room for local
+commercials, that sort of thing.  All of our pieces are also stored there in
+case there's any kind of glitch.
+
+     Sheridan wasn't talking to himself, but rather to the tech who just
+seconds before asked if they should let the techno-mages go.  (I'd trimmed the
+first part of his speech which made this a little clearer, figuring it'd be
+evident who he was talking to.  What can I say...sometimes you get the bear,
+sometimes the bear gets you.)
+
+     And yeah, purple/green sashes make pretty easy costuming....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 255       Thu Nov 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:32 EST
+
+     A couple of thoughts on Sheridan, btw...triggered by messages I've seen
+or had alluded to in which he's gigged for smiling too much, unlike
+Sinclair...just checked back in some of my archives, and for the first four or
+five episodes, the number one complaint about Sinclair was that he either
+smiled or smirked too much....
+
+     Meanwhile, just a little something for the folks on-line to
+contemplate...remember the first rule of Babylon 5: nobody is what they
+appear.  Not entirely, anyway.  There's always something going on,  something
+that somebody's not telling.  Some folks are making the error of looking at
+Sheridan -- as they looked at Sinclair, or Londo, or Vir, or G'Kar -- and
+thinking "this is all that he is."  Except, of course, that they weren't and
+he's not.  I would not create a character that is just what you're seeing.
+
+     Aside from that, and this is a separate issue...there are really two ways
+to deepen a character and give him a dark side.  One is to do something to him
+*before* you meet him, which he's still recovering from (Sinclair).  The other
+is to meet him, and THEN drop him down a well.   In a way, Londo is
+illustrative of the latter; you get to know him, and he's funny,
+colorful...and then you start to move him.
+
+     So suffice to say that Sheridan is going to end up getting more and more
+conflicts, and getting booted to the head, and as someone noted above, caught
+in the conflict between being a good officer and being a patriot...which can
+sometimes be the same, and sometimes VERY different things.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 277       Sun Nov 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:32 EST
+
+     Dave: talk turkey all you want; what I said was that we would be seeing
+Sinclair again *this season*.  I have been very careful NOT to specify when,
+because I want it to come as a complete and total surprise; many folks assumed
+it would be the first few, and stated such, and as is typical because this had
+now been seen, speculated and commented upon, it was assumed that I'd said it.
+Didn't.  Consequently, nothing has changed in plans, footage hasn't changed,
+nada.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 286       Wed Nov 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:03 EST
+
+     "All Alone in the Night" also has Robert Foxworth in it, and is directed
+by Mario Di Leo.  (Janet directed "The Coming of Shadows.")   Jim Johnston
+directed "GROPOS," and will also direct "Acts of Sacrifice," which guest-stars
+Paul Williams and Ian Abecrombie.
+
+     Following "Acts" is another jms script, "Hunter, Prey."
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Computer SFX Tech-Talk 
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+305 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 266       Wed Nov 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:41 EST
+
+                         .....thud.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 271       Thu Nov 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:46 EST
+
+     Can someone confirm if, indeed, somebody in Stargate is seen reading a
+copy of Universe Today?
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 298       Wed Nov 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:56 EST
+
+     No royal Centauri vessels this week.  That's from the trailer, which
+doesn't intersect reality at any two contiguous points.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Cast & Characters      
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+376 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 263       Mon Nov 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:15 EST
+
+     Additional cast members in guest starring roles: Terhan Bey, Malachi
+Throne, and Paul Winfield.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 269       Tue Nov 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:38 EST
+
+     Yup, *that* Turhan Bey.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 275       Fri Nov 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:41 EST
+
+     Re: Na'Toth...you have to remember this was not our decision, but rather
+Caitlin's, in order to pursue some romantic lead parts.  We made an offer
+equal to the other cast, but she opted out to pursue films.  We cast the best
+actor to come in the door to fill Na'Toth's boots, and we need that character
+there because of the prior knowledge she needs to have to fill her role in the
+story.  Mary Kay is, I think, trying to reinterpret the character.  We're
+nudging in the other direction.  One way or another, this will be made to
+work.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 309       Tue Nov 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:26 EST
+
+     It's really a question of what would work in the real world.   Ivanova
+doesn't have anywhere NEAR the experience needed to run a station like this;
+it isn't given because somebody's a nice person, or because they know you;
+it's based on rank, and experience, and she has neither at this juncture at a
+level sufficient to command a major operation like this.  The ONLY reason that
+Sinclair had it at Commander rank was that it was a condition of the Minbari
+in funding the place.
+
+     In ST, the actress who played Beverly Crusher felt she needed a chance to
+show she could command, to be more featured, so they put her in command for an
+episode.  It had nothing whatsoever to do with reality, just servicing the
+cast.  I don't think that's appropriate; the moment you do that, you
+compromise the reality of the program, and it's just a TeeVee show.
+
+     And there's lots of other reasons why Sheridan is there; I'd say wait
+until mid-season, after about episode 11 or so, and you'll learn some more of
+them, and they might not be what you'd expect.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 323       Sat Nov 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:09 EST
+
+     Except, of course, she's *not* first officer.  You don't DO this in the
+real military.  You'd go through about ten different command ranks before you
+even got *near* anyone from the medical division.  If you go into this with
+the sense of, okay, it doesn't matter if this is realistic or not, then it's
+not a problem.  Otherwise...it is.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 331       Mon Nov 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:28 EST
+
+     Okay, you beam down your senior officers *in their areas*.  The Captain
+goes down.  Now your First Officer, usually a commander, takes the helm.  The
+commander goes down, now the lieutenant-commander takes the helm.  The
+lieutenant commander goes down, now the major or a lieutenant goes down (I
+know I'm muddying this a bit, just tracking the theory here).  Divisions in
+the military are specific; you don't jump from a command type officer to a
+physician if one person leaves the bridge; it just Doesn't Happen.
+
+     In ST, it seems there is rarely any real chain of command; there are the
+Top Guys, a few in-between button-pushers, and ensigns.  There should by all
+rights be LOTS of command officers of mid-level rank to fill that job.  It's
+got nothing to do with reality.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 338       Tue Nov 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:45 EST
+
+     Star Trek is military when it is convenient for the storyline that it be
+military; and not-military when it is not convenient for it to be military.
+Sort of a supermarket approach.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 352       Thu Nov 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:18 EST
+
+     Pat: sorry, but you're strictly wrong about "all the inhabitants of B5
+speak English."  Yes, the ambassadors do, because this is an Earth run
+station, for which English has been selected as the baseline language, and if
+you're going to be an ambassador to Russia, you learn the language you're
+working in.  This is simple common sense.
+
+     There are MANY races on B5 that either don't speak English, or do so in
+very primitive ways (like the Drazi).  The pak'ma'ra, which we saw in
+"Legacies," use a physical translation device, which we saw being used when
+Garibaldi interrogated one of them; nagrath also used a translation device
+hung over his chest because his mandibles aren't capable of making human
+sounds; similarly, Kosh speaks in musical tones, which are translated by the
+flashing device on his encounter suit.  When B5 ran into a new species in
+"Voice in the Wilderness," they were shown taking our langauge and translation
+files, and using them very haltingly in order to communicate with us.
+
+     So I'm sorry, but you're simply wrong on this point.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 370       Thu Dec 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:44 EST
+
+     Morden is human.
+
+                      
+     Morden dat I can't say.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 9         Wed Nov 11, 1992
+T.RESTIVO [Little Guy]       at 18:27 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Humor                    
+
+From *Beep Beep*, to Top Ten Lists, to full-blown parodies, this is where to
+put your funny bone in writing!
+359 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 9
+Message 339       Sat Nov 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:08 EST
+
+     At Alices' Restaurant......
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B5 Adrift!                         
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+232 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 184       Sun Nov 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:02 EST
+
+     What is this song, where can I find it, and is it public domain?
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 208       Tue Nov 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:49 EST
+
+     We're already on top of this.  At this point what it looks like we'll be
+doing (having run some experiments and test runs) is to transfer all of our
+composite shots/CGI to film, and recut the negative using the added
+replacement footage.  We have to do this *anyway* to do the change back to the
+original aspect ratio, so it's not that big a deal.  I think one reason ST
+simply doesn't think it's worth the time is that they aren't shooting in HDTV
+widescreen format *anyway*, so any changes to accomodate that format would be
+of limited use anyway.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 212       Wed Nov 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:07 EST
+
+     "Ulysses" is available in most anthologies of Tennyson's work, and in
+many anthologies of british verse.  It's just a lovely and moving piece of
+work.
+
+     Don't know where things currently stand re: HDTV out in the real
+world...though I just bought a new IDTV set, so at least I'm starting to get
+ready....
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 214       Wed Nov 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:04 EST
+
+     It's a Proscan, widescreen format.  34"; the old set was 32".  First one
+blew up out of the box; hope for better luck now.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+489 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 480       Thu Nov 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:28 EST
+
+     Also, this week's Comics Buyers Guide has the first of three Peter David
+columns (long ones) about his experience on the set while we were shooting his
+episode.
+
+     On reading the first installment, next time maybe we'll just shoot
+him....
+
+     (jokejokejokejokejoke)
+
+     Re: LoSH...yeah, I agree.  But hell, nothing in the DC universe has been
+the same for me since Byrne royally screwed over Superman.  I have the last
+two issues of the original Supes books written by Alan Moore, and those for me
+are the last issues of the real Superman.  Who this new guy is, I dunno....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 13        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 21:00 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Science & Technology   
+
+Jump gates, nanotech, high-tech weapons, starship drives, sound in space, and
+other subjects of science and technology in Babylon 5.
+308 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 263       Tue Nov 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:25 EST
+
+     The Narns were belted in.
+
+     Matt...how else is a person supposed to behave?  Look at the shuttle
+footage when a fairly short-haired person is strapped into his seat; they look
+about normal.  It's only if something is loose and floating, or if they get
+out of the chair, that you can really notice the difference.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 272       Wed Nov 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:57 EST
+
+     Older model.  Different race.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 278       Thu Nov 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:29 EST
+
+     The Hyperion was built before the EM war, and survived.
+
+     The Agamemnon, a much superior ship, was built afterward.  Sheridan was
+not commanding the Aggy during the war.  It's one of the best ships we've got,
+almost the equivilent of an aircraft carrier or battleship, and it took a lot
+of seniority and work to get it.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 288       Sun Nov 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:10 EST
+
+     Re: the comparison to Coast Watchers...that's exactly what was done, as
+gets mentioned in some detail in "The Long Dark."  Good to know that so far
+the military campaign as worked out seems to scan.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 299       Wed Nov 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:09 EST
+
+     What I *don't* understand is why the pen was weightless and he wasn't.
+
+     Yes, you will see the Agamemnon again.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 14        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:59 EST
+Sub: Lurkers/Introductions: Please Sign In
+
+A place for newcomers to come in, say hello, whether you want to jump into the
+conversation or not, just to let us know you're here.
+280 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 255       Sat Nov 05, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:05 EST
+
+     Gary...whilst you're here...lemme ask you a question.  (And please don't
+take this in any way requiring defense; I'm honestly curious about something
+that you mentioned that others have mentioned, and I'm trying to wrap my brain
+around this.)
+
+     You say, "I avoided the early (B5) episodes."  This is something I hear a
+lot, particularly in the mail I'm getting these days.  Many of them were ST
+fans, but some didn't say one way or another.  Some of them simply avoided it,
+some of them VEHEMENTLY avoided it, and some of them admitted to ripping the
+hell out of the show simply on principle without ever having actually SEEN it.
+
+     So what I'm curious about -- and again, please, there's no need to  feel
+put upon by this, we're glad to have you -- is your statement; can you in any
+way elaborate upon your feelings at the time, and why you avoided it?
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 16        Fri Jan 15, 1993
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 01:02 EST
+Sub: "No kids or cute robots, ever!"    
+
+This is a topic for discussion of the unofficial slogan of Babylon 5.
+221 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 182       Tue Nov 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:26 EST
+
+     It's actually kinda funny...at no time do I get more positive comments on
+B5 than when SeaQuest and E2 went on the air....
+
+this time, replicating the Planet of the Apes denouement, I mean, come ON....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 193       Mon Nov 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:23 EST
+
+     Chats...calm down.  It's got nothing to do with the actor,and everything
+to do with the characters.  You're talking apples and oranges.  It's nearly
+traditional in SF that you stick in a kid genius, or a kid liability, and skew
+the show towards kids (talking regulars here).  We won't do that.  Period.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 202       Tue Nov 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:47 EST
+
+     I know it *can* be done.  I just don't wanna do it.  It's my show an' I
+don't hafta, and I can hold my breath until I turn blue, and...and...I don'
+WANNA.
+
+     (In adult voice now): If others are doing it, fine, let them do it.   I'm
+telling a story for the most part about grownups.  Just because a thing CAN be
+done doesn't mean it MUST be done.  And because it HAS been done so much, on
+so many shows, I'd kinda like to keep this show free of that, for the most
+part.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Merchandising          
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+390 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 303       Thu Nov 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:17 EST
+
+     Can't remember if I mentioned it here, but I also did the liner notes for
+the CD.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 307       Fri Nov 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:46 EST
+
+     No rubber stamp deals have been made.  (Oh, nearly forgot, there's a
+MicroGames hand-held B5 game that should be out shortly, if not already out.
+It's one of those noisy LCD screen jobbies, where you use B5 to collect
+damaged ships.  It doesn't fire at the incoming enemy (Vorlons), because a)
+that's a very bad idea with Vorlons, and b) given that kids are the primary
+audience for this stuff, I didn't want a shoot-em-up.)
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 324       Sun Nov 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:28 EST
+
+     To help with record ordering info, here's the ID on the B5 CD from Sonic
+Images: SI 8402-2.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 327       Sun Nov 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:14 EST
+
+     I think it's probably the same number for both.  And there will be a
+table at LosCon; don't know what the rules are going to be about buying
+multiples.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 371       Fri Nov 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:57 EST
+
+     The Script City sales of B5 scripts comes under the heading of pirated
+material.  They do not have the rights to sell this material.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 373       Sat Nov 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:04 EST
+
+     Scripts are sometimes sent to actors' agents when getting an actor to
+come in for an audition, or to accept a part without auditioning if the actor
+is a Name.  This is the #1 source of pirated scripts.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 377       Mon Nov 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:30 EST
+
+     Lemme know if the toys are there (and what's TRU?).  Also, yes, Creation
+does have a non-exclusive license to make shirts and other stuff, as does a
+company called All-U, the latter of which are *real* nifty.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 386       Tue Nov 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:48 EST
+
+     Thanks, Rob.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 24        Fri Jun 04, 1993
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:11 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Weapons and Warfare!   
+
+For discussion about the weapons, counter weapons, armor, shielding, tactics,
+logistics, and so forth, of small combat and large scale war in the Babylon 5
+universe.
+490 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 442       Thu Nov 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:11 EST
+
+     SA.
+
+     Have to check on the others.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 445       Fri Nov 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:43 EST
+
+     I'll have to go back and check my notes, but I believe standard Air Force
+terminology is FA = Fighter Attack and SA = Strike Attack; but will backtrack
+to be sure.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 452       Sun Nov 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:04 EST
+
+     I think they're picked up by the arms, and lowered into the cobra bays,
+where they hang until dropped.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 455       Mon Nov 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:25 EST
+
+     Looked at dead-on, they have a thin neck (on the outside), and then
+flange out almost like a cobra-head.  Hence the name.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 25        Fri Mar 12, 1993
+S.SHELLENBAR [>> SHANE <<]   at 08:47 EST
+Sub: J. Michael Straczynski Speaks in Public
+
+This is the place to find out where and when JMS will be appearing next.  JMS
+has honed his skills as a public speaker and is taking his act on the road.
+386 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 379       Thu Nov 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:17 EST
+
+     Me, probably Larry, still seeing if anything else gets added.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 382       Mon Nov 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:27 EST
+
+     We nailed a piece with Michael before he left for New York; when we shot
+"Points," he had long since returned to NY and was in the process of pursuing
+other things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 385       Thu Dec 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:45 EST
+
+     No current plans for ICON this year.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 29        Thu Jun 30, 1994
+B.SHERRIS [Brett]            at 00:03 EDT
+Sub: The Master Plan                    
+
+WARNING!  THIS TOPIC MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS VITAL TO THE FIVE YEAR
+ STORY ARC OF BABYLON 5.  DO NOT READ THIS TOPIC IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO
+ POSSIBLY DISCOVER THE PURPOSE OF THE FIVE YEAR STORY ARC!
+224 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 29
+Message 181       Tue Nov 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:29 EST
+
+     The Narn aren't waiting.  Or, more accurately, G'Kar isn't.  The rest of
+the Kha'Ri (Narn inner circle government) are still somewhat skeptical.
+
+     The Minbari know the shape of what's coming, but they know full well that
+if they go to us with this, we won't believe them; there's still enough
+residual dislike over the war that they feel we have to find this out for
+ourselves (and we will).
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 29
+Message 201       Fri Nov 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:38 EST
+
+     Agrarian usually means not very technologically sharp; they never really
+went after the tech required to go into space.  Heck, there are cultures here
+on our own planet that are as old as all humans here, but which have barely
+moved past the bronze age.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 29
+Message 205       Sat Nov 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:06 EST
+
+     The answer to your question involves ancient Narn history, a certain
+outpost long ago on the Narn homeworld, and some other stuff which you'll just
+have to wait and see.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 36        Wed Nov 02, 1994
+BOB-WALKER [P12+]            at 22:13 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Trivia Questions         
+
+Help contribute questions to a B5 trivia game.  Our goal is to get 300
+questions for each season.  We need easy, medium, hard and killer questions in
+both True/False and Multiple Guess formats.
+22 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 36
+Message 2         Thu Nov 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:52 EST
+
+     Shouldn't there also be Kosh level...in which you can give any answer you
+want to any question, provided it's obscure, and it's up to the other person
+to assume your answer has meaning...?
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 37        Sat Nov 12, 1994
+DUNEWALKER                   at 00:25 EST
+Sub: Questions, answers and/or speculations
+
+General questions, and answers or speculations concerning plots and sub-plots
+of Babylon 5.
+11 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 37
+Message 4         Sun Nov 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:15 EST
+
+     They're all three the same style ships.  It was rendered on the darkish
+side, because a real problem is how do you show a black ship against the black
+of space?  Lately, though, Ron has come up with some rather nifty ways to get
+light kicks and some specularity off the ships, which has the side effect of
+making them look even MORE creepy.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 37
+Message 7         Thu Nov 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:53 EST
+
+     Shon'Kar.  Satai Delenn.  Frallis 12.  Ikarra.  Xon.  G'Quan.   G'Quan
+Eth.  (Also, in Narn stuff in that episode, the other religion is G'Lan, and
+the ship was the Tal'Quith.)  Jala.  Kha'Ri.  Shai Alyt (which is a title, not
+a name; a commander of a ship absent the captain is just the Alyt).
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 37
+Message 10        Fri Nov 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:39 EST
+
+     Mollari.
+
+     Londo Mollari.  Vir Cotto.  Delenn.  Lennier.  G'Kar.  Na'Toth.   Kosh
+Naranek.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+
+ ************
+Topic 26        Mon Apr 18, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 00:03 EDT
+Sub: #112 - "Chrysalis"                 
+
+by JMS. Directed by Janet Greek.  Season finale.
+226 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 26
+Message 164       Tue Nov 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:14 EST
+
+     That's correct.  "Chrysalis" was filmed last November, as episode #12.
+We are now, for instance, shooting #8, and will again be shooting around #11
+or so in November.  (We started shooting a few weeks later this year than
+last.)
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 26
+Message 167       Tue Nov 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:15 EST
+
+     Negative; more passes than just a few minutes.  The reporter says that
+they're sending rescue ships, but she doesn't see how anyone could have
+survived an explosion that massive.  Then, considerably later, the death is
+confirmed (it's not even in the same act).
+
+     Also, *too* much power exerted at the outpost would've signalled
+something terribly massive.  They don't want to tip too much, too fast.   They
+want it to look like it was something others could've done.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 27        Mon Aug 29, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 (Forwarded)
+Sub: #201 - "Points of Departure"       
+
+by JMS. Directed by Janet Greek.
+161 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 27
+Message 29        Thu Nov 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:11 EST
+
+     Nothing has been dumbed down or simplified; in a first season episode (in
+other words, the first episode of any given season), you get a lot of
+sampling.  If the show is obscure, or there's too much prior knowledge
+required to get into it...they go away fast.  So there was a bit more
+straightforward exposition in this episode in order to avoid scaring off new
+viewers.
+
+     And I stated, some time ago, that this was a lighter episode because it's
+sandwiched between two very intense episodes, "Chrysalis" and "Revelations,"
+and I think you need some relief there.
+
+     And as Walker noted, there are times when the dome is on standby, as
+noted in "Midnight."  The systems every 36 hours or so go through a period of
+self-repair and maintainance for an hour or two; if anything comes out of the
+gate or into local space, someone's there within seconds.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 27
+Message 32        Thu Nov 03, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:35 EST
+
+     I'll have to go check, but they may be fighter doors.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 27
+Message 48        Fri Nov 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:35 EST
+
+     Sure, you could blind-fire at a Minbari cruiser, but it's pretty heavily
+armored.  And while you're shooting at it, you're not only being hit by
+cruiser blasts, but the several dozen Minbari fighters coming in behind you.
+And shooting at a sublight traveling fighter by eye would absolutely never
+work.  It *has* to be computer guided.
+
+     (BTW, for the sharp of eye...if you go back and sill-step through some of
+the cockpit screen shots in "Sky," you'll note that on the tac screen in
+Sinclair's cockpit it says something to the effect of "Unable to lock-onto
+target.")
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 27
+Message 60        Fri Nov 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:18 EST
+
+     You'll actually see several of those admissions by Garibaldi over the
+first few eps after his return.  And some suspicion.  And some lack of trust.
+
+     We'll change Delenn's shot in the titles after she's revealed.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 28        Mon Aug 29, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:31 EDT
+Sub: #202 - "Revelations"               
+
+by JMS.  Directed by Jim Johnston.
+144 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 28
+Message 70        Sat Nov 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:07 EST
+
+     Well, the pace overall of year two is about 50% faster story-wise than
+season one; season three will be 50-75% faster than *that*.  And so on.  This
+sucker's got to start cranking.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 28
+Message 81        Sun Nov 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:00 EST
+
+     The amount of money involved in bluescreening the starfield would be
+prohibitive.  We spend a LOT of time out there, and you have to matte this
+stuff in frame by frame, and at 24 frames per second, even with digital
+cutting, you're looking at a *massive* amount of rendering time.
+
+     We could do it...but it would tie up our compositing and rendering
+machines so we couldn't do much of anything *else*....and I'll swap one nifty
+shadow fighter/collision shot for a whole SEASON of moving stars.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 29        Mon Aug 29, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:32 EDT
+Sub: #203 - "The Geometry of Shadows"   
+
+by JMS.   Directed by Mike Vejar.
+79 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 29
+Message 21        Thu Nov 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:37 EST
+
+     Actually (and not that this matters), the last Sheridan bit was half of
+what was originally there.  The first half (cut for time) showed that he was
+talking to the Tech who moments earlier tells him that the ship is ready for
+jump.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 29
+Message 41        Thu Nov 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:45 EST
+
+     The technomages are from various races and worlds; there are some who are
+Centauri, some who are human, even other races such as the Vree and the
+pak'ma'ra, though these in particular happened to be from Earth.   (If they
+were Centauri, why would Sheridan have been interfering with their
+emigration?)
+
+     Re: the Drazi...yeah, they all look different in that episode.  Our
+prosthetics folks did a great job with that, as did the actors, and I think
+this one should earn Optic Nerve another emmy.
+
+     And yeah, Garibaldi's "joke" was supposed to be pretty lame; we even
+edited it to widen the awkward pause, to make it more difficult.  He's trying
+to hard, and his spirit isn't in it.
+
+     Of the first six episodes, btw, as I may have mentioned over in 18, this
+is my personal favorite.  It's wonky and fun and just a hoot.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 29
+Message 49        Fri Nov 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:01 EST
+
+     My philosophy in general is that it's better to have more story than
+time, rather than more time than story....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 29
+Message 67        Wed Nov 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:00 EST
+
+     Yes, Ivanova's title in the opening credits *will* be changed to
+Commander, to reflect her change in rank.  And we'll be adding a rank for Lt.
+Keffer.  It's kind of funny; we keep treating the opening title this year as a
+work in progress, reflecting little changes here and there...changes in faces,
+narration, little musical changes that will come by about episode five or
+six.....
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 30        Mon Aug 29, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:34 EDT
+Sub: #204 - "A Distant Star"            
+
+by D. C. Fontana.  Directed by Jim Johnston.
+97 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 30
+Message 34        Thu Nov 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:08 EST
+
+     I'd have to sit down and work it out if you'd want specifics, but it
+would have to be *huge*...in the tens of thousands, given that you need not
+just the people to run the ship and maintain it, but you'd ALSO need all the
+construction crews AND the materials and everything else.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 30
+Message 69        Sun Nov 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:19 EST
+
+     To be filed under the heading of, "What I does, I takes the rap for; what
+I does not, I doesn't take the rap for," when we discussed the hyperspace
+accident in our production meetings, Jim -- our director -- asked if he could
+so some fratzing and sparking, some fire...I said I did not *want* huge gouts
+of flame, just a few small sparks, fine, a bit of smoke from components burned
+out, fine...and that day I was over in the other facility overseeing a mix-
+down of the audio...and guess what he did in my absence?  Yup.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 31        Mon Aug 29, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:35 EDT
+Sub: #205 - "The Long Dark"             
+
+by Scott Frost.   Director: TBA
+38 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 31
+Message 3         Sat Nov 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:41 EST
+
+     I understand that the satellite time is changing starting with this
+episode; I think it's now going out on Tuesdays....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 31
+Message 6         Tue Nov 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:41 EST
+
+     They are brothers; also, Scott has worked on the X-Files.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 31
+Message 26        Thu Dec 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:41 EST
+
+     Tom: the quibble you raise is one of the points I'm trying to make.
+ You say someone from 1890 would go crazy.  I vehemently don't agree.  Go back
+and read letters from the 1890s.  Heck, go read letters from 1776; the
+language, the emotions, they're all very much the same.  The chrome of
+technology has changed, some social styles and attitudes have changed, but
+people still go through school (usually), get married, raise kids, hold jobs,
+and look to a better future one day.
+
+     Mariah was also a scientist, sent forth expecting and prepared to see new
+things; this isn't the same thing as an average person just plucked out of
+time.
+
+     I think people -- Americans in particular -- over-emphasize how much
+things change with time, in large measure because in a country that's only
+200+ years old, we *really* don't understand what time IS here.  The Romans
+who left grafitti all over parts of England are only one step removed from the
+South Central taggers of today....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 32        Mon Aug 29, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:36 EDT
+Sub: #206 - "A Spider in the Web"       
+
+by Lawrence G. DiTillio.  Director : Kevin Cremins
+5 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 32
+Message 5         Sun Nov 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:19 EST
+
+     Director: Kevin Cremins.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms94-12-01 b/ftp/GEnie/jms94-12-01
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7a014601
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/GEnie/jms94-12-01
@@ -0,0 +1,631 @@
+This file contains messages posted by J. Michael Straczynski on GEnie from
+Dec 1 - Dec 15th, 1994.  Postings are copyright 1994 by J. Michael Straczynski
+with compilation copyright by GEnie.
+
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 General category.  This is the main topic for  the
+hit SF series.  We discuss all general information on the series in this
+topic.  Topic 2 is for SPOILERS!  DO NOT POST STORY IDEAS!
+
+696 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 463       Sun Dec 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:29 EST
+
+     Correct, "Soul Mates" is next up.  Then 5 or so reruns (second season
+eps), then "Race."
+
+     BTW, logging in from my notebook.  The controller on my old system (not
+the nifty Dell at the office) just died, so I may not be on quite as regularly
+for the next few days.
+
+                                                       jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 473       Sun Dec 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:42 EST
+
+     I was kinda hoping that they'd continue the season one reruns as well,
+but PTEN thinks it'd be kind of confusing to intersperse episdoes (episodes)
+with two different commanding officers at the same time, and thus keep the two
+separate, at least until the end of the season.
+
+     (They add that someone seeing B2 mid-season year two might not know it's
+a rerun, and not know what the hell's going on.)
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 521       Thu Dec 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:09 EST
+
+     Emmy presenters are generally those who've *done* something, so that
+would pretty much eliminate Jarvis.
+
+     Internet gateway's down again...sigh....
+
+     There's a screwup in next week's TV Guide.  The synopsis is of the
+episode "A Race Through Dark Places," but it's actually Peter's "Soul Mates."
+
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 562       Sat Dec 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:01 EST
+
+     I just can't imagine a book of my posts here being that interesting, or
+able to be followed; it's all like this, quickies for the most part, and out
+of context.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 581       Sat Dec 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:54 EST
+
+     ....yeeps...I'm being modem-mugged....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 596       Sun Dec 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:34 EST
+
+     Okay, okay, okay-okay-okay, we'll put a pin in this and come back to it
+(and I still think that selling the thing would be a marginal chance at best).
+
+     Re: Murder, She Wrote...I *believe* that our budget there was generally
+in the $1.3 and $1.5 million range per episode.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 629       Mon Dec 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:14 EST
+
+     BTW, B5 producer John Copeland will be on CNN's Showbiz Today on
+Wednesday the 14th (2:30 and 9:30 p.m. PST, and 1:30 am. Thursday).
+
+                                                         jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 633       Mon Dec 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:40 EST
+
+     Rathenn said Sinclair did not *entirely* remember their meeting; he then
+refreshed this memory.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 646       Tue Dec 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:27 EST
+
+     After TAXI, Jeff had some hard times.  We're all entitled to make
+mistakes.  He's doing very good work, and we're pleased to have him, and he
+does recur.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 662       Wed Dec 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:33 EST
+
+     BTW, look for Bill Mumy on "Break a Leg," on the America's Talking cable
+channel, Tuesday the 13th, 11:00 a.m. PST.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+Babylon 5 is moving into a second season of 22 episodes.  This series can be
+seen at 8 Pm on Wednesdays, in most areas.  This topic is for SPOILERS only.
+Just remember our NO STORY IDEAS rule and we'll let you live. <g>
+
+430 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 323       Wed Dec 07, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:42 EST
+
+     *What* second attack wasn't there?
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 353       Fri Dec 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:24 EST
+
+     An attack on the Shire?  Goodness, another LoTR reference.
+
+     Local in-house joke: Abby's last name...Normal.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 392       Mon Dec 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:15 EST
+
+     If you're a telepath, Psi Corps IS your family.  (And no, that  wasn't
+Abby, too young; also not a case of programming/rebuilding...the DECEASED is a
+cover to get her out.)
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 401       Tue Dec 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:09 EST
+
+     Actually, the age on Abby is fairly straightforward...Talia came to the
+Psi Corps as a young child; she was assigned to an adult Psi Corps member to
+help her adjust.  So Abby would be anywhere from 15-20 years older than Talia.
+Or more.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Cast & Characters      
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+459 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 370       Thu Dec 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:44 EST
+
+     Morden is human.
+
+                      
+     Morden dat I can't say.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 407       Sat Dec 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:56 EST
+
+     BTW, new guest stars include Richard Moll and Paul Williams, the latter
+of whom is in "Acts of Sacrifice."  A very nice man; got him to autograph my
+copies of the "Phantom of the Paradise" CD which I got in London (never
+released here).
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 412       Sun Dec 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:37 EST
+
+     Richard and Paul are in *different* episodes.
+
+     Bear...not a chance.  I *love* that movie; Paul mentioned that it
+continues to have a rabid cult following.  When he signed it, he wrote  "Trust
+me.  Swan." in addition to his signature.  (Funny if you know the movie.)
+
+     "We're old souls, in a new life, baby...."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 422       Sun Dec 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:15 EST
+
+     Richard Moll: "Hunter, "Prey."  Malachi Throne: "The Coming of Shadows."
+Paul Winfield: "GROPOS."
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 430       Mon Dec 12, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:16 EST
+
+     No, that ain't what "Hunter, Prey" is about; our titles are generally
+more metaphorical than literal.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 435       Tue Dec 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:29 EST
+
+     We're doing a Volkswagon story...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 455       Thu Dec 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:58 EST
+
+     Also add Bernie Casey.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 5         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            (Forwarded)
+Sub: Grid Epsilon Irregulars - News & Info.
+
+This topic is for information about Babylon 5 fan groups, newsletters,
+fanzines, get-togethers, B-5 at conventions, and other general fun.
+390 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 384       Wed Dec 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:02 EST
+
+     Does anyone actually know how many folks are registered here in the B5
+cat(s)?
+
+                                                                        jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B5 Adrift!                         
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+288 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 242       Sat Dec 10, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:57 EST
+
+     BTW, I understand from some folks who've been involved with them that
+because of the general decline of SAT scores, they're now allowing a couple
+hundred points per category *just for showing up*.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 255       Sun Dec 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:17 EST
+
+     Don't recall offhand what my SAT score was...but dimly remember that when
+I was done, I think I *owed* them points....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 262       Tue Dec 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:15 EST
+
+     Hey, give me "A Christmas Story" or the George C. Scott version of "A
+Christmas Carol" (the only definitive version of the story, as far as I'm
+concerned) over IaWL, which has been seen to death.  Scott is the first and
+only actor to show Scrooge with a sense of *humor* even in his earlier stage.
+Look at it...anyone who could come up with a line like "every person walking
+around with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled in pudding and buried
+with a sprig of holly through his heart" (or words to that effect)...that's
+*funny*.  It's very easy to see and portray Scrooge as just a one-dimensional
+miser, and thus dehumanize him...Scott's portral makes him a PERSON, and thus
+more interesting and involving and, oddly, likeable (until the end where he
+goes soft on us, but hey, that's a story problem...).
+
+                                            jm(bah, humbug)s
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 272       Wed Dec 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:47 EST
+
+     Just as an aside...I learned this morning that there's a good chance that
+my Christmas episode of THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS, "Xmas Marks the Spot," will be
+replayed on ABC either Christmas day or eve; don't yet know if it'll be in
+prime-time or morning.  Still awaiting final confirmation, but they wouldn't
+call to notify me unless it was pretty solid.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 280       Thu Dec 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:16 EST
+
+     Actually, that 800/200 split ain't far off the truth, as I dimly recall.
+Crummy with figures, good with words.
+
+     Funny thing, sorta...see, according to most IQ tests, I come in just over
+the edge on the so-called genius ("Come, Join Mensa, Join Us, Join Us...")
+level.  Around 160 or so.  Which, frankly, is absolutely meaningless, except
+that it helps me skate throuth stuff I have no business doing or no chance of
+*really* understanding.  I come in very high on intuitive scores; I can often
+figure out *what* is the correct answer, but am damned if I can tell you
+*why*.
+
+     As a kid, we moved around a lot for (let's just say this for now and let
+it go at this) economic reasons.  Literally every year from birth through
+about age 17 was a different house, a different city, often a different STATE.
+I learned fast that if you were too smart, and showed it...you got beat up a
+lot.  So at a very early stage I found I could just shave it close enough to
+pass, without raising any red flags or drawing attention.  The one thing I
+didn't want was to be noticed, because that usually preceded getting the
+stuffings knocked out of me (and being who I am, *that* was usually followed
+by my mouthing off to whoever just beat the crap out of me...at which point
+they pound me again...at which point this little bump on the playground mouths
+off again, at which point, well, you get the idea).
+
+     I'd gotten pretty good at riding the line, but goofed one year in junior
+high.  I screwed up my math term (no surprise there), but usually  I knew I
+could ace lit classes to make up for it...except I got sick, missed several
+tests and papers...and dropped beneath the line I needed to get advanced to
+the next level.  So I had to attend summer school to make up the difference.
+
+     This was under the Headstart Program of those days, and the sort of kids
+you found in this one in New Jersey...Future Muggers of America founding
+members.  Anyway (and this is a hell of a lot longer and more involved than
+I'd intended to get), one day they said they were going to give all of us in
+summer school a series of tests/evaluations to determine just where we
+stood...what grade reading level, comprehension, math, that sort of thing.
+Now normally I'd always held back in this stuff, but this wasn't my regular
+school, I'd be going to high school after this, so what was lost?  So I just
+went for it.
+
+     A few days later the test results came in, and I got suddenly called to
+the office of the head of the program.  He sat me down and said, honest to
+god, "You'll forgive my langauge for a moment, but what the HELL are you DOING
+here?"  Apparently for a 9th grader my language, reading, writing, and general
+intelligence figures came in at approximately that of a college graduate.
+(Though my math skills were, to be charitable, considerably lower.  Bargain-
+basement, to be precise.)  So I told him  what I'd been doing all this time.
+He sat there, slack jawed, the whole time, at the premeditation and all the
+rest.  (Though I wouldn't have gotten nailed if I'd been better at some of the
+other areas.)
+
+     Later, to my chagrin, I discovered that he wrote up a memo about all this
+and attached it to my transcripts, so that when I transferred to the high
+school, I found myself assigned to several advanced classes in English lit and
+other areas, college-prep level classes.  So I instantly went back to my old
+habits, and soon enough managed to get out of that one and into a regular
+class.
+
+     Tests are fine, advanced classes are fine, but frankly, none of it was
+worth getting stomped on a regular basis....
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+515 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 499       Sun Dec 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:45 EST
+
+     On the two different shows/rules idea...this is something I noticed from
+way back.  People saw "Earth future, spacefaring races, a major commanding
+officer," and assumed that we would be just like Star Trek.   When we weren't,
+many assumed we were doing Star Trek BADLY, not understanding that it's a
+*different show*.  The biggest crime of this show toa lot of people is that
+we're not Trek.  It's only over time that some of these folks (though not all)
+have come to understand what we're doing.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 16        Fri Jan 15, 1993
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 01:02 EST
+Sub: "No kids or cute robots, ever!"    
+
+This is a topic for discussion of the unofficial slogan of Babylon 5.
+225 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 16
+Message 225       Fri Dec 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:25 EST
+
+     David Gerrold will be *very* pleased....
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Merchandising          
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+480 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 421       Tue Dec 06, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:26 EST
+
+     Actually, I hear they're nearly OUT of the 2,000 first print run on the
+limited edition, and have 500 on backorder; I'd suggest to anyone that youre
+best bet is probably to contact Sonic Images directly.  These puppies are
+apparently just *flying* out the door.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 24        Fri Jun 04, 1993
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:11 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Weapons and Warfare!   
+
+For discussion about the weapons, counter weapons, armor, shielding, tactics,
+logistics, and so forth, of small combat and large scale war in the Babylon 5
+universe.
+507 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 501       Sun Dec 11, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:40 EST
+
+     It's of the same class (Omega class) as the Agamemnon, yes.  And it's the
+EAS Agamemnon, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 25        Fri Mar 12, 1993
+S.SHELLENBAR [>> SHANE <<]   at 08:47 EST
+Sub: J. Michael Straczynski Speaks in Public
+
+This is the place to find out where and when JMS will be appearing next.  JMS
+has honed his skills as a public speaker and is taking his act on the road.
+412 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 385       Thu Dec 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:45 EST
+
+     No current plans for ICON this year.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 37        Sat Nov 12, 1994
+DUNEWALKER                   at 00:25 EST
+Sub: Questions, answers and/or speculations
+
+General questions, and answers or speculations concerning plots and sub-plots
+of Babylon 5.
+16 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 37
+Message 15        Tue Dec 13, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:18 EST
+
+     "There's no such thing as America, or Russia, or China...there's only
+ITT, and ATT, and Dow Chemical...."       -- Paddy Chayefsky, NETWORK
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 38        Mon Dec 05, 1994
+K.BURNFIELD [KB]             at 18:05 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Comic Book         
+
+Starting in Dec. 1994, DC comics will present its comic book based in the
+universe of J. Michael Straczynski's television series.
+14 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 38
+Message 5         Thu Dec 08, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:08 EST
+
+     In some cases, as with the next 8 issues, I suggested the basic
+storyline, and work as necessary with the writers, telling them what they need
+to know on a need to know basis.
+
+                                                   jms
+ ------------
+
+ ************
+Topic 31        Mon Aug 29, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:35 EDT
+Sub: #205 - "The Long Dark"             
+
+by Scott Frost.   Director: TBA
+94 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 31
+Message 26        Thu Dec 01, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:41 EST
+
+     Tom: the quibble you raise is one of the points I'm trying to make.
+ You say someone from 1890 would go crazy.  I vehemently don't agree.  Go back
+and read letters from the 1890s.  Heck, go read letters from 1776; the
+language, the emotions, they're all very much the same.  The chrome of
+technology has changed, some social styles and attitudes have changed, but
+people still go through school (usually), get married, raise kids, hold jobs,
+and look to a better future one day.
+
+     Mariah was also a scientist, sent forth expecting and prepared to see new
+things; this isn't the same thing as an average person just plucked out of
+time.
+
+     I think people -- Americans in particular -- over-emphasize how much
+things change with time, in large measure because in a country that's only
+200+ years old, we *really* don't understand what time IS here.  The Romans
+who left grafitti all over parts of England are only one step removed from the
+South Central taggers of today....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 31
+Message 70        Sun Dec 04, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:30 EST
+
+     Re: Ivanova and Sheridan going into the Cortez upon it being pulled into
+B5...this was an Earth vessel, remember, stating it's on a mission of peace,
+with a cryogenic suspension chamber in use.  There was zero perceived danger.
+Also, if I were the captain of a naval vessel today, and I came across an
+intact sailing vessel that went missing in the 1890s, you'd have to hold a gun
+at my head to KEEP me out of that ship.   People are, by nature, curious...and
+this would be a fascinating puzzle to solve.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 32        Mon Aug 29, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:36 EDT
+Sub: #206 - "A Spider in the Web"       
+
+by Lawrence G. DiTillio.  Director : Kevin Cremins
+99 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 32
+Message 7         Fri Dec 02, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:12 EST
+
+      Well, that's weird....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 34        Thu Oct 20, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 (Forwarded)
+Sub: #207 - "Soul Mates"                
+
+Londo's wives in a tale by Peter David.
+72 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 34
+Message 56        Thu Dec 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:04 EST
+
+     How weird...I hadn't ever seen any messages here, and I couldn't figure
+why...just checked and for some reason it was IGNored.  Odd....
+
+     Anyway...the production numbers (207, 208) are not for the order in which
+they're aired, but the order they're PRODUCED in.  So the numbers don't
+change.  We just air 208, then 207.  This is very common in TV.
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms94-12-15 b/ftp/GEnie/jms94-12-15
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/GEnie/jms94-12-15
@@ -0,0 +1,1450 @@
+This file contains messages posted by J. Michael Straczynski on GEnie from
+Dec 16th - Dec 31st, 1994.  Postings are copyright 1994 by J. Michael Straczynski
+with compilation copyright by GEnie.
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 General category.  This is the main topic for  the
+hit SF series.  We discuss all general information on the series in this
+topic.  Topic 2 is for SPOILERS!  DO NOT POST STORY IDEAS!
+
+584 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 99        Fri Dec 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:22 EST
+
+     I guess I'm always amazed when *other people* are amazed when Trek is
+called a franchise by those who make it.  They've never made any bones about
+it; ST is their license to print money, a franchise, pure and simple.  When
+asked to do more unusual or challenging or different stories, Piller/Berman
+have said, repeatedly and quite openly, "If it ain't broke, why fix it?"
+Don't endanger the franchise.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 112       Fri Dec 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:24 EST
+
+     It wasn't a producer, it was a civilian, one of a focus group asked about
+B5 and SF.
+
+     Jose: you're quite correct; I know that many of the writers over at ST
+have been chafing for a *very* long time to do more challenging stories.  It's
+just that overall, the Big Two there have been sitting on them, keeping the
+stories as tame as possible.  With any luck, our continuing presence will be
+enough to provoke them into allowing more challenging or controversial or just
+*different* kinds of shows to be written.
+
+     Speaking of which...on Monday I turned in a script called "And Now For a
+Word."  It's probably the most unusual episode to date...so much so that I was
+very concerned about Warners approving it, and indicated in my letter (which
+explained why it was done, and why it should be produced) that I wouldn't be
+putting in for a script payment until I knew they would accept it and let us
+make it.  Finally heard back today that they've approved it.  This will be
+shot as episode 214, and what you've just read is ALL I intend to say about
+this script between now and shortly before it airs in May.  (Though when we
+cast the guest star, which we're in the process of selecting now, that I'll be
+able to announce.)  It's not controversial per se, but does take our entire
+show and put it on its head for the entire hour.  (I also had to make sure we
+*could* physically produce the darned thing prior to turning in the script.)
+No speculation, please; just let it be what it is, and see it cold.
+
+      Suffice to say, though, that I'm VERY pleased and relieved right now.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 180       Mon Dec 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:48 EST
+
+     Generally, nobody goes over our scripts with a fine toothed comb looking
+for things to object to (a la network censors).  In the case of this new
+script, the situation was so large that it could not be missed, or not
+referenced.  It had to be raised with PTEN before doing it.   You'll
+understand when you see it.
+
+     I should mention again that our contacts at PTEN have been nothing less
+than terrific in that they leave us to our own devices and allow us to tell
+our stories with virtually no interference.  They've been great.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 188       Mon Dec 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:12 EST
+
+     Pat, by that reasoning, you shouldn't write the second half of a movie
+until you've filmed the first half, which is silly.
+
+     A story isn't about the nuances an actor brings to a performance, the
+story is about the *story*, and the characters' role in that story.   One of
+the biggest areas of misinformation in the public consciousness is how much
+imput actors and directors have on characters and stories in TV.   If you
+don't know what it is you want to say in your story, and want to wait for the
+actor's choices in determining how to read your lines before you figure out
+what story you're telling, you're in serious trouble.
+
+     It comes down to, Are you just filling out time, being arbitrary, or do
+you have something to *say* in your story?  If the former, then sure, be
+arbitrary, be kicked around on the winds of public opinion, let the actor's
+sudden decision to smile instead of frown in a scene dictate your story.  Me,
+I'd rather tell a story, and risk failing a few times, than abrogating my
+responsibility as a storyteller and a writer.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 204       Tue Dec 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:32 EST
+
+     Insofar as I know, KCOP, like many other stations, will shift B5 to
+Thursday nights when the new networks come on-line.  (Paramount gets Monday
+and Tuesday nights, Warners gets Wednesdays, PTEN gets Thursdays.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 215       Tue Dec 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:55 EST
+
+     Pat, with all due respect, you *really* don't know what you're  talking
+about here.  First, there's a substantial and profound difference between not
+knowing where you're going in a regular two-part episode (for which there is
+no excuse), and leaving it open to accommodate a possible cast change.  You're
+talking apples and oranges.  You can't use the one to prove the other; this
+kind of "will-he-won't-he-return" situation is absolutely the exception to the
+norm; I think most people are talking about all the OTHER two-parters NOT
+based around this logistical problem.
+
+     Second, every single series in TV has a slush fund in which you can
+afford to junk X-number of scripts, because no matter what happens, some
+scripts just don't work out.  Usually the number is 5-6 scripts that can be
+canned.  Even if for some reason one script had to be trashed (part two),
+you're talking *one script*...are you seriously trying to tell me that the
+mega-million-dollar Star Trek series, which spends anywhere from 19-23 MILLION
+dollars on their PILOTS and anywhere from $1.5-1.9 million per episode is
+going to implode because one $17,000 script falls out?   C'mon.....
+
+     Further, if the script is written one way, with Stewart out, and he ends
+up coming back after all...you just REWRITE the damned thing.  For starters,
+these kinds of scripts are almost NEVER done by freelancers, so it's an in-
+house script, and that means staffers, and that means yhou tend to get more
+drafts than the usual two...and ST scripts generally go through endless
+rewrites ANYway.  That's what they PAY staffers for, to write and to rewrite.
+Hell, I've had cast members fall in and out of scripts on many different
+occasions; I've rewritten scripts when cast members got sick and couldn't be
+there, broke their feet, you name it.   It's what one DOES.  It's why one has
+the JOB.  If you're indicating that they couldn't compensate for this over on
+ST, then you're saying they're utterly incompetent at their work, and I don't
+believe this to be true.
+
+     And any decent staffer would always prepare for either eventuality in
+working out the storyline, whether or not the actor does or doesn't return.
+
+     C'mon...as you say...let's have some reality here....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 216       Tue Dec 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:04 EST
+
+     Cross-posted with Hutts...yes, it's generally much looser in syndication.
+I don't think we've gotten a note yet saying "You can't do X because we think
+it would offend someone."
+
+     And one does not have to see "sexual diversity," one can prefer not to.
+Yes, it's everywhere, and yes, it may even be somewhere in this show, but one
+can certainly put one's fingers in one's ears and hum loud until the scene is
+over....
+
+     I think it depends on how it's done; if it's just *there* as part of the
+background, not given any special treatment, not hammered home, not made into
+a Major Storyline...I don't see a problem.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 231       Wed Dec 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:11 EST
+
+     PTEN is a completely separate entity from the Warners network, and there
+is a strong competition between the two.
+
+     Kia: yeah, there's religion all over the darned place.
+
+     (In the voice of Chico Marx:)  I don' know, Boss.  I don' like-a the
+religion, but everywhere I go, boom, there it is.  I open up a can of
+sardines, ey, there's a religion, no kiddin', you gotta believe in somethin'
+afterward to eat those things-a, you know?  I go for a walk, I get cold, I
+sneeze, and som'body says-a to me, "God bless."  Again with the religion.  So
+I give-a up.  I go inna church.  You know what they got goin'?  Bingo.  So I
+stayed.  Made fifteen dollars.  Hey, you and me, we go get-a some tootsie-
+fruitsie ice-a cream, eh?
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 235       Wed Dec 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:35 EST
+
+     "...get it out the ying-yang"....well, yes, that's one of the forms of
+sexual diversity....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 241       Wed Dec 21, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:17 EST
+
+     K.Wicker...good scripts and bad scripts cost *exactly* the same amount of
+money.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 259       Thu Dec 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:57 EST
+
+     B5 has no involvement with the Warners network.
+
+     K.Wicker...there's no sliding scale in TV scriptwriting; all writers are
+paid the same, scale, though there's some variance between network scale and
+syndication scale.  A Baywatch script, a B5 script, a DS9 script...they're all
+basically the same.  And that fee is set by the Writer's Guild.  You can't
+spend more dollars on EFX, and then scrimp and pay cheap for scripts...it's
+all the same fee.  I get exactly the same script fee as any of my freelancers.
+So when someone says of a show, "They can't afford to buy good scripts, they
+spent it all on EFX," this is simply a misnomer.  If a script is good or bad
+is the function of the staff, pure and simple.  If a script comes in and it's
+weak, it's the job of the staff to make it better.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 264       Thu Dec 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:59 EST
+
+     We're talking here *episodic* TV, remember.  Not specials, movies or
+events.  And insofar as I know, even Bochco gets the same fee as everybody
+else, because the LAST thing the networks want is for a sliding scale to come
+into play in script fees for TV.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 269       Thu Dec 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:10 EST
+
+     Pat: and I still say that if you don't have anything to say in your
+story, then sure, let the audience reaction tell you what to write.  That just
+doesn't do it for me.
+
+     PTEN = Prime Time Entertainment Network.
+
+     I really don't have a problem with fixed writer fees in TV (and bear in
+mind that directors also have fixed fees in TV).  Would I like those fees in
+general to be a bit more?  I could be greedy and say yes; actors' fees aren't
+really set, they're very much open to negotation, and can range from scale of
+maybe $9,000 an episode to $30,000 or $60,000 per episode.  And I would
+certainly like it if syndication fees were made to equal network fees (right
+now it's about $17,000 for an hour syndicated script, and about $22,000 for a
+network script).  If both those figures were bumped, say, five grand, I
+wouldn't object.
+
+     But I just can't seem to get too exercised about the whole thing, mainly
+because I know what writers get in other fields, like novels and short
+stories.  Also, the residuals schedule for writers and directors is a bit
+better than for actors.  (BTW, residuals aren't a gift; they're deferred
+payment.  The writer gambles with the producer; if the show's a flop, there
+ARE no residuals, and the producer gets off cheap.  If the show's a hit, then
+the writer gets additional fees in the form of deferred payments on the
+script...residuals.)  So in the long run, they probably break even all around
+between actors, writers and directors.
+
+     In feature films, you've got a definite ranking system, and you can get
+anywhere from scale ($60,000 or so) for a feature film up to the $1-2 million
+range for a select few.  The budgets of feature films are MUCH higher per hour
+than a TV show, so a sliding scale seems to me quite appropriate.  TV budgets
+are limited, and much, MUCH smaller.
+
+     Producing fees are also a separate category in TV, ranging from $6,500 an
+episode to $25,000 or so per episode, depending on title and responsibilities
+and how good your agent is.
+
+     What isn't generally understood is that most TV/film writers earn less
+than the average elementary school teacher on an annual basis; that roughly
+50% or more of the Writers Guild of America are *unemployed* at any given
+moment; that the percentage of WGA members who earn in the six figure category
+comprise maybe 3-4% of the total WGA membership.   There's this illusion that
+being in this business means major bucks.  It doesn't.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 279       Thu Dec 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:21 EST
+
+     Never said that "nobody's making any money," just that the majority of
+writers aren't (but that applies to both print and media).  If someone is
+coming here with dreams of megadollar success dancing before their eyes,
+they're in trouble.
+
+     Which answers your other question.  Why are they sending in endless
+numbers of scripts?  Because they've bought the okeydoke that there's money
+just hanging on trees here, and lots of it; that while most of them would
+never consider writing a novel, it's just TeeVee, they can do as good a job as
+anyone else (I've gotten letters from people who say that most of the writing
+on TV sucks, that I'm not doing a good job on my own show, but THEY can save
+it for me with their stories if I'll just buy them en masse)...the majority of
+them really don't want any kind of CAREER in TV writing, they're not willing
+to come out here and hustle; they just want either a) the money, or b) the
+Pointy Hat that says they did it.
+
+     Which is exactly why it's so hard to sell for a newbie; you're competing
+with all these other folks who think they can write for TV, and you're lost in
+all the background noise.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 288       Fri Dec 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:19 EST
+
+     Answer: you really can't.  As for imaginging the future, SF writers have
+to some extent an undeserved perceived level of accuracy; if you've got two
+thousand writers all envisioning the future, *somebody's* got to come close by
+sheer chance.  And for all the future postulating, almost no SF writers even
+up to the 1970s foresaw the desktop computer....
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 295       Fri Dec 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:27 EST
+
+     Peter: yes, I constantly get those as well for scripts.  I think every
+writer does.
+
+     If an actor isn't sure about a scene, for whatever reason, they are
+encouraged to come to me and discuss it.  (And it doesn't matter WHERE I am,
+if I'm reachable by phone, I'm there.)  That's happened a few times this
+season, most of which were handled by explaining how the scene relates to
+things that're going to happen in the future.  Sometimes the intent isn't
+necessarily as clear as had been thought, or even the emphasis on one word
+rather than another can change the meaning.  There's only been one case in all
+two seasons and pilot to date where an actor felt uncomfortable doing
+something, and in that case I think it was correct to adjust the scene
+slightly.  Didn't affect the story as much as just one scene within the story.
+You have to give them a fair hearing.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 308       Sat Dec 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:33 EST
+
+     Perhaps the whole gay issue might be better moved elsewhere; it's lately
+caused quite a conflagration over on Internet, and it'd be unfortunate if the
+same began to happen here.
+
+     Re: 'zines...basically, I'm dealing with it the only way I can, which is
+to ask if such 'zines could be confined to nonfiction stuff during the first-
+run of the series.  Afterward, do as you wish.
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 311       Sat Dec 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:01 EST
+
+     The average TV writer is doing good to sell 2-3 scripts per year; a lot
+don't get that many.  Some get more.  But even there you run the risk of
+selling only the outline (about half the money), or being  rewritten, which --
+if the other writer adds his or her name to your own, usually a staff person --
+you lose 50% of your residuals in perpetuity.   Which is why on B5 you'll
+never see more than one writer's name on a script; we don't arbitrate, don't
+jump credits.  Ditto for when I was on Murder, She Wrote, and (pardon the
+expression) Jake.  I've accepted shared credit on freelance scripts by other
+people maybe a total of six times out of over 350 scripts that I've story
+edited or produced.  I don't think it's appropriate to dip into a freelancer's
+money, and have only done so under *extremely* unusual or specific
+circumstances.
+
+     To answer your question about my situation, yes, I get both writing and
+producing fees, which under WGA rules are separate and distinct entities.  I
+get a script fee, same amount as any freelancer, and a per-episode salary.
+(And btw, to further illustrate the differences between network and
+syndication, my salary as executive producer of the B5 series is LESS than
+what I was earning as a basic producer on Murder, She Wrote.)  Having created
+the series, I get a small creator's royalty as well on each episode.  Over the
+last nine years, I have had an average of 13 TV scripts produced each year, a
+little over one per month, for a total of roughly 120 or so produced scripts.
+(This doesn't count the scripts written but not produced.)  And, obviously,
+this varies depending on the season; in some cases, such as recently, I wrote
+4 scripts in just a tick over four weeks; but during the spring hiatus, when
+we're obviously not in production on the series, that drops (though I did
+write one two hour pilot over the last break).
+
+     It's been a fairly interesting career so far....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 320       Sat Dec 24, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:01 EST
+
+     ...ah hates santa claus....
+
+     Re: have I rejected any of my own scripts...as a matter of fact, yes, I
+have.  There was a version of SOUL HUNTER which went out as a first draft,
+which when I read it again, I realized was just *wrong*.  So I had all copies
+of the script recalled, sending a memo explaining that "I had been momentarily
+possessed by an idiot."
+
+     In addition, last season I started writing a very different two parter
+than "Voice."  I turned in the first part, and while a number of folks liked
+it, it *really* wasn't up to par.  (This was the first part of the flu I'd
+gotten.)  So I chucked it completely, and wrote what ended up as "Voice."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 334       Sun Dec 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:10 EST
+
+     General agreement with some of the points raised below.  Just to further
+clarify on the subject of residuals...they diminish with time.   The first
+rerun on broadcast gets you about 45% of the original price of the script.
+Then it begins falling pretty fast.  My most recent residual for one of my
+Twilight Zone episodes was about fifteen dollars.
+
+     And also correct; while the pay can sometimes be good, remember that
+things cost more in LA than anywhere but New York.  Even a small (1 or 2
+bedroom) house, in a not altogether terrific neighborhood, in not terribly
+great shape, will run you $200,000 or more.  Ren on a small two-bedroom
+apartment (make that rent) generally runs $900 and up.
+
+     That's one of the real dangers of this town; you can have a year or two
+where you earn good money.  You even manage to sock some away.  Then you have
+a year or two when you don't work, and if you lived anywhere else, you could
+get by pretty easily on that.  But here, it's gone with astonishing speed.
+And then of course your agent gets 10%, the government gets 40-50%...you know
+the drill.
+
+     And there's always somebody trying to find some new and creative way to
+screw writers.  Here's a forinstance: I did Murder, She Wrote for two years.
+Network fees for a one-hour script are about $20,000, rounded off.  Second run
+is about 40-50% when you hit syndication.  So figure that that check should be
+about $9,500.  Not bad.  Except Universal realized one day that it'd be better
+off selling the show to itself, in the form of the USA Network, co-owned by
+Universal.  Cable residuals are figured on a PERCENTAGE basis, meaning you get
+a percentage of the overall sale price of the series to cable, per episode
+you've written.  And Universal sells the show to itself at the lowest
+conceivable price (about $500 per episode, give or take).
+
+     So what is my residual on a second-run of a Murder episode on USA, which
+would be about $9,500 on a broadcast station?  Twenty four dollars and change.
+
+     But hey...it's Hollywood, Jake.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 373       Mon Dec 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:12 EST
+
+     There are micromachines on the way, eventually, I'm told.
+
+     To the query in message 666 (hrmmmm)...the relationship between series
+producer and director is fairly close.  The producer looks for and hires a
+director whose vision seems to match his own.  This is what I do.   The
+director gets the script after it's in final-draft form.  (To the question
+"Who writes the shooting script?" it's basically the same script from
+beginning to end, but with the scene numbers broken out.  You usually assign
+scene numbers as quickly as possible, to allow CGI and stuff to get going.)
+As producer, once I'm satisfied with the script, and it goes to the director,
+sometimes s/he'll have questions about it which may need to be clarified or
+explained.  As part of prep, the director and I have a "tone meeting," in
+which we go through each scene page by page, and I explain what I have in mind
+in each scene, and the director talks about what s/he sees in it, making sure
+that we both understand what's going on, and agree on the vision and approach.
+Usually this goes very smoothly.  Very, very rarely will you get a situation
+where there are two opposed viewpoints on how to direct a scene, in which case
+either a) I win, or b) the director shoots it both ways, and we see which way
+works better on film.
+
+     Television is more fundamentally a writer's medium than a director's
+medium; film tends to be more the director's purview.
+
+     There is interaction with the editors at every stage of the process.  We
+make sure the editor is on hand for the production meeting, and discusses with
+the director what is desired.  If there's something that needs to be made
+clear from my POV, then I call the editor and make this point.  The director
+then shoots the episode, and the editor begins assembling the episode in
+consultation with the director.  Upon the completion of principal photography,
+the director gets several days to play with the editor's cut, creating the
+director's cut of the episode.
+
+     When this is finished, then I and John Copeland go into the editor's wing
+and work with the editor to create the producer's cut.  This can be very close
+to the director's cut...or it can be a total restructure, depending on
+circumstance.  There were a few occasions last season where John and I went in
+and re-edited every single scene.  Sometimes this process can take half a day,
+or several days.
+
+     One of the main things we do is to tighten the hell out of the episode.
+Invariably, when the director finishes, we're told "The episode is still ten
+minutes long, we had to cut scenes."  Because directors like long, lingering
+pans and establishers.  We go in and tighten the screws until the film
+screams...and with *very* few exceptions, it ALL fits.
+
+     Some episodes last season, like "War Prayer," and "Grail," and
+"Infection" were absolute pains in the ass to edit.  Getting those episodes to
+work practically required a trip to Lourdes, and there's still stuff I'm not
+happy with in those episodes.  On the other hand, episodes like "The Geometry
+of Shadows" you barely have to touch, because it's all put together
+seamlessly.
+
+     To your question of who has creative control on the series...when you
+come down to brass tacks, it's me.  I have a *very* specific vision for the
+series, which comes about because I have incredibly talented people working
+for me.  Ann Bruice comes to me with costume sketches that I have to approve
+(an easy task, since she's terrific); ditto with set designs from John
+Iacovelli, prosthetic designs from Optic Nerve, props, set dressing, casting,
+music....
+
+     As a result, most things that are on the show are either very close to
+what I saw in my head, or in some cases even better, because of the input of
+all these people.  My job is basically to say yes, or no, or maybe, and to
+point to a spot on the horizon where I want us all to go.   It's then up to
+the rest to find ways to actually make these crazy notions WORK...they do the
+actual work, the thought, the effort, and I get to bask in the reflected glow
+of their efforts as though somehow I was responsible, when my main
+responsibility was to look at a sketch and say, "Uh.....yup."
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 388       Tue Dec 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:46 EST
+
+     For the most part, yeah, I think everyone involved with the show sets
+aside ego to do what's best for the show itself.  When there are department
+meetings, no idea is ever scrubbed saying "That's dumb."  There are frank and
+often blunt conversations, but because everyone is free to be equally blunt,
+and we all know everyone respects one another, we don't tend to have real
+problems.  Now obviously you're going to have small conflicts when you dump a
+whole lot of creative people in a room and have them attack a problem.  But
+they're generally *about the problem*, not about each other.
+
+     You *can't* bring your ego with you to work and expect to get anything
+worthwhile done.  And you can't play Untouchable Boss.  Anybody who has a
+question or a criticism about a script can come to me about it, whether it's
+mine or somebody else's.  Doesn't matter if it's a grip, or a stunt double, or
+somebody from craft services; a valid point is a valid point.  I may not agree
+with it, and I reserve the right to do it as written if I don't agree, but
+I'll *listen*, and if the person's got a point, I'll address it.
+
+     There are several people here who've been in the B5 offices on many
+occasions, and they can chime in if I'm lying...but honest, the one sound you
+hear the most in the hallways of the B5 production office is that of laughter.
+We try to keep stress out of the workplace as much as possible, to make it a
+pleasant place to work.
+
+     Everybody eats together out behind the stage at lunchtime -- writers,
+producers, directors, cast, crew, production staff, groups of crew go out
+together for dinner, or drinks after shooting, they go off on vacation in
+groups (a bunch of them were off at Mammoth when the quake hit last year), the
+actors are free to come into my office and hang out, ask questions, same with
+anyone else...there's always a birthday cake somewhere in the studio it
+seems...it's just A Nice Place To Work.  Which helps tremendously when it
+comes time to actually work together.
+
+     For Christmas, btw, we purchased for the crew, production staff and
+others Swiss Army Watches with the B5 logo engraved on the back, with 1994-
+1995 beneath it, for those who've been on the show for two years.   For those
+serving here as their first year, they got the nifty B5 leather jackets that
+all the first timers got last year.
+
+     Life's too short not to enjoy where you work...especially on  Barbeque
+Day at the studio, or Funny Hat Day.....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 407       Tue Dec 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:03 EST
+
+     Funniest hat...that was last season, and it's not anything startling;
+just a lobster hat, big claws coming down off it, bug-eyes, legs all around
+the head...just struck me as funny.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 419       Wed Dec 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:32 EST
+
+     The assumption above is correct; one shouldn't consider B5 to be
+exclusive in this approach.  Folks like David Moessinger, my Executive
+Producer on MURDER, JAKE and (albeit briefly, before I ran screaming out into
+the night) WALKER...Mark Shelmerdine, my Executive Producer on the new
+Twilight Zone...and others I could name, all people of conscience and
+integrity and loyalty, who create a healthy and positive place to work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 429       Wed Dec 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:37 EST
+
+     Oh, yeah, and these next six are gonna be major head-thumps too, that
+much I can promise right now.  (It occured to me, I think that we go on the
+air with new eps about the same time Voyager hits the air; this should be an
+interesting contrast, 'cause there's some stuff in this next batch that just
+goes balls to the walls.)
+
+     And yes, THAT "Walker."  When the show was still with Cannon TV,  David
+got jammed up and asked me to come in for a while, in between leaving "Murder,
+She Wrote" and starting B5.  I came on as Supervising Producer...and the
+second I walked into the Cannon building, I knew this was gonna be trouble.
+I've got a good snake detector, and it was going off like crazy.  I tried to
+warn David, but David is a good soul, and he trusts people, and figured he
+could make it work.  But I knew we were standing on the deck of the Titanic
+and somebody'd just ordered ice....
+
+     I rewrote several scripts (no credit taken), and wrote one of my own,
+which got produced and aired.  Nobody was being paid, there was mass chaos at
+the top, and finally I just bolted over the barbed wire and escaped.  David
+understood, tried to find some way to stop the hassles, but in time the whole
+damned thing exploded, and CBS took the show away from Cannon after David
+finally bailed.  It's a nightmare organization.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 453       Thu Dec 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:04 EST
+
+     We'll probably know come April about a third season, in any definitive
+sense, though we may have hunches before then.
+
+     Actually, "The exception proves the rule" is a corruption of the original
+Latin, which I believe is something along the lines of, "Exceptio probat
+regulum," which as a phrase translates out to, "The exception puts the rule to
+the test of proof."
+
+     I have no real desire to direct; I could if I so desired (and sometimes
+I'll make murmurings about setting aside an episode to direct myself, which is
+a perk I have if desired, just to watch producer John Copeland turn a whiter
+shade of pale), but I just don't think it's something I want to do.  My other
+writer-friends think I'm crazy to pass this up, since Writer/Director
+hyphenates are kind of the In thing, and command major bucks and deals...but
+ehh...I'm a writer.
+
+     One's relations with a given studio are in large measure affected by the
+person you're working with.  There are good folk and bad folk.  We have been
+very, very fortunate in that our PTEN liaison is a very smart fellow, very
+thoughtful, reasonable, who kinda understands where we're going with this
+story, and allows us to go where we wish.  I've been on other shows where the
+network or studio liaison can destroy a series and make your life a living
+hell.  It's really the luck of the draw.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 463       Thu Dec 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:19 EST
+
+     Kevin: part of my hope is that this modem-experiment will help to put out
+information on how TV is made, and de-mystify the process a bit.
+
+     How to Space Someone A Bit At A Time: elect them to Congress.
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 466       Thu Dec 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:24 EST
+
+     Only because I'm crummy at this stuff...anybody wants to send me cheat
+codes for Wing Commander III will live in my heart forever.
+
+     Damned kilrathi....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 482       Fri Dec 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:18 EST
+
+     Tell you what...I could either struggle through Wc3 without the cheat
+codes, or make Babylon 5.  Understand that I am obsessive/compulsive in
+nature....
+
+     Will try the alt-o.  It's some solace....
+
+     Only four people have seen the five-year arc (and not all of it at that,
+only about a 10 page summary of the thing), which is about three too many for
+my tastes.  None of them are execs with PTEN.
+
+     Maybe the symbol for B5 fandom might be >@<, which is a starfury.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 483       Fri Dec 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:22 EST
+
+     You'll see more of Na'Toth in "Acts of Sacrifice."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 494       Fri Dec 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:14 EST
+
+     Re: moving airdates...this is stuff I mentioned some time ago, so no one
+should be startled now.  As stated before, Paramount is taking Monday and
+Tuesday nights; Warner Network is getting Wednesdays; so you HAVE to move B5
+somewhere.  There's only Thursday-Sunday left, so it has to go somewhere in
+there.
+
+     The cheat code for Babylon 5?  PERCIVAL.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 508       Fri Dec 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:02 EST
+
+     T'ain't luck, lemme tell you; we haven't had a break from day one.   Old
+fashioned hard work.
+
+     Expect new episodes the week of January 23rd.
+
+     Anybody here who knows computer stuff, maybe you can answer a Stoopid
+Question for me in the appropriate topic down below....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 523       Sat Dec 31, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:32 EST
+
+     Re: my doing promos for the show on-air...I'm not an on-air personality.
+I'm just not good at that.  A few weeks of my face on the air, and viewers
+would probably start asking for their previous ratings points back....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+Babylon 5 is moving into a second season of 22 episodes.  This series can be
+seen at 8 Pm on Wednesdays, in most areas.  This topic is for SPOILERS only.
+Just remember our NO STORY IDEAS rule and we'll let you live. <g>
+
+296 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 150       Sun Dec 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:30 EST
+
+     However, I believe that a great deal of that time comes from the ST
+opening and closing credits, which are longer than ours.  Just count the "dry
+time," meaning program content ONLY, minus opening title/credit sequences and
+end credits.  And there's never any variance in the length of our show unless
+someone at your end of the signal is making trims here and there; the length
+of each episode is always *exactly* the same, right down to the frame-count.
+So there's *no way* you can be seeing a 30-second variance between episodes.
+When it leaves our hands, all of the episodes are *exactly* the same length.
+I know because I'm part of the final edit, and we have to hit exactly the same
+count every time.
+
+     It's altogether possible that your station is either trimming scenes or
+running the show through a compression system.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 170       Mon Dec 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:51 EST
+
+     Generally, credits are negotiated, or assigned on merit.  My  assistant
+on the show didn't negotiate for a credit, but gets one at the end, along with
+Doug's.  A lot of the office staff doesn't get credited on-screen, or some of
+the support personnel in the art department, construction, costuming, makeup,
+and other areas, because there simply isn't time; Babylon Productions, which I
+co-own with Doug, employs about 225-250 people in order to make B5.  So
+generally the key people in each department, and their seconds, get on-screen
+credit.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 200       Sat Dec 24, 1994
+
+     The next batch of new episodes will be six-eps long; so append to that
+list "Acts of Sacrifice" and "Hunter, Prey."
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 223       Wed Dec 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:59 EST
+
+     Well, here's an episode title for a script-in-progress that ought to
+scare the hell out of anybody who's paying attention: "In the Shadow of
+Z'ha'dum."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 240       Thu Dec 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:16 EST
+
+     Figure "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" for about episode 19 (once I finish
+writing the darned thing).
+
+     We have roughly 16-17 standing sets, and as many as 60 swing sets
+available to us, the largest of any TV series that I know of.  Just the number
+of clubs/restaurants is amazing...the Eclipse Cafe, Earhart's, Happy Daze, the
+Dark Star, the Fresh Air Restaurant, the banquet hall, Doug's Dugout Sports
+Bar (seen in TKO), the smaller restaurant seen in "Eyes," the Zocalo Cafe, and
+of course the mess hall.
+
+     Yes, we've seen the length of the central corridor several times now;
+that you haven't noticed is the point, rather than seeing a painted backdrop,
+which sticks out.
+
+     "Why should everyone stay on B5?" says G.Popovich.  *Exactly*, says jms,
+pointing to Sinclair.  As to living and dying...I wouldn't be at all surprised
+if something fatal happened to one or more of the characters in the main title
+before too long....
+
+     What's great, from my POV, is that in the first season, folks could sense
+there was *something* going on, but now with the second season, more are
+starting to see the shape of it gliding just beneath the  surface, and note
+the occasional shark-fin rising up out of the water....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 278       Sat Dec 31, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:09 EST
+
+     Insofar as I know, in the B5 universe, dead is dead.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Cast & Characters      
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+264 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 154       Thu Dec 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:58 EST
+
+     Also add Bernie Casey.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 175       Mon Dec 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:13 EST
+
+     Shock Treatment's out on CD?  Really?  Gotta pick that one up; all I have
+is the vinyl, well-worn by now.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 206       Sun Dec 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:55 EST
+
+     It kinda bothered their sense of superiority; also, their sense of honor
+lies more in the direction of one-to-one combat, rather than mining something
+as a trap.  Consider it the way British troops did toward American
+revolutionary fighters who hid behind trees and used guerilla tactics rather
+than fighting the way the British *wanted* them to fight, out in the open, in
+nice, easily shot-at rows....
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 210       Mon Dec 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:14 EST
+
+     Sean: as was stated in the episode, we still haven't been able to crack
+the Minbari stealth technology.  It's not that they're old or deficient, we
+just haven't broken their system yet.  As Sheridan says in the conference
+room.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 217       Tue Dec 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:45 EST
+
+     Sheridan asked what kind of scanners the fighters were using because he
+couldn't figure out why they were picking up the Minbari fighters.  He wanted
+to be sure nobody had snuck by some kind of new tech.  Once he knew they were
+the same tech as before, he knew something screwy was up.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 236       Wed Dec 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:34 EST
+
+     Well, that's it; this topic has now become canon fodder.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 5         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            (Forwarded)
+Sub: Grid Epsilon Irregulars - News & Info.
+
+This topic is for information about Babylon 5 fan groups, newsletters,
+fanzines, get-togethers, B-5 at conventions, and other general fun.
+434 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 395       Sun Dec 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:10 EST
+
+     And from now on, freedom is slavery.
+
+                                                  George Orwell
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 10        Thu Nov 12, 1992
+SANDMAN [Henry]              at 19:25 EST
+Sub: Sex in Babylon 5                   
+
+Can't do without this one!!
+
+
+413 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 381       Tue Dec 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:49 EST
+
+     Don' wanna do no message.  Peoples be peoples, they jus' do what they do.
+Jus' show it, don't dwell on it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 387       Tue Dec 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:11 EST
+
+     Ah has only one other thing to say on this whole left wing/right wing
+CONtroversy (and why ah'm talkin' like ah jus' escaped from a play by that
+Tennessee Williams fella is anybody's guess)...stone cold fact is, unless that
+eagles got a left AND a right wing, in perfect balance and given equal
+respect, it ain't NEVER gonna fly.
+
+                                               jmsTELLLLLLLAAAAA
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B5 Adrift!                         
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+351 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 280       Thu Dec 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:16 EST
+
+     Actually, that 800/200 split ain't far off the truth, as I dimly recall.
+Crummy with figures, good with words.
+
+     Funny thing, sorta...see, according to most IQ tests, I come in just over
+the edge on the so-called genius ("Come, Join Mensa, Join Us, Join Us...")
+level.  Around 160 or so.  Which, frankly, is absolutely meaningless, except
+that it helps me skate throuth stuff I have no business doing or no chance of
+*really* understanding.  I come in very high on intuitive scores; I can often
+figure out *what* is the correct answer, but am damned if I can tell you
+*why*.
+
+     As a kid, we moved around a lot for (let's just say this for now and let
+it go at this) economic reasons.  Literally every year from birth through
+about age 17 was a different house, a different city, often a different STATE.
+I learned fast that if you were too smart, and showed it...you got beat up a
+lot.  So at a very early stage I found I could just shave it close enough to
+pass, without raising any red flags or drawing attention.  The one thing I
+didn't want was to be noticed, because that usually preceded getting the
+stuffings knocked out of me (and being who I am, *that* was usually followed
+by my mouthing off to whoever just beat the crap out of me...at which point
+they pound me again...at which point this little bump on the playground mouths
+off again, at which point, well, you get the idea).
+
+     I'd gotten pretty good at riding the line, but goofed one year in junior
+high.  I screwed up my math term (no surprise there), but usually  I knew I
+could ace lit classes to make up for it...except I got sick, missed several
+tests and papers...and dropped beneath the line I needed to get advanced to
+the next level.  So I had to attend summer school to make up the difference.
+
+     This was under the Headstart Program of those days, and the sort of kids
+you found in this one in New Jersey...Future Muggers of America founding
+members.  Anyway (and this is a hell of a lot longer and more involved than
+I'd intended to get), one day they said they were going to give all of us in
+summer school a series of tests/evaluations to determine just where we
+stood...what grade reading level, comprehension, math, that sort of thing.
+Now normally I'd always held back in this stuff, but this wasn't my regular
+school, I'd be going to high school after this, so what was lost?  So I just
+went for it.
+
+     A few days later the test results came in, and I got suddenly called to
+the office of the head of the program.  He sat me down and said, honest to
+god, "You'll forgive my langauge for a moment, but what the HELL are you DOING
+here?"  Apparently for a 9th grader my language, reading, writing, and general
+intelligence figures came in at approximately that of a college graduate.
+(Though my math skills were, to be charitable, considerably lower.  Bargain-
+basement, to be precise.)  So I told him  what I'd been doing all this time.
+He sat there, slack jawed, the whole time, at the premeditation and all the
+rest.  (Though I wouldn't have gotten nailed if I'd been better at some of the
+other areas.)
+
+     Later, to my chagrin, I discovered that he wrote up a memo about all this
+and attached it to my transcripts, so that when I transferred to the high
+school, I found myself assigned to several advanced classes in English lit and
+other areas, college-prep level classes.  So I instantly went back to my old
+habits, and soon enough managed to get out of that one and into a regular
+class.
+
+     Tests are fine, advanced classes are fine, but frankly, none of it was
+worth getting stomped on a regular basis....
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 301       Sat Dec 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:05 EST
+
+     BTW, and not to get off on a whole SeaQuest tangent, but...today I saw
+something even rarer than a unicorn: a good SQ episode.  It hasn't aired yet,
+probably won't for a few weeks yet, but as you check your TV Guide, look for
+the one where a new experimental sub sporting artificial intelligence tied to
+Bridger gets loose.  It's actually quite nice.
+
+     Of the "SeaQuest Meets the Triffids" episode yet to come...the less said,
+the better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 13        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 21:00 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Science & Technology   
+
+Jump gates, nanotech, high-tech weapons, starship drives, sound in space, and
+other subjects of science and technology in Babylon 5.
+341 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 325       Fri Dec 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:26 EST
+
+     Not all jumpgates are hooked/linked with one another.  Very ofteen you
+DON'T have to leave hyperspace, just jump from A to C, and from C to Z, riding
+the lock-on to each one (Catherine Sakai programmed in just such a sequence in
+MIND WAR, in fact).  You don't usually have to leave hyperspace to go from one
+gate to another; usually, in the case of the freighter being discussed, it
+left hyperspace at the last jumpgate stop to pick up supplies, people, cargo,
+other stuff, and was heading back to the gate again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Merchandising          
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+295 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 193       Thu Dec 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:14 EST
+
+     There is no reference in the liner notes to ANY of the characters, and
+there is NO "outlining of the story of B5."  The report you've heard has been
+mischaracterized.  There *is* a photo of Sinclair there.  And from what I
+understand, the license/promotional deal emphasized that the current cast
+should be specified in the thing, since it's being released in the current
+year, to make clearer it's a 1995 release.  A cast list put out right now
+would not have Sinclair on it; that's the same situation as this.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 243       Tue Dec 27, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:13 EST
+
+     I have seen some fuzzy black-and-white photos of the MicroMachines, and
+though I can't testify yet about the colors, since I couldn't see them, they
+LOOK majorly cool.  Want 'em.  Want 'em NOW.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 260       Thu Dec 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:22 EST
+
+     The zero is probably a German zero, which usually has a crossbar through
+it, /.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 23        Fri Feb 12, 1993
+V.VAIDY1 [Vijay]             at 23:00 EST
+Sub: "OtherWorks" by JMS                
+
+Before there was "B5" and when "JMS" was just another Plain Joe, there was
+OtherSyde
+ [A discussion of the other works of J. Michael Straczynski]
+227 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 209       Fri Dec 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:27 EST
+
+     It was a regular episode done for ABC as part of the Saturday morning
+season that ended up garnering a lot of attention.  It's also a favorite of a
+lot of the folks who run that department at ABC.  It came out *very* nicely.
+I'm pretty sure it was season one stuff.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 212       Tue Dec 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:35 EST
+
+     Well, it's confirmed; my episode of THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS, "Xmas Marks
+the Spot," will air Saturday morning at 8:30 a.m. (probably 7:30 central) on
+ABC.  It's in TV Guide and everything.
+
+     Kinda dopey, but fun....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 215       Tue Dec 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:58 EST
+
+     There's business stuff being worked out on Grimjack, and I've said to all
+parties that to avoid doing less than standard work, I'd prefer to not start
+the script until January/February, when most of the writing on B5 will be
+finished.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 217       Tue Dec 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:35 EST
+
+     Eek, and just turned on USA network tonight and caught one of my Murder,
+She Wrote episodes, "The Committee."  The world is getting too small for
+comfort.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 219       Fri Dec 23, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:23 EST
+
+      As long as we're talking about other stuff...this Friday one of my
+episodes of "Murder, She Wrote" that got a lot of press will be run on USA,
+"Incident in Lot 7," set on the Universal Studios lot, in the old Psycho
+house.  It's kinda fun, got some good lines here and there.
+
+      I was talking to somebody who worked it out the other day, and having
+written over 120 *produced* episodes of TV, the fact is that one day out of
+every three, you're going to find something of mine somewhere on the schedule,
+which is probably why I don't mention it much.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 221       Sun Dec 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:07 EST
+
+     Except the creeps at ABC reversed the order, so my machine got a
+different show on tape; wanted to see if they'd cut anything.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 225       Wed Dec 28, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:36 EST
+
+     Got nothing to do with me.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 24        Fri Jun 04, 1993
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:11 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Weapons and Warfare!   
+
+For discussion about the weapons, counter weapons, armor, shielding, tactics,
+logistics, and so forth, of small combat and large scale war in the Babylon 5
+universe.
+237 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 211       Thu Dec 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:24 EST
+
+     Or they could've shattered the moon, and used mass drivers to hurl huge
+sections of it down onto us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 29        Thu Jun 30, 1994
+B.SHERRIS [Brett]            at 00:03 EDT
+Sub: The Master Plan                    
+
+WARNING!  THIS TOPIC MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS VITAL TO THE FIVE YEAR
+ STORY ARC OF BABYLON 5.  DO NOT READ THIS TOPIC IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO
+ POSSIBLY DISCOVER THE PURPOSE OF THE FIVE YEAR STORY ARC!
+261 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 29
+Message 252       Thu Dec 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:01 EST
+
+     Londo does not have the Eye.  If he'd failed to turn it over, his career
+would've been ruined; getting it back was the only thing that kept him on B5.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 31        Sat Jul 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:23 EDT
+Sub: Really Stupid Questions from JMS   
+
+Every so often, I need Information.  (You won't get it!)  Technical stuff,
+research or reference stuff...and given the brain trust here, I figured this
+could be a useful resource from time to time.  With appreciation.
+194 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 167       Mon Dec 26, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:18 EST
+
+     Caitlin wanted to go off and pursue romantic leading roles in films.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 169       Fri Dec 30, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:08 EST
+
+     Okay, here's the deal...my Spousal Overunit some time ago installed a
+sound card into her computer.  From that point on (at least we're fairly sure
+that was the deciding point), she could no longer access both her serial
+of to try and make the darned thing work; so now she has to keep switching
+between modem and mouse.  If there's ANYone out there with some suggestions on
+how to fix this, that'd be great (given in very plain layperson's terms,
+because neither of us is a rocket scientist at this stuff, real step-by-step
+stuff).
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+
+ ************
+Topic 13        Sun Oct 17, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 15:15 EDT
+Sub: #110 - "Mind War"                  
+
+by JMS. Co-Starring Walter Koenig.
+234 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 13
+Message 234       Thu Dec 29, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:26 EST
+
+     Yep, I wrote this one.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 27        Mon Aug 29, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 (Forwarded)
+Sub: #201 - "Points of Departure"       
+
+by JMS. Directed by Janet Greek.
+181 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 27
+Message 168       Thu Dec 22, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:58 EST
+
+     Correct above; Sheridan says, quite specifically, in the conference room
+with Ivanova after the Grey Council guy is gone, "they used some kind of
+stealth technology WE'VE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO BREAK."  It's not a matter of old
+or cheaper tech; we just haven't broken their technology yet.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 32        Mon Aug 29, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 23:36 EDT
+Sub: #206 - "A Spider in the Web"       
+
+by Lawrence G. DiTillio.  Director : Kevin Cremins
+109 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 32
+Message 108       Sun Dec 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:21 EST
+
+      The security guard didn't trigger the detonation; he picked up some
+energy buildup on his scanner the moment Horn's heart stopped.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 34        Thu Oct 20, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 (Forwarded)
+Sub: #208 - "Soul Mates"                
+
+Londo's wives in a tale by Peter David.
+179 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 34
+Message 56        Thu Dec 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:04 EST
+
+     How weird...I hadn't ever seen any messages here, and I couldn't figure
+why...just checked and for some reason it was IGNored.  Odd....
+
+     Anyway...the production numbers (207, 208) are not for the order in which
+they're aired, but the order they're PRODUCED in.  So the numbers don't
+change.  We just air 208, then 207.  This is very common in TV.
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 34
+Message 74        Fri Dec 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:18 EST
+
+     Peter Jurasik has made it clear that he wants the 30-foot portrait of
+Londo...he wants to hang it outside his house...facing the neighbors who keep
+annoying him....
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 34
+Message 81        Fri Dec 16, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:44 EST
+
+     Anytime we have someone who's a) of shorter stature, and b) of any kind
+of aggressive or unusual type, people say we're doing Harlan.  (Here, and in
+"Deathwalker," with Abbut.)  If we ever end up *doing* Harlan, the part will
+be PLAYED by Harlan.  The rest...forget it.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 34
+Message 95        Sat Dec 17, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:55 EST
+
+     Re: pacing...quite correct.   I think the pacing should vary
+according to the story we're telling; some are slower, some fairly average,
+and some are written, acted and directed at a dead run.  I like tuning into a
+series and never quite knowing what the hell to expect each time.
+
+     All things considered, the episode went through fairly cleanly, script-
+wise, not much in the way of revision.  Peter has a good ear for dialog (not
+surprising).  So for the most part it was little stuff; for example...Peter
+came up with, "Either I'm in hell or in medlab," to which I appended,
+"...either way, the decor needs work."  Which is kind of the fun in getting an
+outside script; you can hear the first part of a line you'd never considered,
+and knowing the character, you can take it just a little further.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 34
+Message 114       Sun Dec 18, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:06 EST
+
+     Actually, Delenn explains why she made the transformation right after we
+see it, in the council chambers in "Revelations."
+
+                                                                        jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 34
+Message 120       Mon Dec 19, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:42 EST
+
+     Complaints here have to come from local residents.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 35        Tue Nov 01, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 (Forwarded)
+Sub: #209 - "The Coming Of Shadows"     
+
+The episode that also gives us the title of season 2.
+18 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 35
+Message 18        Sun Dec 25, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:59 EST
+
+     This is a baseless rumor.  This episode title was always intended to
+reflect the season overall title.  There may or may not ever be an episode
+entitled "The Shadows Fall," but since I've never discussed that title with
+anyone, ever, any reports of it are a rumor.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms95-01-01 b/ftp/GEnie/jms95-01-01
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+This file contains messages posted by J. Michael Straczynski on GEnie from
+Jan 1 - Jan 15th, 1995.  Postings are copyright 1995 by J. Michael Straczynski
+with compilation copyright by GEnie.
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 General category.  This is the main topic for  the
+hit SF series.  We discuss all general information on the series in this
+topic.  Topic 2 is for SPOILERS!  DO NOT POST STORY IDEAS!
+
+543 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 261       Sun Jan 01, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:17 EST
+
+     Re: on-air stuff...honest to Kosh, folks, I'm not saying that to be
+convinced otherwise, not trolling for rebuttals, my job here is to talk
+straight with you.  Radio, I'm okay on; typing online, ditto.  But put me on
+TeeVee, and it all goes straight to hell.  I'm convinced that every time I go
+on, millions of little old lady fans of America's Most Wanted suddenly point
+at the screen and start screaming, "THAT'S HIM!  THAT'S THE ONE!"
+
+     These things should be left to professionals.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 270       Sun Jan 01, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:59 EST
+
+     Re: the Tom Skerrit TZ episode of mine...ehhh...that was done when I was
+on freelancer basis, and had no control to what happened to it after it was
+turned in.  I'd written it with a moral point to the story -- that the father
+was doing to the son what was done to *him* when he was a kid, being too
+possessive, closing off the kid's world -- so that he would come to understand
+that.
+
+     This, to me, was the Twilight Zone.  Only after I turned it in, I
+learned that Phil DeGuere (the exec producer) didn't *want* to do morality
+tales because it was too Twilight Zone.  (Go ahead, explain *that* one to me.)
+So they yanked out the whole *point* of the damned story, which left the rest
+toothless and without point, just an excercise in wish fulfillment for the
+characters.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 289       Mon Jan 02, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:59 EST
+
+     Which "incomplete images?"  Haven't noticed any so far.
+
+     The TV camera is different than a live audience; the camera either loves
+you, or hates you.  Cameras generally despise me, but they *love* Harlan.  Go
+figure.
+
+     BTW, Bruce Boxleitner married Melissa Gilbert on New Year's Day.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 303       Tue Jan 03, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:44 EST
+
+     The shows done on my watch are generally referred to as TZ3, yes, and
+Christy's is among them.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 321       Wed Jan 04, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:09 EST
+
+     Actually, when I saw the CNN spot, it mentioned among his credits "are
+Scarecrow & Mrs. King, and Babylon 5."
+
+     We don't generally get ratings reports broken down by competing shows,
+since it varies from town to town.
+
+     I was story editor on TZ3, and wrote about 11 of the episodes.
+
+                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 332       Wed Jan 04, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:45 EST
+
+     BTW, and just for the heck of it...the line about paying off karma at an
+accellerated rate is something Kathryn has been muttering for ages; I popped
+it into the script for fun.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 348       Thu Jan 05, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:35 EST
+
+     Messages 345 and 346 above are both correct answers to the queries posted
+here.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 386       Sat Jan 07, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:00 EST
+
+     So far, nobody's said boo to us from any agency that means a damn.   A
+couple of watchdog organizations last year put us into the "most violent shows
+on TV" top-ten, along with (get this) DS9 and Brisco County, but that's it.
+
+     I would deep-six the show or walk off it if any pressure group tried to
+change what we are, with official backing.  You cannot make with timidity a
+show about courage.  I have no idea if it'll ever happen or not; I would hope
+not.  On one level, if it does, it'll elevate our visibility and our ratings.
+So hey, let 'em come.  And if the horse should be shot out from under us, be
+assured that we will go down fighting tooth and nail.  There are only a very
+few things in life that genuinely frighten me, and looking for a new job isn't
+one of them.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 406       Sat Jan 07, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:00 EST
+
+     I do seem to recall that at some point there were discussions between
+Harlan and the ST team about a City sequel, and an arc for DS9.  What Harlan
+pitched had scope, and sweep, and action, and would probably have caused quite
+a stir.  And the response from B&P was to go *hmmm* and to go *hrrmmm* a lot,
+and wonder if this or that part could be toned down a bit, and finally the
+idea just sank beneath the waves.  Harlan once described for me, in detail,
+the opening teaser of what he planned for a TNG episode...and it would've
+caused the hairs on the back of your neck to stand up.  A *really* good Picard
+story.
+
+     Re: winning/losing battles...on the Harry Chapin collection double CD
+set, there are some interview snippets with Harry.  In one of them, he tells
+this story (which I'm going to try and replicate from memory as well as I
+can).  "My father always used to tell me, Harry, there's good days, and
+there's bad days.  A bad day can be a day when you *won*...but you fought
+other people's battles, lived other people's agendas, and at the end of the
+day, there was really very little of *you* in there, and when you hit the hay,
+you toss and turn, you don't settle easy.
+
+     "A *good* day, ironically enough, can be a day when you *lost*.  But you
+don't even have to say it, because you know you lived your life,  fought your
+battles, dreamed your dreams.  And when you hit the hay at night, you can
+sleep the sleep of the just and say 'Take me away.'"
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 418       Sun Jan 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:43 EST
+
+     What's funny is that a number of Trek fans who put down B5 did so on the
+basis that we used CGI, which Trek would NEVER do (and B&P reinforced this
+notion in their statements).  Except of course now they ARE going to
+CGI...which in some ways levels the playing field.
+
+     (Saw this on Internet a few minutes ago...don't hurt me, I'm just the
+messenger, thought it was funny..."What's the difference between a Trekkie and
+a Trekker?  Trekkers like B5.")
+
+     Seen on a local BBS echo: "B5 IN 95!"
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 443       Sun Jan 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:38 EST
+
+     Yeah, Newt Gingrich, a man who as soon as he made it big dumped his wife,
+even though she had cancer...that's really somebody I want teaching me about
+family values....
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 463       Tue Jan 10, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:25 EST
+
+     The thing to do when you see a shirt with "Today's Score: Deep Space 9,
+Babylon 5," is to respond with, "Oh, I see you're a golf fan too."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 467       Tue Jan 10, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:12 EST
+
+     I'm told it's hitting the stands this week.  Some places have already got
+it.
+
+     Well, turned in the first formal draft today of "In the Shadow of
+Z'ha'dum," which means there are now only five scripts remaining to be
+written.  These will pretty much all be jms scripts, since the continuity on
+the last five-six episodes is going to be *very* tight.  There's an awful lot
+of terrain to cover in those episodes, and we really have to start cranking
+things.
+
+     It's weird to be able to look down just a ways and already be able to see
+the end of the second season when we haven't even aired episode seven yet.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 485       Tue Jan 10, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:23 EST
+
+     Well, actually, there are various forms of "turning in a script."   First
+I turn in a First Draft, which is only circulated amongst the upper tier
+production staff (me, Doug, John, usually Larry, Warners, and if it has lots
+of EFX, prosthetics or wardrobe, the head of whichever department is gonna get
+whapped).  Out of 17 scripts to date, we have only gotten notes from Warners
+on 3, all in the very first batch of episodes, mainly in terms of urging
+clarity for new viewers.  Nothing since.  Nonetheless, it's pro forma to send
+it along at that early stage just in case.
+
+     Shortly thereafter, I turn in my Final Draft (the second draft in
+sequence).  Usually, there's little or no difference between the First and the
+Final Draft (at least on this show)...the only real distinction is that this
+is the one that gets circulated to all cast, crew, support and production
+staff, and casting.
+
+     "Z'ha'dum" has only been seen by a few people at this early stage, but
+folks like it.  The big one, though, is really "And Now for a Word," which has
+gotten more responses from crew, cast and others than any other script to
+date.  From top to bottom, everyone is absolutely excited about it.  It's
+going to be a very challenging shoot, but the result, I think, will be worth
+it.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 512       Fri Jan 13, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:05 EST
+
+     Richard Biggs will be at a convention this weekend in South Bend, though
+only on Sunday (it's a creation con, I believe).
+
+     Meanwhile, it looks like there's going to be a big convention in Chicago
+come June with Michael O'Hare, Mira Furlan, Bill Mumy and me in addition to
+the aforementioned Richard Biggs.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 522       Fri Jan 13, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:03 EST
+
+     It's June 24th/25th, the Science Fiction Expo.  More than that I don't
+yet know at this time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+Babylon 5 is moving into a second season of 22 episodes.  This series can be
+seen at 8 Pm on Wednesdays, in most areas.  This topic is for SPOILERS only.
+Just remember our NO STORY IDEAS rule and we'll let you live. <g>
+
+406 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 337       Sun Jan 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:49 EST
+
+     Re: G'Kar...the politial assessment is more or less correct.  The Narn
+idea of an ambassador isn't just someone who SPEAKS for his people, he
+REPRESENTS his people on every level. (So the strain and pressure is quite
+great.)  As such, he is the highest-ranking representative on B5; he is
+responsible for taking care of the ceremonies of G'Quon, was appointed by the
+Kha'Ri, and can only be removed by the Kha'Ri, or by direct physical
+challenge.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 352       Mon Jan 09, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:00 EST
+
+     Boy oh boy oh boy are YOU guys gonna love the next few new episodes
+(given the last ten messags or so).
+
+     Decisions by G'Kar are only binding on Narns living at or visiting B5.
+
+     And yes, please continue to remember Franklin's little downbelow clinic
+for a while....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 388       Fri Jan 13, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:02 EST
+
+     So, Bill, are you saying the coffee is not what it seems?
+
+     Next you'll be dragging those damned owls into this....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Cast & Characters      
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+296 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 266       Sat Jan 07, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:02 EST
+
+     We've spoken to Mark, and he even came by the studio to visit.  (We
+actually had a 3-way interpersonal crossover when Walter Koenig stopped by at
+the same time; we had Star Trek, Star Wars and Babylon 5 main guys in the same
+room at the same time.)  It's something we'd like to do one of these days.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 10        Thu Nov 12, 1992
+SANDMAN [Henry]              at 19:25 EST
+Sub: Sex in Babylon 5                   
+
+Can't do without this one!!
+
+
+437 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 435       Thu Jan 12, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:22 EST
+
+     Fair Use is also determined by volume of quote or re-use vs. volume of
+original material.  Quoting 30 lines from a novel or reference book may not be
+a problem; quoting 30 lines of a song *is* a problem, since that's probably
+the entire song.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 11        Sat Nov 14, 1992
+J.SHEEN1 [Leviathan]         at 18:09 EST
+Sub: B5 Adrift!                         
+
+ BABYLON 5 Topic Drift
+ If you feel like talking about it, but it doesn't fit anywhere else... If its
+only connection to B-5 is that you thought of it in this CAT...
+ This is where to come and get it out.
+403 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 368       Thu Jan 05, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:56 EST
+
+     The 5 was specifically designed by John Iacovelli; the purpose, though
+we've rarely ever used it, was to create a moving number with the two parts
+interlocking...the round o part of the 5 swings around, and stops when the L
+shaped top of the 5 drops into position, locking it into place.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Sightings                
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+220 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 219       Tue Jan 03, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:27 EST
+
+     The Washington Post TV insert will have a piece on  Bruce and B5 either
+this week (just having come out), or next week.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 13        Mon Nov 23, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 21:00 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Science & Technology   
+
+Jump gates, nanotech, high-tech weapons, starship drives, sound in space, and
+other subjects of science and technology in Babylon 5.
+398 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 344       Tue Jan 03, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:25 EST
+
+     I know I'm going to regret asking this, because I know I'm not going to
+understand the question, and I'm just going to get confused and fall down,
+but...what's the difference between a Unified Field Theory and a Complete
+Unified Field Theory?
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 370       Sun Jan 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:52 EST
+
+     What kind of BB?  Wanted a BB gun once, but my family said I'd put my eye
+out.  But they also said that when I wanted a cat.
+
+     "Does anybody really know what time it is?  Does anybody really care?"
+
+                                           jm(head go thunk)s
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 376       Sun Jan 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:42 EST
+
+      ...never an anvil around when you really need one....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 384       Mon Jan 09, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:53 EST
+
+     Mostly, yeah; fortunately, most of them were fairly common CDs, and easy
+to replace.  (Oddly a lot of them were Beatles disks.)  The more rare ones
+were deep down in the pile and thus protected.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 13
+Message 388       Tue Jan 10, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:16 EST
+
+     I hate it when you do that....
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Merchandising          
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+342 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 329       Wed Jan 11, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:44 EST
+
+     Absolute misinformation.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 332       Fri Jan 13, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:25 EST
+
+      We're close to closing a deal for a B5 screensaver package, with
+wallpaper, slide shows, wav and video files.  Will advise.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 31        Sat Jul 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:23 EDT
+Sub: Really Stupid Questions from JMS   
+
+Every so often, I need Information.  (You won't get it!)  Technical stuff,
+research or reference stuff...and given the brain trust here, I figured this
+could be a useful resource from time to time.  With appreciation.
+206 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 180       Sun Jan 01, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:20 EST
+
+      How does one change the DMA address of a sound card?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 189       Mon Jan 02, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:03 EST
+
+     The card, as I recall, is a Pro Audio Spectrum.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 196       Mon Jan 02, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:04 EST
+
+     Leningrad Cowboys on January 7th?  That's the one!  Folks...listen to
+me...I *know* it's gonna weird you out, but you gotta check out this movie.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 36        Wed Nov 02, 1994
+BOB-WALKER [P12+]            at 22:13 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Trivia Questions         
+
+Help contribute questions to a B5 trivia game.  Our goal is to get 300
+questions for each season.  We need easy, medium, hard and killer questions in
+both True/False and Multiple Guess formats.
+63 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 36
+Message 45        Thu Jan 05, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:08 EST
+
+     But on the other hand, I know many jews who are very upset when a member
+of their family becomes an atheist; they say you can't be a jew and an
+atheist, and that no matter what their belief system, they remain jews.  I
+think there is a mix here; on the one hand, anyone can convert to Judaism,
+from any ethnic background.  But certainly in the various judao-christian
+scriptures there are the tribes of Israel, and rules that were set aside for
+the jewish people to follow, that even Moses made the distinction between his
+people and the Egyptians.  Perhaps the problem is in the use of the word
+itself; is one a jew, or is one an Israelite?  One can be an Arab, or a
+Palistinian, defined by location; on one level, the notion of being jewish is
+without borders; so maybe Isrealite is the more technically correct term to
+use in distinguishing between ethnic background and religious belief.
+
+     Ethnic language gets misused a lot.  One of the things that makes me nuts
+is when I see newsmagazines like TIME talking about "anglo" as a term for
+caucasians, meaning white.  I'm sorry, but I'm not an anglo; that refers to a
+very specific part of the world, as in anglo-saxon; my people come from
+eastern europe.  To call all caucasians "anglo" is, to me, as offensive as
+calling all hispanic people puerto ricans.  Anglo first popped up as a
+derogatory term, and became legitimized.  I think one can say caucasian
+(though that tends to have more european resonance, because of the mountainous
+region to which it refers), white, Eastern European, or come up with some new
+term.  But anglo just doesn't cut it.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 37        Sat Nov 12, 1994
+DUNEWALKER                   at 00:25 EST
+Sub: Questions, answers and/or speculations
+
+General questions, and answers or speculations concerning plots and sub-plots
+of Babylon 5.
+22 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 37
+Message 19        Sun Jan 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:43 EST
+
+     I don't believe the wire-frame is B5; I think it's an analysis of a ship
+docking at that moment.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 38        Mon Dec 05, 1994
+K.BURNFIELD [KB]             at 18:05 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Comic Book         
+
+Starting in Dec. 1994, DC comics will present its comic book based in the
+universe of J. Michael Straczynski's television series.
+20 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 38
+Message 19        Sat Jan 14, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:51 EST
+
+      Between "Revelations" and "Geometry."
+
+                                                                jms
+
+ ------------
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms95-02-01 b/ftp/GEnie/jms95-02-01
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..85ac9d31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/GEnie/jms95-02-01
@@ -0,0 +1,1150 @@
+This file contains messages posted by J. Michael Straczynski on GEnie from
+Feb 1 - Feb 28th, 1995.  Postings are copyright 1995 by J. Michael Straczynski
+with compilation copyright by GEnie.
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 General category.  This is the main topic for  the
+hit SF series.  We discuss all general information on the series in this
+topic.  Topic 2 is for SPOILERS!  DO NOT POST STORY IDEAS!
+
+571 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 360       Mon Feb 06, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:46 EST
+
+     The VO at the end of all the PTEN shows has been dropped.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 374       Tue Feb 07, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:51 EST
+
+     Sean: if you could send me a copy of that TV Guide piece asap, I would be
+*profoundly* grateful.
+
+     Slowly, we're starting to get noticed.  Break Magazine, out of North
+Carolina, just did a very good three-page review that says B5 "has set the SF
+TV world on end with the quality of its writing...stories that are gripping
+and speculative...if you haven't checked out Babylon 5 you owe it to yourself
+to do so.  This is, without doubt, the best science fiction series ever
+produced.  Give it the next six weeks.  You'll be hooked."   (Reviewed by
+staffer Tom Poston.)
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 404       Wed Feb 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:53 EST
+
+     Well, after nudzhing them for the last two years, finally SFWA has given
+in to Harlan's insistence about changing the Grand Master Nebula awards rules,
+since we were and are on the verge of losing many of those deserving of the
+honor, and why the hell can't we amend one bitty rule to give out a couple at
+a time rather than once every two years?  Granted it doesn't go all the way
+(and of course it wasn't in the LEAST due to outside pressure), but at least
+now it'll be once a year rather than once every two years...and this comes on
+a day when R.A. Lafferty has a stroke, I'm told.
+
+     BTW, and totally unrelated (well, mostly)...Harlan will be on the Tom
+Snyder show on the 17th of this month.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 428       Thu Feb 09, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:52 EST
+
+      The copy of the Canadian TV Guide commentary should be sent to me at
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 487       Sat Feb 11, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:23 EST
+
+     BTW, Harlan Ellison will be signing tomorrow at Golden Apple book store
+in LA tomorrow from 2-4 p.m.  I'll probably be tagging along.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 509       Mon Feb 13, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:06 EST
+
+     I thought the size of your hands was indicative of the size of your
+dish....
+
+     The comics and novels are within B5 continuity in general, but bear in
+mind you've got a LOT of different people working on these things, so some of
+the finer points may vary.  In general, we're keeping it as much within our
+universe as possible; but as an adjunct, not required reading, since that's
+unfair to viewers.
+
+     I'm pretty sure the pilot wings are uniform across the board.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 517       Mon Feb 13, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:12 EST
+
+     Yeah, Jerry called me about the Rush mention.  We've now been mentioned
+on the Howard Stern Show and Rush Limbaugh...talk about your wide
+demographics....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 306       Sun Feb 19, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:59 EST
+
+       Two different Minbari, yes.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 342       Wed Feb 22, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:50 EST
+
+     It's my understanding that, for instance, while the navy does not salute
+uncovered, the army and air force can or do.  So we've tried to vary our
+salutes (Colonel Ben Zayn and General Franklin, both army or marine types, got
+salutes uncovered, for instance, while others may not).
+
+     Funny ad in this week's BATMAN comic, for a company called French Toast,
+their French Toast Profile, showing a kid and a (probably bogus) bio, listing
+his name as Michael O'Heir, whose biggest wish is to meet an alien from
+another galaxy, and whose goal in life is to become a Commander at NASA.
+
+     Hmmmmmmmmmmm....
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 356       Thu Feb 23, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:42 EST
+
+     November would be the start of year three, so it makes sense that that
+would be the end of this next contract; you don't contract for a show beyond
+the current season until it's been renewed.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 359       Thu Feb 23, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:34 EST
+
+     Yeah, it's not like a computer is running this show *ccKKkak** not like a
+computer is running this sh~~ckckk...not like a computer i
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 375       Fri Feb 24, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:16 EST
+
+     There are several periods of renewal, variously for B5 and PTEN per se.
+One was in January; the next is in April/early May.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 381       Fri Feb 24, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:31 EST
+
+      I'd go for about 6.5, maybe 7 at the outside.  Which is better than last
+year at this time, when it was 4 or 5.  The final word, yes/no, will probably
+come in early May.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 399       Sat Feb 25, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:00 EST
+
+     Assuming that the panel has not yet taken place, please take this with
+you and read it at the panel.
+
+     Ahem.
+
+     Actually, I have nothing to say, I haven't heard anything from J. Michael
+Straczynski, I'm making this all up.  No, really.  I made up the part about
+having a message from him.
+
+     But if I actually HAD a message from J. Michael Straczynski, it would
+probably say this: Babylon 5 has most emphatically NOT been canceled.  Our
+ratings continue to improve slightly from one quarter to another, and our
+demographics are nothing less than appropriately stellar.  Nothing will be
+decided firmly until late April or early May, but we have real hopes for being
+renewed.  Last year at this time I put the odds of renewal at 50/50; I now
+place them closer to 65/35, maybe even 70/30.
+
+     54-40 or fight.  Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too.  Bibble-bibble wah, bibble
+wah wah bibble.
+
+     That's where the message ends.  I'd just like to add a personal comment,
+thanking J. Michael for clearing this up for us, and that I'll be modeling the
+lace teddy I'm wearing beneath my clothes in the  Elmtree tomorrow at one
+o'clock.  I would also like to know why no one on the panel looks like Ivanova
+except the gentleman on the left.  And please stop that, we can see you.  I
+also predict that when I sit down the entire room will burst out in applause
+and laughter.
+
+     Thank you.
+
+     No, I'm not sitting yet.  This was only a drill.  If I were actually
+sitting, I would not be quite this tall.
+
+     Is it cold in here, or is it just me?
+
+     Thank you for your patience.
+
+     I'm still not done yet.
+
+     Yes, you are.
+
+     No, I'm not.
+
+     I absolutely, positively, cagetorically and enthusiastically REFUSE to
+sit down.
+
+                                                                  (sit)
+
+                                                                        jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 418       Sat Feb 25, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:26 EST
+
+     Gale...congratulations, you have just become part of the B5 mythos.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+Babylon 5 is moving into a second season of 22 episodes.  This series can be
+seen at 8 Pm on Wednesdays, in most areas.  This topic is for SPOILERS only.
+Just remember our NO STORY IDEAS rule and we'll let you live. <g>
+
+448 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 264       Wed Feb 01, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:54 EST
+
+     An accident of casting.  Turhan had come in on an audition for the part
+of Elric in "Geometry," but while we wanted someone with more sheer menace
+(which Ansara gave us), we were just charmed out of our socks by him.  I swore
+right then that I'd write a part designed just for him, and no one else.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 274       Thu Feb 02, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:37 EST
+
+     Unfortunately the station doesn't have the budget for that, and it's
+easier to deal with what you have than pour more money into it in the hopes of
+revenue down the road.  Kinda like Congress.  Also, the areas of downbelow are
+mainly crummy, near the waste recycling system, the air compressors, the water
+reclamation facility...not exactly choice real estate.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 292       Sat Feb 04, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:52 EST
+
+     I'm very happy at the reaction.  I was telling John Copeland a bit ago,
+when we finished the episode, "Maybe we ought to superimpose a crawl before
+the first frame of the teaser saying, "JUST IN CASE YOU THOUGHT WE WERE
+KIDDING.""
+
+     An aside on the jms/kosh discussion, for whatever interest it may
+have....when Ardwight comes in to do Kosh, they call me in to direct his
+performance so that it matches what the intent is now, and how it will be
+interpreted later.  From where I sit in the control room, I can't see him, I
+can only hear his voice.  So it's kinda like talking with Kosh there, and me
+saying, "Okay, can you try 'In Fire' hitting the second word harder, and with
+a sense of some anger behind it?"  And between takes, he's still in Kosh-speak
+mode, muttering, "How will this end, how do I know talk to my agent...go on,
+get out, buzz off...."
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 306       Sat Feb 04, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:10 EST
+
+      Hal, the answer to your question is Yes.
+
+      Remember that this show is wrapped around ambiguities.  I always have
+had a problem with the Evil Force lurking on the edge, lusting for conquest,
+looking to take over the galaxy, because then the inevitable question becomes,
+"Yeah, but what do you DO with it?"  I have no patience with or interest in
+cackling bad-guys.
+
+     Once again, as with all our characters, they're set up to look one way,
+so you're lulled into a sense of predictable familiarity.  "Oh, okay, now I
+know who all the players are and what they're after."  Only to discover that
+this ain't necessarily so.  There's a great scene in "Wrath of Khan" (if I may
+be permitted a ST reference) in which the Enterprise is able to get the upper
+hand because Khan is going back and forth in  his search, not up and down, not
+taking advantage of the full XYZ axis.   "Two dimensional thinking," Spock
+calls it.  If one wishes to hit the target there, and in this show, one must
+set aside two-dimensional  thinking.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 357       Wed Feb 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:56 EST
+
+     I think Campbell was very interesting.  I have many of his books,
+including those on occidental and oriental mythologies, Hero With A Thousand
+Faces, others...very cogent and thought-out analyses.  I don't think, though,
+that you can consciously attempt to utilize them in your storytelling, because
+then you're trying to out-think yourself.  These examinations work best AFTER
+the fact; otherwise it's like the centipede trying to analyze which foot goes
+first.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 387       Sat Feb 11, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:32 EST
+
+     Actually, during WW II and the Vietnam and Korean wars, it was not at all
+uncommon for base commanders and other commanders to fly missions -- even
+dangerous ones -- to a) maintain the trust and respect of their pilots, b) to
+survey the situation personally in order to make the right judgments on
+mission objectives, and c) to maintain flight pay and full flight
+classification on new equipment.  Remember, in the military, the amount of
+time you spend in combat situations is *directly* proportional to career
+advancement and promotion, which is why women pilots have been rightly
+clamoring to be allowed into combat missions; otherwise they can't rise in the
+ranks.
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 391       Sat Feb 11, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:21 EST
+
+     Frmfh...I meant to type wing commander...brain implosion....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 446       Sat Feb 18, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:50 EST
+
+     Actually, what the Knight said was, "Maybe you're still inside; maybe
+we're *both* still inside."
+
+     Some tie-ins...remember Sheridan in "A Distant Star" saying that he was
+feeling beached, abandoned?  His unsureness in taking on this post, what if it
+was a mistake?  A number of his actions come into a clearer light once you
+know he was in essence checking them all out, and putting on a hard "I'm a
+nice guy" attitude.
+
+     Also, I noted somewhere in a preview for upcoming episodes, among the
+things coming, "conspiracies of light as well as dark."  Perhaps that is now
+clearer.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 452       Sun Feb 19, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:58 EST
+
+     How did they solve the strike?  Vorlon arbitrators.  Each side thinks it
+got what it wanted because it doesn't quite understand the terms of the
+agreement.
+
+     The game has started, it is too late for the hot dogs to vote.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 473       Tue Feb 21, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:45 EST
+
+     We've actually introduced and carried on several traditions, including
+specific rules for the officer's club (or you end up buying drinks for
+everyone), ships' logos behind the bar, proper traditional ship IDs on caps,
+that sort of thing.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ************
+Topic 3         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Computer SFX Tech-Talk 
+
+Some of the new computer EFX used in BABYLON 5 will be revolutionary, a new
+approach never seen before on this scale.  It's all new tech, and this topic
+will try and address the new technologies involved.
+431 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 351       Sat Feb 04, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:14 EST
+
+     The Sanctuary is entirely a virtual set.  It's all blue-screen, no walls,
+no windows, no stars, no nothing.  I made sure to ask Foundation and Mitch to
+blur the walls a bit in close up to give it the correct depth of field.  (Much
+of the CGI/background work is done by Mitch, our effects guy, who works
+independent of Foundation, who was also the main EFX guy on Predator, ET and
+others.)  Because that was a LONG scene, the rendering time was just hideous.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 358       Sun Feb 05, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:03 EST
+
+     The Sanctuary set has ALWAYS been entirely virtual, except for a small
+grating on the floor as a marker.  The walls, the windows, all of it.
+Virtual.  We've actually done this a number of times.  I haven't said anything
+before because whenever I mention there's a virtual set, and where it is,
+people look at it and say, "Oh, yeah, I could tell it was virtual."  Because
+they knew ahead of time.  So I stopped mentioning it.
+
+     We're sneaky that way.  You've seen, and will continue to see, sets that
+don't exist ANYwhere.  Hell, you know that bazaar shot in the main title
+sequence?  The second floor?  Doesn't exist.  Digital compositing and virtual
+set melding.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 370       Sun Feb 05, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:40 EST
+
+     The area where the reception was being held is the Rotunda.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 383       Fri Feb 10, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:49 EST
+
+     You'll get something close to this shot in a few days.
+
+                                                                        jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 389       Sat Feb 11, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:39 EST
+
+     A CGI sequence is not a story; a CGI sequence that has a result IS a
+story.  I.e., "A nifty St. Elmo's Fire effect shimmers over the station" (non-
+story idea) ... "...turning everyone into ducks" (story idea).
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 3
+Message 397       Sun Feb 12, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:14 EST
+
+     We've actually played with the idea of doing that scene several times,
+just haven't yet found the right story to do it in.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 5         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            (Forwarded)
+Sub: Grid Epsilon Irregulars - News & Info.
+
+This topic is for information about Babylon 5 fan groups, newsletters,
+fanzines, get-togethers, B-5 at conventions, and other general fun.
+316 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 230       Sat Feb 04, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:16 EST
+
+     Don't you threaten ME with another learning curve!  I just got
+Windows/Norton Desktop configured JUST the way I want it...don't even THINK of
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 240       Sun Feb 05, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:58 EST
+
+     My two systems (at present): both are Pentiums, 32 megs ram, onboard 3x
+CD Rom, external jukebox CD Rom changer, external rewriteable magneto optical
+Iomega changeable drive (620 megs each), 64 bit #9GXEPro card in one system (1
+meg VRAM), and 128 big Imagine card (4 megs VRAM) in the other, Supermatch 17"
+(former) and Nanao 17" Flexscreen (latter), 2 gig sized hard drives in former,
+1 gigabyte hard drive in the latter, plua (plus) with the other a Kinesis
+ergonomic keyboard (which is actually working out), plus both have
+Soundblaster 16 sound cards and enhanced IDE systems for running SCSI stuff.
+
+     They didn't arrive so much as taxi in under the watchful gaze of guys in
+orange vests.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 250       Mon Feb 06, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:25 EST
+
+     Didn't get the footpedals; I'd just get confused.  Slowly getting used to
+the board, though.
+
+     I just wish they made one with a trackball
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 5
+Message 293       Sun Feb 12, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:16 EST
+
+     Showman: 1 CD went off to you via post office on Friday.  You should have
+it by Monday/Tuesday.
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 10        Thu Nov 12, 1992
+SANDMAN [Henry]              at 19:25 EST
+Sub: Sex in Babylon 5                   
+
+Can't do without this one!!
+
+
+478 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 463       Sun Feb 05, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:26 EST
+
+     Anybody know what WGN stands for?  (I do, just seeing who else does.)
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 10
+Message 473       Sat Feb 11, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:35 EST
+
+     Someone had it right before: World's Greatest Newspaper (WGN), for parent
+company the Chicago Tribune.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 14        Thu Dec 31, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:59 EST
+Sub: Lurkers/Introductions: Please Sign In
+
+A place for newcomers to come in, say hello, whether you want to jump into the
+conversation or not, just to let us know you're here.
+458 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 14
+Message 403       Fri Feb 24, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:38 EST
+
+     It was either stand on the chair or stand on Matt.
+
+     The chair looked considerably steadier.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Merchandising          
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+467 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 417       Sat Feb 04, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:19 EST
+
+     Showman...if sometime Monday during the day you leave me an EMAIL message
+with your address, I can at least send you one of the CD's, though not
+autographed.  This may help make up for losing all the others.  No charge.
+
+                                       jm(we care about our fans)s
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 420       Sat Feb 04, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:36 EST
+
+     Well...maybe 98% class, 2% soya lecithin....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 442       Fri Feb 10, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:54 EST
+
+     The CD is from Sonic Images, and I just finished approving the final
+stages of the revised booklet inside (more pictures, including a three shot of
+me, Doug and John), and having reviewed the additional suite, which is I think
+about 12 minutes long, making the whole CD about 55 or 56 minutes.  It will be
+hitting stores sometime in March; the first 2,000 copies right off the press
+are already earmarked for the UK, to fill a backlog of orders.
+
+     If you haven't got a copy of the soundtrack, and want one, I very
+strongly suggest you go to your record store locally or contact a discount
+distributer and pre-order; the limited edition went out in a flash, and while
+Sonic Images can do good sized orders, they're not as fast as, say, a Warners
+Records.  These things are going to fly out the door, and if they know how
+many to advance produce, that'll help minimize any shortages.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 457       Sun Feb 12, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:16 EST
+
+     Insofar as I know, no, no EA pins have been licensed, so any out there
+are of dubious origin.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 494       Fri Feb 24, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:35 EST
+
+      I don't think we'll be doing a 900 number ever, frankly; though I find
+the idea of 1-900-ASK-KOSH more than just a little amusing.
+
+      "Hello, this is Julie from Wisconsin, and I was wondering if I will be
+successful in my new job?"
+
+      "Beauty...in the dark."
+
+      <click!><that'll be $2.50, please.>
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 24        Fri Jun 04, 1993
+J.ROY18 [Jonathan]           at 21:11 EDT
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Weapons and Warfare!   
+
+For discussion about the weapons, counter weapons, armor, shielding, tactics,
+logistics, and so forth, of small combat and large scale war in the Babylon 5
+universe.
+282 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 24
+Message 271       Sun Feb 12, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:20 EST
+
+     If there *were* a Self Destruct system, it would not be used if there
+were any real number of civilians on board.  And even then only if it were
+clear that everybody was going to die anyway, and the station needed to be
+kept out of the wrong people's hands, or used to get a secondary target.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 25        Sat Feb 04, 1995
+DUNEWALKER                   at 18:10 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Suggestion Box           
+
+Give your suggestions concerning the plot of Babylon 5.
+20 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 25
+Message 2         Sat Feb 04, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:20 EST
+
+      Re: 1 and 2....n'grath's been gone all season, and you'll be seeing a
+LOT more of Kosh very soon now.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 26        Sun Jan 22, 1995
+SF-VENTERS [Jan]             at 17:15 EST
+Sub: B5 Conventions/Public Appearances  
+
+This is the location where you can post and find out about SF/F conventions
+where some of the Babylon 5 cast and Executive Producer will be guests.
+
+121 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 67        Wed Feb 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:02 EST
+
+
+     Quickie alert...looks like Claudia, Mira, maybe Jerry and definitely I
+will be making an appearance next Thursday evening (16th) at Planet Hollywood
+in Chicago, in part to promote the coming convention, and in part to promote
+the show in general.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 28        Mon Feb 06, 1995
+BILL.HIRST [Fluffy Frog]     at 00:03 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 filking songs            
+
+  There was Sheridan, and Londo too,
+  Sinclair and Delenn.
+  A Centauri, and a Narn, ....                     here on Babylon Five.
+56 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 28
+Message 11        Fri Feb 10, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:10 EST
+
+      To the Brady Bunch Theme
+
+ It's the story
+ Of a bunch of filkers
+ Who simply couldn't leave B5 alone
+ They were cruising
+ For a bruising
+ Riding the modem tone.
+
+ It's the filking
+ That drives you crazy
+ With rhymes that cut you clear down to the bone
+ Even more scary
+ Than Mayor Barry
+ It makes you groan and groan
+
+ Till the one day the filkers met a producer
+ And they knew that they were clearly out of luck
+ Now this group must somehow cross the border
+ Or risk assault and mayhem from a truck.
+
+ The Filking Bunch.
+ The Filking Bunch.
+ Run away from the scary Filking Bunch.
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 30        Mon Jul 04, 1994
+D.KAUFFMAN5 [CyberDad]       at 13:14 EDT
+Sub: Nods, In-Jokes, and References     
+
+Post any nods, in-jokes, or references you have seen here.  For example,
+Babylon 5 refers to the Babylon of ancient Earth; the location of B5 is at
+Grid Epsilon 470/18/22, the location of the original B5 topic on GEnie.
+364 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 30
+Message 302       Mon Feb 06, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:02 EST
+
+     ...sigh...okay, everybody who thinks I'd spend 10 years of my life
+getting and making this series just to do LoTR with the serial numbers filed
+off raise his hands.
+
+     Both of 'em.  Makes it easier for the chain saw.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 30
+Message 307       Mon Feb 06, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:27 EST
+
+                             THE BABYLON CAFE
+
+                             Tonight's Special
+
+                                FROG'S LEGS
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 31        Sat Jul 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:23 EDT
+Sub: Really Stupid Questions from JMS   
+
+Every so often, I need Information.  (You won't get it!)  Technical stuff,
+research or reference stuff...and given the brain trust here, I figured this
+could be a useful resource from time to time.  With appreciation.
+277 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 249       Wed Feb 01, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:00 EST
+
+     Unfortunately, I've never been able to dictate scripts.  I need to SEE
+the words on the page.  A lot of what I write has a certain rhythm to the
+language, and I can only see that on the page.  (People who have gotten used
+to my writing can sometimes tell exactly where a jms scene appears in another
+script by the rhythms.)  For me it all happens when I fall through the page.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 32        Tue Feb 07, 1995
+J.YUEN                       at 17:34 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 Novels                   
+
+  With the 1st Novel due on Feb 13, I'll go ahead and start the topic  ,
+please report sightings.
+
+69 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 32
+Message 8         Thu Feb 09, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:15 EST
+
+
+     Normally, for things like this, the studio has rights to the actor's
+likeness.  For other aspects of merchandising, like actual figures of the
+actor, there is a percentage given.
+
+     Unfortunately, many studios take advantage of the idea that there is no
+such thing as a percentage of the net, since there is never (on the books) any
+profit.  Case in point: in the 27+ years of Star Trek, the majority of the big
+seven actors have gotten about $16,000 from all of the dolls, figurines, chess
+sets and zillion other products with their faces.  This out of a billion
+dollar franchise.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+
+ ************
+Topic 35        Tue Nov 01, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 (Forwarded)
+Sub: #209 - "The Coming Of Shadows"     
+
+The episode that also gives us the title of season 2.
+194 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 35
+Message 60        Thu Feb 02, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:30 EST
+
+     The "ban" was only for the satellite viewers; now that the show has begun
+to air regionally, anybody can talk about anything.
+
+     (And it was just a request, not a ban; I don't have the power to enforce
+one, and wouldn't want to do so in any event.  Common courtesy, and a
+request...which was wonderfully accommodated.)
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 35
+Message 69        Thu Feb 02, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:33 EST
+
+     There are some episodes coming that are about as intense as this, though
+not as much *happens*, in the sense of a bunch of events affecting lots of
+people in different places.
+
+     Yes, intentional parallel structure to "Midnight," which is why I
+included the shot from that episode in Londo's dream.  I like irony.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 35
+Message 96        Sat Feb 04, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:44 EST
+
+     On the chance that the datacrystal might fall into the wrong hands, I had
+Sinclair deliberately avoid using Garibaldi's last name, and avoid Delenn's
+altogether (since she has only the one).  The Ranger was told to deliver the
+crystals at the cost of his own life if necessary...but  sometimes such orders
+don't end well for the messenger.  So both messages began the same way.
+
+     Re: the Ranger's pin...I kind of designed this, working with Ann Bruice,
+our costumer.  I sketched out what I had in mind, which is two figures at
+either side of the brooch, one minbari, the other human, joined and made of
+the same metal, over a precious stone.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 35
+Message 124       Sun Feb 05, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:35 EST
+
+     The Rangers actually owe more to the Lone Ranger and the Texas  Rangers
+in general.
+
+     FYI, Sinclair called Delenn "old friend" as far back as the 2-hour pilot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 35
+Message 130       Sun Feb 05, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:22 EST
+
+     Doug: correct.  He starts to speak to Garibaldi, but then the guards show
+up.  He looks back at them..and clams up.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 35
+Message 135       Mon Feb 06, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:58 EST
+
+     I will tell you a true and secret thing, re: Londo's dream, and looking
+up into a blue sky to see the ships passing overhead.
+
+     Ever since I was a kid, I've had that image in my dreams, of standing out
+in the open and looking up as strange dark ships pass overhead.  It's always
+been an unnerving image, and I really wanted to use it here to see if it would
+have the same effect on others.
+
+     The other single most recurring image is to be standing at the bottom of
+a long set of stairs, in a basement, and the door at the top of the stairs is
+thrown open, and there's gunfire, and guards, and flares in the night beyond,
+and more ships firing down.
+
+     Don't be surprised if this shows up as well, someday....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 35
+Message 153       Tue Feb 07, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:44 EST
+
+     Y'know...in looking at all these dream messages...there's another dream
+in a few episodes...I have this nasty hunch that modems are going to explode
+over this one....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 35
+Message 158       Tue Feb 07, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:45 EST
+
+     G'Kar specifies a quarter million civilians, as I recall; it was the
+military presence that got wiped out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 35
+Message 166       Wed Feb 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:59 EST
+
+     When dialogue appears, and dialogue doesn't appear, it's in the script
+that way.
+
+     Re: civilians/military...this may be a case of "it's in Joe's head, but
+getting it out clearly is gonna be a bitch...."
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 36        Wed Dec 07, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 (Forwarded)
+Sub: #210 - "GROPOS"                    
+
+by Lawrence DiTillio. Directed by Jim Johnston.
+166 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 36
+Message 10        Wed Feb 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:02 EST
+
+     So then I assume that holographic genitalia would be completely out of
+the question....
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 37        Wed Dec 07, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 00:58 EST
+Sub: #211 - "All Alone In The Night"    
+
+by JMS. Directed by Mario Di Leo.
+ co-starring Robert Foxworth.
+60 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 37
+Message 1         Wed Feb 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:48 EST
+
+     (to the satellite people who will see this episode first.....
+
+                             *gotcha!*
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 37
+Message 12        Sat Feb 11, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:28 EST
+
+     Which is basically deliberate.  Now we begin the process of narrowing
+down these threads, and collapsing some of them, so that we see that A and B,
+originally perceived as two different things, are actually aspects of the same
+thing.  Since so much has been thrown out, the next episdoes after this are
+kinda focused on only one or two elements at most.  You've been hit with a
+lot; now's time to pull back a little and let people breathe and digest what
+they've seen.  Then, as stated, you start peeling back the layers and tossing
+out the red herrings so you can concentrate on the important aspects.  (And,
+really, there's not *that* much, minus that pennultimate scene in Sheridan's
+quarters, that isn't an extension of what has gone before...Delenn was told
+that she might be dropped from the Grey Council in "Babylon Squared," and the
+information about the President has been sort of there in the background ever
+since Chrysalis.
+
+     Even so, though, this concern has been anticipated, and built around.
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 37
+Message 26        Tue Feb 14, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:25 EST
+
+     I doubt we'll be seeing these guys again for a long time, if ever.  So I
+don't consider them on the level of certain shadows or stuff.
+
+     They came, they grabbed, we whomped.
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 37
+Message 57        Sat Feb 18, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:38 EST
+
+     Yes, Sheridan was speaking in the Drazi's native language, trying
+(without success) to get through; they're a cranky species to start with, and
+this didn't help.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 37
+Message 105       Mon Feb 20, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:56 EST
+
+     Sheridan learned a smattering of various languages while on patrol on the
+Agamemnon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 37
+Message 116       Tue Feb 21, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:08 EST
+
+      Pledging oneself to someone's side is not common, and carries great
+significance.  From that point onward, you are bound to that person until your
+death, and you must defend that person at the cost of your own life.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 37
+Message 126       Fri Feb 24, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:28 EST
+
+      It's Ivanova.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 38        Wed Dec 07, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 00:58 EST
+Sub: #212 - "Acts Of Sacrifice"         
+
+by JMS. Directed by Jim Johnston.
+102 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 38
+Message 13        Mon Feb 20, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:50 EST
+
+     Don't laugh, I actually considered that for a while; just wasn't time or
+space left to do it.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 38
+Message 16        Tue Feb 21, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:43 EST
+
+     Will probably know sometime later March/early April.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 38
+Message 23        Thu Feb 23, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:40 EST
+
+     It's both; laughing at the absurdity, and crying...about as close as
+we've seen to a nervous breakdown.
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 38
+Message 30        Fri Feb 24, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:11 EST
+
+      Given that the Narns were agrarian prior to the arrival of the Centauri,
+and were under their heel, and got most of their tech FROM the Centauri
+leftovers, no, they're not more advanced.  It's a lot like the Russian
+situation, seemingly this tremendous power, but once you look deep, not as
+well off as they'd like you to think.
+
+      Claudia loved the scene when I first described it to her, prior to
+finishing the script.  She was dying to do it, and kept sort of "doing" it
+around people for some time prior to filming.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 38
+Message 53        Sat Feb 25, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:22 EST
+
+     The Narn were not out in space prior to the Centauri arriving.
+
+     While Paul Williams was on set for this ep, I had him sign my two CDs of
+the "Phantom of the Paradise" soundtrack.  Ah, power....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 39        Wed Dec 07, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 00:59 EST
+Sub: #213 - "Hunter, Prey"              
+
+by JMS.
+75 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 39
+Message 6         Sat Feb 25, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:22 EST
+
+     Be patient; by the end of this season, you're going to know a LOT about
+Kosh.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms95-03-01 b/ftp/GEnie/jms95-03-01
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/ftp/GEnie/jms95-03-01
@@ -0,0 +1,490 @@
+This file contains messages posted by J. Michael Straczynski on GEnie from
+Mar 1 - Mar 15th, 1995.  Postings are copyright 1995 by J. Michael Straczynski
+with compilation copyright by GEnie.
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-MARSHALL [Dave ]          at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series  (Non-Spoiler)
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 General category.  This is the main topic for  the
+hit SF series.  We discuss all general information on the series in this
+topic.  Topic 2 is for SPOILERS!  DO NOT POST STORY IDEAS!
+
+878 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 471       Wed Mar 01, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:17 EST
+
+     We hadn't thought much about it (maybe because I'm kinda tall), but
+Bruce, Jerry, Claudia, Richard, Andreas...they're all *really* tall, which has
+kinda come back to bite us at times on casting, because if we have to have a
+baddie, or someone against whom they must go, we have to be sure they operate
+at the same height area (usually), or it'll look goofy.
+
+     BTW...I'm pleased to announce that the latest survey from Viewers For
+Quality Television (VQT) has chosen Babylon 5 as the #1 ranked syndicated
+series, and #16 overall, beating such network/non-network shows as Murphy
+Brown, DS9, Seinfeld, Lois and Clark, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman and The
+Simpsons, among others, in their ranking of Highest Quality Shows.
+
+     Thanks to all those who downloaded (and continue to download) the VQT
+survey forms, for helping draw people's attention to the hard work being done
+on Babylon 5.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 495       Fri Mar 03, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:25 EST
+
+     As Harlan has pointed out, he's really tall when he stands on his
+charisma.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 501       Fri Mar 03, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:26 EST
+
+     VQT = Viewers For Quality Television.
+
+     A totally irrelevant aside...does ANYbody here know ANYbody from the Ben
+and Jerry Ice Cream company?  If so, I have a message for them.
+
+     HEY!  PAY ATTENTION!  Did you know that there is NO ONE out there making
+banana ice cream?  I don't mean banana mix with those crummy walnuts in them,
+or sometimes a little banana cream stuffed into an ice bar, or those sticky
+banana ice-milk bars....I'm talking here STRAIGHT BANANA ICE CREAM.  Go ahead,
+check out any supermarket's frozen section.  You've got cherry, strawberry,
+chocolate, coffee, rum-raisen, white russian, vanilla, french vanilla,
+neopolitan...row after row of ice creams of every sort and flavor and
+packaging...EXCEPT BANANA.  I KNOW.  I'VE SPENT THE LAST SEVEN YEARS SEARCHING
+FOR IT!
+
+     Ben...Jerry...SOMEBODY...make up some banana ice cream and you'll have
+the corner on the entire market.  Trust me on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 507       Fri Mar 03, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:21 EST
+
+     I'm between 6'4" and 6'5".
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 532       Sat Mar 04, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:03 EST
+
+     I haven't used my pool in a year and a half because I'm too busy behind
+the keyboard to take a dip.  Honest.  And making ice cream isn't something I
+can even think of making the time for.  Thank goodness I have a policy of not
+getting involved in my own life....
+
+     Believe it or not, I worked with Laura Dern once upon a time, before  she
+was LAURA DERN.  When Showtime produced my adaptation of "The Strange Case of
+Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," through Shelley Duvall's company, she and Anthony
+Andrews were cast as the leads.  Even though she was noted even then mainly
+for being Bruce Dern's daughter, she was very sweet and talented and you could
+see real talent there.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 534       Sat Mar 04, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:27 EST
+
+     Since I've been meaning to post the info here in answer to requests:
+really nifty B5 t-shirts and caps can now be ordered directly from All-U at 1-
+800-424-2558, ext. 105.  T-shirts (great color images) and caps are $17, and
+the LONG SLEEVE t-shirts are $25, plus shipping and handling.   The shirts
+they have now are 1) original cast photo with station, 2) new cast photo with
+station, the B5 logo with station and the words "the last best hope..." 4)
+station, planet and logo, and 5) station and starfury, all color.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 585       Mon Mar 06, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:55 EST
+
+     Joe does not consciously raid ST for guest stars.  Joe looks for the best
+actor for the role.  Sometimes he goes out of his way to help someone break
+the fist of typecasting.  That's it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 601       Tue Mar 07, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:32 EST
+
+     Kwicker...wow, that's a lot of legwork, thanks.  I think I can follow up
+from here now, thakns.
+
+     Or thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 606       Tue Mar 07, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:57 EST
+
+     Did I mention you'll probably see Lyta Alexander once more before the
+season is out...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 634       Wed Mar 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:06 EST
+
+     Loops: get the hell away from my office window.  I can see you out there
+with my x-ray specs.
+
+     Y'know...people wonder sometimes why I get a little exasperated with
+Paramount from time to time.  Here's a few reasons.
+
+     Back when the Arsenio Show was still on the air, Stephen Furst was set to
+appear on the show.  Suddenly, they canceled.  According to Stephen, he was
+told on the QT that it was because Paramount heard about it, and didn't want
+to promote B5.
+
+     Back at the top of the season, we'd met with Winrich Kolbe about doing
+some of our episodes (he does a lot of TNG, DS9 and now Voyager directing).
+ Nice guy, we met, we agreed, and a date was set.  All parties agreed to it,
+we had a deal.  Not long before the episode comes up, his rep calls to get him
+out of it...at first muttering about some vague, ill-defined TV movie
+Paramount wanted him to do, but we'd had this for a long time...then his rep
+was finally asked, "Look, does this have anything to do with the big boys at
+Paramount leaning on you because it's B5?"  The rep reluctantly admitted that
+this was the case.  We released Kolbe from his assignment.
+
+     Now, finally, B5 is getting some press, some word of mouth; mostly about
+this show called Babylon something.  Well, UPN just announced that they're
+doing a new detective series for the UPN stations, the majority of which are
+also B5 stations.  And guess what they've announced the title is?  BABYLON.
+You think maybe some folks'll get confused about which show this is, given
+that they're both on the same station in many places?
+
+     The roster of such things goes on, and on, and on.
+
+     But it's not stopping us.  Inch by inch, we continue to fight our way
+into the ratings.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 654       Wed Mar 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:52 EST
+
+     Letters to Paramount will serve no purpose.  We'll handle this one.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 661       Wed Mar 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:21 EST
+
+     Neither Shatner nor Takai have ever been on B5.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 713       Fri Mar 10, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:29 EST
+
+     I've read Harlan's piece for the TV guide special Star Trek edition (like
+there haven't already been a dozen such recently).  Suffice to say it pole-
+axes much of the mythology around "City" and Gene's claims in that regard.
+Interesting reading...and some smoking guns.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 736       Sat Mar 11, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:56 EST
+
+     Actually, the idea that people coming into the story now will have a hard
+time is something of a myth; we continue to add new viewers all the time, and
+in some countries the show is actually being shown out of  order; to date I
+have seen at most 1 or 2 people who were unsure about one aspect or another
+after seeing just one episode, but were still able to follow the story easily
+enough.  You may not know what it means in relation to something that happened
+6 months ago, but what it means *now* is very clear, and all the information
+needed is always included in the episode.
+
+     Re: raiding myself (ST comic)...I stopped raiding myself, what with all
+this Jocelyn Elders controversy....
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 807       Sun Mar 12, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:18 EST
+
+     B5 does not provide squished credits to anyone, and they are not
+satellited out in that form.  Local stations do that.  In the cas of Fox
+shows, sometimes the Fox network does it in distributing the show to its
+affiliates.  But we never provide them that way.
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 846       Tue Mar 14, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:26 EST
+
+     Was out having dinner with Harlan and Susan, so missed seeing Voyager,
+thus can't comment.
+
+     (Reason we went out to dinner was that I spent the day at his house,
+interviewing Harlan on-camera for a videotape associated with his new CD rom
+game based on "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream," coming out from Cyberdreams
+in a few months.  I don't think there's *any* group we didn't offend during
+the course of the interview.)
+
+     Re: Harlan on-line...no, he doesn't generally go on-line (except in some
+selected live conferences) but he does tend to get printups from  folks from
+time to time...said contents of which could drive a monk to murder.
+
+     BTW...for those also on AOL, tomorrow night I'm doing a live conference
+with Claudia Christian in the DC Comics Online area.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 875       Wed Mar 15, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:46 EST
+
+     Actually, the scene of Londo looking up at the shadow ships WAS shot
+outside the studio.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+STARR [Arne]                 at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 -- The Series!! >>SPOILERS<<
+
+Babylon 5 is moving into a second season of 22 episodes.  This series can be
+seen at 8 Pm on Wednesdays, in most areas.  This topic is for SPOILERS only.
+Just remember our NO STORY IDEAS rule and we'll let you live. <g>
+
+682 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 530       Sat Mar 04, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:06 EST
+
+      From "Infection," the visiting Doctor points out that, regarding organic
+technology, "some even say the Vorlons have got it."  All this stuff gets set
+up somewhere.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 532       Sat Mar 04, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:17 EST
+
+     "Why are they allowed to stay on the station?"
+
+     Space travel is *very* expensive (which is why they can't afford  tickets
+off.)
+
+     With B5's constant budget problems, who is going to pay to have these
+people shipped off?  Who is going to accept them?  Can't just space them.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 544       Sat Mar 04, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:06 EST
+
+     Re: not being one happy family...be careful what you wish for around
+here.
+
+     Re: Kosh's voice carrying some emotion...starting at about "All Alone in
+the Night," or maybe one before (memory fades), I took on the job of directing
+the voice sessions for Kosh.  He was moving from a neutral delivery to things
+that had to carry specific emotions and implications for the future, and
+nobody else knows what all this stuff means, so it fell to me.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 556       Sun Mar 05, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:21 EST
+
+     I think this is the first time an American series has been worked out in
+this much detail.  PICKET FENCES often has threads that recur, but they're
+more catch-as-catch-can, not so much a cohesive story as the recurring of
+character arcs.  In the case of TWIN PEAKS, I've talked to several staffers on
+the show, and they really didn't have *any* idea where they were going, they
+were making it up on the fly and hoping for the best.  Some elements of X-
+FILES come close, but again it's more one or two individual character arcs
+(Mulder's sister, for instance) than a cohesive structured story (though if it
+keeps getting tighter, that may change, though it doesn't have an end that I
+know of).
+
+     EARTH 2 apparently has a *destination*, but I don't believe its
+continuity is stressed at all.  More of, When we end up, this is where  we'll
+be.  THE PRISONER is probably the closest parallel structurally to B5, and
+thus something of a template.  I don't know if BLAKE'S 7 started OUT plotted
+like a novel, but it ends up feeling like one, so the difference may be no
+difference.
+
+     The difference, I think, beyond having a definite beginning, middle and
+end (which is substantial in itself), is the approach using years as chapters;
+tracking one year of story time equalling one year of real time; and
+foreshadowing, setting up something in episode 7 that won't pay off until
+episode 14 or later.  Little things like putting in a Ranger in shows long
+before they're revealed, or planning ahead to change Londo's wardrobe to
+reflect a darker attitude, even throwaway dialogue lines...as well as the
+larger foreshadowings.
+
+     I can't think of any American show that has done any of those things
+consistently, or even *tried* to do all of them at once.
+
+     So, bottom line, we're kinda out here on the edge all by ourselves.
+
+     Re: Kosh's lines...the best part of working with the actor is that
+between takes, since he's locked in the audio booth, but doesn't want to break
+character, he'll mutter to himself in Kosh's voice...so there I am outside,
+hearing Kosh's voice on the speaker, "Bugger off, Sheridan... Have I told you
+I find you very attractive?...Oh the pain, the pain...."
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 595       Tue Mar 07, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:00 EST
+
+     Except, of course, they live in the nastier, less attractive parts of the
+station, near the air reprocessors that go all night and all day without a
+break; the sewage and water reclamation factories...but yes, eventually their
+numbers will have to grow too large and something will have to be done.  That
+something has been planned for.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 605       Tue Mar 07, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:45 EST
+
+     To pick one background shot, as I recall, there was a ranger at the
+zocalo bar at one point in "Long Dark."
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 4         Tue Nov 03, 1992
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Cast & Characters      
+
+For discussion of the actors who will be bringing BABYLON 5 to life with their
+performances...for information before, and discussion after the airing of "The
+Gathering" pilot.
+360 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 326       Sat Mar 11, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:59 EST
+
+     Okay, let's see...upcoming we've got John Shuck, a reappearance by Morgan
+Shepherd in a different role, and Pat Tallman returns as Lyta Alexander.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 4
+Message 356       Tue Mar 14, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:28 EST
+
+     Okay, okay, I misspelled John's name....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Merchandising          
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+572 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 529       Sat Mar 04, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:22 EST
+
+     There are some *nifty* B5 t-shirts and caps available from All-U at 1-800-
+424-2558, ext. 105.  The shirts are color, nice screening process...just very
+well done.  Prices are very reasonable.  I commend them to you.  (They're now
+available direct from All-U, which previously shipped mainly to distributers.)
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 33        Sun Mar 05, 1995
+M.BURSTEIN [Michael]         at 00:16 EST
+Sub: Hugos, Other Awards, and Babylon 5 
+
+For discussion of awards Babylon 5 has won, and discussion of which  episodes
+should be nominated for Hugo (and other) Awards.
+31 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 33
+Message 4         Sun Mar 05, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:30 EST
+
+      There's a dangerous irony here; the ST episode "Inner Light" was
+objectively the one stand-out episode of that season, and thus won.  The
+problem I've detected in posts from people about B5 is determining WHICH
+episode to nominate, since there are apparently many choices.  If you end up
+splitting the vote among lots of shows, *none* of them will get on the ballot
+or winning.
+
+      So if you're going to push B5, you may want to get together on one ep
+that is always included (like "Signs," which is what I'd pick).  Just a
+thought, since the issue at hand may not be which single ep is one's
+subjective best, but recognizing the series overall.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 39        Wed Dec 07, 1994
+STARR [Arne]                 at 00:59 EST
+Sub: #213 - "Hunter, Prey"              
+
+by JMS.
+75 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 39
+Message 18        Fri Mar 03, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:23 EST
+
+     The General was not a prisoner reference; it refers to General Hague.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 39
+Message 28        Sat Mar 04, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:56 EST
+
+     I have a very simple rule: if you're going to reveal Kosh, first you have
+to start pointing at him, so that the revelation has weight.
+
+     We're pointing at Kosh.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms95-05-15 b/ftp/GEnie/jms95-05-15
new file mode 100644
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+JMS messages on GEnie, May 15-30, 1995.  Collected by David Strauss
+<dss2k@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU>.
+
+
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 814       Thu May 18, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:43 EDT
+ 
+       The odds of B5 ending up on the WB network are slim and none.  You have
+to step back a second and realize the corporate structure of Warner Bros. 
+Rather than one monolithic structure (a la Paramount), Warner Bros. is
+actually kind of a hive mind, with something like 40 or 50 different
+departments, arms, jurisdictions, companies and approaches, all of them
+mutually competitive.  PTEN and WB, for instance, are two totally different
+arms, and *very* competitive with one another.  I suspect either side would
+slit their respective wrists before letting a show go from one to the other.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 825       Thu May 18, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:36 EDT
+ 
+     I'm going to put this up now, while I'm thinking about it.
+
+     Next week, "Confessions and Lamentations" airs.  It is a very strong,
+uncompromising episode.  It occured to me that parents of young kids (and
+there are surprisingly a lot that watch) should *maybe* consider watching this
+one on their own first, to make sure it's okay for their kids, and to maybe be
+ready to discuss it afterward.  Just a thought....
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 553       Thu May 18, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:39 EDT
+ 
+     Just a reminder that Claudia, Bill Mumy and I will be at the big SF
+convention in Anaheim next weekend (of the 28th).  Don't know which day
+they'll be there at the Creation con, but I'm slated for Sunday.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 41
+Message 9         Mon May 15, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:27 EDT
+ 
+     Yes, the characters were named after the actors who brought them to life.
+
+     The cap is an Agamemnon crew cap, with a silhouette of the Aggie,
+underneath EAS Agamemnon, and above OCG 5 (for Omega Construction Group 5, as
+is traditionally done).  There are only three of these caps in existence:
+Bruce has one, John Copeland has one...and I have one.  (I actually wore it
+recently to a Lasfs (local SF gorup) party a couple of weeks ago.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 573       Sat May 20, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:40 EDT
+ 
+     The next con that is closest to being a B5 convention is The Gathering,
+in Manchester England this coming September.
+
+     Here in the states, nothing yet that approaches that; B5 is still a
+subset of other conventions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT I RoundTable
+Category 13,  Topic 5
+Message 446       Sat May 20, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:56 EDT
+ 
+      Been busy with post-production on B5, and without much traffic in here
+before, hadn't checked in for a while.
+
+      The revisions on the writing book are virtually done; there's just a bit
+more tinkering to do with the stage/playwriting chapter, and it'll be done. 
+Four years in the works....
+
+      For those who've inquired about other works...you can find some of my
+short stories in the SHADOWS 6 anthology, the MIDNIGHT GRAFITTI anthology
+(with the same story appearing in an issue of PULPHOUSE), and AMAZING STORIES.
+Some digging may be required.
+
+      One of the main difficulties with exec producing a series is that it
+leaves time for *nothing* else.  Haven't done any fiction or prose work in a
+couple of years, not counting the issues of the B5 comic that I've written/am
+writing.  The only time I even get to see a movie is if I'm on a plane
+(assuming I'm not writing on the plane).  (On the trip to and from the UK I
+saw FORREST GUMP, TRUE LIES, ED WOOD, MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN and
+INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE, just kept grabbing tapes from the flight attendents,
+who kept asking, "Don't you EVER get out?")
+
+      Strongly considering publishing either a B5 script or a Murder, She
+Wrote script in the scriptwriting book, in its totality.  Haven't yet decided
+which.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 44
+Message 11        Mon May 22, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:01 EDT
+ 
+     Funny thing is, I've received several emails from medical professionals
+who said the hesitation was exactly dead-on to when they've been in situations
+of possible contamination.  Until somebody breaks the inertia and just *does*
+it, as Franklin was about to.
+
+     BTW, on the Marcabs, we've seen them frequently before, not just in
+"Knives," but also in "The Long Dark" as the one who spoke about "soldiers of
+darkness" to the Council, and elsewhere.
+
+     Check out some of the isolation zone scenes, btw, and you'll see as many
+as 40-50 Marcabs, in full costume and full prosthetic, the biggest of any
+single race we've ever done.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 44
+Message 13        Mon May 22, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:25 EDT
+ 
+     It's *possible* you have the Marcabs confused with the Brikiri, who are
+somewhat similar in look, until you get close; it was a Marcab, again, who in
+very good english explained the soldiers of darkness in "The Long Dark."  On
+the other hand, we might've shown somebody grunting, I could be wrong.  Not
+all Marcabs are fluent in English, certainly.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 746       Wed May 24, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:12 EDT
+ 
+     Leaving our sector of space to go beyond the rim doesn't necesarily 
+equate with strength; it's harder to stay, and act against what's coming, than
+to just run away.  Also there may be reasons they chose to stay.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 536       Tue May 30, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:43 EDT
+ 
+     Though I worked for a while on ALIEN WORLDS, no, the Markab name wasn't a
+nod there; I'd totally forgotten about any bunch with a name like that.  (It
+was 16 or so years ago, remember.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 558       Wed May 31, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:19 EDT
+ 
+     Actually, Dennis did not appear in "Acts," he appeared in "Comes the
+Inquisitor."  This is stuff yet to come.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 240       Sun May 28, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:31 EDT
+ 
+     No, I've never made any bones about the fact that, should B5 run its full
+5-year course, barring any side-stories that might spin off, my intent is to
+probably get out of TV and go back to novels and plays.  I have the next novel
+outlined already -- it'll be a 1,000+ page whopper -- but haven't had time to
+write any of it.  It'd take probably a year full tilt to write it.  After
+that, probably back to plays.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 243       Mon May 29, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:26 EDT
+ 
+     I actually started out in theater.  I was writing small, one-act plays in
+high school, which got performed around campus for classes by a kind of
+traveling troupe put together by some of the teachers when they discovered,
+kinda startled, that I could write.  First commissioned work was a full-length
+comic play I wrote at the request of the school which was performed in front
+of a full assembly.  (Prior to then noboby noticed I existed.  Suddenly I was
+noticed.)
+
+     My last year of high school, I started sending out one-act and full
+length plays to various theaters.  One local theater decided to produce one of
+them, and sent a letter suggesting a meeting.  I went to it, and they kept
+waiting for my dad to show up or something; finally I was able to convince
+them that no, I really *was* the person who wrote the play.  (And they did do
+it.)  When I made it to Southwestern College in Chula Vista (after a quick run-
+around at schools in Chicago and Dallas), at age 18, I wrote a bunch of one-
+acts for the college, and was commissioned to write another full-length play
+which was performed for 20 some weeks in summer stock, and later published in
+book form by a leading play publisher (and no, I'm not telling you which
+publisher, even though it's still in print, because I was 18 and it was dumb).
+
+     I started getting one-acts and full length plays produced in a variety of
+theaters, but eventually kind of got out of it when I got more into fiction,
+working as a journalist, and other venues.  I have a tendency to drift in and
+out of venues.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 247       Mon May 29, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:51 EDT
+ 
+     Yeah, probably 1,000 manuscript pages, figure about 250,000 words, but
+that's a conservative estimate; it may go longer once I get into it (it's a
+contemporary dark fantasy story, fairly involved).  I'd probably get more if I
+extended it into a trilogy, in terms of advances, but I just don't really
+think in those terms.  It's, "What does the story require?"  Then that's what
+you do.  I've always worked this way.
+
+     1,000 pages ain't really that much, either, when one stops to realize
+that in just the 15 scripts I've written for year two of B5, that's about 750
+pages by itself.
+
+     Don: yeah, a playwright, and lots of other stuff.  My problem is that I
+like all kinds of writing; I *learn* from all kinds of writing.   So I'm
+constantly drifting from one to the other.  For years I worked as a journalist
+for major papers and magazines (over 500 article (articles) published; a
+reviewer; an investigative reporter; radio drama writer; playwright; on-air
+talk show host; short stories; novels; songs; you name it.  
+
+     Basically...I flit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 252       Mon May 29, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:00 EDT
+ 
+     Actually, 1,000 manuscript pages generally equals about 750 printed book
+pages.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 255       Tue May 30, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:53 EDT
+ 
+     I wrote a 4-hour miniseries script based on the true story I spent over a
+year researching.  Put it out on the market.  I've had something like a half
+dozen offers to produce the thing, but only if I cut it down to 2 hours.  To
+do so would violate the story, because it's too involved and too astonishing. 
+You'd be left with nothing.  So I'm just holding onto it until the right
+person finds it, and does it.
+
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 44
+Message 37        Fri May 26, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:48 EDT
+ 
+     Pilots are used to putting themselves into dangerous situations on a
+daily basis.  That's their *job*.  Doctors don't generally do that, and to
+expect them to just dive in uniformly is patently unrealistic.  One of the
+primary emails I've gotten on this ep has been from medical health
+professionals who say that when they're put in this kind of situation with
+some patients, there *is* a momentary hesitation on many occasions.  It's a
+natural reaction.  It happens.  There's a quantum difference between the way
+we *think* people should act, and the way they *do* act.  
+
+     Re: the joke...it's another part of humanity.  Any time there's a
+disaster, after the initial shock has worn, off...jokes start to appear.   I
+suspect it's part of the way we try to bring large events down to a level
+where we can deal with them.  Yes, they're tasteless.  But that's what we do. 
+Less than 4 weeks after the shuttle went down, there were jokes.  It happens. 
+Hence, it's inclusion.
+
+     Humans are sometimes afraid.  Or less pleasant or honorable than we would
+imagine ourselves to be.  We try to show both sides.  This is not a universe
+where humans are without blemish, or where everyone is willing to instantly
+fling himself or herself into harm's way.  It doesn't exist.  Courage is
+noteworthy because it is the exception, not the rule.
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 44
+Message 47        Sat May 27, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:34 EDT
+ 
+     Nobody said it was marital fruit.  The line is, "It's a rebirth ceremony
+that sometimes doubles for a marriage ceremony."  Naturally, everybody glommed
+onto the second interpretation, the lesser one, while ignoring the primary
+interpretation, rebirth (as in what Delenn was planning to do with the
+chrysalis).  (Well, correction, not everybody went for the misdirection, but
+most did.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 44
+Message 49        Sat May 27, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:48 EDT
+ 
+     The fighters aren't *inexpensive*, but not hideously costly either.  
+Also, the pilots like to spend as much time out on patrol as possible, to
+garner more flight pay.  Keffer's squad was already out earlier (as noted by
+Sheridan); Keffer chose to stay out a little longer doing a bit of
+reconnaisance.  Most of the hassle is in prepping the ship for launch,
+maintainance and so on; once it's out, it's just a matter of a bit more fuel. 
+If he left *strictly* for this purpose, then yeah, they'd nail his butt to the
+flight deck.  But since he was out anyway, it's not as big an issue.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 44
+Message 84        Mon May 29, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:10 EDT
+ 
+     There was no change in Delenn's attitudes.  They're two different
+circumstances.  In "Believers" Delenn was being asked to mediate in a dispute
+between Franklin and the family, over essentially matters of the soul (as she
+put it).  They do not interfere in matters of the soul, she explains.  This
+wasn't such a situation.  
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 44
+Message 99        Tue May 30, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:49 EDT
+ 
+     We joked a few times about having a mass burial for the Markab
+prosthetics and costumes behind the stage....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 44
+Message 105       Tue May 30, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:23 EDT
+ 
+    A man is shot by a gun.  Now, you can either do a story about the guy and
+his life up to the moment he was shot and killed, or you can do a story about
+the people who are affected by his death.  The former story ends kinda fast. 
+But both are perfectly valid.  The main thrust is how this story AFFECTS our
+main characters.  Would they have been more affected if it were the Drazi
+rather than the Markabs?  No.  It would've been just the same.  My job is not
+to sit here and say, "Hmm...do I think audience members like the Drazi or the
+Markabs more?" and thus base my decision based on that.  I write my stories
+based on what's right for the story, period.  In this case, I knew it had to
+be one of the League races, and in particular, those prosthetics capable of
+expressing broad ranges of emotion, potentially sympathetic characters.  The
+instantly cut out the pak'ma'ra as primary characters.  I considered the
+Drazi, but my sense was that the prosthetics couldn't convey the depth of
+emotion I needed.   Finally, that led me to the Markabs.
+
+     Enough terrible things happened, and continue to happen, to our major
+races; best to give them a break and see how they react when it's someone
+else.  
+
+                                                                 jms
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms95-06 b/ftp/GEnie/jms95-06
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+JMS messages on GEnie, June 1995.  Collected by David Strauss
+<dss2k@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU> and Steven Miale <smiale@cs.indiana.edu>.
+
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 525       Fri Jun 02, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:55 EDT
+ 
+     Trying to remember what's in the 5 and 6 sets...a purple Centauri
+personal transport, a Narn heavy cruiser, I *think* a Narn fighter, 
+Earthforce 1 (gorgeous), the Marie Celeste (expect shipments to vanish
+mysteriously), and one other, I forget....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 533       Sat Jun 03, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:44 EDT
+ 
+     Aha!  Yes, THAT was the last one, an EA atmospheric shuttle.  To the
+other points...no, that's a Narn cargo transport in the current version; the
+Narn fighters are much sleeker.  Also, the Centauri ship in the current batch
+is a personal liner, as used by Lady Ladira in "Signs and Portents."  The
+Centauri transport I'm referring to, in the later batch, is this purple, bug-
+like thing with a tall fin rising out of the back.  It looks kinda like a flat
+potato bug.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 540       Sat Jun 03, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:20 EDT
+ 
+     Then I don't know what the other one is.
+
+    No idea on the line of delineation that Creation may have.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 545       Sun Jun 04, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:28 EDT
+ 
+     No, the Narn heavy cruiser/fleet ship is in set 5 or 6, as I noted above.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+     (I.e, the one you saw in "And Now.")
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 551       Mon Jun 05, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:17 EDT
+ 
+     IT WAS IRONHEART'S SHIP!  That was the last one.  I think....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 712       Wed Jun 07, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:20 EDT
+ 
+     Background info required to follow episodes is ALWAYS included in those
+episodes.  Background info NOT required to follow stuff, but just for fun, is
+sometimes given on the nets and not referenced in the show, or more often,
+will eventually be referenced in the show.  Also, it's been mentioned before
+that you don't have to read the comics or the novels to follow the show; the
+stories are complementary but exclusive.
+
+                                                         jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 736       Thu Jun 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:17 EDT
+ 
+     I'm not being cute, or close, or withholding information: straight
+up...we have still not been given any official word about renewal.  That
+official word comes in a call from WB business affairs, authorizing us to
+activate our contracts and pick up our options with actors, directors, crew,
+others.  That call has not yet come.  We've heard all kinds of rumors from WB
+lately.  Some good, some bad, mostly involving changing situations with PTEN,
+nothing to do directly with us.  
+
+     Whatever you were told, it ain't "official" until we're notified, as the
+producers.  That notification has still not yet come.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 766       Fri Jun 09, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:26 EDT
+ 
+     Got the phone call late today, spent the next bit on the phoen with
+people who had to be notified.  Didn't get a chance to log on until just now. 
+Yes, it is now safe to say..............eep.
+
+     The official announcement of BABYLON 5's second season will be made
+tomorrow by Warner Bros.
+
+     Naturally, the day the word comes is the day I'm kinda down with a slight
+bug, which kinda takes the edge off it...but suffice to say that Brett's
+observation is correct; with this new season, we'll be 3/5ths done with the
+story, over half.  
+
+     Suffice to say we are all very happy, and looking forward to shooting
+Year Three commencing about July 31st.  (And half the fun, well a quarter of
+the fun, is knowing just how many people in what groups are going to be SO
+pissed off that we've been renewed....)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 768       Fri Jun 09, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:11 EDT
+ 
+      sigh...third season...I meant THIRD season...sigh....
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 825       Sat Jun 10, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:04 EDT
+ 
+     Actually, some PR departments at studios/networks *have* been wrong about
+such things in the past.
+
+     The reason for the delay was that there were some structural and
+corporate things going on with PTEN that had nothing to do with us per se, but
+which could ultimately affect us.  There was one brief period last week --
+Thursday and the first part of Friday -- when the corporate stuff seemed to
+put our fate in doubt.  The words actually entered my head, "Oh crap, they're
+gonna cancel us."  It was a very depressing 24 hours.  But finally word came
+back that the logjam had been fixed, the pieces had all come together, and
+things were looking positive again, but final word wouldn't come until this
+week.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 845       Sat Jun 10, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:52 EDT
+ 
+     I wrote some of the .avi stuff, including the Vorlon/IRQ thing, since
+it's something that perpetually makes me nuts.
+
+     There's always been a side-story that could go off after B5 finishes its
+run, but I doubt it'll go anywhere, even if B5 does break out.
+
+     Interestingly enough...one of the first clues we got that we'd been
+renewed was a call from the WB International folks, asking about a third
+season.  Apparently, what Ch4 wants to do for year 3 is to air the show in its
+original, widescreen aspect ratio.  They called to see if we could let them
+have access to our original negative to re-transfer it back to that format,
+for their broadcast.  Our reply: hell, yes.
+
+     Expect some new characters next season, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 589       Sat Jun 10, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:07 EDT
+ 
+     Dan: that's the annoying thing I keep hearing...that Galoob keeps
+shipping the micros out, they arrive at stores, the store managers don't
+bother to display them, nobody knows to ask, and after a while they're shipped
+back.  Makes Me Nuts.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+
+
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 609       Mon Jun 12, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:05 EDT
+ 
+     Can't really take much time off; got to have 6 scripts minimum in hand
+when we begin rolling film July 31st.
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 420       Sun Jun 11, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:21 EDT
+ 
+     I'll definitely be at San Diego Comic Con.  Will try and convince a cast
+member or two to come along.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 603       Tue Jun 13, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:31 EDT
+ 
+     dj...one of the...I won't say problems, because it isn't a problem, but
+the...unique aspects about this cast is that they're in large measure *very*
+bright, and very verbal, and some of the banter that goes back and forth, done
+totally poker-faced and straight, could be taken in the wrong light.  Look at
+some of the comments between me and Claudia on some of the on-line interviews
+at AOL and DC Comics Online.  We can get pretty brutal if you don't know we're
+absolutely just putting it on.  
+
+     So if you want to pass it along in private mail, that's fine, but on
+balance, I'm not terribly concerned about it; it's how we play.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 435       Tue Jun 13, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:33 EDT
+ 
+     Though I'd originally heard about doing two presentations at San Diego
+Comic Con, it now looks like doing just one, on Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 1
+p.m.  Clips, maybe some cast, bloopers and surprises. 
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 631       Tue Jun 13, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:26 EDT
+ 
+     The casting director brings in actors to audition.  The choices are made
+by me, the director, Doug and John Copeland.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 669       Thu Jun 15, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:49 EDT
+ 
+     Generally, there is a brief description of the character in the script,
+which the casting director receives to prepare.  If there's anything I have in
+mind in particular, and there often is, I'll discuss it with the c.d. and
+narrow things down.  T
+
+     Then I'll get a preliminary list of available actors, those who are and
+aren't available for auditions.  We call in those who come to auditions, and
+try them out.  If nobody works out, we go to the list of actors who won't
+audition, and review tapes.  This rarely happens, though, and we prefer to go
+from auditions.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 270       Thu Jun 15, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:52 EDT
+ 
+     On places like internet, I look for new threads that haven't been
+answered yet, and deal with those first.  Then I peel through the messages I
+know contain interesting or funny threads, and get into those.  If a thread
+has been going on for a long time, and has more or less devolved into
+woolgathering, I bail.
+
+     The other systems, I just sorta graze, looking for interesting areas.
+There are some topics here on 18 -- TV stations, filking, topic drift -- that
+I don't generally check out.
+
+                                                        jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 465       Sat Jun 17, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:57 EDT
+ 
+     Re: hotel reservations vanishing and non-refunds even though
+promised...well, gee, what a surprise.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 710       Sun Jun 18, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:30 EDT
+ 
+     We're always adding signage, and will continue to do so.  There are  no
+single-faith chapels, but facilities that can be used by various groups,
+booked ahead.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 324       Sun Jun 18, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:31 EDT
+ 
+     We're going to try some more complicated alien stuff, some more elaborate
+shots mixing CGI and live-action, some interesting new items in the wardrobe
+department, more stuff taking place on other worlds, a new main theme more
+related to what's going to happen in year three, other stuff.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+
+
+
+
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 148       Wed Jun 21, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:51 EDT
+ 
+     Two of the four episodes have been delivered for some time; number three
+gets delivered this week; number four, the week therafter.
+
+     The original theory was to have the eps ready in time to air all four in
+July.  That was our timetable as we understood it at the time for WB/PTEN, and
+that's what was plugged into the formula when we did our production schedule.
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 162       Thu Jun 22, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:28 EDT
+ 
+     Apparently Channel 4 in the UK will broadcast all 4 remaining year two
+eps starting July 25th and continuing each Tuesday thereafter until all four
+have been aired.  (There had been some discussion of airing them all the same
+night in a B5 marathon, but this is probably better for reaching people.)
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 186       Sat Jun 24, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:32 EDT
+ 
+     We *do* have accurate estimates; I'm not quite sure how we got off on
+this.
+
+     Warners gives us required delivery dates.  We work backwards from those
+delivery dates, and come up with a shooting schedule that allows us to meet
+those dates with room to spare.  So I'm not quite sure what it is we're not
+doing.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 192       Sat Jun 24, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:04 EDT
+ 
+      Temporary titles on the first four episodes, in order: "Matters of
+Honor," "Convictions," "A Day in the Strife," and "Voices of Authority."
+
+      (That's season three, natch.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 206       Sun Jun 25, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:50 EDT
+ 
+     Actually, "The Gathering" wasn't shot widescreen; that progression  was
+only implemented when we went to series.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 209       Sun Jun 25, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 06:01 EDT
+ 
+     Only 2 TV series that I know of are shot in widescreen; us and Lois and
+Clark.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 210       Sun Jun 25, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 06:05 EDT
+ 
+     Just a note on a B5 alumnus; it appears that Christy Marx has got her own
+series, co-created (I think that's the credit, but she'll have more on the
+specifics when she's ready to talk about it) by her and someone known to
+B5'ers (no, not me).  It's a live-action SF series, and should look very cool,
+a whole new universe to play in.  Anything more specific will have to come
+from her, as is appropriate.  Y'all can keep tabs on this over in her topic,
+470/11/43.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 230       Sun Jun 25, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:38 EDT
+ 
+     One of the problems we've encountered in the past is that Paramount tends
+to buy LOTS of advertising in pubs like Entertainment Weekly and others, and
+some of them have no desire to piss of the big P.  I got a note from one of
+the staffers at Sci-Fi Entertainment (the Sci-Fi Channel is co-owned by
+Paramount) who indicated that there was a very clear and deliberate emphasis
+on not doing B5 coverage for that reason.   But another reporter is going to
+be doing a small piece on the show for an upcoming issue, so maybe we'll shake
+that loose finally.
+
+                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 269       Wed Jun 28, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:10 EDT
+ 
+     To all in the Chicago area, I have the schedule for B5 stuff, or most of
+it, for the Comic Con this weekend in Rosemont at the convention center.
+
+     FRIDAY: 3-4 jms and bloopers, and stuff
+             4-5 Michael O'Hare's acting workshop 
+
+   SATURDAY: 11-12 noon Q&A with Michael
+             1:30-3 special jms presentation (*be there*)
+               4-5 jms writing for TV seminar
+             (that evening is an informal B5 gathering with me,
+               Michael and Peter David, don't know when or where)
+
+   SUNDAY:   1-2 B5 panel with jms, Michael and Peter
+
+
+      Word to the wise: arrive early for the Saturday 1:30 presentation; we'll
+start right on time, and there's a lot to fit in.  
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 333       Mon Jun 19, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:15 EDT
+ 
+     Torville, I *have* explained it.  I've explained it and explained it
+until I'm blue in the face.  I don't know what more you're looking for, unless
+you're simply assuming that there's more to it when there's not, in which case
+there ain't much I can do.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 341       Tue Jun 20, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:36 EDT
+ 
+     So, like, howcum SeaQuest getting a third season is in the opening card
+here on SFRT2, but not B5?  Huh?  Huh?  What're we, chopped liver?   Not a
+peep, not a mention, not a syllable, a consonant, a quiver, nothing.
+
+     Hrmph.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 354       Wed Jun 21, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:53 EDT
+ 
+     Totally off-base question: any truth to the rumors floating around that
+GEnie is going to go bye-bye come fall?
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 366       Thu Jun 22, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:11 EDT
+ 
+     Okay, that's good to know.  Where this info came from was from some folks
+over on the new Microsoft Network, so I figured there might be some margin for
+error there.
+
+     Genie has always been kind of the unofficial home for B5, after all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 377       Fri Jun 23, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:41 EDT
+ 
+     What's Hi-Tech Home?
+
+                                                          jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 273       Wed Jun 28, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:04 EDT
+ 
+     It was a rerun, and he had it on tape.
+
+     Next novel won't be "Dark" but another title; better story.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 527       Sun Jun 25, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:46 EDT
+ 
+     There was just a huge message posted on rec.arts.b5 about BB, a real
+scathing review.  Others are filtering in along the same lines.  As I'd been
+worried about, apparently the organizational aspects are a total
+nightmare/disaster.  But I'll let others speak from their own experience. 
+(The J.Potts message on rec.arts is very telling, as he's generally a very
+good reporter on this stuff.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 556       Tue Jun 27, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:11 EDT
+ 
+     Certain individuals have a habit of blaming others for errors they commit
+themselves.  We NEVER at any time heard anything about images of B5 stuff in
+holographic badges.  If they couldn't be delivered, it's because something
+went wrong at that end.  Word was put out that the Jenerators, Bill's band,
+opted out at the last minute to do another gig; not true, as Bill himself
+said, they just weren't going to pay them or even pay transportation.
+
+     My first impression of the organization 'way back at the Planet Hollywood
+embarrassment was that the thing was ineptly run.  There were major, worrying
+problems in: hotel accommodations, arrangements for transportation, guest
+relations, tickets, advance work, sound and every aspect of follow-up.  Every
+single one of these concerns is what came up again here in the Big Bang, as
+I'd feared.
+
+     I have to add, however, that there is NO reason, NO excuse, for the
+assault on a dealer who was attempting to document some of the screwups at the
+convention.  To attack someone, beat the camera into his face, requiring an
+ambulance...in 18 years of convention going, I have *never* seen this behavior
+on the part of convention organizers, and it is absolutely intolerable. 
+Equally intolerable, if on a lesser scale, is stranding actors at airports for
+hours at a time, not feeding them until 9:30 p.m. (which is why most left at
+that time) because "we figured you'd eat on the plane."
+
+     My concern was always that the organization was going to be a shambles,
+and that people wouldn't get their money's worth in terms of what was
+promised.  My crew/actors, they'd be fine; but the rest, I feared, would be a
+disaster.  It appears I was correct.
+
+     As with the Planet Hollywood situation, there were even more problems
+behind the scenes, more horror stories, that the fans don't know about because
+the actors/participants try to put on a good face...but those are very much in
+evidence in calls I've had since the convention.  Actors who were promised
+first-class tickets, only to discover that they'd have to PERSONALLY pay money
+for that upgrade, forced to fly coach; a person who claimed to have invested
+$30,000 into the convention, no contract, just on the word of those involved,
+who saw how the con was organized and indicated his belief that he had just
+lost his investment.
+
+     Not good, not good....
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 558       Tue Jun 27, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:57 EDT
+ 
+     Yet another cover story blown to hell.  But who would notice, among so
+many?
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 590       Thu Jun 29, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:59 EDT
+ 
+     One could *choose* to have fun at a hanging; but should you have to work
+that hard at it, and should not things promised be things  delivered?
+
+                                                                     jms
+
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms95-07 b/ftp/GEnie/jms95-07
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f3907d81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/GEnie/jms95-07
@@ -0,0 +1,589 @@
+JMS messages on GEnie, July 1995.  Collected by Steven Miale
+<smiale@cs.indiana.edu>.
+
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 393       Thu Jul 06, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:39 EDT
+ 
+     Actually, all B5 crew get the jacket; difference is, only a few of us are
+entitled to wear the Battle of the Line patches.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 421       Fri Jul 07, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:52 EDT
+ 
+     I hear there's even going to be a jms card in the first batch of 120
+cards.  (I have now achieved something, I am now a trading card.)   There will
+be cards for every episode, in chronological order, and they can trace some
+arc elements and stuff.  They look to be gorgeous, all based on photographs,
+many never before published or seen.
+
+     People entitled to wear BotL patches: me, Michael O'Hare, and John
+Copeland.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 434       Fri Jul 07, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:52 EDT
+ 
+     Haven't seen the poster yet, but I hear it's cool.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 453       Sun Jul 09, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:18 EDT
+ 
+      Mike, would *love* to see a copy of that review; could you send it to me
+at 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423?  I would *very*
+much appreciate it.
+
+    (If you could include the cover, that'd also be great.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 466       Mon Jul 10, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:38 EDT
+ 
+     We're still negotiating for the release of the tapes.  We may have to
+bring in former president Carter to finalize the negotiations.  The cards will
+be fall-ish; the CD regular edition is currently available.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 513       Sun Jul 16, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:13 EDT
+ 
+     Y'know...we despair here about how the media (viz: TV Guide and others)
+can only think to describe B5 by comparing it to ST, why can't they get it
+together...I just blipped over to the category for NASFIC, the US proxy
+Worldcon...and there are panels on Star Wars, on the Fox shows, including X-
+Files, all this...and you know the only B5 panel I found?  BABYLON 5 VS. STAR
+TREK.
+
+     sigh....
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 526       Sun Jul 16, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:47 EDT
+ 
+     We're doing a bit more here and there on merchandising, just enough to
+keep it going and provide quality assurance.
+
+     BTW, in the ongoing saga of Big Bang Screwups...heard today that, in
+addition to Michael O'Hare getting stiffed the $5,000 remaining on his  fee,
+Mark Hamill's check for the balance of his fee (a remainder of $10,000) has
+bounced, this on top of a previous check to reimburse travel expenses ALSO
+bouncing.
+
+     These people are unbelievable....
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 555       Mon Jul 17, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:49 EDT
+ 
+                ....birthdays.....pfthpft.....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 570       Tue Jul 18, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:01 EDT
+ 
+     My hair doesn't change much in length, so I'm not sure there's any real
+difference.  (Now *quantity* of operational follicles, that's a different
+story....)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 583       Wed Jul 19, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:50 EDT
+ 
+     The shadows know that Kosh knows, because the Vorlons *always* know; they
+also know (or think) that they're in a superior position because if Kosh
+should tell the others, either a) most wouldn't believe him, or b) the shadows
+would move aggressively now, costing untold lives.  They're more worried about
+an alliance between lots of races than the Vorlons alone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 585       Wed Jul 19, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:40 EDT
+ 
+     Okay.  Look.  I'm gonna make this *real* simple.
+
+     Somebody gives me the cheat codes for DESCENT, and nobody gets hurt.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 603       Thu Jul 20, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:13 EDT
+ 
+     BTW, keep forgetting to mention...I've just finished a VERY lon (long) B5
+article for FOUNDATION, an academic review of SF published out of Britain. 
+It'll be out and available at Worldcon, and elsewhere.
+
+     It's about 7,600 words/28 typed pages, a mix of pro and personal stuff.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 610       Thu Jul 20, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:58 EDT
+ 
+     Our pilot got one emmy nomination (won that one); season one got two noms
+(won one), and our third season has just gotten three Emmy nominations, with
+the possibility of one or two more to come.  We got noms for makeup, hair and
+cinematography.  Nominations for directing, music, EFX and a few other areas
+will be out in the next couple/three weeks, when the last of the ballots are
+counted.  Nothing for the cast or writers, alas, but that's typical for SF.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 625       Fri Jul 21, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:46 EDT
+ 
+     It didn't share an emmy, no, but in that category, more than one can win
+(EFX).  DS9 also got an emmy that year, but TNG did not, the first year in a
+while that they hadn't.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 648       Sun Jul 23, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:04 EDT
+ 
+     To some extent it falls into a steady rhythm, except that each year we
+try to get more ambitious than the year before, so we're constantly pushing
+the envelope and looking for new ways to do things, and ways to make those
+things even bigger and better.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 656       Mon Jul 24, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:10 EDT
+ 
+     The BG is a sculpture; they were clipped into the image.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 732       Sun Jul 30, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:04 EDT
+ 
+     What Earthdome told us was that the Minbari were beaten back by our
+defenses, and sued for peace rather than walk into a buzzsaw.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 544       Sun Jul 16, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:47 EDT
+ 
+     WB will be putting out a bunch of new images/avi files/wav files to usher
+in the new season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 548       Mon Jul 17, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:17 EDT
+ 
+     Script #5 completed, "Passing Through Gethsemene."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 559       Mon Jul 17, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:52 EDT
+ 
+     For most of our history with WB, the shield's attitude has been sort of
+lackluster when it comes to PR.  Particularly for the first year or so, during
+their trial of a new concept in TV: stealth programming.  You do  as much as
+you can to make the show invisible to eye, ear, radar, sonar and infrared,
+lest god forbid somebody should write an article about it.   We had *constant*
+battles with them over this. 
+
+     We think the situation is finally, slowly improving.  A great deal of the
+problem comes from the fact that we're a) not a network show, and b) not a
+Warners in-house series, like Kung Fu or the other PTEN shows.  We're an
+independent production company, and thus we tended to get orphaned/neglected a
+lot.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 578       Wed Jul 19, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:51 EDT
+ 
+     Good heavens; I think the "Gethsemane" story *you're* seeing is much more
+interesting than the one *I* came up with....
+
+     Not to say that that theme won't recur down the road anyway....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 604       Fri Jul 21, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:44 EDT
+ 
+     Bear in mind also that this is a TV Guide photo, done by them, not an
+official B5 production cast photo, and it's who was available and in town
+during the hiatus.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 615       Sat Jul 22, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:57 EDT
+ 
+     As I recall, what they did was shoot the background, then shoot
+individual shots of the actors, and they may have put them all together later.
+Don't know if a single was shot of all of 'em or not.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 637       Wed Jul 26, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:54 EDT
+ 
+     Stan, y'know the only thing that kinda bothers me?  I see you over here,
+on AOL, elsewhere, posting all these spoilers...and that's all you seem to do.
+I don't see you engaging in discussions, it seems to me as if your main
+interest is in just grabbing the information and racing to all the forums to
+be first with spoilers.  I find this rather peculiar.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 516       Fri Jul 07, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            (Forwarded) 
+ 
+     Except, of course, that I'd specifically asked for people NOT to post
+that info; if this has been done, then this is the first time that request has
+not been honored.  I've done these screenings in the cooperative sense that it
+will be kept to the crowd and not posted publicly; even gotthe  audience to
+agree with it.  If this promise has been broken, I may have to reconsider the
+screening process. 
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 517       Fri Jul 07, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            (Forwarded) 
+ 
+     PS.  So in other words, Stan, if you want to post this material all over
+the place, on an episode that hasn't yet aired yet, totally not respecting my
+wishes on the subject, as the creator of B5, because you believe your right to
+post this is greater than my polite and respectful request to the fans who
+attended NOT to publicly post such things, then do as you wish, knowing that
+you kill any future screenings for other people.  
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 524       Sat Jul 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            (Forwarded) 
+ 
+     AND FURTHERMORE, *Stan*....I just checked AOL.  The synopsis one person
+wrote there was *never* posted publicly insofar as I could see, and was noted
+that if anyone wanted to see it, it would be sent via email to that
+individual.  Why?  Because the person who saw the ep understood and respected
+my request, and didn't want it posted publicly.  If that person had, it
+would've been.  So you're even going against the wishes of the person who
+WROTE the synopsis.
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 538       Sat Jul 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            (Forwarded) 
+ 
+     You know, Stan, it's really very sad when courtesy is no longer a valid
+reason for doing something.  "Well, show me where it breaks THE LAW to do
+this," "I would love to see a legal challenge on that one," and "taking a
+magazine or newspaper to court."  This is one of the reasons our society is so
+totally screwed up.  "Because I ask you, as a favor, and as a personal
+courtesy," is not a good enough reason for some people.
+
+     I was not required to show that episode.  Nobody made me.  Nobody was
+entitled to it.  I did so as part of a compact between me and the audience
+that we will keep the details between us, privately.  I have done literally
+dozens and dozens of conventions, exercised this compact dozens of times, and
+to date, not ONE PERSON has ever violated that gentleman's agreement.   Except
+you.  Who wasn't even THERE, and took the message out of private mail...why? 
+Because you want to be FIRST.  Because in the on-line community, knowledge =
+power.  And because you want it, and unless you get what you want, you're
+going to stamp your foot and carry on cranky and scream and yell that
+everybody else should change the rules to accommodate you.  
+
+     This is not a censorship issue.  GEnie is a *private corporation*, just
+like a newspaper.  And any newspaper can choose, for itself, what it selects
+for publication, or not to publish.  It has the right, and the responsibility,
+because it provides the venue.  Freedom of speech in the press or the
+electronic media is a function of who's paying the bill.  You  can't go around
+screaming "I'm being censored" because a magazine saw your letter and decided
+it was dopey and didn't publish it.  It's their call.   This is GEnie's call,
+and the call of those who work for GEnie.
+
+     Constitutional free speech means if you can't publish it in one place you
+can go and do it yourself.  You can set up a BBS of your own somewhere and
+publish this to your heart's content.  Nobody's going to stop you, this isn't
+about laws, or rules, or ratings, it's a simple request from me, and the
+courteous agreement to that request by others.  You are trying to negate what
+they and I have agreed to, because you want to.  Because your perception of
+your "rights" (which do not exist in a service like GEnie which is not a
+democracy, is paid for via a corporation privately owned) is that it matters
+more than my rights to make this request, more than the sysops to honor that
+request, more than the structure of GEnie, more important than the wishes of
+the users here, more important thjan the future convention goers who might
+find no further screenings....
+
+     Because you want to be *first*.  Very few can actually DISCUSS the
+episode, because it hasn't aired.  Only the relative handful in the room.  So
+there's not much they can really add to it.  You weren't even THERE.  You just
+want to run into the room waving the synopsis because you feel it gives you
+some kind of status.  And the hell with everybody else.
+
+     Some studio types don't like episodes being screened ahead of the
+broadcast; so I try and keep a low profile on this to avoid causing them
+headaches.  Which is, essentially, what I said at the time, and was known and
+understood by everyone who was there, of which you were not one.  So in your
+ignorance of the situation, you potentially complicate things
+further...because you wanna this, and you wanna that.  
+
+     It's a sad world when the only thing you respect is the sound of your own
+voice.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 550       Sun Jul 09, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            (Forwarded) 
+ 
+      Stan, your application of the definition of censorship just doesn't
+wash.  When the dictionary says "remove or suppress," it means from the
+society at large.  It also refers to the government.  If a newspaper chooses
+not to publish an article, it's not censorship, it's the choice of a
+publication.  The right to make that choice is one of the prime tenets of
+freedom of speech.  By your definition, any service or publication which
+chooses for itself what it will or will not publish is a censor; and in so
+doing, you create the error of accepted cliche which in time wears down the
+specific meaning of censorship by generalizing it to an insupportable level. 
+People who scream censorship at the drop of a hat become like the little boy
+who cried wolf; pretty soon, the serious and real cases get ignored in the
+whiten noise.
+
+     (white noise, that is)
+
+       One suggestion: study a little communications law.  Because you really
+don't understand what it is you're addressing here; a two-line definition in
+the dictionary has little to no bearing on case law, the history of
+governmental censorship, or much of anything else.  I've spent considerable
+time studying communications law; you should try it before you go off like
+this.  Also copyright law, and free speech rules.  We'll continue this after
+you've finished your homework.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 11
+Message 566       Sun Jul 09, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            (Forwarded) 
+ 
+     I was going to make one last reply on this, until I saw the line, that
+I'm "supporting the use of force to thward the dissemination of information."
+
+     Force?  WHAT force?  You keep quoting the dictionary, Stan, WHAT force? 
+Look it up.  Has somebody come to your door, kicked it in, taken you to a
+prison and attached electrodes to your genitalia and I wasn't informed? 
+Excuse me, Stan, but you have just passed into the totally ridiculous.  Your
+statement here is offensive to me and anyone who knows how writers have been
+tortured and harrassed and killed in the process of their work.  I have
+donated literally *thousands* of dollars to PEN and other freedom of
+speech/protection for writers organizations, people who  in Latin American and
+Eastern European countries know what *force* means.
+
+     No force was used of any kind, Stan.  You're gibbering.  You got your
+little message deleted, you got hysterical, and you're blowing this out of all
+proportion.
+
+     I have nothing further to say to you. 
+
+                                                                jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 299       Sat Jul 15, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:27 EDT
+ 
+      The TV Guide issue with the B5 feature story should be hitting
+newsstands on the East Coast today (reaching LA on Monday).  Anybody out there
+got a copy for a quick review/heads-up for us out here? 
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 378       Wed Jul 12, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:08 EDT
+ 
+     Some places list the CD under Chris Franke's name, not B5, oddly enough. 
+You can also get it via Tower Records phone order, at 1-800- ASK-TOWER.  Many
+folks have reported getting it quickly that way.
+
+     Yes, insofar as I know, these are licensed uniforms.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 622       Mon Jul 03, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:20 EDT
+ 
+     The assaulted dealer has required hospitalization and there are some
+concerns about his vision in one eye.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 656       Sun Jul 16, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:41 EDT
+ 
+     Is Trace Bileau (I misspelled that, I know) going to be doing the honors?
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 659       Mon Jul 17, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:23 EDT
+ 
+     No, that happened just before the pilot was aired, and just after it was
+finished.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 670       Sun Jul 23, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:01 EDT
+ 
+     Both Bruce and Pat Tallman were at MOC, and apparently everybody  there
+was very much won over, from reports I've seen.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 38
+Message 230       Tue Jul 04, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:17 EDT
+ 
+     All issues through 11 will come out; we think we've got things in place
+to go beyond that as well, as some elements have improved.  More on this as it
+develops.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 38
+Message 242       Thu Jul 06, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:35 EDT
+ 
+     I've just been told today that the comic has been extended through issue
+#24.  So it's clear for over a full year yet to come.  There should be
+something official about this out soonish.
+
+     This should give it a decent shot at finding its audience, which is
+already building (40,000+ copies per month ain't bad).
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 38
+Message 300       Mon Jul 17, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:44 EDT
+ 
+     David's story for DC is based on an episode script he'd done for us
+(outline, actually) for the first season, which would've been just about
+impossible to shoot.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 41
+Message 12        Sat Jul 15, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:24 EDT
+ 
+     I think the idea of a fan-run con is great.  And be *sure* that wherever
+you do choose has a) adequate transportation in and out, b) something to do
+when the con's not in session, c) good hotels centrally located to the
+convention.
+
+     I like Tom's approach above; it gives all the various departments a
+chance to get their moment in the sun, AND provide solid info on those aspects
+of making the series that would be of interest to different people.
+
+     What we have here, really, is the chance to re-think and re-create the
+convention process a little, make it more active, and inter-active, and more
+interesting.
+
+     One thing to be advised about: actors are paid to perform.  This is
+performance, however one might choose to consider it otherwise.  So any cast
+members brought in are going to require some kind of compensation, travel and
+the like.  Just a reminder to keep in the back of your head(s) as you plan all
+this stuff out.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 43
+Message 314       Thu Jul 20, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:02 EDT
+ 
+     Negative.  That was never intended.  Sakai would not have had this
+encounter with the shadows.  And remember, we *saw them* in year one, so they
+were already out, about and awake.  It's not just a matter of  transposing
+names.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 46
+Message 4         Wed Jul 26, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:55 EDT
+ 
+     There is a topic here for spoilers from the UK, Stan.  Use it.
+
+     Also, what is this obsession you have with posting every single detail of
+a story just to get it out there?
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 46
+Message 9         Wed Jul 26, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 06:08 EDT
+ 
+     It's just that the sysops have *specifically* set aside topic #1 here for
+"The British Aired Final Four Episodes."  The DL info came from one of the
+British Aired Final Four Episodes.  It seems to me that one would wish to
+respect the wishes of the sysops who created that topic for that express
+purpose, the same way one puts discussions of B5 science into 18/13.  Why is
+it you seem to feel that the sysops needs are subordinate to your own?  Nobody
+said you couldn't post the spoilers, they merely said that the topic over
+*there* is the right place for them, THIS one is for the spoilers that take
+place after they've aired here in the US.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+From: smiale@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (steven miale)
+
+ ************
+Topic 1         Mon Oct 26, 1992
+SF-HUDGENS [Fenn Shysa]      at 18:50 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series >>NON-SPOILER<< 
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 General Category. This is the main discussion topic
+for the hit SF series. This topic is general discussion - NO SPOLIERS - put
+those in Cat 18 Topic 2. DO NOT POST STORY IDEAS in any B5 topics.
+
+628 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 402       Tue Aug 22, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:23 EDT
+ 
+     We use the normal TV part of the frame.  And yes, Mary Jo was doing
+casting for lots of other shows, including Walker, Outer Limits, and others,
+as well as B5.  We felt we needed someone who could concentrate more heavily
+on B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 412       Wed Aug 23, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:54 EDT
+ 
+     The *quality* of performers was generally fine, it's the question of
+diversity.  We felt we were seeing the same faces again and again over 2 years
+and the pilot.  Casting directors tend to have very defined  areas of
+interest.  And, again, she was working on lots of other projects.  So this
+year we changed casting directors to Fern Champion (yes, that's her real name,
+and she's from New York, so watch it), who's been great, and is giving us a
+real breadth of actors, particularly in terms of a  wider ethnic range, which
+is something I've been pushing for for two years, and never felt I was getting
+as well as I'd've liked.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 421       Thu Aug 24, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:23 EDT
+ 
+     Fern's mainly done a lot of feature films, but at this hour, the only one
+that comes to mind is the Naked Gun movie.  But there's been a lot more than
+just that.
+
+     Currently, we're shooting an episode with Stephen Macht as guest star,
+playing Na'Far, a Narn, in "A Day in the Strife."
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 440       Sun Aug 27, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:58 EDT
+ 
+      Stuart: we had a brief production glitch, but it seems to have all been
+resolved now.  Not a problem.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 447       Sun Aug 27, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:00 EDT
+ 
+     No, the final four of this season will be rerun, probably during the
+first rerun break in season three.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 468       Tue Aug 29, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:30 EDT
+ 
+     Oops, I thought you meant the final four of year two, not year one; that
+batch will only go into syndication later, I'm afraid.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 478       Wed Aug 30, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:02 EDT
+ 
+     Correct, the penny was/is a keepsake.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 501       Fri Sep 01, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:43 EDT
+ 
+     Dan: are you having trouble getting photos *now*?  'Cause we had a very
+long talk with WB PR about this, and they said it wouldn't happen anymore.  If
+it is, lemme know, and I'll beat the crap outta somebody.
+
+     As for the rest...yes, we're hitting that point where many parts of the
+media simply cannot ignore us any longer.  We're here, we're not Trek, and
+you're Going To Have To Deal With Us.  If for no other reason than the readers
+keep asking for coverage.  Though of those you list (Mike), about half are
+British publications.  We generally get much more respect,and better coverage,
+there than here.
+
+     I haven't gotten a copy of the Foundation magazine yet; hope it came out
+okay, and I don't end up looking like too much of a doofus.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 528       Sun Sep 03, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:14 EDT
+ 
+     Minbar was an intentional co-opt of the term for a pulpit in a mosque;
+seemed appropriate.  
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 565       Mon Sep 04, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:26 EDT
+ 
+                    ...surely there must be a Disney forum SOMEwhere....
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 591       Thu Sep 07, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:05 EDT
+ 
+     Mike Cooney: not much on foreplay, are you?  
+
+     If you pull out all your stops in the first season or two, Mike, where do
+you go from there?  First time out, we saw just one shadow vessel; then we saw
+two; then we saw fighters; then we saw fighters and shadow ships, three, then
+four.  There's a reason for this progression, though I can't get into it now.
+
+     If you blow everything out this early, you've got nowhere to go.  So this
+is being paced logically and carefully.
+
+     Me, I *love* foreplay.
+
+     Changing topics for a moment....
+
+     Episode #5, "Passing Through Gethsemane," guest stars Brad Dourif, and is
+being directed by Adam Nimoy.
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 604       Fri Sep 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:37 EDT
+ 
+      Who?  
+
+
+      (Here's the alternate first episode opening, if we had these huge
+ shadowships, miles across, right from the git-go....
+
+ EXT. BABYLON 5 - ESTABLISHING
+
+ As a jump point begins to form.
+
+ INT. OBSERVATION DOME
+
+ As Ivanvoa and Sheridan move to the window.
+
+                                      IVANOVA
+                       Jump point forming...look at that, it
+                       looks like a five mile long spi--
+
+ EXT. SPACE - SHADOW MEGAWALLOPCRUISER
+
+ As it blows up Babylon 5, Epsilon 3, and every ship in the vicinity.
+
+                                                               FADE OUT:
+
+                               End of Series
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 610       Fri Sep 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:17 EDT
+ 
+     (Not saying *anything* about the dynamic of a bunch of guys sitting
+around telling each other that it really *isn't* size that matters....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+SF-HUDGENS [Fenn Shysa]      at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series >>SPOILERS<<    
+
+BABYLON 5 is nearing the end of its second season, with four episodes left to
+air in October.  :(  This topic is for SPOILERS only. And as always, NO STORY
+IDEAS are to be posted. Them's da rules.  
+
+364 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 337       Fri Aug 18, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:25 EDT
+ 
+     Nope.  Not the right topic.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ************
+Topic 7         Thu Jan 13, 1994
+M.BELL14 [Mike]              at 18:18 EST
+Sub: Forcible conversions at gun point :)   
+
+What kind of sick, weird things have you done in the last year to tell people
+about B5? How many people have you driven mad? Why on Earth are you this
+nuts!?!?
+143 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 138       Fri Sep 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:23 EDT
+ 
+     Just dialed in here...demographics are a dirty word where I come from. 
+Basically, I write the story that I would like to see as a viewer.  If my
+tastes reflect that of others, folks watch; if not, not.  
+
+     This is how I've always written, all the way back to when I began in
+animation.  "This would be a cool story."  And that's the be-all and end-all
+of it.  Same with everything else.  
+
+     Back a few years ago, I was looking for a particular kind of horror
+novel.  Couldn't quite find what I wanted.  So I sat down and *wrote* it,
+wrote the novel I wanted to read.  Finished it, and shoved it in the closet
+for, I think, about two years.  One day, my agent suggested I really should
+write a novel someday.  Reluctantly, I dragged it out of the closet.  Gave it
+to her.  She gave it to a NY editor, who sold it to the first editor who got
+it.  It really wasn't written for anyone else but me; had it stayed in the
+closet forever, it would've accomplished that task.  
+
+     I take that approach with everything I write; if I wouldn't watch it, I
+won't write it.  So, basically, my demographic is me.
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 142       Fri Sep 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:59 EDT
+ 
+     The book in question was Demon Night, published by Dutton.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ************
+Topic 12        Wed Nov 18, 1992
+B.WIST [Brad]                at 18:12 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Sightings                  
+
+Post here when you've spotted Babylon 5, whether it be on Television,
+Magazine, or somewhere else.  Let us know where we can find it/see it, too.
+354 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 351       Sun Sep 03, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:08 EDT
+ 
+     BTW, for those who get the British publications, there's a huge B5 story
+(several, actually) in SFX...and the critical review of SF called Foundation
+just published a very long piece of mine about B5, and SF in general, with a
+fair amount of personal background stuff as well.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ************
+Topic 23        Fri Feb 12, 1993
+V.VAIDY1 [Vijay]             at 23:00 EST
+Sub: "OtherWorks" by JMS                    
+
+Before there was "B5" and when "JMS" was just another Plain Joe, there was
+OtherSyde
+ [A discussion of the other works of J. Michael Straczynski]
+304 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 277       Sun Aug 20, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:11 EDT
+ 
+     BTW, for those interested, another of my Murder, She Wrote episodes is on
+next Tuesday, "Incident in Lot 7," which is kinda fun.  One of the guest
+stars, Paula Prentiss, isn't exactly the way I had envisioned the role, but
+overall, it's not bad.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 279       Tue Aug 22, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:53 EDT
+ 
+     It's on USA Network, not CBS, and since it's listed in my TV Guide, it
+should be in yours.  (I don't *think* it was supposed to be Wednesday...)
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 282       Wed Aug 23, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:55 EDT
+ 
+                              Anybody.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 288       Fri Aug 25, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:51 EDT
+ 
+     The watch is one of my favorites, a Hamilton Ventura, and as a matter of
+fact, there IS a story behind it.
+
+     Each time I finish working on a series, I buy myself a little item which
+becomes tied to that experience.  After finishing work on The Twilight Zone, I
+was in an art deco store on Ventura Boulevard here in the valley.  I spotted
+that watch, and instantly fell in love with it, the design, the unusual shape,
+and had to have it.  
+
+     As I'm buying it, the dealer mentions that this watch just came on the
+market, that it's a recreation from the same parts of the first electric watch
+on the market, again, the Hamilton Ventura, which came out in the late 1950s. 
+This new but identical version had *just* come out a few weeks ago.
+
+     So he's giving me the whole long history, very knowledgeable guy, and in
+the course of talking, he asks what I do.  I mention that I'm a writer.  He
+perks up.  See, he's been in the business a long time, and he sold this exact
+same kind of watch to another TV writer, long time ago.  "Who's that?" I ask.
+
+     "Rod Serling."
+
+     Suffice to say I was floored.  I went home, dug through my books, and
+right there in one of them -- I think it's the Joel Engle bio -- there's a
+full-page shot of Rod, and you can see very clearly that the watch on his
+wrist...is a Hamilton Ventura, identical to the one I'd just bought to
+commemorate finishing working on The Twilight Zone.
+
+     I still wear it, now and again, for special occasions....
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 291       Fri Aug 25, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:00 EDT
+ 
+     Forgot to add the final irony to all this...one of the last scripts I
+wrote for The Twilight Zone was entitled "Our Selena is Dying," based on a
+never-produced outline by Rod Serling.  So I did the script, based on his
+outline.  So the episode has a shared credit, me and Rod.  So finding that
+watch has kinda special significance.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 298       Wed Sep 06, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:56 EDT
+ 
+     Still waiting for the producers to make a deal with me.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 301       Fri Sep 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:39 EDT
+ 
+     Yeah, it was one of a cluster of art deco stores on Ventura, but a number
+of them have moved around, and I'll be damned if I can remember which one now.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ************
+Topic 26        Sun Jan 22, 1995
+SF-VENTERS [Jan]             at 17:15 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Conventions and Appearances
+
+This is the location where you can post and find out about SF/F conventions
+where some of the Babylon 5 cast and Executive Producer will be guests.
+
+484 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 447       Thu Aug 17, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:47 EDT
+ 
+     Had a very good and productive discussion with Visions today; I think
+they can be most helpful.
+
+     They seem like good people caught in a bad situation.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+<RETURN>, <S>croll, <Q>uit ?s
+Message 456       Fri Aug 18, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:26 EDT
+ 
+     Not that I know of.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 477       Sun Sep 03, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:09 EDT
+ 
+     Bruno Kirby?   Ehhhh...how about Rondo Hatton?
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 480       Thu Sep 07, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:05 EDT
+ 
+     It doesn't help.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ************
+
+
+
+[some SPOILERS follow... be warned]
+
+Topic 1         Sat Oct 16, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 10:29 EDT
+Sub: The British Aired Final Four Episodes  
+
+This is the Babylon 5 Episode Category, and this topic is for discussion and
+spoilers on the final four episodes of Season Two which will air in Britain
+months before the American airings in October.
+
+205 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 1
+Message 127       Mon Aug 21, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:56 EDT
+ 
+     Thanks...we're trying...
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 1
+Message 131       Wed Aug 23, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:51 EDT
+<RETURN>, <S>croll, <Q>uit ?s
+ 
+     Yeah, that's about the desired reaction....
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 1
+Message 140       Sun Aug 27, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:59 EDT
+ 
+     Steve: you can say all you want here in this topic.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 1
+Message 149       Thu Aug 31, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:03 EDT
+ 
+     The key to the questions is that you generally have to first be able to
+answer "who are you?" before you can intelligently determine "what do you
+want?"  To deal right with "what do you want" before you know who you are is
+destructive in almost any situation.
+
+     We will see Lyta again.
+
+     RE: alternate lifestyles...I said when stuff happened, we wouldn't make a
+big deal out of it, it'd just be there...and I said we'd address it in our own
+way, in our own time.  We've done a bit here, we'll do a bit more down the
+road.  I won't give you or anyone a timetable; I'll do stuff as the integrity
+of the story permits, not sooner, not later.  I will not allow this to become
+a political football.  If you do nothing, folks yell at you for ignoring it;
+if you do a little, they yell for not doing more; if you do more, they yell
+for not doing it sooner.  Screw it.  I do what the story calls for, as the
+story calls for it.  
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 1
+Message 153       Fri Sep 01, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:26 EDT
+ 
+     That would not be an unfair assessment.  
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 1
+Message 166       Sun Sep 03, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:13 EDT
+ 
+     See, here's where I start to have a problem.  For starters, I don't do
+any thing to be politically correct, or politically incorrect, I do what I do
+in any story because that's what the story points me toward.  Anybody who says
+"It's not necessary" isn't entitled to that judgement, frankly; you don't know
+what's necessary to the story.  And by framing it in the  "is this NECESSARY?"
+way is designed to make you defend your position when such defense isn't the
+point; is it NECESSARY to have humor? to have a romance? to have correct
+science?  No, *nothing* is NECESSARY.  It's what the writer feels is right for
+that scene, that story, that character.  
+
+     "Oh, well, I saw it, but was all that violence NECESSARY?"  This is,
+frankly, a BS observation usually offered by someone with an agenda, who 
+wishes to invalidate the notion of an artistic view and impose some kind of
+quota, or objective criterion to what is and isn't necessary for a movie or
+film.  As far as I'm concerned, the first person to throw this into a
+discussion has, frankly, just lost the argument.
+
+     Point the second: one of the most consistent comments I get, in email and
+regular mail, is the spirituality conveyed in the show, that we have shown,
+and will continue to show, tolerance toward religion, even created sympathetic
+religious characters.  "Thank you for your tolerance," they say...until we
+show somebody or some action THEY don't like...and at that point suddenly it's
+a lot of tsk-tsking and chest thumping and disapproval; so okay, how about I
+just stop all positive religious aspects of the show? 
+
+     It seems to me, that if I do *all that* with religion, and with thje
+(the) simple act of showing maybe ONE PERSON in all the long history of TV
+science fiction across 40 years has a different view of life, that the show is
+somehow degraded, or downgraded, or dropped in opinion...this simply
+reinforces the notion, held by many, that a lot of folks in the religious
+right wish to make sure no other perspective or lifestyle is ever shown on
+television, at any time, unless in a negative fashion.  
+
+     The thing of it is, while on the one hand I'm getting praise from
+religious folks for addressing spirituality in my series (speaking here as an
+atheist), I've gotten flack from others who think it has no place in a SCIENCE
+fiction series, and why the hell am I putting something in that goes right
+against my own beliefs?  "Because," I tell them, "this show is not about
+reflecting my beliefs, or yours, or somebody else's, it's about telling this
+story, about these people, with as much honesty and integrity as I can summon
+up.  That means conceding the fact that religious people are going to be
+around 260 years from now."  Well, fact is, all kinds of people are going to
+be around 260 years from now.  And what did the anti-religion folks say
+specifically about including spirituality in my series?  "It's not
+*necessary*," they said.
+
+     Translation: they didn't like it.  Well, tough.  It was right for this
+story, and this show.  And it seems to me rather hypocritical for some folks,
+who applaud the show for tolerance, for my standing up to  those who want to
+exclude religion from TV, to then turn around and say the show is diminished
+because it showed that same tolerance...to another group or perspective.  I
+guess tolerance is only okay as long as it's pointed one way.
+
+     You say that as a christian, you think any sex except that between a
+husband and a wife to be wrong.  Well, as I recall, the bible also speaks
+against murder.  We've depicted deaths by the hundreds of thousands.  (And
+we're talking here about the *depicting* of the act, simply showing it, not
+the value judgements made after the fact.)  Why does the one (which is so
+barely hinted at as to be almost invisible) cause the show to be diminished
+where the other does not?  
+
+     My job is not to reinforce your personal political, social or religious
+beliefs.  My job is not to reinforce MY personal political, social or
+religious beliefs.  Then it isn't art or storytelling anymore, it's simply
+propaganda.  My job is to tell this story, about these people, AS people, as
+mixed and varied as they are today.  And there is no outside objective
+criteria as to what is, or isn't *necessary* in a story; that is the sole
+province of the author.  You may or may not like it.  You may or may not
+choose to watch it.  Just as people who don't like to see religion and god
+discussed on TV may dislike it or choose not to watch it.
+
+     But you'll excuse me if I see complaints about this one little thing from
+the religious side, after all I've done to present religious characters and
+the religious life in a positive fashion, to be hypocritical and frankly
+somewhat ungrateful.  It's as though all this means nothing because of one
+thing, one outside-imposed litmus test that disregards anything and everything
+else that has been done.
+
+     So straight up...if I should stop tolerating or showing viewpoints that
+are not my own (spoken as someone who is absolutely straight), then should I
+now stop showing religion as well?  Because that's what this comes down to. 
+Is that what you want?  Because religion is included at my discretion as well
+as anything else on this show.  You want me to be less tolerant?  Just say the
+word.
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 1
+Message 170       Sun Sep 03, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:13 EDT
+ 
+     Yes, we'll see both the tines being repaired, and the core shuttle being
+fixed, in ep 1 of year 3.  The tines are mainly to stabalize incoming cargo
+ships so they can be offloaded (something we've shown there from time to time)
+into the zero-g cargo bay.
+
+     Ken: yes, showing does not mean endorsing, showing just means saying
+"this is here," not to make an issue of it.  If I'm going to start endorsing
+ANYbody's POV around here, it's going to be mine, and I think we all know how
+dreadful THAT would be.
+
+     Re: Kosh...we'll see him again outside his suit in "Dust to Dust," but in
+a somewhat unconventional fashion....
+
+     As for "including controversy rather than skirting it," this is more or
+less the point.  The goal here is to not have our characters or our show make
+*value judgments* about what our characters do, because then you're hitting
+the audience over the head with the MESSAGE.  "Believers" is a good example of
+that; some came away using parts of that to argue pro and anti interference in
+medical situations; ditto for "Confessions" which hit squarely on BOTH sides
+of the issue (no, you can't blame morality for disease...but then, we had our
+characters openly requiring blood testing, which annoys many on the other side
+of the issue)....my sense is that our audience is smart enough to take the
+elements we present them with, and discuss them, and come to their own
+conclusions and draw their own meanings from them.  It's the part of objecting
+to even *presenting* the situation that seems to me a marginal position at
+best.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 1
+Message 189       Mon Sep 04, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:25 EDT
+ 
+     We're trying to moderate the jumpgate sound a bit; it may have gotten a
+bit too hot there for a while.
+
+     As for Ivanova...remember that the core of good drama is conflict.  So
+here we have a situation where a possible romantic involvement is shaping up
+for her in year three.  It shouldn't be made too easy.  So you create a
+situation that really hurts her deeply; she made a difficult step, got over
+her distance, opened herself up, became vulnerable...and got hurt very badly
+as a result.  The same thing that happened in first season, when her old flame
+was discovered to be a big guy with Home Guard.
+
+     You now have someone who's freshly hurt, who is going to be unwilling or
+slow to open up again, who's now experienced every kind of relationship and
+NONE of them have worked...in short, she's one exposed nerve ending, perfect
+for someone now to come in who may be right, but for whom she has little time,
+and is disposed not to get involved.
+
+     Sounds a lot like my own dating history...keep them razor blades and salt
+sprays a'comin.....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 1
+Message 194       Wed Sep 06, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:54 EDT
+ 
+     What is the origin of the Human/Minbari connection?  You'll find out this
+very season (year three), in no uncertain or ambiguous terms.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 1
+Message 197       Wed Sep 06, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:55 EDT
+ 
+     Comics may sometimes provide advance information ahead of the series, but
+all this is eventually covered in the show.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 1
+Message 202       Fri Sep 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:31 EDT
+ 
+     Allen: thanks.
+
+                                                           jms
+ ************
+Topic 27        Sat Aug 26, 1995
+SF-HUDGENS [Fenn Shysa]      at 13:37 EDT
+Sub: #301 - "Matters of Honor"              
+
+by JMS
+1 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 27
+Message 1         Sat Sep 09, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:39 EDT
+ 
+     Directed by Kevin Cremin.  Introducing Jason Carter.  Written by jms. 
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ************
+Topic 28        Sat Aug 26, 1995
+SF-HUDGENS [Fenn Shysa]      at 13:38 EDT
+Sub: #302 - "Convictions"                   
+
+by JMS
+3 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 28
+Message 1         Sat Sep 09, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:40 EDT
+ 
+     Directed by Mike Vejar.  Guest starring Louis Tureen as Theo.  Guest
+starring Patrick Kilpatrick.  Written by jms.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 28
+Message 3         Sat Sep 09, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:14 EDT
+ 
+     Correct.  Louis was not available to use for "Twilight" for health
+reasons, but we like Louis a lot, and vowed to use him in another, even better
+role, at the first opportunity.  We seized it.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ************
+Topic 29        Sat Aug 26, 1995
+SF-HUDGENS [Fenn Shysa]      at 13:38 EDT
+Sub: #303 - "A Day in the Strife"           
+
+by JMS
+3 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 29
+Message 3         Sat Sep 09, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:42 EDT
+ 
+     Directed by David Eagle.  Guest starring Stephen Macht and Marshall
+Teague.  Written by jms.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ************
+Topic 30        Sat Aug 26, 1995
+SF-HUDGENS [Fenn Shysa]      at 13:39 EDT
+Sub: #304 - "Voices of Authority"           
+
+by JMS
+1 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 30
+Message 1         Sat Sep 09, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:44 EDT
+ 
+     Directed by Menachem Binitsky.  Guest starring Shari Sutliff.  Written by
+jms.
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ************
+Topic 31        Sat Aug 26, 1995
+SF-HUDGENS [Fenn Shysa]      at 13:40 EDT
+Sub: #305 - "Passing Through Gethsemene"    
+
+by JMS
+1 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 31
+Message 1         Sat Sep 09, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:44 EDT
+ 
+     Directed by Adam Nimoy.  Guest starring Brad Dourif.  Written by jms.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ************
+Topic 32        Sat Aug 26, 1995
+SF-HUDGENS [Fenn Shysa]      at 13:40 EDT
+Sub: #306 - "Dust to Dust"                  
+
+by JMS
+1 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 32
+Message 1         Sat Sep 09, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:45 EDT
+ 
+     Directed by David Eagle.  Guest starring Walter Koenig.  Written by jms.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ************
+Topic 33        Sat Aug 26, 1995
+SF-HUDGENS [Fenn Shysa]      at 13:41 EDT
+Sub: #307 - "Exogenesis"                    
+
+by JMS
+2 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 33
+Message 1         Sat Sep 09, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:46 EDT
+ 
+      This episode is now #308, to be directed by Mike Vejar.
+
+      307 is now "Exogenesis."
+
+                                                                 jms
+
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms95-09 b/ftp/GEnie/jms95-09
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ef359a10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/GEnie/jms95-09
@@ -0,0 +1,1122 @@
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 77        Sun Oct 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:19 EDT
+ 
+     There's a misapprehension here; it did *not* take until August for B5 to
+be renewed.  I'm trying to remember the date, but it was somewhere in June. 
+We were already shooting on year three by late July, and we need 6 weeks prep
+before shooting.
+
+                                                                        jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 117       Tue Oct 10, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:10 EDT
+ 
+     I'm told, btw, that Captain Power has finally been sold to the SciFi
+Channel...now if only they can find all the master tapes....
+
+                                                                 jms*
+
+     (*who, when he heard the former, fell down went BOOM)
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 141       Wed Oct 11, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:28 EDT
+ 
+     Hmmm...I think the episode must be "Dust to Dust," with a quick scene
+between Sheridan and a merchant...good scene.
+
+     BTW, for those in the LA area, the comic store Phantom Zone (formerly
+Outer Limits), on Ventura Boulevard half a block west of Van Nuys (tucked away
+next to the Coogee Bay Cafe) has quite a few complete boxes of the B5 cards
+that just came in.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 168       Thu Oct 12, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:22 EDT
+ 
+Harlan Ellison has requested that I post this in places where those likely to
+have ordered the forthcoming CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER limited-edition
+hardcover can find it.
+
+Message begins:
+
+Here is the answerto the question of why a three-week delay in shipping THE
+CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER became necessary.
+
+A minor production glitch.
+
+Nothing more mysterious or ominous than that.
+
+Once the book had gone to Thomson-Shore in Dexter, Michigan for printing, and
+was in production, it was discovered that more than 150 corrections to the
+text--some significant, others of a niggling nature--but all troublesome to a
+greater or lesser degree--had slipped past, and had not been integrated.
+
+Tom Monteleone of Borderlands Press was out of the country.  But his concerns
+for shipping on time--we've been paying the price for a premature announcement
+of this title four years ago ever since that miscalculation was made--were
+preeminent.  Nonetheless, because of my insistence that this book (a book of
+great personal importance to me) be as close to perfect as possible, I took
+the necessary action to hold the production at a pre-final stage till Tom
+returned and we could get the changes made.
+
+That has been accomplished.  Tom Monteleone has been very gracious in
+accommodating my concerns, and the book is back in the tube at Thomson-Shore
+right now.  Three weeks max is what Dave Raymond, Customer Services Manager,
+tells us.  Three weeks and the book, a beautiful beautiful package, will be in
+the hands of those who've ordered it.
+
+It is unfortunate that Tom Monteleone's interim message on the Borderlands
+Press 800-order line has been misinterpreted by some people.  All is well, and
+the CITY is on its way to waiting eyes and hands.  Thank you for asking.
+
+                                                Harlan Ellison
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 187       Thu Oct 12, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:31 EDT
+ 
+     Mike: my first, truest and only possible reaction to your note was to
+instantly look around and wonder who the heck you were talking about.  
+
+     "...you're starting to become an SF superstar, perhaps the biggest since
+Gene Roddenberry."
+
+     I wish I could take this as having anything whatsoever to do with me, as
+far as B5 goes, but I can't.  I don't see myself or my position any different
+now than 5 or 10 years ago.  I look in the mirror and half the time I see a
+doofus.  The other half of the time I see someone trying desperately not to
+*be* a doofus.
+
+     The other day, I was interviwed by a reporter with a major newspaper
+syndicate, and kind of the same question was asked.  What I told her, and I'll
+say here, is...I just can't apply it to me.  When I go up on stage at a
+convention, and there's this mass of applause...the terrible thing is, I don't
+hear it.  I'm worrying about what the first thing I should say ought to be,
+will it be entertaining, why on earth do these people want to see *me* fer
+chrissakes...one feels like a fraud.  Because the story kinda lives outside me
+somehow...it's like the sculpter who look at a block of stone and knows
+there's a sculpture of a horse in there somewhere, that it was *always* there,
+he just has to get a hammer and chisel and *find* it.
+
+     There's a difference between the talent, the story, and the vessel;
+sometimes the vessel thinks it *is* the talent, that it *is* the story, and
+that way, I think, lies madness and an ego of monstrous proportion.   I can't
+think in those terms.  I wouldn't mind, I'd probably enjoy it, I just *can't*.
+When I hear applause -- and on one level, like I said, I really can't -- it's
+not for me, it's for the story, for the show, for the performances, for
+Christopher's terrific music.  I'm sitting here on a writing break, in a torn
+up pair of jeans, a superman t-shirt, with a barely adequate cafe mocha in a
+Daffy Duck mug in front of me; how seriously can I take this person?
+
+     The guys at the local comic store know who I am -- I come in every
+Wednesnday night for my weekly fix -- and it ain't no big thing.  I'm just one
+more customer.  The only perk is that they set aside the comics about to sell
+out so I don't miss one.  But when I walk in the door, those who might
+recognize me don't seem to pay much notice, and the majority just *don't*
+recognize me, because my face isn't plastered all over the place.  Which is as
+it should be; the actors deserve that honor.  (This is something else the
+reporter bugged me about, "The ST creators have their faces all over the
+place, where in the press kit are your photos, why aren't *you* out there
+visibley?"  To which the only answer is, "That ain't why I'm here."  As
+Meatloaf said, "I ain't in it for the power, and I ain't in it for the wealth,
+I ain't in it for the glory of anything at all, and I sure ain't in it for my
+health.  But I'm in it till it's over.")
+
+     So there's no need for any awkwardness or hesitancy, Mike.  I'm a fan,
+same as you and most of the other folks around here.  Ain't nothing around
+here to be intimidated by; it's just me.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 233       Sat Oct 14, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:15 EDT
+ 
+     Okay, here's What Joe Believes: I don't believe in deities, heavens,
+hells, spirit guides, leprechauns, or any continuance of the individual after
+death.  Consciousness is an abstract, but it is finite.  When the game is
+finally called on account of darkness, you don't get to come back tomorrow and
+finish the game.  The work we must do, must be done today, now, or not at all.
+
+     What I believe in is the power of the human being singular to rise above
+every challenge, obstacle, tyrant and misfortune.  We are where we are because
+in the evolutionary crap shoot, we were smarter, and faster, and *thought*
+ourselves out of the mud (with a little help from the opposable thumb, natch).
+The brass ring of consciousness has made us not only aware of our environment,
+and how to control it, but has made us, when we are at our best, self-
+reflective, aware of the struggle of those around us, made us conscious of the
+fact that we work at our best when we work together, when individuals can
+reach for the stars and pull the rest of us along with them...for company, for
+pleasure, and to help the next guy leapfrog to the next star.  Given nurturing
+and direction and purpose, it makes us compassionate.  
+
+     Stunted, hindered, corrupted by circumstance or hopelessness, it makes us
+into monsters.  
+
+     I believe that we can touch greatness *now*, and that if we remove the
+notion of second chances, lifes after this one, no backsies, there is the
+added impetus to *achieve* it now.  (Witness those who think there's no point
+in saving the redwoods because Christ is going to come back soon and the point
+will be moot.  Remember James Watt's statement on that one?)   This, I
+believe, is *it*.  And so we must do all we can.  For those who are raised
+well, directed well, that means doing all they can to the good; for those who
+fall between the cracks, that may mean something quite different.  
+
+     But that's the way it is now anyway, really.  Religion can be used as
+justification to murder, or not to murder, depending on how you approach it. 
+Religion has been used to rationalize, and attack, slavery.
+
+     For my money, religion and science came out of the same impulse, the
+desire to understand who we are, and where we came from, and where we're
+going, and what we're supposed to do when we get there.  Before we had the
+tools to grasp the mechanics of sunlight and solstice, we cobbled up pantheons
+and spirits and deities who watched over the functioning of the universe like
+benign watchmakers.  With time and codification, religions began, warred,
+absorbed, schism'd and sunk their hooks deep into the world around us.  Those
+hooks are too deep and tied to too much of our language, our culture, ever to
+be removed; they are part and parcel of our human heritage, I accept that and
+welcome that element.
+
+     But from this side of the modem...it's still just myth.  Myth with
+billion dollar empires on the one hand, and myth that lives in little steepled
+whiteframe churches in the Appalachias, but myth nonetheless.
+
+     It can be myth that elevates, myth that ennobles, myth that destroys,
+myth that causes war and myth that heals after war...but myth it remains. Just
+like the myth of language, of art, of politics and polemics and philosophy. 
+They are all the constructs we have made, the lenses we have cobbled together
+through which we can see the world around us.
+
+     That is what I think, that is what I believe.  Your mileage may vary.  I
+have no desire to propagandize my personal beliefs; if you do that, they're
+not personal anymore, and my job is to entertain, and to  ask questions, not
+to persuade anyone to my own perspective.  In the pursuit of this story, I
+will use myth and math interchangeably, whichever  tool best serves the task
+most effectively.  
+
+     If anything, I believe closest to what Delenn said, my one moment of
+slippage, of letting my own attitudes creep in, that we are better than we
+think, and nobler than we know; that we have the seeds of greatness within us,
+and our greatest flaw is that we do not always know this as well as we should.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 258       Sun Oct 15, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:34 EDT
+ 
+     Kwicker: then in the two options you present, assume the latter, that I'm
+"an exceedingly better writer than I had even expected," since the other
+doesn't parse for me.  I don't believe.  Not even cellularly, or
+subconsciously.  If one can write Narns well, that doesn't mean one believes
+they exist; why should this change for writing about beliefs?
+
+     Tom: not a "recovering Catholic," but an ex-catholic who was never really
+much of a practitioner at all...one of these twice-a-year church family types.
+I had no choice going in, being born into that, and as  soon as I hit
+confirmation and was told it was the sacrament of free choice, I was out of
+the room so fast I doppler'd.
+
+     Not sure there was any one particular thing that led me to where I am,
+just sort of the preponderance of things.  I've read a lot of varying
+scriptures -- the Bible cover-to-cover twice, the Gita, a number of Egyptian
+and Judaic religious texts, less of the Koran than I'd like (some tough
+slogging in there), I'm quite charmed by much of what I've read in Zen
+Buddhism, I've looked into Native American, South American and African myths
+and religious beliefs...and to be honest, in all of this, I've never yet "met"
+a Deity that was really much nobler or better than the average person. 
+They're all prone to eccentricities, fits of anger, flaws, jealousies,
+illogic, pettiness, violence, inconsistency and a thousand other traits we'd
+be ashamed to see in ourselves.  And I've never seen much of anything outside
+to convince me that there's order in the universe...so here I am.
+
+     Do not, btw, take this as an invitation to debate, convert, or try to
+convince.  I've come to this by long and difficult roads, there's nothing you
+can say to me that hasn't been said before, by others, and if I respect the
+beliefs of othres enough not to try and change them, I'd ask that this same
+respect be returned.  
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 275       Mon Oct 16, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:41 EDT
+ 
+     I'll confess...for the time period from the Hubble's launch, until it got
+fixed...I called it the Wobble...I'm sorry, I'm sorry....
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 280       Mon Oct 16, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:16 EDT
+ 
+     Yes, I've read Campbell.  Leery of applying it directly or too
+consciously to the work, though; it can make the process too self-conscious.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 290       Tue Oct 17, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:46 EDT
+ 
+     "I am a leprechaun."
+
+     Fine.
+
+     Give up the pot of gold or die.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 313       Wed Oct 18, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:28 EDT
+ 
+     Lots of interesting stuff...new main title is finished and scored, with
+the first two new episodes arriving in the hands of critics and reviewers this
+week...finished writing script #11, "Confessions" (which title may change if I
+can think up something better), which is now the exact midway point, both in
+the series overall, and this season in particular...also finished writing the
+first issue of a 4-part miniseries for the DC comics B5 book, which will still
+come out at irregular periods, titled "The Book of the War."  
+
+     Also got in the first volume in the next batch of Dell novels,  "Clark's
+Law" by J. Mortimer, and so far it's really extremely good, I'm quite pleased.
+The other two are by S. M. Stirling and Neal Barrett, Jr.  Should be getting
+them in soon for review.
+
+     The B5 AOL and WWW pages should jointly be up in the next 2 weeks.
+
+     And in Los Angeles, B5's first new ep got a 6.5 rating with a 10 share
+(very good), while DS9, an hour before, got a 5.9 rating and a 9 share.  
+
+     Have begun shooting episode 11, "Messages From Earth," a hideously
+complex episode, outmatched only by #10, "Severed Dreams," which is the single
+most visually ambitious episode we've done in the three years of the show. 
+It's just totally outrageous, and it'll probably kill us in sheer man-hours to
+produce...but the result should drop jaws all over the place.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 321       Wed Oct 18, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:58 EDT
+ 
+     Did I type "Confessions?"  I meant to type "Ceremonies."  Thought that's
+what I did type.  Anyway, I've decided to change it to "Ceremonies of Light
+and Dark."
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 322       Wed Oct 18, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:00 EDT
+ 
+     Just checked; I *did* type Confessions.  Yikes.  This is how I sometimes
+type west instead of east (you'll get it next week).  I think I'm
+linguistically or philosophically dyslexic...
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 344       Thu Oct 19, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:58 EDT
+ 
+     Kevin: yeah...real fragging funny...at times like this I long for a REAL
+Narn bat squad.
+
+     Re: "fanboys"...actually, there's been precious little of that.  The only
+ongoing problem that I've yet encountered is the occasional net-weasel
+celebrity stalker who goes out of his way to constantly post absolute untrue
+lying crap to try and hurt either me, or B5, or some cast members, or all
+three.  Day after day after day.  
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 393       Sat Oct 21, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:02 EDT
+ 
+     We've been consistently giving Jeff Conaway more and more to do in the
+show because he's a very gifted actor; there are some moments in the coming
+month's episodes, particularly "The Fall of Night," that should knock the word
+"mediocre" out of anyone's mouth.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 402       Sun Oct 22, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:03 EDT
+ 
+     On the other hand, it would certainly be a writing challenge, one I
+hadn't even considered prior to seeing it here....
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 431       Sun Oct 22, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:28 EDT
+ 
+      The sound came through okay on my system here in LA on KCOP.  Odd; I'll
+look into the sound question overall, and the out of phase stuff.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 440       Mon Oct 23, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:40 EDT
+ 
+     Almost finished writing script #12, "A Late Delivery From Avalon."
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 463       Tue Oct 24, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:00 EDT
+ 
+      You cannot prove the non-existence of something; you can only require
+proof of the *existence* of something.  If I say, "There are green penguins at
+the North Pole," it is not incumbent upon you to prove they're *not* there;
+however you search I could always say, "Well, you missed a spot."   The burden
+of proof is incumbent upon the person making the assertion.
+
+     This is basic, critical thinking, which is often not taught in places
+where it *should* be taught.  
+
+     Quickie note on the clip-show discussion...this is starting to veer into
+story suggestions, so I'd suggest a slight retreat.
+
+     BTW, for those also on AOL, Bruce and I are doing an on-line conference
+tomorrow (Tuesday) night at 7p.m. Pacific to officially open up the B5 AOL
+page.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 466       Tue Oct 24, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:45 EDT
+ 
+      I'd be very surprised; it's finding its audience, and it isn't a bad
+show.  I know it's hideously expensive -- I hear about $2 million per episode -
+- and they've had a lot of problems with CGI, but all of that can be either
+overcome of compensated for.  It'd be a loos. Er, loss.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 556       Sun Oct 29, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:28 EST
+ 
+     It may be the tape stock WWOR is using when it downlinks the show; it
+goes up pretty pristine on the uplink.
+
+     Would love to get a copy of the Denver article, btw.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+     (PS, at the SciFi Universe Awards last night, Bruce tied with David
+Ducovney for best actor, and Andreas got best supporting actor.)
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 566       Sun Oct 29, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:28 EST
+ 
+     The article can be sent to me via the B5 mail drop, which is:  14431
+Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.  
+
+     Sometimes I write shows with a lot of EFX, sometimes I write shows with
+zip EFX.  "Parliament of Dreams" was that way, so was "Inquisitor," which had
+almost no EFX.  Same, as I recall, for "The Quality of Mercy."   It's whatever
+the story requires.  
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 2         Wed Nov 20, 1991
+SF-HUDGENS [Fenn Shysa]      at 19:41 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - The Series >>SPOILERS<<    
+
+BABYLON 5 is nearing the end of its second season, with four episodes left to
+air in October.  :(  This topic is for SPOILERS only. And as always, NO STORY
+IDEAS are to be posted. Them's da rules.  
+
+621 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 394       Wed Sep 20, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:18 EDT
+ 
+     Working title for episode 10: "Severed Dreams."
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 444       Tue Oct 10, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:13 EDT
+ 
+     Episode #11, "Ceremonies," written by JMS, to be directed by John Flinn
+III.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 497       Sun Oct 15, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:38 EDT
+ 
+     Sounds like a definite glitch; anyone else notice this on the satellite
+uplink?
+
+     Ron: yes and no.  We hadn't heard of the Bureau 13 game when we did the
+episode, it was just something we came up with 'cause it sounded neat.  Later,
+we found out there was a game by that name.  At which point I decided that it
+wouldn't be appropriate to use that name again, and had a good conversation
+with some folks at the game company about it.  There was no problem, I just
+didn't want to walk on their turf intentionally or otherwise.  Logically, any
+secret group is going to change its name from time to time *anyway* (it's not
+like they're in the yellow pages or anything), so the organization would
+remain under varying names. 
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 535       Thu Oct 19, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 06:02 EDT
+ 
+     A statement is anything; everything ever written can be taken as one kind
+of political statement or other.  (Often read in after the fact.)   The
+question is one of political *agenda*, and that I don't have; I've fronted
+episodes on every end of the political spectrum, because I'm not enough of a
+follower to think *any* party, group or affiliation has the market on right
+answers.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 565       Sun Oct 22, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:32 EDT
+ 
+     Mr. T, Louise is correct; also, in the TOS show, that revelation was the
+whole *point* of the episode, where here it's a filligree, dropped in at the
+last.  It also *has* to be that character, as the flip side of the story, to
+contrast with Sheridan's "holy cause" as warning, and because of his own
+reflection of what Delenn might have been if she went the wrong way for the
+right reasons.  
+
+                                                                        jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 574       Tue Oct 24, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:02 EDT
+ 
+     George: you're starting to learn my tricks.  When I point to the east and
+say "Look!  A comet!" you can generally be sure you're about to get thumped on
+the head by an interstellar snowball coming in from the west.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 597       Sat Oct 28, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:34 EDT
+ 
+     George: the mistake everyone makes is in going for somebody famous, a
+celebrity.  I've done a lot of looking into this, and have spoken with a
+number of other Ripperologists, and the single most likely person is one who's
+name you've never heard mentioned as a suspect, but if you read the record,
+his name keeps coming up again and again and again.  
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 609       Sun Oct 29, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:31 EST
+ 
+     To the "how much information is needed?" question, the best answer, I
+think, is that every week more folks find B5 for the first time and get into
+it with very little need for backgrounding.  The more you see, the more
+threads you're aware are there, otherwise it's just interesting color.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 612       Mon Oct 30, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:34 EST
+ 
+     Nope, Sebastian wasn't the name of the one I'm thinking of.
+
+     And from what I've read, a lot of folks *did* need to hear the name to
+get it....
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 7         Thu Jan 13, 1994
+M.BELL14 [Mike]              at 18:18 EST
+Sub: Forcible conversions at gun point :)   
+
+What kind of sick, weird things have you done in the last year to tell people
+about B5? How many people have you driven mad? Why on Earth are you this
+nuts!?!?
+163 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 146       Sat Sep 09, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:05 EDT
+ 
+     Shane: once we're finally, totally, completely done, I'll probably need
+to walk away from the eps for about a year before I can look at them again, so
+that I can *see* them with fresh eyes.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 7
+Message 150       Mon Sep 11, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:26 EDT
+ 
+     The other thing to bear in mind -- and as a video editor, you understand -
+- is that by the time we've finished an episode, I've seen it maybe 15-20
+times, and personally, with Copeland, edited every single frame of every
+episode.  After a while, much as you like it, you just don'wanna see it no
+more....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 17        Tue Jan 19, 1993
+C.STOBBE [Colin]             at 21:02 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Merchandising              
+
+A place to discuss all the neat Babylon 5 merchandising coming out (hopefully)
+soon
+331 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 17
+Message 193       Sun Sep 10, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:02 EDT
+ 
+     Yeah, it's the CP experience, and others, that kinda soured me on
+merchandising a little.  I walked off CP when it looked like the sponsor was
+going to get increased say in episode content.  And other shows have thrown
+stuff in just so they could include it in merchandising...so I'm just a bit
+leery of it all.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 26        Sun Jan 22, 1995
+SF-VENTERS [Jan]             at 17:15 EST
+Sub: Babylon 5 - Conventions and Appearances
+
+This is the location where you can post and find out about SF/F conventions
+where some of the Babylon 5 cast and Executive Producer will be guests.
+
+513 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 490       Thu Sep 28, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:42 EDT
+ 
+     Nothing's set yet; I was only asked 2 days ago to be there.  At this
+point I don't know who's going to be in-town for it.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 493       Wed Oct 18, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:18 EDT
+ 
+     Well, start by asking her that very question; she'll be very happy to
+answer it there, and thus give everyone a better grasp of what she does.  Then
+record it and send it to me so we can figure it out.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 497       Sun Oct 22, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:35 EDT
+ 
+      Ah...is *that* what Haley said her job is?
+
+      Well...yes, very nice, very nice, big, warm laugh....
+
+      She's sweet.
+
+      "Hello, Guido?  Got a job for you...."
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 507       Sun Oct 29, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:31 EST
+ 
+     It's all part of the same credit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 31        Sat Jul 09, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:23 EDT
+Sub: Really Stupid Questions from JMS       
+
+Every so often, I need Information.  (You won't get it!)  Technical stuff,
+research or reference stuff...and given the brain trust here, I figured this
+could be a useful resource from time to time.  With appreciation.
+327 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 280       Sat Sep 23, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:15 EDT
+ 
+     SO, HAS, LIKE, *ANYONE* IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND *EVER* MADE IT PAST
+LEVEL NINE IN TETRIS?  HUH?  IT'S JUST A PLOT TO MAKE ME CRAZY, ISN'T IT?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 300       Wed Sep 27, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:53 EDT
+ 
+     Just to clarify: Classic Tetris only goes to level 10.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 308       Thu Sep 28, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:42 EDT
+ 
+     It's actually an interesting experiment in learning, in that it's
+absolutely clear what the brain does...when you stop playing, your brain keeps
+seeing these falling blocks every time you close your eyes, and what it's
+doing is working out each possible combination, so you can react more
+instinctively (yellow Ls go on the left, green Ls on the right, both top down,
+to slide in)...it's really mental evolution in action, the learning process
+given color and shapes.
+
+     It's also absolutely a useless skill.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 42        Mon Oct 16, 1995
+C.MACLEOD2 [Cam]             at 23:18 EDT
+Sub: Promoting B5 on a local level          
+
+Lots of station have moved B5 to "graveyard" timeslots. What can we do on a
+local level to boost interest and increase viewership?
+13 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 18,  Topic 42
+Message 2         Tue Oct 17, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:51 EDT
+ 
+     Y'know...this is a nutty idea...maybe just ignore it...but I got wind
+last year about a station in...Italy? Greece?...one or the other that went
+bankrupt and shut down *literally* in the middle of airing a B5 episode.   The
+next day, during the lunch time period, hundreds of protesters showed up with
+placards demanding they show the rest of the episode.  This got substantial
+coverage, apparently, and convinced another station to pick up the show.
+
+     So I look around at the net, at the sharp local people who want to help,
+the great graphics that are out there that can be used, the  organizational
+resources on the net.....
+
+     It's a nutty idea.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 1         Sat Oct 16, 1993
+STARR [Arne]                 at 10:29 EDT
+Sub: The British Aired Final Four Episodes  
+
+This is the Babylon 5 Episode Category, and this topic is for discussion and
+spoilers on the final four episodes of Season Two which will air in Britain
+months before the American airings in October.
+
+353 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 1
+Message 207       Sat Sep 09, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:02 EDT
+ 
+     Dave: yup.  Londo's never coughed before, and this was very deliberately
+placed.  He's on the path, like it or not.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 1
+Message 212       Sun Sep 10, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:11 EDT
+ 
+     Question one I'll leave for later...to question two, Kosh *appears* to us
+as a being of light...doesn't mean that's entirely what he is, that's how
+we've been programmed to see him.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 1
+Message 218       Mon Sep 11, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:53 EDT
+ 
+     As it happens, I worked closely in designing Kosh with Steve Burg, who
+was one of the main designers on The Abyss, Terminator 2, Waterworld, and
+other films.  So I'm not surprised some element of that gracefullness came
+through.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 1
+Message 219       Mon Sep 11, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:54 EDT
+ 
+     PS, to Brett's comments above...someone observed that what we've
+seen...is Kosh's encounter suit *inside* his encounter suit, given the way in
+which we perceive him...sounds about right.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 1
+Message 324       Fri Oct 06, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:48 EDT
+ 
+     Rob: you're absolutely correct that you shouldn't be talking about those
+"even more unusual planes" in public.  Good for you.
+
+     That's what email is for.  I look forward to hearing more about this.
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 1
+Message 328       Sat Oct 07, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:12 EDT
+ 
+     Yeah, well, *I've* got Ultraviolet Level Clearance, personally assigned
+to me by President Santiago (before his unfortunate demise), so there.
+
+     Actually, the Pentagon likes me...was invited to the Air Force Academy
+2024 Study Group as a participant at Maxwell AFB by a Lieutenant General
+(unfortunately had to decline for various reasons), we get care packages from
+some folks at the Pentagon...hey, if you can't tell us, who CAN you tell?
+
+                                                                jms*
+
+     (*who used to be a reporter and still honors the confidentiality of
+sources)
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 1
+Message 352       Sat Oct 28, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:23 EDT
+ 
+     Teri: unless your station did something, it's not physically possible for
+the US version to be *shorter* than the UK version in any scene like that. 
+There was no additional material ever provided to C4 to expand it beyond
+what's seen here.
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 23        Sat Apr 29, 1995
+SF-HUDGENS [Fenn]            (Forwarded) 
+Sub: #219 - "Divided Loyalties"             
+
+Lyta Alexander returns with a warning that one of Babylon 5's officers may be
+an operative for a top secret government organization. Patricia Tallman
+returns as Lyta. Written by JMS.
+195 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 23
+Message 14        Wed Oct 11, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:04 EDT
+ 
+     You're looking into this too much.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 23
+Message 55        Sat Oct 14, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:21 EDT
+ 
+     Actually, Delenn was never told the whole situation, so she would have
+had no way of knowing to stick around; also, it was something they had to do
+on their own.
+
+     The Talia "incident" is referenced again in "Dust to Dust," and possibly
+one more episode in the first 11.
+
+     None of the actors have *contracts* for five years, we have options ON
+them for that period, which we can exercise at our discretion.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 23
+Message 59        Sun Oct 15, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:11 EDT
+ 
+     It means we have first call on their services, and if we choose to renew
+an actor, they *must* comply; if we choose not to, we're not obliged to.  This
+is standard in TV.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 24        Sat Apr 29, 1995
+SF-HUDGENS [Fenn]            (Forwarded) 
+Sub: #220 - "The Long Twilight Struggle"    
+
+The Narn-Centauri War reaches a major turning point. Delenn is contacted by an
+old friend who offers assistance. Written by JMS.
+126 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 24
+Message 14        Wed Oct 18, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:14 EDT
+ 
+     Re: G'Kar's position on the council...Sheridan could have carried on, but
+it would've been basically useless.  The Centauri now occupy and run Narn, and
+as its conquerers call thanks to the surrender and agreement to the Centauri
+terms, call the shots as far as who can legitimately speak for Narn.  Sheridan
+could've kept G'Kar *in the room*, but he'd still be powerless, without
+portfolio, and the whole concept of the council would be shot.  He is now
+simply Citizen G'Kar, same as any other Narn.  No, Londo isn't of higher rank
+in the council than Sheridan, but he speaks for the Centauri, and the Centauri
+speak for Narn.  
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 24
+Message 27        Fri Oct 20, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:35 EDT
+ 
+     Re: Earth's attitude toward the Centauri...stick around for 2 more
+episodes.
+
+     Re: not recognizing the Centauri rule...on what basis would or could
+Earth do this?  If the Narns had not agreed to total and unconditional
+surrender, sure, there might be a case you could make...otherwise, one doesn't
+have a leg to stand on.
+
+     Vampyr...okay, (poink), I've now made you Babylon 5 Person here.   So how
+could Sheridan "take Londo down a peg" in any manner consistent with reality? 
+Yell at him?  Sure, but to what effect?  He had nothing to back it up. 
+Before, in "Shadows," he had a bluff he could run; now that's not relevant
+because the actions have all been taken, and there is nothing that can be done
+to stop it.  Sometimes, things happen in the real world, and we'd love to see
+the person taken down a peg, as you say...but sometimes actually *doing* that
+in a real world situation, or a fairly rigorous fictional situation, is a
+different matter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 24
+Message 40        Sat Oct 21, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:24 EDT
+ 
+      Vampyr: don't worry, your reaction is exactly right.  If Londo's actions
+bug one, they should, because we hate to see them.  And what makes this show
+strong, I think, is that we *are* very rigorous and logical in how we put
+together the politics of our universe.  There aren't a lot of holes you can
+point to in this one.
+
+     Could G'Kar try and form a government in exile?  He probably could, and
+they may be worried about that...so who knows what they might do...?
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 24
+Message 76        Mon Oct 23, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:45 EDT
+ 
+     A-TC: yes, Londo *does* have his moments when one almost likes him in
+spite of oneself; the second episode of year three has scenes in which you
+don't like him, and then you *do* like him enormously...then you don't again. 
+He's caught in the scissors...and trying madly to find some way out of the
+situation he's in.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 24
+Message 84        Tue Oct 24, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:43 EDT
+ 
+     Or are you just happy to see me.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 24
+Message 92        Wed Oct 25, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:17 EDT
+ 
+     Debs: *extremely* good points, and well considered.  We go through great
+pains on the lighting, to add dimension, texture, and to play with helping
+create the characters.  Thanks for noticing.
+
+                                                                        jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 24
+Message 104       Thu Oct 26, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:47 EDT
+ 
+     He's Centauri.  They have an accent.  He puts stress on the darndest word
+sometimes.  
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+ ************
+Topic 25        Sat Apr 29, 1995
+SF-HUDGENS [Fenn]            (Forwarded) 
+Sub: #221 - "Comes the Inquisitor"          
+
+by JMS
+69 message(s) total.
+ ************
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 25
+Message 3         Wed Oct 25, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:10 EDT
+ 
+      General Answer For What Comes Now:
+
+      Yes, I *know* it's the East End not the West End; I looked right at my
+notes when I was writing the script, and they said East and I typed West and
+nobody noticed it until it went out.  I could've replaced it with a looped
+line prior to first airing here, as this was found during the UK airings, but
+looping never improves only diminishes the performance, and he's on-camera and
+the words wouldn't match his mouth.  So I decided to let it go out this way
+once for performance, and we'll correct this aspect with a loop in later
+airings, even though that will somewhat lessen the performance aspect.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 25
+Message 6         Thu Oct 26, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:32 EDT
+ 
+     Yes we have.  In the pilot and elsewhere.  It comes out engines first to
+decelerate more quickly, then turns around to actually dock.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 25
+Message 15        Fri Oct 27, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:00 EDT
+ 
+     Maybe a subtitle or caption on-screen with the words, "I'm sorry, I'm
+sorry, I'm sorry."
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 25
+Message 25        Sat Oct 28, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:30 EDT
+ 
+     You can't exclude or include anything in your story just because a
+character or concept has been used by others.  If we were to do that, then we
+might as well never make the show, because others have shown starships and
+hyperspace and aliens.  Okay, yes, others have used Jack.  But not in the same
+way.  It was *right* for this show...should it not be used because others have
+also used this character?  I think that the moment you begin constantly course-
+correcting your show in reaction to other shows, you're dead in the water. 
+You have to do what's right for *this* story, in *this* episode.  And I think
+we showed a very different aspect of the character and the situation than has
+been shown before.  If we just did the same old gag -- Jack comes to B5 and
+begins murdering people again -- then I'd agree.  But we didn't.  I think you
+have to judge a show by what's IN the show, and how well it's done, not
+against what has been done in other places. 
+
+     Otherwise we might as well throw out starships and beam weapons and
+aliens and all the rest, since those have ALL been done a lot more than Jack. 
+
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 25
+Message 27        Sat Oct 28, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:27 EDT
+ 
+     In his situation, who wouldn't...?
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 25
+Message 31        Sun Oct 29, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:33 EDT
+ 
+     Never thought the ep was being trashed, just responding.  If one picks
+nits with shows, one should also be free to pick nits on messages.   Just the
+usual give and take.
+
+     Remembered an interesting quote this afternoon: "Of course everything has
+already been said.  But since no one was listening, we must begin again."
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 25
+Message 39        Sun Oct 29, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:24 EST
+ 
+     Well, this certainly helps explain the growing popularity of Senator
+Dole.  Shaving off that mustache was a definite smart move.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 25
+Message 44        Sun Oct 29, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:24 EST
+ 
+     Jim: never hesitate to bring something up because it's me; if we can't
+discuss the issues, there's no point.
+
+     On the question of Dole and politics in general...yeah, Bruce and Jerry
+and I tend to go 'round and 'round about this stuff at our lunch gatherings. 
+Sometimes for laughs, sometimes earnestly, but we generally tend to respect
+the other's viewpoints.  
+
+     I don't personally subscribe wholecloth to a liberal or conservative
+agenda; I think you have to take each individual issue as it comes.  I'm pro-
+choice and pro-death penalty (UNLESS one can guarantee that when a court says,
+"life inprisonment," it MEANS life, not 5 years, then I flip to the other side
+of the issue).  
+
+     There are a number of interesting democrats, and a number of intersting
+republicans out there.  Dole, however, strikes me as a mean, venal little man
+who would make Nixon (also not high on my hit parade) look like Rebecca of
+Sunnybrook Farm if he ever got into high office.   It ain't the party, it
+ain't the issues (well, not entirely)...it's just that this guy worries the
+hell out of me.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+Category 19,  Topic 25
+Message 67        Tue Oct 31, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:31 EST
+ 
+       "He wishes confirmation."  Any catholics in here want to comment a
+little further on what that means?
+
+       Re: Colin Powell...I'm cautiously optimistic.  One of the real dangers
+is that, not knowing perhaps as much as we should about him, is that he has
+the potential to become the empty vessel into which we pour all of our
+expectations about what he *could* be, or what we *think* he is...and see not
+him, but our own reflection, which is always appealing to a restless
+population seeking the next tall rider on a horse.  
+
+       That said...I do find much of what I've seen quite intriguing, and if
+the rest is revealed to match what seems to be his personality and record, I
+think I might be inclined to vote for him.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
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+Compiled by David Strauss (dstrauss@netcom.com).
+
+
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 31
+Message 76        Thu Dec 07, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:04 EST
+ 
+     Yes, from what Ivanova tells Lyta, about two weeks have passed since the
+apprehension of Edward's killer; and yes, with slight modifications to prevent
+mindwipes from running into one another, they usually use preset templates in
+creating a basic history for the person to be wiped.
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 870       Fri Dec 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:06 EST
+ 
+      Jose: "glad to have you back on rastb5 again"...huh?  I'm not on rastb5,
+in limited fashion or otherwise.  Are you perhaps referring to the info group?
+
+     Re: inspiration...in general this has meant people coming to me and
+saying that because of the show, they've chosen to get involved in charities,
+or social causes, or to register voters, or work in shelters; in Dallas at a
+small convention I was at, a young man stood up in the seminar and said that
+he was changing his major to social work because of the show...in email I
+received a note from a fellow who, inspired by the notion that you can choose
+a better life, relocated with his wife halfway across the country, against the
+"advice" of everyone else, and created a new and better life doing *exactly*
+what he wants to do with his life.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 879       Fri Dec 08, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:38 EST
+ 
+       Hrmmm...it was my understanding that the reposts/answers would go on
+the rastb5-info group.  I'll have to check this out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 616       Sun Dec 10, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:48 EST
+ 
+      Yes, "CoS" is a deliberate mirror-image of "Midnight," partly to
+illustrate the notion that "the wheel turns," as G'Kar says...yes, it  does,
+and if you forget that it eventually turns on *you*, you'll be ground beneath
+it.
+
+      I enjoyed Wing Commander 3, and will almost certainly buy WC3, but won't
+play it until I've finished writing for the season, for obvious reasons....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+(oops, meant to say WC4 above)
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 642       Mon Dec 11, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:34 EST
+ 
+     jms does not do christmas, that's correct.
+
+     BTW, B5's own conceptual consultant Harlan Ellison will be signing copies
+of his new CD Rom game, "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream" at Tower
+Records/Video in two locations this week: from 6-7:30 p.m. on  Wednesday,
+December 13th, at 8801 Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, and in San Francisco
+on Thursday, December 14th, from 6-8 p.m. at 3205 20th Avenue.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 648       Mon Dec 11, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:32 EST
+ 
+      Haven't tried the game yet, or ANY of the games now in my hands, or that
+I'm intending to buy, 'cause if I get into them (like Mechwarrior 2) I know
+that it'll take hours and hours from the writing; when the season's over, then
+I can do that.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 661       Tue Dec 12, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:18 EST
+ 
+     Jeff: yep, that was you I was thinking of...thanks for leaping up and
+helping indicate I'm not senile (well, yet, anyway).
+
+     Re: Mechwarrior 2...I don't have any first-hand experience with the game,
+so don't take my purchase as recommendation; I'd just read some of the
+reviews, and figured I'd check it out.
+
+     Re: Sinclair as the One...funny how all this time very few folks have
+really commented much on how it was that Zathras could look right into
+Sinclair's face and say, "NOT the One."  
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 670       Tue Dec 12, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:47 EST
+ 
+     Basically, she doesn't have any one style; it's whatever she feels like
+that day.  The military rule is that the hair has to be kept either off,
+above, or away from the rank insignia.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 687       Wed Dec 13, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:27 EST
+ 
+     Actually, I tend to spend the same amount of time here as anywhere else;
+more, in fact.  I inevitably log onto GEnie minimum of twice a day; I
+sometimes go a couple/three days without logging onto AOL, for instance,
+though then I post several messages at a time, so you get a flurry.  As for
+CIS, bear in mind that I've been on that service LONG before GEnie even came
+along, since 1984/85, and that has the benefit of using an offline
+reader/posting program, Tapcis...I've tried Aladdin, and can't get it to do
+the stuff I want...this isn't an invitation to teach me, I don't have time for
+the learning curve right now...so everything you see from me here on GEnie is
+written live, on-line.  That sometimes mitigates a *bit* against the number of
+posts, but no more so than at any time before.
+
+     The video thing didn't come out as an announcement, but rather as an
+aside to an ongoing discussion that touched into this area.  It wasn't a case
+of, "Aha!  I have this to announce, so I'll do it HERE rather than on GEnie." 
+That's just where it occured to me in the natural progression of messages. 
+Just like stuff gets mentioned here that sometimes doesn't get mentioned
+elsewhere.  Which is why there are a number of folks out there collecting my
+posts on various services and reposting them onto other services, because I
+don't generally talk about the same stuff in all these different places.  If I
+just did redundent postings, there'd be no need for that.
+
+     Finally, if there *is* any numerical difference in postings -- and I
+dispute that premise -- it may come from the fact that in general, on the
+newer places, I tend to get a lot more specific questions than here; and most
+of the ones here, or in general, tend to be "is this going to happen," or
+asking for details on upcoming stuff, which I really can't answer often or in
+great specificity.
+
+     I still consider GEnie and CIS my two primary services, having been here
+the longest...but let's not get proprietary here....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 692       Wed Dec 13, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:12 EST
+ 
+      The actor who plays Pinky, Maurice LeMarche, is a friend, so that may
+explain the connection.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+     (Maurice also did the voice of Egon Spengler in TRGBs)
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 704       Thu Dec 14, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:04 EST
+ 
+     I won't be finished writing this season's scripts until...right around
+the first week in March, give or take.  At the end of a season, you generally
+get an advance script order while you're waiting around for the official word,
+usually for maybe 2 or 3 scripts tops, which comes around early April.  The
+official writing season starts the day after the formal pickup, which is late
+May.  
+
+     So while the writing goes on to some extent year round, the really
+intense period is from June through March.  Ten months, or about 42-44 weeks,
+so you're looking at one script every ten days to two weeks; we usually like
+to start filming with 4-6 finished scripts in-hand so that we have sufficient
+lead time to prep.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 524       Thu Dec 14, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:07 EST
+ 
+      Bear in mind that the Agamemnon now has a captain of its own, and that
+captain isn't going to just turn over command of his destroyer every time
+Sheridan wants to take it out on a joy ride.  Also, the really important
+missions Sheridan might use it for are probably things that the EA military
+division might not be comfortable with, and would never let  him just take out
+a destroyer just like that.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 31
+Message 105       Tue Dec 12, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:14 EST
+ 
+     The Centauri did not steal the bag; he had left long before Edward lost
+it (we see him drop and leave it behind in the hallway).  AS Garibaldi said,
+someone found it and tried to sell it.  
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 721       Fri Dec 15, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:22 EST
+ 
+      Have listened to and enjoyed some of Enigma's work, yes.  Nice stuff.
+
+      Can't predict fourth season script stuff at this early stage; one crisis
+at a time.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 734       Sat Dec 16, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:48 EST
+ 
+     There are no plans for the foreseeable future of seeing Talia, so  it's a
+moot point about the hair, I'd say....
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 747       Sat Dec 16, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:28 EST
+ 
+      Well, bear in mind it's not just a matter of designating someone
+"control," it's the whole implantation process that has to be done.  
+
+      Re: Ivanova's hair...yes, whenever she's in the starfury, it's tied away
+in back.
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 476       Mon Dec 18, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:17 EST
+ 
+     What y'all have to remember is that we produce 22 shows a year.   There
+are 52 weeks in a year.  That means that no matter how you slice it, you've
+got 30 weeks of reruns in there.
+
+     RE: Talia...look, you've kinda got to look at this the way I do.   Stuff
+happens.  Yes, Talia was hoped for to be a key to the solution of the problem.
+(Not the key, but a key.)  But if you do that, every single  time, you become
+predictable.  It means you, the audience, can relax.   "Well, we know now that
+Talia will always get through this because she's the one they're hoping for." 
+Suspense: gone.  Story: suddenly predictable.  There's no rule that every
+person who is hoped to help solve the problem in real life is gonna make it to
+the end or BE that solution.  So if you delete that person, now it's "Oh,
+hell, NOW what're they gonna do?" which is more intrinsically interesting to
+me than the other option.
+
+     Generally speaking, about once a year, toward the end of the year, I
+kinda look around at the characters with a loaded gun in my hand, and say,
+"Hmmm...if I take out *that* person, what happens?  Is there anyone here I can
+afford to lose?  Would it be more dramatically interesting to have this person
+alive, or dead?  What is the absolute bare minimum of characters I need to get
+to the end of the story and achieve what I have to achieve?"
+
+     It helps to really remember that this is a *novel*, and uses the
+structure of a novel.  That means you have to have some real suprises as you
+go.  Anyone is fair game.  To the question "Why did you get rid of Sinclair? 
+Why'd you get rid of Keffer?  Why'd you get rid of Talia?   Why'd you get rid
+of....oh, er, that hasn't happened yet...." there is only one answer: 'cause I
+felt like it, and 'cause I thought it'd make the story a lot more interesting.
+
+
+     The stories I like best are the ones that ratchet up the tension and the
+uncertainty inch by inch until you're screaming.  This could apply to any of
+Stephen King's novels (and recall that a lot of my background is in horror
+writing).  Mother Abigail in THE STAND was supposed to be their hope for the
+future.  So in short order she's vulture-food, JUST when she's most needed. 
+*Because that's interesting*.  It makes you say, "Oh, hell, NOW what?" 
+(Stephen actually does that a lot in his books, and it's a technique I've
+learned as well.)  Boromir in LoTR was a capable, skilled fighter, deemed
+absolutely essential to the Company of the Ring...oops, there he is by the
+tree, full of Orc arrows.
+
+     Stuff happens.
+
+     Same here.
+
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+ ------------
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+Message 497       Tue Dec 19, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:02 EST
+ 
+      There was always a Ranger going to be assigned to the station about this
+time, yes.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
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+Message 509       Wed Dec 20, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:44 EST
+ 
+     BTW, here's humor...though at the same time understandable given the
+penchant for some folks to abuse the nets by pretending to be other people...I
+got a call today from Claudia, who was trying to take part in a B5 IRC and
+kept getting booted out by folks yelling at her for the crime of pretending to
+be Claudia Christian.  Nobody believed it was her.   Perhaps in future we need
+to find some way to verify when this happens.
+
+     (BTW, speaking of net abuse, I'm led to understand, from the sysadmin on
+the server in question, that Theron Fuller is no longer being allowed access
+to Usenet from his account.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
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+Message 117       Wed Dec 20, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:00 EST
+ 
+      I'd say there were extenuating circumstances here that made it more than
+just a simple murder (and not all murders get wiped, esp. in cases like second-
+degree or manslaughter).  He'd stalked Edward for years; arranged to break the
+mindwipe; and engaged in slow, deliberate, methodical torture unto death.  The
+degree of premeditation is staggering.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
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+Message 538       Thu Dec 21, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:41 EST
+ 
+     On those other services, the sysops arranged for conferences with the
+cast members involved.  That could be done just as easily for GEnie as others.
+Just hasn't been done.  To my knowledge, no one's been invited.  (I think it's
+been mentioned in my direction once or twice, but not for a while, and I don't
+think anything was really ever pinned down, but my memory isn't all it
+was...if it ever was....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
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+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 542       Thu Dec 21, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:30 EST
+ 
+     You want to know how much Joe has been writing lately?  You want to know
+the goofy side of it?  
+
+     I write with keyboard in lap, leaning back, legs in a broken-4 position
+(left ankle crossing right knee) to support it.  Well, I've been writing so
+much, so *long*, lately that I recently discovered that there is now an actual
+indentation in my left leg, just above the ankle, where it's been abraded by
+cloth, and the circulatoin's been hindered, and there's been constant pressure
+placed on it.  I've actually lost some sensitivity in that 5-inch section. 
+THAT'S how much I've been writing this year.
+
+     I need a vacation.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
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+Category 18,  Topic 43
+Message 1         Thu Dec 21, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:46 EST
+ 
+     We hope to *FINALLY* be able to announce the formation of the  official
+Babylon 5 Fan Club within the next 7 days or so.  From time to time, news
+about this will get dropped here, and we can use this for notices relating to
+the club, and information about joining and such. 
+
+     We've been negotiating with WB for *over a year* to let us do this, and
+it's taken a long time mainly because they didn't think anyone would be
+interested in a fan club for something not ST.  (Sound familiar?)  But
+finally, after much persistence, we're finally at a point where I can say I
+think it's going to happen at last.  Stay tuned....
+
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+ ------------
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+Message 260       Fri Dec 22, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:12 EST
+ 
+     Actually, bear in mind that the American system operates through a series
+of checks and balances; there's freedom of speech, but there are penalties if
+you use that freedom to write defamatory newspapers, for instance.  In
+cyberspace, the checks and balances are more than a little overdrawn....
+
+     Tom: to your question...I do know that Terry Nation wrote a full season
+of Blake's 7, though I don't know how many episodes that was.  Some folks have
+checked around, and as near as can be determined, in American TV, no one
+person has ever singlehandedly written an entire season of a one-hour dramatic
+series in the entire 50 years or so of TV history.
+
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+ ------------
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+Message 280       Fri Dec 22, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:58 EST
+ 
+     Kwicker & Jose: exactly my point.  Kelley *co-wrote* all of a season, or
+all but one of a season, sometimes supplying the story, or rewriting another's
+script...but no one's done it *singlehandedly* before.  
+
+     So Nation did 13 episodes that season?  Well, then looks like that
+record's been broken already; 17 this season already.  Plus 4 from the end of
+last season, so when this is all over (year 3) that'll be 26 in a row,
+unbroken.  (Or is it 27?  What aired before the final four?)
+
+     This is probably the ultimate in trivial details, but it's the sort of
+thing that helps me keep going.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
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+Message 287       Sat Dec 23, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 06:26 EST
+ 
+     Actually, in each TZ season, there were many other writers, though
+Serling wrote the majority of each season (also, the lion's share of TZ
+episodes were *half-hours*, not hours).  But fundamentally, what matters most
+is not the volume or quantity of scripts, but the quality of what goes IN
+them.  I'd rather write 1 good script than 4 mediocre scripts.
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
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+Message 127       Fri Dec 22, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:50 EST
+ 
+     Actually, in legal terms, in order to qualify for "a crime of passion"
+there cannot be premeditation; it happens suddenly, in the heat of the moment.
+By virtue of stalking Edward for nine years, the "crime of passion" defense
+quickly goes by the boards
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
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+Category 18,  Topic 43
+Message 6         Fri Dec 22, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:00 EST
+ 
+     No, the club is designed for both on- and offline fans.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
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+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 297       Sat Dec 23, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:27 EST
+ 
+      Actually, I always kinda thought that the people granted the people
+their rights, then created the government to arbitrate in the dispute over the
+use of those rights.  
+
+      For a glimpse on how ST stories get written, btw, pick up the latest
+copy of WIRED.  I know this kind of thing works for some folks, but it just
+makes my hair stand on end.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
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+Message 315       Sun Dec 24, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:37 EST
+ 
+     I guess what amazed me most was either Berman or Pillar coming right out
+and saying ST "is a formula."  Just that simple.  I about fell off my chair.
+
+     BTW, on the question of effects...here's one that's kinda interesting, in
+that I've seen a few comments here and there about how we must've mapped the
+CGI fireball into the hallway in "Convictions" where Londo jumps into the
+transport tube.  Some even offered you could tell the fire was CGI.
+
+     Nooooooop.
+
+     Here's how that shot was done: we built a miniature hallway (actually,
+"miniature" ain't the right word; it was something like 30 feet long or more).
+Painted it so that it looked exactly like the regular B5 hallways.  On film
+you absolutely can't tell the difference.  Then we mounted the hallway
+*vertically* alongside the outside of the main building here.  Set the camer
+at the top, pointing down into the hall.   We built a firebomb and set it at
+the far end of the hall (on the bottom, in other words).  We then set off the
+firebomb (with all the proper authorities present), so that it shot up the
+length of the vertical hall.   We overcranked the camera so it'd start in slow-
+motion, then pulled the plug so that the camera slowed down to normal
+speed...giving the sense of the fire swelling, then suddenly rushing forward
+with a huge fireball.   So when it looks like the "hallway" is on fire...it
+is.  Real fire.
+
+     Next we shot Londo (Peter) against a bluescreen, reacting to this, then
+diving to his left.  We then comp'd the bluescreen into the hallway, and used
+CGI to build a transport tube door to Londo's left, which then closed just as
+the fire reached it.
+
+     It was an utterly immense amount of work for, basically, a five second
+shot...but it looks 'way cool.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
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+Message 328       Sun Dec 24, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:57 EST
+ 
+      Effects shots like this one were/are supervised via our EFX supervisor,
+Ted Rae, working closely with the director and folks from Foundation.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
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+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 357       Tue Dec 26, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 06:38 EST
+ 
+     Now, kids, play nice....
+
+     Sue: as you're looking at the fireball approaching toward camera, he
+jumps to our left.  Trust me on this.
+
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+ ------------
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+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 304       Mon Dec 25, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:45 EST
+ 
+     The comment is quite correct; we never once verbally identified
+Londo's...extension for what it was.  We intimated, and left it in the
+sophistication of the viewer to figure it out.  Same with the Talis (er,
+Talia) situation.
+
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+ ------------
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+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 370       Tue Dec 26, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:38 EST
+ 
+      Re: formula...yes, but remember that all the shows you cite, THE
+HONEYMOONERS, I LOVE LUCY, and MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE were all shows of a  time
+that lent itself to formula, all of the 50s and 60s.  You set a format and you
+never wavered from that.  (But even in those, there was some room to maneuver;
+remember the DICK VAN DYKE show which was one long dream about alien invasions
+and closets full of walnuts?  Even there some were experimenting and pushing
+the envelope.)
+
+     Since then, television has grown, and changed, and the better shows tend
+to be the ones that are most groundbreaking, least formulaic.  You look at
+TWIN PEAKS, or NYPD BLUE, or PICKET FENCES, and they're fresh, innovative,
+interesting.  
+
+     This is probably the one area where I have my biggest beef with ST.   The
+logic goes that if you're a new, untested show, you can't afford to take
+risks, you have to build your audience.  But ST has, however you wish to
+phrase it, a guaranteed audience.  It *can* take chances.  It *does* have the
+money for big episodes.  But what it does is to stay within very strictly
+proscribed boundaries.  It's like having this incredibly powerful, souped up
+Porsche...and using it to drive around the block to the corner store for
+groceries.
+
+     ST is a program rooted strongly in the 1960s form of storytelling.   It's
+frozen in time, I think, when it could be innovative, challenging, dynamic. 
+It chooses, deliberately, not to be that.  And if that's what people like
+about it, then that's fine.  I just think it's a tremendously wasted
+opportunity to present something for the 90s that would be as innovative and
+imaginative and challenging as the original ST was in the 60s.
+
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+Message 380       Tue Dec 26, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:47 EST
+ 
+     Actually, if you want to hold off a bit on the conversion, you may want
+to consider using the first new ep coming in January, "Voices of Authority." 
+It has elements of the sense of wonder, some good background on the show,
+advances the storyline bigtime, and has some of the funniest stuff we've ever
+done.  Something for everyone.
+
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+ ------------
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+Message 390       Wed Dec 27, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:58 EST
+ 
+      Err...I think something may not have been understood, or maybe my syntax
+was sloppy...what I'd intended, and what I think is still there in the
+message, was that I'd hoped that ST today would be as exciting in the 90s as
+it was in the 60s.  That was kinda my point, that ST in its first incarnation
+*was* innovative and interesting and imaginative; I hope that wasn't
+misconstrued.  
+
+     (And Jose...yes, you're probably right on that distinction between the
+two kinds of Trek.)
+
+     Came across this in my email tonight (it's now a tick before 3 a.m.).
+
+  This leads me to a request, which I am writing by email since I don't
+  have access to CompuServe or GEnie, but please feel free to respond to it
+  publicly rather than privately if you wish, since others may be interested
+  in your response as well.  I would be fascinated, if you would care to
+  talk about it, about your writing process.  Do you have a set time, a
+  predetermined schedule in which to write?  Are you *able* to write like
+  that?  Do you write rapidly?  easily?  enjoyably?  Do you read your work-
+  in-progress aloud to hear the language?  Do you solicit feedback from
+  others?  Do you revise?  much?  What kind of revisions are you likely to
+  make?  And if you do make revisions, do they occur as you go along, or
+  afterwards, or a combination?  And, finally, would it be possible for you
+  to post (or email) any bits of writing showing the revision process?
+
+  I'm refraining from asking all the related questions I'd love to know the
+  answers to, but if this is a topic you'd be willing to discuss and think
+  I/we would be interested in other details as well, please do talk about
+  them.  Thank you so much.
+
+Marcia Goldstein
+
+     Since these were good questions, I thought I'd tackle them here.  To the
+first: no, I don't have a set time, except that I pretty much end up writing
+all the time...when I get up, when I'm fighting sleep to go to bed, in-
+between...basically, I chew on a scene over and over in my head until I'm
+satisfied with it, then I write it down.  Sometimes that process goes on at
+the desk, or over dinner, or watching TV...but as soon as it comes through, I
+get up and I write it.  Consequently, once I've thought it through, "seen" it
+in my head a couple dozen times like watching a movie, the actual writing, or
+transcribing, is fairly easy.  It's the thinking part that makes Zathras' head
+hurt.
+
+     Most of my revisions take place before anyone else sees it; I don't
+generally turn over the script until I'm happy with it.  At that point, it's
+published as an official first draft, even though it may have gone through
+multiple revisions in my computer before anyone else ever saw it.   Sometimes,
+though, I get it right the first time, and what gets shot is basically first
+draft.  Once it's turned it, there are additional revisions, but usually of a
+minor nature, changing sets to accommodate shooting, or just changing a word. 
+(I've been known to reissue a full page when we get into blues or pinks *just*
+to change a word or two.)
+
+     I never read the words aloud because then they all come out sounding like
+me; I can "hear" them better in my head, where I can hear the actual tenor of
+Londo's voice.  I never solicit opinions on pages while I'm still writing,
+only afterward, and mainly in terms of production aspects.  To do otherwise
+risks you losing your direction and second-guessing too much.  
+
+     Do I enjoy it?  Yes and no.  Writing is the one, the ONLY thing I'm good
+at.  Writing is also the hardest thing I do.  I agonize over every word,
+always fighting the fear that this one won't be as good as the last one, that
+this time I won't be able to pull the rabbit out of the hat.   Sometimes, when
+a scene comes through completely of its own volition, it's great fun; when it
+doesn't, it's agony.  Sometimes I enjoy the writing process; sometimes I more
+enjoy *having* written.  It's kinda like taking a portable speed drill with a
+3/4" steel bit and driving it into the side of your head...it's painful, but
+after the first four inches in, you kinda start to like it....
+
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+Message 322       Tue Dec 26, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:48 EST
+ 
+     Mike: suffice to say there are some...interesting moments coming up soon
+between Refa and Londo.  There are a number of showdowns coming up this
+season, between a lot of different characters, over stuff that's been building
+up for a while now.  We'll see where this one goes.
+
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+Message 411       Wed Dec 27, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:01 EST
+ 
+     Rick: exactly.  I think the show will thus be perceived differently when
+its stripped daily, just as you mentioned.
+
+     Executor: I have to take exception to the notion that it's not "written
+by committee."  I happen to know many of the people who do, and have, worked
+over there.  (And there is no one "script editor" you refer to there.)  On
+every episode, once the freelancer or staffer does an outline, it's brought in
+and the story is "broken" (their terms) by all of the available
+writers/producers/story editors gathered into one room who invariably tear it
+apart and rebuild it, with someone writing on a chalkboard where everything's
+going, changing it as the group changes stuff.  Jeri Taylor confirmed this in
+an interview with her; the Wired in-depth story does the same; and I know the
+people who've worked there in this capacity.  And, I'm sorry, but a group of 7
+or so people sitting around a room and throwing out ideas about how the story
+should go *is* a committee.  Before you come back with this, I suggest you
+read the article in question, lest you commit the crime you decry, that of 
+speaking from ignorance.
+
+     Sue: no, it's our left *and* Londo's left.  As the fireball comes toward
+us, he's standing with his back to us, looking at the fire.  The door is to
+his, and our, left.  
+
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+Message 424       Thu Dec 28, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:29 EST
+ 
+     YAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH.....
+
+     Well, I *finally* finished writing the two-parter, "War Without End,"
+which is probably the toughest thing I've written for the series to date.  
+Given everything that has to fit in here, and the fact that it's the other
+half of the B4 storyline (this ain't a spoiler, that'll be common knowledge in
+ads and the like), it became a pretty difficult job, moreso than when I'd
+originally thunk it up.  It's kinda like cramming 20 pounds of potatoes in a
+10 pound bag...but I *think* I got it all in, even though the initial drafts
+came out at about 7 pages too long.  As I commented to one person, "I'm
+definitely dancing on the edge of my ability here."  But I'm pretty sure I
+pulled it all off...and I think folks are going to be quite pleased.
+
+     But *man* that was tough....
+
+     Now, having written 16 and 17, only 5 scripts remain to be written for
+this season.  And there's still an awful lot to fit in before the big season
+ender, which I suspect will raise quite a few eyebrows.  
+
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+Message 329       Wed Dec 27, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:03 EST
+ 
+     Thanks.  Though I knew about the gaff a LONG time before it was to air
+here in the US, I let the east/west thing go through as shot for the very
+first broadcast because I was afraid that the loop might hurt the scene, and
+it was *so* perfectly done.  That over, I decided it was worth taking a shot
+at it.  If your friend didn't notice, then we did it right.   So now those who
+taped the first broadcast have something that'll never be seen again (if I
+have anything to say about it).
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
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+Message 10        Thu Dec 28, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:20 EST
+ 
+     The email response I sent is correct, the release is valid, just not
+written the way I'd've preferred; it makes too much of the fiscal aspects of
+the darned thing.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
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+Message 446       Thu Dec 28, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:40 EST
+ 
+     Kim: this was probably the most logistically difficult, since I had so
+many elements "in play" at any given moment, and so many threads to deal with,
+even though there's really just the one overall storyline (it's hard to
+explain, you'll just have to see it).  Other things have been more difficult
+for other reasons...either it was too emotionally close to me, or I've been
+under a killer deadline, it varies.
+
+     Pat: you fall into the trap of accepted cliche re: committee writing.  
+That's the usual picture people have of TV writing, and frankly, in the case
+of most dramatic TV, it ain't true.  For starters, two of the shows you cite
+are sitcoms; sitcoms work differently from dramatic series in that there's
+often (though not always) a gang of gag writers who work in tandem to come up
+with an episode, with someone transcribing the jokes, around a basic premise. 
+Other times you get a writing team, one knows structure, the other is funny;
+ain't the same deal as dramatic writing.
+
+     I've been involved in a LOT of dramatic television, from MURDER SHE WROTE
+to WALKER to TWILIGHT ZONE and JAKE, and it's just not done by committee. 
+When it comes to my scripts, as a staffer, I write them on my own, get my
+notes from the exec producer, make the changes, and it goes into production. 
+In the case of a freelancer, the outline and script come in, the writer gets
+notes from the story editor or producer, does the next draft, turns that in,
+and someone on staff then takes the script and makes whatever final changes --
+minor or major -- are required to make it producible or a better story. 
+Sometimes you don't touch it at *all* except to make production (set) changes;
+sometimes it's more.  But you've got just the original writer, and usually one
+staffer doing cleanup.  It ain't three, four or seven guys in a room throwing
+around ideas.  If a staffer does a huge rewrite, sometimes you'll put in for
+shared credit.   (The reason you see ten zillion writer credits in many ST
+episodes is due to the gang rewriting/writing process.)
+
+     I'm not saying it doesn't happen at all in dramatic TV, because that
+wouldn't be true...only that it's not the rule, and is much rarer than you
+might think.  Not one of the dramatic series I've been involved with has ever
+worked that way.
+
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+Message 473       Fri Dec 29, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:40 EST
+ 
+     Let me see if I've got this straight...Executor says that ST is not
+written by committee...I say that it is...he says it's not, and that "reality
+doesn't care" if I take exception to his statement that ST is written by
+committee...and then he states that ST *must* be written by committee, and
+thus it IS written by committee, which means I was correct and reality is on
+my side.
+
+     At some point here I think somebody fell down the rabbit hole....
+
+     And then I'm contradicted quoting the "script editor" for ST, when I say
+there IS no such creature working on the show, and in fact despite being told
+I'm wrong by Executor, he turn turns around and reveals that the "editor" in
+question is John Ordover, who edits the BOOKS, not the show, and is NOT a
+script editor, which I said doesn't exist, which again shows that reality is
+on my side....
+
+     This is makings Zathras' head hurt....
+
+     Re: the "stupid thread," and the "effective end of similarity" being that
+the two shows were set on space stations...oh, you mean absent the fact that
+the two shows both were helmed by commander ranked officers who had survived
+major and emotionally devastating battles, both had female seconds-in-command,
+both had a shapeshifter in their pilots, both had the female second leading a
+counter-attack to a massive attack in that same pilot, and a lot of other
+stuff in common....oh, you mean absent all THAT it's the "effective end of
+similarity."  Gotcha.
+
+     "Writing teams can come up with ideas better than one writer."  Well,
+THAT should certainly put Hemingway, and Shakespeare, and Dickens, and Wilde,
+and Borges, and Faulkner, and Dostoeyvsky, and Marlowe in their place,
+yessir...and I'm sure you are now prepared to name the committees of writers
+that have come up with better than individual writers.  I eagerly await them.
+
+     As for your comments on how TV writing and production works...rarely have
+I seen misinformation so breathtakingly portrayed.  Saying it's so doesn't
+make it so.
+
+     Finally, as for being bugged by email, I almost always see this when
+somebody gets his or her hide branded in public forums; if you have these,
+notify GEnie.  Otherwise, it leads me to doubt if they exist, and to consider
+that you're just saying that to get sympathy on your side, 'cause the *facts*
+sure as heck aren't.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 43
+Message 16        Sun Dec 31, 1995
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:54 EST
+ 
+      One other aspect I forgot to mention is that if we do the tapes, there
+are residuals and royalties to pay to actors, writers, directors as well as to
+WB and elsewhere.  The more you put on a tape, the more residuals you end up
+paying per tape...and the more the prices is going go up.  It's not the same
+as copying a bunch of tapes for a friend; we have to pay everyone who
+participated in the episode.  
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
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+Compiled by David Strauss (dstrauss@netcom.com).
+
+
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 111       Fri Jan 05, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:44 EST
+ 
+     Atratus: how can I answer that without giving away major story points
+from the next 2 years?  
+
+     Re: Ivanvoa showing up at someone's home in lingerie...darn, just ran
+outta pixie dust...imagine that....
+
+     Scott: yes, go the Raleigh article; sorry, meant to mention this
+before...terminal brain-fart on my part.
+
+     Doug: regarding making people laugh until their sides hurt...this is
+something I always go for.  It's easy to go for the "well, that's amusing"
+stuff, but to make someone laugh out loud, or even until it hurts, is tough. 
+In most (but not all) cases, I try to get one solid laugh per episode, one
+moving scene per episode, and one "head-conk" per episode.   The first
+obligation of a writer is to make you *feel* something, and if I can do that
+in an episode, then I've done my job.
+
+     It helps in that I'm not generally a big laugher; when I go to plays or
+movies with other people, and they're comedies, afterwards I'll always get
+"Why didn't you like it?"  "I did."  "You didn't laugh."  "I was just thinking
+about how funny it was."  Usually I can see a punchline coming, and part of my
+brain is racing ahead to what it might be.  (And half the time at least I'm
+right.)  So I've adopted the philosophy that if I find something extremely
+funny, other people will laugh at it; if I'm so tickled that I absolutely
+laugh out loud, I know it'll probably kill several people.  As a result, if
+I'm going for a funny scene, I don't leave it alone until I laugh at it.  
+
+     When I thought about Londo passing out face first on the banquet table
+uttering "...but in purple, I'm *stunning*," I just about fell off my chair
+laughing.  Sometimes I'm a little broad in my comedy, other times I go for
+something a little more literate or (one hopes) witty (most of these go to
+Ivanova, whereas the broad stuff tends to go to Londo in most cases).  But I
+try to keep it varied.  
+
+     Strangely enough, the comics that *do* manage to break me up are all the
+more assaultive ones...Jerry Lewis, Robin Williams, Buddy Hackett (who can
+reduce me to tears), and a few others.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 135       Sat Jan 06, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:45 EST
+ 
+      Yes, in "Ceremonies" Harlan is the voice of the computer used.
+
+      No, have never been on NPR's Fresh Air.  Nobody's asked.
+
+      Well, reactions have been coming in on the two parter, and so far
+everyone's wog-boggled.  Peter Jurasik called to say he didn't know what I'm
+smoking these days, but to please send ten pounds of it to his house at
+*once*.  Mumy went nuts over it, everyone's very excited...including and
+especially Michael O'Hare, who got his copy of the script today, read it
+straight through, and is *extremely* excited by the story, and what happens
+with his character, and is VERY much looking forward to the shoot.  
+
+     BTW, today Walter Koenig and Bill Mumy had a scene together; this (saith
+Bill) marks the first time a Lost in Space regular and a Star Trek regular
+have acted together in the same scene.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 187       Sun Jan 07, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:20 EST
+ 
+     One of the problems we had with the Hugo last year was that whereas only
+a couple of TNG episodes were good enough to get nominated, eight B5 episodes
+made it to the final cut.  Because folks went for their favorite episodes, and
+they had a number that year.  The result was that the choices got split so
+much that TNG won, since it had fewer good or great episodes that season. 
+("All Good Things" won with, I think, 57 votes; the top two B5 episodes on the
+list had 32 and 27 votes between them, enough right there to have won if
+combined.  That was for "Signs and Portents" and "Chrysalis," with "And the
+Sky Full of Stars" at 21, "Babylon Squared" at 19, "Believers" at 10, "Mind
+War" at 9, "Voice in the Wilderness" at 8, and "Soul Hunter" at 6.)
+
+     So basically, we lost because we had too many solid episodes to choose
+from.
+
+     As a result, a lot of folks this year have been campaigning to have
+participants go for "The Coming of Shadows," which is the highest rated
+episode in all the informal polls on-line and elsewhere from that time period.
+It's the one nearly everybody seems to agree upon.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 232       Wed Jan 10, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:12 EST
+ 
+      BTW, two quickies...I haven't had a chance to read it or buy it yet --
+or ANY book lately, or see a movie since May -- but Harlan noted to me lately
+that our own Adam Troy-Castro's latest novel is especially spiffy, so folks
+here may want to check it out.  Also...if you count yourself as *any* kind of
+fan of quality SF, then you may want to check out a movie that's SF if you
+kinda squint at it a little, and is very likely one of the best movies of its
+genre (whatever it is) ever made.   I'm referring to SECONDS, starring
+(believe it or not) Rock Hudson, a B&W film directed by Frankenheimer when he
+was still terrific.  I mention it because AMC and Bravo are both showing it on
+cable this month, in LETTERBOXED form (which I've never seen before), and it's
+just an amazing and disturbing and brilliant and absolutely frightening bit of
+film making.  If the last two minutes don't give you a case of the screaming
+willies for *days* then your cerebral cortex isn't properly installed.
+
+     I don't often recommend things, but if you want to see a film that is
+just breathtakingly well done and surreal and guaranteed to make the hair on
+your arms stand straight up...grab SECONDS this month.  It's *NOT* available
+on disk or tape insofar as I know, and uncut, in this form, is very rare. 
+Trust me on this one.
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 441       Fri Jan 05, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:46 EST
+ 
+     F.Pas...no, you have it correct.  I slipped a reference to Babylon 5 into
+Power as the genetic engineering facility from which Tank first came.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 444       Sat Jan 06, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:46 EST
+ 
+     I guess it's the difference between one show telling you what to think,
+vs. another show *asking* you TO think, and what it is that YOU think....
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 446       Sat Jan 06, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:42 EST
+ 
+     OtherSyde came out with a B5 reference in 1990; B5 was announced as a Go
+project, with a description of what it was about, in the trades in November
+1991; the DS9 premise was conceived over the following winter, and announced
+around January/February 1992.  I know the season very well in terms of the
+time of year because it was 2 days before Christmas when I got a call from
+someone long associated with ST who said, "Joe, are you sitting down?  I just
+thought you ought to know, it looks like they're going to use a space station
+as the regular base for their new Star Trek series."  I then called someone
+else I know associated with ST and asked if they'd heard this, and got it
+verified.  The premise was just then being put together, and wasn't formally
+given the go-ahead until later in January.)
+
+     As it happens, when DS9 was formally announced, it came within inches of
+killing B5 in the early stages of pilot pre-production.  Warner Bros. was
+already very iffy about the syndication marketplace to sustain mor than one
+space-oriented SF series; they kept telling us that there isn't really an SF
+market, there's an ST market, and if it ain't that, it won't work.  What
+helped them go along with it was we were based on a space station.  When DS9
+was announced, and suddenly it wasn't just two SF shows in a marketplace they
+thought couldn't sustain more than one, it was two SPACE STATION shows, one of
+which had the ST name, and they were sure we were gonna get creamed.  To this
+day, I suspect that if we hadn't already signed all the contracts, and spent a
+lot of the money assigned for prep, with all the announcements in the press,
+some folks at WB probably would've pushed hard to stop the B5 project, and
+might've even succeeded.   That we made it through that is a testimony to a
+very few angels at WB and PTEN -- Evan Thompson, Dick Robertson and Gregg
+Maday -- who stuck by us at the beginning.
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 271       Mon Jan 08, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:05 EST
+ 
+     For those who may be interested, here's a list of coming conventions I'll
+be attending over the coming months.
+
+     Necronomicon (Tampa Oct 11-13), Chicago Comic Con (not invited yet, but I
+generally go or try to go every year, June 21-23), San Diego Comic Con (same
+deal, July 4th weekend), LosCon (again the same...boy, I ought to work on
+this...November 24-26), The Encounter in Blackpool UK (June 7-10), and I'm on
+as Guest of Honor at Westercon 50 in 1997.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 276       Tue Jan 09, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:30 EST
+ 
+     Haven't yet been invited to the WorldCon...nobody's said boo.  
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 281       Tue Jan 09, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:56 EST
+ 
+     If one wants to go as a civilian and just watch, there's no need for an
+invitation.  If the goal is to do a presentation, a panel, whatever, one kinda
+has to be invited.  
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 43
+Message 54        Thu Jan 11, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:08 EST
+ 
+     Remember, we're only going to be doing a *few* things to start, just
+enough to help make the endeavor self-sustaining.  We're not really in the
+merchandising business, that's not what we do.  It's up to other companies to
+do models and the like.  
+
+     At this point, the list is just pins, patches, Sheridan's EAS AGAMEMNON
+cap, maybe some t-shirts, maybe the videos, scripts, Links, and a couple of
+other things.
+
+     BTW, we cannot produce letterbox at this time, for the simple reason that
+we would have to go back to the original negative film stock and re-telecine
+all of the prints.  We'd have to produce new prints in the original format, re-
+edit everything...it's a hideously expensive proposition, and we just don't
+have those resources.
+
+     When that happens, it'll have to happen through a major video company.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 253       Thu Jan 11, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:02 EST
+ 
+      Actually, having now seen (upon noting this discussion) the two part DS9
+episode, it looks to me more like a point-for-point "homage" to SEVEN DAYS IN
+MAY...a general who thinks that his president is being soft on preparing for
+enemy threats, decides to move his people into position to take over in a
+military coup, a lower-level officer (Sisko in the Kirk Douglas role) warning
+the president, timing the putch to take place at the time of a major speech
+during which instead the general will make his speech instead, code-named
+military maneuvers which are supposedly drills but instead are opportunities
+for moving military squads into the right position, that same code being
+discovered, the general being a patriot by his lights not a traitor, the
+general getting boxed in at the last...I could go on, but really, it's SEVEN
+DAYS IN MAY right down the line.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 284       Fri Jan 12, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:11 EST
+ 
+     Permission isn't required for pictures currently out there from WB on the
+nets (and there are lots of them).
+
+     THE BEST MAN?  Good heavens, I've discovered a film I hadn't known
+existed.  I'll try and nail a copy at first opportunity if it's something one
+would include in such other august company as FAILSAFE and THE MANCHURIAN
+CANDIDATE, both of which are *excellent*.
+
+     Re: the Arisia panels...tell you what, Michael...there's bound to be a
+moment when it will seem apt to include this...so at that moment, deliver to
+the assembled folkses the following message straight from jms:
+
+     STAR TREK VS. B5.  You who programmed this panel, you who determined
+theme and direction, who put the Vs. in the title...have you learned nothing
+from experience?  Do any of you, who organize conventions and do so out of a
+professed love and familiarity with science fiction, remember September 1966? 
+That was the year a little science fiction series called STAR TREK debuted on
+network television, one year exactly after the premiere of LOST IN SPACE in
+September 1965.  STAR TREK, which was panned by reviewers and fans alike who,
+out of a perceived loyalty to the previous show, described it as nothing more
+than a cheap attempt to cash in on the success of LOST IN SPACE.  LOST was the
+established norm, TREK the impudent newcomer, a throwback some said from the
+strong family drama of LOST.  TREK fans said that this was unfair, that their
+show shouldn't have to be compared to LOST IN SPACE, that it should be taken
+on its own merit.
+
+     "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
+
+     There is no STAR TREK VS. B5 except in the minds of those who would
+profit from continuing feuds on either side of the fictional picket fence. 
+Why not CAGNEY & LACEY VS. NYPD BLUE?  They're both cop shows.  Why is the one
+predicated upon the other?  What happened to IDIC, Infinite Diversity in
+Infinte Combinations?  Should it be celebrated only in concept, not execution?
+The science fiction community is composed of brilliant dreamers, practical
+visionaries, afficianados, costumers, craftspeople...and feuds, in equal
+measure.  And whichever "side" folks come down on at this panel, B5 or ST,
+it's an exercise in factionalization that achieves nothing because there IS no
+VS, no OR; it's B5 *and* Star Trek *and* Lost in Space *and* The Prisoner
+*and* Space: Above and Beyond.  Because the future of science fiction is in
+the cross pollinization of ideas, the interbreeding -- after proper
+introductions dinners and flowers -- of dreams and visions and extrapolations,
+which in time results in the birth of new dreams, new ideas, and new visions. 
+ Absent that, the species, and the genre, dies.
+
+     Yes, it is possible to explore, compare and contrast the methods of
+storytelling, the effects, the structure and the acting of any two series;
+that is the point of the And.  In Ali vs. Frasier, the Axis vs. the Allies,
+Truman vs. Dewey, OJ Simpson vs. an inconvenient truth, there can only be one
+left standing at the end.  But in science fiction, we all stand together,
+protecting and sharing our diverse dreams, or we do not stand at all.
+
+     RE: "B5 is really X in disguise" You're all right, and you're all wrong. 
+Is it Lord of the Rings?  Dune?  The Kennedy story?  The saga of Camelot?  The
+Foundation?  A brief history of World War II?  The Bible?   All these and
+others have been broached to me by people absolutely sure that this was the
+model for the series.  (And, as an aside, this kind of discussion generally
+happens only to TV writers; nobody here is doing a panel called "Is Startide
+Rising Really X in disguise?"  This happens to TV writers because somehow it
+gets assumed that we haven't got an idea in our heads that we didn't swipe
+from somebody's book.  But that's another topic for another time.)
+
+     Babylon 5...is a Rohrsharch test.  An ink blot created by smashing
+actors, archetypes, saga-structure, myth and language against a sheet of
+paper, folding it, and bashing it a few times.  When you open it up and look
+inside, what you see is the saga closest to your heart and your experience. 
+Because like all the works mentioned a moment ago, B5 draws upon the same
+wellspring of myth, archetype, symbology, and dime store sociology that feeds
+all sagas, from the Illiad on through to the present.  
+
+     Writers, science fiction writers in particular, are like the beggar in
+Alladin, who offered new lamps for old...we seize myths that have fallen out
+of currency and recast them in newer guise, dust them off and hope a genie
+emerges.  Our myths, the myths of Tolkien and Homer, of Heinlein and Mallory,
+are eternal; they exchange one name for another, cast off one mask and assume
+the next.  If you perceive their presence in Babylon 5, it is because we have
+courted the myth, not because we have echoed one of their names from another
+place.  King Lear vanishes into Londo, Cassandra peers out from behind the
+eyes of G'Kar, Galahad answers to the name Ivanova, the Oracle at Delphi is
+now wearing an encounter suit, and Sir Bedevere is...well, that would be
+telling.
+
+     So you're all right.  And you're all wrong.  Because it's all ACTUALLY
+based on the 1967 Young Juveniles novel "The Mad Scientists' Club."  And I'm
+actually channeling Eleanor Roosevelt.  (Fortunately, I already have the
+wardrobe.)  Oh, yes...and I am the walrus, coo-coo ka choo....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 298       Fri Jan 12, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:07 EST
+ 
+     Read it?  I *loved* "The Mad Scientists Club" the first time I read it as
+a kid.  (Never read the follow-up book.)  It was just great fun, and very
+ingenious.  I think I may actually still have that copy somewhere in a box.  
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 316       Sat Jan 13, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:16 EST
+ 
+     Re: an "edge" to the show....I suspect you're going to get all the edge
+you could possibly want with episodes 8, 9 and especially 10.
+
+     Be *very* careful what you wish for.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 288       Sat Jan 13, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:32 EST
+ 
+     Ruth: and that's one thing that I object to about the worldcons.  If a
+pro travels to the convention, and appears on panels, which draw the
+attendees, which brings money to the convention, then the very *least* the con
+should do is provide a free membership.  As an example of this, I was
+repeatedly asked by folks involved in the recent WorldCon in San Francisco to
+come, do a B5 presentation, me and Harlan and one or two others...I wasn't
+going to go at first, because I was extremely busy, but finally I relented,
+paid my own way up there, showed up at the door to do something they'd asked
+me to do...and found out that I had to buy my own membership.  My comments in
+response do not bear repeating in a public forum, and in any event would
+sizzle modem connections anyway.
+
+     And the "we'll refund if we show a profit" line is sheerest nonsense;
+I've never known a single pro who got his membership reimbursed for a
+WorldCon.  Some pros I know end up getting booked back to back on panels, they
+sign through lunch, they're run ragged for the benefit of the 
+convention...and they have to pay for the privilege?  Where is the logic in
+this?
+
+     San Diego Comic Con is just as big if not bigger than any WorldCon, and
+EVERY PRO who shows up is comp'd into the convention, even if he or she isn't
+on a panel.  And that is an *extremely* profitable convention.   Further, this
+small sign of respect entices a LOT more pros to come than might otherwise be
+the case.  I know a number of SF writers (print and media) and producers who
+simply refuse to go to a worldcon on  principle, for this very reason.  
+
+      When I arrived at the San Francisco worldcon, the attitude that I got
+when told I'd be paying for my own membership was that I should be thankful
+they even let me in the door.  They were extremely annoying about it, and very
+high-handed.  I came within about an inch of turning around and going home;
+instead I stayed and did the B5 presentation, but refused to take part in the
+other panels they'd scheduled me for, which would've meant heavy-duty
+schedules.  (And they got downright exercised over my non-attendence, as
+though they *had* paid or comp'd me, and they had the *right* to DEMAND I be
+there.)  The experience absolutely put me off WorldCons, and I haven't been to
+one since.
+
+     If tomorrow, Worldcon changed its stupid policy (and it *IS* a stupid
+policy), what would happen is that you'd get a LOT more pros to attend, on
+panels and off, they'd generate more attendees, more goodwill with the SF
+community (just ask SFWA how they tend to get treated; there was a big scandal
+about facilities provided to them a year or two ago), and they wouldn't lose a
+*dime*, if anything they'd make more money due to more folks attending on both
+sides.  WorldCon has, what, 17-20,000 maximum attending?  San Diego Comic Con
+gets 20-25,000 and with every single pro comp'd makes a tidy profit each year.
+Anybody who says WorldCon can't do it is simply full of it.    
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 43
+Message 59        Sat Jan 13, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:33 EST
+ 
+      We still have to license 'em from WB; we've been told it shouldn't be a
+problem, but we get told that a lot, and 85% of the time it ain't true.  We
+were told it shouldn't be a problem to get the fan club up and operating in a
+few months; that was 2 years ago.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 342       Sat Jan 13, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:50 EST
+ 
+     Actually, we've already *had* ST vs. B5 in sports; our softball team has
+played both the DS9 and Voyager teams.  We lost to Voyager and whomped the
+hell out of DS9.  
+
+     Here's what was given to the Paramount people, as best I can recall at
+this time, I'd have to check the correspondence to be sure: the script for
+"The Gathering" pilot movie; eight to ten pieces of original conceptual
+artwork done by Peter Ledger helping to explain the concept and giving
+character sketches; the series "sell" bible which has NEVER been released to
+any writer, it was *only* intended as a device to help explain to studios and
+networks the direction and nature of the show; lengthy backgrounds on all of
+the characters, and descriptions for the overall direction of the series, and
+synopses of about 22 or so planned episodes taken from the overall course of
+the planned series.  There was a LOT of material.
+
+     But let me clarify and reinforce something I said on CIS and elsewhere: I
+don't believe that either Berman or Pillar would deliberately take B5 material
+and use it.  My *only* concern was that in the initial stages of development,
+which always receive a great deal of "guidance" from studio execs, that the
+execs who DID have the material might have "guided" them in our direction, in
+an attempt to co-opt what we were doing for WB/PTEN, because there's great
+animosity between those two studios, and out of a desire to protect their
+franchise and eliminate any competition by basically absorbing it.
+
+     Sometimes it does bother me, and I wonder about what the heck's going on,
+when I see the only other space station series doing a big arc about alien
+forces infiltrating earth government, and brewing civil war  on Earth, at the
+*exact same moment* that we're doing it on our show; earlier, later, fine, but
+that they'd do basically the same thing at the same time feels like another
+attempt to co-opt what we're doing on this show.  (Not copy; co-opt, which
+happens all the time.  Remember Deepstar Six?  And another underwater monster
+movie released about the same time?   Those were both *direct* attempt to co-
+opt The Abyss by coming out first.  It happens all the time.  When Ghost was
+in heavy development, every studio in town was scurrying around looking for an
+after-life movie to put out fast...I know because I got called in and asked to
+come up with something by a major studio...I declined.)  If you kinda know the
+direction someone else is going, you try to jump ahead and get there first, so
+that the other either loses impact, or is considered simply an imitation. 
+(Which is one reason why DS9 was hurried through post production to get it on
+the air a few weeks before B5's pilot, I suspect.)
+
+     Are we being co-opted?  I dunno.  When I hear that there's a red headed
+woman character on DS9 named Leeta (prounced the same as Lyta); when I see
+them doing the same kind of arc we're doing but getting it out a little
+earlier, I will confess it does give me pause sometimes.  I try to think the
+best under these conditions.  For now, I'm asuming it's all just coincidence.
+
+     (Oh, and as for scripts vs. production times...we are generally far ahead
+of most shows on scripts, about 4 episodes ahead of production at any moment. 
+So this next batch of scripts was probably written around August, at which
+time they're circulated over town to agents and the like as part of casting. 
+So I find it *highly* improbable that these DS9 episodes were written in June,
+knowing how close to the wire they tend to run over there.)
+
+     And, really, on another level, it's clear that they weren't ripping off
+B5 with this two-parter...I will defend that to the death by virtue of the
+clear logic that they're *really* ripping of SEVEN DAYS IN MAY.   As for the
+timing...well, we'll see.
+
+     (This is something else that happens a lot in TV; a writer will say,
+"Okay, let's do FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX with Jessica Fletcher in the Henry Fonda
+role.")
+
+     Finally, re: Jeri Taylor...here I have to disagree.  Though we don't talk
+as often as we should, or as I'd like, in large measure I think because of the
+perceived awkwardness between ST and B5 right now, I  consider her not only a
+friend, but one of the best writer/producers in town.  This isn't widely
+known, but she was my exec producer, with David Moessinger, on JAKE AND THE
+FATMAN.  We worked together very closely, and I found her to be an immensely
+talented woman, very dedicated to quality storytelling, ethical and strong
+willed and generous to a fault.  When she and David resigned from Jake on
+principle, over some stuff that was happening quite unfairly to them, I quit
+with them, even though it was my very first real network major gig, and my
+agent thought I was nuts.   I don't do this for everybody.  I did it for Jeri
+and David because they are good and decent people, because I cared about them,
+and because they were *right*...and they're two of the best writers I know.  
+
+     If there's a problem with Voyager -- and I'm not saying there is, because
+I haven't seen enough of it to form a valid opinion -- it's due to the
+situation that has always pertained to ST: they make the writers there write
+with mittens on, and won't let them cut loose with the kinds of stories they
+COULD do, for fear of doing something controversial that might hurt "The
+Franchise."  I've said it elsewhere and will repeat it again: I know the folks
+they've got over there, and if Paramount ever backed off and let them do what
+they're *capable* of doing, they'd blow the doors off of SF television.
+
+     So long story made short...no, I don't think B&P at DS9 are sitting there
+cribbing B5 plotlines from the original material provided to Paramount.  I
+think they would refuse.  They are ethical individuals.   Are they playing a
+little at co-opting us, which is kind of more accepted in town?  I don't know.
+I think you could make a compelling argument on either side.  But I don't know
+the truth any more than you do, and if they say not, then I'm prepared to
+believe them.  And as for Jeri, anybody here goes after her, has to go through
+me first.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
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+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 358       Sun Jan 14, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:07 EST
+ 
+     Re: the Hugos...I would not tend to consider the entirety of season two
+as one dramatic unit because it's written by diverse hands, many different
+writers.  I think you'd have to have an entire season written by one writer,
+as a whole and undiluted dramatic unit, for that season to be eligible....
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 370       Mon Jan 15, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:43 EST
+ 
+     Re: history...there's a line I came across somewhere, "I have 25 more
+years of experience than you do."  "No, you just have one year of experience,
+repeated 25 times."
+
+     Mike: that's a *great* report from Arisia, thanks; glad to hear it all
+went well.  (And yes, of course, feel free to email the comments around;
+anybody else wants to use them, that's fine too.)  To your notion (ah, the
+birth of a notion) that current B5 fandom resembles the original ST
+fandom...there may be something to that, I think.  In any event, thanks
+again....
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 390       Tue Jan 16, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:41 EST
+ 
+     Well, guess what...this week's new TV GUIDE had a cover story on Science
+Fiction TV...big coverage to ST, X-Files, Space A&B, Xena and Hercules...but
+absent one sentence containing an offhand reference to B5 in an article on the
+upcoming Osiris Chronicles...nothing about B5.   Zippo.  Period.  Nada.
+
+     About what I expected.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 301       Sat Jan 13, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:15 EST
+ 
+     Sharon, my main point was primarily that if a pro is invited to a
+worldcon, or asked to perform on a panel or give a presentation, then that pro
+should be comp'd.  The SDCC "every pro is comp'd" rule is great, but I'm not
+going to shove it down anybody's throat.  This, though, should be the minimum
+requirement.
+
+     You lock yourself into a box otherwise.  Okay, you comp more pros, you
+lose those memberships...but suddenly there are MORE pros -- again, there are
+many who just won't attend on principle over all this -- and this will draw
+more attendees to SEE those pros.  If that pro brings in just *one* more
+person who might not otherwise have attended, then it's a wash, is it not?  On
+the flip side, you *don't* comp pros, so many don't come, so there are fewer
+folks drawn to the con, and less money is made.  
+
+     The policy is, frankly, counter-productive and stupid.  And, frankly,
+insulting to most of the pros I've spoken to about this subject.  It's okay to
+have them as draws, to get the folks in the door, but respect their efforts by
+at least not requiring them to pay for the privilege of being asked to
+perform?  Not a chance.
+
+     And yeah, ConFrancisco *did* leave a bad taste in my mouth.  I was
+treated rudely.  When I said that after coming all this way, on my own dime,
+at their request, and being denied admission, I was half inclined toward just
+turning around and going home, what I got was a shrug and a laugh..."Okay,
+fine, go, we've got plenty of other pros here.  We really don't need you if
+we've got the others."  So I did the one B5 presentation -- because I knew a
+lot of fans were expecting it, and would be otherwise disappointed -- but
+basically boycotted the rest of the convention, for which I'd paid full price.
+
+     If, tomorrow, all the pros said, "Screw it, if we have to pay to go to a
+convention that wants us to *work* while we're there, we're just not going,"
+then the day after tomorrow there would be a *new* policy that pros asked to
+work at the WorldCon would be comp'd...and the cons would go on just fine. 
+Because without the pros...you don't HAVE a convention.
+
+     I guess the reason I take such personal umbrage at this is because when
+I'm asked to be at a convention, I bust my butt to serve the convention.  At
+the recent UK convention I attended, it wasn't just "do your one presentation
+or panel and coast," I was down hanging out with fans in the lobby, sitting
+and talking...I was in the main ballroom, personally rearranging chairs to
+make sure there weren't any bad seats, since there were posts in the way and
+those setting up hadn't taken that into consideration...I signed autographs
+for 3 hours straight, working the line up the stairs when people started to
+get faint from the heat, signing about 2,000 autographs in two days, with the
+rule that NOBODY got turned away who wanted one, no matter how long it
+took...I attended presentations I wasn't in...and when I go up on stage
+finally I fight like crazy to make every second as interesting and fun as I
+can, because *that's my obligation to the convention, and the people who came
+all this way to be there*.  They expect, and should receive, nothing less than
+absolute satisfaction.  
+
+     I lose over 5 pounds every time I do a two-day convention, because I'm
+constantly on the run, trying to make sure everybody's having a good time.  I
+do this for the cons where I'm the "big shot main guest," and I do as much of
+it as I can when I'm just one more invited guest (without being intrusive or
+getting into somebody else's spotlight, which is wrong).  Given all that, I
+don't think it's too much to ask to be comp'd into the convention.
+
+     See, the money, for me, ain't the issue.  I can afford the ticket, that
+ain't no big deal.  (As for WB paying the freight...now THAT'S comedy.)  It's
+the *principle* of the thing that bothers me.  The science fiction field is a
+direct result of the efforts of its writers, creating new and exciting visions
+of the future, the past, and our possibilities.   It seems to me that those
+who do so should be accorded a minimum of respect for their efforts in a
+massive celebration of the genre.
+
+     And yes, I do know the history of the worldcons, albeit not as
+extensively as others might.  And when they began, they were mainly just pros
+getting together in a sort of private club environment, along with a
+relatively small portion of fans.  Now, however, it's become a fairly big
+industry, lots of fans come from all over the world to attend, major
+publishing companies buy booths and exhibit space, movie and TV studios
+participate...it's Show Business now.  But the same mindset from the early
+days still is being applied...and SF folks, more than anyone else, should know
+the peril in applying old logic to a changing world.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+Message 324       Mon Jan 15, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:55 EST
+ 
+     Sharon, you're engaging in the politics of distraction.  You keep
+broadening out the argument...now it's drink chits, and the green room, and
+programs.  Let's deal with one thing at a time, shall we?  (And I think most
+pros would be happy to let go of the $2 drink chit in exchange for the $100
+admission fee, don't you?)  
+
+     Perianne just gave us a very good breakdown: 200 program participants at
+$100 apiece being $20,000.  Are you saying that worldcons are so fiscally
+unstable that they can't handle this?  What happens to the ads paid for in the
+program booklet from book companies and movie studios and TV shows and authors
+and artists?  Where is that money going?  When the studios and the publishers
+and others pay for booth space and exhibits, doesn't that go into the kitty? 
+If you were *just* making the money on ticket sales, then maybe you might have
+an argument...but there are revenue streams coming in from a LOT of places,
+from institutions with big bucks, who are there because the pros are there.
+
+     Here's a question...when was the last time a WorldCon was audited?  
+Because if they're that financially unsound, maybe something should be looked
+into about their books.  There's probably a great deal of waste in there.  I
+bet we could find out where the problem is...or, perhaps, determine that
+they're not this fiscally unstable after all, which would certainly be in
+everyone's interest, would it not?
+
+     The reason I bring this up is that, well, I work in *Hollywood*, and out
+here we've learned that ON PAPER, the studios make absolutely sure that
+nothing ever shows a profit, to avoid paying participants.  I know full well
+how figures can be balanced, juggled, cross-referenced and buried.  So the
+question becomes...if the WorldCon is a function for the SF and fan
+contingents, to whom is the WorldCon accountable (literally and figuratively)
+for its fiscal activities?  Is it just WorldCon folks monitoring WorldCon
+folks?  Is each separate division allowed to monitor its own books without
+supervision by any other WorldCon?  If so, then we enter the "Who Watches the
+Watchmen?" scenario.  
+
+     If you say, "The WorldCon can't afford to comp participating pros," then
+it seems to me not unreasonable to say, "Okay, I will accept that if you will
+show me that this is the case."  Otherwise why should we take anyone's word
+for this?  You are eliciting $20,000 in fees from pros who would be comp'd at
+*virtually any other convention in the country*.  This is truly extraordinary.
+One of a kind.  I see nothing wrong with asking for support, evidence and
+proof as to why this is necessary.
+
+     A proper audit would compare actual fees received, plus revenue from t-
+shirts, programs, exhibit space, and other areas, with "soft" revenue in the
+sense of hotel facilities provided free or at reduced cost as part of a
+package deal, trade-offs, barter, and real costs on facilities, free rooms for
+various individuals (convention top organizers doubtless get free rooms under
+the package deal), and so on...and in so doing put this issue fully and
+completely to rest.
+
+     So...to whom *are* the WorldCons answerable...?
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
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+Category 18,  Topic 43
+Message 62        Sun Jan 14, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:19 EST
+ 
+     Broadcast networks are still adamently opposed to LBX broadcasts 'cause
+most folks have small TVs and would tune out.  (A lot of folks who spring for
+cable tend to have larger TVs, so it works a bit better there.)  A network
+suit once told me, "We program for people who can't afford cable or tapes or
+disks."  
+
+     Re: licensing...yes, since WB owns the copyright to B5 (just as Paramount
+owns the copyright to ST), we have to license back anything we want to sell.
+
+     No, the German and French stations have not been broadcasting in
+widescreen, but have been negotiating for the right to do so in year 3.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 42
+Message 14        Tue Jan 16, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:56 EST
+ 
+     Since the universe is curved, there cannot be any truly straight answers.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 416       Wed Jan 17, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:51 EST
+ 
+     RE: B5 costs...generally, under $900,000 per episode.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 336       Wed Jan 17, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:57 EST
+ 
+     At this point, I think I'd opt not to get into discussing ways to get the
+film/TV companies involved more in SF fandom and the like, because sooner or
+later that'd lead me back to the Dramatic Nebula discussion, and if we even
+get *near* that one you would see a flamefest that would make the firebombing
+of Dresden look like a tea party by comparison.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 443       Thu Jan 18, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:29 EST
+ 
+     Actually, as I recall, it's "Even a man who is pure at heart, and  says
+his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms, and the
+moon is full and bright."  Maria Ospenskaya.  
+
+     Part of the problem with American culture is that we're a throwaway
+culture...yesterday's fashions get tossed out instantly.  To say that TNG or
+DS9 are *better* shows than TOS because TOS was "of its time," or "good for
+its time" is at heart a foolish statement.  Something is good, or it is not
+good.  Nobody writes like Shakespeare anymore; was Shakespeare good "for its
+time?"  Is it not good today because it is too much "of its time?"  Chaucer? 
+Marlowe?  Hemingway?  Dickens?  Serling?
+
+     We denigrate our past to falsely ennoble our present.  "Well, that was
+okay for *then*, but it's not very good *now*."  We all labor under the rules
+and predelications of the moment.  Yes, TOS operated under rules of that time,
+just as TNG operates under the rules of syndication, and the secondary and
+tertiary rules that come along with the fear of not botching the franchise by
+doing anything too controversial.  One could make a good argument that, by
+calcification and commercialization, there are MORE  creative strictures on
+the ST "form" than there were in the days of TOS; certainly most of the
+writers who've worked on the contemporary versions will tell you this.
+
+     Nonetheless, we should recognize that people aren't just stupid en masse
+one year, then suddenly smarter today.  If TOS was good, then it was good;
+*we* may have changed, but the quality of the show as perceived then, is still
+there.
+
+     End of sermon.
+
+     Tentative title for #319: "Grey 17 Is Missing."
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 481       Fri Jan 19, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:06 EST
+ 
+     Yeah, I know Alan.  We're more casual acquaintances than friends.
+
+     "All television has improved...."  I'm sorry, I can't believe anyone
+actually wrote that sentence with a straight face.  Overall, like the rest of
+society, television has become *less* literate, *less* sophisticated than it
+was in the early years.  Sure, we can now make genitalia jokes on Married With
+Children...but it that more sophisticated?   Where I come from, sophistication
+means smart, witty, urbane, worldly.   That doesn't describe the majority of
+contemporary TV.  
+
+     The majority of current television programs produced currently are
+sitcoms, the majority of which are, to me, unwatchable...I see very little of
+the genuine humor of, say, the Dick Van Dyke show, or the sophistication of
+MASH.  A few -- Cybil, the Simpsons, a handful of others (and AbFab if you get
+cable) -- are quite funny, but frankly, were it not for laugh tracks, I think
+about 70% of sitcom writers would be out of business.
+
+     When it comes to drama...point out to me who out there is doing work on a
+par with Reginald Rose or Rod Serling or Paddy Chayefsky...where on TV can you
+find hour or 90 minute plays like "Requiem For a Heavyweight" or "Marnie" or
+"Patterns?"  Is there good stuff being done today?  Yes, of course there
+is...there's just *less* of it around in drama mainly because the networks do
+all they can do dumb down a show to make it more accessible.  
+
+     (A network suit actually *said* thsi to me: "Our operating philosophy
+these days is that the people with upper or middle-class incomes, and an
+education, are watching cable, or laser disks, or videotapes.  So what we have
+to do is to program for the rest of the audience, who may be under educated,
+but don't have any other options."  Scared the hell outta me.)
+
+     When I was working on JAKE AND THE FATMAN (no defense offered), I had a
+script I'd written about a cop who's been trying to nail a certain bad guy for
+the last 10 years.  I had a line in that when they meet: the bad guy says, "I
+suppose I should be flattered.  Not every man has his own, personal Ahab."  A
+pretty spiffy line.
+
+     The network calls.  "We think there's a typo; there's a character
+referenced named Ahab, but we don't see him anywhere else in the script."  My
+exec tries to explain to the network suit...see, it's Ahab...Captain
+Ahab...you know, MOBY DICK...a nut chasing a big fish...?"  The network guy
+says, "Look, I have an MBA [I think we already see part of the problem here -
+jms] and if I don't know who Ahab is, nobody else is going to, so cut it out
+of the script."  And so it went, over my strongly stated objections.
+
+     Has some TV gotten better?  Yes.  Has some TV gotten worse?  Most
+definitely.  But to say that "ALL television has improved" is, frankly, one of
+the most astonishingly inaccurate statements I've seen in years.   That means
+there are no gaggles of talk shows parading our eccentricities in phosphor-dot
+parades day and night; no infomercials; no "America's Goofiest Videos"....
+
+     There's more material out there, but as is the rule with just about
+everything, 90% of everything is crap, to quote Sturgeon.  If you have a pile
+of 100 things, then 10 of them are great; if you have a pile of 1,000 things,
+you can say there are now 100 great things where there were once only 10...but
+one can also turn around and say that there are now 900  crappy things were
+there were once only 90.
+
+     To the question uptopic about golden-age SF...I would be lying through my
+teeth if I said I wasn't strongly influenced by the look and feel of golden
+age SF, and that this has filtered into the show to one extent or another.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 534       Sat Jan 20, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:33 EST
+ 
+      Re: the notion that there are 7 basic stories...this isthe sort of 
+thing academics come up with because they feel this compulsive need to
+categorize creativity and break it down into digestible pieces.  It is, of
+course, sheerest nonsense, and the usual descriptions they try to apply (man
+vs. man, man vs. environment, man vs. god, man vs. self) are so broad as to be
+essentially meaningless.  There ARE no set numbers of stories or story types. 
+Stories, at their best, are based around characters, and what that specific
+character wants, how far he is prepared to go to get it, and how far someone
+else will go to stop him.  Thus, there as many types of stories as there are
+types of people...endless and varied.
+
+     There's a post-script to the Moby Dick story...subsequent to the  events
+described, I send the suit in question a copy of Moby Dick...in comic book
+form (Classics Illustrated).  Something he could handle.
+
+     To those who inquired, other TZ episodes I wrote: THE WALL, DREAM ME A
+LIFE, ACTS OF TERROR, THE MIND OF SIMON FOSTER, THE CALL, SPECIAL SERVICE,
+RENDEZVOUS IN A DARK PLACE, and co-written...THE CURIOUS CASE OF EDGAR
+WITHERSPOON (w/Barkin), THE TRANCE (w/Stuart) and OUR SELENA IS DYING, story
+by Serling, script by jms.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 546       Sun Jan 21, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 07:03 EST
+ 
+     I know Mark Halperin's work, though I haven't read that much of it.   I
+enjoy reading fiction, but due to the nature of the job, I don't have much
+time for it just now.  (Simply producing the show would be an 18 hour a day
+job; just writing all the eps so far would be a 16 hour a day job...somewhere
+in here I have a serious math problem.)  These days, I find myself more
+reading nonfiction...biographices, collections of essays, historical works,
+(that should read biographies above), that sort of thing, when I have time,
+which is rarely.  Tried, with minor success, to plow through Hunter Thompson's
+latest...I've got Vach's Batman novel on my pile to read, some other
+stuff...but there just isn't time for most of it.
+
+                                                                     jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 601       Mon Jan 22, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:43 EST
+ 
+      Everyone knows the *proper* way to ascii a raspberry is pfthpft....
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 606       Mon Jan 22, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:23 EST
+ 
+      Today was a very interesting day; today Michael O'Hare returned to the
+Babylon 5 stages in preparation for shooting the two-parter, which begins
+tomorrow.  Today he came by for his wardrobe fitting and to get his hair
+trimmed, say hi to folks, and hang out...lunch was me, John Copeland, Michael
+and Bruce Boxleitner eating together at one of the tables in the lunch area
+behind the stage, lots of laughing and kidding, and the two get on great. 
+(Turns out they'd worked on other projects before, including the short-lived A
+Rumor of War series by Sterling Siliphant.)  
+
+      Anyway, it's a great atmosphere, and everybody's psyched for the two-
+parter.  It's like he never went away.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 359       Sat Jan 20, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:36 EST
+ 
+      Of course, it ain't just the media and comic cons that comp pros who
+participate on panels...EVERY fan-run convention in the country that I know of
+comps participating pros...Westercon, Loscon, Icon, Baycon, you name it.
+ Some of them are big cons, some of them are small or medium cons; they all do
+the same.  It's only WorldCon that breaks the pattern, thus one must ask for
+justification.
+
+                                                                        jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 362       Sun Jan 21, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 07:14 EST
+ 
+     I'd also point out that Westercon is also a convention held in different
+places each year, sometimes in Seattle, or Portland, or Los Angeles, or
+Anaheim, or elsewhere.
+
+     Had an interesting phone call from a *very* highly regarded SF pro this
+evening, prompted by this discussion.  I pass along one of the statements the
+pro made without comment, because I don't know the area this far behind the
+scenes well enough *to* comment...it's this person's experience with decades
+in fandom and working as a pro.
+
+     What the pro said was basically this: "What they *don't* want anybody to
+know is that the WorldCons bring in huge amounts of money...which the con
+wastes on mismanagement, poor planning, and endless beer parties for staffers,
+buddies, and others.  They run it like amateurs and fans, who are so lost in
+their politics and insular worldview that they don't run it like the big event
+it really is, a *business*...with the result that it's the fan and pro
+communities that end up picking up the tab.  The SMOFs who run these things
+get so bogged down in their politics that they'd rather do things the dumb,
+expensive way than the smart way because somebody else wants to do it that
+way."  (I'm assuming SMOFs means Secret Masters of Fandom, but didn't ask for
+clarification.)  "A number of us in and out of SFFWA have been fighting this
+for over 25 years.  But when you say this to them, when you say that the
+problem is mismanagement at the top, they *crucify* you.  So nothing gets
+done."
+
+     Once again, I have no way of knowing how valid this opinion might be; so
+don't kill the messenger.  I pass it on for discussion and reaction.
+
+                                                                        jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 376       Sun Jan 21, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:04 EST
+ 
+     Sharon, don't you see what it is you're saying?  If one brings up
+ComicCon, you say, "Well, they're bigger than we are, we can't do things the
+same way they do;" if one brings up Westercon, you say, "Well, they're smaller
+than we are, we can't do things the same way they do."  I know this isn't your
+intent, but it comes off as backing and filling, that nothing can ever be
+done, no criticism can be made validly.  And the discussion keeps being pushed
+to extremes to bolster a failing point; if one says, they should be better
+organized, you come back with the notion that they can't and shouldn't be run
+like Creation Cons.  Nowhere was that said.  Must a con be run as a CC to be
+run well?  Of course not.  So that makes the response seem very transparent,
+as others have noted.  There IS a middle ground.  I just keep sensing a real
+lack of interest in many (but not all) associated with WorldCons to *find*
+that middle ground.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 384       Mon Jan 22, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:23 EST
+ 
+     If I'm running a business, and it goes belly-up, or fails to show a
+profit, if I then turn to the people who put up the money for it and said,
+"Well, sorry, but after all, we're just amateurs," they'd nail my feet to the
+floor and beat the crap outta me.  And they'd be right in doing so.
+
+     So far a number of people have come forth to say, frankly, that the
+WorldCons *do* suffer from frequent mismanagement, waste, the lack of
+continuity, and the fact that as "amateurs" they can't be expected to run
+things well.  
+
+     This is a defense...?  In what alternate universe?
+
+     Wouldn't it be smart, for instance, if the WorldCon committee hired an
+outside business consultant, someone who *wasn't* an amateur, who could work
+with each individual committee to provide continuity between cons, advise on
+areas where mistakes had been made before, and suggest ways in which the cons
+might be made to run more efficiently, and profitably, and sensibly?  The cost
+of such an advisor would be *minimal* compared to the funds recouped by a
+leaner, more efficient, and more profitable operation.  You'd make back that
+fee a hundred fold.  If there's general agreement that there *are* problems,
+why not address them and fix them, instead of making the fan and pro
+communities pay for the continuance of the problem?
+
+     (And yes, I have heard that LACon *will* be comping memberships for
+participating pros, which by itself takes care of the assertion that it cannot
+be done.  Obviously it *can* be done.  I know that some involved have gotten a
+lot of email because of the discussion here, echoed on other nets, and I don't
+know if it's had an impact, but either way, it's a Good Thing.)
+
+     Fans of the SF genre tend to describe those outside the genre as
+"mundanes," and pride themselves on being smarter than the general population
+(which is, to varying extents, probably true)...doesn't it seem strange that a
+fan community which prides itself on being technologically and scientifically
+smarter, on being on the leading edge of computer tech and genetics and other
+areas, would choose to remain uninformed or less than capable about financial
+areas?  If the same attention were put on this area, as is on the others, all
+parties concerned would be better served.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 395       Sat Jan 27, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:33 EST
+ 
+     I'd also point out that the film as it shows up on the stations is quite
+a bit different from what I get in my master SVHS copies, and off the D1
+masters.  Once we deliver the episode, it goes through several dubbing
+processes by WB, one to insert commercials (where sometimes we get clipped,
+and we sometimes get weird audio and video burbles, we get crunched, sometimes
+there's analog/digital conversion going on), and then AGAIN when the episode
+is copied again for closed-captioning purposes.   Then a new "master" is
+struck for uplink.  During this process, I've seen a distinct increase in
+graininess, it's a bit less sharp, and you get some odd stuff with audio being
+out of phase.  
+
+      It's nothing we can control, it's the facilities used by PTEN for
+translation of the episode for broadcast.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 409       Sat Jan 27, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:54 EST
+ 
+     Yes, I also like the more shadowy shots, which add a great deal of
+texture to the show.
+
+     When we go to do the videotapes for the fan club, we're tentatively
+planning to go to the same company that did the dupes from masters for the
+tape we did for the Television Academy, back when nominating time came around.
+They were very good quality, on a par with the standard VHS copies I get
+personally.  (I certainly couldn't tell any difference.)  
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 418       Sun Jan 28, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:43 EST
+ 
+     Right now, the plan, tentatively, is this: we would announce that say,
+the first 8 episodes will be made available in a limited edition.   We would
+take orders for that first batch for a specific period, say 30 days.  We would
+then produce the tapes in the number ordered, and that would be it for a
+while, while we moved onto the next series of episodes (9 through whatever). 
+After working our way through the total available number of episodes, we'd
+eventually work our way back to #1 again, though it might take as much as a
+year, and subsequent editions would be noted as such.  
+
+     This is still open to change, but that's what we're considering.  
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 427       Sun Jan 28, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:03 EST
+ 
+     We hope to have a web site set up for the fan club soon, so that will be
+a point of registration.
+
+     Re: widescreen...I've noted this before...we would have to go back and re-
+telecine the film stock back to its original format for every frame of film,
+which would cost upwards of $250,000 up-front, and we don't have that
+capacity.  That could only be done when a major player comes in to distribute
+disks.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 455       Tue Jan 30, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:53 EST
+ 
+     We do not expose incorrectly, or inadequately.  If anything the show is
+lighter than it was in the first season.  The element you point to, the slow-
+motion drop of the detonator, took on a grainy look because it was slowed down
+artificially, it wasn't shot at that speed, it was done in post.  (Most of our
+slow-mo is done in-camera; some isn't.)  
+
+     CGI, direct to video or D1, is always going to look "cleaner" than film. 
+(Initially, on Space, they output their CG to film rather than
+video...eventually they changed this because of the costs involved, which are
+considerable)  It's not that the film is grainier than it would be under other
+circumstances; it's that the CG is cleaner than the norm.
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 479       Thu Feb 01, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:50 EST
+ 
+     Don't forget he also had the inherent momentum he carried with him from
+the fast-moving shuttle.
+
+     BTW, though I announced this elsewhere, I've finally finished the
+revisions to my writing book, The Complete Book of Scriptwriting, which was
+initially published in 1981, revised a bit, and has now been TOTALLY
+rewritten, stem to stern, is almost double the original length, and has many
+new chapters on technology and writing, the WGA, animation, traps, and other
+areas, in addition to the chapters on film, TV, stage, radio and the like. 
+It's absolutely current now, and contains samples of various script forms,
+agent forms, contracts, lists of all sorts, and tentatively I'm planning to
+include a B5 script in the book, probably "The Coming of Shadows."  It'll be
+published with much ballyhoo in the Fall as THE (EVEN MORE!) COMPLETE BOOK OF
+SCRIPTWRITING.
+
+     BTW, tentative title for episode #20, "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding
+Place."
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 482       Thu Feb 01, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:08 EST
+ 
+     I'm mentioning it here because it hasn't been mentioned elsewhere here
+that I've seen, and because it's something pivotal to me, and my upbringing,
+and the formation of my personality.  And because you ought to know about it
+if you don't already.
+
+     The other day, Jerry Siegel -- half of the team of Siegel and Shuster,
+creators of the most widely known character ever to come out of comics, one of
+the five most recognizeable characters on the planet (this by a survey not
+long ago) -- passed away, following his partner Joe a few years earlier.
+
+     Jerry and Joe created Superman.  I didn't have the honor or pleasure of
+ever getting to meet them, but everything I have ever heard has shown them to
+be decent, kind, generous people who got screwed out of their fair share in
+the character who became a billion dollar industry.  Bill Mumy, who is as much
+a comics fan as I am, maybe moreso, had Jerry over to dinner once, with Bob
+Kane and Jack Kirby; it was the night of his life.  Jack is also gone, but
+this is about Jerry.  And it's about Superman.
+
+     I collect only a few things.  Watches.  I like watches.  I don't have a
+lot, but more than 3 is a collection, I'm told.  Comics, sure, I got about
+10,000 comics, most in storage, a lot in my office at home.  But I've always
+considered myself a comics reader, not a comics collector.
+
+     I *collected* Superman stuff.  And I have one of the best collections on
+the Western Seaboard: bronze rings from the 1940s, pinbacks, patches, mugs,
+pins, figurines, Supermen of America membership badges, a cape made from the
+original bolt, to the original patterns, as that made for George Reeves...you
+name it, I got it.
+
+     Because when I was a kid, Superman was It.  Because of that singular
+character -- invulnerable, unstoppable, whose single goal was to find the
+right thing and do it -- I decided that I could do anything I set my mind to
+doing.  Truth, justice, and the American way.  Yeah, it's corny as hell, and
+maybe it doesn't parse too well in a "stick it to 'em" society, but as a kid,
+it *meant* something to me.  Okay, I grudgingly accepted that I couldn't
+fly...but otherwise, if I decided I wanted to do it, then by god I *could* do
+it.  If that meant teaching myself to read at an early age, or dealing with
+the great personal angst of a family life that was dysfunctional on the best
+of days, for which invulnerability was a quality much to be desired...or
+deciding that someday I was gonna be a Writer, then that was what was going to
+happen.
+
+     And to this day, my only agenda is to try and find the right thing, as
+best as I am able to perceive the right, and do it.  Because when you're a kid
+you're young and foolish enough to believe there IS a Right Thing; you just
+have to dig long enough and think hard enough and survive the kryptonite long
+enough to figure it out.  And you don't lie, you don't sell out your friends,
+you put yourself on the line, and anybody who wants to hurt your friends has
+to go through you first.
+
+     These are the lessons learned by a kid; they are tempered with time, but
+they still shape the adult.
+
+     When you start as a nearsighted kid, who doesn't fit in with the new
+school (and there was always a new school every 6-12 months), who believes he
+just might have a little nascent talent waiting to come out, tall and gawky,
+with stars in your eyes and a home life that would make the Borgias seem like
+a tea party...how much of a leap is it really to see Clark Kent in the mirror,
+and anticipate Superman...?
+
+     Maybe it's maudlin, maybe it's indulgent.  Maybe it's over-wrought, and
+maybe it's silly.  But the concept and the character of Superman meant
+something to me as a kid.  Still does.  And now the man who created Superman
+is gone, and somebody ought to say something, however silly or indulgent or
+maudlin it might be seen by others.
+
+     Because it's the right thing to do.
+
+     Thanks, Jerry.
+
+     Bye.  Give my regards to Joe.  And Kandor.  And Krypton.  And Jor-El. 
+And Lara.  What you created, endures.  Rest easy.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 452       Wed Jan 31, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:32 EST
+ 
+     No, that's not the intent; but this is the time when stations make their
+decisions about what shows they're going to pick up, and each year you get a
+LOT of new shows out with a lot of hype and heat, and it's possible for a show
+that's been around for a bit, middle of the road, to just sorta get forgotten
+about in the crush.  So it never hurts for fans to remind the station owners
+what they want.
+
+                                                                jms
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms96-02 b/ftp/GEnie/jms96-02
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/GEnie/jms96-02
@@ -0,0 +1,177 @@
+Compiled by David Strauss (dstrauss@netcom.com).
+
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 465       Thu Feb 01, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:51 EST
+ 
+     Richard Biggs is pictorialized in the new issue of Playgirl hitting the
+stands now.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 30
+Message 32        Fri Feb 02, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:56 EST
+ 
+     Brett: it's nothing to do with the editor.  We deliver nice, clean fades
+to black.  When the show is delivered, we often get clipped by the local
+stations (sometimes, we suspect, when the national spots are slugged in),
+because if you clip a couple seconds here and there, you get enough time to
+slip in another blipvert/promo.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 557       Sun Feb 04, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:13 EST
+ 
+     Other than GEnie...hrmmm...probably Compuserve.  As of this time, it's
+the one area I tend to post about equal to GEnie; it has a decent offline
+reader (Tapcis) that'll help save you lotsa dough...the science fiction media
+area (sfmedtwo) has 2 areas set aside for B5 in messages and library...it's a
+friendly place, absent the occasional troll, which is generally dealt with
+fairly well.  Once the moderated rec arts b5 area is created, I'll be there as
+well quite a bit.  In the interim, with GEnie long the unofficial home of B5
+online fans, the first place that "noticed" us...I'll be here until they turn
+off the lights.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 30
+Message 73        Mon Feb 05, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:35 EST
+ 
+     My sense was that basically Ivanova jumped onto the wrong path as she
+fled...the shadows were in proximity, and she ended up briefly on their path,
+which took her to the interception of the transmission.
+
+     The one comment that I find most interesting, repeated here a few times,
+is that they didn't buy the Nightwitch (as some have dubbed her) because in
+her address to the Nightwatch, she was not exactly what you might call subtle,
+and thus nobody'd believe her, and see her for what she was.
+
+     I find it interesting because we always think we're smarter than that,
+when history proves *exactly* the opposite.  The Big Lie, spoken not just
+openly, but loudly, firmly and with conviction, has been one of the most
+successful tactics in history.  When Hitler and Goebbels stood before a crowd
+and blamed jews for destroying society, circulated pamphlets with ugly
+cariacatures, indicated that they weren't *really* human (this in actual
+newsreels provided to the medical profession members charged with eliminating
+"mental defectives and jews")...when Joseph McCarthy stood up in front of the
+nation waving a list of names of commies in the state department, the
+military, congress, showbiz, and the sciences...the public didn't suddenly
+wake up, hear the voice of the fanatic, and say, "Hey, this guy's nuts!"  
+
+     They bought it.  Because they were primed to believe it.  Because they
+wanted to believe it.  Because they were afraid *not* to believe it.   No, she
+wasn't subtle.  Because there's a time for subtlety, and there's a time to
+perform grandly for your hand-picked audience and go for the Big Lie.  If she
+were addressing a larger audience, she might softpedal her message.  To the
+Nightwatch, she's got to hammer them, just as the Hitler Youth were hammered,
+as the Anti-Communist Youth meetings were hammered about the Red Peril, as
+Croatian or Serbian soldiers were hammered about the need to rape women of the
+other "race" to make the resultant babies more ethnically pure...which
+happened.
+
+     Most of her dialogue was paraphrased from actual speeches given over the
+decades, or longer, by fanatical leaders to their followers.  There's bits of
+Hitler, of Goerring, of Goebbels...bits of McCarthy, bits of Stalin, bits of
+Pat Buchanan and Rep. Dornan.  
+
+     Because people fell for it.  It did work
+
+     It does work.
+
+     And it will *continue* to work...for as long as people think that THEY
+would NEVER fall for such a thing....
+
+                                                                       jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 601       Tue Feb 06, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:03 EST
+ 
+     We're negotiating to try and maybe get some episodes on in March or early
+April.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 468       Tue Feb 06, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:19 EST
+ 
+     We like to vary the music on the bumper.  Just for the hell of it.   And
+sometimes (often, actually) to match the music in the bumper to the tone of
+the episode.  We have, I think 4 or 5 variations.  Congrats, you're the first
+to notice this.  
+
+     You'll see Walter again this season after "Dust," and I'm trying to work
+in one more before the end of the season, but it's tough, given what's been
+going on in the latter half of 2260.
+
+                                                                    jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 474       Tue Feb 06, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:49 EST
+ 
+      Why didn't we do the music change in the end credits at the very start
+of the season, you ask?  Why, what a silly question, it was all planned, all
+intentional, it means...er...it means....
+
+      It means we *forgot*.  More correctly, *I* forgot.  We were all so busy
+getting the new main titles done, we just kinda forgot about it until the
+first mix...and then we sorta looked around and said, "....oops."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 30
+Message 91        Tue Feb 06, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:43 EST
+ 
+      Well, Mike, then you're bound to be disppointed because one of those
+things is going to be dealt with for sure.  Some things can get by without
+resolution; some things can't.  Otherwise people get frustrated because
+nothing means anything, it's just random threads, and you get Twin Peaks.  
+(And then they turn around and, because you didn't resolve something, say it's
+a "plot hole" and gig you for bad writing).  
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 30
+Message 93        Tue Feb 06, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:16 EST
+ 
+     Where was it said Sheridan didn't recognize the voice...?
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 30
+Message 95        Tue Feb 06, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:40 EST
+ 
+     Never said they're all convinced of it.  Just as all Germans weren't
+convined of the views advanced by Hitler.
+
+     You don't need all of them.  You just need *enough* of them.
+
+     Preferably, enough of them with guns.
+
+     Remember, too, that we just came out of the Earth/Minbari War about ten
+years ago, when we stood at the edge of extinction.  The threat of a new alien
+race makes a good device.
+
+                                                                      jms
+ ------------
+
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms96-04 b/ftp/GEnie/jms96-04
new file mode 100644
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+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 238       Mon Apr 15, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:56 EDT
+ 
+     WB will *never* let us do the marketing or promos, so it's really
+a moot question.  Change of address forms should go to the fan club
+address.
+ 
+     Sorry this is short; was at con all weekend, it's nearly 3 a.m,
+and I'm about to crash.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 250       Tue Apr 16, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:08 EDT
+ 
+     The information on Harlan's health was *not* something that he
+wanted posted publicly to the nets, and was a gross violation of his
+trust by the person who did so.  While currently things are looking
+good, this is a period when *rest and quiet* are necessary, and
+instead they are being beseiged by telephone calls literally every 3
+minutes.
+ 
+     So all I'll say for now is that things are looking very good,
+he's well on the way to recovery, and ask that anyone seeing this
+please  hold back on phone calls and the like for a few days.  
+ 
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 429       Tue Apr 16, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:09 EDT
+ 
+     No, I believe there is a reference to the narn being treated
+later, and in any event, it's clear Vir wouldn't do anything to them.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 353       Mon Apr 22, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:03 EDT
+ 
+     No, the ad comes out of WB's PR budget, not ours.  It's a great
+ad. 
+ 
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms96-05-15 b/ftp/GEnie/jms96-05-15
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/ftp/GEnie/jms96-05-15
@@ -0,0 +1,173 @@
+JMS on Genie
+May 1996 Postings, Part 2 
+
+
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 43
+Message 35        Fri May 24, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:16 EDT
+ 
+     The chrysalis machine came originally from Epsilon 3, with the
+rest of the equipment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 570       Sun May 26, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:55 EDT
+ 
+     No, no eep yet.  What other forums have you been hearing stuff?
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 576       Sun May 26, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:06 EDT
+ 
+     Bruce wanted to do the show, we said sure.  That's kind of it....
+
+
+jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 467       Sun May 26, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:08 EDT
+ 
+     Kwicker...no, in the original episode, the suit was always blue.
+We sometimes make mistakes, but we ain't nearly THAT stupid.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 341       Sun May 26, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:57 EDT
+ 
+     There's a chance that the rights situation may work itself out by
+mid-Summer on Grimjack; if so, I might be able to peel off some time in
+the Fall/Christmas hiatus period to work on it.
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 43
+Message 63        Sun May 26, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:06 EDT
+ 
+     The stabalizer fell off in two pieces; the outer part or shell on
+the white star, the other half later that was clipped to his belt.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 487       Tue May 28, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:56 EDT
+ 
+     Linda: at least one out of those three will come into play again
+this season.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 606       Wed May 29, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:15 EDT
+ 
+     This is Kung Fu's last season, yes.
+
+     Mike: the Disney situation is unique to Disney; they are all
+engulfing, totally dictatorial, and everything that comes out of there is
+incestuous as hell.  There's a reason most anybody who's worked for them 
+refers to the place as Mauschwitz....
+
+     RE: Space A&B...yes, the word is it's been canceled.  It's
+amazing to look at the SF shows that have come and gone just in the time 
+that B5 has been around: S:A&B, Space Rangers, VR5, SeaQuest, Earth 2, 
+and on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 612       Wed May 29, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:50 EDT
+ 
+     "WB wanted some product placement using stuffed animals...."
+
+     Never happened.  Jerry is...embroidering.
+
+     Space Rangers came on at the same time as B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 507       Wed May 29, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:17 EDT
+ 
+     The energy being that got Sheridan in "Knives" had no relation to
+anything in the ongoing story; it just existed outside our normal
+universe, and got in and out via the rift (which also served to remind us 
+that it was still there).
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 508       Wed May 29, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:18 EDT
+ 
+     PS, it's one thing, I think, to spend 2 hours in a movie theater
+and get a downer ending...another to invest 5 years of your life and then 
+it all goes to hell.  I think they'd crucify me for that.  And I think 
+they'd be right.
+
+
+jms
+
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 23
+Message 350       Wed May 29, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:52 EDT
+ 
+     The new edition is, basically, an entirely new book.  One of the
+reasons it took me 3 years to get the damned thing in was that I'm a
+perfectionist, and couldn't just update the pay info, I had to rewrite 
+the thing from stem to stern (I think only the playwriting chapter is 
+more or less the same), updating all the information, tossing aside 
+suggestinos (suggestions) that were no longer appropriate in this market, 
+adding new info about changes in the fields, adding new chapters on 
+animation, computers, and the like...it's a whole different book now.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 624       Thu May 30, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:17 EDT
+ 
+     BTW, for those in LA, I'll be doing Mike Hodel's Hour 25 on
+KPFK-FM 90.7 this Friday night from 10 p.m. to midnight.
+
+
+jms
+ ------------ 
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 43
+Message 112       Thu May 30, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:16 EDT
+ 
+     I'm often tempted to create Zathras' brother, Mathras, or
+somesuch, if only for the look of terror in their eyes when he says, of 
+Zathras, "Ah, yes...Zathras...was the quiet one in the family...."
+
+     Who knows, it might be something I might do someday....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms96-06 b/ftp/GEnie/jms96-06
new file mode 100644
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+JMS on GEnie
+June 1996 postings
+
+
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 374       Sun Jun 02, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:30 EDT
+ 
+     Yes, B5 is filmed widescreen, the full horizontal range restored
+by going back to the original negs.  (After coming back from Wolf 359 I'll
+actually get to see a full-widescreen version at WB.)
+
+     You can get screwed in widescreen sometimes; I had the regular
+aspect ratio of Cabaret, searched for the wide, found it...and discovered
+that when they ran it in theaters, they just masked off the top and bottom 
+of the frame for the widescreen effect, and the regular aspect ratio was 
+the one where you could see all of it, not the wide.
+
+     One reason there's no diffusion in space is that there's no
+atmosphere in space to PROVIDE the diffusion; haze and the like is a 
+atmosphere effect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 386       Mon Jun 03, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:49 EDT
+ 
+     Though lately, from what I've been hearing from ST-oriented cons,
+the toys aren't selling as well from ST anymore.  At the big blow-out ST
+convention in Pasadena a few weeks ago, the 30th anniversary one, some
+DS9 stuff sold, less Voyager stuff sold...and they had to send back to the
+warehouse twice for B5 stuff.
+
+     Now, as an aside....
+
+     Warners has been running the numbers on renewal, and we've been
+told that the numbers look right, and will be recommended for renewal.  Now
+that's not the same *as* renewal, there are still some execs who need to 
+stamp the thing and say domini domini over it (as John Copeland says), 
+(in nomine patre, et fili, et spiritus sanctus, ACTION!")...it would take 
+a huge and unexpected event to stop it now, and that doesn't seem likely 
+at all.  So while I wouldn't say this is an eep, that formally hasn't 
+happened yet, and it's WB's perogative to actually make that 
+announcement, I'd certainly consider this at least an e.
+
+     I make a point of saying this only because I'm going to be in the
+UK this coming week, and thus offline, and won't be able to post any eeps 
+that might be forthcoming.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 624       Wed Jun 12, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:30 EDT
+ 
+     Just got in late last night, still catching up...yes, we've been
+renewed.  I dearly wanted to announce it here before I left, as has been
+traditional, but it couldn't be done until we had the formal, final pickup
+notification from WB, until which time it ain't real, and a) things can 
+still go wrong, and b) the last time I said something too early WB rapped 
+my knuckles.  It wasn't truly official until late Friday.
+
+     We begin shooting again August 26th.
+
+
+jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 413       Thu Jun 13, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:49 EDT
+ 
+     Araratus: most messages pass in front of me, but given that I see
+about 500 or so per day, sometimes individual questions slip past me.
+
+     Kwicker: a certain poet once wrote, "Truth is beauty, and beauty
+truth; this is all you know and all you need to know."  If there is any
+beauty to the work, then it contains truth, and thus cannot be a lie.  A 
+story only has value wherein it touches an even greater Truth, perhaps 
+even a universal truth.  
+
+     Fiction, at its best, is truth...it's the real world that's a
+lie.
+
+     Sleep tight.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 656       Fri Jun 14, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:59 EDT
+ 
+     But y'see, the Eep is only used when I know for sure it's renewed
+and can't say so.  Now it's renewed and I can say so, and I was away for
+the very brief in-between...to misuse the power of the Eep is a serious
+infraction.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 705       Sun Jun 16, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:17 EDT
+ 
+     "Ratings for all syndicated dramas have dropped."
+
+     Incorrect, in at least one case.  B5's ratings this quarter have
+been our highest in some time, so we're definitely on an upswing.
+
+
+jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 391       Wed Jun 19, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:58 EDT
+ 
+     WB is coming down hard on all its shows (or so I'm told), on the
+theory that a con showing = a theatrical exhibition, and they can be fined
+hundreds of bucks by the showbiz guilds.  Now, in the history of hollywood,
+this has never, ever happened...but the lawyers got their noses into it...and
+at that point, you're doomed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 395       Thu Jun 20, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:48 EDT
+ 
+     Nope, they won't allow that.  It ain't the slate, it's the
+guilds.   And we can't show scenes with guest stars, either.  And we 
+can't take more than 4 minutes out of any given episode.  
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 544       Thu Jun 27, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:53 EDT
+ 
+     Well, just finished the first (writer's) draft of "The Hour of
+the Wolf," the first episode of year 4, to be directed by David Eagle.  
+It was a tough one, like all first-episode scripts...but quite 
+interesting, in its way.  Once again the show takes a somewhat different 
+tone, I'm using some tools I somewhat developed in the background in year 
+3 and am now trying in foreground, very interesting mood change...a good 
+start.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 258       Fri Jun 28, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:49 EDT
+ 
+     Here's what the talk shows tell us: "Sorry, but you're a
+syndicated show, and nobody knows from syndication, so our viewers 
+wouldn't be interested."
+
+
+jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 261       Sat Jun 29, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:49 EDT
+ 
+     At some point along the way, somebody decided to mail out the B5
+newsletters bulk mail.  This is problematic at best.  So we're going
+to start switching over to 1st or 2nd class to ensure delivery.  They're 
+going out in batches.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 270       Sat Jun 29, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:30 EDT
+ 
+     New episodes (the last of season 3) start in October.
+
+     So the good part, such as it is, is that we'll play 5 in October,
+then 4 or 5 in November, so you're looking at 9-10 in a row, almost half a
+season in one go.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms96-07 b/ftp/GEnie/jms96-07
new file mode 100644
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+JMS on GEnie
+July 1996 postings
+
+
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 374       Mon Jul 08, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:43 EDT
+ 
+     If GEnie should go away -- and I haven't heard anything either
+way on this -- I'd just stick with the other services I'm on already, mainly
+CIS, AOL and rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated.
+
+
+jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 381       Tue Jul 09, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:27 EDT
+ 
+     I've said it before, I'll say it again: this show was born under
+a black star.
+
+     Starting from the debut of the pilot in New York, where we were
+literally blown off the air by the World Trade Center blast, which took out
+WWOR's antenna, until now, anything that can go wrong, does.
+
+     After 3 years, we're finally, FINALLY, going to get a good sized
+article in TV Guide (July 27th) as part of their SF round up.  They sent a
+photo crew out to do the shoot.  Very difficult and elaborate, cast came 
+in on breaks and cut short time away to do it.  
+
+     So today WB calls to say that after Federal Expressing the
+original negatives, transparencies, everything, to NY in time for the 
+article, the truck carrying the art was hijacked at gunpoint, and 
+everything inside went with it.  So now it's too late to redo the shoot, 
+and they'll have to go with older art provided by WB.
+
+     We can't catch a break on this show....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 390       Wed Jul 10, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:49 EDT
+ 
+     No, the driver was fine, only the stuff was taken, driven off.
+
+     Boy, those Paramount boys'll stop at nothing....
+
+     (the preceding was a joke, for the jocularity deficient)
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 234       Tue Jul 09, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:50 EDT
+ 
+     Yes, the UK will be getting the final 5 starting in August.  WB
+Int'l had agreed to the run straight through, and C4 held them to it.  To 
+change it would've caused problems.  
+
+
+jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 241       Tue Jul 09, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 22:31 EDT
+ 
+     Allen: yes, that's a correct statement.
+
+     Trys: why can't they change us?  Situation is this: the UK
+doesn't have ratings periods.  The US does.  They check their ratings all 
+the time, and determine their rates for advertising, and don't generally 
+have rerun periods.  So they play straight through.
+
+     If WB plays the shows in July, August, or September, those aren't
+sweeps periods.  Also, those months are when TV viewership figures (they 
+call them HUTs, Households Using Television) are at their lowest, because 
+people are away from home, on vacation, at the beach, whatever.  The 
+November sweeps are *crucial* to keeping a show on the air.  So WB wants 
+to air the final 5 in October, to ramp up the ratings in November, for 
+that reason.  (It often takes weeks for people not online to discover 
+there ARE new episodes on.)  
+
+     If they play us out of sweeps, we're a less valuable commodity to
+the stations, and thus it's more likely we'd get canceled.  Pick your
+poison.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 427       Fri Jul 12, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:37 EDT
+ 
+     I think part of the disagreement here comes over how you define
+what a STORY is.  A story is the connotation of consequences, and 
+context, as opposed to a PLOT, which is the series of events in which the 
+story takes place, A, B, C, D.  "The king died, and then the queen died" 
+is a basic plot.  "The king died, and then the queen died of grief" is a 
+story.
+
+     I preface this by saying I haven't seen ID4 yet, so take what
+follows cum granus salus, but....
+
+     As I understand it, ID4 is an incident/plot driven movie.  Bad
+aliens come to Earth.  Bad aliens smash.  Good humans smash back.  Good
+humans win.  The aliens are there to shoot and be shot at, and we don't 
+really know much about who they are, where they come from, their 
+cosmology, any of that.  It's a series of incidents.
+
+     With Star Wars, you got the sense of things happening outside the
+plot, and you got the sense of context and consequences.  It delved into
+matters of belief, the use of the Force, the Zen notion of letting go of 
+the conscious self.  It carried with it a sense of history, the notion 
+that there had been prior wars, and the whole history of the Jedi 
+Knights, which carried with it a sense of mystery and wonder.  There was 
+a fairly well realized political framework, with Imperials and rebels and 
+other planets that chose not to get involved.  You got the sense that the 
+events in the story came from somewhere, and would lead to something.
+
+     There's not much question that Star Wars contains more actual
+story than ID4.  Which isn't the same thing as saying that one is 
+*better* than the other.  That's a mug's game, because whatever's better 
+for us is a purely subjective decision.  But one can point to the two 
+movies and say, with a fair amount of objectivity, which one contains 
+*more* story than the other, which involved the most creativity and 
+world-building.
+
+     Just to try and clarify the argument a little....
+
+                                                           jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 33
+Message 278       Fri Jul 12, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:46 EDT
+ 
+     So given that all of season 3 has only one author, given that you
+can easily define a season (apparently there was some confusion about what
+a season is) as Year 3, episodes 301-322, given that this year they're
+MUCH more directly linked as one dramatic unit...what d'you think the 
+odds would be of getting all of season 3 of B5 considered as one dramatic 
+unit for Hugo consideration next season?
+
+     (Heck, we gotta compete with ID4 *somehow*....)
+
+
+jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 33
+Message 281       Fri Jul 12, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:51 EDT
+ 
+     But is it really an exception?  You have two books as potential
+nominees. One is 100,000 words long, the other is a huge 300,000 word 
+potboiler. But they're both written by one author, so they're both 
+eligible.  If a two-part episode can be considered a dramatic unit 
+because it has one author, and a single episode can be considered because 
+it has one author, then why not a 22- parter with only one author?  Just 
+because the unit has more pages shouldn't mitigate against it any more 
+than the 300,000 word novel should be disqualified.
+
+     If you stop and think about it dispassionately for a moment, the
+exception would be in NOT allowing a whole one-author season be
+nominated.  The committee has already allowed the notion of multiple-part 
+nominees by accepting two-parters.  You've crossed the one-episode barrier
+already.  So logically if you've accepted that, why suddenly change it to 
+just one episode?
+
+
+     Conceivably, I could take all 22 scripts, put a huge binder on
+it, and slap a cover page on it reading SEASON THREE, WRITTEN BY J. MICHAEL
+STRACZYNSKI, and drop that one single unit on the desk of the
+committee and say, "Here, here's one dramatic unit."  
+
+     On one level, it's really kind of an intellectual exercise; I
+like to feather around the rules and see what things mean when little things
+get changed, and what the *sense* of the rule is vs. how it's applied
+sometimes.
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 458       Tue Jul 16, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:14 EDT
+ 
+     I was in college when Star Wars hit, first year or so, I think,
+and had somehow managed to utterly and completely miss ALL of the hype 
+and PR about the movie *for the entire duration of its run*.  (I was, by 
+turns, studying heavily, writing heavily and dating heavily.)  I finally 
+wandered in to see it on the last day of a screening run at a small 
+theater in Chula Vista, about the last place on earth still playing it by 
+that late date.  Sat down to watch it, figuring it'd be another cheesy 
+awful film like the (I think) Star Invasion movie I'd seen just before, 
+with Robert Vaughn, I think, and Christopher Lee....
+
+     No expectations, no knowledge.  Tabula rasa.
+
+     Two or three other people in the theater as it went dark.
+
+     That first shot pinned my ears to the back of the room and never
+left.
+
+
+jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 467       Wed Jul 17, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:20 EDT
+ 
+     I'd say Sinclair and Garibaldi both caught traces of that future.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 448       Sat Jul 13, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:14 EDT
+ 
+     The videos were the same, in the case of "Requiem," but the
+projection system wasn't really up to snuff.
+
+     Now, I toss out a philosophical question for general
+consideration.
+
+     When they first showed "Requiem," I was watching from the back,
+as is my wont.  I always try to make sure *everybody* can see and hear 
+stuff as well as conceivable.  The lights were on low in the middle of 
+the room, which washed out about 60% of the video; there were whole 
+sections where you couldn't see squat.
+
+     I was very bugged about this, and when I went to the stage, and
+set up things to show, I said bring the lights down *all the way*.  One
+person with the con said "We can't do that."  This seemed remarkable to 
+me, as I understood that most electrical devices had on and off switches.  
+So I cupped the mike and indicated that if the lights didn't go down I'd 
+shoot them out.  They went down.
+
+     The second time we went dark, I found out what was going on sub
+rosa.  There were, I think, 3 or 5 deaf people in the front of the room, 
+and had someone signing for them to tell them what was being said on the
+clips.  The person doing the signing was very upset with me, to say the 
+least.
+
+     So here's the dilemma: you keep the lights up, and 2,400 people
+can't SEE the screens.  If you lower the lights, they can, but the 3-5 
+people with hearing problems can't hear what's being said.
+
+     The logical solution, I believe, was what I did: the lights go
+down, on the theory that the 2,400 outnumber the 3-5.  But at the same 
+time, I'm sensitive to the problem.  I know that the signer was 
+upset...but at the same time, I figure, if you knew you were going to be 
+signing in a room where a SCREENING was going on, which therefore would 
+get dark, you'd bring a low-level light or flashlight for those periods.
+
+     Comments?  Discussions?
+
+     I think I made the right decision...but it's a tough call, y'know?
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 26
+Message 463       Sun Jul 14, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:26 EDT
+ 
+      Unfortunately, my master copies aren't closed-captioned, only
+the broadcast copies, because that takes 'em down a generation.
+
+
+jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 33
+Message 297       Mon Jul 15, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:16 EDT
+ 
+     Actually, I'd mitigate *against* the 5-year story being
+considered as a whole dramatic unit because it has multiple writers.  I 
+think that would tend to violate the spirit of the Hugos.
+
+
+jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 501       Fri Jul 19, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 20:14 EDT
+ 
+     For those with questions about the fan club, or who haven't yet
+received some of the material, B5FC head Jim Lockett now has an email 
+address: JPLB5@AOL.COM.
+
+                                                     jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 532       Mon Jul 22, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:44 EDT
+ 
+     Peter: well, as you note, if the response hadn't been as strong
+as it is, we'd likely be off the air and it'd be a moot point.  (Or, if 
+the show were swallowed into silence, maybe that'd be a mute point.)  But 
+for the sake of argument, let's take a middle ground...sufficient ratings 
+to stay on the air, but zip in the way of direct response: no B5 forums, 
+topics, web pages...a silence vast as space.
+
+     I'd do exactly what I'm doing.  I can't work any other way.  I
+believe in this show, in the story I'm telling, right down to my socks.   
+Not to be grandious, because I'm not even within 50 light years of this 
+class, but...in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold exactly 1 painting, for (I 
+believe) 40 francs.  Everyone considered him a failure.  He lived with 
+his brother, who paid his bills, kept him in food and clothing, which he 
+felt VERY guilty about...nobody knew him, or his work.  But what he 
+painted, he painted.  He painted what moved him, what *meant* something 
+to him.  And if the world noticed, or if it did not, that didn't change 
+what he saw, or the way he presented it on canvas.
+
+     He suffered greatly, endured greatly, but the work was the work.
+It was in-between that his life was most disasterous, when he wasn't 
+working, when he wasn't *seeing*.  And it was in that dry stretch that, 
+on a warm Spring afternoon, he went out into a field five miles from his 
+brother Theo's home, put a gun to his chest, and fired...out of guilt for 
+taking up so much of his brother's money, out of fear, out of failure, 
+the vessel not the equal of the talent it contained.  (And even at that, 
+he failed; the bullet did not kill him at once.  He lay there for almost 
+an hour, then crawled back to Theo's home, where several hours later, he 
+died in his brother's arms.)
+
+     And now, today, industrialists and collectors pay millions of
+dollars to hold one of his paintings to their eyes and peer through the 
+bars to greatness...for the chance to see what Van Gogh saw through those
+tragic eyes.
+
+     The work is the work.  To fall prey to despair when it isn't seen
+for what (you hope) it is...or to puff proud like a pouter pigeon when the
+crowds cry out your name...both are equally anathema to the creative  drive.
+You have to listen to the calm, clear voice in the back of your head and
+paint what you must paint, write what you must write, dance what you must
+dance and sing what you must sing, because to *not* do so is suicide, and 
+to do so for the wrong reasons, to appeal to the momentary trends of the 
+crowd, is a much slower but just as sure a death.
+
+     The story is the story, and the work is the work.  There is no
+other answer that would mean a damn.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 547       Tue Jul 23, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:58 EDT
+ 
+     Vampyr: Zelazny collected 500 rejection slips before he sold
+anything, so you've got at least 499 more to go before you're entitled to 
+get depressed.
+
+     And yes, the piece can be reprinted, as can anything I write
+here.
+
+     I'd hoped not to generally have this known...but no, I don't
+drive.   I have a bit of a proble with depth perception that only comes 
+into play really in any significant way when I'm behind the wheel of a car.
+Translation: I hit things, and they frown on that.  So for the good of the
+Commonweal, I stay off the roads.
+
+     So I don't know who drove off at LosCon, but it weren't me.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 553       Wed Jul 24, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:26 EDT
+ 
+     I get around...it just requires a certain degree of creativity
+some days.
+
+     (And yes, I have the stamp, thanks, it's very cool.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 557       Wed Jul 24, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:45 EDT
+ 
+      Hmmm...I don't know this for a fact, I'm only speculating, but
+the station could be burning off its committment to clear the decks and
+the ledgers.  Could be interesting if it backfires and starts doing well
+for them, which has the potential to happen when someone starts stripping 
+the show nightly....
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 586       Thu Jul 25, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:51 EDT
+ 
+     The driving *can* be done...but from my perspective, knowing me,
+not as safely as I feel should be the case.  Unless I'm 100% confident of my
+ability, I won't get behind the wheel of a car and risk hurting 
+someone.   It's just not something I can do with a clear conscience.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 12
+Message 354       Tue Jul 23, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:02 EDT
+ 
+      It's "arc," as story arc, he kinda misunderstood.
+
+      I'm rather conflicted about the article...on one hand, it's a
+positive article, and one should be properly thankful for that.  On the 
+other, I'd thought it'd be about the show, and the cast (I wasn't even in 
+the photo shoot, which is standard, so again I figured it was about the 
+show per se), and instead it's mainly jms stuff, which I'm kinda so-so 
+about.  And on the third hand (I have a third hand now), it feels like he 
+was looking for some kind of angle on the story, found this one -- that 
+we are ABOUT something -- and kinda ran it into the ground.  
+
+     It seems these days that if you care about something, if you want
+to make a statement, or believe in your work, somehow that's passe, and 
+it's trendy to poke fun at passion.  The trouble with cynicism is that it 
+tends to devolve into contempt, and these are cynical times.
+
+     So I dunno...good article, in most ways, others...just kinda sets
+my teeth on edge.  But again, this is the first time they've really
+acknowledged us, so I have no complaints.  I'm happy they did it.
+
+
+jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 608       Fri Jul 26, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:19 EDT
+ 
+     Re: a gold-plated limo...dream on.  Syndication pays roughly half
+what network shows pay.  My agent still shakes her head that I left Murder,
+She Wrote and took a 50% pay cut to do B5.  
+
+     The Pegasus Publishing bumper stickers are definitely unlicensed.
+
+     Script #3 title: "The Summoning."
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 624       Fri Jul 26, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:58 EDT
+ 
+     BMW?  Please, it's a Mercedes 300E, my only concession to working
+in TV, also because it's a very safe car.  (1990 model, still going strong.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 320       Sat Jul 27, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 05:46 EDT
+ 
+     There are no current plans for Talia's return.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 648       Sun Jul 28, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:48 EDT
+ 
+     Mike: the problem is we're telling different stories.  What makes
+it interesting for me is that Sheridan *isn't* prepared, Kosh *didn't*
+finish his training.  It isn't nice and tidy.  And to stop and explain 
+the dream in "Interludes" would've meant taking, oh, about 3-5 minutes 
+OUT of that episode, and it's very tight as it is.  And it would've just 
+been a case of, "Here, here's this bit of exposition relating to 
+something you've seen before."
+
+     No, the dream *does* get explained...and it gets explained *this
+season*, in the course of the final five.  In detail.  But at the right 
+time, and in the right place.  To have explained it sooner wouldn't work, 
+it has to come at the right moment, with the last bits of information our 
+characters need to *use* that interpretation.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 372       Tue Jul 30, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:37 EDT
+ 
+     Van Dyke had considerable problems with alcohol for many years
+before finally coming out the other side, which were widely known and
+reported, and he's been very open in talking about them.
+
+     And yes, definitely know that Rod's no longer with us, I was just
+playing into the TZ sensibility for a moment.  (While on TZ3 I did a
+posthumous collaboration with Serling, taking his outline for "Our Selena 
+Is Dying" and turning it into a full episode of the show.)
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms96-08 b/ftp/GEnie/jms96-08
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3c678d5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/GEnie/jms96-08
@@ -0,0 +1,215 @@
+JMS on Genie
+August 1996
+
+
+
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 416       Thu Aug 01, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:50 EDT
+ 
+     Congrats, Tom, great news.
+
+     RE: Electronic Arts...no, they do not have ANY rights to any B5
+games whatsoever.  There was a deal in the works about 2 years ago, but it
+fell through.  The area is wide open.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+SFRT I RoundTable
+Category 44,  Topic 5
+Message 294       Wed Aug 07, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:51 EDT
+ 
+     Actually, the jackets you generally see me and members of the cast 
+and crew wearing are *only* for those folks, who've earned them in the
+trenches.  We'll never license out anything just like them, in order to 
+keep them special for the crew.  We'd make a mint if we did...but that 
+ain't what matters here.
+
+     Technically, the first B5 related con I did was LosCon, where I 
+screened about 15 seconds of animation for the project, and first went 
+public with the name.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 517       Thu Aug 08, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:13 EDT
+ 
+      Yes, in the fairly near future we'll be spending some more time
+back on Mars.
+
+      Working title for #404: "Falling Toward Apotheosis."
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 525       Thu Aug 08, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:33 EDT
+ 
+     Good, one should look up words, add to one's vocabulary.  Who
+does this involve?  Well, we'll see.
+
+     Yeah, I wrote the Scripts column for Writer's Digest for almost
+exactly 10 years...definitely enough for a book, but since the new 
+version of my writing book is coming out in October, no point to it, really.
+
+     Actually met Chris Roberts last year, when we were in some
+preliminary discussions about us doing a Wing Commander movie or 
+series.   He definitely wants to be a film-maker.
+
+
+jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 547       Sat Aug 10, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:37 EDT
+ 
+     Virtually all food used is real, for health reasons.  The liquid
+drunk by G'Kar and Arthur in "Avalon" is Yoo-Hoo; the mountain of stuff
+Garibaldi's eating in the Zocalo in first season is piled meatloaf; the 
+spaghetti and bagna cauda was real; the only problem is that no matter 
+what you do, it's going to get cold after 18 takes, even with reheating, 
+and by the 17th take...well, it's an ugly sight.
+
+                                                             jms
+ ------------
+SFRT I RoundTable
+Category 44,  Topic 5
+Message 302       Sat Aug 10, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:40 EDT
+ 
+       Michael is generally reserved, soft-spoken, very intelligent;
+he reads quite a great deal, and has a background in NY theater, so he's 
+up on all kinds of plays.  He's also very observant and a good listener.  
+He tends to find the one person in the line who's been shoved back, and 
+go to that person the most, or to the kid in the audience.  He has a 
+somewhat philosophical bent as well.
+
+                                                               jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 568       Mon Aug 12, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:09 EDT
+ 
+      BTW, I should mention that Patricia Tallman (aka Lyta Alexander)
+is joining the cast as a regular character in year four, and will be 
+included in the main title sequence.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 588       Tue Aug 13, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 14:42 EDT
+ 
+     Zrath: you're the first person to catch the subtext in that; one
+is falling toward something which is rising, therefore promising imminent
+conflict.  
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 603       Wed Aug 14, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:53 EDT
+ 
+      Actually, we put the station site online so we could run some
+final tests at the site itself, and hadn't yet announced it online as being
+up and ready.  That should be happening shortly, so it's still being
+finalized a bit.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 639       Sat Aug 17, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:29 EDT
+ 
+     Pat's said she'd like to do her own stunts, but she constitutes a
+valuable commodity, and I'm not sure I want to risk that.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 727       Wed Aug 21, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:13 EDT
+ 
+     Kris: no, it was an original TZ, I didn't write any remakes,
+don't believe in it.
+
+     Mike: yeah, might be impossible to do that on TV...then again,
+maybe not....
+
+     We picked our cast members because they were the best ones to
+walk in the room.  Nothing much there to say.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 737       Thu Aug 22, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:13 EDT
+ 
+     It's real simple, Kwick.  I sit in a chair in the office as
+actors come in to audition.  Most times, an actor comes in, and an actor 
+goes out.
+
+Sometimes, on rare occasions, the actor comes in and the character
+comes in with him.  You don't see the actor, you see the character.  And 
+that's the one you hire.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 441       Thu Aug 22, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:21 EDT
+ 
+     Don: some of it's deliberate, I'm not averse to using an actor's
+background to inform something in the character (i.e., Jerry's vehemently 
+pro-death penalty, so I used that in Garibaldi) to add verisimilitude to 
+the personality at hand.
+
+
+jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 366       Sat Aug 24, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:08 EDT
+ 
+     I have *no* idea why this should be...there's no reason why the
+writers can't contact me, unless Dell is telling them not to, and if that 
+is true someone at Dell is going to be tarred and feathered.  As Tim can
+confirm, if someone writing the B5 DC comic had a question, they just 
+sent me an email, and if I could confirm it, I would.
+
+     Regarding Jeanne's specific story...when the spec outline came
+in, I went over it with a fine-toothed comb and made notations on certain
+elements to bring it into line with canon.  The script she will be 
+receiving will answer about 95% of the questions in this regard.  It has 
+nothing to do with kindness; when Stephen Smith needed to finish the new 
+card set from Fleer, I made sure he read the final 5 scripts so he'd know 
+what to include/exclude.
+
+     With Dell, after I approve the outlines, I rarely hear from the
+writers until the first draft comes in, and then I have to go over it 
+with little time and try and correct it.  It'd be better if they checked 
+in with me during the process but I assumed they wanted to get it out 
+first, then correct what needed correcting.  If they're not being allowed 
+to ask me questions, if somebody there is putting him- or herself in the 
+way for reasons of controlling information or preserving authority, 
+somebody's going to be in *serious* dutch.  
+
+     I will check on this on Monday.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+
diff --git a/ftp/GEnie/jms96-09 b/ftp/GEnie/jms96-09
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dddf6045
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/GEnie/jms96-09
@@ -0,0 +1,353 @@
+JMS on Genie
+September 1996
+
+
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 626       Tue Sep 03, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:14 EDT
+ 
+     Thanks, all.  We're very pleased and proud to have been recognized for
+the Hugo.  It's a terrific validation of our work, and this is something 
+that the fans made happen, and it's as much theirs as mine.   It just
+reinforces that people can get together and accomplish something whenever 
+they choose to do so
+
+     Re: copyright infringement...no, you don't have to prove damages
+to win.  Statutory fines exist, at $100,000 per infringement the minimum 
+under the law.  Additional penalties come from damages; the $100,000 is 
+the minimum per.  And one can argue that each distributed game would be an
+infringement...the math ain't favorable.
+
+                                                                jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 644       Wed Sep 04, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 02:04 EDT
+ 
+     Re: commercials...we don't make 'em, and have zero input into the
+construction of them.  We're not allowed to get near it, that's strictly 
+a Warnr Bros. thing.  
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 424       Tue Sep 03, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:16 EDT
+ 
+     It's usually common for larger ships to drop their fighters just
+as they enter a jump point into normal space, so they can get an edge on 
+the target rather than launching post-jump.
+
+
+jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 647       Wed Sep 04, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:44 EDT
+ 
+     Small corrections...the Hugo space ship is silver; 7 Hugos have
+been given previously to SF shows, 3 to the original TZ, 4 to ST (old and
+new). And yes, apparently the "Is There A God?" debate has become the 
+con's #1 seller on tape, with Buzz Aldrin's speech second (I don't know 
+whether to be pleased or chagrined), but we definitely didn't go to 
+dinner afterward...we ended up at the same restaurant, but different 
+tables on opposite sides of the restaurant.
+
+     (Aside: I had to wolf down my food to get ready for the Hugo
+ceremony, and just as I was finishing, a fan had the waiter bring over a 
+tray of food, christened spoo.  I couldn't eat it, had to run, so I gave 
+it to the fellow I'd been debating, explaining that it was "an act of 
+atheist charity.")
+
+     Aside to Mike Cooney...was there a message uptopic where you went
+over ways to more economically/reasonably portray, like, thousands of
+ships on-screen?  Not that I have any reason for asking this question....
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 31
+Message 328       Fri Sep 06, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:19 EDT
+ 
+     There's a term, for let's say England, when you're between rulers, 
+one has passed along and the other is perhaps too young to rule, or they
+haven't yet decided on someone...a term for the person who's in charge in 
+the interim, and I can't for the life of me think of that term.  Anybody 
+know what it is?
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 1
+Message 16        Sun Sep 08, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:15 EDT
+ 
+     Stims take a while to work out of your system, to get totally 
+flushed out (as will be noted shortly), but when they're gone, it's 
+unpleasant.  
+
+     My own take on "And The Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place," which
+airs tomorrow in the UK...I like it.  The Brother Theo stuff is a tad
+stilted in a couple of places, but it's only a couple of minutes, and the 
+rest works real well.  It's a very subversive episode in its way, and a 
+part of it still creeps me out.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT I RoundTable
+Category 44,  Topic 5
+Message 336       Sun Sep 08, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:17 EDT
+ 
+      My guess is that for Necro, I'll be able to bring some clips from 4th
+season shows, the late 3rd season bloopers, some other stuff.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+     (PS, Vampyr, good to meet you there...to put a face with the sharp
+analyses of stories.  And thanks to all re: the Hugo.)
+ ------------
+
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 1
+Message 22        Sun Sep 08, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:57 EDT
+ 
+     Well, sometimes you go along making an episode, and when it's all
+assembled -- which is really the only time you ever know if it's turned 
+out the way you want -- it's kinda late to change much.  You're filming 
+the next episode, you can't go back and refilm it or rewrite it.  So 
+there's really very little you can do at that point.  
+
+                                                              jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 738       Wed Sep 11, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:04 EDT
+ 
+     There's always a danger in making the show about the New Alien of
+the Week, which we tend to try to avoid.  As for Hypernauts, yes, they
+showed a lot more virtual environments...but the resolution of those 
+shots were nowhere near the level of resolution needed for a show like 
+B5.  They  looked more plastic-y, more obviously CGI.  The only way they 
+could render that much material was to go for low-res stuff, and do other 
+tricks.  It also helped that they shot that show on *videotape*, which is 
+far cheaper than film.  If you did the Hypernauts EFX tricks on B5, 
+they'd look very chintzy, for the most part.  
+
+     That said, we *are* going outside the station more and more in
+the last batch of year 3 episodes, and even moreso in the initial 
+episodes of year 4.  We go to Narn, more time is spent on Centauri Prime, 
+Minbar, Mars, Earth, and elsewhere.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 453       Thu Sep 12, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:43 EDT
+ 
+     Foundation also did the majority or all of the battle stuff in
+last week's Voyager.
+
+     Re: NDE...Doug was very happy with that name, which they arrived
+at after long, long discussions...and just after they locked it down, I 
+pointed out that NDE is also a term for Near Death Experience, which has 
+since become how some of us refer to  it.  (Or a Near Doug Experience,  
+which is kinda the same thing, only without the light show.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 473       Fri Sep 13, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:59 EDT
+ 
+     Today John Copeland and I did our producer's cut on the first
+episode of year 4, "The Hour of the Wolf."  Granted my opinion is 
+subjective and biased...but of all the first-episodes we've had each 
+season, this one is the best.  I was searching for the right word after 
+looking at the director's cut, and finally came to it...maturity.  It has 
+a depth we've only skated through before, all meat, no filler.  This one 
+and the next batch are also all over the map, literally...B5, Narn, 
+Centauri Prime, elsewhere...so it's a real challenge.  But it looks great.  
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 482       Sat Sep 14, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:16 EDT
+ 
+     Mike...on the one hand you keep asking for big battle set pieces, 
+then you say you don't want a war story...you'll forgive me if I note that
+you're sending out mixed signals.
+
+     You may also want to wait to see what we *do* rather than
+worrying now about what we *might* do.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 509       Sun Sep 15, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:44 EDT
+ 
+     Also, what tends to happen is that a message of mine gets 
+paraphrased or misremembered, and someone says, "Well, back in 1993, jms 
+said..." and if they get it wrong, and I don't catch it, it becomes part 
+of what's assumed is actually happening.  It's like playing telegraph 
+with 25,000 of your best friends....
+
+     Small correction: my first on-line service was actually Compuserve, 
+back around 1984-1985.  I was one of the first to hit that service, I 
+think, and certainly the first TV writer I knew over there.
+
+     Re: the crew...nothing else has changed.  We've still got John 
+Flinn  III as our DP, Ann Bruice-Aling as costumer, John Iacovelli as 
+Great Maker of All Things Art, Chris Franke on music, optic 
+nerve...they're all still here, all still doing great stuff.  Directors 
+for the fourth season include Mike Vejar, Jesus Trevino, David Eagle, and 
+some new folks we're trying out, Kevin Dobson (not the actor), John 
+Macpherson, and we may even let Stephen Furst do an episode, since he has 
+a long background as a director for smaller films and theater.
+
+
+jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 513       Sun Sep 15, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:22 EDT
+ 
+     Actually, "Alas, Babylon" is a terrific book by Pat Frank, which
+came out in the late 60s, which I recommend to anyone.  Great reading.  
+Since first reading it as a kid, I must've reread it a dozen or more 
+times over the years until the darned thing fell apart.  (Paperback.)  
+While at  Worldcon, I picked up a first-edition hardcover of the book, 
+and started reading it again while I was there...and fell right back into 
+it again.
+
+                                                                   jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 527       Sun Sep 15, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 00:47 EDT
+ 
+     The thing about "Believers" is that, really, nobody's right, and
+in their own way, from their point of view, everybody's right.
+
+
+jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 536       Sun Sep 15, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 16:48 EDT
+ 
+     Kwicker: exactly.  Interestingly, one fan I ran into at Worldcon
+made the point that rather than moralizing or giving messages, B5's 
+strength is in providing "meaning without judging."  Kinda interesting....
+
+
+jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 600       Sat Sep 21, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 18:52 EDT
+ 
+     You ever get one of those pieces of news that leaves you at once
+vaguely amused and horribly chagrined?  Turns out in the October issue of 
+BUZZ Magazine -- the high-style, fancy, New Yorker-in-aspiration LA
+magazine for rich folk -- they have the 100 Coolest People in LA.  How do 
+I know this, even though I don't subscribe?  I got called by a friend.
+
+     Yep...for the first time I am now officially cool.  
+
+     Still processing this one.
+
+                                                                 jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 588       Fri Sep 20, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:50 EDT
+ 
+      More episode titles: #5, "The Long Night," #6, "Into the Fire,"
+#7 "Epiphanies," #8 "The Illusion of Truth."
+
+                                                            jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 619       Sat Sep 21, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:50 EDT
+ 
+     Mike: you give me an extra million dollars an episode, and you
+can' have those scenes.  We make this show for under $900,000 an 
+episode.  We're dancing as fast as we can.  What they spent on ID4 is 
+more than we've spent on all three years of B5.
+
+
+jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 620       Sat Sep 21, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:55 EDT
+ 
+     And just so you understand...it's not just a question of building
+sets.  Yes, you start with that expense.  Now add extras to populate the
+scenes.  If you're going to have people being killed or even bumped 
+around, you need stunt people, and that's very expensive if you start 
+having more than 2-3 of them in a scene.  Now there's the CGI.  Now 
+there's the cost of the pyrotechnics.  And the staging.  Crashes or big 
+action (live, not CGI) scenes can take an entire day to set up.  Yeah, 
+you can get a 15 second BIG SCENE, but it'll cost you hideously, and 
+it'll add an extra day to production, and you'll have to throw out other 
+stuff.
+
+     We save our big hits for where they will make the most impact,
+but again, this is TV, not a major feature film.  The ST shows get about 
+$1.2-1.4 million or more per episode, depending on circumstances.  S:A&B 
+cost $2 million an episode on average.  Our budget is limited to under 
+$900,000.  We do the best we can with what we've got.
+
+                                                                  jms
+ ------------
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 650       Mon Sep 23, 1996
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:47 EDT
+ 
+     Mike: okay, I've been quiet, even though others have noted it,
+but you're straying again and again into story suggestions, how the next 
+season should be done, what the environment should be like, even titles; 
+stop it.  I can't be blunter than that.
+
+     Well, actually, I *can*...but the situation is born out of
+enthusiasm, and more or less forgiveable.
+
+     As for GROPOS, that one episode was so far over budget that I had
+to write 2 smaller ones to make up for it, and the many people you saw
+were really just one small group that took forever to digitally composite
+into looking like a much bigger group.
+
+     Mike, your suggestions on production are all well and good for a
+big budget movie.  That's where your mindset is at.  But this is a TV
+show.  We have TV limitations.  We have a budget below any other SF show 
+around. We do the best we can.  Please stop gigging us for things that we 
+can't do, and no other TV show can do.  
+
+                                                                   jms
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+                            [1][ISMAP]-[2][Home]
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+   _Contents:_ [7]Overview - [8]Backplot - [9]Questions - [10]Analysis -
+   [11]Notes - [12]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     The Vorlon ambassador is nearly killed by an assassin shortly after
+     arriving at the station, and Commander Sinclair is the prime
+     suspect. [13]Tamlyn Tomita as Lt. Cmdr. Laurel Takashima(*).
+     [14]Blaire Baron as Carolyn Sykes(*). [15]Johnny Sekka as Dr.
+     Benjamin Kyle(*). [16]Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander(*).
+     [17]John Fleck as Del Varner. [18]Paul Hampton as the Senator.
+     
+   (*) These characters were originally planned as recurring characters
+   throughout the series, but were replaced for various reasons.
+[19]P5 Rating: [20]6.00
+
+Production number:  0 (Pilot)
+Original air date:  Feb 22, 1993
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Richard Compton
+
+   _Note: There are two versions of "The Gathering," the original one as
+   initially aired in 1993 and a reedited special edition first aired in
+   1998. Items that only apply to one version are so marked._
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Earth has been keeping genetic records of telepaths for the last 6
+       generations.
+     * The Psi Corps takes children with psi abilities when they are
+       young and trains them to use this ability in a very strict manner.
+       There are definite rules governing the use of psi. No unauthorized
+       mind scans. No gambling.
+     * All races but the Narn have telepathy.
+     * The Narn are a young but powerful civilization, with (G'Kar
+       claims) unlimited manpower.
+     * The Narn heard about the reason for the Minbari surrender in the
+       Earth-Minbari war - a decision from their Grey Council (a secret
+       group of "holy men").
+     * The Minbari are the oldest of the "five federations," and
+       centuries ahead of the others technologically.
+     * Londo says to Garibaldi: "You know why I am here? I'm here to
+       grovel before your wonderful Earth Alliance, in hopes of attaching
+       ourselves to your destiny. [...] There was a time, when this whole
+       _quadrant_ belonged to us! What are we now? Twelve worlds and a
+       thousand monuments to past glories, living off memories and
+       stories, selling trinkets."
+     * Centauri status is based on family history. Political and personal
+       power must be built up over generations.
+     * The Narn were once enslaved by the Centauri and have only recently
+       gained independence. This seems to be a sensitive spot for the
+       Narn, or at least G'Kar. (cf: [21]"Midnight on the Firing Line")
+     * Sinclair fought in the last battle of the Earth-Minbari war, the
+       Line. In the midst of battle, he blacked out while attacking a
+       Minbari warship and remained unconscious for 24 hrs. He has no
+       idea what happened to him during those 24 hrs. (cf: [22]"And the
+       Sky Full of Stars")
+     * Takashima used to work at a corrupt mining station on Mars.
+       Refusing to go on the take, she was never going to get promoted
+       out of there. She recounts lashing out and "breaking the rules"
+       out of frustration at it all. However, Sinclair was her superior
+       there for a while, and he got her to shape up and play things by
+       the book.
+     * Garibaldi has been "bounced from station to station" for a long
+       time before Sinclair requested him for Babylon 5. (cf:
+       [23]"Survivors")
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+  The Station
+  
+     * Why was Babylon 5 _really_ built, and rebuilt, and rebuilt, and
+       rebuilt, and... rebuilt? Sinclair's story about human stubbornness
+       doesn't hold water. B5 is a monstrous project, especially for a
+       society very recently decimated by war. Yet it was made _five_
+       times, the fifth time from _SCRATCH_.
+     * Who sabotaged B1-B3, and why? Who vanished B4, and why?
+       
+  The Minbari Assassin
+  
+     * How did the assassin get the voice and image of Sinclair in
+       diplomatic dress before he poisoned Kosh? For everyone else he
+       obviously impersonated, we'd seen him in close proximity to them
+       earlier.
+     * The assassin-as-Varner pointed a gadget at Lyta in the bazaar. It
+       is widely assumed that this acquired her visual pattern for the
+       changeling net, but it could have been something else.
+     * Why did the assassin-as-Varner arrange to make Londo late for the
+       reception? He kept Londo in a public place, making him
+       unframeable.
+       
+  Takashima
+  
+     * What hold did G'Kar et al. have on her? (see [24]Analysis) Perhaps
+       she _was_ on the take in that [25]corrupt mining colony, and she's
+       still living on the take today.
+       
+  Lyta Alexander
+  
+     * Why was she talking to the assassin-as-Varner, as reported by
+       Garibaldi and Londo? Garibaldi must have asked her at some point,
+       but we never get to see this.
+     * How was she involved? (see [26]Analysis) Perhaps her role was only
+       passive - agree to scan Kosh if asked, report any information she
+       gathers (possibly via telepathy).
+       
+  Sinclair
+  
+     * Judging by [27]the headlines of Universe Today, Babylon 5 is a
+       very big deal back on Earth. Why is Sinclair, a lowly Commander,
+       both in charge of the station and acting as the Earth diplomat?
+       (cf: [28]"Signs and Portents")
+     * What happened to Sinclair on the Line? (cf: [29]"And the Sky Full
+       of Stars")
+     * What _is_ the hole in his mind? Is it simply the 24 hour memory
+       loss from his experience on the Line, or something more
+       significant?
+       
+  Del Varner
+  
+     * According to Garibaldi's information, Del Varner would normally
+       stay far away from B5. So, why was he recognized by a local tech
+       (Eric)?
+       
+  The Vorlons
+  
+     * Why _did_ they request that the monitors in the docking bay be
+       turned off? Kosh was walking out in public, hidden safely in his
+       encounter suit.
+     * What is Kosh inside that suit anyway? (cf. [30]Lost Scenes from
+       Babylon 5)
+     * How did the poison get through to Kosh? He must have had his hand,
+       or whatever the limb was, completely outside his encounter suit.
+       Perhaps that explains why the Vorlons wanted the monitors turned
+       off; they didn't want anyone else to see Kosh's hand. In that
+       case, why did they want Sinclair to see it? _Special Edition
+       (spoiler for a pivotal revelation later in the series):_ Kosh
+       greeted what he thought was Sinclair by addressing him as
+       "Entil-zha Valen," indicating that he already knew Sinclair in
+       some context.
+     * Is there anything to that legend about someone turning to stone
+       when they saw a Vorlon? Have people ever gotten into situations
+       where they could _conceivably_ have seen one?
+     * The Vorlons seem to be puppet thugs of the conspirators in the
+       pilot, yet clearly they do some things for their own reasons. Why
+       such secrecy around their technological inferiors? Why break the
+       veil to send an ambassador to B5?
+     * For that matter, why agree to ship Sinclair to their world? Surely
+       that would mean him finding out about them. Unless they never
+       intended to bring him there alive, of course.
+     * Did Delenn really tell Sinclair everything the Minbari know about
+       the Vorlons? Either way, how much does he know now?
+       
+  The Minbari
+  
+     * Why did they surrender at the Line? It's already pretty clear that
+       Sinclair had Something to do with it. Furthermore, what was the
+       real reason the Minbari were fighting the war to begin with?
+       
+  The Centauri
+  
+     * Why have they fallen so far from power? From Londo's stories it
+       seems [31]they were a great Empire within his lifetime (which may
+       be quite long, for all we know).
+       
+  Miscellaneous
+  
+     * Why was the access panel outside Varner's quarters busted, by the
+       time Garibaldi arrived? It probably has something to do with the
+       assassin [32]using Takashima's clearance to gain entry. Perhaps
+       the panel keeps the only record, locally, of who's used it, and
+       thus breaking it would prevent the illegal entry from being
+       discovered.
+     * The very presence of a changeling net aboard the station invites
+       us to open the question, "Who else did we see that could have been
+       that Minbari in disguise?"
+     * Four major actors in the pilot left the production for various
+       reasons and do not have permanent roles in the series (though Lyta
+       Alexander reappeared later.) However, since [33]jms slipped
+       reasons why in the B5 universe two of the the characters no longer
+       appear, it is meaningful to ask:
+          + Why was Lyta Alexander replaced as station telepath? Did she
+            get in trouble for unauthorized mind-scanning after all, or
+            was it because she's been in the mind of a Vorlon?
+          + Why has Carolyn drifted out of Sinclair's life?
+       
+Analysis
+
+  The Plan
+  
+     * G'Kar et al. wanted to start a war between the EA and the Vorlons.
+       The primary plan was for Kosh to be dead; Takashima's announcement
+       that the Vorlons had forbidden the opening of his suit should have
+       nailed that coffin shut. Framing Sinclair for the murder was
+       probably also part of the primary plan (the Vorlons' request that
+       the bay monitors be turned off could well have been a surprise to
+       them).
+     * There may have been a secondary plan to achieve the same results:
+       having Lyta scan Kosh. This could have been foreseen, impromptu,
+       or coincidence.
+     * The assassin was Minbari, which indicates a violent faction of the
+       Minbari still exists (cf: [34]"Deathwalker"). The goals of that
+       group are unknown, but so are the goals of the mainstream Minbari
+       government.
+     * In particular, the Minbari warrior class may have had their own
+       reasons for getting Sinclair sent to the Vorlon homeworld.
+       
+  Takashima was somehow involved
+  
+     * The assassin [35]used Takashima's palmed security access to gain
+       entry to Varner's quarters.
+     * Takashima agreed to Kyle's plan of getting Lyta to scan Kosh even
+       though (by her own story) it went very much against her grain. "I
+       guess I'm about due" is hardly a believable reason.
+     * Takashima broke into Varner's files. 260 years from now, would
+       someone be able to crack open a technology criminal's secure files
+       in a matter of hours without inside information?
+     * There were lots of instances when very recent information was used
+       to further [36]the Plan, for all of which Takashima was in an
+       ideal position to be responsible.
+          + The assassin met Kosh at the right docking bay at the right
+            time.
+          + In general, [37]the Plan proceeded smoothly in spite of
+            Kosh's 48 hour early arrival (the angriest response we saw
+            from Takashima was to this very discovery).
+          + Sinclair was trapped in a lift at just the right time for
+            just long enough, and the record cleared.
+          + Someone actually contacted the Vorlons and told them about
+            the poisoning, thus acquiring the predictable response that
+            opening Kosh's suit is verboten.
+          + Someone leaked - very quickly - the fact that Sinclair had
+            been fingered by a witness. This is what brought on the
+            Vorlon cruisers.
+          + G'Kar found out - again very quickly - that Kosh would
+            recover from the poisoning ("There has been a complication").
+       
+  Lyta may have been involved
+  
+     * She seems to have exchanged glances with the real Del Varner as
+       she walked off with Sinclair at the very beginning. The two
+       probably came in on the same ship.
+     * Later, she's seen talking to the assassin-as-Varner. Yet the
+       latter scans her image for the changeling net without her
+       knowledge [38](if that was what he was doing), so their level of
+       cooperation is mixed at most.
+     * The assassin, disguised as Lyta, didn't kill her in the ample
+       moment they shared outside the medlab.
+     * On the other hand, her conversation with G'Kar within "privacy"
+       would almost certainly have been very different if they were in
+       cahoots. So perhaps she was only in contact with Del Varner and/or
+       the assassin.
+       
+  The Minbari assassin
+  
+     * The assassin didn't need any special clearance to enter Varner's
+       quarters; he was expected. So he must have [39]used Takashima's
+       clearance in order to leave a record of her entry at that time.
+       Since [40]the panel was broken before this could be discovered,
+       this suggests clandestine cross-purposes.
+     * "There is a hole in your mind" may have been his _response_ to
+       Sinclair's question, "Why did you do it?" Interesting.
+     * It was not part of the plan for the Minbari to set off his
+       explosives. Else why arrange to be able to get off the station?
+       So, they were just to prevent his capture/interrogation.
+       
+  Sinclair is inexplicably trusting and friendly with Delenn
+  
+     * He would have sacrificed his life to kill a few more Minbari
+       during the war ten years ago, yet:
+     * He does not appear to be discomfited by Delenn's evasions in their
+       Garden conversations.
+     * When he encounters Delenn after escaping the exploding assassin,
+       it would have made sense for him to confront or question her, or
+       at least be suspicious. Instead, he was relaxed and jovial. Later,
+       he made sure Delenn knew he didn't hold her responsible.
+       
+  Delenn
+  
+     * "The power of one mind to change the universe" likely refers to
+       Sinclair. (Recall the other Minbari's [41]reference to his mind.)
+     * There were two stones in the stone garden.
+     * She evades most of his questions, yet volunteers two big files
+       during the episode, and drops lots of other hints to him. As with
+       [42]her abstention on the council, she seems subject to contrary
+       forces. Keep him in the dark, yet point him toward the light.
+     * She is a personally powerful representative of a very powerful
+       race. Yet we don't observe her taking any active hand in the big
+       picture so far.
+     * In the B5 council vote to extradite Sinclair to the Vorlon
+       homeworld, an abstention was equivalent to a "No" (presumably
+       abstentions are interpreted to mean "None of the above" or "Take
+       no action", whichever is appropriate). So, what conflict prevented
+       Delenn from explicitly voting against the motion? _Special
+       Edition:_ Delenn claimed she couldn't vote one way or the other
+       because she didn't yet have all the information at hand, and that
+       her orders where Sinclair was concerned were simply to observe,
+       not interfere.
+       
+  Londo
+  
+     * He fills Garibaldi's ears with stories of the good old days of
+       conquest. [43]Bygone days, unlike the way things are now. He may
+       be honest, or he may be trying to allay suspicions. More likely
+       the former, since Garibaldi's suspicions don't have much political
+       significance.
+     * A heavy drinker and compulsive gambler.
+       
+  G'Kar
+  
+     * Notice his jollity in telling Takashima his transport will submit
+       to the weapons search (now that the assassin has successfully come
+       aboard). True, if [44]she was in cahoots with him, that little
+       exchange was for show, as was their earlier confrontation at Ops.
+       He's nonetheless consistently transparent in his emotional states.
+     * A schemer and warmonger.
+       
+  Takashima
+  
+     * Some of her ideas were faultlessly loyal to the EA (eg "You better
+       take a recorder - the way things are going you may need a
+       witness."). So, her heart's in the right place, at least.
+       
+  Garibaldi
+  
+     * Self-esteem trouble. He's ready to give up on the investigation
+       after Varner's death. He's used to failure at his other jobs.
+     * Garibaldi also messes up the investigation in several ways:
+          + No guards around Kosh.
+          + Losing sight of Varner while questioning Londo.
+          + Not talking to Lyta about Varner while it's still relevant.
+          + Not noticing [45]all those Takashima timing and information
+            clues.
+          + Lets the Commander get into a shooting fight with a superior
+            foe, alone.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * An [46]alternate introduction was written, but not filmed.
+     * Universe Today main headline: Vorlons to Make Contact
+     * Universe Today sub-headline: Narn Protest of EA's B5 Heats
+     * Among the messages flashing by on Lyta's identicard: ELVIS STILL
+       LIVES
+     * When the assassin scans his hand at Varner's door, words are
+       visible on the screen. If you have a lucid pause function on your
+       VCR, you too will be able to read what they say - "Laurel
+       Takashima Cleared".
+     * Minbari ships have short-range FTL, or cloaking, or jamming
+       (Sinclair: "They came at us out of nowhere"). Basically, they can
+       put themselves right where they want to be without Starfuries
+       noticing them en route.
+     * Cruisers can "wait" in hyperspace outside a jump gate.
+     * Unscheduled uses of the jumpgates, at least during this earlier
+       part of B5's history, are practically unheard of.
+     * _Special Edition:_ Two plot points, Kyle's use of stims to stay
+       awake and Takashima's use of the Garden to grow coffee, were both
+       transferred to the characters who replaced them in the series.
+     * Ed Wasser played C&C technician Guerra, and later went on to play
+       Mr. Morden (first appearing in [47]"Signs and Portents.") There's
+       no evidence that the two characters are related, however.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * Actually, at one point or another, just about *everyone* lied in
+       the course of the pilot...including Sinclair, who lied to G'Kar,
+       and of course Delenn lying to Sinclair in the Garden...and so on.
+     * The one thing that I dropped fairly completely due to the delay in
+       getting the series going was the Laurel thread, which has now
+       mutated and become something even more interesting, actually. It's
+       something that's enabled me to now build in a trap door that you
+       won't see for a long time, even though it's sitting there in plain
+       sight.
+     * _What happened to the old characters on the pilot, not working on
+       the series?_ _jms:_ On a classified mission (which I hope we will
+       be able to get into at some point), Laurel has been reassigned out
+       on the Rim, and Dr. Kyle is now working with the EA President on
+       the issue of alien migration to Earth, a growing problem to some,
+       a benefit to others.
+     * Pat Tallman passed on returning to the B5 project. Our new
+       telepath will be played by Andrea Thompson, with the character
+       name Talia Winters. Much of the Lyta arc will now go to Talia, but
+       there's now a different way of getting her into that arc.
+     * What it *does* give me, which is kinda nice, is that the only two
+       people to have ANY direct contact with a Vorlon have been
+       transferred back to Earth. Which plays wonderfully into something
+       sinister I'd kinda like to develop that the Earth Alliance is
+       working on behind the scenes...
+     * Actually, I think we broke [the "Return of the Jedi"] record for
+       ships on-screen in the pilot; Ron was rather pleased about it at
+       the time.
+     * _Will there be a director's cut?_
+       The odds are zero, since the first version of the B5 pilot existed
+       only as a computer-graphic file edited movie. It wasn't edited on
+       film, for real, until we'd pared it down. We'd have to go in and
+       totally re-edit and re-score, and I doubt that's going to happen.
+     * Beats me, but if you find an uncut version of B5, lemme know,
+       because I'D like one.
+       The problem is that, unlike a motion picture, where you produce a
+       cut on film, which you then trim down, we're editing on
+       computerized image files. We don't get around to finally cutting
+       the film until we've made our final edits. So no complete version
+       ever existed on film. The most that could be done is get those 25
+       minutes and *build* a new version with that footage...which would
+       require additional scoring, editing, and other stuff.
+     * The computerized cut of the pilot is now dumped out of memory, and
+       those portions only exist on a few VHS tapes of marginal quality.
+       Also, the footage in computer file form is *very* low grade, like
+       a poorly scanned gif file, very low resolution. It would be
+       useless on a laser disk.
+     * I'm certainly not showing disdain for the missing material; I'm
+       just saying it ain't *there*. Now, if B5 turns out to be a
+       megahit, there may be money set aside to re-edit the pilot some
+       years down the road, but I'm not currently counting on it. My
+       chief concern now has to be the series.
+     * There was a reason we gave Londo the pilot opening monologue, yes.
+       And another reason why we're giving Sinclair the opening monologue
+       over credits of the first season, though with some differences.
+       We're also considering rotating any such opening between other
+       cast members as well, but *always* in the past-tense, "Babylon 5
+       *was*...." We're dealing in future history here, and we plan to do
+       some interesting things with that aspect.
+     * Yeah, Londo seems like the *least* likely person to do the opening
+       narration for a show like this; you don't even see him for nearly
+       two full acts, and it's the kind of thing you'd expect the
+       Commander to do.
+       But there are reasons for everything....
+     * Oh, yeah, the "mission of destruction" thing ONLY relates to this
+       particular episode, the pilot. It'll be gone from regular
+       episodes.
+     * "Mankind" was being used by Londo specifically in relation to
+       humans, not sentient aliens including his own race. Earthers.
+       Which was one reason (of many) I wanted his character to be the
+       narrator, someone looking in from the outside.
+       As for the Third Age, it's -- oh, darn, look at the time, have to
+       go....
+     * _The alien section looked like a zoo!_
+       First, we decided that wasn't a right look for the alien sector,
+       and that's the corridor we blew up at the end. But the reason it
+       was designed that way is important. Your reaction -- don't the
+       aliens have any privacy? -- is a very human, and specifically a
+       very *western* point of view. Our feeling at the time was, why
+       should alien quarters look at all like human quarters? Shouldn't
+       they have a different perspective than typical Western-style
+       hotels? (In some degree, the quaters were patterned after Japanese
+       mini-hotels, where you get basically a slightly larger coffin-like
+       setup, which you crawl into like a torpedo tube, with a window at
+       one end, which has a curtain, a TV over your head, and so on. What
+       we discovered is that many people ask for more alien aliens, but
+       when we delivered on that, were asked why these things weren't
+       more like what we expect, why aren't they like human quarters?
+       It's really a losing battle.)
+       The other point on this is that if you look closely, there are
+       back areas accessible to residents, which can in particular be
+       seen in the insectoid/antennae'd character's quarters. The idea
+       was that it would be sort of a front porch, where for lack of much
+       else to do, you'd sit out on the porch, watching the passing
+       parade.
+       But the reaction was less than favorable, we had to keep
+       explaining that this proceeds from an alien POV, and so our alien
+       quarters are more like human quarters now, minus the alternate
+       atmosphere stuff. I'm still not quite sure what to think of this.
+     * Actually, it's Kosh's ship that comes out of the jump gate
+       backward, engines forward to assist with deceleration. The
+       fighters don't want to be slow-moving targets, so it stands to
+       reason they wouldn't be configured for rapid deceleration. They
+       want to get into position as fast as possible.
+     * Kosh's ship had to decelerate in order to dock inside the station.
+       This is a reality of spaceflight...you must both accelerate and
+       decelerate. Both take time. Especially if you're going to dock.
+       Plus there was time involved in setting up the docking procedure,
+       turning over control to Babylon Control, lining up vectors and so
+       on.
+       The fighters didn't have to worry about any of this. They came
+       shooting through the gate and barely slowed at all, speeding over
+       to B5 and taking up position.
+       There have now been several situations in which we've been accused
+       of "mistakes" that have, instead, simply been things done
+       scientifically accurately. I have to say (and this isn't directed
+       at you, just more of a general statement), we're not going to hand
+       everyone everything on a silver platter, serving up pablum...the
+       nature of a *science fiction* series is that you should THINK
+       about things. The acceleration/deceleration thing is one example;
+       some thought about why this would be would have led to the answer.
+       And, as evidenced by other messages here, others have taken the
+       time to look at it from that perspective. Which I think is great.
+     * Re: the skin tab/Kosh's hand/encounter suit question...one of the
+       reasons I can't wait for the series to get on the air is so that
+       we can make one thing clear, once and for all: it is NOT an error,
+       not a plot hole, it is a plot POINT. It is a question that our
+       *characters* will be asking each other. How can this be? This will
+       come up more than once, starting with "The Parliament of Dreams"
+       episode.
+     * As for the Vorlon handshake (so to speak)...this will be dealt
+       with in the series. You have to remember that the original plan
+       was to air the pilot and go *immediately* into series, where we'd
+       bring up some of these questions. There simply wasn't room to deal
+       with EVERYTHING in that short pilot...and where we DID try and
+       cover everything, we got gigged for being expositional.
+       Now we have to re-establish a few things since there's been a gap
+       in time...but the poison incident will be raised in "The
+       Parliament of Dreams" script to start with, and move on from
+       there.
+     * The Senator of the pilot, who was back on Earth, is someone who
+       has in past been someone that Sinclair has come to for backing on
+       things; he's the equivilent of someone on the Armed Services
+       Committee, here as one of those civilian Senators overseeing
+       Earthforce. He would not be in any position to just come in and
+       take over, any more than a Senator visiting a U.S. army base would
+       be in a position to take over the base if there were a problem
+       with the ranking officer. But he might be able to bring some force
+       to bear back in Washington, which might double-back to be of some
+       use.
+       There are civilian branches and military branches, as with today,
+       in which the civilian branch oversees the military, but in very
+       formalized ways.
+     * In the script, the privacy mode involved going from a standard
+       looking open booth to what suddenly looked like a flat black cube,
+       which you could neither hear nor see through. The director decided
+       to try the lights. It didn't work. We're dropping it.
+     * You're right; the events of the Line are something that Sinclair
+       doesn't much like talking about, and has been advised *against*
+       talking about. When the Minbari surrendered, Earth put the best
+       possible spin on it, tried to make the survivors of the Line look
+       like heroes, but there's a general sense of what happened. And a
+       great deal of dismay over it.
+     * Your assumption is correct; the assassin's weapon was a very small
+       one...limited power, and a charge-up sequence that becomes longer
+       the more it's used. If the Minbari had shot Lyta, it would've
+       taken too long for the gun to power-up again for him to shoot
+       Sinclair...and he would've been captured. We slightly expanded the
+       power-up whine for each shot after the first one. You'll note that
+       the first shot, the one that takes out Varner, is almost
+       immediate. Points and fires. Gradually it takes longer, and
+       finally the gun runs out altogether (which is why, though we
+       probably should've been clearer in showing this, the assassin
+       finally went hand-to-hand with Sinclair...the gun was never meant
+       as an assault weapon, more as a derringer, with a few shots in
+       case he got into trouble).
+     * As for Sinclair going after the Minbari assassin...there were
+       several reasons for this. First, this was personal for him; if the
+       guy *wasn't* caught, he would be blamed for the death and sent to
+       the Vorlon homeworld. He had something very much at stake. Second,
+       if you have somebody with shapeshifting technology on board, the
+       LAST thing you want is to send in a large group. The tracking of
+       the energy web used for the holographic effect was good, but only
+       to a certain point. It could say "He's ten feet away," but if
+       there's 5 guys within that range, it'll take you just long enough
+       to react for the assassin to wipe out the bunch of you before you
+       figure out which one he is. But if there's only *two* of you, and
+       you hear the shifter is within 10 feet, you know *exactly* who it
+       is and can react accordingly. It seemed logical. Also, you'd want
+       someone there who you knew VERY well, in case there were a
+       replacement...because while someone could emulate a face, they
+       can't replicate memories, and Sinclair or Garibaldi could quickly
+       figure out if the other was an imposter.
+       Yes, I probably could've stopped to explain this...but I figured
+       it was readily apparent, and there was already enough exposition
+       in the pilot to stun a horse.
+     * "If JMS had not mentioned the hole in Sinclair's mind, what would
+       have been the reason for the assassin to try and kill Sinclair?"
+       Hello...did you see the same movie that I wrote? The assassin was
+       not there to kill Sinclair. He was there to kill Kosh. He tried to
+       kill Kosh. He tried to stay AWAY from Sinclair, did everything in
+       his power to avoid Sinclair, ran from Sinclair, and only finally
+       encountered Sinclair when Sinclair came after HIM. Then it was
+       nominal self-defense.
+       Had the "hole in the mind" reference never been made, it would
+       have been clear -- at least clear to every other carbon-based
+       lifeform who saw the movie -- that the assassin 1) came to try and
+       kill Kosh, 2) in the hope of disrupting the purpose of Babylon 5,
+       with the added benefit of 3) if he failed in his mission, setting
+       up Sinclair to take the rap for his actions. At the very end,
+       rather than be captured and interrogated, the Minbari assassin
+       killed himself with an implanted bomb. His comment to Sinclair at
+       that moment was more of an "Up yours" comment, designed to shatter
+       Sinclair with the knowledge that he knew something Sinclair
+       didn't.
+       You keep saying he was there to kill Sinclair. He wasn't. He
+       didn't. He didn't try. It makes it hard to have this conversation
+       with you if your comments don't touch reality at any two
+       contiguous points.
+     * I never said that the [assassin's] intent wasn't to set up
+       Sinclair; I only said that he wasn't there to *kill* Sinclair.
+       That aspect of making Sinclair the patsy was very much part of the
+       thing.
+     * What Kyle suggests...is closer to the truth than might otherwise
+       be suspected. We had filmed a scene -- which never made it into
+       the finished pilot -- where Garibaldi, growing suspicious of his
+       boss -- confronts Sinclair in the core shuttle. One of the alibis
+       he checked out doesn't hold up: Sinclair's. The transport tube
+       computer records don't indicate any delay. Sinclair suggests that
+       there's either a problem with the system, or it's been
+       deliberately altered to remove that information.
+       It was, of course, the latter.
+       Now...stop and think about this for a moment.
+       The Observation Dome has equipment to detect approaching ships.
+       The spider transport approaches without being noticed. The surface
+       of the station would likely have sensors to detect something
+       attaching itself to the hull. Somehow these were over-ridden. The
+       only time that anyone notices, up in the Dome, is later, when
+       Laurel isn't there, interestingly enough. Someone deliberately
+       programmed the transport tube to delay Sinclair. The assassin
+       would have to know this in advance.
+       We saw Londo with the assassin. We also saw Garibaldi, Lyta, Dr.
+       Kyle and -- later -- Sinclair with the assassin, each relating to
+       him in different ways. Who was the one person we never saw with
+       the assassin, whose reactions might have told us something? Who
+       was the one put in charge of the station when Sinclair was pulled
+       out of circulation?
+       Laurel.
+       We had some...interesting things in mind for this character. Now
+       that another character has come in, some things will be modified,
+       but other elements will come in to replace them.
+     * I kept Tamlyn in the dark about a lot of this. She even mentioned
+       this in an interview she gave somewhere. I didn't want that
+       knowledge to make her play the role anything other than it should
+       have been played: as if absolutely innocent and sincere. Sometimes
+       you just gotta be sneaky....
+     * There was an element of saving her own life...and another aspect
+       of all this is that she may not have been acting entirely of her
+       own free will during the first half. There may be some influences
+       that will emerge later.
+     * Laurel was not being altogether honest, and was helping to cover
+       the activities of the person who was doing the assassination
+       attempt.
+       (This, again, is a thread that would've come clear had we kept
+       that character; nobody was supposed to figure it out going in, but
+       rather put it together over time.)
+     * This has already been answered; had the character stayed with the
+       show, gradually it would have emerged that the assassin had access
+       to Laurel's codes because she provided them to him.
+     * This isn't so much a spoiler, since it concerns an abandoned story
+       like (or, let me rephrase that...a modified story line). I mention
+       this here since I just mentioned it elsewhere, and might as well
+       do so here.
+       Think hard about the pilot for a moment. Whose job is it in the
+       observation dome to monitor incoming ships...but apparently let
+       the spider transport slip through unnoticed? The station's skin
+       should have (and likely did) detect something clamping onto
+       it...but apparently someone over-rode that for the spider
+       transport. Someone had to PRE-arrange access via the computer for
+       the assassin, since it easily palms its way into Varner's
+       quarters. (And what is the name of the person the access computer
+       recognizes?) Someone had to arrange for the transport tube to be
+       delayed, and then *erase* that information from the computer
+       system. Someone who knew *exactly* when the Vorlon ship would be
+       docking. We see, at various times, the following people
+       interacting with the assassin, in different capacities: Garibaldi,
+       Lyta, G'Kar, Londo, Dr. Kyle, and of course, much later, Sinclair.
+       Who did we never see in direct contact with the assassin? Who was
+       put in charge of the station after Sinclair was removed?
+       Do you notice a pattern developing? Do certain things here point
+       to a certain individual...who may, or may not, have been acting on
+       her own volition?
+       And yes, this is something we planned to explore, though it wasn't
+       on a *direct* line to the arc of our story. It definitely impinged
+       upon it, of course. This has been modified due to the change in
+       the character of the Lieutenant Commander, and this now won't go
+       where it was going to go...but we still have some very interesting
+       plans for our secondary character, not at all along the Takashima
+       lines (which is why this isn't a spoiler), but certainly
+       intriguing on their own terms.
+     * Now, I didn't say she was a villain. I said that certain things
+       may or may not have been done of her own free will, her own
+       volition. What this means...we'll see.
+     * The scruffy person in the Varner files was the same homeless
+       person who we just happen to see sitting right outside Varner's
+       quarters, watching as he moves along. This was played by Ron
+       Thornton, because we wouldn't be seeing him in a major role, we'd
+       just have to know someone was there.
+       Again, this ties into a specific story line that has been modified
+       with a) the departure of Laurel, and b) the length of time since
+       the pilot aired. Who was the homeless man really? It's no longer
+       an issue, but it was related, yes.
+       But only in a very small way.
+     * "Would it be fair to compare the original ST pilot to B5's pilot?"
+       No, it would not. Because there is nothing in common with them
+       other than that they are both SF. You can compare TNG to DS9 to
+       TOS, because they're in the same universe.
+       Would it be fair to compare Cagney and Lacey with NYPD Blue? After
+       all, they're both cop shows. But in fact, they're not the same
+       kind of cop show; they share the same genre, but there ends the
+       overlap. The two shows are distinct, separate entities, just as
+       Harlan Ellison's work is distinct from Bill Gibson's work, even
+       though both incorporate elements of SF.
+       The ST pilot existed in its own universe, and was primarily an
+       action show. The B5 pilot exists in its own universe, and
+       primarily sets the stage for a political mystery/intrigue series.
+       It wasn't meant to serve the same functions as the ST pilot.
+       It seems to me that many SF fans continue to compare everything to
+       ST because that's their primary frame of reference, and they
+       continue to apply it whether it's relevant or not. My
+       suggestion...get another frame of reference.
+     * Once again, there's a lot of false analogies here in any attempt
+       to compare pilots, as in this TOS and B5 thread. You're talking
+       about transporters and other *technological* items. And you're
+       right, they didn't explain their tech. Neither did we, with the
+       exception of the changling net in the pilot, and only because it
+       was a plot point. We didn't explain how the jump gates worked, how
+       centrifugal force kept the gravity in place, or any of that.
+       The difference isn't *technology*, it's *context*. Once again, B5
+       is in many ways a *political* story. Consequently it's necessary
+       to explain who the players are in some detail, something that ST
+       didn't have to worry about. If you're reading a political thriller
+       about the U.S. and the (now defunct) USSR, it helps a lot to know
+       who's who.
+       Also, when ST started, there wasn't really a clear agenda, a place
+       that they were going, story-wise. B5 is a novel for TV. And that
+       puts on some pressures and problems other shows don't have. Others
+       may not see it that way, but it isn't their call. It's my call,
+       and I stand behind it, even while seeing some of the flaws in the
+       pilot.
+       All of which again points up the...well, *pointlessness* of trying
+       to compare the two shows. Compare MASH to ALL IN THE FAMILY.
+       They're both comedies. The similarity ends there. Everything
+       doesn't have to be comparable or dissectable (to coin a term) in
+       reference to ST.
+     * Let me just, against my better wishes, dive in here for just a
+       moment moment on this discussion. Especially as it relates to your
+       slam against the characters and characterizations on B5.
+       People keep comparing the B5 pilot to either the DS9 pilot or the
+       TNG pilot, often favorably, sometimes less so, but the reality is
+       that the B5 pilot had to suffer under a burden shared by neither
+       of those two other shows: establishing a whole new universe,
+       especially given that the B5 story is more of a political/action
+       piece in which you really have to understand where everyone's
+       coming from. By the time they got around to making the TNG pilot,
+       just about everyone knew what a Klingon was, what the Federation
+       was, what phasers and teleporters were...this was all established
+       cultural coin. When Jay Leno would make jokes about Klingons on
+       the Carson show (which it still was back then), he didn't have to
+       explain it to anyone. There's 25 years of shared history informing
+       the story. Same in DS9. Thus in neither pilot was that much really
+       or substantially *new* introduced, they didn't have to create the
+       universe from scratch.
+       But that was exactly what was necessary for B5; the relationship
+       between the five various governments is important to understanding
+       the characters, and the show...as is the recent Earth/Minbari war,
+       which isn't just backstory, it's something that will grow to play
+       an increasingly important role in the series as time passes. So
+       there had to be time spent establishing each of those
+       relationships, the political backstory, the minor players. AND we
+       had to tell a fairly complex story within that framework.
+       After you allocate the history of the B5 universe, for the
+       establishment of the plot, for the establishment of who our
+       various players are in relation to one another, you've got -- at
+       MOST -- 3 minutes left per character out of a 92 minute movie. You
+       can't establish a lot of character in 3 minutes.
+       Which is what strikes me as unfair in this conversation. You're
+       trying to compare 25-30 years of ST in its various incarnations,
+       with its delivery of characterization over A WEEKLY SERIES to a
+       single introductory TV movie of 92 minutes.
+       Plus, the pilot was never meant to be a stand-alone; it was meant
+       to get all the pieces moving, introduce us, and follow up the very
+       next week with *character-oriented stories*. That was always the
+       plan. Had I known that it would be aired by itself, with a long
+       delay until the series, I would have totally restructured it to
+       make it more of a character story, and held off on the heavy
+       background stuff until later. And in addition to THAT, I again
+       point to the 25 minutes of good character stuff that ended up on
+       the cutting room floor because we were over, some of which has
+       been shown to people at conventions. Some of them also felt as you
+       do. They saw the extra footage. And their reaction: "Oh, so THAT'S
+       who that is!" And their opinions of the characters did a fast
+       turnaround.
+       So what I'm saying here, fundamentally, is this: let's compare
+       apples to apples and not apples to oranges. You can't compare B5
+       to either TNG's or DS9's pilots, because they operated in
+       pre-existing universes. You can't compare the level of character
+       you get in a series to a TV movie, because one is 92 minutes long,
+       the other is 22 hours long times the number of seasons run.
+       If you want to compare things, and that's certainly your right,
+       may I suggest a moratorium on this entire discussion until the
+       series comes on the air? That will allow you to compare series to
+       series, which seems just a tad fairer to me. Any seconds?
+     * Re: the pilot...I've hashed and rehashed this, and the bottom line
+       is to see what we do in the series and judge the series by the
+       series. The DS9 pilot had to explain very little that wasn't
+       specific to the plotline: you already knew what a Bajorran was,
+       what a wormhole was, what the Federation was, what the Cardassians
+       were, on and on and on. Because they didn't have to introduce any
+       of that, they could spend time on other character moments. We
+       didn't have that luxury in the pilot. We had to do what, in
+       essence, ST has done over 25 years: establish our universe,
+       painting it in broad strokes, as broad're done with that aspect.
+       And now we can do our character-based stories. Which is exactly
+       what we're doing. Each of the characters is being solidly rounded
+       out in the series, showing multiple sides to each character. All I
+       can say is that I think you'll like what we're doing.
+     * I wasn't gonna jump in here, but I have to at least answer your
+       question: "Where's the rest?" The rest is in the series. You
+       haven't seen the series yet. You're comparing it against 7 years
+       of TNG; rather consider if the ONLY thing you had EVER seen was
+       "Farpoint." We had a massive burden: to build an entire universe,
+       based around a political drama, in basically 90+ minutes not
+       counting commercials. That meant that more time went into
+       exposition and backstory than I'd like.
+       In my view, we've now done that, we've laid the foundation, and
+       now we can sit back and tell stories...*character* based stories.
+       That's what I'm best at, and that's what the writers I've chosen
+       to use on the series are best at.
+       The "rest" you ask for is there..in the series. But I'm not asking
+       you to take my word for it. Check out the show. Maybe you'll like
+       it. And maybe you won't. That's showbiz. You don' like it, you
+       don' gotta watch. But I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
+       The miracle of the B5 pilot is that it got done at *all*, given
+       the odds against us, given a team working together for the first
+       time, without the benefit of an established universe, and actors
+       who had never worked together before who had zero chance for
+       rehearsal. I'm not apologizing for the pilot; it had flaws, but
+       I'm very proud of a lot that's in there.
+       Do the math. You have a little over 90 minutes. You have to
+       introduce 9 major characters in the course of that story. That
+       gives you ten minutes of attention for any one character. Now
+       you've also got to tell the backstory. You've got to establish who
+       the various players are. You've got to put the present-tense story
+       into motion, with beginning, middle and end. And now you're left
+       with maybe 3-4 minutes of "quality time" with any one character.
+       If we only had 2 or 3 characters, then it's a very different
+       story...but that isn't the universe we have to work in.
+       Now that the series is going ahead, we can spend an entire
+       *episode* dealing primarily with one character. And do the same
+       for others. We have the time. And that's what's important.
+       One last observation: you repeat the notion that it's all a
+       "reaction" to TNG. The treatment and screenply were complete and
+       making the rounds in Hollywood in Spring 1987. The basic material
+       was written in 1986, at a point in some cases when TNG hadn't even
+       *aired* yet. So it could hardly have been written as a reaction to
+       something that hadn't been seen yet, could it?
+     * You repeat several times your insistence that I study TNG to see
+       what they did right, use them as a roadmap.
+       Sorry. I have no desire to study TNG. I'm telling a different sort
+       of story, in a different universe. What TNG does right or wrong is
+       more or less irrelevant to that universe. That's like saying that
+       (just to pick two names at random) Orson Scott Card should study
+       Poul Anderson as a roadmap in his own novels. This is utter
+       nonsense.
+       A while ago, I got an email from someone who didn't like the pilot
+       (and it may have been on internet, btw) mainly because of the
+       communication devices. He said, and I'm paraphrasing from memory,
+       that every time someone used the wrist-links, it broke the
+       illusion for him, since we all KNOW that by then the REALITY is
+       that we'll be using the chest communicators that TNG uses, and I
+       should be sure to include that in future episodes as a
+       capitulation to that reality.
+       Sorry...TNG is a roadmap for TNG. Not B5.
+     * The VOYAGER pilot is *$23 million*?!
+       The BABYLON 5 pilot was $3.5 million.
+       With $23 million, we could make 1.3 SEASONS of B5. And have a bit
+       of money left over for a wrap party.
+       Amazing....
+     * My feeling here is, don't worry about the show, regarding your
+       overcoming on the pilot. Pilots are good, bad or uneven. What
+       matters in the analysis is the series. You can have a great pilot
+       and a disappointing series. And vice-versa. The series will air.
+       If it's good, people will watch, whatever they may have thought
+       about the pilot. If it ain't good, people won't watch, and
+       deservedly so. In other words, the ball's in our court now.
+     * "The pilot wasn't good. Face it!"
+       I'm at the head of the line to point out flaws in the pilot. Flaws
+       that we've dealt with. But a) it still holds up, and b) you are
+       trying to make your opinion into *fact*. It ain't. An awful lot of
+       people liked the pilot a lot. To them, it was good. Maybe to you,
+       it wasn't, but that's only true for you. That you may think
+       persimmon yoghurt is the best flavor ever created doesn't make it
+       true for everybody else. Just a moment for perspective here....
+     * I was at the Emmys tonight for the presentation of the B5 Emmy,
+       and in the visual efx area, more than one shoe can get an Emmy. So
+       we got one, DS9's pilot got one, and Lucas' Young Indy show got
+       one. (We sat at the next table to Lucas and his bunch, in fact,
+       and noted that he watched the B5 footage with considerable
+       interest.) So when you come right down to it, here we were, our
+       first shot out of the box, and we ended up on the same level of
+       appreciation as Trek and Lucas. Not too dusty....
+     * And y'know...it's absolutely in keeping with the Straczynski luck,
+       and the history of this show, that the year B5 wins an Emmy is the
+       first year that they DON'T do the recap of last night's technical
+       awards. Ah, well....
+     * I was asked to keep quite about this until April 23rd, which is
+       when the announcement is to be made at the Nebulas, but now that
+       it's indeed the 23rd, and that announcement either has been made
+       or is being made now, I'm pleased to report that the Babylon 5
+       pilot movie, "The Gathering," has been nominated for a Hugo.
+       Since we're up against Jurassic Park, I think I pretty much know
+       where THAT award is going...but it is a tremendous honor and
+       everyone involved with the show is very pleased by it.
+     * Thanks. As it turns out -- I today saw the list of nominees -- B5
+       is the ONLY TV-SF nominated for the Hugo. The rest are all feature
+       films (JP, Addams Family, Nightmare Before Christmas, Groundhog
+       Day).
+     * Eric...nothing would gladden my heart more than if the B5 pilot
+       won a Hugo (except the series winning a Hugo, which I think is a
+       bit likelier, maybe). It is the highest compliment that can be
+       paid by the SF community of readers and viewers. But one must be
+       realistic, and I just don't see it outpulling Jurassic Park in the
+       ballotting. JP is the proverbial 500 pound gorilla. Or the 50,000
+       pound T-Rex.
+       While we are only small mammals....granted we're mammals with guns
+       and an attitude, of course....
+     * _JP won the Hugo_
+       Yep, that's pretty much what I said would happen. And in my view,
+       JP probably deserves the Hugo more than "The Gathering." Next
+       year, now, THAT is an open question....
+     * Nope, I was nowhere in the pilot, not under makeup, not nohow, not
+       no-way. Nor will I do so in the series. That just ain't my thing.
+     * Side-note...Londo baring his teeth had nothing to do with Delenn's
+       vote in "The Gathering." That was gas.
+     * Both Christy Marx and Kathryn [Drennan, JMS's wife] can both be
+       *briefly* seen in the pilot movie as BG in the casino...and in the
+       main titles, Kathryn's back is to the camera in the wide downshot,
+       though you really can't make it out well in that one. Also in the
+       montage in the pilot movie, seated at the bar under narration, the
+       fellow with the beard, is art director John Iacovelli.
+     * The most entertaining thing for a writer is creating a character;
+       the second most entertaining thing is killing off a character.
+       Believe me, as you'll see in the Fight To The Death in the pilot,
+       I have no problem dropping a body. And as far as I'm concerned,
+       only 2 or 3 characters in this series are indispensible...the rest
+       are open to all kinds of interesting fates.
+     * The amount of contact required varies according to the telepath's
+       strength. Lyta at P5 needs a little help. A P10 could nail you
+       from across the room.
+     * The background on that business meeting is similar to all such
+       uses of telepaths: both sides agree to the presence of a telepath
+       to monitor the negotiations. If one were to demur, the deal would
+       be off because the person clearly has something to hide. Which is
+       why there is a good market for various kinds of shields that don't
+       LOOK like or feel like shields unless the telepath knows what to
+       look for. You can also just try and hide it and hope that the
+       telepath isn't looking too deep or isn't really paying attention,
+       which is what that guy was doing. (May have been reciting the
+       "tensor" rhyme trying to keep his brain occupied.)
+     * The encounter suit opened at the touch of a button (you can hear
+       him press the button with a *click*). Only for Lyta did it open on
+       its own.
+     * Here's the one thing that amazes me, speaking of seeing the pilot
+       for the gadzillionth time...there is one great big huge gaping
+       visual anomaly/inconsistency in the pilot that so far no one has
+       noticed. It's so massive that when I first saw it, I just about
+       fell out of my chair. But the director said "No one's ever gonna
+       see it, no one's ever gonna notice it, *trust* me on this." I was
+       absolutely convinced that he was wrong. Apparently he was right.
+       At some point in the future I'll tell you what it is...and when
+       you see it, you're going to wonder how the hell you avoided seeing
+       it before, it's *that* big. But not for a while yet. (And the few
+       smaller things mentioned here ...ain't it.)
+     * For the record...thtch has something to do with the second trial
+       scene.
+     * It's the overhead shot of the courtroom; we didn't have a second
+       establisher, so we used the one of Kyle even though Sinclair was
+       on the stand.
+     * Actually, "beep-beep" was always there in the script; it was the
+       part where we learn AFTER that that Sinclair only told G'Kar about
+       the homing beacon, didn't really plant it, that came up during
+       filming.
+     * Here's one little extra for you: only one person aboard Babylon 5
+       has any idea of what a Vorlon is, inside that suit, and only one
+       race has had dealings with the Vorlons before. Watch the reception
+       at the end, and see if you notice anything unusual in the way the
+       various people respond to Kosh.
+     * How much of the basic "saga" is in the pilot? Some...bits and
+       pieces. The problem, always, is that we have a whole new universe
+       to establish, with all the backstory that goes with that. As it
+       is, it's fairly "information intensive," as one person put it. We
+       find out about the Earth/Minbari war, the curious surrender,
+       Sinclair's past, the missing 24 hours, the relations between the
+       various governments and their own personal agendas, and a hint of
+       what's to come. This while establishing the backstory of all our
+       characters, and telling a story in present time (for them).
+       I think you will find indications of what we've talked about for
+       the series present in the pilot. Which is why it bears watching
+       more than once; you'll pick up more information and more of a
+       sense of the world the more closely you inspect it. (We tried to
+       come up with a pilot that actually BENEFITS from close inspection,
+       rather than falling apart if you look at it too closely.)
+     * Actually, the funny thing is, I don't much mind if people who
+       hadn't seen the pilot don't catch the rebroadcast. What we're
+       doing now is SO radically better than the pilot that I almost
+       can't watch it now.
+     * Agreed, the pilot movie was much darker...unfortunately, it was SO
+       dark that we actually veered into what're called "illegal blacks,"
+       that is, the picture is too dark, and this causes problems with
+       foreign distributers. (This is what they tell me, and through an
+       act of faith I have come to believe them.) We're still about a
+       half-stop or full stop below what's typical. Be advised that many
+       stations, when they broadcast the show, pump up the brightness a
+       *lot*. They just dial it up.
+     * Laurel was not standing upside down in relation to the station's
+       rotation. The docking bay, at the center of the station, for
+       zero-g, was above her head, her feet pointed down, toward the rim
+       of the station, in correct orientation. Just FYI.
+     * We'd originally planned to go for a more vague sexuality for
+       Delenn; a male physically and primarily in the voice, on top of
+       the natural female movements one gets from an actress. In
+       post-production, however, we couldn't get the voice to sound as
+       good and male as we'd wanted. In addition, a couple of convention
+       showing of a rough cut saw people responding VERY strongly to her
+       voice as it was, so we finally decided to let it stand and change
+       the one reference to "he" to "she," and that was the end of it.
+     * Delenn was originally going to be a fairly sexually-ambiguous
+       character...a male character, played by a female, with a computer
+       altered voice...but we couldn't make the alteration sound good
+       enough to satisfy us, so we left her a her.
+     * Kosh will "speak" in the series. After a fashion. But not as you
+       might expect. Suffice to say we've seen the final effect now in
+       the mix of finished episodes, and it's *real* creepy.
+     * Your memory is faulty. It was stated in the pilot that Kosh's ship
+       took roughly 4 days to travel via hyperspace to B5. That's from
+       Vorlon space; we don't know where the fleet was when it entered
+       jump. Because such ships can make their own jump points, it
+       could've been a lot closer to B5 space when it went in. (And was.)
+     * Okay, okay, 8 days not four...I knew it weren't no 3 weeks,
+       though. The one thing to remember is that travel in hyperspace
+       isn't the main problem; the real problem, time-wise, is the period
+       required to get from a world to its nearest jump gate. It might
+       take 4 days to travel from World X to the gate, and 1 day to B5 in
+       hyperspace...while another race, 1 day from the gate, and 1 day to
+       B5 in hyperspace, only has 2 travel days.
+     * As I've noted elsewhere, G'Kar made mention of the need for
+       genetic alteration/modification during the scene with Lyta. Beyond
+       that, though, G'Kar's personal perversion is sex with humans,
+       which no one else seems quite able to understand....
+     * Garibaldi was named after the famous Italian war hero of the same
+       name.
+       
+  Special Edition (spoilers for future episodes)
+  
+     * "Now that TNT has set a definite date for airing the series, have
+       they given you a 'go' for re-editing The Gathering? If so, how
+       much will you be able to put back (the character stuff with
+       Sinclair?) Might you even re-score it with Christopher Franke
+       music?"
+       We're still negotiating that out, but in hopes of this going,
+       we've begun redigitizing the footage so we can get into the main
+       scenes we want to work on.
+     * We're also going to update the CGI, if we can do this.
+     * _Why were any important scenes cut?_
+       The fault was mine, not the suits.
+       Prior to exec producing B5, I had never edited a show before,
+       never had final cut before...had never even been IN an editing
+       room for more than 5 minutes before. So here I am, given the
+       director's cut...and I know it's real slow, but I haven't done
+       this before, so I don't trust my instincts. I let it go with very
+       minimal changes.
+       And I've been kicking myself ever since. I should've followed my
+       instincts, but instead I deferred to the director's cut.
+       It's a mistake I have never made since.
+       Even so, that first cut just gnaws at me...I *know* I can make it
+       better, stronger, even if only a bit in a few places, that would
+       help salve my soul over this thing.
+     * _Would you use new music by Christopher Franke?_
+       Yeah, Chris would re-score it.
+     * _Is the reedit a dead deal?_
+       No, the funding was approved, and we're working on it now.
+     * Yep, we're working on the re-edit now. There's still just so much
+       that can be done, we can't shoot new material...but it's still
+       going to be tighter, with additional material, new music, and new
+       CGI in many places.
+     * Basically, it's new scenes with the characters, new CGI in many
+       places, and new music.
+     * _What was wrong with the original?_
+       I was new at exec producing, and deferred 'way too much to the
+       director, whose cut was, frankly, slow and left all the best
+       character moments on the cutting room floor. We lost 14 minutes of
+       good stuff, which is now going to go back and we're going to
+       tighten and make it better, the way we do our cuts on all the
+       episodes.
+     * "Will the 14 minutes being restored to "The Gathering" include
+       Marianne Robertson's "hostage" scene?"
+       Yup.
+     * Today, John Copeland and I finished re-editing "The Gathering,"
+       the B5 pilot movie. While there were some areas we couldn't get
+       into because of the complexity in redoing the mix, virtually every
+       scene got tinkered with to one degree or another, and most
+       important, the roughly 14 minutes of footage left out of the
+       original version is now back in. The whole thing is tighter and
+       faster, and there's more recent CGI, we'll have Chris Franke
+       re-score it, and it's just in general a lot better. (Some parts of
+       it even make more sense now.)
+       One additional change: because of the desire on PTEN's part to
+       have as many commercial breaks as possible, the 6-act script was
+       jerry-rigged and broken down into 9 acts. One side-effect of this
+       is that 9 acts wears on you, and wears you out, more than the
+       standard 6. You start to get a feeling of being led up to things
+       too often, and there isn't time to dwell on the acts you're in. I
+       was finally able, with this re-edit, to move scenes back around
+       again to what I originally wanted in a 6-act structure (you'll see
+       a number of scenes juxtaposed from their original order).
+       Anyway...the TNT Special Edition is much improved over the
+       original.
+     * _What will be cut to make room for the new footage?_
+       Not much, just little snippets of things...the show was *very*
+       slow paced, and once you pick up the pacing within scenes, whole
+       vast tracts of time appear.
+     * you spare a few words on how you went about the re-edit? Did you
+       start with what you wanted to get back in, or trying to find out
+       how much time you could recapture?"
+       The first thing I did was to sit down with the editor assigned to
+       the re-edit, Suzie, and go through the original script for the
+       pilot. My first words to her were, "Put everyhing in that ain't
+       there." To that end, she redigitized all of the footage from
+       missing scenes, and had available all of the available footage of
+       the other scenes for digitizing as we went.
+       Note that I said all the *available* footage. The folks at WB who
+       held custody of the film (we don't keep that stuff, we're not
+       allowed to by contract, they store film, negative, prints, all
+       that stuff) put the negative canisters into storage...and at one
+       point in the intervening 4 years, there had been water damage, and
+       on another occasion, apparently rats had gotten in there and
+       chewed some of the original negatives (and in most cases there
+       weren't positive struck of those takes).
+       Take your reaction to the foregoing, put it in front of the Hubble
+       telescope, and you will have mine.
+       However, we lucked out...where there were some takes that are
+       gone, we were able to find enough others (masters instead of a
+       two-shot, or a close-up instead of an over-shoulder) and B-camera
+       footage that we were able to build solid versions of those scenes.
+       We didn't always have as many choices as we're used to but there
+       was more than enough for our needs.
+       Suzi then dumped all of the newly edited additional scenes into
+       the existing pilot, and that gave us the new running time (we
+       added about 14 minutes). So at that point, John and I went in and
+       worked to slice down the previously existing scenes, doing what we
+       do with B5: tightening every loose screw and nut as much as we
+       could. One or two incidental, unimportant scenes in the original
+       pilot went out, because they added nothing and shouldn't have been
+       there in the first place (a total of about 3 minutes). The
+       remaining 11 minutes we made up in just tightening scenes, which
+       were *so* lax and slow that it's amazing at times.
+       In some cases, we substituted one take for another in the
+       pre-existing pilot when we had a better reaction, or played scenes
+       closer for more intimacy. (One of the problems with the pilot is
+       that it kept the audience far from the action, and the actors far
+       from each other, something we changed in our shooting style for
+       the series...here we tried to change it when we could and when we
+       had the coverage.)
+       Tiny example: when Kosh falls down upon arriving at B5, that
+       sequence ends with a big honking wide downshot of a nearly empty
+       docking bay, with Kosh far from us, and Sinclair looking down
+       (away from us) when he says "Damn." Then we go from that to a wide
+       shot of the medlab. Same framing. So I had Suzie look for a take
+       where we panned up from a close on Kosh, to a close on Sinclair
+       for that line, so it's more immediate, more personal, and the jump
+       to the next scene doesn't feel like the one before.
+       See, directors like to stay wide in their cuts, so you can see
+       their nifty camera angles, see the set, the lighting...but after
+       you've established where we are, most people want to see the
+       *characters*, not the walls or how the camera moves. That was what
+       we tried to fix where we could.
+       We couldn't totally re-edit the pilot, because we hadn't been
+       given the money for something that intensive (the main expense is
+       in opening up all the audio stems in the sound mix). But all the
+       stuff I wanted back in, is now in, and the scenes I wanted to fix,
+       I fixed.
+       I also got the thing back to its original format. All TV movies
+       are 6 acts. Because PTEN wanted more commercial breaks, I had to
+       re-jig the structure of the thing into 9 acts, which meant moving
+       some scenes into places where they weren't as effective, and
+       frankly after 9 acts you just get tired of watching. Here I was
+       able to move scenes around and get back to the original 6 act
+       structure that was intended for the thing, and that alone makes a
+       huge difference in how the film feels.
+       One of the biggest changes is the one least immediately apparent.
+       After we finished the original pilot, some folks at WB felt that
+       Laurel was too...strong. They will rarely put it in terms quite as
+       blatant as that, but that was the message...she was "unlikeable,
+       unsympathetic, harsh." Meaning some of the guys felt she was too
+       strong, let's cut to the chase, okay?
+       They wanted her to loop her lines, soften their (her) delivery. I
+       fought this tooth and nail. I fought this until finally I was
+       pulled aside and it was communicated to me that B5 was, after all,
+       still an unknown property, could be a big failure, and if we ever
+       wanted to see this thing on the air, we'd accommodate this note
+       (which was, I have to admit on balance, one of the few they had).
+       The advice was, in essence, "Pick your battles."
+       So, reluctantly, I let it get looped by Tamlyn.
+       But now, when the re-edit was commissioned, and with the person at
+       the studio who insisted on this now no longer AT the studio, I
+       told Suzie, "Screw it, put back her original production track and
+       trash the loops." Instantly, Laurel's energy level comes up, the
+       performance is better...it just *feels* more natural now.
+       So basically, we did a lot...some of it may not be immediately
+       apparent (improving a sound here, altering coverage, adding
+       additional sound layers, redoing a composite shot of the garden),
+       but over the duration of watching it, it's just *better*. It's
+       still a *tad* slower around the middle than I would've liked, but
+       that's a WP (writer problem), nothing that can be fixed in an
+       edit. It's just exposition-dense there, and nothing of a sort that
+       can be cut.
+     * "Also, the reworking of Sinclair's narration of the Battle of the
+       Line, with Requiem for the Line and the battle transmissions was
+       just gripping, it really showcased Michael O'Hare's strengths as
+       an actor."
+       Yeah, that was an experiment I wanted to try. When we did the
+       audio spotting (me sitting with the sound folks, Chris, others), I
+       explained what I wanted done with that scene, and they kinda got
+       it but were a little dubious as to whether or not this could or
+       would work. When we came to the day of the audio mix, it was kind
+       of a jumble...so I worked with the music and the voices to
+       basically fill in the gaps between Sinclair's words. Then I backed
+       up and chose the ones that most related to what he had just said,
+       or was about to just say. It took about half an hour to get that
+       30 second piece down pat.
+       One of the least visible things I do is mess with the music and
+       how the music lays out on the track. I'm often at the front of the
+       mixing room, working with the mixers, bringing up one instrument
+       (percussion, for instance), bringing down the horns for one piece,
+       up in another. In "In the Beginning," for instance, there was
+       percussion all through the Battle of the Line itself...and we had
+       big EFX of guns and explosions going off, and the two muddied
+       together. So I went with the explosions for the first of it, then
+       replaced some of the gunfire/explosions with percussion, then
+       ducked down the SFX altogether and just let the music take it. You
+       kind of have to be a conductor in these instances.
+     * _Why would Kosh tell Sinclair he was Valen?_
+       Internal dialogue...what he was thinking, his reaction.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan _matt@uhs.uchicago.edu_
+
+   
+      [53]Last update: January 12, 1998
+
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
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+                                      
+Overview
+
+     When the Narn attack a Centauri colony, Londo and G'Kar nearly come
+     to blows. Meanwhile, raiders are attacking transport ships near the
+     station. [15]Paul Hampton as The Senator. [16]Peter Trencher as
+     Carn Mollari.
+     
+Sub-genre: Action/intrigue
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]6.99
+
+Production number: 103
+Original air date: January 26, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Richard Compton
+
+  Watch For
+  
+     * The campaign issues in the presidential election, especially the
+       pledges of the winner of the election.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Earth's first contact with an alien race was with the Centauri. At
+       the time, the Centauri claimed to be the dominant species in the
+       galaxy, a "huge empire" - but (according to Garibaldi) this hasn't
+       been true for almost a _hundred_ years. Furthermore, they tried to
+       convince the Terrans that they were actually a Centauri lost
+       colony, which genetic analysis proved also false.
+     * All Centauri foresee the circumstances of their deaths in a dream.
+       In Londo's dream, it is 20 years in the future and he and a Narn
+       have one another by the throat. When Londo first saw G'Kar, he
+       recognized him as the one from his dream.
+     * According to G'Kar, the Centauri occupation of his homeworld was a
+       "_hundred_ year reign of terror."
+     * The Sinclairs have been fighter pilots since the Battle of
+       Britain. Jeffrey Sinclair's father taught him everything he knows
+       about flying and combat.
+     * The Narn sold weapons to Earth during the Earth/Minbari war.
+     * The first Mars colony was destroyed by an enemy sneak attack.
+     * Ivanova's mother was a long-undiscovered telepath, never able to
+       use her powers very well. When the Psi Corps finally caught up to
+       her, they put her on very potent psi-retardant drugs. "Every day
+       we just watched her drift further and further away from us. The
+       light in her eyes went out bit by bit. And when we thought she
+       could go no further, she took her own life." (cf. [19]"Eyes" and
+       [20]"Legacies".)
+     * Londo has enough clout to get a member of his family assigned to
+       an agricultural colony rather than admitted to the military.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * There are [21]two references in this episode to a major event in
+       the Centauri empire about a hundred years ago. What happened back
+       then? (cf: [22]"Signs and Portents", perhaps)
+     * How did Kosh get into his encounter suit so quickly? When Sinclair
+       visits to ask about his position on the Ragesh 3 situation, Kosh's
+       suit is in plain view but un-animated, the "shoulders" at rest
+       about two feet below the "head" (which they normally encircle).
+       Sinclair can see a large light moving behind a translucent screen;
+       Kosh's voice also appears to come from behind the screen. When
+       Sinclair turns his back to go, the light flashes across him for a
+       moment, and when he spins around the encounter suit is just
+       reaching its full height, with Kosh as in it as he ever is.
+     * When Londo tells Garibaldi he couldn't possibly understand his
+       situation, Garibaldi replies, "I understand better than you'll
+       ever know. I know it burns, I know the things it makes you want to
+       do." What was he referring to? (cf: [23]"Survivors", perhaps)
+     * How did G'Kar know about the Centauri decision to make no response
+       to the Ragesh 3 attack?
+     * Why did Kosh attend the council session?
+     * Is it part of a larger Narn plan to supply the raiders with
+       weapons?
+     * What _is_ Garibaldi's most favorite thing in the universe?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * From the things they say about each others' races at various times
+       during this episode, neither Londo nor G'Kar seem likely to strive
+       for lasting peace:
+       
+        _Londo:_
+                "We should have wiped out your kind when we had the
+                chance!"
+                "On the issue of galactic peace I am long past innocence
+                and fast approaching apathy. It's all a game, a paper
+                fantasy of names and borders. Only one thing matters:
+                blood calls out for blood."
+                
+        _G'Kar:_
+                "Your time has come and gone! It's our turn now. One
+                night you'll wake up and find our teeth at your throat."
+                "I will confess that I look forward to the day when we
+                have cleansed the universe of the Centauri and carved
+                their bones into flutes for Narn children. 'Tis a dream I
+                have."
+                
+     * Londo was absolutely consumed by anger and hatred. He would have
+       sacrificed peace and justice for personal vengeance. (cf: [24]"By
+       Any Means Necessary")
+     * The Narn attack a distant easy target with little military value.
+       This must have been to test the Centauri reaction - see how many
+       ships they send in response, how hard they're willing to fight to
+       defend any part of their territory. The Narn are forced to
+       withdraw for non-military reasons, but they learn a great deal
+       about their enemies with that move.
+     * Ivanova is surprised to hear Sinclair defend the honor of the
+       Minbari. (cf: [25]"The Gathering")
+     * The EA is not in a strong enough position at home to take an
+       ethical stance toward its neighbors. "The Earth Alliance can't go
+       around being the galaxy's policemen," says the senator, "They want
+       to fight it out, let'em. Just keep us out of it - at least until
+       after the election."
+     * One of the most alien moments was watching Delenn try to
+       understand Garibaldi's cartoons and popcorn. She is at times a
+       sage, and sometimes an innocent.
+     * Sinclair claims he confiscated data crystals detailing Narn
+       communications that confirm Londo's claims about the situation at
+       Ragesh 3. However, Sinclair has bluffed before (cf: [26]"The
+       Gathering"). There is no proof that the crystals actually
+       contained data.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Centauri have no major arteries in their wrists.
+     * Garibaldi knows about the habitual movements of the senior staff
+       (Sinclair turning off his link during down time at C&C, Ivanova
+       going to the bar after work).
+     * Garibaldi has had prior experience with the raiders. ("I knew
+       they'd be back sooner or later.")
+     * Ships move to and from the "secondary jump point" through
+       hyperspace via the primary.
+     * Starfuries can take multiple hits from Narn heavy weapons without
+       losing function.
+     * Earth is ruled by a Senate and a popularly elected President,
+       though it remains to be seen how much these positions resemble
+       those of today's USA. America, Russia, and China are among the
+       "states" in this democracy.
+     * A Senate subcommittee can dictate Sinclair's vote on the council.
+     * G'Kar's [27]spoo was quite fresh that week.
+     * Sinclair attributes two aphorisms to his father:
+       "The best way to understand someone is to fight him, make him
+       angry. That's when you see the real person."
+       "Ignore the propaganda. Focus on what you see."
+     * _Kosh speaks:_
+       K: They are alone. They are a dying people. We should let them
+       pass.
+       S: Who, the Narn or the Centauri?
+       K: Yes.
+     * Shipping companies buy access to the jumpgates in bulk, then sell
+       it on the open market. However, the schedules are kept secret to
+       protect against piracy.
+     * All incoming ships log their routes through Ivanova's console.
+     * A Narn weapons deal always includes an advisor who instructs the
+       buyer in the weapons' use and insures they aren't sold to a third
+       party.
+     * All Earth Telepaths are given three options: join the Psi Corps,
+       go to jail, or [28]take drugs. Unlicensed telepaths are heavily
+       controlled in the name of protecting public privacy.
+     * Luis Santiago wins the presidential election over challenger Marie
+       Crane. His platform included promises to cut the budget and keep
+       Earth out of war. His agenda for his coming term includes
+       cultivating a closer relationship with the Mars colony and
+       "preserving Earth cultures in the face of growing non-Terran
+       influences" (cf: [29]"The War Prayer", [30]"Survivors")
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * The first one-hour episode of the series, "Midnight on the Firing
+       Line," does a fair amount of re-introduction, for those who've
+       seen the pilot and need to be up to speed, and some introducing
+       for those who haven't. It is, however, largely an action-oriented
+       story, into which we weave the characterization. It manages to
+       convey some of the same info as the pilot, but in a *much* more
+       dramatic fashion.
+     * No, the show isn't a year and a half late. As it is, it's less
+       than one year since the pilot aired. It was our initial hope, and
+       my initial belief, that we'd go straight into the series as soon
+       as we finished the pilot. But the studio, in its infinite wisdom,
+       decided that since they HAD a pilot, it kinda behooved them to air
+       it and get the ratings before committing to a series. So we then
+       waited until February for the airing, got the go-ahead to
+       production around April/May, began shooting in July, got a whole
+       bunch of episodes in the can, and now we're hitting the air. That
+       is the sum and substance of it.
+     * We'd always figured on going right to series, but once we had done
+       the pilot, the studio said, in essence, "Well, we've got a pilot,
+       we don't know if the market will sustain more than one space SF
+       series, no other SF series has done well lately...maybe we ought
+       to air the pilot first, and get the ratings, before committing to
+       a series." And that's what happened...much to our consternation at
+       first, but in the long run it was a blessing in disguise, because
+       that interim period allowed us to really do a lot to make the show
+       better.
+     * Approximately nine months have passed since the time of the pilot
+       and the birth of the series.
+     * I *love* [31]"Duck Dodgers." I have virtually all of the WB
+       cartoons on tape or disk, and from where I sit, that's wonderful
+       stuff that'll be around for a long, long time. No omens, just
+       something I thought would be fun. (Again, connecting
+       past/present/future, sort of our B5 theme.)
+     * "Midnight on the Firing Line" as a title was more my feelings
+       about the episode and the series. I knew we'd come under
+       considerable fire, figured it was cool.
+     * _"...and if our future lies on the firing line, are we brave
+       enough to see the signals and the signs...."_
+       -- Harry Chapin
+       Just a thought.
+     * Ah, but you're assuming that the Londo-strangling-scene is as it
+       seems to be; maybe it is, but maybe it isn't. You don't know the
+       context yet.
+     * Down the road, we will be seeing more of Londo, and his people,
+       and realize that they aren't as human looking as they first
+       appear.
+     * The Raghesh 3 claim is only about 20 years old; the Centauri came
+       to Narn over a hundred years ago.
+     * You're correct in your appraisal of the "coincidences" in the
+       first episode. Upon finding that Londo's nephew was there, they
+       would of course trot him out to try and undermine Londo's
+       credibiltiy (you'll note that G'Kar made special mention of this,
+       as if to say, "Is the Centauri ambassador calling his own nephew a
+       liar?"). It'd be the same thing if the son of an American
+       ambassador was on-hand when hostages were taken. As for the choice
+       of the attack's location...Londo wanted his nephew "far away from
+       all this." Someplace safe. A fairly safe, mundane place is not
+       going to have a major military presence...and hence is a perfect
+       target for attack.
+     * RE: the spotlights, we'd figured that since the transport had been
+       freshly attacked, there'd be debris all over the place, and lots
+       of particulate matter which would show up in the light.
+     * Quick replies to your questions: Spoo is. What else can one say
+       about spoo?
+       The Centauri station actually was rotating, as I recall, it's the
+       camera angle that I believe doesn't showcase it as well as it
+       might.
+       The scanners on the Starfuries detected no movement, no
+       atmosphere, no signals, no warmth of bodies.
+       The lights on the fighters during the examination of the rubble
+       were visible due to particulate matter spewed out during and after
+       the attack.
+     * What is spoo? Spoo....is.
+       (Spoo is also Oops spelled backward.)
+     * Spoo is/are (the plural of spoo is spoo) small, white, pasty,
+       mealy critters, rather worm-like, and generally regarded as the
+       ugliest animals in the known galaxy by just about every sentient
+       species capable of starflight, with the possible exception of the
+       pak'ma'ra, who would simply recommend a more rigorous program of
+       exercise. They are also generally considered the most delicious
+       food in all of known space, regardless of the individual's
+       biology, almost regardless of species, except for the pak'ma'ra,
+       who like the flavor but generally won't say so simply to be
+       contrary.
+       Spoo are raised on ranches on worlds with a damp, moist, somewhat
+       chilly climate so that their skin can acquire just the right shade
+       of paleness. Spoo travel in herds, if moving a total of six inches
+       in any given direction in the course of a given year can actually
+       be considered moving. They stay in herds ostensibly for mutual
+       protection, but the reality is that if they weren't propped up
+       against one another, most of them would simply fall down. They do
+       not howl, bark, moo, purr, yap, squeak or speak. Mainly, they
+       sigh. Herds of sighing spoo can reportedly induce unparalleled
+       bouts of depression, which is why most spoo ranchers wear earmuffs
+       even when it's only mildly cold, damp, wet and dreary outside. If
+       there is any life-or-death struggle for dominance within the spoo
+       herd, it has not yet been detected by modern science.
+       Spoo ranching is one of the least regarded professions known.
+       Little or no skill is required, once you've got a planet with the
+       right climate. You bring in two hundred spoo, plop them down in
+       the middle of your ranch, and go back to the nearby house. Soon
+       you've got more. When it comes time to cull out the ones ready for
+       market (the softest, mealiest, palest, most forlorn-looking spoo
+       of the pack), little physical effort is required since they're
+       incapable of rapid movement without falling over (see above). They
+       do not resist, fight, or whine; they only sigh more loudly. When
+       spoo harvest time comes, the air is full of the sound of whacking
+       and sighing, whacking and sighing. Even an experienced spoo
+       rancher can only harvest for brief periods of a time, due to the
+       increased volume of sighing, which even the sound of whacking
+       cannot altogether erase. (also see above) Some have simply gone
+       mad.
+       Spoo are the only creatures of which the Interstellar Animal
+       Rights Protection League says, simply, "Kill 'em."
+       Fresh spoo (served at an optimum temperature of 62-degrees) is
+       served in cubed sections, so that they bear as little resemblence
+       as possible to the animal from which they have just been sliced.
+       Spoo is usually served alongside a chablis, or a white zinfandel.
+       Further information on the care, feeding, eating and whacking of
+       spoo can be found in the second edition of the Interstellar Guide
+       to Fine Dining.
+     * Re: your desire to make and eat spoo at home...depends on whether
+       or not you ever want to have children later....
+     * _What does spoo taste like?_
+       Meat Jello.
+       Served chilled.
+     * At the point in which we join the tale of the last of the Babylon
+       stations, *everything* is in a state of flux...one government is
+       on the rise, another is declining, Earth is taking some new and
+       disturbing directions...so yes, they all feel there is a change
+       coming. It's a little thing, but we keep it alive to keep a sense
+       of something moving on a web, and each movement makes the whole
+       thing shake just a little.
+     * Re: the "last" of the Babylon Stations...y'all might want to bear
+       in mind the syntax of the narration. It speaks of B5 in the *past
+       tense*. "Bablyon 5 WAS the last of the Babylon stations...it WAS
+       the dawn of the third age of mankind." The narration is the voice
+       of future history, the storyteller, long after the fact, spinning
+       for us the tale of the last of the Babylon stations.
+     * I never said it was an isolationist president. The reporter doing
+       the commentary at the election talked about preserving earth
+       culture in the face of growing alien influences, which isn't quite
+       the same thing as cutting off trade agreements.
+     * You'll get a pretty good glimpse into why Sinclair jumps into a
+       fighter any chance he can get in "Infection." Part of it is to
+       escape from stuff...the other goes much deeper, and much
+       darker....
+     * Here's what I find curious (not necessarily in direct response to
+       anything you said, but in general on this topic)...is that when
+       Ivanova makes her remark to Garibaldi about snapping his hands off
+       at the wrists, many people have assumed that she was insulting
+       him, berating him, being bitchy, truly disliking and threatening
+       him.
+       But the same words, put in the mouth of another male, wouldn't
+       have drawn that reaction, and would've been classified under,
+       "kidding around" or affable sarcasm.
+       Which is exactly what it is in this case. In this place and this
+       time, they're comfortable enough to mess with each other without
+       it being taken seriously (among these characters, that is). There
+       are times they kinda like to phuque with each other a bit, justfor
+       the hell of it, as comrades will sometimes do. ("Babylon Squared"
+       has a great example of Sinclair and Garibaldi messing with
+       Ivanova.)
+     * Sinclair's line, "Cut acceleration," was in regards to forward
+       momentum, so he could more easily spin the fighter around.
+     * RE: the Raider ships...they turned by a less effective system of
+       thrusters put in here and there, not nearly as powerful as the
+       systems used by the Starfuries. The reason -- verifiable by the
+       shape of the Raider ships -- is that Raider ships are handicapped
+       by the fact that they're made to function both in space *and*
+       within an atmosphere (hence the aerodynamic wing shapes), which
+       gives it something of a problem when dealing with the Starfuries,
+       which are made ONLY for fighting in space, and are most ideally
+       suited to it. The Raider ships make compromises for greater
+       utility, which is generally okay unless they run into superior
+       forces of ships designed for spaceborne combat.
+     * The symbol Talia wears isn't a Link or any other kind of
+       communications system; it is *strictly* a form of identification,
+       tagging her as a telepath and a member of the Psi Corps. It serves
+       no other function.
+     * Correct, Christopher Franke designed Kosh's voice.
+     * That the Centauri *claimed* that we were a lost colony is not the
+       same as indicating that we *believed* them.
+     * I like it when people lie in television, and we find out about it
+       over time. The "lost colony" routine was one such. At one point,
+       Garibaldi confronts Londo with this as reason for why he doesn't
+       trust the Centauri. Londo shrugs it off as a "clerical error."
+       There will be a few points in the series when we'll get
+       information, and we'll buy into it...and discover after a while
+       that that character bald-facedly lied to the other character (and,
+       by proxy, to us). And naturally there will be consequences to
+       this....
+     * In "Midnight," Sinclair is really not given a chance to show his
+       character, since it's basically a reintroduction to the series,
+       and there is a lot to cover. He functions throughout the episode
+       only in his official capacity. In other episodes, you'll get to
+       see some very different sides to his character, particular in
+       "Parliament of Dreams."
+     * Re: Sinclair getting into a fighter...there were a number of
+       reasons for this, one of which being he wanted a good reason to
+       avoid being in on the counsel vote, given his marching orders. But
+       more than that ...I would point out that this isn't Star Trek, and
+       Sinclair isn't Picard; he is first and foremost a pilot. He loves
+       to get into a fighter and take it out He's a fighter. That's when
+       he is most at ease. That's what his character *is*.
+       At the same time, however, there are consequences for that kind of
+       behavior, as you point out. And there are deeper reasons for what
+       he is doing than even he want to admit. Tell you what...table that
+       aspect until after you've seen the last part of "Infection," which
+       deals *with this exact issue*.
+     * My thought, at the time, was that if we play the reality of this
+       for a moment, probably *all* of the ambassadors have some kind of
+       weapon, smuggled in via diplomatic pouches. Garibaldi and Sinclair
+       know they're there...question is, is it worth starting a
+       diplomatic incident over, as long as they're not being used?
+       Garibaldi is saying, in essence, "Okay, you know it's there, and I
+       know it's there, but now you've made a point about it. Lose it or
+       hide it, or I'm going to have to charge you, and we're BOTH going
+       to be up to our ears in it." If Garibaldi confiscated it, there'd
+       be a whole diplomatic hassle... and Londo would just have another
+       one sent to him via diplomatic pouch.
+     * It's interesting what we can read into faces...in Delenn's
+       reaction, I saw concern, angst, but not that she believed the
+       story. That certainly wasn't the intent of the scene, or the
+       script...faces are interesting things. As for the rest, you're
+       right; not everyone wants to do the Right Thing For The Right
+       Reasons. Some would prefer not to get involved. So some might want
+       deniability, want a reason not to go up against the Narns, or have
+       sold out their votes. A human looking at that screen could tell
+       that the person was being coerced...but what about the other alien
+       races, to whom a downcast face could be a sign of joy? In any
+       event, suspicion is one thing, but *proof* is another, and the
+       legal system works on *proof*. Nothing could be done until they
+       had the proof that Sinclair got at the end, and chose to use
+       behind closed doors to the same effect.
+     * You may think it was obvious that the nephew was reading at
+       gunpoint, and in fact, he was...but thinking something or
+       suspecting something isn't the same as proving it. Londo could
+       say, "He was reading at gunpoint!" And G'Kar could say, "No, he
+       wasn't." Where do you go from there? (And, in fact, that's
+       *exactly* what Londo said...only to have G'Kar deflect it.)
+       Re: why Londo didn't show the clips...at this point, there's not
+       any quesion in anyone's mind about the attack taking place. The
+       Narns say they were invited in to help quell internal strife. That
+       the events took place isn't at issue; it's *why* and whether or
+       not they were invited in. (As with Germany in WWII indicating that
+       some places "invited" them in.)
+       Had Sinclair shown the evidence, it probably would've just
+       hardened G'Kar. Also, most politics is back-room dealing. You do
+       this in public, and you make a terrible enemy who'll strike back
+       as soon as he has a chance. Let him have his dignity, save face,
+       BUT get what you want, and there's room to maneuver in future.
+       It's the difference between being a punch'em-out hero, and someone
+       who has to be diplomatic, within limits.
+     * Sinclair did not -- repeat, did NOT -- "tell Ivanova to defy
+       Earth's orders and deceive the council." He set up a situation in
+       which he would say that he was unable to catch up with her and
+       pass along the Senator's instructions before he had to leave. Her
+       line would be that "The Commander never told me," and he would
+       back this up. (And that he would hedge the truth this way is
+       hardly "perfect.")
+       Defying the Senator's orders would be telling them that the vote
+       will NOT be made as ordered. That never happened.
+     * In "Midnight," Sinclair had to be pretty much in command mode all
+       during the episode as a character, so that influences the result.
+       But in later episodes, we get him out of those situations, out of
+       uniform, and into other settings where he can be more relaxed. So
+       that's coming, and you'll see it *very* early on in the first
+       season.
+     * Yeah, the Sea Witch is the one that rotates and fires at one of
+       the Raiders. It's a woman's face in a green and blue background.
+     * As a matter of fact, in a couple of episodes you'll see a photo of
+       the Earth Alliance president. The photo itself is of Doug Netter,
+       my associate on the show and fellow executive producer. (The woman
+       running against the incumbent president in the election featured
+       on "Midnight" is played, in photo, by our wardrobe designer, Ann
+       Bruice.)
+     * Yes, Vir is very obsequious in "Midnight." That's done in order to
+       give his character somewhere to go, as gradually he begins to
+       stand up to Londo and talk back.
+     * Re: Vir...that was the first episode filmed with his character,
+       and he wasn't directed as well as he might have been. We pulled
+       him back a lot in later episodes.
+     * Vir calms down. Trust me.
+       He even manages to nail Londo from time to time...as he does when
+       Londo suffers a rather nasty hangover in "Born to the Purple."
+     * If there's anything about "Midnight" that I would change...ehh...
+       that's a tough question to ask any producer or writer. I can't
+       think of anything I've done that I wouldn't want to go back and
+       tweak. The only real drawback we had was that we were still
+       building sets as we filmed our first few episodes, so we didn't
+       have access to all of the full range of sets. Not that we really
+       needed them, the story works fine in the sets we had, but we
+       could've moved one or two shots around into different sets just
+       for variety.
+       But aside from general tweaking, I don't think there's really
+       anything I'd change in it. My problem is that I'm too close to it,
+       and there are a number of episodes we shot afterward that blow it
+       right out of the water in terms of quality, production values and
+       the rest; I'd have to say that my favorite shows to date, in
+       order, would be The Parliament of Dreams, Mind War, And the Sky
+       Full of Stars, Soul Hunter, Born to the Purple, Midnight,
+       Believers, Infection, The War Prayer, Survivors and Grail.
+       Chrysalis, which we're shooting now, will probably take over the
+       Favorite #2 spot from Mind War. We're fighting to make every
+       episode better than the one before it.
+       We're going to have a brass plaque put up here in the offices one
+       of these days, before we finish, saying, "If you're not here to
+       kick ass, get out."
+     * What you and the others seem to be pointing out is what I've been
+       trying -- imperfectly, as best I can -- to communicate for some
+       time. In the case of "Midnight," can you follow that show and
+       enjoy it absolutely on its own terms? I believe that is the case.
+       There's another level there, the "little clues and hints" you
+       mention, which will just skate past most casual viewers and not in
+       any way interfere with their viewing of the episode...but if
+       you're paying attention, and you catch them, it adds a new level.
+       The more you see, the more you begin to perceive that second
+       level. It's a cumulative effect that doesn't diminish the single
+       episodes as stand-alones.
+     * (Lost the last paragraph of my message.) In any event, what I'm
+       striving for is the idea that you can watch the episodes for the
+       character stories, OR the story arc, OR the individual stories, OR
+       all three at the same time, all in the same exact episodes. You
+       can get out as much as you're willing to find.
+       It's a very weird kind of writing...but at least on this end, it's
+       kinda fun, actually.
+     * I agree, most of the plot lines are tied up pretty well (except
+       for the telepath issue introduced at the end, which comes back at
+       us again...as does, incidentally, the Raghesh 3 incident and other
+       stuff). In responding to some of the criticism of the pilot, I
+       tried to make this one far more self-contained. Which is why I
+       much prefer "Parliament," "Mind War" and "Soul Hunter" over
+       "Midnight."
+     * Did we save anything for the rest of the season? Lemme put it to
+       you this way...you ain't seen *nothin* yet. "Midnight" makes just
+       about everything done before for TV look lame...but there's stuff
+       coming down the pike that'll make "Midnight" look pale by
+       comparison. With each show we get better, we learn more, and we
+       can *do* more.
+     * In the teaser scene you refer to in "Midnight," you've got a
+       couple dozen fighters coming in alongside about 3-4 motherships
+       (or capital ships, either term will suffice). We've always said
+       that big ships can punch through and form their own jump points.
+       That's how the jump gates get there in the first place: a big ship
+       comes through, on its own, and leaves behind a jump gate. There's
+       no contradiction. One (or more) of the big ships was creating the
+       point of entry as it went.
+     * During the con appearance, Jerry told a story that *I* hadn't
+       heard before. There's a scene in the script "Midnight on the
+       Firing Line" in which Talia (Andrea) goes into a transport tube,
+       finds Garibaldi, and asks some questions about Ivanova. They
+       rehearsed it several times, this being Andrea's first time on the
+       set, and filmed one take. She comes down the hall, comes to the
+       pen...and Garibaldi's pants are down around his ankles. Needless
+       to say, that shot did NOT end up in dailies....
+       There are days I think -- between Jerry, Harlan, me and some
+       others involved on the show -- we ought to name this Loose Cannon
+       Productions....
+     * Behind-the-scenes humor: because it had been so long since the
+       pilot, it took a few of our actors a bit of time to get back into
+       their characters, to find the characters' "fingerprints" for lack
+       of a better term. This is quite understandable given the long
+       waiting period. When he needed to find his character for a scene,
+       Peter Jurasik mentioned that he would just stand up straight and
+       yell, "MISter GariBALdi!" and he'd be right back in character.
+       Sort of the B5 version of "Shazam!"
+       Minus the lightning bolt, of course.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan _matt@uhs.uchicago.edu_
+
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
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+Overview
+
+     Delenn is in danger when a soul hunter, an alien who captures the
+     souls of the dying, arrives at the station. [15]W. Morgan Sheppard
+     as Soul Hunter #1. [16]John Snyder as Soul Hunter #2.
+     
+Sub-genre: Suspense
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]7.05
+
+Production number:  102
+Original air date:  February 2, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
+  Watch For
+  
+     * The Soul Hunter mentions the death of someone to Sinclair. That
+       name will come up again.
+     * [19]A fluid flowing the wrong way.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * The soul hunter of this episode has visited Earth before.
+     * Minbari are trained from childhood to protect their souls from
+       soul hunters.
+     * The soul hunter had a unique perspective on a significant event in
+       Minbari history:
+       
+     [to Sinclair] "Minbari: jealous, selfish, private. We have saved
+     only a few - very rare. The rarest of all, their leader Dukat,
+     dying; your fault, your war; the pinnacle of Minbari evolution. We
+     came, I, others. They made a wall of bodies to stop us! He died.
+     And his dreams, his ideas - all that he was, all that he could ever
+     be - gone... wasted... jealous..."
+       Later he recognizes Delenn from the Grey Council, which was
+       responsible for stopping him.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Why do all races but humans know about soul hunters? Since they
+       all share the Minbari's fear of them, do most of them share the
+       [20]Minbari belief in reincarnation?
+     * Why are so many non-humans [21]moving to Earth? They must face a
+       fair amount of prejudice there. (cf: [22]"The War Prayer")
+     * What are the "certain classes" of Minbari in which Delenn says
+       soul hunters have always taken a particular interest?
+     * "Your fault, your war," says the soul hunter to Sinclair,
+       recounting [23]Dukat's death. Was he referring to humans in
+       general, Sinclair in particular, or Dukat?
+     * "If only you could see," says the soul hunter to Franklin.
+       Apparently he can actually observe the soul's departure from a
+       dying body. Later we see, possibly through Delenn's eyes, a blue
+       wispy something escape as she breaks a soul vessel. Does this mean
+       that Minbari too can see souls?
+     * With a glimpse into Delenn's soul, the soul hunter exclaims, "You
+       would plan such a thing? You would _do_ such a thing? Incredible."
+       He's had a long history with the Minbari - what would so surprise
+       him? (Revealed in [24]"Chrysalis" and [25]"Revelations")
+     * Recovering in Medlab, Delenn says to Sinclair, "I knew you would
+       come. We were right about you." Clearly, the Minbari have made
+       predictions about him. However, Sinclair didn't really prove
+       anything about his character by rescuing Delenn - someone else
+       could easily have been the one to find her. Perhaps he's just
+       fulfilled part of a prophecy, thereby confirming his role in it.
+       (cf: [26]"Parliament of Dreams")
+     * Combining the above questions, does Delenn's incredible plan
+       involve the Minbari predictions about Sinclair?
+     * As the soul hunter himself challenged, why is one of the great
+       Minbari leaders acting as their ambassador on Babylon 5? Sinclair
+       is now wondering the same thing.
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Delenn meets Sinclair just as he's going to check out the injured
+       pilot, and offers to help him ID the fellow. She has a knack for
+       being at the right place at the right time. (cf: [27]"The
+       Gathering").
+     * Sinclair did not call for backup when he encountered the soul
+       hunter, even though there were four others nearby searching for
+       Delenn. He has a tendency to put himself into dangerous
+       situations. (cf: [28]"Infection")
+     * During this episode there are three different stories told about
+       the soul. Sinclair heard all three, and doesn't know which to
+       believe. All he knows is what he saw.
+       
+        _Franklin:_
+                There is no soul that survives the body. With advanced
+                technology, he allows, one could preserve a record of
+                someone's personality, but death is death.
+                
+        _Delenn:_
+                All sentients have immortal souls. When a Minbari dies
+                its soul merges with the souls of other dead Minbari.
+                These are recycled into future generations, so as
+                individuals advance their own souls, the Minbari as a
+                whole advance.
+                
+        _soul hunter:_
+                All sentients have _ephemeral_ souls. When a person dies,
+                the soul expires into oblivion. However, soul hunters
+                have a prescient attraction to death - if they so choose
+                they can capture and preserve a soul "for the greater
+                good" at the moment it leaves the body. They carry with
+                them a bag full of the souls they have "saved", each in
+                its own glass vessel.
+                
+       For a Minbari, the soul hunter's method of preservation is true
+       death, for it cuts a soul off from the rest and diminishes the
+       next generation; for a soul hunter, the true loss is _uncollected_
+       souls.
+       These are completely irreconcilable belief systems.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Dr. Franklin arrives on the starliner Asimov, which we see again
+       later.
+     * Dr. Kyle is on his way to a new assignment working with the
+       president. He's much needed there what with "so many aliens
+       migrating to Earth," as Franklin puts it.
+     * The average human lifespan is almost 100 years.
+     * Ivanova conducts a simple funeral with these words: "From the
+       stars we came, and to the stars we return, from now until the end
+       of time. We therefore commit this body to the deep."
+     * The soul hunter tells Sinclair his opinion of the Minbari: "pale,
+       bloodless, look in their eyes and see nothing but mirrors,
+       infinities of reflection..."
+     * When Delenn is recovering in medlab at the end of the episode,
+       she's attached to a machine that should presumably be pumping
+       blood back into her body. But the fluid is flowing out of her
+       instead. The shot was played backwards so the director could get
+       the camera movement he wanted.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * Well, I just saw a cut of the episode that's going to air second,
+       the one guest-starring Morgan Shepherd. Oh, man...on the question
+       of Did you learn anything from the pilot...this thing *moves* like
+       a sumbitch. It's a very unusual, very *creepy* episode in many
+       ways. And filled with character stuff...and a good bit of
+       background about some of our characters rendered in active ways.
+       I'm really dying to see what people think of this one when it
+       airs. It manages to take what would normally be considered a
+       science *fantasy* issue, and deal with it from a science fiction
+       perspective, without compromising on the latter at all. It's a
+       very, *very* strong episode.
+     * _Who's right, the soul hunter or the minbari?_
+       Yes.
+     * We leave the question open: Is he actually taking souls, or simply
+       encoding the personality matrix and, in essence, creating an
+       artificial version of the individual's personality?
+     * The various characters take their own stands, which vary. Franklin
+       only considers the possibility of cloning someone's personality
+       matrix, for instance. And again, it depends on how you *define*
+       soul. The Soul Hunter defines it not as something supernatural,
+       but as the collection of thoughts, personality, feelings and the
+       very essence of the person that dies with the body. That
+       definition is broad enough to encompass just about anything. Then
+       you get into the more specific ideas of what a soul is.
+       One person at a post production house we've used has indicated
+       that he has "theological problems" with working on that episode;
+       not because it's *against* what he believes -- he's worked on
+       horror movies and stuff with devils and the like -- but because it
+       takes a point of view he doesn't much like...in that he has to sit
+       and defend the whole *context* of his ideas...meaning, it's making
+       him think. He can just poo-poo the stuff against what he believes,
+       support what he does believe in...but he isn't quite sure where
+       this show comes down, or where it makes *him* come down. I've had
+       any number of problems with people on a show before, but this is
+       the first time I've run into a theological problem.
+     * What the soul was, who's right, and even whether this is SF or
+       Science Fantasy, was it explained enough to merit one over the
+       other ... how can I put this...? I don't want to spoon-feed stuff
+       to people. What I want is not to hit someone with a MORAL, or a
+       message, or "This is what a soul is," or "This is what makes it an
+       SF series," I want to start discussions. Arguments. Preferably a
+       bar fight or two.
+       We present an issue. Here are the sides. Now...what do YOU think
+       about it? I want this show to ask, "Who are you? Where are you
+       going?" That's half the fun. Some of my favorites pastimes in
+       college were sitting in the commons, or the library, arguing this
+       stuff from every possible angle. You think I'm gonna tell you what
+       to think? What it means? No. The goal is to provoke discussion.
+       Preferably passionate discussion.
+       Otherwise I might as well just start renting billboards and
+       putting up signs.
+     * Re: why soul hunter #1's ship was out of control...the second soul
+       hunter comments that they've been tracking him, and caught up with
+       him a few days ago. They attacked, "and he escaped, his ship
+       damaged." That is what brought him here...and led his pursuers to
+       this place as well.
+     * _Will we see more soul hunters?_
+       Eventually.
+     * And yes, humans would probably have *heard* of Soul Hunters,
+       distantly, as a legend. I see no reason why they would believe
+       they existed, particularly with a title like that, unless and
+       until actually encountering one.
+     * Re: Sinclair's actions toward the Soul Hunter...the device he uses
+       was trained on Delenn. It was spiraling up to full power
+       throughout the scene. Just as Sinclair's thrown, you see it
+       starting to come to critical mass...it's shooting at Delenn. There
+       isn't/wasn't time to sit there and figure out how it works, and
+       shut off the right button. He turned it so that it faced away from
+       her...and the Hunter was caught in his own machine.
+       There was nowhere else to go with the machine.
+     * In "Soul Hunter," Franklin notes that the average human life span
+       is now about a hundred years. It's quite a bit longer for the
+       other races; G'Kar is about 70 or more, but is considered
+       mid-range, equal to a human in early 40s, among Narns. Delenn is
+       in about the same position, equal to 30s-40s in her terms, but in
+       years a bit older. They are a pretty long lived people. Centauri
+       aren't quite as long-lived, but they do a bit better than the
+       Narns. The Vorlons......are.
+     * To the question about a Soul Hunter's strength...yes, it is *very*
+       considerable. Even with one arm he was able to slam the hell out
+       of the commander, pick him up and again slam him against a wall
+       before throwing him about 10 feet across the room. Had he not been
+       stopped, and stopped good, yes, he would've torn Sinclair to
+       ribbons.
+     * Delenn was shattering the soul globes in order to let the souls
+       escape, rather than playing with them. Look on the floor around
+       her, and you'll see shattered globes. There should also be a sound
+       of them breaking in her hands, the light goes out, and something
+       escapes....
+     * You're most definitely welcome; it was something we did to honor
+       Asimov, who determined the shape of this genre for many writers.
+     * Why is part of me tempted to decide that around the year 2223 the
+       most revered figure in Earthforce Command was General Ira Asimov,
+       a brilliant strategist for whom the liner was named....?
+       There are certain benefits to a design-your-own-future
+       universe....
+     * I deeply admired Asimov. Harlan Ellison, this series consultant,
+       was as dear a friend to Asimov as anyone could be. I named the
+       starliner after Asimov shortly after his death, because I will
+       personally miss him, and for Harlan, as his friend.
+     * In your complaints regarding the commander flying off on
+       occasional missions (and he only does it about 3 times out of 22
+       episodes, so I hardly see this as a problem), you are forgetting
+       several other *realities* of military life. If you're a pilot,
+       even as a commander, you have to log in X-number of hours flying
+       time per month in order to continue to qualify for flight pay.
+       This is a *requirement*. And it doesn't just mean flying around
+       the station a few times.
+       Second, many commanders -- as recently as Vietnam and afterward --
+       did and continue to go out on missions and sorties because it is
+       rather expected of them, and because it maintains the respect of
+       the rest of the squadron(s).
+       Third, and possibly most important, Earthforce is the same as the
+       contermporary Air Force in one important respect: promotion up the
+       ranks is tied *directly* to combat experience and, in this case,
+       combat flying. That's why women fighter pilots and helicopter
+       pilots have been fighting so *vigorously* to be allowed to fly
+       combat missions; they know that they can't be promoted fully up
+       the line without that. Sinclair has no desire to be a commander
+       all his life, he'd like to move on. Hence it behooves him to get
+       in combat time whenever possible.
+       Your statement that it "doesn't wash" has nothing to do with how
+       the military *actually* works, and everything to do with the
+       skewed and inaccurate portrayal of the military that you get from
+       Trek. This is absolutely legitimate, and the B5 mailbox these days
+       is partly crammed with letters from vets thanking us for getting
+       this part right.
+       I suppose I could mention this in passing in dialogue, but then it
+       becomes a matter of sticking in dialogue not because it's
+       important to an episode, but because some folks would like things
+       explained to them. I don't think that's my responsibility.
+     * I answered you elsewhere here on this topic earlier this evening.
+       To just nit for a moment, to say that Sinclair picks up "every
+       derelict ship" seems a little unfair...he's picked up *one*, and
+       only one, and only picks up one this entire season. Why him? A)
+       Because he's good at it, B) he could use the flight pay, C) it'll
+       look good on his record, and D) because as he says as he leaves,
+       it's a potential first-contact situation. (NOt to mention E, that
+       he has a death-wish.)
+       I would submit to you that this is NOT the same as having one
+       character do a zillion different jobs on the station. I think that
+       you're reacting to something you've seen on Trek, and are assuming
+       based on an example of one that we're doing it in B5 as well.
+       We're not. Also, in "Purple," Garibaldi sends a different team out
+       to handle the gunfire, so there are others who do things. Question
+       becomes, how many new and recurring characters do you want to
+       introduce? There are currently *14* regular and recurring
+       characters on B5, and there are many folks who are saying that's
+       too many. As it is, we do introduce an aide to Garibaldi who takes
+       care of some stuff for him. Just as Sinclair delegates to Ivanova,
+       and Ivanova delegates to the observation dome techs.
+       I just feel that you're leaping to a conclusion based on a paucity
+       of evidence, built upon your experiences with another show. We're
+       simply not doing this.
+     * Normally, I don't tend to respond to negatives, because I don't
+       generally want to get in the way or be perceived to be getting in
+       the way of criticism. I don't. But I feel I have to respond to
+       some of this. If the show is open to criticism, then it seems to
+       me that some of the critiques should be open as well. And some of
+       these I think are quite unfair.
+       1) When did they move the jump gate (re: the time required to get
+       from the gate by Kosh's ship, as opposed to the Hunter ship).
+       They/we didn't. Once again, and I wish people could remember this,
+       Kosh's ship BEGAN TO DECELERATE the instant it emerged from the
+       gate, in order to dock with B5 without smashing into it. The Soul
+       Hunter ship was out of control, careening in at full speed. (This
+       was a widely discussed reason why the Vorlon fleet got to B5 so
+       quickly as vs. Kosh's ship. They were moving fast to get into
+       striking position.)
+       2) The Hunter's ship was on autopilot, set to come out of the
+       first gate it came to.
+       3) There was still time for the station's defense grid to blow the
+       ship. Yes, pieces would have continued onward, but a hell of a lot
+       of its inertia would've been taken out by the incoming fire, and
+       any remaining pieces would've either been taken out as well, or
+       would have been so small as to not damage the hull (which is
+       *very* thick at that point) given its blast-enforced deceleration.
+       4) Yes, Sinclair would've gone up with it. You pays your money,
+       you takes your chances.
+       5) There was no "the Earth is going to explode" story here; you
+       have a ship colliding with the station, that has to be stopped. It
+       has to be stopped within the period between when it emerges from
+       the gate, and the time it would collide. You want to know how much
+       time you have to work in. Maybe it's a dramatic device, but it's
+       also exactly what you would do. What would you prefer? "Lieutenant
+       Commander, how much longer until impact?" "Uh...I dunno...can you
+       hang on a second?"
+       6) Re: the "funny forehead" comment...it was not what I've
+       understood the FF syndrome to mean...a regular head with a little
+       treatment on the front. This was a whole-head prosthetic, covering
+       the entire back of the head. So wrong on that one. And re: n'grath
+       having 6 legs rather than 4...who're you to say that? Ever seen a
+       praying mantis? Do all insects all over the galaxy have to have
+       six legs to qualify? You don't like minimal makeup, you don't like
+       full-body prosthetics ...you understand that this comes out as
+       "nothing will please me except a real alien." You tell me where to
+       find one in Central Casting, and I'll hire him.
+       7) Okay, here's my biggest gripe: the note that the soul aspect
+       was Trek and "katra." Let me be clear on this: I don't give a damn
+       what Trek has or has not done now, long ago, or will do in the
+       future. We can't be constantly looking over our shoulder, limiting
+       our universe because of another show. If your only frame of
+       reference when it comes to discussing the soul is Star Trek, then
+       that's profoundly disappointing, but it's got nothing to do with
+       me. The basic concept goes back to the beginnings of civilization
+       (that your soul can be captured somehow). Further, there were no
+       soul hunters in ST, it was placement of one's spirit in another
+       body. I'm getting real tired of the notion that if Trek did
+       something, nobody else ever can do it. Like the person who said
+       that Trek invented nanotechnology, and thus when we used it in the
+       pilot episode in the nanotech machine G'Kar swallows, we were just
+       copying Trek's nanites.
+       I refuse to surrender creative control of this series to the ghost
+       of Star Trek's used notions. From time to time, we'll cross into
+       areas they have also touched. We'll touch it differently. Deal
+       with it. But please don't put a Star Trek (tm) tag on the soul,
+       and the history of the soul.
+       8) You say a guard's gun was taken *twice* in this episode. Where
+       is #2 (if #1 is the medlab guard)? I see a guard being attacked
+       from behind, but not his gun being taken.
+       9) Re: the second soul hunter's makeup being "inferior" to the
+       first: they were essentially exactly the same...same material,
+       same design, minus the stone, which varied...I'm sorry, but they
+       were made, applied and used in exactly the same way.
+       10) Why drain her of blood? Why the hell not? In some countries,
+       that was used as a means of execution. Bleeding was also used (in
+       theory) to heal. Okay, let's say he used poison. "Why use poison?"
+       you probably would've asked. "Oh, it was the old poison gag, and
+       they find a convenient antidote." There's no difference.
+       11) How did the hunter relate his sense of death to a wall map? I
+       ask again...why not? If you can buy it happens at all, why not?
+       How is that any different than walking through a hall, or being
+       drawn to a planet? This is strictly a straw-man example, as is
+       much of what you cite.
+       This, frankly, is what I find so offensive in your note. You take
+       things that as a matter of opinion you might have done
+       differently, and then try to hold it up as a fault. You set up
+       straw man arguments that could be just as easily turned around on
+       anything, mischaracterizing something in order to take a cheap
+       shot.
+       12) Why didn't Sinclair link in when he found the hunter? Because
+       he only "found" the hunter when he was being SHOT AT. And at that
+       point you don't want to raise your voice because you'll be shot at
+       again.
+       13) You complain that the soul globes seemed to wait until the
+       moment Sinclair freed them to act (as though it were the bag that
+       had been holding them in). Sure, they could've emerged...and
+       floated. A lot of good that would've done them. What they needed
+       was someone who could stop him, and that was Sinclair's task. They
+       were able to distract the hunter long enough for that to happen.
+       Minus Sinclair, what were they supposed to do, bedazzle him to
+       death?
+       14) Re: shining things into the camera = NBC Mystery Movie. See
+       point 11a above. I'm not responsible for your cultural reference
+       points.
+       I don't mean to yell, but thing is, I don't mind genuine
+       criticism, if we specifically do something that is objectively
+       *wrong*. If you don't like something, that's also fine. But I'm
+       tired of people who confuse opinion with fact, and that if it
+       isn't done their way, then it isn't somehow *right*...and the
+       notion that Star Trek has invented, patented and qualified for
+       sole claim on whole aspects of our history, literature, culture,
+       theology and language, and that anybody who touches on these areas
+       is just doing Trek stuff.
+       As far as I'm concerned, the Trek-soul-katra thing treated the
+       soul as little more than a misplaced pair of sunglasses. Here we
+       tried to get into the issues *behind* the soul...where does it
+       come from, where does it go, does it survive the death of the
+       body, or does it go on ...to give some mystery and beauty to the
+       notion. To have it dismissed as just another riff on katra is
+       offensive and insulting and narrow. And all of those issues just
+       seemed to flit by without comment.
+       I don't mean to get angry, but this is one I'm very proud of, and
+       to see it sideswiped and mischaracterized and straw-man'd to death
+       in this fashion is just something that I had to respond to.
+     * Re: your statement that the headwear of the S.H. is "stolen" from
+       the Ferengi...may I be so bold as to respond to your rather loud
+       note with some volume of my own? To wit: watch something other
+       than Star Trek, and maybe spend a little time learning stuff about
+       your own world. The headware is based upon the kind used in
+       various african and aboriginal tribes. Trek didn't invent it; we
+       have photos of its use through history, as well as sketches going
+       back further. As it happens, the costume designer has never seen
+       "DS9," doesn't watch TNG, has no idea what a Ferengi is. Neither
+       do I intend to not do something, based in real history, just
+       because some other show has done drawn on that same background.
+       You clearly think that if something appeared in ST, then ST must
+       have invented it, and that if it appears anywhere else, it must've
+       been influenced by ST. Wrong on both counts. I would suggest that
+       you have been watching too much ST, and not nearly enough of the
+       Discovery Channel.
+     * Re: the medical tools...we brought in a medical science
+       consultant, who helped us design our instruments. His sense was
+       that we're moving more and more toward light as a system of
+       treatment, non-invasive procedures, that sort of thing. No, there
+       aren't anything like those devices in today's operating
+       rooms...but this is 250 years from now. In any event, it *is*
+       based on the latest info we're getting on new science from our
+       medical advisor.
+     * I would not describe n'grath as a "Mafia boss," since that's a
+       very specific term. Nor is it really any kind of organization.
+       He's a fixer, somebody you go to when you need something...a
+       bodyguard, forged identicards, what-have-you.
+     * Garibaldi is quite aware of n'grath...and knowing that if he just
+       vanished, somebody'd take his place in five minutes, prefers the
+       trouble he knows to the trouble he'd have to track down.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan _matt@uhs.uchicago.edu_
+
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+  28. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/004.html
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Londo's career is in jeopardy when a beautiful slave seduces him
+     and steals a sensitive computer file. Garibaldi investigates an
+     unauthorized use of a restricted communications channel.
+     [15]Fabiana Udenio as Adira Tyree. [16]Clive Revill as Trakis.
+     [17]Robert Phalen as Andrei Ivanov.
+     
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]6.79
+
+Production number:  104
+Original air date:  February 9, 1994
+
+Written by Larry DiTillio
+Directed by Bruce Seth Green
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Trakis: "Do you know why a drunken fool like Mollari has the power
+       he does? Because his family has been collecting dirt on other
+       families for years, like all the 'noble' houses of the Centauri
+       republic."
+     * Londo: "We Centauri live our lives for appearances: position,
+       status, title. These are the things by which we define ourselves.
+       But when I look beneath the mask I am forced to wear, I see only
+       emptiness."
+     * Centauri law permits individuals to own Centauri slaves. Owners
+       are legally responsible for the actions of their slaves. This
+       appears to be a slave system of economics rather than of caste.
+       According to Trakis, powerlessness and slavery is the fate of all
+       Centauri who don't play the game of blackmail and backstabbing.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What was the Euphrates treaty compromise that Sinclair forced
+       Londo to accept?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Londo and G'Kar agree over a drink that females are the finest of
+       all things in life. They are much more friendly with each other
+       now than when last we saw them (cf: [20]"Midnight on the Firing
+       Line"). The Narn must have been very pacifying in the meantime.
+     * Intense anger from a couple nearby people is enough to send Talia
+       away for a breather.
+     * Londo agrees to Sinclair's compromise on the Euphrates treaty in
+       exchange for his personal help recovering the purple files.
+       However, this should not be taken as another example of Londo
+       putting personal concerns above state concerns. In a profoundly
+       blackmailable culture like the Centauri, power lost by one
+       individual or family would always be gained by another. But if an
+       outsider were to get hold of a treasure trove like Londo's purple
+       files, all of Centauri would be diminished. There is an
+       interesting parallel here to the Minbari concern for souls (cf:
+       [21]"Soul Hunter").
+     * Ivanova's brother was killed in the Earth/Minbari war, her mother
+       committed suicide (cf: [22]"Midnight on the Firing Line"), and
+       she's been estranged from her father for years. Thus it's
+       unsurprising she's so hard-edged.
+     * Talia is willing to skirt Psi Corps regulations when a life is at
+       stake (though she has no concern for Londo's career). The Psi
+       Corps' hold on remote psis appears to be pretty weak.
+     * When she was approached about the plan, Talia asked Sinclair if
+       Londo was serious about a woman's life being at stake. Shouldn't
+       she have sensed Londo's distress? Strong emotions are difficult to
+       block out, she says ([23]"Mind War,") and with Adira's life and
+       his career at stake, Londo would presumably be quite anxious. Of
+       course, she may have sensed the anxiety but not its reason.
+     * Ivanova is willing to skirt EA regulations for personal perks.
+       (cf: [24]"War Prayer")
+     * When G'Kar meets with Trakis to exchange the information, Trakis
+       says to him, "You said nothing about a telepath." From this it is
+       clear that G'Kar was the one who contacted Trakis. However, Trakis
+       knew through the bug he planted on Londo that Sinclair was onto
+       him. So, Sinclair must have set up G'Kar's call to Trakis in such
+       a way that it wouldn't arouse his suspicions.
+     * Telepath-aided negotiation must make future diplomacy much
+       different than it is now. No posturing, tailored versions of the
+       situation back home, empty threats, or hidden agendas. Parties
+       have the same freedom to make choices for their governments, but
+       there are vanishingly few tactics left to gain more advantage over
+       one's adversary than one already has.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The episode's title is a term dating back to Roman times, still in
+       use in Britain. Roman senators in the days of the Republic wore
+       purple edged togas as a symbol of royalty, since purple dye was
+       very expensive. Today, members of the House of Lords wear purple
+       robes for state occasions. When someone is made a peer in the UK
+       they are said to have been "raised to the purple." Hereditary
+       peers are "born to the purple". Perhaps this implies that the
+       purple files are so named because they are what keeps Londo's
+       family in its preeminent position.
+     * G'Kar glances no less than four times at the human dancer behind
+       him when he and Sinclair first confront Londo about the treaty.
+     * Babylon 5 communications has a priority "Gold Channel" reserved
+       for emergency communications. Sinclair's express permission is
+       required to use it, and its existence is known only to the
+       ambassadors and senior officers.
+     * Londo's family heirloom, from the earliest days of the Empire, is
+       a stylized eye-and-teardrop.
+     * Universe Today main headline: Homeguard Leader Convicted
+     * "Fresh Air" is the finest restaurant on Babylon 5.
+     * Talia used to work for the "Political Bureau".
+     * "I like to know all there is about Babylon 5," Sinclair says, "and
+       Garibaldi's files are very thorough."
+     * Ivanova appears to wear only one earring, though it's hard to tell
+       since throughout the episode we get no more than a glimpse of the
+       right side of her head.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * We're currently finishing up production on "Born to the Purple,"
+       with Clive Revell and Fabiana Udeno. It's a very offbeat and funny
+       story (by Larry DiTillio, natch) which adds a new side to Londo's
+       character. It puts our characters into different situations than
+       we're used to, and it's fun seeing how they react to these new
+       conditions.
+     * Trakis, Adira's owner, was not a Centauri, but (and this is
+       something we may bring up at some point down the road), was at one
+       point a Centauri slave.
+     * Re: Londo as a romantic character...bless your heart. You are the
+       first to have nailed it absolutely on the head. If I had to write
+       a description of the character, I doubt I could have done any
+       better than what you just wrote. There are a *lot* of episodes
+       that bring this out in him, including the next one up, "Born to
+       the Purple," which I suspect will end virtually all of the hair
+       jokes once and for all.
+       Anyway...yes, and thank you, that's it *precisely*.
+     * Let's just say for now that you'll learn something very unusual
+       about Centauri "intimacy" in "The Quality of Mercy."
+     * Fabiana didn't shave her head to play Adira; that's a prosthetic
+       head piece. Ditto with all our Centauri women. (Funnily enough,
+       the one time we DID have a bald woman as a background extra, those
+       not in the know on stage kept commenting on how fake the bald-cap
+       looked....)
+     * The point you raise is exactly correct; which is why we've set up
+       the Psi Corps in such a way as to *prevent* them from becoming a
+       deus ex machina all the time. This is what's always bothered me
+       about the way "empaths" are treated on ST; it's a terrible
+       invasion of privacy. The Psi Corps has strict rules about who can
+       and can't be scanned, and under what conditions. In "Purple," she
+       couldn't just go scan Trakis; she had to be hired, had to be
+       already engaged in a business capacity, and had to find it *only*
+       in surface thoughts, no deliberate poking. And this is the ONLY --
+       repeat, the ONLY -- time this is done in the entire season, aside
+       from the accidental run-in with Londo in the pilot episode.
+       We'll get deeper into the rules and regs of the Psi Corps as we
+       go, further establishing that there's a lot they're expressly
+       forbidden from doing by law.
+     * I confess I don't see the problem. In real life, some women are
+       scientists, and doctors, and atheletes...and some women dance in
+       bars, some women hook part- or full-time. Some men are scholars
+       and diplomats and teachers...and some men are gigolos and thieves
+       and *also* dance in bars. Where exactly is the problem in
+       portraying both sides of this? Have we become so concerned with
+       being politically correct that we can not show a legitimate part
+       of human existence?
+       B5 has all kinds, and both sides of all kinds. Male and female,
+       equally. I "chose" exotic dancers for a kind of sleazy,
+       not-entirely legitimate operation, a backroom club. What would one
+       *expect* to find there? Opera singers? You look at the situation,
+       and you choose what is *appropriate to the situation*.
+       I would also point out that the dancers didn't "eagerly rush
+       forward to betray their friend." Londo was trying to find Adira in
+       hopes of helping her. He didn't say he was going to do anything
+       bad to her, and he was probably known to more than a few of them.
+       He was simply trying to find her. The coin was an added incentive.
+       Back when I was an investigative reporter, I did some research on
+       strip joints while I was living in SAn Diego. Spent a LOT of time
+       talking to nude dancers (when they had their clothes on, I hasten
+       to add). And 99.9% of them had a rule: you want to ask questions,
+       you pay. That simple. That's how this stuff *works*. My job is to
+       keep the B5 reality as close as possible to our reality in that
+       respect.
+       Some of them probably wanted to help, knowing Londo was okay. Some
+       probably didn't care. And some probably would've betrayed her at
+       the tip of a coin. Life's like that. So again, where in this is
+       the problem?
+     * Re: the club owner recognizing Sinclair (or not)...this is
+       something we discussed. Can Sinclair go places in the station and
+       not be recognized? In some cases, no. In a place like the Dark
+       Star, maybe so; this isn't the kind of place he generally hangs
+       out in. It's a question of how much day-to-day interaction
+       somebody would have with him. Yes, he's an important figure; but
+       I'm not sure if I'd immediately recognize L.A. Mayor Richard
+       Riordan at first glance, particularly in different style of dress,
+       in an unusual location. We're *not* going to do it a lot -- just
+       once this season -- but we thought it was a reasonable approach.
+     * This was a bit cut from the script for time; Gold Channels are
+       ONLY for official use, they're high-priority channels that can go
+       anywhere back on Earth. Commercial communications are less
+       reliable and only have a few channels available; you've got to
+       wait for a call to go through. To use a Gold Channel for personal
+       communications is a No-No.
+     * Regarding Ivanova...it's not really an attempt to pull at heart
+       strings, as it is to establish that this is someone who's had, and
+       is still having, a pretty rough life. It's a real roller-coaster
+       for her, and the way she survives it is to absolutely bottle it up
+       inside. She has had angst throughout her life, and she's in for
+       more.
+       We start to track that in little ways that probably no one will
+       notice, as well as making it the occasional story point. A little
+       way nobody'll notice: after this episode, she starts messing with
+       her hair, which we'd deliberately set as extremely tight until
+       now. Suddenly she doesn't have someone for whom she has to be a
+       certain way, and she has to start finding her *own* identity, and
+       it ain't easy.
+     * Larry DiTillio's episodes this season are "Born to the Purple,"
+       and "Deathwalker." He's currently working on a third, tentatively
+       entitled "TKO." And yes, he uses blood instead of
+       ink...unfortunately, it's mine.
+     * There will be both sex and romance on B5 (sometimes together,
+       sometimes not). It's perversely appropriate that in the B5 series,
+       it's not the Commander who gets laid first, or Garibaldi, or
+       G'Kar... it's Londo. And it's a very funny, but very touching and
+       moving episode.
+     * It's a standard bed, works fine. Though we *did* have a thing in
+       mind where Londo sits up in bed, having just had wonderful sex,
+       and his hair is now hanging limp...but in a sudden burst of sanity
+       we decided against it.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan _matt@uhs.uchicago.edu_
+
+   [30][Next] 
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+      [31]Last update: January 12, 1998
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     An archaeologist smuggles ancient artifacts onto the station,
+     unleashing a living weapon. [15]David McCallum as Dr. Vance
+     Hendricks. [16]Marshall Teague as Nelson Drake.
+     
+Sub-genre: Action
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]6.33
+
+Production number:  101
+Original air date:  February 18, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Richard Compton
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Ikarra 7, now a dead world, was a thousand years ago home to a
+       highly advanced space-faring society. Their technology was
+       organic: tools and artifacts made of living tissue yet immune to
+       decay. Invaded over a dozen times, they finally built 12
+       devastating organic warriors to protect them. Programmed to
+       destroy any but "pure Ikarrans", those warriors repelled the last
+       invasion and went on to kill any Ikarran who deviated from the
+       ideal (ie all of them). A [19]transcript of the scene in which
+       this is discussed is available.
+     * Organic technology is, according to archaeologist Vance Hendricks,
+       "The one trick Earth hasn't been able to crack. The ability to
+       create living ships that thrive in the vacuum of space, to create
+       weapons that produce their own power through internal generation,
+       like a firefly lights up at night."
+     * The Vorlons have organic technology, and it's suspected that the
+       Minbari do as well.
+     * _Sinclair:_ "The last time I gave an interview they told me just
+       to relax and say what I really felt - ten minutes after the
+       broadcast I got transferred to an outpost so far off the star maps
+       you couldn't find it with a hunting dog and a Ouija board." It's
+       not clear whether or not this was a joke.
+     * _Garibaldi:_ (to the reporter) "...and after walking 50 miles, we
+       finally made it out of the desert. Later when he was put in charge
+       of Babylon 5, Commander Sinclair asked if I'd come work security.
+       I said yes - it's been a great time..."
+     * Garibaldi has been fired from 5 different jobs for "unspecified
+       personal problems". His assignment on Babylon 5 is probably his
+       last shot in Earth Force.
+     * Garibaldi was in Earth Force during the E/M war, but not on the
+       Line.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Who invaded Ikarra so many times? What was so valuable about it?
+     * Why is Sinclair so prone to heroism (read: suicidal bravery)? He's
+       deliberately put his life on the line three times now in the past
+       year (cf [20]"The Gathering", [21]"Soul Hunter"). Garibaldi
+       suggests an answer: when the war ended it took away the direction
+       it gave his life, as happened to many veterans. So now he's
+       "looking for something worth dying for because it's easier than
+       finding something worth living for." Sinclair's not entirely
+       satisfied with that answer, and resolves to give it more thought.
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * A "Bio-weapons" supplier backed Hendricks' original expedition to
+       Ikarra - they must have had advance information about what was to
+       be found there.
+     * Ivanova has little faith in the ethics of big government
+       organizations (cf [22]"Mind War", [23]"Deathwalker").
+     * Franklin appeared to seriously ponder the image of great wealth
+       Hendricks offered, before the guards took him away.
+     * A team from Earth Force Defense, Bio-weapons Division confiscated
+       the Ikarran artifacts just as the dust from the weapon-chase was
+       settling. Earth now has bio-tech of its own to study.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * _Garibaldi:_ "The commander's a hands-on kind of guy, he'll grab
+       any chance he can get to take out a ship - he's like that."
+     * This episode occurs right around the 2nd anniversary of Babylon 5
+       going on-line.
+     * In a poll, 75% of "Interstellar Network News" said B5 wouldn't
+       last 5 minutes. Lloyd's of London put the odds at 500 to 1 against
+       it lasting one year.
+     * The "Narn-Centauri negotiations" are to occur in the near future.
+     * _Sinclair:_ "How sharper than a serpent's tooth." (His reply to
+       Garibaldi's joking guess that Sinclair's interview would get him
+       shipped off the station and himself promoted into Sinclair's
+       position.) This is a quote from Shakespeare (King Lear.)
+     * Dr. Hendricks says to Franklin, "There's a Martian war machine
+       outside, and it wants to speak to you about the common cold."
+       That's a reference to H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds," in
+       which the Martian invaders are killed by common microbes.
+     * _Sinclair:_ "When you become obsessed with the enemy, you become
+       the enemy."
+     * At the last, the Ikarran begs forgiveness from the "Great Maker".
+     * _Franklin:_ "I'm starting to wonder if what we just saw is a
+       preview of things to come" (re: Pro-earth groups).
+     * _The Interview_
+       _Reporter:_ "After all that you've just gone through, I have to
+       ask you the same question a lot of people back home are asking
+       about space these days. Is it worth it? Should we just pull back,
+       forget the whole thing as a bad idea, and take care of our own
+       problems, at home?"
+       _Sinclair:_ "No. We have to stay here, and there's a simple reason
+       why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment,
+       population control, genetics - and you'll get ten different
+       answers. But there's one thing every scientist on the planet
+       agrees on: whether it happens in a hundred years, or a thousand
+       years, or a million years, eventually our sun will grow cold, and
+       go out. When that happens, it won't just take us, it'll take
+       Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-tsu, Einstein, Maruputo, Buddy Holly,
+       Aristophanes - all of this. All of this was for nothing, unless we
+       go to the stars."
+     * Ikarra may be an Australian Aboriginal word.
+       The Australian DSTO (Defence Sciences and Technology Organisation)
+       developed the anti-submarine weapon "Ikara" in the 1950's. It is
+       no longer in use in the Australian Navy, having been fired for the
+       last time in 1990. The Brazilian Navy may still use a variation of
+       it.
+       Since the DSTO has a tradition of naming its products after
+       warlike Aboriginal animals, it's plausible that the word refers to
+       an animal.
+     * A slight visual gaffe: When the bioweapon self-destructs and falls
+       to the ground, its head is facing to the left (away from the
+       camera.) But when Sinclair watches him turn human again, Nelson's
+       head is facing to the right (toward the camera.)
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * We'll definitely be dealing with the aspects of how fighting in a
+       war can affect you. And this isn't just a vague promise: watch the
+       end of the third (currently) scheduled episode, "Infection," for a
+       scene between Sinclair and Garibaldi that really deals very
+       straightforwardly with this issue. It's a conversation you
+       wouldn't expect to see in a show like this.
+     * [Infection] has a lot of action, which you'd expect, and a big
+       conclusion, which you'd expect. What you *won't* expect, I think,
+       is what happens afterward, in a conversation no one generally has
+       in TV after big action stuff has gone down. And it's something to
+       chew on, I think....
+     * Thanks. Sinclair's final speech there is the simplest truth about
+       space exploration that I can think of...and the most
+       compelling..and the most overlooked. As Henry Kissinger once said,
+       "It has the added benefit of being true."
+     * Sorry; there's no one more critical of my work than me, and when
+       it comes to "Infection," I'd just kinda prefer it if it kinda
+       vanished in the night. I feel that way about only two episodes out
+       of 22, so that's not too bad, I suppose.
+     * "Infection" is definitely not indicative of the season overall;
+       that is, in my view, one of our weaker, possibly weakest episodes.
+     * And like I said...I have problems with "Infection" as well, so
+       there is no flame from me. I guess part of it is knowing what was
+       in the script that should've been carried off better, but wasn't.
+       And part of it is my fault; I tried to use the Nelson/machine as a
+       metaphor; it wasn't supposed to be about the Nelson/machine, but
+       about the kind of people who would create it, the kind of people
+       who would sell it, and the kind of people who would confiscate it
+       even KNOWING what it was (and of course the kind of people who
+       would *use* it). Unfortunatly, when you put somebody in that kind
+       of suit, that *becomes* the story, and from that point on you're
+       pretty much doomed. It was also in places too much an obvious
+       metaphor, and the "hand of the author" is showing too much. It was
+       the first script written for this season, after the long break
+       after the pilot, and I think I was trying to find the characters'
+       "fingerprints" and getting into the flow of the series, which took
+       a script or two.
+     * The problem with "Infection" from a writing POV is that it was the
+       FIRST one written for this season, and I was having a hard time
+       finding the "fingerprints" of the characters again after so much
+       time had passed after the pilot (it was nearly a year between the
+       revising/ shooting of the pilot, and the writing of the first
+       series script). As on *any* show, it takes a while to get up to
+       speed once you hit series. That was the real problem, and there
+       wasn't any real way to get past it except to write it, re-acquaint
+       myself with the characters, and move on. I probably would have
+       opted out of doing it had we had more scripts on hand, but we
+       didn't. And oddly, many on the production team *liked* the script
+       quite a lot, and kept saying it had to be done.
+     * I'd slice this a little finer and suggest that it wasn't so much
+       the *stupidity* of racism and the whole genetic purity aspect, but
+       the IMPRACTICALITY of such ideas. If you follow the idea to its
+       logical conclusion, *nobody* is pure. Which was kind of the point.
+       And oddly enough, there's a pro-genocide discussion in
+       "Deathwalker."
+     * I allow a small smile...in the course of any given script, I put
+       in little things that I figure nobody will ever notice, but which
+       for me help just a bit to keep on track with the character, and
+       which may resonate to anyone paying attention. You cite Sinclair's
+       line about joining Garibaldi "on the LINE," and Garibaldi noting
+       that Sinclair keeps putting his life "on the LINE," and the
+       similarity to the phrase "the Battle of the Line."
+       It was a throwaway...but a conscious one.
+       He's still fighting the same battle. He's never stopped. In one
+       way or another, he keeps putting himself out there, caught in a
+       loop....
+     * Actually, the reporter's question was *not* (from a 2258 point of
+       view) stupid. Earth is far enough from the other major races not
+       to have to worry about iminent invasion. At the time of the story,
+       there is a VERY strong isolationist movement growing back home,
+       which you'll hear more about as we go in. Space travel is
+       *expensive*, even in 2258, and there are still a lot of problems
+       to be resolved back home. While the Earth administration in
+       Earthdome keeps pressing to go further and further, various
+       nation/states in the Earth senate are taxed further to finance
+       explorations which they don't always share in equally, the Mars
+       Colony is threatening secession...things are falling apart by
+       degrees. So in light of all that, the question is *absolutely*
+       valid.
+     * The ONLY reason that they were able to pick up the blasts in
+       "Infection" was because they were SO powerful that they registered
+       on the station's sensors. Ordinary PPG blasts don't show up.
+     * I have nothing to do with the description applied to the show by
+       others. In that episode, the affected person isn't "turned into" a
+       machine. It is sort of a living armor-like compound that grows
+       over the person's body, and begins to influence the person in
+       question. That is the sum and substance of it; he isn't
+       transmuted, his biology isn't changed, his brain isn't replaced,
+       and so on.
+       My suggestion: judge the episode based on the episode, not on what
+       choice of words someone else used in trying to synopsize the
+       episode. Because Moby Dick can be summed up as, "A nut chasing a
+       big fish." But there's obviously more to the story than that, and
+       it's not entirely accurate.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan _matt@uhs.uchicago.edu_
+
+   [29][Next] 
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+      [30]Last update: January 9, 1998
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Sinclair's old flame, Catherine Sakai, arrives during a weeklong
+     festival when humans and aliens demonstrate their religious
+     beliefs. An old enemy sends an assassin to kill G'Kar. [15]Thomas
+     Kopache as Tu'Pari. [16]Julia Nickson as Catherine Sakai.
+     
+   Originally titled "Carnival!"
+Sub-genre: Intrigue
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]7.88
+
+Production number:  108
+Original air date:  February 23, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
+   _Emmy Award_ for Makeup Design
+   
+  Watch For
+  
+     * Look closely at the statue of Li, the Centauri goddess of passion.
+       Something about it will be the subject of a humorous revelation
+       about the Centauri in a later episode.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * "Never fails," says Garibaldi when Catherine comes aboard.
+       Apparently he's known her and Sinclair for a very long time. They
+       seem to run into one another every three years, though this is the
+       first time in a while that they've both been available.
+     * Sinclair and Carolyn have drifted apart - he wasn't willing to
+       quit and go into business with her as a trader. (cf: [19]"The
+       Gathering")
+     * After he delivers G'Kar's death pronouncement, councillor Du'Rog
+       says, "This should come as no surprise to you G'Kar. You've ruined
+       my family's name and humiliated me before the council. Retribution
+       was inevitable."
+     * Later G'Kar explains to Na'Toth why he can't ask for help:
+       "...this would lead to some unfortunate revelations about my years
+       on the council, revelations that could affect my position.
+       Personally, I don't _care_ if the information comes out. My only
+       concern is that it might compromise our standing in the
+       negotiations."
+     * The best assassins among the Narn are the "Thenta Makur." They are
+       well-organized and respectable in their own way. They leave a
+       "death blossom" to give their mark time to get their affairs in
+       order, and offer a solid guarantee: they will personally kill any
+       assassin who betrays a commission.
+     * G'Kar has survived _two_ prior assassination attempts, but did not
+       appear to have experience with the Thenta Makur.
+     * Vir explains the vivacious Centauri festival:
+       
+     It's a celebration of life. It comes from a time in our world's
+     history when two dominant species were fighting for supremacy: our
+     people, and a species we called "Xon". At year's end, we count how
+     many of our people survived, and celebrate our good fortune!
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Why is G'Kar, after serving 5 years on the Narn council, now
+       serving as the Narn diplomat to Babylon 5? Is this a move up, or
+       down?
+     * What "revelations" about his years on the council does G'Kar want
+       hidden?
+     * Did Sinclair play a greater role in the Minbari ceremony than was
+       apparent? ([20]see Analysis)
+     * When Catherine first enters Sinclair's quarters, he's listening to
+       [21]part of Tennyson's "Ulysses." "Which are you," she asks,
+       quoting from elsewhere in the poem, "[22] an idle king, doling
+       unequal laws unto a savage race, that hoard, and sleep, and feed,
+       and know not you, or [23]a gray spirit, yearning in desire, to
+       follow knowledge like a sinking star?" He leaves the question
+       unanswered.
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * The cross-species religious festival was Earth Central's idea, and
+       is consistent with Babylon 5's _raison d'etre._ The Minbari and
+       Centauri participated willingly, but nothing was seen of Narn
+       religion (cf: [24]"By Any Means Necessary"). No-one made note of
+       this omission - perhaps it's taken for granted that Narn religion
+       is not for outsiders.
+     * The Narn employ couriers on a weekly basis. They also have FTL
+       communications. Hence, they must not consider FTL secure.
+     * Na'Toth is cool-headed, with a sarcastic sense of humor - for
+       G'Kar a great improvement over the literal and over-enthusiastic
+       Ko'Dath.
+     * When Lennier greets Delenn as "Satai," she rebukes him: "No-one
+       here knows of my connection. No-one must find out [...] it would
+       lead to certain questions I don't want to answer just now."
+       Apparently, it is well-known among the Minbari who are the members
+       of the grey council. They are also greatly revered, judging by
+       Lennier's reluctance to raise his eyes in her presence.
+     * Vir's [25]speech is quite remarkable. What endured after the
+       Centauri conflict with the Xon was a celebration of survival,
+       rather than a mourning for those lost. This is notable both for
+       what they chose to focus on (the joyous rather than the sad), and
+       for its suggestion that the Centauri may have been nearly
+       destroyed by the Xon (everyone was lucky to have survived each
+       year).
+     * A theme of real Babylonian history: a stronger race oppresses a
+       weaker one, and generations of the weaker one grow up fighting for
+       their lives. Eventually the once-weaker race becomes so hardened
+       and energized in their own self-protection that they rise up and
+       conquer their oppressors (cf: [26]History.Babylonia).
+     * This theme may be the very story of the Xon and the Centauri, for
+       the Centauri eventually destroyed them and didn't lose momentum
+       until they were an empire spanning an entire quadrant of the
+       galaxy (cf: [27]"The Gathering" ). This may also _become_ the
+       story of the Centauri the Narn: the Centauri invaded their
+       homeworld and held sway for a hundred years, but now the Narn are
+       free and bent on destruction, while the Centauri are on the
+       decline.
+     * Among the many Centauri household gods on the banquet table are
+       Ben-Zan, god of food, Mo-Goth, god of the underworld and protector
+       of front doors, and Li, goddess of passion. The golden statue of
+       Li portrays her with both arms and one leg raised. Visible on her
+       body are breasts, a very large _male_ hair-crest, and three
+       tentacles emerging from her hips on both sides. (cf. [28]"The
+       Quality of Mercy")
+     * A [29]transcript of Delenn's recital during the Minbari ceremony
+       is available.
+     * This recital is very important, especially if Sinclair is the
+       incarnation of a figure in Minbari prophecy, for which there are
+       indications:
+          + _Minbari assassin:_ "There is a hole in your mind." ([30]"The
+            Gathering")
+          + The coincidence of the Minbari surrender with their initial
+            discovery of Sinclair. ([31]"The Gathering")
+          + _Delenn:_ "I knew you would come - we were right about you."
+            ([32]"Soul Hunter")
+          + Delenn's [33]possible covert marriage to him in this episode.
+          + (see also: [34]"And the Sky Full of Stars",
+            [35]"Deathwalker", [36]"Signs and Portents")
+     * The giving of fruit to each of the main characters coincided with
+       particular parts of Delenn's recital. This could be literary
+       foreshadowing, but it's unlikely that Delenn herself intended the
+       juxtaposition.
+       
+     "From birth _{Londo}_, through death and renewal _{Vir}_, you must
+     put aside old things _{Garibaldi}_, old fears _{Sinclair}_, old
+     lives _{Ivanova}_. This is your death _{G'Kar}_, the death of
+     flesh..."
+     * For the record, Londo and Vir eat their fruits, Garibaldi
+       declines, Ivanova puts hers down, G'Kar exchanges his with hers,
+       Ivanova (unawares) then eats hers, and G'Kar gives his new fruit a
+       distrustful sniff. Sinclair, under Delenn's compelling gaze, eats
+       his as well.
+     * When Catherine hears about "red fruit" being part of the Minbari
+       ceremony, she asks if there was a serious exchange of looks. When
+       Sinclair confirms this, she chuckles, "Oh it's a rebirth ceremony
+       all right. It also doubles as a marriage ceremony. Depending on
+       how seriously anyone took it, somebody got married the other day."
+       Sinclair did not mention who was seriously looking at whom - he
+       may in some sense now be married to Delenn.
+     * "You must put aside... old lives" reaffirms the Minbari belief in
+       reincarnation revealed in [37]"Soul Hunter", and suggests that the
+       Minbari may have _conscious access_ to their own past lives. Else
+       what would they have to put aside? (cf: [38]"The War Prayer")
+       
+Notes
+
+     * _G'Kar's song_ (presumably translated from Narn):
+  I'm thinking of thinking of calling her right
+    after my afternoon nap.
+  I'm thinking of thinking of sending her flowers,
+    right after Bonnie gets back.
+  So many fishies left in the sea,
+    so many fishies - but no-one for me...
+  I'm thinking of thinking of hooking a love,
+    soon after supper is done.
+
+     * Ko'Dath, G'Kar's previous aide (with whom he was none too happy)
+       died in an unexplained airlock accident a week before.
+     * _Londo's joke:_
+       Garibaldi: And what happened to the Xon?
+       Londo: Dead, all of them, and good riddance. Do you know what the
+       last Xon said, just before he died? "AAAAARGH!"
+       Garibaldi (to Sinclair): Can I kill him now?
+     * _Londo's toast_ (and reprise):
+       "Valtoooo!"
+     * Ivanova was the only non-Centauri who seemed to be enjoying
+       herself at their festival.
+     * Na'Toth's "sponsor" for her position as G'Kar's aide was Li'Dak,
+       fifth circle. Li'Dak's sponsor was Du'Rog himself.
+     * G'Kar's "reputed fascination with Earth women" (cf: [39]"Born to
+       the Purple") is well-known among the Narn ruling class.
+     * Delenn's new assistant is Lennier of the Third Fane of Chu'Domo,
+       which has served with honor for 500 years. He has just gone from
+       being a "simple novitiate" to serving one of the Grey Council -
+       apparently quite a big jump.
+     * There is consistency in the shape of Minbari head-bones. The top
+       edge of the female head-bone is a smooth curve back to a raised
+       point in back, while the top edge of the male head-bone rises to
+       several points on its way back.
+     * There were nine participants in the Minbari rebirth ceremony. All
+       of the instruments visible were triangular, as was the table
+       around which they stood.
+     * In the lingo of the Free Traders, Earth (or thereabouts) is "The
+       Hub".
+     * Sinclair has a brother, about whom he has not yet spoken.
+     * Sinclair has been caught on [40]Tennyson since his academy years -
+       "we find meaning where we can," he says.
+     * G'Kar and Na'Toth both imply she enjoyed beating him up.
+     * When this episode was broadcast in Malaysia in July 1995, the
+       Centauri celebration was cut, probably because of its depiction of
+       drunken behavior.
+     * A sign in the arrivals area:
+       Welcome to Babylon 5
+       Customer Section
+       Atmosphere Caution
+       Six different atmospheres are currently available on B5. Others
+       may be created by prior arrangement. Uncommon atmospheric makeups
+       may be synthesized for encounter suits. For specific atmochemical
+       breakdowns see monitor below.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * Regarding making people laugh until their sides hurt...this is
+       something I always go for. It's easy to go for the "well, that's
+       amusing" stuff, but to make someone laugh out loud, or even until
+       it hurts, is tough. In most (but not all) cases, I try to get one
+       solid laugh per episode, one moving scene per episode, and one
+       "head-conk" per episode. The first obligation of a writer is to
+       make you *feel* something, and if I can do that in an episode,
+       then I've done my job.
+       It helps in that I'm not generally a big laugher; when I go to
+       plays or movies with other people, and they're comedies,
+       afterwards I'll always get "Why didn't you like it?" "I did." "You
+       didn't laugh." "I was just thinking about how funny it was."
+       Usually I can see a punchline coming, and part of my brain is
+       racing ahead to what it might be. (And half the time at least I'm
+       right.) So I've adopted the philosophy that if I find something
+       extremely funny, other people will laugh at it; if I'm so tickled
+       that I absolutely laugh out loud, I know it'll probably kill
+       several people. As a result, if I'm going for a funny scene, I
+       don't leave it alone until I laugh at it.
+       When I thought about Londo passing out face first on the banquet
+       table uttering "...but in purple, I'm *stunning*," I just about
+       fell off my chair laughing. Sometimes I'm a little broad in my
+       comedy, other times I go for something a little more literate or
+       (one hopes) witty (most of these go to Ivanova, whereas the broad
+       stuff tends to go to Londo in most cases). But I try to keep it
+       varied.
+       Strangely enough, the comics that *do* manage to break me up are
+       all the more assaultive ones...Jerry Lewis, Robin Williams, Buddy
+       Hackett (who can reduce me to tears), and a few others.
+     * By the way...on the Kosh poisoning thread, which was originally to
+       be discussed in "Parliament"...we ended up about 3 minutes long on
+       "Parliament," and three minutes short on D.C. Fontana's "War
+       Prayer." So we lifted that scene and inserted it into her episode,
+       doing a small bit of ADR to facilitate the move. It's now quite
+       seamless.
+     * Bill Mumy came in to audition, same as eveybody else. It was known
+       then that it was a recurring role (contrary to his recollection of
+       things), and when he walked in the door, I knew he was right.
+     * BTW, this week will Bill Mumy's first week on B5, and he's done a
+       very nifty job as Lennier. He brings a wonderful sense of absolute
+       innocence...the proverbial innocent abroad...to Lennier's
+       character. The Minbari prosthetics look great on him, enhancing
+       the sense he brings to the character. He's also great with the
+       cast, and keeping things up during shooting. At one point, as
+       they're leaving camera, Delenn says to Lennier, who has just
+       arrived at the station, "Now tell me of home; I have been away far
+       too long." His ad-libbed off-camera response: "Beatlemania is
+       back." (Another ad-lib for another shot: "Minimalls...they're
+       everywhere," and "Well, we just got Pizza Hut and cable.")
+     * Regarding Catherine Sakai...believe me, this ain't a consort kind
+       of relationship. It will be monogamous, but difficult in many
+       ways. This has been an on-again/off-again relationship between
+       them for years, made up of three parts passion and two parts
+       teeth. It will be a very fiery relationship. And this is a woman
+       with her own business, her own ship, who comes and goes as she
+       wishes. You have to understand that I love writing strong female
+       characters, and Catherine will be probably one of the strongest.
+     * Catherine Sakai is played by Julie Nickson Soul, an asian-american
+       actor who's done quite a bit of work in high-profile films. Her
+       character is never Cathy, only Catherine (occasionally Cath to
+       Sinclair, but *only* occasionally). She's a planetary surveyer,
+       working for one of the Earth corporations, looking for uninhabited
+       worlds and asteroids for exploitation.
+     * We've shot our first scenes between Sinclair and his new love
+       interest, Catherine Sakai (as played by Julia Nickson). This is a
+       very, very strong character, and she brings a wonderful vibrancy
+       to Sakai. They have a unique relationship that looks and sounds
+       like a real relationship, with all its ups and downs and dumb
+       moments. One way that I've reinforced this is that...well, in the
+       first episode in which they meet again (they were involved
+       before), just about every scene between them is lifted almost
+       directly from personal experience.
+       And given some of the awkward, even painful conversations that
+       take place, it was very, *very* hard to watch this being
+       rehearsed. (Michael and Julia worked over a weekend with the
+       director to get the nuances just right.) When it came time to
+       shoot the scenes, much as I wanted to be on-set, I just couldn't
+       do it. My heart just kept falling right down to my shoes. I can't
+       wait for the first person to say "I don't buy this as a real
+       relationship" just so's I can whap him upside the head. But I have
+       a hunch that won't happen. It comes across as very real, and as a
+       very vulnerable moment for both characters.
+       "Write what you know," they said. Right. How about I just take a
+       power drill and stick it in my ear...it'd be faster, less painful,
+       and after a while I might even come to like it....
+     * A parliament is a gathering of officials, of representatives,
+       which matches the story in terms of representatives of different
+       places, and beliefs. The dreams are the belief systems.
+     * The "stay put" line was ad-libbed by Andreas, because the crawfish
+       kept crawling off the table.
+     * Yes, definitely keep in mind the intent of the ceremony...but be
+       sure to remember *all* aspects of it. ([41]see Analysis)
+       Also, take a good look at Li, goddess of passion, in Londo's
+       ceremony. There's something about it that will be very funny
+       later. ([42]see Analysis)
+     * The quote Delenn recited in "Parliament" was the quote from Valen
+       when he formed the first Grey Council.
+     * RE: the glasses...it's not something I've been able to figure out
+       how to mention, but the Narn pride themselves on their physical
+       perfection. Hence there is no market for physical aides; it's
+       something to be ashamed of. So they have to crib stuff from other
+       species, like glasses that have a prescription close enough to be
+       useful. I have *no* idea how to work that into a script, and am
+       not sure it is even a good idea to do so.
+     * The atheist was not only first in line, he was the best dressed
+       and smartest looking and nattiest one in the line.
+       jm(what a coincidence)s
+     * From a personal point of view, I'm very fond of "The Parliament of
+       Dreams," which is a very funny show, and at times a very emotional
+       show. "Parliament" is all over the place...it's got all of our
+       major characters, our ambassadors, their seconds, we see lots of
+       group scenes, we're all over the station, dipping in and out of
+       three different but interconnected stories...it's really a matter
+       of keeping a lot of balls in the air at one time, and I think we
+       pulled it off nicely.
+     * There's one truly remarkable shot we did for the current episode,
+       shot Friday evening. Generally, in any shot with a crowd, you need
+       about 20-45 people. That's usually enough to fill out the shot in
+       any set you can go to. More than that gets costly, and isn't
+       really noticeable unless you frame your shot just *so*.
+       Yesterday's shot has 160 extras. It's a very impressive, and very
+       moving shot. It appears in the tag of "the Parliament of Dreams."
+       It's the kind of shot you just don't see anywhere else. We had
+       some people from PTEN and a film crew for a behind-the-scenes
+       piece on hand, and they all commented on how only this show would
+       do this shot...and how significant it is. (I can't tell you what
+       it was, because that gives it away, and I want it to be kind of a
+       surprise; suffice to say you'll definitely know it when you see
+       it.)
+     * The SkyDancer appears in the next episode. "See you next
+       Wednesday" is...well...it's when she's going to be back on the
+       station. She has to complete her run by Tuesday, and will be back
+       on Wednesday. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar....
+     * [G'Kar's] song is an original, by our series composer, Christopher
+       Franke.
+     * The "fishy" song was composed by Christopher Franke specifically
+       for that scene. I told him I wanted sort of a Narnish Gilbert and
+       Sullivan, and that's what we got.
+     * I would think that Londo and G'Kar might actually find something
+       in common in appreciation of Gilbert and Sullivan. In fact,
+       G'Kar's "little fishie" song in "Parliament of Dreams" was
+       intended to be a bit G&S in nature.
+     * One of my favorite exchanges, which never seems to show up, is
+       from PoD v.1, when G'Kar says to Tu'Pari, who has come looking for
+       Ambassador G'Kar, "This is Ambassador G'Kar's quarters. This is
+       Ambassador G'Kar's table. This is Ambassador G'Kar's dinner. What
+       part of this progression escapes you?"
+     * Episode #5 is the two year anniversary of B5 going on-line; not
+       two years since the pilot movie. It took about a year and a half
+       to grow to this point, and for the final of the Big 5 ambassadors,
+       Kosh, to arrive, completing the group. It's now roughly six months
+       after that, into the new year.
+     * "So, I've been wondering who made up Londo's line in Parliament,
+       `but in purple, I'm stunning!'"
+       Ummmmm.....the scriptwriter?
+     * The Xon did evolve into fair amount of intelligence. There are a
+       very few land masses on Centauri Prime, separated by huge oceans.
+       The two species evolved pretty much separately, on different
+       continents that were absolutely unreachable until one or both
+       sides developed sufficient technology for extended sea
+       travel...and that's when all hell broke loose.
+     * There's a definite improvement arc in the show; the deeper we got
+       into production, the better the stories generally became, and the
+       better the production values. (With a few exceptions.) The biggest
+       change in the show came once we began writing scripts *after* we'd
+       begun shooting episodes, so that we/I could again see the actors
+       and find their fingerprints. "Parliament" is the first one I wrote
+       after we started filming; "Soul," "Infection" and "Midnight" were
+       all written prior to filming starting.
+     * You're seeing, btw, why this episode, much as it's a favorite,
+       couldn't be shown any sooner; there has to be some familiarity
+       with the characters for this to be most effective.
+     * Re: G'Kar being theatrical...that's who he is. I like theatrical
+       characters. I know many in real life that're much bigger than
+       life, very broad...and great fun. Not every character has to be
+       sonorous and serious and restrained. The whole point of *having*
+       alien characters is that they shuld act differently than the
+       majority of us.
+     * The Xon? Dead. All of them. And good riddance.
+     * The Xon weren't any more evil or good than the race that survived;
+       two equally sentient species emerged on the Centauri homeworld
+       over the course of evolution. They were more or less separated by
+       distance and land masses and oceans, so there was little contact
+       until either side developed the technology required to find the
+       other. It was the next best thing to a first contact situation,
+       except it's on their own world; they were very much alien to one
+       another. Somewhere along the line, it was decided that this world
+       wasn't big enough for both of them, so they began a campaign of
+       slaughter against each other. Londo's people won.
+     * Kosh was otherwise engaged....
+     * Actually, many of the alien races do *not* have monolithic
+       religious beliefs. You'll note that G'Kar didn't take part in the
+       festival from the Narn POV. You'll see Narn beliefs in "By Any
+       Means Necessary," and there it's mentioned that there are many
+       different bliefs among Narns, G'Quon and G'Lan being the two
+       larger systems.
+     * Sure, I could've gotten them into bed by the second act...but that
+       wasn't the point. What I wanted to show, what interests me, is the
+       give and take leading up to that moment, the feints and parries
+       and "how do we get past this?" That to me is some of the most
+       interesting stuff in a relationship.
+     * As to the interpretation of the final tag scene...my thought was
+       that it's a way of saying, "Our dominant belief is that ALL
+       beliefs are respected."
+     * There was a follower of Islam; right next to the orthodox jew at
+       the front of the line. "Mr. Rashid, a Moslem." I made sure we put
+       them side by side.
+     * I didn't say that Earth was the ONLY one with diverse religions. I
+       don't understand why it is that when ONE thing is shown, it means
+       that's the ONLY thing. It's not. Narns, as we'll see in "By Any
+       Means Necessary," have several competing beliefs. The idea of the
+       festival wasn't to compare and contrast, only to show what *we*
+       (whoever *we* is) believes.
+     * Well, we're doomed...I just realized today that our first *really*
+       strong episode, "The Parliament of Dreams," airs the same night
+       (in most markets, the 23rd) as the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan
+       face off in the olympics.
+       Imagine a silence vast as space...that sound is neilsen ratings
+       meters stuck unmovingly on CBS....
+     * Needless to say, though, we got *creamed* by the Tonya/Nancy Show.
+       Which got a 64 share, the 3rd biggest ratings for a sporting event
+       in history. But then, *everybody* got beat up by that one, so
+       again it's okay.
+     * The line, "See you next wednesday," was basically an offhand line,
+       slightly but not significantly based in the idea that in most
+       markets, B5 airs on Wednesdays. It was never meant to be a John
+       Landis reference, and if I'd known it was (I'd never heard it
+       before), would've changed it.
+     * I keep constantly fighting the urge to have G'Kar return from a
+       trip to the Narn homeworld with a limp, a cane, and a (temporary)
+       eyepatch, muttering, "Boy, the Thenta Makur have *no* sense of
+       humor."
+       (Now we'll see how many get *that* one.)
+     * BTW, re: Sinclair remembering all those names...we used many of
+       the real names of the people standing in line, many of whom *did*
+       belong to the religion they had come to represent. We went down
+       this line of 250 people, and went over their names *twice* with
+       O'Hare. That's all. After that, he got each name right every time;
+       amazingly quick memorization.
+     * This is something that Andreas and I discussed, and it's not so
+       much that G'Kar *has* to cook, but that he *likes* to cook. From
+       the singing, it's clear he's having a good time....
+     * Ko'Dath met with an unfortunate accident with an airlock.
+     * Just learned that Babylon 5 won an Emmy for its Makeup Design, for
+       "The Parliament of Dreams." This is our second Emmy so far, our
+       first for the series. I'm determined that next year we get some
+       notices for our acting and other above-the-line areas.
+       In any event, congratulations to our makeup and prosthetics design
+       people.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan _matt@uhs.uchicago.edu_
+
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Talia's old Psi Corps instructor, the victim of a secret
+     experiment, is the target of a manhunt involving the Psi-Cops.
+     Catherine wants to survey a promising planet for possible mining,
+     but G'Kar warns her to stay away. [15]Walter Koenig as Bester.
+     [16]Felicity Waterman as Kelsey. [17]William Allen Young as Jason
+     Ironheart.
+     
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]8.44
+
+Production number:  110
+Original air date:  March 2, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Bruce Seth Green
+
+  Watch For:
+  
+     * A peculiar [20]salute.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Jason Ironheart was Talia's instructor and lover at the Psi Corps
+       Training Academy. After she graduated and went into commercial
+       telepathy, they kept in touch by letter - until a year ago when
+       his letters stopped. As Ironheart recounts, he volunteered to
+       undergo genetic and biochemical modification he thought was
+       intended to make him a stronger telepath. The experiment turned
+       out to be an attempt to make him [21]a stable telekinetic, and it
+       after many months and hundreds of injections it worked -
+       stunningly! Ironheart became able to see through any mind like
+       glass, and manipulate matter and energy both. He discovered then
+       that those in charge were after offensive military applications
+       for TK, like secret assassination. So, he killed the head
+       researcher (the only person who could duplicate the work) and fled
+       to Babylon 5, still undergoing changes to his mind and body.
+     * What is it like to be a telepath?
+       _Talia:_ "It's like staying in a hotel room where you can just
+       hear the people talking next door. You can try and shut it out,
+       but it's always there. The key is not to eavesdrop unless you're
+       invited... casual thoughts are very easy to block, but strong
+       emotions have a way of slipping through."
+       "Do you know what it's like when telepaths make love, commander?
+       You drop every defense, and it's all mirrors, reflecting each
+       others' feelings, deeper and deeper, until somewhere along the
+       line your souls mix, and it's a feeling so profound it makes you
+       hurt. It's the only moment in a telepath's life when you no longer
+       hear the voices."
+     * _Ironheart:_ "We all thought Psi Corps was controlled by the
+       government, but that's changing. The Corps is starting to pull the
+       strings behind the scenes; they're more powerful than you could
+       begin to imagine. Telepaths make the ultimate blackmailers..."
+       "The Psi Corps is dedicated to one thing: control. Control over
+       telepaths, the economy, the courts, over matter, over thought
+       itself."
+       A [22]transcript of Ironheart's meeting with Sinclair is
+       available.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * How much of what Ironheart said was true? He _was_ mentally
+       unstable, to say the least. He was also very motivated to gather
+       fast allies.
+     * _G'Kar_ (to Catherine): "Let me pass on to you the one thing I've
+       learned about this place. No-one here is exactly what he appears.
+       Not Mollari, not Delenn, not Sinclair. And not me." What does
+       G'Kar know that we don't? (cf [23]"And The Sky Full Of Stars"
+       [Delenn, Sinclair], [24]"By Any Means Necessary" [G'Kar])
+     * Just before he departs, _Ironheart_ says to Talia: "In memory of
+       love, I give you a gift, the only gift I have left to give." The
+       gift, as she soon discovers, was at least the beginnings of
+       telekinesis. What manner of telepath has she become?
+     * What did Ironheart mean by his final words to Sinclair? "Good-bye
+       commander. I will see you again, in a million years."
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * If Ironheart's figures are true, and if there are 20 billion human
+       beings in existence, then there should be a thousand people who
+       are (or will become) stable telekinetics. If the Psi Corps'
+       pursuit of a stable TK justified the extreme measures they
+       attempted with Ironheart, then something about naturally occurring
+       TK's must make them unusable. It could be that use of TK
+       invariably drives one insane, or perhaps natural TK is
+       insufficiently fine-controlled enough for their purposes.
+     * Whatever it was that the Psi Corps scientists did to Ironheart, it
+       wasn't more than physical alterations to his brain and body. Yet
+       those alterations started a process that led to his essentially
+       becoming a demigod. This could represent a latent potential in
+       humanity as a whole, of which iceberg telepathy is merely the tip.
+       Or perhaps not - "This is a power that we were never meant to
+       have," Ironheart tells Sinclair, "we're not ready for it."
+     * Ivanova hates the Psi Corps with a passion (understandably - cf
+       [25]"Midnight on the Firing Line") "Good ol' Psi Corps. You never
+       cease to amaze me - all the moral fiber of Jack the Ripper. What
+       do you do in your spare time, juggle babies over a fire pit? Oops,
+       there goes another calculated risk!"
+     * In spite of this, Ivanova gives Talia a glass of water after she
+       comes through the ordeal of being scanned by Bester and Kelsey.
+       Ivanova's hatred is tempered with compassion for individuals. (see
+       [26]"jms speaks")
+     * By threatening to hold him accountable for endangering the station
+       and causing the death of his partner, Sinclair strong-arms Bester
+       into omitting from his report mention of Ironheart's real fate and
+       Talia's willful collaboration. However, this can only be an
+       agreement about what gets made _official._ Just as folks on
+       Babylon 5 know full well that Something happened to Ironheart
+       (with the willing help of both Talia and Sinclair) the right folks
+       in the Psi Corps should know the same through Bester's _unofficial_
+       report.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Sinclair mentions to Catherine in the morning that he's got a
+       budget meeting with the construction guild that day, in which
+       he'll have to make some cuts to which he's not looking forward.
+       ([27]"By Any Means Necessary")
+     * Universal Terraform: a mega-corporation that explores and prepares
+       new worlds for colonization or exploitation.
+     * The procedure for evaluating a newly discovered planet: first, an
+       unmanned sensor probe launched by the exploring ship assesses
+       gross features and composition. If that's promising, a manned
+       survey is undertaken to determine its value for various purposes.
+       Finally, if the corporation wants to continue, a life sciences
+       probe is sent out to determine the legality of exploitation. (If
+       there are sentient species present then the planet is off-limits.)
+       (see [28]"jms speaks")
+     * Due to an EA shortage of the material "Quantium-40," jumpgate
+       construction is backed up 6 months. Catherine's survey mission to
+       Sigma 957 is largely to determine whether this material is present
+       on the planet.
+     * The being that appeared at Sigma 957 appeared to enter and leave
+       through its own jumpgate. It may have been there for the Q-40.
+     * Just as the Narn fighters match up with Catherine's ship, part of
+       it sloughs off as it burns up in the atmosphere. The fighters are
+       unaffected; presumably they are atmosphere-capable ships.
+     * Rent for a spartan studio on Babylon 5 is 500 credits per week.
+     * Psi corps ratings:
+       _P5_ - level of commercial telepaths. Can easily detect deception
+       and other surface thoughts at close range. Deeper probing is
+       possible but difficult.
+       _P10_ - level of Psi Corps trainers. Can observe the mental
+       actions of other telepaths, block some scans, cut through some
+       blocks, perform long-range scans, and may have some fringe skills.
+       _P12_ - level of Psi Cops. Can communicate smoothly with normals
+       via telepathy. Two Psi Cops can invasively probe a P5.
+     * Stronger telepaths have a _harder_ time shutting out "the voices".
+     * Upon graduation from the Academy all telepaths take a telekinesis
+       test - it's a much sought-after skill. .1% of human beings have
+       some level of telepathic ability, and only .01% of _them_ have TK,
+       half of whom are clinically insane. (see [29]Analysis)
+     * Most telepaths have _fewer_ human rights than normals. They're
+       forbidden to possess psi abilities unless they're in the Psi Corps
+       or in prison ([30]"Midnight on the Firing Line"). They're required
+       to submit to scans by Psi Cops, and aren't even allowed to have
+       fleeting bodily contact with normals, since that would raise the
+       chance in inadvertent scans. (see [31]"jms speaks")
+     * Psi Cops are afforded greater latitude than other telepaths, "in
+       the interest of efficiency." For example, they can perform at
+       least surface scans on normals without permission.
+     * As he leaves, Bester gives Sinclair an odd salute - a circle of
+       thumb and forefinger at the forehead - and says, "Be seeing you,
+       commander." This is tribute paid to one of jms's favorite shows,
+       "The Prisoner," in which the line was identical but the
+       hand-motion framed the eye instead. An appropriate twist for a
+       telepath salute!
+     * Continuity glitch: After Ironheart arrives in his quarters, he
+       pours some water into a cup. When the cup is knocked over by his
+       mindquake a few seconds later, it's empty.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * In a tip of the cap to an SF writer, the Koenig character in "Mind
+       War" is named Bester.
+     * The direction and intent and background of the Psi Corps is *very*
+       different from Bester's "The Demolished Man." What may cause some
+       of the confusion is that when I decided to name the Psi Cop we'll
+       be seeing, knowing of Alfie's work in the genre in general, and
+       knowing that he was a close friend of Harlan's, I decided it would
+       be a nice testimony to the man to name the Psi Cop Bester. There's
+       nothing beyond that.
+     * Re: my favorite thing about this episode...it's that when all is
+       said and done, *nobody knows anything*. Bester doesn't know what
+       Ironheart is turning into; Sinclair doesn't know if Ironheart was
+       really telling the truth or not; nobody knows where Ironheart
+       went; nobody knows what the alien ship is/who they were...the
+       closest I can come to is to compare it to writing a mystery novel,
+       without revealing the killer, but *without* frustrating anyone in
+       the process, because there's *closure*.
+     * ...it was my intent to imply in the scene with the guard and
+       Bester ("nothing, just a drill") that he DID scan the guard's
+       mind. He found out what he was hiding (which is how he managed to
+       show up to try and cut Ironheart off from his escape), exchanged a
+       glance with Kelsey, and headed away quickly.
+     * Bester wasn't killed because a) it took a *lot* out of Ironheart
+       to take out Kelsey, and b) Bester *shot him* prior to being taken
+       down, and the pain and trauma of being shot has a tendency to have
+       an adverse effect on one; it took all his strength just to knock
+       Bester down before collapsing to the floor, his energy (as you can
+       see in the film) fading away....
+     * We'll definitely see Bester again, probably twice next season, in
+       one capacity or another. (And we'll *hear* about him once more
+       this season.) ([32]"Eyes")
+     * Nope, Jason Ironheart will not be seen again, insofar as I know. I
+       don't like beings with that much power running around the
+       plotline....
+     * Telepaths are the ultimate minority, and when it comes to the use
+       of their talents, and the protection of the rights of the
+       hysterical majority, their rights don't mean a whole hell of a
+       lot.
+     * Thanks for noticing that. Yes, it *was* very important (to me, at
+       least, whether or not anyone noticed it), that Ivanova was the one
+       who handed Talia the water, and had that brief moment with her.
+       For those who understand their relationship, it adds a tiny layer;
+       for those who don't, because the dialogue keeps on going over it,
+       it's not obtrusive.
+     * The episode of "Mind War" broadcast henceforth will be the one
+       with slight alteration.
+     * In the pursuit in the teaser, you could see one of the binary
+       stars THROUGH Ironheart's ship; we deleted that shot and replaced
+       it.
+     * We discovered, when we went to put in the revised CGI, that the
+       international versions had already been made and transferred, and
+       it would be nearly impossible to recall that part of the
+       process...so it was left alone rather than have multiple versions
+       of the same episode floating around.
+     * Funny incident today, though, also at lunch. Walter Koenig joined
+       some of the cast members at their table for lunch, and as he came
+       to the table, they all stood up at attention. When asked why, they
+       explained that it's protocol for junior officers to stand when a
+       senior officer comes to the table. It was kind of a nice moment.
+     * Today, Walter Koenig's 2nd day working in the B5 universe, as a
+       Psi Cop in "Mind War." He's doing well, taking part in some very
+       difficult scenes (fight scenes and the ilke), and it's a very
+       powerful performance, not at ALL what people have seen before.
+       He's a terrific performer when given a role with some meat to it.
+       And the dailies look great. I think this episode will wake up a
+       lot of people who have never seen Walter as anything other than
+       Chekov.
+     * Walter decided that an interesting character trait for Bester
+       would be if this skilled psi cop had a useless left hand.
+     * It's a funny thought, but knowing Walter as I do, I can say
+       without fear of contradiction that he was *not* doing Shatner.
+       Given the chance here to do something *utterly* outside ST, which
+       was his hope, and our pleasure to provide, he wouldn't do this,
+       and having spoken with him at some length about his character and
+       his performance, know that he *didn't* do this.
+     * Chekov is just one character, which was created by another, and
+       played by Walter. Agreed, too many people have seen him as just
+       this one person; but there's a talented actor with a great range
+       behind that character, able to do *many* other things. I'm glad
+       we've been able to let him show that range a little.
+     * "JMS is on an anti-typecasting crusade."
+       That's actually true, in a lot of ways. My sense is that here we
+       have many actors who created enduring works because they were good
+       at what they did; they're *good actors*. But because they were so
+       good at it, they got typecast as only able to play that. How many
+       people snickered, wrongly, when they heard Walter was going to be
+       Bester? "Chekhov in the Psi Corps," was the usual lament.
+       Until they *saw* him. And saw what he could do.
+       To work against the typecasting is simply payment on a debt to
+       those who created enduring characters. And I'll continue to do it
+       wherever and whenever I can. (Look for Robert Englund in an
+       [33]upcoming episode playing a very different sort of character
+       than he's played elsewhere lately.)
+     * We'd initially offered Walter the role of Knight Two in "Sky," but
+       when his health prohibited using him, we went to Patrick McGoohan,
+       who loved the script, wanted to do it, but was going to be out of
+       the country at the time of shooting. We then shifted Walter to
+       "Mind War."
+     * "Commander" wasn't dubbed onto Walter. That was Ironheart speaking
+       with his back to us.
+     * We'll see more on Talia's additional talents in year two.
+     * Ironheart was created, as one of many reasons, to exemplify a
+       problem that is growing within Psi Corps. There will be other
+       symptoms, though not as grand as that one.
+     * The Psi Corps doesn't exist just to help telepaths avoid
+       infringing on the privacy of others. They service the business
+       community, the military, some other governmental agencies...it's
+       important that they control, regulate, and profit from telepaths.
+       You can't just leave the corps.
+     * "Mind War" is important to the arc because Psi Corps, and certain
+       aspects of it, is important to the arc.
+     * Some of the events in "Mind War" are significant indeed.
+     * The ant was paid strictly according to SAG rules (Screen Ants
+       Guild).
+     * But for the other stuff...no, there's no in-joke in Sigma 957, but
+       ***CONGRATULATIONS!*** You are the FIRST person to pick up on the
+       Native American line that Ironheart quotes when he goes up against
+       Kelsey. (And yes, I believe it is ojibwe in origin.) I've always
+       considered it a very powerful line (a prayer of protection against
+       one's enemies), and wanted to use it. That seemed the perfect
+       opportunity to do so.
+     * "Who watches the watchmen" is an old Latin phrase, sometimes
+       translated as "who guards the guards?" Given sufficient time I
+       could probably dig up the origin of the phrase; it's fairly
+       common.
+     * My source on this was the original, classical quotation.
+     * Congratulations. I was wondering when anyone was going to hit on
+       the CSICOP reference. I was looking for a good name for the pit
+       bulls of the Psi Corps, and thought it made for a great play on
+       words, and a very obscure almost-pun, to name them Psi-Cops.
+     * _Talia's stress during Psi Cop scan_
+       It's because they dig *deep*. And to another telepath, who is
+       sensitive to begin with...it hurts bigtime.
+     * A Psi-rating comes through training and examination of a person's
+       skills over time. Ivanova's mother never went through the full
+       sequence to get rated. (Although they generally don't bother with
+       P1s through P2s, so she was at least a P3 or above, in terms of
+       raw ability.) A psi rating isn't hereditary.
+     * Talia is a P5, as Lyta was in the pilot.
+     * The number of psi's in each category, from 1-12, gets rarer as you
+       get higher. Lots of folks have a minimal tendency, very few have
+       any real talent.
+     * Yes, the abilities are often discrete; a TK may not be able to
+       scan anyone's thoughts.
+     * You don't have to read another book to "get it" re: psi's making
+       love. Perhaps her problem was more with the making love part than
+       the psi part. Haven't read Julian May's book. It's just the
+       obvious answer to what happens if and when telepaths make love: if
+       they truly open up, then you're going to get a mirror effect. Have
+       your lady friend stand between two mirrors and look at the effect.
+       This ain't rocket science.
+     * Scanning only hurts if it's a deep scan, trying to dredge out lost
+       or buried thoughts, or if the other person is resisting. It can be
+       anything from a headache to a migraine in intensity in general..
+     * There will be no more Ironhearts, and that character will not
+       return.
+     * The vaporized Starfuries *weren't* from B5, they were a separate
+       wing not attached to this station. Black Omega is a special forces
+       unit.
+     * Ironheart blew out the Omega starfuries.
+     * No, this [the alien] isn't the mysterious sixth race.
+     * And in the case of Sigma 957, one can put in a gate, start to
+       explore that sector of space...and discover to your chagrin that
+       there is one planet where you don't dare go near. It's not like
+       they *knew* that there was a problem on Sigma 957 before they (the
+       Narns) put the gate in; that was discovered only afterward. Sort
+       of like buying a house and then discovering that one room is
+       haunted; you seal off the room and tell the kids not to go near
+       it.
+     * You don't leave one gate and fly light years to another; you use
+       the same gate for going in and going out. Explorer Ship A comes
+       out of hyperspace; looks around; decides that there are planets in
+       this area that are worth possible colonizing, exploitation, that
+       sort of thing; it's a very quick overview. (Or they go to systems
+       that have been already selected.) They construct a gate, finish
+       the job, and move on. Other ships can now use this gate for
+       entering and leaving this system. Is this clearer?
+     * The gate was set up in what was believed to be a reasonably
+       fertile and useful sector of space; the explorer craft can't take
+       too long in any one area. They find likely areas for exploitation,
+       take a fast look around, drop a gate, and move on. This allows
+       other ships to come in and scope out the place in detail. That's
+       when they ran into whatever's walking around Sigma 957. (And it's
+       not there all the time, only from time to time.)
+     * An Explorer-class vessel looks for areas that look like likely
+       prospects for exploitation, or which are good for logistical or
+       other reasons, do a fast survey, drop a gate and move on. Nobody
+       *knew* about the problems in Sigma 957 until well after the gate
+       was in place.
+       Generally, the race that builds the gate, owns it.
+     * Re: the difference as to why Sinclair reacted the way he
+       did...they SPOKE to him in his head, the same way they did to the
+       guard in customs. This is different than just "listening" to
+       someone's thoughts, so to speak.
+     * The one thing that to me always typified SF was the sense of
+       *wonder*. Of something mysterious out there. And that is the one
+       thing that I feel is so missing from much of TV SF; not to pick on
+       ST, but the reality is that going from world to world seems like
+       going from 7-11 to 7-11. It's all established, there's not much
+       mystery. (Not in all cases, I'm sure that one or two could be
+       found, but in general.) There should be *differences*, and things
+       we don't understand and will *never* fully understand. (For me,
+       one of the best episodes in this regard is "Mind War,"
+       specifically the tag of the episode, which still gives me a shiver
+       even though I've now seen it over a dozen times.)
+     * Actually, no...Catherine Sakai is based more closely on another
+       woman of my acquaintance, with whom I was involved for quite some
+       time. And that's all you'll get out of me on the subject.
+     * Incidentally..."Mind War" has come out so well that it looks like
+       we're going to move it up in the schedule a bit. It was originally
+       slated to run about episode 10 or so, but the studio is so hot on
+       it that it'll probably run #6, right after "Parliament." And
+       Walter has agreed to be the voice-over and on-camera narrator for
+       the Behind the Scenes/Making of Babylon 5 documentary.
+     * Re: moving "Mind War" up...no, doesn't affect continuity at all.
+       If it did, it wouldn't have gotten moved. It's what's called in
+       the biz a "moveable piece," able to go *almost* anywhere in the
+       schedule, as long as it's after episode 3 and before episode 15,
+       since stuff in the first few set it up, and 15 pays off part of
+       it.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan _matt@uhs.uchicago.edu_
+
+   [39][Next] 
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+      [40]Last update: January 13, 1998
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
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+                                      
+Overview
+
+     A violent attack on a Minbari poet rocks B5 and leaves Sinclair
+     scrambling to flush out a vicious pro-Earth group. Two star-crossed
+     young Centauri lovers seek Londo's protection. Ivanova is shaken
+     when a man from her past arrives at the outpost. [15]Nancy Lee
+     Grahn as Shaal Mayan. [16]Danica McKellar as Aria Tensus.
+     [17]Rodney Eastman as Kiron Maray. [18]Tristan Rogers as Malcolm
+     Biggs. [19]Michael Paul Chan as Roberts.
+     
+Sub-genre: Suspense
+[20]P5 Rating: [21]6.82
+
+Production number:  107
+Original air date:  March 9, 1994
+
+Written by D. C. Fontana
+Directed by Richard Compton
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * The Homeguard, a radical pro-Earth group, has wide support among
+       humans, and is growing in popularity back on Earth.
+     * Shaal Mayan is a renowned Minbari poet. "I create and perform
+       Tee'la," she says: "poem songs that attempt to recall old memories
+       and prompt new ideas."
+     * The only two human beings ever to have direct contact with a
+       Vorlon have since been transferred to Earth - Dr. Kyle to work
+       closely with the president (cf "[22]Infection"), and the telepath
+       Lyta Alexander just a week later. Neither of them shared their
+       experiences with anyone on the station. (cf [23]"The Gathering")
+     * Londo has [24]three wives, all of them arranged marriages, all of
+       them "great sacrifices." "They inspire me! Knowing that they are
+       waiting at home for me is what keeps me here, [25]75 light years
+       away."
+     * Ivanova used to be involved with a fellow named [26]Malcolm Biggs,
+       but left him when she enlisted in Earth Force 8 years ago.
+     * More insight into Londo's personality and Minbari beliefs:
+       _Mayan:_ Ambassador, you should listen to the girl. We Minbari
+       consider love to be a most potent force for healing. She cares
+       deeply for him. Such feelings can turn the tide when all else
+       fails.
+       _Londo:_ Oh I see. And if he dies, despite this great power of lo-
+       _Mayan:_ _If he dies,_ she will suffer enormous grief, but every
+       moment together will make her grief a little less.
+       _Londo:_ I would expect such logic from a poet. What can a Minbari
+       know about Centauri feeling?
+       _Mayan:_ Ambassador, I have traveled far and seen much. And what I
+       have seen tells me that all sentient beings are defined by their
+       capacity and need for love.
+       _Londo:_ And she will learn to live without it!
+       _Mayan:_ As you did?
+     * [later...]
+       _Vir:_ Kiron may die because our "glorious" tradition values
+       wealth and power over _love._
+       _Londo:_ My shoes are too tight.
+       _Vir:_ Excuse me?
+       _Londo:_ Something my father said. He was old, very old at the
+       time. I went into his room, and he was sitting alone in the dark,
+       crying. So I asked him what was wrong, and he said, "My shoes are
+       too tight, but it doesn't matter, because I have forgotten how to
+       dance." I never understood what that meant until now. _My_ shoes
+       are too tight, and I have forgotten how to dance.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * The black light camouflage suits worn by the Homeguard henchmen
+       were developed by Earth Force; friends of [27]Malcolm's procured
+       some prototypes for them. Is a faction of Earth Force actually
+       backing the Homeguard for its own reasons?
+     * Londo seems to have had a troubled childhood (see [28]Backplot).
+       What happened that he's so aggressive and melancholy? None of the
+       other Centauri seem particularly so.
+     * Why is Kosh studying human history, as [29]Sinclair's conversation
+       with him appears to reveal, especially when he says "We have no
+       interest in the affairs of others?" Perhaps for some reason Kosh
+       does not consider humans "others." Or perhaps by "affairs" he
+       meant the passing events of the day, as compared to the millennia
+       of a civilization.
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * The Homeguard sign branded onto Shaal Mayan's forehead is a
+       combination of male and female symbols from ancient Greek mythos.
+       Perhaps it's a contemporary symbol for humankind.
+     * Vir passed himself off as the Centauri ambassador in letters to
+       his cousins, and later [30]rebukes Londo to his face about his
+       decision on the matter. This is quite bold compared to the
+       quavering fop he's been before.
+     * Londo's nicknames for his wives are "Pestilence, Famine, and
+       Death" - three of the four horsemen of the apocalypse from ancient
+       Christian mythos. Who is the fourth horseman War? Perhaps Londo
+       himself.
+     * [31]Talking to Kosh about the attacks on non-humans, Sinclair
+       breaks off right after asking him to "lend a hand." Not long later
+       Sinclair wonders aloud to Ivanova how an assassin had managed to
+       poison Kosh on the "hand," _through_ his encounter suit. (cf
+       [32]"The Gathering")
+     * Sinclair was brusque and callous to Delenn and the Abbai
+       agricultural representative at the diplomatic reception. He also
+       declared to the assembled Council that the hate-crime
+       investigation was closed, offering neither arrests nor evidence of
+       safety. This was part of his ruse to win the Homeguard's trust,
+       but he may still have injured his reputation with other races.
+     * The Homeguard plot on the station was, according to its leader
+       Malcolm Biggs, part of a much bigger plot to kill prominent aliens
+       all over the Earth Alliance.
+     * Black light camouflage is a similar technology to the chameleon
+       net the assassin used in [33]"The Gathering." However, it requires
+       an entire body-suit and only works while the user is motionless.
+       No mention was made of what was done with the four suits captured
+       with the Homeguard henchmen - Garibaldi may have stashed them away
+       somewhere. And it's unlikely that those were the only four suits
+       in existence; perhaps the technology will be seen again (cf.
+       [34]"Babylon Squared".)
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Mayan, a childhood friend of Delenn's, arrived on the station on a
+       tour of other worlds. Earth was to have been her next stop.
+     * _Mayan_ (of her attacker): "All I could see was a shadow. It was a
+       shadow, that is all I know."
+       (cf [35]"Signs and Portents", perhaps?)
+     * Ivanova is illegally growing coffee in the station hydroponics
+       area.
+     * Kosh speaks.
+       [...]
+       _Sinclair:_ Meanwhile it might be helpful if you spoke with the
+       other ambassadors.
+       _Kosh:_ We take no interest in the affairs of others.
+       _Sinclair:_ Well I hope you'll reconsider. If you could give us a
+       hand, we -
+       _Kosh:_ Yes?
+       _Sinclair:_ Nothing. We'll respect your wishes. [pause]
+       That's quite a viewer. I've never seen anything like it before.
+       What is it?
+       _Kosh:_ Efficient.
+       _Sinclair:_ Those are images from my world. If I may ask, what are
+       you -
+       _Kosh:_ I am studying.
+       _Sinclair:_ Studying what?
+       _Kosh:_ [shuts down]
+     * The images on Kosh's levitating viewer were zoom-ins on pictorial
+       records from Earth history throughout the span of its
+       civilization.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * Correct; the title of "The War Prayer" is a nod to [36]Twain's
+       piece of the same name, which should be read by *everyone*. Given
+       the growing problems with illiteracy, I try to refer not to pop
+       society so much, as to literature...Tennyson, Twain, even writers
+       whose last names don't begin with T.
+     * Of course, you're assuming that a Centauri year is the same as our
+       year. The speed of light is constant...but defined by us by our
+       own 12-month year. For instance, in one episode, we mention that
+       B5 is 12 of our light years from the Narn homeworld, which is
+       equal to about 10 of their years.
+       So without knowing the Centauri year, the figures are faulty.
+     * For those out there who still think the skin tab getting through
+       Kosh's encounter suit was an error...we're going to be dealing
+       with that, and some other interesting threads in [this] episode.
+       Sinclair comments on the whole question of how the poison ever got
+       into him...and notes how curious it is that, within weeks of that
+       incident, Dr. Kyle was transferred back to Earth to work directly
+       with the Earth Alliance President on matters of alien immigration,
+       and Lyta Alexander was similarly transferred a week or so after
+       that. The only two people to have personal knowledge of a Vorlon
+       have been shipped off and possibly locked up.
+     * By the way...on the Kosh poisoning thread, which was originally to
+       be discussed in "Parliament"...we ended up about 3 minutes long on
+       "Parliament," and three minutes short on D.C. Fontana's "War
+       Prayer." So we lifted that scene and inserted it into her episode,
+       doing a small bit of ADR to facilitate the move. It's now quite
+       seamless.
+     * _Why was Delenn unfamiliar with poetry in [37]"The Gathering?"_
+       For the Minbari, it's tee'la, which is a kind of poem-song, sort
+       of. Delenn was mainly just unfamiliar with the term.
+     * Y'know...it's a funny old world. And sometimes it just astonishes
+       you.
+       About 2 months ago, one of our freelancers turned in a script that
+       has to do with a hate group, in the course of which a guest
+       character -- a Minbari -- is attacked and has her head branded
+       with the symbol of the group.
+       So you will doubtless understand my astonishment when I turned on
+       DS9 and saw the same thing happen.
+       Unfortunately, we've already shot that episode, it's in the can,
+       so ther nothing we can do about it now. Further -- and let me be
+       totally clear about this -- there's no way that DS9 could've
+       borrowed the idea from us, or in any way been influence by us, and
+       no way we could've been influenced by them. To get on the air now,
+       they would've had to shoot their episode some time before the
+       writer turned in that draft for our show. And none of us were in
+       any way aware of what was going on there until we saw it the night
+       of the broadcast...and came in the next day with looks of absolute
+       shock.
+       These things do happen...and when you're dealing with similar
+       general areas -- humans vs. aliens, or one alien group vs. another
+       alien group -- then something like this becomes inevitable. And
+       given the foreheads on Ferengi, and the foreheads on Minbari, the
+       obviousness of that target becomes clear. Still, it's amazing when
+       it happens. And I guess I just wanted it to be clear when this
+       thing airs that the sequence in our show was in the can and done
+       when the DS9 episode aired.
+     * We're in discussions to see if there's any way we can cut this
+       from the show...the only problem is that the brand stays on
+       throughout the show. If it were just in one shot, we'd cut the
+       shot and find some other way around it. The only way we can lose
+       it now would be if we literally wiped off the brand by going into
+       every frame in which it appears and digitally removing it from the
+       frame...which is a *real* pain in the butt...but we are
+       considering it.
+     * The points made above are essentially correct; the brand goes on
+       in the very top of the show, in the teaser, and stay on throughout
+       the episode...and part of the story is dealing with this, and what
+       it means. An offer is made to remove it, but the victim decides
+       *not* to have it removed, because there are lessons in these
+       things...and it becomes almost a badge of defiance.
+       In addition to the notes here, I've received a whole bunch of
+       email notes saying to leave it in, on the grounds that it *does*
+       happen in real life (or incidents close to it), and how we're
+       handling it *is* very different. (Some indicated that it can
+       illustrate how the two hows handle their themes in different
+       ways.) So it's a tough call ...to change would also mean some
+       re-shooting...but given the responses here, I think it's okay to
+       leave it in place.
+       File this one away the next time someone asks, "What sort of ways
+       has the BBS discussion actually affected Babylon 5?"
+     * There is some limited life within the garden...some birds (which
+       you can hear sometimes), and insects, and the like. (In one shot
+       you can see an insect fly off one of our actors. Yeah, sure, like
+       we planned that....) It's generally one season in the Garden, and
+       plants requiringvariation are raised in a separate hydroponics
+       area, such as the orchard (seen in "War Prayer").
+     * Lennier is not in the cargo area during the beating, nor is he in
+       BG during the negotiations. That's a Minbari of the worker class.
+       (You can generally tell from the orange-ish smock-thingie they
+       wear.) Sorry.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan _matt@uhs.uchicago.edu_
+
+   [43][Next] 
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+      [44]Last update: August 8, 1997
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+    ### GUIDE ### [3][Background] [4][Synopsis] [5][Credits] [6][Episode
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Sinclair is kidnapped and interrogated by members of a pro-Earth
+     group, determined to find out what transpired when the commander
+     was briefly missing in action during the final battle of the
+     Earth/Minbari war -- something Sinclair has never been able to
+     remember. [15]Judson Scott as Knight One. [16]Christopher Neame as
+     Knight Two. [17]Jim Youngs as Frank Benson. [18]Justin Williams as
+     Mitchell.
+     
+Sub-genre: Suspense
+[19]P5 Rating: [20]8.90
+
+Production number:  106
+Original air date:  March 16, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
+  Watch For
+  
+     * A [21]newspaper headline describing some unusual political
+       machinations.
+     * Sinclair [22]reacts to something just before his ship is
+       manipulated.
+     * A small [23]device is held up in front of Sinclair at one point.
+       Remember what it looks like; it'll appear again later in the
+       season.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * In the days before the Earth/Minbari war, Dr. Franklin used to
+       hitchhike starships, trading his services as ship's doctor in
+       exchange for free passage to places he'd never been before.
+     * _Franklin:_ "Towards the end, when things got bad for our side,
+       those of us involved in xenobiology were told to hand over our
+       notes to be used in genetic and biological warfare. [...] I took
+       an oath that all life was sacred. I destroyed my notes, rather
+       than have them used for killing."
+     * After his squad was shot down at the Line, Sinclair's ship was
+       disabled and taken aboard a Minbari cruiser. He was tortured and
+       examined, and at one point stood unfettered within the circle of
+       the grey council itself. When they didn't respond to his
+       questions, Sinclair suddenly walked up to one of them and pulled
+       back the hood, revealing the face of Delenn. He was then knocked
+       out again, and some time later returned to his ship with no memory
+       of the experience.
+       _(A [24]synopsis of the events at the Line as Sinclair
+       re-experiences them is available. There is also a separate
+       [25]Guide page devoted to those events.)_
+     * _Knight Two:_ "Your ship was off the screens for 24 hours. You
+       didn't just black out, your ship disappeared!"
+       _Sinclair:_ "The screens malfunctioned, the hearing proved that."
+     * This would explain why Sinclair "fell off the merry-go-round"
+       promotion-wise. Officers who've inexplicably disappeared in the
+       presence of the enemy tend to hit a glass ceiling even if their
+       loyalty is officially accepted.
+     * The Knights may be part of a covert operation within Earth Force
+       that's trying to find collusion between Earth officials and the
+       Minbari.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Franklin asks Delenn, "How were you involved in the war?" She
+       declines to answer, even though he had just answered the same
+       question from her. Toward the end of the episode it's revealed
+       that Delenn did indeed play a significant role in the war, but
+       little is yet known about what that was. (cf: [26]"Babylon
+       Squared")
+     * Sinclair's absence was first realized when Delenn reported that he
+       didn't show up for a meeting with her in the Council room. What
+       was that meeting to have been about?
+     * Delenn said she checked with Ivanova before asked Garibaldi about
+       Sinclair's absence. Ivanova is willing to page Sinclair about
+       _everyday_ problems - why wouldn't she call his link when he's
+       mysteriously long overdue for a diplomatic appointment?
+     * Later, Delenn asks Ivanova if there's anything she can do to help,
+       and Ivanova replies that the crew is doing everything possible.
+       Yet why is she strolling down a corridor with Delenn, rather than
+       following leads and scouring for new ways to find Sinclair?
+     * How was Sinclair flawlessly abducted from his quarters?
+     * How did Knight One get Benson's body off the station? (see [27]jms
+       Speaks)
+     * Who were the Knights working for?
+     * Why wasn't telepathy used for the interrogation? It would have
+       been no less legal than what the Knights did, and a telepath would
+       probably have had better skills at dredging up old memories. The
+       whole power source problem (which ultimately sunk the Knights'
+       plan) could have been avoided - only the stimulation technology
+       need have been brought on board.
+     * Is Sinclair really a Minbari plant?
+     * Why was Delenn's superior on the station?
+     * _What is it that the Minbari don't want Sinclair to remember about
+       his experience on the Line???_
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * _Sinclair:_ "Everyone lies, Michael. The innocent lie because they
+       don't want to be blamed for something they didn't do, and the
+       guilty lie because they don't have any other choice."
+       This is extra reason to think twice before taking anything said in
+       this episode at face value. Nor should one assume that a lie
+       covers up wrongdoing.
+     * Earth Force was researching the use of genetic and biological
+       warfare against the Minbari. These are offensive, not defensive
+       methods, effective only on planets. They must have been planning a
+       desperation ground strike of some kind. (cf: [28]"Soul Hunter")
+     * After he punches Knight Two in VR, Sinclair looks at his hand,
+       making a fist and releasing it. Scenes of him in the cybernet
+       chair after that show him clenching his fist in real life as well,
+       in unison with continued fist-clenching in VR. Sinclair is
+       rediscovering, slowly, how to get his brain to control his body.
+       The pain of the remembered zap in the council chambers is later
+       enough to propel him all the way back, if groggily.
+     * While looking for Sinclair's body outside, station forces discover
+       the body of Benson floating outside Red Sector. Garibaldi visually
+       identifies him (other Security folks had not been able to), and
+       says, "Whoever killed him couldn't have carried the body very far
+       without being noticed." He may be wrong in this conclusion -
+       Knight One could have dumped it into a nondescript cart and gone a
+       long way, for example.
+     * _Garibaldi:_ "If they dumped the body out of an airlock, the
+       station's gravity wouldn't let it get far." This is true _only_ if
+       the body was dumped out of a no- or low-velocity airlock. Perhaps
+       Garibaldi's assertion is correct because there aren't any
+       high-velocity airlocks on the station other than the Cobra Bays.
+     * _Knight Two:_ "Look at Earth: Alien civilization. Alien migration.
+       Aliens buying up real estate by the square mile. What they
+       couldn't take by force, they corrupted! Inch by inch!"
+       This sounds very much like Homeguard propaganda - perhaps there is
+       a connection. (cf: [29]"War Prayer")
+     * Delenn exhibits ignorance of the powers of Earth telepaths -
+       Ivanova had to explain to her that Talia, a P5, was not capable of
+       a search-and-recover mission.
+     * Ivanova's only contribution to the search effort was to track all
+       ships that left Babylon 5 in the previous 8 hours, which turned
+       out to be wasted effort. This and several [30]Unanswered Questions
+       suggest she may have been working with the Knights.
+     * _Delenn:_ "It's me, commander."
+       _Sinclair:_ "I know - I know you. I know who you are."
+       _Delenn:_ "I'm your friend, commander. Ambassador Delenn. _Your
+       friend._"
+       _Sinclair:_ "NO! I know you. I know you." [Knight One prepares to
+       fire, Sinclair shoots him down]
+       _Delenn:_ "Welcome home."
+       [Sinclair collapses]
+       By his emphatic denial above, it should be clear to Delenn that
+       Sinclair is remembering _something_ about [31]his discovery of her
+       at the Line. He later denies remembering anything, but she must
+       wonder if he's lying. (If the [32]Analysis in the Line Guide page
+       is correct, however, she should be _certain_ he is lying.)
+     * Knight Two apparently remembered nothing about himself after
+       Sinclair's destructive escape fried his memory. However, the word
+       "Commander" brings him up short, and he remembers Sinclair's name,
+       saying "There's something in my head. It says: 'Maybe you're still
+       inside. Maybe we're both still inside.'" His phrasing there
+       indicates that this is not his own current thought, but a thought
+       that survived his brain damage. So, what did Knight Two, in full
+       possession of his faculties, mean by that suspicion? The most
+       obvious answer is "inside the simulation," but this is a very weak
+       explanation, and goes nowhere.
+     * Knight Two's last experience would have been watching Sinclair's
+       recollection of his Grey Council experience, _including_ his
+       discovery of Delenn (whom Knight Two may not have recognized).
+     * See also the [33]Guide page devoted to Sinclair's recollection of
+       the events on the Line.
+       
+Notes
+
+     *
+       
+  Universe Today Headlines:
+          + _Sports:_ Zero-G Tennis Results Inside
+          + _Is There Something Living in Hyperspace?_
+          + _Homeguard Leader Convicted:_ Jacob Lester Found Guilty In
+            Attack on Minbari Embassy
+          + _Narns settle Raghesh 3 Controversy_
+          + _EA President Promises Balanced Budget by 2260_
+          + _Psi Corps in Election Tangle:_ Did Psi-Corps Violate its
+            Charter by Endorsing Vice-President? _(see [34]jms Speaks)_
+          + _San Diego Still Considered Too Radioactive for Occupancy:_
+            A new study published by Earthforce Nuclear Regulatory Office
+            declares San Diego, struck by the American States first act
+            of nuclear terrorism over 100 years ago, still uninhabitable
+            for the next 300 years.
+          + _SPECIAL SECTION: Pros & Cons of Interspecies Mating_
+          + _Copyright Trial Continues in Bookzap Flap:_ Books Downloaded
+            Directly into Brain: Who Owns Them?
+          + _Is There Something Living in Hyperspace?_ _(a repeat)_
+          + _New Binary Star Discovered_
+          + _Inside: Universe Today: Babylon 5 Edition:_
+               o Classified 5-70
+               o Crossword 60
+               o Editorial/Opinion 10-11A
+               o Lotteries 11C
+               o Horoscope 8A
+               o HoloComics 9E
+     * The text of all the articles are instructions for the "Babylon 5
+       Equation Editor," which looks like genuine documentation after a
+       search and replace has been performed from the product's name to
+       "Babylon 5."
+     * _Source for Universe Today information: "Cinefantastique," April
+       1994, p. 35_
+     * Dr. Franklin now has baseline medical readings for a healthy adult
+       Minbari.
+     * Casino regulations for officers: no gambling on duty, off-duty
+       gambling is limited to 50 credits per week.
+     * Garibaldi has security access to Sinclair's quarters.
+     * _Jeffrey David Sinclair_
+       _2218:_ Born on Mars Colony May 3rd.
+       _2237:_ Enlisted in Earth Force Defense.
+       _2240:_ Promoted to Fighter Pilot.
+       _2241:_ Promoted to Squad Leader (!)
+     * Sinclair's ancestors have been fighter pilots for many
+       generations.
+     * _Knight Two:_ "If I fail, more will come after me, until the job
+       is finished."
+     * _Sinclair:_ (to Mitchell) "I tried to warn you, but you wouldn't
+       listen. You never listen."
+     * Payoff money was deposited to Benson's account at 0300, presumably
+       soon after he delivered a big power supply to the Knights. At 0700
+       Sinclair "went missing" - presumably this was when Delenn was
+       supposed to meet with him in the Council room (see [35]Unanswered
+       Questions).
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * Absolutely unlike anything ever produced before for television.
+       Directorially, and in terms of the visual effects, the CGI, the
+       performances, right across the board, it's a stunner. And just...I
+       can't convey this enough...different. It just takes TV SF and
+       yanks it to a whole other level of complexity.
+     * As for a production report...things are going swimmingly. Today we
+       started getting dailies on our first day of shooting on "And the
+       Sky Full of Stars," which deals with the Battle of the Line. This
+       is not going to look like your conventional episode of television.
+       We've brought in equipment that you don't normally see on a
+       television set, certain kinds of cranes and lenses and lighting
+       packages that will give this particular episode a very strange,
+       almost surreal look. It's quite remarkable.
+       And Ron's pushing the envelope on the CGI...compositing some live
+       action stuff with CGI that'll blow your TV out.
+       It's going *well*.
+     * Spent a very, very, very long day today in editing...not out of
+       any problems, but because of the *astonishing* amount of detail
+       we're putting into "And the Sky Full of Stars." Leaving out all
+       the live- action shots, there are 25 CGI shots in one and a half
+       minutes in one sequence alone. (By way of comparison, there were
+       55 or so in the full two hour pilot for B5.) So we go frame by
+       frame, making sure that everything meshes properly, through some
+       pretty intense gistics. You'll understand when you see it.
+       I've never seen the like of this particular episode before. It's a
+       real gem.
+     * On returns... Garibaldi's aide: yes. Knights: yes, but not
+       identified as such.
+     * Lurkers is indeed a net reference.
+     * Psi Corps, as a government-regulated agency, is prohibited from
+       endorsing candidates or taking a political stance.
+     * I would *never* pull a "he wakes up and it was all a dream" on the
+       series. I hate that kind of story.
+     * It has *always* been my sense that the body was slipped out an
+       access airlock in the zero-g cargo area. Every other access --
+       like the boarding area and standard cargo area -- is under close
+       security to prevent this kind of thing, or the influx of
+       contraband. There's really nowhere to GO from the zero-g section,
+       so it's a little looser. As for how he got the body there...there
+       is an answer, and a reason, and if you look at this episode again
+       after the season is over, even the nitpickers who brought it up
+       will be able to figure it out. I didn't address it in the issue
+       because I didn't think anyone would make a federal case out of
+       this, and for other reasons that will in time become apparent.
+       Several other nits picked at this episode will *also* be clarified
+       by season's end. It's not easy to sit quietly, knowing the answer,
+       and being unable to tell it, but that's simply what I have to do
+       for the time being.
+     * Psi Cops are *authorized* to carry firearms. The Knights had an in
+       with Security, and by virtue of high government contacts, got
+       their stuff on board. Those seem to me not requiring much
+       explanation.
+     * I can't believe this "explain how the guns get aboard" discussion
+       is still going on. This isn't the Enterprise, to use the cited
+       example, which is a *military vessel*, and only the occasional
+       rare civilian gets on board. There are a QUARTER MILLION PEOPLE on
+       board at any given moment. (People = humans and aliens.) Not
+       staying there, but in a state of flux. Going and coming. Anywhere
+       from 50 to 100 ships per day dock at B5. Thousands upon thousands
+       of boxes, crates, cargo loads, pallets, you name it. If you
+       stopped and inspected every single box that came through, the
+       system would grind to a halt. So you do the best you can, you
+       catch whatever you can, scan as much as possible, and accept that
+       some stuff is bound to slip through.
+       Further, this is the kind of explanation that has nothing to do
+       with a story, only with someone's need to have something explained
+       to them. I think the time is spent better elsewhere.
+     * Yes, that is a triluminary on the grey council staff in "Sky."
+       (cf. [36]"Babylon Squared")
+     * Bear in mind, though, that Sinclair really had no reason to doubt
+       what he remembered happening on the Line until the Minbari
+       assassin uttered those seven fateful words. As for others...there
+       have been suspicions, but more broadbased...and we'll deal with
+       those a bit here and there.
+     * Also, check the readout on Sinclair's screen as he's trying to
+       engage the enemy. You'll see "negative lock" popping up. One
+       problem in fighting the Minbari vessels is that they have a kind
+       of stealth tech that makes it very hard for our weapons to lock
+       on.
+     * Bill Mitchell from "Sky" is a reference to General Billy Mitchell
+       . . .
+     * Yeah, it was an off-the-cuff reference to Billy Mitchell . . .
+       (Didn't really mean that much; just thought it wuz cool.)
+     * Re: "Sky"...my theory is to *never* assume prior knowledge of the
+       background info that goes into an episode. If you never saw the
+       pilot, you will miss *nothing* going into "Sky" (though it'd be
+       nice because of one quickie flashback to know where that came
+       from). I don't think anyone will have a hard time following that
+       one.
+     * This was one segment of the battle; there were others going on in
+       other areas as well. It's said that no one ever *saw* the Battle
+       of the Bulge; each saw a small part of it. Same here.
+       Reality is, no matter how big we would've made it, more would've
+       been wanted. (If anything, it seems that the more we show, the
+       more is wanted.) But all things considered, best to have folks
+       wanting more than wanting less....
+       (And remember, we're managing to do all this with roughly *half*
+       of TNG's budget. Give us their budget, and I'll show you ALL of
+       the Battle of the Line, and the ENTIRE Earth/Minbari War, PLUS all
+       their home worlds.)
+       Nonetheless, as we go deeper into the season, the CGI/action
+       sequences do get bigger and more detailed in many places. In
+       "Signs and Portents" (formerly "Raiding Party"), you'll see three
+       pretty good sized squadrons of ships engaged in a very fast-paced
+       battle that goes on for most of an act and a half, as opposed to
+       just a few scenes in "Sky." Big battles weren't really the *point*
+       in "Sky," it was more about his REACTIONS and his personal fate.
+       There were a number of action/battle shots we had on hand, but
+       decided not to use because we didn't want to dilute the *point* of
+       the scene.
+       And as stated elsewhere...yes, you'll be seeing the Minbari war
+       cruiser(s) again.
+     * Actually, as you'll see in "Sky," sometimes the Good Guys *do* get
+       their ships hit; sometimes they blow up and kill the person (as
+       you will see), and sometimes they do damage without destroying the
+       ship, in which case there is an eject mechanism that separates the
+       cockpit part from the rest of the fighter, which contains the
+       volatile reactors.
+       So in those circumstances, a flight suit is a *very* good idea....
+     * We actually had a lot more shots we could've used to prolong the
+       sequence, but felt we *really* had to get to Sinclair, and go into
+       his point of view more. Also we step-printed the CGI to give it a
+       more dream-like appearance, since we're seeing this from inside
+       Sinclair's memory, and he wasn't really able to *see* all this,
+       particularly stuff happening around and behind him, this is more
+       his *sense* of the events of that time. The sections we didn't
+       step-print were those where he was RIGHT THERE, to make a subtle
+       distinction.
+     * What? Who, me? Near as I remember, the Question was, "What
+       happened at the Battle of the Line?" Answer: Sinclair was taken
+       aboard the Minbari cruiser, tortured, interrogated, mind-wiped and
+       shoved back into his ship.
+       The Question *now* is, "WHY was Sinclair taken aboard the Minbari
+       cruiser, tortured, interrogated, mind-wiped and shoved back into
+       his ship?"
+       That question was not asked heretofore...so how could it be still
+       unanswered?
+     * A number of people have commented that they weren't much surprised
+       by Sinclair being taken aboard, because on the nets -- and this
+       has ONLY taken place on the nets -- this speculation has been
+       bandied about for some time. We now have ten zillion speculations
+       on the reason *why*. I will not comment on them one way or another
+       (though I suppose I could point, without making the real
+       comparison between types of typists, to the idea that an infinte
+       number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of keyboards would
+       eventually produce Hamlet simply by chance combination; sooner or
+       later, something close to the reality might be stumbled upon...and
+       let me ask a simple question: what purpose does that serve? It
+       only lessens the enjoyment of those who would simply like to enjoy
+       what happens WHEN it happens).
+       Any good detective knows that you can't really begin to speculate
+       about motive until you have all the information right at hand. At
+       this point there is information you don't have...and absent that,
+       any guesses will either be wrong, or close enough to hinder the
+       fun but still essentially incorrect. It's like trying to guess the
+       contents of a box without knowing the size of the box...it could
+       be a marble, it could be an elephant or a pre-fabricated house.
+       All I'm suggesting is that you consider not trying to come up with
+       every possible angle, and let the show progress on its own. Right
+       now everybody seems to be scrambling to make sure every even
+       remotely feasible possibility is covered, and there an infinite
+       number. As an organized activity, this will in time only prove
+       frustrating. By the end of the season, as with being near the end
+       of a movie, you'll have enough info on hand to start making some
+       educated guesses. To do so now is to begin the proess of calling
+       out possible endings during the first five minutes of a
+       movie...you'll miss the important things, and annoy the people
+       sitting behind you.
+       I'm not saying stop; I'm just saying...relax, a little, I guess,
+       and simply be aware that you *cannot* scatter-shot this thing
+       without having access to all the information. It's like trying to
+       guess the beginnings of World War One without knowing *any* of the
+       background of the countries involved. Suffice to say that the
+       reason would not be simplistic, or cliched, or *easily deduced*.
+       One thing I learned in two years on "Murder, She Wrote" was to
+       come up with a fairly complex mystery, something that can't be
+       easily solved going in, but which makes perfect sense after you
+       have all the facts and know which clues were the real ones, and
+       which were simply red herrings.
+       Just a thought....
+     * We'd initially offered Walter [Koenig] the role of Knight Two in
+       "Sky," but when his health prohibited using him, we went to
+       Patrick McGoohan, who loved the script, wanted to do it, but was
+       going to be out of the country at the time of shooting. We then
+       shifted Walter to "Mind War."
+     * Thanks. I love Patrick's work. Problem is he's *very* fussy on the
+       roles he takes. (And justifiably so.) He has to be sold on the
+       script or there's no deal. We'd sent him a copy of "And the Sky
+       Full of Stars," which would have had him as the main interrogator,
+       Knight Two...and he liked it, and was prepared to do it...when we
+       checked our respective calendars and discovered that he was going
+       to be out of the country when we were scheduled to shoot.
+       We hope to get him at some later time. He's just terrific.
+     * The CGI scenes were deliberately step-printed to give the shots a
+       more dreamlike look.
+     * The CGI won't look as good in slow motion because we step-printed
+       them deliberately, in order to give them a more dream-like
+       appearance. For us, this wasn't about the ships, it was about one
+       of the men in the ship, which is why we kept him in sharp focus,
+       and went to step- printing whenever we went outside (and since
+       we're seeing this from his memory, clearly he wouldn't actually
+       have *seen* most ofthis, it's his *sense* of what happened).
+       You'll get plenty of clear CGI in "Signs and Portents," airing in
+       May.
+     * Actually, there's a second shot in which you can see a body being
+       thrown out; it's between Mitchell and Sinclair being hit. Remember
+       that the body is strapped in in an angular fashion, and look for
+       it as it blows (as I recall) from left to right. It's there.
+     * This weekend, I was at the Space Frontier Foundation to receive an
+       award for Babylon 5 for Best Vision of the Future, part of which
+       was its recognition of our *deliberate efforts* to get things
+       right. Zero-G maneuvering, civilian use of space, a working
+       O'Neill station, on and on, all the stuff you think happens by
+       "coincidence." And which has not generally HAPPENED on TV before.
+       In attendence were the Delta Clipper team of engineers, astronaut
+       Pete Conrad, leading researchers with NASA, JPL,
+       McDonnell-Douglas, you name it.
+       And one of the people there, who had been with SDI and the Space
+       Program for 12 years, currently a top-level NASA consultant,
+       pulled me aside and said that after seeing the line about the
+       gravity not letting the body get very far . . . he said he sat
+       down to do the math required to come up with the actual MASS of
+       B5, starting with the 2.5 million tons of actual structure, plus
+       likely vegetation, quarters, occupants, ships docked inside...and
+       when you add it all up, it came to about the same mass as a fairly
+       small moon...and IT WOULD BE ENOUGH TO KEEP THE BODY FROM -- AS
+       STATED IN THE SCRIPT -- GETTING VERY FAR.
+       The body would drift from the station a bit, get pulled back, hit
+       the hull, bounce, drift a bit, and be pulled back. Or go into a
+       slow elliptical orbit. (He mentioned that in the history of the
+       Apollo program, little bits of debris that would flake off the
+       outside of the ship would remain in proximity to the ship, just on
+       the basis of ITS mass and gravity, and it's not very big.)
+       A couple of other high-level engineers backed him up, and said
+       that it was quite reasonable.
+     * The 2.5 million tons of spinning *metal* refers only to that part,
+       the metal casing. It doesn't include the furniture, the
+       structures, the Garden, the 250,000 humans and aliens...so the
+       total mass of the thing is MUCH greater than the 2.5 megatons.
+       Also, the body was shoved out of the area around the cargo bay,
+       non-rotating, which would also cut down on the momentum (as
+       opposed to shoving out out of the rotating part, where it would
+       speed away at 1g).
+     * Yes, it was always my assumption that the body was dumped out
+       through the zero-g section, since that has more traffic with cargo
+       loaders and unloaders and less security than the
+       passenger-oriented bays and airlocks.
+     * There is a security problem on B5, yes. And we hope to deal with
+       it at some point. It's inevitable, really; 250,000 residents, huge
+       crates being moved in and out every day, people going and
+       coming... they try to confiscate what they can, but a lot slips
+       through.
+     * The second shot to Knight One is a gut-shot, and the security
+       guard is shot through the chest.
+       Bear in mind, also, that some of this may be expected by folks
+       here on the nets because of the ongoing conversations, speculation
+       and the bits of info I drop here; but for 99.9% of the rest of the
+       nation, this IS new info. And even with the nets, I suspect that
+       there are some surprises here....
+     * _'Universe Today' Headline_
+       I lived in San Diego from 1974-1981, and it's actually a great
+       place, so I'm inclined to tweak it once in a while, just for
+       funsies....
+     * The wisp of smoke is a wisp of smoke, nothing more important than
+       that. If something living in hyperspace bothers you...good, it
+       should. The Psi Corps article is in frame for a reason. Yes, we
+       sometimes put additional or important information in the
+       background, but I don't think we can be fair and assume that
+       everyone sees it, so if you don't see it in one place, it's stated
+       out loud later on...the background stuff is to give the alert
+       viewer a fighting chance to guess some stuff BEFORE it happens;
+       when stuff DOES finally happen, all the required information is
+       supplied at that time.
+     * Correct, Gregory. One of the things we learned from the pilot was
+       that we shoved too much information at people too fast. So I
+       deliberately held back a lot of arc stuff in the beginning of the
+       series, allowing people to move gradually into the B5 universe,
+       learn more about it, and THEN start whapping them with the arc. It
+       isn't until "Mind War" and "Sky" that we really begin cranking the
+       arc.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan _matt@uhs.uchicago.edu_
+
+   [42][Next] 
+   
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+  43. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+    ### GUIDE ### [3][Background] [4][Synopsis] [5][Credits] [6][Episode
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     The station becomes a hotbed of galactic controversy when Sinclair
+     is forced to protect a notorious war criminal -- a scientist who's
+     invented an immortality serum. Ambassador Kosh hires telepath Talia
+     Winters to oversee a very unusual negotiation. [15]Sarah Douglas as
+     Deathwalker/Jha'Dur. [16]Robin Curtis as Ambassador Kalika.
+     [17]Cosie Costa as Abbut. [18]Aki Aleong as Senator Hidoshi.
+     
+Sub-genre: Intrigue
+[19]P5 Rating: [20]8.21
+
+Production number:  113
+Original air date:  April 20, 1994
+
+Written by Larry DiTillio
+Directed by Bruce Seth Green
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * The League of Non-Aligned Worlds and the Earth Alliance are
+       allies, thanks in large part to Earth's intervention while the
+       League was being devastated by the Dilgar thirty years earlier.
+       JMS says, "The Dilgar War was one of the first conflicts that the
+       EA got into, soon after establishing a presence in space. We
+       mainly entered it to try and make a 'rep' for ourselves, then got
+       more morally involved when we saw what was going on. That and the
+       Minbari War are the only real major conflicts Earth has been
+       involved with, and Earth was not directly at risk in the Dilgar
+       war, though if they hadn't been stopped, that might have changed
+       eventually."
+     * The Vorlons have a strong distrust of telepaths.
+     * The Minbari warrior castes know about the hole in Sinclair's mind.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What do the Vorlons know about immortality?
+     * Why don't they like (non-Vorlon) telepaths?
+     * Is this the last we'll hear about the immortality serum, or did
+       Dr. Franklin keep the sample he was testing? (JMS has hinted that
+       it's not a simple plot device which'll never be mentioned again.)
+     * Why do the Wind Swords speak often of Sinclair? What do they know
+       about what happened to him?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Na'Toth's grandfather had the misfortune to be on a planet that
+       Jha'dur took, and her misuse of him is the source of Na'Toth's
+       feud, yet the Narn seem to give the incident no particular weight.
+       What world this was is not disclosed, but either it wasn't a Narn
+       colony, and Na'Toth's grandfather was simply in the wrong place at
+       the wrong time, or it was a Narn colony and the incident was
+       smoothed over at the time. Evidence seems to point to the former,
+       but it's unclear.
+     * Jha'dur is a specialist in, "biochemical, biogenetic, and
+       cyber-organic weaponry." During the Dilgar invasion of the
+       "non-aligned sectors" she decimated whole planets to further her
+       own research. Presumably the other Dilgar were equally vicious and
+       callous. She seems to be especially notorious though, known by
+       name 30 years after the event, perhaps because her biological
+       experiments seem especially horrible.
+     * At the time of the Dilgar war humanity was fresh on the
+       interstellar political scene, having been discovered and given
+       jumpgate/hyperspace technology by the Centauri. The non-aligned
+       worlds seem to be relatively low-tech, and they were being overrun
+       by the Dilgar in a particularly ruthless bid for an empire.
+       Earth's entry into the conflict turned the tide against the
+       Dilgar, leading to the race's confinement to their own system and
+       their ultimate destruction when their sun went nova.
+     * Jha'dur was shielded and hidden by the Minbari Wind Swords,
+       members of their warrior caste, at the close of the Dilgar war 30
+       years ago. The Minbari didn't encounter humans until about 20
+       years later, at which time the first contact went bad and
+       initiated the Earth-Minbari war. Up until now it seemed that
+       neither side knew of the other, but how could the Minbari have
+       aided and supported Jha-dur for 20 years without learning of
+       Earth? Moreover, when the Minbari are debating their response to
+       the loss of their leader the Wind Swords arrive on the scene with
+       new, very powerful weapons. Presumably much of the Minbari arsenal
+       of weapons and ships derives from designs given them by Jha'dur.
+       The circumstances of the first contact problem between the Minbari
+       and the Humans may also indicate that it was the result of a plot
+       by Jha'dur for revenge on those who (at least indirectly)
+       destroyed her race.
+     * The serum designed by Jha'dur is insidious, requiring something
+       critical from living beings to make. It's unclear whether this
+       same process would be applicable to every species, or whether the
+       same serum could be used across species. But in any case it was
+       designed, perhaps intentionally, to cause a great deal of harm
+       when used.
+     * Just what benefit the Wind Swords derived from her research is
+       unstated. Note, however, that she has (a) been permitted by the
+       Wind Swords to use up enough living entities to pursue her
+       research, and (b) used at least one dose on herself with some
+       amount left over. She has also been permitted to leave to
+       negotiate with the Narn, her first entry into public view since
+       the war.
+     * Senator Hidoshi calls Sinclair while Jha'dur is still in medlab.
+       He insists that Jha'dur cannot be Deathwalker, but also insists
+       that she be sent to Earth immediately. Still, he clearly knows all
+       about the situation, which implies that he has sources of
+       information both on B5 and perhaps among the Minbari or the Narn.
+     * Talia Winters has an interesting time with Kosh during this
+       episode. Here we see the first of a known class of people called
+       "vicars," short for "VCRs." These people are human recorders,
+       capable of recording sensory and environmental information for
+       later playback through devices directly implanted in their brains.
+       This demonstrates a very high degree of possible integration
+       between people and computers at the time of B5. How common this is
+       and how sophisticated it can be has yet to be seen.
+     * Is Kosh a telepath? During the interviews between Kosh and Abbut
+       (the vicar) Talia is occasionally goaded with an image dredged up
+       from her mind. Clearly these are not her own thoughts, and clearly
+       Abbut cannot be the source since human telepaths are regulated.
+       That only leaves Kosh him(it?)self. Yet Talia doesn't seem to have
+       any hint that Kosh is doing this to her. If Kosh is a telepath,
+       what other abilities does he have? And if he is a telepath, and
+       the cause of Talia's distress, what did he need the vicar for? It
+       seems clear that the byplay between Kosh and Abbut was intended as
+       misdirection, to divert, bore and confuse her leaving her open for
+       Kosh to penetrate her shields and stimulate the images he
+       collected.
+     * Kosh collects from Talia, in his words, "Reflection. Surprise.
+       Terror. For the future." He may intend the data as a lever or
+       weapon against her.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * The Hour of Scampering is usually around tea-time, according to
+       the Vorlon/Human Translation Dictionary.
+     * _How do Vorlons scamper?_
+       The Vorlons do not scamper terribly well, but no one has yet told
+       them this.
+     * _"Understanding is a three-edged sword."_
+       The three edges: your side, my side, and the truth in between.
+     * Your statement about the serum being a means of getting to the
+       truth or her truth at the very least is quite correct. And
+       appropos to current reality. We look back at the Nazis, and
+       others, and say, "Well, WE could never do that." But of course we
+       could. Fine tune your attention to the frequency of misery and
+       inhumanity, and in short order you'll pick up Rwanda, and Bosnia
+       and a host of others. Our capacity for greatness is as substantial
+       as our capacity for evil. And we must constantly be reminded of
+       that duality; to pretend it simply isn't there, or is somebody
+       else's problem, inevitably leads to tragedy. (For those
+       interested, btw, I would encourage you to check out a short story
+       by Mark Twain, called "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg." I think
+       you will find it *most* illuminating.)
+     * Abbut was not - repeat, NOTan imitation of Harlan, as some have
+       suggested. It was originally written for Gilbert Gottfried, who we
+       later learned was unavailable.
+     * The Babylon 5 Advisory Council and the League of Non-Aligned
+       Worlds functions in much the same fashion as the Security Council
+       and the General Assembly in the U.N. The smaller worlds and
+       alliances can't weild as much power as any of the Big Five.
+       Together, they as a group get a vote equal to one of the Big Five;
+       they can deputize one of their number to speak for them and cast
+       that vote, which can often break ties or create ties. It is not a
+       terribly equitible situation, but it was the only workable
+       solution that would be accepted by the other Ambassadors. We'll
+       see them chafing at this in "Deathwalker."
+     * The prosthetics on our background aliens and the League started
+       out okay, but we felt we could do better, and began a series of
+       improvements, which can be seen most clearly in "Deathwalker,"
+       where they're all proper prosthetics rather than masks.
+     * We didn't have the League of Non-Aligned Worlds up and running for
+       the pilot. They get one vote, determined by majority decision.
+       EAch mamber of the main Advisory Council gets one vote, equal to
+       that. In "Deathwalker," you had one abstention (Kosh), two to try
+       her (EA and League), and three against the trial (Narns, Centauri
+       and Minbari). Abstentions don't count either way in such a vote;
+       it's the negatives vs. the positives, and there were more no's
+       than yes's.
+     * You assume the crowd meeting Sinclair could be placated. They make
+       it clear, in dialogue: "You will have to kill us all." They could
+       not BE placated. Your assumption has nothing to do with what
+       happened, or what was said. Maybe in the ST universe, Picard can
+       turn on the charm and just talk people out of things. That doesn't
+       happen here, not easily at any rate. It was turn back or kill
+       them. Those were the choices.
+     * As far as we knew, Lennier was going to vote with Sinclair and the
+       League. So you hold off his change of vote for the end. You get a
+       few no votes, annoy the League, Sinclair raises their hope, and
+       then Lennier, much as he hates it, dashes that hope. It's an arc
+       that way, rather than a descending staircase.
+     * Except of course that Sinclair said that the non-aligned worlds
+       would have observers there at all times...there are no other
+       Dilgar to help break her out...the Narns have no desire to attack
+       Earth installations to break her out as long as they get their
+       share of the serum...and there really was no other alternative
+       short of war.
+     * There's no one escaping Deathwalker's ship; it's just debris
+       spinning away. She's dead as a mackeral.
+     * Just to clarify...the Vorlon ship destroyed only Deathwalker's
+       ship, not an EA vessel. And the Vorlon ship waited until
+       Deathwalker's ship was far from B5, just before entering the gate,
+       before coming out to strike. At that range, it couldn't miss, and
+       at that distance, B5 couldn't react fast enough.
+     * The EA escort got her as far as the gate. Then peeled away. And
+       then the Vorlon ship came out. That's what Sinlair said: "They
+       will escort you as far as the gate." And even if they had stayed
+       with her THROUGH the gate, it would've made no difference. Vorlon
+       ship comes through. Fires at Deathwalker's ship. EA ships fire
+       back. No visible effect, the cruiser shrugs it off and goes back
+       the way it came. Single Starfuries wouldn't even *dent* a Vorlon
+       cruiser. So same result.
+     * Sinclair was taught by Jesuits...and as far as Kosh goes, better
+       to have him where you can see him, than not. They *are* a powerful
+       group, and it wouldn't serve to ignore them. We courted them for
+       10 years for a first contact...and now we're stuck with them.
+     * Jim, your thesis comes from the underlying assumption that, as in
+       the Trek universe, All Things Must Be Done Fairly, the government
+       must in the end be wise and fair and sensible.
+       That ain't our universe. That ain't even *this* universe.
+       Sinclair must follow orders. He didn't want to escort Deathwalker
+       off and on to Earth, those were his marching orders. *The same
+       marching orders would be given to an ambassador representing
+       Earth*. So your career diplomat would be in exactly the same
+       position. What, do you think that career diplomats are independent
+       agents of goodness? They all work for SOMEone, representing their
+       interests.
+       Earth put in the majority of the money required to build and
+       operate B5. They have the right, as such, to appoint a provisional
+       governor, nad (and) that is the function that Sinclair mainly
+       serves. He runs this place, AND he is responsible for maintaining
+       good relations with other representatives. He is also on a short
+       leash. And in some cases, as in "By Any Means Necessary," other
+       people are sent in to handle certain kinds of negotiations.
+       Yes, it is a conflict of interest. So what? Do you think Earth
+       cares much about that? Is it awkward? Yes, of course. It *should*
+       put him in moral quandries. The Earth Government is constantly
+       getting him into binds. What they wanted him to do in
+       "Deathwalker" was more or less of a dubious nature. But in the
+       end, he found a fairly moral solution to the problem. That's what
+       he does. He finds anhonorable way out of very difficult and
+       morally ambiguous situations. What you suggest is that we remove
+       the moral ambiguities. Ehhh. I find that boring as hell.
+       Do the other species like it? Of course not. Okay, so what're they
+       going to do? Boycott B5? And let other species take advantage of
+       all the economic and political benefits the station provides? Let
+       others grow in familiarity and form alliances that might in time
+       turn against them? Not a chance. Fair or not, it's the only game
+       in town.
+       So I don't buy your solution because I don't think it's a problem.
+       You do. That's life. Political situations are rarely fair, or
+       logical, or ethical. If politics were based on ethics this would
+       be a MUCH better world. But politics are generally based on who
+       has the power, and the money, and the guts.
+     * The Dilgar War was one of the first conflicts that the EA got
+       into, soon after establishing a presence in space. We mainly
+       entered it to try and make a "rep" for ourselves, then got more
+       morally involved when we saw what was going on. That and the
+       Minbari War are the only real major conflicts Earth has been
+       involved with, and Earth was not directly at risk in the Dilgar
+       war, though if they hadn't been stopped, that might have changed
+       eventually.
+     * _Have we seen the last of the Dilgar?_
+       They're dead as doornails.
+     * And yes, the Windswords were the warrior clan involved in the
+       events in "The Gathering."
+     * Talia, like all Psi Corps members, wears gloves because she has
+       to, when in public, to minimize physical contact and accidental
+       scans. As for others wearing gloves...sometimes it's a fashion
+       statement ... and other times, well, space is very very cold....
+     * Abbut was screwing around when he said "I'm a 23 myself," just
+       messing with her.
+     * "Kosh's voice-the rumblings and bells and stuff, not the
+       translation- seemed to be missing a lot of the lower tones and
+       bass that I remembered hearing previously."
+       He had a cold.
+     * "It also adds another piece of miracle tech never to be seen
+       again."
+       Wrong.
+       In point of fact, virtually *none* of the new tech stuff is just
+       gone...you'd be surprised what'll be showing up again down the
+       road a piece....
+     * Re: B5's roster of strong women characters...this is something of
+       a bugaboo/obsession with me. I *love* writing strong women. (For
+       that matter, I love strong-willed, independent, smart women in
+       real life as well; I love being outsmarted, love it when someone
+       can go toe-to- toe with me on something.) Generally, and this
+       isn't entirely intentional, women on shows I work on tend to get
+       some of the best lines, as is often the case with Ivanova. It's
+       not a case of being "one of the boys," but being one of the
+       *people*. There's a subtle difference.
+       The women I write are often very close to many of the women I've
+       been involved with over the years. So far, no one's sued....
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Compiled by Dave Zimmerman and Steven Grimm.
+
+   [26][Next] 
+   
+      [27]Last update: August 8, 1997
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Dr. Franklin asks Sinclair to intermediate with an alien family
+     who, because of their religious beliefs, refuse to allow surgery
+     that would save their dying child. [15]Silvana Gallardo as Dr. Maya
+     Hernandez. [16]Jonathon Kaplan as Shon. [17]Tricia O'Neil as M'Ola.
+     [18]Stephen Lee as Tharg.
+     
+Sub-genre: Drama
+[19]P5 Rating: [20]7.74
+
+Production number:  105
+Original air date:  April 27, 1994
+
+Written by David Gerrold
+Directed by Richard Compton
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Some outside influence has interfered with the Minbari religion in
+       the past.
+     * The Children of Time, a minor race with strong religious beliefs,
+       would rather let one of their number die than allow invasive
+       surgery, which they believe destroys the soul.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * How did Ivanova defeat or escape all those raiders? There is some
+       slight evidence she's working with them (cf. [21]"Midnight on the
+       Firing Line".)
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Franklin's willingness to break the rules for a cause he believes
+       in, though indicative of a strong moral character, seems likely to
+       get him into hot water at some point.
+     * On the other hand, Sinclair doesn't want to be placed in a
+       position in which he has to stop Franklin from doing what he
+       believes in; Sinclair would rather sidestep the issue than have
+       his hand forced. This is consistent with his handling of the
+       Senator's instructions in [22]"Midnight on the Firing Line."
+     * The parents' reaction when Delenn refused to help could be viewed
+       as hypocritical; they were perfectly willing to ask Delenn to
+       violate _her_ beliefs so they wouldn't have to violate their own.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Kosh is aware that he was examined by Dr. Kyle (cf. [23]"The
+       Gathering".) When he's asked how _he_ would feel if a doctor
+       performed an operation on him, he says, "The avalanche has already
+       begun. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
+     * The Shakespeare corporation and the pfingle eggs are references to
+       David Gerrold's novels "Under the Eye of God" and "Covenant of
+       Justice."
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * By the way, here's something interesting: an outline got turned in
+       this week for an episode which I won't identify just now. Came in
+       from one of our writers, based on an assigned premise. It's
+       something you've never seen done in ANY SF-TV series, and I don't
+       think has ever been done in TV overall. A very daring little
+       story.
+       Word finally came back from our liaison with PTEN. "Number one,
+       this is absolutely against the demographics on the show. Number
+       two, no studio or network executive in his right *mind* would EVER
+       approve this story in a million years. Number three...it's a hell
+       of a story, I love it, let's do it."
+       This has been emblematic of our relationship with PTEN: they've
+       left us alone, and are trusting us in our storytelling. We want to
+       go right out to the very edge, and they're letting us, which is
+       wonderful. They've been, and continue to be, terrific to work
+       with.
+       If the end of this particular story doesn't absolutely floor you,
+       nothing will.
+     * When I developed the basic Believers story, and was looking for
+       someone to assign it to, David was the first person we went to. He
+       asked me at the time why him...he's more generally associated with
+       humorous stuff. I had my reasons. See, lately, David adopted a
+       young boy, about the same age as Shon. So about halfway into the
+       outline, David called and said, "NOW I understand." I knew that
+       having a child of his own now would mean that the story would be a
+       lot more personal. Especially the end scene, which I knew would
+       have to be done *very* carefully. I think David did a great job,
+       and under his guidance it turned into a very moving episode. And
+       with any luck, he'll write more down the road.
+     * There's some small amount of blurring that goes on in this show; a
+       freelancer turns in a script, and things get added. For instance,
+       there was a need to really tighten up the story in "Believers,"
+       which could best be done by bringing in a small B story, which
+       would allow us to streamline and intensify the main story. So I
+       wrote the B story and slipped it in.
+     * Today David Gerrold came by the set to watch some of the shooting
+       on his episode, "Believers." Unlike many shows, which basically
+       throw the writer off the set, our writers are welcome to hang
+       around. It's not only okay, it's *expected* that the writer will
+       be there at some point, to be a part of the process. David was
+       quite ebullient about the whole thing; he thinks that this is the
+       best script he's ever written, and it's being filmed exactly as
+       he'd hoped, if not better. So there he was, getting autographs,
+       muttering something about somebody named "Hugo...."
+       What was interesting was one comment he made, which echoed almost
+       verbatim something D.C. Fontana said when she came by the stage:
+       that the atmosphere on set, with the crew, the cast, the
+       production people is exactly the same as it was on the first
+       season of the original Star Trek.
+     * I know from pfingle eggs...I let David have the reference
+       because... well, I don't know anymore...I think water torture was
+       involved.
+     * _Who wrote Kosh's line about the avalanche?_
+       That was Gerrold, as I recall.
+     * _Similarity between "Believers" & a DS9 novel?_
+       A couple points. 1) When "Believers" was written, Peter's book
+       hadn't yet hit the stands. 2) Peter likely got his notion of the
+       sick kid and the religious parents from the same basic source we
+       did: the headlines. This has been an ongoing problem in real life
+       for some time. So he took that real premise, and did one story
+       based on it, and we did another extrapolation. This notion did
+       *not* originate in the Trek universe....
+     * And yeah, TV generally doesn't do this kind of ending. Which is
+       why we did it...and our liaison at Warner Bros. deserves a lot of
+       credit for letting us do it.
+     * It was important to tell David to pull no punches because in TV,
+       most producers *want* you to do so, and he had to know going in
+       that this was the way the story would go. David's a great writer,
+       and David's a professional...meaning he understands where the
+       general limits of TV are. If you're going to move the lines
+       around, it behooves you to tell your writer that. Knowing the
+       rules, he went out and did a bangup job on the episode.
+     * I view Delenn's comment about "suffering the interference of
+       others" in regards to matters of the soul in "Believers" to be a
+       reference to the Soul Hunter.
+     * What happened to Ivanova when she encountered the raiders? She got
+       away by long-distance firing as she retreated as fast as she
+       could, taking shots as she went. It wouldn't look real exciting in
+       the long run.
+     * How Ivanova got away from the Raiders was taking advantage of her
+       lead to run away, occasionally firing backward to deter pursuit,
+       until she got to the jumpgate. It wasn't really anything
+       dramatically interesting, and at that point you would start
+       distracting from the main plot...and that couldn't be allowed to
+       happen. There's really no place in the rest of the act where you
+       can cut in without destroying it. And in the tag there's no room
+       for the pursuit, only the arrival.
+     * Excuse me....
+       You don't think that "Believers" was SF. Tough.
+       No, it didn't have warp gates, or tachyon emitters, or lots of
+       technobabble...it was about people. And the dilemmas they face.
+       Part of what has screwed up so much of SF-TV is this sense that
+       you must utterly divorce yourself from current issues, from
+       current problems, from taking on issues of today and extrapolating
+       them into the future, by way of aliens or SF constructs. And that
+       is *precisely* why so much of contemporary SF-TV is barren and
+       lifeless and irrelevant...and *precisely* why such series as the
+       original Star Trek, and Outer Limits, and Twilight Zone are with
+       us today.
+       Like Rod Serling and Gene Roddenberry and Joe Stefano and Reginald
+       Rose and Arch Oboler and Norman Corwin and a bunch of other
+       writers whose typewriters I'm not fit to touch, my goal in part is
+       to simply tell good stories within an SF setting. And by SF I mean
+       speculative fiction, which sometimes touches on hard-SF aspects,
+       and sometimes doesn't. Speculative fiction means you look at how
+       society changes, how cultures interact with one another, how
+       belief systems come into conflict. And as someone else here noted
+       recently, anthropology and sociology are also sciences; soft
+       sciences, to be sure, but sciences nonetheless.
+       It's been pointed out that TV-SF is generally 20-30 years behind
+       print SF. This whole conversation proves the point quite
+       succinctly. In the 1960s or so, along came the New Wave of SF,
+       which eschewed hardware for stories about the human condition set
+       against an SF background. And the fanzines and prozines and
+       techno-loving pundits of hard-SF declared it heresy, said it
+       wasn't SF, this is crap. And eventually they were steamrolled, and
+       print SF grew up a little. Now the argument has come to settle
+       here. Well, fine. So be it.
+       I think it was Arthur C. Clarke who said that SF is anything I
+       point to and say, "That's SF." Go pick up a copy of "A Canticle
+       for Liebowitz," one of the real singular masterpieces of the
+       science fiction genre, and it won't fit the narrow criteria you've
+       set up for what qualifies as SF by your lights.
+       There is a tendency among the more radical hard-SF proponents to
+       stamp their feet and hold their breath until they turn blue, to
+       threaten that unless the book changes or the field comes around or
+       the series cottens to *their* specific, narrow version of what SF
+       is -- and that definition changes from person to person -- they'll
+       take their ball and their bat and go home. Fine and good. And the
+       millions who come to take their place in the bleachers and on the
+       field will get to have all the fun.
+       Some of our episodes will fit your definition of SF. Some will
+       not. This worries me not at all.
+     * The area that cannot be opened is the chest area, primarily; a
+       nick or cut or scratch really doesn't count; it's puncturing to
+       the body cavity wherein the soul is housed.
+     * No, the parents were not charged with murder. When a species on
+       the station acts against one of their own kind in a particular
+       way, and no other species is affected, they are judged by the laws
+       that apply to their own species and culture. In their culture,
+       what they did is not a crime, so they received no punishment. Had
+       they done this to a human, then yes, they would have been charged
+       with murder.
+     * I'm not quite sure if we're talking about the same thing; the two
+       parents never said that the kid would die if he underwent the
+       surgery, only that his soul would escape. This would leave him
+       "soul-dead," for lack of a better phrase. And how are we to tell
+       that they weren't right? I don't think it's quite as cut and dried
+       as you seem to present. (And again, they were acting very much out
+       of their real beliefs of how the universe operates. If someone
+       here is injured, and declared brain dead, most folks think it's
+       okay to pull the plug...even though one could make the argument
+       that there's still a living soul in the body. This is the opposite
+       situation; one may argue that there is still a mind somewhere in
+       the body, but the soul is dead or gone. The phrase they use is
+       that they put the shell out of its misery. To their mind, he was
+       dead already.)
+     * Actually, I disagree when you say that the doctor was right. Says
+       who? Not the parents. Not the episode. Nobody was really right,
+       when you come down to it, except maybe Sinclair, who made the
+       correct call. You say the boy was okay at the end...the parents
+       didn't think so. Who's to say if there was or wasn't a soul
+       inside?
+       I think David's script walked a very fine line and really didn't
+       endorse either side. (I've had people send me email upset because
+       we showed that the parents were right, and others because we said
+       the doctor was right, and others because neither was right and the
+       ambiguity bothered them.)
+     * Of course the surgical scars would've been a dead giveaway that
+       surgery had been performed. Also, lying to them would have also
+       been a violation of medical ethics. This was not a story about
+       easy solutions.
+     * There's a wonderful scene in "Fiddler on the Roof" where Tevya is
+       caught in an argument between two Rabbis. The first one makes a
+       point. "You're right!" Tevya says. The second Rabbi makes a
+       contradictory point. "You're right!" Tevya says. A third Rabbi,
+       looking on, says, "Wait a minute, they can't *both* be right."
+       "You know," Tevya says, "you're right too."
+     * A lot of our episodes are constructed to work as mirrors; you see
+       what you put into it. "Believers" has been interpreted as pro-
+       religion, anti-religion, and religion-neutral..."Quality" has been
+       interpreted, as you note, as pro-capital punishment, and
+       anti-capital punishment. We do, as you say, much prefer to leave
+       the decision on what things mean to the viewer to hash out.
+       A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the
+       occasional bar fight.
+     * The thing about "Believers" is that, really, nobody's right, and
+       in their own way, from their point of view, everybody's right.
+     * "The concept of loving parents being able to kill their child for
+       their religions seems to be unrealistic."
+       Funny...I seem to recall this little story in the Old Testament
+       about how a good and wise man was asked by god to sacrifice his
+       own son, to himself kill his own child, and he was willing to do
+       it, and was only stopped by god saying, in essence, "April fool."
+     * On the "predictable" argument...I can only shrug. The kid has a
+       50/50 chance...he'll survive or die. And guessing the end isn't,
+       for me, the key; this isn't a who-dunit; it's how our characters
+       react on the way there, and what it *does* to them, I think.
+     * Since I suggested the ending to David, right down to the candles,
+       I suppose I'll take the rap...but the question you're raising
+       isn't the issue. There are only two possible results: the kid
+       lives, or the kid dies, there ain't much in-between. You ask, "Who
+       on earth is going to side with people who kill their own child?"
+       The audience isn't being asked to *side* with anyone, there IS no
+       easy solution, and no one is 100% in the right.
+       There is a wonderful short story, which we adapted for Twilight
+       Zone, called "The Cold Equations," where a small shuttle is going
+       from point A to point B. There is enough fuel for the shuttle, and
+       one pilot, and no more. The ship is bringing medicine to save 500
+       colonists. A young girl has stowed away on the ship to see her
+       brother. She's discovered. If the pilot does nothing, the ship
+       won't arrive, and he and the girl will die, and the colonists will
+       die. If he sacrifices himself, she won't be able/won't know how to
+       guide the ship to its destination. The only way out is to ask her
+       to enter the airlock so he can space her and continue the mission.
+       And that's what happens. You can't argue with math.
+       Sometimes, there are no-win scenarios. And what matters then is
+       how your characters react, what they do and say, and how it
+       affects them. That, really, was the thrust of the episode. And to
+       go back to your question, "Who on earth is going to side...."
+       The operative word in your question is "Earth." No, no human is
+       going to side with them (although I'd point out in the Bible that
+       there is the story of Abraham, who was quite willing to murder his
+       own son at god's request). They're not humans. They have a wholly
+       different mindset, cultural background and belief system. People
+       ask for ALIEN aliens, then judge them by human standards, and feel
+       it's wrong if they don't behave like humans. These didn't. That's
+       who and what they are. If humans side with them, or accept them,
+       doesn't enter into it.
+     * The choice *had* to be either/or. That was the point; to put the
+       characters in a situation of conflict and see how they handle it.
+       Sometimes in life there are ONLY two choices, neither of them
+       good. Your message comes from a position of trying to avoid the
+       hard choices. But the episode is ABOUT hard choices. It *has* to
+       be either/or.
+       To support your thesis, you bring up the "Cold Equations"
+       alternate ending of the pilot cutting off both his legs to make up
+       the weight differential. Lemme explain something to you. I was
+       there. When we turned in the script, by Alan Brennert, MGM went
+       nuts. "You can't have a sympathetic young woman commit suicide!
+       It'll kill the ratings!" So they (the studio exec) suggested
+       various "fixes." One was that instead of stepping willingly out
+       the airlock, the pilot shoots her and has to deal with the guilt.
+       (This by them is a *better* idea?) The other was the notion of the
+       guy cutting off his legs to make up the weight.
+       First and foremost, it was a dumb idea because he'd be in no shape
+       to pilot the ship. Second it wouldn't be enough weight. And
+       finally, the very *nature* of "The Cold Equations," what the very
+       TITLE means, is that there are some occasions in which the choices
+       are stark, and there is NO way around them. If the ship has
+       X-weight, and the fuel is for Y weight, and Y is less than X, then
+       you've got a problem that can only -- ONLY -- be resolved by
+       someone walking out the airlock. (And yes, they tried dumping
+       things, but the ship is lean, not much to get rid of.) That's why
+       it's the COLD equations; not the LUKEWARM equations.
+       I fought like hell to retain the original ending, and won. (You
+       probably read about this, btw, in my articles for TZ Magazine.)
+       This is studio-think, let's find a nice, unthreatening, safe,
+       middle-ground where we can resolve this without anybody being
+       upset, threatened or offended by the story. I'm sorry, but life
+       sometimes hands you hard choices, there ARE either/or scenarios,
+       in which nobody really wins, and SF should be exploring those as
+       well as the fuzzy feel-good stories. It's time SF grew up a
+       little, damn it, and started confronting hard questions that can't
+       always be resolved by reversing the polarity on the metaphase
+       unit.
+     * Afterthought: I just wandered into the kitchen, still ranting (as
+       I am wont to do), explained it to Kathryn...who brought me up
+       short (as *she* is wont to do) by pointing out the antecedent to
+       BOTH stories. The ultimate "hard choice" example in SF-TV is of
+       course "The City on the Edge of Forever," fromST. There are only
+       two choices, both hard: either Edith Keeler dies, or the Nazis win
+       WW II. Kirk *has* to let her die; there's no other choice.
+       It is, at the same moment, gratifying and annoying to have someone
+       around who's smarter than I am....
+     * There were no changes in dialogue made in "Believers" subsequent
+       to the first airing.
+       
+
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+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Garibaldi's past catches up to him, with some disastrous
+     consequences. He's blamed by some for an accident aboard B5, which
+     leads to hitting the bottle again after a prolonged abstinence.
+     Elaine Thomas as Lianna Kemmer. Tom Donaldson as Cutter.
+     
+   Originally titled "A Knife in the Shadows"
+Sub-genre: Intrigue
+[15]P5 Rating: [16]7.65
+
+Production number:  111
+Original air date:  May 4, 1994
+
+Written by Mark Scott Zicree
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Garibaldi was a shuttle pilot on Mars before coming to Babylon 5.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Who was the assassin working for? Who wants Santiago dead?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Ivanova's reluctance to stop the countdown is suspicious. Perhaps
+       she had some reason to want the launch to take place; perhaps she
+       even knew what was going to happen if it did.
+     * Everyone from his past considers Garibaldi a no-good drunk. Why
+       did Sinclair give him a second chance? (Addressed in comic series,
+       [17]"Shadows Past and Present.")
+       
+Notes
+
+jms speaks
+
+     * "For scripts that are given to other writers do you find you do
+       much if any mental picturing of the episode? If so, how does that
+       affect the writing process between you and the other writer?"
+       No, you only get into that part of it when you're going to sit
+       down and actually WRITE the sucker. It's a matter of bringing in
+       the freelancer and (assuming s/he hasn't come up with a story
+       independent of me, which happened about 4-5 times in toto) saying,
+       "Okay, in this episode the giant blue penguins of Rigel 4 steal
+       Ivanova's shoes," or handing the person a few paragraphs to
+       several pages with detailed story notes. Then the person goes
+       away.
+       The first "mental picture" I have of it is when the writer brings
+       back an outline based on those notes. This is always hard for me,
+       as is the first draft script, because the characters rarely talk
+       like our characters talk. They don't sound right, don't always
+       behave consistently, there's bits of backstory that contradict
+       what's been established, and that has to get fixed. So it's like
+       seeing a distorted picture, and your job is to bring it closer
+       into focus.
+       (This is an inevitable aspect of freelancing. There simply isn't
+       time to learn all there is to know about a show before you begin
+       writing; you have to come in, do it fast, and then move on to the
+       next assignment if you're going to make a living at this. That's
+       the Freelance Life. I hate the Freelance Life. I like to stay
+       around, get to know the characters, rummage around inside their
+       heads and find what's there. Freelance scripts almost always tend
+       to be about the guest star character; if you look at mine, most of
+       them don't really tend to have a big guest character, with some
+       notable exceptions. I find our regular characters more than
+       sufficiently interesting.)
+       What's most ironic about the freelance situation is that you often
+       have people who say, "Straczynski oughta use more freelance
+       writers, they bring in perspectives he doesn't have." They cite
+       the "moment of perfect beauty" in Peter's script [[18]"There All
+       the Honor Lies"], Londo's "my shoes are too tight, and I have
+       forgotten how to dance," [[19]"The War Prayer"] the alien abductor
+       courtroom scene in Grail, Deathwalker's comments about how she
+       plans to create her monument...all of which are scenes or sections
+       I wrote and inserted into scripts by other people. (One of my best
+       lines for G'Kar is one I'm not credited for, in Zicree's script,
+       "The universe runs on the complex interweaving of three elements:
+       energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." I actually saw
+       some messages noting that jms never seems to be able to write
+       something that succinct. Well, actually...I did.)
+     * We're already doing it, and have done it. We've already begun
+       integrating "virtual sets" in with real ones. As an example...in
+       the next-to-last shot in "Survivors," someone is entering a ship
+       in the docking bay. The only real object in that room, aside from
+       the actor, is a ladder. Everything else is CGI...but you can't
+       tell.
+     * In "Survivors," we attempted a cgi/composite shot out the window,
+       which looks pretty spiffy, actually. It's in the teaser. We may do
+       this in future.
+     * The *reason* we had Garibaldi go through all the hoops he went
+       through before finally falling into the bottle is because simply
+       having Liana show up and depress Garibaldi isn't, frankly,
+       sufficient motivation. I don't buy it. We wanted to strip away
+       everything he had, and leave him with only *himself*. So we took
+       away his job, his reputation, his money, his home, neutralized his
+       friends wherever possible...it was deliberate and systematic to
+       peel him down to the bare essentials, to just Garibaldi. Take him
+       all the way down before taking him back up again. Because it's
+       more dramatically interesting. It's more logical that it would
+       take something this major to drive him back into the bottle after
+       staying sober all this time. I'm sorry, I don't accept your
+       suggestion that Liana's "anger and accusations" would "drive him
+       over the edge as he deals with his guilt." He's BEEN dealing with
+       his guilt, and her showing up wouldn't be enough to drive him back
+       into the bottle again. I'm sorry, but as a producer or a story
+       editor, I wouldn't buy that from a writer as being sufficient
+       motivation. Particularly not a character who's as strong and as
+       bull-headed as Garibaldi.
+     * What do I know about alcoholics, to portray them? Well, aside from
+       a degree in clinical psychology, and some internship work in the
+       area, I come from a family with alcoholism going back at least
+       four generations, and I'm talking *heavy duty*. I am, in fact, the
+       first male Straczynski in my branch of this particular stunted
+       tree NOT to have this problem.
+       I have had far, far, far more experience with this area than I
+       care to recite...and from that perspective, I have no problem with
+       Garibaldi's portrayal.
+     * Cutter went after Garibaldi only because that's who the dying
+       worker named as being responsible for the bomb. (He didn't know he
+       was dying, and wanted to throw blame; and even if he did know,
+       what better than to nail the guy who'd hassled him before?) Cutter
+       only took advantage of the situation.
+       Luis Santiago is playing it both ways, allowing more trade and
+       certain kinds of immigration, while preserving earth *culture*;
+       this isn't the same thing as a trade embargo.
+     * The name of General Netter was stuck in as a tweak to Doug, it's a
+       tuckerism (for those who know the term). We've done it a bit here
+       and there; I kinda started shutting the process down after a
+       while, since it was getting carried away. I don't want it to be
+       obtrusive.
+     * I think Kemmer's name was inspired by the actor's name from the
+       Space Patrol series....
+     * The Drazi are a very violent, ill-tempered species; they were the
+       ones who first showed up in "Deathwalker" in a Sunhawk to threaten
+       the station; they beat up the guy in "The War Prayer;" they show
+       up here in "Survivors;" there's an episode about a form of martial
+       arts among the aliens that has a Drazi going at it...if there's a
+       fight around, you can often find a Drazi at the center of it or at
+       least nearby.
+     * I think you're taking what I said to the extreme; I didn't say
+       [the Drazi] were bloodthirsty savages, only that they had a
+       predilection toward violence, and were generally very cranky. And
+       not all great thinkers have to sit around in elizabethan garb,
+       delicate flowers watching the skies rotate. Aggressive people can
+       be good thinkers; it needn't be one or the other.
+     * ...the end of "Survivors," where Kemmer enters her ship...in
+       reality there is only a ladder there. The ship, the walls, the
+       door she enters, all that is CGI/virtual set.
+       
+
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
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+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/011.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/011.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/010.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/012.html
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+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/011.html#JS
+  15. file://localhost/lurk/p5/intro.html
+  16. file://localhost/lurk/p5/011
+  17. file://localhost/lurk/comic/005.html
+  18. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/036.html
+  19. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/007.html
+  20. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  21. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/011.html#TOP
+  22. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
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+  24. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/010.html
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     An accident in the docking area kills a worker, threatening to
+     spark an illegal strike. Londo interferes in an important Narn
+     religious observation which leads to a confrontation between him
+     and G'Kar. [15]John Snyder as Orin Zento. [16]Katy Boyer as Neeoma
+     Connoly. [17]Aki Aleong as Senator Hidoshi.
+     
+   Originally titled "Backlash"
+Sub-genre: Drama
+[18]P5 rating: [19]7.84
+
+Production number:  114
+Original air date:  May 11, 1994
+
+Written by Kathryn Drennan
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * The Narn homeworld is 12 Narn light years away, about 10 Earth
+       light years.
+     * Narn ranks seem to connote some kind of religious authority; the
+       highest-ranked Narn is expected to lead religious services.
+     * The Rush Act, put in place during the Earth-Minbari War, allows
+       the Earth government to break up labor strikes using any means
+       necessary.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * How much trouble did Londo go through to get the G'Quan Eth plant,
+       and did he do it solely to upset G'Kar?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * The Earth government has a very low tolerance for troublemakers,
+       it seems -- at least, troublemakers who operate in the open.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The G'Quan Eth plant, used in Narn religious rituals, is prized by
+       the Centauri for use as a pleasure drug, a use the Narn consider
+       sacrilige.
+     * The Rush Act was named after conservative American television and
+       radio commentator [20]Rush Limbaugh.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * Nearly all of our production crew appear in "By Any Means
+       Necessary" at various spots; the guy yelling "I say we STRIKE!" is
+       our director, Jim Johnston. And yes, John Flinn ["Grail"] was
+       played by John Flinn, our DP.
+     * The Rush Act only refers to unions, for the most part; it's not a
+       wide-ranging law. It was developed during the Earth/Minbari war to
+       deal quickly and effectively with corporations or unions which
+       were being difficult and otherwise holding up the war effort. (The
+       air traffic controllers union would be a good example of the
+       government doing whatever it felt necessary to resolve the
+       situation.) The law grants extraordinary power to resolve any kind
+       of strike or union action which endangers the operation of a
+       military base or other military operation, as Zento states. It
+       applies only to that area, and remains on the books, though (as is
+       also pointed out) it hasn't been used in a while.
+     * _A UK poster inquires about Rush Limbaugh, for whom the Rush Act
+       in this episode was named_
+       Re: who is Rush Limbaugh....
+       Leading American proctologist.
+       Trust me.
+     * Sinclair's decision is legal...but not politic, and it will come
+       back as one of many decisions to haunt him in "Eyes."
+     * As for happy endings...you want some variety, I think; we had a
+       tough ending in "Believers," a bittersweet ending in "Survivors,"
+       and here things worked out for G'Kar and Connoly, but in a way did
+       *not* work out for Sinclair. He's going to be hearing about this
+       decision of his again, in the not too distant future. He's getting
+       further and further behind the eight-ball with some of these
+       decisions, and he's going to get hammered about it.
+     * Exactly my point; there are differences between similar alien
+       groups (like the Narn) in culture, language and religion, with
+       BAMN being a good demonstration of the latter. Which is why I
+       could only shrug and say "Wait" after people started hammering on
+       me here about monolithic alien religions after "Parliament." We'd
+       already filmed BAMN by then, so I knew it was there. That's one
+       thing about this show that some have found out...generally, what
+       you'd like us to do, we've probably done or are about to do (hence
+       the many times, when I'm asked about something, that we can just
+       say, "Wait until X airs in 2 weeks" or somesush).
+       Still dancing as fast as I can....
+     * The writer for "By Any Means Necessary" is Kathryn Drennan, who is
+       very astute politically, a believer in the rights of workers (and
+       all folks, actually), and think that characters are more
+       interesting if they act smart than if they act stupid.
+     * Kathryn's last name is Drennan. Her full credit is Kathryn M.
+       Drennan. Not Straczynski. Probably displaying considerable wisdom
+       on her part. Ten thousand letters, no vowels.
+       Absent a collaboration on a series of articles for TZ Magazine a
+       few years ago (a guide to the Night Gallery series), we don't
+       collaborate. Ever. I also don't collaborate with Larry D., or any
+       other of my writer friends. As I learned before, particularly on
+       the one occasion when Larry and I tried it -- we co-wrote a pilot
+       and bible for CBS based on the "Elfquest" books -- all parties
+       concerned will live a LOT longer by keeping a respectable
+       distance.
+     * One thing I can mention now, since it's nearly finished: see, I
+       have this real problem with nepotism. Specifically...I hate it. As
+       a result, I make people I know work twice as hard. The closer the
+       tie, the more the person has to work to prove him or herself.
+       Kathryn Drennan, my Spousal Overunit, is also a writer, and has
+       written for many other shows, primarily in animation, but with
+       some forays into other areas. (She was co-author on the Night
+       Gallery series of articles I wrote for Twilight Zone Magazine, as
+       one fr'instance, and was a producer with public televison for some
+       time.)
+       Anyway, she desperately wanted to write a B5 script. But because
+       of my feelings about nepotism, I refused to give her an
+       assignment. (I can be a REAL pain in the ass.) Something similar
+       happened when I was working on The Real Ghostbusters; she loved
+       the show, and wanted to write for it. I put her through the
+       wringer: she had to submit written premises, just like any other
+       freelance writer, which were then sent on to the producers for
+       final approval. They did not know of any relation between her and
+       me; they based their approval only on the merits of the story.
+       Period. And she ended up writing two episodes: "Egon's Dragon" and
+       "The Man Who Never Reached Home." (The former is considered a
+       favorite by many viewers of the show.) Only long after we finished
+       production did the exec producers on TRGBs learn that there was a
+       relationship there; it was all based on the quality of the work.
+       But in the case of B5, I *am* the exec producer, so it became more
+       difficult. At first I said simply no. Finally, I set into place a
+       number of conditions/provisions. NOT because she wouldn't do a
+       great script, but only because I don't like the look of nepotism;
+       I hate it, and I hate the way this town operates on the principles
+       of nepotism. The conditions were that she had to write the script
+       completely on spec, no assignment; not a spec outline, which is
+       shorter, but a spec *script*. It would then have to pass muster
+       in-house; if even one person thought it wasn't up to snuff, it got
+       deep sixed. And revisions would not be handled by me, for the most
+       part; she would have to work with Larry, who has a reputation (as
+       Katherine Lawrence can attest) to not pulling his punches. No
+       favoritism. Then the script would have to pass muster with
+       Warners. IF, after all that, the script was approved, then it
+       would be bought, and not a moment before. If anywhere along the
+       line it didn't meet one of those criteria...then it would be a 50
+       page learning experience and nothing more.
+       Well, I'm pleased to say that it *did* pass muster with everyone,
+       and "By Any Means Necessary" is now over halfway through
+       production, with a number of people -- including Michael O'Hare --
+       saying it's their favorite so far, mainly for very odd reasons.
+       The premise is one that ST would never, EVER do, which is one
+       thing I like about it; it also shows us more on the inner workings
+       of B5, the blue-collar types who keep the whole place
+       operational...and what happens when that falls apart. The B story
+       gets into a confrontation between G'Kar and Londo when Londo
+       interferes in an important Narn religious observation.
+       We brought back John Snyder (Soul Hunter #2) minus prosthetics for
+       one guest role, and Katy Boyer as our other guest star. They're
+       both doing terrific jobs, and it's a very intense script in which
+       we basically put Sinclair through the wringer for 48 hours and try
+       and make him absolutely nuts. And succeed, for the most part.
+       Anyway...there you have it.
+     * The reference in "By Any Means" is to Matewan, where a terrible
+       labor strike took place (and a film was made about it); the other
+       is Matawan, which is where I lived for a while, but the reference
+       is to the former, not the latter.
+       
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+  20. http://www.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Radio/Programs/Political/Rush_Limbaugh/
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+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     A sharp increase in raider activity has the station on the
+     defensive. Londo obtains a priceless Centauri artifact. A
+     mysterious stranger visits the station's alien ambassadors.
+     [15]Gerrit Graham as Lord Kiro. Fredi Olster as Lady Ladira. [16]Ed
+     Wasser as Morden.
+     
+   (Originally titled "Raiding Party")
+Sub-genre: Action/intrigue
+[17]P5 rating: [18]9.01
+
+Production number:  116
+Original air date:  May 18, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * The Minbari refused to support Babylon 5 until Commander Sinclair
+       was named as the Earth Alliance representative.
+     * The emperor of the Centauri hasn't been seen in public for some
+       time, contributing to an erosion of the government's credibility
+       in the eyes of the Centauri populace.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Who or what is Morden, and who does he represent?
+     * What do Delenn and Kosh know about him?
+     * Why did the Minbari want Sinclair in charge of the station?
+     * How big and organized are the raiders?
+     * What impact will the Eye have on Londo's career? Will he even
+       return it to the Emperor, or will he try to use it for his own
+       gain?
+     * How did Mr. Reno get his hands on the Eye?
+     * How did Morden's associates locate the raiders and recover the
+       Eye?
+     * Who will escape on the shuttle in Ladira's vision? When will the
+       vision come true, if ever, and what will the circumstances be?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Delenn and Kosh clearly have some sort of perception beyond normal
+       senses, be it telepathy or something else. Kosh's seems to be much
+       more advanced.
+     * Delenn's perception seems to be connected to the appearance of the
+       triangle on her forehead. Note that this triangle was also present
+       when Sinclair was interrogated by the Grey Council at the Battle
+       of the Line (cf. [19]"And the Sky Full of Stars.")
+     * Kosh recognized what Morden was immediately. That suggests
+       previous contact between the Vorlons and Morden's people.
+     * Kosh said, "They are not for you," referring to humans, though
+       that's not completely clear from the episode itself. (See [20]jms
+       speaks)
+     * Morden and Kosh appeared to have fought, resulting in the damage
+       to Kosh's encounter suit. Since Morden continued to go about his
+       business, perhaps Kosh capitulated or lost the fight, or perhaps
+       he was only interested in stopping Morden from seeing Sinclair.
+       One interesting thing about this alleged fight is the light that
+       shatters behind Morden as the scene ends -- just a power surge
+       from the attack, or something else at work?
+     * Babylon 5 may be destined for destruction, apparently with only a
+       single shuttle escaping in time. (cf. [21]"Babylon Squared")
+     * Where did Morden's disembodied voice come from at the end?
+       
+Notes
+
+     * This episode has the most complex battle sequence to date,
+       spanning nearly an act and a half.
+     * The raider on Babylon 5 is "Six," a tip of the hat to "The
+       Prisoner."
+     * Ed Wasser, the actor who played Morden, also appeared as the main
+       C&C technician in the pilot movie, [22]"The Gathering." The same
+       character? JMS won't say.
+     * As Sinclair and Garibaldi left the lavatory, another person
+       entered. From the person's appearance, it seemed to be a woman,
+       even though they were leaving the men's room (the "Male" symbol
+       was clearly visible on the wall outside.)
+     * This episode's title may be a nod to Norman Corwin, one of JMS'
+       favorite writers. Corwin's radio drama "On a Note of Triumph,"
+       broadcast at the end of World War II, examined how the war started
+       and what lessons it carried, and contemplated what would happen
+       once it was over. The quote in question:
+       
+     Signs and portents!
+     It was no furtive tapping on the window sill at night,
+     But clamorous pounding in the public square.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * We're retitling "Raiding Party" (which I always figured was a
+       working title, too prosaic) to "Signs and Portents." Figured it'd
+       be nice to have one episode title per (projected) year carrying
+       the year-arc title.
+     * "Signs and Portents" is the overall title for year one; but just
+       as one may entitle a chapter in a book the same as the book
+       itself, this episode has the year-title in it (which may signify
+       that this one is, well, significant....).
+     * What did Kosh mean by "they?" And who's on the shuttle?
+       They refers to humans. There was no need to ask Sinclair, and he
+       was under orders not to. And who is on that shuttle...is an
+       excellent question.
+     * Why the same old launching scene?
+       I tend to agree re: the launching shots. There were going to be
+       some new ones for S&P, but there were SO many new shots in that
+       one that we just ran out of rendering time. There's some new ones
+       coming, though, and very dramatic looking, in "Babylon Squared"
+       and the two-parter.
+     * I agree; Ed [Wasser, who played Morden] did a great job. He was
+       perfect for that role. (He has an oddly Rod Serling-ish quality to
+       his stance, I've noticed.) And he will definitely be seen again.
+     * Ed Wasser is sort of our discovery; I pretty much wrote the part
+       of Morden with him in mind for the role. He's great in it.
+     * You noticed that too, huh? Surprised me, too. We'd cast him in the
+       part of Morden, then the first day's dailies come in, and his
+       stance, his manner, the way he looks...we all looked at the TV and
+       said, more or less at once, "Holy shit, it's Rod Serling!"
+     * Funny story. Saw Ed Wasser ("Morden") the other day, and asked him
+       if he'd had any reaction to his first appearance on the show. Just
+       one, he said. He was in a florist shop, picking out some stuff for
+       a friend who was sick. The proprieter came over, asked, "What do
+       you want?" Ed sorta mumbled about wanting some flowers. "What do
+       you want?" the owner asked again. Ed -- still not getting it --
+       said he was looking for some nice stuff for a friend who was sick.
+       "Yes, but what do you *want*?" the owner asked. At which point Ed
+       finally twigged to what was going on. He said afterward that it
+       really *is* an unnerving approach, which was kinda the point.
+       Of course, the owner then added that he thought the scene was from
+       DS9, but what the hell, it's an imperfect universe.
+     * One lovely thing about "Signs and Portents," which you picked up
+       on, is something I like to play with; implying one thing while
+       saying the opposite. Look at all the shadow's main representative,
+       Morden, does: he asks people what they want; he gets tossed out of
+       Delenn's quarters; he is pleasant in his demeanor at all times,
+       never yells, always smiles, and is courteous; he takes an action
+       which saves one of our main characters, Londo, from disgrace and
+       resignation, and helps in the process of scragging the bad guys in
+       the episode.
+       And yet everyone walks away thinking that the shadows are bad.
+       Which was of course the intent...by the way in which they did
+       "good."
+       Kosh prevents humanity from achieving immortality, scares the hell
+       out of Talia (cf. [23]"Deathwalker",) never gives anyone a
+       straight answer, doesn't seem to mind it if people fear him...and
+       we walk away with the presumption that he is good, by virtue of
+       the way in which he did things that were "bad."
+       [...] This is something I do a lot in my scripts, which I don't
+       generally see a lot of other people doing. You *really* have to
+       construct the script very carefully to pull something like this
+       off...a little game between me and the audience.
+     * Morden tried to find out what the ambassadors would like. Morden
+       arranged to rescue an important Centauri artifact. Morden helped
+       wipe out the crooks. Morden saved Londo's career, and asked for
+       nothing in return.
+       And yet we get the sense that Morden is a bad guy.
+       Kosh destroys our chance for immortality. Refuses to get involved
+       in the affairs of others. Is plainly studying us. Terrorizes one
+       of our main characters, Talia, for unknown reasons.
+       And yet we get the sense that Kosh is a good guy.
+       If anyone should ask, I really *love* writing this show....
+     * Actually, the origin of "What do you want?" comes from encounter
+       groups I've run, and from other kinds of group psychotherapy, such
+       as the original Synanon games; you ask, "Who are you?" over and
+       over, refusing to take the same answer twice, to peel away the
+       fabric of what the person is. It's a slight jump to "What do you
+       want?" (I knew that degree in Psychology would come in handy one
+       of these days.)
+     * Why Londo? Because he was the one who answered Morden's question
+       correctly. Things happen for a *reason* that is suited to who the
+       person is. G'Kar's ambitions aren't nearly big enough; Delenn
+       knows better than to get near these guys; Kosh is against them;
+       the EA are being kept at arm's length for now, the non-aligned
+       worlds aren't big enough...so here we are.
+     * There would have been more than one answer that would have
+       sufficed, but one answer was better than all the rest. Just the
+       right mix of resentment, nostalgia, ambition, frustration and a
+       sense of displaced destiny. Londo was hitting all those cylinders
+       when he answered Morden's question.
+     * "jms, what do YOU want?"
+       I'll have fries with that.
+     * The working name for the sixth race is the Shadowmen.
+     * I named them Shadows after the Jungian notion of the Shadow, which
+       is the part of the mind which is all desire, and is destructive.
+     * David: you hit it *exactly* on the head. Again, as you point out,
+       stuff here operates on a lot of different levels. I try, where I
+       can, to make a given scene do more than one thing. The hall
+       argument is a good example of this. The script stipulated a human
+       being stuck between G'Kar and Londo. Not any other race. Had to be
+       a human. Because that becomes emblematic of how we're stuck
+       between the two sides in the war, something which is *very*
+       strongly brought home in the next batch of episodes.
+       Obviously, the first most important thing in that scene is just
+       the gag, the humor. It has to work on that level, and that's how
+       it came to me first: just the gag. Then, when it came time to
+       write it, that's when I start poking at things to see if I can
+       layer on another level of meaning, and I saw a way to do a little
+       (very little) visual foreshadowing of stuff to come. Didn't matter
+       if anybody ever noticed it or not; it was never really intended to
+       be of much note, just a little item that becomes a nice bit of
+       irony later.
+     * Londo does not have the Eye. If he'd failed to turn it over, his
+       career would've been ruined; getting it back was the only thing
+       that kept him on B5.
+     * There's a reason Morden didn't go to the Earth Alliance.
+     * The raiders are gone for good, yes.
+     * _Re: Happy endings and non-happy endings_
+       As for "Signs and Portents," I don't quite know *how* to
+       characterize the ending on that one. Someone gets what they
+       wanted, but this may or may not be a good thing. I'd say basically
+       it has an ominous ending. We do try to keep it a mixed bag...one
+       person may achieve a niceness, but somebody else pays the price,
+       or gets nailed.
+     * Like Tolkien, and Jonathan Carroll, whose wonderful books start
+       out looking very nice and comfortable...and gradually take you to
+       someplace strange and dark and unique...I've tried to apply a
+       similar structure to Babylon 5. It seems to be chugging along at a
+       good clip along relatively familiar terrain. Now my job is to walk
+       up alongside the story with a crowbar and give it a good, hard
+       WHAM! to move it into a different trajectory. "Parliament" was
+       just sort of a preliminary nudge. "And the Sky Full of Stars" was
+       a good, solid WHAM! This week's episode, "Signs and Portents," is
+       another WHAM, even bigger than the one that precedes it.
+       There are two more major WHAM episodes: "Babylon Squared," dealing
+       with the fate of Babylon 4, and "Chrysalis," our season ender,
+       which is really more of an atomic bomb rather than a crowbar. So
+       roughly about one-fourth of this season's episodes are WHAM
+       episodes. That figure will increase in year two to about
+       one-third. Year three (Neilsen willing) will be half-WHAM and
+       hal-not. Year four would be three-quarters WHAM. And year five is
+       all WHAM.
+     * Let me dive in and take issue with you. The problem you seem to
+       have with the show(s) is alas a part of basic dramatic structure.
+       You have an introduction, a rising action, a climax, and then a
+       denouement. Aside from experimental theater kinds of things, that
+       is the basic underlying structure to all movies, plays and
+       television series.
+       "Twin Peaks," which you cite, really isn't a very good example
+       because, in my view, TP *never* resolved ANYthing. Thus it became
+       an exercise in viewer frustration that eventually was a major
+       reason why the show was canceled.
+       The first batch of B5 episodes tended to be a little more self
+       contained because, remember, we're trying to bring viewers in
+       here, and do so without startling or pissing them off. We get a
+       little funkier the deeper into the show we get. In some cases, as
+       with "Sky," parts of the story are resolved, parts aren't.
+       Generally, it's our feeling that if you have an open-ended B
+       story, you generally have to include an A story that has some
+       measure of closure.
+       "Signs and Portents" and "Babylon Squared" are two episodes
+       offhand that I think are emblematic of what you're asking for. The
+       A story in "Signs" is resolved...but that episode really isn't
+       *about* the A story, it's about something unusual that happens
+       with the B story that begins to set a lot of things in motion for
+       this season. And that story is ended, but not *resolved*, if you
+       get the distinction.
+     * What you address in the last bit of the music in "Signs" is what
+       I've been trying to get across. The theme music appearing there is
+       not quite what we use otherwise. I suggested to Chris that it'd be
+       cool to have the B5 theme there in *minor keys* or minor chords.
+       It's a somewhat different version, and playing a theme in minor
+       instead of major keys or chords makes it somber, sad, unsettling.
+       We've just seen B5 explode, and doing that particular riff on the
+       theme seemed to both of us a good idea. Play it again, then the
+       regular theme, and you'll see the difference.
+     * We've done a lot with themes over the season, and plan to do more,
+       developing themes for all our characters. I like interpolating
+       bits and pieces of the B5 theme into parts of the show; the
+       minor-key version at the end of "Signs" has always struck me as
+       very effective.
+     * Re: the theme music at the end of"Signs," I think it was me (but I
+       could be mistaken) who suggested to Chris, our composer, that he
+       use the theme, but in *minor chords* rather than major chords.
+       Makes it very sad, and very effective.
+     * Overall, though, I've always told Chris to push it...to go
+       absolutely as far with the music as he wants. If it goes too far,
+       we can always pull it back or duck it down a little. Basically,
+       I'm a rock-and-roll kind of guy...I like my music loud, and I like
+       a LOT of it. This show is often wall-to-wall music. Chris often
+       composes as much as 20-25 minutes of new music per episode; most
+       hour shows have maybe 13-16 minutes of music per hour episode. And
+       he is often called upon by us to do some VERY long cues. Often, TV
+       music is just there to cover a transition (10-20 seconds), or
+       establish a mood at the top or bottom of a scene, and get out (1
+       minute to 1 minute-30 seconds average). We have many, MANY cues on
+       this show that go 2, 3, even 4 minutes. I think we actually had a
+       6 minute cue at one point in one episode. Check act 3 of "Signs
+       and Portents" and see how much music we crammed into that act;
+       it's almost non-stop.
+     * _Re: The elevator scene_
+       For as long as I've been writing, I've had a very simple belief
+       that comes across with B5 as well: try to get in one really great
+       action moment,minimum one real nice character moment, one solid
+       dramatic moment...and one moment or scene that's fall-down funny.
+       I like humor. I like that characters can show another side of
+       themselves. If there is any real test of sentience, one of them
+       must surely be the possession of a sense of humor, since it
+       requires self reflection. And there is always unintentional (on
+       the part of the character, at least) humor.
+       SF-TV has generally taken itself either too seriously, with rods
+       up butts, the humor forced...or it's not taken itself seriously at
+       ALL, and gone campy. This show takes itself seriously, but not in
+       quite a way that lets it fit in either category.
+       For me, as a viewer, I enjoy the shows that are roller-coasters,
+       that take you from something very funny...and slam you headfirst
+       into a very dramatic scene. Hill Street was like that, Picket
+       Fences is like that now...why not SF? I've also found that humor
+       can help you reveal things about the characters. The Londo/G'Kar
+       scene at the elevator in "Signs and Portents," for instance. It
+       says something about both of them without coming out and *saying*
+       it.
+     * In general, you don't see a lot of light reflecting off other
+       objects when there's an explosion because in general those objects
+       aren't close enough to cause a reflection. Now, in "Signs," which
+       comes up in a couple weeks, there's explosions near a large
+       object, and there we do get some reflected light.
+     * To have a station commander *and* a rep for Earth can be
+       cumbersome in many ways, when someone has to give orders. It's
+       cleaner this way; and no different than any of the sailing vessels
+       of the 18th century and before, when each captain was viewed as,
+       and expected to perform as, the official representative of his
+       country.
+       There is, however, a second agenda at work here, which you'll find
+       out about a bit in "Raiding Party" ["Signs and Portents"].
+     * There's not a lot of CGI in either "Legacies" or "The Quality of
+       Mercy" (which will follow "Raiding Party" in the production
+       lineup), because neither story really called for it. But there's a
+       *lot* in "Raiding Party," some of it very elaborate. By way of
+       comparison, in an average B5 episode, a script from beginning to
+       end has about 60 or 70 setups (a setup is a numbered scene or
+       shot, i.e., INT. SCOCKPIT or INT. ZEN GARDEN). "Raiding Party" has
+       around 112 setups. That's more than in some movies. It's a *very*
+       busy script.
+     * Yes, we're doing virtual sets...and there's a doozy in the first
+       little bit of act one in "Signs and Portents."
+     * Yes, this is the actual text of a script. And a script contains
+       scene descriptions, dialogue, directions. (Contrary to popular
+       opinion, the actors don't just make up their lines when they hit
+       the stage, based on loose ideas by somebody.) My scripts tend to
+       be *very* detailed, with camera movement suggestions, optical
+       notes, indications of dissolves vs. cuts, on and on. A typical
+       scene might look like this:
+  EXT. BABYLON 5 - ESTABLISHING
+
+  A scuttleship unloads cargo from a transport parked alongside the
+  station.  PAN ACROSS with the scuttleship, tracking with it until
+  it passes into the docking bay, then DOWN TO the observation dome
+  window, where we can just see into
+
+  INT. OBSERVATION DOME
+
+  where Lieutenant-Commander IVANOVA stands at the console, cup in
+  hand, staring bleakly out into the starscape as SINCLAIR comes up
+  alongside.
+
+                     IVANOVA
+          I hate mornings...I've always had a
+          hard time getting up when it's dark
+          outside.
+
+                     SINCLAIR
+          We're in space.  It's always dark
+          outside.
+
+                     IVANOVA
+                (forlornly)
+          I know...I know....
+   (That, by the way, is a slight re-do of an actual shot from "Raiding
+       Party.")
+       A script page, single-spaced, works out to about the same wordage
+       as a double-spaced prose fiction page, about 225-250 words per.
+     * _Why was the ship in Lady Ladira's name instead of Lord Kiro's?_
+       Ladira was Kiro's aunt, and much of the family money/property is
+       in her name.
+     * I think that the Eye was returned the next day, so there was a
+       goodly span between Ladira's vision, and the scene in Londo's
+       quarters.
+     * _What became of the Eye?_
+       The eye is now safely back home and on display.
+     * I hate to burst your bubble, but the Raider ship *was* rotating.
+       Look at it again. It's most visible when the ship is being
+       photographed from behind with B5 in the background. You can see
+       the round part of the ship rotating (with the docking bay at
+       center).
+       
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
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+Overview
+
+     An old friend of Garibaldi's arrives and tries to take part in a
+     dangerous alien combat sport. A rabbi helps Ivanova come to terms
+     with her father's death. [15]Theodore Bikel as Rabbi Koslov.
+     [16]Greg McKinney as Walker Smith. [17]Soon-Tek Oh as The Muta-Do.
+     [18]Don Stroud as Caliban.
+     
+Sub-genre: Drama
+[19]P5 rating: [20]6.41
+
+Production number:  119
+Original air date:  May 25, 1994
+
+Written by Larry DiTillio
+Directed by John Flynn
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Ivanova's brother Ganya was killed in the Earth-Minbari war a year
+       after her mother committed suicide.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+Analysis
+
+     * The fact that aliens of several races -- including a Centauri --
+       all seemed to agree that humans had no business fighting in the
+       Mutai seems to indicate that there is a lot of resentment toward
+       humans among the other races, enough that they see the distinction
+       between humans and themselves as much greater than the
+       distinctions between each other.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Walker Smith was the real name of famed boxer Sugar Ray Robinson.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * At one point, there was a discussion in the scene about the whole
+       gills/scales/fins issue, to define kosher...but it *really*
+       brought the scene to a screaming standstill, and we needed to
+       concentrate on the relationships at that moment. In addition, as
+       we looked at it, you would have to get into the question of how
+       alien gills/scales/fins compare to earthly gills/scales/fins,
+       because they're going to be very different in many ways. In short
+       order it became a massive Talmudic discussion, and we only have an
+       hour for the show....
+     * Babylon 5 (the show) got not a dime for sticking in the [21]Zima
+       sign. We just thought...well, it'd be funny.
+     * Yes, slappers = skin tabs, for introducing medication. The ones in
+       TKO had been stolen from B5 medsupplies.
+     * Through a miscommunication, Warners thought TKO was in the slot in
+       which we'd placed Quality [of Mercy], so that went out to TV
+       Guide, and it's now too late to change the order back. Doesn't
+       matter; neither are really arc-stories, though it was hoped to
+       hold back some of Susan's development in TKO just a tad longer.
+     * It was Larry's idea to name the character Walker Smith, after
+       Sugar Ray Robinson.
+     * If the deceased has been dead for quite a while, the period during
+       which one must sit shiva is greatly reduced to a day or so, I'm
+       told.
+     * Larry wrote the shiva stuff all on his lonesome. As for being an
+       abbreviated version...apparently shiva lasts 3 days for someone
+       recently deceased. If it's been months since the death, the
+       service is usually much shorter, and again, there was only Ivanova
+       and Koslov who actually were part of or knew the deceased.
+     * I'm told that shiva need not last 7 full days, if the death was
+       not recent, and if the body has already been buried.
+     * Now, on the samovar issue...whatever your background, if your
+       family grew up in Russia and has been there for several hundred
+       years or more -- and the Ivanov family has been there since at
+       LEAST the 1800s -- you do become part of the culture. That, as I
+       always understood it, was part of the reason for making sure
+       children learned hebrew, yiddish *and* the dominant language of
+       the culture, to give their kids a fighting chance in a difficult
+       world. It's not so much a case of the culture assimiliating the
+       individual (though certainly that happens as well), but the
+       individual INCORPORATING the culture.
+       Ivanova is jewish. Ivanova is russian. Of the two, she tends to
+       see herself as a russian first. There's no value statement there,
+       that's just the way she is. Her parents were both russian, going
+       back many generations on both sides. Some in her family tree were
+       jewish, and some were not; there was some intermarrying. That may
+       be part of why she sees herself as more russian than jewish, but
+       it may be just a quirk.
+       (And to the protest of, "Well, you created her," yes, I did. But
+       there comes a time, if you've done your job right as a writer,
+       when the character more or less takes over, and starts telling YOU
+       who and what he or she is. There are times I mentally turn to
+       Ivanova and say, "Okay, what do *you* think?" And she talks to me
+       in my head, as do all of my characters. It's part of making your
+       characters real.)
+       When she went off to boarding school overseas -- part of an
+       ongoing international system put into place by EarthGov to help
+       its various member nations get along with one another -- she
+       identified most strongly with that russian aspect in relation to
+       those around her. She learned to speak English without a
+       perceptible accent.
+       The samovar is a valued and valuable part of russian life. It is
+       the family hearth, on one level, a possession passed on from
+       generation to generation. Knowing that Ivanova was not terribly
+       religious herself, he would generally not leave her any of his
+       personal religious artifacts, but would dnate them to the local
+       synagogue, while some, like a menorah, might go to other
+       relatives. People who could appreciate them and use them. The
+       samovar is a very personal object; to the correspondent with a
+       fiance who is russian...*I* am byeloruss, white-russian,
+       one-and-a-half generation American born. And I can tell you that
+       the biggest fights I've ever seen over bequeaths were over a)
+       money, and b) the samovar.
+       The problem with this discussion is that it has very little to do
+       with who Susan Ivanova *is*, and more to do with the politics of
+       what a russian or a jew or a russian jew *should be*. She is what
+       she is, like it or not.
+     * "The remark: '...pouting in that way that only 13 can...'"
+       . . . the comment is essentially correct; ain't nobody can pout
+       like a 13 year old.
+     * To the problems some have with Theodore Bikell's accent not
+       sounding real...it's my understanding that he was raised in
+       Russia.
+       Ivanova does not have an accent because she was educated overseas,
+       her father wanting her to have certain advantages the rest of her
+       family did not.
+       Nowhere did we say that Andrei or the rest of the Ivanov family
+       ever emigrated. They didn't. They live in Russia. Or lived, in any
+       event. Not everyone migrates to the US or to Israel, and not
+       everyone wants to.
+       On the treel/kosher discussion...I can only shrug. Nobody's ever
+       shown that jews go forward into the future, placed them at the
+       heart of a science fiction show as a regular character, nobody's
+       shown shiva before in (and possibly out of) an SF series...and
+       some folks are complaining that not every aspect of a treel's
+       kosher-ness was discussed at dinnertime.
+       Some days, you just can't win....
+       Feh.
+     * _What was that Harlan Ellison book Ivanova was reading?_
+       The book is Harlan's autobiography, which he plans to write around
+       the year 2000, and yes, that's his photo. (He borrowed the prop
+       when we were finished and casually carried it with him to a few
+       places, just to make people nuts thinking there was a book out
+       they'd missed....)
+     * [Posted 28 May 1994] BTW, there's an interesting couple of
+       articles about this episode in this week's Jewish Journal, for
+       another perspective on the show.
+     * _Channel 4 in the UK didn't show "TKO" during the initial run_
+       TKO's main importance is to the Ivanova arc, as she finally comes
+       to terms with her father's death. Do I have an opinion on C4's
+       decision not to show TKO?
+       Absolutely.
+     * If the problem is showing bare-kunckle fighting to the death, then
+       somebody should point out to C4 that *nobody dies* in the match.
+     * The Mutari are those who fight in the Mutai; and you *did* see
+       Narns and Centauri and others hanging around the ring. The only
+       ones you won't see there are Minbari. It ain't their thing.
+     * As I've noted before, over the long haul, as you watch episodes,
+       you will see things you didn't see before. Sometimes they're
+       clues, and sometimes they're comments which now read a different
+       way than they did the first time you saw them. There's been a
+       number of the latter very subtly sprinkled through the episodes
+       aired so far...lines that everyone jumped on as meaning one thing,
+       but which will mean something else, and lines which nobody thought
+       much of the first time out...but which will elicit a wince of
+       irony later on.
+       There's a corker in "TKO," but at the moment, it's absolutely
+       invisible. It's not a clue, it's not necessary for the story, it's
+       just one of those things that, after you've seen all the rest of
+       this season's episodes, you will go "Ouch," when you see it next.
+     * Actually, the idea of Zima lasting even into 1995 is hysterical. I
+       keep fighting the urge to have some guy show up on B5, "Zo then I
+       zays to him, nize ztation"...and five Narns just jump on him and
+       beat the shit out of him, WHAMWHAMWHAMWHAMWHAM!
+     * We've killed off all of Ivanova's close family, yes. Maybe some
+       cousins are left, but that's about it.
+     * There's a Billy Joel song, where one particular lyric (and I'm
+       quoting from memory) says, "You still have a pain inside you /
+       That you carry with a certain pride / It's the only part / Of a
+       broken heart / You could ever save." That's Ivanova.
+       She's had her heart stomped on a lot. And she's been holding it
+       in. Even with her father's death, she sucked in the pain, fought
+       back the tears. There is one episode, which will be right at the
+       end of the year, where she finds she can't run from her pain
+       anymore...can't run from the tears...and deals with them in a
+       scene that's very moving and absolutely brings tears to the eyes.
+       
+
+   [27][Next] 
+   
+      [28]Last update: January 28, 1998
+
+References
+
+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/014.shtml
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/014.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/014.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/013.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/015.html
+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/014.html#OV
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/014.html#BP
+  11. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/014.html#UQ
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/014.html#AN
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/014.html#NO
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/014.html#JS
+  15. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Bikel,+Theodore
+  16. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+McKinney,+Gregory
+  17. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Oh,+Soon-Tek
+  18. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Stroud,+Don
+  19. file://localhost/lurk/p5/intro.html
+  20. file://localhost/lurk/p5/014
+  21. http://www.zima.com/
+  22. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  23. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/014.html#TOP
+  24. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  25. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  26. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/013.html
+  27. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/015.html
+  28. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+                            [1][ISMAP]-[2][Home]
+                                      
+    ### GUIDE ### [3][Background] [4][Synopsis] [5][Credits] [6][Episode
+                       List] [7][Previous] [8][Next] 
+                                      
+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     A traveller comes to B5, seeking the Holy Grail. A series of
+     unexplained attacks on several Lurkers may be linked to Ambassador
+     Kosh. [15]David Warner as Aldous Gajic. Tom Booker as Jinxo.
+     [16]William Sanderson as Deuce.
+     
+Sub-genre: Mystery
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]7.43
+
+Production number:  109
+Original air date:  July 6, 1994
+
+Written by Christy Marx
+Directed by Richard Compton
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Babylon and Babylon 2 were sabotaged. Babylon 3 blew up before it
+       was finished. Babylon 4 vanished without a trace in front of
+       witnesses.
+     * The Minbari highly value people who spend their lives searching
+       for something. Delenn seems to believe that's true of Sinclair.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Delenn seems to consider Sinclair a true seeker. What is he
+       seeking?
+     * Why didn't the feeder want Gajic?
+     * What happened to Babylon 4? (cf. [19]"Babylon Squared")
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Perhaps Delenn's comments about Sinclair simply refer to his
+       search for the truth about the Battle of the Line, if she realizes
+       he knows something of what happened to him. Or there could be a
+       deeper meaning.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * This episode features the series' first CGI alien (the na'ka'leen
+       feeder, pictured above.)
+     * The transport Marie Celeste, which Thomas boarded at the end of
+       the episode, is a reference to a sailing ship found adrift on the
+       sea in 1872 by the crew of the ship Dei Gratia. The Celeste's crew
+       was missing, as was her single lifeboat, but there were half-eaten
+       meals in the mess hall and other evidence the crew had left
+       suddenly. Investigators found that Captain Morehouse of the Dei
+       Gratia had dined with Captain Briggs of the Celeste the night
+       before departure, and Morehouse and his crew were tried for
+       murder. There was no hard evidence, and they were acquitted. The
+       missing crewmen were never found.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * In an earlier version of the story, it was indeed Kosh who
+       appeared out of nowhere and scragged the Feeder, saying, "Some
+       things we do not allow," but it seemed kinda un-Kosh-like on one
+       level, and it repeated the Deathwalker finish, so it was dropped.
+     * The grey-alien trial scene from "Grail" will be excerpted for a
+       two-part "Sightings" on alien abduction.
+       I'm *still* laughing.
+     * The human won the case, but damages awarded were minimal.
+     * Yes, this Christy Marx is the same as the one who writes games and
+       has written comics as well.
+     * Actually, Christy has gone on record (otherwise I would not have
+       noted it myself) that the trial scene at the top of "Grail" was
+       written and inserted by me, since it was a bit short.
+     * Yeah, it's a lovely scene. I dropped it into Christy's script
+       because it was something I always wanted to do. I just figured,
+       okay, if these things really ARE happening, and it gets found out,
+       and we make contact with aliens, and find the ones responsible....
+       somebody's gonna want to sue their butts off. So it became a very
+       logical extension of the judicial system (tongue somewhat in
+       cheek). And...well, it was a hoot. I'll forgive much if it's a
+       hoot.
+     * Actually, it was Christy Marx, who wrote Grail, who named Aldus
+       after Mira [Furlan]'s husband.
+     * I don't think I've really said that much about "Grail." The trick,
+       though, is that I don't approach the episodes in quite the same
+       way that a viewer does. I have somewhat different agendas and
+       goals, and there are times when hassles in *doing* the episode --
+       which in no way affect the show itself - - affects my *perception*
+       of the episode.
+       I did a small screening of "Grail" here about a week ago, to get
+       some other reactions, and they were all very positive; they
+       enjoyed the episode quite a bit. (Similarly, there were people who
+       thought that "Infection" was one of the best of the season.) There
+       is *no one* who is harsher in critiquing the episodes than I am. I
+       want each one to be absolutely perfect. And sometimes that means
+       that I see flaws that no one else ever will.
+       In any event, I definitely want people to come at this from an
+       open minded point of view. For reasons that have nothing to do
+       with Christy's script, it still isn't one of my all-time favorite
+       episodes; if I said otherwise, I'd be lying through my teeth. But
+       different opinions are what makes horse races, and as stated, most
+       of those who've seen it so far *do* like it, so at the moment I'm
+       considerably outnumbered....
+     * John Flinn, who is our DP, has at various times also been an
+       actor, and so we used him to play Mr. Flinn in the episode as
+       well. A cameo by yet another member of our talented and
+       multifaceted production team.
+     * There were no asymmetrical aliens in the pilot, but there's a real
+       dandy coming your way in the B5 episode "Grail." You want
+       nonhumanoid aliens, you *got* non-humanoid aliens....
+     * Yeah, the Feeder is pretty cool; wrapped up Foundation's rendering
+       machines for the better part of a week just to pull that one off.
+     * On the feeder being sentient...neither Sinclair nor anyone else on
+       "our" side of the story ever heard it speaking; all they knew was
+       that it was a killer, and it was dangerous, and had to be stopped.
+     * _Who let the Feeders out?_
+       Stupid bureaucrats who couldn't afford to maintain a quarantine
+       enforcement team in the sector.
+     * The hardest part is always writing Kosh, because you have to be
+       very careful how much you use him, and what he says. Too much and
+       he loses his sense of mystery, and you don't want him spouting
+       fortune- cookie type aphorisms. He has a very deliberate way of
+       speaking in which everything, every smallest nuance and inflection
+       means something, but sometimes not what it appears to mean, or
+       comes at it from a very different angle than normal conversation.
+       So I go as minimalist as possible, to get the meaning down to the
+       smallest number of words possible. And in one scene, one of only
+       two he appears in, I got him down to *one word*, and that one word
+       -- and it's a totally inoffensive, neutral word on its own terms
+       -- should scare the hell out of *everybody*.
+       Ah loves this show.... _(Editor's note: the word in question is
+       "Good.")_
+     * At one time we were working out what the time-reference would be
+       on B5. One of the early things we talked about were cycles, but in
+       fairly short order I decided against it because it didn't seem to
+       mean much. But this was, sadly, after "Grail" had been produced,
+       and we couldn't dub over the cycle references with anything else,
+       so it stayed. It won't be appearing anywhere else henceforth. One
+       of our few continuity glitches.
+     * After "Grail," we had a discussion with Chris about funny music.
+       We do not anticipate further discussions. (In a full season of
+       music for B5, this is the only discussion we've had of a critical
+       nature, which is extraordinary for any series; he's done a lot of
+       wonderful work for us . . . .)
+     * Yeah, it was a bit of *really* perverse humor...Jinxo survives all
+       five Babylon stations, and leaves thinking all is well...on a ship
+       named the Marie Celeste?
+       We're a sick bunch, but we're fun.
+     * "...what company in their right mind would name one of their ships
+       the "Marie Celeste"?
+       Dunno, but I'd bet good money that whoever it is, it's an
+       Australian company. Nothing frightens those people; they're
+       fearless.
+     * I would love to have David Warner do another episode, though it
+       would have to be an alien, for obvious reasons.
+     * And the grail story was fairly self-contained, not much in the way
+       of arc related stuff there.
+       
+
+   [25][Next] 
+   
+      [26]Last update: January 2, 1997
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+References
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
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+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/015.shtml
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/015.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/015.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/014.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/016.html
+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/015.html#OV
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+  11. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/015.html#UQ
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/015.html#AN
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/015.html#NO
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+  16. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Sanderson,+William
+  17. file://localhost/lurk/p5/intro.html
+  18. file://localhost/lurk/p5/015
+  19. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/020.html
+  20. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  21. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/015.html#TOP
+  22. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  23. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  24. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/014.html
+  25. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/016.html
+  26. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+                            [1][ISMAP]-[2][Home]
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     An internal affairs investigation of Sinclair forces him to answer
+     for his recent command decisions. Ivanova confronts a member of
+     Psi-Corps, as well as her own fears, when she is told to submit to
+     a scan. [15]Gregory Martin as Col. Ari Ben Zayn. [16]Jeffrey Combs
+     as Harriman Gray.
+     
+Sub-genre: Intrigue
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]8.16
+
+Production number:  122
+Original air date:  July 13, 1994
+
+Written by Larry DiTillio
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
+  Watch For:
+  
+     * Some alarming developments on the Mars colony.
+     * A possible change in Ivanova's attitude toward Talia Winters.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * The unrest on Mars is continuing to escalate; now the separatists
+       have started carrying out terrorist attacks and are arming
+       themselves. (cf. [19]"A Voice in the Wilderness")
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * How will the powerful backers of the investigation react to Ben
+       Zayn's failure?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Several interesting hints about Ivanova and Talia Winters are
+       dropped, most notably the fact that Ivanova was thinking of
+       Winters when she and Gray were talking in the lounge. Ivanova's
+       insistence that no one must ever intrude upon the memory of her
+       mother's telepathic contact may foreshadow a less adversarial
+       relationship between the two of them in the future. (cf. [20]"Mind
+       War")
+     * The fact that Bester was able to intervene in the investigation at
+       all suggests that he, and possibly Psi Cops in general, wield a
+       lot of power in the Psi Corps. It is also conceivable that Bester
+       and at least some of the factions in the Senate who backed the
+       investigation are related.
+     * Is Ivanova's reluctance to be scanned simply what she says it is
+       -- a result of her contact with her mother and her general hatred
+       of Psi Corps -- or does she more immediate reasons, perhaps
+       something to hide?
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Lennier's chant, "Za ba ga bee," is the title of an album by
+       Barnes and Barnes, of which Bill Mumy is a member. (See [21]jms
+       speaks)
+     * One of the masked men in Ivanova's dream is played by Macauley
+       Bruton, who also plays Garibaldi's aide in [22]"Mind War,"
+       [23]"And the Sky Full of Stars," and [24]"Chrysalis." See [25]jms
+       speaks.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * The last episode [of Season 1] to be shot will be Larry DiTillio's
+       "Eyes," which is sort of a nice wrap-up to the season, almost an
+       overview. Once again, nothing that happens this season is simply
+       forgotten...and a *lot* of it comes due in this episode. It
+       actually manages to incorporate references to about 6 prior
+       episodes without being obscure about it.
+     * BTW...about the time we were delivering "Eyes," somebody on one of
+       the nets was going on and on about how "B5 continuity
+       *stinks*...I'll bet we NEVER hear about Deathwalker again, or the
+       strike, or the Vorlons killing Deathwalker, or Raghesh 3...."
+       And seeing what was at that moment on my TV, I wanted to reach
+       through the computer monitor, roll up my forefinger, and *plink*
+       that person right upside the nose.
+       Unfortunately, I have not yet found a modem program that supports
+       this feature.
+       But Ron is promising me something by the Fall....
+     * The other thing about "Eyes," btw, is that it's not something
+       dumped in outta nowhere to make a conflict; it's the direct payoff
+       of events that take place throughout the season where Sinclair
+       breaks or bends the rules. Lots of people on the various nets
+       said, "Yeah, there he goes, breaking the rules in the strike, but
+       is this every gonna pay off? No, probably not." If we're
+       consistent with reality, and with our story, and Sinclair's broken
+       some rules, and pissed off some people back home, then it is
+       *inevitable* that this will eventually come home to roost in the
+       form of an investigation.
+     * BTW, for those who saw the promo for "Eyes" at the end of "Grail,"
+       I have *no* idea what it has to do with the episode. Sometimes
+       they "enhance" the story to make it promote-able...but I think
+       this time they "enhanced" it right into a parallel dimension....
+     * _Was Lennier's chant scripted?_
+       When it came time for that chant, nothing had been scripted; it
+       was supposed to be a soft, under one's breath kind of chant. Bill
+       came and asked me and Larry if we had anything in mind. We said
+       no, whatever you decide is fine...and he ended up chanting his
+       album cover.
+       Later...*much*...later...when I discovered this, we discussed it
+       at some length.
+     * There's another reason why Macauley was used as Tragedy in a dream
+       mainly centered around Psi Corps; it's not really something
+       anybody needs to see or catch. After "Revelations," it'll be
+       clearer.
+     * Actually, ben-Zayn is an Middle Eastern/Arabic name.
+     * I believe the bike in question was a Ninja. And Jerry Doyle is
+       something of an enthusiast, which is part of what led us to that.
+     * Correct; Kawasaki did not pay us a dime to use the bike in the
+       show. We called around, to see who would loan us a bike, with the
+       understanding that we'd be tearing it apart. Because Kawasaki does
+       advertise with some of the PTEN shows, someone there had a
+       relationship with the company, and gave us a name. After we tried
+       a couple of other companies, we tried Kawasaki, and they
+       agreed...not a donated bike, just a loaner. And that's what we
+       used.
+     * The masks were the basic (though somewhat modified) tragedy and
+       comedy masks, associated with theater. And a couple of times,
+       Ivanova's mother does use the Russian nickname for her as well as
+       the English version. Susan was taught and raised to a large extent
+       overseas, and they always tried to keep her in both worlds.
+     * Yes, Psi Corps members must wear the Psi symbol at all times when
+       in public. (Though since Grey was there undercover, that briefly
+       went by the boards.)
+     * New Jerusalem is a planet; there's a side-story about it that I'm
+       contemplating getting into, so don't want to blow it here.
+     * . . . Let me only emphasize some stuff here. As stated, Larry
+       never SAW the Drumhead. We generally make it a point NOT to watch
+       what's done on ST to avoid being influenced. Second, the basic
+       ending which you feel is strictly ST's can be seen in the Caine
+       Mutiny, A Few Good Men and others. "Eyes" was a direct consequence
+       of all that preceded it in our first season. It came about because
+       Larry suggested that with all that Sinclair has done, sooner or
+       later somebody's going to take notice back on Earth. There would
+       have to be some kind of investigation. Because we are doing some
+       very specific things with the Psi Corps this year and next, which
+       I wanted to foreshadow, a PC telepath was inserted into the story,
+       to show that they are starting to get a foothold into the
+       military, with new laws concerning scans.
+       We knocked the story back and forth for some time, and it went
+       through many different permutations. We also figured that the
+       episode should be kind of a Cliff's Notes guide to season one,
+       hitting the high points for those who joined the series later than
+       those who were here at the beginning. The ending also went through
+       various changes, but what made the most logical sense was to get
+       the Colonel to admit bias in some fashion or another...and the
+       only way to do this really was to get him so angry, so furious,
+       that he'd incriminate himself enough, or open the door enough for
+       Mr. Grey to verify the bias.
+       That was how the structure was arrived at. I was there. It had
+       nothing -- *nothing* -- whatsoever to do with the Drumhead, which
+       I have a vague memory was written by Jeri Taylor, who is a friend
+       of mine, and further invalidates the very idea.
+     * Mr. Grey would've been a P10. PsiCops are P12s.
+       PsiCorps administrators at the upper reaches are P11 or better.
+     * Grey reached into Ben Zayn's head and, for lack of a better term,
+       pushed his "pain button," the same way you can stimulate someone's
+       memory or physical sensations with an electrode or chemicals. It
+       was only a second, and he would've shrugged it off quickly, had
+       Sinclair not been there to follow up.
+       
+
+   [31][Next] 
+   
+      [32]Last update: January 27, 1998
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     A girl entering puberty exhibits telepathic abilities, and the crew
+     must decide whether to turn her over to the Psi Corps. The corpse
+     of the Minbari military leader who oversaw the Battle of the Line
+     is the focus of a diplomatic incident. [15]John Vickery as Neroon.
+     Grace Una as Alisa Beldon.
+     
+Sub-genre: Intrigue
+[16]P5 Rating: [17]7.87
+
+Production number:  115
+Original air date:  July 20, 1994
+
+Written by D. C. Fontana
+Directed by Bruce Seth Green
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * The Grey Council ordered the surrender at the Battle of the Line.
+     * Many among the Minbari warrior caste do not approve of the
+       surrender, a fact which has caused something of a rift between the
+       religious and warrior caste.
+     * Caste membership is determined by heritage. Membership in the
+       religious caste takes precedence if one parent is in the religious
+       caste and the other is a warrior. (This is ambiguous; Delenn's
+       statement on the matter could be interpreted to mean that the
+       mother's caste takes precedence over the father's.)
+     * The Earth-Minbari War began with the death of Dukhat, the head of
+       the Grey Council at the time.
+     * The war was regarded as a holy war among the Minbari, and had the
+       full support of the religious caste at least part of the time.
+     * One of the warleaders (heads of the military clans?) committed
+       suicide rather than obey the order to surrender.
+     * Telepaths are highly regarded among the Minbari, and are fed and
+       clothed by people in exchange for providing their services.
+     * The Narn keep alien slaves, or at least are reported to do so.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What is the significance of the word "chrysalis?" Note that this
+       is the title of the first-season finale.
+     * How was Delenn able to sense that she was being probed?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Delenn's identity doesn't seem to be a secret among the warrior
+       caste, or at least its upper echelons. The warriors seem to be
+       playing along and keeping her secret safe.
+     * As JMS mentions below, in the original airing order, this episode
+       came after [18]"Babylon Squared." If that is the intended
+       chronological order of the two episodes, then Delenn's statement
+       to Neroon that she speaks for the entire Grey Council takes on
+       different connotations; it is plausible in that case that she is
+       lying and hadn't even consulted the Council.
+     * Likewise, the device used to stun the guard appears to be a
+       triluminary; its presence makes much more sense if this episode is
+       after [19]"Babylon Squared." Its exact function is still a
+       mystery; did it in fact stun the guard, put him in some sort of
+       stasis, or something else?
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The only first season script that was developed outside the B5
+       offices.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * Originally, this ep was to be broadcast later in the run, because
+       I didn't want two PsiCorps episodes back-to-back, and for one
+       little detail that will become clearer after "Babylon Squared"
+       airs; it would've been better to have followed that episode, but
+       again, these eps are made to be watched in just about any order,
+       so it's okay in the long run.
+     * Yeah, the audio thing with Talia is something I thought of during
+       the final audio mix. We wanted to convey somehow her trying to get
+       through and initially it was just distortion. Then I figured, wait
+       a second, she is going to be thinking what she's going to say
+       before she says it, why not pre-lap the dialogue? Unfortunately,
+       for some damned reason, the high-tech studio wasn't set up to do
+       that effect, so we took Talia's dialogue, digitized it, laid it in
+       on a second side track, and played the one over the other, one
+       preceding the other by I think about 20 frames or so. The key was
+       to make the *second* voicing the one synched to her lips, not the
+       first one. Worked out pretty cool.
+     * You will see some of the warrior caste in "Legacies," coming up in
+       July. You don't see them much because they only go where they're
+       needed.
+     * Generally, the religious caste takes precedence over the warrior
+       caste.
+     * From cradle to grave, the Minbari are taught that there is no
+       greater goal, no nobler thing than to serve. They are raised to be
+       totally self-sacrificing. The only exception is when someone in
+       the religious caste believes he or she has received a calling,
+       which if sincerely felt cannot be contravened (since usually this
+       too involves serving). So for a Minbari telepath, this is their
+       means by which they may serve, and they are given great respect.
+       It never even occurs to them to do otherwise.
+       Lately, there has been a bit of a change brewing; "a
+       self-involvement above the needs of others" (as someone notes in
+       "Voice") that has begun creeping into the Minbari race. And
+       they're not happy about it.
+     * Overall, I'd say that "Legacies" came out better than "War
+       Prayer," because Dorothy had more time to get to know the
+       characters, and because it was better directed. (As a
+       parenthetical, Larry DiTillio has developed some of his own
+       scripts as well, specifically "TKO" and "Eyes." "Legacies" is the
+       one I'd say was developed "outside the office" in the sense of
+       being a freelance effort. Everything else was either an assigned
+       premise or done in-house by staff.)
+     * Stuff like wearing gloves is only enforced if you're a member of
+       Psi Corps; Allysa wasn't. In addition, though she had P10
+       *potential*, the talent was sporadic, came and went.
+     * Regarding "Legacies," there's one brief blip in there that we're
+       going to see again; I'm not sure I'd call it a clue, but certainly
+       a cue...a hint of something to come. You won't have to wonder what
+       it is; it'll be shown in a flashback in that particular yet-to-air
+       episode.
+       
+
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+Overview
+
+     Seismic activity on the planet near the station uncovers what may
+     be signs of an extinct alien civilization. An old mentor pays a
+     visit to Ambassador Delenn. The unrest on the Mars Colony
+     intensifies. [15]Louis Turenne as Draal. [16]Curt Lowens as Varn.
+     
+Sub-genre: Suspense/mystery
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]8.50
+
+Production number:  120
+Original air date:  July 27, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Before Sinclair asked him to be security chief on Babylon 5,
+       Garibaldi was working for the security division on Mars Colony,
+       where he fell in love with a woman named Lise Hampton. Their
+       relationship was rocky ("I was pretty messed up") and ended when
+       he accepted the B5 assignment.
+     * The Psi Corps has a secret training facility very close to one of
+       the Mars Colony cities.
+     * There is growing lack of purpose and dissatisfaction among the
+       ordinary citizens on Minbar.
+     * One of Londo's wives was a dancer at a club, who comforted him
+       when he was depressed. He married her that night, and regretted it
+       the next morning and ever since.
+     * The planet the station is orbiting is called Epsilon 3.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What came through the jumpgate?
+     * What is the function of all the machinery buried beneath the
+       planet's surface?
+     * Why was the alien connected to the machines, apparently against
+       his will?
+     * How was he able to project himself to Sinclair and Londo on the
+       station?
+     * Was the defense system designed to prevent someone from finding
+       the machinery, or to stop someone from rescuing the alien?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * The alien might well be native to Epsilon 3, since he was able to
+       breathe the atmosphere once he was disconnected from the
+       machinery. In the shuttle, Ivanova can be seen fitting him with a
+       breather unit, presumably since the shuttle's air is Earth-style.
+       Perhaps the proximity of Babylon 5 to Epsilon 3 is not a simple
+       coincidence.
+     * A possible inconsistency: if the missiles were being fired from
+       within the fissure, how could Sinclair and Ivanova safely enter
+       it? All their cover fire was high in the atmosphere; the missiles
+       could have hit them before they had time to react once they were
+       underground. Of course, it's possible the missiles are only useful
+       above a certain altitude (true of some present-day surface-to-air
+       missiles,) but in that case, why wasn't the fissure protected by
+       short-range weaponry?
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The scene with Ivanova and Sinclair crossing the tunnel bears
+       similarity to a scene from the 1956 film Forbidden Planet. (See
+       [19]jms speaks)
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * We're halfway through filming the two-parter, "A Voice in the
+       Wilderness," which is coming along nicely. From a CGI and sets
+       point of view, this is the largest and most ambitious thing we've
+       shot yet, with ore of each category than in any other episode.
+     * In the two-parter, btw, [Christopher Franke] went absolutely
+       full-out and gave us some of the best scoring of the
+       season...gorgeous stuff, second only to either "Sky" or
+       "Chrysalis."
+     * ...Delenn has quite a few moments when she's laughing, and funny,
+       but always in a dignified fashion; it's a strange but very
+       appealing combination. (And there's one scene she's in that is
+       played *absolutely* straight, but is fall-down funny.)
+     * It was always intended to be a two-parter, and was written that
+       way. Background: the B5 2-hour pilot has done VERY well overseas
+       in cassette form. Many of the prejudices in the american press
+       that caused us problems don't exist overseas (it's done
+       *extremely* well in Japan on laserdisk, in Germany, and England,
+       among others). So they asked if we could do a two-parter that
+       could be sold as a two-hour episode overseas. By all means, sez I.
+       So I structured it accordingly.
+       Bit of B5 trivia: during the dead of winter last year, I got hit
+       by the flu as badly as I've ever been hit. Temperature so high
+       that I was near delerious at times, but refused to go to the
+       hospital (I don't like doctors, and I was under deadline and
+       couldn't afford the potential time away.) We're talking mondo
+       sicko here. It was during this time that I wrote "The Quality of
+       Mercy," a script which I have *no* memory of ever writing. I know
+       it's here, and I know I wrote it on an intellectual level, but the
+       process...gone in the fever.
+       It was also around this time -- either at the top or bottom of the
+       flu, I can't remember now -- that I wrote the "Voice" two parter.
+       And here's the trivia part...this isn't the original two-parter
+       that I wrote. My brain already deteriorating, I wrote something
+       that even I could see wasn't up to par. Wrote the entire two-hour
+       script. Printed it up, and gave it to Doug and John. Before they
+       could even respond, I looked at it and decided it had to go. So I
+       trashed the entire script. By now we were getting very close to
+       pre-production, and I was getting sicker and sicker...but I more
+       or less locked myself in my office, swallowed down massive amounts
+       of vitamins (as much as my stomach could handle), kept forcing
+       down coffee, and wrote 12 hours a day for about six days, after
+       which the original draft was finished. Turned it in; did some mild
+       polishes thereafter, but what was filmed was essentially what I
+       turned in in first-draft stage. In this case I do remember some of
+       the process because the only way I could focus was to keep the
+       stereo up full blast; in the writing of "Quality," it didn't
+       help...I was beyond recall.
+     * I tried to develop a basic language structure for each of the
+       races on B5. There are certain commonalities to the structure of
+       names. I came up with some prefixes and suffixes, and assigned
+       meanings to them, the same as real names. For instance, Rathenn
+       (referred to by Delenn in "Voices") and Delenn have the same
+       suffix, which has a specific meaning. You can break it down;
+       Ner-oon (Legacies), Del-enn, Rath-enn, Der-onn, and so forth. The
+       various parts do have specific meanings, but I generally keep that
+       to myself, just for amusement.
+     * I try not to hype shows that I like unless I know beyond a doubt
+       that it's absolutely kick-ass. I like "Voice" a lot; it is the
+       point at which we really start cranking, speeding things up as we
+       barrel toward "Chrysalis." I think the CGi is nothing less than
+       terrific, Christopher Franke went balls-to-the-wall and did an
+       *amazing* job with the music, the performances are good. I like it
+       a lot. I haven't commented upon it a lot because it's kind of the
+       weird child in the brood; when I write, I generally write tight
+       and fast. By the third act, you're *moving*. In this case, you
+       have to pace yourself out *very* differently, so part of my brain
+       keeps doing this "c'mon, speed it up, speed it up" when I'm
+       watching the first part because I'm used to a different one-hour
+       kind of pacing.
+       Kathryn says I'm nuts. But then this is nothing new.
+       Anyway, I do think it's pretty cool, and does a lot with virtual
+       sets and composite sets.
+     * Re: the elevator/transport tube gag...yes, we set this stuff up
+       WAY in advance. The first time is in the tube where he tells Talia
+       about his second favorite thing in the universe. The second time
+       is in "Mind War" when he gives her the mental once-over and she
+       belts him. And then we paid it off later with her line about him
+       always being there.
+       One nice thing about the way we're doing this show is that we
+       don't just have to set up gags within an episode; we can set them
+       up *weeks* ahead of time, as long as the payoff is self-contained,
+       but then when you see the earlier shows, now you get more out of
+       it.
+     * A First Contact situation is one unlike any other: you don't want
+       junior officers around to screw it up. Remember, the Earth/Minbari
+       War began when a First Contact situation got screwed up. EA's
+       policy is that it's better to risk two people than a full war, and
+       those two people have got to be command-level personnel. Soldiers
+       get killed; it happens. And yeah, you can leave a backup person at
+       the shuttle ...but what if *he's* the one to make actual first
+       contact? You're screwed. Ivanova and Sinclairhave been trained in
+       this; in "Soul Hunter," Sinclair makes reference to the rules of
+       First Contact Protocol. If you like, I'll elaborate on this in
+       some future episode.
+     * Re: the commander and Ivanova going...remember, this is a First
+       Contact situation, and that requires the presence of at minimum
+       one command officer under EA regs. Two is preferred. You don't
+       want junior officers hanging around or taking hostile stances
+       which might provoke a fight. Remember that the last major First
+       Contact situation was with the Minbari, which went afoul and gave
+       us the Earth/Minbari War. EA would rather lose two replaceable
+       officers than start another war via misunderstanding or a fouled
+       move. This is a part of their First Contact Protocol, referenced
+       in "Soul Hunter." (I should probably expandupon this a bit in
+       future episodes.)
+     * RE: the big bridge shot...the storyboard artist came up with 3
+       shots we could use. One of them was a wide shot across a
+       crystalline ground like area, through which a path can be seen at
+       ground level, but it was narrow and still really didn't convey the
+       scale of what I wanted. One other was not much different. The
+       third was a downshot designed to pull back, and though I knew it
+       would make folks say "Krell!", I knew that it was the right shot
+       for that scene, so chose that one and decided to live with it.
+     * It's real simple. Ron Thornton showed me three variations on the
+       Great Machine shot. Because you're looking at a composite shot,
+       you have to shoot either sharply angled down, or dead across, and
+       full-figured, since you have to put them into another piece. That
+       meant either a horizontal shot, or a 3/4's vertical shot.
+       Two of the shots on the storyboards were horizontal; one showed
+       our characters way off in the distance on a ribboned path lined by
+       crystals. It'd be pretty, but it looked like another tunnel shot,
+       and I wanted to show something that wasn't claustrophobic. Also,
+       we'd be limited in the camera move, and our characters would look
+       kinda like peanuts. Not terribly dramatic. The second shot just
+       didn't work for me, I don't entirely recall the reason now. The
+       third possibility seemed the most dramatic...it was a high angle
+       shot, it had depth, it would let us start on our characters and do
+       a camera move/pullback in post production, it worked on every
+       level.
+       My second thought was, "Shit, somebody's going to gig us on the
+       Forbidden Planet thing." Nonetheless, it was the right shot, for
+       the right reasons, and we chose to go with it.
+     * How does one come up with stuff like Londo's song? Easy, really;
+       you start by putting yourself in the position of an alien trying
+       to understand us. And if you step back for a second, we do some
+       *very* weird stuff. What he says about the song is exactly right
+       in terms of its meaning.
+     * Yeah...I love Londo's song, that whole scene. The director wanted
+       to cut Ivanova's coda after her mantra, but I really felt we
+       needed it, and it played perfectly with her Russian character,
+       which tends to have this unusual relationship with higher forces
+       (he said vaguely). I love character based humor, because it's very
+       powerful once you know the characters, and it can really
+       blind-side you if done right. Ivanova's reaction in the core area
+       was about as real as would probably happen, but it's funny to hear
+       her *say* it.
+     * Londo and Garibaldi really are two sides of the same coin, in some
+       ways. There's an odd friendship there, almost grudging; Londo had
+       little to gain by cheering up Garibaldi, except a drink perhaps,
+       but that's what friends do.
+     * I love monologues. They are a legitimate part of any drama. The
+       MTV generation has had its tastes so thoroughly bastardized by
+       quick cuts, lowering the attention span further and further, that
+       any bite of more than ten seconds and they start to wander, it
+       becomes a block of words and they blur out.
+       Go rent Network by Paddy Chayefsky, watch nearly any of the TZs by
+       Rod Serling, go see "The Lady's Not for Burning" by Christopher
+       Fry...all chockablock with moments where you park for a moment and
+       let fly with a chunk of dialogue that smashes your head against
+       the wall. Not every single exchange has to be foreshortened so
+       that you lose the *impact* of what's being said. Because people's
+       attention spans have been greatly foreshortened, suddenly more
+       than 3 lines at a time is somehow viewed as wrong. It ain't. Just
+       that lots of folks are afraid to try it, afraid to rely on just
+       the words and the actors. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it
+       doesn't. But it's legitimate.
+       The monologue in particular, done right, isn't just to convey
+       information, it's to create a mood, to paint pictures with words,
+       to expand on the obvious. Yeah, I could've just written, "The
+       narns hate us, we hate them, it's equal math." But that doesn't
+       carry the same meaning, the same sense as "so here we
+       are...victims of mathematics." The use of the word "victim"
+       connotes, hey, it's not my fault. Yeah, the former is shorter, but
+       you lose the rhythms, the imagery, and the *sense* of what is
+       intended. You could say, "The narn hate us." But to say, "if the
+       narns gathered together in one place, and hated, all at the same
+       time, that hatred would fly across dozens of light years and
+       reduce Centauri Prime to a ball of ash," draws a picture, lends
+       power to the emotion.
+       Point being...I like 'em, there's nothing wrong with them, and
+       they're staying.
+     * Re: your suspenders of disbelief becoming unhitched....
+       You will learn how the alien knows English in the next part of the
+       two parter. (Hint: after all, he's been there for a long while, in
+       a high-tech machine...you'd think maybe he could monitor
+       transmissions.)
+       I don't think the Sinclair or Ivanova did automatically believe
+       him; but they also had no real reason *not* to believe him. And
+       granted the place was going to hell, quakes and danger. He wasn't
+       armed, he seems rather sick, had to be helped away, almost
+       carried...they won't turn the station over to him, they'll keep
+       him isolated on the station, but there was no reason *not* to try
+       and help him.
+       How do you know he's a good guy? You don't. But he wasn't exactly
+       imprisoned in that thing; it was a support, more than anything
+       else, a was shown by the fact that they were able to get him out
+       fairly easily.
+       (And yes, your first guess was correct, it is a life support
+       gizmo.)
+       Regards to your suspenders.
+     * Once removed from his place, Varn was able to lead them back to
+       their shuttle. It's not terribly dramatic, and I figured that was
+       a fairly logical leap, so didn't feel the need to put in a scene
+       which would just consist of Varn saying, "Left....now right...."
+     * Ivanova's line: "We don't know if we can find our way back or
+       not," not that it was closed off. So showing them wandering around
+       to find another open tunnel seemed not dramatically interesting;
+       you have to pick what's important and what's not, and what will
+       work dramaticall on screen. If she had said "there's no other way
+       out," then you would've had to show it. She didn't. One can also
+       argue that the alien showed them which way to get out. Either
+       way...all you've got is one hour to tell your story. You can't
+       show everything, you have to let your audience assume some things.
+       Roy: there is a quantum difference between a computer game and a
+       TV show. It's not "lowest common denominator," which means making
+       the story stupid; I'm saying that if you showed the missiles at
+       full speed, YOU WOULD NOT SEE THEM AT ALL. And, again, there's
+       nothing nearby with which to get a sense of how fast they're
+       going, no landmarks, so it's very hard to convey that. Again, look
+       at space footage; the shuttle is going *incredibly* fast...but as
+       far as we can tell it looks nearly motionless, because there are
+       no landmarks.
+       Re: not explaining WHY the Starfuries can't enter the atmosphere,
+       we did that. Ivanova says that they're not built to function
+       within an atmosphere. Now, I could stop the scene for a long
+       dissertation on the relative aerodynamics of planes with wings vs.
+       starfuries, but here you say only what you have to. You show,
+       don't tell.
+       It seems like in the same breath, it's accused of catering to the
+       lowest-common denominator, and being over the head of its viewers
+       by requiring them to *think* about what they're seeing.
+       Which means we're probably doing it right.
+     * It seems to me that every generation thinks that things are
+       changing, usually for the worse. In some cases, they may be right.
+       The B5 story is set at a point in time where things are very much
+       in a state of flux. Every so often, the wheel turns. Everybody's
+       feeling a sense of growing uncertainty, of the chairs being moved
+       around. They're right.
+     * Actually, this was not the first B5 or Sinclair had heard about
+       the escalating problem on Mars; remember, that was the main reason
+       that Ben Zayn had been sent to B5 in "Eyes," smoking out
+       sympathisers with the Free Mars movement.
+     * The Mars Colony situation will be raising its ugly head on and off
+       again for quite some time to come.
+       Also, the fissure wasn't created by the quakes; Tasaki mentions it
+       was artificial, but nudged open by the tremors.
+     * No, a shuttle like this, which is designed to function in
+       alternate atmospheres, and may have to evacuate groups, has about
+       7 standard or most common atmosphere cannisters. Medlab has the
+       same thing, but in larger numbers. This is SOP on the show.
+     * No, the sets weren't redresses of regular sets; they were built
+       new and entirely for the two-parter; you can get a better look at
+       them in the second part, and some angles of the first.
+       
+
+   [25][Next] 
+   
+      [26]Last update: October 30, 1996
+
+References
+
+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/018.shtml
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/018.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/018.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/017.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/019.html
+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/018.html#OV
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/018.html#BP
+  11. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/018.html#UQ
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/018.html#AN
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/018.html#NO
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/018.html#JS
+  15. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Turenne,+Louis
+  16. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Lowens,+Curt
+  17. file://localhost/lurk/p5/intro.html
+  18. file://localhost/lurk/p5/018
+  19. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/018.html#JS:FP
+  20. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  21. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/018.html#TOP
+  22. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  23. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  24. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/017.html
+  25. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/019.html
+  26. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Sinclair fights two turf battles at once as alien invaders claim
+     the planet the station orbits, and an Earthforce captain disagrees
+     with him about how to deal with the situation. [15]Ron Canada as
+     Capt. Ellis Pierce. [16]Louis Turenne as Draal. [17]Curt Lowens as
+     Varn. [18]Denise Gentile as Lise Hampton. [19]Aki Aleong as Senator
+     Hidoshi.
+     
+Sub-genre: Action
+[20]P5 Rating: [21]8.49
+
+Production number:  121
+Original air date:  August 3, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * In his youth, Londo led the Centauri raid on a planet called
+       Frallis 12.
+     * Five hundred years earlier, the last of Varn's race died,
+       entrusting him with a legacy, the guarding and caretaking of
+       Epsilon 3. Some time prior to that, a violent, cruel faction of
+       the race was cast aside by the rest, and since Varn took over
+       Epsilon 3, they have been searching for it.
+     * Some Earth citizens feel they're heavily subsidizing the Mars
+       colony, and that may in fact be true.
+     * The Centauri contributed a substantial amount of money to the
+       construction of Babylon 5.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What is the intended use of Epsilon 3?
+     * What needs to happen before it will be deemed ready for
+       consumption by the rest of the galaxy?
+     * Was Takarn's ship the only one of its kind, or are more outcasts
+       from Varn's race still out there, searching (or heading) for
+       Epsilon 3?
+     * Are there any other planets like Epsilon 3 waiting to be
+       discovered?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * The station potentially has a powerful new ally in Draal. It
+       remains to be seen if he will prove willing to come to the
+       station's defense in the future, but the threat of retaliation by
+       Epsilon 3 might be enough to keep any would-be attackers at bay.
+     * Garibaldi's tentative hopes of one day getting back together with
+       Lisa have now been dashed. This might make him that much more
+       likely to hit the bottle again. (cf. [22]"Survivors")
+     * Assuming Earth is successful in putting down the revolt on Mars, a
+       continued presence will likely be necessary to keep things from
+       flaring up again. This is bound to have political consequences
+       back on Earth, and possibly on Babylon 5, as Earth has a harder
+       time claiming the moral high ground if it's occupying one of its
+       own members with soldiers.
+     * Londo's sense of adventure, now reawakened, might lead him to go
+       even further in his quest for the "good old days." Between this
+       and his possession of the Eye (cf. [23]"Signs and Portents") he
+       may be a much more influential figure than he appears.
+     * Delenn's assessment of Sinclair jibes with the hints in
+       [24]"Grail" that she considers him a "true seeker," someone whose
+       life is devoted to a cause.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The heavy cruiser EAS Hyperion was named after the Babylon 5
+       Internet archive (and home of the Lurker's Guide) originally
+       located at Hyperion.COM.
+     * Ivanova seems to enjoy saying "Boom!" (cf. [25]"Grail")
+     * When Capt. Pierce is going to launch fighters to land on the
+       planet and Sinclair threathens to destroy them, Pierce argues for
+       a moment and then backs down. When he turns briefly to the screen
+       and a computer graphic is displayed showing him calling down the
+       ships, one of the ships in the top left corner of the screen has
+       the flight number THX-1138, the name of one of George Lucas' first
+       films.
+     * More SF references can be found in the list of words being
+       downloaded from the station's language files by the aliens. For
+       instance, "ORAC" is a computer from the British series Blake's 7,
+       and "Skynet" is from The Terminator. The phrase "I am not a
+       number, I am a free man" (from the title sequence of The Prisoner)
+       can also be seen on several consecutive frames.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * BTW, have named an Earth Alliance Cruiser Hyperion, in notation of
+       the library....
+     * _Does the Earth Alliance have capital ships?_
+       Of course there are capital ships. We never said otherwise.
+       There's one later this season, for instance, the EAS Hyperion, a
+       heavy Earth cruiser. There aren't as many as they'd like -- the
+       majority having been wiped out in the war -- but they're building
+       'em as fast as possible. (The Hyperion, though it's never
+       mentioned, is one of the leftover capital ships, not one of the
+       newer ones.)
+     * _Will we see other ships like the Hyperion?_
+       That design will never be seen again.
+     * Correct; the Hyperion didn't have a gravity-positive section.
+     * Of course, insofar as I recall, it wasn't stated in the episode
+       that Varn's people actually *built* the Great Machine; after all,
+       if they could build it, why would the others have been searching
+       for it so frantically for the last several hundred years?
+     * Actually the Hyperion is one of the few surviving heavy cruisers
+       from the Earth/Minbari War period; after we lost a LOT of our
+       ships, there were some new ones commissioned, which we haven't
+       seen yet, which are far cooler than even the Hyperion (though
+       we'll see them next season).
+     * The captain of the Hyperion specifically states that he was
+       already IN hyperspace, en route to another system, when he was
+       ordered to stop here. His ship was already in the area. Also,
+       there is a fair amount of time between the actions on the planet
+       initially, and the arrival of the Hyperion...enough to know
+       there's some kind of tech there, based on the initial attacks. The
+       Hyperion continued to monitor reports as they came in.
+     * And there we get into the contradiction; Ivanova and Sinclair down
+       on the planet would be mainly more run-and-jump...Draal talking
+       about his feelings, Delenn showing she is upset that her friend is
+       going away and will never be seen by her again, their obvious
+       friendship, that to me is characterization. And not just throwaway
+       stuff, either, but important down the road.
+       But hey, what do I know....
+       
+
+   [31][Next] 
+   
+      [32]Last update: July 1, 1997
+
+References
+
+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/019.shtml
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/019.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/019.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/018.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/020.html
+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/019.html#OV
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/019.html#BP
+  11. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/019.html#UQ
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/019.html#AN
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/019.html#NO
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/019.html#JS
+  15. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Canada,+Ron
+  16. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Turenne,+Louis
+  17. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Lowens,+Curt
+  18. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Gentile,+Denise
+  19. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Aleong,+Aki
+  20. file://localhost/lurk/p5/intro.html
+  21. file://localhost/lurk/p5/019
+  22. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/011.html
+  23. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/013.html
+  24. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/015.html
+  25. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/015.html#boom
+  26. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  27. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/019.html#TOP
+  28. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  29. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  30. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/018.html
+  31. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/020.html
+  32. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Babylon 4 returns as abruptly as it vanished, but its reappearance
+     may bode ill for the future. Delenn receives a momentous offer.
+     [15]Kent Broadhurst as Major Krantz. [16]Tim Choate as Zathras.
+     [17]Denise Gentile as Lise Hampton.
+     
+Sub-genre: Intrigue/mystery
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]8.57
+
+Production number:  118
+Original air date:  August 10, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
+  Watch For:
+  
+     * A man shouts at Garibaldi and Sinclair; what he says might provide
+       clues about the nature of the opponents in another scene.
+     * Look closely at what's inside a transparent case given to Delenn.
+       It's an object that's been shown in a previous episode.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Babylon 4 was stolen by people from the future, apparently at
+       Sinclair's behest during that time period, to act as a base of
+       operations in a tremendous war being fought between the forces of
+       light and darkness.
+     * Sinclair will be a great leader, possibly _the_ leader, of the
+       forces of light in that war.
+     * At some point, long before he participates in Babylon 4's
+       disappearance, Sinclair will flee a place (most likely Babylon 5,
+       cf. [20]"Signs and Portents") that is about to be overrun by some
+       evil creatures. Garibaldi will stay behind to fight, but will
+       force Sinclair to leave. A [21]transcript of the scene in question
+       is available.
+     * The Grey Council stopped the war because of a prophecy. Valen (a
+       revered figure, see [22]jms speaks) said that humans, or some
+       among them, had a destiny with which the Minbari could not be
+       allowed to interfere.
+     * Delenn is on Babylon 5 to study humanity, to determine whether the
+       prophecy is correct.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Will Babylon 4 appear again? If so, when?
+     * Was it really Sinclair in the suit? If not, who or what was it?
+     * What was Sinclair trying to prevent from happening?
+     * Who was waiting for Delenn and Sinclair?
+     * Will Delenn keep her position on the council?
+     * What is the purpose of the triluminary?
+     * What was happening in Sinclair's flashforward? Who or what was
+       attacking the station? Is it related to the destruction of the
+       station as foretold in [23]"Signs and Portents?"
+     * What was the crazed man referring to when he shouted about
+       "monsters" and said, "I see you... you think I can't?" (see
+       [24]Analysis)
+     * Is the Grey Council's cruiser the same place Sinclair was taken
+       during the Battle of the Line? (cf. [25]"And the Sky Full of
+       Stars")
+     * Why is Delenn so convinced she must remain on Babylon 5, even at
+       the risk of her standing in the Council?
+     * What "change" does Delenn believe is coming?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * None of the races have demonstrated an ability to travel through
+       time. Yet within Sinclair's lifetime, such technology will either
+       be developed, discovered, or introduced by people from the distant
+       past or future. Does it exist already? If so, who has it? Zathras'
+       people may be the ones to provide the technology.
+     * The voice that speaks to Sinclair sounds like Delenn's, but her
+       face is intentionally not shown. Presumably there is a reason for
+       that; Delenn may be due to change in some way that will alter her
+       appearance.
+     * After Babylon 4 completes its time jump, a voice (presumably a
+       computer) announces that the atmosphere was breathable. Why wasn't
+       it breathable before? Zathras clearly had no trouble breathing in
+       the past, so is something about the future Sinclair different that
+       prevents him from breathing a normal atmosphere?
+     * In the past, when we've seen Grey Council members, they have had
+       silver triangles on their foreheads ([26]"And the Sky Full of
+       Stars" and [27]"Signs and Portents" during Morden's visit to
+       Delenn.) Yet no such triangles were visible this time. What do the
+       triangles mean, and what causes them to appear? (see [28]jms
+       speaks)
+     * The attacking force in Sinclair's vision of the future seemed to
+       be invisible. Witness the fact that Garibaldi's men were firing in
+       seemingly random directions, as if they didn't know where the
+       enemy was. It also seems unlikely that they'd use a flamethrower
+       if they could aim at their opponents. When the unknown force
+       finally cut through the wall, it was forced inward, but nothing
+       could be seen forcing it. This also explains what the crazed man
+       on B4 was talking about; he'd seen visions of a battle against
+       invisible foes too.
+       The only instance of invisibility seen in the series up until this
+       episode was in [29]"The War Prayer," and it was developed by the
+       Earth Alliance military, suggesting perhaps that the attackers
+       might be humans.
+     * Garibaldi flashed back to an event two years earlier. That may
+       suggest that Sinclair's flashforward (if indeed that's what it
+       was) was to two years in the future, which would put the scene
+       somewhere in the year 2260, season three of the series.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Babylon 4 is larger than Babylon 5.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * The one I'm most looking forward to writing just now, though, is
+       "Babylon Squared," in which we finally show what happened to
+       Babylon 4, and in the process ask more questions than we answer
+       (though at least we DO answer the questions we asked about the
+       fate of that station in general...you'll know what happened to it,
+       just not yet what it means). The end of this episode will cause
+       more speculation and consternation and astonishment than anything
+       you've seen on TV in a long, long, very long time.
+     * What a weird day...filming "Babylon Squared," and one minute I'm
+       standing in the anteroom/hallway of a Minbari cruiser that leads
+       into the Great Hall and the chambers of the Grey Council...a few
+       minutes later I'm standing in a section of Babylon 4, and the
+       whole atmosphere of the crew is *very* different, the whole
+       sensibility is strange... very strange.
+       "Babylon Squared" has a *very* different look to it, and a very
+       eerie and foreboding feel about it, which I like a lot. Jim
+       Johnston, who directed "Soul Hunter" and several others is doing
+       it. Very moody.
+     * Yesterday, I got the final air-check versions of "Babylon Squared"
+       and "Chrysalis" to QC before delivering them to PTEN. Watched both
+       of them three times in the same day. They're just stunning.
+       Probably the two best episodes of the entire season.
+     * Yes, you will see the Major Conflict that leads to the situation
+       with Babylon 4. We're building toward a massive conflagration
+       here.
+     * Yes, you will definitely, at some point, see the flip side of the
+       B2 episode.
+     * No, actually, B2 was structured for maximum jarring effect, thus
+       the sudden cuts back and forth, the sickly green light in
+       B4...makes the person watching feel unexplainably anxious, which
+       was a subliminal but definite intent. So no, nothing much was cut.
+       And yes, eventually we will see the flip-side of the B4 story.
+     * In B-squared, we saw the present events in the vanishment of B4;
+       in a future episode, we'll actually see our characters make the
+       decision to go back in time and yank B4 forward, what went wrong,
+       and so on.
+     * _The One's suit was very similar to the suits in "2001."_
+       Re: the suit...that wasn't an intentional 2001 nod...we went to
+       Modern Props to get a space suit for Babylon Squared, and the only
+       one they had on hand that would work for us was one left-over from
+       2010, which I asked the folks in costume to change as much as
+       possible...though it was pretty much what it was regardless. So
+       that one wasn't intentional.
+     * Nope; Zathras is one of his race, which aren't offspring of any
+       other two groups.
+     * When Zathras shows up in time, it'll definitely be recognizeable
+       as Zathras.
+     * B5 is smaller than B4 because they sunk most of their budget into
+       B4; on B5 they had to get outside funding, and scrimped.
+     * B1-B4 were located in roughly the same sector, with B4 using some
+       of the materials from 1-3 leftover. B5 was constructed about 3
+       hours (traveling time in real-space) from the location of B4.
+     * No commander had yet been assigned to Babylon 4. One Major Krantz
+       had been assigned to oversee the final stages of construction, and
+       was on board -- along with about 1300 others in the construction
+       crew -- when the station vanished. The station had only been on-
+       line 24 hours, and the discussions of a commanding officer had
+       just begun when it disappeared.
+     * Major Krantz wasn't so much in charge of B4 as he was (as noted in
+       dialogue) assigned to oversee the final stages of construction.
+       His job was to get the station finished, then turn it over to
+       someone else to run.
+     * Why no triangles on the Council's heads?
+       While the triangle is one element of the Grey Council symbology,
+       it is not present and visible at all times and under all
+       circumstances; it has a particular purpose or meaning.
+     * The triangle only manifests itself for specific reasons, at
+       specific times, neither of which were appropriate to that moment.
+       And yes, the Triluminary is much cooler...and does something quite
+       interesting.
+     * Valen was the one who brought Minbari civilization together, he is
+       their Christ-figure. And yes, the heavyset Grey Council member is
+       the same one as in "Sky."
+     * _Does the Grey Council live permanently on that ship?_
+       They stay on the cruiser almost entirely during their tenure in
+       the council, only leaving for personal family crisis/situations
+       and the like.
+     * Garibaldi's closing lines in Sinclair's flashforward are
+       reminiscent of "Aliens."
+       When you're shooting a show, invariably you get to the stage and
+       find that you have, for instance, three lines, one per character
+       in the room...and you're trying to get them out the door, and it
+       moves better if you give one line to one character and the other
+       two to the other character. That sometimes happens. But rarely. In
+       the Garibaldi's yell case, it was written as a quick shot, he
+       yells and we're out. The director wanted to extend the shot a bit,
+       visually. I wasn't in the studio at the time, so Jerry improvised
+       a series of yells.
+       This sort of thing is *extremely* rare on the show; the actors and
+       directors know they *cannot* change dialogue on the set without
+       approval from me or Larry. On any given script, no more than about
+       3-6 lines get modified for staging purposes once we get to the
+       set. And always with approval required. This is an absolute, hard
+       and fast rule. The only reason the Garibaldi thing happened is
+       that they figured it was just a yell, so nothing could get messed
+       up story-wise (which is the primary reason this is so strict;
+       change one word in a line and it could screw up plot points three
+       episodes down the road) by having him yell a few specific lines.
+       If I'd been there for that scene, I would've written him something
+       a little less reminiscent of "Aliens."
+     * The script called for Garibaldi to take up the Big Massive Gun and
+       fire, with a primal YELL that went on forever. Any dialogue at
+       that point which replaced the yell came from the actor. The
+       "you're already dead" was only relevant to the scene, not T2.
+     * Re: Garibaldi in the flash-forward scene...no, it wasn't any kind
+       of "homage" to Aliens. (And for the most part, I try and stay
+       clear of any kind of homage unless it's primarily a throwaway; I
+       want my story to be MY story, not a bunch of homages.)
+       The single most moving kind of story for me is the "last man on
+       the bridge"...the last defender who has to hold the line while
+       others get away, knowing he will probably not survive it. This has
+       great power for me, and for many others, which is why it shows up
+       again and again in films, literature, TV and other venues. The
+       Garibaldi scene has NOTHING to do with Aliens, and everything to
+       do with that figure.
+       Re: *why* it is that humans are special...has nothing to do with
+       sacrifice, or dedication (well, that's not quite true, it has
+       something to do with it), but that's not the totality of it.
+       There's one more element you don't know about yet, that won't be
+       revealed until season two, episode one, "Points of Departure."
+       Once you see that episode, you'll fully understand that there is
+       one very particular thing about humans that is very special
+       indeed.
+     * I kinda *have* to play fair with the story; if you hear Delenn's
+       voice, then you can be sure it's Delenn.
+       In one form or another.
+     * "So who IS the One? Some of the evidence points to Sinclair, but
+       other bits seem to indicate Delenn. Yet neither seems to fit all
+       the facts above."
+       Exactly.
+       What you have here in your message are two pieces of the puzzle.
+       You're confounded by the fact that somehow they don't quite seem
+       to fit into one another. That's because there's one last piece
+       missing in this part of the picture, which fits in between them.
+       The intent is to put this piece into clear view in year three,
+       probably between episodes 8 and 11 approximately. At that point,
+       the question of the One will be fully answered.
+     * Re: Sinclair as the One...funny how all this time very few folks
+       have really commented much on how it was that Zathras could look
+       right into Sinclair's face and say, "NOT the One."
+     * _Garibaldi's eyes glow for one frame in the flashforward scene._
+       (sigh) Our rotoscope EFX guy was waiting for a bunch of PPG EFX to
+       finish rendering in that battle scene, and was bored, and like
+       many such EFX types, filled in the eyes of Garibaldi with weird
+       stuff while waiting around. When the other scene finished
+       rendering, he got out, believing that he had not saved that one
+       frame. Unknowingly, he had.
+       Nobody caught it until after broadcast.
+       We talked.
+     * "It has been divulged that Sinclair is coexisting in a parallel
+       dimension Babylon 4."
+       Actually, this has *not* been divulged...what it is is a
+       speculation based on an offhand comment by Michael at a
+       convention. I jump in here only because, well, that ain't it. B4
+       is not in an alternate dimension, neither is there an alternate
+       Sinclair. Just a course correction to the discussion.
+     * With only one exception, you won't see time travel anywhere in the
+       five-year run of the B5 story.
+     * _Which do you do first?_
+       Fasten, button.
+       Levi's Jeans forever!
+     * _Why wasn't Franklin delivering the autopsy report?_
+       Garibaldi is head of security, and Franklin would likely give him
+       the report, which Garibaldi then relays. In such things there is a
+       chain of command. And as you say, it seemed pointless to bring in
+       the actor just for one half-page scene.
+     * _Credits for two Gray Council members?_
+       Mark Henrickson was the...rounder of the two Minbari. The one with
+       the staff wanted to go uncredited.
+       No real reason, he just felt it would be better for the character
+       to remain mysterious; and since it really wasn't a big part, it
+       wouldn't make a real difference one way or another in his credits
+       and resume. (I know that sounds weird, but as near as I can
+       determine, that's the reason. He did a great job, and we're
+       looking forward to having him again.)
+     * Does the triluminary have anything to do with the sculpture in
+       Delenn's quarters?
+       Yes, the Triluminary does have a function in the device she's been
+       making.
+       
+
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Talia is involved in carrying out the sentence of a convicted
+     murderer. Dr. Franklin investigates a possible medical scam in
+     Downbelow. Londo takes Lennier for a look at the less savory
+     sections of the station. [15]June Lockhart as Dr. Laura Rosen.
+     [16]Kate McNeil as Janice Rosen. [17]Mark Rolston as Karl Mueller.
+     [18]Damian London as the Centauri Senator. [19]Jim Norton as Ombuds
+     Wellington.
+     
+   (Originally titled "The Resurrectionist")
+Sub-genre: Suspense/drama
+[20]P5 Rating: [21]7.29
+
+Production number:  117
+Original air date:  August 17, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Lorraine Senna Ferrara
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * "Spacing" someone (tossing them out an airlock to die) is a
+       punishment applicable only in cases of mutiny and treason.
+     * Evidence gained from a telepathic scan is inadmissible in court,
+       as it violates the principles of due process.
+     * Very few members of Psi-Corps are trained to handle criminal
+       cases, not for lack of demand, but because it's very a stressful
+       field, with lots of burnouts.
+     * The station's indigent are denied medical treatment in Medlab if
+       they can't afford it (cf. [22]"Believers".)
+     * The station's prison is overcrowded already; there's no room for
+       someone to serve a life sentence.
+     * Earth possesses the technology to brain-wipe people (cf.
+       [23]"Grail") and implant new memories; it's used as a punishment
+       or rehabilitation measure in certain criminal cases. A Psi-Corps
+       member oversees the wipe, performing scans before and after to
+       make sure it's complete.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What will Dr. Franklin do with the machine? Will it ever be seen
+       again?
+     * Will Franklin and Janice Rosen continue to see each other in
+       subsequent episodes?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * This is the second instance in the series of a mechanism for
+       stealing life from one being and giving it to another (cf.
+       [24]"Deathwalker".) Perhaps the two are related somehow.
+     * Judging by her reactions during the scan, it seems Talia was not
+       trained to deal with hardened criminals. Why, then, was she also
+       stuck with the job of scanning a murderer on the Mars colony, a
+       place that, as a major human settlement, presumably has a
+       Psi-Corps presence? (cf. [25]"A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1,"
+       though admittedly the presence referred to there was not public
+       knowledge.)
+     * The Centauri's claim that Earth was a lost colony (cf.
+       [26]"Midnight on the Firing Line") must have been a short-lived
+       ruse, given the revelations about Centauri physiology in this
+       episode.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * June Lockhart and Bill Mumy were in another science-fiction show
+       together: "Lost in Space."
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * Of all the scripts I've written, the only one that I'm less than
+       absolutely 100% thrilled with is "The Quality of Mercy," because I
+       wrote it while absolutely sick with the flu, and have NO memory
+       even of writing it. As it is, though, I'm about 90% happy with it,
+       particularly the B-story with Londo and Lennier, which came out
+       great.
+     * In my original thoughts about the episode, there was more of a con
+       man ressurectionist angle to the show, which later got dropped.
+     * Psi Corps telepaths are ****NOT**** allowed to scan defendants in
+       any official way connected to a criminal act. It violates the
+       right to due process. Even if requested, it's simply not allowed.
+       You do NOT want to even open the door a *crack* in letting a
+       government-regulated agency begin making determinations about who
+       is and isn't guilty of a crime. That way lies dictatorship,
+       Thought Police and Big Brother.
+     * The scan is preparatory to the prisoner being mind-blanked. It is,
+       as the Ombuds pointed out, the death of personality, the death of
+       one's mind. Hence the black band on the Psi symbol.
+     * How has your presence on the net affected the series?
+       ... I was initially going to gloss over some of the legal aspects
+       of the Psi Corps in "The Quality of Mercy," but when so many
+       people expressed interest in how that worked, and when I saw some
+       measure of confusion about it, I took the time to indicate how the
+       legal aspects work when it came time to complete that script, thus
+       answering the questions.
+     * The one major reason I decided to begin this interaction, despite
+       CONSIDERABLE discourgement and disbelief from my peers, is that I
+       think it may be of some use, and because I think that one should
+       be willing to stand publicly with what you create, and because
+       though many criticisms are issues of taste or subjective
+       preference, sometimes (fairly often, actually), I learn something
+       from the discussion, or I'm corrected in something, and that
+       realignment is eventually reflected in the show. I'm giving some
+       serious thought to either revamping n'grath or killing him off
+       given the reaction (paired with my own). I won't be dictated to,
+       but in some cases, as with n'grath, I may be uncertain, but
+       willing to try and see if the experiment works. Sometimes it does,
+       sometimes it doesn't, and the general perception here seems close
+       to my own. In addition, I was initially going to gloss over some
+       of the legal aspects of the Psi Corps in "The Quality of Mercy,"
+       but when so many people expressed interest in how that worked, and
+       when I saw some measure of confusion about it, I took the time to
+       indicate how the legal aspects work when it came time to complete
+       that script, thus answering the questions.
+     * About June Lockhart
+       No, no scenes with Bill Mumy, though some consideration was given
+       to the notion.
+     * Bill kept bugging me to put him in a scene with June, but I just
+       felt it'd get in the way.
+     * It would've worked, but the scene would've forever been about the
+       mini-LIS reunion. If it isn't important to the story, it shouldn't
+       be there.
+     * We do tend to try and stay open to gender stuff; usuall there's a
+       reason why someone is male or female, so it's cast that way. But
+       as an example...in "Quality of Mercy," the role as originally
+       written was for a father/daughter combination. In the process of
+       casting, we thought, why not mother/daughter? So that's how it
+       ended up. In "Points of Departure," we have one of your requests
+       already taken care of...a part of a war cruiser commander who
+       could've been male or female...cast female.
+     * _Q: What are Londo's appendages called?_
+       Tentisticularites?
+     * _Are Londo's appendages in addition to or instead of human-type
+       "appendages"?_
+       That would be instead of, not in addition to.
+     * As for the tentacles...well, there's no rules about showing
+       tentacles on TV. I think they didn't even want to deal with it.
+       There are some moments when they pretend they didn't see it, and I
+       pretend I didn't write it.
+     * Centauri males have six.
+     * Centauri females, btw, have six narrow...ummm...slots on their
+       backs, three on either side of the spine, right around the base of
+       the spine.
+       The awful thing is that the two women in props -- who were having
+       FAR too much fun with this -- kept bringing me the tentacle to
+       verify the shape, size, consistency, do we see veins or not....
+       I tell you here and now: our staff meetings are something else.
+     * Actually, Centauri have six. They extend out from the sides of the
+       body, and "fold" in over the solar plexus when not in, er, use.
+       (We actually saw one extended for other purposes in the first
+       season, "The Quality of Mercy.") Female Centauri have
+       six...er...slotted areas on either side of the spine, just above
+       the hips, three on either side.
+       To go any further would probably bring in the FBI.
+     * _Does that mean Centauri women have multiple births on a regular
+       basis?_
+       No multiple births, in that sense, not any different than humans.
+     * "What kind of birth control do the Centauri use?"
+       Conversation.
+     * _Which of the six do they use for urination?_
+       That assumes the urinate out of the same organs they use for sex;
+       ain't necessarily the case.
+     * We used a bullwhip sound effect for the "retraction" in QoM; when
+       we were in sound editing, I asked for the hardest whip-crack they
+       had...and got it put in REAL loud. Every time I hear it, I'm on
+       the floor....
+     * While the TP themes in "Quality" go back through the history of
+       SF, including the Demolished Man, among others, the basic
+       storyline (re: Talia) came out of the pilot. At the time, I was
+       asked -- frequently -- "Why didn't Lyta scan Sinclair to determine
+       if he had tried to kill Kosh?" My answer then -- which is in some
+       of the archives -- was that it would violate the right to due
+       process, that a defendant cannot be scanned to determine guilt or
+       innocence (in fact, I recall a rather heated debate about that
+       here a while back). I promised that this would be elaborated upon
+       down the road, and mentally logged in to do a show with that
+       premise...and I'd already decided about the death penalty, and the
+       use of telepaths in it. So "Quality" came out of that, long before
+       "Mephisto" was even written. At one point, knowing that there were
+       some common story areas, I called Harlan to tell him the "Quality"
+       story, so that if there were any problems, I could revise it, but
+       he said he saw no problem.
+     * Isn't brainwiping as bad as killing?
+       There are actually many issues to get into in all of this. Which
+       is really the "person," the mind, the soul, or the body? If a
+       person has an accident, getting amnesia, which wipes out his
+       entire personality, is that person as good as dead? Is there no
+       difference between amnesia and death? If not, why not just kill
+       the amnesiac? But obviously there *is* a difference. So what is
+       the person? What constitutes death?
+       We consider the actual death of the *brain* through the cessation
+       of brain activity to be the test for death. But what if you simply
+       rearrange those patterns?
+       There is also the question of *justice*. If the person is dead,
+       then that person cannot do much to correct the ills he visited
+       upon society. It is simply a waste of material. So why not take
+       someone who, in any decent society, would be executed or forced to
+       live in a 6x9 cage the rest of his life, and give the soul, and
+       the body, a new chance by giving the person a new personality and
+       letting him, as the Ombuds says, "serve the community harmed by
+       his actions"?
+       Finally, if the person is dead, he's dead; let's say 5 years down
+       the road somebody finds evidence that proves the person was
+       innocent. There is at least the *chance* to reconstruct some of
+       the original memories and personality profile.
+       All of this, again, has to be considered in light of the fact that
+       we are talking about a *space station* with limited space and
+       resources. You cannot warehouse every person who kill somebody in
+       a station that small; you would run out of space almost
+       immediately. (If you also include basic felons and near-killings.)
+       So what *do* you do with them? As was noted, Earth doesn't want
+       them and won't pay to have them shipped back...what's left?
+       That's the dilemma I wanted to pose in the episode...what *can*
+       you do?
+     * "...the 'personality' remaining in the body will be punished for a
+       crime that 'personality' did not commit."
+       1) But again, which is the person...the old personality, the new
+       one, or something else?
+       2) Part of the new personality would be the delight in serving
+       others.
+     * You will see the healing machine from "Quality" once more. Part of
+       the reason for that story was to set up something within the B5
+       universe that will come in handy a long time later (but I'm *not*
+       going to have it lying around indefinitely; it would cause lots of
+       long-term complications).
+       (Some TV shows foreshadow/set-up stuff an act or two ahead of
+       time; we do setups a full *year* ahead....)
+     * There are limits to what the healing device can do, for starters;
+       it can't repair physical damage to the body, mainly it works with
+       disease and basic low-energy stuff; also, bear in mind that it was
+       a device used for *capital punishment*...meaning that to save one
+       person's life, another must sacrifice his or her own, if it's that
+       far along, so it's not really something you can trot out everytime
+       somebody gets nailed.
+     * They cannot carry out the original sentence because the body is
+       now dead, which would tend to diminish its social acceptability.
+       Dr. Franklin did not know that Mueller had yet found Rosen, or
+       even knew of it. There are no Babcom systems in DownBelow
+       quarters. To send a security team, when they're out searching,
+       without cause, is neither realistic nor sensible. He did the
+       correct thing: to go and warn her, while at the same time making
+       sure that security knew where he was going, and if they didn't
+       hear anything, to send in a team.
+     * _Franklin should have had a search warrant._
+       Allow me to disagree with you.
+       Dr. Franklin did not require a search warrant to enter Rosen's
+       quarters. The door was basically open, and he is NOT an officer of
+       the law. Only officers of the law are required to have search
+       warrants. Neither was he there to arrest her.
+       Defense counsel was sitting with the defendant at the table. He
+       had no lines, but he was there. The trial had been ongoing; this
+       was the part where the verdict is rendered after a decision has
+       been reached.
+       The pattern of the judge passing sentence is exactly the same as
+       when circuit court judges used to work the frontier areas of the
+       US. Where would you find a jury on B5? Most civilians are passing
+       through, on stop-over for only a day or two...unable to follow a
+       long hearing. The only other ones are station personnel, which
+       represents a conflict of interest. Your only choice is a circuit
+       court style judge whose loyalty is owed to no one.
+       The alien device was being used on humans without any kind of
+       license, she is not a certified doctor, and it was used in the
+       death of a human. Under those circumstances, it is within the
+       judge s right to confiscate the device for the greater good. (You
+       can have a unlicensed firearm in a state that requires licensing,
+       and use it in a righteous self-defense shooting, but it will be
+       confiscated afterward. No compensation is required because its use
+       is/was unregulated, unlicensed, and she was/is not a working
+       doctor.)
+       It *is* due process. Even according to 20th century terms. Only
+       problem is in understanding what due process actually *is*, as
+       opposed to what we think it *should* be.
+     * Yes, part of the reason for the QoM episode was to set up the
+       notion of an implanted personality as achievable tech.
+     * David: "The Quality of Mercy" title is drawn from the same source
+       as Compton's book, Shakespeare. It has a lot to do with that
+       episode.
+     * Yes, absolutely; in "The Quality of Mercy," you'll get a look at
+       how the justice system has come to grips with the uestion of how
+       to handle violent crimes in an environment like a space station,
+       which has limited room for cells, limited resources, and other
+       complications. We do plan to get into this area a bit, without
+       getting too LA LAW about it.
+     * A lot of our episodes are constructed to work as mirrors; you see
+       what you put into it. "Believers" has been interpreted as pro-
+       religion, anti- religion, and religion-neutral..."Quality" has
+       been interpreted, as you note, as pro-capital punishment, and
+       anti-capital punishment. We do, as you say, much prefer to leave
+       the decision on what things mean to the viewer to hash out.
+       A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the
+       occasional bar fight.
+     * There's the sense that A, B and sometimes C stories in TV should
+       intersect. My attitude: sometimes yes, sometimes no. Depends on if
+       you look at this as a real place or not, as opposed to a thematic
+       exercise. What I go through in the course of a day has nothing to
+       do with what happens to Larry DiTillio across town, except and
+       unless it involves our mutual work. Sometimes, as in "Quality,"
+       the stories feel like they resonate, and can be used to illustrate
+       one another, and so they're linked. In others, what I'm striving
+       for is a sense of a "day in thed (the) life" of Babylon 5. The one
+       kind of story is neither better nor worse than the other, they're
+       simply different. One may like one more than the other, but to say
+       they're "better" plots is just silly. There's NO padding in this
+       show, no stories put in to fill out time; just stories that we
+       want to tell, period.
+     * Minbari use base 11, not base 10, so twelve would be
+       eleventy-first year, and so on.
+     * Minbari base eleven includes fingers and head, from which the
+       principle of mathematics comes.
+     * You're also looking at this from a strictly English-speaking
+       perspective; in German, for instance, 21 is "Ein und Zwanzig"
+       (pardon any misspellings in there, it's been a while) which is
+       exactly the same structure, albeit reversed, used for Minbari
+       counting (and, in fact, is more or less what I based his
+       "statement" on).
+     * Eleventy-seven = Eighteen base ten.
+     * One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven
+       Eleventy-one, eleventy-two, eleventy-three, eleventy-four,
+       eleventy- five, eleventy-six, eleventy-seven, eleventy-eight,
+       eleventy-nine, eleventy-ten, twelfy
+       Twelfty-one, twelfty-two, twelfy-three, twelfty-four,
+       twelfty-five, twelfty-six, twelfty-seven, twelfty-eight,
+       twelfty-nine, twelfty-ten.
+       And so on.
+       Who here still has a problem with this?
+       
+
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
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+Overview
+
+     First Season finale. A dying man leads Garibaldi to a discovery
+     that could cost him his life. Londo receives help in a dispute with
+     the Narns. Something begins to happen to Delenn. [15]Macaulay
+     Bruton as Garibaldi's aide. [16]Edward Conery as Devereaux. [17]Ed
+     Wasser as Morden.
+     
+Sub-genre: Intrigue
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]9.38
+
+Production number:  112
+Original air date:  October 26, 1994 [20](*)
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
+  Watch for:
+  
+     * A convenient departure just before an important event.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Before the Centauri occupation, Narn was a peaceful, agrarian
+       world.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What is happening to Delenn?
+     * What does it have to do with Kosh, or with the Vorlons? Why did
+       seeing Kosh help Delenn make up her mind?
+     * What was the question she had Lennier relay?
+     * What is the function of the triluminary in Delenn's device?
+     * What is the function of the device itself?
+     * Why did Delenn want to tell Sinclair what happened on the Line?
+     * Who's behind the plot to kill President Santiago?
+     * Why were the jammers and triangulation devices being shipped
+       through Babylon 5?
+     * Why did Garibaldi's aide kill Devereaux?
+     * What are G'Kar's suspicions about the attack on the military base?
+     * What do the Shadows want from Londo once he's in a position of
+       power?
+     * What were the invisible creatures in the room with Morden? If they
+       were Shadows, why did they come to Babylon 5 themselves, assuming
+       Morden was still on the station? For that matter, _how_ did they
+       get onto Babylon 5? On someone else's ship, or is one of theirs
+       parked outside, invisible to everyone?
+     * How did Morden know that Londo's name was being spoken in the
+       highest circles of the Centauri government?
+     * How did Kosh know that Sinclair had forgotten something? Does he
+       know what Delenn was planning to tell Sinclair, and if so, does
+       that imply he was involved in what happened on the Line?
+     * Was Garibaldi's friend Lianna Kemmer (cf. [21]"Survivors") on
+       Earth Force One when it exploded?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * The fact that Delenn decided to go ahead with the change after
+       Kosh revealed himself to her implies that there may be a much
+       closer relationship between the Minbari and the Vorlons than has
+       previously been suggested. It is even possible that Delenn is
+       turning into a Vorlon somehow, and that Kosh showed her he
+       resembled a Minbari. On the other hand, that doesn't explain
+       Kosh's interest in humans, who he arguably doesn't consider
+       another race (cf. [22]"The War Prayer.")
+     * Morden seems to be more than just a representative for the
+       Shadows; they seemed to be consulting with him. If he were a mere
+       spokesman, why would he reassure his masters?
+     * The Vice President is a prime suspect in the plot to kill
+       President Santiago. He just happened to leave the President's ship
+       shortly before the assassination attempt. He also presumably would
+       be able to arrange for an unregistered weapon for Devereaux -- or
+       perhaps Devereaux really _was_ an agent working under the Vice
+       President, in a capacity so secret Garibaldi couldn't find any
+       reference to him.
+     * Casting more suspicion on the Vice President, and adding a darker,
+       more sinister note, is the newspaper headline from [23]"And the
+       Sky Full of Stars" -- "Psi Corps in Election Tangle: Did Psi-Corps
+       Violate its Charter by Endorsing Vice President?"
+     * It's still not entirely clear where Garibaldi's aide's loyalty
+       lies. The killing of Devereaux and his men suggests there may be
+       more than one level of deception at work. Or perhaps he was simply
+       under orders to tie up loose ends and wanted to ensure Devereaux
+       could never blow his cover if apprehended.
+     * The Shadows may have been the force overrunning Garibaldi's
+       position in the flashforward from [24]"Babylon Squared." They may
+       also be what the crazed man in that episode was shouting about
+       when he referred to invisible monsters.
+     * Chrysalis is the third stage in insect development (egg, pupa,
+       chrysalis, and adult form.) There may be some relation to the
+       third age of mankind referenced in the opening monologue.
+     * Delenn has obviously seen her change coming for quite some time;
+       she has been building the crystal device in her quarters almost
+       from day one. Her compatriots on the Grey Council appear to
+       largely be in the dark about it, though perhaps not all of them,
+       as one of them did give her the triluminary (cf. [25]"Babylon
+       Squared.")
+     * Delenn's ability to breathe the atmosphere in Kosh's quarters with
+       only a single whiff of air from a mask is further evidence of some
+       connection between Vorlons and Minbari. Or it could just mean the
+       Minbari don't need much oxygen (or that both Kosh's air and the
+       normal station air contain whatever they _do_ need.)
+     * She has been disobeying the Council's order about Sinclair,
+       perhaps ever since [26]"And the Sky Full of Stars." That suggests
+       she may have intentionally been hiding her upcoming transformation
+       from them, as well. Otherwise it would presumably have come up
+       when they considered her for the leadership of the Council (cf.
+       [27]"Babylon Squared.")
+     * Londo's disgust about the deaths of the Narn suggest he may not be
+       the iron-fisted leader the Shadows appear to be looking for (cf.
+       [28]"Signs and Portents," in which Morden appeared to be looking
+       for someone ruthless and ambitious.) In the future he may be
+       placed in the position of deciding whether people live or die, and
+       may have to act against the Shadows' wishes.
+     * G'Kar may be returning home to try to warn his superiors that a
+       sixth race exists and is out to get them. Whether he has deduced
+       that the intent is to cause war between the Narns and the Centauri
+       (if, indeed, that _is_ what the Shadows are up to) is an
+       interesting question. It is also not clear what the Narns could do
+       about the situation even if the leadership was convinced there was
+       another player in the game; the Shadows appear to have an
+       overwhelming technological advantage over most of the other races.
+     * On the other hand, the Shadows did dispatch four ships to take
+       care of the Narn outpost. That suggests that one ship might not
+       have been enough, in turn implying limits to their power.
+     * "And so it begins," says Kosh. That's the same line spoken by
+       Delenn during the ceremony in [29]"The Parliament of Dreams,"
+       after Sinclair eats the fruit. Perhaps Kosh was referring to
+       Delenn's change rather than the death of President Santiago, and
+       perhaps it has something to do with the possible marriage of
+       Delenn and Sinclair in the aforementioned episode. (But see
+       [30]jms speaks.)
+     * When Kosh emerges from his encounter suit for Delenn (assuming
+       that's what he was doing,) there's a sound not unlike wings moving
+       through the air.
+     * In [31]"TKO" (which was originally going to air much later in the
+       season, either immediately before or one episode removed from
+       "Chrysalis,") Walker mentions that Garibaldi was never any good at
+       watching his back, foreshadowing the events in this episode.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Shot twelfth out of 22 episodes due to the extensive
+       post-production work required.
+     * First broadcast in the UK on October 3, 1994. PTEN didn't want to
+       show it during August, traditionally a month of low viewership, in
+       the US, so it was held back until the week before the first
+       season-two episodes, becoming, to all appearances, the season-two
+       premiere. In fact, PTEN even advertised it as such. But, as
+       stated, it was produced halfway through the first year of
+       shooting, so definitely qualifies as a season-one episode.
+     * The original satellite feed in the US was missing a special
+       effect. In the first shot of Londo walking in the hedge maze, the
+       scene was supposed to show the maze at the bottom of the frame and
+       a view down the center of the station above that. The actual
+       broadcast showed the back wall of the soundstage behind the
+       hedges, complete with "Exit" sign. Oddly, the correct scene was
+       used in the UK broadcast, which occurred much earlier. [32]Bad and
+       [33]good pictures of the scene are available.
+     * Garibaldi's aide appeared in three previous episodes: [34]"Mind
+       War," [35]"And the Sky Full of Stars," and [36]"Eyes" (where he's
+       in Ivanova's dream.)
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * Today, incidentally, I finished the outline for "Chrysalis," which
+       will be the last episode of this season, though we'll be shooting
+       it much earlier, about 2/3rds through the run. It's a real corker
+       in which we absolutely kick over the table and all hell breaks
+       loose *bigtime*. This one I'm *really* looking forward to writing.
+     * I'm in the strange position of writing the season end episode now,
+       to shoot #12, since it's going to require a lot of post production
+       work, and it definitely puts one in a very strange state of mind.
+       I have to be careful to refer to things that've happened in the
+       past episodes, from the perspective of the last episode of the
+       season, but which haven't yet been written or filmed in real-time.
+       So I'm writing the second half of some stories before having
+       written the first half (though I obviously know where they're all
+       going)...which really bends your brain around after a while.
+       This episode is going to be highly classified; we're going to
+       limit distribution of scripts, and parts of scripts, put canary
+       traps in all of the scripts that *are* distributed, and otherwise
+       keep this one quiet. All I can say is that we're going to kick
+       over every table we've got. In any season finale, there are maybe
+       4-5 things you know when you sit down to watch the show that
+       they'll NEVER ever do. So we're doing all of them. If this one
+       doesn't keep you glued to your seats, you've lost your chair.
+     * But I'd say that our two *best* so far are still "And the Sky Full
+       of Stars" and "Chrysalis." I just watched a cut of "Chrysalis"
+       today which finally had all the CGI in it, and had to scrape my
+       brain off the opposing wall, it's *that* good.
+     * I have just seen the director's cut of "Chrysalis," which will be
+       the last episode of this season...and I think it has just
+       displaced "Sky" as the most heavy-weight episode of the season.
+       Even knowing what was coming, I just sat here, stunned, at the end
+       of it. Seeing dailies, bits and pieces, doesn't really prepare you
+       for the whole thing. What I like most about it are two things:
+       one, by about halfway in, you really begin to understand that
+       anything can happen, to anyone, and the rules that normally carry
+       you through a television episode no longer apply. It's a very
+       dangerous, dislocating feeling. Two: you get the very real feeling
+       that, after this episode, nothing is the same anymore. The show
+       has taken a very profound and *irrevocable* turn that will have
+       lasting effects on all of our characters. Of all the episodes so
+       far, this one has the most feeling of being the chapter end in a
+       novel. The really hard part will not avoiding the temptation to
+       show this to people...because it really can't be allowed to get
+       out prior to airing. There are too many twists and turns and
+       revelations that spin one off into another. One other thing's
+       certain: after you've seen "Chrysalis," you're going to want to go
+       back and check out three prior episodes...because something that
+       you will have read/interpreted one way, without question or
+       hesitation accepting it as what it obviously appears to be, will
+       suddenly be turned on its head, and a brand new interpretation
+       will emerge. And it's *real* creepy....
+     * "Chrysalis" makes "Mind War" look like a still-life painting by
+       comparison....
+     * We finally delivered "Chrysalis" to Warner/PTEN, and heard back:
+       our liaison over there was stunned, describes it as the best
+       season-ending cliffhanger he's ever seen, unlike anything done
+       before. Suffice to say we're pleased.
+     * We have a New Year's celebration in one episode later this season,
+       and at some point will probably show other stuff next year.
+     * What I like most about it are two things: one, by about halfway
+       in, you really begin to understand that anything can happen, to
+       anyone, and the rules that normally carry you through a television
+       episode no longer apply. It's a very dangerous, dislocating
+       feeling. Two, you get the very real feeling that, after this
+       episode, nothing is the same anymore. The show has taken a very
+       profound and *irrevocable* turn that will have lasting effects on
+       all of our characters. Of all the episodes so far, this one has
+       the most feeling of being the chapter end in a novel.
+     * _Someone complains about the characters not staying the same_
+       Losing the characters she's come to enjoy? No. But the characters
+       are changing. That's the point, and that's been the intent from
+       day one. But what's the alternative? I've heard ST fans complain
+       loudly and bitterly that after 7 years of TNG being on the air,
+       nobody's really changed, nobody's been promoted into different
+       ships or major changes in responsibilities...they've had Riker as
+       XO for seven years, which in the real military would mean his
+       career is *over*.
+       Change is the only other option.
+       The goal, from the start, was to create an overall story, but
+       which would also require arcs for every single major character.
+       They're all going somewhere. In many cases, that "somewhere" plays
+       into the larger arc; in some cases, not. If a woman is single,
+       then gets married, then gives birth, and she's your friend, have
+       you "lost her" just because she's gone through these changes? Of
+       course not. She has changed, in good or bad ways, but she's still
+       the same person.
+     * I just showed "Chrysalis" to a couple of people today, who didn't
+       know what was in it. And there's one thing that they had seen over
+       and over in prior episodes of the series which they never thought
+       twice about, which they just sorta accepted...only to suddenly
+       have this understanding totally turned on its head.
+       The look on their faces was *priceless*.
+       This is probably the longest and most extensive setup/payoff in SF
+       television history. And afterward, once you discover what that is,
+       if you go back suddenly there's a LOT of different meaning in
+       prior episodes.
+     * "Chrysalis," a cliffhanger of sorts, leads right into "Points of
+       Departure," which picks up some of the tables kicked over by
+       "Chrysalis," the balance of which are picked up in the second
+       episode, "Revelations." By the end of the second new episode,
+       pretty much everything is now in place for the rest of the second
+       season...though not everything is in quite the same position as it
+       originally was.
+     * Except, of course, that where everyone goes is important to the
+       rest of the story, and that the purpose of the episode is to
+       introduce massive change into the story overall; when Sinclair
+       says "Nothing's the same anymore," he's deadly serious, and so are
+       we. The changes won't just be transitory or for a season-end hook;
+       these are permanent and substantial changes in the arc.
+     * Now that you've seen this much, now you can begin putting together
+       the other level of the metaphor that is B5...consider: a war that
+       did not end satisfactorily for us, not winning or losing, a sort
+       of peace with honor....the death of a president...the rise of
+       intelligence agencies and military power...start to sound
+       familiar? Now what we begin to do is to start moving around the
+       pieces, shifting the mirror of the story to reveal different
+       aspects of ourselves, as well as tell the other separate story of
+       B5 itself. Again, the idea is for this story to function on *many*
+       different levels: future-history, myth, adventure story, mystery
+       and a metaphor.
+     * Re: the staging of Morgan Clark taking the oath of office; I gave
+       very particular instructions to re-create the staging of the
+       photograph in which Lyndon Johnson takes over from JFK after the
+       assassination. The same layout, posture, background, and so on. We
+       even had a photo on set for reference. The creepy thing is that
+       the day we shot the scene was the anniversary of the day it
+       actually took place; very weird atmosphere on set that day.
+     * Actually, I was born in 54, so we're about the same age. Oddly, I
+       don't remember the day of the shooting; what I *do* remember is
+       watching JFK's funeral, and not entirely understanding the depth
+       of the event, but fully grasping the emotions around me. That will
+       linger forever.
+     * President Santiago is dead as a doorknob.
+     * Re: being fooled into thinking the crystal construct in Delenn's
+       quarters was nothing more than a meditation thing...in general, it
+       helps to remember that I subscribe to Anton Chekov's First Rule of
+       Playwriting: "If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one,
+       you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun
+       in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act
+       one, scene one."
+       Waste nothing.
+     * _About the marriage ceremony in "Parliament"_
+       The marriage was a red-herring, a bit of misdirection. The key for
+       any magician is to get the audience to look at your hand so they
+       don't see the elephant being wheeled onto the stage in full view.
+       The line in "Parliament" is, "It's a rebirth ceremony all right,
+       and sometimes doubles for a marriage ceremony." When I wrote that,
+       I knew instantly that everyone would focus in on the second half
+       (misdirection) and miss the first half. (Note that Delenn's "And
+       so it begins" is echoed by Kosh in the last episode.) I put out
+       something that I figured everybody would latch onto, ignoring the
+       other meaning which is stated twice.
+     * _Why did they turn Garibaldi onto his back, where the wound was?_
+       I was told by our medical technology consultant that after you
+       take care of the basic external wound, you always turn the body
+       over and go after the internal damage from the *front*. I was told
+       why three times, but still can't retain it. I think it involves
+       easier access without cutting around the spine, and makes
+       breathing less laborious.
+     * The teaser of that episode [Chrysalis] is very much just the sort
+       of thing we've seen before; designed to lull you into a sense of,
+       "Yeah, yeah, we've seen this." Right down to the tired look on
+       Sinclair's face. Been there, done that. Then you yank the viewer's
+       blanket. And structurally, it was designed to somewhat mirror the
+       events in the first episode; the balance is shifting, things are
+       going in the reverse of what we saw before.
+     * I don't like loose threads hanging around, so all this will get
+       tied up. In some cases, we'll see flashbacks to stuff that
+       happened "around the corner," so to speak, and in others we'll
+       have dialogue explanations. We get the scoop on what question
+       Delenn asked Kosh (via Lennier) before [season 2] is out.
+     * _If the Shadows are visible, how did they get onto the station?_
+       In "Chrysalis," they are distortions visible in the air when they
+       wish to be...and not when they don't.
+     * "There is good reason to believe the Minbari Triluminary device is
+       an artifact not created by the Minbari."
+       DING*DING*DING*DING*DING*DING*DING*DING!
+     * Actually, the first Triluminary was found by the Minbari, not made
+       by them, in a vessel they ran into about a thousand years ago.
+     * _About Walker's lines in "TKO"_
+       Re: "Watch your back," and "You never did know how to watch your
+       back," yep, that was a bit of deliberate foreshadowing for
+       "Chrysalis." When the episode aired, I mentioned at the time that
+       there was something in that episode that would later be seen to be
+       ironic or ominous, but didn't seem so at first. One or two caught
+       it, but most didn't. This show is layered very, VERY carefully.
+     * Correct; Garibaldi's aide has *always* been a plant. I seeded him
+       in from the beginning, specifically for that purpose. It was the
+       aide who got Sinclair out of his quarters in "Sky," was the
+       liaison who got Benson on line (also in security, you'll
+       remember), and helped dispose of the body. If you watch his
+       reaction in "Sky," he's the one who brings info to Garibaldi
+       looking to clear Benson; and when Garibaldi sees through it, you
+       can see his aide move off looking very worried.
+       Originally, it was Laurel Takashima who would have betrayed those
+       around her, as this character did. When Laurel was transferred, I
+       had a choice: keep that arc for her replacement (Ivanova), or give
+       this part of it to someone else. Now, knowing how the folks here
+       on the nets and elsewhere think, and knowing that they knew about
+       the Laurel- possible-traitor thread, I figured that everyone would
+       assume that Ivanova would get that part. (And, sure enough, a lot
+       of people did.) This became a wonderfully convenient blind behind
+       which to build the *real* plant.
+       And thus far, *nobody's* seen it coming. He was right there in
+       clear view, we used him many times (also in "By Any Means
+       Necessary," for instance), and nobody ever paid him the slightest
+       attention.
+       It is, in a way, the classic magician's trick of misdirection: you
+       try to get everyone to look at your hand so they won't look at the
+       huge elephant being wheeled up onto the stage in plain sight.
+     * No, the shooting of Garibaldi was always a very strong part of the
+       story for the end of first season; that line goes all the way back
+       to the pilot, and Laurel Takashima.
+     * No, after the thread with Laurel was revealed, lots of people
+       *assumed* that that thread had been passed along to Ivanova. It
+       had never in fact been intended for her, but when it was broached,
+       I simply didn't reply, on the theory that if I said it *wasn't*
+       her, it'd narrow it down to who it *was*.
+     * "I *liked* Laurel!"
+       Well, yes, that's rather the point; tragedy is only tragedy if it
+       happens to someone you care about and like.
+     * The Shadowmen stuff was all CGI, no models. Spiffy stuff. And yes,
+       we'll find out in time what Delenn asked Kosh.
+     * "If the Shadows are active on Earth, we need to ask why Psi-Corps
+       haven't picked them up."
+       Yep.
+     * The chrysalis is virtually all prop, with some roto work to
+       enhance the glow in "Chrysalis."
+     * _Was it credible that President and Vice President would travel on
+       the same flight? Their twentieth-century American counterparts
+       don't fly together on Air Force One._
+       You're forgetting several elements.
+       1) It would be in the VP's best interests to go along on the trip,
+       to help defuse any suspicion ("Boy, was I lucky.").
+       2) Going a few hours out of the country is one thing; you're not
+       looking at the aspect that traveling in normal space takes a lot
+       of time and expense...a ship as massive as EF1 is hideously
+       expensive; two would be a major waste of government money, and
+       they'd both be traveling side by side, further wasting money.
+       Also, whereas Air Force 1 travels nominally alone, EF1 has a full
+       escort of fighters, with a minimum of four in the "air" at any one
+       time, plus another batch inside.
+       Going between planets is a much different process than going
+       between here and London; and if both parties are required at the
+       other end, the only sensible way is to have them go together.
+     * Remember when I said there are things you learn midway into a
+       series that you can learn no other way? Yikes...
+       As I've mentioned before, in our season ender, "Chrysalis," we tip
+       over every table we've got. I'm talking here *major* stuff, that
+       profoundly and permanently affects many of our primary characters.
+       Well, you build that as a two parter, and even *try* to resolve
+       all of that in the second part. It doesn't work, because the
+       repercussions are so substantial. (What it is, really, is
+       something that'll be felt throughout the entire second season.)
+       You can try to pack all the loose thread-tying into part two, but
+       it's like trying to pack 10 pounds of potatos into a 5 pound bag.
+       One other option is making it a six parter, but *that's* really
+       silly. So what I'm doing, I've decided, is to take the major
+       elements and play them out over the first five or so episodes.
+       This will give me time to give each of the threads the necessary
+       time to play out effectively, rather than rushing things.
+       So Chrysalis stands alone as a season ender, and a prelude to the
+       Big Stuff in season two. Episode 1 of year two, therefore, won't
+       be "Chrysalis, Part Two," but have its own title, allowing me to
+       spread the stuff over the next few episodes. (Probable title:
+       "Points of Departure.")
+       I showed "Chrysalis" to some people the other day, and the
+       reaction was across the board astonishment. Just stunned. Which
+       was pretty much the desired result. It's an absolute left-turn for
+       the series.
+     * Since I mentioned it over on Internet (but not where it belongs),
+       I give y'all a little gift...Kosh's very last line of the season,
+       in "Chrysalis."
+       "You have...forgotten something."
+       It's not nearly as straightforward as it looks, and that one line
+       will carry with it *major* repercussions. (And no, it doesn't
+       refer to the 24 hours.)
+     * Only two Shadowman vessels hit the Narn base at Quadrant 37, not
+       three.
+     * Sometimes it gets wonky. We filmed "Chrysalis" twelfth in shooting
+       order, to air twenty-second. Part of the setup to "Chrysalis" is
+       "Signs and Portents," which shot 4 episodes later. Meaning the
+       actors had to act familiar with elements they hadn't performed
+       yet, and hadn't seen yet in script form. So in that case, I had to
+       sit down and explain what the various aspects of "Chrysalis"
+       meant, and where we were going, for it all to play. Later, when
+       "Signs" was published in-house, they got to see in more detail how
+       the setup fit in with the payoff.
+       If asked, I would probably try to refrain from telling any of the
+       actors the full story. Let me rephrase: I simply wouldn't do it.
+       If they would ask where their individual character is going -- and
+       some have -- what I do is give them the general arc, but leave out
+       a lot of specifics. For instance, Peter knows *in general* that
+       his character is going in a darker direction, but not how he's
+       going to get there or what it means to the overall story. And
+       that, I think, is as it should be.
+     * Every so often, a screwup takes place that is so breathtakingly
+       stupid that it defies all logic and reason. I just learned of one
+       this evening, and I'm still reeling a bit from it. Consequently,
+       this is address to anyone who watched the satellite uplink of
+       "Chrysalis" or has seen it in the US in the last day or so.
+       Once we deliver an episode, it goes to two places: Modern Video
+       and CVC. CVC checks an episode of any series prior to uplink to
+       make sure it's okay. Though they've had it for four months, they
+       only got around to checking it the day before uplink. During this,
+       they found a couple of small audio pops. The kind of thing that
+       could be fixed in about five minutes. But since it was the
+       evening, Modern Video decided to fix it for us...by *rebuilding
+       the entire episode*.
+       Without calling us, notifying us, or checking with us, when we
+       could've easily had someone on-hand there to supervise at a
+       moment's notice.
+       Well, when they rebuilt the episode...they didn't use all the
+       correct footage. Some of what was used was RAW FOOTAGE. Example:
+       when Londo goes to meet someone in the Garden, there's supposed to
+       be a great composite shot there of the interior of the Garden
+       area, and a hedge maze. (The UK saw this version of it last
+       month.) But when the episode was rebuilt, they used the raw
+       footage segment showing Londo and a partial hedge IN THE
+       SOUNDSTAGE, where you can see the stage wall, and the pipes, and
+       the EXIT sign. No composite. Nada.
+       We don't yet know what else has been included incorrectly, because
+       we won't see a copy until morning. Suffice to say that this is
+       being taken care of *our* way overnight, and a correct version
+       will be sent out via satellite in time for the Wednesday first
+       airings in most markets, and the reruns in those markets where
+       it's already aired.
+       At this moment, I am preternaturally calm about all this, having
+       passed beyond anger earlier this evening into a kind of zen state
+       of consciousness, utterly unable to wrap my brain around the
+       absolute stupidity of something like this for more than two
+       minutes at a time.
+       By morning, this will have worn off.
+       I'm looking forward to it immensely.
+     * As it turns out, we discovered that there were TWO comp shots
+       missing (including one in DownBelow), and that's how the "to be
+       continued" got added in at the end. We rousted our people out of
+       bed and had them at the Modern Video facility at 2:30 a.m. fixing
+       other people's mistakes, rebuilding the entire episode so it could
+       be birded out this afternoon.
+     * If you saw TBC at the end of the episode, it was NOT the correct
+       version.
+     * Well, we tracked down more on the screw-up, and that's how the "To
+       be continued" got in, and there's a second composite shot missing
+       (from the DownBelow area). We rousted our post production people
+       out of bed last night, and at 3:30 a.m. had them correcting the
+       mistakes made by others, reassembling the entire episode. The
+       correct version is going out on the bird today, tomorrow, and
+       tomorrow night. It will also be hand-delivered to KCOP here in
+       town to make sure they get it.
+       I encourage anyone who saw "Chrysalis" over the last day or so to
+       look at it again on the rerun; I think you'll find parts of it
+       much better.
+       This has been a complete and utter meltdown, and we're all out for
+       blood at the moment.
+     * Yeah, it can make you crazy. Y'know that game, where you have a
+       mallet and your job is to whack the gophers as they stick their
+       head up out of the ground? That's as good a description of my job
+       as I've ever seen. And there are always new gophers....
+     * _KCOP Channel 13 replaced the *good* version of Chrysalis with the
+       messed-up version_
+       I know...I know....
+       Hand me my chainsaw, I'm going shopping for dinner.
+     * The mistake wasn't made by us. It was broadcast correctly
+       overseas, in the UK, perfectly. This was done by the video house
+       that supplied the satellite feed.
+     * Here is Londo's arc through the five year storyline:
+       Funny and light; then funny and dark; then dark and tragic; then
+       tragic and light.
+     * Yeah, there's hope for Londo...but not in the way I think anybody
+       will expect, and not in the way Londo would like.
+     * Londo is a fascinating character to write; there's layers upon
+       layers, and every time I sit down to write him, he surprises me
+       with something else. And it's certainly more interesting to watch
+       someone you like falling into something terrible than to set up a
+       bad guy from day one; no complexity or sympathy there. It's kind
+       of like watching an accident in slow motion. But in the final
+       analysis, all is not dark for Londo.
+     * _What's the story on the god Vir doesn't consider part of the
+       Centauri pantheon?_
+       Ah, yes...that one wasn't an emperor, that was Zoog, which was
+       really just a household god, primarily associated with one noble
+       family, that somewhat imposed Zoog where possible, forced the
+       religious establishment to recognize the temple they'd built to
+       Zoog...it was strictly an act of vanity on their part, to create a
+       god, and elevate a household god, which never really carries much
+       weight, to something greater, adding to the general pantheon.
+     * No, alas, Tech #1, Marianne Robertson has decided that she would
+       like to travel next year with her husband Dick Robertson, and has
+       some other personal plans in mind, and thus won't be back next
+       season.
+     * Just FYI...Marianne Robertson, Tech #1, was Swedish, not Russian.
+     * "JMS has specifically told us that one MAIN character will die in
+       Chrysalis or Points of Departure (I don't remember which)."
+       No I haven't.
+       Never said it.
+       Sometimes, what happens is that people guess about what's going to
+       happen in the story...and gradually that becomes the assumption on
+       the part of some people that this WILL happen...which in time
+       metamorphoses into "JMS said this would happen."
+       This is yet another of those. Never said it.
+       While I understand how this happens (and it happens a lot), the
+       only real complication that I get from it is that suddenly I'm
+       being held to promises I never made...and if it doesn't happen as
+       I supposedly said, then it's somehow my fault.
+     * The Douglas Adams "homage." Nope. Eric Sevareid once wrote that
+       "working in television is like being nibbled to death by ducks." I
+       think it was in his book "Not So Wild A Dream," itself a line
+       borrowed from a poem by Norman Corwin. It's also a fairly common
+       phrase.
+     * Scenes you should look at differently after "Chrysalis"...one that
+       comes to mind offhand is "Sky," in the various Garibaldi scenes
+       (can't be more specific than that right now).
+     * _Have we learned the fate of Garibaldi's friend Lianna Kemmer,
+       from "Survivors?" Was she on Santiago's ship?_
+       No, we haven't established what happened to her, but we will in
+       time.
+     * If we go into what happened, and where she is, it kinda behooves
+       us to show her.
+     * As with her arrival at B5, she would've been handling the advance
+       work on Io prior to Santiago's arrival.
+       
+
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
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+Overview
+
+     Second season premiere. As a new commander assumes control of the
+     station, a renegade Minbari warship arrives, threatening trouble.
+     [15]Robert Foxworth as General Hague.
+     
+   (Originally titled "Chrysalis, Part II")
+Sub-genre: Intrigue
+[16]P5 Rating: [17]7.92
+
+Production number:  201
+Original air date:  November 2, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * During the Earth-Minbari War, Captain John Sheridan managed to
+       score Earth's only real victory, destroying the Minbari flagship
+       Black Star and several cruisers by mining the asteroid belt
+       between Jupiter and Mars with fusion bombs. This earned him the
+       name "Starkiller" among the Minbari warrior caste, as well as
+       their continuing hatred.
+     * The Minbari population has been slowly declining for two millenia.
+     * The Grey Council ordered the end of the war after capturing
+       Sinclair. He was the first human to have direct contact with the
+       Council. Their original intent was to interrogate him and find out
+       about Earth's defenses, but upon scanning him, they found that
+       Minbari souls were somehow being reborn in human bodies. Since
+       Minbari religion teaches that all the souls of the Minbari form a
+       greater whole, continuing the war would mean, in effect, killing
+       part of themselves. Realizing that the knowledge that this was
+       happening to Minbari souls would prove destabilizing to society --
+       presumably some would blame humans for the shrinking population,
+       not to mention how the _humans_ would react to the news -- they
+       decided to keep their discovery a secret, and protect it with
+       lethal force if necessary.
+     * After the suicide of the warleader Sineval (cf. [18]"Legacies") at
+       the end of the war, the crew of his ship, the Trigati, defied the
+       surrender order and vanished into exile for nearly twelve years.
+     * Before her service on Babylon 5, Ivanova served under Sheridan at
+       the transfer point on Io.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * How did a scan reveal that Minbari souls were being reborn in
+       humans?
+     * Will the crew of the Trigati be considered martyrs by the warrior
+       caste in spite of their death at Minbari hands?
+     * Why did President Clark already know why the war ended? (see
+       [19]jms speaks, and comic [20]"In Darkness Find Me")
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * The presence of the unnamed Grey Council member on Babylon 5
+       implies that the Council knew Delenn would disobey its order, and
+       further, that they know the purpose of the chrysalis. In fact,
+       there seems to be more division within the Council than they want
+       to admit (cf. [21]"Babylon Squared") since one of the
+       Councilmembers gave Delenn the triluminary even though the council
+       had advised her to wait.
+     * Sinclair was the first human to have contact with the Grey
+       Council, but there's still ample evidence that that's not the only
+       thing unique about him. Delenn has hinted that she believes he has
+       a great destiny (cf. [22]"Grail" and [23]"A Voice in the
+       Wilderness, part 2") and even in this episode, Lennier says, "A
+       change is coming. Sinclair was the first. There will be others,"
+       implying that something has happened to him that hasn't yet
+       happened to anyone else.
+     * In fact, the Council may have identified a specific Minbari soul
+       in Sinclair, perhaps the reincarnation of a great figure in their
+       history; that would explain why they're so interested in him in
+       particular.
+     * It's possible that the information about Minbari souls isn't even
+       known to all of the Grey Council. When Delenn visited the Council
+       (in [24]"Babylon Squared") she spoke of the prophecy as the reason
+       for ending the war, and some of the other Councilmembers weren't
+       sure that humans were the ones the prophecy referred to. If they
+       had seen whatever scan results convinced Delenn that humans had
+       Minbari souls, they presumably would have argued with her about
+       those results rather than a vague interpretation of the prophecy.
+     * The only thing that looked remotely like a scan in Sinclair's
+       recollection of his capture on the Line was when one of the
+       Minbari held a triluminary up to him. (cf. [25]"And the Sky Full
+       of Stars") It's at least plausible that the triluminary was
+       instrumental in determining that Sinclair had a reincarnated
+       Minbari soul. If its function is indeed on such a spiritual level,
+       the fact that it was part of Delenn's machine (cf.
+       [26]"Chrysalis") suggests that her transformation may be as much
+       mental as physical. This interpretation of the triluminary's
+       function is supported by the comic issue [27]"In Darkness Find
+       Me."
+     * Sheridan's comment that he was the _late_ president's choice to
+       replace Sinclair is odd; why would Santiago want someone who would
+       be sure to anger the Minbari and increase tensions?
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The Agamemnon was also a ship in the British fleet, at one point
+       commanded by Lord Nelson (best known for the Battle of Trafalgar.)
+     * Possible factual error: Sheridan said the Dalai Lama ate dinner
+       with him, implying an evening meal. But Buddhist monks, including
+       the Dalai Lama, don't eat after noon. It is, of course, possible
+       that Buddhist practices have changed between the twentieth and
+       twenty-third centuries, or that "dinner" wasn't meant to imply an
+       evening meal, but rather the last meal of the day.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * As for Chrysalis, there's about 8 to 10 days in "story time"
+       between it and the events in "Points." The next few shows track in
+       real-time.
+     * _Why do the Minbari have a grudge against Sheridan? It was
+       wartime, after all._
+       They don't much like the way he did it, which was rather sneaky.
+       My sense is that the Minbari have something of a superiority
+       complex; the idea of being beaten, even briefly, by a technically
+       inferior race is going to grate on them. Also, bear in mind, that
+       the military caste has not been fully informed about WHY they were
+       ordered to surrender...so there's a great deal of animosity just
+       barely submerged there, which is pointed at the only real human
+       they know from the war...because he cost them.
+     * Heads definitely rolled (figuratively speaking) in the Minbari
+       warrior caste after the Black Star incident. They allowed
+       themselves to get cocky, and didn't do a proper job, which was
+       more than an embarrassment to them.
+     * It kinda bothered their sense of superiority; also, their sense of
+       honor lies more in the direction of one-to-one combat, rather than
+       mining something as a trap. Consider it the way British troops did
+       toward American revolutionary fighters who hid behind trees and
+       used guerilla tactics rather than fighting the way the British
+       *wanted* them to fight, out in the open, in nice, easily shot-at
+       rows....
+     * We will be changing the main title sequence after "Revelations"
+       airs to include the new version of Delenn. Would be silly of us to
+       include the new version in episodes prior to her unveiling.
+     * The fact that Minbari believe in souls does not make it so.
+       If a story is rigorously SF, but some of the people who inhabit
+       the story have belief systems, does that automatically invalidate
+       it as SF?
+       I don't think it's the position of this show to state whether or
+       not a belief system is true but rather to explore the actions of
+       those who THINK it's true; not to resolve arguments, but to start
+       arguments. (See "Believers" for more on this one.)
+       What the characters believe is subjective, and is their business.
+       Or, as Sheridan says in a later episode, "I'm not saying what I'm
+       saying. I'm not saying what I'm thinking. For that matter, I'm not
+       even THINKING what I'm thinking."
+     * This is correct. Sheridan did NOT tell President Clark about the
+       Minbari soul situation. Clark already knew about it. Sheridan's
+       line is, "I spoke with the president. He is the only other person
+       who knows why the Minbari surrendered." Also, in the first issue
+       of the comic, this prior knowledge on Clark's part is clear as
+       well.
+     * BTW, and just for the heck of it...the line about paying off karma
+       at an accellerated rate is something Kathryn has been muttering
+       for ages; I popped it into the script for fun.
+     * Sheridan asked what kind of scanners the fighters were using
+       because he couldn't figure out why they were picking up the
+       Minbari fighters. He wanted to be sure nobody had snuck by some
+       kind of new tech. Once he knew they were the same tech as before,
+       he knew something screwy was up.
+     * Correct above; Sheridan says, quite specifically, in the
+       conference room with Ivanova after the Grey Council guy is gone,
+       "they used some kind of stealth technology WE'VE NEVER BEEN ABLE
+       TO BREAK." It's not a matter of old or cheaper tech; we just
+       haven't broken their technology yet.
+     * And yes, ships can sit in hyperspace (something also mentioned by
+       Laurel Takashima in the pilot, "If I were the Vorlons, I'd have a
+       warship standing by in hyperspace just waiting to attack."
+     * Basically, I decided to name the EA Lounge "Earhart's" because she
+       is an important figure in aviation history, and I wanted a 40s art
+       deco style to the place, down to big band music, and it fit
+       perfectly. There have been more women aviators, civilian and
+       elsewhere, than we know, particularly during WW II at home, and
+       they deserve recognition.
+     * The Earthforce lounge (EA personnel only) is Earhart's, named
+       after the famed aviator.
+       (Consequently, as tradition, only swing or big-band music is ever
+       played in Earhart's.)
+       Yes, we brightened things up a notch, but only a notch, because we
+       discovered that a lot of the good work being done on the sets and
+       the costumes wasn't being seen because we were too dark. So we
+       went up about one f-stop, but at the same time began using more
+       shadows, textures and colors, so the show has a denser look to it.
+     * As noted elsewhere...we have previously established that the Dome
+       is periodically on Standby Mode, when the system is performing
+       autmoated (automated) backups, routine maintenance, that sort of
+       thing. It was in "Midnight," when Garibaldi informs Ivanova that
+       that's where he likes to go, when it's on standby, and is quiet.
+       It was in "Sky," when Ivanova asks Tech 1 if there are any more
+       ships due in for a while, is told no, and she puts her feet up on
+       the console, nobody else around.
+       Also, B5 tends to run on human cycles of day and night, something
+       we try to reflect in the sets and effects, showing the Garden
+       bright during day times, and dark during night stuff (as around
+       dinner time in the Fresh Air Restaurant). Maintaining such cycles
+       has been found to be critical in these kinds of environments.
+       The standby mode only happens every 36-48 hours, for about an
+       hour. Most departments also have their own control areas, using
+       C&C mainly when command personnel are required. In addition, there
+       are folks monitoring C&C, and if anything *should* happen, someone
+       could be there within seconds.
+     * The Hyperion was built before the EM war, and survived.
+       The Agamemnon, a much superior ship, was built afterward. Sheridan
+       was not commanding the Aggy during the war. It's one of the best
+       ships we've got, almost the equivilent of an aircraft carrier or
+       battleship, and it took a lot of seniority and work to get it.
+     * Yes, you will see the Agamemnon again.
+     * Nothing has been dumbed down or simplified; in a first season
+       episode (in other words, the first episode of any given season),
+       you get a lot of sampling. If the show is obscure, or there's too
+       much prior knowledge required to get into it...they go away fast.
+       So there was a bit more straightforward exposition in this episode
+       in order to avoid scaring off new viewers.
+       And I stated, some time ago, that this was a lighter episode
+       because it's sandwiched between two very intense episodes,
+       "Chrysalis" and "Revelations," and I think you need some relief
+       there.
+       And as Walker noted, there are times when the dome is on standby,
+       as noted in "Midnight." The systems every 36 hours or so go
+       through a period of self-repair and maintainance for an hour or
+       two; if anything comes out of the gate or into local space,
+       someone's there within seconds.
+     * I wouldn't look for too much of Garibaldi in the first episode; he
+       was shot in the back...my feeling is that, TV logic to the
+       contrary, it takes TIME to recover from that. Consequently, this
+       will take a few episodes to get even remotely back on track.
+     * Yes, the quote definitely comes from Lincoln. I hated the old
+       Babcom logo, so we dumped it.
+     * Re: yankeecentrism...we always strive for balance. Yes, he quoted
+       Lincoln, but he also noted that on his 21st birthday, he flew to
+       see the new Dalai Lama being sworn in.
+     * Thanks. If you think PoD was a "wham," then I can't wait to see
+       your reaction to "Revelations."
+       Interestingly enough, I figured on giving Sheridan a tie to the
+       Civil War through his ancestor, General Philip Sheridan (sometimes
+       called "Little Phil" by Lincoln). Afterward, I discovered that
+       Bruce is a big civil war buff, so the Lincoln stuff worked very
+       well.
+       One of my favorite sequences from this episode is the stuff aboard
+       the Minbari cruiser during the Battle of the Line; the shots
+       surrounding Delenn and the other Minbari gives it a very god-like
+       aspect. Just wonderful.
+     * Yes, Sheridan is descended from Gen. Philip John Sheridan of the
+       Union Army.
+     * Sheridan is a soldier. A soldier is told, in wartime, THIS is your
+       enemy. You kill the enemy or your enemy kills you. Afterward,
+       you're in the same position American soldiers were in after the
+       end of WW II when it came time to reconcile with the Germans and
+       the Japanese. It can sometimes be very awkward...and sometimes
+       reconciliation takes a while.
+     * For what it's worth, Sheridan is neither a "space cowboy" nor a
+       "gung ho type." This description has nothing to do with the
+       character, and I'm not quite sure where you got this. Certainly I
+       never said or implied it.
+       Captain John Sheridan is a war hero, of sorts; he squeaked out the
+       only real victory of the Earth/Minbari War. (Which means the
+       Minbari don't generally like him a lot.) He did what he did
+       because that's his job. He's a professional soldier. For the last
+       two years, he's been commanding the Agamemmnon, a high-visibility
+       Earthforce starship on deep patrol. As such, he has had to learn
+       to work with a number of different races and species.
+       In some ways, his character is somewhat more well-rounded than was
+       the case with Sinclair, over whom a general sense of doom often
+       seemed to hang. Sheridan is often very thoughtful and
+       introspective; at other times, he can be just a bit eccentric; he
+       leads by respecting those who work under him, and givingthem room
+       to grow; like any career officer, he HATES the bureaucracy with a
+       passion, and this is the one thing that can drive him nuts; he
+       knows that commanding B5 is a great opportunity, but he also knows
+       that his presence brings certain complications with it, and he's
+       very ambivilant about that aspect; he's the son of a diplomatic
+       envoy who disappeared on his 21st birthday, running off to see (of
+       all things) the new Dali Lama being installed; he has a very
+       easygoing manner, and a great sense of humor. He quickly re-forms
+       a friendship with Ivanova, for whom he has great respect and
+       professional admiration. (For a time she served under him at Io.)
+       He is, actually, a fascinating and intriguing character with a lot
+       of different shadings...none of which have *anything* to do with
+       being a "space cowboy" or "gung-ho type."
+       Anyway...point being...when it was announced that there was going
+       to be a new Lieutenant-Commander, a number of folks went ballistic
+       and said the show would now be ruined. I said, in essence,
+       look...I created Takashima; I can create an interesting character
+       to replace her. And I thunk up Ivanova, who according to the
+       rec.arts.b5 poll is the most popular character on the show. When
+       it was announced that Sinclair would be STAYING with the show,
+       after the pilot, a number of folks said this was bad, he was
+       wooden, he stunk, get him off...and ended up being very enamored
+       of him. My only reply now about Bruce...give him, and me, a
+       chance. I genuinely think you will like what you see a *lot*.
+       In the course of the first season, Ivanova, Garibaldi, G'Kar,
+       Londo, Delenn, others...they've exploded into strong characters.
+       You need an equally strong character designed to hold his own, and
+       be memorable, in that august company. Sheridan was designed
+       knowing we had a much elevated playing field around the character.
+       Obviously, clearly, and irrefutably, an actor brings a *lot* to
+       any role. No question. But it tends to begin with what is created.
+       I've seen it said here, repeatedly, that none of the characters
+       are uninteresting; they all have lives, and agendas, that make
+       them fascinating to watch: Londo, Morden, G'Kar, Delenn,
+       Garibaldi, Ivanova...what those characters are came out of my
+       head, in terms of who tey are, what they say, what they believe,
+       where they came from and where they're going. Why would I invent a
+       new character that was any less involving, or interesting, or
+       multifaceted? Particularly knowing that he's going to be a central
+       character?
+       Speaking as someone who's been in fandom a long, long time, I know
+       there is always a tendency for panic, to assume the apocalpse is
+       upon us, that something is never going to be the same again. I
+       heard this after the Enterprise was destroyed in "The Search for
+       Spock." I've heard this a lot over the years. It's generally
+       over-reaction and worry before anyone has even seen a frame of
+       film.
+       Bottom line being...wait and see, then judge. I've tried very hard
+       not to let you down, and I think so far I haven't done so...I have
+       no intention of starting now. Bruce is doing an absolutely
+       *brilliant* job as Captain Sheridan, bringing a thoughtfulness and
+       intensity and charm and intensity to the part that is a joy to
+       behold. Give him a chance.
+     * Alas, I wrote my note about Bruce around 1 or 2 in the morning,
+       and I meant to balance out *intensity* with *intelligence*, but my
+       brain saw the first letters i-n-t-e, and vapor-locked.
+     * _How important to the Arc is Sheridan?_
+       How critical was Aragorn to the storyline of Lord of the Rings?
+     * The way in which Sheridan comes into the storyline is *absolutely*
+       consistent with everything that has come before, and everything
+       that follows.
+     * Sheridan was never on the original list [to command B5] because at
+       that time when the EA needed Minbari financing for B5, they knew
+       it'd piss off the Minbari to have it there, so he was never
+       considered for the post at that time.
+     * "Sounds like a formula to really PO the Minbari."
+       Yup.
+     * Just to clarify: in Soul Hunter we set in place the question of
+       what these things are, and do not resolve that question. Dr.
+       Franklin offers that with the correct technology, it might be
+       possible to make (for lack of a better term) a clone of someone's
+       neural patterns, copy his personality and memories into a storage
+       device...but also dismisses the notion of soul stealing.
+       I traffic in ambiguity.
+     * In a sense, yes, "Believers" now enters the arc...but so does
+       "Soul Hunter," in a big way. Replay Lennier's talk to Sheridan and
+       Ivanova, then play Delenn's conversation with Sinclair and the
+       Soul Hunter in that episode, and suddenly a lot of elements begin
+       to intersect.
+     * Re: you're noticing the line, "You talk like a Minbari" from
+       Neroon to Sinclair in "Legacies"....yup. Sometimes this stuff is
+       in broad strokes, sometimes in teeny little things like that. Also
+       ties in even further with where Sinclair goes.
+     * Note that Lennier says he wishes he could have told them (us) the
+       *rest* of the prophecy...and there's definitely more to Sinclair,
+       as will be seen later in the season. Remember, the Grey Council
+       never tells anyone the whole truth (note how Kalain asks that
+       question upon being told that Sinclair is just an ambassador).
+     * There really wasn't/isn't time in PoD to get into the angst
+       everyone has over Sinclair leaving (though some of that is given
+       to Sheridan, oddly enough). But it WILL get brought up in
+       subsequent episodes, especially from Garibaldi.
+     * Sinclair was the first human the Minbari (or at least the Grey
+       Council) had ever met, having come this far for the final victory.
+       The Earth Explorer vessel was part of a military fleet that
+       encountered a Minbari convoy, there was a miscommunication, a
+       misperceived threat, and our ships opened fire. There was no
+       person-to-person contact.
+     * Sure, you could blind-fire at a Minbari cruiser, but it's pretty
+       heavily armored. And while you're shooting at it, you're not only
+       being hit by cruiser blasts, but the several dozen Minbari
+       fighters coming in behind you. And shooting at a sublight
+       traveling fighter by eye would absolutely never work. It *has* to
+       be computer guided.
+       (BTW, for the sharp of eye...if you go back and sill-step through
+       some of the cockpit screen shots in "Sky," you'll note that on the
+       tac screen in Sinclair's cockpit it says something to the effect
+       of "Unable to lock-onto target.")
+     * Yes, you can go in and shoot at a Minbari *cruiser* visually...but
+       the reality is that any long-range weapon will be intercepted by
+       targeting fire, and if you get up real close and personal...well,
+       actually, you *can't* get up real close and personal because, as
+       Mitchell learned in "Sky," you get shot by the fighters.
+       What the fighters tend to remain engaged with are the Minbari
+       fighters, which are *incredibly* fast...much too fast to target
+       visually.
+       And believe me, as Sheridan stated, Earth's been *trying* to break
+       the stealth tech for a while, just hasn't been able to.
+     * Re: [Robert] Foxworth...he was someone we spoke to in case Bruce
+       turned out not to be available, and we liked him instantly, and he
+       liked the show. So for good luck, we had him come in for this
+       role, which may appear again. He's a terrific actor.
+     * _What were all those ribbons on General Hague's chest awarded for?_
+       I'll have to check, but probably most of those medals are for
+       actions during the Earth/Minbari War, and during the Dilgar War.
+       I'll have to check to get anything more specific than that.
+     * Well, my thought at the time, and I probably should've put this
+       into dialogue in retrospect, was that there's a window about every
+       36 hours when the entire C&C system goes through self-maintainance
+       for about half an hour, backing things up, doing self-repair,
+       filing logs with Earth Central, that sort of thing. They normally
+       pick a slow period in docking, and any other routine stuff is
+       handled through the backup C&C on the other side of the station
+       axis (you can see it directly above the docking bay when the
+       normal C&C is directly below it).
+       At first I'd considered putting that in Ivanova's mouth when she
+       says "Of all the time he could've picked," but then the reveal of
+       where he was and what he was doing fell flat; it needed to be a
+       surprise or it lost its impact and the humor. Ah, well....
+     * It has been established, in prior episodes, that there are brief
+       periods when C&C is in "standby mode," during which time no ships
+       are due, the station is in "night" cycle, and the operational
+       equipment in C&C goes through routine backup and maintenance. In
+       "Midnight on the Firing Line," our first episode, Ivanova is told
+       by Garibaldi that Sinclair is in C&C when it's in standby mode
+       because he likes the quiet during those brief periods (usually
+       only about an hour or so); in "Chrysalis," Ivanova asks Tech 1 if
+       any more ships are due in for a while, is told no, and she puts
+       her feet up on the console, watching the news, with the place
+       pretty much deserted.
+       This isn't the bridge of a starship; this is mainly a center of
+       operations for docking and other station activities requiring
+       command personnel. Every separate department -- environmental,
+       other resources -- has its own separate control center, with lots
+       of redundency.
+       In addition, there's always somebody monitoring stuff as it comes
+       through, so if there *were* any kind of problem, there'd be
+       somebody on site in C&C in thirty seconds. Basically, we're
+       talking an hour or so once every 36 to 48 hours. I could've
+       explained this in dialogue, but it would've taken the edge off the
+       revelation and humor, and I figured we'd done this before enough
+       times that it wouldn't be an issue.
+     * Just as an advisory...the woman who spoke up in PoD (the tech who
+       told Sheridan that Security wanted him) is not a Tech 1
+       replacement; she was there just for that one episode. We have a
+       number of folks floating through that area now, because logically
+       you would have rotating crews.
+     * A vibe shower would theoretically use sonic waves (in combination
+       with other elements, like disinfecting lighting, as seen in
+       "Signs") to remove dirt and kill bacteria.
+       That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+     * Delenn staying while Sinclair goes is part of WHY Sinclair goes
+       and Delenn stays. It's absolutely part and parcel.
+     * Delenn had intended to tell Sinclair much about the soul issue
+       before entering the chrysalis.
+     * It's always interesting, if you have one character upon whom
+       everyone else leans, even depends, to *remove* that character for
+       a time. Because then those characters have to *react*...to either
+       stand or fall on their own. It shakes things up a little...and
+       vastly intensifies the characters.
+     * I'm going to test myself, and see how much I can say without
+       saying too much.
+       You have X-number of characters. They're all in the same place.
+       You're trying to tell a story that has a great deal of scale, and
+       covers all kinds of worlds, changing politics, alliances, on and
+       on. The question becomes, how do you *illustrate* that? To use a
+       line from the original Trek, when a mob guy is brought aboard the
+       Enterprise, he says later, "All I saw was a room and five guys."
+       So now you start saying, "Hmmm...what if I remove Character A from
+       the chessboard, and move him over *here* for a while? He wasn't
+       going to be doing much for the next little bit anyway. And we
+       won't just "deal" with that change, it's part of the story...it
+       broadens out the story to include Place A *and* Place B. It has
+       repercussions down the road. It comes up again in the future.
+       Elements from Place B now become known on Place A. Character A may
+       even make an occasional reappearance to keep us even more closely
+       connected with Place B, which is necessary because Place B is
+       very, very important."
+       What we have in mind here isn't quite comparable to anything
+       that's been done before. The character will still be alive. The
+       character will continue to have an impact on the story. The
+       character will be spotted from time to time. The character will
+       continue to show up in the comic and the novels. And through this
+       move, you have the benefit of substantially opening up the B5
+       universe, you help create the realignment of characters and
+       loyalties that was anticipated for this season, and it helps kick
+       over the tables, as we did in Chrysalis.
+       Just a slight refinement on the argument.
+     * I can probably answer your question a little better after you've
+       seen the second episode of this season. For now, let's just say
+       this: in working out the story for year two, Sinclair's main line
+       of connection was to the Minbari. But the Minbari storyline was
+       diminishing in ways onnected to the war in year two; obviously we
+       all know what is on the upswing in year two, certain dark forces.
+       I needed someone who has a connection to *that* side of the story
+       to personalize it, and Sheridan brings that connection to the mix,
+       although he doesn't know it yet.
+     * The Battle of the Line and the hole in Sinclair's mind was always
+       intended as the entry point or trigger to the story. It's like
+       Frodo being given the Ring in LoTR. The story isn't about that,
+       that's how we get INTO it. Frankly, there's no way you can sustain
+       that one element for five years, nor did we ever intend to do so.
+       The only difference in the resolution of that aspect is this: we
+       had originally intended to resolve the missing 24 hours, and the
+       Battle of the Line, by episode four, season two. We've simply
+       moved it up 3 eps to the first episode. Because new players are
+       coming onto the field, in the form of the Shadowmen, and other
+       forces, and we now have to begin turning our attention to new
+       mysteries.
+     * "Changes are coming; Sinclair was the first, there will be
+       others." He was referring to more changes coming.
+     * Sheridan, or more specifically the need for someone *like*
+       Sheridan began to get through clearly toward the latter part of
+       last season, as I began planning out season two's progression, and
+       kept looking at elements of the story and trying to find ways to
+       get Sinclair into the heart of them. They felt contrived, for the
+       most part; and the other characters, like Londo and G'Kar and
+       Delenn, were *really* moving forward in a big way. The role of
+       Sinclair was becoming primarily that of a "problem solver," and
+       when that happens, a sort of glass bell falls down around the
+       character, and you can't do much with him.
+       So what the writer has to do is break that bell in one way or
+       another; do something totally unexpected to him, and bring in
+       someone who has a direct, personal connection with the storyline
+       emerging in season two, so it's not contrived or forced.
+     * All the characters are unique; there seems to be this bone-headed
+       notion, that I frequently run into, of "Well, Ivanova's just
+       Takashima renamed," or "Sheridan's story is just the same as
+       Sinclair's, same guy just renamed." They're *not* and never have
+       been. The story of one does not devlove automatically upon the
+       other. If you make a change, it's because you have something
+       better in mind...otherwise why make it?
+     * I said, from the very beginning, that once the series got rolling,
+       no single primary question could be allowed to go more than about
+       one season before answering it, otherwise you get into a
+       frustrating Twin Peaks situation where *nothing* is resolved.
+       Basically, the events begun in "Chrysalis" bleed over into three
+       episodes; the Battle of the Line answers were initially only a
+       couple of episodes further down in my outline, about episode #3.
+       Making the change, for one thing, allowed me to move that
+       storyline forward to episode #1, blow through it and get the story
+       moving in year two faster, rather than delaying further with loose
+       threads from season one.
+     * The idea of a Chrysalis II went by the boards once I really got
+       into the script, and realized that C1 had tipped over too many
+       tables to even HOPE to resolve them in one follow-up episode. So
+       the threads yanked in C1 will be paid off over several episodes,
+       hence no C2; the first episode of year two is "Points of
+       Departure."
+     * _What about Catherine Sakai?_
+       This is the one thread that I'm still trying to decide about.
+     * They didn't get married. Wasn't time, and his new posting
+       precluded that.
+     * We're dedicated to improving all of these elements on a regular
+       basis; CGI, sets, directing, lighting, name it.
+       The music will change every year, to get in sync with where the
+       season is going; the tone and tenor and mood will shift.
+       Re: the narration...last year, Michael had the benefit of being
+       able to see the sequence prior to reading the narration, and
+       reading with the images. That was when we were shooting in July to
+       air in January. In this case, shooting in August to air in
+       November, Bruce had to wing it, without any images for reference,
+       just text. Now that we've got the opening completed (and we
+       weren't satisfied with it or done tinkering with it until a few
+       days before delivery), we'll probably let him do it again with the
+       visuals before him, so he knows what he's reading to, since it'll
+       have a *big* impact on how he delivers the stuff.
+     * There's a reason for this: due to time constraints, we have to get
+       Bruce to do the narration *without* having the images in front of
+       him; he had no way of knowing where beats would go with the
+       images, or what would be under it (since we were still putting the
+       new opening together), so we had to artifically build in pauses
+       when we did the final transfer (as opposed to year one, where we
+       had the images assembled long before we had Michael do the
+       narration). What took forever was that 5 fade/dissolve/wipe, which
+       just killed us time-wise, but is spiffy to look at.
+       Now that it's all together, we plan to have Bruce re-do the
+       narration with the images in front of him, so he can respond
+       naturally and make it flow, the way he would've been able to do
+       had we had the material ready in time.
+     * Re: the theme music...to me, one is neither worse nor better than
+       the other. They're *different*, and meant to convey different
+       moods and themes. Each year it'll change. This year was heavy on
+       strings and brass; next year it'll be heavy on percussion. The
+       main theme will be reinterpreted and interpolated in different
+       ways. In the B5 universe, change is the only constant.
+     * Promoting Ivanova to running the station would not be logical,
+       since from a military and diplomatic standpoint she has nowhere
+       *near* the level of experience required. It wouldn't be done in
+       real life.
+       
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+    ### GUIDE ### [3][Background] [4][Synopsis] [5][Credits] [6][Episode
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     G'Kar brings news of a terrible new enemy. The arrival of
+     Sheridan's sister opens up old wounds for the new commander. Dr.
+     Franklin employs an unorthodox procedure to try to bring Garibaldi
+     out of his coma. Delenn's mysterious change is completed.
+     [15]Beverly Leech as Elizabeth Sheridan. [16]Macaulay Bruton as
+     Garibaldi's aide.
+     
+Sub-genre: Drama
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]8.40
+
+Production number:  202
+Original air date:  November 9, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
+  Watch For:
+  
+     * [19]A magically refilling drink.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Sheridan's wife Anna was killed two years ago when her ship
+       exploded on its way to explore the recently discovered ruins of an
+       ancient civilization on the Rim.
+     * The Book of G'Quan, the holy book of G'Kar's religion (cf. [20]"By
+       Any Means Necessary") mentions an ancient enemy that rose to power
+       a thousand years in the past, a power so great it nearly
+       overwhelmed the stars themselves. And the book contains drawings
+       suspiciously siimilar to the Shadows' ships.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Is Delenn's new appearance an outward transformation, a complete
+       physical rebirth, or something even more fundamental?
+     * What exactly has she become?
+     * Was the result what she thought it would be? She didn't seem to
+       know what had happened to her when she first emerged from the
+       chrysalis; clearly she didn't go into the process with detailed
+       knowledge of the outcome.
+     * How much does G'Kar suspect about Londo's involvement with the
+       Shadows?
+     * Why did President Clark order Garibaldi's aide returned to Earth?
+       Was he aware that the clandestine transfer would take place, or
+       did someone else arrange that to stop the prisoner from being
+       interrogated by Clark's people?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * The Book of G'Quan, assuming G'Kar was describing the text itself
+       rather than his interpretation, says that the ancient enemy came
+       from the rim of known space, the planet Z'ha'dum. That implies
+       that the Narns, or some among them, were technologically advanced
+       at least a thousand years ago; otherwise they would presumably
+       have had no way of knowing the origin of the enemy, certainly not
+       well enough to locate its home planet. Given that they are not
+       particularly advanced compared to the other major races, one of
+       three things must have happened:
+         1. Some event, possibly the last great war, reduced their
+            capabilities enough that they had to start nearly from
+            scratch.
+         2. They advanced technologically at a very slow pace, or not at
+            all, over the past millenium.
+         3. Another race used the Narn (or their world) in the war,
+            departing when it was over and leaving the Narn with only
+            legends of the great enemy.
+       If the second is true, it's possible that some of the other races
+       acquired _their_ technology from the Narns, an interesting twist
+       on the established idea that the Narns are obsessed with obtaining
+       technology from others (cf. [21]"The Gathering.")
+     * When G'Kar's wingman crashed into the Shadow fighter, the Shadow
+       ship appeared to writhe in pain. It appears that employing living
+       technology is a common trait of the very advanced civilizations
+       (cf. [22]"Infection.") The question naturally arises: are the
+       Shadow ships _ships_ in the traditional sense, with crews or
+       pilots aboard, or are they autonomous entities?
+     * The fact that a one-man Narn fighter was able to destroy a Shadow
+       ship implies that the Shadows can be overcome by force, assuming
+       they aren't so numerous as to overwhelm all their opponents.
+     * Delenn flat-out lied when she said her government approved her
+       transformation (cf. [23]"Points of Departure.") Yet they have made
+       no move to replace her as ambassador. Perhaps they fear the
+       consequences of working against the prophecy more than they fear
+       what she's doing.
+     * Dr. Franklin hasn't tried the healing machine on anyone, not even
+       experimentally. Perhaps he hasn't been studying it -- which seems
+       strange, given its potential to utterly revolutionize the practice
+       of medicine. Now that he knows it works, he may be more inclined
+       to use it in the future, possibly in place of hazardous
+       conventional treatments.
+     * Anna Sheridan's research vessel was destroyed in an apparent
+       accident on the Rim, on its way to explore an ancient
+       civilization. The similarities to the destruction of the Narn ship
+       sent by G'Kar are too great to ignore. She very possibly was
+       killed by the Shadows, something which won't endear them to
+       Sheridan if he learns about it. If that's true, the question of
+       how the ruins of the civilization were discovered in the first
+       place remains unanswered.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The poem G'Kar read to Na'Toth is from "The Second Coming" by W.
+       B. Yeats (quoted sections emphasized):
+       
+     Turning and turning in the widening gyre
+     The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
+     _Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
+     Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
+     The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
+     The ceremony of innocence is drowned;_
+     The best lack all conviction, while the worst
+     Are full of passionate intensity.
+     
+     Surely some revelation is at hand;
+     Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
+     The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
+     When a vast image out of "Spiritus Mundi"
+     Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert
+     A shape with lion body and the head of a man
+     A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
+     Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
+     Reel shadows of the indigant desert birds.
+     The darkness drops again; but now I know
+     That twenty centuries of stony sleep
+     Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
+     _And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
+     Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?_
+     * Garibaldi's aide is named Jack, though it's easy to miss;
+       Garibaldi mentions the name once after Talia leaves medlab and he
+       speaks to Franklin and Ivanova.
+     * The closed captioning spells G'Quan "Sh'Quon," but JMS has used
+       the shorter spelling on several occasions, so it's the one used
+       here.
+     * Continuity gaffe: In the scene with Sheridan and his sister in his
+       quarters, he drains his drink, walks toward the bar, and before he
+       gets there, the glass refills and he drains it again.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * Re: the ever-improving CGI...there's an action scene in the teaser
+       of the second episode, "Revelations," that is particularly
+       amazing. And there is one shot of a Narn ship in extreme close-up
+       toward the end of the scene that looks absolutely *solid*, and
+       every bit as real and detailed as any model, and then some. It
+       cannot be distinguished from a physical object.
+     * One aspect of the Yeats quote, and the Lincoln quote, and the
+       Tennyson quote(s), and the many others, is that I think a lot of
+       folks at some point tuned out of, or aren't interested in,
+       literature and poetry because they've never really been exposed to
+       it. So just to be a little subversive, I work some of it into the
+       show. I choose that which has meaning to the show, and the
+       characters, in the hopes that (as has happened here), viewers will
+       dig out the original material and be exposed to some *really*
+       nifty writing. Granted that television must entertain at minimum;
+       it should also elevate and ennoble and educate, and this is too
+       good an opportunity to waste, provided one does not become
+       didactic about it.
+     * Speaking of looking into the abyss...which comes from
+       "Revelations," it's a partial quote. Neitzsche: "When you look
+       into the abyss, the abyss looks also into you."
+     * Re: inconsistent writing and Narns...please bear in mind that
+       there are two ways to encounter shadowmen: going out there, and
+       them coming in to see YOU. The Narns need not be (and were not)
+       spacefaring when they encountered the shadowmen. Or, more
+       accurately, were encountered BY them.
+     * Copies of the evidence were made, but the question is what is the
+       available evidence to BE copied? Frankly, there isn't much. There
+       are no witnesses, very little physical evidence. If you tried to
+       make a case with what they've got, you'd be laughed out of the
+       courtroom.
+     * Yes, since you've sussed it...the plan was to turn Delenn from
+       male to female in "Chrysalis," in my original plans, as well as
+       making her half-human. And yes, it would've had one hell of an
+       impact...but my concern when I made that decision not do do this
+       back in the pilot was based on the reality that we couldn't do it
+       well. The "male" voice, altered by computer-enhancement, just
+       sounded REAL bogus; we couldn't get it right, and I had to decide
+       between dropping it, and doing something the people would rightly
+       describe as lame all season, just for one big payoff. It was a
+       tough call, but it had to be made.
+     * _Why does Delenn's hair go under her bone ridge?_
+       When Delenn's structure changed, the epidermal layer on the head
+       grew thinner; there is now a gap between the skin, and the bone
+       which has grown out. Hair can be draped through it, or laid over
+       it.
+     * Correct; the Narn bridge is CGI. Re: the explosion...we shot a lot
+       of live pyrotechnics for Ron's use; but don't recall offhand which
+       was used here, live or CGI.
+     * Anna chose to take Sheridan's last name. Her decision. You have
+       the option. Some do, some don't. If you start to pass rules that
+       no woman CAN take her husband's name or she's betraying something,
+       then you're being just as restrictive as those who insist a woman
+       MUST take her husband's name. Me, I'm pro-choice on every level.
+       She felt like it.
+       (And I note that my own spousal overunit kept her own name. But
+       then, who in her right mind WOULD take Straczynski...?)
+     * Another thing that can be now re-interpreted is the look on Jack's
+       face when Garibaldi didn't go for the whitewash of the security
+       guard's financial records in "Sky," and how that body managed to
+       get out of the station without security being aware of it....
+     * Next week, in "Revelations," you get G'Kar, Londo, Delenn,
+       Lennier, Na'Toth, Kosh, Garibaldi, Talia and everybody else.
+       Because there was SO much happening in #1, that got slid back a
+       bit; also, there's a fair amount of time required for everything
+       to do what they're supposed to be doing. (Note that we're
+       operating pretty much in real-time; "Points" is around 8 days
+       after the events of "Chrysalis," and "Revelations" is about
+       another week after that.)
+       One thing I noted here some time ago, as a large part of the
+       reason I dropped "to be continued" from "Chrysalis" is that this
+       is more of a three-parter than a two, and some threads pulled in
+       "Chrysalis" won't be fully resolved in some ways until the third
+       and fourth episodes. There is a LOT going on, and if we try to
+       cram it all into one episode (as I at first tried with "Chrysalis,
+       Part Two") you don't give ANY of them the proper time to have any
+       impact.
+       Finally, we're getting new people sampling the first episode of
+       the season, as is true of most shows. Thus, you have to put into
+       dialogue a fair amount of stuff that otherwise you could just
+       imply or rely on past experience/prior knowledge. So you kind of
+       introduce the newbies to the situation, and that requires a fair
+       amount of exposition. This is pretty much localized to "Points,"
+       however; with the next episode, we're up to full speed. Episode 2
+       deals with as many issues/plotlines as "Chrysalis," with the main
+       difference being that here, they're *resolved* rather than left
+       hanging.
+     * Yes, generally stories are self-contained, but in the case of
+       season endings like "Chrysalis," it takes time to get everything
+       back up and running again. The bigger the explosion, the longer it
+       takes to clean up the mess.
+     * Re: Lennier, the Grey Council fellow said, "Tell them what we've
+       told YOU," not someone else. Just to clarify.
+     * [Talia's] not seeing the shooter from outside Garibaldi's POV.
+       That shot in particular is *exactly* from Garibaldi's POV. It's a
+       lot like what is done in hypnosis, going back into somebody's
+       memory and dragging out details they might have seen but not
+       noted; the eye sees more than the brain recalls at any given
+       moment. When we shot that scene, I was on-set, and the camera was
+       put *exactly* where Garibaldi was standing, so we'd be very
+       careful that it WAS his point of view. So though I hate to
+       contradict you, it's not "a stupid plot hole from hell."
+     * Oh, I'm quite sure there was backup made of the data. But step
+       back for a moment and ask what that entails, and will any of it
+       stand up in ANY court of law? There's a difference between that
+       which we knor or (make that know or) believe, and that which we
+       can prove. Without the one most important piece of all,
+       Garibaldi's aide, the rest is speculative, inconclusive,
+       circumstantial and conjectural.
+     * Yes, if Laurel had stayed with the station, either she would have
+       pulled the trigger on Garibaldi, or been directly involved in
+       other ways.
+     * "Morden is the mongoose."
+       So what's needed now is a conveniently placed cobra....
+     * The platform seen in the opening of "Revelations" is a hazardous
+       materials platform, which is still cleaning up the radioactive
+       debris and other stuff from the blown Minbari cruiser in the last
+       ep.
+     * _About Na'Toth's change of actresses_
+       The actor wanted to pursue other avenues. She'd primarily worked
+       as a romantic lead in films, then came in at the last minute to
+       help with season one. She then wanted to go back to that. The
+       character stayed because we need the character to have some prior
+       knowledge of the situation, rather than bringing in somebody new.
+     * Re: Na'Toth...you have to remember this was not our decision, but
+       rather Caitlin's, in order to pursue some romantic lead parts. We
+       made an offer equal to the other cast, but she opted out to pursue
+       films. We cast the best actor to come in the door to fill
+       Na'Toth's boots, and we need that character there because of the
+       prior knowledge she needs to have to fill her role in the story.
+       Mary Kay is, I think, trying to reinterpret the character. We're
+       nudging in the other direction. One way or another, this will be
+       made to work.
+     * Actually, no, it's not a rumor; I'd mentioned this some time ago,
+       but apparently some didn't see it....
+       So to repeat: we'd had to replace Mary Woronov with virtually no
+       notice after we found that she really had a hard time with the
+       narn prosthetics (wouldn't wear the contacts, and other stuff). In
+       a panic, our casting director called in a favor from Caitlin
+       Brown, who is mainly a leading-lady type actor. She came in and,
+       in fact, for the first episode (shooting almost immediately
+       afterward) wore a variation of the Ko'Dath makeup, because there
+       wasn't time to make one specific to her.
+       She came in without being under the 5-year option that generally
+       exists in these situations. Did one year, about 9 episodes, as
+       Na'Toth. And had to turn down a couple of leading-female parts.
+       During the hiatus, she did a romantic lead character in a film
+       with Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. And had to ask the hard
+       question: do I continue to grow as a romantic lead actor in
+       feature films, or play Na'Toth? She is a VERY gorgeous woman, and
+       felt awkward hiding behind the mask and cutting herself out of
+       leading female parts in feature films to do it.
+       We went 'round and 'round about this for some time, it was a very
+       difficult decision for her because she likes the show and everyone
+       here, but finally opted out. On one level it's a pain in the butt,
+       but we respect her decision. And it *is* her call, not ours.
+       (Quick aside...pfffttthhpplttt to those who, in their theory that
+       Sinclair/O'Hare quit, said that I'd naturally say it was mutual
+       because I could never say it was the actors choice because somehow
+       I'd get in trouble. No, I *would* say it if O'Hare had opted out
+       on his own. And in this case, that's exactly what happened.)
+       We didn't recast Sinclair because that character is going
+       somewhere from whence he may (and will) return, and because that
+       serves the story; in this case, we are recasting Na'Toth. By the
+       end of season one, Na'Toth knows stuff that I need that character,
+       G'Kar's aide, to know. (Though I was briefly tempted to do the
+       Murphy Brown Secretary line, with G'Kar getting a new aide every
+       so often due to terrible airlock accidents...but I went to lay
+       down for a while and the notion passed.)
+       So no, it's not a rumor, it's quite true. In fact, we just
+       finished up a casting session and found someone who's very right
+       for the part; and though we weren't confined to this, is actually
+       about the same height, same build, same attitude as Caitlin, and
+       whose voice is very similar. I don't think much difference will be
+       noted in the long run, really.
+     * The Narn aren't waiting. Or, more accurately, G'Kar isn't. The
+       rest of the Kha'Ri (Narn inner circle government) are still
+       somewhat skeptical.
+       The Minbari know the shape of what's coming, but they know full
+       well that if they go to us with this, we won't believe them;
+       there's still enough residual dislike over the war that they feel
+       we have to find this out for ourselves (and we will).
+     * Let's just say for now that about a thousand years ago, Narn was
+       used as a lay-over and supply spot for a Shadowman group that
+       landed there for a time, and used it briefly as a base of
+       operations.
+     * Re: "switching places"...this is *exactly* what I noted early on;
+       the intent to set up in the very beginning a situation where those
+       who've seen basic SF before on the tube will go, "Oh, okay, I got
+       it ...this is the Bad Guy, this is the Good Guy, this is the Comic
+       Relief, this is the Ally," and so on, because that's generally
+       what's been the case in TV SF; you set up the various sides from
+       day one, and virtually nobody moves.
+       So you get them to rely on their conditioning, then you begin to
+       move the chairs around, so suddenly what you THOUGHT was the good
+       guy is maybe something else; and what you THOUGHT was the comic
+       relief is a tragic and dark figure; and what you THOUGHT was the
+       bad guy is maybe one of the real heroes of the story. And you try
+       and make the path that results in those changes as interesting,
+       moving, or scary as possible.
+     * Of course Londo realizes he's being...not exactly set up, but that
+       he's getting into a very bad situation. But on the other hand, he
+       sees that perhaps this is his last chance to grab for something
+       more than what he is; he's not a young man anymore, and offers
+       such as this, even though he knows there will be a price someday
+       (as he states to Morden), do not come along every day.
+       Here is the key to characterization: who is your character, what
+       does he want, how far will he go to get it, and what is he
+       prepared to lose in that process?
+     * Morden is human.
+       Morden dat I can't say.
+     * Actually, G'Kar's makeup wasn't changed this year; the actor put
+       on a few pounds over hiatus, which shows in the face, which
+       changes how the prosthetic looks. This was dropped very quickly by
+       Andreas, however, and the makeup has adjusted itself. (Hell, we
+       all put on a few pounds during hiatus.)
+     * Oddly, the new makeup takes *longer* for Mira than the old, which
+       went on in a couple of fairly straightforward pieces. Now there's
+       a lot more detail work and more pieces.
+       Also, the intent is that G'Kar looked at both Sheridan and Londo,
+       not sure which of them may have leaked the info, though I think
+       the editing may have focused too much on Londo in that shot.
+     * The only time a name is associated with his aide is when Garibaldi
+       refers to him later, at which time he just says Jack.
+     * _Jack had had contact with the PsiCops in "Mind War"_
+       No, Jack wasn't *seduced* at that time ...but he WAS there to meet
+       them, and escort them to see Sinclair. Why him? Perhaps a contact
+       there...?
+     * _What would be different if there hadn't been cast changes after
+       "The Gathering?"_
+       The only problem with answering how things would've been different
+       is that some information might get out by inference about how
+       things might still *be*. However, to do what I can with the
+       question (never let it be said I don't try to accommodate....).
+       If Lyta had stayed on B5, her arc would be pretty close to that of
+       Talia, except that she would have begun to form a strong link to
+       Kosh, first in the form of dreams, then something with
+       implications that could be read as menacing or benign.
+       If Dr. Kyle would have stayed around, he would have moved more
+       into the position of advisor/paternal figure for Sinclair. He also
+       would have continued to be more scientist than doctor.
+       Takashima would have been revealed as having been in on the Vorlon
+       assassination attempt by season's end, and would have betrayed
+       Garibaldi in the events in "Chrysalis," either giving him over to
+       those involved with the coup, or pulling the trigger herself.
+       While we would know this, our characters would not, for as much as
+       another full season.
+       Carolyn Sykes would've gotten into major trouble with one of the
+       major EarthCorps.
+       Finally, if Sinclair had stayed with B5 at this juncture, the
+       events in "Points" (the reveal of the Minbari surrender) would've
+       taken place in episode 3 instead of 1. Episode 1 would've
+       consisted mainly of the events in "Revelations," which was mainly
+       as a bystander to the events around him, since the sister aspect
+       specific to Sheridan obviously wouldn't be there. Basically, with
+       all the events surrounding Delenn, Londo, G'Kar and others, he
+       didn't have one whole hell of a lot to *DO* in the first six to
+       eight episodes, since that segment was set aside primarily to
+       introduce the Shadowman war and get that cranking, and Sinclair
+       had no real direct connection to that.
+       
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
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+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Ivanova is promoted and given a diplomatic assignment. Londo seeks
+     affirmation from an unusual source. [15]Michael Ansara as Elric.
+     [16]William Forward as Refa.
+     
+Sub-genre: Comedy/intrigue
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]7.68
+
+Production number:  203
+Original air date:  November 16, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Every five years, the Drazi people divide by random selection into
+       two equal groups, green and purple, and fight for supremacy in a
+       contest that lasts a full year. The group that wins is the
+       dominant one until the next battle. Group membership isn't
+       permanent and has no deeper meaning than the color of cloth one
+       happens to select randomly from a container.
+     * The only son of the Centauri Emperor recently died, leaving no
+       clear successor to the throne. This has served to increase the
+       scheming among the Centauri nobility. At least one group,
+       disgusted with the decay of the Republic, intends to grab for the
+       throne when the Emperor dies; Londo has all but pledged to support
+       that group.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Where were the techno-mages going?
+     * Will they return or otherwise make their influence felt?
+     * How do they know about the upcoming conflict?
+     * _What_ do they know about it? Are they aware of the Shadows, for
+       instance?
+     * What part do Londo's new partners want him to play in their
+       machinations?
+     * What repercussions will Ivanova's solution to the Drazi problem
+       have?
+     * Were the winged creatures on Londo's back significant, or just a
+       meaningless practical joke?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Londo seems to have made up his mind about following his ambition.
+       He appeared to be seeking the techno-mages' endorsement for his
+       own political gain, rather than for the good of the Republic. It
+       remains to be seen whether he'll have the willpower to follow
+       through with his newfound assertiveness when lives are at stake,
+       though Elric's statement about the future indicates he will.
+     * Londo is willing to trust Vir with other people's secrets ("He can
+       be trusted!") but not with his own (e.g., his reluctance to
+       discuss Morden in [19]"Chrysalis.") Vir is gradually becoming more
+       assertive, more willing to stand up to Londo. Whether this will
+       cause Londo to respect or trust him more remains to be seen.
+     * The two Drazi leaders were clearly only in charge of the groups on
+       Babylon 5, as evidenced by the fact that the decision to up the
+       stakes of the contest came from the Drazi homeworld. What happens
+       if one group wins in one place and the other wins back home is
+       open to debate.
+     * Londo's reference to the techno-mages' presence at the founding of
+       the Republic, and his recognition of the human mages, suggests
+       that the brotherhood of techno-mages is very old, and crosses
+       species boundaries. Perhaps they have been around long enough to
+       have taken part in the great war recorded in the Book of G'Quan
+       (cf. [20]"Revelations") and can see signs of the same thing
+       starting again.
+     * The techno-mages seem to have found some technological way to
+       emulate the prophetic abilities of some of the Centauri, among
+       others (cf. [21]"Signs and Portents.") Such abilities are arguably
+       related to time travel; perhaps it is the techno-mages who supply
+       the technology to bring Babylon 4 forward in time (cf.
+       [22]"Babylon Squared.")
+     * When Garibaldi was playing with his weapon, it's plausible that he
+       was contemplating suicide. He has hit rock bottom. He has been
+       betrayed by a trusted member of his own staff and shot in the
+       back. The only person he really trusted (Commander Sinclair) is
+       gone. And, he is probably feeling that he was somehow responsible
+       for the failure to prevent the assassination of the EA President.
+       He is a recovering alcoholic, and he has lost the woman he had
+       fantasized about marrying. If true, this lends a different meaning
+       to Sheridan's comment, "The universe doesn't give us points for
+       doing the easy things."
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Ivanova's broken foot in this episode wasn't originally planned;
+       Claudia Christian broke her foot, and it had to be explained in
+       the context of the show somehow.
+     * The end credits list Edward Conery as Devereaux (cf.
+       [23]"Chrysalis") but he doesn't seem to actually appear in the
+       episode anywhere. Since he did appear in the previous episode,
+       [24]"Revelations," and wasn't listed in its credits, he may have
+       been listed here to make up for the omission.
+     * Elric's warning to Vir is almost verbatim from Tolkien's Lord Of
+       the Rings, in which Gildor, an elf, tells Frodo (speaking about
+       Gandalf,) "But it is said: Do not meddle in the affairs of
+       wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
+     * Elric's name is from Michael Moorcock's series of fantasy novels.
+     * When Garibaldi turns up to rescue Ivanova, there is a visual
+       gaffe. The Drazi who starts to get up to answer the door is the
+       one in a red-accented suit with epaulettes. When Garibaldi is
+       admitted, it is by the other Drazi, while the one who had started
+       to get up is guarding Ivanova.
+     * Michael Ansara, who plays Elric, also played Kang, a Klingon, in
+       the original Star Trek episode "Day of the Dove" and the Deep
+       Space Nine episode "Blood Oath."
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * BTW, having now edited seven episodes, and seen several finished
+       ones, I think that of the first three, "The Geometry of Shadows"
+       (#3) is my personal favorite. "Revelations" is certainly a biggie,
+       a staggering chunk of the arc...but "Geometry" is just an absolute
+       hoot, something of a breather from the intensity, and largely for
+       fun with some undertones. If you liked "The Parliament of Dreams,"
+       you'll probably love "Geometry."
+     * There were *substantial* differences made between the first draft
+       and the final, based on the fact that a lot of the physical stuff
+       I'd written for Claudia -- getting herself out of the problem she
+       was in with the Drazi -- had to be dumped because the actress had
+       a broken foot. So that aspect has to be remembered. We pushed her
+       to the limits, and I didn't want to push further.
+     * You hit on the head *precisely*. When Garibaldi was popping the
+       energy cap in and out of the PPG, he was on the floor, nominally
+       in the dark, thinking of killing himself. I didn't want to play it
+       up, didn't want to make it what the story was about...just show
+       him doing it, over and over. And from Sheridan's face, seeing the
+       last of this, it's clear he got it...and I thought he handled the
+       scene *perfectly*, by his whole demeanor, but NOT talking about it
+       except indirectly.
+     * If I told you what the 14 words were, they wouldn't mean anything
+       anymore.
+     * I don't feel Sheridan was downplaying her promotion; he was
+       sneaking it up on her to surprise her, making it more of an
+       unexpected delight.
+     * The idea behind the title "The Geometry of Shadows" was in a sense
+       a metaphor for the techno-mages; geometry bespeaking the use of
+       math and equations, the latter being generally something dark, or
+       mysterious, or mystical.
+     * "The Geometry of Shadows" seemed to me a good metaphor for the
+       technomages; a mix of science with something dark and mysterious.
+       How do you work out the geometry of something that in one sense
+       doesn't really exist, but is a projection of something else that
+       DOES exist? That seemed to me as good a notion of technomagic as
+       anything else.
+     * Be assured, Vir's position continues to be important, and he moves
+       a bit closer to the limelight as he does so...remember, he's the
+       one who has to watch Londo's actions like a man watching an
+       accident in slow motion, and try to do what he can to stop it.
+     * Sheridan wasn't talking to himself, but rather to the tech who
+       just seconds before asked if they should let the techno-mages go.
+       (I'd trimmed the first part of his speech which made this a little
+       clearer, figuring it'd be evident who he was talking to. What can
+       I say... sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.)
+     * Excuse me, but has *anyone* here considered that Sheridan just
+       might still be talking to the same tech he was speaking to not
+       *five seconds earlier*? He wasn't talking to himself, so much, or
+       the audience, though the push-in (the only shot we had) worked
+       against that. He *was* talking to the tech. Honest.
+     * The technomages are from various races and worlds; there are some
+       who are Centauri, some who are human, even other races such as the
+       Vree and the pak'ma'ra, though these in particular happened to be
+       from Earth. (If they were Centauri, why would Sheridan have been
+       interfering with their emigration?)
+     * Re: the Drazi...yeah, they all look different in that episode. Our
+       prosthetics folks did a great job with that, as did the actors,
+       and I think this one should earn Optic Nerve another emmy.
+     * And yeah, Garibaldi's "joke" was supposed to be pretty lame; we
+       even edited it to widen the awkward pause, to make it more
+       difficult. He's trying too hard, and his spirit isn't in it.
+     * No, actually, the technomage symbol (all of them, actually,
+       including the ones on the wall) are all derivations, specifically
+       altered, of old runes and the like. In some cases, we removed
+       words and inserted mathematical symbols. The fiery symbol is all
+       one piece, and is also an old rune.
+     * Actually, Londo has two coats, a cloak, several different colored
+       vests (blue, black, others), often wears just his shirt, we've
+       seen him in his PJs...he's got a fairly large wardrobe.
+     * Also, Londo looks for the blessings of the technomages the same
+       way the witches performed that role in "Macbeth." There are other
+       parallels one might draw as well, though again they're still two
+       different stories.
+     * _What happened to the Emperor's son?_
+       Ah...a very sad case, that. Turhan's only child, his son, died
+       during a boating accident, of all things. He drowned. His personal
+       guard, who was apparently unable to find Turhan's son in the murky
+       water, was found dead several days after making his report; his
+       own death was officially ruled a suicide, out of grief. But there
+       are always stories....
+     * _How was it written before Claudia Christian injured her ankle?_
+       Mainly it was written with Ivanova solving her problem on her own,
+       without Garibaldi being there.
+     * _Re: Squaring the account of Ivanova's promotion with Comic #1,
+       "In Darkness Find Me"_
+       The president spoke truthfully; Sheridan could petition for a
+       promotion for her, but it's up to Earthforce to grant it, so the
+       line still tracks. (Note also there's no pronoun there; "Giving
+       her a field promotion." The imperial We still stands, though.)
+       Also, Sheridan says he put through the paperwork the day after he
+       got there; which is fairly close to the time frame in the story in
+       which the President says they'll be giving Ivanova a promotion.
+       There's no discontinuity here.
+     * Actually, originally, the plan was for President Clark to indeed
+       notify Ivanova in "Points of Departure," but introducing a new
+       character in the General added some changes when we shot the
+       scene. But by then it was too late to modify the comic [#1, "In
+       Darkness Find Me"].
+       Also, in the comic, Clark doesn't *specify* who's giving Ivanova
+       the promotion, just that it's being done. (And Sheridan comments
+       that he put through the paperwork the day after he arrived, which
+       tracks with this time-wise.)
+     * Ivanova did NOT take the kerchief off either of the Drazi leaders
+       in the council chambers; she walked PAST them, and signaled for
+       two of the regular Drazi to come down out of the cheap seats.
+     * Nope, that really was Claudia walking on her broken foot in the
+       council chambers. She's a trooper....
+     * "A race that speaks in macros" referred to the Drazi constantly
+       repeating their stance, Green must fight Purple, Purple must fight
+       Green, over and over...macros.
+     * Ann Bruice did a great job on the technomage costumes; I agree.
+       She found ways to implement what was described in the script that
+       were both creative and wore well, and fulfilled the function. I
+       wanted black, with fine silver lines, and an almost circuitboard
+       look to the patterns in places, but not *obviously* that,
+       stylized. She took that and came back with a true niftyness....
+     * In order to create more involved alien makeups, and because many
+       actors have a hard time with prosthetics, we created what we call
+       the Babylon 5 Alien Rep Group; last year about five, and this year
+       about 12 actors who we have taken full head and (in some cases)
+       body casts, so we can use them in mid-level speaking roles as
+       aliens and rotate them in and out. Since we had fewer last year,
+       you saw Mark more than you'll see him this year. Green Drazi #1 in
+       "Geometry" is one such rep group alien.
+       We keep trying to find interesting solutions to interesting
+       problems.
+     * The techno-mages were not a homage to ShadowRun games, since I've
+       never seen the game, and have never heard of it prior to seeing
+       this message.
+     * Yes, Ivanova's title in the opening credits *will* be changed to
+       Commander, to reflect her change in rank. And we'll be adding a
+       rank for Lt. Keffer. It's kind of funny; we keep treating the
+       opening title this year as a work in progress, reflecting little
+       changes here and there...changes in faces, narration, little
+       musical changes that will come by about episode five or six.....
+       
+
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+    ### GUIDE ### [3][Background] [4][Synopsis] [5][Credits] [6][Episode
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Disaster strikes an old friend of Captain Sheridan. Dr. Franklin
+     offers nutritional advice to some reluctant patients. [15]Russ
+     Tamblyn as Capt. Maynard. [16]Miguel A. Nuñez, Jr. as Orwell.
+     
+Sub-genre: Suspense
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]7.34
+
+Production number:  204
+Original air date:  November 23, 1994
+
+Written by D.C. Fontana
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
+  Watch For:
+  
+     * Captain Maynard's footwear.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Sheridan's first commander, on Earth-Mars patrol duty, was Jack
+       Maynard, who Sheridan admired greatly. "I thought he knew
+       everything," Sheridan says. "He _did_, too."
+     * The Earth Alliance has a small fleet of huge Explorer-class ships
+       that travel out on the rim of known space, mapping new systems and
+       installing new jump gates. More specialized scout ships follow
+       later to perform detailed or specific surveys of these newly
+       opened systems.
+     * The Explorer ships, which are considered choice commands, can also
+       repair jumpgates.
+     * Navigation in hyperspace involves locking onto jumpgate signals.
+       There seem to be no natural reference points in hyperspace, so a
+       ship must keep its own internal navigation references or lock onto
+       the signals of nearby gates or it will become lost. Until this
+       episode, no ship lost in hyperspace had ever been rescued.
+     * Minbari society is built upon a strict caste structure and
+       obedience to superiors within that caste structure. Delenn has
+       challanged that organization, and the Minbari are beginning to
+       react.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * _Is_ something living in hyperspace? (This isn't a new question;
+       it was the subject of a front-page Universe Today story in
+       [19]"And the Sky Full of Stars.")
+     * Why does Delenn feel she is more "one of us" now than she's ever
+       been? Is it because she views humans and Minbari as joined, and
+       she feels she's a part of both halves?
+     * How does hyperspace work in the B5 universe?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * The appearance of his friend and mentor Jack Maynard suddenly
+       throws Sheridan's new duties aboard Babylon 5 into contrast with
+       his training and experience, kindling a strong sense of
+       dissatisfaction with the job. "I've been beached," he says. This
+       is sure to crop up again in the future. Despite his newfound
+       energy at the end of the episode, what Captain Maynard said is
+       still true; being a governor and a diplomat isn't what Sheridan
+       trained or even wished for. If he's itching for action when a
+       crisis comes up, that might cause him to look less thoroughly for
+       peaceful solutions than someone like Sinclair might.
+     * Delenn's transformation is something that's clearly a mystery to
+       the general Minbari population, suggesting that it is either
+       unprecedented or so rare as to be unheard-of. Yet she seemed to
+       know what she was doing, as did at least some of the Grey Council.
+       The Council is likely harboring many secrets that aren't simple
+       matters of religion and spirituality; what other technologies do
+       they possess that the Minbari public knows nothing about?
+     * Jumpgates act as locator beacons in hyperspace, providing a three
+       dimensional homing signal detectable for a thousand kilometers or
+       so there. To be useful in the featureless and chaotic void of
+       hyperspace it would have to provide both a relative and an
+       absolute reference much like a VOR does for aircraft. If the
+       beacon can respond to ship data requests, then range data and
+       traffic information could also be transmitted to the approaching
+       (or departing) ship. Just how this works is not explained.
+     * Hyperspace is a featureless place, yet it has currents and eddies
+       that corrospond to gravity in normal space. Sheridan says, "We
+       know there is a drift in hyperspace that can pull a ship down the
+       gravitational incline." Gravity works in hyperspace, though
+       apparently not in quite the same way that it works in real space.
+       Electromagnetic waves also propogate in hyperspace, but become
+       distorted rapidly over distance in a random and variable way.
+       Jumpgate beacons are, therefore, very short range -- more like
+       lighthouses in hyperspace -- and communications with ships in
+       hyperspace is possible only when the vessel is near a jumpgate.
+     * What looks like a great deal of hand-waving over the Cortez
+       accident can be explained upon close examination of the
+       circumstances. The timeline of the accident seems to be:
+         1. Cortez enters the jumpgate.
+         2. Cortez exits the jumppoint in hyperspace and attempts a
+            restart of her primary power system. The fusion reactor
+            restart fails, and the power system spikes, producing a
+            powerful electro-magnetic pulse (and presumably a sizable
+            radiation pulse) which takes out some systems aboard Cortez,
+            including main propulsion, navigation, and some computer
+            systems. Cortez is now adrift.
+         3. Many hours later Cortez gets some main power back and systems
+            running. Captain Maynard, after getting a damage report that
+            tells him that nav won't be back up for 48 hours, puts up a
+            distress call, which is received (barely) by B5. At this
+            point Cortez is under power, but without reference points the
+            best they can do is hold station against the pull of a nearby
+            gravity well.
+         4. B5 receives the distress signal, and Captain Sheridan decides
+            to make a rescue attempt. Cortez is effectively just
+            "offshore" in hyperspace, and despite Ivonova's misgivings he
+            feels they stand a chance of recovering her. Five fighters
+            are launched into hyperspace by B5, and they form up on a
+            line facing down the local gravity well at 1000km intervals.
+         5. The fighters set up the search pattern, with Cdr. Galus
+            (fighter group commander) and Lt. Keffer together at the far
+            end. This puts them about 4000km away from B5.
+         6. A shadow ship enters hyperspace almost on top of Galus,
+            colliding with and destroying his fighter. It also rams
+            Keffer's Star Fury, but only knocks out some systems (comms,
+            nav, and propulsion). Keffer begins firing (presumably on
+            internal references) in the direction of Galus's last
+            position. Cortez figures it out, and at about the same time
+            Keffer's fighter gets communications back online. Rather than
+            risk losing a good bearing back to the jumpgate, Keffer tells
+            Captain Maynard to take Cortez directly back to the gate,
+            leaving him behind in his unmaneuverable Star Fury. He is
+            unable to keep station and will drift, eventually losing any
+            reference back to B5.
+         7. About 24 hours later (more or less -- it seems like the next
+            night, end of shift in C&C, about midnight) Keffer is running
+            out of oxygen--but his Star Fury has succeeded in getting his
+            thruster systems back online. Shortly after that he spots
+            another shadow ship, and using that as a reference point he
+            navigates back to the jumpgate and returns to B5.
+     * This _may_ not have been as much of a crisis as it seemed to be.
+       Cortez, given its stated function of running about on the rim,
+       must carry its own jumppoint generator. The problem was the lack
+       of main power. Since it has already been stated that opening a
+       jumppoint takes a great deal of energy, the size of the Cortez
+       fusion plant would therefore be determined by the power
+       requirements for creating the jumppoint. With only partial main
+       power, she was unable to do so. But given the size of the ship and
+       its presumed independence, it is possible that Cortez could have
+       repaired her main power plant herself, and then opened a jumpgate
+       of her own. This possibility explains why Captain Maynard didn't
+       broadcast a mayday immediately following the accident -- he
+       assumed they could get Cortez out of trouble themselves. It was
+       only after he received the damage report detailing the slow
+       recovery of main power and the long repair time for navigation
+       that he decided to call for assistance.
+     * This episode further delineates the technological capabilities of
+       the Shadows, though not explicitly. They use the same hyperspace
+       the major races do. (As opposed to, for example, the Sigma 957
+       aliens from [20]"Mind War," who appeared to use something
+       different.)
+     * Though the Shadows presumably noticed the Starfuries and the
+       Cortez and realized they could be seen as well, they took no
+       action against the human ships. This is somewhat in contrast to
+       their apparent desire to remain undetected. Several explanations
+       are possible. Perhaps the Shadow ship was in a hurry; perhaps its
+       weapons aren't functional in hyperspace; or, most intriguing,
+       perhaps it realized that the ships were from Earth and chose to
+       leave them alone for that reason.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Captain Maynard has seen a shadow ship in the past, though he
+       didn't recognize it as such, and now Lt. Keffer has seen one as
+       well.
+     * Garibaldi's special dinner:
+       Bagna Cauda (from Jeff Smith's -The Frugal Gourmet-)
+       1/2 cup olive oil
+       1/4 lb. butter (1 stick) - not margarine!
+       5 cloves garlic, finely chopped
+       6 anchovy fillets, mashed
+       black pepper
+       Heat oil and butter together in top of double boiler. In a small
+       skillet cook the garlic in a bit of this oil until soft. Add the
+       anchovies, and cook till the fish turns into a paste, about 5 min.
+       Mix this paste with the hot oil and butter. Transfer to a chafing
+       dish or fondue pot to keep warm on the table (it congeals as it
+       cools.)
+     * The Egyptian blessing: "God be between you and harm, in all the
+       empty places where you must walk." This blessing was quoted by
+       creative consultant Harlan Ellison in his short story, "Paladin of
+       the Lost Hour."
+     * Delenn's speech about "starstuff" is very similar to a section of
+       Carl Sagan's Cosmos, as well as a section of the play The Effect
+       of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.
+     * (unverified) As the Cortez exits the jumpgate, its hull numbers
+       can be read, "14286." Later, when Sheridan grants clearance for it
+       to leave, its number is stated as "C199."
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * To be filed under the heading of, "What I does, I takes the rap
+       for; what I does not, I doesn't take the rap for," when we
+       discussed the hyperspace accident in our production meetings, Jim
+       -- our director -- asked if he could so some fratzing and
+       sparking, some fire...I said I did not *want* huge gouts of flame,
+       just a few small sparks, fine, a bit of smoke from components
+       burned out, fine...and that day I was over in the other facility
+       overseeing a mixdown of the audio...and guess what he did in my
+       absence? Yup.
+     * So many questions about hyperspace came up over the last year or
+       so that we figured they should be addressed; be assured, we're
+       staying as clear of technobabble as ever, despite my Spousal
+       Overunit's absolute and unshakeable conviction that *everything*
+       is, at its root, a math problem.
+     * To get in and out of hyperspace you have to know where you are and
+       where you're going, otherwise you'll come out even *more* lost,
+       hundreds of light years from home; you jump in, and you're even
+       further gone now.
+     * Once in hyperspace, you can ride the navigational beams between
+       beacons (narrow beam stuff, to cut through the interference, as
+       noted in "Distant Star"), and by corrolating the beacons, know
+       where you have to come out.
+       That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+     * And the Cortez might've been able to locate some stars, but any
+       fix on its position would only have been within a few light-years,
+       not nearly precise enough for their purposes. They'd still be
+       lost.
+     * _Should a ship have been named after Cortez, considering what
+       effect his arrival had on the native Americans?_
+       If Cortez had NOT landed in northern Mexico, do you think it would
+       have remained undiscovered until now?
+       Fact #1: somebody was bound to discover the Americas.
+       Fact #2: any sufficiently advanced civilization or culture will
+       inevitably attempt to exploit any civilization or culture not
+       sufficiently advanced to fight back on a level playing field.
+       Blaming explorers for exploring has always seemed to me really
+       kind of silly; do people *really* think that if Columbus hadn't
+       landed here, it'd be 1994 and we still wouldn't know the world was
+       round and that this continent was here? It doesn't matter who
+       discovered it, the same result would've come. Somebody had to
+       discover it sooner or later.
+     * _Did the Cortez spin to produce gravity?_
+       Yes, it rotated to create its gravity, as you can see quite
+       clearly in the episode.
+     * (He coughs and speaks in his Executive Producer Voice:) "I *LIKE*
+       the opening title sequence."
+       Now...onto other matters.
+       We re-mixed the narration and music today in the titles, and it's
+       a LOT better. I slightly shifted the placement of some of the
+       lines, and Bruce's rendition is very nice. Really carries the
+       weight. Look for it to appear starting in episode #4.
+     * Actually, we just redid the narration with Bruce yesterday, and
+       it's MUCH better. We'll be able to get it in starting in episode
+       #4.
+       While we were at it, btw, we took the opportunity to re-do the
+       faceplate shot in the main title sequence. It was fine, but it
+       could've been better. Now it is. Expect it around the same time as
+       the new VO.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Originally compiled by Dave Zimmerman
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+
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+    ### GUIDE ### [3][Background] [4][Synopsis] [5][Credits] [6][Episode
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     When a cryonic sleeper is awakened, a deadly, evil force is
+     unleashed on the station. [15]Anne-Marie Johnson as Mariah Cirrus.
+     [16]Dwight Schultz as Amis.
+     
+Sub-genre: Horror
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]7.64
+
+Production number:  205
+Original air date:  November 30, 1994
+
+Written by Scott Frost
+Directed by Mario DiLeo
+
+  Watch For:
+  
+     * An out-of-place cut of Garibaldi searching for Amis
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Earth got jumpgate technology from the Centauri in the mid-22nd
+       century. Before then, humans were mostly confined to their own
+       solar system.
+     * Sometime between the 20th century and the arrival of the Centauri,
+       signals of _possible_ extraterrestrial and intelligent origin were
+       detected.
+     * A small number of explorers volunteered for long-term interstellar
+       missions, so long-term that they had to be cryogenically frozen
+       for the duration. These missions were launched until the Centauri
+       made contact with Earth, eliminating the need for sleeper ships.
+       At least some of these ships were set to home in on any signals
+       they might encounter.
+     * During the war, Garibaldi was a "gropo" ("ground pounder"),
+       stationed on an outpost or base rather than a ship. He and some of
+       his companions barely escaped death in a surprise attack by the
+       Minbari.
+     * Another outpost was attacked by a vicious creature of some kind,
+       an insidious beast that affected the minds of the soldiers
+       stationed there, then killed them one by one, ripping their
+       internal organs completely out of their bodies.
+     * The Markab, like the Narn, believe there was a great darkness in
+       the past, something that was defeated only after a painful
+       struggle. At least some among them suspect that the darkness is
+       rising again.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What was the creature? Was it really one of the Shadows?
+     * How did it detect and board the Copernicus, which was travelling
+       at a significant fraction of lightspeed?
+     * What did it want with people's internal organs?
+     * Is it really dead? (We suspect so, but without a body....)
+     * What was the substance hanging off Amis when he was suspended in
+       midair? Garibaldi makes a face as he tears it off Amis.
+     * What happened to Amis afterward?
+     * Garibaldi says to Amis, "You were just about to accuse the
+       Centauri ambassador of being in league with the devil... which
+       might not be too far from the truth." Just a meaningless offhand
+       remark, or does Garibaldi somehow know what Londo is up to?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * The fact that the Copernicus was headed for Z'ha'dum indicates
+       that the Shadows have been gathering their forces for some time,
+       at least 10 years, leading to the possibility that they've been
+       meddling in the affairs of the major races before their recent
+       involvement with Londo.
+     * Contempt for the Lurkers seems to be pervasive, if not almost
+       universal. Even Dr. Franklin, normally a level-headed person, was
+       ready to dismiss a claim made by a Lurker out of hand, and one of
+       the security officers said, "Damn lurkers, we should space 'em
+       all."
+     * No mention was made of any attempt to retrieve the sleeper ships
+       after first contact with the Centauri. Presumably such a task
+       would have been easily accomplished. One explanation might be that
+       the first contact threw Earth into such turmoil that retrieving
+       frozen astronauts became an insignificant priority. Perhaps an
+       attempt was made but was unsuccessful; if the Copernicus had
+       locked onto any signals along the way and changed course, it might
+       be nearly impossible to track down in the vastness of space.
+     * The Copernicus timeline seems to be:
+         1. Before the Centauri contact: Signals of extraterrestrial
+            origin were detected.
+         2. 100+ years ago: Sleeper ships were launched on long voyages,
+            Copernicus among them.
+         3. 12+ years ago: Copernicus detects signals from the Minbari CP
+            in an obscure system and homes in on them. (Presumably the
+            signals stop, and Copernicus doesn't revive the crew.)
+         4. About 12 years ago: Amis has his encounter with the creature.
+            The EarthForce listening post is essentially destroyed by it.
+            Amis is kept alive. For some reason the creature does not
+            interfere when he is rescued.
+         5. Less than 12 years ago: Copernicus passes through the system.
+            The creature boards, changes course, and kills Mariah's
+            husband before settling into the "life tube" with her.
+         6. 4+ years ago: Copernicus detects signals from the region of
+            space where the Babylon stations are under construction. In
+            keeping with its underlying directive to seek out such
+            signals, the vessel changes course.
+         7. A year or less ago: Copernicus begins decelerating, and
+            apparently uses up all its remaining fuel to do so. At some
+            point it begins transmitting a greeting signal.
+         8. Now: Copernicus arrives, unpowered and without even any
+            thruster fuel remaining (it's tumbling when first spotted).
+     * 10% of the air supply aboard Copernicus was lost when the creature
+       boarded, presumably vented into space. This implies that for some
+       reason the creature came in through the door (there was no
+       airlock) or penetrated the hull physically to gain entry. This is
+       only odd because Amis insists that it could pass through walls.
+     * Why wasn't Copernicus detected earlier? There could be a few
+       reasons. First, the ship apparently used up all of its hydrogen
+       fuel and all of its thruster fuel on approach to B5. This leaves
+       unanswered the question of what it was doing for power afterward,
+       but apparently it had enough to keep transmitting its greeting
+       message and keep internal systems going. But tumbling, it may have
+       been unable to keep a high gain antenna pointed in-system. Add to
+       this the fact that nobody was listening for it (Ivanova says it's
+       on an unusual frequency) and it becomes fairly reasonable that it
+       came all the way insystem without being detected.
+     * How fast and far did Copernicus travel? This one is more
+       difficult. The minimum answer is 25 LY and .25C. The distance
+       between the Sol System and B5 seems to be about 25 light years,
+       and this is the minimum distance Copernicus had to cover. To cover
+       25 LY in 100+ years, Copernicus had to travel at 1/4 C (on
+       average). Typical predictions for nuclear engines driving ships to
+       low-reletivistic speeds say that it takes between 10 and 40 tons
+       of reaction mass/fuel per ton of dry weight to accelerate a ship
+       to low-C (1/10C to 1/4C more or less) and decelerate it again. So
+       either the ship we saw was the core of a much larger ship and all
+       the empty tanks were ejected, or it's made of very lightweight
+       materials, or both.
+     * 100 years seems like a reasonable time for a slower-than-light
+       interstellar journey, yet Mariah was surprised to learn that much
+       time had passed. Her reaction could just be due to the
+       disorientation she was probably experiencing, or perhaps the
+       mission was planned to be less than 100 years long due to
+       limitations of the cryogenic units or some other shipboard system.
+     * The name Amis seems to be a pun, as in something is amiss with
+       Amis. The name Amis is pronounced the same as "Amos," the name of
+       an Old Testament prophet. Prophets like Amos spent lots of time
+       warning folks about dire and immediate events, much like what Amis
+       did in the Zoccalo.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Writer Scott Frost was also on the writing staff of [19]Twin
+       Peaks, a show whose atmosphere was often similar to that of this
+       episode.
+     * When Garibaldi is in the Zocalo, the Drazi sitting next to him is
+       not wearing a colored sash. Since the ritual combat in [20]"The
+       Geometry of Shadows" was supposed to last 1.2 earth years,
+       shouldn't he have been wearing a purple sash, per Ivanova's
+       solution to the problem? A possible explanation is that once she
+       did what she did, the combat was over on Babylon 5 and sashes were
+       no longer required.
+     * A possible reference to Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to
+       the Galaxy" takes place as Amis leaves his cell. With a towel
+       around his neck, he claims, "I've got everything a man needs."
+     * Franklin administers a drug to a catatonic patient called
+       DeValera. Eammon DeValera was an Irish politician and poet, with a
+       real gift for rabble-rousing.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * To follow up on your (Dianne's) other point...yes, from time to
+       time, as we push ourselves to the limit, we're going to crash and
+       burn. That's part of the risk if you really want to try and do
+       something different. We push the envelope...and sometimes get a
+       papercut. I had, for instance, MUCH more in mind for the EFX in
+       the final confrontation in "The Long Dark." But we were, alas,
+       about this > < much ahead of the technology to pull off what I
+       wanted.
+     * The shadows have their servants, which are being recalled to their
+       places of power. That was one of their lower-level types.
+     * Shadow servent. Soldier of darkness. Not a shadow, but a good,
+       close friend of same.
+     * RE: Londo looking "more wicked," we're doing some very small,
+       subtle things to his appearance, his wardrobe, pulling him into a
+       darker range of fabrics. (Honest to god, you wouldn't believe how
+       careful and detailed we are in setting this stuff up.) He'll even
+       be getting a new, slightly darker coat, straighter lines, closer
+       in style to Refa's, before the season's out. It's really
+       interesting when you know where you're going....
+     * _What was the race of that ambassador?_
+       I believe that was a Markab.
+     * Tom: the quibble you raise is one of the points I'm trying to
+       make. You say someone from 1890 would go crazy. I vehemently don't
+       agree. Go back and read letters from the 1890s. Heck, go read
+       letters from 1776; the language, the emotions, they're all very
+       much the same. The chrome of technology has changed, some social
+       styles and attitudes have changed, but people still go through
+       school (usually), get married, raise kids, hold jobs, and look to
+       a better future one day.
+       Mariah was also a scientist, sent forth expecting and prepared to
+       see new things; this isn't the same thing as an average person
+       just plucked out of time.
+       I think people -- Americans in particular -- over-emphasize how
+       much things change with time, in large measure because in a
+       country that's only 200+ years old, we *really* don't understand
+       what time IS here. The Romans who left grafitti all over parts of
+       England are only one step removed from the South Central taggers
+       of today....
+     * Re: Ivanova and Sheridan going into the Cortez upon it being
+       pulled into B5...this was an Earth vessel, remember, stating it's
+       on a mission of peace, with a cryogenic suspension chamber in use.
+       There was zero perceived danger. Also, if I were the captain of a
+       naval vessel today, and I came across an intact sailing vessel
+       that went missing in the 1890s, you'd have to hold a gun at my
+       head to KEEP me out of that ship. People are, by nature,
+       curious...and this would be a fascinating puzzle to solve.
+       _(Editor's note: the Cortez was the ship in "A Distant Star." JMS
+       meant the Copernicus.)_
+     * A couple of thoughts on Sheridan, btw...triggered by messages I've
+       seen or had alluded to in which he's gigged for smiling too much,
+       unlike Sinclair...just checked back in some of my archives, and
+       for the first four or five episodes, the number one complaint
+       about Sinclair was that he either smiled or smirked too much....
+       Meanwhile, just a little something for the folks on-line to
+       contemplate...remember the first rule of Babylon 5: nobody is what
+       they appear. Not entirely, anyway. There's always something going
+       on, something that somebody's not telling. Some folks are making
+       the error of looking at Sheridan -- as they looked at Sinclair, or
+       Londo, or Vir, or G'Kar -- and thinking "this is all that he is."
+       Except, of course, that they weren't and he's not. I would not
+       create a character that is just what you're seeing.
+       Aside from that, and this is a separate issue...there are really
+       two ways to deepen a character and give him a dark side. One is to
+       do something to him *before* you meet him, which he's still
+       recovering from (Sinclair). The other is to meet him, and THEN
+       drop him down a well. In a way, Londo is illustrative of the
+       latter; you get to know him, and he's funny, colorful...and then
+       you start to move him.
+       So suffice to say that Sheridan is going to end up getting more
+       and more conflicts, and getting booted to the head, and as someone
+       noted above, caught in the conflict between being a good officer
+       and being a patriot...which can sometimes be the same, and
+       sometimes VERY different things.
+       
+
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+References
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/027.shtml
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/027.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/027.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/026.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/028.html
+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/027.html#OV
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/027.html#BP
+  11. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/027.html#UQ
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/027.html#AN
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/027.html#NO
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/027.html#JS
+  15. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Johnson,+Anne-Marie
+  16. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Schultz,+Dwight
+  17. file://localhost/lurk/p5/intro.html
+  18. file://localhost/lurk/p5/027
+  19. http://pogo.wright.edu/TwinPeaks/TPHome.html
+  20. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/025.html
+  21. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  22. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/027.html#TOP
+  23. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  24. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  25. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/026.html
+  26. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/028.html
+  27. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Talia is caught in a treacherous web of intrigue after she
+     witnesses a murder. [15]Adrienne Barbeau as Amanda Carter.
+     [16]Michael Beck as Abel Horn. [17]Jessica Walter as Senator
+     Voudreau.
+     
+   (Originally titled "A Trick of the Mind")
+Sub-genre: Mystery
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]8.04
+
+Production number:  206
+Original air date:  December 7, 1994
+
+Written by Lawrence G. DiTillio
+Directed by Kevin Cremins
+
+  Watch For:
+  
+     * Sheridan's drink.
+     * San Diego.
+     * Shattering glass.
+     * "Erronium."
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Talia's first assignment was on Mars Colony, where she scanned
+       several members of the radical group Free Mars (cf. [20]"A Voice
+       in the Wilderness.")
+     * Sheridan is a conspiracy buff; he collects information about all
+       sorts of black projects and secret organizations.
+     * After the last rebellion, the Mars Conglomerate, a powerful group
+       of business interests, nearly pulled out of Mars.
+     * In the 2230s, the Earth Alliance began experimenting with
+       electronic brain implants. The experiments were unsuccessful
+       because the machines couldn't operate in conjunction with
+       conscious thought. Later, after the project was officially closed
+       down, a group within the Earth Alliance began trying a different
+       approach. They took people who were nearly dead and, with
+       telepathic deep scans by one or more members of Psi Corps, fixated
+       the subjects' minds on the moments of their deaths, blocking out
+       all other conscious thought. That allowed the implants to operate
+       as long as the subjects remained fixated.
+     * A secret group within the Earth government called Bureau 13 is
+       deeply involved in, if not responsible for, the continuation of
+       the experiments. Bureau 13 has at least one officially deceased
+       PsiCop in its employ, possibly even its head.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Who is the Bureau 13 "Control" Officer on B5?
+     * If the cyber-experiments failed, what is Abbut, the "vicker" from
+       [21]"Deathwalker?"
+     * Is "Abbey," Talia's mentor from her first year in Psi Corps, the
+       Bureau 13 PsiCop?
+     * The station's computer system has a secret override built in which
+       Bureau 13 has access to. What, if any, other subversions are in
+       place on Babylon 5?
+     * What role, if any, will the T'Kar play in the future, assuming
+       they decide to come to Babylon 5? What's so special about them?
+     * What did Sheridan learn when he was on the T'Kar ship?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Since Talia scanned Free Mars members, it's reasonable to assume
+       that Psi-Corps is still doing so. Why, then, were they apparently
+       caught unawares by the rebellion in [22]"A Voice in the
+       Wilderness?" In that episode, the Psi-Corps representative
+       expressed surprise at the size and well-equipped nature of Free
+       Mars, something that presumably would have been discovered during
+       the course of scans. Either some within Psi-Corps are actively
+       hiding such information from the rest of the Corps (and from
+       Earth) or Free Mars is run very tightly and almost no members know
+       enough to compromise the organization as a whole.
+     * Sheridan's interest in secret organizations and conspiracies may
+       explain why he was so ready to believe in an assassination plot
+       against the President (cf. [23]"Revelations.") Most other people
+       seem to believe the accident cover story (cf. comic [24]"In
+       Darkness Find Me.")
+     * What about Abbut, the "Vicker" or "VCR" from [25]"Deathwalker?" He
+       was quite clearly human, and also clearly carrying a brain
+       implant. (Indeed, his brain was exposed, surrounded and penetrated
+       by what looked like quite extensive implants. The exact quote by
+       Garibaldi was, "Most of the cyber experiments were a bust." Abbut
+       could have been one of those few that worked. In principle
+       implants recording and monitoring what Abbut experiences are
+       fundimentally different from an implanted AI that controls your
+       actions.
+     * In a related but more tenuous vein, what about the Technomages?
+       Some aspects of their abilities (all based on technology,
+       remember) seem to imply non-vocal, non-manipulatory control over
+       their gear. The production of an orange blossom while walking,
+       talking and gesturing. Sleight of hand is one explanation,
+       (sidestepping the issue of how the orange blossom was produced,)
+       but an alternative one is that they have some kind of control
+       device implanted someplace -- not necessarily their brains. This
+       would also explain their preternatural knowledge. Elric always
+       seemed to know more than anyone else, and some of that could have
+       come from a built in data system or an implanted link to one. Add
+       to this Elric's ability to pull up holograms literally in the palm
+       of his hand, and the arguement seems strong for such an implant.
+       But again, it could be nothing but an IO path, not an AI, and so
+       again different from the cyber experiments' failures.
+     * _[[2/17]]_ Sheridan said Earth's cyborg research took place in the
+       2230s. That places it just after the Dilgar war
+       ([26]"Deathwalker.") In [27]"Deathwalker," Na'Toth recalled that
+       the Dilgar were experimenting with brain implants. Was Earth
+       continuing the Dilgar research? Did they receive research data
+       after the war, the same way the allies obtained Nazi advances in
+       rocket technology after World War II?
+     * B5's computer system is compromised. At the very least,
+       communications are insecure and under the control of the Bureau 13
+       AI, including both local and interstellar channels. This is
+       supported by the way the public computer console is quickly taken
+       over by the AI, and the quickness with which it handled the
+       exchange between the Bureau 13 Psicop in San Diego and the control
+       officer on site at B5. The extent of the problem isn't known, but
+       the AI isn't omnipresent. It doesn't prevent Captain Sheridan from
+       modifying the environmental sensors, for instance.
+     * Is Bureau 13 set up in a cell structure, like an organized
+       underground or revolutionary movement? We know of two Bureau 13
+       members, and we saw them interacting via the Bureau 13 computer.
+       They never saw each other, and never refered to one another by
+       name. This hints that Bureau 13 is indeed set up this way, which
+       points to an an explanation for the episode title. The cell
+       structure of an underground, with its singular links between
+       cells, is indeed a web. And at the center of such a web would be a
+       central directing authority -- A Spider in the Web.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The title shown onscreen is "Spider in the Web," but all previous
+       references to the episode by JMS and others have called it "A
+       Spider in the Web," so that's the title listed here. The longer
+       title was also listed on the title page before the original
+       satellite uplink.
+     * The name "Bureau 13" may be a role-playing game reference; it is
+       the name of the US paranormal investigations branch in the game
+       "Stalking the Night Fantastic." (Of course, that could just be a
+       coincidence; another theory is that it refers to P13-level
+       telepaths.)
+     * The ship that fired on Abel Horn was the Earth Forces Cruiser
+       Pournelle, according to the computer readout on his history.
+     * Sheridan orders a Jovian Sunspot; the only other time that drink
+       has been referenced is in [28]"Deathwalker," which also involved
+       Talia and a cyborg of sorts. Probably just a coincidence.
+     * According to Isogi, Ms. Carter's great-grandfather John piloted
+       the first colony ship to Mars. "John Carter of Mars" is a classic
+       SF story by Edgar Rice Burroughs; the character also appears in
+       other Burroughs stories such as [29]"Princess of Mars." See the
+       [30]Project Gutenberg home page.
+     * The animation of the destruction of Abel Horn's ship by an
+       EarthForce cruiser over Phobos is quite detailed. When his ship is
+       hit, the window Abel Horn was looking through shatters, and the
+       air rushes out carrying odd bits and debris with it.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * Having lived in San Diego from 1974-81, it's just my way of giving
+       a wink to the old home town. Though there are some important
+       things going on underground, in areas no one goes...the choice of
+       SD is just a bit of fun.
+     * San Diego was nuked by terrorists some time earlier; but if you
+       dig deep enough, you could probably build something with enough
+       money; and who knows how bad it *really* is.
+     * How big was the San Diego Nuke? Big enough, and dirty enough, to
+       make the area officially uninhabitable for a long time.
+     * The San Diego wastelands was a physical model, yes.
+     * Local in-house joke: Abby's last name...Normal.
+     * If you're a telepath, Psi Corps IS your family. (And no, that
+       wasn't Abby, too young; also not a case of
+       programming/rebuilding...the DECEASED is a cover to get her out.)
+     * Actually, the age on Abby is fairly straightforward...Talia came
+       to the Psi Corps as a young child; she was assigned to an adult
+       Psi Corps member to help her adjust. So Abby would be anywhere
+       from 15-20 years older than Talia. Or more.
+     * No, the Bureau 13 rpg precedes our show; we weren't aware of it at
+       the time we did the episode.
+     * We hadn't heard of the Bureau 13 game when we did the episode, it
+       was just something we came up with 'cause it sounded neat. Later,
+       we found out there was a game by that name. At which point I
+       decided that it wouldn't be appropriate to use that name again,
+       and had a good conversation with some folks at the game company
+       about it. There was no problem, I just didn't want to walk on
+       their turf intentionally or otherwise. Logically, any secret group
+       is going to change its name from time to time *anyway* (it's not
+       like they're in the yellow pages or anything), so the organization
+       would remain under varying names.
+     * The security guard didn't trigger the detonation; he picked up
+       some energy buildup on his scanner the moment Horn's heart
+       stopped.
+     * Basically, Garibaldi's third favorite thing...is whatever the
+       member of the opposite sex is having....
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Originally compiled by Dave Zimmerman
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+
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+References
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Londo summons his three wives to Babylon 5. A mysterious man from
+     Talia's past reappears. [15]Jane Carr as Timov. [16]Lois Nettleton
+     as Daggair. [17]Blair Valk as Mariel. [18]Keith Szarabajka as
+     Matthew Stoner.
+     
+   (Originally titled "Pestilence, Famine and Death.")
+Sub-genre: Comedy
+[19]P5 Rating: [20]7.68
+
+Production number:  208
+Original air date:  December 14, 1994
+
+Written by Peter David
+Directed by John C. Flinn, III
+
+  Watch For:
+  
+     * G'Kar tossing something to someone at a party.
+     * Daffy Duck.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+   Centauri culture is built largely on family stature, and virtually all
+   of an individual's position and influence derive from the relative
+   standing of the family. Links between families can be very important,
+   and marriages are the primary way of forging these links. Marriages
+   are almost always arranged by the families for the benefit of the
+   families, regardless of the wishes (if any) of the Centauri being
+   married. Londo's marriages are notoriously bad. Indeed, he calls his
+   three wives Pestilence, Famine and Death, and it's been hinted that he
+   took a post to Babylon 5, a post where he knew he'd be forced to
+   concede defeat after defeat to the hated Narn, simply to escape the
+   three of them.
+   
+   The control Psi-Corps maintains over its members is quite pervasive,
+   extending to all levels of their personal lives. In one respect they
+   are similar to the Centauri -- they arrange marriages between their
+   members. This, coupled with the fact that all persons showing any psi
+   talent at all are pressed into the Corps or nullified, makes them a
+   budding closed society. Most importantly, once in Psi-Corps you are
+   theirs forever, and they can do anything with you they want.
+   
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Why do G'Kar and Mariel know each other? What's been going on in
+       the past with the two of them?
+     * Why did Psi-Corps dissolve the marriage between Stoner and Talia?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Stoner is a puzzle. Did he really ever leave Psi-Corps? He is a
+       strong projective empath. He may be a receptive empath as
+       well--but since he treats people rather poorly this doesn't seem
+       very likely...at best it's unproven. Given his talent he could
+       have manipulated the people around him from the very beginning, up
+       to and including letting him leave. His claim that he lost his
+       talent altogether is disproven rather quickly by a group of
+       amateurs. Psi-Corps scientists working on modifying psi talents
+       would have been very difficult to fool. On the whole, it's most
+       likely that Sheridan is right, and Stoner was actively working for
+       Psi-Corps all along.
+     * At first glance, one might wonder why on Earth Stoner would be in
+       on a plot to kill Londo. G'Kar notes to Mariel that Stoner just
+       happened to bring the artifact onboard on the eve of Londo's
+       ascension anniversary, which would be too staggering a
+       coincidence, _if_ it had been booby-trapped from the start.
+       However:
+     * G'Kar may have been behind the plot to kill Londo. In the scene
+       where Mariel notices his boots, just before he walks off, G'Kar
+       tosses something small to her. Perhaps it's just a grape, since he
+       was picking them from the table. Or it could be a set of poison
+       darts to load into the statue. If so, Stoner is even more innocent
+       than he claims to Sheridan and Garibaldi; the statue really was
+       completely harmless when he brought it aboard. However:
+     * G'Kar later says to Mariel, "Mysteries give me a pain." And the
+       only way that he can ease the pain is to decipher the mystery. He
+       then goes on to describe the situation with Mariel and Londo as
+       the mystery that he had to solve. If so, then he was uninvolved in
+       the attempt on Londo -- which again raises the question: What did
+       G'Kar toss to Mariel?
+     * If G'Kar was involved, perhaps G'Kar knows what Londo is up to
+       with the Shadows and wants to assassinate him for that reason, or
+       perhaps it's just the general enmity between the two. Or maybe the
+       whole thing was Mariel's idea and G'Kar merely gave her the means.
+     * Whatever the answer to "who knew what, and when?" the
+       relationships remain. G'Kar knows Mariel well enough to have a
+       private and informal discussion with her, and he may have been
+       involved in the plot to kill Londo. Stoner (and by extension
+       Psi-Corps) may know Mariel, and may also have been involved in the
+       plot to kill Londo -- at least insofar as Stoner delivered the
+       instrument of his (near) death.
+     * Talia's relationship to Psi-Corps is called into question here on
+       both ends. First, it's clear that she is completely disillusioned
+       with the corps. She confesses to Garibaldi that Psi-Corps
+       frightens her. She is presumably deeply conditioned, but her
+       loyalties are wavering despite this. On the other side of the
+       equation, if Stoner is still Corps then his offer to her is also
+       on the behest of Psi-Corps. Did her actions during [21]"A Spider
+       in the Web" bring her to the attention of Bureau 13? And if so,
+       are they trying to unofficially take her out of the picture?
+     * Though it at first glance might appear to be a comedic throwaway
+       line, Delenn's final complaint may actually be the most important
+       revelation of the entire episode. It implies that her
+       transformation has given her a human reproductive system. Possibly
+       that was even the point of the transformation; if indeed the
+       change was made to bring humans and Minbari closer together, a
+       child born of a human father and a Minbari mother might be
+       considered a powerful link by some.
+     * Which, of course, begs the question: who does she intend the
+       father to be, if this is what she has in mind? Sinclair seems an
+       obvious choice, given the evidence that she believes him to be the
+       reincarnation of a great Minbari soul (cf. [22]"Soul Hunter,"
+       among others.)
+     * Psi Corps seems to be big on assigning companions. In addition to
+       Stoner, Talia was assigned a support officer, Abby, during her
+       first year at the Psi Corps center when she was a girl ([23]"A
+       Spider in the Web.")
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The name of Timov's father, "Alghul," means "The Demon" in Arabic.
+       It may also be connected to the comic book character Ras Al-Ghul
+       ("Head of the Demon") from the Batman series, debatably the
+       Batman's most dangerous foe. Ras' daughter, Talia, has been the
+       Batman's lover, and is the mother of his child. In any case, Londo
+       has remained married to the daughter of "The Demon," appropriate
+       given his recent acquaintances.
+       
+Peter David speaks
+
+     * Y'know...for the past five years I've been writing Trek novels,
+       and fans kept asking, "When are you going to start doing Trek TV
+       episodes?"
+       So here comes B5, I do an episode...and what do the fans keep
+       asking? When am I going to do a B5 novel.
+       NYAAAARRRRRRRGGGHHHH!!!
+     * [Re: Talia] My feeling was that it was something that had been
+       building slowly within her ever since the Ironheart episode. That
+       although she had been *saying* she was devoted, well...the
+       difference between the reality of a B5 and the frequent unreality
+       of STTNG is that folks don't always say exactly what's on their
+       mind (kind of like the real world.) As it turned out, my own
+       thoughts on Talia dovetailed with future plans for her.
+       Daggair was Pestilence. Timov was Famine. Mariel was Death.
+       Originally I was going to have each of their names reflect their
+       respective "incarnations," but decided that was too cutesy. The
+       only holdover from that idea is Timov's name which is, of course,
+       Vomit spelled backwards.
+     * Daggair is Pestilence, Timov is Famine, and Mariel is Death.
+       At first I was going to have all their names be reflections of the
+       titles "assigned" them by Londo, but I decided that would be too
+       cutesy. The only holdover from that idea is Timov, whose name
+       backwards is, of course, Vomit. (I'll never forget Jane Carr
+       coming over to me the fifth day of shooting and saying in that
+       accented voice of hers, "Peter...did you *know* that my
+       character's name is vomit spelled backwards?" Uhhhh...well,
+       yeah...)
+       You all realize, of course, that Londo is--by process of
+       elimination-- War.
+     * In response to someone who thought JMS wanted a line of dialogue
+       inserted
+       This is a total misinterpretation of a statement I made, and yet
+       another example of how the information age can also be the
+       misinformation age. Incorrect "facts" can make the rounds at light
+       speed and stay there.
+       I did *not* say that Joe wanted one particular line put into the
+       script. What I *said* (in response to a question some time ago of
+       "How much did JMS tell you to put into the script? How much of the
+       events were dictated) was that all I was given was one line of
+       *description* (much like a log line you'd see in TV Guide). The
+       line was something to the effect of, "Londo's wives show up on B5
+       and, in the way that Londo handles the difficulties that ensue, we
+       learn something about the type of man that he is." I explained
+       this in order to make clear how much latitude JMS gives writers on
+       the show, as opposed to the omnipresent smothering hands-on
+       attitude of other programs.
+       And somehow this became mutated into "JMS has a line of dialogue
+       that he wanted inserted."
+     * How funny. Other people who stated flatly that they likewise knew
+       Londo loudly proclaimed (over on Usenet) that he would have chosen
+       Daggair. Maybe he's a kind of tough guy to know.
+     * _Poster had no trouble guessing; the actress playing Timov "was
+       the most well-known actress of them all"_
+       Oh, I don't know. Lois Nettleton's career goes way further back
+       than Jane Carr's does. Although Jane *is* from the Royal
+       Shakespeare Company (and yes, she did work with Patrick Stewart.
+       She's so pleased that now she too has portrayed a bald SF icon.)
+     * *I* didn't get "bitch" past the censors. I just put it in the
+       script.
+       (What I loved was Daggair's expression on that line. It's the only
+       time she let her facade slip and she looked like she was ready to
+       slug Timov.)
+     * _The second scene between Garibaldi and Stoner was intense_
+       Tension really crackled between the two of them, didn't it? In one
+       of the takes, it was so intense that at the end, the director
+       forgot to yell "Cut." Instead he shouted, "God, that was great!"
+     * _Thanks for showing us another side of Garibaldi_
+       Oh, the side was already there, in my opinion. I think back to
+       previous episodes where Garibaldi was all for spacing that serial
+       killer. When he encounters people he doesn't like, or have done
+       dirt to people who are Garibaldi's friends, he can be pretty
+       ruthless.
+     * As we've seen, Garibaldi doesn't exactly have the easiest time
+       being demonstrative in his feelings for women.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * Originally, "Soul Mates" was intended to be broadcast after "A
+       Race Through Dark Places." ARTDP required a rather substantial
+       amount of post production work and audio design; "Mates" did not.
+       Rather than rush "Race," we decided it was okay to air those two
+       in reverse order. If they have aired with "Race" first in the UK,
+       then yes, it's different than the US order, but it *is* the
+       correct production and story order.
+     * All things considered, the episode went through fairly cleanly,
+       script- wise, not much in the way of revision. Peter has a good
+       ear for dialog (not surprising). So for the most part it was
+       little stuff; for example...Peter came up with, "Either I'm in
+       hell or in medlab," to which I appended, "...either way, the decor
+       needs work." Which is kind of the fun in getting an outside
+       script; you can hear the first part of a line you'd never
+       considered, and knowing the character, you can take it just a
+       little further.
+     * Timov's "WHO IS THIS?!" in that high-pitched voice would also be a
+       great one for an answering machine.
+     * What I love best about this is that given the time of year [of its
+       North American premiere], "Soul Mates" is basically our Christmas
+       episode.
+       I mean, are we perverse or what...?
+     * . . . when you say "why wasn't Mariel arrested on the spot by
+       Garibaldi and her quarters searched," you omit both legal
+       procedure and evidentiary law.
+       You arrest someone AFTER you have reasonable cause and sufficent
+       evidence to justify it. You don't need enough evidence to convict,
+       just to arrest or indict. So the order is reversed for starters.
+       Second, what evidence *was* there to be found if he HAD searched
+       her quarters? She neither brought nor had ANYthing of an
+       incriminating nature. She bought the figurine in the bazaar...and
+       that's all she had, and all she used. There WAS no evidence in her
+       quarters to find.
+       (Believe me, I spent 2 years on MURDER, SHE WROTE, and we learned
+       a lot about how this stuff works. You can't just go around
+       arresting people willy nilly, and the evidence must exist, and be
+       sufficient, and locatable.)
+     * Peter's having the time of his life. He loves where his character
+       is going, loves the range of emotions he gets to play...I saw him
+       for a bit on the set today, shooting "Soul Mates," and he's just
+       tickled (particularly since he's acting opposite Lois Nettleton,
+       Jane Carr and Blair Valk as his three wives).
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Compiled by Steven Grimm and Dave Zimmerman
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
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+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Bester asks Talia to investigate an "underground railroad" of
+     unregistered telepaths. [15]Walter Koenig as Bester.
+     
+Sub-genre: Intrigue
+[16]P5 Rating: [17]8.38
+
+Production number:  207
+Original air date:  January 25, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
+  Watch For
+  
+   A minor character from a previous episode, who turns out not to be so
+   minor after all.
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+   Michael Garibaldi says, "The Corps got started because of our own
+   fears." The sudden appearance of real psi abilities in otherwise
+   unremarkable people caused so much concern among the general
+   population that those showing such talents were gathered together into
+   a group that could be more easily controlled -- and Psi-Corps was
+   born. Its members are deeply conditioned to prevent any psi from using
+   his or her talents to dominate normal people or disrupt society. But
+   this conditioning isn't absolute, and attitudes molded early in life
+   can still evolve over a persons lifetime.
+   
+   Given that psis were forced into this essentially closed society,
+   shunned by the rest of humanity, it isn't surprising that the
+   loyalties of the telepaths turned to the Corps itself. Soon Psi-Corps
+   gained control of itself, and eventually the organization began
+   pursuing its own goals. The leadership began to exert ever greater
+   control over the lives of the members, in an effort to enhance the
+   abilities of their people.
+   
+   The level of control exerted by the Corps over its members grew as
+   they began seeking to enhance the abilities of their people, extending
+   even to marriage and reproduction. Eventually the onus became too
+   great and too pervasive for newly awakened psis to tolerate, and they
+   began seeking ways to escape. The Psi-Cops exist to counter this, to
+   search for and either capture or eliminate psi talented people who
+   escaped early detection or who fled Psi-Corps.
+   
+   Now the Corps has become a power in its own right. Though the
+   organization was intended to keep psis under control, it has itself
+   come under the control of those very people. As a group, they _must_
+   feel seperate and different if not outright superior to the rest of
+   society, and who have long been held in a position of subservience.
+   They are organized, ruthless, and determined to pursue their own
+   agenda.
+   
+   "We created our own monster." -- John Sheridan
+   
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Where have all the unregistered psis been going?
+     * How long has this "underground railroad" been running?
+     * We see Ivanova giving Sheridan his morning briefing, and in it she
+       says that B5 has been running in the red for a while because,
+       "there's been a lot of Earth Force military transports coming
+       through." Where were they going?
+     * Has Talia turned completely against the Corps?
+     * Why, and by whom, was Bester told that Sheridan would be
+       sympathetic to the Psi-Corps?
+     * How much did Talia tell Ivanova about the situation, and about
+       what's happened to her?
+     * "What am I?" "The future." What does that mean? The future of
+       telepaths? Of humans in general? Does it refer to Talia's new
+       powers, to the fact that she's now likely to work against
+       Psi-Corps from within, or something else? Is there even more to
+       Ironheart's gift?
+     * Will Bester notice that his gun was never actually fired?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * The core of Psi-Corps indoctrination was summed up by Bester.
+       
+     You were raised by the Corps,
+     Clothed by the Corps.
+     We are your father,
+     And your mother.
+       What Psi-Corps has become was also demonstrated by Bester.
+       Standing with another Psi-Cop, he looks down at a captured rogue
+       telepath who he has just forcibly mind-scanned. "He's dead," the
+       other Psi-Cop says. "It doesn't matter," Bester replies,
+       apparently assuming she was concerned he wouldn't be able to read
+       the man any more. Talia doesn't see this, since it happened on
+       Mars Colony, but she does meet a stream of rogues who are on B5,
+       in transit through the "underground railroad." From them she
+       learns, first hand and with undeniable truth, that the experience
+       she has had with the Corps is far from unique. Indeed, her
+       experiences were mild compared to the stories she hears.
+       Abductions. Experiments. Breeding programs that don't rely on
+       volunteers for subjects. And as a telepath speaking _to_
+       telepaths, she can't avoid the full truth and force of the events
+       she hears.
+     * How can a Psi-Corps operative turn against the Corps? The
+       impossibility of it is clear: The highest rated, strongest
+       telepaths are "turned into" Psi-Cops. When the guardians are
+       stronger than everyone else, how do you turn against them? Unless
+       you are truly exceptional like Matthew Stoner in [18]"Soul Mates"
+       you can only flee, immediately, before someone else scans you and
+       reads your intention. Matthew Stoner may or may not have eluded
+       the clutches of Psi-Corps for a time, but in the end he was firmly
+       returned to them. Talia Winters' whole life experience tells her
+       that she _cannot_ turn against the Corps, no matter what her
+       opinions may be about the integrity or intentions of the
+       organization.
+       But several events changed her mind about this -- and it was not
+       the tales of woe told by the folks in the underground railroad,
+       though they undoubtedly inclined her toward rebellion. What
+       allowed her to rebel was the realization that her shields were
+       much stronger than she thought they were. A year ago Jason
+       Ironheart, a victim of Psi-Corps experimentation, visited the
+       station (cf. [19]"Mind War.") He became something vastly powerful,
+       and departed. But before he left, he gave his onetime love Talia
+       Winters a gift, the very thing that Psi-Corps was trying to induce
+       in him: telekinesis. And the strength to keep that gift secret.
+     * Talia's telekinetic powers are at least somewhat stronger than
+       suggested at the end of [20]"Mind War." She can not only move her
+       penny with her thoughts -- she can cause it to fly across the room
+       with enough force to embed itself in the wall.
+     * Telepaths can combine their powers through physical contact. What
+       are the limits to such unions? Would a hundred linked telepaths
+       begin to approach some of Ironheart's power, or perhaps become
+       greater than just a collection of individuals? Does this perhaps
+       have something to do with the Minbari prophecy suggesting that
+       humans are destined to walk among the stars? (cf. [21]"Babylon
+       Squared")
+       Or it could simply be that by touching, the telepaths were able to
+       help each other focus their individual energies; that's supported
+       by the railroad leader's comment that what they did shouldn't have
+       worked.
+     * The "Underground Railroad." The timeline of the underground
+       railroad stretches back to before B5. There is a group of people
+       that have actively been working to keep people with psi ability
+       out of Psi-Corps. Dr. Franklin implied that it was mostly doctors,
+       and it makes sense that their ability to alter or manipulate
+       medical and genetic records would make them logical and necessary
+       members. But there is no reason to assume that the organization is
+       comprised solely of doctors.
+       Dr. Franklin was a member before he came to Babylon 5. When Jason
+       Ironheart came to B5 he brought with him another rogue, who
+       disappeared into downbelow while Jason went through his
+       spectacular confrontation with Bester and his subsequent
+       transformation. This unnamed telepath (who we've met before, in
+       [22]"Chrysalis") apparently contacted Dr. Franklin. Between them,
+       they extended the underground railroad through B5 -- though where
+       the rogues were going _after_ B5 is unclear. Nor is it clear that
+       Dr. Franklin will actually put a stop to the railroad. Dr.
+       Franklin's answers to Captain Sheridan's demand that he put a stop
+       to it were quite evasive. The telepaths actually at the station
+       agreed to leave, which they intended to do anyway. Dr. Franklin
+       admitted that his part in it was over, and that others would have
+       to take over -- but he never actually said it would stop.
+       Ironically, the person Garibaldi first suspected was aiding the
+       railroad was Ivanova. He was wrong. She wasn't connected to it.
+       But neither was Talia at the time. Now Talia is talking to
+       Ivanova. What did they discuss, alone and late at night in
+       Ivanova's quarters?
+     * Did Ironheart's unnamed friend have ulterior motives when he put
+       Garibaldi onto Devereaux' trail in [23]"Chrysalis?" There's
+       evidence the Corps was involved in Santiago's death (cf.
+       [24]"Revelations") so it's plausible the man knew something of the
+       plot, and wanted to foil it without revealing himself.
+     * Along similar lines, Bester's request to Talia that she keep an
+       eye on Sheridan and the others for their reactions to President
+       Santiago's death implies that he knows something other than an
+       accident occurred, even that he (or someone he's associated with)
+       was involved. His offhand comment that he'd been told Sheridan
+       would be sympathetic to the Psi-Corps also implies that there may
+       be more to Sheridan's appointment as head of Babylon 5 than meets
+       the eye.
+     * "Who'd have thought?" John Sheridan asks Ambassador Delenn. He was
+       speaking at the time about the common trait of laughter, shared by
+       humans and Minbari, but he could equally have been speaking of the
+       whole scene. A human ship captain, commanding a giant station on
+       the fringe of human controlled space, having a quiet dinner with
+       the Minbari ambassador -- who also happens to be a member of their
+       ruling body and who is also, to some degree "half-human."
+       Moreover, she has apparently chosen him to teach her about
+       humanity on a personal level. How personal this can get... who can
+       say?
+     * Finally, there is a telepath who can operate on the side of the
+       "good guys." True, there are all the telepaths who have passed
+       through the "underground railroad," but they are untrained or at
+       best, trained but fleeing. Talia is fully trained and Psi-Corps
+       doesn't know that she has turned--and she is strong enough to
+       maintain her independence. It's likely she will be a very
+       important player now, and her personality may develop in new
+       directions now that she isn't under the heavy hand of Psi-Corps.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * This episode takes place in March, 2259, three months into
+       Sheridan's tour of duty with B5.
+     * There is a subthread in this episode about lack of sleep. Bester
+       gets Talia out of bed, Talia gets Ivanova out of bed, and Ivanova
+       and Sheridan spend a night sacked out in his office (he in his
+       chair, she on the couch). Coincidence?
+     * "Knock Knock" (who's there) "Kosh" (Kosh who?) "Gesundheit!" --
+       Sheridan
+     * Judy Levitt, who plays the Psi Cop opposite Bester in the scene on
+       Mars, is Walter Koenig's wife.
+     * Production gaffe: In the scene outside Earhart's, when Delenn is
+       asking Sheridan to dinner, a boom microphone is visible for an
+       instant at the top of the screen.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * Favorite line in the next new episode, from Sheridan: "I'm not
+       saying what I'm saying. I'm not saying what I'm *thinking*. For
+       that matter, I'm not even *thinking* what I'm thinking."
+     * BTW, just to note a little something you might not notice in the
+       show...we've adopted the tradition of putting the symbol for a
+       given ship onto the bar in Earhart's, as many real contemporary
+       officers' clubs and airforce/naval base clubs put the logos or
+       markings of big planes or ships that come through there. The
+       Cortez symbol is the most visible among the various emblems you
+       can see in a shot of the bar in "A Race Through Dark Places." It
+       comes at the moment we follow *another* old military tradition.
+     * As for the sound mix...yeah, we put a great deal of work into that
+       aspect, for the surround effect. If you fire up "Race" there's a
+       LOT going on in that one. It takes a great deal of time, but it's
+       worth it.
+     * Yes, originally, "Soul Mates" was to air after "Race." At that
+       time, PTEN was initially going to show just 6 new episodes, and we
+       would have come in after the rerun break with "Race," then "Soul."
+       When the ratings came in and looked good, they didn't want to
+       interfere with the growth, and indicated they wanted to show 7 new
+       eps in the first batch. "Race," as you can see, was a very complex
+       episode visually, and the only way to get it ready to run #7 in
+       the first batch would've been to compromise the integrity of the
+       show, and we simply won't do that for ANY reason. "Soul Mates," on
+       the other hand, required very little in the way of post
+       production, so that was moved forward into the #7 slot.
+     * Q: How many telepaths does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
+       A:
+     * I always have to have a title before I begin writing, since the
+       title always influences the feel of the show. I try to design one
+       that is literary, or refers to a literary influence; it should
+       have a certain rhythm, and avoid coming at the subject of the
+       episode too dead-on. For instance, one could call the recent Psi
+       Cop episode with Bester, "Capture" or "Chase." But I wanted it to
+       be evocative, to conjure up the image of people slipping through
+       the shadows, pursued by others, and to continue this season's
+       trend toward titles that indicate a coming night. Hence, "A Race
+       Through Dark Places."
+     * _No repeat of Bester's salute from "Mind War"_
+       Also, bear in mind that Bester's parting shot in "Mind War" was
+       exactly that, in essence an "Up yours" but subtle. There was no
+       reason for that to be given to anyone in "Race."
+     * Correct, the penny was/is a keepsake.
+     * _Where did Ivanova's outfit in the last scene come from?_
+       I think it came out of the Victoria's Secrets catalog....
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Originally compiled by Dave Zimmerman
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
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+Overview
+
+     When the Centauri emperor visits the station, Sheridan tries to
+     keep G'Kar from going after him. Londo and Refa plot to expand
+     their power. A mysterious man seeks out Garibaldi. [15]Turhan Bey
+     as the Centauri Emperor. [16]Malachi Throne as the Centauri Prime
+     Minister. [17]William Forward as Refa.
+     
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]9.59
+
+Production number: 209
+Original air date: February 1, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
+   Winner of the 1996 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
+   
+   _Note: this episode is more momentous than most. Think twice before
+   proceeding to the spoilers; it's worth seeing unawares._
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Sheridan joined the Earth military a few years before the
+       Earth-Minbari War. A planetary draft was established during the
+       war.
+     * The Centauri have sent many ships into Vorlon space; none have
+       returned, but strange stories about the Vorlons have found their
+       way back to the Centauri homeworld.
+     * Sinclair's duties on the Minbari homeworld extend far beyond
+       normal ambassadorial functions. He is taking part in the
+       preparation for the fight against the great darkness that many of
+       the Minbari believe is approaching. To that end, he is in command
+       of a small army of "rangers" -- individuals, Minbari and human,
+       who roam the frontier, gathering information too sensitive to
+       report back via normal channels.
+     * The Centauri Emperor employs four telepaths, linked since birth;
+       when he leaves the royal court, two accompany him and two stay
+       behind, so he and his representatives at the court are constantly
+       aware of each other's circumstances.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What is the meaning of Londo's dream? (see [20]Analysis)
+     * Why is Sinclair in charge of the rangers? Is he the only one in
+       control, or is he a piece of a much larger chain of command?
+     * How did the rangers get started? How are they expanding? What or
+       who is drawing them to Minbar, and how?
+     * Why does Sinclair think Garibaldi should stay close to the Vorlon?
+       How much does he know, and how long has he known it? (Recall that
+       in [21]"The Gathering" Delenn gave Sinclair information about the
+       Vorlons, though it's not clear how complete or accurate it was.)
+     * Will Londo become emperor some day?
+     * What will the Narn's first move against the Centauri be?
+     * What did the Emperor know about Vorlons that caused him to want to
+       ask Kosh his question? What does the question mean? (see
+       [22]Analysis)
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * When the two telepaths on Centauri Prime entered the throne room,
+       a human and two Minbari were talking to the prime minister. Most
+       likely they were there on unrelated business, but it's possible
+       they were rangers, there to gather information. (See [23]jms
+       speaks)
+     * As soon as Londo lied about what the Emperor told him, the two
+       veiled telepaths exchanged a look and left the room hastily. It
+       may be that they knew he was lying; whether they'll tell anyone,
+       and if so what impact that will have, remains to be seen.
+     * Kosh seems to have a perception that extends into the future; or
+       perhaps he is simply basing his comment on the results of the last
+       great war against the Shadows.
+     * Londo's dream, which has been foreshadowed from day one
+       ([24]"Midnight on the Firing Line") contains a lot of information,
+       if it's to be taken literally.
+          + The hand seems a clear reference to the "great hand, reaching
+            out across the stars" as seen by Elric in [25]"The Geometry
+            of Shadows." If so, the hand is Londo's. Presumably it is a
+            metaphor for his expanding power and influence.
+          + Londo stands in the middle of fine sand, a desert (or perhaps
+            decimated ruins; witness the dead vegitation and patterns in
+            the sand) and watches several Shadow ships fly overhead. This
+            appears to be on Centauri Prime. He is dressed in his
+            ambassadorial uniform and appears to be roughly the same age
+            as in the present. One implication is that the Shadows will
+            either attack Centauri Prime or (more likely) come to its
+            defense. It should also be noted that Londo has never seen a
+            Shadow ship in the present. One reader suggests that Londo's
+            expression can be interpreted as Londo looking on, helpless,
+            as a great evil is done; for the first time realizing who's
+            really the pawn in his relationship with the Shadows.
+          + When Londo receives the crown, he is again not much older
+            than in the present, possibly slightly older than when he's
+            observing the Shadow ships. Perhaps he is crowned after
+            calling in the Shadows to help defend Centauri Prime. (Of
+            course, the new Emperor would have to be dead first.) The
+            person crowning him appears to be fairly old.
+          + Much later -- twenty years, give or take -- Londo, in white
+            Imperial attire, sits in the throne and looks around, face
+            filled with regret or resignation. Nobody else is visible,
+            and the throne room seems bare compared to the scene at the
+            beginning of the episode. It's as if everything has been
+            lost; he is Emperor, but Emperor of nothing, perhaps of a
+            dead world.
+          + Then he sees G'Kar, also aged 20 years, face half-covered by
+            a strip of black cloth. The two try to strangle each other.
+            Londo appears to go limp as the dream ends; presumably he is
+            dying. The cloth across G'Kar's face appears to cover an
+            injury; he may be missing his left eye.
+       Londo's old age in the last scene suggests that it takes place
+       around the same time as the attempt to snatch Babylon 4 through
+       time (cf. [26]"Babylon Squared.") Sinclair seemed to have aged
+       about the same amount, though of course humans and Centauri may
+       age at different rates, and something may have caused Sinclair to
+       age prematurely. But barring those two factors, it suggests that
+       the war is still raging at the time of Londo's strangulation, and
+       that it will last at least twenty years.
+       It's also worth noting that the dream contained only one spoken
+       line, from [27]"Chrysalis:" "Keep this up, G'Kar, and soon you
+       won't have a planet to protect." (It was spoken over a scene from
+       [28]"Midnight on the Firing Line.")
+     * Londo may well be serious when he tells Vir he has no wish to
+       become emperor; his premonition may have convinced him that it'd
+       be bad to seek the position. But the vision remains; he may find
+       himself taking the throne in spite of himself down the road.
+     * The state of G'Kar's left eye may be a reference to Norse
+       mythology, in which the god Odin gives up his left eye for wisdom.
+     * "It's a small price to pay for immortality," says Refa. A
+       reference to everlasting fame? The Centauri propensity for
+       elevating emperors to godhood? (cf. [29]"Chrysalis")
+     * The emperor's question implies that he was in on something that
+       isn't general knowledge, possibly something about the Vorlons. One
+       explanation may lie in dreams; perhaps the emperor's death dream
+       (according to Londo in [30]"Midnight on the Firing Line," such
+       dreams are commonplace among the Centauri) told him that a war
+       would begin after his death. Why he thought Kosh would know how
+       the war would end -- assuming the war is what the question
+       referred to -- is still an open question, though. (See [31]jms
+       speaks)
+     * Along similar lines, why did the emperor speak his dying words to
+       Londo, rather than Refa? Did he know what Londo was really up to,
+       or was he simply guessing that Londo was likely the catalyst who
+       would bring his empire into war, based on Londo's handling of
+       Quadrant 37 in [32]"Chrysalis?"
+     * The Narn government apparently approved of G'Kar's would-be
+       assassination attempt, even though he lied about it in his will;
+       presumably he wanted to protect his people from revenge attacks by
+       the Centauri.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The script for this episode is printed in its entirety in JMS'
+       "The Complete Book of Scriptwriting," ISBN 0-89879-512-5,
+       published by Writer's Digest Books.
+     * The votes for the Hugo Award were as follows. The two numbers
+       listed are number of nominations received and final number of
+       votes cast.
+1st "The Coming Of Shadows"    93    457
+2nd "Apollo 13"               122    355
+3rd "12 Monkeys"               59    160
+4th "Toy Story"                79     76
+5th "The Visitor" (ST:DS9)     30     60
+6th No Award                          15
+
+jms speaks
+
+     * I love "The Coming of Shadows." It's one of those episodes that
+       just knocks the breath out of you. You know those moments when
+       you're in the passenger seat of a car, and the person driving is
+       doing something crazy, and your foot automatically keeps searching
+       for a brake pedal that isn't there because you know something
+       awful's going to happen? That's the feeling you get all through
+       that script. This episode, like "Sky," "Signs," "Chrysalis" and
+       "Revelations" again changes the direction and ratchets everything
+       one notch tighter. It's also a very visual script, and I like
+       that, since I sometimes do rely too much on dialogue from time to
+       time, and it's good to go in a different direction.
+     * Kosh's brevity is one of the things I like best about him; in the
+       year two episode "The Coming of Shadows," he has just two words in
+       the whole episode...but they're guaranteed to give just about
+       anyone the willies.
+     * _The G'Kar-Emperor thread was similar to the King Arthur legend:
+       Arthur's and Mordred's armies are poised for battle but make one
+       last attempt to negotiate, but a soldier raises his sword to kill
+       a snake and everyone attacks._
+       There's another applicable metaphor for the sword story; you'll
+       see it a little later this season. Very good catch, btw. _"This
+       season" refers to season three._
+     * I generally don't let the actors know what's coming unless it's
+       important to the current performance. Otherwise you risk having
+       the actor play the *result* instead of the *process*. Had to make
+       one divergence from this recently, so that Peter could understand
+       better a sequence in "The Coming of Shadows," which you'll
+       understand when you see it.
+     * We're also taking advantage of some of the recent Hubble
+       photographs to scan them and use them as backgrounds in some
+       far-space shots; there's one in "The Coming of Shadows," for
+       instance. Real space is *very* nice looking in places.
+     * I may not have been clear in my meaning when I said "accellerating
+       the arc." This doesn't mean doing anything ahead of schedule; it
+       just means that now we begin cranking the story into a higher
+       intensity level. We've been kind of floating toward our
+       destination...now we begin the process of accellerating. If you
+       recall Literary Structure from English Lit 101, there's the
+       Introduction, the Rising Action, the Complication, the Climax, and
+       the Denouement. Year one up through about the first eight episodes
+       of year two are Introduction; we are now in Rising Action stage.
+       Remember that this is structured like a novel, and you'll
+       generally have some idea of where you stand in the progression.
+     * I ended up giving Peter info on "Signs" prior to shooting
+       "Chrysalis" last season; that was the biggie there. For "CoS" in
+       order for the scene to match what's going to happen several years
+       down the road in the series, I had to kinda give him the context
+       of the dream, and what was really happening in that scene, and
+       what caused it, and how he got to that place with G'Kar's hands
+       around his throat.
+       He seemed quite...astonished.
+     * Yeah, on several levels, writing "The Coming of Shadows" was hard;
+       there were times I felt as though I'd just jumped onto the back of
+       a runaway dynamite truck. Halfway through that story you can feel
+       the arc kinda moving underneath you, like some huge, dark fish
+       about to break surface.
+       The only way to make a viewer feel a character's pain is if you
+       feel it in the writing, and a lot of that came through. I live
+       with these characters running around in my head 24 hours a
+       day...and when I'd finally finished "Shadows," it was as if they
+       all sorta stopped and looked at each other, and at me, and said,
+       "Gee, thank you EVER so fucking much, jeezus, why don't you just
+       go pluck somebody's eye out while you're at it?"
+       To which the only reply is, "Now that you mention it...."
+     * _The script for this episode is in JMS' "Complete Book of
+       Scriptwriting."_
+       What might be interesting, next time you pick up the book, is to
+       fire up a copy of "The Coming of Shadows" and go through it with
+       the script in hand...it's a good way of seeing how you lay out a
+       show shot-for-shot. And since there's stuff there that was cut
+       from the episode, you can also judge on what was left out, and
+       why, and whether it hurt or helped.
+     * Not all Centauri dreams come true; however, the ones in which they
+       see their deaths tend to be pretty accurate.
+     * Turhan originally came in to audition for Elric in "Geometry;" we
+       wanted someone with more menace (Ansara), but we were all just
+       blown away by how wonderful and sweet and nice a person he was,
+       and as he left, I told John Copeland, "I'm gonna write a part just
+       for him."
+       So I did, and we cast him, and everyone on the set loved him...to
+       the point that, at the end of the shoot, they were saying, "You
+       BASTARD, how could you bring this WONDERFUL man in here and then
+       KILL HIM OFF SO WE CAN'T HAVE HIM BACK?!"
+     * _Are the Rangers a reference to the Chuck Norris series, "Walker,
+       Texas Ranger," with which you were involved, or to the Rangers in
+       Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings?"_
+       For me, the concept of the Rangers isn't tied to Norris; that
+       isn't the reference I was talking about. Being on that show, I
+       kinda had to look into the history of the Texas rangers in
+       general, and being the curious kind of guy I am, I widened out
+       into the Army Rangers, and other sorts. I'd been looking for a
+       kind of name to attach to this group, and the more I thought about
+       it, the more it fit.
+       As far as the costume is concerned...it's not medeival based; if
+       you look at the ranger's outfit, than go look at a Minbari warrior
+       outfit, you will discover a LOT of points of comparison. It was
+       *designed* to echo Minbari warrior caste clothes, to reflect the
+       fact that these two sides are working together. Go fire up
+       "Legacies" and look at his uniform, then look at the ranger.
+       You'll see the similarities in silhouette and line in various
+       places.
+       Of course I've read and enjoyed Tolkein. But as I've said, I have
+       no interest in doing LoTR with the serial numbers filed off. I've
+       dropped references to it in dialogue, but the structure of the
+       story has nothing whatsoever to do with LoTR. Basically, a lot of
+       people have come up and said, "Oh, this is the same as
+       Foundation," or "This is the same as LoTR," or "This echoes a lot
+       of Dune," or "This is obviously a Homeric tale," or "There's a lot
+       of Star Wars here." It uses the same tools as all mythic structure
+       fiction uses. Hence it resonates. But I didn't sit there and
+       think, "Hmm...Gandalf left, so I'll have Sinclair leave." That's
+       just plain silly.
+       It's really a matter of what you bring to the table, that affects
+       what you see in the story.
+       The roots of the symbolism and structure of B5 go back a hell of a
+       lot longer than this. Here...I'll give you one free.
+       G'Kar is in many ways my Cassandra figure, who in the Greek tales
+       was granted the gift of prophecy...all the disasterous things she
+       predicted would come true...but she was cursed by the gods that NO
+       ONE would ever believe her. And later, when the war was at its
+       height, she ended up in the service of.....
+     * One could certainly argue the position that those who become
+       Rangers are drawn to Minbar for that purpose, and speculate about
+       what might be propelling that.
+     * The broach worn by the Rangers was designed by me and Ann Bruice,
+       our costumer. I sketched (dopily and badly) what I had in mind,
+       which was a stylized human and minbari on either side of a
+       gemstone, both wokred (worked) into the same metal, and holding
+       the gemstone.
+       She then took this drawing that looked like it had been drawn by a
+       drunk five year old and translated it into a striking piece.
+     * The Rangers actually owe more to the Lone Ranger and the Texas
+       Rangers in general.
+       FYI, Sinclair called Delenn "old friend" as far back as the 2-hour
+       pilot.
+     * Londo, in his vision, sees the shadow vessels, but he does not
+       know (in his present tense version) that that's what they are.
+       He's had this particular dream for years now, long before meeting
+       Morden.
+     * It didn't show up in the script, and probably won't, but the
+       Emperor probably did have a vision of his death, and the Vorlon.
+     * Re: your question...at this juncture, I think I'd have to choose
+       "The Coming of Shadows" as the one episode I'd use to represent
+       the series. That one episode came out so close to perfect, so
+       close to what I saw in my head when I wrote it, that the
+       difference is no difference at all. It has all the elements I'd
+       feature in a B5 discussion...the CGI, the characterization, the
+       complexity, the politics, the language, the performances.
+     * The handclasp used in "Coming of Shadows" was a traditional clasp
+       used by Romans, usually in order to check if the other person was
+       carrying a knife.
+     * Because to some extent the roman civilization is one of the
+       sources for constructing the Centauri, I adapted their handshake
+       (checking for knives) as their greeting; "I offer the hands of
+       friendship."
+     * There's a difference between what I believe dreams mean, what the
+       Centauri believe dreams mean, and what dreams mean to the
+       Centauri, in that universe, and what they mean to me in our
+       universe.
+       I suspect the truth lay somewhere between Shroedinger and Jung.
+     * Thanks. That scene [the attack on the Narn outpost] in "Coming of
+       Shadows" is one of my favorites; it does, as you say, convey that
+       sense of wonder which is one of my main goals with this show.
+     * Re: parallel visuals between MotFL and CoS...yes, precisely. In
+       some ways, they were set up as mirror-image parallels of one
+       another, to show how the wheel turns, to quote G'Kar. The opening
+       council meeting, the attacks, the determination to kill the other,
+       alternately Garibaldi or Sheridan having to stop them by calling
+       on the question of consequences if followed up on...it shows CoS
+       as sort of the "dark mirror" of the first episode. Everything we
+       saw when we first thought we knew what the series was has now
+       totally reversed and been turned on its head.
+       They also focus on one of the main questions that B5 addreses
+       itself to: what is important to you? what are you willing to
+       sacrifice? how far are you willing to go to get what you want? For
+       me, a large measure of defining WHO we are is by WHAT we are
+       willing to do, and what we want, and the means by which we pursue
+       those goals. The other theme of course is sacrifice, which recurs
+       throughout the show in one form or another.
+       Sometimes, I think, people get so caught up in what's happening
+       and why that they miss what it's *about* on a more cellular level.
+       And that's the question of who we are. Identity. The importance of
+       *one single person* and the ability of that person to act as a
+       fulcrum, intentionally or otherwise, upon which vast events can
+       turn. Choices. What you value most. Those, to me, are the issues
+       most worth exploring. We're told every day, beaten down with the
+       notion that we're powerless, that we can't change things, you
+       can't fight city hall...and of course it's not true. You can
+       fight. And sometimes, you can even win.
+     * Sinclair didn't send the same letter. Same greeting, to keep the
+       recipient secret.
+       Only the Ranger knew who got what.
+     * The emperor falling scene, as with those around it, were shot as
+       written, down to the slow-motion notation, the close on his head
+       hitting the floor, the women clutching one another...all in the
+       script. But it takes someone as skilled as Janet to take what
+       somebody else might screw up and elevate it into something truly
+       nifty.
+     * Slow-motion (or camera overcranked) is almost always indicated in
+       scripts. I like slow-mo. It can add a dreamlike quality to a shot,
+       and prolong a sense of imminent trouble.
+     * You left out my favorite quote from the show, from the Emperor:
+       "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future
+       frightens us ...and our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in
+       that vast, terrible in-between."
+     * The centauri veiled telepaths are mainly wired into one another.
+     * I'd say that Turhan was probably emperor for about 30 years or so.
+     * The emperor said exactly what, in the hallway, Londo said he said.
+     * The emperor was referring to Londo and Refa. And if the Centauri
+       telepaths suspected or picked up anything, to tell anyone would
+       almost certainly lead to a quick demise. When you're that high up
+       in the royal court, you learn to keep your mouth shut.
+     * [Emperor] Turhan's death was exactly as stated, natural causes. If
+       it were anything else, we'd have at least nodded in that direction
+       at some point. It's not fair to do so otherwise.
+     * _Didn't the Narn behind Londo and Refa hear them?_
+       The Narn was just passing quickly through scene, in a hurry, and
+       couldn't have heard what Londo and Refa were quietly discussing.
+     * Your feelings about the war starting are exactly what they should
+       be, and what I wanted to achieve with "Shadows." In SF TV, very
+       often, as you state, it's "Yeah, let's get a war on! Blow stuff
+       up!" But to hear of a *real* war...it's very, very sobering. When
+       we hear that Gulf troops were being sent into the Mideast, when we
+       heard of soviet troops sent into Prague...your heart stops for a
+       moment. When Kennedy put American ships in a Cuban blockade and
+       the world held its breath ...THAT is what it feels like to step
+       into possible or real war. All you can think of is, "How the HELL
+       did we get into this, and how the hell do we get OUT of it?" And
+       that was at the emotional core of "Shadows."
+     * _Why not use the healing device from "Quality of Mercy?"_
+       The alien healing device was specifically used in treatment of
+       illness; the Emperor suffered massive damage to his heart and othe
+       internal organs, which simply restoring some life energy wouldn't
+       help.
+     * Not a contradiction. I don't believe in omniscient or all powerful
+       devices that function like literal deus ex machinas and heal
+       everybody all the time. It was stated *plainly and clearly* that
+       the device was used in healing terminally ill patients. They
+       cannot undo physical damage from gunshots (the regen packs and
+       other devices were used to heal Garibaldi's wound, and the alien
+       device was used to raise his life energy level enough to bring him
+       out of the coma). The emperor suffered a massive attack that
+       destroyed parts of his heart. Can't be fixed by this device.
+     * You may tell your friend that the city hit in "CoS" was CGI, not a
+       model.
+     * The Sanctuary is where Sheridan and the Emperor had their lengthy
+       conversation; it's *all* a virtual set except the floor.
+     * The Sanctuary is entirely a virtual set. It's all blue-screen, no
+       walls, no windows, no stars, no nothing. I made sure to ask
+       Foundation and Mitch to blur the walls a bit in close up to give
+       it the correct depth of field. (Much of the CGI/background work is
+       done by Mitch, our effects guy, who works independent of
+       Foundation, who was also the main EFX guy on Predator, ET and
+       others.) Because that was a LONG scene, the rendering time was
+       just hideous.
+     * The Sanctuary set has ALWAYS been entirely virtual, except for a
+       small grating on the floor as a marker. The walls, the windows,
+       all of it. Virtual. We've actually done this a number of times. I
+       haven't said anything before because whenever I mention there's a
+       virtual set, and where it is, people look at it and say, "Oh,
+       yeah, I could tell it was virtual." Because they knew ahead of
+       time. So I stopped mentioning it.
+       We're sneaky that way. You've seen, and will continue to see, sets
+       that don't exist ANYwhere. Hell, you know that bazaar shot in the
+       main title sequence? The second floor? Doesn't exist. Digital
+       compositing and virtual set melding.
+     * The area where the reception was being held is the Rotunda.
+     * On the chance that the datacrystal might fall into the wrong
+       hands, I had Sinclair deliberately avoid using Garibaldi's last
+       name, and avoid Delenn's altogether (since she has only the one).
+       The Ranger was told to deliver the crystals at the cost of his own
+       life if necessary...but sometimes such orders don't end well for
+       the messenger. So both messages began the same way.
+     * I'm very happy at the reaction. I was telling John Copeland a bit
+       ago, when we finished the episode, "Maybe we ought to superimpose
+       a crawl before the first frame of the teaser saying, "JUST IN CASE
+       YOU THOUGHT WE WERE KIDDING.""
+       An aside on the jms/kosh discussion, for whatever interest it may
+       have....when Ardwight comes in to do Kosh, they call me in to
+       direct his performance so that it matches what the intent is now,
+       and how it will be interpreted later. From where I sit in the
+       control room, I can't see him, I can only hear his voice. So it's
+       kinda like talking with Kosh there, and me saying, "Okay, can you
+       try 'In Fire' hitting the second word harder, and with a sense of
+       some anger behind it?" And between takes, he's still in Kosh-speak
+       mode, muttering, "How will this end, how do I know talk to my
+       agent...go on, get out, buzz off ...."
+     * There are some episodes coming that are about as intense as this,
+       though not as much *happens*, in the sense of a bunch of events
+       affecting lots of people in different places.
+       Yes, intentional parallel structure to "Midnight," which is why I
+       included the shot from that episode in Londo's dream. I like
+       irony.
+     * Yes, "CoS" is a deliberate mirror-image of "Midnight," partly to
+       illustrate the notion that "the wheel turns," as G'Kar says...yes,
+       it does, and if you forget that it eventually turns on *you*,
+       you'll be ground beneath it.
+     * I will tell you a true and secret thing, re: Londo's dream, and
+       looking up into a blue sky to see the ships passing overhead.
+       Ever since I was a kid, I've had that image in my dreams, of
+       standing out in the open and looking up as strange dark ships pass
+       overhead. It's always been an unnerving image, and I really wanted
+       to use it here to see if it would have the same effect on others.
+       The other single most recurring image is to be standing at the
+       bottom of a long set of stairs, in a basement, and the door at the
+       top of the stairs is thrown open, and there's gunfire, and guards,
+       and flares in the night beyond, and more ships firing down.
+       Don't be surprised if this shows up as well, someday....
+     * We nailed a piece with Michael before he left for New York; when
+       we shot "Points," he had long since returned to NY and was in the
+       process of pursuing other things.
+     * _What was with the human and Minbari in the throne room?_
+       They were discussing possible use of a world on the fringe of
+       Centauri space for something of, they hoped, benign use.
+     * One of the problems we had with the Hugo last year was that
+       whereas only a couple of TNG episodes were good enough to get
+       nominated, eight B5 episodes made it to the final cut. Because
+       folks went for their favorite episodes, and they had a number that
+       year. The result was that the choices got split so much that TNG
+       won, since it had fewer good or great episodes that season. ("All
+       Good Things" won with, I think, 57 votes; the top two B5 episodes
+       on the list had 32 and 27 votes between them, enough right there
+       to have won if combined. That was for "Signs and Portents" and
+       "Chrysalis," with "And the Sky Full of Stars" at 21, "Babylon
+       Squared" at 19, "Believers" at 10, "Mind War" at 9, "Voice in the
+       Wilderness" at 8, and "Soul Hunter" at 6.)
+       So basically, we lost because we had too many solid episodes to
+       choose from.
+       As a result, a lot of folks this year have been campaigning to
+       have participants go for "The Coming of Shadows," which is the
+       highest rated episode in all the informal polls on-line and
+       elsewhere from that time period. It's the one nearly everybody
+       seems to agree upon.
+     * _Congratulations on winning the Hugo._
+       Thanks; that was the one where we felt we really hit our stride.
+     * The Hugo is a marvelous reward to everyone who's worked so hard on
+       the show these last 3+ years. We're very proud.
+     * _Did you think you were going to win?_
+       I honestly didn't know how it was going to work out. I figured
+       (correctly, as it turned out) that the main opposition would be
+       Apollo 13. Which for my money would've been a good selection. (Is
+       it SF? The description John Campbell and, I think, Heinlein gave
+       for SF is "the impact on humans of technology." It even uses the
+       Analog Magazine approach of finding a technical solution to a
+       technical problem. If Apollo 13 doesn't count that way, what does?
+       Is it fiction? Nnnnnooo, I suppose, though certainly elements of
+       it were fictionalized for purposes of drama, and I guess that
+       counts somewhat.)
+       Anyway, that dispute aside, and I can see why it's not a clear
+       issues for a lot of folks...understand that I've never won a major
+       award before. I've been up for Ace Awards, the Writers Guild
+       Award, the Gemini Award (the Canadian equivilant of an Emmy), the
+       HWA Bram Stoker Award, others...but hadn't won, and as a result,
+       you get very guarded about these things. So I didn't know for sure
+       until the words left Roger Corman's lips.
+       And I have to say...this show has won a lot of awards in different
+       areas, Emmys and others, but this one, for me, means the most.
+       Even Warners is excited about it, and is taking out a double-page
+       ad in most of the trades this Friday, with others to appear the
+       following week. (We encouraged them to also congratulate the
+       nominees for the award as well, since they were all very
+       deserving, it was stiff competition.)
+     * The reaction at the [WorldCon] to B5, at the awards and elsewhere,
+       was quite amazing. Everywhere the show was mentioned at panels, it
+       appaarently got applause. The attending fans were *extremely*
+       friendly, went out of their way to be nice. The two B5 panels I
+       gave (the second one added on when the first one wouldn't fit into
+       the room provided) were extremely enthusiastic. I think the two
+       presentations I gave that day totaled about 2,500-2,600 people
+       total.
+       When the winner was announced for Best Dramatic Presentation, and
+       I headed for the stage, for a moment I thought we were having an
+       earthquake, or there was a sudden thunder...but it was the fans
+       applauding and stomping their feet enough to make the ground
+       shake. It was deafening down where the nominees were, and I
+       noticed a couple of them looking around with a "what the hell is
+       THAT?" look on their faces.
+     * _Reader congratulates JMS on the Hugo and adds that she did so in
+       person, but he didn't seem to hear her then._
+       Thanks...I'm not sure I heard much of anything that night....
+     * _See the [33]Notes section for the vote tallies._
+       What's interesting, in noting the number of votes in the
+       nominations, is that if we hadn't withdrawn the second Hugo
+       nominated B5 episode, "The Fall of Night," DS9 wouldn't have had a
+       nomination at all. They moved into the nominations when we
+       withdrew "FoN."
+     * _How many nominations did "The Fall of Night" receive?_
+       I don't know offhand; my guess is that it was #5 in the overall
+       nominations list, because (I understand) they had to jump past #6
+       (The Long, Twilight Struggle) to get to #7 (the DS9 episode) to
+       find a non-B5 candidate for the nominations list. So we had 3 out
+       of the top 6, and apparently two more B5 episodes were high up on
+       the list, I think in the top 10.
+     * _Is this the first TV episode to win since Harlan Ellison's "City
+       on the Edge of Forever" from the original Star Trek?_
+       Actually, no, two episodes of TNG also got Hugos.
+       But what *is* significant here is that in 43 years, only 7 Hugos
+       have gone to dramatic TV series; 3 to the original Twilight Zone,
+       4 to Star Trek (old and new). This is the first Hugo in 43 years
+       to go to a science fiction TV series other than TZ or ST.
+     * _Where will you display the Hugo?_
+       I was thinking of putting the Hugo on display in my bedroom, but I
+       decided it was 'way too Freudian.
+     * _Have you taken it onto the set?_
+       Absolutely, I took the Hugo out on the very next day, Tuesday. The
+       whole place was very excited about it.
+     * _B5 received another award at WorldCon._
+       Yeah, the Shadow Hugo (an ominous name for what's basically a
+       coaster-shaped circuit board with a bronze plate on it) went to B5
+       from Sci-Fi.Com, which was actually the first SF award B5 has
+       gotten, beating the real Hugos by about 24 hours.
+       The reason they had to come out of the SFFWA _(Science Fiction and
+       Fantasy Writers of America)_ suite to give me the award had to do
+       with my feelings toward SFFWA, from which I resigned over their
+       attitude toward media writers and the dramatic nebula (bottom
+       line: all media writers are hacks, and it's not real writing, and
+       even though media work, scripts, are eligible for membership, or
+       were then, they're not eligible for the Nebula because it isn't
+       really writing).
+       Actually, what I said to the folks from scifi.com was..."I
+       wouldn't go in there for the presentation if I were dying of lung
+       cancer and they were offering free chemotherapy at the door."
+       Nothing against many of the SFFWA members, many of them are fine
+       folks who're taking the rap for a provincially minded leadership,
+       but after the grief I got from SFWA over all this before, the hate
+       mail, the vindictiveness, the resignation (to this day they still
+       haven't had the guts to print my letter of resignation in the
+       Journal), I just couldn't go in there for the award.
+     * ...sigh...I'm gonna regret this, I know it, I just know it....
+       C'mere. Siddown. Lemme 'splain.
+       I resigned SFWA (back before it became SFFWA) for the reasons you
+       cite, and over the whole Dramatic Nebula issue, which was for me
+       the defining moment and the proverbial straw across the equally
+       proverbial camel's back.
+       A number of us -- me, D.C. Fontana, David Gerrold, Mike Cassutt,
+       Harlan, others -- attempted to get SFWA to restore the Dramatic
+       Nebula, which had been dropped for a number of years. In the
+       course of this, I received more abusive, vitriolic, hateful pieces
+       of mail and email than I can begin to describe to you. It rivals
+       or exceeds *anything* ever sent to me in any flame war. All from
+       other SFWA members. One quote I remember vividly is emblematic of
+       the whole: "I work my ass off writing for pennies a word, while
+       all you hacks in TV churn out crap for thousands of dollars a
+       page. You and your LA buddies will never get a Dramatic Nebula as
+       long as I'm alive."
+       And that was the nicest letter I got.
+       It was explained to me, in mail, email and the SFWA journal, that
+       scriptwriting wsan't really *writing*, it was just typing. That TV
+       writers weren't really writers. That you can't read a script
+       unless you're trained, so you can't vote on it. That since TV/film
+       is often a collaborative form, you don't know who contributed
+       what, so how can you give a nebula? And there's George Martin's
+       argument, that SFWA should give Dramatic Nebulas to scriptwriters
+       when WGA allows prose writers to join.
+       And the responses to this...it *is* writing, you *can* read the
+       script easily, it's just the margins that are different. Editors
+       often contribute structure and ideas and other material to the
+       books they edit, but I don't see that stopping regular nebulas.
+       And SFWA was built around a particular *genre*, anything in that
+       genre is or should be acceptable; WGA is built around *form*, the
+       script, and any genre within that form is acceptable. We're
+       talking apples and oranges here.
+       I was even willing to remove myself from all future DN
+       consideration to remove the notion that I was doing this to get
+       one myself. It was the principle, for one vital reason:
+       At that time, SFWA allowed scripts to qualify you for membership
+       in SFWA. Scripts were fine as far as SFWA was concerned as long as
+       it brought in more in the way of membership dues. If it brought
+       money INTO SFWA, then it was writing, and qualified script writers
+       to join SFWA. But when it came time to give out the dramatic
+       nebula...nope, suddenly it ain't writing no more.
+       It was a clear contradiction, and a bald-faced double-standard.
+       Hypocrisy at its most blatant.
+       So finally, when the move to restore the Dramatic Nebula was
+       vetoed, I quit. The final irony being this: over the 10 years or
+       so I'd been a member, I'd written maybe 7 or 8 letters to be
+       published in the SFWA Journal, which appears quarterly or monthly,
+       I forget now. There were (and are) people who had something in
+       almost every issue, often for pages at a time. I sent my letter of
+       resignation to the Journal, and it has never to this day been
+       printed. Because once it became clear that I was no longer going
+       to continue paying dues (though I was still a member at the time
+       of the letter, and for several months thereafter, until my prior
+       payment ran out), they really had no interest in hearing anything
+       from a scriptwriter. They later tried the exuse that it was too
+       long, but it was exactly the same length as the majority of
+       letters that appeared in the Journal.
+       In fighting for the rights of script-members of SFWA on the DN
+       issue, and the perception of scriptwriters in general, I was
+       insulted, abused, targeted, slandered, ridiculed, threatened and
+       harrassed. While there are many fine individuals who belong to the
+       group, as an organization is is provincial and small minded and
+       insecure and jealous. Any John Norman GOR novel would
+       theoretically be eligible for a Nebula, but 12 Monkeys would not.
+       If an SF novel sells 35,000 copies, it's a great thing; 100,000 is
+       a *terrific* thing, much ballyhooed by the SF establishment. B5
+       has a hardcore audience of between 10 and 15 *million* people.
+       So bottom-line...yeah, I left SFWA because I got tired of the
+       contempt the organization and many of its members held (and still
+       hold) for scriptwriters. When it came time to accept the Science
+       Fiction Weekly's award for "The Coming of Shadows," I stepped into
+       the SFFWA suite (where they were to be given out) just long enough
+       to find the guys involved, and get out again. And the award was
+       presented out in the hallway, because I didn't want it to happen
+       there. As I told the organizer, I wouldn't go into the SFFWA suite
+       for this if I were dying of lung cancer and they were offering
+       free chemotherapy at the door.
+     * _The promo for the Hugo-commemorative rerun had a "Winner 1996
+       Hugo Award" overlay. Was it hard to get WB to do that?_
+       It was their idea. They're impressed that we got the Hugo.
+       
+
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+  32. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/022.html
+  33. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/031.html#NO
+  34. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  35. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/031.html#TOP
+  36. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  37. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  38. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/030.html
+  39. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/032.html
+  40. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Dr. Franklin's father arrives, leading 25,000 ground pounding
+     soldiers on the station. The troops' arrival elicits fear from both
+     humans and non-humans that the troops may be going on a secret
+     mission that will involve the station becoming an armed camp.
+     [15]Paul Winfield as Gen. Richard Franklin.
+     
+Sub-genre: Drama
+[16]P5 Rating: [17]7.49
+
+Production number:  210
+Original air date:  February 8, 1995
+
+Written by Larry DiTillio
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Dr. Franklin's father is an Earth Alliance military hero, a
+       veteran of the Dilgar war and several internal conflicts on Earth.
+       He was rarely around for his children when they were growing up;
+       when he _was_ around, he tried to run the family like a boot camp.
+     * With the advent of the Narn-Centauri war, the Earth Alliance is
+       trying to solidify its hold on several strategic sectors near
+       both, in anticipation of the day when Earth will have to choose
+       sides.
+     * Sheridan served a tour of duty on the planet Akdor, in a system
+       bordering on both Narn and Centauri space.
+     * Garibaldi's father, Alfredo, served under General Franklin in the
+       Dilgar war, and was a well-regarded soldier.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+Analysis
+
+     * Babylon 5 is now heavily armed, ready to take on a warship. Which
+       raises the question: why wasn't it _before_? Mere shortsightedness
+       on the part of the designers -- a station like Babylon 5 seems a
+       natural target -- or something else? Even if there originally
+       didn't seem any need to heavily arm the station, the attacks on
+       the station in [18]"Signs and Portents" and [19]"A Voice in the
+       Wilderness, part 2" should have demonstrated that B5 _will_ come
+       under attack from time to time.
+       On the other hand, Franklin did say that the station was being
+       upgraded with the latest from Earth Force R&D, so maybe its
+       previous weapons were simply the best the previous generation of
+       technology had to offer. Budget constraints may have also played a
+       role.
+     * The tail end of the news broadcast mentions that more divisions of
+       Earth troops will join the 356th on Akdor. That implies some sort
+       of permanent presence on the planet itself, as opposed to just "in
+       the system" as General Franklin mentioned.
+     * Delenn's transformation doesn't appear to be getting the
+       widespread publicity one might expect; the troops didn't seem to
+       recognize her at all. Perhaps they simply don't follow the news.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * "GROPOS" stands for "ground pounders" and refers to the Earth
+       Alliance's equivalent of the U.S. Marines. In fact, the term
+       "Earth Force Marine Corps" was contained in the Gropos' marching
+       song.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * As for GROPOS, that one episode was so far over budget that I had
+       to write 2 smaller ones to make up for it, and the many people you
+       saw were really just one small group that took forever to
+       digitally composite into looking like a much bigger group.
+     * _Who was the woman Garibaldi referred to, the one he doesn't
+       normally have a chance with?_
+       That would be Talia.
+     * Everything in the battle sequence at the end of Gropos is CGI; no
+       models, despite the shadows. Real fire was sampled for the flames,
+       though.
+       
+
+   [25][Next] 
+   
+      [26]Last update: October 30, 1996
+
+References
+
+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/032.shtml
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/032.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/032.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/031.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/033.html
+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/032.html#OV
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/032.html#BP
+  11. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/032.html#UQ
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/032.html#AN
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/032.html#NO
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/032.html#JS
+  15. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Winfield,+Paul
+  16. file://localhost/lurk/p5/intro.html
+  17. file://localhost/lurk/p5/032
+  18. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/013.html
+  19. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/019.html
+  20. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  21. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/032.html#TOP
+  22. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  23. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  24. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/031.html
+  25. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/033.html
+  26. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Sheridan is kidnapped and taken to an alien ship. The Grey Council
+     decides Delenn's fate. General Hague makes an unofficial visit to
+     the station. [15]Robert Foxworth as General Hague. [16]Marshall
+     Teague as the Narn.
+     
+Sub-genre: Action/intrigue
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]8.33
+
+Production number:  211
+Original air date:  February 15, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mario DiLeo
+
+  Watch For
+  
+     * A momentary change of clothes.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * The Minbari have installed a new leader.
+     * Sheridan's appointment to Babylon 5 was more than a coincidence.
+       He was picked by Santiago, who knew that his record made him look
+       like a hard-nosed military man, just the sort Santiago suspected
+       Clark would want to replace Sinclair with. But Santiago also knew
+       that Sheridan was a patriot who would stand against the forces
+       seeking to undermine the Earth government. In his first months on
+       the station, Sheridan's real assignment was to evaluate the crew,
+       find out who could be trusted.
+     * General Hague, and others, are working to expose the machinations
+       behind Santiago's death and other recent events. They suspect the
+       Psi-Corps is behind the conspiracy, but so far have been unable to
+       prove anything.
+     * Alit Neroon (head of the Star Riders clan, cf. [19]"Legacies") has
+       replaced Delenn on the Grey Council.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Sheridan's dream is a big unanswered question, lent weight by
+       Kosh's comment after Sheridan's return. See [20]Analysis.
+     * Why was Neroon appointed to the Council?
+     * What does Delenn think is about to happen? Why does she believe
+       she is about to descend into darkness and fire?
+     * Is the foray by the Streibs related to what the Shadows are doing,
+       or is it just coincidental timing?
+     * How did the Narn know so much about the Streibs and their ship?
+     * What was done to Sheridan? He was left with three scars on his
+       face, one of them on his forehead. Might he be carrying an implant
+       of some sort now?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Neroon's appointment to the council is troublesome. Presumably new
+       members are approved by majority vote. The three warrior-caste
+       members probably voted for him; that means one or two of the
+       remaining five members must have voted for him as well, probably
+       from the worker caste. Valen's wishes seem to be held in less than
+       the highest regard by some Minbari.
+     * With four members, the warrior caste now effectively controls the
+       Grey Council. On any issue they need only win over one other
+       member to have a majority. It is unclear how far the Council's
+       power extends now that a new leader has been installed, and that
+       leader conceivably sides with the religious caste, but it looks
+       like hard times have arrived for Delenn's compatriots.
+     * That being the case, how does this mesh with Sinclair's gathering
+       of rangers? (cf. [21]"The Coming of Shadows") Some of them,
+       recall, are Minbari. Are they primarily religious caste? Is there
+       enough difference of opinion within the warrior caste about humans
+       that he's able to attract warriors?
+     * We never actually hear Sheridan's answer to Hague, though it is
+       probably "yes." If it isn't, Sheridan's meeting with the rest of
+       the command staff may be a ruse to draw Hague's people out into
+       the open -- on the assumption that Hague will try to work via one
+       of the others -- and expose the counterconspiracy. Sheridan's
+       possible link with Psi-Corps (see below and [22]"A Race Through
+       Dark Places") makes this at least a plausible scenario, if an
+       unlikely one.
+     * There's more to the dream sequence than is apparent at first
+       glance, and it's chock full of ambiguities. A shot-by-shot rundown
+       with analysis (another, simpler, possible interpretation follows
+       the rundown):
+         1. _Sheridan is in his quarters, in uniform. The lights are out.
+        _ 2. _Ivanova is in the quarters with him, in uniform, hair
+            draped over her left shoulder. The door is open. She raises
+            her fingers to her lips and says, "Shh." _
+            _Analysis:_ Someone or something has entered Sheridan's mind
+            to give him a message, and is warning him to watch and
+            listen, not try to participate. The "something" might also
+            simply be part of Sheridan's own subconscious. This probably
+            relates to Kosh's answer to Sheridan's first question.
+         3. _Sheridan looks confused._
+         4. _Ivanova, now with a raven perched on her right shoulder,
+            says, "Do you know who I am?" _
+            _Analysis:_ The raven is typically symbolic of death; Ivanova
+            may represent destruction, perhaps eventually siding with the
+            forces of darkness. In older literature, the raven was often
+            a thief, rather than a harbinger of death.
+         5. _Sheridan looks to his right, and finds himself in a Babylon
+            5 corridor. He looks up. _
+         6. _On a catwalk, in harsh lighting, gripping the railing, is
+            another Sheridan. He looks to his right. _
+            _Analysis:_ It's unclear what kind of uniform the Sheridan on
+            the catwalk is wearing; possibly a Psi-Cop uniform. The angle
+            of the shot is similar to Sinclair's first view of Knight Two
+            in [23]"And the Sky Full of Stars." This Sheridan perhaps
+            represents another side of Sheridan's personality (more on
+            that below.)
+         7. [INLINE] _Garibaldi, also apparently on the catwalk, is in
+            uniform and has a dove(?) on his left shoulder. "The man in
+            between is searching for you," he says. _
+            _Analysis:_ "The man in between" may refer to the Sheridan on
+            the catwalk, a part of Sheridan that isn't sure which side it
+            should be on. Of course, it could be a reference to someone
+            else entirely: someone between light and darkness, for
+            instance. (Sinclair?) As for Garibaldi's dove, the dove is
+            traditionally a symbol of peace, perhaps implying that
+            Garibaldi will work to stop the Great War. [24]"Babylon
+            Squared" strongly suggests that Garibaldi will ally himself
+            with the side of light.
+         8. _Ivanova, in a veil and black dress, is standing behind
+            Sheridan, who is now wearing a turtleneck and a jacket. _
+            _Analysis:_ This funereal garb lends some weight to the idea
+            that Ivanova represents death. (It really is Ivanova, though
+            some readers have disagreed; see [25]jms speaks.)
+         9. [INLINE] _As he turns, we get a brief glimpse of a metal pin
+            on the left breast of his jacket: a Psi-Corps badge. And in
+            fact, his jacket appears to be the uniform of a Psi-Cop, with
+            the leather strap down the right side in front. _
+            _Analysis:_ Sheridan's change of clothes is perhaps the most
+            ominous part of the entire sequence. Combined with Bester's
+            comment in [26]"A Race Through Dark Places" that he was told
+            to expect Sheridan to be sympathetic to the Psi-Corps, it
+            suggests some yet-to-be-revealed connection between Sheridan
+            and the Corps, something that may cause a conflict of
+            interest as he works with Hague's people.
+        10. _Ivanova, still veiled, says, "You are the hand." _
+            _Analysis:_ Hands abound in Babylon 5, from Kosh's hand in
+            [27]"The Gathering" to Londo's dream hand in [28]"The Coming
+            of Shadows." Presumably Ivanova isn't referring to Kosh's
+            hand. If she is referring to the hand from Londo's dream, it
+            suggests that Sheridan will become a pawn in Londo's
+            machinations; recall Elric's comment in [29]"The Geometry of
+            Shadows" -- the hand reaching out across the stars is
+            Londo's. Alternately, if Sheridan's Psi-Cop uniform is taken
+            to mean that he's symbolic of Psi-Corps as a whole, perhaps
+            she means that Psi-Corps, not Sheridan, is the hand. Or, more
+            sinister, that Sheridan is unknowingly acting on behalf of
+            the Psi-Corps, perhaps as the result of some mental
+            conditioning (which would explain Bester's comment at the end
+            of [30]"A Race Through Dark Places.")
+        11. _Kosh is standing behind Sheridan in the corridor; Sheridan
+            is back in his normal uniform. Sheridan starts to turn toward
+            him. _
+        12. _In what seems like a simple switch of camera angles,
+            Sheridan now appears to be sitting down in front of a backlit
+            wall with an organic look not unlike that of the Streib
+            ship's interior. "Why are you here?" he asks. _
+            _Analysis:_ The change of scenery suggests that "here" refers
+            to a different place or time or context than the rest of the
+            sequence. Perhaps the question means, "Why are the Vorlons
+            involving themselves with the other races?" Of course, it
+            could mean what it looks like: "Why are you in my dream?"
+        13. _"We were never away," Kosh answers from the corridor. "For
+            the first time your mind is quiet enough to hear me." _
+            _Analysis:_ Depending on the meaning of Sheridan's question,
+            the answer says different things. If the former refers to the
+            Vorlons in general, the answer can be taken to mean, "We've
+            only just allowed you to notice us." The second part of the
+            answer suggests that Sheridan's question refers to the dream,
+            though. See below for a possible explanation of this question
+            and the rest of the dream. Also note that Kosh uses both "we"
+            and "me" -- see [31]jms speaks.
+        14. _Sheridan is back in the corridor, standing. "Why am I here?"
+            he asks, in a tone that makes the question sound unconnected
+            to the previous one. _
+            _Analysis:_ Again, it's unclear what "here" means. Babylon 5?
+            The dream? His circumstances?
+        15. _"You have always been here," answers Kosh. _
+            _Analysis:_ Kosh's repetition of this statement after
+            Sheridan's return may mean it is very important; or perhaps
+            Kosh was indirectly telling Sheridan that the dream wasn't a
+            simple construct of his subconscious. (Of course, Kosh might
+            have read Sheridan's mind outside medlab and pulled the line
+            from Sheridan's memory of the dream.) As for the meaning of
+            the line itself, only time will tell. "You" might refer to
+            Sheridan himself, or to some group (e.g. the human race) of
+            which Sheridan is a part.
+     * Another way of looking at the dream sequence, more metaphysical,
+       is that Sheridan entered a psychic continuum, an astral plane, for
+       lack of a better term. That makes many of the comments less
+       ambiguous:
+          + "We were never away. For the first time your mind is quiet
+            enough to hear me." This is the first time Sheridan has been
+            in a mental state to consciously recognize the plane; Kosh
+            and everyone else have always been there to some degree.
+          + "You have always been here." Sheridan has always had some
+            presence in this psychic world; he just hasn't been able to
+            consciously recognize it.
+          + "The man in between" refers to someone between the physical
+            and spiritual worlds. Perhaps the Sheridan in the sequence is
+            Sheridan's spiritual side, and "the man in between" is
+            Sheridan, searching for his higher soul.
+          + Ivanova and Garibaldi, as shown in the sequence, are either
+            the projections into this other world of the real people, or
+            are abstractions for something else (darkness and light?)
+          + Sheridan's Psi-Cop uniform may mean that the Corps plays a
+            part in bridging the physical and astral worlds.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The Streibs are probably a reference to Whitley Strieber, whose
+       popular book "Communion" dealt with alien abduction.
+     * Effects glitch: When Ramirez' damaged Starfury jumps back to
+       normal space, the vortex is orange, not blue as it normally is
+       when a ship is arriving.
+     * Marshall Teague, the Narn, also played Nelson Drake, the assistant
+       turned living weapon, in [32]"Infection."
+     * Ravens and doves, from the King James Bible:
+          + And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah
+            opened the window of the ark which he had made; and he sent
+            forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters
+            were dried up from off the earth. Also he sent forth a dove
+            from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face
+            of the ground; but the dove found no rest for the sole of her
+            foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters
+            were on the face of the whole earth; and then he put forth
+            his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the
+            ark. And he stayed yet another seven days, and again he sent
+            forth the dove out of the ark; and the dove came in to him in
+            the evening; and lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt
+            off; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the
+            earth. And he stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth
+            the dove, which returned not again unto him any more.
+            --Genesis 8:6-12
+          + And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of
+            Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth,
+            before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these
+            years, but according to my word. And the word of the Lord
+            came unto him, saying, Get thee hence, and turn thee
+            eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is
+            before Jordan. And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the
+            brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
+            So he went and did according to the word of the Lord; for he
+            went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
+            And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning,
+            and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the
+            brook. --1 Kings 17:1-6
+     * Some raven references in various other mythologies:
+          + Hugin and Munin: Odin's two ravens (thought and memory)
+          + Kurkil: Mongol creator god who flew to create the Earth and
+            mankind
+          + Mictla or Mictlantecuhtli: Aztec god who rules the underworld
+          + Moragga: Celtic. The incarnation of the Goddess as war.
+          + Raven: Amerindian creator and trickster god. Created all
+            living creatures out of wood and clay. Similar to Coyote.
+          + Yangwu: Chinese. The sun-crow.
+          + Yetl: Amerindian. The thunder-raven who dragged the flooded
+            earth above the water.
+          + In Japanese culture, the dove symbolizes war because doves
+            were used as messengers during battles.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * One episode will look very much unconnected to the arc until the
+       last five minutes, at which point there's a revelation that will
+       likely astonish some and confirm suspcions for some other viewers.
+     * Streibs, actually. Similar to, but not quite the same as the
+       [33]Grail bunch.
+     * Delenn's flyer is called Zhalen.
+     * [34]Re: we/I... yes, it's interesting, isn't it? You'd almost
+       think it was contradictory or something.
+     * And of course there's the story of the man who dreamed he was a
+       butterfly, and when he awoke, wondered if he was actually a human
+       who dreamed he had been a butterfly, or a butterfly who was
+       dreaming he was a human....
+     * _Who was the woman in the veil?_
+       It's Ivanova.
+     * In a way, there are several Sheridans in that dream, signifying
+       changes currently in the works, changes yet to come, messages
+       forthcoming or unrecognized. It's a very reflective dream, which
+       will grow clearer the deeper one gets into the show.
+     * Certainly there are some archetypes that always creep into a work
+       of this sort; for all we all not Jung at heart...?
+     * You'll see at least one piece of Sheridan's vision decoded before
+       season's end.
+     * Remember, Kosh was the one who sent those images into Sheridan's
+       brain, not anybody else; he was communicating useful information
+       that may come up down the road, but in rather symbological form.
+     * Yes, Sheridan was speaking in the Drazi's native language, trying
+       (without success) to get through; they're a cranky species to
+       start with, and this didn't help.
+     * Sheridan learned a smattering of various languages while on patrol
+       on the Agamemnon.
+     * During the Minbari war, the Narns were selling us weapons, so
+       Sheridan and other Earthforce captains had to learn at least a
+       smattering of Narnish for purposes of negotiations.
+     * The aliens from Grail are similar to, and distant relatives of,
+       the streibs, but not the same, no. A closer shot would've revealed
+       red slitted eyes instead of the black eyes of the one in Grail.
+     * Pledging oneself to someone's side is not common, and carries
+       great significance. From that point onward, you are bound to that
+       person until your death, and you must defend that person at the
+       cost of your own life.
+     * Some tie-ins...remember Sheridan in "A Distant Star" saying that
+       he was feeling beached, abandoned? His unsureness in taking on
+       this post, what if it was a mistake? A number of his actions come
+       into a clearer light once you know he was in essence checking them
+       all out, and putting on a hard "I'm a nice guy" attitude.
+     * _Wasn't attacking the Streibs an act of war?_
+       The Streib saw an alliance between Earth and Minbar at that
+       moment, which is the LAST thing they wanted to go up against.
+       Also, you don't go to war at the drop of a hat just because
+       somebody sinks or shoots down one of your ships. This is one of
+       the cliches in storytelling. And what the Streibs were doing was
+       totally unjustifiable in any event. Do you gear up for the massive
+       hassle of total war -- supply lines, fleets, all the rest --
+       because of this incident? Remember, the purpose of the ship was to
+       find races weak enough for them to attack with impunity; they
+       don't want to go up against a force that can strike back.
+     * I doubt we'll be seeing these guys again for a long time, if ever.
+       So I don't consider them on the level of certain shadows or stuff.
+       They came, they grabbed, we whomped.
+     * By the way, in addition to the re-appearance of Neroon, you may
+       have noticed that the first Grey Council member Delenn addresses
+       is the same one we saw in "Points of Departure."
+     * Membership in the Grey Council is usually for life; a person can
+       choose to leave but only under truly extraordinary circumstances
+       (kind of like being appointed to the Supreme Court). In Delenn's
+       case, though, remember that she didn't quit, she was booted out.
+     * Sheridan and the other fighters flew at a slight angle right past
+       the window in C&C. I don't see where the problem is in this. The
+       window wasn't used as a monitor, it was used as a window. The
+       starfuries came out of the cobra bays as the station rotated them
+       planet-side, they banked, and headed toward the gate, passing C&C.
+     * Ejecting would not have purchased Ramirez's life because when the
+       system came back on line with its analysis, it announced that the
+       radiation was "already at terminal levels." From the instant he
+       heard that, he was a dead man waiting to stop moving. He could've
+       sent the ship back, risking a faulty autopilot...and might've died
+       for nothing if it encountered the *slightest* glitch en route.
+     * One of the themes in this show is how you face life...and how you
+       face death. Ramirez faced his honorably. In the end, honor and
+       dignity are all we have left.
+     * If you trust Sheridan, there's no need for a lengthy report; plus,
+       a written report, no matter how well encrypted, can be broken or
+       fall into the wrong hands. The best record of a secret meeting
+       that could get you fired or killed is no record at ALL.
+     * Re: Kosh's voice carrying some emotion...starting at about "All
+       Alone in the Night," or maybe one before (memory fades), I took on
+       the job of directing the voice sessions for Kosh. He was moving
+       from a neutral delivery to things that had to carry specific
+       emotions and implications for the future, and nobody else knows
+       what all this stuff means, so it fell to me.
+     * Also, I noted somewhere in a preview for upcoming episodes, among
+       the things coming, "conspiracies of light as well as dark."
+       Perhaps that is now clearer.
+       
+
+   [40][Next] 
+   
+      [41]Last update: May 26, 1997
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
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+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/033.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/033.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/032.html
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+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/033.html#AN
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/033.html#NO
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+  15. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Foxworth,+Robert
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+  18. file://localhost/lurk/p5/033
+  19. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/017.html
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+  35. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
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+  39. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/032.html
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     G'Kar asks Sheridan to intervene militarily on behalf of the Narns;
+     Ivanova tries to institute an ambassadorship with a visiting alien.
+     [15]Paul Williams as Taq. [16]Ian Abercrombie as Correlilmerzon.
+     
+Sub-genre: Drama
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]7.97
+
+Production number:  212
+Original air date:  February 22, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * The Narn pushed the Centauri off their world through a war of
+       attrition, so it was no longer worth the Centauri's effort to stay
+       -- open, direct warfare is new to them.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What _was_ that gift?
+     * Will the Lumati's alliance with Earth be significant?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * The situation between the Narn and the Centauri on Babylon 5 seems
+       destined to explode sooner or later, even if things were quelled
+       the first time. If one side begins to lose badly, revenge will be
+       a natural reaction. Perhaps it will be just such an incident that
+       pushes Earth into taking sides, assuming that's going to happen.
+     * It also seems like only a matter of time before the Minbari
+       smuggling operation is discovered; eventually it's plausible that
+       the Centauri will get sick of the Minbari nosing around in the
+       middle of war zones, though they may decide they don't want to
+       risk fighting them. How much trouble Sheridan will be in if his
+       plan is discovered remains to be seen.
+     * Given the Lumati's feelings about natural selection, it's unclear
+       how desirable they'll be as allies. If Earth needs help, they
+       might well decide that that means humans are inferior, and
+       withhold their aid.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * In keeping with his newfound importance, Londo's outfit has
+       changed slightly; it is crisper, darker, with a slightly more
+       military look.
+     * On a more editorial note, this episode is arguably the first to
+       drive home how different the situation is now than it's been in
+       the past. The dark undercurrents that have always been present in
+       the series begin to surface here, in the form of G'Kar's
+       desperation, Londo's casual lack of concern over the killing and
+       his calm assurance that the Centauri will defeat the Narn,
+       Sheridan's loss of composure with G'Kar, and the general sense of
+       hostility around the station.
+     * The Lumati's arrogant attitude toward other species bears some
+       resemblance to Star Trek's Prime Directive.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * On an unrelated note...just finished another script tonight, "Acts
+       of Sacrifice," which despite its rather ominous title is more a
+       slice of life episode...and contains probably the funkiest,
+       weirdest sequence that I have ever written. Full tilt whacko.
+     * [Londo is] a fascinating character to explore, and the most
+       careful balancing act of the bunch; part of the character's appeal
+       is that on a very fundamental level, you *like* him, and you don't
+       want to see him on this terrible slide downward. So every so
+       often, you have to pull him back, go in a different direction,
+       remind us of his basic humanity and potential for heroism. He is,
+       really, any of us caught in a web of events spinning more and more
+       out of control every day.
+     * At the start of year one, Claudia came to me and said she'd love
+       to do more funny stuff in her role; don't change anything in the
+       story, just let her have some fun here and there before All Hell
+       Breaks Loose in year three. I let her have that.
+     * As it happens, I made it a point to be on-set the day we shot what
+       we ended up calling "the Ivanova dance." Wanted to make sure it
+       was done correctly. We only had to shoot it about three times,
+       only in the master, no coverage. The crew was absolutely
+       breathless after the first take, from keeping from laughing. It
+       was very funny.
+     * Actually, not to split hairs, the idea of sex sealing deals goes
+       back a heck of a lot longer than Larry Niven. It's been part of
+       treaty signing and stuff going back to ancient Egypt, other parts
+       of the middle east, even parts of medeival europe.
+     * To the question raised: yes, if Sheridan had shown the Lumati
+       around, the request would have been made to him, as it was to
+       Ivanova.
+     * _Is Zathras (cf. [19]"Babylon Squared") a Lumati?_
+       Zathras is not part of the Lumati species.
+     * _What's the deal with all the fans behind Sheridan's superior?_
+       I will only say that I was as surprised by those fans as anyone
+       else (I was in editing all day when that was shot).
+       Well, we're always saying around here, the more fans the
+       better....
+     * _Was G'Kar laughing or crying?_
+       It's both; laughing at the absurdity, and crying...about as close
+       as we've seen to a nervous breakdown.
+     * I think one need look no further than the latest communiques from
+       Dole and Newt to get some idea on the progenitors of the Lumati.
+     * _Was Katsulas actually fighting, or was it a stuntman?_
+       It was a little of both, yes.
+     * Given that the Narns were agrarian prior to the arrival of the
+       Centauri, and were under their heel, and got most of their tech
+       FROM the Centauri leftovers, no, they're not more advanced. It's a
+       lot like the Russian situation, seemingly this tremendous power,
+       but once you look deep, not as well off as they'd like you to
+       think.
+       Claudia loved the scene when I first described it to her, prior to
+       finishing the script. She was dying to do it, and kept sort of
+       "doing" it around people for some time prior to filming.
+     * The Narn were not out in space prior to the Centauri arriving.
+       While Paul Williams was on set for this ep, I had him sign my two
+       CDs of the "Phantom of the Paradise" soundtrack. Ah, power....
+       
+
+   [25][Next] 
+   
+      [26]Last update: May 28, 1997
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+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/034.shtml
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/034.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/034.html
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+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/034.html#JS
+  15. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?Williams,+Paul+%28III%29
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+  18. file://localhost/lurk/p5/034
+  19. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/020.html
+  20. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  21. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/034.html#TOP
+  22. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  23. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  24. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/033.html
+  25. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/035.html
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+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     A fugitive with sensitive information about the Earth government
+     flees to Babylon 5. [15]Tony Steedman as Dr. Everett Jacobs.
+     [16]Bernie Casey as Derek Cranston. [17]Richard Moll as Max.
+     [18]Wanda De Jesus as Sarah.
+     
+Sub-genre: Intrigue
+[19]P5 Rating: [20]8.20
+
+Production number:  213
+Original air date:  March 1, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Menachem Binetski
+
+  Watch For
+  
+     * [21]A man in a familiar outfit.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * After the victory over the Dilgar, the Earth Alliance experienced
+       a period of rapid expansion bolstered by a general sense of
+       optimism, a sense that the future was bright. Somewhere along the
+       way, that was lost -- Dr. Franklin says the future was like
+       waiting for that special toy for Christmas, and when you get it
+       you find that the reality doesn't measure up to your expectations.
+     * Dr. Franklin studied medicine at Harvard. One of his teachers, Dr.
+       Everett Jacobs, went on to become then-Vice President Clark's
+       personal physician. Dr Franklin says, "A lot of us looked up to
+       him as a role model. He's the best there is."
+     * Dr. Jacobs examined Clark before and after the "accident" on Earth
+       Force One that killed President Santiago -- and found no evidence
+       of the viral infection Clark used as an excuse to leave the ship
+       shortly before it was destroyed.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * How and when will Dr. Jacobs' data be used?
+     * What did Kosh and his ship say to each other after Sheridan and
+       the others left the docking bay?
+     * What did Kosh teach Sheridan?
+     * How did Sheridan convince Kosh to allow his ship to be used to
+       save Dr. Jacobs?
+     * What did the ship "sing" to Dr. Jacobs?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Why was the fact that Kosh's ship is alive such a surprising thing
+       to have confirmed, when a simple "scan for life forms" was able to
+       detect it? In all their surface probes while the ship sat in the
+       docking bay, it seems odd that nobody thought to scan for life,
+       especially since it was already known or at least suspected that
+       Vorlons use organic technology (cf. [22]"Infection.")
+     * Sheridan mentions to Kosh that there's a council meeting to
+       discuss the Narn refugee problem. That might be related to the
+       smuggling operation started in [23]"Acts of Sacrifice" -- has it
+       been revealed already? (Not necessarily, of course; there are
+       probably thousands, if not millions, of refugees who have nothing
+       to do with that operation.)
+       [24][LINK]
+     * Kosh speaks to his ship, and it displays some text in an unknown
+       script, presumably the Vorlon written language. That implies that
+       Kosh and his ship are not in telepathic contact, or at least not
+       when he's not on board -- somewhat remarkable, considering that
+       Kosh and the ship have both demonstrated telepathy or something
+       like it (Kosh in [25]"All Alone in the Night" and the ship in this
+       episode, both with Dr. Jacobs and, more importantly, the
+       maintenance workers referred to by Ivanova.)
+     * There may be a Ranger (cf. [26]"The Coming of Shadows") in this
+       episode, though it's very subtle. As Sheridan and Garibaldi reach
+       the bottom of the stairs, just before Sheridan sees the red
+       ribbon, a man walks by the two of them, wearing the same outfit as
+       the Ranger from the aforementioned episode. Which might be
+       coincidence, except that Garibaldi notices the man, even turns and
+       watches him climb the stairs, before looking back at Sheridan, who
+       is meanwhile occupied with the ribbon.
+     * A couple viewers have commented that Sheridan looks a bit _too_
+       smug as he gives the data crystal to his co-conspirator at the
+       end, almost as if that isn't the real crystal. Is it? Does he
+       trust her? Is he up to something other than what the General
+       thinks he is? (Recall that we never heard his answer in [27]"All
+       Alone in the Night.") Also, he doesn't give her Dr. Jacobs' code
+       to unlock the data, though of course he could simply be giving her
+       an unencrypted copy.
+     * On a related note, did Sheridan keep a copy of the crystal for
+       himself?
+     * Sheridan confronts Kosh twice. The first time a bit tentatively,
+       the second time directly. Amazingly, he engages Kosh's interest
+       and actually begins what may develop into a dialog (or at least a
+       monologue) with Kosh.
+       Also of note, the first time Sheridan confronts Kosh he says that
+       Kosh "called to him." This is a reference to the dream sequence in
+       [28]"All Alone in the Night". Kosh replies, "I sought
+       understanding. I listened to the song. Your thoughts became the
+       song." Sheridan asks, "Has this ever happened before?" and Kosh
+       says, "Once." _When was that?_ One possibility is Talia Winters
+       (cf. [29]"Deathwalker") -- Kosh told her to "listen to the music,
+       not the song."
+     * Kosh's second conversation with Sheridan, of course, bears close
+       analysis, especially given its relation to Sheridan's dream in
+       [30]"All Alone in the Night."
+         1. _Sheridan: "You wanted to see me?"_
+         2. _Kosh: "You wanted to see me."_
+         3. _"Well, I guess everybody does. See what you really are,
+            inside that encounter suit."_
+         4. _"They are not ready. They would not understand."_
+            _Analysis:_ It's not obvious exactly who he means by "they."
+            At least _one_ person was ready to see Kosh, namely Delenn
+            (cf. [31]"Chrysalis.") Of course, it begs the question once
+            again: what _is_ Kosh, that one might not "understand" when
+            one saw him? (And why does he care whether people
+            understand?)
+         5. _"Am I ready?"_
+         6. _"No. You do not even understand yourself."_
+            _Analysis:_ Is Kosh speaking in a general sense here -- "You
+            aren't self-actualized" -- or is there something specific
+            about Sheridan that Kosh knows and Sheridan doesn't?
+         7. _"Could you help me to understand you?"_
+         8. _"Can you help me to understand you?"_
+         9. _"Well, I can try. Is that what you want? An exchange of
+            information? I tell you something about me, you tell me
+            something about you?"_
+        10. _"No. You do not understand. Go." Kosh turns away._
+        11. _"Dammit, what do you want? What do you want from me? You
+            know, ever since I got here I've had the feeling that... that
+            you've been watching me. The records show you hardly ever
+            went to council meetings until I showed up. When I was
+            captured... it was you who reached out and touched my mind.
+            Now you call me here... why? Just to throw me out? Are we
+            just toys to you? Huh? What do you want?"_
+        12. _Kosh spins around to face Sheridan again. "Never ask that
+            question."_
+            _Analysis:_ Almost undoubtedly a reference to Morden's
+            question in [32]"Signs and Portents" -- but it raises another
+            question of its own, namely, why does that question mean
+            anything special to Kosh? How does Kosh know what Morden
+            asked of the various ambassadors? Perhaps it's what the
+            Shadows always ask, since Kosh seems to know about them.
+            Perhaps the Vorlons were, themselves, asked that question a
+            thousand years ago.
+        13. _"At least I got a response out of you. So what'll it be,
+            Ambassador?"_
+        14. _"I will teach you."_
+        15. _"About yourself?"_
+        16. _"About you. Until you are ready."_
+        17. _"For what?"_
+        18. _"To fight legends."_
+            _Analysis:_ Two interpretations are immediately apparent: "to
+            fight the Shadows" (who are legendary to the Narn and
+            probably others) or "to dispel myths." The first seems _too_
+            obvious, given Kosh's tendency to be cryptic. The second
+            interpretation suggests that the Vorlons aren't revealing
+            themselves because they feel they'll be associated with
+            something from mythology. Once Sheridan learns to combat
+            those preconceptions, he will be ready. (See [33]Notes.)
+            Alternately, it could refer to Sheridan himself; he's a
+            legend of sorts to the Minbari, possibly an obstacle to the
+            joining of humans and Minbari as envisioned by Delenn (cf.
+            [34]"All Alone in the Night.")
+     * Do we now have a clue to the telepathic abilities of the Vorlons?
+       This reference to "the song" and Sheridan's thoughts "becoming"
+       the song during his dream sequence hint rather strongly that
+       telepathy is the Vorlon's primary means of communication. If so,
+       then this confirms that Sheridan's dream wasn't altogether a
+       dream, and that he may have some latent/budding psi skills
+       himself.
+       Further note: The constant jabber that occurs when Kosh speaks. It
+       sounds like there are...many "voices" in it. If telepathy is
+       common to Vorlons, then they may have some equivalent to a "hive
+       mind", or at least constant and unbounded access to each other. If
+       so, then why does Kosh periodically return to the Vorlon
+       homeworld? Further, does the same physical "Kosh" return? Still
+       further, if each Vorlon is to a greater or lesser extent _all_
+       Vorlons, does it matter which physical Vorlon is present? Taken to
+       the extreme, the tag "Kosh" is simply a convenient referent
+       supplied by the Vorlon hive-mind to the folks at B5. (Of course,
+       it may well be the _ship_ that needs to return home, not Kosh at
+       all.)
+     * In this episode we see that the ship is an independent entity, in
+       essence a living creature. It shows up as a non-human life form,
+       even though we are shown that Kosh himself was not on board.
+       Further, Doctor Jacobs says that the ship "sang to him" while he
+       was unconcious and aboard. This hints strongly that the ship
+       shares "the song," which means that it's part of the Vorlon
+       community mind.
+       If the ship is part of the Vorlon super-entity, and if the ship is
+       itself organic technology, then this implies that the Vorlons can
+       create any kind of physical creature they want, with that creature
+       sharing the community mind. That means that the ship is nearly as
+       much or as much a Vorlon as Kosh.
+     * A number of readers have speculated that the ship is actually
+       Kosh, and the encounter suit just a remote probe or a servant.
+       That seems unlikely, though, given the events of [35]"The
+       Gathering," in which the Vorlons were ready to start shooting over
+       an attack on what was in the encounter suit. But it's worthy of
+       mention.
+     * A Biblical reference that might be relevant, or might just be a
+       coincidence: During Sheridan's secret meeting, Sarah tells him
+       "Whatever you do, I suggest that you do it quickly." This is the
+       same thing Jesus Christ said to Judas Iscariot immediately before
+       Judas went out to betray Jesus to the Sanhedrin. If this isn't a
+       simple coincidence, the implication is that Sheridan will
+       eventually betray someone. The victim isn't clear, though. His
+       cadre on B5 are obvious candidates, as is the cabal he and Hague
+       are members of. But for that matter, it might be the Psi-Corps
+       (though his betrayal could be _for_ the Psi-Corps, cf. [36]"All
+       Alone in the Night" and Bester's comment at the end of [37]"A Race
+       Through Dark Places.")
+       A more whimsical connection is that the actress speaking the line
+       is named Wanda de Jesus.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * A relevant reference might be "Childhood's End" by Arthur C.
+       Clarke (though the shape of the Vorlon encounter suit suggests the
+       opposite association from the one in the book.)
+     * When Franklin and Garibaldi stop to eat, it appears they're
+       actually munching on Kellogg's NutriGrain Breakfast Bars (though
+       the scene doesn't provide a close enough look at the bars to tell
+       for sure, so it probably doesn't count as product placement.)
+     * During Sheridan's meeting with Sarah, they are in what looks like
+       an equipment room. She sets up two devices, presumably to defeat
+       any bugs or scans. The problem is that she leaves them there when
+       she leaves. During their next meeting they are not in evidence at
+       all, and again she isn't shown retrieving them before she leaves.
+       Of course, Sheridan could have taken them. (See [38]jms speaks.)
+     * In addition to its ants (cf. [39]"Mind War") B5 has roaches.
+     * Sheridan has what he considers very good shielding on his office.
+       He talks to Ivanova quite openly there immediately after Agent
+       Cranston leaves.
+     * Kosh's comments to Sheridan bear some resemblance to the Dalai
+       Lama's observation (cf. [40]"Points of Departure,") namely, "It
+       will be even better when you begin to understand what you do not
+       understand."
+     * Minor continuity glitch: when the station's scanners are
+       configured to look for Dr. Jacobs, the display reads "Dr Evert
+       Jacoby," not "Dr. Everett Jacobs."
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * There was no intended reference to Anne McCaffrey's story; Kosh
+       tends to speak naturally through a series of musical/tonal/atonal
+       chords, and I figured his ship would communicate in the same way,
+       which to another would sound a little like singing.
+     * _Will Richard Moll return?_
+       At this point, Richard's part was a one-shot, but if we come up
+       with the right role, I'd love to see him again.
+     * _What did Sarah leave behind at the meeting?_
+       It's a flashlight, and he's also holding one. You caught a very
+       small glitch. Originally, he came out, flashed twice with his
+       flashlight, giving the code; then she did the same, and THEN
+       stepped out of the shadows, putting her flashlight down on the
+       ledge beside her. It took too long, though, interminably, so when
+       we edited it, we cut out that sequence...and hoped nobody'd notice
+       the flashlight sitting there.
+     * From "Infection," the visiting Doctor points out that, regarding
+       organic technology, "some even say the Vorlons have got it." All
+       this stuff gets set up somewhere.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Compiled by Dave Zimmerman and Steven Grimm.
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/035.shtml
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/035.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/035.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/034.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/036.html
+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/035.html#OV
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/035.html#BP
+  11. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/035.html#UQ
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/035.html#AN
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/035.html#NO
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/035.html#JS
+  15. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Steedman,+Tony
+  16. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Casey,+Bernie
+  17. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Moll,+Richard
+  18. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+De+Jesus,+Wanda
+  19. file://localhost/lurk/p5/intro.html
+  20. file://localhost/lurk/p5/035
+  21. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/035.html#AN:outfit
+  22. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/004.html
+  23. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/034.html
+  24. file://localhost/lurk/gif/035/writing.jpg
+  25. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/033.html
+  26. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/031.html
+  27. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/033.html
+  28. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/033.html
+  29. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/009.html
+  30. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/033.html
+  31. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/022.html
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+  33. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/035.html#NO.cend
+  34. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/033.html
+  35. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/000.html
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+  39. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/006.html
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+  41. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
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+  43. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
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+  46. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/036.html
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Sheridan is in hot water when he kills a Minbari warrior in
+     self-defense. [15]Caitlin Brown as Guinevere Corey. [16]Sean
+     Gregory Sullivan as Ashan.
+     
+Sub-genre: Mystery
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]7.75
+
+Production number: 215
+Original air date: April 26, 1995
+
+Written by Peter David
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Minbari clans are like close-knit families. One surrenders some of
+       one's identity to the clan, and in return the clan is expected to
+       shoulder the responsibility for one's actions. Despite this, clan
+       leaders sometimes engage in secret plots without the knowledge of
+       the clan members at large.
+     * Sheridan's tactics in the Earth-Minbari War (cf. [19]"Points of
+       Departure") are considered completely without honor by many
+       Minbari; he used a fake distress signal to lure the Black Star
+       into a minefield.
+     * Vir was considered a failure by his family. He was sent to Babylon
+       5 at their behest, mostly to get him out of their hair. There was
+       little competition for the post, which was thought to be something
+       of a joke.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What was Sheridan supposed to learn from Kosh's lesson? (see
+       [20]Analysis)
+     * How did Kosh know what Sheridan would find in the chamber?
+     * Who were the people living there?
+     * Will Vir's family take him up on Londo's offer?
+     * What fate awaits the teddy bear?
+     * Who was the human who stole Sheridan's link? Did he have an
+       ulterior motive for helping with the setup, or was he simply doing
+       it for money?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Considering her dramatic entrance, Sheridan's lawyer didn't
+       actually do much of anything. Who sent her, and what was she
+       supposed to be doing for Sheridan?
+     * One interpretation of Kosh's lesson is that he was teaching
+       Sheridan to give humanity the benefit of the doubt. Even in what
+       Sheridan considered the most dangerous, nasty place on the
+       station, one can find beauty. If Kosh's pledge in [21]"Hunter,
+       Prey" to teach Sheridan "about _you_" is taken broadly to mean
+       "about your kind," this is at least a plausible scenario.
+     * Another possible interpretation: Going to the darkest, dingiest,
+       "worst part" of B5 was an analogy to Sheridan's current very "bad"
+       situation. This is partly confirmed by Kosh's statement that
+       having a "bad day" was perfectly appropriate for the lesson he had
+       planned. What Sheridan saw there was "beauty... in the dark",
+       which was exactly what he needed. He was obviously relaxed and
+       feeling much better after the experience, and he thanked Kosh for
+       helping him.
+       The lesson? When things are at their absolute worst, don't simply
+       satisfy your basic needs (eating, sleeping), take time out to
+       enjoy something that will make you feel better despite the
+       conditions. It will help you deal with adversity. Alternatively,
+       the lesson is that even in some of the worst places/situations,
+       there can still be beauty if you allow yourself to look for it.
+     * Why the monastic chant? Sheridan said in [22]"Points of Departure"
+       that he had met the Dalai Lama in Tibet. The chant wasn't Tibetan
+       -- it is a Gregorian chant, part of the Christmas Mass. The entire
+       incident may have been projected into Sheridan's mind by Kosh or
+       by someone else. The fact that Sheridan could see it might also be
+       related to his dream in [23]"All Alone in the Night."
+       The Latin lyrics:
+       
+     Puer natus est nobis et filius datus est nobis;
+     cujus imperium super humerum ejus;
+     et vocabitur nomen ejus,
+     consilii Angelus.
+     
+     Cantate Domino canticum novum;
+     quia mirabilia fecit.
+       One English translation of which is:
+       
+     Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given;
+     on whose shoulders the world's dominion rests;
+     whose name is;
+     He who was sent to us from the great Heavenly Wonder-Counselor.
+     
+     Sing unto the Lord a new song. He has made wonders.
+       There are two quotes here, one from Isaiah 9:6, the other from
+       Psalm 98:1:
+       
+     For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
+     government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called
+     Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The
+     Prince of Peace.
+       
+     O sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvellous
+     things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the
+     victory.
+       Whether this particular chant has any bearing on the story, or was
+       just selected because it sounds good, is an interesting question,
+       but a couple rather tenuous connections can be made:
+       The second verse mentions a "hand" being victorious; recall that
+       Sheridan was told, "You are the hand," in [24]"All Alone in the
+       Night."
+       The fourth issue of the [25]comic series, dealing with Sinclair's
+       appointment to the Minbari homeworld, is titled "The Price of
+       Peace," one letter removed from the description of Jesus above.
+       (That one is probably just a coincidence.)
+     * It's also worth comparing Kosh's lessons to his encounter with
+       Talia in [26]"Deathwalker." When she asked what his negotiations
+       meant, he advised her to "listen to the music, not the words" --
+       advice that might apply to Sheridan's lesson as well.
+     * The plight of the teddy bear mirrors the story Sheridan told to
+       Delenn; if the bear is really supposed to represent Sheridan, is
+       its fate perhaps a foreshadowing of Sheridan's?
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Londo's mention of "a certain Minbari" lying is probably a
+       reference to Lennier's lie in [27]"The Quality of Mercy."
+     * The Centauri expect their dolls to be anatomically correct.
+     * "Honour and shame from no condition rise;
+       Act well your part, there all the honour lies."
+       - Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Man" Epistle IV, 1733-34
+     * Possible Ranger sighting: When Vir and Londo are talking in the
+       Zocalo, a man in what looks like a Ranger uniform walks by twice.
+       Once as Vir says, "Centauri Prime is sending a replacement," and
+       again as he says, "It's my problem, not yours."
+     * The bear is from the [28]Vermont Teddy-Bear Company. It's a
+       "twenty inch" with "JS" embroidered on the front and "Ba-bear-lon
+       5" on the back. Peter David says:
+       
+     Specifically, on page 13 of their 1994 Winter Collection Catalogue,
+     they have the Custom Embroidered Bears. Ordered with a baseball
+     shirt and hat (NOT jacket), he's 20 inches high and his fur color
+     is 'Pockets (thick milk chocolate)'...
+     
+     I should point out that ordering the bear for Joe was my wife's
+     idea. She's a big bear fan. At present she's hard at work on a
+     Min_bear_i...
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * So after I'd read Peter's script, and decided to go with it, he
+       asked about Ivanova's line, "This isn't some kind of Deep Space
+       franchise, this place is ABOUT something."
+       "Are you really going to use that?" he asked.
+       "Absolutely," I said. "It's fall-down funny."
+       Long pause. "You people really ARE dangerous over there, aren't
+       you?"
+     * No, the scene in the dark with the robed figures was not enhanced
+       with CGI or any other device.
+     * Everything featured in the Babylon Emporium was just made up by
+       us. Insofar as I know, none of it is real merchandise. (Everyone,
+       including the crew, are so starved for B5 stuff that when we
+       finished filming the ep, we sold off the stuff, at cost, to those
+       in the crew who wanted them. Two guesses who wound up with the
+       Londo and G'Kar dolls....)
+     * The B5 model in the gift shop in "Honor" is now in Sheridan's
+       office, bronzed, as is his right as captain.
+       Once the show is finally off the air, be assured that the model
+       will end up in THIS captain's office.
+     * Here's the story of the bear.
+       I hate cute. Everybody knows me, knows that. So after buying Peter
+       David's script #2, Peter sends me a gift. A bear. A teddy bear.
+       With my initials JS in front, and Bear-ba-lon 5 in the back. I
+       call Peter back. I say that I must now get him for this. He asks
+       what I had in mind. I said wait and see.
+       So I wrote the entire bear thing at the end of the show, and
+       inserted it into his script.
+       Never send me something cute.
+       Best part was during filming, we shot the bear against blue-screen
+       to be composited into the CGI. And there's our EFX supervisor,
+       standing there on film, against blue-screen, with this long rod up
+       the teddy bear's ass, spinning it round and round and round....
+       Whilst doing that, I also wrote and inserted the Kosh/Perfect
+       Beauty scenes, since I was already in it at that point anyway, and
+       I figured it'd be cool.
+       It also keeps the Sheridan Learning Stuff thread going, and works
+       in a nice balance to the rest of the episode. Here he's going
+       nuts, being harrassed, and his command is on the line...so he has
+       to learn to bend his knee, accept silence, give up his command
+       symbolically by giving up the stat bar, and finding one perfect
+       moment of peace.
+     * Yes, Kosh asking Sheridan "what is this place?" was more for his
+       benefit than Kosh's, to underline where they were, and what he was
+       about to experience even in such a place. Also, in
+       psychotheraputic terms, specifically dream analysis, when you
+       travel to your cellar in your dream, it's in part to confront
+       something in your subconscious, to learn something that may not be
+       expressable in words.
+     * Yes, he did send a fake distress call, and took out the Black Star
+       when it came in to (they thought) wipe out a disabled ship. He's
+       never denied this to anybody.
+     * Sheridan sent an EA distress signal; the Minbari were in genocidal
+       mode, so it didn't matter to them the condition of their enemy.
+       
+
+   [34][Next] 
+   
+      [35]Last update: May 7, 1997
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/036.shtml
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/036.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/036.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/035.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/037.html
+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/036.html#OV
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/036.html#BP
+  11. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/036.html#UQ
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/036.html#AN
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/036.html#NO
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/036.html#JS
+  15. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Brown,+Caitlin
+  16. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Sullivan,+Sean+Gregory
+  17. file://localhost/lurk/p5/intro.html
+  18. file://localhost/lurk/p5/036
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+  20. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/036.html#lesson
+  21. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/035.html
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+  23. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/033.html
+  24. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/033.html
+  25. file://localhost/lurk/comic/index.html
+  26. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/009.html
+  27. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/021.html
+  28. http://www.vtbear.com/
+  29. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  30. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/036.html#TOP
+  31. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  32. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  33. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/035.html
+  34. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/037.html
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+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Babylon 5 is embroiled in a deadly conflict between the Narn and
+     Centauri; an ISN reporter covers the story and tours the station.
+     [15]Kim Zimmer as Cynthia Torqueman. [16]Christopher Curry as
+     Senator Quantrell.
+     
+Sub-genre: Introduction/Intrigue
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]8.43
+
+Production number: 214
+Original air date: May 3, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mario DiLeo
+
+  Watch For
+  
+     * [19]A spring-fresh fragrance.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * The Narn homeworld was invaded by the Centauri around 2110. The
+       occupation lasted for approximately 100 years.
+     * G'Kar joined the resistance after his father was executed by the
+       Centauri.
+     * 41% of Earth Alliance citizens feel that Babylon 5 isn't worth the
+       time and expense.
+     * The Centauri have been using the space around the station as a
+       transfer point for weapons for the war effort.
+     * Over 250,000 humans died during the Earth-Minbari War.
+     * Back on Earth, the Clark government has formed the Office of
+       Public Information and the Ministry for Public Morale -- both very
+       Orwellian names. (see [20]jms speaks)
+     * Senator Hidoshi, Sinclair's main Senate contact in season one, is
+       no longer in office.
+     * Sheridan received the EarthForce Silver Star for valor during the
+       Earth-Minbari war.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * How long have the Centauri been using Babylon 5's space to move
+       weapons?
+     * Will the news report affect the public's perception of Babylon 5,
+       and if so, will the station become more popular or less?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Delenn's emotions seem to come to the surface much more readily
+       now than they did before her change. (see [21]jms speaks)
+     * The Earth-Minbari War wasn't very devestating at all in terms of
+       loss of life. 250,000 dead is tiny compared to, for example, the
+       tens of millions killed in World War II. Since most of the war was
+       probably fought in space, in ships with relatively small crews,
+       that's understandable -- in fact, that many dead probably means
+       that Earth's combat fleets were nearly eliminated in their
+       entirety -- but the war seems to have had an impact on Earth far
+       greater than warranted by human losses. Human pride may ultimately
+       have been the bigger casualty.
+     * The fact that the Narn cruiser destroyed a similarly-sized
+       Centauri ship in a one-on-one battle suggests that the two are
+       fairly evenly matched technologically. If the Centauri are indeed
+       crushing the Narn military, as denied by G'Kar, they must have far
+       superior numbers, or frequent help from the Shadows.
+     * One reason for keeping Babylon 5 around was conspicuously absent
+       from Senator Quantrell's list: the planet below the station is one
+       of the most strategically valuable places in the known galaxy,
+       considering what lies beneath its surface (cf. [22]"A Voice in the
+       Wilderness.") Given that the planet's contents were entrusted to
+       the Babylon 5 Advisory Council, it's in everyone's best interest
+       to keep the station up and running.
+       Earth would probably prefer to keep the planet a secret to keep
+       people from trying to take it (and Babylon 5), so it makes some
+       sense that Quantrell didn't mention it; but given the battle that
+       took place over control of the planet, it must be a poorly-kept
+       secret at best.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * "Subliminal" text during the Psi Corps ad: "The Psi Corps is your
+       friend. Trust the Corps."
+     * Though the subliminal message was onscreen long enough to satisfy
+       American television regulations, in France, the message was
+       clipped out altogether due to tougher French rules.
+     * The Minbari have three languages: Lenn-ah, Fik, and Adrenato.
+     * When present-day fighter pilots fire weapons, they say "Fox one"
+       over their tactical radio frequency when they use radar-guided
+       missiles, "Fox two" when they use heat-seeking missiles, "Fox
+       three" for smart missiles, and "Fox four" (or "Guns, guns, guns")
+       for guns.
+       Someone during the battle said "Fox five," suggesting some other
+       sort of weapon. ("Fox five" is also used for lighthearted remarks
+       about midair collisions during dogfights!)
+     * Interplanetary Expeditions, which has a brief ad at the beginning
+       of the episode, is the same firm that financed Dr. Hendricks' dig
+       on Ikara 7 in [23]"Infection" -- in which it was discovered to be
+       a front for a bio-weapons supplier.
+     * Note the pine-tree air freshener on the bridge of the Heyerdahl
+       during the teaser.
+     * The Heyerdahl is probably named for Thor Heyerdahl, whose Kon-Tiki
+       expedition attempted to prove that South American natives could
+       have populated some South Pacific islands.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * "And Now for a Word," will, I think, be very popular, and to my
+       knowledge does something that has never been done in SF television
+       before.
+     * Speaking of which...on Monday I turned in a script called "And Now
+       For a Word." It's probably the most unusual episode to date...so
+       much so that I was very concerned about Warners approving it, and
+       indicated in my letter (which explained why it was done, and why
+       it should be produced) that I wouldn't be putting in for a script
+       payment until I knew they would accept it and let us make it.
+       Finally heard back today that they've approved it. This will be
+       shot as episode 214, and what you've just read is ALL I intend to
+       say about this script between now and shortly before it airs in
+       May. (Though when we cast the guest star, which we're in the
+       process of selecting now, that I'll be able to announce.) It's not
+       controversial per se, but does take our entire show and put it on
+       its head for the entire hour. (I also had to make sure we *could*
+       physically produce the darned thing prior to turning in the
+       script.) No speculation, please; just let it be what it is, and
+       see it cold.
+     * For those who've been nudging other folks to try out B5, you may
+       want to tell them that this coming batch of eps is probably the
+       best time to dive in. In particular, our second new show (airing
+       the first week of May) is designed in part to help new viewers
+       coming to the show to catch up on background. (No, not a clip
+       show, or anything like that...I think you'll like it.) I also
+       *strongly* recommend that you videotape this episode, entitled
+       "And Now For a Word." There's something in there just (or
+       primarily) for the videotapers. Consider this a heads-up from the
+       inside. You'll know what it is when you sorta see it. (See
+       [24]Notes)
+     * There's a thing you do in theater training where you're told to
+       talk about a subject, never use the word "I" ...but in the end
+       wind up telling us more about *you* than the subject you're
+       speaking about. So I began to wonder if I could apply this
+       exercise, in a limited way, to an episode of the show. I can't say
+       more than that without spoiling things, but suffice to say you
+       learn a lot about all kinds of people, and the way you learn it
+       says a lot about those involved. It's a *very* subversive and
+       tricky episode, and I *very* much suggest taping it, so you can go
+       back and check something out later. You'll know what. If you
+       don't, you'll kick yourself later.
+     * RE: the FCC...what we did in the commercial was totally legit. We
+       researched and found that the FCC considers a subliminal to be 2
+       frames per second (out of the standard 24). So we made the blip 4
+       frames total.
+     * We've done a couple of steady-cam/CGI composite shots, but not
+       that much; in "And Now For a Word," you'll sometimes see a
+       floating recorder in C&C moving around...that was a steady-cam in
+       use, and we composited in the CGI. It is, however, time-consuming,
+       so we only do that sort of thing as required.
+     * The device of using a reporter's appearance to go to another POV
+       is not new to either B5 or MASH (though B5 is first to use it in
+       SF). Where I would draw the distinction is in the sense that
+       "Word" is actually very subtly subervsive. It's ostensibly about
+       B5 (the broadcast itself) but you learn a LOT about Earth in the
+       process...how the government wants the Mars situation interpreted
+       ("an Earth-loyal population held hostage by a violent minority"),
+       the government changing back home (suddenly we have an Office of
+       Public Information and a Ministry for Public Morale), how they see
+       the end of the Minbari war, and so on. It's designed to show more
+       than just who's being interviewed; you reflect home as well.
+     * _The battle shouldn't have been audible in the station, right?_
+       Except, of course, that you have a space batttle going on right
+       outside B5, and explosions barely feet from the hull, plus debris
+       hitting the shell of the station and making it ring, so you're
+       going to hear stuff. When the oxygen tank outside the main living
+       area in Apollo 13 blew, it sounded like a bomb going off. It
+       happens.
+     * Jeffrey Smith: your analysis of Delenn is dead-on...I don't quite
+       think she really understood what was required of her, and what
+       would happen; I think she believed it would go somewhat other than
+       it has, which has given her pause, she's rattled, alone and
+       realizing the magnitude of what is before her, and her choice to
+       undergo the chrysalis. And that is EXACTLY the core of a huge
+       Delenn episode in the last part of this season.
+     * _Why did the battleships keep missing each other?_
+       Actually, all sides in battle use ECM (Electronic Counter
+       Measures) to throw off the targeting systems on the "enemy"
+       vessels. But usually it only takes a couple of quick firings to
+       compensate (which is what we've done).
+     * New Vegas is on Mars.
+     * The reporter didn't talk to Talia because the story wasn't about
+       what it's like to be a telepath. That's a different story. This
+       was about B5 and those who run it. Talia doesn't directly work for
+       B5, she's employed by the Psi Corps.
+     * The Torque- part of her name came from Torquemada, that's correct.
+       Just seemed appropriate since we were shortly doing an episode
+       with an inquisitor.
+     * After we made initial contact with aliens, first being the
+       Centauri, there were a lot of disruptions to the social and
+       religious and political paradigms, many of which are whole stories
+       unto themselves. There was also a lot of paranoia running around.
+       Earthdome was constructed in Geneva to be more or less impervious
+       to an initial assault from other races, should any come. (It was
+       really something of a fiction, the way the star wars defense
+       program might not have been really effective, but the theory was
+       to protect the seat of Earth government.) So it dates back about a
+       hundred years. (And it's NOT in the middle of a blasted heath;
+       that was done in the comic by the inker, who should've colored it
+       a nice green.)
+     * "Whoever thought up the idea of *security cams* for FX shots...."
+       That's how it was scripted.
+     * G'Khamazad.
+       And G'Quon's primary follower/co-prophet was G'Lan.
+       Remember that name.
+     * It's also worth noting that this was likely Delenn's first real
+       encounter with Earth media/reporters on this level. She's never
+       been put into such a situation before, being challenged on-screen,
+       which would be the height of disrespect back home. (We refer to
+       her desire, after this, to learn more about the press in a later
+       episode this season.)
+     * Very few have noted the play on the title. The usual complete
+       phrase is, "And now for a word from our sponsor." So what was the
+       only sponsored commercial shown (in the 2259 version)...?
+     * _Interplanetary Expeditions was the bogus company from
+       "Infection." Is it more than just a throwaway here?_
+       Yeah, I'd say it's fair to say that you haven't heard the last of
+       Interplanetary Expeditions. Remember the rule: before you use the
+       gun, you show it on the mantle. You play fair. And create the
+       context in which the payoff later works.
+     * How can "Word" be a commentary on current allegations of bias
+       (which I think are out of all proportion) since the media is now
+       supposedly anti-government (nonsense), and the newscast in "Word"
+       was more than just a bit spoon-fed government propaganda?
+     * "Z'ha'dum" has only been seen by a few people at this early stage,
+       but folks like it. The big one, though, is really "And Now for a
+       Word," which has gotten more responses from crew, cast and others
+       than any other script to date. From top to bottom, everyone is
+       absolutely excited about it. It's going to be a very challenging
+       shoot, but the result, I think,will be worth it.
+       
+
+   [30][Next] 
+   
+      [31]Last update: January 3, 1997
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Sheridan discovers a connection between Morden and the death of his
+     wife. The station is inundated by Narn refugees. A new Earth
+     Alliance agency tries to recruit station personnel. [15]Ed Wasser
+     as Morden.
+     
+Sub-genre: Drama
+[16]P5 Rating: [17]9.30
+
+Production number: 217
+Original air date: May 10, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
+   _Note: this episode is more momentous than most. Think twice before
+   proceeding to the spoilers; it's worth seeing unawares._
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Delenn and Kosh tell Sheridan about the Shadows and the Vorlons:
+        _D:_
+               There are beings in the universe billions of years older
+               than either of our races. Once, long ago, they walked
+               among the stars like giants. Vast, timeless... they taught
+               the younger races, explored beyond the Rim, created great
+               empires. But to all things, there is an end. Slowly, over
+               a million years, the First Ones went away. Some passed
+               beyond the stars, never to return. Some simply
+               disappeared.
+        _S:_
+               I'm sure this is all very interesting, but what does any
+               of this have to do with Morden?
+        _D:_
+               Not all of the First Ones have gone away. A few stayed
+               behind. Hidden or asleep, waiting for the day when they
+               may be needed. When the Shadows come again.
+        _S:_
+               Shadows?
+        _D:_
+               We have no other name for them. The Shadows were old when
+               even the ancients were young. They battled one another
+               over and over across a million years. The last Great War
+               against the Shadows was ten thousand years ago. It was the
+               last time the ancients walked openly among us. The Shadows
+               were only defeated, not destroyed. A thousand years ago,
+               the Shadows returned to their places of power, rebuilt
+               them, and began to stretch forth their hand. Before they
+               could strike, they were defeated by an alliance of worlds,
+               including the Minbari and the few remaining First Ones who
+               had not yet passed beyond the veil. When they had
+               finished, the First Ones went away. All but one.
+        _S:_
+               There's still one of them left. Where?
+        _D:_
+               (indicates Kosh, to Sheridan's great surprise) That is why
+               Kosh cannot leave his encounter suit. He would be
+               recognized.
+        _S:_
+               Recognized? By who?
+        _K:_
+               Everyone.
+        _D:_
+               For centuries the Vorlons stood alone, the last remaining
+               guardians. Watching and waiting.
+     * Delenn's question to Kosh (cf. [18]"Chrysalis") was, "Have the
+       Shadows returned to Z'ha'dum?"
+     * The Icarus, an Earth exploration vessel carrying Anna Sheridan,
+       arrived at Z'ha'dum in late 2256 (see [19]Analysis.) A landing
+       party, exploring a cave, inadvertently discovered the Shadows,
+       awakening them. The Shadows destroyed the Icarus so its crew could
+       not return to warn others, and killed the crewmembers who wouldn't
+       cooperate. Morden was one of the crew.
+     * Delenn and Kosh knew about the reawakening of the Shadows
+       immediately -- maybe even witnessed it somehow as it was
+       happening.
+     * The Earth government has formed a new agency, the Ministry of
+       Peace (nicknamed "Minipax" by its employees,) with the alleged
+       goal of helping reduce internal tensions among the EA's populace.
+       Its first visible action was to establish a program called the
+       Night Watch, paying people 50 credits a week to wear black
+       armbands and report suspicious people to the authorities so that
+       troublemakers can be reformed before they disrupt the peace.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Is Sheridan's wife still alive?
+     * What is the Ministry of Peace really up to?
+     * Will Talia join?
+     * Similarly, what significance is there in the fact that Delenn
+       narrated Sheridan's vision? Was she sharing it with him, or had
+       she seen it before?
+     * What kind of information did Morden bring for Londo?
+     * What, if anything, happened to the ship that originally discovered
+       the ruins on Z'ha'dum? Someone must have discovered them before
+       the Icarus' arrival, since the crew of the Icarus knew they were
+       going to explore an ancient civilization.
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Delenn's opening remarks about the First Ones bear a striking
+       similarity to G'Kar's comments about the beings at Sigma 957 (cf.
+       [20]"Mind War.") Could those beings also be First Ones? If so, are
+       the Vorlons aware that they are still around in some form?
+     * Her remarks also echo her comments about humans in [21]"Babylon
+       Squared" -- suggesting that she believes humanity has the capacity
+       to eventually rival the First Ones.
+     * Delenn stated that all but one of the First Ones have gone away,
+       and that the last one is Kosh. But does she mean that only one
+       race remains, or only one individual? Or is there a difference
+       where Vorlons are concerned? (See [22]jms speaks)
+     * If Kosh would be recognized by "everyone" because (as implied by
+       Delenn) his race had once walked openly among lesser ones, it's
+       plausible that Kosh may resemble something from legends thousands
+       of years old -- an angel, perhaps, since the Shadows bear some
+       resemblance to demons and Kosh's suit seems to have room for
+       wings. This would tie in with Kosh's statement in [23]"Hunter,
+       Prey" that Sheridan must be ready "to fight legends" before Kosh
+       will reveal himself -- otherwise he'd be mistaken by some as a
+       divine being rather than an alien. Of course, angels and demons
+       are far from the only figures in the human pantheon, let alone
+       alien mythology, and Kosh may be something else entirely.
+     * Or the encounter suit may allow Kosh to control who gets visions
+       like Sheridan's; if he took it off, everyone who tried to look at
+       him would see something different, something personal. (See
+       [24]jms speaks.) This brings up a potential connection to the
+       flashes in [25]"Babylon Squared"; perhaps the Vorlons were
+       involved in Babylon 4's time travel, and the flashes were a side
+       effect of that.
+     * Why did Delenn demand to see Kosh in [26]"Chrysalis" before she
+       was willing to undergo her change? She seems to know enough about
+       Vorlons that she would have had some idea what he looked like. Did
+       she simply want to verify that Kosh was one of the First Ones
+       mentioned in the Minbari history books? Or does his appearance
+       have something more directly to do with her wanting to become
+       partially human? That's assuming he was showing himself to her at
+       all, rather than sending her a dream sequence.
+     * How did Kosh know what happened on Z'ha'dum? Or was he just
+       inventing the scene he showed Sheridan based on what he figured
+       must have happened? Perhaps he gleaned it from his meeting with
+       Morden in [27]"Signs and Portents," though Delenn claims she and
+       Kosh have known about it for the past three years.
+     * The Icarus expedition seems to have set forth in late 2256. In
+       [28]"Revelations," which is set in early 2259, Sheridan's sister
+       says that it's been two years since Anna's death. In this episode,
+       Delenn implies that the Shadows were awakened three years earlier.
+       Late 2256 makes sense if both of them were rounding.
+     * The Shadows on Z'ha'dum may have been awakened in 2256, but they
+       weren't the first. The creature in [29]"The Long Dark" awoke
+       during the Earth-Minbari War and was headed for Z'ha'dum. What
+       caused it to wake up before its masters did, assuming its masters
+       are the beings the Icarus discovered?
+     * Delenn's question was, "Have the Shadows _returned_ to Z'ha'dum?"
+       That implies they were elsewhere; if so, where? Perhaps the same
+       thing that drew the abovementioned creature to Z'ha'dum also drew
+       the Shadows there. In that case, they may have already been awake
+       before the Icarus arrived.
+     * Sheridan let Morden go so he wouldn't suspect that his true nature
+       is known. But the damage may already be done; Morden and his
+       associates are likely to be suspicious of his sudden release. The
+       reason given to Morden -- "it was all a mistake" -- is going to
+       seem especially suspicious; "the Centauri asked for your release"
+       or "you're right; we can't hold you without charges" seem like
+       they would have been better excuses. Of course, the latter may be
+       what Zack told Morden.
+     * The Night Watch armbands seem more a tool of terror than of peace,
+       reminiscent of the armbands worn by Nazis and other tyrannical
+       regimes, a constant reminder to everyone that they're under
+       observation. The program seems designed to cause people to turn in
+       their neighbors, and it's probably naive to believe that people
+       accused of suspicious behavior (or worse, suspicious "attitudes")
+       will simply be put into therapy and released shortly thereafter.
+       Combined with the Ministry of Public Morale (cf. [30]"And Now For
+       a Word") it suggests the Clark government is more interested in
+       keeping the citizenry under its thumb than anything noble.
+     * If it's true that the Night Watch considers thoughts dangerous,
+       they may well be involved with Psi Corps somehow; certainly it
+       would make sense for them to try to involve telepaths in rooting
+       out undesirables. Or, perhaps more likely, they're simply another
+       of Psi Corps' machinations.
+     * The Shadows aren't the only ones inhabiting places of power. Londo
+       observed that the technomages (cf. [31]"The Geometry of Shadows")
+       were usually cloistered in their places of power. And now the
+       technomages are headed for the Rim, or beyond it, because of a
+       great darkness approaching; what do they hope to achieve?
+     * Unless the holding cell cameras are very advanced, the Shadows'
+       invisibility is not all that good. Presumably there are aliens on
+       the station who can see well into the infrared or ultraviolet; the
+       Shadows would be easily detected by such beings in any public
+       area. Perhaps that's how Kosh knew who Morden was in [32]"Signs
+       and Portents." On the other hand, it may simply be that some
+       aliens _have_ seen the Shadows with Morden, but didn't think them
+       remarkable enough to be worth mentioning; they're probably far
+       from the weirdest-looking creatures walking around the station.
+     * Talia was able to detect the Shadows without even trying. That
+       suggests that telepaths will be a valuable weapon against the
+       Shadows -- which leads to the suspicion that the Shadows are
+       working to co-opt Psi-Corps behind the scenes so human telepaths
+       will be less likely to work against them. It's not clear whether
+       her ability to sense the Shadows was typical for a P5 telepath, or
+       a result of her enhanced abilities (cf. [33]"Mind War.")
+     * It's also worth noting that Talia saw Morden darken the same way
+       Delenn did in [34]"Signs and Portents" -- does this mean Delenn
+       has some telepathic ability?
+     * In [35]"Infection," Franklin says the Ikarans built their war
+       machines to fend off invasions, the last of which was 1000 years
+       ago. Could they have been participants in the last conflict with
+       the Shadows? Will the technology obtained by Earth in that episode
+       be used in the upcoming war?
+     * Morden's triangular hand placement while he was in his cell is
+       reminiscent of Lennier's meditation posture. Perhaps there's no
+       connection, or perhaps there is.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The name "Ministry of Peace" and its abbreviation Minipax are from
+       George Orwell's "1984."
+     * The convention mentioned by Talia is probably not the one
+       described in the novel [36]"Voices" because the novel takes place
+       before [37]"The Coming of Shadows."
+     * Delenn's narrative bears some resemblance to Gandalf's description
+       of the coming of Sauron near the beginning of the first book of
+       "The Lord of the Rings." In particular, this passage:
+       
+     "The rumours that you have heard are true: he has indeed arisen
+     again and left his hold in Mirkwood and returned to his ancient
+     fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor. That name even you hobbits
+     have heard of, like a shadow on the borders of old stories. Always
+     after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and
+     grows again."
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" is an episode that is as emotionally
+       raw as [38]"Chrysalis" with some major revelations that force
+       Sheridan to make the most important decision of his life.
+     * Correct; Delenn and Kosh have said nothing about G'Kar's claims
+       because they're trying to keep a low profile.
+     * The shadows know that Kosh knows, because the Vorlons *always*
+       know; they also know (or think) that they're in a superior
+       position because if Kosh should tell the others, either a) most
+       wouldn't believe him, or b) the shadows would move aggressively
+       now, costing untold lives. They're more worried about an alliance
+       between lots of races than the Vorlons alone.
+     * I would not create a race as potentially unstoppable as the
+       shadows without making sure they had one -- but only one --
+       Achilles' heel. Though it may take our characters a long time to
+       figure out what that is...almost *too* long....
+     * No, "all but one" refers to the race, not an individual. The First
+       Ones are various species/races. One of these species/races is
+       still around at this time. The Vorlons. Of which Kosh is one.
+     * BTW, the one big reason that Sakai [Catherine, Sinclair's old
+       flame in the first season] could not have filled Anna Sheridan's
+       role in awakening the shadows...and this is the one thing that
+       everyone who advocates this theory tends to forget...is that they
+       were *already up and awake* in the first season, as we saw in
+       "Signs and Portents." They were up, around, and had had some time
+       to build stuff up, reclaim some of their ships, and in other ways
+       get organized and develop their contacts.
+       Also, Morden was already working for them.
+     * _Why did Delenn demand to see Kosh?_
+       She wanted to see Kosh to assure herself that the Vorlons, who
+       she'd never met before, were who she believed them to be, and that
+       this was a true Vorlon and not a pretender. He had to be in place
+       as part of Valen's prophecy.
+     * The rim, and the "veil" beyond which the bulk of the First Ones
+       passed, is the Galactic rim. As for why the shadows are doing what
+       they're doing...that's kind of the key to the whole thing, which
+       we haven't turned yet.
+     * Some of the first ones just got bored after millions of years, and
+       went off in general. The rest, for the most part, went beyond the
+       Rim for the same reason you cut down old trees to make room for
+       new ones.
+     * _Are the First Ones as old as the universe itself?_
+       Well, to some degree you're limited by the amount of time it takes
+       to evolve life per se, then into intelligent life, then into
+       spacefaring life. You need time after the Big Bang for planets to
+       be formed, cool, develop environments capable of supporting
+       life...then the long haul begins.
+       So yes, on the one hand, you've got races that are millions of
+       years older than humans, who were prowling around while we were
+       still furred, fanged, and slamming bones together. But they're not
+       as old as the universe, because they can't be.
+     * Exploration and archeological/scientific vessels like this usually
+       piggy-back on Explorer or other jump-capable ships, with an
+       arrangement that they'll be there for X-number of days or weeks,
+       then another ship will come that way and again piggy-back them
+       out.
+     * Thanks. I like Vir a lot. Many folks were willing to write him off
+       in the beginning, not understanding that there was more beneath
+       the surface (a problem Vir has also had in his "life"). But you
+       gotta be careful; characters have a way of surprising you. And I
+       like that, and intended that, Vir be the first one to stand up to
+       Morden.
+     * Again, look at the Kosh/Morden scene in [39]"Signs." A light is
+       suddenly blown out off to one side. Morden didn't move. So who did
+       it...but his constant companions?
+     * _Kosh's command to Morden in "Signs"_
+       His comment would have been addressed to the shadows and their
+       current emissary.
+     * _How does Morden communicate with the Shadows so easily?_
+       Well, one can always assume that Morden received some help, in one
+       form or another, in adjusting to the shadows....
+     * The difference is just in accent. ZA HA DOOM is the way I
+       pronounce it, but ZA cHA DOOM is also acceptable (from someone
+       who's learned to more or less accept the 47 different ways in
+       which one may pronounce straczynski).
+     * And, as you note, one of things that I like to play with is the
+       layering of ambiguity. Let's say, just for the sake of argument,
+       that we set up two sides: Shadowmen vs. Vorlons, which looks like
+       evil vs. good. Fundamentally, I would find that boring. What you
+       would then have to do is get into WHY they're doing what they do,
+       and HOW they're doing what they do.
+       There is, for instance, the "good" that says, "We know what's best
+       for you, we'll protect you, nurture you, but you'll do it our way,
+       and we'll keep you away from ideas and beliefs you shouldn't be
+       exposed to." Okay, maybe that fits one definition of good...but is
+       it?
+       On the flip side, for instance, there's the "bad" that says "There
+       must be conflict and death, because it's only through conflict and
+       death that we grow stronger, that we can eventually create an
+       ordered universe. The gene pool must be kept strong. To do that,
+       there must be war and strife and death." Okay, maybe that fits the
+       definition of evil, but is it?
+       The key, again and always, is that nothing is what it seems on
+       Babylon 5. And even if it looks like it IS what it is, you have to
+       look at WHY it is what it is...and maybe at that point it isn't.
+       One of the things about this show is that you see as much as
+       you're willing to see. You can gloss over it, say, "Okay, these
+       are the good guys, these are the bad guys." But the closer you
+       look, the more you see the shades. I imagine when the Shadowmen
+       are more fully revealed, some folks'll think we're going for a
+       basic good/evil conflict...but believe me, there's a hell of a lot
+       more involved in it than that.
+     * _(From a 1993 GEnie message -- presumably we can replace
+       "Sinclair" with "Sheridan" now.)_
+       I've just sat here for five minutes trying to decide how to phrase
+       this and not give something vital away...and it's damn near
+       impossible.
+       (another five minutes passes)
+       Okay, look...do this. Get a piece of paper. Write down the
+       following: "Sinclair sees the hand, but Sinclair does not see the
+       hand. And five other people standing in the room would not see the
+       hand that Sinclair sees, or see the hand that they see."
+       I know it looks like gibberish. But trust me on this. Put the
+       piece of paper in your wallet (next to the condom) and hold onto
+       it for about two years. Assuming we're still around that long, at
+       some point that message will make absolute and perfect sense.
+     * Kosh is always and forever *exactly* what he appears to be, no
+       less and no more. At the same time, Kosh is absolutely *nothing*
+       like what he appears to be.
+       These are not contradictory statements.
+       And this is about the straightest answer I've given yet on the
+       subject, believe it or not.
+     * I think it would be just about impossible to put Kosh on the
+       outside of a mug.
+     * Exactly. You will note that Macabee says, of the Ministry, "...or
+       Minipax, as we like to call it around the office." It's an
+       in-house joke, not the real name of the thing.
+     * Re: the two speeches by G'Kar and Delenn...yes, they were
+       constructed specifically to echo one another, because the walkers
+       at Sigma 957 are one of the older races that flit through but
+       don't really pay any attention to us anymore.
+     * The Vorlons are one of the remaining ancient races; Kosh is one of
+       the Vorlons, not the last of them.
+     * Kosh is a Vorlon. The Vorlons fought the Shadows. There are many
+       Vorlons, back home. (The Writer committed an error in that he used
+       too many pronouns in that segment of dialogue.)
+     * _Was Kosh's line about Sheridan going to Z'ha'dum a warning or a
+       threat?_
+       Yes.
+     * How do you get a shot of Morden's head on a pike past the censors?
+       Easy.
+       You frame the shot so the head is draped...in shadows.
+       If I were to be planning such a thing, of course....
+     * MPs (Military Police) also wear armbands. So do the Red Cross and
+       some United Nations forces.
+     * _How many times did you shoot the scene with Talia slapping
+       Sheridan?_
+       Only twice. Mainly 'cause she tended to whack him real hard. [...]
+       The take you see is the first one printed.
+     * He said stop because Zack had found the right wavelength (at least
+       briefly) and didn't want him to go further and lose it again.
+     * _Will Vir, even metaphorically, get to wave at Morden?_
+       That would be telling.
+     * _Was the Great Machine inside Epsilon 3 built by a member race of
+       the First Ones?_
+       Could be.
+     * No, Varn was not one of the First Ones.
+       
+  Bruce Boxleitner speaks
+  
+     * _Bruce: what has the most challenging episode been for you so far,
+       and why?_
+       The episode we just finished filming today. It's called In the
+       Shadow of Za'Ha'Dum and my character deals with some very personal
+       issues.
+       
+
+   [45][Next] 
+   
+      [46]Last update: December 24, 1997
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
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+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/038.html
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+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/039.html
+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/038.html#OV
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+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     An old acquaintance requests Londo's help. Sheridan is plagued by
+     visions nobody else can see. [15]Carmen Argenziano as Urza Jaddo.
+     [16]William Forward as Refa.
+     
+Sub-genre: Drama/Intrigue
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]7.21
+
+Production number: 216
+Original air date: May 17, 1995
+
+Written by Larry DiTillio
+Directed by Stephen Posey
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * In his youth, Londo was a swordfighter of no small repute, and
+       House Mollari was one of the most well-respected in the Republic.
+     * Earth Force has confiscated all the files on the Babylon 4
+       incident (cf. [19]"Babylon Squared,") but Garibaldi had the
+       foresight to make a copy first.
+     * Refa and his associates on Centauri Prime are consolidating their
+       power by having their political opponents declared traitors. Some
+       of those opponents are well aware of his involvement in the
+       assassination of the Prime Minister (cf. [20]"The Coming of
+       Shadows.")
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What was the creature? Was it involved somehow in Babylon 4's
+       movement through time, or did it just happen by Sector 14 after
+       the fact?
+     * Will Londo's support of Urza have an effect on Refa's plans?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * The fact that there's still a spacetime rift of some sort in
+       Sector 14 suggests that it may be possible to travel freely back
+       and forth between 2259 and whenever the creature came from.
+       Unless, of course, the creature was involved in Babylon 4's time
+       travel; in that case, its presence may have caused the rift to
+       reopen.
+     * Londo believes he has a destiny to fulfill. What exactly does he
+       think it is? Is it based in part on his dream? (cf. [21]"The
+       Coming of Shadows") Or is it a more general notion of bringing the
+       Centauri back to power with the help of Morden, without any
+       specific role for himself?
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The names of the last Centauri Emperor and Prime Minister, Turhan
+       and Malachi respectively, just happen to be the first names of the
+       actors who played those roles in [22]"The Coming of Shadows."
+     * Garibaldi and Sheridan were getting a large number of foul balls
+       on the baseball diamond. Since the station is spinning, the
+       Coriolis effect would make playing baseball an interesting
+       proposition, to say the least, especially near the center of
+       rotation -- a high enough ball would pass beyond the axis and land
+       on some other section of the interior, perhaps even the "ceiling!"
+     * Visual gaffe: When Londo was knocked down and he dropped his
+       sword, the sword fell and skidded on Londo's left. But when he
+       reached for the sword to deliver the fatal blow, it appeared that
+       he reached to his right.
+     * The Centauri method of dealing with traitors -- execution followed
+       by confiscation of property -- is similar to what the Romans used
+       to do, and it apparently has the same effect. Romans who knew they
+       were about to be convicted of treason often committed suicide to
+       prevent their families' inheritances from being seized.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * Actually, Sheridan WAS hitting fair and home run balls in the
+       front of the show; later, though, when he was more rattled, they
+       were all foul.
+     * Actually, the chronological order was *supposed* to be "Knives,"
+       THEN "Z'ha'dum." In "Knives" you get the reminder about Anna, then
+       in "Z'ha'dum" you get the payoff. That was originally how they
+       were intended to be aired, but there was *so much* CGI work and
+       rotoscope work and creature animation involved in "Knives" that it
+       got flopped to second in that order. So while it works *best* the
+       way it was intended, it still works okay in this order.
+     * Correct, the critter in "Knives" was most *definitely* not a
+       Vorlon.
+       
+
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+  23. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
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+  25. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
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+Overview
+
+     The outbreak of a fatal disease among the Markab population prompts
+     a panic on the station; Dr. Franklin races against time to find a
+     cure.
+     
+Sub-genre: Drama
+[15]P5 Rating: [16]7.85
+
+Production number: 218
+Original air date: May 24, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Kevin Cremin
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * The Minbari expect Valen, the holy figure who founded the Grey
+       Council a thousand years ago (perhaps during the last conflict
+       with the Shadows) to return some day -- or at least, they have a
+       religious ceremony suggesting so.
+     * A deadly virus appeared on an isolated island on the Markab
+       homeworld several hundred years ago, wiping the entire population
+       out. The inhabitants of the island were known for what was widely
+       considered sinful behavior, and the virus came to be viewed as
+       divine retribution by the Markab.
+     * Dr. Franklin visited the Markab homeworld once while he was
+       hitchhiking on starships in his youth.
+     * Keffer has been taking trips into hyperspace in his spare time,
+       looking for the mysterious ship (a Shadow ship) he saw in [17]"A
+       Distant Star."
+     * When Delenn was a small child, she was separated from her parents
+       in an unfamiliar Minbari city. Eventually she found refuge in an
+       old, apparently unused, temple, where she waited for hours. Then,
+       just before her parents found her, she saw a vision of a figure,
+       bathed in light, who told her, "I will not allow my little ones to
+       come to harm in this place."
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Was the virus created artificially? If so, who did it and why?
+       (See [18]Analysis)
+     * How many Markab are still alive?
+     * What's going on between Delenn and Sheridan?
+     * Will someone lay claim to the dead Markab worlds? Who?
+     * Was Delenn's story about the temple true, or just a story to
+       comfort the lost Markab child? If true, who or what appeared
+       before her? (See [19]jms speaks)
+     * Will the disease spread among the Pak'ma'ra as well, or will
+       Franklin's treatment stop it from wiping them out?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * This episode's plague theme meshes with the story and ritual
+       practice of Passover. The Minbari dinnner ceremony Sheridan,
+       Delenn, and Lennier participate in is a ritualized meal, like
+       Passover: foods must be eaten in a particular order, and a table
+       setting is left for a revered historical figure (Elijah, Valen)
+       who is supposed to return some day. As the Markabs enter the de
+       facto "quarantine" chamber, the Markab ambassador suggests that if
+       they pray and are pure, the plague will "pass over" them -- a
+       parallel with the original passover story, where a certain sign on
+       the house door made a plague attacking the Egyptians pass over the
+       Jews. Franklin's discussion of the Black Death also mentions how
+       Jews were unjustly accused of spreading the infection.
+     * Franklin appears to have forgotten about the alien healing device
+       he acquired in [20]"The Quality of Mercy" and used on Garibaldi in
+       [21]"Revelations," which he could have used to help his friend and
+       thus increase the chance of finding a real cure. Or perhaps he
+       knows enough about it now to know that it wouldn't have worked on
+       plague victims for some reason. (Obviously it wouldn't have been
+       of much use to the Markab population in general, since it only
+       works on one person at a time and only with a donor.)
+     * Babylon 5's crew may have inadvertently helped the disease spread
+       when they gathered all the Markab for blood tests; presumably some
+       of the subjects would have remained in their quarters if they
+       hadn't been dragged out and tested in a room full of possible
+       carriers.
+     * Sheridan presumably ordered Keffer to stop his expeditions because
+       he suspects Keffer's mystery ship is a Shadow vessel. Will he let
+       Keffer in on that information, or will he continue to keep it to
+       himself and simply let the order stand?
+     * Franklin's frequent use of stims to stay awake while a medical
+       crisis is going on (cf. [22]"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum") may spell
+       big trouble for him if he keeps it up. Doctors on stims are more
+       likely to make mistakes (cf. Dr. Rosen in [23]"The Quality of
+       Mercy") and it appears the Earth medical community doesn't look
+       kindly on the practice of doctors drugging themselves to stay
+       awake -- Dr. Rosen lost her medical license as a result.
+       Whatever his good intentions, his obsession with solving
+       everything on his own may lead him into a regrettable situation
+       down the road. There isn't yet enough evidence to show that he's
+       actually addicted to the stims, though. (See [24]jms speaks)
+     * It's been argued that the Markab _did_ die for their sins --
+       specifically, the sin of pride, by believing that they could keep
+       the disease to themselves and not involve any outsiders. Had
+       Franklin learned of the disease when it first hit the station, he
+       (or another non-Markab doctor) might well have been able to save a
+       billion lives.
+     * Delenn seems to be coming apart at the seams in many ways,
+       probably as a result of being made a pariah among her people. If
+       she's telling the truth, or at least part of the truth, about
+       undergoing her change to help draw humans and Minbari closer
+       together (cf. [25]"Revelations") it must be frustrating in the
+       extreme to be reviled by her own kind, and resented by many humans
+       (cf. [26]"And Now For a Word.") Especially if she believes that
+       she's special somehow, a unique player in an immense drama (cf.
+       [27]"Babylon Squared.") This, in combination with the influence of
+       her new biology, may explain why she's reaching out to Sheridan
+       now; he at least seems to respect her and relate to her as an
+       equal, and she probably trusts him a lot more now that she sees he
+       can be trusted with one of her biggest secrets (cf. [28]"In the
+       Shadow of Z'ha'dum.")
+       Or, of course, she could be planning something. She's been trying
+       to get closer to Sheridan for quite some time (cf. [29]"A Race
+       Through Dark Places") and this could simply be the next step.
+     * On a similar note, being locked in a room and helplessly watching
+       thousands of people die all around can't be good for Delenn's
+       emotional stability. It remains to be seen if this will have an
+       impact on her personality; for many people it would be a profound
+       shock.
+     * But Sheridan's statement that Delenn wouldn't be able to come back
+       out if she entered the contaminated area doesn't make sense, given
+       that the plague was known to be airborne; she'd be exposed to it
+       either way, given that the station's air is recycled (as stated in
+       the episode.) Presumably he was just trying to keep her from going
+       in.
+     * The timing of the plague's reappearance, with all the other events
+       going on, is suspicious. Of course, it might be a simple
+       coincidence, as Franklin suspects, just a dormant disease whose
+       time has come. But another interpretation is that the outbreak on
+       the Markab island centuries earlier was an early biological
+       warfare test on an isolated population, and the events in this
+       episode were the real attack. If that's true, who is responsible,
+       and do they have any connection with the approaching Great War?
+       Note that the Markab did have some contact with the Shadows last
+       time they rose up, as evidenced by the Markab ambassador's speech
+       in [30]"The Long Dark" -- perhaps someone (not necessarily the
+       Shadows; maybe the man at the bar was right) didn't want the
+       Markab around to participate this time.
+     * Franklin's cure protects possible victims against attack, rather
+       than eliminating the disease. B5, with its recycled air supply,
+       now permanently carries the disease, which is dangerous to species
+       with yellow and green blood-cells (or cells that perform a similar
+       function, namely the manufacture of certain neurotransmitters) and
+       might well mutate to endanger others. This could affect the
+       willingness of alien groups to use the station in the future. Even
+       species not vulnerable to the disease might keep away just to be
+       safe.
+     * When Sheridan wakes up from his nap in Delenn's quarters, he
+       mumbles, "In the memory of the nine and the one." Presumably the
+       nine refers to the Grey Council, and the one refers either to
+       Valen or to The One, as mentioned in [31]"Babylon Squared."
+       There's also an echo of the story told in the Minbari ceremony in
+       [32]"The Parliament of Dreams."
+       
+Notes
+
+     * This episode features a previously unseen alien (or at least, a
+       humanoid who's presumably alien) wearing a suit with an elaborate
+       helmet. The helmet bears a striking resemblance to the mask of
+       Morpheus, the King of Dreams, from Neil Gaiman's [33]"Sandman"
+       comic book. As "Sandman" is one of JMS's favorite comics, this may
+       be an intentional homage.
+     * "Markab" is Arabic for "boat."
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * "Confessions" isn't per se a wham episode, for instance, but it
+       does have some very sharp turns, and it's an extremely intense
+       episode on a par with "Believers." It makes no compromises and
+       takes no prisoners, and I imagine it'll stir up about as much
+       debate as did "Believers," if not more. When we did playback after
+       doing the audio mix a few days ago, there wasn't a dry eye in the
+       house.
+     * I would also point out that, upon returning from the Moon, Apollo
+       astronauts were quarantined routinely in case any virus might have
+       been encountered; also, Mars probes today are carefully sterilized
+       prior to launch to prevent any virus from our ecosystem
+       interacting with anything that might be there. Further, there have
+       been numerous hearings within NASA, and in at least one case in
+       the Senate Science Subcommittee, in which biologists and
+       scientists have expressed concern about the possibility of viral
+       contamination from new species. So anyone who says this isn't
+       possible simply isn't reading the literature.
+     * Tom, we *do* have a medical/biological advisor, whose primary
+       comment on the notion that a virus couldn't pass between one
+       species and another..."We have yet to contact one other alien life
+       form to make an analysis. We do not know for a fact that their
+       biology will be radically different than our own. Until we
+       actually make contact, it's as likely as not." A biologist works
+       from what's known; unless you've got a specimen of alien life
+       somewhere and aren't showing it to anyone, or you're simply making
+       a guess, which is neither more nor less correct until we have
+       something testable in our hands.
+     * I will not defend the notion that the episode stated that all
+       Americans felt that AIDS was a penalty from god because it never
+       said that. Ever. In any way, manner, shape or form. The problem is
+       that some people are so caught up in the current situation that
+       they lose all sense of perspective. Fact is, most people DID think
+       that the Black Death was a punishment from God, or the work of the
+       devil, as Franklin says. The Markabs had a similar belief. Nowhere
+       was that applied in dialogue to humans or the AIDS situation.
+       The whole point of the episode is NOT political; it says that if
+       you make a disease political on either side, you're gonna die. You
+       have to set aside all that crap and just Deal With The Problem.
+       The only "side" this episode took was in advocating compassion for
+       those afflicted.
+       I have enough just dealing with what's actually *in* my series;
+       don't compound the problem by adding things that you saw only in
+       your own head, and which exist nowhere in dialogue or in the
+       story. You are adding the template of your own beliefs as an
+       overlay, and seeing this story through it. That ain't my problem.
+       If you see this disease as political, that's your lookout. This
+       show says that ANY attempt to politicize a disease is
+       species-dangerous thinking. Period.
+     * On one level, this does indicate that we really *are* crazy over
+       here at B5. Here we developed this race for nearly two years.
+       Developed their culture. Mentioned them prominently just last
+       episode. Had them speak before the full Council (in "Long Dark").
+       Spent substantial amounts of money making them the biggest single
+       alien group we've got (some of the group shots had 40-50 or more
+       Markabs, all in full prosthetics and full costume)...and now,
+       never to be seen again.
+       It couldn't be a race we've never seen before, not if it was to
+       have the impact I wanted. It had to be a group that's been with us
+       from the start.
+       In Council scenes for the balance of the season, the Markab seat
+       remains empty.
+     * "No disease in human history is 100% fatal."
+       Not correct. The Black Death was fatal to everyone infected by it.
+       It was not, as Drafa, 100% contagious, but it *was* about 90%
+       contagious. The Black Death wiped out *three-quarters of the
+       entire European population*. _(Editor's note: not quite true;
+       three-quarters of the population in some areas was wiped out, but
+       the total toll was closer to one quarter -- still pretty
+       devastating. The mortality rate was high, but some people survived
+       and were immune thereafter. It also hit Africa and Asia.)_
+       Roll that around for a while. Three-quarters.
+       The only thing that saved areas of Europe was that there wasn't as
+       much travel then as today between countries; it was reserved for
+       those with enough money to afford it, which were very few. There
+       were also fewer means of entry; a river and a bridge closed to
+       refugees was often enough to keep people out. There is now MUCH
+       freer travel. Had there been freer travel in the 14th century,
+       it's entirely possible that the entire European population might
+       have been completely eradicated, with those few who might've been
+       immune dying from associated diseases, hunger and other problems
+       caused by the presence of the disease.
+       One person I spoke with at the CDC (Center for Disease Control)
+       said that, hypothetically speaking, the sudden eruption of a
+       disease like this is possible. How likely depends on various
+       circumstances. There are, for instance, regions in the Amazon and
+       South America where certain kinds of plant and animal life can
+       only be found; and those specific lifeforms can transfer diseases
+       to humans...diseases that literally melt the flesh off your body,
+       or in another case, cause worm-like infestations to burst through
+       the skin covering the entire body. (Let me tell you, researching
+       this was just a whole lotta laughs.) They are *highly* contagious.
+       The only thing that has (so far) prevented a massive outbreak is
+       the fact that by the time you can generally get OUT of these
+       remote areas...you're dead.
+       A particularly aggressive disease could perform very much like
+       what is described in the episode.
+     * Any time there's a big disease, we get Stupid. The same exact
+       thing happened with the Black Plague, as was mentioned in the
+       episode...instead of blaming gays, the leaders of the time blamed
+       jews and lepers. The whole *point* is to drop politics and
+       scapegoating whichEVER disease it happens to be next...and there
+       is always a next...and focus on the problem: the disease.
+     * There would've been a very few on deep space patrols, or on
+       isolated worlds that would've survived, yes, as was indicated in
+       the narration at the close of the episode, but you're talking
+       about very, very small numbers. The race is still effectively
+       dead.
+     * What Colin misses, obviously, is that not *all* of the markabs are
+       "mindless religious fanatics," in that Dr. Lazarenn was not one,
+       but that was mainly because he had long been exposed to
+       human/outsider ideas, which most of his reclusive people are not.
+       Second, y'know, I get asked a lot, "Give us ALIEN aliens." So I
+       do. And then I get gigged because they don't act like we'd expect
+       humans to act. Sometimes I just throw up my hands....
+     * You have to listen a little closer. The dormancy period is several
+       days to several weeks, as Franklin says; once the disease *comes
+       out of dormancy*, then it kills within about a day.
+     * I don't think his behavior was boorish at all. After a very long
+       day, in which (he stated) he hadn't eaten a thing, he sits down in
+       a cross legged position for (if you track the time in the story)
+       3-5 *hours*, alternately eating and meditating in a small, quiet
+       room...who *wouldn't* fall asleep?
+     * The fighters aren't *inexpensive*, but not hideously costly
+       either. Also, the pilots like to spend as much time out on patrol
+       as possible, to garner more flight pay. Keffer's squad was already
+       out earlier (as noted by Sheridan); Keffer chose to stay out a
+       little longer doing a bit of reconnaisance. Most of the hassle is
+       in prepping the ship for launch, maintainance and so on; once it's
+       out, it's just a matter of a bit more fuel. If he left *strictly*
+       for this purpose, then yeah, they'd nail his butt to the flight
+       deck. But since he was out anyway, it's not as big an issue.
+     * _(Delenn's childhood experience)_
+       Well, it's about TIME somebody noticed that little exchange in
+       "Confessions and Lamentations." Sometimes I stick stuff so
+       obviously in the foreground that I'm afraid it's going to be too
+       blatant, and then nobody seems to notice it, looking instead at
+       the tiny stuff in the background.
+       Unfortunately, all I can say for now is that it is significant to
+       Delenn's character and growth, and her sense of being special, and
+       called into the religious caste.
+     * We joked a few times about having a mass burial for the Markab
+       prosthetics and costumes behind the stage....
+     * A man is shot by a gun. Now, you can either do a story about the
+       guy and his life up to the moment he was shot and killed, or you
+       can do a story about the people who are affected by his death. The
+       former story ends kinda fast. But both are perfectly valid. The
+       main thrust is how this story AFFECTS our main characters. Would
+       they have been more affected if it were the Drazi rather than the
+       Markabs? No. It would've been just the same. My job is not to sit
+       here and say, "Hmm ... do I think audience members like the Drazi
+       or the Markabs more?" and thus base my decision based on that. I
+       write my stories based on what's right for the story, period. In
+       this case, I knew it had to be one of the League races, and in
+       particular, those prosthetics capable of expressing broad ranges
+       of emotion, potentially sympathetic characters. The instantly cut
+       out the pak'ma'ra as primary characters. I considered the Drazi,
+       but my sense was that the prosthetics couldn't convey the depth of
+       emotion I needed. Finally, that led me to the Markabs.
+       Enough terrible things happened, and continue to happen, to our
+       major races; best to give them a break and see how they react when
+       it's someone else.
+     * _Delenn and Lennier's exchange after Sheridan leaves_
+       Isn't it more fun to leave the piece untranslated? Shouldn't some
+       things be left to the imagination?
+     * _Plague stories are trendy these days._
+       Next time I will try and locate every other producer in town and
+       see what they plan to produce, so I can plan accordingly. When I
+       wrote the episode, Outbreak hadn't been promoted yet or known
+       about, Voyager hadn't aired, ER hadn't told me what they were
+       going to do ...if I'd known there would be such a glut...well, I
+       probably would've done so anyway, because this isn't so much about
+       the plague and saying its' dangerous, but about our attitudes when
+       we are confronted by this, which really hasn't been dealt with
+       that much in SF. (And I'm sorry, but don't even *try* to bring the
+       Voyager story into this; the ship is threatened by a cheese
+       contamination? I almost fell off my chair.)
+     * What you also have to do is step back for a moment and remember
+       that the dinner began prior to Keffer and the rest leaving B5; and
+       was ending about the time they got back. Add up the time
+       indicated, and you've got a ritual that has gone on for at LEAST
+       3-4 hours now, probably closer to 5-6; seated in a small room,
+       legs crossed, after what was almost certainly a busy day. Show me
+       somebody who WOULDN'T doze off after a while.
+     * _The alien with a breathing apparatus a "Sandman" reference?_
+       It's mainly an extrapolation on an alien breather based on WW II
+       style gas masks.
+     * _Franklin's use of stims here and in "Z'ha'dum;" their disastrous
+       consequences for Dr. Rosen in QoM_
+       Ah, about time; I was wondering when someone would get around to
+       remembering "Quality of Mercy" in this....
+     * The use of markabs was definitely NOT a reference to Scientology
+       in any way, manner, shape or form.
+     * There is absolutely, positively, NO scientology link or reference
+       in the name markabs. I find the organization generally abhorrent.
+     * I had no idea that scientologists used an alien group called
+       Markab, and frankly would've changed it if I had known.
+     * Marcabs had warships, though not a lot of them.
+       
+
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
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+Overview
+
+     Lyta Alexander, the station's first telepath, returns with a
+     warning that one of Babylon 5's officers is an operative for a
+     top-secret government organization. A long-held secret of another
+     Babylon 5 officer is revealed. [15]Patricia Tallman as Lyta
+     Alexander.
+     
+Sub-genre: Mystery/Intrigue
+[16]P5 Rating: [17]8.50
+
+Production number: 220
+Original air date: July 25, 1995 (UK)
+                   October 11, 1995 (US)
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jesus Trevino
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
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+Backplot
+
+     * Lyta Alexander is part of a secret movement against Psi Corps.
+       She's evidently been a dissident since she probed Kosh ([18]"The
+       Gathering.") When Lyta probed Kosh, she felt something she then
+       hid from the years of subsequent interrogations from Psi-Corps.
+       She has been feeling drawn to Vorlon space and has desperately
+       tried to get there. She knows a lot more than she has ever told
+       anyone, including what Kosh is under his suit.
+     * Talia Winters was programmed with a 'sleeper' personality by the
+       Psi Corps. She is probably "Control" (cf. [19]"A Spider in the
+       Web.")
+     * Ivanova is a latent telepath. She is able to block some scans,
+       knows instantly if someone scans her, can pick up on some
+       feelings, but has never been able to scan anyone except her
+       mother. She claims, though, that her psi rating is "not even a
+       P1."
+     * "Universe Today" has a section called 'Eye on Minbari' which
+       Delenn uses to find out things about her homeworld she might not
+       neccessarily have been told yet, in addition to learning human
+       perceptions of Minbari.
+     * Lyta spent some time with Psi Cops as part of her training, but
+       left because she didn't like it and became a commercial telepath
+       instead.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Exactly how much _does_ Talia's new persona know? And what will
+       this do to B5 in the future?
+     * Is there really no chance of the old Talia recovering? If not,
+       what good is the recording Kosh made?
+     * How safe is Lyta's escape? Will Psi-corps get her in the end? The
+       fact that Kosh let her off the station suggests he's prepared to
+       risk Psi-Corps getting their grubby hands on whatever it is she
+       knows from the scan.
+     * What did Lyta see when she asked Kosh to reveal himself? Something
+       with a halo of light, but what?
+     * Dr. Kyle also saw Kosh. Has Psi-Corps learned anything from him
+       that they didn't learn from Lyta?
+     * How involved are Sinclair's rangers with the Mars resistance?
+     * Was it Talia who attempted to kill Lyta?
+     * How did (presumably) Talia get the lights in the security section
+       to go out, being replaced with red backups? And how did she know
+       that she had a chance to hit Lyta? She was being taken from one
+       cell to another on orders passed from Garibaldi to Zack to two
+       ordinary security people. Is Zack implicated in some way, perhaps
+       by way of his involvement in Nightwatch? It seems conincidental
+       that in the few minutes available an attempt was made on Lyta's
+       life.
+     * What about Ironheart (cf. [20]"Mind War?") If he saw "everything,"
+       would he not have known about the implanted personality, however
+       deep it was?
+     * What will Psi Corps do with Talia now that the Artificial
+       Personality has taken control?
+     * Was the 'Control' mentioned by Lyta the same one installed by
+       Bureau 13?
+     * Was Garibaldi _really_ faking the transition to an artificial
+       personality? And does he know more that he's letting on? (see
+       [21]Analysis)
+     * How will Sheridan and Delenn handle the growing feelings in their
+       friendship?
+     * Why is Babylon 5 seen to be so important to several unknown
+       individuals/groups, and who are those people?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Whatever Ironheart did to Talia seems to have enhanced her powers
+       enormously, and she seems to be growing more powerful. Psi Corps,
+       at a minimum, now have the psychic assassin they were trying to
+       create, and potentially much more. Assuming, of course, that
+       Ironheart's gift wasn't erased when Talia's original personality
+       was destroyed.
+     * Another possibility is that Talia _wasn't_ destroyed, that
+       Ironheart's gift allowed her to prevent Control from taking over,
+       but she's playing along as a means of continuing her own
+       investigation into what's going on with Psi-Corps (cf. [22]"Spider
+       in the Web.")
+     * Talia's implanted personality was foreshadowed in [23]"The Quality
+       of Mercy." After she was finished scanning Mueller, she was joined
+       by Garibaldi in the Garden. As they talked about her experience,
+       she commented to him, "Things that live inside us, Mr. Garibaldi.
+       Terrible things. Terrible."
+     * Delenn's choice of articles in Universe Today is a revealing one.
+       This highlights the lack of information she is receiving now that
+       she is no longer a member of the Grey Council. However, she is
+       learning to gather information from other sources and to "read
+       between the lines" more carefully. It appears that she is
+       regaining confidence in her abilities.
+     * During the attempted murder of Lyta while she is being transfered
+       between holding cells, we see the hand holding the assailants PPG.
+       It is wearing a black glove, very similar to those worn by Talia.
+       However, the lead time between Garibaldi ordering Lyta to be
+       moved, and the attempted assassination appears to be very short.
+       So how did Talia know when to leave Ivanova's quarters in order to
+       intercept Lyta? And does Talia know how to kill the main lights in
+       a section? Three possibilities present themselves:
+         1. Coincidence. Talia, under the control of the artificial
+            personality (AP), goes to hunt down and kill Lyta while
+            Ivanova is out getting some air. The fact that Lyta was being
+            transferred made the attempt much easier. Killing the main
+            lights is knowledge that Talia has but we aren't shown.
+            However, in [24]"A Spider in the Web," we _are_ shown that
+            Bureau 13 has cracked the station computer's security, which
+            presumably would allow Talia to discover both Lyta's location
+            and the time of the transfer.
+         2. There is an additional agent provocateur on Babylon 5.
+            Someone who does have the knowledge of Lyta's movements, and
+            would know how to kill the main lights in a section. This
+            strongly suggests Garibaldi, but might be Zack or another
+            member of the security staff. A trigger message is sent to
+            Talia, who then attempts to kill Lyta.
+         3. As above, there is an additional mole on Babylon 5, but it is
+            this individual who knows about Lyta's movements, knows how
+            to short circuit the main lights, and attempts to kill Lyta.
+            In this case, Talia is innocently caught up in the actions of
+            another individual attempting to protect themselves. There is
+            additional evidence that might be seen to support this (see
+            below).
+     * How does Talia know that Lyta Alexander is aboard Babylon 5? She
+       may have guessed indirectly from a conversation with Ivanova and
+       done some digging of her own, but Ivanova only asks if Talia knew
+       Lyta - not telling her that she was aboard. Alternatively, she
+       learnt of this through her PsiCorps contacts. Or Talia arranged
+       (at the suggestion of the submerged AP) for her quarters to be out
+       of use so that she could be closer to Ivanova. Once close enough,
+       she could scan Ivanova and learn about the cell group, also
+       learning about Lyta at the same time. When Talia wakes up (finding
+       Ivanova gone) she has no gloves on. Physical contact may be used
+       to intensify mental contact, and Talia might have done this while
+       Ivanova was sleeping. Talia's new personality indicates that there
+       _was_ an ulterior motive for getting close to Ivanova.
+     * Garibaldi's flashbacks refer to [25]"Deathwalker," where Kosh uses
+       a ViCaR (or VCR, an individual with an enhanced photographic
+       memory) to conduct a strange negotiation, with Talia monitoring. A
+       data crystal was also passed to Kosh from the ViCaR, and Talia
+       doesn't know what it contained. Kosh's comments seem to indicate
+       his awareness of Talia's AP and what will happen when it is
+       activated. So, has Kosh recorded a copy of Talia's personality
+       onto a data crystal? We have already seen that the Earth Alliance
+       has the technology to wipe a personality and build a new one
+       ([26]"The Quality of Mercy".) Will this be a way for Sheridan to
+       wipe out the AP and any knowledge that PsiCorps might pick up from
+       Talia? It may not be so easy (see [27]JMS Speaks).
+     * Garibaldi believed Lyta and her story. Considering how strongly
+       this goes against his previous behaviour, does he have an ulterior
+       motive? This may tie in with some of the speculation about Lyta's
+       attempted murder. See also the following two points.
+     * When Taro Isogi is killed by the modified Free Mars leader ([28]"A
+       Spider in the Web,") Control identifies Talia Winters (who
+       witnessed the murder) as someone who should also be eliminated.
+       Given that Lyta Alexander referred to the (then unknown) sleeper
+       agent as 'Control', can we draw the conclusion that Talia was part
+       of a Bureau 13 operation? Or are there different sections of
+       PsiCorps treading on each other's toes? It seems unlikely that
+       Talia ordered her own execution, especially if Lyta is right about
+       Control being programmed for self-preservation.
+     * Garibaldi's "faked" personality transition was taken by all the
+       others as being a joke in bad taste. But consider an alternative
+       explanation: Lyta stated that the AP would say or do anything to
+       protect itself, and Garibaldi was behaving out of character. He
+       also immediately turned everyone's attention to Ivanova. Talia was
+       caught unprepared for the sending of the password, but Garibaldi
+       knew that the password would be sent. Garibaldi knew, or could
+       easily have found out, when Lyta was slated to be moved, so could
+       have pulled the trigger. And he was ready to bring Talia into the
+       conspiracy, perhaps in order to expose it indirectly.
+       However, it is unlikely that two different sleepers would respond
+       to the same password, and the events in the "flashforward" scene
+       in [29]"Babylon Squared" would suggest that Garibaldi's loyalty is
+       not in question.
+     * Ivanova was also awake at the time, and unaccounted-for, making
+       her a suspect.
+     * How high up the chain of Psi-Corps command does this implanting
+       go? There is every indication the it's above Bester. Twice in the
+       series Bester has suspected and even accused Talia of conspiring
+       against the Corps. Why would he suspect or accuse her of this if
+       he knew he had an ally inside her brain?
+     * The Delenn/Sheridan relationship is growing stronger. Neither
+       Delenn or Sheridan are making a strong attempt to hide their
+       growing trust and respect for each other. After the events in
+       [30]"Confessions and Lamentations," Delenn has drawn emotional
+       support from Sheridan. Her growing affection for him is something
+       that she clearly shows in her face and actions while they are in
+       the garden talking. Sheridan also appears to be happy that he has
+       someone who he can turn to who will help him when all around is
+       madness, and is wondering just where all this is leading.
+     * The relationship between Talia and Ivanova is one that will
+       attract much debate.
+       At the start of the episode, it seems clear that they are just
+       friends. Talia would not hesitate to impose on Ivanova's sleeping
+       quarters if there were anything stronger.
+       During the episode, as Ivanova becomes more and more worried about
+       revealing her (limited) telepathic ability, she relies on Talia
+       during the expression of her feelings and doubts. There is an
+       apparent emotional tension between them that might be interpreted
+       as a "should I make the first move," or as Talia's giving support
+       but hesitating to probe further, and Ivanova's "should I trust
+       her, even though she's a telepath?"
+       When Talia wakes up in Ivanova's bed, finding her missing, it is
+       tempting to jump to the "obvious" conclusion. However we know that
+       Ivanova's quarters only has one cot (indicated in [31]"The Long
+       Dark" by Dr. Franklin.) Of course, Ivanova probably has a
+       sofa/couch that might have been used.
+       When Ivanova has her final conversation with the dominated Talia,
+       she indicates that it gave Talia the words that would get her
+       close to all Ivanova knew. Just how much Talia knows about Ivanova
+       is unclear, and we have no indication of just how close in
+       addition to the emotional bond.
+       Had Ivanova and Talia had a physical relationship then Ivanova
+       might have revealed her latent telepathy ("Do you know what its
+       like when telepaths make love?" in [32]"Mind War.") Since the
+       alternate Talia didn't goad Ivanova about this, then either
+       Ivanova maintained a block, or they didn't have a physical
+       relationship.
+     * Ivanova's relationship with her mother is opened up further by her
+       revelation of being a latent telepath, although this is not
+       explored directly. Since Ivanova could initiate contact with her
+       mother, she could obtain a clear mental as well as physical
+       picture of her mothers deterioration under the PsiCorps telepathic
+       suppression drugs. The drugs would of course prevent any attempt
+       at contact initiated by her mother, and also of any blocking.
+       We now have a clearer understanding of how Ivanova developed her
+       strong feelings against PsiCorps, and what she must have overcome
+       in order to establish her friendship with Talia. This change in
+       Talia (and the AP claiming to have directed the growth of their
+       friendship) may have far reaching effects in her ability to trust
+       again.
+     * Sheridan has now seen a part of his Kosh-induced dream ([33]"All
+       Alone in the Night") come true. In the dream he saw Ivanova with a
+       black raven on her shoulder, and heard her say: "Do you know who I
+       am?" At what point will other parts of the dream come true? (If
+       they haven't already.)
+     * Why did Sheridan let Talia go so easily? He could have held her on
+       charges of shooting two security guards, if nothing else. Perhaps
+       he felt that doing so would draw too much attention to his covert
+       activities.
+     * Since a Ranger was involved in smuggling the data crystal to Lyta,
+       Garibaldi may have been warned of her arrival.
+     * Delenn appeared to be turning down closer relations with the
+       Lumati (cf. [34]"Acts of Sacrifice") when Lyta called. Why? (Maybe
+       their method of closing treaties is a bit closer than she'd prefer
+       the relations to get.)
+     * JMS says (see [35]jms speaks) that originally, Takashima ([36]"The
+       Gathering") was going to be the plant, and that that part of the
+       storyline was transferred over to Talia with the cast changes
+       between pilot and series. The other events in "The Gathering,"
+       combined with some revelations from the comic series (cf. comic 8,
+       [37]"Silent Enemies") suggest some disturbing connections.
+       Psi Corps was working with Minbari dissidents to kill a Vorlon.
+       The comic has also established a connection between Psi Corps and
+       the Shadows, although this has not yet been seen on screen. If the
+       comic is to be believed, there is a link through Psi Corps between
+       the Shadows and elements of the Minbari warrior caste. The effects
+       of that link on the coming war may be quite unfortunate for one
+       side or the other.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Zack is still wearing his "Nightwatch" armband ([38]"In the Shadow
+       of Z'ha'dum") and Garibaldi is a little bemused by it. Clearly he
+       doesn't quite approve of the idea.
+     * The Pak'ma'ra have separate toilet facilities. Oddly, the warning
+       sign next to the door is written, among other languages, in
+       Vorlon! Or at least, in a script identical to that displayed by
+       Kosh's ship in [39]"Hunter, Prey."
+     * At least one of the fugitives in the sewers on Mars was clearly a
+       ranger. The other may not necessarily have been. Lyta arrived in a
+       shot-up ship and knows that two men died for the information.
+       Obviously she has links with the rangers.
+     * Delenn lies yet again, and is caught immediately.
+     * When Delenn is dictating her response to the Lumati, the computer
+       screen shows the text appearing (whether this is Lumati writing or
+       Minbari isn't clear.) One odd thing about it is that it
+       alternately flows in both directions, up and down, across the
+       width of the screen from left to right.
+     * Production gaffe: In the first live-action shot after the title
+       sequence, as Sheridan enters the restroom, one of the production
+       crew's hands (likely the director's) can be seen briefly at the
+       bottom of the screen.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * "Divided Loyalties" will produce a stunning revelation about one
+       of our major characters.
+     * Pat is nothing less than terrific. If there was any sense of
+       hesitation in her appearance in "Divided Loyalties," it can be
+       attributed to the fact that she had just given birth to her son
+       something like 4-6 weeks prior, if that much, and this was pretty
+       much her first day back in the saddle.
+     * _Does the comic series contain spoilers for the series?_
+       There's only one case of this conflict, so if you want to avoid
+       any spoilers, here's my recommendation: when the last issue of
+       this current story arc comes out, resolving the
+       Mars/Sinclair/Garibaldi thread, pick up that last issue and stick
+       it in a bag until after the first new ep airs in October. THEN
+       read it. You'll know it when you find it.
+     * The impact of Talia's situation should be the same whether you saw
+       the comic or not. (And, remember, the idea was that the comic
+       would come out AFTER the remaining year 2 episodes, as a nice
+       little frisson, not as required data.)
+     * Re: things you don't expect to happen...that's kind of one aspect
+       I was after here. By way of comparison....
+       There's one great thing about The Shining, despite some other
+       flaws in the film: they set up Scatman Cruthers (sp?) as the one
+       guy who understands what's going on...he gets the Shining, he's a
+       potentially heroic character, and when all hell breaks loose, he's
+       the one to get into the snow plow, cross terrible weather, we're
+       all sure he's going to get there and fight the menace... he
+       overcomes weather and nonsense to get there... he blows through
+       the front door, ready for action... and gets an axe in the middle
+       of his chest and dies.
+       I *loved* that, and always kinda wanted to something of that
+       nature, where you set someone up to be that kind of character, the
+       future, whatever, then you yank it back and let the audience say,
+       Oh, hell, NOW what?
+     * "If Talia is 'the future' then why is she off the show?"
+       Because stuff happens. Because rocketry was the hope of the German
+       Luftwaffe to win the war. Didn't work out that way. Just because a
+       character says it, doesn't mean that it's guaranteed to happen at
+       all times. A parent can look at a child and say, "He's our hope
+       for the future," and the next day the kid gets turfed by a
+       semi-truck. Stuff happens. Nothing is guaranteed in the B5
+       universe; any character -- ANY character -- is vulnerable. That,
+       for me, is part of what's exciting.
+     * RE: Talia...look, you've kinda got to look at this the way I do.
+       Stuff happens. Yes, Talia was hoped for to be a key to the
+       solution of the problem. (Not the key, but a key.) But if you do
+       that, every single time, you become predictable. It means you, the
+       audience, can relax. "Well, we know now that Talia will always get
+       through this because she's the one they're hoping for." Suspense:
+       gone. Story: suddenly predictable. There's no rule that every
+       person who is hoped to help solve the problem in real life is
+       gonna make it to the end or BE that solution. So if you delete
+       that person, now it's "Oh, hell, NOW what're they gonna do?" which
+       is more intrinsically interesting to me than the other option.
+       Generally speaking, about once a year, toward the end of the year,
+       I kinda look around at the characters with a loaded gun in my
+       hand, and say, "Hmmm...if I take out *that* person, what happens?
+       Is there anyone here I can afford to lose? Would it be more
+       dramatically interesting to have this person alive, or dead? What
+       is the absolute bare minimum of characters I need to get to the
+       end of the story and achieve what I have to achieve?"
+       It helps to really remember that this is a *novel*, and uses the
+       structure of a novel. That means you have to have some real
+       suprises as you go. Anyone is fair game. To the question "Why did
+       you get rid of Sinclair? Why'd you get rid of [_spoiler removed_]?
+       Why'd you get rid of Talia? Why'd you get rid of....oh, er, that
+       hasn't happened yet...." there is only one answer: 'cause I felt
+       like it, and 'cause I thought it'd make the story a lot more
+       interesting.
+       The stories I like best are the ones that ratchet up the tension
+       and the uncertainty inch by inch until you're screaming. This
+       could apply to any of Stephen King's novels (and recall that a lot
+       of my background is in horror writing). Mother Abigail in THE
+       STAND was supposed to be their hope for the future. So in short
+       order she's vulture-food, JUST when she's most needed. *Because
+       that's interesting*. It makes you say, "Oh, hell, NOW what?"
+       (Stephen actually does that a lot in his books, and it's a
+       technique I've learned as well.) Boromir in LoTR was a capable,
+       skilled fighter, deemed absolutely essential to the Company of the
+       Ring...oops, there he is by the tree, full of Orc arrows.
+       Stuff happens.
+       Same here.
+     * One other thought on Talia...one of the motifes we've played with
+       from the start was always showing Talia in mirrors...in Race, in
+       Z'ha'dum and others...always showing the reflection, her opposite,
+       just to set stuff up on an emotional/symbological level.
+     * The Talia situation likely could've been finessed more smoothly
+       than it was, no mistake. Sometimes there are going to be ragged
+       spots. It's going to happen.
+       Here's the best comparison to what my position is with this show:
+       Harlan Ellison has, on occasion, done this routine where he'll go
+       into a bookstore and write a story in full view of everyone. As
+       each page is finished, it's taped to the wall unti it's done. This
+       is considered a pretty nifty trick, sustained over maybe 15-20
+       pages.
+       That's pretty much what I'm doing here. It's an ongoing story. I
+       can't go back, I can only go forward. As each page (episode) is
+       finished, it's put up on the wall, and I have to go on to the next
+       one. So far I've written 2,400 pages on that wall. Again, I can't
+       go back and change anything, and if there's a bump caused by a
+       real world incident, it simply has to be accommodated as best I
+       can while still going where I have to go.
+       From time to time, there's going to be a misstroke on the
+       keyboard, or there's going to be a typo that I'll miss. That's
+       inevitable when you're out performing in front of a massive crowd
+       on the high wire without a net. As long as the totality of it all
+       hangs together, as long as the story is told, the trick finally
+       done...then that's what fundamentally matters.
+       That this happens on occasion should be obvious; that it happens
+       as rarely as it does is the point of wonderment, I think.
+       Remember, it's all trial and error, because no one's ever done
+       this before. And right about now I understand why. But we're
+       making it work.
+     * _Andrea Thompson has said in interviews that she felt Talia got
+       short shrift._
+       There are a number of actors who feel that if they're in a story
+       then they should be at the *center* of the story. Andrea seemed to
+       feel that if she was in an episode, the episode should be about
+       her character, and was consistently lobbying for this, despite the
+       fact that it would cut into the arc, and time for the other
+       characters on-screen. Babylon 5 is an ensemble show; time on
+       screen is determined by the story, not by whim or personal
+       insistence.
+       Yes, we used her 8 or 9 times in a given season; but by contract,
+       we paid her for a full 13 episodes, whether she appeared in them
+       or not. We were never under any obligation to give her *any*
+       guarantee; we did so to make her feel comfortable taking on the
+       job. For the first year he was on the show Jeff Conaway didn't
+       have a guarantee of episodes; he was used as he was needed, and
+       that grew with time. Andrea wanted time away from the show to do
+       other projects; we accommodated where we could, as we do with all
+       our cast members, but if a request comes in at the last moment, or
+       conflicts with our schedule, we can't comply. We feel that if
+       we're paying someone a great sum of money to be available to us,
+       for episodes they may not even appear in, this is not
+       unreasonable.
+       Finally, it was never Warner Bros. who hired her or pushed her on
+       me. WB didn't care one way or another. I was the one who hired
+       her, with Doug Netter. If I hadn't felt she was right for the
+       role, I wouldn't have hired her. But I was also under no
+       constraint to make the show into the Andrea Thompson Show. Andreas
+       and Peter have often appeared as many times in a season as Andrea,
+       and didn't even *have* a guarantee for the first two seasons. (Now
+       they do.)
+       We did what we could to accommodate her without destroying the
+       story arc. I regret that she has taken out her frustrations in
+       this way. Either one is a team player, part of an ensemble, or one
+       is not. We are very proud of the fact that the cast members as
+       they stand now are all ensemble, team players.
+     * In the B5 universe, as a general rule of thumb, people don't just
+       come back after something like this. "Talia" has been destroyed
+       permanently; that's what it said in the episode, and that's the
+       way it'll stay.
+     * What was the password? I'm hideously tempted to say, "Z'ha'dum."
+     * One thing you have to remember is that while Talia is in the
+       opening credits, to Psi Corps she's just one more of many
+       programmed individuals in various places. The character in
+       "Spider" was a highly valued infiltration unit, with very
+       expensive "parts." Of the two, Talia would've been far more
+       expendable.
+       And I don't recall that Control actually issued any death order;
+       it was the Psi Corps/B13 in any event.
+     * _Was Garibaldi at Lyta's ship because the Rangers told him she was
+       coming?_
+       No, Garibaldi was there because the ship's ID# didn't check out,
+       as he stated, and it could've been in the process of smuggling or
+       who knows what.
+     * Absolutely *nothing* from prior seasons/episodes has been
+       discarded. So if that's your concern...don't worry about it.
+       In very tense situations, some people feel compelled to somehow
+       break the tension. Hence, that sequence. [Garibaldi's "gotcha"]
+     * The problem in trying to keep something mysterious and vague is
+       that sometimes you can outsmart yourself, and get confusing. The
+       *theory* is that there was the Bureau as Control overall back on
+       Earth; and a minor Control figure on B5. And Controls are always
+       referred to as "he"regardless of the facts to avoid giving any
+       means of identification to anoutsider based on gender.
+       So it would be
+                            BUREAU CONTROL
+            ----------------------|---------------------
+            |                     |                    |
+      Earthdome Control      B5 Control         Minipax Control
+       (That's a breakdown using artificial and not necessarily correct
+       elements, just for illustration.)
+       It is, however, a confusing bit of terminology, so it's been
+       amended subsequently.
+     * _Up until the coup, was the EA government pretty good?_
+       The EA was fairly easy going, but remember that people are used to
+       a heavy governmental hand during the Earth/Minbari War. It's in a
+       way similar to the situation we had post WW2; the only way we
+       could make it past that war and survive was through strict
+       discipline, following orders, going along with rationing,
+       conserving, everything. And it was that positive attitude that
+       those who came later would exploit in the McCarthy/Red Scare
+       1950s, and hit us sideways in the 60s.
+     * _If Talia was Control in "Spider in the Web," why would she order
+       herself eliminated?_
+       My sense was that the Control part, which sometimes moved at
+       night, reported that the mission could be jeapordized. Then B13
+       gave the order to eliminate. Nowhere does it say that Control said
+       the second half of the sentence.
+     * _Control was referred to as "he."_
+       You always refer to agents in the single "he" form to avoid giving
+       away identities.
+       That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+     * _Was the hand that fired the PPG a left or a right hand?_
+       I don't remember offhand; I'll have to check the tape. (I have a
+       vague memory that it was a right hand originally, flopped to shoot
+       in the other direction.)
+     * Not that it just looked better per se, but the gunshots came from
+       right to left; the gun hand as originally shot fired from left to
+       right. It looked very funky when edited together, like it was
+       going in a different direction than the one it was fired in.
+       Flopping the shot corrected that.
+     * Yeah, I wouldn't waste much time on the gun-hand, frankly.
+     * _About [40]"The Quality of Mercy"_
+       Yes, part of the reason for the episode was to set up the notion
+       of an implanted personality as acheivable tech.
+     * _Couldn't Ironheart have removed Control? Was Talia the original
+       personality?_
+       Control was the construct. The alternate personality was dormant
+       at the time Ironheart was there.
+     * Remember that Ironheart was not seeing Talia under the best of
+       conditions...he was fighting hard NOT to use his abilities, for
+       any reason, because it created mindquakes...he was pulling
+       everything IN. And later he was shot, also not a good position.
+     * _Does Psi Corps have Talia's gift now? Isn't that a problem?_
+       Logically, yes, that would eventually pose a problem.
+     * _Was the new personality formed by modifying Talia's, or was it
+       created from scratch?_
+       I'd rather let this aspect slide for the moment.
+     * Remember, the *conscious* Talia did none of those things; she
+       would never dream of scanning without permission. (And in
+       Ivanova's case, remember that she said she knows *instantly* if
+       she's being scanned. Note her strong reaction in "Eyes" when it
+       happens.)
+     * Talia v 1.0 would not have violated Ivanova's privacy during any
+       kind of intimacy, as that would violate her profoundly; you can
+       hold back, and Talia would have, and Ivanova would've sensed if
+       she had tried it. The theory on telepaths making love is that they
+       both willingly drop the blocks they normally keep in place.
+     * The real Talia was becoming more and more disenchanted with PC,
+       and this was in time going to pull her into resistance activities,
+       which Talia v2.0 would only be *thrilled* about. The
+       self-protection mechanism only kicks in when the personality's
+       existence is threatened.
+     * _Why did they kick Talia off the station?_
+       Because the longer she was there, the more she'd discover (was
+       about to enter into Sheridan's cell group in fact), and the more
+       damage she'd be able to do.
+     * Oh, to be sure, they'd have preferred to have Talia accidentally
+       fall out an airlock rather than turn her over to the Corps...but
+       that's cold blooded murder, and if they go that route, then
+       there's no difference between them and their opposite number.
+     * . . . Re: Talia...it's okay to be pissed about that; it was
+       intended to have that reaction. Things *should* get us annoyed
+       when Psi Corps pulls a stunt like that. And we haven't heard the
+       last of what happened to Talia, btw. That's the B5 universe for
+       you....
+     * _Did Lyta sense Ivanova's talent?_
+       A non-telepath can learn certain tricks to make it harder to break
+       through, albeit briefly, so the reaction was sufficiently
+       ambiguous and the event sufficiently brief that it wouldn't raise
+       too many concerns. Which is why Sheridan dived in when he did; if
+       she'd continue to block much longer, just instinctively, it
+       would've revealed her latent potential. It was his distracting
+       Ivanova that in a sense helped Lyta break through.
+     * _Could Ivanova sense when someone else was being scanned?_
+       No, that she wouldn't really be capable of doing at her present
+       level.
+     * Of *course* the telepath issue will have to be dealt with; this is
+       a logical progression of the story, no?
+     * _Was a kiss between Ivanova and Talia edited out?_
+       Nope, no such scene was cut. It's just a slightly awkward match in
+       the edited shots.
+     * No, nothing was cut; we had a matching problem at one point in the
+       edit, where Andrea reached with her left hand in one angle, and
+       didn't reach out with the other, and we had to come around for the
+       shot on Ivanova, so it looked a tick off. But nothing was cut.
+     * Film is shot on the stage, then transferred to video, which is
+       then digitized onto the Avid computer editing system, which holds
+       every take of every scene. A scene is shot many times from various
+       angles: wide master shot, three-shots (3 people), two-shots,
+       singles, raking twos, close ups, medium shots, extreme closeups
+       and sometimes downshots (as well as CGI and composite shots).
+       John Copeland and I then go in and work on the version of the
+       episode edited by the director to do the producer's cut. We sit
+       down with the editor, and go scene by scene. The usual
+       construction is as follows: you get a wide master shot so we know
+       the geography, where we are, and where everyone is in relation to
+       that. Gradually you go closer, into threes or twos, then singles
+       or closeups for dramatic emphasis, coming out into the master from
+       time to time when someone has to move, or to break the sense of
+       claustrophobia.
+       When you get in close, you have over-the-shoulder shots, meaning
+       you're shothe same thing in reverse, so you see both sides of the
+       conversation. You do these one at a time, for lighting purposes;
+       you light one side of the room for the scenes looking left-right,
+       then move the camera and the lighting around for the scenes when
+       you're on the right side looking left (or, phrased differently,
+       you light for Susan looking at Talia, then Talia looking at
+       Susan). The actors then do the scene again, with the camera on the
+       other side.
+       The actor has to be very careful to always repeat each movement
+       exactly; if he picks up a teacup on th word "quibble," he has to
+       make absolutely sure he picks up the cup on exactly that same
+       word, every time, in every take, in the same way, in the correct
+       hand. If the actor slips (and this sometimes happens), when you go
+       to show tther side of the scene, you suddenly find you have a
+       matching problem; in the shot over Talia's shoulder to Susan, the
+       actor raised a hand; in the shot over Susan's shoulder to Talia,
+       the actor (generic term that includes women) *didn't* raise a
+       hand. So when you edit the two, you have a matching problem. You
+       can sometimes avoid this by just staying on one side of the shot,
+       but then you can't get the other character's on-face reaction to
+       what's being said. And in that scene in particular, we *needed* to
+       see both sides.
+     * We will see Lyta again.
+       RE: alternate lifestyles...I said when stuff happened, we wouldn't
+       make a big deal out of it, it'd just be there...and I said we'd
+       address it in our own way, in our own time. We've done a bit here,
+       we'll do a bit more down the road. I won't give you or anyone a
+       timetable; I'll do stuff as the integrity of the story permits,
+       not sooner, not later. I will not allow this to become a political
+       football. If you do nothing, folks yell at you for ignoring it; if
+       you do a little, they yell for not doing more; if you do more,
+       they yell for not doing it sooner. Screw it. I do what the story
+       calls for, as the story calls for it.
+     * Susan and Talia had been dancing around one another for months;
+       that night, though, would've been the first time they got
+       physically intimate.
+     * See, here's where I start to have a problem. For starters, I don't
+       do any thing to be politically correct, or politically incorrect,
+       I do what I do in any story because that's what the story points
+       me toward. Anybody who says "It's not necessary" isn't entitled to
+       that judgement, frankly; you don't know what's necessary to the
+       story. And by framing it in the "is this NECESSARY?" way is
+       designed to make you defend your position when such defense isn't
+       the point; is it NECESSARY to have humor? to have a romance? to
+       have correct science? No, *nothing* is NECESSARY. It's what the
+       writer feels is right for that scene, that story, that character.
+       "Oh, well, I saw it, but was all that violence NECESSARY?" This
+       is, frankly, a BS observation usually offered by someone with an
+       agenda, who wishes to invalidate the notion of an artistic view
+       and impose some kind of quota, or objective criterion to what is
+       and isn't necessary for a movie or film. As far as I'm concerned,
+       the first person to throw this into a discussion has, frankly,
+       just lost the argument.
+       Point the second: one of the most consistent comments I get, in
+       email and regular mail, is the spirituality conveyed in the show,
+       that we have shown, and will continue to show, tolerance toward
+       religion, even created sympathetic religious characters. "Thank
+       you for your tolerance," they say...until we show somebody or some
+       action THEY don't like...and at that point suddenly it's a lot of
+       tsk-tsking and chest thumping and disapproval; so okay, how about
+       I just stop all positive religious aspects of the show?
+       It seems to me, that if I do *all that* with religion, and with
+       thje (the) simple act of showing maybe ONE PERSON in all the long
+       history of TV science fiction across 40 years has a different view
+       of life, that the show is somehow degraded, or downgraded, or
+       dropped in opinion...this simply reinforces the notion, held by
+       many, that a lot of folks in the religious right wish to make sure
+       no other perspective or lifestyle is ever shown on television, at
+       any time, unless in a negative fashion.
+       The thing of it is, while on the one hand I'm getting praise from
+       religious folks for addressing spirituality in my series (speaking
+       here as an atheist), I've gotten flack from others who think it
+       has no place in a SCIENCE fiction series, and why the hell am I
+       putting something in that goes right against my own beliefs?
+       "Because," I tell them, "this show is not about reflecting my
+       beliefs, or yours, or somebody else's, it's about telling this
+       story, about these people, with as much honesty and integrity as I
+       can summon up. That means conceding the fact that religious people
+       are going to be around 260 years from now." Well, fact is, all
+       kinds of people are going to be around 260 years from now. And
+       what did the anti-religion folks say specifically about including
+       spirituality in my series? "It's not *necessary*," they said.
+       Translation: they didn't like it. Well, tough. It was right for
+       this story, and this show. And it seems to me rather hypocritical
+       for some folks, who applaud the show for tolerance, for my
+       standing up to those who want to exclude religion from TV, to then
+       turn around and say the show is diminished because it showed that
+       same tolerance...to another group or perspective. I guess
+       tolerance is only okay as long as it's pointed one way.
+       You say that as a christian, you think any sex except that between
+       a husband and a wife to be wrong. Well, as I recall, the bible
+       also speaks against murder. We've depicted deaths by the hundreds
+       of thousands. (And we're talking here about the *depicting* of the
+       act, simply showing it, not the value judgements made after the
+       fact.) Why does the one (which is so barely hinted at as to be
+       almost invisible) cause the show to be diminished where the other
+       does not?
+       My job is not to reinforce your personal political, social or
+       religious beliefs. My job is not to reinforce MY personal
+       political, social or religious beliefs. Then it isn't art or
+       storytelling anymore, it's simply propaganda. My job is to tell
+       this story, about these people, AS people, as mixed and varied as
+       they are today. And there is no outside objective criteria as to
+       what is, or isn't *necessary* in a story; that is the sole
+       province of the author. You may or may not like it. You may or may
+       not choose to watch it. Just as people who don't like to see
+       religion and god discussed on TV may dislike it or choose not to
+       watch it.
+       But you'll excuse me if I see complaints about this one little
+       thing from the religious side, after all I've done to present
+       religious characters and the religious life in a positive fashion,
+       to be hypocritical and frankly somewhat ungrateful. It's as though
+       all this means nothing because of one thing, one outside-imposed
+       litmus test that disregards anything and everything else that has
+       been done.
+       So straight up...if I should stop tolerating or showing viewpoints
+       that are not my own (spoken as someone who is absolutely
+       straight), then should I now stop showing religion as well?
+       Because that's what this comes down to. Is that what you want?
+       Because religion is included at my discretion as well as anything
+       else on this show. You want me to be less tolerant? Just say the
+       word.
+     * Ken: yes, showing does not mean endorsing, showing just means
+       saying "this is here," not to make an issue of it. If I'm going to
+       start endorsing ANYbody's POV around here, it's going to be mine,
+       and I think we all know how dreadful THAT would be.
+       As for "including controversy rather than skirting it," this is
+       more or less the point. The goal here is to not have our
+       characters or our show make *value judgments* about what our
+       characters do, because then you're hitting the audience over the
+       head with the MESSAGE. "Believers" is a good example of that; some
+       came away using parts of that to argue pro and anti interference
+       in medical situations; ditto for "Confessions" which hit squarely
+       on BOTH sides of the issue (no, you can't blame morality for
+       disease...but then, we had our characters openly requiring blood
+       testing, which annoys many on the other side of the issue)....my
+       sense is that our audience is smart enough to take the elements we
+       present them with, and discuss them, and come to their own
+       conclusions and draw their own meanings from them. It's the part
+       of objecting to even *presenting* the situation that seems to me a
+       marginal position at best.
+     * They weren't shown in separate beds. We saw Talia reaching over to
+       the empty space in the bed where Ivanova had been, and finding her
+       gone.
+     * I didn't show a kiss because, in my experience, it's easier on all
+       around if one steps into the shallow end of the pool first, and
+       walks into the deep end rather than diving in and splashing
+       everybody in the process.
+     * _Wouldn't Talia have discovered Ivanova's secret if they were
+       intimate?_
+       Well, a telepath can also hold it back and avoid dipping any
+       further into someone's mind, if not permitted or asked not to do
+       so.
+     * As for Ivanova...remember that the core of good drama is conflict.
+       So here we have a situation where a possible romantic involvement
+       is shaping up for her in year three. It shouldn't be made too
+       easy. So you create a situation that really hurts her deeply; she
+       made a difficult step, got over her distance, opened herself up,
+       became vulnerable...and got hurt very badly as a result. The same
+       thing that happened in first season, when her old flame was
+       discovered to be a big guy with Home Guard.
+       You now have someone who's freshly hurt, who is going to be
+       unwilling or slow to open up again, who's now experienced every
+       kind of relationship and NONE of them have worked...in short,
+       she's one exposed nerve ending, perfect for someone now to come in
+       who may be right, but for whom she has little time, and is
+       disposed not to get involved.
+       Sounds a lot like my own dating history...keep them razor blades
+       and salt sprays a'comin.....
+     * No, the Ivanova revelation in "Loyalties" has nothing to do with
+       replacing Talia; that is a moot point in many ways, since Lyta is
+       back, and since other things happen which take that issue off the
+       table in any event.
+     * Didn't say Talia WAS a psi-cop, Talia said she *interned with* the
+       PsiCops. Bear in mind that you're going to need support staff,
+       lower level liaisons, and a bunch of other positions as well as
+       the actual cops. _JMS has names confused; Lyta interned with the
+       PsiCops._
+     * _Did Bester try to befriend Talia because she was Control? (cf.
+       [41]"A Race Through Dark Places")_
+       You're assuming Bester knows everything. Also, Bester's interest
+       may have been more...carnal than PsiCorp oriented.
+     * _If Laurel Takashima had stayed with the crew and shot Garibaldi
+       in "Chrysalis," would she have been Control?_
+       Yes, Laurel would've been Control.
+     * Mike: your assessment is pretty much correct. Laurel was to be the
+       traitor initially; as I noted long, long time ago, and you quoted,
+       she was not, in fact, acting entirely under her own volition.
+       There would indeed have been an implanted personality there,
+       acting without even her knowing about it. And it would've been
+       this implanted personality that would've shot Garibaldi.
+       When I took Laurel off the board, elements of this were
+       transferred to other characters. This is the kind of thing I mean
+       when I say that even with changes here and there, the story
+       continues to go where I want it to go. We don't necessarily
+       remember *which* general put the briefcase with a bomb next to
+       Hitler's chair in the bunker, only that it got done. Some chairs
+       are moveable, some are not, as anyone who's ever written a novel
+       from an outline can tell you...you start moving the chairs around,
+       but you always keep going where you're going.
+     * Yeah, originally it was the Kosh-scan that would've gotten Lyta in
+       trouble; the TK aspect was originally going to come in from
+       another angle, but I was able to collapse the two in Talia, and
+       then bring Lyta in from a different direction, as you'll see in
+       one of the first batch of new year 3 eps.
+     * If Laurel *had* stayed with the show, by the middle of year two
+       the fact that she was Control would've been revealed via the
+       password incident. At that point, one particular possibility was
+       that her second in command under her -- a rather dour Russian
+       lieutenant named Ivanova -- would've been promoted to take her
+       place, while Laurel was moved off the chessboard. (This was
+       planned because we knew going in that Tamlyn Tomita had a growing
+       film career, and we probably could've only kept her for a couple
+       of years in the best of circumstances. So why not turn that to
+       your advantage?)
+       The position now being occupied by Corwin, Ivanova's second, is
+       the position that Ivanova would've held (though more prominently)
+       if Laurel had stayed on. (And no, Corwin doesn't now have that arc
+       lurking in the background.)
+       See, it's easy to stick to an outline and never diverge if you're
+       writing characters in a novel; in a TV show, with live actors, you
+       have to be flexible, plan ahead, come up with contingency plans,
+       and have threads that weave and interlock in ways to leave you
+       maximum flexibility while still proceeding toward your
+       destination.
+     * Takashima would have been the one to be Control. A Psi Corps
+       plant. (Her background on Mars would've been the perfect time for
+       it to have happened.) When Laurel went away, I took that one
+       thread and passed it along to Talia, setting it up as early as the
+       very first episode, when Talia and Ivanova first meet, and later
+       reluctantly have a drink.
+       At one point, Ivanova says to Talia, referencing Ivanova's mother,
+       "You're as much of a victim as she was." To which Talia replies,
+       "I don't feel like a victim." And, of course, that's exactly what
+       she was, though she didn't know it yet. Ivanova's analysis was
+       100% correct.
+       
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+    ### GUIDE ### [3][Background] [4][Synopsis] [5][Credits] [6][Episode
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     The Narn-Centauri War reaches a turning point. Sheridan is
+     contacted by a powerful ally, who offers assistance. [15]John
+     Schuck. [16]W. Morgan Sheppard as Warleader G'Sten. [17]William
+     Forward as Refa.
+     
+Sub-genre: Action/Intrigue
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]9.49
+
+Production number: 219
+Original air date: August 1, 1995 (UK)
+                   October 18, 1995 (US)
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John Flinn
+
+   _Note: this episode is more momentous than most. Think twice before
+   proceeding to the spoilers; it's worth seeing unawares._
+   
+  Watch For
+  
+     * A change in the number of candles in G'Kar's quarters.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * The new Centauri emperor, Cartargia, is acting mostly as a
+       figurehead, a front for Refa and his compatriots.
+     * A treaty among all the aligned worlds outlawed the use of mass
+       drivers as a weapon of war, similar to the Earth treaties
+       outlawing the use of chemical and biological weapons.
+     * Draal says he has found other beings on Epsilon 3, ones who take
+       care of the great Machine Draal is at the heart of. One of them is
+       a fellow named Zathras (cf. [20]"Babylon Squared.")
+     * Delenn has been in charge of all the Rangers on Babylon 5. She now
+       shares that command with Sheridan.
+     * Sheridan does not know that Sinclair is behind the Rangers.
+     * The Centauri seem to have gravity control technology. Londo
+       watches as the Centauri bombard the Narn homeworld, standing --
+       seemingly in gravity -- aboard a motionless ship. (Either that, or
+       they have magnetic shoes.)
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What's Zathras doing on Epsilon 3, and how did he get there? If
+       the planet has been undisturbed for at least the past 500 years
+       ([21]"A Voice in the Wilderness, part 2,") is he that old?
+     * Where was Zathras such that Draal, with sight that extends across
+       light-years, couldn't find him? Perhaps he wasn't in another
+       place, but another time (see [22]"Babylon Squared.")
+     * Will the great machine be involved in pulling Babylon 4 through
+       time?
+     * Now that Londo has stated he no longer wishes to associate with
+       the Shadows, his usefulness to Lord Refa is at an end. How will
+       Refa handle this?
+     * What exactly was G'Kar told to do in the Kha'Ri's last message?
+       Ask for sanctuary, obviously, but anything else?
+     * What other technology do the Shadows have that we haven't seen
+       yet?
+     * Have the Narn unwittingly discovered a weakness of the Shadows?
+       (see [23]Analysis)
+     * Now that G'Kar has been stripped of his homeworld and position on
+       Babylon 5, what can he contribute to the battle against the
+       Shadows?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Londo is now convinced that his associates are far too powerful
+       for their motives to be solely for his benefit. He realises that
+       he has become a pawn in their larger game, and that his personal
+       quest for more power has lead to the death of esteemed friends and
+       many innocents. While convinced of this, and that he has allowed
+       himself to be maneuvered at every turn by the will of others, he
+       still carries through with his role as a paper tiger
+       politician/ambassador.
+     * The Shadows show some new weaponry. It appears that each ship can
+       "give birth" to a cluster of forty or so of the smaller fighters
+       G'Kar encountered at Z'ha'dum in [24]"Revelations." We are not
+       shown that these fighters are re-assimilated at the end of the
+       confrontation, and it is also unknown how many times each Shadow
+       can do this.
+       The second weapon has the ability to disrupt a jump point so that
+       it is fatal for any ship to attempt to use it. Once an attack
+       against the Shadows begins it appears you can leave only when they
+       so allow it.
+     * The Shadow "wounded" during the battle is thrown off course by the
+       loss of one of its spines. After the battle is finished, a second
+       Shadow joins with it as if to assist it. The broken spine is
+       clearly visible on the ship that does not move during the docking
+       procedure. It suggests that the damaged Shadow was unable to
+       function as effectively, perhaps because it was in pain.
+     * With Draal offering the resources of the highly advanced
+       technology at his command, it appears that Babylon 5 is one of the
+       few places that may withstand a Shadow assault. That it can become
+       the base of operations for the Army of Light is now clear.
+       Perhaps more importantly, Babylon 5 can probably also withstand a
+       frontal assault by Earthforce, though they might prefer to destroy
+       it from within.
+     * The Centauri use of mass drivers flauts all previously signed
+       conventions, and it appears (cf. [25]"And Now for a Word," where
+       the Centauri are discovered using Babylon 5 to transport mass
+       drivers and energy weapons) that they have been planning this kind
+       of assault on the Narn homeworld for some time.
+     * A mass driver uses a heavy object (such as a small asteroid)
+       launched from orbit toward a planet's surface at low speed. As it
+       falls through the planet's gravity well it gains considerable
+       momentum. On impact the immediate area becomes a crater, and huge
+       quantities of dust are thrown up into the atmosphere, blocking out
+       sunlight and causing something like a nuclear winter. E. E. "Doc"
+       Smith's [26]Lensman series, written from 1937 to 1948, is the
+       first literary SF work to use mass drivers as weapons for
+       planetary bombardment as shown in this episode. (If you know of an
+       earlier work, send me mail!)
+     * All of the major governments (with the exception of the Vorlons)
+       are now under serious internal stress. They are either
+       introspective (Earth,) skeptical of present danger (Minbari,)
+       overextended (Centauri,) or occupied (Narn). It appears that the
+       Shadows have achieved, either directly or indirectly, effective
+       destabilization of every major power that might stand up to their
+       forces.
+     * Ambassador Kosh openly lets the Rangers know of his involvement.
+     * It appears that Garibaldi's friendship with Londo has strained to
+       the breaking point.
+     * Sheridan now has access to the Rangers. This appears to be
+       fulfilling the dream induced by Kosh (cf. [27]"All Alone in the
+       Night") where he is described as being "The Hand." Presumably this
+       reference is to his role as someone who will help lead the forces
+       of light as the right hand man of "The One."
+     * A fully prepared numerically superior Narn task force is easily
+       destroyed by the Shadows. Unless more effective combat techniques
+       are discovered, the battle with darkness will have to involve more
+       subtle tactics.
+     * Londo hasn't forgiven Refa for the death of his friend Urza Jaddo
+       ([28]"Knives.")
+     * Londo's cough in the council chamber scene sounds suspiciously
+       like the one in his dream in [29]"The Coming of Shadows." Could he
+       be coming down with something? (See [30]jms speaks)
+       
+Notes
+
+     * JMS premiered this episode at the Chicago Comicon on July 1, 1995.
+     * W. Morgan Sheppard also appeared in the first season episode
+       [31]"Soul Hunter" as the title character.
+     * The episode's initial airing, in the UK, was 50 years, almost to
+       the day, after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima during
+       World War II. Considering the obvious parallels between the
+       Centauri use of mass drivers and the American use of the atomic
+       bomb, that's a serindipitous, if unintentional, bit of timing.
+     * "Now the trumpet summons us again: not as a call to bear arms,
+       though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though in battle we
+       are; but as a call to bear the burdens of a long, twilight
+       struggle--year in and year out, rejoicing in hope, patient in
+       tribulation--a struggle against the common enemies of
+       man--tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself." --John Fitzgerald
+       Kennedy. An [32]audio version of his speech is available. [INLINE]
+     * In the first Londo-Refa scene, just before Refa sits, what looks
+       like a wooden duck with its wings outstretched is visible on a
+       shelf beside the throne. Perhaps it's a Centauri cat (cf.
+       [33]"Chrysalis.")
+     * Candles are used subtly to represent hope, here and in previous
+       episodes (see [34]jms speaks.) At the beginning of G'Kar's prayer
+       scene, the shelf behind him is filled with burning candles -- but
+       by the end, as his people's last hope is destroyed by the Shadows,
+       they've all gone out.
+     * Likewise, when Londo and Refa are talking, they're both cloaked in
+       shadow -- until Londo expresses misgivings about his associates
+       and emerges into the light.
+     * The battle sequence was directed by Mojo of Foundation Imaging;
+       the mass-driver sequence was directed by John Teska. The episode
+       has more effects footage than any previous one, nearly five
+       minutes' worth. The effects took almost a month to produce.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * "The Long, Twilight Struggle" is probably the biggest episode of
+       the entire two years to date, story and EFX and character wise,
+       and will have a profound effect on the series that I'd compare to
+       a cross between "Signs and Portents" and "Chrysalis".
+     * I don't want to say anything about "The Long Twilight Struggle" at
+       this time, to avoid hyping people. Suffice to say it's a very
+       strong episode.
+     * Hell, in some ways, when compared with "Struggle," "The Coming of
+       Shadows" is a light comedy in which nothing much happens.
+     * Without spoiling anything...yes, in this regard, I've always noted
+       that there are some echoes of WW II in the overall storyline, and
+       some applies here. Also, again, the purpose of a large measure of
+       the show is to elicit discussion of such issues as this...where
+       are the mora, (moral) responsibilities in such a situation? What
+       are the ethics of mass warfare? Where does expediency begin and
+       compassion end? *Should* compassion have to end for the greater
+       good?
+       If we can start some bar fights, I'll have done my job.
+       Fact is, I don't have one single damned good answer. But I've got
+       a whole LOTTA questions...
+     * Thanks. Yes, there's a WW II parallel, not in terms of justifying
+       one or the other -- one can make compelling arguments for and
+       against the use of atomic weapons to close the war, but I leave it
+       to those who were there to have made the right decision, because
+       they had to live with it -- but in terms of strategy and wartime
+       logic.
+     * Thank you. I'm quite frankly thrilled beyond words at the
+       preliminary reactions from the UK to this episode; we worked
+       *really* hard on it, and I can't tell you what the reactions mean
+       to us.
+     * Thanks. It's definitely one of my favorite episodes. The intensity
+       is terrific.
+     * Yes, "They're being bombed back to the stone age" is a Vietnam era
+       quote.
+     * Re: what you could see of the planet's surface...one of the side
+       effects of the technology used is that, realistically, it would
+       throw up a *hideous* amount of smoke, dust and debris, and you
+       wouldn't see much of anything.
+     * _Why isn't Londo floating weightless?_
+       Some races, like the Centauri and the Minbari, use drive systems
+       built to varying degrees on magnetic and gravitational forces;
+       some of them don't so much go to a planet as create a situation
+       where they are drawn toward it. One of the side effects of this is
+       a field allowing for artificial gravity. Earth doesn't have this
+       level of technology, however.
+     * Re: your note about 500 Narns for every 1 Centauri...you may want
+       to check our own history. During the occupation of some parts of
+       Europe during WW II, similar tactics were used. In some cases the
+       threat rose as high as 100-200 Jews or Russians executed for every
+       Nazi killed; much the same has been done in earlier history. Five
+       hundred to one is a figure relatively consistent with what humans
+       have done from time to time when we wish to instill terror. So I
+       find this a curious quibble.
+     * Actually, Londo *specifies* that the 500 will include "the
+       perpetrator's own family."
+     * _Was Draal's voice dubbed?_
+       No, his voice wasn't dubbed, or changed, by anyone; might've been
+       a glitch in local audio or something.
+     * Thanks. Draal's played by John Shuck, who did a great job. And
+       yes, we'll definitely be seeing him again. (We first met him in "A
+       Voice in the Wilderness.")
+     * _I loved the part with Draal calling out for Zathras_
+       Yeah, that was a rather Draal bit of humor, wasn't it?
+     * In part it's John's take on the character, but what I indicated to
+       him was that Draal's gone through some considerable changes by
+       entering the heart of the machine; it's given him greater
+       understanding, and the freeing aspects of greater humor. It's
+       almost like -- and I hate to even use the reference because
+       somebody'll say "Oh, that's what he's doing," and I ain't, it's
+       just a point of comparison -- Tom Bombadil in LoTR...quite funny,
+       but also someone not to be trifled with.
+     * It wasn't intended that Delenn should touch Draal; it sorta
+       happened on the set, and no one really noticed, and it wasn't
+       worth going back and reshooting the whole thing. My sense is that
+       if it's like a virtual reality situation, she would "feel" it even
+       though it's not there, if the image was impinging correctly on the
+       brain.
+       But in either event, the image is not and should not be considered
+       to be solid.
+       As for Londo's shot...the director called "cut" I think a bit too
+       soon, we used every frame we had to extend that shot (and, in
+       fact, we even went so far as to freeze the final frame and extend
+       the shot by a smidge, if you look at it carefully). Nonetheless, I
+       think it works pretty spiffily.
+       As for the mass drivers, the amount of energy required to move
+       something that big would generate huge amounts of heat, possibly
+       making them even white-hot hence the glow.
+     * _An actor's job is to physicalize the script. Can you give an
+       example?_
+       Yes, I think that's accurate. The most obvious place where it
+       worked was where Londo looks through the window to Narn being
+       bombed below. There's no dialogue, and he has to convey a range of
+       emotions just through his face....which is a terribly difficult
+       thing to do, and he did a superb job of it.
+     * Mass drivers use asteroids freely available in space, accelerated
+       and fired into a planetary atmosphere. EA non-rotational ships
+       have zero g. EA tech is generally much lower in weapons tech and
+       other areas than the Minbari and Vorlons, among others.
+     * Actually, what Delenn said was, "...the Rangers *in this area* are
+       under my direct command." So Sinclair's post as Ranger One remains
+       back on Minbar.
+       And yes, Sinclair has apparently been described as the One...but
+       you must ask...the one *what*?
+       Expect final answers to this one late this coming season.
+     * _On each season's music for the opening credits reflecting the
+       mood of the season_
+       What do I have in mind for season three? What I indicated to Chris
+       Franke was to look at a piece of music he did in "The Long,
+       Twilight Struggle" and interpolate some elements of that into the
+       main theme, with a very hard sound. The piece in question is about
+       the middle of the first really...um...busy scene after the act
+       break.
+     * Until "The Long Twilight Struggle," nothing else has come close to
+       that scene [the attack on the Narn outpost in "Coming of Shadows"]
+       for me. But there's some stuff in there that finally manages to to
+       surpass it. Just gorgeous and scary and awe-inspiring.
+     * _These Narn heavy cruisers were different than the ones in
+       [35]"Midnight on the Firing Line."_
+       There are various kinds of ships the Narns have, some older than
+       others; the ones in the first ep were older ones.
+     * _About the Narn/Shadow battle_
+       Thanks. Yeah, that scene is one of my favorites; a lot of work
+       went into it, and I think it shows.
+     * _Secret of Narn success in injuring a Shadow ship?_
+       Not much to the secret...they coordinated their firepower on one
+       of the ships, in hopes of doing damage.
+     * G'Kar's prayers would have been unrelated to the wounding of the
+       shadow vessel.
+     * _Was the Shadow ship permanently disabled?_
+       It was in shock, but it would've recovered in a bit more time.
+     * _Were there four Shadow ships stacked together after the battle?_
+       Actually, what's probably confusing is that the shadow vessels are
+       bi-level, so when two come together it looks like four or so; but
+       it's just the two.
+     * Thanks. One of the things I wanted to try was to find a way to
+       stage long-range combat. One of the things everyone says is that
+       even though real aerial combat tends to be at great distance --
+       and space combat would be conducted over thousands of kilometers,
+       you probably wouldn't be able to even SEE your opponent at that
+       range, just pick up the enemy ships on your scanners -- you can't
+       do that for TV because you need to have both in frame, hammering
+       each other short-range, to make it work for viewers.
+       But I've always liked a challenge, so I thought I'd see if I could
+       make it work. The two sides are, as noted, thousands of kilometers
+       apart, and take most of that sequences just to catch up with each
+       other. And frankly, I think it's probably one of the most dynamic
+       battle sequences we've ever done, so you can expect more in the
+       future, now that I've kind of got the hang of how to do this.
+     * Agreed. The use of different tactics and weapons at different
+       distances gives a sense that there is a *strategy* behind what's
+       going on, that it's not just two ships coming with city blocks of
+       one another and clobbering each other. Strategy implies
+       intelligence, and to see intelligence in the shadow vessels is
+       scary indeed.....
+     * The reason for the placement of the jump points is *very* straight
+       forward.
+       By virtue of their size and the tremendous forces unleashed by
+       punching a hole into hyperspace, you want to form it a little
+       distance away or risk being severely damaged. If they formed the
+       points between them and the enemy, which was quite capable of
+       avoiding them, it would be entirely possible for the shadows to
+       get in front of the point and cut off their sole means of escape.
+       Usually, better to form them behind you, so the enemy can't block
+       your way out, and take a possible hit or two to your aft sections
+       than be totally cut off. They didn't anticipate the extra weapons
+       the shadows had.
+     * _Were those Narn cruisers especially big?_
+       The cruiser is the same size as that sent to look into Z'ha'dum;
+       it's just a matter of perspective and how close the camera gets.
+     * _Did the shadow ships phase out to avoid the energy mines?_
+       No, they didn't phase out so much as absorb the energy, at cost of
+       great pain.
+     * Well, they're organic technology, so they can feel, but only after
+       a fashion.
+     * "Why didn't the fighters do anything?"
+       They did. Look more closely. They engaged the Narn fighters in
+       dogfights all over the place. They're hardly more than specks
+       against the huge ships, but they're definitely there.
+     * _One Shadow ship in "Signs and Portents," two in "Chrysalis,"
+       three in "The Coming of Shadows," four here?_
+       Give Tim Lynch a ceegar. Yes, more ships are starting to appear,
+       as more ships become available.
+     * _They only have four ships?_
+       Never said you're seeing their entire fleet, you're seeing what
+       they can afford to send out at any given moment on relatively
+       low-priority jobs.
+     * Dave: yup. Londo's never coughed before, and this was very
+       deliberately placed. He's on the path, like it or not.
+     * _The Vorlons lodged an official protest! Is this the first time
+       they've taken an action like that?_
+       Yeah, that's pretty much the first time since the pilot where the
+       Vorlons got involved with the Sinclair situation.
+     * Bingo. As I mentioned before, the "long twilight struggle" title
+       is a quote; you correctly identified the source in the [36]JFK
+       quote.
+     * _About Sheridan's closing speech_
+       Certainly, Sheridan is slowly growing more into a leader who must
+       be able to step to the front in this kind of way, yes.
+     * _What does "the balloon is going up" mean?_
+       There have been many explanations for where this phrase comes
+       from. Most of them are obviously spook etymology, but the first
+       one I heard -- and who knows if this is right -- comes from WW I,
+       where just before one side would go into battle, they'd send one
+       man up in a hot air balloon to scout the enemy's location. If you
+       saw the balloon going up, you knew combat wasn't far behind.
+       Wherever it comes from, though, that's the general meaning of the
+       phrase.
+       _Editor's note: Apparently the term dates back to the American
+       Civil War, during which balloons were deployed by the Signal Corps
+       before battles._
+     * Candles are, I think, wonderfully emblematic of life, and of being
+       a single ray of light, or hope, in a dark place. The Grey Council
+       stands between the candle and the star; watch G'Kar's action re: a
+       candle in his quarters...and in that scene (for those who've seen
+       TLTS) note how many candles are in the room in the beginning, and
+       at the end.
+       We are the candle that burns brightly, stubbornly,
+       effectively...but briefly.
+     * [37]The candles in G'Kar's quarters
+       Sherry...thank you. The level of attention to detail is the *only*
+       way that this story will be told properly. It means you sit down
+       with the director, and others, and you make totally clear --
+       there, and in the script -- what you saw in your head when you
+       wrote it. As well as repeatd verbal themes, cues, phraseologies,
+       it's important (since this is a visual medium) to incorporate
+       visual cues that add to the thematic thrust of the piece, that
+       create a mood, or convey an emotion or a thought on an almost
+       cellular level. The hardest part is being careful not to OVER use
+       them, because then they lose all meaning and impact.
+     * Re: G'Kar's position on the council...Sheridan could have carried
+       on, but it would've been basically useless. The Centauri now
+       occupy and run Narn, and thanks to the surrender and agreement to
+       the Centauri terms, call the shots as far as who can legitimately
+       speak for Narn. Sheridan could've kept G'Kar *in the room*, but
+       he'd still be powerless, without portfolio, and the whole concept
+       of the council would be shot. He is now simply Citizen G'Kar, same
+       as any other Narn. No, Londo isn't of higher rank in the council
+       than Sheridan, but he speaks for the Centauri, and the Centauri
+       speak for Narn.
+     * Re: Earth's attitude toward the Centauri...stick around for 2 more
+       episodes.
+       Re: not recognizing the Centauri rule...on what basis would or
+       could Earth do this? If the Narns had not agreed to total and
+       unconditional surrender, sure, there might be a case you could
+       make...otherwise, one doesn't have a leg to stand on.
+       Vampyr...okay, (poink), I've now made you Babylon 5 Person here.
+       So how could Sheridan "take Londo down a peg" in any manner
+       consistent with reality? Yell at him? Sure, but to what effect? He
+       had nothing to back it up. Before, in "Shadows," he had a bluff he
+       could run; now that's not relevant because the actions have all
+       been taken, and there is nothing that can be done to stop it.
+       Sometimes, things happen in the real world, and we'd love to see
+       the person taken down a peg, as you say...but sometimes actually
+       *doing* that in a real world situation, or a fairly rigorous
+       fictional situation, is a different matter.
+       
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
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+Overview
+
+     G'Kar tries to rally the Narn on Babylon 5. Kosh tests Delenn's
+     allegiance by summoning an ancient inquisitor. [15]Wayne Alexander
+     as Sebastian. [16]Jack Kehler as Mr. Chase.
+     
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]8.47
+
+Production number: 221
+Original air date: August 8, 1995 (UK)
+                   October 25, 1995 (US)
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Laurence Vejar
+
+   _Emmy nomination_ for cinematography
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * The Vorlons have visited Earth in the past, as recently as the
+       nineteenth century, and have even taken humans to their homeworld.
+     * Garibaldi maintains friendships with people he knows are dealing
+       in illegal smuggling operations.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * How did the Rangers get the message from Narn in 24 hours? (See
+       [19]Analysis)
+     * Exactly how long have the Vorlons been visiting Earth, and for
+       what purpose?
+     * How did they discover Sebastian, and what made them choose him as
+       their inquisitor?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * All of the key players on the side of light have now had their
+       commitment and loyalty to their cause tested. Sheridan, Garibaldi,
+       Ivanova, and Franklin in their battle against the current Earth
+       Alliance administration (cf. [20]"Divided Loyalties.") And now
+       Delenn and Sheridan as the "spirit" and "warrior," respectively,
+       of the Army of Light. The pieces seem to be falling into place on
+       the side of light.
+     * G'Kar preaching about what the Centauri will do next is somewhat
+       chilling. Most people just don't want to believe it. Yet in
+       [21]"The Long, Twilight Struggle" we heard that the Centauri have
+       already annexed several non-Narn worlds. JMS has said that G'Kar
+       is his Cassandra character, gifted with the power of prophesy yet
+       heeded by none. The fact that it was a human who argued against
+       G'Kar may be an indication of things to come.
+     * Based on Sebastian's comments, Sheridan determines that he is most
+       likely Jack the Ripper. Sebastian's final comment also appears to
+       confirm this. The murderer killed five prostitutes between August
+       7th and November 10th of 1888 in the East End of London (Sheridan
+       stated the West End, but got the date correct), and was never
+       caught. He stalked the streets at night, slitting his victims'
+       throats and then mutilating their bodies. The nickname "Jack the
+       Ripper" reportedly came from several letters sent to the police,
+       but their authenticity has been questioned.
+     * The Vorlons have been to Earth on many occasions, and all over the
+       galaxy in general. This is quite likely part of the reason why
+       Kosh will be recognised by everyone if he(?) steps out of the
+       encounter suit.
+     * This marks the second time a major, secretive power has sent a
+       human representative to Babylon 5 to ask a question: the Shadows
+       with Morden and "What do you want?" and the Vorlons with Sebastian
+       and "Who are you?" Why do the Vorlons, in particular, feel the
+       need to act through a third party? Delenn obviously knows about
+       Kosh already, so why couldn't Kosh have conducted the
+       interrogation? Perhaps he simply chooses to remain aloof and let
+       others do his dirty work, or perhaps for some reason he felt he
+       wouldn't have been as effective as Sebastian was.
+     * Sheridan and Garibaldi have given the Rangers their first trial in
+       a combat zone, on behalf of G'Kar. They succeeded in the allotted
+       24 hours but we are given no information on how. Perhaps they are
+       able to penetrate the Centauri communications network. Or perhaps
+       it involved two "hit and run" jumps into the Narn homeworld
+       system. The first to deliver the message to search for this family
+       (there must already be Rangers on Narn,) and the second to pick up
+       the required transmission. This runs the risk of being detected
+       and caught by Centauri forces patrolling the system (a jump point
+       presumably has a very bright characteristic energy signature on
+       scanners). While the search might have been initiated via
+       telepathic contact (cf. [22]"The Coming of Shadows," specifically
+       the Centuari Emperor's telepaths, who can communicate over
+       interstellar distances) this is unlikely, and telepathy almost
+       certainly cannot transmit the contents of a data crystal. Another
+       possible explanation is that there are Centauri Rangers.
+     * Vir's encounter with G'Kar indicates the depth of the hatred that
+       the Narn feel for their oppressors. An apology is no longer
+       possible in G'Kar's eyes, only the release of his people from
+       their occupation and the destruction of the Centauri along the
+       way. Something inside Vir might well give soon; he has already
+       stood up to Morden ([23]"In The Shadow of Z'ha'dum") and tried to
+       tell Londo of the consequences of his actions - what next?
+     * Vir's dismissal of the Centuari businessman, "I have already told
+       you the Ambassador can do nothing for you." Is that a polite way
+       of telling the businessman to go away, or has Londo's sphere of
+       influence been reduced by his refusal to involve the Shadows
+       again?
+     * There's an interesting parallel between the main storyline and
+       Garibaldi's talk with G'Kar. Both Garibaldi and Sebastian go into
+       their respective conversations expecting a certain outcome, but
+       allowing room for the other person to act otherwise. The
+       difference is that Garibaldi is an optimist -- he expected G'Kar
+       to do the right thing -- while Sebastian expected to be
+       disappointed as he so often had been in the past.
+     * This isn't the first reference to Jack the Ripper on the show. In
+       [24]"Mind War," Ivanova accuses Psi Corps of having "all the moral
+       fiber of Jack the Ripper." Whether that's just a coincidence
+       remains to be seen.
+     * Given the fact that Delenn was a member of the Grey Council, the
+       choice of Grey section (by Sheridan) as the place for the
+       inquisition was rather interesting. In addition, some elements of
+       the lighting inside Grey 19 (the circles of light on the floor,
+       arranged in a circular pattern, with Delenn in a center circle)
+       were reminiscent of the Grey Council, especially the last time she
+       was in their presence.
+     * On a more speculative numerological note, the number nineteen (the
+       inquisition occurred in Grey 19) is composed of the digits "1" and
+       "9." Taking the analysis to an extreme, perhaps the "9" represents
+       the Grey Council and the "1" represents the chosen one.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * One of the Narn in the meeting with G'Kar is played by Dennis
+       Michael, a CNN reporter who was doing a story on B5's makeup
+       group, Optic Nerve, and was made up as a Narn as part of his news
+       story.
+     * Was someone named Sebastian an actual suspect in the murders?
+     * In the original UK broadcast, the scene between G'Kar and Vir was
+       edited to not show G'Kar cutting his hand. The edit is obvious
+       once you know it's there.
+     * One of Sebastian's closing remarks resembled a Biblical quote,
+       John 15:13: "There is no greater love than this: to lay down one's
+       life for one's friends."
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * "CtI is the only episode in the last four that we know nothing
+       about."
+       And if I figure out how I happened to achieve that (short of just
+       keeping my big yap shut), I'll do it some more. There should be
+       some surprises, yes?
+       And it's an arc story, yes, but in a very odd way.
+     * _(Referring to Delenn's actions in [25]"Confessions and
+       Lamentations")_
+       Re: why Delenn would do such a thing . . . hold out for "Comes the
+       Inquisitor" . . . it gets into her rationales on such things.
+     * "I can't wait to see how you torture us next week!"
+       Funny line, that, which you'll understand in a few days.
+     * The Inquisitor was a great episode to write, and Wayne did a
+       killer job with it (so to speak). That one episode has received
+       more mail than most others, particularly from those in the
+       religious community, as well as at universities, crisis centers,
+       you name it. Something there seemed to strike a chord.
+       It's easy in an SF show to cut to the EFX and let it rock; to me,
+       the challenge is what's shown in those scenes: two people, locked
+       in a room, no (or few) EFX, no car chases, not even much of a
+       set...with explosions of dialogue and character. Ah loves it.
+     * _Emmy nominations_
+       John Flinn got a nomination for cinematograhy for "Inquisitor."
+       Last year we sent videotapes of our up-for-nomination episodes,
+       and got three nominations for it. But WB got upset by this -- they
+       don't do this for their other shows, we did it on our own -- and
+       ordered us not to do it again. The other shows don't need it
+       because they're network shows and get good exposure; most
+       syndicated shows (non-Trek) tend not to be Emmy aspirees, so it's
+       not a problem there. We're in between, and we were, in effect,
+       producing videotapes, and they didn't want that. So we had to sit
+       on our hands and not do what we knew would result in getting more
+       noms. It's very frustrating.
+     * "With Comes The Inquisitor...how obvious was it to you that G'Kar
+       was going to be the counterpoint to Delenn and Sebastian. was it
+       an immediate connection, or did you have to sit and look, and then
+       think "Ah...that's the one?"
+       That one was a pretty easy one.
+     * As for locale, it was similar to, but not exactly the same as the
+       one in which the Marcabs died [in "Confessions and Lamentations"],
+       though I did want to somewhat evoke the memory of that when I
+       indicated the set I had in mind.
+     * Sebastian was played by Wayne Alexander, a British actor of great
+       skill who hasn't been seen much on TV before this, but should now,
+       with this performance as a calling card. It was a stunning
+       performance.
+     * I don't think Wayne has done that much TV work before, he's
+       primarily a stage actor, but in any event, he's certainly
+       brilliant as Sebastian.
+     * Why bring up Sebastian's past? Because it's integral to who he is
+       now, and what he's doing, and why he's doing it. Also, there's
+       something very important here about greying up the Vorlons a
+       little; of all the people they could've chosen for this job, why
+       THIS kind of person? It makes them a trifle more morally
+       ambiguous, which is necessary.
+     * "It doesn't fit in with the way the Vorlons have been portrayed.
+       It bothered me."
+       Good. That was the intended result.
+       Part of the reason for the story was to grey up the Vorlons a
+       little; one shouldn't fall too easily for what other people *say*
+       they are.
+       (One might also say much the same of the old testament god who
+       would have Job so severely tested, btw.)
+       One should always be cautious of taking *anyone* at face value on
+       B5.
+       "...you could consider them a force for good."
+       Ah, but what *is* good? And whose *version* of good are we
+       discussing?
+     * I'd say there's a very good chance that the Vorlons have more than
+       one Inquisitor.
+     * _Was Sebastian based on Star Trek's "Q"?_
+       No, had nothing to do with Q, it's deciding what kind of person
+       our Mr. Sebastian might've been, and working from there. When you
+       have a character with as vivid and powerful as his, you don't need
+       to look to ST for any ideas on character. And unlike Q, Sebastian
+       has no powers of his own, just the force of his personality.
+     * _What was the last word in Sebastian's "What about" litany?_
+       Actually, the last one, since it was going to be drowned out, was
+       an adlib, "eternity."
+     * "What about eternity?" It was an adlib from the actor just to
+       cover the moment when Delenn rises, knowing it would likely never
+       get heard over the rest of it.
+     * Also, check Sebastian's reaction when he asks Delenn what if she's
+       wrong, "have you ever considered that? HAVE YOU?"
+       She responds, softly, "....yes."
+       Look at his face when she says this. It rattles him. It's not the
+       answer he expected, but more important, it's not the answer he
+       wanted, needed to hear.
+       He needed to hear her say that she had never had the slightest
+       *scintilla* of doubt, that as he had been, she was a True
+       Believer, a fanatic, incapable of doubt of mistake...and thus
+       doomed to failure. He can't even meet her gaze; he turns, looks
+       away, and suggests an "intermission" that is more for his benefit
+       than hers.
+       There's an awful lot going on in this show, a great deal of it sub
+       rosa, under the surface, implied in gestures or hesitations or
+       looks, some implied, some stated outright. He *hates* the memory
+       of Jack; it's not his name, the one thing that is his...remember,
+       he is caught up with "who ARE you?" and his answer to that is lost
+       in the persona created by history...his true name, is what's
+       totally forgotten to history.
+     * Sebastian learns quite a bit in the course of that encounter about
+       himself...especially when she rubs it in his face as she does.
+     * Of course, bear in mind that there *is* no correct answer to
+       Sebastian's question...because no matter what answer you give, the
+       question will be repeated. It's a process, not a goal, designed to
+       tear down the artifices we construct around ourselves until we're
+       left facing ourselves, not our roles. At some point the "answer,"
+       such as it is, must transcend language.
+       Since the episode aired, I've received many notes from philosophy
+       teachers and religious instructors and those who ran the Synanon
+       game noting that they've used that technique as well, or intend to
+       do so from now on.
+     * The episode underlines that there are two fundamental questions in
+       B5: who are you, and what do you want? The order in which you
+       answer those two questions can either make you great...or destroy
+       you.
+     * _About "Who are you?"_
+       Yeah, that's one of the primal questions, isn't it? And one that
+       we are too often distracted from considering.
+     * The key to the questions is that you generally have to first be
+       able to answer "who are you?" before you can intelligently
+       determine "what do you want?" To deal right with "what do you
+       want" before you know who you are is destructive in almost any
+       situation.
+     * I think that, in the long run, the vorlons and the shadows will
+       answer the questions Who are you and What do you want...in that
+       that's kind of what they *are*, if that makes any sense.
+       Well, it will. Eventually.
+     * It's not that there's a *correct* answer, but that there's an
+       *informed* answer. If you decide what you want, before you know
+       who you are, you're likely to get something that will destroy you;
+       if you know who you are, you can then ask for something that will
+       be of greater use to you.
+     * The pain is necessary because it's easy to consider laying down
+       one's life intellectually; when the pain and the agony bring it
+       home, it's no longer as easy.
+       And there *is* no correct answer to "Who are you?" The only real
+       answer is no answer, because as soon as you apply someone's term
+       for it, you have limited yourself, defined yourself in someone
+       else's terms.
+       Doing things in a refined, gentle, intellectual manner is the sort
+       of thing Delenn's used to, she can handle that easily...the goal
+       of Sebastian was to try and *break* her. That's not intended to be
+       done gently. You don't break someone over a cup of tea discussing
+       philosophical concepts and the nature of personal identity. It's
+       also not terribly dramatic to watch.
+       Because of her position, rank and authority, she expected to be
+       treated a certain way...which was why it was important to treat
+       her just the opposite. It's easy to put oneself into a grand
+       prophecy, to assume one has a destiny...to pay the price for that
+       is something else again. Anyone can do the former; very few can
+       ever do the latter.
+     * Sacrificing oneself happens frequently...but for just one other
+       person, AND in a situation where no one else would ever know about
+       it. Bear in mind that he wasn't testing people randomly; only
+       those who felt that they were chosen of god, fulfillers of
+       prophecy...people who assumed that they were part of some grand
+       scheme, and thus to whom an anonymous death is an intolerable
+       thought.
+       Also, most probably never *got* that far, unable to stand the real
+       pain of being placed in this position. Everybody can talk the
+       talk; very few can walk the walk. Most probably just yanked off
+       the bracelets and split, on the theory that they weren't being
+       sufficiently coddled or glorified...or because being a potential
+       prophet isn't as much fun as they'd thought.
+     * There have been a great number of films and TV programs with one
+       sort of interrogation scene or other; I'd commend "Closetland" for
+       something else on this order.
+     * Mentioning just the first name may not have been necessary for UK
+       viewers, but it was necessary for the rest of the planet.
+     * Of course, his real name was never Jack Sebastian; "Jack" is his
+       working name, Sebastian could be a first or last name.
+     * I tied him [Sebastian] to a specific person because in writing,
+       you *always* try to go for specifics, because generalities don't
+       really work. It's the difference, in prose, between, "The room
+       smelled good," and "The room smelled of cinnamon and fresh
+       coffee." Also, the specific connotations to who and what Jack was
+       were essential and integral to the storyline.
+     * "Jack" was the media appellation; whether Sebastian is a first or
+       last name is left open.
+       I looked at who this historical figure could be, but no one else
+       fit into the area I wanted. It was a decision born of necessity,
+       not whim. I needed someone far enough removed not to have any
+       current victims' families still alive; someone known to a
+       worldwide population (anonymous wouldn't have worked because why
+       would Sheridan have known about him, why should we care, why
+       should it resonate, and we'd spend time explaining what he did
+       that would have meant cutting out other material in the episode);
+       the other serial killers tend to have clear fates, whereas Jack
+       vanished and is thus "available" to us; visually that period makes
+       for a striking contrast to 2259.
+       And, again, you have to look at who he *was*...a fanatic, trying
+       to clean up Spittlefields (good cause) by hatred (wrong reason)
+       and murder (wrong means), the EXACT thing Delenn warns against at
+       the very start of the show. (Did you know there's a letter in the
+       London Times for that period that tries to explain the Ripper's
+       motives as a cry ofr (for) understanding about conditions in that
+       part of London?) He felt he was a divine messenger, learned he was
+       not, and in bitterness has become the single best inquisitor you
+       could've had in that job.
+       Every single thing about Jack made him *perfect* for that role, as
+       mirror, menace and warning sign. So I used him. And I'd do it
+       again. You have to find what works best for the story, and do it.
+     * I used Jack because he was perfect for that particular job, which
+       was what the Vorlons had decided as well. Simple as that.
+     * _Jack the Ripper has been used too much in SF._
+       So, in other words, if a historical, real character has been used
+       in some other venue, if the use of that same character in another,
+       wholly different world/series/show/universe is absolutely, totally
+       and completely the right thing for that story, one should instead
+       do what's *wrong* for the story and leave it out?
+       Sorry. Don't buy it.
+     * You can't exclude or include anything in your story just because a
+       character or concept has been used by others. If we were to do
+       that, then we might as well never make the show, because others
+       have shown starships and hyperspace and aliens. Okay, yes, others
+       have used Jack. But not in the same way. It was *right* for this
+       show...should it not be used because oths have also used this
+       character? I think that the moment you begin constantly
+       course-correcting your show in reaction to other shows, you're
+       dead in the water. You have to do what's right for *this* story,
+       in *this* episode. And I think we showed a very different aspect
+       of the character and the situation than has been shown before. If
+       we just did the same old gag -- Jack comes to B5 and begin
+       murdring people again -- then I'd agree. But we didn't. I think
+       you have to judge a show by what's IN the show, and how well it's
+       done, not against what has been done in other places.
+       Otherwise we might as well throw out starships and beam weapons
+       and aliens and all the rest, since those have ALL been done a lot
+       more than Jack.
+     * _The original Star Trek episode "Wolf in the Fold" also centered
+       around Jack the Ripper._
+       In the TOS show, that revelation was the whole *point* of the
+       episode, where here it's a filligree, dropped in at the last. It
+       also *has* to be that character, as the flip side of the story, to
+       contrast with Sheridan's "holy cause" as warning, and because of
+       his own reflection of what Delenn might have been if she went the
+       wrong way for the right reasons.
+     * On the "Jack sucks" threads, phrased various ways...doesn't really
+       bother me. I knew going in that some folks would react well to
+       that, and some wouldn't, for an assortment of reasons, some valid,
+       some less so.
+     * I guess also that the key to avoid something becoming cliche is to
+       turn it on its head. Which was the case with Sebastian. One thing
+       I neglected to mention was the need to have an absolute
+       mirror-counterpoint to Morden. Here you've got the smiling,
+       pleasant, utterly charming and good looking fellow who is our
+       "mirror" if you will in which we see the Shadows reflected. So now
+       you need something dark and ominous and terrible as the mirror
+       through which we briefly glimpse the Vorlons, which has to be done
+       all in one episode, you can't develop it gradually as with Morden.
+       So everything about Sebastian was the opposite of Morden...and
+       each is the opposite of what they represent. As it appears to us
+       now, anyway.
+     * "it just didn't pay off in the long run." For you. For others it
+       did. Let's not start getting grandiose. You feel this way, that's
+       fine, but it's not the ultimate truth. Otherwise you're totally
+       dismissing the opinions of others who liked it a lot.
+       "Jack...has become a real cliche." So because others have used
+       that figure in their work, well or poorly, no one should ever use
+       this historical figure ever again in the next thousand years of
+       human history. One should not do what one thinks is right for a
+       story because of what someone else did in a different story.
+       Sorry. I don't work that way. By your logic, I should not be using
+       starships or hyperspace or aliens, either, because they've been
+       used a LOT more than Jack.
+     * Actually, I think I saw more *annoyance* at Jack being used from
+       the UK folks than the US folks, that's the main difference, I
+       think. Probably because it's a peaceful, wonderful country which
+       is *still* paying off, in the public eye, one particularly nasty
+       creature in their recent history. They're probably tired of
+       hearing about him, and to some extent, correctly so.
+     * Will: thanks, and you're quite right; it does say something about
+       the Vorlons that they'd use Jack for this purpose. Now we just
+       have to further define what that is.
+       BTW, just to append it here, not strictly appropos of your
+       message... I've noted a number of people say, in essence, "Boy,
+       was I disappointed that he said Jack at the end, what does he
+       think we are, morons?" And I've seen plenty of comments from
+       people who didn't know it was Jack until that very last moment,
+       for whom it was a revelation.
+       It's pretty clear, to lots of folks, that the test was in some
+       ways (most, actually) more for Delenn's benefit than Kosh's...lots
+       of folks got this...and then others have said, "Well, if that's
+       what he meant, why didn't he just have one of them come out and
+       SAY this, say what was learned or that this was for THEIR
+       benefit?"
+       So frankly, whether one comes out and says something, or does not
+       come out and say something, someone on one side or the other is
+       going to give you a hard time about it.
+     * _Jack's murders took place in the East End of London, not the West
+       End_
+       What happened is...basically...Joe is a moron.
+       I did my research. I called up the info on the encyclopedia, got
+       all the dates right, and my eyes saw East End and for whatever
+       stupid, idiotic reason, my fingers typed West instead of East, and
+       nobody, NObody, caught it until now. I'd loop it, but alas the
+       line is on his face, and it'd look real stupid, and the delivery
+       is *so* perfect as it is; if we looped it, we'd destroy it.
+       So I content myself with the notion that it's west...of B5.
+       Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go shoot myself.
+     * _Maybe the West End fell into the ocean and the East End is now
+       West._
+       No, no, it's hopeless...I'll have to turn in my writer's card.
+     * Unfortunately (yes, we discussed this), he says the line *on
+       camera*, and the shape of the mouth for West is very different
+       than for East; also the performance wouldn't be nearly as good. So
+       there it is....
+     * Thanks. Though I knew about the gaff a LONG time before it was to
+       air here in the US, I let the east/west thing go through as shot
+       for the very first broadcast because I was afraid that the loop
+       might hurt the scene, and it was *so* perfectly done. That over, I
+       decided it was worth taking a shot at it. If your friend didn't
+       notice, then we did it right. So now those who taped the first
+       broadcast have something that'll never be seen again (if I have
+       anything to say about it).
+     * Yes, I *know* it's the East End not the West End; I looked right
+       at my notes when I was writing the script, and they said East and
+       I typed West and nobody noticed it until it went out. I could've
+       replaced it with a looped line prior to first airing here, as this
+       was found during the UK airings, but looping never improves only
+       diminishes the performance, and he's on-camera and the words
+       wouldn't match his mouth. So I decided to let it go out this way
+       once for performance, and we'll correct this aspect with a loop in
+       later airings, even though that will somewhat lessen the
+       performance aspect.
+     * What I'd said, and maybe I wasn't sufficiently clear, but my sense
+       was that I wasn't going to change it *prior to the first US
+       airing.* I found out about the mistake -- it was a typo, I knew
+       the difference, I just became momentarily stupid and wrote west
+       when I meant to type east -- after the show aired in the UK, and
+       had a couple of months in which I could've chosen to make the
+       change. But I was concerned that the dub wouldn't have the same
+       power as the original performance, so I was willing to let it go
+       until after it aired, so it would've had that impact, then make
+       the change later. Happily, the loop came out *very* well, so it
+       worked out.
+     * _Even in the fixed version, the closed captions still say West._
+       Y'know, I'd totally forgotten about the captions.
+       Nuts.
+     * Yeah, it's always the dopey, small stuff that slips past, and
+       nobody notices until it jumps out at you when it's too late.
+     * Sebastian's final words were part of the same sentence he began
+       while speaking directly to Sheridan's face...insofar as I have
+       ever considered the scene, he IS talking to Sheridan.
+     * Actually, yes, I do have a pet theory about who the Ripper was,
+       but I'm so embarrassed over the west end/east end typo in one of
+       our episodes that I don't know if I'll ever have enough courage to
+       broach it to anyone.
+     * Okay, here's one clue for any would-be Ripperologists out there.
+       In all the long story of Jack, when he was out doing his nightly
+       work, only one person, a woman, wrote an actual letter, published
+       in the London Times, offering an *explanation* for the Ripper's
+       work, arguing that he was trying to send a message, that maybe
+       people should listen to that message. It was as close as anyone's
+       ever come to an actual *defense* of what he was doing.
+       Note the woman's name, and who her husband was...a man who was
+       twice interviewed by Scotland Yard, and interviewed by many Church
+       officials, the transcripts of which have been *sealed* by the
+       Church ever since, at the request of the family...a person who was
+       the last man to see at least one of the victims alive...and who
+       was a direct blood relative of the man who was living with the
+       final victim (who was killed indoors, leading to the speculation
+       that she knew her assailant)...who suffered a breakdown just
+       before the murders began, was obsessed with cleaning up the
+       Whitechapel area, and after whose sudden, hasty transfer, the
+       murders stopped...and whose profession is tied *directly* to the
+       only thing the Ripper was overheard to say to one of his victims.
+     * The mistake everyone makes is in going for somebody famous, a
+       celebrity. I've done a lot of looking into this, and have spoken
+       with a number of other Ripperologists, and the single most likely
+       person is one who's name you've never heard mentioned as a
+       suspect, but if you read the record, his name keeps coming up
+       again and again and again.
+     * Nope, Sebastian wasn't the name of the one I'm thinking of.
+       And from what I've read, a lot of folks *did* need to hear the
+       name to get it....
+     * _How did Lennier know where Delenn was?_
+       Well, given Delenn's position, I think she'd have let Lennier know
+       where she was, or that he'd heard Sheridan tell Delenn in the
+       scene we played the voice-over.
+     * Actually, there *was* a scene where Lennier, concerned, tracks
+       down Kosh to inquire after Delenn's situation, which report alarms
+       him and sends him after Sheridan. It was filmed...but cut for
+       time.
+     * _Censorship by C4 in Great Britain_
+       They SNIPPED the shot of G'Kar slicing his hand? You're kidding! I
+       find that quite astonishing; it was done discreetly. I'm
+       dumbfounded. No wonder there was confusion about that scene.
+     * You're right, btw; I was informed in another message here that
+       they did snip that piece of G'Kar's action. Suffice to say I had
+       *no* idea, and now that I *do* have an idea...I'm simply
+       wog-boggled.
+     * Can G'Kar grow to forgive? I don't think so...and yet in a way he
+       must come to something more than rage, and other than forgiveness.
+       There is an important step in his development yet to come. And he
+       will have to go there by a very hard road.
+       
+   Originally compiled by Jason Snell.
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
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+Overview
+
+     As the Centauri war escalates, a Narn warcruiser seeks help from
+     Babylon 5. Earth takes a position in the war. Keffer makes a
+     terrifying discovery. Kosh takes a drastic step to save a life.
+     [15]Roy Dotrice as Frederick Lantze. [16]John Vickery as Mr.
+     Welles. [17]Rick Hamilton as Mitch. [18]Robin Sachs as Na'Kal.
+     
+[19]P5 Rating: [20]9.40
+
+Production number: 222
+Original air date: August 15, 1995 (UK)
+                   November 1, 1995 (US)
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
+   _Think twice before reading what's below if you haven't seen the
+   episode -- major spoilers follow!_
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * The Ministry of Peace has been recruiting other high-level B5
+       staff members for its Nightwatch program.
+     * Vorlons appear as angelic, winged beings of light, whose
+       appearance is different to each observer. They can fly. (But see
+       [21]jms speaks)
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Is Keffer mercifully dead, or might he reappear as "worse than
+       dead" -- a tool of the Shadows a la Morden?
+     * What will be the ramifications of Zack's turning the shopkeeper in
+       to the Nightwatch?
+     * How far will the Centauri expansion push?
+     * Why did Londo see nothing when he looked at Kosh? (see
+       [22]Analysis)
+     * Who was behind the bombing of Sheridan's tram? Who were the young
+       Centauri taking orders from, if anyone?
+     * What ramifications will there be to Kosh's appearance, since it
+       was such a closely kept secret before?
+     * What will happen to the Narn cruiser?
+     * What other forces do the Narn have that were not caught by the
+       Centauri?
+     * Where did the cruiser go?
+     * Have the Centauri made any arrangements with the Minbari, or are
+       they relying on their non-interference in the affairs of other
+       races?
+     * Will Sheridan's planned apology be enough to satisfy his superiors
+       at Earthdome, or is he in danger of losing his position?
+     * What effect will the open transmission by ISN of Keffer's recorder
+       log have on the Shadows' plans? Will it force them to show their
+       hand?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Night has indeed fallen. As the Centauri government continues to
+       expand by attacking other races like the Drazi and the Pak'ma'ra,
+       the Earth government has entered into an appeasement pact with
+       them. Meanwhile, the inward-turning Earth government is using
+       their "Nightwatch" as a means to silence dissent. However,
+       Keffer's last flight has made the presence of the Shadows in
+       hyperspace known to all of Earth, relayed to them via ISN.
+     * It's interesting that Kosh risks revealing himself to save one
+       life - the same criterion for saintliness/being the Chosen that
+       the Inquisitor established (cf. [23]"Comes the Inquisitor.")
+     * Vir and Lennier are both feeling the pressures of knowing a great
+       deal about what is going on but not being involved in the planning
+       and decision making stages. That they have found each other to
+       talk to is somewhat ironic, since each is working for masters who
+       have taken opposing sides - Light and Dark - in the coming battle.
+     * "We will, at last, know peace in our time." This phrase, given by
+       Lantze when he announces the Earth-Centauri non-aggression pact,
+       is very similar to a phrase used by Neville Chamberlain after
+       signing an appeasement agreement with Hitler in 1938 just prior to
+       the invasion of Czechoslovakia, an agreement that failed to stop
+       Hitler's expansionist policy. The choice of words is probably
+       intended to highlight the futility of such a pact with an
+       aggressive party and a foreshadow of future events. There are
+       other parallels with Nazi actions (divided between the actions of
+       _both_ signatories,) but the motivations of the Earth government
+       are not race related nor moving towards the domination/submission
+       of other groups.
+     * NightWatch openly tries to recruit highly placed individuals, not
+       appearing too concerned if they refuse. This suggests that they
+       feel confident about circumnavigating these people with a strong
+       sense of loyalty at a later date, replacing them with a more
+       easily manipulated individual.
+     * Had Sheridan refused to apologize publicly and been replaced, it
+       would have been with Ivanova had she accepted Welles offer to work
+       with the NightWatch. Otherwise they would have brought in an
+       easily manipulated person to command Babylon 5, as Welles
+       indicated.
+     * This episode shows the new defense grid (cf. [24]"GROPOS") in
+       action for the first time. As promised it is an even match for a
+       heavy battle cruiser. The battle doctrine for the B5 universe is
+       one of fighters engage fighters, heavy ships engage heavy ships.
+       During this combat sequence we see what happens when a heavy ship
+       ignores the fighters and fails (for whatever reason) to deploy its
+       own fighters. While not capable of inducing complete destruction
+       of a heavy vessel in the short term, the fighters can strip a
+       heavy vessel of its offensive/defensive armament since such
+       weaponry is small compared to the ship and necessarily exposed in
+       order to be effective.
+     * Lantze is a dreamer and idealist, taking any steps to ensure peace
+       for Earth. He is someone who feels that the ends justify the means
+       so long as it does not involve Earth. This is a direct expression
+       of the anti-alien feelings present at the moment on Earth. That
+       Lantze is not directly involved in the NightWatch suggests that,
+       while he understands the aims of the NightWatch, his concience is
+       not capable of handling the individual betrayals involved. Perhaps
+       the ideal politician.
+       Welles, on the other hand, is very much caught up in the
+       management of the NightWatch. He has no conscience pangs about the
+       betrayal of individals. While he is a co-director of The Ministry
+       of Peace, he probably has more real power than Lantze because of
+       what he is managing. He is also gifted with the art of
+       manipulating people as shown with both Zack and Sheridan (although
+       the latter is more aware of the manipulation and capable of
+       defending against it.)
+     * The Narn cruiser will probably use other races threatened by the
+       Centauri for assistance, perhaps acting as a mercenary. Or it may
+       find somewhere quiet to lie low until it can be called into the
+       service of homeworld. The Minbari cruiser Trigati managed to avoid
+       capture for over ten years (cf. [25]"Points of Departure.")
+     * The Shadows did not destroy the recorder marker dropped by Keffer.
+       Either they failed to detect it (they aren't omnipotent,) or they
+       chose to ignore it (they are confident it would make no
+       difference, or were unaware of the contents.)
+     * Keffer's recording log has been transmitted by ISN. This is
+       exactly what Delenn and Sheridan wanted to avoid. Will it force
+       the Shadows' hand now that they have been seen? Or will it push
+       the forces of Light into even greater efforts?
+     * The commentary by ISN at the end of the episode suggests that the
+       events on Earth are not being manipulated by the Shadows. Of
+       course this could just be a politically expedient newscast.
+     * Kosh's rescue of Sheridan is like a blessing from the heavens.
+       This will no doubt be taken as a sign of Sheridan's worthiness to
+       lead the forces of Light, as it has already been taken to indicate
+       that Babylon 5 is blessed.
+     * When Kosh left his encounter suit only Delenn was present. She has
+       already seen Kosh. The other ambassadors only saw a being of light
+       rise up and rescue Sheridan. Kosh also landed in an empty part of
+       the Zen garden before returning to his encounter suit. The
+       conversation in the Zocalo between the Narn and the Drazi suggests
+       they are not aware it is Kosh. What would the reaction be if these
+       races were to find out that the Vorlons had been interfering
+       (apparently benevolently) in the development of their race? Would
+       religions collapse under the revelation that their supernatural
+       beings were simply ancient aliens?
+     * Does each Vorlon appear as a particular entity to each type of
+       observer, an entity that remains the same over time? If so, could
+       Kosh be the original G'Lan, and thus be at least a thousand years
+       old?
+     * Londo failed to see Kosh when he revealed himself. Does this
+       extend to all Centauri, or is it peculiar to Londo? If it is the
+       former then it suggests that either the Vorlons have not openly
+       visited the Centauri (why?) or that their worship of their
+       deceased Emperors as gods has diminished the effect of exposure to
+       Vorlons. If it is the latter then it must be because of Londo's
+       association with the Shadows. If this is the case then what would
+       be the response of other Centauri on seeing a Vorlon? (see [26]jms
+       speaks)
+     * Carrying the above a step further, are Vorlons invisible to
+       Centauri and/or to anyone of a race they haven't dealt with
+       before? That suggests the possibility that the Shadows might be
+       the same way, visible to some people and not to others.
+     * Perhaps the Vorlons did visit the Centauri homeworld in the past,
+       but manipulated the Xon ([27]"The Parliament of Dreams") instead
+       of the Centauri.
+     * Delenn seemed somewhat taken aback by Sheridan's unflattering
+       appraisal of the Vorlons' motives; she seems willing to regard
+       them as, if not completely good, at least altruistic, and is
+       clearly awed by them. It's plausible she has perceived Kosh as a
+       Minbari religious figure from the start, which has colored her
+       perceptions of him in exactly the way Sheridan describes.
+       Might Sheridan's less starry-eyed view of the Vorlons be due in
+       part to the training he's been getting from Kosh, the point of
+       which (for a while, anyway) was to help Sheridan and Kosh
+       understand each other? Put another way, has Sheridan learned to
+       fight the legends he believes Kosh's appearance is intended to
+       evoke?
+     * Why do the Vorlons appear as the particular religious figures they
+       do? Each of the figures we saw was an idealized version of the
+       race in question. Perhaps this is to make themselves seem less
+       alien, more familiar and therefore less threatening. The fact that
+       they feel the need to do this suggests that their true appearance
+       may be very alien indeed.
+     * When Sheridan mentioned to Delenn that everyone saw something
+       different in Kosh, Delenn replied that each person saw something
+       "according to his or her type." That choice of words can be
+       interpreted in a disturbing way, to suggest that the Vorlons have
+       organized other sentients into categories.
+     * Might the Shadows' appearance also be subjective? What do they
+       look like to Morden, for instance? It may be that the Shadows feel
+       no need to deceive others about their appearance, as it might not
+       advance their goals (whatever those goals might be.) Clearly the
+       Shadows prefer not to be seen, to work through others, but that
+       might be the result of small numbers or caution as much as
+       anything else.
+     * Kosh's true form is probably smaller than what everyone saw; for
+       one thing, his encounter suit is shorter than he appeared to be.
+       When he was behind the screen in [28]"Midnight on the Firing Line"
+       he appeared to be much smaller as well. But he probably does have
+       a physical form of some kind, since he was able to touch Sheridan
+       (if it were just telekinesis, presumably he wouldn't have needed
+       to leave his suit.)
+     * Zack is having second thoughts about the NightWatch. Up until now
+       he has been happily accepting their money in return for just
+       wearing the armband and giving in few reports. He misunderstood
+       their intentions and now realizes that should he try to leave he
+       will be branded in the same way as the shopkeeper in the Zocalo.
+       The fear of being taken out of society and branded as a traitor is
+       greater than the urge to stand up for what he believes to be
+       right. Zack's dissatisfaction with the NightWatch might be useful
+       at a later date.
+     * The signal for the Centauri weapons lock on to Babylon 5 sounded
+       like that of a submarine sonar. It represents an active weapons
+       lock (ship sending out signals to locate its target) rather than a
+       passive lock (ship detecting emmissions from its target.) It
+       brings a tension to the situation inherited from the submarine
+       warfare genre of films.
+     * How compatible is an Earth Alliance career and raising children?
+       Ivanova's conversation with Lantze suggests that women do bear
+       children while actively continuing with their careers. Another
+       hint from JMS that the military at least are an equal
+       oppourtunities employer.
+     * The celebration of Winter Solstice described by Lantze is a pagan
+       festival. The celebration of Christ's birth, though important in
+       Christian teaching, was not begun until the 4th century. The time
+       of year was chosen to counter the celebration of the Winter
+       Solstice. Presumably the reference to the public celebration of
+       the solstice indicate a more open tolerance of religion on Earth
+       in the 22nd century, and that there are other religious groups
+       that celebrate the same period for different reasons.
+     * It's Keffer's obsession with the shadow ship he saw in hyperspace
+       in [29]"A Distant Star" that leads to his demise.
+     * Kosh has now offered his hand to Babylon 5's commander twice, both
+       times with potentially disastrous results.
+     * The exchange between Lennier and Vir might have been more than
+       mere comic relief. Perhaps they were actually passing information
+       back and forth using a code of some kind -- Vir now appears
+       strongly motivated to do something like that.
+     * Ivanova's lighting of candles at the end of the episode had a
+       deeper meaning than may initially be obvious. In Orthodox Jewish
+       tradition, Chanukah (the Festival of Lights) celebrates both the
+       victory over the conquerors of Jerusalem and the victory of those
+       who wanted to uphold traditional values over those who wanted to
+       assimilate with the enemy, an internal struggle which is also
+       arguably the main theme of the episode. (See [30]jms speaks, here
+       and in [31]"The Long, Twilight Struggle")
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The character "Corwin" is no doubt named after Norman Corwin, JMS'
+       friend and mentor.
+     * Ivanova's comment about Sheridan being weightless depends on one's
+       point of view. In a strict, pedantic sense, everyone on Babylon 5
+       is close to weightless, since weight is defined as the force with
+       which a mass is gravitationally attracted to another mass, and B5
+       achieves the illusion of weight by rotation, not by gravity.
+       (Leaving aside, of course, the gravity of the planet below the
+       station.)
+       Sheridan's movement away from the station's axis is due to three
+       factors. First, the tram wasn't exactly at the axis, so it was
+       revolving at some speed. Just as a rock flies in a straight line
+       if you swing it on a piece of string then let go, Sheridan would
+       have moved toward the ground even if he'd just stepped gingerly
+       out the door.
+       Of course, he didn't; he leapt. Depending on whether the door was
+       facing into or against the station's spin, this might have either
+       accelerated his descent or slowed it. The fact that he appeared to
+       not leap very hard suggests that the door was facing spinward and
+       he wanted to stay in the air as long as possible.
+       The final factor is the atmosphere, which rotates in the Garden
+       along with the ground and everything else. As Sheridan fell, he
+       would be pushed along by air revolving at speeds closer and closer
+       to the speed of the ground; this would tend to accelerate his
+       fall, since it would cause him to revolve more quickly. So the
+       longer he fell, the faster he would be going. That effect would
+       probably be fairly weak for most of the fall, so it might not have
+       accelerated him to high enough speed to cause serious harm when he
+       hit the ground.
+       Unfortunately, his inertia would keep him from achieving ground
+       speed even with the push of the wind, so as Ivanova said, he would
+       have hit the ground as if he'd fallen out of a car on the freeway,
+       even if his rate of descent alone wouldn't have been enough to
+       hurt him seriously.
+       In any case, Sheridan is probably quite glad Kosh chose that
+       moment to make an appearance.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * Janet [Greek] was not available to us for most of this season due
+       to illness (flu turning into pneumonia), but she's better now, and
+       will be directing our season-ender, "[The Fall of Night]." We hope
+       to have her do five or six next year, and will of course try to
+       get her for our first and last as with this year and the last of
+       year one; she's kind of our good luck charm.
+     * On Monday we begin our last week of filming. We're going for an
+       eight-day shoot this one time, rather than our usual seven-day
+       shoot, because of the extraordinary EFX requirements to pull off
+       the finale. It should be a doozy.
+     * How does the finale compare? Hmmm...depends on what you're looking
+       for. "Inquisitor" is primarily a character piece, virtually no
+       EFX, but very intense. The story is kind of straightforward, with
+       a few kickers along the way. "Twilight" is a heavy story episode,
+       that zips all over the B5 landscape, between the Narns, the
+       Centauri, and elsewhere (he said vaguely). The finale, "The Fall
+       of Night," is actually kind of deceptive; it starts out fairly
+       calmly and tightens fairly fast. The story is not as
+       back-and-forth or layered as Twilight or Coming, it's really about
+       one thing. Visually, it's the most ambitious thing we've done to
+       date, and probably the most ambitious EFX stuff done for a TV
+       series *ever*. I don't think you'll feel left wanting after the
+       episode is done.
+     * No, the last ep of this season wasn't per se a cliffhanger, though
+       it does tip over a few things, so it flows from 222 to 301 fairly
+       smoothly.
+     * Yeah, this is the other structure that's kind of a favorite of
+       mine. I used it also in "Coming of Shadows." It starts out kind of
+       slow, it lulls you into a sense that this is going to be a fairly
+       ordinary story, nothing major...allowing me to sneak up behind you
+       in the story and just *whack* you real hard when you're not
+       expecting it.
+     * We've been consistently giving Jeff Conaway more and more to do in
+       the show because he's a very gifted actor; there are some moments
+       in the coming month's episodes, particularly "The Fall of Night,"
+       that should knock the word "mediocre" out of anyone's mouth.
+     * _This episode had enough votes for a Hugo nomination, but JMS
+       didn't accept the nomination._
+       Yes, since the last time we were in Hugo contention, the splitting
+       of votes cost us the award (combined votes would've been enough
+       going in to win), the folks gave us the option of withdrawing one
+       of the two, and since "The Coming of Shadows" seems the overall
+       favorite, that one was the one kept.
+       One other good thing about the withdrawl of one episode was that
+       it allowed Terry Gilliam's "12 Monkeys" onto the ballot, which
+       otherwise would've been frozen out, and it deserves the
+       recognition of the nomination.
+       We're all *very* pleased and excited by the nomination.
+     * They gave me the option of having the two nominations or
+       withdrawing one of the two, and we decided to go ahead and
+       withdraw "Fall," to avoid splitting the vote, and to allow another
+       entry into the field, which was apparently "12 Monkeys," which
+       definitely deserves the recognition of the nomination.
+     * Apparently this option is often given.
+     * In a few days we will begin shooting the final episode of season
+       two: "The Fall of Night." In terms of action, this is the biggest
+       thing we've ever attempted. Where normally our scripts have 50-80
+       scenes/shots (as noted in numerical sluglines), this one has 134;
+       of which 64 are EFX shots, some in combinations. To understand the
+       weight of that, there were 60 EFX shots in the entire two-hour
+       pilot. In addition, this has more and more *complex* CGI than the
+       first 13 episodes of our first season put TOGETHER. Nothing on
+       quite this scale has ever been attempted in series TV before, and
+       the irony is that the major part of this covers only a few minutes
+       in the fourth act.
+       This stuff is going to involve every one of our EFX divisions,
+       compositing, makeup, prosthetics, costuming, practical effects,
+       mattes, CGI; the visual EFX meeting was the biggest we've ever
+       had, and everyone's both sober and excited. Because there are only
+       two options when you go for something this substantial: either
+       you're going to do something truly amazing, or you're going to
+       massively fall on your face. For our EFX people, this is kinda
+       like boarding the wildest ride at Magic Mountain and leaving off
+       your seatbelt on a dare...it's one hell of a ride, but boy is it
+       dangerous.
+       But as Ron Thornton pointed out: no guts, no glory.
+       This is also going to be a Janet Greek-directed episode, who for
+       various reasons was only available to do our first episode prior
+       to this, but she's kind of our good luck charm, and we wanted
+       someone who's done as much for us as she has to come in here and
+       helm this...because it could probably break a less experienced (on
+       B5) director.
+     * Thanks. That last sequence is the single biggest effects sequence
+       done for TV, insofar as I know. There are 34 composite shots in a
+       matter of just a few minutes. Our guys nearly went blind doing it,
+       but it's cool. The whole feel, I think, is quite nice.
+     * Definite agreement on the shuttle sequence, works nicely.
+     * A wire harness was used; and the effect you ask about _[Kosh]_ was
+       a mix of CGI, live action, and rotoscope.
+     * I think the Kosh stuff is *very* cool...but I don't want to
+       over-sell it; best to see it cold.
+     * _Kosh's wings looked like those of the aliens in "The Abyss."_
+       There was no deliberate homage, but the individual who helped
+       design that, working with me, was Steve Burg, who has worked on
+       Abyss and T2.
+     * _How long did the Kosh scene take to get right?_
+       It took, literally, months of trial and error, design and
+       redesign, which is why we did it as the last episode of that
+       season.
+     * Since "The Fall of Night" has now aired in the UK, and word is
+       getting out, herewith a post I left on GEnie about Kosh's
+       now-revealed identity. I thought it came out fairly well, so I'm
+       repeating it here.
+       *****
+       Okay. Here it is. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna reveal Kosh.
+       I'm not kidding. Bail now if you're looking in and don't want to
+       know.
+       No backsies.
+       I mean it.
+       Last chance.
+       Okay, this is it.
+       "If he leaves his encounter suit, he will be recognized."
+       "By who?"
+       "Everyone."
+       "The First Ones taught the younger races, explored beyond the rim,
+       built civilizations...."
+       Kosh is what you're pointing at when you say "That's Kosh."
+       "Yes, the Vorlons have been to Earth, the Vorlons have been
+       everywhere. The Vorlons *are*."
+       They *are*.
+       "For centuries, the Vorlons have helped the younger races, guiding
+       us, and --" "And manipulating us?" "It is, as you say, a matter...
+       of perspective."
+       They *are*...a matter of perspective.
+       Each race who sees them, sees something out of their own past,
+       their own legends, religions, faiths. A being of light, if you
+       will, but a Drazi sees the Drazi version of that, Droshalla; the
+       Minbari see the Minbari version of that, Valeria; humans see a
+       human version of that.
+       It is the mirror in which we see our beliefs reflected, but is it
+       the progenitor of those beliefs...or an implanted image that
+       overlays that vision on top of the true form of the Vorlon? Is it
+       revelation, or is it manipulation?
+       The Vorlons are a cypher. The Vorlons are a matter of perspective.
+       The Vorlons are guides...or users, emissaries or puppeteers, who
+       wish to be seen a certain way, so that we will react properly.
+       Is this good, or is this bad?
+       And the truth is, even though you have seen a Vorlon, have you
+       seen THE Vorlon, the one behind the image that dances somewhere
+       between your optic nerve and your brain?
+       Or to quote a message I left long ago, paraphrased from memory,
+       "The hand Sinclair sees is not the hand Sinclair sees, and the
+       hand Sinclair sees is not the same hand someone else in the room
+       sees, and is not even the hand that that person sees."
+       The Vorlons Are.
+     * _Kosh is weak. He allowed himself to be poisoned by a Minbari and
+       attacked by Morden. He needed a Vicar to probe Talia and needed
+       Sebastian to test Delenn. He rarely does anything directly,
+       preferring to use others. I find Kosh slightly righteous._
+       Thanks. And finding Kosh slightly righteous is pretty much the
+       desired intent. So you're clicking on all the right cylinders.
+     * _Kosh is an angel! But which one?_
+       Actually, no, not really; Kosh is what you see when you look at
+       him. And if a Drazi looks at him, the Drazi sees something
+       different than a Minbari; yes, a being of light, BUT....
+       Is that what they actually ARE, or how they have programmed us to
+       react when we see them? As Sheridan said, have we been
+       *manipulated* to seeing them a certain way, seeing a certain
+       image? We may not be seeing what they ARE, but what they WANT us
+       to see.
+       It goes a heck of a lot deeper than what it seems.
+     * "Joe identified the figure Sheridan saw as the angel Gabriel."
+       No I didn't.
+     * Kosh *appears* to us as a being of light...doesn't mean that's
+       entirely what he is, that's how we've been programmed to see him.
+     * That's the irony, in a sense...what's inside Kosh's biomechanical
+       encounter suit...is a *perceptual* encounter suit....
+     * _Would a Hindu, or a Buddhist, see Kosh differently?_
+       Yes, there would be some amount of variation among humans, though
+       not in terms of beliefs that may have come along post-Vorlon
+       influence. This sort of thing has been implanted almost at a
+       genetic level, and they do have a hand, or a mind, in activating
+       it when seen. The more people who see them in different ways, the
+       longer they must maintain that, the greater the strain on them.
+     * The more people who have to *see* Kosh as one of their own, the
+       greater the strain on Kosh, as you'll note in the first ep of year
+       three.
+     * Being seen by one person is automatic, no strain involved, it's
+       almost an autonomic reflex...it's extending the influence to more
+       than one person that's difficult.
+     * _The Vorlons aren't prepared to fight? They'll refuse?_
+       As for the Vorlons line..."prepared" should be taken in the same
+       sense as "ready"...so they may not yet be ready.
+     * Yes, the Shadows know that the Vorlons are still around, and that
+       Kosh is there. That's never been any kind of secret. They're just
+       hoping that the Vorlons and anyone who might believe them won't
+       find out that they're out and about again until too [late.]
+     * The vorlons were never intending to hide themselves from the
+       shadows; they both know where the other can be found. The concern
+       was in the vorlons potentially revealing themselves to others, and
+       standing openly as what they were.
+     * The Vorlons aren't yet ready; they can't take on the shadows by
+       themselves, and must bring together other forces.
+       And in each case, re: Kosh, what they saw was not the *head* of
+       their belief, but in essence a supporting being of light; it
+       wasn't G'Quon, but G'Lan that G'Kar saw, which was a being that
+       story tells us served G'Quon. So you wouldn't see the head of the
+       religion, since there can only be one of those, and lots of
+       Vorlons, but each tends to have a supporting cast, for lack of a
+       better term. Those are what we perceive the vorlons to be.
+       And remember, we didn't see any other human's POV of Kosh but
+       Sheridan's.
+     * No, she wouldn't. Again, you don't see the *top* of the echelon of
+       any belief, because there can be only one of those; it's the
+       servants of light you see (and even the Old Testament makes
+       reference to such things).
+     * Yes, those are pretty much the two interpretations... that the
+       Vorlons *created* the myth of angels, or that they came in and
+       *exploited* it for their own purposes. In my view, the latter
+       seems more logical in some ways.
+     * It has not been stated anywhere that the Vorlons created the angel
+       element; they could easily just have come in and tried to exploit
+       it....
+     * I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or
+       seemingly angelic character), whose likes have been written about
+       for, oh, about 4,000 years, is ripping off Star Trek, has his head
+       so thoroughly up his ass as to have blipped into an entirely new
+       intestinally-based reality and desperately needs to get a wider
+       frame of reference.
+     * When one Vorlon looks at another, he sees a proper Vorlon.
+     * _Will WE see a proper Vorlon?_
+       We will see them. Eventually.
+     * What, I should begin catering to prurient interests? Broadcasting
+       picture postcards (likely French) of Vorlons in provocative poses,
+       in lingerie? A terrible thing, that a nice young man such as
+       yourself should be asking about. Does your mother know you're out
+       here doing this? Good heavens.
+       And who said they reproduce anymore?
+     * _Where did Kosh go afterwards?_
+       First he returned to his encounter suit, then he went to his ship,
+       and stayed there for quite a while.
+     * Yes, he had the momentum from his jump, plus that of the core
+       shuttle itself (which is considerable), plus the wind currents
+       toward the center of the station area/garden, which area also
+       considerable. Together that would be enough to keep him moving
+       toward the outer edge of the garden area.
+     * _What keeps people on their seats in the core shuttle?_
+       There are mag-strips, also hand-holds, seat belts and foot-straps.
+       As you enter you hear the voice warning that this is a reduced
+       gravity area, and to exercise proper precautions.
+     * Nnnnnnoo, not really; the Centauri don't actually have an
+       equivalent to G'Quan or Valen.
+       Believe it or not, this one answer may add another layer to a
+       scene in one of the last episodes of this season. You can infer it
+       backwards once you see it, but now you'll have it going in.
+     * They [Centauri] believe in a variety of afterlives; the god you
+       worship, of the centauri pantheon, holds dominion over a given
+       "heaven" or afterworld. If you appease the god sufficiently during
+       life, it will accept you into that afterworld, in preparation for
+       the day when all heavens are united; if not, you will have to be
+       reborn and choose another until one accepts you.
+     * Londo saw what he said he saw.
+     * Basically, all that was indicated in the script was that he for a
+       beat isn't sure what's up...then lets it go. I generally don't
+       drop specific points explaining foreshadowing in the scripts, in
+       case they leak out. If a line like that isn't sufficiently clear
+       for the actor's intent, they then come to me and I explain it
+       verbally. This was done in particular when we had to shoot
+       "Chrysalis" before "Signs and Portents," even though the latter
+       aired before the former.
+     * _"It doesn't matter. This place has been blessed." Nobody was
+       trying to claim it was only THEIR deity._
+       Thanks. I think that, with so many races around, you couldn't go
+       into holy wars or jihads at every occasion. In a way, what was
+       seen was a validation for many...a moment they all came together,
+       instead of coming apart.
+     * _Why didn't Clark reprimand Sheridan personally?_
+       From a strictly logical standpoint, a president would not lower
+       himself to deal with this personally. When MacArthur and Patton
+       earned the disfavor of the president, it was intermediaries who
+       pulled them aside and registered this. Also, gradually more
+       authority is being vested in Nightwatch and the Ministry of Peace,
+       as that's his arm, and so he'd be inclined to use that since he's
+       in most direct control. (Just to explain why what was done was
+       done.)
+     * _About Zack trusting the Nightwatch_
+       And bear in mind that it's never just a common sense "oh, these
+       guys are lying to me from Nightwatch, they're the bad guys." It's
+       always couched in such a way that it sounds like it *might* be a
+       real concern. That was how McCarthy and others terrorized this
+       country during the 1950s. There were plenty of people who really
+       *believed* that the Reds had infiltrated every aspect of society,
+       as well as those who might've had doubts, but figured that maybe
+       where there's smoke there IS fire.
+     * There's also a certain amount of McCarthyism inherent in the
+       Nightwatch, the emphasis on revealing spies in our midst, enemies
+       of the people.
+       The problem with pointing to the Nazis or the Gestapo exclusively
+       is that it allows us the safety of saying, "Well, it happened just
+       there, and only once, *we* could never fall for that."
+       Wrong.
+     * Bear in mind that Sheridan specifically states that the treaty had
+       *not* been finalized yet between Earth and the Centauri, so the
+       attack was not a violation of a treaty that hadn't been signed
+       yet. (And very likely the Centauri captain was unaware of it
+       *anyway*, just as Sheridan was taken by surprise by it all.)
+     * _I hope Sheridan verified those orders._
+       And the really great thing is...you're quite right about verifying
+       orders from one arm of the government with another...as we'll see
+       in the first third of the coming season. Good call.
+     * After the Centauri tried to kill him, the need for an apology was
+       somewhat obviated. Had he still been forced to do so, the one he
+       rehearsed was the one he intended to give.
+     * _The "peace in our time" reference_
+       Yes, it was a definite nod to Chamberlain, and a bit of
+       foreshadowing for ominous things to come.
+     * There are a number of metaphors in the show that operate on many
+       different levels; it can't be a one-to-one corrolary to WW II,
+       because that limits and makes predictable your story.
+       In musical terms, it's almost a tonal piece, taking elements to
+       which we respond, almost subconsciously, and then rearranging them
+       into something that is, one hopes, a new construct. You can find
+       here echoes of Vietnam, of Kennedy, of Chamberlain, of WW II, of
+       Korea, of the Mideast; in a way, it's a thematic piece that
+       touches how we have come to think of war, and conflict, across the
+       development of the 20th century, and the role of the individual in
+       that regard.
+       We have learned to think of war as something now on a huge scale,
+       an entity in itself. Once upon a time, before the gatling gun and
+       the automatic rifle, combat was something individual, even in
+       larger wars, one person against the enemy...and that person was
+       honored, one person could turn the tide against the enemy. In a
+       world in which weapons of mass destruction exist, where then is
+       the individual? Where then the bravery, the struggle, the
+       triumph...and the failure? Where, fundamentally, is the
+       responsibility?
+       All of that is intertwined with the storyline, and to communicate
+       that I'm not averse to taking elements of history that resonate
+       with that theme and reworking them, knowing that on a cellular
+       level, we *recognize* that aspect, we've seen it...but now in a
+       new context, we can see it differently, discuss its implications,
+       *learn* from it.
+       This is one of the things I rarely talk about, because it's the
+       kind of thing that is best left simply implied, or implicit, in
+       the work, and because if you have to draw attention to something
+       in the work, somehow I think it lessens it, because it works best
+       unspoken. And because I guess it sounds kinda presumptuous, and
+       high-falutin' and self-indulgent. But it's one the things that
+       matters to me in the context of the story.
+     * [32]Symbolism in Ivanova's candle-lighting
+       Moshe: an excellent analysis of the theme behind that scene, which
+       as you state ties directly into the theme of the whole episode,
+       and moreover, somewhat sets up the theme for the coming
+       season...who will determine your identity, the rules you follow,
+       who will lead you, and who you are...the question of, as you say,
+       those who wish to accommodate and give in to pressures from within
+       and from without.
+       Didn't want to be heavy-handed about it, so I figured those who
+       got it, got it; those who didn't, would see a nice candle scene
+       which sets the mood, even if they don't get the full
+       thematic/symbolic aspects that others would get.
+       (not a Talmudic scholar, but I play one on TeeVee....)
+     * The narrative [at the end] was a tonal setup for next season.
+     * _Imagery in Season Two episode titles?_
+       Yes; work it out as you have, but take it further...we start with
+       a point of departure...then after some revelations, examine the
+       geometry of shadows, then begin to more forward, a race through
+       dark places. We come toward the long dark, our past a distant
+       star. We carry the motif of a world getting dark. The coming of
+       shadows that darkens into the long twilight struggle, the last
+       period between day and night...and we end the season on...the fall
+       of night.
+     * Actually, the "snitch" was the C&C tech, NOT the pilot, they just
+       have a somewhat similar appearance.
+       We've established that klaxons go off elsewhere in the station
+       during an attack to warn civilians, but they aren't going off in
+       C&C because they make it impossible to concentrate, as per
+       military tradition (see [33]"And Now For a Word" to confirm this).
+       There wasn't time to call Draal, and they can't begin relying on
+       him for every problem; they have to be able to hold their own. You
+       would only bring in Draal on something really major.
+     * _Is Keffer dead?_
+       He is an Ex-Keffer.
+     * _Does that mean he's dead?_
+       Dead as the proverbial doorknob.
+     * _Keffer jettisoned his recording as soon as the Shadow ship
+       started scanning him. But the ISN broadcast showed the Shadow ship
+       turning and firing._
+       Yeah, I kinda figured that recorders like this would be outfitted
+       with a receiver for the ship's gun camera. This would be vital to
+       locate ships that got lost, and track as long as possible what
+       happened after the log was ejected, and before the recorder moved
+       out of range.
+     * Yes, the camera was still mounted on the Starfury, but cameras
+       even today are constantly transmitting to other locations; TV
+       cameras don't just transmit on a cable to the box they're attached
+       to, they are uplinked to other places. Similarly, the recording
+       device continued to receive transmission from the Starfury until
+       such time as it either went out of range or, in this case, the
+       transmitter was destroyed.
+     * _What was the part of the station that was shot off?_
+       It's an area for helping secure ships while being offloaded into
+       the zero-G cargo bay right behind it.
+     * We'll see both the tines being repaired, and the core shuttle
+       being fixed, in ep 1 of year 3. The tines are mainly to stabilize
+       incoming cargo ships so they can be offloaded (something we've
+       shown there from time to time) into the zero-g cargo bay.
+     * _What does "time on target" mean?_
+       It's an actual military term for launching a lot of stuff, so that
+       even though it's launched at different times, it all arrives at
+       once.
+     * The interceptors line refers to the fact that there are so many
+       incoming bursts that the interceptors are only knocking down 90%
+       of them at this point, meaning that some of them (the incoming
+       bursts) are getting through.
+     * Visually, yeah, I'd have to say TFoN is one of our biggest from
+       year two, and I'm quite fond of it; the only reason that it isn't
+       in my top three is because while the last half is very intense, it
+       takes a little bit to get there; I like 'em intense from the first
+       frame on.
+       For the growing use of montage/intercutting...it's really just a
+       process of continuing to learn my craft. So I try out and
+       experiment with different techniques. While I love dialogue, and
+       lots of it, I'm also coming more and more to appreciate moments
+       where you *only* play the visuals, and the music, and get out of
+       the way of the Moment.
+     * It's fair to say that you will be seeing that Narn cruiser again;
+       it's still out there.
+     * _Keffer wears a blue scarf with white stars; Mitch wears a white
+       scarf with red stars. Is scarf color indicative of squadron?_
+       I do believe they relate to squadrons, yes.
+       
+   Originally compiled by Jason Snell.
+
+   [39][Next] 
+   
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
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+Overview
+
+     While an Earth official investigates the mystery ship encountered
+     by Lt. Keffer in hyperspace, Londo attempts to sever his ties with
+     Morden. Sheridan receives a new tool in the fight against the
+     Shadows. [15]Tucker Smallwood as David Endawi. [16]Ed Wasser as
+     Morden.
+     
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]8.60
+
+Production number: 301
+Original air week: November 6, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Kevin Cremin
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * A little over a thousand years ago, long before the Narn achieved
+       spaceflight, the Shadows set up a base on one of the Narn
+       homeworld's southern continents.
+     * Morden is involved with the Psi Corps and some part of the Earth
+       government. The Corps knows about the Shadows. Morden has also
+       been in contact with Lord Refa without Londo's knowledge.
+     * If Delenn is correct about Morden always having Shadow companions,
+       then the Psi Corps, at least, presumably knows about the Shadows.
+       Talia, in [19]"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum," was able -- or even
+       forced -- to sense the Shadows when she passed Morden in the hall;
+       presumably a Psi Cop would easily be able to do the same. (Unless,
+       of course, Talia's perception was a result of Ironheart's gift
+       from [20]"Mind War.")
+     * The Shadows aren't particularly interested in the section of the
+       galaxy containing the Centauri Republic; what they're after (or
+       rather, what they claim to be after) is on the other side.
+     * What they _are_ interested in, though, is the Rangers --
+       interested enough to have Morden go over Londo's head and get Refa
+       to give them a world known to house a Ranger training camp.
+     * The Markab homeworld has been looted by scavengers since the race
+       became extinct ([21]"Confessions and Lamentations.")
+     * The Minbari religious caste, without the knowledge of some members
+       of the Grey Council, have built a new ship using Minbari and
+       Vorlon technology. Called the White Star, it has been granted to
+       Sheridan for use against the Shadows.
+     * The fleet of Shadow ships in Londo's dream ([22]"The Coming of
+       Shadows") are flying over Centauri Prime, as far as Londo can
+       tell.
+     * Being seen by many people is a strain on Kosh.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What other details of Londo's dream weren't shown in [23]"The
+       Coming of Shadows?"
+     * What in particular are the Shadows after, that they don't care
+       what the Centauri do with a good 30% of the galaxy? What's in the
+       remaining section? (For example, where are the major races in
+       relation to the boundary Morden drew?)
+     * How did Marcus leave Medlab? Is he able to put himself into a
+       trance deep enough to pass unnoticed in an admittedly cursory
+       medical examination?
+     * What do the Shadows know about the Rangers?
+     * How did Ivanova find out about the Rangers?
+     * What is the "program" referred to by the Psi Cop?
+     * Why are some on Earth working with the Shadows? What do they hope
+       to gain from the association, and how does that tie in with
+       whatever the Shadows want?
+     * Will Endawi's report ever make it to real strategic analysts? Did
+       G'Kar tell him about Z'ha'dum?
+     * What else can the White Star do?
+     * Was the Shadow vessel actually destroyed, or did it manage to
+       escape? If it was destroyed, did it have a chance to relay
+       information about the White Star first? (see [24]jms speaks)
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Lennier says, "Not all of my people are comfortable with the idea
+       of the Rangers." That implies that the Rangers aren't as secret an
+       organization on the Minbari homeworld as they are elsewhere.
+     * Likewise, the fact that Marcus' brother was able to sign up for
+       the Rangers, and that Marcus apparently knew about them too at the
+       time, suggests that they're operating at least somewhat in the
+       open. That might also explain how Ivanova and the Shadows found
+       out about them. The fact that the Drazi government apparently knew
+       about the Ranger training base is further evidence.
+     * Londo severing his ties with Morden may have little impact on the
+       Shadows' association with the Centauri; Morden may continue to
+       meet with Refa, rendering Londo's newly prominent position among
+       the Centauri obsolete.
+     * Shadow ships are actually entering and leaving hyperspace when
+       they shimmer in and out of sight; they aren't just becoming
+       invisible. Obviously they know a good deal more about hyperspace
+       than most of the other races (also evidenced by the jump-point
+       weapon they used in [25]"The Long, Twilight Struggle.") It's
+       interesting to note that another ancient race, the walkers at
+       Sigma 957 ([26]"Mind War") also had an atypical way of entering
+       hyperspace -- assuming that's what they were doing in that
+       episode.
+     * Perhaps the fact that Kosh feels he must maintain his illusory
+       appearance when out of his encounter suit, and the fact that doing
+       so is a strain on him, is another reason he wears the suit in the
+       first place. If it weren't a strain to be seen by many people,
+       perhaps he would be willing to walk around the station in full
+       view. (Probably not, though; otherwise he'd most likely have been
+       more willing to show himself in the confines of his quarters.)
+     * Was the White Star constructed with Sheridan in mind? Giving it
+       that name seems certain to stir up resentment among the warrior
+       caste when they find out about it, especially if it turns out that
+       the man they call Starkiller was the intended commander from the
+       start. (Sheridan destroyed the Minbari cruiser Black Star in the
+       Earth-Minbari War.)
+     * The White Star has some obvious Minbari characteristics, not the
+       least of which are the distinctive spade-shaped fins at the rear
+       (also visible on Minbari flyers and battle cruisers.) If the
+       Shadows are at all familiar with Minbari ships, they probably
+       won't be fooled by the White Star for long.
+     * Either the Minbari and Vorlons have mastered the art of intuitive
+       user interfaces, or Ivanova is an extremely quick study; she was
+       operating the White Star's weapons systems, presumably not a
+       trivial task, with at most a few hours of training. Perhaps the
+       controls are partially telepathic in nature.
+     * The Shadows are aware of the fact that some Narn (if only G'Kar)
+       know about them; they don't seem to consider it significant,
+       especially now that the Narn have been beaten into submission.
+     * The Shadows are even willing to be heard in public; they're
+       plainly audible telling Morden to set up a second meeting with
+       Londo (assuming that's what they're saying.)
+     * Was the Shadow base on Narn a unique thing, or did they have bases
+       on other races' worlds as well? In [27]"The Long Dark," the Markab
+       ambassador claimed to have heard the same stories of an ancient
+       enemy that G'Kar was recounting. Perhaps the Shadows had a base on
+       the Markab homeworld as well -- and if so, perhaps they unleashed
+       the plague ([28]"Confessions and Lamentations") in order to
+       reacquire that base without anyone noticing. If that's the case,
+       Sheridan may have inadvertently helped the Shadows out by
+       destroying the Markab jumpgate; that'll make it harder for someone
+       to stumble on the base by accident.
+     * Is the former Shadow presence on Narn related to the fact that
+       there are no Narn telepaths? ([29]"The Gathering") Given how
+       unpleasant -- even painful -- being near the Shadows was for Talia
+       ([30]"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum") perhaps prolonged exposure to
+       the Shadows caused so much trouble for Narn telepaths that they
+       didn't survive to breed new generations of telepaths.
+     * Morden has had contact with the Centauri and with Earth. Has he
+       also been talking to other races? The Minbari warrior caste, for
+       instance?
+     * When Londo asks for assurances that the Shadows won't bother the
+       Centauri, Morden says dismissively, "You and I both know what
+       treaties are worth." This could be a reference to the Centauri's
+       disregard for the treaties against mass drivers ([31]"The Long,
+       Twilight Struggle") -- but there's another, more recent, treaty
+       that could also be the one in question, namely the pact with
+       Earth.
+     * Sheridan has now destroyed two indestructible enemy vessels in his
+       career.
+     * Marcus claims his brother was killed in a Shadow attack on a
+       mining colony. Which colony was that? Was Marcus working on a Narn
+       mining colony, or have the Shadows been attacking other targets as
+       well?
+     * Marcus' reason for joining the Rangers is similar to Ivanova's
+       reason for joining Earthforce ([32]"And Now For a Word.") Both of
+       them joined after losing a brother in a war.
+     * Sheridan orders the White Star's aft jump engines online. If this
+       can be taken to mean that it has two (or more) sets of jump
+       engines, it may be that the White Star can duplicate the
+       Shadow-killing explosion without the aid of a jump gate by using
+       both its jump engines at the same time. On the other hand, it may
+       be that there's only enough power to run one set of engines at a
+       time, or that there's something about jumpgates, rather than jump
+       points, that causes the effect. (The closed caption quotes him as
+       saying "Half jump engines.")
+     * The Centauri automated defense systems appear to be able to track
+       the White Star, evidence that Centauri weapons technology is more
+       advanced than Earth's ([33]"Points of Departure.")
+     * Endawi says that Earth pulled the Shadow footage off ISN shortly
+       after it first aired. In what sense? Did they just record it from
+       ISN, or did they force ISN to stop airing the report?
+     * In the conference room, after Endawi leaves, Delenn tells Sheridan
+       that she has never seen such a ship, that only descriptions of the
+       ships have been passed down from the last war. Presumably, if the
+       Minbari were involved in the last war against the shadows, they
+       were capable of spaceflight (recall: the Narn, who were not
+       capable of spaceflight, were ignored in the last war.) That they
+       should have no recorded images of the shadow ships from that
+       conflict seems odd, since recording technology would clearly have
+       been within their grasp. Possibilities:
+         1. Someone, or something, quietly eradicated whatever images did
+            exist at some point in the past. We have certainly seen the
+            Shadows act through their agents to suppress information
+            regarding their past activities (i.e. the Narn being beaten
+            down.) No one said all the "information suppression" had to
+            be as spectacular as a planetary conquest. This of course
+            begs the question, "Who are the agents?"
+         2. The last shadow war was so devastating that all recorded
+            images were lost.
+         3. Delenn was lying. (There doesn't seem to be a good reason for
+            her to do so, though.)
+       
+Notes
+
+     * A small effects glitch is visible in the opening shot. As the
+       camera pans down from the repair crew, look at the stationary ring
+       around the front of the station. At about the eight o'clock
+       position, there's a small shaded area, the bottom half of which
+       flickers on and off.
+     * When Endawi leaves the conference room after meeting with
+       Sheridan, Delenn, and Ivanova, he forgets to take his data crystal
+       with him. It is left in the viewer. He does in fact remove it when
+       visiting Londo. Presumably, since it was pulled just after airing
+       on ISN, he would not want to leave copies lying around.
+     * This episode has Delenn's first action scene of the series.
+     * Alcohol's effect on Minbari was first noted by Lennier in [34]"The
+       Quality of Mercy." It causes paranoia and homicidal rages.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * _July 23, 1995:_ Finally, one week from tomorrow, we start filming
+       on year three, with episode #301, "Matters of Honor," which also
+       introduces a new recurring character named Marcus.
+     * Actually, the lead guest character in the first episode of year
+       three, one Mr. Endawi, is a Nigerian, and our new recurring
+       character, Marcus Cole (a Ranger) is British, and played by Jason
+       Carter. So you have two non-American accents occupying major parts
+       of the first ep next year.
+     * New sets: yes, and we're creating situations in which we can see
+       more of Earth, Mars, our other local planets, plus Narn, Centauri,
+       Minbari and one other major world. As the Shadow War cranks into
+       gear, you're going to need a place to meet in security and plan
+       for it, so we're also building that. We'll see more of Draal's
+       place on Epsilon 3. And there's one other major set that we'll see
+       in the first episode, and quite a bit thereafter.
+       New characters: well, there's Marcus Cole, a Ranger assigned
+       permanently to Babylon 5, played by British actor Jason Carter;
+       we'll see Lyta Alexander more this year; and Theo...what can I say
+       about Theo...well, perhaps better to let you see for yourself.
+     * It's predictable that I'd put someone into the show with who's a
+       guy with thick, long hair...since every time I look in the mirror
+       I realize more and more that where I'm concerned, thick, long hair
+       will always be an unattainable, science fiction concept....
+     * _About the title sequence_
+       "Why are starfuries firing on starfuries?"
+       Noticed that, eh?
+       Wait and see.
+     * _Any significance to some characters' heads turning in the opening
+       credits?_
+       No, I don't think even I could ever manage to be that obscure.
+     * Overall, I'm very happy with how this season's main title sequence
+       came out.
+     * _Why aren't there many scenes from season three in the title
+       sequence?_
+       Because we have to make the season 3 title sequence *very* early
+       in the shooting process; we need shots to go out in the first
+       episode title sequence, but we've only shot a few episodes by the
+       time we need to deliver. So most shots tend to come from the
+       preceding season.
+     * We had considered refurbishing C&C, but didn't get around to it
+       this season.
+     * _Will the station still be damaged?_
+       Repairs will be visible being done in the first episode.
+     * When the fighting staff expanded, it was CGI; physical otherwise.
+     * _What was that noise after Morden and Londo spoke?_
+       No, you heard something, all right...just a little bit of shadow
+       whisper for those who got it; those who don't, won't notice.
+     * _Are Morden and his "associates" equal partners?_
+       Well, he may sometimes *think* of his associates as equals...and
+       my cat thinks he actually owns this house....
+     * _Delenn lied! A continuity glitch?_
+       Re: Minbari lying...it has been established, repeatedly, that the
+       Minbari do lie *when it means saving someone else's honor*. That
+       was even stated, openly, in the very same episode about Sheridan's
+       frame job, "There All The Honor Lies." Londo says, right there,
+       that the Minbari will lie for a greater cause, another's honor.
+       The same was done in "The Quality of Mercy." Delenn fibbed about
+       the ship in "Matters" because in so doing, she saved Sheridan's
+       honor.
+       This is not a plot hole, it's been established clearly in the
+       series on multiple occasions. We have never, ever, at any time
+       said conclusively that Minbari never, ever lie. This is another
+       example of certain persons simply not paying attention, and then
+       blaming the show for their own lack of continuity in attention.
+     * Yes, Endawi is more or less a good guy, in that he's totally
+       uninvolved with Morden or anyone on that side. He was doing what
+       he said he'd been assigned to do.
+     * _Was that Bester in the senator's office?_
+       No, it wasn't Bester at the Senator's office.
+     * _Any reason why it wasn't?_
+       Yes.
+     * _Was the Shadow ship destroyed?_
+       Be of good cheer; the jumpgate blast destroyed the pursuing
+       vessel.
+     * It's two separate mechanisms; no one has been able to open a jump
+       point in a jump point because of the hideous amount of energy
+       needed by the ship in question. They used the White Star to open a
+       jump point within a standing *jump gate* that was already there,
+       and had a secondary source of power. The competing energies were
+       impossible to control, and blew the whole thing.
+     * I don't consider the "bonehead maneuver" to be technobabble, for
+       several reasons. For starters, the "babble" part isn't there; TB
+       goes on into long explanations of neutrino waves and particle
+       theory and elements that have to be recalibrated, on and on and
+       on....
+       Second, a prime requisite for TB is that it's a technology that
+       comes out of nowhere, artifically invented to create a problem
+       and/or create a solution. Neither applies here; we've seen jump
+       gates and jump points now for three years; we've seen them
+       disrupted in "The Long Twilight Struggle." It was just using the
+       tech we've already established.
+       In a way, it's kind of unfair that we get hammered when we use a
+       little teeny piece of technology because ST has abused it for so
+       many years. That's not our fault, and one shouldn't develop a
+       kneejerk response so that ANY reference to technology becomes
+       technobabble. If that's the case, then the term becomes
+       meaningless.
+       This is, also, a *science* fiction show; if sometimes we have a
+       touch of science, it's the nature of the show; you can't have SF
+       without at least some measure of tech...otherwise you've got
+       fantasy. The day we do a page and a half of discussions about
+       particles being recalibrated, particles that didn't exist twenty
+       minutes before the need became apparent, *then* we can get gigged
+       on technobabble.
+     * The more people who have to *see* Kosh as one of their own, the
+       greater the strain on Kosh, as you'll note in the first ep of year
+       three.
+     * Where Delenn gets all those wardrobe changes is one of those
+       questions that, in a real world, doesn't warrant close scrutiny.
+       And yes, her costumes tend to be emblematic of where the character
+       is, and who she is. Consequently, there will be some year three
+       additions to underscore her more assertive nature; there's a green
+       costume in particular that shows up in the first episode that's
+       just *killer*.
+     * _Was Delenn's bone crest changed?_
+       Yeah, we made some small modifications to the headpiece (good
+       call, Corun). It merges more seamlessly behind, it's raised
+       slightly at the crest, and the ends blend more smoothly into the
+       skin in front, to make the whole thing more natural.
+     * _Will we ever see alcohol's effect on the Minbari?_
+       No immediate plans for this, but knowing how my brain works, we'll
+       probably see this sooner or later.
+     * _What was the plant pictured in G'Kar's book?_
+       The leaf shown is the G'Quon-eth, the plant featured in "By Any
+       Means Necessary."
+     * Had a Minbari been running that sensor, he would've nailed it
+       instantly; but Ivanova had never actually encountered that ship
+       before, and was running off the initial scan reports. (Also it was
+       just phasing in at that point.)
+       The White Star uses local drive engines based on magnetic and
+       gravitational principles; in a sense, it doesn't so much push
+       itself toward other worlds as *pull* itself or *repel* itself. One
+       side effect of creating a powerful gravitational system is the
+       ability to create artificial gravity.
+       That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+     * The Minbari built the White Star, borrowing some Vorlon tech, so
+       it's primarily Minbari, and built with their sensibilities, all
+       the controls are in Minbari, and so on. They allow Sheridan to
+       command it because Delenn said to do so, and in battle an
+       unpredictable human might have options that a more regimented
+       Minbari might not.
+     * The White Star was always in the plans for the series; it's an
+       outgrowth of everything that has gone before. We've seen big
+       warships, dreadnoughts, smaller ships, and personal fighters. This
+       fits right in. If you're going to have a war over a long distance,
+       you kinda need something to get in and out with.
+     * _Shouldn't they have taken the White Star on a test flight? Why
+       aren't they preparing for conflict with the Shadows?_
+       Yeah, but it's very hard to do a story about preparation in the
+       sense you suggest. "Well, let's go check out the White Star."
+       "Well...sure is a fast ship, all right...so, what're the Rangers
+       doing? Keeping an eye on stuff? Good..good...so, what's for
+       dinner?"
+       Each individual episode must be *about* something, must have a
+       story that can stand on its own, separate from the arc, while
+       adding to it. For what it's worth, "Voices of Authority," which
+       was originally slated to run in the first 4, *is* a preparation
+       kind of story...it gets into how they should be gearing up for
+       what's coming, the accumulation of allies and resources, all that.
+       Had it run as planned as #4, this would be answered. But the sheer
+       volume of CGI required, which was pretty hideous, put it into the
+       #5 slot, which we thought would still be in the first block of
+       episodes. Then we found that #4 was the cutoff point.
+       All I can tell you is that what you're asking for is *there*,
+       plain as can be, right in the very next batch of episodes. (Also,
+       do bear in mind that the "shadow war" referenced in the show
+       operates as more than just discussing the shadows themselves, but
+       what's going on back home as well.)
+     * No, the Drazi was not a Ranger, only a supporter/collaborator (if
+       I can use, or misuse that term.)
+       At this stage, the Rangers are exclusively either human or
+       minbari.
+     * The Ranger colony was financially supported by the Minbari; the
+       Drazi allowed them to use one of their colony worlds as a base.
+       
+
+   [40][Next] 
+   
+      [41]Last update: October 16, 1997
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+                            [1][ISMAP]-[2][Home]
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+    ### GUIDE ### [3][Background] [4][Synopsis] [5][Credits] [6][Episode
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     A series of bombings threatens the station, and Ivanova calls on
+     some unusual investigators to help solve the mystery. [15]Patrick
+     Kilpatrick as Robert Carlson. [16]Louis Turenne as Brother Theo.
+     
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]7.75
+
+Production number: 302
+Original air week: November 13, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * All explosives manufactured in the Earth Alliance are laced with
+       special chemical codes to allow them to be traced to a particular
+       buyer.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What was Londo doing on a transport arriving from the Minbari
+       homeworld? (Assuming he was; he may have been on the Centauri
+       transport mentioned to G'Kar by Garibaldi.)
+     * How will the influx of missionaries affect the station?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Lennier has saved Londo twice now, once here and once (in a less
+       extreme way) in [19]"The Quality of Mercy." And now he's likely to
+       be decorated by the Centaurum. How will that affect his position
+       in the battle between light and dark, and his apparent new
+       friendship with Vir ([20]"The Fall of Night?")
+     * Londo apparently doesn't place absolute faith in the dream of his
+       death twenty years in the future ([21]"Midnight on the Firing
+       Line," [22]"The Coming of Shadows.") Otherwise he wouldn't have
+       been afraid he was going to die in the elevator. (Which isn't to
+       say he wouldn't have still tried to call for help, of course.)
+     * Lennier's own convictions, namely his prohibition against lying
+       except to save face for another, seem to have weakened since his
+       arrival, despite his pledge to do penance later. On the other
+       hand, perhaps he justified it in his mind by figuring he was
+       saving face for the obnoxious man by getting him to stop making a
+       fool of himself.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * G'Kar's song in the elevator is based on the ditty he sang at the
+       beginning of [23]"The Parliament of Dreams."
+     * We may have seen Carlson before, if briefly. In [24]"The Fall Of
+       Night," as the Earth officials arrive, there's a man in the
+       arrival area. He's slapped by a woman and walks after her when she
+       leaves. The man bears some resemblance to Carlson without the
+       beard. Perhaps the woman was his wife.
+     * Lennier's fake disease, Netter's Syndrome, is no doubt named for
+       executive producer Doug Netter.
+     * The name Theo (short for Theodore) comes from the Greek word
+       theodoros which means "gift of God."
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * What's great is that this [the second] season, we haven't had one
+       single episode on the level of War Prayer or Infection or Grail,
+       some of our weaker first season eps. The worst we've done is
+       pretty darned good. What we're now working for in year three is
+       that they're all better than that at their baseline rating. And so
+       far, they're killer...our second episode for year three,
+       "Convictions," has a very different feel from anything we've done
+       on the show to date, a very dark, scary and gritty feel, and
+       probably one of the best character sequences in the series to
+       date. We're also doing some major EFX blow-outs of a type other
+       than "they go into space and shoot stuff." Very interesting,
+       creative, offbeat stuff.
+     * _September 7, 1995_: I am thus far *very* happy with season three;
+       we've got three shows in the can (edited, not yet scored or
+       mixed), and shooting number four as I type this. I think we're
+       already a notch above our general episodes from year two, and
+       "Convictions" is extremely intense, with a very different look and
+       feel from anything we've done before. Has kind of an NYPD Blue
+       feel to it.
+     * BTW, on the question of effects...here's one that's kinda
+       interesting, in that I've seen a few comments here and there about
+       how we must've mapped the CGI fireball into the hallway in
+       "Convictions" where Londo jumps into the transport tube. Some even
+       offered you could tell the fire was CGI.
+       Nooooooop.
+       Here's how that shot was done: we built a miniature hallway
+       (actually, "miniature" ain't the right word; it was something like
+       30 feet long or more). Painted it so that it looked exactly like
+       the regular B5 hallways. On film you absolutely can't tell the
+       difference. Then we mounted the hallway *vertically* alongside the
+       outside of the main building here. Set the camer at the top,
+       pointing down into the hall. We built a firebomb and set it at the
+       far end of the hall (on the bottom, in other words). We then set
+       off the firebomb (with all the proper authorities present), so
+       that it shot up the length of the vertical hall. We overcranked
+       the camera so it'd start in slow- motion, then pulled the plug so
+       that the camera slowed down to normal speed...giving the sense of
+       the fire swelling, then suddenly rushing forward with a huge
+       fireball. So when it looks like the "hallway" is on fire...it is.
+       Real fire.
+       Next we shot Londo (Peter) against a bluescreen, reacting to this,
+       then diving to his left. We then comp'd the bluescreen into the
+       hallway, and used CGI to build a transport tube door to Londo's
+       left, which then closed just as the fire reached it.
+       It was an utterly immense amount of work for, basically, a five
+       second shot...but it looks 'way cool.
+     * Effects shots like this one were/are supervised via our EFX
+       supervisor, Ted Rae, working closely with the director and folks
+       from Foundation.
+     * Sue: as you're looking at the fireball approaching toward camera,
+       he jumps to our left. Trust me on this.
+     * Another scene with Londo and Lennier, btw, contains a small nod to
+       the online fans of the show; we can't and won't use story ideas,
+       but there's been so much humor, reams and reams of it, every
+       imaginable kind of joke, that I dropped one of these jokes into an
+       episode...one that's come up at a lot of conventions and on the
+       nets endlessly. Just to acknowledge the fans in the only way I
+       can.
+     * I don't actually know for certain the origin of the joke; it was
+       all over the nets, and the BBSs, uploaded places with several
+       gazillion other lightbulb jokes (after I'd made the original
+       version of this in the show), which is why I figured I'd drop it
+       into the episode, since it was so common and associated with the
+       nets. While in the UK, I met a young man who said that he had been
+       the first with that variation, and I have no reason not to believe
+       him. (A couple other people sent me email saying that they had
+       also come up with that one; it's kind of obvious I guess, but
+       again, I have no way of knowing what's true because it was just
+       all over the place, never with attribution.)
+     * Actually, variations on that joke were told at a number of
+       conventions; it's the obvious one to go for, given that for a
+       while the "how many X does it take to change a lightbulb?"
+       question was racing all around the nets. There were literally
+       hundreds of them; of which, this or a variation on it was the most
+       common one floating around...so I let it go in as a nod to the
+       nets.
+     * Londo and G'Kar no longer really have much to discuss; they're
+       past that point, I figure. They hate each other.
+       Londo wasn't on Minbar; he was seeing someone off on a ship going
+       to Centauri Prime.
+     * Londo *does* have his moments when one almost likes him in spite
+       of oneself; the second episode of year three has scenes in which
+       you don't like him, and then you *do* like him enormously...then
+       you don't again. He's caught in the scissors...and trying madly to
+       find some way out of the situation he's in.
+     * Correct. Louis was not available to use for "Twilight" for health
+       reasons, but we like Louis a lot, and vowed to use him in another,
+       even better role, at the first opportunity. We seized it.
+     * Finding character names is sometimes easy, sometimes hard; it
+       really does vary.
+       And Theo was named for Vincent's brother.
+     * It was a mild Spring day, warm, clear, sunny, when Vincent Van
+       Gogh picked up his easel, and some paints, and walked a mile and a
+       half to an open field where he often painted landscapes. He set up
+       his easel, sat under a tree for a while, ate part of an apple,
+       composed a brief note to his brother Theo. Then he pulled out a
+       derringer and shot himself in the chest.
+       After an hour, realizing that he was not going to die for a while
+       yet, he picked himself up and staggered the mile and half back to
+       Theo's house, where a few hours later that evening he passed away
+       in Theo's arms.
+       Some say his sad ending came about because he felt he was a burden
+       to his brother Theo, and the guilt did him in; others because he
+       sold only one painting during his life, for 48 francs, and he felt
+       he would never become a painter of any worth.
+       On reflection, perhaps it was the thought of people bidding for
+       his ear that did it.
+     * I've always liked the name Theo, from Vincent's brother, so there
+       was the sound of it; also the sense of it, in that Theo was a
+       guide, a counselor, a confidante, which Theo might come to be in
+       this; and, finally, Theodore means (I just lapsed on the actual
+       definition) but either chosen (favored) of god or messenger of god
+       (have to check my dictionary of names again), which is appropos.
+     * We'll see Theo here and there as we go along this season.
+     * _Any relation to the technomages?_
+       No, I wouldn't think of them in technomage terms; if you look at
+       the history of many of these orders, they've generally pulled
+       together people of varying skills. Ain't really that new an
+       idea....
+     * _Any connection between Theo's mission and the short story "The
+       Nine Billion Names of God?"_
+       No, there's no connection whatsoever. The Tibetan monks in the
+       story were specifically coming up with all the names of god in
+       order to bring about the end of the world; Theo et al have come as
+       an exercise in comparative religion, to learn what the other races
+       call god, and how it compares. As others have done before, right
+       here on good old earth.
+     * Re: "The Nine Billion Names of God," the whole purpose of that
+       story had nothing to do with alien contact; it had to do with
+       gettting all the earthbound names of God into a computer, so they
+       could create the end of the world. The monks are on B5 in an
+       attempt at studying the different religions out there for the
+       purpose of better understanding...or more succinctly, comparative
+       religious studies, which long predate Clarke by, oh, about 500
+       years.
+     * _Are these the monks from [25]"There All the Honor Lies?"_
+       No, these are not the monks Sheridan met earlier.
+     * _What were the floating discs at the crime scene?_
+       It's a floating (air-compression) vidrecorder.
+     * "B5 has gravity defying video cameras"
+       Only if you consider a plane or any other reasonable technology of
+       flight to be gravity defying.
+       The video recorders are made of an extremely ultralight material,
+       new alloys that in total weighs less than an ounce; it has a
+       visible (and audible) air propulsion system, a high speed fan with
+       a stabalizer/gyroscope that keeps it steady, and move it forward.
+     * If you didn't notice the effect, that's good; you shouldn't in
+       many cases. (How many folks noticed that the two-story shot of the
+       blown sector of Convictions after the elevator boom is a digitally
+       composited set, using two different sets?)
+     * _Why did the "bomb squad" have to go out into space in order to
+       gain access to the fusion reactor?_
+       Going in the vacuum door was the fastest way to get a bunch of
+       people in there, and presumably get a big object out again.
+       Instead of riding transport tubes to the core shuttle, then the
+       core shuttle to the far end, then tubes to the bottom...you jump
+       out, get picked up and dumped at the far end. Takes 2 minutes
+       rather than 10 or 15. Remember, this place is five miles long.
+     * "We have a wonderful security system on B-5. Our monitors will
+       show you everything, except a twenty foot long fusion reactor
+       trigger that was put in the most sensitive part of the station by
+       a certified nut case."
+       Show me where we ever said our monitors "will show you
+       everything." They don't, they can't, and never have. This is a
+       city, and a quarter million people live here. It would be
+       impossible to monitor it all. As for the fusion reactor...that was
+       a ten foot object attached to a place where only station
+       maintenance people went, which was his job. He was cleared for
+       that kind of access, and until/unless the device was activated, it
+       was electronically dormant, you wouldn't notice anything. Nor did
+       it attract much attention. Even though they *knew* something was
+       there, they STILL had to look long and hard to find it, because it
+       had been made to look just like everything else in the area.
+       And it's not like everybody *knew* he was a "certified nutcase" at
+       the time. He didn't have an identicard that said CERTIFIED NUTCASE
+       on it. He worked in station maintenance. Nobody knew Tim McVeigh
+       was a nut until he blew up a building. Nobody knew that quiet
+       little man in Boston was out strangling women in his spare time.
+     * Doug's reaction to Netter's Syndrome was...amused, chagrined, and
+       the promise of swift and terrible revenge.
+       
+
+   [31][Next] 
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Sheridan and Ivanova try to deal with an association of cargo
+     pilots. An alien probe makes first contact with the station.
+     G'Kar's position among the Narn is threatened by the arrival of a
+     Centauri-appointed liaison. [15]Stephen Macht as Na'Far.
+     [16]Marshall Teague as Ta'Lon. [17]Anne Betancourt as Dr. Gonzalez.
+     
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]7.85
+
+Production number: 303
+Original air week: November 20, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * The Centauri diplomatic mission on Minbar has been closed for
+       several years.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Who sent the probe?
+     * Will Franklin's continuing use of stims have greater
+       repercussions, especially now that he's willing to lie about it?
+     * What will become of Na'Far? And of Ta'Lon, for that matter -- will
+       he remain on the station, and will he look after Sheridan?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Vir is leaving Londo just when Londo seems to need him most; Londo
+       is becoming darker and darker, as his conversation with Na'Far
+       demonstrates. Now he'll have nobody to slow his descent (though
+       it's not clear how much he listened to Vir in the first place.)
+     * The favor Delenn owed Londo was most likely the one he earned by
+       transporting her and Draal to Epsilon 3 in [20]"A Voice in the
+       Wilderness, part 2."
+     * Franklin's stim use is nothing new; it was touched on as recently
+       as [21]"Confessions and Lamentations." He may feel he has no
+       choice and no problem, but he seems to be ignoring the example of
+       Dr. Rosen in [22]"The Quality of Mercy," who lost her medical
+       license over her stim use.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * A [23]picture of the probe is available.
+     * Vir's departure has, in part, a real-world cause: actor Stephen
+       Furst is starring in a sitcom on the Fox network. He will still
+       appear on Babylon 5 from time to time.
+     * Sheridan's reference to the probe as a "berserker" is probably a
+       nod to Fred Saberhagen's "Berserker" novels, which feature huge
+       automated war machines that seek out and destroy sentients.
+     * A small gaffe: At the end of the episode, when the probe is headed
+       away from the station, Sheridan asks the tech if there are any
+       security bots in the area. The tech replies that there is just
+       one, at 5000km. The next shot is of the bot in question, except
+       that there are clearly 2 bots in the shot, and they look
+       identical.
+     * A related goof: Sheridan orders a securebot sent to look at the
+       probe, but the display on the screen reads "Maintbot 12."
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * "A Day in the Strife," a fair number of threads, a day in the life
+       episode with everything that can go wrong going wrong, some
+       elements of humor but mainly a straight-ahead kind of episode...
+     * _Is Marshall Teague playing the same character he did in [24]"All
+       Alone in the Night?"_
+       Yes, it's the same character, and his name is Ta'Lon.
+     * "A narn resistance is going to be pretty hard to organize."
+       *Exactly* the issue we'll explore in "A Day in the Strife." (Well,
+       one of many issues.)
+     * _How many Narn dead are there?_
+       Actually, yes, there are millions of dead; I think that either Vir
+       or Na'Far gets it right in "Strife," and the other misstates the
+       figure in the same episode.
+     * Just went back and checked the script; Ta'Lon refers to millions
+       in his meeting with Sheridan. (Knew I wasn't nuts....)
+     * _Londo's comment, "It's nothing personal, Vir," was the same one
+       the bomber echoed in "Convictions."_
+       Yeah, "it's nothing personal" does echo the other theme; those who
+       inflict great harm tend to shrug it off that way.
+     * You will see Vir many times again in the course of the third
+       season.
+     * _Why didn't they ask Delenn or Kosh for help with the questions?_
+       Because Delenn doesn't know that information offhand, any more
+       than you or I would have casual access to detailed scientific
+       information from our own world just off the top of our heads;
+       she'd still have to go to her own homeworld for the info, as our
+       characters did. And it's not that we didn't have it, it was just
+       collating it all. And given how Kosh answers questions, would you
+       really want to use his responses in this thing?
+     * My sense is that Delenn is not a godlike font of information; I
+       don't think anyone, alien or human, at the station would just
+       happen to know all the information required. How much would Delenn
+       know about molecular biology, for instance? (And if you asked Kosh
+       a question about the subject, he'd probably come back with "The
+       heart does not sing with its parts." Not exactly useful.)
+       Anyone there would have to go back to their own world for experts
+       in the various fields...so you're back where you started. Earth
+       *has* the info, it's just getting it, and getting it fast. If you
+       add the overlay of going through another government, you're going
+       to run out of time that much faster.
+       Logically, a probe like this would be sent off looking for
+       information on the very cusp of technology that could pose a
+       threat. That's why it *didn't* go off when the probe presumed them
+       to be a less developed civilization; it was looking for
+       civilizations that *are* sufficiently advanced to pose a possible
+       threat; Sheridan says exactly that as he walks across C&C.
+       Interesting aside on this, btw, in the "where do you get your
+       ideas?" department. The US House Science Sub-Committee held a
+       series of hearings into the question of extraterrestrial contact
+       during the 1970s, to determine what we should do in the event of
+       contact. The most likely scenario, the scientists agreed, was a
+       probe coming into our solar system. So what do we do in response
+       to a message asking if anybody's home?
+       Believe it or not, it was the consensus of the Subcommittee that
+       we should not respond...in case it was a berserker, just as shown
+       in the episode. That is our government's official policy on the
+       subject.
+     * I just went through my stuff trying to find it...there was a
+       formal report published by the Government Printing Agency in
+       around 1978 or so. I think it was entitled something like
+       "Prospects for Contact by Extra- Terrestrial Intelligence," and
+       went into the whole CETI issue at great length. (Back then, it was
+       CETI, for Contact With Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, changed
+       shortly after the House hearing on the subject to SETI, Search For
+       Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.) Any GPA office should have the
+       report on file.
+     * _Would the explosion have taken out a planet?_
+       No, it probably couldn't take out a planet, though it'd sure
+       disrupt all communications in and out for a long time, maybe throw
+       up a dust curtain to bring down the temperature quite a bit.
+       Certainly it'd debilitate the planet long enough for additional
+       probes to be sent in. If one can do the job, one does the job; if
+       more are required, more are sent.
+     * _What kind of alien was sick in medlab?_
+       I'll have to go back and check, but from memory I'm pretty sure
+       he's a Llort.
+     * _What happened to Na'Fon?_
+       When he failed to convince the other Narns to accept him as their
+       new leader -- which was the whole point to his being sent to B5 in
+       the first place -- he had no choice but to go home.
+     * _Why don't we ever see worker-caste Minbari?_
+       Worker caste tend to fade into the background; we've seen them
+       here and there; pilots and traders (visible in "Strife") are
+       worker caste, and others. They don't have as much a stylized
+       manner of bone-carving as the other castes.
+       
+
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+Overview
+
+     Lyta Alexander returns to the station at Kosh's behest. One of
+     Theo's brothers discovers that he may have a hidden past. [15]Brad
+     Dourif as Brother Edward. [16]Louis Turenne as Brother Theo.
+     [17]Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander.
+     
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]8.38
+
+Production number: 305
+Original air week: November 27, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Adam Nimoy
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Mindwipes were instituted after Earth decided that they were more
+       humane than the death penalty. They are apparently not very
+       complete; the old memories remain in some form or another, but are
+       inaccessible without the intervention of a telepath. (See also
+       [20]"The Quality of Mercy.")
+     * Minbari religion is based on the notion that souls are part of a
+       larger whole, of the universe itself, which is in the process of
+       trying to discover itself. Souls can only be perceived via the
+       physical bodies they inhabit, but the real soul is something only
+       dimly related to the body.
+     * Valen, the great Minbari spiritual leader and founder of the Grey
+       Council, appeared a thousand years ago. He is believed to be a
+       Minbari not born of other Minbari, according to Lennier.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What happened to Lyta? Was Kosh inhabiting her body? Was the body
+       not even Lyta's to start with? She has gills on her neck that
+       allow her to breathe in Kosh's quarters, and several health
+       problems have been completely repaired. What else did the Vorlons
+       do to her, and why?
+     * Given how easily she pulled the information from the Centauri,
+       have her telepathic powers increased? Or could any P5 do the same?
+     * What did she see on the Vorlon homeworld?
+     * Why is Londo so anxious to find out what she saw that he'd resort
+       to threatening her?
+     * What was Lyta's mission for Kosh? Why does he want an aide all of
+       a sudden, when he hasn't had one before?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * If Garibaldi and Sheridan are any indication, mindwipes are widely
+       considered to be insufficient punishment for serious crimes. How
+       widespread that perception is isn't known.
+     * Could the techniques used to put a mindwipe in place be related to
+       the method used by Bureau 13 to implant hidden personalities
+       ([21]"Divided Loyalties" and, more ominous, comic #8, [22]"Silent
+       Enemies?") Both seem to involve submerging one personality and
+       causing another to become dominant, though in the case of Control,
+       it's not clear which was the original.
+     * Edward's execution was not only a sort of crucifixion (notice how
+       he's suspended from the metal frame) but also resembles Sheridan's
+       suspension from what looks like the same kind of frame in
+       [23]"Comes the Inquisitor."
+     * Might Valen have been a Vorlon, or a Minbari under Vorlon
+       influence? If, as Lennier says, he was truly not born of Minbari
+       parents, that strongly suggests he wasn't Minbari at all, and
+       Vorlons certainly have the power to appear as Minbari.
+     * If Minbari consider the universe to be a manifestation of a single
+       soul, how did they ever find it conscienable to fight the
+       Earth-Minbari War? (see [24]jms speaks)
+     * The Vorlons didn't hear, or didn't respond, to Lyta's signals, and
+       took five days to respond to her telepathic broadcast. What's
+       interesting is that they apparently didn't come until she was
+       nearly unconscious. Could that be related to what happened to
+       Sheridan in [25]"All Alone In the Night?" Maybe she was only able
+       to make contact when, as Kosh said of Sheridan, her mind was quiet
+       enough to hear the Vorlons. Or, of course, it could simply have
+       taken them several days to locate and reach her, in which case
+       they could even have been responding to the non-telepathic
+       signals.
+     * Why didn't Franklin notice Lyta's gills? Perhaps he did and didn't
+       feel they were worth mentioning (gill implants aren't completely
+       alien concepts; G'Kar has them, as noted by the assassin in
+       [26]"The Gathering.") It's also possible she didn't get them until
+       her errand in the middle of the episode. Franklin did note that
+       she had elevated oxygen levels in her bloodstream, though, which
+       would tend to indicate both that she had the gills before he
+       examined her and that he didn't notice them. Given the powers of
+       illusion Vorlons have demonstrated, covering up gills would
+       probably have been a small matter with Kosh's help.
+     * Whatever left Lyta to enter Kosh's suit looked a lot like the
+       creature inhabiting Sheridan in [27]"Knives." Could Sheridan have
+       inadvertently been inhabited by a Vorlon? Certainly it would be
+       consistent with him being made to see things that weren't there;
+       Kosh clearly has that power.
+     * Psi Corps may have strict rules against unauthorized scans, but
+       Sheridan and Garibaldi don't hold those rules in particularly high
+       esteem. Now that they have a non-Corps telepath at their disposal,
+       someone whose loyalty is presumably above reproach thanks to her
+       association with Kosh, will they begin calling her in on a regular
+       basis?
+     * The Centauri telepath, likewise, seemed to show contempt for the
+       Corps' regulations. What regulations, if any, are Centauri
+       telepaths obligated to follow? Clearly they're not simply allowed
+       to roam freely, since Londo had this particular telepath's name on
+       a list.
+     * If Lyta can implant nightmares, other psis can presumably do the
+       same. We've seen one nightmare: Londo's prophetic dream. Is it
+       possible that someone or something implanted it in him? (He says,
+       in [28]"Midnight on the Firing Line," that Centauri have such
+       dreams as a matter of course, but that doesn't rule out an
+       external influence.)
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The title, as noted in the episode, is a Biblical reference. In
+       the New Testament, [29]Matthew 26:30-50, Jesus goes to Gethsemane
+       with Peter and two others to pray and contemplate his imminent
+       betrayal. They fail to keep watch over him, and Judas is able to
+       lead the Romans to Jesus. Gethsemane is also referred to, not
+       always by name, in [30]Mark 14:32-52, [31]Luke 23:39-51, and
+       [32]John 18:1-13.
+     * Delenn's opinion of Garibaldi's eye-for-an-eye attitude echoes
+       that of Gandhi, who said, "An eye for an eye leaves the whole
+       world blind."
+     * Malcolm, Edward, and Charles are all names of rulers of Scotland.
+     * The names Edward and Charlie may also be a reference to two H.P.
+       Lovecraft stories. In "The Thing On the Doorstep," a character
+       named Edward falls in love with a woman whose grandfather has
+       shifted his soul into her body, replacing hers. In "The Strange
+       Case of Charles Dexter Ward," the title character becomes obsessed
+       with the memory of an ancient ancestor.
+     * Shooting began on September 11, 1995.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * I'd rather not say anything at all about "Gethsemane," because a
+       large part of the plot turns on something you need to discover
+       mid-viewing, and anything I might say would only detract from it.
+       It's a lovely, sad, very moving story; it's kind of my Twilight
+       Zone story in the B5 universe, with some very strong emotional
+       twists as we go along. It's not the kind of story I get to do
+       within the B5 structure very often, and I'm extremely pleased with
+       this one (and Adam Nimoy did a *bang-up* job directing it; he
+       thinks it may be his best work ever).
+     * Thanks. Adam did a great job interpreting the script on that one,
+       and it's definitely one of our most successful episodes...though
+       today I took a look at another, more completed version of episode
+       8, "Messages," and *man* is this amazing...just a
+       knockout...trouble is we keep raising our own bar and won't accept
+       anything less...so the pressure becomes quite astonishing after a
+       while.
+     * Adam was great in that he's a *very* serious director who sits
+       down and really thinks through the subtext of the episode, the
+       thematic aspects, the underlying symbology, and then sits with the
+       actor and *really* works with them so that they fully understand
+       the nuances of the scene. A lot of TV direction can be
+       rushed...you're always under the gun...so it's rare to find
+       someone who really takes his time and prepares the cast.
+     * "Gethsemane" isn't a horror-type story at all, though it does have
+       a very TZish [Twilight Zone] feeling, so it doesn't owe to any of
+       those. Best to just let you see it when it airs.
+     * Brad read the script, fell in love with the part, and dived for
+       it.
+     * Two things on the upcoming episode ("Gethsemane")....
+       1) This is episode #5 in shooting order; I'd originally planned to
+       end the first batch of new episodes with #4, "Voices of
+       Authority," which is a major -- and I mean major -- wham episode.
+       But the EFX requirements were pretty hideous (though not as bad as
+       "Messages"), so I moved "Gethsemane" into that slot, which is a
+       very strong episode, though not an arc'er.
+       2) On the story question...yes, this was the story that someone
+       else (don't want to use names, no sense in blaming anyone) had
+       accidentally suggested while I was working on it early in season
+       two. So I had to scuttle the script for nearly a year. Finally,
+       very chagrined over what happened, the individual gave me a
+       notarized form explaining the situation. At that point, I was able
+       to reactivate the story. So no, it's not any kind of "it's okay to
+       do this" notion about story ideas; as it is, the story was tied up
+       for about a year, and might never have seen the light of day had
+       not the other person made great efforts to set the situation
+       straight.
+     * On another service, someone without considering what he was saying
+       (not his fault, it just happened) said, in essence, "What if
+       somebody on B5 found out that he had been mind-wiped, and used to
+       be something awful previously?" Well, I'd had "Passing Through
+       Gethsemane" on the wire at that time, but when I saw this, I had
+       to scuttle the story. It lay there, untouched, for over a year,
+       until I could finally meet the fellow and get a signed release
+       indicating what'd happened. If that fan had not been fair and
+       reasonable, that episode -- which many consider one of our best --
+       would never have been made.
+     * _Was there any nod to the person who suggested the idea, and what
+       was the story originally like?_
+       No, no nod to the person who suggested it, since this isn't a
+       competition, and the suggestion cost me a year where I couldn't do
+       the story. (So I wasn't in the cutest frame of mind about this for
+       a long time, even though it wasn't really his fault.)
+       Basically, it would've been a one-shot, with two monks arriving to
+       scope out B5 for the arrival of the rest later on. (You'll notice
+       that none of the other monks get into the story here; that's a
+       hold-over from the original outline, which I saw no need to change
+       at this point.) So this would've been folded into an introduction
+       to the order as they come to check out B5's facilities.
+     * They would've gotten the info in a different way, without
+       resorting to a telepath.
+     * Carol: *exactly* the right point. In his earlier talk about
+       Gethsemane, Edward mentioned that old JC had to go through all
+       that to atone for the sins of others; when he sees Theo later,
+       through the grate, he uses the same notion of atonement for the
+       acts of another, in this case, *his* other. The logical parallel
+       parses pretty closely.
+     * Not sure he *wanted* to die, as much as he felt it was *necessary*
+       in order to atone for the sins of another...his own "other," in
+       this case.
+     * _Where was Malcolm's mind wiped?_
+       We established in "The Quality of Mercy" that the equipment to
+       handle mindwipes is there on-station, locked away until mandated
+       by a court. A court assigned telepath is usually brought in to do
+       a preliminary scan before it happens and to verify the wipe
+       immediately afterward. In that same episode, Talia was used only
+       because a court teep wasn't available.
+     * Yes, B5 has a court system, authorized by the Earth Alliance
+       Judicial System, to conduct trials of this sort (which we've seen
+       before). And in this case, again, there wasn't a trial per se as
+       Ivanova noted; he pleaded guilty from the start, quite proud of
+       what he'd done. So all that remained was the sentencing.
+     * I'd say there were extenuating circumstances here that made it
+       more than just a simple murder (and not all murders get wiped,
+       esp. in cases like second-degree or manslaughter). He'd stalked
+       Edward for years; arranged to break the mindwipe; and engaged in
+       slow, deliberate, methodical torture unto death. The degree of
+       premeditation is staggering.
+     * No, the other brothers aren't mind-wiped.
+       You're mis-remembering "The Quality of Mercy." Telepaths do NOT
+       perform mindwipes. A court appointed teep makes a scan before and
+       after for purposes of comparison, but the wipe is done by a device
+       held under lock and key until ordered out by a court. The only
+       reason Talia did it in QoM was because they couldn't get a court
+       teep there in the required time (which was also stated in the
+       episode). So here the court appointed telepath would have come and
+       gone by now.
+     * _Mindwiping was presented too positively._
+       I'm not sure I presented it positively; I just presented it,
+       didn't make a moral judgement about it. Some of those in the show
+       did, but then we had Edward saying it *isn't* moral, that it's a
+       monstrous thing to do. Like any form of punishment it can seem
+       fair to those not facing it.
+     * There are templates used, with some variations. In a government
+       monitored situation (which this wasn't, they thought he was dead),
+       mindwipes are kept in servile positions, not allowed to achieve,
+       as that would be a kind of reward. Those guys you see along the
+       roadsides picking up trash and putting them in bright orange bags?
+       Mindwipes.
+     * Re: mindwipes no longer considered people...this really is not
+       that much different from prison inmates, who are given numbers,
+       have no real civil rights, and are treated like cattle. (And many
+       of them deserve it; a few deserve worse; a few deserve better.)
+     * _About the moral ambiguity_
+       Thanks. That's really the intent; to get people to talk about the
+       issues raised, and to examine the issues. We won't tell you what
+       to think about an issue, because I don't have an answer
+       myself...but if it made you stop and consider this stuff, and
+       decide for yourself where you fall in the discussion, then it's
+       done its job.
+     * It's a hard thing to walk the line between not being effective and
+       being heavy-handed...I think it worked quite well in that respect.
+     * The Centauri did not steal the bag; he had left long before Edward
+       lost it (we see him drop and leave it behind in the hallway). As
+       Garibaldi said, someone found it and tried to sell it.
+     * If the Centauri teep had had more time to react he probably would
+       have gone after Garibaldi...but Lyta came in too fast, and she
+       took his attention quickly.
+     * Re: the Centauri...note that Edward wasn't killed where they found
+       him. He was taken and killed elsewhere, in a area they'd more or
+       less secured for that purpose. That was the area he knew about.
+     * Re: the use of Lyta to extract the info...this is the main reason
+       why there's a Psi Corps, and there are exacting rules, otherwise
+       it can easily become deus ex machina. We won't ever do this sort
+       of thing trivially, and here it was definitely meant to be a
+       little disturbing...it was a sheer matter of life or death, the
+       guy was a creep, and somewhere Edward was bleeding to death. Even
+       after so many viewings, and even having written the thing, I find
+       that one scene vaguely scary.
+       It's the best of the first four, I think. But better is coming....
+     * _The interrogation scene was disturbing._
+       Yes, that's definitely the sense I was going for. That scene
+       frankly unsettles and scares me a little, because it does show our
+       characters skirting the line...yes, it's absolutely necessary,
+       every moment is precious if they're going to try to save Edward's
+       life...but it's still a bit creepy.
+     * How Sheridan and Garibaldi got away with it?
+       "Telepath? What telepath? Never happened. Can you describe her?
+       No? I see. Well, I don't remember seeing anyone in there, Mr.
+       Garibaldi, do you? We'd check the logs to be absolutely sure,
+       because we'd hate for this sort of thing to happen, but we had a
+       small glitch in the software, and the recorders didn't
+       work...still, we're working on it, and we hope to have it taken
+       care of in the next few months. Would you like some more tea,
+       Ambassador?"
+     * What Kosh was doing with Lyta (that sounds vaguely suggestive)
+       wasn't a one-time event. There was a transference going on, and
+       that aspect will be heard from again.
+     * _Why did it take Lyta so long to get to the Vorlons?_
+       Well, she didn't go directly into Vorlon space; she left, went
+       around a bit, had to find a pilot willing to take her...it was a
+       time consuming process.
+     * Contacting the Vorlon government isn't the hard part; getting into
+       and out of their space is what's hard. We showed in the pilot that
+       B5 and Earth were in *contact* with the Vorlons; Lyta was trying
+       to get inside their turf, and they aren't exactly neighborly in
+       that respect.
+     * _Why did it take so long for a med team to get to Edward?_ They
+       were in a pretty distant part of DownBelow, and in B5 you don't
+       have trains or cars; there's just the transport tubes, and the
+       central core shuttle. Even if they gave a damn about what happens
+       to lurkers in DownBelow (and they generally don't), it would still
+       take at least 5-10 minutes to get a trauma team down there, and he
+       was dead within about 3. (I was once mugged half a mile from a
+       police station and a mile from a hospital; took 'em 30 minutes to
+       get there.)
+       Sheridan and Theo didn't *discover* that Edward was using the
+       computer; Theo was concerned that he was looking into it in
+       general. And if they had blocked the computer in his quarters, he
+       would have been able to access one somewhere else. They didn't
+       know he'd actually done it until after the fact.
+     * The absolution scene, based on what used to be called the rites of
+       extreme unction, or last rights, is now called the "celebration"
+       of passing, and I went to the Catholic church's information
+       office, and got the actual text. I made a few adjustments here,
+       condensing it a bit (on the logic that Edward didn't have a lot of
+       time), and modifying a few small points here and there, on the
+       second logical point that in 250 years, such might have taken
+       place (as the current ritual has been adjusted a bit here and
+       there over the years). So if it felt right, it was.
+     * One caveat here overall...it's been complimented and commented
+       upon that I would expose a belief system in my show which I do not
+       personally agree with (presenting the face of religion even though
+       I'm an atheist). That I could be this tolerant is apparently
+       praiseworthy.
+       I would just suggest that at some point, when and if I should
+       offer a point of view from another perspective, which one watching
+       might not personally agree with, the same tolerance is given,
+       since the virtue of tolerating divergent attitudes has been deemed
+       praiseworthy...and is something ever to strive for....
+     * Basically, Sheridan believes in a lot of things; he's very
+       eclectic in his views, can incorporate lots of different
+       perspectives, and has a respect for all views. In one of the early
+       season 3 eps, in fact, one character upbraids him for having "no
+       clearly defined pattern of faith," to which Sheridan replies, "I'm
+       eclectic, open-minded."
+     * "The themes of faith and forgiveness were worthy of a theologian.
+       Are you sure there isn't something you'd like to tell us?"
+       Never shoot pool at a place called Pop's. Never eat food at a
+       place called Mom's. The difference between horses and humans is
+       that they're too smart to be on what *we'll* do.
+       And I have lost people. Too many people. Lost them to chance,
+       violence, brutality beyond belief; I've seen all the senseless,
+       ignoble acts of "god's noblest creature." And I am incapable of
+       forgiving. My feelings are with G'Kar, hand sliced open, saying of
+       the drops of blood flowing from that open wound, "How do you
+       apologize to them?" "I can't." "Then I cannot forgive."
+       As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious,
+       because it's only here for a brief moment, a flare against the
+       dark, and then it's gone forever. No afterlives, no second
+       chances, no backsies. So there can be nothing crueler than the
+       abuse, destruction or wanton taking of a life. It is a crime no
+       less than burning the Mona Lisa, for there is always just one of
+       each.
+       So I cannot forgive. Which makes the notion of writing a character
+       who CAN forgive momentarily attractive...because it allows me to
+       explore in great detail something of which I am utterly incapable.
+       I cannot fly, so I would write of birds and starships and kites; I
+       cannot play an instrument, so I would write of composers and
+       dancers; and I cannot forgive, so I would write of priests and
+       monks and minbari....
+     * In legal terms, in order to qualify for "a crime of passion" there
+       cannot be premeditation; it happens suddenly, in the heat of the
+       moment. By virtue of stalking Edward for nine years, the "crime of
+       passion" defense quickly goes by the boards.
+     * From what Ivanova tells Lyta, about two weeks have passed since
+       the apprehension of Edward's killer; and yes, with slight
+       modifications to prevent mindwipes from running into one another,
+       they usually use preset templates in creating a basic history for
+       the person to be wiped.
+     * _Why did Ivanova tolerate Lyta?_
+       Real simple. Lyta has proven that she was telling the proof about
+       the traitor; and she's on the run from the Psi Corps herself,
+       putting her and Ivanova on the same side; and she helped when she
+       was asked to try and find Edward.
+     * If there were just one pure and unchanged universal soul running
+       through everything, there wouldn't be any point in breaking itself
+       into pieces and investing itself in different species/people...it
+       would just keep running into identical versions of itself.
+       So the soul form in Minbari is different from the soul form in
+       humans; also, in their view, having been civilized longer than us,
+       their soul form is more elevated, more evolved...and thus the
+       pieces are more precious, to them, and to the Soul Hunters.
+     * No, there's really just the one Minbari religion, and the warrior
+       caste tends to follow it, but not lead it.
+       
+
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+      [39]Last update: May 29, 1997
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/048.shtml
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/048.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/048.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/047.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/049.html
+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/048.html#OV
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/048.html#BP
+  11. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/048.html#UQ
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/048.html#AN
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/048.html#NO
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/048.html#JS
+  15. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Dourif,+Brad
+  16. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Turenne,+Louis
+  17. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Tallman,+Patricia
+  18. file://localhost/lurk/p5/intro.html
+  19. file://localhost/lurk/p5/048
+  20. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/021.html
+  21. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/041.html
+  22. file://localhost/lurk/comic/008.html
+  23. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/043.html
+  24. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/048.html#JS.souls
+  25. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/033.html
+  26. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/000.html
+  27. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/039.html
+  28. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/001.html
+  29. http://www.gospelcom.net/bible?passage=Matthew+26:30-50
+  30. http://www.gospelcom.net/bible?passage=Mark+14:32-52
+  31. http://www.gospelcom.net/bible?passage=Luke+23:39-51
+  32. http://www.gospelcom.net/bible?passage=John+18:1-13
+  33. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  34. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/048.html#TOP
+  35. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  36. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  37. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/047.html
+  38. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/049.html
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Draal helps the crew attempt to contact more of the First Ones.
+     Sheridan works to hide his conspiracy from the Nightwatch.
+     [15]Shari Shattuck as Julie Musante. [16]John Schuck as Draal.
+     
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]8.20
+
+Production number: 304
+Original air week: January 29, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Menachem Binitsky
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Morden was directly involved in the assassination of President
+       Santiago, and was in contact with then-Vice President Clark at the
+       time.
+     * There is bad blood of some kind between the Vorlons and at least
+       some of the First Ones.
+     * G'Kar's operatives have told him something of the Rangers, though
+       they don't know the whole story. He suspects Delenn is involved
+       somehow.
+     * The Ministry of Peace is planning to purge a number of high-level
+       officials from the Earth government on charges of sedition,
+       immoral conduct, and espionage. It has gained even wider powers
+       recently, including the ability to investigate people based on
+       past associations.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Why were the First Ones upset at the Vorlons? Could it be related
+       to the reason the Vorlons stayed behind when the other First Ones
+       left? What did they say to Ivanova?
+     * What does G'Kar want Garibaldi to find out from the Book of
+       G'Quan? The book mentions the Shadows; how detailed is its
+       information?
+     * How did the Machine record the conversation between Clark and
+       Morden? Is it monitoring all communications in a vast region of
+       space, or does it concentrate on Shadow-related conversations?
+     * What impact will the recording have?
+     * Will Musante return to the station? What did she make of Zack's
+       question? Will she link it to the release of the recording?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * The First Ones at Sigma 957 were annoyed at the mention of the
+       Vorlons, suggesting that the two races had a disagreement at some
+       point in the past. Perhaps the Vorlons prevented, intentionally or
+       otherwise, the final defeat of the Shadows in the previous war. It
+       could also have something to do with the Vorlons' manipulation of
+       younger races ([19]"The Fall of Night.") Perhaps the Vorlons
+       didn't depart with the other First Ones because they weren't
+       allowed to do so.
+     * "When it is time, come to this place. Call our name. We will be
+       here." But what _is_ their name? Does Draal know? Did the
+       recognition code the White Star sent call them by name, or is this
+       an additional hurdle to obtaining help from the Sigma 957 aliens?
+     * The manifestation of the First Ones bore some resemblance to a
+       Native American totem, or an African wood figure. Coincidence, or
+       are the Vorlons far from the only visitors to Earth?
+     * Ivanova was able to extract more information from the Great
+       Machine than any normal human could have, according to Draal, and
+       she managed to find a pretty specific recording in what must have
+       been huge mountains of data (literally!) Is that due to her latent
+       psi ability? What would happen if a full telepath like Lyta were
+       to step into the machine? (See [20]below.)
+     * The Shadows (if that's what they were) sensed Ivanova's "presence"
+       at Sigma 957. That implies that the Machine was actually
+       projecting something there rather than passively scanning, and
+       that the projection was tangible enough to provoke Ivanova to
+       comment that the enemy "knows my name," an odd remark in itself.
+     * There may be something significant in Draal's use of the term "the
+       enemy" to describe Ivanova's visitors; he didn't say "Shadows." On
+       the other hand, given that she heard the typical Shadow chitter
+       and that the floating lights were in the same pattern as the
+       glowing Shadow eyes seen by Sheridan in Kosh's vision ([21]"In the
+       Shadow of Z'ha'dum," and in the season three title sequence) it's
+       probably safe to assume that she was in fact being observed by the
+       Shadows.
+     * Just how much contact there was between Ivanova and the Shadows
+       wasn't clear. Did they find out enough about her to know about the
+       conspiracy of light? Did they have a hand in her discovery of the
+       Clark recording? Given their apparent affinity for chaos in the
+       ranks of potential enemies, the release of the recording and the
+       subsequent upheaval on Earth might be exactly what they want.
+     * The fact that Ivanova was able to escape the Shadows by returning
+       to the "path" that connects all living things is perhaps more
+       significant; what does it imply about the Shadows that they're
+       somehow excluded from that path? Does that have anything to do
+       with their motive in participating in war after war across the
+       millenia?
+     * Presumably the machine was projecting Ivanova's consciousness out
+       among the stars; her greater-than-expected control over the
+       machine, as mentioned above, suggests that the experience was
+       telepathic in nature. That implies that to sense her, the Shadows
+       must have some telepathic abilities as well; or perhaps they have
+       a machine like Draal's that can provide the equivalent.
+     * The path might be related to the way telepathy works in the first
+       place; if all life is connected on some level, then perhaps
+       telepaths are simply beings who can make use of those connections.
+       The Shadows' involvement with Psi Corps ([22]"Matters of Honor,"
+       among others) suggests that they consider telepaths important;
+       that may relate to their apparent exclusion from the path as noted
+       above. There may also be a reason they chose to use the Narn
+       homeworld as a base in the last war ([23]"Matters of Honor") --
+       the Narn have no telepaths of their own ([24]"The Gathering.") A
+       more sinister possibility is that the Shadow occupation is the
+       _reason_ there are no Narn telepaths; perhaps the Shadows
+       eliminated them, leaving the Narn without the genetic code for psi
+       ability. If that's true, they may be cultivating contacts with the
+       Psi Corps so they have an easy way to do the same to humans when
+       the time comes.
+     * The assignment of a "political officer" to military units is
+       reminiscent of the way in which the Soviet Union maintained
+       control over military units. Each unit had its own political
+       officer whose job it was to maintain ideological purity. These
+       officers were tolerated at best, and were generally despised and
+       feared.
+     * Another link to Soviet history was Musante's allusion to purging a
+       number of high officials in a very public and permanent way. This
+       brings to mind the purges experienced by the Soviet Union in the
+       30s -- the great show trials of prominent individuals, the mass
+       purges of the army (which wrought such havoc over the military
+       that, by the time that the Soviets were actively engaged in World
+       War II, most of the experienced officers had been removed, thus
+       weakening the Soviet army to the point where the Germans felt they
+       could easily defeat the Soviets.)
+     * Why would Musante have to be recalled to Earth? Is she the
+       low-level operative she appears to be, or someone more important?
+       Perhaps the Nightwatch is simply short-staffed enough that they
+       need all the manpower they can get to deal with such a potentially
+       damaging situation.
+     * Delenn's denial of knowledge about the Rangers was an out-and-out
+       lie, not a deception or a mistruth or a careful omission. Whose
+       honor was she protecting, or does that rule no longer apply to
+       her? ([25]"There All the Honor Lies") Perhaps, since her
+       transformation, she no longer feels quite so bound by Minbari
+       tradition; on the other hand, she still seems to cite it
+       regularly.
+     * Zack's uniform troubles may be a metaphor for his situation; he
+       doesn't know where he fits in the scheme of things, and is
+       uncomfortable no matter what he does.
+     * Now that Ivanova has made contact with the First Ones at Sigma
+       957, might the forces of light be able to use the quantium-40 (if
+       there actually is any on the planet) that Catherine Sakai was sent
+       to investigate in [26]"Mind War?"
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The First Ones at Sigma 957 were first seen in the first-season
+       episode [27]"Mind War." Although the existence of the First Ones
+       hadn't been revealed at that point, G'Kar's description of this
+       race coincided almost exactly with Delenn's description of the
+       First Ones, an early piece of foreshadowing.
+     * Julie Musante is named after two fans, Julie Helmer and Mark
+       Musante.
+     * Musante's Earth-bound ship is the Loki, named for the Norse god of
+       fire and mischief.
+     * The silhouetted figure on the Nightwatch poster on the wall during
+       Musante's presentation bears a striking resemblance to the figure
+       of Lenin used in Soviet propaganda posters between World Wars I
+       and II.
+     * The same figure also appears to have a raven on its shoulder,
+       reminiscent of Ivanova's appearance in Sheridan's dream in
+       [28]"All Alone in the Night."
+     * The skeletal spines sticking out of the Sigma 957 aliens' ship are
+       made of a computer model of a human footbone replicated and
+       arranged in rows; that earned the ship the nickname "the footbone
+       ship" at Foundation Imaging. There are also some triceratops parts
+       used in the model.
+     * Ardwight Chamberlain, who does Kosh's voice (or rather, the
+       English translation thereof) was also the voice of the First One
+       in this episode. (See [29]jms speaks.)
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * I do plan to do more with Ivanova this season, yes, and get her
+       out of C&C a bit more often. (Especially in "Voices of Authority,"
+       coming up.)
+     * _Where's this big war we've been hearing about?_
+       What we're doing in the meantime is plenty. Originally, the fourth
+       and final episode in this first batch of four was going to be
+       "Voices of Authority," which deals with just this question of
+       preparing for the war in a big way, has major developments, gets
+       into the White Star...but the CGI requirements of that episode
+       were hideous, so we had to move it to #5 in the lineup, moving up
+       "Gethsemane." Once we come back with new episodes, we'll hit the
+       ground running hard on all this stuff.
+       Also bear in mind that wars aren't instant; in the real world, you
+       have to line up support, get into alliances, move all your pieces
+       around before you can get into it. We're taking a similar path
+       here. Also, the term "shadow war" refers to more than just the
+       shadows as a race; they refer to what's going on back on earth as
+       well, as metaphor as well as plot point, and that's a huge part of
+       the next batch of eps.
+     * Yeah, I'd intended to end with "Voices of Authority," which is a
+       HUGE arc episode this week, but the EFX weren't ready yet (huge
+       requirements), so we put "Passing" in its place.
+     * It takes us no longer to make the episodes or the EFX really than
+       it did before. But PTEN will not air shows out of sweeps periods,
+       for the most part. The episodes on hand now were finished weeks,
+       and in a couple of cases over a month ago. They sit on the shelf
+       until PTEN decides to air them. The only thing we did was swap
+       "VoA" with "Passing Through Gethsemane" to give that one a little
+       bit more time. That's it.
+     * _You should use Claudia Christian more._
+       You're absolutely correct, which is why in the very first episode
+       up in the next batch, we send Ivanova off in the White Star as its
+       commander, and we involve her and her charactder more strongly in
+       subsequent episodes as well.
+     * "Voices of Authority" - Earth begins tightening the screws on the
+       folks at B5 to try and exert more control there. Steps are taken
+       to help prepare for the shadow conflict. (Here, again, the "shadow
+       war" means both the obvious, and the more subtle conflict brewing
+       at home; it's description and metaphor.) The White Star voyages to
+       some territory not seen since the first episode, Ivanova helms the
+       ship, a major dramatic turning point is reached, and there is the
+       single funniest scene in probably the series to date. A strong arc
+       story.
+     * If you want some fun with your wham, and there's a lot of fun to
+       be had in this one, go for the first one up, "Voices of
+       Authority." If you want serious, serious wham, go for "Messages
+       From Earth."
+     * As y'all know, next week the latest batch of new episodes begins
+       to air. The first one up, "Voices of Authority," is an absolute
+       hoot; if you've been looking to bring in other viewers, that's a
+       good one to start them with, because it sets up a lot of what's
+       going to happen in this episode, it has a lot of background, and
+       it's a lot of fun.
+       The next two are somewhat more straightforward, stand-alones (to
+       some extent; there's some arc stuff there, however, which becomes
+       more important later). Then the last two in this batch represent
+       some of the best work we've ever done, "Messages From Earth" and
+       "Point of No Return." They follow directly on the footsteps of
+       "Voices," so those three together would be great for new viewers.
+     * If you're talking about the conference room scene...Draal wasn't
+       put into the scene digitally. You do a split screen, with the
+       camera locked off. In one Delenn walks over to a point just short
+       of the line; in another you get a shot just of the wall; then
+       Draal walks up. You then use a dissolve technique to fade him into
+       the room on his side of the split screen. But he's not being put
+       *into* the room, he's already there, so he's neither bigger nor
+       smaller than he is in real life, since he IS in real life there,
+       not added in.
+     * _And what about the machine room scene on the planet?_
+       We shot two plates, first with him in the machine, then him out,
+       never moving the camera, so it matched exactly.
+     * The crew you see on the White Star doesn't reflect those in other
+       parts of the ship. Also, being fairly advanced, it doesn't require
+       a big crew in command. You could even fly it single-handedly if it
+       came to that.
+     * _The First Ones sure have fragile egos._
+       The other part, I think, is that they were kind of amused to see
+       this dinky little ship getting in their face, when they *knew* the
+       First Ones could blast 'em to bits....
+     * Ivanova wanted to get in the face of the First Ones, to say,
+       "Look, you can blow me away, but damn it, listen to me." If she'd
+       said that "more reverently," as your friend noted, it would've
+       worked against the logic of the scene and the resolution.
+     * _Would it be fair to say the First Ones weren't pleased to hear
+       the Vorlons mentioned?_ Fair, yes.
+     * Well, this isn't a *literal* translation, because some words don't
+       translate, but the *sense* of the sentence would be "the vorlons
+       can kiss my ____."
+     * _Was the mask image just a representation, or was it what the
+       Walkers actually look like?_
+       It's certainly a form of representation, an icon, rather than the
+       literal entity, yes.
+     * "So who is older, the Shadows or the Walkers???"
+       The shadows, but just by a smidge.
+     * _Why didn't they recognize Morden's voice?_
+       Who said they didn't recognize it?
+     * What's fun, for me, about the Minipax lady, is that she *clearly*
+       knows that this is a game on one level, her comment about just
+       rewriting the dictionary...she knows the problems aren't *really*
+       gone, they just defined them away. But when she's in front of a
+       crowd of folks predisposed to her message, she goes full-tilt.
+       Showmanship.....
+     * _A lot of the Nightwatch members looked pretty disturbed by what
+       Musante was saying._
+       Now the weeding out process starts.
+     * _What do civilians think of Nightwatch?_
+       Some are scared of Nightwatch, others feel it's a good thing, and
+       darn it, it's about time....
+     * On the other hand, Zack *didn't* rat out the code 7-R stuff to her
+       in any detail. He's absolutely caught between the two sides, and
+       not sure which way to jump.
+     * _Parallels between Nightwatch and the Gestapo?_
+       While yes, there are some intentional WW II parallels here, do
+       bear in mind that you don't have to go all the way back to the
+       Gestapo to find this kind of mentality...Sen. McCarthy would've
+       been quite at home in Nightwatch.
+     * _Is Nightwatch going to clear the lurkers out of the station?_
+       Nightwatch has bigger goals than dealing with lurkers....
+     * _Is the Nightwatch the same group referred to as Bureau 13 in
+       [30]"A Spider in the Web?"_
+       No, the Bureau would've been a secret organization, a la the NSA
+       or a covert military/spy group. This is a much more public face.
+     * The political officer: improbable dialogue? Most of it was taken
+       direct from political statements, public ones, made by Goebbels,
+       Hitler, Joseph McCarthy, Stalin, and other fanatics. The kind of
+       Big Lie dialogue people continue to fall for today. Go to a Pat
+       Buchanan rally sometime and tell me it's unlikely dialogue.
+     * DLyulkin...exactly. You don't just take something and transplant
+       it wholecloth...you change and modify it. Nightwatch was never
+       meant to be on a one-to-one corrolation to the SS, or Stasi, or
+       McCarthy...the whole POINT is that this kind of mentality crops up
+       in new forms from time to time, in different names, different
+       approaches, but at its heartmeat core the same thing. By saying
+       it's "That over there," we can relax, since that specific incident
+       can't recur...making us vulnerable to the next version.
+     * Yes, those were shadow eyes; and it was probably a raven on the
+       poster.
+     * _Can the machine see everywhere, or can it be blocked?_
+       No, Varn's people aren't first ones...and the machine can be
+       blocked.
+     * My sense was that basically Ivanova jumped onto the wrong path as
+       she fled...the shadows were in proximity, and she ended up briefly
+       on their path, which took her to the interception of the
+       transmission.
+       The one comment that I find most interesting, repeated here a few
+       times, is that they didn't buy the Nightwitch (as some have dubbed
+       her) because in her address to the Nightwatch, she was not exactly
+       what you might call subtle, and thus nobody'd believe her, and see
+       her for what she was.
+       I find it interesting because we always think we're smarter than
+       that, when history proves *exactly* the opposite. The Big Lie,
+       spoken not just openly, but loudly, firmly and with conviction,
+       has been one of the most successful tactics in history. When
+       Hitler and Goebbels stood before a crowd and blamed jews for
+       destroying society, circulated pamphlets with ugly cariacatures,
+       indicated that they weren't *really* human (this in actual
+       newsreels provided to the medical profession members charged with
+       eliminating "mental defectives and jews")...when Joseph McCarthy
+       stood up in front of the nation waving a list of names of commies
+       in the state department, the military, congress, showbiz, and the
+       sciences...the public didn't suddenly wake up, hear the voice of
+       the fanatic, and say, "Hey, this guy's nuts!"
+       They bought it. Because they were primed to believe it. Because
+       they wanted to believe it. Because they were afraid *not* to
+       believe it. No, she wasn't subtle. Because there's a time for
+       subtlety, and there's a time to perform grandly for your
+       hand-picked audience and go for the Big Lie. If she were
+       addressing a larger audience, she might softpedal her message. To
+       the Nightwatch, she's got to hammer them, just as the Hitler Youth
+       were hammered, as the Anti-Communist Youth meetings were hammered
+       about the Red Peril, as Croatian or Serbian soldiers were hammered
+       about the need to rape women of the other "race" to make the
+       resultant babies more ethnically pure...which happened.
+       Most of her dialogue was paraphrased from actual speeches given
+       over the decades, or longer, by fanatical leaders to their
+       followers. There's bits of Hitler, of Goerring, of Goebbels...bits
+       of McCarthy, bits of Stalin, bits of Pat Buchanan and Rep. Dornan.
+       Because people fell for it. It did work.
+       It does work.
+       And it will *continue* to work...for as long as people think that
+       THEY would NEVER fall for such a thing....
+     * Never said they're all convinced of it. Just as all Germans
+       weren't convined of the views advanced by Hitler.
+       You don't need all of them. You just need *enough* of them.
+       Preferably, enough of them with guns.
+       Remember, too, that we just came out of the Earth/Minbari War
+       about ten years ago, when we stood at the edge of extinction. The
+       threat of a new alien race makes a good device.
+     * _How much does Nightwatch pay members?_
+       Basically, it's a weekly bonus added onto their weekly salary; 50
+       creds is a pretty enticing bump, equal to about 50 pounds British.
+     * _Didn't the security people already know about the assassination?_
+       You have to remember that all Garibaldi's people knew was that a
+       few guys came through the station that may have been involved in
+       the assassination. That is NOT the same thing as showing that
+       Clark is involved. There was no apparent connection. We the
+       audience suspect it, from what happens, but until now there has
+       been no evidence of it. So yes, they know that Santiago is dead;
+       that there's some indication that he may have been
+       assassinated...but that's a long way from pointing to Clark.
+     * _Why aren't Sheridan and company going public with this
+       information?_
+       With Clark removing all the evidence, and others giving orders to
+       drop it, and knowing Clark would stop any kind of investigation,
+       what is there for them to do officially? They had to begin working
+       covertly to prove it, which is what they've been doing ever since
+       "Hunter, Prey." If you're a military officer, and you're given a
+       direct order from your commander in chief or the Senate Oversight
+       Committee to drop something, and you violate those orders, you're
+       up on charges or fired.
+     * _Was that Ed Wasser's voice? (He plays Morden.)_
+       It was definitely Ed Wasser.
+     * _Did Musante seduce Zack?_
+       No, that wasn't the relationship between her and Zack, much as he
+       might've wished for it. As for the walkers at sigma 957...the
+       recognition signal is their name, which is 15,000 letters long (we
+       had to cut this line for time). So I can't really repeat it here.
+     * _Why did she think seducing Sheridan would work?_
+       Her feeling was likely that it has always worked with her in the
+       past. He's widowed, probably hasn't had any in a long time, he's
+       vulnerable, a perfect target.
+     * Basically, like many manipulative people, she projects whatever
+       she thinks will work best with her audience. Appealing to Zack's
+       patriotism, trying to find Sheridan's affections by flattering him
+       mercilessly (on many levels), playing the straight-chinned leader
+       in an address to security forces...she puts on whatever face she
+       thinks will work.
+     * _Why didn't Sheridan just get rid of her?_
+       This is the difference between TV logic and Real logic. In TV
+       logic, yeah, she should've tossed her outta there...but we try to
+       be rigorously real about the B5 universe. She was sent by the
+       Senate Oversight Committee, as is their province, with the backing
+       of several governmental offices, in an area over which Sheridan
+       doesn't have jusrisdiction: the political arena back home. In the
+       real world, you can't just toss somebody out the door because you
+       don't like them...not if you're a career military officer who
+       answers to a civilian authority or government.
+     * _Did I imagine Marcus's line about the French?_
+       You didn't imagine it....
+       Part of what appeals to me is the idea that the English/French
+       animosity you often see (though clearly not in all cases) would
+       continue not only into the future, but outside Earth.
+       Realistically, if you go into Europe, you find people holding
+       grudges 500 years old, or more. Seemed appropriate to carry this
+       small one forward as well.
+     * I wrote that particular line; knowing the longstanding
+       British/French "feud," for lack of a better term, it seemed
+       appropriate.
+     * _What does Marcus know about Vorlon theology?_
+       Marcus was making that part up.
+     * Weren't me. It was Marcus. Blame him.
+     * _So the actor ad-libbed that line?_
+       Actor? What actor? I'm talking about Marcus here. I just write
+       down what he says.
+     * _The First Ones had Kosh's voice._
+       I figured that some elements of the First Ones should be
+       consistent with one another; others should have specific
+       differences. Using Ardwight subliminally reinforced some of the
+       consistencies.
+       
+
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+  15. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Shattuck,+Shari
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     An addictive drug with telepathic effects is found on the station,
+     prompting a visit by Bester. G'Kar reaches a turning point.
+     [15]Walter Koenig as Bester.
+     
+[16]P5 Rating: [17]8.62
+
+Production number: 306
+Original air week: February 5, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Londo's original assignment to Babylon 5 was at the direct request
+       of Emperor Turhan, who chose him after everyone else turned the
+       position down.
+     * Dust, an addictive drug, allows non-telepaths of several races to
+       probe the minds of others, experiencing all the victim's memories
+       and thoughts in the space of a few minutes. Unfortunately, this
+       leaves the victims unconscious, and telepathic victims never
+       recover. The more often Dust is taken, the more is required to
+       achieve the effect the next time. Dust was originally developed,
+       and is apparently still being produced, by Psi Corps in an attempt
+       to induce permanent telepathy in normal humans; the experiment has
+       been a failure so far.
+     * The Narn used to have telepaths, long ago, but they and their
+       families were exterminated. The genes for telepathy were too weak
+       in the survivors to allow the Narn to breed natural telepaths, but
+       their abilities can still be unlocked, briefly, by Dust.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * How much does G'Kar know about Londo's association with the
+       Shadows? Did Kosh stop him before he was able to discover
+       everything?
+     * Why did Kosh stop G'Kar? (See [18]Analysis)
+     * How did Kosh know what was happening?
+     * Was Bester telling the truth about the Psi Corps combatting secret
+       threats to the human race, things ordinary people never hear
+       about? If so, what are those threats?
+     * What happened to the Narn telepaths? (See [19]Analysis)
+     * Will the Dust have a permanent effect on G'Kar, such as giving him
+       some measure of telepathic ability?
+     * What did the Corps learn from Talia? Was she actually dissected,
+       or was Bester just baiting Garibaldi? Did they find out about
+       Ironheart's gift ([20]"Mind War?")
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * What is the rest of the Psi Corps' business on Babylon 5? Perhaps
+       it involves Lyta Alexander; her presence is probably common
+       knowledge by now.
+     * The extermination of Narn telepaths may be connected to the Shadow
+       occupation of the Narn homeworld in the last war. See [21]"Voices
+       of Authority." Or perhaps the Centauri were responsible, during
+       their previous occupation. It's also possible, though perhaps less
+       likely, that the Narn killed all their own telepaths.
+     * G'Kar asks Londo if being helpless helps him understand the plight
+       of the Narn. But the reverse effect may have taken place as well;
+       G'Kar has experienced at least some of the past several years from
+       Londo's point of view now, and thus presumably understands why
+       Londo did what he did. Whether that understanding can lead to
+       forgiveness, though, is another question.
+     * Kosh's intrusion into G'Kar's probe of Londo can certainly be
+       viewed as manipulation, especially given the use of the image of
+       G'Lan. What Kosh is trying to achieve by appearing to G'Kar, and
+       why he's willing to interfere with the Narn and Centauri now when
+       he expressed no interest in them before ([22]"Midnight On the
+       Firing Line") isn't clear.
+     * In addition to the mention of the Narn and Centauri being alone
+       and dying, reminiscent of [23]"Midnight On the Firing Line," Kosh
+       also tells G'Kar, "I have always been here." This echoes Kosh's
+       statement in Sheridan's dream in [24]"All Alone In the Night."
+       It's still not entirely clear what he means, however. Could it
+       have something to do with the "path" revealed to Ivanova in
+       [25]"Voices of Authority?"
+     * Kosh may have stopped G'Kar to prevent him from learning too much
+       about the Shadows, on the assumption that G'Kar would likely speak
+       out about them in public. Since the forces of light are still
+       gathering, that'd be something Kosh would want to prevent. It's
+       also likely that Kosh was maneuvering G'Kar to be of greater use
+       in the future, perhaps testing his ability to influence G'Kar's
+       behavior through the use of religious visions.
+     * Probably just a coincidence: Kosh ends G'Kar's quest for Shadow
+       information in Londo's mind by saying, "It is enough." That's
+       exactly what Londo said to Endawi ([26]Matters of Honor") after
+       recalling his dream of the Shadow ships flying overhead on
+       Centauri Prime.
+     * Did G'Kar overdose on Dust? It is possible that he was about to
+       die, given the intensity of all the images he was seeing - the
+       drug hasn't been tested on Narn. And that would be consistant with
+       Kosh's previous appearances, when Sheridan was in danger of dying
+       ([27]"All Alone in the Night" and [28]"The Fall of Night.") Is
+       Kosh's direct manipulation restricted only to near-death
+       appearances?
+     * Who are the characters in G'Kar's vision? The man on the tree is
+       his father (which G'Kar mentions, and which fits with his
+       recounting in [29]"And Now For a Word.") It's not clear who the
+       second person is, the old man. G'Quon, perhaps? The third person
+       we know as G'Lan, from G'Kar's exclamation in [30]"The Fall of
+       Night."
+     * Kosh dodged the Vorlon question when G'Kar put it to him; in
+       response to being asked, "Who are you?" the vision replied, "I am
+       who I have always been," a self-referential answer that conveys
+       reflection rather than information.
+     * Kosh's statement about sacrifice can be interpreted to cover the
+       entire Narn race; he may be saying that the Narn (and perhaps the
+       Centauri, given his earlier statement about the two races) must
+       die so that the rest can live. If that interpretation is correct,
+       Kosh is preparing G'Kar to accept the death of his people as
+       inevitable. Will G'Kar continue to fight for the Narn?
+     * Vir's position on Minbar was a joke to Londo (strictly a means of
+       getting him out of his hair) just as Londo's position was
+       originally viewed. Could Vir parallel Londo's ascension to power,
+       potentially rising to great importance in the coming war? Given
+       his newfound affinity for the Minbari, and his distaste for
+       Londo's politics (and especially Morden,) he could be a great ally
+       of the Army of Light.
+     * Franklin continues to be on edge; could this be a consequence of
+       his stim habit? ([31]"A Day in the Strife")
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Dust has been mentioned before; for example, in [32]"Hunter,
+       Prey," Max, the kidnapper, asks Dr. Jacobs if he's a dust
+       smuggler.
+     * A possible inconsistency: Bester said the Corps had been working
+       on Dust for five years. But in [33]"Survivors," Garibaldi recalled
+       a Dust problem on Mars 17 years ago. Perhaps the Corps took over
+       production of an existing drug, or perhaps the Corps worked on
+       Dust for five years sometime in the past.
+     * The Dust vendor's two aliases, Lindstrom and Morgenstern, are the
+       surnames of two characters from the comedy series "The Mary Tyler
+       Moore Show."
+     * Morgenstern means "morning star," one of the names used to refer
+       to Lucifer in Judeo-Christian texts.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * Walter [Koenig]'s first appearance this season will be in "Dust to
+       Dust," #306.
+     * An interesting thought...as for Bester's personality, keep an eye
+       out for "Dust to Dust," episode #6, where you see Bester from a
+       different and very interesting angle. Some of what you say here,
+       he says. (Not about the corps, but about doing what's right as he
+       sees it.)
+       'Course, whether or not one should *believe* anything he says is
+       another question altogether.
+     * Re: Kosh...we'll see him again outside his suit in "Dust to Dust,"
+       but in a somewhat unconventional fashion....
+     * _The end credit music changed!_
+       Yes, we did change that. Because we -- I -- forgot to have
+       Christopher re-score it when we were re-doing the main title.
+     * Why didn't we do the music change in the end credits at the very
+       start of the season, you ask? Why, what a silly question, it was
+       all planned, all intentional, it means...er...it means....
+       It means we *forgot*. More correctly, *I* forgot. We were all so
+       busy getting the new main titles done, we just kinda forgot about
+       it until the first mix...and then we sorta looked around and said,
+       "....oops."
+     * "Dust To Dust" - Looks like a non-arc episode initially, but by
+       the end it has a strong effect on the overall storyline, and makes
+       some permanent changes in one of our characters. Combines Bester,
+       the telepathic-assault drug Dust, weapons dealers, and brings to a
+       head a major part of the G'Kar/Londo thread.
+     * "Dust to Dust" is what I call one of my "pretty box" episodes. I
+       set down the pretty box in front of you, and you think you know
+       what it is. Then something else entirely jumps out of it at your
+       face. There's more coming here and there. I like pretty boxes....
+     * _It's about time we had some heavy arc episodes!_
+       I get this at the start of every season. Let me repeat what I've
+       said, oh, about two dozen times already before.
+       At the start of every season, we have new people sampling the
+       show. Do you want the show to continue? If you do, then you have
+       to continue to add new viewers. If viewers tune in and they're
+       lost in the overall arc, they're going to tune out again. So you
+       give them some stand-alone episodes in the beginning, shows that
+       are a little more accessible, but introduce them to the
+       characters, the situations and the universe so that when the arc
+       begins to move again, they know enough to get into what's going
+       on.
+       Sure, I could've just kept going right with the strong arc
+       episodes. Which the new viewers, 90% of whom sample shows in the
+       first few weeks of a new season and not thereafter, wouldn't have
+       been able to follow well. And they would've tuned out. And it
+       would've been a very big nail in the cancellation coffin. You can
+       bring in new viewers, or you can get canceled and never tell the
+       whole story. Pick one.
+       Second, you cannot -- CANNOT -- sustain the kind of intensity you
+       have in the final four over the course of a season. You need to
+       have some lighter moments as contrast or people are going to start
+       sticking their heads in ovens all across the country. So at the
+       start of a season, I try to do some lighter stuff, to bring people
+       back up a little, bracing for the next drop in the roller coaster.
+       You need peaks and valleys to develop any kind of rhythm, or to
+       appreciate the other side of it.
+       I got the same thing in season one, and season two..."Why these
+       light episodes? What's happened to this arc?" Then by season's
+       end, the chorus usually turns to "That was a GREAT season!" So my
+       response is, Unless you think I've suddenly turned stupid, or I've
+       decided to betray the series I've now worked 10 years of my life
+       to produce...will you for chrissakes *trust* me once in a while?
+       Show a little patience. When I introduced Vir, everybody on the
+       planet jumped funky all over me. "He's just a comic character!
+       It's Flounder! He's dumbing down the show! Space him! He stinks!
+       Joe's losing it!" And now, of course, we see what Vir is, and in
+       many surveys he's now one of the most popular characters.
+       You know what the #1 comment from the pilot was, on the nets and
+       elsewhere? "LOSE the guy with the funny hair! He's just
+       ridiculous." Londo. Every time I've done something a little
+       different in the show, I've usually been jumped on, because
+       they're not willing to trust that I know what I'm doing...until
+       they've seen it for a while, then they Get It, and it's "Oh, now I
+       see it." Great, thanks, now that you've been beating on my head
+       for six months. Next time show a little patience. (And btw, ALL of
+       the comments related above are real ones, many of them right here
+       on Compuserve, from people still around here.)
+       Every story can't be an arc story at this point; you've got to see
+       the characters outside the arc, in the way they live their lives,
+       in other things that happen to them, or else you won't CARE what
+       happens to them in the arc. No, the Purple/Green Drazi story
+       didn't move the arc ahead, but it showed you a lot about Ivanova,
+       didn't it? So now if and when something should happen to her in
+       the arc, you care about her. It's the difference between just
+       being chess pieces, and being *people*.
+       Okay, here's the breakdown. Season 3. You had arc episodes only a
+       bit in the first batch. "Honor," "Voices" and now a little in
+       "Dust." You've got one more stand-alone next week, "Exogenesis."
+       That's the last one for a LONG time. Episodes 8, 9, 10, 11, 14,
+       15, 16, 17, 20, 21 and 22 are ALL arc stories, most of them heavy,
+       none less than moderate.
+       I said, from the start, that each season would have stand-alones
+       and arc stories. About 20% in year one, 35% in year two, 50% in
+       year three, 70% in year four, and 100% in year five. And the
+       stand-alones tend to get pushed toward the beginning of a season
+       for the reasons stated. Is nobody paying attention when I say
+       these things? Because if so, then why do I get gigged each season
+       at the start by people saying "HEY! HOW COME THESE AREN'T ARC
+       EPISODES?" (And as it looks now, year 3 has closer to 13-14 arc
+       episodes, so we're ahead a bit.)
+       Before people start making sweeping generalizations about the
+       season, it might behoove you to see the season first. If anything,
+       my concern in looking at what's been done for year 3 is that we're
+       too GRIM for the larger portion of it, and maybe a bit
+       complex...so I'm working to clarify a few things here and there as
+       I do these last few.
+     * You'll see Walter again this season after "Dust," and I'm trying
+       to work in one more before the end of the season, but it's tough,
+       given what's been going on in the latter half of 2260.
+     * BTW, here's something to notice when you watch DTD again. The
+       montage scene with Londo and G'Kar lasts, I think, 10 maybe 12
+       seconds. But that one piece took John and me *hours* to put
+       together. Go through frame by frame, and you'll see some of those
+       bits are only 3 or 4 frames long (one second is 24 frames). We
+       were nearly blind by the time we were done, but it was worth it.
+     * RE: Bester...thanks. I'd decided a while ago that the next time we
+       saw him, he either had to win, or he had to be right. If he lost
+       again, it'd cut his credibility out. This gave me a chance to do
+       some interesting things with him. He's a fascinating guy...a
+       creep, and I wouldn't trust him for a second, but fascinating
+       nonetheless....
+     * _Wouldn't the telepaths have tipped Bester off that something was
+       going on between Sheridan and the Minbari?_
+       Simple fact is, the rules of the Psi Corps would forbid them from
+       engaging ANY human telepath for this purpose. So the only other
+       recourse is non-humans.
+     * _Did Bester read Franklin when he was injected?_
+       I think you're misremembering; Bester nudged up his right sleeve
+       with his left hand and held it out; Franklin stuck the needle in.
+       I don't believe he held his hand (which was gloved in any event).
+     * _If Garibaldi knew Bester was drugged, why did he suspect Bester
+       of reading the smuggler?_
+       I think it came out of the fact that Garibaldi doesn't trust
+       ANYthing about Bester, and that it's not out of the realm of
+       possibility for Bester to find some way to defeat the drug. If
+       not, then his line was basically another way of stating "What the
+       ___ are you pulling and why are you doing it and why the hell
+       didn't you TELL me you were going to do this before pulling it?"
+     * Londo knows G'Kar knows, yes. He couldn't not know.
+     * _Was the music during G'Kar's rush of images from Londo new?_
+       With some thematic exceptions, most of the music Chris composes
+       for us each week is unique, and tailored for that episode. So yes,
+       it's all mainly new.
+       Re: the coat of welcoming...here's a little tidbit...we had to
+       make up an entire alphabet for most of our major races (and I've
+       been gradually building up a dictionary here and there for
+       languages). So they came and asked if they could embroider
+       something in Minbari on the shirt Vir's wearing when he comes
+       back. I said sure. Did I have anything in mind? No, not really.
+       So I'm on the set that day, and I see the embroidered shirt, and I
+       ask what these five letters spell, since I don't offhand read
+       Minbari yet. He looked up at me and smiled. "It spells out ALOHA."
+       We have a very demented crew.
+     * _Kosh would rather sacrifice all the Narn through manipulation
+       than take direct action?_
+       Exactly. I mean, in three years, what the heck have the Vorlons
+       actually *done* to help "our side?" Let the others do it.
+     * Actually, I tend to agree with that assessment. They've guided and
+       instructed and pointed, yes...and manipulated...but they still
+       haven't had to step up to the plate in other areas.
+       And I don't think the Narns have sacrificed nearly enough yet. You
+       can always sacrifice more.
+     * A person can be sincere and still manipulative, in Kosh's case. If
+       he believes he's right, perhaps he's willing to manipulate anyone
+       toward that goal, if it's worth it.
+     * Oh, the Vorlons can be *very* invasive, when they want to be, if
+       it suits their purposes. There's no Vorlon prime directive...it's
+       manipulation, whether small or large.
+     * _Why not sooner?_
+       Because G'Kar needed to hit bottom, real bottom, before he would
+       be receptive to the message...because time doesn't mean to the
+       vorlons what it means to us...and because he was finally mentally
+       receptive due to the dust.
+     * It was his father in the first part, G'Lan in angelic form, since
+       after all that was G'Lan's form.
+     * The figure he was talking through during the scene appeared to him
+       as his father; the very last figure, seen departing, was that of
+       G'Lan.
+     * Well, G'Kar doubtless *thinks* he saw a spirit, possibly the
+       spirit of his father, possibly something else...revealed later as
+       G'Lan, of course, taking that image in order to give him a
+       revelation.
+     * _Why didn't G'Kar embrace his father?_
+       Logically, G'Kar knows that his father is dead. He saw him die. So
+       whoever this was, wasn't his father, even though he was appearing
+       that way. Or was a spirit, and either way, he would've been
+       sufficiently apprehensive about it not to go blithely around
+       embracing something he didn't understand. I sure as hell wouldn't.
+     * Correct. They see reality, and time, and space somewhat
+       differently than we do.
+     * No, I wouldn't say that the shadows and vorlons see space, time
+       and reality in the same ways.
+     * _What did G'Kar shout out?_
+       And what G'Kar said was, "Dear G'Quon, no more...."
+     * _Did G'Kar recognize Morden?_
+       G'Kar probably has not yet put that together; remember, he only
+       met Morden once, for about 4 minutes, a couple of years previous
+       to this.
+     * _Does Kosh find it easier to appear to people when they're in
+       altered mental states?_
+       Yes, it helps if the person's mind is in a different state --
+       asleep, exhausted, in a heightened state of awareness -- for the
+       Vorlons to make contact, which is why their presence is often
+       associated with dream imagery.
+     * _The sign behind Kosh says, "WARNING!"_
+       Yes, the sign does indeed say warning. Look for another sign right
+       behind somebody at the end of "Severed Dreams."
+     * _G'Kar really beat Londo up._
+       Implying more than one sees is something that you kinda have to
+       learn over time. It can be very effective, as here.
+       You just have to kinda put yourself out on a limb, as a writer or
+       as an actor.
+       This scene *should* be very affecting. It goes to Joe's Theory of
+       Violence on TV. To wit...that we need more of it, but it has to be
+       realistic violence. It has to show consequences. You glorify or
+       desensitize violence when you shoot somebody, and they just go
+       down, no yelling in pain, no sobbing as their guts fall out onto
+       the street. It's just gunfire, loud noises, excitement and fun. If
+       you're going to show violence, then show it for what it *is*, and
+       show it the way people would react to it. Make the audience
+       understand that this is a *person*, not one in a series of body
+       counts.
+     * Actually, just to clarify the legalese, the judge sentenced him to
+       *no less* than 60 days; that's the minimum, it could be more.
+     * The female Psi Cop here *was* the same as in ARTDP, played by Judy
+       Levitt, who is also Walter's wife.
+       Yeah, everyone turned in great performances in this one, very
+       intense and layered. And as a result of G'Kar's attack, the next
+       several episodes will find him still in prison. In the B5
+       universe, you don't just go in for a long time at the end of an ep
+       and next thing you're out again. He has to serve his time, and now
+       we'll see him in a cell for a while.
+       And yes, you'll learn more about what happened to the Narn
+       telepaths in coming months.
+     * With Ivanova, I've tried to construct a small emotional arc, in
+       that when she arrived, she was the new kid, she was a bit
+       uncomfortable with the job, and responded by being very formal,
+       very businesslike, a bit on the snide side. As she's gotten more
+       comfortable with the job, and the people around her, she's relaxed
+       a bit around her co-workers...but if somebody crosses her, as
+       Bester tends to do, she lets fly with some pretty sharp lines.
+       
+
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+    ### GUIDE ### [3][Background] [4][Synopsis] [5][Credits] [6][Episode
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Marcus and Dr. Franklin combat an invasion by parasitic aliens that
+     attach themselves to humans. Ivanova investigates the possibility
+     of bringing a new member into the conspiracy. [15]Joshua Cox as
+     Corwin. [16]Aubrey Morris as Duncan. [17]James Warwick as Matthew
+     Duffin.
+     
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]7.34
+
+Production number: 307
+Original air week: February 12, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Kevin Cremin
+
+  Watch For
+  
+     * Signs on the wall in the Brown Sector marketplace.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * A race of symbiotes, the Vindrizi, has existed for half a million
+       years. They were created as recorders, observing events all over
+       the galaxy so that others can learn about the past when all the
+       books and records have been swallowed by the next dark age. They
+       survive by passing from host to host, always seeking volunteers
+       who have nothing left to live for and want to live out their lives
+       participating in a grand endeavor.
+     * The Shadows have been building up forces in sector 800, near the
+       border of Centauri space.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What is the "package" from Mars that Marcus is waiting for?
+     * Why are the Shadows building up their forces in sector 800?
+     * Will Corwin prove problematic for the conspiracy of light?
+     * Who created the Vindrizi half a million years ago, and what made
+       them think such living histories would become necessary?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * It's never made clear how much time has passed before the
+       Vindrizi's departure, but it's odd that Sheridan and company
+       didn't jump at the chance to get all the information they could
+       about the Shadows and the previous wars while the Vindrizi were
+       still aboard. Of course, it's possible such discussions took
+       place, but they're never mentioned.
+     * Now that Sheridan and his people know about the Vindrizi, perhaps
+       they'll call upon them in the future.
+     * What came in on the ship at the beginning of the episode? The two
+       people waiting for the ship were quite happy to see it arrive.
+       Were they not yet joined with the Vindrizi, or did the ship simply
+       carry more of their kind?
+     * Marcus seems a good deal less concerned with secrecy than his
+       coconspirators; he was talking to Garibaldi openly, and loudly,
+       about his network of contacts in a public place. By contrast,
+       Ivanova and Sheridan didn't even want to be _seen_ with him at the
+       Earhart's party for fear of raising questions.
+     * Why is Ivanova so hostile toward Marcus? Have her last few
+       romantic experiences made her want to discourage any new
+       developments in that area? (For example, [20]"The War Prayer" and
+       [21]"Divided Loyalties.")
+     * During the medical staff meeting, Franklin mentions that there's a
+       need for Drazi blood. Is the station being flooded with Drazi
+       refugees, much like it was with Narn refugees while the
+       Narn-Centauri War was at its peak? If so, is Babylon 5 becoming a
+       sort of haven for refugees of all stripes?
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Duncan's line, "I don't like being poked by doctors," is also
+       spoken by the main character Alex in Stanley Kubrick's [22]"A
+       Clockwork Orange."
+     * The ship carrying the Vindrizi is called the Dyson, most likely
+       named for physicist Freeman Dyson.
+     * Marcus quotes from Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" to Garibaldi, and
+       from Shakespeare's "Macbeth" when he wakes Duncan up. Note that
+       Marcus refers to Macbeth as "the Scottish play," and replaces
+       "Macbeth" with "Marcus" in his quote -- there is a superstition
+       among actors that referring to Macbeth by name is bad luck. (See
+       [23]jms speaks)
+       The particular Macbeth quotes are from Act II, scene 2:
+       
+     Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more!
+     Macbeth does murder sleep" -- the innocent sleep,
+     Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,
+     The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,
+     Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
+     Chief nourisher in life's feast.
+       Then, a moment later:
+       
+     Still it cried "Sleep no more!" to all the house.
+     "Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor
+     Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more."
+       Glamis and Cawdor are two earl titles that Macbeth holds.
+     * Marcus refers to his fighting staff as a "Copeland J5000" while
+       trying to convince the Vindrizi it's a medical instrument. That's
+       most likely a reference to producer John Copeland.
+     * The Vindrizi's musing about what they've experienced is
+       reminiscent of Batty's dying words at the end of the movie
+       [24]"Blade Runner."
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * "Exogenesis," which we just started filming this week, is probably
+       our most "ordinary" story of the batch, though it puts a new spin
+       on several traditional story elements.
+     * Sometimes I do like to take stories that have always been done one
+       way, and turn them on their heads to see what new possibilities
+       tumble out. It's fun....
+     * "Exogenesis" - The last non-arc episode for some time. Puts Dr.
+       Franklin and Marcus together investigating some odd happenings in
+       DownBelow that may indicate some kind of alien influence. Does,
+       however, introduce a thread that will play out over time.
+     * Another "oh, yeah, I nearly forgot"...for those out there who have
+       young kids, or if you're a bit on the squeamish side
+       yourself...there's one EFX shot at the end of the teaser for
+       "Exogenesis" that you may want to avoid. When it was finished,
+       John Copeland brought it into my office, fired it up on my TV, and
+       looked away, saying, "You look, it creeps me out too much to look
+       at it again." It's...pretty strong. So you'll miss the minimum
+       possible, here's the sequence: first there's the Screaming Man
+       (a), then a cutaway to two people (b), then back at the Man for
+       the first part of the shot (c), the two people again (d), the man
+       (e), and finally the two people. What you want to avoid, if there
+       are real young kids in the room, are shots c and e. That's it for
+       the whole episode. For non-netted folks, it'll go by pretty fast,
+       but I figured it'd be worth mentioning as an added piece of info
+       for the netted amongst us.
+     * _How is your mental image of the arc holding up?_
+       The overview still holds up pretty well, I think. Toward the end
+       of season two, I think things got just a *tad* too convoluted in
+       places, so that's being cleared up a bit, the dry brush trimmed
+       back, the red herrings cleared away, because we've got to start
+       focusing on the real story, not the misdirections. That's probably
+       the one thing I'd go back and revise, because in general, you
+       can't just bring something up and walk away form (from) it later;
+       it's got to either fit, or be reasonably, logically explained
+       away. So some time has to be spent on that now. But that's been
+       done pretty effectively in this first batch of episodes, and now
+       we're down to really cranking on the shadow war.
+       In four more episodes (writing-wise), I'll be at the exact
+       midpoint in the story, which on one level is a little hard to
+       believe; it's gont (gone) by so fast. Seems like yesterday that we
+       just got started. Which is why the overview is very helpful; by
+       constantly reminding me where we should be, it doesn't let me get
+       lost in the neverwhere of TV production.
+       All things considered...we've had some bumps on the ride, a detour
+       here and there, the occasional flat tire, but doggone it if the
+       old thing seems to have a mind of its own; I started writing #7
+       the other day, and I'm well past halfway finished writing it, it's
+       coming out almost as though it already existed, and I've just
+       managed to "tune into" it, like the sculpter who knows that inside
+       a block of wood is a horse, he just has to start chopping and
+       cutting until he finds and relases it.
+       So long answer to a short question...we're still on course, and
+       I'm still quite pleased with where we're going, and how we're
+       getting there.
+     * Thanks. Yeah, Exo is the last non-arc episode for a long time, and
+       the last chance to catch one's breath before the big fall.
+       My personal evaluation of the episode is that it's okay. The
+       second half, I think, isn't as strong as the first half. Halfway
+       through writing the episode, we had a problem come up in
+       production that unexpectedly took me away from the script for
+       about a week. (Nothing major, but it had to be dealt with and it
+       took time.) Usually, I write copious notes on a script before I
+       begin writing it. In this case, the story was so crystalline clear
+       in my head that I just dived in, and was blasting away terrific
+       when the hit came midway through. By the time I got back, I'd lost
+       some of the fingerprints of the story, and had to kind of re-find
+       them again. Mainly, I think the expository sequence at the end
+       could've been done better.
+       Needless to say, that's the last time I trusted myself without
+       notes, no matter how well I "see" the episode in my head. It'd be
+       a great script for second or first season, but we have to keep
+       raising the bar, every aspect has to be better than the last thing
+       we did, so for my money it's not quite up to that standard.
+       Happily, it's the *only* episode this season that I feel that way
+       about...the rest are all just nifty.
+       That said, I think it has some great moments for Marcus, Franklin
+       and others...and yes, there's a lot more planned with Franklin
+       coming up this season, particularly toward the latter third of the
+       season.
+     * Thanks (I think). Yeah, I've said from the git-go that in my view
+       the second half of Exo isn't up to the first half. It is, in my
+       view, the weakest of this season's 22. On the flip side, that
+       means the other 21 are pretty nifty.
+       Agree with you on Marcus. I'm finding I have the same problem with
+       him I have with Londo...getting him to shut up once I wire him up
+       and let him go. He's a lot of fun to write, in that he can do the
+       physical action stuff very well, he can do comedy, more dramatic
+       emotional stuff...the whole range. I can take him places and do
+       things with him that I can't in some ways for the other
+       characters, in that he has only one responsibility, whereas the
+       others have larger responsibilities to more people.
+     * _What did Joshua Cox think of Corwin getting to leave C&C for a
+       change?_
+       He loved it.
+     * _[25]About the avoidance of the name "Macbeth" _
+       Just figured I'd use that description of it rather than Macbeth,
+       to make it a bit more obscure, but also some actors do have a
+       problem saying the name Macbeth or being around it when it's said
+       (note: Jason isn't one of them). so it was also a courtesy. (Later
+       on, while shooting "A Late Delivery From Avalon," one of the hair
+       dressers made the error of referring to Macbeth out loud in front
+       of Michael York, and had to go through the whole undo-the-curse
+       routine, walking around the stages three times, etc.)
+     * I like Marcus quoting literature, Shakespeare included. So it's
+       something I've peppered through his character, though trying to
+       avoid too much of it.
+     * Yes, Marcus and Ivanova should get along well...assuming one
+       doesn't kill the other first....
+     * _Why doesn't Marcus wear a link?_
+       I just summoned up Marcus in my head. Here's what he said:
+       "Because I won't wear the bloody thing, that's why. Bad enough
+       you've got those pagers you wear in 1996, no privacy, no chance to
+       get away, always at somebody's beck and call. Why not just put a
+       leash around your neck and get it over with? It'd be faster and a
+       good deal more honest. I'm down in the bar trying to be
+       inconspicuous, dangerous characters on all sides, trying not to be
+       noticed...and the link goes off, and I'm dead. Or at minimum
+       seriously thumped. No, absolutely not. You'll never get me to wear
+       one of those."
+       (This is btw the reason why I absolutely *refuse* to wear a pager
+       myself.)
+     * _Was that Sean Connery's voice at the beginning?_
+       It was a voice in the walla group that basically came out sounding
+       that way.
+     * _Response to the above from producer George Johnsen_
+       No, it is Doug Cook, one of our Walla people doing a fair Sean
+       imitation which was not his intention.
+     * _Where did Franklin's stim abuse problem go?_
+       It hasn't come to a head yet. Any abuser of substances has moments
+       when he's up, and moments when he's down, moments when he seems
+       fine, moments when he's not.
+       
+
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+    ### GUIDE ### [3][Background] [4][Synopsis] [5][Credits] [6][Episode
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     As the Senate continues to investigate President Clark, an
+     archaeologist brings news of a development back home that forces
+     Sheridan to act against the Earth government. The Nightwatch
+     tightens its grip on the civilian population. [15]Nancy Stafford as
+     Dr. Kirkish.
+     
+[16]P5 Rating: [17]9.06
+
+Production number: 308
+Original air week: February 19, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
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+Backplot
+
+     * Seven years ago, an archaeological team working for Interplanetary
+       Expeditions (see [18]"Infection") discovered a disabled Shadow
+       ship buried 300 feet under the Martian surface, underground for at
+       least a thousand years. Another Shadow ship, apparently with the
+       cooperation of Earth, finished excavating the first, and both flew
+       away. Garibaldi was witness, and recovered a Psi Corps badge from
+       the site. See comic issue 8, [19]"Silent Enemies." Most of the
+       archaeologists have died or disappeared since.
+     * More recently, a second Shadow ship was discovered under the ice
+       on Jupiter's moon Ganymede.
+     * A Shadow ship requires a living being at its core; the two merge,
+       becoming one entity. If the pilot isn't properly prepared, the
+       result is a confused, insane ship.
+     * Translating the Book of G'Quan is considered sacrilege by the
+       Narn. "It must be read in the mother tongue, or not at all," says
+       G'Kar.
+     * Shadow forces have continued to build up on the edge of Centauri
+       space.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What were Shadow ships doing on Mars and Ganymede a millenium ago?
+       Was Earth involved in the last war?
+     * How does Delenn know that Shadow ships have sentient beings at
+       their core? What else does she know about them that she hasn't
+       told Sheridan?
+     * What kind of preparation is needed to properly merge with a Shadow
+       ship?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Sheridan's unwillingness to fire on the Agamemnon may be a sign of
+       trouble to come; he's not ready to think of Earth's military as an
+       enemy. How long that loyalty will last is unclear, but at some
+       point, if conditions on Earth continue to escalate and Sheridan
+       continues to act covertly against the government, he'll be forced
+       to choose between firing on his own people and death or capture.
+     * The White Star is a Minbari vessel, yet Sheridan believed the
+       Agamemnon would be able to track it. (See [20]"Points of
+       Departure.") Perhaps that was simply because the White Star was in
+       Jupiter's atmosphere; it was thus unable to outrun the Agamemnon,
+       and could be tracked via atmospheric disturbances.
+     * The White Star is a formidable vessel, in any case; it has as much
+       firepower as several Narn heavy cruisers, judging by its attack on
+       the Shadow vessel (see [21]"The Long, Twilight Struggle,")
+       although this Shadow ship might have been smaller than those faced
+       by the Narn. The Agamemnon was able to damage the White Star, but
+       only after it had been grazed by a Shadow weapon and subjected to
+       atmospheric conditions far outside its safety limits.
+     * G'Kar's book should make for interesting reading now that he knows
+       what's going on from Londo's point of view as well as his own
+       ([22]"Dust to Dust.") Given his visitation by what he believes to
+       be G'Lan in that episode, will he consider his writings to be on
+       the same level as the Book of G'Quan? More importantly, will other
+       Narn feel the same way, and become followers of the Book of G'Kar?
+     * Dr. Kirkish says of Earth, regarding the Shadows, "They want us to
+       become more like them." What does she mean by that? How can humans
+       become more like Shadows, and what would that entail?
+     * Someone on Earth wanted to go behind the Shadows' backs; if the
+       Shadows discover that (assuming they don't already know,) the
+       consequences for Earth could be disastrous. Assuming, of course,
+       that the Shadows didn't tell Earth about the second ship for their
+       own reasons.
+     * The events on Mars make it clear that the Shadows were awake to
+       some degree before the Icarus visited Z'ha'dum ([23]"In the Shadow
+       of Z'ha'dum.") The Icarus visited Z'ha'dum in 2256, but Kirkish
+       saw a functioning Shadow vessel seven years ago, in 2253. The
+       Psi-Corps connection also implies that the Shadows were aware of
+       humanity at the time.
+     * Given Marcus' apparent disregard for secrecy ([24]"Exogenesis")
+       Ivanova would be well-advised to make sure his chart is destroyed
+       or hidden lest a Nightwatch sympathizer stumble across it.
+     * Perhaps the Shadows bury their ships underground intentionally.
+       Since the ships are at least partially alive, it's even
+       concievable that the Shadows bury an egg or something similar,
+       then dig up the fully grown ship later on. In that case, where
+       else are such ships buried? Do the Shadows know, or did they lose
+       track of their ships in the last war?
+     * The Shadows attacked the mining colony where Marcus and his
+       brother lived ([25]"Matters of Honor.") Could they have been
+       trying to prevent the miners from discovering another buried ship?
+     * Now that the Agamemnon has observed the White Star at close
+       proximity, Earth Force will presumably treat it as hostile on
+       sight in the future. That will probably severely limit Sheridan's
+       ability to finesse his way out of another fight.
+     * The Shadows are far from alone in requiring living beings to merge
+       with their machinery. In fact, it seems to be a staple of advanced
+       technologies in the B5 universe:
+          + The Ikarran weapon in [26]"Infection."
+          + The anti-agathic drug in [27]"Deathwalker," which required an
+            extract from another living being.
+          + The Great Machine in Epsilon 3, which goes berserk without a
+            core ([28]"A Voice in the Wilderness.")
+          + Shadow ships, as shown here.
+       Are Vorlon ships similarly powered? They show up as living beings
+       in scans, though that isn't conclusive one way or the other.
+     * Delenn's promise to Sheridan, "I will watch and catch you if you
+       should fall," is strikingly similar to the Soul Hunter's comment
+       to her when she was being held captive: "You will feel as if you
+       are falling; do not be afraid, I will be there to catch you."
+       ([29]"Soul Hunter.")
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Narn is written from right to left.
+     * "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom" is a variation on a
+       quote from Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United
+       States (1801-1809.) The original meaning was that people should
+       closely watch their governments to avoid excessive encroachment on
+       personal liberty; its use by a Nightwatch member is especially
+       ironic.
+     * The events on Mars were first revealed in the comic series, issues
+       [30]"Survival the Hard Way" and [31]"Silent Enemies," six months
+       before this episode's first airing. Garibaldi also made a
+       reference to the story contained therein in the first-season
+       episode [32]"Infection."
+     * In the middle of the White Star's jump to hyperspace, there's a
+       single frame of note. The frame takes place as the White Star
+       emerges into hyperspace, as it heads toward the camera. The
+       hyperspace background changes to what looks like an alien
+       cityscape. Apparently it's a shot from [33]Hypernauts, a
+       children's sci-fi show whose special effects are being done by
+       B5's effects company. (See [34]jms speaks.)
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!
+       For a couple months now, I've been looking down the road at
+       episode #7, because I couldn't quite see the shape of it...I knew
+       what I had to do in it, but I couldn't break the spine of the
+       story...until ten minutes ago, and it hit me with all the force of
+       a meat axe right smack between the eyeballs.
+       Hot damn...if I can pull this script off, it may well be the best
+       one of the series to date. Granted it'll probably give Ron a
+       cardiac infarction, but what the heck, he's had it too easy
+       lately.
+       Oh, man, is this gonna be cool, assuming I can pull it off.
+       Working title: "Messages from Earth."
+     * _A bit of a bland title?_
+       Whether it's "bland" or not depends on what the messsages might
+       be, yes? The only thing I'll say for the episode is that it may be
+       one of the biggest whams of the first half of year three, and one
+       of our most ambitious episodes of the series. Generally, my
+       feeling is that titles should augment the episode, or add
+       something, or collapse something into a thematic whole. When you
+       see what convictions are at hand, the episode "Convictions" as a
+       title works better; ditto for "Messages."
+       Besides, a nice, quiet, inoffensive little title gives me a better
+       chance to sneak up behind you and whack the heck out of you....
+     * "Messages," for my money, is so far the best we've ever done,
+       though I'll be more able to lock that down once I've seen the
+       final CGI. It and "Dreams" are real CGI blowouts; in the latter,
+       there are literally 100 shots -- CGI, live action, and compositing
+       -- in *four pages* of action. This is an all time record for us
+       (and that doesn't count the stuff earlier in the episode).
+       I don't usually go this far, but folks, let me give you my
+       personal guarantee: you're in for one hell of a ride come
+       mid-season, with these three episodes.
+     * Not only did "Messages From Earth" come out as well as I'd hoped
+       or thought it would, it came out *better*. It is, potentially,
+       either one of the best or the best thing we've ever done in the
+       whole series to date. There are some episodes that come close this
+       season, like "Point of No Return," "A Late Delivery From Avalon,"
+       "Sic Transit Vir" (for absolutely different reasons), and parts of
+       "Dust to Dust," but so far -- at least until the CGI for "Severed
+       Dreams" is finished, which has at least a shot at knocking
+       "Messages" out of the box -- "Messages" is as close to perfect as
+       we've ever come.
+       Like "The Coming of Shadows" there's a real sense of a *story*
+       being told, and major events happening at breakneck speed. It's
+       just a joy to watch.
+     * I'd suggest, btw, that if there are any folks you've been waiting
+       to bring into the fold on B5, you may want to consider 8 and 9 in
+       the new cycle, the last of that bunch in February. Eight is
+       potentially one of the best, possibly the best episode we've
+       produced to date.
+     * Here's something that occured to me today. Any time you have
+       someone you're trying to convince about the quality of a show, and
+       you say, "Here, just watch it next week," that's always the one
+       that comes a-cropper.
+       "Messages From Earth" airing this coming week is possibly the best
+       thing we've done to that point. It's guaranteed to grab anybody
+       who watches it. So this would be a good one to use.
+       Pick ten friends who you know haven't yet tried B5, or are
+       diffident about it, and give them a call. Tell them to give THIS
+       one a look. Then all you have to do is sit back, and wait for the
+       jaws to drop.
+     * "Messages From Earth" - This begins the three-episode mini-arc
+       within the larger arc that, by its conclusion, totally changes the
+       structure of the B5 universe. A mega-wham episode. Because so much
+       comes to a head so quickly, little can be said about it without
+       spoiling stuff. Our characters begin making the final and
+       irrevocable steps that will put them on a collision course with
+       everything they have believed in until now. There are four or five
+       episodes this season that push the limits of our effects and CGI
+       to the absolute wall; this is one of the biggest.
+     * Re: an "edge" to the show....I suspect you're going to get all the
+       edge you could possibly want with episodes 8, 9 and especially 10.
+       Be *very* careful what you wish for.
+     * "...I didn't think things would start moving this fast so soon!"
+       Well, this is what I kinda kept trying to tell people was coming,
+       when they said things were moving too slowly....
+     * Randy, I honestly don't think, after episodes 8-10 have aired,
+       that you're going to have any problems with how fast the main
+       story is progressing. And do bear in mind that the "main story"
+       isn't just the war; if you wanted to do that, you'd just do Space
+       A&B. It's operating on a whole lot of other levels.
+       Nonetheless...this entire season is much faster overall in
+       developing than the two before. The first two seasons we were
+       mainly putting the guns into position. Now we're pulling all the
+       triggers.
+     * Thanks. Bruce did an excellet job in this episode, I agree. As did
+       everyone else. This is, in my opinion, about as flawless an
+       episode as we have ever made. It's one of those cases where the
+       sum is even greater than the sum of its parts...and the sum of its
+       parts ain't bad.
+       From here on through the next batch, the intensity level continues
+       to crank up.
+       We definitely pushed the envelope in terms of EFX this time out;
+       mixing and matching, and in sheer amounts of shots, and their
+       complexity. But the result, I think, is eminently worth the
+       effort.
+     * I entirely agree; I think she did a dynamite job as Kirkish.
+       Totally convincing. When she walked into the audition, and did the
+       part, there was no question...it was her.
+     * [35]About the alien city
+       The executive producer thinks, "He's mistaken, has to be; it must
+       be a series of patterns in the image that look like a city." Being
+       a thorough person, however, the executive producer fires up his
+       copy of the tape, and fast forwards to the shot in question.
+       Pauses, then advances, frame by frame.
+       Then stops. The executive producer stares at the screen for a
+       very, very long time. Eventually, words form. The executive
+       producer knows that if he posts those words here, not only will
+       they throw him off the system, they will come to his house, burn
+       it down, and sow the ground with salt.
+       The executive producer knows what that single frame is, knows that
+       it has nothing to do with his show, knows that it's a frame from
+       Hypernauts that somehow crossed into the EFX shot in
+       double-exposure via a computer glitch while rendering. No one saw
+       it. No one noticed it. Until now.
+       Tomorrow morning, the executive producer is going to make phone
+       calls, and say all the words he can't say here. When he is
+       finished, twenty seven miles of telephone coaxial cable are going
+       to hang melted from the telephone poles. Shortly thereafter, the
+       executive producer is going to put a gun to his head and blow his
+       brains out, in the sure knowledge that if he does not do so, he
+       will most assuredly do it to someone else.
+       The executive producer thanks you for bringing this to his
+       attention, and would write further, but is currently modeming from
+       a laptop computer on top of his roof, from which he is considering
+       jumping, and the wind up here is causing line noise.
+     * _The White Star looked different._
+       Different camera work, mainly.
+     * The Eternal Vigilance line is from history, not Wing Commander.
+       Ten Green Drazi points to the person who can name its origin.
+     * _Where's the press during all this Nightwatch buildup?_
+       You'll find more on this in the next three episodes.
+     * You need a clear and present danger, and with a population that
+       nearly got wiped out by the Minbari, who are skittish to begin
+       with, you drag out the possibility of someone else doing the same
+       thing and it makes it a lot easier to do what you want to do.
+     * _Why aren't eggs and bacon available?_
+       Mainly it's the expense involved per volume. It still costs big
+       bucks, and you generally need refrigeration.
+     * Basically, it's the cost involved in transporting something as
+       basically trivial as eggs. Yes, it can be done, but the cost per
+       egg would be quite substantial, given limited space in ships.
+       Space flight is still very expensive.
+       And yes, a shadow vessel has one "core" sentient, and once in,
+       it's very difficult for that person to ever get out again.
+     * _Wouldn't Ivanova's religion keep her from eating bacon?_
+       Ivanova's not what you'd call orthodox under any circumstances.
+     * _What was the blue goop?_
+       Actually, I think it was blueberry yogurt.
+     * _Any relation to the moment of perfect beauty in [36]"There All
+       the Honor Lies?"_
+       Yes, the way Sheridan removes his EA pin here is an echo, or a
+       shadow, so to speak, of his moment in "Honor." The latter is meant
+       to sort of indicate what might be ahead for him, what he may have
+       to do at some point along the line. He has to give up things that
+       mean something to him. (We'll get more of this philosophy in a few
+       more eps, I don't want to get too specific here.) Visual
+       foreshadowing.
+       From here on in, things get very interesting....
+     * Yes, what he's writing will, in time, become the Book of G'Kar.
+       And correct, I went for a different feel in this episode, on the
+       theory that a little change is a good thing, if used to a purpose.
+       It's built like a series of waves, with quite moments in between.
+       This is the second so far to strongly tie into the comic, yes.
+     * _Does G'Kar consider his book on par with G'Quon's?_
+       No, he hasn't thought of it that far yet...but it will find that
+       role.
+     * IXP has been in business, in one form or another, for between
+       50-80 years.
+     * _Who was the human in the Shadow ship?_
+       It doesn't really matter in the long run; some poor shlub who got
+       conned into it.
+     * _Would a human be sane after piloting a Shadow ship?_
+       Almost certainly not.
+     * _Could someone on Sheridan's side "pilot" a Shadow ship, or are
+       the ships intrinsically evil?_
+       It's certainly a *very* good question.
+     * No, I wouldn't say there's a corrolation to life force and the
+       shadow ships; they need a living organism as the central
+       processing unit because an organic unit can think faster than most
+       computer systems, and react faster in terms of formulating
+       strategy and the like.
+     * _What condition was the ship on Mars in?_
+       It was dormant. The core element was dead, certainly.
+     * Yes, the first batch of eps from season 3, up through 9 or so,
+       give a lot more background on the shadow ships, what they are and
+       how they work. And as you say, virtually everything in this show
+       is here for a reason; there's an offhand remark from Garibaldi in
+       "Infection" about his long struggle out of the Martian desert that
+       pays off in both the comic, and in a third-season episode. So some
+       of the year three stuff was being set up as early as episode 2 of
+       year 1, in what was designed to look like just plain old throwaway
+       dialogue.
+     * _Is a Shadow ship itself a kind of Shadow?_
+       It's not a kind of shadow, no.
+     * _Is there an official name for the Shadow ships?_
+       I just call them shadow vessels. For now.
+     * _Why didn't Sheridan use the jumpgate trick again?_
+       Because there wasn't a jumpgate he had access to, only a jump
+       point created by the White Star. In the prior situation, he blew
+       up a standing jump gate. The only one in the vicinity would be at
+       the transfer point near Io, which if destroyed would seriously
+       harm Earth interests.
+     * Three days is the time to the jumpgate off Io. Once you're within
+       our solar system, it takes another several days or more to reach
+       Earth itself. It's fairly common to keep your jump gate a bit
+       removed from your "core" planet so you have warning if any
+       aggressors come out of it.
+     * _How could the Agamemnon detect the White Star?_
+       It can be for a number of reasons. The White Star was moving
+       through a highly charged atmosphere, which would leave detectable
+       trails; it was being fired at by the shadow vessel, which would've
+       attracted considerable attention from the flares; diving at that
+       speed and coming back up there would be considerble heat on the
+       surface of the ship (not normally a problem in space); and it was
+       pretty much shaken up/partially damaged during the fight. Also, at
+       that range, once you're near enough, you can pick it up visually
+       as it gets close; it's not a cloaking system, only a stealth
+       system.
+     * Neither situation relied on introducing new technology, only on
+       taking advantage of what's known currently. It's a simple
+       equation: ship A is more powerful than ship B. In a head-to-head
+       situation, ship A (shadow) will destroy ship B (white star). If
+       you can't directly confront a stronger enemy, you have to find
+       some way to work around it, outsmart it. (And fortunately, this
+       one was flawed, "insane," as Delenn put it.)
+       And the minbari know more than they're saying. But then that's
+       generally true of them.
+       And yes, the shadow ship arrived with a new "core" for the buried
+       ship.
+     * _How does Delenn know so much about Shadow ships?_
+       The info came from the Vorlons, and from the last war the Minbari
+       fought against them.
+     * The ship was hidden there to avoid it being destroyed during the
+       war. May or may not see General Franklin again anytime soon.
+     * The shadows had allies, who watched over their cities, maintained
+       their machines, waited for their awakening...one of their tasks
+       was to send out one of the few dormant shadow vessels whenever one
+       was discovered or unearthed. This way, slowly, over centuries, the
+       fleet would be built back up in strength.
+     * There are no shadow vessels buried on Narn, no. The shadow
+       influence on the Psi Corps has been growing for about 7 years now.
+     * _Who sent the second ship to Mars?_
+       They had some of their servants and allies taking care of things;
+       whenever a signal was sent, and a ship found, they'd dispatch one
+       of the standby ships to go and pick it up, slowly regathering
+       their forces.
+     * _How is Sheridan going to defeat a Shadow ship head-to-head?_
+       Exactly. The goal would seem to be impossible. So how do we do it?
+       Is there a vulnerability that's been laid out but not picked up
+       yet? Is there an advantage we don't necessarily see yet?
+       We have to be smarter. Humans are at our best when against the
+       wall. And we have to do it ourselves, in the final analysis,
+       nobody else can do it for us.
+     * _Was the spine that the White Star shot off the Shadow vessel
+       recovered?_
+       Nope.
+     * The shadow vessel was still a little wobbly from its long
+       hibernation and the improper melding.
+     * Given that we're looking at a high-energy weapon capable of
+       burning through a four-mile wide Narn orbital base as though it
+       were made of butter, it's putting out enough energy, I figured, to
+       lead to a reaction with the hydrogen, whether it's a fusion
+       reaction of some other.
+       We're talking a concentrated level of energy equal to a
+       thermonuclear reaction on a controlled level, or a fusion weapons
+       system with an energy output well beyond contemporary science to
+       calculate (particularly since this system is capable of delivering
+       the energy, undiluted, to targets tens or dozens of miles
+       distant).
+     * Yeah, perhaps a better word than ignite could've been used. But
+       hey, the guy was being shot at...I'd be sitting in a corner going
+       bibble-bibble...
+     * _About the massing Shadow forces_
+       The forces will continue to build over the course of this season.
+       The White Star would be detected because it was inside the
+       atmosphere, where it could be picked up by its emissions, the
+       disruption caused in the air by the engines, and frankly by plain
+       sight.
+     * _What's the symbol at the front of the White Star bridge?_
+       The symbol on the WS isn't on the floor, it's the top of a console
+       that can be used for holographic tactical displays.
+     * _The shot of G'Kar writing was flipped!_
+       Not a gaffe; we flopped the shot because the writing was done left
+       to right, instead of right to left, which is Narnish script.
+     * Thanks. We've featured Minbari script going straight up and down
+       like Japanese, right to left with Narns, and other variations.
+       Because they would naturally occur.
+     * Also, bear in mind that Sheridan went into Earth-space knowing the
+       risks. For him to fire on the Aggy would be selfish, and wrong; he
+       knew full well that this could be a one-way ride.
+       If you're going to have a situation where Sheridan fires on EA
+       ships, it has to be the ONLY way of dealing with the situation,
+       and it has to be SUPREMELY motivated, so that it's not just him or
+       one of our guys who's at stake. It has to be a big situation to
+       merit taking the lives of fellow officers, in the same service.
+     * _Nobody seemed to be translating Sheridan's orders to the White
+       Star's crew._
+       Lennier was muttering his translations off-screen.
+       That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+     * I think they know the White Star (aka the unidentified ship) got
+       away, but they put the best face on it back home. Which is one
+       more reason why Clark's declared martial law. Things are spinning
+       out of control, he's in increasingly hot water back home, and he
+       has to seize control. Whoever was in that alien ship knows too
+       much about his operations...if that were to come out, he's
+       finished.
+     * _Are rights suspended during Clark's martial law?_
+       Yes, right to assemble, free speech rights, they're all open to
+       abridgement. Travel can also be restricted.
+     * _What happened to Ivanova's discovery in [37]"Voices of
+       Authority?"_
+       That information was sent to Earth, where it's led directly to the
+       series of current investigations that were launched...and which
+       forced Clark's hand into declaring martial law to distract from
+       all that.
+     * _Are we near the end of the Nightwatch plot thread?_
+       The thread will diminish for a while, then return down the road in
+       later seasons, after the story takes its third major turn.
+     * _Why does anyone on Earth believe Clark?_
+       It all depends on how you frame the issue...i.e., the attacks are
+       groundless, baseless, and part of a campaign to destroy the
+       government, he's the attacked innocent....
+     * _Sheridan's conspiracy should be falling apart about now._
+       Of course it can't hold. And they're going to go through plenty of
+       fire. Remember, this is the first of three that accomplish that.
+       Each escalates upon what went before. Don't worry...you'll get
+       your wish.
+     * Yes, the current mini-arc (8-10) is the second major turn in the
+       storyline. The third starts with the last episode of this season,
+       going into the fourth year. Then you've got one more big turn
+       about the last quarter or one-third of year four, and then a bit
+       of a flip at the end.
+     * _We already knew everything this episode revealed._
+       If I can, let me address one aspect of this, for your
+       consideration.
+       Back when I was working on MURDER, SHE WROTE, we'd sometimes get
+       letters saying, "This wasn't a good episode because I figured out
+       the ending. It wasn't a surprise." (Which is, to some extent, your
+       point here.)
+       The problem we had with that particular letter was this: of COURSE
+       you figured it out. Because you were paying attention to all the
+       clues we had put out there in the episode.
+       There seems to be this notion that nobody should be able to jump
+       ahead, or else something's wrong or bad about the episode.
+       Absolutely not true. If you're going to play fair with the
+       audience, whether it's B5 or M,SW, you've got to put enough bits
+       of information out on the table so that the person who's really
+       following it can figure it out...so that at the end, those who
+       *didn't* figure it out can back up the tape, watch for the clues
+       or leads, and see where it all came from. That's playing fair.
+       If NObody gets it, you haven't done your job right.
+       If EVERYbody gets it, you haven't done your job right.
+       The best case scenario is a bell-shaped curve. Some don't have a
+       clue what's coming, some manage to figure it out, and the majority
+       have a kind of vague sense where it's going, but there are still
+       surprises along the way. If the bell-curve shifts one direction or
+       the other, then you're in trouble.
+       So far, B5 seems to be hewing right to the bell-curve. For every
+       person who says "okay, this was expected," there's been another
+       saying, "I had no *idea* this was going to happen here, or so
+       fast." (Many of these have been right on this forum, in fact.)
+       Finally, do bear in mind that you have an advantage here that 99%
+       of all the viewers don't: the discussion here on CIS, and direct
+       comments from me. For instance, I just noted elsewhere that we've
+       got major turns at the end of this season, and one 2/3rds into
+       year 4. Now, if at those points, somebody says, "Well, I knew this
+       was coming, that's bad," I intend to whap them, because the reason
+       they likely knew it was coming was because I *said so* right here.
+       But that same 99% doesn't have this advantage.
+       This is the main difference I've noted in the mail that's come in:
+       the net-folks are constantly trying to figure out what's coming up
+       next, treating it like a mystery story (which, really, it's not,
+       any more than ANY novel is a mystery in that you don't necessarily
+       know its turns and twists as you're reading it), whereas the
+       non-netted folks tend to just take it as it comes.
+       See, that's the other part of this. People on the nets tend to
+       treat it as though it's a mystery novel, and when it doesn't hit
+       that aspect, say it's flawed as a result...when it was never
+       INTENDED to function as a mystery novel. It's a novel period. A
+       mystery novel depends absolutely on the riddle at the center of
+       it. This is a saga, which uses a different structure. It isn't a
+       mystery any more than Lord of the Rings is a mystery, even though
+       when I first read it I was wondering what was going to happen
+       next.
+       Also, a mystery novel is done when the mystery is finally
+       unraveled. Not so the B5 story. By the end of this season, most of
+       the mysteries will be unraveled, and the pieces laid on the table
+       for all to see. It then becomes a matter of what the characters
+       *do* about it thereafter.
+       If I'm doing my job right, and setting up things to come properly,
+       and giving all the clues to it, then by definition a certain
+       number of people HAVE to figure out what's coming. As long as it's
+       the smaller portion, that's as it *should* be. So you'll
+       understand why I tend to get in here for a moment when that's held
+       up as something bad or poorly done. (And, again, even you note
+       that the only reason you knew about the shadows on Mars was via
+       reading it here, or others read it via the comics. Again, that's a
+       very small portion of the audience; most I've heard from had NO
+       idea about that aspect of it. If you hadn't read it here, you
+       likely would have been surprised by it.)
+       Anyway, just something to consider in all of this....
+     * "Was the "package" mentioned in Exo the blonde woman giving us the
+       Mars Shadow info? Or was it the eggs and bacon? Or have we not
+       seen it yet?"
+       Yes, the package referred to Kirkish.
+       "It seems Sheridan is destroying his Shadow ships by using tricks
+       - not a straight up battle. At some point won't he be one on one
+       with a Shadow and have to deal with it?"
+       Sooner or later. Right now he's outgunned hideously. He'll have to
+       find a way.
+       "At some point won't Sheridan have to fight Earth? (I really don't
+       expect an answer to this one)"
+       Stick around.
+     * _Why didn't Kirkish notice the huge Psi-Corps installation as
+       shown in the comic?_
+       The building was a lot bigger in the book than it should've been,
+       more like a quonset hut arrangment hastily erected.
+     * I don't know if the shadow pilot was aware of the Psi Corps
+       research installation...they're not really aware of much of
+       *anything*, except their orders...I'd just suggest that there may
+       be something beneath that particular installation, and a reason
+       they built it there.
+     * _Why didn't Garibaldi mention he was with Sinclair?_
+       There was an outsider, Kirkish, in the room. Yes, she's helped
+       him, but he's still going to hold back some info because he
+       doesn't know what impact it might have on Sinclair. He's
+       protective of him.
+     * _Didn't Sheridan already know about the badge, from the comic
+       issue [38]"Silent Enemies?"_
+       I believe Sheridan wasn't shown the badge in the comic; and
+       Garibaldi is always cautious about what he says in front of
+       others, like Kirkish.
+     * Yes, Kosh should've been there. Kosh wasn't. Kosh hasn't been
+       carrying his weight, if you ask me. I hope this doesn't cause a
+       problem somewhere....
+     * Don't have the shadow dimensions offhand; and yes, you'd think
+       Sheridan might begin to wonder about Kosh's level of involvement.
+     * _Weren't the cameras at Ganymede recording?_
+       Of course. But who controls those cameras? Answer: the very folks
+       who wouldn't want it to get out what they had there.
+       
+
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+    ### GUIDE ### [3][Background] [4][Synopsis] [5][Credits] [6][Episode
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
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+                                      
+Overview
+
+     As the Earth Alliance plunges toward civil war, internal strife
+     threatens to shatter the command structure of B5. Zack's loyalties
+     are put to the test when the Nightwatch is ordered to take over
+     station security. Londo receives another glimpse of his destiny.
+     [15]Majel Barrett as Lady Morella. [16]Marshall Teague as Ta'Lon.
+     
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]9.31
+
+Production number: 309
+Original air week: February 26, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
+   _Note: this episode is more momentous than most. Think twice before
+   proceeding to the spoilers; it's worth seeing unawares._
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * After the death of a Centauri emperor, custom states that his
+       spirit lives on in the body of his consort, who speaks both for
+       herself and her late husband.
+     * Londo is destined to become emperor. That part of his future
+       cannot be avoided, according to Lady Morella. Vir is also destined
+       to become emperor. One will become emperor after the other dies,
+       but it's not clear which.
+     * Londo has already passed up two chances to avoid the destiny he
+       fears awaits him. There will be three more. He must save the eye
+       that does not see. He must not kill the one who is already dead.
+       And failing those, at the last, he must surrender himself to his
+       greatest fear, knowing that it will destroy him.
+     * One result of G'Kar's Kosh-inspired revelation in [19]"Dust to
+       Dust" is the belief that humans are the key to the salvation of
+       the Narn race. He also believes, as Kosh suggested, that the Narn
+       must give up their pride and their vengeance or risk being
+       completely destroyed, and that his people must sacrifice
+       themselves by the hundreds or even the millions if all are to
+       benefit in the end.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Is General Hague on his way to the station?
+     * What impact will Sheridan's new security forces have? Will they
+       immediately turn Earth against him?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * One of Londo's two squandered chances was undoubtedly his action
+       in [20]"The Coming of Shadows," which sparked the Narn-Centauri
+       War. The other is less clear. Perhaps it was his initial meeting
+       with Morden, or the attack on the outpost in [21]"Chrysalis." It
+       may also have been his decision to ask the Shadows to defend
+       Gorash 7 ([22]"The Long, Twilight Struggle,") without which the
+       Centauri wouldn't have been able to crush the Narn as thoroughly
+       as they did.
+     * "The eye that does not see" might refer to the Eye, the symbol of
+       Centauri nobility that marked the start of Londo's association
+       with Morden ([23]"Signs and Portents.") It may also refer to
+       G'Kar's eye, which appears to be injured or missing in Londo's
+       dream ([24]"The Coming of Shadows.")
+     * The one who is already dead might be Morden, who's officially dead
+       according to Earth Alliance records ([25]"In the Shadow of
+       Z'ha'dum") or perhaps G'Kar, whose old life is certainly gone.
+       It's also possible that it refers to the memory of someone who is
+       to die; Londo may be presented with an opportunity to discredit
+       someone who would otherwise serve as a martyr. Along similar
+       lines, it may refer to the wishes of someone already dead; for
+       instance, destroying the chance for peace that Emperor Turhan
+       sought before his death, something that would have been the
+       Emperor's legacy.
+       Another possibility is a connection to the transfer of Minbari
+       souls to humans; the owner of a particular previously-deceased
+       Minbari soul (perhaps Sinclair) may prove troublesome to Londo in
+       the future.
+     * Londo's greatest fear might be the downfall of the Republic, or
+       perhaps his own death.
+     * It's likely Londo will squander at least the first two of his
+       remaining chances, given the fact that there will be a third --
+       assuming Morella is correct.
+     * What did Sheridan and the others say to convince Zack to go along
+       with their ruse? It may have been as simple as convincing him that
+       the order from the Political Office was illegal, just like
+       Sheridan told the trapped Nightwatch members. Using that to
+       convince him would have been the safest course of action, since as
+       a loyal officer he'd be inclined to go along with the plan even if
+       his sympathies had shifted toward Nightwatch.
+     * What were all the non-security Nightwatch members doing during the
+       crisis? Were they unaffected by the takeover order in the first
+       place, and thus largely unconcerned with what was going on?
+       
+Notes
+
+     * An official [26]press release about Majel Barrett's appearance is
+       available.
+     * Many of the Nightwatch members in this episode are production
+       staff members, including the production secretary and an assistant
+       director.
+     * Lady Morella is said to be returning from a visit to Ragesh 9. The
+       Ragesh system is the same one attacked by the Narn in
+       [27]"Midnight on the Firing Line."
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * _Posted to the CompuServe Star Trek forum_
+       Before you hit the *kill* button...a thought or two in your
+       general direction. First, if you're eager for the actual news part
+       of this message -- and it is kinda important -- it appears at the
+       end of this message. If you've got a second, stick around.
+       In every interview he's given on the subject, Walter Koenig has
+       spoken glowingly of BABYLON 5, as a show he feels is fighting for
+       genuine quality SF in television, with serious, mature stories for
+       fans who grew up on STAR TREK and are looking for more of that
+       quality...none other than Majel Barrett Roddenberry has gone on
+       record at conventions, including Toronto Trek and the recent Wolf
+       359 convention, as saying that BABYLON 5 was "the only other
+       intelligent science fiction series out there" besides the ST
+       shows, and urged ST fans to support it.
+       If you've tried the show, and it wasn't to your tastes...fair
+       enough. No one should be expected to like everything. If you'd
+       like to give it another shot, that's fine, but there is no need to
+       defend your opinion; we respect it. Not every show works for every
+       viewer.
+       If you *haven't* tried the show...if you liked the original ST and
+       the work of Majel and Walter and Harlan and others involved in
+       it...if you like the work of Peter David, who has written for B5
+       and supports it...you may want to give it a shot in
+       October/November.
+       The final four episodes from year two will be broadcast starting
+       the week of October 11th, with the new year three episodes
+       beginning the second week of November. These nine episodes in a
+       row contain some of the best work we have ever done. Acting,
+       writing, directing, effects...we stand behind all of them. (The
+       year two Final Four were held back from earlier broadcast to lead
+       into the debut, so these are new to the US, although they have
+       already aired to substantial praise in the UK.)
+       If perhaps you have been turned off by some of the more vigorous
+       messages from B5 viewers, I'd only ask that you consider those
+       comments in light of the fact that Paramount (NOT the people doing
+       ST, but the studio itself) has done everything possible to hinder
+       the progress of B5, which engenders certain reactions from
+       everyone; and that to a man or woman, virtually all of the more
+       vigorous posts have come from those who have long considered
+       themselves fans of STAR TREK, voicing many of the concerns which
+       are stated right here in this forum by current viewers...which
+       they had long before there was a B5... as well as some of the
+       praises found here.
+       The ironic thing is that there is no problem between those who
+       make B5, and those who make ST..Jeri Taylor is a friend, Majel
+       supports the show, when ST does an episode with great EFX we call
+       them, when we do a good one they call us...it's almost entirely a
+       matter of perception.
+       So for what it's worth, direct from those of us who make BABYLON
+       5, if you haven't checked out the show before, or if you're
+       curious to see where we stand now...I would like to personally
+       invite you to check out the new batch of episodes starting around
+       October 11th. If you want to give us all nine episodes, that's
+       great; if less, that's fine too. If not at all, that's also fine.
+       Over a late dinner with Majel, I observed that after the original
+       STAR TREK, which for the first time presented truly *human*
+       characters, with all their flaws and frailties and bravery and
+       nobility, in a science fiction series, the ball was dropped, and
+       no one picked it up again for years. She agreed with this...and it
+       is my hope that you will find this coming season of BABYLON 5 to
+       be that show.
+       Because it isn't an either/or, sum/zero game...one can watch, and
+       enjoy, BABYLON 5 and STAR TREK equally, for different reasons,
+       since their approaches are very different. And this is the perfect
+       time to come into B5, since these episodes encapsulize a lot of
+       background, and will take you quickly into the background, the
+       universe and the characters.
+       Which is why, I'm pleased to announce, Majel Barrett will be
+       appearing as a guest star on BABYLON 5 this coming season...a
+       gesture of support from her, and a gesture of respect from all of
+       us at B5. The deal has been signed, it's a done deal...she'll be
+       appearing in episode #9, "Point of No Return," as Emperor Turhan's
+       third wife, Lady Morella. We're very much looking forward to her
+       appearance in the B5 universe.
+       For all these and other reasons, I hope you'll give BABYLON 5 a
+       try.
+     * She'll be playing a Centauri female, the Lady Morella, Emperor
+       Turhan's third wife; also a prophetess and seer.
+     * When we first announced casting Walter Koenig on B5, lots of
+       people moaned, "Oh, no, not Chekov on B5." What you got was
+       Bester, who has become one of our most noted and discussed
+       characters. It's unfortunate, but some people confuse the role
+       with the person. "...the worst character ever in the entire ST
+       universe" has nothing to do with the person, or the role she will
+       be portraying: the Lady Morella, Emperor Turhan's third wife, a
+       prophetess and seer. It's a *very* serious, significant role,
+       absolutely unlike anything she's done before.
+       This, btw, is called "typecasting," which is one of the primary
+       reasons why so many talented actors who helped to create Star Trek
+       and other series couldn't get work for so many years...they did so
+       good a job that they forever *became* that character. Let's not be
+       guilty of that crime here. Majel's character will no more be Troi
+       than Bester is Chekov.
+     * Ellen: thanks. As for the episode in question, it's entitled
+       "Point of No Return," and the role of Lady Morella was written
+       specifically for Majel. I hustled to get it finished prior to the
+       Wolf 359 convention, where I gave her a copy of the script. She
+       read it overnight, and fell in love with the story, the character,
+       and what it was going to do with and to the BABYLON 5 universe (to
+       wit: start turning it upside down). Next morning, she said "I'm
+       in." And she is.
+       Yes, it's a jms script, and is one of the most pivotal of this
+       season, episode #9, which with the one before it, "Messages from
+       Earth," builds to a major turning point in #10, so it should be a
+       very popular, intense and memorable episode in every respect.
+     * I'd just like to say that Majel did a great job for us on B5, and
+       we are hoping we can come up with other opportunities for the
+       character to return. I know that Majel is interested in pursuing
+       other acting gigs outside ST, and I wish her all the best. I think
+       other shows would do well to utilize her abilities; everyone had a
+       great time working with her, and she should be recognized for work
+       other than ST.
+     * _Was Morella's speech about greatness intended as a tribute to
+       Gene Roddenberry?_
+       There's probably a fair amount there that could apply to Gene,
+       yes...
+     * If a word comes out of a character's mouth, it's usually mine. The
+       bit about greatness was one of them; had a number of different
+       subtexts going on behind it.
+     * Of course, there are many who don't see such people in a Good
+       Light; even Washington had people out smearing his name every day
+       (which, among more altruistic reasons, was why he didn't want to
+       stay in charge forever). We are never so greatly appreciated as
+       when we're safely and conveniently deceased.
+     * Btw, on the topic of titles...it's important for the season title
+       to accurately reflect the events of the season. And as I've
+       watched more and more of season 3 being filmed, it becomes
+       increasingly clear that "I am become Death, the destroyer of
+       worlds" isn't as apt, emotionally, for what's going on. (I've
+       actually felt this for a while, which is why I've been hesitating
+       on locking down the title publicly.) The single most emblematic
+       title, and single episode, for the whole season, really, is "Point
+       of No Return," because on every level, that's what happens this
+       season.
+     * Thanks...it ratchets things up a bit more, certainly. The big
+       stuff's just around the corner.
+     * Most of the Omega class of destroyers are given Greek names, such
+       as Achilles, Alexander, Agamemnon and others.
+     * Correct, the Alexander would've come off the assembly line a bit
+       after the Aggy.
+     * We could've easily played the EFX full-screen, as WB used them in
+       the promos, after all. But it's a slow tease, a reveal. You do it
+       big in Messages, hold it back just a bit, at arm's length, in
+       PoNR, then bring it all REAL close again in the next episode. By
+       putting it at some remove in PoNR, it makes the viewer almost like
+       one of those in the Zocalo, fighting for a better look, stranded
+       out far away, trying to figure out what's going on.
+     * _Did someone call out "Furillo, Francis" during the roll call of
+       security guards? Furillo was a "Hill Street Blues" character._
+       No, actually, the name was Pirello, Francis...hadn't realized it
+       was a sound-alike for Furillo until dailies came in.
+     * I think Zack was mainly nervous in that last bit, which may
+       account for his twitchiness. And yes, Morella often prophesied for
+       Turhan.
+     * _About Morella's prophecy_
+       There's another way to look at this, which occured to me as I was
+       writing it, so I structured it accordingly.
+       Morella: "You must save the eye that does not see."
+       Londo: "I...do not understand."
+       I.
+       Eye.
+       We never actually saw how she spelled or meant this.
+       Given Londo's background, one could almost make the case that the
+       discussion was about him. Not saying that's it, but it's a
+       possibility and a subtext.
+     * _Which side is Dr. Franklin's father on?_
+       Stephen's father is a by-the-book guy; he doesn't think his job is
+       to set policy, only to implement policy.
+     * _Aren't those Nightwatch posters a bit too much? Wouldn't people
+       object?_
+       It's not always as simple as that. You also take a uniquely
+       Western perspective. Look around at Russia, Cuba, 1930s Germany
+       and the beer hall putsch, Iraq, Iran...a leader can survive all
+       kinds of opposition if he has sufficient control of the armed
+       forces. After the Gulf War, it was generally assumed that Saddam
+       would be gone within a few months; now his position is stronger
+       than ever.
+       Also, Clark didn't (ostensibly) declare martial law to protect
+       himself, he did it because of an imminent alien threat which was
+       detected long before these allegations came out, we just had
+       Ganymede attacked and that's spitting distance from the primary
+       Earth jump gate at Io...there is indication of collaboration and
+       conspiracy among some in the Joint Chiefs (and in fact that's
+       correct, from his point of view, given Hague's
+       activities)...there's enough ammo there to justify martial law.
+       Dissolve the Senate? Just happened a couple years ago in Russia,
+       when we had tanks firing on the Senate building. Some might say
+       that Yeltsin was in the same position as Clark in that his motives
+       might be saving himself.
+       (The majority of our posters, btw, are taken from genuine WW II
+       propaganda and war-support posters that were actually in use. We
+       make some slight modifications, but the gist is there. Yes, we do
+       fall for these things, we do go for these things. We always have.)
+       As for the USA-western perspective...during WW II we saw Japanese
+       civilians interned in camps along the West Coast...afterward we
+       saw people prosecuted for being Reds, saw careers and lives
+       destroyed by even the hint of "commie" influence. If you look at
+       newsreels and documentary footage from the time, you see a
+       populace, fresh out of a war, who survived by focusing on the
+       Enemy, given a new enemy. Might they have gone along with some
+       kind fo martial law if they thought that if they *didn't*
+       cooperate, the nation might be vulnerable to Russian nukes or
+       invasion? I think the climate was perfect for it.
+       Could it happen right here, right now? No, because the surrounding
+       climate isn't right. Could it happen if the conditions *were*
+       right? Of course it could. We're not genetically or evolutionarily
+       different from the Germans or the Russians or the Cubans or the
+       Iraquis. If we think we'd never fall for that, we place ourselves
+       in *exactly* the position of guaranteeing that we *will* fall for
+       it. Because we won't recognize it when it happens. We can justify
+       and rationalize it as something else.
+       Yeah, people back on Earth still have guns. What of it? Right now,
+       with martial law, the streets are quiet, the news is more positive
+       than usual for a change, the quarrelsome jerks in the senate have
+       been given a good kick in the butt, the president's getting things
+       *done*, we've all still got our jobs, the muggers are hiding out,
+       life goes on except for the lawbreakers. You gonna go out on your
+       own and start shooting at Earthforce troops armed to the teeth
+       with *vastly* more advanced weaponry? On whose behalf? The aliens?
+       The troublemakers? What're we rallying for? Or against? This'll
+       blow over soon, it always does. It never lasts. Right now, just
+       ride it out, wait and see what happens. Who knows...maybe Clark's
+       right? Who wants to be perceived as a traitor?
+       Those are the thoughts of any populace in this situation. Just as
+       when Yeltsin declared martial law in Moscow, as when Mayor Daly
+       sent in the shock troops in Chicago, on and on.
+       Here's the number one rule: a population will always stay passive
+       for as long as they perceive that they stand to lose more by
+       opposing the government than by staying quiet. It's when they have
+       little or nothing left to lose that they rise up; the politicos
+       first, then, more reluctantly, the general population.
+     * Here's something to consider in this.
+       It's easy -- safe and reassuring -- to dismiss Nightwatch and the
+       whole political climate on Earth at this time as referring to Nazi
+       germany...SS, Stormtroopers, informers...but if we know our
+       history, it shows that this is not so isolated as we might think.
+       If we say it was just the Nazis, then it's a non-repeatable
+       phenomenon, we needn't worry about it again.
+       But, of course, it does happen again...it did, and it will, to
+       varying degrees. Go back to the Inquisition, and forward to Joe
+       McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
+       which destroyed lives and reputations based on association, past
+       history, social contacts and party affiliations (the items
+       specified by Musante to the EA folks in Nightwatch). Stalin and to
+       a lesser extent Lenin would have been right at home in Nightwatch.
+       Several of the leaders speaking for parties in the ruins of what
+       was once Yugoslavia would also fit.
+       It's easy, and safe, for us to say, "Oh, we would never do that,
+       only THEY did that." But the "they" in this ARE the we on the
+       other side...and "we" have done it, are doing it now, and will
+       continue to do it. Only when we *know* the history of such things,
+       when we recognize the rhetoric of control, when we oppose
+       blacklisting and scapegoating and dead-catting do we help to
+       assure that they *won't* arise again. Remember the quote: "Those
+       who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it."
+       There's a great deal of generalized historical and political
+       metaphor in the show, never one-to-one because that's too easy,
+       but disguised in one form or another, transumted. The Centauri
+       Republic isn't a real republic by any stretch of the
+       imagination...any more than the Roman Republic from which it draws
+       some of its political structure, particularly the Centarum, the
+       ruling body. There's a great deal of Japanese political and social
+       structure to the Minbari, in their culture and art and some of
+       their philosophy. You can find parallels to the story in World War
+       II, and the bible, among a few dozen others.
+       Too little of TV these days is *about* anything...it's all
+       context, no subtext. This show is about a lot of things...but
+       never in the mode of telling you what to think. We'll ask *that*
+       you think, that you consider the world around you, and your place
+       in it...but defining that is your business, not ours.
+     * "I don't believe a conservative nightwatch would be tolerated
+       either."
+       Senator Joseph McCarthy. The House Un-American Activities
+       Committee. You can look it up.
+       Also, there was a PBS documentary this past week on the blacklist;
+       I suggest that ANYone who thinks we would never fall for something
+       like the Nightwatch should take a look at it. It makes the
+       Nightwatch look pale by comparison.
+     * _The House Un-American Activities Committee wasn't that powerful._
+       
+       I disagree. When even Truman was loathe to take on HUAC and
+       McCarthy, you've got a real problem. You make the impact sound
+       minimal; but people committed suicide when their careers were
+       ruined by HUAC and Tailgunner Joe. I personally know writers who
+       were at the top of their form and their careers who never worked
+       again because they were blacklisted or greylisted.
+       It was also the climate created by HUAC that threatened much more
+       widely than the actions of the committee itself. Take Red
+       Channels, a sleazy little rag published by the owner of a
+       *SUPERMARKET CHAIN* in which he listed those he considered --
+       based on whim or divine revelation -- reds or sympathetic to reds.
+       Even a publication like that had tremendous destructive power. I
+       know one of the writers listed in Red Channels; the networks
+       grey-listed him instantly. It was *years* before he could work
+       again.
+       The whole red-baiting hysteria of the 50s came as close to
+       destroying the American dream as any threatened invasion. If it
+       had been led by someone a little less self-destructive than
+       McCarthy, I hate to think what would've happened.
+     * "Even in the USSR the military would not support an attempt of
+       martial law."
+       You mean like when Yeltsin called up the military, dissolved the
+       Senate, and had tanks open fire on the Senate building to keep
+       from being ousted in a coup...you mean like that?
+     * Yes, right to assemble, free speech rights, they're all open to
+       abridgement. Travel can also be restricted.
+     * Thanks. No, I understand the point, I'm just getting into the
+       details a bit. One last point I forgot to mention was that even
+       for the US, there has never yet been a situation where we as an
+       entire *species* stood on the brink of extinction by an alien
+       race. That'll definitely affect your mindset a bit....
+     * "Zack is the key figure here. He's the one questioning if he's on
+       the right side and just what his allies are up to. I've heard some
+       good analogies to present days situations kicked around on these
+       boards, but It seems mostly Republicans want to accuse democrats
+       and vice versa. What we need is more Republicans willing to
+       criticise fellow republicans and democrats willing to criticise
+       fellow democrats."
+       A very good point. Zack is, to all intents and purposes, the
+       Everyman character in this; he wants, desperately, to do what's
+       right. But he doesn't exactly *know* what's right, because he's
+       getting conflicting information...or rather, a lack of *real*
+       information and a plethora of agendas. Who is he to believe? Which
+       way does he jump when he's not sure which pit holds the lion?
+       When a culture become factionalized, when it becomes us vs. them,
+       everyone starts setting up consistently smaller camps...first it's
+       democrats vs. republicans...then it's mainstream republicans vs.
+       conservative republicans...then it's conservative republicans vs.
+       religious right republicans (with the democrats having equal
+       problems on their side). As soon as we forget that we're *all* US,
+       it begins to fall apart.
+     * Corwin's question is really one that hits a lot; you see things
+       starting to fly apart, but you keep thinking it's gonna work
+       out..then it all goes to hell, and you're standing there trying to
+       figure out how it all slipped away. It's a very innocent, yet
+       universal question.
+     * "...I wanted Sheridan &Co. to cut themselves free of Earthgov, and
+       they didn't."
+       'Course, if you were to do anything that monumental, you'd spike
+       right smack in the middle of your three-part story.
+       One of the things about these three episodes that's again worth
+       stressing is that they're really one story, linked carefully. Each
+       of the three begins *one frame* after the other. After they've
+       aired, if you sit down with a VCR and edit them together, you'll
+       find that they flow absolutely SEAMLESSLY from one to the other.
+       So PoNR is at the dead center of the piece that propels you toward
+       the last third, like the second act in a three-act play (which was
+       my structure for this).
+       That may help.
+     * We knew that at some juncture they'd be split, so numbering them
+       as parts 1, 2 and 3 would be awkward. And distribution hates
+       having to market multi-parters, for reasons of their own.
+       So...three episodes.
+     * Glad you enjoyed "Point." It sets everything up, so we can knock
+       it all down in "Severed Dreams." Now everyhing I need is right
+       where I need it to be....
+     * Certainly G'Kar has had...a revelation, I suppose is the best way
+       of putting it, and that tends to transform you. What form emerges
+       from this remains to be seen.
+     * _Ta'Lon's line about answers and replies_
+       No, I don't think that's a quote from anywhere but the show, at
+       least insofar as I know.
+     * _Was bringing Ta'Lon back something you wanted to do from the
+       start?_
+       I liked Ta'Lon, and definitely wanted to bring him back.
+     * We've already established in the episode that the bodyguard is the
+       same as in "All Alone." We did that when the two had a drink in
+       the zocalo. It was in dialogue.
+     * _I liked Londo's line about politics._
+       Thanks, and I agree with those scenes. (For me, the Vir/Londo
+       scene in the tag is just hysterical.) Re: "politics has nothing to
+       do with intelligence," yeah, I kinda liked that one. I have
+       fun....
+     * Centauri are always suspicious, and if you knew you might be
+       emperor after the other is dead, you might be encourage to...help
+       that process along, however you might like someone. It's just good
+       business.
+     * When we come back, the very next episode has a very funny scene
+       re: Londo and Narn security. And yes, that was the Schwartzkopf.
+     * _Is the fact that Hague was on the Alexander a reference to
+       Alexander Haig?_
+       Y'know, I think this was one of those subconscious things the
+       brain does sometimes...I hadn't put it together when I put him on
+       that ship. It's a sad thing when you can't even trust your own
+       brain anymore.
+     * "Ok, at the end of this ep. Susan explains that 4 of the 5
+       cruisers with Gen. Hague where distroyed. So did Earthforce get
+       them or did Clark have the shadows do it?"
+       It was an ambush by Earthforce ships. (Actually, only 3 were
+       destroyed, the other two took off separately, trying to throw off
+       a united pursuit. But you know how ISN's been lately....)
+     * Delenn was taking care of some business on Minbar.
+     * There's not a lower house in the EA, in the sense that each
+       nation/state has its own various houses, and its own leader, but
+       that leader is also part of the EA senate. One per nation/state.
+       Each nation/state has its own constitution, but must not
+       contravene the larger principles of the EA constitution.
+       
+
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+    ### GUIDE ### [3][Background] [4][Synopsis] [5][Credits] [6][Episode
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     When President Clark tries to seize control of Babylon 5 by force,
+     Sheridan is faced with the prospect of severing the station's ties
+     with Earth. Delenn receives disturbing news from a Ranger.
+     [15]Bruce McGill as Major Ryan. [16]Kim Miyori as Captain Hiroshi.
+     [17]James Parks as Drakhen.
+     
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]9.81
+
+Production number: 310
+Original air week: April 1, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
+   Winner of the 1997 Hugo award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
+   
+   _Note: this episode is more momentous than most. Think twice before
+   proceeding to the spoilers if you haven't seen it._
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * The former Minbari leader, Dukhat, died in Delenn's arms. Before
+       he died, he named her as his chosen successor.
+     * Clark has been filling command positions with his people since
+       taking office, thus enabling him to retain control of most of
+       Earth Force; many officers who oppose his policies feel forced to
+       go along, since their superiors will accuse them of treason
+       otherwise.
+     * The Shadows have formed alliances with many of the non-aligned
+       worlds, allegedly to protect them from Centauri aggression; later,
+       they've prompted those races to attack their neighbors with the
+       belief that association with the Shadows is a guarantee of
+       victory.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Was Londo finally able to leave the station? Where was he going?
+       (Or, if he was coming aboard, where was he coming from?)
+     * Is there more to the prophecy of the return of the Shadows, or has
+       it now played itself out, leaving the future uncertain?
+     * What _does_ Sheridan's mother do with her time?
+     * What has ISN known for a year but been unable to talk about? Did
+       they find out about Santiago's death, or perhaps about Earth's
+       involvement with the Shadows?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Sheridan said he wanted to keep Draal a secret, and thus didn't
+       ask for help defending the station. But anyone with two eyes now
+       knows he has some interesting non-human technology at his
+       disposal; he used the Great Machine to broadcast his holographic
+       image all over the station. While Earth has free-floating
+       holography (such as the Knights' image of Sinclair at the
+       beginning of [20]"And the Sky Full of Stars") it's a far cry from
+       what Sheridan did.
+     * Five hooded Councilors followed Delenn from the council chamber;
+       presumably the remaining four were all warrior caste, as
+       established in [21]"All Alone in the Night." (Only three are
+       visible onscreen, but the whole Council wasn't visible at the
+       start of the scene, either.)
+     * Where did the religious and worker castes get three Minbari
+       warships and the crews to pilot them? Are there more on Delenn's
+       side, or just those? In [22]"Matters of Honor," Lennier implied
+       that the religious-caste crew of the White Star was rare, if not
+       unheard-of. Did some of the warrior caste side with Delenn? (See
+       [23]jms speaks)
+     * Delenn's confrontation with the Grey Council is counter to her own
+       stated goal of laying low so the Shadows aren't forced to attack
+       immediately. She accused them of standing by and doing nothing in
+       the face of Shadow encroachment -- but doing nothing was exactly
+       what she insisted on in [24]"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum," among
+       other places. If the warrior caste had moved to prevent some of
+       the non-aligned worlds from warring, as she seemed to be
+       suggesting, it surely would have alerted the Shadows to the fact
+       that their return has been discovered.
+       On the other hand, it may be that she was accusing them of not
+       even preparing for eventual open conflict with the Shadows;
+       perhaps she believed their current indifference would continue
+       even after the army of light was fully assembled.
+       Finally, she may have wanted them to simply take a stand in the
+       local conflicts without addressing the Shadows' presence directly.
+     * Sheridan's secession from the Earth Alliance plays directly into
+       Clark's hands in some respects. Clark can use the secession, and
+       the Minbari involvement, to paint a picture of an alien-supported
+       military coup against an elected civilian government, further
+       proof of the need for martial law, the Nightwatch, and other
+       draconian measures. No doubt he'll be able to make that version of
+       the story believable to a large number of people back home, thus
+       solidifying his power base.
+     * Why did only four destroyers jump into Babylon 5 space for the
+       initial attack? Perhaps the fleet commander didn't want to
+       increase the chance of casualties from friendly fire, but that
+       seems dubious at best; or perhaps he didn't know there were more
+       ships on the way.
+     * Which side of the war does the Agamemnon and its crew support?
+       Will Sheridan be forced into conflict with his old ship, something
+       he definitely doesn't want? ([25]"Messages From Earth")
+     * Given the reason for the Minbari surrender during the war
+       ([26]"Points of Departure") would Delenn have made good on her
+       threat to fire on the Earth ships? Minbari religious beliefs would
+       forbid her from doing so, though she might well consider it a
+       necessary evil.
+     * During the initial attack on the Alexander, Major Ryan claims that
+       they can't jump to hyperspace without losing their fighters. But
+       fighters have been shown jumping alongside a larger ship before --
+       some emerged with the destroyers to attack Babylon 5 later in the
+       same episode -- so what would have kept the fighters from jumping
+       with the Alexander? (See [27]jms speaks)
+     * The Shadows are apparently perfectly willing to double-cross the
+       Centauri, at least in words. By offering to protect the League
+       worlds from Centauri aggression, when the Centauri are using the
+       Shadows to act out that aggression, they've effectively taken
+       control of both sides of any potential Centauri border conflicts.
+       What they'll do with that control, and why they want it, remains
+       to be seen.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The new Starfury in this episode is called a "Thunderbolt."
+     * Many of the Nightwatch members in this episode are production
+       staff members, including the production secretary and an assistant
+       director.
+     * Minor effects mismatch: A group of Starfuries attacks a friendly
+       destroyer. Its name is clearly visible as the Churchill. But the
+       scene immediately cuts to Major Ryan reacting to the hit -- even
+       though he's on the Alexander, not the Churchill. (See [28]jms
+       speaks)
+     * Just after Major Ryan says, "Right down their throats," a Starfury
+       shoots another one with B5 in the background. For one frame, the
+       exploding Starfury is replaced with a bright yellow square; then
+       the explosion replaces it.
+     * Four ships emerge from the jumpgate at the end of act three, two
+       Omega-class destroyers and two older Hyperion-style heavy cruisers
+       ([29]"A Voice In the Wilderness, part 2.") But we only see and
+       hear about two, the Agrippa and the Roanoke. One possible
+       explanation is that the destroyer rammed by the Churchill isn't
+       supposed to be the Roanoke; since Sheridan offers assistance to
+       the Roanoke at the end of the battle, that's plausible. However,
+       the rammed ship's name is (barely) visible as "Roanoke" during the
+       collision.
+     * One of the two destroyers in the second wave was called the
+       Nimrod; the second was the Olympic.
+     * The Roanoke is named after an early English colony in North
+       Carolina. After a hard winter, a ship came to check on the colony
+       and found it totally deserted, no sign of the inhabitants or of a
+       struggle, just the word CROATAN carved into a tree. The fate of
+       the colonists was never discovered.
+     * The Agrippa was probably named for the famed Roman
+       general/admiral, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa. He served for Octavian
+       (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus), the nephew of Julius Caesar. He
+       was the inventor of the harpax, or harpago, which was a pole with
+       a hook on the end which was attached to a rope. Fired toward
+       another ship, it allowed the two ships to be pulled together,
+       allowing the Romans to board. It was first used in 36 BC at the
+       battle of Naulochos (Mylae), and later at the battle of Actium,
+       where it helped to defeat Mark Anthony's fleet, leading to the
+       eventual crowning of Octavian as Augustus, the first Roman emperor
+       in 27 BC.
+     * In the UK video release, three seconds were cut from the episode,
+       presumably from one of the boarding-party fight scenes.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * The number of scenes varies depending on the amount of action
+       required. On balance, the average TV script has about 60-75 scenes
+       or shots in it. From time to time, in B5, we've gone as high as
+       130 shots in episodes like "Twilight" or "Fall." I think we just
+       blew out our record here with "Severed Dreams," which has close to
+       140.
+       Number of scenes shot on any day depends on how long the scene;
+       you can do 4 really long shots or 8 fairly short scenes. The
+       amount of rehearsal varies depending on the scene, how many extras
+       or what kind of action/stunts are required. The more action, the
+       more you rehearse, to ensure nobody gets hurt.
+     * Much as I'd have wished PTEN would've aired 10, the final part of
+       the 3-episode arc that changes direction on the show, a week after
+       9, even though it'd be out of sweeps period...it's probably for
+       the best. When producer George Johnson saw the scrpt for #10,
+       "Severed Dreams," he laughed, walked over to me and said, "Boy,
+       this is the best episode we're never gonna deliver. ARE YOU
+       NUTS?!"
+       As an example of "ARE YOU NUTS?!" in "The Fall of Night," in the
+       sequence between the first Garden shot and the end of Sheridan's
+       rescue, about 6-7 pages of script, there were, I think, about 60
+       or 65 EFX and practical shots. In just the span of 4 pages in 310
+       there are roughly 100 EFX and practical shots. In EFX terms, it's
+       probably one of the biggest shows we've done, so it's better to
+       give Foundation a little extra time to get it right rather than
+       rush them.
+     * All I'll say here is that there were *so* many EFX here that we
+       mixed the episode a few days before delivery, and got it down
+       there 2 hours before the process for uplinking the episode to
+       stations. It was the hardest thing we've ever done...but it was
+       worth it.
+     * _Why are these three episodes not marked as a three-parter?_
+       For the most part, it's a matter of how the episodes feel to me,
+       what length they feel as if they require. When I did the big three
+       this year -- Messages, Point and Dreams -- I hadn't really figured
+       they'd be as tightly connected as they ended up being. I knew
+       they'd relate strongly to one another, but in a sense, they're
+       really a three parter. The War Without End story I knew was WAY
+       too big for one episode, but due to the structure of the story
+       wouldn't take being extended for one more episode; at that point
+       you'd just be dragging it out.
+       It's all instinct, I wish I had a more concrete answer.
+     * I think you hit the distinction between MfE and PoNR...the former
+       is exciting, the latter is tense, with "Severed Dreams" a good
+       blend of the two, particularly the latter. We did our final
+       producer's cut today, and man, it moves....
+     * _Why the title?_
+       If B5 was a dream given form, and the EA had the potential to be
+       something more than it has become, and the two part ways, then you
+       have severed dreams. (I had a much more elegant and interesting
+       reply, but obviously it entered Vorlon space and hasn't been
+       allowed out again.)
+     * "Messages," for my money, is so far the best we've ever done,
+       though I'll be more able to lock that down once I've seen the
+       final CGI. It and "Dreams" are real CGI blowouts; in the latter,
+       there are literally 100 shots -- CGI, live action, and compositing
+       -- in *four pages* of action. This is an all time record for us
+       (and that doesn't count the stuff earlier in the episode).
+     * Have begun shooting episode 11, "Messages From Earth," a hideously
+       complex episode, outmatched only by #10, "Severed Dreams," which
+       is the single most visually ambitious episode we've done in the
+       three years of the show. It's just totally outrageous, and it'll
+       probably kill us in sheer man-hours to produce...but the result
+       should drop jaws all over the place.
+     * Re: Foundation "adding a new flame effect"...sort of. One night,
+       we just went out into the parking lot, set up a camera pointing up
+       behind a plexiglass screen, and set off a bunch of explosions
+       above it. Went great until one of the blasts was so big it melted
+       through the plex *and* the camera lens....
+       Looked good though, didn't it?
+     * _The PPG blasts looked different._
+       That was because there were so MANY of them; our PPG bursts
+       usually take a great deal of work. If we'd given all of them in
+       this scene that amount of work, we'd still be doing them.
+     * _How did you do the lighting as Ivanova's ship tumbled?_
+       We fixed a light atop a gimble, and pre-determined the rotation of
+       the starfury, then moved the lighting to match. Gives it a much
+       more realistic feel.
+     * "In an ep like "Severed Dreams" where cgi effects take up
+       literally almost 1/4 of the script, how much input does the
+       director have on "camera" angles, close ups of 'Fury pilots, and
+       the way in which the SFX is intercut with live action? Or is that
+       entirely your job?"
+       Generally, a lot of that material is either storyboarded, or
+       supervised by our on set EFX supervisor, who determines the angles
+       to be used. This is especially important in an episode like
+       Severed Dreams when you have to make sure that the pilots are
+       oriented the right way on camera (i.e., going from left to right,
+       and facing left to right) if that's the direction their ships are
+       going in; otherwise you'd have to flop the film to make it match.
+       In larger set pieces, using virtual sets and composite shots, the
+       director has more influence.
+     * _From coproducer George Johnsen, about the [30]effects glitch_
+       The show was seriously under the gun for delivery when those shots
+       were done. If I remember correctly, a couple of these shots came
+       in on the same day we were to deliver, and there was no time to
+       re-render them and still make the satellite.
+       If I were to tell you it would never happen again, I would be a
+       big liar, or a deluded optomist, but we try. Animators are human,
+       after all! :-)
+     * Funny thing is, how much as you note the show corresponds to some
+       of the things Mira's been through...some of it intentional,
+       knowing that if I dig into this area, it'll come out of her with
+       the ring of truth...some of it quite unintentional. When I
+       finished writing "Severed Dreams," and the actors got it, Mira's
+       first words to me were, "So...how long DID you live in
+       Yugoslavia?" The parallel wasn't intentional...but it fit.
+     * Toni: thanks. All of the characters shine in this one, Mira in
+       particular as Delenn. It's a nice contrast; her speech to the Grey
+       Council is an intense piece of work that goes on for a while; her
+       declaration to the EA ships is short, to the point, and absolutely
+       deadly. The right tool for the right job.
+       I'm utterly pleased and proud of the job we did here. Partly
+       because it's just so nifty on its own terms, and partly because it
+       gives us a new level to try and beat. Up until now, I've been
+       looking to top "Coming of Shadows;" now the goal is to top this
+       one...and I think it's possible there may be one or two even this
+       season that'll do that, but tonally I think they're different
+       enough that it might end up as a tie.
+       I definitely wanted the close-in, hand-to-hand fighting to
+       personalize what's going on. It's also very logical strategically.
+       You send in your forces to disable or overwhelm C&C, distract
+       them, slip in a cadre of troops to a station that (you hope)
+       didn't know you were coming...then they race to C&C and seize
+       control from inside, shooting anyone they have to en route. If
+       Sheridan et al hadn't known the ships were coming in, this
+       could've gone very differently. But once they were in, they were
+       in close quarters, and you want to get in closer if you're on the
+       defensive side so that they can't use their weapons without
+       cutting down their own people. After that you have to hope you can
+       overwhelm the intruders with sheer force of numbers. It's an ugly,
+       awful way to win a fight, because it *guarantees* casualties...but
+       what war doesn't?
+       Something to bear in mind when rewatching, btw...it was during
+       this scene that Jerry fell and broke his right arm and right
+       wrist. And they still had one last scene to film. He stuck it out
+       and they rolled film, to get the shot of him and Zack at the end
+       of the fight. Next time you watch it, keep an eye on the right arm
+       as he releases the helmet...it bends in directions never intended
+       by evolution.
+     * I agree, but Jerry was determined to do it, and more time would've
+       been lost arguing about it than it took to do the takes.
+     * The arm broken was his right arm and wrist; we worked it into the
+       show, in a way which actually worked well with what went right
+       before it. Jerry's doing fine now.
+     * Oddly enough, Jerry's broken arm tied *beautifully* into something
+       that had happened in the course of the episode we were filming, so
+       all it took was a line or two to sell it.
+       The funny thing is...in the very next episode after the incident,
+       there was a line in the script I'd written *weeks* earlier, and it
+       freaked everybody out...when Garibaldi asks someone to do
+       something, and the person responds, "What, you've got a broken arm
+       or something?" At first some people thought I'd put it in there to
+       pink Jerry, but it'd been there the whole time. Similarly, in the
+       Claudia incident, there was a line (cut for time) where Sheridan
+       says talking to the Drazi is like trying to talk to your right
+       foot...and Ivanova replies "I'll have you know I have a sublime
+       relationship with my right foot." Yep, the next day...that's the
+       foot she broke.
+       Just recently, I was trying to explain time travel to one of the
+       actors. I used the analogy, over lunch, "Suppose you finished
+       eating your chicken here, then got sick as a dog a few hours
+       later, then got in a time machine to go back in time and warn
+       yourself not to eat the chicken." Well, a few hours after
+       that...the actor got sick as a dog from the chicken.
+       I have been asked, expressly, not to make any further mention of
+       actors' body parts in scripts....
+     * We shot that last scene with Garibaldi *after* we'd shot the
+       sequence showing his injured leg. We don't shoot in sequence. So
+       we had to cover it in the next episode.
+     * We shot the last scene with the cane *before* we shot the scene in
+       which Jerry broke his arm. It costs way too much to go back and
+       reshoot. At the time we shot the later scene, he hadn't yet broken
+       his arm.
+       And G'Kar isn't all the way in yet; he wants to be, but so far
+       he's still being held at arm's length a bit...he may make an issue
+       of this.
+     * Actually, though, because he *did* have his hand in his pocket, it
+       let me handle the break in the next episode without stretching
+       credulity too far. It was...well...I guess you'd call that part of
+       it a lucky break.
+     * _Is General Hague shown?_
+       Foxworth was slated for "Severed Dreams" when he bailed on us.
+     * We had booked Foxworth long in advance. Later, out of the blue, a
+       rep for the actor said that by accident he'd been double-booked on
+       B5 and DS9 for the same period...and even though we had prior
+       claim, because the other was a two-parter, more money, they went
+       for that. One can only wonder when the other offer *really* came
+       in....
+     * The Foxworth bail resulted in a change of about three lines,
+       that's about it. You'll know which lines when you hear them.
+     * We'd booked the actor long, long in advance. At the last minute,
+       he bailed to do a DS9 episode playing, essentially, the same
+       character, despite our having first dibs.
+       So I killed off the character. Didn't change the story by the
+       smallest measure. May actually have helped, since it raised the
+       stakes in the story right from the start.
+       Rule #1: Never honk off the writer.
+     * Regarding Hague...it's much harder to hold an actor on a
+       once-in-a-while basis. Every show is hostage to that. It's a
+       reality of life. We don't have contracts with folks who play one
+       or two parts a year. Screen Actors Guild doesn't allow that; you
+       make deals as they come up. You can't stop an actor if he wants to
+       jump ship under those conditions; and if you try, you have an
+       unhappy actor on your set who'll just walk through it because he
+       or she doesn't want to be there.
+     * Re: Foxworth...it was really the only thing to do. I'd created the
+       character *specifically* to have him available for this episode,
+       after which he'd basically fade away while others took up his
+       standard. It was all leading up to this. Without being in this
+       episode, there was nothing more to do with Hague, hence I felt
+       quite comfortable with his fate, it changed nothing.
+     * _Major Ryan was overstepping his rank._
+       Except, of course, you now have an extraordinary situation in
+       which the Major, through the death of his CO, was now the
+       commanding officer of the Alexander. In ordinary circumstances,
+       this would mean he'd be given a field promotion.
+       Second, I don't recall any situation where the Major was "giving
+       orders to a commander." The aide on the deck of the Alexander was
+       a Lieutenant, as I recall. Also, if Hague indicated that he was to
+       be given command as he died, that would likely be honored.
+       Finally, yes, the Major was involved in the discussions of
+       strategy, but in *every case* he presented Sheridan and Hiroshi
+       with options, and because it was Sheridan's neck of the woods, it
+       was left to Sheridan to give orders. He coordinated the defense,
+       and was the only one speaking directly with the Agrippa.
+     * I think Sheridan was kinda up to his ears in matters graver than
+       the Major's field promotion, though you're right, he had one
+       coming (as I noted in an earlier message). Given that they'd just
+       broken away from Earthforce, and walked away from the rank
+       structure to some extent, it would seem a rather indulgent
+       exercise, since Earth certainly wouldn't recognize the field
+       promotion of a renegade officer.
+     * "...hit between the eyes." Yeah, that's the correct reaction, I'd
+       say.
+       Yes, it's easy to fire on the enemy when it's a faceless entity;
+       not as easy when it's someone you know. Kinda brings it home,
+       makes it personal.
+     * Exactly. If you're going to do something as monumental as what
+       Sheridan does here re: B5's status and Earth, it can't be done
+       lightly or frivolously or without sufficient cause. It has to be
+       an absolutely last resort. If we'd done it any sooner, it would've
+       been less effective, and more of a cheat.
+       And yes, after two breather stories, "Ship of Tears" starts the
+       arc moving again, and with very few exceptions doesn't let up for
+       the rest of the season.
+     * _About the warning sign in [31]"Dust to Dust"_
+       Yes, the sign does indeed say warning. Look for another sign right
+       behind somebody at the end of "Severed Dreams."
+     * Actually, yes, I tend to ask for musical counterpoint in the show
+       from time to time. For instance, when Sheridan et al were going to
+       the area where the crowd was waiting, I told Chris to fool
+       us...give us an ominous sounding sting going into what's going to
+       be a very "up" scene. In the battle earlier on, when you'd
+       normally do something fast and exciting, I asked him to give me
+       something more somber, to pull out the Requiem theme in a few
+       places. Sometimes, in other shows, I ask for music that works
+       against a scene to control the emotional core of it; if it's a bit
+       too silly, perhaps, then I go for a more serious musical cue to
+       balance it out. Where a scene would seem to ask for major keys, I
+       go for minor chords.
+       It's all just part of the tapestry.
+       (BTW, a little secret...just for fun, I wrote a couple of songs
+       that you'll be hearing in an upcoming episode. I used to write
+       songs here and there, even did a couple for an ABC prime-time
+       special, and figured I'd try it again. I wrote the lyrics,
+       discussed the music with Chris, and he took care of the score, and
+       it's about what I first conceived. Came out pretty well,
+       actually.)
+     * _Where was Kosh during all this?_
+       Yeah...Kosh seems to have retreated a bit so far...worrying, that.
+     * _Why didn't Sheridan ask for help from Draal or Delenn?_
+       The other thing to bear in mind about all this is the question of
+       a "clean fight." If Sheridan were to bring in alien forces at his
+       order to kill humans, it would pretty much destroy his
+       credibility. Delenn came in at the end but only after he'd made
+       his stand on his own.
+       One of the things that kicked off the French Revolution was the
+       allegation that the King had brought in or was bringing in
+       Prussian troops to help put down dissenters. As long as it was all
+       more or less in the family, that was one thing...but to bring in
+       outsiders was an absolute affront to them. (One of the singular
+       incidents that started the fighting itself was a group of Prussian
+       soldiers sighted sitting in a cafe having lunch, which caused this
+       rumor about outsiders coming in to spread like wildfire, and led
+       to the some of the first major incidents of rioting.)
+       Two brothers may fight one another, but let a third unrelated
+       person come in and shove one of the brothers around, and they'll
+       *both* turn on him.
+       During the worst days of the civil war, even Lincoln was offered
+       assistance in troops from at least one other country; he declined,
+       because it was an internal matter, and had to be resolved by those
+       involved, not outsiders.
+       Sheridan's logic was exactly the same. It had to be a clean fight.
+     * We'll establish in coming episodes that they have to become more
+       self sufficient; the Minbari will help some, others will also have
+       a reason to help support the station for the advantages it gives
+       them, the services it provides, and eventually docking fees will
+       have to rise if they can make a go of it.
+     * I'd have to check my figures, which are at the office and I'm at
+       home, but I *think* we've got about 600 crew and support on a
+       Minbari cruiser.
+     * Yes, the push in on Delenn revealed her in the White Star, and
+       yes, a fair number of the new 'furies B5 inherited are Thunderbolt
+       class.
+     * "Severed Dreams had a line that was better than Ivanava's sex
+       scene. Wow, do these women get lines!"
+       Can't help it. I've always been vastly enamoured of strong, sharp,
+       funny, independent and strong-willed women. (Well, me and 99% of
+       the rest of the male population, most of them just won't admit
+       it.)
+       I love it when anyone -- male or female -- comes up with a killer
+       line. Claudia and I are always going at it, each trying to top the
+       other...and I've found out the hard way that you don't challenge
+       her on the theory that she'll back down. Won't happen. Ivanova's
+       just the same. Mira is also dedicated, fierce in her convictions,
+       extremely bright and worldly.
+       So why should their characters be any less than the women
+       themselves?
+     * "...my favorite part, I must say was when Sheridan kissed Delenns
+       hand. I've been waiting anxiously for this to happen and it
+       finally did! My housemates all laughed at me but I guess I'm just
+       an incurable romantic."
+       This is a problem?
+       We are in need of more romance.
+     * _Aren't Starfuries space-only craft?_
+       Yes, the Thunderbolt furies were seen both on Mars and attacking
+       B5.
+       A normal Starfury can't function in an atmosphere environment. The
+       new Thunderbolt models have airfoils/wings that are folded back
+       over the body of the ship for non-atmospheric maneuvering, and
+       then extend out to full sized wings when entering an atmosphere.
+       (You'll get to see in detail how this works back and forth in
+       "Ship of Tears.")
+     * _How does ejection from a Starfury work?_
+       You can see explosive bolts going off, and a series of small
+       thrusters behind the cockpit are which allow for navigation. This
+       gets the pilot away from the main body which has either been
+       crippled, or is about to explode, the same way a modern fighter
+       has an ejection system. (Check the main credit sequence for a
+       better shot of an ejection.)
+     * _How did the pilots tell which other Starfuries were which?_
+       FOF...Friend Or Foe systems on board the furies.
+     * _About the Alexander/Clarkstown battle_
+       The interceptors have two components, one that throws a ball of
+       energy at an incoming weapons charge (physical or energy) and
+       causes dissipation, and the other is a net-like energy web that
+       reduces the severity, but does not deflect or absorb, beam type
+       energy. This allows some time for maneuvers after beam contact.
+       Note that Major Ryan (He'll always be D-Day to my brother!) was
+       very reticent to fire on the Clarkstown at all. Knowing that the
+       Interceptors were down made his job all the more difficult. The
+       rear facing beamn on the Alexander is similar in design to the
+       front facers on the Clarkstown. When the C-town fired on the
+       rotating section ofthe Alexander, it did not explode, as the
+       interceptors were still active.
+       George Johnsen
+       CoProducer, B5
+     * If you're opening a jump point, usually you make it a habit to
+       have all your fighters on board or else risk leaving them behind.
+       A jump gate can be more easily used and held open for fighters.
+       When you arrive at your destination, you can launch your fighters
+       as you emerge.
+     * "Why was it impossible to jump into hyperspace (in the beginning
+       of the show) and not take the Starfuries with the ship? We've seen
+       it done before."
+       No, I don't believe so. You've seen a jump GATE used, but that's
+       different from a jump POINT which basically closes right behind
+       the ship like a rabbit pulling its hole in after it. If the ships
+       stayed behind to protect its rear, they'd be left behind. Ships
+       coming out of a jump point into normal space sometimes will let
+       their fighters zip out AS they're coming out, alongside the main
+       ship.
+     * In "Severed Dreams," the dilemma faced by the Alexander in the
+       teaser is that if they jump, they'll end up leaving their fighters
+       behind. A jump engine rips the area open for that one ship, and
+       closes it again right behind it. What sometimes happens, as in
+       "All Alone," is that *as a ship comes out*, it releases its
+       fighters. But you can't just follow a ship into a jump point
+       formed by another ship. You'd probably get torn apart when space
+       folded back on you, because the field opening the point is
+       primarily around the other ship.
+     * _Why didn't they shut down the jumpgate? Why did the EA ships use
+       it?_
+       The answer to both your questions is about the same. It takes
+       about a day to power down, or power up a jump gate. It operates
+       more like a fusion reactor than a light bulb. So not only wasn't
+       there enough time, even if they *had* had enough time, you'd want
+       to leave the gate up and running in case you needed to evacuate
+       for any reason; otherwise you'd cut off your main escape route.
+       For the incoming fleet, knowing the gate was active was the way to
+       go, since it would let them launch their fighters prior to coming
+       in; if you use a jump point, you kinda have to launch while you're
+       coming out to avoid anyone being stuck behind.
+     * _What good are small fighters if it's the big ships that decide
+       the battle?_
+       A lot more ships came in with the Roanoke and the Agrippa, support
+       ships and others. Probably more breaching pods. They took out
+       those. They're also used to keep the enemy starfuries from
+       disabling the defense grid on the station, leaving B5 free to use
+       its weapons on the larger target/worse threat. They're often used
+       to soften up the enemy, harrass them like a pack of hounds falling
+       on a prey. In "Fall of Night," we saw a Centauri vessel in large
+       measure taken out by the Starfuries with some B5 support. So they
+       definitely play a part.
+     * Starfuries serve a *lot* of functions which we've shown before on
+       the series.
+       They can take out a ship's defensive screens and countermeasures,
+       allowing access by the big ships' armaments. In a group, they can
+       take out a good sized ship on their own (a la the Centauri cruiser
+       in "Fall of Night"). They also serve to protect the station's
+       defense grid from aggressor starfuries.
+       Also, a number of small support ships, including a Hyperion class
+       ship came through as part of the "carrier group" that went after
+       the station. It was up to the starfuries to take care of those
+       ships while B5 and the other destroyers took out the biggest
+       threats.
+     * _What about all the debris from the battle?_
+       We've shown clean-up crews before outside, including a hazmat
+       station that goes out to clear away fuel cores or other toxic
+       material. They would've been dispatched for this.
+     * Fighters re-enter via the main docking bay and are recharged and
+       lowered into the fighter bays.
+       No question, spare parts would be a problem, and they'll have to
+       cannibalize a lot (plus whatever they scrounged up from the
+       fighters blown apart outside).
+     * Bear in mind that if we had gone over to the other captains and
+       what was going on in the other ships, to make room for those
+       scenes we would've had to cut anywhere from 3-5 minutes of the
+       other stuff. You can't just add to the show's time; if that goes
+       in, something else has to come out. So you'd probably have to cut
+       the scene between Sheridan and his father since that was the only
+       stand-alone set piece.
+       Any time you write something, you must decide "who is it about?"
+       This episode was about *our characters*, the ones we've come to
+       care about, and how they deal with this. To take away from that
+       and spend time with people we've never seen before, and won't see
+       again, would be to cheat our characters of the time on screen
+       needed to pay off all the things we've set up over the years.
+       Would it have been an interesting aside to show the other
+       captains? Sure. In a movie, with an open-ended running time, I
+       probably would have. But there's nothing I would want to cut out
+       of the episode as it now stands to make room for it.
+     * _Why no scenes from the opposition's point of view?_
+       We haven't seen those scenes because we don't know anyone there
+       really, and in an hour show you only have so much time, and within
+       our budget we only can do so much. Every speaking role you add
+       costs thousands of dollars. Every set costs thousands of dollars.
+       We're doing the absolute best we can with a budget roughly 1/2 of
+       any of the ST episodes.
+       If it isn't *absolutely necessary* to the scene, it isn't in.
+       Yeah, seeing some folks in EA talking back and forth about well,
+       maybe this isn't a good idea, maybe it is, well, let's get back to
+       work...it'd be an interesting aside, but in addition to slowing
+       down the pace of the episode, and this one had to move like a
+       house afire, it's just not something I felt we could or should do.
+     * _About the boarding party's uniforms_
+       Instead of going for a sinister EA look, I wanted the uniforms to
+       be something we're used to, "our side," as you say. There aren't
+       many blacks-and-whites on this show. It's all greys...and
+       sometimes olive drab.
+     * Garibaldi wanted to hold up, cut off the boarding party at a
+       bottleneck, but the Narns, *being* Narns, raced right into the
+       battle. At that point Garibaldi had to follow them in or let them
+       get wiped out for no good reason.
+     * _About the Narn sacrifice_
+       What you also have to bear in mind sometimes is that *this* is the
+       only way to get things done. When the Allies stormed Normandy
+       Beach, they knew that German bunkers and machine nests and
+       fortified positions were right there on the beach waiting for
+       them. But they stormed out, onto the beach, and the first lines
+       were cut down, one after another after another, hundreds,
+       literally thousands of soldiers. But those behind were able to get
+       through, take up position as best they could. Some of them clung
+       to the edges of cliffs as Germans above laughed and threw down
+       grenades into their midst.
+       Sometimes there's no other way. But you do it because those who
+       command you have the moral authority to say "You probably will not
+       come back, but the cause is just, and fair, and necessary."
+       Thus do we go off to die.
+     * _Themes of personal sacrifice_
+       "It's all this stuff that I think really makes the show. The
+       mystery certainly helps, but the puzzles are no longer my main
+       reason for watching."
+       Aaron: exactly. This was something I said a lot around the first
+       part of the second season, that this really *isn't* a mystery
+       novel, in any conventional sense, no more so than any novel whose
+       ending is yet to be revealed.
+       You picked up on exactly the themes that are present in the show,
+       with some more to come shortly. Personal sacrifice for a cause --
+       perhaps a good cause, perhaps not, depending on how wisely we make
+       our decisions -- is probably the dominant theme at this point in
+       the story.
+       It's worth mentioning that this story was initially conceived in
+       the midst of the Me Generation, the decade of "I've got mine,
+       jack, screw you all." Since then the culture has gotten
+       increasingly factionalized, groups of Me's pulling and tugging at
+       the fabric not only of the country, bvut of the planet itself. The
+       idea of personal sacrifice, of personal service to a cause, seems
+       to have become...passe. Old fashioned. Silly.
+       We have an obligation to one another, responsibilities and trusts.
+       That does not mean we must be pigeons, that we must be exploited.
+       But it does mean that we should look out for one another when and
+       as much as we can; and that we have a personal responsibility for
+       our behavior; and that our behavior has consequences of a very
+       real and profound nature. We are not powerless. We have tremendous
+       potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up
+       to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day,
+       "You can't change the world."
+       But the world is changing every day. Only question is...who's
+       doing it? You or somebody else? Will you choose to lead, or be led
+       by others?
+       (Y'know, there are moments I look at the preceding paragraphs, and
+       I realize that it wa said more succinctly, and better, and more
+       movingly in "Lost Horizon," with this simple sentence: "Be *kind*
+       to one another.")
+     * The easy thing to do, the TeeVee thing to do, would've been to go
+       from Sheridan's line "All ships return to base," to the exterior
+       with the big ships, and fade out. But I try to keep this show from
+       doing the easy thing. Yes, you had a victory. Yes, it was
+       necessary. But what's the cost? We shouldn't glamorize these
+       things. Even at the end, as you notice, even at the end of the
+       reception...we go out on an ominous note.
+     * The older I get, the more I realize there are things you can do
+       with silence you can't do with words, though I still love the form
+       of the speech. There was a lot of counterpoint in this episode, a
+       tool I'm still playing with as a writer; eventually I'll figure
+       out how to really use it properly. (Though there's an interesting
+       scene up later this season using another kind of ironic
+       counterpoint which I think works pretty well.)
+     * _Counterpoint?_
+       In a sense, it's going from one emotion or thematic element to a
+       very different, but equally strong one, either as bookends or
+       through intercutting. Going from the high of the victory, to the
+       sudden shot of the dead troops, is thematic counterpoint.
+       Here's another...in "Cabaret" you've got a scene where the
+       performers in the Cabaret are doing the sort of German dance where
+       you slap your knees and thighs and chest...and they take it a bit
+       further, slapping one another, it's all for comic effect...but
+       during this, you're intercutting the owner of the cabaret being
+       beaten to within an inch of his life by some Brownshirts outside.
+       You go from comic to brutal and back, with the result that the
+       happy little dance suddenly takes on ugly characteristics, and the
+       beating takes on the sense that the participants are having a sick
+       kind of fun, that it's all just another kind of dance, a ritual.
+       That's what you have to look at as a writer...how this scene
+       works, and how it interacts with the scenes in front, behind and
+       "beside" it (for things happening simultaneously). Sometimes, with
+       the proper counterpoint, you can add whole new levels of meaning
+       to a scene, or make the scene much stronger than it would've been
+       on its own.
+     * _Did the Earth ships recognize the White Star as the ship from the
+       incident on Ganymede?_
+       Probably not.
+     * Well, President Clark would know it [the White Star], from the
+       Aggy records, but the general population wouldn't know it yet,
+       since those records weren't released. But it does give him a card
+       to play at some point in the future.
+     * _Any relation between Captain Hiroshi and the Hiroshi on
+       Garibaldi's staff from [32]"Convictions?"_
+       No intentional relation, no.
+     * _Why wasn't the boarding party coming up through the floor?_
+       I figured that they'd come in through the outer hull, secure the
+       inner hull area, then go up in and through a side wall, which
+       would be faster for purposes of a mass entrance. If you blow a
+       hole in the floor, everybody has to crawl out one at a time; you
+       blow a hole in the wall, bunches can come through at once. There
+       was a fair amount of distance between where they came in, and the
+       hull.
+     * Yes and no. They came through the "floor" which would be the outer
+       hull. Like any good ship, the station has two hulls for
+       protection, an inner hull and an outer hull. Once breaching the
+       outer hull, they moved into the inner hull, then angled up for a
+       wall they could blow out.
+       I figured this would make more tactical sense because if they just
+       blew through the floor, they'd have to *crawl* out one or two at a
+       time, whereas if they angled in safely and then came in through a
+       wall, they could pour in more quickly, en masse, and be less
+       vulnerable.
+     * _From coproducer George Johnsen_
+       We don't really know where the Marines actually penetrated, but
+       their first hole would be through the "floor". If we assume that
+       they know the station well, it is likely they would punch through
+       an "unimproved", or storage area first, as it would be easier than
+       to burn through a fully habitable area. Then they would go through
+       a wall or a door to get at the goal. We postulate that they
+       actually were shown entering through their second burn, and
+       entering the occupied area.
+     * _Was there not much blood in the on-station fight because the guns
+       were firing plasma?_
+       Correct, PPG bursts, being superheated helium, tend to cauterize
+       the wounds as they go through.
+     * No, it's a different scene than the flash-forward in Babylon
+       Squared.
+     * Thanks. That's exactly the impression I wanted...you do the
+       dolly/zoom move, isolating Sheridan visually...you don't cut back
+       to the others as they speak, just let the camera stay on him, put
+       the other voices down under the music and off to the side, just
+       *HOLD* there...works great.
+     * I'm always getting this confused in my own mind, but basically
+       it's using two contradictory moves with the camera. You dolly in
+       (push the camera toward the object) and push out with the lens (or
+       vice versa...that's the part I'm forever getting confused
+       about...like remembering battery connections, is it positive to
+       positive or positive to negative...?). In either event, you're
+       basically going in and out/away at the same moment. It's a nifty
+       effect.
+     * "There is a certain sweetness between Sheridan and his father.
+       Sheridan's father is certainly the one that I wish I had. Is he
+       yours, JMS?"
+       Not by the farthest stretch of the imagination, which is all I'll
+       say on this.
+     * _Was that Ashan (from [33]"There All the Honor Lies") blocking
+       Delenn?_
+       That wasn't Ashan, no.
+     * _Why isn't the Council on Minbar?_
+       We've hinted at it...the Grey Council always stays on its ship,
+       being part of the universe, giving it an exotic, distant feel for
+       its people...as though among the gods.
+     * The Grey Council could've taken a lot more action to be supportive
+       behind the scenes, getting the warrior caste more involved with
+       the rangers, giving aid to the non-aligned worlds...there was a
+       LOT they could have been doing all this time that wouldn't have
+       required tipping their hand. Instead they sat and did nothing. And
+       now, with B5 on the edge of falling, to say it's not their problem
+       was too much. Now is the time they have to start coming forward.
+     * Basically, the warrior caste doesn't think it's their war; there's
+       also a certain amount of resentment in it, I think...they *led*
+       the last war, they *did* their job, and got yanked back and forced
+       to surrender. That was a terrible blow to their pride, caused in
+       part by an alien race, so their attitude now tends to be more or
+       less, "Screw 'em."
+     * _How did Delenn know B5 needed help?_
+       Real simple. Lennier was still on-station. All she had to do was
+       check in with him en route and find out. Also, she went to the
+       council for the purpose of getting military support because she
+       knew heavy stuff was coming down, in one form or another. Knowing
+       that "the humans are fighting one another" as she said to the
+       council, it's evident that if they didn't come to B5 that day,
+       they'd come shortly thereafter.
+     * She already knew that civil war had broken out between EA ships
+       and forces, and that B5 had already faced one takeover bid, and
+       that whether or not it happened today or the next day, it was
+       definitely coming. That was unmistakeable. Also, bear in mind that
+       Lennier stayed behind. She would have checked in with him en route
+       and found out what was going on, or picked up the radio broadcasts
+       of the battle in progress. I could've shown this, but that
+       would''ve blown the surprise of her arrival.
+     * At this point, with the Council broken, Delenn isn't currently
+       running Minbar...there's a vacuum of power. The system can carry
+       on for a while, the balance between the castes is pretty
+       efficient, but this is going to have to be resolved, and some in
+       the warrior caste may suspect Delenn of doing this so she *can*
+       rise to power.
+       As part of Valen's covenant, to prevent one caste from taking over
+       the other, each caste has access to its own warships. This was
+       done to create trust a thousand years ago, and since then, since
+       there hasn't been any conflict between Minbari, the three castes
+       own their own warships still, but in general are assigned to
+       Warrior caste as a courtesy, which can be revoked. As Delenn
+       noted, the worker and religious castes control 2/3rds of their
+       forces.
+     * Each caste populates the ships in their jurisdiction with their
+       own people. Which is why those on the Minbari warships that came
+       in, which we'll see shortly, are religious caste, no warriors
+       among them...but even the religious caste is well trained in
+       combat, as part of their education in temple. We've seen some of
+       this already in Lennier's abilities in a fight.
+     * No, 5 left the council with her. And one can wonder, Did she turn
+       down the position of leader of the Grey Council, which would be a
+       balance for that role, in order to eliminate the council and
+       become primary ruler? (That is what some of the warrior caste are
+       bound to begin wondering after a while.)
+     * _Was the brief pause as one of the council members left a sign of
+       a single caste breaking apart?_
+       No, just a member of the warrior caste making sure one he
+       considered a friend *really* wanted to do this....
+     * I was living in Delenn's head when she uttered those lines for the
+       first time.
+       She wasn't bluffing.
+       Delenn *never* bluffs.
+     * Thanks, and yes, there's definitely fire and steel in Delenn,
+       which she calls upon when she needs it. And nobody crosses her
+       when that happens.
+     * Now that she's gone through her own personal fire, she's a much
+       stronger character, and very interesting to write. There's steel,
+       and there's humanity and compassion, and she feels no need to
+       defend or justify any of those traits. What she is, she is.
+     * _Sinclair survived a battle with Minbari warships._
+       Her exact line was, "No human captain has ever survived battle
+       with a Minbari fleet." Sinclair wasn't a captain.
+     * Dukhat was killed at the start of the Minbari war (that *caused*
+       the Minbari war), and the Council did without a leader for a long
+       time. She was taught and sponsored by Dukhat.
+     * _Does Delenn feel responsible for Dukhat's death?_
+       No, she doesn't feel responsible; it's an artifact of the way they
+       approach certain things. "His word is on my lips, his spirit is in
+       my eyes." It's almost a way of saying he's speaking through me,
+       back off.
+     * _About Sheridan asking the Roanoke to surrender_
+       Yeah...the reference was kafuffled. There was so much going on, so
+       many EFX shots, so much rearranging of shots to make everything
+       work (we literally delivered this 2 hours before the process for
+       uplinking started) that this slipped past. I'll assume that
+       Sheridan got excited and said the wrong name. It'd happen to
+       anyone. Right? Right?
+     * Roanoke is a place rich with history. Some of it a little odd,
+       given the colony's disappearance, but rich nonetheless. (Clark has
+       edged away from giving Omega class destroyers and others names
+       from Greek mythology and history, toward more conventional names
+       like the Clarkstown and the Roanoke.)
+     * President Clark got away from the tradition of using Greek names.
+       And the Roanoke was a Virginia colony that disappeared in the
+       1600s.
+     * _What about the disappearing destroyer?_
+       That would've been killed off-camera. We tried to fit in every
+       ship getting nailed, but finally realized it would've required
+       another half an act.
+     * _What did ISN know?_
+       I'm sorry, but we cannot answer your question at this time. We are
+       experiencing temporary transmission problems with ISN, but hope to
+       have the situation remedied very soon. Meanwhile, you can direct
+       any inquiries for information to the Ministry of Peace, and the
+       Ministry for Public Information, which has been aiding all public
+       information broadcasts for almost two years now.
+       At the tone, please leave your name and identicard number. Don't
+       worry about calling back. We'll find you.
+       <beep>
+     * Clark had inside info that ISN would be going public soon with
+       info on what was *really* going on on Mars, his planned attack on
+       B5, and other stuff he wanted quiet.
+     * I'm looking to find a way to bring Franklin's father back into the
+       storyline now, to help resolve this. (Note: no suggestions,
+       please.) I think he would tend to fall on the other side, and it'd
+       be good to show that some people may think that yes, there's a
+       problem, but you solve that problem from within, not by breaking
+       away. Could make for some nice drama....
+       
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
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+Overview
+
+     The Nightwatch orders its members on Babylon 5 to target Delenn in
+     an attempt to undermine Minbari actions during the recent crisis.
+     Londo presents Refa with an ultimatum. [15]William Forward as Refa.
+     [16]Paul Perri as The Sniper. [17]Don Stroud as Boggs. Kim Strauss
+     as Lenann.
+     
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]8.30
+
+Production number: 311
+Original air week: April 8, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John Flinn III
+
+  Watch For
+  
+     * [20]A wet floor.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * In the old days of the Centauri Republic, poison was a common
+       political tool.
+     * Some humans learned the Minbari language from POWs during the war.
+     * The rebirth ceremony in [21]"The Parliament of Dreams" was just a
+       small part of a much larger renewal ceremony, traditionally
+       performed in response to, or in anticipation of, a great change.
+       Lennier believes B5's inhabitants are currently between two such
+       changes.
+     * The Minbari prophecy foretells fire and darkness after the two
+       halves of the Minbari soul unite to combat the ancient enemy.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * How many more Nightwatch members are still on the station?
+     * Did Garibaldi's people get rid of the artificial intelligence?
+     * What else is buried in B5's computer system? (At least one
+       unfriendly thing, as shown in [22]"A Spider In the Web.")
+     * Who does Lennier believe Delenn is fated for? Sheridan? If so, is
+       that due to his observation of the growing relationship between
+       Delenn and Sheridan, or due to something in the prophecy?
+     * What was Delenn planning to give up and to tell someone at the
+       ceremony?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Londo is playing a dangerous game with Refa; Refa will no doubt
+       not take kindly to having his life threatened, and may retaliate
+       against Londo either overtly or behind the scenes. Refa seems to
+       have much of the royal court in his pocket while Londo's influence
+       has waned since he broke off his association with Morden. Londo
+       may find that he's bitten off more than he can chew.
+     * However, the extent of the risk he's taking is a good indication
+       that his realization of the dark nature of his former pact with
+       Morden is complete; after this it will be very hard to turn back.
+       It's interesting to note, though, that his basic goal hasn't
+       changed, only his methods; note that he tries to dissuade Refa by
+       talking about how dangerous the current Centauri policies are to
+       their people. Londo is still first and foremost a patriot, not
+       unlike G'Kar (at least until Kosh's revelation in [23]"Dust to
+       Dust.")
+     * Londo and Sinclair have something in common; Londo's poisoning of
+       Refa bears a passing resemblance to Sinclair planting a
+       transmitter in G'Kar's intestinal tract. Or rather, claiming to --
+       which raises the question, did Londo _really_ poison Refa, or just
+       say so? Like Sinclair, Londo might figure that the poison that
+       doesn't exist can't be flushed out by doctors.
+     * How did the Nightwatch get so much information about the Minbari,
+       especially the details of Delenn's means of getting the war
+       cruisers to Babylon 5? It may be as simple as Earth's normal
+       intelligence channels, which, under Clark, presumably make at
+       least some of their findings available to the Nightwatch.
+     * Boggs' claim that the Minbari "think [Delenn]'s the second
+       coming!" indicates that many among the Minbari agree with Delenn's
+       assessment of herself as the chosen one, the vehicle of prophecy
+       (see also [24]"Comes the Inquisitor.") Marcus also hints at this
+       when he tells Delenn that his brother believed in the Rangers and
+       in her; apparently her involvement with them is richer in
+       symbolism than has previously been hinted at. How, and whether,
+       that relates to the nature of Sinclair's involvement remains to be
+       seen.
+     * This isn't the first time Delenn has been referred to as "the
+       second coming," at least indirectly. G'Kar quoted a passage from
+       the Yeats poem of the same name in [25]"Revelations," a passage
+       visually accompanied by Delenn's first look at her new appearance.
+       Ominously, _that_ Second Coming refers to the Antichrist.
+     * The Army of Light is now dressed in black uniforms. Whether that's
+       an intentional contrast on Delenn's part, or simply her fashion
+       sense, only time will tell.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The voice of Sparky the Computer, the artificial intelligence, is
+       Harlan Ellison. Sparky's name is visible both in the ending
+       credits and, very briefly, as the last line item in the computer's
+       status messages when it reboots.
+     * The recording Londo shows Refa is slightly wrong; Morden was
+       sitting when he mentioned Refa's name ([26]"Matters of Honor.")
+     * The station logo on the wall in C&C has changed. It used to be a 5
+       with a pair of olive branches overlaid, presumably signifying
+       peace; now it's a 5 over a sword. The new logo can also be seen on
+       the top of the conference room table in the scene with Delenn and
+       the officers from the Minbari ships.
+     * There's a minor continuity glitch involving the new logo. When the
+       command staff walks into C&C in the final scene, the camera pans
+       across the side of C&C to show the startled techs. The new logo is
+       visible on the wall between two computer displays. But in the next
+       shot of the same wall, there's no logo there.
+     * "Dem Bones" was also sung in the final episode of "The Prisoner."
+     * The formation in which one of the Starfuries peels away as the
+       squadron performs a fly-by of the caskets is called the Missing
+       Man formation. It is used today whenever a flyby is part of
+       military honors at a funeral.
+     * As Delenn and Marcus wait for Lenann, a "Wet Floor" sign can be
+       seen in a corridor in the background.
+     * Sheridan's closing line, "Babylon 5 is open for business," echoes
+       Laurel Takashima's in [27]"The Gathering." In both cases it marked
+       a new beginning for the station.
+     * Sheridan's line to Ivanova, "My hypocrisy only goes so far," is a
+       Mark Twain quote.
+     * Don Stroud got his scar by jumping into a crowd of men with knives
+       to stop a woman from being raped, according to former story editor
+       Larry DiTillio.
+     * The eulogy recited by Sheridan is the same one spoken by Ivanova
+       in [28]"Soul Hunter."
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * As it happens, episodes 8, 9 and 10 ("Messages," "Point of No
+       Return," and "Severed Dreams") are kind of a triptych, linked at
+       the hip and designed to pull together/blow out several major
+       hanging plot threads once and for all, and send the show spinning
+       off in an entirely different direction. The hardest one to write
+       was 10, because it's a very emotional episode for the characters,
+       and for me.
+       And next is #11, which I begin to write this weekend...and #11,
+       year three, is the *exact* midpoint of the 5 year story. This is
+       the hump, the dead center of the journey. It took so long to get
+       here, and suddenly we're halfway finished.
+     * The episode is in the halfway mark, and that IS its significance,
+       because it signals a major change.
+       When we were midway through that episode, the halfway mark of the
+       whole series, John, Doug and I were given these spiffy leather
+       script books with silver inlaid initials by the crew, to
+       commemmorate the event. It was really nifty.
+     * _About Delenn and Lennier_
+       As for Lennier...it's an unusual relationship, which you'll learn
+       a LOT more about in "Ceremonies of Light and Dark." Which is all I
+       can say for now.
+     * I was kind of afraid that after the big Stuff Blowing Up Episode,
+       anything afterward would be a let down because it couldn't have
+       the same level of huge action (without killing everyone making the
+       show). So the way to deal with that is to go in an entirely
+       different direction; I was hoping that'd work, and glad that so
+       far it has.
+     * Earthgov sees B5 in much the way China now sees Taiwan. (Though on
+       reflection that may not be the best metaphor....)
+     * You only send an ambassador if you recognize something as
+       legitimate, and EA will never recognize an independent B5.
+     * _Why didn't G'Kar join in the ceremony?_
+       Because he saw the actual co-running of security, and their
+       duties, more important...that is physical, and concrete, and he
+       feels is his surest way to win a seat in the new council. Actions,
+       not ceremonies. He's very direct that way. (Which is pretty much
+       what he said at the time.)
+     * _Was this the same ceremony as in [29]"The Parliament of Dreams?"_
+       Yes, it's the same ceremony; Delenn states as much in the episode.
+     * _Was this one of Londo's chances for redemption?_
+       No, this wasn't an opportunity for redemption. It would be flagged
+       as much more important than this.
+     * I don't think Londo feels he needs to be redeemed; his reasons as
+       stated were quite sincere.
+     * _Is Delenn being "destined for another" part of the prophecy?_
+       It is now.
+     * Certainly various sorts of love was at the core of the episode,
+       and what we do for one another.
+       But no, not all relationships have to end badly (despite my own
+       general history in that regard).
+     * _Is Lennier really satisfied with Delenn's destiny lying
+       elsewhere?_
+       Well, there was certainly that little catch in his voice, that
+       hesitation, before he added "...in my heart."
+     * "...note on Lennier: "a pure, higher love"? Pshaw, I've heard that
+       before and seen the results in my own life. Are Minbari so
+       different?"
+       One would certainly hope so.
+       And there are such different kinds of feelings even among humans;
+       yes, you're right, often it doesn't work out that way...and
+       sometimes it does.
+     * I didn't see or intend any element of Lennier being racist; but
+       there are definitely differences in culture and physiology between
+       Minbari and humans. Minbari are very careful about personal space,
+       and they don't like to be talked to a certain way. Marcus
+       momentarily forgot himself, and acted inappropriately. Lennier
+       corrected him.
+     * _Delenn, Lenann, Lennier. What does "len" mean?_
+       Basically, I went through and came up with common suffixes and
+       prefixes for Minbari names, the way Russian names have
+       combinations of certain letters (-ovna, -ova, -vich), and
+       associated various backgrounds and castes and houses (fanes) to
+       them. So you have Delenn, Rathenn, and others of similar name.
+     * _About the slow buildup of the Delenn/Sheridan relationship_
+       What you say about relationships is quite true. The slow process
+       of getting to know somebody, the courtship, the parries and feints
+       and false starts are 85% of the fun. It's the process of getting
+       into somebody's mind, discovering who they are. And that's what
+       these two are doing. It's an awful lot of fun.
+     * The "romance angles" aren't "late additions," but you don't just
+       leap into a romance right off. You couldn't have had the
+       Delenn/Sheridan thing right in the beginning of year two, it had
+       to be built, and grow gradually. Things are introduced as it is
+       time for them to be introduced. The shadows weren't even named
+       until season two, and didn't make their first appearance until
+       late in season one. Is that a late addition?
+     * I'm doing a lot to deepen up Marcus and Lennier, to let people see
+       parts of them we might not have seen before. Everyone grows on the
+       show; even at this point, compare Lennier to the wide-eyed
+       innocent who first arrived at the station and couldn't even bring
+       himself to look Delenn in the eyes.
+       The computer voice, Sparky, wasn't really a nod of any kind to
+       Hitchhiker's. (And 2001's HAL beat them to the punch a long time
+       before that in any event.) No, I just figured, if the computer
+       system had a glitch, what would it sound like? Answer...Harlan.
+     * Actually, we had 3 more quickie scenes with the computer voice,
+       but the ep ran long over time, and we were locked into some
+       walk-and-talks where we couldn't make other trims.
+     * _Is the name Sparky a reference to anything?_
+       No, just figured it'd be a great name.
+     * I also like the look between Marcus and Delenn as they stand in
+       the customs area...he looks like he desperately wants to say more,
+       and she like she desperately wants to hear it...but he turns and
+       walks away, the moment lost.
+     * _About female fans' reaction to Marcus_
+       It's okay...so are most of the women who work in the editing bays
+       at B5. The first few days of this season, as his stuff started
+       coming in, one of them pulled me aside, and with hand firmly on my
+       arm, to let me know she meant business, said, "Listen very
+       carefully: I want to see a LOT more of Marcus."
+     * _Was Marcus' beard different before?_
+       Your memory is correct. Just before he did the first episode, he
+       had to shave his full beard for some commercial audition. It
+       hadn't grown all the way back, and we had to darken it down a bit
+       to make it work. It's all back now.
+     * _The Nightwatch members looked a lot more sinister than in the
+       past. _
+       I went just a little here for a kind of metaphorical approach;
+       prior to this, Nightwatch folks have always been presented as
+       starched, scrubbed, visually appealing...the face they wanted
+       others to see. Now we see their true face, the scarred, dark,
+       empty eyes, no longer pretending to hide. So we kinda cast in that
+       direction.
+     * _Boggs' scar wouldn't have moved like it did._
+       The physical dynamics of the scar *would* have worked as seen,
+       actually, mainly because that wasn't a piece of makeup, that's a
+       real scar, and it does work that way.
+     * The scar is real. He had some rough times a few years ago.
+       (Actually, he also appeared with the scar as it's seen here in
+       "TKO," as Garibaldi's corner man, though there it was hidden a
+       bit.) He's still doing a lot of work though.
+       (The funny thing was seeing the occasional comment on the nets
+       saying how fake they thought the makeup looked, and why couldn't
+       we manage to do something a bit more realistic looking?)
+     * Actually, no, the song in "Ceremonies" was not intended as a
+       Prisoner riff or homage of any kind. If the song originated with
+       The Prisoner, that'd be one thing, but the song goes back a long,
+       LONG ways before The Prisoner was even thought of.
+       What happened, actually, was this...I'm a big fan of the Red Clay
+       Ramblers, a terrific group that does sort of bluegrass but very
+       offbeat. I was writing that episode, and I was playing with the
+       torture aspect, and had one of their albums on. At just the moment
+       I got to that scene, up came their rendition of "Ezekiel in the
+       Valley of the Dry Bones." The notion was perfect, so I went back
+       to the original version of the song, which is public domain
+       (rather than their variation on it), and used it. Synchronicity.
+     * _About the uniforms_
+       I wanted it to have a crossed look, certain Minbari elements and
+       textures, lines that are reminiscent of the Rangers, but also of
+       Earthforce. Hence, the result.
+     * There's a certain perverseness in making those on the side of
+       light wear black uniforms. It reverses our expectations.
+     * In general, it's my understanding that the cast really like the
+       new uniforms. They're lighter, easier to move around in, cooler
+       under the lights, and they like the styling, the rogue element to
+       it, and the Minbari aspect.
+     * _Couldn't Refa just have all his food and drink tested?_
+       Of course the flip side of this is that you'd have to check every
+       single thing you ate or drank every day, every week, for the rest
+       of your natural life. Not the kind of life *I'd* like to live.
+       
+
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+    ### GUIDE ### [3][Background] [4][Synopsis] [5][Credits] [6][Episode
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Londo introduces Vir to a surprising new acquaintance. A heavy
+     influx of Narns to the station raises suspicions. [15]Carmen Thomas
+     as Lyndisty.
+     
+[16]P5 Rating: [17]7.53
+
+Production number: 313
+Original air week: April 15, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jesus Trevino
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Ivanova has been in the military for 13 years.
+     * The Centauri are attempting to pacify the Narn homeworld's
+       population. Among other techniques, they send troops to Narn
+       villages to root out aggressive citizens and "put them to sleep."
+       Sometimes entire villages are found to be aggressive and are
+       burned to the ground.
+     * Vir, using his power as head of the diplomatic office on Minbar,
+       has been running a Schindleresque underground railroad for Narns.
+       He created a fake persona in the Centauri government, "Abrahamo
+       Linconi," and faked death certificates for over two thousand Narn
+       after "Linconi" ordered them transferred to work camps on Centauri
+       Prime.
+     * The Centauri consider marriage for the sake of love rather than
+       politics a radical act.
+     * Vir's uncle doesn't think highly of him, claiming that Vir is
+       capable of "a well-deserved humility."
+     * Vir has an interest in human history.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * How was Ivanova able to flesh out Vir's fake official, whose
+       records were presumably in the Centauri Republic's private
+       databases?
+     * What did Vir and Lyndisty do with the bound Narn? Obviously Vir
+       didn't kill him, but what did he tell Lyndisty?
+     * Will Lyndisty's family cancel the arrangements now that Vir has
+       been demoted?
+     * Does G'Kar know of Vir's efforts? Will he be able to forgive Vir
+       in spite of himself ([18]"Comes the Inquisitor?")
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * If Ivanova and Allen could follow the paper trail to discover that
+       Vir apparently sent thousands of Narn to their deaths, others
+       might be able to as well. Vir may find himself a target if any
+       Narn who aren't in on his secret manage to access the records in
+       question. Certainly Lyndisty is still in danger; lots of other
+       Narn would undoubtedly like to get their hands on someone with her
+       history.
+     * Vir can still help the Narn if he chooses, though it'll be
+       riskier. He presumably has retained his post as Londo's attache,
+       which should have some authority in itself. And by tempering
+       Londo, however slightly, he may do more good than he did on
+       Minbar.
+     * Vir isn't alone in wanting to help the Narn; he referred to others
+       working with him. Will those others be able to continue,
+       especially with Ivanova's assistance? The presence of other
+       Centauri might explain how she was able to access the Centauri
+       government's files.
+     * Given Londo's feelings about bugs, what will his reaction be when
+       he sees an arachnoid Shadow warship for the first time? Perhaps
+       his fear of insects (and spiders) stems in part from his dream
+       ([19]"Matters of Honor.")
+     * There may also be a parallel between Londo's insect hunt and the
+       typical Centauri attitude toward the Narn, who they regard as
+       little more than bugs on two feet. If that parallel is
+       intentional, Londo's line about the insects "evolving before my
+       eyes" might have some relation to the Narns' changing position in
+       the universe -- with G'Kar's help (and some prodding from Kosh)
+       they're becoming something quite different than they were mere
+       months earlier.
+     * Evidence of the pressures of independence are starting to appear:
+       B5's officers now drink an unidentified liquid instead of morning
+       coffee and the ambassador of a major race -- albeit an ally of the
+       government the station opposes -- can't get a maintenance crew to
+       his quarters. The loss of Earth funding and support is likely to
+       grow worse over time.
+     * Vir's smuggled Narn are considered dead by the Centauri -- perhaps
+       making one of them the subject of Lady Morella's prophecy to
+       Londo, that he "must not kill the one who is already dead"
+       ([20]"Point of No Return.")
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The title is something of a pun; it's Latin for "thus passes the
+       man" (roughly speaking.) It's probably a reference to the saying
+       "sic transit gloria mundi" ("thus passes the glory of the world.")
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * _Why are the command crew still wearing their old uniforms in the
+       opening credits?_
+       Because changing one picture, or a credit caption, is a *heck* of
+       a lot simpler than changing 4 pictures and redoing the whole
+       thing.
+     * _Why were this episode and [21]"A Late Delivery From Avalon"
+       swapped?_
+       We flipped them around because after "Ceremonies" we NEED
+       something lighter, and because York's episode in the new slot now
+       coincides with the first week of sweeps. They were written to play
+       in either order.
+     * _Can you tell us more about Vir's family?_
+       I can, but I'd rather show it; you'll find out a lot more about
+       Vir and family relations in "Sic Transit Vir" in mid-april.
+     * _About the title_
+       thus passes Vir (it's a signal of transition)
+     * Re: "...a Vir intensive script."
+       Just finished one. Script for episode #13, "Sic Transit Vir." I
+       think it's gonna be a hoot.
+     * Yes, it's sort of a double pun in that respect...thus passes the
+       man, which can have many meanings, also entering manhood, or
+       dying, or going away, or the more Vir transitioning, or
+       going...lots of variations.
+     * It's accurate as far as it goes, and a pun on another level.
+     * Just an advisory...I finally saw the trailer for "Sic Transit
+       Vir," and I'd suggest anyone who wants to enjoy the show *not*
+       watch the trailer, as it gives away stuff that shouldn't be given
+       away.
+       _[Spoiler for "The Maltese Falcon"]_
+       I.e., if the trailer for The Maltese Falcon said, "...and see the
+       surprise when the black bird is discovered to be an imitation."
+     * _[Spoiler for "Citizen Kane"]_
+       I wasn't happy with that aspect of the promo either (which was the
+       national spot, not cut by the stations). It's kinda like doing a
+       promo for Citizen Kane, "...it all began with a child's sled named
+       Rosebud...."
+     * _About Vir_
+       He's a much stronger character than anyone might think. He's sort
+       of the "God's Fool" character, to get literary for a second, who
+       somehow manages to make it through it all.
+     * At this point, with the rethinking going on back home, he's
+       bethrothed and promised, the marriage arranged, but not yet fully,
+       *formally* married. There's still ritual to go through. The other
+       family could still choose to withdraw the arrangement.
+     * Even the babble is pretty tightly scripted. The hesitations and
+       occasional stumble-restatements are the actor's delivery. There's
+       occasionally a very tiny bit of improv in that kind of scene, but
+       very little.
+     * Londo is a very sharp, cunning character. He does what he does for
+       sheer patriotism, to serve his people. *Whatever* that may entail.
+       And Vir gets whipsawed a lot...he's a great character, with a wide
+       range of characteristics I can play with, from comic to tragic.
+     * When Londo goes to Delenn earlier this season to ask about having
+       Vir appointed to the Centauri diplomatic mission, he mentions then
+       that the mission has been closed for some time, "some trouble I
+       believe with our previous liaison." This just paid that off; those
+       Minbari are just a darned bad influence, I guess.
+     * _What happened to the previous liaison?_
+       Went native. Bought into the whole Minbari theological system,
+       dropped his Centauri citizenship, was last heard of in a distant
+       retreat trying to grow a bone.
+     * _What happened to the Narn? And what were the Narns doing in Vir's
+       room?_
+       I could've *sworn* there was a line there about the Narn
+       recovering; I'm going to have to check this. I hope I didn't
+       accidentally cut it for time while doing something else. (It was a
+       LONG editing session.)
+       I figured the Narns were there to discuss the fates of their
+       families back home, but yeah, to a certain degree it was there as
+       a great end for the teaser.
+     * _Was the door to Vir's room computer-generated?_
+       The door was quite real.
+     * _Who said the line that was cut?_
+       It was in the observation dome scene with Ivanova; I realized that
+       we'd cut a small piece for time that was expendable, but in the
+       back and forth went one line too far without realizing it.
+       Sigh....
+     * _What was the line?_
+       The only line was that "the Narn is recovering in Medlab,"
+       something to that effect. Sigh....
+     * Basically, after seeing what he's done for the Narns, and knowing
+       who Vir is all this time, and seeing his reaction of horror to
+       what Lyndisty was suggesting, anybody who thinks he offed the Narn
+       isn't paying attention.
+     * _Did the Centauri politician know Vir's secret?_
+       No, he didn't know, and would've been horrified if he had.
+     * _About different Centauri speaking with different accents_
+       We've just always assumed that not everyone on any given planet is
+       going to speak with the same accent as everybody else from that
+       planet. Seems more realistic.
+       Certainly, among Centauri, a certain accent is more associated
+       with the "old school" of court nobility and the like.
+     * "Did Sheridan and Ivanova really think that Vir was killing off
+       thousands of Narn while he was on Minbar. Hey, this is Vir, not
+       Josef Mengele we are talking about. Did they really think it was
+       necessary to drag this all out in front of Londo instead of
+       privately."
+       No, they didn't think he was doing it personally, only that he was
+       expediting the transfer of Narns offworld for this purpose. You
+       think someone like Vir could not do this. But most of the Nazis
+       who send Jews to die weren't Josef Mengele, carving into
+       bodies...they processed numbers from behind wire-framed glasses,
+       and were quiet, sometimes even cheerful individuals with wonderful
+       wives and children. The greatest evil can often wear a benign,
+       smiling, affable face. And remember, people can change on this
+       show. You look at Londo in season one, is this someone you could
+       buy taking part in the bombing of the Narn homeworld and the death
+       of millions of Narns? Yet that's what happened. And their belief
+       was that it was probably Londo who was behind it all...it's Londo
+       to whom Ivanova expressed her outrage, not Vir, who she figured
+       was probably being pushed into it at his behest, so logically she
+       *would* take this right to Londo. She figured, as you did, that
+       Vir certainly wouldn't think of this on his own, but Londo could
+       (and says so in the episode).
+     * "Londo is a hell of a leader."
+       Perfect fodder for an Emperor, no...?
+     * I love the Ivanova/Vir scenes; I fall down laughing every time.
+       "the wife is always right." Hmm...I must convey this to Ivanova
+       for her reaction the next time she pops out of my subconscious.
+     * _What was the saucer-shaped ship outside the station?_
+       It's a Vree ship, which we've seen before.
+     * _About the patches on the sleeves of the new uniforms_
+       One of the patches is a Ranger patch; the other is the new B5
+       sword and shield logo.
+     * It's been established that Minbari can and do lie when it's done
+       to save the honor of another. Here, Delenn saved face for Sheridan
+       at dinner.
+     * _When will Delenn and Sheridan kiss?_
+       Me? A tease? Moi? I just report the news, I don't make it.
+       The kiss is coming. But I wanted to do it in such a way that it
+       somewhat unexpected, in a way that would have even more weight
+       than under any other possible conditions. How do you turn a kiss
+       into a wham? (Aside from kissing the right person, natch.) Stay
+       tuned....
+     * Londo and the bugs had nothing to do with any notions about the
+       Shadows.
+       Sheridan is a war historian, with his main interests in the civil
+       war, where one of his ancestors fought. He's very big on Lincoln.
+       
+
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     As Sheridan and Ivanova try to gain recognition of the station's
+     new status among the alien governments, a traveler arrives with an
+     unbelievable story out of distant legend. [15]Michael York.
+     
+[16]P5 Rating: [17]7.79
+
+Production number: 312
+Original air week: April 22, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * G'Kar has been using a human courier to get messages back and
+       forth between the station's Narn and the homeworld.
+     * The first Earth vessel to encounter a Minbari warship was the
+       Prometheus. As the Minbari ship approached with gun ports open, a
+       sign of respect ([18]"Legacies") the Prometheus' captain ordered
+       its crew to open fire. The resulting battle destroyed two Minbari
+       warships and killed the leader of the Grey Council, Dukhat.
+     * 20,000 people were sent to defend Earth in the Battle of the Line.
+       Only 200 survived. (Presumably the bulk of the 20,000 were aboard
+       large ships, not individual fighters.)
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Given how badly outmatched humans were during the war, how did the
+       Prometheus manage to inflict so much damage? Simply a matter of
+       the element of surprise?
+     * How much truth is there in Marcus' joking speculation about the
+       Vorlons? Or in his drawing of parallels between the B5 crew and
+       Arthurian legend? (If there's a lot of truth there, then who _is_
+       the Morgana Le Fay figure?)
+     * What is the "dawn of a new age" Marcus referred to when he told
+       Franklin about the Ranger pin? Any relation to the Third Age of
+       Mankind as mentioned in the opening monologues of seasons one and
+       two?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Relying on a large number of races for the station's defense may
+       turn out to be a logistical nightmare. Ivanova will have to deal
+       with questions like the structure of the chain of command (does
+       she have the authority to order a Vree ship to fire?) and what to
+       do about races who've agreed to participate but whose enemies
+       haven't, which could lead to a situation like the one in [19]"The
+       Fall of Night." Still, as a simple show of force and a deterrent,
+       the arrangement may well end up being sufficient.
+     * How did Marcus know about the events in [20]"Comes the
+       Inquisitor?" He arrived on the station after that was all over.
+       Perhaps Sheridan or Delenn told him. Is the fact that the Vorlons
+       have visited Earth in the past now common knowledge?
+     * The Prometheus didn't destroy all the Minbari ships, since Delenn
+       held Dukhat in her arms as he died ([21]"Severed Dreams.")
+     * At what point did the Soul Hunter ([22]"Soul Hunter") show up
+       during the battle between the Prometheus and the Minbari ships?
+       From Arthur's description, it sounded like the battle didn't last
+       long; the Soul Hunter would almost have had to be onboard Dukhat's
+       ship before the fighting began.
+     * The Drazi ambassador now speaks for the League of Non-Aligned
+       Worlds, whose membership seems to have gotten much smaller than a
+       year ago. Perhaps many of the races have been taken over by their
+       neighbors already, with Shadow help ([23]"Severed Dreams.")
+     * Arthur's line about returning "because I am most needed here and
+       now" is analogous to Sebastian's description of Delenn and
+       Sheridan as "the right people in the right place at the right
+       time" ([24]"Comes the Inquisitor.")
+       
+Notes
+
+     * For more information about Arthurian legend, see [25]Avalon:
+       Arthurian Heaven. For more detail, see [26]Bulfinch's Mythology.
+     * It should be noted that Arthurian legend is exactly that: legend.
+       While there are historical figures who match bits and pieces of
+       the legend, there almost certainly was never an actual King
+       Arthur.
+     * The Minbari name for the Ranger pin is Isil'zha.
+     * Prometheus is a figure from Greek mythology, a Titan who gave fire
+       to mankind. For more information see [27]The Creation of Man by
+       Prometheus.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * Michael York is currently shooting with us in "A Late Delivery
+       From Avalon," and doing an amazing job. This may turn into one of
+       our best episodes, from a performance and emotion perspective. I
+       had a few doubts about the script -- it has a kind of writing
+       style I don't use very often, and very stylized in appearance --
+       but it's coming out great.
+     * York finished with us quite some time ago. Great episode, and a
+       nice man. Very friendly, very polite, nothing of the "I'm a STAR"
+       attitude one often gets with...well, *stars*. He was even very
+       nice when I gleepily asked him to sign my laserdisk of CABARET.
+     * York's a major film actor who's starred in many films, including
+       one of my personal favorites, "Cabaret." Also in the "Logan's Run"
+       movie.
+     * If you've got someone new to the show, who might not know the
+       backstory very well, then probably the Michael York episode, "A
+       Late Delivery From Avalon" would be a good one.
+     * I *really* like this episode a lot. The performance, the music,
+       everything works; I tried to get a little artsy, try out some
+       different kinds of stuff, stretch some muscles I haven't used
+       enough, and it came out very nicely. It's just nifty.
+     * I like this one a lot. Not really an arc episode, except in going
+       into some backstory elements, but just nicely done. I'm quite
+       proud of this one.
+     * The Delenn/Arthur moment played out very well; no lines, not a
+       word, just the images, and the emotions under the surface.
+     * I'll say one thing about one of those eps, but I won't say which
+       one; when people hear what it appears to be about, the immediate
+       reaction is going to be "Oh, god, they're not doing THAT are
+       they?" and there'll be a lot of sarcasm and head shaking...until
+       the episode airs, and folks see that what it's about...is *not*
+       what it's about...and I think it'll be a very popular episode
+       thereafter.
+     * _About the title_
+       I often labor a long time on these things, to try and give them
+       many layers, or turn the title in on itself, or do a play on
+       words. I can't start work on a script until I have a title,
+       because the title sets the mood.
+     * _Did Arthurian legends influence the heroic-epic style of B5's
+       storyline?_
+       Well, if you're going to look at heroic epic, sure, the Arthurian
+       story is a classic...but the earliest and best of these remain the
+       Illiad and the Odyssey. Homer was definitely hitting all cylinders
+       with that.
+       If there's an aspect that informed B5's development, it's the arc
+       of that heroic epic, which if you look at it dispassionately, is
+       as much about the people *around* the hero as the hero himself.
+       And all too often, the hero achieves the goal, but falls or
+       falters or is changed by the end of it. Much of what passes for
+       contemporary "heroic epic" assumes that it means the Good Guys
+       Win. Heroic here as a term goes back to its much earlier origins,
+       a "heroic effort" is something that takes everything you have,
+       against terrible or impossible odds.
+       Yes, you achieve the goal...but you fall in battle in the fields
+       of Troy. Yes, you create Camelot, but in the end you are destroyed
+       and Camelot falls. There's tragedy and mistakes side by side with
+       the glory and the gains. The accounts of Arthur's meeting with
+       Mordred at Camlan field, and how the final battle began is classic
+       ironic drama, a tragedy of great proportions...and an aspect of
+       that fed directly into the development of the B5 backstory, as
+       you'll learn later this season.
+       Histories are written about the soldiers who won their battles;
+       but songs are sung about the soldiers who fell in battle
+       struggling for a greater cause. What inspires us is the unfinished
+       work, the dream of picking up the fallen standard and taking it
+       ten more feet up the hill, knowing that even if you fall, the next
+       man in line will take it another ten feet, until finally the hill
+       is taken. Humans are constantly throwing their lives away on
+       causes logic tells us are hopeless...but which in time become real
+       for that reason.
+       It's a dangerous romance with myth, heroism, and death. On the one
+       hand, it inspires an Arthur...on another, it inspires a car bomber
+       to blow himself and 27 bystanders to bits en route to an
+       appointment with Allah.
+       What makes the heroic epic work is that it taps into all the myths
+       and archetypes that have been with us for all of recorded history,
+       and much of its oral history. Where B5 gets into this area is in
+       trying to look at the kinds of myths and epics that have gone
+       before, and finding not the specifics, but the themes which are
+       universal, the *sense* and the feel of it, which are intangible,
+       and which is what makes doing an epic so hard. Either you feel the
+       structure, or you don't; if you try to hammer it down into a
+       formula, a step-by-step process, it turns to quicksilver in your
+       hands and slips away. You have to take it all in, then listen to
+       the inner voice and write accordingly.
+       I remember a stanza from a poem I read a long time ago; "Love will
+       die if held too tightly; love will fly if held too lightly;
+       lightly, tightly, how do I know, whether I'm holding or letting
+       love go?" This kind of fiction operates on the same basis.
+       Substitute the word epic or story for love, and the logic holds.
+       So the epic hero or story can't be a *model*, to use your phrase;
+       it can only be an inspiration for what has gone before...an echo
+       in the back of your mind that whispers and guides you through all
+       the dark places.
+     * _Was the "who is Morgana Le Fay?" scene a dig at people on the net
+       who say B5 is just some other story with different trappings?_
+       The references given (he said vaguely, to avoid spoiling anybody)
+       were first and foremost intentional to the story and to set up
+       stuff...but as I wrote it, the way this stuff has been discussed
+       online did come to mind, and on some level it was probably a
+       slight *plink*, yes.
+       Sort of a "yeah, well, TWO can play at that game, and most of you
+       missed THIS particular analogy, so THERE."
+       I am in serious need of a vacation, I think....
+     * _Where did the 515 date for the Battle of Camlan come from?_
+       I dug through a number of recent Arthurian texts, and that date
+       come out the most often; I've heard the other date, which was
+       about 20 years later, but the one most often used is the 515 date,
+       at least in what I researched.
+     * Virtually all food used is real, for health reasons. The liquid
+       drunk by G'Kar and Arthur in "Avalon" is Yoo-Hoo; the mountain of
+       stuff Garibaldi's eating in the Zocalo in first season is piled
+       meatloaf; the spaghetti and bagna cauda was real; the only problem
+       is that no matter what you do, it's going to get cold after 18
+       takes, even with reheating, and by the 17th take...well, it's an
+       ugly sight.
+     * _Was the Excalibur in the episode a real sword?_
+       Yes, it's a real sword...I'm trying to remember where we got it,
+       it may have been a vendor in these things, one of many that
+       frequent catalogs and Ren faires.
+     * _What happened to it after Delenn took it?_
+       It went back to our prop department....
+     * You were being clear, I was just being puckish.
+       Well, in theory.
+       I actually haven't worked out what she did with the sword, or who
+       has it now. I have several options on this, all of them
+       interesting, and never made the final decision. Maybe they used it
+       to make the new emblem. Lemme dwell on this.
+     * _Was that the real Excalibur?_
+       Since that wasn't really Arthur, the odds of that really being
+       Excalibur are substantially reduced.
+     * _Was some of the music by Clannad?_
+       No, we can't use any outside music; it all has to be done via our
+       composer (unless we purchase the rights, obviously). Here, though,
+       it's all Chris. We had a long conversation about the kind of music
+       I wanted, I encouraged him to think in terms of Celtic music,
+       natural instruments primarily instead of synth or electronic
+       instruments, that sort of thing. But no, no Claanad was used.
+     * I think Chris did a great job on this one (he's done some
+       spectacular work overall this season, on Severed, Interludes, Ship
+       and others later this season). What I'd told him in this case I
+       wanted was as much as possible in the way of natural instruments
+       as opposed to synth, so that it fit more with the feel of the
+       episode.
+     * _How is the station supporting itself now that it's seceded?_
+       We'll establish in coming episodes that they have to become more
+       self sufficient; the Minbari will help some, others will also have
+       a reason to help support the station for the advantages it gives
+       them, the services it provides, and eventually docking fees will
+       have to rise if they can make a go of it.
+     * Marcus and Franklin make a good team, it's a nice balance. And
+       Marcus did fit in well with the whole Arthur storyline (it's kind
+       of an obvious but well-fitting match).
+       As for Marcus' line...sometimes offhand remarks are only offhand
+       remarks...and sometimes they aint....
+     * Because we've played back and forth with this stuff before, a la
+       the Inquisitor, it *could've* been him, which made it all the more
+       interesting. Certainly Marcus *wanted* it to be him....
+     * _What was Delenn told before she went to Medlab?_
+       She was told the whole background...including who David really
+       was. She was in a way taking the pain from someone who had
+       attacked the very ship she and the other Grey council members had
+       been aboard.
+     * _Is there anyone among the humans from whom Delenn could receive
+       absolution?_
+       You're right, that's a good question.
+     * The ability to forgive is certainly one of the foremost principles
+       of sentient life, even Draal would agree with that.
+     * The Earth/Minbari war ended in 2247, and there were several ships
+       in the initial contact convoy, the Amundsen and the Prometheus.
+     * You basically had two large convoys meeting one another. Two
+       Minbari ships were hit and destroyed, a third damaged badly; this
+       was the one carrying Dukhat and the Grey Council, including
+       Delenn.
+       Just for the record, what happened after that...the Minbari ships
+       opened fire, and a number of the Earth ships were fragged. The
+       rest fled as the Minbari ships hesitated, waiting to see what
+       happened to Dukhat. When it was learned that he was killed, they
+       took off and pursued the ships back to an Earth base. Initially,
+       one of the Earth captains explained that they had encountered
+       hostiles (trying to cover his ass), and when the Minbari ships
+       appeared, all hell broke loose.
+       It was shortly after this "cowardly attack" on their ships, and
+       the assassination of their leader, that the Minbari declared what
+       is in essence a jihad, a holy war, against Earth. The worker class
+       went along with it, even though the religious caste was
+       unsure...but divided, they couldn't raise sufficient objections to
+       the war to stop it initially.
+     * The contact was made late in the year, and while that was the
+       first blow, it takes a while for any war to really get going; you
+       aren't at war instantly. The Minbari had to pull their forces
+       together, make the open declaration of war, establish supply lines
+       and all the other elements needed for warfare.
+     * _Open gun ports as a sign of respect?_
+       It goes back a long time...if you look at certain members of the
+       animal kingdom, they will often flash their teeth or growl to
+       establish their identity, to show equality with someone else. You
+       have to step outside a human perspective and ask how an alien
+       would show respect, which may not be how we would logically do so.
+       (Heck, in many cultures here on earth, a perfectly normal habit --
+       crossing your legs and the bottom of your foot showing -- is taken
+       as a grave insult in some cultures. Certain customs are deeply
+       rooted in cultural backgrounds or incidents that are often
+       incomprehensible to us.)
+     * "Different (alien) doesn't mean illogical in my book."
+       I can think of a number of Zen schools of thought that you would
+       consider vastly illogical...but quite human. There are many things
+       we would consider illogical to a western mind that are perfectly
+       reasonable elsewhere.
+     * "However, neither is it appropriate to view all alien behavior as
+       acceptable just because it is different....."
+       Never implied it was. In general, on the B5 station, though, if an
+       alien acts toward one of its own kind in a cultural oddity (to
+       us), we tend not to interfere unless so requested; if, however, an
+       alien turns that cultural oddity toward one not of its own
+       species, then the B5 staff would definitely intervene.
+     * There's a small clue about the third age in the discussion between
+       Marcus and Franklin about the ranger pin. I mean, it's really
+       pretty blatant.
+     * The name of the Ranger pin is spelled Isil'zha.
+       The Minbari term for Ranger One, btw, is Entil'zha.
+       Z'ha'dum is where the shadows live. Odd, that reversal....
+       
+
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Bester finds himself at odds with others within the Psi Corps and
+     seeks Sheridan's help, offering information about the Shadows in
+     return. G'Kar presses for admission to the conspiracy of light.
+     [15]Walter Koenig as Bester. [16]Joan McMurtrey as Carolyn.
+     
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]8.70
+
+Production number: 314
+Original air week: April 29, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Telepaths who refuse to take sleeper drugs to suppress their
+       abilities, or to join the Psi Corps, are sent to reeducation
+       camps, one of which is on Mars. The Corps refers to them
+       informally as "blips."
+     * The Shadows killed most of the Narn telepaths a thousand years
+       ago. They were driven off by G'Quan and the remaining telepaths.
+     * Telepaths can disrupt the link between Shadow ships and their
+       non-telepathic pilots. The Shadows have thus been infiltrating Psi
+       Corps, taking control of it from inside to prevent it from being
+       used as a weapon against them. They are also capturing rogue human
+       telepaths and altering them with cybernetic implants, possibly
+       with the intent of using them as telepath-proof pilots.
+     * Telepaths can locate ships by focusing on the occupants' thought
+       patterns. Their range is greatly expanded in hyperspace. Psi Corps
+       kept that a secret to prevent the Earth military from putting its
+       members on the front lines.
+     * Psi Cops are trained to pilot all the latest Earth Alliance
+       vessels.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Were Franklin and Bester able to save Carolyn?
+     * Are the rest of the telepaths still in cryonic suspension and on
+       B5? Where were they taken, if not?
+     * How much more does Bester know about the Shadows and their
+       involvement with the Corps?
+     * Who were the aliens in Carolyn's flashback and on the bridge of
+       the cargo ship?
+     * Was Carolyn telekinetic, or did her modifications give her that
+       ability? If the latter, are the Shadows telekinetic too?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Delenn still isn't being completely open with G'Kar -- she
+       neglected to tell him about Kosh's involvement, for instance.
+       Perhaps she knows of Kosh's manipulation of G'Kar ([19]"Dust to
+       Dust") and doesn't want the illusion shattered.
+     * Even someone as highly ranked as Bester isn't immune from the
+       Corps' rules about arranged marriages. On the other hand, given
+       his obvious sense of genetic superiority, he may feel it's his
+       duty to the future of the human race to help breed a better
+       telepath.
+     * The mere presence of Bester stopped the Shadow warship from
+       attacking the White Star (assuming it didn't stop to avoid risking
+       damage to the "weapons components.") Was that because it couldn't
+       get close enough to attack without Bester interfering with its
+       pilot's bond? In any case, the effect is consistent with Talia's
+       experience in [20]"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum," in which she was
+       able to sense, even see, the Shadows without consciously probing
+       for them.
+     * A telepath who consciously chooses to disrupt a Shadow ship might
+       be even more dangerous to them, though that isn't clear.
+     * Is there a reason the Shadows are choosing human telepaths in
+       particular? Sheridan speculated that "they're using humans to
+       pilot their ships." Is that universally true, or are humans simply
+       one of a large number of races being used for that purpose? Would,
+       for instance, a Centauri telepath be any good against a Shadow
+       ship with a human pilot? The events on Narn suggest that
+       telepathy's effect on the Shadows isn't race-specific.
+     * If telepathy is a weapon against the Shadows, Sheridan may want to
+       stock up on Dust ([21]"Dust to Dust.") And given that the Psi
+       Corps produces the stuff, Bester may be able to arrange that.
+     * The Shadows may also be looking for telepaths for use as
+       hyperspace trackers; presumably they know about the scanning
+       abilities revealed by Bester.
+     * Is detecting other ships in hyperspace something peculiar to human
+       telepaths? If not, do other races use telepaths for that purpose?
+       It seems odd that the ability would remain a secret for so long if
+       all races with telepaths can use them to scout in hyperspace. On
+       the other hand, each race who's discovered the effect might
+       consider it a military advantage and thus keep it under wraps.
+     * Did Bester find out about Ivanova when she slapped him? Physical
+       contact intensifies psi ability (established as early as [22]"The
+       Gathering") but the slap was probably too brief to be of any use.
+       However, he did take care to make her angry, which, as she herself
+       has observed ([23]"Dust to Dust") makes scans much easier.
+     * Does Ivanova's latent telepathy provide any protection against
+       attack by a Shadow ship? Ivanova has only encountered a Shadow
+       ship once, in [24]"Matters of Honor," and it fired at the White
+       Star -- but it didn't _hit_ the White Star. Perhaps Sheridan was
+       wrong about why the Shadows missed. On the other hand, given the
+       behavior of the Shadow ship in this episode, it's unlikely the
+       ship in the previous encounter would have pursued the White Star
+       like it did. (See [25]jms speaks)
+     * As the only major race without telepaths, the Narn may be in for
+       even more bloodshed and loss; they will be unable to protect
+       themselves from the Shadows as they were (barely) able to before.
+     * The cybernetic implants were perhaps put in place at the Mars
+       facility destroyed by Garibaldi and Sinclair in comic #8,
+       [26]"Silent Enemies." If so, it implies that the Corps, or some
+       component of it, was abetting the Shadows in their quest to make
+       human telepaths useless as weapons. However, the presence of the
+       unidentified aliens, both on the cargo ship and in Carolyn's
+       flashback, strongly suggests that the operation was performed
+       elsewhere, or without the Corps' assistance.
+     * Carolyn's entanglement is slightly reminiscent of Draal's
+       attachment to the Great Machine in Epsilon 3 ([27]"Voices of
+       Authority.") When she said that telepaths prevent her from
+       "hearing the machine," was she talking about Shadow ships, or
+       something similar to Epsilon 3? The Machine does seem to be
+       affected by telepathy; witness Ivanova's ability to pull extra
+       information out of it when she was there.
+     * What effect will Carolyn's modifications have on her unborn child,
+       assuming the Shadows' agents allowed it to live?
+     * The White Star can no longer be considered even remotely secret
+       now that Bester has been allowed to wander around the bridge. Even
+       if he truly opposes the Shadows, his primary motives might prompt
+       him to tell others about the ship.
+     * Bester is presumably still safely in his position at the Psi
+       Corps; even if he's unable to get any Corps telepaths to help
+       combat the Shadows, he'll likely be able to arrange for Franklin's
+       underground railroad to continue its work unmolested, providing
+       the army of light with a supply of telepaths with which to man its
+       ships.
+     * His discovery of the Shadows and their involvement with the Corps,
+       though, indicates that he's not above unauthorized scans of his
+       own people if it suits his purposes. Presumably he's very careful
+       to only scan people he's confident won't be able to sense him; or
+       he scans them on some other pretense and they're unable to tell
+       that he's pulling Shadow information from their heads too.
+     * Bester claimed he last saw Carolyn four weeks earlier, but never
+       elaborated on what happened to her after that. Was she spirited
+       off on official pretenses, or did the Shadows or their agents
+       kidnap her out of the middle of a Psi Corps installation on Mars?
+     * Bester's entrance into the army of light bears similarity to
+       Marcus' and Sheridan's. All three vowed to fight on the side of
+       light after a loved one was killed or taken by the Shadows.
+     * Now that G'Kar is a full member of the war council, perhaps he'll
+       save Garibaldi the trouble of poring slowly through the Book of
+       G'Quan for clues and will tell the others everything his people
+       know about the Shadows and how to defeat them.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The title may be a reference to the Trail of Tears, the forced
+       march of thousands of American Indians away from their ancestral
+       lands onto government-apportioned reservations half a continent
+       away.
+     * Vorlons also dislike telepaths, according to Garibaldi in
+       [28]"Deathwalker."
+     * Bester quotes from Edgar Allan Poe's [29]"The Cask of
+       Amontillado."
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * Today Walter Koenig and Bill Mumy had a scene together; this
+       (saith Bill) marks the first time a Lost in Space regular and a
+       Star Trek regular have acted together in the same scene.
+     * _How does Bester fit into the Shadows/Psi Corps connection?_
+       This question will be dealt with in "Ship of Tears," around
+       mid-season.
+     * The Christmas hiatus ends after the 1st, so we're back at work on
+       the 2nd shooting "Ship of Tears," with Walter Koenig returning as
+       Bester. Expect some major revelations about Bester's background,
+       and where his character is going.
+     * _Was Bester's first name a reference to Alfred Bester, the writer?
+       _
+       Yes, it's certainly a tribute to Alfie, a giant in the field.
+     * _Where did the prop for the book come from?_
+       The book was made by Mark Walters of our prop department; and when
+       all is said and done...it'll likely end up in my office....
+       Creation hath its perks.
+     * _Where did you put the war room set?_
+       Since we're not using the casino much this season -- not a lot of
+       room for frivolity -- we yanked it out and put up the war room on
+       stage C.
+     * _How were the reflections on Sheridan's faceplate done?_
+       The reflections you cite were all done real-time with an LCD
+       projector.
+     * _Was Garibaldi's voice dubbed?_
+       If this refers to the War Room scene with Garibaldi at the
+       end...yes, there was some looping done. The best performed scene
+       had some unacceptable noise in it from the chair Jerry had been
+       sitting in at the first part, then he went slightly off-mike at
+       the second point.
+     * Who's behind the shadows? Nobody. The shadows are the shadows
+       (though that's not the name by which they call themselves), a race
+       of their own. Question is, why are they doing what they're doing?
+       You'll find out by season's end.
+     * _Why did Garibaldi need a computer to read the Book of G'Quan?_
+       To follow the book, there still has to be a knowledge of the
+       language. You need to have a dictionary around, which is what was
+       used.
+       The comparison, I suppose, would be those who say that Jorge Luis
+       Borges' work can only be most truly appreciated in the original
+       Spanish. There's a *translated* version, which someone has gone
+       through and made the translation for you, written it all out in
+       English...or you can learn the language, and then read the
+       original manuscript.
+       Garibaldi doesn't know Narn, so how other than with a dictionary
+       could he read the original material, except by sleeping with it
+       under his pillow and praying for divine intervention.
+     * _How could G'Quan and the Narn telepaths fight the Shadows if the
+       Narn telepaths were all killed?_
+       Those were the last remaining ones, the older telepaths, their
+       children all killed, too old now to produce any further children,
+       and the technology of cloning or genetics was still way beyond
+       them.
+       The story of the last crusade of G'Quan is actually quite
+       interesting; I hope to get it into the show at some point. Right
+       now it's mainly background, even though I've worked it out fully.
+     * _How about an episode showing G'Quan's crusade?_
+       No, because that would mean doing a story without our main
+       characters, since G'Quan's story took place about a thousand years
+       ago, and I don't think I could sell that. (Unless I did another
+       time travel number, and I only intend to go to that well once,
+       with the B4 storyline.)
+     * _Then how about telling us the story online?_
+       I think I'd rather hold it for now, on the chance that I can use
+       it somewhere, or in time turn it into something larger.
+     * That's one of the things about the show that makes it very
+       appealing to write; you can go from fall down funny, broad comedy
+       in "Vir" to something more emotional, almost lyrical but serious
+       in "Avalon," then right into something vaguely horrific in "Ship."
+       You get to use all your muscles, not just the same ones over and
+       over. I like to stretch, try something I haven't tried before.
+       Which means from time to time I fall on my face, but that's okay;
+       it's the only way to learn. I have absolutely no qualms about
+       making an ass of myself and failing if it means that the next
+       time, I can do it right.
+       I didn't give Mira or Andreas any instructions on that scene
+       except what was in the script, which was minimal. When you have
+       two performers that solid in the room, just give them the lines
+       and run like hell.
+       Speaking of going back and rewatching episodes...part of this goes
+       right back to the *pilot*, where, you'll recall, G'Kar tried to
+       seduce Lyta, mentioning that there are no Narn telepaths, and they
+       feel very strongly it's important to their survival that they
+       start breeding them at the first opportunity.
+       Ding....!
+     * _Did the lack of Narn telepaths give the Shadows an extra
+       advantage during recent encounters?_
+       Certainly, that there were no teeps on Narn made them easy
+       targets, as were their ships. They would also have a vested
+       interest in subduing them because of the knowledge they have,
+       revealed here. If you'll remember, in "Matters of Honor," they
+       mention to Morden that they've only been able to track down some
+       Narn legends. Morden's reply: "Well, we've taken care of that
+       problem." Had G'Kar not been out and about, they might have
+       succeeded.
+     * _Why didn't all the Narn support G'Kar's request to send an
+       expedition to Z'ha'dum in [30]"Revelations," if G'Quon wrote about
+       the Shadows?_
+       Narn is somewhat factionalized itself, as is every world; there
+       are different followers of different denominations of sometimes
+       similar basic beliefs. Catholics and Protestants are both members
+       of the same faith, but a Protestant doesn't recognize the power of
+       the Pope; neither does a Mormon, or a Lutheran. Similarly, not
+       everyone invests G'Quon with the same amount of reverence or
+       credibility. And G'Kar can call upon those who believe similarly
+       to send out an expedition, but may not have the clout in the rest
+       of the government to do much more afterward.
+       And yes, initially the shadows had no interest in the Narns, until
+       such time as the Narns, led by G'Quon, began to engage in sabotage
+       and direct attacks to drive them off their homeworld. Then the
+       killing started.
+     * Minbari telepaths can also have an effect, as we'll see soon.
+     * _Bester's line about being the only thing standing between
+       humanity and the abyss in [31]"Dust to Dust" wasn't as arrogant as
+       it sounded._
+       Yeah...we're slippery that way....
+     * Everybody's agendas remain the same...but for the moment, they are
+       on the same alignment. As soon as it's over, as Ivanova says,
+       he'll turn on them, no mistake. Enlightened self-interest, nothing
+       more.
+       The new command center was cobbled from what's on the station,
+       with some additional Minbari funding. And yes, by now, pretty much
+       the whole crew knows what's at stake with the shadows. And now
+       that they're not hiding anymore, the whole *thing* is out in the
+       open.
+     * _Was the cargo ship's pilot the same species as the surgeons?_
+       Yep. Same species.
+     * There's no relation between the aliens working for the shadows and
+       the Streib. The ones you saw in the flash were "doctors" of a sort
+       doing the work; there was no abduction required except of course
+       the covert kidnapping from the Psi Corps Re-education Center. As
+       for Bester's look behind, he was just looking to the guards behind
+       him, and the ones in front of him.
+     * The implants are part of the preparation process Delenn referred
+       to in "Messages."
+     * _Did Bester read Ivanova when she slapped him?_
+       I think the contact would've been too fleeting, and too much a
+       shock (and it likely hurt like the dickens) that by the time he
+       knew it was there, it was too late, and she would've sensed it in
+       either event.
+     * "Was it just me, or did anyone stop to think just how Bester got
+       to B-5 space in a Starfury without using the local jumpgate. Who
+       brought him and more important, why?"
+       He simply tagged along with an Earthforce jump-capable ship, and
+       asked to be dropped off. I considered bringing this up, but it was
+       just dead exposition; it would be easy enough to do.
+     * _Why didn't B5's sensors pick up the jump point when he was
+       dropped off?_
+       It's far enough outside B5...about an hour or so in normal
+       space...that they wouldn't have picked it up.
+     * _Why didn't Bester stay with Carolyn?_
+       Logically, he can't just go away indefinitely, and it's going to
+       take a long time before they can get Carolyn in shape. A very long
+       time. If he stays, he'd be noticed and hunted down by the Corps,
+       which ends his usefulness. His staying served no purpose.
+     * It'll be a long time before Bester's ladyfriend comes anywhere
+       near being whole again.
+     * _Will Bester covertly help B5?_
+       Yes, that'll be something Bester will do now.
+     * _Was this change of heart planned from the start?_
+       Yes, this was definitely intended from the start with Bester.
+     * "If the theme of the relationship is "All Bester needed was to
+       love and be loved, or he wouldn't have been the slimeball he is
+       today", I will be a bit disappointed."
+       Then you won't be.
+       "It's just a little too simplistic."
+       Absolutely.
+       One mongoose can love another; that won't change its attitude
+       toward pythons.
+     * _Bester's connection to Carolyn was too much of a coincidence. It
+       would have worked better if they'd brought him a list of names and
+       he'd seen her there._
+       Yeah, they could've brought him a list...and he'd have seen the
+       name instantly, and wouldn't have been hit with his own "blip"
+       careless attitude right in his face...also, she needed to be
+       already being defrosted at that point, and you can't defrost all
+       of them at once.
+       Yeah, it was a coincidence. Synchronicity. It happens. It doesn't
+       happen much on this show, hardly ever. I figured she'd be one of
+       the last in, and thus the first out. Synchronicity and
+       coincidences *do* happen. How many times have you reached for the
+       phone to call someone to find the phone ringing, and it's them on
+       the other end? What're the odds of Oedipus killing his father and
+       marrying his mother out of all the possible kingdoms in the area?
+       It happens. As long as it doesn't happen to excess, it's not
+       something I'm worried about.
+     * "Then out of the hundred popcycles in the Shadow transport, we
+       just happen to pick the one guiding light in Bester's life. God,
+       aren't we lucky."
+       Yes, and how amazingly coincidental that of all the women around,
+       Oedipus would just happen to murder his father and marry his
+       mother without knowing he had done so. Okay, it was a coincidence,
+       I'll own up to that. We have very, very few of them on the show.
+       And the reason the word "coincidence" exists, and the word
+       "synchronicity," is that sometimes stuff like that does happen.
+       You ever pick up the phone to call somebody and have that person
+       already on the line calling you? You ever think of someone you
+       haven't seen in a while and run into them the next day? It
+       happens. As long as it doesn't happen to excess, and become a
+       venue for sloppy storytelling every week, it doesn't bother me,
+       it's a legitimate plot device.
+       And you misspelled popcicle.
+     * There are a number of medlabs, which are broken into various
+       areas; each has a larger wing attached to it, which we've seen on
+       occasion, such as when the young girl in "Legacies" is in the
+       infirmary in bed, same with Shon in "Believers." They each have a
+       pretty fair capacity for patients.
+     * _Why aren't other TV networks available? What happened to the two
+       reporters at the ISN desk when it was shut down?_
+       ISN is one of the only interstellar networks bounced via the
+       tachyon relay systems from Earth to the outer colonies and beyond.
+       There are lots of other channels back home, but to get this far
+       out you need the support of the government.
+       The other two reporters are, to say the least, in deep guano.
+     * That's Brakiri space they attacked; more on that in the next
+       episode. (They're a League world.)
+     * Ivanova isn't a strong enough teep for the incoming shadow vessel
+       to really even notice.
+     * _How close does a telepath need to be to read someone?_
+       The person has to be in their line of sight; they don't have to
+       look into the person's eyes or anything as silly as that. It
+       doesn't matter if the person's head or body are covered, as long
+       as there's a definite "focus" for them.
+     * If the person is behind a door, or otherwise can't be located
+       visually, it's difficult to impossible to scan.
+       
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
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+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Sheridan tries to rally support for his cause as direct
+     confrontations with the Shadows begin in earnest. Friction
+     increases between Londo and Morden. [15]Jennifer Balgobin as Dr.
+     Hobbs. Jonathan Chapman as Brakiri. [16]Rance Howard as David
+     Sheridan. [17]Ed Wasser as Morden.
+     
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]9.31
+
+Production number: 315
+Original air week: May 6, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jesus Trevino
+
+   _Note: this episode is more momentous than most. Think twice before
+   proceeding to the spoilers; it's worth seeing unawares._
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * During the last war with the Shadows, a thousand years ago, they
+       did roughly what they're doing this time, seemingly attacking at
+       random in the form of quick strikes. The intent may be simply to
+       keep the major powers off guard, so they never know when the next
+       attack will occur.
+     * Vorlon ships are linked closely to their individual owners.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Who will replace Franklin as head of medlab?
+     * Why did the Shadows wait until the Vorlon attack to move against
+       Kosh? They could presumably have done it at any time. (See
+       [20]Analysis)
+     * Do the Shadows know that the Vorlon attack was just a one-time
+       thing, or do they now believe that the Vorlons are on the march?
+       How will that affect their strategy, if at all?
+     * How did Delenn know there wouldn't be a body?
+     * What was the flash of energy that coursed through the station
+       after the fight was over?
+     * Does Lyta know about Kosh? How will she react when she finds out?
+     * Was the data crystal on Talia Winters ([21]"Deathwalker") placed
+       on Kosh's ship?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Londo's new pact with Morden may foreshadow the loss of his second
+       chance for redemption ([22]"Point of No Return.") With Londo's
+       poison coursing through his veins, Refa certainly qualifies as
+       "the one who is already dead," and now Londo has vowed to kill
+       him. Along similar lines, Kosh qualifies now too; Londo may
+       attempt to kill Kosh's replacement, not realizing it's another
+       Vorlon entirely.
+     * Londo played right into Morden's hands. Morden was obviously
+       responsible for Adira's death (he paid off one of the ship's crew,
+       and he found out about her arrival from the Zocalo vendor) and
+       it's unlikely Refa even knew about her, much less participated in
+       her poisoning. But any such protest on Refa's part will likely
+       fall on deaf ears if Londo speaks to him.
+     * On the other hand, it's also possible that Londo is attempting to
+       fool Morden. Certainly Londo knows that Morden is up to no good --
+       their conversation in the hallway, and Londo's glare when he talks
+       about people who deserve to die -- are evidence of that. Maybe
+       he's playing along with Morden in an attempt to trip up the
+       Shadows' plans. The same hallway conversation offers evidence to
+       the contrary, though; even then, Londo felt he had already been
+       through worse than Morden's associates could dish out, and with
+       Adira's death, that's probably only intensified.
+     * "The galaxy can burn. I no longer care," says Londo. This echoes
+       the conversation between Emperor Turhan and Kosh in [23]"The
+       Coming of Shadows:" "How will this end?" "In fire."
+     * Londo's conversation with Morden -- putting an end to a previous
+       pledge and going on the offensive due to the loss of a loved one
+       -- is in some ways a parallel of Sheridan's conversation with Kosh
+       at the end of [24]"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum."
+     * Londo promised to pluck the Shadows' eye out if it turned toward
+       the Centauri homeworld. Foreshadowing, perhaps, for whatever
+       happens to G'Kar's eye in Londo's dream ([25]"The Coming of
+       Shadows.")
+     * What _do_ the Shadows want? Delenn seems to know more than she's
+       telling. Morden's keen interest in the Centauri's continued
+       aggression may provide a clue, but it's ambiguous at best. If they
+       simply want a constant state of chaos in the galaxy, their current
+       strategy will eventually backfire; there won't be anyone left to
+       carry on fighting.
+     * The fact that the Shadows attacked Kosh immediately after the
+       Vorlon victory over the Shadow fleet smacks of the notion that
+       there was a deal of some sort between the two races: the Vorlons
+       stay out of the fighting, and the Shadows leave them alone. If
+       that's true, one sobering interpretation is that both races
+       consider the war something of a game. On the other hand, the truth
+       could be just the opposite; the Shadows may not have wanted to
+       touch Kosh for fear of causing Vorlon retribution.
+     * Along similar lines, Kosh told Sheridan that the Vorlons didn't
+       want to attack because "it is not our time." What did he mean by
+       that? What constitutes the Vorlons' time? Kosh also mentioned that
+       the Vorlons were still few in number, and were still preparing.
+       Are their preparations simply a matter of boosting their manpower?
+     * Even in his last moments, Kosh still chose to hide behind
+       disguises and symbolism, appearing as Sheridan's father rather
+       than himself. Or maybe it's not by choice after all; maybe all he
+       can do is communicate with people in terms they already
+       understand, though his recreation of the Icarus expedition in
+       [26]"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" suggests otherwise.
+     * A more charitable explanation is that Kosh didn't want Sheridan to
+       realize he was in trouble, since Sheridan would have been inclined
+       to race to Kosh's quarters to try to save him -- something that
+       would have meant certain doom.
+     * Kosh treated Sheridan like a child, calling him "impudent" and
+       "disrespectful" before finally giving him what could be considered
+       the Vorlon equivalent of a spanking. Then he appeared as
+       Sheridan's father. That suggests a certain condescending attitude
+       on the part of the Vorlons toward the other races. Is that
+       attitude based on anything? Delenn said the First Ones guided the
+       younger races; maybe to Kosh, humans _are_ children, and the war
+       against the Shadows is a test of maturity.
+     * How long has Kosh known what was going to happen to him? He
+       implies here that Sheridan will die on Z'ha'dum because he won't
+       have Kosh's help ("You said that if I went to Z'ha'dum I would
+       die." "Yes, now.") Did he know why that would be when he first
+       warned Sheridan in [27]"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum?" Were his
+       lessons for Sheridan, teaching the latter to fight legends, meant
+       to provide Sheridan with the confidence to disobey Kosh's wishes
+       when the time was right?
+     * There is something of a thematic link between Kosh's expectation
+       of death and the story of Jesus played out by Brother Edward in
+       [28]"Passing Through Gethsemane." Kosh knew what was coming,
+       perhaps knew he _could_ avoid it for a little while, but also
+       believed it would be the wrong thing to do. So he waited in his
+       quarters to face his executioners. Of course, Edward didn't try to
+       fight his killers off, so the parallel isn't exact.
+     * Kosh's death was instantly known to the Vorlons, which suggests
+       that all the Vorlons are linked together in some fundamental way.
+       Perhaps the killing of Kosh, then, was less a blow against him
+       personally than a slap in the face of the Vorlons as a whole.
+     * If Kosh knew what was going to happen, why did he remain in his
+       quarters, easily found? Perhaps he believed that the Shadows would
+       go after Delenn or Sheridan in that case, and he considers them
+       more valuable than himself.
+     * Why can't Kosh's replacement continue Sheridan's education and
+       assist him at Z'ha'dum as Kosh would have? Presumably there was
+       nothing special about Kosh from the Vorlons' point of view. Or
+       maybe the Vorlons are so few in number that Kosh was the only one
+       among them who's able to provide whatever assistance he had in
+       mind.
+     * The Vorlons still use conventional jump points rather than the
+       faster hyperspace entry and exit technique employed by the
+       Shadows. Is that a conscious decision on their part, or does it
+       imply that the Shadows are more technologically advanced in at
+       least some respects?
+     * The Vorlons' telepathy must be different than what humans are
+       capable of; the Shadow ships were able to function as the Vorlons
+       attacked, unlike the ship near the White Star when Bester was
+       aboard ([29]"Ship of Tears.") On the other hand, the small Vorlon
+       fighters did seem to be doing a good job of confusing the Shadow
+       warship they were attacking; it seemed to spin around randomly,
+       and never fired back.
+     * This episode was full of power surges and drains: the one noted by
+       the C&C tech when Kosh and Sheridan were arguing, the lights
+       dimming when Morden confronted Londo, the battle between Kosh and
+       the Shadows, and whatever happened when Kosh died. Perhaps someone
+       will put two and two together and have security promptly
+       investigate any odd power level changes.
+     * The C&C tech said that the power surge was "a non-localized
+       phenomenon" -- exactly the phrase used by Delenn to describe the
+       Minbari concept of the soul in [30]"Passing Through Gethsemane."
+     * What is Earth's official reaction now that open hostilities with
+       the Shadows have broken out? Has Sheridan usurped Earth's official
+       relationships with all the alien governments he's recruited into
+       his alliance? The Shadows certainly have their fingers in at least
+       some aspects of the Earth Alliance, but they don't have total
+       control yet; there must be some people in the Earth government
+       advocating taking up arms against the Shadows.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The masked alien is a Gaim, whose name is probably a reference to
+       Neil Gaiman. The title character of Gaiman's "Sandman" -- one of
+       JMS's favorite works -- has a mask of similar appearance.
+     * The character of Dr. Lilian Hobbs is named after a fan, [31]Dr.
+       Lilian Hobbs, who won the bidding at a charity auction at the Wolf
+       359 convention in Manchester in 1995.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * Script 15 is entitled "Interludes and Examinations," and has a
+       plot turn I hadn't seen coming, but which fits perfectly into the
+       arc; I think you're going to be stunned. (I was.)
+     * Re: titles...yeah, you got to watch out with this show, sometimes
+       I put on deliberately dull titles when I want to sneak up behind
+       you quietly. The more innocuous sounding, the more you should
+       worry....
+     * The visual styles in transition between shots came from the
+       director, which he went over with me when we had our tone meeting.
+     * "Just wondering if we would see the First Ones from Sigma 957 this
+       season, since there are supposed to be some direct confrontations
+       between the Army of Light and the Shadows?"
+       No. It isn't their time yet.
+     * Let me answer this way...whenever I'm going to unveil something on
+       the show, I begin to point to it in upcoming episodes. I've begun
+       pointing to the question of what the shadows want, and why they're
+       doing it. So, logically, I'm now going to have to follow up on
+       that....
+     * In general, you always know when I'm going to start answering a
+       question, because I begin to point at it in episodes; I'm now
+       beginning to point to the shadows and ask, "What do THEY want?"
+       The answer is coming.
+     * It wasn't my idea. It was Kosh's idea. It was his pulling me that
+       way that led to it. "Trust me," he said. I followed.
+       And yeah, it does hurt. Pat Tallman was devastated at the
+       screening. Even my own crew wouldn't talk to me for a day or so
+       after the script came out.
+       Which is when I knew it was the right thing to do.
+     * It's funny, out of all the awful terrible things I've done to our
+       characters over these 3 years, the one that honked off the whole
+       crew was the Kosh development. On one level, they loved it...loved
+       how it tightened the screws...but they still didn't want to know
+       from me for a day or two.
+     * Yeah, that's _[Kosh's death]_ the story turn that surprised even
+       me. (And, of course, I can't wait for the folks who'll say it was
+       over a contract dispute with the actor....)
+     * I'm just waiting for some nit to come out of the woodwork and
+       announce that the real reason for what happened to Kosh was that
+       Kosh had a contract dispute over money or walked off the show....
+     * _The mentor always dies in heroic sagas._
+       I think Kosh sort of "hit the wall" when he saw that Sheridan
+       wasn't going to go away; I think finally he was ashamed, and
+       recognized his fear, and in a sense the air went out of him, and
+       he reconciled himself to what had to be.
+       You're right about the mentor; sooner or later, the mentor has to
+       step aside (or fall by the wayside) for the others to grow into
+       the hero's journey. Originally this was slated to happen a bit
+       later...I think, on some level, I was reluctant to do it, because
+       to write this kind of stuff you have to *feel* it yourself, and I
+       think I was avoiding that as much as Kosh was avoiding his fate. I
+       didn't want to go through writing that. So I kept putting it off.
+       I knew it *had* to be done...but not yet....
+       And that's when, for lack of a better explanation, Kosh stepped up
+       and began to pull me in that direction in the script. It was time.
+       His passing shouldn't be frittered away or minimized; it should
+       happen at the right moment, and this was that moment. It's almost
+       impossible to describe this to a non-writer, but the character,
+       this fictional construct, was simply determined to have his way,
+       and that was the end of it. I kept trying to dance away in the
+       script, to go back into safer waters...but each time was pulled
+       back in this direction, until finally I had to admit that yes,
+       this was the right time, and the right way, to do this.
+       And Kosh fell.
+       But what finally convinced me was the realization that this was
+       not only right for now, but right for *later*...though you won't
+       know what that means for a while yet.
+     * Mainly, I think I was just trying to avoid it...put it off as long
+       as possible...but the character knew, even more than I did, that
+       this was the right time to do this. It's a very hard thing to do
+       this to a character; the only way to get that kind of emotion into
+       a script is to feel it yourself as you're writing it, and that's a
+       painful thing to do. So I was avoiding it. But he outfoxed me...as
+       usual.
+       That's Vorlons for you.
+     * "So, to sum up, has it been hard making these changes after you
+       and all of the fans have gotten to know them? Or is it simply a
+       matter of: "Well...it's their time...?"
+       It's both, kinda. In the case of one character, who's been with us
+       a long time, and who...shall we say delicately, is en route to
+       becoming an ex-character by the end of this season...it was hard
+       knowing the actor, because the actor said, "Was there something I
+       did wrong?" To which you can only answer truthfully and say no,
+       not at all, just the opposite...you did a GREAT job, that's why
+       we're offing you. If you'd been just mediocre, nobody'd CARE."
+       In another case, also later this season, it was *very* difficult
+       for me personally to do it, very emotional...and I wouldn't
+       probably have done it at all if the character hadn't basically
+       grabbed me by the lapels and dragged me kicking and screaming to
+       that point of the story and said, "Look, this is right, you know
+       it, I know it, now DO it." So I did. (And the cast and crew were
+       equally stunned. Of everything that's been done on the show to
+       date, THAT one thing got the biggest reaction; nobody'd eat across
+       from me for two days at lunch after that.)
+       Bottom line...you've got to go where the story leads you. That
+       *has* to be your first and foremost obligation. If it's anything
+       else -- catering to the audience's expectations, or your own
+       preferences -- rather than doing what the cold logic of the story
+       *demands* you to do...you're finished.
+     * The Kosh stuff, his scene with Sheridan, and his passing, is very
+       moving. I showed it at Marcon this weekend in Ohio, and many
+       folks, including Patricia Talman -- who hadn't seen it yet -- were
+       in tears at that. That, to me, is the moment when you know you've
+       done something, when you can make people *feel* something. Not
+       just a plot exercise, but you hit down deep where it hurts, or can
+       make someone laugh. It's all about touching emotion...or what's
+       the point?
+     * Actually, there wasn't much about Kosh I disliked...except his
+       cryptic ways...they're all annoying that way.
+     * When they shot the scene itself...no, not a lot of emotion in the
+       Kosh sequence in his quarters, because it was all very technical,
+       bits and pieces. But in the hallway scene with Sheridan, and the
+       later scene with Delenn and the others...yes, very much so.
+       It was *extremely* difficult to write. As a writer, the only way
+       to evoke a feeling in your audience is to feel it yourself and
+       communicate that honestly in the text. It was just awful.
+     * "1. presumably Adira was actually poisoned by Mordens cronies,
+       since he was looking for a way to hurt Londo, and we saw him
+       finding out information about her?"
+       Correct.
+       "2. In the final credits, a ranger is mentioned. I don't remember
+       seeing any rangers in this episode - where did he come in?"
+       His scene was snipped for time, it was a small one, didn't add
+       much to the story, but you have to keep those credits in under SAG
+       rules.
+       "3. Will we ever find out why Kosh allowed himself to be
+       "poisoned" in the pilot episode now?"
+       You're assuming he allowed it.
+       "4. What was the flash of light running across B5 when Kosh died?"
+       A non-localized phenomenon.
+       "5. Early on, when Sheriden was talking to Delenn, he wants to
+       know "what the Shadows are really after". Delenn looks like she is
+       resolutely not saying anything and hoping that the conversation
+       moves on before Sheriden presses for an answer... which it does.
+       Does Delenn know what the shadows are after (considering the war
+       from a 1000 years ago, I would have thought that the star faring
+       Minbari would have had pretty good records)?"
+       They do, and she does, and she's making a few mistakes that may
+       come back to haunt her in the not too distant future.
+       "6. Will you tell us? (answer = cryptic "YES" no doubt!)"
+       In the fullness of time.
+     * The Delenn/Sheridan axis is proceeding, but I've been very
+       deliberately holding off the kiss, and what would follow that, so
+       I could do it in a very special way. You'll see soon enough....
+     * "JMS, why did you edit out the scene where the Ranger follows
+       Morden and ends up being killed by the Shadows? Don't you think
+       fans of the show would rather see that than the scene in the bar
+       where Garibaldi asks for info on Franklin's blood from the other
+       doctor? When you edit the show please keep in mind what the fans
+       would what to see. Rangers and Shadows fighting is much more
+       exciting than a unimportant scene that could have been left out
+       easily."
+       Because it was important to set up what Garibaldi wanted, where it
+       was, and how he was going to gain access. It had to show his
+       concern for Franklin, the moral ambiguity in asking for this, the
+       betrayal we see on Franklin's face, the difficulty in Dr. Hobbs
+       dealing with his request. The ranger scene was a brief piece that
+       was really unconnected to the rest of the story, had no setup
+       elsewhere or payoff, was only a brief piece of action. I needed
+       the time to establish the character and plot information in the
+       Garibaldi scene.
+       And when you cite what "the fans" want to see, bear in mind that
+       there ain't no such critter. There's what *you* like, but *you're*
+       not the entirety of the fans. Some fans thought "Avalon" was one
+       of the best of the series to date; others thought it was just a
+       character piece and wanted more action and arc and called it a
+       "waste." Some people when they read a novel read for the action,
+       then when they come to a few pages that establish the look of the
+       forest, or some character background, jump ahead a few pages to
+       where the action starts up again. Some do just the opposite.
+       My obligation, first and foremost, is to the story, and to tell
+       that story as best I can. If I start trying to second guess what
+       *The Fans* want, when there is no ready concensus, when there
+       ain't no such thing, when different fans want different things,
+       it'll just get watered down and wander around lost.
+     * The voice-over is something I mentioned here a few months ago as a
+       tool I was adding to my toolbox to use as counterpoint, or segue,
+       in ways I hadn't tried before. I use it again here and there,
+       though the key with any new tool is not to go nuts and use it all
+       over the place when a better one, maybe the one you already had,
+       is better suited to the task.
+     * Just a quickie aside...the background/depiction of Brakiri space
+       was taken right from a Hubble deep-space shot. We use them a lot,
+       as provided to us by the folks who keep track of it all and keep
+       it running.
+     * One can certainly argue that Franklin's actions were hasty, that
+       he is basically running away from the *consequences* of the
+       problem he has, as much as from the problem itself. This will, of
+       course, have to be dealt with.
+     * _Is Franklin still on the war council?_
+       Franklin would be off the council for a while; he has to go and
+       figure his life out first.
+     * You'll see more of Franklin, as he tries to deal with his problem.
+       At first it's not too bad, but with time....
+     * _Why is Londo still on the station? Why do they let him stay?_
+       B5 is still a place of considerable commerce, access to lots and
+       lots of other races and diplomats...it serves Londo's purposes for
+       now, and there are probably lots of Centauri back home who would
+       prefer he stay here. As for the rest...better the devil you know
+       than the devil you don't. At least on B5 they can keep somewhat of
+       an eye on him.
+     * _Why didn't Londo mention Adira periodically?_
+       Basically because it's hard in an episode to just bring up
+       something out of the blue unless you're going to use it. You're
+       stuck with, "Boy, I wish Adira were here...so what's for dinner?"
+       Which will mean nothing to the folks who didn't see the first
+       season unless you then talk more about her, show her...and then
+       suddenly you REALLY have to deal with it or it's intrusive.
+     * _Will Londo discover Morden's role in Adira's death?_
+       Anything's possible.
+     * One theme of the show is how we each deal with the traumas that
+       beset us, and the choices we make. The difference is in how we
+       handle them. In "Shadow" and "Interludes" both Londo and Sheridan
+       have to confront somewhat similar losses: the death of a loved
+       one. But Sheridan, at the last, was willing to suck in the pain
+       and do what was right, however much it grieved him, and forego
+       revenge...Londo, on the other hand, has embraced revenge.
+     * _Why doesn't Londo just have Refa killed?_
+       Refa is a powerful guy now, with powerful allies; he [Londo] needs
+       money, in large amounts, and more influence, so when and if Refa
+       would get it, there wouldn't be the kinds of repercussions that
+       might otherwise come, as with a mafia hit, for instance.
+     * _Why don't they keep Morden off the station?_
+       They would do so, but since the fall from Earth, as Susan
+       mentioned, they've had to hire guards who may not be above bribes,
+       as we saw in the teaser. And Morden is good at covering his
+       footsteps.
+     * _Did Morden eliminate Adira's killer to cover his tracks?_
+       No, Adira's killer is still alive...can be useful, those folks.
+     * The "crystals" were diamonds, he was bribing various people to let
+       him in and otherwise do things for him. And yes, Delenn's holding
+       back some information still, and Kosh was outnumbered.
+     * Sheridan has doubtless noticed by now that Delenn is holding stuff
+       back from time to time...may even mention this in a few episodes.
+     * The shadows looked for Morden's opinion; he's an advisor, in a
+       sense, on lower-species politics.
+     * _Have the Shadows been getting bigger?_
+       No, they're about the same height consistently; it's probably an
+       artifact of the camera angles and lighting.
+     * _How did the Shadows get aboard?_
+       They physically come aboard. There's no beaming-in tech in the B5
+       universe.
+     * _About Sheridan's confrontation with Kosh_
+       I don't think Sinclair would've handled that scene in the same
+       way; it needed someone who'd go toe to toe with something very old
+       and dark and dangerous in his way. He had to get under Kosh's
+       "skin," as it were. Needle and outrage and upset him until he got
+       through...whatever the cost.
+     * There was a bit edited out of the Sheridan/Kosh conversation, but
+       nothing of real importance. It was at the beginning, as he catches
+       up with Kosh, and discusses his meeting with the League worlds and
+       how important it would be for the Vorlons to get involved.
+     * Bruce did a great job in that scene; there's a touch of madness in
+       it, which is quite understandable. As for the Rangers, they get a
+       new, added role later this season.
+     * Bruce is doing a *great* job, and definitely growing into the
+       part.
+     * Bruce is a hell of a lot better than some folks were willing to
+       give him credit for in the beginning. I think that's coming out
+       now as his role becomes more deep and more serious.
+     * "The "arc" is fully alive for you now, I think. Without these
+       characters living and breathing inside your mind I don't see how
+       one man could write as much as you have over the past two seasons.
+       What I *have* noticed is that all the actors now seem to be
+       responding to the story you're telling."
+       Yeah, it's kind of a funny thing...the deeper we got into the
+       season, as the actors saw only one name on script after script,
+       and they began to understand what was coming, and it's all *very*
+       consistent...the sense of this being a novel really came through
+       for everyone in a very profound way. You could really feel a
+       change in everyone's attitude, though it'd be hard to put into
+       words. A sense of, "This is it, this is the story, we're moving
+       now, we're doing something nobody's ever done." They know how hard
+       it is for anyone to write this many scripts, which is why it's
+       never been done before, and I think they not only respected that,
+       but felt they had to rise to the challenge and give just as much
+       at that end of it. Usually you tend to hit a slump energy-wise in
+       your third year; not here. Everyone's just hitting all cylinders.
+     * Sheridan has almost certainly not learned all he needed to know.
+     * _Why didn't Kosh leave?_
+       Because I think, on some level, Kosh knew it was inevitable; a
+       price had to be paid. In a way, Lincoln had the same
+       feelings...why was he to live when so many had died? In a way, he
+       knew he wouldn't live much longer. Also, it would mean
+       running...and the Vorlons don't run. If he fled, another would pay
+       the price...and that also wouldn't be right.
+     * I think Kosh realized that some things have to be, and that as
+       we've said from the start, there is always a price to pay.
+     * He knew a price had to be paid, and if it wasn't him, it'd be
+       someone else. Because he knew there was no getting around it. He's
+       too prideful to run.
+       Remember Gethsemane....
+     * Kosh fought and fought hard. And he did not go down easily...and
+       one might say that yes, he did not go down alone...but not
+       entirely in the way you're thinking.
+     * _How could you kill Kosh before explaining Sheridan's dream in
+       [32]"All Alone in the Night?"_ The problem is we're telling
+       different stories. What makes it interesting for me is that
+       Sheridan *isn't* prepared, Kosh *didn't* finish his training. It
+       isn't nice and tidy. And to stop and explain the dream in
+       "Interludes" would've meant taking, oh, about 3-5 minutes OUT of
+       that episode, and it's very tight as it is. And it would've just
+       been a case of, "Here, here's this bit of exposition relating to
+       something you've seen before."
+       No, the dream *does* get explained...and it gets explained *this
+       season*, in the course of the final five. In detail. But at the
+       right time, and in the right place. To have explained it sooner
+       wouldn't work, it has to come at the right moment, with the last
+       bits of information our characters need to *use* that
+       interpretation.
+     * _Did Delenn's certainty that there wouldn't be a body stem from
+       her knowledge of the Vorlons, or of the Shadows?_
+       More about the Vorlons than the shadows.
+     * _Why doesn't Delenn tell Sheridan what she knows?_
+       Delenn's been holding back. More than she should. There will be a
+       price.
+     * "Why didn't the Shadows get on the horn and start screaming that
+       they just made sushi out of Kosh. The alliance is new, shaky,
+       unsure of Sheridan. What a great time to screw over everyone by
+       announcing we killed Kosh."
+       Because for starters, it's bad form. If you kill somebody else's
+       ambassador, that's not the sort of thing you proclaim proudly, it
+       tends to bounce badly back onto you. Also, this was primarily a
+       personal situation. There's more, but it's a bit further down the
+       road story-wise that might help clarify this further.
+     * _Why wasn't a Soul Hunter present at Kosh's death?_
+       Because it was very sudden, and they learned the hard way to leave
+       Vorlons alone.
+     * _Could the Soul Hunters sense Kosh's death?_
+       It's not that easy a question, or that straightforward a
+       situation, as you'll see soon enough.
+     * _Why didn't you show the fight between Kosh and the Shadows?_
+       I thought about that long and hard when writing the script, and I
+       finally came to the conclusion that there was literally *nothing*
+       we could show that wouldn't be disappointing...it's a conflict on
+       another whole plane, and should have an almost cosmic or ethereal
+       feel to it. If we showed Kosh shooting a defensive field, or a
+       shadow opening his suit with a can opener, or anything else
+       obvious and physical, it would've diminished the scene. The
+       vorlons are mythic, indirect, you see them out of the corner of
+       your eye, so it fit that the proper metaphor would be to handle
+       the battle that way.
+       Even if we'd had ten million bucks to do that sequence...I
+       would've made the same choice.
+     * _Did Sebastian know about Kosh's fate when he asked Delenn about
+       dying alone?_
+       Actually, Sebastian said that bit about dying alone to both
+       Sheridan and Delenn. Who knows, he may have known something....
+       If Kosh had run, which wasn't in his character in the first place,
+       someone else would've paid that price.
+       Londo still has chances, if he doesn't blow them. You'll see a bit
+       more about this in the two-parter.
+       Yes, some Vorlons do appear to us as female versions.
+     * _Did the Shadows only realize what Kosh was when they fought him?_
+       Oh, no, the Shadows and the Vorlons know each other from way, way
+       back.
+     * _Did one of the Shadows attacking Kosh have wings?_
+       No, none of the shadows there were winged.
+     * There is something thematically present about growing up, and
+       parents, and coming of age that threads through the story.
+       And yes, there's the deliberate irony...that just as we finally
+       start to really hear from Kosh...he's gone. Snatched away just as
+       we got close. Which would add to the feelings.
+     * _Kosh also appeared as G'Kar's father ([33]"Dust to Dust.")_
+       That's what Kosh tends to play into, the whole father aspect,
+       though others might take the other approach in this.
+     * It's likely a matter of both, choosing an element which is
+       strongest in the other person, which for Sheridan and G'Kar would
+       be their respective fathers, who would also be authority figures
+       to them...so it's both manipulation and emotion.
+     * _What happens to Lyta now?_
+       She'll now have to work with the incoming replacement Vorlon, who
+       might be just a bit miffed....
+     * As for Kosh's ship...it headed for the nearest star, the local
+       one, and basically dived into it....
+     * _Why was one of the Vorlon ships red?_
+       Not special per se, just to establish that they have more than one
+       design.
+     * Lyta was off-station running an errand for Kosh.
+     * The red ship was simply another variation on the standard; nothing
+       too major about it...and yes, when Lyta returns from her errand,
+       she'll definitely get into this, and there will have to be some
+       explanations made, though not to her....
+     * The different color just goes to show some measure of
+       individuality in design, and there are some hierarchies implied
+       here.
+     * _Are there lots of Vorlons in the big mother ship?_
+       There's a bunch in the big ship.
+     * _Why didn't the mother ship attack?_
+       I think we just didn't see those shots; it was used in the attack.
+     * Vorlon/Shadow tech is more or less at the same level; the Vorlons
+       had the benefit of surprise.
+     * _Are the Shadow ships more sensitive to pain than the Vorlon
+       ships?_
+       I suppose you could say they are, yes....
+     * _What were the ambassadors doing in the war room?_
+       Usually you only get the main war council and the support staff
+       who monitor the progress of the war; the ambassadors were called
+       in on Sheridan's hunch that now the vorlons would get involved.
+     * _About the flash of light on Morden's mask, as compared to the end
+       of [34]"Divided Loyalties"_
+       Certainly the flash of light was an echo of Lyta's mask. As for
+       Delenn, I think she was just stunned, just emotionallly worn out
+       over this.
+     * Delenn mentions in the tag that the Vorlons will be sending
+       someone to quietly replace Kosh. It's a bit darker character.
+     * _Will we be able to tell the difference between Kosh and the
+       replacement?_
+       You'll know the difference. Believe me.
+     * The two aliens in the start of the episode were a Brakiri and a
+       Gaim.
+       "Interludes" for me marks a slight transition in the story, from
+       one "shape" to the next up...the demarkation between the
+       hero-cycle and the myth-cycle in the arc.
+     * _Answers to a few reader questions_
+       1. Kosh died fighting, I guess, and I'm also guessing that he took
+       some Shadows with him. How was this fight different than the one
+       we didn't see in "Signs and Portents"? Were there more Shadows
+       this time or are they getting stronger?
+       They were not initially prepared to kill him. That was a
+       territorial or jurisdictional squabble. This was retribution.
+       2. If Kosh did take out some Shadows, will more be sent to Morden
+       as replacements?
+       He didn't. Hurt 'em good, but didn't take them out.
+       3. Did Kosh project to Delenn, G'Kar, or anyone else besides
+       Sheridan during the fight?
+       No.
+       4. Did Garibaldi ever get a chance to speak with Kosh about the
+       Talia/Abbut data crystal as hinted at in "Divided Loyalties"?
+       Yes.
+       5. Besides being extremely old, was Kosh an average Vorlon or
+       particularly special in terms of strength, skill, or status? No
+       other ambassador on the station has demonstrated the clout back
+       home to sortie an entire fleet at a moments notice. Delenn and
+       Londo have only called on forces from a particular faction in
+       their polities.
+       He was certainly well regarded...one of the older of the vorlons.
+     * I'll put it to you this way...Kosh was old enough to have had a
+       first hand familiarity with Valen. Vorlons live a REAL long time.
+     * Valen led the prior shadow war and formed the grey council roughly
+       1000 years before B5's current time.
+     * _Won't anyone notice Kosh's ship leaving?_
+       For Kosh himself, yes, very few had direct contact with him; so
+       that's workable. As for the ship...this objection assumes
+       omniscience on the part of the outside characters.
+       Consider: the quarter million people aboard B5 get their
+       information about what happens outside second-hand, filtered
+       through B5 itself. If the staff manning C&C decide to not show
+       that information, or give access to it, it doesn't exist. As for
+       the ships outside, they move to and from the jump gate, and are
+       only interested in what's happening in this small area of space to
+       avoid running into anything. They don't generally keep track of
+       where all the other traffic is going; that's C&C's job.
+       And it isn't as simple as looking out your window. The distance
+       from Epsilon 3 to its local star is more or less equal to the
+       distance from Earth to our sun. That's a LOT of space and a very
+       small ship. You are not going to be able to track it visually, and
+       who'd want to keep an eye on it all the way to the local star?
+     * _About Kosh's ship_
+       It was made for Kosh, as Delenn points out, was almost a part of
+       him; it wouldn't function as well, if at all, for anyone else.
+       There was nothing else to be done.
+     * A personal transport is assigned to one vorlon for life, changing
+       and evolving over time. Little fighters have a more primitive
+       system. It's not the same thing as a shadow-vessel merge. A big
+       Vorlon cruiser has a full crew.
+       
+
+   [40][Next] 
+   
+      [41]Last update: June 1, 1997
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
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+Overview
+
+     Ambassador Sinclair returns to pull Babylon 4 through time
+     ([15]"Babylon Squared.") Part 1 of 2. [16]Michael O'Hare as
+     Ambassador Sinclair. [17]Tim Choate as Zathras.
+     
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]9.28
+
+Production number: 316
+Original air week: May 13, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
+   _Note: this episode is more momentous than most. Think twice before
+   proceeding to the spoilers if you haven't seen it._
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * The last Shadow war nearly ended in defeat when the command
+       center, a Minbari space station, was destroyed by Shadow forces.
+       But shortly thereafter, a replacement arrived out of nowhere:
+       Babylon 4. With Babylon 4 in place, the Minbari, the Vorlons, and
+       their allies were able to drive the Shadows off Z'ha'dum and
+       destroy a good two-thirds of the Shadows' warships. Until Delenn
+       arrived at Babylon 5, the origin of the replacement station was a
+       mystery to the Minbari.
+     * Six years ago, just before Babylon 4 vanished, some of the
+       Shadows' allies recognized the station from the last war. A group
+       of Shadow fighters tried to deliver a fusion bomb onto the
+       station, whose destruction would look like an accident and would
+       lead to a Shadow victory, or a stalemate, in the previous war.
+       They were fought off by the White Star, which travelled back in
+       time through the rift in Sector 14 to stop them. These events were
+       recorded by Varn in the Great Machine.
+     * The Great Machine is responsible for opening the time rift and
+       allowing Babylon 4 to be pulled backward through time. However,
+       opening the rift strains the Machine, and Draal, to its limits.
+     * The White Star's Vorlon technology includes the ability to learn
+       from past experiences. Its previous encounters with Shadow vessels
+       have strengthened its resistance to some Shadow weapons.
+     * There is at least one Vorlon on Minbar, a fact that's known to at
+       least some of the former Grey Council.
+     * In one possible future, Sheridan is destined to win the war
+       against the Shadows, but not entirely destroy them; some Shadow
+       minions will come to Centauri Prime, where an older Londo reigns
+       as Emperor, and lay waste to the capital city.
+     * While on Minbar, Sinclair gained a reputation among the Rangers
+       for answering questions cryptically.
+     * The Rangers were put together with the help of the Grey Council,
+       or at least some of its number, including Rathenn, the Minbari who
+       restored Sinclair's memory in the comic issue [20]"In Darkness
+       Find Me." He's an old friend of Delenn's; she asked Draal about
+       him in [21]"A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1." And he seems to
+       revere her, accepting Sinclair's status without question at her
+       behest.
+     * At the close of the last Shadow war, someone who knew Sinclair
+       would be on Minbar left him a note in a sealed box. The box was
+       stored in a temple for over nine hundred years with instructions
+       to not open it until a specific date, a date which has now
+       arrived.
+     * During their first visit to Babylon 4, Garibaldi and Sinclair both
+       saw the same flashforward of Garibaldi defending the station
+       against unknown attackers.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Who left the note for Sinclair? (See [22]Analysis)
+     * Sinclair has a scar on his cheek (as also shown in [23]"Babylon
+       Squared.") Where did he get it?
+     * Where did Delenn's note come from? How long has she had it?
+     * What was the Vorlon doing on Minbar? Has he/she/it been there all
+       along?
+     * How far into the future has Sheridan been thrown?
+     * Why did Sheridan end up on Centauri Prime, presumably some
+       distance from Sector 14?
+     * What did Londo mean by greeting Sheridan, "Welcome back from the
+       abyss?"
+     * Where did Zathras come from? Has there been a community of his
+       people on Epsilon 3 for generations, or are they more recent
+       arrivals?
+     * Why was Zathras honored to meet Sheridan? What were the things
+       Draal instructed him not to mention?
+     * When Zathras was looking at the Great Machine, he said, "Not
+       good." What was he talking about? Was the strain of opening the
+       time rift causing the Machine to malfunction?
+     * Were the Shadows, or their allies, also responsible for the
+       sabotage of Babylons 1, 2, and 3? If so, why didn't they destroy
+       Babylon 4 before it was finished?
+     * Did Babylon 4 survive the war? If so, where is it now?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * It seems likely that Sinclair left himself the note. In
+       [24]"Babylon Squared," Sinclair was shown to be present on Babylon
+       4 when it shifted through time; and from his message to Garibaldi,
+       it seems the note told him he was destined to stay in the past and
+       help defeat the Shadows then.
+     * If that's correct, and the Minbari holy books contain instructions
+       about the box, it suggests Sinclair was involved in writing the
+       books. Very possibly he was Valen, "a Minbari not born of Minbar,"
+       as Lennier described Valen in [25]"Passing Through Gethsemane."
+       Sinclair, as the Grey Council discovered ([26]"Points of
+       Departure") somehow has a Minbari soul.
+     * Which leads to the question, what does Sinclair's time travel have
+       to do with the Minbari soul migration, if anything? Does he have a
+       Minbari soul because he's a giant figure from Minbari legend, or
+       vice versa?
+     * Presumably, if Sinclair is Valen and Draal knows about it, that's
+       why Zathras was honored to meet Sinclair. What Zathras knows about
+       Sheridan, though, is an open question -- perhaps he has been
+       watching recent events unfold on Babylon 5 and simply respects
+       Sheridan's stand against Earth and the Shadows.
+     * Rathenn appears to defer to Sinclair. If a former member of the
+       Grey Council looks to Sinclair for direction, Sinclair must be one
+       of the most influential people on Minbar.
+     * Londo's description of Sheridan's victory over the Shadows makes
+       it sound like a fairly distant event, but the Centauri capital
+       city was burning while Sheridan stood there. Perhaps the Shadow
+       minions Londo mentioned have been slowly destroying the city,
+       building by building, since the close of the war, and the Centauri
+       have been powerless to stop them. Or, perhaps, the end of the war
+       isn't as far back as Londo implies. (It's interesting to note that
+       Londo doesn't appear surprised by Sheridan's appearance or by the
+       fact that Sheridan hasn't aged.)
+     * Sheridan looks older (his hair is lighter) and may be dressed in
+       something other than his uniform as he visits Londo in the throne
+       room -- it looks like he's wearing a leather jacket, but his
+       outfit isn't shown clearly enough to tell for sure. If it's
+       different, though, could his trip forward be along the lines of
+       the flashforward experienced by Sinclair and Garibaldi, rather
+       than a physical transfer? If so, where is his body?
+     * If Babylon 4 is being sent back to help defeat the Shadows in the
+       previous war, will other equipment be sent too? For instance,
+       loading the docking bays full of Minbari fighters (or better
+       still, Vorlon fighters) could do as much to turn the tide of
+       battle as the mere presence of the station, especially assuming
+       that Minbari and Vorlon weapons have improved in the intervening
+       thousand years.
+       On the other hand, perhaps the non-destruction of the Shadows in
+       the last war wasn't a matter of military strength after all;
+       perhaps the Shadows hid somewhere such that they were impossible
+       to wipe out. If so, will the same thing happen again? Londo's
+       accusation suggests it will, to some extent.
+     * How long after Delenn arrived on Babylon 5 did she figure out
+       where Babylon 4 came from? Were the Minbari really so uninterested
+       in Babylon 4 that the Grey Council never saw a picture of the
+       station? Did Delenn recognize the similarity in design as soon as
+       she arrived, or did she find a picture of Babylon 4 in B5's
+       archives?
+     * Along similar lines, was the station not identified as "Babylon 4"
+       when it appeared in the past? If it was, the Minbari should have
+       at least heard of the Babylon Project in its earlier stages, and
+       would have known B4's identity before Delenn arrived on B5. It's
+       possible the Minbari lost whatever records contained the name of
+       their second base of operations, or that Sinclair convinced the
+       Minbari to leave such information out in the interest of not
+       altering the future.
+     * If the Great Machine opened a rift for Babylon 4 six years ago
+       (while, it should be noted, the machine was under Varn's control,
+       not Draal's) and can still open a rift today for the White Star,
+       will it be able to open other rifts to send more people back? Or
+       is Draal simply not as capable of handling the strain as Varn was?
+       On the other hand, maybe the original time rift was generated from
+       the present day by Draal, and Varn wasn't involved at all. In that
+       case, the Machine may only be able to manipulate time once.
+     * If B4 was being pulled back in time, why did it reappear four
+       years later than it vanished? Sinclair, according to [27]"Babylon
+       Squared," interrupted the station's time travel to allow the crew
+       to get off. But if it was travelling backward through time, that
+       should have caused it to reappear some time before it vanished.
+       Maybe B4 will have to be pulled forward to the present day, from
+       which point Draal can send it back -- that is, maybe Draal can
+       only open rifts between the present day and some other time, not
+       between two arbitrary times.
+     * The Great Machine's time-manipulation abilities suggest that
+       perhaps it was built specifically to pull Babylon 4 back through
+       time. If so, who built it, and how did they know about Babylon 4?
+       Their technology in that area exceeds the Minbari's, which says
+       that the Machine's builders were First Ones. In that case, what
+       was the role of Varn's people?
+     * Delenn told Sheridan that the Minbari did not have the technology
+       to control a time field "as unstable as this one." How much
+       time-manipulation technology _do_ they have?
+     * If there's a Vorlon on Minbar, could it have been responsible for
+       Delenn's childhood vision ([28]"Confessions and Lamentations?")
+     * In [29]"Babylon Squared," Zathras hands his time stabilizer to the
+       space-suited figure (possibly Sinclair,) who promptly vanishes.
+       Was that a replacement for Sheridan's stabilizer, or for another
+       broken one?
+     * Ivanova's wish has come true -- she's on Babylon 4 and Garibaldi
+       is left behind. ([30]"Babylon Squared")
+     * In Ivanova's distress call, she says, "This is Earth Alliance
+       station Babylon 5." Presumably in the heat of the moment her Earth
+       Force training kicked in and she didn't consider that B5 isn't an
+       Earth Alliance station any more. (See [31]jms speaks.)
+       
+Notes
+
+     * As in [32]"Babylon Squared," the term "unstuck in time" is a
+       reference to Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s "Slaughterhouse Five."
+     * Garibaldi's attempted passwords: "Jeff," "Jeffrey," "peekaboo"
+       (Garibaldi's computer password, most recently used in
+       [33]"Ceremonies of Light and Dark,") "Susan," "Michael," "socks,"
+       "fasten," "zip" (the last three from the conversation between
+       Sinclair and Garibaldi on their way to Babylon 4 in [34]"Babylon
+       Squared,") and finally, "hello, old friend," Sinclair's opening
+       line in the message delivered to Garibaldi by the Ranger in
+       [35]"The Coming of Shadows."
+     * Viewers outside North America may have some difficulty recognizing
+       all the partnerships to which Sinclair compares himself and
+       Sheridan. "Butch and Sundance" were Butch Cassidy and The Sundance
+       Kid, two outlaws from the days of the Old West (of more recent
+       fame for the movie in which they were portrayed by Paul Newman and
+       Robert Redford). "Lewis and Clark" were not Lois Lane and Clark
+       Kent, but Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who explored much of
+       the territory of the Louisiana Purchase (a vast expanse between
+       the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains that the United
+       States acquired from France in 1803) from 1804 to 1806, eventually
+       reaching the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. "Lucy and
+       Ethel" were Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz, the characters portrayed
+       by Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance in the 1950s sitcom "I Love
+       Lucy."
+     * The building in which Sinclair and Rathenn talk bears some
+       resemblance in outline to the encounter suit of the Vorlon inside
+       -- and even more resemblance to a Shadow.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * _November 30, 1995_ - As I write this, I've just started writing
+       "War Without End, Part One," #316, the first part of the two
+       episodes that bring Sinclair to Babylon 5, which we'll shoot
+       sometime after the first of the year. It's been touch and go, but
+       we've finally been able to schedule all of the guest cast members
+       from "Babylon Squared" for this one, which is the flip side of
+       that episode. It's probably going to be the most expensive show
+       we've done yet, due to the hideous production requirements for
+       this one. It's also the one I'm most nervous about writing, even
+       more than "Fall of Night," because an awful lot happens here, and
+       it has to be done just right. It's going to be probably the
+       toughest writing job of the series to date.
+       I'll be putting Sinclair and Sheridan together a lot, which is
+       shaping up to be an interesting combination. We're also going to
+       see Minbar for the first time.
+     * "In WWE(1)I noticed a larger than usual group of offhand lines
+       (ethel &.../wait in car.../cool-you know what I'm talking about).
+       Was this scripted? Or was someone just ad libbing?"
+       There's almost NO ad-libbing allowed on the show. You can't change
+       a word unless someone comes to my office and approves it, and it
+       can't change the meaning. (I.e., the actor is having a hard time
+       saying "shibboleth" or something.) Everything said in this show is
+       scripted, offhand comments included.
+     * _Did you work out the circular sequence of events as you went, or
+       was it all mapped out beforehand?_
+       No, it all has to hang together, or it's kinda useless. It just
+       required working out the details of what was, is, and will be.
+       Then I walked on water....
+     * _Why didn't Sinclair interact with G'Kar?_
+       The problem is that you've got about 42 minutes to tell your
+       story. You have to get into it, and get into it fast. Unless
+       there's a reason for the scene to be there, if it doesn't move the
+       plot along, it shouldn't be there. You'll note there isn't even a
+       B-story in the two-parter...there wasn't room.
+       Sure, it would've been nice to have Sinclair meet G'Kar, sit
+       around, talk about how they've changed...have Sinclair and Londo
+       meet, talk about stuff...have him and Ivanova sit around, talk
+       about stuff...but then you've got just a bunch of scenes that are
+       basically, "Well, hello, how've you been?"
+       The next sounds you would've heard would be the click of remote
+       controls changing channels across the nation.
+       As it is, in that two-part episode, you've got Delenn, Garibaldi,
+       Sinclair, Sheridan, Marcus, Ivanova, Lennier, Zathras, Major
+       Krantz, Krantz's second...it's our most character-intensive
+       episode in a long time, all of them being present in every other
+       scene, plus the other three characters we see in part two. It was,
+       quite simply, stuffed to the gills, and there wasn't room for a
+       single wasted word.
+       That's the difference between a novel and a television show; you
+       can stop the action in a book as often as you want to have asides,
+       but you can't do that in TV with as much facility. To do the
+       scenes you describe would've meant turning this into a
+       three-parter, and as it is part one is almost an extended teaser
+       for part two. It would've been moreso with these additional
+       scenes.
+       If it isn't necessary, it shouldn't be there.
+     * It would've been nice to see some of those scenes, it just wasn't
+       practical. And you have to make hard choices. As someone once said
+       of writing, "You have to kill all your darlings," meaning the
+       nifty little things you'd *like* to do, as opposed to the things
+       you *have* to do.
+     * Actually, Mike Vejar is directing the two-parter, and I'm
+       absolutely thrilled about it; Mike's been our mainstay for some
+       time, and he's just terrific. (He directed "Convictions," and
+       "Inquisitor.")
+     * Well, reactions have been coming in on the two parter, and so far
+       everyone's wog-boggled. Peter Jurasik called to say he didn't know
+       what I'm smoking these days, but to please send ten pounds of it
+       to his house at *once*. Mumy went nuts over it, everyone's very
+       excited...including and especially Michael O'Hare, who got his
+       copy of the script today, read it straight through, and is
+       *extremely* excited by the story, and what happens with his
+       character, and is VERY much looking forward to the shoot.
+     * (Oh, and lest I forget, yes, Zathras does return in "War," as does
+       Sinclair, who has a lot of great scenes with Marcus, Sheridan,
+       Delenn, Zathras and others. It also has some real surprises in
+       store, including some flash-forwards from WAY down the line.)
+     * _January 22, 1996_
+       Today was a very interesting day; today Michael O'Hare returned to
+       the Babylon 5 stages in preparation for shooting the two-parter,
+       which begins tomorrow. Today he came by for his wardrobe fitting
+       and to get his hair trimmed, say hi to folks, and hang out...lunch
+       was me, John Copeland, Michael and Bruce Boxleitner eating
+       together at one of the tables in the lunch area behind the stage,
+       lots of laughing and kidding, and the two get on great. (Turns out
+       they'd worked on other projects before, including the short-lived
+       A Rumor of War series by Sterling Siliphant.)
+       Anyway, it's a great atmosphere, and everybody's psyched for the
+       two-parter. It's like he never went away.
+     * _January 23, 1996_
+       [...] today is Michael O'Hare's first day of shooting here on the
+       B5 stages for the two-parter, featuring his return to the station
+       from Minbar, and propels him into the center of attention for most
+       of the two parts. Everyone's having a great time so far, he and
+       Bruce have been hanging out a lot, and the episode should be a
+       real toad-strangler when it's finished.
+     * A toad-strangler, a barn-burner, a doozy...it's a good thing.
+     * _Won't Sheridan and Sinclair both be standing around giving
+       orders? _
+       The similarity is only if you choose to define them by their
+       narrow roles. Their personalities are vastly different. Also,
+       Sinclair's been through a lot in the intervening couple of years,
+       he's grown, he and Marcus would definitely have something of a
+       relationship since he would've been there while Marcus was being
+       trained, and so on. And their roles in the story are very
+       different.
+     * My guess is that "War Without End" may well pass by [36]"CoS" as
+       all time favorite...until the next one comes along.
+     * _Did you reuse footage from [37]"Babylon Squared?"_
+       We did both; we reshot some scenes from B2, and used some footage
+       directly from that episode. Some pretty elegant matches, too, I
+       think.
+     * The vision of B5 blowing was the same as the one from [38]Signs.
+     * _Why weren't the new uniforms in the flashforward in "Babylon
+       Squared?"_
+       We only saw the black flak uniforms in B2, because I knew we'd be
+       changing them, but wanted to hide that fact (as I did with
+       Delenn's line to Sinclair in B2, done off-camera to hide her
+       change). And the Minbar cityscape was done by Eric Chauvin.
+     * _About Ivanova cracking under pressure_
+       With most of their systems down, everyone around her dead,
+       Sheridan dead, knowing she's about to die and there's nothing she
+       can do about it, and obviously knowing full well who's out
+       there...about to witness the deaths of a quarter million sentients
+       on the station...I felt a bit of an outburst, a final letting go
+       of the emotions, was not inappropriate for her. (Although I do
+       think Claudia may have played it a bit too hysterical at times;
+       separate the lines from the performance and look at it again.)
+     * "You hand this woman a script and say to her, 'Miss C., everyone
+       around you is dead and you are in command.
+       The station is falling down around you and you're in terrible
+       pain, about to die by decompression or laser burns or crushing--or
+       worse, you could become a Morden and be controlled by the Shadows
+       the rest of your life.
+       You have no hope of rescue.
+       You may not know where you are.'
+       And then you say she was a tiny bit on the hysterical side?"
+       Hey...from where I sit, that's just another day at the office.
+       Don't know many producer/writers, do you?
+     * I don't believe anyone on Minbar was wearing shorts. It's not the
+       season for that.
+     * _Was the voice of the Vorlon on Minbar the same actor who did
+       Kosh?_
+       Yes, that was Ardwight again.
+     * There probably wasn't a credit there because it was an incidental
+       voice rather than a recurring voice.
+       The other Vorlon also sounded different because I directed
+       Ardwight in different inflections...literally stood there outside
+       the booth using my hand like a baton to indicate the rising and
+       falling inflections as he spoke, to give it a wave kind of sound.
+     * _Sinclair's Minbari words are subtitled "alright," which is a
+       misspelling -- it's really "all right."_
+       Yep, it was misspelled, and it wasn't misspelled in the script.
+       When I saw that on the final tape, it was too late to correct it
+       for this airing. It'll be corrected later. (Somebody wasn't being
+       careful when they did the captioning.)
+     * As Sinclair notes when he arrives at B5, his status as ambassador
+       is pretty much gone after the coup.
+     * _Won't Earth ask where its ambassador is?_
+       Well, Minbar isn't being very receptive to Earth at the moment,
+       and will probably just put them on hold...indefinitely....
+     * _How did Sinclair get so cryptic so quickly?_
+       He was kinda Zen when he left, frankly...and two years living
+       among Minbari, learning their language, learning to think the way
+       they do, learning the whole history of the shadow war...that can
+       have a pretty profound effect on you. It obviously wasn't all
+       hanging around the Hyatt Minbar and watching reruns of I Love
+       Lennier for two years....
+     * _Sinclair wasn't on Mars during the riots in the first season, so
+       how does Sheridan know him from them?_
+       It's been established that there have been previous riots on Mars,
+       including the food riots referenced in, I believe, the pilot.
+     * _Will the relationship between Delenn and Sheridan cause problems
+       with Sinclair?_
+       Well, remember that we never defined what those feelings were
+       between Sinclair and Delenn; she had a great deal of respect and
+       admiration for him, yes. And she had a fair measure of faith in
+       him as well. Question is, what's the root of that? We'll learn
+       some of that in the two-parter. As for Sinclair, he was mainly
+       involved with Sakai.
+     * Sakai certainly wouldn't have wanted to get tied down to life on
+       Minbar, and Sinclair knew that his life would be difficult now
+       with the rangers, so they parted ways.
+     * Marcus's look came because he overheard the Minbari-language part
+       of the discussion, and knew something was up. It made him more
+       watchful of Sinclair, which pays off in WWE2.
+     * I like Zathras...he's just nuts.
+     * _Will we learn who Zathras' people are?_
+       Eventually, though that answer isn't terribly important.
+     * _Why didn't the Shadows destroy B5 before it went online?_
+       B5 wasn't destroyed because it wasn't the one that would be taken
+       back. Yes, the prior stations would've looked more like B4 but
+       they were sabotaged *very* early in the construction process.
+       You'll learn why he didn't want Garibaldi along next ep.
+     * The B1-B3 sabotages had nothing at all to do with the B4
+       situation; it was just done by forces opposed to the very notion
+       of the Babylon Project.
+     * The first 3 Babylon stations never got much past the very earliest
+       stages of construction, just some hull elements, that sort of
+       thing, nothing that could be recognized. Other forces took them
+       out, mainly for political reasons.
+     * B4 survived the prior shadow war, but in very bad shape; didn't
+       last much longer after that.
+     * _Is the war room staffed continuously?_
+       Yes, the war room would have to have support personnel there when
+       the big guys are off having fun or sleeping.
+     * _Why did Sheridan's clothes change?_
+       His clothing is different because that's the future Sheridan, into
+       whom the current Sheridan has sort of slid....
+     * _Was whatever destroyed Sheridan's stabilizer related to the
+       creature in "Knives?"_
+       No, that was just the result of the blast.
+     * The energy being that got Sheridan in "Knives" had no relation to
+       anything in the ongoing story; it just existed outside our normal
+       universe, and got in and out via the rift (which also served to
+       remind us that it was still there).
+     * Sheridan "leapt" into his future self, hence the difference in
+       wardrobe and appearance. Londo wasn't suprised to see him. If you
+       recall the Centauri guard when we first arrive in the Palace, he
+       says, "I think he's awake again, would you like to see?" The
+       implication being that he's been beaten into unconsciousness,
+       hence Londo's line, "Welcome back from the abyss." It was at that
+       moment of unconsciousness that he "slid" into his future self.
+     * The time-flash (which in Sheridan's case is much more pronounced
+       than what we've seen before) slides you forward or backward in
+       time to where you are at that moment. At that moment, 18 years
+       from now (in the story), Sheridan was/will be on Centauri Prime.
+       So when he slid along the time line, that's where he ended up.
+       Just as in Babylon Squared, when Garibaldi had a timeflash back to
+       his time on Mars. It blips your perception to another point in
+       your life, wherever you happen to be.
+     * Sheridan slid forward in time, to wherever he was at that moment
+       in the future. He didn't just go hopping around aimlessly; if he
+       flipped 10 days ahead, he'd come into his body at that point 10
+       days from now, wherever he happened to be. At that moment, 17
+       years down the road, he happened to be on Centauri Prime.
+     * I'd rather let part 2 get into what exactly happened to Centauri
+       Prime....
+     * _Has Sheridan slid past his death on Z'ha'dum?_
+       Well, who can say at this point *what* happens on Z'ha'dum...?
+     * _Would the future Sheridan notice being slid into?_
+       The future Sheridan would have a little memory of what happened
+       during that time, but it'd be almost dreamlike, two steps removed.
+     * _How did the Shadows know about Babylon 4?_
+       Well, if the Minbari had records of B4's visual look, given that
+       the Shadows are advanced, would they not also have the potential
+       to recognize it for what it was once it was nearing completion
+       from their own records?
+     * _Did the Minbari agree to help fund B5 because they knew about B4?_
+       No, because if you remember, even Delenn didn't know where B4 came
+       from until she came to B5, well after completion.
+     * _Why don't the Minbari have many records of the last war?_
+       It was also a very devastating war, and one of their mistakes was
+       that there were those who were entrusted to keep the past, sort of
+       a more advanced version of storytellers, who put all their data in
+       one basket, as it were...very possessive and jurisdictional. When
+       they and that center of data were taken out, a lot was lost. One
+       drawback of a very rigid and structued society.
+     * _But if that happened early in the war, wouldn't they have records
+       from after that point?_
+       Certainly it would've occured in the last days of the war.
+     * _Do the Minbari have time travel?_
+       They've played with some research in this area, but they aren't
+       anywhere near the tech required to actually do anything with time.
+     * _Why hasn't Minbari ship design changed?_
+       The design *has* changed; the main section is much longer, and
+       more primitive looking, less tricked out. You can see a bit of it
+       there, but you will see them in more detail in part two.
+       Sinclair was scarred during ranger training duties.
+     * _Would arguing with Kosh in [39]"Interludes and Examinations" have
+       been the original source of the scar?_
+       No, because you'll note that Sheridan isn't scarred by it. No, you
+       have to remember that one doesn't just transplant one storyline
+       onto another. It doesn't work that way. Sinclair has his arc,
+       Sheridan has his own.
+     * Sheridan wasn't a "backup" for Sinclair, he was brought in
+       specifically because I needed somene who could and would do things
+       in a different way, and had a different arc. If it was going to
+       track 1-to-1 you wouldn't *need* a new character.
+       And the swipe Kosh took at Sheridan wouldn't be *nearly* enough to
+       cause a huge scar like that.
+     * "1) Assuming the present is the time period during which we watch
+       Babylon 5 and the period we saw at the beginning of the WWE
+       episode, does the possible fall of B5 (if the mission fails) take
+       place in the past or the future? We see Ivanova screaming in the
+       mysterious transmission that "they're killing us" and that the
+       Captain is dead, so I assume this indicates that the possible fall
+       of B5 takes place in the future since Sheridan is the only Captain
+       (Sinclair was a Commander, non?). But we also see Sinclair
+       reliving his flashback with Gerabaldi from Season one in which B5
+       falls, and he then seems to indicate that his mission is to
+       prevent such a catastrophe. Since Sinclair is there, with
+       Gerabaldi, this would seem to suggest that the fall of B5, if the
+       mission fails, takes place in the past in relation to the present
+       with which we are all familiar.(Breath) So, if the mission fails,
+       when will B5 fall; past of future??? Or perhaps put another way:
+       Will B5 possibly fall under Sheridan's command or Sinclair's? <--
+       God, that's complicated."
+       Nope. The scenes are all in the future. Garibaldi specifically
+       identifies the distress call as coming from 8 days in the future.
+       Sinclair's vision wasn't a flashback, but a flash forward; even
+       the blowing of B5 was identified by Lady Ladira as in the future.
+       It's *always* been placed in the future, though most of this was
+       in the first season, which hasn't been reshown. Also, in the first
+       act, Garibaldi again *specifically states* that when they went to
+       B4, there was a glimpse of the future and the fall of B5.
+       "2) Faced with the end, why would the bloodied Ivanova feel
+       compelled to deliver a play-by-play to a non-existant audience? Or
+       even to one that is there? I found that strange."
+       First she was trying to get help. Second, there should be some
+       record of what happened for those who would investigate. They
+       would need to know, just the way a signal operator sends out a
+       distress call for as long as possible as the ship sinks. SOP.
+       "4) About Delenn's slide show: It looks as though Minbari ships
+       have remained basically the same for the past 1000 years. I could
+       not see one change. Why is that?"
+       Because you weren't looking closely enough. The older Minbari
+       ships are much longer and tubular in design; you'll see them
+       better in the second half, but there's definitely a difference.
+       "5) The preview showed Gerabaldi giving 'em hell with a big gun.
+       Why wasn't that in the episode (I know, some scenes in previews
+       don't show up in the actual ep, but it seemed important)?"
+       Because we were seeing the sequence from Sinclair's point of view;
+       he was gone by the time Garibaldi began firing, so he wouldn't
+       have seen it. Story logic.
+       "7) Londo spoils us all by telling us Sheridan wins the
+       war--suspense exit stage left--unless the time line is somehow
+       further altered, which would go against the inevatability theme
+       JMS seems to be playing."
+       Okay, everybody who thought I was going to have our heroes fight a
+       war for two whole years or so, and then *lose it*...a major
+       dramatic disappointment to say the least...raise your hands.
+       In any event...quite frankly, several of your "serious nitpicks"
+       are actually incorrect, and come from making assumptions or simply
+       not paying attention when someone says something clearly in
+       dialogue, as Garibaldi does, that the flash was of future events,
+       and then IDs the signal as from 8 days ahead.
+     * _If Sinclair had stayed with the station, who would have been
+       transported to Centauri Prime?_
+       I appreciate the questions, but there are so many alternate
+       timelines flying around right now...I'm not sure I want to further
+       complicate the issue.
+     * I could answer this, but if I expand the time paradox loop any
+       further, I would end up not answering it because I'd already
+       answered it, which means it wouldn't get answered, requiring me to
+       answer it now, and pretty soon the universe implodes, and I don't
+       want that on my conscience.
+     * There are no alternate univeses, only alternate or possible
+       futures. If they didn't go back, the future in which Sinclair is
+       there with Garibaldi -- having come back to see through the final
+       battle -- and in which Sheridan is killed, and Ivanova is calling
+       for help...that future will come true.
+     * _Why was Garibaldi left behind?_
+       It's a story point, and it'll be explained clearly in part two.
+       What, you think I'd have something this odd going on and not
+       explain it?
+       It's coming. Be patient.
+     * _The flash to the firefight was Sinclair's, not Garibaldi's._
+       Actually...incorrect. Whenever there's a timeflash, people see one
+       thing or another. When Sinclair and Garibaldi first came aboard,
+       there was a timeflash. We saw what Sinclair saw, we have no idea
+       from that scene what Garibaldi saw. No reason he couldn't have
+       seen something from about that same period. It wasn't stated
+       either way at the time.
+     * _But Krantz said it was different for everyone._
+       Hey, who're you gonna believe, Krantz or me?
+       Besides, it could've been a sequence from the fall of B5, but not
+       that exact MOMENT, so it WOULD be different, so NYAH.
+       (suddenly I'm five years old)
+     * _How did Zack know about the White Star?_
+       The White Star has been common knowledge ever since it came in at
+       the end of "Severed Dreams." Certainly, by virtue of being
+       Garibaldi's second in command, he'd know about it. At this point,
+       most everything is out in the open now.
+     * I'm sure Garibaldi will eventually end up on the White Star; and
+       the Minbari will also probably begin slowly acquiring English, and
+       vice versa.
+     * _Why was Delenn so nervous after Sheridan vanished?_
+       She didn't know what was coming, and that worried her. She is most
+       secure when she has a definite plan of action, and variables
+       aren't something the Minbari are good at in any event, they're
+       very rigid and structured.
+       And we'll be seeing the Sigma walkers again in the not too distant
+       future. And some of their pals.
+     * _Was Sinclair speaking Minbari during his entire conversation with
+       Delenn, with English presented for the viewers' benefit?_
+       No, he slid into Minbari at that point to try and conceal what was
+       being said from the others on the bridge.
+     * _Why did Ivanova claim B5 was an Earth Alliance station?_
+       The name of the station is still the same; it was built by the
+       Earth Alliance. So that's how she'd refer to it.
+       
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
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+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Ambassador Sinclair returns to pull Babylon 4 through time
+     ([15]"Babylon Squared.") Part 2 of 2. [16]Michael O'Hare as
+     Ambassador Sinclair. [17]Tim Choate as Zathras. [18]Kent Broadhurst
+     as Major Krantz.
+     
+[19]P5 Rating: [20]9.40
+
+Production number: 317
+Original air week: May 20, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
+   _Note: this episode resolves several mysteries from past episodes.
+   Think twice before proceeding to the spoilers if you haven't seen it._
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * Sinclair and Zathras travelled back in time with Babylon 4. Since
+       the Minbari would never accept a station commanded by a human (a
+       race they hadn't encountered yet,) Sinclair entered a chrysalis
+       using the same kind of device Delenn used to become half human.
+       His transformation was complete, though, not halfway; to all
+       appearances he became a Minbari. When he arrived in the past, he
+       was accompanied by two Vorlons. He introduced himself to the
+       Minbari as Valen, and went on to lead the war and form the first
+       Grey Council.
+     * Later, he wrote himself a note describing what was to come, and
+       what he would have to do. He also wrote a note to Delenn.
+     * Sinclair's transformation caused the start of the migration of
+       Minbari souls to human bodies by linking the two species. Delenn's
+       transformation in the other direction was, in part, an attempt to
+       restore the balance that had been upset. (See [21]Notes)
+     * "The One," explains Zathras, is really three: Sinclair is The One
+       who was, Delenn is The One who is, and Sheridan is The One who
+       will be. The three are a whole, consistent with the Minbari
+       tendency to divide things into threes. (Or, perhaps, The One is
+       responsible for that tendency somehow, maybe due to Sinclair's
+       teachings.)
+     * Sheridan and Delenn, in at least one possible future, will have a
+       son named David.
+     * Londo, as emperor of a wrecked Centauri Republic seventeen years
+       after the start of the Shadow War, will be made to wear a
+       "keeper," a creature of some sort attached to the side of his
+       neck. It's visible only when asleep. When it's awake, it forces
+       him to do its bidding, apparently on behalf of the Shadows. In the
+       end, he will ask G'Kar to kill him before the keeper forces him to
+       betray Sheridan and Delenn. But the keeper will awaken as G'Kar
+       strangles Londo, and the two will die at each other's hands,
+       leaving an astonished Vir to pick up the imperial emblem.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Who was at the door in Delenn's flashforward? (See [22]Analysis)
+     * Was one of the Vorlons accompanying Sinclair Kosh? Was the other
+       the Vorlon who later spoke to Rathenn on Minbar in part 1? The two
+       encounter suits were the same as that Vorlon's.
+     * Why was there an explosive discharge when Sinclair touched
+       Delenn's suited hand?
+     * What became of Zathras? Did he have a hand in the planning of the
+       Great Machine?
+     * Is Sheridan's vision of the future inevitable?
+     * What is the price of victory over the Shadows, and why was Delenn
+       so dismayed about it?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * How did Sinclair get the chrysalis machine? Did the Vorlons supply
+       it? It seemed to do a much more thorough job on Sinclair than it
+       did on Delenn; in appearance, at least, Valen was a pure Minbari,
+       not half-human.
+       An odder explanation is that Sinclair got it from Delenn, who got
+       it (indirectly) from Valen; in that case, the machine was never
+       actually invented.
+     * When and how did the Vorlons board Babylon 4? There were two
+       Vorlon ships next to the station when the Minbari cruisers
+       approached it; did they come back in time with Sinclair, or did
+       the Vorlons of a thousand years ago know where and when B4 would
+       appear? Perhaps Sinclair called them.
+     * Delenn's transformation took several weeks. Presumably Sinclair's
+       was comparable. Did it take that much subjective time to travel
+       back 1000 years, or did the station sit unnoticed in the past
+       until Sinclair was ready? If the former, then the Vorlons must
+       have boarded the station while it was in transit through time
+       (assuming they gave Sinclair the machine.)
+     * Why did Sinclair choose to call himself Valen? Was it simply
+       because of the contents of his letter? In that case, nobody ever
+       actually invented the name; it was chosen because it was the name
+       he ended up using.
+     * Did the Grey Council realize that they'd captured Valen at the
+       Battle of the Line? Most likely not, or Delenn's counterpart
+       wouldn't have ordered her to kill him if he remembered what
+       happened ([23]"And the Sky Full of Stars.")
+     * On the other hand, if Delenn's transformation was really in part
+       an attempt to restore the balance upset by Sinclair's change a
+       thousand years earlier, then Delenn must have known about Valen's
+       true nature for quite some time. Perhaps she alone recognized
+       Sinclair's true identity at the Line, but couldn't tell the rest
+       of the Council, who almost certainly would refuse to believe what
+       she'd discovered.
+     * Why did the machine transform Delenn into a hybrid human and
+       Minbari, while Sinclair (from all outward appearances) was
+       transformed into a full Minbari? Did Delenn choose to only
+       transform herself halfway? If so, has she truly restored the
+       balance between humans and Minbari, or is there still something
+       left to do?
+     * Besides Delenn and the people on the White Star bridge, how many
+       others know Valen's true identity? If it became widespread, the
+       information might seriously alter the face of Minbari religion;
+       learning that their greatest spiritual leader was actually a
+       member of a race many of them hold in contempt would probably test
+       the faith of many Minbari.
+     * Sinclair flashed back to the Soul Hunter telling him that he was
+       being used, presumably by the Minbari ([24]"Soul Hunter.") Exactly
+       what did he mean by that? Perhaps there was a Soul Hunter present
+       at Valen's death, and Sinclair was familiar to them already. Or
+       maybe the Soul Hunter found out about Sinclair's eventual identity
+       when he peered into Delenn's mind.
+     * Probably of less significance, Sinclair's other memory was of
+       Neroon ([25]"Legacies,") who eventually ended up on the Grey
+       Council. What impact, if any, that had on Sinclair's tenure on
+       Minbar is unknown. Given Neroon's dismissal of the reason for the
+       Minbari surrender at the Line ([26]"All Alone in the Night") it
+       seems any respect he had for Sinclair was short-lived, and that if
+       the Council did know of Sinclair's true identity, Neroon didn't
+       believe it. Neroon was also Sinclair's prosecutor in comic issue
+       3, [27]"In Harm's Way."
+     * Now that Sinclair has travelled back in time, the accuracy of
+       Valen's prophecies is probably at an end. Valen could predict the
+       start of the Shadow War, and the breaking of the Grey Council,
+       because he'd lived through it, but anything after his departure to
+       the past is a complete unknown to him (unless, of course, the
+       Vorlons have some way of telling him.)
+     * The appearance of two Vorlons next to an unfamiliar Minbari might
+       not have been such a shock to the Minbari warriors who found
+       Sinclair. In [28]"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum," Delenn claimed that
+       the previous Shadow war marked the last time the ancients walked
+       openly among the younger races. So it's entirely possible that the
+       appearance of a Vorlon was, if not commonplace, then nothing
+       resembling miraculous.
+       On the other hand, the two Vorlons were flying above encounter
+       suits; maybe they've been secretive all along, and even when they
+       walked openly among the other races, always hid behind masks. That
+       would make sense if they wanted to maintain the illusion of
+       angelic appearance, since as Kosh said in [29]"Matters of Honor,"
+       maintaining that appearance in front of a lot of people is a great
+       strain on a Vorlon.
+     * Did Babylon 4 travel through space as well as time, or did it
+       appear in what would later become Sector 14? If the latter, does
+       its appearance there have anything to do with the location of the
+       Great Machine?
+     * What is Londo's "keeper?" Who gave it to him? What exactly is it
+       forcing him to do, and why? The fact that it's invisible when
+       awake suggests that it's associated with the Shadows, who have
+       mastered the art of invisibility.
+     * Does Morden have a keeper too? Is that why the Shadows treat him
+       as an equal -- because they know he'll never betray their cause?
+       Or maybe the _Shadows_ are being controlled by some other party,
+       though that seems unlikely.
+     * "We all have our keepers," Londo says. Does that include Sheridan
+       and Delenn? Perhaps there's a connection between Londo's guest and
+       the dream sequence in [30]"All Alone in the Night," in which
+       Ivanova and Garibaldi both have birds on their shoulders.
+     * By granting a reprieve to Sheridan and Delenn, Londo may be
+       fulfilling one of his chances for redemption ([31]"Point of No
+       Return.") Morella told him he must not kill the one who is already
+       dead; perhaps that refers to Sheridan -- who certainly qualifies
+       as "the one" now in another context. Londo's greeting in part 1,
+       "Welcome back from the abyss, Sheridan," tends to support this
+       possibility, though of course it's not clear what Londo meant by
+       that.
+       Kosh's warning to Sheridan in [32]"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" and
+       [33]"Interludes and Examinations," "If you go to Z'ha'dum, you
+       will die," probably also ties into this, especially since, judging
+       by Delenn's plea, it seems that Sheridan has gone to Z'ha'dum at
+       some point in the intervening seventeen years. The "death" Kosh
+       referred to may simply be the death of innocence as noted by
+       Delenn, and not literal physical death.
+       Londo's death at G'Kar's hand may also be the last part of
+       Morella's prophecy; death may be Londo's greatest fear, or perhaps
+       death with the knowledge that he hasn't righted his wrongs.
+     * Londo's dream in [34]"The Coming of Shadows," in which he sees a
+       fleet of Shadow ships flying overhead while he stands alone in a
+       desolate wasteland, may be a vision of the Shadows' minions coming
+       to Centauri Prime as he says they did.
+     * Kosh's prediction to the Centauri Emperor in [35]"The Coming of
+       Shadows" appears to be literally true: For Centauri Prime, the war
+       has ended in fire.
+     * What were the Centauri, or perhaps someone else, trying to get out
+       of Delenn? She refused to answer their questions, she says; what
+       were they trying to learn? It appears the Centauri captured her,
+       which implies there's still a conflict of some kind going on, even
+       after the Shadows have been driven off. The presence of Londo's
+       keeper makes it unclear that the Centauri were the ones trying to
+       question her.
+     * "We created something that will endure for a thousand years,"
+       Delenn tells Sheridan. What will they create? And what happens in
+       a thousand years -- will the Shadows return again and break up
+       their creation, much as Valen's creation, the Grey Council, has
+       recently been destroyed?
+     * In the Centauri cell, Delenn tells Sheridan, "Our son is safe.
+       Nothing else matters." Why is David in danger, and what has Delenn
+       done to ensure his safety?
+     * What could possibly happen to G'Kar in the intervening seventeen
+       years to cause Londo to refer to him as an "old friend?" Londo, of
+       course, may simply have been speaking facetiously -- but in that
+       case, what was G'Kar doing in the Centauri palace?
+     * Is death at G'Kar's hands Londo's greatest fear, and thus his
+       final chance for redemption ([36]"Point of No Return?") Or is his
+       fear more abstract than that, the fear that his death dream will
+       come to pass as he's envisioned it?
+     * When Londo sees himself strangled by G'Kar in his dream, does he
+       know that it's at his own request? How much of the context of his
+       death does he know already?
+     * In [37]Babylon Squared," the crewman who sees the blue-suited
+       figure appear in the hallway tells Krantz, "It's back." Presumably
+       the B4 crew had seen Sheridan appearing and disappearing, since
+       Delenn had only recently switched places with him.
+     * Delenn appears in the hallway in the present time (or rather, the
+       same timeframe she'd reached via the White Star,) so in that
+       specific instance there was no time-shifting, just movement
+       through space. How did she do that? Perhaps, as she implied in
+       Part One, the Minbari have the technology for rudimentary time
+       manipulation, so she used something from the White Star.
+     * The woman at the door in Delenn's flashforward causes her to drop
+       the snowglobe in shock. Very few people would cause someone as
+       poised as Delenn to do that. One of them, though, and one whose
+       arrival has been foreshadowed, would be Anna Sheridan.
+     * Why does Delenn urge Sheridan to avoid going to Z'ha'dum? If he
+       has already gone there by the time she is thrown into the cell
+       with him, then Kosh's prediction about Sheridan dying if he goes
+       there is wrong, or at least not as immediate as it originally
+       sounded. On the other hand, the fact that they have a son is good
+       evidence the two of them will become much closer; perhaps the
+       arrival of Anna Sheridan (if that's who's at the door in Delenn's
+       flashforward) will complicate their relationship, and it's to
+       avoid finding out about Anna that Delenn tells Sheridan to stay
+       away from Z'ha'dum.
+     * Are the flashforwards completely random, or might there be
+       something guiding people to visions of certain events? The Vorlons
+       appear to have some perception that extends beyond time; perhaps
+       they are manipulating that perception when it appears, even
+       briefly, in others.
+     * The assumption at the end of the episode seems to be that by
+       successfully pulling Babylon 4 back in time, the crew has averted
+       the Shadow attack on Babylon 5 in eight days, in which Ivanova
+       sends out the distress call heard in part one. Does that mean that
+       Sinclair's flashforward to the firefight aboard B5 has also been
+       averted? What about Lady Ladira's vision of the destruction of
+       Babylon 5? ([38]"Signs and Portents") If all those glimpses of the
+       future are no longer true, how much validity do the remaining ones
+       have? Each of them could be from a completely different possible
+       future, none of which will end up ever taking place.
+     * Was Zathras supposed to tell Sheridan, Delenn, and Sinclair about
+       The One? Were Draal's instructions simply to not reveal anything
+       until prompted by Sinclair?
+       Where did he come up with the term, and with its definition? If he
+       knows Sheridan is The One who will be, he must have been using the
+       Great Machine to peer forward in time (not unreasonable, given its
+       obvious time-bending abilities.) Will Draal be able to do the same
+       and offer insights into the events to come? Zathras implies that
+       perhaps he can do things even Draal can't, and that may be one of
+       them.
+     * The distinction between the three members of The One echoes the
+       migration of Minbari souls. Sinclair, after his transformation,
+       appears to be fully Minbari, and is The One who was. Delenn is
+       halfway between human and Minbari, and is The One who is. Sheridan
+       is completely human and is The One who will be. Perhaps it's
+       symbolic of a shift of power from the Minbari to humanity.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Inconsistencies with [39]"Babylon Squared" (B2). See also [40]jms
+       speaks.
+          + Not an inconsistency per se, but in B2, there was no mention
+            by Krantz of the explosion of the Shadow bomb or the presence
+            of possibly hostile personnel on the station, which he
+            definitely knew about in WWE2. If it's not an inconsistency,
+            why didn't he mention it to Sinclair?
+          + In B2, Krantz told Sinclair that Zathras was first seen in a
+            conference room. "There was a flash, and there he was,"
+            Krantz said. In this episode, Zathras was discovered in a
+            supply room by security guards.
+          + Zathras tells Sinclair and Krantz that The One has stopped
+            B4's motion through time to let the crew get off. But in
+            WWE2, the station appears in 2258 by accident after Major
+            Krantz unexpectedly powers up the time equipment. And the
+            idea of faking a power drop in the fusion reactor to cause
+            the crew to evacuate was Ivanova's, not any of The One's.
+          + In B2, when The One appears in the corridor, there are
+            audible grunts of pain; they're clearly in a male voice, not
+            a female one.
+          + When Sinclair returns to the station and removes his helmet,
+            the B2 version of events includes a computer voice intoning,
+            "Present time atmosphere now breathable." No such voice is
+            heard in WWE2, though arguably Delenn was meeting him just
+            inside an airlock, and the suit computer was referring to the
+            fact that there was no longer a vacuum outside.
+          + Delenn puts her hand on Sinclair's shoulder in B2, and her
+            arm is draped in a red robe. But in WWE2, she's wearing much
+            darker colors.
+     * Another possible inconsistency: Delenn claims that Sinclair's
+       transformation began the migration of Minbari souls to human
+       bodies that ultimately led to the end of the Earth-Minbari War.
+       However, in [41]"Points of Departure," Lennier claims that the
+       soul migration has been going on for roughly two millenia, twice
+       as far back as Sinclair took Babylon 4.
+     * The voice at the door seems to be that of Bruce Boxleitner's
+       real-life wife, Melissa Gilbert, though of course that doesn't
+       imply anything about which character she'll be playing on the
+       show. However, she's been announced as a guest star in the
+       [42]season finale, so the flashforward may well have been only a
+       month or two ahead.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * YAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH.....
+       Well, I *finally* finished writing the two-parter, "War Without
+       End," which is probably the toughest thing I've written for the
+       series to date. Given everything that has to fit in here, and the
+       fact that it's the other half of the B4 storyline (this ain't a
+       spoiler, that'll be common knowledge in ads and the like), it
+       became a pretty difficult job, moreso than when I'd originally
+       thunk it up. It's kinda like cramming 20 pounds of potatoes in a
+       10 pound bag...but I *think* I got it all in, even though the
+       initial drafts came out at about 7 pages too long. As I commented
+       to one person, "I'm definitely dancing on the edge of my ability
+       here." But I'm pretty sure I pulled it all off...and I think folks
+       are going to be quite pleased.
+       But *man* that was tough....
+       Now, having written 16 and 17, only 5 scripts remain to be written
+       for this season. And there's still an awful lot to fit in before
+       the big season ender, which I suspect will raise quite a few
+       eyebrows.
+     * In my last general posting to rastb5, I mentioned that from time
+       to time, I'd try to post the occasional "letter to home" just to
+       keep folks up to date on matters Babylonian. Now that I can catch
+       a breather, I figured I'd take this opportunity to do so (though
+       since it's 3:15 a.m., this'll likely be short).
+       "catching a breather" refers to the script situation. I've just
+       finished writing 316 and 317, the two parter, "War Without End,"
+       which was a very difficult task, given the amount of story and
+       logistics that had to be put into it. While writing "Babylon
+       Squared," to which this is the flip-side, I figured, "Oh, sure,
+       yeah, I can get this all in on the other side, no problem," but
+       when it came time to do it, it got awful tight, but finally I fit
+       it *all* in. (Well, all except one teeny, tiny sentence, about
+       where Zathras was first seen, and how, 'cause to do what I'd first
+       had in mind would've taken another 3 pages, and I didn't have
+       that, so that one element I'll have to just deal with later
+       somehow. But that's it.) Hopefully, one need never have seen B2 in
+       order to watch and follow WWE. (Which was one of the hard parts,
+       since B2 may or may not be aired prior to this, all the background
+       information *had* to be in the episodes, so that's a lot of
+       background to include.)
+       This now leaves 5 episodes to be written for this season. At this
+       point, Lyta should factor strongly in one or two of these, there
+       will be some direct confrontations between our side and the
+       shadows, then a really nasty final episode for year three.
+     * "One would find it hard to believe that episodes like "Severed
+       Dreams", "I&E","A Late Delvery From Avalon" and of course, WWE
+       could be written by the same guy. The pace, dialog, everything are
+       adapted so well for each episode."
+       Suddenly I'm having an identity crisis....
+       I like to try different styles for different moods. I also like to
+       vary the tone of the show; one will be more comedic, as with Sic
+       Transit Vir, others much darker, like Ship of Tears. I enjoy
+       trying new things, risking a bit, failing on occasion, but
+       learning in the process.
+     * As I wrote the episodes prior to WWE2, I kept leading up to that
+       first kiss, over and over, but deliberately never quite getting
+       there. I knew that when it came time to do it, I wanted to do it
+       in just the way you describe...it would and wouldn't be a first
+       kiss, both at exactly the same time. So there's the moment
+       everyone's been waiting for, but not in quite the way anyone had
+       expected.
+     * I knew everyone would be waiting for that first kiss, so I made
+       sure it was different, that it was a first kiss for one of them,
+       but not the other, that it was natural and totally unforced and
+       surprising. So for Sheridan, his first kiss of Delenn was actually
+       his second (by a long ways), and his second, when it comes, will
+       be her first.
+       Just can't do anything the conventional way on this show....
+     * _Did you write WWE at the same time as B2?_
+       No, I didn't write them at the same time, but I did a basic
+       outline of what the follow-up (WWE) would be, so it'd all match up
+       when the time came to show that half of the story.
+     * It all has to hang together, or it's kinda useless. It just
+       required working out the details of what was, is, and will be.
+       Then I walked on water....
+     * _Did Sinclair's departure from the show cause changes in the B4
+       storyline? Was it originally meant to go into the future?_
+       No, B4 was never intended to go forward in time. The aging was
+       done pretty much as intended. And the Soul Hunter meant they're
+       using him to create their old Leader. Still tracks. I'll have more
+       to say about all this after everyone's seen the episode.
+     * The curious thing...the interesting thing...is that in just about
+       everything I've ever written, yes, I generally follow where I want
+       to go, end up where I want to end up, but once I get *into* it,
+       once the characters come alive on the page, I inevitably find
+       better ways of doing things, stronger and more muscular paths to
+       the story, more interesting side roads.
+       Also, this original story was worked out in 1986/87; that's nearly
+       ten years ago. In those ten years, I've become -- or like to think
+       I've become -- a better writer, learned more, written more, picked
+       up some new tools I didn't have then. So you have a situation
+       where the writer in 1996 looks at the writer in 1986 and says,
+       "No, listen...there's a better way. Yes, we'll still get to
+       Disneyland on time, you'll still have plenty of time to ride the
+       haunted mansion...but if we go *this* way, we can stop off and
+       also see Knotts Berry Farm, and the Winchester Mystery Mansion,
+       and maybe even Hearst Castle on the way."
+       The destination is still the same..but I've found a *lot* more
+       interesting ways of getting there. Which, after all, is what an
+       outline is for: a safe home base that allows you to wander off,
+       knowing that you can always return to it if you get lost.
+     * Foreshadowing is tough, because it implies the audience is going
+       to BE there x-years down the road to Get It, and you have to risk
+       the audience going "huh?" one time too many and wandering
+       away...but nothing good comes without risk.
+     * _Why "War Without End?"_
+       As Delenn says, the war is never entirely over...there are always
+       new battle to be fought. If it ain't the shadows, it's the shadows
+       over Earthdome of a more human nature.
+     * "When dealing with an ep with a lot of flashbacks or reused
+       footage (WWE, especially part 2), how much freedom does the
+       director have? Does he/she have to match the style of the
+       previously show footage (in terms of angles, close ups, pacing,
+       etc), or is there more room for the director's own style?"
+       In the case of WWE, you had to match lighting and composition
+       pretty closely. That's about the only time it's really become an
+       issue.
+       "(one more question: if someone other than you had written
+       "Babylon Squared", would they have to be paid royalties for the
+       reuse of parts of that episodes script and footage in "War Without
+       End"?)"
+       Anyone who writes a scene which is reused gets residuals. Doesn't
+       matter if it's me or anybody else, as a Writers Guild member, it's
+       guaranteed and required. Also the actors, the director, and others
+       get re-use fees of varying amounts depending on how long the
+       sequence is.
+     * The Garibaldi scenes in part 2 were all from the first season.
+     * _Zathras looked familiar. Was the character created by the actor?_
+       Well, Zathras appeared in Babylon Squared, so you might have seen
+       him there. Beyond that...no, the actor came to what was written on
+       the page and made it come to life, but didn't invent the
+       character. I just sorta thunk him up. It's what I do.
+     * _Londo looks older, but Sheridan and Delenn don't._
+       No, both Sheridan and Delenn *are* made up older. If you
+       particularly look at Delenn out in the light of later scenes in
+       WWE2, you can DEFINITELY see the difference. With Sheridan, it's a
+       greying of the hair, and some lining on the face. Londo, though,
+       if you recall, is much older than Sheridan to begin with.
+     * It was a good sendoff. (At one point, Bruce said to me over lunch,
+       with Michael sitting with us, "Hey, so how come HE gets to go off
+       and become the next best thing to God and I get the crap kicked
+       out of me?" I shrugged. "Seniority.")
+     * The scenes with Zathras pinned under the strut were the same
+       scenes from B2, we didn't reshoot that material.
+       The hardest shot was matching the lighting and composition in the
+       central corridor *exactly* for the Ivanova-on-the-link scene, and
+       the walk by seconds later by Garibaldi and Sinclair. That came out
+       pretty seamless.
+     * _Why does Krantz have a leather strap on his uniform, when there
+       weren't leather straps in "The Gathering?"_
+       The leather strip was also present when we shot the original,
+       Babylon Squared, in year one. I was kinda thinking at the time
+       that the change was gradually being introduced in various
+       divisions of Earthforce. Krantz is from the Marines division, I
+       believe (note the brown uniform), from that part which functions
+       sort of like the Army Corps of Engineers, overseeing the building
+       of space stations and the like. Since it takes time to introduce a
+       uniform change across divisions and light years, I figured some
+       might have them earlier than others, or to try them out. So I gave
+       Krantz the leather strip.
+     * _The B4 insignia looks like a 3._
+       Those aren't 3s, those are Bs in which there's a stylized 4.
+     * _[43]About the "Babylon Squared" inconsistencies_
+       Yes, the conference room thing is a glitch, in that I had the way
+       to do it, but it would've meant adding about 3 minutes to the
+       episode, and I just couldn't fit it in.
+       (It basically would've involved him being hidden in the room when
+       there's a timeflash.)
+       Ivanova et al *were* working actively to get the crew to evacuate,
+       using the fake reactor reading. If they hadn't really cared about
+       it, they would've let the station continue running through time to
+       its destination, or the present; they fought to stop it so they
+       could let the crew get off.
+       No, Delenn hadn't been appearing/disappearing before this, but
+       Sheridan *had*, so it's reasonable to assume he was seen. Also, we
+       don't know how much time passed between the sighting we notice,
+       and the alert to Krantz.
+       We couldn't match the clothing properly, so we dispensed with it.
+     * I know about the sleeve...and actually she didn't touch him in
+       WWE2. It was one of those days when it was a hideous production
+       schedule, and I wasn't on set, and it slipped by everybody else.
+     * The element I couldn't quite fit into War....
+       In B2, Krantz says they found Zathras when there was a flash, and
+       he appeared in a conference room.
+       Now, I sketched out that scene when it came time to actually write
+       the whole WWE two-parter. What happened, basically, was that
+       Zathras was passing by a room where he saw the one piece he still
+       needed to finish his repairs on the time stabalizer. He slips in,
+       as best he can, unnoticed...the meeting goes on as he goes under a
+       table to get the piece of equipment...he finishes just as there's
+       another time-flash...as it ends, momentarily disoriented, he's
+       discovered, and captured.
+       This would've matched what was in B2, as I'd intended.
+       Unfortunately, it added several minutes of screen time that I
+       couldn't afford. I would've had to cut something somewhere else,
+       and that script was so tight it screamed as it was. So I had to
+       fudge how I did that and let the small inconsistency go. The only
+       other thing I could've cut, the one moveable piece, was Sinclair
+       trying to radio Garibaldi at the end...and I didn't want to lose
+       that.
+     * No, WWE couldn't have been 3 episodes. Yes, it had enough story
+       for it, and then some, but you can't take one storyline and
+       stretch it out that far. I wouldn't have done it even if I could.
+       I'd've had to introduce a B story just to break it up a little,
+       because 3 hours of just a straight line one-story plot is murder.
+       And that defeats the purpose of expanding it.
+     * _Will we see Garibaldi's reaction to finding out about Sinclair
+       being Valen?_
+       I think it'd be hard to just drop in Garibaldi's attitudes about
+       Valen without it having something to do with an episode; if it
+       doesn't move that particular episode along, it shouldn't be there.
+       So that sort of thing is tough to pull off, making the show more
+       unfriendly to new viewers.
+     * _Wasn't sending a message to Garibaldi a big risk? And why didn't
+       he tell Garibaldi before the shuttle left?_
+       I think his message to Garibaldi was a momentary lapse, it wasn't
+       something he'd planned, his emotions momentarily got in the way of
+       his reason. To do so would be dangerous, so it wasn't done by him.
+     * Throughout the episode, whenever there's a tachyon burst, pretty
+       much everyone has a timeflash of one sort or another (as also
+       mentioned in Babylon Squared).
+     * _Why did Delenn leave the White Star?_
+       Mainly just a feeling she had, best to check everything out for
+       herself, make sure things were going properly, since they were
+       getting right down to the wire. Also, in case Ivanova got into
+       trouble trying to get into C&C, she wanted to be closer to the
+       situation to help, if necessary.
+     * When Delenn takes off her stabilizer and puts it on Sheridan,
+       taking on his suit for whatever small protection it might offer,
+       at that point he stabalized and she became lost/unstuck in time.
+       So it was she who appeared in the last sequence there. She took
+       the risk to ensure saving Sheridan.
+     * 1. Since you've stated that the Babylon squared time travel
+       incident would be the only one for the entire series, is there any
+       way we might get answers to some of the questions that seemed to
+       be raised from the far future?
+       In a sense.
+       2. How much will sinclair's knowledge of the future affect what is
+       to come?
+       Sinclair has no further knowledge of the future; he knows only
+       what he saw up through and including the White Star.
+       3. The question I'm really dying for an answer to though, is this:
+       Hasn't this episode in a sense made a large part of the arc
+       anti-climactic? I mean, we now know that the forces of light are
+       victorious again, at least to some degree, we know of David (named
+       for sinclair?), we know what becomes of Londo etc. Whenever most
+       of the major characters are in a life threatening situation, we
+       now know that they survive it (it would seem).
+       We also "knew" that G'Kar would strangle Londo...what you didn't
+       have was context. As we saw in part two, context is everything,
+       and getting there is half the fun.
+     * It's a literary...I hate to say the word trick, but it's the most
+       descriptive. You show somebody the end right off the bat, as we
+       did with the Londo/G'Kar scene. But how do we get there? What
+       happens? Yes, the war is eventually won...but what *was* the
+       price? And what does it mean to everyone involved?
+       The best magic is when it's right there in your face, and you
+       can't see how it's being done.
+     * What happens with the future of Londo and G'Kar...is what you see.
+       Course, how they got there is the meat of the story.
+     * Showing the end of a story at or near the middle is a literary
+       device that's sometimes used by novelists that can be very
+       effective, if used properly. It shows you what happens, but leaves
+       open *how* you got there, and what it means.
+     * The storyline began millions of years ago.
+       We're coming in in the middle of the story.
+       But then, that can be said of all of us.
+     * _Does this blow the mystery of whether Sheridan goes to Z'ha'dum?_
+       Who said there was a mystery about Sheridan going to Z'ha'dum?
+       Kosh seems to treat it as a fait accompli; so does Sheridan. It
+       seems fated that he will go...the question is when, why, and under
+       what circumstances, with what results?
+       See, sometimes the story works in the shadows (so to speak)...and
+       other times we're right out in the open, we hand you the playbook
+       and tell you we're coming right up the middle. And *that's* when
+       you've got to really worry.
+     * Sheridan wouldn't know anything of what happened after he blipped
+       out of that future situation.
+       As for David, remember that Sheridan's father is also David.
+     * Sheridan's stabilizer basically broke into two major pieces, the
+       front section which fell off in the White Star, and the back half
+       which was still clipped to his belt, and later came off as Zathras
+       watched.
+     * _Is David the Third Age of Mankind?_
+       Not as such.
+     * _Will we see him?_
+       Well, I wouldn't want to preclude anything at this point.
+     * _Were the Minbari fighting amongst themselves before Valen
+       arrived?_
+       There was certainly some division among Minbari; Valen
+       straightened a lot of that out.
+     * That divisiveness has been growing lately, culminating in the
+       breakup of the Grey Council which Valen formed. There's bound to
+       be some fallout....
+     * _Did the Council know Sinclair was Valen when they demanded he be
+       B5's commander?_
+       No, they didn't know at the time; most of them were still trying
+       to figure the whole damned thing out; some refused to accept it,
+       and if he was indeed bogus, wanted him killed to avoid becoming a
+       false prophet and undoing Minbari society; some *did* believe it
+       was him. This disagreement in a sense became the first loose
+       thread in unraveling parts of Minbari society.
+     * _Did Delenn know?_
+       She had suspicions starting from the Battle of the Line; we'll
+       have more on that later.
+       Yes, the Grey Council knows [now], but the general Minbari
+       population does not know.
+     * _Where did the chrysalis machine come from?_
+       The machine came up with Zathras from Epsilon 3. It first appeared
+       with Sinclair, then later got into Delenn's hands. So she still
+       has that version of it.
+     * Re: the Chrysalis device...it came from Epsilon 3. There was one
+       shot that should've been made more of, where we see a long box
+       with a silver triangle on one side being set up, and left.
+       Unfortunately, the shot didn't make much of it (you can see
+       Zathras putting it out there), and a later shot we dropped showing
+       it again because it wasn't properly featured and you couldn't
+       really tell what it was. There was so much in this episode that
+       had to be pulled off, in a short amount of time, that sometimes
+       things in the background don't get framed as they might be. But
+       that's where it came from: from Epsilon 3 to Sinclair to Delenn,
+       who still has it.
+     * It was on Epsilon 3, then taken into the past with B4, held on
+       Minbar until Delenn got it, and still has it.
+     * _And the triluminary?_
+       It originated on Epsilon 3.
+     * The Londo stuff is just incredibly powerful...very moving. As for
+       the voice...well, we'll just have to wait a bit, won't we?
+     * Re: G'Kar and Londo changing positions as Sinclair and Sheridan
+       have done, these two moving from certainty to uncertainty in
+       either direction, that ain't bad. That ain't bad at *all*. I like
+       symmetry, and both journeys are interesting explorations. What
+       I've been doing in complex terms, you explained in an
+       astonishingly few words.
+     * I seem to recall, after that Londo/G'Kar scene was shown the last
+       time, posting somewhere that folks now knew *what* has happened,
+       but they don't yet know the *context*. Very few picked up on that
+       and thought to actually reverse what they *thought* they were
+       seeing to what they *might* be seeing.
+     * Will you see Londo and G'Kar together later this season?
+       Hmmmm......
+       Yes and no.
+     * _Whose eye opened during the strangulation?_
+       The eye was of the keeper on Londo's shoulder, you can see G'Kar's
+       fingers gripping a part of it. It woke up.
+     * _About G'Kar's eye_
+       One of his eyes had been plucked out some time before.
+     * Londo does not currently have a Keeper attached to him.
+     * You needn't concern yourself with the keeper...for a while yet.
+     * Vir doesn't have a keeper. They would, of course, try to take care
+       of that detail afterward.
+     * It's not a shadow host, no, but one of the many things that work
+       for them.
+     * _Will we see Kosh in the past?_
+       Not exactly, not as you might think, but in a sense....
+     * Suffice to say that Kosh knew Valen from way, way back....
+     * _If Kosh recognized Sinclair as Valen, why were the Vorlons so
+       anxious to extradite Sinclair in [44]"The Gathering?"_
+       He could only recognize him once he actually saw him, and that
+       didn't happen until he arrived at B5, after which he wasn't in any
+       condition to talk to anyone until after things were over.
+     * _But surely they must have known he was B5's first commander?_
+       Bear in mind that there have been lots of folks named Sinclair in
+       the last 900 years; that we don't know how much Valen told anyone
+       about his prior life; that the Minbari had had little to no direct
+       contact with the Vorlons in well over a hundred years and likely
+       would not have told them what they found at the Battle of the Line
+       until such time as personal contact had been made again, which
+       only happened at Kosh's arrival...and there wasn't exactly time to
+       make a report after he rolled into B5 for the first time.
+     * _How did they know to meet Babylon 4? Prescience?_
+       Well, the other obvious solution, since the Vorlons were then out
+       and running around and actively involved in the war of that time
+       period, he just sent out a signal, and they got there first.
+     * _But they accepted the station right away._
+       Given that there's a massive war on, they just had their major
+       starbase destroyed, they were left without a platform from which
+       to stage the last part of the war...and here comes someone
+       offering a 6 mile long, perfectly empty and eminently useable base
+       for the last phase of the war, no charge...hell, I'd take him up
+       on it too.
+     * _Did B4 have more firepower than B5?_
+       Yeah, B4 had more firepower, and it had one thing B5
+       doesn't...engines that can move it forward if necessary.
+     * _Did the Minbari recognize the Vorlons?_
+       They'd recognize them from legends of their own past, yes. But
+       bear in mind that the Minbari and Vorlons had already been working
+       together in the war effort.
+     * The Vorlons were called in after B4 arrived.
+     * When you see a LOT of vorlons together, that's when it's time to
+       run like hell.
+     * _How long did Sinclair live after going back?_
+       He lived close to a hundred years as a Minbari; they're a long
+       lived race, and they did all they could to maintain his health as
+       one of their truly great figures.
+     * Valen did not have any children. And there's some difference of
+       opinion over exactly what Valen's final fate was.
+     * There are some legends about Valen returning someday, but so far
+       they've been only legends, nothing more.
+     * The Valen aspect was set up in the first season, long before
+       anything was decided about Michael.
+     * I'd love to someday tell the story of Valen and Zathras in the
+       most recent shadow war. It's quite a tale, actually....
+     * _Is this Zathras' exit from the series?_
+       I'd love to see Zathras again somehow....
+     * I'm often tempted to create Zathras' brother, Mathras, or
+       somesuch, if only for the look of terror in their eyes when he
+       says, of Zathras, "Ah, yes...Zathras...was the quiet one in the
+       family...."
+       Who knows, it might be something I might do someday....
+     * _Is Zathras "the man in between" from Sheridan's dream ([45]"All
+       Alone in the Night?")_
+       No, Zathras isn't the man in the middle. Someone else is. And it
+       isn't/wasn't Sinclair, either.
+     * Valen only knew what Sinclair would've known. Zathras wasn't
+       speaking from what Sinclair had told him, but on the basis of
+       things he'd figured out on his own.
+     * Sinclair went back because he would always go back and always went
+       back; the "alternate" timeline phrase isn't quite correct... t's
+       more like the moment when the two possible wave forms of
+       *possibilities* must collapse into one probability or certainty,
+       both tugging at the same time. For instance, you've got
+       Shroedinger's cat, put into a box, with a 50/50 chance of a poison
+       gas capsule opening and killing the cat. At the instant before you
+       open the box, Shroedinger said, the cat is neither dead nor alive,
+       but *both*, until you open the box and the two possibilities
+       collapse into one. It isn't that the cat had two alternate
+       timelines, only that there were two possibilities fighting it out
+       to become the real one.
+       That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+     * _What happened to Babylon 4?_
+       B4 survived the prior shadow war, but in very bad shape; didn't
+       last much longer after that.
+     * _Does the future with the Shadow attack no longer exist?_
+       Yes. Up until that moment, the total forces available to the
+       shadows were an unknown to us...sort of like Shroedinger's Cat, is
+       it alive in the box or is it dead? It could be either one. If they
+       didn't go into the past, didn't affect the outcome, it would be
+       one reality; if they did, then it'd be another. As soon as they
+       achieved one or the other of those two, the two possible results
+       collapsed into the one, singular possibility.
+     * _Will Delenn and Sheridan have to pay too high a price for their
+       victory and happiness?_
+       Depends on how you define "too high" a price.
+     * What they were after from Delenn was info relevant to that time,
+       some of it related to their son.
+     * The reason Delenn dropped the globe will be gone into by the end
+       of the season; as for "when will (you) no longer be confused?"
+       that's rather outside my purview. Have you considered meditation?
+     * _Was Delenn a passive observer in her flash?_
+       She more just saw it as a passive recipient, whereas he was
+       actively There.
+     * There's not much point to asking me "when are we going to learn
+       who Delenn saw in her flashforward." Or similar questions. I will
+       not throw away the impact of something happening in an episode by
+       blowing it out in a message. There have to be surprises along the
+       way. You'll see it when it happens.
+     * You'll have to wait and see who entered the room.
+     * Time travel isn't that easy, and at this juncture it will never
+       happen again in the B5 universe.
+     * Sheridan, by taking the actions he took to keep history on track,
+       has now pretty much assured that the events we see *will* happen.
+     * Events will unfold as we saw them. Sheridan might try to use his
+       knowledge to change things...but who knows, that may just bring
+       them about.
+     * Of course there's free will. But if I pull a trigger, and the
+       bullet flies out hitting someone in the head, what happens between
+       the moment of the trigger, and the impact, has nothing to do with
+       free will. Sheridan made the choice -- free will -- to do what was
+       done in WWE. There were two probable results, depending on whether
+       he did or didn't do as asked. Once he did that, the two
+       probabilities folded into one actuality (a la Shroedinger's Cat).
+       Which doesn't mean to say he won't *try* to change things....
+     * _What did Zathras mean when he said he was the oldest living
+       caretaker of the Machine?_
+       Just that Zathras has worked on the machine, and survived it, the
+       longest of all the others.
+     * _From George Johnsen, co-producer_
+       The Zathras tool is not a speed loader, but a wrench of some sort.
+       There is this wonderful electronic surplus store down the street
+       from the stage, and the place is swarming with art directors from
+       all over the basin. Our folks also frequent this place, and came
+       back one day with a box marked "interesting shapes $10". At any
+       other place in the world, this would be a box of recyclables at
+       best or a box of garbage at worst. In Hollywood, however........
+       it is a box of tools for Zathras!
+       
+
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Lyta tests the limits of the Shadows' newly-discovered weakness.
+     Dr. Franklin goes on a journey to discover his place in life, and
+     meets a singer in Downbelow. The new Ambassador Kosh arrives on the
+     station. [15]Erica Gimpel as Cailyn. [16]Jennifer Balgobin as Dr.
+     Hobbs. [17]Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander. [18]Robin Sachs as
+     Na'Kal.
+     
+[19]P5 Rating: [20]7.89
+
+Production number: 318
+Original air week: August 18, 1996 (UK)
+                   September 30, 1996 (US)
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Kevin Cremin
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * Lyta has previously carried "pieces" of Kosh with her. This is
+       most likely what she was doing at the end of [21]"Passing Through
+       Gethsemane."
+     * At least ten Narn ships have survived the battle with the
+       Centauri, damaged but able to be repaired. A new Narn fleet seems
+       to be gathering.
+     * It takes the White Star 20 minutes to recharge its jump engines
+       after they've been taken offline and their energy diverted into
+       the weapons systems.
+     * The Vorlons are a long-lived race, are relatively few in number,
+       and death is a rarity among them. It had been a very long time
+       since a Vorlon had died.
+     * Franklin is a Foundationist. The Foundation apparently borrows
+       customs and beliefs from various cultures, perhaps in the belief
+       that no one people has all the right spiritual answers.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+   [INLINE]
+     * What was the message the Vorlon ship showed to Sheridan?
+     * Lyta, a P5, could barely hold one Shadow ship at bay. How much
+       telepathic energy is required to defeat a Shadow ship? What effect
+       would a high-rated telepath like Bester have on a Shadow vessel?
+     * Is Lyta still "only" a P5, or has she been enhanced by her
+       relationship with Kosh?
+     * Why does the new Vorlon insist on being called Kosh in public and
+       private? What does he mean by his statement that "We are all
+       Kosh?" (see [22]Analysis)
+     * Where did the pattern in Kosh's quarters come from, and what does
+       it mean? (see [23]Analysis)
+     * Why did Lyta bleed from her eyes during the battle? Was it just
+       the strain, or is there some deeper explanation?
+     * Why didn't the forces of Light take the destroyed Shadow craft in
+       tow for analysis?
+     * Why didn't the Minbari cruiser open fire on the "held" shadows?
+     * Lyta required 'line of sight' to the Shadow ship in order to
+       attack it. Did the Minbari telepaths also need to see the Shadows
+       in order to attack them?
+     * How did the Vorlon ship know where to find Sheridan?
+     * Does the "piece" of Kosh that may be left behind in Sheridan have
+       anything to do with Sheridan's place as "The One?" How might it
+       fit in with Kosh's statement that if Sheridan goes to Z'ha'dum, he
+       will die? It may explain Kosh's final words to Sheridan: "As long
+       as you're here, I'll always be here."
+     * Do the Shadows know a piece of Kosh survived?
+     * Does the different style and color of the new Vorlon ambassador's
+       encounter suit denote anything?
+     * Is this the same Vorlon who was on Minbar in [24]"War Without
+       End?"
+     * How did G'Kar manage to persuade the other races to come to
+       Sheridan's aid in his battle against the Shadows?
+       
+Analysis
+
+   [INLINE]
+     * The strange pattern which the new Vorlon sees on the screen in
+       Kosh's quarters could be a representation of Kosh's death. It
+       could be construed as a diagram of two or more Shadows attacking a
+       Vorlon. It could also be construed as a diagram of Shadows being
+       accompanied by a human. Presumably the human would be Morden, and
+       the images were burned into the wall in some form, silhouettes,
+       when Kosh was killed.
+     * It's clear that Lyta believes, based on her vision, that Sheridan
+       may hold part of Kosh within him. What that means -- for Sheridan,
+       for Lyta, and for Kosh -- remains to be seen.
+     * How did the piece of Kosh get into Sheridan's mind? If it was the
+       result of Kosh's contact with Sheridan, might G'Kar also have a
+       piece of Kosh following their contact in [25]"Dust to Dust?"
+     * More disturbingly, might Morden also have a piece of Kosh, present
+       as he was at Kosh's death? Perhaps that was why the Shadows
+       brought Morden along; they wanted someone there who could carry
+       part of a Vorlon.
+     * In [26]"All Alone in the Night," Kosh tells Sheridan, "I have
+       always been here." Could he perhaps have been referring to
+       Sheridan's mind, implying that Sheridan has carried a piece of
+       Kosh for quite some time?
+     * Might the statement that "We are all Kosh" suggest that the
+       Vorlons exist more as a collective whole than as individual
+       entities? (See also [27]JMS speaks.)
+     * The tide may be turning, now that it's clear that telepaths are
+       effective weapons against the Shadows, especially considering that
+       all major races except the Narn have telepaths. (Which begs the
+       question: what will the Shadows' response be?)
+     * Telepathic control over Shadow ships is tenuous at best, and may
+       be limited to preventing them from attacking; the three ships
+       being held by the Minbari telepaths were free to flee the scene
+       when G'Kar and the others arrived.
+     * In [28]"Revelations," G'Kar told Na'Toth that when Narn warships
+       jump into normal space, they're briefly out of contact because of
+       the energy drain of the jump engines. Yet the G'Tok was able to
+       fire on the Shadow warship before it even left the vortex. Does
+       that mean that the weapons systems take less energy than
+       establishing faster-than-light communications? Perhaps Narn FTL
+       communication involves the use of the jump engines to beam a
+       signal into hyperspace, and the effect in "Revelations" was simply
+       a matter of the jump engines needing to recharge from the ship's
+       main power source.
+     * The Shadows now probably know that the White Star is capable of
+       solo jumps. It seems Sheridan has decided that keeping that
+       capability a secret is no longer of strategic importance
+       ([29]"Matters of Honor.") Or perhaps he figures that the secret is
+       out by now anyway, perhaps as of Delenn's emergence from a jump
+       point in the White Star in close proximity to Babylon 5, and thus
+       presumably in full view of a large number of people ([30]"Severed
+       Dreams.")
+     * The new Kosh's ship is reddish in color, as is his encounter
+       suit's eyepiece, perhaps suggesting the link between Vorlons and
+       their ships.
+     * Every sentient race, according to G'Kar, has food resembling
+       Swedish meatballs. The Narn call it "breen." Since the Vorlons
+       have manipulated all the younger races, perhaps Swedish meatballs
+       are really a Vorlon delicacy, part of an intricate plan to defeat
+       the Shadows through culinary unity.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * In Australian aboriginal cultures, a "walkabout" is a ritual in
+       which a young man goes on a solitary journey through the
+       wilderness in an attempt to learn more about his own character and
+       strength.
+     * Metazine, the painkiller Cailyn used, was also used on Sinclair to
+       keep him unconscious in [31]"And the Sky Full of Stars."
+     * In the initial UK broadcast, as well as the first-run US
+       broadcast, Patricia Tallman's first name was misspelled "Patrica"
+       in the opening credits.
+     * JMS wrote both songs in this episode. See [32]jms speaks.
+     * When the ship bearing the new ambassador arrives, Sheridan
+       originally says, "Welcome to Babylon 5." This line was edited out
+       later.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * As it happens, as soon as I finish the two-parter, this week, the
+       next script will get a lot more into Lyta and the Vorlons and all
+       that jazz.
+     * It came out pretty well; it's exceeded by Shadow Dancing, Z'ha'dum
+       and Rock, but it ain't bad.
+     * Re: "Walkabout," thanks...of the final 5, it's not at the top, but
+       it ain't bad. If you happen to be out of the house this coming
+       Thursday, and miss "Grey 17 is Missing," you miss a little, but
+       not a lot. It's okay. But the ones after that are just *killer*.
+     * _Was this supposed to come before "War Without End?"_
+       Correct. Initially we'd wanted to put Walkabout in first, but that
+       would have meant airing only WWE1 in that sweeps period, and
+       having to wait until the fall for part 2, which seemed not only
+       excessive but remarkably stupid. So we reversed the
+       shooting/airing order to accommodate that, and the fact that we
+       knew we'd need a LOT of EFX in WWE1, and this would give us time
+       to do it properly.
+     * _Will the order be corrected when TNT airs the series?_
+       Not really, because it doesn't make *that* much difference to risk
+       confusing them about it....
+     * _About [33]Patricia Tallman's misspelled name_
+       WHAT?!?!
+       Are you sure? We changed it on my copies here.....
+     * (slow burn)
+       We delivered a corrected print ages ago.
+       Someone gon' DIE.
+     * It's fair to say that Lyta has been...aided, slightly, in her
+       abilities. But I'm not ready to pull the trigger on that one for a
+       while yet.
+     * The new Vorlon arrives in Walkabout.
+     * _Is the new ambassador the same as Kosh?_
+       Actually, no, the replacement isn't Kosh, as you say, it's another
+       Vorlon, with a very different personality...the "we are all Kosh"
+       is more of a conceptual thing....
+     * I'd say this Kosh has a bit more of an edge to him....
+     * _Will we ever find out what was written on the side of Kosh's
+       ship?_
+       What, do I look like someone who can speak Vorlon? Oh, sure, a few
+       words, mainly "Where is the bathroom" and "What's that smell?" but
+       to translate something like that...pfsh, please.
+       (Answer: probably not.)
+     * _What did the ship say?_
+       "Welcome to Hawaii."
+       There was apparently a hideous malfunction...they never talked
+       about it thereafter....
+     * Franklin isn't gone from the show; he's in the very next episode,
+       in a major way, and has a big part in "Shadow Dancing." He just
+       has a lot to work out right now.
+     * "When is walkabout a legitimate choice, and when is it a cop-out?"
+       When you're more afraid of what you're running *to* than what
+       you're running *from*.
+     * It's not widely known -- I guess mainly because I haven't ever
+       mentioned it much -- but from time to time I've written songs.
+       Mainly the lyrics; I know how the music should sound, but I'm
+       incapable of reading music...I think it's the same mental glitch
+       that hits me when I try to do certain kinds of math. "X is a
+       numerical value." "No, X is a letter, 7 is a numerical value." I
+       can't ever seem to make the one equal the other in my head.
+       Similarly, a black note on a piece of paper isn't the
+       music...anyway, it's a glitch.)
+       So when I write songs, and I have a specific melody I'm hearing in
+       my head, I'm invariably placed in the humiliating position (since
+       I can't play a musical instrument) of humming it, or somehow
+       trying to suggest it to the music-person. Suffice to say it looks
+       really goofy and stupid.
+       Anyway...despite this, I do sometimes write songs, and like to
+       keep my hand in, as they say. I did two songs for an ABC-TV
+       prime-time Real Ghostbusters special, did a few songs that have
+       been recorded by small groups (you've never heard of any of them,
+       trust me), another song that, much to my chagrin, is apparently
+       still being used in church songbooks (and that's all I will ever
+       say about that)...and when I decided to do a show with a singer
+       for B5, I wrote a couple of songs for that one, with Chris Franke
+       providing the music.
+       They're bluesy, Billie Holliday kinds of songs, updated slightly.
+       I'm actually very pleased with how they came out (Erica Gimpel,
+       one of the cast members from Fame, plays the part and sings the
+       songs). Several folks around here want either or both songs to
+       come out on the next B5 album, but I"m loathe to do so, on the
+       theory that the soundtracks work better in the style we've already
+       used, all instrumental. (There've even been some inquiries from
+       music people who've heard the songs about releasing them
+       commercially, but that would mean adding about 30 seconds to each
+       song to make them airplay compatible, and I'm not sure I want to
+       take on the extra hassle just now.)
+     * _Who did the music?_
+       I wrote the lyrics, Chris Franke did the music.
+     * _Are the songs linked to elements of the story?_
+       Not coincidences, no, but not quite as tightly linked as you
+       suggest. Thematically indicative more than anything that points to
+       story specific elements.
+     * I figured it might be cool to continue the song over the credits.
+       That happens one more time this season.
+     * Here's what I think is a bit of cultural short-sightedness.
+       Everybody keeps saying, "well, if they had that kind of music,
+       shouldn't it have been shown to be an oldies bar or something?"
+       Look at classical music for a moment. Goes back to Beethoven,
+       Brahms, Bach and lots of composers whose names don't even begin
+       with B. And earlier. Now, I don't mean to alarm anyone or startle
+       anyone with this revelation, but classical music is *still being
+       written and performed* hundreds of years later. Not old stuff, new
+       stuff, of that school and in that style. The orchestral suites in
+       the Star Wars movies are strongly based on classical
+       compositions...is that "oldies" stuff? You've got one of the
+       longest running musical plays running now in London, in "Phantom
+       of the Opera," a *new* composition (well, mostly, knowing how
+       Webber works).
+       Jazz and blues kinda formally began in the 1920s and 1930s, but
+       its roots run back to spirituals and african-american music in the
+       1800s. And it didn't just stop suddenly in the 1930s. There's
+       still new material being written in that style now; so should
+       Stevie Ray Vaughn's albums or performances have been labeled
+       "oldies?" After all, it's sixty years later and more.
+       Certain musical styles will stay with us for a long, long time.
+       Not performances based on old stuff, but new material in that
+       vein, for those forms that have shown themselves to be enduring.
+       200 years from now, in addition to other forms, you're still going
+       to have original blues songs, original classical compositions,
+       original jazz, original compositions in the style of gregorian
+       chants, on and on and on.
+       It's odd when people try to apply illogical rules to the future
+       that don't apply now; no one said, as noted, that a Stevie Ray
+       Vaughn concert should be billed as an "oldies" event, or an oldies
+       bar...even though it's over half a century since serious blues
+       started going...it's just silly.
+     * Vorlon ships come out backwards when possible to help decelerate.
+       Pat has interesting eyes...they're slightly larger than is the
+       norm, and they take some getting used to. Those eyes are one of
+       the things that beckoned to me to cast her...they're the eyes of a
+       telepath, who sees more than should be seen. They're terrific
+       eyes.
+     * _So, were the shadows following Lyta, or were they an image on the
+       wall?_
+       They weren't following Lyta. We were in Kosh's old quarters, and
+       those images were burned into the wall when Kosh died. Bear in
+       mind that she doesn't actually meet the new ambassador until the
+       next scene.
+       It was the same effect you would get in a massive energy burst
+       that "paints" shadows on the wall, which only he could see.
+       Those are two different scenes; the first one takes place in
+       Kosh's quarters, the second one out in the hallway. Perhaps that
+       could've been made clearer....
+     * _Garibaldi said he went over Kosh's quarters with a fine-toothed
+       comb. How'd he miss the image?_
+       Watch the scene again; the first time the new Vorlon looks at the
+       wall, he sees nothing; the next time he looks at it, the lens wide
+       open, the image is somewhat distorted around the edges, and now
+       he's seeing the afterflash. Only certain types can see it.
+     * _Is there significance to the different eye-piece colors of the
+       two Koshes? Why no one would suspect Kosh suddenly having a
+       different encounter suit?_
+       No signicance to the eyepiece color; no reason to assume Vorlons
+       only have one encounter suit their entire life.
+     * Actually, the new Vorlon's encounter suit is more purple/red than
+       green. The design is a matter of form following function.
+     * _On differences between the two Koshes:_
+       They're not that far apart in age, but yes, Kosh would be a bit
+       older.
+     * The look of the new Vorlon was developed by John Vulich of Optic
+       Nerve based on my suggestions. I got in after a bit and
+       redesigned/sketched the headpiece a bit, and recommended the
+       colors used. We're actually doing a bit of fine-tuning on the new
+       Vorlon prior to next season.
+     * Re: the new Kosh...yeah, the look is intentional. I worked with
+       Optic Nerve to get the new lines right, messed with their sketches
+       until I had what I wanted. It's very effective in some lights,
+       less so in others, but the sense comes across.
+     * Sheridan commands the Army of Light, Delenn as second. If the AOL
+       speaks with one voice on something of importance, they have to be
+       listened to. When Sheridan put himself on the front lines, he was
+       then taking on the role of soldier, not commander. They also felt
+       it risked leaving them without said commander if it went wrong.
+       Bear in mind that their orders in *no* way compromised his actual
+       mission, or over-rode his decision. They were sending along a
+       secondary mission to keep an eye on the primary mission. I don't
+       see a conflict here.
+     * Just some comparisons to illustrate...during WW II, the head of
+       naval operations for the Japanese fleet insisted on being on board
+       during several of their more pivotal missions. His subordinates
+       insisted that additional ships be sent as escorts given his
+       importance to war strategy. That's a very rigid military
+       structure, but when *all* the subordinates get together on
+       something, to go against it causes more problems than it's worth.
+       Even within the context of a conventional military situation,
+       there's flexibility. If a commanding officer gives an order which
+       is immoral, illegal, or against the rules of engagement, a
+       subordinate can refuse to implement that order, even give a
+       countermanding order which, depending on the situation (such as a
+       nuclear missile firing) would take precedence over the CO's order
+       (though you'd first have to relieve the CO of command, and if you
+       do that, you'd darned well better be prepared to back it up with
+       every legal and moral means at your disposal, or it's mutiny).
+       Heck, it was just this kind of dilemma that was at the core of the
+       movie "Crimson Tide," and was brought up in the recent war crime
+       trials going on investigating what happened in Bosnia, with a
+       soldier being asked why he didn't refuse to carry out an order to
+       kill civilians.
+       Ain't a lot of black-and-whites in the world, but a whole lotta
+       greys.
+     * There's nothing dangerous at all about a fleet coming out of
+       hyperspace or a jump point together.
+     * _The UK cut Lyta's line from the Shadow battle, "Burn, you
+       bastards!"_
+       They cut that? How curious...I didn't know that. From what I'd
+       seen of British TV, some shows use the word bastard like I use a
+       comma, they're ubiquitous....
+     * _Why not use Bester in the test?_
+       Because Bester is on Earth or Mars, can't just drop everything and
+       come when beckoned, and it would take 3 days to get there, and
+       they were in kind of a hurry to test this. Besides, P10s are very
+       few and far between; they're more likely to have lower levels as
+       their main weapons, so best to see what impact those will have.
+     * The fragmentation or fractionalizing is also visually cued by the
+       last shot of Franklin through the window, split into many versions
+       of himself.
+       Re: the hand-on-shoulder gesture, from Marcus it was an
+       upbraiding, stop-him motion, whereas from Sheridan it was one of
+       congratulation.
+     * It's imagery, yes, of his still being fractured, still looking to
+       find himself, as it were.
+     * _Why isn't Sheridan setting up propaganda to help turn the
+       Shadows' allies, such as Earth, against them?_
+       There's really no need for propgaganda. By about now, everybody
+       out in this part of space knows the situation...and what's going
+       on back home is secondary to winning the war. Also, you can be
+       sure that if they set up a network -- and who has time in the
+       middle of a war -- you can be sure Earth would find some way to
+       jam it.
+     * You're the leader of an isolated space station with a quarter
+       million inhabitants, who need air, food, supplies, space, support.
+       You no longer have ties to Earth, no support from there, no money,
+       so you have to rely on whatever docking fees you can get from
+       other worlds. You're in the midst of a war in which you have few
+       resources, little money, allies that have a tendency to turn on
+       one another, nobody's giving you a break, your position is tenuous
+       as hell, you're constantly undermanned, shorthanded....
+       Now you tell me where the heck you're going to get the time,
+       resources, money and manpower to launch a propaganda operation,
+       which if you're going to broadcast (and what's the point
+       otherwise?) on an interstellar basis is going to require extensive
+       and expensive facilities, broadcast repeaters, tacyhon carrier
+       wave generators to get around the time-delay aspects, writers,
+       directors, broadcast engineers, spokespersons, propaganda
+       specialists, psychologists, technicians, camera equipment, space
+       in which to PUT all of this stuff...on and on and on.
+     * _The Minbari could help with the propaganda._
+       For starters, having just had a MAJOR WAR with the Minbari, which
+       nearly wiped out Earth, and many folks back home *hating* the
+       Minbari...do you think for one second that they're going to
+       believe a word of what the Minbari say to them? Do you think the
+       government would allow this to go through unjammed? Hell, EarthGov
+       would have a field day with this..."See? It's all alien
+       propaganda, just like we told you, they're trying to destabalize
+       Earth."
+       Second, I don't think the Minbari have the propagandists, writers,
+       directors, and others needed to put together a propaganda network,
+       and would find the whole idea immoral to begin with...and a couple
+       of paragraphs of text are meaningless...Earthgov says "it's not
+       true," and it's your word against theirs. That's why you must have
+       absolute, unvarnished PROOF, otherwise it blows up in your face,
+       which any journalist worth his or her salt knows.
+     * _Does the Army of Light have access to any of the Minbari's
+       resources?_
+       Yes, they do...but bear in mind that the Minbari are currently
+       having their own problems. The Grey Council has fallen apart, the
+       Military Caste (as we'll see in one of the next episodes) is
+       having some serious doubts about how the Religious Caste is
+       handling things, and that much of the support given Earth (by way
+       of B5) has been covert; the White Star program was launched in
+       secret, and the greater amount of the Minbari population aren't
+       aware they're so much "in bed" with the humans (as it were). As
+       far as they're concerned, we're apparently necessary to the plan,
+       but not much more than that. So I think they wouldn't be warm to
+       the notion of extending their services overmuch to Earth.
+     * _Is the White Star more powerful than a regular Minbari cruiser
+       because of the Vorlons' involvement in its design?_
+       The Vorlons were cooperating in the recent past, yes, and it still
+       takes a couple of Minbari cruisers under most circumstances to
+       take out an immobilized shadow vessel, though one can do it if the
+       firepower is concentrated and prolonged.
+       
+   Originally compiled by Jason Snell.
+
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Delenn agrees to lead the Rangers, but Marcus must protect her from
+     a deadly threat. Garibaldi investigates a secret level of the
+     station. [15]Robert Englund as Jeremiah. [16]John Vickery as
+     Neroon. [17]Time Winters as Rathenn.
+     
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]6.93
+
+Production number: 319
+Original air week: September 10, 1996 (UK)
+                   October 7, 1996 (US)
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John Flinn III
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * The forces of light are now actively recruiting telepaths, but
+       it's been a slow process.
+     * Garibaldi's grandmother was a police officer in Boston. (First
+       mentioned in [20]"By Any Means Necessary.")
+     * Valen originally set up the Rangers 1000 years ago, under the
+       control of the Warrior Caste, but they have been inactive until
+       recently.
+     * Grey Sector in B5 is mainly comprised of industrial units.
+     * No Minbari has killed another Minbari in 1000 years.
+     * Delenn's father died ("passed beyond the veil") 10 years ago
+       because he was heartbroken about the Earth-Minbari war. Delenn's
+       mother entered the Sisters of Valeria.
+     * The security forces on B5 use PPGs rather than bullets because
+       bullets run the risk of puncturing the station's hull.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What will be the limits of Ivanova's promise to Franklin?
+     * How will being chosen as leader of the Rangers change Delenn?
+     * Is Neroon right in suggesting Delenn is taking over control of
+       Minbar?
+     * Who or what was responsible for an entire level of Grey sector
+       being lost from the view of the B5 residents?
+     * What will happen to Grey 17 and the people there?
+     * What will the future relationship be between the Warrior Caste and
+       the Rangers?
+     * Was Kosh present at the ceremony? If not, why not?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Tension among the Minbari castes is increasing. Some members of
+       the warrior caste think Delenn is a religious zealot who is trying
+       to grab hold of military and political power. The warrior caste is
+       unhappy about the religious caste building warships without
+       telling them; believes the Rangers should be commanded by one of
+       them, now that Sinclair has left; and is unhappy about non-Minbari
+       being trained with Minbari in the Rangers. However, Neroon's
+       experience with Marcus may change some of these perceptions.
+     * Delenn's mother joined the Sisters of Valeria. Valeria is also the
+       being that Minbari who were present at Kosh's appearance in the
+       garden ([21]"The Fall of Night") claimed to have seen. Is this
+       just a coincidence, or is there a deeper relationship?
+     * Jeremiah's group must have contained some highly skilled computer
+       hackers. Getting the lifts to pass by their level would be the
+       least of their troubles; since the station spins to simulate
+       gravity, lower levels have greater apparent gravity. Everyone
+       below their level would be expecting slightly lower gravity than
+       they'd actually experience. Perhaps the difference would be too
+       slight to alert people in a residential sector, but presumably
+       industrial operations would be affected if gravity was off by a
+       few percent.
+     * Jeremiah clearly knew about Minbari religion, given the similarity
+       of his view of the universe and Delenn's ([22]"Passing Through
+       Gethsemane.") Yet in that episode, Brother Edward clearly hadn't
+       learned about Minbari beliefs, implying that the Minbari aren't
+       generally open or forthcoming about them. How did Jeremiah learn
+       about Minbari religion?
+     * Garibaldi's makeshift gun couldn't have worked as shown. Even if
+       the steam were enough to detonate the gunpowder in one of the
+       bullets, the first one to go off would almost certainly have been
+       the one closest to the back of the pipe, where the heat was
+       greatest; all the bullets would have been propelled out the pipe
+       at once, and probably at low speed.
+     * Franklin's backup file on the underground railroad is code-named
+       "Harriet." This is probably a reference to Harriet Tubman, an
+       escaped slave who was instrumental in running the original
+       underground railroad in the United States.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Sinclair's belongings include a medal for fighting on the Battle
+       of the Line, his identicard, an Earthforce ensignia, and the
+       Ranger brooch.
+     * When Garibaldi falls unconscious, the surrounding rubble includes,
+       among other things, a newspaper with the headline "Santiago
+       Elected." That may indicate the amount of time the cult spent
+       sequestered in Grey 17; Santiago's re-election took place three
+       years earlier ([23]"Midnight on the Firing Line.") It's unlikely
+       the paper dates from Santiago's original election; unless his
+       previous term was less than a few years, the previous election
+       would have happened long before Babylon 5 was constructed,
+       possibly even before Babylon 4 vanished in 2254.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * Garibaldi has a big role in "Grey 17 Is Missing."
+     * Lennier will be getting some more screen time shortly, in the next
+       batch of episodes. (There's some very nice stuff with him and both
+       Delenn and Marcus in "Grey 17 Is Missing.")
+     * You'll hear about Delenn's parents in "Grey 17 Is Missing."
+     * The Jeremiah thread was one of those things that looks great on
+       paper, but when you get it into a camera...I dunno, it's one of
+       those weirdnesses that happens in television. Sometimes you've got
+       what you think is an average script and it just roars to life
+       on-camera, and something that looks great on paper, but in real
+       life...ehh...I'm happy with all the other stuff in the episode,
+       but the Jeremiah thread didn't come off as it should've.
+       I think in part it's also my fault, in that my brain was gearing
+       up for the stuff that begins ramping up starting with the next
+       episode, and the Grey 17 thing was something I'd wanted to do for
+       a long time, and there wasn't going to be a chance to do it down
+       the road, if at all, after this season, so I went for it. As for
+       the Zarg, that's also one of those things that didn't come off
+       visually as I'd wanted. So overall, I'd agree...of all the season
+       3 eps, this one is probably the least effective of them all. But
+       one in a season, that ain't too bad....
+     * _Why did you write all the episodes this season?_
+       "Was there some incident that we don't know about? It seems to me
+       that there must have been. "
+       Nope. No incident. The situation with year 3 was that *so much*
+       was being paid off, and set up, and foreshadowed, and required
+       such intimate knowledge of where the show was going, and where
+       it'd been, that it made it nearly impossible to bring in any
+       outside writers.
+       There has never been any series in television history where every
+       episode was utterly beyond criticism. Some are better, some are
+       worse, some are average. There are many Twilight Zones by Rod
+       Serling that are utterly brilliant. And some that just fall flat.
+       That's the nature of the beast. Sometimes something will look
+       great on the page, and fall flat on the stage. (And sometimes it
+       happens in reverse; you think you've got something that won't
+       work, and somehow the filmed version just takes off.) There's a
+       lot about Walkabout I like; and there's some stuff that just
+       didn't work out. You try something different here and there, and
+       sometimes it works, and sometimes it don't. TV, or any form of
+       writing, is the constant process of trial and error. It's not like
+       one day you forget how to write, or you're writing bad...you very
+       rarely fall below a certain facility once you reach it.
+       There's not a writer alive who has turned out nothing but terrific
+       stuff. Now, one could turn out a lifetime of mediocre stuff, by
+       not trying...but I think it's better to shoot high, and sometimes
+       fall, knowing that you'll get something great one out of every
+       five tries, than not try at all and just do okay.
+       "Grey 17" is the same thing, for me. There are bits in that I like
+       a lot. And some parts of it just fell down dreadfully. That's
+       simply the nature of the beast. I thought I'd try something
+       different in the tone of "Grey" and while most of the writing
+       works (mostly), the production fell down on a couple of aspects.
+       It happens. It doesn't mean anything.
+       On the other hand, the following 3, "Rock," "Shadow" and
+       "Z'ha'dum" are some of the best stuff we've done. The preliminary
+       P5 survey has "Z'ha'dum" as the best episode of the entire series
+       to date. Did I suddenly learn to write better? If there were a
+       problem with being tired, then by all rights you should see a
+       descending order in quality. But these last 3 are some of our best
+       work.
+       The real key here is something I heard someone say a while back
+       about TV: a flaw, or a flop, or a misstep happens by accident as
+       often as by inability; but real quality is never an accident. So
+       the latter is more indicative of the level of the show than the
+       former, since accidents or missteps *always* happen.
+       "Walkabout," for me, is a good episode with a very few clunky
+       parts; for me, it's a middle of the road episode. "Grey" falls a
+       bit short of that, for me. But then, I'm very hard on my shows; a
+       lot of folks have liked "Walkabout" a *lot*. I didn't much like
+       "Infection," but many did; and some shows I love dearly, like
+       "Geometry," don't catch on. It's subjective. And where you say the
+       battle falls short, others like it...so on one level, I'd caution
+       against applying your standard as an objective one that is somehow
+       more true than another, and thus asking "what's wrong with *you*
+       that I had this opinion?" If everyone on the planet shares that
+       opinion, then you've got something. Otherwise....
+       And there are always some people who don't want the character
+       stuff at all, they want battles...and some for whom the CGI is of
+       secondary interest to the plot...and those who want arc stories
+       *only*...and those who like the stand-alones. Some of it is a
+       function of what you want.
+       Anyway...point being, and I went around the barn a few times to
+       get there, no, there's no "incident" and I don't even know what
+       this could refer to. Some episodes work better for some people
+       than others. That will happen whether you've got 1 person or 50
+       people writing scripts. I caught a lot of *very* negative comments
+       on Peter David's script, which you cite (as well as many positive
+       ones). The Brits in particular seem to uniformly dislike that one.
+       And in the P5 surveys, the freelance scripts are *all* in the
+       bottom third of the rankings. So it's really not a question of
+       freelancers or no, it's just that TV is variable, as is any kind
+       of writing. Not every episode is going to work for you. Nor should
+       you expect it to. I'm very much an X-Files fan...but there are
+       some scripts that work better for me than others. Doesn't mean
+       anything other than that show didn't quite jell for me. That's the
+       nature of TV.
+       I'm sure somebody will cite this as being defensive about it, but
+       honest and true, I'm not. I'm just trying to explain it from this
+       end of things. My prior exec producer said, "You're doing *real*
+       good if, in a season, you've got one-third that are pretty good,
+       one-third that are okay, and one-third you never want to see again
+       the rest of your natural life." I think we do a heck of a lot
+       better than that, and that's a heck of an accomplishment.
+     * I think it's about 3/4ths of a good episode. Where it falls down,
+       for me, is the Zarg...I just have this constant desire to go to
+       everyone's house and personally apologize....
+     * _How did they sneak the Zarg onto the station?_
+       There was a line about slipping the egg into the station...don't
+       remember now if it made it through the edit or not.
+     * Entil-Zha, whoever that is at the time, is for all intents and
+       purposes the One for the Rangers.
+     * _Does Neroon's revelation at the end of the episode mean that the
+       warrior caste is now more willing to fight beside the religious
+       caste?_
+       I think he's closer to an understanding, but we'll see if the
+       others all feel the same way.
+     * _Why did Sinclair/Valen leave the warrior caste in charge of the
+       Rangers, if they aren't involved in the war?_
+       Because *at the time* the Warrior Caste *was* involved, and it
+       would've been a slap to them to do so.
+     * _Do Minbari beliefs have some bearing on the true nature of the B5
+       storyline?_
+       It has some bearing, in a way, but more in a thematic than literal
+       sense.
+     * _Was Delenn's visit to the city as a child deeply important, since
+       she only saw her mother twice?_
+       You're right that it was a big deal to them, but it doesn't really
+       center in the story much, so I don't know if it'll ever be
+       explored. It's just background detail at this point.
+     * _What happened to Delenn's father?_
+       He croaked.
+     * _Were the people in Grey 17 there by choice?_
+       Depends on your definition, but basically, they were there as part
+       of this cult...but any good cult leader knows you should make it
+       just a *bit* hard for them to get out.
+     * It's Harriet for Harriet Tubman, who ran the slave underground
+       railroad around the time of the Civil War.
+       And no matter how much Ivanvoa trains, she'll never be much past a
+       P1, and that's more or less useless to them.
+     * _So her ability is never going to factor into the story?_
+       Only if one assumes everything applies only to the Shadow war.
+       
+   Originally compiled by Jason Snell.
+
+   [29][Next] 
+   
+      [30]Last update: October 18, 1997
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+    ### GUIDE ### [3][Background] [4][Synopsis] [5][Credits] [6][Episode
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Londo uses G'Kar and Vir to gain power in the Centauri Royal Court.
+     Sheridan is consumed by his analysis of the Shadows' strategies.
+     [15]Louis Turenne as Brother Theo. [16]William Forward as Lord
+     Refa.
+     
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]8.71
+
+Production number: 320
+Original air week: September 8, 1996 (UK)
+                   October 14, 1996 (US)
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
+  Watch For
+  
+     * A Centauri guard leaving his post.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * The Minbari have been constructing a fleet of warships based on
+       the White Star design. They are manned by Rangers.
+     * Sheridan has stayed away from Delenn up until now because "she has
+       enough problems of her own."
+     * There is a thriving underground on Earth opposing President Clark.
+     * Na'Toth is believed to have been on Narn at the time of the
+       Centauri attack ([19]"The Long, Twilight Struggle.")
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What does the countdown to Z refer to? (See [20]Analysis)
+     * Why didn't Delenn inform Sheridan of the fleet of White Star-class
+       ships before now?
+     * How long have the Minbari been building the ships?
+     * How big is the White Star fleet?
+     * What will Sheridan use the data crystal given to him by the
+       Reverend for?
+     * Will Virini use the data crystal that Londo gave him? Will it
+       result in Refa's family being discredited?
+     * Will G'Kar respect Londo more now that he has freed the Narns, or
+       does he see Londo's ploy as purely self-serving?
+     * How did Londo get G'Kar to listen to him long enough to describe
+       the plot, and how did he convince G'Kar it wasn't a trick?
+     * Virini mentions that Londo's house is gathering a lot of funds.
+       Where is Londo getting the money?
+     * Did Refa's telepath find out about any of the activities Vir has
+       been involved in, such as his work to help the Narn?
+     * What is the real reason for the Shadows' attack pattern?
+     * Is Na'Toth in fact still alive?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * It seems likely that the "Z Minus..." times refer to Z'ha'dum, but
+       they might also refer to a more specific "Zero Hour." The question
+       remains, what happens at Z? A Shadow offensive? An offensive
+       against Z'ha'dum? Someone's arrival on or from Z'ha'dum?
+     * G'Kar, in cooperating with Londo and killing Refa, has become an
+       unwitting help to Londo in serving the Shadows. His desire for
+       revenge against Refa and his need to save a small number of his
+       people seems to have served the Shadows' greater purposes, at
+       least to the extent that Londo's good fortune is part of their
+       plans.
+     * G'Kar may have been in on Londo's plan even before he left Babylon
+       5, possibly even before Vir spoke to him. The story about Na'Toth
+       was solely intended to lure Refa to Narn; there was no need for
+       Londo to deceive G'Kar about his intentions, since G'Kar would
+       almost certainly have been willing to risk a trip to Narn for the
+       sake of two thousand prisoners.
+     * If the already-poisoned Refa could be considered "one who is
+       already dead," Londo may have just passed by one of his
+       prophesized chances for redemption.
+     * Neroon's statement in "Grey 17 is Missing" that non-Warrior
+       Minbari had constructed _ships_ may have been foreshadowing of the
+       fleet revelation.
+     * Why did Delenn find Sheridan's attempt to think like the Shadows
+       so abhorrent? Are there things about them she knows but hasn't
+       revealed yet that would cause that reaction?
+     * Delenn said that the first wave of White Star-class ships was now
+       ready. How many waves are planned?
+     * Now that Londo thinks he has avenged Adira's death
+       ([21]"Interludes and Examinations") will he be less eager to
+       continue dealing with the Shadows? And will he ever discover that
+       it was Morden, not Refa, who arranged to have her killed?
+     * A few readers have commented that since a replica of the Centauri
+       throne room is being built on Narn, perhaps that's where
+       Sheridan's flashforward ([22]"War Without End, Part Two") takes
+       place. That's unlikely, though, since Londo forces Sheridan to
+       look out the window and see the devastated landscape of Centauri
+       Prime.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The [23]song from which the title is derived, "No Hiding Place,"
+       refers to the Book of Revelation, in which man attempts to hide
+       from the wrath of God in mountains and rocks. [24]Revelation
+       6:15-17.
+     * The mass driver attack affected the climate of Narn much as it's
+       theorized a nuclear winter or asteroid/comet strike would affect
+       Earth: the particles thrown up by the asteroids used in the
+       bombardment have created a layer in Narn's atmosphere blocking out
+       the sunlight and altering the heating of the atmosphere, which has
+       disrupted the wind patterns on the planet.
+     * Refa's death scene may be a homage to "Cabaret," one of JMS'
+       favorite films. See [25]jms speaks.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * _Where does the title come from?_
+       It's from an old gospel song/spiritual.
+     * _Did Harlan Ellison suggest it?_
+       No, as a rule, Harlan doesn't suggest titles; "Rock" came from the
+       quote from the Bible, which was later made into a gospel song,
+       used in the show. So it's a real song, though I did write 2 for
+       "Walkabout."
+     * Why's it called that? Because it's quite appropos. How do we fit
+       it? Not a big deal. Longest title up to now was one I did for
+       MURDER, SHE WROTE, a quote from Moby Dick, "To The Last Shall I
+       Grapple With Thee."
+     * The song in "Rock" is an old gospel song. I've always had a soft
+       spot for old gospel songs and spirituals because of their
+       wonderful use of language and imagery, and you can dance to 'em.
+       Not that I dance, but the theory is there, at least.
+     * My own take on "And The Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place," which
+       airs tomorrow in the UK...I like it. The Brother Theo stuff is a
+       tad stilted in a couple of places, but it's only a couple of
+       minutes, and the rest works real well. It's a very subversive
+       episode in its way, and a part of it still creeps me out.
+     * I like symmetry...both as a word, and as a concept. It plays into
+       the show a lot, showing the balance that the universe tends to
+       impose whether we like it or not. What goes around, comes around.
+     * _Some of the Narn buildings looked like Hiroshima after the atomic
+       bomb. Intentional?_
+       Yes, there was some element of that. It's not a moral judgment
+       thing, but a referential point. As for Narn architecture overall,
+       I told them I wanted sort of an alien culture as the Soviet Union
+       might've designed it.... everything tending toward the blocky, the
+       functional, less aesthetic than you would find on Minbar. This is
+       a culture that has crawled up from war, and functionality is more
+       important.
+     * _Was there a Narn standing in the queue of telepaths?_
+       Not in the queue, but providing security within the station...
+       remember, many of the Narns have joined B5 security.
+     * We're generally very careful about what aliens show up in what
+       scenes.
+     * _Was the fact that the countdown started at 14 days an intentional
+       reference to the season finale being two weeks later?_
+       Somewhat intentional; in the long run, the show will end up either
+       aired daily, or stripped weekly, so either way the 14 days until
+       climax works well, as it does now for the UK.
+     * The countdown aspect does add a lot to this, gives it a forward
+       momentum and a kind of subliminal ominousness. And as for the Refa
+       situation presented in counterpoint...I love how that came out.
+       It's almost subversive in a way...just gives me the quiet chills.
+     * Re: the rabbi singing the gospel song...a couple of points. First,
+       if you're visiting someone's church, it's only considered polite
+       behavior to go along with what's there. I have a number of
+       Catholic friends who would sometimes go to temple with Jewish
+       friends...and when it came time to sing, would do so. Why should
+       it not work the other way around?
+       Second, as I seem to recall, the line about "no hiding place" is
+       taken from the Old Testament, which forms a substantial portion of
+       Judaic teachings (but not the whole of it, a mistake many make).
+       Yes, there's some later stuff worked in, but the heart of it is
+       from a common ground.
+     * Waitaminnit...I retract part two of my reply...I think I just
+       stooged the origins of that song.
+       (whaddyawant from me, I just spent 12 hours putting my hard drive
+       back together....)
+     * _About the juxtaposition of Refa's fate with the song_
+       It's comical...and it ain't comical...it's designed to elicit
+       conflicting emotions, between what you *are* feeling, what you
+       *should* be feeling, and so on. I like uneasy laughter....
+     * That was one of those scenes which, when you do it, you know it's
+       gonna stay around for a while....
+     * When I thought of that one, I just sat there and grinned. It's so
+       perverse, but yet so appropriate, all at the same time. Just to
+       further add a bit of creepiness to it, in the sound mix I had the
+       editors verb up the music toward the fade out, so it had a
+       slightly distorted edge to it. The details are everything in a
+       scene like that.
+     * Vir has to be *very* careful...he's on the razor's edge these
+       days. The higher up you go, the more you know, the higher the
+       stakes and the greater the risk of choosing badly.
+       Re: "funny yet chilling," those are the scenes I love most...the
+       ones where you're utterly conflicted, it's grotesque or
+       frightening on the one hand, and comic or absurd on the other. It
+       leaves you uncertain which way to jump emotionally, and I love
+       that feeling...caught betwixt and between.
+     * _Originally in response to [26]"Severed Dreams." "Cabaret" is one
+       of JMS' favorite movies._
+       In a sense, it's going from one emotion or thematic element to a
+       very different, but equally strong one, either as bookends or
+       through intercutting. Going from the high of the victory, to the
+       sudden shot of the dead troops, is thematic counterpoint.
+       Here's another...in "Cabaret" you've got a scene where the
+       performers in the Cabaret are doing the sort of German dance where
+       you slap your knees and thighs and chest...and they take it a bit
+       further, slapping one another, it's all for comic effect...but
+       during this, you're intercutting the owner of the cabaret being
+       beaten to within an inch of his life by some Brownshirts outside.
+       You go from comic to brutal and back, with the result that the
+       happy little dance suddenly takes on ugly characteristics, and the
+       beating takes on the sense that the participants are having a sick
+       kind of fun, that it's all just another kind of dance, a ritual.
+       That's what you have to look at as a writer...how this scene
+       works, and how it interacts with the scenes in front, behind and
+       "beside" it (for things happening simultaneously). Sometimes, with
+       the proper counterpoint, you can add whole new levels of meaning
+       to a scene, or make the scene much stronger than it would've been
+       on its own.
+     * _That was an elaborate scheme if the goal was simply to have Refa
+       killed._
+       Londo points out that he could easily have killed Refa
+       elsewhere...as he says, the point was to do it on Narn so that he
+       could dishonor his house back home.
+     * _Was William Forward the one who said, "Why me?" as mentioned in
+       one of your Usenet messages?_
+       Yes, it was with the actor who plays Refa that I had that
+       conversation. He was initially bummed out, figured I was doing
+       what I was doing in "Rock" because I wasn't happy with his
+       performance or something. So I pulled him aside and explained the
+       situation, and indicated that we'd likely use him again as an
+       alien character, under prosthetics. If he hadn't done such a good
+       job, this wouldn't have happened, because no one would've cared
+       about the character.
+     * _You said a major character would die in season 3. Refa wasn't
+       major._
+       Well, given that Refa has been around for two years, and Keffer
+       was only in a few in one season, I'd hardly put them in the same
+       league. Part of all this is how you define "major." Usually, I've
+       refrained from using that term...I would say someone you've seen
+       since the first year, for instance, or an important character.
+       Certainly I was primarily referring to Kosh in my original note
+       about all this...but a lot of folks took that and extended it past
+       that point, which I just let go rather than correct, because the
+       show should do any correcting.
+     * I think the message of mine you're referring to are the ones I
+       wrote with Kosh in mind, not Refa. But since I obviously couldn't
+       say that at the time, some of it sloshed over into how folks
+       viewed later episodes.
+     * _Will 500 Narns die in retaliation?_
+       Except, of course, that going on at length about the death of Refa
+       would require revealing what he was doing there...and I doubt very
+       much that the Royal Court would like even the suspicion that one
+       of its own was making deals with the Narns to become public
+       knowledge...so it's extremely unlikely that there would be any
+       retribution. This is one the Centauri would prefer to sweep under
+       the rug, I think.
+     * _Why didn't Refa's allies help him?_
+       Bear in mind that all of Refa's people were *back on Centauri
+       Prime*. He didn't bring them with him; to send word to Centauri
+       Prime to bring them all the way out here, then on to Narn, would
+       double the time required to get there, and by then the "rescue"
+       would've been over. That was part of Londo's scheme...he wouldn't
+       have much time, he had to get in and get out. Refa only brought a
+       few with him, and they were needed to watch Londo and guard Vir.
+       As for the Centauri back home...you proceed from the assumption
+       that all Centauri act as one. I'm basing this somewhat on the
+       early Roman civilization and government, where one side would sell
+       out the other, arrange for deaths and murders, turn people over to
+       their hated enemies as long as it advanced their position, or if
+       they were allied with persons of power on a particular side. Why
+       did the Roman guards escorting Tiberius (a much less worthy
+       emperor) kill the heir to the throne in "I, Claudius" (a much
+       better leader, and well liked among the military)? Because they
+       were told to do so.
+       SF in TV has the tendency to portray aliens as monolithic...they
+       put the good of their species as a whole above everything else.
+       Some do that; some do not. Just as with humans.
+     * Refa had a flashlight, not a gun.
+     * Refa was his last name/family name.
+     * _Minister Virini looked disappointed by the outcome._
+       Not sure it was so much a look of disappointment as..."Okay, I
+       know something here isn't on the level...but he's got it very well
+       surrounded...and is it worth sticking out my neck to get into
+       this?"
+     * _Why wasn't Na'Toth replaced?_
+       I briefly considered giving G'Kar a second, after the revolving
+       door Na'Toths, but as I looked at it...as you say, the others all
+       DO have one like that, and I figured it might be good to have
+       someone *without* that...especially after the fall of Narn, when
+       the staff would be canceled. And there's something I like about
+       G'Kar being alone in all this. Anyway, it varies the mix a bit.
+     * _Why did G'Kar help Londo?_
+       Well, you combine the release of 2,000 prisoners, many of whom
+       were likely resistance fighters, and the payback to one who
+       orchestrated the bombing of Narn, and that adds up to a pretty
+       good incentive to get Refa even WITHOUT Londo's presence in the
+       deal.
+     * I wouldn't say they hate one another any less now than before; and
+       yes, he would've sent word to G'Kar and arranged a private
+       meeting, just the two of them.
+     * These two characters, Londo and G'Kar, are linked at the hips.
+       That is their beauty and their tragedy. And you will see some new
+       colors to this in the first part of season 4. This story is as
+       much about them as anyone else.
+     * I think that if Londo sent word via the Babcom unit that he wanted
+       a one-to-one with G'Kar, and that thousands of Narn lives were on
+       the line, he would come. G'Kar has nothing to fear from Londo as
+       long as he's on B5...and if anything, I think he'd be amused if
+       Londo did try anything.
+     * _Wayne Alexander was listed as playing G'Dan. Which one was he?_
+       He was the Narn who first met G'Kar on their homeworld; the only
+       one with any lines.
+       Wayne has a considerably larger role in year 4 as an alien named
+       Lorien.
+     * _Why doesn't Vir leave Londo now?_
+       I don't know if Vir really has anywhere else to go....
+     * _John and Delenn kissing in front of a big group of warships
+       seemed a little odd._
+       I guess it's really a matter of perspective. It depends on what
+       the fleet is *there* for, as well.
+     * _Why didn't Delenn mention the fleet before?_
+       Well, as she indicates, she didn't *have* them before.
+     * I don't think she was so much withholding the information, as they
+       just weren't ready yet, and the need for them wasn't there yet.
+       
+   Originally compiled by Jason Snell.
+
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Sheridan launches a preemptive strike against the Shadows. Franklin
+     jeopardizes his life while trying to do a good deed. [15]Shirley
+     Prestia as Barbara. [16]Melissa Gilbert as Anna.
+     
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]9.25
+
+Production number: 321
+Original air week: September 15, 1996 (UK)
+                   October 21, 1996 (US)
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Kim Friedman
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * In Minbari tradition, when two Minbari become close it is the
+       custom for the female to keep vigil at the male's side for three
+       nights while he sleeps. This is thought to reveal the male's true
+       personality, because while you're asleep, you can't keep up your
+       guard, and this helps the female decide whether the relationship
+       should continue.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * How many ships did the League worlds withhold from the battle?
+     * How many ships were destroyed in the battle? How many people died?
+     * Why has Anna Sheridan come to Babylon 5? Is she as much of a pawn
+       of the Shadows as Morden? (See [19]Analysis)
+     * How will Anna Sheridan's presence affect Sheridan's
+       near-engagement to Delenn?
+     * How did Anna get into Sheridan's quarters?
+     * Why have the Shadows not yet attacked Babylon 5?
+     * How badly were the Shadows hurt by this battle?
+     * Why did Sheridan keep dreaming the dream after Kosh died? Is it
+       because of the piece of the Vorlon inside of him, and if so, is it
+       somehow guiding him?
+     * How did Anna know Delenn's name? Did Morden tell her?
+     * Were the Vorlons approached to be part of the battle fleet?
+     * Who else might have survived the Icarus?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * In this battle, it's said that for each Shadow ship that was
+       destroyed, two Army of Light ships were destroyed. This begs the
+       question: who has more ships, the Army of Light, or the Shadows?
+       And if the Shadows have as many or more, what does that bode for
+       the coming battles of this war?
+     * It's plausible that Anna Sheridan is acting on behalf of the
+       Shadows just as Morden is. Will Sheridan react to her presence
+       with an understanding that she's now an emissary of the Shadows?
+     * Delenn had a flashforward to Anna's arrival ([20]"War Without End,
+       Part Two.") Why, then, was she surprised to see Anna? Perhaps she
+       didn't expect it to happen that night. It's also true that Anna
+       didn't identify herself in Delenn's flash, so perhaps Delenn
+       didn't get as complete a view of the future as Sheridan (and
+       earlier, Garibaldi and Sinclair) did.
+     * This episode resolves, at least initially, most of Sheridan's
+       dream from [21]"All Alone in the Night." Sheridan is "the hand,"
+       one half of a pair of opposing forces. He wears the Psi Corps
+       badge to signify their alliance with Bester, and his position as
+       someone in charge of large numbers of telepaths. Ivanova's
+       statement, "Do you know who I am?" refers to her latent telepathic
+       ability ([22]"Divided Loyalties.") However, it's still not clear
+       who the "man in between" is. It's also not clear whether
+       Sheridan's analysis, even with the help of Delenn and Ivanova, is
+       actually correct.
+     * Perhaps Anna Sheridan is the "man in between" from Sheridan's
+       dream, despite the personal pronoun problems. Or perhaps she's an
+       envoy of that man.
+     * "The man in between" implies someone on the other side. Who might
+       that be?
+     * Sheridan openly talked about Ivanova's latent telepathy in front
+       of Delenn. Does Ivanova no longer consider it such a secret, now
+       that she's presumably beyond the reach of the Psi Corps? Or does
+       Sheridan simply trust Delenn so much that it didn't occur to him
+       he might be violating Ivanova's trust?
+     * Who is the third spotlight on the Minbari flagship meant for? Most
+       likely it's simply a result of the Minbari doing everything in
+       threes. Sheridan and Delenn gave orders from more than one place
+       in the tactical center, so it's probably not a matter of the
+       lights denoting different functions.
+     * Garibaldi's empathy for Franklin, to the point of waiting next to
+       Franklin's bed, is likely due at least in part to Garibaldi's own
+       experience with substance abuse ([23]"Survivors," among other
+       episodes.) He presumably knows something of what Franklin has been
+       through.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Franklin's stumble into the crowd was reminiscent of two scenes
+       from [24]"Chrysalis," both Petrov's approach toward Garibaldi, and
+       Garibaldi's later emergence at the party.
+     * In Britain, Channel 4 edited out seven seconds of the attack on
+       Franklin.
+     * In a video message in [25]"Revelations," Anna Sheridan was
+       originally played by Beth Toussaint, not Melissa Gilbert.
+     * Some people have pointed out an apparent continuity glitch, but
+       it's not. When Franklin is being wheeled into medlab after being
+       stabbed, he sees Garibaldi, Ivanova, and Sheridan above him, even
+       though Sheridan hasn't yet arrived on the station. But if you look
+       at the surrounding shots from Franklin's point of view, it's clear
+       he's simply hallucinating and imagining that the doctors around
+       the gurney are his fellow officers; nowhere but that one shot do
+       any people in command uniforms appear.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * It takes 7 days to film an episode. My favorite is probably
+       "Shadow Dancing," which you haven't seen yet, mainly because I
+       haven't been able to poke any holes in it yet. It's a good ep.
+     * _Which of the last five episodes is your favorite?_
+       It would be an even tie I think between the final two, "Shadow
+       Dancing" and "Z'ha'dum." The two episodes are also linked at the
+       hip, so they're really more like one unit...not so much a
+       two-parter, but siamese twins, story-wise. They're both very
+       exciting, move the arc forward hugely, and though they rely on a
+       lot of backstory, are also good points for folks new to the show
+       to dive in, because they also *explain* a lot of backstory, so
+       they can get into it.
+       They're both just lovely, knockout episodes. And, at times, scary
+       as hell.
+     * _About the UK possibly not showing the episode due to violent
+       content_
+       Yeah, when you get "Shadow Dancing," I'd love to see how much they
+       slice outta this one....
+     * It is, not to put too fine a point on it...EXTREMELY important to
+       see "Shadow Dancing." If they choose to cut the nasty bits that's
+       one thing, it won't affect what You Need To See, but to not run it
+       at all would be a disaster of substantial dimensions. Still, I
+       imagine they'll run it; the nasty bits can be excised pretty well,
+       if necessary, I should think.
+     * If they cut 7 seconds, it's likely the 7 seconds of the actual
+       stabbing itself, which is implicit in what happens afterward, so
+       it shouldn't have a major effect on being able to follow the
+       story. It's a reasonable edit, and about what I'd expect given the
+       general attitudes on TV violence among the UK TV networks.
+     * "You've mentioned a couple times that the upcoming "Shadow
+       Dancing" will be quite violent. Should I be concerned about, say,
+       my two-year old watching it? She's as hooked on the show as I am,
+       and would probably feel quite left out..."
+       This is a tough one...I've given it a lot of thought since I saw
+       this, and my sense is to advise the following:
+       If you possibly can, videotape the episode. Get the time code on
+       the various pieces. We cut in and out of two stories, an A and a B
+       story. One is violent, the other is not. You don't have to see the
+       one, or see much of it, to follow the other. For someone as young
+       as 2, I'd suggest fast-forwarding past the B story stuff. It's
+       still within what's generally permitted on TV, but it is kinda
+       harsh.
+     * I've seen and received some email recently that seems to have
+       taken a message of mine and misconstrued it. Someone asked me if
+       it were possible that "Shadow Dancing" might be snipped or dropped
+       for some of the violence therein. I offered an *opinion* that it
+       might be edited, and have no idea what their plans are for airing
+       the episode itself. Let me repeat: this was only my opinion,
+       offered in response to a hypothetical question. I have *no*
+       information on anything C4 might -- or might NOT -- do with
+       "Shadow Dancing," so my inclination would be to wait and see what
+       happens rather than acting prematurely on something that might not
+       happen.
+     * _Have you ever gone walkabout?_
+       Well....yeah, kinda. Back when I was living in San Diego (before
+       it got nuked...well, that hasn't happened yet, but soon)...I got
+       into a kind of similar mode of thought, and would go for walks
+       through....downtown San Diego at 2-4 in the morning. Hours, hours,
+       hours, just walking through parts of the area where I could've
+       gotten killed. When folks asked me why, I couldn't answer, all I
+       could come up with...was that I was looking for something. And I
+       found it, kinda, and in a somewhat similar situation... but that
+       gets into some other personal areas, and this may not be the right
+       forum for that. Suffice to say I was....almost killed myself, and
+       leave it at that.
+     * Here's a funny thing.
+       Well, funny weird.
+       See, every so often, someone will ask, "How much of you goes into
+       a script?" and I'll answer, "More than I know at the time," and
+       they ask for an example. A few questions ago, someone asked about
+       if I'd ever gone...on walkabout, and I thought of the San Diego
+       thing...and it suddenly dawned on me that that was behind the
+       Franklin thing. Long story short: I got attacked and mugged by a
+       gang, and beaten nearly to death....and survived only by a sheer
+       act of will. And I'd honestly never, ever put that together with
+       Walkabout, until the question, and suddenly there it was, I was
+       working out *exactly* what I'd gone though, denying it to
+       myself...the whole time that it was going on. Well. Anyway. That
+       just hit me like a ton of bricks, and thought I'd pass it along.
+     * In retrospect, that was something I probably should not have
+       mentioned, and would not have, had the thing not just utterly
+       blindsided me in the middle of the conference. What got me through
+       the attack, and its aftermath, those years ago, was sheer
+       unadulterated rage...that I would not allow them to take my life
+       because I had stories left in me to tell. And no matter what, I'd
+       tell those stories. At first, I'd made my peace with myself...I'd
+       never gone out of my way to hurt anyone, had helped where I could,
+       had done some good work...I had a few things on the shelf, not a
+       lot, but a start...but then I just started to get mad about it,
+       and pulled myself back from the edge.
+       So yeah, in a sense, I've faced that black, implacable wall...and
+       it does drive you, after a while. And I do think, to a large
+       degree, I'm still trying to define myself, to find what it is
+       that's at the center for me, beyond the work. But then, I don't
+       think that's terribly special...it seems to be the standard
+       dilemma in an industrial society.
+     * _In response to a review_
+       Slight correction to the preview of the final 5 scenes at
+       Worldcon; in the Delenn/Sheridan scene, she never said female
+       Minbari can cut off the partner's sexual organs if they're
+       pressed...what she said was, "If he forces the issue, she can
+       complain to the elders, leave once he is asleep, even cut of his
+       --" she searches for the right word "-- *access* to her family."
+       The humor is in his horror at what she might've been searching for
+       in that word. A small correction in an otherwise great review, but
+       as someone once said, god is in the details.... _[That quote is
+       from the architect Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe.]_
+     * The Minbari greeting is a hoot...there's a lot in that episode I
+       just like a lot.
+     * _Earth is still letting people come to Babylon 5 as tourists?_
+       It's difficult and limited, but yes, there's still some travel,
+       just as one may travel to countries that the US does not recognize
+       officially or have diplomatic relations with. How long they
+       continue to allow this...we'll see.
+     * _How did Marcus heal so quickly?_
+       For starters, we're talking about more than two weeks of story
+       time. Between Grey 17 and Rock was several weeks, then you've got
+       about 2 weeks from Rock to Shadow Dancing. That's five weeks, and
+       now you've got the issue of medicine 250 years from now...and you
+       can be sure that these kinds of injuries will be fixed much more
+       quickly. It isn't like he showed up the very next day like this,
+       we *did* allow for proper amounts of time.
+     * _How did you think up the Shadows' strategy?_
+       I dunno...I just thunk it up as efficient and ruthless. I guess it
+       comes naturally when you're a producer.
+     * "Seems to me the strategy is: wait in hyperspace "near" the flock
+       of refugee ships, and when they signal for help (as they will when
+       the Shadow fleet appears), pop out of hyperspace and engage the
+       Shadow fleet. The point is, the Shadow fleet is going after a
+       known target (or so Sheridan guesses), if you hang around near the
+       target, they will tell you when the attackers appear. No need to
+       for your ships, even a scout, to sit in normal space, the refugee
+       ships are all "scout ships" in a sense."
+       Massive logic problem. If you wait until they're right on top of
+       the refugee ships, or very near, they'll just dive into the midst
+       of the refugee ships and there's no way you can have a clean
+       battle without resulting in *MASSIVE* amounts of civilian
+       casualties. What you suggest would all but insure that the refugee
+       ships would be destroyed (defeating the purpose of the mission)
+       and the piles of civilian ships running for cover in every
+       direction would hinder our side, but not the other side, and we'd
+       lose even MORE of our own ships.
+       "2) Delenn and Sheridan spend the night together and we get to
+       watch... comercials. Talk about giving "short shrift" to a rather
+       interesting event. Couldn't this have been pushed into a different
+       episode? I mean, here they are, alone together, in a "ostensibly"
+       romantic situation, lots for them to talk about I should think.
+       Well, I'd like to know what was said... And what do we see?
+       Sheridan is already asleep!"
+       It's not a matter of being pressed for time. The whole point of
+       the ritual was to watch him sleeping. We had that nice moment
+       right before they took off with the fleet, and bunches of others,
+       including the big kiss, right in the previous episode and
+       throughout the whole thing.
+       "3) I think the battle could have been done with a bit more of an
+       "umph" to it. Perhaps the use of intercutting between the two
+       plots was distracting in this case. It was a good battle, just not
+       quite as effective as "Severed Dreams" or "Long Twilight Struggle"
+       (which did have effective intercutting)."
+       That's because there was more emotional content to the other two
+       battles you mention; the bombing of the Narn homeworld, and EA
+       fighting EA in SD. Not all battles are created equal, it's a
+       matter of context. You can't expect to get exactly the same
+       reaction to all of them.
+     * _Why didn't the Shadows emerge right next to their targets?_
+       So they could drive any other ships toward the center, into the
+       killing zone. If they come in into the center, everybody splits in
+       every possible direction, and that makes running 'em all down
+       harder.
+     * If the shadows were to materialize in the midst of the refugee
+       ships, they'd just scatter in every direction. The purpose is to
+       wipe out all those ships quickly and efficiently...so you start at
+       the outer fringe, drive everyone inward, and then wipe them all
+       out. To jump into the middle of them makes it very hard to do
+       this...it's like herding kittens.
+     * Most refugee ships are NOT jump capable. Remember, it takes a LOT
+       of power...you've got the heavy cruisers, and long range
+       exploratory vessels, and not much else. That's what makes the
+       White Star so special, that it can be as small as it is and still
+       generate a jump point. The Asimov class passenger liners, for
+       instance, can't jump, and have to rely on gates. The smaller ships
+       the refugees would've been using would have had to get to their
+       local gate, and then line up to go through it in small groups.
+       Which means 85% of them would've been trapped there, ducks in a
+       shooting gallery.
+     * _Did the Minbari telepaths need line of sight to affect the Shadow
+       ships?_
+       Actually, we never showed what the Minbari telepaths were looking
+       at; for all you could tell, there could've been viewers or other
+       ports above their beds.
+     * _We couldn't hear the characters speak at the end of the battle.
+       Audio problem?_
+       No, we just figured we'd let the music take it.
+     * "When I saw "A Late Arrival at Avalon," Marcus's line asking "Who
+       is Morgana La Fey" got me to begin speculating that Anna Sheridan
+       was alive and that she was working for the Shadows. My question is
+       whether or not Marcus's line was intended that way--i.e. as
+       foreshadowing that a significant female figure not presently on
+       the scene (Anna?) would arrive at B5 to play Morgana to Delenn's
+       Lady of the Lake?"
+       yup.
+     * No, Sheridan isn't the man in the middle...the man in the middle
+       is the one out there who sent Anna. As Ivanova says, his opposite
+       number.
+     * _Why did Kosh send those dream images?_
+       Well, certainly Kosh was accessing that which he could, in part to
+       prove he knew what he knew, in part to set things up. Although who
+       knows, there may be more to it...that that's what they came up
+       with doesn't necessarily mean that is the full extent of it.
+     * The snow globe was shown as a flash-forward in "WWE-2," and we did
+       see that image of Sheridan in Psi Cop uniform in "All Alone."
+     * With "Shadow" my hope is really to erase most (though obviously
+       not all) suspicions or predictions on how the last one will go. If
+       we already had our big EFX battle, it won't be that...Anna's here,
+       so it can't be that...it can't ever be a return to tabula rasa, an
+       empty slate, but by doing what's normally done in the season
+       closer one episode prior to that, it may help ease the way for a
+       different tonality to come in.
+       And thanks again...you definitely won't be disappointed.
+     * _Was "Commander Ivanova is on channel 4" a reference to the UK
+       network? And what could possibly come next?_
+       Yeah, the channel 4 reference was a nod to the UK. Wondered if
+       it'd get noticed....
+       Good point, when you do a battle like that...what do you do next
+       that won't seem anticlimatic? Usually you save something like that
+       for your last episode of the season, not your next-to-last, or
+       you've blown your big EFX show 1 show early. It makes for a real
+       challenge...what do you do to follow THAT up?
+       I think we figured it out....
+     * _Why not show more of Sheridan getting ready to sleep, with Delenn
+       watching over him?_
+       Basically...we've got 44 or so minutes...we could've shown the
+       whole battle as shown, or shown Sheridan trying to sleep. One
+       would have to go to make room to include the other.
+     * _Why did the White Star make its own jump point when there was a
+       jumpgate nearby?_
+       And then, there are just times you do it 'cause it feels more
+       dramatic that way....
+     * _Do people on Earth hear about events like this battle?_
+       They've heard rumors, usually the ones furthest away from Clark's
+       confining influence....
+     * _Why the change in actresses playing Anna?_
+       There was a combination of reasons, including production
+       schedules, for the decision.
+     * _Why were station personnel seemingly surprised to see Anna? And
+       why did Melissa Gilbert come last in the list of guest stars?_
+       The script said the extras shouldn't make a big deal about seeing
+       her. The director did that on the set. That's not what I had in
+       mind, but it isn't that big a deal...I figure she's a striking
+       looking woman, maybe that's a good justification.
+       The ordering of credits was done to de-emphasize and hide (as much
+       as possible) the appearance of Melissa.
+     * Under SAG rules, you must put guest stars of a certain calibre in
+       the opening credits; also, for Melissa to take back-billing would
+       have been a break in her work to date elsewhere. We had no choice
+       in this, it's all stuff regulated by the guilds.
+     * _Were the Vorlons absent from the battle because of the death of
+       Kosh, or for some other reason?_
+       There are other reasons, which yes, will be addressed soon....
+     * _Why didn't they call in the Walkers from Sigma 957 ([26]"Voices
+       of Authority?")_
+       Simple....you don't bring in the big guns like that until you're
+       ready for the final assault. You don't whistle 'em up when
+       convenient. You can probably go to the well just once with these
+       guys, and you want to do so only when you're ready for D-Day.
+     * _Was the bit about true faces taken from an existing religion on
+       Earth?_
+       As far as I *know*, at least, that bit about seeing your true face
+       revealed as you sleep is something I came up with on my own.
+       There's just something I like about it, and if you've ever watched
+       someone's face while they're sleeping, you understand.
+       Though one person did comment, "So a man's true face is all mushed
+       up against the pillow and drooling?"
+       We don't talk anymore.
+     * "I gritted my teeth tighter when the dialogue launched into some
+       anti-male paranoia about "What if the male demands the female stay
+       a second night?", and the various "vengeances" she could take for
+       a custom that is, after all, steeply in her favor. I could accept
+       all that in an anthropological sense: "Look what anti-male customs
+       the Minbari have. Isn't that fascinating, if you put the moral
+       judgements aside?". But then... Yeesh!"
+       The "vengeances" she cites, should the male insist she stay
+       another night, are "she can leave once he falls asleep, complain
+       to the elders, even cut off his access to her family." These
+       hardly sound like anti-male rhetoric, but rather precautions taken
+       to deal reasonably *should* someone get out of line. It doesn't
+       state that all men do this, but sets in place what to do should
+       *some* men do this.
+       This is not a problem of context. It is a problem of perception.
+       It has nothing to do with the scene, and everything to do with how
+       you perceive the role of males in society.
+       
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+    ### GUIDE ### [3][Background] [4][Synopsis] [5][Credits] [6][Episode
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Third season finale. A face from Sheridan's past takes him on a
+     dangerous mission to meet his Shadow counterpart. Londo receives
+     important news about his political future. The Shadows mass a fleet
+     against Babylon 5. [15]Melissa Gilbert as Anna. [16]Ed Wasser as
+     Morden. [17]Jeff Corey as Justin.
+     
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]9.73
+
+Production number: 322
+Original air week: September 22, 1996 (UK)
+                   October 28, 1996 (US)
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Adam Nimoy
+
+   _Warning: This episode reveals a lot of information, and there are
+   spoilers below. Think twice before reading on if you haven't seen the
+   episode._
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+     * The Shadows claim that the _Icarus_ was sent to Z'ha'dum by Earth
+       after Interplanetary Expeditions planted a homing device on the
+       Shadow ship discovered on Mars ([20]"Messages from Earth") and
+       traced its path through hyperspace.
+     * A million years ago there were many immensely powerful species
+       roaming the galaxy, but most left for "greener pastures," leaving
+       the Vorlons and the Shadows behind.
+     * The Shadows claim they and the Vorlons are "shepherds," guiding
+       younger races through the evolutionary process, though they have
+       different methods: the Vorlons are like parents, trying to get
+       their children to play nice and get along, while the Shadows
+       believe that only through conflict and death can races become
+       stronger and more advanced. They also claim that by enlisting the
+       help of the Minbari and others against the Shadows, and by
+       manipulating the younger races genetically, the Vorlons haven't
+       been playing by the rules.
+     * The Shadows claim that the Vorlons' genetic tinkering is
+       responsible for the sudden appearance of telepathy in humans, and
+       that they got involved with Psi-Corps to try to minimize the
+       threat to themselves.
+     * The Shadows' own name for themselves is 10000 letters long, and
+       unpronounceable.
+     * Z'ha'dum is, according to Delenn, the Shadows' homeworld.
+     * The Shadows badly want to have Sheridan on their side because he
+       has succeeded in uniting the various races into the "Army of
+       Light," something that's anathemic to their goal of growth through
+       universal conflict. If he unravels the Army of Light, it'll stay
+       unravelled, but past experience has shown that killing him would
+       simply cause someone else to take his place.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * If the future as seen in [21]"War Without End" is unchangeable,
+       then how does Sheridan survive?
+     * What was left of Anna after she was removed from the Shadow ship
+       and sent to Sheridan?
+     * Was the entire crew of the Icarus put inside Shadow ships, or were
+       some of them killed?
+     * What was behind the door Anna wouldn't let Sheridan open? (See
+       [22]JMS Speaks)
+     * How much truth is there in the Shadows' statements?
+     * Why did the Vorlons and Shadows stay behind when the other First
+       Ones left?
+     * Where exactly did the other First Ones go, and why?
+     * Were the Vorlons also responsible for telepathy in Narns and
+       Minbari around the time of the last war?
+     * If the Vorlons and the Shadows are trying to guide the evolution
+       of the younger races, do they have an objective in mind? If so,
+       what?
+     * Who or what is Justin? Where did he come from? Was he also a
+       member of the Icarus crew?
+     * What is the pit Sheridan jumped toward? (See [23]Analysis)
+     * Anna told Sheridan that time doesn't work the same way on Z'ha'dum
+       as elsewhere. How _does_ time work there, and why is it different?
+     * Was the destroyed city the only city on Z'ha'dum?
+     * How badly have the Shadows been hurt?
+     * Did Morden and/or Justin survive?
+     * Did Londo get off the station after his warning?
+     * Where were the Minbari ships shown at the beginning of the episode
+       when the Shadows appeared?
+     * Why did the Shadows take Garibaldi? Luck? Their plan? His plan?
+     * What ever happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Given that Anna most likely lied about the fate of the Icarus'
+       crew, and that they tried to mislead him about what had been done
+       to her, much of what Sheridan was told may be lies or
+       misrepresentation as well, and it's possible that important
+       elements of the relationship between the Vorlons, Shadows, and the
+       other First Ones were left unsaid.
+     * The Shadows have a similar worldview to that of the Lumati
+       ([24]"Acts of Sacrifice,") namely that individuals deserve to fall
+       by the wayside if they aren't strong enough to fend for
+       themselves. The Drazi and others might also come to agree with the
+       Shadows' motives if they were explained. Assuming Sheridan has
+       survived somehow, what will Delenn and Kosh do to keep the
+       Shadows' side of the story from becoming public?
+     * Anna told Sheridan, "It was supposed to be an equal balance
+       between our side and the Vorlons." According to who? Did both
+       sides agree to follow rules of conduct? Are they acting on behalf
+       of some other party who wants to see which style of evolutionary
+       help will prove more fruitful?
+     * Some part of Kosh is definitely in Sheridan's head -- Sheridan
+       sees or hears him twice. The first time is just before he leaves
+       for Z'ha'dum, when Kosh says, "If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will
+       die." The second time is just before the White Star crashes into
+       the Shadow city, when he tells Sheridan to jump into the pit.
+     * Sheridan decides he is willing to sacrifice himself in the nuclear
+       destruction of the Shadow city for two main reasons -- first, to
+       help defeat the Shadows, and second, to try to avoid the
+       destruction of the Centauri Homeworld he has foreseeen ([25]"War
+       Without End.") His willingness to sacrifice himself also brings to
+       mind the judgment of Sebastian ([26]"Comes the Inquisitor") that
+       both Sheridan and Delenn can sacrifice themselves for their cause.
+       Delenn also told Sebastian the same thing the Shadows told
+       Sheridan: that if they were killed, another would come along to
+       take their place.
+     * Anna claims that the Shadows believe they'll die if anything
+       Vorlon touches Z'ha'dum. Is that simply a superstition, or do they
+       have some reason to think that's true? Perhaps they foresaw the
+       detonation of the White Star in some way -- as it turned out, that
+       belief wasn't too far from the truth.
+     * Justin is probably "the man in between" from Sheridan's dream
+       ([27]"All Alone in the Night") -- Sheridan's counterpart. But if
+       he's truly equivalent to Sheridan, does that mean he's in control
+       of the Shadows? Of course, given the amount of manipulation by the
+       Vorlons and the Minbari, it's questionable whether Sheridan is
+       really in control of the army of light in any meaningful way; Kosh
+       and Delenn have steered him toward their viewpoints from the
+       beginning. Still, if Justin is Sheridan's counterpart, he's more
+       than a simple spokesman, and if that's the case, it begs the
+       question, how did he achieve that position?
+     * Another interpretation is that "the man in between" implies that
+       there's a third person, a "man on the other side." The presence of
+       Garibaldi and two versions of Sheridan in his dream supports that
+       interpretation. In that case, who is Sheridan's opposite? Perhaps
+       it's Sheridan himself: if Justin had managed to convert him to the
+       Shadows' side, he would have become the man on the other side.
+     * Both Justin and Sheridan drink tea to help them sleep ([28]"And
+       the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place.")
+     * Sheridan's first question to Justin is, "Who are you?" That's the
+       same question Sebastian asked Delenn and Sheridan ([29]"Comes the
+       Inquisitor.") One could plausibly consider it the Vorlon question,
+       their version of the Shadows' "What do you want?" ([30]"Signs and
+       Portents.") Significantly, Justin refuses to answer the question
+       in any direct way, even claims it's not important who he is. That
+       probably points to a major philosophical difference between the
+       Vorlons and the Shadows.
+     * Justin claimed there were two elder races left behind. Does that
+       mean the Shadows don't know about the Walkers at Sigma 957
+       ([31]"Voices of Authority?") Or would they not consider that race
+       to be remaining behind?
+     * What did Justin mean when he called Sheridan a nexus? Does it
+       imply there's something inherently special about Sheridan, or does
+       one become a nexus simply by being in the right place at the right
+       time? Certainly Sheridan's decisions affect the fates of millions
+       of people now, but was that destined to be the case?
+     * Delenn said that nobody returns from Z'ha'dum the same as they
+       arrived. How does she know, and what does she mean by that,
+       exactly? Is it simply a matter of all visitors to Z'ha'dum being
+       put inside Shadow warships?
+     * The Shadows don't seem to have very good security, given that they
+       failed to detect that Sheridan was carrying a second gun. On the
+       other hand, it's possible they _did_ detect it, but elected for
+       some reason not to do anything about it.
+     * Z'ha'dum's defenses are similarly flawed; the White Star was able
+       to crash into the surface of the planet intact, apparently with no
+       opposition on the way down. Why weren't the Shadows vigorously
+       protecting their homeworld? Obviously they left the White Star
+       alone while it was in orbit because of their guarantee to
+       Sheridan, but once it started plummeting toward one of their
+       cities, it's odd that they didn't shoot it out of the sky.
+     * The pit Sheridan jumped into was more than a simple depression; as
+       he fell, just before the White Star detonated, he appeared to be
+       passing through a tunnel of some kind. Perhaps he was transported
+       to safety by some means; that would explain Kosh urging him to
+       jump. If so, what is the pit, and did the Shadows build it, or are
+       they merely taking advantage of something that predates their
+       presence on Z'ha'dum? If the latter, was the city surrounding the
+       pit a Shadow installation, or was it peopled by someone else?
+       It's also odd that, given that they moved their base underground
+       "for security purposes," the Shadows would build a large, exposed
+       dome above the pit.
+     * Perhaps the pit is related to the Shadows' absence. In
+       [32]"Chrysalis," Delenn asked Kosh, "Have the Shadows returned to
+       Z'ha'dum?" That implies they'd been somewhere else. Perhaps the
+       pit is a gateway of some kind, and Sheridan will survive by
+       passing through it.
+     * Is Sheridan's descent into the pit related to Londo's odd greeting
+       in [33]"War Without End, Part One," "Welcome back from the abyss,
+       Sheridan?" If so, does that mean he somehow spends the intervening
+       seventeen years either in the pit or associated with it in some
+       way? The former is unlikely if Sheridan and Delenn already have a
+       son seventeen years later.
+       A parallel to Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" is possible:
+       Gandalf fell into the pit at Khazad-dum with the Balrog, died (as
+       Sheridan will, according to Kosh) and was reborn as Gandalf the
+       White, an even more powerful figure.
+     * Sheridan may also, if he survives in some fashion, qualify as "the
+       one who is already dead" from Lady Morella's prophecy ([34]"Point
+       of No Return.") It's an even closer fit since Sheridan would be
+       The One who is already dead.
+     * In [35]"Interludes and Examinations," Kosh said he wouldn't be
+       there to help if Sheridan went to Z'ha'dum. But that's not how it
+       turned out; Kosh was there, though it's not yet clear how much
+       help he was. What would Kosh have done for Sheridan on Z'ha'dum if
+       he hadn't been killed?
+     * This is the second time Sheridan has leapt from great heights to
+       avoid a bomb ([36]"The Fall of Night.") And both times, Kosh was
+       involved, though Sheridan didn't know that when he leapt the first
+       time. Will Kosh's presence in Sheridan's mind somehow save him
+       once again?
+     * Ivanova's plan (or possibly Sheridan's) to plant mines near an
+       upcoming Shadow attack is the same strategy Sheridan used to
+       defeat the Black Star in the Earth-Minbari War ([37]"There All the
+       Honor Lies.") How will the Minbari, who denounced Sheridan's
+       tactic as dishonorable then, feel about its use against the
+       Shadows? Perhaps they'll have no problem with it, since presumably
+       Ivanova won't use a fake distress call to lure the Shadows in as
+       Sheridan did to the Minbari.
+     * Sheridan has now destroyed both the Black Star and the White Star,
+       further justifying the Minbari nickname for him, Starkiller
+       ([38]"Points of Departure.")
+     * If the Shadows were planning to implant Sheridan, as the arrival
+       of the Shadow implied, why did they surround the station? Would
+       they have attacked? Their warning to Londo implies so. Perhaps
+       they came both to attack if necessary and to pick up Garibaldi.
+     * Shadow ships seem to have instantaneous communication with
+       Z'ha'dum; they left Babylon 5 as soon as the explosion occurred.
+       That's perhaps not so remarkable; B5 has near-instantaneous
+       contact with Earth, and it's not clear how far Z'ha'dum is from
+       B5.
+     * The Shadows may have taken Garibaldi to try to alter him and get
+       him to work for them. Justin said, "Once you've been inside of one
+       of those ships for a while, you're never quite whole again. But
+       you do as you're told." Garibaldi may already be altered by virtue
+       of his transportation in the belly of the Shadow ship.
+     * Ivanova immediately knew that Sheridan was gone. Simple deduction
+       based on the missing bombs and White Star and the sudden departure
+       of the Shadows, or did she sense something telepathically?
+     * If human telepathy is the result of Vorlon genetic tampering, is
+       the same also true of Minbari and (former) Narn telepathy, and of
+       other races as well? What, then, of the Centauri, who (to judge by
+       Londo's failure to see Kosh in [39]"The Fall of Night") haven't
+       been altered by Vorlons? Where did they get their telepathy?
+     * Again assuming that all human telepaths owe their abilities to
+       Vorlon modifications, Ivanova's genes, or rather those of her
+       ancestors, have been altered by the Vorlons. What other changes
+       did the Vorlons make in addition to granting telepathy? Will
+       Ivanova, for instance, be more susceptible than other crewmembers
+       to images projected by the new Kosh?
+     * The Vorlons may have had more than one motive for creating
+       telepathy among the younger races. There's the obvious reason,
+       namely that telepaths are useful as weapons against the Shadows.
+       But it may also be that the Vorlons' goal of universal
+       cooperation, if Justin's representation is to be believed, is
+       furthered by widespread telepathy. Presumably people are less
+       likely to fight if they can feel their blows landing on an
+       opponent's body from the other person's point of view, and
+       certainly direct mind-to-mind contact would enable much more
+       productive cooperation. The Vorlons may feel that telepathy is
+       ultimately most useful as a means of pacification, not as a
+       weapon.
+       If so, the path to that goal cuts straight through Shadow
+       territory; the Psi Corps, as represented by Bester in [40]"Ship of
+       Tears," is perhaps internally cohesive, and its members cooperate
+       with one another effectively, but its leaders hold the rest of the
+       human population in contempt ("Normals are expendable," as Bester
+       put it.) It's plausible that eventually that will lead to conflict
+       between telepaths and normals, with the winners in charge
+       afterwards -- exactly the process the Shadows advocate.
+     * Likewise, the Shadows' actions seem to be at odds with their
+       stated goal. As Morden said to Sheridan, every time the Shadows
+       come out and try to put their plans in motion, someone tries to
+       unite all the other races against them. Given that the Shadows
+       seem to have been defeated in at least the last two wars, and
+       probably many others, it's likely that someone _succeeds_ in
+       uniting all the races against them every time. By attempting to
+       create conflict, they instead promote unity and cooperation.
+       Of course, it could be that the Shadows and Vorlons actually want
+       exactly the opposite of what Justin claimed, and they realize that
+       if they push in one direction, the younger races will move in the
+       other.
+     * The Vorlons' tinkering with humans may have been foreshadowed as
+       far back as [41]"The War Prayer," in which Kosh told Sinclair, "We
+       take no interest in the affairs of others," while he was studying
+       images of Earth history. Perhaps he was simply studying the
+       effects of Vorlon intervention.
+     * Morden seemed disgusted by the thought of the Vorlons tampering
+       genetically with humans. Why is that more objectionable to him
+       than the Shadows' implantation? Perhaps it's because the Shadows
+       aren't aiming to directly modify the species with their tinkering;
+       presumably humans who are put inside Shadow ships never return to
+       human society.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The episode's title, originally under wraps as mentioned below,
+       was announced by JMS at the San Diego Comicon on July 6, 1996.
+     * The concept of someone being a nexus also appeared in the novel
+       "The Demolished Man" by Alfred Bester, which also contains the
+       inspiration for the Psi Corps. In the novel, the term is "focal
+       point," and it's suggested that a focal point can cause tremendous
+       changes not only to the lives of other people, but to the very
+       structure of the universe.
+     * Delenn's rendition of the human saying, "What is past is
+       prologue," is from Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * I'm going to hold the title of 22 confidential as long as
+       possible.
+     * By the last few episodes, pretty much all of my cards are on the
+       table. But by the last episode of this season, we find that the
+       game we've assumed we've been playing ain't necessarily the game
+       at all. The show takes a fairly subversive direction, and of all
+       the seasons so far, the one that follows, year four, represents
+       the greatest writing challenge to make this actually work.
+       Which is another reason why it's important to get the B4 storyline
+       and several other threads out in the open, and clear the decks,
+       because this is gonna take every bit of whatever talent I've got
+       to pull off.
+       Year four is the point in the novel when you're just past the
+       halfway mark; you know the reader thinks he or she has got the
+       story sussed out. The reader knows all your tricks by now, or
+       thinks he/she does. You've been pulling doves out of your hat for
+       243 pages.
+       Now you'd damned well better be able to pull out an alligator.
+     * _February 27, 1996_
+       Well, it's done. I have today turned in the first draft of script
+       #22 for year three, which I suppose could be called a cliffhanger
+       episode. This marks the first time in the 50+ year history of
+       American television that one person has singlehandedly written an
+       entire season of a series. (The closest record is Terry Nation,
+       who wrote the 13-episode first season of Blake's 7.)
+       (I have no plans to do this next season, btw; this was necessary
+       because of the substantive changes in the B5 universe this season.
+       Next season is a very different story...literally as well as
+       figuratively.)
+       So far the film based on those 1,000+ pages represents some of our
+       best work on Babylon 5. There's some nifty stuff coming.
+       We are currently filming episode #18. Four more after this, and
+       we'll be finished shooting year three, as of April 9th. Not long
+       after, we should get the word on year four, probably by late
+       April/early May. But the writing is finished...and for the first
+       time in 8 months, I will be able to go out, see a movie, play Wing
+       Commander, find something that vaguely resembles a life. This is
+       where I now also become a director's worst nightmare: a
+       writer-producer who's finished writing and finally has time to
+       hang out on the set and give lots and lots of helpful advice.
+       It was a hideous task; two-thirds through I began to understand
+       that there was a *reason* nobody's ever done this before...you'd
+       have to be outta your ever-loving mind to even try. But as with
+       everything else on B5, if we don't know it's impossible, we just
+       go ahead and do it.
+       The title, as stated elsewhere, is classified, though you may get
+       a sense of what's coming in the two eps that precede it.
+       Regardless, the writing on year three is now complete. Overall,
+       I'm quite pleased, and I think by the time you hit this episode,
+       you'll feel the same.
+     * Well, there's what one would *prefer*, and there's that which is
+       *sensible*. And the sensible answer is that no, once the last S3
+       episode airs in the UK, there's no way on earth you're gonna keep
+       that out of the public eye, and there ain't much sense to
+       protecting it or hitting it with spoiler regs. I'd let it go at
+       that point.
+       (And, frankly, it'll probably slip out some time before that; when
+       it hits, it hits, I've decided to let it go at that point...you
+       just ain't gonna hear it from ME, that's all.)
+     * "Or is it a matter of the title being a spoiler for an episode
+       between now and then?"
+       Yes, that's my concern.
+       While I'm on the subject, an advisory: I gave a short interview to
+       Entertainment Weekly the other day for their story about
+       cliffhanger endings for various shows. Now, the piece is going to
+       run in May since that's when most shows (most *sensible* shows)
+       will be doing their cliffhangers. Ours won't run until July or
+       October, depending on who you talk to.
+       There's a point where you have to decide between publicity (good
+       for show) and secrecy (good for viewers), in the process of
+       keeping the show on the air (also good for viewers). So I let a
+       few things out of the bag. If you don't want to be spoiled, then
+       you may want to avoid picking up and reading that story.
+     * _Why a cliffhanger, if WB is likely to delay the final episode
+       until the start of season four?_
+       Because the story calls for it. Whether they show the cliffhanger
+       three months or two weeks before the fourth season (assuming
+       renewal), this is where the story goes. It was constructed like a
+       series of novels, a multi-volume saga, and like any good series of
+       novels, you end on something big.
+       And this year, season three ends on something really honking big.
+     * It has some surprises, with teeth....
+     * _Why did you reveal the title at the San Diego convention but
+       refuse to do so earlier in Chicago?_
+       At Chicago, the assumption was still that the UK wouldn't be
+       getting the final 5 until the US did. But since now they'll be
+       getting new (to the US) episodes starting in August, keeping the
+       title quiet now seems kind of a moot issue.
+     * _Was Justin's description of himself a reference to anything?_
+       No, it's not from anything I'm aware of, though it's a concept
+       that seems very natural.
+     * I'm definitely looking forward to the reaction. Today, for
+       instance, we did the final audio mix of "Z'ha'dum," our third
+       season ending episode. All of the EFX were in place, the sound,
+       the music...and after we did the piecemeal mix, layering in things
+       in a stop-and-go fashion, we did our playback, watching it
+       straight through. I don't think anyone was breathing for the
+       fourth act. Everyone was just wog-boggled. The emotional impact of
+       it all is quite strong.
+       When the lights came up, and I looked around to the stunned faces
+       in the room, the only thing I could say was, "Welcome to history,
+       gentlemen."
+     * _Who was in the room?_
+       The only people in the room are those involved in the mix, this
+       isn't a screening, it's part of post-production. It's me, John
+       Copeland, co-producer George Johnsen, the sound editors, mixers,
+       sound supervisor, a few others on the periphery.
+       At one point, one of the mixers was working on putting in the
+       sounds as he went, hadn't yet gone through it all...and kept
+       telling the sound supervisor (who was asking questions about how
+       we wanted to handle some later scenes) "don't let me hear this, I
+       don't want to know, I just want to see what happens next, this is
+       great." Which in this town, from folks who work on a lot of shows,
+       is a good reaction.
+     * It's a lovely episode. This is the one where, after we watched the
+       final audio mix playback, prompted me to say to the other
+       producers working on the show, "gentlemen, we have just entered
+       history."
+     * One of the things I like about the episode is the emotional
+       content, as it builds toward the end of the ep. I've watched it
+       (in finished form) a half dozen times or more...but certain
+       sequences never stop being interesting.
+     * An emotional rollercoaster is a good image for that episode; it
+       takes you in every direction and then just drops you.
+       Re: the Revelations scene...we actually shot that entire sequence,
+       with the notion of possibly re-editing "Revelations" and inserting
+       the Melissa piece instead...sort of TV by way of soviet
+       revisionism...and of course it was *always* that way...what other
+       version was there?
+     * It's something we're considering; we had her do the entire
+       message, and shot Bruce in those sequences, so we have that
+       option. Sort of a Soviet revisionism approach to television....
+     * _Was using Melissa Gilbert instead of Beth Toussaint Bruce's idea?_
+       No, since it was my idea re: Melissa. It was a scheduling
+       situation involving availabilities. If it wasn't her, it would've
+       had to be someone else...so I figured, why not?
+     * _Were the wedding photos in the episode actually photos from Bruce
+       and Melissa's wedding?_
+       Yes, we used their actual wedding photos.
+     * _The flashforward in "War Without End" seemed to not be quite the
+       same as the scene in this episode._
+       Sometimes there are practical considerations in the overall
+       staging; when we shot the flash-forward, Melissa wasn't there, so
+       when she was, there was some interest in restaging things.
+     * As for the music, no, it's the same orchestra Chris has always
+       used. I've seen times when people assumed he was using synth and
+       wasn't. He uses the Berlin Film Symphonic Orchestra for a goodly
+       amount of the work for the show.
+     * The other crew of the Icarus shown on Z'ha'dum were all done CGI.
+     * _Was G'Kar's makeup different, or was it just the lighting?_
+       Probably the lighting.
+     * "So basically, what I'm asking is does the fact that G'Kar gets
+       the last major speech in season 3 mean that he gets to do the
+       voiceover for season 4?"
+       Not as such, no....
+     * Andreas did a terrific job on the end monologue. Very moving.
+     * Andreas did two takes on it; I think we used the first of the two.
+       The writing of it...this is just an estimate, trying to remember,
+       but I think it took me about 10-15 minutes. Which is actually a
+       long time for me to stay parked on any part of the page. Obviously
+       I already had kind of a sense of what was going to go into it
+       before hitting the page, but the actual shape of it had to come in
+       the moment.
+     * _Is G'Kar's willingness to sacrifice himself a sign that he'd be
+       sympathetic to the Shadows?_
+       I think that reasoning can be applied to any side.
+     * "I hate you." Thank you. I try.
+     * _Was the destruction of the vessel in "Walkabout" the catalyst
+       that caused them to send Anna?_
+       It's certainly gotten their attention...but it's the events in
+       "Shadow Dancing" that tipped them into moving directly.
+     * _If the Shadows can get to Kosh and kill him, why are Delenn and
+       Sheridan still alive?_
+       A good question, which we'll answer in the last episode of this
+       season.
+     * The shadows are *much* older technologically than a thousand
+       years...that's just what Anna promised Sheridan we could jump
+       ahead, between 1 and 10,000 years. They're profoundly older than
+       that.
+     * _What was behind the door Anna warned John away from?_
+       In a way, I was going more for the visual, the image...the whole
+       show is a matter of what door you choose to go through, and the
+       door not taken. If you wanted to take the scene *absolutely*
+       literally, then since that room adjoined Justin's, the shadows
+       were inside. Or you can take it a little more metaphorically.
+     * The portrayal of [the Shadows'] motives is somewhat more
+       elaborate, but the sense is there, and as you yourself note,
+       there's a certain cold logic there which can be agreed with at
+       some level.
+     * _Is the Shadows' story true?_
+       What Sheridan is told, in that episode, by them, concerning their
+       motives, is absolutely true, certainly from their point of view.
+     * _Does the Shadows' story "explain it all" about this subject?_
+       Well, it sorta answers all the questions...it's hard to explain
+       until you've seen the episode and the ones that follow.
+     * _If that's really their goal, why are they attacking the younger
+       races directly?_
+       Well, look what happened when the shadows came out and attacked a
+       couple of places...first they did so without anyone knowing it was
+       them doing it, as we've shown. So now everyone's running around
+       like ants, scurrying for cover and trying to figure out what the
+       hell's going on, accusing one another...then the Centauri got the
+       credit/blame for it, causing further conflict...then they came out
+       and sent everyone scurrying again, some to make alliances they
+       thought would protect themselves (and thus enable them to make war
+       on their neighbors, as shown), only to have that fall apart and
+       they turn on themselves/each other.
+     * The First Ones, Vorlons and Shadows aren't parents in any sense of
+       the word...we all evolved on our own, there's no common genetics,
+       and they didn't seed life here or elsewhere.
+     * _What do the Vorlons and Shadows get out of this game? Why did the
+       other First Ones leave?_
+       All those get answered in the first part of season four, so I'd
+       rather leave it to that.
+     * _The Vorlons and Shadows don't seem to know who they are or what
+       they want._
+       That's an extremely good and cogent analysis. And you hit the
+       theme right on the head, one we'll explore in year four with the
+       Vorlon/Shadow situation...and which was presaged in "Infection,"
+       right in the first season, the first episode shot. Sinclair says,
+       in the ultimate moment in that conflict, "You forgot the first
+       rule of the fanatic: When you become obsessed with the enemy, you
+       *become* the enemy." That is what is happening here, with these
+       two and other parties.
+       It all comes together....
+     * _Did either side foresee Sheridan's leap?_
+       I think the two sides have been too caught up in their own agendas
+       to realize what was happening right under their noses until it was
+       too late... except for Kosh, whose last traces did what they
+       did...for a number of reasons.
+     * _I thought I heard Kosh say, "If you go to Z'ha'dum, will you
+       die?"_
+       No, he says "you will die." Very odd...check it again. We used the
+       same audio track from before.
+     * I've checked it, and I think it was just the actor sliding a vowel
+       to make it clearer; "if you go to Z'ha'dum (ah) you will die."
+     * _Did Justin go to Z'ha'dum on the Icarus?_
+       No, he was assigned there later.
+     * _Was Justin's description of who he worked for a reference to
+       anything?_
+       No, it's not from anything I'm aware of, though it's a concept
+       that seems very natural.
+     * _What influence did Justin have over the Shadows?_
+       Justin thought he had some influence...but perception and reality
+       are often at odds.
+     * Justin is the man in-between...the "middle man," as he describes
+       himself.
+     * _Why weren't there ships guarding B5?_
+       Most would've been getting repaired from their recent engagement.
+       And the shadows phased in too close to B5 for either ship to ship
+       combat, or anything from Epsilon 3. Any attack on them would've
+       also destroyed B5.
+     * One thing to also note is that when the shadows appeared, they
+       swarmed all OVER B5 as fast as they could, circling it without
+       slowing down much. So if Draal *did* launch an offensive, it'd
+       take out B5 in doing so.
+     * The props department found the teapot, and found it very suiting
+       to the environment, so they went with it.
+     * _Why didn't the door make a sound as it opened to let the Shadow
+       in?_
+       The shadows entered through a different door/entrance; it was to
+       the right of the room, which would've adjoined the room next door.
+       Anna and John came through the door on camera left.
+     * It's just a sound of stone grinding on stone. With a slight animal
+       like sound, as though entering someone's maw. Which is what I
+       wanted.
+     * _How did Sheridan get bloodied?_
+       Basically, my thought was that it was just the one shadow in the
+       room, and there was a tussle with some others, and he started
+       running, made a break for it...didn't seem worth the time to show
+       what would've been only a few minutes of hit 'em and run.
+     * He was in close quarters with a small group, and fought his way
+       out. This picks up right after that.
+     * The PPG bursts would've wounded the shadow, allowing him time to
+       scramble out of there before Morden could draw. He then had to
+       fight some other humans in the area, scramble down some ridges
+       into the cave areas, and then walk out.
+     * _Were the creatures chasing Sheridan actual Shadows, or just their
+       servants?_
+       No, those were definitely shadows.
+     * The final fate of the first White Star is very moving, like some
+       great silver bird plunging on fire out of the sky, bringing
+       retribution and striking one last time. That kind of image is a
+       very powerful one to me, and it works very well here.
+       As for what Morden and Justin told Sheridan...I'd say it was
+       pretty much the truth.
+     * _Do you agree with the Shadows?_
+       Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Motives are one thing; the
+       means to achieving that motive, however, are a different issue.
+       And those means I do not agree with. But on some level, their
+       motives can make sense...as can the Vorlons' motives....
+     * It's...not that easy. Can I make a pretty good argument for some
+       elements of what they're about? Yes. (And did, in the ep.) It's a
+       matter of extremes...their notion is fine, taken in small
+       doses...in larger doses, no.
+     * _Why didn't the Vorlons reveal the Shadows' motives?_
+       Because they don't trust us. They know what's best for us, and
+       would rather make the decisions for us. That means controlling
+       information.
+     * _Aren't the Shadows defeating themselves by giving everyone a
+       common enemy?_
+       Nope. First they attacked careful to not let anyone know who was
+       doing it, so they'd accuse each other. Then they'd let another
+       take the credit/blame for it, the Centauri in this case. That'd
+       spin off new alliances and new...wars, and everyone's scurrying
+       for cover. THEN they reveal themselves, and now you've got
+       re-scurrying, some who try to make deals, and then attack others
+       (as stated) thinking they have an unbeatable ally....most of the
+       killing up until this point was done by the others, not the
+       shadows. This current campaign would also lead to scattering the
+       pins, and watching as they restructure, and they'd pull out again
+       to let them scurry...and keep chewing at each other, only coming
+       out when necessary to tip things over, then recede again into
+       the....shadows.
+     * _Did the White Star have a Vorlon consciousness, and if so, did it
+       eject before the ship exploded?_
+       No, the White Star didn't have any substantial consciousness to
+       eject before impact. It's gone.
+       And thanks, on it all... G'Kar's final litany is very moving, and
+       the music throughout works so well...as you say, it's going to be
+       hard to beat.
+       But that's what we do around here. Because if we ain't pushing it
+       every day to get better, what's the point of living?
+       Having now seen the first two finishedS4 episodes...I think people
+       are going to be pleased. What strikes me about the new season is
+       that it seems suddenly very mature, more filmic...everyone's very
+       excited about it here.
+     * _Who programmed the White Star?_
+       Garibaldi programmed it from the intructions given him by
+       Sheridan; it would've been set to explode at a certain point. He
+       [Sheridan] gave it final detonation instructions when he signaled
+       it via his link.
+     * _Was the talking bomb a nod to the movie "Dark Star?"_
+       No.
+     * _Why were the bombs speaking English?_
+       Who said they were speaking English? In a WW II movie, when you go
+       to the Germans, you can understand what they're saying on the
+       premise that yes, it's German, but we're hearing it as English. On
+       the other hand, if Garibaldi programmed them, then they may have
+       been in English...there's no way to tell exactly.
+     * The White Star blowed up real good, so it couldn't save Sheridan.
+     * _Refering to the shot of Sheridan above the city_
+       The parapet shot was one I was very particular about, I really
+       wanted it to feel *high*, and impressive. That whole sequence is
+       one I run again and again, it's very moving.
+     * _Why build an easily penetrable dome over an underground city?_
+       It's an efficient way of lighting an underground city several
+       miles across; you can open or close it to allow the big vessels in
+       for construction purposes, and so on. If you build something that
+       big, you need some way of getting stuff IN there, then lighting it
+       without consuming vast amounts of energy.
+     * Yes, you're right, and the first one to pick up on that aspect,
+       that with Anna, he never had the chance to say goodbye. Finally,
+       here...he did, with Delenn. Also, the look on his face as he turns
+       to her at the parapet...you feel every inch of his loss, being
+       trapped, the end of the road. He did a great job.
+     * _About Delenn and Sheridan's relationship_
+       I don't think Minbari galvanize in quite the same way...with them,
+       I think it's more a gradual, growing relationship, and as many do,
+       there's just one day when the closeness crosses a point without
+       you almost being aware of it...and there it is.
+     * _Whose voice told Sheridan to jump?_
+       That was Kosh's voice, treated the same as always.
+     * Well, it was either jump or get vaporized....
+       In that sense, as someone else once pointed out, Sheridan is a
+       hero in the Heinleinian tradition. He does the logical thing,
+       whatever that is, to survive. "Okay, I'm about to get
+       vaporized...but if that hole is several miles deep, it might
+       shield me and keep me alive for another 10 seconds. Yes, there's
+       the *splat* at the end problem, but I'll have 10 seconds in which
+       to figure out that problem...."
+     * _Is the hole a jump gate?_
+       Nope.
+     * How deep is it? Several miles deep, maybe a lot more.
+     * _Was Sheridan's line in [42]"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum," "I won't
+       go down easily and I will not go down alone," foreshadowing of his
+       leap here?_
+       The leap was always in mind, yes, but that line always kinda stood
+       on its own.
+     * _Sheridan murdered a city full of Shadows!_
+       If someone pointed to an aggressor city (and for the shadows
+       there's no distinction between civilian and military, it's all the
+       same, the only thing that drives them on), which was unified by
+       its desire to wreak havoc and commit massive warfare, and said,
+       "By eliminating that city of 100,000 agressors you will save the
+       lives of 8 billion innocent bystanders," I'd push that button in a
+       hot second, and never regret it.
+     * _The city didn't look very alien. Was that meant to imply it was
+       inhabited by humanoids?_
+       That wasn't the intent, no. I think it's more the way it ended up.
+       And it does have some nice elements, but it could've been
+       stranger...if we'd had more time and more money.
+     * _What happened to Anna?_
+       She's an ex-Sheridan.
+     * What about Morden? Oh, wait about 7 days, you'll find out.
+     * "Was he [Garibaldi] captured, or did he volunteer?"
+       We'll have to see....
+     * There was a very specific reason why Garibaldi was picked up, and
+       there's a suggestion of it in what Justin says at one point to
+       Sheridan.
+     * Nope, I never identified Garibaldi as the support mechanism, only
+       B5.
+     * _Was Garibaldi going with the Shadows to rescue Sheridan?_
+       Well, given that Garibaldi is any number of light years away at
+       the moment at which Sheridan is dropping, I'd say any attempt to
+       arrive before Sheridan would hit bottom would be less than
+       useless.
+     * _If the Shadows were in league with EarthGov, why did IPX send a
+       ship to Z'ha'dum?_
+       Two different things...the allies of the shadows can know about
+       us, can have used influence to start infiltrating the Psi Corps,
+       long before we found out about them. And bear in mind that Earth
+       is not monolithic; the FBI may not know what the CIA is doing.
+       That some in the Psi Corps may have had something going on there
+       doesn't mean anyone from IPX knew about it.
+     * _Then why didn't the Corps notice the big building next to the dig
+       site, as shown in the comic?_
+       The building was a lot bigger in the book than it should've been,
+       more like a quonset hut arrangment hastily erected.
+     * "1) Why has Z'ha'dum not been destroyed by the Vorlons et al in
+       one of the previous wars to prevent the Shadows return?"
+       Funny, that...you'd think maybe there was something of interest
+       there.
+       "2) If the planet has been there for so long, would not the star
+       that it orbits have died quite some time ago, given that the
+       Shadows are so old?"
+       I don't think so. Stars live an awfully long time.
+     * Oh, be assured, the interesting times for Londo haven't even
+       *started* yet.
+       But they will, real soon.
+     * _Would the Hugo people make an exception to their usual rules of
+       nomination for dramatic presentations and allow all of season 3 to
+       be nominated as a unit, since you wrote the whole thing?_
+       But is it really an exception? You have two books as potential
+       nominees. One is 100,000 words long, the other is a huge 300,000
+       word potboiler. But they're both written by one author, so they're
+       both eligible. If a two-part episode can be considered a dramatic
+       unit because it has one author, and a single episode can be
+       considered because it has one author, then why not a 22-parter
+       with only one author? Just because the unit has more pages
+       shouldn't mitigate against it any more than the 300,000 word novel
+       should be disqualified.
+       If you stop and think about it dispassionately for a moment, the
+       exception would be in NOT allowing a whole one-author season be
+       nominated. The committee has already allowed the notion of
+       multiple-part nominees by accepting two-parters. You've crossed
+       the one-episode barrier already. So logically if you've accepted
+       that, why suddenly change it to just one episode?
+       Conceivably, I could take all 22 scripts, put a huge binder on it,
+       and slap a cover page on it reading SEASON THREE, WRITTEN BY J.
+       MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI, and drop that one single unit on the desk of
+       the committee and say, "Here, here's one dramatic unit."
+       On one level, it's really kind of an intellectual exercise; I like
+       to feather around the rules and see what things mean when little
+       things get changed, and what the *sense* of the rule is vs. how
+       it's applied sometimes.
+     * _What about the entire 5-year run?_
+       Actually, I'd mitigate *against* the 5-year story being considered
+       as a whole dramatic unit because it has multiple writers. I think
+       that would tend to violate the spirit of the Hugos.
+       
+   Originally compiled by Jason Snell.
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
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+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Sheridan's disappearance begins to unravel the alliance. Londo
+     discovers that Emperor Cartagia has struck a disturbing deal. G'Kar
+     decides to search for Garibaldi. Ivanova, Delenn, and Lyta head
+     toward Z'ha'dum to search for Sheridan. [15]Ed Wasser as Morden.
+     [16]Wortham Krimmer as Emperor Cartagia. [17]Wayne Alexander as
+     Lorien. [18]Damian London as Minister.
+     
+[19]P5 Rating: [20]8.89
+
+Production number: 401
+Original air week: November 4, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
+  Watch For
+  
+     * [21]A switch of hands.
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+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * A thousand years ago, the Shadows seeded hundreds of worlds with
+       their ships so their forces couldn't be wiped out in a single
+       attack.
+     * The explosion on Z'ha'dum destroyed the Shadows' biggest city and
+       threw them into chaos. Now they've decided to seek outside help,
+       and have enlisted the Centauri to shelter a small fleet of their
+       ships in case Z'ha'dum is attacked while they're weak.
+     * Londo and Vir are scheming to kill Emperor Cartagia, who Londo
+       believes has seriously endangered Centauri Prime by giving land to
+       the Shadows.
+     * According to Kosh, Sheridan opened an unexpected door on Z'ha'dum.
+       Whatever that means, Sheridan somehow survived the two-mile fall,
+       and now finds himself in the company of an enigmatic being,
+       Lorien, who appears to know why Sheridan survived.
+     * The nonaligned worlds, believing Sheridan dead and the battle
+       against the Shadows at an end, are beginning to withdraw from the
+       alliance.
+     * The Shadows have something called "the Eye" near Z'ha'dum. It
+       appears to be able to telepathically contact normals, probing
+       their minds and drawing them to the planet. It was this "Eye" that
+       sensed Ivanova during her journey in the Great Machine on Epsilon
+       3 ([22]"Voices of Authority.")
+     * The Vorlons are aware of what happened on Z'ha'dum, but according
+       to Kosh, plan to do nothing about it. Lyta, however, believes
+       they're planning something.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What did Kosh mean about Sheridan opening an unexpected door? A
+       door to where, and why was it unexpected?
+     * Was Morden the human who introduced Cartagia to the term "the big
+       picture?"
+     * What happened to Lyta while she was scanning for Sheridan?
+     * What is the "Eye" at Z'ha'dum?
+     * Why does it speak with a voice of infinite sadness?
+     * How did Sheridan survive his fall?
+     * Where is he now?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * The Eye spoke to Ivanova and Delenn in the voices of their
+       fathers. That's the same image the old Kosh chose on more than one
+       occasion (to Sheridan in [23]"Interludes and Examinations" and to
+       G'Kar in [24]"Dust to Dust.") Is there a connection?
+     * Is the Eye at Z'ha'dum the one Lady Morella referred to in the
+       first of her prophecies ([25]"Point of No Return?") If so, how
+       will Londo be able to save it? Will it be moved to Centauri Prime,
+       or is it perhaps already there in some form as a result of
+       Cartagia's arrangement with the Shadows?
+     * Perhaps the Eye is the Shadows' main defense system on Z'ha'dum.
+       That would explain why the White Star was able to get to the
+       surface unharmed in [26]"Z'ha'dum." It wasn't touched by the Eye
+       because there was nobody onboard to influence.
+     * The blackening of Lyta's eyes was similar to G'Kar's telepathic
+       experience in [27]"Dust to Dust." Perhaps it's simply a side
+       effect of intense telepathic activity.
+     * In [28]"Interludes and Examinations," Morden warned Londo that the
+       Shadows might turn their eye toward Centauri Prime if Londo stood
+       in their way. Was he speaking in general terms, as it appeared to
+       Londo, or was he referring to something more specific? If he meant
+       the Eye in this episode, what implications are there in Londo's
+       reply that the Centauri would pluck the eye out?
+     * Morden said Sheridan's actions forced the Shadows to seek outside
+       assistance earlier than they'd planned. That implies they thought
+       they'd eventually have to do so. When were they originally
+       planning to get help, and from whom? Seeking outside help would
+       seem to put them on par with the Vorlons, who Morden castigated
+       for doing exactly the same thing in [29]"Z'ha'dum."
+     * G'Kar credits Garibaldi with giving him a second chance and
+       allowing him to redeem himself. Garibaldi probably had that
+       capacity in part because he'd been given a second chance himself,
+       by Sinclair.
+     * The White Star seems to have been replaced with one of the other
+       ships from the fleet; Ivanova and Lyta talked about taking the
+       White Star to Z'ha'dum without referring to the fact that Sheridan
+       destroyed the original White Star.
+     * Kosh may not have meant that Sheridan opened a door in a literal
+       sense; perhaps it's more figurative. Maybe Sheridan's attack on
+       the Shadows has weakened them enough to make it possible for the
+       Vorlons to wipe the Shadows out, if indeed that's what they want.
+     * "Some must be sacrificed for the greater good" is a sentiment
+       that's widely shared, and "the greater good" typically means "your
+       own good." Kosh planted the idea in G'Kar's mind, implying it was
+       the way to the salvation of the Narn people ([30]"Dust to Dust.")
+       Justin told Sheridan that some races are lost along the path of
+       evolutionary progress, but that humans would likely come out on
+       top ([31]"Z'ha'dum.") And here, Cartagia uses the same reasoning
+       to justify, in his mind, the destruction of his own people, if it
+       means his deification. About the only one firmly opposed to the
+       idea is Delenn, who, as Lennier observed, treasures each life
+       ([32]"Grey 17 Is Missing") and would sacrifice herself to save
+       another ([33]"Comes the Inquisitor.") The latter, of course, also
+       applies to Sheridan, and is amply demonstrated by his journey to
+       Z'ha'dum to save Centauri Prime.
+     * What did Lyta mean about the new Kosh being darker than the old
+       one? His demeanor is certainly less pleasant, but does she sense
+       something beyond a simple difference in personality?
+     * Why did Lyta put on the mask after returning Kosh to his suit, if
+       she has gills and can breathe in his quarters? Perhaps simply to
+       conceal her modification from anyone who might see her emerging
+       from his quarters. But gill implants aren't unheard of ([34]"The
+       Gathering") and it's presumably widely known that she's Kosh's
+       aide, so there would seem to be little to gain by concealing that.
+     * Ivanova may not have been the only one awake during the hour of
+       the wolf. Emperor Cartagia visited his heads late at night, and
+       Londo called Vir in the middle of the night.
+     * Who or what is Lorien? Quite possibly, he's a Soul Hunter
+       ([35]"Soul Hunter") since he has a similar gem implanted in his
+       forehead. If so, does that mean Sheridan is indeed physically
+       dead? The Soul Hunters capture the personalities of the dying,
+       then spend their days talking with the dead souls and learning
+       from them. Sheridan's environment might simply be what one of the
+       Soul Hunters' globes looks like to the occupant, and Lorien might
+       be projecting himself inside somehow in order to converse with
+       Sheridan.
+     * If, on the other hand, Sheridan survived physically, could it have
+       been due to the presence of Kosh in his mind? Kosh has already
+       shown that Vorlons can fly ([36]"The Fall of Night") and that they
+       have telekinetic power ([37]"Interludes and Examinations.") The
+       latter might well have softened Sheridan's landing.
+     * Does Lorien's presence on Z'ha'dum (if that's where he's speaking
+       with Sheridan) imply some connection to the Shadows?
+     * Sheridan and Lorien greet each other with the Vorlon question:
+       "Who are you?" Perhaps Lorien knows what significance that
+       question has to the Vorlons.
+     * Sheridan dropped his rank insignia on the ground. This parallels
+       his experience in [38]"There All the Honor Lies," in which he had
+       to give up his insignia during one of Kosh's lessons and in return
+       was granted "beauty... in the dark." His current situation is
+       certainly the darkest he's seen.
+     * Now that the Shadows are on Centauri Prime, will they begin
+       eliminating Centauri telepaths as they did to the Narn? ([39]"Ship
+       of Tears")
+     * Why didn't Ivanova bring along more than one telepath on the White
+       Star? Given that for all she knew, Z'ha'dum was crawling with
+       Shadow vessels, going there with only Lyta ran the risk of the
+       White Star being blown out of the sky the moment it emerged from
+       hyperspace. Granted, telepaths are a scarce, strategically
+       valuable resource, but she could probably have justified bringing
+       three or four others to hold any nearby Shadow ships at bay.
+     * Is this the arrival of the Shadows and their minions mentioned by
+       Londo in [40]"War Without End, Part Two?" If so, why did Londo
+       blame Sheridan for it? Certainly Sheridan's attack on Z'ha'dum
+       prompted the Shadows to seek shelter, but as Londo described it,
+       it seemed more like he thought Sheridan had intentionally
+       neglected Centauri Prime.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Filming began August 26, 1996.
+     * Continuity glitch: During the Morden-Londo scene, when Londo is
+       about to sit down, Morden begins picking at his left hand. After
+       Londo is seated, he drops a flake of skin he clearly just removed
+       from his right hand.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * When I can announce the overall year 4 title, I will. Filming
+       starts August 26th. The writing is coming well. Actually walked
+       the sets today for the first time since we wrapped in May; it's
+       just too depressing to walk on a dead set. Lots of work going on
+       now, new sets being built, noise and energy and enthusiasm...much
+       better now.
+     * Re: vacation...I wish. We're still doing post production, still
+       editing, mixing, spotting for music and sound...it's a long
+       process that will take us right through the prep time for year
+       four, assuming renewal. I can grab a day here or there, that's
+       about it. And even while awaiting word, I still have to begin
+       working on year four scripts. (The tentative title for the first
+       episode of year four is "The Hour of the Wolf.")
+     * The Hour of the Wolf is that hour around 3 a.m. when you can't
+       sleep because you're worried about one thing or another....
+     * Well, just finished the first (writer's) draft of "The Hour of the
+       Wolf," the first episode of year 4, to be directed by David Eagle.
+       It was a tough one, like all first-episode scripts...but quite
+       interesting, in its way. Once again the show takes a somewhat
+       different tone, I'm using some tools I somewhat developed in the
+       background in year 3 and am now trying in foreground, very
+       interesting mood change...a good start.
+     * _Did you know what was going to happen to Sheridan when you wrote
+       "Z'ha'dum?"_
+       Well, I think you can't do something like that without knowing how
+       you're going to pull the character's fat out of the fire, and it
+       has to make sense. I think people will be satisfied with what they
+       see.
+     * "In "The Hour of the Wolf" there are two scenes -- you know which
+       ones -- that seemed quite a departure from what one usually sees
+       on TV. Did you write "Wolf" before or after your revelation that
+       you were not bound by Standards and Practices. 'Cause if you wrote
+       this *before*, then we're in for quite a ride."
+       Aside from the desk scene, which was the other you're referring
+       to?
+       Oh...and the answer is...before.
+       Hang on. It's going to be a bumpy night.
+     * "Have you ever contemplated doing an episode of B5 that unfolds in
+       real time (i.e. one minute of screen time is one minute of plot
+       time, as done in the movies "Miracle Mile" and "Nick of Time"), or
+       would that be counterproductive to the sorts of stories you're
+       trying to tell?"
+       Actually, yeah, I have considered doing that...it can be a very
+       limiting structure, and the story has to be just right for it to
+       work. Haven't quite worked out all the snags yet.
+       "Or is "Hour of the Wolf" a story of that particular variety?"
+       Nope.
+     * _How was the first day of filming?_
+       It's frenetic, nuts, lots of running around and little fixes, we
+       all get a little crazy on first days...but it'll be okay.
+     * _How do the actors get back into character after a long summer
+       break?_
+       Usually they just pick up the script...and get right back into it.
+       They've got the characters down now, so there's not a lot needed
+       to get back into it. Some of them run lines with each other, like
+       Stephen and Peter, since that relationship is something very
+       special, but mostly they just learn the lines and come in. Some of
+       them want to see the final episodes, but some don't. The only one
+       to see most of the last two episodes thus far is Bruce, who was
+       just totally knocked out by them.
+       Peter has said that whenever he needs to get back into character,
+       he just straightens and says, "MISter GARiBALdi," and he's right
+       back into it.
+     * John Copeland and I just got finished with the main title for year
+       4, which is, again, different from last year's. This time I wanted
+       a whole new approach, on just about every level, and designed the
+       thing myself, working with John and the editors to get the best
+       shots and pull it all together. It's *majorly* cool. We showed it
+       to some members of the crew, and they're all jazzed by it, they
+       think it's our best main title ever.
+     * The B5 story is told from everyone's point of view, and they're
+       all a part of it, so the opening now reflects that. And it gives
+       me the chance to do an opening that's sort of a prose poem, which
+       is a nice touch.
+     * _Why the new music?_
+       We change the theme every season to reflect the tonality and
+       direction of that season's story. Every season when it butts up
+       against the previous season's intent, a lot of folks ask why
+       change it, it was better before...and then, by the end of the
+       season, when people see how it fits in, generally they like it a
+       lot...and then ask why it got changed for the *next* season....
+     * Today John Copeland and I did our producer's cut on the first
+       episode of year 4, "The Hour of the Wolf." Granted my opinion is
+       subjective and biased...but of all the first-episodes we've had
+       each season, this one is the best. I was searching for the right
+       word after looking at the director's cut, and finally came to
+       it...maturity. It has a depth we've only skated through before,
+       all meat, no filler. This one and the next batch are also all over
+       the map, literally...B5, Narn, Centauri Prime, elsewhere...so it's
+       a real challenge. But it looks great.
+     * Everybody's just cooking on this one, it has a very filmic, grand
+       look to it. I love it a lot.
+     * It's a terrific episode. The music now echoes season one because
+       in some thematic areas, we're starting to bend back on ourselves,
+       and close some circles, as you'll see soon.
+       That it affects the emotions is, for me, the goal. If you can make
+       an audience *feel* something, in a medium as cold as TV, you've
+       done your job right.
+     * Wortham [Krimmer] came in to audition, same as everybody
+       else...and we thought he was great.
+     * Wayne Alexander plays Lorien, a character you'll see throughout
+       the first six episodes of season 4. We wanted to give him more to
+       do.
+     * _Lorien's eyes look odd._
+       The eyes have metallic gold contact lenses; you can't see them as
+       well in the red light, but later, you'll see them better.
+     * There's more to Lorien than meets the eye.
+     * I'll string out the Sheridan info for a while; as for Morden, as
+       he said, his associates can repair flesh, replace flesh (though
+       where they got replacements from is something I don't want to
+       know)....
+       It's definitely a packed episode. I still find myself realizing
+       that the end of act one feels like two acts. And the next three
+       are every bit as intense, if not moreso. I love it....
+     * _Why bother with the Sheridan scene at all?_
+       To not do so would've been vastly unfair. And it nicely replaces
+       one mystery, is or isn't he, with "who the heck is THAT?"
+     * _Sheridan dropped his insignia during Kosh's lesson in [41]"There
+       All the Honor Lies." And he dropped his stat bar here. Was Kosh
+       preparing him to see Lorien?_
+       I think it was a more general sense than preparing him
+       specifically for Lorien.
+     * It's not a captain's bar it's a stat bar (gold for command, gold
+       and silver for command/administrative liaison, red for medical,
+       green for security), and it's Sheridan's.
+     * _This is a pretty bleak episode._
+       Yeah, it's deliberate...take 'em apart, separate 'em, see how they
+       react, and make everything as dark as possible in anticipation of
+       some kind of dawn, though getting there will be a struggle.
+     * Season 4 definitely starts in dark mode. Bigtime.
+     * _Did you have Londo put on his old coat so there wouldn't be the
+       costume mismatch there was with Delenn in "Babylon Squared" and
+       "War Without End?"_
+       I never make the same mistake.
+       I just learn how to make new ones.
+       (And I'm very pleased with that scene...it's kinda goofy, with the
+       minister in particular...he's just nuts. Well, not as much as
+       Cartagia, obviously....)
+     * The non-moving Centauri Prime shot is an original Foundation shot;
+       the one where it's moving (with the cruiser fly-bys) is the new
+       one, and there's a lot more detail now in the surface of the
+       planet and other stuff.
+     * "The first S4 episode (Hour of the Wolf) doesn't have nearly as
+       many FX as the later S3 episodes, and what is there is mostly
+       stock shots of the station rotating, etc."
+       There are as many CGI shots in "Wolf" as in most of our episodes,
+       and more than in "Rock," a later S3 episode. There's also the new
+       establishers of Centauri Prime the planet, the revised Palace
+       shots, new establishers of the station, a big new shot of the
+       interior of the Garden that pans down, the beside-Z'ha'dum
+       sequence...there's a LOT there. So a) your latter observation is,
+       I gently point out, factually inaccurate, and b) most station
+       shots have been recycled stock since year one, adding new ones
+       each season then dropping them into rotation (so to speak).
+       We always balance big EFX shows with smaller ones, building up to
+       some big stuff. We're doing the same thing here this year as we've
+       ever done.
+     * _About the visual of Kosh leaving Lyta_
+       The streams were done on a flint, and there were not two takes
+       edited together, there was just the one continuous take.
+     * The streams aren't technically considered CGI as we use it. That's
+       roto work.
+     * CGI is specifically graphics generated on a computer, usually 2d
+       or 3d animation. Roto work like the streams from Lyta's eyes are
+       done by hand, frame by frame.
+     * The events in 401 take place roughly 7 days after 322.
+     * _The alien ambassadors' English has improved._
+       Ambassadors have been learning as they've gone along; I took the
+       notion that the higher ups didn't have that much contact with
+       humans, so their grasp of english was halting at best, but over 4
+       years, they've gotten better. The grunts/lower echelons, though,
+       are still marginal at best.
+     * _About Cartagia looking up women's dresses_
+       "best I can tell from my (admittedly limited) knowledge of
+       Centauri physiology, he would have been looking in the wrong place
+       - kinda like looking down a human woman's socks, or something."
+       Tell that to a foot fetishist.
+     * It's fun and interesting to see Londo now having to deal with
+       being in a sense on the same side as Sheridan, but for vastly
+       different reasons.
+     * By building up Cartagia offscreen, it helped pave the way for what
+       we do finally see.
+       And the only reason to not hold back Sheridan for one more ep was
+       my feeling that if I held him *and* Garibaldi back, it'd be a bit
+       much.
+     * _Why did Lyta refer to the White Star as if it hadn't been
+       destroyed?_
+       The ships provided by Delenn are White Star class ships, hence the
+       usage.
+     * _Why am I here?_
+       Yes, the last piece there is kind of the key, isn't it?
+       I've always kept the minister just that, no name, for the reasons
+       you cite. This is someone who's a survivor, who bends with the
+       wind, and somehow keeps going by not being noticed, or taken
+       seriously.
+       And yes, this season I was noticing that eyes have become a
+       predominant image, from Lyta to the shadows to Lorien to some
+       stuff coming in the next few episodes...funny, how this stuff
+       creeps up on you.
+     * Check out "Voices of Authority." You've seen those eyes before.
+     * The eyes were a projection of a shadow face, as you can note in
+       the main title.
+     * _Any connection between the Shadows speaking with a father's voice
+       and Kosh appearing to Sheridan as his dad?_
+       I figured that they would both tend to use a patriarchal
+       influence, which would tie into so many races having that system.
+     * Actually, the ship was what technically saved them... Lennier also
+       began to fall under the influence of the shadow voice, as we saw.
+       There was some forethought on his part, but the ship activated
+       itself on timer.
+     * "After watching Z'ha'dum and "Wolf" (No spoilers here), my main
+       thought was basically, who the hell are these old races who assume
+       moral superiority based on technical superiority? How dare they
+       interfere with our development as a species just to suit their own
+       petty needs? I wonder if any character on the show will take that
+       same line of thought and expand upon it?"
+       Well, until now, that's been primarily unknown to the other
+       species. Now, thanks to Sheridan's trip to Z'ha'dum, and stuff
+       coming up, that information will start to get out.
+       So yeah, you may find someone or someones picking this thread
+       up....
+       
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
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+                                      
+Overview
+
+     G'Kar tries to avoid capture by the Centauri while continuing his
+     search. Delenn urges the Rangers to strike against the Shadows.
+     [15]Wayne Alexander as Lorien. [16]Wortham Krimmer as Emperor
+     Cartagia. [17]Lenny Citrano as Isaac. [18]Anthony DeLongis as
+     Harry.
+     
+[19]P5 Rating: [20]8.98
+
+Production number: 402
+Original air week: November 11, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Kevin Dobson
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * Garibaldi's Starfury was found abandoned in space, but someone
+       from Interplanetary Expeditions ([21]"Infection," [22]"Z'ha'dum")
+       knew where to find it. Garibaldi was captured and is apparently in
+       the custody of Psi Corps.
+     * Lorien claims to be the first of the First Ones, and lives deep
+       within Z'ha'dum. He says the Shadows return to Z'ha'dum because
+       he's there, and that Kosh knew about his presence when he told
+       Sheridan to jump.
+     * G'Kar has been captured by the Centauri. In exchange for help
+       overthrowing Emperor Cartagia, Londo has promised G'Kar that the
+       Centauri will withdraw from Narn after Cartagia is gone.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Exactly who captured Garibaldi, and why? The Psi Corps, or some
+       other group associated with them? How did they recover him from
+       the inside of a Shadow vessel? Did the Shadows give him up
+       voluntarily?
+     * Why did they want to know what he remembered?
+     * Is Lorien's claim true? Is he a member of a race of elder beings,
+       or is he somehow the first intelligent lifeform in the galaxy?
+       What is he, exactly?
+     * When, and under what circumstances, did Lorien meet Kosh?
+     * How is Londo planning to use G'Kar to unseat Cartagia?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * If Garibaldi has indeed been captured by the Psi Corps, why do
+       they need to question him? Presumably they could just pick
+       whatever information they need out of his mind. Perhaps they're
+       simply trying to get him to cooperate, on the assumption that if
+       he cooperates in one area, he'll be more malleable in others.
+       Alternately, perhaps they're making sure he doesn't remember what
+       happened to him because they've done something to him and wiped
+       his memory of the event. That would explain the conclusion of the
+       interrogation scene; they gassed him to transport him elsewhere
+       once they were satisfied that their memory wipe was solid.
+     * Centauri torture is likely to result in the loss of G'Kar's left
+       eye ([23]"The Coming of Shadows," [24]"War Without End, Part
+       Two.") Whether that eye is the subject of Lady Morella's prophecy
+       ([25]"Point of No Return") isn't clear; it's certainly plausible
+       that Londo could redeem himself by halting the torture of G'Kar,
+       but there are other eyes that don't see (e.g. the Shadows' Eye at
+       Z'ha'dum in [26]"The Hour of the Wolf," or the Centauri Eye from
+       [27]"Signs and Portents.")
+     * Given Lorien's assessment of his situation, Sheridan presumably
+       qualifies as "the one who is already dead" in Morella's prophecy.
+       And, in fact, Londo spares his life 17 years in the future
+       ([28]"War Without End, Part Two.") Assuming the prophecy is
+       correct and Londo was thus redeemed, obviating the need for a
+       third chance, what form would that chance have taken?
+     * Why is Lorien so interested in what happens to Sheridan? He said
+       Sheridan was "the only one to make it this far." Was he referring
+       to the physical descent down the chasm, or some more spiritual
+       journey?
+     * Lorien said neither Kosh nor Sheridan wanted to die. Assuming he
+       was able to resurrect Sheridan, is Kosh also still alive? If so,
+       what did Kosh find to live for?
+     * Lorien said he had been waiting for someone to talk to. He also
+       said, several times, that Sheridan was trapped between life and
+       death, between seconds. Given that he was there with Sheridan, and
+       that Kosh knew about Lorien's presence, it's plausible that
+       Lorien, not Justin, is in fact "the man in between" from
+       Sheridan's Kosh-induced dream ([29]"All Alone in the Night.") If
+       so, what will he do now that he's found Sheridan?
+     * Lorien, if that's who the formless being in Sheridan's dream is,
+       asked both the Vorlon and the Shadow questions. Why are those
+       questions significant to him? He said that there was no good
+       answer to "Who are you," implying perhaps that the search for an
+       answer is what matters.
+       Did the Shadows and the Vorlons get those questions from Lorien?
+       Lorien claims to have met Kosh (who, oddly, he knew by name, which
+       would seem to contradict the new Kosh's statement that "we are all
+       Kosh") so presumably he has also met the Shadows. Perhaps each
+       race latched onto one of the two questions, adopting it as its
+       own.
+     * Later, however, Lorien asked Sheridan _three_ questions: who he
+       was, why he was, and what he wanted. The middle question is new.
+       If the Vorlons and the Shadows are supposed to ask the first and
+       last questions, is there supposed to be another group asking the
+       second? (See [30]jms speaks)
+     * One person did ask all three questions once: Sinclair, when he was
+       captured during the Battle of the Line ([31]"And the Sky Full of
+       Stars.")
+     * Kosh may have implied the presence of a third question in
+       [32]"Deathwalker" when he told Talia, "Understanding is a
+       three-edged sword."
+     * Lorien echoed another statement of Sinclair's, also from [33]"And
+       the Sky Full of Stars." Sinclair said of his wingman Mitchell, "I
+       tried to warn you, but you wouldn't listen... you never listened."
+       Lorien said the same of the Shadows and Vorlons, or so it seemed,
+       though he didn't provide any more context or explanation.
+       Vir made a similar comment to G'Kar in [34]"Comes the Inquisitor:"
+       "I wish... there was something that I could do. I tried telling
+       them, but they wouldn't listen. They never listen..."
+     * In [35]"Infection," Garibaldi observed to Sinclair that people
+       look for things to die for, because it's easier than finding
+       something to live for. Lorien echoed that sentiment at the end of
+       this episode.
+     * Lorien said he hated to see his children fighting. Does that imply
+       he doesn't approve of Sheridan's war against the Shadows? For that
+       matter, does it mean he doesn't approve of the Vorlons and the
+       Shadows fighting? If so, can he do anything about it?
+     * Can Lorien leave Z'ha'dum? Perhaps the planet is part of him, or
+       he's bound to it in some way; in that case, Delenn's plan to
+       attack Z'ha'dum could prove disastrous, assuming the Vorlons are
+       as interested in Lorien as the Shadows are.
+     * Lorien said the Shadows think they return to Z'ha'dum to show him
+       respect, but that they don't understand any more. What don't they
+       understand? Why did they originally start returning to Z'ha'dum,
+       and why don't they understand now what they did long ago?
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The lighting at the end of the prison cell scene is symbolic; as
+       soon as Londo agrees to free Narn, the cell door opens and G'Kar
+       is bathed in white light, his life's goal finally within reach.
+     * The passage of time on Z'ha'dum, or at least in Sheridan's
+       condition, is similar to the effect of a black hole at the event
+       horizon: time slows down to a standstill from the point of view of
+       an outside observer.
+     * As originally broadcast, Franklin cites the date as January 8 in
+       his opening monologue, and says it's been 14 days since Sheridan
+       disappeared. In the second US broadcast of the episode Franklin's
+       opening monologue was fixed to say it was 9 days since both
+       Sheridan and Garibaldi disappeared. (See [36]jms speaks) However,
+       the UK broadcast, and possibly others, used the original incorrect
+       date.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * I just got a copy of the ad that's going to run in TV Guide for
+       "Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" in two weeks. It's a great
+       ad, well composed, well done, but it's also a major spoiler for
+       something you will NOT want spoiled. So avoid the ad if possible.
+     * The script was easy to write story-wise, I think it only took me a
+       few days (in general, the faster the write, the better the script,
+       when it comes to something like this...writing in white heat is
+       best), but *very* difficult from an emotional standpoint. I was
+       just about as wasted after writing it as you were after seeing it.
+       There's a lot of stuff in there that's difficult or painful to
+       touch, and you can only hope that it comes out okay. I'm happy it
+       did.
+     * _Sheridan's fall was like Gandalf's in "The Lord of the Rings," or
+       like the descent into the underworld in Dante's "Inferno."_
+       I've mentioned elsewhere that I was going more for the roots of
+       this. Though the Dante thread you mention is closest in many ways
+       (again, you dig into archetypes you end up with similar
+       structures, that's the nature of the beast), it was Orpheus going
+       into the underworld for his wife, and losing her, that was in the
+       back of my head when I was blocking out that part of the story.
+       (You can also toss in Christ's temptation by the devil, and
+       descent into the wilderness, if you want.)
+       This will probably get me in trouble, but...on the one hand, I am
+       always delighted and impressed with the breadth and depth of
+       analyses and thought of the larger group of SF fans, and the
+       insightfulness with which they apply those perceptions.
+       On the flip side of this discussion...for a certain percentage of
+       them, that breadth and depth is only or primarily within SF and
+       mainstream fantasy. The wellspring of material from which to draw
+       when making comparisons is not often as broad as it should be in
+       classical literature, mythology, medieval studies, and so on. They
+       see a drop into a chasm, they think "Oh, Gandalf." Not
+       understanding that the root of this goes back way, way, way
+       further...to Orpheus and his kindred spirits.
+       I was copied a note from someone on another newsgroup who insisted
+       that everything in the show had an elvish/Tolkein base, including
+       and *especially* the names of everyone, citing the Agamemnon as
+       meaning something or other in LoTR elvish. The symbol is RIGHT
+       THERE, in the name, Agamemnon, and the whole unfortunate history
+       of that character and his wife, and the Cassandra character (which
+       is at the center of G'Kar's character)...and yet she says, "No,
+       no, it's all a clue, it means this thing over here."
+       My background is as an SF fan myself, so I offer the above without
+       stereotype or pejorative intent. But as well as reading SF, I
+       spent most of my early adult life reading from classical sources.
+       Goethe's FAUST informs Londo in many ways, as well as the history
+       of early Rome, and Hegelian notions on the role of conflict, and
+       the divine role of the emperor. You're talking to someone who read
+       Plotinus' The Aenneads just for kicks, and whose favorite
+       character was Zeno and his paradoxes. You want to talk Plato's
+       perfect forms? The Socratic method of teaching? Greek tragic
+       structure as embodied in Oedipus? The overall work of Sophocles?
+       The Bible? I've read that one cover to cover twice...anyone else
+       in the room who's done that, raise your hands and tell me you
+       didn't fall asleep halfway through Numbers and Deuteronomy, the
+       two most boring books in the whole darned thing.
+       There was a period in my life -- from around 1976 through 1981 --
+       when I devoured everything I could in these areas. Mythology.
+       Existentialism. Zen. 18th century literature. I took part time
+       jobs in libraries so I could get access to the widest possible
+       range of books, especially new ones in areas that interested me. A
+       lot of the details have washed away over the years, but the
+       cumulative *sense* of that remains. I can still remember how
+       excited I was when a brand new translation of the Inferno, the
+       Purgatario and the Paradisio came out (from Penguin, I think),
+       putting it all back into the proper lyric form, and I devoured
+       them, one day each, then read them all again using the footnotes
+       and marginalia.
+       All that time, I never knew I was preparing myself to write this
+       show, because it could *only* be done with a generalist
+       background, knowing a little about a lot of areas...just enough to
+       get into trouble, ususally, but still the grounding is there.
+       Funny thing...about two, three weeks ago, I got an email from a
+       woman who is a professor of medieval studies at a major
+       university, who said she'd been nudged into watching the show by
+       her graduate students, and is now a big fan of the show. She said
+       that as she watched, she "clicked" constantly on the sources from
+       medieval and classical literature, mythology, and other deep well
+       sources, and was pleased to see them being used in a contermporary
+       or futuristic venue.
+       Anyway, it's what I've always said about this show...you see the
+       paradigm with which you are most familiar. Sometimes that's great,
+       and sometimes it's a curse.
+     * But the thing is, I wasn't *thinking* of LoTR...I was thinking of
+       Orpheus going into the underworld, of the classical notion of
+       descending into hell to find oneself or something else...it just
+       bugs me when someone assumes that they know what was in my head at
+       a time when I wrote something, and then take that as a given and
+       start making me explain it or acting as if this is true, when it
+       ain't.
+     * Larry DiTillio made the point, while on the show, that some SF
+       fans reared on ST expect everyone to talk like English earls, very
+       proper. We go for vernacular every time. I like the rough edges,
+       the hesitations, the stumbles. In editing 402 the other day,
+       there's several takes to choose from in a particular scene, but I
+       picked the one where the actor slightly stumbled over the line,
+       because it was at the heat of the moment, and in that kind of
+       situation, we all get flustered. It made it feel more real.
+       Slang and idiom have been with us forever, and always will be.
+       Now, on the other hand, I don't go full-tilt bozo with it, by
+       peppering the dialogue with lots of techtalk and futureslang
+       because I think it becomes intrusive. So we try to find a balance.
+       Some people don't like it, and like their SF to all sound the
+       same. That's fine. Tastes vary.
+       Also, I use some dialogue styles that lean toward the theatrical,
+       what you'd see on the stage, or hear in a radio drama. Other times
+       I'm right in the gutter. You use different tools for different
+       jobs. My influences are from Rod Serling and Charles Beaumont and
+       Norman Corwin and Ray Bradbury, so you're going to hear those
+       colors from time to time, and because you don't hear a lot of that
+       particular style in TV these days, some people think it's
+       bad...no, it's just a different approach to dialogue.
+       Look at Harold Pinter, then look at Christopher Fry, then look at
+       Joe Orton. Between just those three you've got three very
+       stylized, consistent approaches to dialogue, not like the other
+       two at all, and between them more diversity than in a hundred TV
+       shows. In theater, which is where I cut my teeth, it's *okay* to
+       have dialogue that's somewhat stylized, or a bit more formal, a
+       bit more literate, or whatever. In TeeVee it's all gotta be the
+       same. To which I say...why?
+       (I've also made the mental assumption of a return to a new
+       formality in 2260, since styles go in and out of fashion. People
+       use the word Mr. and Ms. more often, there's a more formal stance
+       with people you often get when a culture comes out of a major war,
+       as we did after WW2.)
+       But dialogue tastes are utterly individual; what works for one may
+       not and likely will not work for someone else. And that's okay.
+       That's as it should be. As long as the totality works.
+     * "I watched _What Ever Happened to Mr Garibaldi_ last night and was
+       struck by the scene where Mr. G was being questioned by the
+       disembodied voice. That scene was very similar to the style of
+       another one of my favorite shows _Homicide: Life on the Streets_.
+       I'm just wondering if that was an intentional nod to that show."
+       This is kind of embarrassing, but...see, I don't watch much TV
+       anymore. I don't have time. I think I've seen maybe two episodes
+       of Homicide, total. So we were in with the editor to do our
+       producer's cut of 402, and I was trying to describe what I
+       wanted...jarring, disorienting cuts, don't worry if it matches,
+       use conflicting takes or overlaps of takes...and finally the
+       editor said, "Oh, you mean the Homicide look." And it'd been so
+       long that I asked them to explain to me what that meant, and John
+       got into it, me with him, and ended up with what we've got. I've
+       got to start watching TV again, beyond X-Files, 60 Minutes and
+       Simpsons. (Well, I've added Millennium, so that helps.)
+     * Actually, the Garibaldi intercuts like that were something that I
+       came up with in the editing room, and John Copeland and I
+       thereafter assembled it, with the editor.
+     * This one's a favorite of mine as well. On the Garibaldi scene, it
+       was shot fairly conventionally, but as we got into editing, I
+       said, "Let's do something we don't normally do, let's try a visual
+       approach that's not usually part of SF shows." So we put that
+       sequence together. Again, my feeling is, break your format once in
+       a while or get stuck in a rut. Take chances. The worst that'll
+       happen is that you'll fail.
+       It's a lovely episode.
+     * _Is the director the same Kevin Dobson who was on "Kojak?"_
+       No, this Kevin is an Australian director.
+     * _About the voiceover recap at the top of the episode_
+       I figured, since this year was much more serial than in the past,
+       you kinda *had* to put little recaps at the top...also, it gives
+       it a different, narrative feel, which I kinda like.
+     * _Franklin said it was 14 days since Sheridan's death and 9 days
+       since Garibaldi's disappearance, but the two happened at the same
+       time._
+       This is a case where jms screwed up.
+       Originally, the script read, "It's now 14 days since Captain
+       Sheridan left for Z'ha'dum and was presumed killed. Nine days
+       since Mr. Garibaldi disappeared while on patrol."
+       I went to edit the first sentence to make it active rather than
+       passive syntax. In handwriting on the page (after the first draft,
+       the typists take revisions and implement them), I meant to write,
+       "It is now 9 days since Captain Sheridan was presumed killed at
+       Z'ha'dum." I either missed changing the days, or the typist didn't
+       put it in (it happens), and that draft of the script is long gone.
+       But without knowing which, I'll just take the rap for it.
+     * I'm considering revoicing it...we just didn't catch it until it
+       was gone.
+     * "In WHTMG, Marcus is talking to G'Kar about his friends and says
+       he's had "Damn few of them, and most of them are dead." My instant
+       reaction was "That can't be an allusion to Return to Zork." Can
+       it?"
+       Y'know, if I were to read this group as an outsider, I'd think
+       that this jms person was incapable of coming up with a single line
+       on his own.
+       NO, it wasn't a Zork reference, for chrissakes. Can we possibly
+       get any more obscure here? I don't even know what this REFERS to.
+       Marcus came from a mining colony. The shadows struck, and killed
+       everyone there. Hence, the line above.
+       There was some goofing around with SF references early on in the
+       show; this got out of hand, and it stopped. I don't sit here,
+       thinking, "Oh, goody, I can make a reference to The Day The Earth
+       Stood Still here," or some other show. I write what is appropriate
+       for the character to say. Period.
+       I'm sorry if I'm a bit cranky in answering this, but jesus christ,
+       people, give it a rest and stop looking for references that don't
+       exist. There are only so many permutations in the english
+       language, and something has got to echo somewhere for
+       everyone...but that ain't the source. "Oh, look, he use the word
+       THE in this episode, he must be nodding at "The Ipcriss Files" or
+       "THEM" just leaving off the M to throw us off."
+       Your point of reference is your point of reference, it's nothing
+       to do with me. It's like a Rorscharch test, you see what you're
+       familiar with.
+       As a writer, you work your brains out trying to come up with
+       something, and you try your damndest to make it original, and
+       fresh, and interesting...do you have any idea how infuriating, how
+       maddening, how bottomlin *insulting* it is to have 10,000 people
+       parsing every sentence and saying, "Oh, here, did you take this
+       from that? Is this a reference to this over here?"
+       NO, IT'S NOT.
+       I allowed a little of that in the first season or so, often in
+       scripts by other people, on a couple of occasions by myself, but
+       that's the end of it, because everyone decided that the show was
+       one big easter egg hunt. Fanfic is full of this stuff, which is
+       perhaps why everyone keeps looking for it here.
+       If it's an absolutely blantant, and extremely recognizeable line,
+       like the Tolkein reference in year two's "Geometry," then
+       yeah...but some of this is getting so obscure and ridiculous that
+       it's starting to make me crazy.
+       Can we *please* declare a moratorium on this for a while?
+     * _About the final scene with Sheridan remembering Delenn_
+       During the music spotting session, where I indicate where music
+       comes in and goes out, my main note to Chris on that final
+       sequence was, "Break our heart."
+       He did.
+     * _About the shot of Sheridan as he sees the pit_
+       "Was this scene redone for WHtMG? I'd have to compare, but I think
+       I would've noticed that hopeful smile at the end of Z. It would've
+       been just a -little- out of place, under the circumstances."
+       It's *exactly* the same footage, frame for frame. Only your
+       perspective has changed.
+       Sort of like Shroedinger's TV show.
+     * _About Peter Jurasik and Andreas Katsulas_
+       Yeah, those two are terrific. You know you can write *anything*
+       for them, and they can play it. Just terrific stuff.
+     * _Who thought up the cat sound when G'Kar extended the pike?_
+       The cat was my idea. Cats are endless sources of humor.
+     * _Ivanova wasn't in this episode. Was she supposed to be the one
+       cleaning out Sheridan's quarters?_
+       No, those scenes were always written with Franklin in mind. There
+       was a brief scene with Ivanova originally in the ep, but it was
+       snipped for time.
+       _The scene was inserted into the next episode._
+     * _Londo is very careful with his wording around Cartagia._
+       Which is why Cartagia likes Londo...he stands up to Cartagia, but
+       does so in such a way that Cartagia can't touch him...doesn't give
+       him any excuse or way in. He's got nowhere to go...and in a way,
+       he admires and respects that.
+     * _Wasn't Londo afraid G'Kar's cell was bugged?_
+       I figured Londo would've bribed the guards to shut down the bugs.
+       Also, there's reason to bug a political figure's quarters...but a
+       cell in which there is just one person, who in theory has no
+       allies with whom to conspire...that would likely have a low
+       priority.
+     * Female is an irrelevant concept to the vorlons.
+     * I think Lorien is beyond concepts of male and female as they
+       pertain to the Vorlons...that's our perception of them, not his.
+     * _How long can bits of Vorlon consciousness survive?_
+       They can't survive for long on their own.
+     * _What did the Vorlons tell Lyta about their intentions?_
+       Only that they'd still respect her in the morning.
+     * _Was there a reason the Psi-Cop had the same build as Bester and
+       wore an opaque mask?_
+       Who would do a thing like that?
+     * _Did the interrogation scene actually happen, or is it an
+       implanted memory?_
+       No, that scene happened in reality.
+     * _About Sheridan and G'Kar_
+       "They are being made to choose between life and death, action and
+       inaction, hope and despair. They are in the position of having to
+       either lose faith, or keep it."
+       Yup. Got it in one....
+     * _Is Lorien God?_
+       The first sentient being. He ain't god in any sense of the word.
+       That he's still puzzling out this "word/thought" business shows
+       that, even after all this time, he's still trying to suss things
+       out....
+     * _The first being, or the last survivor of his race?_
+       First, as far as he knows. To quote from a later episode, "So we
+       left, and found no others like us."
+     * He'll discuss his origins at considerable length in about 3 or 4
+       more episodes.
+     * Well, technically speaking, I suppose you could say that the
+       Vorlons and Shadows are second ones, since Lorien's people came
+       first, about which you'll hear more in the next batch of eps.
+     * _Was Lorien waiting for Sheridan in particular?_
+       He was waiting for whoever would be first to get that far.
+     * _About the questions_
+       "Why are you here?" asked by Lorien, is #3. The balance point
+       between the two.
+       There's a fourth question coming, though.
+       
+
+   [42][Next] 
+   
+      [43]Last update: January 5, 1998
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Zack makes a discovery in the search for Garibaldi. Delenn's plan
+     to attack the Shadows runs into trouble. Ivanova and Marcus attempt
+     to solicit aid from more First Ones. [15]Wayne Alexander as Lorien.
+     [16]Wortham Krimmer as Emperor Cartagia. Eric Zivot as Verano.
+     Jonathan Chapman as Ambassador Lethke.
+     
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]8.66
+
+Production number: 403
+Original air week: November 18, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John McPherson
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * Lyta's telepathic abilities were enhanced by the Vorlons to enable
+       her to more easily carry one of them.
+     * The Vorlons, apparently determined to wipe the Shadows out once
+       and for all, have begun destroying worlds that have had contact
+       with the Shadows, and to that end have amassed a fleet of
+       thousands of ships.
+     * Sheridan has returned to Babylon 5, as has Garibaldi.
+     * Initially, when the Vorlons and Shadows took on the task of
+       looking after the younger races, they were equally balanced,
+       obeyed rules of engagement, and respected each other's
+       perspectives. But at some point, one of them grew tired of the
+       arrangement and the two started fighting in earnest, with the
+       younger races caught in the middle.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Who, if anyone, was on the ship that carried Garibaldi's lifepod?
+       Why were they transporting him, and why did they self-destruct?
+     * What was done to Garibaldi? Was he implanted with a new
+       personality, like Talia Winters?
+     * What was the program that activated as Garibaldi's pod was
+       ejected?
+     * Why did Lorien accompany Sheridan?
+     * How did they get to Babylon 5? Was that Lorien's ship?
+     * What exactly did Lyta learn when she scanned Kosh?
+     * What exactly does Sheridan have in mind to end the war once and
+       for all?
+     * What happened to Marcus' family? His brother died in a Shadow
+       attack ([19]"Matters of Honor,") but what about his parents?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Delenn said, "Everyone I hold dear is gone." She didn't list
+       Lennier among them. Why not?
+     * Lyta says she allowed the Vorlons to modify her because she
+       believed. Believed in what? What did they tell her about their
+       intentions? Does she know anything about the Shadows and Vorlons,
+       and the nature of their conflict, that Sheridan would find useful?
+     * What made the Vorlons change their strategy? Most likely it has
+       something to do with the "unexpected door" they feel Sheridan
+       opened on Z'ha'dum ([20]"The Hour of the Wolf.") By attempting to
+       wipe out the Shadows, it's arguable they've lost the war on a
+       philosophical level; attempting to wipe out a race to gain
+       supremacy is exactly the method the Shadows advocate.
+       On the other hand, if there's no way to get the Shadows to stop
+       fighting and causing wars except by completely destroying them,
+       the Vorlons may have reached the conclusion that the very
+       existence of the Shadows means their philosophy can never take
+       hold.
+     * Given that the old Kosh, at least according to Lyta, cared about
+       the younger races, would he have approved of the Vorlons' change
+       in strategy? If not, will the piece of him still alive in Sheridan
+       try to stop the plan?
+     * Lyta referred to the old Kosh as "the _real_ Kosh." What isn't
+       real about the new Kosh? What is the new Kosh's actual name (or
+       its human-pronounceable version?)
+     * Lorien's visit to B5 would seem to indicate that he, at least,
+       still cares about the younger races. What can he do about it?
+       Presumably he'll be able to provide valuable information, but does
+       he have any capabilities beyond that? For example, does he have
+       access to technology millions of years more advanced than even the
+       Shadows and Vorlons?
+       In [21]"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" he appeared to have a
+       significant presence on the "dream plane" (for lack of a better
+       term) through which Kosh sent the dreams to Sheridan in [22]"All
+       Alone in the Night" and [23]"Interludes and Examinations." It's
+       plausible that that's where much of a Vorlon's consciousness
+       lives; if so, Lorien may be capable of much more direct impact on
+       the Vorlons than his physical presence implies. Whether the same
+       is true in the Shadows' case is less clear, but the fact that the
+       Eye at Z'ha'dum found Ivanova while she was in the Great Machine
+       ([24]"Voices of Authority") suggests that they too have some
+       presence in that mode of existence.
+     * Destroying planets may seem excessive, but perhaps the Vorlons are
+       doing so, rather than simply wiping out all surface life, because
+       of the Shadows' habit of burying their ships underground
+       ([25]"Messages From Earth") and building cities underground
+       ([26]"Z'ha'dum.") They may feel that completely destroying a
+       planet that's been visited by the Shadows is the only way to
+       ensure that there are no surprises left behind.
+     * Is the current Vorlon rampage due in part to the death of the
+       original Kosh at the hands of the Shadows? If so, there's a
+       parallel to the Earth-Minbari War, in which, according to Delenn
+       ([27]"Ceremonies of Light and Dark") the Minbari went collectively
+       mad after the death of their leader Dukhat at human hands.
+     * By wiping out younger races as they battle the Shadows, the
+       Vorlons can no longer really claim to be looking after their
+       juniors. What will the other First Ones think of that? They don't
+       seem to be on particularly good terms with the Vorlons to begin
+       with ([28]"Voices of Authority") and this change in attitude may
+       further irritate their peers. Lorien will likely be able to
+       provide greater insight into the feelings of the other First Ones
+       toward the Vorlons.
+     * If the Vorlons are truly intent on wiping out any worlds the
+       Shadows have touched, that means they'll be targeting Mars,
+       Centauri Prime, Earth, and B5. Depending on how recently a planet
+       has to have had contact to be considered tainted, they may also
+       destroy Narn. Only the Minbari seem, so far, to have never been
+       under Shadow influence, so their homeworld may be spared.
+       The only evidence so far of Shadow influence is the assassination
+       attempt against Kosh in [29]"The Gathering," but given that the
+       Shadows didn't try to touch Kosh until the Vorlon offensive in
+       [30]"Interludes and Examinations," the hallway meeting in
+       [31]"Signs and Portents" notwithstanding (Kosh initiated that
+       confrontation too) it's more likely the Minbari warriors were
+       acting of their own volition.
+     * The Vorlons' new tack is somewhat ironic, given that they filed an
+       official protest when the Centauri used mass drivers to bombard
+       Narn from space ([32]"The Long, Twilight Struggle.") Clearly the
+       Vorlons don't have any qualms about attacking planets from space
+       if _they're_ the ones doing it.
+     * Since the Shadows have already come to Centauri Prime, could the
+       blasted landscape of [33]"War Without End, Part Two" be due to a
+       Vorlon attack, not the doing of the Shadows? If the Vorlons attack
+       because of the Shadow presence, that would explain Londo's
+       bitterness toward Sheridan, who he might consider to be on the
+       side of the Vorlons.
+     * Does Sheridan share the Vorlons' goal of wiping the Shadows out
+       completely, or does he have some other plan in mind? The fact that
+       Lorien accompanied him suggests the latter, since Lorien commented
+       that he didn't approve of warfare among his juniors ([34]"Whatever
+       Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?") On the other hand, his speech to the
+       crowd did imply that he had genocide against the Shadows in mind.
+     * The original Kosh tried to train Sheridan "to fight legends"
+       ([35]"Hunter, Prey.") But in his speech, Sheridan appeared to be
+       setting himself up as a legend of sorts: "the only man to come
+       back from Z'ha'dum alive." (A claim, incidentally, which isn't
+       true; Morden and Anna were on Z'ha'dum and left alive, if
+       changed.) His bravado seems to indicate he now sees himself as
+       having a larger role to play than before, and validates the
+       Shadows' view of him as a nexus ([36]"Z'ha'dum.")
+       Oddly, in [37]"Interludes and Examinations," Sheridan pointed out
+       to Kosh that the _Vorlons_ were legends, or wanted to be perceived
+       as such. Did Kosh know that eventually Sheridan might have to
+       combat the Vorlons?
+     * Sheridan returned from Z'ha'dum under unknown circumstances,
+       accompanied by an alien he won't tell anyone about. Garibaldi's
+       whereabouts were unknown for two weeks, and he turned up in a ship
+       that self-destructed to avoid being closely investigated. Why,
+       then, do Delenn, Ivanova, and the others accept both of them back
+       seemingly without question? Given the threat of implanted
+       personalities and other modifications ([38]"Divided Loyalties,"
+       [39]"Z'ha'dum") the crew should at least be skeptical that both
+       returnees are what they appear.
+     * Sheridan's speech from the catwalk echoes his appearance on the
+       catwalk in the dream in [40]"All Alone in the Night." If Garibaldi
+       symbolized "the man in between," a description that fits Lorien at
+       least as well as anyone else, then was the Sheridan on the catwalk
+       "the man on the other side," presumably the other side of death?
+       If so, Sheridan has now become that man.
+     * G'Kar's refusal to scream was foreshadowed in [41]"The Parliament
+       of Dreams." In that episode, when he was put into paingivers by
+       the Narn assassin and tortured, he said he would rather die than
+       cry out.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Marcus has never been romantically involved with anyone. This was
+       hinted at in [42]"A Late Delivery From Avalon," in which he
+       jokingly compared himself to Sir Galahad, the chaste knight from
+       Arthurian legend. In [43]"Ceremonies of Light and Dark," he told
+       Delenn he'd lost a woman he cared a great deal for, but that's not
+       necessarily a contradiction; he didn't say she felt the same way.
+     * The scene in which Ivanova asks Delenn for one of the White Star
+       ships was originally written and filmed for [44]"Whatever Happened
+       to Mr. Garibaldi?" but was cut from that episode for time.
+     * This is the first regular episode to feature all the cast members
+       listed in the opening credits; aside from [45]"The Gathering," all
+       the earlier episodes were missing at least one.
+     * G'Kar was whipped 39 times, because 40 would kill a Narn. That's
+       probably a reference to the Old Testament. [46]Deuteronomy 25:1-3
+       warns against whipping a man more than 40 times; more than that
+       will cause one to lose the respect of one's brothers.
+       Some renditions of the New Testament also show Jesus being whipped
+       39 times by Pilate, though that number doesn't appear in the Bible
+       itself. The Apostle Paul was whipped 39 times, which was the
+       maximum number under Jewish law, to ensure that miscounting
+       wouldn't cause one to give more than 40 lashes.
+     * This is the second time Garibaldi has awakened from a traumatic
+       event and found his commanding officer missing; Sinclair left the
+       station while he was in a coma ([47]"Revelations.")
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * _About Londo and Vir deferring to each other before the G'Kar
+       torture scene_
+       It's the roller coaster theory: if you move someone to horror or
+       fear or shock from a neutral place, the emotional jump is less
+       than if they're laughing...then suddenly you whipsaw them into the
+       absolute emotional opposite.
+     * I will, on *rare* occasions, address a note or correction directly
+       to an actor while we're shooting, but in general I give any notes
+       to the director on the set, who passes them on to the actor. There
+       really can't be a multiplicity of voices talking to actors on the
+       set...it can become confusing, and they can get contradictory
+       directions. They can get skittish and lose concentration.
+       One occasion where I *did* do this recently...in the scene where
+       Londo explains to Cartagia why he shouldn't be killed for being
+       late, the director had Londo playing that scene submissive and
+       nervous in rehearsals, didn't understand that the whole point of
+       the exercise was Londo standing up to Cartagia, but doing so in a
+       very sly way, not giving him any room to maneuver. Cartagia likes
+       Londo because there's intelligence and steel, in a very
+       manipulative fashion..."you think the same way I do," Cartagia
+       says. So before we shot the scene, I pulled Peter aside and gave
+       him the correction, and that's how we shot it.
+       But, again, those incidents are fairly rare.
+     * _Do actors ever ask you for clarification?_
+       That, yes...very often, while the actor is prepping, they'll come
+       by my office, or at lunch ask about a particular passage, for
+       clarification on my part, as opposed to an adjustment on their
+       performance.
+     * _A planet-busting weapon is so improbable as to be more magic than
+       technology._
+       Re: "magictech"...I believe it was Arthur C. Clarke who pointed
+       out, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
+       from magic."
+       You wanna go argue with Clarke, feel free.
+       Lemme just make one point here. In the handful of decades between
+       the discovery of the atom, and its use at Hiroshima, we learned
+       how to blow up substantial portions of the planet and render it
+       uninhabitable. But it would've taken a lot of them, hundreds, to
+       do the job. In the 50 years since then, with the development of
+       thermonuclear weaponry, the job is even easier. It's been reckoned
+       that you'd only need about 75 really decent sized thermonuclear
+       detonations to render the entire continental United States dead
+       and uninhabitable.
+       The shadows and the vorlons are *millions* of years ahead of us.
+       We're talking differences in technology that are orders of
+       magnitude beyond what we can hope to comprehend.
+       I think a planet killer eminently achievable.
+     * _If the Shadows and Vorlons are so far advanced, why haven't the
+       Shadows wiped everyone out already, including B5?_
+       Because up until now, they haven't been out to destroy everyone,
+       that's not the point...you can't sow chaos if there's no one
+       around in which to sow that chaos. And they may have some ideas on
+       how B5 could be turned to their advantage....
+     * Bear in mind that the White Stars are partially based on Vorlon
+       technology, which is similar in strength to the Shadows. That
+       helps a lot. Also, other ships can have an influence in sufficient
+       numbers. Even a lion can be brought down by a sufficient number of
+       hyenas. The idea that higher technology always equals victory
+       didn't help Custer.
+     * I don't see it really as a change of heart...they've always been
+       very ruthless in their way. Remember, it was the Vorlons who
+       simply decided to off Deathwalker in first season.
+       There's some amount of escalation going on, obviously, which will
+       be explained a bit more in upcoming episodes, but they've always
+       been this way, it's your perception of them that's at odds. You
+       fell for what they wanted you to see them to be.
+     * _Who's the worse enemy, the Shadows or the Vorlons?_
+       Who is the greater foe?
+       It is always the one closest to where you live.
+     * _About the original Kosh_
+       Certainly he came to care about us more than the vorlons intended.
+     * _Kosh can keep secrets from Lyta when she's carrying him. Can she
+       do the same?_
+       She can keep secrets a little...but not if he pushes.
+     * _Was Sheridan's uniform different?_
+       No, that's the funny thing...I've seen a number of posts about how
+       his uniform was changed, but it *wasn't*. It was exactly the same
+       outfit right out of the wardrobe closet...not sewn, not cleaned,
+       just dusted off a bit, by hand, the way he might've upon coming
+       in. You can clearly see that the sleeve is still torn as he's up
+       there.
+       All I can figure is that the red Z'ha'dum lighting made it look a
+       lot worse than it was.
+     * _Is Ivanova's hug a sign she's attracted to Sheridan?_
+       No, it was just relief, letting her guard down, allowing herself
+       to feel, which she hadn't done much before this. There's no
+       romantic interest there. You can have situations where men and
+       women work together, and can care about one another, without it
+       turning into more than that.
+       Men seem to understand this less often than women.
+     * _Sheridan seemed a lot more belligerent, and seemed to be
+       suggesting genocide against the Shadows._
+       Yup, I'd say it's very likely that some people close to Sheridan
+       are going to be wondering about his attitude...and maybe even
+       acting on it.
+     * Someone should get outraged...and will. It's simply a matter of
+       picking the right time and place to *do* something with it.
+     * Certainly there will be some people who will wonder exactly the
+       same thing you do, within the context of the show...and wonder if
+       Sheridan's gone too far, gotten too messianic in his approach....
+       Ah, the fun never stops....
+       
+
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+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     The Vorlons step up their battle against the Shadows. Londo
+     uncovers a new wrinkle in his plan to unseat Emperor Cartagia.
+     Sheridan asks Garibaldi to remove Kosh from the station. Delenn
+     gets a surprise from Sheridan. [15]Ed Wasser as Morden. [16]Wortham
+     Krimmer as Emperor Cartagia. [17]Wayne Alexander as Lorien.
+     
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]8.78
+
+Production number: 404
+Original air week: November 25, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * With the help of Lorien and the original Kosh, Sheridan has
+       successfully removed the new Vorlon ambassador from the station,
+       possibly killing it in the process.
+     * Lorien healed Sheridan at Z'ha'dum by transferring some of his own
+       life energy into Sheridan. Sheridan has at most 20 years left to
+       live.
+     * Londo owes Sheridan a favor.
+     * Emperor Cartagia has plucked out G'Kar's eye, as Londo saw in his
+       dream ([20]"The Coming of Shadows.")
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Why is Lorien keeping such close watch on Sheridan?
+     * How does Sheridan plan to stop the Vorlons?
+     * Why did Kosh's ship go berserk during the battle? What was it
+       trying to do? (See [21]jms speaks)
+     * Now that the Vorlons have been seen without their illusions in
+       place, will they still bother to maintain their angelic facades
+       around the younger races?
+     * What was the Vorlon "cause" that compelled Lyta to cooperate with
+       them? Did they explain their true motives to her, or did they feed
+       her a palatable lie?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Sheridan and Lorien appear to have gotten to know each other well.
+       What has each of them been getting from the relationship? So far,
+       Lorien doesn't appear to be feeding Sheridan specific information
+       about the Vorlons or the Shadows (though that could be happening
+       offscreen.) He seems to be providing moral and philosophical
+       support more than anything else, aside from the occasional dose of
+       life energy. What is Sheridan giving him in return? Presumably
+       it's something worth leaving Z'ha'dum to get.
+     * Sheridan authorized the transfer of refugees to Epsilon 3 without
+       even consulting with Draal. How does he know Draal wouldn't
+       object? If the planet is still available as a defense mechanism
+       for the station, Draal would most likely need to tell the crew
+       where to set up camp, lest they put refugees right on top of an
+       underground weapon. It's also interesting that the surface of
+       Epsilon 3 is apparently habitable, given that oxygen masks were
+       required to breathe underground ([22]"A Voice in the Wilderness.")
+       Perhaps the crew is assuming Draal will provide an appropriate
+       atmosphere.
+     * Kosh expressed outrage, not surprise, that a human could mentally
+       imprison a Vorlon. Perhaps the Vorlons have a weakness like the
+       Shadows', and can be contained by sufficiently powerful telepaths.
+     * Is the difference in color between the two Vorlons significant? It
+       may simply be due to the fact that what emerged from Sheridan
+       wasn't just Kosh, but a combination of Kosh, Sheridan, and Lorien.
+     * Delenn recognized Kosh immediately. Does that mean she had
+       previously seen his true form? If so, it was most likely in
+       [23]"Chrysalis," though why he would let her see through his mask
+       then isn't clear, since he most likely projected an image to her
+       in [24]"The Fall of Night."
+     * Lorien's healing technique resembles that of the healing machine
+       from [25]"The Quality of Mercy." Could that machine be used to
+       further extend Sheridan's life, or Lorien's, for that matter? How
+       much life does Lorien have left?
+     * When he used it on Z'ha'dum, it obviously extended to the original
+       Kosh as well, since Kosh was able to battle his successor.
+     * Sheridan's shortened lifespan may be the terrible price Delenn
+       mentioned in the flashforward in [26]"War Without End, Part Two."
+       At that time, 17 years in the future, he would only have another
+       two or three years left to live, barring other developments. (See
+       [27]jms speaks)
+     * Kosh gave his life willingly to stop the other Vorlon. Perhaps
+       that goal was what he needed to live for, his version of
+       Sheridan's devotion to Delenn. If he had to come to terms with his
+       own death as Sheridan did, such self-sacrifice was presumably
+       somewhat easier when the time came.
+     * Is the original Kosh the only Vorlon to oppose what's going on
+       now? Perhaps they're factionalized much like the Minbari, and the
+       new Kosh represented the more belligerent faction, which has the
+       upper hand at the moment. In any case, why did the original Kosh
+       care about the younger races more than his replacement?
+     * How much of Kosh is still left in Sheridan in the form of memories
+       and knowledge? Was Kosh's presence instrumental in putting
+       together whatever plan Sheridan has in mind?
+     * Londo clearly plans to strike at Cartagia on Narn, where
+       presumably he'll be an easier target than he is in the royal
+       palace. But even if he succeeds, what then? The Shadows will still
+       be on Centauri Prime, with only a few days left until the
+       projected arrival of the Vorlon fleet. It's unlikely Morden and
+       his associates would look favorably on a request to leave the
+       planet, and even if they went away immediately, Centauri Prime
+       would still have been touched by the Shadows and thus would still
+       be a target.
+     * By failing to suggest a punishment for G'Kar, Londo has likely
+       just wasted his first chance for redemption: saving the eye that
+       does not see ([28]"Point of No Return.")
+     * Cartagia's vision of the end of Centauri Prime ("Let it all end in
+       fire") may be related to Kosh's reply to Emperor Turhan in
+       [29]"The Coming of Shadows," to whom he said that things would end
+       "in fire."
+     * In fact, Kosh may have been saying more than the Emperor knew;
+       perhaps he foresaw the deployment of the Vorlon planet-killer, or
+       believed it likely, and figured it'd be used against Centauri
+       Prime. If so, how long have the Vorlons been planning their
+       current course of action?
+     * Garibaldi theorized to Franklin that he might have been caught in
+       the hyperspace backwash when the Shadows pulled out. This was
+       first mentioned as a danger in [30]"Signs and Portents," in which
+       Sinclair warns Ivanova to stay away from the raider mothership to
+       avoid being pulled into its backwash.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The list of sites accepting refugees from Ventari III, as shown in
+       Ivanova's broadcast:
+          + Tizino Prime (presumed destroyed later in the episode)
+          + Mokafa Station
+          + Drazi Fendamir Research Colony
+          + Kazomi III
+          + D'Grn IV
+          + L'Gn'Daort
+          + Nacambad Colony
+          + 7 Lukantha
+          + Oqmritkz
+          + Velatastat
+          + Lesser Krindar
+          + Greater Krindar
+     * The rightmost head in Cartagia's shadow cabinet is Andreas
+       Katsulas (G'Kar.) See [31]jms speaks.
+     * "Apotheosis" means "elevation to divine status," or more simply,
+       deification.
+     * The two Koshes left the scene of the firefight through the
+       ceiling. If they were headed for space, they took the long way
+       there; to get outside through the ceiling, they'd have to pass
+       through the center of the station.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * _In response to a [32]CompuServe message_
+       That was really excellent. Let me explain to you how excellent it
+       was: I was taking a break on CIS because I was trying to work
+       through the heart of a scene between Delenn and Sheridan in script
+       403. It was a little fuzzy there in places, and I usually log off
+       and putter around rather than trying to write it when it isn't all
+       there yet in my head. Your analysis helped me clarify something in
+       my own mind which was there in the first place but hadn't yet
+       racked into focus yet. It would've done so eventually, it always
+       does, but you may have saved me an hour or two of going back over
+       their relationship in my head and pulling out the emotional and
+       thematic undercurrents of what's been established over the last
+       couple of seasons.
+       Good stuff.
+     * One is falling toward something which is rising, therefore
+       promising imminent conflict.
+     * _Which storyline does the title refer to?_
+       Interpretation is everything...I prefer to leave it that way.
+     * _Does it end in a cliffhanger?_
+       No, it doesn't exactly end with a cliffhanger.
+       It does, however, end on a cliff.
+     * So earlier this week we did the audio mix on almost all of 404,
+       "Falling Toward Apotheosis," which airs this coming week. We did
+       all but 7 minutes, because they were seven...big...minutes.
+       Last night, after working at the stage from early morning on, John
+       Copeland, George Johnsen and I left about 7 p.m. to go and mix the
+       audio for those seven minutes.
+       We finished at 2:30 a.m. (And I had to get up at 7:30 a.m. for a
+       meeting, no less.)
+       Point being...if you've got a friend with a good TV and a spiffy
+       audio or surround sound system, you may want to watch this next
+       one over at their place.
+       Just a thought.
+     * _Which seven minutes?_
+       From Lyta's entrance to Kosh's place, to Lorien's hand.
+     * _About the shadow cabinet_
+       Yes, that's Andreas' head, which I personally moved over to where
+       it would be beside Peter...who complained (in jest) that Andreas
+       was again stealing the scene from him.
+     * _Why is everyone acting strangely toward Garibaldi?_
+       The main reason for the non-big reaction to Garibaldi is that none
+       of them really know of anything that went on. He says he just got
+       caught in the hyperspace backwash, and his ship got swiped. And
+       it's a fairly thin story, so there's some questioning of what's
+       not being said, or is this the whole story? So people are bound to
+       be a bit more tentative...and, again, there's a big huge war on,
+       and pilots returning from missions at the height of WW2 were given
+       a handshake and told to get back into the plane for the next
+       mission.
+     * _Have we seen a Vorlon's true appearance?_
+       That's pretty much what they look like.
+     * Actually, we kinda decided to cut back a bit on lens
+       flare...because that particular one is now used in so many places,
+       it's become a cliche. We tried out a new kind of flare in the
+       Kosh2 scene, when he nails Sheridan, you can just sorta see
+       it...once everyone else does what we've been doing, we tend to
+       move on to newer areas.
+     * _Why didn't Kosh project an illusion?_
+       Because it takes concentration to pull it off, and Kosh2 was kinda
+       distracted....
+     * The encounter suit was mainly to mask them.
+     * The idea was to short out and "crack" the suit, getting the vorlon
+       out, so the last of Kosh and Lorien and Sheridan could deal with
+       him in a weakened and more vulnerable state.
+     * _The Vorlons looked a bit like Shadows._
+       I didn't think they looked that much alike. But then, no two
+       people ever see Vorlons in quite the same way, I guess.
+     * _If Vorlons are amorphous energy beings, how was Kosh poisoned in
+       [33]"The Gathering?"_
+       Remember, they do have a certain physicality about them, even in
+       that form, and the nature of the poison was such that it would
+       affect that kind of life form using a crystalline base (note in
+       the pilot the screen reads analyzing crystalline structure, and
+       you filter light or refract or distort it using a crystalline
+       structure).
+     * Silicon or crystalline based lifeforms are still lifeforms, just
+       not the same as carbon-based lifeforms (like us).
+     * Yes, that's a Vorlon...and there was a physicality to them, shown
+       by the fact that it could strike out and hit things. It's not a
+       ghost or anything of that nature, it can be hurt and killed.
+     * _What was Delenn doing at the fight?_
+       Well, I think it's pretty obvious she would've known about it,
+       given her proximity to Sheridan...and if I knew something this big
+       was going on, sure as heck *I'd* want to be there to see it.
+     * _What was Kosh's ship doing?_
+       It was responding to Kosh2's commands to get out of there so he/it
+       could enter it and escape.
+     * _Wouldn't the original Kosh have stopped it from tearing the
+       station apart?_
+       There wasn't enough left for that...it was just a hint of him,
+       that later needed to be bolstered by both Lorien and Sheridan to
+       hit even a part of its original ability.
+     * Kosh went with the new vorlon into the ship, and that final blast
+       was what did the job ultimately.
+     * _Didn't Lyta already tell the new Kosh that Sheridan had a piece
+       of the old Kosh?_
+       Actually, she said, "I think, it's possible, someone else does."
+       But she didn't specify Sheridan, and likely wouldn't have until
+       she knew absolutely for certain...and until she knew a little more
+       about the vorlon she was dealing with.
+     * _Was Kosh aware of what was being planned?_
+       I'd say it was aware of this, yes...and you can hear just a trace
+       of its voice just before it emerges.
+     * All trace of Kosh is gone. He/it will never be seen again, in any
+       form, exempting flashbacks, of which none are currently planned.
+     * _Was it necessary to kill the new Kosh?_
+       Had Kosh2 left when asked, it wouldn't have had to be done, no. It
+       was vaguely possible, but they had to plan as if he would not do
+       so, which in fact was what happened.
+     * The idea was to force Kosh2 out of the station, to where it could
+       be destroyed outside with a minimum of damage to the station.
+       Delenn wasn't happy about it, but also recognizes that war means
+       sometimes having to kill somebody.
+     * _With two of their ambassadors dead, won't the Vorlons take
+       revenge against B5?_
+       Of course, at the moment, the vorlons are a little busy...but
+       given time, yes, they would do exactly that.
+     * _Did the original storyline call for the first Kosh to be killed
+       in this episode?_
+       Best to leave what might've been out...what is, is better.
+     * There's a lot more to be said of the story of Kosh, and the
+       Vorlons in general...and part of me says explain it later...and
+       another part says that if you explain mysteries too much, it
+       destroys them.
+     * Morden is living in denial...he's afraid, and hoping he's right.
+       Centauri Prime has more civilians than any other planet or colony
+       hit so far: three billion people. The shadows are hoping a figure
+       that high will daunt even the Vorlons.
+       The wings are just how we perceived them, to some extent, though
+       we did see a hint of wings as the last of Kosh emerged from
+       Sheridan. (We also heard the wing flap sound, and the sound of
+       Kosh's voice for the last time right after Lorien's "Now.")
+       Dr. Kyle saw the angelic form...even in its reduced state, it held
+       itself together enough to maintain that form.
+     * _Was Sheridan almost dead in [34]"War Without End, Part Two?"_
+       Yep, at the time of that flash-forward, Sheridan has at most 2-3
+       years left to live.
+     * _Had he followed Delenn's advice, would he be in the same
+       situation anyway?_
+       Had he not gone to Z'ha'dum, he would've avoided that fate, but
+       caused another.
+     * Minbari can easily live to about 140 or so.
+     * _Was it fair of Sheridan to propose to Delenn after Lorien's bad
+       news?_
+       Well, I think it's better for someone to know that first, then
+       find out about it later. "Oh, good, we're going to spend the rest
+       of our lives together...oh, by the way, now that you've committed,
+       you should know...."
+       Uh, uh.
+     * _Delenn is spending a lot of time fawning over Sheridan._
+       "Considering her past role in Minbari society, though, I expect
+       her to snap out of it pretty soon. She was *trained* to take
+       charge, and even the things she's endured lately won't supress
+       that conditioning forever."
+       Oh, most definitely...count on it. She's done more than enough "oh
+       john" stuff for my tastes...that will start to change, and soon.
+     * Too much depression and guilt lately, and she's been for the most
+       part a passive character lately, while others acted around her.
+       Now it's about time for her to start becoming active again.
+       There's fire and steel in *use*, and fire and steel waiting to be
+       called upon...time to shift from the latter to the former.
+     * _How does the Minbari sleep-watching ritual compare in seriousness
+       to Sheridan's marriage proposal?_
+       Well, I think it fair to say that with Delenn starting the ritual,
+       there had already been kind of an implicit understanding that this
+       was going to be more than just a fling...and there's still a long
+       road ahead of them before this can be finalized.
+     * _Why doesn't Cartagia have the telepaths seen in [35]"The Coming
+       of Shadows?"_
+       They weren't prophetesses, they were communications-telepaths, and
+       the emperor can use them if he perceives the need to keep in
+       contact with events in the royal court. Cartagia could give a fig
+       for what goes at home, which will be ash soon anyway....
+     * _Cartagia wouldn't go to Narn just because Londo asked._
+       Except, of course, this trip with G'Kar was in his best interest,
+       and Cartagia is always responsive to what's best for Cartagia.
+     * For my money, the truly frightening thing about Cartagia is that
+       he is motivated entirely by whim, by caprice...he can give you
+       something wonderful one moment, then turn around and have you
+       killed the next. You *never* know which way he'll flip from moment
+       to moment.
+     * _Why didn't Londo try to save G'Kar's eye?_
+       Yeah...would've been nice if Londo had at least tried to do
+       something about the eye that did not see Cartagia's splendor....
+     * The Londo stuff is nice, and you do get a sense of the kind of
+       person he was before the empire began to slip, and his fortunes
+       with it. He can definitely pull it out when he wants to.
+     * _Only 3 billion people on Centauri Prime?_
+       Basically, I figured with a culture in decline, often the birth
+       rate goes down; it's also a fairly small world, all things
+       considered...and a LOT of them live on other colonies, they've
+       been spreading out a lot longer than we have...and of course they
+       have always been sensible about birth control and population
+       growth, one of their few wisdoms, and one we could learn from.
+     * _Was Kosh's comment about Sheridan opening an unexpected door in
+       [36]"The Hour of the Wolf" related to the change in Vorlon
+       strategy?_
+       They couldn't break the rules of engagement, but he did...and
+       started things moving.
+     * _Wasn't the planet-killer a break in the rules?_
+       That *followed* his trip to Z'ha'dum...so yes, the rules began to
+       slip after that.
+       
+
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     As the Army of Light prepares to strike, Londo and Vir continue to
+     plot Cartagia's downfall. Ivanova and Lorien look for more First
+     Ones. The Shadows unleash a terrible new weapon. [15]Wortham
+     Krimmer as Emperor Cartagia.
+     
+[16]P5 Rating: [17]8.82
+
+Production number: 405
+Original air week: January 27, 1997
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John LaFia
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * The Shadows have deployed a planet-killer of their own, striking
+       against Vorlon-aligned worlds much as the Vorlons are decimating
+       worlds touched by the Shadows.
+     * After the success of his assassination plot, Londo has taken
+       Cartagia's place as head of the Centauri, though for the moment
+       only as prime minister, not as emperor.
+     * Making good on his promise to G'Kar in [18]"Whatever Happened to
+       Mr. Garibaldi?" Londo has ordered the withdrawal of Centauri
+       forces from Narn.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Who were the Centuari nobles in the secret meeting with Londo and
+       Vir?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Now that Narn is free, will G'Kar retain his stature? Or will most
+       of his countrymen come to feel the way the Narn in the palace did,
+       that G'Kar's sacrifice wasn't significant and doesn't give him any
+       special moral authority?
+       It's unlikely the Narn could mount any meaningful offensive
+       against the Centauri regardless of their antagonism, given the
+       near-total destruction of their fleet and the razing of their
+       planet. But G'Kar's warnings have a habit of being ignored until
+       it's too late ([19]"Revelations" and [20]"The Long, Twilight
+       Struggle," to name two instances) and given the justifiable rage
+       many Narn no doubt feel, they may well ignore him again.
+     * The Narn clearly don't know why the Centauri really left their
+       world. How will they react if and when they learn that it was a
+       bargain on G'Kar's part, not the stubborn resistance of the Narn
+       people as a whole, that caused their invaders to leave?
+     * In [21]"Falling Toward Apotheosis," Garibaldi speculated that in a
+       week's time, the crush of incoming refugees would overwhelm
+       Babylon 5's resources. That doesn't seem to have happened. Has the
+       diversion of people to the surface of Epsilon 3 gone smoothly
+       enough to take the load off the station?
+     * This episode marks the first time Sheridan has been shown ordering
+       someone to certain death, though perhaps it's something he had to
+       do during the Earth-Minbari War as well. His death and rebirth on
+       Z'ha'dum likely makes such orders more credible: he was willing to
+       die for the cause, so he's clearly not sending others into the
+       fire just to save his own skin. Delenn, on the other hand, might
+       not be ready for that aspect of command; as Lennier pointed out in
+       [22]"Grey 17 Is Missing," she holds individual lives in high
+       esteem and is reluctant to risk them even for a greater good.
+     * What did Londo mean when he told the other Centauri that when he
+       died, there would be a reckoning? He could have been referring to
+       his own alleged complicity in the death of Prime Minister Malachi,
+       or to a reckoning for Refa's actions. If the former, he was
+       probably thinking in particular of his rather ignoble death,
+       strangulation at the hands of G'Kar as foreseen in his dream
+       ([23]"The Coming of Shadows," [24]"War Without End, Part Two.")
+     * Although it was clearly unintentional (see [25]jms speaks) one of
+       Vir's earliest appearances has what could be considered
+       foreshadowing of his killing of Cartagia. In [26]"Born to the
+       Purple," Londo asks Vir, "What do you want, you moon-faced
+       assassin of joy?" Vir has turned out to be an assassin, and by
+       killing Cartagia, Vir has undone some of the damage that began
+       when Londo first answered Morden's question, "What do you want?"
+       in [27]"Signs and Portents."
+     * Another possible unintentional foreshadowing of Vir's actions was
+       the Minbari rebirth ceremony in [28]"The Parliament of Dreams."
+       During the ceremony, Delenn handed out fruits while she recited a
+       Minbari holy text. As she gave Londo his fruit, she spoke of
+       birth; Vir's, death and renewal. Obviously it wasn't JMS's intent
+       at the time, but Londo can be seen as bringing on the birth of the
+       newly ascendant Centauri Republic by helping Refa bring Cartagia
+       to power. Vir brings its death in the form of the assassination,
+       and its rebirth in the resulting shift in power.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The poem recited by Sheridan at the end of the episode was
+       probably left by Sinclair, who quoted it to Delenn as far back as
+       [29]"The Gathering." It is Tennyson's [30]"Ulysses."
+     * When Londo first saw G'Kar, G'Kar commented that his eye offended
+       Cartagia. That's no doubt a Biblical reference, to [31]Matthew
+       18:9.
+     * G'Kar's newfound vision bears some resemblance to Norse mythology,
+       in which the god Odin sacrificed one of his eyes in exchange for
+       the ability to perceive things beyond the normal senses.
+     * In the initial US broadcast, the third-season theme was played
+       over the closing credits.
+     * The Shadow weapon was devised by Harlan Ellison.
+     * Effects glitch: About a half-second before the executive producer
+       credit, as the fleet is leaving Babylon 5, some Starfuries enter
+       the picture on the right side. As they appear, they flicker out of
+       existence for a frame or two. The effect is visible (barely) at
+       normal speed, more obvious in slow motion.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * _Was the use of the third season end theme deliberate?_
+       It was an error...but as with many errors on the show, it worked
+       to our benefit. It's the ABA principle....Art By Accident.
+     * I'm quite happy with this episode. It's fun.
+     * I'm writing 405, "The Long Night," and there's something that one
+       character was supposed to do in the script, that had been the plan
+       all along, that was my intent even as near as 1 page from where it
+       was going to happen...then just as I got to that scene, another
+       character stepped up and said, "no, let me do it." I was kinda
+       flummoxed. "You?! You're the LAST person anyone would think to do
+       this." The character nodded. "Exactly." And the symmetry was
+       perfect, the impact would be greater...so that's who did it.
+       On one level, it's always wonderful when this happens; on another,
+       it scares the hell out of me....
+       It's at the bottom of act two, you'll figure it out when you get
+       there.
+     * _Which character has surprised you the most?_
+       Probably Vir. He's surprised me on many levels. Suffice to say
+       that in the first 6 somewhere next season, there's something I'd
+       slotted for another character to do. I'd intended for that
+       character to do it right up.... until the page before that other
+       character was going to do it, when Vir stepped up in my brain and
+       said, "No, *I* should do this." And as soon as he said it, I knew
+       it was right. You'll see.
+     * It was gonna be Londo right up until 2 pages before the
+       scene...then Vir said, "Nope."
+     * Nothing about it was at all accidental...he had to go pick it up,
+       turn, move to Cartagia, stick it in, and then pull the trigger.
+       Nothing accidental about it. But if we'd shown him doing all the
+       prep, the shock wouldn't have been as substantial.
+     * "Has a character (not actor) ever suggested a direction to you
+       that you didn't take, but later on seemed like the direction you
+       should have taken? I would think they would all be fighting for
+       screen-time, or is that just some actors?"
+       Not really, mainly because if my subconscious mind is sufficiently
+       up in arms about something as to throw a fictional character at me
+       and yell at me, it's usually a sign that I should Shut The Hell Up
+       And Do As I'm Told. So when it happens, I *very* rarely ignore it.
+     * _What did Londo mean when he said there'd be a reckoning?_
+       Well, the reckoning in the next life for his actions in this one,
+       would be the best way of putting it. That's what he expects.
+     * _Was G'Kar's stock a visual reference to Jesus on the cross?_
+       I think one can make the argument there is some symbolism in there
+       from christian literature, but that kind of scene takes place in
+       other belief systems as well, and historically that sort of
+       torture was used in many places, including the Roman empire in
+       general.
+     * _Did Londo's men weaken the chains after all, or was G'Kar just
+       really determined?_
+       That was one determined Narn.
+     * The White Star mission in that ep has definite roots; during WW2
+       to convince the Germans we weren't going to land at Normandy, our
+       own agents were fed incorrect information, set loose...and then
+       info was leaked to the Germans allowing them to pick up the agents
+       and torture the information out of them. This wasn't quite as bad
+       as that, the crew at least knew what they were getting into...but
+       there are often no good choices in war.
+     * _The Ericsson scene was moving._
+       Thanks...I think a lot of it there has to do also with the
+       performance of the actor playing Ericsson. He brought a real sense
+       of presence to the job.
+     * He asked if Ericsson was married because, if he was, that was a
+       call that Sheridan would have to make, over Stellarcom or in
+       person, to notify her that her husband was dead. And, for
+       Sheridan, I suppose there was a tinge of relief, knowing that at
+       least he wouldn't be creating a widow as well as ordering Ericsson
+       to do what was necessary.
+     * _What was the meaning of the phrase Ericsson used when he signed
+       off?_
+       The Minbari phrase was the standard way for Rangers to end a
+       conversation, with a salute to the Entil-zha, the head of the
+       Rangers, which is Delenn in this case.
+     * _Why did the promo feature Ericsson when his was a pretty minor
+       part?_
+       Certainly I would never have made a big deal about the Ericsson
+       thing, because then it *does* set up certain expectations. I
+       didn't hear about the promo until you did.
+       There actually *was* a Lorien scene in that episode, but it got
+       slid a bit when we ran out of time in that ep.
+     * _Sheridan should have known Ericsson wasn't married._
+       First, the Rangers situation is not a typical military situation.
+       They are primarily from Minbar, both in terms of actual Minbari
+       and humans trained there. They are specifically under Delenn's
+       charge, with Sheridan *sharing* that authority. He did not know
+       Ericsson because they're a large bunch to whom he has not been
+       introduced, and likely they don't have very large records on them.
+       This is a *de facto* army, not a *de jure* (I hope I spelled that
+       right) army...there ain't a lot of paperwork on the Rangers.
+       Second, it was Delenn who sent for this particular White Star,
+       more for its strategic location...which Sheridan used because it
+       was closest to the goal. Your observation is like saying that
+       General Patton should know *instantly* about every soldier on the
+       line in battle, however distant he is. Which is simply absurd.
+       Watch some old WW2 footage someday...there's General MacArthur
+       walking among some troops..."What's your name, son? Where are you
+       from?" By your lights, he should have known that.
+       Third, re: the encryption notice...of *course* they're all
+       encrypted...what Sheridan said was "we're RE-encrypting this
+       message EVERY THREE SECONDS, so be sure to have your system keep
+       up." That's an escalation in layers of encryption so elaborate and
+       involved that it makes the system actually slow down.
+     * _More on Sheridan's sacrifice of the ship_
+       I think it also showed the League that he was willing to sacrifice
+       his own people, that he *means business*...and is prepared to go
+       all the way for this, and they'd damned well better be as well.
+       
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     The Army of Light mounts its final assault. Londo learns some
+     surprising information about Morden. [15]Ed Wasser as Morden.
+     
+[16]P5 Rating: [17]9.30
+
+Production number: 406
+Original air week: February 3, 1997
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Kevin Dobson
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * The first of Lorien's people were effectively immortal, but later
+       generations grew old and died.
+     * The Shadows and Vorlons never attacked one another directly
+       because their goal wasn't to defeat the opposition in a military
+       sense, but to convince their charges, the younger races, to
+       forsake the opposing philosophy. Along the way, both races lost
+       track of who they were and what they wanted.
+     * All the First Ones, including the Shadows and Vorlons, are gone,
+       ushering in the third age of mankind (which seems to refer to the
+       younger races as a group, not just humanity.) In the first age,
+       man was too primitive to be considered part of the larger picture.
+       In the second age, man was intelligent and aware of the greater
+       world, but his fate was manipulated by outside forces. Now, with
+       all the older races gone, man has entered an age of
+       self-determination.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What lies beyond the galactic rim? Why do all the elder races want
+       to go there?
+     * How far did Lorien's broadcast of the conversations with the
+       Vorlons and Shadows extend? Just to the crews of the ships at
+       Coriana 6, or more broadly than that?
+     * Does Londo sending Vir back to Babylon 5 mean that Vir is now the
+       Centauri Ambassador?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * The First Ones were of surprisingly little help, considering the
+       trouble to which Ivanova and Lorien went to secure their
+       assistance. They amounted to little more than strange-looking
+       guns, just there to pop in, destroy the Vorlon planetkiller, and
+       do little else (though one of them can be seen destroying a few
+       Shadow and Vorlon ships.) Why were the Shadows and Vorlons
+       seemingly undisturbed by the intervention of their peers,
+       preferring instead to continue fighting as before? Why didn't the
+       First Ones do anything about the Shadow planetkiller?
+       It could be argued that they had to be present because Lorien
+       needed them to see that it was time to depart. But given how
+       reclusive most of the remaining First Ones were, they could likely
+       have remained right where they were without ever significantly
+       affecting mankind's reign of the galaxy. Only the Shadows and
+       Vorlons were actively interfering with the younger races. For all
+       intents and purposes the remaining First Ones were already gone
+       anyway.
+     * Sheridan's plan -- luring the Shadows to Coriana 6 with false
+       information, then planting bombs in nearby asteroids -- is the
+       same strategy he employed to good effect against the Black Star
+       during the Earth-Minbari War ([18]"There All the Honor Lies.")
+     * The representation of the Shadows and Vorlons while Sheridan and
+       Delenn were talking to them was symbolic of their nature. The
+       Shadows moved around, shifted form, and spoke with many voices,
+       representative of chaos. The Vorlons were frozen in ice, cold and
+       aloof and unchanging.
+     * The episode's title can be read as a reference to a crucible,
+       which certainly fits the theme of the storyline. Sheridan brought
+       together the concentrated forces of the Shadows, Vorlons, the
+       First Ones, and the younger races; as they were all forced to
+       interact, they were transformed.
+     * How did Londo know Morden was accompanied by Shadows? Perhaps he
+       simply put two and two together after noticing the strange sounds
+       near Morden in [19]"Interludes and Examinations," but this is the
+       first evidence that Londo has been doing research on Morden's
+       associates.
+     * What happened to the Shadow hit by the guard's weapon? Was its
+       body recovered? In [20]"The Long Dark," when the Shadow warrior
+       was killed, it didn't leave a body behind, so perhaps it's some
+       kind of standard protection mechanism used by the Shadows and
+       their servants.
+     * By killing Morden and destroying the Shadow base, Londo has
+       probably sealed the fate of Centauri Prime as seen in [21]"War
+       Without End, Part Two." As Morden said, the Shadows may be gone,
+       but they have allies, and Londo told Sheridan in that episode that
+       the Shadows' allies were the ones laying waste to Centauri Prime.
+       Whether those allies will also be responsible for putting the
+       keeper on Londo isn't clear. If so, they would appear to be after
+       more than simple revenge, since they were trying to extract
+       information from Delenn.
+       Ironically, if Londo had left the base and Morden alone, the
+       Vorlons would have turned back anyway, since their planet-killer
+       was summoned to Coriana 6 before it fired a shot at Centauri
+       Prime. Of course, he had no way of knowing that.
+     * As the Vorlon ship passed overhead, Londo and everything around
+       him fell under its shadow, underscoring the point about Londo's
+       Shadow involvement.
+     * After Selini was destroyed, Morden clutched almost desperately at
+       his pendant. Just a reflex, or was it perhaps some form of link to
+       the Shadows?
+     * Given his fate when Sheridan destroyed the White Star on Z'ha'dum,
+       and the fact that only extreme intervention restored any semblance
+       of his physical body ([22]"The Hour of the Wolf") Morden may
+       qualify as "the one who is already dead" from Lady Morella's
+       prophecy ([23]"Point of No Return.") By killing Morden and thus
+       condemning Centauri Prime to the dismal future seen 17 years
+       hence, Londo has plausibly given up a chance to redeem himself.
+     * The Shadows themselves may have departed, but what have they left
+       behind? Many of their ships were manned by other races. Did the
+       pilots leave for the Rim as well, or are there still Shadow ships
+       flying around the galaxy? What about their cities on Z'ha'dum, and
+       the ships they buried on worlds all over the galaxy? Did all their
+       representatives on Earth and elsewhere leave too?
+       Similarly, is the Vorlon homeworld now accessible to anyone who
+       cares to visit? What did the Vorlons leave behind?
+       Lorien also may have left something behind, namely the ship he and
+       Sheridan took to Babylon 5 in [24]"The Summoning."
+     * Who will force mankind to step down when our time has passed? The
+       Vorlons and Shadows likely wouldn't have left were it not for
+       Lorien's intervention. With both of them, and their peers, gone,
+       there'll be no father figure to coax mankind out of the way
+       millions of years hence, when _we're_ the mysterious elder race
+       meddling in the affairs of the newcomers.
+       Perhaps that role will be filled by Jason Ironheart ([25]"Mind
+       War.") He indicated he'd be back in a million years.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * In the initial US broadcast, the end credits were accompanied by
+       the theme music from season three, not season four.
+     * Reflecting his increased status, Vir's hair appears to be somewhat
+       longer in this episode than previously.
+     * The space background in the opening sequence, when the White Star
+       awaits the arrival of more First Ones, is from a [26]Hubble Space
+       Telescope photo, part of the Eagle Nebula.
+     * The island of Selini, shown being destroyed by Londo, bears strong
+       similarity to the island of Sicily, Italy, as seen from space.
+     * The scene in which Lorien tells Ivanova about his people and about
+       his immortality was originally written for the previous episode,
+       [27]"The Long Night." That's why it takes place aboard Babylon 5
+       rather than the White Star, forcing a rather strange detour to the
+       station when Ivanova would have wanted to head directly to the
+       scene of the battle. When Lorien says, "I was told you were ready
+       to leave," he's referring to Ivanova's departure on Sheridan's
+       mission to find more First Ones. To cover for this inconsistency,
+       an extra line of voiceover dialogue was added to the first scene
+       in the episode, Ivanova telling Lorien that they need to get back
+       to Babylon 5 and rejoin the fleet.
+     * Lorien said there were six First Ones, but only five can be seen
+       leaving the scene of the battle. Of course, the sixth might have
+       left separately, or Lorien could have been referring to himself.
+     * When Londo arrives in the throne room, he gathers his WITS about
+       him: he orders the unnamed Minister to gather the ministers of
+       War, Information, Transportation, and Security.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * One of the things about the way events come to a head and finish
+       in ITF is that it's very unnerving...okay, *now* what? The ongoing
+       conflict has become something you could count on, you knew the
+       rough shape of what might be coming along. Now all that's kicked
+       over, and you have to get on with the next aspect: making a new
+       life.
+       What interests me, what I wanted to do with making this show, was
+       in large measure to examine the issues and emotions and events
+       that precede a war, precipitate a war, the effects of the war
+       itself, the end of the war and the aftermath of the war. The war
+       is hardware; the people are at the center of the story.
+     * So far the general reaction has been, "But...but...what NOW?"
+       which is *exactly* the reaction I was hoping for.
+       Everybody keeps commenting, "This is the sort of episode you have
+       at the end, not 6 eps into your season." Yep.
+       We're funny that way....
+     * Now comes more fun...again, it's all about process...going from
+       post-war (Minbari) to an uneasy peace, to showing how a war starts
+       to come about, the actual beginning of a war, its progress, then
+       the aftermath. That arc really is at the core of the show...the
+       changes that take place through this process.
+     * I've always preferred the arc, both inside an episode, and between
+       episodes, and even in the course of a season, where there's the
+       resolution and then there's time to consider, reflect, and show
+       the impact of these things. It's not just about solving the
+       technical problem that way...it's about the people who solve the
+       problem and how they are affected by the problems and solutions.
+     * It's often the aftermath that holds the greatest interest. The
+       Civil War tells one kind of interesting story; the Reconstruction
+       that followed, which endured for many years longer than the war,
+       tells another, just as interesting story.
+       There's a line one of the characters will say soon, "The
+       duration's going to be a lot longer than the war." It's a very
+       true comment.
+       One of my favorite books is "Alas, Babylon," by Pat Frank, which
+       is about a nuclear war (written in the early 60s). But the war
+       happens entirely off-stage, way in the distance...and the book
+       focuses on one small township dealing with the after effects, and
+       the day-to-day realities of surviving in a changed world. I've
+       always been partial to that kind of storytelling.
+     * As for the story being over...not by a long sight. Frankly, some
+       of what's coming in the latter part of this season is more intense
+       than anything we've done previously. We really focus in on the
+       characters and the after-shocks of the war, in ways usually
+       ignored.
+       After all, we all know how nice and calm and civilized Europe was
+       after the War To End All Wars came to an end...we hardly heard a
+       peep from that part of the world thereafter....
+     * As usual every season, we start out with lighter CGI episodes, and
+       build to big stuff as we go. That will be the same this season as
+       last. Our first really big CGI episode last season was "Messages,"
+       which was around episode #8, then "Severed," episode #10. This
+       season we'll hit with big stuff around episode #6, which will
+       likely be as big as "Severed." Rather than push stuff back, we've
+       been able to move CGI stuff forward and expand on scenes.
+     * Just a quick note with two purposes:
+       1) to alert folks interested in Lightwave to check out the B5
+       episode airing in about 2 weeks, "Into the Fire," the second new
+       episode back, to see some nifty stuff one can do when one applies
+       oneself. That episode has roughly 114 CGI shots in 43 minutes, and
+       are easily some of the most elaborate ever done for TV. (There's
+       some nice stuff toward the latter half of this coming week's
+       episode, but the following one is the big blow-out.)
+       and
+       2) to plink the noses of those on here who came on proclaiming
+       that "good sources" told them that the CGI EFX on B5 would either
+       go to hell, or look crappy, or be less than before. We're now
+       doing far more EFX than in any previous season, and more elaborate
+       shots. I said these individuals were full of it then, and the
+       facts have spoken for themselves in the time since. These
+       individuals have since dropped away and gotten real silent. I hope
+       they'll be as forthright now that they've been shown to be wrong
+       as they were in their original proclamations.
+       Otherwise we'd have to assume that these individuals were spewing
+       out things they knew weren't true, just to poison the well and
+       cause us grief, and I just can't *imagine* that *anyone* would do
+       something like that....
+     * _Why wasn't the Vorlon shown in its true form?_
+       Because we'd still be rendering it. There are 114 EFX shots in
+       that episode, and as it was we just barely made the satellite
+       uplink. If it wasn't absolutely necessary, better to do it more
+       simply. As it was, we were rendering the shadow form too.
+     * _Are you happy with having to hurry season four along in case the
+       show isn't renewed?_
+       Truth: I go back and forth. The "Into the Fire" thing, for
+       instance... it would've likely been a two-part episode, but it
+       still would've ended up exactly where it ended up. A few more big
+       explosions, but I wonder also if that really adds anything past a
+       certain point.
+       From a production standpoing, since "Fire" darn near killed us in
+       the CGI department, it's probably a darned good thing it DIDN'T go
+       for 2 eps. That puppy had something around 120 or 140 EFX shots.
+       Overall, I'm actually quite happy with how this season is going,
+       in terms of the intensity of the arc and the emotions and
+       incidents. Parts would've been a bit more laid-back if I had
+       decided not to cover my bets on renewal, and maybe the situation
+       has worked out to the best (again the ABA principle, Art By
+       Accident).
+       So I dunno...all I know is what's in the episodes this season, and
+       it's pretty cool overall....
+     * 1.) The CGI was excellent and seemed very different than in
+       previous episodes, much larger, better defined, darker. Was this
+       an effort on your part, or the post-production department?"
+       We're trying some new rendering techniques...I think they're
+       working very well. (Some of the stuff in the next episode has a
+       very realistic feel to it.)
+       2.) Have you found some way to slow down time or compress the
+       episode into a shorter span? When I finished this one, I swore I
+       had watched a two hour movie.
+       You did. We arranged for a time dilation bubble to appear over
+       your house.
+       3.) Any reaction from the actor or staff on this one? Especially,
+       Ed Wasser? (Might be a bit of spoilers in the answer to this one)
+       Ed wants to come back as an alien. I see no problem with this.
+     * _Any significance to Morden's pendant?_
+       It may have its uses.
+     * The shadow voice was definitely Ed Wasser.
+     * Yeah, that was Ed's voice. Seemed appropos.
+       Definitely didn't want it to end in a big explosion. We've seen
+       many of those; how many more can you see? One is the same as the
+       other after a while. And if we destroyed everything, how would
+       that show we'd grown enough to create the new age? It's a matter
+       of evolution, not destruction.
+     * I've suggested the use of a minor chords version of the theme
+       music to Chris on several occasions, where it seemed right, here,
+       Signs and Portents, and in others. The change from minor to major
+       chords does signal an emotional transition, and it works well.
+       The director initially didn't want to do the Londo rage scene in
+       one take; it was something I felt very strongly about, and I think
+       it works well.
+       BTW, there's another example of a long single take coming up soon,
+       on Epsilon 3, which is all I'll specify. I kinda wanted the scene
+       to play itself out, without cutting, and to show just how
+       amazingly capable some of our actors can be. We're talking here
+       almost 4 minutes of footage, not one cut in the whole thing, very
+       fast dialogue, and not a single muffed line, with the performances
+       working wonderfully. You'll know it when you see it.
+     * _Why were the other First Ones still around?_
+       They were all still hanging around here, for one reason or
+       another, mostly to do with inertia, familiarity...but finally
+       recognized that it was time.
+     * The Sigma 957 ship was one of the First One ships, yeah.
+     * I don't think the shadows speaking through Lyta referred to Delenn
+       by name; they said only, "And you they have left for us."
+       The jostling from the asteroid was an accident, though the others
+       would've figured out what was going on soon enough.
+     * _Any relation between the Vorlon representative's outfit and
+       Ivanova's in the [28]"All Alone in the Night" dream?_
+       No, no relation to Ivanova's outfit. I just wanted a sense of
+       something that was both ancient and ageless, frozen, formal,
+       distant.
+     * The woman was in ice as a symbol of their ridigity, their
+       inflexibility, "frozen in time," as the shadows say.
+     * _Two ancient adversaries gave up just because Delenn and Sheridan
+       told them to?_
+       I think that, for me, what mitigates against that is that a) it
+       wasn't just Delenn and Sheridan, it was with virtually every other
+       major civilization around backing their play, and adding their
+       support, their voice, even being willing to die for the sake of
+       this confrontation. If it were just the two of them...they'd be
+       scragged. The two forces needed to be shown that the others had
+       turned against them, and that their true faces had been exposed.
+       b) The other key for me is that neither the Vorlons nor the
+       Shadows saw themselves as conquerers or adversaries...both
+       believed they were doing what was right for us. And like any
+       possessive parent, they'll keep on believing that until the kid is
+       strong enough to stand up and say, "No, this is what *I* want."
+       Most wars tend to end with one singular event...sometimes it's a
+       big bomb, or a series of big bombs...and sometimes it comes with a
+       negotiation. The two sides meet in a room, sometimes with
+       representatives of other nations, and together they hammer out a
+       truce, or a peace. There's the Nagasaki solution on the one hand,
+       and the "let's meet in a room and talk about this" of Jimmy
+       Carter, Anwar Sadat and Minister Begin.
+       Both work.
+     * There is a definite parent/child/parent dynamic going on there, in
+       that Lorien is, in a way, in that role to the Vorlons and the
+       Shadows, they're in that role to us, and we're in that role to
+       those who will follow. It's the endless cycle.
+     * _About the final scene between Lorien and the Vorlon and Shadow
+       images_
+       One could almost argue for the whole scene as a classic
+       "intervention" out of psychotherapy or group counseling.
+       Very early on, John Copeland asked me, "Okay, bottom line it for
+       me, what's the war about?" I said, "It's about killing your
+       parents." And his eyes went wide, and I explained, "No, not
+       literally...but at some point you have to step outside the control
+       of your parents and create your own life, your own destiny. That
+       process is inevitable...and if there are indeed older races, and
+       they're interfering, that puts them smack in the middle of that
+       same process."
+       It's not about who has the biggest gun, because there's *always*
+       somebody else with a bigger gun...it's about *understanding* your
+       way out of a problem.
+     * _Will we ever learn why the first Kosh was more sympathetic to the
+       younger races than his replacement?_
+       That's a good question, and one of the things I'd like to do (but
+       which I can't see any way to do in the series) is the whole story
+       of who Kosh was, how he got to be who and what he was, why he felt
+       the way he did toward humans (part of it was knowing
+       Valen)...maybe this will have to go into one of the novels.
+     * _Did Kosh go to B5 knowing that the conflict would soon be over?_
+       I think Kosh came late to the table. I don't think he came to B5
+       with that intent, but it grew in him over time that this cycle had
+       to end, and he could be instrumental to that.
+     * The main motive for going beyond the rim...there's a heck of a big
+       Taco Bell out there....
+     * The notion of the Vorlons and Shadows representing Order and Chaos
+       goes back to the Babylonian creation myths, that the universe was
+       born in the conflict between order and chaos, hence part of the
+       reason I decided to name this show after Babylon. That's called
+       *research*. It informs the show, but it is not the show.
+     * Certainly Londo would like to avoid his fate, and Lady Morella
+       prophesied certain ways of doing this...and he's had some chances,
+       and blown them. As you say, he's creating the very future he'd
+       hoped to avoid.
+       
+
+   [34][Next] 
+   
+      [35]Last update: January 12, 1998
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+References
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/072.shtml
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/072.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/072.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/071.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/073.html
+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/072.html#OV
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/072.html#BP
+  11. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/072.html#UQ
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/072.html#AN
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/072.html#NO
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/072.html#JS
+  15. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Wasser,+Ed
+  16. file://localhost/lurk/p5/intro.html
+  17. file://localhost/lurk/p5/072
+  18. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/036.html
+  19. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/059.html
+  20. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/027.html
+  21. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/061.html
+  22. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/067.html
+  23. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/053.html
+  24. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/069.html
+  25. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/006.html
+  26. http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/95/44.html
+  27. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/071.html
+  28. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/033.html
+  29. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  30. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/072.html#TOP
+  31. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  32. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  33. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/071.html
+  34. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/073.html
+  35. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Bester arrives with news of an Earth Alliance plan to further
+     isolate Babylon 5. Garibaldi delivers some surprising news to
+     Sheridan. [15]Walter Koenig as Bester. [16]Damian London as
+     Minister.
+     
+[17]P5 Rating: [18]8.43
+
+Production number: 407
+Original air week: February 10, 1997
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John Flinn III
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * With his Shadow allies gone, President Clark now views Babylon 5
+       as a significant threat to his power. There are still elements of
+       the Psi-Corps loyal to the Shadows.
+     * The telepaths rescued from the Shadows in [19]"Ship of Tears" are
+       being kept aboard Babylon 5 in cryonic suspension until a means
+       can be found of disentangling them from their implants.
+     * Lyta's telepathic powers have definitely been enhanced by the
+       Vorlons, to the point where she can easily block a scan by a
+       P12-level telepath while making telepathic contact across several
+       light-years.
+     * Z'ha'dum has been destroyed, but not before the Shadows' allies
+       left with unknown quantities of Shadow technology and artifacts.
+     * The Shadows' allies have arrived on Centauri Prime and begun
+       deploying the keepers seen in [20]"War Without End, Part Two."
+     * After receiving a strange message from an unknown source, likely
+       related to what was done to him in [21]"Whatever Happened to Mr.
+       Garibaldi?" Garibaldi has resigned as head of security. Zack has
+       been promoted to take his place.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Since some in the Psi Corps apparently still side with the
+       Shadows, did the Corps participate in the looting of Z'ha'dum? If
+       not, is the Corps in contact with the looters?
+     * Did all the Shadows' allies go to Centauri Prime, or are there
+       more of them headed for other destinations?
+     * Exactly how powerful is Lyta now? Does she in fact have additional
+       programming of which she's not yet aware?
+     * What does Bester know about Lyta that she doesn't want others to
+       find out?
+     * What was the message Garibaldi received? If it activated an
+       implanted personality or some hidden programming, why did he
+       resign after receiving the message?
+     * What exactly were the "station lock-down codes" Garibaldi gave
+       Zack? Are they something Garibaldi knows, or something he might
+       have kept a copy of?
+     * What is Bester's "ace in the hole?" Is it Garibaldi?
+     * How does he plan to recover Carolyn?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Even Bester isn't let in on the entirety of Clark's plan, just the
+       part involving the Black Omega squadron. What else is planned?
+       Bester's superior said the plan involves the Ministry of Peace and
+       the Nightwatch, at least.
+       Apparently Bester either isn't strong enough to scan his superior
+       without being detected (telepathic strength may determine one's
+       placement in the Corps, so that's not surprising,) or he's loyal
+       enough to the Corps as a whole to simply accept his boss's
+       statement that he doesn't need to know the entire plan.
+     * Bester took quite a personal risk by warning Babylon 5 of Clark's
+       impending plan. The entire plan was known only by a select few,
+       according to Bester's superior; presumably only Bester and his
+       superior knew about the Black Omega operation. If that was the
+       only part of the plan that failed, some degree of suspicion would
+       naturally fall on Bester as head of the squadron, subjecting his
+       recent activities to scrutiny. And if even one Nightwatch member
+       noticed Bester's presence on Babylon 5 -- not too farfetched,
+       since he entered through a public customs area -- Clark's people
+       would presumably be able to put two and two together and conclude
+       that Bester must have leaked the information.
+     * The Shadows, according to Anna Sheridan ([22]"Z'ha'dum") believed
+       they'd die if anything Vorlon touched Z'ha'dum. Many of them did
+       die when Sheridan arrived with a piece of Kosh. And now Lyta's
+       telepathy, enhanced by the Vorlons (and, indeed, genetically
+       seeded by the Vorlons in the first place) has triggered the
+       destruction of Z'ha'dum itself.
+     * Why did Sheridan not realize where the Shadows' minions were
+       headed? In [23]"War Without End, Part One," he saw that they had
+       gone to Centauri Prime. His failure to do anything about their
+       arrival there probably explains Londo's accusation in that
+       episode.
+     * The pattern of light in Garibaldi's message resembles the light
+       shining on him from above in the escape pod in [24]"The
+       Summoning."
+     * Why did Bester, who took pleasure in needling Garibaldi on his
+       previous visits to Babylon 5, make no inquiry about Garibaldi's
+       absence from the station's command staff?
+     * If Garibaldi's resignation is indeed a sign that he's been
+       programmed, the programming may be much more subtle than the
+       Control personality implanted into Talia Winters ([25]"Divided
+       Loyalties.") The effect of the programming may simply be to cause
+       Garibaldi to become disillusioned about Sheridan and his cause.
+       That would be useful to Clark, who could use Garibaldi as a weapon
+       in his propaganda attack on Babylon 5.
+     * On the other hand, it may be that Garibaldi's programming hasn't
+       been fully activated, and his resignation is his own choice; he
+       may believe he can't be trusted until he can piece together what
+       happened to him, and doesn't want to be in a position where he can
+       compromise Babylon 5.
+     * In either case, Garibaldi's situation was foreshadowed in
+       [26]"Divided Loyalties," in which he pretended briefly to be
+       Control while Lyta was sending the password to the command staff.
+     * Was Delenn's remark to Sheridan, "We are old souls," a casual
+       observation, or does it have something to do with Minbari-human
+       soul migration? Might it relate to her observation in [27]"Soul
+       Mates" that Minbari believe that souls that have known one another
+       in one life meet again in later lives to relive good relationships
+       and to correct bad ones?
+     * Do the Vorlons have allies like the Shadows do? If so, are they
+       looting the Vorlon homeworld? The Vorlons have been known to keep
+       members of other races on their homeworld (e.g. Sebastian in
+       [28]"Comes the Inquisitor") and presumably those people were left
+       behind when the Vorlons departed the galaxy. What will become of
+       them?
+     * At least some Vorlon technology was left behind: the White Star
+       Fleet. That would seem to give Sheridan a huge military edge
+       against Earth, whose armed forces aren't even on par with the
+       Minbari, let alone the Vorlons. (Assuming, of course, that Clark
+       and the Psi Corps didn't manage to procure any Shadow technology.)
+     * Who is in charge on Centauri Prime? The minister told Londo that
+       the position of regent was mostly ceremonial. Londo is off on
+       Babylon 5, presumably not spending his time dealing with matters
+       of state. That would seem to leave a rather large power vacuum.
+     * Why did G'Kar return to Babylon 5? It's not a sanctuary for him
+       any more, now that the Centauri have left Narn. Perhaps he was
+       simply returning to collect his belongings, or perhaps he intends
+       to resume his role as ambassador from Narn.
+     * Sheridan's comment about further troubles at the beginning of the
+       episode, "But that's tomorrow," echoes Vir's admonition to Londo
+       to be happy about his victories ([29]"Into the Fire.")
+     * Zack and Garibaldi parallel each other to some extent. Garibaldi
+       was willing to go on instinct and hire Zack when he was warned
+       against it. Sinclair made the same leap of faith by hiring
+       Garibaldi ([30]"The Gathering.") Further, Zack's socializing with
+       Lyta parallels Garibaldi's interest in Talia Winters. Given the
+       way Garibaldi is acting now, do these parallels foreshadow any
+       unpleasant developments for Zack?
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Bester founded the Black Omega Squadron.
+     * The season-three theme music was played at the end of the end of
+       this episode during the original US broadcast, just like [31]"The
+       Long Night" and [32]"Into the Fire."
+     * A visual pun: Zack commented to his staff that he wanted to get
+       away before the next person came through the customs area, since
+       with his luck it'd be the Second Coming. The next people through
+       the door were three Kings -- Elvis impersonators, a little far
+       from Bethlehem.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * The rest of the season will actually continue to increase in
+       intensity, not decrease. "Epiphanies" for me is an episode where I
+       can feel the gears changing between war and post-war just a bit,
+       but overall it's not bad. And there's some *mean* stuff coming up
+       very soon.
+     * That's one more reason why I wanted to get the war out of the
+       way...because too many people were focusing in on the show as
+       being about the war. It ain't. It's about the changes that happen
+       before, during, and *after* a war. And what's coming up is in some
+       ways stronger because it's more personal.
+     * _About the dance music_
+       Chris [Franke] wrote the music for us, in Big Band style.
+     * _How was Garibaldi's message produced?
+       (Answered by coproducer George Johnsen)_
+       Believe it or not, that piece started as color bars. It was
+       twisted using Flint software from Discreet Logoc on an SGI Maximum
+       Impact using fractal morphing plug ins.
+       Feedback is a wonderful thing......
+       It is certainly concievable that Fractint would work to create a
+       similar effect.
+     * _Sheridan was very sharp with Bester._
+       Yeah...Sheridan's taking a different tone with a lot of people
+       these days. I guess being dead for a while does that to you....
+     * _Was Bester trying to scan everyone at the conference table?_
+       He tried to scan, but she kept blocking him.
+     * _The scene between Sheridan and Delenn on the White Star was
+       edited._
+       "Was this your intention - to get a response from those of us who
+       follow the Sheridan and Delenn story line closely? Some how, I
+       feel manipulated and very disappointed."
+       Yes, as I sat in the editing room, I thought, "Hmmm...if I do
+       this, it'll get the Sheridan and Delenn fans' knickers all in a
+       knot...."
+       Every scene goes through some editing...there is barely a scene we
+       film that doesn't get a line or two or three snipped. Sometimes
+       the edit is noticeable, sometimes it ain't. The only thing you can
+       decide is, "Does this move the story along or not?" I was chasing
+       about another 20 seconds (which was all we're talking about here),
+       and the back-and-forth didn't really add anything to what was
+       already in that scene. I treated it the same as I would treat any
+       other scene.
+     * Lyta doesn't officially work for Sheridan, but she has nowhere
+       else to go, and is beholden to him just for everyday survival and
+       protection against the Corps. That makes her answerable to him.
+     * _Why didn't Londo have guards while he was shopping?_
+       Because Londo wouldn't abide that for more than five minutes; it'd
+       cramp his style.
+     * The G'Kar/Londo dynamic isn't quite over yet...there's more to
+       come, and that relationship is going to continue having its ups
+       and downs.
+     * RE: the regent...well, if you want to do something really nasty,
+       you want to do it to somebody everybody kinda likes, so you feel
+       for the situation.
+       Ah likes doing that sorta thing...dropping anvils on characters to
+       see what pattern splat they make....
+     * _Disneyplanet?_
+       Give 'em time, and they'll try to buy a planet. It's inevitable.
+       With Earth now in the present, that'd make two.
+     * Speaking of visual puns, someone pointed out that in "Epiphanies,"
+       you've got Zack leaving customs, saying of whoever comes through
+       next, "it might be the Second Coming and I'm five sins behind on
+       penance," and who walks in...but the Three Kings....
+       
+
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+      [39]Last update: August 8, 1997
+
+References
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/073.shtml
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/073.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/073.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/072.html
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+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/073.html#OV
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/073.html#BP
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+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     ISN sends a team to do a second story about Babylon 5. [15]Jeff
+     Griggs as Dan Randall.
+     
+[16]P5 Rating: [17]7.56
+
+Production number: 408
+Original air week: February 17, 1997
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Stephen Furst
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * Clark has reinstated the Earth Senate in some form. It has begun
+       investigating alleged alien influence in the entertainment
+       industry and extracting confessions and lists of collaborators
+       from writers and directors.
+     * Sheridan's father was a diplomat. The family farm has been burned
+       to the ground, and his father's whereabouts are unknown.
+     * Earth, according to ISN, is slowly retaking Mars from the rebels
+       who took over when Clark's forces attacked ([18]"Severed Dreams.")
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Will the newscast prove convincing to people on Earth?
+     * Where is Sheridan's father? What about his mother?
+     * What names did Sheridan give his father?
+     * Is Garibaldi's salvage business as it appears, or is he using it
+       as a cover for other activities?
+     * How did Randall get into the cryogenic freezer area? If it's
+       really restricted as he says, someone must have let him in.
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Psi Corps presumably now knows the fate of the telepaths; two of
+       their names are plainly visible behind Randall (see [19]Notes.)
+       Will the Corps try to come after them? What about the allies of
+       the Shadows, who may have some interest in the telepaths'
+       implants? If Shadow ships were left behind (not unlikely,
+       considering there were lots of them buried underground) they'll
+       need pilots who've gone through the proper preparation
+       ([20]"Messages From Earth") and the telepaths are ready-made
+       candidates.
+     * Garibaldi seems to have turned against Sheridan completely, going
+       so far as to allude to him as "the devil." Is that a direct result
+       of his programming (or whatever was triggered by the message in
+       [21]"Epiphanies") or is there some other reason?
+     * ISN's new title sequence reflects the provincial, Earth-centric
+       views of the Clark government: after a flight through space, the
+       sequence ends up centered on Earth and the Moon.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The newscast was broadcast on April 12, 2261. Four historical
+       events were cited as taking place on the same date: Yuri Gagarin's
+       flight into space (April 12, 1961,) President Clinton's
+       establishment of a "Commission on the Future" in 1999, the start
+       of construction of the first lunar colony in the Sea of
+       Tranquility in 2018, and the founding of the Psi Corps in 2161.
+     * The confession of the director bore strong resemblance to the
+       confessions extracted by the House Un-American Activities
+       Commission in the US during the 1950s. In that case it was
+       Communists and homosexuals, not aliens, but the focus on
+       entertainers was the same, as was the practice of demanding lists
+       of collaborators. Those who refused to cooperated were
+       "blacklisted," and found themselves unable to get work in
+       Hollywood.
+       In fact, the names cited are based on actual people blacklisted in
+       the 1950s. Beth Trumbo is likely a reference to writer Dalton
+       Trumbo, Adrian Mostel to producer Adrian Scott and actor Zero
+       Mostel, and Carleton Jarrico to writer Paul Jarrico.
+       Paul Jarrico died in an automobile accident on October 28, 1997,
+       the day after receiving a standing ovation at a Hollywood ceremony
+       honoring the surviving blacklisted screenwriters.
+     * Two names are visible on the cryogenic freezers during Randall's
+       report. One, Carolyn Sanderson, is Bester's love ([22]"Ship of
+       Tears.") The other is John Flinn III, one of the show's directors.
+     * The psychological phenomenon of hostages sympathizing with their
+       captors is called the Stockholm syndrome, not the Helsinki
+       syndrome as stated in the episode.
+     * The newscast misspelled Yuri Gagarin's name; it was spelled
+       "Gargarin" on the screen.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * It's a good and creepy episode. I like it when things get creepy.
+     * Stephen has directed before, yes, though he hasn't done that much
+       episodic TV work.
+       The final shot was strictly described in the script; the monitor
+       POV, the relative positions of everyone, the slight fisheye look
+       and the absolute silence.
+     * _Was Garibaldi's flashback shot in advance?_
+       Somtimes, yeah, we'll gang together shots in one location that
+       will spill across several episodes, and definitely did that in
+       Garibaldi's case. I just figure out what's coming, and write those
+       specific additional scenes prior to the rest of the scripts.
+     * _Where did the Starfury model Sheridan was looking at in the war
+       room come from?_
+       Actually, I think the Starfury model was an illegal one we
+       confiscated.
+       Waste not, want not...
+     * _Was the psychologist reading from a teleprompter?_
+       Actually, no, he wasn't reading off a teleprompter at all. His
+       eyes may have been moving, but there was no reading involved.
+     * "In the Delenn/Sheridan interview, there is a change in the vocal
+       acoustics of the journalist for the "new" questions he asked."
+       And not just in the voice quality...look at the footage again.
+       He's sitting in a different chair, in a different room.
+     * _About the names cited in the confession_
+       Yes, they're based on the real names of writers who were
+       blacklisted, Dalton Trumbo and Paul Jarrico.
+     * Parks (the person who's naming names) was also named after one of
+       those who testified before HUAC.
+     * _Were the names dubbed in?_
+       Only Jarrico was dubbed, because it was mispronounced.
+     * It's a period too few people really know much about, and it never
+       hurts to point to the past in order to warn about the future.
+     * This ep is one that'll be discussed a lot, but not rewatched a
+       lot, because it's just really hard to watch, knowing what's
+       coming. It really does tend to upset people.
+     * If it's a little close to home...you have to remember I came out
+       of journalism, that was where I cut my teeth as a writer, working
+       for newspapers and magazines. You see a lot of the tricks, some
+       good, some not so good, used for purposes that are sometimes good
+       or not so good, distortions on the left and distortions on the
+       right. So it wasn't hard to just tweak it a bit.
+       Thing to remember, though, is that this isn't ISN as we've known
+       it in the past, at least not to this extreme. If anything, this ep
+       should point to the difference between journalism, albeit biased,
+       and propaganda, which is all ISN is now, and how only an informed
+       viewership can prevent the one from sliding into the other.
+     * _Aren't there networks besides ISN?_
+       ISN is the one network that can handle *interstellar* broadcasts,
+       which reqire a massive amount of energy, logistics, setup...there
+       are other, local, planetary networks around Earth, and a few
+       specialized channels for military and some commercial use...but
+       ISN is the biggest, and because of that is very much in Earthgov's
+       pocket.
+     * It was most definitely difficult and painful for me to write. I I
+       am as much involved with these characters as anyone else, and
+       doing this kind of thing to them is hard. And you have to put
+       yourself in the minds of those doing this, and that's a dark place
+       to be.
+       And yeah, I know people who were harmed in the blacklist, and I've
+       seen others, and myself, sometimes harmed by those who like to
+       twist things around to their own benefit.
+     * "FWIW, that was your most courageous episode yet, IMHO."
+       I appreciate the sentiment, so don't take this as lack of
+       gratitude on my part; I'm happy you perceive it that way.
+       But courageous? No.
+       Courageous as an apellation belongs to the South American writers
+       who insist on telling the truth about their governments, who risk
+       death on a daily basis for doing so...and to other writers doing
+       similar work in other countries.
+       Yeah, it was kind of a shot to the midsection for some groups,
+       with a certain element of biting the hand that feeds you, but the
+       truth is, ain't nobody gonna come to my door in the middle of the
+       night with death squads, take me away, and torture me. If you want
+       to hear about real courage, join PEN International, or Amnesty
+       International. They can always use the help.
+     * "This B5 episode should be required viewing in University media
+       and history classes."
+       Funny thing is, I've since received several requests from
+       instructors at various colleges asking if they could use the show
+       in their classroom to illustrate the points raised. Kinda nice....
+     * I don't make any blanket condemnations of journalists. For one
+       thing, there's a difference between portraying journalism in a
+       relatively free society, and one that's operating under a
+       dictatorship, a la President Clark. It's the difference between
+       journalism and propaganda.
+       In "Midnight on the Firing Line," we had a reporter there doing a
+       straight-ahead story; in "Point of No Return" we had the Good
+       Journalists fighting to reveal the truth even as Clark was
+       shutting them down.
+       There have been favorable portrayals; it's just that under the
+       current regime, they don't have access to the media.
+     * I am definitely *not* anti-reporter...I'm against the *control* of
+       truth by any government or political agenda. We are made stronger
+       by a multiplicity of voices, and the more those voices are allowed
+       access to a level playing field, the more often the truth will
+       come out to play.
+       The third name was Jarrico, after Paul Jarrico, also blacklisted.
+     * The ISN cameras are not capable of autonomous operation, but they
+       can be progammed within a parameter set. The wand is a control
+       device to change those parameters. Thus, one operator, two cameras
+       (or more!)
+       There was a distinct anti Minbar/Minbari sentiment among this
+       particular crew, as evidenced by the later parts of the show, and
+       it isn't hard to imagine that the bumping was at the behest of the
+       wand wielder. If Lennier was simply annoyed, advantage ISN. If he
+       reacted violently, advantage ISN. I'm sure that footage will be
+       used on another ISN propoganda broadcast. (You can see it on
+       Channel 134 of your cable)(Oh, sorry, Channel 134 is not availbale
+       in all sectors after curfew)
+       George Johnsen
+       CoProducer, B5
+       
+
+   [28][Next] 
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+      [29]Last update: October 29, 1997
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
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+Overview
+
+     Delenn is recalled to Minbar to resolve a problem concerning her
+     relationship with Sheridan, and must finally face up to her role in
+     the Earth-Minbari War. Sheridan sends Marcus and Franklin to Mars
+     on a secret mission. [15]Brian Carpenter as [16]Callenn. [17]Reiner
+     Schone as Dukhat.
+     
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]8.55
+
+Production number: 409
+Original air week: February 24, 1997
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Tony Dow
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * After the last Shadow War, Valen, who was still genetically
+       partially human ([20]"War Without End, Part Two,") had children.
+       The children, fearing persecution because they weren't pure
+       Minbari, fled Minbar until after Valen's death. They returned and
+       had children of their own, spreading human genes through the
+       Minbari population to the present day.
+     * Valen's body was never found after his death.
+     * Delenn is a descendant of Valen, and as such had some human DNA
+       even before her transformation in [21]"Chrysalis."
+     * The Grey Council elected not to make contact with humans, who they
+       heard about through the Centauri. When the Grey Council's cruiser
+       came upon the human convoy some time later ([22]"A Late Delivery
+       from Avalon") only Delenn, who had researched humans in the
+       meantime, knew which race they belonged to. Dukhat realized that
+       the Minbari practice of approaching with gun ports open could be
+       dangerous, but before his order to close them could be carried
+       out, the Earth ships attacked.
+     * Enraged over the death of Dukhat, Delenn gave the order that
+       started the Earth-Minbari War. She was later unable to stop it
+       from proceeding.
+     * The Triluminaries used by the Grey Council were made specifically
+       for Sinclair. They activate in the presence of Sinclair/Valen's
+       DNA. They were made on Epsilon 3 and brought back in time by
+       Sinclair ([23]"War Without End, Part Two.")
+     * Franklin has given G'Kar a prosthetic eye, which can see and
+       transmit images to G'Kar's brain even when it's not in its socket.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Why was Valen's body never found? Is he perhaps still alive or in
+       suspended animation?
+     * In [24]"Babylon Squared," Delenn was given a triluminary and told
+       there were still two left. Why was Sinclair given three of them,
+       when only one was required to operate the chrysalis machine?
+       ([25]"Chrysalis," [26]"War Without End, Part Two")
+     * Did Delenn maintain the secret of Valen's human DNA, allowing
+       Callenn to cover up for her as he suggested?
+     * Exactly what is the dreaming? Does it have a will of its own, or
+       does it simply stimulate the dreamer's subconscious?
+     * How far can G'Kar's eye transmit? Is it useful for spying
+       purposes?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Callenn said the number of Minbari with traces of human DNA were
+       beyond measure. A rough estimate can be made, however. If Minbari
+       couples have, on average, two children, and have children at age
+       fifty (since Minbari have longer lifespans than humans, a longer
+       delay between generations is plausible) then in a thousand years,
+       there would be twenty generations of Valen's descendants, the most
+       recent numbering about 1,000,000. That estimate assumes no
+       interbreeding among his descendants, and a variation in the number
+       of children of the first few generations could greatly alter the
+       number. Still, it's a useful discussion point.
+       1,000,000 probably works out to a tiny fraction of the Minbari
+       population, which, it's not unreasonable to assume, is many
+       billions of people spread across various worlds despite Lennier's
+       claim ([27]"Points of Departure") that Minbari population has been
+       on the decline for some time.
+       On the other hand, if Valen's descendants were markedly more
+       prolific than average Minbari, e.g. with a 30-year generation time
+       rather than a 50-year one (and both numbers are pure conjecture!)
+       there'd have been 33 generations, with 8,600,000,000 in the most
+       recent, in which case the term "countless" would easily apply.
+       Obviously interbreeding, very probable in a population that size,
+       would reduce the number markedly.
+       Either way, a substantial percentage of the Minbari population
+       most likely still has pure Minbari genes. This is supported by
+       Dukhat's reaction to the triluminary glowing when Delenn touched
+       it; if Valen's progeny were in fact a large percentage of the
+       population, presumably previous Grey Council members would have
+       triggered the triluminary.
+     * Callenn's horror at the prospect of human DNA mingling with
+       Minbari genes parallels the newscast in [28]"The Illusion of
+       Truth," which attempted to suggest that Delenn and Sheridan wanted
+       to introduce Minbari genes into humans. In fact, just the opposite
+       has occurred.
+     * David, Delenn and Sheridan's son ([29]"War Without End, Part Two")
+       will be a direct descendant of all three of The One.
+     * Dukhat's conversation with Delenn is echoed years later when
+       Lennier arrives on Babylon 5 ([30]"The Parliament of Dreams") and
+       she tells him the same thing Dukhat told her: "I cannot have an
+       aide who will not look up. You will be forever walking into
+       things."
+       In [31]"Rumors, Bargains, and Lies," Delenn said she'd been
+       training Lennier as Dukhat trained her. Delenn eventually
+       succeeded Dukhat as leader of the Minbari, both in this episode
+       and in [32]"Babylon Squared," though she turned the position down
+       in both cases. Will the parallel between Lennier and Delenn in her
+       youth continue into the future? Is Lennier destined to a prominent
+       place in Minbari society?
+     * Dukhat said he could override the Council's decision to avoid
+       contacting the humans. What is the relationship between the
+       Council and the leader? Do they simply serve as an advisory body,
+       with the final decisions ultimately made by the leader?
+     * Lennier's pledge to Delenn, to be by her side through fire, storm,
+       darkness, and death, echoes the pledge of the Nine to the One in
+       the Minbari ceremony in [33]"The Parliament of Dreams."
+     * Delenn feels responsible for the Earth-Minbari War. Her father
+       committed suicide, heartbroken over the war ([34]"Grey 17 Is
+       Missing.") Does Delenn thus feel personally responsible for her
+       father's death?
+     * Why did Dukhat suspect Delenn was descended from Valen? With so
+       many descendants, he couldn't have followed Valen's entire
+       bloodline, even assuming it was all documented. Perhaps he simply
+       researched the heritage of all the acolytes working with the Grey
+       Council.
+     * Delenn's childhood vision ([35]"Confessions and Lamentations,") in
+       which a figure appeared to her in a temple and said he wouldn't
+       allow "any of my little ones" to come to harm there, takes on new
+       significance now. If the figure was some kind of manifestation of
+       Valen, "little ones" might have referred to his descendants, and
+       the vision might have been Delenn's first clue that she was
+       somehow related to him. If so, the vision was probably a powerful
+       motivating force for her, perhaps even the source of her belief in
+       her own destiny.
+       If Delenn told Dukhat about the vision, or he found out about it
+       some other way, that might explain his suspicion that she was a
+       descendant of Valen.
+     * Did Dukhat know Valen was part human? Callenn was aware of it; was
+       it common knowledge among the Grey Council after Sinclair was
+       interrogated and the triluminary indicated his relation to Valen?
+       ([36]"And the Sky Full of Stars")
+     * Do Valen's descendants have distinguishing features? Perhaps the
+       presence of human DNA explains why a small number of Minbari men
+       have facial hair, e.g. Dukhat, Draal ([37]"A Voice in the
+       Wilderness") and Kalain ([38]"Points of Departure.")
+     * In [39]"Soul Hunter," the soul hunter recalls that the Minbari
+       made a wall of bodies to stop Dukhat's soul from being taken.
+       Although soul hunters appeared as the battle began, no attempt to
+       stop them was shown, and Delenn was seeminly unaware of them as
+       Dukhat lay dying in her arms. Perhaps the soul hunter was speaking
+       metaphorically; there were so many Minbari dead that their ability
+       to sense death didn't lead them to Dukhat in particular. However,
+       since the soul hunter recognized Delenn years later, he must have
+       arrived at Dukhat at some point, perhaps after she ordered the
+       attack on the humans.
+     * Zack's discomfort with his new uniform mirrors his discomfort with
+       the Earthforce uniform in [40]"Voices of Authority."
+     * G'Kar is wearing rags around his eye in the flashforward in
+       [41]"War Without End, Part Two." Where was his eye? Destroyed or
+       discarded, or simply recharging or sending him images from
+       somewhere else?
+     * Ivanova is likely still the leader of half the Drazi on Babylon 5.
+       She wore the green leader's sash to the party. Presumably the fact
+       that all the formerly green Drazi are now wearing purple ([42]"The
+       Geometry of Shadows") didn't cause any problems.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * One of the heavy cruisers in the Prometheus convoy is the Hyperion
+       ([43]"A Voice in the Wilderness, Part Two.") The name can be seen
+       briefly on the side of the ship in one scene. According to
+       coproducer George Johnsen, that was intentional, not just an
+       accidental reuse of a computer model, implying the Hyperion
+       escaped from the Minbari counterattack on the Earth base.
+     * A slight inaccuracy: The ship carrying Franklin and Marcus is
+       shown to have zero gravity. But the exterior shot shows its
+       engines firing. The resulting acceleration (in the vacuum of
+       space, any thrust will result in acceleration) would have pushed
+       all the objects in the cargo hold toward one of the walls. Of
+       course, it's possible the engines were glowing but not actually in
+       use; perhaps they were in some sort of standby mode.
+     * Continuity glitch: During the conference scene with Sheridan,
+       Franklin, and Marcus, Franklin is reading over his documents with
+       the folder flat on Sheridan's desk. When the view shifts to show
+       all three characters, Franklin is holding the folder.
+     * The tune sung by Marcus is [44]"I Am the Very Model of a Modern
+       Major General," from [45]"The Pirates of Penzance" by Gilbert and
+       Sullivan. Marcus misquotes the song slightly: he says, "quote the
+       facts historical," when the original lyrics are, "quote the fights
+       historical."
+     * Delenn's family name, Mir, may be a reference to Mira Furlan's
+       first name.
+     * Sheridan's line about his true face being mashed up against a
+       pillow and drooling was based on a
+       rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated message commenting on
+       [46]"Shadow Dancing," where the Minbari ritual was first
+       introduced.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * _Did Dukhat come out the way you imagined him?_
+       Yeah, that's pretty close to how I saw him in my head. Definitely
+       a bigger than life fellow.
+     * When I introduce a new character, I just kinda see a sense of the
+       character in my head, an outline...if you take off your glasses,
+       and you're nearsighted, that will give you some sense of it. When
+       an actor comes in and hits it, the character goes into sharp
+       focus.
+     * _Will Delenn appear in flashbacks with her pre-chrysalis
+       appearance?_
+       Yes, Mira got into the original year-one makeup. It's funny...when
+       I walked out onto the set, and saw her in that prosthetic, the
+       first words that came out of my mouth were, "It's *you*! I haven't
+       seen you in almost three years, how've you been?"
+       I don't think Mira quite knew what to make of me.
+     * Actually, though the tougher Delenn is in flashbacks in 2 weeks
+       [referring to this episode], the foreground/contemporary story has
+       her very tough, and very smart. Basically, the next mini-arc
+       sequence focuses a LOT on Delenn...she has many facets, and while
+       part of that is the relationship, there's steel there as well, and
+       we're going to explore that. As she at one point comments to
+       Sheridan, "I appreciate that you have come to care for what I have
+       become... but never forget who I am, or what I can do."
+       After this arc of hers, nobody's ever going to make that mistake.
+     * _How could Dukhat override the Grey Council, if he was simply a
+       member?_
+       There's the One, and the Nine...when Dukhat was alive, there were
+       9 grey council members and him as the head of it, making ten.
+       (Look at the picture and count the number of people.) 1 and 9.
+       Valen called together the Grey Council, formed the first one;
+       until then the castes had been in constant competition. He wanted
+       to operate outside of that a bit, so he made sure he was not one
+       of the Nine. That tradition has continued.
+     * _But when he introduced Delenn, there was an empty spotlight._
+       No, if you keep watching Dukhat comes in, followed by Delenn,
+       through the opening (the empty spot) and then another Minbari
+       comes in to fill that spot.
+       (Sudden thought...I have to check to see if we *used* that shot or
+       if it was just in dailies...but if you count the Minbari there at
+       the end of the scene, you'll find the count is correct.)
+     * Calenn was not Delenn's brother; the grey councilor speaks of
+       brothers in the generic sense.
+       Draal, in his first appearance, also had a small beard.
+     * Other Minbari have had facial hair; including Draal v1.0 and
+       Kalain in "Points of Departure." It's certainly not common,
+       though.
+     * _Who were the other ships at the battle?_
+       Those were Soul Hunters, who in the first season we learned showed
+       up to attempt to grab Dukhat's soul...they were prevented from
+       successfully boarding the ship by the Minbari, who threw up a wall
+       of bodies to stop them (which is why there were few around with
+       Delenn and Dukhat; Soul Hunters are a pretty advanced sort, the
+       terror of Minbari, and it took a lot to stop them). After Dukhat
+       died, Delenn went down and joined in, confronting them about this.
+     * Others in the Council died, as was noted when the one says, "Our
+       brothers?" "Dead," Delenn says. So there were others.
+     * _Won't Sheridan be upset when he finds out Delenn ordered the war?_
+       "Listen, honey, while you were out I went to the store and I
+       bought some new candles, you know how we're always running out,
+       and Lennier took the cat in to be cleaned, and oh, did I mention I
+       was directly responsible for the deaths of two hundred and fifty
+       thousand of your best friends and fellow officers? Pass the
+       sugar."
+       She'll never tell him.
+       Because it's over...what would be the point, except to ruin what
+       they have now.
+     * The reality is...in war, one does what one does. Afterward, as we
+       heal, we try to forget what we did, and what they did. He killed
+       as many Minbari as he could; she was on the Grey Council that
+       directed the war. One doesn't go into it.
+     * _Why didn't Sinclair leave Dukhat a message warning him about
+       meeting the humans?_
+       He could have left Dukhat a message...but tampering in the future
+       is VERY chancy business, and could even make things worse, for all
+       we know.
+     * _Did the triluminary sense Sinclair?_
+       Yeah, we showed it glowing when Sinclair was catpured. Since it
+       happened with Valen, they assumed it was because he had a Minbari
+       soul, maybe Valen reborn.
+     * Dukhat was not descended from Valen; yes, the Grey Council now
+       knows who Sinclair was; and general knowledge of what happened
+       would certainly have an upsetting effect on Minbari society, so
+       they will continue to keep it indefinitely back-roomed....
+     * Some Minbari on the Grey Council think that Sinclair opened up the
+       "soul door," for lack of a better term, and Delenn's actions can
+       be seen as a kind of back-fire, closing the door again. Ain't
+       necessarily what's true, but what they believe.
+       And yes, they would've had Delenn remain childless, but would be
+       allowed to marry a Minbari. And, again, it's a matter of marrying
+       a non-Minbari with or WITHOUT kids...it's a very inflammatory sort
+       of thing from a cultural perspective.
+     * _Did Delenn's human DNA allow her to undergo the transformation?
+       Will this be important in the future?_
+       Yeah, the human DNA definitely helped...and overall, this isn't so
+       much the arc as the overall story and history. It's filling out
+       the world.
+     * _Is it a coincidence that Delenn's family name is Russian for
+       "peace?"_
+       Yeah, there's that, and it nicely intersects with the fact that
+       Delenn is portrayed by MIRa Furlan. It's kind of a bank shot.
+     * Mir is her family; you are generally born into a caste unless you
+       at some point decide that the calling of your heart is elsewhere,
+       at which point you enter training for that other caste (with the
+       permission of your caste leaders) until such time as it's
+       finalized that that's what you want, at which time you're assigned
+       to a clan within that caste. If you choose to stay in the caste
+       you're born into, you automatically are in your familiy's clan.
+     * Lennier is religious caste; and all members of a given clan belong
+       to one caste.
+       There are, for instance, no religious caste members of the Star
+       Riders (military caste) clan.
+       _This seems to be contradicted by [47]"There All the Honor Lies,"
+       in which Levell, a warrior, was a member of Lennier's clan._
+     * _How does the dreaming know whose memories to probe? Is it whoever
+       drinks the drug first?_
+       I think the order or dominance of the drug is probably determined
+       by the contents of the script....
+     * "My question is, since we can see that the ship's engine is
+       running, why aren't all of the objects in the hold laying against
+       the bulkhead as a result of the ship's movement? Aside from that,
+       it was a pretty neat effects shot."
+       Because it's accurate; it's the same reason you don't see
+       everything slammed up against the back wall of the shuttle even
+       though it's circling the earth at thousands of miles per hour.
+       _Ed. note: This is wrong; that effect does occur on the shuttle
+       when its maneuvering thrusters fire, which is why shuttle crews
+       lock everything down during maneuvers. See [48]Notes._
+     * The ship with Marcus and Franklin *wasn't* spinning... hence, no
+       gravity.
+     * _Coproducer George Johnsen_
+       Re: your comment that the Hyperion was more likely a re-used
+       computer model. All of the models used in the show are stored
+       "nameless" with a link to the naming/numbering file that has to be
+       activated to add the name to the ship to avoid this kind of
+       problem. (Instigated when it happened on an earlier episode). The
+       ship in the picture is the Hyperion 'cuz Joe wanted it that way.
+     * There was the Prometheus, which was there; and others, including
+       the Amundsen. The one you saw, which looks a bit like the Aggy but
+       without the rotating section, is another, smaller class of
+       destroyer also seen, I believe, in [Severed] "Dreams."
+     * _How did the Earth ships hit the Minbari ships, if human targeting
+       systems can't lock on? Why weren't Franklin and Marcus floating?_
+       They targeted visually, it was close enough to do so.
+       A hit with full guns of a major destroyer and accompanying ships
+       will kill damn near any single ship that does not have some kind
+       of defensive screen going (fighers or counter-lasers or missiles
+       or the like).
+       The fightes were launched in main while on approach.
+       Franklin and Marcus *were* strapped in, which if you look more
+       closely you can see.
+     * _In your comments on [49]"War Without End, Part Two," you said
+       Valen had no children. Is your message right, or is the episode?_
+       What airs is considered canon; in 15 years, nobody's gonna be
+       hauling these messages around. But the show will still be on the
+       air. If it airs, it's canon.
+       And in another one of those posts, I did mention that on just a
+       couple of small occasions, I have fibbed when asked major story
+       arc questions to protect future storylines from being deflated....
+     * If you check the archives, when people said, "But what about the
+       relationship between Sinclair and Delenn we see?" (and this is
+       back a long time ago), I said that there is a relationship there,
+       yes, but it isn't what you think it is. Now we see what it was.
+     * _Minbari society doesn't seem to have been affected much by the
+       loss of the Grey Council._
+       The problems caused by the breakup of the Grey Council will form a
+       major part of the story arc about mid-season.
+     * _Was the song Jason Carter's idea?_
+       The song was in the script; Jason then had to learn it.
+     * _What was involved in using the song in the end credits?_
+       Nothing, really...we just grabbed one of the audio bits from the
+       day's filming and dropped it in.
+       
+
+   [55][Next] 
+   
+      [56]Last update: October 18, 1997
+
+References
+
+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/075.shtml
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/075.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/075.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/074.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/076.html
+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/075.html#OV
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/075.html#BP
+  11. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/075.html#UQ
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/075.html#AN
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/075.html#NO
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/075.html#JS
+  15. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Carpenter,+Brian
+  16. file://localhost/b5/Pictures/Characters/callenn.jpg
+  17. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Schone,+Reiner
+  18. file://localhost/lurk/p5/intro.html
+  19. file://localhost/lurk/p5/075
+  20. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/061.html
+  21. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/022.html
+  22. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/057.html
+  23. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/061.html
+  24. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/020.html
+  25. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/022.html
+  26. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/061.html
+  27. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/023.html
+  28. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/074.html
+  29. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/061.html
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+  45. http://math.idbsu.edu/gas/pirates/html/pirates_home.html
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+  47. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/036.html
+  48. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/075.html#NO.0g
+  49. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/061.html
+  50. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  51. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/075.html#TOP
+  52. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  53. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
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+                            [1][ISMAP]-[2][Home]
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+    ### GUIDE ### [3][Background] [4][Synopsis] [5][Credits] [6][Episode
+                       List] [7][Previous] [8][Next] 
+                                      
+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Franklin and Marcus arrive on Mars to begin their undercover
+     mission. Sheridan confronts Garibaldi about his behavior. [15]Mark
+     Schneider as Wade. [16]Donovan Scott as Captain Jack. [17]Clayton
+     Landley as Number Two. [18]Marjorie Monaghan as Number One.
+     
+[19]P5 Rating: [20]7.73
+
+Production number: 410
+Original air week: April 21, 1997
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jesus Trevino
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * Mars has been subjected to a news blackout and an embargo for at
+       least as long as Babylon 5 has, likely as far back as their
+       refusal to submit to martial law in [21]"Severed Dreams." People
+       on Mars have heard little more than vague rumors about the Shadow
+       War. They also appear to know nothing about the Rangers.
+     * Someone has begun planting Keepers ([22]"War Without End, Part
+       Two") on members of the Earth resistance movement with the
+       apparent intent of wiping it out.
+     * A Keeper can be partially removed, but portions remain embedded in
+       the victim, and the rest of the organism grows back, sometimes
+       within hours.
+     * Garibaldi has pledged to support a group that claims to feel the
+       Army of Light has become a cult of personality centered on
+       Sheridan, and that this will ultimately damage the cause.
+       Garibaldi feels the same way, he says, and that's why he said what
+       he did during the ISN interview.
+     * Ivanova has begun setting up amnesty deals with smugglers to keep
+       the station supplied with food and spare parts.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Who planted the Keeper on Captain Jack?
+     * How did they know about his involvement with the resistance?
+     * Who are the people Garibaldi promised to help?
+     * What was the large ship being escorted toward Mars by a group of
+       Starfuries?
+     * "Woo hoo?"
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * The head of the group that recruited Garibaldi may have betrayed
+       his true intentions with a slip of the tongue. When he first spoke
+       to Garibaldi, he said Sheridan's actions weren't good for Earth,
+       weren't good for business, and weren't good for the President --
+       not something likely to come from the mouth of someone opposed to
+       Clark.
+     * The second time Garibaldi met with the mysterious group, the
+       leader made a point of saying, "Are you with us?" several times.
+       Could that be some kind of key phrase related to whatever was done
+       to Garibaldi while he was captured ([23]"Whatever Happened to Mr.
+       Garibaldi?")
+     * That phrase, or one like it, was used by someone else: Sheridan,
+       who shouted, "Are you with me?" to the assembled crowd in [24]"The
+       Summoning."
+     * If "Are you with us?" was indeed a key phrase, Sheridan
+       inadvertently foreshadowed it earlier in the episode, when he told
+       Delenn that he could make Garibaldi come around "if I could just
+       find the right words."
+     * Since Garibaldi knows the group is planning to move against
+       Sheridan at some point (they told him as much,) perhaps his
+       acceptance of their offer is, instead of a rejection of Sheridan,
+       actually part of a plan to root out possible threats to Babylon
+       5's security. If so, a natural question is, does Sheridan know
+       about that plan, or is it Garibaldi's doing? Was the confrontation
+       between Sheridan and Garibaldi just a premeditated ploy to help
+       Garibaldi gain the trust of the new group? Sheridan's conversation
+       with Delenn after the first confrontation argues against that
+       idea, but it's still plausible.
+     * It's also possible the Brakiri woman was a setup, sent by the
+       group to fawn over Sheridan at just the right time and push
+       Garibaldi over the edge.
+     * Garibaldi's rejection of Sheridan parallels Judas' rejection of
+       Jesus. Both were part of their leader's inner circle. Sheridan's
+       warning to Garibaldi to stop undermining him can be read as
+       analogous to Jesus' warning to Judas at the Last Supper
+       ([25]Matthew 26:24: "woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is
+       betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.")
+       [26]John 13:2 says the Devil caused Judas to betray Jesus;
+       Garibaldi has also been influenced in some way, in his case by Psi
+       Corps ([27]"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?")
+       Many scholarly analyses ascribe motives similar to Garibaldi's to
+       Judas. Tim Rice's lyrics for Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Jesus Christ
+       Superstar," while perhaps not scholarly, put it succinctly:
+       
+     My mind is clearer now.
+     At last all too well I can see where we all soon will be.
+     If you strip away the myth from the man,
+     You will see where we all soon will be.
+     Jesus!
+     You've started to believe
+     The things they say of you.
+     You really do believe
+     This talk of God is true.
+     And all the good you've done
+     Will soon get swept away.
+     You've begun to matter more than the things you say.
+     * When Marcus discovered Jack aboard the transport ship, he had his
+       arm around Jack's neck. Why didn't he feel the Keeper? Does it
+       have some way of hiding itself, or was it simply that Jack was
+       wearing heavy clothing to cover his lower neck, and Marcus
+       couldn't feel anything through the fabric?
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Marcus' comment about hating parasites is probably a reference to
+       [28]"Exogenesis," in which his friend Duncan was taken over by an
+       alien parasite.
+     * Minbari have 52 rituals related to relationships. Sheridan and
+       Delenn have now completed the first three. One is the female
+       watching the male for three nights, and the third (according to
+       Delenn, who called it the Third Movement of Love and Mutual
+       Understanding) is the mutual exploration of pleasure centers.
+     * Garibaldi's hair loss is due to something a smuggler brought
+       aboard the station.
+     * The Pope is a woman in 2261, according to Garibaldi. During his
+       second confrontation with Sheridan, he said, "He's not the Pope.
+       He doesn't look anything like her."
+     * The subcommander and head of the resistance cell called themselves
+       "Number Two" and "Number One," a nod to the cult classic "The
+       Prisoner." Another reference to "Number One" can be found in
+       [29]"Signs and Portents."
+     * The name "Captain Jack" is a nod to the Billy Joel song of the
+       same name.
+     * A slight glitch: When Captain Jack ripped open the insta-heat
+       pack, Franklin said, "That's beef and potatoes." But his lips
+       don't match those words; apparently the original line was
+       something different.
+     * Marcus and Franklin were playing "I Spy" when they discovered a
+       spy.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * _Is B5 about the Shadow War?_
+       Not just that, but events back on Earth, Mars and elsewhere that
+       are either not touched by the shadow war, or barely touched by it.
+       (In one upcoming episode, where a couple of our characters have
+       gone to Mars, they find that very few on Mars know anything even
+       *happened*.)
+     * Not everyone back home even knows there *was* a war. Which our
+       characters will find rather annoying....
+     * _About the Pope_
+       Yeah, you heard the "her" line. Got a fair amount of flack for
+       that one, btw.
+       And it's Woo Hoo.
+       If Yahoo wants a reference they should call me....
+     * From some extremist Catholics...and also got some flack from Born
+       Again Rightists over my comments in TV Guide about being an
+       atheist.
+     * I don't think Earthforce cares about sexual orientation; the
+       reason we just set it out there without comment is that, having
+       come through the realization of other non-human races...a little
+       thing like sexual orientation, nobody even cares about anymore. It
+       ain't an issue.
+     * _Why didn't Ivanova ask Lyta to oversee her negotiations with the
+       smugglers?_
+       Because telepaths only function in very limited ways due to
+       privacy laws. You couldn't just use them broad-based as lie
+       detectors in the way you suggest, because it first requires
+       getting the *permission* of those involved, and you can be
+       reasonably sure that smugglers aren't going to want people poking
+       around in their heads; second, there was a large group there, and
+       a midrange teep can usually handle only one or at most two people
+       with any degree of accuracy; it goes down dramatically after that.
+       I specifically set up rules for telepaths to avoid letting them
+       become the deus ex machina, the easy solution to any problem.
+       
+
+   [35][Next] 
+   
+      [36]Last update: August 8, 1997
+
+References
+
+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/076.shtml
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/076.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/076.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/075.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/077.html
+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/076.html#OV
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/076.html#BP
+  11. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/076.html#UQ
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/076.html#AN
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/076.html#NO
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/076.html#JS
+  15. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Schneider,+Mark
+  16. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Scott,+Donovan
+  17. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Landley,+Clayton
+  18. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Monaghan,+Marjorie
+  19. file://localhost/lurk/p5/intro.html
+  20. file://localhost/lurk/p5/076
+  21. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/054.html
+  22. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/061.html
+  23. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/068.html
+  24. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/069.html
+  25. http://www.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible?language=English&version=KJV&passage=Matthew+26:24
+  26. http://www.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible?language=English&version=KJV&passage=John+13:2
+  27. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/068.html
+  28. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/051.html
+  29. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/013.html
+  30. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  31. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/076.html#TOP
+  32. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  33. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  34. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/075.html
+  35. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/077.html
+  36. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+
+                            [1][ISMAP]-[2][Home]
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+    ### GUIDE ### [3][Background] [4][Synopsis] [5][Credits] [6][Episode
+                       List] [7][Previous] [8][Next] 
+                                      
+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Franklin and Marcus try to convince the leaders of the resistance
+     to go along with Sheridan's plan to unseat Clark. Delenn
+     investigates a series of attacks on Minbari allies. Minbar begins
+     to slide toward civil war. [15]Marjorie Monaghan as Number One.
+     [16]Paolo Seganti as Phillipe. [17]G.W. Stevens as Forell.
+     
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]8.30
+
+Production number: 411
+Original air week: April 28, 1997
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John Flinn III
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * At least one race, the Drakh, made its home on Z'ha'dum during the
+       Shadows' tenure there. They evacuated before Z'ha'dum's
+       destruction and are in search of a new home and revenge against
+       the people who defeated their masters.
+     * Marcus and Franklin have convinced the resistance movement on
+       Earth and Mars to follow Sheridan's lead, and to refrain from
+       future terrorist attacks aimed at destabilizing Earth's
+       government.
+     * Ivanova is preparing for an additional job, as head of the "Voice
+       of the Resistance," an attempt to counter ISN by broadcasting
+       opposition views, as well as messages intended for the resistance
+       fighters themselves, to Mars and Earth.
+     * ISN, meanwhile, seems to be preparing Earth's citizenry for an
+       eventual assault on Babylon 5, building up public support for such
+       a move in advance.
+     * Sheridan was involved in the suppression of the food riots on Mars
+       after the Earth-Minbari War, for which he's resented by some Mars
+       residents.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Are the Drakh the only survivors of Z'ha'dum? How many of them
+       remain?
+     * Are the Drakh the ones responsible for planting Keepers on the
+       Centauri Regent ([20]"Epiphanies") and Captain Jack ([21]"Racing
+       Mars")?
+     * Why did the Drakh emissary appear to shimmer? Do the Drakh have
+       access to the Shadows' invisibility technology?
+     * What does the warrior caste hope to gain by forcing the other
+       castes out of cities?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Franklin has bought into Sheridan's cult of personality, though
+       it's not entirely clear why. His reaction to the skeptical
+       resistance leader is exactly the kind of thing Garibaldi
+       complained about in [22]"Racing Mars," and may be
+       counterproductive in that it makes Garibaldi's allegations all the
+       more credible.
+     * Phillipe bombed the Red Planet Hotel, which was where Franklin and
+       Marcus were staying. Was the appearance of the Earth security
+       forces there a coincidence, or were they after Franklin and
+       Marcus?
+     * Why does Sheridan think he has the power to promise Mars
+       independence after Clark is out of office? Does Sheridan plan to
+       assume the presidency himself? Or was that simply more
+       improvisation on Franklin's part? Presumably not; it's unlikely
+       Sheridan gave him the authority to make that kind of promise
+       without consultation.
+     * How will Sheridan break through Earth's jamming of outside
+       broadcasts? Franklin was able to get a message back to Babylon 5,
+       but presumably it's a thornier problem to try to broadcast
+       programming to all of Earth. Perhaps he'll enlist the help of
+       Draal; Epsilon 3 likely has the power to cut through whatever
+       interference Earth can muster. Delenn is unlikely to be able to
+       provide any Minbari assistance, considering what's going on on
+       Minbar, though the White Star fleet might be useful mobile
+       transmitters.
+     * If Number One indeed treats all her former lovers like she treated
+       Phillipe, Franklin may be in for a rough ride.
+     * In the first scene with Franklin, Number One rubbed her neck,
+       similar to Captain Jack before his Keeper was discovered
+       ([23]"Racing Mars.") Any significance, or just a stiff neck?
+     * The Drakh ships, especially the transport, looked more Vorlon in
+       design than Shadow. Have they looted the Vorlon homeworld as well,
+       or is it just a coincidence?
+     * The Drakh aren't the only race who worked for the Shadows, though
+       of course they might have been the only ones to escape with
+       technology from Z'ha'dum. Neither the surgeons and pilot in
+       [24]"Ship of Tears" nor the creature in [25]"The Long Dark" were
+       Drakh in appearance, though the latter arguably bore a resemblance
+       when it was shown briefly reflected in Mariah's tube.
+     * It's also possible the Drakh weren't allies of the Shadows at all;
+       the Vorlons may have similarly had minor races acting as aides,
+       and those aides would likely be just as upset as the Shadows'
+       about Sheridan and Delenn driving their masters away. Of course,
+       the statement that the Drakh had just lost their home would seem
+       to indicate that Delenn's supposition about their association with
+       the Shadows was correct; the Vorlon homeworld is probably still
+       intact.
+     * The Drakh may have some kind of group mind. At the very least,
+       they have a different notion of personal identity than most other
+       races. They appear to regard the name "Drakh" as both a collective
+       name and a personal one, and their emissary interrupted Forell
+       before he could utter Delenn's name, dismissing it as
+       "unimportant." On the other hand, they're familiar enough with the
+       notion of individual names to recognize Delenn's once it was
+       spoken.
+     * Delenn's reaction to the destruction of White Star 16, while
+       arguably justified, bore similarity to her reaction to the death
+       of Dukhat: ordering a relentless attack on those responsible. Of
+       course, this time she was in control of the situation and wasn't
+       enraged, but it's interesting in light of her earlier comment that
+       she wouldn't repeat the mistakes made during first contact with
+       humanity.
+     * Delenn commented to Sheridan that she felt humans could have been
+       Minbar's most dangerous enemy due to their ability to form
+       communities of diverse elements. This echoes her comment in
+       [26]"And Now For a Word," in which she said that the forming of
+       communities was one of humanity's greatest strengths.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Marcus said he was from Arisia Colony. That's a reference to the
+       Lensman series by E. E. "Doc" Smith.
+     * Sheridan referred to the Drakh as "wild cards." And in fact,
+       "Drakh" is "card" pronounced backwards.
+     * One of the Minbari seen reacting in fear from the Drakh emissary
+       is Dennis Michael, a CNN entertainment reporter and a big fan of
+       the series. He was also a Narn in [27]"Comes the Inquisitor."
+     * As the Drakh emissary entered the White Star's bridge, the lights
+       on the wall dimmed.
+     * The real reason the Drakh shimmered, according to special effects
+       technician Ken Busick, was that the costume didn't look convincing
+       enough. So to give the Drakh an otherworldly appearance, the scene
+       was digitally manipulated in postproduction.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * _Why did Franklin send a video message?_
+       So they could see him and know by seeing him that he arrived
+       safely; a text message could be sent by *anyone* who could've
+       intercepted them.
+     * The issue of waste of bandwidth is not as big a deal to an
+       advanced technology (from today's standards); also, any really
+       good telepath could rip out those codes and keys in about 10
+       seconds. Further, they would've had a password to use (as in "the
+       board," which he used) to verify that he was all right and not
+       being forced to make the call.
+     * In that scenario, there is no such thing as ANY kind of secure
+       communication, which puts us pretty much back where we started.
+     * _About the Drakh ships_
+       I indicated a flower-like design. With the lethalness behind them,
+       it seemed like a nice contrast.
+     * _White Star 16 wasn't too tough._
+       Of course, you have no way of knowing how many previous hits it
+       took during the fight, and are assuming it only got two.
+     * _Why did Delenn run?_
+       As she states in the episode, they were at that time *surrounded*
+       and if they turned to fire, would get destroyed. Firepower doesn't
+       solve every problem; one good hand-held Lancet missile can put
+       down a full-sized cruiser if it hits right. They were in the
+       MIDDLE of the Drakh, just as they said, and that's NOT a
+       defensible position. They had to get away, outside that group, so
+       they could mount an offensive. This they did.
+       
+
+   [33][Next] 
+   
+      [34]Last update: June 21, 1997
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+References
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/077.shtml
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/077.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/077.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/076.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/078.html
+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/077.html#OV
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/077.html#BP
+  11. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/077.html#UQ
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/077.html#AN
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/077.html#NO
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/077.html#JS
+  15. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Monaghan,+Marjorie
+  16. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Seganti,+Paolo
+  17. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Stevens,+G.+Wesley
+  18. file://localhost/lurk/p5/intro.html
+  19. file://localhost/lurk/p5/077
+  20. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/073.html
+  21. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/076.html
+  22. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/076.html
+  23. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/076.html
+  24. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/058.html
+  25. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/027.html
+  26. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/037.html
+  27. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/043.html
+  28. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  29. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/077.html#TOP
+  30. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  31. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  32. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/076.html
+  33. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/078.html
+  34. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Garibaldi takes on a new job. The resistance's counter-propaganda
+     broadcasts begin. Sheridan proposes a plan to protect the
+     Non-Aligned Worlds from raiders. [15]Tim Choate as Zathras.
+     [16]Denise Gentile as Lise Hampton. [17]Mark Schneider as Wade.
+     [18]Charles Walker as Ben.
+     
+[19]P5 Rating: [20]8.04
+
+Production number: 412
+Original air week: May 5, 1997
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * Wade and his group still consider Garibaldi expendable.
+     * Lise Hampton, Garibaldi's ex-lover ([21]"A Voice in the
+       Wilderness") divorced her first husband and eventually married one
+       of the richest men on Mars, William Edgars. Among other things,
+       Edgars is the owner of the largest medical research center on the
+       planet.
+     * Some medical researchers believe that one of the genes responsible
+       for telepathy in humans has the potential to mutate into some form
+       of communicable disease, lethal to other telepaths. There may be a
+       cure, but there are those on Earth who'd rather the basis of the
+       cure be destroyed to rid Earth of telepaths.
+     * Sheridan has proposed to assign the Rangers to patrol the borders
+       between the various parts of alien-controlled space, protecting
+       civilian transports from the Drakh ([22]"Lines of Communication")
+       and others.
+     * The Centauri have had contact with the Drakh in the past, but long
+       enough ago that nowadays they're considered little more than
+       legends.
+     * Zathras had nine brothers, all named Zathras but with slightly
+       different intonations.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What exactly was the substance Lise was picking up?
+     * Were Wade and Lise and their contact telling the truth about the
+       telepath virus, or was the substance something else entirely?
+     * Who were the gunmen? Were they with Psi Corps, or were they rogue
+       telepaths? What did they mean by the phrase, "To the future?" (See
+       [23]Analysis)
+     * Why didn't Garibaldi fire at the telepath?
+     * Did Wade know about Garibaldi's past association with Lise? Was
+       she part of the test, to see how emotional stress would affect his
+       performance?
+     * Does William Edgars' job offer conflict with whatever plans Wade
+       and his cohorts have for Garibaldi, or is his employment just
+       another part of the plan?
+     * Why didn't Edgars show Garibaldi his face?
+     * What was in the message Lise left for Garibaldi?
+     * Why did she send it using her maiden name?
+     * Did G'Kar and Londo take Sheridan up on his offer?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * If Garibaldi takes the job, will he be working close to William
+       Edgars? That would imply he'll also have frequent contact with
+       Lise, which likely wouldn't be easy for either of them.
+     * His consideration of the job offer is at odds with the glimpse of
+       his programming, if that's what it was, in [24]"The Illusion of
+       Truth." In that flashback, Garibaldi recalled being drilled over
+       and over with the idea that he worked for nobody but his captors.
+       Of course, if Edgars is involved with his captors, that might not
+       be inconsistent.
+       It's also possible his captors _want_ to get him close to Edgars,
+       and that by taking the job he'd in fact be following their
+       implanted orders.
+     * Edgars claimed to have checked up on Garibaldi. Checked up on him
+       how? Garibaldi himself has said on more than one occasion that his
+       past is checkered at best, and his history isn't too closely
+       guarded a secret (for example, the Senator knew about him in
+       ([25]"The Gathering.") Maybe Edgars was taking Garibaldi's
+       performance as security chief on Babylon 5 into account, or maybe
+       his "checking up" involved talking to whoever captured Garibaldi
+       ([26]"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?")
+     * The Daffy Duck cartoon Garibaldi was watching (1953's [27]"Duck
+       Amuck!") can be viewed as a metaphor for his situation; depending
+       on what was done to him after his capture ([28]"Whatever Happened
+       to Mr. Garibaldi?") he may well no longer be in control of his own
+       fate, and is certainly being influenced by forces he can't detect.
+     * If the researchers are correct and the human telepathy genes can
+       indeed mutate into a lethal virus, what are the parameters? Likely
+       it's something that's telepathically transmitted. For example, it
+       might cause a telepath to broadcast noise on whatever medium
+       telepaths use to read thoughts. Telepathic interference can cause
+       physical effects (Ben Zayn doubling over in [29]"Eyes," or Lyta's
+       bloodied eyes in [30]"Walkabout") so it's not inconceivable that
+       telepathic broadcasts of the right type could kill someone attuned
+       to them.
+     * Which begs the question, was this some kind of genetic timebomb
+       intentionally implanted by the Vorlons when they modified humans
+       to give them telepathic ability ([31]"Z'ha'dum?") Since the
+       Vorlons, according to Morden, created human telepaths to use as
+       weapons against the Shadows, perhaps the Vorlons also put a time
+       limit on human telepathy so it wouldn't remain once the upcoming
+       conflict with the Shadows was resolved.
+       That would put a different spin on the disappearance of Narn
+       telepaths ([32]"Ship of Tears.") The Book of G'Quan was probably
+       correct about the Shadows killing most of the Narn telepaths. But
+       maybe the reason the gene never resurfaced in the Narn population
+       wasn't that it wasn't strong enough, as G'Kar supposed, but that
+       it was only designed to last a few generations, and once the
+       previous Shadow War was over, its time simply ran out. Of course,
+       that assumes the Vorlons implanted telepathy into the Narn.
+     * The threat isn't limited to Psi Corps; Ivanova's latent telepathy
+       makes her vulnerable to any sort of disease that's transmitted
+       between telepaths.
+     * The fact that Wade was cooperating with Lise in her effort to get
+       the vial into her husband's hands implies that he's at least
+       somewhat sympathetic to telepaths, and perhaps to the Psi Corps.
+       If he were one of the people who wanted to see all telepaths dead,
+       presumably he'd've arranged for the vial to quietly vanish on its
+       way to Lise. That ties into the apparent contradiction mentioned
+       above between Garibaldi's programming ([33]"The Illusion of
+       Truth") and his consideration of Edgars' job offer.
+     * The telepathic assassins' closing phrase bears some similarity to
+       a description of another telepath: Talia Winters in [34]"A Race
+       Through Dark Places."
+       _Lurker:_ You tipped the balance. I felt it when we were joined.
+       You're more than you think you are.
+       _Talia:_ Then what am I?
+       _Lurker:_ The future.
+     * The last time Garibaldi resigned, even briefly ([35]"In the Shadow
+       of Z'ha'dum") he offered up his gun, his station ID, and his link.
+       So did the security staff who resigned rather than join Nightwatch
+       in [36]"Point of No Return." Why did Garibaldi keep them this
+       time? Was he perhaps intending to return at some point?
+     * Sheridan said of Garibaldi, "I don't like the company he's been
+       keeping." How does Sheridan know what kind of company Garibaldi
+       has been keeping? Is he having Garibaldi watched? And is he
+       referring specifically to Wade's people? If so, what does Sheridan
+       know about them?
+     * Was there a reason Sheridan kept the lights in his office low when
+       he met others there, or was it just a directorial touch?
+     * Franklin commented to Ivanova that Mars was cold. But in
+       [37]"Racing Mars," the tunnels where Franklin and Marcus were
+       staying were noted as uncomfortably warm. Significant, or was
+       Franklin simply referring to the surface, which is indeed cold?
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Continuity glitch: Lise appears to have discovered a
+       lightning-fast means of travel. At the end of the episode,
+       Franklin and Ivanova walk past her while she's waiting to leave
+       the station. Then Garibaldi is berated by Sheridan. He returns to
+       his quarters and takes a shower. As soon as he's done, he gets a
+       message from Edgars claiming that Lise has arrived home safely,
+       even though it's been established ([38]"Messages from Earth") that
+       travel between B5 and Earth's solar system takes days.
+     * In [39]"Babylon Squared," Zathras complained, "Zathras warned, but
+       nobody listens to poor Zathras." In this episode, that's doubly
+       true: even _Zathras_ doesn't listen to Zathras.
+     * G'Kar's artificial eye is now brown, rather than red like his
+       natural one or blue like its initial color ([40]"Atonement.")
+     * The onscreen logo displayed while Garibaldi spoke to William
+       Edgars read "EI" (presumably short for "Edgars Industries" or some
+       such.) Underneath, it read, "Mars - Phobos - Deimos." Phobos and
+       Deimos are the two moons of Mars. Presumably this implies that
+       there are people living or working on those moons, which in fact
+       are little more than large asteroids and would thus be attractive
+       for microgravity pharmaceutical research.
+     * William Edgars' voice was played by Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
+     * The telepaths' PPG blasts penetrated the floor of the air duct. In
+       [41]"Grey 17 Is Missing," Garibaldi commented that PPGs are used
+       rather than traditional guns because they don't penetrate hulls.
+       Of course, an outer hull is likely quite a lot thicker than an air
+       duct wall, and likely made of material with a higher melting
+       temperature, so this most likely isn't a contradiction.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * BTW, there's another example of a long single take coming up soon,
+       on Epsilon 3, which is all I'll specify. I kinda wanted the scene
+       to play itself out, without cutting, and to show just how
+       amazingly capable some of our actors can be. We're talking here
+       almost 4 minutes of footage, not one cut in the whole thing, very
+       fast dialogue, and not a single muffed line, with the performances
+       working wonderfully. You'll know it when you see it.
+     * Our cast invariably comes in knowing full scenes, and can hit them
+       without breaking or blowing a line. So we have a tendency at times
+       to just let the master play out, keeping the intensity, which can
+       sometimes be broken by too much cross-editing. (Note that the
+       Zathras/Ivanova scene a few episodes back is *entirely* one shot,
+       four minutes.)
+     * Re: Daffy...I knew that cartoon, and had that definitely in mind
+       when I wrote the script. Took some maneuvering to get WB to let us
+       use that much of it.
+     * Re: the cartoon...I'm a big WB cartoon fan, and knew that one very
+       well, and there were two places where it would've fit with the
+       story; the other one, which I almost used, was when you see two
+       Daffy's arguing with each other.
+       Re: the CGI...we've been fairly conventional with the CGI in
+       recent seasons, we're trying to get a bit more adventurous.
+       The Lise flashback material is all exactly as was filmed for
+       "Babylon Squared." I think we used a few more pieces of the
+       original footage, but it was all stet.
+       _Why didn't we see what happened to Delenn, since she left in the
+       previous episode?_
+       Re: Delenn...these episodes happen close to one another in time,
+       so you have to allow travel time for her to get to Minbar.
+     * _Lise was the typical "woman in distress."_
+       Re: Lise...well, everybody can't be a fighter; we've had guys and
+       the occasional female character who isn't used to being shot at. I
+       daresay I'm not terribly used to being shot at, and someone who's
+       mainly a civilian would probably react about that same way. It's
+       just a matter of showing that diversity realistically rather than
+       saying, "Okay, let's have a helpless female now." Having every
+       female (or male) hard-nosed and laughing off PPG bursts is as
+       unrealistic as its opposite.
+     * _Was there anything important in Lise's message?_
+       No, nothing you need worry about.
+     * _Why didn't Edgars show his face?_
+       As we'll learn shortly, he doesn't want his face seen around.
+       But we'll see him soon enough.
+       (And the voice belongs to Efram Zimbalist Jr.)
+     * _Did the PPG blasts melt through the air conditioning duct wall?_
+       This is substantially correct. The PPG blast is extremely hot, and
+       will melt through the plastic coating and the metal lining inside
+       the tube. The entire energy of a PPG will not come through the
+       tube (unless by some coincidence the exact same area is hit twice
+       or three times), and I believe that this was propoerly portrayed
+       in the sequence. Even if it isn't the entire energy blast, it will
+       hurt like hell and de-mobilize an individual meat packet (person)
+       for the bad guys to come get later.
+       It did take a *very* long time to burn through the bulkhead door
+       to allow them access to the hallway, and said door did mildly glow
+       in the affected areas prior to melting through. The station hull
+       is even more heat resistant.
+       George Johnsen
+       CoProducer, B5
+       
+
+   [47][Next] 
+   
+      [48]Last update: August 8, 1997
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
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+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/078.shtml
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/078.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/078.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/077.html
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+  22. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/077.html
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+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Sheridan tricks the League of Non-Aligned Worlds into accepting his
+     proposed defense pact. Delenn tries to work with an old rival to
+     defuse a brewing Minbari civil war. [15]John Vickery as Neroon.
+     
+[16]P5 Rating: [17]8.33
+
+Production number: 413
+Original air week: May 12, 1997
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * The League of Non-Aligned Worlds has agreed to give the White Star
+       fleet authority to operate as a police force along its borders.
+     * Civil war has broken out in the Minbari capital city.
+     * Three quarters of Clark's cabinet resigned in protest of his
+       martial law decree.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Is Neroon really betraying Delenn?
+     * The episode focused on the religious and warrior castes. What
+       happened to the worker caste? Are they participating in the
+       fighting, and if so, which side have they taken?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Will the Non-Aligned Worlds' pledge to help Sheridan with any
+       larger missions extend to his conflict with President Clark? Even
+       in its diminished state, the combined forces of the Non-Aligned
+       Worlds' navies would likely be a great asset if the conflict came
+       down to a direct, prolonged series of battles. On the other hand,
+       intervening in internal Earth matters isn't what the ambassadors
+       had in mind; they might balk at sending their ships to die for the
+       cause of overthrowing Earth's government.
+     * By allowing the White Star fleet to patrol Centauri space in
+       search of the Drakh (among others,) Londo has given Sheridan
+       direct influence over the ability of the Shadows' allies to exact
+       their revenge on Centauri Prime. Perhaps that's the source of
+       Londo's comment in [18]"War Without End" about Sheridan allowing
+       the Shadows' dark servants to slip through to Centauri Prime; if
+       Sheridan uses the White Star fleet for some larger mission as he
+       hints he might, it'll presumably be at the cost of Centauri
+       Prime's defense against the Drakh.
+     * During the conversation between Londo and the Drazi ambassador,
+       Londo's duplicity is underscored by the staging of the scene. In
+       most of the scene, two images of Londo can be seen: his reflection
+       in the mirror or his portrait. The rest of the time his face is
+       obscured by a curtain.
+     * In the past, Delenn has attempted to preserve Lennier's innocence
+       (e.g. by trying to leave him behind in [19]"Atonement.") But from
+       Lennier's point of view, she has an innocence of her own, and he
+       sees himself as its guardian.
+     * Neroon may not be betraying Delenn at all; he told Shakiri the he
+       knew the religious caste's counterattack plans, but Delenn made no
+       mention of a counterattack. It's possible his departure was, in
+       fact, all part of Delenn's plan; Lennier wasn't privy to the
+       conversation between Delenn and Neroon, so he wouldn't know the
+       details and would be fooled by Neroon's departure.
+     * By revealing how much she relies on Lennier, Delenn may have given
+       valuable information to an opponent. Neroon was honorable enough
+       and helped Lennier, and seems uninterested in directly battling or
+       hurting Delenn (if he'd been interested in that, he wasted several
+       opportunities while on her ship.) But if Neroon passes the
+       information along to Shakiri, Lennier may find himself in danger.
+     * Neroon said of the situation on Minbar, "We are a world gone mad."
+       That's the same thing one of the council members told Delenn in
+       [20]"Atonement," before declaring, as Neroon did, that the fire
+       would have to burn itself out and couldn't be stopped. Yet the
+       Earth-Minbari War did stop abruptly; perhaps the same will happen
+       in this case.
+     * Neroon's comment about loving a good mystery also echoed
+       [21]"Atonement," in which Delenn said to the Grey Council that
+       mysteries are a gift from the universe and shouldn't be ignored.
+     * The religious caste member said he heard Delenn say, "The
+       religious caste could not be allowed to win this war." But she
+       actually said, "The warrior caste cannot be allowed to win this
+       war. The religious caste cannot be allowed to win either." Was he
+       simply embellishing a half-overheard comment (e.g. if he only
+       heard the second sentence up to "win") or did he choose to ignore
+       or lie about the context?
+     * The religious caste has been the butt of jokes about surrendering
+       "ever since the war," according to the same religious caste
+       member. Clearly that can't be referring to the Shadow War, since
+       they didn't surrender. Does the comment indicate that most Minbari
+       still consider the Earth-Minbari War to be the major war of recent
+       memory? Since the warrior caste is the group making the jokes, the
+       implication is that they didn't particularly participate in the
+       Shadow War.
+     * The two storylines in the episode can be seen as point and
+       counterpoint on the subject of deception and secrecy (the title is
+       evidence that this isn't an accident.) Delenn kept her plans
+       secret from her compatriots and nearly died with them as a result.
+       Neroon was attacked for the same reason. Sheridan kept secrets as
+       well, and asked Franklin and Londo to lie for him, and it helped
+       his plans come to fruition.
+       Lennier's deception played into the theme; he kept the true nature
+       of the sabotage from Delenn, with no immediate ill effect.
+       However, it's possible that by maintaining Delenn's excessive
+       faith in her caste, Lennier in fact deprived her of vital
+       information she'd do well to take into account in the future.
+       Ivanova held fast to the ideal of truth, but every other major
+       player in the story participated in some form of deception: the
+       rebellious religious caste members hid their plot, the League
+       ambassadors kept their "knowledge" of the new enemy from Sheridan,
+       and Neroon lied to either Delenn or Shakiri about his intentions.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Delenn mentioned this as the second time she'd seen Lennier near
+       death. The first was in [22]"Convictions," in which he risked his
+       life to save Londo Mollari.
+     * Ivanova tells Sheridan that Marcus is waiting for him on channel
+       4. That's a reference to the network that shows B5 in the UK.
+     * Editing glitch: during the opening scene, a piece of food appears
+       on Marcus' fork while the camera shifts to Sheridan; the scene
+       shifts again and he hasn't picked the food up yet.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * The Sheridan stuff was fun, in that I got to play Sheridan as the
+       one being manipulative for a change, smart for a change...not just
+       Londo or the usual suspects. It made for a nifty change of pace.
+       And yeah, Mira brought a lot of truth to this episode...and will
+       bring even more in next week.
+     * _Ivanova looked like she was reading from a teleprompter._
+       Yeah, we had Claudia use a teleprompter there to add to the sense
+       of having to read something...and enjoy the happy-go-lucky
+       Sheridan...it's the last you'll see of him for a long time....
+     * _Lennier seems to be doing more peacemaking than Delenn. Is he the
+       real bridge between races? Why does the religious caste follow
+       Delenn?_
+       No, I wouldn't say Lennier is a bridge in any sense along those
+       lines.
+       Delenn, you must understand, is a True Seeker, and among the
+       religious caste there isn't much more admirable than
+       that...combined with the fact that she *did* fulfill prophecy, she
+       *was* the chosen of Dukhat, she *did* help end the Shadow
+       War...yeah, she's had some problems here and there, but what
+       important leader doesn't? Any one of those items would be a
+       sufficient crown on a lifetime of achievement...the cumulative
+       effect is quite daunting and impressive.
+     * _Are Lennier's patience, humor, and devotion unique?_
+       No, many Minbari share in those traits.
+     * "Are tears a normal Minbari physical reaction, or is weeping (for
+       Delenn) one of the changes mandated by her chrysalitic"
+       We've seen Delenn cry before, when she and G'Kar were in her
+       quarters and she was explining why she did not get involved in the
+       Narn/Centauri war.
+     * _How did Londo see an Earth sitcom if all broadcasts to B5 are
+       being jammed?_
+       Easy. The incident Londo is mentioning happened prior to the
+       blackout. He never said it *just* happened, he said the *last*
+       time Rebo and Zooty did their routine, everybody was doing it.
+     * _Were Rebo and Zooty references to real people?_
+       No, not intended as tributes to anyone, just a cool sounding pair
+       of names (but also annoying sounding).
+       
+
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
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+Overview
+
+     The warrior caste demands Delenn's surrender. Bester makes an offer
+     to an increasingly desperate Lyta. Sheridan is compelled to act
+     after receiving horrible news from Ivanova. [15]Scott Adams as Mr.
+     Adams. [16]Bart McCarthy as Shakiri. [17]Walter Koenig as Bester.
+     [18]John Vickery as Neroon.
+     
+[19]P5 Rating: [20]8.73
+
+Production number: 414
+Original air week: May 19, 1997
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Tony Dow
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * Delenn has formed a new Grey Council, with the worker caste
+       holding 5 of the 9 positions. The position of leader is reserved
+       for "The One who is to come."
+     * In the days before Valen, when caste wars erupted, the warring
+       leaders would gather in the temple of Varenni, which is equipped
+       with planetwide broadcast facilities and a device called the
+       Starfire Wheel. The Starfire Wheel would consume the opposing
+       leaders in fire. Whichever one willing was to die for the
+       rightness of their side would remain in the fire until death; that
+       caste would lead.
+     * Unable to find work, Lyta has rejoined the Psi Corps in name only,
+       striking a deal with Bester to give him custody over her body when
+       she dies so he can try to understand what the Vorlons did to her.
+       In exchange, the Corps will list her as a member when potential
+       clients try to do a background check on her.
+     * Bester is directly involved in whatever was done to Garibaldi.
+       Among other things, Bester's plan is to pull Garibaldi further and
+       further from his former associates, though the ultimate purpose is
+       still unclear.
+     * William Edgars, Garibaldi's employer, is extremely secretive;
+       though he's one of the wealthiest men in the Earth Alliance, no
+       pictures of him have ever been published. He also claims to have
+       an intense distrust of telepaths and refuses to let any of his
+       high-level employees work with them.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Who is The One who is to come? (See [21]Analysis)
+     * What will happen to Shakiri? Does he still lead the warrior caste?
+     * What were Delenn's instructions to Lennier?
+     * What is Bester's plan for Garibaldi?
+     * What happened between Zack and Bester after Bester provoked
+       Garibaldi?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * The One who is to come may be Sheridan; in [22]"War Without End,"
+       Zathras referred to him as "The One who will be." The main thing
+       arguing against it being Sheridan is the generally xenophobic
+       attitude expressed by many Minbari in the past (e.g. Callenn in
+       [23]"Atonement.") On the other hand, perhaps such xenophobia is
+       only a disease of the warrior and religious castes; the worker
+       caste might have less trouble accepting a human as their leader.
+       Another candidate is David, Sheridan and Delenn's future child
+       ([24]"War Without End, Part Two.") As a direct descendant of all
+       three of The One, and a partial Minbari genetically, he might be
+       more palatable.
+       She might even have meant Sinclair: in [25]"Atonement," she
+       mentioned Valen's body was never found, and at least one Minbari
+       ritual, the extra placesetting seen in [26]"Confessions and
+       Lamentations," indicates a belief in Valen's eventual return.
+       It's also possible Delenn didn't intend her comment in any sort of
+       prophetic way. She may simply have been referring to the next head
+       of the Grey Council. The Minbari went ten years between leaders
+       after Dukhat's death; perhaps there will be a similar period of
+       mourning for Neroon, and the new leader won't be chosen for a
+       while.
+     * Both Sheridan and Delenn have accepted death (Sheridan with Lorien
+       in [27]"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?") Will the experience
+       change Delenn as it changed Sheridan? Arguably, this isn't the
+       first time for Delenn -- she accepted at least the possibility of
+       death in [28]"Confessions and Lamentations" and gave herself in
+       exchange for Sheridan in [29]"Comes the Inquisitor."
+     * Despite Delenn's denial, the religious caste members on her ship
+       in [30]"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" were at least partially right:
+       her plan _did_ involve surrendering to the warrior caste, if only
+       temporarily. If Lennier's reaction was at all typical, that must
+       have come as a horrible blow to her caste when they heard about
+       it.
+     * Delenn's line to Shakiri, "The warrior caste started this war. Now
+       the religious caste has ended it," echoes the lesson Sheridan
+       learned from his father ([31]"Severed Dreams") -- "Never start a
+       fight, but always finish it."
+     * Neroon's loyalties at the beginning of the episode were unclear.
+       Shakiri's contempt for life clearly convinced Neroon that Delenn's
+       plan was the right way to go. But would he have carried out her
+       plan if Shakiri hadn't been so fanatical and had been able to
+       provide some valid justification for the war?
+     * Neroon's sacrifice will probably play much better in the long run
+       than Delenn's death would have. Shakiri's fear and actions brought
+       dishonor to the Warrior caste; had they simply lost to the
+       religious caste the resentment and stain of dishonor would have
+       remained.
+       By sacrificing himself for Delenn, Neroon gave honor back to the
+       warriors, since one of their own remained and died in the
+       Starwheel. His conversion to religious caste assured that the
+       honor would be shared with them as well.
+       Neroon's last-minute conversion meant both a religious and a
+       warrior caste member perished on the wheel. Thus, technically,
+       neither caste won, just as Delenn wanted.
+     * Neroon wasn't the first Minbari to switch castes. His former
+       commander, Branmer, was originally religious caste but switched to
+       warrior caste during the Earth-Minbari War ([32]"Legacies.")
+     * Neroon's interaction with Delenn revolves around sacrifice. In
+       [33]"Grey 17 Is Missing," he was ready to attack or possibly kill
+       her, but yielded when he saw that Marcus was ready to sacrifice
+       his life for her sake. Here, he himself made that sacrifice. At
+       the end of "Grey 17," Marcus asked Neroon, "Next time you want a
+       revelation, could you possibly find a way that's not quite so
+       uncomfortable?" Apparently not.
+     * While Delenn was bringing peace to her people, Sheridan was
+       preparing to go to war with his. What will Delenn think of his
+       decision when she returns?
+     * Ivanova's broadcast mentioned a Starfury squadron defecting to
+       Proxima 3. How many Earth ships have gone over to the resistance?
+       Presumably the Alexander is still at large ([34]"Severed Dreams.")
+       Are there other ships of that caliber, and if so, will they take
+       orders from Sheridan?
+     * Bester implied he'd seen the Voice of the Resistance broadcasts.
+       Does that mean the broadcasts are in fact reaching Earth and/or
+       Mars, or has he simply seen them because he travels a lot in the
+       course of his job?
+     * Bester's contract says he gets Lyta's body if she dies of natural
+       causes. Would the telepath disease in [35]"Conflicts of Interest"
+       count as natural causes? If so, Bester and the Corps may have a
+       specific reason to want to gain control of the cure. Perhaps
+       Bester was the one responsible for sending the telepaths to try to
+       procure it.
+     * Lyta is slowly lifting the veil of secrecy she's maintained about
+       the Vorlons and their changes to her. In [36]"Epiphanies," she was
+       only willing to obliquely acknowledge the possibility that
+       something might have happened. Here, she tacitly admitted it to
+       Bester, and told Garibaldi in no uncertain terms that she wasn't a
+       mere P5 any more.
+     * Will Lyta be more willing to scan Garibaldi now that he has, from
+       her point of view, turned against her? If she were to discover
+       evidence of Bester's involvement in whatever was done to
+       Garibaldi, she'd presumably want to investigate and find out what
+       Bester was up to. Of course, she might still consider Garibaldi's
+       privacy a more compelling concern, and presumably whatever
+       programming he received would prevent him from agreeing to be
+       scanned.
+     * Sheridan's insistence that Lyta move to smaller quarters to help
+       the station stay financially afloat is somewhat hypocritical,
+       given his refusal to do the same in [37]"A Race Through Dark
+       Places." Lyta made the same argument Sheridan did against being
+       forcibly moved: her value to the station entitles her to special
+       treatment.
+       It's worth noting that Zack said the order came from Station
+       Resources, not from Sheridan himself, but presumably if there were
+       a reasonable chance Sheridan would overturn the order, Zack would
+       have asked him before burdening Lyta with the news.
+       And given Bester's presence on the station, was Zack even relaying
+       a real order? Bester might have planted the belief in such an
+       order in Zack's mind without Zack being any the wiser.
+     * This is the second time Zack has been asked to relay bad news to
+       someone close: first Garibaldi in [38]"Conflicts of Interest," and
+       now Lyta, who appears to have warmed up considerably to Zack since
+       he brought her pizza in [39]"Epiphanies." Though Zack is clearly
+       loyal to Sheridan, bearing bad news to friends probably won't have
+       any positive effect on his attitude.
+     * Zack no longer calls Garibaldi "chief." Likely he's given up hope
+       of Garibaldi's return. Any respect Zack had for Garibaldi was
+       probably destroyed by Garibaldi's use of a duplicate identicard to
+       get past customs ([40]"Conflicts of Interest.")
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Cartoonist Scott Adams, creator of the [41]"Dilbert" comic strip,
+       has a cameo appearance in this episode. A [42]press release about
+       his appearance is available.
+       Mr. Adams' lost dog and cat are no doubt a reference to the
+       characters of Dogbert and Catbert from the comic strip. Dogbert is
+       constantly scheming to take over the world.
+     * The new Grey Council (spellings approximate): Dalidi and Burli of
+       the religious caste, Mazik and Shaka of the warrior caste, and
+       Dulann, Katz, Zaca, Nur, and Barenn of the worker caste.
+     * The title of this episode echoes G'Kar's closing monologue in
+       [43]"Z'ha'dum": "The future is all around us, waiting, in moments
+       of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows
+       the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only
+       that it is always born in pain."
+     * The security guard may have been stumped by Bester's Dickens quote
+       because it wasn't quite right. In "A Christmas Carol," Marley's
+       Ghost said, "Mankind was my business," not "Humanity is my
+       business."
+     * Edgars claimed to be available 24 hours a day. The Martian day is
+       closer to 25 Earth hours long. But even now, scientists divide the
+       Martian day into 24 Martian hours, each slightly longer than a
+       terrestrial hour. It's reasonable to assume that that practice
+       continues into the 23rd century. ([44]More on Mars)
+     * This episode takes place around August 3, 2261. August 3 is a
+       recurring date in the series: August 3, 2258 was the date of the
+       initial mayday from the raiders in [45]"Signs and Portents;"
+       August 3, 2260 was the date the Shadows began attacking openly
+       ([46]"Interludes and Examinations;") and August 3, 2261 was the
+       date in Bester's log entry in this episode.
+     * In the original US broadcast, the cruiser firing on the commercial
+       transports was shown as the Agamemnon, Sheridan's old ship. That
+       was a production slipup (see [47]JMS Speaks) and in later airings,
+       the cruiser was labeled the Pollux.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * _In response to an earlier JMS message saying the cruiser wasn't
+       the Agamemnon_
+       I have to recant my correction.
+       The image as shown in the monitor was supposed to be shown *only*
+       on the monitor, not blown up. The animators figured, it'll be too
+       small to read the name on it, so we may as well grab a ship out of
+       the library rather than building a new one (a sensible
+       choice)...but when John and I got into editing, we grabbed the
+       original video and did that close-up...and neither of us, NObody,
+       ever even noticed the Aggy name until after it was mentioned
+       here...and I then checked, and to my chagrin, it was there.
+       But in true Soviet Revisionist fashion, you can be assured that
+       down the road, this will mysteriously be replaced by another
+       shot....
+     * _If you had been 100% sure there'd be a season 5, would this have
+       been the season 4 finale?_
+       No, this could never have been the finale for 4.
+     * _Will John Vickery return, perhaps as Mr. Welles from [48]"The
+       Fall of Night?"_
+       No, not as that role, but we're definitely open to using him in
+       other roles, as with Wayne Alexander.
+     * We'll keep our eyes out for a way to bring him around again, same
+       as with Wayne.
+     * _How does this story relate to G'Kar's speech?_
+       In a way, it was the second half of G'Kar's sentence...that life
+       can be broken down into moments of transition and moments of
+       revelation...and there with Neroon at the end we had both.
+     * _Did he really realize he belonged in the religious caste, or did
+       he just do it for Delenn's sake?_
+       Whether it was true or not, he knew his actions would bring the
+       castes back together...so out of respect for the dead, best to
+       leave the issue unresolved, and accept his gesture for what it
+       was.
+     * _What was wrong with Walter Koenig's hand?_
+       As for Walter...he made the decision to play Bester with a
+       deformed or useless hand, which he's compensating for as a teep.
+     * _Then how does he put his gloves on?_
+       Ask Walter.
+     * What's been great about B5 has been the chance to give many
+       talented actors like Walter and others a chance to show the many
+       other hues and colors they are capable of delivering, but which
+       were rarely seen because the material didn't allow them the
+       opportunity. I know Walter's loved it, and it's been great for us
+       as well.
+     * _Were Delenn and Neroon secretly in contact, or was the whole plan
+       worked out in advance?_
+       They were worked out in advance, and the instructions were for
+       posthumous use.
+     * _Did Delenn's instructions include a message for Sheridan?_
+       Almost certainly.
+     * _Are any members of the old Grey Council on the new one?_
+       Yeah, some of the new council would've been on the old one.
+       And Bester was named for a well-known SF writer, now gone.
+     * The Grey Council stucture, visually, is designed to bring the
+       Starfire wheel to mind. Valen, being something of a smart cookie,
+       figured it would be wise to tie in whatever he was doing to the
+       traditions that preceded him. So they're arranged in a circle,
+       with a series of lights above them, and the one central light (for
+       Dukhat, for instance) reserved for the one who had endured and
+       grown to leadership, but through a somewhat less violent means.
+       "Finally, the diversity of cultures on Babylon 5 must be a
+       satisfaction for you as a writer to have so many different voices
+       to express. "MoT" for me was almost like seguing between
+       playwrights -- Damon Runyan (Garibaldi) to Oscar Wilde (Bester) to
+       Aeschylus (Minbar). One of the things I have found most appealing
+       about Babylon 5 as a whole is that the language is similar to the
+       language of the stage. That seems rare in a television milieu
+       defined for the most part by diseases-of-the-week, talk-show spew
+       and courtroom maneuverings."
+       Yeah, I like that part a lot, being able to write in lots of
+       different voices, lots of different styles. You have to remember
+       that I cut my teeth writing dialogue back when I was writing plays
+       and getting them produced. I love theater, love plays, and love
+       really well done or rich dialogue. So it echoes that now...which
+       as you say isn't necessarily the style of dialogue seen on most
+       television (which is why a few react weirdly to it), but I like
+       it, and it's my show....
+     * _Lyta refused to scan Garibaldi, but was willing to scan the
+       Centauri in [49]"Passing Through Gethsemane."_
+       Yes, it's an inconsistency; because humans are inconsistent. But
+       it's only an inconsistency subject to Lyta's
+       rationalizations...which are quite reasonable.
+       She didn't know the Centauri; she knew Garibaldi...they knew
+       beyond a shadow of a doubt that Brother Edward's *life* was in
+       jeapordy, and that this person may hold the key to saving his life
+       and every instant they waited meant he could be dying, whereas
+       there is no such crisis in the Garibaldi situation...they were
+       able to hide her identity from the Centauri whereas they would not
+       be able to do so with her and Garibaldi....
+       The decision to scan or not to scan is essentially a moral or
+       ethical decision. When someone's life is on the line, that raises
+       one ethical concern, as opposed to Zack just having a vague
+       suspicion about Garibaldi's character and asking her to engage in
+       a fishing expedition. There is a quantum difference between the
+       two of them.
+       Would a physician give someone the tools necessary to end his
+       life? No. Would he do so if the person were chronically ill and in
+       constant, terrible pain? Very possibly. It's the *context*. You
+       can't expect people to act the same in every situation regardless
+       of context, context is everything.
+       People are not robots, they rationalize, they are inconsistent,
+       but they generally have *reasons* for it that they can justify. As
+       somebody once said, rationalizations are more important than sex,
+       because you can *go* a day without sex.... _[Ed. note: this is a
+       quote from "The Big Chill."]_
+     * _Why didn't Lyta go to Sheridan for help?_
+       I think Lyta had just emotionally gotten to the place where she
+       had to do something on her own rather than continuing to rely on
+       the kindness of strangers.
+     * _Did Bester tell Edgars that Garibaldi had hired Lyta?_
+       Nope.
+     * _Is Edgars really Bester?_
+       Not a chance.
+       Edgars is played by Efrem Zimbalist Jr., which by itself precludes
+       that.
+     * Bear in mind that Edgars also has Wade working for him right there
+       on the station, and he is more or less Garibaldi's liaison with
+       Edgars, so logically that would be his source of information.
+       
+
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
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+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/080.shtml
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/080.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/080.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/079.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/081.html
+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/080.html#OV
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/080.html#BP
+  11. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/080.html#UQ
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/080.html#AN
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+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/080.html#JS
+  15. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/080.html#NO.adams
+  16. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+McCarthy,+Bart
+  17. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Koenig,+Walter
+  18. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Vickery,+John
+  19. file://localhost/lurk/p5/intro.html
+  20. file://localhost/lurk/p5/080
+  21. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/080.html#AN.one
+  22. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/061.html
+  23. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/075.html
+  24. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/061.html
+  25. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/075.html
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+  29. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/043.html
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+  31. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/054.html
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+  34. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/054.html
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+  41. http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/
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+  44. http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/mars.htm
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+  48. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/044.html
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+  50. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
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+  52. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  53. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  54. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/079.html
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+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
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+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Sheridan's forces attempt to liberate Proxima 3. Londo tries to
+     enlist G'Kar's aid in backing Sheridan against Earth. [15]Marcia
+     Mitzman Gaven as Commander Levitt. [16]Richard Gant as Captain
+     MacDougan. [17]Ken Jenkins as Captain Hall.
+     
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]9.16
+
+Production number: 415
+Original air week: May 26, 1997
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * Sheridan's forces have liberated Proxima 3. In the process,
+       several additional Earth Alliance cruisers defected to his side.
+       Some are remaining to guard Proxima 3 against retaliation by
+       President Clark.
+     * During the Earth-Minbari War, G'Kar personally supervised the sale
+       of Narn weapons to Earth.
+     * Londo and G'Kar have agreed to throw the support of their
+       respective governments behind Sheridan. The nonaligned worlds have
+       apparently dissolved their mutual defense pacts with Earth and are
+       staying out of the conflict, aside from loaning ships to help
+       defend Babylon 5 itself.
+     * Garibaldi has left the station for Mars, and never intends to
+       return. He plans to try to help free Earth, but not in concert
+       with Sheridan, whose methods Garibaldi opposes.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What exactly will come of the declaration of support by Centauri
+       Prime and Narn? Will they provide military support to Sheridan?
+       Did he know the declaration was coming?
+     * Does Londo's declaration mean that he has voided the nonagression
+       treaty between Centauri Prime and Earth ([20]"The Fall of Night?")
+       Does the implantation of a Keeper on at least one Centauri
+       official ([21]"Epiphanies") spell trouble for Centauri support of
+       Sheridan's cause?
+     * What was Vir writing when he fell asleep?
+     * What business did Garibaldi have in Centauri space?
+     * What does Garibaldi plan to do to fight for Earth?
+     * How does Sheridan hope to use the frozen telepaths?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Sheridan told Commander Levitt the League wasn't getting involved
+       because he wanted this to be a clean fight, presumably meaning no
+       alien involvement. But in fact, aliens are already involved; the
+       crew of the White Star fleet is largely Minbari, and the ships
+       themselves are a Minbari/Vorlon concoction.
+       Earth forces being attacked by Minbari-made vessels with Minbari
+       crews would seem perfect propaganda fodder for Clark, further
+       "evidence" that Sheridan has gone over to the Minbari side as
+       suggested in [22]"The Illusion of Truth."
+       Of course, it could be argued that many Minbari are part human
+       anyway ([23]"Atonement") and thus aren't completely out of place
+       in a human civil war, but that argument would likely do little to
+       dampen the effect of Clark's propaganda, should he choose to
+       concoct any.
+     * Patriotism and its effects played a key thematic role in this
+       episode. Sheridan's patriotism (as described when he spoke to the
+       other captains about the ideals of the Alliance) drove him to
+       attack his own people. Garibaldi's patriotism, if his conversation
+       with Vir is to be believed, is strong as well, but Sheridan's
+       methods are abhorrent to him. Londo's patriotism led him to
+       forsake his friends, and now he finds himself alone. G'Kar's
+       patriotism lost him his eye.
+       Perhaps even Clark believes he's acting in Earth's best interest,
+       though that puts him on a collision course with Sheridan.
+     * Did Garibaldi tell Edgars about Sheridan's imminent campaign? If
+       so, Edgars doesn't appear to have relayed the information to Earth
+       Force, since the commanders at Proxima 3 were unaware Sheridan was
+       on the move. On the other hand, Garibaldi didn't know the
+       particulars of the first phase of the campaign.
+     * Garibaldi apparently didn't visit G'Kar to say goodbye (or at
+       least, no such visit was shown.) Why not, especially given what
+       G'Kar went through while searching for him?
+     * G'Kar is apparently still working on the book he started while in
+       prison ([24]"Messages from Earth.")
+     * When Londo asked about G'Kar's eye, G'Kar responded, "It sees."
+       His eye is therefore probably not, at present, the "eye that does
+       not see" from Lady Morella's prophecy ([25]"Point of No Return.")
+       Was his natural eye in fact the one referred to by the prophecy?
+       Since it needs to be recharged nightly to continue seeing
+       ([26]"Atonement") and since it's not in evidence 17 years in the
+       future, when G'Kar and Londo kill each other ([27]"War Without
+       End, Part Two") the artificial eye may yet turn out to be the one
+       Morella was referring to.
+     * Londo offered a toast to the humans, who he regards as a bridge
+       between the Centauri and Narn. This echoes Delenn's statements
+       ([28]"And Now For a Word," [29]"Lines of Communication") that
+       humanity's greatest strength is the ability to form communities of
+       diverse people.
+     * The drink Londo referred to while talking to G'Kar was in [30]"The
+       Coming of Shadows," bought by G'Kar after he learned the Centauri
+       Emperor had come to make peace with the Narn.
+       Shortly thereafter, Londo did have some inkling that he was losing
+       his friends thanks to his activities; he offered Garibaldi a drink
+       in [31]"Acts of Sacrifice," acknowledging that the two were still
+       "friends, if only for a little while."
+     * Londo's rationale for the joint declaration was nearly identical
+       to Sheridan's argument for allowing the White Star fleet to patrol
+       Narn and Centauri space ([32]"Conflicts of Interest.") However,
+       since Sheridan apparently decided not to publicize the fact that
+       both the Narn and Centauri had agreed to the patrols (assuming the
+       Narn agreed -- it's only been explicitly stated that the Centauri
+       did) this joint declaration is the first official act of unity
+       that's been shown.
+     * Vir's nightmare presumably related to the assassination of
+       Cartagia ([33]"The Long Night.") It's odd that he cried out, "I
+       didn't do it," when in fact he did kill Cartagia, perhaps an
+       indication that part of him still doesn't believe what he did.
+       On the other hand, it's possible he was dreaming of something
+       else, perhaps one of the precognitive dreams Centauri have. In
+       that case, one candidate that'd fit his exclamation would be his
+       discovery of the dead bodies of Londo and G'Kar ([34]"War Without
+       End, Part Two.")
+       One other Centauri has been shown awakening from a nightmare
+       recently: the Regent in [35]"Epiphanies," who awoke to discover he
+       had a Keeper attached to his neck.
+     * Earth appears to have improved its scanning technology; White Star
+       ships were hit more than once during the battle. Previously, Earth
+       weapon systems haven't been able to lock onto Minbari ships (e.g.
+       [36]"Points of Departure.") Presumably the White Stars, which
+       incorporate much more advanced Vorlon technology as well, are even
+       harder to get a fix on. Perhaps the Shadows supplied Earth with
+       some technical tips.
+       It's possible manual targeting was used (novel [37]"The Shadow
+       Within") and the Earth ships simply got in a few lucky shots, but
+       that runs counter to Sheridan's message to the other captains that
+       he wouldn't consider them hostile if their weapons didn't lock on.
+       That message wouldn't make sense if they weren't capable of
+       locking on anyway. On the other hand, since Sheridan wanted to
+       test the hostility of the Earth ships, he may have ordered the
+       White Stars to turn off their countermeasures. In [38]"Points of
+       Departure" Minbari ships were able to make themselves trackable by
+       the station's scanners as desired.
+       Either way, only one White Star was seen to have been destroyed,
+       and then only because it smashed into a cruiser seconds after
+       being hit. Possibly the White Stars are advanced enough that a
+       momentary loss of control is the only real impact from a single
+       hit by Earth weapons.
+     * While Marcus was gathering information on the hostility of the
+       Earth cruisers, his contact on Proxima 3 was under attack by
+       ground forces. What happened to the ground forces after the space
+       battle? Sheridan appeared to consider the planet liberated once
+       the commander of the Heracles capitulated; did she have authority
+       over all Earth forces in the region, or are there still holdouts
+       on the surface?
+     * Sheridan promised to liberate Proxima, then take the battle to
+       Mars and finally to Earth. What about the colony on Orion 7, which
+       seceded from the Earth Alliance at the same time Proxima 3 did?
+       ([39]"Severed Dreams") Perhaps it has already fallen, or maybe
+       it's not under as much duress as Proxima was, so Sheridan felt the
+       best way to liberate it was to take back Earth. Or perhaps it's a
+       small colony and Clark didn't deem it worth the effort to take
+       back.
+     * In [40]"War Without End, Part One" the White Star's Vorlon
+       technology adapted its defenses to shrug off blasts from Shadow
+       fighters after it was hit. Will the surviving White Stars from the
+       battle at Proxima 3 now be more resistant to Earth's weapons, and
+       thus even more potent weapons?
+     * Commander Levitt knew that the League worlds had sided with
+       Sheridan. How did she know, if Babylon 5 is officially cut off
+       from Earth? The most likely answer is that she'd been watching the
+       Voice of the Resistance broadcasts, which indicates that they are
+       indeed reaching the colonies.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The Alexander ([41]"Severed Dreams") has survived and is
+       apparently now patrolling Proxima 3 to guard against retaliation
+       by Clark's forces.
+     * The Vesta's logo (visible on the bridge) is a stylized flame in a
+       brazier. Vesta is the Roman goddess of the hearth. The Heracles'
+       logo appears to incorporate arrows in the "H" at the bottom,
+       probably a reference to Heracles' poison arrows from Greek
+       mythology.
+     * The ship that withdrew from the battle was the Juno. In Roman
+       mythology, Juno was the goddess of light and birth. In Greek
+       mythology she was called Hera.
+     * The names of two of the ships that surrendered had symbolic
+       relation to Sheridan's campaign. The Furies were goddesses who
+       punished crimes against one's kin. Nemesis was the goddess who
+       punished hubris -- putting oneself above the gods.
+     * The Pollux was named after Greek mythology as well. Castor and
+       Pollux, the two main stars of the constellation Gemini, were
+       brothers. When Pollux was killed, Castor was so despondent that
+       Zeus agreed to turn them both into stars so they could always be
+       together.
+     * Possible continuity glitch: Just before Garibaldi's arrival, Vir
+       drops his pen while he's asleep. When he stands up, he's holding
+       the pen again. Of course, he might have picked it up upon
+       awakening.
+     * Effects glitch: The Earth Alliance logos on the Pollux and the
+       Furies are backwards. The "E" can be seen to point to the left
+       rather than the right.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * _Why don't we ever see Clark?_
+       I wanted to keep Clark more a force than a person...and Vir has
+       just been off doing his usual Vir stuff...he's back this coming
+       week.
+     * Proxima 3 is in the Proxima Centauri system, next door to Proxima
+       2, but no one goes there because the tourist season is way too
+       short.
+     * "It seems to me that the White Stars (particularly in the numbers
+       I perceived in this Ep) should have been able to deal with the
+       Earth ships like lamb to a slaughter."
+       Yeah, if all you want is to slaughter fellow humans and officers;
+       if you want to try to minimize the body count of your fellow
+       officers, who you want to eventually side with you, it's more
+       difficult, you have to keep the kid gloves on...which endangers
+       you in the long run.
+     * "were these White Stars tired or something? I would've expected
+       that a couple of them could just go slice-slice, sever the
+       rotating sections on the EA ships and have 'em for breakfast."
+       Sure, if all you're interested in is slaughtering the
+       opposition...they were designed for "destroy"...when you have to
+       pull your punches to avoid just going in and killing EVERYthing in
+       sight...which will only work *against* you in the long run, it
+       becomes more difficult.
+     * _There were a lot of ethical decisions on all sides, something you
+       don't usually see in military SF. Were you in the military?_
+       No, I wasn't in the military, just having missed the Vietnam
+       draft. The points you mention are all the ones I wanted to get
+       into with that episode, and the ones a lot of folks have
+       overlooked in suggesting that it should have been an episode about
+       slicing-and-dicing the enemy (the enemy in this case being our own
+       species). The show, at root, is about ethics, among other things,
+       and the ethical choices will continue to get more difficult the
+       deeper you go. There is a very fine line that Sheridan's walking
+       in all this.
+     * It's certainly an issue I care about quite a lot, and the delicate
+       balance between orders and conscience, between what you think you
+       should be doing vs. what you feel you *must* do, is the heart of
+       99% of all drama.
+     * "G'Kar seems to know that it's Mollari at his door -- why else
+       would he wait so long to call, "Enter?" But how did he know -- was
+       it an official request by Londo?"
+       If you recall, when Garibaldi visited Vir, Vir mentioned that
+       Londo was arranging a meeting with G'Kar, so it was definitely set
+       up in advance.
+     * The Londo/G'Kar stuff was nifty...and yes, he's struggling toward
+       redemption as best he can, making a real effort, which is
+       important, because if he's going to end up with a Keeper on him
+       eventually, as we've seen, best to feel for him, which you can't
+       if he's a bad guy.
+       Set 'em up, knock 'em down....
+     * If G'Kar came around too easily or quickly, it would ring false;
+       it had to go through some time and reflection. But even though one
+       could certainly agree with his anger over what's happened, G'Kar
+       has to try and overcome that and even transcend it.
+       
+
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Garibaldi arrives on Mars and meets William Edgars. Lyta helps
+     Franklin in an attempt to make contact with the frozen telepaths.
+     [15]Denise Gentile as Lise. [16]Mark Schneider as Wade. [17]Efrem
+     Zimbalist Jr. as William Edgars.
+     
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]8.62
+
+Production number: 416
+Original air week: June 2, 1997
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John LaFia
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * Sheridan's forces have liberated the colony at Beta Durani, as
+       well as a midrange military outpost.
+     * Lyta is able to awaken the implanted telepaths ([20]"Ship of
+       Tears.") After observing the effect of her mental contact with
+       them, Franklin has devised an artificial equivalent and feels he's
+       well on his way to reviving them.
+     * Garibaldi is still in love with Lise.
+     * Edgars runs the fourth-largest corporation on Earth. His company
+       is involved in chemical and biological weapons manufacturing as
+       well as pharmaceutical production.
+     * Edgars says President Clark has become increasingly paranoid since
+       taking office. Learning of the Shadows' interest in Psi Corps,
+       Clark developed an interest as well. As his paranoia increased, he
+       started giving the Corps more and more power, since telepaths were
+       able to tell him absolutely whether the people around him were
+       loyal. The Corps, of course, isn't eager to give up its newfound
+       clout, and Edgars and others fear that if Sheridan takes his
+       battle to Earth, Clark may panic and give the Corps unprecedented
+       control over society, a development that wouldn't be easy to
+       reverse. He therefore wants Sheridan's campaign stopped for
+       Earth's own good.
+     * Clark's forces still haven't located Sheridan's father.
+     * According to Edgars, the real power in Earthdome has never been in
+       the hands of the politicians; the mega-corporations have always
+       called the shots. They let Clark declare martial law, but didn't
+       foresee the Psi Corps connection until it was too late.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What does Sheridan plan to do with the telepaths?
+     * Will Psi Corps come looking for the murdered telepath?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Lise tried to warn Garibaldi off. Why? How much does she know
+       about what her husband is planning? How far will she go to protect
+       Garibaldi?
+     * Garibaldi said Mars had tried to kill him before. One of those
+       occasions was his trek across the surface with Sinclair
+       ([21]"Infection" and issues 4-8 of the [22]comic series.) What
+       were the other two?
+       The incident that killed Frank Kemmer ([23]"Survivors") has been
+       suggested, but Garibaldi said that took place on Europa, not Mars.
+     * He also said he'd sworn never to come back to Mars. But in [24]"A
+       Voice in the Wilderness part 2," he told Lise he had some leave
+       coming up and was thinking of taking it on Mars. Maybe he only
+       considered that after he realized Lise was in danger during the
+       uprising.
+     * In [25]"Moments of Transition," Bester claimed in his log entry
+       that Garibaldi was inching closer to where Bester needed him to
+       be. It's plausible that Bester has been priming Garibaldi to join
+       up with Edgars. The Corps seems to be aware of the telepathic
+       virus (the assassins in [26]"Conflicts of Interest" were likely
+       Corps operatives) and is thus probably aware that Edgars has some
+       interest in it. Given the presence of the virus, they wouldn't be
+       able to use a telepath as an undercover agent. Setting up a
+       non-telepath to be their spy and/or saboteur in Edgars'
+       organization would be the Corps' only recourse, and they'd have to
+       do it with subconscious programming since Edgars isn't above using
+       telepaths to test potential employees' loyalties.
+       Garibaldi was a logical choice because the Corps knew of his
+       connection to Lise; in [27]"A Voice in the Wilderness," Garibaldi
+       asked Talia to look into Lise's condition by going through Corps
+       channels. It wouldn't be much of a leap for the Corps to assume
+       that Lise would therefore recommend Garibaldi to her husband,
+       making Garibaldi the best possible candidate for the job of
+       unwitting spy.
+     * Edgars appeared to accept Garibaldi's answer that he didn't
+       remember what happened to him while he was missing ([28]"Whatever
+       Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?") Given how paranoid Edgars is in other
+       respects, will that really be the end of the matter? Does Edgars
+       know more than Garibaldi does about what happened? Perhaps Edgars'
+       seeming trust of Garibaldi is really an application of the old
+       adage, "Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer."
+     * During his questioning, Garibaldi told Edgars, "Everyone lies." In
+       [29]"And the Sky Full of Stars," Sinclair said the same thing to
+       Garibaldi, and elaborated: "The innocent lie because they don't
+       want to be blamed for something they didn't do, and the guilty lie
+       because they don't have any other choice."
+     * Garibaldi stood in front of a mirror during his questioning,
+       staring at his own reflection. But the mirror was warped,
+       distorting his image. Garibaldi studied the image as he spoke;
+       perhaps he viewed it a metaphor. Garibaldi also studied his
+       reflection in [30]"Conflicts of Interest."
+     * The telepath indicated that Garibaldi was telling the truth when
+       he claimed not to remember what happened during his absence. Yet
+       Garibaldi has had flashes of memory, so that answer wasn't
+       entirely honest. Was the telepath lying herself, perhaps to
+       protect the interests of the Corps, or did Garibaldi simply
+       believe he was telling the truth, in that he can't recall more
+       than brief cryptic flashes?
+     * The people in Edgars' laboratory are presumably telepaths. If
+       that's true, their condition is probably related to the telepathic
+       disease Garibaldi learned about in [31]"Conflicts of Interest,"
+       and the drug Edgars' people were withholding was most likely
+       derived from the substance Garibaldi helped smuggle through the
+       station.
+       It's worth noting, however, that the placement of the sores on the
+       patient's face were very similar to the insertion points of the
+       Shadow implants in the telepaths on the station. Perhaps Edgars
+       managed to get his hands on some implanted telepaths and is
+       performing his own experiments on them.
+     * It's also possible the substance Garibaldi saw wasn't a cure for
+       the virus, though that was implied by Edgars here in that there
+       was clearly some drug that can be given to ease whatever illness
+       his test subjects were suffering from. If instead Edgars is
+       developing the virus itself with the intent of releasing it and
+       wiping out all human telepaths, spreading rumors before its
+       release about a genetic flaw inherent in telepaths might help
+       deflect suspicion later.
+       Or, to take it further, Edgars may be producing both the virus and
+       the cure, with the intent of infecting Earth's telepaths then
+       using availability of the cure -- which apparently requires
+       continuous usage -- to gain control over the Corps himself.
+     * Franklin said Sheridan hadn't changed since returning from
+       Z'ha'dum, "except for..." He stopped himself before completing
+       that sentence. Was this just a reference to Lorien's
+       life-restoration energies, which Franklin noted in [32]"Falling
+       Toward Apotheosis?" Or does he know about something else?
+     * Assuming Sheridan asked Franklin to bring the newly awakened
+       telepaths with him to Mars, it's likely he's anticipating some
+       kind of conflict with the Psi Corps when he moves to liberate it.
+       Given Franklin's reaction, it's unlikely Sheridan proposed
+       anything as innocuous as using the telepaths to help shield
+       members of the Mars resistance from detection.
+       It's also not clear where the frozen telepaths' loyalties will lie
+       even if Franklin manages to extract their implants and give them
+       back control of their own minds. They're all fugitive telepaths
+       ("blips," as Bester called them in [33]"Ship of Tears") so
+       presumably have no love for the Corps, but that doesn't
+       necessarily mean they'll be willing to act on Sheridan's behalf.
+       Of course, that assumes Sheridan wants Franklin to give them back
+       mastery of their own thoughts; perhaps his order was instead for
+       Franklin to find a way to use the implants to take control of the
+       telepaths.
+     * Given the frozen telepaths' effect on computer systems, one
+       possible use would be to smuggle them onto Mars and wake them up
+       near some of Earth Force's communication network; they'd
+       presumably throw it into disarray and allow Sheridan's forces to
+       move in on a disorganized enemy.
+     * Lyta's expanded powers were in evidence again. The psi rating of
+       the telepath in Medlab was never mentioned, but Lyta was
+       telepathically strong enough to force him to stop in his tracks as
+       he tried to kill himself. If she can do that to a fellow telepath,
+       who presumably would have instinctively tried to block her, can
+       she do the same -- or worse -- to a normal human?
+     * The awakened telepath didn't react reflexively to Lyta's Psi Corps
+       badge the way Carolyn did in [34]"Ship of Tears." Why not? He
+       wasn't merged with any machinery as Carolyn was, so he couldn't
+       have thrown lightning bolts. But he didn't appear to react at all.
+       Perhaps the Shadows' anti-Corps conditioning wasn't universally
+       applied.
+     * Lyta's indignant response to Zack's request was likely brought on
+       by his previous request that he scan Garibaldi ([35]"Moments of
+       Transition.") That request may have led her to automatically
+       assume the worst when Zack asked for her services.
+     * Edgars and Clark may believe that Clark is using the Psi Corps,
+       but it's just as plausible that by now, they're using him. The
+       Corps could feed misinformation to Clark in order to bolster its
+       own standing, and since, as Edgars said, Clark is trusting the
+       Corps to ferret out liars and turncoats, he'd be unable to tell
+       that they were leading him on.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The title is a reference to Aristotle's definition of happiness:
+       "The exercise of vital powers along lines of excellence in a life
+       affording them scope."
+     * Edgars alluded to "Clark's 'Night of the Long Knives.'" That's a
+       reference to Roman history, when, in the year 31 AD, the emperor
+       Tiberius had his aide Sejanus and his followers killed in a purge.
+       A more recent use of the same term was to describe Hitler's
+       [36]purge of the rival SA faction of the Nazi Party in 1934.
+     * The title as shown at the top of act one is missing the leading
+       "The." But the "The" was present in the pre-show information
+       screen on the initial US satellite feed, and it's present in the
+       episode listings sent out by Warner Bros., so it's included here.
+     * Both Edgars and Sheridan love fresh orange juice ([37]"The
+       Geometry of Shadows.")
+     * Continuity glitch: When Lise and Garibaldi are talking in his
+       room, after she brings him dinner, she starts to leave, but stays
+       and closes the door most of the way. After she's done talking,
+       Garibaldi moves across the room to her and shuts the wide-open
+       door.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * It's a very different feel...leisurely, in a way, but no less
+       tense. A good addition to the mix.
+     * One thing on the line Wade speaks...the actor consistently got the
+       line wrong. It read, "Everything is illusion, Mr. Garibaldi;
+       _constructs_ of light, language, metaphor," rather than concepts.
+       There is a subtle but distinct difference.
+     * Garibaldi's said he doesn't trust telepaths ever since the pilot
+       movie. It's a question of degrees at this point.
+     * _What book was Edgars reading when Garibaldi walked in?_
+       The Bible.
+     * _Were the scars on the sick telepaths from the removal of
+       implants?_
+       No, just standard lesions.
+       Remember, a man as smart and rich as Edgars can surely afford
+       private lesions for his "kids."
+       
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+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Sheridan's search for his father leads him into danger on Mars.
+     Lyta warns Franklin of an impending clash between telepaths and
+     mundanes. Garibaldi chooses between loyalty to Sheridan and to
+     Edgars. [15]Richard Gant as Captain MacDougan. [16]Denise Gentile
+     as Lise. [17]Walter Koenig as Bester. [18]Marjorie Monaghan as
+     Number One. [19]Mark Schneider as Wade. [20]Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as
+     William Edgars.
+     
+[21]P5 Rating: [22]9.26
+
+Production number: 417
+Original air week: June 9, 1997
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
+   _Warning: This episode reveals a lot of information, and there are
+   spoilers below. Think twice before reading on if you haven't seen the
+   episode._
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * Clark's ship commanders have been convinced that if they surrender
+       to Sheridan, they'll be killed and their crews replaced by
+       Minbari. Perceiving they have nothing to lose, they are therefore
+       willing to fight the rebel forces to the death.
+     * Sheridan has been captured by Clark's forces. Garibaldi personally
+       sprung the trap, which earned him a commendation from ISN and
+       condemnation from Ivanova: she has ordered B5's personnel to shoot
+       him on sight.
+     * Ivanova is now in command of the rebel fleet, and has vowed to
+       keep up the fight with or without Sheridan.
+     * Sheridan's old ship, the Agamemnon ([23]"Points of Departure") has
+       joined the rebel fleet. (See [24]Notes)
+     * The telepath virus described by Wade and Lise in [25]"Conflicts of
+       Interest" is indeed real, as is the drug to suppress it -- but the
+       virus was developed by Edgars' company. It is airborne, 100%
+       contagious, and completely harmless to normals. Telepaths have to
+       take the cure every two weeks, or they'll die. Edgars' plan was to
+       release it on Earth and use control of the cure to effectively
+       enslave all the telepaths, preventing them from ever gaining the
+       upper hand over normals. Bester believes the virus was developed
+       with the help of the Shadows, who had a vested interest in wiping
+       out telepaths.
+     * When Justin told Sheridan that the Shadows wouldn't kill him
+       because someone else would come along and take his place
+       ([26]"Z'ha'dum") he had specific people in mind: Delenn, Ivanova
+       and Garibaldi. The Shadows decided that given his innate paranoia,
+       Garibaldi would be easiest to cause to turn away from Sheridan's
+       cause, thus sabotaging the Army of Light in Sheridan's absence.
+       The Psi Corps was given the assignment of programming Garibaldi.
+       They took him to a secret facility on Mars, where Bester
+       intervened and added some programming of his own.
+       Bester was aware that some kind of action was being planned
+       against the Corps, but he didn't know what or by whom. Given
+       Garibaldi's proven track record at ferreting out conspiracies,
+       Bester instructed his colleagues to leave Garibaldi's personality
+       largely intact, and to accentuate his natural sense of paranoia
+       and distrust. Garibaldi's resignation was an unexpected bonus that
+       put him in a perfect position to infiltrate Edgars' organization.
+       Garibaldi's mission was to gather information about the threat to
+       the Psi Corps if the opportunity arose, then signal Bester.
+     * Bester has removed Garibaldi's programming, leaving him with full
+       memory of what was done to him and what he's done to Sheridan.
+     * Bester's people have murdered Edgars and Wade and may have taken
+       the virus. Lise's whereabouts are unknown.
+     * The Corps has engaged in clandestine operations in the past. While
+       Lyta was interning with the Psi Cops ([27]"Divided Loyalties")
+       someone started murdering telepaths. The Corps engaged in illegal
+       scans of civilians, and eventually found the killer. Rather than
+       simply kill him, they twisted his mind. According to Lyta, he's
+       now in a cell in a secret facility on Beta 2, straitjacketed 24
+       hours a day to keep him from clawing out his own eyes to stop the
+       nightmare visions only he can see.
+     * The Corps has gone even further with the establishment of
+       "bloodhound units," special undercover detachments of the Earth
+       military who are accompanied by telepaths. Their mission is to
+       perform random scans of the public and arrest any members of the
+       resistance they come across.
+     * Lyta believes there's likely to be a war between telepaths and
+       mundanes some day, when word of such operations gets out and the
+       trust the Corps has managed to build up evaporates as a result.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Where is Lise?
+     * What does Bester plan to do with the virus, assuming he has it?
+     * Does Franklin know the full extent of Sheridan's plans for the
+       frozen telepaths, and can he carry them out with Sheridan out of
+       the picture?
+     * Why didn't Franklin detect Garibaldi's false tooth during his
+       medical exams?
+     * Now that Ivanova is leading the fleet, will she continue her Voice
+       of the Resistance broadcasts?
+     * Is the Agamemnon's defection to the resistance what it seems?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * The resolution of the battle between Sheridan and Clark's forces
+       points out what may be Sheridan's most potent weapon against
+       Clark: not White Stars or superior strategy, but the presence of
+       previously loyal human commanders who lend credibility to the
+       rebel cause.
+     * The White Stars appear to have adapted to Earth's weapons; a hit
+       from an Earth heavy cruiser only disables a White Star until the
+       auto-repair systems come online. Even without the defection of so
+       many Earth ships, Ivanova is in command of an unstoppable military
+       force.
+     * Sheridan told the Agamemnon's captain that the rebel forces had
+       lost some battles, but had kept the news to themselves. ("We've
+       lost a few. We just made damned sure nobody heard about it.") How
+       is that possible? Wouldn't Clark jump at the chance to spread news
+       of victory over Sheridan's forces? And for that matter, would
+       Ivanova participate in covering up any losses, given her
+       insistence on telling the truth in her Voice of the Resistance
+       broadcasts? ([28]"Rumors, Bargains and Lies")
+       Perhaps Sheridan simply has a more specific definition of
+       "victory" than most other people. He didn't seem to consider the
+       outcome of the Proxima 3 battle a victory ([29]"No Surrender, No
+       Retreat") so perhaps he'd consider it a loss if he wound up having
+       to fight Clark's forces to the death.
+       Or maybe Sheridan wasn't referring to his current campaign, but
+       was speaking in general of his military career.
+     * Sheridan demonstrated a lack of caution in this episode, first
+       going over to the Agamemnon on a moment's notice (it could easily
+       have been sent by Clark as a trap) then agreeing to go to Mars by
+       himself. He even walked straight into a public place without
+       attempting to obscure his face, which has no doubt been featured
+       daily on ISN. That can be seen as evidence of what Garibaldi
+       referred to as a "God complex" -- Sheridan appears to have
+       disregarded his own fallibility.
+       It's possible that this stems in part from the glimpse of his own
+       future in [30]"War Without End, Part Two," which might lead
+       Sheridan to believe that no matter what he does now, he'll be
+       alive and free in 17 years.
+     * Sheridan's capture was similar to G'Kar's in [31]"Whatever
+       Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" Both of them left a place of relative
+       safety to try to rescue someone they cared about, and both were
+       captured by a regime that was oppressing their people. Both were
+       tortured after capture.
+     * The Agamemnon, according to its captain, had been modified to
+       track Sheridan's forces down. What, specifically, were the
+       modifications? And more importantly, how likely is it that Clark
+       would equip a ship specifically to seek Sheridan out without being
+       very sure of its loyalty?
+       The Agamemnon would make a perfect plant. Clark's people might
+       have figured that Sheridan's emotional attachment to it would
+       likely prompt him to put it in a position of trust, all the better
+       to sabotage Sheridan's efforts at a critical juncture. Of course,
+       Ivanova isn't biased toward trusting the Agamemnon, but at the
+       time the Agamemnon was sent out to find the rebel fleet, Clark had
+       no idea Sheridan's capture was imminent.
+       Its arrival just after the battle was also very convenient; its
+       captain could claim to be joining up with the rebels without
+       actually having to fire on Clark's forces. If it had indeed been
+       chasing after Sheridan for weeks, emerging from hyperspace at just
+       that moment was quite a coincidence.
+     * Was the Agamemnon's captain the one in command when it fired on
+       the White Star? ([32]"Messages From Earth")
+     * The Agamemnon has been involved in skirmishes with raiders near
+       Io. Who are the raiders? Are the Drakh ([33]"Lines of
+       Communication") encroaching on Earth's territory? Or are the
+       raiders simply opportunists out to take advantage of Sheridan's
+       campaign and its likely effect of drawing Earth forces away from
+       their home system?
+     * The Shadows were apparently right about Ivanova; she is indeed
+       taking Sheridan's place, just as Bester says they feared.
+     * Bester's manipulation of Garibaldi was foreshadowed in [34]"Dust
+       to Dust." Bester told Garibaldi, "I enjoyed working with you. We
+       made a good team. Perhaps we'll do it again sometime."
+       It was also foreshadowed, if obliquely, in [35]"Divided
+       Loyalties," in which Garibaldi _pretended_ to have a personality
+       implant, if only as a joke.
+       And before then, ironically, in [36]"The Quality of Mercy," Talia
+       and Garibaldi shared a moment of mutual foreshadowing when she
+       said to him, "Things that live inside us, Mr. Garibaldi. Terrible
+       things. Terrible."
+     * Bester referred to the Corps as "my telepaths." This echoes his
+       comment to Ivanova in [37]"Ship of Tears" that he had plans for
+       Earth's telepaths and didn't want the Shadows interfering.
+       Apparently he considers himself responsible for Earth's telepaths,
+       even if he's not officially in charge of the Corps.
+     * Did Bester's people get the virus? It's possible Lise took it when
+       she fled Edgars' compound. She wanted Garibaldi to help her stop
+       him, and taking the virus would be a big step in that direction.
+       Of course, that's assuming she could get to it; the Psi Cops could
+       presumably take control of Edgars and force him to use the
+       handprint reader, but Lise would have had a harder time getting to
+       the vials.
+       Garibaldi did see blast marks around the secret compartment,
+       though, suggesting that it was opened by force.
+     * The ISN broadcast showed investigators picking up a necklace from
+       the floor of Edgars' residence. That necklace, or one like it, was
+       being worn by Lise when she listened in on Edgars' conversation
+       with Garibaldi, suggesting she was in the room after Edgars and
+       Garibaldi left.
+     * Bester's supposition that the virus was developed with the help of
+       Shadow technology is consistent with the courier's claim in
+       [38]"Conflicts of Interest" that coming up with the cure was a job
+       beyond the capabilities of Earth's biologists, and that alien help
+       had been enlisted.
+     * If Bester is right about the Shadows helping create the virus, it
+       means Edgars was in contact with the Shadows, even if indirectly.
+       And indeed, Edgars and Wade seemed to espouse something like the
+       Shadow philosophy: the enslavement of normals by telepaths or vice
+       versa was a natural consequence of evolution.
+     * References to the Nazis abound: Edgars described his plan as a
+       solution to "the telepath problem," an echo of Hitler's "Jewish
+       problem." Bester told Garibaldi that he had just prevented a
+       Holocaust. Edgars even referred to the Nazis directly, though he
+       misspoke a date; he claimed they came to power in 1939, but in
+       fact Hitler was appointed Chancellor in 1933.
+     * Garibaldi's line about the last person with his job being paid 30
+       pieces of silver is a [39]Biblical reference. Judas was paid 30
+       pieces of silver to betray Jesus to the Romans. Even under the
+       influence of his altered personality, Garibaldi apparently has
+       moral qualms about betraying Sheridan.
+     * After Edgars told Garibaldi the full extent of his plans, Wade
+       told Garibaldi he wouldn't be allowed to leave Edgars' compound.
+       The implication was that any passing telepath (e.g. one of the
+       "bloodhound units") would be able to scan Garibaldi and learn
+       about the virus.
+       Why, then, was Wade allowed to travel to Babylon 5, and stay there
+       to recruit Garibaldi? Was Wade unaware of the big picture until
+       his return to Mars? The laboratory scene near the end of [40]"The
+       Exercise of Vital Powers" doesn't give the impression that Wade
+       just found out what Edgars was up to; he seemed to have witnessed
+       similar experiments in the past.
+       Perhaps Wade was drugged or brainwashed in some way that made him
+       more difficult to scan or that caused him to believe the story he
+       told Garibaldi in [41]"Conflicts of Interest."
+     * Bester's release of Garibaldi was, in some ways, an act of
+       arrogance; in essence, Bester was saying that he didn't consider
+       Garibaldi a threat. Given Garibaldi's determination in the past,
+       he'll likely seek revenge or justice, and he won't rest until he
+       has it.
+     * Despite Bester's apparently accurate warning that Garibaldi's old
+       comrades wouldn't want to have anything to do with him any more,
+       Garibaldi did try to get in touch with Babylon 5. How will he be
+       able to prove his story to them, and prove that he's no longer
+       under Bester's influence? One obvious answer is to submit to a
+       scan by Lyta, whose Vorlon-enhanced powers appear to far exceed
+       Bester's. She would easily be able to verify Garibaldi's story,
+       and her word might be enough to convince the others.
+       Edgars' order to Garibaldi to fire Lyta ([42]"Moments of
+       Transition") may, ironically, have been his downfall. If Edgars
+       hadn't forced Garibaldi to get rid of her, she might have
+       eventually detected Bester's handiwork and removed it, and Edgars
+       would still be alive.
+     * Why didn't Edgars release the virus? What was he waiting for? In
+       [43]"The Exercise of Vital Powers," he seemed satisfied that the
+       virus worked, and even asked that a test of its effectiveness be
+       terminated.
+       Since his aim was to control the telepaths, not simply wipe them
+       out, perhaps he needed to wait until he had enough of the cure
+       manufactured to supply to millions of victims.
+       Edgars said he was waiting for Clark to drop his guard, but it's
+       not clear what difference that would have made; Clark's level of
+       paranoia would presumably have little effect on the spread of the
+       virus and the demise of the telepaths.
+     * Edgars' plans didn't amount to anything in the end. He was the
+       only known credible threat to the Psi Corps. Now that he's dead
+       and the Corps has control of his weapon against them, and Ivanova
+       is continuing the rebel advance even in the face of Sheridan's
+       capture, Edgars' fear of Clark panicking and giving increasing
+       amounts of control to the Psi Corps may well become a reality.
+       Of course, Sheridan may have anticipated that problem, and the
+       frozen telepaths may be his answer.
+     * In [44]"The Exercise of Vital Powers," Edgars implied that there
+       were other powerful megacorps dissatisfied with Clark, and that
+       his company was one of several planning to move against the
+       government. Will any of the others act now that Edgars is out of
+       the picture?
+     * The problem may have gotten even worse thanks to Edgars: if the
+       Corps has the virus, they'll presumably spend a good deal of
+       effort studying it. The virus selects its victims via the presence
+       of the telepathy genes. Developing that selectivity from scratch
+       may have required the aid of the Shadows, but it might not be
+       beyond Earth's biotechnology to use it as a blueprint and produce
+       a modified version that selects for the _lack_ of the telepathy
+       gene -- thus giving the Corps the same power over normals that
+       Edgars wanted to gain over telepaths.
+       Or the Corps could use the virus to cement its own control over
+       all human telepaths. By releasing the virus and only giving the
+       cure to members of the Corps, they'd eliminate the problem of
+       rogue telepaths overnight. Latent telepaths like Ivanova would no
+       longer be able to hide themselves from the Corps.
+     * Bester could possibly also use the virus on Lyta; death by the
+       virus might be considered natural causes under the terms of her
+       contract ([45]"Moments of Transition.") Of course, such an
+       operation would be very risky, since Lyta would be contagious.
+     * Assuming Edgars kept detailed personnel records, the police will
+       most likely look to Garibaldi as a prime suspect in the murders.
+       Lise might also be a suspect. Both of them disappeared suddenly at
+       the time of the murder, and given their past history, the police
+       might conclude that Edgars' murder was a crime of passion
+       committed by two old lovers who wanted to be together again.
+     * The bloodhound units may have been in evidence before this
+       episode. In [46]"Conflicts of Interest," the two telepaths chasing
+       Garibaldi, Wade and Lise seemed to fit the description pretty
+       well. And, more speculatively, they could have been the ones to
+       plant the Keeper on Captain Jack in [47]"Racing Mars," since they
+       presumably would have had little trouble learning of his personal
+       association with Number One.
+     * Lyta's description of the Corps' treatment of the murderer is
+       strikingly similar to her threat to Londo in [48]"Passing Through
+       Gethsemane." Perhaps she was present when the murderer was
+       implanted and knows firsthand how to do such things. Maybe she was
+       even involved in the process; that could be the secret about her
+       Bester threatened to reveal in [49]"Epiphanies."
+     * Number One said that when Lyta passed through Mars a year and a
+       half earlier ([50]"Divided Loyalties") she made no mention of
+       being a telepath on the run from the Corps. That's inconsistent
+       with Lyta's story in that episode. She told Sheridan and the
+       others at that time that she'd been helping out the resistance,
+       and implied that they'd hired her for her telepathic skills.
+     * Number One apparently really _does_ treat all her former lovers
+       like she treated Phillipe ([51]"Lines of Communication.")
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Harlan Ellison has a cameo appearance in this episode. He's the
+       Psi Cop Bester instructs to alter Garibaldi's personality.
+     * Bester's parting salute to Garibaldi, "Be seeing you," is a
+       reference to the 60s TV show "The Prisoner." Bester first used the
+       salute in [52]"Mind War."
+     * Garibaldi is now missing a molar.
+     * The appearance of the Agamemnon contradicts the attack scene at
+       the end of [53]"Moments of Transition," in which the Agamemnon can
+       be seen attacking civilian targets. However, as JMS noted in
+       response to comments on that episode, the use of the Agamemnon was
+       a slipup on the part of the production team.
+     * The Cadmus, the ship that surrendered to Sheridan and MacDougan,
+       is named after a mythological hero. Cadmus slew a dragon, and when
+       he sowed the dragon's teeth, a race of warriors sprang from the
+       ground.
+     * This is the series' second attack on someone using a skin tab. The
+       first was the poisoning of Kosh in [54]"The Gathering."
+     * The Sheridan fight scene, shot in slow motion, was interspersed by
+       editor David Foster with shots taken by still photographer Byron
+       Cohen, who does most of the B5 publicity stills sent out to TV
+       stations.
+     * The shot of Garibaldi shown on the ISN broadcast is from the
+       season-three opening credits.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * I agree that it's probably one of the best we've done. I've now
+       watched it at least a dozen times in finished form, and it still
+       works for me.
+     * One thing I've been doing with the latter part of season 4 is to
+       experiment a little more, try different things. I feel that we
+       need to push visually to try new things, the sort of visual
+       techniques you don't see much in SF-TV, which for the most part is
+       fairly prosaic as these things go. And to push the writing, to try
+       some things that may succeed, or may fail, but you learn something
+       either way. In its way, next week's ep is just as experimental,
+       but in a very different direction.
+       Mike Vejar definitely did a great job with this episode.
+     * Zimbalist did a great job for us...he took huge gobs of exposition
+       and not only delivered them, he made them interesting.
+     * _Was he a fan of the show?_
+       Nope, just figured he'd be great for the job, and cast him without
+       audition. He didn't know anything about the show before that.
+     * _What was the shimmering wall Sheridan stood near on the White
+       Star bridge?_
+       Those were the autorepair systems at work.
+     * ""The Face of the Enemy" might represent the flipside of young
+       Delenn's claim in "Atonement" that the most dangerous enemy is the
+       one you know nothing about. Now the face of the enemy is the one
+       you know all too well, one which you take for granted until it's
+       revealed that the face is actually a mask."
+       Yep. It's one thing facing implacable, vast enemies...it's quite
+       another when you friend betrays you. That's personal.
+     * There isn't that much direct, personal violence in the show. My
+       feeling is that if you do that a lot, it loses any potential for
+       impact. You only pull out that card when you really need it, to
+       best effect...don't waste it. It's like harsh language, after
+       you've heard someone going on using all the more remarkable
+       Anglo-Saxon words for a while, it loses all impact.
+     * "I thought the fight was a bit too long for much the same reason
+       as you. All I can suggest is that John's metabolism isn't "normal"
+       any more, and perhaps this had an effect. (And maybe the bullyboys
+       were doing less damage than we think, simply to prolong the
+       "fun".)"
+       1) It was for dramatic/stylistic effect. Not everything done with
+       some style has to have a scientific explanation.
+       2) Having been mugged myself, time expands and slows down.
+       3) It's the TV cliche that fights are over in a second. Ask anyone
+       who's ever been in a real knock-down fight. It goes on a heck of a
+       lot longer than we showed here. When I got mugged it went on for
+       10 minutes.
+       One of the ironies in other messages on this (not this one here
+       specifically) is that some have noted the fast-paced editing,
+       which is supposedly associated with music video/short attention
+       span material...and then turn around and say it wasn't over fast
+       enough.
+     * _Was Lyta's story the secret from her past alluded to by Bester in
+       [55]"Epiphanies?"_
+       No, Franklin's comment to Lyta didn't involve her past, though we
+       will find out more about that in a bit.
+     * _Was Bester's salute a "Prisoner" reference?_
+       Nope, not a Prisoner homage at all, in any way.
+     * _Why mess Edgars' place up so thoroughly?_
+       They wanted it to look like it was done by the Resistance; too
+       much "attention" to his death would've drawn attention to the
+       Corps.
+     * Wade specificially says Lise wasn't there when they got back, so
+       that eliminates her from the scenario.
+     * _Why haven't the other races had conflict between their telepaths
+       and their normals?_
+       Obviously some, like the Minbari, dealt with it more easily than
+       others; and in some places it came through Vorlon interference,
+       while in others it came about naturally.
+     * "Wade had a great line about the clash of homo sapiens and
+       Neanderthals in Carthage. Was this line inspired by some of the
+       recent Neanderthal finds? Or was this part of your orignial
+       conception for the story?"
+       Not recent stuff, just a general knowledge of this area.
+       "Did Edgars really believe the Earthgov propaganda that Sheridan
+       was operating under the malignant influence of aliens?
+       Nope.
+       "Is Bester really done with Garibaldi?"
+       For the moment.
+       "One of the captains of the Earth vessels is named Leo Frank. Was
+       this a deliberate historical reference?"
+       Not intentionally.
+       "Franklin and Number One seem to have cooled their relationship.
+       Any further developments in the works here?"
+       Any more personal stuff got set aside when Franklin showed up a)
+       with another female, and b) she was a teep. When #1 calms down,
+       they might take another shot at it.
+       "Lastly, there is a bit of irony in the fact that the stage for
+       Sheridan's capture is set when he steps aboard his old ship, the
+       Agamemnon. Agamemnon was the supreme commander of the Greek forces
+       at Troy, who survived that long war, but who was betrayed and
+       murdered by his wife when he returned home. He blindly and
+       arrogantly stepped into a trap, as Sheridan also seemed to do."
+       Yeah...that's one of many reasons why I picked that
+       image/reference. It plays on a LOT of levels in the story.
+     * _Wasn't Edgars' complex guarded to keep people from leaving
+       without permission?_
+       If anybody could slip away, Garibaldi could.
+     * _Ivanova quoted Sheridan as saying, "The person is expendable. The
+       job is not." But in fact, it was Sinclair who said that, in
+       [56]"War Without End."_
+       But then, if I did everything perfectly, wouldn't it be boring?
+       
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Sheridan faces an inquisitor from Earthdome. [15]Wayne Alexander as
+     Drazi. [16]Raye Birk as William. [17]Bruce Gray as Interrogator.
+     
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]8.08
+
+Production number: 418
+Original air week: June 16, 1997
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John LaFia
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * Sheridan continues to be held in an interrogation center, most
+       likely on Mars.
+     * Clark believes Sheridan's credibility as a war hero is a threat to
+       the credibility of the administration. He wants Sheridan to recant
+       in public to restore the public's belief that "you can't beat the
+       system."
+     * Among the weapons Earth purchased from the Narn during the
+       Earth-Minbari War were paingivers ([20]"The Parliament of
+       Dreams.") The paingivers appear to work as well on humans as they
+       do on Narns.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Was the interrogation real, or was it all in Sheridan's mind like
+       the interrogation of Sinclair in [21]"And the Sky Full of Stars?"
+     * Was it really morning?
+     * Is Sheridan's father still being held?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * With Ivanova presumably continuing the campaign to retake Earth,
+       it's interesting that Clark's people seem intent on breaking
+       Sheridan to the exclusion of trying to interrogate him for
+       information about battle plans or other practical matters. Perhaps
+       they figure that he wouldn't give up such information until he had
+       gone over to their side anyway, but given the fact that Clark is
+       willing to send Psi Corps units out to scan the general public
+       ([22]"The Face of the Enemy") it's strange a telepath hasn't been
+       brought in to pull military information from Sheridan's head.
+     * In [23]"The Face of the Enemy," Ivanova quoted Sheridan as saying,
+       "The person is expendable. The job is not." The interrogator told
+       Sheridan much the same thing, with one exception: Sheridan himself
+       wasn't expendable. But that was only true as long as there was the
+       possibility of him performing a different job: communicating to
+       the public that Clark couldn't be beaten.
+     * The interrogator appeared to have disabled the paingivers after
+       Sheridan's first exposure to them; on several occasions after
+       that, the two of them were close together but Sheridan wasn't
+       shocked.
+     * Assuming the images of Delenn weren't telepathic projections of
+       some kind on her part, Sheridan's repeated visions of her echoed
+       his experience on Z'ha'dum in [24]"Whatever Happened to Mr.
+       Garibaldi?" The knowledge that Delenn is still out there, awaiting
+       his return, is an island of stability Sheridan can cling to.
+       The interrogator clearly knew of his relationship with Delenn --
+       not a big secret after the ISN report in [25]"The Illusion of
+       Truth." Will the next interrogator realize that Sheridan is using
+       her as an anchor, and try to undermine that directly, e.g. by
+       presenting faked evidence that something has happened to her?
+     * "Room 17" is probably a reference to George Orwell's "1984," in
+       which Winston Smith, the protagonist, hears of people taken to
+       Room 101, but has no idea what goes on there.
+     * The interrogator insisted that he was telling Sheridan the truth,
+       but also insisted that the truth is fluid. That means little, if
+       anything, the interrogator told Sheridan can be taken at face
+       value.
+     * The interrogator said he thought his speech about poison was a
+       metaphor for something, but he couldn't figure out what. In
+       addition to the historical nod (see [26]Notes) the speech can be
+       interpreted as a metaphor for what he was trying to do to
+       Sheridan. First he convinced Sheridan to agree to little lies (the
+       time of day.) After a steady diet of small untruths, the
+       interrogator hoped, Sheridan would become more and more receptive
+       to bigger and bigger lies, until he was ready to swallow anything
+       suggested to him.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The interrogator mentioned that Sheridan had been interrogated
+       once before. That referred to [27]"Comes the Inquisitor," in which
+       Sheridan was interrogated by Jack the Ripper (played by Wayne
+       Alexander, who played the Drazi in this episode.)
+     * Possible continuity glitch: When the interrogator left the room
+       and the loud voice started repeating its message, Sheridan covered
+       his ears. At the beginning of the next act, when the interrogator
+       returned, Sheridan's hands were bound to the chair. Of course,
+       it's possible other people came into the room in the interim and
+       forced him to listen.
+     * The interrogator didn't get sick from the sandwich, he claimed,
+       because he'd been eating a little poison every day and had built
+       up a resistance. This has historical precedent; for instance, King
+       Mithridates of Pontus, 135-63 BC, who eventually tried to commit
+       suicide by swallowing large quantities of poison but couldn't kill
+       himself because his resistance was too great.
+     * Perhaps simply by coincidence, this "1984"esque story is the 84th
+       one-hour episode.
+     * Taking numerology to an absurd extreme, add episode 84 to room 17
+       and you get 101, the mystery room number from "1984."
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * _About the title_
+       Each act took place in real time, no time jumps...the conversation
+       happened as it happened. Since you had act breaks in between them,
+       those became intersections...in real time.
+     * As this has the potential to be a very cool and somewhat
+       experimental episode, I'd rather say nothing until later.
+     * I don't usually comment on this, but...if I had known *with
+       absolute certainty* that there would be a season 5, then season 4
+       would have ended with 418, "Intersections in Real Time." So you
+       only pull 4 episodes forward, really. You'll understand when you
+       see it.
+     * I like this one a lot. It takes some real chances, and it has some
+       nasty twists and turns. I like that in a story....
+     * Actually, one episode coming up in this batch is, according to
+       John Copeland, the single most subversive thing we've ever done on
+       the show. It's a *mean* episode and completely, unabashedly
+       underhanded in its way of illuminating certain things. While,
+       oddly enough, ending in a positive fashion, despite George
+       Johnsen's comment at playback during the audio mix, "Okay, what
+       sadistic m-----f----- wrote this thing?"
+     * "You understand the concepts of breaking down a human psyche."
+       (shrugs) Well, sure...I work for Warner Bros.
+     * _Warner Bros.' wacky scheduling is actually appropriate this time._
+       Yep...it is that. At last I have a proper cliffhanger and a proper
+       wait afterward.
+     * _Why do people do end-of-season cliffhangers?_
+       It's basically a means to get the audience, which has been away
+       for a long time, to come back to resolve a hanging point and
+       jump-start them into the episodes. If it ends cleanly, apparently
+       a lot of folks in any series will just forget to tune in the
+       following season.
+     * _Was Bruce Boxleitner's beard for real?_
+       Bruce had some time between episodes, and began to grow the beard
+       for real, and we darkened it down for later acts.
+     * _The costumes and set design were ripoffs of "The Prisoner."_
+       You're wrong. The costumer has never even *seen* the Prisoner, as
+       far as I know, and the suit he wore was one of our standard earth
+       suits which we've used before on the show, just tailored it to fit
+       his form. And the set design is just your basic black room with
+       chairs, nothing more. I also doubt muchly that Flinn has ever seen
+       The Prisoner...which was a very well and brightly lit show,
+       whereas this played to darkness.
+     * _Was the Drazi really there? He was played by the same actor who
+       played Jack._
+       The Drazi was really there...has to be, or the ep loses some of
+       its teeth. And yeah, we kinda liked the symmetry of Wayne being in
+       this ep.
+     * Yes, the Drazi was working with the EA the whole time, rendering
+       Sheridan's "victory" impotent.
+     * _What was the message of this episode?_
+       The message is just that, that we *all* have to choose to resist
+       from time to time, and that one individual can fight the system.
+       And we are all that individual at one time or another.
+     * There was a lot of give-and-take in that episode, and at times
+       maybe the interrogator was near the truth, or a form of it...but
+       always distorting it, using it for his benefit. Slippery slopes
+       indeed....
+     * "Theres alot of truth to your notion of the TRUTH. It raises
+       points I'd rather not think about. Where do these notions of yours
+       originate?"
+       Usually at 3 in the morning when I can't sleep....
+     * _Why doesn't Clark just have Bester reprogram Sheridan?_
+       Because they don't want him reprogrammed; as William says, another
+       teep could see that he'd been altered. They want him *sincerely
+       broken*. Not just rewired.
+       And yeah, I wanted this to function almost as a play in structure.
+       In fact, when we shot it, we did it in full-act chunks. The actors
+       would come in in the morning, rehearse it as they would a play,
+       then we'd shoot it the way we'd shoot a play, straight through.
+     * _But if Clark is in control of the Corps, no other teep would scan
+       Sheridan, right?_
+       It matters because there are plenty of alien teeps out there as
+       well as human ones, and you can always get a rogue in there.
+     * _Did Sheridan say very little to avoid giving the interrogator
+       anything to use against him?_
+       That's one reason (among many) that I kept Sheridan silent for the
+       most part; a) because the less he says the better overall from his
+       position, and b) the audience would want to respond for him.
+     * _The interrogator looked like an ordinary person._
+       Exactly. The banal face of evil. You look at most of the guys who
+       ran Treblinka, or Bergen-Belsen, and they're largely ordinary
+       looking guys, who could be accountants or repair men or car
+       salesmen. They're *us*...and this was designed to remind us of
+       that. The evil, mustache-twirling villain is too easy, and too far
+       from the truth of it.
+     * This was one of the elements that made the episode interesting for
+       me; most SF tends to ignore the darker sides of the common person.
+       They deal with the big bad guys, the evil federations and Darth
+       Vaders and all the other major forces out there, but all too often
+       the real damage is done not by the single Evil Leader, but by the
+       ten million people who *follow* him, the bookkeepers who track the
+       bodies and the trains and the pain by placing the right figures in
+       all the right columns, who make the trains run on time, who run
+       the gulags, who build the new state empires that will be built
+       with slave labor, any or all of whom could say, as many have, "I
+       was just doing my job."
+       Not so much "following orders," we've heard that before, applied
+       to the military...but just "doing my job." To the interrogator, he
+       was simply doing his job, and doing it to the best of his ability.
+       It is something he does, then he goes home to his wife and kids,
+       and has dinner, and sits out on the porch trying to forget what he
+       does because he thinks he *has* to do it...assuming he thinks
+       about it at all.
+     * _Referring to [28]"Comes the Inquisitor"_
+       "It's Johnny who's "alone in the dark", facing unrelenting
+       pressure to give up, knowing that if he dies under torture his
+       friends may never know for certain what happened to him."
+       Which is what the Inquisitor said he would have to face.
+     * _This story must have been based on "Closetland." There were a
+       bunch of similarities..._
+       The one room;
+       Interrogations usually take place in one cell. Take a look at
+       "Midnight Express," or any of a dozen or so other interrogation
+       movies.
+       the two main characters;
+       Closetland had just two; here we had others, a second
+       interrogator, the Drazi, others.
+       the taunting with food and drink;
+       Standard fare for any such interrogation.
+       the recorded message about cooperation and rewards;
+       ditto
+       the talk about breaking the body to then break the mind;
+       ditto again
+       the ruse of taking the prisoner to another room, yet having it be
+       just another prison.
+       Where did this happen in Closetland? It didn't, from what I dimly
+       recall of the thing.
+       I based this episode on a fairly substantial amount of reading and
+       background in knowing about how people are treated in prison camps
+       and the like. There are only so many things you can do to someone
+       in a closed room to try and break them. Heck, look at William
+       Saroyan's "Hello, Out There" for other similarities that *way*
+       precede Closetland. I'm sorry to astonish you, but the techniques
+       of interrogation existed long before B5 or ST or Closetland came
+       into existence, and will continue (sadly) long afterward. The
+       techniques are the techniques, and those are well documented. The
+       *stories* have nothing whatsoever in common.
+       Over the last ten years or so, there have been a number of films
+       which have looked at the process of interrogation in South
+       American and European countries, using a very similar structure to
+       what was done here, because the ways in which the "problem" are
+       handled are pretty much universal. They don't all stem from the
+       same film, or book, or story...but rather from the realities
+       involved. They did what they did, and we did what we did, for the
+       same reasons: to bring this sort of behavior into the light. There
+       have also been innumerable plays with a similar structure.
+       In cop movie #1, a suspect is arrested, read his Miranda rights,
+       brought to the station, stuck into a cell with one or two other
+       people, brought into an interrogation room with one or two cops,
+       goes round and round with them, and finally confesses. Cop movie
+       #2 does a similar thing...now, did movie #2 take from movie #1, or
+       did it just draw on what is *done*?
+       No, I'm sorry, but I wasn't thinking about Closetland, or Star
+       Trek, or The Prisoner, or much of anything else when I wrote this
+       episode. I was thinking about this character, from this show, who
+       must be made to confess to alien influence, *which has been
+       paraded by Earthforce for almost a year now*. It is an absolute
+       and logical extension of what has gone before. As someone who has
+       degrees in both Psychology and Sociology, and who has been a
+       supporter of PEN International (a multinational group that
+       monitors the treatment of writers who are prisoners of conscience
+       in other countires) for years, I have had a longstanding interest
+       and familiarity with this area...and through my European roots
+       with relatives who were in Germany and Poland when the camps were
+       in full swing, and later when the Russian government beat down its
+       people. I have plenty of personal background on this one.
+       
+
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
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+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Garibaldi is captured by the Mars Resistance. Ivanova's fleet
+     clashes with Clark's forces. A plan to free Sheridan is launched.
+     [15]Marjorie Monaghan as Number One.
+     
+[16]P5 Rating: [17]8.84
+
+Production number: 419
+Original air week: October 6, 1997
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * With the help of a deep scan by Lyta, who is able to break past
+       blocks put in place by P12 telepaths, Garibaldi has convinced
+       Franklin and the others that Bester manipulated him into betraying
+       his fellow officers.
+     * Garibaldi, Franklin, and Lyta have freed Sheridan.
+     * Londo and G'Kar have convinced the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to
+       join the fight against Clark and help Sheridan, who came to their
+       aid against the Shadows. Sheridan's fleet now contains Narn and
+       Centauri warships, among others.
+     * Not all the so-called defectors to the rebel fleet have really
+       betrayed Earth; there are some spies who have been feeding
+       information about fleet movement back to Earth.
+     * Earth has been adapting Shadow technology for use in its own
+       ships. The resulting vessels are capable of putting up a strong
+       fight against White Star-class ships.
+     * Ivanova was mortally injured during a clash with a fleet of
+       Shadow-enhanced Earth ships. Minbari physicians estimate she has
+       no more than a week left.
+     * At Ivanova's request, Sheridan has assumed command of the
+       Agamemnon once again.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What other Shadow technology has Earth adapted?
+     * What impact has Sheridan's interrogation had on his psyche?
+     * How badly was the White Star fleet damaged by the battle?
+     * Did Garibaldi and the others leave Mars with Sheridan?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * G'Kar's feeling of debt to Sheridan is obvious: Sheridan gave him
+       sanctuary ([18]"The Long, Twilight Struggle") and aided the Narn
+       during their war with the Centauri ([19]"Acts of Sacrifice" and
+       [20]"The Fall of Night," among others.) It's less clear why Londo
+       would be willing to put his people on the line to the same extent.
+       Londo, at least from his perspective, took care of the Centauri
+       Republic's Shadow "problem" on his own, without Sheridan's
+       intervention ([21]"Into the Fire.") While he may since have
+       learned of Sheridan's role in sparing Centauri Prime from
+       destruction by the Vorlon planet-killer, he never worked closely
+       with Sheridan as G'Kar did.
+       One possibility is that Londo feels he has to repay Sheridan for
+       telling him of the approach of the Vorlons ([22]"Falling Toward
+       Apotheosis.") Londo did tell Sheridan he owed him a favor in
+       return.
+       Or it may be a simple matter of redemption: Londo certainly
+       realizes that he helped the Shadows, and he may feel he needs to
+       make up for his past misdeeds. In [23]"No Surrender, No Retreat,"
+       Londo told G'Kar that he wanted to help the humans because they'd
+       been friends, and he'd been ignoring his friends too long.
+     * G'Kar praised humanity as a bridge that has allowed the other
+       races to work together. That's the same argument Londo made to him
+       in [24]"No Surrender, No Retreat." Delenn has expressed the same
+       sentiment as well, e.g. in [25]"And Now For a Word" with her
+       closing remark about humans building communities.
+     * The League's unanimous vote ran counter to Sheridan's request that
+       they stay out of Earth's civil war ([26]"No Surrender, No
+       Retreat.") Upon his return, however, he didn't seem to object to
+       the presence of the alien vessels; has he changed his mind about
+       the need to credibly deny that his campaign is due to alien
+       influence?
+     * Just how powerful is Lyta? She has set off planetary defense
+       systems from light-years away ([27]"Epiphanies,") is able to
+       easily slide past defenses put in place by the Psi Corps' most
+       talented members, and can project detailed memories into the minds
+       of others. There must be limits to her ability; Kosh was able to
+       block her out ([28]"Falling Toward Apotheosis.") But she appears
+       to be light-years ahead of any other human telepath since Jason
+       Ironheart ([29]"Mind War.")
+     * Lyta appeared startled when Garibaldi mentioned the conspiracy
+       against the Psi Corps. Did she pull the details out of his mind,
+       and if so, is the knowledge useful to her in any way?
+     * Why did Number One believe the images Lyta sent to her? Given
+       Number One's distrust of telepaths, wouldn't she suspect that Lyta
+       was feeding her fictitious images? Of course, it's possible she
+       believed it because Lyta also transmitted the belief that the
+       images were legitimate.
+       On the other hand, it's strange that Number One's people were also
+       convinced immediately; given the resistance's innate distrust of
+       telepaths, why weren't they suspicious of her immediate reversal
+       of attitude after Lyta apparently did something to her mind?
+     * How much does Ivanova know about Marcus' feelings for her? When he
+       walked into the sleeping chamber, he didn't think she suspected --
+       hence his "You will never know" comment -- but clearly she
+       suspects _something_ now that she knows what he said to her
+       earlier ([30]"Shadow Dancing.")
+     * How was Earth able to adapt Shadow technology so quickly, given
+       that it's millions of years more advanced and apparently has a
+       completely dissimilar basis (living matter as opposed to steel and
+       wires?) Did Clark's people, or maybe the Psi Corps, receive
+       technical assistance from the Shadows at some point?
+       Earth's weapons researchers weren't completely new to the concept
+       of living weapons; the confiscated Ikarran artifact in
+       [31]"Infection" was in their hands for nearly four years. It's
+       possible that studying that artifact, which presumably was a less
+       advanced form of organic technology than that used by the Shadows,
+       gave them the context they needed to begin to understand Shadow
+       artifacts. The ships on Mars and Ganymede ([32]"Messages from
+       Earth") would have provided chances for experimentation, if brief
+       ones.
+     * Was Sheridan's father freed too, or is he still being held? The
+       interrogator implied that Clark's forces still had him. Even
+       without Garibaldi's help, Sheridan's father can presumably still
+       be used as leverage against Sheridan.
+     * Sheridan was in a rather confused mental state when he was
+       rescued. Will his interrogation have any lasting effect on his
+       psyche? Many people would be scarred for life from such an
+       experience. On the other hand, Sheridan has already been through a
+       rough time -- death -- and after that, the rest may seem minor in
+       comparison.
+     * Why did Ivanova ask Sheridan to lead the final battle from the
+       bridge of the Agamemnon? Symbolism, most likely, since she
+       expressed concern about it earlier. But clearly, he'd be safer on
+       the bridge of one of the White Star ships, Ivanova's injury
+       notwithstanding. She must be aware that her request puts the
+       integrity of the fleet -- which depends on Sheridan himself as a
+       symbol, every bit as much as it depends on the participation of
+       Earth ships -- in greater jeopardy.
+       The symbolism aspect is the most likely explanation; a fleet led
+       by an Earth warship will be harder for Clark to explain away as
+       mere alien interference.
+       It's also possible, given the discovery that not all the defecting
+       ships are loyal to Sheridan, that Ivanova wanted Sheridan on the
+       bridge of the Agamemnon to ensure that its captain couldn't betray
+       the rebel cause.
+     * Sheridan's use of the Agamemnon after Ivanova's fall has symbolic
+       meaning on another level: Agamemnon was the commander of the Greek
+       forces during the Trojan War, and he sacrificed his daughter
+       Iphigenia to ensure fair wind for his ships. Ivanova, while
+       obviously not Sheridan's daughter, sacrificed herself to ensure
+       that the fleet would make it to Mars.
+       In Euripides' version of the Greek myth, Iphigenia was switched
+       with a hind (a deer) at the last minute by Artemis, who among
+       other things was the goddess of virgins. Iphigenia lived
+       thereafter in a distant country as the high priestess in one of
+       Artemis' temples. The [33]"Endgame" page has more on that.
+     * Garibaldi doesn't have very good luck with his back, between the
+       knifing in this episode and the gunshot in [34]"Chrysalis." An
+       additional irony is that he was stabbed in the back while helping
+       rescue Sheridan, who he stabbed in the back in a metaphorical
+       sense.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Earthforce is expanding the underground Mars tunnel system,
+       leading to instability in the existing tunnels.
+     * Ivanova has eidetic memory (photographic memory or perfect recall,
+       as it's more commonly known.)
+     * The VR machine used to interrogate Sheridan is similar to the
+       machine used to interrogate Sinclair in [35]"And the Sky Full of
+       Stars."
+     * After Franklin finishes sewing up Garibaldi's wound, the team
+       proceeds down the tunnel. Part of a discarded newspaper is visible
+       in the background, including the headline "TIAGO" and "TED" on the
+       next line. The headline is probably "Santiago Elected," the same
+       newspaper headline visible in [36]"Grey 17 Is Missing."
+     * The Damocles, which Ivanova's fleet fought at the beginning of the
+       episode, is named after a figure in Greek mythology. As told by
+       Cicero, Damocles was a courtier under Dionysius of Syracuse, who
+       had risen to power by violence. He envied what he imagined to be
+       his ruler's pampered and carefree life, so Dionysius decided to
+       let Damocles experience what his life was really like. In the
+       midst of a sumptuous banquet, Damocles discovered that a sword was
+       suspended by a horsehair over his head, ready to drop at any
+       moment. Dionysius said he felt the same anxiety every day,
+       surrounded by enemies waiting to take his life at the first sign
+       of weakness.
+     * The title most likely refers to the mantra recited by Delenn and
+       others upon entering the Grey Council: "I am Grey. I stand between
+       the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between the
+       darkness and the light." ([37]"Babylon Squared," among others.) It
+       may also refer to a transition from darkness to light; Sheridan's
+       return certainly qualifies.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * It's a nice, quiet little episode.
+       Well, at least, in comparison to what's coming....
+     * _Was this episode filmed after Claudia Christian decided to leave?_
+       Negative. We'd finished all S4 shooting at the time this occured.
+       _Were new scenes shot and edited in?_
+       Negative.
+     * _Was there a scene missing between Sheridan shooting the guard and
+       his arrival on the Minbari ship?_
+       Yes, there was a small scene that got cut for time.
+       Good catch.
+     * The Garibaldi material through the map sequence with Number One
+       was originally in "Intersections." It got shunted over to 419 when
+       418 ran 7-8 minutes long, and 419 ran 8 minutes short.
+     * _During the interrogation, the female interrogator said, "Put a
+       bullet in his head." But Earth uses PPGs now, not bullets._
+       Nope. We've established (in Grey 17 is Missing, for instance) that
+       guns are still used on Earth and elsewhere; but in a space
+       station, you don't want a slug-thrower because it tends to a)
+       ricochet a lot off metal walls, or b) cut through something vital
+       that would breach the hull potentially.
+     * _About Ivanova's eidetic memory_
+       She's a latent telepath. About a P1. As has been established on
+       the show in the past. That gives her a slight edge in many areas.
+       Also, an eidetic memory does not equal facility with language. I
+       have a somewhat eidetic memory. I can usually remember visuals and
+       things said to me with extreme clarity. (Unless I'm in convention
+       mode at the time, at which point all bets are off.) But I have a
+       real problem with learning languages, which involves not just
+       memorization, but *translation,* which is a skill, a knack that
+       some others have and some don't. (Spanish rolled off me, but for
+       some reason I have a knack for German, though my vocabulary's gone
+       all to hell.)
+     * "These new EA ships with Shadow tech...Are they susceptible to
+       telepaths like the shadow vessels were?"
+       Negative...they don't have living beings as CPUs, they're still
+       working at adapting the basic tech, the other stuff is still a bit
+       advanced.
+       "By the way, the EA adaptation to the shadow tech is accurately
+       done. Keep the basic Omega design and modify where needed."
+       Got it in one.
+     * The Advanced destroyer group was still somewhat in the works when
+       they hauled it out to go after the fleet. They'd been expecting
+       mainly to go after other Earth ships (as was noted in the
+       episode), and didn't count on exclusively being confronted by
+       Whitestars. Still, there were a lot of them here, and they did a
+       lot of damage by sheer force of numbers.
+       Corwin would be running the station in everyone's absence.
+     * _About Ivanova's speech_
+       Yeah, it was a bit over the top, deliberately so.
+       I put it in the category of a boxer who's going up against an
+       opponent who may be well matched...and wants to psych the other
+       person out.
+       If you look at "Give me liberty or give me death!" or similar
+       statements, made to rally support or make a point, they're
+       generally bigger than life, a bit over the top. That's so we can
+       know where the top is so we can climb up there ourselves.
+     * "If we want to be logical here, it really seems improbable that a
+       White Star could run into a piece of debris. Ok, the pilot
+       (Marcus) wasn't paying attention, they were at high speeds and
+       visability was poor."
+       Well, if you want to go back and listen to what's being said in
+       the episode, Marcus calls out that the navigational system was
+       damaged, and they were trying to repair when the big chunk of
+       debris hit them. They couldn't get out of the way for that reason.
+     * Some have complained about the rescue, arguing that they wanted to
+       see a big battle. (To which answer #1 is wait 7 days.) They wanted
+       to see the fleet smack Mars and free him in a big battle.
+       Well, if you do that, you can kiss goodbye any chance of the fleet
+       then doing what it's SUPPOSED to be doing, which is the liberation
+       of Earth. While they're tied up and planetbound (on one side) at
+       Mars, Earth swoops in and knocks them out. You also lose any
+       possible aspect of surprise.
+       It *had* to be done quickly, through the back door, rather than
+       the fleet that some might have been expecting, so it'd look like a
+       Resistance job, not a Fleet job.
+     * "Why were there no cameras monitoring Sheridan?"
+       Torturers rarely videotape their work, thus assuring that it can
+       never be used against them should things not go their way all the
+       time. This is kinda pro forma in South America, for instance.
+       
+
+   [43][Next] 
+   
+      [44]Last update: December 2, 1997
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Sheridan's forces make their final strike. Marcus weighs a vital
+     decision. [15]J. Patrick McCormack as General Lefcourt.
+     [16]Marjorie Monaghan as Number One. [17]Carolyn Seymour as Senator
+     Crosby.
+     
+[18]P5 Rating: [19]9.27
+
+Production number: 420
+Original air week: October 13, 1997
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John Copeland
+
+   _Warning: This episode resolves several major plot threads. Think
+   twice before reading on if you haven't seen the episode._
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * Sheridan's plan for the frozen telepaths ([20]"Ship of Tears") was
+       to smuggle them onto as many Earth warships as possible and
+       activate them. The telepaths would wake up and merge with the
+       ships' computer systems, making the ships unable to maneuver or
+       attack and thus removing the need for Sheridan's forces to destroy
+       them. The plan succeeded in disabling the better part of the Earth
+       fleet at the Mars colony.
+     * Sheridan's forces have arrived at Earth, prompting President Clark
+       to commit suicide rather than face capture or trial. A member of
+       the Earth Senate, apparently friendly to Sheridan, has at least
+       temporarily filled in the power vacuum.
+     * Marcus has used the alien healing machine ([21]"The Quality of
+       Mercy") to give his life to Ivanova, apparently dying in the
+       process.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What happened to the telepaths on the destroyers?
+     * Was Bester's lover Carolyn ([22]"Ship of Tears") among the
+       telepaths used against the destroyers? Did she survive?
+     * What was meant by "The ascension of the ordinary man" on Clark's
+       suicide note? (See [23]Analysis)
+     * Did Clark have a vice president? Will he or she become the new
+       head of the Earth Alliance, and if so, will Earth continue the
+       policies of the Clark administration?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * When General Lefcourt addressed the fleet at Mars, he didn't
+       bother repeating Clark's propaganda about Sheridan's forces being
+       under alien influence. That could be a sign that few people in
+       Earthforce really believed it anyway, so there was little point
+       maintaining the pretext. Or it could have been a result of his
+       knowledge of Sheridan; that might lead him to believe that
+       Sheridan would take up arms against Clark of his own free will.
+     * Both Sheridan and Lefcourt were in charge of Omega-class
+       destroyers, and they both displaced the destroyers' usual
+       captains.
+     * The device Franklin placed on Lyta was most likely the one he
+       mentioned developing in [24]"The Exercise of Vital Powers." He
+       claimed to be working on a repeater to help broadcast her thought
+       patterns.
+     * The formation of the assault team on Mars was planned oddly; all
+       the top-ranking people were together in a single group (Garibaldi,
+       Number One, Lyta, and Franklin,) which would have been disastrous
+       if they'd failed to take over the outpost. However, it's not an
+       arrangement without merit: Franklin and Lyta obviously had to be
+       together for him to hook her up to the device, and Number One
+       probably wanted to keep an eye on both Garibaldi and Lyta.
+     * After her bad treatment at the hands of Sheridan and company,
+       treatment which forced her to reassociate herself with the Psi
+       Corps ([25]"The Exercise of Vital Powers,") Lyta was surprisingly
+       willing to put herself on the line yet again. Has her arrangement
+       with Bester made her comfortable enough to set aside her past
+       annoyance with Sheridan and the B5 crew, or does she simply
+       believe so strongly in the cause that she's willing to disregard
+       personal considerations?
+     * Marcus viewed several log entries from Franklin. The first
+       referred to the death of Cailyn, Franklin's lover in
+       [26]"Walkabout."
+       The second might have referred to Marcus' recovery from his fight
+       with Neroon in [27]"Grey 17 Is Missing," although at that time
+       Franklin was on walkabout and thus couldn't have recorded the log
+       entry -- a possible gaffe. It couldn't have referred to any event
+       before [28]"Ceremonies of Light and Dark," since Franklin was
+       wearing his Army of Light uniform.
+       The third, of course, was in reference to the use of the alien
+       healing machine on Garibaldi in [29]"Revelations." Franklin's
+       flashback recounted [30]"Revelations" as well.
+       These log entries paralleled Marcus' own dilemma. The first dealt
+       with the death of a woman Franklin cared about. The second
+       (assuming it truly referred to [31]"Grey 17 Is Missing") was the
+       last time Marcus was willing to give up his life for a woman he
+       cared for, namely Delenn. And the third message was a warning
+       about the consequences of what Marcus was contemplating.
+     * The phrase on Clark's suicide note ("The ascension of the ordinary
+       man") is a cipher, but it might have some discernable meaning. The
+       theme of death leading to ascension is common in religion; perhaps
+       the "ordinary man" referred to the innocent civilians who'd be
+       killed by the defense platforms, and Clark believed they'd ascend
+       to heaven.
+       There's also an echo of Cartagia's belief that his involvement
+       with the Shadows would allow him to ascend to godhood; though
+       Cartagia's belief was rooted in Centauri religion (other emperors
+       had been elevated to godhood, as noted by Vir in [32]"Chrysalis")
+       it's possible Clark believed the same was true of himself.
+       It's also possible that "ordinary" referred to non-telepaths: by
+       scouring Earth's surface, a mundane was determining the fate of
+       his evolutionary superiors, thus ascending above them.
+     * How did the Senator know so quickly what Clark had done, and how
+       much damage the particle beams could cause Earth? One possible
+       answer to the second question is that the potential danger to
+       Earth might have been discussed in the Senate, for example while
+       debating funding of the defense platforms. And perhaps the control
+       panels on Clark's desk made it obvious that he'd turned the
+       defense platforms against Earth, though the implication is that
+       she guessed his plan simply from the words "scorched earth."
+     * It's odd that the Agamemnon was the only ship available to destroy
+       the last defense platform, since only moments earlier it was in
+       the midst of a swarm of other friendly vessels. Obviously this was
+       a matter of artistic license, but why couldn't one of the Minbari
+       cruisers, for example, have fired a beam weapon at the platform
+       from a distance?
+     * Now that Sheridan's forces have removed Earth's defenses to a
+       large extent -- the orbital platforms are all gone, many ships
+       have been destroyed, and the advanced destroyer group is no more
+       -- an aggressive alien government, perhaps the Drakh ([33]"Lines
+       of Communication") might consider this an ideal time to try to
+       attack Earth or some of its colonies. Sheridan may have to station
+       some of the White Star fleet and/or the League ships at Earth to
+       help make up for the damage his campaign has done and ensure
+       Earth's security.
+     * On the other hand, after Earth has had a chance to build up its
+       forces again, it may be far in advance of the rest of the galaxy,
+       even the Minbari. Assuming Sheridan relinquishes command of his
+       fleet to Earthgov now that Clark is out of the picture, Earth will
+       have both Vorlon and Shadow technology at its disposal. Given that
+       some progress has obviously been made in integrating Shadow
+       technology into Earth's ([34]"Between the Darkness and the Light")
+       it's not implausible that the Vorlon technology in the White Stars
+       -- not to mention their Minbari components -- could be analyzed by
+       the same researchers. Will the Minbari stand for that if it's
+       attempted? How much do they value their current technological edge
+       over the other major races?
+     * [35]The parallel between Greek myth and Sheridan's command of the
+       Agamemnon has further resonance here, especially the variant in
+       which Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia is saved from death by
+       Artemis. Marcus, a self-described virgin ([36]"The Summoning") has
+       brought Ivanova back from the dead (assuming the alien device does
+       in fact successfully revive her.) What parallel, if any, there
+       will be with the rest of the myth -- Iphigenia living the rest of
+       her life in a distant temple, far from her family -- remains to be
+       seen.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The design of the rocket launching from Mars just before and after
+       the opening credits may be a visual homage to the [37]DC-X, a
+       prototype of a reusable lightweight space vehicle. DC-X performed
+       eight test flights between 1993 and 1995.
+     * Effects glitch: One of the destroyers attacked by the White Stars
+       at Mars was the Nemesis. Unfortunately, the Nemesis defected to
+       Sheridan's side in [38]"No Surrender, No Retreat." Of course, it
+       could have been one of the fake defectors ([39]"Between the
+       Darkness and the Light") and gone back to Clark's side after
+       gathering information about the rebel fleet.
+     * Effects glitch: When the fleet first approaches Earth, it's
+       daytime in east Africa, Asia, and the Indian Ocean. But when the
+       Agamemnon is about to ram the defense platform, North America is
+       in sunlight.
+     * Clark's suicide and note are similar to a scene in the film "Dr.
+       Strangelove." In the movie, a base commander launches a nuclear
+       strike against the Soviet Union. As troops try to break in to
+       capture him and get the abort code, he shoots himself. They
+       discover on his desk a sheet of paper with mad ramblings and a
+       number of circled letters.
+       And of course, many real despots in history have committed suicide
+       rather than be captured by the enemy, such as Adolf Hitler.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * _The episode seemed rushed._
+       Okay, one general response here...people are seeing rush where in
+       many cases there is NOT a rush. Look, pay attention here: WE'RE IN
+       THE FOURTH ACT OF THE EARTH CYCLE. Like the fourth act of an
+       episode, you have to really start cranking. You want it to be at
+       white-heat once you hit the ground.
+       What's in Endgame, and most of Between... was always going to be
+       there, with or without a 5th season. I made my trims in the period
+       PRIOR TO these episodes, for the most part.
+       This is the culmination of something we've been building now for
+       three years, and I'm going to make it as damned fast-paced as I
+       can.
+       So don't go into this assuming it was rushed...it's *fast*, and
+       that's the difference here.
+       People complain when we do character stories that the arc isn't
+       moving fast enough...people complain that it's moving too fast
+       when the arc is in full gear...sombody get a concensus going here,
+       okay?
+     * _How did you fit so much into one hour?_
+       It's one of those things I don't know if I can explain adequately,
+       or sensibly. A lot of it is totally instinctive, I don't sit down
+       and think about it, I just do it. But to dissect...part of it is
+       the intensity of the scenes, I think. Strong emotion extends time,
+       stretches it; if you've ever been in a major traumatic situation,
+       a few minutes can seem like hours. The more you can put your
+       character into a situation of intense emotions, and create those
+       same emotions in the viewer, you will in effect slow down
+       perceived time. Also, there's the matter of context here. If
+       you've set something up in prior episodes, in something like
+       "Endgame" there's no set-up which means exposition and chews up
+       time; you go right for the high point in the story bell-curve, and
+       you stay there. So the part you're used to seeing take only a few
+       minutes at the end of an episode becomes almost the entirety of
+       the episode; same result.
+     * _What is Earth Standard Time? GMT?_
+       Yes, EST = GMT.
+       And this episode wasn't rushed; it's what you do when you're
+       bringing any story to its climax. It's like watching Aliens, going
+       away before the last 20 minutes, coming back and saying, "Well, it
+       moved awfully fast." It has to, you're in the big moment. No,
+       there isn't time for everything, there is NEVER time for
+       everything, there's always stuff we might want to see...but what's
+       in Endgame is what was always going to be in Endgame. If I'd known
+       there would be a 5th season at the time, I still would've written
+       it exactly the way it was written.
+       The collapsing was done for the most part *long* before we ever
+       got to this part of the season.
+       It's just fast because that's what you need to do at this point.
+     * A hideous amount of rendering power and time went into that
+       episode, and the result is all there on-screen. The only bigger
+       CGI feast is in the prequel, which is approximately 21% EFX, most
+       of it pure CGI and composites.
+     * _The Mars surface effects looked different._
+       Actually, most of the prior mars shots were done by an outside
+       contractor, who's been doing such shots for the history of the
+       show. NDEI's boys wanted a chance to do them, and did so.
+       They're not bad...we still need to improve a bit on the movements,
+       and the camera still moves a bit too fast, which gives it that
+       computer-y feel...but overall, not bad.
+       _How long did those shots take to render?_
+       Quite a lot, I understand.
+     * _Has Mars' air pressure been increased so pressure suits are no
+       longer needed?_
+       My feeling is that there's been some small terraforming, which has
+       helped a little, but there's still a long way to go.
+     * One thing we've noted is that there's been some minor terraforming
+       on Mars over the 175 or so years we've been there. It's still a
+       hostile climate, but not as bad as it is right now.
+     * _Shouldn't moving around the surface of Mars look odd due to its
+       lower gravity? Or has its gravity been increased somehow?_
+       No, there was no change to the gravity...what should we see to
+       show that the gravity was still less? Someone like Garibaldi is
+       still going to weight about 75 pounds, so he's not about to go
+       around floating or bouncing, that's pretty solid. I don't see many
+       13-year-olds walking around like they're on the moon....
+     * "If you had time to spare in the episode (ho ho), you might have
+       suggested the different ratio of inertial mass to weight by having
+       character's feet skid out from under them when stopping, bouncing
+       off walls while turning corners, overbalancing on turns, or
+       catching things they had dropped two seconds after dropping them.
+       Maybe tossing a CGI grenade."
+       Except, of course, this would've looked awfully silly on camera.
+       BTW, remember that Number One and Garibaldi, as well as Lyta, have
+       experience with living on Mars, so they would automatically
+       compensate.
+     * _Wouldn't the ship's quartermaster notice a frozen telepath
+       arriving?_
+       In something like this, you don't move unless you have the main
+       quartermaster at the Mars base ON YOUR SIDE. You stuff it all into
+       cargo loaders and crates, and ship it up. Have you ever seen
+       military shipments? I looked into this, and security for big
+       crates like this is done *at the point of shipping*.
+     * "What was needed was at least talk of a major Mars resistance
+       attack occuring at the same time to draw off the security."
+       There was. Go back to the scene on the Apollo when the first word
+       of attacks comes in...it says specifically that they're hitting a
+       number of places *including* a White Star hitting that particular
+       base.
+     * _How did Marcus contact B5 through the jammers?_
+       Because Marcus sent the signal to B5 before the fleet jumped into
+       hyperspace, leaving Mars, toward Earth. We in hyperspace for the
+       result, the search being concluded based on what was downloaded.
+     * _Why didn't Sheridan send another ship after Marcus?_
+       You don't send a ship away to chase one person when you're going
+       into a battle. You don't KNOW what ships you are and aren't going
+       to need. In theory you took everything you had because you thought
+       you needed it. Yeah, Marcus was a friend, but a lot of friends
+       would die this day. You think he would put Marcus's situation
+       ahead of the fleet? Isolate one ship and risk it to go after him?
+       Ever been in the military? You talk about it, but what you propose
+       doesn't make sense. Would Patton have sent back a tank because
+       somebody fell behind? No.
+     * _Garibaldi's betrayal didn't have any lasting consequences._
+       You're right in terms of what Garibaldi did and didn't do, and
+       we've avoided the ultimate repercussions in other places for other
+       things (he said vaguely, not wanting to post spoilers)...but you
+       can only do that so far, and if you go further you start cheating.
+       You also remove the dramatic impact of the actions of your
+       characters if they do not have consequences.
+       _Why did Marcus have to do what he did?_
+       In this case, it ties very much into this character's
+       background...and would, in another universe in which CC decided to
+       stay, have spun out into some rather interesting developments.
+     * "Well, unless its a coincidence, the "circled doodled message left
+       by madman after he commits suicide" is VERY similar to what
+       happens in Dr. Strangelove. Again, maybe its JMS's homage to
+       Kubrick (like the "2001" style spacesuit that appeared in a second
+       or third season episode, I forget which, of B5)."
+       Just to clarify this....
+       Re: the note...the script as written calls only for the finding of
+       a note with the words "scorched earth" on it. It was John
+       Copeland's idea to do the note as shown, and yes, he's said quite
+       openly over on AOL that it was his nod to Strangelove. (John
+       directed that episode.)
+       Re: the suit...that wasn't an intentional 2001 nod...we went to
+       Modern Props to get a space suit for Babylon Squared, and the only
+       one they had on hand that would work for us was one left-over from
+       2010, which I asked the folks in costume to change as much as
+       possible...though it was pretty much what it was regardless. So
+       that one wasn't intentional.
+     * _What did Sheridan mean by "ramming speed?"_
+       You are in a space ship, in a vacuum, heading toward target X. You
+       understand that it takes time to transfer energy and movement
+       toward another plane, so you go at X-speed toward that object if
+       you want the option of applying thrusters and angling away from
+       the object before you slam into it.
+       If, on the other hand, you *want* to hit the object, and you have
+       no interest in holding back your thrusters to allow you to diverge
+       from the target in the amount of space remaining between you and
+       it, you proceed at Y speed, with your thrusters putting out their
+       maximum amount of fuel.
+       Y = ramming speed.
+     * "...the symmetry and symbolism in how you structured that final
+       battle. The story of Babylon 5 basically started with the Minbari
+       fleet coming to Earth to destroy it at the Battle of the Line. To
+       have the Minbari fleet return to Earth, not to destroy humanity,
+       but to save it, especially along side Earth fighters and capital
+       ships was stunning."
+       Noticed that little touch, did you....?
+       What goes around, comes around.
+     * _How did the Apollo monitor Sheridan's situation if communications
+       were being jammed?_
+       The jammers are set up to cut off communication OUTSIDE MARS
+       ORBIT. That's what was said, that the jammers cut in once they
+       were past Mars (for security purposes). The same thing was said in
+       Lines Of..., where Franklin was having a hard time getting word to
+       B5 *past the Mars jammers*. Further, if all communications were
+       cut off in Hyperspace, inside Mars orbit, then you couldn't have
+       had ship-to-ship communications to tell Sheridan ABOUT Marcus,
+       could you?
+     * Lefcourt does not think that his job is to set policy or overthrow
+       presidents. The military executes orders that emanate from the
+       head of the government, through the chain of command. Once that
+       chain of command was changed, the orders were no longer valid.
+     * _Why wasn't Clark allowed to present his point of view, even at
+       the end?_
+       I tried to do it through his lieutenants and plenepotentiaries
+       (hope I spelled that right, I'm too tired to get the dictionary
+       down). ISN gives you his point of view, ditto for Nightwatch,
+       MiniPax, others. I think if I had him just saying it out loud, it
+       would diminish him much the way that repeated exposure to the
+       shadow vessels gradually removed their mystery and menace. Less is
+       more.
+     * _About the return of the old ISN anchor_
+       "I've been thinking about the rapidity of her return to ISN. I
+       agree that there wasn't time to break her out of prison and get
+       her old dressing room back for the morning news"
+       When the Soviet Union fell, and the prison doors were thrown open,
+       a number of reporters who had fallen out of favor with the Party
+       and were sitting in cells walked out, went across the street, and
+       went on the air within a matter of hours.
+       Humans are resilient and determined sorts.
+       
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+  41. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/086.html#TOP
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+  44. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/085.html
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+    ### GUIDE ### [3][Background] [4][Synopsis] [5][Credits] [6][Episode
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Earthgov decides Sheridan's fate. Delenn makes a remarkable
+     proposition to the League of Non-Aligned Worlds. Garibaldi searches
+     for Lise. [15]Denise Gentile as Lise. [16]Rance Howard as David
+     Sheridan. [17]Beata Pozniak as President Luchenko. [18]Walter
+     Koenig as Bester.
+     
+[19]P5 Rating: [20]8.90
+
+Production number: 421
+Original air week: October 20, 1997
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Tony Dow
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * Delenn has overseen the coming together of the nonaligned worlds,
+       the Centauri, the Minbari, the Narn, and Earth into a new
+       Interstellar Alliance, and Sheridan has been elected its first
+       president. The Alliance, which among other things promises to
+       share advanced technologies like artificial gravity with Earth, is
+       a confederation whose members retain most of their sovereignty,
+       aside from certain rules of conduct. Its armed forces are the
+       Rangers and the White Star fleet, and its temporary headquarters
+       are on Babylon 5 until permanent facilities are built in the
+       Minbari city of Tuzanor (novel [21]"To Dream In the City of
+       Sorrows.")
+     * Sheridan only used 30 telepaths out of 100 to attack the destroyer
+       fleet ([22]"Endgame.") The rest, including Bester's lover Carolyn
+       Sanderson, remained on Babylon 5.
+     * Clark has been succeeded by President Susanna Luchenko of the
+       Russian Consortium.
+     * Ivanova has been promoted to captain and reassigned to shake down
+       an experimental new Earth military vessel, a Warlock-class
+       destroyer, for one year.
+     * Londo has been asked to return to Centauri Prime; the Regent is
+       ill and after his death the royal court plans to name Londo the
+       next Emperor.
+     * Garibaldi and Lise are together, and she has apparently inherited
+       some or all of William Edgars' money.
+     * Sheridan and Delenn have been married.
+     * Sheridan's father has been released; Clark's forces never captured
+       his mother.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Did _all_ the nonaligned worlds join the Alliance?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Delenn's reply to Lennier's comment about unrequited love can be
+       read either of two ways: that she is indeed oblivious to his
+       feelings for her ([23]"Ceremonies of Light and Dark") or, more
+       likely, that she loves him too, albeit not in the same way she
+       does Sheridan. The latter interpretation seems to have been lost
+       on Lennier if true.
+     * Sheridan knew about the telepath virus ([24]"The Face of the
+       Enemy," among others.) How many more have been told? Will its
+       existence become common knowledge, and if so, will the fact that
+       it's known to be possible prompt enemies of the Corps to start
+       trying to duplicate it?
+     * Bester goaded Sheridan about Garibaldi by telling him that only a
+       scan performed by a member of Psi Corps would be admissible in
+       Earth court if Garibaldi's memory were used as evidence. The
+       implication was that since Bester controls the Corps to some
+       degree, no Corps telepath would cooperate. But Lyta is now a Corps
+       member, officially anyway ([25]"The Exercise of Vital Powers") and
+       is certainly no friend of Bester's. To refute her credentials in
+       court, he'd have to reveal the deep-cover program he's using to
+       give her the appearance of Corps membership.
+     * Sheridan told Bester he knew what it was like to lose someone,
+       only to find them again and lose them again, clearly a reference
+       to Anna ([26]"Z'ha'dum.") He said he'd never wish that on anyone.
+       But in a sense, he's putting Delenn through the same ordeal over a
+       much longer timespan: she lost him at Z'ha'dum, got him back
+       thanks to Lorien, and knows that in 20 years she'll lose him again
+       ([27]"Falling Toward Apotheosis.")
+     * The Alliance was most likely what Delenn was referring to in
+       [28]"War Without End part 2" when she told Sheridan that they'd
+       built something that would endure for a thousand years. Whether
+       that figure was just a generality on her part or reflected
+       additional knowledge about the future isn't clear.
+     * Sheridan and Londo have followed similar paths: both of them rose
+       up against their own governments to fight Shadow influence, and
+       both were helped in their quests by resistance movements working
+       against those governments (the Mars resistance in Sheridan's case,
+       the Narns in Londo's.) Both of them arranged to have the captive
+       populations freed after defeating the old order. Are their fates
+       going to be similar as well? Londo sacrificed himself to kill his
+       Keeper and allow Sheridan and Delenn to escape ([29]"War Without
+       End part 2.") Will Sheridan make a similar sacrifice to save
+       someone? One could argue he already has, by dying on Z'ha'dum to
+       save Centauri Prime ([30]"Z'ha'dum.")
+       All the major ambassadors on Babylon 5 have been offered
+       leadership roles of some sort, in fact. In addition to Sheridan
+       and Londo, G'Kar was offered leadership of his people in [31]"The
+       Long Night." Delenn was elected leader of the Minbari in
+       [32]"Babylon Squared." And Sinclair became leader of the Minbari
+       of 1000 years past in [33]"War Without End part 2." Kosh is
+       apparently an exception, though for all anyone knows, he already
+       _was_ the leader of the Vorlons.
+       Perhaps not coincidentally, all the major ambassadors have been
+       willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good. Delenn was
+       willing to die to stop the Minbari civil war ([34]"Moments of
+       Transition.") Londo was ready to give up his live to save Centauri
+       Prime from the Vorlon planetkiller ([35]"Into the Fire.") Sheridan
+       ordered a suicide run to stop Earth from being razed by a defense
+       platform ([36]"Endgame.") G'Kar offered to return to Narn and face
+       certain death to save the families of the Narn on Babylon 5
+       ([37]"A Day in the Strife.") Kosh forfeited his life when he
+       arranged for the Vorlon fleet to attack the Shadows
+       ([38]"Interludes and Examinations.")
+     * Ivanova apparently only gets promotions when her commanding
+       officers leave: she went from Lt. Commander to Commander when
+       Sinclair left Babylon 5, and from Commander to Captain when
+       Sheridan resigned Earthforce.
+     * Has Babylon 5 reverted to Earth ownership? If so, who's in command
+       now that Sheridan is no longer a member of Earthforce? Presumably
+       Corwin is in charge temporarily until a new commander is assigned.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Both Clark and Sheridan were succeeded by Russian women after
+       their deaths (though Sheridan didn't remain dead.) Both women have
+       similar first names.
+     * President Luchenko's comment about "the better angels of our
+       nature" was a reference to the last line of [39]Abraham Lincoln's
+       first inaugural address, in which he urged the United States not
+       to lapse into civil war.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * "If this had been it, I would've walked away with a great big
+       smile and a full heart."
+       Exactly..it doesn't *end* the story, as people kept saying, "Oh,
+       the arc is being finished in year 4," it provides a sense of
+       *resolution*, which is different altogether, and leaves plenty of
+       room for other planned stuff.
+     * _President Luchenko's accent sounded fake._
+       I love comments like that.
+       Beata, who played the President, is a native-born Russian.
+       _Ed. note: Beata Pozniak was actually born in Gdansk, Poland, not
+       Russia. The accent is her own, however._
+     * _If Marcus had survived, it would have been a copout._
+       As for Marcus, that's precisely the point. If we do what we do to
+       Ivanova, then let her get bailed out, then do the same for Marcus,
+       it becomes a double-cheat, and that's not fair to do to the
+       audience. If you bail her out but only at great cost to someone
+       else, it's not a cheat on either level.
+       And yeah, generally, if you follow the threads, you can pick up on
+       where things are going. It's something I learned on Murder, She
+       Wrote, where at the end, when the killer's been revealed, you
+       should be able to back up the tape, watch it again, and this time
+       see all the little bits that point to his (or her) identity. It's
+       basically about playing fair with the audience.
+     * It was hard doing that to the character [_of Marcus_], but it was
+       the only way to handle the situation with any integrity and
+       honesty. Very hard to write.
+     * "In the scene with Franklin and the very upset Ivanova, when she
+       uses the word "boffed" (like Marcus), was this intended as just a
+       cute scene or a hint that the transfer would have had lasting
+       effects?"
+       No, nothing more was intended than what was seen.
+     * _Why did Lennier tell Delenn what Ivanova said?_
+       Because Lennier is quite familiar with the concept of unrequited
+       love, and because hope burns eternal.
+       Which is probably the most damnable part of unrequited love.
+     * _Was the shot of Claudia Christian at the end from another
+       episode, inserted when she decided not to return?_
+       No, that's a new shot (Claudia at the window). She was shot for
+       that episode for that voice-over...we just changed one line. The
+       basic thrust was that she was going to take some time to *decide*
+       whether to take on B5, or to take on a Warlock class destroyer. So
+       we just went with the decision.
+     * _What was different about the closing shot?_
+       The only really different thing about the shot is the length of
+       it; usually our shots average 5-8 seconds; that one was about 15
+       seconds, so you have more time to get used to what you're seeing,
+       and absorb it, and make it real.
+     * _Everything's wrapped up now. What's left to do in season five?_
+       Things that *could* show up (leaving in some ambiguity just to
+       keep some surprises):
+       The start of the telepath war
+       The start of drakh war
+       Londo's fate on Centauri Prime
+       The first year trying to make the Interstellar Alliance work
+       Inter-faction fighting among the Alliance members
+       The development of Mars as an independent state
+       The legacy of William Edgars' black projects
+       Fallout from the civil war, and the feelings about it
+       How Lennier, Sheridan and Delenn will get along now
+       How's that just for starters?
+     * _Will we see Luchenko again?_
+       Would love to use her again.
+     * The Rangers are independent in authority, answering only to Delenn
+       and Sheridan and the members of the Alliance council and advisory
+       board. (In roughly descending order.) But their jurisdiction is
+       exclusively in interplanetary situations between various member
+       races. Each member race has the sovereign authority to govern its
+       people in its own way.
+       The closest comparison is that overall, the states are free to
+       enact their own laws, but the US Government has sole claim over
+       international matters. Except here the states would have far more
+       autonomy than is currently the rule; more like pre-Civil War
+       America.
+     * _If you'd known there'd be a fifth season when you wrote the
+       episode, would Delenn's speech have changed?_
+       I don't know if I would've done her speech differently or not, to
+       be honest...knowing it now, I'm not sure how I'd improve it.
+     * _Is Sheridan and Delenn's bed horizontal or tipped up in the
+       Minbari style?_
+       They will alternate, as you'll see soon....
+       
+
+   [45][Next] 
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+      [46]Last update: January 9, 1998
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/087.shtml
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/087.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/087.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/086.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/088.html
+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/087.html#OV
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+  11. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/087.html#UQ
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+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/087.html#JS
+  15. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Gentile,+Denise
+  16. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Howard,+Rance
+  17. http://www.geocities.com/~beatitude/
+  18. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Koenig,+Walter
+  19. file://localhost/lurk/p5/intro.html
+  20. file://localhost/lurk/p5/087
+  21. file://localhost/lurk/novels/009.html
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+  23. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/055.html
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+  39. http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/linc_a73.htm
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+  41. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/087.html#TOP
+  42. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
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+  44. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/086.html
+  45. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/088.html
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+   _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
+   - [13]Notes - [14]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     Fourth season finale. A look back at the impact of Babylon 5 from
+     100, 500, 1000, and 1000000 years in the future.
+     
+[15]P5 Rating: [16]8.50
+
+Production number: 422 (but see [17]Notes)
+Original air week: October 27, 1997
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Stephen Furst
+
+   _Warning: This episode contains spoilers for future episodes, as it's
+   mostly in the form of retrospectives from future viewpoints._
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Plot Points
+
+     * Some people on Earth are highly skeptical that the Interstellar
+       Alliance will work, and distrust Sheridan's motives and ability.
+     * The station will be under the command of a Captain Lochley in
+       2262.
+     * With Sheridan's permission, a colony of telepaths will be
+       established on Babylon 5 sometime in 2262. Eventually they will
+       turn against him.
+     * Garibaldi will be held hostage, possibly by the telepaths, in
+       2262. The hostage situation will end in gunfire.
+     * Babylon 5 will be destroyed (though under what circumstances isn't
+       clear) in 2282.
+     * Sheridan will die in 2282 under mysterious circumstances that will
+       still be debated 80 years later. Popular opinion will hold that he
+       died on Minbar, but not everyone will agree. Later legend will
+       hold that he was carried bodily into heaven.
+     * Delenn will live until at least 2362, though she'll spend many of
+       the intervening years out of public view, leading some to wonder
+       if she's still alive.
+     * In 2762, Earth will again be divided into two factions, one in
+       favor of breaking away from the Interstellar Alliance and another
+       in favor of remaining. The two sides will launch a devastating
+       war, rendering the surface of the Earth nearly uninhabitable.
+     * In 3262, the survivors of that war, now known as the "Great Burn,"
+       will largely have lost all records of the time before the war. At
+       least one order of monks, marginally part of the Roman Catholic
+       Church, will work to gather and preserve historical records.
+       They'll be aided in secret by agents of the Rangers, who will
+       slowly "discover" pieces of pre-Burn technology to inch Earth's
+       people back toward the stars.
+     * The Rangers will still exist in some form a million years hence,
+       and will still consider Sheridan and Delenn to be their founders.
+       They will be involved in the building of something called "New
+       Earth," though what that is isn't clear.
+     * One million years in the future, humans will apparently have
+       evolved into noncorporeal entities (like Lorien, [18]"Into the
+       Fire") and will make use of Vorlon-style encounter suits and
+       organic ships.
+     * Earth's sun will go nova in a million years.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Is Garibaldi back on B5 to stay? What about Lise?
+     * Who were the people holding Garibaldi hostage? The telepaths?
+     * Who, if anyone, did Garibaldi's captor shoot? Or was the shot
+       fired by someone else?
+     * What was the incident with Sheridan and Delenn's son?
+     * What happened to Mars and Earth's other colonies during the Great
+       Burn?
+     * Why did the sun go nova? As the sun isn't expected to do so
+       naturally for billions of years, if at all (according to
+       20th-century astrophysics, anyway) did someone or something cause
+       it to happen?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Among the crowd greeting Sheridan and Delenn as they returned to
+       B5 was a man holding a sign reading, "Sic transit gloria mundis."
+       That translates approximately to, "Worldly glory/fame is
+       transitory." That could be viewed as a negative comment,
+       expressing the opinion that whatever they build will be temporary.
+       On the other hand, that's also the Latin phrase spoken to a newly
+       elected Pope after the ballots are burned and the ashes dropped
+       before him, a reminder that a greater purpose is being served and
+       any individual's contribution is small in comparison. In any case,
+       it appears at least one human agrees with Londo's opinion that
+       marriage celebrations should include somber reflection.
+     * Though the implication was that the gunshot at the end of the
+       video clip in 2362 was directed at Garibaldi, that's not certain.
+       It could as easily have been someone else firing at one of his
+       captors to prevent his death.
+     * The 2362 historians' interpretation of the outcome of Sheridan
+       allowing telepaths to set up a colony of Babylon 5 -- the worst
+       mistake of his career, they claimed he as much as said -- may have
+       been shaded by their less than cheritable views about Sheridan.
+       The actual events may have been much less disastrous than they
+       implied.
+     * It's possible Delenn's appearance in 2362 wasn't entirely a
+       coincidence. The moderator appeared to be sympathetic to her point
+       of view (though he could have just been playing devil's advocate
+       to spark discussion) and may have warned her of the upcoming
+       broadcast and its likely tone.
+     * The holographic simulation of Franklin was trying to create
+       alien/human hybrids, the same accusation that was leveled against
+       B5 by the Clark administration's propagandists ([19]"The Illusion
+       of Truth.")
+     * The Ranger said he still had time to join "the celebration" before
+       the sun went nova. What was being celebrated? The Earth's
+       destruction? New Earth's creation?
+     * Londo said when he came aboard the station that jubilant
+       celebration was how Centauri celebrated a funeral. Perhaps the
+       humans of a million years hence took up that custom, and were
+       celebrating the death of their homeworld Centauri-style. If so, it
+       would provide a subtle symmetry between the beginning of the
+       episode and the end.
+     * The Ranger's rush to send the records to New Earth would seem to
+       imply that the sun going nova wasn't an expected event, which in
+       turn implies that it was artificially induced. If the nova were a
+       natural event, there would presumably have been years -- more
+       likely centuries -- of warning, plenty of time to evacuate people
+       and historical records.
+     * The Ranger's effort to preserve Earth's history echoes Sinclair's
+       comment in [20]"Infection" that all of humanity's accomplishments
+       would be lost when the sun died unless people took to the stars.
+     * The Ranger's parting line, "This is how the world ends. Swallowed
+       in fire, but not in darkness," echoes Kosh's reply to Emperor
+       Turhan ([21]"The Coming of Shadows") that the situation would end
+       in fire.
+     * One other event was predicted to occur in a million years: it's
+       when Jason Ironheart said he'd see Sinclair again ([22]"Mind
+       War.") Coincidence, or does Ironheart (or Sinclair) play some part
+       in whatever is happening in the distant future? The Ranger
+       appeared to be noncorporeal, implying perhaps that the rest of
+       humanity took a million years to catch up to Ironheart's level of
+       development.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The 2262 newscast referred to Sheridan's visit to the Dalai Lama
+       in Tibet. But the picture shown was of a group of Buddhist monks
+       with golden robes, typical of the Golden Triangle area (Vietnam,
+       Thailand, Cambodia.) Tibetan Buddhist monks wear maroon robes. Of
+       course, it's possible that changed between the 20th and 23rd
+       centuries.
+     * The first question in the 2362 sequence was asked by someone named
+       Ray Winston. This may be a reference to the cartoon "The Real
+       Ghostbusters," on which JMS served as producer. Ray and Winston
+       were the names of two of the characters.
+     * The insignia on Daniel's uniform in 2762 was nearly identical to
+       the logo of the Nazi SS organization.
+     * Daniel's language (e.g. "realfacts" and "goodfacts") is a
+       reference to George Orwell's "1984," which introduced terms such
+       as "doublespeak" and dealt heavily with the relation between
+       language and propaganda.
+     * Daniel also made a brief mention of "psychohistory," which is a
+       reference to Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" novels. In the novels,
+       psychohistory is a science that can predict large-scale human
+       societal behavior.
+     * It's possible Garibaldi is responsible for the Great Burn. The war
+       between Earth's two factions might have proceeded the same way
+       with or without Garibaldi's subterfuge. But it's not inconceivable
+       that if Daniel's superiors had made the first strike, the other
+       side might have capitulated, or the war might have been over more
+       quickly for other reasons. Of course, it's also possible that it
+       would have been even worse, perhaps wiping out Earth altogether.
+     * The 3262 sequence may be a nod to Walter Miller's novel "A
+       Canticle for Leibowitz," about an order of monks trying to
+       preserve the knowledge of the past after a devastating war.
+     * During the 3262 sequence, the Roman numerals in the lower left
+       corner appear to be camera numbers; they corresponded to the
+       different angles from which the scene was shown. Presumably the
+       cameras were all well-hidden.
+     * The caption under the picture of the Ranger in the book Brother
+       Stephen is illuminating appears to say, "Rangers eis nomen est,"
+       which translates to, "Their name is Rangers."
+     * Although this episode is part of the fifth-season production run,
+       it's actually the fourth-season finale. The fifth-season finale,
+       [23]"Sleeping in Light," was shot during the fourth-season
+       production run because it wasn't clear that the show was being
+       renewed; once the renewal was announced, another episode had to be
+       substituted. For some reason the onscreen credits at the end of
+       the episode don't reflect that; they list a production number of
+       422 rather than the more accurate 501.
+     * The title sequence was changed slightly from the regular season
+       four sequence. A clip of the Agamemnon flying through the
+       explosion of the defense platform in [24]"Endgame" was inserted
+       just before the cast credits, and Claudia Christian's name was
+       removed from the cast list.
+     * The episode's dedication: "Dedicated to all the people who
+       predicted that the Babylon Project would fail in its mission.
+       Faith manages." This is probably a dig at pundits on Usenet and
+       elsewhere who confidently said every year that B5 wouldn't be
+       renewed for another season.
+     * Shooting began August 18, 1997.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * _Why was Claudia Christian's name taken out of the credits but
+       Jason Carter's left in?_
+       We had no choice. Contractually, when we moved "Sleeping in Light"
+       into the fifth season, we had to move her credit from
+       "Deconstruction" or incur an additional episode's payment. We
+       didn't even realize this until WB called and put us on notice
+       about this literally 3 days before the episode was uplinked. It
+       wasn't a choice we had; they said that it had to be moved. We
+       could leave Jason in the credits because he didn't appear in SiL.
+     * _Any significance to the Agamemnon clip used to replace her
+       credit?_
+       It seemed an appropriate placeholder when WB told us we had to
+       omit Claudia's credit because she also appears in (the new) 522,
+       "Sleeping in Light," to avoid incurring fees.
+     * _Since this episode was numbered 422 rather than 501, will the
+       production numbers of season 5 episodes be changed too?_
+       Yes, the S5 episodes will be renumbered prior to broadcast.
+       More Soviet Revisionism in action....
+     * _Do you ever get the urge to thumb your nose at people on the net
+       who predict B5's demise?_
+       Nope...no intentions of doing that.
+       I have something MUCH better in mind....
+     * It's discreet...but not obscure.
+       And best of all...it's eternal...and the whackos who've bugged me
+       for five years are not.
+     * A few people have interpreted the final card as "meanspirited"
+       (when it's on one level a reaction *to* five years of constant
+       carping and meanspiritedness from lots of sectors, from the nets
+       to the press and elsewhere)...but what it is, is a statement of
+       hope. That whenever you try something different, there are going
+       to be naysayers, and people who say it can't be done, and
+       certainly can't be done by *you*.
+       It ain't just B5, it's any dream out there.
+       And in the end, they are wrong.
+       Faith manages.
+       That's the message of the card.
+       That, and the truth that in 10 years the naysayers will be
+       forgotten, and made irrelevant...but the show, the *show*...goes
+       on. And will be around long after they and I have gone to dust.
+       And all people will know when they see that card, 50 years from
+       now, was that some jerks said it couldn't be done, and they were
+       wrong, because they are *always* wrong. If you have the dream, the
+       ability and the passion, you can bring your dreams to life despite
+       overwhelming opposition. That's the message.
+       But for those on the other side, they will never see anything
+       other than meanspiritedness because that's all they can *ever*
+       see...because that's all they can bring to the table.
+       There's an old saying about books, which I'll rephrase to include
+       B5: Babylon 5 is like a book, and a book is like a mirror: if an
+       ass peers in, you can't exactly expect an apostle to peer out.
+     * There will always be short-term setbacks, but as long as we climb
+       back a few inches higher than we were before we fell down, we keep
+       moving toward the goal of becoming a better people, and getting
+       off the planet. Taking our place among the stars. While it's
+       vaguely possible that I may *see* a Mars colony sometime within my
+       lifetime, I know that I will never live there...but that ain't the
+       point, it isn't a victory if *I* do it, and a failure if *I*
+       don't, it's if *we* do it or not. Maybe we'll do it today, maybe
+       we'll do it tomorrow, the point is to decide to DO it, and then by
+       god DO IT.
+       And yeah, that little closing card is going to remain on the show
+       for its life...which will be long, long after its detractors (and
+       admittedly myself) have gone to dust. On the one hand, it is a
+       statement of hope to anyone else out there who has a dream, to
+       follow it no matter who speaks against you, no matter the odds, no
+       matter what they say to or about you, no matter what roadblocks
+       they throw in your way. What matters is that you remain true to
+       your vision.
+       On the other hand, for the reviewers and the pundits and the
+       critics and the net-stalkers who have done nothing but rag on this
+       show for five years straight, it is also a giant middle finger
+       composed of red neon fifty stories tall, that will burn forever in
+       the night.
+       In billiards, we call that a bank-shot.
+     * _Does the Great Burn mean the B5 crew ultimately failed?_
+       It depends on your point of view.
+       The fact, as I see it, is that no one and nothing will ever solve
+       all of our problems at once, now and forever. People will always
+       be people. You can't wave a magic wand and fix it all.
+       Yes, there was another war...but had the Shadows not been stopped
+       by our characters, there likely wouldn't have been a human race at
+       ALL anymore.
+       Yes, there was a war, and many died in it...as tends to happen in
+       war...but the nominal right side in it came out on top, which
+       would not have been the case but for Garibaldi's simulacra giving
+       them a leg up on things.
+       We have had, continue to have, and will always have wars, and
+       grief, and struggle...we will climb up and fall down...but each
+       time we climb a little higher, and in the end, we *do* build the
+       world that our ancestors would have wanted for us...we *do* leave
+       the cradle at last, and we take our place among the stars teaching
+       those who follow us.
+       For my money, that's as happy an ending as we or anyone can ever
+       hope for.
+     * _You spoiled the events of season five!_
+       As with anything else, B5 (in whatever incarnation) is about
+       *process*. You saw Londo being strangled by G'Kar...but you didn't
+       know how they got there. You know the result of the Earth/Minbari
+       war...but I suspect there will be a lot of surprises in "In the
+       Beginning."
+       As with all things, the joy is in the going. We all know we're
+       going to die, that as the poet said, "we are born astride the
+       grave." But knowing that inevitable reality has never stopped
+       human endeavor before....
+       It's the journey and the doing that matters.
+     * Re: speechwriters and others hanging around after the fall...look
+       at the remains of the Soviet Union. After the fall of the
+       communist party, you'd think they would all have been run out of
+       town on a rail. But many of them just shifted over and found
+       similar positions, or kept the communist party going, after
+       everything they'd done.
+       The problem with most people is that they don't hold a grudge near
+       long enough.
+       I'd have to check, but yeah, I believe we stuck a ranger symbol on
+       the encounter suit.
+     * _About the 2362 sequence_
+       Stephen filmed that sequence by having all of the cast on the set
+       at the same time, running multiple film cameras to get each
+       version "live."
+     * _From a discussion of a 1997 convention featuring Stephen Furst_
+       BTW, if you want to flip Stephen out, and you get this before
+       leaving the con, give him the following message from me (I don't
+       have the hotel info at hand). Tell him Joe says this:
+       "Don't worry anymore about using mainly securecam style coverage
+       in act 3, I've just come up with another approach where I can
+       cover it in dialogue to let you do whatever you want with the
+       camera, so you'll have all the flexibility there you want."
+       Here's a use of a convention you haven't seen much before....
+     * _The "Just Married" label was missing from the shuttle when it
+       docked._
+       The painted letters were on the *right* side of the shuttle as it
+       went in. The CGI inside the bay showed the left side.
+       We don't miss these things.
+     * _How did Delenn get into the studio?_
+       Most TV studios that I've seen have back doors that open out onto
+       the back lot or the outside for fire control reasons. You can get
+       into any of the 3 B5 stages from the outside in, oh, about 5
+       seconds through any of a number of doors. (Note to anyone looking
+       on: yes, those stage doors are secured, and there are guards, and
+       unless you're a Minbari you're not getting in.) And most of the TV
+       studios I've been in have been the same.
+     * It was mainly Earth that bore the burden of the great Burn, and
+       yes, that was the one Garibaldi got into....
+     * _Wouldn't the colonies offer Earth some help?_
+       Some probably would offer to help...but if technology is now
+       suspect, some might not want that help...other colonies might be
+       of the "screw 'em, they got what they deserved"
+       perspective...often politics gets in the way of charity.
+     * "By any chance, is the post-apocalyptic religious order shown in
+       "Deconstruction . ." a direct decendant of Brother Theo's order on
+       Babylon 5?"
+       It's altogether possible....
+       And Theo is only awaiting a story worth bringing him in for.
+     * Interesting aside...for the last 6-8 months, I've been doing a
+       fair amount of research into medieval England, especially the
+       medieval church, for a play I'm writing (which may become a novel
+       if I'm not careful). Dumped several hundred dollars on a massive
+       order from Amazon.com back a few months ago to fill out what I
+       needed. That was what tangentially led me into the post-Burn
+       sequence in "Deconstruction." My brain has been full of monks for
+       the last 8 months or so, and knowing the role they played in
+       maintaining secular knowledge from about 500 AD and for some time
+       thereafter, that seemed the perfect route to go that would also
+       resonate with the look of the Rangers and the religious caste
+       Minbari and the whole feel we were setting up.
+       It was only when I was about halfway into the act that I thought,
+       "Oh, crud, this is the same area Canticle explored." And for
+       several days I set it aside and strongly considered dropping it,
+       or changing the venue (at one point considered setting it in the
+       ruins of a university, but I couldn't make that work
+       realistically...who'd be supporting a university in the ruins of a
+       major nuclear war? Who'd have the *resources* I needed? The
+       church, or what would at least LOOK like the church. My sense of
+       backstory here is that the Anla-shok moved in and started little
+       "abbeys" all over the place, using the church as cover, but rarely
+       actually a part of it, which was why they had not gotten their
+       recognition, and would never get it. Rome probably didn't even
+       know about them, or knew them only distantly.)
+       Anyway...at the end of the day, I decided to leave it as it was,
+       since I'd gotten there on an independent road, we'd already had a
+       number of monks on B5, and there's been a LOT of theocratic
+       science fiction written beyond Canticle...Gather Darkness, aspects
+       of Foundation, others.
+     * The future wasn't being transmitted back; we were seeing the
+       records of the past from the point of view of the final character,
+       one million years hence, who has come to collect them prior to the
+       final chapter in Earth's history.
+     * "My personal nit is that JMS has the sun going nova in only a
+       million years. This seems several orders of magnitude too soon for
+       me."
+       Actually, the computer voice specifies that it is continuing to
+       note atypical solar emissions...atypical meaning something unusual
+       is going on.
+     * And what if you, say, interfered substantially with the mass of
+       the sun by, say, causing a series of jump points to open up
+       *inside* the sun across several days?
+     * You'd also substantially decrease the mass of Sol, which as I
+       understand it, would result in the sun going nova.
+     * A lot of folks have found the eventual "going out" of Sol to be
+       depressing...but as was stated 'way back in our VERY FIRST
+       EPISODE, this is the one thing we can be sure WILL happen, sooner
+       or later (probably later). _Ed. note: "Infection" was indeed the
+       first episode shot, but aired fourth._
+       All the more reason to get off the planet, asap.
+     * _Did the future humans leave the galaxy as the Vorlons did?_
+       No point in leaving the galaxy; stars go nova, it only affects the
+       immediate vicinity (big as that is). By this point, they were in
+       the position of the Vorlons, and now have to take their (our)
+       place guiding the younger races, the next wave, while not getting
+       in the way and remembering the lesson of the shadow/vorlon
+       conflict.
+     * _[[2/16]]_ _What about the other races?_
+       The Minbari eventually make it; the Narn and Centauri do not. They
+       don't die out, they just don't hit a state of First One-ishness,
+       which is darn close to immortality (barring violence).
+     * _Was Sinclair prescient? Did you have the sun's destruction mapped
+       out way back in season one?_
+       One needn't be prescient...it's *going* to happen one day.
+       And to the second half...yeah, Deconstruction (or at least the
+       events that would go into it) was mapped out back then.
+     * I think it's fair to say that Sinclair has been in large measure
+       forgotten by Earth by the time of Deconstruction...but Valen lives
+       on in the memories of the Minbari...a reasonable trade-off.
+     * _They were speaking English a million years in the future?_
+       That's what you heard, that doesn't mean that's what it was; same
+       as when you go to Minbar, they're not speaking English, that's
+       just our hearing of it.
+       _Since when do news anchors quote the Bible?_
+       Ted Koppel.
+       _Why were Sheridan's childhood photos in black and white?_
+       Even now portraits are often done in black and white just for
+       artistic merit.
+       _NYU is still around in the future?_
+       Trinity College is a working college in Ireland that dates back to
+       the American Revolution.
+     * _Did Lise and Garibaldi get married?_
+       No, they're not yet married.
+       
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+   _Contents:_ [6]Overview - [7]Backplot - [8]Questions - [9]Analysis -
+   [10]Notes - [11]JMS
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Overview
+
+     No plot information is available. Takes place twenty years after
+     the end of the rest of the series.
+     
+Production number: 522a (see [12]Notes)
+Original air date: ???
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by J. Michael Straczynski
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Backplot
+
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * NOW what?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * 20 years after season four is the end of Sheridan's predicted
+       lifespan ([13]"Falling Toward Apotheosis.") Presumably that ties
+       into the plot of the episode.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Shooting ended May 5, 1997.
+     * Although this is the final episode of the series, and airs at the
+       end of season five, it was actually shot during the fourth-season
+       production run, and originally carried a production number of 422.
+       At the time, it wasn't clear whether the show would be renewed for
+       a fifth season, and JMS wanted this episode to close the series
+       whether it ended after four or five years. Since it's set 20 years
+       after the rest of the story, it works equally well as an epilogue
+       to [14]"Rising Star" or to the last regular season-five episode.
+     * Several B5 staff members have cameos in this episode, including
+       producer John Copeland and coproducer George Johnsen.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * _On GEnie, 11 April 1992:_
+       A few days ago, I sat down with our line producer, John Copeland,
+       and production designer John Iacovelli, and we were talking about
+       the need to move quickly on some stuff, and how painful the
+       process is to have the whole story in your head, already told,
+       really, and then have to make it all over again so we can put it
+       on film. "You think you've got it bad," I noted, "I've already
+       worked out the last scene in the last episode of the last season
+       (#5)...and I've still got to make Movie #1." They called me on it
+       and asked what that scene was. Just to see their reaction, I told
+       them. They looked at me as if I'd suddenly sprouted three heads
+       and feathers. It was worth it. (Happily, they're sworn to
+       secrecy.) It was also good because I think that, even without
+       filling in the beats in between, it gave them a good sense of
+       where the series was going to go.
+     * What will be revealed over the course of the series? All of it.
+       By the time the series has run its five-year course (Neilsen
+       willing), there will only be ONE unanswered question left: "NOW
+       what?"
+     * My titles are often in a state of flux; "Signs and Portents" was
+       originally titled "Raiding Party" in my notes, as the B5 FAQ notes
+       somewhere. So it may change, but for the time being, in my notes
+       for the series, the last episode of year five has this note:
+       Title? -- "Farewell" or "Sleeping in Light."
+     * The Babylon 5 story ends at the final episode of year five.
+     * And there will never be a Babylon 6.
+     * If I didn't have a good, solid, consistent ending, I wouldn't have
+       started the story. I always have the ending before I begin writing
+       the beginning.
+     * "What this boils down to is... is the ending you envisioned at the
+       start of Babylon 5 the same today as it was then?"
+       For the most part, yeah...it's gotten a bit refined over time, the
+       way it always does the closer you get to it...it's like seeing a
+       mountain from a great distance, then closing in until you can make
+       out the details. But basically, yeah.
+     * "Are you at all concerned that, when it's all said and done, that
+       some fans will scratch their heads and wonder: "You mean thats
+       it?""
+       No, I don't think so. The story for "Sleeping in Light," the last
+       B5 episode, is such that it is completely moveable, and
+       self-contained, and buttons down the arc in what I think is a very
+       moving fashin. I think that when it's all said and done, the
+       average reaction will be to sit back and say, "That was a good
+       story." Obviously you can't please everyone, and you can't expect
+       to. But basically, yeah, I think it's going to end well.
+     * In theory, the final episodes would air in the summer of 1998.
+     * There's always been a side-story that could spin off from B5, but
+       the main core story is over at the five-year mark.
+     * I've always said that there's a side story that could follow the 5
+       year B5 storyline, which takes place in the B5 universe, and
+       follows on the heels of the events in B5...but who knows if that
+       would happen?
+       The one thing I would hate is for B5 to become any kind of
+       so-called "franchise." Because as soon as that happens, you're
+       prevented from making any changes, from doing anything that might
+       startle people, cutting into the piggy-bank. Once that happens,
+       you're dead.
+       I've also made no secret of my sense that, should B5 run its full
+       five year course (and assuming the side-story doesn't go, which I
+       would not exactly count on)...I plan to get out of TV. By that
+       point, I would have said pretty much everything I want to say in
+       TV, and it's time to get out, buy a small house somewhere outside
+       London, and spend the rest of my years writing novels, which is
+       kinda where this all began. (I've had 2 novels, 1 anthology, and a
+       bunch of short stories published, as well as 500 or so articles.)
+       I never got into this to make a ***FRANCHISE***, and never really
+       intended to become an executive producer. I just don't like being
+       rewritten...so I climbed higher, until finally there was nobody
+       over me messing with my scripts. Outside of the B5 reality, if
+       someone came to e and offered me *staff writer* on a show -- the
+       lowest position in the TV totem pole -- but with the guarantee
+       that I wouldn't be rewritten, they wouldn't change the words...I'd
+       take it in a hot second. I'm here, now, strictly out of
+       self-defense.
+       Two valuable social skills are knowing when to enter a room, and
+       when to leave a room. At some point, you have to get out or become
+       something you don't want to become. I've never really been part of
+       the Hollywood SYSTEM, and have no desire to do so.
+       In "The Velvet Alley," Rod Serling wrote of a young advertising
+       writer who becomes a success at writing television. At one point,
+       the character says (paraphrased from memory): "Here's the
+       trap...in TV they pay you lots of money for what you do...then,
+       slowly, your standard of living rises until you *need* that
+       constant flow to stay at that level. Then...they threaten to take
+       it away from you if you don't behave. And THAT'S when they've got
+       you."
+     * What happens at the end of the five year arc? The "Babylon 5"
+       series ends...if I have anything to say about it (and I do). If
+       something else follows, we'll see what that is, but it won't be
+       the same series, or the same title, or really the same characters.
+       Barring that very distant possibility, at the end of the five year
+       arc, I take a very, very, VERY long nap....
+     * I've mentioned before that there's a side-story that could go off,
+       within the B5 universe, with a few of our characters, once the
+       Babylon 5 story itself comes to an end in its fifth year, but
+       that's a long ways off, and I don't know if that's realistic.
+       You have to understand...I never came in wanting to be a producer.
+       I'm a *writer*, and I only got here because it was the only way to
+       protect the words...create and run the damned show so nobody can
+       mess with it. Once I've finished the Babylon story, assuming it
+       runs its full length, (5 years alone, more if there is that
+       doubtful spinoff), the story is over. Every story has a beginning,
+       middle and end, and the story's over when it's over.
+       I've also made no bones about the fact that, should the Babylon
+       story run its full term, I will have said just about everything I
+       want to say in television, and plan to get out, go back to writing
+       novels.
+       My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room,
+       say it, and get the hell out. (Second philosophy behind that one:
+       when in doubt, roll in a grenade and come in firing.)
+     * From the start, I've indicated that there's a side-story that
+       could go off in the B5 universe after the 5 year story is up, but
+       it wouldn't be B5. Frankly, however, given the current state of
+       the syndication market, I'd suggest that the odds of that
+       happening are slim and none.
+       So barring anything truly exceptional -- like someone handing me
+       an anthology series -- my plan at the moment is to retire from TV
+       at the end of the five years and go back to writing novels and
+       plays. At that point, I think I'll have said just about everything
+       I want to say for TV.
+     * If B5 goes its full five years, I think I'd probably prefer to get
+       out of TV and go back to writing novels and plays.
+     * Re: 422...this one is a stand-alone episode which I specifically
+       designed in order to have the flexibility to air it either as 422
+       or as 522, depending on what happens. This way if year 4 is all
+       there is, we get to where we need to get; if we get year 5, then
+       we shoot 501 and air it in 422's spot, and air 422 in place of
+       522.
+     * 501 isn't written yet, won't be until we get the final word. We
+       could certainly get it finished in time for the US airing in 422's
+       spot, and as for getting it done in the UK, assuming a mid-July
+       start for season 4, means you'd run episodes through late
+       October/early November so again you're okay.
+     * The final 4 would get aired in October. If there's no season 5,
+       then the fourth one aired is 422, "Sleeping in Light."
+       If there is a season 5, 422 is yanked out of the mix and moved
+       down to occupy 522's slot, and we shoot 501 and get it done in
+       time to air in place of 422 in October.
+     * To repeat what I've said here several times, we would move 501
+       into 422's slot and make that the cliffhanger ending, then 502
+       becomes the first episode of season 5, and 422 is the last. So
+       each season works out to 22 episodes.
+     * _Wouldn't season five take place after the final scene you
+       mentioned?_
+       Negative; season 5 would take place in 2262, 19 years before the
+       "final scene" you mention. And no, I wouldn't want season 5 to be
+       just a setup for the sequel; it was sketched out long before that
+       became any kind of possibility, and I have no interest in doing
+       that sort of thing. We'd do one or two small things, but no more
+       than that.
+     * There's no need for confusion. Season 4, as you know, takes place
+       in 2261. Season 5 would take place in 2262.
+       422, or 522, depending on the breaks, takes place in 2281. So it
+       plays just fine either way.
+     * _Was the story always intended to end in 2281?_
+       Yes, the final chapter in the series was always going to fall in
+       2281, 20 years after the events in 2261.
+     * "What are the chances of major spoilers being leaked from
+       "Sleeping in Light" over the next year?!?!?!?"
+       I'm sure some of that's bound to happen...but the reality of it is
+       that if you add up all the people who are online and might get
+       this information, you'd actually end up with only about 4% of the
+       viewing audience...so it'll still have its desired impact.
+     * "You have spent the last 4 years keeping your actors in the dark
+       as to their final fates (for the most part). Will their knowledge
+       of the ending have adverse effects on the acting from this point
+       forward? I expect the answer is they are good at their jobs and
+       will continue to be outstanding in their performances, but many of
+       them have mentioned that the lack of knowledge of their future had
+       played a part in their performances."
+       Not really, no more so than seeing G'Kar and Londo strangling each
+       other as early as year one...but we didn't know what that *meant*
+       until later. And there's still a long, long way between that
+       episode and where we leave off at 421. A lot happens there that
+       nobody else knows, inclusive of the cast.
+       "Also, if you've neatly tied everything up, what does that really
+       leave for season 5? Filler, non-arc stories? This has been my
+       biggest fear. That season 5 will now be farmed out to other
+       scriptwriters, who don't have the intimacy with the story that you
+       have, and that the quality of stories will take a nose dive with
+       filler material."
+       Without giving too much away, season 5 would be empire building.
+       It wouldn't be filler at all, but a logical extension of what has
+       gone before.
+       Basically...I often get messages from people worrying about what
+       might be...then they see what *is* and it's, "Oh...okay, got it."
+       Generally speaking, I think it's better to react to what is rather
+       than what might never in fact be an issue. I ain't let you down
+       yet....
+     * With great trepidation, and at the urging of Warner Bros., I've
+       decided to direct one episode this season...not because I have any
+       particular ambition to be a director, but because I think it will
+       help me become a better writer by more fully understanding that
+       side of the camera. Given how massively busy I am already, this
+       decision will almost certainly be called as evidence in any sanity
+       trial that might take place in future.
+     * "Why were they [Warner Bros.] so interested in you directing?"
+       Well, they know the show is really my vision, and they're curious
+       what it would look like if it was also followed through behind the
+       camera. And as our liaison with WB said, "We like it when our
+       creative people spread their wings a little." They like the show,
+       and it does well for them, and they're just generally supportive
+       that way.
+     * "I'm sincerely curious about how you found the experience of
+       directing your baby -- of being responsible for creating, writing,
+       producing *and* directing it."
+       My main goal was not to embarrass myself overmuch. I think I came
+       out okay. I've now seen an editor's assembly of the material, and
+       it plays real nice. Now I get to go in and make the director's
+       cut, which will to all intents and purposes also stand as the
+       producer's cut.
+       The main thing is...this one is *exactly* the way I saw it in my
+       head. It has a somewhat different feel than prior episodes, though
+       hard to quantify. But I think it came out nicely.
+     * "Having read through this months edition of Starburst (I think),
+       Claudia Christian mentions that you enjoyed directing. My question
+       is a very simple one: would you do it again, and what part of the
+       directing the episode did you find the most enjoyable/rewarding?"
+       I really don't know if I'd say that I *enjoyed* it...my main
+       concern every day was somehow getting through it without
+       embarrassing myself, or letting down the crew or the cast or,
+       ultimately, the viewers. I wanted the direction to the the equal
+       to the performances I knew were waiting to be unlocked. I haven't
+       commented on it much for the same reason you rarely see me saying
+       that a given script of mine is good...I'm too close to it and too
+       critical of everydamnthing I do. But so far everyone of the crew
+       who's seen it, and a few others, were very much moved and
+       satisfied by it.
+       I don't know if I'll do it again or not...my gut says probably
+       not. If I *were* to even try it again, it couldn't be anything
+       other than a final episode of a season, given how much is involved
+       in prep if you're going to have a chance to get it right.
+     * _Did you do anything special on the last day of shooting?_
+       Around lunchtime, I began to notice people filtering out -- crew
+       and others -- wearing white t-shirts with blue lettering that
+       read, on front, "Shhh...the Great Maker is Directing." And on the
+       back, "...and on the seventh day we wrapped." JMS 4:22 May 5,
+       1997. It was a nice thing, and we're considering making the shirts
+       available via the fan club.
+       Since it's customary for directors to bring in food on the last
+       day of an episode shoot, I brought in food at the end of the day,
+       and folks stayed around until late in the evening, just hanging
+       around, chatting, eating, and the like. (I headed home around 7
+       mainly because I was just bushed.) We also took a big family
+       picture that will go into the end credits of the episode, whenever
+       it will finally air. A lot of our past directors, crew, actors and
+       others showed up for the thing, and stayed for the party, knowing
+       that either way, this was going to be the last episode of the
+       series, whether it's 4 or 5 years.
+       Then everybody went away for a few days, and now we're back
+       shooting movie #1, "Thirdspace."
+     * "But seriously, what kind of responses do you expect to see in
+       this newsgroup the week following the last episode?"
+       In a way you're kind of asking the wrong person, as I'm inside the
+       fishbowl and can't see the show the way anyone outside can see it.
+       The only gauge I have is the reaction the script got around the
+       stage when people on the crew and cast read it. (With a note
+       attached explaining the possibility of airing it as 522 or 422,
+       but that either way this would end up the story.)
+       Pretty much everybody cried. I came home to a message on my
+       machine from Mira, who was almost unable to speak, and another
+       from Claudia who said she was honored and proud to be a part of
+       this, and the script had made her cry. Bruce, Richard, big beefy
+       guys on the crew...all said the same thing. And there I have to
+       concur; I lost is several times as I was writing it, due to the
+       content; there's one scene in particular...you'll know it when you
+       see it...that put me away for an hour when I finished writing it.
+       But here's the thing...*every single person* who cried at the
+       script, ended it feeling that it was not a sad script in the end,
+       or a down ending...that it left them feeling proud, and tall, and
+       *positive*...that life goes on...that it was a reaffirmation of
+       life itself, on its most primal level. They felt good about the
+       ending. And that was a great relief for me, because I was trying
+       something *very* difficult from a writing perspective, and at
+       first blush it looks as if I've pulled it off. (Now I get to go in
+       as director and *totally* screw it up.)
+       Only one fan has read the script...someone whose opinion I trust.
+       Because I was curious about the reaction from that side of the
+       screen. And the reaction was *exactly* the same.
+       So how do I think people will react?
+       I think a lot of people will cry.
+       But by the end of it, I think it will come around, and be all
+       right...and mainly, that people will then look back at the whole
+       story, through all these long years, and say, "It was a good
+       story." And close the cover, and put it on the shelf with the
+       other books that will be reread again down the years, and turn off
+       the lights, and go to bed feeling that the time was well spent.
+       Which is the most any writer can ever ask for. To tell a tale
+       worth telling To make people cry. To make people laugh. And even,
+       once in a while, make them think about things, and see the world
+       just a little differently than when they began.
+       And then they can centerpunch me on the freeway, or throw a plane
+       at me, and I won't even mind. Because everything I set out to
+       prove, I proved. Everything I set out to say, I said.
+       I've carried this story like a hermit crab carries its shell for
+       five long years, counting the pilot. It's been an *awfully* long
+       and difficult road, and no one will ever really know just how hard
+       this show was to make. Nor should they, because it isn't the
+       difficulty that makes the story, the *story* makes the story. But
+       one way or another, aired as 522 or 422, when it airs the burden
+       is off at last. Then it no longer belongs to me. It belongs to
+       you. As should be.
+       And, in the end, I think you'll be pleased.
+     * _[15]"Between the Darkness and the Light"_
+       "...as I am a visual artist, I tend to notice lighting and
+       structure,etc., especially on the second (or 3rd) viewing, and the
+       thorny crown was striking to my eyes, as was the sad,
+       dark-circles-under-the-eyes, immensely tired look on his face,
+       which lent to the illusion."
+       It's interesting when that happens. There's a halo around
+       Sheridan's head at one point when he's yelling at Delenn in the
+       big room in "Z'ha'dum," and, just as a pointer to something you
+       won't see for another year....
+       When I was directing "Sleeping in Light," there's a scene with
+       Sheridan and a mirror. (That's all I'll say about it, so there's
+       no spoiler info there.) As John Flinn lit the shot, and angled the
+       mirror...I froze at what I was seeing on the monitor. I called
+       John over, and pointed to it. "Do you see what I see?" It took him
+       a moment, but then his eyes went wide, and by his own reckoning,
+       "the skin on my arms crawled." He turned to the guys dressing the
+       set and said, in a very loud, clear voice, "NOBODY TOUCHES THAT
+       MIRROR! YOU HEAR ME!? NOBODY!"
+       It's not a big...but it's a pretty cool unintended illusion
+       (though once we saw it, we kept it).
+       
+
+   [21][Next] 
+   
+      [22]Last update: February 12, 1998
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+In Darkness Find Me
+
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+Overview
+
+     Commander Sinclair is recalled to Earth and discovers a long-kept
+     secret that leads to a new assignment.
+     
+             Issue 1 (January 1995, released December 6, 1994)
+                                      
+   Setting: Between [6]"Chrysalis" and [7]"Points of Departure"
+    Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
+ Penciller: Michael Netzer
+     Inker: Rob Leigh
+  Colorist: Robbie Busch
+  Letterer: Tracy Hampton Munsey
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Synopsis
+
+   A few days after being recalled from Babylon 5 (cf. episode [8]"Points
+   of Departure") Commander Sinclair is languishing in Earthdome, Geneva,
+   waiting for someone to tell him why he was called back. His nights, as
+   always, are filled with horrible dreams, replays of the Battle of the
+   Line. He tries to prevail on a senator to tell him what's going on,
+   but is rebuffed, with an additional admonition to stop spreading
+   rumors about President Santiago being assassinated.
+   
+   Then, in the middle of the night on January 6, 2259, some
+   heavily-armed men escort Sinclair to see President Clark. Clark
+   introduces him to Rathenn, of the Minbari Grey Council. Rathenn
+   introduces himself and says he's come to take Sinclair back to his
+   home. Not Mars Colony, where his body was born -- but to his soul's
+   home.
+   
+   Rathenn uses a triluminary on Sinclair, who is suddenly able to recall
+   in full what happened after he was taken aboard the Grey Council's
+   cruiser at the Battle of the Line (cf. episode [9]"And the Sky Full of
+   Stars.") He was drugged, interrogated about Earth targets, and
+   tortured after he tried to escape. He recalls the whispers of the Grey
+   Council as Delenn confirms that he has a Minbari soul.
+   
+   Rathenn explains that every human pilot the Grey Council examined had
+   a Minbari soul, or part of a Minbari soul, and that the Minbari
+   population has been declining for the past six thousand years. At
+   first the Grey Council blamed the soul hunters (cf. episode [10]"Soul
+   Hunter") but the decline was too great to be accounted for that way.
+   That day, they discovered why the Minbari race was dying, where all
+   the souls were going. Since no Minbari had killed another in thousands
+   of years, the Grey Council surrendered.
+   
+   Clark says that the Grey Council told the Earth government of their
+   findings, and that both the government and the Council agreed the
+   information would not be taken well by the public. Earth officials
+   gave the Council permission to wipe Sinclair's memory; they were on
+   the verge of defeat and weren't about to object to such a small demand
+   by the Minbari. "We were dying," Clark explains later, after Rathenn
+   has left. "It didn't matter that it was insane... _Everything_ was
+   insane. If it made them stop killing us... well, that was fine by us."
+   
+   Clark tells Sinclair he's free to resign his commission with full
+   retirement pay. Or he can accept a new assignment, his most important
+   one to date: accept the Minbari government's invitation to come to
+   their world as ambassador. Clark promises to keep Sinclair informed
+   about Garibaldi's condition. As for why the Minbari wanted Sinclair,
+   Clark speculates: "Maybe they feel guilty about what they did to you.
+   Maybe they're comfortable with you. And maybe they _need_ you. We've
+   heard about trouble between the Minbari religious caste and the
+   military caste. It's possible that... well, the religious caste might
+   just need an experienced soldier to talk to."
+   
+   Sinclair's shuttle arrives at the Grey Council's cruiser. As he waits
+   to be greeted, he pulls out a small slip of paper and reads. He's
+   shortly greeted by several hooded Councilmembers and a few members of
+   the military caste, and explains that he was reading a [11]poem by a
+   long-departed writer, something he wants to share with the Council in
+   the hopes that it will help them understand. He is escorted away by
+   the Councilmembers, as one of the military looks on, expression
+   twisted in hatred.
+   
+Backplot
+
+     * No Minbari has killed another (intentionally, presumably) for
+       several thousand years. (See [12]jms speaks)
+     * The Grey Council believes Sinclair has a Minbari soul.
+     * Some within the Earth government have known the reason behind the
+       Minbari surrender from the start, and gave the Grey Council
+       permission to wipe Sinclair's mind. Clark claims to have not
+       learned the secret until he took office as President.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What does the triluminary do to Sinclair such that he can remember
+       everything all of a sudden? Is there a single function it performs
+       that explains its seeming variety of uses? (cf. episodes [13]"And
+       the Sky Full of Stars," [14]"Chrysalis")
+     * Who in the Earth government knew about the Minbari surrender?
+       Someone other than the President, probably, since Santiago was
+       dead when Clark took office. It's also possible the Minbari told
+       Clark themselves.
+     * Why did the Grey Council choose to reveal their secret to Sinclair
+       now? Why have they invited him to become ambassador after pushing
+       so hard to get him in command of Babylon 5 (cf. episode [15]"Signs
+       and Portents"?)
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Sheridan was wrong about Clark being the only other person who
+       knows about the situation with Minbari souls (cf. episode
+       [16]"Points of Departure.") How widespread the knowledge is, and
+       how it's being used, may be important story points in the future.
+     * The coverup of Santiago's assassination appears to be very
+       effective, unless the senator Sinclair speaks with is in on it as
+       well. Everyone seems convinced that it was a simple accident.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Sinclair's d*ck makes an appearance on page 17. Or a swan, anyway.
+     * Oddly, there are some inconsistencies with the series:
+          + Clark tells Sinclair that he's giving Ivanova a field
+            promotion to commander, _before_ Sheridan arrives on Babylon
+            5 and puts in the paperwork (in episode [17]"The Geometry of
+            Shadows.") On the other hand, it's possible Sheridan actually
+            requested the promotion as soon as he got his assignment, or
+            that Clark was planning on promoting Ivanova anyway.
+          + Sinclair's recollection of his last words on the Line are
+            different. In [18]"And the Sky Full of Stars" he says, "If
+            I'm going out I'm taking you bastards with me! Target main
+            cruiser, set for full velocity ram." Possibly to tone down
+            the language, the comic renders this as, "If I'm dying I'm
+            taking you demons with me! Target lead Minbari cruiser! Set
+            for full velocity ram!"
+     * Even _Clark_ thinks Sinclair is stiff: "Excuse me, Commander, but
+       is that as much at ease as you get?"
+     * There's a slight gaffe on page 19; Sinclair's uniform is backwards
+       in the mirror. (The strap should be on the other side of the
+       buttons, as shown on page 22.)
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * By the "flip side" of stories I was referring to the other side of
+       events. I.e., in episode one, Sinclair is reassigned, but we hear
+       about this mainly when he's away. In the comic, we'll see where he
+       is, and see his reaction to what's going on. In B-squared, we saw
+       the present events in the vanishment of B4; in a future episode,
+       we'll actually see our characters make the decision to go back in
+       time and yank B4 forward, what went wrong, and so on.
+     * It's not supposed to be a blasted landscape around Geneva, and
+       didn't look like that in the pencils.
+     * The word "bastards" was in the script I turned in to DC. It got
+       changed to "demons" by the editor. That change was made at the
+       last minute; all the inked and penciled versions I'd seen before
+       had the right word in it. I'm considerably less than thrilled
+       about it.
+     * Prior to the time of Valen, the Minbari's greatest spiritual
+       leader, there was killing of Minbari by Minbari. There were three
+       warring castes, which he pulled together when he formed the Grey
+       Council (three from each caste forming nine, Worker, Warrior,
+       Religious Caste). Since that time, and the Minbari have been in
+       space for well over a thousand years, they have pretty much hewn
+       to that rule; it is their greatest taboo. Once the three sides
+       were integrated, the warrior caste mainly contented itself with
+       external threats.
+     * Rathenn said the soul migration had been going on for 6000 years;
+       Lennier in [19]"Points of Departure" said one or two thousand.
+       What gives?
+       Rathenn spoke incorrectly.
+     * Rathenn said Sinclair did not *entirely* remember their meeting;
+       he then refreshed this memory.
+     * _Squaring the account of Ivanova's promotion with "The Geometry of
+       Shadows"_
+       The president spoke truthfully; Sheridan could petition for a
+       promotion for her, but it's up to Earthforce to grant it, so the
+       line still tracks. (Note also there's no pronoun there; "Giving
+       her a field promotion." The imperial We still stands, though.)
+       Also, Sheridan says he put through the paperwork the day after he
+       got there; which is fairly close to the time frame in the story in
+       which the President says they'll be giving Ivanova a promotion.
+       There's no discontinuity here.
+     * _In "Points of Departure," Sheridan implied he told Clark about
+       the soul migration._
+       Sheridan did NOT tell President Clark about the Minbari soul
+       situation. Clark already knew about it. Sheridan's line is, "I
+       spoke with the president. He is the only other person who knows
+       why the Minbari surrendered." Also, in the first issue of the
+       comic, this prior knowledge on Clark's part is clear as well.
+       
+
+   
+      Last update: October 30, 1996
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+  20. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  21. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/001.html#TOP
+  22. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  23. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  24. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/002.html
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+Treason
+
+                            [1][ISMAP]-[2][Home]
+                                    [3]
+             ### GUIDE ### [4][Index] [5][Previous] [6][Next] 
+
+Overview
+
+     Ambassador Sinclair arrives on Minbar, just in time to see a new
+     Minbari leader sworn in... and a conspiracy plot unfold.
+     
+             Issue 2 (February 1995, released January 3, 1995)
+                                      
+   Setting: Between [7]"Revelations" and [8]"The Geometry of Shadows"
+    Writer: Mark Moretti
+   Premise: J. Michael Straczynski
+ Penciller: Michael Netzer
+     Inker: Rob Leigh
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Synopsis
+
+   In a docking bay on the station, an armed man in dockworker clothes
+   loads a small package onto a Minbari flyer, which departs the station
+   three hours later.
+   
+   Three days later, Babylon 5 receives a distress call from a ship in
+   Grid Epsilon. Keffer takes Zeta Squad to respond. In C&C, Ivanova
+   arrives in time to see the final distress call, which turns out to be
+   from the Starliner Chiyoda-Ku. The person making the call is killed by
+   an unseen person as Ivanova watches. Ivanova begins calling up the
+   registration and manifest of the Chiyoda-Ku. "These are the times I
+   wish Garibaldi was back on duty," she says, "but..."
+   
+   Garibaldi, meanwhile, is in his quarters, showing Talia his
+   second-favorite thing in the universe (cf. episode [9]"Midnight on the
+   Firing Line.")
+   
+   Parsecs away, the Minbari cruiser carrying Ambassador Sinclair stops
+   to take on a transfer, arriving on the flyer from Babylon 5. Racine, a
+   Grey Council member, tells Sinclair that the period of mourning for
+   Dukhat is over, that the Grey Council, which has ruled Minbar since
+   Dukhat's death, is gathering on Minbar to install a new leader, and
+   that the flyer is carrying a member of the Council who was away but
+   has returned for the Shi-Ki, the installation ceremony. Sinclair tries
+   to talk to the newly arrived Satai, but is rebuffed by one of the
+   Satai's guards, a member of the militant Star Rider caste.
+   
+   Garibaldi and Talia are interrupted by a call from Sinclair, who
+   apologizes for not being able to say goodbye. He asks Garibaldi to
+   forward his regards to Delenn, who he's glad isn't going to be at the
+   ceremony. "There's some kind of undercurrent running through the
+   Minbari castes -- tension. It seems dangerous with the Grey Council
+   and the new leader all in one place." Garibaldi tells Sinclair that
+   Delenn has come out of her chrysalis, and is in fact on her way to
+   Minbar.
+   
+   Keffer's squad finds the Chiyoda-Ku, a top-notch starliner. Flying
+   close, they can see through the windows: dead bodies, bleeding,
+   floating in the air inside the zero-G passenger areas. Ivanova tells
+   Keffer to attach tow cables to the ship and bring her back to the
+   station. As Keffer and his squad tow the ship back, Ivanova finally
+   finds the ship listed in a registry... and the file is classified. She
+   tells Dr. Franklin to meet her in the docking bay, and tells the C&C
+   staff to keep everything under wraps.
+   
+   Elsewhere on the station, the man who loaded the package onto the
+   Minbari flyer, Jason Colby (apparently a Homeguard sympathizer)
+   manages to bypass the station's computer security and finds out that
+   the Chiyoda-Ku is being brought aboard. He quickly changes into a
+   station security uniform.
+   
+   The bodies are counted -- twenty-five aboard, all but one dead, some
+   with PPG wounds, and none with any identification. The ship's life
+   support didn't malfunction; it was turned off. One of the security men
+   says he's seen the Chiyoda-Ku somewhere before, but can't place it. As
+   the survivor is taken away, Colby watches.
+   
+   Franklin stabilizes the survivor; Ivanova has him placed under guard.
+   Later that night, Colby enters Medlab and discovers the survivor,
+   conscious. Colby tries to kill the man, but is hit by a powerful
+   mental force. The survivor stumbles out of Medlab, taking the dead
+   guard's gun on the way out. Colby recovers shortly thereafter and goes
+   looking for the man.
+   
+   Ivanova discovers that the Chiyoda-Ku was confiscated by Earth Force
+   in an arms-smuggling bust two years earlier. Just then, Franklin calls
+   in from Medlab, reporting the escape of his patient and the death of
+   the guard. Ivanova issues a lookout for the patient; he is to be taken
+   alive if possible, but is armed and dangerous.
+   
+   Sinclair stands near a large window of the Earth Alliance embassy in
+   Yedor, the Minbari capital, and looks out over a gathering area in the
+   midst of the crystalline city. He is joined by Ambassador Delenn,
+   whose new appearance shocks Sinclair. She tells him he didn't see her
+   in time, that it's too late now. Of her transformation, she says, "I
+   reached a time when I could go no further... as I _was._ I cannot
+   explain more yet. I am the first of my kind ever to... become this. I
+   am now only half-Minbari. I am also half-human."
+   
+   The search for the escaped patient is going poorly. Ivanova is
+   coordinating search teams when Talia calls and says the man everyone's
+   looking for is in her quarters. Ivanova tells all the search teams to
+   converge on Talia's quarters... an order Colby hears, too.
+   
+   When Ivanova and her men burst in, Talia says the man's name is Dexter
+   Hall, that he's a psi-cop, and that he didn't kill the guard. He came
+   to her because she was a fellow Psi-Corps member. He had been working
+   undercover, infiltrating a pro-Earth group on the Chiyoda-Ku who
+   blamed Santiago's death on alien groups. He found out the group was
+   supplying weapons for an assassination of a head of state: the new
+   Minbari leader.
+   
+   Delenn and Sinclair are talking when Kozorr, military caste, barges
+   into the room, two subordinates pushing a pile of boxes of Sinclair's
+   belongings from Babylon 5. Kozorr opens one of the boxes, revealing an
+   Earth-made rifle, along with a map of the new leader's coronation
+   route -- with a marker drawn at the point when the leader will pass
+   closest to Sinclair's window. He places Sinclair under arrest for
+   conspiring to assassinate the new leader. "When you are convicted,"
+   Kozorr continues, "be assured we will declare war against Earth for
+   your treason."
+   
+Backplot
+
+     * Delenn is still a member of the Grey Council, even after her
+       transformation and her rejection of the Council leadership.
+     * The Grey Council has been in charge of the Minbari government
+       since the death of Dukhat, but that will no longer be the case
+       once the new leader is installed.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What will the Minbari do to Sinclair?
+     * What happened on the Chiyoda-Ku? Did Hall kill all the other
+       people on the ship, such as the person placing the distress call?
+     * Was the bogus package intended for someone other than Sinclair?
+       Was it supposed to be discovered to implicate him? (See
+       [10]Analysis)
+     * How did Colby intercept the security transmission about the
+       Chiyoda-Ku's arrival?
+     * Who is Colby's "boss," the one who told him to plant the package?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * This story seems to take place between the episodes
+       [11]"Revelations" and [12]"The Geometry of Shadows" since it
+       features Delenn post-chrysalis, but Ivanova is still referred to
+       as Lieutenant Commander. That makes it unlikely that Garibaldi's
+       aide is Colby's contact on the station.
+     * The placement of the package is odd. If it was intended to frame
+       Sinclair, then Hall was wrong about there being an assassination
+       attempt against the new Minbari leader (or there are even more
+       weapons, as yet undiscovered by the Minbari.) So perhaps it was
+       supposed to be intercepted by someone else at the Earth Alliance
+       embassy before Sinclair ever saw it, and the Minbari have
+       unwittingly foiled a _real_ assassination plot.
+     * The Homeguard is apparently unaware of the real plot to kill
+       Santiago, if they assumed it was the work of aliens. Or, perhaps,
+       they know something that hasn't been discovered by the Babylon 5
+       crew yet.
+       
+Notes
+
+jms speaks
+
+   [18][Next] 
+   
+      Last update: June 23, 1996
+
+References
+
+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/lurk/gif/comic/002.jpg
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/index.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/001.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/003.html
+   7. file://localhost/lurk/guide/024.html
+   8. file://localhost/lurk/guide/025.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/guide/001.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/002.html#AN.package
+  11. file://localhost/lurk/guide/024.html
+  12. file://localhost/lurk/guide/025.html
+  13. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/002.html#TOP
+  15. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  16. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  17. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/001.html
+  18. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/003.html
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+In Harms Way
+
+                            [1][ISMAP]-[2][Home]
+                                    [3]
+             ### GUIDE ### [4][Index] [5][Previous] [6][Next] 
+
+Overview
+
+     As Sinclair's trial begins, Sheridan and his crew race to unravel
+     the mystery of the Chiyoda-Ku.
+     
+                            Issue 3 (March 1995)
+                                      
+   Setting: Between [7]"Revelations" and [8]"The Geometry of Shadows"
+    Writer: Mark Moretti
+   Premise: J. Michael Straczynski
+    Artist: Carlos Garzon
+  Colorist: Robbie Busch
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Synopsis
+
+   On Minbar, Delenn visits Sinclair after the inauguration of the
+   "Chosen One" as leader. Sinclair is sure someone was out to frame him.
+   He's further puzzled when Delenn mentions that the message that told
+   the Minbari there was an assassin on their world came from Babylon 5.
+   
+   On Babylon 5, Sheridan is talking to Senator Hidoshi, who seems to
+   believe that Sinclair might be guilty; he mentions Sinclair's
+   suspicions about a plot to assassinate the president, and conjectures
+   that maybe Sinclair thought the Minbari were behind the plot. Hidoshi
+   passes along a message from Psi-Corps: Dexter Hall is to be kept
+   isolated, under guard. An Earthforce internal affairs officer, Colonel
+   Rabock, is being sent to take control of the situation.
+   
+   In his quarters, Jason Colby listens in on the conversation as
+   Sheridan objects to an outsider taking over an ongoing investigation.
+   Hidoshi dismisses Sheridan's claim that what Talia saw in Hall's mind
+   indicates that someone else nearby is involved. Hearing that, Colby
+   prepares to get rid of Talia. Sheridan says he intends to continue the
+   investigation until Rabock arrives; Hidoshi begins to tell him that
+   Hall is a rogue telepath known as "Cypher."
+   
+   Talia walks through the Zocalo, Colby close behind. She senses
+   powerful anger, but when she turns, Colby is gone. He has stepped into
+   a comm booth and is talking to a bearded man called "Webster," who
+   tells him to get rid of Hall, but leave Talia alone. Colby asks
+   Webster to get him off Babylon 5; he thinks he's fulfilled his end of
+   the bargain and wants to go home. Webster agrees and says he'll use
+   G'Kar to get Colby out.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Garibaldi doesn't believe Hall is Cypher; he thinks Cypher
+   isn't even a real rogue, just "plausible deniability for deep cover
+   ops." He also tells Sheridan there's no way Sinclair is guilty.
+   
+   On Minbar, Sinclair is led to trial. Delenn meets the head prosecutor:
+   Alit Neroon (cf. episode [9]"Legacies.")
+   
+   G'Kar has called a council meeting, outraged that the council wasn't
+   informed of the accusation against Sinclair. "Are _our_ leaders in
+   danger, also?" he asks. Sheridan smooths things over just in time to
+   be called to medlab.
+   
+   Colby grabs Talia and pulls her into a transport tube car. She knows
+   instantly that he's Hall's attacker. Garibaldi appears; Colby makes a
+   run for it, leaving Talia behind. She and Garibaldi arrive in medlab,
+   where they find Sheridan. Talia agrees to do a deep scan of Hall.
+   Ivanova reports that Colonel Rabock's ship has arrived early; Sheridan
+   tells her to stall him.
+   
+   Talia begins her scan. She sees Hall undercover, infiltrating a group
+   called the Homers. They're on the Chiyoda-Ku, celebrating the death of
+   "that 'Minbari stooge' -- President Santiago." One of the celebrants
+   claims there's an even bigger event coming up, that he delivered a
+   weapon to someone on Babylon 5 to use in the assassination of the new
+   Minbari leader. Hall slips away to send a warning to the Minbari, but
+   someone notices him, and a firefight ensues. He's hit, but reaches the
+   cockpit and locks the door. He orders the pilot to call for help.
+   Before the pilot can finish, the others break in and start shooting,
+   hitting the pilot and the communications console. In desperation, Hall
+   grabs for a breather and opens the ship's exhaust vents. The others
+   perish in the near-vacuum, and Hall himself is half-conscious, on the
+   verge of death, when Babylon 5's Starfuries arrive. Much later, he
+   awakens in medlab to find a gun pointed at his head; he reacts
+   reflexively, blasting his assailant with pain, and forces himself to
+   seek out another telepath.
+   
+   As Talia reaches the end of his memories, Hall dies. Colonel Rabock
+   barges into medlab -- he's "Webster," the man who was talking to
+   Colby.
+   
+   On Minbar, Sinclair stands before an imposing panel of Minbari.
+   "Ambassador Sinclair," one of them says. "You stand accused of
+   plotting to assassinate the Chosen One, our leader. How do you
+   plead...?"
+   
+Backplot
+
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What was the bargain between Colby and Col. Rabock?
+     * Is there still an assassin on Minbar? (see [10]Analysis)
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * For once, Garibaldi's sixth sense about Talia and the transport
+       tube (cf. episode [11]"A Voice in the Wilderness, part 1") works
+       to her advantage rather than her annoyance!
+     * It's still not clear that Sinclair was the intended recipient of
+       the weapons and map; the Homer thought that there was going to be
+       a real assassination attempt, something Sinclair obviously would
+       never do. If that's the case, there's still a would-be assassin at
+       large on Minbar.
+     * Further, Sinclair would never have gotten in trouble if it hadn't
+       been for Talia's discovery of an assassination plot, which
+       presumably prompted the call that warned the Minbari to look for
+       an assassin.
+     * Why did Colby continue to go after Talia even after he was
+       explicity told not to? That would seem to indicate that whatever
+       the bargain between Col. Rabock and Colby is, it's not something
+       Colby considers a matter of life and death, something to be
+       respected at the risk of his own discovery.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * This issue's behind-the-scenes pages:
+          + John Iacovelli discusses the design of the sets and some of
+            the show's philosophy.
+          + Roland Rosenkranz describes the design of the Narn fighter
+            cockpit.
+          + Marc-Louis Walters describes the show's hand weapon design,
+            from PPG pistols to grenade launchers to Minbari knives.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+   [17][Next] 
+   
+      Last update: February 5, 1996
+
+References
+
+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/lurk/gif/comic/003.jpg
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/index.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/002.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/004.html
+   7. file://localhost/lurk/guide/024.html
+   8. file://localhost/lurk/guide/025.html
+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/017.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/003.html#AN:assassin
+  11. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/018.html
+  12. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/003.html#TOP
+  14. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  15. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  16. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/002.html
+  17. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/004.html
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+The Price of Peace
+
+                            [1][ISMAP]-[2][Home]
+                                    [3]
+             ### GUIDE ### [4][Index] [5][Previous] [6][Next] 
+
+Overview
+
+     Colby makes a last desperate break for freedom, as Sinclair's
+     problems reach a climactic finish on Minbar.
+     
+                            Issue 4 (April 1995)
+                                      
+   Setting: Between [7]"Revelations" and [8]"The Geometry of Shadows"
+    Writer: Mark Moretti
+   Premise: J. Michael Straczynski
+ Penciller: Michael Netzer
+     Inker: Rob Leigh
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Synopsis
+
+   As Jason Colby gathers his belongings -- including a picture of his
+   dead wife -- his video tap shows Col. Rabock talking to Ivanova,
+   demanding permission to board the station. Colby recognizes Rabock as
+   Webster.
+   
+   In Medlab, Rabock upbraids Sheridan for allowing Talia to scan Hall.
+   Sheridan retorts that Hall was about to die, that the scan has given
+   them a lead in the Minbari assassination plot, and that they're trying
+   to track down the man who attacked Hall. Rabock storms away, which
+   strikes Sheridan as odd. "I would've thought an internal affairs
+   investigator would be interested in any information we uncovered," he
+   says.
+   
+   Sinclair's trial is interrupted when Delenn charges into the chambers,
+   claiming to have new information that might exonerate him. Neroon
+   objects to her presence -- her association with Sinclair invalidates
+   anything she might say. Delenn begins to describe what Garibaldi and
+   Sheridan have learned; the tribunal decides to hear her evidence
+   privately.
+   
+   Rabock speaks privately with a superior over a comm channel. He tells
+   the mysterious man that Colby will take the fall for smuggling the
+   weapons into Sinclair's luggage. His superior points out that if Colby
+   is blamed, the cover story about Cypher being responsible will fall
+   apart. Colby must be killed. Rabock's superior mentions that Rabock
+   killed Colby's wife to help recruit Colby into the Homeguard -- an
+   unfortunate revelation, since Colby is listening in on the
+   conversation from his quarters.
+   
+   Delenn finishes her report on the situation on Babylon 5. Neroon
+   dismisses it out of hand as a delaying tactic, and says that once it
+   becomes clear that Sinclair's friends are fabricating evidence to set
+   him free, the warrior caste will demand a renewed war against Earth.
+   Delenn counters that the war was ended the first time because some
+   humans, including Sinclair, carry Minbari souls, a situation which
+   hasn't changed. Neroon scoffs at that.
+   
+   Rabock checks in with Garibaldi to find out how the manhunt is
+   proceeding. It's proceeding as planned, though as yet there's no trace
+   of the man Talia described. While Rabock watches, Garibaldi discovers
+   a visual log of the docking bay that shows Colby loading weapons onto
+   Delenn's flyer. That's enough for the computer to search the personnel
+   files and determine who Colby is.
+   
+   Rabock, who slipped away the moment he saw the video, arrives at
+   Colby's quarters as Garibaldi and Sheridan rush to the scene. As he
+   enters, Colby ambushes him and takes him hostage. Sheridan and
+   Garibaldi arrive; Sheridan agrees to let Colby get to Rabock's shuttle
+   unhindered. As soon as Colby is out of earshot, Sheridan orders a wing
+   of Starfuries to take out the ship's engine when it emerges.
+   
+   The shuttle leaves the station. Rabock tells Colby to put down his gun
+   -- and hits Colby with an intense burst of telepathic pain when Colby
+   doesn't comply. Colby figures it out: Webster isn't Rabock at all.
+   He's Cypher. Colby grabs his gun and begins firing. Unfortunately, he
+   hits the shuttle's systems several times; it explodes before the
+   waiting Starfuries can fire a shot.
+   
+   Neroon cites the video as evidence that Sinclair is simply part of a
+   larger conspiracy to assassinate the Minbari leader, and demands that
+   such an act of war be responded to in kind. The tribunal agrees. As
+   its head is pronouncing sentence, Sinclair invokes an ancient law,
+   offering his life in exchange for war. This infuriates Neroon, who
+   accuses Sinclair of mocking Minbari customs... but the tribunal rules
+   that Sinclair's request is valid.
+   
+   The Minbari leader enters the court chamber, flanked by robed
+   acolytes, and demands to be heard. He has been watching the trial, and
+   the fact that Sinclair was willing to pay the steepest possible price
+   for peace has convinced him that Sinclair is "a good and just man." He
+   pardons Sinclair.
+   
+   Later, Delenn congratulates Sinclair on the ploy. He knew that the
+   leader, as head of the Grey Council, would never allow the execution
+   because of Sinclair's Minbari soul. As Delenn bids Sinclair farewell,
+   he surprises her by kissing her on the cheek.
+   
+   Sheridan, Ivanova, and Garibaldi discuss the situation. All the
+   principals are gone -- even Hall's body, which had been loaded onto
+   Rabock's ship. Garibaldi says he still doesn't believe Hall was
+   Cypher, doesn't think Cypher even exists.
+   
+   They're interrupted by the arrival of an Earthforce officer: Colonel
+   Tiffany Rabock. Garibaldi is stunned -- maybe Cypher did exist after
+   all.
+   
+   On Earth, in an office with a stylized, militaristic psi symbol on the
+   floor, a man deletes the files for Colby and Webster and asks the
+   computer to search Psi-Corps records for a person matching the
+   "Cypher" program's criteria. "Somewhere out there," he says, "a new
+   Cypher is waiting to be found..."
+   
+Backplot
+
+     * Neroon knew, before [9]"All Alone in the Night," that Sinclair was
+       alleged to be carrying a Minbari soul. It seems he doesn't believe
+       it, or doesn't care.
+     * The Minbari leader has the power to pardon criminals, even those
+       convicted of treason.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Who's the mysterious man in charge of Cypher? From the "PSI" in
+       his office on the last page, it seems he's connected with
+       Psi-Corps. Perhaps he's part of Bureau 13? (cf. [10]"A Spider in
+       the Web")
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * The plot to set Hall up as Cypher seems flawed; if Webster and his
+       superior had succeeded in convincing everyone that Hall was
+       Cypher, that'd mean another cover story would have to be concocted
+       if they wanted to do anything they'd ordinarily pin on Cypher.
+     * Sinclair and Delenn are more than just colleagues, clearly; unless
+       Sinclair has picked up some of Ivanova's Russian habits, kissing a
+       foreign official is hardly an ambassadorial thing to do.
+     * Sinclair now seems to have an ally in the leader of the Minbari.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * In this issue's behind-the-scenes pages, Ann Bruice talks about
+       the designs of various costumes on the show, and about being B5's
+       costume designer.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+   [16][Next] 
+   
+      Last update: February 5, 1996
+
+References
+
+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/lurk/gif/comic/004.jpg
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/index.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/003.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/005.html
+   7. file://localhost/lurk/guide/024.html
+   8. file://localhost/lurk/guide/025.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/guide/033.html
+  10. file://localhost/lurk/guide/028.html
+  11. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/004.html#TOP
+  13. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  15. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/003.html
+  16. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/005.html
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+With Friends Like These
+
+                            [1][ISMAP]-[2][Home]
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+
+Overview
+
+     Security Chief Garibaldi and hotshot pilot Warren Keffer plunge
+     into deep space, following a cryptic clue that may explain why an
+     alien outpost was wiped out. Ambushed and forced to crash land on a
+     remote planet, Garibaldi recalls his first meeting with Babylon 5's
+     former commander, Jeffrey Sinclair.
+     
+                   Issue 5 (June 1995, released April 4)
+                                      
+   Setting: Before [7]"The Coming of Shadows"
+    Writer: Tim DeHaas
+   Premise: J. Michael Straczynski
+    Artist: John Ridgway
+  Colorist: Robbie Busch
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Synopsis
+
+   Garibaldi finds Londo and Vir in the Zocalo and tells Londo he knows
+   that the Narn outpost in Quadrant 37 (destroyed in [8]"Chrysalis") has
+   been the subject of many of Londo's transmissions. Londo, taken aback
+   that Garibaldi has been listening in on him, says he's just staying
+   informed. G'Kar, arriving on the scene, notes, "It seems every time
+   you are informed of something, others pay with their lives," pointing
+   to the destruction of the Narn cruiser in [9]"Revelations." Londo and
+   G'Kar nearly come to blows before Vir drags Londo away for a scheduled
+   meeting with Delenn.
+   
+   But it's not Delenn waiting for Londo; it's Morden, who tells Londo to
+   be more careful in his off-station communications, and asks that Londo
+   tell him if Garibaldi should decide to investigate further.
+   
+   Garibaldi is in a security office. He's sifting through ambassadorial
+   communications, looking for something suspicious, something he's
+   apparently authorized to do randomly. Shortly after Ivanova arrives,
+   Garibaldi finds Londo using a comm channel, though without tipping
+   Londo off to the tap, Garibaldi can't see who's on the other side. It
+   turns out to be Refa; the two discuss the Emperor's health (poor.)
+   Londo wants to meet with Refa in person to discuss misgivings about
+   the "source" who helped him with Quadrant 37; they agree to meet in
+   two hours at some predetermined place.
+   
+   Garibaldi decides that Londo's source is definitely something Earth
+   needs to know more about. He rushes off to beat Londo to the meeting
+   place, whose location he learned from previous transmissions. As he's
+   trying to sneak out with a flyer, Keffer catches up to him and invites
+   himself along. "Somebody has to bring you back alive," he says.
+   Garibaldi reluctantly agrees.
+   
+   Londo is on his way to his ship when he runs into Morden. Morden tells
+   Londo to cancel his meeting with Refa and instead pay a routine
+   diplomatic visit to a Centauri colony. He demands that Londo tell him
+   where the meeting was going to take place.
+   
+   Keffer and Garibaldi emerge from a jumpgate near a planet. Asked why
+   he went along, Keffer says, "You needed help. You don't have many
+   friends on the station." Garibaldi agrees that Sinclair was the only
+   one he knew he could trust.
+   
+   While they wait for Londo and Refa to arrive, Garibaldi explains why
+   he trusts Sinclair in a way that he can never trust Sheridan. It was
+   years earlier, back on Mars Colony. Garibaldi had started a shuttle
+   transport service, mostly transporting people who didn't like being
+   asked questions. He was sitting in his office, nursing a bottle, when
+   Lieutenant Commander Sinclair came in with two junior officers and
+   enlists Garibaldi's services for a flight. He's a little apprehensive
+   about Garibaldi's drunkenness, but Garibaldi accepts the job.
+   
+   The story is interrupted by the abrupt appearance of a Shadow fighter.
+   Keffer heads at breakneck speed for the planet, dodging shots left and
+   right, but their ship is hit and goes spinning half out of control.
+   Keffer manages to stabilize the ship somewhat, but it's still headed
+   for the ground. "Hope the foam-protect still works," says Garibaldi,
+   as the ship disappears behind a small mountain range...
+   
+Backplot
+
+Unanswered Questions
+
+Analysis
+
+Notes
+
+     * Beginning this issue, BABYLON 5 is upgraded to DC's Fracote
+       Format, featuring a coated paper stock. Painted cover by Scott
+       Hampton.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * I have to say I'm very pleased with issue #5. It came out very
+       well, and nicely captures both the look, feel and dialogue of the
+       show. There were some bumps along the way in issues 2-4, so I
+       didn't say much, but THIS one I can highly recommend.
+     * About the new paper and price...I did the first issue, and while
+       the pencils were quite good, and the inks okay, when they put the
+       coloring in the paper just absorbed the hell out of it and it
+       looked like crap, from my POV. (And I'm not speaking out of
+       school; I said much the same to DC.) Parts were nice, but other
+       parts...yikes. I felt, strongly, that we needed a better quality
+       of paper, otherwise a lot of the good work that was being done was
+       going to be lost. It would cost more, but finally DC -- which, to
+       be fair, has only been VASTLY supportive of B5, and the comic and
+       their only intention is to make it as good as possible -- decided
+       to go with the better quality paper. The main question was whether
+       or not there was enough of a reader base to warrant it; there was,
+       and they did.
+       
+
+   [15][Next] 
+   
+      Last update: February 5, 1996
+
+References
+
+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/lurk/gif/comic/005.jpg
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/index.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/004.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/006.html
+   7. file://localhost/lurk/guide/031.html
+   8. file://localhost/lurk/guide/022.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/guide/024.html
+  10. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  11. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/005.html#TOP
+  12. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/004.html
+  15. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/006.html
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+Against the Odds
+
+                            [1][ISMAP]-[2][Home]
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+
+Overview
+
+     Garibaldi experiences an alien encounter chillingly similar to what
+     he went through years ago on Mars, when he first met former Babylon
+     5 commander Jeffrey Sinclair.
+     
+                            Issue 6 (July 1995)
+                                      
+   Setting: Before [7]"The Coming of Shadows"
+    Writer: Tim DeHaas
+   Premise: J. Michael Straczynski
+ Penciller: John Ridgway
+     Inker: C-S. Hampton
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Synopsis
+
+   Garibaldi and Keffer climb out of the crashed ship and leave quickly,
+   in case their attacker comes looking for them. Garibaldi makes certain
+   to set the ship to self-destruct. As they walk away, Garibaldi
+   mentions that he's seen a ship like the attacker's before. Years ago,
+   on Mars...
+   
+   Two young officers, Foster and Sanchez, waited for Lt. Commander
+   Sinclair and Garibaldi in the Mars spaceport. Garibaldi turned out to
+   be unconscious in the passenger compartment of his ship; Sinclair woke
+   him and tossed him to Foster and Sanchez to sober up. "Earthforce may
+   have given me this make-work mission to keep me out of the way,"
+   Sinclair said, "but by God, I _will_ accomplish it."
+   
+   Much later, Garibaldi flew Sinclair and the two others over the
+   surface of Mars, searching for something. Garibaldi notes that
+   Sinclair wasn't what he expected -- after what he'd heard about
+   Sinclair being a hero of the Battle of the Line, he hadn't expected
+   someone stiffer than a corpse. Sinclair refused to tell Garibaldi what
+   they were looking for, and even filed fake flight plans so nobody else
+   would know where they were.
+   
+   On the fifth day of searching, the ship's navigational systems and
+   inertial dampers suddenly went offline. Garibaldi managed to crashland
+   the ship, wrecking it, without killing everyone -- but Sanchez' leg
+   was broken, and Foster didn't survive. Sanchez clearly blamed
+   Garibaldi.
+   
+   Sinclair and Garibaldi went to get help, a fifty-mile trek across the
+   surface. They weren't far when Sanchez linked in to report that all
+   the ship's systems had suddenly started working again -- evidence that
+   Garibaldi wasn't at fault after all. Sanchez picked up a dust storm on
+   the ship's scanners; Sinclair and Garibaldi sought cover.
+   
+   Keffer and Garibaldi reach the top of a large rock formation
+   overlooking the crash site. From that high vantage point, Keffer can
+   see what looks like a small Centauri settlement in the distance. But
+   Garibaldi's attention is elsewhere: the Shadow ship has landed next to
+   the crash site, and humanoid figures have emerged, examining what
+   little remains of the wreckage. "Did you see something like that on
+   Mars?" Keffer asks, staring down at the Shadow ship. "That and
+   _more_," Garibaldi answers, face full of fear. He says there's no hope
+   of a rescue, because he didn't tell anyone where he was going.
+   
+   On the ground, the remains of the crashed ship suddenly vanish without
+   a trace, as does the impact ditch. "They're getting rid of the
+   evidence," Garibaldi says. "They don't want anyone to know they were
+   here."
+   
+   The figures seem to decide that someone survived the crash, and head
+   purposefully toward the rock formation. "Let's get the hell out of
+   here!" says Garibaldi as he and Keffer scramble down the other side of
+   the formation.
+   
+Backplot
+
+     * Earthforce used to give Sinclair busywork missions to keep him out
+       of the way, suggesting he was something of a troublemaker.
+     * Garibaldi has seen a Shadow ship, if only a small one, on Mars.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Who are the beings on the Shadow ship?
+     * What was Sinclair supposed to be searching for?
+     * What else did Garibaldi see on Mars?
+     * What caused Garibaldi's ship to malfunction years ago?
+     * Does whatever Garibaldi saw mean that the Shadows have been active
+       for many years? (See also episode [8]"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum")
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * If Sinclair and Gariabldi found a Shadow ship on Mars, and
+       especially if they were able to destroy it somehow, that might
+       explain why the Shadows haven't attacked any human ships in the
+       series so far (as of [9]"Knives.")
+     * Of course, there's no evidence that Garibaldi saw a _functioning_
+       Shadow ship on Mars; maybe he and Sinclair found an ancient crash
+       site, the occupants long since dead or vanished -- which would
+       have given Garibaldi the opportunity to explore inside. That may
+       even have been what Sinclair was sent to look for.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Keffer has also seen a Shadow ship before, in [10]"A Distant
+       Star," though it was a large cruiser rather than the smaller
+       variety in this story.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * Issues 6-9 of the B5 comic from DC will focus on how Sinclair and
+       Garibaldi met and formed their friendship.
+       (This is based on a premise from me, so it's canon.)
+       
+
+   [16][Next] 
+   
+      Last update: October 30, 1996
+
+References
+
+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/lurk/gif/comic/006.jpg
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/index.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/005.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/007.html
+   7. file://localhost/lurk/guide/031.html
+   8. file://localhost/lurk/guide/038.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/guide/039.html
+  10. file://localhost/lurk/guide/026.html
+  11. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/006.html#TOP
+  13. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  15. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/005.html
+  16. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/007.html
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+Survival the Hard Way
+
+                            [1][ISMAP]-[2][Home]
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+
+Overview
+
+     Lost, on the run and stranded on a Centauri outpost, Keffer and
+     Garibaldi are overtaken by strange aliens with the power to control
+     minds.
+     
+   Issue 7 (August 1995, released June 6)
+   
+   Setting: Before [7]"The Coming of Shadows"
+    Writer: Tim DeHaas
+   Premise: J. Michael Straczynski
+ Penciller: John Ridgway
+     Inker: Robbie Busch
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Synopsis
+
+   Garibaldi and Keffer are walking across a valley, two hours away from
+   the Centauri city they spotted from the summit. Garibaldi reassures
+   Keffer that they got enough of a head-start on the aliens that they
+   should reach the city before their pursuers are able to catch up. As
+   they press forward, Garibaldi continues the story of his first mission
+   with Sinclair.
+   
+   Sinclair and Garibaldi had taken shelter in a cave to wait out the
+   dust storm. With only five days of air and food, it wasn't easy to
+   just wait, but at least they were in radio contact with Lt. Sanchez
+   aboard Garibaldi's shuttle. Sinclair believed the worst of the storm
+   was over.
+   
+   Garibaldi tired of the conversation between Sinclair and Sanchez and
+   moved closer to the mouth of the cave, where he started drinking. He
+   recalled a previous assignment, as head of security on Io, and the
+   death of his friend Frank Kemmer (cf. episode [8]"Survivors") -- a
+   death Garibaldi felt responsible for.
+   
+   Garibaldi found himself out on the surface, apparently after wandering
+   off in his stupor. He reactivated his commlink to find Sanchez
+   urgently trying to contact him. Sinclair, it seems, had noticed
+   Garibaldi's absence, and started to go out looking for him -- but the
+   mouth of the cave had collapsed, and Sinclair was pinned down just
+   outside the cave, almost out of air. Sanchez hadn't heard from
+   Sinclair for five minutes, possibly because he'd blacked out.
+   
+   Sanchez told Garibaldi that if Sinclair died, it would be on
+   Garibaldi's head. That struck home; Garibaldi immediately went looking
+   for Sinclair, aided by a flare fired from the ship by Sanchez.
+   Following the flare's lead, Garibaldi found a collapsed cliffside, and
+   soon came across Sinclair. He was almost too late, but eventually
+   Sinclair regained consciousness after Garibaldi switched air
+   cylinders. As soon as Sinclair came to, he wrestled Garibaldi to the
+   ground and threatened to kill him if Garibaldi ever did something as
+   stupid as wandering off again.
+   
+   Keffer notes that in fact, Garibaldi's wandering saved Sinclair's
+   life; Sinclair would never have survived if he'd been at the back of
+   the cave when it collapsed.
+   
+   Meanwhile, the aliens -- humanoid, fanged creatures with feline eyes
+   -- have not only caught up with Garibaldi and Keffer, but overtaken
+   them, and enter a small forest, where they somehow meld with the
+   trees. Keffer and Garibaldi arrive shortly thereafter, and Keffer
+   begins acting paranoid, accusing Garibaldi of keeping them out in the
+   open so they can be picked off by the alien ship. He pulls a gun on
+   Garibaldi and takes Garibaldi's weapon.
+   
+   As Garibaldi tries to argue, he feels something try to control him,
+   too, get him angry at Keffer. He ducks out of the way as Keffer fires,
+   manages to zigzag out of the line of fire a couple more times. One of
+   Keffer's shots hits a tree and sends an alien flying off to the side.
+   That breaks the aliens' grip, and as they close in to attack, Keffer
+   tosses Garibaldi his gun. The two manage to kill all the aliens, but
+   the creatures self-destruct before the bodies can be examined.
+   
+   "Did you _see_ those things?" asks Keffer. "They could have torn us
+   apart... but they tried to mind-warp us into killing each other
+   instead."
+   
+   "Yeah," says Garibaldi. "Always work from behind the scenes... leave
+   no traces... leave no _witnesses..._" If this has anything to do with
+   what he saw on Mars, Garibaldi says, they're in _big_ trouble.
+   
+   Because what he saw on Mars, looking on with Sinclair from the top of
+   a canyon, was a large Shadow cruiser, apparently excavating another
+   Shadow ship from beneath the surface -- while figures from a nearby
+   building stood and watched.
+   
+Backplot
+
+     * Both Garibaldi and Sinclair have seen a Shadow ship in action,
+       years before Sinclair took command of Babylon 5.
+     * Garibaldi saved Sinclair's life twice on Mars, once inadventently
+       and once out of remorse.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What were the aliens? Were they merely servants of the Shadows,
+       along the lines of the creature in [9]"The Long Dark," or were
+       they something else? (see [10]jms speaks)
+     * Why did they try to get Garibaldi and Keffer to kill each other
+       rather than simply attacking from their ship? (see [11]Analysis)
+     * What else did Garibaldi and Sinclair see on Mars, and what do they
+       know about what they saw? Garibaldi's comment suggests they may
+       have seen more than just a ship. (see [12]Analysis)
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * The creatures' strategy of pitting Garibaldi and Keffer against
+       each other seems to be consistent with the Shadows' modus
+       operandi; the Shadows are pitting the Narn and Centauri against
+       each other rather than striking directly. Perhaps their caution
+       and indirection stems from their defeat at the hands of the
+       Minbari and First Ones a thousand years earlier, when they moved
+       too quickly and were perhaps too direct.
+     * It was already revealed (in [13]"The Long Dark") that some
+       servants of the Shadows were already on their way back to Z'ha'dum
+       before the Icarus landed there and reawakened the Shadows
+       themselves (cf. episode [14]"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum.") But if
+       Sinclair and Garibaldi saw a large Shadow ship before then, it
+       suggests that either some Shadows were awake before the Icarus
+       incident, or that their servants are allowed to pilot their
+       vessels unaccompanied.
+       If the latter is the case, why didn't those servants awaken the
+       Shadows before the Icarus' crew did?
+     * What was the set of buildings overlooking the Shadow ship's
+       excavation? We know of one secret installation on Mars -- a
+       Psi-Corps training center (cf. episode [15]"A Voice in the
+       Wilderness.") This could be how Garibaldi knew about the training
+       center, and if true, it suggests a strong link between the Shadows
+       and the Psi-Corps.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The cover picture is something of a temporal slipup; the young
+       version of Sinclair is fighting with the present-day Garibaldi
+       (judging by the latter's lack of hair.)
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * The comics version shows creatures that are not the shadows
+       themselves but some of the many creatures who serve them.
+     * Actually, in the comic, you never saw shadows influencing anyone's
+       mind; you saw their humanoid (in this case) servents doing this.
+       
+
+   [21][Next] 
+   
+      Last update: October 30, 1996
+
+References
+
+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/lurk/gif/comic/007.jpg
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/index.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/006.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/008.html
+   7. file://localhost/lurk/guide/031.html
+   8. file://localhost/lurk/guide/011.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/guide/027.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/007.html#JS:creatures
+  11. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/007.html#shadows
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/007.html#AN:psi
+  13. file://localhost/lurk/guide/027.html
+  14. file://localhost/lurk/guide/038.html
+  15. file://localhost/lurk/guide/018.html
+  16. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  17. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/007.html#TOP
+  18. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  19. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  20. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/006.html
+  21. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/008.html
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+Silent Enemies
+
+                            [1][ISMAP]-[2][Home]
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+
+Overview
+
+     Keffer and Garibaldi escape Centauri clutches in a struggle that
+     parallels Garibaldi's first adventure with Jeffrey Sinclair -
+     concluding the story of their meeting, what they discovered... and
+     what it may mean for Babylon 5's future.
+     
+   Issue 8 (September 1995, released July 5)
+   
+   Setting: Before [7]"The Coming of Shadows"
+    Writer: Tim DeHaas
+   Premise: J. Michael Straczynski
+ Penciller: John Ridgway
+     Inker: C-S. Hampton
+
+   _Warning: this comic issue contains a spoiler for the episode
+   [8]"Divided Loyalties."_
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Synopsis
+
+   Garibaldi and Keffer make their way toward the Centauri city. As they
+   walk, Garibaldi continues his story.
+   
+   He and Sinclair were low on air and their comlinks had stopped working
+   suddenly. A hunch led Garibaldi toward a canyon, where to his great
+   surprise -- and apparently Sinclair's as well -- they found a gigantic
+   spidery ship apparently excavating another just like it as people from
+   a nearby building watched. Was this what Sinclair was sent to look
+   for, Garibaldi wondered?
+   
+   A land vehicle approached them. Garibaldi pulled a gun on Sinclair and
+   shot him. "Our coms were being jammed," he thought, "which, to my
+   knowledge, meant _all_ communications were jammed. That meant the
+   other guys had to use an alternative way to communicate... and the
+   possibilities made my skin crawl."
+   
+   The vehicle came across Sinclair's body. Its armed occupants got out
+   to investigate. They returned to the rover to find Garibaldi waiting
+   for them; they were down before they could react. Garibaldi roused
+   Sinclair from his stungun-induced slumber. The two had suspected they
+   might be dealing with telepaths. Sinclair had asked Garibaldi to stun
+   him so his thoughts couldn't be read.
+   
+   Garibaldi and Sinclair quickly donned the telepaths' suits. Sinclair
+   explained that he was investigating possible covert human-alien
+   activities. Previous missions sent to investigate had found only the
+   tip of one human ear, nothing else. Perhaps suspecting that the
+   earlier missions had been sabotaged, Sinclair elected to go with
+   Garibaldi's privately-run shuttle service rather than through official
+   channels. "Right now, Garibaldi, you may be the only one I can trust,"
+   he said.
+   
+   Their planned escape was cut short when they discovered that the only
+   way back was the roadway the vehicle had come from -- straight toward
+   the buildings and the mysterious alien ship, still performing its
+   excavation. They decided to play along until they could escape, and
+   followed the hand signals of the people on the ground. Unfortunately,
+   that strategy led them straight toward the largest of the buildings.
+   Garibaldi got out and tried to blend in with the other people; he was
+   directed to load boxes onto a cargo platform attached to his vehicle.
+   Then he was motioned to drive into the building -- straight into the
+   belly of the whale, he imagined.
+   
+   Inside the building was a horrific sight: a huge transparent dome
+   containing a large alien biomechanical construct, veins and skin and
+   bone intermingling with tubes and panels. Passing through the organism
+   were scores of human bodies on a conveyer belt. The whole operation
+   was being monitored by technicians in a small isolation area jutting
+   out the side of the dome, as workers milled about the rest of the
+   building with heavy weaponry. Suddenly, Garibaldi could feel darkness
+   closing in around him, self-pity and fear building in his head. It
+   subsided somewhat when he remembered what Sinclair said about trusting
+   him; he gathered enough courage to get out of the vehicle and unload
+   the boxes, one of which had contained something he wanted, something
+   with which to cause a diversion later.
+   
+   He walked closer to the dome and looked inside. The bodies on the
+   conveyer belt appeared to have energy fields surrounding their heads.
+   It was clearly some kind of medical experiment, but Garibaldi couldn't
+   figure out what it was for.
+   
+   His pause at the dome gave him away, or perhaps one of the telepaths
+   happened to read his thoughts. Whatever the cause, a large group of
+   people started heading his way. Luckily, he was carrying the box he
+   wanted -- it was full of grenades. He tossed one into the crowd, but
+   quickly found himself pinned down. Sinclair came to the rescue,
+   bursting through a stack of boxes with the vehicle and confusing the
+   situation long enough for Garibaldi to climb aboard. As the vehicle
+   raced out of the building, Garibaldi tossed out the entire box of
+   grenades; the resulting explosion ripped the roof off the building.
+   They were pursued, but not for long. Whatever was inside the building,
+   Garibaldi guessed, the telepaths wanted very badly to try to save.
+   
+   As Garibaldi finishes his story, he and Keffer are discovered by two
+   Centauri sentries, who lead them at gunpoint into the city. Later, the
+   city magistrate tells them that his investigators found no trace of a
+   crashed ship, or a fight in a clearing, as Garibaldi and Keffer
+   described. But he remembers that Babylon 5 is where Londo Mollari --
+   the man responsible, Garibaldi learns, for saving Quadrant 37 from the
+   Narn -- is stationed. He says he'll call Londo and try to verify
+   Garibaldi's story.
+   
+   Back on Babylon 5, Vir answers the call and tries to cover for
+   Garibaldi and Keffer, but the magistrate insists on talking to Londo.
+   Londo also covers for Garibaldi, but clearly isn't happy about it. He
+   tells the magistrate to arrange for their transport back to Babylon 5.
+   The problem resolved, he goes back to what he was doing: discussing
+   something with Morden.
+   
+   Garibaldi tells Sheridan what happened and explains that he thinks the
+   erasure of his crashed ship links it to what he and Sinclair found on
+   Mars. After they had escaped the telepaths, Garibaldi says, and gotten
+   out of range of the comm jamming, they'd returned to the area with an
+   Earthforce shuttle and found no trace of ships, explosions, buildings,
+   or anything. Earthforce conducted a thorough search, but it was
+   Sinclair and Garibaldi who found the one piece of evidence at the
+   site. It wasn't enough to convince anyone, though, so they kept it to
+   themselves.
+   
+   "The alien ship we saw on Mars looks _exactly_ like the ship Keffer
+   saw in hyperspace when he helped rescue the Cortez," Garibaldi says.
+   "Something's out there, Captain, something big and dangerous. And it
+   doesn't want us to know it's out there. And Londo's involved. I don't
+   know how, but I intend to find out." Sheridan believes Garibaldi, but
+   for appearance's sake has to give him an official reprimand.
+   
+   Keffer and Garibaldi talk about the outcome of their adventure. Keffer
+   wonders if anyone survived the explosions on Mars. Garibaldi isn't
+   sure; it's hard to see how anyone could have. Sooner or later, though,
+   he's going to find out who owns the item he found on Mars: a Psi-Corps
+   badge.
+   
+Backplot
+
+     * When Garibaldi and Sinclair were on Mars, they discovered a secret
+       operation involving Psi-Corps and the Shadows, part of which was a
+       medical experiment of some kind. They destroyed the operation,
+       which was erased without a trace, presumably by the Shadows.
+     * Londo's involvement in clearing up the Narn problem in Quadrant 37
+       (cf. [9]"Chrysalis") is widely known among the Centauri.
+     * Talia Winters survived the explosion on Mars, and may have been
+       one of the experimental subjects. (This is shown on the last page
+       of the comic, and is probably a spoiler for the episode
+       [10]"Divided Loyalties.")
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What was the organism?
+     * Who built or grew it? The Shadows likely had some input, but was
+       it simply a gift from them?
+     * Was it destroyed in the explosion?
+     * What was the purpose of the Mars operation? Why were weapons being
+       warehoused?
+     * What were the two Shadow ships doing on Mars?
+     * What is the connection between the Shadows and Psi-Corps?
+     * Was Talia one of the people under the dome? (Garibaldi sees a
+       blonde woman on the conveyer belt, but it's not clear if that's
+       Talia or someone else.) If so, what was done to her?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * This issue provides pretty compelling evidence that the Shadows
+       were back in operation long before the Icarus stumbled across them
+       (cf. [11]"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum.")
+     * It seems odd that the Shadow ship in the air just stood by and let
+       Garibaldi and Sinclair escape unharmed. Perhaps it was simply
+       there to perform an excavation mission and didn't care what else
+       was going on.
+     * Garibaldi is quite a storehouse of knowledge about what's going
+       on: he knows about Londo's connection with Quadrant 37, knows
+       about the Shadow connection to Psi-Corps (for that matter, knows
+       about the Shadows, even if at the time of the story he doesn't
+       know exactly what they are) and, possibly, knows that Talia was
+       involved in a Psi-Corps experiment. Whether, and how, all this
+       will surface on the show remains to be seen.
+     * Assuming the Shadows were involved in the construction of the
+       organism under the dome, this is also compelling evidence that
+       they have mastered the creation of living technology. What's less
+       clear is how much of that expertise Psi-Corps now has as well.
+     * Could the fact that Talia was involved in the Mars operation have
+       something to do with why Kosh was interested in her in
+       [12]"Deathwalker?" Likewise, did Jason Ironheart ([13]"Mind War")
+       realize what was going on with her, and did he do anything to
+       change the situation when he altered her abilities?
+       
+Notes
+
+     * On page 12, to the left of the dome, an indistinct shape can be
+       seen standing by the wall. From its outline, it's obviously a
+       Shadow.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * _Did you tell the artist what the organism under the dome should
+       look like?_
+       I didn't get too much into that one shot in the comic; it seemed
+       reasonable under the circumstances. The one panel where I *did*
+       get screwed was saying, "Hey, look, this here episode's going to
+       air just before the book comes out, so why don't we REALLY tie the
+       book and the show together by inserting this one panel I came up
+       with here...."
+       Sometimes I outsmart myself.....
+     * _Didn't Garibaldi see Talia? Why didn't he recognize her later?_
+       Nope, he was looking at the process overall; he never saw Talia.
+       The one shot of her is the omniscient POV, not his. (And even if
+       he had seen her, it would've been only a glimpse of a blonde
+       woman, no name that he could see, and after so many years, given
+       that her condition wasn't great at the time, he wouldn't
+       necessarily recognize her in any event.) But it's a moot point;
+       the comic never indicated that he saw her.
+     * "...picture of Talia on conveyer with red net over her face."
+       C'mon...you're saying anybody'd be able to recognize a flash image
+       of a woman with a red net over her face as much as 7 years
+       later...?
+     * As I recall, the Winters, T badge was only visible in the next to
+       last panel, which is a narrative flashback, not him personally.
+     * _Does Talia remember being on Mars?_
+       I think that non-memory of the event is a good assumption.
+       
+
+   [19][Next] 
+   
+      Last update: October 30, 1996
+
+References
+
+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/lurk/gif/comic/008.jpg
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/index.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/007.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/009.html
+   7. file://localhost/lurk/guide/031.html
+   8. file://localhost/lurk/guide/041.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/guide/022.html
+  10. file://localhost/lurk/guide/041.html
+  11. file://localhost/lurk/guide/038.html
+  12. file://localhost/lurk/guide/009.html
+  13. file://localhost/lurk/guide/006.html
+  14. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  15. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/008.html#TOP
+  16. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  17. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  18. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/007.html
+  19. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/009.html
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+
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+
+Overview
+
+     Ambassador G'Kar is desperate to get off Babylon 5, and in his rush
+     to leave, ends up kidnapping Garibaldi. Now Sheridan and a strange
+     Narn must begin a frantic search to find the two before tragedy
+     strikes.
+     
+   Issue 9 (October 1995)
+   
+   Setting: Between [7]"The Geometry of Shadows" and [8]"A Distant Star."
+    Writer: David Gerrold
+ Penciller: Rebecca Guay
+     Inker: Rick Bryant
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Synopsis
+
+   Ivanova clears a Narn ship, the D'Vordo, for docking. An urgent call
+   from G'Kar comes in; he demands immediate clearance to depart the
+   station from bay four. When she refuses, he sets his ship to launch
+   anyway; Ivanova warns the D'Vordo to abort its approach. Garibaldi
+   rushes to bay four to try to stop G'Kar, but when he arrives, G'Kar
+   stuns him.
+   
+   G'Kar takes Garibaldi with him, but Garibaldi wakes up and fires a
+   starweb, a sort of net made of energy, at G'Kar, entangling him.
+   
+   G'Kar's ship nearly collides with the D'Vordo as it rockets full speed
+   away from the station.
+   
+   Ivanova tells Sheridan that Garibaldi is nowhere to be found; she
+   believes G'Kar has taken him off the station. Sheridan heads for a
+   shuttle to pursue G'Kar.
+   
+   Garibaldi and G'Kar float in a cylindrical area. G'Kar is still caught
+   in the starweb, and Garibaldi sings annoying songs to him, threatening
+   to continue until G'Kar reveals what's going on.
+   
+   On his way to the shuttle, Sheridan is intercepted by Greegil, a Narn
+   who claims to be a relative of G'Kar's, newly arrived on the D'Vordo.
+   He says he can help Sheridan catch G'Kar. Sheridan reluctantly brings
+   him along. As they fly in pursuit, Sheridan tries to find out exactly
+   how Greegil is related to G'Kar. Greegil won't offer any information
+   unless Sheridan offers something in exchange.
+   
+   Garibaldi continues to sing. Eventually, G'Kar falls asleep. Garibaldi
+   wakes him up and asks where the food is; G'Kar answers that he doesn't
+   need to eat, as Narns can hibernate six days at a time. "I'll be happy
+   to watch you starve to death," G'Kar says. "At least it'll be
+   quieter." When Garibaldi points out that G'Kar will die, too, trapped
+   in the starweb, G'Kar answers, "There are worse things than death.
+   Dishonor is one."
+   
+   Garibaldi continues to search for food, but he's never seen a ship
+   like the one he's in: no food, no controls, just solid walls
+   encircling them. He begins to sing "It's a Small World," which causes
+   G'Kar to surrender.
+   
+   Sheridan and Greegil haggle over the value of information. Finally,
+   Greegil tells Sheridan how he's related to G'Kar, but the Narn
+   familial ties he describes are meaningless to Sheridan.
+   
+   G'Kar shows Garibaldi where his food, a Narn delicacy called phroomis,
+   is stashed. He notes that Garibaldi does seem to have some negotiating
+   skills. On Narn, he says, negotiation is an art. Garibaldi asks G'Kar
+   about the ship, but G'Kar says it's better he doesn't know. Garibaldi
+   convinces him to play a game of "laser-mirror-starweb," loser tells
+   all.
+   
+   Sheridan and Greegil catch up with G'Kar's ship, which doesn't respond
+   to Sheridan's signals. Greegil tells Sheridan that G'Kar is possessed
+   by a Lokvar, a seizure of the mind, that may cause G'Kar to be
+   violent. Greegil predicts that Sheridan will have to shoot G'Kar.
+   
+   Garibaldi wins two games of laser-mirror-starweb, but G'Kar still
+   refuses to talk about the ship.
+   
+   Sheridan grapples G'Kar's ship while Greegil tries to get him to put
+   up the shuttle's shields in case G'Kar fires at them.
+   
+   G'Kar and Garibaldi hear a loud clanking sound from one end of their
+   chamber.
+   
+   Sheridan and Greegil approach the airlock through a docking tube
+   they've extended from Sheridan's shuttle. They open the door.
+   
+   The end of the cylinder swings open as G'Kar and Garibaldi watch
+   apprehensively.
+   
+   Sheridan and Greegil enter G'Kar's ship... and find it empty. Greegil
+   concludes that G'Kar never left the station.
+   
+   A cleaning robot enters the cylinder. G'Kar set his ship on autopilot;
+   they are actually in Babylon 5's core. G'Kar shouts that it's
+   Garibaldi's fault -- with just G'Kar's mass in the axis tube, the
+   cleaning robot wouldn't have come ahead of schedule. The two of them
+   flee through the other end of the cylinder, but the axis tube runs the
+   length of the station, five miles, and there are apparently no exits
+   along the way.
+   
+   G'Kar's ship begins to self-destruct. He and Greegil flee. Greegil
+   gets to Sheridan's ship first, and promptly turns around and pushes
+   the airlock door shut as Sheridan floats toward it. G'Kar's ship
+   explodes before Sheridan's shuttle can escape; the shuttle's occupant
+   screams...
+   
+Backplot
+
+     * Narn children are taught the art of negotiation at an early age;
+       the Narn consider themselves master hagglers.
+     * If Greegil is to be believed, the Narn kinial system has several
+       ranks denoting levels of family obligation: this-kini, val-kini,
+       dar-kini, on-kini, dru-kini, bas-kini, and ini-darka. Ini-darka is
+       the highest rank.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Did Sheridan make it onto the shuttle?
+     * What does Greegil really want, and how is he related (familially
+       or otherwise) to G'Kar?
+     * Why is G'Kar trying to avoid him, if that's what's happening?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Why would G'Kar drag Garibaldi all the way from the docking bay to
+       the core of the station? Clearly Garibaldi wasn't conscious for
+       most of the trip or he would have known he wasn't on G'Kar's ship,
+       so G'Kar could have left him in the docking bay or in a closet and
+       nobody would have been any the wiser.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * This story takes place in early spring 2259, between the episodes
+       [9]"The Geometry of Shadows" and [10]"A Distant Star."
+     * Laser-mirror-starweb is rock-paper-scissors with different names.
+     * At one point (just after they haggle) Sheridan calls Greegil
+       "Greelig."
+     * This issue features a computer-generated cover picture by
+       Foundation Imaging, a rendering of G'Kar's ship nearly hitting the
+       D'Vordo.
+     * During one of the negotiation scenes, Greegil says, "You'd have me
+       cut my own throat, you dibbler". This is probably a reference to
+       Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of novels, which feature a
+       salesman called "Cut-me-own-throat Dibbler."
+     * This story introduces a lot of gadgets we've never seen in the
+       series (and probably never will.) The starweb and "shields" on
+       Earth ships are two that seem like they would have appeared in the
+       show if they were part of the canonical B5 universe. The
+       maintenance robot in the station's core is questionable, though it
+       at least isn't inconsistent with anything in the series. The stun
+       gas used by G'Kar might be the same as the "morph gas" mentioned
+       in [11]"By Any Means Necessary."
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * Ron did a CGI cover, though I've only seen a B&W repro, and can't
+       vouch for it in detail.
+       
+
+   [17][Next] 
+   
+      Last update: October 30, 1996
+
+References
+
+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/lurk/gif/comic/009.jpg
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/index.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/008.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/010.html
+   7. file://localhost/lurk/guide/025.html
+   8. file://localhost/lurk/guide/026.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/guide/025.html
+  10. file://localhost/lurk/guide/026.html
+  11. file://localhost/lurk/guide/012.html
+  12. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/009.html#TOP
+  14. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  15. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  16. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/008.html
+  17. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/010.html
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+
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+
+Overview
+
+     While G'Kar and Garibaldi are trapped in the core of Babylon 5,
+     Captain Sheridan races to save them and stop a Narn assassination
+     at the same time.
+     
+   Issue 10 (November 1995)
+   
+   Setting: Between [7]"The Geometry of Shadows" and [8]"A Distant Star"
+    Writer: David Gerrold
+ Penciller: Rebecca Guay
+     Inker: Rick Bryant
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Synopsis
+
+   Sheridan breathes a sigh of relief as he barely makes it onto the
+   shuttle. He accuses Greegil of trying to kill him; Greegil denies it.
+   
+   The cleaning robot chases Garibaldi and G'Kar through the station
+   axis. As they somehow propel themselves forward, the robot grabs
+   Garibaldi's boot and pulls it off, slowing down to process it. G'Kar
+   suggests that Garibaldi feed it more; Garibaldi volunteers G'Kar's
+   boots. G'Kar refuses and suggests they play another game of
+   laser-mirror-starweb to decide whose boot will be next. G'Kar cheats.
+   Garibaldi tosses a boot to the robot and grabs G'Kar, demanding to
+   know what's going on. G'Kar reveals that he received a message telling
+   him an assassin by the name of Greegil D'Farkin was coming to Babylon
+   5 to kill him.
+   
+   Sheridan manages to stabilize the shuttle, but its diagnostics show
+   "massive decalibration in the external transfibulator phase
+   controllers" as well as damage to the oxygen recyclers. Sheridan dons
+   a suit to go out and fix the transfibulator antennas, and advises
+   Greegil not to waste their air complaining about the situation.
+   
+   Garibaldi and G'Kar continue to flee the robot. G'Kar notes that he
+   promised his clan he would die honorably; Garibaldi says he intends to
+   die in bed, on his 92nd birthday, in the arms of a beautiful redhead,
+   shot by her jealous husband. G'Kar is puzzled; Garibaldi would be
+   doing the husband a great service. As the robot nears, they play
+   another laser-mirror-starweb game. This time, Garibaldi cheats more
+   outrageously than G'Kar does, and G'Kar tosses a boot to the robot.
+   
+   Sheridan fixes the problem and finds that Greegil has locked him
+   outside in space. He reminds Greegil that he has the code key to
+   operate the ship, and uses that to bargain for information: why G'Kar
+   fled. Greegil says his job is to stop G'Kar from sabotaging Babylon 5.
+   Abruptly, Sheridan is back inside the ship. He proposes using
+   electrolysis to produce oxygen from the ship's water supply.
+   
+   G'Kar and Garibaldi float away from the robot in their undershorts;
+   it's still gaining. Garibaldi spots a maintenance hatch and pops it
+   open; the two of them leave the inside of the axis tube and hang by
+   handrails high above the Garden while the robot passes. Garibaldi
+   doesn't let G'Kar back inside until he has the truth about Greegil:
+   he's chasing G'Kar because of a woman, Greegil's wife, in fact. G'Kar
+   refused to have sex with her to seal an alliance between two clans,
+   even though it was his obligation as a high-ranking clansman; that was
+   a grave insult to Greegil, who vowed revenge.
+   
+   Sheridan's shuttle returns to Babylon 5; Sheridan places Greegil under
+   arrest. Ivanova reports that G'Kar and Garibaldi are still missing.
+   
+   Garibaldi somehow displays a message on the outside of the axis tube,
+   indicating their location to the security staff and Sheridan. When the
+   two of them emerge from the tube, Sheridan, Greegil, and a security
+   team are waiting. Garibaldi arrests G'Kar for kidnapping him.
+   
+   In a security station, G'Kar, Greegil, Garibaldi, and Sheridan argue
+   about whether Greegil should be allowed to kill G'Kar. Greegil even
+   presents a license, signed by the council of clans. Sheridan dismisses
+   it as invalid on his station. Greegil pulls out a laser pistol.
+   Garibaldi and G'Kar duck behind a nearby mirrored table, reflecting
+   the laser beam. Sheridan calls out for a starweb, which one of the
+   security staff gladly fires at Greegil.
+   
+   G'Kar and Garibaldi walk away together. G'Kar explains that sleeping
+   with Greegil's wife would have shifted the balance of power among the
+   five clans... "And besides, she wasn't attractive enough to justify a
+   war."
+   
+   Elsewhere, Sheridan admits to Ivanova that they can't really press
+   charges against G'Kar... but keeping him busy with lawyers for a while
+   will be punishment enough.
+   
+Backplot
+
+   Take with a grain of salt; inconsistencies with the series abound in
+   this story, and none of it should probably be considered canon.
+     * Narn aristocrats consider education beneath them, something for
+       servants.
+     * There are five main Narn clans; G'Kar belongs to one of them.
+     * Narn alliances are sealed with sexual liaisons.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+Analysis
+
+Notes
+
+jms speaks
+
+     * I wasn't terribly pleased with the artwork on 9 and 10, I thought
+       it could've been much better. As for the story, David Gerrold had
+       proposed (and written) that as an outline for an episode; I said I
+       didn't think it worked for our show. Which opened the door for DC
+       to pick it up, and since he felt so strongly that it *did* work, I
+       figured I'd let him proceed.
+       
+
+   [14][Next] 
+   
+      Last update: February 5, 1996
+
+References
+
+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/lurk/gif/comic/010.jpg
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/index.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/009.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/011.html
+   7. file://localhost/lurk/guide/025.html
+   8. file://localhost/lurk/guide/026.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/010.html#TOP
+  11. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/009.html
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/011.html
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+The Psi Corps and You
+
+                            [1][ISMAP]-[2][Home]
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+                  ### GUIDE ### [4][Index] [5][Previous] 
+
+Overview
+
+     Earth's most secret agency is explained, examined, and demystified
+     for the average Babylon 5 resident.
+     
+   Issue 11 (December 1995)
+   
+   Setting: Season two, before [6]"Confessions and Lamentations"
+    Writer: Tim DeHaas
+    Artist: John Ridgway
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Synopsis
+
+     _NOTE:_ This issue is in the form of an infomercial produced by
+     Psi-Corps. Since it isn't a story in the usual sense, the following
+     is more a description than a synopsis. It's not entirely clear
+     whether the presentation is supposed to be in print itself or if
+     the comic is a print rendition of a television program; this
+     description assumes the latter.
+     
+   The host of the show, Diane Matthews, introduces herself as one of the
+   commercial telepaths working on Babylon 5. She demonstrates how
+   commercial telepaths aid in business dealings, sitting in on a deal
+   between a human and a Markab. She points out that Markab is lying
+   about the quantity of merchanside he has available; the human reduces
+   his order. Next, Matthews visits Medlab, where she assists Garibaldi
+   by scanning an assault victim and descibing the assailant. She points
+   out to the viewers that she won't be allowed to scan any suspects; she
+   can only produce information to help point Garibaldi toward admissible
+   evidence.
+   
+   A Psi-Corps training center is the next stop, where a few psi training
+   exercises are shown. "Psi Corps knows how to help you achieve your
+   innermost desires," claims Matthews.
+   
+   "These days," she says later, "people have learned to trust and accept
+   telepaths, like this Psi-Cop." That wasn't always the case, she says,
+   and launches into a narrative about the founding of Psi Corps. The
+   Corps was founded on the basis of a single, heroic act by her
+   great-grandfather, William Karges.
+   
+   Karges discovered his talents at age thirteen. He didn't know what to
+   make of them, so he sought out activities that would teach him
+   self-disciplined and isolated. Later, he joined Earthforce; during his
+   training he trained himself to control his skills and use them to be a
+   better soldier. Eventually he was promoted and transferred to
+   Earthforce Security. But even then, he kept his secret, afraid he'd be
+   locked up by the government.
+   
+   After distinguishing himself by stopping three terrorist plots, Karges
+   was placed in charge of Earth Alliance President Robinson's personal
+   security staff. One day, Karges and his forces were escorting
+   President Robinson to a campaign rally. Karges sensed a strong thought
+   from the surrounding crowd: "The bomb is ready!" Concentrating, he
+   zeroed in on the man responsible and cornered him. The man claimed to
+   know nothing about a bomb, so Karges forcibly scanned him. As Karges
+   rushed off, shouting into his link to tell his team about the man's
+   accomplice, he was shot in the back. With the last of his strength,
+   Karges sent a command into the mind of the bomber, forcing him to drop
+   the detonator. The President was safe.
+   
+   In the hospital, dying, Karges admitted to President Robinson that he
+   found out about the bomb by reading the perpetrator's thoughs. Some
+   time later, President Robinson passed laws ensuring opportunities for
+   telepaths. A special agency already existed to monitor the recent
+   sudden increase in telepaths; Robinson changed its mission, to help
+   telepaths function in society, and the Psi Corps was born.
+   
+   "Nowadays, all telepaths are asked to register with Psi Corps, for
+   their own good," Matthews says. "That way, the Earth Alliance and Psi
+   Corps can help them achieve their full potential!"
+   
+   Some telepaths don't want to join the Corps, Matthews admits. She
+   visits Lisa, a lawyer, as a doctor administers telepathy-inhibiting
+   drugs. Lisa is delighted to receive the injection, as numbing her psi
+   abilities allows her to continue working in the legal profession.
+   "Sometimes it makes me tired, and I have to rest," Lisa says. "But
+   that's okay, because I can still be a successful lawyer."
+   
+   Matthews describes the Psi Corps' work placement programs, designed to
+   help telepaths who don't want to join the Corps and are allergic to
+   the medicine. She says she started out there, but eventually realized
+   she wanted to be a commercial telepath, having the adventure of a
+   lifetime on Babylon 5.
+   
+   "Even far from Earth, Psi Corps has influenced all our lives," she
+   says. She describes a little-known aspect of the Battle of the Line: a
+   telepathic pilot in Sinclair's squadron, Lt. Andrew Denmark of Psi
+   Corps, used his powers to steady the nerves of other pilots. Without
+   his help, Matthews claims, Sinclair would never have lived long enough
+   to make his legendary attack on the Minbari cruiser.
+   
+   The Psi Corps helps on Mars, too, Matthews continues. When there was a
+   food shortage, Psi Corps rushed to get food supplies to all the hungry
+   colonists. Recently, a small group of terrorists began an uprising,
+   and Psi Corps stepped in to protect the colonists. "You could say Psi
+   Corps' mission is to protect," Matthews says. "Protect the future --
+   for those who want to make it better and safer."
+   
+   "On Earth, on Mars, or on Babylon 5, you don't have to be alone. Psi
+   Corps is here for _you!_ And if you or a friend discovers they're
+   telepathic, Psi Corps will always help." As an example, she introduces
+   the case of Alfred. On Earth, as a ten-year-old boy, he was a bright
+   student at the top of his class. But when a teacher claimed he was
+   copying parts of a test from someone across the room, Alfred and his
+   friends discovered he might be a telepath. One friend offered to take
+   him to Psi Corps -- he had an uncle there, and knew the Corps took
+   good care of its members.
+   
+   Alfred went to the Corps and chose to stay there. Today he's one of
+   its most valued members: Bester.
+   
+   "So, if you ever feel _you_ might be a telepath, too -- remember,
+   kids, you've got friends, here on Babylon 5! One of us is always
+   stationed here to help you. Come talk to us any time! With Psi Corps
+   as your friend, you never have to feel... all alone in the night."
+   
+Backplot
+
+     * Psi Corps was founded around 2160. According to the Corps, it was
+       founded after the death of a Presidential security official,
+       William Karges, who revealed he was telepathic at the time of his
+       death.
+     * Officially, Bester was born on Earth and entered the Corps at age
+       ten. He's placed highly enough to warrant mention as one of the
+       Corps "most valued members."
+     * Psi Corps claims to have had representatives in the military,
+       flying Starfuries, during the Earth-Minbari War. If the
+       presentation is to be believed, one of them was in Sinclair's
+       squadron during the Battle of the Line.
+       
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * How much of what's said in this issue is true, and how much is
+       fabricated propaganda?
+     * Was there really a telepath in Sinclair's squadron? What influence
+       did he have on what happened to Sinclair, if any?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Psi Corps' claim that one of its members was in Sinclair's
+       squadron seems unlikely, given that in [7]"Eyes," Mr. Grey says he
+       wasn't allowed to fight in the war because he was a telepath.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * This promotional program was produced before [8]"Confessions and
+       Lamentations," since it shows someone dealing with a Markab
+       trader.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * There's nothing that I'm aware of in comic #11 that would place it
+       after "Confessions." It's a general pamphlet prepared by Psi Corps
+       some time before.
+     * Tritium: you actually believe *anything* in a PsiCorps propaganda
+       booklet? Only about 10% of what's recorded in that booklet is
+       true, and even that's distorted. The character in the booklet is
+       totally fictional.
+       
+
+   
+      Last update: February 5, 1996
+
+References
+
+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/lurk/gif/comic/011.jpg
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/index.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/010.html
+   6. file://localhost/lurk/guide/040.html
+   7. file://localhost/lurk/guide/016.html
+   8. file://localhost/lurk/guide/040.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/011.html#TOP
+  11. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic/010.html
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+Voices
+
+                            [1][ISMAP]-[2][Home]
+                                    [3]
+                    ### GUIDE ### [4][Index] [5][Next] 
+                                      
+   _Contents:_ [6]Back Cover - [7]Synopsis - [8]Questions - [9]Analysis -
+   [10]Notes - [11]Author
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   _Written by John Vornholt_
+   Released: February 13, 1995
+   ISBN: 0-440-22057-2
+   Setting: Early 2259, between [12]"Points of Departure" and [13]"A Race
+   Through Dark Places"
+   
+     Talia is caught up in a deadly conspiracy to assassinate hundreds
+     of top Psi Corps officers.
+     
+   In the UK, "Voices" is published by Boxtree; its ISBN there is
+   0-7522-0644-3.
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Back Cover
+
+   Telepaths to the left of them. Telepaths to the right of them. And
+   danger is all around Commander Susan Ivanova and Security Chief
+   Michael Garibaldi when a Psi Corps convention is held on Babylon 5.
+   Someone will turn this meeting of mind readers into a real blast ...
+   as a bomb makes Babylon 5 a death trap.
+   
+   The prime suspect is resident telepath Talia Winters. With Talia's old
+   foes, thought-cops Bester and Gray, calling for her head, Ivanova and
+   Garibaldi can't openly help her. Now she's running for her life
+   through a perilous universe, and her psychic talent is her only weapon
+   when her path is blocked by staggering intergalactic horrors: psi cops
+   closing in ... and a killer waiting.
+   
+Synopsis
+
+   Harriman Gray ([14]"Eyes") arrives on Mars for a meeting with Mr.
+   Bester ([15]"Mind War," [16]Eyes," [17]"A Race Through Dark Places")
+   to help choose a location for a telepaths' conference. Bester suggests
+   that he is strongly considering Gray as his new aide (recall Kelsey's
+   ignominious end in [18]"Mind War") and that this is a test of sorts
+   for him, even though Gray is not a Psi Cop.
+   
+   As Gray arrives on Mars and hands his identicard to the Earthforce
+   personnel, he feels his mind being scanned and sees Bester step out of
+   the shadows. Gray is staggered by the sudden scan, but he knows Bester
+   has special latitude to conduct operations, including scanning people
+   without their permission. (Also mentioned in [19]"A Race Through Dark
+   Places.")
+   
+   As the two ride a monorail to the hotel chosen for the conference, an
+   explosion rips the building to shreds. Bester rescues the shuttle from
+   the explosion's intense heat by activating a manual mode; he later
+   tells Gray he felt 26 people die in the blast. Getting back to
+   business, Gray suggests Babylon 5 as an alternate site for the
+   conference -- mainly due to his desire to see Commander Susan Ivanova
+   again. Bester agrees, saying he will make sure Sheridan can't refuse.
+   
+   Senator Hidoshi convinces Sheridan to allow the conference to be held
+   on Babylon 5; the Captain ignores the opinions of Garibaldi and
+   Ivanova, who think the conference is bad news. He orders Ivanova to
+   remain in her quarters except when on duty to prevent incidents.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Kosh is up to his old game of hiring Talia Winters for
+   bizarre assignments (cf. [20]"Deathwalker.") She clearly is frustrated
+   by the assignments, but also has started to come to understand some of
+   his terminology such as "Hour of Scampering." This time Kosh asks her
+   to scan an empty chair next to him for "Invisible Isabel," as he calls
+   her. To her surprise, Talia hears a voice there momentarily. Kosh also
+   understands French, based on a brief exchange of pleasantries after
+   the scan is concluded.
+   
+   Gray contacts Ivanova as soon as possible upon landing; when Bester
+   tries to scan Gray, Ivanova stands up to Bester. They talk more and at
+   least agree to be on a first name basis -- in private. Nothing more
+   comes of a personal relationship between them in this book; however,
+   Ivanova's opinion of him is clearly softened.
+   
+   Talia and Garibaldi make preparations for the conference and as the
+   delegates arrive, things get interesting. Talia meets Arthur Malten,
+   head of the Mix, the association of commercial telepaths. Malten's
+   assistant Emily Crane is peculiar for her shyness. Talia convinces
+   Garibaldi to give the three of them a tour of various parts of the
+   station, including Down Below. Garibaldi has arranged with Na'Toth,
+   aide to Ambassador G'Kar, to give the group a little scare which he
+   hopes will help keep the other delegates to the conference out of Down
+   Below. (Their telepathic attacks don't work on non-humans.)
+   
+   Malten begins taking a serious interest in Talia, and eventually
+   convinces her to attend the conference on behalf of the Mix. Crane
+   seems jealous but provides a data crystal with information about
+   budgets inside Psi Corps and the split of money between Psi Cops, the
+   military telepaths and the Mix. She also later takes back the crystal,
+   claiming she needs to put more information on it.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Deuce, (cf. [21]"Grail") arrives back on Babylon 5 with a
+   special item in hand. During the first day of the conference, Talia
+   and Malten are to attend the budget meeting, which includes Bester.
+   Crane returns the data crystal to Talia after carrying it through a
+   security search. Talia proceeds to the meeting and sits next to
+   Bester.
+   
+   During the meeting, Talia develops a headache and walks out. As she
+   leaves, a bomb detonates in the conference room; it takes a serious
+   chunk out of Bester, but doesn't kill him. Talia is immediately
+   detained and awakens in her quarters with Ivanova alongside. After a
+   short exchange, she decides she would rather be tried on Babylon 5
+   than on Earth, and asks Ivanova to be her lawyer. Ivanova agrees -- at
+   least until someone better can be found. Talia is taken to the brig,
+   and Garibaldi starts to search for clues and information to clear her
+   name.
+   
+   Ambassador Kosh pays Talia a visit in the brig, and they have a
+   bizarre conversation which she thinks means he will break her out of
+   the cell in about 20 minutes. Using the telekinetic powers she
+   received in [22]"Mind War," she opens the lock to the internal door
+   and then finds Kosh has returned and knocked out the guards with a
+   gas.
+   
+   Talia dons a Minbari robe and proceeds with Kosh to the docking bays,
+   where he tells her to enter a cargo container. When she tries to open
+   the box after launch, she realizes that she is not alone in the
+   container and that her traveling companion is Deuce, also escaping the
+   station. Against his better judgment and with many threats to kill
+   her, Deuce decides to help Talia. When they arrive on Earth, he helps
+   her get a false identicard from a tribe of hi-tech would-be Indians
+   who live in the desert.
+   
+   Gray and Garibaldi are assigned to search for Talia and quickly board
+   the first Earth-bound shuttle in search of Crane, whom they have come
+   to believe has vital information on the bombing. (The Mix's
+   headquarters is on Earth.) Bester has Talia declared a rogue telepath,
+   and her image begins to be plastered on television sets around Earth.
+   Gray and Garibaldi also learn that the Military telepaths expected
+   something bad to happen to Bester.
+   
+   Deuce's desert hideout becomes unsafe as shuttles begin to scour
+   overhead looking for Talia. At his friends' strong request, he and
+   Talia depart. The two play possum to get a Psi Cop shuttle to land,
+   and capture the two Psi Cops. Talia convinces Deuce not to kill the
+   Psi Cops, and they steal the craft.
+   
+   Deuce agrees to give Talia a one-carat diamond and drop her off out of
+   the way so he can proceed on his own way. They part ways in Phoenix.
+   Talia sells the diamond, using the money to get to Boston and
+   eventually to Mars.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Gray and Garibaldi have been busy in Boston, paying a visit
+   to Crane at Mix Headquarters. Although she is extremely unhelpful
+   during the meeting, Garibaldi notices a confidential Senate memo on a
+   self-destructing transparency on her desk. Through an old friend of
+   Gray's they track down the contents of the memo. They discover that
+   Psi Corps blackmails and bribes government officials, making lots of
+   enemies. The bill would completely privatize the corps, taking it out
+   of the military, which no longer controls it anyway. The Mix would
+   take over control of Psi Corps.
+   
+   Garibaldi tries to make another attempt to talk to Crane and ends up
+   captured. Gray and Bester come to the rescue but are forced to kill
+   Crane and some telepathic accomplices on the street. Bester tries to
+   wind the whole thing up but refuses to acknowledge Talia's innocence.
+   Gray finally finds a voice and stands up to him, resulting in Bester
+   agreeing to leave them in Miami. Bester also warns them off Mars,
+   where he believes Malten is located presently.
+   
+   All paths begin to converge here as Garibaldi, Gray and Talia end up
+   on the same shuttle to Mars by coincidence. Garibaldi recognizes her
+   from her buttocks, causing Gray to vow that he will pay more attention
+   to women's posteriors in the future. They decide to wait until after
+   landing to make contact.
+   
+   After landin,g Talia's Uncle Ted contacts her through a telepath (it
+   may have been Ted himself) and assures her that all is safe as an
+   explosion rips the terminal building (actually it is just a smoke bomb
+   to cause a distraction.) Garibaldi and Uncle Ted eventually recognize
+   each other and he and Gray agree to follow Talia and Uncle Ted. The
+   two of them convince Talia and Uncle Ted that discrediting Malten is
+   of prime importance to clear Talia's name and discredit the false Mars
+   terrorist group Malten has created.
+   
+   Bester arrives after Gray contacts him. He meets Garibaldi and Gray
+   with a shuttle, and explains that his true fear is that people will
+   think Psi Corps can't protect itself from attacks from within. He
+   still refuses to budge on the issue of Talia Winters.
+   
+   Garibaldi offers to visit the bunker where they have located Malten;
+   after receiving assurances from Bester that he won't be abandoned, he
+   goes down to investigate. Bester enters as well once they position
+   with the hatch. Inside, Malten is strapped to a chair wired with bombs
+   and a note saying "Compliments of the real revolutionaries." They have
+   to abandon him after receiving a message that they have only 30
+   seconds to get out.
+   
+   After the explosion and a narrow escape, Bester informs Garibaldi that
+   he is still going after Talia and Uncle Ted. Garibaldi pulls a file
+   that Ambassador Mollari made of Psi Cops gambling with him. When
+   Bester tries to scan Garibaldi, Gray inserts himself and promises to
+   protect Garibaldi from the scan. Bester relents and radios in a report
+   clearing Talia Winters and restoring her to her position within the
+   Corps.
+   
+   Gray asks Garibaldi to tell Susan that he did something brave and
+   worthwhile, and the two go their separate ways. The story ends with
+   Talia visiting her family for a while before returning "home" to
+   Babylon 5.
+   
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * How powerful is Bester? He was the only Psi Cop representative to
+       survive the budget meeting, and was feared by both the military
+       and commercial telepaths. Clearly he calls a lot of shots in the
+       movement of Psi Corps, but is there anyone behind him/against him?
+     * How does Kosh know so much about Talia's powers?
+     * Did Kosh leave Talia in Deuce's care for money, or was Deuce's
+       appearance coincidental?
+     * Where does Talia stand after all this? Especially in light of the
+       events of [23]"A Race Through Dark Places"? In all of these
+       incidents she has narrowly avoided Bester's wrath, but for how
+       long can she avoid it, especially if she makes any moves against
+       the Corps?
+     * Why weren't the two Psi Cops that Deuce and Talia attacked able to
+       use their powers to take out Talia and/or Deuce?
+     * Does Bester control the new head of the commercial telepaths?
+     * Did Uncle Ted or his group kill Malten?
+     * Where does Gray's career stand? It seems unlikely that Bester
+       would take him as an aide now; on the other hand, Bester can be
+       almost as hard as Kosh to figure out.
+     * Have Talia's feelings about Garibaldi changed at all?
+     * Where do the military telepaths stand after this incident? They
+       clearly are not fans of Bester, but they seem less willing to
+       oppose him. In light of Malten's demise, will they make a move for
+       power?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * Talia's gift (cf. [24]"Mind War") is clearly much more than it
+       seemed at the end of that episode. Her telekinetic prowess is
+       high, and she is no longer transparently readable by Bester and
+       other telepaths. This is supported further by [25]"A Race Through
+       Dark Places."
+     * Kosh is much more aware of the events taking place both on Babylon
+       5 and elsewhere based on this episode and others. It almost seems
+       as if some of his assignments for Talia are attempts to improve
+       her telepathic and telekinetic prowess.
+     * Bester's power among Psi Corps and Psi Cops is nearly absolute and
+       certainly has been consolidated by the deaths and removals of some
+       of the more powerful enemies. The blackmail and bribery of
+       government officials means Bester may be running a sort of shadow
+       government.
+     * Talia clearly trusts Ivanova very strongly, based on her decision
+       to have her as a lawyer in this novel and their conversation at
+       the end of [26]"A Race Through Dark Places."
+     * In light of the events in this novel as well as [27]"A Race
+       Through Dark Places," why wasn't Talia included with the senior B5
+       officers in the secret meeting that ended [28]"All Alone in the
+       Night." Does this suggest that Sheridan's feels Talia is not
+       trustworthy enough yet? Or was he specifically told not to include
+       her?
+       
+Notes
+
+     * Since the novel features Garibaldi on the job, it takes place
+       after [29]"The Geometry of Shadows." The front cover blurb is
+       therefore wrong, since the story takes place in 2259, not 2258.
+       
+The Author Speaks
+
+     * Chris, I did mention that I apparently substituted Kelvin
+       temperature for Celsius. It could get a bit hot on Mars during the
+       day, but that would be from thin atmosphere. It'd be damn cold
+       there at night. This isn't something has any bearing on the story.
+     * Tony, the way this works is -- I work for Dell Books. They have a
+       deal with whoever to have the license to publish B5 novels. Dell
+       Books hired me, and Lois Tilton, who wrote the next novel. JMS is
+       doing approvals for the time being, although I'm sure there's
+       somebody at Warner Bros. who could do it if he didn't want to.
+       I had lots of free rein with VOICES but no information about the
+       big arc.
+     * Thanks for bringing up the fact that I wrote this book last July.
+       I am extremely happy that it fits into the second season as well
+       as it does. This is the first book, our editor quit halfway
+       through it, and we had some other bumps -- but I think we did all
+       right.
+     * You can't write books set in other people's universes (that are so
+       well known) unless you have a thick skin. I don't mind being
+       called on the carpet for a factual mistake, but I worked pretty
+       hard to get the characters right. Nevertheless, they are my
+       interpretation of the characters, not someone else's. We had some
+       bumps in the road on this first one, but I think things will get
+       smoother as we go.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Written by Erik Oliver <oliver@dolphin.upenn.edu>. Edited by Julie
+   Prince (jprince@peak.org) and Steven Grimm (koreth@midwinter.com)
+
+   
+      Last update: March 24, 1997
+
+References
+
+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/lurk/gif/novels/001.jpg
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/index.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/002.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/001.html#BC
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/001.html#SY
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/001.html#UQ
+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/001.html#AN
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+  11. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/001.html#JS
+  12. file://localhost/lurk/guide/023.html
+  13. file://localhost/lurk/guide/030.html
+  14. file://localhost/lurk/guide/016.html
+  15. file://localhost/lurk/guide/006.html
+  16. file://localhost/lurk/guide/016.html
+  17. file://localhost/lurk/guide/030.html
+  18. file://localhost/lurk/guide/006.html
+  19. file://localhost/lurk/guide/030.html
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+             ### GUIDE ### [4][Index] [5][Previous] [6][Next] 
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+   _Contents:_ [7]Back Cover - [8]Synopsis - [9]Questions - [10]Analysis
+   - [11]Notes - [12]Author
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   _Written by Lois Tilton_
+   Released: April 10, 1995
+   ISBN: 0-440-22058-0 (US)
+   ISBN: 0-7522-0649-4 (UK)
+   Setting: Mid-2259, between [13]"The Coming of Shadows" and [14]"All
+   Alone in the Night."
+   
+     Ivanova is implicated in a murderous plot to steal supplies of a
+     strategically important raw material.
+     
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Back Cover
+
+                             Friends Like These
+                                      
+   He came to Babylon 5 from out of Commander Susan Ivanova's past. His
+   cryptic, urgent message asked for an immediate meeting, but when
+   Ivanova arrived to meet her old friend, Ortega was dead - murdered -
+   and the word from Mars Colony was that the man had been a terrorist.
+   
+                                Accusations
+                                      
+   Dealing with an outbreak of hijacked shipments of morbidium ingots,
+   Ivanova is caught by surprise when EA investigators accuse her of
+   being in league with Ortega, then strip her of her command and
+   threaten Security Chief Garibaldi as well. Now the once and future
+   Babylon 5 loyalists must unravel a mystery of corruption and murder.
+   Fail, and the price will be their careers, or their lives....
+   
+Synopsis
+
+   The scene opens on a busy day at C & C, Command and Control, as
+   Commander Susan Ivanova is monitoring the station's traffic lanes. The
+   screens highlight a single crippled cargo vessel with failed
+   stabilizers. She orders the Centauri transport to cut its engines and
+   not to attempt to land on their own engines. Ivanova orders some
+   shuttles to tow the vessel into the docking bay and consequently must
+   divert traffic to nearby lanes to leave plenty of room for the
+   shuttles to grapple the freighter. As the shuttles grapple on
+   communications reports to her that an "urgent and personal" message
+   has arrived for her. Because it is tagged personal she chooses not to
+   view it immediately.
+   
+   Aside from a tense moment when Narn fighter leaves its assigned lane
+   to cut off the Centauri ship's path, the rest of the procedure was
+   both uneventful and tedious. Once the situation was fully resolved,
+   she returned control to the technicians and queries the computer about
+   the message. The sender is reported simply as "J. D." Ivanova figures
+   out that it is from J. D. Ortega, her former flight instructor who had
+   chosen to leave Earthforce and go back to Mars to work in the mines.
+   Finally she views the message:
+   
+     "Susan, I am in trouble. They say you're Number Two here on this
+     station. I don't know anyone else who might be able to help.
+     There's something I have to tell you. Please, meet me in the Alpha
+     Wing ready room at 20:00 hours."
+     
+   After nearly two hours of waiting, she finally queries the computer
+   about J. D.'s arrival on the station. The computer responds that
+   although there have been eight Ortega's arriving on the station since
+   it first came on line, none of them have had the initials J. D. After
+   doing some more queries about the origin of the message she asks for a
+   search of all files containing the name "J. D. Ortega" to which the
+   computer responds that it has found a restricted file.
+   
+   The computer responds to her executive officer password and the screen
+   is replaced by an image of his face along with the fugitive alert
+   listing him as a suspected terrorist. Ivanova contacts Garibaldi and
+   upon mentioning the name he asks her to meet him in security central.
+   After explaining that she and J. D. hadn't seen each other or
+   corresponded save holiday greetings since her first posting on Io she
+   still insists that she can't imagine him having been involved in any
+   sort of terrorism or conspiracy.
+   
+   A distress signal is received on Babylon 5 and Sheridan orders Ivanova
+   to scramble Alpha Wing to protect the transport. Unfortunately the
+   transport is unarmed and the ETA to the transport's last position is
+   nearly 3 hours. They do arrive and find several raiders on long range
+   scans along with a larger ship. Ivanova splits her squadron in attempt
+   to cut the raiders off at the jump gate while also sending some in
+   towards the raiders and the transport ship. A combat ensues and in the
+   end two raiders collide taking the jump gate off line until repairs
+   can be made. The transport's crew is dead and its hull is ripped open.
+   
+   Back on the station, J. D. Ortega's body is found in the flight
+   lockers belonging to Alpha Squadron. Dr. Franklin is called into do
+   the autopsy. He uses a compound to relieve rigor mortis and with some
+   new techniques, he is able to determine that he was murdered around
+   20:00 hours and that the cause of death was a particularly unusual and
+   hard to detect poison, Chloro-quasi-dianimidine. The poison had been
+   directly injected into the blook stream.
+   
+   Garibaldi had previously asked Talia Winters, the stations' resident
+   telepath to scan the workers who had found the body. The worker's
+   agreed and she performed the scans to discover that they had told the
+   truth and knew nothing about the origin of the body. Garibaldi insists
+   on having Ivanova give a positive identification of the dead body
+   which she provides. He also shows her a message that was found on the
+   floor of the briefing room. Presumably from Ortega to Ivanova it
+   reads:
+   
+     S I - hardwir
+     
+   They agree that "SI" probably stands for Susan Ivanova but for the
+   life of her Ivanova can not make sense of the word hardwired. Sheridan
+   offers to take Ivanova to breakfast and they go together. It turns out
+   that the attacked transport was carrying a strategic metal called
+   "Morbidium" which is vital for the production of phased plasma
+   weapons. It is a material that has it price and trade strictly
+   controlled by Earth Alliance and consequently has a high black market
+   value.
+   
+   Noticing that since cutting them off severely last year, the raiders
+   seem to be back on the rise, Ivanova decides to hunt for a pattern to
+   the raids and receives Sheridan's approval. Because of the broken
+   jumpgate, C & C was hectic and Ivanova does not find time to
+   investigate patterns to the raids while on duty.
+   
+   Later that evening Ivanova begins sifting through the data. After
+   several blind paths she finally tracks down a correlation. Which is
+   that the increase in raids has occured out of Marsport and that
+   further all of them were on strategic metals. Worst of all they were
+   successful raids. The next morning Ivanova explains her findings to
+   Garibaldi and he warns her to be careful of stepping on toes.
+   
+   Their breakfast is interrupted by a call from Sheridan to Garibaldi
+   asking him to come to his office. Sheridan orders Garibaldi to
+   terminate his investigation into Ortega's death and prepare to turn
+   over all files related to the matter to a special investigator from
+   Earth Central.
+   
+   Garibaldi watches the arrival of the transport and the disembarkation
+   of the special investigators. The investigators promptly arrive in
+   security and demand that he turn over his files, records and
+   passwords. The investigators are led by Commander Wallace and his two
+   assistants, Lieutenants Miyoshi and Khatib.
+   
+   Garibaldi leaves them to their work which includes taking some of his
+   guards under their control, establishing their own lock-up facility
+   and interrogation rooms. He then goes Down Below where he searches for
+   leads from some sources such as Mort the Ear and an old friend, Nick
+   Patinos, who is from Mars. Neither is able to offer him any useful
+   information.
+   
+   Commander Ivanova is interviewed by Lieutenant Miyoshi who causes her
+   to loose her temper after having insinuated that she destroyed the
+   cards and letters of holiday greetings from Ortega to conceal her
+   involvement with a terrorist. Miyoshi then makes a point of the fact
+   that Ivanova waited so long after the arranged meeting time to contact
+   anyone and that she was unaware of the security notice about Ortega.
+   And also points out that nobody but Ivanova saw the person leaving the
+   area as she entered the ready room. Miyoshi also makes a point of
+   wanting her to figure out the meaning of the note. And finally
+   dismisses Ivanova.
+   
+   Garibaldi discovers that Wallace has locked out files on people such
+   as Patinos and goes to Sheridan to complain. Sheridan orders Wallace
+   to release all files not directly related to the Ortega case and
+   orders Garibaldi to steer clear of the Ortega case. Wallace then
+   insists that Ivanova be but on restricted duties or arrested and
+   Sheridan eventually relents, placing her on restricted duties.
+   
+   Prior to this point Ivanova had had an unblemished career record and
+   Sheridan was aware that this flag in her file might ruin her chances
+   of a command of her own ever, but he also felt that it was better than
+   having Wallace go over his head and perhaps having Ivanova shipped
+   back to Earth or arrested.
+   
+   Garibaldi then goes back Down Below only to discover that Mort had
+   disappeared off the station. A comm link message informs him that part
+   of a second body, a foot, was discovered in the in the recycling
+   facilities. They are able to identify the DNA pattern as belonging to
+   Fengshi Yang who had allegedly already departed -- less one foot?
+   Garibaldi carefully informs his next in command, Lieutenant Torres
+   that she is to investigate this matter and that there is no connection
+   to the Ortega case, if you know what he means.
+   
+   Garibaldi returns to pump Nick for information, but his friend is even
+   more tightly clammed up. Garibaldi does learn that people are being
+   deported off the station -- presumably by Wallace and his assistants.
+   Further, he finds out that a telepath is being used to scan the people
+   being questioned.
+   
+   Garibaldi makes a point of sitting down with Winters and prying
+   information out of her about whether Wallace is using her services.
+   She eventually acknowledges that he is and he points out that the
+   people she is scanning probably haven't really consented. Later we see
+   Winters visiting Sheridan and explaining that the people aren't
+   actually consenting. He informs her that he will talk to Wallace but
+   ultimately it is a matter between her and Psi Corps. Sheridan contacts
+   Wallace and a heated discussion takes place in which Wallace refuses
+   to budge and Sheridan informs him that he will contact Earth Central
+   about his conduct.
+   
+   When Winters arrived at the interrogation room, Miyoshi was waiting
+   and complains about her lateness. Miyoshi then informs her that she
+   will confine herself exclusively to their needs. Miyoshi then pulls
+   out a viewer card and hands it to winters. In Winters hand, a glowing
+   Psi Symbol take holographic form, cf. [15]Mind War, and in her mind
+   she feels a message force itself into her head:
+   
+     Obey. No questions. Obey.
+     
+   Meanwhile Ivanova reports for duty and Sheridan puts her in charge of
+   escorting transports in an attempt to reduce raider attacks and give
+   her something useful to do.
+   
+   Garibaldi has kept all of the information about Yang's death out of
+   the computer to avoid prying by Wallace and promises Ivanova he will
+   continue looking into things. Sheridan calls Garibaldi to view a high
+   priority message direct from Admiral Wilson of the Office of the Joint
+   Chiefs informing Sheridan that he is to give Wallace every degree of
+   cooperation with regard to the investigation.
+   
+   Garibaldi finds himself called to the Casino to break up a fight
+   between patrons that is breaking down on Human/Alien lines concerning
+   cheating. Specifically an alien has accused a human of cheating and
+   the human has accused the alien of being a telepath. Telepaths are of
+   course banned from gambling, [16]Voices, and Garibaldi ascertains that
+   the human was cheating and with Winter's help discerns that the alien
+   is a telepath as well. With the fight broken up he turns his attention
+   to the human who confesses without too much effort. The gambler also
+   recognizes Yang's picture and explains that he was an enforcer for
+   AreTech mining. Garibaldi convinces the guy to leave the station
+   quietly.
+   
+   Another day, Ivanova finds herself back on escort duty once again.
+   This time the ship Kobold is helped by them. They escort the ship from
+   when it comes out of jump all the way back to the station. Ivanova
+   notices that the pilot seemed to be expecting a raid and the pilot
+   agrees to discuss the matter further once back at the station. Raiders
+   do attempt to get her to pull her squadron off escort but she doesn't
+   fall for it and the Kobold has a smooth escort all the way to Babylon
+   5.
+   
+   Garibaldi goes back down below to meet with someone Patinos has set up
+   for him to meet. The guy does not recognize the picture of Yang and
+   Garibaldi wanders off realizing he has hit a dead end. He doesn't
+   notice the guy come up from behind who whacks him with shock sticks.
+   When he awakes he is trapped in a locker and fights frantically to
+   attract attention.
+   
+   Lieutenant Torres decides to contact Sheridan when she realizes that
+   Garibaldi is missing and she explains the investigation that is going
+   on. After Garibaldi is found and brought to Medlab, Wallace enters
+   rather aggressively against the wishes of Franklin and a tech.
+   Garibaldi mentions Yang's name to Wallace and realizes that when he
+   claims not recognize the name he is probably lying, but having said he
+   didn't know the person, Sheridan forces Wallace to leave. Sheridan
+   insists that this time things are going to be done his way and that he
+   will bring in Garibaldi's contact.
+   
+   The Kobold's pilot, Mr. Pal, insists upon buying dinner for Ivanova as
+   a thank you gesture. He explains that they were expecting an attack
+   and that he thought that her ships might have been raiders until they
+   identified themselves. Pal is on the union's central committee and he
+   explains that when he left Marsport their demands for better
+   protection were still being studied. Ivanova explains, mindful of the
+   trouble she is already in, some of her findings from her earlier
+   computer analysis. Pal explains that they have started to think that
+   Earth Central has a reason to be looking the other way. Pal also
+   explains that they have started to wonder what they are really
+   carrying morbidium, or perhaps just "slag", worthless mass.
+   
+   They think the plan would be to ship the rigidly price controlled item
+   and have it raided and then resell the product on the black market
+   while also taking the insurance money. Or perhaps for each cargo there
+   might be two ships one for which they collect the insured value and
+   the other which goes to the black market. E.g. pay raiders to attack
+   ships carrying slag. Pal offers to have the insurance agent tell
+   Ivanova the results of opening the crates at the final destination.
+   
+   Later, Ivanova turns in response to her name being shouted across the
+   Zocalo by a young business woman approaching. Luz Espada of the
+   Universal Underwriters corporation introduces herself and offers to
+   buy Ivanova coffee. The two sit down to talk. Ivanova once again
+   explains the results of her computer analysis of the raids and Espada
+   explains that her company has started reaching a similar conclusion.
+   She explains that ships and cargos are generally separately insured,
+   by different companies, and so it could take some time before losses
+   would be noticed. Espada is able to provide some of the information
+   about insurance companies that the computer couldn't provide Ivanova
+   earlier. Turns out that shipments from AreTech Consolidated Mining
+   corporation of Mars - headquartered on Earth - have been the targets
+   of a high proportion of raider attacks.
+   
+   Their discussion is interrupted as Ivanova receives a request from
+   Security to arrive at docking bay 18 where the Kobold is docked to
+   help with an incident. Torres explains the situation to Ivanova:
+   Khatib has orders from Wallace to search the Kobold's cargo and the
+   crew is refusing claiming that someone arrested their pilot. Torres
+   explains that Security does not have the pilot and that Khatib has
+   ordered the security squads under his control to use force but they
+   won't without confirmation from Babylon command. The captain is
+   unavailable making Torres the highest ranking officer.
+   
+   Ivanova talks with the members of the crew and convinces them to just
+   leave unless Pal is returned and only to agree to a search if it can
+   be observed. They resist initially but after convincing them that she
+   will do everything to get him free and that the station will not stop
+   the launch they agree to the bluff. Ivanova explains the deal to
+   Khatib who rebuffs it but eventually realizes he will need to relent
+   when C & C refuses to take his order to stop the launch of the ship.
+   
+   Pal is returned, drugged, the cargo is searched. The cargo is in fact
+   real morbidium ingots. Ivanova also realizes that the reason for
+   interrogating Pal is that they wanted to see if she had passed
+   information to him, information from Ortega.
+   
+   Garibaldi finds out that Patinos is being held, on Sheridan's orders
+   and goes to him. Patinos explains that he had Garibaldi attacked.
+   Garibaldi gets the name of the attacker and tries to track the guy
+   down but his quarters are empty. Meanwhile he tries to track down
+   information about Yang on Mars and discovers that the records are now
+   classified as of just hours after he told Wallace that he was
+   investigating Yang's death. Garibaldi is certain that he has Wallace
+   caught in a lie now. Garibaldi finds out that the name of the attacker
+   was really Josef Nagy from Patinos an he sets out to find the man
+   before Wallace.
+   
+   Ivanova is again on escort duty and this time they receives a distress
+   call from the transport Duster. They intercept the raiders before they
+   have a chance to destroy the transport and even manage to capture one
+   of the raiders still alive. In the process, one of Ivanova's squad
+   members is killed. Ivanova allows another pilot to fly her fury and
+   Duster takes a damaged fury on board along with Ivanova and she is
+   able to question the raider.
+   
+   Meanwhile, back on the station Garibaldi stops the launch of a ship
+   and manages to search and find Nagy aboard. Garibaldi questions Nagy
+   about Free Mars, Yang, and Ortega. The questioning is interrupted by
+   the discovery of Khatib's body.
+   
+   Upon questioning her prisoner Ivanova discovers that AreTech has been
+   selling out information about its shipments to the raiders direct from
+   their office on Mars.
+   
+   Wallace attempts to interfere in the investigation of the murder of
+   Khatib but Garibaldi gets microfilms off the body and away from him.
+   Franklin locks the films inside the Biohazard area. This results in
+   the rather funny situation of Wallace being knocked out by the
+   Biohazard security system when he later tried to go back and get
+   access to the films.
+   
+   Meanwhile a near riot had erupted on the station as people were
+   complaining of major lock ups of hundreds by Wallace and Miyoshi.
+   Sheridan ordered the guards back under his command and had the
+   prisoners released.
+   
+   Wallace and Miyoshi are arrested for complicity in Yang's murder. And
+   Ivanova returns with the connection to AreTech Mining becoming clearer
+   and clearer. (Ortega had worked for AreTech as well.)
+   
+   Sheridan has contact with the Joint Chiefs again. Admiral Wilson
+   reveals that the problem involving AreTech was quite real and that
+   Wallace was a special investigator for them. He also explains that
+   there will be no reprimand for Sheridan or his staff, but stops short
+   of reinstating Ivanova saying it will be reviewed, eventually.
+   
+   As if realizing the depths of her plight, Ivanova finally decides to
+   turn to Talia Winters, a telepath for assistance. The two return to
+   Winter's quarters and a deep scan is performed on Ivanova. The scan
+   reveals that Ortega had a view that a pilot and their starfury should
+   be hardwired together so to speak and Ivanova realizes that this means
+   that the information is on her starfury.
+   
+   Ivanova boards her starfury and queries for a file by keyword "J. D."
+   a file is produced and she downloads it onto a data crystal. As she
+   leaves the ship, she is knocked to the floor. Miyoshi has attacked her
+   and has taken the data crystal from her. The two become engaged in
+   combat with Miyoshi clearly trying to kill Ivanova.
+   
+   Winters gets onto the communicator with Garibaldi and warns him that
+   she thinks Ivanova is in danger, and Garibaldi reacts. The security
+   officer that comes upon Miyoshi attacking Ivanova is forced to kill
+   Miyoshi. The data crystal is removed from Miyoshi's pocket and the
+   scene shifts to sick bay where Ivanova is recovering and Sheridan,
+   Garibaldi and Franklin are examining the data crystal. Ivanova comes
+   to and insists on seeing too.
+   
+   Computer analysis reveals that it is a description of a new atom,
+   number 156, supermorbidium. Its chemical properties are such that it
+   will be a potent portion of a weapon system. Sheridan and Ivanova
+   contact the joint chiefs in private with information about recovery of
+   the plans.
+   
+   The novel ends with Ivanova back at her station and things returning
+   back to normal.
+   
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * Why is G'Kar's picture on the cover when he plays no role in the
+       novel? (See [17]Notes)
+     * Why is none of the information about the somewhat warmer
+       relationship between Ivanova and Talia included in this book?
+       Specifically why do they both still seem to be acting like they
+       did in [18]"Midnight on the Firing Line"?
+     * Was Ortega a traitor or a hero of sorts in trying to hide the
+       information about supermorbidium?
+     * How do the events of this novel fit into the conspiracy discussed
+       by General Hague in [19]"All Alone in the Night"?
+     * Is Ivanova's record spotless again?
+     * Was Miyoshi a telepath in disguise? If not, how did the card send
+       a message to Winters? Either way, what is the level of Psi Corps
+       involvement in this whole conspiracy, e.g. just the military
+       telepaths or are the Psi Cops involved in some way as well? How
+       did Miyoshi manage to remain or get back onto the station after
+       presumably being forced to leave with Wallace?
+     * Are the Joint Chiefs involved in the conspiracy or are they really
+       trying to investigate the extent of corruption?
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * This book is a lot like a cross between [20]"Eyes" and
+       [21]"Hunter, Prey". You have the interrogation of senior officers
+       aspect a la "Eyes" and the conspiracy aspects a la "Hunter, Prey".
+       If we are to understand the events of this novel as describing a
+       facet of the conspiracy General Hague was concerned about then we
+       are left with two possible interpretations about the Joint Chiefs.
+       One is that the Joint Chiefs are working with General Hague to
+       uncover corruption and the high placed leak is somewhere else in
+       Earth Central, perhaps through President Clark's office.
+       Alternatively, we can see this as showing that the corruption goes
+       to the highest ranks of Earthforce and that Sheridan and company,
+       cf. [22]All Alone in the Night, certainly will have their hands
+       full in trying to put a stop to the conspiracy.
+     * Now that Ivanova has been scanned, deep scanned in fact, it would
+       seem to put rest to the notion that she might be a telepath trying
+       to avoid detection from Psi Corps. On the other hand, if we take
+       into account some of what we have learned about Winters in
+       [23]Voices and [24]A Race Through Dark Places, it is possible that
+       Talia Winters and Ivanova have developed a close bond of shared
+       secrets and consequently even if Winters discovered that Ivanova
+       was a telepath it might not get reported to Psi Corps.
+     * Things back home between Earth and Mars seem to be getting
+       steadily worse.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * According to Lois Tilton on GEnie, the cover art was a sample
+       submitted by the artist when Dell was looking for someone to draw
+       the novel covers; they decided not to waste money having four
+       covers drawn up and just use it on an actual book. "Accusations"
+       got stuck with it.
+       
+The Author Speaks
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Written by Erik Oliver <oliver@dolphin.upenn.edu>.
+
+   [30][Next] 
+   
+      Last update: June 23, 1996
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+   _Contents:_ [7]Back Cover - [8]Synopsis - [9]Questions - [10]Analysis
+   - [11]Notes - [12]Author
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   _Written by John Vornholt_
+   Released: September 13, 1995
+   ISBN: 0-440-22059-9 (US)
+   Setting: Early 2259, before [13]"The Coming of Shadows"
+   
+     The past catches up with the powerful Narn Ambassador and Garibaldi
+     and Ivanova are sent to track down a killer.
+     
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Back Cover
+
+                             Running from Death
+                                      
+   Having narrowly escaped assassination, proud, ruthless Ambassador
+   G'Kar knows he is marked for death. A rival family from his Narn
+   homeland has taken the Shon'Kar, or Blood Oath, to kill him. And when
+   a fiery explosion destroys his transport ship, it looks as if they
+   have succeeded...
+   
+                                 Blood Oath
+                                      
+   Security Chief Garibaldi and Commander Susan Ivanova join an enraged
+   Na'Toth, G'Kar's aide, in a search for the culprits. Journeying to the
+   Narn Homeworld, they find themselves enveloped by a chilling alien
+   environment. And in this place of deadly traps and cruel disguises,
+   the Narn Blood Oath is turned against them all. Now as strangers on
+   the strange Narn planet, the best and brightest members of Babylon 5
+   are hunted by an enemy only a daring deception can stop!
+   
+Synopsis
+
+   The book opens in Ambassador G'Kar's quarters where he holds in his
+   hand an untraceable data crystal -- its identity patterns had been
+   removed. Upon slipping it into the viewer, an attractive female Narn
+   appears and begins talking:
+   
+     Hello G'Kar. Do you recognize me? I am Mi'Ra, daughter of Du'Rog. I
+     speak for my mother, Ka'Het, and my brother, T'Kog. We are all that
+     is left of the family you destroyed. Yes, G'Kar, we are beaten, and
+     our titles and lands are gone. Our father is dead, his name
+     disgraced, and his attempt to kill from the grave was a failure
+     ([14]The Parliament of Dreams.) To our shame, every assassin has
+     failed.
+     
+     You think you are safe within the Third Circle and the Earth space
+     station. You are wrong! The widow, the son, and the daughter of
+     Du'Rog have sworn the _Shon'Kar_ against you! No more will you face
+     inept assassins -- but the very family you destroyed! The Prophets
+     willing, by my own hands you will die. From this day forward, the
+     purpose of our _V'Tar_ is to kill you. Let this mark show my will.
+     
+   Mi'Ra marks her forehead by cutting it with a knife and the viewscreen
+   fades to black. G'Kar realizes how serious undertaking the Blood Oath
+   is and that the Narn Government will be of no assistance to him and
+   that further the aliens would not be either. He decides to leave the
+   station for homeworld and deal with Mi'Ra himself.
+   
+   G'Kar's aide, Na'Toth, points out that the cruiser K'sha Na'vas is
+   arriving tomorrow and could get him home in half the time of his
+   personal transport. Nonetheless he insists on leaving immediately
+   without explaining why. Ivanova and Sheridan notice the hasty
+   departure but ultimately let him leave after a brief conversation.
+   Shortly before the ship enters the jump point, a reactor breach begins
+   and the ship explodes. A Starfury sent to find remains or G'Kar finds
+   _absolutely_ no remains. G'Kar is pronounced dead.
+   
+   Na'Toth is surprised by the appearance of Earth Alliance officers
+   informing her of G'Kar's sudden demise. Na'Toth assumes that it was
+   Londo Mollari, and pledges to swear a Blood Oath against the killer.
+   Garibaldi confiscates the files and data crystals from G'Kar's desk as
+   evidence. Departures from the station are stopped and Garibaldi is
+   assigned to track down the killer since the debris pattern is deemed
+   to have been consistant with a bomb.
+   
+   Na'Toth proceeds to attack Londo at knifepoint and is interupted by
+   Garibaldi who convinces her, at least for the moment, to back down.
+   Londo contacts Vir and gives him some orders. Garibaldi warns Na'Toth
+   off Londo and asks her about the unlabeled data crystal.
+   
+   Na'Toth is not entirely surprised by the contents, though Sheridan and
+   Garibaldi are. They decide to search the station for the killer. They
+   do however concede that they can not stop Na'Toth from leaving the
+   station because of diplomatic immunity.
+   
+   Sheridan decides to send Garibaldi and Ivanova as the Earth Alliance
+   delegates to the memorial service on the Narn homeworld. Ivanova
+   points out that both winter coats and bathing suits will be in order
+   on the Narn world because of the drastic temperature extremes on the
+   surface.
+   
+   G'Kar dreams about the past. He is in the Homeworld city of Ka'Pul
+   when assassins make a first attempt on his life (the second was on
+   Babylon 5, in [15]"The Parliament of Dreams.") Both attempts were
+   brought on by the manner in which he disgraced the Du'Rog family to
+   enter the Third Circle. When he awakes G'Kar is being asked to pipe
+   down by Pa'Nar, G'Kar's operative down below.
+   
+   Security, meanwhile is searching Down Below and comes to Pa'Nar's
+   quarters. Pa'Nar initially tries to claim that G'Kar is his cousin
+   Ha'Mok, but is forced to knock the security guard out and let G'Kar
+   escape in a disguise consisting of contact lenses and a mask which
+   changes his spots. G'Kar escapes to the Narn ship K'sha Na'vas, whose
+   captain is an old friend. The K'sha Na'vas is also the ship that will
+   be taking the delegation from Babylon 5 to the Narn homeworld.
+   
+   Garibaldi contacts Talia Winters, the station's resident telepath,
+   upon hearing the news of the downed security guard. He requests that
+   she scan the officer, Leffler, when he regains consciousness.
+   
+   The captain of the K'sha Na'vas, Vin'Tok, reviews the materials
+   concerning G'Kar's death and tries to explain to Sheridan that it
+   should be considered "justifiable homicide." Sheridan disagrees, but
+   realizes that nothing will be done to the Du'Rog family back on the
+   Homeworld. The Narn delegation leaves to attend the memorial service.
+   Sheridan explains to Ivanova and Garibaldi that they are forbidden to
+   take weapons with them, but that they will have diplomatic immunity.
+   
+   Sheridan speaks first at the memorial. Londo follows, expressing his
+   regrets in a very Centauri fashion: "They will send another, but he
+   will not be G'Kar... ...will not yell or sputter as zestfully as
+   G'Kar." Delenn takes the stage and expresses the outrage and pain the
+   people at the service feel about the sudden loss of a good man. She
+   sepaks of the unity and growth of community that has come to be on
+   Babylon 5. Finally, a Minbari candlelight procession commences.
+   
+   As Ivanova is about to depart, Londo turns and asks her if she is
+   familiar with the Early American author Mark Twain, making the point
+   that if she was she would be able to _"[e]njoy this more."_ Garbaldi
+   meanwhile encounters Al Vernon, a human who was married to a Narn and
+   more recently has been trading with the Centauri. Al manages to
+   insinuate himself into the diplomatic party and Sheridan agrees to his
+   presence.
+   
+   Back on the Homeworld, Mi'Ra, living with her family in pitiful
+   conditions, has an encounter with a member of the Thenta Ma'Kur, which
+   she has been "slandering" liberally for their two failures. They take
+   credit for the death of G'Kar and warn of the Earthforce delegations,
+   suggesting that she keep an eye on them.
+   
+   When Garibaldi arrives with Al Vernon, Al quickly introduces himself
+   to Ivanova and the other Narns. Vin'Tok recognizes Al's name and
+   mentions that he was presumed dead. Vernon replies, "Well, as the
+   great Mark Twain said, the reports of my death were greatly
+   exaggerated!" Ivanova notes the repeated mention of Twain, while
+   Garibaldi ponders the need for three warships to escort them to the
+   homeworld.
+   
+   When Leffler comes to, a scan by Talia reveals the name Pa'Nar. Pa'Nar
+   is quickly arrested and questioned about the mysterious Ha'Mok. They
+   escort Ms. Winters in to scan him directly and she begins the scan
+   asking Sheridan and Welch, Garibaldi's assistant, to direct the
+   questioning. The questioning leads Sheridan to realize that G'Kar is
+   probably still alive.
+   
+   On their trip to the homeworld, Garibaldi and Ivanova soon become
+   aware of a guarded door. Na'Toth takes the direct approach for them
+   and G'Kar is discovered. He explains the situation and that he plans
+   to kill Mi'Ra to end the matter once and for all. He explains his plan
+   to use a disguise and go down on the planet when they arrive at the
+   homeworld.
+   
+   The rest of the trip is uneventful with no more interactions with
+   G'Kar. A shuttle transports them to Hekba City, G'Kar's home, and
+   Na'Toth explains that when ready to depart she will summon another
+   shuttle. The heat immediately affects the humans in the party --
+   except Al, who seems to find the temperature pleasant. At the memorial
+   Garibaldi spots Mi'Ra and tries to warn her off visiting Babylon 5
+   since the Shon'Kar would not be recognized there.
+   
+   Afterwards, G'Kar decides to visit his wife, Da'Kal. He asks the
+   humans to introduce themselves and broach the subject of G'Kar being
+   alive with her. After she dismisses a lover and a servant, Ivanova and
+   Garibaldi introduce themselves. Da'Kal mentions that G'Kar spoke well
+   of them; she seems genuinely pleased by their arrival to honor him.
+   The news of G'Kar being alive pleases her and G'Kar is invited in. The
+   rest of the party goes to a tavern to wait for his return.
+   
+   G'Kar and Da'Kal make love. Afterwards, Da'Kal sends money to the
+   Du'Rog family in an attempt to make amends.
+   
+   Some time later, in the Du'Rog house, Mi'Ra finds her brother and
+   mother rejoicing over their newfound wealth. Mi'Ra is disgusted and
+   wishes that she had been able to kill G'Kar herself. She resolves to
+   ask the Earthers some questions when they arrive. She contemplates
+   going somewhere off the Narn homeworld, perhaps to Babylon 5, where
+   their past wouldn't be known and the money might go further.
+   
+   After starting to freeze from the cold, Al finds Ivanova and Garibaldi
+   somewhere to spend the night. First, the three visit Ra'Pak, a member
+   of the Second Circle of the Kha'Ri. Na'Toth returns to find G'Kar,
+   just in time to prevent him from getting in trouble with the guards
+   for being out late at night. (His disguise suggested that he was
+   someone of a lower class who should not be in the main city after
+   hours -- the workers return to the slums at night.) They both also
+   discover that the ship has left without them on a most urgent mission.
+   
+   Back at the inn Garibaldi uses the netlink to contact Babylon 5.
+   During the conversation -- which is listened in upon -- the suggestion
+   that G'Kar isn't dead comes up. Ra'Pak betrays G'Kar to Mi'Ra, perhaps
+   out of jealousy but perhaps also for something he did to her and her
+   family. Mi'Ra begins to use the money to hire a force to take out the
+   humans and G'Kar when they arrive the next day.
+   
+   When the humans arrive at the Du'Rog place the next day, they admit
+   that G'Kar is alive and explain what will happen if Mi'Ra attempts to
+   show up on the station to kill him. Na'Toth and Mi'Ra's mother begin
+   negotiating about monetary settlement to end the Shon'Kar. When the
+   visitors try to leave, Mi'Ra sets her hired guns upon them. A
+   desparate escape into the catacombs under the slums saves them -- just
+   barely. A small child who initially seemed to help them ends up
+   poisoning their water and leaves doing back flips saying, "Compliments
+   of the Thenta Ma'Kur." The poison doesn't affect the humans as badly,
+   and they manage to find an antidote and get it to G'Kar and Na'Toth in
+   time.
+   
+   Mi'Ra shows up again, alone. Al Vernon volunteers a data crystal
+   revealing the truth about the Du'Rog family in return for letting
+   G'Kar live and disavowing the Shon'Kar. Mi'Ra agrees and that resolves
+   the matter. During the course of the discussion it becomes apparent
+   that Londo Mollari, the Centauri Ambassador, had sent Al and saved his
+   life.
+   
+   Upon returning back to the station and things settling down, G'Kar
+   goes and thanks the Centauri, although he can't quite understand why.
+   Londo explains that it is a famous Centauri literary device and that
+   he admired G'Kar's cunning, calling it "as devious as a Centauri..."
+   
+Unanswered Questions
+
+   This book does not leave very many unanswered questions although it
+   does suggest new dimensions to the relationship between Londo Mollari
+   and G'Kar.
+   
+Analysis
+
+   This book brings the events of two episodes, Parliament of Dreams and
+   Deathwalker, together nicely. It explains the assasination attempt in
+   light of the Shon'Kar ritual along with the tensions in Narn society
+   between more "modern" practices and ancient traditions.
+   
+Notes
+
+     * The data crystals used by the computers of many races are grown on
+       Minbar. This makes some sense in light of the number of crystal
+       and crystaline devices we have seen the Minabri use.
+     * Confiscating the materials from G'Kar's desk seems to be a breach
+       of diplomatic immunity, although perhaps we are to understand that
+       these were personal effects and not official ones.
+     * Do Earth Alliance personel sometimes have to submit to telepathic
+       scans? This is not made clear here and has not really be
+       definitively resolved in the show either.
+     * I have left out some of G'Kar's emotional self-examination from
+       this summary since it is not central to the plot.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * _The Narn ship had artificial gravity._
+       Urk...that must've slipped past me (which reminds me, I'd better
+       get back to finishing proofing the next novel). And yes, we'll see
+       more of the Narn homeworld as we go along.
+     * _How accurate is the Narn terminology?_
+       It's accurate in some places, not in others; details slip
+       sometimes.
+       
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Written by Erik Oliver <[16]oliver@dolphin.upenn.edu>.
+
+   [22][Next] 
+   
+      Last update: October 30, 1996
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+Clarks Law
+
+                            [1][ISMAP]-[2][Home]
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+                                      
+   _Contents:_ [7]Back Cover - [8]Synopsis - [9]Questions - [10]Analysis
+   - [11]Notes - [12]Author
+   
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   _Written by Jim Mortimore_
+   Release date: January 10, 1996
+   ISBN: 0440-22229-X
+   Setting: Late 2259, between [13]"Comes the Inquisitor" and [14]"The
+   Fall of Night"
+   
+     Sheridan is torn between duty and defiance when he's ordered to
+     execute an innocent alien.
+     
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+Back Cover
+
+                           Death Before Dishonor
+                                      
+   The Tuchanq, a newly discovered humanoid species, can be an important
+   ally for the Earth Alliance commanded by President Clark. So Captain
+   John Sheridan welcomes their ambassadors to babylon 5, not knowing
+   that among them is D'arc - a mass murderer on the run hoping to escape
+   into the unsuspecting worlds of the galaxy....
+   
+                                Clark's Law
+                                      
+   But the unforgiving rules of space have a different fate in store for
+   D'arc. A terrifying accident wipes away D'arc's identity and his
+   evil... leaving behind a loving, innocent being with a child's mind -
+   a being that must die because President Clark, a leader with his own
+   secret agenda, orders his immediate execution. Now, as Babylon 5
+   physician Dr. Stephen Franklin begs Sheridan to defy Clark's law, the
+   captain faces the greatest test of his command - and a far greater
+   test of his manhood, which may end his career in shame or become a
+   shining reminder of what being human truly means....
+   
+Synopsis
+
+  Prologue: Lies
+  
+   "Earth: First Lie": Opening in November of 2242, we see the Captain of
+   the Earth vessel which fired on the Minbari lie to the president and
+   then Vice President Santiago about who fired first. Captaion Ferdinand
+   claims it is the Minbari who fired first.
+   
+   "Earth: Second Lie": The scene opens on now President Clark in October
+   of 2258 (See [15]Notes.) Clark has been plotting to reinstate the
+   death penalty to regain popularity among humans by maintaining control
+   and re-initiating capital punishment. Clark's internal thoughts also
+   turn to the problems with Earth's colonies without which Earth could
+   not survive. The senate is tied on the vote about re-instating capital
+   punishment. Clark lies when the speaker of the senate asks if it will
+   be equally applied to both humans and aliens. Answering yes, the
+   speaker of the senate agrees to pass the law.
+   
+   "Tuchanq: First Lie": The scene is inside a Narn battle cruiser as
+   G'Kar drops Centauri plasma generators on Tuchanq. After a few days
+   G'Kar lands the Narn cruiser offering the Tuchanq assistance in
+   recovering from the devestation caused by the "Centauri."
+   
+   "Tuchanq: Second Lie": October 2259, we see D'Arc of the Tuchanq
+   killing the last of the Narn on Tuchanq and then boarding a Narn
+   cruiser to head for Babylon 5 in search of assistance. Tuchanq has
+   suffered tremendous environmental damage from years of Narn
+   enslavement.
+   
+  Part One: Among Shadows (December 12, 2259, Day)
+  
+   The story opens on Sheridan eating breakfast and trying to cope with
+   the mounds of paperwork that he needs to deeal with as well as his own
+   discomfort in his role as commander of Babylon 5. His mind turns the
+   phrase "If you go to Z'ha'dum you will die" over and over again as he
+   contemplates life. (See In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum)
+   
+   Ivanova interupts his inner turmoil in order to be briefed on the
+   arrival of the Tuchanq delegation. She remarks on the unusual fact
+   that they are quadrapeds and after some jokes about the paper horizon
+   and stations vanishing, he leaves her in charge of the matter. The
+   problem for the Tuchanq is that there world's ecosystem has been
+   destroyed by the Narn occupation.
+   
+   "The Corps is your friend. Trust the Corps" Ivanova is still plagued
+   with thoughts about her friendship with Talia and hears her whispered
+   words, more than just the touch of bodies, the touch of minds. After
+   shaking herself awake from her nap, she struggles to gain inner peace
+   as the core shuttle heads towards arrivals. The inner struggle relates
+   to her continued denial of her telepathic abilities and the need to
+   hide it to avoid the Psi Cops.
+   
+   Arriving in the customs area, things were already turning ugly. The
+   Tuchanq were engaged in a bizzare ritual involving leaving blood on
+   the floor of the arrival area. G'Kar had helped program a translator
+   for Ivanova, but she turned out not to need it because they spoke
+   System English. The ritual then involved cutting their throats and
+   bleeding because their customs require returning something to the
+   land.
+   
+   Anti-alien sentiments begin to break out and Ivanova realizes the
+   situation is quickly escalating out of control. Then a Narn spots a
+   Narn skull attached to one of the Tuchanq and fighting begins in
+   earnest. Ivanova is finally forced to stun the delegation with her PPG
+   to prevent further violence. Unfortunately the Tuchanq do not sleep,
+   at least not as humans understand the concept, and by making them stop
+   singing their songs of being and journey through the stunner, they are
+   now all dead (insane.)
+   
+   The scene shifts back to Sheridan's office where G'Kar is imploring
+   Sheridan to get the Tuchanq off the station and to make ammends for
+   the sole death from the incident -- a Narn. Sheridan refuses his
+   request and G'Kar leaves in disgust.
+   
+   D'Arc awakens surround by Medlab personel and quickly realizes that
+   her Song of Being is broken. She attacks one of the Medlab people with
+   a knife which she withdraws from some sort of body pouch and flees
+   with her Song of Journey running strong. In order to be whole again,
+   she would need to steal a new Song of Being from someone else.
+   
+   Londo Mollari meanwhile begins trying to jockey for a chance to meet
+   with the Tuchanq. His conscience is still wracked with images of the
+   bombardment of the Narn homeworld and their destruction of their
+   civilization. Mollari meets up with Garibaldi who explains that the
+   Tuchanq are "killing" each other to cure the insanity. Once the
+   remaining sane Tuchanq break the Song of Journey they will be
+   pronounced dead and be reborn with new Songs of Being and Journey.
+   nu'Viel (their leader/mother) explains to Ivanova the urgency of
+   catching D'Arc to which Ivanova points out the size of the station and
+   their limited resources.
+   
+   Brian Grond would become D'Arc's target. He would not realize this
+   yet, but his taste for peverse (See [16]Notes) sexual activities with
+   aliens along with his need to record them would be his downfall. Grond
+   was hoping to have an especially interesting encounter with Belladona
+   with whom he had already had several encounters. Down Below he went to
+   where he expected to find Belladona but she was not there. Then his
+   eyes met those of D'Arc. He makes an offer to give her cash if she
+   will take him to Belladona. D'Arc expresses her desire to murder him
+   with a confusing discussion of the need to take his Song of Being,
+   Grond merely replies yes and he heads off towards his death.
+   
+   The PPG he is carrying does not save him when in the middle of a cargo
+   hold D'Arc pulls the knife from her pouch and kills him taking his
+   Song of Being. In the process, a cargo loader impacts a crane in the
+   cargo area leading to the possibility of the crane impacting the
+   station's structure and causing a rupture.
+   
+   Franklin and other Medlab personnel head out to rescue the trapped
+   crane operator. He goes out suited up because the area has become
+   depressurized. Further he will have to amputate the crane operator's
+   leg inside the suit. The timing is close to the wire and the crane
+   does in fact impact the station but Franklin and the crane operator
+   survive, barely.
+   
+   Lyta Alexander appears briefly as we see her thoughts turning to the
+   need to stay out of site and her desire to be able to visit the Vorlon
+   homeworld. Garibaldi interupts her reverie and asks for a telepathic
+   favor involving Tuchanq. In a moment that recalls Lyta's first role in
+   the pilot, she enters the Isolab to scan Tuchanq. Lyta explains that
+   D'Arc is like a newborn child with _no memory_ at any level of the
+   events that resulted in Grond's death. As Lyta leaves Medlab she
+   starts to hear the song, Kosh's song and realizes that nothing
+   separates her from the Vorlons except some empty space -- and she does
+   know how to deal with that.
+   
+   This section of the book ends with a Gold Channel transmission from
+   Earth ordering Sheridan to hold D'Arc for the death penalty.
+   
+  Part Two: Hunting Shadows (December 12, 2259, Night)
+  
+   This section opens on Jacintha Grond's arrival at Babylon 5 customs.
+   (See [17]Notes). She is surprised to be greated by the ubiquitous
+   press specifically Debora Deverau of Channel 57 News. (See [18]Notes).
+   Grond is bombarded with a barrage of questions about how she feels on
+   a variety of issues -- "What will you do if they won't release his
+   body?". A security officer finally takes her hand and leads her away
+   from the media frenzy.
+   
+   Mollari meanwhile is scheming to provide assistance to the Tuchanq.
+   With the help of Vir he manages to arrange a meeting with nu'Viel and
+   her chorus. Exploiting their hatred of the Narn, Mollari is able to
+   extend a credible offer of assistance.
+   
+   Sheridan gets a chance to meet with Jacintha Grond who is rather
+   confused and upset at this point. He explains to her that he can not
+   release the body because it is needed for evidence and that she will
+   have to basically deal with the situation. She explains that she
+   intends to be on a return shuttle in 16 hours. Grond also takes her
+   anger out on Sheridan explaining that she holds him personally
+   responsible for the situation. Sheridan's inner frustration and
+   turmoil is evident but he merely invites her to remain on the station
+   and explains he will do the best he can.
+   
+   Franklin's overuse of stims is starting to have a noticeable effect.
+   His first chance of sleep is interupted by the arrival of the
+   executioner. The executioner wants to use the life giver machine,
+   [19]Quality of Mercy to perform the execution and demands it from
+   Franklin. Franklin resists and the executioner summons Garibaldi who
+   seems to have been waiting for this eventuality. Garbildi recommends
+   that Franklin comply by providing some bits and pieces to fool the
+   executioner in the meanwhile.
+   
+   Sheridan approaches Delenn in search of assistance and guidance. He is
+   disappointed to realize that Delenn has already been approached by
+   Earth Gov and has reluctantly agreed not to interfere. The reason she
+   explains has to do with her post-chrysalis state and the likelihood
+   that the Grey Council would overrule her.
+   
+   On a core shuttle, G'Kar is attacked by Tuchanqs. G'Kar survives with
+   only minor injuries and a closer examination reveals that someone has
+   equiped humans with changling nets to make them look like Tuchanqs.
+   
+   Garbaldi was already plenty busy, he had found the executioner
+   buldgeoned to death in the Mosque where he had gone to pray while
+   Franklin produced the life-giver machine. A decision is made to pay
+   n'Grath a visit to find out where the changling nets came from.
+   
+   Garbaldi has his teams scan red sector so that he can learn where
+   n'Grath is to meet him. He stops in on Ivanova and they end up
+   fighting about the upcoming execution. Ivanova fairly clearly against
+   and Garbaldi somewhat indifferent to pro-execution. There attempts to
+   communicate are interupted by Garibaldi's comm indicating that n'Grath
+   has been located.
+   
+   G'Kar and Vir encounter each other again and Vir is clearly still
+   trying to figure out how to help G'Kar and the Narns. There last
+   meeting had been several months back and had not gone well. G'Kar asks
+   Vir whether or not Mollari had him attacked and G'Kar nonetheless
+   hounds him further and leaves Vir feeling very uncomfortable. Vir of
+   course is aware that Mollari did in fact plot the attack. (See
+   [20]Notes.)
+   
+   Vir goes and tells Londo about his meeting with G'Kar and accuses
+   Londo directly. Mollari refuses to answer the question, and provides
+   no useful information about whether or not he had G'Kar attacked.
+   
+   Garibaldi arrives in Red Sector too late to for n'Grath. The creature
+   is bleeding and he calls for an emergency team to assist the alien.
+   n'Grath refuses to divulge information providing only a name "Askari"
+   and an admission that he did sell the nets. Garibaldi turns and
+   catches the motion of a gun, instead he gets a blast in his face of a
+   PPG. The faceplate of his suit ruptured.
+   
+   G'Kar decides that he will handle Askari, a Centauri himself.
+   Approaching Askari he grabs him and demands to know who hired him.
+   Askari admits it was Mollari. G'Kar then leaves him for dead from the
+   dagger wound.
+   
+   Violence begins to erupt on the station as protesters for and
+   primarily against the execution begin to start filling common areas.
+   Grond is starting to have a crisis about what to do and resolves to go
+   see D'Arc.
+   
+   G'Kar comes in and attackes Mollari with his dagger. He leaves Mollari
+   for dead with the dagger in his back. Vir arrives and removes the
+   dagger and conceals it before summoning Medlab. G'Kar leaves with the
+   intention of committing suicide.
+   
+   In Medlab, Garibaldi comes around and then Kosh shows up and
+   enigmatically mentions that "Obligation is a hangman's nooose.".
+   Meanwhile Ivanova brings nuViel to Sheridan to help lodge a protest
+   against the death penalty being applied to D'Arc. As they are talking
+   a gold channel transmission puts Sheridan in charge of everything --
+   trial and execution. After the transmission, nuViel decieds that
+   perhaps the Centauri a better choice to pursue aide from.
+   
+  Part Three: Becoming Shadows (December 13, 2259, Day)
+  
+   Jacintha Grond heads to security to visit D'Arc. She sees that D'Arc
+   is clearly suffering from brain damage based on the erratic behaviour
+   D'Arc is demonstrating in the holding cell. Jacintha then decided to
+   rent a room for the night and stay for a bit.
+   
+   Vir continues to hide the dagger from security as Londo suffers in
+   Medlab. Franklin has to put Mollari in cryo-stasis since without
+   assistance of donor organs it will be impossible to save him. The idea
+   of using the life-giver device comes up and Vir promises to try and
+   seek volunteers. He discovers that none will assist Londo, they are
+   all afraid of him. And Centauri Prime already has a replacement
+   ambassador on the way. Vir also attempts to enlist the help of the
+   Minbari who will not assist because of religious beliefs concerning
+   diminshment of the soul. (Cf. [21]Soul Hunter.) Vir also thinks of
+   asking Kosh after he bumps into him, but decides against it after
+   getting a sense of someone walking over his grave when talking.
+   
+   Sheridan will not agree to Franklin's request to order people to
+   donate life energy but agrees to assist in broadcasting a request for
+   assistance on the station network.
+   
+   G'Kar was still alive because without his dagger he could not perform
+   suicide. Sheridan visits G'Kar and G'Kar shows him a different dagger
+   thus "tricking" Sheridan into thinking he didn't do it. Vir returns
+   the dagger to G'Kar later saying "I said I was sorry."
+   
+   Garibaldi starts getting the sense of the violence that is going to
+   break out on the station on his way through the station that day.
+   Protesters are all around with signs pleading to save the alien.
+   Garibaldi true to form uses his fists to break up a fight and is
+   caught in the act on camera by Devereau from Channel 57. Morden
+   happens to be on hand and gets interviewed as the guy on the street.
+   He says, "I suppose that all life is important in some way." Then as
+   if nodding to himself, he continues, "Yes. That's what I believe. Life
+   is important. If you know what to do with it."
+   
+   Morden then continues to talk with Garibaldi and asks him about
+   assisting in saving Mollari. Garibaldi rebuffs the suggestion pointing
+   out he would die. Morden remains silent. Morden then shrugs and says
+   "Then I'll consider the debt yet to be repaid." Smiling, he says,
+   "Join me on the monorail?" Garibaldi is interupted by Sheridan on the
+   comm link and takes his leave of Morden.
+   
+   The court chamber. Grond is looking on as the trial commences.
+   Sheridan takes his place as judge, there will be no jury. nuViel is
+   used as a witness for the prosecution to explain that D'Arc had
+   murdered before. Sheridan responded to prosecution demands that nuViel
+   restrict her answers to the questions, cutting her off regularly. (See
+   [22]Notes.) On cross-examination, the defense tries to bring out the
+   issues about D'Arc's psychosis which seems to fall on deaf ears. The
+   defense calls Dr. Franklin to the stand for direct who explains about
+   the brain damage and her child like state. (See [23]Notes.) Sheridan
+   recesses and on return finds D'Arc guilty on murder. As if on cue
+   chaos breaks out in the court room. Grond even agrees saying on TV
+   that she feels justice is not served.
+   
+   In Medlab, Sheridan tries to get Franklin to agree to sedate D'Arc. He
+   balks and Sheridan begins to administer the hypo and Franklin agrees
+   to do it only to prevent Sheridan from killing her by giving the hypo.
+   
+   Garibaldi notices Morden leaving Medlab and that he has used the
+   life-giver without the assistance of any others to save Londo.
+   Garibaldi also realizes that the Shadows had a hand since otherwise
+   Morden would be dead.
+   
+   G'Kar can't bring himself to go through with the suicide because of
+   his fear of what the future holds. He leaves his quarters to go out
+   and shape the future.
+   
+   Jacintha Grond goes to find her husband and sees he is missing. The
+   station is descending into further chaos as the preparations for the
+   execution procession commence. The execution will be in an airlock.
+   Devereau grills Sheridan why such barbarism is being used to execute
+   D'Arc and why there are crowds, etc. Then G'Kar arrived to beg
+   forgiveness from nuViel. She grants him forgiveness. Then, all hell
+   breaks loose.
+   
+   Even Devereau had never seen violence like this. She managed to don a
+   gas mask to aide herself. After enough of the violent protesters were
+   downed with gas, the procession proceded towards an airlock. Franklin
+   makes one last attempt to block the airlock with his body. Delenn
+   offers a very insightful comment stating:
+   
+     This event has left in my mind an extraordinary feeling of terror
+     and shame. It seems to me I have been witness to -- and indeed,
+     party to -- an act of ... of shameful violence perpetrated by
+     intelligent beings [glance to Sheridan] against one of their
+     fellows. No matter what anyone might say, violence will never
+     prevent violence.
+     
+   After the death, a gold channel message comes in while they are all
+   near the airlock. Sheridan allows it to be played there. No clemancy
+   from the Senate, either way it was too late.
+   
+   257 Wounded. 53 Deaths, including a miscarried pregnancy.
+   
+   Clark calls Sheridan to thank him. Sheridan is feeling sick on the
+   inside.
+   
+   Ivanova helps the Tuchanq delegation head off the station. The Tuchanq
+   have accepted the Centauri offer.
+   
+   Franklin and Garibaldi arrive together. Franklin is stating he wants
+   to lodge a complaint. Sheridan deters him by explaining that Garibaldi
+   and he had swapped the bodies, D'Arc is safe and actually Brian Grond
+   who was already dead -- wearing a changling net -- was executed.
+   
+   The book ends with some words from Kosh. Kosh looks at him quietly.
+   Like a mirror. Fear is a mirror. Sheridan speaks, "I understand now.
+   Because I was scared I became devious. I took advantage of people and
+   events to accomplish my own ends... ...my fear has enabled me to
+   understand myself more clearly." Finally, Kosh said, "You are the
+   light, yet the hope of all darkness." Pause. "You are touched by
+   Shadows." Then Kosh leaves. The book ends with Sheridan realizing in a
+   moment of truth that his life would end as it had begun with awe and
+   wonder, pain and terror. And Shadows, always with Shadows.
+   
+  Epilogue: Truth
+  
+   "Earth: The First Truth": We see Clark contemplating the future in the
+   Senate Chamber in late December 2259. He realizes that the actions he
+   takes today will cause him not only to be remembered by the future but
+   to define it. A quote next to the page explains how EarthGov has
+   subpeonaed the footage from the execution to avoid scandal. Deverau
+   (the anchor) also mentions that the death penalty has now been
+   repealed to avoid scandal.
+   
+   "Tuchanq: The Second Truth": nuViel stands surveying the planet now
+   that Tunchanq is being "aided" by the Centauri. She realizes that in
+   reality the Tuchanq song now belongs to the Shadows.
+   
+   "The Rim: The Final Truth": Captain Varese finds his ship under
+   assault by screaming ships. As he dies, he has a peculiar sense of
+   deja vu about his final words, "They fired first."
+   
+   The book ends: 2259:
+   
+     It was Christmas Eve, 2259: the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind.
+     The Shadows were coming.
+     
+Unanswered Questions
+
+     * What's the deal with singing and songs? The issue has been brought
+       up several times in relation to the Vorlons and now with the
+       Tuchanq. What relation is there if any to the way the machine on
+       Epsilon 3 functions especially given some of the descriptions in
+       this book about how the songs serve as a connection to the land
+       (place)?
+     * Is Kosh's comment to the recovering Garibaldi prophetic in terms
+       of predicting the run in with Morden or meant to be prophetic in
+       the longer term?
+     * Are we to assume that Morden was prompted by the shadows when
+       giving his speech to Devereau? And if so, how are we to take it in
+       terms of what the future would hold should the Shadows gain
+       ground?
+     * What is Kosh up to with Sheridan? As the ending dialog suggests,
+       whatever is going on is a lot more complicated than simply
+       teaching Sheridan. Perhaps there is a special role for Sheridan
+       much like Sinclair had a special role for the Minbari and Humans.
+       
+Analysis
+
+     * The parallels between what the Narn did to the Tuchanq and what
+       the Centauri did to the Narn are extremely striking.
+     * This particular novel fits with the overall storyline much tighter
+       than others. The insights we gain on the fragile hold of Clark on
+       power as well as his willingness to use deception and trickery to
+       gain popularity are telling about other story arc elements such as
+       the Night Watch.
+     * Things are moving quickly. This corresponds with the increased
+       pace of the show, Earth, Babylon 5, and the universe are getting
+       ready for a big explosion.
+       
+Notes
+
+     * The second lie portion of the prologue should probably be dated
+       October of 2259 not 2258. This is an editting error in all
+       likelyhood. The reason it is an error is that Clark did not become
+       president until the very end of Season 1, which took all of 2258
+       and further a death penalty law would not go a full year without a
+       test. Also the Tuchanq second lie is, we presume, supposed to
+       occur shortly after the re-enactment of the death penalty.
+     * This book has extremely detailed albiet sometimes apparently
+       inaccurate descriptions of the station -- Ivanova's quarters --
+       but it does give a nice sense of the station.
+     * Another editing error seems to involve the captain's name in the
+       prologue and the epilogue both should presumably be the same since
+       presumably the deja vu has do with previously having said "They
+       fired first."
+     * It is surprising that G'Kar and perhaps Narns in general have such
+       difficulty grasping human subtlety. Contrast this with the
+       generally broder understanding demonstrated by the Minbari and
+       Vorlons at reading between the lines, etc. This may have more to
+       do with experience and knowledge due to general species age than
+       anything else. Alternatively it can be indicative of why the Narn
+       (and Centauri) are dying species.
+     * It is interesting to note that there seem to be taboos against
+       miscegenation with alien races much like we had enforced by law in
+       the United States and still now by prejudice in some areas. [See:
+       bans on interracial mariages unconstitutional, Loving v Virginia
+       (U.S. Supreme Court 1967) and compare with the 1984 custody case
+       involving Mrs. Palmore's daughter which reached the Supreme Court
+       because of Mrs. Palmore's subsequent interracial marriage. Palmore
+       v. Sidoti, (U.S. Supreme Court 1984)].
+     * Lyta's appearance is extremely well done and helps tie together
+       her appearance in relation to Talia and then her later appearance
+       back on the station after visiting the Vorlons.
+     * Timing of the sections seems to be slightly problematic since it
+       seems a bit unlikely that Jacintha Grond could get from Mars to
+       Babylon 5 _so_ quickly, less than a day.
+     * I believe Devereau has been seen before, except she had worked for
+       ISN, perhaps this is a change of jobs or just an editting error.
+     * I take the references on p 141, par 3-4, to indicate Mollari
+       ordered the attack on G'Kar and that Vir strongly suspected that
+       it was true, this may be an incorrect inference.
+     * From the trial scene it is interesting to note that little has
+       changed in the basic procedure of the Common Law system of trial
+       and justice.
+     * In the United States today, the death penalty has and continues to
+       be carried out on the mentally retarded, even upon people with
+       IQ's as low as 60. (McCollum v. No. Carolina, US SC 1994:
+       Blackmun's dissent from the denial of review mentions that the
+       person to be executed has a 9 yr old mental age and can barely
+       read at a second grade level. He was "under stress and easily
+       influenced by others." Continuing, Blackmun explains how the lower
+       court found:
+       
+     that he committed the felony murder under the influence of mental
+     or emotional disturbance, that he had cooperated with the police,
+     that he had no significant history of prior criminal activity, and
+     that he had adapted well to prison. In addition, the trial judge
+     concluded that "[a]ll of the evidence tends to show that
+     [McCollum's] capacity ... to appreciate the criminality of his
+     conduct or to conform to the requirements of law was impaired."
+     McCollum was 19 at the time of the crime.
+       Blackmun's dissent concludes on a note that is similar to the
+       rationale that the senate used in turning down the death penalty:
+       "Our system of capital punishment simply does not accurately and
+       consistently determine which defendants most "deserve" to die."
+       The sole standard that the Supreme Court has established is that
+       at the time of death the person must be able to comprehend what is
+       going to happen to them thus leading to ironies like lawyers
+       trying to have their clients taken off anti-psychotic drugs to
+       prevent executions.
+       
+jms speaks
+
+     * _Will D'Arc appear in the show?_
+       Probably not, but one never knows.
+     * _Lyta is deaf?_
+       I don't know how that would've gotten past me...I don't recall
+       seeing that in the draft...either I was tired when reading, or it
+       was added later.
+     * No, the novelist didn't blow it, Joe blew it, because in
+       proofreading the manuscript, Joe missed that line somehow, and
+       didn't catch it. It's my job to catch these things. (Just spent a
+       whole week going over the A-Z of Babylon 5 coming out from Boxtree
+       Books in the UK to keep it as accuate as possible.)
+     * _Why did the captain lie?_
+       The Minbari approached with their gun ports opened...but they also
+       hadn't locked on. They were a potential menace, but had not gone
+       into the territory of definite menace...and when they fired, it
+       was clear from the moment or two it took to respond that the
+       Minbari ships weren't ready to attack. So he chose to cover his
+       butt rather than take responsibility for screwing up a first
+       contact situation and plunging Earth into a war.
+       
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Written by Erik Oliver <[24]oliver@dolphin.upenn.edu>.
+
+   [30][Next] 
+   
+      Last update: January 15, 1997
+
+References
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/lurk/gif/novels/004.jpg
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/index.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/003.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/005.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/004.html#BC
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/004.html#SY
+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/004.html#UQ
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/004.html#AN
+  11. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/004.html#NO
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/004.html#JS
+  13. file://localhost/lurk/guide/043.html
+  14. file://localhost/lurk/guide/044.html
+  15. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/004.html#NO
+  16. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/004.html#NO
+  17. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/004.html#NO
+  18. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/004.html#NO
+  19. file://localhost/lurk/guide/021.html
+  20. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/004.html#NO
+  21. file://localhost/lurk/guide/002.html
+  22. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/004.html#NO
+  23. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/no
+  24. mailto:oliver@dolphin.upenn.edu
+  25. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  26. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/004.html#TOP
+  27. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  28. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  29. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/003.html
+  30. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels/005.html
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+This directory contains text versions of the episode guide entries from
+the World-Wide-Web "Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5," which you can get to
+at http://www.hyperion.com/lurk/lurker.html.  Naturally, there are no
+inline images or hypertext links in these versions.  These text-only
+versions are updated once a day.
+
+These files were formatted using the Lynx WWW browser.
+
+Unless otherwise noted, the entries were written by Steven Grimm
+(koreth@hyperion.com) based on a format by Anthony Taylor.
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+     At the request of a few people, I've written a brief sketch of
+the history of ancient Babylonia.  I've written this article
+because JMS has mentioned that there may be many parallels between
+Babylon 5 and ancient Babylon; however, for the same reason, I have
+to be extensively careful not to turn this article into a bunch of
+what some people may consider "story ideas."  In other words, I'm
+going to do my best to describe Babylonian history while not adding
+my ideas about how the history might relate to Babylon 5--these
+conclusions are up to you, as the reader, although I'll gladly
+discuss the topic anywhere but in alt.tv.babylon-5 (which JMS
+currently reads).
+ 
+     Note that this is =not= to serve as a complete history of
+Babylon (nor, in fact, anything even remotely close to a complete
+history).  If anything, this is merely supposed to be a back-
+ground--an outline according to which Babylonian history actually
+developed.  There are many historically important points which are
+not included here for reasons of space and clarity.
+ 
+============================
+     Most scholars mark the beginning of Babylonian history with
+the rise of Hammurabi.  However, I'm going to go back a little
+further and describe the setting upon which Hammurabi rose to
+power.
+     At the end of the 2000's B.C. (2050-2000), the great kingdom
+of Sumer was disintegrating at the hands of external invaders. 
+Sumer had been a powerful kingdom in the western part of Asia, and
+it had roughly occupied the land that was one day to become
+Babylonia.  After the ruling dynasty of Sumer fell, the cities of
+Larsa and Isin moved in to conquer.  After hundreds of years, Larsa
+eventually defeated Isin.
+     However, just as Larsa defeated Isin, Hammurabi came to power
+in the city of Babylon.  Hammurabi went on to defeat Larsa and
+establish a vast kingdom in the region formerly occupied by Sumer. 
+However, as Sabatino Moscati explains in his famous book, =The Face
+of the Ancient Orient= (meaning the Near East), "The relationship
+between the Akkadins [the Babylonians and Assyrians] and the
+Sumerians is growing more and more like that which exists between
+the Romans and the Greeks ... the newer people is permeated with
+the older and superior culture ... and makes a cultural capitula-
+tion at the very moment of its political victory." 
+     Hammurabi, needless to say, was a very capable military and
+political leader; further, that the Hammurabi Code ("An eye for an
+eye, a tooth for a tooth.") is still quoted today attests to its
+importance.  Hammurabi's dynasty, otherwise referred to as the
+First Dynasty of Babylon, ruled for about 200 years, until 1530
+B.C.  Under the reign of this dynasty, Babylonia entered into a
+period of extreme prosperity and relative peace.  As H.W.F. Saggs
+points out, however, in his book, =Everyday Life in Babylonia &
+Assyria=, "It would be a mistake to think of Babylon as the only
+city-state of significance at this period."  Saggs goes on to quote
+a letter that was written around this period, which reads: "There
+is no king who of himself alone is strongest.  Ten or fifteen kings
+follow Hammurabi of Babylon, the same number follow [Larsa], the
+same number follow [Eshnunna], the same number follow [Qatanum]
+..." etc.  Five kingdoms are listed, all of which are considered to
+be just about as powerful, except for one, which has twenty kings
+following it (rather than fifteen).  Saggs also mentions another
+important city-state, the Mari.  It was an outpost of Sumer, and
+"in the early second millennium B.C. was the capital of a kingdom
+extending over 200 miles along the river.  In 1796 B.C., it
+experienced ... a change of dynasty [when Assyria took over]".
+     Also, importantly, as Moscati points out, in his book which I
+referred to before, "Under Hammurabi the two cultures which compose
+Mesopotamian civilization [the Assyrians and the Babylonians]
+achieve complete and harmonious fusion."
+     In the meantime, however, a tribe known as the Cassites
+(Kassites) began to attack Babylonia as early as the period when
+Hammurabi's son ruled the empire.  Over the centuries, Babylonia
+was weakened by the Cassites.  Finally, around 1530 B.C. (given in
+some sources as 1570 or 1595 B.C.), a Cassite Dynasty was set up in
+Babylonia.  Saggs describes what seems to be a common trend--that
+the Cassites adopted many of their predecessors' customs.
+     The Mitanni, another culture, were meanwhile building their
+own powerful empire.  Saggs refers to the Mitanni as having a
+"considerable, if temporary importance"--they were very powerful
+but were around for only about 150 years.  Still, the Mitanni were
+one of the major empires of this area in this time period, and 
+they came to almost completely control and subjugate the Assyrians
+(who were located directly to the east of Mitanni and to the
+northwest of Cassite Babylonia).  I mention this because the
+Assyrians, after they finally broke free of the Mitanni (who were
+having political troubles of their own), were the next major power
+to assert themselves on Babylonia.  Saggs again writes a very
+relevant line: "We have already seen that Assyria was for a time
+actually a vassal of Mitanni [and was under pressure from other
+peoples].  The human response to this continual pressure was the
+development of a sturdy warlike people prepared to fight ruthlessly
+for their existence."
+     After defeating and virtually annexing Mitanni, the Assyrians,
+as I said, reasserted themselves on Babylonia.  They weakened
+Babylonia so much that the Cassite Dynasty fell from power; the
+Assyrians virtually came to control Babylonia, until revolts in
+turn deposed them and set up a new dynasty, known as the Second
+Dynasty of Isin.  Nebuchadnezzar the First, of this Dynasty, added
+a good deal of land to Babylonia and eventually came to attack
+Assyria.  However, because of the influx of many nomadic tribes,
+Babylonia was eventually plunged into virtual anarchy.  It stayed
+this way for more than 150 years.
+     Eventually, during the 800's B.C., one of the most powerful
+tribes outside Babylon, the Chaldeans (Latin Chaldaeus, Greek
+Khaldaios, Assyrian Kaldu), entered the scene.  The Chaldeans rose
+to power in Babylonia and, by doing so, seem to have increased the
+stability and power of Babylonia.  They fought off many revolts and
+aggressors.  Chaldean influence was so strong that, during this
+period, Babylonia came to be known as "Chaldea"
+     In 626 B.C., the Chaldeans helped Nabopolassar to take power
+in Babylonia.  At that time, Assyria was under considerable
+pressure from an Iranian people, the Medes (from Media).  Nabo-
+polassar allied Babylonia with the Medes.  Assyria could not
+withstand this added pressure, and in 612 B.C., Nineveh, the
+capital of Assyria, fell.  The entire city, once a great capital of
+a great empire, was burned and sacked.
+     Later, Nebuchadnezzar the Second (Nabopolassar's son)
+inherited the empire of Babylonia.  He added quite a bit of
+territory to Babylonia and rebuilt Babylon, still the capital of
+Babylonia.
+     However, Babylonia did not hold together much after Nebuchad-
+nezzar died; Nabonidus, the new king, could not seem to unite the
+various elements of Babylonian civilization.  To quote =Funk &
+Wagnalls New Encyclopedia=, "A somewhat enigmatic figure, he
+[Nabonidus] in some way antagonized the influential priestly class
+of Babylon."
+     Shortly after the end of Nabonidus's reign, the Persians moved
+in to conquer.  Babylon fell, never to rise again.  "And then the
+history of the ancient Mesopotamian empires in ended for ever"
+[Moscati].
+ 
+For further reference:
+H.W.F. Saggs has written a wonderful description of Babylonian and
+Assyrian culture and history entitled =Everyday Life in Babylonia
+and Assyria=.
+ 
+Sabatino Moscati's classic book, =The Face of the Ancient Orient=
+(again, "Orient" refers here to the Middle/Near-East), is always
+helpful.  His chapter on "The Babylonians and Assyrians" was
+particularly useful.
+ 
+=Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia=, 1983, Volume 3 ("ASSIS-BERKS"),
+provides nice, albeit brief, outlines of both Assyrian and
+Babylonian histories.  [Further, you only have to take out one
+volume. :) ]
+ 
+These sources were used in the preparation of this document.
+============================
+Copyright 1994, Shawn Bayern.  Permission granted to distribute
+noncommercially as long as this document (and this notice) is not
+changed in any way. 
+
+Shawn Bayern
+shawn.bayern@yale.edu
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+<HEAD>
+<TITLE>Babylonian History</TITLE></HEAD>
+<BODY>
+   <H1>Babylonian History</H1>
+
+     At the request of a few people, I've written a brief sketch of
+the history of ancient Babylonia.  I've written this article
+because JMS has mentioned that there may be many parallels between
+Babylon 5 and ancient Babylon; however, for the same reason, I have
+to be extensively careful not to turn this article into a bunch of
+what some people may consider "story ideas."  In other words, I'm
+going to do my best to describe Babylonian history while not adding
+my ideas about how the history might relate to Babylon 5--these
+conclusions are up to you, as the reader, although I'll gladly
+discuss the topic anywhere but in <KBD>alt.tv.babylon-5</KBD> (which JMS
+currently reads).
+<P>
+     Note that this is <EM>not</EM> to serve as a complete history of
+Babylon (nor, in fact, anything even remotely close to a complete
+history).  If anything, this is merely supposed to be a back-
+ground--an outline according to which Babylonian history actually
+developed.  There are many historically important points which are
+not included here for reasons of space and clarity.
+<P>
+<HR>
+<P>
+     Most scholars mark the beginning of Babylonian history with
+the rise of Hammurabi.  However, I'm going to go back a little
+further and describe the setting upon which Hammurabi rose to
+power.
+<P>
+     At the end of the 2000's B.C. (2050-2000), the great kingdom
+of Sumer was disintegrating at the hands of external invaders.
+Sumer had been a powerful kingdom in the western part of Asia, and
+it had roughly occupied the land that was one day to become
+Babylonia.  After the ruling dynasty of Sumer fell, the cities of
+Larsa and Isin moved in to conquer.  After hundreds of years, Larsa
+eventually defeated Isin.
+<P>
+     However, just as Larsa defeated Isin, Hammurabi came to power
+in the city of Babylon.  Hammurabi went on to defeat Larsa and
+establish a vast kingdom in the region formerly occupied by Sumer.
+However, as Sabatino Moscati explains in his famous book, <EM>The Face
+of the Ancient Orient</EM> (meaning the Near East),
+<BLOCKQUOTE>The relationship
+between the Akkadins [the Babylonians and Assyrians] and the
+Sumerians is growing more and more like that which exists between
+the Romans and the Greeks ... the newer people is permeated with
+the older and superior culture ... and makes a cultural capitula-
+tion at the very moment of its political victory.</BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>
+     Hammurabi, needless to say, was a very capable military and
+political leader; further, that the Hammurabi Code ("An eye for an
+eye, a tooth for a tooth.") is still quoted today attests to its
+importance.  Hammurabi's dynasty, otherwise referred to as the
+First Dynasty of Babylon, ruled for about 200 years, until 1530
+B.C.  Under the reign of this dynasty, Babylonia entered into a
+period of extreme prosperity and relative peace.  As H.W.F. Saggs
+points out, however, in his book, <EM>Everyday Life in Babylonia &amp;
+Assyria</EM>, "It would be a mistake to think of Babylon as the only
+city-state of significance at this period."  Saggs goes on to quote
+a letter that was written around this period, which reads:
+<BLOCKQUOTE>There
+is no king who of himself alone is strongest.  Ten or fifteen kings
+follow Hammurabi of Babylon, the same number follow [Larsa], the
+same number follow [Eshnunna], the same number follow [Qatanum]
+[...]</BLOCKQUOTE>
+Five kingdoms are listed, all of which are considered to
+be just about as powerful, except for one, which has twenty kings
+following it (rather than fifteen).  Saggs also mentions another
+important city-state, the Mari.  It was an outpost of Sumer, and
+"in the early second millennium B.C. was the capital of a kingdom
+extending over 200 miles along the river.  In 1796 B.C., it
+experienced ... a change of dynasty [when Assyria took over]".
+<P>
+     Also, importantly, as Moscati points out, in his book which I
+referred to before, "Under Hammurabi the two cultures which compose
+Mesopotamian civilization [the Assyrians and the Babylonians]
+achieve complete and harmonious fusion."
+<P>
+     In the meantime, however, a tribe known as the Cassites
+(Kassites) began to attack Babylonia as early as the period when
+Hammurabi's son ruled the empire.  Over the centuries, Babylonia
+was weakened by the Cassites.  Finally, around 1530 B.C. (given in
+some sources as 1570 or 1595 B.C.), a Cassite Dynasty was set up in
+Babylonia.  Saggs describes what seems to be a common trend--that
+the Cassites adopted many of their predecessors' customs.
+<P>
+     The Mitanni, another culture, were meanwhile building their
+own powerful empire.  Saggs refers to the Mitanni as having a
+"considerable, if temporary importance"--they were very powerful
+but were around for only about 150 years.  Still, the Mitanni were
+one of the major empires of this area in this time period, and 
+they came to almost completely control and subjugate the Assyrians
+(who were located directly to the east of Mitanni and to the
+northwest of Cassite Babylonia).  I mention this because the
+Assyrians, after they finally broke free of the Mitanni (who were
+having political troubles of their own), were the next major power
+to assert themselves on Babylonia.  Saggs again writes a very
+relevant line:
+<BLOCKQUOTE>We have already seen that Assyria was for a time
+actually a vassal of Mitanni [and was under pressure from other
+peoples].  The human response to this continual pressure was the
+development of a sturdy warlike people prepared to fight ruthlessly
+for their existence.</BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>
+     After defeating and virtually annexing Mitanni, the Assyrians,
+as I said, reasserted themselves on Babylonia.  They weakened
+Babylonia so much that the Cassite Dynasty fell from power; the
+Assyrians virtually came to control Babylonia, until revolts in
+turn deposed them and set up a new dynasty, known as the Second
+Dynasty of Isin.  Nebuchadnezzar the First, of this Dynasty, added
+a good deal of land to Babylonia and eventually came to attack
+Assyria.  However, because of the influx of many nomadic tribes,
+Babylonia was eventually plunged into virtual anarchy.  It stayed
+this way for more than 150 years.
+<P>
+     Eventually, during the 800's B.C., one of the most powerful
+tribes outside Babylon, the Chaldeans (Latin Chaldaeus, Greek
+Khaldaios, Assyrian Kaldu), entered the scene.  The Chaldeans rose
+to power in Babylonia and, by doing so, seem to have increased the
+stability and power of Babylonia.  They fought off many revolts and
+aggressors.  Chaldean influence was so strong that, during this
+period, Babylonia came to be known as <dfn>Chaldea</dfn>.
+<P>
+     In 626 B.C., the Chaldeans helped Nabopolassar to take power
+in Babylonia.  At that time, Assyria was under considerable
+pressure from an Iranian people, the Medes (from Media).  Nabo-
+polassar allied Babylonia with the Medes.  Assyria could not
+withstand this added pressure, and in 612 B.C., Nineveh, the
+capital of Assyria, fell.  The entire city, once a great capital of
+a great empire, was burned and sacked.
+<P>
+     Later, Nebuchadnezzar the Second (Nabopolassar's son)
+inherited the empire of Babylonia.  He added quite a bit of
+territory to Babylonia and rebuilt Babylon, still the capital of
+Babylonia.
+<P>
+     However, Babylonia did not hold together much after Nebuchad-
+nezzar died; Nabonidus, the new king, could not seem to unite the
+various elements of Babylonian civilization.  To quote <EM>Funk &amp;
+Wagnalls New Encyclopedia</EM>,
+<BLOCKQUOTE>A somewhat enigmatic figure, he
+[Nabonidus] in some way antagonized the influential priestly class
+of Babylon.</BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>
+     Shortly after the end of Nabonidus's reign, the Persians moved
+in to conquer.  Babylon fell, never to rise again.  "And then the
+history of the ancient Mesopotamian empires in ended for ever"
+[Moscati].
+<P>
+<HR>
+<P>
+For further reference:
+H.W.F. Saggs has written a wonderful description of Babylonian and
+Assyrian culture and history entitled <EM>Everyday Life in Babylonia
+and Assyria</EM>.
+<P>
+ 
+Sabatino Moscati's classic book, <EM>The Face of the Ancient Orient</EM>
+(again, "Orient" refers here to the Middle/Near-East), is always
+helpful.  His chapter on "The Babylonians and Assyrians" was
+particularly useful.
+<P>
+
+<EM>Funk &amp; Wagnalls New Encyclopedia</EM>, 1983, Volume 3 (<EM>ASSIS-BERKS</EM>),
+provides nice, albeit brief, outlines of both Assyrian and
+Babylonian histories.  [Further, you only have to take out one
+volume. :) ]
+<P>
+ 
+These sources were used in the preparation of this document.
+<P>
+<HR>
+<P>
+Copyright 1994, Shawn Bayern.  Permission granted to distribute
+noncommercially as long as this document (and this notice) is not
+changed in any way. 
+<P>
+<ADDRESS>
+Shawn Bayern<BR>
+<A HREF="mailto:shawn.bayern@yale.edu">shawn.bayern@yale.edu</A>
+</ADDRESS>
+</BODY>
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+WWW users should link to the file "index.html".
+
+SUBDIRECTORIES
+--------------
+Bibliographies     References to newspaper/magazine articles about cast/crew
+Credits            Production credits for individual episodes.
+Digests            Messages from the Babylon 5 mailing list.
+GEnie              Messages from J. Michael Straczynski on GEnie's B5 area
+Guide              The Babylon 5 Episode Guide (in progress)
+Models             3-D models of objects from the Babylon 5 universe.
+Pictures           Various images, scanned in and frame-grabbed.
+Releases           Press releases and other promotional printed material.
+Synopses           Detailed descriptions of individual episodes.
+uk-guide           An episode guide based on the UK airing schedule.
+
+
+TEXT FILES
+----------
+History.Babylonia  A brief history of ancient Babylonia.  Babylon 5's broad
+                       storyline is based at least in part on real events of
+                       ancient Earth history.
+OHare.Leave        Messages from JMS about Michael O'Hare's departure
+Parallels.history  Speculation about the nature of the correspondence between
+		       Babylonian history and B5's story.
+Dictionary         A brief listing of people, places, and other things.  See
+		       also b5encyc.txt.
+b5actors.txt       Babylon 5 Actors' Other Roles list
+b5.crew            List and descriptions of crew members working on B5
+b5encyc.txt        An encyclopedia, listing things, people, places, and more.
+b5episodes         Episode list (contains spoilers)
+b5faq-german       German version of babylon-5-faq
+b5_jms_answers.txt A compendium of JMS's answers to common questions about B5,
+		       as well as other interesting stories and information.
+b5log.txt          A summary of the Babylon 5 universe, and descriptions of
+		       the show's characters.
+b5.media           A list of where articles and shows on B5 can be found
+b5.tech            Technical descriptions of various things in B5's universe.
+b5tvaddresses.txt  A list of PTEN station addresses.
+b5tvlist.txt       A list of TV stations slated to show Babylon 5 (and the
+		       other Prime Time Network shows).
+babylon-5-faq      Babylon 5 Frequently Asked Questions list
+babylon-5-news-schedule	Babylon 5 FAQ: News and schedule information
+babylon-5-setting-s1	Babylon 5 FAQ: Season one
+babylon-5-setting-s2	Babylon 5 FAQ: Season two
+babylon-5-setting-s3	Babylon 5 FAQ: Season three
+biblical-refereces A compilation of references to Babylon from the Bible.
+cast.txt           A complete listing of B5's characters, sorted by actor's name
+castbyep.txt       The same listing, sorted by first appearance
+character.txt      The same listing, sorted by character's name
+delphi-5-21.txt    A May 1995 real-time conference with JMS on DELPHI.
+irc940129.txt.Z    Transcript of a real-time conference about B5.
+jms.credentials    List of other JMS works
+jms.radio.7-24-94  Transcript of a radio interview with JMS.
+lovecraft.txt      A discussion of the parallels between B5 and H.P. Lovecraft
+quickref.txt       A brief list of all the episodes so far.
+soundtrack-index   Detailed breakdown of the soundtrack CD.
+
+
+PROGRAMS
+--------
+B5-Interactive.cpt.hqx
+b5demo.zip
+                   The Babylon 5 Interactive Press Kit, a demo for Macintosh
+		       and Windows systems.
+b5quote.tar       A short UNIX script to print random B5 quotes
+newton.sit        The Lurker's Guide episode guide for the Apple Newton.
+
+
+MISCELLANEOUS
+-------------
+b5quick.data       A QuickTime movie (data and resource forks) with some
+b5quick.rsrc           of the effects from the pilot.  Released by PTEN.
+b5quick.bin        The same animation in MacBinary format -- don't grab both
+		       this and b5quick.data.  They're the same.
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+
+KOSH_QUOTES.TXT                                                 REVISION 1.2
+                     _   _      _    _       _  ___  _  _  
+                 |/ | | (  |_|'(    | | | | | |  |  |_ (  
+                 |\ |_| _) | | _)   |_| |_| |_|  |  |_ _)  
+                                      \
+--									  --
+-- THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS ALL OF KOSH NARANEK'S QUOTES FROM BABYLON 5     --
+-- SEASON 1. I HAVE ALSO INCLUDED NOTES ON EVENTS INVOLVING AND QUESTIONS --
+-- RAISED ABOUT KOSH IN EACH EPISODE. THESE NOTES WERE IN PART COMPILED   --
+-- FROM THE BABYLON 5 GUIDES AND SYNOPSES AND REPRESENT QUESTIONS AND     --
+-- SPECULATIONS THAT ARE RELEVANT FOR THAT EPISODE, AND MAY IN SOME CASES --
+-- BE SUPERSEDED BY LATER EPISODES                                        --
+--                                                                        --
+-- KOSH IS MY FAVORITE CHARACTER ON B5 AND I HOPE THAT THIS DOCUMENT WILL --
+-- GENERATE DISCUSSION SO THAT WE CAN ALL BETTER UNDERSTAND KOSH AND      --
+-- THE VORLONS; BUT AS KOSH SAYS, "UNDERSTANDING IS A THREE-EDGED SWORD"  --
+--   									  --
+-- ENJOY!								  --
+--   									  --
+
+POTENTIAL SPOILERS ???                                POTENTIAL SPOILERS ???
+
+                                                                 
+               ___---__-     ___________     .___..--...             
+              / .__--...\.  /           \   /.        ....           
+             .|.|     .-.- /             \ ..           -\.          
+            /|.          ./  \         /  \||             |          
+            .        ....||                ||-....        .|         
+           ||        /    |   \        /   .|    |         |  _       
+           |         |    |               /      |        ...//      
+      |\   |         |     \.   \    /   ./      .       ...//       
+       \\  |         |.     |    ____    |       |       . ./        
+        \|..          |     \ |--    --| /      |.      .|..         
+         ..|          |.     /          \.     .|       . ..         
+          .-.          \     \     _     \     .        ...|         
+           | |.         \    |    (_)    |     ..       |.. |.       
+           |  ..         |   \.         ./   ..       .|.   |        
+           |   ..         |   |.       .|   |.       .|     |        
+           |    ||        ||   |       |    ||       ||      |       
+           |     /.        ..   \_____/    .|        |       .|      
+           |    .|.         .\.   | |   ...        /         |       
+           |    |  .          .-_|   |_.-         .|         |       
+          |.    |   \            -...-          ... |    |   |       
+          |     |    .._                      _.-   |         |      
+          |  |  |      \..        ...       ..-     \.        |      
+          |     |      |  .._./-.-   -.-\_-|.|       |        |      
+          |     |      |    ...._     _-.-   |.   |  .|       |.     
+          |     |  |   |        -.....-       \.      |.       |     
+          |     |      |            |          \       |   |   |     
+         |     |       |     |      |    |      |      ||       |    
+         |     |       |            |           \       \       .    
+         |     |       |            |            |  |   |      |     
+         |  |  |       |            |            |      |      |     
+         |     |       |           |             |      |      |     
+         |     |   |   |           |             |      |       |     
+         |     |       |     |     |      |      |   |  |   |   |     
+         |     |       |           |             |      |       |     
+    
+
+
+
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PILOT - THE GATHERING
+
+
+Notes:
+
+- Why did the Vorlons request that the monitors in the docking bay be
+  turned off? Kosh was walking out in public, hidden safely in his
+  encounter suit.
+- How did the poison get through to Kosh? This is not a plothole!
+  Sinclair himself wonders this in "The War Prayer".
+- Is there anything to that legend about someone turning to stone
+  when they saw a Vorlon? Have people ever gotten into situations
+  where they could conceivably have seen one?
+- The Vorlons seem to be puppet thugs of the conspirators in the
+  pilot, yet clearly they do some things for their own reasons. Why
+  such secrecy around their technological inferiors? Why break the
+  veil to send an ambassador to B5?
+- What information about the Vorlons did Delenn give to Sinclair?
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+SEASON 1
+
+MIDNIGHT ON THE FIRING LINE
+
+Kosh           : Greetings Commander.
+
+Sinclair       : You weren't at the council room earlier. I wanted to
+                 make sure that you knew about the emergency session.
+Kosh           : Yes.
+
+Sinclair       : We may need your help to push through sanctions, does
+                 your government have a position on the current situation?
+Kosh           : ...
+
+Sinclair       : Will you attend the emergency meeting.
+Kosh           : Yes.
+
+- KOSH ENTERS HIS SUIT, SINCLAIR TURNS AROUND.
+
+Kosh           : They are alone.  They are a dying people; we should
+                 let them pass,
+Sinclair       : Who, the Narn or the Centauri?
+
+Kosh           : Yes.
+
+
+Notes:
+
+- How did Kosh get into his encounter suit so quickly?
+  When Sinclair enters Kosh's quarters, Kosh's encounter suit can
+  be seen to the side, hanging loosely. Kosh appears to be behind a
+  translucent screen. When Sinclair turns to leave there is a flash
+  of light Sinclair spins around just in time to see the encounter suit
+  reaching its full height, with Kosh apparently inside.
+- Why did Kosh agree to attend the council session?
+
+
+-- SEVERAL PEOPLE HAVE SUGGESTED THAT I INCLUDE THIS SCENE WHICH WAS      --
+-- ALLEGEDLY CUT FROM THIS EPISODE. SOURCE FOLLOWS!                       --
+
+- KOSH IS IN THE OBSERVATION DOME WITH GARIBALDI & IVANOVA NEAR BY
+Kosh           : Ahhh.... beautiful....
+
+- LONG BEAT AS KOSH LOOKS AROUND
+Kosh           : I will miss this... when it is gone.
+
+- KOSH EXITS
+
+- GARIBALDI MUTTERS TO IVANOVA
+
+Garibaldi      : I *really* hate it when he does that.
+
+> 
+> Category 18,  Topic 9
+> Message 284       Tue Aug 17, 1993
+> STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 01:55 EDT
+> 
+>      As reward for the humor, here's what Kosh will *really* say, when he
+> utters the first words we hear.  He's on the Observation Dome, looking out
+> through the window as a ship passes overhead, the lights shining down at him
+> through a window.
+> 
+> "Ahhh....beautiful."   Long beat as he looks around the place. Then: 
+> "I will miss this...when it is gone."
+> 
+> And then he exits, as Garibaldi mutters to Ivanova, "I *really* hate it
+> when he does that."
+>
+>                                                                   jms                
+>
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+THE WAR PRAYER
+
+Sinclair       : Ambassador Kosh, I hadn't heard from you, so I thought
+                 I'd make sure that you'd been informed. There have
+                 been several recent attacks on non-humanoids. We are
+                 conducting a thorough investigation and hope to have it
+                 wrapped up soon.
+Kosh           : Good.
+
+Sinclair       : Meanwhile it might be helpful if you spoke with the other
+                 ambassadors.
+Kosh           : We take no interest in the affairs of others.
+
+Sinclair       : Well I hope you'll reconsider. If you could give us a
+                 hand, we...
+Kosh           : Yes?
+
+Sinclair       : Nothing. We'll respect your wishes...
+                 That's quite a viewer. I've never seen anything like
+                 it before. What is it?
+Kosh           : Efficient.
+
+Sinclair       : Those are images from my world. If I may ask, what are you...
+Kosh           : I am studying.
+
+Sinclair       : Studying what?
+Kosh           : ...
+
+Sinclair       : Ambassador?
+Kosh           : ...
+
+
+Notes:
+
+- Kosh's appears to be studying pictorial records from human history
+  throughout the span of its civilization.
+- Kosh says "We have no interest in the affairs of others?" Why then is
+  he studying human history? Perhaps for some reason Kosh does not consider
+  humans as "others"? Or does he mean other THAN humans? Or perhaps by
+  "affairs" he means the passing events of the day, as compared to the
+  span of a history?
+- Talking to Kosh about the attacks on non-humans, Sinclair breaks
+  off right after asking him to "lend a hand". Not long later
+  Sinclair wonders aloud to Ivanova how an assassin had managed to
+  poison Kosh on the "hand", through his encounter suit. Does Kosh have
+  hands?
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+DEATHWALKER
+
+Talia          : Ambassador Kosh, is there something I can do for you?
+Kosh           : I wish to engage your services.
+
+Talia          : For what?
+Kosh           : Business.
+
+Talia          : What sort of business?
+Kosh           : Important!
+
+Talia          : Ambassador I'd be happy to assist you, but there are
+                 certain details that I must know before taking any
+                 commission not to mention getting clearance from...
+Kosh           : All arranged, as is payment, we will meet in Red-3 at the
+                 hour of scampering.
+
+Talia          : Ambassador Kosh, all of the clearances seem to be in order
+                 and the pay is very generous, however there is something I
+                 still don't understand.
+Kosh           : Understanding is a three-edged sword.
+
+- ABBUT ARRIVES AND TALIA INTRODUCES HERSELF AS DOES ABBUT
+
+Kosh           : Please scan Abbut, report to me his thoughts at present.
+
+- TALIA REPORTS THAT SHE DETECTS NO THOUGHTS AT ALL.
+
+Kosh           : Excellent, we may now begin our business. Abbut!
+Abbut          : Crab Nebula...
+.
+.
+.
+
+Kosh           : Then the willows must scuttle carefully.
+Abbut          : Does Saturn have rings?
+Kosh           : The talks are over for the day, we shall commence again
+                 tomorrow at the hour of longing.
+Abbut          : Suits me!
+
+- ABBUT LEAVES
+Talia          : Ambassador! Ambassador Kosh!
+Kosh           : There is a question?
+Talia          : Yes! I've been scanning Mr. Abbut all day and his mind is
+                 still just as empty as when we started; and these phrases
+                 that you keep speaking in, they don't make any sense.
+Kosh           : Ah, you seek meaning? Then listen to the music, not the song.
+.
+.
+.
+
+
+Talia          : Ambassador, I've thought it over and I don't believe that I 
+                 can continue with this assignment.
+Kosh           : Your belief does not enter into it, we have a contract!
+Talia          : I know that, but you don't really need a telepath.
+Kosh           : What is need compared to the path?
+.
+.
+.
+
+
+Abbut          : A herring is just a herring, but a good cigar is a cuban.
+Kosh           : A stroke of the brush does not guarantee art from the 
+                 bristles. Do you understand Miss Winters?
+Abbut          : You were swell, maybe we can have that Jovian-Sunspot 
+                 sometime. Kosh old boy, a pleasure as always. Let's do
+                 lunch soon.
+- ABBUT HANDS KOSH A DATA CRYSTAL AND LEAVES
+Talia          : What was he, and what was on that data crystal he gave you?
+Kosh           : Reflection, surprise, terror... for the future.
+.
+.
+.
+
+- A VORLON SHIP COMES THROUGH THE JUMPGATE AND DESTROYS DEATHWALKER'S SHIP
+Sinclair       : Why? (did the Vorlons destroy Deathwalker's ship)
+Kosh           : You are not ready for immortality.
+
+
+- LATER TALIA TELLS SINCLAIR ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE WITH KOSH
+Sinclair       : They say God works in mysterious ways
+Garibaldi      : Maybe so, but he's a con man compared to the Vorlon.
+
+
+Notes:
+
+- What do the Vorlons know about immortality?
+- Did Kosh and Abbut really have previous dealings or is Abbut just being
+  flip about that?
+- Why did Kosh collect reflection, surprise, terror... for the future from
+  Talia?
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+BELIEVERS
+
+- THE SICK BOY'S PARENTS GO TO KOSH TO ASK HIM TO INTERCEDE ON THEIR BEHALF
+
+Boy's father   : The Vorlons are very powerful. If you filed a protest,
+                 Commander Sinclair would have to forbid Dr. Franklin
+                 from operating on our son.
+Boy's mother   : Will you consider one thing. Please! If it were your
+                 child or even you yourself, how would you feel if the
+                 doctor of Babylon 5 wanted to perform an unwelcome
+                 procedure on you?
+Kosh           : The avalanche has already started. It is too late for
+                 the pebbles to vote.
+
+Notes:
+
+- Kosh, of course, was the object of an unwelcome procedure in
+  "The Gathering", to which the Vorlons responded was a massive
+  show of force.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+SIGNS AND PORTENTS
+
+- KOSH ENCOUNTERS MORDEN IN A HALLWAY
+
+Kosh           : Leave this place. They are not for you. Go. Leave. NOW!
+
+
+Notes:
+
+- What do Delenn and Kosh know about Morden?
+- Delenn and Kosh seem to have some sort of perception beyond normal
+  senses, be it telepathy or something else. Kosh's seems to be much
+  more advanced.
+- Kosh recognized what Morden was immediately. That suggests
+  previous contact between the Vorlons and Morden's people.
+- Kosh said, "They are not for you." He might have been referring to
+  any number of things: his desires or thoughts, the people Morden
+  had been talking to, or perhaps humankind, since it's plausible
+  Morden was on his way to see Sinclair at that point.
+- Morden and Kosh appeared to have fought, resulting in the damage
+  to Kosh's encounter suit. Since Morden continued to go about his
+  business, perhaps Kosh capitulated or lost the fight, or perhaps
+  he was only interested in stopping Morden from seeing Sinclair.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+GRAIL
+
+Sinclair       : We've confiscated the fake encounter suit. It's a pretty
+                 close match to your own, at least from the outside.
+Kosh           : Why?
+
+Sinclair       : Deuce wanted to make people think he had the Vorlons
+                 working for him. He figured it would add to his image
+                 and intimidate people.
+Kosh           : Why?
+
+Sinclair       : Well, after all, no one knows exactly what you look like.
+                 That makes some people, a little nervous.
+Kosh           : Good!
+
+
+Notes:
+       
+- From the Babylon 5 Guide - jms speaks:
+  In an earlier version of the story, it was indeed Kosh who
+  appeared out of nowhere and scragged the Feeder, saying, "Some
+  things we do not allow," but it seemed kinda un-Kosh-like on one  
+  level, and it repeated the Deathwalker finish, so it was dropped.
+- Kosh wants others to fear him!
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+CHRYSALIS
+
+- SINCLAIR SENSING SOMEONE ELSE ENTERING THE BAR, TURNS AROUND AND SEES KOSH
+
+Kosh           : And so it begins... You have forgotten something...
+
+
+
+
+- IT HAS ALSO BEEN SUGGESTED THAT I INCLUDE DELENN'S QUOTES DURING HER
+  MEETING WITH KOSH, EVEN THOUGH KOSH DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING BACK TO HER,
+  SO HERE IT IS!
+
+Delenn         : I have come as I said I would. Kosh, I have great doubts,
+                 I must know if it's true! I must see with my own eyes! 
+
+- KOSH'S SUIT OPENS (HEAD? FLIPS UP), DELENN SEES SOMETHING?
+
+Delenn         : Yes, thank you. Now I will keep the promise. Goodbye. 
+                 You will not see me again as I am now.
+
+- DELENN BOWS AND SCENE ENDS
+
+
+
+Notes:
+
+- What does the chrysalis have to do with Kosh, or with the Vorlons?
+  Why did seeing Kosh help Delenn make up her mind? What was the question
+  she had Lennier relay?
+- The fact that Delenn decided to go ahead with the change after
+  Kosh revealed himself to her suggests that there may be a much
+  closer relationship between the Minbari and the Vorlons than has
+  previously been suggested. It is even possible that Delenn is
+  turning into a Vorlon somehow, and that Kosh showed her he
+  resembled a Minbari. On the other hand, that doesn't explain
+  Kosh's interest in humans, who he arguably doesn't consider
+  another race (cf. "The War Prayer.")
+- What was Kosh referring to Sinclair having forgotten? Was it Delenn?
+  Was he referring to Sinclair specifically when he said "You" or was
+  Kosh referring to the human race as a whole?
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+SEASON 2
+
+REVELATIONS
+
+
+- G'KAR, HAVING JUST NARROWLY ESCAPED FROM THE SHADOWS, WARNS THE B5 COUNCIL
+  ABOUT THE SITUATION ON THE RIM, BUT THE NARN CRUISER THAT WAS SENT TO
+  INVESTIGATE IS DESTROYED ALONG WITH G'KAR'S PROOF. AS THE COUNCIL MEMBERS
+  FILE OUT AFTER THE MEETING G'KAR TURNS TO KOSH
+
+G'Kar          : You just stand there and never say anything,
+                 will you please say something.
+Kosh           : Good Bye!
+
+
+Notes:
+
+-- ACTUALLY I DON'T BELIEVE THAT KOSH HAS SAID A WORD (TONE) AS OF        --
+-- THE FIRST EIGHT SECOND SEASON EPISODES, BUT I DECIDED TO INCLUDE THIS  --
+-- SCENE FROM REVELATIONS WHICH WAS ALLEGEDLY CUT. THE SOURCE FOLLOWS!    --
+
+>
+>  Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5
+>  Subject: Kosh in Revelations....
+>  Date: 10 Nov 1994 01:18 CDT
+>  When I was at Creation Con about 2 weeks back and saw Revelations
+>  with Joe there I noticed that having Kosh standing there doing
+>  nothing seemed odd to me. I know that Kosh is a bit of an observer
+>  but since s(he) seems to know what the hell is going on with the
+>  shadows I was wondering why Kosh did not feel free to put in a few
+>  words. I asked Joe about it and they were going to add a scene with
+>  Kosh and G'Kar but due to time was edited out. It went something
+>  like this.
+>
+>  G'Kar - You just stand there and never say anything,
+>          will you please say something.
+>
+>  Kosh  - ! #$%^--Good Bye--! #$^^&
+>
+>  Joe- I feel that that scene would have made G'Kars return ever more spooky
+>   and ominous.
+>
+>  BTW- Great Episode, I love that Mira Furlan will be able to show her real
+>  beauty off on the screen and not hide it under her Minbari makeup. :-)
+>
+>
+>  Carlos'94
+>
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+--                                                                        --
+-- I WISH TO THANK MY FRIEND BARRY HOLLOWAY WHO HELPED ME FINE TUNE       --
+-- THIS DOCUMENT. I ALSO WISH TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE EXCELLENT WORK OF        --
+-- THE KEEPERS OF THE BABYLON 5 GUIDES AND SYNOPSES; STEVEN GRIMM,        --
+-- MATTHEW RYAN, MATTHEW MURRAY, AND SHAWN BAYERN. WITHOUT THEIR          --
+-- HEROIC EFFORTS I WOULD NOT HAVE ATTEMPTED TO COMPILE THIS DOCUMENT     --
+--                                                                        --
+-- I HOPE YOU ENJOY KOSH'S QUOTES AND *PLEASE* LET ME KNOW OF ANY         --
+-- ADDITIONS OR CORRECTIONS.                                              --
+--                                                                        --
+--                                           _  _                         --
+--                                           |\/|                         --
+--                                           |  |aurice                   --
+--                                                                        --
+--                                           pierce@arch.umsl.edu         --
+--                                                                        --
+
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+Jerry Doyle : Hi everyone!
+DTO        : Hello, Jerry Doyle!
+DJMILNES   : Hi
+StarCnslt  : Hi Jerry
+TomWho     : Hi Jerry!
+DeeRich    : hello
+MrsRev     : Hey
+EZELL.J    : Howdy and welcome, Jerry!
+Jerry Doyle : I'm actually Rick Biggs, Dr Franklin on Bablyon 5
+DTO        : Welcomes!
+Rick Biggs : Jerry is still on the set but I'm using his account!
+CONNER.CR  : Hello!
+TomWho     : Hi Rick!
+Rick Biggs : :-)
+DJMILNES   : Hi rick
+MrsRev     : Great
+EZELL.J    : Howdy and welcome, Rick!
+DeeRich    : hi rick
+TomWho     : Saw you at the Big Bang in June! You were great, playing "Phil 
+             Donahue"!  ;)
+Rick Biggs : LOL! I've never done this before!
+Harmelink  : Great, love your acting
+DJMILNES   : It's fun
+Rick Biggs : LOL, Tom, that's my dream role to have my own talk show
+Rick Biggs : Heuraldo style!
+Rick Biggs : :-)
+MrsRev     : the doc's a great character
+DTO        : How are you tonight, Rick?
+TomWho     : You were great running around the audience with the mike!  :)
+Rick Biggs : DTO, I'm at the studio, we're running late ...
+StarCnslt  : Jerry's topic tonight:  Aliens and your girlfriend!
+Rick Biggs : it's traffic when I get outta here, so I've seen better days!
+DTO        : Muhlstein:  We are now talking with Rick Biggs of Bablyon 5
+TomWho     : Tonight's topic: Dr. Franklin - The Real Power of Babylon 5!
+MrsRev     : What's in store for the doc this coming season?
+Mutti      : Why didn't you get to do the 'alien autopsy', Rick.  You seem 
+             to have the most experience!
+Rick Biggs : MrsRev, well the Doc is going to have a hard time dealing
+Rick Biggs : with the stress.  He's going to find himself cracking under
+Rick Biggs : the pressure and it's just a little too much for him.
+Rick Biggs : The Dr is relying on stimulants to carry himself in 
+Rick Biggs :  to do the 20 to 30 hours workload!
+Rick Biggs : ga
+StarCnslt  : Rick, what does a Vorlon look like inside the encounter suit?
+Rick Biggs : Star, good question!
+Rick Biggs : A Vorlon looks like many different things to different people 
+Rick Biggs : ;-)   ga
+EZELL.J    : Rick, did you use any doctors in lit or tv to pattern Dr. 
+             Franklin?
+Rick Biggs : Ezell, bascially the character is part my father and part
+Rick Biggs : a Dr that was our family practioneer for many years
+Rick Biggs : so the combination of the two!
+Rick Biggs : ga
+Rick Biggs : Jerry says he has about three minutes then he will come on
+DJMILNES   : Rick, do you enjoy working in Science Fiction?
+Rick Biggs : Any more questions for me?
+Rick Biggs : DJM, I LOVE sci fi - I was a Twilight Zone baby!
+Rick Biggs : I used to skip classes just to watch Twilight Zone
+Rick Biggs : I can tell you in the first 30 seconds which TZ it is
+Rick Biggs : and who is starring :-)
+Rick Biggs : ga
+Harmelink  : What question would you like to answer that no one ever asks?
+SELENE     : My favorite TV pastime - Name That Zone!
+DTO        : How did you first get involved in Babylon 5, Rick?
+EZELL.J    : Speaking of fathers, will we see Stephen's father now that 
+             they have patched things up?
+Rick Biggs : Ezell, I hope so. I hope that I get to work with Paul Winfield
+Rick Biggs : again. I enjoyed that alot!
+DAX4       : Who's using Jerry's computer right now?
+SELENE     : Rick Biggs, "Dr. Franklin"
+Rick Biggs : I'm afriad I have to leave to get back to the set
+Rick Biggs : Jerry's going to come to the phone! 
+DAX4       : Bye Richard! Congrats on the show!!
+SELENE     : Thank you Rick, for being here!
+StarCnslt  : thanks for coming on Rick
+MrsRev     : Thanks Rick!
+Harmelink  : bye
+CONNER.CR  : Thanks!
+Mutti      : bye
+Sidhi      : Thanks!
+Rick Biggs : I've really enjoiyed this, if you want me to come 
+             back again, I'll be happy to!
+Harmelink  : YES
+CONNER.CR  : That would be great!
+Rick Biggs : bye everyone, Jerry's on his way!
+DJMILNES   : Thank you for coming.
+StarCnslt  : Please do!
+Jerry Doyle : I'm done! ::::phew::::::
+Jerry Doyle : Okay, I'm ready for your questions!
+Sidhi      : Thank you for coming!!!!
+EZELL.J    : Howdy and welcome, Jerry!
+StarCnslt  : Hi Jerry
+DAX4       : Hey Jerry! Good talking to you.
+CONNER.CR  : Hello.
+DeeRich    : hi
+SELENE     : Welcome, welcome, a thousand welcomes to our little corner of 
+             cyber space
+Jerry Doyle : Thank you! Do you have a uestion for me?
+TomWho : Is this still Rick pinch-hitting for Jerry?
+Jerry Doyle : No this Jerry!
+SELENE     : Oh, let's see.  What's it like, being the thinking woman's 
+             Bruce Willis? <laugh>
+Jerry Doyle : Harm, how about your question first then
+TomWho     : Hi Jerry!
+Jerry Doyle : Okay Selene, your first!
+Jerry Doyle : It's a lot  more rewarding but it doesn't pay as well 
+             ;-)
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+Harmelink  : Was your character's Daffy Duck fixation your idea?
+Jerry Doyle : Harm, no it was Warner's Bros marketing and 
+Jerry Doyle : merchandising.  I would have to say my favorite cartoon
+Jerry Doyle : character is Tweetie but I sure would like to see the Coyote
+Jerry Doyle : eat the Road Runner and say beep beep my ********
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+DJMILNES   : When you were young did you ever dream about going into space?
+Jerry Doyle : DJM, not when I was sober ! Actually the thought scares me
+Jerry Doyle : I'm afraid I won't come back!
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+MrsRev     : What is your uniform made of....it looks uncomfortable
+Jerry Doyle : Mrs Rev, it's uncomfortable wool and leather!
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+TomWho     : Maybe it's uncomfortable, but it looks really cool.
+Jerry Doyle : Tom, thanks we have a great costume and wardrope person!
+TomWho     : I think they have terrific tech people everywhere. The 
+TomWho     : cinematography & editing & SFX are all outstanding.
+EZELL.J    : With what we have now seen of MG, do we ever WANT to see what 
+EZELL.J    : his favorite thing in the universe is?
+Jerry Doyle : Yes, if this question is coming from a woman!
+EZELL.J    : not!
+Jerry Doyle : I think his favorite thing in the world is, is what 
+Jerry Doyle : most people's favorite thing is ;-)
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+TomWho     : MG?
+SELENE     : Wine, women and Song, in no particular order. ;->
+Jerry Doyle : exactly Selene!
+SELENE     : Michael Garibaldi.  MG.
+DJMILNES   : Will we be seeing more stories about Garibaldi this year? 
+DJMILNES   :  Centered on him that is.
+Jerry Doyle : DJM, yes. At the end of session two, Joe Stazinskuy told
+Jerry Doyle : me that because of the story he had to tell, my character
+Jerry Doyle : wasn't featured as prominently as he would have liked.
+Jerry Doyle : But he assured me that my character was back on track for
+Jerry Doyle : season 3 and beyond!
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+DJMILNES   : Great!!!
+TomWho     : Garibaldi is probably my favorite character on B5. Well, I 
+             really like Londo too.
+Jerry Doyle : Tom, re Londo, so do I :-)
+Mutti      : Jerry,  has the cast been concerned with the changes to the 
+Mutti      : episode air dates that Warner Bros. made?
+Jerry Doyle : Mutti, I can't speak for the erst of the cast but from my
+Jerry Doyle : own viewpoint, if I have any criticism of the show it's the
+Jerry Doyle : inconsistency of the day and time that the show airs.
+Jerry Doyle : I'm sure Warner Bros is doing the best they can,
+Jerry Doyle : and I understand that being part of the show, but as a
+Jerry Doyle : viewier it ticks me off like it ticks everyone else off!
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+Mutti      : You're up against Mo. night football here, now
+TomWho     : In NY it's often driven off the air by Mets baseball. (Don't 
+             blame me, I'm a Yankees fan!)
+M.Lowry    : Jerry: Do you drive a motorcycle in real life?  What's it like working 
+with
+M.Lowry    : Andrea?
+Jerry Doyle : ML, I can answer it in probably one way ...
+Jerry Doyle : I have something sleek fast sexy and powerful ...
+Jerry Doyle : who needs the motorcycle ;-)
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+TomWho     : LOL
+M.Lowry    : he he he.
+TomWho     : *Laughing*
+Jerry Doyle : Next question please?
+M.Lowry    : What about the second part of the question?
+Jerry Doyle : ML, i think I answered it ;-) please scroll back ;-)
+DTO        : M.Lowry:  I think that has already been answered.  ;-)
+Jerry Doyle : Sidhi, your question please?
+Sidhi      : How far into the season have you taped B5? And do you like 
+Sidhi      : what is developing in the episodes?
+TomWho     : good question!
+Jerry Doyle : Sidhi, today we just wrapped episode 5, we start episode 6
+Jerry Doyle : tomrrow and I think the scripts are very tight,
+Jerry Doyle : good action and throwing the audience alot of new twists
+Jerry Doyle : that I'm sure the audience is goign to really dig.
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+Sidhi      : Thanks. I appreciate B5 to no end!
+DAX4       : Jerry, were you interested in sci-fi growing up?
+Jerry Doyle : Dax, not at all
+Jerry Doyle : I didn't watch very much television and I have to this date
+Jerry Doyle : never seen any of the other science fiction shows
+Jerry Doyle : I often get asked the comparison between B5 and the other
+Jerry Doyle : shows and it's one that I can't make
+Jerry Doyle : I don't think one show has to be better than the other to
+Jerry Doyle : survive, because there are alot of good shows out here
+Jerry Doyle : and if you happen to like more than one show, watch it
+Jerry Doyle : There is room enough in the sci fi genre, so if you like
+Jerry Doyle : one of the others watch it, and if you like ours, watch it
+Jerry Doyle : too!
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+StarCnslt  : B5 is much better than any of the Treks, it has something called 
+originality <grin>
+SELENE     : Uh Oh.  You must think of us as a bunch of eccentrics.
+Jerry Doyle : Selene, LOL! no not at all!
+Storybook  : Is it true that you had bogus credits on your resume? Like the 
+             Dance Thea. of Harlem?
+Trillian   : ?
+Jerry Doyle : Story, yes that is correct
+Jerry Doyle : When I got to Hollywood I had to have a resume
+Jerry Doyle : having spent 9 years on Wall Street, I didn't think
+Jerry Doyle : much of what I had done applied to show business
+Jerry Doyle : so I made up a resume!
+Storybook  : LOL
+Jerry Doyle : and one of the credits I put on there was the Dance 
+Jerry Doyle : Theatre of Harlem
+DAX4       : You're creative, that's for sure
+Jerry Doyle : I figured if I got busted, they would see the humour!
+Jerry Doyle : but nobody to this date has questioned it, and I still have
+Trillian   : LMAO!  I like your style!
+Jerry Doyle : it on there as my tribute to obserdity!
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+SELENE     : Sounds like a test to see if someone actually READ the resume!
+Harmelink  : Jerry: what is the question you'ld love to answer but never 
+             get asked?
+Jerry Doyle : :::: thinking :::::
+Jerry Doyle : It was just asked actually!
+Jerry Doyle : LOL!
+Jerry Doyle : Actually ....
+Jerry Doyle : :::: really thinking now :::::
+Jerry Doyle : that's a such a good question, I don't know I'll have 
+             to think
+Jerry Doyle : about it!
+Jerry Doyle : ;-)
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+Harmelink  : ok
+StarCnslt  : Will we see more of the Shadows soon, or will they continue to 
+StarCnslt  : be mostly represented by other agents?
+Jerry Doyle : Star, yes and probably somewhere around mid season of this
+Jerry Doyle : third year you are going to see some pretty insteresting stuff
+Jerry Doyle : Sorry I can't elaborate on that!
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+Jerry Doyle : This way you have to watch ;-)
+StarCnslt  : wouldn't want you too, would rather wait and be surprised
+Jerry Doyle : Star, same with me. I don't know where the story is going
+Jerry Doyle : or where my character is going
+Jerry Doyle : I like to be given the script and given the twist the same
+Jerry Doyle : as the audience!
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+MrsRev     : We met on Wall Street before the last crash sent me to seminary...my 
+MrsRev     : question is what's in store for Michael this season that you can tell 
+MrsRev     : us...will he score with Talia forexample?
+Harmelink  : on screen..
+SELENE     : Now THERE'S a scene that will be fun to play!
+StarCnslt  : lol, are there going to be 4th and 5th seasons at least?
+Jerry Doyle : MrsRev, I wish I could answer your question but there is just
+Jerry Doyle : a little can say too much, so I have to withhold any 
+Jerry Doyle : information.  However, I'm scoring with Talia every night ;-)
+Jerry Doyle : (she's my wife)
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+SELENE     : We wouldn't want you to lose your job, after all
+MrsRev     : Good for you...:-)
+Jerry Doyle : M.Lowry, please go ahead
+M.Lowry    : Jerry,(BTW, thanks for coming): Which do you prefer: Mac or 
+M.Lowry    : IBM?  Boxers or Briefs?
+M.Lowry    : And have you ever been to Austin?
+Jerry Doyle : ML, okay .. 1. I'm a technophobe,, so I don't have 
+Jerry Doyle : any computer they scare me!
+Jerry Doyle : 2. briefs
+Jerry Doyle : 3. No but I will be in Dallas this weekend :-)
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+SELENE     : Boxers or Briefs?  someone here watches too much MTV, darlings.
+DAX4       : Jerry: is your character's name a reference to his receding hairline?
+Jerry Doyle : Dax, that's funny!
+DAX4       : *Laughing*
+Jerry Doyle : I think the character is in reference to Guisseppi Garibaldi
+Jerry Doyle : who was a famous war hero from WW11 from Italy.
+Jerry Doyle : and it's not receding, it's gone ;-)
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+DAX4       : ROFL
+Harmelink  : same boat as you Jerry
+Trillian   : Do you have time to read books and if ya do...what kind of literature 
+(or not) do
+Trillian   : you read?
+Trillian   : Oh...and thanks for coming to visit eWorld (we're not scarey)
+Jerry Doyle : Trillian, the last book I read was "The HOt Zone" and it
+Jerry Doyle : scared me to death.
+Jerry Doyle : The last book before that was "The Warren Buffet Way"
+Jerry Doyle : great book, great man!
+Trillian   : I just read it! I agree wholeheartedly!! Great book...Thanks!
+Jerry Doyle : The last one before that was "Moby Dick" in the third grade
+Jerry Doyle : I read newspapers, magazines, I read those voraciously
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+Jerry Doyle : Okay Ezell, shoot
+EZELL.J    : We've heard you love to cook. What's your favorite dish to 
+EZELL.J    :  make? BTW, any public appearance in Dallas?
+Jerry Doyle : EZ, I love to cook, it's therapy
+Jerry Doyle : at the end of the day when it's crazy and you can go home
+Jerry Doyle : and get into the kitchen and totally fixate into preparing a
+Jerry Doyle : meal and for that period of time you are somewhere else
+Jerry Doyle : I can't say I have a favorite thing to make
+Jerry Doyle : If I had a favorite theme, it would be Italian
+Jerry Doyle : and anything to do with seafood
+DAX4       : Jerry, you haven't lived until you've tasted my choc. chip 
+             cookies!
+Jerry Doyle : and always have a good bottle of cabernet standing by
+SELENE     : BAgna Cauda, maybe?
+Jerry Doyle : incase the meal stinks!
+Jerry Doyle : (or two)
+Jerry Doyle : ;-)
+Jerry Doyle : And as far as Dallas, yes it is a personal appearance
+Jerry Doyle : I'm going to be at the Stellar Occasion 
+Jerry Doyle : at the Harvey Hotel, downtown.
+Jerry Doyle : At 10.00pm on Friday there is a cocktail thing in the hotel
+Jerry Doyle : lobby bar!
+Jerry Doyle : On Saturday, I talk from noon til 1.00, then from 1-2 is
+Jerry Doyle : autographs, from 4-5 is a talk and from 5-6 is an autograph
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+M.Lowry    : Anyone who appreciates cabernet savignon is okay by me!
+Jerry Doyle : Sunday ... at 11.00 am is a one hour talk, at noon is a one hour 
+Jerry Doyle :   autograph session and at 2 is another
+Jerry Doyle : one talk!
+Jerry Doyle : Then I have to leave and get back as I have to shoot Monday!
+EZELL.J    : whew!
+Jerry Doyle : The appearances are fun
+Jerry Doyle : andrea and I just got back from England and Ireland 
+Jerry Doyle : on two consecutive weekends
+Jerry Doyle : and the people that brought us over are called Stargazer
+Jerry Doyle : Productions and we are working to put together Babcom 96
+Jerry Doyle : which will be in May 96 in London. It will be the first
+Jerry Doyle : time the B5 cast will be together!
+Jerry Doyle : It's going to be great! :-)
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+Lou Trap   : Hi Jerry, thanks for being here. Is it true that your wife 
+Lou Trap   : (Talia Winters) will be leaving the show &
+Lou Trap   : the original telepath will be returning. ga
+Jerry Doyle : Lou, rumours, rumours, rumours!
+Jerry Doyle : You have to wait and see ;-)
+Lou Trap   : Really... just rumours than?
+Jerry Doyle : If you lived in England, you'd know by now. because 
+Jerry Doyle : they've already seen the last four
+Jerry Doyle : espisodes of season 2.
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+Lou Trap   : Okay.
+DJMILNES   : Jerry, Do you see this as a job doing a Sci Fi series, or just 
+DJMILNES   : a long term job doing a series?
+Jerry Doyle : DJ. I don't understand why the critics or people in this
+Jerry Doyle : industry choose to separate sci fi from the rest of main
+Jerry Doyle : stream tv using their term.
+Jerry Doyle : Our show is a one hour drama, first and foremost with 
+Jerry Doyle : real people in real situations
+Jerry Doyle : and we appen to be in the sci fi genre.
+Jerry Doyle : If the critics aren't able to get past the possibility of life
+Jerry Doyle : in the Year 2260 that's there problem not mine!
+Jerry Doyle : I think that the success of our show is first and foremost
+SELENE     : Agreed:  people are still people, even if the show takes place 
+SELENE     : when I turn 300!
+Jerry Doyle : because of the fans!
+Jerry Doyle : But secondly because our characters are flawed.
+Jerry Doyle : We're not perfect people in a perfect world or universe
+Jerry Doyle : and those flaws allow the audience to identify and relate
+Jerry Doyle : to the characters.
+Jerry Doyle : We may conquer space travel, we may solve diseases
+Jerry Doyle : but the things we will always be working on is ourselves
+Jerry Doyle : and our relationships with other people and possibily
+Jerry Doyle : our relations with aliens as well!
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+DJMILNES   : Thank you for being here tonight, I've learned much and love 
+             the show and your character. Goodnight
+Harmelink  : Lame Question: Is there someone on the show from Michigan? 
+             (Thought I read that somewhere)
+Harmelink  : This makes up for the tough one before
+Jerry Doyle : DJM, good night!
+Jerry Doyle : Harmel, hmmmm
+Jerry Doyle : Bruce is from Chicago
+Jerry Doyle : Claudia, I'm not sure 
+Jerry Doyle : Andrea, Ohio
+Jerry Doyle : I'm from Brooklyn, NY
+Jerry Doyle : Michigan, I don't think so, sorry!
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+MrsRev     : San Diego, my son, asks if you regret the change from Sinclair 
+             to Sheridan?
+Jerry Doyle : MrsRev, no not at all
+Jerry Doyle : I enjoy Bruce and I'm happy with the fact that I'm still here
+Jerry Doyle : ;-)
+Jerry Doyle : and you can usesomething like this as a tool as an actor
+Jerry Doyle : if you are looking for mystery and intrigue
+Jerry Doyle : you can play it as everytime you look at Bruce
+Jerry Doyle : you don't see Michael
+Jerry Doyle : Changes are made in alot of shows ...
+Jerry Doyle : there have been alot of changes since the pilot
+Jerry Doyle : There have been quite a few changes, some are story points
+Jerry Doyle : some by people who's business it is to make those decisions
+Jerry Doyle : All I know is that when the producers are pointing those
+Jerry Doyle : fingers, I duck ;-)
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+Harmelink  : lol
+StarCnslt  : Will we see Sinclair much in his role as the ambassador to the 
+StarCnslt  : Minbari? The rangers?
+Jerry Doyle : STar, I don't have a definite answer because I don't know
+Jerry Doyle : but in reading the first 9 scripts he hasn't shown up
+Jerry Doyle : and I just down see where he would fit into the storyline.
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+SELENE     : Staff babe Selene here with a question.  We have another 
+SELENE     : autographed pic to give out.  Who gets it?
+StarCnslt  : me!
+Harmelink  : me
+SELENE     : The question was for JERRY
+Harmelink  : I stumped the guest!!
+StarCnslt  : lol oops
+MrsRev     : San Diego is the youngest fan here
+Harmelink  : oops too
+StarCnslt  : spent too much time with people that if you snooze you loose
+DAX4       : Jerry could give it to my sister
+Jerry Doyle : Next question, please!
+Mutti      : Jerry, how does one make the transition from Aero Engineer to 
+Mutti      :  sales to stock broker to SUPERSTAR actor
+SELENE     : We ran out of trivia question ideas, okay?  So Jerry gets to 
+             give one away now.
+Jerry Doyle : Mutti, sleep around (ROFL)
+Jerry Doyle : just kidding!
+Jerry Doyle : Seriously though, I think you have to be passionate about
+Jerry Doyle : whatever it is that you choose to do
+Jerry Doyle : don't get into something to see how it might turn out
+Jerry Doyle : get into something to see how far you can go!
+Jerry Doyle : Passion overcomes talent more times than not!
+Jerry Doyle : And I' think I've proved that because there are alot of
+Jerry Doyle : really talented people out there that unfortunately
+Jerry Doyle : you never get to see!
+Jerry Doyle : And you have to approach everything as a business.
+Jerry Doyle : Cause this is called "show business" but it is really
+Jerry Doyle : the business of show! 
+Jerry Doyle : My feeling is, when you wake up in the morning you're 
+Jerry Doyle : already ahead of the game!
+Jerry Doyle : So choose to make it a fun, productive kind of a day!
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+TREVOR S   : Jerry , did you realize how intense sci fi fans could be 
+TREVOR S   : before you joined B5? Does that scare you
+SELENE     : Next in queue: Jedi Man 1, MICK N DAVE
+MrsRev     : I have to go. Jerry your work and Andrea's gives my family 
+             alot of pleasure. Thanks for that.
+TomWho     : Well, I have to leave. Thanks for spending so much time with 
+             us, Jerry. Best of luck!
+Jerry Doyle : Tom, thanks!
+Jedi Man 1 : Were you at a convention called "The Big Bang" in Chicago once?
+Jerry Doyle : Jedi, no I was not!
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+DAX4       : Jerry, please answer my question! I got forgotten about!
+Jerry Doyle : Dax, what was your question?
+DAX4       : What are your co-stars like, and what do you all do between takes?
+Jerry Doyle : I'm fortunate to work with a wonderful cast and crew
+Jerry Doyle : Our crew doesn't get enough of the recognition tha they 
+Jerry Doyle : shoul.  they are really the back bone of the show!
+Jerry Doyle : I get to go to work every day with 100 upbeat, energetic,
+Jerry Doyle : talented creative people and it's a joy!
+StarCnslt  : Yea Jerry, I spent 12 years as a concert lighting designer, so 
+StarCnslt  : I love guys who appreciate their crew
+Jerry Doyle : Throughout the day we just bascially make fun of each
+Jerry Doyle : other, abuse each other, play practical jokes, telll
+Jerry Doyle : stories and debate politics
+Jerry Doyle : and trash every politician we can think of.
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+StarCnslt  : too many people don't
+DAX4       : Yeah, you strike me as the type to play practical jokes!
+Jerry Doyle : Dax, that would be me ;-)
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+MICK N DAVE : How long would you like to go with your role?  Are you afraid 
+MICK N DAVE : of getting stuck in a role?
+Jerry Doyle : Mick, B5 is a 5 year project, then it's done
+Jerry Doyle : And as far as being afraid of being stereotyped into a
+Jerry Doyle : certain role, as long as it is a good role and the audience
+MICK N DAVE : So was Star Trek
+DAX4       : LOL, mick
+Jerry Doyle : likes the character, I don't see any downside to that at all!
+SELENE     : shhh, don't say S---T---, that's tomorrow's chat
+Jerry Doyle : ga
+MICK N DAVE : Good for you
+Jerry Doyle : Mick, LOL, yeah right!
+Jerry Doyle : We'll I have to be leaving as I have to get up at 5 am 
+Jerry Doyle : tomorrow
+SELENE     : That's about all the time we have for tonight, so let's let Jerry go 
+home from
+SELENE     : work shall we?
+StarCnslt  : Jerry THANKS! for coming, y'all come back now y'hear?
+DeeRich    : bye all and thanks Jerry!
+Jerry Doyle : and I have 5 pages to read, so I've lots to do!
+DAX4       : Great talking to you Jerry
+MICK N DAVE : Take Care
+TREVOR S   : Bye! Thanks for coming!!!
+SELENE     : Good night, and thanks for coming around!  You have all these 
+SELENE     : computer buddies who will help you if you ever want to get online!
+Harmelink  : Good night Gracie!1 
+DAX4       : Congrats on the show, and hope to hear from you again soon!
+Mutti      : vielen Dank!
+StarCnslt  : watch out for shadows
+EZELL.J    : Thanks for doing a great job, Jerry. We appreciate your great 
+EZELL.J    : efforts on B5. All the best to ya!
+Mutti      : they move when you're not looking
+Jerry Doyle : Thanks very much to you all, take care and have a great 
+Jerry Doyle : night!
+StarCnslt  : lol Mutti
+DTO        : Folks, the interview transcript will be available soon in our forum 
+             library.
+DAX4       : Buh bye
+M.Lowry    : Jerry: thanks for contributing to one of the best shows I've ever 
+             watched.
+SELENE     : *Cheer* Thanks for being here!
+Lou Trap   : Hats off to Jerry!! *Cheer*
+M.Lowry    : sniff, sniff.
+StarCnslt  : Selene, please make sure you take Rick up on his offer to come 
+             back sooon too !
+DAX4       : Well, that's that, everyone
+M.Lowry    : *TNG Bleep 1*
+Harmelink  : Yes!!
+DTO        : Thank you for attending tonight's interview folks!
+M.Lowry    : Hmmm.  I bet no one else heard that.
+DAX4       : Selene, who's on-line tomorrow
+Mutti      : Awwww do we have to go to bed now?
+SELENE     : Many thanks to behind-the-scenes helpers SueCCC and DTO too! 
+             *Cheer*
+Harmelink  : Here here
+DAX4       : *Game over, man*
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+<Alpha-1> Net Control Boradcast: ALL OPERATORS, ALL NETS, 
+Please StandBy, Silence Channel Traffic, JMS coming 
+on-line in 30 seconds
+
+<Alpha-1> Ladies and Gentelmen, J. M. Strraczynski
+
+<<Alpha-1> Undernet: Your First Question Please.
+question: <Psi_Cop> Are there any plans for starting the comic book series 
+again?
+
+<J_M_S> Yes, the plan is tentatively for Titan UK to do the books, with DC 
+reprinting the books here, under my supervision for stories. Maybe 4 per
+year to start. (This is already in the works, btw.)
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+JMS: I had the impression that you had at one point promised that when a 
+character dies in B5, unlike other shows, the character stays dead.  
+Does B5 still hold to this promise?
+
+<J_M_S> Basically, yes.  There is some variation on the extent of one's 
+death, and what that means, but the totality of it is, yes, dead is dead.  
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ 1) How strong is WB's support for B5?
+ 2) Do you feel that WB is behind the store? (i.e. Letter campaign needed?)
+ 3) What about individual TV station support?  Good/bad/indifferent?
+ What are Turner's plans for the series?
+
+<J_M_S> In reverse order...wow, lotsa questions...TNT plans to run 
+the show when it's over, and maybe do some movies...the support from 
+individual stations is variable, some more than others (SF and Portland, 
+for instance, have always been great).
+<J_M_S> When nobody else thought B5 could be done, or that it 
+*shouldn't* be done, WB let us create this show and bring it to 
+fruition, and that means a lot.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Kosh@WB) Will there be another vorlon on the show?
+
+<J_M_S> Another one after Kosh?  Yes...his replacement arrived 2 
+weeks ago in "Walkabout."
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Styphathl> JMS: Will we ever find out 
+just what happened to Babylon 4 after the last SHADOW war? Did 
+it survive? is it going to show up in the future to Help the new 
+war?
+
+<J_M_S> No, it didn't survive much past the last war.  It's an Ex-Babylon.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <KdC> To JMS: Are you aware of the 
+present limited availability of Babylon 5 to Canadian viewers, and 
+do you know if there are any plans to get Babylon 5 onto more 
+stations in Canada any time soon?
+
+<J_M_S> This is one area which I confess I don't know as much 
+about as I likely should.  I do know that WB is working hard to 
+correct the situation, but beyond that I have no details. 
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> Is the original arc for B5 going to be published or made 
+available at some point?  Would really like to see how the stories 
+differ. -Ranger
+ 
+<J_M_S> What original arc?  Surely you're not suggesting that there 
+have been CHANGES to the arc?  Goodness me, how would that 
+happen?
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) Spencer>JMS, do you have a  short list 
+for season 4 titles yet? If so, what are they?
+
+<J_M_S> Season 4 titles: The Hour of the Wolf, Whatever Happened to Mr. 
+Garibaldi, Into the Fire... Atonement, The Summoning.  Others.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <HomerSimp> JMS: I have heard 
+several women tell me they would quit watching B5 if you ever 
+killed off Ivanova.  Is it really truthful to say that all characters 
+can die at any time when some characters become so popular the 
+fans would revolt if they were killed?
+
+<J_M_S> Any character can die.  However, if I killed Ivanova, 
+Claudia would kill me.
+<J_M_S> Mutually assured destruction.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) When Londo and G'Kar had finished 
+strangling each other in "World Without End, Part II" -- Vir picks 
+somethingup from the floor and there is a noise in the 
+backgroundwhich sounds like a shadow "chitter" -- was/is it?(will it be? <g>)
+
+<J_M_S> No, no shadows there, and what he picked up was the 
+emperor's insignia, worn by Londo there and by Emperor Turhan 
+earlier.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Lyta> Welcome to IRC JMS! I Love B5. Anyway, I saw Robin Curtis last weekend
+and I was wondering if you had plans for the Ambasador Kalika character.
+
+<J_M_S>...nope....
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Tigerlily@WB) Technomag> JMS: Any word on the 
+Problem with Philadelphia Stations? Your Loyal Philly fans need 
+there B5.
+<J_M_S> NNNNNNNNNext.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Deirdre> To JMS: What was your part 
+in the shows "The Real Ghostbusters" & "V"
+
+<J_M_S> On "Ghostbusters" I was story editor and primary writer 
+for the first syndicated and first ABC season; I left when they 
+softened up Janine too much....
+<J_M_S> On V I was hired by WB to do a 4 hour new miniseries for 
+that show, but the final was too expensive for syndication (and 
+cost was what killed it in the first place, it almost singlehandedly 
+shut down WBTV.)
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<U-Net> Claudia- Six would like to know how the vocal effects for 
+the Shadows/Vorlons are done.
+
+<J_M_S> We just put microphones on the real Shadows on Vorlons 
+and...ooops, I wasn't supposed to say that...forget you heard that.  
+Next.
+
+<U-Net> Claudia- Six would like to know how the vocal effects for 
+the Shadows/Vorlons are done. <<< Undernet question
+
+<J_M_S> Just answered that.  Why are you asking again?  Who do 
+you REALLY work for?
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> JMS:  In "Walkabout," our heros where saved in Star Trek 
+Style, it was very predictable, almost no casualties on our side other than 
+Lyta bleeding from the eye, and that was relatively minor considering 3 ships
+fighting against 5. The question is will this be more prevalent as B5 moves 
+along, or are you going to revert back to more of the human condition
+instead of save-the-day(moment) type writing style  --Bester
+
+<J_M_S> Othello: wait and see.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<U-Net> Claudia- Didn't the new Vorlon ambassador think people 
+would recognize the difference in encounter suits?
+
+<J_M_S> Probably, but whoever has just one suit?  (well, me, but 
+that's another story)
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Styphathl> JMS: Will we see any new 
+SHADOW ships in the future? Such as battle stations or 
+transports? Cause the way it seems right now.. there are only 
+enough shadows to poilte the shadow battle cruisers. There must 
+be ALOT more SHADOWS somewhere... will we ever get to see 
+them???
+
+<J_M_S> Yes, you will see something on the Shadow side that's so 
+insidious, so nasty, so cool, that....I can't tell you.  But you'll see 
+it within the first 4 episodes of year 4.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Spencer> Ivy: Joe, Has there ever 
+been, or will there wver be, a machine on Z'HaDum similar to the 
+one on Epsilon 3?
+
+<J_M_S> No, there's no Draal type situation on ZHD.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <D_Quixote> JMS, do you think that 
+Babylon 5 will have a seriously significant impact on the way 
+Sci-Fi and regular dramas are written for television in the 
+future?
+
+<J_M_S> Well, it's certainly our hope that it will change TV, I know 
+that many producers have begun coming by the stage and asking 
+hwo we do this, and we show them, and more shows are coming out 
+using story arcs, so I think so, yes.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (B5Online@WB) Can I have a raise, Joe? ;>
+
+<J_M_S> (yeah, sure)
+<J_M_S> That would mean they first have to start PAYING you, Troy.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) from LytaA @ WB irc/#babylon5:
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) jms: would you still like to have Patrick 
+McGoohan appear on B5?  If so, is pmg interested, and what kind 
+of role would you have him play?
+
+<J_M_S> I'd LOVE to have McGoohan on the show, when we have a 
+proper story for it.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Styphathl> JMS: will we ever discover 
+exactly why the Vorlons are playing around with the devolpment of 
+the other races with the exception of the Centuari?
+
+<J_M_S> Yes, we'll find that out by the end of the season.  next
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <KdC> JMS: one quick question, would 
+any of the cast be there with you today?
+
+<J_M_S> Would they?  They would've.  Are they?  No.  Could they?  
+I don't think they allow actors in here.  Next.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> <Mr_Morden> JMS: I've heard that a Babylon 5 film is 
+being made. Is this true, and if so, when
+<Othello> (in the B5 timeline) will it be set?
+
+<J_M_S> No, no B5 film is currently being made, but TNT is 
+considering some original B5 movies set during the arc, one being 
+a prequel.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<J_M_S> Even SF fans have SOME standards.  Not much, granted...
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Strati> QUESTION FOR JMS: What 
+sagely advice would you give to the novice would-be-authors 
+online tonight?
+
+<J_M_S> Find what moves you to passion, and write it.  No other 
+advice means a damn.
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Strati> Ivy: Question for JMS: What 
+sagely advice would you give to all the novice would-be-authors 
+online tonight?
+
+<J_M_S> Get offline and get back to work, that's what I'd suggest.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Lyta> series after Babylon5 series ends?
+
+<J_M_S> Lyta: I think part of your message got lost, or else you've 
+been hanging out with Vorlons.
+
+<Lyta> Is there any plans to continue characters after b5 is over
+
+<J_M_S> No, once the show is over, the characters go with it.  
+(Meaning the cast have to be nice to me.)
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (BluKnight@WB) One of our users is disabled, and he 
+enjoyed seeing Franklin in a wheelchair after his Walkabout.  Do 
+you have any story plans dealing with disabilities (other than 
+addiction)?
+
+<J_M_S> Not at the moment, no.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Styphathl> JMS: Did the SHADOWS 
+destroy the first 3 stations cuase they looked like B4 or was it 
+somone else we haven't seen yet???
+
+<J_M_S> No, others destroyed B1-3, some human, some minbari, no 
+shadow influence.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) 1) Will Bureau 13 be making another appearance?
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) 2) Will Zathras ever return?
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) 3) Is Ivanova an even more telepath thah 
+has originally been made out to seem?
+
+<J_M_S> 1) No, 2) no, 3) no...you're batting a thousand.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<U-Net> Claudia- Ilya asks why Vorlon technology/ships appears 
+not to have changed in 1000 years, since the end of War Without 
+End.
+
+<J_M_S> But they have...look more closely at their ships, and they 
+ARE different, we designed variations on them.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Brett@EFnet) JMS: Do you plan to get involved in 
+Interactive TV/Drama.  I.E. a show that has a link to say a web 
+site where the fans can "take part in the show?"
+
+<J_M_S> Yes, there's something in the works that I hope will change 
+how TV is done, but it's down the road a bit.
+<J_M_S> And it's not a B5 project anyway.
+<J_M_S> (just realized that when I log off, and it says jms QUIT babylon5, 
+it's going to start rumors)
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <e99> ivy: question for JMS. Having 
+studied in a theological seminary, what influenced you into 
+aethiesm. As an aethiest you are giving quite good presentation of 
+the "sprititual side " of things in B5.
+
+<J_M_S> What influenced me to atheism was reading the bible twice 
+cover to cover.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <UMan> JMS: we are seeing much 
+Shadow activity, but mot much about the WHY behind the activity.  
+When will we learn more about the Shadows' reasons for their 
+activities?
+
+<J_M_S> Yup.  You'll learn exactly what they're doing, and why 
+they're doing it, by the tine the last of the 5 held-over 3rd 
+seasons episodes airs in 3 weeks.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<U-Net> Claudia- Question for JMS: Will we see more of the Sigma 
+957 aliens, or other First Ones?
+
+<J_M_S> U-net: yup.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Skyfox> Question: "How has the B5 
+story arc changed since its original conception? e.g. was sinclair 
+always going to leave the show?"
+
+<J_M_S> Changes?  Changes?  Where?  Good heaens, where does this 
+come from?
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Styphathl> JMS: Is LightWave the 
+only 3d rendering program you use or is 3d Studio used a little as 
+well?
+
+<J_M_S> Insofar as I know -- and my knowledge of this is 3 steps 
+removed from reality -- we use Lightwave principally for ship and 
+other animations; if the others are used elsewhre, they don't tell 
+me because it would scare me, and I'd get confused and fall 
+down.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Spencer> Ivanova: JMS: Was Draal 
+aware of the events going on at ZHaDum in the season finale?
+
+<J_M_S> Yes, if Draal was watching the show that night.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Tigerlily@WB) Garibaldi@wb > JMS, does the 
+reference to "We are all Kosh" have any relation to Sebastian's 
+questioning of Delenn?  Would "We are all Kosh" perhaps mean 
+that all of the Vorlons aren't necessary one Kosh, but share a 
+single defining outlook on the universe?
+
+<J_M_S> Kosh is more of a description than anything else.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Lyta> <Shaktot> Good morning (from Sweden). My two in
+<Lyta> one question is. how did you began as scriptwriter and what
+<Lyta> was your very first scriptwork? Btw, now the regular, thanks.
+<Lyta> Thank you for creating such a wounderful show.
+
+<J_M_S> I began writing for local theaters and community theaters 
+and the like; it's a good place to cut your teeth.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> <Shayla> How does it feel to be the "hero" of so many fans 
+and how has creating B5 changed your life?
+
+<J_M_S> I'm not a hero, and shouldn't be seen as such; the story is 
+the star here, and the cast who work so hard at it.  I"m doing this 
+story because I can't NOT write this story.  It's not heroism, it's 
+maintaining my sanity.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<U-Net> Claudia- Question for JMS: You said that the new Kosh is 
+younger than the original... how old are Vorlons?
+
+<J_M_S> I'd ask, but it'd be rude, and you know how they are.  
+<J_M_S> Suffice to say they're REAL old.
+<J_M_S> They even remember Winky Dink.
+<J_M_S> (And with that he lost the entire audience.)
+<Othello> <Tatsu> What is "Winky Dink"?
+<J_M_S> What is Winky Dink?  How dare you ask that in a public 
+forum, there are children around, y'know.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <D_Quixote> JMS: It seems as if the 
+story is less about Good vs. Evil than it is about the way each side 
+tries for dominance, and ends up merely restoring balance. Would 
+this be an accurate statement?
+
+<J_M_S> Yes; good and evil is too easy to do.  It's about choices, 
+and responsibility and consequences.  Evil rarely looks in a miror 
+and sees evil.  We all have reasons for what we do; we have to be 
+always aware of our reasons to avoid doing the wrong thing.
+<J_M_S> And yes, invariably we tilt back toward a balance...it's the 
+way of things.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) 1)  will we *EVER* see tapes of B5 in 
+the states for purchase?
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) 2)  I understand that TNT ( I think ) as 
+part of the syndication is looking at 2 additonal 2 hour movies as 
+part of the package, with one being a prequel.  Where would the 
+other movie fall ( between which seasons ... )?
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) 3)  How much has B5 evolved from the 
+original concept that was started in the 80's ( i.e. such as Kosh's 
+death... I believe that it was not something that you originally 
+intended, but it just naturally fell out as part if the creation 
+process ... ).
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) 4)  Will we see the tri-luminary again in B5?
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) 5)  Will we see anymore of the 
+'creature' that inhabited Sheridan, and went back through the 
+time rift in sector 14?
+
+<J_M_S> Tapes: not soon, WB is dragging their feet (hello, WB); the 
+other projects remain to be seen; little things change, and Kosh's 
+death happened sooner because, well, Kosh insisted.  
+<J_M_S> Yes, you'll see the Triluminary again, and no, no more of 
+that creature.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Lyta> <MrSpark> Is there going to be any further
+<Lyta> development of Psi ability seen in G'Kar or his race?
+
+<J_M_S> It would take generations for that to happen, and the story 
+only covers a few years, so no.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Brett> for JMS: Can you tell us about 
+the funniest moment that ever happened on the set of Babylon 5?  
+Either some event or a practical joke?  I've heard there are some 
+real jokers in the cast and crew....
+
+<J_M_S> Nothing much...Jerry dropping his pants on Andrea's first 
+day, the afternoon we convinced Jason his character had been 
+killed...little stuff.  Keeps us going.  WE're a mean bunch, but 
+we're fun.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<U-Net> Claudia- Question for JMS from Burmese: Will there be 
+more friction between norms and psi's as a result of their needing 
+psi's to beat the shadows?
+
+<J_M_S> U-net: yes.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<J_M_S> ogod it's wb again...i'm going to grow old and die her.
+<J_M_S> er, ehre.
+<J_M_S> er, here.
+<J_M_S> ....nutz.
+<J_M_S> first we pay.  we pay beads.  heap many beads.  you type.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> ::: (WB) * ^DEJABLUE asks Mr.Straczynski what had 
+made you get in to Sci-Fi and what were you doing before this?? 
+and what are your plans after b5???(marjluna@warwick.net
+
+<J_M_S> I've always loved SF, it's something I grew up with.  
+Before this I was into other TV shows, working on Murder, She 
+WRote and elsewhere.  AFter B5...I plan to sleep.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (BluKnight@WB) What do you think of the whole idea of 
+conventions, especially fan-run ones?
+
+<J_M_S> I love cons, the fan-ones more than the professional ones.
+
+<JMSLink1> (BluKnight@WB) In that case, did you get good words 
+from Richard (Biggs) about Denver?
+
+<J_M_S> Yes, I got good words from Richard, bu they were "wibble" 
+and "boxers," so we're still translating.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> Why did the new Kosh treat Lyta so roughly?
+
+<J_M_S> Because he's a jerk.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Styphathl> JMS: in the story Sinclair 
+became Minbari and this caused Human souls to be born in human 
+bodies... How can this be??? Wouldn't id be a Minbari becoming 
+Human causeng that soul switchover? I mean think about it... How 
+does Delenn turning human cause minbari souls to go back to 
+Minbari? Its seems a little Backwards to me
+
+<J_M_S> Styph: believe it or not, we'll get into this.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <JumpGate> Are there any plans for 
+plastic model kits of B5 characters and ships?
+
+<J_M_S> I hear that Monogram/Revell has just licensed models, so 
+soonish.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<U-Net> Claudia- Question from Sirilyan: How involved have you 
+been with the Pabylon Project RPG from Wireframe Productions & 
+Chameleon Eclectic?
+
+<J_M_S> Fairly involved; I've got the text of their sourcebook with 
+me, and reading it now...so far it looks great.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Lyta> <Mr-Mischief> <mr-mischief> for JMS : are there gonna
+<Lyta> be any more shows in future seasons that have bits cut
+<Lyta> when they are aired in the uk?
+
+<J_M_S> Lyta: almost certainly.  We look forward to it.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> <Ivanova> JMS: what books did you read as a kid that gave 
+you all the crazy ideas for
+<Othello> babylon5?
+
+<J_M_S> None, but in terms of SF, I read Bradbury, Clarke, Asimov, 
+Russell, Heinlein, Ellison...all gave me that sense of wonder that 
+works in the show.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) JMS: Delenn changes half from 
+Minbari to Human, and Sinclair from Human to Minbari, Doesn't 
+this imply that there must be another half minbari to human change 
+to even up the soul exchange?
+
+<J_M_S> Well, Sinclair looked minbari from the outside, but parts 
+were still very human, so there was one before th is.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<U-Net> Claudia- Question for JMS: What do you think it would 
+take to get Claudia Christian to an east coast Ren Faire? ;-)
+
+<J_M_S> Depends on how much ale you've got handy.
+
+<Alpha-1> I got a whole case of ale here ;)
+
+<J_M_S> We can get her looped and toss her into a plane.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) 1) How about the B5 US releases on 
+Laserdisc -- widescreen of course!!!
+
+<J_M_S> WB keeps saying there's no market for tapes/disks...even 
+though the tapes are regularly #1-2 on the UK retail charts.  Go 
+figure.  
+<J_M_S> The hostage negotiations in Iran got a faster release than 
+our tapes.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Stilgar> JMS- In the first war, did 
+any "First Ones" fight on the side of the shadows? if so, are they 
+expected to return and fight once more, or will the Shadows only 
+recruit new allies, as they have done so far?
+
+<J_M_S> One or two, yes, but they're gone now.  Good riddance.  
+The carpet's a mess.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> <Mollari> Will the Earth Alliance or Rebels get involved in 
+the war against the shadows ?
+
+<J_M_S> Othello: nope.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <HomerSimp> why Psi Corps hasn't 
+developed a blood test for the telepathy gene since they knew 
+enough to develop Dust?
+
+<J_M_S> The genes indicate potential, yes, but not the reality, so 
+it's more problem than its' worth.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) 1) Is Sheridan carrying Kosh's essence 
+and can it be reached by another... ie; Lyta or the new Vorlon?
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) 2) Are the Forces of Darkness growing, 
+ie; are other races joining the Shadows to fight the Forces of Light?
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) 3) Will we see Bester fight the 
+Shadows?
+
+<J_M_S> WB: in theory...we'l see.  And yes, the dark forces are 
+growing, in ways we'll have to see a bit later.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <drakon> JMS: About Barbie Costumes, 
+do you know anything about fan made costumes? did the maker get 
+spanked by WB legal?
+
+<J_M_S> .....WHAT B5 barbie costumes?  This is the first I've heard 
+of it.  No, they're not licensed.  Now that I know, we smash.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> <Lenann> Have we seen most of the races included in the 
+Arc, or is there some Major player waiting out there yet to be 
+discovered?
+
+<J_M_S> Othello: not as such, no.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Styphathl> JMS: Who is more 
+advanced... the SHADOWS or the Vorlons. Cause when the Vorlons 
+attacked the SHADOWS it took a dozen of them to kill one... does 
+this mean the Vorlons are not as strong as the SHADOWS or were 
+they holding back? Also why haven't the Vorlons hepled protect 
+B5?
+
+<J_M_S> The Vorlons interests may not be quite the same as ours...as 
+we'll find out in season 4.  The question is predicated on them 
+wanting to be helpful as we would need them to be.  They may be 
+other.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> <Ranger> Have you been to Katana's Zocalo web site?
+
+<J_M_S> Othello: no.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Merlyn> JMS: As far as souls being a 
+non-localized ohenomenon, are they non-localized in time as well? 
+Is that why the Soulhunter wanted Delenn's soul so badly? Was it 
+1/2 human  even then?
+
+<J_M_S> The nonlocalization of a soul is something beyond human 
+comprehension...but no, her soul was then not half human...though 
+there *is* something about Delenn's background in this area you 
+don't know yet, and will find out soon.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<U-Net> Claudia- Question for JMS: Was it an accident or did you 
+do on purpose that the Centauri dress, act and talk like humans, 
+and especially Russians in the 19th century?
+
+<J_M_S> There's a lot of influence in the Centauri: russian, german, 
+prussian, early Roman...lots of stuff.  I wouldn't tag it down to 
+one thing.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Styphathl> JMS: was the dream with 
+Sheridan in a Psi Cops uniform signifying his relationship to 
+bester or does it mean he will get the Corp to join the Army of 
+Light? Also why was he wearing the Uniform instead of just seeing 
+a image of Bester?
+
+<J_M_S> That is answered in just 2 more weeks, and I'd rather let 
+that come out in the show than here.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+JMSLink1> (Tigerlily@WB) <LilWolf @WB> Does anyone know 
+exactly how strong Ivanova's telepathic powers are?  Are they 
+strong enough for her to play any significant role in fighting the 
+shadow ships?
+
+<J_M_S> No, her skills aren't that enhanced.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Stilgar> JMS- Are we going to see any 
+interference or action from the other planets (Orion 7 and 
+Proxima 3) who broke away with Babylon5?
+
+<J_M_S> Stilgar: yes, in time.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) Spencer> JMS: Does Delenn carry in 
+her a part of a Vorlon in a similar way to Sheridan?
+
+<J_M_S> Spencer: no.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <HomerSimp> JMS: B5 is 
+understandably popular with many in the military.  But is it 
+realistic to show Sheridan commanding a ship for which he has had 
+no training or preparation for?  Sheridan was shown actively 
+training his pilots to fight the Centauri in FoN.
+
+<J_M_S> Well, bear in mind that Sheridan started as a fighter pilot 
+and worked his way up to his current position.  That helps.  
+(That's my story and I'm sticking to it.)
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) * ^DEJABLUE asks JMS ....... do you 
+ever use these chat programs to just go on and chat and not tell 
+them who you are and if you do .do you like them??????
+
+<J_M_S> Dejablue: no, I think that'd be unfair.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) from Spike @ WB irc/#babylon5:
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) 1) Do you have storylines under 
+development past the current 5 year arc?
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) 3) Do you get greater creative freedom 
+under PTEN (or what's left of PTEN) than he would under a major 
+network(ABC, NBC, etc)?  Would you make compromises to the 
+show to get a shot at airing Babylon 5 on one of the major networks?
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) 4) Is there grounds for some Oliver 
+Stone-like conspiracy theory in that both of the regular B-5 
+commanders have had the same initials as theircreator: JS?  Do 
+you see parts of yourself in their characterizations?
+
+<J_M_S> There's always been a sequel possibility...so yes, but we'll 
+see.
+<J_M_S> I get a LOT more freedom on PTEN than I would get on 
+ANY network, and I'm appropriately grateful.  (Just...ignore all 
+that other stuff I said, WB...no, really...I'll go back to washing 
+your car tomorrow).
+<J_M_S> Re: initials...good heavens, I'd never noticed that 
+before...imagine that.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Styphathl> JMS: Did the SHADOWS 
+know about the battle cruisers on Mars and Gynamyde or did they 
+forget about them from the last war? Also what are the chances of 
+a SHADOW Battle Cruiser being burried under EarthDome?
+
+<J_M_S> They were seeded on Mars and elsewhere to hide them.  
+MOre on this later in the show.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> <Shayla> How difficult was it to develop the discipline 
+needed to become a PAID writer?
+
+<J_M_S> Othello: you just do it; you start the discipline as an 
+UNpaid writer.  You don't write because you want to, or for the 
+money, or for any reason other than that you can't NOT write.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> <Tatsu> When do we find out exactly what Vorlons are (or 
+did I miss somehing somewhere)?
+
+<J_M_S> (That'll teach you to ask what the Vorlons are REALLY...you 
+really think they'd let me answer that?  HAH!"
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> <Ranger> Any chance of 1.  The correct spelling of najas 
+duvaneal?  and 2.  What it means
+<Othello> when translated from Minbari to English?   (from the scene 
+where Delenn makes it rain for Sheridan).
+
+<J_M_S> Ranger: alas, my Earth/Minbari dictionary is at home.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> <Mr_Morden> JMS: Will B5 DEFINITELY be limited to 5 
+seasons?
+
+<J_M_S> (My, this is rather chaotic.  Like a Centauri birthday 
+party, but without the tentacles and whipped cream.)
+<J_M_S> Now I can tell you the REAL truth...
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<U-Net> ToeKnee Describe what it was like seeing the 5 year story 
+arc at once ... how do you feel?
+
+<J_M_S> It's a dream cone true, literally...it fills me with immense 
+pride.  The job of the writer is to stock the shelves so when he's 
+gone, the store stays open.  The shelves are well stocked now.  
+It's wonderful.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> <Pretender> If when Sinclari changed to a Minbari and 
+then Minbari souls  started being born in Human souls, does that 
+mean because Delenn changed that Human souls will be born in 
+Minbari's, or will they cancle out?  Or did it happen the first time 
+because Sinclair was traveling through time? 
+
+<J_M_S> It will, in theory, cancel out.  But something more has to be 
+done.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (B5Online@WB) Joe.. we never heard boxers or briefs.  
+Must have been a conspiracy.
+
+<J_M_S> sure, WB.  Well, you can ask.
+<J_M_S> who, me?
+<J_M_S> Can't remember...justa  minute...I can't do this and type at the same
+time.
+<J_M_S> briefs
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> <Fury161> will the scripts ever be available for 
+publication?
+
+<J_M_S> and the first 4 are the best we've done so far.  (BTW, 
+someone asked about scriptwriting...my Complete Book of 
+Scriptwriting in new and expanded form just this week came out 
+from Writer's Digest Books)
+<J_M_S> End of commercial.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> <Bird> (REPOST) JMS: Where are you scriptwise in season 
+4 and production-wise in S4?
+
+<J_M_S> We're just finishing shooting #5, we have 4 edited, and 2 
+mixed and delivered; they're terrific.  Script #9 was just turned 
+in....
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <B5Jim> JMS, What do you think of the 
+series 2 B5 cards?
+
+<J_M_S> I've seen virtually all of the new cards, and they're 
+*dynamite*, just gorgeous.  I'd say a 500% improvement over set 
+one.  I heartly recommend them.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> <Radix> Did Melissa Gilbert ask to be on Babylon 5 or was 
+it all Bruce's idea?
+
+<J_M_S> (Actually, I thunk up using Melissa...just thought it was a 
+good idea.)
+
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) WOW you thought up Melissa.. do her 
+parents know?
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<J_M_S> Foundation has gone on to other projects; the CGI has now 
+been taken in-house.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Skyfox> Question: "JMS, Do you 
+enjoy torturing the cast? e.g. Ivanovas sex scene, BOOM SHAK 
+ALAKA...etc.."
+
+<J_M_S> The cast get nervous sometimes because I listen, and toss 
+things in they didn't know I heard...like Jerry's attitude on 
+capital punishment is the same as Garibaldi's.  It's a good way to 
+unnerve them.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Lyta> jms: any b5 figures are going to 
+be released?
+
+<J_M_S> No figurines are set yet that I know of...but I've just seen 
+the first Hamilton Collector's PLate, and it's *nifty* in the 
+extreme.  (Suddenly this has turned into a commercial.)
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) from AndraX @ WB irc/#babylon5: 
+What was the name of the hymn you wrote?
+
+<J_M_S> I didn't write the hymn, it's an old gospel song.  
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> <Valen> Who is going to do the new intro?
+
+<J_M_S> Who's going to do the new intro?  Can't say.  
+<J_M_S> Well, can...just won't.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) JMS - Will there be a series of 
+collector plates for b5? (including Ivanova :))
+
+<J_M_S> Yes, the plates have all our major characters on them.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <chanlon> JMS:One question.  What did 
+the Vorlons answer when someone asked them, "What do you want?"
+
+<J_M_S> The vorlons wouldn't be asked that.  The shadows know 
+what they want.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<J_M_S> WB: yes.  Chris wants to put the walkabout songs on CD, 
+but I"m not sure if I want to do that, because I like the CDs being 
+all instrumental.  We're discussing it.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) * JMSisGOD begs even more to ask the 
+question about who is writing Season 4
+
+<J_M_S> So far the first 9 scripts are jms scripts.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (B5Online@WB) Any news about an enhanced CD?  or 
+can't say? ;>
+
+<J_M_S> Nothing's set yet. 
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) from DomesticB@ WB irc/#babylon5:
+ Will the scripts ever be available in a novelized format?
+
+<J_M_S> No immediate plans for it.  
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Morganna> JMS: this collectors plate? 
+...where will we be able to buy it from? ..WB shops?
+
+<J_M_S> Not from WB, no, but likely via ads and direct from 
+Hamilton's.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Tigerlily@WB) Hacker> Mr. Straczynski: First of all, I 
+would like to say how much I have enjoyed Babylon 5 for the last 
+few years. My question is what made you think of creating Babylon 
+5, what was your inspiration?
+
+<J_M_S> It's hard to point to any one inspiration for B5...I wanted 
+to do a saga, I wanted to do a space station story, and one day I 
+realized that they were both the same story.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Styphathl> JMS: What are the chances 
+of a Human and a Minbari being able to concive. Or is B5 going to 
+pull a Star Trek and allow genetic crossovers?
+
+<J_M_S> No two difference species can mate without 
+*considerable* genetic manipulation.  It can't be done as on ST.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Lyta> Valen> May i please ask if there will be another series in the 
+b5 universe since it is -i now
+
+<J_M_S> Lyta: WB has asked to see a treatment for a sequel; I 
+wrote one; they like it, but we'll have to see.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) 1.  Any word on the status of future B5 comics?
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) 3.  Will we ever learn who specifically 
+conceived of the Babylon project?
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) 4.  And lastly (it never hurts to ask) 
+can I have a job?
+
+<J_M_S> Answered the comics question earlier; yes, later this 
+year/spring; (you went from 1 to 3, which confirms you work for 
+WB)...and 3, eventually, and 4...you can have my job, but you'll 
+have to lose all your hair first.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> JMS can you describe how the Arc was written out?
+
+<J_M_S> The arc is written (was written) over a couple of years in 
+bits and pieces, it's now in a 300 page file triple-encrypted in my 
+computer.  
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (ToeKnee@Undernet) Describe what it was like seeing 
+the 5 year story arc at once ... how do you feel?
+
+<J_M_S> It was quite stunning to see the whole story at once...it just 
+flashed into my brain.  Someone said of poems once that he didn't 
+write poems, he discovered them, they were always there, waiting 
+for someont to write them.  I think that may apply here.l)
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <_Codex> JMS: how long it took to 
+render one frame in "shadow dancing" fighting scenes? How many 
+ships there were in the fight? Was that biggest fight in the story?
+
+<J_M_S> Don't nkow about rendering times; but overall our biggest 
+CGI episode in our history will be in the first 6 episodes.  It's a 
+corker.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Sharpe> JMS: Will there be any 
+ground battles coming up, or is everything going to be space 
+based?
+
+<J_M_S> Space for now, ground later.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) JMS - will Melissa Gilbert be in any 
+episodes in Season 4 ?
+
+<J_M_S> Nopers.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Claudia-@Undernet) JMS:  What is the breakdown of 
+telepath levels?  Specifically, what percentage of human telepaths 
+are P12?
+
+<J_M_S> That's a way too complicated question for this forum, alas.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Spencer> IJMS: Would you die for 
+The One? (after writing the rest of the show, of course)
+
+<J_M_S> I wouldn't go get pizza for the one.  That ain't my job.  
+I'm just the writer.  
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> <]{osh> JMS: Are any Babylon 5 tech books going to be 
+made?  If so, when? Are their examples of the Story arc in your 
+Book.
+
+<J_M_S> The  UK is coming out with a tech manual from Boxtree.  
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Tigerlily@WB) <TwoKnives@wb> Who is YOUR favorite 
+Sci-Fi author?
+
+<J_M_S> Favorite: Ellison or Bradbury or Tolkein.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <B5Jim> JMS, Are you upset that 
+Harlan Ellison won't write a sequel to Demon with a Glass Hand 
+for you?
+
+<J_M_S> B5jim: no, given that he had a quadruple bypass, and an 
+earthquake, I kinda figured he was justified.  Not refusal, just no 
+time.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Valen@WB) Question from Sigma:  JMS - you obviously 
+have a huge & loyal following from the UK, and thanks for Jason & 
+Michael York (both English!) - hows about a Scottish figure!!?? 
+Sean Connery would be Brilliant! And if you need Scottish 
+characterisations ....
+
+<J_M_S> If WB will give me the money to hire Sean, we'll do it.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) JMS - Have you thrown around the 
+possibility of working with Claudia Christian in other 
+works(TV,movies,etc) ?
+
+<J_M_S> I don't throw Claudia around, she hits me...but seriously, 
+I'd love to work with her on any other project.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Lyta> Will there being any modeling kits produced for sale? Valen
+
+<J_M_S> Lyta; Revell is coming out with models.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (BluKnight@WB) Joe:  Would you be interested in 
+getting on more often, even if to chat about non-B5 things (like us 
+IRCers normally do)?
+ 
+<J_M_S> re: more IRC..I think my brain would explode.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (beejmart@WB) How cum we can't get the NEATO 
+British B5 books reprinted by Dell????
+
+<J_M_S> Yes, apparently the B5 books from the uK will be printed 
+here too.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> <MetalZone> JMS - There seems to be a religious 
+under-current in Babylon 5, is this inspired
+<Othello> from a particular faith?
+
+<J_M_S> There's not a religious or moral undercurrent, it's an 
+ethical one...my job is to ask questions.
+<J_M_S> Me, Im an atheist, so you know I don't hae an angenda in 
+that.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> <Alpha1> Will there ever be a B5 PC game like Wing Commander? 
+
+<J_M_S> There are negotiations ongoing for a game.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<Othello> Are their examples of the Arc type format in your book.
+
+<J_M_S> Othello: haven't written enough books to have an arc yet.  
+Just an ar
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) JMS - Will there be any more novels in 
+the US besides the 6 that have come out?
+
+<J_M_S> We've been talking to some of the canada cons...we'll see.  
+And yes, there will be more novels, one of which shows in detail 
+what happened to Anna Sheridan at Zhadum.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <KdC> JMS: Do you have plans to 
+attend and of the Canadian Sci-Fi cons, such as Toronto Trek 11 
+or any others in the next year or so?  (ps please thank Jerry for 
+being at TT10.  It was an honour and a pleasure to meet him.)
+
+<J_M_S> We've been talking to some of the canada cons...we'll see.  
+And yes, there will be more novels, one of which shows in detail 
+what happened to Anna Sheridan at Zhadum.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Valen@WB) Question from Agamemnon:  "Is there a 
+Vorlon/Shadow relationship like there was a Vulcan/Romulan 
+relationship in Star Trek (as much as I hate to mention that other 
+show here!)"
+
+<J_M_S> Agamemnon: no.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <PhantomII> JMS .... If you come away 
+from this (IRC) as a positive experience any chance of covincing 
+any of the cast to come in and pay us a visit ? (Ivy note: Is C.C. 
+still planning on coming back to Efnet #babylon5?)
+
+<J_M_S> I'll tell them what it was like.  After we revive them, I'll 
+try to encourage them to try it.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Tigerlily@WB) LilWolf @wb> How is it that you are 
+able to integrate scenes that are pictures taken by Hubble space 
+telescope into the babylon 5 images of the surrounding space, 
+including the superimpositions of ships into these pictures?
+
+<J_M_S> We have fans at the Hubble operation, who supply us with 
+good quality slides we use as backgrounds.  
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<JMSLink1> (Ivanova@EFnet) <Styphathl> JMS: will we ever discover 
+why thge SHADOWS are the bad guys compared to the other First 
+Ones? Like what did they do that peeved them all off and what are 
+the channces of the SHADOWS being the only First Obes that act 
+like they do???
+
+<J_M_S> Yep, in the final 5 of this year.  Literally, 95% of all 
+questions about the shadows will be answered in these next few 
+eps.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<J_M_S> Okay, we're wrapping things up....
+<J_M_S> just wanted to say thanks to everyone who showed up (even WB...
+sorta)....
+<J_M_S> and that the support of the show from so many people is wonderful and 
+gratifying in the extreme...you will never know how much it means to us, and 
+has from the first day.
+<J_M_S> Thanks muchly...it's been great.  See you on the flipside.
+<J_M_S> (they say we hit a new world record on attendees)
+<J_M_S> Going offline...............now.
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+IRC chat with JMS on Thursday, January 23, 1997 at 19:00 PST (0300 UTC)
+on channel #Babylon5 of server irc.warnerbros.com (and connected servers)
+
+Transcript captured and edited by Tim Eliseo <tim@quiknet.com>.  Chatter and
+irrelevant IRC administrivia have been deleted.  Only intro, questions,
+answers, and messages JMS responded to are included.  If you *really* want my
+raw transcript, mail me.
+
+*** jms is B5Online@ip006.lax.primenet.com (JMS)
+*** Moderator is mec@cumulus.org (mec)
+*** BluKnight is mec@cumulus.org (Unca' Blu)
+*** B5Online is B5Online@ip006.lax.primenet.com (Troy Rutter)
+
+<BluKnight> Thank you for coming to the Warner Brothers IRC servers this evening.  My
+<BluKnight> name is BluKnight, and I am your primary host this evening...  We are very
+<BluKnight> glad you stopped in, and hope you enjoy the show this evening.
+<BluKnight>
+<BluKnight> As you may or may not know, the creator, executive producer, and all around
+<BluKnight> God of the hit television series Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski, is
+<BluKnight> coming here this evening, through the auspices of B5Online at Warner Bros
+<BluKnight> Online.
+<BluKnight>
+<BluKnight> This is a moderated chat event.  Questions can be submitted through sending
+<BluKnight> a private message to Moderator with the text "@submit (question here)",
+<BluKnight> without the quotes.  On most IRC clients, the command would look like this:
+<BluKnight>
+<BluKnight>   /msg Moderator @submit Why doesn't Kosh make any sense?
+<BluKnight>
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+<BluKnight> in a queue to be reviewed by one of our ops.  If it is rejected (probably
+<BluKnight> due to story ideas, bad taste, or other "forbidden topics"), you will
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+<BluKnight> Again, we thank you for your participation.
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+<BluKnight> Ok...
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+            things, will be IMMEDIATELY /killed by an operator.
+
+/msg StelarCom help
+*StelarCom* Help for JMS Chat
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+
+*** jms (B5Online@ip006.lax.primenet.com) has joined channel #babylon5
+<BluKnight> Ok...
+<BluKnight> B5Online:  are we ready?
+<BluKnight> B5Online:  Lets rock and roll....
+<jms> We don't need no stinking rules as long as everyone understands I run the universe.
+<jms> How come no one ever Big Bands, only Rocks and Rolls?
+
+<Moderator> Question from War_Maker:   Now that Lyta is no longer employed by the Vorlons will we
+            learn about her tripp to the vorlon homeowrld?
+<jms> I think that's something she's averse to talking about unless she has to.  Certainly now...
+<jms> that the Vorlons are no longer employing her, she'll have to find ways to get along...
+<jms> no Vorlons, outside the Psi Corps, she's very much on her own now, and vulnerable.
+
+<Moderator> Question from Gargoyle:   Sir, thank you for making such a wonderful show, and my
+            question was, would you ever write a sequel to Babylon5? (I.e. another series, or can
+            you confirm the movie?)
+<jms> Well, WB is currently negotiating for a sequel, so we'll  see...and the two TNT movies are
+<jms> definitely on, pending being able to make our deals with the cast and the like.
+
+<Moderator> Question from DocSane:   <When all is said and done, and the series ends either this
+            year or next, will you finally let us in on what the original story structure was
+            going to be?>
+<jms> A painter begins a painting.  As he goes along, he makes modifications, decides that B is...
+<jms> better than A in terms of serving the purpose of the art...would it be appropriate to...
+<jms> skin back the layers of paint and see what steps the artist went through to get to where...
+<jms> he finally ended up believing was the right place?  In this case, I think that the B5...
+<jms> story is best just being what it *is* rather than what it *isn't*.
+<jms> (The question also proceeds from the assumption it changed a lot...it didn't, not that much)
+
+<B5Online> We have temporarily lost the moderator... so... JMS, you said you are holding out on
+           the title of season 4 until episode 15 or 16...
+<B5Online> Can you let us in on when we might find out the 3 ages of mankind?
+<jms> You'll get the info on the 3 ages in the next batch of new eps; and I'm not holding off...
+<jms> on the title of S4 until 15 or 16, the title *is* episode 15.  And much as it annoys me...
+<jms> that this was broken outside because I trusted a reporter with the info (who then...
+<jms> promptly printed it in the UK)...the S4 title *is* "No Surrender, No Retreat."
+
+<Moderator> Question from Rathenn:   Are the Minbari particularly 'obligated' to side one way or
+            the other in the onslaught of the Vorlons?
+<jms> Well, for the time being they're certainly aligned with Entil'zha, which would be Delenn.
+
+<Moderator> Question from Jkay:   you use a 'painter' analogy, and I would agree .. but it
+            certainly would be FUN to see what the 5 year plan looked like when you submitted it
+            to WB, all the same :)
+<jms> WB never saw the full 5 year plan...I wouldn't show it to anyone except a very few...
+<jms> carefully chosen people; not even Doug knew how it would all come out.  And yeah...
+<jms> I can see how it'd be fun on one level...but it's also kinda like the magician showing you..
+<jms> which sleeve he used to hide the rabbit he removed from his hat.
+
+<Moderator> Question from Reese:   Sir, what gave you the idea for Babylon 5?
+<jms> People almost always assume there is one thing that gives you the idea for something...
+<jms> I could say, "what gave you the idea for your marriage?"  It's much the same thing; it's a..
+<jms> process, no one single thing, that cumulatively comes together.  With B5, it came...
+<jms> from wanting to do an SF show responsibly, and trying to figure out how I'd do that...
+<jms> which led me to a space station notion..and I always wanted to do a big SF saga, but I...
+<jms> thought those were two different stories, until one day in the shower they just collided...
+<jms> and I realized they were the same story, and it went on from there.
+
+<B5Online> Rabbit? Sleeve?  My whole life is ruined now.
+<jms> Troy, That happened long before I logged on.
+<B5Online> Oh thanks. :D
+
+<Moderator> Question from Scorp666:   If you could classify the Babylon 5 Universe in one word,
+            what would it be?
+<jms> AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
+<jms> (Next question?)
+<jms> (And yes, that *was* the word.)
+
+<Moderator> Question from Zack:   First, I would like to thank you for answering my questions
+            last time at www.thestation.com Secondly, I apreciate the series, and I was wondering
+            if the relationship between Babylon5 and Earth will get worse.
+<jms> not a prob
+<jms> (smiles evilly) ....oh....I'd say so.....
+
+<Moderator> Question from MrSpark:   [truncated at start of chat, re-asking] is the character of
+            Zack Allan more than a minor player?
+<jms> Well, he certainly becomes more important in this next batch of episodes, moving to...
+<jms> the foreground in some very important ways, developing and changing the nature of some...
+<jms> relationships, and so on. I've kind of kept him in my back pocket until now.
+
+<Moderator> Question from ^Lorien^:   Will you continue into season 5 or end it all in season 4?
+<jms> We'll know that when Warner Bros. tells us; we have still not heard definitive word.
+
+<Moderator> Question from Innfinity:   Any plan to overdub Ivanova's "Nook-you-ler" mistake in
+            HoTW?
+<jms> No, mainly because 99% of the time a dub *sounds* like a dub, and it brings...
+<jms> you out of the scene, and for one word it ain't worth it.  You also have to then change...
+<jms> all the international versions, the domestic broadcast tapes, int'l tapes...
+<jms> it's hideously expensive just for one word.
+
+<Moderator> Question from Tykers:   JMS: What were some of your reasons for allowing ppl to make
+            their own B5 pages, and not go after them like Viacom is going after Star Trek pages?
+<jms> I talked to WB about it, and our sense, which WB agreed with, was that if fans cared..
+<jms> enough about the show to want to expend that kind of effort to support it, it would be...
+<jms> monumentally rude of us to go after them AS LONG AS the sites contained the correct...
+<jms> copyright information on our images and the like.  It just seemed the sensible approach.
+
+<Moderator> Question from GaiusXVII:   Compared to the first season, how much has the per show
+            budget gone up in this past season?
+<jms> It goes up a few percentage points each season...the overall increase from season one...
+<jms> to now has been about $150,000 per episode total over 4 years.
+
+<Moderator> Question from Eagle^1:   Will any B5 episodes ever make it to the Museum of Radio
+            and Television?
+<jms> That's kind of up to the Museum of Radio and TV.
+<B5Online> Sounds like a letter-writing campaign... ;>
+
+<Moderator> Question from Keffer:   Why are the Vorlons so upset?
+<jms> They think they know how everyone should behave, how things should run, and we're...
+<jms> not doing it right fo starters, and the shadows continue to take the diametrically opposite.
+<jms> approach, and now they see a chance to shut down the opposition...
+<jms> and they're taking it.  I'm not sure that "upset" is the word...more like "determined."
+
+<Moderator> Question from uzun:   The plan to forcefully eject Kosh2 seemed more to be the
+            premeditated murder of Kosh2, while Kosh2 attempted to flee.  Is Lorien more a
+            malevolent force on Sheridan than we now realize?
+<jms> We'll see soon on Lorien.  But understand that Kosh2 had refused to leave, had assaulted...
+<jms> and injured a security team; his continued presence would jeapordize the mission to save...
+<jms> several billion people's lives, and he would've turned to kill them in that hall if he had..
+<jms> the chance to do so (as he tried lashing at Delenn).  He was given a chance to leave in...
+<jms> peace, he declined, so he left in pieces.  He only tried to run with Kosh1 came out.
+
+<Moderator> Question from ZogLite:   Is Franke signed to submit work for the TNT movies and
+            Crusades?
+<jms> He hasn't been signed yet because we don't have a deal for the series yet, but we have...
+<jms> every intention of using him no both the movies and the series.
+<jms> ON both, that is.
+
+<Moderator> Question from Shadows:   what i was wondering about if the good guys will ever have
+            to ally with the shadows... excuse me if the question sounds lame but... i would just
+            like to know
+<jms> That would require telling you how the story goes...but bear in mind also that we're not...
+<jms> necessarily dealing in good vs. evil, as order vs. chaos, and you can find men and women...
+<jms> of good and bad virtues on either side of that line.
+
+<Moderator> Question from NarnBoy:   Dreams and prophecy are useful instruments in telling the B5
+            story. Have you had any personal experience with these, such as a clairvoyant friend
+            or precognitive dreams?
+<jms> Nope.  And as an atheist, I don't believe in those things.  I don't need to...
+<jms> believe in Minbari to write about them, or Shadows (though they do live under my bed).
+
+<Valen> Troy:  didn't you say you were clairvoyant?
+<Valen> :)
+<B5Online> Heh. I said I was psychotic.
+<Valen> oh
+<Valen> Psychotic, psychic, I gte them mixed up
+<Valen> :)
+<jms> "And suddenly the conversation took an ugly turn..."
+
+<Moderator> Question from Mo:   Will it still 'end in fire' or has that all been averted by
+            Sinclair's time travel?
+<jms> If you're referring to the Emperor's question...he/we didn't define what "it" is...for his..
+<jms> homeworld, as we saw in WWE2, a lot of Centauri Prime *does* end in fire.  And that...
+<jms> will still take place.  That appointment is now firmly on the books.
+
+<Moderator> Question from WildMan:   are the TNT moives going to be on any other networks?
+<jms> Not that I'm aware of, no.
+
+<Moderator> Question from ^Lorien^:   When are you comming to Australia? :)
+<jms> As soon as you get rid of all those great big rats with the pouches....
+<jms> Eventually, I'm sure, when there's an invite to a good sized convention.
+
+<Moderator> Question from Lorien:   Is the third Age about Humans, Mimbari, and the younger
+            races developing their own sense of purpose, away from the guidance of the Shadows
+            and Vorlons?
+<jms> Could be something like that...we'll see shortly.
+
+<Moderator> Question from JamesC:   Are human telepaths capable of precognition, limited or
+            otherwise?
+<jms> Nope, that's one facet we didn't get.
+
+<Moderator> Question from Grond:   Anything new on the spin-off series?
+<jms> There are intense negotiations going on, and it's now all a question of making the deal...
+<jms> with all the parties involved; they want to do it, now we have to make the deal work
+
+<Moderator> Question from CrazyLrry:   I really loved Othersyde and Demon Night, do you plan to
+            write any more novels? And if so what do you want to write about??
+<jms> I'm actually in the early stages of my next novel right now, which is a nifty SF concept...
+<jms> contemporary setting, can't say much more about it.  I'd like to continue to do...
+<jms> a wide range of stuff: SF, dark fantasy, horror, nonfiction, the whole thing.
+
+<Moderator> Question from Dave:   So, we're not going to find out what Lyta's errands were?
+<jms> You want to go interrogate the vorlons, go ahead, I don't want to annoy them.
+
+<Moderator> Question from Delenn:   Will Vir himself end up killing Cartagia? (it has symmetry)
+<jms> Who can say?
+<jms> General note: if you ask me "will X happen" or "when will Y happen" you will almost always..
+<jms> get an evasive answer; if I were going to just tell y'all I wouldn't make the show.
+
+<Moderator> Question from Redag:   Having just seen the promo for The Long Night: Why doesn't
+            Harlan design some more weapons?  A *lot* more weapons?:)
+<jms> Because he might decide to start *using* them, and the world would tremble.
+
+<Moderator> Question from Dalenn:   Can we expect alot of big surprises in the next batch of
+            episodes?
+<jms> No.  I think that surprises are a bad idea.  I think that having the shows as dull and...
+<jms> unpredictable as possible is the way to go.  I don't want to startle anybody.  (sigh...
+<jms> well, what can one expect from someone who spells it Dalenn...?)  So yes, we will.
+<jms> (sigh2...that should've been dull and predictable above...I'm such a meroon...)
+<B5Online> I believe the nick Delenn was taken and thats why it was spelled that way. :)
+
+<Moderator> Question from EUHese:   when did you first decide to write B5  ?
+<jms> 5 minutes after I saw the whole story explode in my head in the shower, I decided that...
+<jms> this story *would* get told, it *would* get made, and we'd tell it all.  That was 1986/87.
+<jms> (Okay, then the Delenn thing isn't that person's fault...it's the universe's sense of humor.
+<jms> hat I would gig somebody on spelling and then screw up the sentence I write...
+<jms> and people wonder where I get this weird sense of humor; the universe considers me its..
+<jms> personal cat toy.)
+<jms> (You have ANY idea what it's like to go through life covered in cosmic cat spit?)
+
+<Moderator> Question from ge:   is babylon5 is going to decay after the 5th season(i would like
+            to think it wont)(if the 5th season will even be) or will it become more?
+<jms> well, since B5 can't *go* beyond 5 years, that's a moot question.
+
+<Moderator> Question from GaiusXVII:   When you get ideas for a plot or episode, what is the
+            wierdest or funniest thing or inspiration you have had...
+<jms> I think that would have to be Londo's six genitalia; I was working out that script where...
+<jms> it was first introduced, and I was writing in bed because I had a 104+ temperature, on a..
+<jms> notebook computer, and I came up with this, and I just started laughing...and...
+<jms> laughing...and I started coughing and laughing so hard I literally fell out of bed.
+
+<Moderator> Question from Greyleaf:   What will become of you and B5 after the 5 year arc?
+<B5Online> I think we answered that, didnt we?
+
+<Moderator> Question from DarkJedi:   Are the episode ever gonna be put into book or novel form...
+<jms> That's a question for some years from now; right now my main obsession is getting it all...
+<jms> done and out in video form.  The idea of telling the whole story again, in novel form, is...
+<jms> enough to send me into a coma.
+
+<Moderator> Question from lar1:   how lnog does it take to write a scrips?
+<jms> Depends.  When it's a white-heat situation, when it's all Right There in my head, I can...
+<jms> write the whole thing in 2 days.  (And oddly enough, those are almost always the best ones..
+<jms> the ones I work on for 2 weeks are never quite as good.)  The average is 7 days.
+
+<Moderator> Question from NarnBoy:   Thank you Mr. S for such a fascinating story as is B5.  It
+            brings out the writer in some of us.  Do you have any advice for those that now have
+            the inspiration to write since being touched by B5?
+<jms> I'll give you the best advice I ever got: "Never let anyone stop you from telling the...
+<jms> story you want to tell.  And cut every third adjective."  Write from passion, write...
+<jms> what moves you, don't worry about formulas, just *write*.  (I have a whole book...
+<jms> out on this, btw..."The Complete Book of Scriptwriting," available from Writer's Digest...
+<jms> Books, or via www.amazon.com.)
+
+<Moderator> Question from uzun:   The unnamed first ones that Ivanova contacted a year or so
+            ago, are they of the same race as Lorien?
+<jms> No, younger.  But you'll see them again soonish.
+
+<Moderator> Question from Innfinity:   Who does the closed-captioning? Lately on cc I've seen
+            the intro-voiceovers attributed, but to all the wrong people.
+<jms> A company contracted by WB.  We provide them with scripts, and they take it from there...
+<jms> so it ain't our call.
+
+<Moderator> Question from MarkChase:   How much did HP Lovecraft influance the story line?
+<jms> Only in the sense that his work contained hints of ancient mysteries, beings billions of...
+<jms> years older than us, these vast, cyclopean places and things...it's that kind of...
+<jms> ambiance more than anything else.
+
+<Moderator> Question from Antony:   <Are th evorlons truly the evil ones?>
+<jms> Again, this ain't about good or evil.  You're also putting human notions on aliens who...
+<jms> don't think as we do.  The Vorlons think they're doing the right thing, as do the shadows...
+<jms> But what may be right for them, may be wrong for us.
+
+<Moderator> Question from MrTim:   We know the Walkers didn't think highly of the Vorlons. Does
+            that mean they agree with the Shadows?
+<jms> Not necessarily.  I may dislike Troy, that doesn't mean I automatically like Blu.  Or...
+<jms> vice versa.  The vorlons are just an annoying race to some of them.
+<B5Online> Ill try to figure out if thats good or bad for me.
+<jms> Yes.
+<jms> (to Troy)
+
+<Moderator> Question from Misty:   with the sequal you were just talking about, does this mean
+            anything about season 5?
+<jms> No, the sequel would either follow a final year 4, or be simultaneous with season 5, which..
+<jms> would enable crossovers.  It can go either way.
+
+<Moderator> Question from Mo:   Will we ever find out who built the Great Machine?
+<jms> Probably not.  Not all mysteries have answers.  And if I said, "A guy named Bob...
+<jms> built the machine," does that add to or diminish the mystery?  (I think it would diminish...
+<jms> the mystery of the machine, but on reflection add to the mystery of Bob.)
+
+<BluKnight> JMS:  do you want to continue, or stop here?  We just lost the moderator due to
+            massive use.
+<jms> Just to add a thought or two, since we just seem to have lost our question ability...
+<jms> the new episodes start next week, which signal a major change in the show and the war and
+<jms> many of our characters and how they relate to one another.  The February sweeps will also...
+<jms> be crucial to determining the year 4/5 question.  As well as the B5 WB site, there is also..
+<jms> the B5 fan club site, btw, which is at www.thestation.com, and a fun place.
+<jms> One way or another, this story will be finished, and the episodes we have in hand now are...
+<jms> some of the best we've ever done.  One suggestion: watch "Into the Fire" with a friend who..
+<jms> owns a REALLY cool video/sound system, as this is a real blow-out.
+<jms> Anyway, I'm told that this is about it...I just wanted to close by thanking everyone for...
+<jms> coming and for supporting the show; you will never know how much the support has meant to...
+<jms> those of us working on the show, and continues to mean.  It's because of you that this..
+<jms> show has stayed on the air, and we never forget that.
+<jms> Thanks again, and g'night all.
+<BluKnight> JMS:  Thank you, on behalf of all of the ops and regulars of irc.warnerbros.com for
+            coming.
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+From: flixman@news.dorsai.org (Robt_Martin)
+Subject: JMS in SF Entertainment 10/95
+Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 07:50:58 GMT
+
+
+This text is copyright 1995 by Robert Martin. License for free
+distribution of this text, in complete or edited form, is granted
+providing the full text of this notice is included. Distribution
+of this text as part of a commercially available compilation,
+outside of the context of the Usenet distributed network, is
+expressly forbidden, which stricture includes the distribution of
+this text in any form of commercial archive (i.e., this is NOT to
+be included on CD-ROM Usenet compilations).
+
+
+
+Let There Be Light
+Let There Be Shadows
+
+Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain...
+Joe Straczynski on creating the universe of Babylon-5
+
+
+By Robert Martin
+
+The collaborative nature of television often defeats the attempt
+to bring the distilled vision of a single individual to the small
+screen. But on the rare occasion when that attempt works, the
+product is often something built to last--Rod Serling's <I>The
+Twilight Zone</I>, for instance, or Gene Rodenberry's <I>Star
+Trek</I>.
+
+The phrase "Joseph Straczynski's <I>Babylon-5</I>" may not come
+so trippingly off the tongue, but as that show continues to
+unfold its five-year saga of war and destiny among the stars, it
+has become clear to an increasing number of viewers that this is
+not "television as usual." Every episode in the series, though
+plotted to stand as a single narrative, simultaneously advances a
+broader story--which is not simply a timeline, but a sprawling
+novelistic saga with a variety of themes, subplots, and points of
+view.
+
+This broader narrative will reach its midpoint in the coming
+season, and currently things are heating up considerably on
+<I>B-5</I>. Most notably, the episode "The Coming of Shadows"
+marked the beginning of what seems likely to become a war between
+all the mortal races of the galaxy versus an ancient species of
+awesome power known only as the Shadows. Our last, best hope is
+that our alliance with the Vorlon species will help to pull us
+through...but we don't even know what a Vorlon is, though the
+Vorlon character Kosh has been a presence on the series since its
+inception.
+
+There's much more to be said about the show, its cast, its crew
+and its fans, but this time we need all the space we've got for
+the following lengthy interview. Those with access to any on-line
+service, to the World Wide Web, or to the Internet can find a
+wealth of background on the series; <I>Babylon-5</I> data files
+are available via file transfer protocol from ftp.hyperion.com;
+Mr. Straczynski's on-line communications can be monitored on a
+daily basis via the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon-5. And
+a vast trove of information can be explored in <I>The Lurker's
+Guide To Babylon-5</I> on the World Wide Web at
+http://www.hyperion.com/lurk/lurker.html.
+
+<B>Sci-Fi Entertainment:</B> In 1986, when this concept was first
+hatched, how did you figure the odds of getting this far with it?
+
+<B>Joseph M. Straczynski: </B>You have to understand the way my
+brain works, which is a dark and scary thing on the best of
+days.... When I came up with this in 1986, I said at that time, I
+will write the screenplay, I will get that screenplay produced as
+a pilot, I will get the series, the series will run for five
+years, and I will get off the stage. I never considered the
+odds.... I said this is going to happen; I didn't know it was
+going to take five years for it to happen. This show has been,
+really, an exercise in sheer force of will. I decided it was
+going to happen and nothing got between me and that. I don't even
+allow any other possibilities in my head. It's like standing in
+front of a long train with a chain on your back, pulling for five
+years, until it starts to move. For one brief period, you and the
+train are moving at the same speed...and then the train starts
+chasing you. That's about where I am right now with the story
+line.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> Your method of weaving story-threads through the
+series so that an episode in season two might play like the
+conclusion of a season one story, and the various resonances that
+creates--was that part of the initial seed?
+
+<B>JMS:</B> Foreshadowing is a technique that's not much used in
+series television--there's a lot of retro-continuity, where you
+write episode sixteen to conform to facts established in episode
+fourteen. But to write something for episode nine that won't be
+referred to again for a year is pretty much unheard of.
+
+Usually you structure a show around an hour--you don't structure
+it around two years--or five years. There's stuff in the first
+season of <I>Babylon-5<I> that serves its own narrative purpose,
+but will become far more relevant four years from now--as you go
+along, it gains more depth. And that was always at the core of
+the concept.
+
+I grew up a science fiction fan--reading Ray Bradbury's <I>The
+Martian Chronicles</I>, a series of individual stories which,
+together, create a large tapestry. E.E. "Doc" Smith's
+<I>Lensman</I> books, <I>Childhood's End</I>, the <I>Foundation
+</I>novels, <I>Lord of the Rings</I>, <I>Dune</I>, <I>Stranger in a
+Strange Land</I> are all sagas of that nature.
+
+Looking at the SF shows that were done, I asked, why hasn't
+anyone in American television--the British have done it--created an
+honest-to-god, literary-structured saga? And the only reason is
+that no one has ever done it.
+
+So as a thought experiment, I asked myself, if I were going to do
+that, how would I do it? What would it be, and how would I
+structure it? I began putting together the pieces, and that
+melded into another thought-experiment I had, which had to do
+with the way television is made--about 30 percent of the budget of
+any television show is wasted. So this came out of those two
+ideas, to find a means to marry these two concepts.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> It strikes me that the show might be more valued when
+it exists as a set of laserdiscs on a fan's shelf, than in its
+current form as a TV show; it seems a viewer might get more out
+of it that way....
+
+<B>JMS:</B> To some extent they might. The guy who is putting
+together the collector cards for Fleer sat down and watched two
+or three episodes per night, watching the whole thing through. He
+wrote me back and was just wog-boggled, because when you see it
+that way, the tightness of the structure just jumps out at you;
+and, while he'd been following the show, he really hadn't glommed
+onto what we were doing.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> It's my understanding that renewal came more easily
+this year, thanks to improved ratings....
+
+<B>JMS:</B> The ratings have improved, and the demographics are
+amazing, which makes the advertisers and the network very happy.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> When the show was still struggling to establish an
+audience, I imagine the TV-heads saying, "Joe, why don't you do a
+nice little space show with bad bad guys and good good guys, so
+the audience can have a reasonable expectation of what they're
+going to see?"
+
+<B>JMS:</B> I will tell you a true thing; during both renewal
+periods, first season and second, no one ever broached that to
+us--no one ever said, "Listen, we think you should pull back on
+this arc nonsense and just give us regular stories."
+
+That is why it took so long to get this series started in the
+first place; it took us five years to find people who understood
+exactly what it was we were trying to accomplish in the first
+place, and would sign on for that task of telling this larger
+story, in the way it needed to be told. Dick Robertson at Warner
+Brothers and David Thompson at Chris-Craft Television together
+are the brains behind the PTEN network. They backed this show for
+the purpose of telling this story, and our contact at Warner
+Brothers, Greg Mayday, who is terrific, also understands what it
+is we're trying to accomplish--which is the reason we're doing the
+show in the first place. So that has never even come up.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> In that case, your experience stands in sharp contrast
+to Harlan Ellison's well-known battles with TV executives. Have
+things changed that much in television?
+
+<B>JMS:</B> Not really. Remember, it took five years to find these
+guys.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> Speaking of Mr. Ellison, he is credited as "Conceptual
+Consultant." What exactly does that mean?
+
+<B>JMS:</B> Harlan's involvement is as peripatetic as Harlan
+himself is; he is allowed to insert himself into the process
+wherever he chooses. He's advised on costumes, on sets, he's come
+in on the meetings with writers like Peter David and David
+Gerrold. His description of the job is that he's the mad dog
+nipping at my heels; I think of him as my Jiminy Cricket,
+perhaps, a free-floating agent of chaos who, having been through
+such experiences as <I>The Starlost</I>, can help me avoid the
+pitfalls. And his job is to be honest with me, because when you
+are a television producer, people are very seldom about to tell
+you, "Joe, it sucks." You need someone around you who will do
+that, as in the old Roman tradition--when the conquering hero
+returns to Rome as garlands are being lain upon you, you have
+someone at your shoulder to say, "Fame is fleeting. You, too,
+will die." That's Harlan's job, to be the honest opinion that I
+need, because he's never pulled his punches and never will. As
+such, he is a valuable resource to me. He created the character
+of the ombudsman, helped to write the opening narration. He's
+contributed in many ways, but always around the corners, because
+he knows the story is my story; but his contributions have been
+very helpful in making that story much richer and deeper.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> You have an extremely varied background as a writer; I
+assume that is at least partly because you like doing a variety
+of things. Now you have this massive commitment to a television
+series.
+
+
+<B>JMS:</B> I am single-minded in some ways--when I'm of a mind to
+do something, I'll stick with it. I knew what the job consisted
+of when I took it, so it's never been a problem. The only problem
+was when, after five years of development--at a time when I could
+have gotten any number of mainstream shows going--people around me
+were saying, "Joe, it ain't gonna happen." Even my agent was
+saying, "Joe, it's not happening, give it up." But I couldn't do
+that. And then, of course, it did happen, and things have been
+great since.
+
+And the show is not the same; the show of the second year is not
+the same show we were doing the first year, and the
+<I>Babylon-5</I> we'll be doing three years from now won't be at
+all like the first-year show. As well, each episode is very
+different from every other episode--some are very dark, some very
+character-oriented, some have huge action set-pieces. What's
+great is that I come from a background where I've done comedy,
+I've done action, I've done drama, and I can take that diverse
+background and apply it all to this one, very diverse series.
+You'll get a very strong idea of one of the major changes by the
+end of this season.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> I understand that the final four episodes of season
+two are being held back to open your third season. Why is that?
+Isn't it a pain in the butt? <B>JMS:<B> A major pain in the butt.
+We and <I>Voyager <I>are doing the same thing, as it turns out.
+The new season begins, traditionally, in November. What happens
+usually is that we, and the <I>Trek <I>shows, only show four to
+six new episodes, then go back into reruns--so that, while we
+build ratings through that early part of the season, the reruns
+come in and you get cut off at the legs.
+
+So they figured, let's back this up a little bit, let's start
+showing episodes in October, get the momentum going, hit bigger
+with the first third-season episodes, and build, presumably, to a
+larger rating. From the numbers point of view it does make sense.
+From a creative point of view, I was on the roof with a
+high-powered gun...but what are ya gonna do?
+
+<B>SFE:</B> I'd think that would play havoc with the way you
+orchestrate the series' movement, judging from last year's season
+ending.
+
+<B>JMS:</B> It wasn't as big a cliffhanger this year, but I did
+reveal Kosh, which was enough to keep people talking for a couple
+of months.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> Will the shift alter your approach to the third
+season?
+
+<B>JMS:</B> Since it's airing a week after the last episode of
+season two, I changed the first third-season show to take place
+one week after the events of the previous season--I moved the
+dateline of the story up a little bit and changed some
+references. The actual plot line remains pretty much the same.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> The extent of your commitment to this show seems
+unprecedented--writing fifteen out of twenty-two scripts this
+season, and I know you take an active hand in a lot of aspects of
+the show...
+
+<B>JMS:</B> I'm involved in every aspect--costuming, prosthetics,
+computer design, casting, everything.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> And you're also deeply involved in the<I> B-5 </I>
+comics and novels. Where does it stop? This isn't how TV is
+usually done.
+
+<B>JMS:</B> You have to understand that this is my story and my
+baby, and whatever precedent has been set by how things are done
+in television, you have to keep in mind that I am a pain in the
+ass--very stubborn--and like to have my own way.
+
+Insofar as being involved in the comics and the novels is
+concerned, my sense is that very often, when a franchise is
+created, stuff is approved and just tossed out there to make
+money. The stuff just isn't part of the show; it's just
+tossed-off media crap. When I talked to the guys at DC, I said
+that I wanted to do something that would really feed into the
+show, and would be part and parcel of it. That way, the fans know
+that this stuff has passed through my hands, and know that it's
+been approved at the highest possible level of the show's
+creative staff, and not by some flunky in an office who stamps it
+"authorized."
+
+That's why we haven't done a whole lot of merchandising. I'd much
+rather keep a "boutique" approach to merchandising, than start
+cranking stuff out willy-nilly. I don't want to create a huge
+empire, I want to tell my story, and create a few ancillary
+things here and there because they are the particular things that
+I want.
+
+As for where it stops, there are a number of places where it has
+stopped, where I just didn't think it was worth my time to do
+certain things, and I've just said "pass" on those.
+
+Currently, I'm writing a four-issue story for the comic to tie
+directly into the first part of the third season, introducing a
+character who will be prominent through the season--providing that
+character's back-story and so on. The character will go from
+Minbar to Narn to Earth to Babylon-5. You'll see the entire B-5
+universe through this guy's eyes. It's a wonderful opportunity to
+do something we can't do in the show, because it would cost $10
+billion.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> How is the comic doing?
+
+<B>JMS:</B> We're trying to work out  a resolution to a situation
+now, in that DC is cutting back on all their non-superhero
+titles, rather strongly, and <I>B-5</I> may come under that axe.
+Our own feeling is that DC didn't handle it as well as they might
+have; they didn't promote it very much, and they didn't ship very
+much--while, whenever it reached the stores, it sold out in a day,
+which we know by all the re-order requests that came in. But the
+decision hasn't been made yet, and the feeling is that if there's
+just a slight increase in sales, say about 3 percent, it won't be
+a problem. If it does happen, it shouldn't be too difficult to
+place the comic elsewhere, as two other comics companies were
+interested in a <I>B-5 </I>comic at the outset; we went with DC,
+to keep it "in-house," in a sense [Time-Warner owns both Warner
+Television and DC Comics].
+
+<B>SFE:</B> You seem to prefer those things that will supplement
+the story, literary things...
+
+<BI>JMS:</B> Absolutely.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> ...as opposed to things like toys and models...
+
+<B>JMS:</B> Oh, I want there to be models...there's a model of
+<I>Babylon-5</I> in Sheridan's office, which he bought in the
+"<I>Babylon-5</I> Emporium" [a satiric jibe at SF merchandising,
+in the episode "There All Honor the Lies"], and when the show
+hits the end, everyone knows that it's going into the other
+"captain's" office--mine.
+
+I want the model to exist, so eventually it will.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> Earlier you mentioned literary antecedents to
+<I>B-5</I>. I had three I wanted to bring up; you mentioned
+Tolkien and Bradbury. The third, related particularly to the
+coming of the Shadows, is Lovecraft.
+
+<B>JMS:</B> Well, there's a certain Gothic tradition that we're
+drawing upon. Writers like Lovecraft, August Derleth, Lord
+Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith--they're all writers who worked in the
+area of the outre, dealing with dark areas that we can never
+quite wrap our minds around--a great tradition going back to the
+1930s, the '20s, and earlier. I would say that there are areas of
+the Shadow mythos that are of that school, and in that general
+area, though not particularly tied in to any one writer.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> So may we expect that tone to rise in the third
+season?
+
+<B>JMS:</B> I like creepy stuff. I like walking down the hall, the
+doors close, and there's a scratching from the other side...so,
+yes.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> You count yourself as an atheist, yet spiritual
+matters often set the theme for episodes of the show, and seem to
+be a large part of the arc. Some would see that as a
+contradiction.
+
+<B>JMS:</B> You have to understand that the writer's job is to be
+as honest as he humanly can in his characterizations and his
+storytelling. And, as I look at the long parade of human history,
+religion has not gone away in the past 4,000 years of recorded
+history, nor does it show any sign of going away any time soon.
+
+If I have to be honest in looking at the world 250 years from
+now, I have to say that people will still believe at that time,
+and I must treat that with respect--the same way I'd deal with
+scientific concepts. Because, truthfully, science and religion
+are two sides of the same coin. The methodology is vastly
+different--one relies on faith while the other relies on
+scientific method--both are endeavors to understand who we are,
+how we got here, where we are going, and what we are here to do.
+I feel that one must approach both of those endeavors with equal
+respect.
+
+I have a background of religious studies, a minor in philosophy
+from Northern California State, and majors in psychology,
+sociology and literature. I have always been intrigued by
+humanity's relationship to the mirror, its effort to come to
+grips with itself, as the only known species that asks, "Who am
+I?" My job is to explore that on every level, whether it's the
+religious side, the spiritual side, the scientific side, or
+within the aspect of each individual character. It all informs
+the core theme of <I>Babylon-5</I>, which, like everything else in
+the show, if you want to get it down to one sentence, is a
+question: "Will you lead or will you be led by others?'
+
+<B>SFE:</B> Beyond that level of recording future history, the
+show engages spiritual matters--matters of self-knowledge, which I
+guess is the atheist's best possible definition of
+"spirit"--directly.<I>
+
+<BI>JMS: </B>It comes down to the examined life versus the
+unexamined life, and so much of contemporary society is bent on
+distracting us from our own lives, with television, or the latest
+movie craze or something else. There's always that opportunity to
+be distracted each moment of your life, "I've gotta read the
+paper, I've gotta get the laundry, I've gotta see this movie,
+I've gotta..." on and on. And you never stop and just ask
+yourself the questions that matter. What this show tries to do is
+ask questions. We don't provide answers--my job is to ask
+questions, start discussions, start arguments, and start bar
+fights. If I do that, I've done my job.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> You mentioned that there will be changes occurring in
+the show with those last four episodes, that will be opening the
+third season. Will the first third-season shows continue that
+pace?
+
+<B>JMS:</B> No, because you have to do these things by degrees.
+The stuff that we do in the last four is pretty major stuff;
+we're going to take a breather from that with several more
+character-oriented episodes. And then, about mid-season, we're
+going to pull a biggie; there's a structural change in the entire
+core of the <I>Babylon-5</I> universe. The closest equivalent I
+can imagine--and this is not a one-to-one correspondence, but just
+to convey the magnitude of the change--suppose, when you turned on
+<I>Star Trek</I>, you found out that Starfleet has just been
+bought by the Klingons, and the <I>Enterprise </I>must now serve
+the Klingon Empire. Not just for an episode--that's what the show
+<I>is</I>, from that point on. It's a change of that magnitude,
+and I'm going to lead up to that with several nice, quiet, polite
+episodes; get up behind 'em and whap 'em real hard.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> You told Warner Brothers you're going to turn
+<I>Babylon-5 </I>upside down--they said, "Joe, that sounds great,"
+and clapped you on the back?
+
+<B>JMS:</B> Well, yeah. Their jaws dropped. They said, "You're
+really gonna do that?" And they started to get excited about it.
+They knew what the first three-year structure was supposed to be;
+the first year was sort of galloping around the galaxy, the
+second year was our guys take it on the chin--they did a lot to
+our guys, things didn't go too well for them at all--and the third
+year is our guys fight back. That's the first three years, and
+they knew that. And when I said, "bah-de-bah..." the room went
+wild. Greg Mayday in particular was very excited, and really
+taken for a loop by it.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> You've said that characters will die long before the
+show completes its run--unexpectedly, as in real life. Is anyone's
+fate coming up soon?
+
+<B>JMS:</B> Perhaps.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> That's better than a "no comment."
+
+<B>JMS:</B> When does this hit the newsstand?
+
+<B>SFE:</B> In early September...
+
+<B>JMS:</B> Then I can't tell you. [pause] But some stuff will
+happen even before this season's up.... We could lose a couple of
+characters. In a really permanent way.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> That's a shame. I hope not, 'cause I love all the
+characters.... I hope they all live long and, well, not prosper
+exactly....[laughter]
+
+<B>JMS:</B> If you recall <I>The Shining</I>, and the character
+played by Scatman Crothers, the only one who understood what the
+"shining" was, and understood the kid; he was the good guy, the
+guy everyone could rely on, and was set up throughout the movie
+to be the guy who would save everybody at the end. Then in the
+last half hour of the film, he realizes, omigod, something's gone
+wrong at the hotel--he gets in the snowcrawler, travels through
+ten miles of ice and snow and blizzard, negotiates this hostile
+terrain, nothin's gonna stop him, he's chuggin' along. He gets to
+the door, flings it open, gets an axe in his chest, and dies. And
+it hits you--here's the guy who was going to be the resolution,
+and he ain't it, he's lyin' on the floor in his own blood. I've
+done something similar, and you'll understand when you see the
+episode.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> Will we see any more of Michael O'Hare [Commander
+Sinclair in <I>Babylon-5'</I>s first season] in the foreseeable
+future?
+
+<B>JMS:</B> I've discussed this with Michael, and with Warner, and
+it's all set up to bring Michael back for a two-parter, about
+one-third into the third season.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> And that will clear everything up? Like the matter of
+his being "The One"?
+
+<B>JMS:</B> It'll clear up everything--that thread will not be
+abandoned, there will be some surprises there, and for everyone
+who was wondering, "Gee, I don't see how this fits in," it will
+suddenly make sense. The question of who is "The One," and
+questions surrounding Babylon-4, will all be dealt with--it's
+gonna be a corker of a two-parter.
+
+<B>SFE:</B> When you are not up to your ears in production--and
+even when you are--you communicate with fans, through GEnie,
+CompuServe and the Internet. Why?
+
+<B>JMS:</B> Bear in mind that I come from a background as a fan.
+My sense as a SF fan is that they tend to be the most exploited
+group around, told to watch the show, buy the toys, and shut the
+hell up. Whenever I used to come to conventions, where producers
+would show up with new shows, they'd say, "It's the best thing
+since sliced bread. You'll see. We'll come back and we'll talk."
+Then you see it, it ain't what they promised, and you can't find
+them to talk about it afterward. You want to hit them with a
+nerf-bat, but they're gone.
+
+Also, I've been on-line since 1984; I was one of the first guys
+on CompuServe. When this show got going, I said, "Should I change
+this part of my life?" The answer was <I>no</I>, why not keep that
+communication going? A lot of television producers are insulated,
+they don't get to hear from guys in Iowa or Dubuque, about what
+they think of their shows. And I think they would profit
+tremendously from hearing that information. So my decision was to
+keep that open, to respect the fans, to keep myself honest, to
+keep me humble, because it's hard not to be humble with some of
+the things that come flyin' through there, and because, for the
+last fifteen or twenty years, I've been working to de-mystify the
+whole area of television production.
+
+I did a column for ten years for <I>Writer's Digest </I>on
+television writing and what is involved with it, written columns
+and articles and parts of books about this. So here we have the
+opportunity, through this on-line exchange, to create a document,
+which will ultimately be thousands of pages long, tracking this
+series from the first development, to the pilot, through the
+series, things that go right, things that go wrong--which no one's
+ever done before to this extent. When we're done, there will be
+this extensive document, a snapshot of the entire process,
+available to anyone who is interested in the inner workings of a
+television series. It's all there, available for download, and
+people have been drawing upon it--I've gotten calls from
+university television and film department guys, saying they
+distributed it among their students. I heard from one producer
+who said that he borrowed our ideas on structuring the use of
+sets for a television project. That opportunity to educate and
+inform is an excellent reason to continue.
+
+
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+This interview was printed in The Zocalo, an online Babylon 5 newsletter.
+
+
+<*><*><*><*><*>
+Pay No Attention To That Man Behind The Curtain
+By Chuck Becker (Necromancer@pol.org)
+ <*><*><*><*><*>
+
+I am the great and powerful Oz!!!  Remember that line from the Wizard Of
+Oz???  Well in this case it's the great and powerful Kosh.  This week we
+get to be Toto and pull the man out from behind the curtain.  I got a
+chance to chat with the man behind the helmet or underneath it as it were.
+Jeffrey Willerth.  He gives us a glimpse inside the Kosh suit and behind
+the scenes on Babylon 5.  I just want to say thanks to Jeffrey for taking
+the time to chat with us and without further ado.....
+
+Heeeeeeerrrrree's Kosh!!!
+
+C.B.  How did you get the part?  Audition??
+
+J.W.  I down right begged for the part.  I had reason to believe the spot
+      might become available.  With a little tactical planning and some
+      Vorlon technology, I was in the right place at the right time to ask
+      the right person the right question.  That got me the chance to try
+      on the helmet, which happens to be very small and very inflexible.
+      Needless to say, the glass slipper fit.
+
+C.B.  What is your background?  <life and acting>
+
+J.W.  I have a degree in Broadcast Management and started in radio as a
+      disk jockey.  I spent several years in media relations for the
+      motorsport industry.  I'm more of a behind the camera kinda guy, but
+      remain comfortable in the spotlight.  Mostly lived on the east coast,
+      and came to California about seven years ago.
+
+C.B.  Did you know what you were auditioning for?
+
+J.W.  You bet!  It was my only real chance at a role on a TV series.  I
+      didn't (and don't) see myself as an actor destined for greatness.
+
+      Kosh will be my best gig ever.  Usually, when I see something I want,
+      I do get it.
+
+C.B.  How much background did Joe give you for the character?
+
+J.W.  You think Kosh IS cryptic???  Perhaps he does it to me on purpose,
+      but he really lets me go with it.  Only request was to be smooth and
+      glide along.  After my first few episodes, (the silence was killing
+      me) I asked him if I was doing anything wrong.  "You'd know if we saw
+      anything wrong"!  There have been a few times when I wasn't sure if I
+      was interpreting the script correctly (the ol' what you do now
+      affects the future stuff), and JMS has provided a solid direction.
+
+C.B.  Do you operate all the parts of the suit?  Iris on the helmet?
+      Helmet?  Lights/translator?
+
+J.W.  I get to operate the translator (voice) lights.  One of the
+      excellent folks from Optic Nerve will operate those nipple thingies
+      as well as the iris.  We often discuss with the director how the
+      scene will play and how we collectively portray Kosh.
+
+C.B.  Kosh never seems to walk; he seems to glide.  How is Kosh's gliding
+      walk done?
+
+J.W.  It is actually quite simple.  As if on a tight rope, I walk by
+      placing one foot in front of the other.  This minimizes the weight
+      transfer from right leg to left leg.  Try it!  Then try it with
+      electrical wires, batteries and servos dangling from your body.  And
+      go ahead and strap 35 lbs of fibreglass and composites to your collar
+      bone.  Then try it inside a sauna.  Now let's switch off the lights
+      and basically stop breathing.  Turning is fun.  I twist my legs
+      toward my final direction, but face another way.  Then rotate on my
+      heels till it stops feeling good and hope that I don't hit anything.
+      I really can't see anything.
+
+C.B.  Is it unbearably hot inside there?
+
+J.W.  Funny thing is, while I'm all inside, I just get into it and try to
+      do the job at hand.  It's only when they pull the helmet off me, I
+      see the looks of horror and pity from the crew!  Ten people offer me
+      a drink of water, all at once.  After I climb out, and start to walk
+      around is when I realize my underwear is soaked with sweat.  Oh, THIS
+      is Hollywood!
+
+C.B.  What is it like being in the Kosh suit?
+
+J.W.  If I wrote 1,000 words to answer this question, it still wouldn't
+      be accurate.  It is a very, very different experience.  I'd like to
+      think it helps me get into character.  It's not like Kosh is anyone
+      I've ever met before, I don't have many role models to work with
+      here!  The suit, Kosh and I become one.  (whoa!)
+
+C.B.  How do you sync up the audio?  Do you listen to tape of Ardwright
+      while you act the scene or do you run the lines and then dub
+      Ardwright in after?
+
+J.W.  I get the first crack at the dialog.  I act the scene with the
+      other actors both on and off camera.  Ardwight and the folks from our
+      post production facilities do the voice you hear.
+
+C.B.  How long does it take to suit up?
+
+J.W.  Unlike most all the other aliens on B5 who need hours of work, I can
+      be in and out of the suit in about five minutes.  However, once I'm
+      in, I like to stay there until I'm done for the day.
+
+C.B.  Can you give us a description of the character Kosh?
+
+J.W.  This is not meant to be a "cheesy" answer, but I'm am not qualified
+      to describe Kosh.  My interpretations have been that Kosh knows more
+      than we can fathom, and has endless patience.  The younger races are
+      something like pet goldfish in a bowl, as Kosh looks in on us for
+      awhile.  But, this is really a JMS question.
+
+C.B.  Do you find yourself starting to talk like Kosh? ;->{)
+
+J.W. "yes"
+
+      <C.B. Boy did I set him up there eh?>
+
+C.B.  What is you favorite Kosh line?
+
+J.W.  Jeez, that's not fair.  Kosh has so few lines, but says so much
+      each time.  Perhaps some of the favorites would be, of course: "If
+      you go to Z'ha'Dum, you will die" - "One moment of perfect beauty" -
+      "Sheridan... learn!" - and the entire dialog from Interludes and
+      Examinations.
+
+C.B.  What is the hardest part of your job?
+
+J.W.  The hours.  I choose to live an hour away from work, which means I
+      tack on two hours of driving to a long day of filming.
+
+C.B.  Kosh is at least 6'5.  How tall are you with suit on and how tall
+      are you?
+
+J.W.  Well, I'm only 6' tall.  The suit really is where the size comes
+      from.  It sure is a top-heavy costume!
+
+C.B.  The scene with Sheridan in Interludes and Examinations was great.
+      How was that to act and how did you do it?  Give us the whole story,
+      timing, motivation, did it feel great to get in Sheridan's face in
+      anger?
+
+J.W.  That day was 1/19/96.  One of my most memorable days.  It was just
+      Bruce and me all day, yelling at each other.  We really yelled,
+      insulted, pushed each other around.  We shot all the scenes over and
+      over and over and over....Jesus Trevino worked us into a frenzy and
+      (the whole thing was shot out of sequence) we got tired and
+      delirious, as if we had been fighting all day.  It really comes
+      through in Bruce's excellent performance.  JMS made the script work.
+      John Flinn III, John Smith, JW and the crew did a great job of
+      lighting the place.  I was blown away when I saw the show air, with
+      all the effects and Christopher Franke's magical touch.  I'm proud to
+      just have been a small part of the entire effort.  Oh yes, and it WAS
+      fun to have permission to get into Bruce's face.  An opportunity that
+      probably won't happen again.  He's bigger than me!
+
+C.B.  Hate to ask this but I must..... any funny bloopers or gaffs we
+      could know about?  <If he says, `YES'!!!  Let's all get him!>
+
+J.W.  Koshster the Rodster has hit a few walls, kicked a few lights and
+      bumped his bumps a few times.  Perhaps the funniest time was during
+      the filming of "Fall of Night" #222.  In the garden, I was answering
+      some interview questions and mentioned I thought Kosh looked like a
+      toilet seat with a shower curtain attached.  The crew took this to
+      heart and adorned me with one of those sanitary paper seat covers in
+      public restrooms.  Then came the rolls of toilet paper, and facial
+      tissues...etc.  Unable to reach any of my ornaments, I must have
+      looked like the poster boy for bathroom hygiene!
+
+C.B.  Do you get to use the suit on Halloween? ;->{)
+
+J.W.  Wouldn't that be cool!?!?  Kosh, like a true Vorlon, slips out of
+      his Optic Nerve lock up, does his scene, and slips back in quickly.
+      Don't expect any trick or treating soon.  And beware of imitations!
+      JMS hinted we might do a convention sometime.  I mean, we ALL have to
+      come out of the closet, right?
+
+C.B.  Jeffrey, if you can think of anything to add, please do.
+
+J.W.  Well, not really a question asked:  being a professional schmoozer,
+      I just want thank the producers, B5 crew, cast and my Optic Kosh
+      mates, for making this a part of my life.  It is more fun than a
+      human should have.  Mostly thanks to all the viewers that watch...
+      and watch so closely.  We couldn't do it without you.
+
+Boy, was this interview a blast to do.  You'll notice I didn't ask anything
+about upcoming episodes.  I was chomping at the bit to do so but I promised
+I wouldn't.  I want to thank Jeffrey Willerth for taking the time and for
+giving more than one word answers.  Yes??????  I also want to thank the
+staff for all their help in pulling this whole interview together.  If you
+have questions or comments write to me at Necromancer@pol.org or the LTTS
+section of the N.L. To subscribe to The Zocalo newsletter, send an email
+message to: katana@indirect.com.  Include your first name, the address you
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+live in.  The Zocalo always has been a network of fans.  Join the network
+subscribe and send us news, features, and any information you'd like
+to share with other B5 fans!  Be seeing ya!
+
+
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+***************
+SPECULATING LYTA
+***************
+
+Pat Tallman reveals much regarding her B5 character, her background and
+herself.
+
+As told to The Zocalo's Features editor, JC WIlliamson (WiseGuise@AOL.com)
+
+
+Z:  When you did "The Gathering," the B5 universe was all new.  Did you get
+details in advance re: Lyta's background, personality, motivations, what
+PsiCorps was all about?  Did you develop your own character profile, beyond
+what the script specified?  (For example, Lyta was very spirited and
+expressive.  Was that your own spin on her, or was that requested?)
+
+PT:  Yes, the B5 universe was all new.  The best thing about B5 is Joe
+Straczynski.  His talent and enthusiasim made B5 a pleasure.  He was the very
+first thing in the B5 realm that I met.  As we went through the casting
+prosess, and finally the shoot, he would share his universe.  I then filled
+in Lyta's personality.  Joe told me her education and how the Psi Corps came
+to be, then I made choices to determine her persona.  Such as:  Joe said that
+young "Talent" would be taken from home and the Corps would nurture the
+talent and assign an older Psi Corps Talent to be a surrogate parent.  To me,
+Lyta seemed to be a loner, and lonely, so I chose that Lyta's surrogate
+didn't bond to her well, was jealous of her talent, and left Lyta on her own
+alot.  She is socially a bit stunted, but deep inside a loving soul.  That's
+how the doctor and Tamlin in the pilot are able to convince Lyta to go
+against her programing to save Kosh.  Also that shows you how strong Lyta is.
+ That strength was needed for Lyta to get into Vorlon space and survive.
+ That's why they chose her.  Lyta and I share the quality you asked about,
+the expressiveness.  Joe saw that in "Night of the Living Dead" and wanted me
+for Lyta.
+
+Z:  The "privacy" scene between Lyta and G'Kar, in "The Gathering," is a B5
+classic.  While we don't actually know how she finally responded to him,
+we're left with the definite impression that she turned his proposal down.
+ Still, she seemed more astonished than disinterested (and now they both have
+gills!)  Other Earthgrrrls do seem to like that Narn and his pleasure
+threshold promises.   So in *your* opinion, was she perhaps tempted?
+
+PT:  *Pat* is fascinated with G'Kar, so I guess Lyta is too.  I think she was
+repulsed at first at the idea of having sex to make an offspring just for the
+genes.  But when Andreas added his flirtation at the end, i.e. Pleasure
+Threshold, I think the picture in her mind left her speechless!  I am in love
+with Andreas, so I have always hoped there would be some kind of relationship
+with him.  While I was pregnant, I had the idea to go to the set, appear in
+G'Kar's quarters and say "G'Kar, we gotta talk."  Just for the sight gag!
+ But I never seemed to have the time.
+
+Z:  The fact that Lyta is the only Human to have scanned a Vorlon seemed too
+powerful to waste.  When the series proceeded without Lyta, did you expect
+her to return, later in the storyline?
+
+PT:  I never expected Lyta to return, I couldn't alow myself to hope. I am
+thrilled to have the chance to keep Lyta alive, and explore B5.  I was so
+pleased with the " Divided Loyalties" script.  What a return!
+
+Z:  When you saw the script for "Divided Loyalties," did her changes surprise
+you?
+
+PT:  Her development was even more than I had hoped for.   I think Lyta
+trusted Kosh.  She saw God, she threw herself into his service, with out
+regard for what might happen to her.  She knows Kosh knows what is in her
+heart.  He let her know there was a place for her.  She is to be his soldier,
+and thats all she cares about.
+
+Z:  After "Divided Loyalties," what did you suppose SHE thought might happen
+to her, should she finally be admitted into Vorlon Space?  (What *she* thinks
+might not be what JMS thinks ;-)
+
+PT:  Joe might not agree with all this, but it doesn't matter really. He
+writes the scripts!  Lyta was called by Kosh, she hears him everynight, hears
+his song, and that's what keeps her strong and sane.  The "sane" part
+Garabaldi might not agree with, but he hasn't been inside a Vorlon!
+
+Z:  Now that we've seen "Passing Through Gesthemene" ... and without trying
+to press you for spoilers .... was Lyta playing with Londo's head or can she
+really plant dreams and images in others' minds?  Could she always do that,
+or is this a new, Vorlonesque skill?
+
+PT:  Yes , Lyta can really mess with Londo's mind. She is an expanded talent.
+ I think Lyta thinks she is in full command of her choices.
+
+Z:  Do *you* think Lyta is in full command of her choices?  Kosh and the
+Vorlons are using her as a soldier, presumably for the side of light -- but
+are they, perhaps, manipulating her at a deeper, subconscious level?
+
+PT:  I don't think at this point she would be upset if the Vorlons didn't
+tell her every thing.  She believes in the biggness of their missions.  I
+don't know (wouldn't even hazzard to guess ) how deep this goes.  They could
+be doing any number of things to her.  As we have discussed in the make-up
+trailor, Lyta could be a Vorlon sex toy for all I know.
+
+Z:   That last scene in PTG !  When Lyta and Kosh connect ....
+
+PT:  I am not exactly sure what goes on between Kosh and Lyta, but I had
+thought it more a Master and Grasshopper relationship than sexual.  Actually,
+When you totally trust, worship and adore someone, that can get pretty sexy
+can't it?
+
+Z:  For "Divided loyalties," you returned to a cast with few familar faces.
+  Did that affect the way you got back into your character?  What was it like
+to come onto the presumably well-entrenched set of a two-year-old series?
+
+PT:  I felt welcomed and supported by the cast.  They are terrific people and
+I think they were a bit concerned for my ease.  They made the transition a
+pleasure.  Lyta's a loner anyway!  I'd love to be a part of a "family."
+ Maybe someday!
+
+Z:  How would you characterize the different directing styles on "The
+Gathering" and  "Divided Loyalties?"   They are quite different from a
+viewing perspective -- were they different from your perspective as an actor?
+
+
+PT:  I think I like the speed of working on T.V. It's tough!  But you can get
+into a rythum with it.  I still have yet to feel comfortable at it!  We shot
+the pilot at top speed too.
+
+Z:  One was essentially a movie and the other episodic television.  Did that
+make a difference in the way you and the others worked?
+
+PT:  The difference was that on the pilot, we had to work out the bugs as we
+went.  We had to get used to each other, find a routine that worked.  Just as
+we were about to really hone it to an art, we finished!   The series IS honed
+to an art.  They are all so used to working with each other, and know the
+routine, they have to find ways to break it!  Or go crazy!
+
+Z:   Your athleticism came through nicely in "The Gathering" -- is stunt work
+a big part of your business?  Is that how you started in Hollywood, or where
+you an actress first -- or both?
+
+PT:  I was an actress before I became a stunt woman. I have been classicaly
+trained.  Theater is my first love.  While I was pregnant, since I couldnt do
+stunts, I performed in 2 plays. The second one was written for us.  I make my
+living doing stunts.  Some of the bigger pictures I had the good fortune to
+be in were; Jurrassic Park ( Laura Dern's stunt double), Speed, Forrest Gump,
+The Flintstones, Addams Family Values, Cobb ( which I also coordinated a
+sequence), and Generations.  I was 5 months pregnant by the time we finished
+Generations.
+
+Z:  I think we recently saw you, as an ensign, getting a fatal zapping in a
+recent DS9 episode!   You've been Nana Visitor's stunt-double on "Star Trek:
+DS9."  Have you done many Trek turns?  Or other myriad Science Fiction roles?
+
+
+PT:  I have worked quite a bit on The Next Generation, DS9, and Voyager.
+ Sometimes I have a little part and then blow up, or get shot, or fall or
+something!  I've been every alien there is, I think!
+
+Z:  Has your new motherhood changed your career ambitions or limited your
+opportunities and working schedule?  Do shows make accommodations for you as
+a mother?
+
+PT:  I have a one year old son, Julian, who is  my life.  I have really been
+out of the loop now for awhile so I could be home with him.  I'm still breast
+feeding,  so I'm a little more "zaftig" than usual, and that makes squeezing
+into a Star Fleet uniform a bit difficult.  But I refuse to compromise
+mothering because of a job.  B5 is much easier to do than other shows for a
+couple of reasons.  Bruce, Jerry & Andrea and Andreas are all parents, and so
+are several others!  So I have a lot of understanding around me.  Claudia
+loves kids, our hair and make-up women are wonderful and always offer to
+help, ect! Plus, when you are an actor, you are treated better, and have more
+leaway than just being stunts.  So if I wanted to have my babysitter in my
+trailor no one would mind, whereas I couldn't do that as a stuntwoman.  I'm
+faced with the situation of now needing to make sure I have regular work, so
+I'll be doing more stunts in1996.
+
+Z:  Since you subscribe to "The Zocalo," we assume you are a fellow B5 fan
+<G>  Are you a fan of SciFi, beyond B5 and Trek?
+
+PT:  I have always loved Science fiction and fantasy.  I read alot. It's
+harder now with a baby, but I manage.  And I'm an X-Files squid.  (I'm like
+the Lone Gunmen: I think everyone is suspect!)  I would very much like to
+know what the fans think ... I really am interested!
+
+Z:  Trust us ... The B5ers will let you know <G>  We at "The Zocalo" thank
+you especially, Pat!
+
+END
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+SF VORTEX 11/1/96
+Transcribed by Alison Weinstock
+
+
+Excerpts from coverage of Sci Fi Universe Awards:
+
+Peter Jurasik, accepting Best Supporting Actor award:
+	"For me the only three people to thank are my wife, who I share
+everything with, Joe Straczynski, who writes great scripts for me, and the
+guy who made my wig."
+
+Bruce Boxleitner, accepting Best Actor award:
+	"Last year I was asked to emcee the first Sci Fi Universe award
+presentation, and umm - I was very very fortunate to get the award _also_.
+But I shared it with David Duchovny. And um --" (chuckle) "-- I thought
+they gave it to me 'cause I showed up and he didn't." (there was more, but
+it was cut off)
+
+	***
+
+Host, segueing from awards coverage to 'War Room' segment:
+	"And, my favorite show, Babylon 5, took home the award for the best
+Science Fiction television series. You know, one of the best things about
+the awards"..."was trying to figure out who was who without all the makeup,
+right? So we thought to ourselves, hey! What a great idea for a War Room!
+So coming up next you will meet some of the cast members of Babylon 5,
+Delenn and Lennier! When SF Vortex unmasks them in a moment."
+
+	[commercial break]
+
+(murmurs; seating order is Bill Mumy, Host, Mira Furlan, John Vulich. Host
+murmers to Bill "... that's awful, I gotta tell ya..."
+
+H	All right, welcome back everybody, welcome back to the big show -
+we're in the War Room with Mira Furlan aka Ambassador Delenn who represents
+of course the Minbari Federation. And Lennier who is also Minbari, is
+played by none other than Bill Mumy, who of course we all know is Will
+Robinson on Lost In Space, and he's also the co-creator and writer of
+Nickelodeon's Space Cases. Mr. Mumy? [they do Minbari bow to each other.]
+[BM: Well done.] Nice to have you here. And also, the man behind all these
+faces is John Vulich, Babylon 5's man in charge of special effects makeup.
+thanks for being here, gang, I've got to get right to it. John, I'll start
+with you, I've been dying to ask you this -- Claudia Christian, is she
+single?
+
+JV	That a trick question?
+
+H	All right, we'll get to that later. Now between these two actors,
+and you know what? Between any actors on your program, okay, my favorite
+show, Babylon 5, who takes the longest in that makeup chair in the morning?
+
+JV	 Oddly enough, Mira's makeup here does take the longest. [Mira sighs.]
+
+H	Longer than -- [off camera, apparently bumps Mira] oh sorry, I was
+throwing my hands up (?) [Mira laughs] Than anybody?
+
+JV	Absolutely, especially with that scar now that we're going to have
+to touch up. [Mira laughs]
+
+H	Now wait a minute. Now I'd think that would surprise a lot of
+people because you'd think G'Kar would take like three weeks to get him
+made up. Is it really Mira?
+
+JV	Absolutely, absolutely. [H: Why?] It just seems to be - it's the
+irony of it, it's the more subtler the makeup is, the more time it takes.
+There's more blending and less finessing. There's no big black spots we can
+hide it under.
+
+H	So let's say she has a 7am call, what time is she gonna be down there?
+
+JV	About 4:30, what we've seen? [MF: Yeah.] In fact tomorrow morning,
+we're gonna be there Friday early.
+
+MF	Yup -- 4:30 in the morning, yeah.
+
+H	How about Mr. Mumy over here, how long does that outfit take?
+
+JV	Makeup's an hour and a half.
+
+BM	Oh please!  [JV: It's an hour and a half!] When is it ever an hour
+and a half? [JV: Hour and forty minutes.] Give me -- I wish it were an hour
+and a half! My first season it was three hours, twenty minutes, and now
+we're eking by at one hour and forty-five minutes.
+
+JV	But we're not counting the hour break.
+
+H	Then let me ask you two this -- [BM murmers something about a
+burrito (?)]
+
+BM	Then I have to wear that dress every day, too, look out.
+
+H	Welcome to the Bill Mumy show, my god, he's going on a roll here!
+
+JV	Danger Will Robinson!
+
+BM	Warning! Warning!
+
+H	As two terrific actors who I watch week after week --  [BM
+	Well, one, anyway. (gesturing to MF)]   What about the fact that
+all that makeup you have on, okay, is it frustrating as a performer, I
+mean, don't we - don't you do this, I mean, isn't part of the fun of being
+a great actor the fact that people come up and say, god I love your work,
+you're terrific, but how can they recognize you if you have all this stuff
+on, isn't that frustrating?
+
+MF	It's kind of working incognito. You're kind of, you know - [H:
+Right.] - But you know, it has some advantages.
+
+H	Which are...?  [MF laughs]
+
+BM	You can go to Disneyland! [H: People don't bug you.]
+
+MF	Exactly. (laughing) People don't bother you. [H: You can go to the
+mall!] [BM: That's right, that's right.] You're left alone.
+
+H	So those are the pros. What are the cons?
+
+BM	Well, there's a lot of glue, and plastic, kind of --
+
+H	Is it hard to get that off, I can imagine...
+
+BM	It's very hard, but you have to also learn -- it's restricting
+sometimes, when you turn your neck, you have to learn how to kind of work
+the bone, so to speak.
+
+H	It's a whole neck thing. [BM: It is.]
+
+H	Now Mira -- (BM and JV chuckle) (H stops to laugh) (to BM) You're
+funny - you know, I think you're _funnier_ than Jerry Doyle, by the way.
+
+BM	Oh, well, that's a [MF: That's a complement!] Thank you very much.
+Would you like to wear the bone for awhile? We could just move seats -
+
+H	Okay. All right, Mira, let me ask you this, okay, the fact that
+you're working behind all this makeup, does that make it as a performer
+more difficult or maybe a little bit easier that you have this wall to kind
+of --
+
+MF	Overcome. [H: Overcome, good word.] Yeah, I feel that I'm
+overcoming something.
+
+JV	Wait wait wait, it's supposed to help you act!
+
+MF	(laughing) Okay, let's just say -- [JV: Wrong answer.]
+
+BM	 You should see for yourself sometime, you should come down to the
+show sometime, and put on, like, the bone -- [JV: Plenty of spare bones
+around.] -- and the dress, and the glue, and experience it for yourself.
+That would be -- then you could _do_ the show as a Minbari.
+
+MF	I mean you have to get used to a totally new f-- [H: Do I have to
+read, audition --]
+
+BM	We could make that happen.
+
+H	Okay. So, (to MF) what about it?
+
+MF	You - you have this new face, and you have to get used to it, you
+have to know it, you have to have seen what it can do, how you can -- you
+know, what devices you have to -- I mean things that you kind of went
+through with your own face, but now it's a whole new process, so it's --
+
+H	Did you like your face when they said, okay, this is what you're
+going to look like, do -- yup, look in the mirror -- what was your reaction?
+
+MF	(laughs) (everyone laughs)  [H: Be honest!] I asked, where's the
+gun. I'll kill myself.
+
+H	Really!
+
+MF	Ah, no, ah (laughing) No, I have to say that was the situation, my
+situation in the pilot. Ah, you know, you have to kind of get rid of all
+vanity, which is a _task_. I don't know, I see it as a --
+
+H	Bill Mumy, happy with your look on the show?
+
+BM	(sarcastically) Oh, LOVING IT. [MF laughs] Just loving it. I mean I
+think everyone in town is gonna be walking around with an eggplant and a
+bone on their head [MF and JV laugh] pretty soon. It's the look to have!
+
+H	Regarding your character --
+
+BM	That would be Lennier.
+
+H	Yeah, I knew it was Lennier --
+
+BM	Right. I'm reminding myself.
+
+H	How much time, do you have a little time with the Great Creator,
+the Great Maker Mr. Straczynski, as we refer to him as -- [BM: Yes.] How
+much influence do you have, do you talk about where you're going with your
+character?
+
+BM	Yeah. You know, being a fellow _writer_ -- no, Joe and I get along
+pretty well, and I have had some input into the arc of Lennier's character.
+I went to Joe early in the second season and suggested that Lennier was
+deeply in love with Delenn. Although he would never express that to her. I
+wanted to play him that way. And he thought about that, went away for a
+couple of days, and came back and said, okay, let's start playing it that
+way. And we put that in place early in season 2, and -- [H: Really!] --that
+didn't come out until the end of season 3. Really. Middle of season 3.
+
+H:	That's power, folks. That is the power of Bill Mumy.
+
+BM	 Big time show biz power.
+
+	[commercial break]
+
+H	All right, welcome back, we're still in the War Room with Babylon
+5's Bill Mumy, Mira Furlan, and makeup artist extraordinaire John Vulich.
+Gang, season 4 starts next week, so why don't we take a quick look at a
+clip from "Hour of the Wolf." [BM and JV howl]
+
+	[clip of Lyta, Delenn, Ivanova and Lennier approaching Z'ha'dum]
+
+H	Who was it? It was the First Ones, I know it was the First Ones.
+
+BM	No no, it was the Stones on their Galactic tour of 2261.
+
+H	Let's get to some viewer mail, Mark Rivera from Brooklyn NY, big
+Yankee fan, he wants to know -- he wants some hints on season 4, how dark
+is this show going to go?
+
+BM	Tell him to play with his bright switch, on the tv.
+
+H	John, come on, you know what's happening down there on Babylon 5,
+how dark is this show going?
+
+JV	The Great Makers tell me it has to get dark before it gets light. I
+will tell you that the first three episodes that _we've_ done, from our end
+of it, we've done stuff more akin to what you'd do for a horror film than a
+science fiction show, I think.
+
+H	That's it? That's all I'm going to get on next season?
+
+JV	That's it, you've got to watch, you've got to watch.
+
+H	What good are you? Come on, what else ya got?
+
+BM	You gotta find out -- tune in.
+
+H	Folks, you have any questions for us here in the War Room, you want
+to see someone else unmasked, email us at SFVortex@aol.com. There you have
+it! That wraps up another episode of SF Vortex. I want to thank my guests
+-- Bill, will you come back?
+
+BM	Thanks. No. (everyone laughs)
+
+H	Mira, thank you very much for coming, John, thank you so much.
+There you have it, folks, so long everybody! (does Minbari bow) ... I've
+got this down pretty good...
+
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+SF VORTEX (taped right after the 10/1/96 show, but broadcast 12/6/96
+Transcribed by Alison Weinstock
+
+(seating order is still John Copeland, Host, Bruce Boxleitner, and Jerry Doyle)
+
+HOST	Thanks everybody, we are in the War Room, and joining me today is
+Bruce Boxleitner. He of course stars as Babylon 5's Captain John Sheridan.
+Also John Copeland is here, he's the producer of Babylon 5. And Jerry
+Doyle, who plays Security Chief Michael Garibaldi. Guys, thank you so much
+[BB: Our pleasure.] for joining us, taking time out of your busy schedules.
+Let me get to my first question. Jerry Doyle - [JD: Yes?] favorite sci fi
+project of _all time_.
+
+JD	"I Dream of Jeannie."
+
+H	"I Dream of Jeannie?" [all laugh] Big Barbara Feldon fan?
+
+JD	Ye - BIG! [H: no, no, not Barbara Feldon - ] Barbara Eden. (points
+to self) Jerry Doyle. Barbara Eden. Owww!
+
+H	Bruce Boxleitner, favorite sci fi project of all time.
+
+BB	Aside from a film I did called "Tron" (clears throat, adjusts
+jacket) [H: I saw it, it was terrific!] yeah - Star Wars. [H: Star Wars?]
+The Star Wars saga.
+
+H	Why?
+
+BB	Ahhhhmmm - [JD: Why not?] (smiles, glances at JD) Why not? That's
+true. [JD: John!]
+
+H	Wait a minute - and the host of the show is -
+
+BB	In short - in short, George Lucas created a universe that at once
+was very familiar to, especially to film buffs - I mean, you had sort of a
+western, you had knights in armor, magic and all kinds of things. Plus,
+spaceships. Ahhhhmmm - and he brought that all together in a great creative
+mix and created something that was very believable. And it (lower voice)
+_never_ _happened_.
+
+H	John Copeland? Your favorite sci fi project of all time?
+
+JC	"Alien."
+
+H	Ahhhh! [BB: Ahhhh, that one...] Real quick, why?
+
+JC	Because it had the uh - it had more than just science fiction. There
+was tension, there was drama, it was a horror - it was [BB: Kind of a
+horror film.] kind of a horror flick. It was also a very _used_ and
+_dripping_, you know, space ship. It was unlike we had seen, you know,
+space and spacecraft depicted before. Even though Lucas gave us the used
+look of space [BB: Yeah, used space, mmmm.] this was more like the
+_recycled_ space.
+
+BB	I have to throw in one also - "Blade Runner." [H: Oh, yeah!] I
+think - I think that's influenced our show a great deal - "Alien," "Blade
+Runner." [JD: Definitely has.] Our show has got some darkness to it. You
+know what I'm saying? And -
+
+JC	Oh yeah. Well, our universe is not a safe place to live in, like -
+[JD: Like L.A.? You ain't kiddin'!] Well, I would say like the Star Wars
+universe - not the Star Wars, but the Star Trek universe is a place that
+has a utopian society on earth, that you have the federation, you know -
+[BB: Mmm-hmmm] The future is kind of assured for mankind. We haven't gotten
+there yet in Babylon 5, and I think that's part of -
+
+BB	No, we haven't. We can't even go home. [H laughs]
+
+JC	- part of the attraction.
+
+BB	We can't go home. (shrugs) We can't trust anybody else back home.
+
+JD	(low, simultaneous to above) Let's face it. I've seen the future,
+and it's not what it used to be.
+
+H	All right, how about this - Bruce - [BB: Yes?] worst sci fi project
+you ever saw!
+
+BB	"Barbarella." [H: Ahhhh] There you go, how about that, right off
+the top of my - and I love Jane Fonda! (directed to JD.) [JC laughs. H:
+That didn't take any time at all!] No, no, I mean that was pretty silly. I
+saw it on Turner the other night, ahh, TNT or so - I laughed, I said this
+da - and we actually BOUGHT this stuff when it came out.
+
+JC	Well, it was Roger Vadim. (pronounces Va-deem)
+
+BB	Hmmmm?
+
+JC	It was Roger Vadim. (pronounces Va-dim)
+
+BB	That's true. [JC: Vadim. (pronounces Va-deem)]  That's true, that's
+true. [JD: Well, that too.] Ahhh - you know -- that's what - you know
+people in the past always complained about that, that science fiction
+movies and television were kind of schlocky. You know? [JC: Yes.] I think
+the current crop - ah - Star Treks, you know, Next Generation, all of them.
+I think there's, um - we were talking earlier (points to JC) before we went
+on camera, you know, the technology has changed today, it's enabled us to,
+um, do much more creative things - more believable things -
+
+JC	Well, I think storytelling has become more mature. [BB: Yeah.]
+Rather than just being just a swashbuckling story in space, um - we're
+dealing with real dramatic issues, and real dramatic situations that the
+characters are in, that resonate a lot closer to real life. [BB: Yeah.]
+Rather than, what, say John Carter on Mars, or something like that.
+
+H	Jerry - oh, go ahead, Bruce.
+
+BB	No, I was just going to say, like the Western genre, in the science
+fiction genre, you can comment on themes that affect us today, without
+slapping us on the head with an exact picture of _today_. You know what I'm
+saying. [H: mmmm-hmmmm] You can dress it up, and comment on it. And I think
+that's the enduring popularity of those things.
+
+H	Jerry, you've been kind of quiet over there -
+
+JD	No, I was just listening to - [BB: Stick with it.] to Siskel and
+Ebert here. [H: Welcome back to the show!] I was listening to Bruce, just
+dozing off...
+
+H	What is your worst sci fi show?
+
+JD	Worst sci fi?
+
+H	Worst thing you ever saw.
+
+JD	Naahhh - I can't even think of one [H laughs]
+
+BB	"Mr. Ed."
+
+JD	"Mr. Ed?" NO, that was - that was _true_! [BB: Hey, I love horses.]
+That wasn't make-believe!
+
+H	Jerry, let me ask you -
+
+JD	(to BB) Don't burst my bubble. Next you're gonna tell me there's no
+Santa Claus.
+
+BB	Yeahhhhhhh, righhhhhht.
+
+H	Before you started in Babylon 5, were you indeed a big fan of the
+whole sci fi genre?
+
+JD	No. Never saw any of it.
+
+H	Really.
+
+JD	Nope.
+
+H	What interested you in this project?
+
+JD	(hand as if holding phone to ear) How much they offering? No, ahhhhh -
+
+BB	The money.
+
+JD	The money. (laughs) Oh, look at _you_, I'm a _purist_, I had
+NOTHING to do with it (?) Bruce says, (H joins in) "I'd do it for _free_."
+- "I'd do it for _free_. I just _love_ the _genre_."
+
+BB	I'm independently wealthy, I don't need the work.
+
+JD	No, I liked the character. I liked my character. I thought he was
+kind of gritty, on edge, he had a lot of things going wrong with him,
+recovering alcoholic, relationship problems, you know, so - outside of
+typecasting - um -
+
+BB	They got the right guy! [JD: Ahhhhh]  (whistles)
+
+H	All right Bruce, I've got about 30 seconds left, were you a big sci
+fi fan when you started this whole thing?
+
+BB	Mmmmm - no, not really. I'd been doing detective shows, westerns,
+things like that, which - but we have - but that's all in Babylon 5 also,
+you know? So - And I'd only seen the show a couple times prior to joining
+the cast. Ahh - I didn't have an _inkling_ that I would ever be doing it,
+you know?
+
+H	There you are.
+
+BB	(softly) Surprise, surprise!
+
+JD	And here you are in the green room.
+
+BB	And here I am in the green room.
+
+JD	The War Room!
+
+BB	The War Room!
+
+H	In the War Room, where it all happens, Jerry! C'mon, get it
+straight! I want to thank Bruce Boxleitner, Jerry Doyle and John Copeland
+for joining us.
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+SCI FI VORTEX INTERVIEW.
+Many thanks to Alison Weinstock
+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sci-Fi Vortex - Babylon 5 Interview segment
+
+(There are chuckles around the table; seating order is John Copeland, Host,
+Bruce Boxleitner, and Jerry Doyle.)
+
+Host:	All right, all right, welcome back to the Vortex everybody. We're
+in the War Room here to talk ALL about Babylon 5, just as you requested.
+And look who is joining me today. Here is Bruce Boxleitner, he stars as
+Capt. John Sheridan the current captain.
+
+BB:	Oh boy. CURRENT!
+
+H:	Also John Copeland, he's the producer of the darned show, and also
+Jerry Doyle who plays the security chief Michael Garibaldi.
+
+JD:	[looks into monitor, camera right, rubs his head] [H:	Thanks for
+joining us, guys.] Wow, am I bald! Oh my God! [H: You've got a great look.]
+What happened to my hair? [Points to Host] Look at this guy!  ...Don Juan
+de Marco...
+
+H:	My first topic is -- lets get right to it.
+
+BB: 	Yes.
+
+H:	"Coming of the Shadows" -- Hugo Award. [applauds] Congratulations.
+
+BB:	[nodding] We're very very proud of that.
+
+H:	The first non-Star Trek or Twilight Zone sci fi show to win the
+award. Congratulations. Let's take a look, shall we?
+
+JD:	[low, to BB]  I thought we had the restaurant Hugo...
+
+ [Promo clip with Hugo Award winner notice]
+
+JD (?)	Wow.
+
+H:	There you have it. Bruce Boxleitner, I'm going to straight to you.
+
+BB:	Please.
+
+H:	In your opinion -- # 1 reason the show works for your viewers --
+what does it? Other than, of course, Jerry Doyle's performance week after
+week.
+
+BB:	Well, I think unlike any of the Star Treks or Twilight Zones, like
+you mentioned, we're an ongoing saga, a very engrossing continuing saga,
+and I think people like that. you know, certainly soap opera fans have
+shown that, you know, so they get in it, and they get excited by what
+happens week after week. [H: You're kind of the Melrose Place of sci fi.]
+And it continues ON, and they try to figure out  -- yeah, yeah.
+
+JD:	NO, NO!
+
+BB:	Melrose Place?
+
+JD:	Not that there's anything wrong with Melrose Place, mind you, I
+just wouldn't want to...  [ JC laughing]  [BB: "Whoo!"]
+
+H:	All right Jerry Doyle, what would you say, why is this show so
+darned attractive?
+
+JD:	[mimes pushing button, makes buzzer noise]
+
+BB:	The haircuts.
+
+JD:	Haircuts. Yes. Ah, no, the flawed characters. We all have these
+little -- well, HIS [BB's] character especially has tons of things that are
+wrong with him [BB: "Very mixed up"] -- totally screwed up. [H: "Very
+dysfunctional"] We have a dysfunctional crew. And people can relate to  the
+fact that we aren't all perfect people in a perfect universe solving the
+tragedy du jour or saving the universe as we know it. You know, like in a
+lot of shows you watch, don't buy green bananas, because you know, chances
+are, if it doesn't work out --
+
+BB:	I just wanted to say, we do save the universe every OTHER episode
+at least. But, ah, but we still do try to figure out how to cook good pasta
+[looks at JD] and things like that.  [ JD: "Oh, no, don't bring THAT up!"]
+No, you do, you do.  [ JD: "Please, I'm so tired of trying to make pasta
+for the doctor..."]  Me, I'm trying to make flarn.
+
+H:	John Copeland, you tell me your reason why the show is such a big hit.
+
+JC:	Well, a part of it is because Joe has created a myth for our time,
+and I think that a contemporary myth to a lot of our viewers resonates in
+their daily life. I also think there are lots of surprises with these
+characters. We have characters that are in transition in many respects --
+
+H:	Okay.  [ JD  cackles]
+
+BB:	I think John summed it up.
+
+H:	[to BB, JD]  What are you guys -- [ JD takes H's notes, reads a
+line] Those are my notes, we'll get to that a little later. You know, when
+our fans heard you were coming on , everybody emailed us, everybody had
+questions, like Shawn, here, Topeka Kansas, he wants  to know --
+
+JD:	Nobody lives in Kansas with the name of Shawn...
+
+H:	-- he wants to know, is the doctor coming back or are the coward
+Shadows going to do away with him. John Copeland?
+
+JC:	Well, where our viewers are right now, there are still 5 episodes
+left of the 3rd season, and you will see Dr. Franklin come back, and he's
+-- ah --
+
+JD	[whispering]  ahhh, he just blew it...  [H and BB laugh]
+
+JC:	Hey!
+
+H:	Don't have to watch now!
+
+JD:	A lot better idea, move to England, you'll know.
+
+H:	Now, how about this -- ah -- lets get to this clip, but think about
+this question while we go to this clip. Are there going to be some new
+characters this season, let's check this out.
+
+JD:	Nude characters?
+
+ [clip from "Walkabout"  "...we are all Kosh."]
+
+BB:	Yep. [repeating Ivanova's "yep" at the end of the clip]
+
+H:	All right, pretty interesting there.  John Copeland, what does this
+mean for the new show?
+
+JC:	Well, we have a new Vorlon coming on board the station, and this
+one is a little darker and more mysterious than Kosh was.
+
+H:	Ahhhh
+
+JC:	And you'll see some new aliens in the coming season.
+
+H:	Give us a little hint about the new aliens. Can you tell...
+
+JC:	They don't look like us.
+
+H:	They don't look like us.
+
+JC:	Yeah.
+
+H:	[sarcastically] Thanks for that terrific clue!  [ BB laughs] That
+really narrows it down.
+
+JD:	Way to pin it down, John.
+
+BB:	He's specific.
+
+H:	About the characters, how far in advance do you know what's going
+on with Capt. Sheridan?
+
+BB:	Oh probably, oh, one story ahead. [H: "That's it?"] I try -- that's
+all I want to know. In all seriousness. I mean, I get a general view. John
+may tell me where we're generally kind of heading with him or Joe does, but
+specifically -- I think just about a script ahead. But you know, I want to
+walk into it, like we do every day --
+
+JD:	Fresh -- like you don't know where you're gone end up --
+
+BB:	-- you don't know where you're going to go every day in your life.
+
+JD:	Or don't you end up playing the results, instead of the route you
+want to take? Like what is he up to now, script 7 or something like that?
+
+JC:	Yeah, we've got 7 finished and he's working well into, almost done
+with 8.
+
+JD:	And we're starting to shoot #4 today, so, you know...
+
+H:	Jerry, let me ask you about Capt. Garibaldi. If you could change
+one thing about him -- [BB: "Whoa!"]
+
+JD:	CAPTAIN Garibaldi?  [BB (?): "Did you hear that?] Ahhhh, suddenly
+feeling LARGER than life...  [H: "What did I say?"]  [H: "... something
+happens I'VE GOT JOE!"]  Oh!  [BB: "Captain --"]  I like the sound of that,
+don't you?
+
+H:	What would you like to see change this season, and that was a hint.
+
+BB:	Other than his rank?
+
+JD:	No, no, my character's cool. I like the way he is, I like the way
+he's a cynical, irreverent, jaded, pain in the -- can I say --
+
+H:	It's cable! Go ahead, let it go!
+
+JD:	-- butt.
+
+All:	OHHHH! [murmurs include "Captain" and "but-but-but"]
+
+JD:	But I just like the way the character's going, because he's got
+kind of like this dark thing going on. It's really kind of cool.
+
+ [commercial break]
+
+H:	Let's continue our discussion, all right. Now Babylon 5 obviously
+not a show centered around romantic relationships -- [ JD: "Not my
+character..."] -- but we happen to have a little video that sprinkles in a
+little hint that love may be in the air. So why don't we all take a look.
+
+ [clip from "Shadow Dancing" from "... show his true face..." to
+"Later -- history awaits!"]
+
+BB:	Yep. [smiling the same smile as at the end of the clip]
+
+JD:	ohhhhh
+
+H:	Cut off his WHAT?
+
+BB:	Whew! I don't know, but looks like I got scared there.
+
+H:	You sure did. That was great. Lemme ask -- [points to JD]
+
+BB:	Maybe you don't want to ask him!
+
+H:	Jerry Doyle, let me ask you about your character. Are you going to
+get a girl this season?
+
+JD:	NOPE! [ H: "Not even --"]  Last season -- NO!  One before -- NO!
+Pilot -- NO!
+
+BB:	Wait a sec. When I first came on board --
+
+JD:	I almost got the girl.
+
+H:	What about the Marine?
+
+JD:	I said no!
+
+BB:	That's true. That's true.
+
+JC:	He begged us not to --
+
+JD:	No no no wait a minute, let's go back, see, now, I'm a married man,
+and in our profession [gestures to BB, who nods] we are PAID to roll around
+with another woman. [BB: "God, it's a rough job..."]  And when you go home
+somebody says "Hi honey how was your day?" And you say it was great!
+
+H:	Capt. Sheridan - a little romance, can you give us a hint?
+
+BB:	[serious] We-e-ell, I think if people have been following the show
+they can see that Capt. Sheridan and Ambassador Delenn are becoming very
+close certainly -- [JD snorts, JC chuckles, H: "I would say a safe
+assumption - "]
+
+BB:	[smiles, gives JD a LOOK] -- that's certainly a very safe
+assumption. But certainly circumstances have sort of forced them together,
+you know.
+
+H:	Okay.
+
+BB:	So -- ah -- and -- [ JD: "They're real horny," cackles]  And yes,
+in a word we are getting very much closer together. [Grins]
+
+JD (?):	"circumstances have brought us together..."
+
+H:	Not to change the subject but lets move on to another one --
+
+BB:	Not to change the subject!
+
+H:	When can I get this darned show -- I went to the video store with
+my kid yesterday in fact, and I couldn't find Babylon 5. I see Star Trek, I
+see Outer Limits --  [BB, JD do groaning uh-huhs]  -- when is Babylon 5
+going to be available in the video store?
+
+JC:	Ooh! Well --
+
+JD:	I think we struck a producer nerve.
+
+JC:	Yes! Everyone should write Warner Brothers and say that they --
+
+H:	Is that the deal? Is it coming out soon?
+
+JC:	I really don't think they've got any plans to exploit Babylon 5.
+
+BB:	Roger, were we in London tonight --
+
+H:	We're gonna change that!
+
+BB:	Were we in London tonight, we could go down to the Forbidden Planet --
+
+JC:	And buy it! Yes!
+
+BB:	-- on -- ah -- on New Oxford St., fantastic store, and with lots of
+Babylon 5 merchandise, PLUS tapes with 2 episodes per cassette.
+
+H:	Which leads me to my next question, about -- it's like a whole
+Jerry Lewis thing in France -- you guys are HUGE in the UK --
+
+BB, JD:	Yes, UK
+
+H:	What's going on with that? Why? I mean obviously I know why, but --
+
+JD:	Consistent time slot.
+
+JC:	There's consist -- we're on one channel, we're on the same time,
+the same day.  [ BB: "Channel 4."]  But I think also viewers in England are
+a little more accustomed to the type of storytelling that Joe has adopted
+for Babylon 5. A novel for television. It's got a beginning, a middle, and
+an end, each year has an arc to it, and the more episodes you watch the
+more you see the grander scale of the saga.
+
+BB:	Yes.
+
+H:	Okay. Before we go, let's do another letter, shall we?
+
+JD:	Let's!
+
+H:	In fact, Jerry, go ahead! Bruce, go ahead! Take care of -- who
+wants to read one?
+
+BB:	Can I pick one?
+
+JD:	You pick one.
+
+BB:	Michael Kerrigan in Portland Oregon was wondering if Straczynski --
+[looks at JC]  the Great Maker -- will be doing all the writing for the
+episodes again this season? John, maybe you --
+
+H:	Great question, Michael Kerrigan! Mr. Copeland, go ahead with that.
+
+JC:	Well, it certainly looks that way. This year, with the way the saga
+is unfolding, I think that Joe is the best one to write all of the episodes.
+
+H:	Okay, all right. Terrific. Ah -- Jerry, go ahead for one more time
+for one more question.
+
+JD:	[in Bronx accent] Shoshana from da Bronx -- will Ivanova's latent
+telepathic abilities play a part in the development of her character dis
+season?
+
+H:	Who wants to answer this one? John Copeland?
+
+JC:	Yes. [silence] [looks smug]
+
+H:	There you have it, Shoshana.
+
+JD:	Like a producer.
+
+BB:	[grinning] What can you do...
+
+H:	I need to get out of here but I want to thank Bruce Boxleitner,
+Jerry Doyle, and John Copeland for taking time out of our extremely busy
+schedules. thanks for coming out and making us look so darned good!
+
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+[Imagine is a raytracing program for the Amiga.]
+
+This upload should contain six files including this readme:
+
+   B5Objects.readme
+   B5Objects.lha
+   SoulHunter.jpeg
+   Starfury.jpeg
+   Tyranid.jpeg
+   Vorlon.jpeg
+
+The B5Objects.lha archive contains four Imagine objects of different
+Babylon 5 ships whilst the four .jpeg files are quick and simple
+renders of the objects. Please note: because I don't have the Essence
+textures for Imagine the Tyranid and Vorlon .jpegs had to be rendered
+without the textures the original author gave them. FYI I used the
+standard Imagine `camo' and `disturbed' textures for the Vorlon ship
+and an ILBM texture called DiagonalChrome.16 (which I got from Aminet
+in a collection called ZipDrops.lha) and `disturbed' for the Tyranid.
+
+As far as can be ascertained all the objects are in the Public Domain.
+I bought them from Epic Marketing, a PD company based in Swindon, UK.
+
+- Si (austins@sol1.uel.ac.uk)
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+A while back I uploaded some Imagine models of B5 ships.  After finding a very
+useful program I managed to convert them into AutoCAD DXF objects.
+
+Unfortunately I have no way of checking the quality of these, but they should
+be OK. If there are any problems, don't hesitate to email me.
+
+Si (austins@uel.ac.uk, http://www.uel.ac.uk/pers/1068/)
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+FILE:
+
+B53DS.ZIP
+
+FOR:
+
+Meant for the Babylon-5\Models.
+
+DESCRIPTION:
+
+Model of the Babylon 5 space station for 3D-STudio in the 3DS format.
+
+kosh@cloud.com
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+5/21/94 - This file contains everything I could find about Michael O'Hare's
+impending leave of absence from Babylon 5.  The following information
+comes from messages posted from JMS's account on GEnie; therefore, this
+information is only as valid as his account's security.  There is
+absolutely *no* reason to doubt that security, but since the purpose of
+this "mini-FAQ" is to *prevent* rumors from starting, I just want to
+make sure that I'm not starting any myself.                  -Shawn
+
+9/25/94 Updated with more messages
+
+-----------------Messages from JMS's account begin here--------------------
+
+Second Science Fiction and Fan Category 18, Topic 1
+Message 560   Fri May 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 02:57 EDT
+ 
+I have some news that must be imparted.  I think that the best way
+ to convey that news is to start at the end of the story, make my
+ way to the middle, and end at the beginning. 
+ So: the end of the story. 
+
+ Everything is okay.  Nothing major really changes.  All is well. 
+ 
+Now the middle of the story. 
+
+ I've been asked, several times, what happens if something *happens*
+ to me, or one of the cast members, during the five year arc, since
+ this is a fully-worked-out novel.  Generally, I blow off the question
+ with humor.  But the truth is, obviously, I've taken every possible
+ step to make sure that no one is disappointed.  In my case, I've
+ made sure the story is available somewhere. 
+
+ The trouble, of course, is that unlike writing a novel, where the
+ characters exist only on a sheet of paper, actors and writers are
+ some discussion on the best of days).  They can get sick, they can
+ get into contract disputes, they can be hit by meteors, they can
+ decide to buy a house in Cambridge and raise hedgehogs under an
+ assumed name.  There are, in short, *always* unpredictables in any
+ such endeavor. 
+ 
+Consequently, in drafting the story for Babylon 5, I made sure to
+ compensate for any possible changes.  For lack of a better term,
+ there is a "trap door" built into the storyline for every character. 
+ Obviously, you don't want to lose anyone, but in *every* case any
+ such change momentarily shifts the story about ten degrees to one
+ side for a little bit, and then you're back on track again. 
+
+ Case in point: Dr. Benjamin Kyle and Lyta Alexander.  Here are the
+ only two humans who have seen or scanned a Vorlon.  This is Very
+ Important to the storyline.  Alas, as later events unfolded, things
+ did not work out, and the characters were dropped...but their story
+ remained important, in that it was established that they were soon
+ afterward recalled to Earth under mysterious circumstances (as noted
+ in "War Prayer"), which actually *helps* the storyline in many ways. 
+ This is not meant to sound callous.  As a writer, and as a producer,
+ it's my job to tell the story, to be responsible, and to make sure
+ every possible contingency is covered.  To do anything less would be
+ simply irresponsible. 
+
+ Now to the beginning of the story. 
+
+ Over the last few weeks, we've been re-activating our cast, making
+ the deals for the coming season.  One aspect of this has been a
+ series of conversations with Michael O'Hare.  Having produced one
+ full season, and having learned a lot, and having fine-tuned the
+ "saga" along the way, it was our goal to expand the show, bring in
+ some new characters, and take the show in some new directions, which
+ will prove quite interesting, I think.  (One sidelight to all this: 
+ now that we've established the series, we'll be able to spend a bit
+ more time on personal stories, to let our audience learn more about
+ the characters, particularly the humans, who kinda got short shrift
+ this season.)
+
+ There is also the question, from an actor's point of view, about
+ other opportunities, any possible concern about typecasting, the
+ limitations of a continuing role (and the role of the commander
+ does have some definite "walls," giving more freedom in many ways
+ to other characters).  Now is the point where one needs to take
+ a breath and assess one's future, because the deeper we get into
+ the story, the more problematic it is to change things (though,
+ again, it's do-able, as noted above). 
+
+ As a result of these discussions, it has been agreed that we will
+ have a separation, in the role of the commander.  Let me emphasize
+ this very clearly, so there is no chance of miscommunication: this
+ is a mutual, amicable, and friendly separation.  This isn't a Tasha
+ Yar situation.  Moreover, we will be handling this in such a way
+ that, down the road, Sinclair could potentially return to the story. 
+ The character of Sinclair will achieve an important destiny, and the
+ mystery of the Battle of the Line will be explained, both in the
+ first episode of the new season.  His story will still track.  And
+ the series will still track precisely as planned.  I take pains to
+ mention this because both Michael and I want it clear that we both
+ believe in the show, and want this in no way to interfere with the
+ series.  He has asked me to convey for him his encouragement, his
+ best wishes, and to emphasize that this is, again, an amicable and
+ friendly separation. 
+
+ He has said that he is happy to continue to do the conventions, to
+ promote the show, because he believes in it, and because he is an
+ important part of this season's success.  We can think of no
+ finer ambassador for Babylon 5 at conventions than Michael O'Hare. 
+ He is a dynamite speaker, he cares about the fans of the show, and
+ his compassion shows.  We think he's a nifty guy. 
+
+ On our part, we wish Michael only the very best.  We know that
+ he is very much in demand, and look forward to seeing him in other
+ projects over the next year.  This will also allow us to pursue some
+ new directions avenues for the show that will help to expedite the
+ overall story.  Sinclair disappearing for an indeterminate period
+ after the events of "Chrysalis" will allow us to tighten the screws
+ of the story, and heighten the tension of things going on in the
+ storyline. 
+
+ If I can speak personally for a moment...those of you reading
+ this on-line know that I've always talked straight with you.  If
+ I thought this in *any* way would interfere with the story, you'd
+ hear about it from me loud and clear.  When problems have arisen in
+ the past, I've always spoken about them quite bluntly here (much
+ to the chagrin of some people).  This is okay.  We're all still
+ very much friends.  I speak frequently to Michael, and consider
+ him a friend, just as he considers me a friend.  This was a hard
+ decision, but we both knew that it was the right decision, for
+ very different reasons.  We both kinda came to the same place
+ at the same time from different directions.  We've got to do
+ what's right for the show, and for each other, and in many ways,
+ this does just that. 
+
+ So both we on the show, and Michael are served by this mutual and
+ amicable separation.  We will go our separate ways for now, with
+ the possibility of meeting Sinclair again down the road a piece,
+ as Gandalf disappeared for a time into Mordor, only to return when
+ needed most.  (We will also be keeping the character of Sinclair
+ alive in the comic, and some of the planned novels, to keep that
+ option available to us.)
+
+ Once again, let me emphasize that the story continues on the path
+ that has been set for it, everything you learn this season sill
+ obtains, the show remains solid, with all of the other cast members
+ coming back for a new season, and that the saga of Babylon 5 will
+ continue to reveal itself exactly as planned.  And I hope you will
+ continue to stay with us for that journey. 
+
+                                    Sincerely,
+                                    Joe Straczynski
+                                    Creator/Executive Producer
+                                    BABYLON 5
+
+-----------Next Message-----------
+
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 565       Fri May 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 04:10 EDT
+ 
+     The arc remains untouched.  For starters, the arc as written was designed
+to emphasize the aliens and the Battle of the Line in season one; build the
+universe and set the pieces in motion.  Year two brings the humans into play
+in the universe that season one created.  There's a reason Morden didn't go to
+the Earth Alliance.  
+
+     Let me be clear on this: *no* arc-related stories will be sacrificed, at
+all.  We're talking mainly in terms of B stories, not A stories.  Most of our
+season 1 B stories concentrated on the alien ambassadors; Ivanova really gets
+only two strong B stories, and some smaller ones; Delenn gets something like
+six.  It's just a question of finding the balance.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+-----------Next Message-----------
+
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 574       Fri May 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 15:29 EDT
+ 
+     Thanks to all.  I'll convey what I can of this to Michael when I next
+speak to him.
+
+     Wayne...if your friends feel that way, then they must not like any show
+ever produced in the history of television, because *all* series get five year
+options on their cast.  That's considered pro forma.
+
+     What they, and to some extent you, fail to understand is that there is a
+difference between a *contract* for five years, and an *option* for five
+years.  The former is a guarantee; the latter is at the discretion of the
+producers, though in some cases, as we've just seen, an accommodation  can be
+reached.  An option means that the producer has the right, but not the
+obligation, to pick up an actor for another season.  There's plenty of room
+for random events.
+
+     Other than that, you can tell your pessimistic, insulting friends to get
+a life.  And I mean that in the best possible sense of the word.  I see no
+reason why I have to justify my show to them.  It is what it is.  If they like
+it, fine, if not, still fine.  If they don't like it, tell 'em to stop
+watching.  Nothing make me crazier than what I've seen on the Trek forums for
+all these years, of people who *hate* the show, but still watch every single
+episode just so they can go online and grump about it.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+-----------Next Message-----------
+
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 1
+Message 579       Fri May 20, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:30 EDT
+ 
+     I note this here only because it came up on CIS, and I'd kinda like to
+nip this in the bud.  Please don't take out any part of this on Michael.  If
+you're going to be upset with anyone, be upset with me, since in the final
+analysis, it's Doug and I who have to implement any decision, even when
+mutually made.
+
+     What happened at the beginning of the process is that we looked at the
+coming season, and said (as I've noted on another system), that in the second
+year, we can do X and Y, both of which are very cool.  But what if we did
+something unexpected?  What if we took a chance, and tried a slightly
+different direction, and set Sinclair aside for a while?  If we did that, we
+could still do X and Y...and we could *also* do Z...and Z is very, VERY
+interesting.  It opened up some very dramatic possibilities, allowing us to
+expand the series and heighten the tension level.
+
+     We talked to Michael, and he had some thoughts on this as well.  The
+result was, as stated, a *mutual* decision.
+
+     People here know how much B5 means to me.  I would never do anything, or
+allow anyone else to do anything, to harm it.  This is my baby.  And this is
+being done not because we will have to overcome this now somehow, but because
+in the final analysis we think this will help the show, and give Michael some
+flexibility as a side-effect.  I won't ask anyone to trust me, because in
+Hollywood, "trust me" is a euphemism at best.  But this will all work out.
+
+     In any event, though, if anyone's going to be upset in any way by this,
+please direct it toward me, not toward Michael.  Fundamentally, the
+responsibiliy rests on my shoulders, and Doug's.  But since Doug's not here,
+I'll take it.  
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+-----------Next Message-----------
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 May 1994 04:55:40 -0400
+Subject: Re: RUMOR: Michael O'Hare (Sin
+
+     I have, to date, read something on the order of a dozen different
+rumors about the reason for O'Hare's leaving...that Warners marketing
+wanted him out, that he was offered the lead on Voyager, that this was
+actually planned out from the start, that he quit, that we fired him...if
+I were to deal with all of these, I'd be here all day.  Rumors are just
+that: rumors.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+-----------Next Message-----------
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jun 1994 03:26:25 -0400
+Subject: Re: Message from JMS
+
+     Getting in someone else to play Sinclair would be the solution if
+the actor were the problem.  He's not.  It's a question of looking at the
+character (at least from my side of this) and saying, "Is there something
+different we can do here that's more interesting?"  This isn't a question
+of salvaging stuff.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+-----------Next Message-----------
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jun 1994 03:39:03 -0400
+Subject: Re: Message from JMS
+
+     This to Patrick Rannou...I'm going to try this again, and see if it
+sticks.
+ 
+     We DO have options on our actors.  We DO and DID have options on
+O'Hare.  It was WE who first approached HIM, not the other way around.
+Your characterization of his actions here is not only inappropriate, but
+absolutely and catagorically untrue.  If you've got a problem, you've got
+a problem with me, not Michael.
+ 
+     Once again: this was MUTUAL, and it was AMICABLE.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+-----------Next Message-----------
+
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 19,  Topic 24
+Message 95        Sun Aug 14, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 17:34 EDT
+ 
+     He was looking out a port as the shuttles raced away from B4.
+
+     Mike: it'll all hang together in the end.  If I'd wanted, if that scene
+with the One revealed would've been a problem, I could've easily cut it LONG
+before delivering it to PTEN, and left it a "mystery yet to be explained."  No
+problem.  But I didn't.  It all still tracks.
+
+     Peter: I agree about the exposure the show is(n't) getting.  It's just
+very hard to make people understand what we're trying to do here.  
+
+                                                                     jms
+-----------Next Message-----------
+
+BABYLON 5: <B^2> #793173
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+TO: JOHN M GRAHAM
+DATE: TUES AUG 16, 1994 3:01:15 AM
+
+     Bear in mind, however, that B2 was edited long after we had
+made the announcement about Michael.  It would have been *very*
+easy to simply omit the shot of the One at the end, and leave it
+as a mystery, as we did with the entity at Sigma 957.  We
+deliberately chose not to.  This if nothing else should be
+*some* indication that we are quite sincere when we say that you
+haven't seen the last of Sinclair.
+
+                                                         jms
+-----------Next Message-----------
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Aug 1994 01:48:19 -0400
+Subject: JMS lying? (was Re: Voyager Ca
+
+     If Sinclair was simply to be *gone*, we had *plenty* of time to
+edit OUT the scene in B4 that you saw and refer to.  It was self-contained,
+occupied only about 30 seconds, and could've been easily deleted (we ran
+long on that episode, and cut a shot of Delenn leaving the Minbari
+cruiser setting course for B5, which could easily have been put into
+the show in that scene's absence).  We only delivered that episode a few
+weeks before airdate, and the news re: Sinclair was announced MONTHS
+before that, while we were still in the process of editing it.  (And we
+can make changes literally up to a week or so before delivery.)
+
+     We could've deleted it, and left it a mystery, just as with Sigma
+957.  We're not afraid to do that.
+
+     In addition, the first four issues of the B5 comic will NOT be about
+the new Captain, they will be about *Sinclair*, and where he is, and where
+he's gone, and what he's doing.  Since at this point it would be
+hideously expensive to show that in the series, we're doing it in the
+comic.  And will continue to do it from time to time in the comic, AND in
+occasional shots in the series.
+
+     This is NOT what you do when the network comes to you and says, "We
+want this guy GONE."  When that happens, he's *gone*, period.
+
+     No, people should not believe everything they are told.
+
+     Nor should you assume that everyone is lying all the time.
+
+                                                                       jms
+-----------Next Message-----------
+
+BABYLON 5: B5 CAST ANNOUNCEMENT!
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+TO: ALL
+
+                         **** Announcement ****
+
+     Since this has just been released by PTEN, and will be 
+on the news wires shortly (and is probably already there), 
+I can now announce this here.
+
+     The new Commanding Officer for Babylon 5 is Captain John
+Sheridan, former captain of the Earthforce military starship 
+Agamemmnon.  It was Sheridan who won what is arguably Earth's 
+only real victory during the Earth/Minbari War, destroying the
+Minbari war cruiser Black Star and several accompanying 
+vessels.  He has been appointed to Babylon 5 over the strenuous
+objections of the Minbari Government, by the president's 
+insistence that Babylon 5 has had too much influence from the 
+Minbari and must begin to pull back and consider Earth's 
+interests; Sheridan is a symbol of that desire because of his
+record, which is the reason for his assignment.
+
+     Captain Sheridan will be portrayed by the well-regarded 
+actor Bruce Boxleitner, known to many as the series lead in 
+"Scarecrow And Mrs. King."  He has also starred in numerous 
+TV movies, miniseries and feature films.  He is also a solid 
+SF fan (media *and* print), and is very excited about coming 
+onto the Babylon 5 team.  We're equally excited to have him.
+
+     (Those here who've heard rumors about this building, and 
+were kind enough to refrain from repeating them here at my 
+request, can now speak, and I thank you again for your 
+Cooperation.)
+
+                                                     jms
+-----------Next Message-----------
+
+BABYLON 5: B5 CAST ANNOUNCEMENT! #805620
+DATE: SUN AUG 28, 1994 6:11:18 PM
+
+     We decided to try an even stranger approach, and have Sinclair
+show up again about *mid-way through* the second season once or twice.
+There needs to be some mystery to his departure, which being there to
+shepherd the New Guy would destroy.
+
+     And at the same time, the comic from DC will follow the Sinclair
+line after he leaves B5 for the first four issues in particular, starting
+by showing the flip-side of what happens in the first episode.
+
+     What you suggest is perfectly reasonable; I agree that the tactic
+should be unusual.  And we think this may well qualify....
+
+                                                                  jms
+-----------Next Message-----------
+
+BABYLON 5: BABYLON SQUARED #806642
+DATE: MON AUG 29, 1994 6:00:22 PM
+
+     Nope, the storyline still tracks just fine.  There's just
+no reason to have everyone static and stuck in the same place
+for the next X-years.
+
+                                                       jms
+-----------Next Message-----------
+
+BABYLON 5: B5 CAST ANNOUNCEMENT #815051
+DATE: THURS SEP 8, 1994 12:18:11
+
+     Replacing Sinclair?  No, not precisely.  Boxleitner's character,
+Captain John Sheridan, is coming aboard B5 as its now commanding officer,
+but Sinclair isn't gone permanently.  He is being moved off the chessboard
+for a time, allowing us to broaden out the story, and give Michael the
+chance to pursue some interests of his own in the meantime.  Sinclair will
+return from time to time as the story requires.  (There's a lengthy message
+in library 13 here with more details.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+-----------Next Message-----------
+
+SFRT II RoundTable
+Category 18,  Topic 2
+Message 353       Thu Sep 15, 1994
+STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 19:29 EDT
+ 
+     Sinclair is also a strong character throughout issues 2-5 of the B5
+comic.
+
+                                                             jms
+-----------Next Message-----------
+
+BABYLON 5: O'HARE DEPARTURE
+FROM: J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+IN RESPONSE TO: JASON WONG
+
+     ...sigh...it's not that Michael wanted to leave the show
+per se. Again, we came to HIM, it wasn't the other way around.
+With this as an option, there was now the opportunity for him
+to pursue a number of other possibilities, stage and TV, while
+his character was "away" for a bit.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+-----------------Messages from JMS's account end here---------------------
+
+ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
+For reference, here's the letter that WWOR (the station that carries B5
+in the New York metropolitan area) sent to many of the fans that wrote
+letters in support of B5.  Most people received this letter *before*
+JMS posted anything about O'Hare's leave of absence.
+
+"We have received your letter regarding BABYLON 5 and we are thrilled
+to have such an excited viewer.  The program will continue to air on
+Wednesdays at 8pm, but we are expecting Warner Brothers to re-vamp the
+show and change storylines.
+     "Unfortunately, we do not know what changes are in store for
+BABYLON 5, but stay tuned.  Thank you again for watching WWOR."
+
+=========================================================================
+Messages from JMS are Copyright 1994, J. Michael Straczynski.
+
+This file was compiled by Shawn Bayern <bayern@cshl.org>.  I take no
+responsibility for any errors, etc., in the quoted material in this
+file.
+
+Updated by Dan Wood <danwood@pobox.com> to include more information
+and to integrate the information with the Boxleitner announcement.
+
+Thanks to David Strauss <dss2k@poe.acc.virginia.edu>, Jacque Marshall
+<jacquem@netcom.com>, and Brett Jaffee <hbact003@huey.csun.edu>
+for crossposting messages from GEnie.
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+(Not to be viewed by J. Michael Straczynski for legal reasons. 
+This article contains what might be considered "story ideas" that
+are drawn from parallels with Babylonian history.  This article was
+not, and should not be, posted on alt.tv.babylon-5 or on GEnie,
+both of which JMS currently reads.  Further, although this is
+essentially a list of guesses and possibilities, some may consider
+it to be a list of "spoilers" and might not want to read it.)
+================================================================
+ 
+PARALLELS BETWEEN BABYLONIA AND B5:
+(Last update: February 27, 1994)
+ 
+     It's interesting to note that, while parallels clearly and
+distinctly exist between ancient Babylonia and Babylon 5, as far as
+I can tell, the parallels don't remain with specific cultures for
+very long time intervals.  In other words, while at one time, we
+may draw a clear relationship between the Assyrians and the Narn,
+that doesn't allow us to chart the entirety of Narn history through
+that of Assyrians.
+     In any case, here's my best (and first) attempt to draw up a
+list of the most important parallels between Babylonian history and
+the B5 series.  Of course, more parallels may be revealed as the
+series progresses--at which time, I guess, I'll just have to add to
+this list.  Here's the list for now, though:
+ 
+------
+ 
+     There seems to be a common theme of a culture's "giving up" as
+soon as they've defeated another culture.  In ancient history, this
+theme is reflected more in terms of cultural characteristics than
+in terms of military surrender, but the parallel is clear and
+distinct.  After the Babylonians & Assyrians [Akkadians] replace
+the Sumerians, they "surrender" their culture and take on the
+important characteristics of the politically-defeated Sumerians. 
+The same thing occurs when the Cassites come to power.  (Inciden-
+tally, the same thing occurs with Greece and Rome, but we're not
+interested in that right now <smile>).
+     I feel one of the most clear parallels is the one I mentioned
+above--that between the Assyrians and the Narn.  Both were cultures
+that were repressed and subjugated by their enemies--and both rose
+up as warlike, militaristic powers.  Then, at a crucial point in
+Babylonian history, the Assyrian capital, Ninevah, was destroyed.
+Does this mean that, in Chrysalis, the Narn homeworld will be
+destroyed?  Your guess is as good as mine; as I said, the parallels
+don't seem to stay with individual cultures for very long.  Also
+interestingly, the Mitanni--who were once the powerful oppressors
+of Assyria--were a culture that was on the decline, and, soon after
+the Assyrians gained their freedom, the Mitanni civilization fell. 
+The Centauri seem to have undergone--and seem to continue to be
+undergoing--a similar decline.  In ancient history, the Assyrians
+eventually conquered and annexed their former oppressors.  I wonder
+if the future of the story of Babylon 5 will hold a similar fate
+for the Centauri.
+     Interesting also is that around the time of Hammurabi, there
+were five major powers, all of which were virtually equal in
+power--except for one which had an edge over the others (as the
+Minbari do, perhaps?).  I wonder if Sinclair can be referenced to
+Hammurabi.
+ 
+     These are the only conspicuous relationships that I see
+between Babylonia and B5 =so far=.  First, as I said, more will
+almost certainly develop as the series progresses, at which time
+I'll update this list.  Second, there are some vague, minor parall-
+els that I could draw by an extreme stretch of the imagination--but
+which I'd rather not, just for the sake of the credibility of this
+list as a whole.
+     Have fun analyzing, and remember that this list is by no means
+complete--nor is intended as such.  If you have any comments,
+questions, or additions (for which you will be properly credited if
+used in future editions of this file), feel free to write me at the
+address below.
+ 
+Shawn Bayern
+bayern@cshl.org
+==================
+Copyright 1994, Shawn Bayern.  All rights reserved.  Permission
+granted to freely distribute =noncommercially= as long as this
+article and this copyright notice are not altered in any way.
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+INDEX OF BABYLON 5 PICTURES - Characters directory
+
+This directory contains pictures of Babylon 5's characters, including the
+various aliens often seen on the station.
+
+The file Index.jpg is a grid with shrunken versions of the pictures here.
+If you like, use it to determine which pictures interest you.  Miniature
+versions of the pictures can be found in the "Thumb" directory.
+
+Pictures copyright 1992-94 Synthetic Worlds Ltd, PTEN, and Warner Brothers
+Domestic Television Distribution.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+NAME            DESCRIPTION
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+TELEVISION SCANNED, FROM PILOT
+
+bar.jpg         Garibaldi and Londo in the bar
+delenn.jpg      Minbari Ambassador Delenn
+gkar.jpg        Narn Ambassador G'Kar
+kosh.gif        Vorlon Ambassador Kosh, in environment suit
+kyle.jpg        Dr. Benjamin Kyle
+londo.jpg       Centauri Ambassador Londo Mollari
+lyta1.jpg       Telepath Lyta Alexander gets a little surprise
+lyta2.jpg       Telepath Lyta Alexander
+sinclair.jpg    Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+takashima.jpg   Lt. Commander Laurel Takashima
+
+TELEVISION SCANNED, FROM SERIES
+
+catherine.gif   Catherine Sakai, Sinclair's significant other
+clark.jpg       Earth Alliance Vice-President Morgan Clark
+hernandez.jpg   Dr. Maya Hernandez, from "Believers"
+hidoshi.jpg     Earth Alliance Senator Hidoshi
+keffer.jpg      Squad Leader Warren Keffer
+lennier.gif     Lennier, Ambassador Delenn's assistant
+morden.jpg      Morden, the Shadows' human representative
+natoth.gif      Na'Toth, Ambassador G'Kar's attache, played by Caitlyn Brown
+natoth-2.jpg    Na'Toth, season two, played by Mary Kay Adams
+ngrath.gif      n'grath, the underworld boss
+sheridn3.jpg    Captain John Sheridan
+vir.gif         Vir Cotto, Ambassador Mollari's aide
+zathras.jpg     Zathras, from "Babylon Squared"
+
+OFFICIAL DIGITAL TRADING CARDS (486x299)
+
+b5card1.gif     Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+b5card2.gif     Lieutenant-Commander Susan Ivanova
+b5card3.gif     Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+b5card4.gif     Talia Winters
+b5card5.gif     Dr. Stephen Franklin
+b5card6.gif     Minbari Ambassador Delenn
+b5card7.gif     Centauri Ambassador Londo Mollari
+b5card8.gif     Narn Regime Ambassador G'Kar
+b5card9.gif     Vorlon Ambassador Kosh Naranek
+b5card10.gif    League of Non-Aligned Worlds
+
+MISCELLANEOUS SCANNED IMAGES
+
+ambass.gif      Promotional still of Londo, G'Kar, Kosh, and Delenn
+b5cast2.gif     Grayscale promotional still of the main cast
+b5castbw.gif    Another promotional still of cast
+bornpurp.jpg    Londo, Vir, and Adira, from "Born to the Purple"
+bruceb.jpg      Bruce Boxleitner as Captain Sheridan
+callenn.jpg     Callenn, the Minbari religious leader, from "Atonement"
+cascor.jpg      Cascor delegate to the League of Non-Aligned Worlds
+cd_ivona.jpg    Unofficial trading card: Commander Ivanova (season two)
+cd_lenn.jpg     Unofficial trading card: Lennier
+cd_vir.jpg      Unofficial trading card: Vir Cotto
+delenn3.jpg     Ambassador Delenn
+delnlenn.gif    Delenn and Lennier, season 2 (SPOILER)
+delnsncl.jpg    Delenn and Sinclair in Sinclair's office
+diplomts.gif    Londo, Delenn, Vir, and Lennier, season 2 (SPOILER)
+franklin.gif    Dr. Stephen Franklin
+frnksher.gif    Dr. Franklin and Captain Sheridan
+fullcast.gif    The full season-two cast (minus aides) (SPOILER)
+garibald.gif    Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+garibaldi.jpg   Garibaldi and Ivanova chatting, from "Midnight"
+garibaldi2.jpg  Garibaldi, pistol drawn
+garibaldi3.jpg  Garibaldi, calming a suspect
+gkar2.jpg       G'Kar, promotional photo
+gkarlick.jpg    G'Kar licking his chops
+gkarship.jpg    G'Kar strapped into a fighter cockpit
+guns-ambass.jpg Garibaldi and Sinclair; the ambassadors, from CD booklet
+ivanhelm.gif    Ivanova piloting a Starfury
+ivansher.jpg	Ivanova and Sheridan
+ivanova1.gif    Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+ivanova2.gif    Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+jdoyle.gif      Jerry Doyle as Garibaldi
+keffer1.gif     Squad Leader Warren Keffer
+kosh-del.jpg    Ambassadors Kosh and Delenn, season 2 (SPOILER)
+kosh1.jpg       Ambassador Kosh
+lennier1.gif    Bill Mumy as Lennier
+lond-vir.jpg    Londo and Vir at a bar
+londelvl.gif    Londo, Delenn, Vir, Lennier, season 2 (SPOILER)
+londgkar.gif    Promotional photo of G'Kar and Londo
+londgkr2.gif    Londo and G'Kar in a corridor
+londo1.gif      Ambassador Londo Mollari
+londo2.gif      Ambassador Londo Mollari
+lonvrgkr.gif    Londo, Vir, and G'Kar
+marcus.jpg      Jason Carter as Marcus Cole
+marcus1.jpg     Marcus, Ivanova, and Lennier on the White Star
+ngrath-delenn.jpg n'grath and Delenn, from CD booklet
+old-crew.gif    Cast photo from "The Gathering"
+pakmara.jpg     Pakmara delegate to the League of Non-Aligned Worlds
+s1ambass.gif    G'Kar, Delenn, and Londo
+s1cast.gif      Season one cast
+s1castzo.gif    Season one cast on the Zocalo
+s1commnd.gif    Season one command crew
+s1delenn.gif    Ambassador Delenn, season 1
+s2ambass.gif    Sheridan and ambassadors keeping the peace, season two (SPOILER)
+s2cast.jpg      Season two cast photo (SPOILER!)
+s2cast2.gif     Season two cast photo (SPOILER!)
+s2cmdrs.gif     Ivanova and Sheridan
+s2delenn.gif    Ambassador Delenn, season 2 (SPOILER)
+s2eacast.gif    Season-two human characters
+s3cast.jpg      Season-three cast (SPOILER for season two)
+s3cast2.jpg     Some of the season-three cast (SPOILER for season two)
+s3delenn.jpg    Delenn, season 3 (SPOILER)
+s3franklin.jpg  Dr. Franklin, season 3
+s3garibaldi.jpg Garibaldi, season 3
+s3gkar.jpg      G'Kar, season 3
+s3ivanova.jpg   Commander Ivanova, season 3
+s3lennier.jpg   Lennier, season 3
+s3londo.jpg     Londo Mollari, season 3
+s3lonvir.jpg    Londo and Vir, season 3
+s3marcus.jpg    Marcus Cole
+s3sheridan.jpg  Captain Sheridan, season 3
+s3vir.jpg       Vir Cotto, season 3
+s3zack.jpg      Zack Allen, season 3
+sheridan.gif    Captain John Sheridan
+sheridn1.gif    Bruce Boxleitner as Captain Sheridan
+sheridn2.gif    Captain John Sheridan
+shertali.gif    Sheridan and Talia
+shunter.jpg     W. Morgan Sheppard as the Soul Hunter
+sincivan.gif    Sinclair and Ivanova in the central corridor
+sinclair2.gif   Commander Sinclair
+sinclair3.gif   Commander Sinclair
+tal-best.gif    Talia Winters and Bester
+talia.gif       Talia Winters
+talia2.gif      Talia Winters
+techmage.jpg    Londo and Elric the technomage ("The Geometry of Shadows")
+vir2.gif        Londo's aide, Vir Cotto
+vir3.jpg        Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto
+vir4.jpg        Vir Cotto
+zack.jpg        Jeff Conaway as Zack Allen
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index 00000000..ad5ef031
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index 00000000..70a24c87
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new file mode 100644
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new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0f7cf499
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new file mode 100644
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index 00000000..5040fbb5
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new file mode 100644
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new file mode 100644
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new file mode 100644
index 00000000..86b57e82
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new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f323c76c
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index 00000000..bd14e325
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new file mode 100644
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new file mode 100644
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index 00000000..30bac9e0
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index 00000000..49cbfdac
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diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/index.html b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/index.html
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+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Index of Characters directory</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+<h1>Babylon 5 pictures: Characters</h1>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../ambass.gif"><img align=middle
+src="ambass.gif" alt="ambass - "></a>
+Promotional still of Londo, G'Kar, Kosh, and Delenn
+(GIF, 132460 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5card1.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5card1.gif" alt="b5card1 - "></a>
+Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+(GIF, 68338 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5card10.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5card10.gif" alt="b5card10 - "></a>
+League of Non-Aligned Worlds
+(GIF, 73216 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5card2.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5card2.gif" alt="b5card2 - "></a>
+Lieutenant-Commander Susan Ivanova
+(GIF, 72894 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5card3.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5card3.gif" alt="b5card3 - "></a>
+Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+(GIF, 67445 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5card4.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5card4.gif" alt="b5card4 - "></a>
+Talia Winters
+(GIF, 64975 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5card5.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5card5.gif" alt="b5card5 - "></a>
+Dr. Stephen Franklin
+(GIF, 71054 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5card6.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5card6.gif" alt="b5card6 - "></a>
+Minbari Ambassador Delenn
+(GIF, 69120 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5card7.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5card7.gif" alt="b5card7 - "></a>
+Centauri Ambassador Londo Mollari
+(GIF, 72960 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5card8.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5card8.gif" alt="b5card8 - "></a>
+Narn Regime Ambassador G'Kar
+(GIF, 73088 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5card9.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5card9.gif" alt="b5card9 - "></a>
+Vorlon Ambassador Kosh Naranek
+(GIF, 66048 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5cast2.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5cast2.gif" alt="b5cast2 - "></a>
+Grayscale promotional still of the main cast
+(GIF, 319432 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5castbw.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5castbw.gif" alt="b5castbw - "></a>
+Another promotional still of cast
+(GIF, 362112 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../bar.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="bar.gif" alt="bar - "></a>
+Garibaldi and Londo in the bar
+(JPEG, 13268 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../bornpurp.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="bornpurp.gif" alt="bornpurp - "></a>
+Londo, Vir, and Adira, from "Born to the Purple"
+(JPEG, 85273 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../bruceb.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="bruceb.gif" alt="bruceb - "></a>
+Bruce Boxleitner as Captain Sheridan
+(JPEG, 72434 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../callenn.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="callenn.gif" alt="callenn - "></a>
+Callenn, the Minbari religious leader, from "Atonement"
+(JPEG, 109309 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../cascor.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="cascor.gif" alt="cascor - "></a>
+Cascor delegate to the League of Non-Aligned Worlds
+(JPEG, 103565 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../catherine.gif"><img align=middle
+src="catherine.gif" alt="catherine - "></a>
+Catherine Sakai, Sinclair's significant other
+(GIF, 28759 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../cd_ivona.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="cd_ivona.gif" alt="cd_ivona - "></a>
+Unofficial trading card: Commander Ivanova (season two)
+(JPEG, 33547 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../cd_keffe.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="cd_keffe.gif" alt="cd_keffe - "></a>
+
+(JPEG, 38221 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../cd_lenn.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="cd_lenn.gif" alt="cd_lenn - "></a>
+Unofficial trading card: Lennier
+(JPEG, 37213 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../cd_vir.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="cd_vir.gif" alt="cd_vir - "></a>
+Unofficial trading card: Vir Cotto
+(JPEG, 34911 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../clark.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="clark.gif" alt="clark - "></a>
+Earth Alliance Vice-President Morgan Clark
+(JPEG, 15141 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../claudiac.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="claudiac.gif" alt="claudiac - "></a>
+
+(JPEG, 79675 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../delenn.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="delenn.gif" alt="delenn - "></a>
+Minbari Ambassador Delenn
+(JPEG, 20395 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../delenn3.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="delenn3.gif" alt="delenn3 - "></a>
+Ambassador Delenn
+(JPEG, 252703 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../delnlenn.gif"><img align=middle
+src="broken" alt="delnlenn - "></a>
+Delenn and Lennier, season 2 (SPOILER)
+(GIF, 81203 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../delnsncl.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="delnsncl.gif" alt="delnsncl - "></a>
+Delenn and Sinclair in Sinclair's office
+(JPEG, 137637 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../franklin.gif"><img align=middle
+src="franklin.gif" alt="franklin - "></a>
+Dr. Stephen Franklin
+(GIF, 46280 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../frnksher.gif"><img align=middle
+src="frnksher.gif" alt="frnksher - "></a>
+Dr. Franklin and Captain Sheridan
+(GIF, 49825 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../fullcast.gif"><img align=middle
+src="broken" alt="fullcast - "></a>
+The full season-two cast (minus aides) (SPOILER)
+(GIF, 63246 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../garibald.gif"><img align=middle
+src="garibald.gif" alt="garibald - "></a>
+Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+(GIF, 48907 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../garibaldi.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="garibaldi.gif" alt="garibaldi - "></a>
+Garibaldi and Ivanova chatting, from "Midnight"
+(JPEG, 107136 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../garibaldi2.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="garibaldi2.gif" alt="garibaldi2 - "></a>
+Garibaldi, pistol drawn
+(JPEG, 77292 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../garibaldi3.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="garibaldi3.gif" alt="garibaldi3 - "></a>
+Garibaldi, calming a suspect
+(JPEG, 51038 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../gkar.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="gkar.gif" alt="gkar - "></a>
+Narn Ambassador G'Kar
+(JPEG, 9736 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../gkar2.gif"><img align=middle
+src="gkar2.gif" alt="gkar2 - "></a>
+
+(GIF, 32188 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../gkarlick.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="gkarlick.gif" alt="gkarlick - "></a>
+G'Kar licking his chops
+(JPEG, 103800 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../gkarship.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="gkarship.gif" alt="gkarship - "></a>
+G'Kar strapped into a fighter cockpit
+(JPEG, 274296 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../guns-ambass.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="guns-ambass.gif" alt="guns-ambass - "></a>
+Garibaldi and Sinclair; the ambassadors, from CD booklet
+(JPEG, 46710 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../hernandez.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="hernandez.gif" alt="hernandez - "></a>
+Dr. Maya Hernandez, from "Believers"
+(JPEG, 12581 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../hidoshi.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="hidoshi.gif" alt="hidoshi - "></a>
+Earth Alliance Senator Hidoshi
+(JPEG, 13011 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../ivanhelm.gif"><img align=middle
+src="ivanhelm.gif" alt="ivanhelm - "></a>
+Ivanova piloting a Starfury
+(GIF, 32278 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../ivanova.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="ivanova.gif" alt="ivanova - "></a>
+
+(JPEG, 47296 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../ivanova1.gif"><img align=middle
+src="ivanova1.gif" alt="ivanova1 - "></a>
+Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+(GIF, 47846 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../ivanova2.gif"><img align=middle
+src="ivanova2.gif" alt="ivanova2 - "></a>
+Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+(GIF, 37607 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../ivansher.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="ivansher.gif" alt="ivansher - "></a>
+and Sheridan
+(JPEG, 35749 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../jdoyle.gif"><img align=middle
+src="jdoyle.gif" alt="jdoyle - "></a>
+Jerry Doyle as Garibaldi
+(GIF, 151623 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../keffer.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="keffer.gif" alt="keffer - "></a>
+Squad Leader Warren Keffer
+(JPEG, 18870 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../keffer1.gif"><img align=middle
+src="keffer1.gif" alt="keffer1 - "></a>
+Squad Leader Warren Keffer
+(GIF, 50142 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../kosh-del.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="broken" alt="kosh-del - "></a>
+Ambassadors Kosh and Delenn, season 2 (SPOILER)
+(JPEG, 303453 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../kosh.gif"><img align=middle
+src="kosh.gif" alt="kosh - "></a>
+Vorlon Ambassador Kosh, in environment suit
+(GIF, 50116 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../kosh1.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="kosh1.gif" alt="kosh1 - "></a>
+Ambassador Kosh
+(JPEG, 68404 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../kyle.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="kyle.gif" alt="kyle - "></a>
+Dr. Benjamin Kyle
+(JPEG, 11669 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../lennier.gif"><img align=middle
+src="lennier.gif" alt="lennier - "></a>
+Lennier, Ambassador Delenn's assistant
+(GIF, 20864 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../lennier1.gif"><img align=middle
+src="lennier1.gif" alt="lennier1 - "></a>
+Bill Mumy as Lennier
+(GIF, 69958 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../lond-vir.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="lond-vir.gif" alt="lond-vir - "></a>
+Londo and Vir at a bar
+(JPEG, 140529 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../londelvl.gif"><img align=middle
+src="broken" alt="londelvl - "></a>
+Londo, Delenn, Vir, Lennier, season 2 (SPOILER)
+(GIF, 2638 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../londgkar.gif"><img align=middle
+src="londgkar.gif" alt="londgkar - "></a>
+Promotional photo of G'Kar and Londo
+(GIF, 59191 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../londgkr2.gif"><img align=middle
+src="londgkr2.gif" alt="londgkr2 - "></a>
+Londo and G'Kar in a corridor
+(GIF, 65096 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../londo.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="londo.gif" alt="londo - "></a>
+Centauri Ambassador Londo Mollari
+(JPEG, 15118 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../londo1.gif"><img align=middle
+src="londo1.gif" alt="londo1 - "></a>
+Ambassador Londo Mollari
+(GIF, 40042 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../londo2.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="londo2.gif" alt="londo2 - "></a>
+
+(JPEG, 105379 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../lonvrgkr.gif"><img align=middle
+src="lonvrgkr.gif" alt="lonvrgkr - "></a>
+Londo, Vir, and G'Kar
+(GIF, 69317 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../lyta1.jpg"><img align=middle
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diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s2eacast.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s2eacast.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..41694546
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s2eacast.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3cast.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3cast.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1966ba82
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3cast.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3cast2.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3cast2.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4b8a3a9f
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3cast2.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3delenn.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3delenn.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..97baad1e
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3delenn.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3franklin.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3franklin.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..94fbf0a1
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3franklin.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3garibaldi.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3garibaldi.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b17866de
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3garibaldi.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3gkar.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3gkar.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0f11f528
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3gkar.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3ivanova.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3ivanova.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..12f7b334
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3ivanova.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3lennier.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3lennier.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5f93990a
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3lennier.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3londo.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3londo.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..73aab19c
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3londo.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3lonvir.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3lonvir.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e985e17c
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3lonvir.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3marcus.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3marcus.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..69c0ac3b
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3marcus.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3sheridan.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3sheridan.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5a395710
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3sheridan.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3vir.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3vir.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4d640474
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3vir.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3zack.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3zack.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1277cb73
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/s3zack.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sheridan.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sheridan.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6a3b2d51
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sheridan.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sheridn1.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sheridn1.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..64f144d5
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sheridn1.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sheridn2.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sheridn2.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..83b86e20
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sheridn2.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sheridn3.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sheridn3.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6a0114e0
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sheridn3.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/shertali.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/shertali.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..17bdd0f4
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/shertali.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/shunter.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/shunter.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e7e39f6f
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/shunter.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sincivan.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sincivan.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8eafa231
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sincivan.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sinclair.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sinclair.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..28b14dfc
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sinclair.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sinclair2.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sinclair2.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..70cae768
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sinclair2.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sinclair3.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sinclair3.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e68abc1f
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/sinclair3.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/takashima.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/takashima.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1b6ee91a
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/takashima.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/tal-best.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/tal-best.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b1c796ad
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/tal-best.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/talia.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/talia.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8735ae01
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/talia.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/talia2.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/talia2.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4247030f
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/talia2.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/techmage.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/techmage.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8309baa9
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/techmage.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/vir.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/vir.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bff1799e
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/vir.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/vir2.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/vir2.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..19f06801
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/vir2.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/vir3.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/vir3.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7fe39b4a
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/vir3.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/vir4.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/vir4.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fd5cc0cd
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/vir4.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/zack.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/zack.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..43ca1384
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/zack.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/zathras.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/zathras.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e006214a
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/Thumb/zathras.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/ambass.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/ambass.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a61152b2
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/ambass.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card1.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card1.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7495285c
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card1.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card10.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card10.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c4c8606b
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card10.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card2.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card2.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5dba8fcc
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card2.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card3.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card3.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dcc0a375
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card3.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card4.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card4.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..05f8761f
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card4.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card5.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card5.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5a5c3449
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card5.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card6.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card6.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..93312658
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card6.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card7.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card7.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..962c3501
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card7.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card8.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card8.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..064b17e9
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card8.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card9.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card9.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9a7981d8
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5card9.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5cast2.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5cast2.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..52496b23
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5cast2.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5castbw.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5castbw.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7cc4c05f
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/b5castbw.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/bar.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/bar.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ad26aa9a
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/bar.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/bornpurp.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/bornpurp.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a1efa889
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/bornpurp.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/bruceb.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/bruceb.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2a1221fd
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/bruceb.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/callenn.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/callenn.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..34b823be
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/callenn.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/cascor.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/cascor.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4ebb2eaf
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/cascor.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/catherine.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/catherine.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bb8a8763
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/catherine.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/cd_ivona.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/cd_ivona.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ede0697a
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/cd_ivona.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/cd_keffe.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/cd_keffe.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2e402fad
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/cd_keffe.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/cd_lenn.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/cd_lenn.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..25f17fdf
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/cd_lenn.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/cd_vir.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/cd_vir.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..93a12d76
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/cd_vir.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/clark.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/clark.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..890255f1
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/clark.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/claudiac.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/claudiac.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a2d0bc51
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/claudiac.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/delenn.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/delenn.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..40f28b41
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/delenn.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/delenn3.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/delenn3.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2ffb28d4
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/delenn3.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/delnlenn.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/delnlenn.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e9547ee4
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/delnlenn.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/delnsncl.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/delnsncl.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0d570809
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/delnsncl.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/franklin.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/franklin.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4ad8c411
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/franklin.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/frnksher.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/frnksher.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..24ee9231
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/frnksher.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/fullcast.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/fullcast.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1e6d928c
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/fullcast.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/garibald.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/garibald.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e4bedce2
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/garibald.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/garibaldi.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/garibaldi.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7a5a5315
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/garibaldi.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/garibaldi2.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/garibaldi2.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ecf89268
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/garibaldi2.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/garibaldi3.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/garibaldi3.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..59b76e40
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/garibaldi3.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/gkar.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/gkar.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..76d6c67c
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/gkar.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/gkar2.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/gkar2.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d463f753
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/gkar2.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/gkarlick.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/gkarlick.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d25f3967
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/gkarlick.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/gkarship.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/gkarship.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cbf82a2d
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/gkarship.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/guns-ambass.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/guns-ambass.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..71668c28
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/guns-ambass.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/hernandez.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/hernandez.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..27eae822
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/hernandez.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/hidoshi.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/hidoshi.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..baf9774f
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/hidoshi.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/ivanhelm.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/ivanhelm.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4f7f861b
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/ivanhelm.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/ivanova.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/ivanova.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f23ef1fe
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/ivanova.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/ivanova1.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/ivanova1.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f20bf61f
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/ivanova1.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/ivanova2.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/ivanova2.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..28f1a407
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/ivanova2.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/ivansher.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/ivansher.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2f3fec11
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/ivansher.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/jdoyle.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/jdoyle.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..718323af
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/jdoyle.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/keffer.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/keffer.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4b6096c7
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/keffer.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/keffer1.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/keffer1.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9dfe6695
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/keffer1.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/kosh-del.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/kosh-del.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..55894756
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/kosh-del.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/kosh.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/kosh.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fac7da28
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/kosh.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/kosh1.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/kosh1.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..55b45711
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/kosh1.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/kyle.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/kyle.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f1827974
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/kyle.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/lennier.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/lennier.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f0ff1803
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/lennier.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/lennier1.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/lennier1.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..73dd7714
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/lennier1.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/lond-vir.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/lond-vir.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..776ab50e
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/lond-vir.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/londelvl.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/londelvl.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4e4a818f
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/londelvl.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/londgkar.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/londgkar.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b54dbefc
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/londgkar.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/londgkr2.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/londgkr2.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bc717555
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/londgkr2.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/londo.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/londo.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4f3a2a99
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/londo.jpg differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/londo1.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/londo1.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..787f4102
Binary files /dev/null and b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/londo1.gif differ
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/londo2.jpg b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/londo2.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ebdb6c87
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diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/Characters/lonvrgkr.gif b/ftp/Pictures/Characters/lonvrgkr.gif
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+INDEX OF BABYLON 5 PICTURES - Effects directory
+
+This directory contains various special-effects shots from Babylon 5, both
+the pilot and the series.
+
+The file Index.jpg contains shrunken versions of the pictures here.  If you
+like, use it to determine which pictures interest you.  Thumbnail images of
+these pictures can be found in the "Thumb" directory.
+
+Pictures copyright 1992-94 Synthetic Worlds Ltd, PTEN, and Warner Brothers
+Domestic Television Distribution.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+NAME            DESCRIPTION
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+FRAME-GRABBED OR HI-RES SCAN, FROM PILOT
+
+cambot.gif      A maintenance robot
+docking.gif     Vorlon ship moving into docking bay
+newvorlon.jpg   Vorlon mothership and fighters
+station1.gif    A view of the station
+vattack2.jpg    Vorlon mothership and fighters with weapons powered
+vorlon.gif      Vorlon mothership with smaller ships
+vorlon2.gif     Vorlon ship over planet with moons
+
+RENDERED DIRECTLY, FROM SERIES (very high quality)
+
+asteroids.gif   Starfuries in asteroid field, from "Midnight"
+centauri.gif	A Centauri liner
+cockpit.gif     Starfury being fired on, as seen from the cockpit
+dock1.gif       The docking bay from the inside
+dock2.gif       The docking bay from the outside
+effects.gif     Starfuries and station
+explode.gif     Minbari warship exploding, from "Points of Departure"
+explore.gif	The Skydancer, an exploration vessel
+flipped3.gif    Babylon 5 flipped upside-down from normal orientation
+flipped4.gif    Babylon 5 flipped upside-down from normal orientation
+flipped5.gif    Babylon 5 flipped upside-down from normal orientation
+flipped6.gif    Babylon 5 flipped upside-down from normal orientation
+flipped7.gif    Babylon 5 flipped upside-down from normal orientation
+freighter.gif   Narn freighter
+jumpgat2.gif    Incoming jumpgate in mid-activation
+jumpget3.gif    Incoming jumpgate
+jumpgat4.gif    Outgoing jumpgate
+jumpgat5.gif    Jump point about to form
+liner.gif       Centauri personal liner leaving the station
+minbari3.gif	A Minbari war cruiser
+narn.gif	A Narn cruiser
+raider1.gif     Starfury pivoting to face raider, from "Midnight"
+raider2.gif     Raider and Starfury firing, from "Midnight"
+raiders.gif	A raider ship
+rescue.gif      Starfury with Starliner Asimov in background
+presidential.gif Earth Force One, from "Survivors"
+shadowat.gif    Shadow ship attacking the White Star
+shadows.gif     Two Shadow ships over a planet
+shadows2.gif    A Shadow (SPOILER)
+shadows3.gif    A Shadow ship in hyperspace
+ship1.gif       Alien probe, from "A Day in the Strife"
+sky1.gif        A blue nebula
+skydance.gif    Catherine Sakai's ship emerging from a jump gate
+space.gif       An astronomical backdrop
+space2.gif      A nebula
+starfury.gif    Promo shot of a starFury fighter
+strfury2.gif    Starfury firing on raider ship
+starlit.gif     Babylon 5 station lit by its sun
+station.gif     Station against bright blue nebula
+station2.gif    Station orbiting Epsilon 3
+station5.gif    Station, upside-down from normal orientation
+swarm.gif       Several starfuries flying from the station
+
+TELEVISION SCANNED, FROM PILOT
+
+approach1.jpg   Dual-pod ship approaching Babylon 5
+approach2.gif   Vorlon ship about to enter B5 docking bay
+approach3.jpg   Earth ship approaching Babylon 5
+attack1.gif     Lots of Vorlon ships moving in to attack B5
+attack2.gif     Vorlon ship charging weapons systems
+brake.gif       Vorlon executing braking maneuver
+jumpgate.jpg    Jump gate being activated
+jump1.gif       Vorlon ship leaving jump gate
+jump2.jpg       Active jump gate
+
+TELEVISION SCANNED, FROM SERIES
+
+garden-night.gif A view down the Garden at night, from "The War Prayer"
+garden.gif      The Garden as seen from the core, from "Mind War"
+line1.jpg       Starfuries attacking Minbari cruisers, from "Sky"
+
+MISCELLANEOUS SCANNED IMAGES
+
+feeder.gif      Na'Ka'Leen feeder, from "Grail"
+minbari.gif     Minbari cruisers at the Battle of the Line
+minbari2.gif    A Minbari cruiser
+planets.gif     Some planets in front of a nebula
+station3.jpg    Station in space, from CD booklet
+station4.jpg    Station and planet, from CD booklet
+station8.gif	Station with shuttle approaching
+station-sheridan.jpg Station in space, with Sheridan inset, from CD booklet
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+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Index of Effects directory</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+<h1>Babylon 5 pictures: Effects</h1>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../approach1.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="approach1.gif" alt="approach1 - "></a>
+Dual-pod ship approaching Babylon 5
+(JPEG, 60048 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../approach2.gif"><img align=middle
+src="approach2.gif" alt="approach2 - "></a>
+Vorlon ship about to enter B5 docking bay
+(GIF, 147517 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../approach3.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="approach3.gif" alt="approach3 - "></a>
+Earth ship approaching Babylon 5
+(JPEG, 57870 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../asteroids.gif"><img align=middle
+src="asteroids.gif" alt="asteroids - "></a>
+Starfuries in asteroid field, from "Midnight"
+(GIF, 177494 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../attack1.gif"><img align=middle
+src="attack1.gif" alt="attack1 - "></a>
+Lots of Vorlon ships moving in to attack B5
+(GIF, 94984 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../attack2.gif"><img align=middle
+src="attack2.gif" alt="attack2 - "></a>
+Vorlon ship charging weapons systems
+(GIF, 69369 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../brake.gif"><img align=middle
+src="brake.gif" alt="brake - "></a>
+Vorlon executing braking maneuver
+(GIF, 79989 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../cambot.gif"><img align=middle
+src="cambot.gif" alt="cambot - "></a>
+A maintenance robot
+(GIF, 269637 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../centauri.gif"><img align=middle
+src="centauri.gif" alt="centauri - "></a>
+Centauri liner
+(GIF, 53018 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../cockpit.gif"><img align=middle
+src="cockpit.gif" alt="cockpit - "></a>
+Starfury being fired on, as seen from the cockpit
+(GIF, 132864 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../dock1.gif"><img align=middle
+src="dock1.gif" alt="dock1 - "></a>
+The docking bay from the inside
+(GIF, 60169 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../dock2.gif"><img align=middle
+src="dock2.gif" alt="dock2 - "></a>
+The docking bay from the outside
+(GIF, 77372 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../docking.gif"><img align=middle
+src="docking.gif" alt="docking - "></a>
+Vorlon ship moving into docking bay
+(GIF, 522326 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../effects.gif"><img align=middle
+src="effects.gif" alt="effects - "></a>
+Starfuries and station
+(GIF, 33770 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../explode.gif"><img align=middle
+src="explode.gif" alt="explode - "></a>
+Minbari warship exploding, from "Points of Departure"
+(GIF, 65534 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../explore.gif"><img align=middle
+src="explore.gif" alt="explore - "></a>
+Skydancer, an exploration vessel
+(GIF, 49879 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../feeder.gif"><img align=middle
+src="feeder.gif" alt="feeder - "></a>
+Na'Ka'Leen feeder, from "Grail"
+(GIF, 389914 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../flipped3.gif"><img align=middle
+src="flipped3.gif" alt="flipped3 - "></a>
+Babylon 5 flipped upside-down from normal orientation
+(GIF, 74443 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../flipped4.gif"><img align=middle
+src="flipped4.gif" alt="flipped4 - "></a>
+Babylon 5 flipped upside-down from normal orientation
+(GIF, 69912 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../flipped5.gif"><img align=middle
+src="flipped5.gif" alt="flipped5 - "></a>
+Babylon 5 flipped upside-down from normal orientation
+(GIF, 66674 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../flipped6.gif"><img align=middle
+src="flipped6.gif" alt="flipped6 - "></a>
+Babylon 5 flipped upside-down from normal orientation
+(GIF, 55151 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../flipped7.gif"><img align=middle
+src="flipped7.gif" alt="flipped7 - "></a>
+Babylon 5 flipped upside-down from normal orientation
+(GIF, 53839 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../freighter.gif"><img align=middle
+src="freighter.gif" alt="freighter - "></a>
+Narn freighter
+(GIF, 254718 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../garden-night.gif"><img align=middle
+src="garden-night.gif" alt="garden-night - "></a>
+A view down the Garden at night, from "The War Prayer"
+(GIF, 70365 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../garden.gif"><img align=middle
+src="garden.gif" alt="garden - "></a>
+The Garden as seen from the core, from "Mind War"
+(GIF, 67025 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../jump1.gif"><img align=middle
+src="jump1.gif" alt="jump1 - "></a>
+Vorlon ship leaving jump gate
+(GIF, 32543 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../jump2.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="jump2.gif" alt="jump2 - "></a>
+Active jump gate
+(JPEG, 74587 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../jumpgat2.gif"><img align=middle
+src="jumpgat2.gif" alt="jumpgat2 - "></a>
+Incoming jumpgate in mid-activation
+(GIF, 39693 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../jumpgat3.gif"><img align=middle
+src="jumpgat3.gif" alt="jumpgat3 - "></a>
+
+(GIF, 50320 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../jumpgat4.gif"><img align=middle
+src="jumpgat4.gif" alt="jumpgat4 - "></a>
+Outgoing jumpgate
+(GIF, 50660 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../jumpgat5.gif"><img align=middle
+src="jumpgat5.gif" alt="jumpgat5 - "></a>
+Jump point about to form
+(GIF, 42135 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../jumpgate.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="jumpgate.gif" alt="jumpgate - "></a>
+Jump gate being activated
+(JPEG, 67475 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../line1.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="line1.gif" alt="line1 - "></a>
+Starfuries attacking Minbari cruisers, from "Sky"
+(JPEG, 21297 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../liner.gif"><img align=middle
+src="liner.gif" alt="liner - "></a>
+Centauri personal liner leaving the station
+(GIF, 97732 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../minbari.gif"><img align=middle
+src="minbari.gif" alt="minbari - "></a>
+Minbari cruisers at the Battle of the Line
+(GIF, 430309 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../minbari2.gif"><img align=middle
+src="minbari2.gif" alt="minbari2 - "></a>
+A Minbari cruiser
+(GIF, 27930 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../minbari3.gif"><img align=middle
+src="minbari3.gif" alt="minbari3 - "></a>
+Minbari war cruiser
+(GIF, 45045 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../narn.gif"><img align=middle
+src="narn.gif" alt="narn - "></a>
+Narn cruiser
+(GIF, 52157 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../newvorlon.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="newvorlon.gif" alt="newvorlon - "></a>
+Vorlon mothership and fighters
+(JPEG, 313477 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../planets.gif"><img align=middle
+src="planets.gif" alt="planets - "></a>
+Some planets in front of a nebula
+(GIF, 61387 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../presidential.gif"><img align=middle
+src="presidential.gif" alt="presidential - "></a>
+Earth Force One, from "Survivors"
+(GIF, 14697 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../raider1.gif"><img align=middle
+src="raider1.gif" alt="raider1 - "></a>
+Starfury pivoting to face raider, from "Midnight"
+(GIF, 154603 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../raider2.gif"><img align=middle
+src="raider2.gif" alt="raider2 - "></a>
+Raider and Starfury firing, from "Midnight"
+(GIF, 140116 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../raiders.gif"><img align=middle
+src="raiders.gif" alt="raiders - "></a>
+raider ship
+(GIF, 54571 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../rescue.gif"><img align=middle
+src="rescue.gif" alt="rescue - "></a>
+Starfury with Starliner Asimov in background
+(GIF, 76032 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../shadowat.gif"><img align=middle
+src="shadowat.gif" alt="shadowat - "></a>
+Shadow ship attacking the White Star
+(GIF, 43987 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../shadows.gif"><img align=middle
+src="shadows.gif" alt="shadows - "></a>
+Two Shadow ships over a planet
+(GIF, 42102 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../shadows2.gif"><img align=middle
+src="broken" alt="shadows2 - "></a>
+A Shadow (SPOILER)
+(GIF, 34057 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../shadows3.gif"><img align=middle
+src="shadows3.gif" alt="shadows3 - "></a>
+A Shadow ship in hyperspace
+(GIF, 45301 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../ship1.gif"><img align=middle
+src="ship1.gif" alt="ship1 - "></a>
+Alien probe, from "A Day in the Strife"
+(GIF, 45519 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../sky1.gif"><img align=middle
+src="sky1.gif" alt="sky1 - "></a>
+A blue nebula
+(GIF, 42517 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../skydance.gif"><img align=middle
+src="skydance.gif" alt="skydance - "></a>
+Catherine Sakai's ship emerging from a jump gate
+(GIF, 130304 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../space.gif"><img align=middle
+src="space.gif" alt="space - "></a>
+An astronomical backdrop
+(GIF, 32485 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../space2.gif"><img align=middle
+src="space2.gif" alt="space2 - "></a>
+A nebula
+(GIF, 42391 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../starfury.gif"><img align=middle
+src="starfury.gif" alt="starfury - "></a>
+Promo shot of a starFury fighter
+(GIF, 72704 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../starlit.gif"><img align=middle
+src="starlit.gif" alt="starlit - "></a>
+Babylon 5 station lit by its sun
+(GIF, 116992 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../station-sheridan.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="station-sheridan.gif" alt="station-sheridan - "></a>
+Station in space, with Sheridan inset, from CD booklet
+(JPEG, 43588 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../station.gif"><img align=middle
+src="station.gif" alt="station - "></a>
+Station against bright blue nebula
+(GIF, 51097 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../station1.gif"><img align=middle
+src="station1.gif" alt="station1 - "></a>
+A view of the station
+(GIF, 548902 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../station2.gif"><img align=middle
+src="station2.gif" alt="station2 - "></a>
+Station orbiting Epsilon 3
+(GIF, 166341 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../station3.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="station3.gif" alt="station3 - "></a>
+Station in space, from CD booklet
+(JPEG, 36072 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../station4.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="station4.gif" alt="station4 - "></a>
+Station and planet, from CD booklet
+(JPEG, 37013 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../station5.gif"><img align=middle
+src="station5.gif" alt="station5 - "></a>
+Station, upside-down from normal orientation
+(GIF, 47335 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../station8.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="station8.gif" alt="station8 - "></a>
+
+(JPEG, 51107 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../strfury2.gif"><img align=middle
+src="strfury2.gif" alt="strfury2 - "></a>
+Starfury firing on raider ship
+(GIF, 174917 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../swarm.gif"><img align=middle
+src="swarm.gif" alt="swarm - "></a>
+Several starfuries flying from the station
+(GIF, 134784 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../vattack2.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="vattack2.gif" alt="vattack2 - "></a>
+Vorlon mothership and fighters with weapons powered
+(JPEG, 81920 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../vorlon.gif"><img align=middle
+src="vorlon.gif" alt="vorlon - "></a>
+Vorlon mothership with smaller ships
+(GIF, 224733 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../vorlon2.gif"><img align=middle
+src="vorlon2.gif" alt="vorlon2 - "></a>
+Vorlon ship over planet with moons
+(GIF, 78464 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<hr>
+<p>
+<a href="http://www.midwinter.com/b5/Pictures/">To the main pictures menu</a>
+</body>
+</html>
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@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+INDEX OF BABYLON 5 PICTURES - Misc directory
+
+This directory contains promotional images and things that don't fit into the
+other categories.
+
+The file Index.jpg is a grid with shrunken versions of the pictures here.
+If you like, use it to determine which pictures interest you.  Thumbnail
+images of most of these pictures can be found in the "Thumb" directory.
+
+Some pictures are available in both GIF and JPEG formats; only the JPEG
+versions are listed here, as that's the preferred type.
+
+Pictures copyright 1992-94 Synthetic Worlds Ltd, PTEN, and Warner Brothers
+Domestic Television Distribution.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+NAME            DESCRIPTION
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+TELEVISION SCANNED, FROM SERIES
+
+b5-tvlogo.gif   The B5 logo as shown in the title sequence
+
+UNOFFICIAL DIGITAL TRADING CARDS (486x299)
+
+B5fake2.gif     Unofficial trading card #-2: A Race Through Wrong Places
+B5fake1.gif     Unofficial trading card #-1: Sinclair's yacht
+joecard.gif     Unofficial trading card #0: JMS
+
+MISCELLANEOUS SCANNED IMAGES
+
+b5adbw.gif      Low resolution scan of a B5 print ad [grayscale]
+b5adcolor.gif   Magazine spread featuring cast and station
+b5logo.gif      "5" over "B" logo, the B5 insignia as worn on uniform sleeves
+cd-cover.jpg    Cover of limited-edition CD
+chamber.gif     Logo from the council chamber wall
+chrome.gif      Old B5 logo from original concept [grayscale]
+crash.jpg       Soul Hunter ship crashed in jungle
+crystal.gif     A data crystal
+daffy_kosh.jpg  Kosh unveiled?
+fleerbk.jpg     Back of promotional trading card from Fleer
+fleerfr.jpg     Front of promotional trading card from Fleer
+franke.jpg      Series composer Christopher Franke, from CD booklet
+furlan.jpg	Mira Furlan (Ambassador Delenn)
+japanposter.gif Promotional poster for Japanese release of pilot
+jms-tv.gif      J. Michael Straczynski, creator of B5, on TV
+jms.gif         JMS portrait [grayscale]
+jms1982.jpg     JMS ca. 1982, from a book cover [grayscale]
+jms2.gif        JMS, same portrait, but larger [grayscale]
+jms3.gif        JMS photo [grayscale]
+jmsb53d.gif     JMS and station -- view with red/green 3D glasses
+kath-jms.jpg    Kathryn Drennan and JMS, August 1995
+s2promo.jpg	Season two promotional shot
+s2promo2.jpg	Season two promotional shot
+s2promo3.jpg	Season two promotional shot
+starship.gif    Sinclair's d*ck?  Not from "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 2"
+zocalo.jpg      A quiet day on the Zocalo
+
+OTHER
+
+bproject.gif    Cover picture for the "Babylon Project" fanzine
+sentientxing.jpg Reproduction of "Sentient Crossing" sign near B5 soundstage
+strfury2.gif    Fan-rendered Starfury from rear
+strfury3.gif    Fan-rendered Starfury from front
+vorlon5.gif     Fan-rendered Vorlon fighters
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+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Index of Misc directory</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+<h1>Babylon 5 pictures: Misc</h1>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../B5fake1.gif"><img align=middle
+src="B5fake1.gif" alt="B5fake1 - "></a>
+Unofficial trading card #-1: Sinclair's yacht
+(GIF, 54270 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../B5fake2.gif"><img align=middle
+src="B5fake2.gif" alt="B5fake2 - "></a>
+Unofficial trading card #-2: A Race Through Wrong Places
+(GIF, 58286 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5-tvlogo.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5-tvlogo.gif" alt="b5-tvlogo - "></a>
+The B5 logo as shown in the title sequence
+(GIF, 57411 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5adbw.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5adbw.gif" alt="b5adbw - "></a>
+Low resolution scan of a B5 print ad [grayscale]
+(GIF, 39680 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5adcolor.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5adcolor.gif" alt="b5adcolor - "></a>
+Magazine spread featuring cast and station
+(GIF, 150784 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5logo.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5logo.gif" alt="b5logo - "></a>
+"5" over "B" logo, the B5 insignia as worn on uniform sleeves
+(GIF, 9627 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../bproject.gif"><img align=middle
+src="bproject.gif" alt="bproject - "></a>
+Cover picture for the "Babylon Project" fanzine
+(GIF, 156886 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../cd-cover.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="cd-cover.gif" alt="cd-cover - "></a>
+Cover of limited-edition CD
+(JPEG, 40614 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../chamber.gif"><img align=middle
+src="chamber.gif" alt="chamber - "></a>
+Logo from the council chamber wall
+(GIF, 96988 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../chrome.gif"><img align=middle
+src="chrome.gif" alt="chrome - "></a>
+Old B5 logo from original concept [grayscale]
+(GIF, 12614 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../crash.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="crash.gif" alt="crash - "></a>
+Soul Hunter ship crashed in jungle
+(JPEG, 423185 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../crystal.gif"><img align=middle
+src="crystal.gif" alt="crystal - "></a>
+A data crystal
+(GIF, 51496 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../daffykosh.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="daffykosh.gif" alt="daffykosh - "></a>
+
+(JPEG, 51968 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../fleerbk.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="fleerbk.gif" alt="fleerbk - "></a>
+Back of promotional trading card from Fleer
+(JPEG, 106247 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../fleerfr.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="fleerfr.gif" alt="fleerfr - "></a>
+Front of promotional trading card from Fleer
+(JPEG, 93763 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../franke.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="franke.gif" alt="franke - "></a>
+Series composer Christopher Franke, from CD booklet
+(JPEG, 48958 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../furlan.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="furlan.gif" alt="furlan - "></a>
+Furlan (Ambassador Delenn)
+(JPEG, 169694 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../japanposter.gif"><img align=middle
+src="japanposter.gif" alt="japanposter - "></a>
+Promotional poster for Japanese release of pilot
+(GIF, 147072 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../jms-tv.gif"><img align=middle
+src="jms-tv.gif" alt="jms-tv - "></a>
+J. Michael Straczynski, creator of B5, on TV
+(GIF, 42909 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../jms.gif"><img align=middle
+src="jms.gif" alt="jms - "></a>
+JMS portrait [grayscale]
+(GIF, 70345 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../jms1982.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="jms1982.gif" alt="jms1982 - "></a>
+JMS ca. 1982, from a book cover [grayscale]
+(JPEG, 16336 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../jms2.gif"><img align=middle
+src="jms2.gif" alt="jms2 - "></a>
+JMS, same portrait, but larger [grayscale]
+(GIF, 92189 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../jms3.gif"><img align=middle
+src="jms3.gif" alt="jms3 - "></a>
+JMS photo [grayscale]
+(GIF, 27969 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../jmsb53d.gif"><img align=middle
+src="jmsb53d.gif" alt="jmsb53d - "></a>
+JMS and station -- view with red/green 3D glasses
+(GIF, 29629 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../joecard.gif"><img align=middle
+src="joecard.gif" alt="joecard - "></a>
+Unofficial trading card #0: JMS
+(GIF, 38860 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../kath-jms.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="kath-jms.gif" alt="kath-jms - "></a>
+Kathryn Drennan and JMS, August 1995
+(JPEG, 32444 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../s2promo.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="s2promo.gif" alt="s2promo - "></a>
+two promotional shot
+(JPEG, 57877 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../s2promo2.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="s2promo2.gif" alt="s2promo2 - "></a>
+two promotional shot
+(JPEG, 43398 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../s2promo3.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="s2promo3.gif" alt="s2promo3 - "></a>
+two promotional shot
+(JPEG, 45679 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../sentientxing.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="sentientxing.gif" alt="sentientxing - "></a>
+Reproduction of "Sentient Crossing" sign near B5 soundstage
+(JPEG, 249432 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../starship.gif"><img align=middle
+src="starship.gif" alt="starship - "></a>
+Sinclair's d*ck?  Not from "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 2"
+(GIF, 152069 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../strfury2.gif"><img align=middle
+src="strfury2.gif" alt="strfury2 - "></a>
+Fan-rendered Starfury from rear
+(GIF, 136331 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../strfury3.gif"><img align=middle
+src="strfury3.gif" alt="strfury3 - "></a>
+Fan-rendered Starfury from front
+(GIF, 64343 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../vorlon5.gif"><img align=middle
+src="vorlon5.gif" alt="vorlon5 - "></a>
+Fan-rendered Vorlon fighters
+(GIF, 165761 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../zocalo.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="zocalo.gif" alt="zocalo - "></a>
+A quiet day on the Zocalo
+(JPEG, 106187 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<hr>
+<p>
+<a href="http://www.hyperion.com/b5/Pictures/">To the main pictures menu</a>
+</body>
+</html>
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+INDEX OF BABYLON 5 PICTURES - Scenes directory
+
+This directory contains scenes from the series, primarily indoor shots that
+aren't appropriate for the Effects directory.  Images of characters who only
+appear in one episode can also mostly be found here.
+
+The file Index940707.jpg is a grid with shrunken versions of most of the
+pictures here.  If you like, use it to determine which pictures interest
+you.  Thumbnail images of most of these pictures can be found in the "Thumb" 
+directory.
+
+Some pictures are available in both GIF and JPEG formats; only the JPEG
+versions are listed here, as that's the preferred type.
+
+Pictures copyright 1992-94 Synthetic Worlds Ltd, PTEN, and Warner Brothers
+Domestic Television Distribution.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+NAME            DESCRIPTION
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+TELEVISION SCANNED, FROM SERIES
+
+gkarlond.jpg    G'Kar and Londo in the central corridor
+glfight.jpg     G'Kar and Londo at each other's throats, from "Midnight"
+grail.jpg       David Warner as Aldous Gajic, from "Grail"
+ikaran.jpg      Nelson Drake transformed, from "Infection"
+jsdrill.jpg     Sinclair being interrogated, from "And the Sky Full of Stars"
+knight2-1.jpg   Knight Two, from "And the Sky Full of Stars"
+sickdeln.jpg    Sinclair and Franklin with Delenn in medlab
+sinclzoc.gif    Sinclair alone on the Zocalo, from "And the Sky Full of Stars"
+smirk.gif       Sinclair and Talia, from "Born to the Purple"
+soulhunt.jpg    The Soul Hunter and Delenn, from "Soul Hunter"
+
+DIGITAL TRADING CARDS
+
+b5card11.gif    Centauri colony under attack, from "Midnight"
+b5card12.gif    G'Kar confronts Londo, from "Midnight"
+b5card13.gif    Londo and Talia have a chance encounter, from "Midnight"
+b5card14.gif    Londo takes a shot at G'Kar, from "Midnight"
+b5card15.gif    Delta Wing approaches the raider base, from "Midnight"
+b5card16.gif    The damaged ship approaches, from "Soul Hunter"
+b5card17.gif    Medical team attempts to save a life, from "Soul Hunter"
+b5card18.gif    The soul hunter negotiates with n'grath, from "Soul Hunter"
+b5card19.gif    Soul hunter takes aim, from "Soul Hunter"
+b5card20.gif    Ambassador Delenn frees a soul, from "Soul Hunter"
+
+MISCELLANEOUS SCANNED IMAGES
+
+authority.jpg   Ivanova and Draal, from "Voices of Authority"
+body.jpg        The organless body from "The Long Dark"
+confessions.jpg	Franklin and Lazarenn, from "Confessions and Lamentations"
+council.jpg     Delenn, Ivanova, and Londo in the council chamber, season one
+council-cryo.jpg Scenes from "Sky" and "The Long Dark", from CD booklet
+dust.jpg        G'Kar threatens Londo, from "Dust to Dust"
+exogenesis.jpg  Franklin and a symbiote, from "Exogenesis"
+fall.jpg	Ivanova and G'Kar, from "The Fall of Night"
+fall2.jpg	Delenn and Kosh, from "The Fall of Night"
+gcouncil.gif    The Grey Council and guest, from "And the Sky Full of Stars"
+garisher.gif    Garibaldi and Sheridan stalk the creature in "The Long Dark"
+garitali.gif    Garibaldi and Winters in "Spider in the Web"
+gkarnarn.gif    G'Kar confronts another Narn in "The Coming of Shadows"
+inquisitor.jpg	Sebastian and Sheridan, from "Comes the Inquisitor"
+ivanacts.gif    Ivanova is required to seal the deal in "Acts of Sacrifice"
+kidnap.jpg      Talia is kidnapped, from "A Race Through Dark Places"
+longdark-ivsh.gif Ivanova and Sheridan in "The Long Dark"
+matters1.jpg	Delenn and Sheridan, from "Matters of Honor"
+matters2.jpg	Sheridan and Ivanova in C&C, from "Matters of Honor"
+matters3.jpg	Sheridan and Marcus, from "Matters of Honor"
+security.jpg    Garibaldi, Allen, and another guard burst in
+sin-soul.gif    Sinclair takes aim, from "Soul Hunter"
+spider01.gif    Talia Winters and Abel Horn (mislabeled) in "Spider in the Web"
+twilight.jpg	Draal, Sheridan, and Delenn, from "The Long, Twilight Struggle"
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+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Index of Scenes directory</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+<h1>Babylon 5 pictures: Scenes</h1>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../authority.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="authority.gif" alt="authority - "></a>
+Ivanova and Draal, from "Voices of Authority"
+(JPEG, 130657 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5card11.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5card11.gif" alt="b5card11 - "></a>
+Centauri colony under attack, from "Midnight"
+(GIF, 58856 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5card12.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5card12.gif" alt="b5card12 - "></a>
+G'Kar confronts Londo, from "Midnight"
+(GIF, 61949 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5card13.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5card13.gif" alt="b5card13 - "></a>
+Londo and Talia have a chance encounter, from "Midnight"
+(GIF, 60472 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5card14.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5card14.gif" alt="b5card14 - "></a>
+Londo takes a shot at G'Kar, from "Midnight"
+(GIF, 65712 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5card15.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5card15.gif" alt="b5card15 - "></a>
+Delta Wing approaches the raider base, from "Midnight"
+(GIF, 56071 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5card16.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5card16.gif" alt="b5card16 - "></a>
+The damaged ship approaches, from "Soul Hunter"
+(GIF, 52802 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5card17.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5card17.gif" alt="b5card17 - "></a>
+Medical team attempts to save a life, from "Soul Hunter"
+(GIF, 59965 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5card18.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5card18.gif" alt="b5card18 - "></a>
+The soul hunter negotiates with n'grath, from "Soul Hunter"
+(GIF, 43019 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5card19.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5card19.gif" alt="b5card19 - "></a>
+Soul hunter takes aim, from "Soul Hunter"
+(GIF, 64171 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../b5card20.gif"><img align=middle
+src="b5card20.gif" alt="b5card20 - "></a>
+Ambassador Delenn frees a soul, from "Soul Hunter"
+(GIF, 45397 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../body.gif"><img align=middle
+src="body.gif" alt="body - "></a>
+
+(GIF, 42623 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../confessions.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="confessions.gif" alt="confessions - "></a>
+and Lazarenn, from "Confessions and Lamentations"
+(JPEG, 53170 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../council-cryo.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="council-cryo.gif" alt="council-cryo - "></a>
+Scenes from "Sky" and "The Long Dark", from CD booklet
+(JPEG, 34025 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../council.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="council.gif" alt="council - "></a>
+Delenn, Ivanova, and Londo in the council chamber, season one
+(JPEG, 88555 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../dust.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="dust.gif" alt="dust - "></a>
+G'Kar threatens Londo, from "Dust to Dust"
+(JPEG, 98525 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../exogenesis.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="exogenesis.gif" alt="exogenesis - "></a>
+Franklin and a symbiote, from "Exogenesis"
+(JPEG, 78674 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../fall.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="fall.gif" alt="fall - "></a>
+and G'Kar, from "The Fall of Night"
+(JPEG, 63864 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../fall2.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="fall2.gif" alt="fall2 - "></a>
+and Kosh, from "The Fall of Night"
+(JPEG, 77358 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../garisher.gif"><img align=middle
+src="garisher.gif" alt="garisher - "></a>
+Garibaldi and Sheridan stalk the creature in "The Long Dark"
+(GIF, 35090 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../garitali.gif"><img align=middle
+src="garitali.gif" alt="garitali - "></a>
+Garibaldi and Winters in "Spider in the Web"
+(GIF, 47431 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../gcouncil.gif"><img align=middle
+src="gcouncil.gif" alt="gcouncil - "></a>
+The Grey Council and guest, from "And the Sky Full of Stars"
+(GIF, 139419 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../gkarlond.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="gkarlond.gif" alt="gkarlond - "></a>
+G'Kar and Londo in the central corridor
+(JPEG, 184348 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../gkarnarn.gif"><img align=middle
+src="gkarnarn.gif" alt="gkarnarn - "></a>
+G'Kar confronts another Narn in "The Coming of Shadows"
+(GIF, 34063 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../glfight.gif"><img align=middle
+src="glfight.gif" alt="glfight - "></a>
+
+(GIF, 167784 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../grail.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="grail.gif" alt="grail - "></a>
+David Warner as Aldous Gajic, from "Grail"
+(JPEG, 104135 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../ikaran.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="ikaran.gif" alt="ikaran - "></a>
+Nelson Drake transformed, from "Infection"
+(JPEG, 135668 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../inquisitor.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="inquisitor.gif" alt="inquisitor - "></a>
+and Sheridan, from "Comes the Inquisitor"
+(JPEG, 37373 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../ivanacts.gif"><img align=middle
+src="ivanacts.gif" alt="ivanacts - "></a>
+Ivanova is required to seal the deal in "Acts of Sacrifice"
+(GIF, 54160 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../jsdrill.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="jsdrill.gif" alt="jsdrill - "></a>
+Sinclair being interrogated, from "And the Sky Full of Stars"
+(JPEG, 13678 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../kidnap.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="kidnap.gif" alt="kidnap - "></a>
+Talia is kidnapped, from "A Race Through Dark Places"
+(JPEG, 177715 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../knight2-1.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="knight2-1.gif" alt="knight2-1 - "></a>
+Knight Two, from "And the Sky Full of Stars"
+(JPEG, 23770 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../longdark-ivsh.gif"><img align=middle
+src="longdark-ivsh.gif" alt="longdark-ivsh - "></a>
+Ivanova and Sheridan in "The Long Dark"
+(GIF, 39171 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../matters1.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="matters1.gif" alt="matters1 - "></a>
+and Sheridan, from "Matters of Honor"
+(JPEG, 35986 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../matters2.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="matters2.gif" alt="matters2 - "></a>
+and Ivanova in C&C, from "Matters of Honor"
+(JPEG, 62369 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../matters3.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="matters3.gif" alt="matters3 - "></a>
+and Marcus, from "Matters of Honor"
+(JPEG, 40166 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../plan.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="plan.gif" alt="plan - "></a>
+
+(JPEG, 86702 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../security.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="security.gif" alt="security - "></a>
+Garibaldi, Allen, and another guard burst in
+(JPEG, 125866 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../sickdeln.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="sickdeln.gif" alt="sickdeln - "></a>
+Sinclair and Franklin with Delenn in medlab
+(JPEG, 99767 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../sin-soul.gif"><img align=middle
+src="sin-soul.gif" alt="sin-soul - "></a>
+Sinclair takes aim, from "Soul Hunter"
+(GIF, 139339 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../sinclzoc.gif"><img align=middle
+src="sinclzoc.gif" alt="sinclzoc - "></a>
+Sinclair alone on the Zocalo, from "And the Sky Full of Stars"
+(GIF, 28867 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../smirk.gif"><img align=middle
+src="smirk.gif" alt="smirk - "></a>
+Sinclair and Talia, from "Born to the Purple"
+(GIF, 159297 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../soulhunt.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="soulhunt.gif" alt="soulhunt - "></a>
+The Soul Hunter and Delenn, from "Soul Hunter"
+(JPEG, 145615 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../spider01.gif"><img align=middle
+src="spider01.gif" alt="spider01 - "></a>
+Talia Winters and Abel Horn (mislabeled) in "Spider in the Web"
+(GIF, 47359 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../starbump.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="starbump.gif" alt="starbump - "></a>
+
+(JPEG, 75640 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../twilight.jpg"><img align=middle
+src="twilight.gif" alt="twilight - "></a>
+Sheridan, and Delenn, from "The Long, Twilight Struggle"
+(JPEG, 60000 bytes)</a>
+
+<p>
+<hr>
+<p>
+<a href="http://www.midwinter.com/b5/Pictures/">To the main pictures menu</a>
+</body>
+</html>
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index 00000000..3477ac59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Pictures/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Babylon 5 Pictures Directory</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+<h1>Babylon 5 Pictures</h1>
+<p>
+This area contains various images from and about Babylon 5.  The images
+are divided into four categories:
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="Characters/">Characters</a>
+<dd>
+	Pictures of the people and aliens of Babylon 5.
+<dt>
+<a href="Effects/">Effects</a>
+<dd>
+	Outer-space scenes and other effects shots.
+<dt>
+<a href="Misc/">Misc</a>
+<dd>
+	Miscellaneous pictures (e.g. advertisements.)
+<dt>
+<a href="Scenes/">Scenes</a>
+<dd>
+	Scenes from specific episodes.
+</dl>
+<p>
+Each of the categories contains its own index file as well as a pictorial
+index with miniature versions of all the pictures.  If you're just browsing,
+consider downloading the index files first so you don't waste time with
+pictures you're not interested in.
+<p>
+On the other hand, if you want to waste a lot of time, there is an
+<a href="thumbs.html">alternate interface</a>
+to this directory with inline miniatures of the images.  Getting the
+index file is usually faster, since it's in JPEG format and is fairly
+compact.
+<p>
+<a href="../index.html">To the top-level Babylon 5 directory</a>
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/thumbs.html b/ftp/Pictures/thumbs.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d23ec138
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Pictures/thumbs.html
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Babylon 5 Pictures Directory</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+<h1>Babylon 5 Pictures: Thumbnail Images</h1>
+<p>
+This area contains various images from and about Babylon 5.  The images
+are divided into four categories:
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="Characters/Thumb/index.html">Characters</a>
+<dd>
+	Pictures of the people and aliens of Babylon 5.
+<dt>
+<a href="Effects/Thumb/index.html">Effects</a>
+<dd>
+	Outer-space scenes and other effects shots.
+<dt>
+<a href="Misc/Thumb/index.html">Misc</a>
+<dd>
+	Miscellaneous pictures (e.g. advertisements).
+<dt>
+<a href="Scenes/Thumb/index.html">Scenes</a>
+<dd>
+	Scenes from specific episodes.
+</dl>
+<p>
+You should strongly consider turning on delayed image loading, if your
+browser supports such a feature, since each of these pages contains lots
+of miniature pictures and loading them all at once usually takes a while.
+<p>
+<a href="../index.html">To the top-level Babylon 5 directory</a>
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/uk-pics/00uk-pic-index.txt b/ftp/Pictures/uk-pics/00uk-pic-index.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0aff1a66
--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+00uk-pics-index.txt (updated 15 Dec '94)
+===================
+
+NOTE:  x = Denotes a letter from a-d (usually a-b) which represents a set of
+           JPEGed pictures from an episode of B5.  Assume 2 sets of jpegs for
+           each episode unless otherwise stated.
+
+cover.jpg   - Cover pic for the amazing B5 UK Episode Guide!
+              (set of 1, shows B5 logo + station.)
+pic000x.jpg - Pictures from B5 pilot movie "The Gathering" (set of 4).
+pic001x.jpg - Pictures from season 1 episode "Midnight on the Firing Line".
+pic002x.jpg - Pictures from season 1 episode "Soul Hunter".
+pic003x.jpg - Pictures from season 1 episode "Born to the Purple".
+
+END.
diff --git a/ftp/Pictures/uk-pics/README b/ftp/Pictures/uk-pics/README
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..44c656d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Pictures/uk-pics/README
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+The files in this directory are maintained by Edwin Yau <E.Yau@bton.ac.uk>.
+Please direct all inquiries to him.
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diff --git a/ftp/Prodigy/951211-bruce b/ftp/Prodigy/951211-bruce
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e982b836
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/Prodigy/951211-bruce
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+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Welcome to tonight's chat with actor Bruce Boxleitner! Bruce stars in 
+the hit syndicated show BABYLON 5 as dashing war-hero-turned-diplomat 
+Captain John Sheridan. Please join us in welcoming BRUCE BOXLEITNER...
+
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Hello, glad to be here! A great opportunity to talk to fans of 
+Babylon 5. I'm looking forward to some interesting conversation!
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Good to have you here tonight Bruce! We've got lots of member 
+questions, so let's get right to them!
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+First up is cookiess...
+
+cookiess (PRODIGY Member)
+Bruce-- I'm a big fan of both you and your wife... Did you meet 
+Melissa while making a movie with her? If not, what were the 
+circumstances?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+No, we did not meet while making a movie. We lived in the same area, 
+but didn't know that. I actually met her through a mutual friend. Our 
+first date was when we went out to lunch.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+At the beginning of this year, Bruce married his leading lady Melissa 
+Gilbert. On October 6, they welcomed to the world their first son, 
+Michael Garrett. Michael, in fact, was named after the late actor 
+Michael Landon, who played father to Melissa on the long-running 
+"Little House on the Prairie."
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Bruce has also appeared in 4 out of the 5 "Gambler" TV movies as 
+Billy Montana, opposite lead Kenny Rogers. The latest offering, 
+"Gambler V: Playing for Keeps," aired on CBS Oct. 2nd and 4th.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Speaking of the Gambler series...
+
+cookiess (PRODIGY Member)
+Any plans to make any more Gambler movies?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+There is talk, but that is all there is so far.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Next up is Dark Raven, a Babylon 5 fan...
+
+Dark Raven 1 (PRODIGY Member)
+I love B5! Will there be a third season?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Buddy, We are in the third season right now. <G>
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Bruce's show "Babylon 5" is an acclaimed sci-fi series set aboard a 
+five-mile long space station in the year 2259. The space station, 
+which could be called a galactic United Nations, is home to numerous 
+humans and various alien species, including Bruce's war-hero-turned-
+diplomat Captain John Sheridan...
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+(It's in its third season...<g>)
+
+AlphaCee (PRODIGY Member)
+How do you feel about working with Michael O'Hare?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I am looking forward to it. I think it will add an exciting dimension 
+to the show.
+
+cookiess (PRODIGY Member)
+Any chance of a Scarecrow/ Mrs. King reunion, given how many TV 
+reunions we've seen recently?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+It was talked about a few years ago but nothing has come up with it, 
+unfortunately.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+For four years, Bruce shared the TV screen with Kate Jackson in CBS's 
+popular comedy/drama "Scarecrow & Mrs. King."
+
+ryme (PRODIGY Member)
+I think you and Melissa Gilbert act well together on stage. Are there 
+anymore upcoming projects that the two of you are planning on doing 
+together?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+We just completed our latest project. His name is Michael Garrett 
+Boxleitner.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+We're chatting with Bruce Boxleitner, star of the hit syndicated show 
+BABYLON 5. Please submit your questions to Bruce now!
+
+thevelvetfog (PRODIGY Member)
+What can we expect from Babylon 5 this year? Any good dirt? <g>
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Treachery, passion, conspiracy, hillarity, just your everyday life in 
+a space station. <G>
+
+ryme (PRODIGY Member)
+Are Delenn and Sheridan going to get together? Because it looks like 
+she really likes him.
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... sure looking that way...............
+............ maybe.
+
+ryme (PRODIGY Member)
+How long do you actually have to act a day? It seems like it would 
+have to be a lot.
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Generally I have a twelve hour day.... 5 days a week.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Our next question comes from SamFelix3, another big fan of Bruce's 
+current show...
+
+SamFelix3 (PRODIGY Member)
+The makeup in the Babylon 5 series is so outstanding, is it sometimes 
+difficult or distracting to perform with actors who are so heavily 
+made-up and costumed?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+My first season, sometimes. Now, no.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+DID YOU KNOW? -- On October 28th in L.A., Bruce shared "Best Actor in 
+a TV Series" honors with "X-Files" star David Duchovny at the Annual 
+Sci-Fi Universe Magazine Reader's Choice Awards!
+
+Goodtree (PRODIGY Member)
+Do you know if there are any plans to continue Babylon 5 after it 
+completes its five year story line?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+As of right now the five year saga will be it.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Here's a particularly timely question, given the current success of 
+"Goldeneye," from PRODIGY member FifthFloor...
+
+FifthFloor (PRODIGY Member)
+Did you ever want to be James Bond?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Typist: He IS James Bond. <G> BB: Jame's bond is British and I was 
+born outside of Chicago. I don't qualify. <G>
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Bruce's typist tonight, by the way, is PRODIGY's Eggleston...Nancy 
+Eggleston...
+
+MstrssXanadu (PRODIGY Member)
+Are you attracted to the science fiction genre?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I am attracted to a good story.
+
+Goodtree (PRODIGY Member)
+What was the most challenging role you have played as an actor?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+The role of a phycopath  on a USA cable movie called a perfect family.
+
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Before his work on "Babylon 5" began in October 1994, Bruce proved to 
+be one of Hollywood's best and most reliably popular TV actors, 
+starring in TV movies like "Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone," "House 
+of Secrets," "Perfect Family," and "The Secret," opposit Kirk Douglas.
+
+
+cinharpo (PRODIGY Member)
+Bruce, loved you in Scarecrow and Mrs. King, you and "Sabrina" were 
+just great together, great chemistry! Do you see her since the show 
+went off the air?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+No unfortunatelly I have not seen her in several years.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+We're chatting with Bruce Boxleitner, star of the hit syndicated show 
+BABYLON 5. Please submit your questions to Bruce now!
+
+ROB XXX (PRODIGY Member)
+Mr. Boxleitner what age did you start acting
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Profesionally, at ninteen years of age.
+
+ryme (PRODIGY Member)
+What do you like to do in your spare time?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Play tennis, ride my horses, and play with my family!
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+At the beginning of this year, Bruce married his leading lady Melissa 
+Gilbert. On October 6, they welcomed to the world their first son, 
+Michael Garrett. Michael, in fact, was named after the late actor 
+Michael Landon, who played father to Melissa on the long-running 
+"Little House on the Prairie."
+
+MstrssXanadu (PRODIGY Member)
+Did it bother you that some fans initially opposed the addition of 
+your character to Babylon 5?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+No, not really! I like the challenge.
+
+Jack Dempsey (PRODIGY Member)
+How did you get your start in acting?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I started in High School plays, and then attended a professional 
+theatrical school (Goodman School of Drama) in Chicago.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Bruce hasn't limited his success to TV only: He has also graced the 
+silver screen in films like "The Babe," opposite John Goodman; "Kuffs,
+" starring Christian Slater; and Disney's innovative sci-fi fantasy 
+"Tron."
+
+am5 (PRODIGY Member)
+What is your fav. movie you ever starred in?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I would have to say Scarecrow  and Mrs. King, Tron, The Gambler, and 
+of course B5.
+
+cinharpo (PRODIGY Member)
+Do you live in Hollywood? Los Angeles?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+North of Los Angeles!
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Bruce, with the help of PRODIGY's Nancy Eggleston, is chatting live 
+from Los Angeles tonight...
+
+SPLISH (PRODIGY Member)
+Bruce, whats it like being married to Laura Ingles.....Is she as nice 
+as she seems on T.V.?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I have fun pulling her pig tails, and she likes to call me pa! <G>
+
+ROB XXX (PRODIGY Member)
+How do you like Babylon 5?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I like , I like......
+
+am5 (PRODIGY Member)
+What was your fav. movie while growing up?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I liked Robin Hood, The Searchers, Davy Crockett, and Lawrence of 
+Arabia!
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+In 1985, Bruce was named by the National Man Watchers Association as 
+one of the "Most Watchable Men in America", as well as one of "TV's 
+Top Leading Men" and "Top Hunks."
+
+MstrssXanadu (PRODIGY Member)
+Would you ,personally, have taken on as big a task as your character 
+Sheridan has done in running a place as large and sometimes 
+overwhelming as Babylon 5?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+No, thats why I am acting the role!!!!<G>
+
+justaNCgal (PRODIGY Member)
+What do you consider your 'big break".. when did you get to stop 
+working "odd jobs" such as waiter etc... when you were hoping for 
+stardom role?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Fortunately, I have always made a living as an actor. My first break 
+was on a western TV series with James Arness called How the West was 
+Won!
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+You may have also recently seen Bruce's gorgeous face on NBC's 
+adaptation of "Danielle Steel's Zoya." Bruce starred in the epic 
+story of love and war opposite his real-life wife Melissa Gilbert 
+("Little House on the Prairie").
+
+ROB XXX (PRODIGY Member)
+How did you like working with Kate Jackson
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Loved it!
+
+way2be (PRODIGY Member)
+Will you ever ride a horse in B5?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Only if I bring a shovel, and dumpster afterwards!!!!
+
+way2be (PRODIGY Member)
+Do you have a favorite SF author (other than jms)?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Yes, Arthur C. Clarke, and Jules Verne!
+
+way2be (PRODIGY Member)
+As an established actor, how valuable do you now consider your three 
+years studying acting at the Goodman Theater in Chicago?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Absolutely invaluable!!!
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+DID YOU KNOW? -- For several years, Bruce was the spokesman for Estee 
+Lauder and also appeared as the Lauder for Men model!
+
+Tezcatlipoca (PRODIGY Member)
+Is JMS an interesting person to work for?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+JMS is that you????????
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+"JMS", by the way, is J. Michael Stracynski, creator of Bruce's show 
+"Babylon 5"...
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+And speaking of "Babylon 5" and its participants...
+
+Cord (PRODIGY Member)
+Bruce, what is it like working with your co-stars?  What are Andreas 
+Katsaulas, Peter Jurasik, Claudia Christian,  and Mira Fulran like to 
+work with?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Singularly, and all together, a great bunch!
+
+MoonDragon1 (PRODIGY Member)
+Greetings...Bruce, I was just wondering, what interested you in your 
+B-5 character, and will we see Sheridan for the rest of the B-5 saga?
+
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I was interested in the journey that Sheridan takes, and yes it says 
+so on my contract!
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Bruce's show "Babylon 5" is an acclaimed sci-fi series set aboard a 
+five-mile long space station in the year 2259. The space station, 
+which could be called a galactic United Nations, is home to numerous 
+humans and various alien species, including Bruce's war-hero-turned-
+diplomat Captain John Sheridan...
+
+way2be (PRODIGY Member)
+You have stated previously that it's man's destiny to leave the 
+planet. Any additional thoughts on how or when?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Not tonight thats for sure!
+
+Finky (PRODIGY Member)
+Bruce- I saw your appearance on the "Stephanie Miller" show recently. 
+ I was wondering if you or any of the other cast  members will be 
+making any talk show appearances in the near future?  By the way- 
+LOVE the show!
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I will be taping the George and Alana show next week, to be aired in 
+January, also I will be appearing on the Charles Grodin show in 
+January.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+And of course, Bruce is here tonight, on PRODIGY!
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+If you miss any part of tonight's event, by the way, just wait a 
+couple of days and JUMP: chat transcripts for a complete account of 
+our chat with Bruce...
+
+B5FAN (PRODIGY Member)
+Bruce do you have any favorite episodes or quotes  from B5  or any of 
+your other shows ?  Will your wife Melissa guest star on B5 in the 
+future ?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+My favorite episode "In the Shadow of Za' Hadum" , and my favorite 
+scene is the Winston Churchill enigma story from that episode. And, 
+as far as Melissa is concerned, who knows?
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+DID YOU KNOW? -- On October 28th in L.A., Bruce shared "Best Actor in 
+a TV Series" honors with "X-Files" star David Duchovny at the Annual 
+Sci-Fi Universe Magazine Reader's Choice Awards!
+
+Finky (PRODIGY Member)
+Bruce, I'm on my husbands line but I wanted to get a question in 
+without leaving the "room". I've been wondering if Joe Straczynsky is 
+planning to expore, in more depth, the developing relationship 
+between Ambassador De'lenn and Captain Sheridan?  It's an interesting 
+story line.    I enjoy Babylon 5!!
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Yes, the exploration continues. There are going to be some surprises.
+
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+We've still got time for some more member questions for our guest 
+Bruce Boxleitner...Keep submitting those queries!
+
+Cord (PRODIGY Member)
+Do you look forward to working with your predecessor, Michael O'Hare, 
+in the up coming episode, "War Without End parts 1 & 2"?  (I think it 
+will make for an interesting combination.)
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Yes, very much so.
+
+Snoopy JP (PRODIGY Member)
+What kind of music do you listen to?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen, the New Rolling Stones "Stripped", 
+(very very good) and the Beatles Anthology.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Maybe Bruce should log onto PRODIGY tomorrow night...We've got 
+musician Billy Preston chatting! (Billy played on the Beatles' "Get 
+Back"...)
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Bruce has also appeared in 4 out of the 5 "Gambler" TV movies as 
+Billy Montana, opposite lead Kenny Rogers. The latest offering, 
+"Gambler V: Playing for Keeps," aired on CBS Oct. 2nd and 4th.
+
+Snoopy JP (PRODIGY Member)
+Now that you are in a regular series, are the summer time offers 
+pouring in as agents "discover" you again?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Excuse me? (he laughs)
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I will be busy again this summer, Yes.
+
+Dark Raven 1 (PRODIGY Member)
+B5 seems to have it's focus on the "human "element rather than a lot 
+of flashy special effects. Was that one of the things that drew you 
+to the role of Capt. Sheridan?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Yes, and I was interested in the fact that all the characters have 
+interesting flaws which gave the stories a a reality.
+
+S Pearl (PRODIGY Member)
+I have a friend who calls Babylon 5 our last, best hope for good 
+science fiction.  My question is, what do you think Ambassador Kosh 
+really is?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Whatever your interpretation is, that is what he is.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Bruce's popularity, it turns out, is global! He was named "Top TV 
+Star of the Year" in Germany and has fan clubs in England, Hong Kong, 
+Singapore and Australia!
+
+Snoopy JP (PRODIGY Member)
+How much do you identify with your characters when you act?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I do identify with some aspect of all of them.
+
+AlphaCee (PRODIGY Member)
+Do you know if Captain Sheridan is going to survive the five-year arc?
+
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+The Great Maker, JMS, has hinted at the possibility...
+
+Jagger1 (PRODIGY Member)
+When are you going on the Howard Stern show again?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Not anytime soon, thank you.
+
+mdmb (PRODIGY Member)
+I was very interested with the introduction (or reintroduction) of 
+the Narn, Ta'Lon.  He and Sheridan look as if they are at the 
+beginning of a good friendship.  Can you let us know what, if any, 
+further development in this is forthcoming this season?  I am 
+especially interested in knowing if he really is going to become 
+Sheridan's 'bodyguard' and how Earth will take that.
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+At this time I cannot divulge that information.... under pain of 
+death. <G>
+
+am5 (PRODIGY Member)
+I have a question for the moderator Bruce, Sorry, Have you ever seen 
+any of Bruce's work?
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Sure I have! Scarecrow & Mrs. King! Babylon 5! The Gambler! Love 'em 
+all!
+
+anne frm ga (PRODIGY Member)
+Hi Bruce, congratulations on your newest son.  Thank you for    
+appearing at your first Sci-Fi Convention in Georgia, and hope you 
+will &Melissa will visit Callaway Gardens again! You both are real 
+sports to participate with your Fans.  Success in future!
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Callaway Gardens was beautiful and so were the fans attending the 
+convention. Thank you.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Bruce hasn't limited his success to TV only: He has also graced the 
+silver screen in films like "The Babe," "Kuffs," starring Christian 
+Slater, and Disney's innovative sci-fi fantasy "Tron."
+
+The Freya (PRODIGY Member)
+Is working on Babylon 5 easier or harder than you expected, after 
+having to fill the shoes of the previous commander, do you feel that 
+the audience has accepted you totally?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I have been in television for over 20 years so the work is the same 
+and I think that the audience has accepted me.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+got it...
+
+Finky (PRODIGY Member)
+Bruce--still on my husbands line--I watched "Little House" and 
+"Scarecrow & Mrs. King" during their "runs" on television and enjoyed 
+them both!  Are there any plans for Melissa to 'come aboard" B-5 in a 
+guest starring role?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Only to visit for lunch. (grin).
+
+anne frm ga (PRODIGY Member)
+Will you be directing any upcoming episodes of Babylon 5?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+No plans yet at this time.
+
+The Freya (PRODIGY Member)
+I'm a big fan of the show, I enjoy your work.  You have brought an 
+air of realism and professionalism to the show that it didn't have 
+before.
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Thank you!
+
+threecutemen (PRODIGY Member)
+being an actor is cool how much money do you get
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Oh, not enough. ha ha.
+
+Knight One (PRODIGY Member)
+How many days does it take too make an episode of Babylon 5?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+It takes 7 days to complete an episode.
+
+mdmb (PRODIGY Member)
+Is G'Kar at any time going to be asked to join the War Council set up 
+at the end of "Matters of Honor"?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+That is on a "need to know" basis.
+
+anne frm ga (PRODIGY Member)
+Bruce, would you be willing to do a T.V. interview with Barbara 
+Walters?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Barbara, is that YOU?????
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+You never know who's on PRODIGY...<g>
+
+threecutemen (PRODIGY Member)
+are you a computer illiterit that has a guy typing for you you lazy 
+bum
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+As Captain of Babylon 5, I am a very busy man, and have very little 
+time to log on, let alone learn to type.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Take that, threecutemen!!!
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+P.S. My typist is very pretty.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Oooh! Watch out Melissa! <g>
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+hehe
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+We've got time for one more question for Bruce...
+
+seth42 (PRODIGY Member)
+How old are you Bruce.
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I am 45 years young.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+I lied...time for one more question...
+
+BRKLNguy (PRODIGY Member)
+hi bruce, i am a big fan of the show. is there going to be a movie 
+babylon 5?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+As far as I know, that is only a rumor.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+One more:
+
+SamFelix3 (PRODIGY Member)
+Have there been any plans to release the Original Movie or early B-5 
+episodes on Video?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+The pilot is available on laser disc in Japan with Japanese subtitles.
+ <G>
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Stay tuned for one more answer from Bruce...
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+(He just doesn't want to stop!)
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+...and it's a good question...
+
+LionHawk (PRODIGY Member)
+How would you respond to people who say your current show is ripping 
+of Star Trek?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+After they pick themselves up off the floor, I would say that a 
+certain Star Trek Space Station ripped off Babylon 5. Who came first, 
+the chicken or the egg?
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Excellent!
+
+Bobadill (PRODIGY Member)
+Out of this year's 22 episodes, what number are you currently doing?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+We are working on 314
+
+wingzing (PRODIGY Member)
+Bruce we need to hurry B5 shows tonight in  37 minutes
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Well, log off fast, Wingzing!
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+But don't log off too fast! Bruce will have a final comment...
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Unfortunately, I have to say Goodnight because I have a 6:30 work 
+call in the morning and I'm cooking dinner in the morning for DeLenn. 
+ She loves my flarn! Goodnight everyone.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Thanks for a great chat Bruce! And thanks to our members for some 
+insightful and informed questions. If you missed any part of 
+tonight's event, just wait a couple of days, then JUMP: chat 
+transcripts to see a complete account of our chat with Bruce. And 
+remember to watch "Babylon 5" (check your local listings)! 
+Goodnight!
+
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+
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Hi folks...Thanks for joining us... We're about to begin live with
+Bruce Boxleitner!
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Ok let's get started!
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+He's been an American Army captain in turn of the century Russia,
+a intergalactic war hero turned diplomat, even a Scarecrow! Please
+help us welcome BRUCE BOXLEITNER!!!
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Hi everyone at Prodigy. I hope you have some fine questions,
+because I'm ready and prepared for you!
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Thanks for being here Bruce!
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Let's get right to some questions..First us is Dak 8...
+
+Dak 8 (Prodigy Member)
+how has TV changed since your stint on "Scarecrow" in the 80s?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+The old saying, the more things change, the more they stay the
+same. The kind of programming has changed quite a bit. The making
+of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n
+cheaper budgets. It's gotten much more businesslike since then. Lot
+less of a family type of feeling on a TV series. An they don't give
+you as much of a chance to find an audience. A show needs time to
+find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air
+now.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Bruce Boxleitner stars on the hit WB series "Babylon 5." As Captain
+John Sheridan, a war hero turned diplomat at the helm of Earth
+Alliance Station Space Station, Bruce has been honored as Sci-Fi
+Universe Magazine Reader's Choice Best Actor in a TV Series in both
+1995 (he shared the award with David Duchovny of "The X-Files") and
+1996.
+
+Avatar32 (Prodigy Member)
+Do you think that Sheridan truly had a god complex, or was it all
+an act, in order to "rally the troops" in their fight against
+Earth?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I don't think he had a God complex as much as his fight against
+earth became an obsession and I think he felt it was absolutley his
+destiny.
+
+Lydil (Prodigy Member)
+Mr. Boxleitner, how do you feel working in a series where the
+ending has already been filmed, and you know the outcome?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Well, since I shot the last episode and know how it ends, I feel
+good. It was a terrific ending. Quite a beautiful ending.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+During the fall of 1995, Bruce co-starred with his real-life wife,
+Melissa Gilbert, in NBC's adaption of Danielle Steele's "Zoya."
+Bruce starred as an American Army captain who falls for Russian
+Zoya. The plot of the mini-series spanned 60 years. Melissa also
+starred, of course, in the long-running "Little House on the
+Prairie"... Hence, the next question...
+
+Dak 8 (Prodigy Member)
+Ever find yourself watching old repeats of Little House? Does it
+creep you out at all? :)
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+No, they don't creep me out at all. I think she was cute.
+
+CRhino (Prodigy Member)
+How was the transition, both publicly [media] & privately
+[crew/cast] between the change from you & the previous captain?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Everyone was very open to me and very warm and receptive and very
+professional. I had no problems whatsoever walking into the part.
+The die-hard fans at first were kind of skeptical, which I
+understand, but I feel they've accepted me very well. So I have no
+problem.
+
+swimguy (Prodigy Member)
+Tell us about how Babylon 5 came back from dead... I had heard it
+was canceled.
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+It was on the brink of being canceled when TNT came like the
+cavalry in the last reel of an old western and saved the day. It's
+difficult to give any one reason why. There were several to why it
+was near cancellation--financial, the joining of TNT and Time
+Warner... it might have fallen through the cracks. But we were
+saved because we had such good fans. TNT bought it and you can
+thank them. So we can continue the saga, which begins again in
+January.
+
+Wild Bean (Prodigy Member)
+Where is Babylon 5 filmed?
+
+ 
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+In the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles.
+
+Lord Monarch (Prodigy Member)
+How were you picked for the part of John Sheridan?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Basically, I knew the producers from working with them previously.
+They called my agents and asked me if I would meet with them and
+consider the part. They sent me some scripts and I took it from
+there.
+
+Wild Bean (Prodigy Member)
+How did you get into the acting business and how old were you??
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I started in high school and then I went onto professional training
+after that. I started acting professionally at age 19. My first big
+part on TV was on "How the West Was Won," with James Arness. By the
+way, the show is run on TNT constantly.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Bruce and the other member of the cast of "Babylon 5" recently
+graced the cover of TV Guide, highlighting the Summer Sci-Fi
+Special issue. "B-5" will soon move to TNT for its fifth season,
+starting with two new two-hour films. And speaking of the TNT
+movies...
+
+Lord Monarch (Prodigy Member)
+Could you tell us a little about Babylon 5: In the Beginning?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+It is basically the story of the Earth-Minbari war. That was the
+seminal event in each of the characters' lives on the show. We see
+where the various characters were during that conflict.
+
+BettyBoobs2 (Prodigy Member)
+How is your marriage to Melissa Gilbert?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Wonderful!
+
+CRhino (Prodigy Member)
+If Delen were to be represented by a human actress, what
+nationality would be the best fit?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+She is acted by a human actress, and she's Yugoslavian.
+
+libra79 (Prodigy Member)
+Hello! I enjoyed your TV special "Zoya." I thought it was great! I
+enjoyed seeing you and your wife working together. Is there any
+chance of you two working together again? I would really enjoy
+seeing that.
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Whenever we can find a good story, we love to work together and we
+certainly want to do it again.
+
+RageGrrl (Prodigy Member)
+Yo Bruce! What color socks do you have on?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I'm not wearing any at the moment.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Ah ha! :)
+
+thevelvetfog (Prodigy Member)
+Hi Bruce! What has been your reaction to the passion and dedication
+of sci-fi fans? Do you ever feel like William Shatner on Saturday
+Night Live ("get a life!")? : )
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I would only say that jokingly. I appreciate their devotion,
+because the fans have been so important to keeping our show alive.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+PLUG ALERT... Get into the Spotlight! Find out all about our
+Prodigy Spotlight events by JUMPing: spotlight. That takes you to
+our web page, where you can see bios, photos and info on our
+upcoming celebrity chat guests.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Here's a great question from Dak 8...
+
+Dak 8 (Prodigy Member)
+If you were a candy bar, what kind would you be?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Almond Joy.
+
+Avatar32 (Prodigy Member)
+After filming the episode "Intersections in Real Time," will you
+ever look at corned beef sandwiches in the same way?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I haven't had one since.
+
+swimguy (Prodigy Member)
+How have you been enjoying your stint in the Sci-fi world?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I've been loving it. For me, it was like a whole new direction in
+my acting career, and I'm taking on another direction by
+co-authoring a science fiction novel for Berkeley Press which
+hopefully will come out this year. It will be along the lines of
+Shatner's TekWar novels, and it's not Babylon 5 at all.
+
+Lord Monarch (Prodigy Member)
+What was it like working with your wife, in the last episode of
+Season 3?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I enjoy working with Melissa a great deal. We're always looking for
+projects to do together. I was happy to have her do the show,
+because she doesn't normally do episodic unless she's starring, and
+I was very happy with the results.
+
+CallMeLarry (Prodigy Member)
+Bruce, what is it like working for J. Michael Straczynski? He seems
+like he likes to control everything... did this influence you at
+all?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+It's his show. He's the boss, and I do enjoy working with him. He's
+a very creative man.
+
+Delenn1 (Prodigy Member)
+Mr. Boxleitner... I'm sure you get asked this question a lot, but
+what's your all-time favorite episode of Babylon 5? Which one was
+the most fun to make?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I have a few favorites. Zahadum, In the Shadow of Zahadum, and
+Intersections in Real Time, and many more... those are just a few.
+
+dobe7 (Prodigy Member)
+Is it hard to take seriously the actors who are dressed in alien
+costumes when you're arguing back and forth with them?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Sometimes.... But I'm used to them now.
+
+swimguy (Prodigy Member)
+What had you been planning on doing next when it looked like
+Babylon 5 was going to be over?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I was in a state of shock, because I thought the show was pretty
+popular. I didn't have any immediate plans. I was just going to see
+what was out there and try to get something else going... If the
+show had been canceled, hopefully I would have gotten some other
+orders, but I don't have to worry about that now.
+
+Avatar32 (Prodigy Member)
+What is one thing that you know about John Sheridan that the
+audience doesn't?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+What color socks he wears.... that's my secret.
+
+ 
+CallMeLarry (Prodigy Member)
+Bruce, are there any plans for a Babylon 5 movie?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Yes, they have talked about it....but there's nothing concrete yet.
+
+Delenn1 (Prodigy Member)
+How is your son doing? Showing any acting potential yet? {g}
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+He's a little showman all right. He's showing signs of quite a
+healthy two-year-old.
+
+swimguy (Prodigy Member)
+Who has been the weirdest alien you've encountered on the show?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+The one called the Methane Breather. Or as I call him, Hose Nose.
+
+spotter7 (Prodigy Member)
+How do visitors to Babylon 5 rate on the psychological aura
+presentation of Romans 1:20?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+One would have to know the Bible for that....
+
+Lydil (Prodigy Member)
+Mr. Boxleitner, could you tell us about the B5 movie Thirdspace,
+and what it entails for the B5 crew?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+It is about the station's reaction to this giant, ancient artifact
+that comes floating into our sector. You will learn how it relates
+to the end of the shadow war.
+ 
+Gravy Davy (Prodigy Member)
+Hello Bruce, Are you and the whole Babylon 5 crew going to be in
+some full length movies, and if so, how are these movies going to
+tie in to the series? Sincerely, A fan
+ 
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Not everyone in the cast is in the B5 films, but they're pretty
+spread out throughout both of them. The first one--a prequel, airs
+in January.
+
+SandyVanHew (Prodigy Member)
+Hi Bruce! Not only am I a fan of B5,but of yours too. Did you do a
+lot of your own stunts in How the West was Won?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Yes I did. I as much younger then.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Bruce has also starred with Kenny Rogers and Loni Anderson in
+"Gambler V: Playing For Keeps" (he's been featured in four of the
+five "Gambler" movies), CBS's "Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone,"
+"Double Jeopardy," "House of Secrets," and ABC's "Perfect Family."
+
+dobe7 (Prodigy Member)
+What are some of your favorite things?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Play with my kids, read a lot, ride my horses, and kick back.
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+With my beautiful wife.
+
+bLaMmObOy (Prodigy Member)
+the next time your on tv can you mention my name
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Sure....
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+I wonder how they're going to work blammoboy into the script...  :
+)
+
+RageGrrl (Prodigy Member)
+What is your favorite magazine?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I have an eclectic tastes--High Frontier about NASA and the space
+program, military and western history magazines and some of the
+sci-fi magazines which cover our show, like Starburst, Starlog,
+Sci-Fi Universe. I get them pretty reguarly.
+
+Avatar32 (Prodigy Member)
+I've noticed that Sheridan has a nasty habit of falling/jumping
+from high places. ("The fall of Night", "Z'Ha'Dum").  Is there a
+certain symbolism behind that, do you feel?  Something that gives
+us a hint to the captain's eventual fate?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I think JMS could answer that better than I. That's a question I'm
+always asking....
+
+swimguy (Prodigy Member)
+How will the new Babylon 5 episodes for TNT be different from the
+syndicated ones?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I don't think there will be a difference. It will be a seamless
+transition to TNT.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+If you (or a friend) miss any part of tonight's chat, just JUMP:
+chat transcripts in a few days to see a complete account of
+tonight's chat!
+
+BettyBoobs2 (Prodigy Member)
+Where did you grow up and how were you discovered?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Northwest of Chicago.
+
+Wild Bean (Prodigy Member)
+Do you often watch your acting on tv?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I watch The X-Files and Babylon 5 and the news. Fairly reguarly.
+
+CRhino (Prodigy Member)
+Mr. Boxleitner, what of Tron?  I suggest it is more applicable now
+than in the 80's.
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not
+as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron
+wasn't as popular back then as it is today.
+
+Lord Monarch (Prodigy Member)
+ Is there a place on the net, where the fans can get info on the
+stars of Babylon 5. E-mail addresses to ask questions? Or is there
+just one E-mail address?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+There are a zillion web sites....try www.babylon5.com
+
+CallMeLarry (Prodigy Member)
+Bruce, I have really enjoyed Babylon 5.  I thought you coming in as
+a second captian was a mistake, but I was wrong... way wrong.  You
+have the best Sci-Fi series by far.  So question, will you do any
+more sci-fi?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Definetly.
+
+Avatar32 (Prodigy Member)
+Have you read any of the B5 books or comics?  If so, what do you
+think of them?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I've read a few of the books and I think they're very interesting.
+
+Lydil (Prodigy Member)
+Mr. Boxleitner, what is in store for B5 in Season 5?  With many
+plot lines tied up, can we expect bigger and better things in the
+season to come?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+More fun and excitement in outer space.
+
+BruceBFan (Prodigy Member)
+To you, what's the worst (most annoying) thing for a fan to do when
+they meet you? And the best thing?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Sneeze in my face....
+
+jedifire (Prodigy Member)
+I've heard many things about how hard it is to work with green
+screen/blue screen, do you often have to work with those systems
+and interact with enviroments that don't exist around you, and how
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I have to often yes, but I don't find them particuarly difficult.
+An actor's job is to use his imagination and that's what's required
+with blue screen.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Bruce stars on the hit WB series "Babylon 5." As Captain John
+Sheridan, a war hero turned diplomat at the helm of Earth Alliance
+Station Space Station, Bruce has been honored as Sci-Fi Universe
+Magazine Reader's Choice Best Actor in a TV Series in both 1995 (he
+shared the award with David Duchovny of "The X-Files") and 1996.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+We've got time for a lot more questions, so stay tuned!
+
+SandyVanHew (Prodigy Member)
+How is your baby doing? I know it was nip and tuck at first.
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+He's great. He's a healthy almost 2 year old and he's the light of
+my life.
+
+CKincaid (Prodigy Member)
+Where can we write for an autographed pic?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+In care of Warner Bros., 4000 Burbank Blvd., Burbank, CA.
+
+ZINGn1 (Prodigy Member)
+Is your real name Bruce Boxleitner?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Yes!!!
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+And my real name is Moderator...
+
+Lydil (Prodigy Member)
+Mr. Boxleitner, how do you compare a series that has a story arc,
+like B5, compared to series where they do not have an arc?  Do you
+prefer the arc, or non-arc?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I enjoy working period. I don't think there is much of a difference
+in the two.
+
+Cyber Rider (Prodigy Member)
+Hi there Bruce...I like the show B5 alot...in my opinion, you give
+Star Trek a run for the money. I believe it is the human
+interaction which is good as well as killer effects, most excellent
+computer aninm.   I'm really happy you got another season. I'd
+really like to know, will B5 still be shown on UPN & will there be
+another season after this one? I really hope so. Wish you the
+best...Cy
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Yes, beginning in January on TNT.
+
+Mum5 (Prodigy Member)
+Glad to hear about Babylon 5's renewal for season 5. Are you
+planning on being in the spin-off, Crusades, if it gets picked up?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I hope to, yes.
+
+I Am SheRa (Prodigy Member)
+i really liked you in "the scarecrow and mrs king"... did you
+really enjoy doing that series
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Very fondly. It was a great show. I think it was good for it's
+time, but we've all gone on.
+
+CRINGER2 (Prodigy Member)
+Who do you consider the person who influenced you the most as a
+young actor?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+My high school drama coach.
+
+swimguy (Prodigy Member)
+Your position on space travel? Which planet would you want to
+visit?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I want to see Mars.
+
+Spotter69 (Prodigy Member)
+Are you cool?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Very.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Great answer! And we agree...
+
+CallMeLarry (Prodigy Member)
+Bruce do you know if Babylon 5 will be released on video tape?  And
+now that TNT owns the rights, is this a Ted Turner issue...
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I know it will be eventually, but I don't know when.
+
+BruceBFan (Prodigy Member)
+Are you still planning on attending a convention in Philly over
+Labor Day weekend? I hope so because I'm going just to see you!
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I hope to, but I just recently learned that some of the payment
+might not be in place and if they don't live up to their part of
+the contract, I can;'t live up to mine.
+
+ZINGn1 (Prodigy Member)
+Why did you choose to be on this show?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Cause the money was good.
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Just kidding....
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I was intrigued by the character and the scripts.
+
+CallMeLarry (Prodigy Member)
+Bruce do you own a computer?  If so, what do you use it for?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Finding out what people think of our show....
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Cool! So watch yourself out there in cyberspace...
+
+Lydil (Prodigy Member)
+Mr. Boxleitner, how does Sheridan rate of all the characters you
+have played?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+He's up there as one of my favorites.
+
+SandyVanHew (Prodigy Member)
+Are you working on any projects besides B5?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Not at the moment. I can't do anything else while I'm doing B5,
+contractually.
+
+Delenn1 (Prodigy Member)
+Bruce:  I understand you like horses... any particular breed?  (I'm
+a quarter horse person, myself.)
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I've had quarter horses for the last 18 years.
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I've had many,.,..I only have 3 now.'
+
+SandDune (Prodigy Member)
+Bruce, thanks so much for taking the time to chat.  I was a really
+big fan of Scarecrow and Mrs. King.  Do you keep in touch with Kate
+Jackson?  Any plans for a reunion movie?  If so, would you do it?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I have not talked to Kate in almost 10 years....there has been talk
+of a reunion movie, but I dont think it's going to happen.
+
+ZINGn1 (Prodigy Member)
+If you could: Would you, could you eat, eat, greean eggs and ham?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I have!!!
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Wow, green eggs? Yikes.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Are you one of the visually-oriented? If so, and if you like
+celebrities, check out our new Celebrity Photo Gallery! JUMP:
+CPG....
+
+dobe7 (Prodigy Member)
+What is your favorite color?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Green, blue and brown.
+
+RageGrrl (Prodigy Member)
+what kind of music do you listen to??
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Classic rock. And some country.
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I like to listen Clapton, Springsteen....more of the artists who
+are part of my generation, but especially Clapton.
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+He is God.
+
+MikusBearus (Prodigy Member)
+How does "Babylon 5" compare with "Buck Rogers"?  In terms of
+writing, acting, expenses, intelligence.
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I don't think Buck Rogers and Babylon 5 are comparable. Were two
+different concepts.
+
+Mum5 (Prodigy Member)
+Is John and Delenn's son present in the last episode of the show,
+the one set 20 years in the future?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+He is referred to, but we don't see yhim.
+
+SandDune (Prodigy Member)
+What is your all time favorite TV show?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+Little House on the Prarie---that came from the other side of the
+room--says my wife giggling.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Awww... : )
+
+CRINGER2 (Prodigy Member)
+My husband and I enjoy "Babylon 5" a great deal.  We would like to
+let you know we think you've done an excellent job.  Do you have
+any future projects in the works?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I'm currently co-writing a science fiction series of novels for
+Berkeley. We're starting with two and we'll see where they go.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Well, time to wrap it up... Here's our final question for Bruce...
+
+cooldude5 (Prodigy Member)
+how many seasons do you think/know Babylon 5 will last?
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+I think this 5th season and then I think certainly the spin-off
+Crusade is very very possible and the saga can live on.
+
+Bruce Boxleitner (Speaker)
+My wife has dinner on the table for me, so I've got to say so long.
+I appreciate everyone and all your questions. So thanks for your
+continued support of the show. We promise to do our very best to
+give you the best show we possibly can.
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+Thanks very much for joining us, Bruce...
+
+Moderator (Speaker)
+If you (or a friend) missed any part of tonight's chat, just JUMP:
+chat transcripts in a few days to see a complete account of
+tonight's chat!
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+                      WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING...
+
+
+    "'Babylon 5' portrays, with alarming realism and spectacular detail, a
+    myriad of space-based cultures and their struggles to achieve common
+    ground and mutual understanding.  Paralleling many of the nuances of
+    today's human relations, 'Babylon 5' offers a futuristic, yet stunningly
+    contemporary view of political and social intermingling on a cosmic
+    level.  It is a 23rd century 'whodunit,' complete with spellbinding
+    intrigue played out before a backdrop of interplanetary conspiracies and
+    individual betrayals.
+    "'Babylon 5' delivers a visual masterpiece and creates to the finest
+    points life in the far reaches of time and space, made real with
+    wondrous costumes, detailed makeup, prosthetics, industry-leading
+    computer-generated graphics and astounding special effects....
+    "'Babylon 5,' a unique combination of state-of-the-art technology with
+    all-out action and underlying passion, is home to both science fiction
+    and dramatic storytelling."
+              -- Delise Langford, The Huntsville Times
+
+
+                               *
+
+
+    "'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' fans may take offense but 'Babylon 5' is
+    the most interesting place to visit out of this world.  'Babylon 5' wins
+    the weekly war of battling space stations with good stories, better
+    characters and intense conflict.
+    "'Babylon 5' is peopled by an inscrutable blend of aliens and humans,
+    each with a hidden agenda.  They interact in creator J. Michael
+    Straczynski's complex five-year master plan, enabling writers to enrich
+    this extraterrestrial tapestry.
+    "'Babylon 5' is also much darker than any other sci-fi drama.  In one
+    episode, a race of aliens died of a '100-percent contagious, 100-percent
+    fatal' plague before a cure could be discovered.  Rest assured that, in
+    the 'Star Trek' universe, an antidote would have been found in time to
+    save everyone.
+    "Writers refuse to succumb to the need to include every character in
+    every episode, conveying the impression there's a lot more going on
+    among the 250,000 inhabitants of 'Babylon 5' than viewers know.  That's
+    enough to keep this veteran science-fiction fan riveted to the couch.
+    "WATCH IT?  A visually stunning experience.
+    "TAPE IT? It has all the makings of a classic."
+
+
+              -- Charles Aukerman, Sun Banner Pride
+
+
+                               *
+
+
+    "Forget 'Star Trek.'  The best space opera on television is a show
+    you've probably never heard of: 'Babylon 5,' an energetic, nasty and
+    rousingly entertaining serial that combines grittiness with an almost
+    childlike sense of wonder....
+    "'Babylon 5' resembles Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation' series in sheer
+    scale, and some of the concepts -- underground railroads for victims of
+    persecution through mind-control, independence movements for off-world
+    colonies, prejudice among alien races -- are explored with unique
+    freshness and perspective, without stooping to the preachiness and
+    sanctimoniousness evident in so many 'Deep Space Nine' and "Voyager'
+    scripts.
+    "'Babylon 5' has struggled to find a wide audience, but it has lasted
+    three seasons.  There may be intelligent life out there after all."
+
+
+              -- Alex Strachan, Vancouver Sun
+
+
+                               *
+
+
+    "Babylon 5 has set the sci-fi TV world on end with the quality of its
+    writing, method of production and revolutionary special
+    effects........[The] stories are gripping....If you haven't checked ou
+    Babylon 5 you owe it to yourself to do so.  This is, without doubt, the
+    best science fiction series ever produced.  Give it the next six weeks.
+    You'll be hooked."
+
+
+              -- Tom Poston, Break Magazine
+
+
+                               *
+
+
+    "Like any space opera worth its salt, the show comes with a full
+    complement of weird-looking creatures and dazzling special effects.  The
+    difference is that 'Babylon 5' does them better than anybody else -- the
+    show won a pair of Emmys for makeup and visual effects in its very first
+    season....What really sets the show apart is its ambitious approach to
+    storytelling."
+
+
+              -- Mark Nollinger, TV Guide
+
+
+                               *
+
+
+    "The station houses an array of aliens the equal of 'Star Wars'
+    cantina."
+
+
+              -- Brian Donlon, USA Today
+
+
+                               *
+
+
+    "[Babylon 5's] computer-generated space scenes are spectacular and the
+    plot is reminiscent of the golden age of space sagas.  The show is the
+    sci-fi equivalent of progressive rock...."
+
+
+              -- Stephen Lynch, Orange County Register
+
+
+                               *
+
+
+    "This is one space station you're likely to want to visit frequently."
+
+
+              -- Barry Garron, Kansas City Star
+
+
+                               *
+
+
+    "'Babylon 5' just keeps getting better and better.  I highly recommend
+    everyone watch it."
+
+
+              -- Stephen P. Signorelli, Tri-Town News
+
+
+                             * * *
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+                 VISITING BABYLON 5 IN CYBERSPACE
+
+
+              A Resource Guide to B5 on the Internet
+
+
+     Babylon 5 is the only television show in which viewers can watch an
+episode, then get on the Internet, post their questions or thoughts, "and be
+reasonably sure your voice will be heard," says creator and executive
+producer J. Michael Straczynski (or JMS online) -- who spends several hours
+a day responding to many of the several hundred online messages he receives
+daily.
+
+
+     Whether you're a new viewer or show regular, all you need is access to
+the Internet, where a universe of interesting facts and fascinating trivia
+are instantly available from Babylon 5's online galaxy of 265 fan-mounted
+Web sites, an official home page, and numerous newsgroups (where JMS "lurks"
+and answers viewer queries).
+
+
+     So if you want to be the Babylon 5 authority in your office or
+neighborhood...enter these "jumpgates" to be transported into a hyperspace
+of insider knowledge!
+
+
+€  The fastest way to get there...
+
+
+     Type "Babylon 5" into your Yahoo!, Excite, or Infoseek search engine.
+     A long list of B5 web pages will pop up immediately, allowing you to
+     surf hundreds of sites through direct links.
+
+
+€  Or go directly to these selected sites...
+
+
+     €  The Official "Babylon 5" Web Site (two locations)
+
+
+          America Online:  Choose "Entertainment" in the main menu;
+                    then "Babylon 5" in "ThE List."
+
+
+          World Wide Web:  http://www.pathfinder.com/babylon5
+
+
+     €  The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5:
+
+
+          http://www.hyperion.com/lurker.html
+
+
+     €  Composer Christopher Franke's Sonic Images:
+
+
+          http://www.sonicimages.com
+
+
+     €  The Babylon 5 Store:
+
+
+          http:www.hyperion.com/lurk/resources/products.html
+
+
+€  To read or post messages to JMS or other B5 viewers...
+
+
+     (For legal reasons, please do not post story ideas on any of the
+     newsgroups/BBCs.)
+
+
+     €  Official "Babylon 5" Web Site:  Go to Message Center
+
+
+     €  GEnie:  Go to Science Fiction RoundTable, Category 18 (topics
+                     about the series in general) and Category 19 (topics
+                about specific episodes)
+
+
+     €  CompuServe:  Go to SFMediaOne
+
+
+€  Other B5 BBCs...
+
+
+     €  Usenet:  Go to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 or alt.tv.babylon-5
+
+
+                      * * * 
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+                           INTRODUCTION
+
+
+It's not often that a individual television series can take credit for
+having made a profound impact on both the way stories are told and and the
+way shows are produced in the medium today.  Especially one that is
+syndicated and science fiction as well.
+
+
+Babylon 5 -- created by J. Michael Straczynski (the only individual selected
+by Newsweek from the ranks of the entertainment industry to appear on its
+"50 for the Future" list of the "most influential thinkers-innovators who
+will shape our lives as we move into the 21st century") -- falls within that
+category.
+
+
+Within these pages you will read about how this unique series -- presently
+in its third season of syndication through Warner Bros. Domestic Television
+Distribution -- has pioneered many historic firsts in American television,
+including as...
+
+
+    * The first American television series presented as an epic saga -- with a
+      beginning, middle, and end in the tradition of a great literary novel.
+
+
+    * The first series to revolutionize the way state-of-the-art special
+      visual effects are produced on television through the use of inexpensive
+      desktop computers and off-the-shelf software.
+
+
+    * The first science fiction series in which all of the technology
+      incorporated in the story -- other than its unique "jumpgates" -- are
+      based on real science.
+
+
+    * The first time one individual has written a full 22-episode season for
+      for a one-hour dramatic series.
+
+
+    * The first time that the Virtual Studio concept has been used to link key
+      members of the production team around the world via the Internet and
+      other means for a television series.
+
+
+Certainly, few syndicated series have been as honored in such a short period
+of time.  To date, Babylon 5 has received...
+
+
+    * Two Emmy Awards (for Special Visual Effects in 1993 and Makeup in 1994)
+
+
+    * Three Emmy nominations (for Cinematography, Makeup, and Hairstyling, all
+      in 1995)
+
+
+    * The 1994 Space Frontier Foundation Award for "Best Vision of the Future"
+      from the National Association of Space Scientists, Astronauts and
+      Engineers
+
+
+    * The 1994 Jewish Televimage Award
+
+
+    * A Hugo Award nomination from the World Science Fiction Association
+
+
+    * Five English Media Cult TV Awards from England (including for "Best New
+      Series" in 1994)
+
+
+    * A Sci-Fi Universe 1995 Reader's Choice Award ("Best Actor in a TV
+      Series") for star Bruce Boxleitner (shared with David Duchovny of "The
+      X-Files")
+
+
+                           *
+
+
+Babylon 5 stars Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, and
+Mira Furlan.  Richard Biggs, Bill Mumy, Jason Carter, Stephen Furst,
+and Jeff Conaway also star, with Peter Jurasik as "Londo" and Andreas
+Katsulas as "G-Kar."
+
+
+Produced by Babylonian Productions, Inc., Babylon 5 is distributed by
+Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution.  Douglas Netter and
+J. Michael Straczynski are the executive producers, and John Copeland
+is the producer. Harlan Ellison serves as a creative consultant. 
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+
+                         THE BABYLON 5 PHENOMENON
+
+
+    *  Babylon 5 ranks #6 in the delivery of Men 18-49 and Men 25-54 out of
+       19 action hour programs*, and #1 in the delivery of Men 18-49 and
+       Men 25-54 VPVHs among all action hour dramas**.  (Sources: *NSS
+       SEASON-TO-DATE 9/4/95-3/17/96; **NSS. 9/25/95-2/11/96)
+
+
+    *  In Viewers for Quality Television's (VQT) monthly surveys, Babylon 5
+       has regularly ranked high -- indeed, finishing #8 recently in a
+       four-way tie, well ahead of every other science fiction show except
+       "The X-Files."
+
+
+    *  The 1995 3rd Annual Sci-Fi Fantasy TV's Internet survey of nine
+       newsgroups ranked Babylon 5 #1 among favorite shows -- followed by
+       "The X-Files" at #2 and "Star Trek: The Next Generation" at #3.
+
+
+    *  A zealous fan recently spent considerable time on the Net tracking
+       the number of times that Babylon 5 references could be found on the
+       Web's some 21 million pages.  The result?  20,000 pages that
+       included Babylon 5, compared to 90,000 pages for the entire "Star
+       Trek" legacy, 10,000 pages for "Star Trek: Deep Space 9," and 10,000
+       pages for "Hercules."  Pretty good for a show that had to create its
+       own tradition!
+
+
+                      Fans Of All Stripes:
+
+
+    *  A representative of Army Broadcasting told Babylon 5's producers that
+       the episode, "Eyes," was reviewed in the Army Ops. Center at the
+       Pentagon for insight into military procedure and internal affairs.
+       She also said that the Secret Service ran abstract psychological
+       profiles on the characters in this episode, just as they do for
+       criminals and terrorists, to serve as a research model.
+
+
+    *  Producer John Copeland says he's been informed that the Defense
+       Department refers to Babylon 5 as "Force Multiplier" for its
+       morale-boosting effect on the troops -- particularly those units
+       stationed in remote areas like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
+
+
+    *  Also according to information conveyed to the producers, the Naval
+       Intelligence Department constructed a test model for how computer
+       networks are susceptible to compromise, and named each computer in
+       the study after a Babylon 5 character.  "And guess which one got
+       compromised first," Copeland reports with amusement. "Londo."
+
+
+    *  The crew of the remote McMurdo military outpost in Antarctica have
+       friends tape the show back in the States and ship it up in their
+       twice-yearly supplies drop. Babylon 5 has also been adopted by Army
+       Apache and Cobra units stationed at Fort Bragg and the crews of
+       several aircraft carriers, including the U.S.S. Independence. As
+       well, the producers have heard from a convent of nuns, college
+       students, senior citizens, House Sciences Committee members,
+       religious leaders, and "lots of ordinary folk.  It's an incredibly
+       diverse audience," says creator and executive producer J. Michael
+       Straczynski.  "They all seem to respond to the same thing, which is
+       to see an honest-to-God saga on television."
+
+
+                       A Global Following
+
+
+    *  Babylon 5 is carried by networks in over 20 countries, including the
+       U.K., Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Greece, Italy, Israel, Jordan,
+       Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Phillipines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, and
+       such unlikely places as Trinidad, Tobago, and Malaysia.
+       "Internationally, we are a big success story," says executive
+       producer Douglas Netter, noting that the show is in the Top Ten
+       programs in England, where it is aired by Channel 4.
+
+
+                      Fans Who Really Care
+
+
+    *  When a television station in Greece declared bankruptcy last year and
+       shut down literally in the middle of airing a Babylon 5 episode,
+       hundreds of protestors with placards marched in front of the station
+       the next day -- demanding that it return to the airwaves just long
+       enough to finish showing the aborted episode.  While they were not
+       successful, the publicity did result in their getting another
+       station to pick up the series.
+
+
+    *  In Canada's British Columbia, "a small, but vocal core of fans banded
+       together on the Internet (the Vancouver Babylon 5 UseNet group is
+       one of the most active TV groups on the local net) and lobbied CHEK
+       to pick the show up for the third season," reported Vancouver Sun
+       television writer Alex Strachan in December 1995, adding that "the
+       Victoria station saw the opportunity to kill two birds with one
+       stone: Resurrect Babylon 5, mollify the show's UseNet junkies, and
+       fill a hole on Thursday nights."
+
+
+    *  San Jose Mercury News television writer Mike Antonucci also reported
+       in 1995 that the viewers in his area were not happy about the final
+       episodes of season two airing in the U.K. months before the U.S.
+       "Not only did information about the episodes start to percolate on
+       the Internet, but U.S. addicts wanted tapes (and right away, thank
+       you).  One Bay Area die-hard tells me that fans have gathered for
+       home showings of said tapes, creating little festivals at which
+       cultists grumbled about their second-nation status."
+
+
+    *  Among the scores of fan clubs around the world that have sprouted up
+       during the last four years has been the UK Fan Club, which has shown
+       its appreciation for the series by mounting the first-ever Babylon 5
+       convention in September 1995, with another even-larger event (Babcom
+       '96) planned for June 1996, to be attended by most of the show's
+       stars.
+
+
+    *  Numerous Babylon 5 fan clubs have mounted their own Internet Web
+       pages and created e-mail newsletters to keep local members informed
+       of show developments -- and to mount crusades for better time
+       periods an/or renewals when necessary.
+
+
+                A Major Presence on the Internet
+
+
+    *  Babylon 5 is one of the most celebrated television shows on the
+       Internet today -- with 265 fan-mounted Web sites, its own official
+       home page, and daily online discussions on CompuServe, GEnie, Bix,
+       Fidonet, and USENET.  The show has become so popular on BBSes, in
+       fact, USENET's rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 area recorded over 100,000
+       messages in 1995 alone.  "We went from 0 to becoming the 18th
+       biggest group on the entire Internet within a period of a couple of
+       months," says Straczynski.
+
+
+    *  A dedicated Internet navigator since 1984 (when he became the first
+       television writer on CompuServe), Straczynski is in fact the only
+       television executive who interacts regularly with fans, consistently
+       putting in three to four hours a day -- seven days a week -- reading
+       the some 500 Babylon 5-related daily postings put up by fans.  Why?
+       "Because on the nets, you get questions you never dreamed of, which
+       helps me strengthen my characters and the world of the show," says
+       Straczynski -- who has written a phenomenal 49 of the show's 66
+       total episodes to date (including the entire third season).  "It's
+       been an interesting experiment in truly interactive TV. A viewer can
+       watch our show and 10 minutes later be online with the person who
+       wrote it, created it, and produced it.  And do the same thing next
+       week, and the week thereafter.  I think it's helped to demystify TV,
+       which was one of my goals."
+
+
+    *  "J. Michael Straczynski is changing not only the way people look at
+       television, but far, far, far more importantly, the way TV looks at
+       people.  In fact, he seems to be boldly going where no producer has
+       gone before -- to the fans, via the Internet," reported Brad Bailey
+       in Dallas' Arts & Entertainment Weekly in March 1995. Bailey also
+       related how he had "sent up a public post to the Netheads at large,
+       timidly offering the fact that I was a writer friendly to the show
+       who was looking into the Babylon 5 phenom as a topic for a possible
+       article. "In fact, the sheer volume of viewer response from Netheads
+       who are also Bab5heads was nothing less than amazing, in and of
+       itself: some 250,000 bytes, roughly 50,000 words...of intelligent,
+       articulate, well-thought-out praise for the show and its creator. "I
+       had also told those folks that I would be willing to do them the
+       hugely condescending favor of asking any questions that they might
+       want to forward along to Big Writer Me, just on the off chance that,
+       waving my press card and touting my Representative of the People
+       status, I would be able to rat-terrier Straczynski's people into
+       maybe getting to do at least a short interview.  As regards this
+       Once-in-a-Lifetime Offer, I got numerous responses, but none like I
+       expected. "As David Bilek put it:  'First off, in regards to getting
+       'some sort of access' to the executive producer, Joe Straczynski,
+       you don't need to go to all that trouble.  He reads and responds
+       regularly to the Babylon 5 newsgroup, and the Babylon 5 category on
+       GEnie, home of the Grid Epsilon Irregulars.  So, if you have
+       questions for the guy, just send them to him.'" Bailey did, and got
+       back 15,000 bytes (or 3,000 words) from JMS in response to his
+       questions.
+
+
+                An Expanding Universe of B5 Merchandise
+
+
+       Following are only a few of the exciting collectibles currently
+       available.  Internet users:  The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5:
+       Resources: Products maintains an updated list of current and upcoming
+       items (http://www.hyperion.com/lurker.html).
+
+
+    *  The Babylon 5 Original Soundtrack
+
+
+        Composer Christopher Franke, one of the pioneers of electronic music
+        and a former member of Tangerine Dream, has reorchestrated his
+        original, powerful scores and primary themes for B5 into four
+        uninterrupted suites, merging the worlds of classical and electronic
+        music.  Audio clips available for downloading from Sonic Images
+        Internet site: http://sonicimages.com.
+
+
+        Available in compact disc from major retail outlets, Internet virtual
+        stores, or directly from Sonic Images (213-650-4400).
+
+
+    *  The Babylon 5 Limited Edition CD-ROM Entertainment Utility
+
+
+        Contains a hi-tech screen saver -- featuring actual video clips from
+        the series -- and over 100 colorful images, 50 AudioClipsTM, 30
+        Wallpaper Images, Q SoundTM enhanced.  (For Windows 3.1 or later; a
+        Macintosh version soon to be released.)
+
+
+        Available from SoundSource Interactive (800-877-4778).
+
+
+    *  Babylon 5 Character Costumes and Masks
+
+
+        Four costumes and two masks currently available from Uncomyn Gifts
+        (800-875-6926 or 360-866-6674).
+
+
+    *  Babylon 5 Micro Machines
+
+
+        Two new 3-pack collections -- featuring 6 new space vehicles -- coming
+        April 1996, in addition to the four continuing collections.
+
+
+        Available at all major toy retailers.
+
+
+                            * * *
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+                    PIONEERING A NEW FRONTIER
+                    IN TELEVISION PRODUCTION:
+
+
+                    The Making of "Babylon 5"
+
+
+     In 1986, a 32-year-old by the name of J. Michael Straczynski had a
+unique vision:  a saga for television that would take five years to tell,
+and would feature state of the art effects as well as a huge cast of
+characters who would change and grow as empires rose and fell around them.
+
+
+     His prospects of getting it mounted were daunting, for a myriad of
+reasons...
+
+
+     A 5-year epic with a beginning, middle, and end in which each episode
+would be like a chapter in a book, and each season another volume in a
+continuing story?  It had never been done on American television, except as
+a short-term mini-series.  Only the British had ever attempted it, with "The
+Prisoner" (which lasted a mere 18 episodes) and to a lesser extent with
+"Blake's 7" and "The Who."
+
+
+     Stunning visual effects combined with live action as realistic as
+anything seen in motion pictures -- but produced on a limited television
+budget?  No one had ever tried it, much less without traditional motion
+control cameras, intricate models, and a mega-budget to underwrite the
+thousands of hours necessary to create sequences that lasted only a few
+minutes on the screen.
+
+
+     Another science fiction series?  The statistics were ruthless: only a
+handful of sci-fi series had lasted three seasons or more during the last
+four decades; 98% of all sci-fi series have been canceled before the third
+season; of the one or two new sci-fi shows typically launched each year, few
+survive beyond a few months.  Even the original "Star Trek," which debuted
+in 1966, finally succumbed to a lack of ratings by 1969, after enduring a
+barrage of critical attack as a poor imitation of "Lost In Space."
+
+
+     Amazingly, Straczynski finally succeeded -- although it would take an
+epic effort before his show called Babylon 5 would finally reach the small
+screen as a two- hour TV movie in February 1993, and a year later before his
+5-year saga began unfolding in the form of a weekly series.
+
+
+                      How the Odyssey Began
+
+
+     Rarely has a television series been conceived with as much dedication
+to forging new frontiers within the medium.
+
+
+     "The fact is that I grew up a fan of science fiction -- particularly of
+the sagas: Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, the Dune books, the Lensman books,
+Childhood's End and Stranger in a Strange Land," says Straczynski.
+
+
+     "So I wanted to do for television what I grew up reading in those great
+sagas. And the reality is that no one in American television had ever tried
+to do a real honest-to-God saga for television -- with a beginning, middle,
+and end over a period of, say, five years:  where the first year is equal to
+the introduction you get in a novel; the second year is the rising action;
+the third year is the complication, and so on, with foreshadows and back
+references and character changes.
+
+
+     "Although the British had done it with 'The Prisoner,' and to a lesser
+extent with 'Blake's 7' and 'Dr. Who,' no one in this country had ever
+applied a strict, literary novel technique to television."
+
+
+     But Straczynski had other concerns as well, resulting from the several
+years he had already spent working in television as a staff writer and story
+editor on a number of animated and live action series.
+
+
+     "My perception was that as much as one-third of any TV series budget is
+wasted on poor planning and short script deadlines.  Typically, a script is
+delivered only days before it's going to be shot, and often just 24 hours in
+advance.  There's even been cases where pages are landing on the set as the
+cameras are rolling.  As a result, the crew is working all night making sets
+and costumes, and getting paid time and a half.  Add to that the cost of
+complex special effects, prosthetics, elaborate sets and alien costumes, and
+science fiction shows quickly become the worst offenders.
+
+
+     "So I thought, there's got to be a better, smarter way of doing this --
+of changing the fundamental way television is produced, and how would I do
+that?" Straczynski says.
+
+
+     That's when he began thinking about what it would take "to design a
+show along more logical lines for science fiction, since the major source of
+expense is creating new worlds every week.  I thought about the sorts of
+shows I like in tone...'Hill Street Blues,' 'St. Elsewhere,' even "M*A*S*H,'
+and in each case, there was a stationary locale and your stories come to
+you.  In other words, where people in trouble come to you."
+
+
+     From there, he recalled what he had read about post-World War II
+Germany, "where American, French and British forces (and, I think, some
+Russian) patroled equally to make sure that no one side got the upper hand,"
+as well as "the early free- ports of the 19th century, which were noted for
+some pretty rough characters, for adventure, for intrigue and smuggling.
+
+
+     "Put those various elements together...and you've got Babylon 5," he
+explains of his decision to anchor his story on a futuristic United
+Nations-like space station in which some quarter-million humans and aliens
+of diverse cultures and competing ambitions attempt to negotiate their
+differences in neutral territory from episode to episode.
+
+
+     Finally, there was the ultimate challenge that any series bearing his
+name would have to meet -- simply because Straczynski is by nature both a
+literary disciple and a bottom-line pragmatist at heart.
+
+
+     "I'd seen so many science fiction shows by then that backed into a
+budget, and thus went forever over budget, that I wanted to challenge myself
+to develop a show that met several important criteria," he says.
+
+
+     "1) It would have to be good science fiction.  2) It would have to be
+good television, and rarely are science-fiction shows both good sci-fi and
+good TV; they're generally one or the other.  3) It would have to take an
+adult approach to science fiction, and attempt to do for television sci-fi
+what 'Hill Street Blues' did for cop shows. 4) It would have to be
+affordable and done on a reasonable budget.  5) It would have to look unlike
+anything ever seen before on TV, and present not just individual stories,
+but present those stories against a much broader canvas."
+
+
+     It was a big agenda, but the idea finally struck.  "One day, literally,
+I was noodling around with this, and the entire story line just came in a
+flash.  I saw the whole five year story in just one incredible revelation,"
+he says of that moment in 1986.  "Then I spent the next two years trying to
+write down what I saw in that one moment of perfect clarity."
+
+
+                      Getting Babylon 5 Made
+
+
+     After writing the series bible (that includes the 5-year story arc
+which only Straczysnki is privy to) and a two-hour screenplay, he presented
+the idea to Douglas Netter and John Copeland.  The former head of the MGM
+studios, Netter had been the executive producer and Copeland the producer of
+"Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future," the syndicated science
+fiction series for which Straczynski served as story editor (as well as
+writer on 11 episodes) in 1986-87.
+
+
+     "Joe came to John and I right after we finished 'Captain Power' and
+said, 'I've got an idea for a science fiction show that can be contained,
+that we can do for a price, that has the potential to be greater than
+science fiction shows have been,'" Netter says.  "But it took us six years
+from that point to get the pilot made."
+
+
+     The problem was, Netter recalls, that "the networks had had science
+fiction pitched to them before, along with the caveat, 'We can do this for a
+reasonable price.' Of course, that was one of the great lies in Hollywood.
+And even though John and I had an excellent reputation for bringing shows in
+under budget and on time, as soon as they heard about big effects, red flags
+would go up in their minds.  They were afraid that any attempt to do a
+science fiction show on a tight budget might result in inferior production
+values."
+
+
+     And like everyone else, Warner Bros. didn't see how a high-quality show
+could be done on a cut-rate budget.  "They said, 'Well, if you are going to
+do it for that, this stuff will look terrible.'  And we said, 'No, it
+won't," Netter remembers.  To prove their point, Straczynski, Netter, and
+Copeland had Ron Thornton -- who had worked with them on "Captain Power" and
+subsequently pioneered the use of CGI effects on an Amiga computer --
+produce a startling 50-second sequence featuring a computer-generated space
+ship being tracked from far in the distance to its arrival at the space
+station's docking bay, all in one shot.
+
+
+     When they showed it to a group of Warner Bros. Executives and TV
+station heads who were part of PTEN, the reaction was everything they had
+hoped for: "When it was over, they said, 'We've got to see that again!'"
+Netter recalls.  "And then when we said, 'We did it on a desktop computer,'
+they were just like flabbergasted."
+
+
+     As a result, they finally got their production deal, and Babylon 5
+debuted as a two-hour pilot movie during the week of February 22, 1993, to
+an impressive 10.3 GAA national rating.  Just the month before, Paramount
+(one of the many studios they had pitched years before) also launched "Star
+Trek: Deep Space Nine," another story anchored on a stationary space
+station.  Of the much-noted coincidence, Netter says, "We were in
+development long before 'Deep Space Nine.'"
+
+
+     Particularly impressive is the fact that Babylon 5 is produced "with
+syndication dollars," Copeland stresses.  "This show is not done at a
+deficit.  It pays for itself strictly out of the advertising dollars
+generated every year.  And I don't know anybody else out there who's doing
+this exciting of stuff with the same economic realities we're dealing with.
+We're spending half of what an episode of 'Star Trek' costs, and one-third
+of an episode of 'Space: Above and Beyond.'"
+
+
+     "We're doing what no one else is doing in town," adds Straczynski,
+"which is taking full advantage of the latest technology.  We have almost a
+completely-digitalized studio, which no one else has at this point.
+
+
+     "In addition, we plan things out way ahead of time.  Before we roll one
+frame of film, we know what stories we're going to be doing that year, what
+sets we're going to have to construct, what effects we're going to need, and
+we always have a minimum of three scripts in hand.  So this gives all the
+different parties concerned enough time to sit down and design things and
+build things properly, without having to rush.  As a result, we're not
+paying 24 hours of overtime to get things done in time. It comes down
+basically to planning, which no one else does in this town."
+
+
+            Babylon 5's Revolutionary Special Effects
+
+
+     In 1964, "Star Trek" presented what were then fantastic new images of
+planets and space vessels unlike anything seen before.  In 1977, "Star Wars"
+used what was then state-of-the-art technology to create amazing space
+battle scenes -- involving motion control cameras, intricate models, and
+untold months of shooting time to complete sequences that would last mere
+minutes.  In 1994, Babylon 5 pioneered the newest breakthrough in special
+visual effects as the first science fiction show to produce astonishing
+outer space scenes without models or cameras.
+
+
+     Certainly, computer technology for producing effects is no longer the
+novelty that it once was.  Hardly a motion picture is made today in which at
+least one scene isn't enhanced electronically.  The difference between
+Babylon 5 and other effects-laden TV shows and movies is that "we were the
+first to do everything with desktop computers," says Copeland of the show's
+Emmy Award-winning special visual effects.
+
+
+     "We don't use expensive silicon graphics machines.  We don't use
+high-end software.  Initially all the 3-D computer animation was done on
+Amigas using the Video Toaster.  Today, however, all the 3-D computer
+animation is done on PC clones and DEC Alpha platforms running on a readily
+available piece of software called LightWave 3-D.  LightWave was originally
+part of the Video Toaster, but has been ported out as a software program
+available for many different computer platforms.
+
+
+     "The matte paintings are done in a combination of Photo Shop and
+Electric Image.  We do all our compositing in MacIntoshes.  We edit on
+Avids.  We even assemble the show in a computer; we don't do it in a regular
+video online bay anymore," Copeland continues.  "And everything we use is
+available down at your friendly local computer store.  We just push it a
+little harder."
+
+
+     Besides Thornton's breakthrough experiments with an Amiga in
+combination with New Tek's Video Toaster in the early 1990s, Copeland had
+already been working with computer-generated effects for "Captain Power" in
+1986.  "A year before they started shooting 'Roger Rabbit,' two of the
+creatures in our series were completely done with 3-D computer animation and
+composited into live action scenes with the actors.  Nobody had done that
+and we did it for 22 episodes.  Of course, we're talking mere minutes
+compared to what we do now on Babylon 5, because we were using a whole
+different type of computer then."
+
+
+     Not only is the production able to produce effects faster -- typically
+in just two weeks -- through the use of computers, but the end product,
+Copeland believes, is more realistic than traditional models.  "We can
+actually go from a 150 kilometers away right up to something and look at the
+bulkheads on it.  You can't do that with a model, because there isn't a
+stage big enough that would allow you to make such a shot in a single move."
+
+
+     It's also notable that Babylon 5 features more visual effects footage
+per episode than any other series -- both past and present -- with a
+cumulative 90 minutes during the first season, 120 minutes in the second,
+"and a little bit better than that this year," according to Copeland.
+
+
+                    Babylon 5's Virtual Studio
+
+
+     As well, Babylon 5 has pioneered a concept called The Virtual Studio,
+in which key members of the production team are located around the globe and
+linked up via the Internet or other means.
+
+
+     The show's world-class original music score is created for each episode
+by LA-based composer Christopher Franke (formerly of Tangerine Dream), who
+conducts his Berlin Symphonic Film Orchestra, located halfway around the
+world in Germany, in real time despite the 15-hour time difference.  Making
+it possible are four fiber optic cables that connect the two studios, as
+well as video cameras and large-screen television screens on both ends.
+
+
+     Producers Strazynski and Copeland are able to monitor the progress of
+new special effects in development simply by dialing up Ron Thornton's
+Foundation Imaging studio over a modem.  "We can check key frames and
+animation sequences -- or if they're designing a new ship that they want us
+to look at, we can pull up a frame of that and make comments about it before
+they go through the time intensive, expensive process of rendering a shot,"
+Copeland recounts.  As a result, Thornton and his crew rarely have to visit
+the set.
+
+
+     Emmy Award-winning matte artist Eric Chauvin resides and works in
+Washington state, yet is able to render all of Babylon 5's necessary matte
+paintings long-distance with only an occasional trip South.  "We send him
+the film frames on 8mm digital tape.  He then imports them into his
+Macintosh, does his painting using a program called Photoshop, and Fed Ex's
+the frames back to us on digital tape," Copeland says.  Hopefully, the day
+will soon come when it is not necessary to courier raw materials between
+locations.  In the meantime, Copeland explains, the Internet "is really a
+cowpath as far as transmission of real data" and only useful for conveying
+sketches and information.
+
+
+     Also through the miracle of modems, Straczynski is able to commission
+freelance scripts -- 17 to date (all during the show's first two seasons),
+with more to come next year -- from the best science fiction writers in the
+world, regardless of their location.  Historically, television writers
+either had to live in Los Angeles, or days would be lost waiting for scripts
+to arrive by express mail.
+
+
+                       The Babylon 5 Model
+
+
+     Altogether, the production's innovative approach to achieving feature
+film-quality production values on a fat-free budget has been dubbed The
+Babylon 5 Model within the industry.
+
+
+     Curious producers and studio executives are frequently given tours of
+the entire operation, including the production's state-of-the-art facility
+in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles.  A former manufacturing plant for
+swimming pool and hot tub pumps, the 70,000 square foot building was
+purchased by Babylonian Productions and converted into three sound stages
+and production offices in just nine weeks -- and ready for shooting on day
+one of week ten.
+
+
+      "What I've tried to do over the years is to verse myself in the
+technological tools that will provide us a better opportunity to
+successfully do our job for less money and save us as much time as we
+possibly can," explains Copeland -- who also serves as the Executive Vice
+President of Netter Digital Entertainment, Inc., and the supervising
+producer of their new science fiction children's series, "Hypernauts," which
+they are producing in association with creator Ron Thornton's Foundation
+Imaging, Inc., and Greengrass Productions, Inc., for ABC's Saturday morning
+line-up.
+
+
+     "To that end, we have an ADR booth here at the stage.  So if we have to
+replace dialogue, if we have to loop any lines, we can get actors in between
+scenes. We don't have to schedule them on their day off and send them to a
+different place to record this stuff.  We can also identify bad dialogue on
+the part of a guest actor and loop it before they get off the clock and we
+have to bring them back and pay them."
+
+
+     But technology aside, Copeland believes that they couldn't do what they
+do every week without the ingenuity and resourcefulness of their production
+team.
+
+
+     "We try to give people enough creative freedom to be able to take
+things in their own directions and refine them.  Because if we're telling
+everybody exactly what to do, we've hire the wrong people for the job.  Or
+we shouldn't be here, because we're inhibiting the creative process.
+
+
+     "Also, we try to make everybody feel like they have a vested interest
+in the show.  We solicit contributions from everybody.  Just because you're
+a grip doesn't mean you don't have a good idea about something.  So we try
+to share the creative process with everyone involved.  And it's been
+returned to us ten-fold.  We've held onto probably 85% of our crew over
+three years, which is very unusual."
+
+
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+
+                     PRODUCTION TEAM CREDITS
+
+
+                         DOUGLAS NETTER
+                       Executive Producer
+
+
+                         JOHN COPELAND
+                            Producer
+
+
+    Babylon 5's executive producer Douglas Netter (also J. Michael
+    Straczynski's partner in Babylonian Productions) and producer John
+    Copeland serve as the CEO and Chairman and the Executive Vice President
+    of Netter Digital Entertainment, Inc., respectively.
+
+
+    Indisputably, they have become one of the most innovative and enduring
+    teams in television production during the 17 years of their professional
+    association.
+
+
+    Together, they have pushed the edge of the envelope in terms of
+    utilizing new technologies and production processes on behalf of the
+    medium.  Among their remarkable contributions have been...shooting an
+    entire (three-year) series on film and completing it using an electronic
+    post-production process ("Five Mile Creek," 1981-83 for Disney)...the
+    first-ever compilation of 3-D computer-generated characters in scenes
+    with live actors in a television series ("Captain Power and the Soldiers
+    of the Future," 1987 for Mattel)...and the landmark use of digital
+    technologies and computer management systems for a documentary ("The
+    Wild West," a primetime 10-hour syndicated series, 1992 for PTEN and
+    Warner Bros.).
+
+
+    They were also responsible for the concept of the Virtual Studio, which
+    was perfected for "Babylon 5," but conceived by them years earlier.  And
+    they played an instrumental role in bringing the revolutionary technique
+    of producing state-of-the-art special visual effects through the use of
+    low-cost computer-generated imagery (CGI) to television.
+
+
+    As well, Netter is currently serving as the executive producer and
+    Copeland as the supervising producer of ABC's acclaimed new children's
+    science fiction series, "Hypernauts," which was created by Babylon 5's
+    Emmy Award-winning special visual effects designer Ron Thornton (also an
+    executive producer).
+
+
+    Back in 1979, few would have predicted that the Netter-Copeland
+    collaboration would last.  Separated in age by almost three decades, one
+    had a wealth of top-drawer industry experience while the other's career
+    was just beginning.  In fact, Copeland originally started out as just
+    another hired hand on various Netter projects but quickly proved his
+    indispensibility in getting the job done.
+
+
+    Prior to founding Rattlesnake Productions (the predecessor to Netter
+    Digital Entertainment, Inc.), Doug Netter had spent his life in the
+    entertainment industry.  His last position, before going independent,
+    was as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at MGM
+    Studios from 1970 to 1975, during which time he oversaw the production
+    of over 75 major motion pictures and numerous television shows, and
+    played an instrumental role in the construction of the MGM Grand Hotel
+    in Las Vegas.
+
+
+    Meanwhile, Copeland was graduating in the first class of film majors
+    from Chapman College, followed by a two-year stint in London working as
+    an assistant director for English producer Euan Lloyd, then a year on
+    European locations with the film, "Paper Tiger."
+
+
+    In 1978, they were introduced by Lloyd.  During the next four years,
+    they produced an award-winning Western mini-series, "The Sacketts," for
+    NBC; two additional mini-series -- "Wild Times" and "Roughnecks" -- for
+    Metromedia Producers Corporation; and a one-hour series pilot, "Buffalo
+    Soldiers," for NBC.
+
+
+    In 1981, Rattlesnake Productions became one of the first independent
+    production companies affiliated with the Walt Disney Studios, resulting
+    in the CBS TV movie pilot, "Louis L'Amour's The Cherokee Trail," and the
+    three-year series, "Five Mile Creek," as a debut offering for The Disney
+    Channel.
+
+
+    Their 1987 science fiction series, "Captain Power and the Soldiers of
+    the Future," for Mattel and the Landmark Entertainment Group, introduced
+    them to J. Michael Stracyznksi (who served as their story editor) and
+    Ron Thornton (a special effects supervisor in charge of the miniatures).
+
+
+    While attempting to mount Babylon 5, they produced the 2-hour TV movie,
+    "Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future: The Legend Begins," for
+    international broadcast, and two highly-inventive films for Lockheed
+    (profiling the superiority of the F-22 advanced tactical fighter craft).
+
+
+    Certainly one of the hallmarks of the company's many successes was their
+    critically-acclaimed ten-hour documentary series, "The Wild West,"
+    chronicling the settlement of the American West in the 30 years after
+    the Civil War.  Syndicated in 1992 by Warner Bros. and the Prime Time
+    Entertainment Network, "The Wild West" did for primetime television what
+    "The Civil War" had done for PBS:  garnering record ratings and a deluge
+    of TV book covers and rave reviews.  The series' pioneering use of
+    digital technologies also resulted in the unprecedented simultaneous
+    release of a CD-ROM, home video, book, and sound track album.  It was
+    also the first time that a computerized software management system had
+    been designed for use in a documentary, resulting in computerized
+    tracking of the series' 14,000-plus period photographs, paintings, and
+    critical documents.
+
+
+    While simultaneously producing "Babylon 5" between 1992 to the present,
+    Netter and Copeland were also responsible for the television movie,
+    "Siringo," a western which was syndicated by Rysher Entertainment and
+    United Television in 1995 and subsequently released in the U.S. and
+    internationally on home video.  On November 20, 1995, Netter Digital
+    Entertainment, Inc., became a publicly-held corporation with the
+    successful closing of its initial public offering.
+
+
+                         HARLAN ELLISON
+                      Creative Consultant
+
+
+    As J. Michael Straczynski writes in Foundation of Harlan Ellison and his
+    unique role as creative consultant to Babylon 5:  "Harlan's input is
+    whatever Harlan chooses....Like the other masters of sf named before,
+    the work of Harlan Ellison was a tremendous inspiration to me, and
+    having him with me on the show is a constant compass pointing ever
+    toward quality and challenging ideas."  (Please see Foundation, page 13,
+    which included in this packet.)
+
+
+    Ellison has been called "one of the great living American short story
+    writers" by The Washington Post; and the Los Angeles Times has written,
+    "It's long past time for Harlan Ellison to be awarded the title:  20th
+    century Lewis Carroll."
+
+
+    In a career spanning four decades, Ellison has won more awards for the
+    62 books he has written or edited, the more than 1700 stories, essays,
+    articles and newspaper columns, the two dozen teleplays and a dozen
+    motion pictures he has created, than any other living fantasist.
+
+
+    Among them are 8-1/2 Hugo Awards, three Nebula Awards, two Edgar Allan
+    Poe Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, two Georges Melies
+    Fantasy Film Awards, and the distinquished Silver Pen Award for
+    Journalism by P.E.N. (the international writers' union).  He was also
+    presented with the first Living Legend Award by the International Horror
+    Critics at their 1995 World Horror Convention.  And he is the only
+    author in Hollywood ever to win the Writers' Guild of America Award for
+    Most Outstanding Teleplay four times, most recently for "Paladin of the
+    Lost Hour" in 1987.
+
+
+    His latest books include The Essential Ellison (1987; a 35-year
+    retrospective of his work), Angry Candy (1988; recipient of the 1989
+    World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story Collection, and listed in the
+    Encyclopedia for Americana Annual as one of the major works of American
+    literature for 1988), Harlan Ellison's Watching (1988; a compilation of
+    20 years of film criticism), The Harlan Ellison Hornbook (1990), Harlan
+    Ellison's Movie (1990), Dreams With Sharp Teeth (1991; Book-of-the-Month
+    Club), Mefisto in Onyx (1993), Mind Fields with Polish artist Jacek
+    Yerka (1994), I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay (1994; based on Isaac
+    Asimov's story-cycle), and "The City on the Edge of Forever" screenplay
+    (1995).
+
+
+    He also provided the voice of the insane god-computer AM on the
+    recently-released, bestselling CD-Rom computer game, "I HAVE NO MOUTH,
+    AND I MUST SCREAM."  In January 1995, his ongoing, monthly comic book
+    from Dark Horse, called Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor, debuted.
+
+
+                       CHRISTOPHER FRANKE
+                  Music Composer and Performer
+
+
+    One of the pioneers of electronic music and former member of Tangerine
+    Dream, Christopher Franke not only composes the music for each episode
+    of Babylon 5, but performs it in "real time" with his Berlin Symphonic
+    Film Orchestra, though each is located halfway around the globe from
+    each other.
+
+
+    A truly innovative and prolific musical artist, Franke's recording
+    efforts in just the last five years include four solo albums -- "Pacific
+    Coast Highway" (1991), "The London Concert" (1992), "Klemania" (1993),
+    and "Enchanting Nature" (1995) -- and four soundtrack albums --
+    "Universal Soldier" (1992), "New Music for Films, Vol. 1" (1992),
+    "Raven" (1994), and "Babylon 5" (1995).  A second "Babylon 5" album is
+    scheduled for release later this year.
+
+
+    Despite the demands of producing new music for each Babylon 5 episode --
+    which is highly unusual for a syndicated series -- Franke has
+    simultaneously turned out his numerous albums, as well as scoring
+    numerous other feature films and television shows.  Among them are the
+    new ABC Saturday morning children's science fiction series, "Hypernauts"
+    (reuniting him with Doug Netter, John Copeland, and Ron Thornton).
+
+
+    Born in Berlin, Franke studied classical music and composition at the
+    Berlin Conservatory.  At the same time, he was actively involved in rock
+    and jazz music with the group Agitation Free.  He cites as early
+    influences the composers John Cage and Karl-Heinz Stockhausen and the
+    painters Dali, Miro and Kandinsky.
+
+
+    Franke set up a sound studio in a music school with his teacher, the
+    Swiss avant-garde musician and composer, Thomas Kessler -- which became
+    a residence for young musicians and groups dedicated to experimental
+    music.  The improvisation courses they conducted and the introduction
+    they provided to new instruments and techniques resulted in a
+    highly-regarded project called The Berlin School of Electronic Music.
+    It was there that Franke met Edgar Froese and brought Peter Baumann
+    (today the head of the record company, Private Music, USA) into the
+    group, thus founding Tangerine Dream.
+
+
+    Franke was the first musician in Tangerine Dream to make use of the
+    synthesizer for developing a new direction in experimental music.  He
+    also incorporated the sequencer as an entension of traditional
+    percussion instruments, which became a ground breaker in live concerts.
+
+
+    With Tangerine Dream, Franke released 36 studio, live, and soundtrack
+    albums between 1970 and 1988 -- of which seven of the studio albums
+    became gold records.  The group also toured all over the world.
+
+
+    In 1988, Franke left Tangerine Dream to concentrate on his personal life
+    and the development of new musical ideas.  In 1990, he moved to Los
+    Angeles.  In 1991, he founded the Berlin Symphonic Film Orchestra and
+    recorded his first solo album, "Pacific Coast Highway."  Within the next
+    twelve months, he had composed the music for the feature films, "Eye of
+    the Storm" (starring Dennis Hopper) and "McBain" (starring Christopher
+    Walken), and the television movie, "She Woke Up" (with Lindsay Wagner).
+    And in 1992, he wrote the music for the worldwide blockbuster,
+    "Universal Soldier," starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, as well as the
+    CBS-TV series, "Raven," followed by numerous other film and TV projects.
+
+
+                          RON THORNTON
+                    Visual Effects Designer
+
+
+    Emmy Award-winning special effects artist Ron Thornton is President and
+    Co-Founder of Foundation Imaging, a leading computer animation/special
+    effects company based in Valencia, California.  He has, for the past
+    seventeen years, created numerous trend-setting visual effects for the
+    entertainment industry.
+
+
+    A native of London, England, Thornton began his entertainment career
+    working for BBC Television, where he created props and miniatures for
+    shows such as the highly popular "Dr. Who," "Blakes 7" and "Tripods."
+    In 1984, Thornton emigrated to the United States, and began working for
+    David Stipes Productions.  It was under the tutelage of Stipes (now the
+    Special Effects Supervisor for Paramount Television's "Star Trek
+    Voyager") that Thornton gained valuable experience as an effects
+    cameraman on Martha Coolidge's comedy feature film, "Real Genius."
+
+
+    Thornton went on to create miniatures for several additional movies,
+    including "Commando" with Arnold Schwarzenegger; the Mel Brooks' comedy,
+    "Space Balls"; "Critters" with Billy Zane and Dee Wallace Stone; and
+    "Robot Jox."  Thornton also provided miniatures and did camera work on
+    "Amazon Women on the Moon" and "Night of the Creeps."
+
+
+    In 1987, Thornton was introduced to the Amiga Computer while supervising
+    miniatures in Canada for the syndicated children's television program,
+    "Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future."  While working on
+    "Captain Power," he began to experiment with ground-breaking 3-D
+    computer graphics which would pre-visualize FX shots.
+
+
+    In 1990, Thornton and Foundation Imaging's Director of Operations and
+    Co-Founder, Paul Beigle-Bryant, began discussing the possibility of
+    creating a digital effects facility utilizing the latest advances in
+    desk-top computer technologies.  The men were friends who had originally
+    met in England in 1983, and had worked on several projects together.
+    The duo began hatching plans to create and entire special effects
+    business.
+
+
+    Thornton sold all of his camera equipment and motion control systems to
+    invest in the computer systems which would be needed for such an
+    undertaking.  It was mid-1991 when Thornton was approached by the
+    producers of "Captain Power" to bid on miniatures for a sci-fi project
+    they were developing, Babylon 5.  At that time, Thornton had been
+    working with innovative rock music and multimedia artist Todd Rundgren
+    on a short computer-animated film.  The work with Rundgren led Thornton
+    to suggest using computers for the effects on Babylon 5.
+
+
+    Thornton and Beigle-Bryant created a one minute video of proposed visual
+    effects for Babylon 5, which would become instrumental in selling the
+    show to Warner Bros. television in July 1992.  Upon pick-up of the new
+    series, Thornton and Beigle-Bryant formed Foundation Imaging to continue
+    creating the visuals for Babylon 5. Since that time, Thornton has served
+    as Special Effects Designer on Babylon 5, Paramount's "Viper" and CBS'
+    "Skeleton Warriors."
+
+
+    In 1993, Thornton and Beigle-Bryant won an Emmy Award for "Outstanding
+    Achievement in Special Visual Effects" for their work on the pilot of
+    Babylon 5.  A year later, they won an "International Monitor" Award for
+    their pilot episode of the CBS series, "Viper."  Two very extraordinary
+    accomplishments for a visual effects company using desk-top computers.
+
+
+    In 1994, Thornton created the new ABC Saturday morning children's
+    series, "Hypernauts," for which he is serving as executive producer with
+    Doug Netter.  John Copeland is the supervising producer.  The innovative
+    futuristic story, which debuted in primetime on March 2, 1996, before
+    beginning its regular Saturday morning run on March 2, also features
+    Thornton's Emmy Award-winning CGI special visual effects.
+
+
+                JOHN VULICH, OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS
+                    Special Make-up Effects
+
+
+    The recipient of a 1993 Emmy Award for "Outstanding Individual
+    Achievement in Make-Up for a Series" (for the episode, "Parliament of
+    Dreams"), John Vulich's Optic Nerve Studios has emerged as one of the
+    up-and-coming effects houses in the film and television industry.
+
+
+    Based in Los Angeles, Optic Nerve houses all the necessary machinery
+    required to mill, lathe, weld, mold, and vacu-form all the elements
+    needed to create a wide variety of special effects.  As one of the first
+    effects companies to utilize New Tek's Video Toaster in the design
+    process, it is also capable of altering the image of a performer in a
+    variety of ways, creating realistic color printouts, which better help
+    to illustrate proposed designs.
+
+
+    Just since 1990, the studio has 17 feature films, including "Batman
+    Returns" and "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers."  Besides Babylon 5, Optic
+    Nerve is presently working on "Hypernauts" (created by Ron Thornton, who
+    also serves as the executive producer with Douglas Netter.  John
+    Copeland is the supervising producer.)  And they contributed to the TV
+    shows, "MADONNA: Bedtime Stories" and "MICHAEL JACKSON: Scream," among
+    others.
+
+
+                        ANN BRUICE ALING
+                        Costume Designer
+
+
+    The recipient of two Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards (in 1991
+    for "You Can't Take It With You" and in 1992 for "Philadelphia Story"),
+    Ann Bruice Aling holds a MFA in costume design from the California
+    Institute of the Arts and a MA in theatre from the University of
+    California, Santa Barbara.
+
+
+    Beginning her career in regional theatre, on numerous productions for
+    South Coast Repertory, she has since designed for the Mark Taper Forum
+    and the Los Angeles Theatre Center, as well as the Pasadena Playhouse,
+    New Mexico Repertory, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Caesar's Tahoe,
+    Grove Shakespeare Festival, and PCPA Theatrefest.
+
+
+    She also served as the assistant designer on the hit motion picture,
+    "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids," and has worked such other television
+    projects as the telefilm, "Siringo" (for Doug Netter and John Copeland),
+    and the ABC Afterschool Special, "Perfect Date."
+
+
+                         JOHN IAVOVELLI
+                      Production Designer
+
+
+    As well as Babylon 5, John Iavovelli has served as the production
+    designer on on the primetime documentary series, "The Wild West," and
+    the TV movie, "Siringo," for producers Doug Netter and John Copeland, as
+    well as the PBS series, "Future Quest" (starring Jeff Goldblum), and the
+    motion picture, "Ruby in Paradise."
+
+
+    As an art director, he has worked on such productions as the motion
+    picture, "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids!," and the TV series, "The Cosby
+    Show" and "A Different World."
+
+
+    Iacovelli also continues to serve as the Head of Design at the
+    University of California - Riverside and to work in theater.  His
+    extensive stage credits include "Twilight of the Golds" on Broadway and
+    for The Kennedy Center and The Pasadena Playhouse, as well as over a
+    hundred productions for such leading regional companies as The South
+    Coast Repertory, The Mark Taper Forum, The Berkshire Theatre Festival,
+    The Philadelphia Theatre Company, The Dallas Theater Center, San Diego's
+    Old Globe, and The Oregon Shakespeare Festival.  Iacovelli has an MFA
+    degree in Design and Art Direction from NYU.
+
+
+                             * * *
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+                     J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
+
+                     The Creator of "Babylon 5"
+
+
+    For Babylon 5's third (and current) season, J. Michael Straczynski
+established a new benchmark in American television history.  He became the
+first individual to write every episode of a full 22-episode season for a
+one-hour dramatic series.
+
+    Furthermore, when combined with the last five episodes of season two,
+Straczynski has in actuality scripted a total of 27 consecutive one-hour
+dramatic shows.  He is also scheduled to write the first four shows of the
+next season, before passing the torch (intermittently) to some of the
+highly-respected science fiction writers he has used in the past.  As
+noteworthy, of Babylon 5's 66 produced episodes to date, Straczynski
+singularly has written 49 of them (or approximately 75%).
+
+    Add to that the fact that he has simultaneously served as the executive
+producer of what many regard as the most ambitious science fiction series
+since Roddenberry's original "Trek" -- and the dual task can easily be seen
+as monumental.
+
+    "It's never been done before and I now can understand why, because just
+being the executive producer on the show is an 18-hour-a-day job and writing
+all the shows is a 16-hour-a-day job.  So basically I've got a math
+problem," Straczynski laughs.
+
+    What possible explanation could there be for taking on such a formidable
+challenge?
+
+    "I kind of thought I might have to, but I didn't start off thinking I
+was going to do this," he says.  "The problem is that the first year was
+like the introduction to the show, the characters, and the Babylon 5
+universe, which allowed for a lot of stand-alone stories.  The second year
+brought us a little more into the 5-year arc.  During both, we were able to
+give good outside science fiction writers the threads of the story and let
+them come back with their own interpretation.
+
+    "But this year, the arc was really heating up.  There were a lot of
+changes -- the chairs were being moved around a lot.  And since I'm the only
+one who knows where the story is going, it was simply easier to do it
+myself.  But," he adds, "we will be bringing in outside writers again next
+season, the moment the story settles down again."
+
+    As an executive producer, Straczynski supervises the monolithic details
+that comprise the rich and wondrous tapestry of what viewers have come to
+expect of Babylon 5 -- spectacular space ships, elaborate costumes, a
+massive array of sets, sophisticated alien make-up effects, and eye-popping
+special visual effects.  As well, he provides immeasurable input into the
+creation of each episode's memorable music score, the casting of noteworthy
+guest stars and unforgettable feature players, the creation of distinctive
+stories by outside scribes (when he isn't writing them himself), and the
+final polished editing of every on-air hour (along with producer John
+Copeland).
+
+    "I have total creative control over the show, which means I don't sleep
+a hell of a lot," Straczynski laughs.
+
+    But, he adds, "it is extremely rewarding.  This is a town driven by
+committee -- and the last good things created by committee were Stonehenge
+and the Pyramids. Thanks to Warner Bros., Babylon 5 from start to finish is
+one person's vision."
+
+    Hard as it is to believe, Straczynski has only been gainfully employed
+in the television industry since 1984.  But during that time, he has written
+more than 140 produced episodes of television, and served as a story editor
+and/or producer on numerous shows, including such hits as "Murder, She
+Wrote," "The Twilight Zone," and "Jake and The Fatman."
+
+    Though only 41 years old, he has also published two novels, an anthology
+of short fiction, over 500 nonfiction articles and short stories, a dozen
+produced plays, another dozen produced radio dramas, and a classic text on
+screenwriting (of which a new, expanded edition will be appearing this
+Fall).
+
+    His remarkable resume also includes significant stints as a contributing
+editor and monthly screenwriting columnist for Writer's Digest magazine, a
+special correspondent to the Los Angeles Times, a staff reporter and writer
+for Time, Inc., the host of a weekly two-hour science-fiction radio talk
+show in Los Angeles, the entertainment reviewer for a San Diego radio
+station, and the author of numerous classic comic books.  And those are only
+the career highlights of what this "writer's writer" (as he has been termed
+by his peers) has done.
+
+    It's little wonder that Straczynski's Babylonian Productions partner
+Douglas Netter calls him "the most prolific writer I know.  This man is
+always writing.  That's what he does, that's what he loves to do."  Netter
+should know.  As the former head of the MGM Studios and a successful
+independent television producer for the last 17 years, he has worked with
+the best of the best over the years.
+
+    How it all began for Joe Straczynski (as he is known by his friends and
+co-workers; or "JMS" by his Internet fans) is the stuff of which novels are
+made.
+
+    He grew up the son of a blue-collar plastics worker "who had a unique
+economic philosophy, which was blow into town, run up a lot of bills, and
+split.  So, as a result, we were always on the move.  Every six months to a
+year, we'd be in a different town or a completely different state.  I went
+to a different school every year. We had different names that we lived
+under.  Men would come in the middle of the night with badges, and we'd have
+to pack up and get out.  It was that kind of existence."
+
+    Growing up, there were only two kinds of friends Straczynski could count
+on: television and public libraries.  From television, he developed an early
+admiration for the work of Rod Serling, Paddy Chayefsky, and Harlan Ellison
+(Babylon 5's creative consultant and a long-time friend), among others.
+From his friendly library, he worked his way through every children's title
+by his pre-teens, and embarked on an adult literary odyssey in which he
+would revel in the legendary likes of Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C.
+Clarke, Robert Hinlein, E. E. "Doc" Smith, and J. R. R. Tolkien.
+
+    As he explains of the origins of his unusually long and prolific career:
+"My entire life I knew I was going to be a writer.  That was it.  As a kid I
+collected paper clips and pens of different kinds -- 'I've got to get
+ready!"  Then I hit 17, and I said, 'Okay, I've prepared enough.  Now I'm
+going to start writing!  So I've been writing and selling non-stop since I
+was 17 years old."
+
+    While still in high school, he wrote articles and plays.  His first
+commissioned work was a full-length comedy written at the request of the
+school, which was performed in front of a full assembly.  "Prior that,
+nobody noticed I existed," he recalls.  "Suddenly, I was noticed."
+
+    His last year of high school, he started sending out one-act and
+full-length plays to various theaters.  "One local theater decided to
+produce one of them, and sent a letter suggesting a meeting.  I went to it,
+and they kept waiting for my dad to show up or something.  Finally, I was
+able to convince them that no, I really was the person who wrote the play,
+and they did it," he says.
+
+    Working his way through various colleges, he had a full-length play
+performed for some 20 weeks in summer stock and later published in book form
+by a leading theatrical publisher.  He also acquired degrees in sociology
+and psychology, with minors in philosophy and literature, and taught
+creative writing at San Diego State University, while turning out articles
+for leading magazines and newspapers.
+
+    And then something possessed him to try his luck in Hollywood.  He
+arrived on April Fools Day, 1981, one of the thousands who flock to Los
+Angeles each year without a single contact in the industry.
+
+    Armed only with a portfolio of freelance byline clippings, he quickly
+worked his way through the ranks of freelancers to staff writer, story
+editor, co-producer, producer, supervising producer -- and finally --
+executive producer and creator of Babylon 5.
+
+    "Like everyone else in town, I began as a staff writer and I found that
+I would get rewritten all the time," he says.  "So I asked, 'Who did that?'
+and found out that it was the story editor, and went for his job.  Then when
+I was the story editor, I'd do a script and it would be rewritten.  Who was
+it?  The producer.  So I went for his job, and eventually you work up to
+executive producer, and nobody rewrites you anymore. My style of writing is
+very personal and eccentric, and that was the only way to protect the
+words."
+
+    Perhaps, the most telling impact that Straczynski has had on the medium
+that he regards with such respect that he gave it Babylon 5 is the
+significance of the following...
+
+    In early 1995, Newsweek magazine created a Who's Who of 50 of the "most
+influential thinkers-innovators who will shape our lives as we move into the
+21st century."  That elite group -- which it designated the "captains in the
+information revolution" -- included, not surprisingly, such figures as
+Steven Jobs (the co-founder of Apple and more recently of NeXT), Tim
+Berners-Lee (the inventor of the World Wide Web), and Kevin Kelly (the
+executive editor of Wired).  But of all the individuals who have in one way
+or another moved the goal posts in film and television, there was only one
+name...that of J. Michael Straczynski.
+
+    Among the other honors which have come Straczynski's way are three
+prestigious nominations -- for a Writer's Guild Award and an Ace Award for
+his adaptation of the episode, "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
+Hyde," on Showtime's "Nightmare Classics"; and an Academy of Canadian
+Television and Cinema Gemini Award for an episode of "Captain Power and the
+Soldiers of the Future".  He has also received the coveted Horror Writers of
+America's Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel for his book, Demon Night.
+
+    Certainly, Babylon 5 would have never earned its two Emmy Awards and
+three Emmy nominations -- as well as numerous other honors -- if it hadn't
+been for Straczynski.
+
+    For Straczynski, writing could be called more of a preoccupation than an
+occupation.  He works 10 hours a day, 7 days a week -- until 3 or 4 in the
+morning, exactly 362 days a year.  The only time he takes off are his
+birthday, Christmas, and New Year's.
+
+    In fact, when he and his wife visited England several years ago, she
+told him, "'No writing when you're over there.'  And I ended up getting a
+little notebook on the sly and hiding it in my pocket," he laughs.  "By the
+time we got back, I had outlined my next novel."  (Which he then wrote and
+sold within six months.)
+
+    Ask him why writing has become the all-consuming rite of his life, and
+Straczynski jokingly insists, "I'm an incompetent at everything else!  My
+wife will verify this.  I'm terrible at everything else.  This is all I can
+do and I enjoy it -- slamming words together in combinations to see what
+kind of explosions come out of it."
+
+    Then he adds, more seriously:  "If you said to me that I can't write
+anymore, there'd be a puff of purple smoke and I'd be gone.  I would just
+cease to exist.  So I'm always doing three or four or five things at the
+same time.  And while working on this show, I was rewriting my textbook on
+writing.  I get twitchy if I'm not writing something."
+
+    It's hard to imagine what television would be like today without such
+visionary wordsmiths as JMS.
+
+    A copy of Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction, featuring a recent
+article by Straczynski on the evolution of Babylon 5 and other topics, has
+been enclosed in this kit for further reference.
+
+
+    J. Michael Straczynski
+
+    Career Chronology
+
+    "Babylon 5" (1993-present):  Creator/writer/executive producer.
+    Wrote bible, two-hour series pilot, and 49 of total 66 produced episodes
+    during first three seasons.  Executive producer in charge of all
+    creative decisions.
+
+    The (Even More!) Complete Book of Scriptwriting  The updated and
+    expanded version of the author's 1982 best-selling how-to classic will
+    be published by Writer's Digest Books in Fall 1996, which will include
+    an an entire Babylon 5 script.
+
+    "Guardians" (1995):  Writer of the two-hour pilot for a science-fiction
+    syndicated series.
+
+    "Walker, Texas Ranger" (1993):  Supervising producer; writer for one
+    episode. (CBS/Cannon Television)
+
+    "Murder, She Wrote" (1991-92):  Producer for two seasons; writer on
+    seven one-hour episodes.  (CBS/Universal)
+
+    OtherSyde  Author's second horror novel, published in hardcover by E.P.
+    Dutton/New American Library in August 1990; also in Germany, England,
+    Japan, and Sweden, among other countries.
+
+    "Jake and The Fatman" (1989/90):  Executive story consultant; writer for
+    four one-hour episodes and a two-hour TV movie.
+
+    "V: The Next Chapter" (1989-91):  Development writer (creator/producer);
+    writer for the one-hour series pilot, four-hour mini-series, and series
+    bible for a new version of the one-hour series for first-run
+    syndication. (Warner Bros. Television)
+
+    "Nightmare Classics" (1989):  Writer for two one-hour adaptations,
+    including "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," which was
+    nominated for both Writer's Guild and Ace Awards.  (Think
+    Entertainment/Showtime)
+
+    Tales From the New Twilight Zone  Author, softcover anthology of short
+    stories based on his own scripts; published 1989 by Bantam/Spectra
+    Books, as well as overseas.
+
+    Demon Night  Author, horror novel; nominated for the Bram Stoker Award
+    for Best First Novel by the Horror Writers of America; published in
+    hardcover in Spring 1988 by E. P. Dutton and in softcover in Spring 1990
+    by Berkeley Books.
+
+    "The Real Ghostbusters" (1986): Story editor on 13 network and 65
+    syndicated episodes; writer for the series bible, pilot, 7 network and 9
+    syndicated episodes. (1988-89): Writer for 5 more network episodes and a
+    primetime Halloween special that aired during the Fall of 1989.  (Wrote
+    23 episodes total).  Series was nominated for a 1990 Emmy for Best
+    Animated Series.  (Columbia Pictures Television, ABC and DIC
+    Enterprises)
+
+    "Batman" (1988): Writer for the bible and pilot.  (ABC/Nelvana
+    Entertainment)
+
+    "The Twilight Zone" (1987-88):  Story editor for 30 half-hour episodes
+    for first-run syndication; writer on 11 scripts, including a teleplay
+    based on an original Zone outline by Rod Serling.  (London Films/CBS
+    International/ MGM-UA Television)
+
+    "Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future" (1986-87).  Executive
+    story consultant/story editor; co-writer of syndicated TV movie,
+    "Against the New Order"; story editor on 26 half-hour episodes; writer
+    on 11 original episodes, as well as provided teleplays/outlines for five
+    more.  (Landmark Entertainment Group)
+
+    "The Twilight Zone" (1986): Freelance writer for two original stories,
+    including a produced half-four episode. (CBS/Persistence of Vision)
+
+    "Elfquest" (1986): Co-writer on series bible and pilot.  (CBS/Zander
+    Prods.)
+
+    "Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors" (1986):  Writer for 14 produced
+    scripts. (DIC Enterprises)
+
+    "She-Ra, Princess of Power" (1985): Staff writer and uncredited co-story
+    editor; writer for 9 produced scripts.  (Filmation Studios)
+
+    "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" (1984): Staff writer; wrote 9
+    produced scripts; rewrote another dozen.  (Filmation Studios)
+
+    The Complete Book of Scriptwriting  Author of this 1982 classic
+    published by Writer's Digest Books in hardcover.  Sold over 40,000
+    copies; reprinted six times and subsequently released in softcover.  A
+    standard text at many universities.  Also published in Japan.
+
+    Other:
+
+    Development Writer/Creator on various one-hour TV series in development
+    (1986/1989)
+
+    Contributing Editor and bi-monthly scriptwriting columnist, Writer's
+    Digest magazine (1981-91)
+
+    Special correspondent for the Los Angeles Times; staff reporter/writer
+    for Time, Inc.
+
+    Author of over 500 newspaper and magazine articles in such national and
+    regional publications as the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Herald
+    Examiner, Twilight Zone Magazine (as contributing editor), Video Review,
+    Penthouse, San Diego Magazine, Foundation, and the Daily Californian,
+    among others.
+
+    Science fiction/fantasy writer, with short stories appearing in Shadows
+    6 and Midnight Graffiti softcover anthology, Pulphouse and Amazing
+    Stories magazines.
+
+    Host, "Hour 25," a weekly two-hour science-fiction talk show on KPFK-FM
+    in Los Angeles for five years (1987-92)
+
+    On-air entertainment editor/reviewer for KSDO-AM Newsradio in San Diego,
+    hosting a half-hour weekly broadcast (1979-81)
+
+    Writer for a dozen produced stage plays (both one-act and full-length),
+    including one play published in book form by Baker's Plays and "The
+    Apprenticeship," which was produced for 20 weeks at the Marquis Public
+    Theater in San Diego (1980)
+
+    Writer for over a dozen produced radiodramas, many for the nationally
+    syndicated series "Alien Worlds" and "Mutual Radio Theater" (1976-79)
+
+    Screenwriter under contract for various unproduced feature films,
+    including "Mr. Freeze" for Ivan Reitman Productions (1990-91);
+    "Shattered Lives" for Shelley Duvall/Think Entertainment (1991); and
+    "Journey to Forever" and "Wheels Over the World" for DIC Enterprises
+    (1986-87).
+
+    Author of various comic books, including STAR TREK's "Worldsinger"
+    issue; TEEN TITANS SPOTLIGHT: Two Face vs. Cyborg's "Face to Face Two
+    Face Face" issue; and NOW'S TWILIGHT ZONE "Blind Alley" issue.
+
+    Creative Writing Instructor at San Diego State University and other
+    colleges. Also a frequent guest speaker at numerous workshops,
+    conventions, and seminars.
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+                            [1][ISMAP]-[2][Home]
+                                      
+
+        _Londo's voice over (note differences with series, cf MotFL)._
+                                      
+     I was there at the dawn of the third age of mankind. It began in
+     the Earth year 2257 with the founding of the last of the Babylon
+     stations, located deep in neutral space. It was a port of call for
+     refugees, smugglers, businessmen, diplomats, and travelers from a
+     hundred worlds. Could be a dangerous place. But we accepted the
+     risk, because Babylon 5 was our _last_, best hope for peace. Under
+     the leadership of its final commander, Babylon 5 was a dream given
+     form: a dream of a galaxy without war, when species from different
+     worlds could live side by side in mutual respect. A dream that was
+     in danger as never before, by the arrival of one man on a mission
+     of destruction. Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations.
+     This is its story.
+     
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   We join LtCdr Takashima at Ops, guiding a transport ship in to dock.
+   Station security chief Garibaldi calls in (most contacts within the
+   station are both audio and video). He's looking for Cdr Sinclair, who
+   needs to meet one of its passengers personally. Takashima reports he's
+   on his way already.
+   
+   Del Varner (one man on a mission of destruction), is in the docking
+   bay passing through security. Sinclair arrives to meet Lyta Alexander,
+   the telepath newly assigned to B5. While Varner is watching, Sinclair
+   welcomes her aboard and explains the rules of the station. As they
+   head off to her quarters, Lyta looks back; she and Varner appear to
+   have exchanged glances.
+   
+   Ambassador G'Kar storms into Ops, shouting objections to the
+   requirement that his supply ship from Narn submit to a weapons search.
+   Takashima deflects him coolly and there is no resolution. "As far as
+   I'm concerned, they can sit out there for the next solar year. If it
+   makes you feel any better, I could send them a fruit basket..."
+   
+   Sinclair and Lyta cut through the alien sector on the way to her
+   quarters. Sinclair uses the otherworldliness of it to underscore his
+   point about B5's purpose - it's a hub for exchange of all kinds
+   between people of all kinds, and must be able to cater to any of them.
+   "Sooner or later, everyone comes to Babylon 5." At Lyta's question,
+   Sinclair explains what happened to the other four stations: three were
+   sabotaged, one more simply disappeared 24 hours after coming on-line.
+   She does not take this to be a good sign.
+   
+   Later, the senior officers are gathered in Sinclair's office. Kosh,
+   the last of four foreign ambassadors to B5, will be arriving in 48
+   hours. From the input of the officers it is clear that the Vorlons are
+   very secretive. Takashima has been in contact with Kosh but with audio
+   only - the Vorlon claimed his monitors were malfunctioning. Garibaldi
+   says the Earth Alliance knows almost nothing about them - no-one's
+   even seen a Vorlon. Dr. Kyle (medical chief) says they've only given
+   him enough info to generate the right atmosphere - "Pretty thick
+   stuff."
+   
+   Outside, a tiny clawed ship deploys from an undocked transport, zips
+   down to the station, grabs onto it, and carves a hole in the hull
+   under its belly.
+   
+   Minbari Ambassador Delenn invites Sinclair to meet in the Garden, an
+   open air environment in the center of the station (the view down the
+   great cylinder is breathtaking). He is starting to ask why he sees her
+   there almost every other day, but she interrupts him.
+   
+  D: Notice the waves, each moving in its own order, predictable,
+     unchanging.  But drop in a single stone, and see how the
+     pattern changes.  Everything around it is altered.
+     [turning to Sinclair] This is from your world?
+  S: It's a Japanese stone garden.  Setting it aside was tough.
+     [...]
+  D: I am glad it is here.  On my world there are books -
+     thousands of pages - about the power of one mind to change
+     the universe.  But none say it as clearly as this.
+     [Delenn changes the topic to the Vorlons, and gives Sinclair
+     a copy of all the information she has about them]
+  D: If anyone asks, say it fell from the sky.
+  S: Why?  I mean the war between us has been over for almost ten
+     years but there are still a lot of people on either side
+     who'd hang both of us for this kind of...
+  D: [standing] Commander - you know everything about your stone
+     garden, but clearly you have not spent enough time looking
+     at it.  Good day.
+
+   The Garden's artificial night descends on Sinclair as he stares off
+   down the station's axis.
+   
+   At Ops, a ship is reported to be coming through the jump point.
+   Takashima is distressed - "Damn, that's a Vorlon ship all right.
+   Ambassador Kosh two days early. I was afraid he'd pull something like
+   this."
+   
+   In a dark corridor, a poorly glimpsed figure scans its hand at a door,
+   which opens to reveal Varner inside. As the figure enters, Varner
+   says, "About time." But, when the door swings shut, there is a bright
+   flash of light and the thud of a falling body from within.
+   
+   Sinclair, Garibaldi, and Takashima are strapped into a rail-car moving
+   down the axis to the other end of the station. Kosh will be arriving
+   in only two hours. Sinclair sends Garibaldi to ensure that Ambassador
+   Londo will be at the early reception, "We don't want a repeat of what
+   happened when G'Kar arrived." A private message then comes in for
+   Sinclair, which he says he'll take in his quarters.
+   
+   The message is from Sinclair's SO, Carolyn Sykes, who is returning a
+   week early from a trading expedition (ETA 1 hour, 40 minutes). "Just
+   in time for the reception," says Sinclair, already starting to look
+   haggard as he changes outfits.
+   
+   G'Kar stops Takashima in an upward-curving corridor to happily
+   announce that he's ordered his transport to submit to the weapons
+   search.
+   
+  G: Since you doubtless have your hands full, our captain will
+     wait until after the Ambassador's ship has docked.  Is that
+     satisfactory?
+  T: Yes, yes it is.  Are you feeling all right Ambassador?
+  G: Couldn't be better!  See you at the reception then...
+     [he walks off, humming and _bouncing_]
+
+   Londo is gambling at the station's casino. Garibaldi arrives, for
+   whose monetary support Londo soon appeals. Del Varner is listening in
+   from a table very near by as Londo touts his own gambling system. When
+   he suddenly starts reminiscing about the days of Centauri wartime
+   greatness, Garibaldi interrupts him - "Be a good Ambassador and
+   promise you'll be at Docking Bay 9 in two hours." "I'll be there,"
+   Londo agrees, "what else have I got to do - I'm broke!" However, when
+   Garibaldi leaves, Varner approaches Londo, "This system of yours -
+   it's a sure thing...?"
+   
+   Lyta Alexander is telepathically overseeing a business deal, to the
+   marked (but honest) advantage of the fellow employing her. When that
+   concludes, G'Kar invites her to talk, invoking "privacy" (a feature of
+   the room that can shield transactions at any table). G'Kar proceeds to
+   offer her money for sex, the major purpose (but clearly not the only
+   one) being to acquire telepathy for the Narn Regime through her
+   genetic resources. Lyta is not interested. "I've heard about the Narn
+   obsession with buying new technology, but you can't just _buy_
+   someone's genetic makeup. It's... immoral." G'Kar persists, even to
+   the point of bringing up details of the coupling. We can only assume,
+   from her expression, that she doesn't take him up on it.
+   
+   Varner steps into a corridor where a security guard is shining a
+   flashlight in peoples' faces. Varner passes this scrutiny and smiles
+   confidently.
+   
+   The Vorlon ship is closing up its scintillating fins and entering the
+   station under Takashima's control. She routes it to docking bay 9 and
+   directs Sinclair there.
+   
+   Sinclair steps onto a turbolift and takes it down, but it stops almost
+   immediately. The computer reports a momentary power loss - there will
+   be a 2.3 minute delay for secondary power to become available.
+   
+   The Vorlon ship opens and Kosh emerges, wearing a great big encounter
+   suit with a cape hanging from the back. He glides slowly down the ramp
+   into the bay.
+   
+   Sinclair jogs up to the closed docking bay, arriving at the same time
+   as Garibaldi and Takashima. Garibaldi begins to complain about Londo's
+   absence, but an alarm suddenly goes off. Sinclair sends Takashima off
+   to notify security and opens the bay door, finding Kosh on the floor.
+   They can't open his suit because the atmosphere would kill him, so
+   Sinclair sends Garibaldi off to have Kyle ready the medlab
+   immediately.
+   
+   Later, Sinclair is in the medlab, where Kyle is mixing up the
+   atmosphere for Kosh. Takashima comes in and reports that the Vorlon
+   government has forbidden them to open the encounter suit at all. "We
+   haven't come this far to watch it all fall apart," Sinclair growls.
+   "Jeff, I'm warning you," she objects, "they're deadly serious about
+   security." "Then we'll give them security," - he orders all monitors
+   and data logging to be turned off, reminds Kyle of his oath of
+   confidentiality, and sends him in to do what he can. He acquiesces,
+   and as he prepares for the unknown, Takashima says, "Good luck, and I
+   hope you're wrong..."
+   
+   Looking through the glass into the environment room, Takashima tells
+   Sinclair what she and Kyle had been talking about earlier - legend has
+   it that the only human being ever to have seen a Vorlon had been
+   turned to stone. Soon ready, Kyle touches the outside of the suit in a
+   couple places, and it opens, light streaming out. He looks in... and
+   sees what he sees.
+   
+   Later, in his office, Sinclair is reporting to Earth that Kosh could
+   well die. The Senator warns that the Vorlon government is very
+   suspicious of what happened - if there is any sign of foul play there
+   could be serious repercussions. On hearing that Garibaldi is in charge
+   of the investigation, he's skeptical. "Is that wise? I was opposed to
+   you bringing him on in the first place. He's been bounced from one
+   station to another for years, I don't know if he's up to an
+   investigation on this scale." (Garibaldi has come in meanwhile and has
+   been listening out of sight.) Sinclair proclaims complete confidence
+   in his security chief, and they sign off. "Old news," Garibaldi says.
+   Sinclair charges him with finding out where everyone was during the
+   five minutes between Kosh's arrival and the alarm, and grants him
+   "full diplomatic access."
+   
+   Stumbling into his quarters, Sinclair finds Carolyn in his bed. "You
+   really should change your access code more often," she says. He kisses
+   her and collapses in exhaustion.
+   
+   We find Dr. Kyle in the outer room of the medlab, staring blankly off
+   into space. The computer analysis completes; an unidentified foreign
+   compound is present in Kosh's body. His condition is very poor, the
+   prognosis terminal.
+   
+   Kyle, un-rattled as usual, wakes up Sinclair to report that Kosh was
+   poisoned, and he needs know what kind of poison it was in order to
+   counteract it. If he knew where it got in through the environment
+   suit, he could probably find enough of it there for an identification.
+   Failing that, Kosh will die in 24 hours. Sinclair immediately calls
+   security and seals off the station: no ships may come or go until
+   further notice.
+   
+   Meanwhile, G'Kar and Delenn are in her quarters talking about the
+   situation.
+   
+  G: Why won't you accept the facts?  Who was the only one of us
+     missing from the welcome party when Kosh arrived?  Londo
+     Mollari!
+  D: And why would the Centauri Republic want to kill Ambassador
+     Kosh?
+  G: What better way to prop up a fading empire than to start a
+     war? They've been trying to join forces with the Earth
+     Alliance for years!  A mutual enemy would serve that purpose
+     very well.
+  D: And if your assumption is correct and he is the assassin,
+     what would you suggest?
+  G: An alliance between our governments.  Yours is the oldest of
+     the five federations, ours is the youngest.
+     Technologically, you're centuries ahead of everyone else.
+     We have _unlimited_ manpower and the will to use it!  Can
+     you imagine what we could achieve together?
+  D: I can, which is why it must never be allowed to happen.
+     Your perceptions are colored by your history with the
+     Centauri.  As former slaves of their government, you would
+     seize any opportunity to raise a force against them.
+  G: We were never slaves!  Our world was invaded, our people...
+  D: The word - was ill chosen.  My apologies.  But my decision
+     stands. Thank you for coming, Ambassador.
+  G: HAH!  I should have known better than to waste my time.
+     You're even worse than the Centauri; they're beyond the
+     dream of conquest.  But you, you had the Earth Alliance on
+     its knees - one more stroke and you would have defeated
+     them!  Yet you surrendered - why?
+  D: We had our reasons.
+     [While G'Kar talks into space, Delenn opens a hidden
+     compartment and puts on one of 20 or so simple rings
+     ceremoniously displayed there]
+  G: On Narn we heard that the decision to surrender came from
+     your holy men.  A secret group called the "Grey Council" -
+     weak frightened old fools with no vision or the will to
+     fight.  But _we_ -
+
+   Delenn interrupts him with the palm of her now-ring-bearing hand;
+   G'Kar is suddenly transfixed by artificial gravity. Delenn doesn't
+   release G'Kar from the worsening force until she extracts from him the
+   promise that he never mention the Grey Council in her presence again.
+   (While completely over-matched, G'Kar does remain standing.) Once
+   released, he pants, "Oh Delenn, I gave you a chance for greatness and
+   you threw it away. Whatever happens now, let it be on your own head."
+   
+   Garibaldi finds Londo at the bar by the casino. "It's a pity," Londo
+   says, "I suppose there'll be war now, mm? All that running around
+   shooting at one another? I would have thought sooner or later it would
+   go out of fashion." When Garibaldi begins questioning him, Londo blows
+   him off, but then acquiesces to "full diplomatic access." He was still
+   gambling at the time, he claims - Varner had promised to back his bets
+   but then pulled out after Londo suffered heavy losses.
+   
+  L: He's here, if you want to talk to him.
+     [he points out Varner across the room, but Garibaldi
+     continues to question]
+  G: Can anyone confirm your story?
+  L: Yes - the new telepath, Lyta Alexander.  I saw her talking
+     to Varner shortly after you left.
+  G: Who would want to kill the ambassador?
+  L: Mr. Garibaldi - it's a big universe!  If I knew who did it I
+     would tell you.  I'm not here to make trouble.  You know why
+     I am here?  I'm here to grovel before your wonderful Earth
+     Alliance, in hopes of attaching ourselves to your destiny,
+     like... what are those fish called on your planet that
+     attach themselves to sharks?
+  G: Ramoras.
+  L: Yes.  You make very good sharks Mr. Garibaldi.  We were
+     pretty good sharks ourselves, once - but somehow, along the
+     way, we forgot how to bite.  There was a time, when this
+     whole _quadrant_ belonged to us!  What are we now?  Twelve
+     worlds and a thousand monuments to past glories, living off
+     memories, stories, selling trinkets.  My god man, we've
+     become a tourist attraction!  "See the great Centauri
+     Republic, open 9 to 5, Earth time."  [he sighs] Anything
+     else?
+  G: No. Thank-you, Ambassador.
+
+   Finally walking over to question Varner, Garibaldi discovers the man
+   is nowhere to be found.
+   
+   Takashima and Kyle are in private quarters, discussing the Kosh
+   dilemma. At the Vorlons' request, all the monitors had been off in the
+   docking bay, so no-one but Kosh himself knows how he was poisoned.
+   Kyle suggests that they enlist the telepath's aid to find out, and
+   Takashima agrees it's the best thing to do (but only after a quite
+   contrary story from her own life about the importance of sticking by
+   the rules). The Vorlons would never allow it, of course, so they plan
+   to proceed behind Sinclair's back.
+   
+   When they confront Lyta with the idea in the medlab, she objects -
+   quite rightly - that she could be thrown out of the Psi Corps for the
+   crime of unauthorized mind scanning. Takashima urges the gravity of
+   the situation, "Lyta, if the ambassador dies, the Vorlons will
+   retaliate. This station is the first logical target. If I were in
+   their position, I'd have a cruiser standing by in hyperspace right now
+   just waiting to attack us. Thousands would die, and after us who knows
+   how many more..."
+   
+   Meanwhile, air is leaking out from one of the holes caused by the
+   grabber ship still attached to the hull. The techs begin to notice the
+   pressure loss and send a maintenance pod to investigate.
+   
+   Vast forces weighing upon her shoulders, Lyta agrees to scan Kosh.
+   Preparing herself, she explains, "When I get inside, it's subjective -
+   I'll feel what he felt, but I'll see my body, not his. This could get
+   rough." Initially she can't make mental contact with him, but succeeds
+   when she takes off one of her gloves and puts her hand _inside_ the
+   encounter suit.
+   
+   With Lyta, we see Sinclair walking forward through a warped image of
+   the docking bay. "Welcome to Babylon 5," he says, smiling. A glance at
+   his left hand shows it is slightly cupped away from sight. Sinclair
+   offers his right, and we see a woman's arm reach forward to shake it
+   (PoV, remember). He quickly grabs the proffered hand and slaps a big
+   red circle onto the back of it. Soon the image of the bay distorts and
+   tumbles, leaving us looking up from the floor at a grim Sinclair, then
+   blackness.
+   
+   In the medlab, Lyta is screaming blindly. Once the staff extricate her
+   from the environment room, Kyle and Takashima talk her back to
+   reality. She reports where the poison hit, and Sinclair jogs in just
+   in time for Lyta to viciously accuse him of the deed.
+   
+   Later, we momentarily see Varner in the marketplace pointing a little
+   gadget at Lyta, who apparently doesn't see him.
+   
+   The maintenance pod comes upon the grabber ship, which produces a
+   cannon and demolishes it.
+   
+   Varner follows a yellow-suited man into a turbolift and gets
+   recognized by Eric, a yellow-suited tech. There is a flash of light as
+   the door closes, and Eric emerges grimly - and alone.
+   
+   In another senior staff meeting, Takashima reports that word has
+   gotten out that a witness has identified Sinclair as the assassin. The
+   senator calls and, given conflict of interest, orders Sinclair to
+   temporarily surrender command of the station to Takashima, who will
+   also represent the EA at the upcoming emergency council. "Jeff, once
+   the council gets into this, there's nothing we can do without
+   compromising the neutrality of Babylon 5 - we _can't_ let that
+   happen." After the senator signs off, the officers voice strong
+   objections, but Sinclair demands that they do this one by the book.
+   
+   The Babylon 5 advisory council is in session. G'Kar is making the case
+   against Sinclair: he was suspiciously missing when Kosh debarked, and
+   there is no record of the lift malfunction Sinclair claims delayed
+   him. G'Kar opens the floor to questions, and Delenn asks Dr. Kyle who
+   it was that identified Sinclair. Kyle replies that the witness has
+   requested anonymity, which would of course change if this went to
+   trial. When asked about the poison, Kyle reports that it was
+   Florizine, a rare poison found only in the Damocles sector [a chilling
+   name]. G'Kar immediately announces that "Sinclair's woman" had arrived
+   from the that very sector less than an hour before the assassination
+   attempt!
+   
+   During a recess, Londo is at the bar again, staring at his drink.
+   G'Kar walks merrily up to him and says, "Ambassador Mollari, I would
+   like to discuss your vote with you."
+   
+   Garibaldi is updating Sinclair on his investigation as they walk
+   through the corridors. Garibaldi doesn't trust what Lyta has to say -
+   "I've seen her a lot with Del Varner, the guy who kept Londo from
+   attending the reception." Turns out Varner has many EA indictments for
+   smuggling illegal technology. Garibaldi can't fathom that man's
+   actions; why would he put himself at risk stepping into EA
+   jurisdiction? Why would he deliberately anger Londo by offering
+   monetary support and then backing out, when many of his own underworld
+   clients are Centauri? Furthermore, Varner was too much in debt to
+   cover Londo's bets anyway. Sinclair sends Garibaldi off to talk to
+   have a chat with Mr. Varner.
+   
+   Council resumes - Sinclair is now on the stand. G'Kar opens with a
+   motion to extradite Sinclair to the Vorlon home-world for trial and
+   quickly opens the vote with a yes. Takashima votes no for EA. Delenn,
+   with unknown difficulty, abstains. Londo, with deep regret, votes yes.
+   The council is deadlocked: two for, two against or abstaining. G'Kar
+   then announces that he'd suggested his idea to the Vorlon government
+   just recently: they requested that he vote yes on their behalf. The
+   motion passes, deportation to take place in 12 hours.
+   
+   Garibaldi arrives at Varner's quarters to find the access system out
+   of commission. Gaining entry with a gadget, he puzzles at a small
+   puddle of orangish liquid on the floor. Then he puzzles at Del
+   Varner's body in a big fish tank.
+   
+   In the medlab, Kyle confirms that the body is indeed Varner's, dead
+   for at least X hours. Also, he will be able to counteract the poison
+   in 6-7 hours, which is not much less than the time Kosh has got left.
+   
+   Garibaldi has lost the only lead he'd found. "Dammit, maybe they were
+   right - maybe you got the wrong man for this job after all," he says
+   to Sinclair in the corridors. "Michael, I picked you because you're
+   right for the job. You're not politick, you're not subtle, and
+   sometimes you're a pain in the ass - and I wouldn't have it any other
+   way."
+   
+   At Ops, a tech reports to Takashima that the maintenance pod was lost.
+   She sends a repair crew to check out what's going on.
+   
+   G'Kar and Lyta meet in the alien sector. She notes his lack of a
+   breathing mask, and he points out his gill implants. "Come," he says,
+   "there's been a complication."
+   
+   In the casino, Londo apologizes to Garibaldi for his vote - G'Kar had
+   blackmailed him with scandalous information about Londo's father. Of
+   such secrets is Centauri power made and broken. Londo didn't know his
+   vote would matter, but he admits, at Garibaldi's questioning, that
+   knowing wouldn't have changed anything. "This is my weakness, my
+   failure. I am sorry, _truly_ sorry."
+   
+   In Sinclair's quarters, Carolyn is looking in awe at a medal of honor.
+   
+  C: Jeff, this medal, you were on the Line, and you never told
+     me?
+  S: I didn't want to talk about it.
+  C: Why?
+     [Sinclair broods over a star globe, looking old]
+  S: I was a squad team leader when the call came in.  We all
+     knew it was a suicide mission, the Minbari had broken
+     through, closing in.  Every ship we had left was ordered to
+     circle Earth.  We had to stop them, no matter what it cost.
+     They came at us out of nowhere, we never had a chance.  The
+     sky was full of stars, every star an exploding ship.  One of
+     ours.  My team was blown out of the sky in less than a
+     minute.  Twelve ships.  I managed to take out a fighter
+     before they hit my stabilizers.  I was losing power, I'd
+     lost my team, and I figured if I was going to die I'd take
+     someone out with me, so I targeted one of their heavy
+     cruisers, hit my afterburners.  I was going to ram them head
+     on.  The last thing I remember is hurtling toward that
+     cruiser, filling my screen.  Big... my god so big.  Then,
+     something passed in front of my eyes - I guess I blacked out
+     from the acceleration.  When I came to 24 hours later, the
+     cruiser was gone.  I checked in.  They told me the war was
+     over.  The Minbari had surrendered.
+  C: [appealing] Because of the Line.
+  S: No.  We were beaten.  We didn't stop them, they stopped
+     themselves, and I wish to hell I knew why.
+
+   Meanwhile, Lyta enters the medlab and engages Kyle in conversation
+   about Kosh's condition. While Kyle walks around examining readings,
+   Lyta surreptitiously shuts down medical equipment behind him. Kyle
+   starts to ask her how it is that she was seen talking to a man who'd
+   already been dead, but is interrupted by alarms going off. He tries to
+   stop Lyta, and they exchange blows. Kyle is painfully tossed around,
+   but stumbles into a floor-mounted laser, with which he manages to
+   shoot her in the arm. She stumbles through the exit, drawing a weapon.
+   In the hallway outside, she encounters the _real_ Lyta Alexander
+   running to investigate. The fake points her gun at Lyta for a full
+   heartbeat, screeching but not shooting, then whirls and fires at
+   Sinclair instead as he comes in from the other direction. Sinclair
+   dives aside and she escapes. Inside the medlab, Kyle has been doing
+   damage-control, and reports that Kosh will still pull through.
+   
+   The false Lyta is careening down the corridor, cradling her arm.
+   Falling against a wall, her whole face is _malformed_ momentarily by a
+   scream of pain. She stumbles on.
+   
+   In a cargo bay, Garibaldi shows the now-disabled grabber ship to
+   Sinclair, reporting how it was found. Only one individual could have
+   come aboard in it. "Short range," Sinclair muses - some other ship
+   must have brought it here. Garibaldi also reports that the body of
+   Eric the tech has turned up dead, yet friends have reported seeing him
+   recently. Just then Takashima links in to call them all over to
+   Varner's quarters - she has something to show them.
+   
+   Takashima has cracked open Varner's files and discovered that Varner
+   was on the station to sell a changeling net: illegal technology that
+   can make a person's appearance and voice that of someone else, at the
+   risk of death from prolonged exposure. "So that's what Kosh saw in the
+   docking bay," Takashima realizes. The net puts out a huge amount of
+   energy, enough to detect with the station's sensors. Sinclair orders
+   Takashima to reconfigure them to scan inwards, and then heads off to
+   security.
+   
+   Sinclair and Garibaldi arrive at Ops in body armor, carrying _big_
+   guns. Filtering out known sources, Takashima finds the expected energy
+   spike. Sinclair orders that area sealed off and heads for the door.
+   Takashima suggests they take a hovering recorder along, "The way
+   things are going, you may need a witness." Indeed, moments after
+   they've left, a tech reports that something is coming through the jump
+   gate. "It must be the transport ship - damn!" she says. The tech looks
+   up in fear - "That's not a transport!" "Looks like the commander's
+   ride is here," she replies. But it's not just a ride - no less than
+   _three_ Vorlon cruisers emerge from the gate amid a swarm of fighters.
+   
+   In the corridors, Sinclair has Garibaldi set his weapon to a
+   non-killing level so that they can take the assassin alive. The move
+   in with Takashima's assistance from Ops, pinpointing the energy
+   source. There is a brief exchange of fire, and Garibaldi is thrown
+   backward by a hit in the chest. He tears off his super-heated jacket,
+   which took most of the blast. Sinclair forges ahead alone.
+   
+   At Ops, the Vorlons have demanded the immediate transport of Sinclair.
+   Takashima orders a tech to link the Vorlons in to the recorder
+   following him. While the tech gets to work on that, the Vorlons
+   threaten attack in 5 minutes.
+   
+   Sinclair exchanges fire with the assassin, but neither is hit. He
+   stalks slowly forward to where the figure disappeared, looking back
+   once. When he turns his attention forward again the assassin
+   (disguised now as Eric) tackles him from behind. Both apparently
+   having lost their guns now, they start fist-fighting. Sinclair is
+   quickly in severe trouble. However, the chameleon net starts changing
+   images as they grapple - first Varner appears, then Lyta, and finally
+   Sinclair himself in body armor! The assassin is forced to pause each
+   time, and at the last change Sinclair throws him against a
+   high-voltage barrier in a room across the corridor. Gouts of
+   electricity pour through the figure, and the disguise finally gives
+   out, revealing him to be... Minbari!
+   
+   The Vorlon fighters are powering up their already awesome-looking
+   weapons as they close on the station. The tech finally gets the signal
+   from the recorder finally connected to the outgoing link.
+   
+   There is an explosion (possibly the chameleon net), and the assassin
+   is thrown back into the corridor. "Why," Sinclair asks in wonder, "Why
+   did you do it?" Looking up at him, the Minbari has only this to say:
+   "There is a hole in your mind." With that, he reaches up and breaks
+   his own wrist, activating some kind of device in his arm. Through the
+   link, Takashima shouts, "Oh my god, he's wired!" Sinclair orders the
+   area sealed off and sprints down the corridor. He's quickly blown
+   through a closing bulkhead by a great explosion behind him.
+   
+   B5 is thrown off kilter by the blast, and Vorlon fighters veer off to
+   avoid colliding with it. It takes quite some effort on Takashima's
+   part to pull it back into position without ripping apart the spinning
+   station.
+   
+   Garibaldi and Delenn find Sinclair returning from the destroyed
+   section. "This little breach of security isn't gonna affect my
+   Christmas bonus, is it?" Garibaldi quips. Delenn asks him, "Do you
+   need anything?" "Coffee," Sinclair chuckles, "two sugars, cream - and
+   aspirin."
+   
+   A shower and change later, Sinclair sees Carolyn off the station -
+   trading has called her away again. On a whim, she invites him to quit
+   Babylon 5 and go off with her. "I'll think about it," he says. "Well
+   don't take too long," she replies, "I'll wait, but not forever."
+   
+   Later, the officers gather in the medlab. The station will be fully
+   operational again in a few days, and Kosh is recovering and out of
+   critical. Then Delenn enters and invites Sinclair aside, "I regret
+   that a Minbari was responsible for all this sadness," she says.
+   Sinclair is forgiving - "You can't be responsible for the actions of
+   every member of your race, Delenn." "No. But there is something I can
+   do." So saying, she gives him a file of information about the
+   assassin, whose clan she recognized when she watched the recording
+   broadcast to the Vorlons. "I think you'll find it... most
+   interesting."
+   
+   Still later, Sinclair is in his quarters, proposing a toast with G'Kar
+   "To a fully operational Babylon 5!" "To the future!", G'Kar returns,
+   and they drink. G'Kar expresses his pleasure at how it all turned out,
+   and reaffirms their mutual goal of peace. However, Sinclair has his
+   own agenda.
+   
+  S: I'm surprised you didn't ask about Del Varner.
+  G: I assumed he was simply another innocent victim.
+  S: Not quite.  His last entry spoke of a big payoff for
+     bringing a changeling net across the border.  He was
+     supposed to meet with his buyer in the Tigris sector but was
+     running behind - didn't your supply ship also pass through
+     the Tigris sector on its way here?
+  G: If you have a point to make, Commander, pleeease make it.
+  S: I believe the assassin was brought here on _your_ supply ship.
+     [G'Kar is carefully examining Sinclair's bric-a-brac]
+     That's why they needed the changeling net before they
+     arrived - a Minbari warrior walking off a Narn ship would
+     draw a lot of attention.  With the net, he could appear to
+     be one of your crew and infiltrate the station.  When Varner
+     missed connecting with your ship he came here, so you had to
+     find another way to get the assassin on board.  They used
+     the transport we found on the station's hull to get him
+     inside, he then killed Del Varner and grabbed the changeling
+     net.
+  G: Sheer speculation, Commander.  With the death of Del Varner,
+     and of the assassin, you have no proof.
+
+   G'Kar goes to leave, but Sinclair has one last thing to tell him. It
+   seems with his drink G'Kar has swallowed some nanotechnology, which
+   has by now made itself at home in his intestines. It is shielded from
+   outside detection, and it can be used to pinpoint G'Kar's location at
+   any time. Sinclair points something at him by way of demonstration,
+   and G'Kar jumps when it beeps. "This is an outrage!" he cries. "This
+   is insurance," Sinclair replies, "What you do here is your own
+   business. You can scheme and plan and play all the games you want. But
+   get this straight - if you ever endanger this station again, my people
+   will find you, and the results will be most unpleasant."
+   
+   Storming out of Sinclair's quarters, G'Kar is blocked for a moment by
+   Garibaldi and Londo coming out of a lift. Garibaldi mimes a gadget at
+   G'Kar with a "beep-beep" as he walks by. "Beep Beep?" Londo asks, "It
+   must be Earth humor. Who can figure a species like that - Beep Beep."
+   G'Kar is quite beside himself.
+   
+   Londo walks on to the reception, but Garibaldi and Sinclair stop and
+   talk in the corridor.
+   
+  G: Do you think they'll find that transmitter you slipped him?
+  S: No.  Because there isn't one.
+  G: There isn't?  Wait...
+  S: I lied.  I figured if there was a transmitter sooner or
+     later they'd find it and remove it.  But if I just told him
+     there was, they'd keep looking, indefinitely.
+  G: Commander, do you have any idea of the tests they'll put him
+     through, the _things_ they'll do to him, tryin' to find a
+     transmitter that's not there?
+  S: Yes.  Come on...
+
+   All are present at Kosh's long-delayed reception except G'Kar
+   (possibly off having his stomach pumped). Sinclair welcomes Kosh to
+   the station, there is applause, and Kosh bows. Delenn steps forward
+   and nods in respect, and Londo raises his glass to him.
+   
+   Later, Delenn finds Sinclair alone in the night-darkened Garden.
+   
+  S: Delenn, just before he died, the Minbari assassin looked at
+     me and said, "There is a hole in your mind."
+  D: An old Minbari insult, nothing you need worry about.
+  S: Maybe... it's just - there's a 24-hour period in my life
+     that I can't account for.  It happened during the war with
+     your people.  You wouldn't be holding anything out on me
+     would you, old friend?
+  D: Commander, I would never tell you anything that was not in
+     your best interest.
+  S: Well, we'll talk about this again, one of these days.  Come
+     on, we should get back to the reception.
+  D: By the way, there's something I've been wondering - why
+     "Babylon 5?"  After prior four stations were lost, or
+     destroyed, why build another?
+  S: Plain old human stubbornness, I guess.  When something we
+     value is destroyed, we rebuild it.  If it's destroyed again
+     we rebuild it again.  And again, and again, and... [looking
+     down the vast Garden] again.  Until it stays.  That, as our
+     poet Tennyson once said, is the goal: "To strive, to seek,
+     to find, and not to yield."
+
+   Lastly, from a beautiful point of view outside the station, we see
+   Takashima at Ops. "This is Lieutenant Commander Takashima. Our docking
+   bays stand ready to receive you. Babylon 5 is open for business."
+   
+   Matthew Ryan _matt@uhs.uchicago.edu_
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Copyright 1994, Matthew Ryan. All rights reserved. Permission is
+   granted to distribute this synopsis _noncommercially_ as long as the
+   synopsis and this copyright notice remain intact. Babylon 5 is a
+   copyright of the PTN Consortium; no infringement of that copyright is
+   intended by writing these synopses.
+   
+   Anthony Taylor (FNATT@elmer.alaska.edu) wrote a preliminary version of
+   the files on the pilot, and I am grateful to him for many of the
+   points listed on the above page (included with his permission).
+   
+
+   
+      [12]Last update: June 10, 1997
+
+References
+
+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/000.html
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/000.html
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/001.html
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+   Midnight on the Firing Line, as well as the Babylon 5 series, starts
+   out at the Ragesh 3 colony, a Centauri agricultural colony. The colony
+   finds itself suddenly under attack. As the station in orbit around the
+   colony is about to contact its home world, Centauri Prime, the station
+   is destroyed.
+   
+   [INLINE] The attack on Ragesh 3.
+   
+   Meanwhile, on the Babylon 5 station. Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova, the
+   new officer who is second in command of the station, interrupts the
+   only quiet, restful part of Commander Jeffrey Sinclair's day--a time
+   when he shuts off his comm-link and "escapes" from the rigor of his
+   life. "There's a problem," she tells him.
+   
+   Elsewhere on the station, Centauri Ambassador Londo Mollari is having
+   a pleasant conversation with Security Chief Michael Garibaldi when
+   Londo receives word that the Ragesh 3 colony has been attacked. He's
+   informed, however, that nobody knows who the attackers are.
+   
+   Londo and Sinclair meet concerning the incident. Sinclair tells Londo
+   that Earth doesn't know anything more about the incident--the identity
+   of the attackers is still a great mystery. Ambassadors Delenn (of the
+   Minbari) and G'Kar (of the Narn), offer their condolences and also
+   claim to know very little about the attack. Sinclair suggests that an
+   emergency meeting of the Council be called to discuss the matter and
+   lend aid to the Centauri colony.
+   
+   Shortly after, on the bridge, Ivanova informs Garibaldi that they've
+   received a distress signal from a trading ship near the station. She
+   says that at first, she thought the incident might have had something
+   to do with the Ragesh 3 incident, but that, instead, the ship claims
+   to have been attacked by "raiders." Garibaldi takes a fighter out to
+   try to come to the aid of the ship that was attacked. Right after
+   Garibaldi leaves the bridge, Talia Winters--the commercial telepath on
+   the station--enters the bridge and wants to speak with Ivanova. She
+   says that because of Psi Corps regulations, she must report with the
+   second in command, but that she hasn't been able to find Ivanova for
+   quite a while. Ivanova rudely dismisses Talia, saying that she's
+   rather busy right now.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Sinclair is in his office, watching on "television" the
+   latest news about the upcoming presidential election. Ivanova enters,
+   and Sinclair informs her that there is not yet any further information
+   on the Ragesh 3 incident. Ivanova notices the telecast and finds out
+   from Sinclair that the presidential race is very close at the moment.
+   
+   Londo is in his room when Vir, his gawky assistant, rushes in and
+   tells him that a coded broadcast has just been received. As Vir shows
+   the broadcast to Londo, Londo sees the incident that we saw at the
+   beginning of the episode. He freezes the image of the broadcast and
+   enhances the image of one of the attacking ships. He immediately
+   recognizes it as a Narn warship, and heads out to confront his enemy
+   G'Kar with this newly-found evidence.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Garibaldi has found the ship that was attacked by the
+   raiders. He finds it very badly damaged--and realizes that the weapons
+   that were used to attack this ship must have been much stronger than
+   the weapons the raiders have previously had.
+   
+   Londo finds G'Kar and accuses him of deceit--since G'Kar said he
+   previously knew nothing of the attack. G'Kar, somewhat surprisingly,
+   tells Londo that he has just found out about the attack--but he
+   confirms that it was indeed Narn forces that attacked Ragesh 3. "I'm
+   sure there's some reasonable explanation," he adds. Londo asks what
+   reasonable explanation there could be for attacking a defenseless,
+   agricultural colony. G'Kar refers Londo to a similar attack that the
+   Centauri made years ago against Narn holdings--and expresses his
+   indignity at the former Centauri subjugation of the Narn. One insult
+   leads to the next, and a fight breaks out between the two ambassadors.
+   The fight is eventually broken up by security personnel, but not
+   before G'Kar threatens Londo that the Narn will eventually rise and
+   destroy the Centauri.
+   
+   [INLINE] "The wheel turns, does it not, Ambassador?"
+   
+   After the fight, Londo meets with Sinclair. He apologizes for his
+   actions and says that he won't repeat the incident--but that he _will_
+   eventually kill G'Kar. He explains that Centauri have strange
+   premonitions of how, and even when, they will die--and that Londo has
+   had a dream in which he will eventually die 20 years from now, with
+   his hands wrapped around G'Kar's throat and vice-versa. Londo also
+   explains that he had a nephew on Ragesh--a nephew for whom he deeply
+   cares and is deeply concerned about. He vows that if his nephew has
+   been harmed, there will be war--at any cost. He dismisses Sinclair's
+   "galactic peace" arguments as nothing but silly paperwork and "games."
+   "Only one thing matters: blood," says Londo.
+   
+   Ivanova and Garibaldi are discussing the raiders' methods. Garibaldi
+   says that trade routes are normally kept secret--to prevent the kind
+   of attacks that recently happened--and Ivanova and Garibaldi come to
+   the conclusion that there must be some leak of information from the
+   trading companies.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Sinclair goes to meet with Ambassador Kosh, the mysterious
+   Vorlon representative who must wear an environmental suit at all times
+   because of extreme differences between the Vorlons and the other
+   races. Sinclair wants to know Kosh's position on the Ragesh incident,
+   and asks Kosh if he will support sanctions against the Narn. "They are
+   alone. They are a dying people; we should let them pass,"
+   enigmatically responds Kosh. "Who?" asks Sinclair. "The Narn or the
+   Centauri?" Kosh's simple and almost humorous answer is merely "Yes."
+   
+   [INLINE] Sinclair visits Kosh
+   
+   Garibaldi is meanwhile sitting at Ivanova's station on the bridge,
+   researching the flight paths of the trading vessels. All incoming
+   ships are tracked through Ivanova's console.
+   
+   Londo is lying down in his quarters, rather drunk. He is rather
+   depressed, and tells Vir, his assistant, that he has received word
+   from the Centauri government saying that they will do "nothing" about
+   the attack on Ragesh. Londo is enraged--he feels that the Centauri
+   government is made up of cowards, and he nostalgically pictures the
+   former grandeur of his people--a grandeur that has all but evaporated.
+   He suddenly gets the idea to ignore his government's message, and he
+   forces Vir to comply with this. He tells Vir not to mention that the
+   message was ever received--that if they can get the other powers to
+   force sanctions against Narn, they can force their own government into
+   cooperation. He says that he will go ahead with the emergency session
+   of the Council--a session that will be used to decide on the actions
+   to be taken against the Narn regime.
+   
+   Talia Winters, in the meantime, finds herself in the elevator with
+   Garibaldi. She tells him that she's upset that Ivanova is basically
+   ignoring her, and she wants to know what she's done wrong. Garibaldi
+   says that Ivanova takes a while to get to know people--especially
+   while at work--and advises Talia to catch Ivanova in the casino after
+   hours.
+   
+   G'Kar and Sinclair meet in the station's arboretum. They have a sharp
+   conversation where G'Kar tries to gain support for his people by
+   telling Sinclair that the Narn race and humans are very much
+   alike--and that, in fact, the Narn were one of the only people that
+   were willing to supply weapons to the Earth in the Earth-Minbari war.
+   Sinclair dismisses G'Kar's claim by saying that the Narn will simply
+   supply weapons to anyone who can afford them--not out of any sense of
+   brotherhood or similarity between cultures. Sinclair further
+   criticizes the Narn cowardice because of their "sneak attack" on
+   Ragesh. G'Kar is enraged.
+   
+   Garibaldi presently finds that one trading company--which sold access
+   to the "jump gates" that provide interstellar travel--seems to have
+   had its information concerning the trade routes stolen from it. He
+   informs Sinclair about these findings, and tells him that there's one
+   ship which had bought routes from the company that was broken into and
+   which still hasn't been attacked. Garibaldi says that they have only a
+   few hours to come to the rescue of this ship.
+   
+   Sinclair is meanwhile speaking with a representative of the government
+   of the Earth Alliance--a superior of his. The representative is
+   advising Sinclair to either delay the emergency session of the Council
+   or to abstain from the vote; Earth cannot get involved in any type of
+   war so soon before an election. Sinclair protests that this will hurt
+   the Centauri case--that if Earth doesn't lend aid, others might not
+   either. The representative doesn't seem to care, and closes the
+   communications channel. During the conversation between Sinclair and
+   the Earth official, Ivanova has arrived at Sinclair's room and has
+   been standing outside of the door, waiting for Sinclair to finish. She
+   has come to inform him that Garibaldi is going to leave on his mission
+   to rescue the ship that was supposedly about to be attacked by the
+   raiders. Suddenly, Sinclair seems to realize something about the
+   allegedly-powerful raider weapons. He says that he will be replacing
+   Garibaldi on the mission to rescue the ship. He orders Ivanova to
+   continue the meeting; further, he tells her that she "never" heard the
+   conversation that he had with the Earth official--and that as far as
+   she last heard, Earth was voting for the sanctions, rather than
+   abstaining.
+   
+   As Sinclair leaves, the session of the Council is begun. G'Kar stands
+   up and announces that the Narn regime has a valid claim to Ragesh 3
+   because the planet was originally Narn territory before it was invaded
+   by the Centauri. Delenn succinctly rebuts this argument, saying that
+   if the Narn hold a grudge for so long, peace will never come, and an
+   endless cycle of wars will result. G'Kar claims that he doesn't want a
+   war--he's only exercising a valid claim to the planet. Further, he
+   claims that the Ragesh colony invited the Narn there--that the Narn
+   never invaded the colony. To support this claim, he opens up a live
+   link with Ragesh. Carn Mollari, Londo's nephew, appears on the screen
+   and recites a message--clearly forced--saying that the Ragesh colony
+   did indeed invite the Narn regime in to restore order in the colony.
+   After the message is completed, Londo says that the message was
+   clearly forced at gunpoint and is of no validity. However, G'Kar
+   silences Londo by revealing that he knows that the Centauri government
+   has taken the position that they will not intervene--he asks Londo why
+   he is using the Council to enact a personal vendetta. G'Kar proceeds
+   to call a vote to dismiss all charges against the Narn regime.
+   
+   Sinclair is meanwhile pursuing the raiders. After successfully saving
+   the trading ship, he outwits the raiders and finds their command base.
+   
+   [INLINE] The battle at the trading ship
+   
+   If Londo was desperate before, he's certainly desperate now. He is
+   entirely outraged at the preceding events in Council, and has decided
+   to take matters into his own hands. He assembles a gun from parts that
+   he's hidden around his quarters and proceeds to attempt to kill G'Kar.
+   As he's walking toward G'Kar's quarters, however, he bumps into Talia,
+   who, despite her training, accidentally senses Londo's intense,
+   emotional thoughts. She quickly informs Garibaldi, who intervenes and
+   stops Londo from committing the murder of G'Kar.
+   
+   Sinclair has returned to Babylon 5 and carries evidence with which he
+   immediately confronts G'Kar. Sinclair has found a Narn agent on the
+   raiders' base; it seems that the Narn were supplying weapons to these
+   raiders, and when Narn supply weapons, they always include a Narn
+   agent to instruct their customers on how to use the weapons and to
+   make sure that the weapons are not resold to a third party. Further,
+   this Narn agent had been found with logs of the communication between
+   the attacking force on Ragesh 3 and the Narn homeworld. The logs of
+   this communication confirm that the attack was, indeed, uninvited and
+   unprovoked. Faced with this evidence, G'Kar is forced to tell Narn to
+   withdraw the forces from Ragesh.
+   
+   Talia meanwhile has found Ivanova in the casino, just as Garibaldi
+   advised. Talia asks Ivanova if she had done anything to offend her.
+   Ivanova apologizes to Talia and admits that the acted rude. Ivanova
+   explains that her mother was a telepath--however, she had kept this as
+   a secret to herself and had never joined the Psi Corps. On her
+   mother's 35th birthday, the Psi Corps caught up with her and gave her
+   three alternatives: to either join the Corps, go to prison, or take
+   telepathy-inhibiting drugs. She chose the latter; however, as Ivanova
+   explains, the drugs were very strong and destroyed her mother's will
+   and personality. After 10 years, after her family thought her mother
+   could no longer survive, her mother took her own life. Ivanova
+   explains that she doesn't blame Talia as an individual for what
+   happened to her mother, but says how these types of events are part of
+   every member of the Psi Corps. However, Ivanova explains to Talia that
+   Talia is just as much of a victim as Ivanova's mother was. When Talia
+   responds that she does not feel like a victim, Ivanova rejoins that
+   she hasn't yet figured out if that feeling is good or bad. When Talia
+   suggests that they might start off on better terms the next day,
+   Ivanova says that she very much doubts it.
+   
+   In the meantime, Garibaldi is sitting in his quarters, showing Delenn
+   his "second favorite thing in the universe"--old "Duck Dodgers in the
+   23rd-and-a-half century" cartoons.
+   
+   Sinclair is resting in his quarters, watching with what appears to be
+   disappointment that Santiago, the incumbent president, has been
+   declared the victor of the election. As he is about to retire for the
+   night, he receives a call from Ivanova: "Commander, there's a
+   problem." It seems that a commander's job is never done ... in fact,
+   it has just started.
+   
+   Shawn Bayern _bayern@minerva@cis.yale.edu_
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Copyright 1994, Shawn Bayern. All rights reserved. Permission is
+   granted to distribute this synopsis _noncommercially_ as long as the
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+   intended by writing these synopses.
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+   Sinclair is waiting at a docking bay for the arrival of Dr. Stephen
+   Franklin, the new medical chief of staff--and evidently an old friend
+   of Sinclair. Right after the new doctor arrives, Sinclair gets a
+   message from the bridge that there's a disturbance at the jump gate.
+   
+   On the bridge, Sinclair finds out that a very damaged ship has come
+   spinning out of the jump gate. The ship is out of control and is on a
+   collision course with the station. The ship cannot be identified--its
+   configuration doesn't match anything they've seen before. Sinclair
+   decides to go outside the station and try to grapple the unknown ship
+   with a ship of his own in order to prevent the ship from crashing into
+   Babylon 5. He gives the order to destroy the unknown ship only if he
+   fails to stop it. After a number of failed attempts, he is successful
+   in grappling the ship and preventing it from hitting the station.
+   
+   [INLINE] Matching rotation with the alien ship.
+   
+   As Sinclair is on his way to the Medical Lab to check with the injured
+   pilot of the unknown ship, Delenn meets up with him and offers her
+   help in identifying the unknown pilot. When they arrive, they find
+   that Dr. Franklin is unsure of the condition of the alien pilot,
+   simply because he knows too little about the unknown alien's
+   physiology. Upon seeing the patient, however, Delenn immediately
+   recognizes him and has a surprising reaction: she attempts to kill
+   him. Sinclair stops this attempt only with difficulty. Delenn warns
+   Sinclair to kill the patient immediately, because the patient is a
+   "Soul Hunter" who steals people's souls. She warns Sinclair to get rid
+   of the patient, "before someone dies!"
+   
+   Later, Delenn apologizes to Sinclair for her actions in the Medical
+   Lab. Sinclair comments on her unusual behavior; he has never before
+   seen such a violent reaction from Delenn. "You don't know these things
+   as I do," replies Delenn, who explains that all Minbari are taught to
+   be afraid of the soul hunters. Soul hunters, she explains, are
+   immortal beings who are drawn toward death and who steal people's
+   souls at the moment of death. They don't steal every soul, only ones
+   which they deem to be worthy enough. Delenn also explains that the
+   soul hunters have previously shown an interest in "certain classes of
+   Minbari." She again warns Sinclair to send the soul hunter away.
+   
+   Meanwhile, in the alien sector of Babylon 5, a gambler is running a
+   seemingly-innocuous, familiar game where he hides a ball under one of
+   three cups and has a player choose which cup they think the ball is
+   under. In the Med Lab, the voice of this gambler is echoed and heard
+   in the mind of the soul hunter, who awakes suddenly.
+   
+   Garibaldi, in the meantime, warns Sinclair that many people in the
+   alien sector seem to be "hiding"--that the alien sector is basically
+   deserted. Ships which were not scheduled to leave for months are
+   suddenly requesting departure. It seems that the aliens are afraid of
+   the soul hunter.
+   
+   The voice of the gambler continues to echo in the mind of the soul
+   hunter. The gambler meanwhile has won a game, but is violently
+   confronted by the loser, who proves that the gambler was cheating. The
+   loser starts to chase the gambler, while the gambler runs away.
+   
+   [INLINE] Fleeing the scene.
+   
+   When Dr. Franklin next walks into the Med Lab, he is surprised to find
+   that his patient is awake and standing. "I have been to your world,"
+   says the newly-awoken soul hunter. "Can you feel it?" he asks, but Dr.
+   Franklin just gives him a perplexed look. Meanwhile, the gamble is
+   still running away from his pursuer. "It comes," says the soul hunter.
+   Meanwhile, in the alien sector, the gambler's pursuer finally catches
+   up with him and stabs him. "It comes!" repeats the soul hunter.
+   
+   The gambler is brought to the Med Lab, where it becomes nearly certain
+   that the soul hunter realizes that the gambler's dying. As the gambler
+   finally dies, the soul hunter says, in a contemplative voice, "Quick
+   flash. The deep blue of pain. Dull, muffled. Slower, now. Closer, now.
+   Gone, now! Gone! If you could only see."
+   
+   Sinclair comes to visit the soul hunter in the Med Lab, where the soul
+   hunter is chanting to himself and is refusing to speak with Sinclair,
+   who wants to know how the soul hunter knew that the gambler was dying.
+   Trying to get his attention, Sinclair confronts him: "Did you come
+   here for his soul? Oh, we've heard, if you're wondering." Sinclair
+   expresses his disbelief that the idea of "soul hunting," and, further
+   trying to pique the soul hunter's attention, accuses him of being a
+   thief--a stealer of souls.
+   
+   "We are not thieves," replies the soul hunter. "We are preservers. We
+   act only for the greater good."
+   
+   "The Minbari don't seem to think so," contests Sinclair.
+   
+   "The Minbari: pale; bloodless; look into their eyes and see nothing
+   but mirrors; infinities of reflection. Will not let us help them." The
+   soul hunter then explains that his kind are drawn toward death--toward
+   the moment of death--in order to save and preserve certain souls. Not
+   every soul; only outstanding ones-- those of "leaders, thinkers,
+   poets, dreamers, blessed lunatics." Sinclair asks what the soul
+   hunters actually =do= with the souls once they have them. The soul
+   hunter replies that they talk, listen, and learn from them. Dr.
+   Franklin, who has been standing by Sinclair, comments to Sinclair that
+   what the soul hunter is saying is truly impossible--that, with enough
+   technology, a person's thoughts could be saved, but that the idea of
+   taking someone's "soul" is not possible.
+   
+   Sinclair, meanwhile, still wants to know what is precisely going on
+   between the soul hunter and the Minbari. The soul hunter explains that
+   years ago, when one of the great Minbari leaders was dying, the
+   Minbari made a "wall of bodies" to stop him--they defended their
+   leader's soul at all costs. The leader, according to the soul hunter,
+   therefore died a wasted death--a death due to which his thoughts and
+   dreams were forever lost. Sinclair, ending the discussion, responds
+   that he still doesn't believe that the soul hunter can do what he says
+   he can do. However, because the aliens on the station seem to fear the
+   soul hunter (and because Sinclair says that he has no reason to doubt
+   the judgment of the aliens), Sinclair orders the soul hunter off the
+   station as soon as the soul hunter has recuperated from his injuries.
+   
+   On the bridge, Ivanova is meanwhile conducting the gambler's funeral
+   from the bridge. The body is launched out to space while Ivanova says,
+   "From the stars we came, and to the stars we return ..." Dr. Franklin
+   contemplates the shortness of life--that, as soon as humans have
+   nearly figured out life, they die. Ivanova dryly comments that, even
+   if humans lived 200 years, they would still make the same human
+   mistakes. "I'm a Russian; we know these things," she adds.
+   
+   Delenn is meanwhile visiting with the soul hunter in the Med Lab. She
+   confronts him, saying that soul hunters never travel without their
+   collection of souls and asking him where his is. "My children are
+   safe," he replies. Delenn vows that, before the soul hunter leaves the
+   station, she will find and release the souls in his collection--to
+   free them once are for all. The soul hunter dismisses this vow,
+   commenting that by "freeing" the souls, she is actually killing them.
+   Delenn expresses her belief that, if the souls of the Minbari leaders
+   and thinkers are "stolen" from them, the Minbari are diminished with
+   each generation because the stolen souls cannot rejoin the Minbari and
+   be reborn. The soul hunter dismisses this as superstitious nonsense,
+   saying that the soul dies at death (unless, of course, a soul hunter
+   saves them). "We will help you, in spite of yourselves," he promises.
+   Suddenly, he recognizes Delenn: she was among the group of Minbari
+   that stopped him from "rescuing" the soul of the great Minbari leader
+   that he discussed with Sinclair before. "That was where it began to go
+   wrong," he says, mostly to himself. The lost souls. ... one after
+   another. I failed because you stopped me! A pattern began." Suddenly,
+   changing the tone of his voice, he adds, "They called you Satai Delenn
+   of the Grey Council. Curious, curious." He goes on to ask her why a
+   great leader of the Minbari would be "playing ambassador" here.
+   Somewhat taken aback, Delenn leaves the room quickly.
+   
+   Right after Delenn leaves, the soul hunter feigns injury and falls to
+   the floor. The guard who was stationed outside the Med Lab rushes in,
+   only to be knocked unconscious by the soul hunter. The soul hunter
+   escapes, gun in hand. He arrives at his ship, where he begins to talk
+   with his collection of souls. He tells them that he finally knows why
+   he was drawn to Babylon 5.
+   
+   Shortly after, Garibaldi tells Sinclair that he scanned the soul
+   hunter's ship. The soul hunter is no longer aboard; further, Garibaldi
+   says that there's a cabinet of some sort on the ship--but it's empty,
+   meaning that whatever was in there, the soul hunter now has with him.
+   However, Garibaldi can't understand what the soul hunter could
+   possibly be up to, because Garibaldi has guards all around and because
+   the soul hunter couldn't possibly get back to his ship or (even if he
+   did) pilot the ship away from the station. Ivanova suggests that if
+   the soul hunters are drawn to death, the way to catch this soul hunter
+   would be simply to figure out who's about to die.
+   
+   The soul hunter has meanwhile entered the alien sector and has bought
+   a map of the that section of B5--a map that includes all of the secret
+   corridors, hiding places, entrances, and exits.
+   
+   [INLINE] Negotiating with a shady character.
+   
+   Meanwhile, the bridge crew is made aware of another unsched- uled
+   arrival through the jump gate. Another ship arrives, carrying another
+   soul hunter. "Someone's about to die," he warns, and goes on to warn
+   that more will die if he's not allowed to come aboard and speak with
+   Sinclair.
+   
+   The soul hunter on the station has meanwhile entered the ambassadorial
+   wing and knocked out another of the guards.
+   
+   As Sinclair is heading to a reception room to speak with the arriving
+   soul hunter, Garibaldi warns him against meeting with him- -he
+   mentions that the soul hunter's warning sounded very much like a
+   threat. Sinclair thinks about this for a moment, and then decides that
+   the tone of the arriving soul hunter was not aggres- sive, but
+   nervous. Sinclair meets with the soul hunter, who describes how the
+   soul hunter who has been on board the station is a deeply disturbed
+   person and because of this, the station is in great danger--someone is
+   about to die, but at the soul hunter's own hands.
+   
+   Delenn is in her quarters, negotiating a trade route with some alien
+   race through her communication screen, when her "doorbell" rings.
+   "Come," she says; she doesn't even look around until she realizes that
+   it's the soul hunter, who tells her that he has come to save her soul.
+   
+   Meanwhile, the soul hunter who just arrived tells Sinclair why his
+   "brother" is deeply disturbed: When he was ordered to save the soul of
+   the Minbari leader (and others), he either arrived too late to save
+   the souls or was prevented by others from his mission. His order was
+   disgraced. Because of this, he had found the ultimate solution: to
+   stop waiting for death--to take the lives himself. "Our order does not
+   support this," claims the newly-arrived soul hunter. The soul hunter
+   explained how he chased his "brother" and how it was they who had
+   damaged his ship before it had come through the jump gate. They had
+   almost caught him at his last stop, but he escaped. This time,
+   however, there will be no escape--after he kills whomever he's about
+   to kill (for they feel it's too late to stop him), they are determined
+   to apprehend him. Sinclair doesn't accept this--he vows that there
+   will be no death this time.
+   
+   Meanwhile, the soul hunter explains to Delenn that her death will
+   avenge his previous failures. "I give you a great gift--to life
+   forever." He starts the process of killing her slowly and warns her
+   not to resist, because it will trouble her soul if she does.
+   
+   Sinclair, searching for Delenn, confronts the newly-arrived brother of
+   the murderous soul hunter: "You're drawn to death," he says,
+   indicating a map. "Show me!" The soul hunter complies.
+   
+   The slow process of killing Delenn is continuing; her blood is being
+   drained slowly. The soul hunter feels that the time is getting
+   closer--close enough for a glimpse into her soul. He takes that
+   glimpse, and after seeing what he sees, he shows great surprise. "You
+   would plan such a thing? You would do such a thing? Incredible!"
+   
+   Sinclair runs up to the ambassadorial wing, whence he goes to Delenn's
+   quarters. As he's running up, the soul hunter tries to stop him. "Why
+   do you fight for her," he asks Sinclair. He goes on to explain: "She's
+   Satai. I have seen her soul. They are using you!" After a brief fight
+   with the soul hunter, Sinclair runs over to Delenn. Right next to
+   Delenn, there is a bag of some sort containing the soul hunter's
+   "collection." Sinclair opens the bag and allows the souls to swarm
+   about the soul hunter, presumably confronting him about what he's
+   about to do to Delenn. Suddenly, the soul hunter's "soul-draining"
+   machine begins to activate. He swirls it around on its platform and
+   aims it at the soul hunter himself. The soul hunter's soul is captured
+   into one of the little soul vessels like those the other souls
+   occupied, amid cries of "No!" from the soul hunter. Sinclair kneels
+   down next to Delenn.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sinclair watches a soul globe.
+   
+   Later, in the Med Lab, Sinclair finds that Delenn will be all right;
+   Dr. Franklin explains that she has a remarkable constitution (and
+   extrapolates that this was the reason that they did so well in the
+   Earth-Minbari war--because they kept going despite severe injuries).
+   "So, I hear you saw something," says Dr. Franklin to Sinclair.
+   
+   "I'm not sure--I don't know if I'll ever be sure," replies Sinclair.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin replies that that type of talk could get Sinclair sent on
+   a "very long vacation." The doctor further goes on to say that he
+   still doesn't believe that the soul hunter can do what he says he can
+   do.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Delenn, who has just awoken, sees Sinclair and smiles. "I
+   knew you would come," she says. "We were right about you ..."
+   
+   "Who was right?" asks Sinclair, but Delenn has already fallen back to
+   sleep. Sinclair jokes with Dr. Franklin that he's almost completely
+   sure that Delenn won't finish the sentence once she wakes up.
+   
+   Later, in his quarters, Sinclair asks the computer to do a key-word
+   search. He struggles to remember the word that the soul hunter used to
+   refer to Delenn, and finally successfully remembers it. The computer
+   tells him that the title "Satai" is used as an honorific applied to
+   the members of the grey council. Sinclair expresses basically the same
+   question that the soul hunter had asked: why a member of the ruling
+   body was assigned to diplomatic service. The computer asks Sinclair if
+   he wishes to make another enquiry. "No, it can wait. There's always
+   time," he says.
+   
+   Sinclair finds out that Delenn will certainly live. Mean- while, as
+   Sinclair is escorting the soul hunters off the station, he warns them
+   that they will no longer be allowed on Babylon 5. The soul hunter
+   seems already to expect this--he admits that his kind are usually not
+   welcome wherever they go. The soul hunter asks Sinclair what happened
+   to his "brother"'s collection of souls. Sinclair harshly brushes this
+   question off: "Life's full of mysteries. Consider this one of them!"
+   
+   Delenn, in her quarters, is crushing the vessels that contained the
+   souls in the soul hunter's collection, thereby freeing them. She
+   studies each of them for a moment, listens intently to them, and
+   finally destroys their containers, allowing them to fly about the room
+   freely, eventually to fade into nothingness.
+   
+   Shawn Bayern _bayern@minerva.cis.yale.edu_
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Copyright 1994, Shawn Bayern. All rights reserved. Permission is
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+   Ambassador Mollari is sitting in a night club, intensely enjoying the
+   show. His pleasure is interrupted by Sinclair and G'Kar, who have
+   come, quite angrily, to tell him that he can't evade his
+   responsibilities any longer--that tomorrow morning, Londo _will_ be
+   present to negotiate with the Narn over the Euphrates Sector, a point
+   of contention between the two regimes. Londo suddenly interrupts them
+   and tells them to sit down--for the moment in the shows that Londo has
+   been waiting for has arrived: an erotic Centauri dancer. "Of all
+   things in life," Londo comments, "are females not the finest?"
+   
+   [INLINE] Adira, the Centauri dancer.
+   
+   "On that, Mollari, we can at least agree," replies G'Kar. As G'Kar,
+   Sinclair, and Londo are sitting there, Ko D'ath, the new head of
+   G'Kar's diplomatic staff, arrives. G'Kar, to put it mildly, doesn't
+   look very happy. Meanwhile, a man makes a pass at Ko D'ath, who rather
+   violently throws him across the room.
+   
+   After the show, Londo returns to his quarters only to find the erotic
+   Centauri dancer, whose name is Adira Tyree, lying on his bed. Needless
+   to say, he is overjoyed and goes to bed ...
+   
+   The next morning, Garibaldi finds an anomaly in the computer
+   system--it seems that there has been some unauthorized use of the
+   highly-official Gold Channels. Sinclair tells Garibaldi to continue
+   investigating.
+   
+   After finishing his talk with Garibaldi, Sinclair, who is at the
+   negotiation table with G'Kar, becomes rather upset that Londo still
+   hasn't arrived. Talia Winters, who will be telepathically auditing the
+   negotiations, excuses herself from the table for a moment. Sinclair
+   follows her.
+   
+   Talia tells Sinclair that she just had to get out of the room for a
+   while--so much intense emotion in such close proximity can be
+   difficult to block out. Sinclair explains to her how important a
+   peaceful settlement to these negotiations is; he wants to prove that
+   Babylon 5 is doing the job it's supposed to be doing. Further, he
+   knows that every side truly wants a peaceful settle- ment, and
+   explains to Talia that her job is to get rid of all the lies, until
+   the inescapable truth of a peaceful settlement is the only thing left.
+   
+   Londo, in his room, is talking with Adira. "What is it that you're
+   getting [from me]?" Londo asks. "A washed-up, old republi- can,
+   dreaming of better days."
+   
+   "These are _my_ better days, Londo," Adira responds, "thanks to you."
+   Londo finally hears that Vir is paging him, so he finally gets up and
+   goes to the negotiations.
+   
+   On the bridge, Ivanova, who has been informed about the communication
+   anomaly, tells Garibaldi that he's overreacting. She explains that it
+   could easily be a computer error or some energy fluctuation. Garibaldi
+   protests that he has already checked for all of these
+   possibilities--and he says that if someone has gained unauthorized
+   access to the Gold Channels, there might be a very serious security
+   breach. Gold Channels, he explains, are priority channels--most people
+   don't even know that they exist, and even if people did know, they
+   couldn't be used without the express permission of Sinclair. Ivanova,
+   however, brusquely brushes him off- -she'll get to the problem later,
+   she says, when she has time. Londo finally arrives at the negotiation
+   table, claiming to have been detained by an "important matter of
+   state." The negotiations begin.
+   
+   Adira enters her quarters, and is surprised to find a certain man,
+   Trakis, there. We quickly find out that Adira is a slave, and Trakis
+   is her master. He asks her if things are going well with Londo. She
+   evades the question, but he warns her that a slave should never lie to
+   her master--and he uses some telepathic device to determine her
+   thoughts. He then orders her to hurry up and get the "Purple Files"
+   from Londo. "Do you know why a drunken fool like Mollari has ...
+   power?" says Trakis. "Because his family has been collecting dirt on
+   other families for years, like all the noble houses of the Centauri
+   Republic." The Purple Files, he explains, can bring down any house in
+   the republic--the Narn would pay well for that data, he says, and he
+   wants it. He orders the reluctant Adira to use a mind probe to get the
+   data from Londo.
+   
+   [INLINE] Adira evades Trakis' question.
+   
+   Later, Adira is in her quarters when Londo stops by. He brings her
+   some exotic flowers ("Star Laces"?) and also gives her an heirloom
+   which has been in his family for centuries--it was originally warn by
+   a wise and powerful matriarch of his family. She refuses to take it,
+   but he forces it on her, telling her, "You know how stubborn I am!"
+   She finally accepts it. Londo then mentions that he's made
+   reservations at the finest restaurant on Babylon 5. Adira expresses
+   concern and asks what would happen if people saw them together. He
+   explains that, although the Centauri are a class-driven society, "When
+   I look beneath the mask I've been forced to wear, I see only
+   emptiness. Then I think of you, and I say, 'To hell with
+   appearances.'"
+   
+   Garibaldi is reading Universe Today in his office when his computer
+   alerts him of another communication anomaly. He attempts to track it,
+   and comes quite close to succeeding, only to be stopped at the last
+   moment.
+   
+   Sinclair has invited Talia to dinner, ostensibly in reward for her
+   services at the negotiations, at the same restaurant that Londo and
+   Adira have gone to. As Sinclair and Talia are talking, she explains
+   how Londo's thoughts at the negotiations were intensely "erotic."
+   Sinclair comments that he's not surprised.
+   
+   Garibaldi is at Ivanova's console, trying to track down the last
+   anomaly. His efforts are not accomplishing very much; he has traced
+   the message to somewhere in the Russian Consortium.
+   
+   Londo and Adira are back in Londo's quarters. She tells him to sit
+   down while she prepares the drinks. She sticks some type of sedative
+   in one of them, however. When Londo drinks it, he falls back,
+   unconscious. She sets up the mind probe and gets Londo's access codes
+   to the Purple Files (which are, appropriately, "wine," "women," and
+   "song."). She uses the codes at a computer console in Londo's room to
+   gain access the Purple Files and transfer the information that they
+   contain into a data crystal. She returns his heirloom, sadly mumbling
+   that she's sorry; then, she leaves.
+   
+   In the morning, Londo is quite upset at Vir for waking him up.
+   Further, he complains of a terrible headache. Suddenly, he notices
+   that Adira has left his ancient heirloom on his desk.
+   
+   Adira is staring at the data crystal in her quarters when Trakis calls
+   her and orders her to meet him in exactly 10 minutes. Reluctantly, she
+   starts on her way.
+   
+   Londo, who is extremely preoccupied by now, suddenly has what he
+   thinks is a brilliant idea--to gives Vir full diplomatic status and
+   tell Vir to represent to the Centauri at the negotiations. He tells
+   Vir that he is now the "voice of the mighty Centauri Republic." Vir,
+   changing from an expression of surprise and reluctance to one of
+   pride, finally accepts his position at the negotiation, and virtually
+   runs off, excitedly. "Don't give away the homeworld," orders Londo, as
+   Vir leaves.
+   
+   Adira, as she sees Trakis at the prearranged meeting place, finally
+   realizes that she doesn't like what she's been forced to do. As she
+   sees Trakis, she runs away from him. Trakis, in quick pursuit,
+   violently pushes a few bystanders out of the way, but is unable to
+   catch up with her.
+   
+   Trakis finds Londo knocking at Adira's quarters. "She's not there,"
+   Trakis tells Londo. Trakis goes on to explain that he and Londo are
+   very much alike--how Adira has betrayed them both. Adira is meanwhile
+   speaking with a friend of hers, frantically arranging safe transport
+   away from Babylon 5. Until the flight, her friend promises her a safe
+   hiding place--in the friend's quarters.
+   
+   Trakis tells Londo that Adira is a Narn agent. When Londo expresses
+   disbelief, Trakis merely warns him of a danger with which Londo is
+   quite familiar--that if the Purple Files get out, the whole Centauri
+   Republic (not to mention Londo's career) will be finished. Trakis
+   continues to explain that Adira is Trakis's slave--and that the only
+   reason that he cares about this whole thing is that, by the same
+   Centauri laws which allow him to own Adira as a slave, Trakis is
+   responsible for any crimes which Adira commits. Trakis secretly places
+   a audio bug on Londo. Londo, in a mixture of sadness and rage, tells
+   Trakis to leave the quarters.
+   
+   At the negotiation table, Vir walks in and proudly proclaims that he
+   is the ambassador for the Centauri Republic. G'Kar is enraged, and, as
+   a countermeasure, makes Ko D'ath the Narn ambassa- dor (warning her
+   not to give away the homeworld). Sinclair, trying to maintain some
+   semblance of order, leaves the negotiation chambers to search for
+   Londo.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sinclair tries to restore calm.
+   
+   Londo, who has realized that Adira stole his Purple Files, is in no
+   mood to return to the negotiations. He explains the seriousness of the
+   situation to Sinclair and also asks Sinclair for help. The situation
+   must not be made public, he says, and Sinclair is the only one to help
+   him. Sinclair says that he'll only help Londo if Londo agrees to
+   Sinclair's compromise concerning the Euphrates Sector. Londo agrees.
+   
+   Undercover, Londo and Sinclair enter the club for which Adira was
+   dancing previously. Sinclair outwits the owner of the club into
+   letting him see the dancers for a while. Once they see the dancers,
+   they ask for information about Adira--where she might be hiding. One
+   of the dancers tells them the name of a good friend of Adira--the
+   quarters of whom are the mostly likely place for Adira to be hiding.
+   
+   At the same time, Trakis, in the alien sector, is monitoring
+   Sinclair's and Londo's conversation through the auditory bug which he
+   attached to Londo previously. He is speaking with one of the aliens,
+   arranging to pay for men to delay (and kill, if necessary) Sinclair
+   and Londo in order to give Trakis to the time to capture Adira (and
+   the data crystal).
+   
+   Sinclair and Londo go heading off to find Adira but are intercepted by
+   these hired men. Londo realizes that it must have been Trakis who sent
+   them. Londo and Sinclair run off to hide; in the middle of the hired
+   men's pursuit of Londo and Sinclair, however, they are ordered to call
+   off their operations--Adira and the crystal have been captured. Londo
+   and Sinclair overhear this unfortunate bit of information.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sinclair and Londo undercover.
+   
+   Ivanova, on the bridge, informs Garibaldi that there has been an
+   incident of heavy shooting down in a certain section of Babylon 5. She
+   tells Garibaldi to go down to investigate it; she says that she'll
+   monitor the communications for any similar anomalies. Garibaldi,
+   however, sends some other security offices to the area of the shooting
+   and remains in his office to monitor communications himself.
+   
+   According to station logs, says Sinclair, no ship has left Babylon 5
+   for the past two hours. Therefore, Adira and the crystal must still be
+   on board. Sinclair offers to arrest Trakis--there's enough evidence,
+   he says; Londo, however, declines, saying that any arrest will hinge
+   on his own testimony, and he cannot give it, for fear of making this
+   incident official. "Besides, he might harm Adira," adds Londo.
+   Sinclair is surprised and asks why Londo would like to protect
+   her--after all, she's the one who got him into this situation. "I
+   know," replies Londo, "but there must be some other way." Sinclair
+   says that he has another idea ...
+   
+   Garibaldi, sure enough, has found another anomaly. This time, he
+   successfully traces it. He catches Ivanova communicating with a
+   Russian hospital--and with her dying father. Ivanova's father sadly
+   apologizes for his perceived lack of love toward his daughter--he
+   explains how, after her mother's death and her brother's death in the
+   war, he was too wrapped up in his own needs to (from his point of
+   view) successfully cater to her needs. He apologizes profusely, though
+   his daughter finds all of it unnecessary. With touching words between
+   them, he dies. Garibaldi, who has been looking on sadly, sees and
+   hears the whole conversation.
+   
+   Sinclair, meanwhile, is speaking with G'Kar, offering him a "business
+   opportunity." He offers to arrange a meeting for G'Kar concerning some
+   "merchandise" that will give G'Kar an advantage over Mollari. When
+   G'Kar asks Sinclair why he's offering this meeting, Sinclair says that
+   Earth wants some concessions in the Euphrates Sector and knows that
+   Narn gratitude is quite worth the price. Further, Sinclair, to ensure
+   that the merchandise is genuine, offers to have Talia Winters sit in
+   on the meeting. G'Kar accepts, telling Sinclair, "I never knew you
+   could be so devious, commander."
+   
+   "Coming from you, ambassador, that's a real compliment." rejoins
+   Sinclair. G'Kar at first smiles, but suddenly realizes Sinclair's
+   implication, and gives a perplexed, somewhat-annoyed frown.
+   
+   Talia, however, when asked by Sinclair and Londo, refuses to use her
+   telepathic skills for any purpose that involves personal matters--it's
+   against Psi Corps regulations. However, when confronted with the
+   possibility that Adira will die if she doesn't interfere, she agrees
+   to scan Trakis's mind at the meeting that Sinclair arranged--however,
+   she can only scan "surface thoughts," though there are tricks ...
+   
+   The meeting between Trakis and G'Kar proceeds as Sinclair planned.
+   Trakis mentions that he doesn't like telepaths. Talia refutes this,
+   saying that she's only there to verify the merchan- dise ... he
+   mustn't think of anything else--such as "where Adira Tyree might be."
+   
+   [INLINE] Tricking Trakis.
+   
+   Trakis is surprised and fooled--enough so that Talia can read his
+   "surface thoughts" pertaining to Adira's location. She tells this
+   information to Sinclair, who sends a security team to try to find her.
+   Trakis, seeing that he has been fooled, attempts to run away--but is
+   stopped by Londo's fist. "That was for Adira," says Londo, "and
+   this"--he kicks Trakis rather hard--"is for me!" Londo searches
+   Trakis's unconscious body and finds the data crystal without
+   difficulty. Londo thanks G'Kar for helping to save not only Londo's
+   career, but the entire Centauri Republic.
+   
+   Ivanova, meanwhile, enters Garibaldi's quarters and notices that he
+   didn't go down to check out the previous shootings as she had asked
+   him to. Garibaldi comments on how there was another communication
+   anomaly and how he has finally traced the problem: it was, he tells
+   Ivanova, what she originally thought it was--a computer error. He says
+   that he trusts it won't happen again; she agrees. Garibaldi, leaving
+   the room, invites Ivanova for a drink, but she again brusquely brushes
+   him off, saying that she's on duty. However, on second thought, she
+   turns around and tells him, "Maybe another time."
+   
+   Londo meets with Adira right before she leaves on her ship. He
+   explains to her that Sinclair has "convinced" Trakis to give Adira her
+   freedom--"He [Sinclair] can be a frightening man, that one!" Londo
+   comments. Further, Londo again gives his old heirloom to Adira,
+   telling her to wear it proudly--as a free woman. He offers her, once
+   again, to stay, but she refuses, telling him that her wounds are too
+   fresh. She apologizes, saying that she never meant to hurt him. They
+   wave goodbye, and she boards her ship, leaving Londo only with
+   memories.
+   
+   Shawn Bayern _bayern@cshl.org_
+     _________________________________________________________________
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+   granted to distribute this synopsis _noncommercially_ as long as the
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+   intended by writing these synopses.
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+   A reporter from Interstellar Network News has arrived on Babylon 5, to
+   cover the second anniversary of the opening of Babylon 5 (an event
+   which was extremely unlikely, considering the fate of the previous
+   Babylon stations, according to the reporter). Unfortunately for her,
+   Sinclair is on a mission to check out a damaged transport and is
+   therefore unavailable for an interview.
+   
+   At the medical lab, Dr. Franklin is greeted by an old professor of
+   his, Dr. Vance Hendricks. Hendricks offers Franklin an "adventure,
+   very possibly the biggest adventure you've ever had." Hendricks,
+   however, does not explain anything to Franklin yet--he explains that
+   Franklin will find out in due time.
+   
+   At the customs center on B5, material entering the station is checked
+   for security reasons--any organic matter or other, possibly dangerous
+   substances must be quarantined. At this particular time, a seemingly
+   uneventful search is being carried out. However, the attendant
+   carrying out the search notices a possible security violation in the
+   cargo of a certain individual, Nelson Drake--it appears that one of
+   his suitcases is arranged so as to hide something. "If I didn't know
+   any better, I might think you were trying to smuggle something in,"
+   comments the attendant on duty. Nelson waits for the appropriate
+   moment, then kills the attendant-- and brings his contraband material
+   aboard the station.
+   
+   [INLINE] Inspecting the cargo.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin is called to examine the attendant that was killed. He
+   finds that the attendant was almost certainly died of natural
+   causes--a heart attack. However, at the insistence of Garibaldi and
+   Sinclair (who has arrived back at the station), Franklin agrees to
+   perform a thorough autopsy.
+   
+   Franklin returns to the medical lab in order to meet with Dr.
+   Hendricks to find out what this "adventure" was that Hendricks spoke
+   about. Hendricks explains that he needs Franklin's help to study some
+   artifacts found at a recent dig on an alien planet. First, he
+   introduces Franklin to his assistant--none other than Nelson Drake.
+   Nelson opens the container that holds the artifacts--
+   
+   --and a sudden energy spike is detected on the bridge.
+   
+   Meanwhile, at the medical lab, Hendricks explains that he was on a dig
+   at Ikarra VII, sponsored by a corporation known as "Interplanetary
+   Expeditions." He found some thousand-year-old Ikarran artifacts sealed
+   deeply in a vault. He asks Franklin to run these artifacts through his
+   medical scanners. Franklin complies and (as Hendricks apparently
+   expected) finds that the artifacts are composed of living tissue--they
+   are an example of organic technology--"the one trick that Earth hasn't
+   been able to crack," according to Hendricks. Franklin is amazed, but
+   suddenly asks Hendricks why he wasn't informed of these artifacts as
+   soon as Hendricks arrived on the station--since organic material must
+   be quarantined before it is allowed on the station. Hendricks simply
+   replies that the quarantine was undergone at their previous location.
+   When Franklin comments that there are surely better facilities back on
+   Earth, Hendricks only insists that he needs someone he can trust.
+   Hendricks entices Franklin, saying that Franklin will achieve his
+   dream of "going down in the history books" if he goes along with
+   Hendricks. Franklin, at length, agrees.
+   
+   Later, Nelson is in his quarters when one of the artifacts seems to
+   come alive. It releases a powerful energy surge toward Nelson, which
+   propels him across the room. This energy surge apparently has had some
+   physiological effect on Nelson, who notices (a short time after) that
+   his skin is undergoing some type of metamorphosis.
+   
+   On the bridge, Sinclair is questioning Garibaldi about the dead
+   customs attendant--he wonders if the autopsy has shown anything yet.
+   The death, according to Garibaldi, still seems to have been a natural
+   one--nothing abnormal has been found yet, although the autopsy is not
+   yet complete. Ivanova reports that some unusual energy readings have
+   been detected--she is presently investigating them. Further, she
+   reminds Sinclair of his interview with the ISN reporter. Sinclair
+   acknowledges this, but it is clear the is not looking forward to it.
+   Garibaldi asks him why he is so adverse to this interview; Sinclair
+   replies that the last time he was called for an interview (in which he
+   was instructed to "relax and say what I really felt"), he was shortly
+   transferred to a far-away outpost as a result.
+   
+   Franklin and Hendricks have meanwhile, for the last fifteen hours,
+   been studying the organic artifacts. Franklin suddenly asks Hendricks
+   what will happen when and if they finally figure out how the organic
+   technology works. Hendricks replies that they will sell it to an Earth
+   corporation, but Franklin expresses a certain resentment at
+   this--Franklin says how he always thought Hendricks was the kind of
+   man who made his own discoveries, rather than stole them from old
+   alien civilizations. "Granted, this may be important," says Franklin,
+   "but ... it's a shortcut.... Feels a little like grave-robbing."
+   Hendricks replies that the only way to really explore the galaxy is
+   through corporation grants--he explains the wondrous things he's seen
+   on corporation-financed missions. Franklin then confronts Hendricks
+   with the fact that he cannot find any information on the corporation
+   that supposedly financed the expedition on which these artifacts were
+   discovered. Hendricks avoids the question and promises to explain
+   everything the following day.
+   
+   Garibaldi is meeting with the reporter, trying to explain to her about
+   his background with Sinclair and B5. She interrupts him, and confronts
+   him with that background: "I've come across several rumors surrounding
+   your record prior to Babylon 5," she says. "That you were fired five
+   times for unspecified personal problems and that this is your last
+   chance to make good." Garibaldi vehemently denies comment.
+   
+   The organic artifacts, in Nelson's quarters, are strengthening their
+   hold over Nelson. He is falling more and more under their control.
+   
+   When Dr. Franklin next enters the medical lab, he is surprised to find
+   Nelson standing there. Nelson has undergone some strange
+   metamorphosis; he shoots Franklin, saying only one word: "Protect."
+   
+   Later, Garibaldi is informing Sinclair about the incident that just
+   happened to Franklin. They both go to visit Franklin in the infirmary.
+   Franklin explains to them that the weapon Nelson used to shoot him had
+   a similar design to the organic artifacts. Garibaldi is surprised to
+   hear that the artifacts are organic; he asks Franklin if they were
+   checked at customs. Franklin can only reply that Hendricks told him
+   that they were checked--he can't offer any guarantee.
+   
+   Nelson is meanwhile walking around some obscure level of B5. He has
+   undergone an extreme metamorphosis; he is no longer recognizable as
+   Nelson.
+   
+   Sinclair goes to confront Dr. Hendricks. Sinclair tells him that,
+   according to Franklin, the armor that Nelson was wearing was very
+   similar to the organic artifacts that Hendricks brought aboard.
+   Garibaldi adds that the artifacts were brought on to the station
+   illegally--somehow, they were not put through the required quarantine,
+   either on B5 or at Hendricks's previous location. Hendricks says that
+   he knows as little as Sinclair and Garibaldi know--he says that Nelson
+   told him that they were, indeed, quarantined. However, Sinclair
+   explains that, whether or not Nelson was under Hendricks's orders,
+   Hendricks will be held personally responsible for the incident.
+   Hendricks, when asked, says that the organic artifacts have limited
+   energy and might attach themselves to another organism to achieve
+   mobility; he cannot, however, explain why they may have attached
+   themselves to Nelson but to no one else who has been exposed to them.
+   He guesses that the artifacts are now controlling Nelson; he cannot,
+   however, explain =why= the artifacts might take him over. He says that
+   he will need to study the artifacts further in order to figure out
+   their purpose and methods. Sinclair allows him to assist Franklin in
+   further research.
+   
+   Nelson, under the control of the artifacts, shoots and kills a group
+   of people who walk by him (on the obscure level where he was walking
+   before). Again, he says, "Protect!"
+   
+   [INLINE] "Protect!"
+   
+   Simultaneously, on the bridge, another energy surge is detected. They
+   pinpoint the location of the surge and determine that it is 20% more
+   powerful than the previous surge.
+   
+   Garibaldi reports that there are two deaths on the level known as
+   "Grey-13." Garibaldi leads a security team to that area. Sinclair
+   calls a "Level 2 Alert." Just then, the reporter from ISN enters the
+   bridge, claiming to be interested in whatever problem is
+   occurring--"the people have a right to know"; Sinclair orders her to
+   leave.
+   
+   Garibaldi's security team has found Nelson. The team fires at Nelson,
+   but Nelson is unharmed. Nelson continues toward the place that he was
+   originally heading.
+   
+   Franklin, while studying the artifacts with Hendricks, discovers a
+   certain device in Nelson's belongings. He hides the device from
+   Hendricks's view. Meanwhile, the study of the artifacts continues.
+   
+   Sinclair, meanwhile, guesses that Nelson is heading toward the Central
+   Corridor, the area with the greatest population and, consequently, the
+   area where Nelson can do the most damage. Ivanova reports that,
+   although Nelson must rest after every time he attacks, his periods of
+   rest are becoming shorter--and his power is increasing each time.
+   Sinclair realizes that their next chance to stop Nelson may be their
+   last chance.
+   
+   Franklin has finally accesses the memory banks of the artifacts; he
+   reports to Sinclair what he has found: In the course of Ikarran
+   history, the Ikarrans were invaded many times. Because of these
+   repeated attacks, they created organic weapons to use against their
+   enemies. Because it would take too long to create an
+   artificially-intelligent weapon, they incorporated the personality
+   matrix and brain patterns of one of their researchers, known as Tumar.
+   Because of the possibility, however, that their enemies might "fool"
+   the weapons (for the weapons have personalities), the Ikarrans
+   programmed their weapons not to accept commands from anyone but "pure
+   Ikarrans." However, as Franklin points out (with a bit of disgust),
+   there is no clear way to define a "pure" Ikarran--"no one is pure," he
+   says. Franklin continues to explain that a coalition of religious
+   fanatics and military extremists defined what it meant to be a "pure"
+   Ikarran-- their standards were based on ideology rather than science.
+   (Sinclair points out the similarities to Hitler's "perfect Aryan" idea
+   in WWII). Unfortunately for everyone involved, after the weapons
+   killed the enemies of the Ikarrans, they turned on the Ikarrans
+   themselves, killing anyone who didn't =perfectly= match the standards
+   of what a "pure Ikarran" was. They kept killing everyone until the
+   last Ikarran was dead. Then, through centuries of disuse and neglect,
+   the weapons failed. However, the artifacts that Hendricks discovered
+   contained one of these weapons--and it has activated itself by
+   attaching itself onto Nelson. Sinclair has an idea how to stop it: if
+   the weapon has a personality, he will try to contact that personality
+   and reason with it, thereby attempting to bypass the programming.
+   
+   First, however, Garibaldi and Sinclair set up an extremely powerful
+   attack against Nelson. The attack fails completely; it doesn't even
+   slow Nelson down.
+   
+   [INLINE] Nelson under attack.
+   
+   Sinclair, therefore, feels he has no other choice but to try to speak
+   with the personality--with Tumar. "I'm going to try to make it mad,"
+   says Sinclair; he explains that, by speaking with the personality of
+   the weapon, he will try to lure Nelson to the docking area, which they
+   can detach and eject--"armored or not, nothing can live in a vacuum."
+   Garibaldi objects, but Sinclair goes anyway.
+   
+   Sinclair speaks to the weapon. He attempts to anger it by saying
+   (truthfully) that the Ikarran race is dead. Sinclair's plan
+   works--Nelson follows him to the airlock. Sinclair explains the whole
+   situation to Nelson--how the weapons failed in their mission, and how
+   Ikarra was destroyed by their own hand. "Your own people-- how pure
+   were they? They didn't feed you facts; they fed you propaganda. They
+   programmed you with standards of genetic purity no one could
+   match--not even your own people." Then, at the last minute, Sinclair
+   tells the weapon to search Nelson's memory (for Nelson has seen the
+   dead Ikarra). The weapon does this, and realizes that what Sinclair
+   has said is true. He is suddenly overwhelmed with guilt; he drops to
+   his knees, asking his long dead race to forgive him. Then, he destroys
+   the organic artifact that has taken over Nelson--Nelson's
+   metamorphosis is thereby undone, and Nelson falls to the grounds, rid
+   of the artifact.
+   
+   Later, after the whole incident has passed, Franklin confronts
+   Hendricks. He explains that he found a cardiac stimulator in Nelson's
+   belongings--the device, if used on a healthy person, can precipitate a
+   heart attack. Further, Franklin explains that he has found two small
+   marks in the skin of the dead customs attendant-- marks which were so
+   small that they were overlooked; the marks perfectly match the cardiac
+   stimulator's prongs. Franklin tells Hendricks that he has spoken with
+   Nelson, and that Nelson confirms Franklin's suspicions: Nelson was
+   acting under Hendricks's orders the whole time. Hendricks admits that
+   this is true; he explains that "Interplanetary Expeditions," the
+   corporation that financed the Ikarran dig, is a front for a
+   bio-weapons supplier. Hendricks says that he suspected that the
+   artifacts were organic weapons, so, instead of turning in the
+   artifacts right away for standard commission, he came to Franklin in
+   order to study them. If the artifacts were indeed bio-weapons, he
+   felt, they would be worth millions--or more.
+   
+   "You deliberately endangered a quarter of a million humans and aliens
+   just to raise your profit margin?" asks Franklin.
+   
+   Hendricks explains that he was sure he could control the artifacts--he
+   never expected any harmful incident. He also says that he didn't know
+   the customs guard was murdered--Nelson said that he would handle it,
+   so Hendricks didn't question him. Franklin realizes that this was why
+   the weapon attached itself to Nelson, not to anyone else--the program
+   needed someone willing to kill. Hendricks makes one final appeal to
+   Franklin--he asks Franklin not to turn him in. If Franklin doesn't
+   turn him in, says Hendricks, then they will share the profits of the
+   sale of the artifacts. However, just at that moment, two security
+   guards arrive. "It's too late," says Franklin, almost sadly.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Garibaldi confronts Sinclair on another matter. To do
+   justice to this scene, I feel I must include Garibaldi's dialogue
+   verbatim: "The whole stations talking about how you were willing to
+   risk your life to stop that thing.... This is the third time in the
+   last year you've put yourself on the line like this.... Jeff, you're
+   my friend. You've been my friend a lot longer than you've been my
+   commanding officer so I think I'm entitled to say this. We were both
+   in Earth Force during the war; I wasn't on the line but I did my
+   share. I know a lot of guys who came out of the war--changed. Some
+   came out better; some came out worse. A lot of them have this problem:
+   the war gave them definition, direction, purpose. Without it, they
+   don't know how to fit in anymore, so they keep looking for ways to go
+   in a blaze of glory. Some people call that being a hero--maybe so. I
+   don't know; I've never been one. Me? I think they're looking for
+   something worth dying for because it's easier than finding something
+   worth living for."
+   
+   Sinclair sadly, thoughtfully admits that he doesn't have an answer to
+   this--although he also admits that he should.
+   
+   Franklin and Ivanova are speaking in the war. He expresses his disgust
+   at fundamental ideals of "purity" and "perfection"--he wonders if what
+   just happened is a preview of what's to come, mentioning that there
+   are many hate groups on Earth targeted against aliens. Ivanova replies
+   that she doesn't think that humanity would be so foolish--that,
+   hopefully, they could learn from the past. Just at the moment,
+   however, two officials walk up to Franklin, demanding that he turn
+   over the artifacts to them, on authority of Earth Force Defense,
+   Bio-Weapons Division, in order that they can study them for purposes
+   of planetary security.
+   
+   The reporter has finally caught up with Sinclair, and the interview
+   has been carried out. The reporter asks Sinclair if, after what he's
+   been through, he feels that it's worth it for humanity to continue
+   their presence in space. "We have to stay here," he replies.
+   "Eventually our sun will grow cold, and go out." When this happens, he
+   explains, the entire culture of Earth will be destroyed--a culture and
+   history that he feels are worth preserving. Therefore, humanity must
+   go to the stars.
+   
+   Shawn Bayern _bayern@cshl.org_
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
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+   Earth Central has planned a cultural exchange where all alien
+   societies on B5 will have the opportunity to demonstrate their
+   dominant religious beliefs. Needless to say, this idea has caused
+   nightmares for the security officers; at the moment, Garibaldi is
+   trying to stop an alien from bringing a ceremonial knife aboard the
+   station. Suddenly, he sees Sinclair's old girlfriend, Catherine Sakai,
+   arrive on the station. He immediately leaves to warn Sinclair.
+   
+   G'Kar is in his quarters, trying to have a quiet dinner when he is
+   interrupted by a Narn courier, Tu'Pari, who is carrying a message that
+   he claims to be important. After Tu'Pari leaves G'Kar's quarters,
+   G'Kar plays the message. The message turns out to be from an old enemy
+   of G'Kar, named D'Rog [spelling correction pending]. "I bring what you
+   doubtless will consider good news: I am dying." G'Kar smiles in
+   appreciation. The message continues, "In fact, by the time you get
+   this recording, I will already be dead. Ah, but then, very shortly, so
+   will you."
+   
+   D'Rog explains that G'Kar should not be surprised--vengeance was
+   inevitable after G'Kar humiliated D'Rog before the Narn Council and
+   ruined D'Rog's family's name. "You will be dead within 48 hours of
+   receiving this message. Already, my agent is close to you. You will
+   not know who, or how, or where, until it is too late." Just then,
+   Na'Toth--G'Kar's new diplomatic attache--arrives and reports for duty.
+   G'Kar can do nothing but stare at her, suspiciously.
+   
+   Sinclair, in his quarters, is getting ready for the Centauri religious
+   demonstration when Garibaldi arrives. Garibaldi warns Sinclair that
+   Catherine is on the station. Sinclair thanks him, saying that he's
+   happy to know that she's on board, so he can avoid her. Then,
+   suddenly, he asks if she came to the station alone or with another
+   man. Garibaldi replies that she was alone.
+   
+   The Centauri religious demonstration has begun. It is quite a
+   festival, with dancing, drinks, and pretty much everything else you'd
+   expect at a Centauri party. "It's a celebration of life," says Vir.
+   Londo is immensely enjoying himself--drinking, crawling up on the
+   table, explaining Centauri household "gods," telling Delenn that she's
+   "very cute for a Minbari" and that Garibaldi is "cute, too, in an
+   annoying sort of way."
+   
+   [INLINE] "You're cute, too, in an annoying sort of way."
+   
+   Finally, Londo falls to the table, unconscious. Vir stands up and
+   says, triumphantly, "Ahh! He has become one with his inner self!"
+   
+   "He's passed out," comments Garibaldi, smugly.
+   
+   "That too," responds Vir.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Commander Sinclair--having had enough of the Centauri
+   demonstration and having left quietly in the middle--has decided,
+   after all, to see Catherine. After he finds her, they speak for a
+   while. She says that she hadn't known that Sinclair was in command of
+   the station--otherwise she wouldn't have come. "I keep my promises....
+   I'll leave now if you want me to." Sinclair won't hear of it, though.
+   Instead, he invites her for dinner. At length, she accepts: "This is
+   how we get into trouble every three years.... All right, just dinner."
+   
+   Later, G'Kar and Na'Toth are speaking in their quarters. G'Kar is
+   suspiciously pondering recent events--he mentions, his assistant's, Ko
+   D'ath's, recent death in an unlikely airlock accident. He asks Na'Toth
+   who sponsored her to be his attache; when she answers, he notices that
+   her sponsor's sponsor was none other than D'Rog. He explains to her
+   that D'Rog has hired someone to kill him, and evidently this assassin
+   is someone close to G'Kar. Na'Toth only replies, "With all due
+   respect, if it were me, you wouldn't be here for us to have this
+   conversation." G'Kar is unsatisfied--according to D'Rog's message,
+   G'Kar would be kept in fear for a while before actually being
+   killed--"the last thing he wants is a quick death." He can still not
+   discount Na'Toth as a suspect.
+   
+   Na'Toth tries to reason with him: "How can you be sure there _is_ as
+   assassin on board? What if he only told you this to frighten you?"
+   G'Kar replies that this is very unlikely.
+   
+   She thinks again, then explains that if D'Rog wanted to make sure the
+   assassination were carried through, he would have gone to the
+   "Assassins' Guild" to get a killer. She explains that killers from the
+   Assassins' Guide traditionally leave a black flower--a "death
+   blossom"--as a warning to their victims so that the victims can tie up
+   their affairs. She asks G'Kar if he's received one of these flowers;
+   he replies that he hasn't. "Then I wouldn't worry," she concludes, and
+   adds, "I'm sure the question will resolve itself soon enough."
+   
+   Later, G'Kar is sleeping in his bed when he is awoken by a strange
+   smell. He calls Na'Toth to his quarters to show her what was left in
+   his bed: a black flower. "You have no idea how _that_ got into my
+   bed?" he asks.
+   
+   [INLINE] G'Kar, about to have a rude awakening.
+   
+   "Ambassador," comments Na'Toth, "it is not my place to speculate on
+   how anything gets into your bed. Your reputed fascination with Earth
+   women, for instance..." She goes on to suggest that G'Kar see
+   Commander Sinclair if he's worried. G'Kar declines, saying that he
+   prefers to fight his own battles--further, his going to Sinclair might
+   raise questions that he'd rather not answer--questions concerning his
+   years on the Council. "Personally," he says, "I don't care if the
+   information comes out--my only concern is that it might compromise our
+   standing in the negotiations. So we have to handle this quietly, for
+   the sake of planetary security." Na'Toth asks G'Kar why he is telling
+   her all of this, considering that she's currently under his suspicion.
+   "Earthers have a phrase: 'Keep your friends close and your enemies
+   closer.' I think they stole it from us." He adds that he also would
+   like to strengthen the relationship between them. He then tells
+   Na'Toth to find Tu'Pari, the courier who originally brought the
+   message--G'Kar wants to find out who gave the message to Tu'Pari.
+   Tu'Pari must still be on the station, according to G'Kar, because no
+   Narn ships have left B5 since the day before. "Finding him will be
+   your first test," he commands.
+   
+   Elsewhere on the station, Lennier--Delenn's new assistant--has arrived
+   on the station. He greets her as "Satai Delenn," addressing her as a
+   member of the Grey Council deserves to be addressed. He further
+   refuses to look straight at her; he only looks down; "It is
+   forbidden!" he says.
+   
+   "You can look up...." says Delenn, "I cannot have an aid who will not
+   look up. You will be forever walking into things." At length, Lennier
+   agrees.
+   
+   Lennier comments that he feels that he's in an awkward position. He
+   has been, he feels, greatly and suddenly promoted; after all, he's now
+   an assistant to a member of the Grey Council. Delenn only comments
+   that he received a high recommendation from his teachers and that he
+   will soon adjust. "You can begin by promising not to mention the Grey
+   Council again during your stay. No one here knows of my connection; no
+   one must find out."
+   
+   "But, to deny the Council--!" blurts Lennier.
+   
+   "I'm denying nothing. But it would lead to certain questions that I
+   don't want to answer just now. You will not use my title, 'Satai.' You
+   will address me only as 'Delenn.' Do you understand?"
+   
+   He says that he does not--but that it doesn't matter: "Understanding
+   is not required--only obedience."
+   
+   G'Kar, in the meantime, has gone to N'Grath (the insect-like vendor in
+   the alien sector) to seek a bodyguard. In a few hours, he will attend
+   the Minbari religious ceremony, and he doesn't want to be unprotected
+   in public.
+   
+   Sinclair and Catherine Sakai are having dinner. They talk about how
+   they meet every few years, talk briefly, end up in bed together, then
+   go their separate ways. They both agree that their relationship should
+   not go on like this--it isn't worth it.
+   
+   The Minbari religious ceremony has begun. It is, needless to say,
+   quite the opposite of the Centauri celebration: It is orderly and
+   ceremonial. Delenn starts out by reading a story that deals with death
+   and renewal. Orderly music is played at certain points in the story.
+   Red pieces of fruit are then handed out; Delenn tells everyone to eat
+   them. She shows a slight interest in Sinclair's eating the fruit, then
+   moves on with the ceremony. "So, it begins!" she says.
+   
+   [INLINE] "Taste of it."
+   
+   G'Kar, during the whole ceremony, has been extremely agitated, because
+   his bodyguard did not arrive. He storms into his quarters, screaming
+   and complaining; but Na'Toth only directs him into an adjoining room.
+   In that room, he sees the bodyguard sitting down, quietly. He yells at
+   him for a moment, then hits him in annoyance. The bodyguard falls over
+   stiffly, and it is evident that he has been killed. Further, a black
+   flower--the warning sign--is hanging from the bodyguard's clothing.
+   
+   G'Kar has called Garibaldi into his quarters. Garibaldi investigates
+   the murder: "You just came in and found this guy dead in your
+   bedroom?" G'Kar explains that he has never seen the person before and
+   has no idea who he is or why he was in G'Kar's bedroom. G'Kar claims,
+   as an alibi, that he was at the Minbari ceremony when this person was
+   killed. Garibaldi agrees, but comments that G'Kar seemed rather
+   nervous and preoccupied at the ceremony. Garibaldi continues his
+   search of G'Kar's quarters, only to find a hot-pink piece of woman's
+   underwear behind the bed. G'Kar is, needless to say, annoyed--he also
+   doesn't like that Garibaldi continues to question =him=. He orders
+   Garibaldi out of his quarters, invoking diplomatic immunity. "I
+   brought you here as a courtesy," says G'Kar. He tells Garibaldi that
+   he should be spending more time trying to find out who the murderer
+   was, rather than questioning G'Kar.
+   
+   Garibaldi humbly apologizes, but doesn't leave before commenting, "And
+   just let me say, ambassador, from the bottom of my heart, hot pink is
+   definitely your color."
+   
+   [INLINE] "Hot pink is definitely your color."
+   
+   Na'Toth, after considerable searching, finally finds Tu'Pari and
+   brings him back--under slight protest--to G'Kar.
+   
+   Catherine is meanwhile in the middle of a business negotiation. She is
+   giving information to her associates about a planetoid which she has
+   located and which she believes would be a good candidate for mining.
+   Her associates are satisfied, and also offer her their
+   congratulations--a valuable mineral was discovered on a previous
+   planet which she scouted, and, under the contract, she is entitled to
+   a percentage of the profits. When they show her the amount of credits
+   to which she is entitled, she is almost speechless and quite surprised
+   at her good fortune.
+   
+   Na'Toth has brought back Courier Tu'Pari to G'Kar's quarters. He
+   thanks her and sends her out, saying that he wants to speak with
+   Tu'Pari alone. She leaves. He grabs Tu'Pari by the neck and asks who
+   gave Tu'Pari the message to deliver. When Tu'Pari replies that the
+   message in from D'Rog, G'Kar merely tightens his grip and says that
+   D'Rog is dead. Tu'Pari then admits that the message is from Councillor
+   Sha'Toth, Na'Toth's father. "The danger is much closer to you thank
+   you think, ambassador," says Tu'Pari.
+   
+   Sinclair is in his quarters listening to Tennyson's [9]Ulysses when
+   Catherine enters. She brings some expensive wine and comments that she
+   has terrific news and is "tired of not having anyone to share it
+   with." She comments on his liking of old poetry: "What's it take to
+   drive you into the 23rd century?" She quotes some of it to him; he is
+   surprised to find that she has memorized it. She responds, "I lived
+   with you for a year--I didn't have much choice." Sinclair comments
+   that what she's doing right now may not be such a good idea; however,
+   she pleads with him not to send her out. Although they have
+   superficially agreed that their relationship is over and that they
+   have no feelings for each other any longer, she says that "you don't
+   just turn it off like a switch." She admits that, even though they
+   have been separated for a while, and even though she has tried
+   relationships with other men, she never stopped thinking about him.
+   After a bit of tension, they agree to spend the night with one
+   another.
+   
+   G'Kar is in his quarters, communicating with the Narn homeworld. He is
+   requesting that Na'Toth be reassigned immediately. They confirm his
+   request; further, they apologize for the delays in communication.
+   "What delays?" asks G'Kar.
+   
+   G'Kar's correspondent explains that the appointed courier met with an
+   unfortunate accident right before he was going to leave for Babylon 5.
+   They have not yet been able to find a replacement.
+   
+   "What are you talking about?" G'Kar asks. "The courier is right here.
+   I--" Suddenly, he realizes, and turns around to find Tu'Pari staring
+   at him, pointing a gun at him, and smiling evilly.
+   
+   The next morning, Catherine, in bed with Sinclair, is talking with
+   him. They reflect on their relationship, its longevity, and its
+   resilience--how it started at the academy, lasted through the war, and
+   somehow showed itself every three years since then. They also speak of
+   how things might be different this time ...
+   
+   Meanwhile, the assassin Tu'Pari has been waiting for Ambassador G'Kar
+   to awake. When G'Kar does awake, Tu'Pari gloats a bit about how
+   G'Kar's being awake will "make this far more interesting." G'Kar,
+   needless to say, is anger and runs toward Tu'Pari in order to attack
+   him. However, the devices (known as "pain-givers") around G'Kar's neck
+   and arms propel him back--in pain--before he gets close enough to
+   Tu'Pari to be threatening. "My orders are quite specific," says
+   Tu'Pari. "You are to know pain. You are to know fear. And then, you
+   are to die." However, he admits that it will be a pleasure when the
+   assignment is finished--"Allaying the target's suspicions can be so
+   time-consuming. Do you have any idea how long I sat in the customs
+   area waiting for Na'Toth to 'find' me?"
+   
+   [INLINE] "You are to know pain..."
+   
+   G'Kar tries to reason with Tu'Pari; he offers to double the assassin's
+   current payment if he will abort his mission.
+   
+   Tu'Pari notes how, though G'Kar could probably make him very wealthy,
+   to betray a commission would be a violation of the rules and the
+   spirit of the Assassins' Guild. Indeed, if Tu'Pari were to violate
+   those rules, the Assassins' Guild would then have to kill =him=. To
+   accentuate his point, he increases the intensity of the pain-givers.
+   
+   Na'Toth enters G'Kar's quarters and, when she cannot find G'Kar,
+   orders the computer to replay the last transmission in which G'Kar
+   participated. The computer shows her ...
+   
+   Tu'Pari is continuing to use the pain-givers against G'Kar. "The pain
+   must be overwhelming. Why hold it in? Cry out, ambassador!"
+   
+   "I would die," retorts G'Kar, "before giving you that satisfaction."
+   However, it is evident that he is, indeed, in great pain. However,
+   just to be sure, Tu'Pari continues to raise the intensity of the
+   pain-givers. G'Kar does, eventually, indeed, cry out.
+   
+   At that moment, Na'Toth finally enters. She explains how she found
+   Tu'Pari and G'Kar--she knew that Tu'Pari would want "complete
+   privacy," so she searched for and found which transport tube had
+   "suddenly broken down," as Na'Toth comments. Tu'Pari orders her away,
+   but Na'Toth refuses to leave. She claims to be Tu'Pari's backup: "I
+   have to finish the job in case you fail."
+   
+   Tu'Pari skeptically replies that he was not informed about any backup.
+   
+   "No, the primary never is--standard practice in the Assassins' Guild,
+   as you well know," says Na'Toth.
+   
+   Still, Tu'Pari refuses to believe her. Na'Toth ignores him-- she
+   comments on the "crude, unimaginative" pain-givers that are being used
+   on G'Kar, saying that they are much too quick--that their orders were
+   to prolong G'Kar's pain and discomfort as much as possible until "the
+   deadline."
+   
+   "And what would you recommend?" asks Tu'Pari, still skeptical.
+   
+   She answers with action: she brutally kicks him a few times, picks him
+   up, and repeatedly hits him, sending him falling out of the room.
+   
+   But Tu'Pari is still unmoved. "And this is the part," he says, "where
+   I'm supposed to decide I trust you, drop my guard, and let you shoot
+   me in the back? Sorry, but I can't take the chance that you're lying."
+   However, just by saying this, his guard was lowered enough. G'Kar,
+   whose pain-givers are no longer activated, quickly rushes up to
+   Tu'Pari and knocks him unconscious.
+   
+   "That hurt!" he says to Na'Toth, in a friendly way.
+   
+   "Ambassador," she answers, "it was the only way to disable the
+   pain-givers. I had to hit them as hard as possible, as often as
+   possible, and still make it appear as though I were beating you into
+   another incarnation."
+   
+   "And you didn't enjoy it in the least?" he asks.
+   
+   "I didn't say that!" she jokingly responds. She asks what G'Kar will
+   do with Tu'Pari....
+   
+   Three days later, when Tu'Pari awakes, he is annoyed to find that he
+   has been unconscious for so long. G'Kar explains that to make up for
+   any inconvenience, he has deposited a large sum of money in Tu'Pari's
+   personal account at home. Tu'Pari realizes what this means--the
+   Assassins' Guild will think he betrayed his commission, and it will
+   not take kindly to what it believes to be a violation of its rules.
+   
+   G'Kar smiles and is glad to realize that he has nothing to fear from
+   the Guild any longer--the commission was Tu'Pari's alone, and because
+   the Assassins' Guild will be so embarrassed by this incident, they'd
+   prefer to forget it all never happened--except for killing Tu'Pari if
+   they find him. Happily, G'Kar and Na'Toth send Tu'Pari on his way,
+   both saying, "You will know pain, and you will know fear, and then you
+   will die. Have a pleasant flight."
+   
+   [INLINE] "Have a pleasant flight."
+   
+   Sinclair and Catherine are saying goodbye to one another. However,
+   they both agree that this time will be different--"I'm not leaving,
+   this time," says Sinclair.
+   
+   "This should be interesting," responds Catherine. She then asks him
+   what he's planning for Earth's religious demonstration. He replies
+   that he has no idea--and that he also has no idea how he'll top the
+   Minbari demonstration, with all its "Bells, drums, robes, and little
+   pieces of fruit."
+   
+   "Red fruit?" she asks, her interested piqued. "And was there a serious
+   exchange of looks?" He says that there were--it's part of the rebirth
+   ceremony, he says. She laughs and says that that type of ceremony can
+   also double as a marriage ceremony--"depending on how seriously anyone
+   took it, somebody got married the other day."
+   
+   "Maybe that's why G'Kar's smiling. Funny, I didn't think Londo was his
+   type," Sinclair jokes.
+   
+   Catherine leaves, but says she'll return soon. They both wonder if
+   they'll "get it right this time."
+   
+   Sinclair has finally arranged Earth's religious demonstration. He
+   brings the alien ambassadors into a room which contains hundreds of
+   people, all of different religions. Sinclair moves along a line formed
+   by them, introducing them one-by-one to the aliens. There were, as the
+   aliens commented, no drums, no bells, no chants--only a showcase of
+   Earth's proud diversity.
+   
+   Shawn Bayern _bayern@cshl.org_
+     _________________________________________________________________
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+   Jason Ironheart, Psi-Corps Level 10, has stolen a transport vessel but
+   is being pursued. His pursuers order him to stop, but he ignores them.
+   Suddenly, there is a strong explosion, and only one ship emerges:
+   Ironheart's ship, headed toward Babylon 5.
+   
+   [INLINE] Pursuing Ironheart.
+   
+   On Babylon 5, Sinclair and Catherine Sakai, his girlfriend, have just
+   woken up. Catherine explains that she's working on finalizing a
+   contract with Universal Terraform, an important corporation from
+   Earth.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Ironheart has arrived on Babylon 5.
+   
+   Talia Winters is having a conversation with a businessman from
+   Universal Terraform who wants to use her services in an upcoming
+   negotiation. They enter an elevator (turbolift?) which Garibaldi is
+   also currently using. The businessman asks what it's like to be a
+   telepath; Winters responds that it's often difficult to block out the
+   thoughts around her--while casual thoughts are simple to ignore,
+   strong emotions can somehow break through whatever mental barriers she
+   can set up. Suddenly, she turns around at Garibaldi (who has been
+   experiencing his own "strong emotions" while staring at Winters) and
+   elbows him in the stomach.
+   
+   Elsewhere on the station, Bester and Kelsey, two Level-12 "Psi-Cops,"
+   have just come aboard Babylon 5. They telepathically "ask" a minor
+   official to bring them to Sinclair.
+   
+   Catherine Sakai is meeting with the businessman from Universal
+   Terraform--the businessman who has brought Winters along. The
+   businessman is concerned with the confidentiality of the planet which
+   Catherine wishes to survey (because the planet, known as Sigma-957,
+   may have some deposits of Quantium-40, a material important to the
+   construction of jumpgates)--and so, following orders from his
+   superiors, he asks Sakai to promise not to mention the planet to
+   anyone--not even Sinclair. He has brought Winters along to verify that
+   Sakai is telling the truth when she says she will not tell anyone
+   about the planet--and, indeed, Winters does confirm this. The
+   businessman also notes that, since the planet in question is in a
+   contested region of space, they need the consent of one other major
+   party--in this case, G'Kar, representing the Narn, will give that
+   consent and will collaborate concerning Sigma-957.
+   
+   Bester and Kelsey arrive at Sinclair's office, and begin to have a
+   telepathic conversation with him. Sinclair gets quite annoyed, telling
+   them that he doesn't like people "rummaging around in my head." He
+   questions them, asking about the rules governing such use of
+   telepathic abilities. They tell him that they are psi-cops, and
+   because of their important responsibilities, they are given a wider
+   latitude than other telepaths. They tell Sinclair that they are on a
+   mission to track down a rogue telepath--one who may be putting the
+   Earth Alliance's military structure at tremendous risk. Sinclair is
+   hesitant to offer assistance, but they insist that he hold a meeting
+   with the station's resident telepath (Winters), as well as security
+   and command personnel.
+   
+   [INLINE] Bester and Kelsey consult Sinclair.
+   
+   Ironheart is standing in his newly-rented quarters when he suddenly
+   appears to get a terrible headache. He clutches his head, but is
+   apparently unable to make the pain go away. Suddenly, the entire room
+   starts shaking, almost as if to reflect his pain.
+   
+   The meeting that Bester and Kelsey requested has begun. Winters,
+   Ivanova, Garibaldi, and Sinclair are present. Bester asks Winters if
+   she knows (or ever knew) Ironheart; she replies that Ironheart was her
+   instructor in the Psi-Corps Training Academy. Kelsey explains that one
+   year before, Ironheart had been reassigned to work on a covert
+   operation with Earth Force Military Intelligence. Bester and Kelsey
+   refuse, however, to explain the nature of his covert operation. They
+   only say that what is in Ironheart's brain would compromise Earth
+   Force's position and possibly lead to the deaths of covert operatives
+   on other worlds; they believe that Ironheart wishes to sell this
+   information to alien governments. They refuse to give any other
+   information (particularly, they refuse to tell Sinclair what type of
+   danger Ironheart poses to the station); they only Sinclair to find and
+   bring back Ironheart ("Alive if possible; dead if necessary")--"We'll
+   do the rest." The Psi-Cops asks Winters if she has had any contact
+   with Ironheart; she replies that, since she left the academy, they
+   have corresponded only through letters. The Psi-Cops, however, do not
+   believe her--they order her to submit to a mental scan so that they
+   can be sure of what she's saying. She cringes at the possibility, for
+   mental scans can be quite painful--nonetheless, she is forced to
+   comply. The scan is performed, and the Psi-Cops are surprised to find
+   that Winters has been speaking the truth. "Surprising," says Kelsey,
+   "given their prior involvement." The Psi-Cops then leave, ordering
+   everyone (but especially Winters) not to speak with or approach
+   Ironheart if he is found on the station.
+   
+   A short time after Winters has left the meeting, Ironheart approaches
+   her in dark corridor. She attempts to leave quickly, explaining that
+   she was ordered not to see him. He says that he is aware of the
+   Psi-Cops (and also that he was aware of their scan of her mind--which
+   is why he waited until after the scan to contact her), and promises to
+   simply explain the whole situation to Winters if she'll give him the
+   chance.
+   
+   Sakai, meanwhile, is quite annoyed at G'Kar's involvement with the
+   mission at Sigma-957. He explains that he has involved himself only in
+   order to protect Sakai--"Sigma-957 is not a healthy place. Strange
+   things happen there." Sakai, however, doesn't believe him, and
+   explains that she thinks he and the Narn just want Sigma-957 for
+   themselves. He denies her suspicions, telling her that she shouldn't
+   believe everything she's heard about G'Kar--"No one here is exactly
+   what he appears," says G'Kar. "Not Mollari, Delenn, not Sinclair, and
+   not me. My warning is sincere; ignore it at your own peril." She
+   still, however, doesn't believe him, saying that she will, if
+   necessary, "go over his head" and communicate with her own contacts in
+   the Narn regime.
+   
+   Ironheart, in Winters's quarters, explains that one year before, he
+   volunteered for an ambitious Psi-Corps experiment--an experiment that,
+   if successful, would greatly increase the powers of telepaths. He
+   volunteered because he was told that the experiment was necessary for
+   Earth Force Defense--each race wants to make sure that its telepaths
+   are powerful enough. After months of the experiment, his telepathic
+   abilities expanded beyond his belief--he could "cut through any block
+   without even trying--all I had to do was to look at them." However,
+   such development was a mixed blessing, because he finally realized the
+   true purpose of the experiment: to develop "stable" telekinesis.
+   Winters recalls the telekinesis tests she took at the academy--"I
+   tried for days to make [a penny] move with my thoughts; I couldn't do
+   it." He explains that only one in every thousand humans is telepathic;
+   and only one out of every ten-thousand telepaths is telekinetic--but
+   that half of these telekinetics are clinically insane. But the
+   experiment was successful, says Ironheart, "It worked beyond anyone's
+   wildest dreams."
+   
+   [INLINE] Ironheart and Winters.
+   
+   Garibaldi tells Sinclair that he has found something which might help
+   him track down Ironheart: one of the ships which recently arrived at
+   Babylon 5 was a stolen transport that came from Ironheart's previous
+   location. Garibaldi says that he is checking the guest quarters on the
+   station. He comments that he's working as quickly as possible--he
+   doesn't like the idea of rogue telepaths _or_ Psi-Cops on the station.
+   "There's just something creepy about [Psi-Cops]," explains Garibaldi,
+   "The way they look at you like you're some kind of bug." Just then,
+   Bester arrives on the bridge, and Garibaldi leaves relatively quickly.
+   Bester stares at Garibaldi as he's walking away and "replies,"
+   somewhat annoyed, "Anatomically impossible, Mr. Garibaldi, but you're
+   welcome to try, any time, anywhere."
+   
+   Meanwhile, Sakai is on her way to Sigma-957.
+   
+   G'Kar is in his quarters, speaking on a secure channel with Narn
+   Military Headquarters. He says he requires a well-armed heavy fighter
+   for a mission to Sigma-957.
+   
+   Ironheart, still in Winters's quarters, explains to Winters that at
+   first, he thought that the Psi-Corps wanted telekinesis for "big
+   jobs"--heavy construction in 0-G, telekinetic shields on ships. He
+   explains that the Psi-Corps, however, wanted increased control of
+   smaller objects--the smaller the better. If precise control over small
+   objects were perfected, telekinetics could become the ideal assassins:
+   "Murder without a trace. No fingerprints, no poisons." Suddenly, as he
+   speaks, the room begins to shake again. He tells Winters to run--to
+   leave the room quickly -- for he cannot control this side-effect of
+   his new telekinetic powers. This time, however, it's not just his room
+   that starts to shake--it's an entire section of Babylon 5.
+   
+   Sinclair is walking with Bester and Kelsey when the vibrations reach
+   him. The Psi-Cops immediately recognize the situation as a
+   "mind-quake." When Sinclair finds Garibaldi, Garibaldi comments that
+   he has pinpointed the source of the disturbance, but that the entire
+   level of the station where the disturbance is coming from is blocked
+   by some type of energy shield. Sinclair angrily mentions that, when he
+   asked Bester what type of danger Ironheart represented, Bester replied
+   that Sinclair didn't need to know. He calls a meeting with Bester and
+   Kelsey.
+   
+   Sinclair accuses the Psi-Cops of placing the station in danger by
+   withholding information from Sinclair. They merely reply that they
+   were following orders, but Sinclair dismisses that excuse. He
+   confronts the Psi-Cops, ordering them to explain the precise danger
+   that Ironheart poses. Bester only replies that Ironheart is no longer
+   entirely "human"--other than that, the Psi-Corps doesn't know exactly
+   what he is.
+   
+   Ironheart is meanwhile sitting in the middle of the rubble caused by
+   his telekinesis. He is trying, with some success, to calm his thoughts
+   down and stop the accidental destruction.
+   
+   At the meeting between Sinclair, Ivanova, Bester, and Kelsey, Bester
+   explains the basics of Ironheart's experiment to Sinclair. Bester says
+   that, toward the end of the experiment, Ironheart began to show signs
+   of paranoia, stress, and psychosis. One night, Ironheart left his
+   room, killed the head researcher of the experiment, and escaped.
+   Kelsey comments that Ironheart's telekinetic abilities grew stronger
+   and more violent as time progressed. Bester tells Sinclair that
+   Ironheart, in his present state, is a valuable commodity--and the
+   Psi-Corps cannot allow him to fall into the hands of any alien
+   government. He adds that the Psi-Corps wanted to keep the whole
+   incident quiet in order that alien governments not find out about
+   Ironheart's abilities--this reason is why they withheld the
+   information about Ironheart's condition. "It was a calculated risk,"
+   comments Bester. (Ivanova expresses her disgust with the way the
+   Psi-Corps have no ethical problem with taking inhumane, calculated
+   risks). Sinclair asks how the Psi-Cops plan to stop Ironheart if he is
+   so powerful. They explain that, during the experiment, Ironheart was
+   programmed with a "fail-safe code," which, when sent into his brain by
+   a powerful telepath, has the ability to shut down Ironheart--to "put
+   him to sleep"--but not kill him. Bester and Kelsey believe that,
+   between the two of them, they will be able to overcome any defenses
+   that Ironheart has set up--but they can only send the fail-safe code
+   if Ironheart is in their line of sight.
+   
+   Winters walks up to one of the shields that Ironheart has set up
+   around the level of B5 which was shaken by his thoughts. She tries to
+   speak with him--to shout to him through the shields. When he hears (or
+   senses) her, he drops the shields for a moment so that she can pass
+   through. When she finally arrives to where Jason is standing, he is
+   glad to see her. He explains that he came to Babylon 5 in order to see
+   her--that he felt that being with her would be enough to calm his
+   thoughts, "shut out the voices," and rest "for a little while ...
+   before the end." He admits that he shouldn't have come to the
+   station--he has inadvertently put people at risk, though he didn't
+   want to hurt anyone. He tells Winters what he has learned of the
+   Psi-Corps--that, although people believe that the government controls
+   the Corps, the reverse is coming to be true. "[The Psi-Corps is] more
+   powerful than you can begin to imagine. Telepaths make the ultimate
+   blackmailers, Talia. I've seen it all." He tells Winters that he is
+   currently undergoing a tremendous change--and that he is no longer
+   Jason Ironheart.
+   
+   Sakai has finally arrived at Sigma-957. She enters into an orbit above
+   the planet and beings to conduct environmental research. She laughs to
+   herself about G'Kar's warnings concerning Sigma-957.
+   
+   [INLINE] The Skydancer launches a probe.
+   
+   Winters, after leaving Ironheart, finds Sinclair and tells him that
+   she has seen Ironheart. She requests to speak with Sinclair privately;
+   he agrees. When they are in private, she explains the situation to
+   Sinclair. She tells Sinclair that Ironheart wants to see him. Sinclair
+   asks what exactly was between Ironheart and her--why he came to this
+   station. She explains that they had been lovers--and that Ironheart
+   came to B5 to see Winters. "He was everything to me--the perfect model
+   of what it meant to be in the Corps. Do you know what it's like when
+   telepaths make love, commander? You drop every defense, and it's all
+   mirrors.... It's a feeling so profound it makes you hurt. It's the
+   only moment in a telepath's life when you no longer hear the voices.
+   He came to say goodbye, commander."
+   
+   Meanwhile, Sakai, at Sigma-957, suddenly sees _something_ near
+   Sigma-957. Neither she nor her computer can identify it, but her
+   computer's power level is reduced drastically. Her orbit is decaying,
+   and she will crash into the planet in less than two hours. She tries
+   to open an emergency channel with Babylon 5, but there is not enough
+   power to establish a link.
+   
+   Sinclair and Winters arrive to where Ironheart is sitting. He greets
+   Sinclair politely, but gets rights into the purpose of his discussion.
+   "The Psi-Corps is dedicated to one thing, commander: control." He
+   explains to Sinclair what he had previously explained to Winters. "But
+   there is something even more powerful--something they didn't even know
+   existed until I crossed the line. Not mind over matter, mind over
+   energy.... I look at you, commander, and I see not a man, but a galaxy
+   of subatomic particles which I can ... rearrange with a casual
+   thought." Ironheart explains that he feels humans aren't ready for
+   these types of powers; but if the Psi-Corps find him and bring him
+   back, they will study him to try to figure out the combination of
+   drugs which caused this phenomenon.
+   
+   Sinclair, however, asks why he should trust Ironheart over the
+   Psi-Cops. Ironheart explains that if he meant any harm, he could
+   vaporize Sinclair instantly. When Sinclair mentions that Ironheart has
+   already caused harm and destruction on the station, Ironheart explains
+   that the "mind-quake" was an accident. Ironheart claims he never
+   wanted to hurt anyone; however, as his telekinetic powers expand, it
+   takes him a while to learn how to control them. Sinclair mentions the
+   head researcher that Bester said Ironheart killed; Ironheart claims
+   that he didn't want to kill the researcher--but since that researcher
+   was the only one who could duplicate the experiment, he had no choice.
+   "There must never be any more like me," he says earnestly. Ironheart
+   explains that he only wants Sinclair's trust--and a little bit of
+   help. He says that he needs to leave the station so that he can be
+   free to become whatever it is that he's becoming. At length, Sinclair
+   agrees, and arranges with Ivanova and Garibaldi to escort Ironheart
+   off the station to the stolen transport which is docked outside.
+   
+   Meanwhile, very soon before Sakai's ship would have burned up in the
+   atmosphere of Sigma-957, Sakai's computer detects the arrival of two
+   ships. The ships open a communication channel with her--they explain
+   to her they are Narn vessels dispatched on the order of G'Kar to
+   rescue her in the event that anything strange should happen in
+   Sigma-957. They grapple Sakai's ship and escort it back to Babylon 5.
+   
+   Bester and Kelsey have meanwhile discovered that Sinclair is
+   attempting to escort Ironheart off of the station. They meet up with
+   Ironheart as he is trying to escape; they attempt to send the
+   fail-safe code, but Ironheart's defenses are too powerful. Ironheart
+   is, however, forced to kill Kelsey in the struggle. He successfully
+   escapes from Bester, then enters his ship and leaves the station.
+   
+   [INLINE] Bester takes a shot at Ironheart.
+   
+   Sinclair and Winters, along with Garibaldi and Ivanova, watch
+   Ironheart's ship leave Babylon 5. Shortly after, the station's sensors
+   detect a strong energy surge; suddenly, Ironheart's ship is no longer
+   there, and in its place is a strange configuration of floating energy.
+   The energy entity--the new Jason Ironheart-- speaks with Winters on
+   the bridge. As a parting gesture, he gives her "the only gift I have
+   to give"--suddenly, a bright flow of energy enters Winters's head,
+   knocking her unconscious.
+   
+   "Goodbye, commander," says Ironheart, "I will see you again in a
+   million years."
+   
+   Afterwards, Sinclair is speaking with a somewhat-depressed Bester, who
+   complains that his superiors will believe none of what just happened.
+   Sinclair agrees, "Especially since in about an hour, we'll have a
+   small accident in data storage that'll erase the file you just saw."
+   Garibaldi suggests an alternative report: "That Ironheart's ship
+   escaped Babylon 5 but exploded before it could enter the jumpgate." If
+   Bester refuses to use this suggestion in his report, Sinclair
+   threatens that he will make it known how Bester withheld information,
+   put the station in danger, and, through his interference, cause the
+   death of his fellow Psi-Cop. Sinclair also makes Bester promise to
+   have his report indicate that Winters was under Ironheart's control
+   during the incident--and that she was not responsible for her actions
+   during the incident. Bester agrees reluctantly and leaves quietly.
+   
+   After Bester leaves, Garibaldi asks Sinclair if Sinclair will report
+   to "the senator" (probably the senator with whom Sinclair communicates
+   periodically) what Ironheart accused the Psi-Corps of. Sinclair says
+   that he doesn't think it will do any good--Ironheart was feverish and
+   paranoid, so what he said might not be true. Even if it is true,
+   without Ironheart available to testify, it would just be his word
+   versus that of the Corps. However, they agree to keep their eyes open
+   for anything threatening. Garibaldi then wonders out loud what
+   Ironheart's gift to Winters was. Sinclair comments that he doesn't
+   think she would tell Garibaldi even if he were to ask.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Winters is in her quarters. She has placed a penny on the
+   table, and when she focuses on it, she finds that he can make it move
+   using only her thoughts....
+   
+   Catherine Sakai has arrived safely with the help of the Narn ships.
+   She finds G'Kar and thanks him for his help. She asks him, however,
+   why he went to the trouble of rescuing her. "Why not?" he replies.
+   When she comments that that isn't an answer, G'Kar replies, "Oh, yes
+   it is. It's simply not an answer you like or the answer your expected.
+   There's a difference. Narns, humans, Centauri--we all do what we do
+   for the same reason: because it seemed like a good idea at the time.
+   There was no profit--no advantage--in letting you fall to an untimely
+   and most uncomfortable death. It would distress the commander to no
+   good end." She seems to accept this reason, then asks if G'Kar knew
+   what it was that she saw near Sigma-957. He explains that it is a
+   phenomenon which they cannot explain: "There are things in the
+   universe billions of years older than either of our races. They are
+   vast, timeless ... They are a mystery, and I am both terrified and
+   reassured to know that there are still wonders in the universe-- that
+   we have not yet explained everything. Whatever they are, Ms. Sakai,
+   they walk near Sigma-957. They must walk there alone." Catherine only
+   stares in wonder.
+   
+   Shawn Bayern _bayern@cshl.org_
+     _________________________________________________________________
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+   Shaal Mayan, a famed Minbari poet and an old friend of Delenn, has
+   arrived on Babylon 5 to give a public performance of her poetry. She
+   and Delenn are sitting in Delenn's quarters, discussing poetry--and
+   life in general. Mayan, however, must wake up early the following
+   morning (for she must prepare for her upcoming journey to Earth), so,
+   at length, she says farewell to Delenn and heads toward her own
+   quarters. On her way, she is brutally stabbed and branded on the
+   forehead by a assailant who yells at her, "Stay away from Earth,
+   freak!"
+   
+   [INLINE] Mayan is branded.
+   
+   Mayan, fortunately, will survive; she was found and treated in time.
+   However, Delenn angrily confronts Sinclair and Garibaldi, upset at
+   them for allowing such an attack to happen on Babylon 5--a ruthless
+   attack against a peaceful poet whom nobody would have any reason to
+   injure.
+   
+   Later, Garibaldi is discussing Mayan's attack with Sinclair. As it
+   turns out, the assault on Mayan was the sixth recent attack on a
+   prominent alien on B5. Evidently, an organization known as the Home
+   Guard, a militant "Pro-Earth" (anti-alien) group, is responsible for
+   the incidents (the symbol with which Mayan was branded was identified
+   as the Home Guard's logo). Further, explains Garibaldi, the attacks
+   have not only occurred on B5--there have been a wave of similar
+   incidents on both Earth and Mars. Apparently, the Home Guard--and
+   similar groups--have been growing in popular support recently. "The
+   problem is, there [are many] who agree with them and even more who
+   just don't give a damn," comments Garibaldi.
+   
+   Just as Garibaldi walks away, G'Kar approaches Sinclair and expresses
+   his disgust with the recent incident. "I have no special love for the
+   Minbari or their poets, but ... if any *Narn* is harmed in this
+   manner, there will be bloody retribution," G'Kar threatens.
+   
+   Sinclair threatens G'Kar in return, warning him not to cause any
+   disturbances on Babylon 5.
+   
+   Garibaldi is questioning the injured Mayan in the Medical Lab. She
+   cannot, however, identify her attacker or give Garibaldi any clue as
+   to who might wish to injure her. Dr. Franklin approaches her shortly
+   thereafter and offers to remove the brand on her forehead, but she
+   declines his offer: "It is a lesson--one that should not be
+   forgotten."
+   
+   Meanwhile, the authorities on an approaching Centauri vessel are
+   informing Ivanova that they wish to deliver some apparently-harmless
+   detainees to any B5 official of command rank. Though neither Garibaldi
+   nor Ivanova wishes to waste time greeting these detainees and taking
+   them into custody, Garibaldi eventually wins out, and Ivanova heads on
+   her way ...
+   
+   She finds two young Centauri detainees--one male, one female, both
+   complaining of having been taking into custody. They demand to see
+   "Ambassador [Vir] Cotto." Ivanova tells the officers escorting the
+   detainees to inform the Centauri representatives on the station. Just
+   then, as she turns around, she sees Malcolm Biggs, her old lover whom
+   she hasn't seen for eight years, approaching her. She doesn't appear
+   to be very happy to see him, and virtually pretends to ignore him--she
+   is on duty, she says, and she has no time to talk.
+   
+   Meanwhile, the detainees have been brought to see Sinclair, Londo, and
+   Vir. Vir introduces the male detainee as Kiron Maray -- Vir's cousin
+   -- and the female detainee as Aria Tensus -- Kiron's lover. Kiron
+   questions Vir, mentioning that Vir said in his letters that he was the
+   Centauri ambassador on B5; Vir refuses to answer, telling Kiron that
+   it is too difficult to explain. Meanwhile, Sinclair explains to
+   Garibaldi that the two young Centauri had stolen credit chits and were
+   taken into custody upon arrival at B5; however, Sinclair is willing to
+   turn over the matter to Londo because the offenders are Centauri. (Of
+   course, Londo neither wants to deal with the youths nor has any idea
+   what to do with them--but he is given little choice).
+   
+   [INLINE] Kiron and Aria.
+   
+   Ivanova's shift has just ended, and, while she is getting a drink,
+   Malcolm meets up with her. They speak for a while; Malcolm clearly
+   wishes to start their relationship again, but Ivanova is hesitant. She
+   takes her leave of him again--but politely, this time.
+   
+   Vir, Londo, and the two lovers are in Londo's quarters. Vir is
+   explaining the situation to Londo: when the lovers' families arranged
+   marriages for them (to *other* people), Kiron and Aria fled to Babylon
+   5. They do not want to marry anyone else but each other. Londo,
+   however, is slow to understand--he does not see what love has to do
+   with marriage, nor does he respect the lovers for running away from
+   their families. He lectures them on Centauri traditions, telling them
+   how, for a thousand years, marriages have been arranged for Centauri
+   children. These marriages help to merge noble families and "keep the
+   fabric of the Republic strong." "Sometimes," says Londo, "these
+   marriages call for sacrifice [he looks at the pictures of his own
+   wives on his desk]. _Great_ sacrifice. But we make this sacrifice
+   because this is what it means to be Centauri! If you deny this
+   tradition, you lose the very thing which makes you what you are." The
+   lovers listen to him, but are not moved--they claim that these
+   traditions are simply unfair.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Garibaldi has arrested a human who has been found with a
+   knife in his possession. The arrested man, Roberts, is defiant--he
+   maintains that he has a right to defend himself against "the *things*
+   that walk around this place." Garibaldi gets to the point: there are
+   fresh traces of blood on Roberts's knife, and Garibaldi suspects him
+   of committing the assault on Mayan the previous night. Roberts claims
+   that the blood on his knife is his own blood--he cut himself opening a
+   crate. Though he unreservedly admits that he agrees with the Home
+   Guard--"if you ask me, they got the right idea.... Damn aliens are
+   ruining everything for us"--he insists that he was not Mayan's
+   attacker. Garibaldi, without any further evidence at the moment,
+   writes up Roberts on the charge of carrying an illegal weapon.
+   Garibaldi also orders his officers to check the blood on the knife.
+   "If the blood ... matches Mayan's, I'll give you over to the Minbari
+   and let them play dice with your eyeballs," he says to Roberts.
+   
+   "I don't know what's worse--damn aliens or the traitors that suck up
+   to them over their own kind," retaliates Roberts.
+   
+   In view of the worsening situation on Babylon 5, Sinclair goes to see
+   Ambassador Kosh in order to inform him of the recent incidents. Kosh,
+   however, doesn't seem to care; when Sinclair asks him if he will speak
+   with the other ambassadors about the matter, Kosh replies, "We take no
+   interest in the affairs of others." Sinclair then notices the
+   television-like display which Kosh has been watching since Sinclair
+   entered the room--the display is showing historic pictures of Earth.
+   When Sinclair asks Kosh what he's doing with the viewer, Kosh tells
+   him that he is "studying." When Sinclair asks Kosh *what* he's
+   studying, however, Kosh ends the discussion quickly and abruptly.
+   Sinclair politely leaves, realizing that any further questioning will
+   be futile.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sinclair visits Kosh.
+   
+   After his discussion with Kosh, Sinclair returns to the bridge. There,
+   he finds Ivanova and begins talking with her. He asks her if she was
+   familiar with the incident that occurred right after Kosh arrived on
+   Babylon 5. She replied that she received only a cursory briefing. He
+   explains what happened: specifically, he explains that the
+   assassination attempt against Kosh was attempted with poison,
+   administered through the hand. He tells her that he finally figured
+   something out that had been bothering him for a while: "Kosh wears an
+   encounter suit to protect him from our atmosphere," he says, "so how
+   did the poison get into his system? His hand should have been
+   completely covered."
+   
+   Ivanova explains that the Vorlons are very secretive, and that,
+   perhaps, the encounter suit may be more useful as a camouflage than as
+   a necessary protection from the environment.
+   
+   Sinclair understands, but expresses his curiosity at the reassignment
+   of the only human who has seen a Vorlon--Dr. Benjamin Kyle. Kyle was
+   brought back to Earth shortly after the incident in order to work
+   directly with the president. (Sinclair tells Ivanova that Kyle, who
+   was bound by the standard doctor's oath of confidentiality, never told
+   Sinclair what he saw). Further, explains Sinclair, the only member of
+   the Psi Corps to have scanned a Vorlon--Lyta Alexander--was also
+   reassigned. [See also "The Gathering."]
+   
+   Londo is quite annoyed with Vir for getting him involved with the case
+   of the lovers. Kiron and Aria's families have sent several messages to
+   Sinclair--"[they] are outraged, and it's *my* head they're after."
+   Londo explains that he has only one choice -- to send Kiron and Aria
+   back home. Vir objects, however, saying that they love one another and
+   ought not to be forced into marriages that they won't enjoy.
+   
+   "Love, pah! Overrated!" Londo cries out. "[He points to the pictures
+   of his wives.] These are my three wives--pestilence, famine, and
+   death. Do you think I married them for their personalities? Their
+   personalities could shatter worlds! Arranged marriages, every one. But
+   they worked out; they inspired me. Knowing that they were waiting at
+   home for me is what keeps me here, 75 light-years away." Londo is
+   therefore firm in his decision to send the lovers back to Centauri
+   Prime.
+   
+   Sinclair, who has heard that Garibaldi found a suspect for Mayan's
+   attack, calls Garibaldi into his office. However, Garibaldi brings bad
+   news for the investigation: the blood on Roberts's knife was indeed
+   Roberts's own blood. Garibaldi explains that he has set Roberts free,
+   but has placed him under "red level surveillance."
+   
+   "I think he'll be more useful to us running loose," says Garibaldi.
+   "He's a logical recruit for the Home Guard." Garibaldi tells Sinclair
+   that the general unrest that has resulted from these incidents on the
+   station is continuously becoming worse. Fights are breaking out
+   everywhere; the alien population of the station is growing angrier.
+   Sinclair comments that this is probably the Home Guard's intended
+   result--if they can provoke enough tension between humans and aliens,
+   they might grow in power and eventually cause Earth to withdraw from
+   galactic affairs (or so they would hope). One thing is clear to
+   Sinclair: if the Home Guard isn't stopped soon, everything that B5
+   stands for will be destroyed.
+   
+   Ivanova has agreed to have dinner with Malcolm, and she seems to
+   actually be enjoying it. They reminisce about old times, when they
+   were together happily. Malcolm longs for these times; in fact, he
+   tells Ivanova that he is planning to set up a business for himself on
+   B5--this way, they can be together without interfering with their
+   respective careers. Needless to say, Ivanova is quite surprised.
+   
+   Kiron and Aria are sitting in the garden, enjoying the view and
+   enjoying one another's company, when they are suddenly attacked by the
+   Home Guard. A few human individuals viciously attack the Centauri
+   youths--they shoot Kiron at close range with a PPG and stun Aria with
+   a shock stick; after the brief attack, they leave as suddenly and as
+   quickly as they came.
+   
+   Luckily, Vir finds them shortly after they were attacked. Aria will be
+   fine (but does not remember anything about her attackers), but Kiron
+   has been injured seriously. Garibaldi, who is with Dr. Franklin, is
+   suddenly called away because of some "major disturbance."
+   
+   The disturbance is being caused by G'Kar, who is attempting to incite
+   a riot. "We can no longer stand idly by," G'Kar says, "as our peoples
+   are slaughtered by these cowardly humans. We must fight back with
+   every means at our disposal." Garibaldi, who has brought Sinclair,
+   approach G'Kar--but G'Kar relentlessly accuses Sinclair of unfair
+   treatment of the attackers ("You have yet to make a single arrest....
+   You know very well why these crimes remain unsolved. It is because the
+   perpetrators are human," says G'Kar). Garibaldi convinces Sinclair to
+   leave the scene of the riot; he then threatens to arrest G'Kar if
+   G'Kar refuses to stop inciting the riot. At length, G'Kar leaves.
+   
+   [INLINE] G'Kar is convinced to stop speaking.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Roberts himself has become the victim of an attack--at the
+   hands of aliens. He is seriously injured.
+   
+   Ivanova and Malcolm have had an enjoyable evening, and they have
+   returned to her quarters. Just as they are beginning to kiss, Ivanova
+   is called by Sinclair and ordered to report to the briefing room as a
+   result of G'Kar's riot. Malcolm (who showed an interest in the fact
+   that there had been a riot) leaves, unhappily.
+   
+   Garibaldi is briefing Sinclair--the riots have "cooled down" according
+   to Garibaldi, but there have been a few related incidents. He mentions
+   that Roberts, who is still under red surveillance, has been attacked
+   and injured.
+   
+   In the Med Lab, Londo and Vir are trying to console Aria, but she
+   remains dismayed that Dr. Franklin won't let Aria get too close to
+   Kiron. Londo explains that this is standard medical procedure, but
+   Aria insists that her if she were allowed near him, he would sense it
+   and begin to recover. Aria appeals to Londo, asking him if he can't
+   get Franklin to allow her to get closer to Kiron, but Londo tells her
+   to go back to her quarters--"there's nothing you can do here," he
+   says. Aria leaves.
+   
+   However, Shaal Mayan, who has overheard this conversation, disagrees
+   with what Londo has said. She asks him to listen to Aria: "We should
+   listen to the girl. We Minbari consider love a most potent force for
+   healing. She cares deeply for him. Such feelings can turn the tide
+   when all else fails."
+   
+   "Oh, I see," responds Londo. "And if he dies, despite this great power
+   of love ..."
+   
+   "If he dies, she will suffer enormous grief. But every moment together
+   will make her grief a little less," Mayan answers.
+   
+   "I would expect such logic from a poet," he says scornfully. "What can
+   a Minbari know about Centauri feeling?"
+   
+   "Ambassador," she replies, "I have travelled far and seen much. And
+   what I have seen tells me that all sentient beings are best defined by
+   their capacity and their need for love."
+   
+   "And she will learn to live without it," he says, forcefully.
+   
+   "As you did," says Mayan, with a note of pity in her voice.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Garibaldi is showing Sinclair something that he found via
+   the surveillance of Roberts. Roberts, who was injured and who was
+   lying in a bed at the Medical Lab, was visited by none other than a
+   man whom Sinclair recognizes as Malcolm Biggs (Sinclair was able to
+   identify Malcolm because he had seen her in Ivanova's quarters when he
+   summoned Ivanova to the briefing room earlier). Malcolm had a brief
+   talk with Roberts--a talk about the Home Guard and about how Malcolm
+   felt that the they could benefit from Roberts's membership. Malcolm
+   says that he--and the Home Guard to which he belongs--need to gain the
+   support of people like Roberts--people who have been attacked or
+   otherwise harmed by aliens. Garibaldi and Sinclair show the recording
+   to Ivanova, who is entirely astonished at her former lover's
+   involvement. Sinclair asks Ivanova to introduce him to Malcolm--he
+   tells Ivanova that he wants to infiltrate the organization. "Groups
+   like this always like to recruit friends in high places," he says. "If
+   they accept me, it could give me a chance to nail them all before they
+   do any more damage." Ivanova agrees, but on one condition: she wants
+   to be there herself when he takes the organization down. He agrees,
+   and they plan to get started at the diplomatic reception which will be
+   held that night.
+   
+   Vir is talking with Londo; he frankly tells Londo that Londo is wrong
+   in his decision to send Aria and Kiron home. "My cousin and Aria
+   wanted to be together because they love each other.... Would that have
+   destroyed the 'great Centauri Republic'?" Londo replies that they
+   cannot turn their back on tradition, but Vir disagrees and says he
+   feels that the wealth and power should not be placed before love.
+   
+   "'My shoes are too tight,'" says Londo, sadly, in response. "Something
+   my father said. He was old, very old at the time. I went into his
+   room, and he was sitting alone in the dark, crying. So I asked him
+   what was wrong, and he said, 'My shoes are too tight, but it doesn't
+   matter, because I have forgotten how to dance.' I never understood
+   what that meant until now. *My* shoes are too tight, and I have
+   forgotten how to dance." Vir admits that he doesn't understand Londo,
+   but Londo says that Vir shouldn't--at least, not yet.
+   
+   At the diplomatic reception that evening, Delenn introduces the head
+   of an agricultural delegation from Ava IV [spelling correction
+   pending] who is at B5 to study the hydroponics in the garden. Sinclair
+   greets the delegate more bruskly than usual, praising Earth
+   technicians for their construction of the hydroponic garden and
+   abruptly dismissing the delegate's concerns about the security of the
+   station (in view of the recent attacks).
+   
+   Sinclair then moves over to meet Ivanova and Malcolm. He speaks
+   briefly with Malcolm, elaborating on his background in the
+   Earth-Minbari war and on his "belief" that "the only good alien is a
+   dead alien." He tells Malcolm that, though his job requires him to
+   play the role of diplomat, "[I don't] have to like it."
+   
+   Sinclair, Ivanova, and Malcolm leave the reception. Sinclair continues
+   his explanation of his "hatred" of aliens: though he fought and his
+   best friends died in the Earth-Minbari war, he is upset because "the
+   Minbari let us win. You know what that victory tasted like? Ashes."
+   Malcolm explains that he has heard this sentiment many times from
+   Earth-Minbari war veterans. He continues, explaining that he is part
+   of a movement on Earth that is attempting to get rid of Earth's
+   involvement with aliens. Malcolm reveals that he has some friends he'd
+   like Sinclair to meet--but first, to prove Sinclair's loyalty, he
+   requires Sinclair to do him a favor ...
+   
+   [INLINE] Sinclair, Ivanova, and Malcolm meet.
+   
+   At the Council, Sinclair explains to all of the alien governments that
+   there is no longer any danger from pro-Earth groups on the station.
+   Garibaldi explains that they have good reason to believe that the
+   attackers have fled back to Earth. However, Sinclair refuses to give
+   the aliens any further information, saying that the information is
+   classified. This classification greatly angers the alien governments,
+   but Sinclair gives the appearance of not caring.
+   
+   Meanwhile, in the Medical Lab, Kiron has awoken from his coma, to
+   Aria's intense joy.
+   
+   On the bridge, Ivanova informs Sinclair that Malcolm has set the next
+   meeting--she says that he won't reveal the precise location, but that
+   they will meet Malcolm on the Zocalo in thirty minutes. Sinclair and
+   Ivanova are required to arrive unarmed; they will, however, maintain a
+   link with Garibaldi.
+   
+   In the Medical Lab, Londo is speaking with Kiron and Aria. He says
+   that they must fulfill their duties and return to Centauri Prime. When
+   they arrive there, however, they will be greeted by Londo's second
+   cousin, who will escort them to his family estate. There, they will
+   serve a period of fosterage whereby they will be instructed in--among
+   other things--proper decorum and tradition of Centauri. At the end of
+   the fosterage period--when they are adults--they will be free to make
+   their own decisions regarding marriage. Londo feels that their parents
+   will be happy with this course of action because the practice of
+   fosterage is a time-honored tradition, which, although not practiced
+   too often any more, was fairly common in the old days of the public.
+   "To object would be to defy all tradition!" says Londo. Kiron, though
+   happy, asks Londo why he went out of his way to arrange the fosterage.
+   "Because you are still children, and children should be allowed to
+   dance," says Londo, happily.
+   
+   Meanwhile, the arranged meeting is taking place between Sinclair,
+   Ivanova, and Malcolm. As they're standing there, many other members of
+   the Home Guard seem to appear from nowhere -- Malcolm explains that
+   they were using prototypes for a "black light camouflage" device.
+   Malcolm orders one of his men to set up a communications-jamming
+   field, which prevents Garibaldi from continuing the communication
+   link. Garibaldi mobilizes his men; they start running toward
+   Sinclair's position. Meanwhile, Malcolm explains that in two days,
+   there will be a mass assassination of the ambassadors on B5--in one
+   fell swoop, the leading alien figures will all be killed. Malcolm
+   needs Sinclair to help the Home Guard gain access to the diplomatic
+   wing (and, after the attack, to gain safe transport back to Earth).
+   Sinclair says that it's no problem. As another test of Sinclair's
+   loyalty, however, an alien is brought before Sinclair--the same
+   agricultural delegate from Ava IV--and Sinclair is ordered to kill
+   her. He, of course, hesitates--and during the resulting delay,
+   Garibaldi and his forces break into the room. Malcolm is captured with
+   the aid of Ivanova.
+   
+   Malcolm and the other members of the Home Guard are being escorted off
+   of the station. As Malcolm is leaving, he sees Ivanova, and angrily
+   yells at her, "I can't believe you did this to me, Susan. What kind of
+   a human are you, to side with *them*?"
+   
+   "I find many of these people," answers Ivanova, "to be more human that
+   you and your kind." She stares at her old lover, in silence. They both
+   realize that they never truly knew each other.
+   
+   Shawn Bayern _bayern@cshl.org_
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
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+   A solemn-looking man, known to us only as "Knight Two," has arrived on
+   Babylon 5. Shortly after his arrival, he sees another man ("Knight
+   One") in the waiting area and moves over to him quietly.
+   
+   Meanwhile, right outside the waiting area, a security officer named
+   Benson is getting beaten up by two gamblers to whom he owes a
+   significant sum of money. The gamblers threaten him with death if he
+   does not pay them within 24 hours.
+   
+   Knight Two has moved into his quarters. Knight One arrives, bringing a
+   three-dimensional image projector with him. He activates it, and it
+   shows a lifelike picture of Commander Sinclair. "I've identified the
+   target," he says.
+   
+   Sinclair and Garibaldi have summoned security officer Benson in order
+   to question him about possible debts he's been accumulating. They
+   inform Benson that B5 security officers are strictly limited in their
+   gambling--if an officer becomes indebted to the "wrong people," he
+   would become vulnerable to blackmail, resulting in a security risk to
+   the station. Garibaldi claims to have information that Benson has been
+   exceeding the gambling limits, but Benson insists that he's done
+   nothing wrong. Sinclair, however, not wanting to take any chances,
+   removes Benson from the active duty roster pending an investigation in
+   the matter. After Benson leaves, Garibaldi comments that he believes
+   Benson is lying.
+   
+   "Everyone lies, Michael," replies Sinclair. "The innocent lie because
+   they don't want to be blamed for something they didn't do, and the
+   guilty lie because they don't have any other choice." Knight Two and
+   Knight One are building a complex gadget in Knight Two's quarters.
+   They have everything they need except for a power source; Knight One
+   claims that it is impossible to smuggle an energy source onto the
+   station because it would be picked up by the scanners. "So I
+   improvised. It'll be here."
+   
+   Benson, in the meantime, has stealthily made his way to a storage room
+   ...
+   
+   In the medical lab, Dr. Franklin is examining Delenn. He expresses his
+   thanks to Delenn for allowing him to examine her; he says that he
+   rarely gets the chance to examine Minbari--unless there's something
+   wrong with one of them; he says that to have data on a healthy Minbari
+   will give him a basis from which to operate. After the examination,
+   Delenn rises and asks Franklin about a rumor she heard from one of the
+   other doctors--that Franklin used to hitchhike aboard spaceships.
+   Franklin confirms this rumor; he had "wanted to see it all," so he
+   traded his services as a doctor in exchange for free passage on
+   various ships. He explains how he did this until the Earth-Minbari war
+   started, but then pauses. Delenn asks him if he was involved in the
+   war. He replies that toward the end of the war, all xenobiologists
+   were asked by Earth Force to turn over their notes on Minbari
+   physiology so that effective genetic and biological weapons could be
+   created. Delenn asks him if he did, indeed, hand over his notes.
+   
+   "I took an oath that _all_ life is sacred. I destroyed my notes rather
+   than have them used for killing," he answers.
+   
+   Delenn smiles and thanks him. When Franklin asks her, however, what
+   her involvement in the war was, she only answers that the matter is "a
+   topic for another time."
+   
+   Benson, after securing an energy pod from the storage area, delivers
+   it to Knight Two's quarters. The Knights promise to pay him promptly.
+   After Benson leaves, the Knights connect the energy supply to the
+   device they've been building. "I think we're ready to proceed," they
+   agree.
+   
+   Sinclair, asleep in his quarters, is having a traumatic dream about
+   the Battle of the Line, the final battle of the Earth-Minbari war.
+   Sinclair's squadron is fighting a Minbari cruiser. One of Sinclair's
+   friends, Mitchell, ignores one of Sinclair's suggestions and breaks
+   from formation, feeling that he can get a clear shot at the Minbari
+   ship. Sinclair has a feeling, however, that Mitchell is entering a
+   trap. Just as he realizes that his friend is about to die ... he wakes
+   up and rises to get himself a drink. As he looks around his room, he
+   notices that his computer is not working. He calls a maintenance team,
+   but there is no response. Worried, he calls security; again, there is
+   no response. He gets dressed quickly and leaves his quarters, running
+   to the bridge.
+   
+   [9][LINK]Sinclair on his way to the bridge.
+   
+   When he gets to the bridge, however, it is empty, and the computer is
+   not activated. He tries communicating with Earth Central, but does not
+   receive a response. Finally, he attempts to activate the computer; at
+   length, the computer responds. Sinclair, slightly relieved, asks the
+   computer if an evacuation of B5 has been ordered; the computer replies
+   that there was no evacuation. Sinclair then asks the computer to scan
+   for other life forms on B5; sure enough, the computer finds one other
+   life form and notifies Sinclair of the life form's position. Sinclair
+   runs to the location, but finds nothing at first. "What the hell is
+   going on around here," he asks himself.
+   
+   Suddenly, the lights in the corridor start flashing off, one by one,
+   and a mysterious voice answers him. "Maybe you're asleep. Maybe you're
+   insane. Maybe you're dead. Maybe you're in Hell. Not that it matters
+   much, Commander Sinclair, because wherever you are, wherever you go,
+   you're mine!" Sinclair turns around to find Knight Two staring at him.
+   
+   [10][LINK]"You're mine."
+   
+   Delenn has arrived at Garibaldi's quarters. She appears concerned and
+   tells Garibaldi that she was supposed to meet with Sinclair an hour
+   before. Garibaldi calls Sinclair and receives no response; sharing now
+   in Delenn's concern, he begins to search for Sinclair personally.
+   
+   Sinclair angrily asks Knight Two what he's done to Babylon 5; Knight
+   Two replies that he hasn't done anything. He explains to Sinclair that
+   they are both inside a "cerebral matrix" (a "virtual-reality
+   cybernet"). "It's shadow-play," explains Knight Two, "without form or
+   substance. But I'm real, commander, and you're real. And the pain--the
+   pain for you is also real." Knight Two steps back, and a "cerebral
+   discharge" surrounds Sinclair, putting him through agonizing pain.
+   
+   Garibaldi has rushed to Sinclair's quarters. When he enters the
+   quarters, however, he finds them empty. Alarmed, he contacts Ivanova
+   and explains the situation to her.
+   
+   Knight Two, outside the matrix, orders Knight One to cut the cerebral
+   discharge. Inside the matrix, he begins to speak with Sinclair again.
+   He notices how important the station is to Sinclair--how his thoughts
+   seem to be rooted in Babylon 5. He explains to Sinclair that they will
+   "walk together across the bridge of synapses and neurons into the very
+   heart of your memories" in order to find the truth about what happened
+   to Sinclair at the Battle of the Line. Knight Two tells Sinclair that
+   he doesn't believe the testimony that Sinclair gave to Earth Force
+   Defense after the war: that, during the twenty-four hour period where
+   he was out of contact with Earth Force Defense, he merely blacked out.
+   "We're finally going to get to the truth," Knight Two says, "even if
+   it kills you."
+   
+   Garibaldi, Ivanova, and Dr. Franklin are discussing strategies to find
+   Sinclair. Garibaldi has organized a search party, drawn from all
+   nonessential B5 personnel, but that the search still might take a few
+   days. Franklin warns that "a few days" might be too long if Sinclair
+   were injured. Ivanova has contacted a nearby station and asked them to
+   track any ships that have left B5 in the last eight hours. Garibaldi
+   suggests that they also send a few maintenance "bots" to patrol the
+   hull of B5--"If someone shoved [Sinclair's body] outside, the
+   station's gravity won't let it get far. Just in case."
+   
+   "Mr. Garibaldi," Ivanova replies, "there are days I'm very glad I
+   don't have to think the way you do."
+   
+   Meanwhile, inside Sinclair's mind, Knight Two is continuing his
+   probing into Sinclair's mind. "Your name is Jeffrey David Sinclair.
+   Rank: commander. Age: 39. Born on Mars Colony, May 3, 2218, 9:15 A.M.,
+   Earth Standard Time. Enlisted in Earth Force Defense, 2237; promoted
+   to fighter pilot, 2240; promoted again to squad leader less than a
+   year later.... Smart money said you'd make admiral one day. So what
+   happened, _commander_? Why'd you fall off the merry-go-round?"
+   
+   [11][LINK]Sinclair listens to his dossier.
+   
+   Sinclair merely tells him to "go to hell." He refuses to tell Knight
+   Two anything. "I'm betting you don't have a lot of time. Security's
+   probably tearing this place upside down, looking for me."
+   
+   "Assuming you're still on Babylon 5," replies Knight Two. Proceeding
+   with his search for information, Knight Two tries to get Sinclair to
+   reveal "the truth" by conjuring up an image of Mitchell, Sinclair's
+   old friend and fellow officer who died in the Battle of the Line.
+   Knight Two's plan appears to be working, because as soon as Sinclair
+   sees Mitchell, his old memories of the Battle of the Line spring to
+   the forefront of his mind. Sinclair relives the battle--he sees again
+   what he saw in his dream, except that this time, he actually sees
+   Mitchell's ship exploding. After that part of the battle plays itself
+   out, Mitchell begins to speak with Sinclair again. At first, Sinclair
+   refuses to speak with Mitchell; he tells himself that Mitchell's image
+   is just an illusion. When Mitchell, however, accuses Sinclair of being
+   a traitor ("We fought for you. We fought beside you on the Line. We
+   swore we would all go down together, but you're alive, and we're dead,
+   because of you!" says Mitchell), Sinclair feels that he has to
+   respond. He replies, "I tried! I tried!"
+   
+   "Tried to do what, commander?" asks Knight Two.
+   
+   Sinclair answers by reliving the part of the Battle of the Line where
+   he tries to ram the Minbari cruiser. Knight Two urges Sinclair to
+   continue because, as Sinclair himself said, all of the incidents which
+   Knight Two has seen so far were in Sinclair's original report of the
+   battle ten years ago. Sinclair, however, claims that he cannot
+   continue--"I don't remember. I blacked out. I've never been able to
+   remember!"
+   
+   Knight Two moves closer to Sinclair. "You don't want to remember! You
+   don't want to remember the twenty-four hours in which you betrayed
+   your own race. The day you became a traitor. The day you sold out--"
+   
+   "That's enough!" screams Sinclair. As he says this, he suddenly hits
+   Knight Two in the stomach. Knight Two, taken by surprise, vanishes
+   from the matrix without a trace. "Well, well. Looks like the pain is
+   real for both of us," comments Sinclair.
+   
+   Delenn is talking with Ivanova; Delenn explains how concerned she is
+   and offers her assistance in finding Sinclair, but Ivanova says that
+   they're already doing everything they can to find Sinclair. Delenn
+   suggests the use of the station's telepath, Talia Winters, but Ivanova
+   explains that Winters is only a P-5 and, consequently, needs to be in
+   close proximity with people in order to scan them. Winter's isn't
+   trained, according to Ivanova, for a search-and-recover mission.
+   
+   Knight One, meanwhile, is concerned about Knight Two, who snapped out
+   of the cybernet suddenly. Knight Two, however, claims that he's all
+   right. He says that he needs to be put back into the cybernet quickly,
+   for Sinclair was right--they don't have much time. Knight One
+   estimates that the search parties on the station will find them on B5
+   in about four hours. "He's tough. Breaking him isn't going to be
+   easy," says Knight Two. Knight Two orders Knight One to increase both
+   the power of the cybernet and the dosage of psychotropic drugs with
+   which Sinclair is being injected. "We're close.... The more I walk
+   through his mind, the more I'm convinced he's hiding something,"
+   explains Knight Two.
+   
+   One of the security officers is giving a report to Garibaldi. He
+   explains how, although the search teams have covered a lot of
+   territory, there still is no sign of Sinclair. Garibaldi orders the
+   officer to split the search teams into even smaller units--he also
+   orders the officer to bring in every possible available officer. The
+   officer explains how he's already brought in everyone--"even Benson."
+   Garibaldi is annoyed that Benson was brought back to duty, but the
+   security officer explains that he checked Benson's record, and Benson
+   isn't in any debts. In fact, he says, there's even a surplus in
+   Benson's account. Garibaldi, however, is suspicious, for the other
+   day, the account was empty. He checks the account again and finds that
+   one very large deposit was made, followed by numerous withdrawals.
+   Garibaldi assumes that these withdrawals were used to pay off
+   debts--and notes that the large deposit was made only four hours
+   before Sinclair was known to be missing. Garibaldi orders the security
+   officer to find and bring back Benson for questioning.
+   
+   Knight Two has reentered the cybernet. Again, he asks Sinclair for the
+   truth about the Battle of the Line. Sinclair suddenly finds himself
+   surrounded by a circle of people wearing grey cloaks. "What are you
+   doing here?" he asks. "What do you want?" Before he receives an
+   answer, however, one of the grey figures shoots him.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Benson has arrived at Knight Two's quarters. When Knight
+   One answers the door, Benson frantically asks for protection. "You've
+   got to help me. The whole station's looking for me. They think I had
+   something to do with the commander's disapp--" Suddenly, Benson hears
+   a scream from the back of the room. He curiously enters the quarters
+   and is surprised to find Commander Sinclair attached to the cybernet
+   device. He's not given the chance to think about it for too long,
+   however, for Knight One shoots Benson almost immediately.
+   
+   Back in the cybernet, Knight Two confronts Sinclair about the grey
+   figures. He asks Sinclair to reveal what he's hiding, but Sinclair
+   insists that he's not hiding anything.
+   
+   "We all hide things, commander. That's why we bounced back [to the
+   station] again, isn't it? This is where you hide, behind duty and
+   responsibility and obligation," says Knight Two.
+   
+   "Things you'd never understand!" replies Sinclair.
+   
+   Knight Two disagrees, however. "We're both patriots in our own way. If
+   I fail, more will come after me until the job is finished." He presses
+   Sinclair again, telling him that they're going to find out what
+   Sinclair is hiding.
+   
+   Some security officers have found a body floating outside the hull of
+   Babylon 5. The body turns out to be Benson's.
+   
+   Meanwhile, in the cybernet, Knight Two is again expressing his
+   disbelief at Sinclair's rendition of the events at the Line. Knight
+   Two asserts that Sinclair could not have simply blacked out, for his
+   ship "disappeared" from the sensing screens. Sinclair, however,
+   counters that the postwar hearings proved that the screens
+   malfunctioned. Knight Two explains what he believes to be the sequence
+   of events that occurred at the Line: The Minbari (Knight Two says)
+   realized the extent and power of Earth Force defense and realized how
+   difficult it would be to invade Earth. Therefore, they surrendered and
+   decided to work through more covert means. At the Battle of the Line,
+   Sinclair surrendered to the Minbari rather than give up his life. The
+   Minbari took him aboard and asked him to work for them--to be a covert
+   operative. "You agreed [to work for them]. You and
+   God-knows-how-many-other people."
+   
+   "You're insane. I never betrayed Earth," insists Sinclair, but Knight
+   Two questions him--if Sinclair doesn't remember what happened, how can
+   he be sure he wasn't a traitor?
+   
+   Sinclair, however, becomes annoyed with Knight Two: "That's enough!
+   You talk about the war. You talk about Mitchell and the rest, but you
+   didn't know them. They were my friends. I watched them die, one by
+   one. For years afterwards, whenever I saw a Minbari, I had to fight
+   the urge to strangle them with my bare hands.... We never had a
+   chance.... When I looked at those ships, I didn't just see my death. I
+   saw the death of the whole damn human race."
+   
+   "Then why did they surrender?" asks Knight Two.
+   
+   "I don't know. Maybe the universe blinked. Maybe God changed his mind.
+   All I know is that we got a second chance."
+   
+   Knight Two is still skeptical. He asks Sinclair if anything has ever
+   made him doubt his story--that he simply "blacked out." Sinclair
+   replies that nothing ever made him question it--except for what the
+   Minbari who tried to kill Ambassador Kosh said to him: "There is a
+   hole in your mind." (cf: [12]"The Gathering") At Knight Two's further
+   prompting--and after Knight Two convinces Sinclair that Sinclair,
+   himself, wants to know what happened-- Sinclair allows his memories to
+   overcome him again. He again experiences the Battle of the Line. He
+   sees what he has seen before; except, this time, the take him further.
+   The Minbari cruiser stops his attempt to ram into it. The cruiser uses
+   some type of energy field to pull Sinclair's ship in. Sinclair is
+   taken aboard the cruiser and transported to a room where a bunch of
+   grey figures stand. At first, he is hanging in the air, arms bound to
+   the bottom of a triangular metal frame. One of the figures holds up a
+   small metal device (cf. [13]"Babylon Squared") that shimmers with some
+   kind of energy.
+   
+   Later, the grey figures form a circle around Sinclair, who has been
+   freed. Suddenly, he moves over to one of the grey figures and pulls
+   back the veil that covers the figure's face. "I know you. I know who
+   you are. I _know_ you," says Sinclair. Before he can say any more,
+   however, another grey figure shoots him and knocks him out.
+   
+   Outside the cybernet, however, Sinclair gathers up enough strength to
+   break the shackles that bind him to the cybernet device. As he
+   disconnects from the machine, the feedback knocks out Knight Two.
+   Knight One storms into the room, but Sinclair punches him, knocking
+   him out. He picks up a gun and escapes from the room. He is
+   delusional, however; he mumbles to himself about how the Minbari have
+   broken through and how he must get back to his ship.
+   
+   Sinclair begins running through B5's corridors. One officer, a member
+   of the search party, sees Sinclair and beckons to him. Sinclair,
+   however, in his delusional state, believes she is a Minbari and shoots
+   at her. Fortunately, he does not kill her, and she links in with
+   Ivanova. She begins to explain that she has seen the commander;
+   however, before she can finish, Knight One shoots her in the back.
+   
+   Knight One follows Sinclair; they shoot at each other unsuccessfully.
+   Garibaldi finally finds Sinclair, but is utterly surprised when he is
+   shot at by his commander. Dr. Franklin, a few seconds later, links in
+   and informs Garibaldi that he has found the room where he believes
+   Sinclair was held. Franklin believes that Sinclair may have been given
+   large dosages of psychotropic drugs and may consequently be delusional
+   or even dangerous.
+   
+   As Garibaldi is hiding under a table, Delenn enters the room and
+   approaches Sinclair slowly. She ignores Garibaldi's warnings and
+   continues her approach. When she gets close enough to Sinclair, she
+   tells him that he's safe now and that nobody will harm him. He doesn't
+   listen to her, however; he can only picture the unveiling of the grey
+   figure ten years ago--the grey figure who he now knows to be Delenn,
+   though she looked younger then and had a silver triangle on her
+   forehead. "I know you!" he tells her.
+   
+   "I'm your friend, commander. Ambassador Delenn. Your friend," she
+   replies.
+   
+   "No!" he says, as he raises his gun. For a moment, it appears as if
+   he's going to shoot her. Instead, however, he points his gun in a
+   slightly different direction and shoots Knight One, who had just
+   arisen and was about to shoot at Sinclair. Knight One drops to the
+   floor, dead.
+   
+   "Welcome home," says Delenn.
+   
+   One day later, Sinclair awakes in the medical lab. Dr. Franklin has
+   finally flushed the psychotropic drugs from Sinclair's system.
+   Sinclair asks to see Knight Two, who has been taken; Garibaldi
+   replies, however, that Knight Two is about to leave the station. Earth
+   Central has decided to exercise jurisdiction in this case because they
+   believe Knight Two to be a member of an organization which wishes to
+   implicate members of the government as being traitors to the Minbari
+   (in fact, there are even rumors that the organization is a covert
+   operation run from within the government itself). Franklin explains
+   that he doesn't think the trial will reveal much, because when
+   Sinclair disconnected himself from the cybernet device, the feedback
+   "fried most of [Knight Two's] memory." Sinclair still, however, wishes
+   to see his former captor. As expected, Knight Two reveals little
+   information--in fact, he even claims that he cannot remember his own
+   name. However, just as he's walking away from Sinclair, he turns
+   around and says, "Commander Sinclair, there's something in my head. It
+   says, 'Maybe you're still inside. Maybe we're both still inside.'"
+   
+   Sinclair goes to visit Delenn in her quarters. He thanks her for her
+   help in rescuing him--he notes that it's strange that seeing her was
+   the only thing that could help him. As he is about to leave her
+   quarters, she asks him if he remembers anything concerning the Battle
+   of the Line? He pictures in his mind the unveiling of the mysterious
+   grey figure; aloud, however, he says that he cannot, unfortunately,
+   remember anything. It is not clear whether Delenn knows he's lying or
+   not. After Sinclair leaves, a Minbari man, silver triangle on his
+   head, arrives from another room in Delenn's quarters. "He must _never_
+   know what happened. If he should find out, he must be killed. Do you
+   understand, Delenn?" says this man. Delenn replies that she does,
+   indeed, understand.
+   
+   Sinclair, alone finally in his quarters, is making an entry in his
+   personal log: "I remember. I was taken inside a Minbari cruiser,
+   interrogated, tortured. Was that the Grey Council? Maybe. Maybe.
+   Before they surrendered, they must have blanked my memory and let me
+   go. And Delenn--what was she doing there? What is it they don't want
+   me to remember? I have to find out. I have to!"
+   
+   Shawn Bayern _bayern@cshl.org_
+     _________________________________________________________________
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+   Talia Winters runs into Ambassador Kosh, who wants to use her
+   telepathic services in an important, upcoming negotiation. She seems
+   reluctant at first, but Kosh assures her that all
+   arrangements--including legal clearances and payment--have already
+   been arranged. He instructs her to meet him in Red 3 at the "Hour of
+   Scampering."
+   
+   Na'Toth, who is waiting at the docking bay for a ship to arrive,
+   suddenly notices a certain woman come on board B5. Na'Toth is suddenly
+   seized with rage and runs across the room, shouting, "Deathwalker."
+   She attacks the woman who has just come aboard, hitting her viciously
+   until the security guards can stop her.
+   
+   [INLINE] Na'Toth attacks.
+   
+   After Na'Toth is successfully detained, Sinclair is informed of the
+   situation. He asks Garibaldi who the victim is; Garibaldi explains
+   that the woman came from Minbari space in a Minbari ship, in Minbari
+   clothes, and with Minbari identification--but that she certainly isn't
+   a Minbari. When Garibaldi mentions that Na'Toth was yelling,
+   "Deathwalker," during the attack, Sinclair's curiosity is piqued--both
+   Sinclair and Garibaldi indicate that they are familiar with that name.
+   
+   Sinclair and Garibaldi go to question Na'Toth. She explains that her
+   family has taken a blood oath against the "Deathwalker." She took the
+   blood oath after the Dilgar, Deathwalker's race, invaded a planet on
+   which Na'Toth's grandfather lived. Deathwalker, explains Na'Toth, used
+   her grandfather and the other people on the planet in her experiments.
+   Everyone died, except Na'Toth's grandfather, who escaped--but only
+   after having a machine--which slowly killed him--implanted in his
+   brain. Sinclair, however, does not believe that the woman who just
+   came on board was Deathwalker, simply because the Dilgar invasion that
+   Na'Toth mentioned occurred thirty years ago, and Deathwalker would be
+   an old woman by now. Na'Toth explains that her senses would never fail
+   her when it comes to identifying someone against whom she's taken a
+   blood oath. Sinclair, still skeptical, orders Garibaldi to examine the
+   contents of the injured woman's ship.
+   
+   When G'Kar arrives, he apologizes for the attack upon the victim and
+   offers personally to make reparations to her. Angrily staring at
+   Na'Toth, he requests that his attache be released into his custody.
+   Though Sinclair refuses to release custody of Na'Toth, he does agree
+   place her under house arrest, and allows her to be taken to G'Kar's
+   quarters. G'Kar thanks Sinclair and leaves.
+   
+   Winters, meanwhile, meets with Kosh again and agrees to work for him
+   at the negotiations that he mentioned before--she comments that the
+   clearances were indeed arranged and that the pay was very generous.
+   However, she explains that there is still something she doesn't
+   understand. Kosh interrupts her and merely says, "Understanding is a
+   three-edged sword." Soon, a man named Abbut arrives; he greets Kosh
+   cordially and comments, "Oh, Kosh, you old dog! You didn't tell me you
+   were bringing a date!" Talia explains that she is only a commercial
+   telepath, who will be sitting in on the negotiations. Kosh orders
+   Talia to scan Abbut and to report on his thoughts. She scans the man,
+   but comments that he has no thoughts--his mind seems completely empty.
+   Kosh is pleased, and says that they can now proceed. Kosh and Abbut
+   begin to utter cryptic phrases to one another.
+   
+   [INLINE] Abbut, Winters, and Kosh meet.
+   
+   In the Med Lab, one of the doctors tells Franklin that the vital signs
+   of the victim have stabilized but that the victim's species is still
+   unknown. Sinclair arrives, and Franklin explains to him that the
+   victim is in surprisingly good shape, considering her injuries. Her
+   body is healing itself quite quickly, and Franklin wishes he knew what
+   species she was. Sinclair explains that the victim is a Dilgar, but
+   Franklin doesn't believe him--Franklin notes that the Dilgar is a dead
+   race, that after the invasion, the few Dilgar who were left were
+   killed when the Dilgar sun went nova. Sinclair calls up a reference
+   file on "Deathwalker"--the computer informs them that "Deathwalker" is
+   a name used to refer to Warmaster Jha'dur, "the most infamous leader
+   of the Dilgar invasion of the non-aligned sectors in 2230....
+   Specialist in biochemical, biogenetic, and cyber-organic weaponry."
+   The picture that the computer displays looks like the present victim,
+   though Franklin comments that the victim is too young to be that same
+   Jha'dur and too old to be her daughter. He even searches for signs of
+   cryonic freezing, but the computer scan does not turn up any relevant
+   evidence. Franklin notes that he will have the Med Corps send him all
+   information they have on the Dilgar. Garibaldi suddenly enters,
+   holding a Dilgar uniform which, according to the inscription, belongs
+   to Jha'dur. He also brings an unusual drug, which he gives to
+   Franklin. Meanwhile, Ivanova informs Sinclair that he has a Gold
+   Channel transmission from Senator Hidoshi. Sinclair, his curiosity
+   piqued, leaves, but orders Garibaldi to keep quiet the situation with
+   the victim--Sinclair says that he doesn't want any rumors concerning
+   Jha'dur floating around the station.
+   
+   In G'Kar's quarters, Na'Toth apologizes for shaming and angering
+   G'Kar, but G'Kar tells her that no apology is necessary. He explains
+   that he understands her need to fulfill her blood oath (and comments
+   that he has many blood oaths himself), but tells Na'Toth that hers, in
+   this instance, complicates matters. He explains that Jha'dur has made
+   an important discovery that could be potentially very useful to the
+   Narns. He tells her that, in this case, service to the Narn government
+   is more important than her blood oath--therefore, she must not kill
+   Deathwalker, because the Narn government has ordered them to send
+   Deathwalker to Narn _alive_. Na'Toth reluctantly agrees--she will
+   _delay_ her vengeance, but not abandon it. G'Kar says that he's proud
+   of Na'Toth--and promises to help her fulfill her blood oath after
+   Jha'dur's discovery is secured.
+   
+   Senator Hidoshi's message has come through to B5. The senator asks if
+   the recently-attacked victim is still alive. When Sinclair tells him
+   that she is, the senator orders Sinclair to send the victim to Earth
+   immediately when she is fit to travel. Sinclair, however, protests,
+   saying that there is evidence that the victim is Jha'dur, the infamous
+   Deathwalker. Hidoshi, however, dismisses Sinclair's protests; he says
+   that Deathwalker has been dead for many years. He refuses to give
+   Sinclair any further information, and abruptly ends the conversation.
+   
+   In the Med Lab, as Franklin is studying the victim's drug, the victim
+   suddenly awakes and moves over to him angrily. "How dare you pry into
+   my life's work?" she says to him. She asks to see Commander Sinclair
+   immediately.
+   
+   [INLINE] Jha'dur fends Franklin off.
+   
+   Sinclair, on his way to the Med Lab, is stopped by Ambassador Mollari,
+   who asks if the rumors he's heard about Deathwalker are true. Sinclair
+   only tells him that he should know better than to listen to rumors.
+   
+   When Sinclair arrives at the Med Lab, he dismisses Franklin from the
+   room. She looks at him, slightly admiring him. "You know the way of
+   command," she says, "Yes, the Wind Swords are right to fear you....
+   [The Wind Swords] have sheltered me for many years, in return for
+   certain services. They speak of you often, Sinclair. They say you have
+   a hole in your mind." She tells him that she is indeed Warmaster
+   Jha'dur, and explains the reason for not aging: she has discovered a
+   disease-preventing drug that also retards the aging process of all
+   known humanoid species. "It's still unstable and difficult to produce
+   in sufficient quantity, but it works, as you can see," she says.
+   Sinclair immediately realizes the implications of such a drug: virtual
+   immortality. She tells him that, with the help of Earth, she will
+   bring it to "all the worlds of this galaxy" before the end of the
+   year.
+   
+   "Then the willows must scuttle carefully," says Ambassador Kosh at the
+   negotiations with Abbut--and, after Abbut asks, "Does Saturn have
+   rings?" Kosh ends the negotiations for the day. Talia, however, is
+   still curious (for she's been scanning Abbut all day and his mind is
+   still blank--not to mention the fact that she doesn't understand
+   anything either Abbut or Kosh are saying), and asks Kosh to explain
+   the negotiations. Kosh only replies, "You seek meaning? ... Then
+   listen to the music, not the song." After Kosh leaves, Talia asks
+   Abbut to explain the negotiations, but he refuses, replying that it's
+   "not too good to reflect too much." At that moment, Talia suddenly
+   sees herself in her own mind, reflected numerous times, as if she were
+   looking into a mirror. She leaves, even more confused.
+   
+   Sinclair has meanwhile sought out Lennier to ask him about Jha'dur's
+   involvement with the Wind Swords, a branch of Minbari warriors (Delenn
+   has temporarily left the station, so Lennier was the next logical
+   person to ask). Sinclair explains that the woman whom Na'Toth attacked
+   is indeed Jha'dur, and that Jha'dur claimed that the Wind Swords
+   sheltered her. Lennier does not think that the Wind Swords--though
+   they are the most militant of the Minbari warrior castes--would
+   shelter such a villain as Jha'dur, but he says that he will look into
+   the matter. Since he cannot speak directly to his rulers without
+   permission, he says that he will contact Delenn. Sinclair asks that
+   Lennier keep the information regarding Jha'dur's presence on the
+   station confidential for now, and Lennier agrees.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sinclair speaks with Lennier.
+   
+   G'Kar, meanwhile, apologizes to Jha'dur on behalf of the Narn empire.
+   He says that the Narns are willing to make reparations for Na'Toth's
+   attack--and he, on behalf of the Narns, makes a generous offer for
+   Jha'dur's recently discovered drug. "You're very well informed,
+   G'Kar," she replies, "Our reports always said you were a clever
+   one--and a good resistance leader, too. If Earth Alliance hadn't taken
+   a hand in our invasion, we might have helped your kind wipe the
+   Centauri out completely."
+   
+   [INLINE] G'Kar speaks with Jha'dur.
+   
+   G'Kar comments that Jha'dur is also very well informed (and adds that
+   the Narns aren't through with the Centauri yet)--and offers to triple
+   whatever price Earth has offered her for her discovery. She agrees to
+   _consider_ his offer, _if_ he brings her Na'Toth's head within the
+   hour. G'Kar leaves the room, bruskly and considerably annoyed. After
+   he leaves, she laughs a loud, evil laugh.
+   
+   Sinclair, Ivanova, Garibaldi, and Franklin discuss the current
+   situation. Franklin claims that, according to the data that he
+   received from Earth, the woman is indeed Jha'dur--her very appearance,
+   he adds, seems to prove her claim about her drug (assuming there isn't
+   another reason that explains why she hasn't aged). Garibaldi is
+   skeptical, though Franklin's analysis of the serum suggests that the
+   drug can do what Jha'dur says it can do. Sinclair says that Earth
+   agrees with the potential of Jha'dur's drug and has ordered Sinclair
+   to send Jha'dur to Earth immediately. Garibaldi is angered that
+   Sinclair seems to be willing to release Jha'dur to Earth so easily:
+   "She wiped out entire races, destroyed whole planets, experimented on
+   living beings. _Now_ she wants to make everybody immortal?" says
+   Garibaldi. He suggests that they should let the League of Non-Aligned
+   Worlds deal with her--he suggests that Earth should just take her
+   serum and develop it themselves, but Franklin says that the serum is
+   too complex to realistically develop without her assistance. Ivanova
+   suggests that Earth--though she considers its moral stance dubious--is
+   better equipped to handle an issue like this than is the B5 staff.
+   Sinclair agrees, and prepares to send Jha'dur to Earth. After the
+   staff leaves, Garibaldi questions Sinclair's judgment, but Sinclair
+   replies that if the immortality serum can be developed, a galaxy
+   without sickness or death would result. "She can save more lives than
+   she took, and she can make the deaths she caused have meaning," says
+   Sinclair.
+   
+   "Better pray to that God of yours you're right, Jeff," responds
+   Garibaldi, "because if any of the League ambassadors find out about
+   this 'deal,' they'll tear Babylon 5 to pieces."
+   
+   G'Kar, in his quarters, anxiously tells Na'Toth that one of his agents
+   has just informed him that Sinclair intends to smuggle Jha'dur off B5.
+   He quickly contacts Ambassador Kalika, a leader of the League of
+   Non-Aligned Worlds and tells her of the situation.
+   
+   Sinclair, meanwhile, is preparing to escort Jha'dur off the station.
+   Before she leaves, however, he asks her why she wants to bring
+   immortality to the races of the galaxy. She responds that, if she
+   brings immortality to the people of the galaxy, it will ensure that
+   the Dilgar are remembered honorably--it will stand as a monument to
+   her and her race. "Delicious irony ..." she says, "that those who
+   cursed us will have to thank us for the rest of time."
+   
+   However, on the way to her ship, Jha'dur and her escort party is
+   stopped by a group of ambassadors from the League. The ambassadors
+   demand that a full assembly of the Council be called immediately to
+   discuss Jha'dur's trial--they will not allow Jha'dur to pass them
+   ("You will have to kill us all, first," says Ambassador Kalika, who
+   leads the group of ambassadors). Sinclair has no choice but to agree.
+   
+   [INLINE] The League confronts Sinclair.
+   
+   Talia, the day after the last session of negotiations between Kosh and
+   Abbut, tells Kosh that she doesn't believe she can continue to monitor
+   the negotiation. "Your belief does not enter into it," replies Kosh,
+   "We have a contract." Soon, Abbut arrives and greets Talia again. As
+   he kisses her hand, she suddenly sees herself in her mind--it appears
+   as if she's in some sort of computerized matrix.
+   
+   [INLINE] Talia among the lights.
+   
+   The session of the Council is about to begin. Sinclair mentions to
+   Garibaldi that he's sort of relieved that the matter has been made
+   public--Jha'dur will get the justice she deserves (Sinclair figures
+   that, though the Narns and Centauri both had once collaborated with
+   the Dilgar and would therefore probably not want a trial, the
+   Minbari--being an honorable race--will vote for a trial. With Earth's
+   vote--and with Kosh's usual abstention--the Council will be tied, and
+   the League will cast the deciding vote). Garibaldi apologizes to
+   Sinclair for saying some hot-headed things to him regarding Sinclair's
+   decision to comply with Earth's orders, but Sinclair tells him not to
+   worry about it--he tells Garibaldi that he had thought the same things
+   himself. When Lennier arrives, he tells Sinclair that he has spoken
+   with Delenn--and has been given instructions.
+   
+   When the meeting opens, Kalika presents a motion to hold a war-crimes
+   trial for Jha'dur on Babylon 5. Londo is the first to vote on this
+   motion--he expresses his sympathy for the League, but says that he
+   must vote "no" because Deathwalker never committed any crimes against
+   the Centauri. G'Kar votes "yes" on condition that the trial be held on
+   Narn--however, when Kalika does not accept this condition, G'Kar votes
+   "no." Sinclair votes "yes," and explains that Kosh has declined to
+   take part in this session of the Council. Lennier explains that, since
+   the Minbari were not a part of the conflict between the Dilgar, Earth,
+   and the League, the Minbari have no right to judge her. He therefore
+   votes "no." Kalika, angered at the Council and disappointed with B5's
+   ability to treat the League fairly, storms out of the Council chambers
+   but threatens that this will not be the last time that the Council
+   hears from the League.
+   
+   [INLINE] Ambassador Kalika makes her case.
+   
+   After everyone leaves, Lennier apologizes to Sinclair for his vote. He
+   explains that the Wind Swords did, indeed, shelter Jha'dur. The
+   Minbari government did not know about the involvement of the Wind
+   Swords at first--but when the Earth-Minbari war broke out, the Wind
+   Swords came to the Council with devastating weapons that they obtained
+   from Deathwalker. The Minbari government, needless to say, is
+   embarrassed about the Minbari involvement and, just as they could not
+   admit their when they originally found out, so they cannot let that
+   information be made public in a trial now.
+   
+   Meanwhile, a ship has come through the jumpgate. It belongs to one of
+   the members of the League, and it threatens to attack B5 if Jha'dur is
+   not extradited to its government. As the ship draws closer, Ivanova
+   readies B5's weaponry and threatens to defend B5 against the ship. The
+   League ship aborts its attack but stays near B5. However, more League
+   ships continue to come through the vortex. One by one, they begin to
+   surround B5. Sinclair, whom Ivanova has contacted, orders Ivanova to
+   stall these ships.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Sinclair attempts to negotiate with Kalika. He tries to
+   draw on Earth's traditional friendship with the League, but Kalika
+   refuses to listen. Sinclair, all his other options having run out,
+   finally decides to inform Kalika of the full situation with Jha'dur.
+   
+   Ivanova informs Sinclair that she has successfully stalled the League
+   ships--she has gotten them to debate over which of them has the most
+   valid claim to try Jha'dur. Sinclair is pleased, but hopes that her
+   maneuver will buy B5 enough time. Suddenly, the League ships begin to
+   move out of firing range of B5. Ivanova is surprised, and asks what
+   Sinclair did. He tells her that he "played a wildcard." He tells
+   Ivanova that the situation isn't completed yet--Sinclair will be in
+   closed session with the League. Once again, he praises Ivanova for her
+   ingenuity.
+   
+   "A herring is just a herring, but a good cigar is a Cuban," comments
+   Abbut, at the negotiations with Kosh. "A stroke of the brush does not
+   guarantee art from the bristles," replies Kosh. "Do you understand,
+   Ms. Winters?" Again, Talia finds herself seeing strange visions in her
+   head--she is walking and is suddenly attacked by a mysterious man. She
+   screams out in pain. "Our business is completed," says Kosh. Abbut
+   takes off his hat, removes a data crystal from his partly cybernetic
+   head, and gives it to Kosh.
+   
+   [INLINE] Abbut's unusual head.
+   
+   "What was on that data crystal he gave you," asks Talia.
+   
+   "Reflection, surprise, terror. For the future," responds Kosh.
+   
+   Kalika tells Sinclair that scientists from the League have checked Dr.
+   Franklin's data--and they agree with it. And while Kalika agrees that
+   the discovery is "astounding," she still feels that Deathwalker must
+   be punished. Sinclair agrees, and proposes a compromise: Jha'dur will
+   be delivered to Earth, where she will work with Earth scientists--in
+   addition to a group of scientists that the League can send. After the
+   drug is developed, the League will be given custody of Jha'dur. Kalika
+   likes the idea, but wants to make sure that it can trust Earth to
+   honor it later. Sinclair says that once this agreement is made public,
+   Earth will have no choice. Another of the ambassadors from the League
+   wants to know how the Council will react to this decision, but
+   Sinclair says that this agreement is a private matter between Earth
+   and the League--just as it was thirty years ago, when Earth helped the
+   League defeat the Dilgar, as Sinclair points out. Kalika agrees: "It
+   is fair ... and wise."
+   
+   Before Jha'dur leaves, Sinclair speaks with her. She feels that
+   Sinclair is naive to believe that Earth will turn her over to the
+   League once the drug was developed. Sinclair says that he'll see to it
+   personally, but Jha'dur feels this will cost him his command. Jha'dur
+   explains to Sinclair the true purpose behind her giving the serum to
+   Earth: "You and the rest of your kind take blind confidence in the
+   belief that we are monsters--that you could never do what we did. The
+   key ingredient in the [serum] cannot be synthesized; it must be taken
+   from living beings. For one to live forever, another one must die. You
+   will fall upon one another like wolves. It'll make what we did pale by
+   comparison. The billions who live forever will be a testimony to my
+   work, and the billions who were murdered to buy that immortality will
+   be the continuance of my work. Not like us? You will become us. That's
+   my monument, Commander."
+   
+   [INLINE] "You will become us."
+   
+   The group of ambassadors have all assembled to watch the departure of
+   Jha'dur. Surprisingly, Kosh joins them. Suddenly, there is a report
+   from the bridge--there's another disturbance at the jumpgate. A Vorlon
+   ship flies through and, to the elation of many of the ambassadors,
+   quickly targets and destroys Jha'dur's vessel. "Why?" asks Sinclair.
+   
+   "You are not ready for immortality," responds Kosh.
+   
+   [INLINE] The Vorlon ship attacks.
+   
+   Later, Sinclair and Garibaldi discuss the situation. "Hell of an
+   irony, don't you think?" asks Garibaldi, "We find a reason to keep
+   Jha'dur alive, and the Vorlons smoke her for the same reason."
+   Sinclair wonders things will always work out similarly: little powers
+   at the mercy of big powers; politics before morality. Garibaldi
+   responds that this seems to work for everyone--except Sinclair. As
+   they speak, Talia arrives and explains that she is confused by recent
+   negotiations she attended. She tells them that nothing about the
+   negotiations made sense; the two parties spoke in riddles, and she
+   kept seeing images in her mind--images which she feels were
+   deliberately provoked. She explains that, four years ago, she was
+   assigned to scan the mind of a suspect in a murder case. The suspect
+   was a serial killer--she had never been inside a mind like his, and it
+   frightened her so much that she still has nightmares about it.
+   However, at the negotiation table recently, she feels those thoughts
+   were deliberately provoked. When Sinclair asks Talia whom Kosh was
+   dealing with, she tells them. Garibaldi knows who Abbut is. He
+   explains that Abbut is a "Vicar"--a slang term, derived from "VCR,"
+   referring to a type of alien that is part machine, part sentient--they
+   act as living recorders that can record just about everything,
+   including brain-wave patters. Garibaldi suggests that Kosh set her
+   up--and Sinclair guesses that Kosh did this because Vorlons are
+   usually suspicious of telepaths, and if Kosh knows what her deepest
+   fears are, he can use them against her later on.
+   
+   Garibaldi and Sinclair wonder what Kosh could be up to--the many
+   things he's been doing recently have piqued their curiosity.
+   
+   Shawn Bayern _bayern@cshl.org_
+     _________________________________________________________________
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+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/010.html
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+   Shon, a young alien boy, has developed a "congested blockage in his
+   upper air passages." When Dr. Franklin explains to Shon's parents that
+   Shon's condition can be cured by a fairly routine surgical procedure,
+   the parents seem bewildered. "You will cut him open?" they ask, and
+   explain that the "Chosen of God" cannot be "punctured" -- for their
+   souls will escape.
+   
+   [INLINE] "_Food animals_ are punctured."
+   
+   B5 has received a distress signal from the starliner Asimov, which has
+   been immobilized because of a fire in its command and control
+   center--unfortunately, the ship is now adrift in Raider territory.
+   Ivanova (who pleas with Sinclair to send her instead of Garibaldi) is
+   sent to lead a fighter wing to rescue the Asimov.
+   
+   Dr. Maya Hernandez, one of the B5 doctors, tries to convince Shon's
+   parents to allow the procedure, but they are quite determined not to
+   allow it. Just as it becomes evident that the parents will not change
+   their mind, Franklin suggests an alternate procedure. He admits that
+   this procedure won't work as well, but it's better than nothing. After
+   the parents leave to consider this new method, Dr. Franklin explains
+   to Hernandez that, though this procedure will obviously not save Shon,
+   it will at least give Franklin time to try to convince the parents to
+   change their mind. Both doctors realize that there are only two
+   options--surgery or death--but Franklin explains that it is sometimes
+   necessary to "heal the family before you can heal the patient." Shon's
+   parents return and say that they are willing to try Franklin's new
+   procedure.
+   
+   [INLINE] Franklin comforts Shon.
+   
+   Franklin, who is speaking with Sinclair, explains his dilemma.
+   Franklin requests that Sinclair order him to perform the surgery, but
+   Sinclair declines, commenting that it's a dangerous precedent to set.
+   Franklin explains that that precedent has _already_ been set--by
+   Sinclair's ordering Dr. Kyle to save Ambassador Kosh (cf. [9]"The
+   Gathering")--and when Franklin brings up the idea of making this issue
+   official by petitioning Sinclair with a formal request to operate,
+   Sinclair asks him to try to find another solution.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Franklin's "procedure" is obviously not working. When the
+   parents become angered, Franklin pleads with them again, but they
+   still refuse to allow surgery. Finally, Franklin threatens to suspend
+   their parental authority if they will not allow him to operate--and he
+   makes a formal request for Commander Sinclair to decide this issue.
+   
+   Shon's parents go to Sinclair and request that he decide in their
+   favor. Sinclair explains his dilemma--he must consider Franklin's
+   request, but he must also act as the parents' advocate because the
+   parents' race has no ambassador on the station. The parents express
+   their objection--they don't like the situation and believe that
+   Sinclair will rule against them because "Earth people always stick
+   together."
+   
+   The parents visit Ambassador G'Kar and ask for the Narn to intervene
+   on their behalf, but G'Kar claims that the parents' world doesn't have
+   much to offer to Narn--and claims the Narns don't casually enter into
+   other people's affairs. The parents then visit Ambassador Mollari, who
+   says that he sympathizes with them but explains that it would be too
+   expensive to intervene--if the Council was called on this matter,
+   there would be a whole array of costs that would have to be justified.
+   Ambassador Kosh proves just as unhelpful to the parents: concerning
+   the issue of a patient's safety versus the concerns of the patient's
+   world, he simply says, "The avalanche has already started. It is too
+   late for the pebbles to vote."
+   
+   [INLINE] Shon's parents plead with Kosh.
+   
+   When the parents plea with Delenn, she says that she sympathizes
+   entirely, but she also says that the Minbari are reluctant to get
+   involved with the religious affairs of other people--especially
+   because they've seen what happens when other races interfere with
+   Minbari religious affairs. Delenn explains that both Dr. Franklin and
+   the parents believe they are doing what's "right" -- yet how can
+   either of them prove it?
+   
+   Meanwhile, Ivanova's team has found the Asimov--but they have also
+   picked up the signal of an approaching Raider vessel.
+   
+   Sinclair explains to Garibaldi how distraught he is--the buck keeps
+   being passed back to him. Earth Central refuses to advise, and the
+   other ambassadors refuse to take action. Later, when Sinclair visits
+   Shon, Shon explains that, though he doesn't want to die, he doesn't
+   want the surgery either.
+   
+   When Sinclair finishes speaking with Shon, Dr. Franklin asks him what
+   his decision on the request will be. Sinclair explains that it's a
+   difficult decisions: both sides, according to their own beliefs, are
+   morally "right." "Who should I believe?" asks Sinclair. "You [Dr.
+   Franklin], because we share the same beliefs? Or do we? ... What makes
+   a religion false? If any religion is right, then maybe they all have
+   to be right. Maybe God doesn't care how you say your prayers, just as
+   long as you say them ... What we hold sacred gives our lives meaning.
+   What are we taking away from this child? ... I have to refuse to sign
+   the order. I can't allow you to perform the operation."
+   
+   When Franklin angrily confronts Sinclair, Sinclair explains that he
+   really had no choice in the matter. According to his personal beliefs,
+   he would sign the order right away--but as commander of B5, he wants
+   to ensure the neutrality of the station. He explains that he can't
+   just set other races' beliefs aside whenever it's convenient or
+   whenever they violate human beliefs. He also says that, though he is
+   violating the precedent set when he ordered Dr. Kyle to operate on
+   Kosh, that particular precedent must be stopped somewhere.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Shon's condition is worsening. Franklin calls Shon's
+   parents, who say how grateful they are for Sinclair's wisdom, and who
+   tell Shon how proud they are of him that he is dying honorably. When
+   Shon's parents leave, however, Franklin decides to operate on Shon
+   anyway--he can't allow a simple legal order to get in the way of
+   what's "right," according to him. Dr. Hernandez decides to help him.
+   
+   [INLINE] Preparing to operate.
+   
+   The Raider ship that is approaching Ivanova is meanwhile getting
+   closer. Ivanova, in defiance of general orders to the contrary, breaks
+   formation and pursues this Raider ship--as the rest of the squadron
+   escorts the Asimov back to B5. Ivanova successfully destroys this
+   ship, but notes a large squadron of Raider ships approaching after
+   her. She reverses her thrusters, trying to escape.
+   
+   Franklin's operation was successful, and Shon--who is now _physically_
+   fine--comments that he doesn't feel spiritually any different than he
+   did before. When his parents arrive, however, they angrily shun
+   Shon--they treat him as if he were some sort of evil demon and try to
+   exorcise him.
+   
+   [INLINE] Shon, abandoned by his parents.
+   
+   Sinclair, when he hears, angrily confronts Franklin. However, they are
+   both interrupted by Hernandez, who summons them to the Med Lab. At Med
+   Lab, the parents have again arrived--and this time they appear a
+   little more complacent. They say that if it were in their power to
+   forgive Franklin, they would--because he meant no harm, and because he
+   did what he did out of compassion. They leave, after wrapping Shon in
+   a "travelling robe."
+   
+   A little later, when Franklin and Hernandez are researching the
+   customs of Shon's race, Franklin comes across a description of a
+   "travelling robe." Suddenly, he rushes out of the Med Lab, runs
+   through the corridors, and arrives at Shon's room--only to realize
+   that he is too late, that the parents have already killed Shon. The
+   parents, however, don't see why Franklin is so upset--they comment,
+   "This was not our son. This was only a shell. There was nothing to do
+   but end the pain of the shell."
+   
+   [INLINE] "Do not grieve, Dr. Franklin."
+   
+   Later, Sinclair tells Franklin that he won't ask for his
+   resignation--this time. However, he comments that Franklin shouldn't
+   have made the request--then, he wouldn't have had to violate it.
+   Franklin is quite upset with himself, however, for not knowing that
+   the parents would kill Shon. Franklin wonders if things might not be
+   better or easier if nobody cared about life or religion.
+   
+   "What makes us human is that we care--and because we care, we never
+   stop trying," replies Sinclair.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Ivanova and her squadron have returned safely. When
+   Garibaldi asks her about the orders she violated, Ivanova explains
+   that sometimes things work out when one takes an educated risk.
+   Garibaldi replies that at other times, they don't--and he explains the
+   events of the preceding days to Ivanova.
+   
+   Shawn Bayern _bayern@cshl.org_
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Copyright 1994, Shawn Bayern. All rights reserved. Permission is
+   granted to distribute this synopsis _noncommercially_ as long as the
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+   intended by writing these synopses.
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+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
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+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/011.html
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+   President Santiago has decided to visit Babylon 5, ostensibly in order
+   to present a new fighter wing to the station (though some people
+   believe his real purpose is to drum up popular support for his new
+   alien trade and immigration policies, which have met with opposition
+   in the Senate).
+   
+   [INLINE] The Presidential cruiser.
+   
+   Ivanova and Garibaldi are en route to the president's arrival site on
+   B5, and they are discussing the president's arrival. Ivanova tells
+   Garibaldi that the president and his staff have not informed B5
+   command of their travel plans because the president feels it's safe if
+   nobody is aware of these plans till the last minute (though Garibaldi
+   jokes that, if B5 is unaware of the president's plans, the president's
+   staff can blame B5 if anything goes wrong). Garibaldi feels that the
+   president's visit is simply a waste of time and money; Ivanova
+   responds that at least they're getting a new fighter wing out of the
+   visit. Garibaldi is not grateful--he explains that B5 should have had
+   those fighters a long time ago. Ivanova shares in the cynicism--now,
+   B5 will have to renovate bays that haven't been maintained for years,
+   using untrained crews rushed for time--and all of this at B5's
+   expense. When Garibaldi claims he's no longer surprised by anything
+   the government does (he's come to expect it), Ivanova compliments him
+   on his very "Russian" outlook.
+   
+   Suddenly, there is an explosion in the bay. Garibaldi and Ivanova are
+   almost injured, and Sinclair, from the observation dome, sees a body
+   in a spacesuit fly away from the station.
+   
+   Down in the Med Lab, Franklin has diagnosed the person who flew out of
+   the station--he flew out of the bay before the pressurization doors
+   were activated. When Sinclair asks if the patient can say anything,
+   Franklin replies that any procedure that could be used to rouse the
+   patient would kill him. Garibaldi, meanwhile, has finished his
+   evaluation of the damage ("You can put what's left of [the bay] in a
+   shot glass," he tells Sinclair). Garibaldi still doesn't know what the
+   cause of the explosion was, but he feels it was probably caused by
+   negligence or fatigue on the part of the overworked crew. Sinclair
+   asks about the possibility of sabotage, and though Garibaldi claims he
+   never rules that possibility out, he feels that the inexperience and
+   possible exhaustion of the crew was "inviting an accident."
+   
+   Ivanova reports that Major Lianna Kemmer, an official on the
+   president's security staff, has arrived. Kemmer requests an immediate
+   briefing on the explosion. Garibaldi, when he hears Lianna's name,
+   becomes lost in thought--he explains to Sinclair that he knew Lianna
+   seventeen years ago (her father was his friend). "She's a real sweet
+   kid," comments Garibaldi.
+   
+   [INLINE] Lianna Kemmer.
+   
+   The meeting between Garibaldi and Lianna is somewhat cold, however.
+   Lianna largely ignores Garibaldi and introduces herself to Sinclair.
+   Sinclair comments that Garibaldi will brief her on the situation, but
+   she requests that her own team handle the investigation. Sinclair is
+   reluctant, but because Lianna, as chief of presidential security, has
+   the legal authority to take over the investigation ("with or without
+   your permission," she comments. "I would much rather my report
+   reflected full cooperation on your part). Sinclair hesitantly agrees
+   (after Garibaldi bitterly tells him to let Lianna take over the
+   investigation), and Garibaldi moves away bruskly, commenting that he
+   has "better things to do."
+   
+   Sinclair follows Garibaldi out and asks what the problem is between
+   Garibaldi and Lianna. Garibaldi is hesitant to answer, but Sinclair
+   feels that if their relationship affects B5, Sinclair has a right to
+   know. Abruptly, Ambassador G'Kar interrupts them--he has a problem
+   with the seating arrangements for the president's banquet ("The entire
+   Narn delegation has been seated next to the Vree," says G'Kar. "An
+   intolerable situation! Have you ever seen them eat? That's horror for
+   you.... This is a deliberate slap in the face to the entire Narn
+   Regime.")
+   
+   Meanwhile, Garibaldi, who had walked away slightly after G'Kar
+   interrupted his conversation with Sinclair, has caught a thief trying
+   to steal something. He begins angrily yelling at the thief (whom he
+   has caught several times before in the past month), and when he treats
+   the thief somewhat violently, a fight erupts between the two. Sinclair
+   interrupts G'Kar in order to break up the fight.
+   
+   [INLINE] Garibaldi accosts the thief.
+   
+   Later, Sinclair and Garibaldi are eating together, and Sinclair asks
+   Garibaldi what is wrong. Garibaldi finally comments that seventeen
+   years ago, he was working as a security officer on Europa ("a real
+   cesspool," he claims). "Ever try and uphold the law when nobody cares?
+   After a few weeks, I started drinking hard just to get through the
+   night." Eventually, Garibaldi met Frank Kemmer, Lianna's father.
+   Kemmer was a shuttle pilot--"a real decent guy." Garibaldi explains
+   that when his job got tough, he spent some time with Kemmer and his
+   family--this is when he first met Lianna, who used to call him "Uncle
+   Mike." "With all the madness, [staying with Kemmer] kept me sane and
+   sober for a while," Garibaldi explains. However, as Garibaldi was
+   beginning to have a certain amount of success upholding the law, he
+   ended up making a few enemies. Garibaldi knew that some people were
+   trying to kill him, but he also felt that he could handle it.
+   Unfortunately, his enemies worked indirectly: they exploded one of
+   Kemmer's shuttles, thereby killing Kemmer. They blamed the explosion
+   on Garibaldi's negligence. Since the government didn't want a scandal,
+   they kept the situation quiet and "blackballed" Garibaldi throughout
+   the system. "But none of that was as bad as telling Frank's family
+   what had happened. Lianna didn't even cry; she just died inside... I
+   crawled back into the bottle, and didn't come out again for a long,
+   long time." Suddenly, Dr. Franklin calls Sinclair into the Med Lab.
+   
+   At the Med Lab, Lianna and her staff have violated Franklin's wishes
+   and are trying to rouse the explosion victim in order to try to get
+   information from him. When Sinclair arrives, the victim has already
+   been roused, and he claims that the explosion was no accident--it was
+   caused by a bomb. Sinclair orders Kemmer to leave the patient
+   alone--for Franklin feels that any procedure to rouse the patient will
+   kill him--but Lianna refuses. Just as the victim dies, he names the
+   person who planted the bomb: "It was Garibaldi."
+   
+   Major Kemmer has called a hearing in response to the allegation
+   against Garibaldi. Garibaldi, however, cannot believe that Kemmer and
+   the rest of the president's staff are placing so much importance in
+   the accusations of a dying man. Garibaldi claims that the victim "had
+   it in for me" -- that is, he resented Garibaldi because Garibaldi had
+   arrested him a few months ago for "trashing an alien shop." Further,
+   Garibaldi argues that the initial damage reports showed no trace of a
+   bomb, but Kemmer contends that the explosion may have destroyed any
+   traces of it. Lieutenant Cutter, a member of Kemmer's staff, adds that
+   perhaps no bomb was found because Garibaldi didn't *want* to find one.
+   This accusation angers Garibaldi, but Kemmer doesn't seem to care--she
+   asks Sinclair to suspend Garibaldi from duty because of Garibaldi's
+   possible criminal involvement. Though Sinclair doesn't want to suspend
+   Garibaldi, Kemmer -- as head of presidential security -- effectively
+   *orders* Sinclair to carry out the suspension. Sinclair, who has
+   little choice but to submit to Kemmer's legal authority, is forced to
+   remove Garibaldi from active duty. Major Kemmer, now that Garibaldi
+   has been removed from duty, temporarily assumes the position of B5
+   security chief.
+   
+   Garibaldi, upon returning to his quarters, is confronted by a security
+   officer who refuses to allow Garibaldi entry. Major Kemmer and
+   Lieutenant Cutter arrive, and Garibaldi pleads with Kemmer to allow
+   him to speak with her. When he moves to grab Kemmer in order to speak
+   with her, however, the security guard roughly forces him to withdraw
+   his grasp. Kemmer orders Cutter to leave and see what the scanning
+   team has discovered concerning the explosion in the bay; she then
+   dismisses the other security guard so that she and Garibaldi can be
+   alone.
+   
+   Once they are alone, Garibaldi explains to Lianna that he "loved Frank
+   like he was my own brother." Lianna angrily tells him that Frank died
+   because Garibaldi was concerned only with protecting himself, but
+   Garibaldi denies this. He admits that he "made a mistake," but he
+   claims that he would never have let Frank die to save himself. When he
+   pleads with her and asks her to believe him, she replies that it's too
+   late for Garibaldi to ask to be trusted: "I might [believe you], if
+   you had told me then, but you just got drunk and ran, like you always
+   do," she says. Cutter has meanwhile returned, and he informs Kemmer
+   that the explosion was indeed caused by a bomb, for the burns of the
+   victim (the one who originally implicated Garibaldi) showed traces of
+   certain explosives. Cutter also informs Kemmer that schematics of the
+   bay, as well as substantial amounts of Centauri currency, has been
+   found in Garibaldi's quarters. Garibaldi again tries to reason with
+   Kemmer: "Come on, Lianna, this is a frame. If I were guilty, why would
+   I leave the evidence in my own quarters?" he asks.
+   
+   "Maybe you just made another mistake, just like you did seventeen
+   years ago," replies Kemmer, who orders Cutter to take Garibaldi into
+   custody. Garibaldi, however, who is angered by the whole situation,
+   runs away and attempts to escape Cutter. Kemmer orders her security
+   officers after Garibaldi and posts a stationwide security alert for
+   Garibaldi.
+   
+   [INLINE] Garibaldi makes his escape.
+   
+   On the observation dome, Ivanova and Sinclair are surprised to see an
+   alert against Garibaldi. Sinclair orders Ivanova to cancel the alert,
+   but Kemmer--who has just arrived at the observation dome--tells
+   Sinclair that he can't cancel the alert because there is now hard
+   evidence that Garibaldi is a saboteur. Sinclair responds angrily to
+   Kemmer and tells her that "Garibaldi is many things but he's no
+   saboteur"; further, Sinclair tells Kemmer that he is quite annoyed
+   with her personal vendetta against Garibaldi. Sinclair again orders
+   Ivanova to cancel the alert, and Ivanova gladly complies with the
+   order. Kemmer responds that if Sinclair keeps "obstructing" her, she
+   will have no choice but to invoke presidential authority; however,
+   Sinclair tells Kemmer that he's tired of "presidential authority"
+   excuse. "This is my station, and it's time you realized that," says
+   Sinclair. Sinclair proceeds to order Ivanova to escort Kemmer off the
+   observation dome. Ivanova gladly complies with this order as well
+   ("You are going to resist, I hope," she tells Kemmer). After Kemmer
+   leaves, Ivanova warns Sinclair that Kemmer will probably contact Earth
+   Central; Sinclair says he's aware of that, but at least the delay will
+   buy him enough time to find Garibaldi before Kemmer's staff does.
+   Ivanova suddenly has an idea: she smugly orders the B5 staff to begin
+   a "Level 6 maintenance check" on all off-station communication
+   channels--a move which will tie up the communication channels for
+   hours.
+   
+   Garibaldi has discreetly moved down to the Zocalo, where he seeks out
+   Londo. He tells Londo that he is looking for information about the
+   explosion in the bay. He explains that someone tried to frame him by
+   planting substantial amounts of currency in his quarters; he then
+   explains that the currency was Centauri. Londo picks up the
+   implication, and stares with feigned disbelief at Garibaldi; "Oh, Mr.
+   Garibaldi, do you really think that I would do such a thing to you, my
+   good and dear friend?"
+   
+   "In a minute," responds Garibaldi.
+   
+   "You're right," answers Londo, "but I didn't, though I may have an
+   idea who did...."
+   
+   [INLINE] "Don't turn around."
+   
+   Meanwhile, Kemmer angrily contacts Ivanova and asks why all
+   communications channels are offline. Ivanova replies that a
+   communications check is being conducted, for they don't want the
+   president to be "out of touch" when he arrives at B5. Kemmer demands
+   that Ivanova open a channel, but Ivanova brushes her off ("I'm a
+   lieutenant commander in Earth Force, major. I do not take 'demands.'
+   If you have a request, I'll consider it," Ivanova says. When Kemmer
+   'requests' that Ivanova open a channel to Earthdome, Ivanova simply
+   denies her request.).
+   
+   Kemmer comments to Cutter that Ivanova and Sinclair are "doing
+   everything they can to protect Garibaldi," but Cutter isn't
+   surprised--their files show that Ivanova and Sinclair are Garibaldi's
+   only real friends, aside from Londo Mollari. Kemmer sends Cutter to
+   question Londo; she sends another officer to return to their ship and
+   open a communication channel with Earth Force One (President
+   Santiago's ship)--specifically, with General Netter on Earth Force
+   One. Kemmer explains that Earth Force One should be close enough to
+   pick up the signal from Kemmer's ship, which is docked at B5.
+   
+   Londo, meanwhile, has explained to Garibaldi why he feels that G'Kar
+   is the one who's trying to frame Garibaldi. Londo says that during the
+   Narn occupation of Ragesh 3, some important scientific material was
+   "lost," but the Narns claimed they could find it again--for the right
+   price. Thus, G'Kar could possibly have had access to large amounts of
+   Centauri currency, which he could have planted in Garibaldi's
+   quarters. Garibaldi says that he wants to visit G'Kar. Without his
+   usual security clearance, however, Garibaldi knows that he might have
+   a hard time gaining access to the ambassadorial wing, where G'Kar's
+   quarters are located. Garibaldi therefore asks Londo for a loan;
+   Garibaldi claims that, with enough money, he can gain access to the
+   ambassadorial wing. Londo appreciates the irony in the situation--he
+   has switched roles with Garibaldi for the time being--but he
+   eventually extends a fairly generous loan to his "good, dear friend."
+   Londo explains that he sees certain parallels between himself and
+   Garibaldi (Londo feels that, like Londo himself, Garibaldi is
+   sometimes "the odd man out"); it therefore gives him a certain comfort
+   to be able to help Garibaldi in a time of need (however, the more
+   practical side of Londo claims that the Centauri goddess of luck, with
+   whom Londo has had a "long and rather dubious relationship," has been
+   smiling on him lately--he can therefore afford the loan). "If they
+   catch you," warns Londo, "I will deny ever seeing you. Good luck!"
+   
+   Garibaldi successfully gains access to the ambassadorial wing; when he
+   arrives at G'Kar's quarters, he's surprised to find that G'Kar has
+   been expecting him ("... you've been talking to Mollari. It was
+   inevitable he would send you to me.... My people watch him; his people
+   watch me; we all watch one another here, Mr. Garibaldi.") G'Kar also
+   explains that the security monitors are "malfunctioning" at the
+   moment, so Garibaldi need not worry about the security officers
+   finding him here (especially since G'Kar took the liberty of telling a
+   security guard that he had seen Garibaldi on the next level). G'Kar
+   says that he's sure Londo blamed Garibaldi's present situation on the
+   Narns; however, he denies any part in the incident (though he admits
+   he doesn't think it's a bad idea). G'Kar offers Garibaldi a chance to
+   escape B5; G'Kar says that Garibaldi's talents and services could be
+   useful on Narn. Once on Narn, if Garibaldi were to ever become
+   "homesick," G'Kar says he's sure the Narns could arrange for Garibaldi
+   to return--as a genetically altered spy. Garibaldi immediately
+   declines G'Kar's offer, however; he refuses to even think about
+   betraying Earth. G'Kar advises Garibaldi to stop seeing things in
+   "such absolute terms" ("The universe is run by the complex
+   interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened
+   self-interest. Unless you comprehend that fact--and soon--you will be
+   cornered and caged," warns G'Kar), but Garibaldi still refuses G'Kar's
+   offer. G'Kar makes one last plea: "Without your position, this station
+   is not safe for you. You have made many enemies."
+   
+   "Call it a lifestyle," replies Garibaldi, as he leaves.
+   
+   From the observation dome, meanwhile, Ivanova is giving instructions
+   to the new fighter wing, which has just arrived.
+   
+   Down in the alien sector, Garibaldi is trying to purchase a high-level
+   security card from N'grath, but N'grath refuses because Garibaldi is
+   "still police," even though he's a fugitive. N'grath abruptly forces
+   Garibaldi to leave, and when Garibaldi is thrown outside N'grath's
+   doors, he is almost caught by some of Kemmer's guards.
+   
+   [INLINE] Garibaldi and n'grath.
+   
+   He narrowly escapes and eventually returns to the human sector of B5,
+   only to be attacked by a group of angry aliens. Just when it appears
+   that Garibaldi has no hope left, Sinclair (who has been monitoring
+   security reports concerning Garibaldi's whereabouts) suddenly finds
+   him and helps to fight off the aliens. Sinclair suggests that
+   Garibaldi go to Med Lab, but Garibaldi refuses to go anywhere before
+   he figures out who framed him. Ivanova contacts Sinclair and tells him
+   that he has a Gold Channel message from General Netter; meanwhile,
+   when Sinclair turned his head to speak with Ivanova through his comm
+   link, Garibaldi ran off. By the time Sinclair turns around again,
+   Garibaldi is gone.
+   
+   General Netter's message has come through, and Netter orders Sinclair
+   and his staff to fully cooperate with Kemmar. After Netter ends
+   communication, Sinclair explains to Kemmer that he wants to find
+   Garibaldi as much as she does--"the only difference is," says
+   Sinclair, "I haven't already judged him.... But the fact is, Garibaldi
+   is as loyal as you are, and if you weren't so twisted up inside about
+   what happened to your father you'd realize that. It's not justice
+   you're after, major, it's blood." Just then, Cutter contacts Kemmer
+   and says that the guards have sighted Garibaldi and have discovered
+   that Garibaldi has been paying for things with Centauri currency.
+   Kemmer believes that the currency found in Garibaldi's quarters was
+   only part of the payoff; she orders the guards to move in on
+   Garibaldi. After Kemmer leaves, Sinclair contacts the security guard
+   who had been stationed outside Garibaldi's quarters when Garibaldi
+   first found that his quarters were being guarded.
+   
+   Garibaldi, meanwhile, has entered a club. He sits down and suddenly
+   notices that a security guard has moved into the same club. He borrows
+   an alien's hat and tries to avoid notice--and he succeeds, at least
+   for the moment. The guard leaves, and when Garibaldi gives the alien
+   back his hat, the alien replies, "Don't want hat? Take bottle.... I go
+   casino." As the alien gets up, he pushes a bottle of some alcoholic
+   drink toward Garibaldi. Garibaldi fights with himself for a long
+   moment--will he give up the sobriety that he has worked toward for so
+   long? The past few hours have been excruciatingly difficult for
+   Garibaldi--how appealing the drink must seem--how easy it is to simply
+   forget about all of his problems.
+   
+   [INLINE] Temptation.
+   
+   At last, Garibaldi decides to drink -- and he drinks heavily. Quite
+   soon, he's experiencing quite a hangover--despite his trouble standing
+   up, he is sharing jokes with the aliens, and, in general, parading
+   around the room making a fool of himself. ("You got a real nice place
+   here! Great ambiance, terrific decor, friendly people. Yeah, this
+   place should be on all the chartered tours--'see and experience the
+   real Babylon 5.' Hell, in a couple month, I could see a few of you
+   people topside," he mumbles, as he stumbles out the door).
+   
+   Meanwhile, one of the people in the restaurant has notified the
+   security guards of Garibaldi's whereabouts, and when Garibaldi wanders
+   out of the restaurant, Kemmer, Cutter, and their guards are waiting
+   for him. "Drunk again, Uncle Mike?" asks Lianna. The confused
+   Garibaldi remembers how the young Lianna, seventeen years ago, often
+   said the same thing. Kemmer's guards take Garibaldi into custody;
+   Cutter, meanwhile, comments that the new fighter wing are getting
+   ready to be launched, and he feels he should check the bays one more
+   time.
+   
+   Lianna is questioning Garibaldi; she's trying to get him to confess.
+   At one point, she confronts him and asks, "You never change, do you,
+   Michael?" He replies that he thought he had--until she showed up.
+   
+   Garibaldi tries to reason with her again. He asks her if she really
+   wants to destroy his life, just as she feels he destroyed hers years
+   ago. "If I could have gone in Frank's place, I would have," says
+   Garibaldi. "I didn't know, Lianna. I didn't know."
+   
+   Just then, the security officer whom Sinclair contacted earlier
+   arrives at the room where Garibaldi is being interrogated. He explains
+   that Sinclair ordered him to search the explosion victim's
+   quarters--and when he carried out that search, he found a detonator
+   and a few Homeguard pamphlets (the security officer also explains how
+   there had been some trouble with the Homeguard a while ago, and he
+   mentions that Garibaldi cleared it up). Garibaldi says that security
+   had suspected the victim of being a Homeguard member for a long
+   time--but they never could prove it. Garibaldi says that he feels that
+   the victim was killed by a bomb that the victim planted in the
+   bay--but the victim was unaware of the use of a plasma driver in the
+   bay. Such a plasma unit would have created enough vibration to trigger
+   the bomb prematurely. When Lianna asks about a possible motive,
+   Garibaldi explains that the president was planning to announce new
+   alien trade and immigration policies -- policies that the Homeguard
+   would strongly oppose.
+   
+   Cutter calls in and informs Kemmer that the president is about to
+   arrive for the fighter wing presentation ceremony. Kemmer orders
+   Cutter to make sure the bays are secure.
+   
+   Kemmer admits that she'd like to believe Garibaldi, but she still sees
+   no explanation for how the Centauri currency and the bay schematics
+   got into Garibaldi's quarters. She explains that nobody knew that the
+   victim had named Garibaldi except her, Garibaldi, Franklin, and
+   Sinclair.
+   
+   "And Cutter," remembers Garibaldi. "He was there just when the
+   evidence against me was found." Lianna is skeptical, however; she
+   claims that Cutter is one of their best agents. Garibaldi just
+   comments that perhaps the Homeguard was counting on that--though the
+   first bomb didn't work, Cutter can finish the job, so to speak. He
+   advises Kemmer to check the bays herself--just to be sure.
+   
+   As Earth Force One approaches the B5 docking bay, Kemmer and Garibaldi
+   walk down to the bay themselves. Kemmer tells Cutter that she wants to
+   scan the bay herself; however, as she moves to do so, Cutter knocks
+   her out with the weapon he is carrying. He points a gun at Garibaldi,
+   but when he bends down to recover the weapon that he used against
+   Kemmer, Garibaldi kicks the gun out of his hand. A struggle ensues,
+   but Garibaldi gains the upper hand long enough to grab hold of a comm
+   link and warn Ivanova to abort the docking procedure.
+   
+   Later, in the Med Lab, Franklin tells Garibaldi that he'll be all
+   right (though Garibaldi feels like he "just made love to a meteor
+   shower")--and so will Lianna. Sinclair tells Garibaldi that explosives
+   were found on the bay doors--if the doors had opened, the new fighter
+   wing, as well as half of the station, would have been lost. Sinclair
+   also ran a check on Cutter and found that someone on Earth deposited a
+   large sum of money in Cutter's account an hour after the explosion
+   victim named Garibaldi. Cutter then withdrew it on B5 in Centauri
+   currency, which he planted in Garibaldi's quarters. Sinclair
+   congratulates Garibaldi on his actions, and places Garibaldi back on
+   active duty, but Garibaldi feels that he lost a personal battle: "I
+   blew it, Jeff ... just like I always do. When things get too rough, I
+   crawl right back into the damn bottle. What really scares me is how
+   much I enjoyed it." Sinclair still feels that Garibaldi shouldn't be
+   upset with himself--he crawled back out of the bottle and saved the
+   station. Garibaldi, however, feels that he just got lucky--this time;
+   what will happen next time, he asks? Sinclair says he hopes there
+   won't be a "next time," but if there is, he wants Garibaldi to promise
+   not to try to fight the battle alone. "You're more trouble than a
+   toilet full of snakes," says Sinclair, "but I couldn't run this
+   station without you."
+   
+   President Santiago successfully completed his address and reception.
+   In his address, he called for alien governments to work more closely
+   with earth--"a position certain to cause much controversy in the weeks
+   to come," according to a news broadcast.
+   
+   Garibaldi finds Lianna just as she's about to leave. Lianna thanks
+   Garibaldi for his favorable report of the situation; Garibaldi
+   replies, "I figured if you could nab me on my own turf, you might just
+   have a career in this game." Lianna admits that she messed up--she
+   apologizes for what she put Garibaldi through (and she says that
+   Sinclair was right--she was out for blood, not justice), but he tells
+   her there's no need to apologize. He explains that people are not
+   machines, and when they're angry, they lash out. "Seventeen years
+   ago," he says, "we both died inside. But somehow, we survived. For
+   better or worse, that's all we can do--survive. And, maybe one day,
+   forget how much it can hurt to be human."
+   
+   As she leaves, Lianna tells Garibaldi that President Santiago is "fond
+   of Babylon 5." Garibaldi half-humorously tells her to make sure to
+   keep the president safe, for B5 needs all the allies it can get. They
+   hug, and Lianna leaves quietly. Garibaldi stares after her, afraid
+   that he really hasn't changed at all in seventeen years. If it's so
+   easy to crawl back into the bottle, how can he ever be sure that he
+   won't do it again?
+   
+   Shawn Bayern _bayern@cshl.org_
+     _________________________________________________________________
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+   Ivanova, on the Observation Dome, is faced with the less-than-pleasant
+   job of scheduling half a dozen impatient ships for docking at B5. To
+   make her life more difficult, the captain of one of the waiting
+   ships--a Narn transport--calls in and claims to be carrying a
+   perishable cargo that he must deliver to Ambassador G'Kar. The captain
+   is unhappy at having to wait twenty-five minutes, and Ivanova tells
+   him that she'll do her best to minimize the delay.
+   
+   Ivanova calls one of the maintenance crews in the docking bays and
+   asks them if there's any way they can open up a bay and let the Narn
+   transport in. After telling Ivanova how difficult she's making things
+   for the maintenance crew, the foreman of the crew tells Ivanova that
+   she can send the Narn ship in.
+   
+   [INLINE] A busy day in the docking bay.
+   
+   Ivanova calls back the Narn transport and tells the captain that he
+   may dock immediately; the captain only responds, "About time." The
+   Narn transport begins the docking procedure, but as the ship enters
+   the docking bay, there is a sudden accident apparently caused by the
+   bay computers. Ivanova attempts to alter the Narn ship's docking
+   course, and she warns the Narn captain not to try to pilot the ship
+   himself. The captain, however, panics and starts his engines--he
+   crashes into the side of the docking bay, and his whole cargo load is
+   lost.
+   
+   Meanwhile, two people from the maintenance crew have been trapped by
+   the explosion caused when the Narn ship crashed into the docking bay.
+   The two trapped people are brought out, but one of them--the foreman's
+   younger brother--has unfortunately been killed.
+   
+   In his quarters, meanwhile, G'Kar is observing the holy days of
+   G'Quan--the particular Narn religious figure that G'Kar follows. As
+   he's solemnly chanting, Na'Toth interrupts him, bringing the news
+   about the Narn transport. She tells him about the accident and the
+   destruction of the transport's entire cargo hold; she mentions that
+   the "G'Quan Eth" (spelling correction pending) aboard the ship has
+   been destroyed. G'Kar seems extremely distraught.
+   
+   [INLINE] G'Kar chants a prayer.
+   
+   A meeting has been called concerning the accident in the bay. Neeoma
+   Connally, a labor leader on B5, and Ambassador G'Kar attend the
+   meeting with the usual B5 command staff. Connally is quite adamant in
+   her belief that the laborers should not be blamed for the accident.
+   When Sinclair suggests that the computer malfunction in the bay could
+   have been caused by human error, Connally disagrees--but she claims
+   that even if the accident *were* caused by human error, nothing else
+   could be expected from an overwork and understaffed crew. Ivanova
+   mentions that the accident can really be considered the fault of the
+   Narn captain, who panicked and started his engines against Ivanova's
+   direct orders, but G'Kar claims that the Narns are the victims of this
+   unfortunate accident -- and consequently should not be blamed.
+   Connally, however, is angered by what G'Kar says -- though the Narn
+   ship was damaged, and though all of the cargo was destroyed, she feels
+   the most serious catastrophe is that one of the laborers died because
+   the accident. G'Kar offers perfunctory condolences, but he maintains
+   that the Narn captain cannot be blamed--the captain's ship was placed
+   in jeopardy and he reacted. After mentioning that he wants
+   compensation for the damage, G'Kar abruptly leaves, claiming he must
+   attend to a "pressing matter."
+   
+   As G'Kar leaves, Garibaldi arrives and reports to Sinclair that the
+   accident was indeed caused by equipment failure--it appears that the
+   contractors installed sub-standard parts throughout the computer
+   system. Garibaldi explains that it was probably by using these
+   sub-standard microchips that the contractors could make such a low bid
+   for the installation. When Ivanova explains how they'll have to
+   reroute traffic to the other docking bays until new microchips can be
+   installed in the damaged bay, Connally notes, "The problems dockside
+   run deeper than a few microchips, commander." Sinclair tells Connally
+   that he understands and that he's been trying to get the Senate to
+   allocate a larger budget to B5. The meeting ends, and after Connally
+   leaves, Sinclair is notified that he has a Gold Channel transmission
+   from Senator Hidoshi--about the new budget.
+   
+   Because all of the cargo on the Narn transport has been destroyed,
+   G'Kar is desperately trying to find someone who can sell him a new
+   "G'Quan Eth." Unfortunately for him, nobody seems to have any.
+   Ambassador Mollari walks over to G'Kar and mentions that he's heard
+   about the accident in the cargo bay. "If there is anything I can do to
+   be of assistance, you will let me know, yes?" asks Londo.
+   
+   [INLINE] Londo taunts G'Kar.
+   
+   "No," replies G'Kar--and Londo walks away, laughing. As Londo leaves,
+   Na'Toth walks up to G'Kar and tells him that her research shows that
+   nobody will be able to deliver a G'Quan Eth in time for G'Kar's
+   impending religious ceremony. "However," Na'Toth continues, "according
+   to import records, there is one being on the station who has it....
+   Ambassador Mollari." Londo, from the other side of the room, laughs a
+   loud, shrill laugh at G'Kar and exits abruptly.
+   
+   "Why does the universe hate me?" asks G'Kar.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Sinclair is speaking with Senator Hidoshi. Sinclair is
+   disappointed that the budget was not increased--he claims that
+   promises were made to him.
+   
+   "Political realities sometimes take precedence over good intentions,"
+   replies Hidoshi. "If President Santiago can turn things around--at
+   that time, you may receive *some* of the money you requested." When
+   Sinclair responds that there are certain safety concerns that won't
+   wait for the government to turn things around, Hidoshi responds, "Our
+   experts have assured us that your new budget is more than sufficient
+   for safe and efficient running of Babylon 5. Commander, I have every
+   confidence that you will make it work."
+   
+   After Hidoshi closes the channel, Garibaldi tells Sinclair that the
+   news about the budget has already become common knowledge on B5--the
+   station's business channels are broadcasting it. Sinclair calls for a
+   meeting with Connally; Garibaldi points out that Connally will be
+   quite upset because the dock workers didn't get any pay raises, money
+   for new workers, or funds for upgrading equipment. Sinclair isn't
+   surprised, however; he knows that since the workers' contracts
+   prohibit them from quitting or going on strike, the Senate has no
+   incentive to give the workers anything.
+   
+   Ivanova, from the other end of the Observation Dome, calls Sinclair
+   and Garibaldi over. She explains that the dock workers are all calling
+   in sick; when Sinclair asks how serious the problem is, Ivanova
+   replies, "Well, as far as we can determine, none of them are actually
+   ill. They're just calling in sick."
+   
+   "In other words, we have an illegal strike on our hands," points out
+   Sinclair.
+   
+   The dock workers have gathered near the docking bay and are airing
+   their grievances--rather loudly and vociferously. "How much more of
+   this do they expect us to take?" asks one worker. "I say strike," says
+   another, and the whole crowd begins chanting, "Strike! Strike!
+   Strike!"
+   
+   Connally interrupts them angrily: "Stop it.... I don't want to hear
+   the word 'strike' any more," she tells them. She says that they'll
+   listen to all of the complaints, but she tells the workers to "try to
+   keep a cool head during the management negotiation." Suddenly,
+   Garibaldi arrives and walks over to Connally--he wants to escort her
+   to Sinclair, who has already requested twice that she see him. "I've
+   been tied up. I got a lot of sick workers here," Connally replies.
+   
+   When the workers start to pretend to cough, Garibaldi is annoyed. "You
+   think this is funny, huh? Well, I don't."
+   
+   "We're as serious as a rip in a spacesuit," replies Connally, "and we
+   want the Senate and Commander Sinclair to know it."
+   
+   "By staging an illegal strike?" asks Garibaldi. "I thought you were
+   smarter than that."
+   
+   "Sinclair and Ivanova are career military," replies Connally. "I don't
+   expect them to understand. But I figure you for blue collar under all
+   that Earthforce grey."
+   
+   Garibaldi explains that he understands their dilemma, but he feels
+   that they're handling the problem incorrectly. He explains to her that
+   Sinclair wants to speak with her about other possible solutions, and
+   she eventually allows herself to be escorted to Sinclair. As they're
+   leaving, Garibaldi tells Connally that Sinclair wants to help, but
+   Connally is still skeptical.
+   
+   When Connally arrives, Sinclair urges her to send her people back to
+   work--if she doesn't, Sinclair is afraid that the Senate might invoke
+   the Rush Act, a law which might force Sinclair to use troops against
+   the striking laborers. Connally doesn't feel that the Senate has the
+   "guts to do that" (because it would inflame public opinion), but
+   Sinclair notes that "things are changing" on Earth and that Connally
+   shouldn't discount the possibility of the Rush Act being invoked.
+   Sinclair tells Connally that by going this far, she's already made her
+   point -- and Earth Central will be made aware of the laborers'
+   grievances. She replies that she can't send her people back to work
+   without guarantees from Sinclair, but Sinclair tells her that he can't
+   give her any guarantees unless her people return to work. Sinclair
+   asks Connally to trust him, but Connally replies that the Senate
+   controls the money--and she refuses to trust the Senate. Garibaldi
+   points out the possible uproar of violence that might result from a
+   clash between the workers and the government--he mentions how angry
+   the workers seemed when he was down near the bay, but Connally assures
+   him that the workers won't be the first to use violence--they will
+   only defend themselves. When Sinclair tells her that he doesn't feel
+   she fully understands the consequences of her actions, she only
+   replies that she's quite aware of the consequences--her father was
+   killed during a strike on Ganymede in 2237. "I have spent my entire
+   life defending workers' rights," she tells Sinclair, "and I'm not
+   about to stop now." She says that her people won't return to work
+   until they are provided with better pay, higher wages, and more
+   people.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sinclair appeals to Connoly.
+   
+   After Connally leaves, Ivanova calls Sinclair and tells him that there
+   is another transmission for him from Senator Hidoshi.
+   
+   Meanwhile, as Londo is entering his quarters, he notices that G'Kar is
+   already inside. "You left your door unlocked, ambassador. Careless of
+   you. I thought it best to sit here and guard your room until you
+   returned," says G'Kar. Londo taunts him, mentioning that the holy days
+   of G'Quan will end very soon. G'Kar isn't in the mood for games,
+   however: "You know why I'm here," he says.
+   
+   [INLINE] "You know why I'm here."
+   
+   "The G'Quan Eth plant, yes?" responds Londo. "Difficult to grow,
+   expensive to transport, very expensive to own, but so very important
+   to you at this festive time." G'Kar reluctantly tells Londo that he
+   wants to buy the G'Quan Eth plant. Londo replies that he's been saving
+   the plant for a "special occasion"--he explains to G'Kar that when the
+   G'Quan Eth's seeds are dropped into a mixture of alcohol, the results
+   can be quite ... enjoyable. G'Kar grimaces, but Londo continues, "It's
+   a shame you Narns waste them, burning them as incense." G'Kar angrily
+   interrupts Londo and asks how much Londo is willing to sell the plant
+   for; Londo replies, "You are asking for quite a sacrifice from me, but
+   in the interstellar peace and friendship, ummm, fifty thousand
+   commercial credits, in cash, in advance." G'Kar is enraged, but when
+   he tells Londo that that price is an outrage, Londo simply responds,
+   "Of course it's an outrage. The question is, how important is your
+   religious ceremony to you?" G'Kar leaves quite angrily amid Londo's
+   loud laughing.
+   
+   On the Gold Channel transmission, Hidoshi tells Sinclair that Earth
+   has been hearing reports of an illegal strike on Babylon 5. Sinclair
+   claims that those reports are exaggerated, though he does admit that
+   there's a problem. Hidoshi replies that such a strike would endanger
+   B5 and would set a bad precedent for all of Earth's off-world
+   interests. Hidoshi tells Sinclair that the Senate has sent Orin Zento
+   ("our best labor negotiator," according to Hidoshi, "[who] has stopped
+   this kind of thing before on many of our stations") to B5--he will be
+   there within twelve hours. "I expect you to give him your full
+   cooperation, and that includes providing troops if he decides the Rush
+   Act is necessary." Sinclair responds that it would be dangerous to
+   invoke the Rush Act on a station with more than one thousand dock
+   workers; Hidoshi replies that the presence of so many dock workers is
+   another "reason to end this thing decisively before it spreads."
+   
+   When Zento arrives on B5, Sinclair schedules him for a meeting with
+   Connally. Zento tells Sinclair that he wants to speak with Garibaldi;
+   Zento wants to be ready in case he must invoke the Rush Act.
+   
+   Meanwhile, G'Kar calls Londo and tells him that he has arranged
+   payment for the G'Quan Eth. Londo, however, tells G'Kar that he has
+   changed his mind--the G'Quan Eth is no longer for sale. "Consider this
+   a small--a very tiny--portion of revenge for what you did to our
+   colony on Ragesh 3, and to my nephew. Did you think that I had
+   forgotten that?"
+   
+   G'Kar, in his quarters, is enraged at Londo. After Londo closes the
+   communication channel, G'Kar yells, "I'll kill him with my bare
+   hands.... Sinclair can only kick my off the station [because of
+   diplomatic immunity]. He might even thank me!" After he calms down, he
+   begins talking with Na'Toth. He knows she's not a follower of G'Quan;
+   she explains that her father followed a different religious figure
+   than G'Quan, and her mother "didn't believe in much of anything." She
+   explains that she only believes in herself. Eventually, G'Kar explains
+   that there's still one thing he can do to get the G'Quan Eth; though
+   he says that he hates having to use this plan, it's the only option
+   remaining. He tells Na'Toth that there's something she can do to help
+   him, however, in case his plan fails. Na'Toth agrees to help.
+   
+   Orin Zento arrives at a gathering of the dock workers, who don't take
+   particularly well to Zento's assurances that he "understands" their
+   situation. When Zento tells the workers that if they abide by their
+   contracts and return to work, Earth Central will look into the
+   workers' problems; Connally, however, replies that the workers'
+   "problems" have already killed a man, and as the elected
+   representative of the workers, she can't allow that to happen again.
+   Zento claims that despite the recent accident, the government experts
+   assure him that there are enough dock workers on B5 for the next few
+   years and that the workers already have adequate equipment. The
+   workers react badly to this line of argument, however--the foreman,
+   whose brother was killed, replies, "... you can damn well get your
+   'experts' to run [the] docks." Just as tempers begin to get hot,
+   Sinclair suggests that a recess be called and that the negotiations
+   continue the following day. Both parties agree.
+   
+   Sinclair, back in his quarters, suddenly gets a message from Zento.
+   Zento tells him that he's heard rumors that the workers have abandoned
+   their pretense of being "sick" and have officially declared a strike.
+   Sinclair tells Zento that he's sure the rumors are no more than mere
+   rumors, but Zento brusquely responds, "Don't play games with me,
+   Sinclair. I know all about you. You've let this situation escalate out
+   of all proportion, and you can bet the Senate's going to get a full
+   report." Zento warns that if Connally and the workers continue to
+   strike, Zento will invoke the Rush Act. Further, Zento warns that
+   Sinclair's troops "had better be ready" to enforce the Act.
+   
+   Just as Zento closes the channel, the communicator beeps again. This
+   time, G'Kar is on the channel--he says that he must meet with Sinclair
+   to discuss a very important matter. Sinclair agrees, but only after
+   G'Kar notes that he "wouldn't want to burden" Sinclair further by
+   raising this matter before an entire assembly of the council.
+   
+   Sinclair arrives at the council chambers to meet with G'Kar. "Are you
+   telling me this is about a flower?" asks Sinclair after G'Kar explains
+   the situation.
+   
+   "Not just a flower, commander. The very symbol of my faith," replies
+   G'Kar. He explains that all followers of G'Quan must perform a ritual
+   using the G'Quan Eth plant at a particular time in the year ("when our
+   sun rises precisely behind the G'Quan Mountain," says G'Kar, who also
+   explains that people who aren't on the Narn homeworld must observe
+   this ritual at the same time as those who *are* on the homeworld).
+   Each year, the people who celebrate must acquire a new G'Quan Eth
+   plant for the ritual--and now, the only person on B5 with a G'Quan Eth
+   is Ambassador Mollari. Because this ritual is the most important of
+   G'Kar's beliefs, because G'Kar is the highest ranking member of his
+   faith aboard B5 (and must therefore provide the G'Quan Eth to
+   followers of G'Quan on B5), and because G'Kar feels that it is
+   sacrilege for Londo to possess a G'Quan Eth (for the plant rightfully
+   belongs to the Narn, according to G'Kar, and was stolen from the Narn
+   homeworld during the Centauri occupation), he asks Sinclair to help
+   him. Sinclair agrees to attempt to help G'Kar.
+   
+   To try to get the G'Quan Eth plant for G'Kar, Sinclair visits Londo.
+   Londo, however, refuses to give the plant to G'Kar: "You know I would
+   do anything for you, my good friend, Commander Sinclair--but not
+   this.... This isn't about ... spiritual beliefs. G'Kar is only worried
+   about losing face. The Narns--they're a barbaric people. They're all
+   pagans, still worshipping their sun. No, I would rather burn the plant
+   than give it to him." Sinclair leaves, and tells G'Kar--who has been
+   waiting outside--that he's sorry, but that Londo would not listen.
+   Sinclair, at that moment, is called to the briefing room by Ivanova.
+   As the commander walks away, G'Kar calls Na'Toth and tells her,
+   "Proceed!"
+   
+   At the briefing room, Zento and Connally are again arguing. The talks
+   are obviously getting nowhere; Zento says that he refuses to
+   accommodate illegal strikers, and when he tells Connally that he
+   strongly recommends that she send her people back to work, she simply
+   replies, "Stuff it!" Zento says that he refuses to "pander to these
+   people anymore"--he says that after he receives confirmation from the
+   Senate (which he claims he'll have within the hour), he will invoke
+   the Rush Act.
+   
+   [INLINE] Zento and Connally argue.
+   
+   On the way to the docking bay, Sinclair urges Connally to try to end
+   this matter peacefully by sending her people back to work. She says
+   she's sorry that this whole thing had to happen on B5, but she also
+   maintains that it's too late for the workers to back down--they're
+   tired of the abuses and they will finally stand up for their rights.
+   
+   On the Observation Dome, the reporter from ISN (cf: [9]"Infection") is
+   trying to get Sinclair to comment on the labor situation. When Londo
+   and G'Kar suddenly arrive, screaming at one another (Londo demands
+   that Sinclair arrest G'Kar, for he claims G'Kar has stolen a statue of
+   a Centauri deity; G'Kar responds that he has been in the presence of
+   witnesses for the past few hours and has not stolen anything; Londo
+   replies that G'Kar's "attack dog, Na'Toth," must have stolen it--but
+   on G'Kar's orders), Sinclair gets rather annoyed at the disturbances.
+   He tells Londo, G'Kar, and the reporter to leave the observation dome
+   immediately (and threatens that if they don't leave, he'll place them
+   in the brig). Londo claims that he's going to file an official
+   protest, while G'Kar says that he's going to file *two* official
+   protests.
+   
+   Just as everyone leaves, Garibaldi enters. At that moment, Senator
+   Hidoshi calls in. Hidoshi tells Sinclair that--though Hidoshi would
+   personally want Sinclair to handle the situation as Sinclair best sees
+   fit--Zento has convinced a majority of the Senate to invoke the Rush
+   Act. When Sinclair replies that the only possible result of the Rush
+   Act can be a violent confrontation, Hidoshi says that he knows
+   that--and he fears that a violent confrontation is exactly what some
+   people want. Sinclair reluctantly tells Garibaldi to mobilize his
+   troops, and asks Ivanova to bring him the full text of the Senate
+   order.
+   
+   Down in the docking bay, when the workers find out that the Senate has
+   invoked the Rush Act, they are angered but are prepared to defend
+   themselves. When Garibaldi arrives with a few security officers, a
+   fight breaks out.
+   
+   [INLINE] The workers riot.
+   
+   Amid the fight, Connally is arrested and dragged away by Garibaldi. As
+   Garibaldi leaves the docking bay, he meets Sinclair and tells him that
+   the security forces are ready to flood the bay with a somniferous gas
+   and arrest the dock workers while they're asleep. Both Sinclair and
+   Connally are angered by the fight, and both claim that they wanted to
+   avoid this confrontation. Garibaldi, however, points out that the
+   fight was started by the foreman whose brother was killed; the
+   foreman, according to Garibaldi, threw the first punch. Sinclair tells
+   Garibaldi to have his men to pull out of the docking bay. When
+   Sinclair enters the docking bay, the workers temporarily calm down and
+   let Sinclair speak.
+   
+   "Under the Rush Act," begins Sinclair, "the Senate has empowered me to
+   end this strike. I'm authorized to use any means necessary." After
+   confirming this fact with Zento, and after Sinclair is assured that he
+   has Zento's full support, Sinclair explains what "necessary means"
+   he's going to use to stop the strike: First, Sinclair will reallocate
+   1.3 million credits from B5's military budget in order to begin
+   necessary upgrades of docking equipment and to start hiring more
+   workers. Second, Sinclair will declare a complete amnesty for dock
+   workers who have struck but who have committed no other crime. Zento
+   angrily protests, but Sinclair comments that it was Zento who allowed
+   Sinclair to use these means by convincing the Senate to invoke the
+   Rush Act: "You should never hand someone a gun unless you're sure
+   where they'll point it," says Sinclair. Sinclair adds that no charges
+   will be pressed against the workers who were involved in the fight
+   against the security officers; on this point, Garibaldi and the
+   foreman shake hands. Sinclair finishes by saying that all of these
+   actions are dependent upon the workers' returning to work immediately;
+   Connally agrees, and the workers begin work again. As the workers get
+   back to work, Zento angrily tells Sinclair, "You know damn well you
+   twisted the intent of that order, and you won't get away with it."
+   
+   "I think Ms. Connally said it best the other day--'stuff it!'" replies
+   Sinclair. Connally thanks Sinclair and apologizes for underestimating
+   him.
+   
+   After Connally leaves, Garibaldi politely tells Sinclair, "You look
+   like week-old bread. Why don't you get some sleep?"
+   
+   Just then, however, Ivonova calls Sinclair and tells him that he'd
+   better come quickly because--"G'Kar and Londo are approximately half
+   an inch from killing each other," she says.
+   
+   When Sinclair arrives, he tells G'Kar to return Londo's statue. G'Kar
+   protests--he still claims he never stole the statue--but Sinclair
+   isn't in the mood for games. Next, he tells Londo that dangerous
+   chemical composition of the G'Quan Eth plant makes it illegal to
+   possess except for legitimate medical or religious purposes. Londo
+   laughs, saying that the plant is no more harmful than a bottle of
+   Earth whiskey; Sinclair merely tells him to file an official protest
+   if he wishes--but to turn over the plant anyway. Sinclair mentions
+   that Londo will be fully compensated for the plant, of course. Londo,
+   at length, agrees. "I have already gotten my enjoyment from it
+   anyway," says Londo. After Londo leaves, Sinclair tells G'Kar that
+   once Londo's statue is returned, Sinclair will turn over the G'Quan
+   Eth plant to G'Kar--of course, G'Kar will compensate Londo for it.
+   
+   "Why should I turn the statue over--assuming that I knew where it
+   was--when it's already too late for the ceremony? Mollari knows
+   that--that's why he gave in so easily."
+   
+   Sinclair tells G'Kar that light travels through space. Therefore,
+   although the ritual must be performed in the sunlight that has touched
+   the G'Quan mountain at a particular time, and although that particular
+   time has already passed this year, the light that touched the G'Quan
+   mountain ten years ago will reach the station in a few hours. "[The
+   light has] been on a long journey, but it's still the same sunlight.
+   Good enough for you to conduct your ceremony--wouldn't you agree?"
+   
+   "Yes, it might be. Commander, you are a far more spiritual man than I
+   gave you credit for," replies G'Kar.
+   
+   [INLINE] "You are a far more spiritual man..."
+   
+   "There are a couple of Jesuit teachers I know who might disagree with
+   you," says Sinclair. When Sinclair reminds G'Kar to return the
+   Centauri statue, G'Kar replies that he's sure a careful search will
+   turn it up. As Sinclair leaves, smiling broadly, G'Kar thanks him.
+   
+   Sinclair returns to his quarters and instructs his computer to hold
+   all transmissions; however, when the computer replies that there is
+   one transmission holding, Sinclair tells the computer to send the
+   message through. The message is from Hidoshi, who tells Sinclair that
+   he admires what Sinclair has done on B5 concerning the labor
+   situation--however, the Senate doesn't. In this instance, however, the
+   Senate has allowed Sinclair's decision to stand without
+   comment--because public opinion is on Sinclair's side. Hidoshi tells
+   Sinclair that he sympathizes with his decision--and is glad to see the
+   discomfort it has caused some of his colleagues (for Hidoshi's
+   grandfather was a dock worker himself). He is calling just to warn
+   Sinclair that Zento has powerful friends, and that by embarrassing
+   Zento, Sinclair has made new enemies in the government. "If I were
+   you, commander, I would watch things very carefully. You are not the
+   most popular person in government circles right now."
+   
+   After Hidoshi closes the communication, Sinclair says to himself, "So,
+   what else is new?" and finally goes to sleep.
+   
+   Meanwhile, G'Kar is successfully carrying out his religious ceremony.
+   "The gift of time, the gift of life, the gift of wisdom, the gift of
+   light. For these things, were are thankful. For these things, we
+   pray," says G'Kar, solemnly, and the ceremony continues, thanks to
+   Commander Sinclair.
+   
+   Shawn Bayern _bayern@cshl.org_
+     _________________________________________________________________
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+   Ivanova, after awakening with difficulty from a sound sleep, reports
+   to C&C just in time to find Sinclair listening to a distress call from
+   a lone Starfury pilot who's being attacked by raiders not far from the
+   station. Sinclair launches a wing of fighters to aid the pilot, but
+   it's too late; the raiders overwhelm and destroy the Starfury.
+   
+   A well-dressed man comes aboard the station on his own. When the
+   customs officer comments that his identicard hasn't been updated in a
+   while, the man replies that he's been out of touch, out exploring on
+   the Rim. "Find anything interesting?" asks the officer. "Yes," replies
+   the man with an enigmatic smile.
+   
+   Ivanova, Garibaldi, and Sinclair meet. Ivanova reports that by the
+   time the station's fighters got there, there was nothing left of the
+   Starfury they were supposed to rescue. Garibaldi comments that the
+   raiders have been hitting closer and closer to Babylon 5 lately,
+   prompting Ivanova to wonder how they're getting in and out so quickly.
+   The raider ships are much too small to make their own jump points, and
+   the nearest jumpgate in this latest incident was hours away. Sinclair
+   puts Delta Wing on alert and asks Garibaldi to go over the cargo
+   manifests of ships due to arrive shortly in the hopes of identifying
+   the raiders' next target.
+   
+   After Ivanova leaves, Sinclair tells Garibaldi what he's discovered
+   about the events during his 24 hours out of action at the Battle of
+   the Line (cf. [9]"And the Sky Full of Stars") and asks Garibaldi to
+   help him find out more.
+   
+   Londo, waiting at a bar table, is visited by a somewhat sleazy-looking
+   man who hands him a black box. The box contains the Eye, "the oldest
+   symbol of Centauri nobility, property of the first Emperor, lost over
+   a hundred years ago at the Battle of Nashok." The Centauri government,
+   says Londo, paid very generously for the Eye. "But I would very much
+   like to know how you got your hands on this," Londo says. "No, you
+   wouldn't," says the man, and leaves. Londo walks off with the Eye,
+   unaware that he's being watched by someone at the bar -- the newcomer
+   who'd been out exploring.
+   
+   G'Kar and Londo find themselves waiting for the same transport tube.
+   Londo mentions a famine on the southern frontier of the Narn
+   homeworld; the conversation quickly degenerates into a barrage of
+   insults and threats, causing both of them to miss the lift.
+   
+   [INLINE] "So now it is all our fault, eh?"
+   
+   Later, G'Kar is visited in his quarters by Morden, the man who arrived
+   on the station earlier. Morden claims his visit was authorized by the
+   correct officials in the Narn government. He has come to ask G'Kar a
+   question: "What do you want?" Morden persists, asking the question
+   again and again, until G'Kar nearly kicks him out of his quarters.
+   Finally, as if sensing the intent of the question, G'Kar tells Morden
+   that what he really wants is to decimate the Centauri -- "to
+   completely, utterly erase them." "And then what?" asks Morden. G'Kar,
+   taken aback, answers, "I don't know. As long as my homeworld's safety
+   is guaranteed, I don't know that it matters." Morden thanks G'Kar and
+   leaves; it appears that wasn't quite the answer he was looking for.
+   
+   [INLINE] "What do you want?"
+   
+   Meanwhile, Londo greets a Centauri noble, Lord Kiro, and Kiro's aunt,
+   Lady Ladira, who is also the seer and prophetess of Kiro's house.
+   Ladira looks rather ill, initially ascribing it to the rigors of space
+   travel. But it's soon clear that Babylon 5 itself is causing her
+   distress; she pushes herself into a corner and begins ranting.
+   "Babylon will fall. This place will be destroyed! Fire... death...
+   pain..." She faints.
+   
+   [INLINE] Londo greets Kiro and Ladira.
+   
+   Later, Kiro and Londo are with Ladira in Kiro's quarters. She's
+   feeling better now, but the vision is still there: Babylon 5 will be
+   destroyed. The ordeal has left her tired, and she excuses herself. As
+   she leaves, Londo questions her accuracy. Kiro recalls with a derisive
+   chuckle that when he was young, she predicted he would someday be
+   killed by shadows.
+   
+   He asks Londo if he can see the Eye, which originally belonged to his
+   family, before he plays lowly messenger and brings it back to the
+   Emperor. Londo agrees. As they leave Kiro's quarters, they're followed
+   by a shady character, who reports into a small device: "Six to one.
+   Have located target. Commencing surveillance."
+   
+   Morden visits Delenn in her quarters and asks her the same question he
+   asked G'Kar. With her back to Morden, she questions the purpose of his
+   visit. In midsentence, she stops as if she suddenly feels faint. Her
+   hand shoots to her forehead, covering it, and then away, to reveal a
+   hollow silver triangle glowing in her skin. (cf. [10]"And the Sky Full
+   of Stars")
+   
+   [INLINE] Morden visits Delenn.
+   
+   She covers her forehead again and spins around to face Morden. He
+   becomes darker and darker until he appears nothing more than a
+   silhouette -- a shadow. Delenn demands that he leave immediately; he
+   does so, apparently unaware that she sensed anything odd about him.
+   After he's gone, Delenn's triangle fades away as she looks on,
+   shocked. "They're here," she says, a hint of fear in her voice.
+   
+   [INLINE] "They're here."
+   
+   Kiro and Londo look at the Eye in Londo's quarters. Kiro paces and
+   speaks of conditions back home. The people grow unhappy, disillusioned
+   with the government; the Emperor has not been seen in public for over
+   a year. Finally, he comes out with what's on his mind: why should he
+   give the Eye back to the Emperor when his family is its rightful
+   owner? Londo calms him down, reminding him that he could try to use
+   the Eye to usurp the Emperor's power, but he would quickly be dead.
+   "These are not the good old days," Londo says wistfully. "Yes,"
+   answers Kiro, "more's the pity." Kiro leaves the Eye in Londo's care,
+   wondering out loud where everything went wrong for the Centauri.
+   
+   [INLINE] Kiro examines the Eye.
+   
+   Ladira, asleep, dreams of her vision, or the sounds of it. Voices
+   shouting: "Evacuate!" "They're heading for the docking bay!" "Hit 'em
+   with everything we've got!" "Destruct! Destruct!" Then the sound of an
+   explosion. She awakens.
+   
+   In space, the freighter Achilles is enroute to a jumpgate when its
+   scanners pick up raider ships approaching. They call for help;
+   Sinclair, in C&C, orders Delta Wing to launch. Ivanova, the wing
+   commander, heads for the station's jumpgate at top speed.
+   
+   Six, the man who watched Londo and Kiro earlier reports in again.
+   "They've taken the bait. You keep them busy. We'll take care of
+   Babylon 5 from this end."
+   
+   Kosh returns to the station in his ship. As he disembarks and walks
+   down the hall, Morden ducks behind a corner to avoid being seen.
+   
+   Delta Wing arrives through the jumpgate nearest the Achilles. Ivanova
+   orders two ships to stay behind at the gate in case the raiders try to
+   flee through it; the rest follow her at maximum burn toward the
+   Achilles.
+   
+   Kiro calls Londo and says he's ready to leave with the Eye. Londo
+   assures him that the Centauri military will have ships to ready
+   protect Kiro every step of the way once he enters Babylon 5's gate.
+   Londo gathers up the Eye and leaves his quarters.
+   
+   As he reaches the transport tube, he's intercepted by Morden, who asks
+   his usual question and claims he's not allowed to leave until he gets
+   an answer. Londo is irritated and says he just wants to be left alone.
+   "Is that it, Ambassador?" asks Morden. "Is that all you want?"
+   
+   Irritated, Londo answers that no, that's not all he wants. He wants
+   the Centauri Republic to stretch forth across the galaxy, to regain
+   its days of glory. "I want to stop running around like a man late for
+   an appointment, afraid to look forward or look back ... I want it all
+   back, the way that it was." He calms down. "Does that answer your
+   question?"
+   
+   "Yes," Morden says to himself after Londo leaves. "Yes, it does."
+   
+   [INLINE] "Do you really want to know what _I_ want?"
+   
+   Sinclair, troubled that the latest raider attack is taking place much
+   farther from the station than other recent raids, asks for a cargo
+   manifest for the Achilles.
+   
+   Six and an accomplice intercept Londo, Kiro, and Ladira as they head
+   for Kiro's ship. He has his accomplice take the Eye ahead, while he
+   takes the three Centauri hostage and orders them to continue to the
+   ship.
+   
+   [INLINE] Taken hostage.
+   
+   Sinclair learns that the Achilles is carrying farming equipment,
+   hardly valuable enough to be worth raiding. Deducing that it may be a
+   diversion, he orders Ivanova to return to base. He checks the list of
+   arriving and departing ships and notices that Kiro's personal liner is
+   scheduled to leave shortly. He heads for the docking bay.
+   
+   Sinclair arrives in the bay just as Six and his hostages do. Kiro
+   tries to fight Six off, but ends up with his arm twisted behind his
+   back and a gun to his head. Six warns Sinclair against trying to stop
+   him from leaving, threatening to burn a hole through the station's
+   hull. Sinclair stands aside and says Six is free to go.
+   
+   Once Six and Kiro have left, Sinclair tells Garibaldi to stand by with
+   Alpha Wing and disable the liner as soon as it leaves the station.
+   Londo escorts Ladira out of the docking bay. She is preoccupied. "The
+   shadows are coming for him."
+   
+   As Garibaldi and the rest of Alpha Wing chase after the liner, a jump
+   point forms near the station. A carrier flies through and releases a
+   swarm of raider ships. "So that's how they're doing it," says
+   Sinclair. "A ship that big would have to be capable of solo jumps."
+   
+   The raider ships occupy Garibaldi's attention as the situation
+   develops into a full-blown firefight. While he and his men (with the
+   help of the station's defensive grid) fight the raiders, the Centauri
+   liner enters a small docking bay in the raider mothership and is
+   sealed inside.
+   
+   [INLINE] The battle is joined.
+   
+   Meanwhile, amid sirens and a mob of people heading for safer parts of
+   the station, Londo finds Ladira standing in the middle of a corridor.
+   He tries to get her to leave, but she is paying more attention to her
+   vision. "Fire. Death and destruction. The shadows have come for Lord
+   Kiro. The shadows have come for us all!"
+   
+   Elsewhere on the station, Morden hurries down an empty corridor as if
+   late for an appointment. Kosh emerges from a doorway, blocking
+   Morden's path. "Leave this place," Kosh says. "They are not for you.
+   Go. Leave. Now." Morden doesn't appear ready to obey.
+   
+   [INLINE] "Go. Leave. Now."
+   
+   The battle grows more intense. Sinclair tells Garibaldi to drive the
+   raiders toward the back of the station, and tells one of the C&C techs
+   to recalibrate the defense grid accordingly. As the raiders are driven
+   back, Ivanova and her team emerge from the jumpgate. "Surprise."
+   
+   [INLINE] Chasing down the raiders.
+   
+   Between Ivanova, the station's guns, and Garibaldi at their tails, the
+   raiders don't last long. Unfortunately, the mothership creates a jump
+   point while its fighters are keeping everyone busy. Ivanova tries to
+   follow it into hyperspace, but Sinclair orders her not to. The raider
+   mothership gets away.
+   
+   Garibaldi tells Sinclair that the station sustained minor damage, with
+   a few injuries. Ambassador Kosh has asked for tools to repair his
+   encounter suit, but won't say what happened to it. The station lost
+   two ships in the battle; one pilot managed to eject in time. Garibaldi
+   speculates that they've hurt the raiders badly enough that they won't
+   be back for a long time, if ever -- the mothership, after all, is just
+   a big target without its fighters.
+   
+   Ladira and Londo come into Sinclair's office. Sinclair demands to know
+   what was on the ship that was so valuable, and why it wasn't on the
+   manifest. Ladira has another vision, this time of the raider
+   mothership emerging from a jump point elsewhere in space.
+   
+   [INLINE] "My time is your time."
+   
+   Inside the ship, Six has his men grab Kiro from behind. He laughs at
+   Kiro's objection that the two of them had a deal; the raiders intend
+   to ransom the Eye to the Centauri, and then ransom Kiro as well.
+   
+   Suddenly, from out of nowhere, a huge alien ship, black with spines
+   and dark blue mottling, appears just next to the raider mothership.
+   Without warning or provocation, it slices into the mothership with an
+   intense beam weapon, cutting the raider ship to ribbons within
+   seconds.
+   
+   [INLINE] The mystery ship.
+   
+   Later, Londo and Ladira say farewell. Londo is despondent; he feels he
+   will be held responsible for the loss of the Eye. "It would seem my
+   career is finished," he says. When Ladira offers to help, he replies,
+   "I'm afraid I'm beyond anything short of a miracle." She leaves.
+   
+   Seconds after, Londo's door chimes. It's Morden, and he's carrying a
+   charred box. "A gift," he says, "from friends you don't know you
+   have." Londo opens the box. It's the Eye. He turns to thank Morden,
+   but the man seems to have vanished. "Let me buy you a drink!" shouts
+   Londo. "Let me buy you a whole _fleet_ of drinks! How can I ever find
+   you to thank you?"
+   
+   "We will find you, Ambassador," a disembodied voice answers. "We will
+   find you."
+   
+   [INLINE] "A gift, from friends you don't know you have."
+   
+   In the lavatory, Garibaldi and Sinclair talk about the successful
+   resolution of the situation. On the way out, Garibaldi says he did
+   some checking and found that Sinclair wasn't first on the list to run
+   Babylon 5. In fact, he was very far down the list. The Minbari, it
+   seems, made their support of the station contingent on being able to
+   approve the commander, and rejected everyone right down the line until
+   Sinclair. "They wanted you, Jeff."
+   
+   Sinclair meets Ladira in a departure lounge. When she tells him of her
+   vision, he replies that it didn't happen; the station came through the
+   attack just fine. Ladira replies that the station is safe for now --
+   but the vision is still there. She offers to let him see her vision,
+   not an easy thing, but possible. He agrees. He sees Babylon 5 from
+   space. A shuttle flies from the docking bay as the station erupts in
+   explosions, the hull rupturing as Babylon 5 is eaten from the inside
+   by a firestorm. Finally it detonates, blown into thousands of fiery
+   fragments.
+   
+   Sinclair is hoarse. "This... is it a vision of what will be, or what
+   might be?"
+   
+   "The future is always changing. We create the future, with our words,
+   with our deeds, and with our beliefs. This is a possible future,
+   Commander. And it is my hope that you may yet avoid it."
+   
+   Ladira bows and leaves Sinclair to ponder what he's just seen.
+   
+  Synopsis by [11]Steven Grimm
+  
+
+   [17][Next] 
+   
+      [18]Last update: March 19, 1997
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/013.html
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/013.shtml
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/013.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/012.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/014.html
+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/008.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/008.html#recognize-delenn
+  11. http://www.midwinter.com/~koreth/
+  12. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/013.html#TOP
+  14. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  15. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  16. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/012.html
+  17. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/014.html
+  18. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+   A rabbi and a young man, Walker Smith, arrive on the station.
+   
+   Nearby, one alien is selling stolen "slappers" from Medlab to another
+   alien. Garibaldi interrupts them, decking one when it tries to run. As
+   he arrests the other, the first one comes at him from behind with a
+   knife. Before it can reach Garibaldi, Walker Smith knocks it out with
+   one punch. "One of these days, Garibaldi," Smith says, "you're gonna
+   learn to watch your back."
+   
+   [INLINE] Smith saves Garibaldi's bacon.
+   
+   Garibaldi and Smith knew each other years before. Smith, it seems,
+   dropped out of circulation, earning enough money for a boxing license.
+   Later, he was involved in a scandal. He promises to tell Garibaldi the
+   real story later, after he settles in.
+   
+   They meet at a bar later that day and reminisce about the past. Smith
+   is surprised that Garibaldi has taken to drinking water instead of
+   alcohol.
+   
+   Ivanova is reading when she receives a visit from the rabbi. It is
+   Rabbi Koslov, or "Uncle Yossel" as Ivanova used to call him. He has
+   come to deliver her father's legacy, entrusted to him shortly before
+   Ivanova's father died (cf. [9]"Born to the Purple".) He had intended
+   to give it to her at the funeral, but she didn't show up. "The station
+   was in a crisis at the time," she explains. "I couldn't get away."
+   
+   Koslov says he understands -- as her father would have. He asks
+   Ivanova if she has sat shiva for her father. She says no. He offers to
+   sit with her, but she refuses. She has duties, and besides, it's been
+   so long that there's hardly any point.
+   
+   Garibaldi and Smith talk about the scandal. Smith was a rising star in
+   the boxing world. He was scheduled to fight the champ, and wouldn't
+   agree to lose when pressed by some of the monied interests in the
+   boxing federation. So they set him up, planting evidence that made him
+   look like he was using drugs, creating a media circus that eliminated
+   any chance of his career continuing. Now he has come to Babylon 5 to
+   regain his fame by fighting in the Mutai -- an alien blood match that
+   has never been entered by a human. Garibaldi tries to dissuade him,
+   citing the deaths and numerous injuries of aliens in the Mutai, but
+   Smith is adamant.
+   
+   Rabbi Koslov visits Sinclair and tells him of Ivanova's father's
+   death, seeking to get Sinclair to grant leave so she can sit shiva.
+   Ivanova, apparently, had kept her father's death to herself. That
+   doesn't surprise Koslov, who says that after Ivanova's mother and
+   brother died, Ivanova and her father had a falling-out. Sinclair says
+   Ivanova can have as much time as she needs.
+   
+   [INLINE] Koslov visits Sinclair.
+   
+   That evening, Ivanova and Koslov dine in the Garden. They reminisce
+   about old times. Ivanova says she had invited her father to visit
+   Babylon 5, but he wouldn't come; he believed humans had no right to be
+   in space until they learned to live in peace at home. When Koslov
+   mentions that he saw Sinclair, Ivanova is furious. "My father always
+   tried to control my life," she says, in tears. "I don't need anyone to
+   take his place now that he's gone." She storms away.
+   
+   Smith and Garibaldi visit a training area where several aliens are
+   practicing for the Mutai. Smith announces that he's looking for the
+   Muta-Do, who is in charge of the contest. An alien tells Smith to
+   leave, then knocks him flat on his back when he protests. The alien,
+   it turns out, was the Muta-Do himself, and he tells Smith that humans
+   are not allowed to fight in the Mutai.
+   
+   Smith and Garibaldi chat about the Mutai. "They may be snakeheads to
+   you," Garibaldi says, "but the Mutai means something to them." Smith
+   leaves, disgusted.
+   
+   In the corridor, an alien named Caliban tells Smith that there is
+   another way to get into the Mutai. "But it will require respect, and
+   great courage." Smith is very interested.
+   
+   Sinclair calls Ivanova into his office and offers her leave. She
+   refuses, claiming that her emotions are her own to deal with as she
+   sees fit. As she returns to her post, Sinclair cautions her to make
+   sure she knows what she's really feeling.
+   
+   Smith tells Garibaldi that he's giving up and going home, maybe even
+   hanging up his gloves for good. But before he leaves, he wants to see
+   what he missed. He has two passes ("ducks") to the evening's match,
+   featuring the Sho-Rin, the champion of the Mutai.
+   
+   They attend the fight. The Sho-Rin, Gyor, makes short work of his
+   challenger. When the fight is over, the Muta-Do faces the crowd. "Who
+   will challenge such a one?" he asks. Smith steps forward and makes his
+   challenge; Gyor accepts, and the fight is set for three cycles hence.
+   As Smith leaves the room, an alien warns him to stay out of the Mutai;
+   humans have stuck their noses into enough alien business already.
+   
+   [INLINE] The Mutai.
+   
+   Ivanova apologizes to Koslov. He gives her her father's legacy: an
+   antique samovar, owned by the Ivanov family since the time of the
+   tsars. Koslov tries once more to get Ivanova to sit shiva, but she
+   refuses. It's not that she's stopped being a Jew, she says, but that
+   her father was never there for her, not even after her mother and
+   brother died and she needed him the most. And she can't forgive him
+   for that.
+   
+   [INLINE] Ivanova and her legacy.
+   
+   Smith trains with the help of Garibaldi and Caliban.
+   
+   Later, Koslov is on his way off the station when Ivanova comes to say
+   goodbye. As he's about to board his ship, she remembers her father's
+   last words and calls out to Koslov. She has decided to sit shiva.
+   
+   In the training area, Smith continues to prepare for the fight. "Has
+   he got a chance?" Garibaldi asks Caliban. Caliban considers for a
+   moment. "He will fight bravely."
+   
+   [INLINE] Smith expresses his confidence.
+   
+   Later, Garibaldi and Smith eat dinner. Garibaldi tells Smith there's
+   still time to back out of it. Smith says that Gyor's skill isn't a
+   reason to back away: "To be the best, you have to fight the best."
+   
+   Ivanova asks Sinclair for leave, which he grants. He offers to sit
+   shiva with her as her friend.
+   
+   In front of a small gathering, Koslov speaks of Andrei Ivanov. He was
+   a scholar, and above all a man of peace. Ivanova recalls a time when
+   she was a child. Kasharev, a neo-Communist author and a childhood idol
+   of Ivanova's, was reading from one of his books in St. Petersburg. She
+   convinced her father to take her to the reading. Afterward, she asked
+   Kasharev a question she'd been formulating for weeks. Kasharev
+   dismissed it out of hand, prompting her father to give him a creative
+   verbal lashing. Later, he told her it had been a good question.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sitting shiva.
+   
+   The Mutai begins. Smith and Gyor pummel each other. At first it looks
+   like Gyor will win easily, but Smith comes back with a vengeance. When
+   it seems he might have a chance, the alien who complained about
+   Smith's participation earlier takes out a small blowgun and readies a
+   dart. Garibaldi grabs it just as the alien is about to shoot.
+   
+   Ivanova reads a Jewish prayer in English for Sinclair's benefit. Tears
+   flow as she releases her pent-up grief over her father's death.
+   
+   The Mutai continues. Both Gyor and Smith are just about worn out, but
+   they keep at each other until both collapse to the floor, exhausted.
+   The Muta-Do declares the match a draw.
+   
+   After saying farewell to Ivanova and Sinclair, Koslov leaves the
+   station. Smith departs, but not before Gyor and the Muta-Do catch up
+   with him in the departure lounge. Humans, the Muta-Do says, are now
+   free to fight in the Mutai. With a parting compliment from Garibaldi,
+   Smith boards his ship home.
+   
+  Synopsis by [10]Steven Grimm
+  
+
+   [16][Next] 
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
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+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/014.html
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/014.shtml
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/014.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/013.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/015.html
+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/003.html#ivanova-dad
+  10. http://www.midwinter.com/~koreth/
+  11. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/014.html#TOP
+  13. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  15. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/013.html
+  16. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/015.html
+  17. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+   A transport ship docks with the station.
+   
+   Sinclair sits down to eat with Garibaldi. Delenn and Lennier interrupt
+   them; there is a distinguished guest coming aboard, Delenn says, and
+   Sinclair should greet him.
+   
+   [INLINE] Delenn and Lennier interrupt a meal.
+   
+   In Downbelow, a crime boss named Deuce asks another man, Jinxo, to
+   provide him with the locations of secret passages in the station.
+   Jinxo replies that while he did help build Babylon 5, he was mostly
+   involved in big structural construction and can't provide that
+   information. Deuce insists that he can -- or else. He gestures to
+   another part of the room, where a woman is tied down in a chair. Her
+   name, Deuce says, is Mirriam Runningdear, and she agreed to testify
+   against him. Now she'll pay the price. He beckons to something in the
+   shadows. A Vorlon encounter suit comes forward. The front panel opens
+   and a tentacle extends out, attaching to Runningdear's forehead. Deuce
+   tells Jinxo to have the plans, or 50,000 credits, within 300 cycles,
+   before Ambassador Kosh gets hungry again.
+   
+   [INLINE] Deuce warns Jinxo.
+   
+   In a courtroom somewhere on the station, an ombudsman listens to
+   testimony from a man who's suing aliens for abducting his
+   great-grandfather.
+   
+   Sinclair, Garibaldi, Delenn and Lennier greet a man named Aldous
+   Gajic. He says he didn't notify Sinclair of his arrival because his
+   mission is not Earth-related. He reveals that he's looking for the
+   Holy Grail, and, as his order has looked everywhere on Earth, he has
+   come to the station to talk to the alien ambassadors about its
+   possible whereabouts. Sinclair, incredulous, excuses himself.
+   
+   Delenn catches up with Sinclair and asks why he holds Gajic in such
+   contempt. Sinclair explains that the Grail is just a legend, but
+   Delenn counters that that doesn't matter; Gajic is a holy man, a "true
+   seeker," devoting his life to a search for enlightenment and the
+   bettering of his race. "I wish him luck," Sinclair says. "He's
+   probably the only true seeker we have."
+   
+   "Then perhaps you do not know yourself as well as you believe," Delenn
+   comments, and walks off. Sinclair gets a call from Dr. Franklin;
+   there's another brainwipe victim.
+   
+   Gajic is changing money when Jinxo walks by and picks his pocket.
+   Garibaldi is watching and grabs Jinxo before he's gone twenty feet.
+   Gajic wants to let Jinxo go, but Garibaldi says that Gajic is a
+   witness and insists that he testify.
+   
+   In medlab, Franklin and Sinclair look at Mirriam Runningdear, who lies
+   unconscious. Franklin says her brain has been wiped clean, synapses
+   fused, leaving it barely able to keep her autonomic functions going.
+   She'll live, but she'll have to start all over again, as her life
+   experience is gone. Garibaldi is furious that his sole witness against
+   Deuce has been "reduced to a rutabaga" and asks Sinclair for
+   permission to sweep through Downbelow with his men. Sinclair tells him
+   to wait until there's proof that the brainwipe is in fact connected to
+   Deuce.
+   
+   The ombudsman sentences Jinxo (whose real name is Thomas.) He is
+   barred from the station for five years. Jinxo objects strongly: "I
+   can't leave the station, or it's the end of the station -- and every
+   man, woman and alien on the station!" Gajic speaks with the ombudsman
+   and convinces him to remand Jinxo to his custody. As Jinxo leaves,
+   he's pulled aside by Deuce, who reminds him that he has only 240
+   cycles left.
+   
+   [INLINE] Bargaining with the ombudsman.
+   
+   Next, the ombudsman reads the charges against Deuce, who pleads
+   innocence. Garibaldi tells the ombudsman about Runningdear's
+   condition. Unfortunately, without her testimony, there isn't enough
+   evidence; the ombudsman dismisses the case against Deuce.
+   
+   Gajic takes Jinxo to his quarters and asks why he thinks he can't
+   leave the station. Jinxo answers that it's the "Babylon curse" -- if
+   he leaves, the station will blow up or disappear or something else
+   will happen. When Gajic asks how he got the curse, Jinxo answers,
+   "Don't you get it? I don't _have_ the curse. I _am_ the curse."
+   
+   Jinxo explains that he was too young to fight in the war, so when he
+   had the opportunity to work on the original Babylon station, he jumped
+   at the chance. Three months into it, he went on leave, and the
+   station's infrastructure collapsed, the result of sabotage. The same
+   thing happened to Babylon 2. Babylon 3 blew up while he was away, and
+   he got the nickname "Jinxo." When Babylon 4 was being built, Jinxo
+   stayed the entire time, until it was completely finished. He thought
+   the curse was gone. "But as I was leaving on the shuttle, I looked
+   back, and the station just sort of wrinkled. Twisted like putty. And
+   then it just... disappeared."
+   
+   Gajic suggests that Jinxo should have been nicknamed Lucky -- he
+   managed to escape death four times.
+   
+   Franklin and Ivanova suggest a possible cause of the brainwipes: a
+   creature from an off-limits world in Centauri space called a
+   na'ka'leen feeder.
+   
+   [INLINE] Describing the feeder.
+   
+   Sinclair asks Londo about the feeders; Londo says they're very
+   dangerous creatures. The Centauri lost an entire colony to them. When
+   Sinclair lets slip that there may be one on the station, Londo makes a
+   beeline for his quarters, and suggests Sinclair does the same.
+   
+   Gajic and Jinxo visit Delenn, who says the Minbari don't have the
+   Grail, nor had they heard of it before Gajic asked them. Lennier says
+   they searched their files very thoroughly. Delenn tells Gajic that she
+   will have word sent to all Minbari outposts, and if one of them hears
+   about the Grail, they will find Gajic and tell him. Jinxo is amazed;
+   after the war, he figured, the Minbari wouldn't be eager to help a
+   human. Lennier explains that there are two castes of Minbari: the
+   warrior caste and the religious caste. "The warrior caste... would not
+   understand," he says.
+   
+   "So we will not tell them, and spare them the confusion," Delenn says.
+   
+   "These two parts of your society. Do they ever agree on anything?"
+   asks Gajic.
+   
+   "Yes," says Delenn. "And when they do, it is a terrible thing. A
+   terrible force, as recent events have shown. Let us hope that it never
+   happens again in our lifetime."
+   
+   [INLINE] Gajic and Jinxo visit Delenn.
+   
+   In Downbelow, Kosh (or is it a feeder?) pleads with Deuce to bring him
+   more food, older minds. The voice is high and tinny, not the usual
+   melodic rumble of a Vorlon voice. Deuce orders a henchman to fetch
+   Jinxo and the ombudsman.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin tells Sinclair that using the file provided by Londo, he
+   can confirm that Runningdear was indeed attacked by a na'ka'leen
+   feeder. Sinclair tells Ivanova to run a check on every ship entering
+   the station in the last ninety days. Garibaldi says he's going to
+   track Jinxo down, as he saw Deuce and Jinxo talking at the trial.
+   
+   Londo speaks with a Centauri government representative, trying to get
+   the government to reinstate the quarantine on the feeders' world.
+   Gajic and Jinxo are waiting to talk to him. Gajic asks about the
+   Grail. Londo says he can search the Centauri-Earth trade files, but it
+   will be very time-consuming and expensive. Vir interrupts and says
+   he's already done it, in the interest of efficiency, prompting Londo
+   to scold him. Gajic and Jinxo leave in a hurry.
+   
+   Gajic tells Jinxo that if he finds it, he will use the Grail to heal.
+   "Perhaps it has enough power to heal the entire human race," he says.
+   Jinxo asks how he got started looking for the Grail.
+   
+   Gajic did the accounts for a large Earth corporation, he says. He
+   lived in a world of numbers, logical and clean. He and his family took
+   a vacation on the Mars colony. An accident killed his family but left
+   him alive. He mourned for a long time, and when he returned to work he
+   found that the numbers didn't make sense. He began to wonder why he
+   was spared. And then he met a man, the last of his kind, who told him
+   he was a man of infinite promise and goodness. When the man died, he
+   entrusted his legacy to Gajic. Now Gajic is the last of his kind. "The
+   numbers add up again, Thomas," Gajic concludes. "The numbers do add
+   up."
+   
+   Deuce's men kidnap the ombudsman.
+   
+   Two thugs try to capture Jinxo, but Gajic fights them off. Jinxo,
+   panicing as he thinks of what Deuce will do now, asks if he can learn
+   to fight like that. "You can learn whatever you like," Gajic says,
+   "because you are a man of infinite promise and goodness." When Jinxo
+   scoffs, Gajic points out that Jinxo is willing to stay on the station
+   to protect its people, even at the risk of his own life.
+   
+   [INLINE] Fighting off the thugs.
+   
+   The two of them go to visit Kosh. When Jinxo sees Kosh, he runs away,
+   terrified, warning Gajic to stay away or Kosh will eat his mind.
+   
+   Gajic catches up with Jinxo in Downbelow and convinces him to talk to
+   Sinclair if he has information about the Vorlons. Deuce's men attack;
+   Gajic fends them off long enough for Jinxo to escape, but is captured
+   himself.
+   
+   Ivanova reports to Sinclair that she hasn't had much luck figuring out
+   which ship might have brought the feeder onboard. Garibaldi links in
+   and tells Sinclair the ombudsman has been kidnapped. Sinclair leaves
+   to see the scene of the crime for himself.
+   
+   The ombudsman, strapped to the same chair Runningdear was, watches in
+   horror as the feeder approaches in the Vorlon encounter suit. Deuce
+   reassures him that if there's any pain, it won't last long. Deuce's
+   men bring Gajic in.
+   
+   Jinxo finds Sinclair in the hallway and tells him that Deuce is going
+   to feed Gajic to the Vorlon. Sinclair goes with him and tells
+   Garibaldi to follow his signal.
+   
+   Gajic steps between the ombudsman and the feeder. The feeder moves to
+   attack Gajic, but stops short, then withdraws its tentacle. Gajic
+   speaks softly. "There is nothing in the dark. No fear, no pain. Only
+   the light. Show yourself."
+   
+   The feeder, resembling a cross between a squid and a jellyfish, steps
+   out of the suit.
+   
+   Garibaldi's men blast the door in and a firefight ensues. The feeder
+   leaps up into the pipes crisscrossing the ceiling. As the firefight
+   continues, it drops behind one of Garibaldi's people and strikes,
+   then, more confident, approaches the ombudsman. Jinxo leaps out from
+   his hiding place and unties the ombudsman's hands, but he doesn't
+   notice Deuce taking aim at his back. Gajic does, and takes the shot.
+   The feeder is blown to pieces by Garibaldi, Sinclair, and the security
+   team.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sinclair consults Garibaldi.
+   
+   Before Gajic dies, Jinxo promises to continue the search.
+   
+   Sinclair visits Kosh and tells him Deuce was using an excellent
+   replica of a Vorlon encounter suit so people would think he had the
+   Vorlons on his side, making him appear more fearsome. "Why?" asks
+   Kosh.
+   
+   "No one knows exactly what you look like," Sinclair answers. "And that
+   makes some people a little nervous."
+   
+   "Good," Kosh replies.
+   
+   Sinclair and Delenn see Gajic's body off. "It's hard," Sinclair says,
+   "to spend your whole life looking for something and never find it."
+   
+   "Are you speaking of Aldous, or someone else?" asks Delenn.
+   
+   Sinclair looks at her for a moment. "Aldous," he finally answers.
+   
+   "There you are wrong. He found what he was looking for. What we are
+   _all_ looking for. A reason."
+   
+   "For what?"
+   
+   "Everything, Commander. Everything."
+   
+   Jinxo arrives just as the coffin is about to be loaded aboard the
+   ship. Delenn gives him a crystal. "Put this on his grave, and crush
+   it," she says. "It will glow every night for a hundred years. It is
+   our way with all true seekers," she continues, with a meaningful
+   glance at Sinclair.
+   
+   [INLINE] Delenn gives Jinxo a crystal.
+   
+   "Good luck, Jinxo," says Garibaldi.
+   
+   "Thomas," he answers. "My name is Thomas."
+   
+   Sinclair, Ivanova, and Garibaldi are back in C&C, discussing the
+   Babylon Curse, when Thomas' ship leaves the station. It enters the
+   jumpgate. "No boom?" asks Sinclair. "No boom," answers Garibaldi.
+   
+   "No boom _today_," Ivanova corrects them. "Boom tomorrow. There's
+   always a boom tomorrow." Sinclair and Garibaldi shake their heads and
+   leave.
+   
+   "What?" Ivanova asks. "Look, someone's got to keep some damned
+   perspective around here. One of these days... _boom!_"
+   
+  Synopsis by [9]Steven Grimm
+  
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+   Garibaldi is trying to put together an old motorcycle when he's
+   visited by Lennier. Shaal Mayan (cf. [9]"The War Prayer") is about to
+   visit the station again, and, given what happened the last time she
+   was there, Delenn wants to arrange extra security. After delivering
+   the message, Lennier takes an interest in Garibaldi's bike -- a 1992
+   Kawasaki Ninja in mint condition. Garibaldi has been trying to
+   assemble it for years. He has all the parts and a manual, but it's in
+   Japanese. Lennier offers to help, and Garibaldi gives him the manual.
+   
+   [INLINE] Lennier accepts the manual.
+   
+   Two men, one with a scar by his right eye, are looking at a file about
+   Ivanova. "What do you think?" asks the scarred man.
+   
+   "Most of the personnel will be no trouble. This one, however..."
+   
+   "Anything you can't handle?"
+   
+   "I don't _have_ to handle it. Her record's spotless. There's no reason
+   to include her."
+   
+   "That's not your decision. And she _will_ be included. Records don't
+   always tell the whole story. That's one of the reasons you're here,
+   Mr. Gray. Remember?"
+   
+   "As you wish. When do we begin?"
+   
+   "As always, Mr. Gray, when the time is right."
+   
+   Sinclair meets with Garibaldi and Ivanova. A recent attack on Station
+   Phobos, on one of Mars' moons, has been tied to Martian separatist
+   groups, perhaps Free Mars, or one of the even more radical groups.
+   Earthforce is concerned that Babylon 5 will be used as a transfer
+   point to ship arms to the rebels. Ivanova points out that it'll be
+   hard to stop; the station's trade agreements with many of the aliens
+   allow them to sell arms. Sinclair tells the two of them to keep a
+   close watch on incoming and outgoing ships, and notify Earthforce of
+   any that are carrying weapons.
+   
+   The scarred man, meanwhile, is sitting next to a security officer,
+   Welch, and begins to ask him about the station and about Sinclair. He
+   introduces himself as Aaron Franks, of Quartermaster Corporation, and
+   says his company is interested in becoming one of Babylon 5's
+   suppliers. Welch brushes him off; Franks goes to another station
+   crewman and starts talking to him. Welch notifies the security
+   station.
+   
+   [INLINE] Welch tries to eat his lunch.
+   
+   Lennier watches a file on the history of motorcycles on Earth, and is
+   fascinated by what they once represented. "Sexual prowess and
+   rebellion," he muses.
+   
+   Garibaldi watches Franks talk to a bartender. When Franks leaves,
+   Garibaldi asks the bartender what he wanted. He was asking about
+   Sinclair -- how often he comes to the bar, who he drinks with, and so
+   on.
+   
+   Garibaldi catches up with Sinclair and tells him that Franks, and an
+   associate, Harriman Gray, both listed as representatives of
+   Quartermaster, have been asking all sorts of questions. Sinclair tells
+   Garibaldi to look into it, as it might be a cover for arms shipments;
+   Quartermaster is a major military supplier. "Walk softly," Sinclair
+   cautions. "The last thing we need is a corporate lawsuit."
+   
+   Gray is in his quarters when Garibaldi comes to the door. Gray slips
+   on a pair of black gloves and, somewhat flustered, tries to convince
+   Garibaldi that he and Franks are there to negotiate a deal to supply
+   the station. Just then, Franks arrives. He offers Garibaldi a drink,
+   and is pleasantly surprised when Garibaldi turns him down. He tells
+   Garibaldi that his name isn't Franks at all. He's Colonel Ari Ben
+   Zayn, of Internal Investigations, and Gray is a military specialist
+   from Psi-Corps. They're on the station, Ben Zayn says, to conduct a
+   special investigation of Babylon 5's command staff.
+   
+   Later, Ben Zayn talks to Sinclair, Ivanova, and Garibaldi. With the
+   recent events on Mars and elsewhere, Earthforce needs to know who's
+   loyal and who isn't. Sinclair vouches for his crew, and objects to Ben
+   Zayn's tactic of questioning people without his knowledge. Ben Zayn
+   says he has ever right to do so; his authority comes directly from the
+   Joint Chiefs of Staff. He says he's not here to persecute anyone; it's
+   a routine investigation.
+   
+   [INLINE] Ben Zayn briefs the command staff.
+   
+   Ivanova objects to the presence of Gray; regulations prohibit the use
+   of telepaths in routine investigations. Ben Zayn tells her there are
+   new regulations; all staff must submit to scans. Ivanova refuses,
+   growing angry, but Sinclair stops her and says he'll check the
+   regulations himself. Ben Zayn attaches Garibaldi to his staff over
+   Sinclair's objections, and the two of them leave Sinclair and Ivanova
+   alone in Sinclair's office. Ivanova reiterates her refusal to submit
+   to a scan.
+   
+   Garibaldi tells Ben Zayn he thinks the whole investigation is a sham.
+   Ben Zayn orders Garibaldi to collect all the files -- including
+   classified ones -- on the station's staff, and report back with them
+   later that night.
+   
+   Lennier intercepts Garibaldi in the hallway and says he's managed to
+   translate the manual. He offers to help with the bike; Garibaldi
+   eventually agrees.
+   
+   In his office, Garibaldi instructs the computer to put together the
+   files Ben Zayn requested. While that's going on, he tells it to find
+   out all it can about Ben Zayn and Gray.
+   
+   Gray pays a visit to C&C, where Ivanova is on duty. As she tries,
+   without a hint of subtlety, to brush him off, he tells her that as a
+   child, he wanted nothing more than to be a pilot. He worked for it,
+   applied to the academy, was accepted -- and then his talents were
+   discovered. It is against the law for psis to serve in the regular
+   military, but Psi Corps offered him a chance to work in its military
+   branch. It's not the same thing as Ivanova's brand of soldiering, he
+   says, "but half a dream is better than none."
+   
+   Ivanova isn't moved at all. And when Gray says he won't intrude on her
+   privacy, just scan those thoughts pertaining to her duty, she lashes
+   out, exclaiming that such a scan isn't only an assault on her, but on
+   her honor. "If you enter my mind for any reason," she continues,
+   seething, "I will twist your head off and use it for a chamberpot!"
+   
+   Later, Ben Zayn is grilling Garibaldi about Sinclair's actions --
+   specifically, the fact that he failed to so much as file a complaint
+   about the Vorlons' destruction of Deathwalker's ship (cf.
+   [10]"Deathwalker".) Garibaldi points out that it'd be useless to
+   complain to the Vorlons anyway, and suggests Ben Zayn ask Sinclair
+   about such things directly. Ben Zayn answers that he intends to, at
+   1200 hours, and tells Garibaldi to inform Sinclair, then get some
+   sleep.
+   
+   Garibaldi goes to Sinclair, who has taken over for Ivanova in C&C. He
+   is concerned that maybe Sinclair _does_ have something to hide: "I
+   know you're a by-the-book kind of guy, but let's face it, we've had to
+   rewrite the book a few times to make B5 work." Garibaldi warns
+   Sinclair to watch out for Ben Zayn; he's dangerous, as is Gray.
+   Sinclair promises to take care of it all, and tells Garibaldi to get
+   to bed.
+   
+   When Garibaldi returns to his quarters, he finds Lennier chanting over
+   the motorcycle. "I am about to embark upon the mysteries of the 'fuel
+   injection system,'" Lennier says. Garibaldi tells him to come back
+   sometime after 1200 the next day. After Lennier leaves, Garibaldi
+   inspects the bike. "Not bad," he says. "Not bad at all."
+   
+   Ivanova has a bizarre dream, in which her mother is injected with
+   drugs by two dark men in masks. Gray is there, warning Ivanova not to
+   interfere. "Only one way out," says Ivanova's mother as she's
+   injected. Then it's Ivanova, not her mother at all, who's being held
+   by the masked men. "Only one way out," she says, dazed. Ivanova bolts
+   awake in bed, covered in sweat.
+   
+   [INLINE] Ivanova's mother loses consciousness.
+   
+   Sinclair is in his quarters, studying regulations, when Ivanova comes
+   in and offers her resignation, the only way to avoid the scan.
+   Sinclair assures her it's not necessary -- he's found a way around the
+   scans. He asks why she's so afraid of being scanned, anyway; didn't
+   her mother make contact with her?
+   
+   "Yes, she did," answers Ivanova. "You can't imagine what it's like. To
+   share your own mother's love for you. To feel it in your thoughts. No
+   one's ever been that close to me, Commander. And no one must _ever_
+   intrude upon that memory. Especially Psi Corps."
+   
+   Ben Zayn studies a file about Sinclair. When Gray asks why, Ben Zayn
+   says he wants to know everything he can about Sinclair, part of the
+   reason Gray is there. When Gray objects, claiming such things are
+   against the rules, Ben Zayn tells him to stop being naive, and says
+   that Bester (cf. [11]"Mind War") will appreciate anything Gray can do.
+   
+   Sinclair arrives and says he'll be ready to begin as soon as Gray
+   leaves the room. He says he studied the regulations carefully, and
+   found that a telepath can only be used to determine the truth of
+   answers to specific charges, not for routine loyalty tests. Gray sides
+   with Sinclair: "Even Psi Corps doesn't consider it a carte blanche
+   rule."
+   
+   "I don't remember asking for your opinion," Ben Zayn answers angrily,
+   but he dismisses Gray.
+   
+   Gray visits Ivanova in a lounge. She's surprised to see him, but he
+   explains that Sinclair knows the regulations better than Ben Zayn. "I
+   will long savor the look on the Colonel's face," he says. "Not many
+   people are willing to stand up to him. It was very refreshing."
+   
+   [INLINE] Gray talks with Ivanova.
+   
+   Ivanova says Gray doesn't seem like other Psi Corps people; she finds
+   his dislike of Ben Zayn unexpected.
+   
+   Gray answers that he has no love for Ben Zayn; he's efficient, but
+   lacks compassion. "As for Psi Corps, I doubt you really know any of
+   our people very well. Especially Miss Winters."
+   
+   "You're scanning me," Ivanova objects.
+   
+   "I'm sorry. The thought of Miss Winters was very loud in your mind
+   when I mentioned Psi Corps. I couldn't help but pick it up. Please,
+   forgive me. I _am_ surprised you were aware of it." He pauses. "Of
+   course. She must have been in your mind numerous times before she was
+   given the sleepers. Your mother."
+   
+   Ivanova is furious, and demands that Gray not mention her mother
+   again. Before she can say more, she's called to C&C.
+   
+   Sinclair is defending his handling of the dockworkers' strike (cf.
+   [12]"By Any Means Necessary") when Ivanova calls in from C&C with a
+   matter demanding his attention.
+   
+   Ben Zayn tells her to handle it on her own. That's too much for
+   Sinclair, who says he won't tolerate Ben Zayn disrupting the operation
+   of the station. He gets up to leave, but Ben Zayn blocks his path.
+   "I've seen plenty like you," he says. "Hotshots promoted through the
+   ranks without any real leadership ability." He assumes control of
+   Babylon 5, relieving Sinclair. Garibaldi barely stops Sinclair from
+   slugging Ben Zayn.
+   
+   [INLINE] Ben Zayn baits Sinclair.
+   
+   Sinclair, says Ben Zayn, quoting a regulation, is working against the
+   best interests of Earthforce, and he can prove it with Mr. Gray's
+   help. Which, now that he is bringing up specific charges, he is within
+   his rights to demand. He tells Garibaldi to confine Sinclair to
+   quarters.
+   
+   Walking to his quarters with Garibaldi, Sinclair says he'll go
+   straight to the top and contact HQ. He tells Garibaldi to get to C&C,
+   where Ben Zayn is no doubt telling Ivanova he's in charge.
+   
+   And, in fact, that's exactly what's happening. Ben Zayn orders Ivanova
+   to report along with Sinclair and Garibaldi for a scan in the morning,
+   then retires to his quarters. Ivanova tells Garibaldi she won't
+   submit.
+   
+   "You'll be charged with insubordination," Garibaldi says.
+   
+   "And I'll be replaced and dishonorably discharged. It's a very Russian
+   ending. I should've expected it." She flees C&C. Garibaldi catches up
+   to her.
+   
+   "You once offered me a drink," Ivanova says (cf. [13]"Born to the
+   Purple".) "If that offer's still good, I could sure use it."
+   
+   Garibaldi says he has something to take care of, but tells her he'll
+   meet her in the casino in ten minutes.
+   
+   Sinclair speaks with an Earthforce general. Though he has the power,
+   the general won't intervene. It seems there are some powerful people
+   in favor of the investigation, people Sinclair has made angry over the
+   years, and with a vote on the President's new immigration policy
+   coming up in the Senate, the President can't risk upsetting them by
+   agreeing to stop Ben Zayn.
+   
+   A drunk man bumps into Ivanova in the casino. "Hey, look at the cute
+   commander," he says, fondling her hair.
+   
+   "Cute?" Ivanova asks.
+   
+   [INLINE] "Cute?"
+   
+   Garibaldi tells Sinclair that Ben Zayn was among the top ten
+   candidates for command of Babylon 5, while Sinclair was... somewhat
+   lower. Ben Zayn, Garibaldi has discovered, is also associated with
+   Bester, the Psi Cop whose partner was killed on the station. In fact,
+   Bester assigned Gray to Ben Zayn. Sinclair speculates that the
+   investigation might be Bester's way of getting revenge, as he promised
+   he would. Further speculation is cut short as Garibaldi is called
+   away; there's a big problem in the casino.
+   
+   Ivanova throws punches left and right, holding her own in a huge brawl
+   that's quickly trashing the entire casino area. Garibaldi arrives and
+   manages to calm her down. He leads her away and tells his men to clean
+   the place up.
+   
+   Arriving a few minutes early to his interview, Sinclair finds Gray
+   getting a feel for the room. He tells Gray that Bester assigned him to
+   Ben Zayn, and, in fact, that Bester and Ben Zayn are good friends.
+   "Maybe you're scanning the wrong people," he says, just before Ben
+   Zayn walks in.
+   
+   Ben Zayn calls Garibaldi and Ivanova in. Gray instructs Sinclair to
+   remain calm; the scan won't hurt if he doesn't resist. Sinclair asks
+   if Gray will be scanning Ben Zayn too; the regulations, after all, say
+   that all involved parties are subject to scan, and Ben Zayn is
+   certainly involved. Besides, Sinclair says to Ben Zayn, the intent of
+   a question is often as important as the answer. "For instance, if I
+   were to ask you why you turned a routine investigation into a personal
+   hunt for my scalp..."
+   
+   Sinclair baits Ben Zayn further, about Bester and the fact that he
+   didn't get command of Babylon 5. Ben Zayn says he deserved Babylon 5,
+   but thanks to the Minbari, Sinclair got it. He says he knows all about
+   Sinclair and the Minbari, and soon Sinclair won't be their agent any
+   more.
+   
+   [INLINE] Ben Zayn loses his temper.
+   
+   Gray says he can feel the hatred in Ben Zayn's mind, vile and filthy.
+   Ben Zayn slaps Gray hard, sending him falling from his chair, then
+   pulls a gun on Sinclair, Garibaldi, and Ivanova, daring them to try to
+   take it away.
+   
+   From the floor, Gray transmits intense pain to Ben Zayn, who stumbles
+   long enough for Sinclair to grab the gun and knock him down with a
+   punch. The investigation, such as it was, is over.
+   
+   Later, Garibaldi goes to his quarters, and is dismayed to find Lennier
+   there, putting the finishing touches on the motorcycle. "I've been
+   working on it for years," he says. "It was sort of my purpose in life.
+   But now it's... done."
+   
+   Lennier apologizes profusely, but Garibaldi forgives him. The two of
+   them inspect Lennier's handiwork. "Too bad we can't ride it,"
+   Garibaldi muses.
+   
+   "It is quite ridable," says Lennier. It seems he installed a clean,
+   efficient Minbari power source in place of the combustion engine.
+   
+   Sinclair and Ivanova talk about the investigation as they walk down a
+   corridor. "I never thought I'd be grateful to a member of Psi Corps,"
+   says Ivanova. "I hope things don't turn out too badly for Mr. Gray."
+   
+   The circumstances, Sinclair assures her, will vindicate Gray. As for
+   Bester, he'll stay in the shadows, but most likely the whole affair
+   will have some repercussions on Bester, too.
+   
+   As Sinclair and Ivanova enter a transport tube, Garibaldi and Lennier
+   zip by on the motorcycle. "It's good to have things back to normal,"
+   quips Ivanova as the bike zooms up the curve of the corridor.
+   
+  Synopsis by [14]Steven Grimm
+  
+
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+   Sinclair and Garibaldi await the arrival of a ship bearing the body of
+   Branmer, the Minbari general who led the attack on the Line. Branmer
+   died on a diplomatic mission and his ship is enroute home, stopping
+   along the way to let people pay their respects. The ship -- a Minbari
+   cruiser, the same kind that Sinclair fought on the Line -- arrives
+   through the jumpgate.
+   
+   On the zocalo, Ivanova is taking a break. Talia Winters arrives and
+   sits across the bar from her. Meanwhile, a girl in scruffy clothing
+   steals a piece of jewelry from a vendor. She's spotted, and runs away,
+   then collapses on the floor, unconscious. Talia and Ivanova rush to
+   her side. "She's a telepath," Talia says.
+   
+   The Minbari ship approaches the station. Scans indicate that it's
+   flying with gun ports open -- armed for a fight. The captain refuses
+   to explain, but Delenn arrives at the command center in time to
+   explain that it's simply a way of honoring a great military leader.
+   
+   In medlab, Dr. Franklin reports that the girl appears normal except
+   for unusually high EEG readings. Talia explains that she was a latent
+   telepath whose powers suddenly activated -- probably due to the onset
+   of puberty -- and her mind was unable to cope with the sudden inrush
+   of foreign thoughts. Talia offers to notify the Psi-Corps so they can
+   send a representative, but Ivanova objects.
+   
+   [INLINE] Franklin examines the girl.
+   
+   A procession bearing Branmer's casket comes aboard. Neroon, Branmer's
+   second in command, greets Sinclair and Delenn. Ivanova and Garibaldi
+   lead him away to the area they've prepared for the viewing of
+   Branmer's body. Delenn comments to Sinclair that such a viewing is
+   very unusual, but that the Star Riders, Branmer's clan, insisted on
+   it. She seems disturbed.
+   
+   [INLINE] The funeral procession.
+   
+   Ivanova arrives in medlab just as the girl awakens. As she gains
+   consciousness, she's nearly overwhelmed by the thoughts of the other
+   people nearby, but Talia teaches her how to block them out. According
+   to Talia, who couldn't help picking up the girl's thoughts, her name
+   is Alisa Belden, and both of her parents are dead. Ivanova and Talia
+   argue about who has jurisdiction over Alisa; Ivanova vows that Alisa
+   won't leave the station if she can help it.
+   
+   Neroon won't allow Garibaldi's men to guard Branmer's body until the
+   viewing ceremony. He insists on Minbari guards. He baits Sinclair
+   about the Line, but Delenn defuses the conversation.
+   
+   [INLINE] Neroon makes his demand.
+   
+   The ceremony proceeds normally until the casket is opened. Branmer's
+   body is nowhere to be seen.
+   
+   Sinclair orders Garibaldi to begin an investigation. Neroon threatens
+   to go to war over the issue, claiming that the last incident involving
+   a Minbari leader, the death of Dukhat (which Garibaldi counters was a
+   tragic accident) was the cause of the last war. He's rebuffed by
+   Delenn, who says that no one clan has the right to dictate Minbari
+   policy.
+   
+   After Neroon and Delenn leave, Ivanova tells Sinclair about Alisa.
+   Sinclair says he'll stand behind whatever decision Ivanova makes.
+   
+   Later, Sinclair visits Delenn in her quarters. As she adds pieces to
+   her crystal sculpture, Delenn tells Sinclair that Branmer was
+   originally a high priest of the religious caste. When the holy war
+   against Earth began, Branmer felt an obligation to go to battle. He
+   felt the Minbari cause was just, but obeyed the surrender order when
+   it came. Another warleader, Sineval, committed suicide rather than
+   obey the order, and many among the military caste greatly resent the
+   surrender. Sinclair notes that Neroon is one of them; he seems to be
+   spoiling for a rematch.
+   
+   [INLINE] Discussing Neroon.
+   
+   In medlab, Alisa is trying on new clothes, courtesy of the Psi Corps,
+   while Talia tells her that the Corps will take good care of her once
+   she joins. Ivanova arrives and counters with the story of the Corps'
+   treatment of her mother.
+   
+   Neroon intercepts Garibaldi in a corridor. The investigation is
+   meeting with no success so far. An aide rushes up, clutching a piece
+   of Branmer's burial robe. He says it was found outside the quarters of
+   the pak'ma'ra -- carrion eaters.
+   
+   Garibaldi and Neroon interrogate one of the pak'ma'ra, who claims
+   ignorance about the disappearance of Branmer's body. Convinced that
+   the alien is hiding something, Garibaldi orders all the pak'ma'ra to
+   have their stomachs pumped.
+   
+   [INLINE] The pak'ma'ra denies knowledge.
+   
+   Na'Toth offers a deal to Alisa: a pampered life on the Narn homeworld
+   in exchange for periodic tissue samples. Trying to get a glimpse of
+   life on Narn, Alisa peers into Na'Toth's mind, and is repulsed; it's
+   cold, alien. Franklin suggests that she take that into account while
+   she considers the offer.
+   
+   [INLINE] Na'Toth makes her offer.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin reports to Garibaldi that analysis of the pak'ma'ras'
+   stomach contents was negative; they hadn't dined on Minbari lately.
+   
+   Neroon, furious that Garibaldi is wasting his time pumping alien
+   stomachs, threatens to have his ship tear the station apart if
+   Garibaldi can't solve the mystery.
+   
+   Tests reveal that Alisa is at least a P10, which she jokes will
+   probably make her worth more to the Narn. Ivanova warns Alisa against
+   accepting the Narn offer, citing evidence that the Narn keep aliens as
+   slaves and are likely to do so to Alisa once she's in their clutches.
+   Talia once again suggests the Psi-Corps, provoking a heated argument
+   with Ivanova; Alisa breaks in and says she wants to know _all_ her
+   options.
+   
+   Ivanova takes Alisa to visit Delenn, who describes Minbari telepaths.
+   Psi ability among the Minbari is considered a rare gift, and those who
+   have it lead lives of public service, helping people who need their
+   talents. In return, the Minbari people provide for all the psis'
+   needs. While Delenn speaks, Alisa peers into her mind, and to her
+   shock sees a vision of white-robed Minbari stunning the guards in
+   front of Branmer's coffin, then opening the lid. Alisa flees Delenn's
+   quarters; Delenn can clearly feel that she was being scanned. Alisa
+   tells Ivanova that Delenn knows what happened to the body.
+   
+   [INLINE] Discussing Minbari telepaths.
+   
+   Sinclair enters his quarters to find them a shambles. He's attacked
+   from behind by Neroon. The two of them scuffle; Neroon claims that he
+   wanted to search the one place that would be strictly off-limits. But
+   Garibaldi, arriving with Alisa in tow, claims he searched Sinclair's
+   quarters with Delenn observing, and ushers Neroon away. Alisa tells
+   Sinclair what she saw in Delenn's mind.
+   
+   Delenn and an aide are packing something into a cargo container when
+   Sinclair bursts into the cargo area. It's an urn, containing Branmer's
+   ashes.
+   
+   Delenn claims that she's honoring Branmer's wishes; he asked for a
+   simple ceremony, and wouldn't want his body paraded around as a symbol
+   of war. She had planned to pass the disappearance off as a miracle, a
+   transformation of Branmer's body so that he could take his place among
+   the gods. Now Sinclair and Garibaldi are in a difficult position,
+   since they've promised to tell Neroon the results of their
+   investigation. Delenn offers a compromise: Neroon will be told the
+   truth, but _she_ will tell him.
+   
+   Neroon is furious when he learns what happened. He vows to lead a
+   protest personally. Delenn stops him cold, claiming that if he
+   contradicts her claim of transformation, the Star Riders will be
+   destroyed, dishonored, by the Grey Council, whose opinion she claims
+   to represent. She orders him to obey her, "just as you obeyed the
+   order to end the war," and further to apologize to Sinclair.
+   
+   Neroon does so, and is surprised when Sinclair offers to pay tribute
+   to Branmer's courage and skill in a personal message to the Minbari
+   people. "Perhaps there was some small wisdom in letting your people
+   live," Neroon says. "We like to think so," replies Sinclair.
+   
+   [INLINE] Neroon and Sinclair reconcile.
+   
+   Sinclair and Delenn are talking in the stone garden when Alisa arrives
+   and announces that she's going to live with the Minbari. Delenn claims
+   that Alisa will help increase the understanding and communication
+   between humans and Minbari. Sinclair agrees.
+   
+   Alisa bids Ivanova and Talia an emotional farewell. Talia doesn't
+   agree with her decision, but admits that Sinclair is right; Alisa's
+   presence among the Minbari will benefit both peoples.
+   
+   Sinclair meets up with Alisa on her way aboard the Minbari ship, and
+   asks her if she saw anything else in Delenn's mind. Alisa responds
+   that there was one other thing, a word, "chrysalis." "She shut down
+   real fast when I touched that," Alisa says. She boards the cruiser,
+   leaving Sinclair to ponder the significance of the word.
+   
+  Synopsis by [9]Steven Grimm
+  
+
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+   An elderly Minbari male arrives on the station and asks to be shown to
+   Ambassador Delenn.
+   
+   [INLINE] Asking for directions.
+   
+   Epsilon 3, the planet B5 is orbiting, is experiencing large
+   earthquakes. Ivanova and Sinclair clear Dr. Tasaki, a geologist, to
+   take a shuttle closer to the planet and collect data.
+   
+   On his way to a negotiation session, Sinclair runs into Talia Winters
+   waiting for the transport tube. She comments that Garibaldi is always
+   in the tube waiting for her, and sure enough, he's there when the door
+   opens. She opts to take the stairs.
+   
+   As Dr. Tasaki's shuttle nears the surface of the planet, a powerful
+   energy beam suddenly fires into space from below ground, knocking the
+   shuttle out of control. Ivanova orders two Starfuries to tow the
+   shuttle back to base. When he returns, Tasaki is eager to go down
+   again the next day with more equipment, to try to figure out what's
+   causing the beam.
+   
+   Sinclair is presiding over a negotiation between Delenn and Londo
+   about trade routes. The negotiation proceeds smoothly, which Londo
+   attributes to G'Kar's absence. Delenn assures him that G'Kar's anger
+   will fade with time, but Londo insists that the Narn hatred of the
+   Centauri is intense enough to reduce Centauri Prime to ash if it could
+   be made physical -- and the Centauri react to that hatred by hating
+   the Narn all the more. After Londo leaves, Delenn comments to Sinclair
+   that if Londo is right, if future generations won't be born into a
+   brighter world, "then life is pointless, and evolution vastly
+   overrated."
+   
+   [INLINE] Londo describes the Narns' hatred.
+   
+   Later, Ivanova tells Sinclair that the beam is a signal, perhaps a
+   beacon, though nobody has been able to decipher it. She remarks that
+   the day's Earth Force status report didn't say anything about the Mars
+   colony, very unusual as it's mentioned every day.
+   
+   Delenn is returning to her quarters when she's met by the Minbari male
+   who boarded the station earlier. His name is Draal, and he's an old
+   teacher of hers.
+   
+   Sinclair is preparing for bed, watching the news on TV. The anchor is
+   interrupted by a special report from the Mars colony: an armed revolt
+   has begun, and heavy fighting is reported. The news show is able to
+   broadcast a few moments of a field report before the reporter is cut
+   off. Sinclair shuts off the television, disturbed.
+   
+   Before he can contemplate further, a flickering image appears in
+   midair across the room, an alien man who pleads for Sinclair's help
+   before vanishing abruptly.
+   
+   [INLINE] Pleading for help.
+   
+   The next morning, Sinclair and Ivanova talk about the situation on
+   Mars over breakfast. Sinclair, of course, was born there, and it's his
+   home that's being blasted apart; but neither of them has friends or
+   family there any more. Garibaldi, according to Ivanova, is taking the
+   news badly.
+   
+   Draal joins Delenn in her quarters. After thanking her for arranging
+   for his quarters, he says that he left Minbar because it's changing
+   for the worse, the people growing dissatisfied, self-involved to the
+   exclusion of others; they've lost their sense of purpose. He says that
+   he's "going to the sea" -- journeying out into the sea of stars in the
+   hopes of finding a place where he's needed. Delenn is shocked.
+   
+   Garibaldi tries to get a comm channel to Mars, but the government has
+   imposed a communications blackout and he's not highly-placed enough to
+   get through despite the blackout.
+   
+   Ivanova briefs Dr. Tasaki and his crew, reminding them that the
+   Starfuries escorting them are only designed for spaceflight and won't
+   be able to help if the shuttle goes into the planet's atmosphere.
+   Tasaki agrees not to do that, and the shuttle and escort are launched.
+   
+   [INLINE] Ivanova briefs the shuttle crew.
+   
+   Garibaldi goes to Talia and explains that when he was working security
+   on Mars, he met and got involved with a woman named Lise Hampton. It
+   was serious, but when he accepted Sinclair's offer to come to Babylon
+   5, he and Lise broke up angry with each other. They haven't spoken
+   since, but now he's worried sick about her. He asks Talia to try to
+   get him a comm channel via the secret Psi Corps training facility on
+   Mars -- a facility, Talia notes with surprise, that he's not supposed
+   to know about.
+   
+   [INLINE] Garibaldi talks about Lise.
+   
+   Ignoring Ivanova's order, Tasaki takes the shuttle into the upper part
+   of the atmosphere to get more detailed sensor readings. Suddenly, a
+   barrage of missiles is launched from the surface. One of them strikes
+   the shuttle, but after Ivanova has the Starfuries disorient the
+   missiles from orbit, Tasaki and his crew manage to escape safely.
+   
+   Back on the station, Tasaki shows Sinclair and Ivanova a
+   high-resolution image he captured just after the missiles were
+   launched. It shows them coming from deep inside a fissure in the
+   surface, five kilometers below the surface. Sinclair easily convinces
+   Ivanova that the two of them should take a shuttle down to take a
+   closer look, justifying his presence because it might be a first
+   contact.
+   
+   [INLINE] Tasaki describes the image.
+   
+   Garibaldi is in the zocalo, looking miserable. Londo cheers him up by
+   telling him a story. Londo was sitting in a club one day, looking
+   miserable, when one of the dancers kissed him and told him it couldn't
+   be that bad. He married her, regretted it the next morning, and has
+   regretted it ever since.
+   
+   On his way back to his quarters, Londo sees the same alien Sinclair
+   saw earlier. Once again, it asks for help, then vanishes.
+   
+   With orbiting Starfuries disorienting the missiles, Sinclair and
+   Ivanova take a shuttle into the fissure, where they discover an
+   artificial tunnel in the rock face. They land on a platform inside and
+   put on breathers to go have a look around.
+   
+   [INLINE] Distracting the planetary defenses.
+   
+   Talia speaks with a member of the Psi-Corps, someone at the Mars
+   facility. The woman refuses to let Garibaldi have a link -- doing so
+   would confirm the existence of the facility, and he might be asking
+   for a channel just to find out if the place really exists -- but she
+   offers to look Lise Hampton's name up in the files and see if she's
+   all right. Fighting is occuring less than a quarter-mile away from the
+   facility, it seems; the Free Mars movement was much better armed and
+   organized than anyone suspected.
+   
+   Sinclair and Ivanova explore some smaller side tunnels on foot. They
+   pass a dead alien, then nearly stumble into a high-tech deathtrap, but
+   Sinclair sees it in time and the two of them make it through
+   uninjured. They find themselves on a bridge spanning what looks like
+   the hollow core of a gargantuan machine, miles tall with huge parts
+   moving up and down the walls.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sinclair and Ivanova cross the bridge.
+   
+   Delenn and Draal visit Londo, who complains that he's unable to
+   comprehend Earth people. As an example, he quotes a song he's been
+   studying for a week. "It doesn't mean _anything_," he complains.
+   
+   Talia visits Garibaldi in the command center and tells him Lise
+   Hampton isn't on the survivor list. Garibaldi refuses to believe that
+   something has happened to her, but seems somewhat numb.
+   
+   An earthquake cuts off the tunnel behind Sinclair and Ivanova.
+   Continuing forward, they see another projection of the alien Sinclair
+   saw on the station. This time, though, the real alien is just around
+   the corner, strapped into the center of a huge machine on the wall.
+   "Help me," he says, "or your people, _all_ your people, will die."
+   
+   They help him out of the machine and take him back to the shuttle.
+   With fighter cover, they head full-speed back toward the station.
+   Sinclair orders Garibaldi to have a medical team standing by.
+   
+   Garibaldi is relieved to hear that they're returning, but his relief
+   is cut short when a tech announces that a ship, a _big_ ship, is
+   coming through the jump gate. He looks down at his computer display.
+   "What the hell?"
+   
+   _To be continued..._
+   
+  Synopsis by [9]Steven Grimm
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+   
+   Garibaldi is relieved to hear that Sinclair and Ivanova are returning
+   from the planet, but his relief is cut short when a tech announces
+   that a ship, a _big_ ship, is coming through the jump gate. He looks
+   down at his computer display. "What the hell?"
+   
+   The ship is an Earth Alliance heavy cruiser, the Hyperion, Captain
+   Ellis Pierce commanding. He says he's been ordered to take control of
+   the situation.
+   
+   [INLINE] The Hyperion comes through the gate.
+   
+   In Medlab, Sinclair and Franklin watch over the alien from Epsilon 3.
+   Franklin says he is still studying the alien's biology, but that he
+   seems to be stabilizing.
+   
+   Pierce is waiting in Sinclair's office, looking at an onscreen
+   introduction to Babylon 5's facilities, when Sinclair arrives. Pierce
+   says his crew will enjoy getting a little R&R on such a "cushy"
+   station. Sinclair wants to know who authorized Pierce to take over;
+   Sinclair has jurisdiction over Babylon 5's sector. Pierce says the
+   Hyperion was in hyperspace when it received orders to divert to
+   Babylon 5. The potential of the technologies Sinclair has discovered
+   are enormous, and Earth wants a show of force so other races don't try
+   to get a piece of the action before Earth has had its pick; if the
+   Hyperion weren't present, the situation could get very messy. Sinclair
+   angrily replies that the situation was fine until Pierce charged in
+   with a heavy cruiser and shook things up.
+   
+   [INLINE] Pierce tells Sinclair why he's there.
+   
+   Garibaldi is at a bar, drinking water and watching the news with some
+   other patrons. The top story, of course, is the revolt on the Mars
+   colony. Earth is sending in shock troops to quell the rebellion. The
+   other bar patrons are delighted, and start insulting the Mars
+   colonists. "We pay taxes so they can have the best atmosphere
+   reprocessors, water reclamation... They ought to be damned grateful."
+   One of them suggests, jokingly, that Earth should do "what my
+   grandfather always said: nuke 'em till they glow and shoot 'em in the
+   dark. That'd take care of 'em, just like magic." Infuriated, Garibaldi
+   performs a magic trick of his own, assaulting the mouthy bar patron
+   and stalking off.
+   
+   Sinclair confers with Senator Hidoshi, complaining that he'd been told
+   personally by President Santiago that he has jurisdiction over Babylon
+   5's sector. He threatens to resign over the issue unless Hidoshi can
+   get Santiago to reaffirm his authority in the matter. Hidoshi says
+   he'll see what he can do, but it might not be much as the President is
+   preoccupied with the Mars colony revolt.
+   
+   In the command center, Ivanova tells Sinclair that the Hyperion has
+   just launched an expedition to the planet's surface, and that the
+   planet's defense systems, much more active than before, are preventing
+   them from getting close. Sinclair demands that Pierce call off the
+   expedition, making up a story about needing a special jamming device
+   to get through the defense systems.
+   
+   Ivanova then tells Sinclair that they've been monitoring greatly
+   increased seismic activity from the planet, activity that seems to be
+   artificially induced and that's increasing in severity. If it
+   continues to do so, the planet will rip itself apart, taking Babylon 5
+   with it.
+   
+   Later, Ivanova reports that they've discovered the planet is
+   honeycombed with passages and fusion reactors, some of them miles in
+   diameter. The fusion reactors seem to be set to overload. She
+   estimates less than 48 hours until the planet is destroyed. Garibaldi
+   says it would take at least three days to evacuate the station even if
+   all the ships in the sector were called in.
+   
+   [INLINE] Discussing the situation.
+   
+   Londo catches up with Ivanova in the corridor and demands to know
+   what's going on. He presses her on the issue, until she replies, "You
+   want to know what's really going on down there right now? Boom. Boom
+   boom boom. Boom boom. _Boom_. Have a nice day."
+   
+   Delenn and Draal are returning to Delenn's quarters when Draal hears
+   the sick alien's voice calling out to him. The two of them head for
+   Medlab.
+   
+   Sinclair goes to talk to Garibaldi about the incident in the bar.
+   Garibaldi expresses his frustration at finding himself helpless; he
+   can't help Lise, doesn't even know if she's alive or dead. "The planet
+   we're parked next to is about to go up like a Roman candle. What am I
+   supposed to do, arrest it?" He says he just snapped. He and Sinclair
+   discuss his reluctance to call Lise over the years -- he was afraid
+   she'd reject him, and even more afraid she wouldn't -- and Sinclair
+   promises to try pulling a few strings to get Garibaldi a comm channel
+   to Mars. He asks Garibaldi to make sure Ivanova leaves the station if
+   they end up needing to evacuate.
+   
+   Draal and Delenn arrive in Medlab. Franklin tries to stop them from
+   going in to see the alien, but the alien awakens and calls out to
+   Draal. He says everyone must stay away from the planet, that it will
+   explode without a heart, "without another."
+   
+   [INLINE] Draal and Delenn listen to the alien.
+   
+   After getting that confirmation that expeditions to the planet will
+   only hasten its detonation, Sinclair arrives in the command center to
+   find that Pierce is about to launch another group of ships to the
+   planet. He knows what the alien (whose name is Varn) said, but feels
+   that Varn has every reason to lie to keep people away. Sinclair
+   threatens to shoot Pierce's ships out of the sky if they approach the
+   planet, and orders the station's fighters to prepare for launch.
+   Convinced that Sinclair feels he has nothing to lose, Pierce backs
+   down.
+   
+   Suddenly, an unknown alien ship enters through the jumpgate and scans
+   the station's language and translation files. Its captain, Takarn, who
+   appears to be of the same race as Varn, claims that the planet belongs
+   to his people, who have been searching for it for 500 years. He gives
+   Sinclair and Pierce ten hours to leave the area, or he'll take the
+   planet by force.
+   
+   [INLINE] The Hyperion and Babylon 5 are scanned.
+   
+   Before Sinclair can respond, Pierce answers Takarn with his own
+   ultimatum: withdraw within nine hours, or the Hyperion will attack.
+   
+   Varn tells Sinclair that the newcomers are outcasts, rejected by his
+   people, who are all long dead now. He has been guarding the planet,
+   connected to the heart of the machine, for five hundred years. He
+   monitored Babylon 5's construction, learned its languages from its
+   transmissions, but the time wasn't right to reveal himself until his
+   failing health forced the issue. He warns Sinclair that the newcomers
+   must not be allowed to take the planet. It is for the future.
+   
+   Sinclair talks to Delenn and Draal, who claim that Varn didn't tell
+   them anything more than what he told Sinclair. Sinclair leaves, and as
+   Delenn and Draal talk about what Varn meant by "another," Londo enters
+   and says the three of them need to talk.
+   
+   Pierce tells Sinclair that he needs Babylon 5's forces to make an
+   effective attack against the alien ship. Sinclair assures Pierce that
+   when the time comes, he'll commit his forces to the battle.
+   
+   Londo, Delenn, and Draal talk about Varn; Londo tells them of Varn's
+   appearance in the hallway earlier. He wants to help, to take a risk,
+   as he did years before when he led the raid on Frallis 12. He realizes
+   that one of the group will have to stay behind permanently.
+   
+   [INLINE] Londo volunteers his help.
+   
+   Ivanova clears a transport to leave the station: "The more we get out
+   now, the fewer we'll have to evacuate later." It flies off -- it's a
+   shuttle with Centauri markings -- just as Garibaldi links in to report
+   that someone has stolen Varn from Medlab.
+   
+   Takarn signals the station, furious that they're allowing a transport
+   to try to go to the planet. Ivanova checks, and sure enough, the
+   Centauri shuttle is headed for the surface. Takarn launches his
+   attack, prompting Babylon 5 and the Hyperion to unleash their fighter
+   wings. The battle is joined.
+   
+   Londo, piloting the shuttle, seems delighted to be back in the thick
+   of things. "Who says the good old days are gone, eh?" Draal and
+   Delenn, tending after Varn, look a little nervous about Londo's
+   daredevil piloting style.
+   
+   [INLINE] Londo looks for the landing thruster controls.
+   
+   On the station, Sinclair and Ivanova note that the planet isn't
+   attacking the Centauri shuttle for some reason. Garibaldi goes after
+   it in a shuttle of his own.
+   
+   Deep within the planet, with the battle raging furiously overhead,
+   Garibaldi finds Delenn, Draal, Londo and Varn in the room where
+   Sinclair and Ivanova discovered Varn initially. Draal tells Garibaldi
+   that he's staying behind; someone has to run the machine, and it will
+   give him the purpose, the life in service of others, that he has long
+   been missing among his own people.
+   
+   [INLINE] The Hyperion fires its main gun.
+   
+   Back in space, the battle continues. The station takes a direct hit,
+   sustaining serious damage. It's about to be fired on again when a
+   strange force emanates from the planet, causing all the controls in
+   the command center to go dark. A translucent image of Draal appears,
+   informing all three parties that the planet belongs to none of them.
+   "It belongs only to itself, and to the future." As the planet's
+   secrets would give a huge advantage to any race that had them to
+   itself, he places the safekeeping of the planet in the hands of the
+   Babylon 5 Advisory Council, whose enlightened self-interest he hopes
+   will cause them to leave the place alone. But if not, he warns that
+   the defense systems are now fully operational, and any ship that
+   attempts to land will be destroyed.
+   
+   [INLINE] Emanation from Epsilon 3.
+   
+   The aliens, apparently not believing the threat, fly toward the
+   planet. As promised, a tremendously powerful weapon fires from the
+   surface, vaporizing them instantly.
+   
+   Delenn says an emotional farewell to Draal. Varn, staying behind to
+   watch over Draal, assures her that the planet is wondrous, that
+   Draal's life will be extended. He will "see all the futures, hear all
+   the songs, and touch the edge of the universe with his thoughts."
+   
+   As the Hyperion leaves, Pierce says he's received a message from Earth
+   reaffirming Sinclair's authority. He apologizes to Sinclair. After the
+   ship leaves, Ivanova tells Sinclair she has a channel to Mars for
+   Garibaldi.
+   
+   Garibaldi is delighted to learn that Lise is alive, even more so to
+   talk to her. She was caught in the crossfire while getting food, but
+   her wounds aren't serious and she's expected to recover. She says the
+   fighting has begun to die down; the Earth-supported provisional
+   government seems to have the upper hand. Garibaldi tells her he's
+   sorry he ever left, and asks if he can meet up with her on his next
+   leave. She tells him she's married, and expecting a baby. The news
+   crushes him.
+   
+   Later, Garibaldi is in an observation area, staring out into the
+   stars, when Delenn joins him. He asks why she and Londo didn't come to
+   Sinclair once they realized someone needed to be in the planet. She
+   says she didn't, "because I know in my heart that if I had, Commander
+   Sinclair would be down there now. He is searching for a purpose. But
+   his destiny lies elsewhere." Garibaldi asks how she managed to get
+   Londo to go. She says she offered him a deal. She now owes him a large
+   favor, which she's sure he'll collect eventually, but she says he
+   enjoyed the adventure, as it awakened something in him that had long
+   been buried.
+   
+   [INLINE] Delenn joins Garibaldi.
+   
+   "One thing I've discovered," Garibaldi says. "Some things are better
+   left buried." He leaves.
+   
+   Delenn gazes out across the stars. "Good night, old friend," she says.
+   "Sleep well."
+   
+  Synopsis by [10]Steven Grimm
+  
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+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/018.html
+  10. http://www.midwinter.com/~koreth/
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+   We join Sinclair and Garibaldi in the dining hall. They are soon
+   joined by a very tired Ivanova, who was awakened one hour early by C&C
+   after mysterious tachyon emissions were discovered in sector 14, three
+   hours away from Babylon 5. Though Ivanova believed the emissions were
+   just routine, she authorized Alpha VII, a Starfury, to investigate the
+   problem.
+   
+   Alpha VII contacts Babylon 5 when it enters sector 14, and the pilot
+   reports an increase in tachyon emissions. Though he doesn't see
+   anything when he first arrives, the sensors register something, and he
+   sees a large object materializing. By the time he figures out what it
+   is, it is too late. "No! That's not possible! That can't be, it just
+   can't be!" His last words fade into an agonizing scream as the
+   Starfury is engulfed in blinding white light.
+   
+   [INLINE] A startling apparition.
+   
+   Ivanova calls Commander Sinclair after the pilot's last message. She
+   is unable to contact the pilot on any open frequencies, but is still
+   receiving the Starfury's homing beacon. According to the beacon, the
+   ship is returning to Babylon 5 and will be there in one hour and
+   fifteen minutes. Ivanova also reports that more bursts of tachyon
+   emissions are occurring, and that one occurred when she lost contact
+   with the fury's pilot. Sinclair tells Ivanova to make sure that Dr.
+   Franklin is ready at MedLab in case there are any injuries that need
+   to be tended to.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Ambassador Delenn, in a Minbari ship, departs from Babylon
+   5. Though Babylon Control asks her if she wants someone to pilot the
+   ship for her, she declines. "Some things one must do alone," she
+   explains just before she enters the jumpgate.
+   
+   Soon after, Alpha VII returns into scanner range. Alpha VII approaches
+   the station, but does not enter the docking bay. A scan of the ship
+   reveals that there is no structural damage and that hull integrity is
+   okay, but there are no life signs. Soon after, Garibaldi returns to
+   Sinclair and Ivanova with Dr. Franklin's report. "There was no damage
+   to the body, no shock, no trauma. Everything points to death by
+   natural causes." Though things seem ordinary at this point, when
+   Garibaldi explains that the pilot, who just turned thirty years old,
+   died of old age, Sinclair and Ivanova are understandably puzzled. "His
+   internal organs are like those of a man three times his age,"
+   Garibaldi reports. Ivanova recommends that they send a team to
+   investigate, in case there is a hazard to navigation, but Sinclair
+   declines. "Not yet," he says. "Not until we have a better idea what we
+   are facing. Meanwhile, I want all traffic routed clear of sector 14.
+   Michael, I want that ship examined with a fine-tooth comb. Something
+   fatal happened out there. I want to know what."
+   
+   As Delenn reaches her destination, Sinclair, Ivanova, and Garibaldi
+   discover another portion of the mystery. Garibaldi, after a thorough
+   search of Alpha VII, finds the buckle off the pilot's safety harness.
+   Scratched into the surface of the buckle is "B4." Ivanova speculates
+   that "B4" stands for Babylon 4, the previous Babylon station that
+   disappeared in sector 14 four years previous. Sinclair reports that
+   the tachyon emissions from that sector were coming from the same place
+   that Babylon 4 disappeared. The discussion is interrupted by
+   communication from C&C, declaring that the station is receiving a
+   distress signal from sector 14. "I thought I ordered all ships to stay
+   clear of that area," says Sinclair. The technician from C&C affirms
+   his orders, but then identifies the signal as coming from Babylon 4.
+   
+   [INLINE] Delenn waits.
+   
+   After the three arrive at C&C, Sinclair doesn't reply to the signal
+   but instead orders Ivanova to retrieve the secure code of Babylon 4
+   from the station archives. "Ever since the war, every Earth Force
+   command and control center was configured to broadcast its ID code on
+   a subchannel," explains Sinclair. Garibaldi adds that the reason for
+   it was to prevent counterfeit orders. Ivanova brings up the signal and
+   it matches perfectly to the one being broadcast from sector 14.
+   Sinclair orders the transmission to be patched through. "Earth station
+   Babylon 4 requesting help. We need assistance," says the man on the
+   other end. Sinclair responds, and the commander on the other end
+   explains that they are caught in a flux with only 30% of their power
+   and their escape ships damaged. They request help from Babylon 5 to
+   evacuate their skeleton crew of 1200-1300. The commander of Babylon 4
+   looks nervous and begins muttering strangely. "Oh God. It's starting
+   again. It's starting again," he says just as the communication is cut
+   off. Ivanova notices that the date stamp on the message is four years
+   out of date.
+   
+   Though Garibaldi has a difficult time believing the station is Babylon
+   4, Sinclair prepares a fighter escort with an evacuation fleet to
+   sector 14, determined to find Babylon 4. Sinclair makes a speech to
+   the pilots of the ships warning them of the dangers and the previous
+   death of the pilot of Alpha VII. Though he offers them a chance to
+   withdraw because of the danger, no one does, and soon the fleet is
+   sent off into space. Sinclair wants to learn the truth about Babylon
+   4, but also wants to take no chances. "If you don't hear from us in
+   eight hours, notify Earth Central, but do not send additional ships,"
+   he tells Ivanova.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Delenn reaches her destination, a gigantic ship, not unlike
+   the one from Sinclair's memory of the Battle of the Line (cf. [9]"And
+   the Sky Full of Stars".) She boards the ship and is taken into a great
+   chamber by a hooded Minbari. When she enters, she addresses the eight
+   hooded figures around her, each of which is standing in an individual
+   pool of light. "Summoned, I come," she intones. "In Valen's name, I
+   take the place that has been prepared for me. I am Grey. I stand
+   between the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between the
+   darkness and the light." She is welcomed back by the council, but
+   wonders why she has been recalled.
+   
+   "It has been ten cycles," explains one member of the Grey Council,
+   "since Dukhat has left this world to take his place with Valen and the
+   nine who were. Ten cycles since our people have had a leader. The time
+   of mourning is complete. We must now choose another." Another member
+   of the council, the one who visited her on the station earlier, (cf.
+   [10]"And the Sky Full of Stars") explains that they have spent much
+   time deciding who the next leader should be, and that they have
+   decided upon Delenn as the leader because she has seen the most, and
+   knows the most about the universe and other species. Delenn doesn't
+   want to accept the position because she believes that her work on
+   Babylon 5 has not been finished. She worries about a prophecy, but is
+   assured by the council that it will take care of itself, and that an
+   appropriate replacement will be selected for her aboard Babylon 5, and
+   that her work there is concluded.
+   
+   The fleet from Babylon 5 arrives in sector 14 to the sight they didn't
+   really expect to see: Babylon 4. Though tachyon emissions are still
+   present, Sinclair orders the rest of the fleet to approach the
+   station. They encounter a distortion field near the station where
+   tachyon emissions increase by 50%. Sinclair orders the fleet to remain
+   back while he and Garibaldi investigate.
+   
+   [INLINE] Approaching Babylon 4.
+   
+   After docking, they are assaulted and shot at in the otherwise empty
+   docking bay. "Monsters! I'll stop you!" shouts the assailant. "I know
+   where you are! I see you! You think I can't? I've gotta get off this
+   station. Come on, show yourselves!" While Sinclair diverts his fire,
+   Garibaldi sneaks up on the assailant from behind and captures him. The
+   commander of Babylon 4 then arrives to take custody of the assailant,
+   who keeps insisting that he must be taken off of the station. After
+   the three officers indentify themselves, Sinclair explains that they
+   are from Babylon 5 and the year 2258. "We have to hurry. We have to
+   get everyone off the station," says Major Krantz, the commander of
+   Babylon 4. He is interrupted, however, by a flash of light that
+   engulfs the station.
+   
+   Suddenly, Sinclair finds himself elsewhere in the midst of total
+   chaos. "Commander, they burned through levels seven and eight. Can't
+   stop them. They're everywhere!" shouts Garibaldi, there with him, who
+   is wielding an extremely large weapon, firing at a wall being cut
+   through from the other side. "I rigged the fusion reactors for the
+   time I'm done," Garibaldi says. "Get going, I'll hold them as long as
+   I can. Jeff, it's okay. I finally understand. This is the moment I was
+   born for!" Garibaldi pushes Sinclair into the crowd which carries him
+   away, despite his protests, just as the wall collapses. Garibaldi and
+   those under his command fire madly at the hole.
+   
+   [INLINE] Garibaldi opens fire.
+   
+   Another white flash occurs, and Sinclair finds himself back in his own
+   time, aboard Babylon 4. Sinclair, very confused, asks Krantz to what
+   happened. "It's different for everyone. A flash. Forward. Backward.
+   All of us. The entire station. We've become unstuck in time,
+   Commander. That's why we have to get out of here. Quickly!"
+   
+   Back on the Minbari ship, Delenn is afraid of accepting the position
+   of leader. "I cannot do it," she says. "I cannot accept the calling."
+   She is told by another councilmember that no one has ever refused the
+   position when offered it. Though Delenn yearns to accept the
+   leadership of the council, her heart tells her that she must remain
+   with Babylon 5 and that she has a part to play in the change that is
+   coming. She wants to reconvene the Council to speak to them, something
+   that has never been done. The other councilmember warns her that it
+   might be a bad time, and that she must be aware of the consequences.
+   She understands, and the council is reconvened.
+   
+   As the evacuation of Babylon 4 continues, Major Krantz explains the
+   problems they're having with Babylon 4 and the tachyon emissions and
+   time distortions. "It started 24 hours after the station went
+   operational. We began noticing discrepencies in the time track system.
+   We thought it was a computer glitch. Then all hell broke loose."
+   Sinclair asks if anything else unusual has happened, and Krantz
+   replies by introducing him to a strange being called Zathras. "We
+   don't know how he got aboard, where he came from, or what race he is.
+   I've never seen an alien like him before," Krantz says, and describes
+   how Zathras suddenly appeared with a flash in the conference room.
+   When Sinclair enters, Zathras stands and stares intently at Sinclair,
+   then shakes his head. "Not The One. Not The One..."
+   
+   [INLINE] Zathras sees Sinclair.
+   
+   Zathras babbles that he does as he is told. "The One is hurt. Must
+   find. Zathras must find. Help." When asked why he is there, Zathras
+   responds by saying that he was told the biggest of all the Babylon
+   stations was needed. Zathras is afraid to tell for fear that he will
+   not be able to finish his mission, but explains further after being
+   threatened by Garibaldi:
+   
+   "Great war. Terrible war. Much killings. Everyone fighting. A great
+   darkness. It is the end of everything. Zathras warn, but no, no one
+   listen to poor Zathras, no. Great war. But, great hope of peace. Need
+   place. Place to gather, to fight to organize...to help save galaxy on
+   the side of light. So they tell me. Must have. Or it is the end of
+   all. The One leads us. The One tells us to go, we go. We live for The
+   One. We would die for The One. We pull this place through time to save
+   us all."
+   
+   When asked where he comes from, Zathras says he came from his year of
+   4993, but does not know what year that is in Earth time. An officer
+   appears and says, "Major, it's back." Zathras, Sinclair, Garibaldi,
+   and Krantz run out of the room to see a figure in a blue space suit.
+   The figure is having considerable trouble breathing, and is
+   flickering, as if in and out of time. Zathras is in awe. "It is The
+   One," he says.
+   
+   [INLINE] The One.
+   
+   The figure in the space suit is apparently in great pain, but Zathras
+   explains that The One will sacrifice himself for others and that he
+   stopped the taking of Babylon 4 to let its crew evacuate. Sinclair
+   approaches The One, who reaches out his hand to him. When Sinclair
+   touches the gloved hand, a great shock sends him flying backward.
+   While Krantz and Garibaldi tend to Sinclair, Zathras runs to The One
+   and hands him a small device. "Zathras fixed," says Zathras. "Take!
+   Hurry!" The One then vanishes completely, and Zathras tries to run
+   away, but is captured before he can escape. "You must leave now.
+   Finished we are," Zathras warns Sinclair. "There is no more time.
+   Leave or be trapped here forever!" Sinclair orders Garibaldi to assist
+   in evacuation.
+   
+   Aboard the Minbari ship, Delenn addresses the Grey Council. "This
+   Council stopped the war against the humans because of prophecy,
+   because Valen said that humans, some among them, had a destiny, which
+   we could not interfere with. It was my place to study them...to
+   determine if the prophecy was correct. I have not yet finished that
+   task." Another councilmember tells her that he believes that the
+   prophecy refers to others, but Delenn does not believe it. The
+   councilmember does not understand Delenn's attraction toward humans,
+   but Delenn explains that "they do not seek conformity. They do not
+   surrender. Out of their differences comes symmetry. Their unique
+   capacity to fight against impossible odds. Hurt them, they only come
+   back stronger. The passions we deplore have taken them to their place
+   in the stars, and will propel them to a great destiny. Their only
+   weakness is that they do not recognize their own greatness. They
+   forget they have come to this place through two million years of
+   evolution, struggle, and blood. They are better than they think and
+   nobler than they know. They carry within them the capacity to walk
+   among the stars as giants. They are the future. We have much to learn
+   from them." The council cannot understand why she should stay with the
+   humans, but Delenn believes it is the calling of her heart. Delenn is
+   warned that if she leaves the council, she may lose her position
+   within it and may become outcast. She is also warned that should she
+   leave, the council may become divided. She understands, and says that
+   she must do what she believes is right. The council votes on whether
+   or not to honor Delenn's request. The vote ends in Delenn's favor, and
+   the council withdraws its decision and sends Delenn away so they may
+   select another leader.
+   
+   While Garibaldi oversees the evacuation of Babylon 4, Major Krantz and
+   Sinclair interrogate Zathras further. They demand to know what Zathras
+   gave to The One. He explains to them that it was a "time stablilizer.
+   Help survive when make next time jump." Sinclair then realizes that
+   Alpha VII was caught in the time distortion and killed by it. Zathras
+   gave his only time stabilizer to The One. He says that when the
+   station jumps, he will die, but that he will probably be remembered
+   for his sacrifice. Krantz threatens to remove him from the station,
+   but Zathras also claims that if he leaves the station, he will die as
+   well, though he does not want to.
+   
+   The station shakes again, and Garibaldi reports that tachyon emissions
+   have increased greatly. There is another flash, and this time
+   Garibaldi finds himself in the past, at the moment when Lise decided
+   that she could not live with him anymore. He wants to try to change
+   things, but is too disoriented by the experience, and events happen
+   much as they did before. After she leaves, Garibaldi finds himself
+   back on Babylon 4.
+   
+   [INLINE] Lise says goodbye.
+   
+   Sinclair contacts Garibaldi, who says he wants to leave the station as
+   soon as possible. Major Krantz agrees with Garibaldi, and insists that
+   Zathras be taken with them when they leave the station. "For the next
+   fifteen minutes," Krantz tells Sinclair, "this is still my command.
+   I'm going to have to answer for this station, and I want proof to go
+   with it. Alive or dead, he's the only proof I've got. And he's going
+   with us." Sinclair, Krantz, and Zathras, led by two security officers,
+   attempt to leave the station, but it begins shaking again, and Zathras
+   is caught, trapped beneath fallen debris. Krantz and the guards run
+   away, afraid for their lives, but Sinclair stays behind, trying to
+   help Zathras. "Leave me," Zathras cries. "You must listen to Zathras.
+   You have a destiny. Go. Please. Go for Zathras." Though he doesn't
+   understand, Sinclair runs away and meets up with Garibaldi, who
+   escorts him off the station.
+   
+   The station continues to break apart, and as it does so, The One
+   returns to the station to retrieve Zathras. Sinclair and Garibaldi
+   escape in their ship just as the distortion field goes off the scale
+   and Babylon 4 begins to disappear again. The One walks out of a
+   chamber into another room. "Time distortion repaired," intones a
+   computer voice. "Present time atmosphere now breathable." The One
+   removes his helmet, revealing an older, and somewhat injured Sinclair.
+   "I tried," the older Sinclair says. "I tried to warn them. But it all
+   happened...just the way I remember it." A hand in a red dress reaches
+   up an touches him on the shoulder. "I know," says a woman's exotic
+   voice, a voice that sounds suspiciously like Delenn's. "It's time. We
+   have to go. They're waiting for us." Sinclair and the woman leave.
+   
+   [INLINE] Comforting Sinclair.
+   
+   Sinclair and Garibaldi from the present return to Babylon 5 and
+   speculate along the way on what they had just experienced. "Do you
+   think that bit was true," asks Garibaldi. "About a great war and
+   Babylon 4 being a great base for somebody to try to bring peace to the
+   galaxy?" Commander Sinclair doesn't know. "But if it is true," he
+   says, "I wish them luck. The station was built to create peace. Maybe
+   now it'll do so in a way nobody ever expected. But it's still on the
+   same mission." They fly off back toward Babylon 5.
+   
+   Not long after, Delenn prepares to leave the great Minbari ship. On
+   her way, she meets up with a member of the Grey Council. He hopes to
+   see her again, but Delenn believes that she will never see the inside
+   of the Council Chamber again. The councilmember doesn't know, but
+   before she leaves, he presents her with a gift, wrapped in a cloth. It
+   is the Triluminary, a transparent triangle with metal edges. She
+   doesn't want to accept it, but he assures her it will not be missed
+   for a time because there are two others. "These are curious times," he
+   tells her before she leaves. "I feel a great change in my bones. A new
+   beginning, an end, I cannot say. We are surrounded by signs and
+   portents, and I feel a darkness pressing. If ever you have need of me,
+   I am here." She wraps the triluminary back in its cloth and returns to
+   Babylon 5.
+   
+   [INLINE] Delenn receives the triluminary.
+   
+   On the station, Sinclair talks to Ivanova about what happened. She
+   expresses her regret about not being able to see Babylon 4, but
+   Sinclair counters that they don't know where, or when, it was being
+   taken. It might pop up again some day. He recalls Garibaldi's
+   comparison of Babylon 4 and the Flying Dutchman -- a sailing ship, he
+   explains to Ivanova, that vanished, only to appear again and again
+   over the ages. "Did the Flying Dutchman ever make it home?" asks
+   Ivanova.
+   
+   "No," answers Sinclair.
+   
+      Synopsis written by Matthew Murray <i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu>
+      
+
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+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/020.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
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+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/021.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/guide/008.html
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+  11. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
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+  13. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
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+   Londo is talking to a Centauri senator on his screen. The senator
+   tells him that it's vital he promote good relations with the other
+   species on Babylon 5, some of whom may be potential allies. Londo
+   protests that he's doing the best he can, but the senator tells him to
+   try harder.
+   
+   [INLINE] Londo states his case.
+   
+   Shortly thereafter, Londo encounters Lennier in the hallway. When
+   Lennier admits that most of his knowledge about the other races comes
+   from reading, Londo offers to spend two days showing him "the Babylon
+   5 _I_ know."
+   
+   Meanwhile, in one of the station courtrooms, Ombuds Wellington
+   announces the verdict against a man named Karl Edward Mueller, who has
+   been found guilty of murdering two station residents and one member of
+   the security staff. Sentence will be handed down tomorrow, Wellington
+   says.
+   
+   In Downbelow, Ivanova finds Dr. Franklin running an unauthorized free
+   clinic for people who can't afford the services of Medlab. She
+   upbraids him for not telling her -- she won't shut the clinic down,
+   "but if I'm going to share in the blame, I'd at least like to share in
+   some of the fun."
+   
+   Garibaldi, Wellington, Commander Sinclair, and Talia Winters discuss
+   the fate of Mueller. Garibaldi suggests spacing him. "A couple hours
+   of hard vacuum would do him and the gene pool a world of good." He's
+   upset not only because of the crime, but because he believes that
+   Mueller has killed many times before.
+   
+   Wellington replies that there are only three legal punishments.
+   Mueller can be returned to Earth. Sinclair counters that Earth doesn't
+   want Mueller and won't pay to have him shipped back. The second option
+   is life imprisonment, but Garibaldi says there's not enough room in
+   the brig for the prisoners who're already there, let alone to keep
+   someone for life. The third option involves Talia, who reluctantly
+   agrees to help. Garibaldi suggests that while she's in Mueller's mind,
+   she can see if he's killed before; Wellington reminds Garibaldi that
+   any such evidence would be inadmissable.
+   
+   Franklin searches Downbelow for a woman named Laura Rosen, who he's
+   heard is running a bogus medical practice. He enters her office to
+   find that she and a man are both hooked up to an alien device of some
+   kind. The man says he feels much better now, and asks what he owes;
+   Laura tells him that's up to him, and that he can leave his donation
+   in the box outside the door.
+   
+   [INLINE] Laura Rosen and patient.
+   
+   She and Franklin talk about the device. She claims it cures anything
+   from the common cold to Stafford's disease. Franklin starts to
+   confront her, calling her a con artist and a fraud, when Laura's
+   daughter Janice arrives and tells him to leave. He does, but promises
+   to return.
+   
+   Ombuds Wellington sentences Mueller to personality death. He'll be
+   telepathically scanned and brainwiped, then programmed with new
+   memories, to spend the rest of his natural life serving the community
+   he harmed. Mueller is livid, and struggles against his guards, but
+   they lead him away.
+   
+   Franklin tells Garibaldi he'll need to check over the brainwipe
+   machine to make sure the procedure is painless, something Garibaldi
+   isn't too concerned about. Franklin asks Garibaldi to see what
+   information he can find on Laura Rosen.
+   
+   Londo takes Lennier to Dark Star, a club with erotic dancers. "Here,
+   my friend," he says, ushering Lennier to a seat at the stage and
+   ordering drinks. "Here you will see the heart and soul of Babylon 5.
+   Also its spleen, its kidneys... a veritable parade of internal
+   organs." Claiming he left his credit chit in his quarters, Londo tells
+   Lennier to pay for their drinks. Lennier asks whether his drink
+   contains alcohol -- even small amounts, he says, can cause Minbari to
+   experience violent, homicidal rages. Londo quickly grabs Lennier's
+   drink and orders water for him.
+   
+   [INLINE] Londo and Lennier arrive at the club.
+   
+   Franklin stops by the stall where Janice Rosen sells jewelry for a
+   living. He talks to her about her mother. Janice says that all her
+   mother ever wanted was to be a doctor. And she was, originally, but
+   she could never do as much as she liked -- she started taking
+   stimulants to stay awake longer, became addicted to them, and finally
+   slipped up, causing the death of a patient. After her license was
+   revoked, she wandered the stars, thinking that if she could find some
+   new alien healing technology, she could return to Earth, vindicated.
+   
+   "And now she thinks she's found it," says Franklin. "What do _you_
+   think?"
+   
+   "I think... I think that for the first time in years, I see my mother
+   smiling. For the first time, I see hope in her eyes."
+   
+   Franklin counters that it's a sham; the machine doesn't work. Janice
+   says he doesn't know that for sure. If it works, asks Franklin, why
+   are Janice and her mother still on Babylon 5? They could return to
+   Earth and show her mother's fantastic discovery to the world. Janice
+   starts to claim she can't afford it, but Franklin says she can; she
+   just doesn't want her mother to know it.
+   
+   [INLINE] "I see hope in her eyes."
+   
+   Janice leaves, warning Franklin not to try to take away what her
+   mother has; if he does, she'll fight him, and win.
+   
+   Lennier relates the story of his education to a bored, bleary-eyed
+   Londo. He studied the ninety-seven Minbari dialects and subtongues,
+   then moved on to mathematics, specializing in probability. That perks
+   Londo up, and when Lennier says he achieved the rank of master adept,
+   Londo drags him away from the stage to introduce him to something the
+   Earthers call "poker."
+   
+   After preparing, Talia goes to Mueller's cell to scan him. He's not
+   very cooperative, and when she threatens him, he scoffs. "It's not
+   like I'm going to remember any of this. That's the plan, isn't it?
+   Take away my thoughts, my memories, everything that makes me _me_, so
+   they can put me to work for the rest of my life, mopping floors,
+   scrubbing toilets..." But he eventually sits down, allowing Talia to
+   enter his mind.
+   
+   [INLINE] Talia arrives to scan Mueller.
+   
+   She finds herself facing the security guard Mueller killed, watching
+   him die from Mueller's point of view. And it's not just the guard,
+   Mueller says to her, as face after face drifts by, humans and aliens
+   alike. He is building a choir, and has to keep adding to it until
+   there are enough voices to sing him into heaven. "The overture is just
+   beginning," he says. Talia breaks contact with him, stumbling back,
+   overwhelmed by what she's just seen and felt.
+   
+   Franklin's clinic assistant brings him a file full of followup reports
+   on Laura Rosen's patients. If he can show Janice that her mother isn't
+   helping people, he says, maybe she'll listen... but apparently that's
+   not what the reports show. He rushes away.
+   
+   Londo and Lennier play poker in another part of Dark Star. Lennier
+   looks at his hand and announces cheerfully that the probability of
+   this combination of cards is approximately five thousand to one
+   against. The other players fold, and as Lennier adds the chips to his
+   already substantial mound, Londo tells him to stop doing that --
+   Lennier could be winning ten times more if he'd just keep quiet.
+   
+   Franklin enters Laura's office as she heals a woman. While she and the
+   woman are hooked up to the alien machine, Franklin pulls out a
+   portable scanner and points it at Laura. The alien treatment only
+   lasts a moment, and the woman leaves, claiming she feels much better.
+   
+   After offering his apologies to Laura, Franklin notes that her
+   lifesigns dropped 15 percent while she was hooked up to the machine.
+   She says she knows, that that's how the machine works -- it takes life
+   energy from one person and transfers it to another. It was designed as
+   a form of capital punishment for criminals; they gave up their lives
+   to heal terminally ill people. But it can be used at partial strength
+   so it doesn't immediately kill the donor.
+   
+   Franklin complains that it's still killing her, if only gradually.
+   Laura says it doesn't matter. She has Lake's syndrome, and has maybe
+   three years left to life. Time enough to figure out how the machine
+   works, possibly figure out how to modify it such that it doesn't hurt
+   the donor. Franklin deduces that Janice doesn't know how the device
+   works, or even _if_ it works. Laura confirms that; if Janice knew the
+   machine was killing her, she'd force her to stop. She promises to give
+   the machine to Franklin if something happens to her, but asks him for
+   his word that he won't tell Janice about it.
+   
+   Janice arrives as Franklin leaves. He offers to treat her to dinner if
+   she wants to take a break sometime.
+   
+   Garibaldi finds Talia in the Garden. She tells him she scanned Mueller
+   well enough to do a comparison scan after the brainwipe. She says
+   Mueller's mind is inhuman, more so than any of the aliens she's had
+   contact with. As Garibaldi leaves, she adds, "You once said you'd bet
+   good money he'd killed before. You would not have lost."
+   
+   [INLINE] Talia in the Garden.
+   
+   Back at the gaming table, Londo clears his throat loudly and adjusts
+   his clothing. Something underneath the fabric begins to move. As
+   people examine their cards, a tentacle reaches up from beneath the
+   table and snatches the top card from the deck. Seconds later, Londo
+   switches it for a card from his hand, and the tentacle puts that card
+   on the deck.
+   
+   [INLINE] Londo's helping tentacle.
+   
+   Garibaldi and a few guards lead Mueller away. As they reach the
+   transport tube, Mueller overpowers the security guard in the car,
+   grabs a gun, and is inside before anyone can stop him. Garibaldi
+   manages to shoot him in the arm as the doors close, then orders C&C to
+   stop the elevator car immediately. Mueller pries the doors open and
+   stumbles onto a different floor; nobody is around, and he runs off,
+   clutching his injured arm.
+   
+   Londo tries to snatch another card, but one of the other players
+   inadvertently puts a pitcher of icewater down on the tentacle as it
+   lifts a card from the deck. "Is it cold in here all of a sudden, or is
+   it just me?" Londo asks. The tentacle struggles to pull itself out
+   from under the pitcher as Londo looks increasingly uncomfortable. One
+   of the other players notices what's going on and lifts the water; the
+   tentacle snaps under the table, hitting Londo. Several of the other
+   players stand up and accuse Londo of cheating. They knock over the
+   table and advance. Lennier lays two of them out cold with an expert
+   punch and a flying kick, but by now the other people in the club are
+   closing in. "This... is not good," Lennier says, taking a defensive
+   stance.
+   
+   In medlab, Franklin patches up the security guard who Mueller
+   attacked. He calls his clinic, warning them to be on the lookout for a
+   man with a PPG wound, then heads to Laura's office to warn her.
+   
+   When he arrives, he finds that Mueller is already there, and has a gun
+   to Janice's head. Laura is in the middle of treating him. Franklin
+   tries to intervene, but Mueller shoots at him, warning him to stay
+   back or the next shot won't miss.
+   
+   [INLINE] Mueller holds Janice hostage.
+   
+   Convinced that he'll kill Janice anyway when the treatment is
+   finished, Laura hits a control on the machine. Suddenly, Mueller
+   writhes in pain, drops the gun and collapses to the floor. "That's
+   Lake's syndrome," she tells him, describing its agonizing symptoms in
+   detail. "You'll never hurt _anyone_ again." Mueller stops moving, and
+   Franklin, after a quick examination, says he's dead.
+   
+   Later, Laura is cleared of any wrongdoing by Ombuds Wellington; she
+   acted in self-defense. But she must turn the alien device over to
+   station personnel for study. As the courtroom clears out, Garibaldi
+   tells Laura she did the right thing. Janice agrees, but Laura is still
+   haunted by the fact that she has taken a life, in violation of her
+   oath as a doctor. "I did the necessary thing," she tells Janice. "That
+   is not always the same as the right thing."
+   
+   Ivanova catches up with Garibaldi as he leaves the courtroom and tells
+   him they've identified the two suspects who started the fight in Dark
+   Star.
+   
+   Sinclair tries to get Londo and Lennier to tell him what happened at
+   the club. Lennier takes full responsibility, claiming that the
+   argument started because he misunderstood the rules. Sinclair doesn't
+   believe a word of that, but can't press further thanks to diplomatic
+   privilege.
+   
+   After Sinclair leaves, Londo thanks Lennier. Lennier asks what the
+   part of Londo that reached for the cards was. Londo whispers the
+   answer to him, and, when Lennier stares at him in disbelief, picks up
+   a nearby statuette, a figurine with six long tentacles protruding from
+   her midriff. "It's true," Londo says. "Yes! Here: Li, goddess of
+   passion. A synthesis of male and female Centauri. Did you think _these_
+   were just decorations?" Lennier leaves in a hurry.
+   
+   Laura and Janice drop the alien machine off in medlab. Franklin says
+   he'll study it. Perhaps it can still be used to heal; volunteers could
+   donate a little of their life energy the way people once donated
+   blood. Laura tells him she's leaving, going out to the stars to redeem
+   herself, to try to find a way to make up for what she's done.
+   
+   "Is that dinner invitation still open?" Janice asks as she leaves.
+   
+   "Yeah. Yeah! It's still open," Franklin says, happily surprised. "7,
+   zocalo?" Janice nods and leaves Franklin with a smile on his face.
+   
+  Synopsis by [9]Steven Grimm
+  
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+      [16]Last update: January 30, 1998
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/021.html
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/021.shtml
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/021.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/020.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/022.html
+   9. http://www.midwinter.com/~koreth/
+  10. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  11. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/021.html#TOP
+  12. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/020.html
+  15. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/022.html
+  16. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+   It is December 30, 2258. As the episode opens, Londo and G'Kar are
+   arguing before the council about quadrant 37. G'Kar accuses the
+   Centauri government of sending armed ships into Narn space, but Londo
+   is adamant in his belief that quadrant 37 is neutral territory,
+   because of a treaty. G'Kar declares that the Narn government no longer
+   acknowledges the treaty because it was forced upon them. Sinclair
+   intervenes and points out that the Narns have operated a military base
+   on the border of Centauri space, without incident, for five years, and
+   wonders why the problems have only now begun. G'Kar claims that
+   outposts such as those are necessary for Narn planetary security.
+   Londo responds, "Keep this up, G'Kar, and soon you won't have a planet
+   to protect." G'Kar storms out of the council chamber.
+   
+   [INLINE] G'Kar makes his accusation.
+   
+   Elsewhere on the station, Garibaldi is talking to some people when a
+   dying man stumbles over to him. The man is badly injured and can
+   barely talk, but manages to utter one message before he dies. "You've
+   got to stop them," he says. "They're going to kill him... they're
+   going to kill him."
+   
+   Garibaldi explains to Sinclair and Ivanova that the man, named Stephen
+   Petrov, was a lurker from Downbelow who he had picked up for petty
+   theft and reformed. He had been an informant of Garibaldi's for six
+   months, though Garibaldi had not heard from him in nearly two weeks.
+   Garibaldi is upset that Petrov had died while wanting to turn his life
+   around, but realizes that his death may not have been in vain, if what
+   he said was true. Though they don't know whose life may be in danger,
+   Garibaldi is determined to find the answer.
+   
+   Later, Sinclair and Catherine Sakai watch the news in Sinclair's
+   quarters. "After which, the president and his escort left the Mars
+   colony on a goodwill tour of the outer planet colonies. Sources close
+   to the president have hinted that he'll give a major policy speech New
+   Year's Day from the jump point on Io. The speech is likely to concern
+   human-alien relations over the remainder of his five-year term," says
+   the anchorwoman.
+   
+   [INLINE] Watching the news.
+   
+   Catherine asks Sinclair if he has plans for New Year's. He says that
+   he doesn't, unless the conflict between the Narn and Centauri is still
+   continuing. Catherine has made plans, but wants to surprise Sinclair.
+   Sinclair has a surprise for her as well. He talks to her about their
+   relationship and the problems they have had in the past, and how much
+   he loves her. "Look," he asks her, "do you want to get married or
+   don't you?" "Yes," she replies.
+   
+   Londo and Vir are in Londo's quarters discussing the problems the
+   Centauri are having with the Narn. Londo is upset at having to tell
+   the council that he must give quadrant 37 to the Narns, but knows that
+   he must do it and that he has nearly no alternative. Then, there is an
+   incoming communication which Vir answers. When the voice asks for
+   Londo, Vir first answers that he is very busy, but Londo recognizes
+   the voice and takes the call personally. He recognizes the man on the
+   other end as Morden, who had rescued the Eye from the raiders. Londo
+   wants to talk, but Morden refuses, instead setting up a meeting at the
+   park in one hour, to discuss a problem that Morden doesn't mention.
+   Londo agrees, and then sends Vir away, to prepare for the meeting.
+   
+   [INLINE] "I think I'll stick my head in the station's fusion reactor."
+   
+   Delenn and Lennier are in Delenn's quarters. Delenn is again working
+   on the crystal structure that she has been constructing for a long
+   time. "Did you see Ambassador Kosh?" she asks Lennier, and he responds
+   affirmatively. "Did you relay my question precisely? Word for word?"
+   Again, Lennier responds affirmatively, and when Delenn asks for his
+   reaction, Lennier tells her. "Just one word. He said: Yes." Delenn
+   stops working on the structure and leaves hastily, telling Lennier to
+   wait for her.
+   
+   Garibaldi, now in Downbelow, searches for information on Petrov's
+   death. He is met with consternation from the various lurkers, but
+   eventually finds one that has information for him. The strange man
+   says that it is common for lurkers to accept assignments from people
+   on the station when they need more people to work. "Last week, one of
+   the guys hired us to load cargo for transport." Garibaldi asks what
+   kind, but the man didn't ask. He suspected that the man who had asked
+   them to load the cargo was trouble. Garibaldi asks for a name, and the
+   man provides one: Devereaux, whom he claims hangs out in the casino.
+   The lurker also provides one last startling bit of information. "The
+   last time I saw Petrov was just before he went looking for you.
+   Whatever he saw, whatever he knew, scared him half to death."
+   
+   [INLINE] Garibaldi gathers information.
+   
+   In the park, Londo searches for Morden and eventually finds him. Londo
+   tells Morden that he wanted to thank him for returning the Eye, but
+   Morden waves it off. "Unnecessary," Morden says. "I'm here to be of
+   service, Ambassador! My associates believe that you are a person of
+   great potential, trapped in a position where your skills are unseen
+   and unappreciated. They'd like to change that." Londo tells Morden
+   that nothing can be changed, and that his life is as much as it will
+   ever be, but Morden suggests trying anyway.
+   
+   Morden knows of the trouble in quadrant 37 and offers to solve the
+   problem for the Centauri. Londo doesn't believe it, but Morden
+   persists, telling Londo to tell his superiors that he will take care
+   of the situation. Londo does not still completely understand. "What is
+   the price for this...help?"
+   
+   "No price, Ambassador," Morden answers simply. "But at some point in
+   the future, if we deliver on our promises, we may come to you and ask
+   you for a favor. That's all." Morden leaves.
+   
+   [INLINE] "We're simply here to help."
+   
+   Delenn enters Kosh's quarters. She breathes from a gas mask once, then
+   puts it away and speaks. "I have come as I said I would. Kosh, I have
+   great doubts. I must know if it's true. I must see with my own eyes."
+   
+   Kosh says nothing in response. Suddenly, a bright light comes from the
+   encounter suit, and slowly, the top of the suit begins to move out of
+   place. Delenn looks at what she sees and smiles. "Yes, thank you. Now
+   I will keep the promise. Goodbye. You will not see me again as I am
+   now." She bows to Kosh and leaves.
+   
+   In the casino, Garibaldi finds Devereaux and introduces himself.
+   Devereaux refuses to cooperate, but relents after Garibaldi forces him
+   to go to security to identify Petrov. "Big mistake, hot shot,"
+   Devereaux says to Garibaldi. "You shouldn't poke around in things you
+   don't understand. This is too big for you." Garibaldi does not believe
+   this, and escorts Devereaux out of the casino.
+   
+   Meanwhile, in Londo's quarters, Vir enters and tells Londo that the
+   Centauri government wants to know if he has relayed their message to
+   the council. Londo tells Vir to reply that he will personally take
+   care of the problem in quadrant 37. Though Vir believes Londo is
+   drunk, Londo assures him it is not so, and tells him to send the
+   message.
+   
+   Sinclair goes to G'Kar's quarters, where Na'Toth tells him that G'Kar
+   is too busy, but she changes her mind after several females emerge
+   from his bedroom. Sinclair wants the Narn to give Centauri room to
+   maneuver, but G'Kar refuses; he considers it a dead issue. Sinclair
+   tries to get him reconsider. The Narn, he says, are abusing their
+   power by threatening the Centauri much as the Centauri had done to
+   them.
+   
+   "We know what we're doing," G'Kar says. "Is there anything else?"
+   
+   "Just that I've had this feeling lately that we're standing at a
+   crossroads, and I don't like where we're going. But there's still time
+   to choose another path. You can be part of that process, G'Kar. Choose
+   wisely. Not just for the Centauri, but for the good of your own people
+   as well."
+   
+   "We all do what we have to," G'Kar says, and asks Sinclair to leave.
+   
+   [INLINE] "We're standing at a crossroads."
+   
+   Later, Sinclair, Catherine, Ivanova and Garibaldi are eating dinner
+   together. Garibaldi wants to know what the occasion is, and Sinclair
+   tells him that he and Catherine are getting married, and they want
+   want Garibaldi and Ivanova to be the best man and maid of honor,
+   respectively. Congratulations are exchanged, and Garibaldi tells
+   Sinclair that he is glad to be his friend and best man. A beep comes
+   from Garibaldi's communicator, and he receives a message that
+   Devereaux, and the two men who were with him, is missing. Garibaldi
+   tells Sinclair that he found something interesting about Devereaux.
+   When he investigated Devereaux's PPG, he found no serial number
+   stamped on the inner coil. Only special agents in Earth Force security
+   get unnumbered PPGs, a fact which suggests to Garibaldi that something
+   serious is going on.
+   
+   In quadrant 37, a Narn perimeter guard is investigating the sector,
+   and reports that he has found nothing. He loses contact with the base.
+   Suddenly, something materializes directly in front of him. It is a
+   large black ship that has many protusions resembling legs or
+   tentacles. It fires a beam at the ship, which is instantly destroyed.
+   A second mysterious ship appears nearby, then a third, then a fourth.
+   Several Narn ships, fighters and large capital ships alike, attempt to
+   intercept and return fire on the spider-like vessels, but their
+   attempts are fruitless. All the Narn ships are destroyed, and soon the
+   outpost on a nearby planet is destroyed as well. The mystery ships
+   vanish, fading to invisibility as they move away from the planet.
+   
+   [INLINE] The Narn outpost.
+   
+   Ivanova, at C&C, taking an opportunity to relax since no more ships
+   are due in for a while, watches the news. "At which time the vice
+   president disembarked Earth Force 1. He is currently undergoing
+   medical tests while the president continues en route to Jupiter.
+   Reports indicate that the vice president is suffering from a viral
+   infection and hopes to catch up with the tour as it returns from Io."
+   
+   There is, however, no time for Garibaldi to relax. One of the ships
+   that Devereaux had hired Petrov to load cargo onto was delayed by
+   engine trouble, and he is inspecting the cargo. His aide arrives to
+   help. Though the cargo containers are supposed to contain medical
+   supplies, Garibaldi finds transmitters which are set to broadcast
+   static -- a "poor man's jamming device." In another crate is a
+   triangulation system, used to determine optimum placement for the
+   transmitters. The device is set for a location near the transport
+   point on Io, and the jammers are set to jam the gold channel frequency
+   for Earth Force 1. Garibaldi links to Sinclair. "We've got a problem.
+   Ultraviolet priority." He doesn't go into more detail, but tells
+   Sinclair to meet him in a briefing room in twenty minutes. He rushes
+   away. After Garibaldi leaves, his aide makes a communication of his
+   own. "This is blue alpha," he says. "Stand by."
+   
+   While Garibaldi is on his way, he comes across Devereaux and his
+   associates. Garibaldi tries to apprehend them, but is shot in the back
+   by his aide.
+   
+   [INLINE] Devereaux confronts Garibaldi.
+   
+   Sinclair, in his quarters, tells Ivanova that Garibaldi has still not
+   reported in. They both agree that Garibaldi would not call for an
+   ultraviolet alert and then not go in to follow it up, so they surmise
+   that something must be wrong. Sinclair continues to try to contact
+   Garibaldi, but is interrupted by the chime of his door. He is thinks
+   it's Garibaldi, but he's wrong. It is Delenn. "Hello Commander," she
+   says. "I believe you recognize this." She holds up the triluminary
+   given her by a member of the Grey Council. "Yes," Sinclair answers,
+   remembering a hooded member of the Council holding that up to his face
+   when he was aboard the Minbari ship at the Battle of the Line. Delenn
+   presses further. "You remember what happened at the Battle of the
+   Line, don't you? You remember being taken aboard our ship?" Sinclair
+   says he remembers a little of what happened, but doesn't know
+   everything or what it means. "I suspected as much," Delenn answers.
+   "We have a lot to discuss, Commander. By coming to you, I am putting
+   both of our lives at risk. But there are things you should know."
+   
+   Sinclair says it's a bad time because Garibaldi is missing.
+   
+   "I understand," Delenn says. "Come to my quarters, and I'll tell you
+   as much as I can. But don't wait too long, Commander. Certain things
+   have been set in motion, and I do not have much time." She leaves.
+   
+   [INLINE] "I believe you recognize this."
+   
+   While Garibaldi slowly and painfully makes his way to the elevator,
+   Na'Toth delivers some disheartening news to G'Kar about quadrant 37.
+   She tells him that the outpost there is gone, and though G'Kar thinks
+   they have just lost contact, she informs him that the homeworld sent a
+   ship to investigate, and found everything gone, and all the records
+   destroyed. There were no survivors. Na'Toth laments the 10,000 deaths,
+   but G'Kar is preoccupied with even darker matters. "It wasn't the
+   humans. The Centauri don't have the will. The Vorlon's don't care. The
+   Minbari wouldn't do it. The other worlds aren't powerful enough for a
+   strike like this," he says. "There's someone else out there, Na'Toth,"
+   he says grimly.
+   
+   Things are a bit lighter around the rest of the station, however. It
+   is now midnight, and the New Year's celebration has just concluded
+   with the ringing in of the new year, 2259. When a couple of guests at
+   the celebration attempt to leave, they find Garibaldi in the elevator.
+   He has lost a great deal of blood and is unconscious.
+   
+   In Delenn's quarters, she is completing the building of her crystal
+   construct. "Are you sure there's no other way?" asks Lennier, who
+   watches her sadly.
+   
+   "What must happen will happen," Delenn says. "Valen said this day
+   would come. Who are we to stand in the way of prophecy?" Lennier tries
+   to convince her to stop what she is doing by asking her what will
+   happen if she is wrong. "Then speak well of me when I'm gone," she
+   answers, smiling faintly. She turns away from him and looks at the
+   crystal structure for a moment. She then silently picks up the
+   triluminary from the table and inserts it into a slot at the top of
+   the device. It begins to glow with an eerie white light, and soon the
+   entire device is glowing in a similar manner. "If he comes, it must be
+   soon," she intones gravely, watching the corner of the room as
+   something fills it, apparently coming from the glowing structure. "I
+   have little time."
+   
+   [INLINE] "What must happen will happen."
+   
+   Garibaldi is rushed to MedLab, where Dr. Franklin shouts to an
+   assistant to prepare for surgery. He diagnoses Garibaldi as having
+   massive internal damage, and he cannot operate until his condition
+   stabilizes.
+   
+   Sinclair is worried about Garibaldi, but Garibaldi moves a little and
+   is able to offer an important warning as Sinclair listens. "They're
+   going to...they're going to kill the president. At the transfer point
+   on Io. Warn him! Warn him..." Sinclair rushes out as Dr. Franklin goes
+   to work.
+   
+   Sinclair quickly arrives at C&C and asks Ivanova if she has been able
+   to get through to Earth Force 1. She tells him that all conventional
+   channels are being jammed. They are even unable to get through on the
+   gold channels. The C&C staff tries to reroute through civilian
+   channels and to get Earth Central on-line as well, but they do not
+   succeed either way. They are, however, still getting the ISN news
+   feed, which they display so they can monitor the situation. The
+   anchorwoman reports that, though the president was supposed to begin
+   his New Years speech ten minutes earlier, he had not done so. She gets
+   an emergency signal. Suddenly, Earth Force 1 bursts into flames.
+   "Station Io is dispatching hospital ships, but it doesn't seem
+   possible that anyone could have survived that kind of..." Sinclair
+   tells a tech to shut the screen off. The president is dead.
+   
+   [INLINE] Earth Force 1.
+   
+   While watching Dr. Franklin and the others in MedLab work on
+   Garibaldi, Sinclair says that he wants guards posted around MedLab
+   around the clock and medical personnel available 24 hours a day so
+   that what happened before cannot happen again. He says that they only
+   have one name to go on, Devereaux, and that they need any information
+   available about him. Sinclair leaves, and we see that he was talking
+   to Garibaldi's aide, who just smiles and looks through the window into
+   MedLab.
+   
+   In Delenn's quarters, Lennier cries silently as he watches and listens
+   to Delenn. Though she cries out several times, he does nothing but
+   watch in anguish.
+   
+   G'Kar and Na'Toth solemnly board a core shuttle, in which Ivanova is
+   already seated. G'Kar asks about Commander Sinclair and Garibaldi, and
+   Ivanova tells them that Sinclair is in MedLab with him, and that
+   Garibaldi's situation is still very uncertain. G'Kar wants to tell
+   Sinclair that there is little point in further mediating the dispute
+   over quadrant 37. Ivanova has heard about what happened, and asks if
+   they have information, but they have none. G'Kar offers his
+   condolences over the death of President Santiago and hopes that Earth
+   finds whoever is responsible. Na'Toth tells Ivanova that the Narn will
+   find and punish those responsible for the destruction of everything in
+   quadrant 37.
+   
+   Back in the park, Londo and Morden meet again. Londo is amazed and
+   outraged at what happened to quadrant 37 and the death of the 10,000
+   Narns there. "I didn't know you cared," Morden replies. "Ten thousand,
+   a hundred thousand, a million, what's the difference? They're Narns,
+   Ambassador. Your sworn enemy." Londo, however, is still shocked. He
+   didn't think that Morden would take such drastic action. "Ambassador,
+   your name is being spoken at the highest levels of the Centauri
+   government. They don't know how you did it. They don't care. They
+   credit you with saving them from another embarrassment without
+   creating a war in the process. They've noticed you, Ambassador, which
+   was the point of the exercise. I hear they have great plans for you."
+   Londo still cannot grasp the scope of what happened, but Morden
+   continues. "Ambassador, you're a hero. Enjoy it! I'll be around." He
+   then leaves.
+   
+   Sinclair tries to convince an Earth senator that the president was
+   assassinated, but she does not believe it. She claims that their
+   evidence has only pointed to problems with their fusion reactor, and
+   that it was all nothing more than an accident. The senator doesn't
+   believe that Garibaldi could know that the president might be
+   assassinated if Earth's best agents did not. She tells him that she
+   doesn't want a panic to be created by spreading "unsubstantiated
+   rumors" and orders him to maintain silence on his feelings of the
+   presidential assassination. Sinclair storms away.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Garibaldi's aide calls to several other security agents who
+   are nearby. Devereaux and his men are lying on the floor dead.
+   Garibaldi's aide says that they tried to fire at him when they would
+   not go in for questioning, and claims he killed them in self-defense.
+   One of the officers says Devereaux's PPG is cold, which it wouldn't be
+   if Devereaux had fired it. But he withdraws his comment, perhaps not
+   wishing to contradict his superior.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin begins to operate on Garibaldi.
+   
+   Sinclair is at the bar, drinking. He watches the news regarding the
+   death of President Santiago and the inauguration of vice president
+   Morgan Clark to the presidency. "It is important that we move on to
+   create the world that Louis Santiago would have wanted for his
+   children, my children, and for posterity yet to come," President Clark
+   says in an address. "We will begin by focusing more on the needs of
+   our own people, to sustain them through this difficult time, and to
+   prepare them for the tasks ahead."
+   
+   Sinclair, sensing someone else entering the bar, turns around and sees
+   Ambassador Kosh. "And so it begins," intones Kosh. "You have forgotten
+   something," he continues. Suddenly realizing what Kosh meant, Sinclair
+   rushes out of the bar and goes to Delenn's quarters.
+   
+   [INLINE] "And so it begins."
+   
+   He enters and finds Lennier still staring at the corner, and the still
+   glowing crystal statue on the table. Lennier seems to be oblivious to
+   Sinclair at first "You're too late," he says at last.
+   
+   Sinclair follows Lennier's gaze over to the corner of the room, where
+   he sees a large, white, faintly glowing mass. He slowly walks over to
+   it and examines it. "What is it?"
+   
+   "A chrysalis," replies Lennier. "She is changing."
+   
+   "Into what?"
+   
+   "I don't know," is the only reply that Lennier can give, as Sinclair
+   looks at Delenn's eyes, just barely visible beneath the surface of the
+   chrysalis.
+   
+   [INLINE] Delenn's chrysalis.
+   
+   Na'Toth enters G'Kar's quarters, but cannot find him. As she calls out
+   his name, an automated message begins. "Na'Toth, by the time you get
+   this message, I will be gone. I have certain suspicions about the
+   attack on quadrant 37. I am taking the first transport back to
+   homeworld. You will not be able to contact me. I will contact you.
+   And, uh, one more thing. Tell the commander he was right. We were at a
+   crossroads, and there is no going back. Expect me when you see me."
+   
+   Londo arrives in MedLab to find Ivanova waiting there. She explains
+   that she had relieved the commander and that he will be back on watch
+   soon. When Londo asks about Garibaldi's condition, she says they are
+   still operating and they still don't know what the outcome will be.
+   Londo says that he would like to wait with her. "He is an annoying
+   man, but I would miss him if he..." They then turn and continue to
+   watch the operation, while Garibaldi's aide looks on silently.
+   
+   Morden sits in the middle of a room, surrounded by strangely
+   shimmering, shadowlike forms. They make a few sounds, apparently
+   language, but not one that we can understand. "Yes, I think he's
+   ready," Morden says to them. He continues to answer, speaking to them
+   after they speak to him. "Perfect for our needs. No, no, he suspects
+   nothing. When the time is right, Ambassador Mollari will do exactly as
+   we wish. Destiny is on our side."
+   
+   Catherine, with a solemn look on her face, walks over to a sofa on
+   which Sinclair is sitting, staring intently. She puts her arms around
+   him, but he only acknowledges her with words. "Nothing's the same any
+   more."
+   
+   Lennier maintains a candlelight vigil over Delenn as she rests, slowly
+   changing in her chrysalis.
+   
+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
+  
+
+   [14][Next] 
+   
+      [15]Last update: October 11, 1995
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+   It is January 8, 2259. The Earth Alliance ship Agamemnon jumps into
+   hyperspace. Its commanding officer, Captain John Sheridan, receives a
+   gold channel message from General Hague of the joint chiefs of staff.
+   General Hague tells Captain Sheridan that a Minbari warship has
+   appeared several times in Earth-controlled space, only a short
+   distance from Babylon 5. Hague believes that the ship may have hostile
+   intent. Sheridan doesn't understand until Hague tells him that the
+   ship is a renegade warship, which Sheridan correctly guesses is called
+   the Trigati. The Earth Alliance is awaiting the arrival of a ship sent
+   by the Minbari government to assist should the warship decide to
+   attack. Sheridan is ordered to make personal contact with that ship to
+   help with the search. Sheridan questions the wisdom of that action,
+   remembering his previous encounter with the Minbari, when he destroyed
+   one of their warships. Hague understands Sheridan's reservations, but
+   tells Sheridan to proceed to Babylon 5 to perform one additional duty.
+   
+   [INLINE] The Agamemnon.
+   
+   On Babylon 5, Ivanova, currently in command of the station, walks
+   through the halls and is bothered by several aliens, whom she sets in
+   their place during an elevator ride. The action of the scene continues
+   under her voice, a status report for the station: "It is now eight
+   days since the death of Earth Alliance president Louis Santiago, and
+   five days since Commander Sinclair was recalled to Earth without
+   explanation--and the whole place has gone straight to Hell. I can only
+   conclude that I'm paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate.
+   Security Chief Michael Garibaldi remains in critical condition in
+   Medlab. Dr. Franklin's done all he can, but we still don't know if
+   he'll recover. As for Ambassador Delenn, well, something's going on in
+   her quarters. That's for sure."
+   
+   General Hague contacts Ivanova and tells her that Commander Sinclair
+   will not be returning to Babylon 5 and that he has been permanently
+   reassigned to the Minbari homeworld as the first human ambassador to
+   the planet. Hague informs her that Captain Sheridan is the new choice
+   for the commander of Babylon 5, but Ivanova is unsure of the decision,
+   claiming that it is "bound to be a controversial choice." Hague
+   understands, but tells her that the decision has already been made. He
+   ends the communication.
+   
+   In Delenn's quarters, Lennier continues to maintain a vigil over the
+   chrysalis in which Delenn is changing. Another Minbari, Hedronn,
+   enters and addresses Lennier directly. "So...she's done it, hasn't
+   she? She's in there. We told her to wait. `The prophecy will attend to
+   itself,' we told her. Now we are committed to the path. I've spoken
+   with the other members of the council. The Trigati has been seen in
+   this sector. If it should appear, you must go to the humans and tell
+   them what we told you. It's time they knew the truth."
+   
+   An officer approaches Ivanova, and wants to talk to her about
+   Sheridan's arrival. She orders him to have a full honor guard in place
+   when he arrives, but he tells her that Sheridan's transport has
+   already docked; there was a miscommunication about the time. She
+   rushes off and meets Sheridan just as he comes aboard, and he
+   officially takes command of the station. While his luggage is
+   delivered to his quarters, Ivanova takes him on a tour of the station.
+   He asks her what the status of the station is, and she recounts it for
+   him. After hearing about Garibaldi, G'Kar, Delenn, and the
+   ever-mysterious Kosh, the only reply he can come up with is
+   "Interesting place you have here..."
+   
+   Elsewhere on the station, there is another arrival -- a Minbari who
+   asks the computer to show him the station, but walks away after
+   hearing the description of the green sector -- the ambassadorial
+   quarters.
+   
+   Ivanova and Sheridan complete their tour and arrive in the new
+   commander's quarters. She takes the opportunity to ask him about his
+   appointment as head of the station. He tells her that he was President
+   Santiago's second choice to head the station, probably because he had
+   worked with many races, including the Minbari. This worries Ivanova,
+   who reminds him that the Minbari still refer to him as "Starkiller,"
+   and guesses they won't be happy to learn he is in command of Babylon
+   5. He hopes they have forgotten, but doesn't believe they have. He
+   asks her to help bring him up to speed. They talk about the crew's
+   reaction to the President's death. Many of them are having a difficult
+   time accepting the loss. Ivanova and Sheridan are no exceptions.
+   Because of the recent turmoil around the station, Ivanova is
+   especially glad to see Sheridan again; they had served together at the
+   transport point near Io. They make plans to go to C&C so that he can
+   deliver a "good luck speech" to the crew.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sheridan describes his speech.
+   
+   Elsewhere on the station, Hedronn notices someone he recognizes -- the
+   Minbari who was on his way to the ambassadorial sector of Babylon 5 --
+   as Kalain. Hedronn runs after Kalain, who grabs and threatens him,
+   claiming that the Grey Council betrayed the Minbari. Kalain explains
+   that he has intercepted a message saying that Sheridan had been chosen
+   to lead Babylon 5. When Hedronn protests that the wishes of the Grey
+   Council were ignored, Kalain asks if Delenn also ignored the Council.
+   Kalain says his people have supporters in the Grey Council, who have
+   told them that Sinclair is on Minbar, though Kalain does not believe
+   that Sinclair being an ambassador is the whole story. Kalain lets
+   Hedronn go, warning him to leave while he still can.
+   
+   [INLINE] "Minbari do not kill other Minbari!"
+   
+   After she goes to check on Garibaldi's condition, Ivanova finds
+   Sheridan and tells him that the officers on C&C are ready for him. He
+   enters and begins his speech, talking about the visit he made when he
+   was twenty-one to Tibet and the Dalai Lama. After eating a very simple
+   dinner, the Dalai Lama asked if he understood. Sheridan didn't. "Good
+   beginning," the Dalai Lama said to him. "It will be even better when
+   you begin to understand what you do not understand."
+   
+   During Sheridan's speech, a call from security says that a Minbari is
+   demanding to speak to Sheridan. Sheridan and Ivanova leave. While they
+   are on their way, Kalain attempts to enter the green sector, but is
+   stopped by a security officer, whom he attacks. Kalain steals the
+   officer's weapon and proceeds into the green sector.
+   
+   It turns out that the Minbari who wanted to speak with Sheridan was
+   Hedronn, who has some important information regarding Kalain. Hedronn
+   tells Sheridan and Ivanova that Kalain was second in command of one of
+   their flagships during the Earth-Minbari war and that he vanished when
+   the war ended. Ivanova asks why Hedronn believes Kalain is here to
+   cause trouble, but Hedronn just answers that he has his reasons.
+   
+   Sheridan suspects the ship Kalain was second in command of was the
+   Trigati. Ivanova has never heard of the ship, but Hedronn explains
+   that at the end of the war, Sineval, one of their warship commanders,
+   committed suicide rather than obey the Grey Council's order to
+   surrender. When that happened, Kalain took command of the ship, and it
+   vanished. Sheridan says that, while the ship had been seen over the
+   years, it had never attacked. Hedronn suspects that its recent
+   reappearance suggests it might be "out of retirement."
+   
+   Sheridan doesn't understand, however, why Hedronn, who claimed that he
+   was from the Ministry of Culture, knew Kalain, a high-ranking member
+   of the warrior caste after twelve years. Hedronn doesn't respond,
+   saying only that he would answer if he recognized Sheridan's
+   authority, but he doesn't because the Minbari government was not
+   consulted on Sheridan's appointment. Sheridan tells Hedronn that the
+   president decided on him because the Minbari had too much influence
+   over an Earth outpost.
+   
+   "And the day that a man such as yourself is given a position of this
+   importance is a dark day indeed," Hedronn says. "We lost many of our
+   best warriors because of you. And we do not soon forget such things.
+   If there is a doom on this station, it is because you brought it
+   here." Hedronn then leaves abruptly.
+   
+   Because of Hedronn's attitude, Sheridan believes that he is a member
+   of the Grey Council, because no one else would know someone so high in
+   the warrior caste so well. Sheridan then admits that Ivanova was
+   correct, that the Minbari don't want him in command of Babylon 5. She
+   points out that they are a prideful people, and that he did destroy
+   their flagship, the Black Star. She asks how he destroyed it. Sheridan
+   explains that, because their weapons could not lock on to the ship,
+   due to some sort of stealth technology, he mined the asteroid field
+   between Jupiter and Mars with fusion bombs, which don't need direct
+   targets. It destroyed the Black Star and three other heavy cruisers.
+   "It was the only real victory we had in the whole damn war, and I am
+   not about to apologize for it!"
+   
+   Sheridan suddenly remembers Hedronn's statement that Kalain felt
+   betrayed by the Minbari homeworld, and deduces that, in such a
+   situation, it would be natural to attack the representative of that
+   world. Realizing they might not have much time, Sheridan and Ivanova
+   rush to Delenn's quarters to find Kalain pointing a gun at Lennier.
+   They are able to easily apprehend Kalain, but when Sheridan attempts
+   to get a close look at the chrysalis, Lennier stops him. Ambassador
+   Delenn is indisposed, he says, and Sheridan should come back
+   later...much later.
+   
+   [INLINE] Lennier defends Delenn.
+   
+   Sheridan and Ivanova interrogate Kalain, asking him about the Trigati
+   and why he has suddenly appeared on Babylon 5. Sheridan can't believe
+   that Kalain's goal was to murder Lennier and Delenn; he had ample time
+   to kill both of them.
+   
+   "Everyone knows Minbari do not kill Minbari," Kalain says. Sheridan
+   doesn't accept that as an answer and again asks Kalain about his
+   presence. "Perhaps everyone is wrong."
+   
+   Sheridan concludes that Kalain never intended to kill them, but that
+   something else was going on. "Perhaps you are the problem," Kalain
+   replies.
+   
+   Ivanova tries to intervene, claiming that they are getting nowhere,
+   but Sheridan has one more question for Kalain. "I'm told that after
+   the death of your commanding officer, you took command of a Minbari
+   war cruiser. But if you're here, where's your ship?"
+   
+   Sheridan and Ivanova leave. Lennier catches up to the two of them
+   outside and apologizes for his earlier behavior. He says that he needs
+   to speak to both of them. "It concerns," he explains, "the reason you
+   were sent here, the relocation of commander Sinclair, and the reason
+   we surrendered at the Battle of the Line." When they reach Sheridan's
+   office, Lennier begins his story:
+   
+   "After three years, the Holy War that began when our leader was killed
+   by an Earth explorer division was almost over. To avenge Dukhat's
+   death, we had pursued your forces all the way back to your homeworld.
+   The few surviving Earth ships that were ordered to defend your world
+   at any cost... were not an obstacle. The Grey Council had come to
+   oversee the final victory of our forces."
+   
+   The scene shifts, back to the inside of the Grey Council ship, where
+   the Grey Council is in session surrounded by a display showing the
+   battle raging outside.
+   
+   [9][LINK]
+   
+   "They fight bravely. They cannot harm our ships, but they continue to
+   try," says Delenn.
+   
+   Hedronn dismisses her comment. "Whether they fight or not, they know
+   they will die anyway. So really, is this bravery or simple
+   desperation?"
+   
+   "Perhaps they are the same thing. We should bring one of them aboard
+   for questioning. If our next step is the final assault on their world,
+   we must know their defenses."
+   
+   "Very well, Delenn. Choose, but quickly. We are fast running out of
+   candidates."
+   
+   Delenn sees a Starfury making a suicide run at their ship. "That one,"
+   she says. A beam immobilizes the Starfury, and it is brought aboard.
+   
+   Lennier continues his story. "This was the first time the Grey Council
+   would have direct contact with a human, in this case Sinclair. He was
+   tortured, interrogated, scanned. During the course of the scan, the
+   Council discovered something terrible. At first, they refused to
+   believe it, so they took in other humans and had them scanned as well.
+   But it was true."
+   
+   "What was true?" asks Ivanova.
+   
+   "It is our belief that every generation of Minbari is reborn in each
+   following generation. Remove those souls, and the whole suffers. We
+   are diminished. Over the last two thousand years, there have been
+   fewer Minbari born into each generation. And those who are born do not
+   seem equal to those who came before. It almost as if our greater souls
+   have been disappearing. At the Battle of the Line, we discovered where
+   our souls were going. They were going to you. Minbari souls are being
+   reborn, in part or in full, in human bodies."
+   
+   "So you stopped the war to avoid harming your own souls?"
+   
+   Lennier confirms that, and continues. "But the Council knew that our
+   people, and yours, were not ready for this information. It could
+   unravel our entire society. So we could not tell our generals the
+   reason for the surrender. We had all memory of the examination erased
+   from Sinclair's mind, and we let him go. It has been our secret. Now
+   it is yours. It must be kept."
+   
+   "I don't understand. If this is such a secret, why tell us?"
+   
+   "Because changes are coming. Commander Sinclair was the first. There
+   will be more."
+   
+   The meeting is interrupted by a call from C&C--a Minbari cruiser, on
+   an attack vector, is coming through the jumpgate. Warren Keffer, the
+   leader of Zeta Squadron, watches with the other people in his squad,
+   but can't believe what he is seeing. Sheridan arrives at C&C and
+   orders a red alert. He activates the defense grid and puts all
+   squadrons on standby. While this happens, Kalain, in his detention
+   cell, removes a tooth from his mouth. He opens it, revealing a blue
+   liquid. He puts the tooth in his mouth and swallows.
+   
+   [INLINE] Kalain practices poor dental hygeine.
+   
+   Captain Sheridan communicates with the warship, which the commander
+   identifies as the Trigati. She demands that Kalain be returned, since
+   he did not kill or harm anyone aboard Babylon 5. When Sheridan
+   refuses, she launches her fighters. Sheridan counters, launching the
+   fighters aboard Babylon 5. He informs her that an attack could be
+   considered an act of war.
+   
+   "The war has already begun, Captain. All that remains now is honor and
+   death."
+   
+   This remark puzzles Sheridan, since no one has yet been killed. He
+   suddenly realizes what's going on: they are attempting to start a war,
+   but since Kalain hasn't killed anyone and the Trigati hasn't attacked,
+   they must be trying to frame Babylon 5. This is confirmed when
+   security reports that Kalain has killed himself. Ivanova can't believe
+   that Minbari would attack after learning they were sharing Minbari
+   souls, but Sheridan reminds her that the Trigati was not informed of
+   that. The Minbari fighters close in on the station, and Sheridan
+   orders his fighters to intercept and engage.
+   
+   While the Babylon 5 fighters move to intercept, Sheridan looks at a
+   display of both groups of fighters; somehow Babylon 5 is able to track
+   the Minbari fighters, even though it's using the same kind of tracking
+   system Earthforce used during the war.
+   
+   Sheridan orders his fighters not to attack. He gives a message to
+   Ivanova, telling her to transmit it through the jumpgate without the
+   Trigati intercepting it. She does so, but doesn't think it will work
+   if it is a distress signal, as no one could arrive in time.
+   
+   [10][Movie] A tight-beam transmission using the station laser.
+   
+   The Trigati's fighters continue to advance, but Sheridan orders his
+   fighters to maintain position. When the Trigati's fighters reach the
+   Earth ships, they do not attack -- they fly past and return to the
+   Trigati. Another Minbari ship suddenly comes through the jumpgate.
+   Ivanova is afraid that the Trigati fighters were waiting for
+   reinforcements, but Sheridan tells her that, since he knew another
+   Minbari ship was looking for the Trigati, he figured they must be
+   waiting in hyperspace.
+   
+   [INLINE] [11][Movie] The Minbari fighters fly past.
+   
+   The other cruiser orders the Trigati to surrender. Sheridan continues
+   to explain to Ivanova that, because they could track the Minbari
+   fighters, that probably meant the Minbari wanted to be destroyed. The
+   Trigati was in exile for twelve years, and could not go home, fight
+   without causing a war, or surrender without being dishonored. If
+   Babylon 5 was forced to attack, they would die at human hands, thereby
+   becoming martyrs.
+   
+   The Trigati attempts to back off and open up a jump point, but the war
+   cruiser cuts off their engines with a beam. They order the Trigati to
+   surrender and be boarded, but the Trigati refuses, and replies with
+   only one word: "honor." The Trigati self-destructs in a ball of flame,
+   apparently from their fusion reactors. A signal comes in from the war
+   cruiser; Sheridan greets the Minbari commander.
+   
+   [INLINE] [12][Movie] The Trigati is attacked.
+   
+   "Perhaps to you," the Minbari on the other end says to Sheridan, "this
+   was a tactical problem to be solved. For us, this has been a great
+   sorrow. The crew of the Trigati were heroes to many of our people.
+   Their death will be mourned, and your name will be remembered." The
+   Minbari war cruiser cuts off the communication and vanishes into the
+   jump gate.
+   
+   Later, Sheridan is in his quarters, looking through his belongings,
+   which have recently been delivered. Ivanova arrives and asks Sheridan
+   if something is wrong. "When I got my orders," Sheridan explains, "I
+   figured this place was a great opportunity. And now I wonder if coming
+   here was irresponsible. This whole mess with the Trigati might not
+   have happened if I hadn't been here. I mean, my presence, my...actions
+   in the war...I'm to blame for bringing all this trouble to Babylon 5.
+   What was it our friend in the Grey Council said? 'If there is a doom
+   on this station, it is because you brought it here.' Well maybe he was
+   right. I spoke with the president. He is the only other human who
+   knows why the Minbari surrendered, and he doesn't believe this stuff
+   about us sharing Minbari souls, and I can't say that I do either. But
+   they believe it. That's why they chose Sinclair to run this place...
+   that's why they've picked him to live on their world. He was their
+   first human contact. Him they trust. But me? I don't know. If Sinclair
+   had been here instead, maybe they might not have attacked."
+   
+   Ivanova tells Sheridan to give himself the benefit of the doubt.
+   Before she leaves, she tells him that he can talk to her any time, if
+   he needs to.
+   
+   Lennier is busy preparing candles in Delenn's quarters, and setting
+   them around her chrysalis. "I told them, Delenn, as I was ordered. I
+   only wish I could have told them the rest -- about the great enemy
+   that is returning and the prophecy that the two sides of our spirit
+   must unite against the darkness or be destroyed. They say it will take
+   both of our races to stop the darkness. I am told that the Earthers
+   will discover all this, soon enough, on their own. I hope they are
+   right. Because if we are wrong, no one will survive our mistake." He
+   says good night, and leaves right before the chrysalis begins moving,
+   and Delenn begins to emerge.
+   
+   [INLINE] "I only wish I could have told them the rest."
+   
+   Ivanova, Dr. Franklin, and Keffer discuss the recent events in a
+   nightclub on the station. Keffer asks what they think of the new
+   captain, and Dr. Franklin and Ivanova both believe that he will be
+   okay. He was supposed to meet them there for drinks, but Franklin says
+   that when he last saw Sheridan, he was going to the C&C to deliver his
+   good luck speech.
+   
+   "It was an early earth president, Abraham Lincoln, who best described
+   our situation. 'The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the
+   stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we
+   must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be
+   remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we
+   pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the last generation.
+   We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, or last best hope of Earth.'"
+   Though there is no one else on C&C, he has still delivered his speech
+   in time. He leaves C&C to begin the second day of his new command.
+   
+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
+  
+
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+      [19]Last update: February 25, 1996
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+   During a meeting of the council, Londo complains about the absence of
+   Ambassadors Delenn and G'kar. This upsets him greatly, and he moves
+   that they reprimand both ambassadors and ask the Narn and Minbari
+   governments to assign new representatives to the council. When no one
+   seconds the motion, Captain Sheridan adjourns the meeting and suggests
+   they all meet the following morning. As the ambassadors leave, Londo
+   confronts Na'toth and asks her about G'kar. She tells him only that he
+   went to investigate the attack on the outpost in quadrant 37, and that
+   he is able to take care of himself.
+   
+   Meanwhile, G'kar is fleeing from several pursuing Shadow ships,
+   smaller than the spiderlike vessels that destroyed the outpost in
+   quadrant 37. Though there are other one-man ships with him, they are
+   losing the battle against the Shadows, and retreat to the jump gate.
+   Two of the ships are destroyed by the Shadows on the way, and the
+   final remaining Narn pilot radios G'kar, "Tell the others. Warn them.
+   In death we salute you. Honor our names. Goodbye." The ship makes a
+   run directly into one of the Shadow vessels, which writhes in pain.
+   G'kar makes a pledge to remember the pilot who gave his life, as the
+   Shadow ship explodes. G'kar is able to get to the jumpgate, which he
+   uses to travel to Babylon 5.
+   
+   [INLINE] The Shadow fighters in pursuit.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin enters the officer's lounge, where he encounters
+   Sheridan. Sheridan says he has some time before his sister arrives to
+   visit. Dr. Franklin tells Sheridan that Garibaldi's situation is very
+   bad and that there is little chance of his coming out of a coma by
+   conventional means. He mentions that there might be one solution:
+   using the alien machine he obtained from Laura Rosen (cf. [9]"The
+   Quality of Mercy.") He tells Sheridan about it, and asks for his
+   permission. Sheridan is somewhat apprehensive, but gives Franklin his
+   permission. He asks who Franklin had intended to transfer the life
+   energy from, and Franklin answers that he had planned to take it from
+   himself. Franklin leaves.
+   
+   Later, Sheridan meets up with his sister, Elizabeth, when she arrives
+   on her transport. After some small talk, they go off to have dinner
+   together.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Londo receives a visitor: Morden. Morden asks Londo how he
+   can be of service, and Londo wants to be reassured that the attack on
+   the Narn base in quadrant 37 cannot be traced back to him. "The Narns
+   will never be able to prove it was done at your instigation," Morden
+   tells him, "and, based on your promise to take care of it, your
+   government accepts your responsibility without question or hesitation.
+   Perfect symmetry. I believe that this little demonstration will bring
+   you some very interesting propositions." When Londo asks what should
+   happen if he is asked to provide another demonstration, Morden tells
+   him that they will provide it, if only he names the target. "A colony?
+   An outpost?" Morden suggests.
+   
+   Londo laughs at that. "Why don't you eliminate the entire Narn
+   homeworld while you're at it?"
+   
+   "One thing at a time, Ambassador. One thing at a time." Before he
+   leaves, Morden asks Londo for another small favor. "If you should hear
+   about anything strange happening out on the rim, I'd appreciate being
+   informed, even if it seems unimportant."
+   
+   [INLINE] "One thing at a time."
+   
+   As Captain Sheridan and his sister eat dinner together, they talk
+   about the two years they have been apart, though Elizabeth is a bit
+   upset that Sheridan only wants to talk about work. Sheridan explains
+   that her being around only "brings it all back." Elizabeth realizes
+   that things have not been the same between them since his wife's
+   death. Sheridan says he needs more time -- that two years isn't
+   enough. He still has to remind himself that she is gone, and he has to
+   force himself to remember that she is not alive. Elizabeth
+   understands, but wants Sheridan to honor her memory instead of burying
+   himself in his work. He says it isn't about work, but doesn't want to
+   discuss the subject further. They agree to put off the discussion
+   until later.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sheridan talks about running the station.
+   
+   Lennier still tends to Delenn's chrysalis while Sheridan finishes
+   dinner and goes down to MedLab, where Dr. Franklin is about to begin
+   using the healing machine to bring Garibaldi out of the coma. Sheridan
+   says that it is his responsibility to make sure that Garibaldi is
+   safe, and he also doesn't want Franklin using the machine alone, in
+   case a mishap takes his life as well. They agree that both of them
+   will split the time on the healing machine: one will operate it while
+   the other one is giving their life energy to Garibaldi.
+   
+   Na'toth returns to G'kar's quarters, and begins studying some
+   information she is carrying. While she is doing so, a voice tells her
+   to close the door. She investigates the voice, finding it to be G'kar,
+   sitting cross-legged on his bed. "Weep for the future, Na'toth," he
+   says to her. "Weep for us all." She asks if he is all right, and he
+   replies, "I have looked into the darkness, Na'toth. You cannot do that
+   and ever be quite the same again. When you told me about the
+   destruction of our base in quadrant 37, I knew that only a major power
+   could attempt an assault of that magnitude, but none of the
+   governments here could have done it, which left only two
+   possibilities: a new race, or an old race--a very old race.
+   
+   "G'Quan spoke of a great war long ago against an enemy so terrible, it
+   nearly overwhelmed the stars themselves. G'Quan said that before that
+   enemy was thrown down, it dwelled in a system at the rim of known
+   space.
+   
+   "I searched for days, going from one system to another. Then, on dark
+   deserted worlds, where there should be no life, where no living thing
+   has walked in over a thousand years, something is moving, gathering
+   its forces, quietly, quietly...hoping to go unnoticed. We must warn
+   the others, Na'toth. After a thousand years, the darkness has come
+   again."
+   
+   Dr. Franklin is in MedLab, exhausted from the time spent on the
+   healing machine, when Garibaldi wakes up. He radios to C&C, telling
+   Ivanova and Sheridan to get to MedLab. Garibaldi's aide is listening
+   in; he leaves his office in a hurry.
+   
+   When Sheridan and Ivanova arrive, Garibaldi asks is if they were able
+   to save President Santiago's life. Ivanova tells him that they were
+   not. Garibaldi asks to see Sinclair, but learns about his
+   reassignment. Sheridan introduces himself. Ivanova asks if Garibaldi
+   remembers who shot him, and while his aide, who has entered MedLeb,
+   keeps a firm grip on his weapon, Garibaldi confesses that he never saw
+   his assailant because he was shot from behind. At this news,
+   Garibaldi's aide removes his hand from his weapon and walks away.
+   
+   Londo and G'kar meet up in the hallway. Londo asks if G'kar has found
+   anything interesting. G'kar answers affirmatively, but tells Londo
+   that he is going to tell the council about his findings. He tells
+   Londo that the only way to resolve the problems between the Narn and
+   Centauri is with Centauri blood, but that what he has found may
+   threaten all their races, except possibly the Vorlons, a race he
+   doesn't believe could be threatened by anything. G'kar is on his way
+   to see Delenn, but Londo tells him that something happened to her
+   right after he left. When G'Kar asks if she is still alive, Londo
+   says, "That is a very good question."
+   
+   That question is soon answered as Lennier reenters Delenn's quarters
+   to find the chrysalis open. Though he doesn't see her at first, a
+   quick search of the room leads him to find her in a dark corner,
+   wrapped in a dark cloak. She speaks, her voice frail and weak, and
+   asks him to help her. Lennier calls Dr. Franklin, asking him to come
+   to her quarters. Lennier warns him before he enters that anything he
+   learns must be kept confidential. Delenn tells Franklin that she isn't
+   ill. "What I have become, what I suffer, requires you," she tells him,
+   giving him her hand, which is now dry and scaly.
+   
+   [INLINE] The empty chrysalis.
+   
+   Sheridan and Elizabeth discuss life aboard Babylon 5, and Sheridan
+   continues to lament the loss of Anna, his wife. Elizabeth notices that
+   he seems to be acting more detached than ever, and asks him what is
+   wrong. He claims it was his fault that she died. She tries to convince
+   him that he had nothing to do with the explosion of the deep space
+   vessel that killed her, but he tells her that he is responsible for
+   her being there. "We were gonna get together on our anniversary. She'd
+   arranged to meet me when we pulled into spacedock, off of Centauri
+   Prime. Well, we hadn't seen much of each other the year before--you
+   know what the military life is like. Well, I'd gotten real busy--I was
+   up to my ears in inspections, drills...I had to call her and tell her
+   I couldn't make it. I was too busy--too damn busy. Well, right after I
+   cancelled, she took that science officer's job on the Icarus. Just a
+   two week survey. Said she'd back before I even noticed she was gone.
+   Well, she didn't come back, and I've been noticing she's is gone every
+   minute of every day." Elizabeth tells Sheridan not to blame himself.
+   He refuses to believe it isn't his fault, but he tells her the real
+   reason he is so upset. "When we used to talk to each other over long
+   distance, we would say 'I love you' at the end. The last time I talked
+   to her...I don't know, I was rushed...I didn't say it. I didn't even
+   realize it. And I figured I'd make it up to her later on. I never even
+   got to say good-bye to her. Oh, Lizzy, I miss her. I just didn't want
+   her to go without telling her I loved her one last time."
+   
+   Dr. Franklin makes a new discovery while treating Delenn--he pushes on
+   part of her blue, scaly arm and it cracks away, revealing something
+   underneath that is flesh-colored. Neither he, Lennier, or Delenn know
+   if that is something that should happen or not, so he quickly scans
+   her with a medical device. He lifts up her head to get a look at her
+   face. "What am I?" she asks weakly. "What am I?" As he looks into her
+   face, which is covered with the blue substance, he has no answer to
+   give her.
+   
+   [INLINE] "What am I?"
+   
+   G'kar address the council about what he encountered at the rim.
+   "...which leads me to believe that the ancient race described in our
+   holy books may have returned. If true, this holds grave danger for all
+   of us." Sheridan suggests that the dead worlds where he found life may
+   have been colonized by another race, but G'kar will not accept this,
+   as he says that the ships that fired upon him looked very much like
+   the drawings made by G'Quan. But, because the rulers of the Narn
+   homeworld have reservations about what he has found, no official
+   confirmation of his findings have been given. G'kar tells the council
+   that he has convinced the rulers of his planet to send a ship "to the
+   heart of the enemy's own domain, located at the rim of known space...a
+   dark and terrible place known as Z'ha'dum. It has been dead for a
+   thousand years. No one goes there...no one. Our ship will arrive in
+   twelve hours, coming out of hyperspace as close to the enemy's
+   homeworld as possible. They will scan the planet for signs of life and
+   return to hyperspace before anyone can attack." Sheridan asks what
+   will happen if someone is living there. G'kar replies, "Then all our
+   races stand on the end of extinction."
+   
+   Londo meets with Morden yet again. He tells Morden about the
+   information he got from G'kar. Though Morden says little about it, he
+   does ask when the ship is scheduled to arrive.
+   
+   Talia Winters enters MedLab and begins talking to Garibaldi. She
+   understands what he wants her to do, but warns him that even if she
+   does find anything, it is not admissible in court. She tells him that
+   the scan she performs will have to be a deep scan. He understands, so
+   she removes one of her gloves, takes his hand, and begins the scan.
+   She sees what happened when Garibaldi encountered Devereaux, and sees
+   him raise his weapon...Right before Garibaldi is shot, however, she
+   also sees the face of Garibaldi's aide, Jack, in a reflective surface
+   at the very edge of his vision.
+   
+   [INLINE] Talia agrees to help Garibaldi.
+   
+   A security officer enters the office of Garibaldi's aide, and tells
+   him that Delenn is emerged from the cocoon, and has wings like a
+   butterfly. He urges Jack to go and see, which he reluctantly does. As
+   soon as he leaves the office, he is assaulted by a group of security
+   officers and held at bay until Sheridan arrives and orders them to
+   take him to the lockup and put him under maximum security, with checks
+   on him every fifteen minutes.
+   
+   [INLINE] Garibaldi's aide gets his just desserts.
+   
+   Despite Dr. Franklin's objections, Garibaldi convinces him to let him
+   go talk to his aide and find out why he attacked him.
+   
+   "I trusted you," Garibaldi tells Jack during the ensuing
+   interrogation. "I taught you everything I know. I gave you every
+   break. I even treated you like my own brother." He bangs his cane on
+   the table and demands to know why Jack did it, to which his aide only
+   responds that he had his instructions. Garibaldi asks him who gave the
+   orders.
+   
+   "There's a new order coming back home, Garibaldi. You can either be
+   part of it, or you can be stepped on. A winner or a loser. I'm with
+   the side that's gonna win." Garibaldi asks if it is Homeguard, but
+   Jack tells him that he is wrong; the Homeguard are a bunch of
+   amateurs. Garibaldi tells Jack that he is in big trouble. Jack scoffs.
+   "You don't even know what trouble is... but you're gonna find out,
+   real soon."
+   
+   Garibaldi tells Jack that the shooting of a senior officer is treason
+   and mutiny and that the penalty is spacing. "They put you in an
+   airlock, seal it, and then open the space door. You spend the next
+   five minutes chewing vaccuum until your lungs turn inside-out, your
+   eyeballs freeze, and your heart explodes. It's the worse kind of death
+   you can imagine. And when that day comes, I'll be there to push the
+   button."
+   
+   Garibaldi begins to leave, but on the way out, Jack calls to him and
+   performs a salute with his hand, the same that Bester once gave. "Be
+   seeing you," he says, smiling.
+   
+   [INLINE] "Be seeing you."
+   
+   Sheridan is working in his office when Ivanova calls in, telling him
+   that he has a call from President Clark. The president tells him that
+   he read the report on the arrest of Garibaldi's aide. He asks if
+   Sheridan actually believes the aide was in on the conspiracy to kill
+   President Santiago. Sheridan has no evidence of that, but does say
+   that he is guilty of shooting a senior officer. Clark tells him that
+   they need to investigate the matter fully and orders the prisoner
+   transferred to Earth so that Clark can assist in the investigation.
+   "We can't risk this being mishandled, Captain," Clark tells Sheridan.
+   "During the time I served as vice-president under Santiago, I grew to
+   admire and appreciate the man. I owe it to his memory to personally
+   oversee any inquiry." He orders that all other information regarding
+   the matter be sent as well. He compliments Sheridan on his good work.
+   
+   As the Narn warship exits hyperspace into the system of Z'ha'dum, a
+   Shadow ship, that had apparently been waiting for it, appears and
+   swiftly attacks, completely destroying it before it has the
+   opportunity to reenter the jump point.
+   
+   [INLINE] The Narn warship is destroyed.
+   
+   At the council meeting, Na'toth reports to G'kar and the council about
+   the ship's destruction. She says the Narn government believes it was
+   an accident with the jump engines because it occurred right after they
+   left hyperspace. She also tells them that the government cannot afford
+   to send another ship. But G'kar doesn't believe it was an accident.
+   "When a warship jumps to normal space, it's briefly out of contact
+   because of the energy drain. It might have been attacked during that
+   period. But that couldn't happen unless...unless they knew the ship
+   was coming and were waiting for it. But no one knew, except..." His
+   voice falls dead as the meaning of his words hit him. He looks quickly
+   at both Londo and Sheridan, both of whom return his glance steadily.
+   
+   Lennier enters the council chamber and addresses the council, telling
+   them that Ambassador Delenn has returned and would like to reclaim her
+   seat on the council. Sheridan tells Lennier that it is all right, and
+   tells Lennier to let her come in. She does so, dressed in a long white
+   cloak with a hood that covers her head. She slowly removes the hood,
+   revealing what she has changed into. Her skin no longer is pale like
+   that of a Minbari--it is now flesh-colored, that of a human. She has
+   long, brown hair which spills down over her ears, which have the same
+   size and position of human ears, and what looks like part of the
+   Minbari headbone, though it is only about a third of the size it once
+   was. While the council observes her, awestruck, she explains her
+   change. "Ambassador Sinclair has been allowed to live on my world as
+   an act of good faith, to create a greater understanding between
+   Minbari and humans. In return, I have undergone this change with the
+   blessings of my government, so that I may become a bridge between our
+   worlds, in the hope that we will never know war between us again."
+   
+   Sheridan tells his sister of Delenn's change. She asks if it is just
+   her outward appearance that has changed, or if it was her genetic
+   structure as well. Sheridan doesn't know, but tells her that Delenn
+   wasn't eager to discuss it. Elizabeth tells Sheridan that she has
+   something he should watch, and that she decided after their talk to
+   let him see it. It is a message that Anna sent her before she left on
+   the Icarus. Sheridan plays it and watches silently.
+   
+   "Oh well," Anna's image says happily, "maybe we'll have the chance to
+   try again later. I am really excited about serving signing on board
+   the Icarus next week. John and I were supposed to spend some time
+   together, but Dr. Chang thinks he's found the ruins to an ancient
+   civilization nobody's ever heard of before. The chance to be there
+   when the discovery is confirmed is just too good an opportunity to
+   pass up. I had already decided to put off our vacation and go when
+   John called to tell me that he had to cancel, so it worked out just
+   great. Though the poor dear looked so upset about breaking the news, I
+   wanted to tell him I was going away anyway, but I...we had so much
+   else to cover, and there's never enough time... I'll just have to fill
+   him in when I get back. You've got quite a brother there, Liz. I can't
+   tell you how...how lucky I feel sometimes, even when he's not here. I
+   just... Someone said that love knows no borders, and ours certainly
+   proves the point. Well, I'll check in with you when I get back, though
+   with any luck, you'll hear about it on the news first. My love to
+   Danny and the kids. Bye."
+   
+   Sheridan says good-bye to her as well. "I love you, Anna," he tells
+   the image on the screen.
+   
+   [INLINE] Saying goodbye.
+   
+   Garibaldi thanks Talia for helping out, and she tells him that it
+   wasn't a problem, but it still isn't admissable in court. Garibaldi
+   tells her that, thanks to her help, he can take it the rest of the
+   way. He asks her to leave, and speaks to Dr. Franklin and Ivanova. "I
+   trust her as much as I trust any telepath, but she's still PsiCorps."
+   When Dr. Franklin asks what PsiCorps has to do with the attack,
+   Garibaldi explains. "I've been thinking about this little salute Jack
+   gave me back in his cell -- same as that PsiCop Bester gave? It's like
+   he was rubbing my nose in something he knew I could never prove.
+   Remember the last election, there was a big scandal about the Corps
+   endorsing Vice President Clark?"
+   
+   "Sure. It was big news. Made all the nets," Ivanova says. "Their
+   charter prohibits them recommending candidates to their members."
+   
+   Garibaldi continues. "Exactly. Now Jack didn't admit anything, but he
+   did say that the Homeguard wasn't behind President Santiago's
+   assassination. But what if it was the PsiCorps? What if they wanted
+   someone in office who was sympathetic to the Corps? Right before Earth
+   Force 1 exploded, the Vice-President got off at Mars, saying he had
+   the flu. Pretty convenient, isn't it?"
+   
+   Sherdian and Elizabeth say good-bye to each other, but he promises to
+   write to her, letting her know how he is. He thanks her for coming,
+   and thanks her for everything she did. "You're my brother," she tells
+   him. She waves to him and leaves. Right after she does, Sheridan
+   receives a call from Ivanova, telling him to come to C&C.
+   
+   G'kar and Na'toth are in G'kar's quarters. "Things have changed,
+   Na'toth, and they will never be the same. But we are Narns. We have
+   learned to cope with change--to triumph in the face of adversity. We
+   will overcome this as well. We have no other choice." Na'toth asks
+   about something G'kar is holding, and he tells her that it is a human
+   book. He tells her that he has been studying their literature, and
+   that he came across that book, and that he believes humans may be
+   wiser than the Narns thought. He reads from it, and while he is doing
+   so, we see Lennier with Delenn in her quarters, as she puzzles over,
+   and examines, her new form:
+   
+     Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.
+     Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
+     The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere,
+     The ceremony of innocence is drowned.
+     And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
+     Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
+     
+   [INLINE] G'Kar reads the poetry.
+   
+   Sheridan arrives at C&C and asks Ivanova why she called him there. "On
+   a hunch," she explains, "I just checked on the ship taking the
+   prisoner back to Earth. He was transferred to another ship a half an
+   hour ago. It had EarthForce security markings, it knew all the right
+   access and identification codes, had papers authorizing the
+   transfer... But I just backtracked with Earth Central. The ID codes
+   don't match any ship registered to Earth Force."
+   
+   "Great," Sheridan says. "So he's gone, and all the evidence with him."
+   Sheridan asks if she notified President Clark, but she tells him that
+   he isn't taking any calls. "It gets cold up here sometimes, doesn't
+   it, Lieutenant Commander?"
+   
+   "Yes sir," she replies, as they both contemplate the situation. "It
+   does indeed."
+   
+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
+  
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+   Garibaldi is in MedLab, having the wounds incurred from his former
+   aide's attack on him examined. Garibaldi tries lying to Franklin about
+   his condition, claiming that he is suffering less pain than he
+   actually is. Franklin doesn't like this, but tells Garibaldi that he
+   is improving and should be able to return to work soon. Garibaldi
+   isn't sure he wants to return to work, though, since he doesn't seem
+   very sure about Sheridan's appointment and isn't sure Sheridan can be
+   trusted.
+   
+   As Garibaldi leaves, Franklin offers to talk to him about his
+   problems, but Garibaldi is less than eager. "I got shot in the back by
+   my own guy, my own second-in-command. He was right there all the time,
+   a snake in the garden, and I didn't even see it. What the hell kind of
+   a security chief am I supposed to be if I can't see something like
+   that?" He says that he should have known about Jack's deception, and
+   that he may not be qualified to be in charge. "I keep asking myself
+   what qualifies me to take back my job, and I haven't got an answer. I
+   wish to hell I did." He leaves.
+   
+   Londo and Vir are in Londo's quarters, talking to an acquaintance of
+   Londo's, a noble named Refa. Refa tells Londo that monitoring stations
+   had been set up in quadrant 37 to watch the Narn buildup, and when
+   they heard that Londo would take care of the problem, they thought he
+   was crazy. But they were very surprised when the stations reported
+   that the outpost had been destroyed. Refa asks how it happened, but
+   Londo won't tell him. Refa accepts this and says that Londo has saved
+   the Centauri from another one of their emperor's mistakes.
+   
+   [INLINE] Londo and Vir listen to Refa.
+   
+   Refa says that Londo was very clever in the way he took care of the
+   outpost, and that the Centauri need more people like Londo. Refa says
+   that, with the recent death of the emperor's son, there is no clear
+   line of succession, but that he and his associates plan to take over
+   the job of ruling when the emperor dies. Refa says that there will be
+   resistance to this, and that force will be required. He asks Londo if
+   he will be willing to help when the time comes. Londo has
+   reservations, but eventually agrees to do so.
+   
+   Elsewhere on the station, two groups of Drazi, one wearing purple
+   sashes, and the other wearing green sashes meet. As they walk past
+   each other, one Drazi "accidentally" bumps into another one wearing a
+   different color, and a brawl between the two groups begins.
+   
+   As Refa prepares to leave Babylon 5, Londo says goodbye to him. Refa
+   thanks Londo for his help, and tells him that he will attempt to
+   convince his associates and followers that Londo is the sign that his
+   group of the Centauri may rise to great power again. As Refa leaves,
+   Londo notices someone else standing nearby, a tall human in a long
+   black cloak. "Great Maker!" Londo says to Vir. "A Technomage!" Vir
+   doesn't know what a Technomage is, so Londo tells him that "they use
+   science to achieve the affect of magic." Londo says that he hasn't
+   seen one in a long time, and it is unusual to see them outside of
+   their places of power. It is even more unusual, and a bad omen, to see
+   more than one at a time. The Technomage, followed by two others, walks
+   by Londo and leaves the area.
+   
+   Sheridan and Ivanova are in Sheridan's office, talking about the
+   incident between the two groups of Drazi. Sheridan asks about the
+   conflict, so Ivanova explains what she knows to him. "It's a cultural
+   thing. Once every five years, all the Drazi, here and at home, divide
+   up into two camps, and fight it out." But it isn't a fight to the
+   death-- the battles are used to determine what the dominant group for
+   the next five years will be. Sheridan says that he believes this
+   conflict came at a good time, because he thinks that Ivanova should
+   learn more about diplomacy, so that she can settle the more minor
+   conflicts, while Sheridan deals with the station's major problems.
+   "Besides, added responsibility comes with any promotion. Don't you
+   agree... Commander?"
+   
+   [INLINE] Ivanova is promoted.
+   
+   As they share a toast of orange juice, Sheridan tells her that he
+   arranged her promotion after his first day on the station. He tells
+   her that her first responsibility is to solve the Drazi problem. As he
+   leaves, Commander Ivanova watches the Drazi over the monitor, in their
+   detention cell, fighting, and sighs as she realizes the job before her
+   will not be easy.
+   
+   Vir finds Londo drinking at a bar. He informs Londo that the Abai
+   delegation have an appointment and are waiting to see him. Ignoring
+   this, Londo asks Vir if he believes in fate, to which Vir responds
+   that he sees fate as a series of currents, eddies and tides, that pull
+   one in certain directions. Londo tells Vir that, before their first
+   emperor took the throne, he met with three Technomages. Londo says
+   that this is a powerful image to those that follow the old ways. Londo
+   explains that, if he had the endorsement of the Technomages, it would
+   have considerable influence on those back on the Centauri homeworld.
+   He tells Vir to arrange it with the Technomages, a task which Vir
+   doesn't want to perform. Vir tries some of Londo's drink, hoping it
+   will prepare him for the task, but it only makes him faint.
+   
+   Garibaldi is in his quarters, utterly dejected, playing with his PPG
+   while staring at the floor. Sheridan enters, and asks why Garibaldi
+   hadn't been around to talk to him. He says that Dr. Franklin diagnosed
+   him fit to return to work, and wants to know what Garibaldi thinks.
+   Garibaldi says it might be easier for everyone if he moved on.
+   Sheridan puts Garibaldi's weapon in its holster and replies, "The
+   universe doesn't give you any points for doing things that are easy."
+   Sheridan tries to convince Garibaldi to stay, saying that he is a
+   valuable resource he would like to have at his disposal. Sheridan
+   wants Garibaldi in the position, but leaves the decision up to
+   Garibaldi. Sheridan leaves.
+   
+   Ivanova is in the council chamber, addressing the green and purple
+   Drazi. She tells them that, although most of the species on Babylon 5
+   don't care about the conflict, they would prefer it were settled
+   quietly. She wants to help them find a peaceful solution to their
+   problem. She asks them what the nature of the conflict is, and they
+   respond by saying that it is the colors of the sashes they wear. She
+   doesn't understand, and they again respond by saying it is the colors
+   of the sashes. She still doesn't understand the situation, especially
+   regarding the distribution of the sashes, so the leader of the green
+   Drazi explains further. "We put green and purple in great barrel,
+   equal to numbers of Drazi. Then we reach in, we take. Where there was
+   one Drazi people, now there are two. The two fight until there are
+   one."
+   
+   [INLINE] The Drazi leaders.
+   
+   They further explain that leadership is determined by who takes the
+   leader's cloth. Ivanova finds it outrageous that so much fighting
+   could come from something so arbitrary, so she removes the purple sash
+   from one of the Drazi wanting to be certain it is only the color of
+   the cloth, and nothing else, that determines alignment. She places it
+   on another Drazi, who is already wearing a green sash. Upon doing
+   this, the Drazi suddenly erupt into violent conflict, with Ivanova
+   trapped in the middle. During the battle, several Drazi fall on her,
+   and she screams in pain.
+   
+   Vir arrives at the area on Babylon 5 where the Technomages are
+   staying. He introduces himself, but there is no response. He says that
+   he needs to speak with someone in charge. As if in reply, a large
+   beast with fiery eyes and long fangs appears before him, growling
+   menacingly. Vir stands his ground, though, and after a moment, a voice
+   rings out, "Stop program," and the beast disappears.
+   
+   [INLINE] The beast threatens Vir.
+   
+   A Technomage appears from the shadows and comments on how difficult it
+   was to frighten him, but Vir says that's a requirement if you work
+   with Londo. The Technomage asks why Vir is there, and Vir responds
+   that Londo wants an audience. The Technomage declines, saying that the
+   Technomages don't do that sort of thing. Vir tells the Technomage that
+   Londo is willing to pay, but the Technomage is not swayed. Vir tries
+   to appeal to the Technomage by saying that if he returns without
+   completing the task, his personal situation will become unfortunate,
+   but the Technomage counters, saying that if he does not leave, Vir's
+   situation will become even more unfortunate. Not wishing to return
+   empty-handed, Vir asks the Technomage his name. "Elric," the
+   Technomage answers, and warns Vir not to return.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin examines Ivanova, telling her that her foot is broken in
+   three places. He also tells her that, though he can help her, it will
+   take three weeks to heal, if he speeds up the process, in addition to
+   her having to wear a cast. He offers her something for the pain, but
+   she declines. Sheridan enters and asks to speak with Ivanova
+   privately. He asks her what her next move is, but she isn't sure. He
+   offers to postpone the assignment, but she again refuses. She says
+   that this is particularly difficult because the Drazi have no
+   differences that must be resolved. She believes she needs to come at
+   the problem from another angle, possibly finding a less-violent way to
+   structure the conflicts. Sheridan says he thinks that's a good idea,
+   and leaves. Ivanova calls security, telling the Drazi to meet in
+   chambers, so they can try the resolution again.
+   
+   Vir reports to Londo the experience he had with the Technomage, but
+   Londo finds the situation unacceptable, telling Vir he must return.
+   Vir tells him that it won't work, and that the Technomages aren't
+   interested in money or power. Londo tells Vir that it is very
+   important that he be seen with them, as it would act as a powerful
+   symbol. Londo surmises that if he, as an ambassador, has failed, he
+   needs to find someone more powerful, someone to whom they will listen.
+   Londo leaves abruptly.
+   
+   Garibaldi is walking around outside the Zocalo when he meets up with
+   Lou Welch, the security officer. After some small talk, Lou asks how
+   Garibaldi is. Garibaldi says he's all right, and Lou asks when he will
+   be returning to duty. Garibaldi doesn't say anything, but Lou asks
+   again. Garibaldi still isn't sure, but does say that he will be
+   returning soon. Lou receives a call from security, saying that there
+   are more difficulties with the Drazi. He has to leave, but tells
+   Garibaldi he will see him later.
+   
+   [INLINE] Garibaldi and Lou Welch.
+   
+   Londo is talking to Sheridan about the Technomages. Sheridan tells
+   Londo that he was doubtful about their existence. Londo says that the
+   Centauri have had many experiences with them, and that they can be
+   troublemakers unless one knows how to deal with them. Londo says that
+   he does know how to deal with them, and he offers his assistance to
+   Sheridan with the Technomages. Sheridan explains to Londo that the
+   Technomages are emigrating, and that Earth wants information about
+   their situation. Sheridan asks for Londo's help, and Londo eagerly
+   agrees.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Ivanova receives news from security that, on the Drazi
+   homeworld, the violence has escalated from beating to killing. She
+   asks if the local Drazi know about it, and asks for a full tactical
+   squad to back her up. When she arrives at the council chambers, she
+   finds the room littered with the bodies of purple Drazi.
+   
+   Elric is upset that Sheridan doesn't believe that the Technomages are
+   there peacefully. Sheridan tries to explain that, because of the great
+   numbers of Technomages present -- over a hundred -- and the secrecy
+   behind their activities, he needs some information to ensure the
+   safety of the station. Elric says the Technomages have the right to do
+   whatever they want. Sheridan says he just wants answers. Londo enters,
+   claiming he was detained. He sets down the glass he was holding, and
+   sets something else down behind it. Elric is upset that Londo is
+   involved, and tells Sheridan that Londo had been asking for an
+   audience ever since he arrived. Londo denies this, but Elric responds
+   by showing Londo and Sheridan a recording he made of Vir, requesting
+   an audience. Londo comments that recording a conversation is a very
+   low thing to do, but offers forgiveness to Elric. Elric says he
+   doesn't want Londo to misrepresent the gesture of friendship as some
+   sort of endorsement. When Londo answers negatively, Elric glances at
+   the small recording device Londo had placed behind the glass; it
+   explodes. Elric tells Londo he wants respect. Sheridan threatens Londo
+   with expulsion from the station for this action. Londo apologizes, and
+   leaves quickly.
+   
+   [INLINE] Elric plays back Vir's message.
+   
+   Sheridan accompanies Elric back to his quarters, but says that there
+   are still questions he needs answered. Elric asks Sheridan if he
+   believes in magic. "When I was twelve, I used to sit in my dad's
+   garden, the air full of the smell of orange blossoms, watching the
+   sky, dreaming of far away places... Back then, I think I believed in
+   just about everything." Sheridan says that he thinks there are some
+   things people don't understand, and that things which people do not
+   understand might be considered magic; for example, Babylon 5 would be
+   considered magic by humans of a thousand years earlier.
+   
+   Elric says that, in a way, it is magic. "Magic of the human heart,
+   focused and made manifest by technology. Every day you here create
+   greater miracles than the burning bush."
+   
+   "But God was there first," says Sheridan, "and He didn't need plasma
+   coils or solar collectors."
+   
+   "Perhaps. Perhaps not. It is within that ambiguity that we exist. We
+   are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of
+   laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and
+   invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ, and we know
+   many things." Sheridan asks what, and Elric answers that they know the
+   important things -- the answers to some questions that people have
+   asked since time began. "Fourteen words to make someone fall in love
+   with you forever, seven words to make them go without pain, how to say
+   goodbye to a friend who is dying, how to be poor, how to be rich, how
+   to rediscover dreams when the world has stolen them from you. That is
+   why we are going away -- to preserve that knowledge." Sheridan asks
+   what the knowledge must be preserved from, and Elric answers. "There
+   is a storm coming, a black and terrible storm. We would not have our
+   knowledge lost, or used to ill purpose. From this place, we will
+   launch ourselves into the stars. With luck, you will never see our
+   kind again in your lifetime. I know you have your orders, Captain.
+   Detain us if you wish, but I cannot tell you where we're going. I can
+   only ask you to trust us." Elric takes Sheridan's hand, and closes it.
+   He walks away, leaving Sheridan holding an orange blossom.
+   
+   Ivanova, on crutches, goes to the quarters of the green Drazi, asking
+   to see their leader regarding the death of the purples. At first, the
+   Drazi outside is reluctant to let her in, but, after some further
+   coaxing from Ivanova, he relents and lets her inside. She goes to the
+   leader, who asks for her help. He tells her that he has a way to solve
+   the problem without any fighting, but it will require her help.
+   
+   [INLINE] Ivanova listens to the plan.
+   
+   He asks her to tell the purple Drazi to gather at brown 29, an
+   isolated section of the station where they won't disturb anyone else.
+   Once the purple Drazi are all there, they will be ejected into space,
+   thereby causing the greens to win. Ivanova tries to get him to
+   reconsider, claiming that they are still Drazi, but the green leader
+   will not listen, saying only that they are purple, and therefore not
+   important. She refuses to go along, but he tells her that they already
+   sent a message, in her name, to the purples, to move the plan forward.
+   She tries to use her link to call for help, but she is prevented from
+   this when it is taken from her.
+   
+   Garibaldi is wandering through the corridors of Babylon 5, when he
+   runs into Lou, who tells him that they received an uplink from
+   Ivanova, saying that all the purple Drazi should meet in brown 29.
+   Garibaldi accepts this for a moment, but quickly changes his mind. He
+   asks Lou if it was really an uplink, and not a personal message. Lou
+   answers affirmatively, saying that the message said she would be
+   offline for a while. Garibaldi asks the source of the uplink, and runs
+   off.
+   
+   Ivanova tries to get the greens to relent, but they are admant in
+   their refusal to listen to her attempts at helping them. There is a
+   pounding outside, and the Drazi at the door opens it, admitting
+   Garibaldi, who is holding a small black box. Garibaldi claims he is a
+   salesman, who wants to sell the Drazi an Acme Handy-Dandy Micro
+   Helper. He offers to demonstrate, but is met with resistance. He says
+   that it is just his way of helping, but the Drazi continue to refuse.
+   "If there's anybody in here who needs a little help," he announces to
+   the room, "just say the word, and I'm here." Ivanova elbows a nearby
+   Drazi and shouts out, "Garibaldi!" The two of them begin to fight the
+   green Drazi.
+   
+   Londo is in his quarters, having considerable difficulty, when Vir
+   enters. Londo explains that a holodemon has possessed his data system.
+   It is eating up files, records, and buying stocks he would never
+   purchase for himself, in addition to playing painful Narn opera
+   continually.
+   
+   [INLINE] Narn opera.
+   
+   Vir suggests that Londo apologize. Londo refuses at first, but when
+   his computer suddenly reports that he is the new owner of 500,000
+   shares of Fireflies Incorporated, then blacks out the entire room,
+   Londo agrees.
+   
+   Garibaldi meets up with a large delegation of green Drazi, who have
+   been marching through the halls, going to brown 29. Garibaldi says
+   that the purple drazi accepted their story, and are waiting in there,
+   but he refuses to let them go in. Garibaldi says that he plans to
+   leave the purples in there until the end of the Drazi week. The green
+   leader laughs, saying that the Drazi cycle, the length of the
+   conflict, is not a week, but a year. A Drazi year is equal to 1.2
+   Earth years.
+   
+   Ivanova and Garibaldi realize they can't keep them in there that long.
+   She again tries to convince them that their conflict is absurd, as
+   they are fighting over nothing more than pieces of cloth. The green
+   Drazi leader asks why it is different than fighting over a flag. She
+   says it is different because flags represent the country of origin,
+   and stand for something important about the countries over which they
+   fly.
+   
+   Ivanova rips the green sash from the leader of the green Drazi, who,
+   with the rest of his troops, immediately stands at attention. He says
+   that whoever takes the cloth of the green leader becomes the green
+   leader, and the greens must follow whoever that is. She doesn't
+   believe that could possibly to her, but the former green leader
+   explains that the rules of battle go back long before contact with
+   other races, and the proposed rule change was lost in bureaucracy.
+   
+   Using her new position, Ivanova orders the green Drazi to follow her
+   to the quartermaster's office, where she will either lock them in the
+   brig for assaulting her, or change the colors of their sashes from
+   green to purple.
+   
+   Londo cautiously approaches the section of the station where the
+   Technomages are residing. He tries to avoid apologizing for as long as
+   he can, but the strange lights and gutteral noises, as though coming
+   from a large animal, prompt him to continue. When the noise reaches
+   its climax, he finally apologizes for any way in which he might have
+   offended them. He offers to help them, should they ever return. He
+   walks steadily out of the area without noticing the three small
+   gremlins hanging onto the back of his coat.
+   
+   At a party celebrating Garibaldi's return to duty, Ivanova asks what
+   made Garibaldi return. He explains that, as Sheridan pointed out, he
+   does know the station and the people on it better than anyone else. He
+   explains that it was because of this he knew Ivanova was in danger--he
+   knew she would never communicate via an uplink, but would always use
+   her own link. He also says that he is perfect for the job because he
+   doesn't trust anyone, or anything. Sheridan receives a message saying
+   that the Technomages are leaving. Before he leaves, however, he tells
+   Garibaldi that he is glad he is remaining on the station.
+   
+   Londo approaches Elric, thanking him sarcastically for the gift, which
+   caused considerable damage to his quarters. Londo asks Elric if the
+   torment ends after he leaves, or if he will have to pay for it for the
+   rest of his life. "I'm afraid you're going to have to spend the rest
+   of your life paying for your mistakes. Not this one, of course. It's
+   trivial -- I have withdrawn the spell. But there will be others."
+   
+   [INLINE] Londo catches up with Elric.
+   
+   Londo asks Elric to explain, which he does. "You are touched by
+   darkness, Ambassador. I see it as a blemish that will grow with time.
+   I could warn you, of course, but you would not listen. I could kill
+   you, but someone would take your place. So, I do the only thing I can.
+   I go. Oh, I believe it was an endorsement you wanted. A word or two, a
+   picture, to send to the folks back home, confirming that you have a
+   destiny before you." Elric provides this. "Well, take this, for what
+   little it will profit you. As I look at you, Ambassador Mollari, I see
+   a great hand reaching out of the stars. The hand is your hand. And I
+   hear sounds--the sounds of billions of people calling your name."
+   
+   "My followers?"
+   
+   "Your victims." With that, Elric leaves.
+   
+   When told that the Technomage ship is ready to leave, Sheridan
+   authorizes it to do so. Looking at the orange blossom given him by
+   Elric, he ponders its meaning, and the destinies of the Technomages
+   who just left through the jumpgate to begin their journey. "What was
+   it he said? 'Dreamers, shapers, singers, makers...' Part of me says
+   we'll not see their like again. But the part of me that still believes
+   in magic says, 'Don't be so sure.'"
+   
+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
+  
+
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+   At C&C, Ivanova delivers a message to Sheridan from Captain Maynard of
+   the Cortez. The Cortez is coming to Babylon 5 to pick up supplies.
+   Ivanova notices that they are asking for a lot of supplies, and
+   Sheridan explains that it is because they have been travelling for
+   five years. The Cortez is an Explorer ship, a rare sight for most
+   people since such ships are nearly always out mapping the edges of
+   known space. Sheridan is informed that the ship is coming through the
+   jumpgate, and everyone is amazed by it; it's nearly as long as Babylon
+   5 itself. Sheridan tells everyone at C&C to take a good look.
+   
+   [INLINE] The Cortez.
+   
+   Sheridan and Captain Jack Maynard of the Cortez spend some time
+   getting reacquainted. Maynard talks about some of the mapping he did
+   on the rim, and says that he returned to fix one of the Euphrates jump
+   gates and to resupply.
+   
+   Delenn approaches them, and Sheridan introduces the two. Delenn makes
+   a request to convene the council to discuss the problems in sector 19,
+   and Sheridan agrees to do so. Maynard is confused about Delenn's
+   apperance, not understanding how a Minbari can look so unusual.
+   
+   "There's the story she told us," Sheridan explains, "but then the
+   Minbari never tell you the whole truth."
+   
+   Maynard agrees. They talk about Babylon 5, and Sheridan talks about
+   how busy the job is keeping him. Maynard says that he never thought
+   Sheridan would accept such an assignment.
+   
+   Garibaldi is in MedLab, being examined by Dr. Franklin. Garibaldi says
+   that he appreciates Franklin's help, but eats whatever he wants
+   whenever he wants, and as much as he chooses. Dr. Franklin says that
+   Garibaldi can no longer do that, as he is iron-deficient and has high
+   blood pressure. Dr. Franklin says that, to remedy the situation,
+   Garibaldi needs to be put on a restricted diet. Garibaldi objects,
+   saying that it is almost time for him to make Bagna Cauda, an Italian
+   fondue that contains olive oil, garlic, butter, anchovies, and other
+   ingredients, but Franklin says he shouldn't have it, and that he
+   should stay away from salt and bread especially. Garibaldi says that,
+   without those things, he can't make Bagna Cauda. Dr. Franklin still
+   won't allow Garibaldi to eat it, and gives him a list of other things
+   he shouldn't eat. Garibaldi looks at the list and is angered that most
+   of his favorite foods are there.
+   
+   [INLINE] Unpleasant diet plan.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin says that he is serious and that this gives him the
+   opportunity to call in the ranking officers for a nutritional profile,
+   as they probably all have poor eating habits.
+   
+   Sheridan tells Maynard about his first day on Babylon 5, regarding the
+   Narns and Centauri, the Vorlons, the Minbari's feelings toward him,
+   and Delenn's chrysalis. Sheridan says he is handling things one day at
+   a time. Maynard says that he never imagined Sheridan would be on the
+   station. He wonders why the President would choose someone the Minbari
+   didn't like. He also wonders how Sheridan is doing, since this job was
+   not what he was trained for. Sheridan says that he can make a
+   difference on Babylon 5, and that doing that is important. Maynard
+   doesn't understand how Sheridan could be satisfied with a desk job,
+   but Sheridan says, "Well, it's a hell of a desk to be tied to."
+   
+   [INLINE] Toasting Sheridan's desk job.
+   
+   Garibaldi reports to Sheridan about a recent wave of shoplifting
+   cases. Sheridan is upset that Garibaldi would come to him with such a
+   minor problem. He says that he is sure Garibaldi can handle the
+   problem, and expects a full report as soon as the guilty parties are
+   apprehended. Garibaldi thought that Sheridan wanted to know everything
+   that happened on the station. Sheridan says he wants to know
+   everything important that happens, but wants Garibaldi to take care of
+   the details.
+   
+   Sheridan, Ivanova, Warren Keffer, and the leader of Zeta Squadron are
+   in the officer's lounge, listening to some of Captain Maynard's
+   stories about the rim. Maynard says he wants to hear their stories,
+   but the others say that his stories are more interesting. Keffer asks
+   Maynard where he is headed next, and Maynard says that he is going
+   back to the rim to build jump gates so the area can be explored.
+   Ivanova asks about Maynard's experiences in hyperspace, but Maynard is
+   unsure what she means. Keffer tells Maynard about the Universe Today
+   article a few months earlier asking if something was living in
+   hyperspace. Maynard isn't sure about the answer to that, but does say
+   that he has seen something out there, and that it is "stranger than
+   any one of us can imagine."
+   
+   Sheridan escorts Maynard back to his quarters, and asks if his
+   comments about hyperspace were true, or if he made it up. Maynard says
+   that they were true. "Well," he continues, "it wasn't in hyperspace,
+   though. But you know, things can get kind of weird out on the rim,
+   too. It's funny. You never know what you're going to find when you
+   look over the edge of what's known and into what's not. We were in
+   sector 857. I took my nav officer, Lietuenant Patrick, with me for a
+   look around in one of our scout ships. Well, I noticed that we'd
+   gotten out of sight of the Cortez, and I was, I was just about ready
+   to turn back when I saw something. It was maybe a thousand kilometers
+   away--black against space. Now, the reason that I knew it was there is
+   that it blotted out the stars behind it. I don't know the exact shape
+   of it, but...it was big. I turned to Pat, to ask him if he could see
+   it, and when I looked back, it had vanished."
+   
+   Sheridan tells Maynard that he is the second person in a month to tell
+   him that something strange is happening out on the rim. He asks if
+   Lieutenant Patrick saw anything. Maynard says he only saw a blink--a
+   change in space. "He doesn't know what it was any more than I do,"
+   Maynard continues. "But it's there. And it was real. It still sends a
+   shiver up my back when I think about it."
+   
+   Garibaldi is talking with a young man named Orwell. Orwell tells
+   Garibaldi that it will be very difficult to obtain the items he wants.
+   Garibaldi says he can pay for it, but Orwell thinks it will be
+   difficult to obtain because Garibaldi won't accept substitutes, and it
+   is extremely difficult to find the items. Garibaldi offers a bonus and
+   tells Orwell not to mention anything about it to Dr. Franklin.
+   
+   [INLINE] "How much to tell _nobody?_" "You couldn't afford it."
+   
+   Meanwhile, Sheridan is in MedLab, talking to Dr. Franklin, who says
+   that Sheridan should lose ten pounds, and should avoid meat, fat, and
+   should eat lots of vegetables.
+   
+   "I'm not sure I understand the intent of this meeting, Teronn," Delenn
+   tells the Minbari who is speaking with her.
+   
+   He explains that the other Minbari on the station are afraid that
+   Delenn is no longer one of them.
+   
+   "I am more 'one of us' at this moment, than I have ever been. More
+   than you will ever know," she tells him. She says that she appreciates
+   the concern, but says she can't tell him anything else.
+   
+   He tells her that they need to understand what has happened.
+   
+   "Understanding is not required. Only obedience."
+   
+   [INLINE]
+   
+   Teronn says that they would be obedient if they could be assured that
+   she was still one of their own kind. He says they have the right to
+   know if she is. "If you can not give us what we need," he continues.
+   we will ask permission to send a representative to speak directly with
+   the Grey Council...unless you object." She does not object. Teronn
+   leaves.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin tells Ivanova that she too needs to go on an increased
+   diet in order to replenish deficiences in calcium, iron, and other
+   minerals that are hampering the healing of her leg. He hands her a
+   food plan, and after looking at it, she protests that she will gain
+   weight. As she leaves angrily, she says, "Figures. All my life, I've
+   fought against imperialism. Now, suddenly, I AM the expanding Russian
+   frontier." As she leaves, Dr. Franklin adds, "But with very nice
+   borders."
+   
+   Sheridan escorts Maynard to the Cortez. Sheridan tells Maynard that he
+   wishes he were going along. Maynard says he understands Sheridan's
+   feelings, but does regard his job as just a job. He says that
+   interesting things don't happen very often, but Sheridan doesn't
+   agree. "The adventure is out there, Jack. A man has to go meet it."
+   
+   Maynard says that sometimes, you don't need to find it, because it
+   will find you. Captain Maynard is then called to the Cortez. He and
+   Sheridan say their goodbyes and leave. Sheridan goes to C&C, where he
+   gives the final departure clearance to the Cortez. He watches it enter
+   the jumpgate and disappear.
+   
+   Later, Ivanova is in Sheridan's office, talking to him about problems
+   she is having with two of the delegations on board. He tells her that
+   such problems should be her concern, but she informs him that they
+   will not accept a solution from anyone but him. Sheridan reluctantly
+   agrees to help solve the delgations' problems, but Ivanova is not
+   completely satisfied. She tells him that she feels he has been acting
+   strangely ever since the Cortez arrived. She asks him if he wants to
+   talk about it.
+   
+   "I command starships, Susan," he explains to her, "not cities in
+   space. These problems, the...the petty complaints, the endless
+   bickering, the constant negotiations. Jack Maynard said this isn't
+   what I was trained for, and he's right. I mean, I am constantly
+   sandbagged, swamped, drowned, and snowed under by nothing but trivia.
+   I mean, look at this desk. I can't find a thing on it. You know me. Is
+   this me? Huh?"
+   
+   She tries to tell him that command a starship and commanding Babylon 5
+   are two different challenges, but that one is not more difficult than
+   the other. She doesn't accept this as an answer because he never had
+   difficulty with problems such as these on a starship.
+   
+   He says that Captain Maynard was right. "They have turned me into a
+   bureaucrat, a politician."
+   
+   Ivanova asks him if he believes President Clark was wrong in assigning
+   him to the post.
+   
+   "I don't know," Sheridan answers. "Maybe he was, and it's just taken
+   this long to sink in."
+   
+   The Cortez is in hyperspace when an explosion rocks the ship. After
+   they completed the jump, their fusion reactor spiked, dropping power
+   to 30%, and causing the ship's tracking system to malfunction. This
+   caused them to lose their lock to the jump point and rendered them
+   incapable of leaving hyperspace. Though they are flying blind, they
+   continue to move through hyperspace, hoping to eventually locate a
+   jump point through which they can exit.
+   
+   Ivanova, Garibaldi, and Sheridan are sitting at a table together,
+   eating dinner. They eye the plates before them with great distate, not
+   seeing the types of food they would normally eat. Garibaldi explains
+   that he was able to solve the problems with the shoplifters. Sheridan
+   tries to eat some of his salad, but can't. He points at Garibaldi and
+   accuses him of being at fault for the food plan. Garibaldi tries to
+   absolve himself of blame, but the three find a better solution:
+   Ivanova gives her food to Garibaldi, who gives his to Sheridan, and
+   Sheridan gives his to Ivanova. They are all about to eat the meals
+   they would prefer when Dr. Franklin walks by and catches them. They
+   all quickly switch plates around again and begin eating their proper
+   meals.
+   
+   [INLINE] Almost enjoying a meal.
+   
+   The Cortez is still flying blind, and while power has returned, they
+   do not have the time necessary to fix the navigational systems of the
+   ship, as it would take them 48 hours, by which time they would no
+   longer be able to locate the jump gate's signal. Captain Maynard
+   orders their communications officer to send a mayday. Though the
+   officer doesn't believe it could travel far enough in hyperspace to be
+   of any use, they send it anyway. Babylon 5 receives the mayday, and
+   Sheridan responds to it, saying that help is on the way. He orders all
+   available pilots to their squadron bays. Ivanova reminds Sheridan that
+   no ship has ever escaped from hyperspace in such a situation. Sheridan
+   knows that, but rushes off to prepare anyway.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin is examining Delenn in MedLab. She objects to being
+   examined so much, but he says that, in addition to curiosity, he has a
+   responsibility to make sure she is healthy after her change. She says
+   that she is, and has suffered only minor problems, such as dizziness
+   and fatigue. He asks if anything else is bothering her, and she says
+   no. He also asks if the other Minbari are accepting the change without
+   question.
+   
+   "Of course," Delenn says. Changing the subject, she asks Dr. Franklin
+   about a new delegation coming to the station. Dr. Franklin doesn't
+   understand, but Delenn explains that Garibaldi was waiting for them.
+   "I believe," she tells him, "they're called Bagna Cauda?"
+   
+   Sheridan and Ivanova are in the squadron bays, addressing the pilots
+   who will go out to attempt to rescue the Cortez. Sheridan says that
+   they must try, even though no ship has been found when lost before.
+   They don't know where the ship is, but they do know that, while the
+   first mayday sent by the Cortez was strong, they are fading now.
+   
+   Galus, the leader of Zeta squadron, asks how they can find the ship if
+   they do not even know how to begin looking.
+   
+   Sheridan says that he has an idea, although it is a risky one. "The
+   first fighter will stop just inside the gate, and lock onto the gate's
+   signal," Sheridan explains. "The second fighter will proceed 1000
+   kilometers further in, and lock onto the signal of the first one. The
+   third fighter will lock onto the signal of the second one, and so on."
+   He also says that they could increase the range, if necessary, by
+   moving subsequent fighters further out. While it is a dangerous
+   mission, all the pilots understand and prepare to leave, though both
+   Sheridan and Ivanova wish they were going with them.
+   
+   Sheridan addresses all fighters as they prepare to leave on the
+   mission. "An old friend of mine once quoted me a ancient Egyptian
+   blessing: `God be between you and harm, and all the empty places we
+   must walk.' Bring the Cortez home." The fighters then leave the
+   station and enter the jumpgate, to search for the Cortez.
+   
+   There is no longer a signal from the Cortez, but the fighters are
+   positioned inside the jumpgate, relaying the message to each other,
+   and broadcasting it in hopes that the Cortez will receive it, though
+   there hasn't been a response yet. Soon, the Cortez does receive the
+   signal from Babylon 5, and responds, saying that their lock-on still
+   isn't functioning. Sheridan orders the Cortez to continue broadcasting
+   their mayday so that a fighter can find them and lead them out of
+   hyperspace. The fighters chosen for this are Galus and Keffer. They
+   have difficulty locating the Cortez, because the radio locator
+   "doesn't want to settle." Eventually, the fighters move out so far
+   that they lose contact with Babylon 5.
+   
+   [INLINE] Starfuries to the rescue.
+   
+   Ivanova and Sheridan are both in C&C, anxiously awaiting any
+   information about the Cortez, but they hear nothing. Sheridan asks
+   Ivanova to take a break, but she doesn't want to any more than he
+   does. Sheridan says that Maynard is too good a friend to leave his
+   post. "If this turns into a wake," he says to Ivanova, "I want to be
+   here." Sheridan explains that Maynard was his first commanding
+   officer; Sheridan worshipped him. Ivanova understands his feelings,
+   and says that she will be there for him if the Cortez does not make it
+   back, but asks him to remember the Egyptian blessing, given him by
+   Maynard, in the meantime.
+   
+   Keffer locates the mayday from the Cortez, and radios Galus, telling
+   him so. Galus tells Keffer to go, saying that he will maintain
+   position while Keffer finds the Cortez. Keffer soon finds the Cortez,
+   and approaches it. Keffer loses contact with Galus when a Shadow ship
+   appears in hyperspace and collides with Galus' ship, destroying it. On
+   its way, the Shadow ship also collides with Keffer's ship, though
+   luckily it only sends it spinning away, stabilizers offline.
+   
+   Maynard and the Cortez manage to locate Keffer's ship, but notice only
+   that he repeatedly fires in the same direction as his ship spins.
+   Captain Maynard determines that this must mean Keffer wants him to go
+   in the direction of the fire. They begin to lay in the course when
+   they regain contact with Keffer's Starfury. They offer to come and
+   retrieve him, but Keffer says that both vessels will be lost if they
+   waste time picking him up. Maynard understands, and orders the Cortez
+   to be taken back to Babylon 5.
+   
+   Sheridan, Ivanova, and the others are relieved at the safe return of
+   the Cortez and most of the Starfuries, though saddened that two
+   fighters did not make it back.
+   
+   Orwell is waiting impatiently for Garibaldi, who soon arrives. Orwell
+   explains that he had difficult obtaining the items Garibaldi wanted,
+   but did manage to do so, and opens a case for Garibaldi's inspection.
+   Garibaldi begins examining the contents when he is interrupted by Dr.
+   Franklin, who realized that Orwell had the ability to gather the
+   ingredients for Bagna Cauda so far away from Earth. Orwell leaves, and
+   Garibaldi says that he wants Bagna Cauda for his birthday. Dr.
+   Franklin doesn't accept this as an excuse until Garibaldi explains
+   further. "My father always made Bagna Cauda for me on my birthday. Pop
+   was a great cook, and Bagna was his speciality. When he used to cook
+   it, I mean, the smell, oh man, the smell would fill the whole place.
+   It's funny, you know. When I watched him cook, I knew he was doing it
+   because he loved me. He just could never say it, so he did that
+   instead. He's been gone a long time. So, now, I make it myself once a
+   year, honoring him, you know. It's...it's the only part of him I got
+   left." Franklin believes the story, and tells Garibaldi to make enough
+   for two people.
+   
+   Sheridan is in the arboretum when Delenn comes in. She expresses her
+   sympathy over the loss of the two Starfuries. Sheridan says that the
+   hardest part of command is sending others out to die. She tries to
+   tell him that because he did so, they managed to save others; he was
+   in the right place.
+   
+   [INLINE]
+   
+   He asks what makes her think that he belongs on Babylon 5, and she
+   answers. "The universe puts us in places where we can learn. They are
+   never easy places. They are right. Wherever we are is the right place
+   at the right time. Pain sometimes comes. It is part of the process of
+   constantly being born."
+   
+   Sheridan says he thinks she's been doing thinking about this on her
+   own.
+   
+   "Perhaps," she tells him. "We are both, I suppose, going through
+   transitions. But the universe knows what it's doing."
+   
+   Sheridan says that he wishes he had the faith in the universe that she
+   did.
+   
+   "Then I will tell you a great secret, Captain," Delenn says to him.
+   Perhaps the greatest of all time. The molecules of your body are the
+   same molecules that make up this station, and the nebula outside, that
+   burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff, we are the
+   universe, made manifest, trying to figure itself out. As we have both
+   learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective."
+   
+   Keffer is still lost in hyperspace, and running out of air, though he
+   finally gets his thrusters back on-line. He cannot, however, locate
+   the jumpgate because his lock-on systems are not functioning.
+   Suddenly, another Shadow ship appears, flies a brief distance, and
+   vanishes. Keffer tells the computer to analyze its flight path and
+   tells it to correlate with the last sighting.
+   
+   [INLINE] An unlikely savior.
+   
+   Sheridan is about to give up on Keffer's return when the jumpgate
+   activates, and Keffer comes through it, requesting permission to dock.
+   Sheridan happily agrees.
+   
+   Keffer proposes a toast to Commander Galus. Ivanova asks Keffer if he
+   could determine anything about the object that hit him, and
+   indirectly, saved him. He says he couldn't tell anything about it, but
+   that because he knew its position when it first appeared relative to
+   his position, he was able to find his way out, using its origination
+   point the second time as a reference. But he didn't know what it was.
+   "There was just this feeling that something dark and dangerous had
+   gone by," he explains.
+   
+   Maynard agrees that the feeling is powerful. Keffer wants to learn
+   what the object was, but Ivanova says there are more important matters
+   to attend to. She promotes Keffer to the leader of Zeta Squadron.
+   
+   Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin are in Garibaldi's quarters, preparing to
+   eat the Bagna Cauda. Though Franklin initially objects, once he tastes
+   it, he admits that he likes it very much. Garibaldi offers him
+   dessert. Franklin says he didn't authorize dessert, but Garibaldi
+   doesn't care -- he simply chooses not to give any to Franklin, who
+   then objects to that, but soon loses his cares in the Bagna Cauda.
+   
+   [INLINE] Franklin digs in.
+   
+   Ivanova enters Sheridan's office where Sheridan is hard at work.
+   Ivanova tells Sheridan that the others would like to see him in the
+   officer's club. Sheridan says that he has much work to do, but will
+   try to catch up to them in an hour or so. He asks Ivanova if she has
+   ever had a long talk with Ambassador Delenn.
+   
+   "From time to time."
+   
+   "She and the universe seem to have a special relationship."
+   
+   "Don't we all?" says Ivanova as she leaves.
+   
+   Sheridan leans back in his chair to contemplate what Ivanova and
+   Delenn have said. "Starstuff," he says, smiling.
+   
+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
+  
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
+  
+   Sheridan arrives at C&C after Ivanova's call. Babylon 5 has picked up
+   a weak signal which Ivanova doesn't recognize coming out of deep
+   space, from something that didn't use a jump gate. Sheridan asks if it
+   is an alien craft, but it isn't. Ivanova plays the message for
+   Sheridan: "This is the Copernicus. We come in peace."
+   
+   In Downbelow, a man named Amis jumps out of a dumpster screaming,
+   "Through the walls! It's coming through the wa..." He says he needs
+   some ozones, but he doesn't have any with him. He is suddenly seized
+   by pain. "No!" he screams. "I'm stuck! Get out of my head! Where are
+   you?" He looks at the floor. "There you are!" He pushes some garbage
+   aside and looks out a porthole, seeing the approaching craft. "There
+   you are! I see you..." He begins to recite the Lord's Prayer, but can
+   barely remember the words. He runs away screaming as the vessel
+   approaches the station.
+   
+   Amis goes to the plaza, where he stands atop a table, delivering a
+   doomsday speech to all the people there, warning them that Judgement
+   Day is coming. He says that they are all in great danger. He sees
+   G'kar and tries to warn him, but G'kar does his best to ignore him,
+   and walks away. Garibaldi arrives and grabs Amis, taking him off to
+   the brig.
+   
+   [INLINE] "Judgement Day is coming!"
+   
+   Sheridan, Ivanova, and Garibaldi attempt to identify the ship and
+   determine why it didn't use the jumpgate. A maintenance craft, sent to
+   examine the ship, approaches it and shines its light on the ship's
+   name. There are some letters, difficult to make out, before the ship's
+   name, but Sheridan says he thinks they say U.S.S. Ivanova doesn't
+   recognize the ship's design. Sheridan explains to her that ships like
+   these were "used in early deep-range exploration, back before we got
+   jumpgate technology from the Centauri." None of them, however, know
+   what happened to the ship in the more than 100 years since it was
+   launched. Ivanova detects a life form aboard the vessel, and Sheridan
+   orders the ship to be brought aboard the station. Sheridan calls down
+   to Dr. Franklin to inform him that they may be bringing a patient
+   aboard.
+   
+   [INLINE] The Copernicus.
+   
+   Sheridan, Ivanova, Garibaldi, Franklin, and several other officers
+   enter the ship and examine the contents. Inside, they find two
+   cryogenic freezers. The occupant of one of the freezers is dead, but
+   the other contains a young woman, whose life signs are deteriorating
+   quickly. Franklin says that they must get her to MedLab quickly. They
+   open up the freezer and take her to MedLab. As they begin to treat her
+   vanishing pulse enroute, the transport tube's lights go wild for a
+   moment. She suffers a heart attack, but Franklin and his assistants
+   are able to treat her for it.
+   
+   Garibaldi enters the brig, where Amis is resting. He is asleep, but
+   thrashing about and shouting loudly about incoming weapons. "Damn
+   lurkers," the guard says. "We oughtta space the whole bunch of 'em."
+   
+   "Were you in the war?" asks Garibaldi.
+   
+   "No, I missed it."
+   
+   "Yeah, well he didn't."
+   
+   "How can you tell?"
+   
+   "I've had that same dream." Garibaldi leaves.
+   
+   Ivanova is aboard the Copernicus, attempting to restore full power. As
+   soon as she does so, strange noises seem to come from all around her.
+   She looks around, but sees nothing, and goes back to work.
+   
+   [INLINE] On the Copernicus' bridge.
+   
+   Amis wakes up, with Garibaldi at his side. Amis says that he is in
+   perfect health, but doesn't know what he said or what he did.
+   Garibaldi tells him what happened, and that they had to sedate him to
+   get him to sleep. Garibaldi asks Amis if he had done this before, and
+   Amis says that he has done _everything_ before. Garibaldi asks where
+   Amis was stationed during the war, and Amis admits that he was a,
+   "gropo," a ground pounder. Garibaldi says that he was one, too.
+   Garibaldi asks him about his dreams, but Amis says that he doesn't
+   dream. Garibaldi tells him about the things he said in his sleep, and
+   decides to let him leave the brig, though he recommends the man see a
+   counselor.
+   
+   Meanwhile, in MedLab, the woman from the cryogenic capsule, Mariah
+   Cirrus, has passed from her unconciousness into a dreaming state.
+   After a few moments, she awakens with a start, and looks at her
+   surroundings, frightened. Dr. Franklin assures her that she will be
+   all right.
+   
+   [INLINE] Mariah wakes up.
+   
+   In Sheridan's office, Ivanova tells Sheridan that the man from the
+   other cryogenic freezer should be alive, because the freezer didn't
+   malfunction. "Something," she says, "or someone murdered him."
+   
+   Dr. Franklin examines the corpse from the other cryogenic capsule in
+   MedLab. "At the time of death," he tells Sheridan and Garibaldi, "the
+   victim's weight appears to have been about 90 pounds. Given his height
+   and bone structure, his normal weight should have been about 180. But
+   malnutrition wasn't what killed him. He died as a result of organ
+   failure."
+   
+   Garibaldi asks why, and Franklin says that the man's organs are
+   missing, as if something had pulled them out from the inside. But a
+   thorough scan of the ship revealed that the organs were not on board.
+   Garibaldi wants to interrogate the woman that was with him, though
+   Franklin insists she couldn't be responsible, because she was in
+   stasis the whole time. Sheridan and Garibaldi can't accept this as an
+   explanation. Franklin then goes to check on her, though Sheridan tells
+   him that he wants to talk to her when it is possible.
+   
+   Mariah thanks Dr. Franklin for helping her. Franklin introduces
+   himself. He asks her how she got on the ship. She explains that she
+   and her husband were part of a commerical research group, which needed
+   volunteers for a long-term deep space mission. They volunteered and
+   were put on the Copernicus, which would awaken them from their
+   cryogenic sleep when they came in contact with an intelligent signal.
+   She asks how long they were asleep. Franklin tells her that she was in
+   the ship for over a hundred years. She asks to see her husband, and
+   Dr. Franklin tells her that he died during the voyage, and that they
+   didn't know the cause. She says that it seems as though they just said
+   good-night to each other, and when she tries to cry, she can't, which
+   Dr. Franklin explains is due to long-term stasis drying her tear
+   ducts. "God, what have I done?" she asks herself.
+   
+   Amis runs through the station, as if searching for the presence he
+   believes is putting the station in danger. He goes to the cargo bay,
+   where he finds the Copernicus. "Holy mother!" he shouts, before he is
+   chased away by a guard.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin and Mariah are visiting various parts of the station.
+   They go to the plaza, where Dr. Franklin explains the things she
+   missed while cryogenically frozen. "A few years after your ship left
+   Earth," he tells her, "we finally made contact with another species --
+   the Centauri. We opened up trade relations and they gave us jumpgate
+   technology. Before that, we'd been pretty much limited to our own
+   solar system. After that, we were out among the stars, first leasing
+   time on alien jumpgates, and then building our own."
+   
+   Mariah laments at how she and her husband didn't wait, and how things
+   might be different had they not gone on the Copernicus. Dr. Franklin
+   tries to tell her that what she did took courage, but she brushes it
+   off, wondering about what else she missed. He tells her about some of
+   the general things that have happened, and about the Dilgar and
+   Minbari wars. She feels bad that the humans hadn't outgrown violence
+   while she was in suspension. "It's gonna take a lot more than a
+   hundred years to evole a better human," Franklin tells her.
+   
+   Ambassador G'Kar appears by their table, and Dr. Franklin introduces
+   him to Mariah. "Take my advice and go back to the time you came from,"
+   G'Kar tells her. "The future isn't what it used to be."
+   
+   As she ponders his words, she remembers, subconciously, something that
+   happened to her during the voyage. She is in her cryogenic capsule
+   aboard the Copernicus, asleep, when something appears in the capsule
+   with her. She wakes up in the capsule and screams.
+   
+   She wakes up for real, with Dr. Franklin, who tells her that she
+   passed out and was taken to his quarters. She thanks him again. He
+   asks her what her dream was about, but she doesn't remember anything
+   about it. She asks Dr. Franklin why he is interested in her dreams,
+   and Franklin explains to her that her husband didn't die of a hardware
+   malfunction, but was instead murdered. She assumes that he means that
+   she killed him, and he tries to tell her that he knows she didn't but
+   wants to find out who -- or what -- did. She begins crying that she is
+   alone, feeling lost and distraught. He tries to convince her
+   otherwise, but stops and almost kisses her. After they pull apart, he
+   says that it is inappropriate, something to which she agrees. Dr.
+   Franklin suggests that she try to rest, even though she is very
+   scared, which she does.
+   
+   Garibaldi is eating in the Zocalo when Amis enters, again telling the
+   patrons that they are all going to die. Garibaldi escorts Amis out,
+   telling him that he doesn't want Amis causing trouble on the station.
+   Amis insists that he isn't crazy, and that something is on the
+   station. Garibaldi asks him what is on the station. "Death," Amis
+   replies. "It came off that ship from the past. I found it." Garibaldi
+   asks Amis if he is sure. "Yes. I saw it do the same thing during the
+   war." As the two leave the Zocalo, in another part of the station, an
+   alien, in an otherwise empty room, becomes the creature's next victim,
+   his final word a scream as it attacks.
+   
+   [INLINE] Garibaldi escorts Amis away.
+   
+   Garibaldi and Sheridan are in MedLab, listening to Dr. Franklin's
+   findings about the latest victim. Dr. Franklin explains that the
+   alien's internal organs disappeared, with no visible entry or exit
+   points, just like Mariah's husband. Garibaldi expresses doubt that
+   Mariah may be who she claims. "I arrested a lurker named Amis," he
+   says, "who was stationed on a deep-space listening post during the
+   war. Forty-seven men landed on that moon -- all of them were
+   slaughtered, except for one."
+   
+   Franklin tells Sheridan that whatever killed them couldn't have come
+   aboard the Copernicus because the scan revealed nothing, but Garibaldi
+   says that it could be something they had never before encountered. "I
+   traced the ship's path. It passed within the gravitational pull of the
+   same moon that Amis was stationed on. This Mariah Cirrus may not be
+   what she appears."
+   
+   Franklin tells them that, since Mariah was with him the previous
+   evening, she couldn't be responsible for the alien's death. Sheridan
+   orders that a watch, someone other than Franklin, be put upon Mariah
+   around the clock. Dr. Franklin is upset, taking this to mean that he
+   isn't doing his job. Sheridan says he wants to protect the station;
+   Dr. Franklin says he can't believe that this is happening on the word
+   of a lurker. But Garibaldi tells Franklin that Amis won many medals
+   during the war, making him fairly trustworthy. Sheridan says that the
+   League of Non-Aligned Worlds has asked for a council meeting to
+   discuss the problem, and orders Franklin to go over her medical scans
+   again. "For what it's worth," Garibaldi tells Franklin after Sheridan
+   leaves, "I hope you're right. But if you're not, be careful."
+   
+   At the council meeting, a delegate says that the League insists that
+   Mariah be removed from the station. "She has brought something evil
+   from the past...a soldier of darkness," he says to the council. Though
+   Londo finds the situation laughable, G'kar takes it quite seriously,
+   telling the delegate to continue, which he does. "The forces of
+   darkness do not move openly. They work through others. Use others.
+   When the darkness was defeated long ago, they scattered, hid
+   themselves away in secret places, and waited. Now, the dark hand is
+   reaching out and recalling them from their sleep." Sheridan can't
+   believe that Mariah is responsible, but the alien says, "Evil
+   sometimes wears a pleasant face."
+   
+   G'kar thinks they should consider the delegate's word, but Londo
+   doesn't. Sheridan says that they shouldn't ignore what is going on.
+   Londo laughs and this, and leaves, saying they should kill the
+   presence, if they find it. The alien delegate says that the League
+   will take action if Sheridan doesn't. This angers Sheridan, who warns
+   the League that Mariah will be protected at all costs. He adjourns the
+   meeting. He talks to Ivanova, also present at the meeting, about the
+   situation, and she asks him what he would do if a "soldier of
+   darkness" did board the station via the Copernicus. Sheridan scoffs at
+   this, saying he will believe it when he sees it, though Ivanova hopes
+   it will not come to that.
+   
+   Garibaldi springs up in bed, apparently due to a bad dream, and goes
+   to talk to Amis. Garibaldi confronts Amis about the creature, telling
+   him to take him where he found it. Amis has a difficult time believing
+   Garibaldi really believes him. They go to the place where Amis had
+   seen the creature earlier, though there is nothing there now.
+   Garibaldi draws his weapon, and searches for the creature, but only
+   finds a lurker in hiding. He grabs Amis, but Amis breaks away, and
+   then shouts into midair for the creature to finish what it started. He
+   collapses near the wall, sobbing. Finally understanding, Garibaldi
+   tells Amis why he believes him. "During the war there was a guy in my
+   unit. Kept telling everybody our perimeter was weak. We laughed 'cause
+   we checked it over and over. It was secure. We all figured he was
+   nuts. Until then, we'd never seen any action. And then, one night, we
+   stopped laughing. They came through that perimeter like it was paper.
+   He was the first to die. Saved our butts. He was a nut, but he was
+   right. I believe you."
+   
+   Garibaldi asks Amis to tell him about the listening post, and Amis
+   explains what happened to him. "We were an intelligence-gathering
+   unit, not set up for heavy combat. We'd heard the Minbari were setting
+   up a command and control post, so we slipped onto a small moon before
+   they finished the perimeter scans. We set up camp in old ruins of some
+   kind. As far as we knew, it was a dead world. It came in the night,
+   during a storm. We heard nothing, saw nothing...It came right through
+   the walls, like a hot wind. The first man died, just meters from me --
+   never even screamed. We ran... we ran. For a second, I thought I lost
+   it, and then I saw it. Standing in the middle of a ball of lightning.
+   It looked like it had come straight from hell."
+   
+   "How did you survive?" Garibaldi asks.
+   
+   "I didn't! It kept me alive. As a snack. It becomes part of you,
+   feeding on you. The lucky ones were the men who died on the moon. What
+   it took from me I can never get back. When the rescue party showed up,
+   I weighed 85 pounds. That's how I knew it was on this station. A part
+   of me's still inside that thing. I can feel it. But nobody ever
+   believed me...until now."
+   
+   "This feeling...can it lead you to it?"
+   
+   "I think... I think maybe that's what it's been doing. All this
+   time... Calling me. I think maybe we have some unfinished business
+   between us." Without warning, Amis runs off.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin enters the Copernicus and finds Mariah there. He asks why
+   she is there, and she says that it is all she has...other than him, if
+   that's even true. He tells her he doesn't want to move too fast, and
+   she understands. She misses her husband, and wants to find the
+   creature responsible, but she also says that she had marital problems,
+   and that all she and her husband had left when they began their
+   journey were the stars and their dreams. Franklin understands, saying
+   that he has devoted most of his life to his work, and that he has had
+   little time for anything else, and that Babylon 5 isn't an appropriate
+   place to raise a family. Mariah says that she believes her husband
+   wouldn't have liked the world in which she woke up. Franklin tells her
+   that what killed her husband is on the station, and he wants to know
+   anything she knows that might help. She tells him that, in her dreams,
+   she is not alone in the cryogenic tube, and that she believes it used
+   her to stay alive until it could find more food, which Franklin
+   believes it has found on Babylon 5. "I've put everybody here in great
+   danger," she says.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Garibaldi walks through the corridors of Babylon 5, looking
+   for Amis or other clues when he hears a scream coming from nearby,
+   which he quickly runs to investigate.
+   
+   Later, Sheridan tells Garibaldi and Ivanova that official accounts
+   blame the attack on the listening post on the Minbari. Garibaldi says
+   that Amis is certain the Minbari didn't attack the post, and that the
+   alien took a part of him when it left his body, and that he could feel
+   it on the station. "If the same thing happened to Mariah," he
+   suggests, "she might be able to help us find it." Ivanova says it is
+   too risky, and since they don't know the nature of the creature, they
+   don't know what to do about it, since it may have control over her,
+   causing her to scout for it without her knowledge. Sheridan tells
+   Ivanova and Garibaldi that whatever happened to the listening post is
+   happening again, and that they need to be ready for whatever it is.
+   
+   Mariah is in asleep in MedLab when Garibaldi wakes her. He tells her
+   that he needs her help to find Amis. He asks her if she can feel where
+   the alien is, and she says that she believes she can. Dr. Franklin
+   says he will allow it, but only if he can come along to make sure she
+   is in no danger.
+   
+   Ivanova reports to Sheridan on C&C that they received reports of
+   weapon fire and part of a signal from Garibaldi. Sheridan orders that
+   section of the station to be sealed off. He tries to contact Dr.
+   Franklin, but can't, which Ivanova assumes is because Dr. Franklin
+   went to search for the creature. Sheridan agrees, and then tells
+   Ivanova to bring out the heavy artillery, with which to fight the
+   creature. Ivanova and Sheridan, and several other officers, all
+   heavily armed, go down to the section and find Franklin and Mariah
+   outside tending to two injured officers. Franklin tells Sheridan that
+   Garibaldi is still in there, trying to find Amis and the creature.
+   Sheridan and Ivanova enter.
+   
+   [INLINE] Off to fight the creature.
+   
+   Weapons at the ready, they search the area, but can see nothing. Soon,
+   they come to an open area, where Garibaldi is searching for Amis, whom
+   he soon finds, being held in midair by some invisible force. Amis
+   shouts at Garibaldi to shoot the creature, which is apparently
+   attacking him. Garibaldi fires at the air behind Amis, who drops to
+   the ground.
+   
+   [INLINE] The creature drops Amis.
+   
+   Garibaldi tries to get him up as Sheridan and Ivanova move closer.
+   They all fire blindly into the area where the creature was last seen,
+   though they don't do much damage to it. Amis says that he believes the
+   creature is waiting for him. Sheridan then orders Ivanova to
+   triangulate their fire, so that they set up a "kill zone, point
+   blank." Amis claims it won't work, that the creature is too smart.
+   "You've got to give it what it wants!" He runs out into the open area,
+   shouting at the creature to come and get him. The creature complies,
+   and begins attacking Amis. But, it walks directly into the kill zone.
+   Garibaldi, Ivanova, Sheridan, and all the others fire madly at the
+   creature, which looks very tall, humanoid, with horn-shaped
+   protrusions coming from its head. The creature falls to the ground and
+   evaporates, apparently dead.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin and Mariah are in MedLab, checking on Amis, who will be
+   okay. Franklin asks how Mariah will fare, and offers to let Mariah
+   stay on the station. She declines, saying that she wants to mourn for
+   the loss of her husband, bury him, and visit Earth. She says that she
+   wants to come back, if he is still interested, which he claims he will
+   be. "Don't make promises life won't let you keep," she tells him. They
+   kiss, and then she leaves MedLab.
+   
+   Ivanova reports to Sheridan, saying that they finished analyzing the
+   database from the Copernicus. She found that Mariah was telling the
+   truth. But, Ivanova has something else to report. She says that the
+   ship lost about one tenth of its oxygen when it passed by a moon in
+   sector 18x70x59, which would have happened when the creature came
+   aboard, but when the ship left that sector, it was set on a new
+   course. They were lucky that the creature didn't know the ship would
+   make contact with any signal it came across, or it would have passed
+   right by without anyone noticing.
+   
+   Sheridan asks what course the ship had been programmed on, and Ivanova
+   tells him that the ship was heading to the rim, "toward the exact
+   place where Ambassador G'kar told us an ancient enemy was gathering
+   its forces." She asks if it was a coincidence that it was going to
+   Z'ha'dum, and Sheridan says he didn't believe it was.
+   
+   "Something's going on, Commander," Sheridan tells Ivanova. Ivanova
+   agrees, saying that the sitatuation worries her a great deal as well.
+   As they ponder the meaning of recent events, G'kar is in his quarters,
+   reading the book of G'Quan, in which he sees a drawing of a tall
+   creature, which bears a distinct resemblence to the one killed by
+   Garibaldi, Sheridan, and Ivanova.
+   
+   [INLINE] The Book of G'Quan.
+
+   [14][Next] 
+   
+      [15]Last update: October 11, 1995
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+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/027.html
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/027.shtml
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/027.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/026.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/028.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/027.html#TOP
+  11. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/026.html
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/028.html
+  15. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
+  
+   While Sheridan and Ivanova take care of minor station affairs, Talia
+   waits for a friend who soon arrives, Taro Isogi. They greet each
+   other, and he asks her what she thinks of his new Mars proposal. "It's
+   like all your proposals," she says. "Too progressive, too risky, and
+   too costly in the short run. But if you can make it happen..." He says
+   that he must make it happen so that FutureCorp can expand beyond
+   Earth, with Mars as the next logical step. Talia says that senate will
+   be against it and that the Mars Conglomerate will bury him, but Isogi
+   says he is prepared, if they can convince Mars to share the risk. He
+   says that, if his plan doesn't go through, many innocent people, and
+   his dream, will die on the path toward Martian independence.
+   
+   Another woman enters. She introduces herself as Amanda Carter, of the
+   Mars colony business affairs committee. Isogi introduces Talia to her.
+   Carter says that she read Isogi's proposal, and that he is either
+   insane or very brave. He says that people probably felt much the same
+   way about her great grandfather John, when he piloted the colony first
+   ship to Mars. She sits down to discuss the proposal with Isogi and
+   Talia.
+   
+   [INLINE] The negotiations begin.
+   
+   In a small office deep in the midst of the San Diego wastelands, a
+   woman sits at a desk, with many monitors and displays around her, one
+   of which is showing a speech made by President Clark soon after
+   President Santiago's death. A component on the desk beeps, and she
+   answers it by saying, "Thirteen?"
+   
+   A strange circular pattern of lights appears on a screen. A
+   computerized voice says to her, "All components have arrived safely on
+   Babylon 5. Control is prepared to go on-line." She orders the
+   operation to commence. On Babylon 5, in a cargo bay, a large container
+   marked CLASSIFIED CARGO opens, and a hand reaches out, as something or
+   someone emerges.
+   
+   Sheridan receives a call from Earth, from Senator Elise Voudreau. She
+   tells him that Isogi has arranged a meeting with Carter, who she
+   describes as an "outspoken advocate of Mars independence," and who she
+   believes is conspiring with FutureCorp to finance another rebellion on
+   Mars Colony. Sheridan asks her for proof, and she tells him that if
+   the current Mars Conglomerate could be removed, FutureCorp could get a
+   foothold in space if they had an exclusive trade and services
+   agreement with Mars. She says that most of the members of the Mars
+   Conglomerate wanted to leave after the last rebellion. Sheridan
+   apologizes, but says that he cannot interfere. She tells him to
+   investigate the matter, and report anything of interest to her. He
+   says that his duties don't include spying, to which she replies,
+   "These are volatile times, Captain. Practicality is more important
+   than principles, if lives are to be saved. I'll expect to hear from
+   you soon." She breaks off the communication.
+   
+   Isogi tells Carter that Mars has resources that could be used by alien
+   worlds, which in turn would supply Mars with economic base enough to
+   win Mars its independence in about ten years. Carter says that it will
+   be hard to convince the committee of this, and that they will need
+   lots of assurance. Talia points out that her words aren't entirely
+   true--it is Carter that needs the assurance, since Carter believes the
+   committee will accept her recommendation. Carter says that Mars is in
+   great turmoil now, and that she doesn't want to propose anything to
+   the committee without knowing all that is expected of them. Isogi
+   explains that it is for that reason that he chose Babylon 5 for the
+   negotiations, since the representatives of the alien worlds involved
+   in the plan are located there.
+   
+   Carter says that she will speak with the business affairs committee,
+   says that she might have an answer by the next day, and leaves. After
+   she is gone, Talia explains that Carter likes the idea, though she
+   does have her doubts. Isogi asks Talia what she thinks, and she says
+   that there is a great financial risk, and that the legal maneuvering
+   will be difficult. They agree to go to dinner.
+   
+   While Sheridan and Ivanova discuss a new alien delegation that has
+   come to the station, Talia and Isogi walk along a corridor, talking
+   about the benefits of Isogi's plan. He says that Mars can be the
+   beginning of a new life for humans. As they talk, a man approaches the
+   two of them. "Free Mars," he says. He clutches Isogi's neck, and
+   throws Talia to the ground. Electricity streams forth from the man's
+   hand, electrocuting Isogi. When Isogi drops to the ground, dead, the
+   man comes after Talia, but as he approaches, she senses something. In
+   his mind, she sees a strange image which looks like a ship being blown
+   apart as seen from the inside. The man sees it in his own mind as
+   well, and walks away, confused. Talia goes over to Isogi's body, but
+   can do nothing to help him.
+   
+   [INLINE] "Free Mars!"
+   
+   In Sheridan's office, Sheridan asks Talia if she was sure she didn't
+   understand the meaning of the images from the man's head. She says
+   that all she saw was a blur of light and sound, followed by blackness.
+   She explains that, although all he said was "Free Mars," he was
+   feeling no emotions, and had only those images in his head, much
+   different from other Free Mars advocates she scanned when she worked
+   on Mars.
+   
+   Sheridan asks her why someone from Free Mars would kill Isogi, and she
+   says that there would be no reason, as his solution was peaceful.
+   Sheridan tells her that Earth Central disagrees, and that they believe
+   that he had planned to back another rebellion on Mars. She tells him
+   that Isogi wouldn't do such a thing, and that someone is lying to him.
+   He suggests that someone may be lying to her, even though she is a
+   telepath, because Isogi was an old friend of hers. Crying, she says to
+   Sheridan, "Taro Isogi spent his life improving the lives of others. He
+   built a business based on that principle, and he never broke a rule or
+   harmed another to do it. Mars was his dream, Captain, now he's been
+   murdered for it, and you're trying to cast the blame on him." Sheridan
+   apologizes, and Talia asks to go back to her quarters. Sheridan says
+   he will arrange for an escort, and Garibaldi appears to perform the
+   job. On their way in the elevator, Garibaldi tries to cheer Talia up,
+   and is partially successful. He also promises to find the person
+   responsible.
+   
+   The man who murdered Isogi approaches a communications terminal and
+   enters a code. The same circular light pattern that appeared on the
+   console in the office in the San Diego wastelands comes onscreen. The
+   computerized voice asks for a report, and the man says that phase one
+   has been completed. The voice orders him to download all the data
+   accrued during the mission, and then erase the source file. The man
+   removes the flesh-colored covering from his hand, revealing a black
+   extension, lined with circuits. He inserts a finger into the transfer
+   port. An image of Isogi being killed appears on the screen, followed
+   by one of Talia on the ground. The computerized voice analyzes the
+   information, telling about Talia's position and telepath rating. The
+   voice says, "Control states Miss Winters could jeopardize mission.
+   Eliminate her, then continue with phase two." The communication ends,
+   and the man asks the station's computer to locate Talia.
+   
+   [INLINE] Consulting with Control.
+   
+   On C&C, Sheridan orders all outgoing traffic to be held, as he doesn't
+   want the murderer leaving. Ivanova asks if he knows who did it. He
+   says he doesn't, but that Talia was an eyewitness. Ivanova asks if she
+   is okay. Sheridan says that she is, and that he believes the killer
+   wanted a witness. Sheridan asks Ivanova what she thinks of Talia.
+   Ivanova says that she is interesting. Sheridan observes that Ivanova
+   doesn't usually describe people as "interesting." Ivanova says that
+   she doesn't know Talia very well, though she has talked to her several
+   times before. She reminds him how she feels about telepaths.
+   
+   Sheridan asks her if Talia can be trusted, and Ivanova says that she
+   believes so, but that Talia is very loyal to PsiCorps. Sheridan asks
+   her if she trusts PsiCorps, and Ivanova says that she doesn't and asks
+   Sheridan if he does.
+   
+   "Telepaths are gifted and cursed in ways I can never hope to
+   understand," Sheridan answers. "But they're still human beings --
+   good, bad, or indifferent. I trust in individuals, not organizations."
+   
+   "Then you may trust Miss Winters," Ivanova says.
+   
+   Amanda Carter is in her quarters when Sheridan enters. He tells her he
+   wants to ask her questions about Isogi. She declines, saying that her
+   affairs are none of Earth Force's business. Sheridan tells her that in
+   this case they are, because of Isogi's murder. She asks who could have
+   done it, and Sheridan tells her that the man who did it said, "Free
+   Mars." She says that Free Mars was not informed of the meeting, and
+   that they would have had nothing to gain anyway. She says that someone
+   didn't like the idea of Mars gaining its independence.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sheridan delivers the bad news.
+   
+   Sheridan asks who would go to such lengths, and she says that the
+   senate and Mars Conglomerate would both be opposed to the deal, though
+   she couldn't believe that either group would go as far as murder.
+   Sheridan says good-bye to her, but says he might have to ask her some
+   more questions. As he leaves, she says that she wants to help in any
+   way possible, as "whoever killed Taro Isogi killed Mars' best hope for
+   the future."
+   
+   Sheridan enters Garibaldi's office, where Garibaldi is going over the
+   medical report, and tells Sheridan that he died of electrocution. They
+   found finger marks on Isogi's neck, but no prints or striations.
+   Sheridan asks if it may have been a slaver's glove, but Garibaldi said
+   it couldn't have been. He says that it must have been some sort of
+   prosthetic weaponry, though he doesn't know why the power source
+   didn't show up on scanners. Sheridan says that he might need to enlist
+   some "special help," though he doesn't want to elaborate further until
+   they have more information. Sheridan orders Garibaldi to watch over
+   Talia, and continue the investigation, including Earth government and
+   "Corp secure areas." Garibaldi agrees, but wants to know what Sheridan
+   has in mind. Sheridan declines to answer what he is thinking, but does
+   hope that he is wrong. He then leaves.
+   
+   Talia is being escorted by a security guard when a voice behind them
+   calls out, "Hey, Earthers!" The man who killed Isogi runs up to the
+   security guard and electrocutes him. Talia tries to escape, but the
+   man catches her and prepares to electrocute her, saying only "Free
+   Mars." Unable to break free, she sees more of the scene she saw in his
+   head earlier; this time she sees another ship firing. While the man is
+   stunned, she runs away, looking for help. The man looks at his hand.
+   "What have they done to me?" he wonders. He wanders off.
+   
+   Talia explains to Sheridan her recent experience. "The images in his
+   mind were the same as before, except this time I saw an Earth Alliance
+   ship. A big one, a cruiser I think. It was firing at him. And I know
+   this sounds crazy, but it hit him and he died." Sheridan has
+   difficulty believing this. "It was as if he were reliving the thought
+   of his death over and over again, clinging to it as if it were the
+   only thought he had." Garibaldi comes into Sheridan's office, and
+   tells them that Medlab was able to analyze the DNA of some of the
+   assailant's hair. He puts the analysis up on the screen, and Talia
+   confirms the man as her attacker. Garibaldi explains that the man is a
+   leader of Free Mars, by the name of Abel Horn. Sheridan recognizes him
+   as the man who claimed responsibility for destroying Richie Station on
+   Mars, and he wants him captured. Garibaldi says that there is a
+   problem -- according to Earth Force intelligence, Horn is dead, his
+   ship destroyed during the rebellion. Talia is able to interpret that
+   as the image from his mind. Sheridan doesn't explain anything to
+   Garibaldi, but orders Talia put in protective custody, and a fugitive
+   alert placed on Horn. Garibaldi escorts Talia out of the office.
+   
+   Amanda Carter enters her quarters, and runs into someone who is
+   already there -- Abel Horn. She says that she thought he was dead, and
+   he explains that he was attacked over Phobos, but that a friend of
+   hers rescued him and helped him. He says that he has been on the run
+   and hiding until he heard that she was on Babylon 5. She asks him why
+   he killed Isogi. He says that the murder charge is a lie, and that he
+   only came to see her. He says he needs to get back to Mars, and that
+   she is the only one that can help him. She says that she can't help
+   him because she doesn't want anyone to know that she was once a member
+   of Free Mars, and she doesn't want to jeopardize Mars' chance at
+   independence. Horn threatens to tell her secret if he doesn't help
+   her, and she says that she can't believe blackmail is something he
+   would stoop to. He tries to tell her he's changed, and removes the
+   covering on his hand, when he cripples over in pain. She asks him what
+   is wrong, and he says that he needs her to help. He says that Talia
+   can help him, and asks Carter to find her.
+   
+   [INLINE] Horn begs for Carter's help.
+   
+   Garibaldi is with Talia telling her that she is safe, and that she can
+   get an escort if she needs to leave. He is about to leave when she
+   offers him some tea. He agrees to stay, saying that it is his third
+   favorite thing in the universe.
+   
+   Ivanova tries to deal with the problems cropping up from keeping the
+   ships docked aboard Babylon 5, but Sheridan says that he doesn't think
+   the murderer is trying to leave, though he does order her to check all
+   ships before letting them go. He says there is something else he wants
+   to check, and leaves.
+   
+   While they drink their tea, Garibaldi tells Talia that his father
+   taught him everything he knew about security, and that he misses him
+   now that he is dead. Talia says she never knew her parents, but had
+   someone help her through her first year at the PsiCorps academy.
+   Garibaldi receives a call from Sheridan, who tells him to come to his
+   quarters. As Garibaldi leaves, Talia thanks him for talking with her,
+   and Garibaldi says it was his pleasure.
+   
+   Garibaldi goes to Sheridan's quarters, and Sheridan shows him some
+   data regarding a project entitled Lazarus. Sheridan explains it was
+   part of Earth Force's experiments with cybernetics. Garibaldi knew
+   that they weren't able to make them work because humans couldn't
+   function with machines put in their brains. Sheridan tells Garibaldi
+   that they then experimented with using people on the brink of death.
+   "The theory was to 'hard-wire' the subject's brain with a computer
+   intelligence that kept the brain functional while the body was
+   repaired. Then, using telepathic deep scan, the subject was fixated on
+   the moment of his death, shutting down all conscious thought. The
+   computer takes complete control, while the subject is dying over and
+   over again in his subconscious." Sheridan tells Garibaldi that Talia
+   sensed that from Horn, and that it is possible that Horn is someone to
+   whom that happened. Garibaldi says that he thinks that Sheridan's
+   information could be wrong, but Sheridan disagrees, saying that he had
+   two opportunities to kill Talia, but didn't do so, which might mean
+   that Talia made him realize who he was, which screwed up his
+   programming. Garibaldi and Sheridan both express uncertainty at this
+   idea, but Sheridan says that, if he is correct, there might be some
+   way to locate Horn.
+   
+   [INLINE] Viewing the Lazarus files.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Horn lies, unconscious, on Carter's sofa. Carter walks over
+   to her communicator and tells the computer she wants to send a message
+   to Talia. At the mention of Talia's name, Horn's eyes open suddenly.
+   When she contacts Talia, she asks Talia to meet her in her quarters in
+   thirty minutes. Horn tells Carter that he knew she'd help, but as she
+   tries to explain, he hits her, knocking her unconcious.
+   
+   Sheridan and Garibaldi believe that they have found a way to track
+   Horn. Though Sheridan's information on Project Lazarus is quite old,
+   the power crystal of the cybernetic computer emits radiation. It
+   wouldn't show up on environmental scans, but if they reconfigure the
+   sensors, it might be detectable. Garibaldi receives a call from
+   security, telling him that Talia has asked for a security escort to
+   meet with Amanda Carter. Garibaldi assigns an officer, telling him
+   that he will meet them outside, just in case. Sheridan tries to
+   reconfigure the scanning device, but has difficulty. Garibaldi walks
+   over and tells him to "let the wizard have a go." Sheridan does, and
+   Garibaldi attempts to reconfigure the scanners, but only succeeds in
+   causing the door to the room to open and shut repeatedly. Garibaldi
+   admits that the task is difficult and leaves. "Thanks, Mr. Wizard,"
+   Sheridan says as Garibaldi leaves.
+   
+   Garibaldi meets up with Talia on her way to Carter's quaters.
+   Garibaldi asks why she is going there, and she says that Carter wants
+   to push Isogi's plan through. Talia isn't sure if she can convince
+   FutureCorp to go along with it, but, if she can, it would be honoring
+   Isogi's memory. She enters Carter's quarters, and finds her on the
+   floor. As she examines the body, Horn grabs her, warning her that he
+   will kill her if she screams.
+   
+   As Sheridan completes the reconfiguration of the sensors, Horn orders
+   Talia to tell him what the images in his head means. He lets go of
+   her, and asks her to help him. She scans him again. She sees the same
+   images as before, with the addition of several others. After the
+   destruction of Horn's ship, she sees the inside of a room where he is
+   being operated on by several doctors, who supply him with a cybernetic
+   prosthesis on his hand. Also present in the room is a female PsiCop,
+   who looks at him and smiles. "Ours now. All ours." Talia loses the
+   scan, and she tells Horn what happened to him. She tells him that,
+   while he was dying, he was scanned, operated on, and then rebuilt. She
+   asks him who the PsiCop is, but he doesn't respond.
+   
+   [INLINE] "All ours."
+   
+   Sheridan's environmental scan finishes, and he learns that Horn is in
+   Carter's quarters. Sheridan calls Garibaldi, telling him what he just
+   learned. He orders Garibaldi to take Horn alive. Garibaldi and the
+   other security officers enter, but, as they do, Horn grabs Talia and
+   threatens to kill her. Garibaldi tells Horn to think about what he's
+   doing, but Horn says he can't. Horn orders Garibaldi and the others to
+   drop their weapons, which they do. Horn picks one of the guns up.
+   Garibaldi says that he will see Horn dies painfully if he kills Talia,
+   but Horn says that he is already dead. Sheridan bursts in and says
+   that Horn isn't really dead, but that he is being used to betray Mars.
+   Horn asks how Sheridan knows this, but Sheridan says that Horn knows
+   as well. Sheridan tells Horn that he wants to help him, but that he
+   wants Talia to be freed as well. Horn lets go of Talia, who runs to
+   Garibaldi. Sheridan tells Horn to put the weapon down. "It was the
+   Earthers, wasn't it?" Horn asks. "It wasn't...it wasn't enough just to
+   kill me." Sheridan says that he will help Horn learn who is
+   responsible if he puts down the gun. "Mars will never be free until
+   the sands run red with Earther blood," Horn says to Carter, who just
+   regained conciousness. He fires at Sheridan, but misses. Sheridan
+   draws his weapon quickly and hits Horn, who falls to the ground.
+   Before he dies, Horn thanks Sheridan for killing him. A security guard
+   scans Horn, and detects a dangerous energy surge. Realizing what is
+   going on, Sheridan evacuates everyone from the room, right before Horn
+   explodes, leaving no evidence.
+   
+   Carter apologizes to Talia; she only asked Talia to talk to her
+   because she believed that Talia could help Horn. Garibaldi asks how
+   Carter knew so much about Horn, and Carter explains that Horn wasn't
+   always a terrorist. She was once in love with Horn, and he convinced
+   her to join Free Mars which, at that time, wasn't violent. But, when
+   it became more violent, she left it, and him. Garibaldi doesn't
+   believe this. But Carter insists that she is telling the truth, that
+   she has just ended her career by telling it. Carter says that she
+   still believes in Isogi's ideas, and Sheridan tells her that, if she
+   will do her best to make Isogi's plan go through, they won't report
+   the incident. Talia even agrees to help talk to FutureCorp to convince
+   them that the Mars government had nothing to do with the murder.
+   Carter thanks Sheridan for his help, and Talia, Sheridan, and
+   Garibaldi leave. Garibaldi asks Sheridan why he did what he did, but
+   Talia explains that Horn didn't want to kill her -- only to be scanned
+   by her. Sheridan asks her if she did, and she tells him that she did,
+   and that she saw the image of the operation. Sheridan asks her if she
+   recognized anything, such as a face or a uniform. Talia says that she
+   didn't, and is escorted back to her quarters by Garibaldi.
+   
+   Garibaldi enters Sheridan's office, and asks him how he knew about the
+   Lazarus Project. Sheridan explains that, while some people collect art
+   or coins, he collects secrets, such as black projects, secret
+   organizations, and conspiracies. Garibaldi asks if one of those
+   secrets includes who was behind the recent incidents. Sheridan tries
+   to avoid answering, but Garibaldi says that he needs to know if there
+   is a threat to the station. Sheridan says that the threat goes far
+   beyond the station, and Garibaldi agrees, saying that, if Horn was
+   what Sheridan believed, the situation has nothing to do with Free
+   Mars. Garibaldi knows that to do something like this would take a lot
+   of power and money. He suspects Sheridan knows who is behind it.
+   
+   Sheridan tells Garibaldi his suspicions, after making Garibaldi
+   promise to not tell anyone else. "For the past six years, there have
+   been rumors about a...rogue agency operating deep inside Earth gov. A
+   dirty tricks squad dealing in black projects and Star Chamber justice.
+   It took me over three years just to get the name: Bureau 13. And the
+   man who gave me that name died soon after. I am convinced that they
+   exist and that they are behind this incident."
+   
+   "Why?" asks Garibaldi.
+   
+   "Isogi was a danger to Earth policy on Mars. I think his death was a
+   warning to the other corporations. I also think Horn was meant to
+   destroy Free Mars from the inside, and, possibly, ruin Amanda Carter
+   as well. Unfortunately, I can't prove any of it."
+   
+   "If this is true..."
+   
+   "Then everything we believe in is in jeopardy. There is a spider in
+   the web, Mr. Garibaldi, and I intend to find it... and kill it."
+   
+   [INLINE] "There is a spider in the web..."
+   
+   Inside the office in the San Diego wastelands, the woman working there
+   answers another communication. "Thirteen." A screen with the familiar
+   circular light pattern appears, and the same computerized voice says,
+   "Report from Babylon 5 control mission only partly successful. Isogi
+   terminated but unit was destroyed before he could leave station for
+   Mars."
+   
+   "Is the bureau at hazard?" asks the woman.
+   
+   "Control does not believe so."
+   
+   "Belief is not enough. He is to follow up until he is certain.
+   Thirteen out." The woman turns around, and we see her face -- she is
+   the PsiCop from the images Talia found in Horn's mind.
+   
+   Talia searches through her computer, looking for records of the PsiCop
+   from Horn's mind. As she recalls the information she found in Horn's
+   mind, the computer completes its search. Talia looks over the
+   information. On the computer screen is a picture of the woman -- the
+   same one from Horn's memory. Under her picture is but one flashing
+   word: DECEASED.
+
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+   
+      [15]Last update: October 11, 1995
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
+  
+   Garibaldi finds Vir awaiting the arrival of Londo's three wives in the
+   customs area. A female Centauri approaches the two, and introduces
+   herself to Vir as Timov, one of Londo's wives. She tells him to take
+   her to Londo, and they leave together. As they leave, in another
+   portion of the arrivals area, Garibaldi witnesses an interchange
+   between two people, who seem to be on the brink of fighting. At the
+   height of the tension, one of them suddenly backs down and walks away.
+   
+   Garibaldi reports the incident to Sheridan, saying that the man who
+   didn't back away from the fight was named Stoner, and that he was
+   little more than a typical freelance navigator and part-time trader.
+   Sheridan asks what the problem is, but Garibaldi can't explain it,
+   saying that he had a negative "gut feeling" about Stoner when he first
+   saw him. Talia enters Sheridan's office, and remarks that Sheridan has
+   settled nicely into his new position. Sheridan asks her to confirm
+   some rumors they picked up from the PsiCorps net. Sheridan tells
+   Garibaldi that they will talk about Stoner later, but Talia recognizes
+   the name. They ask whether she knows him. "Only in the most unpleasant
+   sense," she says. "I was married to him."
+   
+   While Londo is in a bar celebrating with a large number of his
+   friends, Vir tells Timov, waiting in Londo's quarters, that Londo will
+   be there soon. Timov asks Vir what Londo is hiding, and why she had
+   been called there. She asks Vir what Londo said about her to him when
+   another of Londo's wives, Daggair, enters. Vir apologizes to Daggair
+   for missing her arrival. Timov tells Vir that, if he knew Daggair as
+   well as she did, he wouldn't miss her. The two of them continue
+   squabbling.
+   
+   [INLINE] Waiting for Londo.
+   
+   Talia, at the Earth History Exhibition, examining some artifacts from
+   Earth, is approached by Sheridan. He asks her why she was in such a
+   hurry; she didn't say much before she left his office. She tells him
+   that she wasn't in the mood to talk. Sheridan asks if she is now. She
+   tells him that, as the station commander, it isn't his concern. He
+   agrees with this, but says that he considers her a friend, or at least
+   an ally, and will be there to talk if she so chooses.
+   
+   Ivanova rings the bell at Delenn's quarters, and the chime is answered
+   by the frustrated voice of Delenn from inside. She asks if Ivanova is
+   alone, and admits her. Ivanova is surprised to see Delenn there,
+   having considerable trouble with her hair. Delenn says that her
+   transformation is supposed to be a bridging between the humans and the
+   Minbari and that her transformation should be looked upon as a great
+   honor, but comments that she cannot get her hair to do what she wants.
+   Ivanova notices that Delenn's hair is brittle, and Delenn explains
+   that she has been washing it with the same chemical compound all
+   Minbari use to strip away the outermost layer of their skin once a
+   day, to symbolize rebirth. Ivanova says she should try bathing
+   instead, but Delenn only asks Ivanova to help. Ivanova protests,
+   saying that she has duties to which she must attend, but eventually
+   decides to assist Delenn. She calls to C&C telling them that she will
+   be preoccupied for a while.
+   
+   [INLINE] Bad hair day.
+   
+   Talia tells Sheridan that, during a telepath's first year in the
+   PsiCorps academy, they are assigned an advanced trainee to assist
+   them, and that Matthew Stoner was hers. She liked him, and he helped
+   her learn the difficult tasks that telepaths must perform. But, the
+   PsiCorps learned that Talia and Stoner were genetically compatible and
+   could produce children with equally good or better telepathic skills
+   than their parents'. They were soon married, though only for a short
+   time -- the marriage was annulled by PsiCorps soon after Stoner left
+   PsiCorps. Sheridan asks how he managed to leave, but Talia doesn't
+   know. "He had connections. He had... something. No one in authority
+   wanted to talk about it."
+   
+   G'Kar and Sheridan are walking together, and G'Kar asks if Sheridan
+   has settled into his duties. Sheridan asks why everyone keeps asking
+   him that, and G'Kar explains that, because strange things happened to
+   Sinclair, Sheridan should be on his guard. G'Kar tells Sheridan that
+   bizarre happenings give him headaches, and that he has had them many
+   times recently, due to the strange events of recent weeks on Babylon
+   5. Londo appears, and seems to be quite cheerful indeed. He too asks
+   Sheridan if he has settled in, and asks G'Kar how he is. Londo says
+   that the day is "glorious" and he leaves, after commenting on G'Kar's
+   health. G'Kar walks away, rubbing his head.
+   
+   [INLINE] "I get these _headaches_."
+   
+   Timov and Daggair are still in Londo's quarters with Vir, quarreling
+   over Londo and their relative positions in Londo's life. Londo soon
+   enters and greets the two wives. Timov asks where he was, and why she
+   has been summoned to Babylon 5. Londo begins to explain, but stops
+   when he doesn't see his third wife. Timov asks again why they have
+   been called to the station, and Londo tells her that the following day
+   is the thirtieth anniversary of his ascension date. Both wives had
+   forgotten, but the Emperor hadn't, and, for the occasion, granted
+   Londo any wish he desired. Londo tells Timov and Daggair that he asked
+   for a divorce, but that the Emperor wanted him to keep one wife, so
+   that he would look good at affairs of state. He tells them that, the
+   next day, he will choose the one wife he wants to keep, leaving the
+   others without the wealth and privileges that they had accrued during
+   their marriage. The two wives begin to fight again when Londo's third
+   wife, Mariel, arrives in the quarters.
+   
+   Stoner consults with a merchant about various objects in his
+   possession. The merchant claims that most of Stoner's objects have
+   little value, but one in particular, a strange Centauri carving, is
+   interesting to him. Garibaldi appears and asks Stoner where he
+   obtained that statuette. Though Stoner provides ample documentation to
+   support his claim that he found it on an archeological dig, Garibaldi
+   escorts Stoner away, to talk in private.
+   
+   [INLINE] Garibaldi harasses Stoner.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Lennier arrives in Delenn's quarters to find Delenn's hair
+   in curlers, with Ivanova standing nearby. The sight puzzles Lennier,
+   but he tells Delenn that they were invited to the party celebrating
+   Londo's anniversary. Delenn tells him to accept. As he leaves, he asks
+   Delenn if the curlers hurt her, but she tells him they do not.
+   Wondering about what she is doing, he leaves.
+   
+   Garibaldi confronts Stoner in his office, asking him about his recent
+   activities, wondering if, perhaps, he is running from something or
+   someone. Stoner asks why Garibaldi is picking on him so much, and
+   Garibaldi tells Stoner that he and Talia are friends. Stoner pretends
+   that he didn't know she was there, and asks Garibaldi if she told
+   Garibaldi about him. When Garibaldi says no, Stoner asks if Garibaldi
+   wants to know any of Talia's most personal secrets. He persists until
+   Garibaldi finally grabs him and orders him to be quiet. Stoner asks
+   Garibaldi if he really wanted to talk to him, and after thinking for a
+   moment, Garibaldi lets him go. Garibaldi tells Stoner that, if he
+   harrasses Talia to any extent, Garibaldi will find some way to get
+   back at him, and that he plans to keep an eye on Stoner. "Use both
+   eyes," Stoner says as he leaves. "You'll need them."
+   
+   Mariel approaches Sheridan telling him that she got separated from
+   Londo while touring the station. She introduces herself, and is about
+   to have him kiss her hand when Londo and his wives appear. Londo takes
+   Sheridan aside while the three wives continue to fight amongst
+   themselves. Londo warns Sheridan that Mariel is very much attracted to
+   men of power, like a moth to a flame, but it is the men, and not her,
+   that end up being burned.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sheridan meets Londo's wives.
+   
+   Talia is in the Eclipse Cafe, trying to decide what she wants to eat,
+   when Stoner sits down next to her. She tries to move away, but he
+   won't let her. He asks her if she has nothing to say to him, and she
+   asks him why he came there. He tells her that he feels they had
+   something together once, though she disagrees with that, saying that
+   she doesn't want to be with him. He reminds her that she doesn't want
+   to be involved in PsiCorps, but that, once you are in, you are in for
+   life. She tells him that he is the one exception, and he explains to
+   her that all anyone needs to do is lose their telepathic abilities. He
+   tells her that anyone can do it, including her. He says he can arrange
+   to have the same thing happen to her, and that, if she agrees, the two
+   of them can be together. After Talia leaves, Garibaldi catches up to
+   her by the elevator. He tries to explain to her that he talked to
+   Stoner, but she doesn't want him to be involved. He claims that her
+   safety is an important priority of his, but she wants him to forget
+   about it.
+   
+   Londo, in his quarters, answers his door when it chimes. Mariel is
+   there, and she tells him that she thinks that she is the wife he
+   should keep, because she loves him so much. Daggair appears and tells
+   her that it is Londo's decision. Londo says that he would like all his
+   wives to be present, but when Timov appears, she tells him that she
+   doesn't want to be part of his "sexual olympics." He tells her that
+   Daggair and Mariel were merely expressing their feelings for him, and
+   Timov does the same by slapping him across the face. He tells her that
+   she hasn't changed, and she says that he has -- he's devolved.
+   
+   Garibaldi is in his quarters when Talia enters, to apologize for her
+   behavior toward him earlier. He accepts her apology, and she tells him
+   that she is planning to leave Babylon 5 with Stoner. Garibaldi asks
+   why, and Talia explains that, while she and Matt were at the academy,
+   the PsiCorps began performing experiments on telepaths to increase
+   their abilities. Matt volunteered, but instead of having his powers
+   enhanced, they were taken away. She tells her that he offered to do
+   that for her, and she tells Garibaldi that she wants to have it done.
+   Garibaldi tries to change her mind, but Talia is adamant. "I'm tired
+   of being part of an organization that scares the hell out of me."
+   
+   [INLINE] Talia apologizes.
+   
+   As Mariel approaches the vendor Stoner was earlier negotiating with
+   and purchases the strange Centauri statuette, Sheridan and Ivanova
+   consult with each other about matters aboard the station. Ivanova
+   tells Sheridan that Londo's party, celebrating his anniversary, is
+   that evening, and that all attendees must be barefoot.
+   
+   That evening, at a ceremony set in a large room with a large painting
+   of Londo in the background, Londo goes over to G'Kar, whom Londo's
+   wives notice is wearing a full uniform, including boots. They ask if
+   he knows what an insult that is, and G'Kar claims that he does. Londo
+   says he doesn't mind, and that "nothing is too good for my esteemed
+   Narn colleague." After subtly tossing something to Mariel, G'Kar walks
+   away with another headache.
+   
+   [INLINE] "Nothing's too good for my dear friend G'Kar."
+   
+   Elsewhere in the room, Delenn, now with her long hair straightened and
+   curled, approaches Garibaldi. He says that she looks nice, but she
+   tells him that he looks distressed, or soul sick, as the Minbari would
+   say. "You know, it's funny. I met this woman, and I took to her
+   immediately. Then, I met this guy who had hurt her, and instantly, I
+   hated him."
+   
+   "We Minbari believe, as do some humans," Delenn tells him, "that souls
+   travel together. Some groups of souls are drawn onto the other in life
+   to relive good relationships from the past, and, if possible, to make
+   right the bad ones."
+   
+   Garibaldi's attention is drawn away by Londo's voice; he is now
+   opening the presents that the guests have brought. He graciously
+   accepts Lennier's gift of a deck of cards, and opens another gift.
+   Mariel says it is from her, but Daggair says that, in a way, it is
+   from all three of his wives. He opens it, and finds the strange
+   statuette inside. He admires it for a few seconds, but two small darts
+   fire from its eyes and hit Londo in the head. He falls over in pain.
+   Sheridan calls for an emergency medical team.
+   
+   While Londo is in MedLab, unconcious, Dr. Franklin tells Sheridan
+   that, because they don't have any Centauri blood that matches Londo's
+   blood type, and synthesizing Centauri's blood has never been
+   successfully done, creating an antitoxin will be very difficult.
+   Mariel tries to tell the other wives, all of whom are at Londo's side,
+   that she didn't know what the statue would do. Daggair tells her to be
+   quiet, and she leaves. Daggair mentions to Timov that Londo has not
+   made his divorce decree yet and, if he dies, they would be secure for
+   life. Timov has a difficult time believing Daggair's callousness, but
+   she claims that she is only looking out for herself, as she has been
+   taught through life.
+   
+   Garibaldi interrogates Stoner, who says that he handled the artifact
+   many times without incident, and that it probably wouldn't do anything
+   until it was held by a Centauri. Sheridan enters, and tells Garibaldi
+   and Stoner that Londo is near death. He asks Stoner if he knows
+   anything about the artifact, but all Stoner can tell him is that he
+   found it on an abandoned Centauri planet. Sheridan explains the colony
+   had been abandoned because they were forced out by the Narns.
+   Garibaldi also tells him that the Narns probably rigged up the
+   statuette as a trap for the Centauri. Garibaldi tells Stoner that he
+   won't let him go until he speaks with G'Kar about the statue. He also
+   warns Stoner that he will find some way to convict him. Garibaldi and
+   Sheridan both leave.
+   
+   [INLINE] Stoner in hot water.
+   
+   Londo is still unconcious when, much later, Timov enters MedLab and
+   approaches Dr. Franklin. She tells him that she and Londo have the
+   same blood type, but that she didn't tell him before, because she
+   wasn't sure what she wanted to do. She tells him that, although she
+   might like to see him die, she does have principles, and that she
+   would prefer to win her battle against Londo in some other, more
+   satisfying way. She offers her blood to Franklin, on the condition
+   that Londo never learn she gave it to him. Franklin accepts this, and
+   escorts her away.
+   
+   Lou Welch, a security officer, enters Garibaldi's office, with the
+   information he could find on Stoner. It all fits in with Stoner's
+   story. Garibaldi tells Welch he wants to talk to Stoner again, but
+   Welch tells him that Stoner is eating. Garibaldi asks why he is eating
+   so soon; dinner shouldn't be served for another hour. "He just...
+   asked," Welch says. "I don't know. There's something about this guy
+   that just makes you want to _like_ him."
+   
+   Londo finally awakes, again surrounded by his three wives and Dr.
+   Franklin. Daggair and Mariel tell Dr. Franklin that they are happy
+   that Londo is back, but Timov says nothing but that she is feeling
+   fatigued and wants to go to back to quarters. Mariel and Daggair both
+   follow her out. Londo tells Franklin that he considers all his wives
+   nightmares, and that Timov is the worst of them. Dr. Franklin asks him
+   if he can make a personal observation. Londo agrees. "Stick it," Dr.
+   Franklin says, before walking away.
+   
+   Stoner tells Talia that he doesn't understand why she wouldn't want to
+   leave PsiCorps. She tells him that she is a telepath, and could never
+   accept having that piece of her taken away. He tries to convince her
+   that he wanted them to be happy, and that he thought if he told her
+   about the cure, she would go happily. She tells him that her powers
+   are a part of her, and she could never give them up. Stoner claims he
+   can understand, and tells Talia she's coming with him. Her attitude
+   suddenly changes, and she says that she will. The two of them leave
+   the room, but Stoner is assaulted by Garibaldi when they exit.
+   "Thanks, Talia, for your help. I love being right."
+   
+   G'Kar is in his quarters, talking to Mariel. "You know," he says, "the
+   problem with mysteries is that in order to get rid of the headaches, I
+   have to figure them out. Here, we're faced with a staggering set of
+   coincidences. A Centauri artifact, an ancient booby trap, it seems,
+   happens to show up on Babylon 5 just in time to be purchased as a gift
+   for Londo. And rather hide or deny responsibility, the gift giver
+   makes it a point of saying she gave it to him, which neatly avoids any
+   accusation of malicious intent because, usually, when you're trying to
+   kill someone, you hide the attack. And there, you see, my head no
+   longer throbs."
+   
+   Mariel asks him who he will tell his theory to. G'Kar says he won't
+   reveal it, but that Londo will figure it out eventually. As she
+   leaves, he warns her to not be overconfident -- if he were married to
+   Londo, he'd be concerned right now. "G'Kar," Mariel says as she
+   leaves, "if you were married to Londo, we'd _all_ be concerned."
+   
+   [INLINE] "Do I look like a rumormonger?"
+   
+   Sheridan confronts Stoner one last time, telling him that, although
+   they thought that he and PsiCorps were no longer related, PsiCorps
+   communicated with them, telling them to turn Stoner over as soon as
+   possible. Stoner tells Sheridan that he left under agreeable
+   circumstances, but Sheridan tells him that he doesn't believe he left
+   PsiCorps' employment at all and that, instead of his telepathic
+   abilities being removed, they were changed, and that Stoner became an
+   empath instead, a fact Sheridan believes is substantiated by recent
+   events on the station. Garibaldi suggests that he was released because
+   PsiCorps knew that other telepaths would learn what happened to
+   Stoner. Stoner tries to deny the allegations, but Garibaldi says he
+   believes that Stoner was sent there to convince his genetically
+   perfect mate, Talia, to undergo the procedure, so other empaths could
+   be created. Stoner tries to use his abilities to force Garibaldi to
+   let him go, but Garibaldi tells him that security guards are watching
+   the room's proceedings outside and that, if Stoner tries to get away
+   with anything, he will not succeed. Stoner tries to tell Talia that he
+   thought they were perfect together, and that he only wanted what was
+   best for Talia, to make up for past mistakes. He claims that he does
+   know the cure, and asks her to look into his mind, but she refuses.
+   "See you in some other lifetime," Garibaldi tells Stoner as he leaves.
+   
+   As Londo's wives prepare to leave the station, Vir presents Timov with
+   Londo's itinerary, so that she will know which ones she should attend,
+   and to which she should accompany him. Daggair and Mariel are upset at
+   Londo's choice, but Londo tells him that they should be grateful,
+   because he did provide them with a sum of money as a going-away
+   present. After they leave, Timov asks why Londo chose her as his
+   remaining wife, because she does not, and will not, love him, and they
+   will not get along. "Because, with you, I will always know where I
+   stand," he tells her. He kisses her hand, and leaves as she departs.
+   
+   Delenn runs into Ivanova and thanks her for helping her with her hair
+   trouble, and the other help she has provided. Ivanova tells Delenn
+   that, if she has any other questions or problems, she will be glad to
+   help. As the two board an elevator, Delenn does ask something else.
+   "Do you have any idea why I suddenly started getting these... odd
+   cramps?"
+
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
+  
+   Ivanova is in Sheridan's office, reporting to him about the budget
+   problems Babylon 5 is facing, due in part to the increased number of
+   EarthForce military transports passing through Babylon 5. That is
+   forcing the station to reroute its commercial traffic, though
+   EarthForce claims it is only temporary. She tells Sheridan that
+   EarthForce, in order to reduce the deficit forming on Babylon 5, wants
+   the two of them to either move out of their quarters, or pay rent of
+   thirty credits per week, as they are the largest quarters on the
+   station. Sheridan refuses to pay the rent, and tells Ivanova that,
+   because of the work they do, they deserve the quarters they have. He
+   tells Ivanova to inform EarthForce that they have no intention of
+   paying for the extra space.
+   
+   On the Mars colony, the PsiCop Bester is interrogating another
+   telepath. "This is unnecessary, you know. If you'd just give us the
+   information we need, we could stop this. We don't blame you. You fell
+   under the influence of outsiders. They used you and then abandoned
+   you. You mean nothing to them. You were raised by the Corps. Clothed
+   by the Corps. We are your father and mother. Don't force us to do
+   this." When the man refuses to speak, Bester continues, "We know
+   there's an underground railroad helping unregistered telepaths. We
+   know you gave them access to our files. Who was your contact? Who's
+   running the operation?" The man claims he doesn't know, and that they
+   don't use names. Bester asks where the central clearing house is for
+   the railroad, but the man refuses to answer, instead, he recites "Mary
+   had a little lamb." Bester reaches out and holds his hand above the
+   man's throat, scanning him; the man dies painfully. "I caught it,"
+   Bester says. "Just before he died. Betrayed by his final thoughts.
+   Babylon 5."
+   
+   [INLINE] "We don't blame you."
+   
+   Sheridan is in Earhart's, talking to Dr. Franklin about the problems
+   he's having with EarthForce. Dr. Franklin tries to convince him that
+   he might be making a mistake, but Sheridan refuses to pay rent on his
+   quarters. Dr. Franklin jokingly offers to let Sheridan sleep on the
+   spare cot he requisitioned for medical purposes. They meet up with
+   Ambassador Delenn, who asks to speak with Sheridan privately. She asks
+   him to help her better understand what it is to be human. "Though I
+   now look more like you, I'm not like you. And if I am to be a bridge
+   of understanding between humans and Minbari, it would help if I knew
+   more about your people." She explains that she wants to go out to
+   dinner with him, to sit and talk with him, as long as it is not about
+   business. Sheridan agrees, and they make plans for that evening.
+   
+   [INLINE] Delenn invites Sheridan to dinner.
+   
+   A ship carrying Bester arrives on the station, and Bester tells C&C
+   that he wants to have a meeting with full command staff. In the
+   meeting, he explains, "For some time now, we've been aware of an
+   underground railroad smuggling unregistered telepaths away from Earth
+   to the outer colonies where the Corps can't reach them." Ivanova tells
+   him that she doesn't see a problem, but he claims that unregistered
+   telepaths are a security risk. He explains that he learned the
+   railroad was centered on Babylon 5, and that he wants it closed down.
+   Bester asks for their cooperation, but Sheridan asks to speak with the
+   others before committing to a decision. Bester leaves with Talia.
+   After he leaves, Sheridan asks Garibaldi whether or not Bester was
+   right in his request. Garibaldi explains that he was, because, whether
+   they like it or not, they are obliged to uphold the laws of the Earth
+   Alliance, and the law compels them to help the PsiCorps.
+   
+   "It's damn ironic, isn't it?" Garibaldi says. "The Corps got started
+   because we were afraid of telepaths, and now they're victims of our
+   own fears. We took away every right they had and shoved them into a
+   big black box called PsiCorps. Now, look at them. Black uniforms, jack
+   boots, giving orders... Some days they scare the hell out of me."
+   
+   "Yeah," Sheridan tells him, "if you ask me, we created our own
+   monster. Maybe we deserve it." Sheridan tells Garibaldi to help him in
+   any way he can, but still keep an eye on him. As Garibaldi leaves,
+   Ivanova reccommends to Sheridan that he check the files on Bester,
+   because of the trouble he made before regarding Jason Ironheart. (cf.
+   [9]"Mind War")
+   
+   Bester tells Talia on their walk that he is confident they will do
+   what he asks. Talia asks him if he scanned them. Bester answers that
+   it's against the law to scan normals. She asks him if he's scanning
+   her, and though he claims she'd feel it, she says she wouldn't know if
+   it was a surface scan. As he tries to convince her that he would only
+   do such a thing if he believed she was doing something inappropriate,
+   he hears the word "murderer" whispered over and over in his mind. He
+   asks Talia if she heard it, but she says she didn't. He tells her to
+   drop her defenses and listen again, but she still hears only the
+   background noise of the area. "They're here," he tells her. "I was
+   right."
+   
+   [INLINE] Strolling through the bazaar.
+   
+   Meanwhile, the underground railroad continues its operation. One
+   telepath reports to another, Rick, who is apparently in charge, that
+   Bester is there. Rick asks if Bester sensed him, but the telepath
+   isn't sure. He says that they need to warn the runner and get out of
+   there. He knows that Bester will attempt to stop them, and, in that
+   event, their only option is to kill him.
+   
+   That evening, Delenn, clad in an attractive black dinner dress, enters
+   a restaurant and meets Sheridan, who is astonished by her appearance.
+   He is not the only one, as many others around his table notice her. He
+   asks her what she might like to order, and they look at the menu
+   together.
+   
+   [INLINE] Meeting for dinner.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Garibaldi enters Earhart's and finds Ivanova there. He
+   attempts to talk to her about official business, but at the mention,
+   following military tradition, she forces him to buy the next round of
+   drinks. He explains that he really does need to talk to her privately,
+   and they find a table by themselves. He tells her that he needs a
+   contact on the underground railroad. She wishes him luck, but is not
+   sure what that has to do with her. She tells him that, even though she
+   resents the PsiCorps, she is not responsible. He explains to her that
+   he knows someone high up on the station must be responsible for such a
+   large operation, and that he suspected it was her. She assures him
+   that she is not responsible, and tells him that she wants to go back
+   to her quarters and get some sleep. "That's the other thing I wanted
+   to talk to you about," he tells her.
+   
+   After dinner, Sheridan and Delenn are enjoying some pleasant
+   conversation, discussing such topics as household pets and humor.
+   Sheridan says he never thinks of Minbari laughing, but she tells him
+   that the Minbari think no race can be truly intelligent without
+   laughter, and that learning to appreciate humor is a large portion of
+   their religious development. Sheridan explains to her that such things
+   are not uncommon on Earth. "It would appear that we have much more in
+   common than we imagined," Delenn tells him. Smiling, Sheridan agrees.
+   
+   Talia is getting ready for bed when she is interrupted by a call from
+   Bester. Bester tells her that he regrets the way he has treated her,
+   especially in regards to Jason Ironheart. He tells her he wants to get
+   to know her better, and invites her to join him for breakfast the next
+   morning. She tells him that she will be there, and he hangs up. She
+   walks over to a mirror and looks into it. Seeing her face, she
+   remembers the time, about a year earlier, when Jason Ironheart came
+   onto the station. She remembers his confiding in her, and Bester's
+   attempt to kill him, his transcendence, and his mysterious gift to
+   her. As she recalls those traumatic events, a penny on a nearby table
+   slowly begins to move, flies from the table, and imbeds itself into a
+   wall. "He's been in my mind twice today," she says as she watches the
+   penny. "Why isn't he seeing this? Or was that the other part of the
+   gift?"
+   
+   An exhausted Sheridan approaches his quarters and attempts to use his
+   card to open the door. He tries twice, but the door refuses to open.
+   Ivanova appears, noticing his trouble, and informs him that EarthForce
+   sealed their rooms until they decide to move to smaller quarters or
+   pay rent. She tells him that she was on her way to rent a room, but he
+   won't let her do that.
+   
+   The unregistetred telepaths are gathered together, apparently
+   assembling weapons. Rick insists that they do something again. Another
+   telepath says that they are safe as long as they are hidden from him,
+   but Rick knows better... he knows the telepath Bester killed to obtain
+   the information cracked, and that they must be stronger to keep him
+   off the track. Everyone agrees, and they all begin reciting "Mary Had
+   a Little Lamb," apparently using it to block out all other thoughts.
+   
+   [INLINE] "Do it again."
+   
+   Ivanova is curled up on the couch in Sheridan's office, while he
+   reclines in his desk chair. He tells her that they need to be strong
+   and cannot show weakness. She agrees reluctantly. To lighten the mood,
+   he tells her a joke. "How many Minbari does it take to screw in a
+   light bulb?" She doesn't know, so he explains. "None. They always
+   surrender right before they finish the job, and they never tell you
+   why. Knock knock." "Who's there?" "Kosh." "Kosh who?" "Gesundheit."
+   Ivanova is less than amused.
+   
+   The next morning, at breakfast, Talia and Bester are talking about the
+   situation back home, especially regarding the death of the president.
+   He asks her to keep an eye on the people on the station, wondering
+   what they have to say about the president's death. Seconds later, he
+   hears something else in his head -- plans to attack. He leaps away
+   just in time, shouting at Talia to get down. He fires at and kills his
+   attackers, but as Talia attempts to escape, she is grabbed by several
+   people, knocked out, and dragged off.
+   
+   Bester addresses the staff, telling them about the attack. He admits,
+   however, that he doesn't know what happened to Talia. He tells them
+   that he thinks she's fine, because they were after him. When Garibaldi
+   asks Bester if the thought had occurred to him that they may have
+   kidnapped Talia to get to him, Bester simply says that she doesn't
+   know anything that could endanger either him or the Corps. This
+   greatly upsets Garibaldi, who begins screaming at Bester that he
+   should have notified security as soon as he knew she was gone. Bester
+   tells Garibaldi that, if he really wants to find her, he needs to
+   double the efforts of security. "You've got two bodies to start with.
+   Make the best of them."
+   
+   Talia begins waking up from her unconciousness, hearing voices in her
+   head as she does so. She awakens to find herself lying on the floor,
+   surrounded by people. She rises and attampts to walk around the room,
+   and meets with no resistence. She walks over to Rick, and he tells her
+   that they don't want to hurt her, but they will if necessary.
+   Realizing this is the leader of the underground railroad, she tells
+   him that they are only hurting themselves, and that the Corps just
+   wants to protect them. He says he doesn't believe that and that she
+   doesn't either. He also tells her that she is "almost there." She asks
+   what he's talking about, and what he wants with her. He tells her that
+   he wants her to understand.
+   
+   [INLINE] Talia and her captors.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin reports to Sheridan that he heard from the people running
+   the underground railroad, who said that Talia isn't hurt. He tells
+   Sheridan that they want to arrange a meeting between Sheridan and the
+   head of the operation, but if anyone besides Sheridan arrives, the
+   meeting is off. Dr. Franklin tells him that they want to find a
+   solution to the situation without anyone else being hurt. Sheridan
+   asks Dr. Franklin if he can trust them, and Franklin says he can, but
+   refuses to explain how he knows that. Sheridan agrees to the meeting.
+   
+   Talia listens to the story of one of the telepaths, who explains to
+   her how his brother took medication to suppress his telepathic powers,
+   which didn't stop him from speaking out against the PsiCorps. However,
+   one day, when the PsiCorps came to inject him with the suppressing
+   medicine, he never woke up. Talia refuses to accept that the Corps
+   would kill someone, but the man insists it's true. Rick tells her that
+   she's afraid of the truth. She tries to explain to him what the Corps
+   gave her, but he tells her they took even more away, forcing her to
+   wear a badge and wear gloves, and taking away her freedom. He tells
+   her that the PsiCorps tries to keep telepaths seperate, but still
+   dependent. She can't believe what he's saying. He tells her that he
+   knows what happened to Jason Ironheart, that he was a rogue and ran
+   away, just like all the others on the underground railroad.
+   
+   Bester enters Garibaldi's office, where Garibaldi is waiting. He asks
+   what Garibaldi wants, and Garibaldi tells Bester that he needs to see
+   him, even though he doesn't want to. Bester tells Garibaldi that they
+   both have the same interests and want to protect Talia, but Garibaldi
+   doesn't believe it. Bester tries to convince Garibaldi that he has a
+   wife and daughter, and is hardly the monster Garibaldi believes him to
+   be, but Garibaldi cannot believe that story either. He tosses Bester
+   some information, and tells him that he has learned the would-be
+   assassins were living in Downbelow. Bester determines, as Garibaldi
+   did, that the rest are probably down there as well. Garibaldi tells
+   Bester that he will meet with Bester in one hour to go down there
+   together. Bester agrees.
+   
+   Talia is still with the other telepaths, this time listening to the
+   story of a P-11 telepath who was asked to marry a man, another P-11,
+   so that they could increase the chances of creating a baby as
+   powerful, or more so, than the parents. When she refused, she was
+   taken away during the night, only to discover a short time later that
+   she was pregnant. After she had the baby, it was taken away, and she
+   never saw it again. She escaped the hospital and never turned back.
+   Rick talks to Talia again, telling her that the original function of
+   the Corps has been lost through time. He wants to stop it, and he asks
+   for her help. She can't easily agree, because it has been her way of
+   life since childhood. She asks him why he wants her involved, and
+   tells her that she's special. "Your friend Ironheart was my friend,
+   too. They experimented on both of us. They pushed me up here," Rick
+   tells her, pointing to his head, "they made me a P-12, maybe even a
+   P-13, but Ironheart...he went further than I did. Further than anyone
+   will ever go again. When he escaped, I went with him. Helped set all
+   this up. I know he touched you. I know he gave you something. I know
+   you can help us if you want to."
+   
+   Sheridan arrives at the predetermined place to meet with the leader of
+   the operation, when he inexplicably meets up with Dr. Franklin.
+   Sheridan tells Franklin that he should leave, or else scare off the
+   leader. But Franklin _is_ the leader. Sheridan tells Franklin that
+   he'd better have a good explanation. Talia appears. "I think he does,
+   Captain, and I think you should listen to him. I think you should
+   listen to all of them."
+   
+   [INLINE] "I think you should listen to him."
+   
+   "Back on Earth," explains Dr. Franklin, "I heard things. The kind of
+   things you're not supposed to hear about. Genetic manipulation,
+   breeding telepaths against their will, so-called relocation camps for
+   rogue telepaths that aren't much better than concentration camps. It
+   started when a few doctors began referring latent telepaths to each
+   other, keeping them out of circulation -- losing reports, and changing
+   medical history files. We couldn't just keep moving them around like
+   checkers -- we had to get them away from Earth. They were filtered
+   into Babylon 5 on business visas. Last year, I set up a clinic
+   downbelow so we could start processing runaways and changing records
+   without anyone from MedLab knowing about it. I trust my staff, but the
+   PsiCorps has a knack for intimidation." Sheridan tells Franklin that
+   he agrees, in principle, with what Franklin is doing, but that he is
+   bound to obey the law as a soldier. Franklin is also bound, by an oath
+   to protect lives. Sheridan doesn't want to turn Franklin in, because
+   it would embarrass EarthForce, and give them another reason to shut
+   down Babylon 5, but, if he doesn't turn him in, he becomes just as
+   guilty.
+   
+   "No," Talia tells Sheridan. "There's a third option."
+   
+   Bester appears, without Garibaldi. He looks around for a while, turns
+   a corner, and sees a group of telepaths there, with Rick in the front.
+   Bester tells Rick that, if they return peacefully, they won't be
+   harmed. Talia appears from behind the other telepaths, all together in
+   a tight group, and tells him that he is lying, and that they will only
+   be destroyed as a lesson to the others. "You want to keep us
+   frightened and isolated. Not just from normals, but from each other.
+   That's the real reason we wear gloves, isn't it? To keep us apart. But
+   what happens when the gloves come off?" She raises her gloveless
+   hands, and the other telepaths do the same.
+   
+   The entire group joins hands together and begin fighting Bester
+   collectively. He tries to stop them, but is unable. The telepaths,
+   however, are making no progress. "It's not working," Rick says,
+   straining against what he is doing. "Someone's fighting us." He
+   suddenly realizes who it is, and turns to Talia. "You!" She shouts out
+   to Bester, and they both fire on the entire group, quickly killing
+   them all. He surveys the bodies, telling her that he would rather have
+   taken them all alive, but that the leader is dead, and an example has
+   been set. He tells her that the body will die when the head is cut
+   off, which he orders her to do. He tells Talia he was convinced by her
+   ruse.
+   
+   [INLINE] Joining forces.
+   
+   "The Corps is mother, the corps is father," she tells him. "I know
+   where my loyalties lie." He tells her that security will be there
+   soon. He suggests that they leave seperately, and hopes that she will
+   deny all knowledge of the incident; she agrees. Bester leaves, and she
+   walks off in the other direction.
+   
+   Sheridan suddenly appears in the room, where all of the telepaths,
+   including Talia, are gathered together, holding hands. They drop their
+   hands as Sheridan explains that he only saw Bester appear in the
+   corridor, then walk away. But Talia explains that they projected an
+   image into his mind telepathically, and that he believed what he saw
+   completely. Sheridan asks them how they did it, assuming that a PsiCop
+   would be able to see through the trick. Talia tells him that they
+   could only do it together, and that a single telepath could never have
+   done it. Franklin tells Sheridan that, because Bester is convinced
+   what he saw actually happened, he will not press the issue, not
+   wanting to answer lots of questions about the dead telepaths. Because
+   Sheridan doesn't have the defenses to block a scan, Talia recommends
+   that he not see Bester before he leaves. Dr. Franklin also informs
+   Sheridan that, because of the attention drawn to it, the underground
+   railroad will no longer pass through Babylon 5, but that others will
+   take over for him. Sheridan tells the telepaths that they are free to
+   leave, but that he doesn't want them back. The telepaths agree and
+   file out. Sheridan and Franklin leave back toward the elevator,
+   Sheridan warning Franklin that he will turn him in if he does it
+   again. Franklin tries to get Sheridan to admit that he agrees with
+   Franklin's actions, but Sheridan won't. When Franklin asks him what
+   he's saying, Sheridan only replies, "I'm not saying what I'm saying.
+   I'm not saying what I'm thinking. As a matter of fact, I'm not
+   thinking what I'm thinking." He tells Franklin that all he wants is a
+   drink. Franklin reminds him that he also needs a place to stay,
+   something which Sheridan had forgotten about.
+   
+   As Talia returns, Rick emerges from the shadows and startles her. He
+   says that she can never return, but she tells him that she can't leave
+   the Corps. He points to his head. "No, I mean in here. You know too
+   much. If Bester scans you, you...Can you keep him out?"
+   
+   "I think so. Jason's little gift."
+   
+   "He gave you more than you know. What we did back there...shouldn't
+   have worked. Not with that PsiCop. You tipped the balance. I felt it
+   when we were joined. You're more than you think you are."
+   
+   "Then what am I?"
+   
+   "The future," Rick says as he vanishes again into the shadows.
+   
+   Ivanova appeals to Sheridan to the repeal the protest, since she
+   believes that Earth Central will never concede. She tells him,
+   however, that she will continue with the protest if he will. She also
+   tells him that he snores, a fact he vehemently denies, but which she
+   insists. She asks to sleep on the couch, but he says that she can
+   sleep in her own quarters instead. She asked if he gave in, but he
+   tells her, "I'm deducting sixty credits per week from the budget set
+   aside to maintain combat readiness, and applying it against the rent."
+   Ivanova asks on what grounds he's doing that, and he responds, "On the
+   grounds that I'm not ready to fight anybody until I've had a decent
+   night's sleep in my own damn bed." She thinks it's a good solution,
+   and leaves Sheridan's office to go to sleep.
+   
+   [INLINE] Ivanova, ready for bed.
+   
+   Talia accompanies Bester to the docking bay. Bester tells her that he
+   is very disappointed that Sheridan was not as supportive of the Corps
+   as he had been told. He tells her to keep an eye on Sheridan as well,
+   and Talia says that won't be a problem. He leaves, but as he is
+   walking away, he stops suddenly, turns back toward her questioningly,
+   then walks away.
+   
+   Ivanova is interrupted by the door chime just as she climbs into bed.
+   She answers the door, and Talia enters carrying a bottle of wine and
+   two glasses. At first, Ivanova wants her to leave, but Talia soon
+   changes her mind. Removing her gloves, Talia tells her, "I just wanted
+   to say that you were right and I was wrong about the Corps. I can't go
+   into details, but in light of recent events, I think we need to
+   reevaluate our relationship. Which is just a formal way of saying that
+   I needs someone to talk to, and, strange as this sounds, you're the
+   only one I can think of. Unless my being here offends you."
+   
+   [INLINE] "I come bearing gifts."
+   
+   Ivanova shakes her head. "No, you don't offend me. But that does."
+   
+   Talia looks down at her collar and sees the PsiCorps badge there.
+   Without saying a word, she removes it and sets it on a nearby table.
+   "Better," Ivanova tells her, and the two sit down and begin to talk.
+
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
+  
+   On Centauri Prime, the Centauri emperor prepares for his voyage off
+   the homeworld. His prime minister plans to go with him -- citing the
+   emperor's poor health -- but the emperor declines; the prime minister
+   is next in line of authority and needs to remain behind in case of a
+   crisis. "What I must do," the emperor explains, "cannot wait any
+   longer." Before the emperor leaves, he tells the prime minister how
+   much he appreciates him, and that he seldom shows the gratitude he
+   should. Followed by four veiled Centauri women, the emperor leaves the
+   throne room.
+   
+   Ambassador G'Kar attempts to convince Captain Sheridan that inviting
+   the Centauri emperor to Babylon 5 is unacceptable to the Narns,
+   because of what his family did to them. Sheridan tries to tell G'Kar
+   that this emperor has gone out of his way to be nice to the Narns, but
+   G'kar dismisses it as a technicality. Sheridan tells G'Kar that the
+   resentment the Narn have against the Centauri is not his problem, and
+   that everyone is welcome aboard the station, including the emperor.
+   Sheridan tells G'Kar that he should use the opportunity to open a
+   dialogue with the emperor, but G'Kar refuses to listen. As he leaves,
+   Sheridan tells him not to do something he will regret. "It's too late
+   for that, Captain. Too late by far."
+   
+   A group of Centauri ships come through the jump gate as a frequent
+   visitor to Babylon 5 over the last several months arrives on the
+   station. The guard asks him if there is anything he can do to assist,
+   but as soon as the man sees Garibaldi, he replies that he's found what
+   he's looking for, and leaves.
+   
+   Londo meets with Refa, who details what Londo is to do when he meets
+   with the Centauri emperor. Londo is to deliver a carefully planned
+   speech, which discusses the decline of the Centauri government and the
+   need for change, and contains several predictions about the economy
+   and the military that Refa has already arranged to come to pass.
+   Refa's plan is to make the emperor look weak and short-sighted. Though
+   Londo realizes this will not endear him to the emperor and his court,
+   Refa explains that the emperor's health is very poor, and he is not
+   expected to live much longer. Refa tells Londo that, if they don't
+   take the opportunity that now presents itself, they may not be in the
+   proper position when the time comes. Refa leaves Londo to study the
+   speech. Vir, who had been watching the proceedings, is made
+   uncomfortable by the situation, and tells Londo so when he asks.
+   "Then, for once," says Londo, "we have something in common."
+   
+   The emperor's ship arrives and docks. The command crew of Babylon 5,
+   in full dress, is in the docking bay to meet him. The emperor offers
+   Sheridan the hands of friendship, which Sheridan accepts. After
+   introductions are complete, the emperor tells him that he is very
+   impressed with their choice to risk great dangers in order to achieve
+   peace. Sheridan offers to begin the tour, but the emperor interrupts,
+   asking Dr. Franklin about Ambassador Kosh, as he has never seen a
+   Vorlon before. He is curious because the Centauri have sent many
+   expeditions into Vorlon space, but none have returned, and he wants to
+   know more about the stories he has heard.
+   
+   [INLINE] The Emperor arrives.
+   
+   G'Kar is communicating with Karmok, a Narn government official, who
+   tells him that the Ka-Ri endorsed G'Kar's plans. G'Kar asks when the
+   best time would be to perform the act, and Karmok tells him that he
+   should do it at the reception. Karmok asks if G'Kar is sure he wants
+   to do it, but G'Kar insists he is. "It is a strange feeling, Karmok,
+   to know suddenly that all the decisions in your life have brought you
+   to this place. There is no longer doubt or uncertainty. The future now
+   consists of only three probablities." He opens a box sitting nearby,
+   and removes a shiny dagger from within. "In the moment that I strike,
+   the emperor and I will both die. Or, he will die and I will spend my
+   life in prison. Or, I will fail and be killed. For the first time in
+   my life, the path is clear."
+   
+   Sheridan joins the emperor in an observation dome. The emperor asks
+   why Sheridan decided to join EarthForce. Sheridan says that it was his
+   choice, that he joined before war, when a draft was instated. Sheridan
+   says that he wanted to make a difference, and asks why the emperor is
+   so interested. The emperor responds by saying he never made a choice
+   in his life because all of his actions had been predetermined, and
+   that he never thought he had to choose otherwise. He wonders what may
+   have happened had he done so.
+   
+   Sheridan offers his perspective. "That's why my father taught me to
+   live each second as though it were the last moment of my life. If you
+   love, love without reservation. If you fight, fight without fear. He
+   called it the way of the warrior." Sheridan admits that he has only a
+   few regrets, but the emperor says he has many more, and that he has
+   lost and forgotten most of his life. The emperor says, even though
+   most of his life has slipped away, and most of his options are gone,
+   there still is the opportunity to do something that can make a
+   difference, and he will not let it slip by. Meanwhile, the man who
+   arrived aboard Babylon 5 earlier is standing in the corridor, watching
+   and listening as Garibaldi makes security plans for the emperor's
+   reception.
+   
+   As the reception for the emperor begins, G'Kar is in his quarters,
+   preparing for the task which lies before him. "I take this action," he
+   dictates into a machine, "without the knowledge or permission of my
+   government. Neither should my aide, Na'Toth, be held accountable for
+   my actions. The responsibility is mine alone. I ask that my remains
+   and my personal property be sent back to Narn--to my family. My copy
+   of the Book of G'Quan I leave to Na'Toth, with the hope of her
+   eventual enlightenment."
+   
+   [INLINE] G'Kar makes out his will.
+   
+   At the reception, Sheridan asks Ivanova about the veiled Centauri
+   women who follow the emperor around. Ivanova explains that they are
+   telepaths, always linked to the emperor. Two go with him at all times,
+   and two remain at home at all times. Since all four can see and hear
+   what the others see and hear, the emperor can be kept apprised of what
+   is going on at home, while his court can learn what he is doing
+   abroad. Ivanova asks Sheridan if he knows what the emperor's important
+   speech is about. Sheridan tells her that he doesn't know, and that he
+   hoped it would bring Ambassador Kosh to the reception, but Kosh is not
+   present. One visitor they did not expect to see, however, G'Kar,
+   arrives and promises Sheridan that he will listen to the emperor.
+   
+   Nearby, the man following Garibaldi is finally captured. Garibaldi
+   demands to know why he has been following him. He says he needs to
+   talk to Garibaldi, but before he has a chance to explain, several
+   other security guards arrive. Though pressed to say something, the man
+   remains silent and is taken away by the guards.
+   
+   [INLINE] "I need to talk to you."
+   
+   The emperor and his train proceed to the reception, and G'Kar prepares
+   the dagger he has brought along. Delenn sees this, but G'Kar moves
+   away as she walks toward him. In a corridor, as the emperor walks, his
+   face suddenly contorts and he clutches his chest as he falls. The
+   Centauri with him, including the telepaths, turn in alarm. Dr.
+   Franklin rushes out of the reception to help. On the Centauri
+   homeworld, the remaining two telepaths enter the throne room and
+   approach the prime minister, who is talking with two Minbari, and
+   another gentleman who appears to be human. The prime minister rises in
+   alarm, as if he knows what has happened aboard Babylon 5.
+   
+   In MedLab, Dr. Franklin is alone with the bedridden emperor, who gives
+   him an important message to deliver, something that can't be entrusted
+   to another Centauri.
+   
+   Londo and Vir meet with Refa again. Refa tells Londo that their
+   competitors are preparing to take power as soon as the emperor dies.
+   But Refa wants to prevent that. He tells Londo that they need to do
+   something extraordinary, something to assure their side gains power.
+   Londo remembers something Morden told him long ago. "He said, 'Just
+   pick a target...'" Refa asks Londo what he means, and Londo explains.
+   "I believe there is a Narn colony on the border of Centauri space,
+   quadrant 14." The very mention of this makes Vir uneasy, but Londo and
+   Refa brush it off. Refa tells Londo that the colony is a listening
+   post the Narns have used for many years to spy on them, but that the
+   planet should be ours. "Well then," Londo says, "let us take it back!"
+   Refa claims it would require a major assault, costing many lives, but
+   Londo says that he will take care of it, and tells Refa to send some
+   Centauri military vessels to quadrant 14. Refa doesn't see how that
+   will help, but Londo says it will be enough. Refa, though still
+   unconvinced, tells Londo that he will see to it, and leaves. Londo
+   turns to Vir. "Find Mr. Morden. Bring him here." Vir begs Londo to
+   reconsider his actions, and to just listen to him this once. He tries
+   to tell Londo that once he does this, he cannot turn back. Londo
+   claims that he has no choice, and then tells Vir that, if he does not
+   find Morden, he will do so himself.
+   
+   [INLINE] "Let us take it back!"
+   
+   "No. No, I'll go," says Vir. "I'll go, and I'll bring him back. And
+   some day I'm going to remind you of this conversation. And maybe
+   then...then you'll understand."
+   
+   "I understand... just fine," Londo says. "By this time tomorrow, we
+   will be at war with the Narns. May the Great Maker forgive me."
+   
+   G'Kar is in his quarters, again speaking with Karmok, telling him how
+   upset he is that he didn't get a chance to assassinate the emperor.
+   His door chimes; it's Dr. Franklin. G'Kar tells Karmok that he may
+   soon have another opportunity, and quickly cuts off the communication.
+   He lets Dr. Franklin in. Franklin tells him that he just saw the
+   emperor. G'Kar asks how the emperor is, and tells Franklin he was
+   anxious to meet him. Franklin tells him that the emperor had a message
+   for him. At first, G'Kar doesn't want to hear the message, but he
+   changes his mind when Franklin says, "He wanted to say he's sorry."
+   Franklin continues. "He came all the way out here, risked his health,
+   and endangered his life, so that he could stand beside a Narn in
+   neutral territory and apologize for all the things the Centauri have
+   done to your people. For all the things his family did. He said, 'We
+   were wrong. The hatred between our people can never end until someone
+   is willing to say, I'm sorry, and try to find a way to make things
+   right again, to atone for our actions.' He said it was the only choice
+   he ever made in his life, and now that seems to have been taken away
+   from him." This news strikes G'Kar deeply, and he says he had no idea
+   that the emperor had come for that reason. "No, I'm sure you didn't,"
+   answers Franklin. "Maybe that's the biggest tragedy of the whole damn
+   story."
+   
+   Londo is asleep. As he is dreaming, he hears himself say, "Keep this
+   up, G'Kar, and soon you won't have a planet to protect!" He sees a
+   contigent of Narn fighters destroying the space station at Ragesh 3.
+   Within seconds, that dissolves, and...
+   
+   ...He sees a great, fiery star with a hand emerging from it, reaching
+   toward something...
+   
+   ...He sees Centauri Prime from orbit...
+   
+   ...He finds himself standing on the dusty or sandy surface of a
+   planet, shielding his eyes from the sun as a group of Shadow ships fly
+   overhead...
+   
+   [INLINE] [INLINE]
+   
+   ...He stands, dressed in ceremonial clothing, his head bowed, as a
+   crown is placed upon his head...
+   
+   [INLINE]
+   
+   ...He sits on a large throne, dressed in elaborate white clothes. He
+   is aged, decrepit, and ill. Surveying his surroundings, he sees a
+   Narn, his face aged and wrinkled, wrapped in a dark cloth. It is
+   G'Kar...
+   
+   [INLINE] [INLINE]
+   
+   ...Londo once again sees the great hand, stretching further and
+   further from the star, grasping at something...
+   
+   ...He is back in the throne room, in a struggle with G'Kar. They are
+   both trying to strangle each other. Londo begins losing the struggle,
+   and he begins to fall back, as...
+   
+   ...he wakes up. He is quite disoriented, and picks up a small clock
+   nearby, to check the time. "It has begun," he says.
+   
+   At the Narn colony in quadrant 14, all is quiet as several Narn ships
+   patrol the area. Without warning, three Shadow ships appear and begin
+   firing at the Narn ships. The Narns put up a valiant fight, but can
+   seemingly not even scratch the defenses of the enemy. The Shadow ships
+   move toward the planet, destroying everything, and anything, in their
+   way. The smaller Narn ships are all destroyed attempting to protect
+   the planet. As the three Shadow ships arrive near the planet, a fourth
+   appears and helps the others attack the colony on the planet, and the
+   station orbiting it. After all has been destroyed, the four ships
+   leave the vicinity, vanishing as they do so.
+   
+   [INLINE] [INLINE] [9][Movie]
+   
+   Refa and Londo are walking through Babylon 5. Londo tells Refa that
+   the Narn will be learning of what happened soon enough, and that
+   Centauri forces can move in at any time. Refa says that he will have
+   to move quickly as well, as he has something to take care of at home.
+   He tells Londo it is an obstacle that must be removed, but he refuses
+   to elaborate when Londo asks what it is. Refa leaves as G'Kar appears
+   and addresses Londo in a threatening tone. Londo tries to explain, but
+   before he has a chance to explain or escape, G'Kar drops the gruff
+   facade and pulls Londo over to a nearby bar, where he buys him a
+   drink. "I've heard something that makes me think there is still hope
+   for us after all," G'Kar tells him. "I believed your people capable of
+   only murder and pain. But, apparently, there is still a spark of
+   decency in your genetic code. It's not much of a foundation, I'll
+   grant you that, but it's a start!" The drinks arrive and they toast.
+   "I never thought I would be saying this Mollari, but, to the health of
+   your emperor. And, perhaps, to your health as well." Londo painfully
+   accepts the toast, and thanks G'Kar, visibly shaken. They both drink.
+   
+   Several large Centauri warships create a jump point and emerge near
+   the destroyed colony just as several smaller Narn ships arrive and see
+   the damage that has been done. They do not know what happened, but
+   they quickly see the Centauri ships there. The Narn communicate this
+   to the homeworld and prepare to attack the Centauri warships. The
+   fighting begins, and several of the Narn ships are destroyed.
+   
+   [INLINE] The battle is joined.
+   
+   The Centauri prime minister stands quietly near the throne on Centauri
+   Prime, thinking. He begins to walk away, but is stopped by four
+   Centauri as he attempts to leave. They say nothing. The prime minister
+   tries to call his guards, but before he can, one of the four thrusts a
+   dagger deep into him, and he falls to the floor, dead.
+   
+   Garibaldi is in his office, exhausted, when another security officer
+   enters, telling him that the prisoner wants to speak with him.
+   Garibaldi refuses at first, but the officer says the prisoner claims
+   it's important. The prisoner enters. Garibaldi tells him that he has
+   five minutes, and the man explains. "I was sent to find you. I have a
+   message for you." He puts a data crystal on Garibaldi's desk. "I
+   believe it will explain everything." Garibaldi is reluctant at first,
+   but he puts the crystal into his player and starts it.
+   
+   The screens light up, showing the face of Ambassador Jeffrey Sinclair.
+   "Hello, old friend," Sinclair says. "It's been a while. I'm trusting
+   this message to an associate of mine who is sworn to bring it to you
+   at any cost--including his own life. My job on the Minbari homeworld
+   is more than just representing Earth. The President doesn't know about
+   that part yet, and...I don't think it would be wise of you to tell
+   him. There's a great darkness coming, Michael. Some of the Minbari
+   have been waiting for it a long time."
+   
+   In C&C, Ivanova reports to Sheridan that they intercepted an open
+   message sent from the Narn homeworld to G'Kar, reporting about the
+   assault on the Narn colony in quadrant 14. This upsets and angers
+   Sheridan greatly.
+   
+   "The bearer of this message," Sinclair continues, "is one of my
+   rangers. Some are Minbari. Most are humans. They have been drawn here
+   to learn to work together and prepare for the fight ahead." Garibaldi
+   pauses the message, and the ranger explains that they have been on
+   Babylon 5 for nearly two months. He says they are an army, and that
+   they are growing. Garibaldi asks if this army's weapons are coming
+   through the station, and the ranger says no, but that they do have
+   friends, and that he can say no more. Garibaldi continues the message.
+   "Their job, for now, is to patrol the frontier, to listen, to watch,
+   and to return with reports too sensitive to trust to regular channels.
+   They are my eyes and ears. Where you see them, you see me."
+   
+   [INLINE] The ranger watches the message.
+   
+   Karmok reports to G'Kar that the Narn ships they sent saw the Centauri
+   warships lead the assault. G'Kar asks what happened to the inhabitants
+   of the colony. Karmok tells him that most died within the first few
+   minutes of the attack, but that, if there are survivors, they are
+   probably going to be enslaved by the Centauri forever, now that they
+   are in control. Karmok quickly breaks off the communication, wondering
+   how the Centauri were able to so easily break through their defenses.
+   G'Kar turns away slowly from the monitor, shaking his fist in rage. "I
+   reached out my hand, and he betrayed me. He _knew! And he betrayed
+   me!_" He flings his arm across a nearby table, throwing everything on
+   the table onto the floor. His rage growing, he wrenches the table from
+   its legs and the throws it to the ground, where it breaks in two.
+   
+   "In the name of our friendship," Sinclair concludes, "I ask that you
+   give them every courtesy and cooperation. I wish I could tell you
+   more...I wish I could warn you. But the others don't think it's time
+   yet. Stay close to the Vorlon, and watch out for shadows. They move
+   when you're not looking." The message ends, and as Garibaldi turns to
+   the ranger, he receives a call on his commlink telling him that help
+   is needed in the ambassadorial wing. The communication suddenly breaks
+   off.
+   
+   G'Kar bursts down the hall, his eyes burning. He knocks to the ground
+   everyone who gets in his way. His voice filled with anger, he shouts,
+   "Mollari! _Mollari!_" Sheridan and several security guards intercept
+   him. Sheridan tells him that, if he returns to his quarters, they will
+   not press charges. G'Kar pleads. "They're doing it to us again. Step
+   aside, Sheridan. I won't let this happen. _Not again!_"
+   
+   [INLINE] "They're doing it to us again."
+   
+   Sheridan offers to help G'Kar, but warns him that, should he attempt
+   to attack Londo, he will either be killed or sent off the station, and
+   that he can't help the other Narns either way. G'Kar shouts that the
+   Centauri will kill everyone unless he does something. Sheridan tells
+   him to decide what is more important: getting revenge against Londo,
+   or saving the lives of many Narns. Making his decision, G'Kar gathers
+   up all his energy for one final strike. The security guards prepare to
+   fire if necessary, but G'Kar slams into a wall and falls down beside
+   it. Sheridan and the other security guards leave him alone, in pain,
+   to think.
+   
+   [INLINE] Defeat.
+   
+   In MedLab, the Centauri emperor tries to speak to Franklin, but
+   Franklin tells him to take it easy and save his strength. Franklin
+   asks if there is anything he can do to help, and the emperor tells him
+   that he very much wanted to see a Vorlon. Dr. Franklin smiles and
+   steps aside. The emperor turns his head, but seconds later, his face
+   is covered by a shadow. He looks up to see Ambassador Kosh standing
+   over his bed. "How will this end?" the emperor asks.
+   
+   "In fire," Kosh intones.
+   
+   Garibaldi tells Sheridan and Ivanova what he learned, but does not
+   reveal the source. Ivanova asks him why he believes he can trust
+   whoever told him this, and Garibaldi says that the source comes
+   "highly recommended." Sheridan asks Garibaldi why he is holding
+   something back, and Garibaldi tells him that he made a promise.
+   Sheridan has a hard time accepting the information Garibaldi presents,
+   and threatens to order Garibaldi to talk, but Garibaldi refuses,
+   knowing that, if he did so, Sheridan would not be able to trust him
+   again, because someone higher in the chain of command than Sheridan
+   could order him to talk as well. Sheridan accepts this, and Garibaldi
+   continues. "Ever since New Years, we've been hearing about some other
+   major race on the prowl. My source tells me the rumors are true, and
+   there may be some link to the Centauri government. Now, who or what
+   that link is, I don't know, but they're definitely getting support."
+   
+   "And you think this other race was behind the assault on quadrant 14?"
+   asks Ivanova.
+   
+   "It's possible," replies Garibaldi.
+   
+   Sheridan tells them that, if that is true, their enemy wouldn't want
+   anyone else to know. Ivanova tells him that all they have is
+   supposition, but Sheridan says it is a good idea to make your opponent
+   think you know more than you actually do. "Now, if your source is
+   right, we may be able to play a bluff," Sheridan tells Garibaldi.
+   
+   In MedLab, Refa, Londo, and the emperor's entourage stand around the
+   emperor's bed. Refa tells the emperor that they retook the Narn colony
+   and that not one Centauri was hurt or killed in doing so. Their
+   homeworld is rejoicing, and the Centauri are powerful again, but he
+   wants the emperor's blessing. He leans in close, but the emperor tells
+   him nothing. The emperor points to Londo, who leans in. The emperor
+   whispers something to him, then dies. Refa asks what the emperor said,
+   and Londo tells him, "He said, 'Continue. Take my people back...to the
+   stars.'" The two Centauri telepaths, who had been watching, look at
+   each other and then walk away. Londo and Refa follow, but Refa stops
+   Londo in the hall, asking him what the emperor really said. "He said,"
+   Londo answers, with great difficulty, "that we are both damned."
+   
+   [INLINE] The Emperor lies dying.
+   
+   "Well," Refa tells him, "it's a small enough price to pay for
+   immortality." Laughing, he walks away, leaving Londo alone in the
+   hall.
+   
+   G'Kar is back in his quarters, facing the wall, when the door opens
+   and Sheridan enters. He tells G'Kar that he thinks he knows how Earth
+   may be able to help, and that he has called a council meeting to
+   discuss recent events. As Sheridan leaves, G'Kar tells him that he
+   will attend the meeting. "Thank you... for stopping me."
+   
+   [INLINE] "Thank you..."
+   
+   At the council meeting, Sheridan addresses Londo, asking what will
+   happen to the Narn civilians on the colony. Londo says the Centauri
+   can't allow them to return to the Narn homeworld, but says that he is
+   sure his government will find them something productive to do. Delenn
+   tells him she thinks he means forced slavery, but Londo claims they
+   have no desire to misuse anyone. G'Kar enters, and takes his seat at
+   the council table. Sheridan tells Londo that he has received
+   permission from Earth to send observers to the colony to check on the
+   civilians, to make sure they aren't mistreated. Londo tells Sheridan
+   the observers are not welcome, but Sheridan doesn't care. He tells
+   Londo he shouldn't try shooting down an EarthForce ship; though Earth
+   isn't looking for another war, it will shoot back if fired upon.
+   Sheridan tells Londo that the observers will check on the survivors
+   and put together a full report, including as much as they can learn
+   about how the colony was so easily defeated. This disturbs Londo, who
+   tells the council that he thinks he can convince the Centauri
+   government to allow the civilians to return to the Narn homeworld, as
+   long as no observers are sent to the colony. Sheridan agrees, and
+   tells him, "I'm sure your gesture of goodwill will be appreciated for
+   what it is...Ambassador." Delenn asks G'Kar to speak.
+   
+   "Before coming here," G'Kar says, "I received a communique from my
+   government. For a hundred years, the Centauri occupied our world.
+   Devestated it. We swore we would never let that happen again. This
+   attack on our largest civilian colony has inflicted terrible damage
+   and loss of life. They've crossed a line we cannot allow them to
+   cross. As a result, two hours ago my government officially declared
+   war against the Centauri Republic. Our hope for peace is over. We are
+   now at war...we are now at war."
+   
+   Refa tells Londo and Vir that the death of the Centauri prime minister
+   changed the balance of power on the Centauri homeworld, neutralizing
+   the other powerful families, and leaving the emperor's nephew, who is
+   on the side of Londo and Refa, the successor to the throne. Refa tries
+   to give his cup to Vir, who just glares at him. Refa continues. "For
+   the first time in a hundred years, Ambassador, our people are on the
+   right track again, and we have you to thank for it. You will find the
+   emperor's gratitude...most rewarding." Refa bids them farewell and
+   leaves.
+   
+   [INLINE] "Our people are on the right track again."
+   
+   "I'm surprised," Vir tells Londo after Refa leaves. "You could have
+   asked to be named to the royal court. It would have put you in a
+   position to become emperor yourself one day. That's what you want,
+   isn't it?"
+   
+   Londo thinks back, recalling his recent dream of being crowned and
+   then, many years later, being strangled by G'Kar. "No. I have no
+   desire to be emperor," he tells Vir. "I prefer to work behind the
+   scenes. The reward is nearly as great, and the risk far, far less."
+   
+   Garibaldi thanks the ranger for his help in saving the lives of so
+   many Narns. When the ranger asks if Garibaldi will give the
+   cooperation he needs, Garibaldi agrees, as long as the ranger keeps
+   him informed of what the rangers learn, both here and abroad. The
+   ranger says he will, as long as their presence is kept a secret.
+   Garibaldi agrees to that, but asks one last question. "Aside from me,
+   does anybody else know you're here?"
+   
+   "Just one other," the ranger says as he walks away.
+   
+   Delenn, in her quarters, examines a message crystal in her hands
+   closely. She puts it into her player, and is greeted with a voice she,
+   too, hasn't heard in a long time. "Hello, old friend..."
+
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
+  
+   It is a quiet evening on the station, and Commander Ivanova is
+   enjoying the peace when she receives word that the jump gate is
+   activating and six EarthForce ships are coming through.
+   
+   A shuttle from the main ship docks, and Sheridan is there to meet the
+   commanding officer, who introduces himself as General Richard
+   Franklin, of the 356th infantry division. Sheridan apologizes for the
+   delay, but since they didn't know he was coming, there was little they
+   could do. General Franklin tells him that the mission is classified,
+   but that Sheridan will be briefed in the morning. General Franklin
+   also tells him that he needs lodging for all 25,000 of his troops.
+   Sheridan protests, saying that there isn't enough space, but General
+   Franklin orders him to find it, because he doesn't want his troops
+   aboard transports the whole time. Sheridan asks the general if he is
+   any relation to the station's head doctor, Dr. Stephen Franklin, and
+   the general answers that he is Dr. Franklin's father. Sheridan offers
+   to tell Dr. Franklin, but General Franklin says he will do so himself
+   as soon as his people are settled.
+   
+   The troops arrive on the station, are identified, and then herded into
+   groups to be taken to their billets. Commander Ivanova is trying to
+   organize everyone together, but is having a difficult time of this.
+   Garibaldi is also not too pleased with the sight of so many ground
+   pounders on the station, but realizes there is little that can be
+   done. She orders him to seal off the area and only allow military
+   personnel inside the docking bay.
+   
+   [INLINE] The troops come aboard.
+   
+   Sheridan asks Ivanova what the status of the station is, and she tells
+   him that, even though they have put the ground pounders in quarters
+   with several other people, they are still very short on places to put
+   them. In addition, she is afraid their docking schedule will have to
+   be done away with. Garibaldi tells Sheridan that looking after the
+   recreational areas might be a good idea as well, and Sheridan tells
+   Garibaldi to seal off the more "colorful" areas of the station.
+   Garibaldi tells him he already did this, but is afraid it won't do
+   much good. The three arrive at the briefing.
+   
+   General Franklin explains to them that the planet Akdor, in the
+   Shilassen Triumvirate, is currently engaged in a civil war, and the
+   Shilassen government has asked for aid, which the Earth Alliance wants
+   to provide. Sheridan is confused as, just a few days earlier, he was
+   told to refuse the request, and the general tells him that, until the
+   senate announces their decision to the public, Sheridan's orders are
+   the official story. Ivanova asks what the objective is, and General
+   Franklin says it is an attack against the rebel stronghold at Matok.
+   As soon as the senate announces their intention, General Franklin's
+   troops will go in and take the fort. Sheridan tells him that he knows,
+   from previous experienece, that Matok is a death-trap, to which
+   Franklin replies that Sheridan's knowledge was one reason Babylon 5
+   was chosen as a staging area. Garibaldi asks how they can keep the
+   operation a secret, and Franklin tells him that the soldiers believe
+   they are going to Io. General Franklin also tells them that his people
+   are going to leave new weapons for Babylon 5, so that they will have
+   the capacity to take on a warship. Franklin explains that, with the
+   Narn and Centauri at war, the other aliens may become more aggressive,
+   in which case Babylon 5 needs to be prepared. Franklin orders them to
+   return in the morning to discuss the battle plan, and for no one else
+   to be told of the situation. Sheridan, Ivanova, and Garibaldi leave,
+   unhappy about the situation before them.
+   
+   Lieutenant Warren Keffer returns to his quarters to find two ground
+   pounders, Yang and "Large" there. Though they are cordial to him,
+   Keffer is upset about having to share his quarters. He tells them that
+   they should leave, but when "Large," threatens him, Keffer stands up
+   to him, which endears him to "Large" immediately.
+   
+   [INLINE] Unexpected roommates.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin is in his quarters, meeting with his father, catching up
+   on current events in their family. While they are talking, General
+   Franklin offers to have his son transferred to Bethesda Dome so that
+   he can be of more use to Earth Force during the Narn-Centauri war.
+   This outrages Stephen, who says his job as a doctor is to heal people.
+   His father tells him that he should heal humans instead, but Stephen
+   doesn't agree. "Life is life, whether it's wrapped in skin, scales, or
+   feathers. Now, if you respected these beings instead of constantly
+   trying to murder them, you'd appreciate that!" As soon as he says it,
+   Stephen realizes it was a mistake, but the general leaves too quickly
+   for him to say anything else.
+   
+   [INLINE] "Life is life!"
+   
+   In MedLab, Dr. Franklin is unhappy to see Ivanova arrive with a large
+   group of soldiers she wants to billet in the infirmary. He initially
+   objects, but after Ivanova quotes to him information from his medical
+   log, saying that the patients in the infirmary can be moved, he
+   reluctantly agrees. She can tell he's upset about something, and he
+   explains to her what he's feeling. "He always brings out this anger in
+   me I can't control. Now matter how I try, I always seem to want to
+   hurt him. You know, the funny thing is, I do love him, I just
+   can't...talk to him." Ivanova explains that she had similar feelings
+   toward her father. She receives a call from C&C saying that she has to
+   leave, but she offers to meet him later to talk. He agrees to do what
+   he can about the infirmary space.
+   
+   At dinner, Dr. Franklin explains to Ivanova how difficult it was
+   growing up with his father, who always ran things as if the family
+   were in the military. He tells her that it was difficult living with
+   not knowing whether or not his father would come home, and that it
+   became difficult to bear the pain, so he left for the stars. His
+   father wasn't happy, but when Dr. Franklin joined Earth Force, the
+   general turned around. He says that they talk very little, and only
+   end up fighting when they do talk. He says he thinks he should give up
+   altogether, but Ivanova doesn't agree. "Talk to him, Stephen," she
+   says. "Tell him what you feel no matter how hard it is. I didn't and I
+   lost the chance. Don't make the same mistake." He doesn't understand,
+   and asks her if the troops are really bound for Io. She doesn't answer
+   him and leaves to go back on duty.
+   
+   Garibaldi and Delenn walk through a corridor talking about the
+   Narn-Centauri war, Delenn expressing her wish that Babylon 5 remain
+   devoted to peace during the difficult times ahead. Garibaldi becomes
+   distracted and leaves her for a moment to check on some ground
+   pounders, when she meets up with several. They ask her what she is.
+   Though she tells them she is a Minbari, they persist, taunting her,
+   and advancing upon her forcefully. She tells them she did nothing to
+   them, but they say she needs to be taught a lesson because of what the
+   Minbari did to them on the Line. They are about to teach her that
+   lesson when a woman ground pounder jumps in between them and stands up
+   for Delenn, who rushes off while the woman fights her fellow soldiers.
+   Delenn finds Garibaldi and takes him to the conflict. The fight is
+   soon broken up by the Sergeant-Major in charge of the ground pounders,
+   who is about to take all them to the brig. Garibaldi intervenes,
+   convincing him not to do so. The woman calls after Garibaldi, and she
+   introduces herself to him as Dodger. He tells her that Ambassador
+   Delenn wanted him to maintain peace as much as possible, and that he
+   saved her because of that. He has a call, and has to leave. She tells
+   him that she might see him around.
+   
+   [INLINE] Delenn is threatened.
+   
+   General Franklin explains to Sheridan the tactics he plans to use on
+   the attack. He asks Sheridan about several options, but Sheridan tells
+   him that there is no way to get through without heavy casualities.
+   Sheridan suggests that they call the whole thing off, but General
+   Franklin disagrees, saying an important reason for the invasion is to
+   install their presence in Shilassen space, which is very close to the
+   Narn and Centauri. Dr. Franklin comes into the room and tells his
+   father he wants to talk, but his father wants no part of it. Dr.
+   Franklin says that he didn't mean the things he said, but this angers
+   his father even more. He tells him that he will talk to him later, but
+   Dr. Franklin is not pleased with this, either. General Franklin orders
+   his son to leave, which he does.
+   
+   [INLINE] Discussing strategies.
+   
+   After Dr. Franklin leaves, the general asks Sheridan if he feels like
+   being a soldier is being a murderer. Sheridan says that the only truth
+   about war is that people die. "Killing is part of a soldier's job. We
+   can't deny it--we can only live with it and hope the reasons for doing
+   it are justified." General Franklin says that he wishes his son could
+   understand that, and Sheridan tells him that he feels Dr. Franklin is
+   an excellent doctor, and that he will stand up for his principles if
+   they are challenged. General Franklin feels that is an admirable
+   trait, and Sheridan agrees, saying that, even though he and his father
+   had similar disagreements, and they never stopped arguing, they never
+   stopped loving each other either. General Franklin thanks Sheridan for
+   the talk, and concludes the briefing.
+   
+   Garibaldi and Lou Welch keep an eye on all of the ground pounders when
+   Dodger walks up and asks Garibaldi for a tour. Welch offers to take
+   over for Garibaldi while he is gone. Garibaldi asks Dodger what she
+   wants to see. "A nice restaurant," she replies. "And your quarters."
+   
+   Garibaldi takes Dodger to his quarters, where they are barely able to
+   keep their hands off of each other. They sit down on the bed, and
+   prepare to continue, but before they go any further, Garibaldi
+   explains the troubles he has had recently, with Lise and his
+   near-death after being shot by his aide. He tells her that, if she is
+   the one for him, he doesn't want to ruin it by going too fast. She
+   gets up and explains her situation to him. "You know, I didn't come
+   here expecting to set up housekeeping. I'm a ground pounder. I'm
+   cleaning latrines one day, the next I might be up to my hips in blood,
+   hoping that I don't hear the round that takes me out. You got it? In
+   between, I like to try to see what I can get, to remind myself that
+   I'm alive. Right, it's not romance, but it's all I got time for. I'm
+   so sorry it's not enough for you." He tries to call after her as she
+   leaves, but she won't speak to him.
+   
+   [INLINE] The heat of the moment.
+   
+   Ivanova and Sheridan go back to C&C, finally back on-shcedule at the
+   docking bays. Sheridan tells her to try to arrange a paid vacation for
+   the workers, to compensate for their recent troubles. Sheridan asks
+   about the new defense system they have, and Ivanova explains that
+   their new arsenal really is enough to take on a warship, complete with
+   pulse cannons, interceptors, mine launchers, and a much improved
+   tracking system. Sheridan tells her that he hopes they will never have
+   to use it.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin is in his quarters when his father comes in. The general
+   apologizes for dismissing him the previous day, but also says that he
+   had every right to be angry about the way his son acted. He tells
+   Stephen that he has no right to call him a murderer, and he can't
+   believe that he would have so little respect. Stephen says that it
+   isn't about respect, but rather about the way they don't communicate
+   very well. Stephen explains to his father that it really hurts him to
+   have such a relationship with him when he isn't sure that he will ever
+   see him again. General Franklin apologizes, saying that he never
+   really meant to shut him out. Stephen says it might just be their
+   relationship, but he has always respected his father, and thanks him
+   for the things he taught him. He also says that he regrets the things
+   he did say to his father over the years, and takes the opportunity to
+   tell his father the one thing he never had a chance to -- that he
+   loves him. He says that he always has and that nothing could ever
+   change that. The two of them hug.
+   
+   [INLINE] Reconciliation.
+   
+   In a bar, Large is telling Yang and Keffer a war story. He leaves for
+   a moment, and Keffer asks Yang if Large ever tells anything besides
+   war stories. Keffer asks if Yang has seen any fighting, and Yang tells
+   him that he hasn't, but he says he's ready. Yang asks Keffer if he
+   has, and if he was scared. Keffer says that no matter what happens,
+   you're always scared. Large returns, and the three toast together to
+   their health.
+   
+   Garibaldi approaches the bar, where Dodger is sitting. He starts to
+   talk to her, but she apologizes for her behavior, and says that,
+   sometimes, she wants things too much, and pushes unnecessarily for
+   them. She expresses her disbelief at the official talk that the ground
+   pounders are going to Io, since she doesn't think that General
+   Franklin would lead such a minor mission. She offers to buy him a
+   drink, and he selects water.
+   
+   Keffer tells Large and Yang a war story of his own, and accidentally
+   nudges a soldier while gesturing. It turns out to be Private Kleist,
+   the ground pounder who earlier assaulted Delenn, and though Keffer
+   attempts to apologize, Kleist won't listen. Keffer suggests they
+   settle it outside, but Kleist doesn't want to wait. The two of them
+   begin to fight, and the skirmish escalates into a full-scale barroom
+   brawl, with nearly everyone in the bar getting in on the action. After
+   several minutes of fighting, the Sergeant-Major and General Franklin
+   appear and tell them that they are moving out right away, so they all
+   need to get their gear and leave immediately.
+   
+   [INLINE] The bar brawl erupts.
+   
+   Garibaldi and Dodger, who cooperated in the fight, say their goodbyes,
+   and Keffer, Large, and Yang do the same thing. Keffer wishes them both
+   luck, and comments that he hopes he'll see them again. General
+   Franklin, meanwhile, offers to punish the ground pounders involved in
+   the fight and make reparations. Sheridan accepts the reparations, and
+   says that he would rather have the ground pounders with General
+   Franklin. "Besides," he says, "I don't think we have the room."
+   
+   As the 25,000 ground pounders prepare to leave, Sheridan tells General
+   Franklin that he hopes he was wrong about Matok's defenses. General
+   Franklin says his goodbyes to Garibaldi and Ivanova as well, and
+   finally sees his son. Before he leaves, General Franklin tells Stephen
+   that he is very proud of him, and will talk to him more when he gets
+   back. They hug again, and General Franklin ships out.
+   
+   Garibaldi searches through the line of ground pounders for Dodger,
+   whom he eventually finds. He makes a date to see her when she returns,
+   and, despite the Sergeant-Major's urging, the two share a long,
+   passionate goodbye kiss. "You'll never know what you missed," she
+   tells him as she boards the ship, which soon departs and enters the
+   jump gate.
+   
+   A large group of officers stands, watching a large monitor, which is
+   displaying an ISN news broadcast about the assault on Matok at Akdor.
+   The gruesome visuals show pictures of intense fighting and blasting
+   from many different kinds of units. A reporter talks to General
+   Franklin, whom Dr. Franklin is overjoyed to see. General Franklin
+   explains the situation. "Our troops have taken control of the fortress
+   at Matok. Most of the leaders of the rebellion have either been killed
+   or captured, and we expect a complete surrender of all the rebel
+   forces very shortly." The group watching the broadcast cheers, but
+   General Franklin is pulled away by another officer, for some other
+   reason. Lou Welch appears and hands Garibaldi the initial list of
+   casualities. Garibaldi looks over it for a moment, and silently hands
+   it to Keffer. Keffer looks at the report and learns that Large, Yang,
+   Dodger--and even the ground pounder who assaulted Delenn and began the
+   bar fight all were killed. He stands, alone, reflecting upon the
+   situation, and the reality of war.
+   
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
+  
+   Ambassador Delenn is in her quarters, examining a mobile hanging
+   there. Lennier comes in, asking why he was summoned. She tells him
+   that she received a message from the Grey Council, saying that, now
+   that the new leader is in place, she should return so it can be
+   decided whether she can remain part of the Council, or should be
+   removed from it. She tells him that she is leaving shortly, and is not
+   certain if she will return, as they may remove her from Babylon 5 as
+   well, because she made the decision to undergo her transformation. She
+   tells him that she is leaving him as much information as possible
+   about her work so that, in case she doesn't return, he will have
+   everything he needs if someone else is assigned to the station. She
+   says to him that she feels very alone. He takes her hand and tells her
+   she will never be alone.
+   
+   [INLINE] "Never alone, Delenn."
+   
+   "The last two ships that came through sector 92," Commander Ivanova
+   explains to Captain Sheridan, "both reported unusual sightings." He
+   asks what details they provided, but she tells him that they
+   discovered little more than a disturbance or flash of light, but that
+   at least one transport just vanished in that area. Sheridan knows that
+   it can't be the raiders, as they are out of commission, but something
+   is clearly going on. He asks what squadrons are available to
+   investigate, and she tells him that alpha and zeta squadrons are
+   unavailable, and the leader of delta squadron is sick. She offers to
+   reassign the leader's second to command, but Sheridan decides to do it
+   himself. Ivanova insists he take a full escort with him, and he
+   agrees, though she is still uneasy about his going on the mission.
+   "I'll be in and out in an hour," he tells her. "What could go wrong?"
+   
+   Meanwhile, a group of several Narn ships is attacked by a huge ship.
+   All of the Narn ships are destroyed, and the pilots killed, except for
+   one Narn pilot, whom the ship brings into its depths with a blue beam.
+   
+   Lennier arrives in the docking bay, where Delenn is waiting, and he
+   tells her that her flier is recharged, and can leave at any time. He
+   has borrowed a flier as well and intends to accompany her. She tries
+   to dissuade him, in case her disfavor with the Council becomes
+   associated with him, but he insists.
+   
+   Sheridan arrives in his quarters and receives a message from Ivanova,
+   telling him that his escort is ready for him and that General Hague is
+   arriving earlier than planned. She complains that she should have been
+   informed of the General's visit, but Sheridan tells her that it is a
+   private matter, and nothing to worry about. And since he will have
+   returned from his trip by the time the general arrives, there is
+   nothing to worry about.
+   
+   Delenn and Lennier arrive at the Grey Council's ship. She tells him
+   that he must wait outside while she enters the Council chamber. He
+   tells her that he will wait, and pray, for her. "Until later, Satai,"
+   he says to her as she enters the chamber.
+   
+   Sheridan and his escort explore sector 92, but they find no debris or
+   strange radiation there. They prepare to return to the jumpgate and
+   Babylon 5, when a jump point forms, and a large, strangely-configured
+   ship emerges. Sheridan orders his people to take evasive action. The
+   ship fires on him. He manages to eject right before his ship explodes,
+   but most of the other starfury pilots aren't so lucky--with the
+   exception of one starfury, the rest are destroyed trying to rescue the
+   captain. The starfury that remains is disabled by a blast from the
+   strange ship. The pilot, Lt. Ramirez, is the only one to see
+   Sheridan's ejection pod be taken aboard the ship.
+   
+   [INLINE] [9][Movie] [10][Movie] Sheridan in peril.
+   
+   Ramirez receives a message from his computer, telling him that the
+   ship has been severely disabled and that a leak in the fusion reactor
+   has caused radiation in the ship to reach terminal levels. Since the
+   communication system is not functioning, he redirects all the energy
+   he can to the system controls, and re-enters the jumpgate he came
+   through.
+   
+   Ivanova greets General Hague, who arrives in the docking bay. He asks
+   where Captain Sheridan is, and Ivanova tells him that he had to look
+   into another problem. Hague says it is unlike Sheridan to be late, but
+   Ivanova tries to convince him that nothing is wrong, and takes Hague
+   to C&C.
+   
+   Sheridan awakes to find himself in a strange, cavernous room on the
+   alien ship, strapped to a table. He calls out, to see if his abductors
+   are there, but no one answers. A panel opens in the ceiling and a
+   strange device with surgical implements is lowered into the room above
+   his head. Sheridan tries to shy away from the machine as it edges
+   closer to his face.
+   
+   Delenn stands in her light at the Grey Council, surprised to find no
+   other council members there. She addresses the Council in the
+   traditional fashion, but is greeted only by Hedronn appearing out of
+   the shadows, telling her that the rest of the Council will not come.
+   She tells him that she was summoned, but Hedronn tells her that she
+   was not called to serve on the Council, but rather receive judgement.
+   She says she is allowed a hearing and entitled to defend herself, but
+   Hedronn disagrees. "You were told to wait," he says to her, "before
+   taking this action. Before becoming alien to us. You have been away
+   from us for too long, Delenn. Your contact with the humans has changed
+   more than your appearance. If you are no longer one of us, how can you
+   be one of the Nine?" She tries to convince him that her heart has not
+   changed, but he says that the Council no longer knows her heart. He
+   tells her that the Council voted to remove her from their number.
+   
+   [INLINE] "You were told to wait."
+   
+   Before she leaves, she asks about her position as Ambassador to
+   Babylon 5. He says they haven't decided on that yet, but that she has
+   the right to make a statement to the Council. She thanks him and asks
+   who her replacement to the Council was. Hedronn doesn't answer, and
+   only says that she will be called when the Council is ready.
+   
+   Ivanova and General Hague are unable to contact Sheridan, and are
+   about to try something else when Ramirez's starfury comes through the
+   jump gate. Ivanova scans the ship, learning that it has been shot up
+   pretty badly and there are minimal life signs. She calls down to
+   MedLab to inform Dr. Franklin.
+   
+   Sheridan lies on the table, three spots on his face bleeding profusely
+   as the alien device retracts into the ceiling. He calls out again, but
+   there's no answer. A long metal bar falls to the floor as his
+   restraints come off of their own accord. He sits up just in time to
+   miss being hit by a Drazi wielding a similar metal bar. Sheridan tries
+   to speak to the Drazi, but finds the only way he can communicate is by
+   grabbing the metal rod and fighting. The alien doesn't respond to
+   anything Sheridan says, but apparently is controlled by a device
+   attached to its head. Sheridan asks who his captors are and why they
+   are doing this, but receives no response. They continue fighting, and
+   Sheridan eventually triumphs as the Drazi is accidentally impaled on
+   his own weapon.
+   
+   Hoping the worst is over, Sheridan is surprised to see another alien
+   appear, this time a Narn -- the same one captured by the aliens
+   earlier -- swinging a sword at him furiously. The Narn says nothing to
+   Sheridan, but is also apparently controlled by a device attached to
+   his head. Sheridan and attempts to fight off the Narn, and suffers
+   little more than a cut to the leg, but when the Narn corners Sheridan
+   and has the chance to kill him, the Narn says to him, "Kill me!"
+   Sheridan realizes that their alien abductors probably kidnapped them
+   to do battle. Sheridan defends himself, eventually knocking the Narn
+   to the ground. Sheridan checks the Narn and discovers that, luckily,
+   he is still alive.
+   
+   [INLINE] "Kill me!"
+   
+   Dr. Franklin does everything he can to help Ramirez, but before he can
+   even really begin to do anything, Ramirez dies. Garibaldi tries to
+   convince Dr. Franklin that he did everything he could, but Franklin
+   just backs off. Ivanova arrives and reports to Garibaldi that they
+   learned from the starfury's data record that Sheridan has been taken
+   aboard an alien vessel of unknown origin and design.
+   
+   The Grey Council has convened, and Delenn enters the Council chamber
+   and stands in a blue light in the center of the other members. She
+   addresses them. "For twenty cycles I have stood beside you as one of
+   the Nine. I called many of you friends. Now you call me outcast. You
+   know me. You know I believe in the task that is before us, the great
+   war that is coming. I have not turned my back on you. In trying to
+   help, I have sacrificed all that I was and all that I am. We can no
+   longer allow ourselves to be separated by names and borders. Our two
+   sides must unite or be destroyed. Do not make my sacrifice a vain one.
+   Allow me to finish what I started. In the name of our friendship, the
+   future of our people -- let me remain on Babylon 5."
+   
+   "I am more than happy to have you remain with the humans," a voice
+   from behind her says. Delenn turns around, knowing that this is her
+   successor. She says she doesn't know him, but he says she does. He
+   removes his hood, and she recognizes him as Neroon of the Warrior
+   Caste, from the Starrider's clan. Delenn doesn't understand. Valen
+   chose three Minbari from each caste -- the Worker, the Religious, and
+   the Warrior -- to serve on the Grey Council. Her replacement should
+   have been from the Religious caste. She cannot understand why the
+   Warrior caste had been given such great power. Neroon tells her that
+   the Warrior caste is the caste that has suffered the most over the
+   ages, dying as they defended the Minbari, and that, if a great war is
+   coming, the Warrior caste should lead against it. She doesn't think
+   the Warrior caste should be allowed to make policy. Neroon tells her
+   that the Warrior caste was lied to and never told the reason for the
+   Minbari surrender against the humans; if they'd known the truth, they
+   never would have surrendered. He says that Delenn is an affront to the
+   Minbari race and that she doesn't belong with either the Minbari or
+   the humans, which makes her the perfect emissary. He tells her to go
+   to Babylon 5 -- and stay there. The lights around the other Council
+   members blink out, leaving Delenn alone in the chamber.
+   
+   [INLINE] All alone in the night.
+   
+   Sheridan sits beside the defeated Narn, who awakes to discover that
+   Sheridan has removed the device on his head. Sheridan tells the Narn
+   that there is no food or water for them. Sheridan says the Narn and
+   the other alien were the only other living beings he's seen. He asks
+   the Narn why they've been captured, and the Narn says they were
+   captured as specimens so that their captors can study and analyze
+   other races, possibly in preparation for an invasion. Sheridan tells
+   the Narn that they are probably being tested to see how they react
+   toward other species. Sheridan tells the Narn he will get him to a
+   doctor, but that they must escape first. Sheridan asks the Narn why he
+   wanted him to kill him. The Narn says, "There is no escape. Better to
+   die," just as he falls unconcious.
+   
+   Delenn emerges from the Council chamber. "Satai Delenn?" Lennier asks,
+   but she says that she is only Delenn now. She tells him that the Grey
+   Council thinks she can best serve her people by staying on Babylon 5.
+   Lennier says that the Council is very wise, so their decision must be
+   correct. Delenn tries to convince Lennier to leave her and go home to
+   his family, but he says that he will stay by her side. She remembers
+   the first time they met; she wants them to be treated as equals now.
+   "Very soon now, I will be going into darkness and fire. I do not know
+   if I am fated to walk out again. If it is your choice to come with me,
+   then I could not wish for a better, or braver, companion." They leave
+   together.
+   
+   General Hague asks Ivanova about a recent sighting of the alien ship,
+   and Ivanova tells him that they have attacked twice more, as if they
+   are collecting specimens. Hague says that that may be their weakness
+   -- the longer they take collecting specimens, the more time Babylon 5
+   has to find them. Luckily, Ivanova enlisted the help of the alien
+   ambassadors, and Hague put in some messages of his own. As he is
+   telling Ivanova this, the Agamemnon, Captain Sheridan's previous
+   command, enters through the jumpgate, ready to assist Babylon 5 as
+   necessary.
+   
+   Sheridan is lying down in his alien prison, barely able to keep from
+   falling asleep. Soon, he succumbs, and has a dream...
+   
+   ...He is in his own quarters, which are very dark. He turns, looks
+   across the room, and sees Ivanova standing there, her hair draped over
+   her left shoulder. She puts her finger over her mouth and says, "Shh."
+   A large black raven appears on her shoulder. "Do you know who I am?"
+   she asks him. He turns around and looks behind...
+   
+   ...and finds himself somewhere else, a corridor on Babylon 5. He looks
+   above him and sees himself standing on a platform, bathed in an eerie
+   white light. The Sheridan on the platform shifts his gaze. He sees
+   another figure on the platform -- Garibaldi, also bathed in the white
+   light, and with a small white bird, a dove, sitting on his shoulder.
+   "The man in between is searching for you," Garibaldi tells Sheridan.
+   Sensing another figure behind him, Sheridan turns...
+   
+   [INLINE]
+   
+   ...and finds himself wearing a black Psi-Cop uniform, complete with
+   badge. He is facing a tall figure in a veil, again Ivanova. "You are
+   the hand," she tells him. He finds himself wearing his normal uniform
+   and turns around again...
+   
+   [INLINE]
+   
+   ...this time seeing Ambassador Kosh standing there. "Why are you
+   here?" Sheridan asks him.
+   
+   "We were never away," Kosh intones. "For the first time, your mind is
+   quiet enough to hear me."
+   
+   "Why am I here?"
+   
+   "You have always been here," Kosh says...
+   
+   ...and Sheridan awakes. He looks at the wall beside him and notices
+   that it is, in fact, movable. He looks at the Narn's sword, sitting
+   beside him, and begins developing a plan.
+   
+   Delenn and Lennier make contact with Babylon 5, telling them of their
+   impending arrival. Delenn asks if there is a problem, and C&C tells
+   them that Sheridan is missing. Delenn tells them to send her the
+   information. After looking at the information, Delenn informs Babylon
+   5 that she knows something about the ship they are searching for. "The
+   ship which has taken Captain Sheridan is known to us. They are called
+   the Streibs. Over the years, they have sent out ships to investigate
+   defenses and acquire samples of any life forms they encountered. Their
+   last expedition was into Minbari space. We tracked them back to their
+   homeworld and made sure they understood the depth of their mistake."
+   Delenn transmits the coordinates of the Streib homeworld.
+   
+   The Narn wakes as Sheridan attempts, with great difficulty, to open a
+   door he has discovered. The Narn helps him as the ship is rocked --
+   Sheridan believes it is because they jumped back into normal space,
+   either stopping to pick up more life forms, or because they've arrived
+   at the alien homeworld. The latter turns out to be true; the Agamemnon
+   and several Starfuries emerge from a jump point near the Streib ship,
+   guns blazing.
+   
+   [INLINE] [11][Movie] The Streibs under attack.
+   
+   Delenn contacts the Streibs and instructs them to release their
+   prisoners. Sheridan and the Narn, surmising that the ship is under
+   attack, use the distraction to lift the walls and finally escape
+   beyond the room. The Narn wants Sheridan to leave him behind, but
+   Sheridan will not do so. After taking care of a passing Streib, a
+   survival pod opens up nearby. Sheridan grabs the Narn and drags him
+   into one.
+   
+   At the same moment, the Streibs decide to eject all of their captives
+   into space. This incenses Ivanova, who orders the Streibs to be
+   destroyed, which the Agamemnon is easily able to accomplish with a few
+   blasts. Ivanova determines that Captain Sheridan is sending her a
+   signal, and Sheridan and the Narn are rescued.
+   
+   Back on Babylon 5, Sheridan asks Dr. Franklin how the Narn is, and he
+   says that the Narn will live. When Sheridan asks Dr. Franklin if
+   Ramirez will live, Dr. Franklin says that the radiation did him in.
+   Sheridan feels sad that Ramirez had to die, and says he feels that
+   such a young life being taken isn't fair. "No, it's not," Dr. Franklin
+   tells him. "Death never is." Sheridan, still pondering the situation,
+   leaves MedLab. In the hallway outside, he turns around and sees
+   Ambassador Kosh.
+   
+   "You have always been here," Kosh tells him, and turns away.
+   
+   Sheridan is in his quarters when General Hague arrives. Hague
+   activates a small device, which he explains is to counteract any
+   listening devices that may be in the room. Sheridan expresses anger to
+   the general that it has taken so long for someone to debrief him.
+   Hague explains that this is due to the death of President Santiago,
+   and asks what Sheridan learned. Sheridan tells him that Garibaldi,
+   Ivanova, and the rest are all good, loyal officers, and that he
+   doesn't like having to spy on them. Hague tells Sheridan that Santiago
+   knew that Babylon 5 was important, and that, if he died, President
+   Clark would appoint a "hard-nosed jarhead" to run it. Sheridan's
+   record made him appear that way, so he was a perfect choice. Figuring
+   that Sheridan was pliable, Clark would leave him alone, and he could
+   perform certain actions without the President's knowledge. Hague
+   explains that not everyone on Earth beleves President Santiago died in
+   an accident, and he also tells Sheridan that, though many military
+   officers probably had a part in the assassination, they weren't in
+   charge. Sheridan guesses that the Psi Corps is to blame; Hague agrees.
+   
+   [INLINE] Talking to the General.
+   
+   Hague tells Sheridan that it is up to them to learn what is going on,
+   and stop it, and Sheridan can use the resources of Babylon 5 to help
+   without Clark suspecting. Sheridan asks how Hague can be so sure that
+   he won't inform the government of Hague's plans, and Hague explains.
+   "A soldier's record tells a lot about a person. Not just what he's
+   done, but how he's done it, and why. You have an uncommon failing for
+   someone in your position, Captain. You're a patriot. You believe as I
+   do that when we put on this uniform, we took a solemn vow to protect
+   Earth against threats from outside, and from within. It's a difficult
+   decision. You risk losing your entire career if you say yes. Worse
+   still, now that you've had a chance to evaluate your staff, you have
+   to decide if you can trust them enough to bring them in on this,
+   knowing that you're putting them in equal jeopardy." Sheridan says it
+   isn't much of a reward, and Hague agrees. Hague tells him that they
+   must do something immediately and that, when he leaves, he will go
+   back to Earth and begin the operation. He says Sheridan's help is
+   essential if they are to retake Earth's government, and asks Sheridan
+   for his decision.
+   
+   Ivanova arrives outside Sheridan's quarters, and is let in, only to
+   find Garibaldi and Franklin there with Sheridan. Sheridan tells her to
+   sit down, and activates a device similar to Hague's to render any
+   listening devices useless. "Ever since the death of president
+   Santiago, something unpleasant's been going on back home. You know it,
+   and I know it. We've stood by too long. That's going to change.
+   Quietly, discreetly, an inch at a time--for now, strictly within the
+   rules. We have to do something, or risk losing everything we hold
+   dear. Now, we'll get some help from inside Earth Dome, but the bottom
+   line: if anything goes wrong, we're on our own." He offers each of
+   them the chance to leave before they hear something they may have to
+   report, but each of them declines.
+   
+   "We're with you Captain," Ivanova says. "Wherever this goes, however
+   it ends, we're with you."
+
+   [17][Next] 
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+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/033.html
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+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/032.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/034.html
+   9. file://localhost/b5/Clips/2vortex.avi
+  10. file://localhost/b5/Clips/invortex.avi
+  11. file://localhost/b5/Clips/planetb2.avi
+  12. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/033.html#TOP
+  14. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  15. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  16. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/032.html
+  17. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/034.html
+  18. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
+  
+   The Narn and the Centauri are engaged in battle, while the Narn
+   attempt to evacuate civilians from a planet. Several ships are
+   destroyed, and despite the efforts of one large Narn war cruiser, they
+   are unable to completely stave off the Centauri attacks, though they
+   do assist one stray transport in escaping before they too are
+   destroyed by Centauri fire.
+   
+   [INLINE] [9][Movie] [10][Movie] Narns to the rescue.
+   
+   G'Kar shuts off the viewscreen, which Sheridan, Ivanova, Garibaldi,
+   and Franklin had all been watching. G'Kar explains that the Centauri
+   attacked without warning, killing over 5,000 Narns, expressly breaking
+   a promise to not attack civilian targets. Sheridan asks why Londo is
+   not there to make a statement, but Ivanova tells him that the Centauri
+   government believed the ships contained not civilians, but weapons.
+   G'Kar dismisses this as a lie, but is calmed down when Sheridan offers
+   to intervene on their behalf, promising to talk to his government.
+   This pleases G'Kar, who leaves. As he leaves, Sheridan receives a
+   message from C&C saying that the ship he has been waiting for just
+   arrived.
+   
+   Sheridan and Ivanova arrive on C&C, and Sheridan explains that the
+   Earth government wants to persuade the Lumati to side with them in the
+   case of the conflict, and that they have come here for negotiations,
+   which Sheridan has decided Ivanova should take care of. He tells her
+   that she should do whatever is necessary, as long as they agree to
+   ally with the Earth government or become a part of the League of
+   Non-Aligned Worlds. Ivanova accepts this task.
+   
+   As the Lumati ship arrives and docks, Delenn finishes watching the
+   recording of the Centauri invasion, which she believes is inexcusable.
+   G'Kar asks her if her world will be willing to help the Narn, and
+   tries to appeal to her sensibilities. "The war is young, the Centauri
+   are still in the process of committing their forces, some in their
+   government are unsure about the entire affair. They only need a reason
+   _not_ to fight." He tells her that her decision could save many lives.
+   She tells him that she doesn't know if the Minbari should help the
+   Narns or not, as they may simply seek revenge on the Centauri
+   afterwards, and the _Centauri_ will come to her asking for help. He
+   tells her that he believes they had no other choice. He asks her if he
+   should beg, but she refuses. She explains to him that she was there
+   when the Earth-Minbari war began and that, by virtue of a mistake, an
+   entire race was almost obliterated. She says she doesn't believe the
+   Minbari can help with good conscience, but that the Council may be
+   able to use non-violent means to help the Narn. This doesn't satisfy
+   G'Kar, who thanks her for her "honesty" and leaves hastily.
+   
+   [INLINE] G'Kar pleads for help.
+   
+   Several Narns stand at a bar sharing a drink, watching a group of
+   Centauri at a table nearby insulting their race. Their claim that
+   destroying all the Narns would be a good thing angers the Narns, who
+   throw a bottle at them. This nearly starts a conflict, which is
+   quickly averted by a passing security officer.
+   
+   Ivanova meets the Lumati delegation in the docking bay, and introduces
+   herself to the two Lumati. One speaks and identifies himself as
+   Correlilmerzon. She asks the other his name, but the same one speaks
+   again with the same response. He explains that he speaks through his
+   translator, as it would be inappropriate to speak with an inferior
+   life form. He says that he must investigate further before he can
+   speak to her directly, and that, once he decides, he may honor them by
+   meeting other Lumati. Ivanova isn't thrilled at hearing this, but
+   takes the two off on a tour of the station.
+   
+   [INLINE] The Lumati arrive.
+   
+   Londo sits in a chair in his quarters, listening to a merchant
+   complaining about his inability to deliver his products on time due to
+   excessive paperwork. He wants the process to be expedited, hopefully
+   by a helpful word from the influential Londo. The merchant says that,
+   if Londo will help him, he will be glad to provide Londo with some of
+   his illegal or hard-to-find merchandise. Londo promises to see what he
+   can do, and the merchant leaves. Vir asks Londo if he should log this
+   visit with the rest, and Londo tells him to do so, saying that, now
+   that he has gained influence, everyone wants to be his friend. He says
+   that his desire for respect has backfired. He tells Vir to leave and
+   to send the others away.
+   
+   [INLINE] "I've become a wishing well with legs."
+   
+   A small skirmish between a group of Narns and Centauri is broken up by
+   a security officer who attempts to keep one Narn and one Centauri away
+   from each other. The Narn picks up his weapon and, despite the
+   officer's warning, charges on the Centauri. The officer shoots the
+   Narn, killing him. The Centauri manages to sneak away.
+   
+   Sheridan is in his office, yelling at G'Kar that the Narn was ordered
+   to put down his weapon. G'Kar says that the Narn had a right to defend
+   himself, but Sheridan tells him that the Narns started the incident.
+   Sheridan calms down a little and tells G'Kar that, while he is doing
+   the best he can to get Earth to help the Narn, skirmishes like these
+   are making things difficult, and he promises to tell Londo the same
+   thing, since he doesn't want Babylon 5 becoming a war zone. Sheridan
+   says if G'Kar cannot control his people, he will have them all thrown
+   off the station and sent elsewhere. Saying nothing, G'Kar leaves.
+   
+   Ivanova and the Lumati arrive in MedLab, where they meet Dr. Franklin,
+   who is fascinated by the symbiotic relationship between the two.
+   Correlilmerzon asks (through the translator, as usual) why such a
+   facility exists--the weak should die, and the strong should remain. He
+   says that saving the weak members of races pollutes the genetic pool,
+   which doesn't serve evolution. Though Ivanova tries to intervene, Dr.
+   Franklin defends himself saying that he doesn't believe any life is
+   inferior to any other. They debate a little further, but before they
+   leave, the translator tells Franklin that he thinks his "strange
+   notions" will disappear with time. Dr. Franklin is not pleased by that
+   comment, either.
+   
+   After losing a game gambling, Londo meets up with Garibaldi, who asks
+   only to speak with him briefly. Garibaldi agrees to have a chemically
+   inoffensive drink with him. While they wait for the drink, Londo gives
+   Garibaldi several ducats, saying it is the money he owed Garibaldi
+   from helping him out of several gambling debts. Londo tells Garibaldi
+   that he wants the two of them to be friends and be happy for each
+   other. Londo asks why everyone is afraid of him, and Garibaldi says
+   that, because of recent events, they aren't sure if they know him
+   anymore. Londo tells Garibaldi that he appreciates Garibaldi's
+   kindness and hopes that he will not change just because Londo has, and
+   he hopes Garibaldi will continue to be there for him. Garibaldi says
+   he will try to stop by for the drink later.
+   
+   [INLINE] "Don't worry, it's not a bribe."
+   
+   G'Kar meets with a large group of Narns on the station, telling them
+   that, because of their disagreements with the Centauri, they are
+   risking not receiving aid from Earth. The other Narns disagree with
+   needing allies, but G'Kar explains that, now that they are in direct
+   war with the Centauri, they need to approach the situation
+   differently. He doesn't want anything getting in the way of their
+   winning the war, and he realizes it is difficult to just stand by and
+   watch what's going on, but G'Kar tells them they must do it. One Narn
+   tells him that his message was heard and understood, and G'Kar leaves.
+   "Now we send a message of our own," the other Narn says. The Centauri
+   who earlier started the fight where a Narn was killed is brought
+   forth, bound and gagged. The Narn stabs him. "Leave him where they can
+   find him, and tell the others we attack in six hours. And when we
+   finish, there must not be one Centauri left alive on this station!"
+   
+   Dr. Franklin examines the murdered Centauri, while Sheridan and
+   Garibaldi look on. Sheridan asks if there is any conclusive proof that
+   the Narns were responsible, and Franklin says there is some evidence,
+   but no real proof. Garibaldi suggests they inform Londo, but Sheridan
+   recommends against it, not wanting to cause undue trouble, especially
+   since they can't prove the Narns murdered the Centauri. Sheridan tells
+   Garibaldi that delaying telling Londo about the murder will give him
+   some time to maneuver and maybe save many lives. Meanwhile, Londo
+   waits in the bar for Garibaldi, but leaves when it becomes apparent he
+   is not coming.
+   
+   The next morning, the Lumati arrive at Ivanova's quarters, telling her
+   that they believed she had not showed them all the areas of the
+   station, but only a few, and they wanted to get a better idea of what
+   humans are like. She says that she would have appreciated being told
+   of their coming ahead of schedule, and then tells them that, if they
+   will wait outside until she is ready, she will take them anywhere on
+   the station they want to go. They agree to this and leave.
+   
+   The Narn who earlier opposed G'Kar talks to a weapon merchant, who
+   shows him several long, curved blades. The Narn asks the merchant if
+   he has many of those, and the merchant assures him he does. In a dark
+   corner, Na'Toth watches and then quietly slips away.
+   
+   [INLINE] Shopping for Drazi knives.
+   
+   Sheridan receives a message from Earth which denies his request for
+   intervention. Sheridan tries to convince them otherwise, but the Earth
+   government has decided that the Narns will have to fend for
+   themselves. This decision does not appeal to Sheridan, and he decides
+   to try something else, and begins by calling Delenn.
+   
+   Na'Toth tells G'Kar what she saw, and G'Kar is quite upset by this.
+   Na'Toth offers to inform Sheridan, but G'Kar tells her not to, saying
+   that an attack will eventually occur unless he stops it at the source
+   himself, and reclaims his authority. The two of them leave together.
+   
+   Ivanova and the two Lumati are touring Downbelow, Ivanova explaining
+   to them that, when people arrive on Babylon 5 but are unable to afford
+   passage to leave, they usually end up down there. She tells the Lumati
+   that they shouldn't be seeing this, but Correlilmerzon disagrees,
+   saying that they approve of the way humans seperate the stronger
+   membersr of their species from the weaker members. She tries to tell
+   him that it's unintentional, but he is already convinced otherwise,
+   and tells her that they will institute this in their own world as
+   well. As the translator begins to explain, Correlilmerzon takes over
+   personally, and tells Ivanova that Downbelow has convinced them to
+   ally with Earth. Ivanova tries to protest, but realizes she has been
+   successful and leaves with them.
+   
+   [INLINE] Ivanova, Correlilmerzon, and translator.
+   
+   The Narns are meeting to discuss their plans when G'Kar and Na'Toth
+   arrives. G'Kar tells the Narns that his authority can only be taken by
+   force, since it was bestowed upon him by the Narn government. A fight
+   ensues between G'Kar and the head Narn, and though others try to
+   intervene, Na'Toth holds them off. The fight ends with G'Kar dropping
+   the opposing Narn and then ordering the other Narns to go back to
+   their quarters, telling them that if peace on Babylon 5 is the only
+   way to win the war, that is what they shall have. He doesn't see the
+   dropped Narn come up behind him and slash him with a posioned Drazi
+   blade. G'Kar rounds on him, dropping him again. Na'Toth helps the
+   injured G'Kar out of the area.
+   
+   Sheridan talks to Delenn telling her his plans. He explains that they
+   can get medical aid to the Narns and help get some Narn civilians to
+   safety. He says that this help is unofficial, and therefore doesn't
+   violate Earth's orders. Sheridan tells her that, though there is a
+   risk, it is up to them to make up for what the governments think is
+   not in their best interests. Sheridan also tells Delenn that he
+   learned there is a considerable surplus of food on Babylon 5 that
+   could be transferred to Minbari ships to be taken to Narn territory.
+   Those ships, when emptied, could be filled with Narn and taken to
+   safety. Delenn admits to Sheridan that her resources are not what they
+   once were, but she will help in any way she can.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sheridan explains his plan.
+   
+   Ivanova and the Lumati are in Sheridan's office, finalizing the deal.
+   "Tradition is important to my culture," Correlilmerzon explains. "Our
+   important agreements are symbolic with coming together in perfect
+   union." Ivanova agrees to this, but is taken aback when Correlilmerzon
+   tells her that the traditional manner of closing such agreements is by
+   having sex. Ivanova is taken aback by this idea and fakes a call from
+   C&C to get out of it. She leaves hastily, leaving Correlilmerzon and
+   the translator there, puzzled.
+   
+   Sheridan arrives in Garibaldi's office, to see Na'Toth and the
+   renegade Narn there. Na'Toth explains that the Narn has "come to
+   understand the concepts of honor and obedience." The Narn reluctantly
+   agrees, and he is led away. Garibaldi tells Sheridan that he feels
+   this will escalate problems even further, and Sheridan agrees, saying
+   that the trial won't help any either. "Could this situation possibly
+   get any uglier," asks Garibaldi.
+   
+   Ivanova is walking with Dr. Franklin, explaining to him the situation
+   she's in. He tells her that, because of their extremely limited
+   contact with the Lumati, they didn't know that they treated sex like a
+   handshake. He tells her that she should talk to the Captain, but she
+   refuses. He also offers to inject her with something to make her sick.
+   "After all, he doesn't know a thing about anybody's biology but his
+   own. He'd probably fall for it." Ivaova suddenly gets an idea and
+   tells Franklin that she will give Correlilmerzon exactly what he
+   wants, and hurries off.
+   
+   Na'Toth arrives back in G'Kar's quarters, telling him that Sheridan
+   wants to see him and Delenn in his office. Though G'Kar is still in
+   pain, he has treated the poison and tells her that, no matter how much
+   pain he is in, he will do anything to help the Narns.
+   
+   When he hears what Sheridan and Ivanova have to tell him, however, he
+   is much saddened to learn how little help they can give him. Delenn
+   tells him that they can't enter the conflict between the Narns and the
+   Centauri, but that they will help save as many Narn lives as possible.
+   G'Kar also laments the fact he can't talk about it, or the aid will
+   disappear. Sheridan assures G'Kar that they will go through with the
+   plan, but it has to be done quietly. Despite how upset he is that he
+   can't get more aid, G'Kar thanks them, and tells them he will honor
+   their request. He leaves, but is unable to contain his tears soon
+   after he does so.
+   
+   Correlilmerzon and the translator arrive in Ivanova's quarters, where
+   she is waiting for them. She tells them that she set aside as much
+   time as necessary to have sex the way the Lumati do it, claiming it
+   would take too long to do it like humans. Correlilmerzon asks if she
+   means that Lumati sex is inferior. She says no, but tells him that it
+   would be too much to ask him to do it on such short notice. He insists
+   that they do it human style. She asks him if he is sure, and if he
+   knows what is involved, and he says he does, as ignorance would be a
+   sign of inferiority. She begins by taking a few deep breaths, and then
+   dances around him several times, singing a rhyme and doing a little
+   dance about human mating rituals, covering such topics as the initial
+   pick-up, dinner, drinks, the kiss, and finally, the sexual act, which
+   she highlights with a high-pitched orgasmic yell. Out of breath, she
+   tells him, "God, you're good!" Correlilmerzon asks what he does next.
+   "Old style, you roll over and go to bed. New style, you go out for
+   pizza and I never see you again." Stunned, Correlilmerzon leaves, but
+   the translator remains long enough to kiss her hand, before he leaves
+   as well.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sex, human style.
+   
+   Londo is in Sheridan's office, being told of the murder of the
+   Centauri. Sheridan suggests to Londo that he delay the trial as long
+   as possible. Londo asks to see a picture, which is provided for him.
+   Londo tells Sheridan and Garibaldi that he knew the murdered Centauri.
+   "He was trouble. I always said things would not end well for him, and
+   they would be his fault." Londo says that because the Centauri had no
+   family and no one to care for him, the Narn that killed him should be
+   deported, with his personal property being auctioned off with the
+   money going to the Centauri war fund. Londo leaves.
+   
+   Sheridan arrives at the bar to find Ivanova there. He tells her that
+   the Lumati told Earth they are anxious to work with Babylon 5, and
+   that they said some very complimentary things about her. Sheridan also
+   gives her a gift that Correlilmerzon left for her. She reads the card
+   attached, which says, "Next time: my way." She opens the gift to find
+   a strange yellow device inside, with beads and jewels attached.
+   
+   "Commander," Sheridan asks her, "is there something you'd like to tell
+   me?"
+   
+   Garibaldi arrives back at the Zocalo, where Londo is sitting.
+   Garibaldi thanks Londo for being so lenient. "The Narns are falling
+   before us. Soon, they will have all the trouble they could wish for.
+   What else does one need? And, if it makes your life a little easier in
+   this difficult time, it is a happy coincidence. It is good to have
+   friends, is it not, Mr. Garibaldi? Even if, maybe, only for a little
+   while?"
+   
+   Garibaldi shares this sentiment with Londo as they drink. "Even if
+   only for a little while."
+
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+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
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+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/035.html
+   9. file://localhost/b5/Clips/battle4.avi
+  10. file://localhost/b5/Clips/bigship.avi
+  11. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
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+  
+   Garibaldi arrives at C&C, and asks an officer on duty where Captain
+   Sheridan and Commander Ivanova are. The officer tells him that they
+   are in bay 13. Garibaldi goes down there, more than a little puzzled
+   by their reasons for being there.
+   
+   Sheridan and Ivanova stand in awe of the sight before them in the bay:
+   Ambassador Kosh's ship. Sheridan finds its construction amazing and
+   unbelievable and asks Ivanova about it. She tells him that for the
+   past two years, they haven't been able to determine much about it;
+   their scans barely penetrate the ship's skin. Sheridan reaches out to
+   touch the ship when part of the ship pulls away and a strange-looking
+   device fires a beam straight at Sheridan's chest. Ivanova tells him to
+   back away slowly, which he does. The device melts back into the ship.
+   After Ivanova tells Sheridan a story about a maintenance crew that was
+   frightened away by the ship, Sheridan's interest is piqued. Sheridan
+   tells her that it is time they learned something about the Vorlons,
+   and that he intends to begin doing just that. Garibaldi arrives and
+   tells them that he needs to talk to them, but would rather not do it
+   in front of Kosh's ship. The three of them leave. Kosh steps out from
+   behind a corner and "speaks" to his ship. It replies with a few lines
+   of strange symbols, to which Kosh nods, and then leaves.
+   
+   [INLINE] Visiting Kosh's ship.
+   
+   When Sheridan, Ivanova, and Garibaldi arrive in Sheridan's office,
+   Garibaldi explains that he just received a message from EarthForce
+   that there is a fugitive alert out for Dr. Everett Jacobs, President
+   Clark's former physician. Garibaldi tells them that Jacobs has enough
+   stolen information to bring down the entire Earth Alliance, unless he
+   is stopped. They think that he is already aboard Babylon 5, and want
+   him taken dead or alive. Sheridan asks what Jacobs knows that makes
+   him such a threat. Garibaldi wasn't told that, but says that, if
+   Jacobs resists, they are ordered to shoot to kill.
+   
+   Later, Agent Derek Cranston, from Earth Special Intelligence, arrives
+   on the station. Sheridan asks him why Dr. Jacobs is such a threat.
+   Cranston explains that Dr. Jacobs misused his security clearance to
+   get information about covert missions and extremely important data,
+   which could throw the government into chaos and ruin their alliance
+   with many of the non-aligned worlds. Cranston says that Jacobs is on
+   Babylon 5 to either sell the information or to find travel out of
+   Earth-controlled space. Sheridan agrees to have security help, and
+   orders Ivanova to carefully investigate all outgoing ships. Cranston
+   thanks Sheridan for his cooperation and leaves. Garibaldi tells
+   Sheridan that he doesn't think Cranston is telling them everything.
+   Sheridan agrees, but says that Cranston is worried about something,
+   which makes him want to go along with the manhunt. Garibaldi says he
+   thinks he knows where to begin.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sheridan agrees to help.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin resents the line of questioning altogether, saying that
+   Dr. Jacobs was a professor of his at Harvard and helped him a lot
+   while learning about xenobiogenics. He tells Garibaldi that Jacobs was
+   a humanitarian and could not be responsible, but Garibaldi reminds him
+   of a time when he vouched for another doctor and the station was
+   almost destroyed by a biological weapon. Dr. Franklin insists that
+   there has been a mistake and that Jacobs would never have sold out
+   Earth. "Maybe he's not the same Dr. Jacobs you knew any more,"
+   Garibaldi suggests.
+   
+   An old man wanders through a marketplace on Babylon 5, stopping at one
+   kiosk. The old man tells the merchant that he heard he could obtain
+   "special" things from him. The old man says he needs an identicard,
+   but when he tells the merchant that price is not an issue, the
+   merchant refuses to sell him one; the only reasons someone would be so
+   desperate are that they're working for security, or are being chased
+   by some very powerful people. The merchant closes his shop, and the
+   man wanders away, but he has already been noticed by a tall figure,
+   watching from the shadows.
+   
+   Sheridan is walking through the corridor to an elevator, when he hears
+   an unusual sound behind him. He turns to see Ambassador Kosh walking
+   away. He catches up to him, and reminds Kosh of a council meeting. He
+   also tells Kosh that he was in bay 13, and because of how much
+   everyone still doesn't know about the Vorlons, he and Kosh should try
+   to understand each other.
+   
+   Kosh looks at him. "Why?"
+   
+   "You tell me. You're the one who popped into my dream when I was in
+   that alien ship a few weeks ago. It felt like...I don't know, like you
+   called to me."
+   
+   "I sought understanding. I listened to the song. Your thoughts became
+   the song."
+   
+   [INLINE]
+   
+   "Has this ever happened before?"
+   
+   "Once," Kosh intones, and walks away.
+   
+   Agent Cranston is briefing the security troops on how to best search
+   for Dr. Jacobs. Though his plan is efficient, because of the size of
+   Babylon 5, as Zack Allen points out, it could take a long time. Dr.
+   Cranston explains that, as an anti-kidnapping measure, all EarthDome
+   personnel are injected with an identification crystal, which can be
+   scanned for easily.
+   
+   Sheridan asks Garibaldi if he is having any problems with the security
+   crew. Garibaldi tells him that he isn't, and that, because of their
+   efficiency, he would not like having to go up against them. As they
+   walk, Sheridan notices a red ribbon tied to a nearby wall. Sheridan
+   tells Garibaldi to continue to check up on them, and that he will
+   check in with him later to check his progress. Sheridan exits hastily.
+   
+   Sheridan, in a dark corridor, shines a strange patterns of lights into
+   the area ahead. He walks forward and meets with a woman. "The general
+   sent me," she tells him. "I have a message. You're in great danger,
+   Captain. We know what you've been told. But Dr. Jacobs is not a
+   traitor." As she sets up a device to prevent their conversation being
+   eavesdropped upon, Sheridan asks why there is such an intensive search
+   out for him, and the woman explains that Earth Special Intelligence is
+   directly under President Clark's control, and that Jacobs represents a
+   threat Clark wants stopped at any cost. Sheridan asks what the
+   situation is, and the woman explains what happened at the beginning of
+   the year.
+   
+   "Before President Santiago was killed aboard EarthForce One, Clark got
+   off the ship, claiming he had some kind of virus. Twenty-four hours
+   later, EarthForce One is destroyed in an...accident, and Clark assumes
+   the presidency. As Clark's personal physician, Jacobs knew it wasn't
+   true. If he would ever testify to that effect, it would help prove
+   that Clark knew what was going to happen. But, they couldn't allow
+   that. If they killed him right away, it would look suspicious, so they
+   kept an eye on him until they figured it was safe for the good doctor
+   to have an accident. We heard about it, and we helped him escape."
+   
+   [INLINE] The secret meeting.
+   
+   She tells him that their plans were changed because Jacobs wasn't able
+   to meet with his contact elsewhere, so he came to Babylon 5. Sheridan
+   tells her that he can't pull his security officers off because it
+   would mean revealing himself, destroying everything they've tried to
+   build. She says he needs to do whatever he can, because it must be
+   done. They need to accumulate as much evidence as possible, and
+   Jacobs' testimony would be a good place to start. She tells him to
+   make sure he gets the statement and gets Jacobs off the station alive.
+   He tells her that he is angry things have gotten so far out of hand,
+   and that he will have to circumvent his own security officers. She
+   advises him to work quickly, and leaves. Sheridan calls Garibaldi,
+   telling him to meet with him in ten minutes.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin is instructing a small group of physicians in MedLab when
+   he gets a call from Garibaldi. "Hi Doc. Just wanted to say, 'Happy
+   birthday,' that's all. Catch you later." Franklin tries to protest,
+   and doesn't understand the message, since it isn't his birthday, but
+   gets the point when he sees security officers scanning nearby.
+   Franklin orders the message to replayed frame by frame, looking for
+   anything unusual. Several frames in, he sees two voice balloons
+   sketched on top of the image which read, "Meet me at my place ASAP.
+   Come alone. Wear something comfortable."
+   
+   [INLINE] Garibaldi's message.
+   
+   Jacobs, the old man, now in a deserted area of Downbelow, prepares an
+   injection which he gives to himself. He speaks into a small recording
+   device, and says, "I'm...uh, I'm nearly out of stims. I have to keep
+   moving. If I fall asleep, they'll get me. And, uh, if they get me, I
+   uh...I don't know if this will get to you Mary, but I'm tired. I'm
+   just desperately tired. I don't know who to turn to, who I can trust."
+   He is interrupted when several security officers appear nearby,
+   searching some drunken lurkers. Jacobs quickly fumbles at opening a
+   nearby cargo elevator, and when he does, he steps inside closes the
+   door. The security offciers notice something on the scanners for just
+   a minute, and then it vanishes. They decide to report it anyway.
+   
+   [INLINE] Jacobs makes his recording.
+   
+   Garibaldi prepares to search for Jacobs by taking two PPG weapons and
+   dressing in extremely casual clothes. He says that his security crew
+   is good, but that he has one advantage: Dr. Franklin, who knows a lot
+   about Dr. Jacobs, and is someone whom Dr. Jacobs knows as well.
+   Franklin is afraid Garibaldi will be recognized, but Garibaldi says
+   that, because of his position, they rarely look at his face. He also
+   puts on his disguise, a hat, and the two of them leave to begin their
+   mission.
+   
+   Jacobs steps out of the elevator, and is immediately met by the tall
+   man who saw him talking to the merchant earlier. He tries to move
+   away, but is met by another gentleman. The tall man tells him that he
+   looks as if he doesn't belong in Downbelow, and asks him what he is
+   buying or selling, or if he is running away. Jacobs says he doesn't
+   want any trouble and will pay whatever he wants. "Yeah, you will," the
+   tall man tells him.
+   
+   Jacobs is taken to another section of Downbelow, and has his
+   belongings taken by the two lurkers. They search through them,
+   searching for something they might be able to sell. Jacobs tries to
+   convince them he has nothing of value, but they soon discover
+   otherwise when they rip open his jacket to find a data crystal and an
+   antique pocketwatch, which attracts the large lurker immediately. Its
+   inscription reads, "Office of the President of the Earth Alliance."
+   The large lurker leaves to examine the data crystal, leaving the other
+   behind to guard Jacobs.
+   
+   [INLINE] Taken hostage.
+   
+   Cranston explains to Sheridan and Ivanova that they have searched most
+   of the station and have deduced that Jacobs must be hiding in
+   Downbelow. Sheridan says that the sooner they get him off of Babylon
+   5, the better, and that Cranston is right about him being in
+   Downbelow. When Ivanova protests, Sheridan tells her that it is the
+   only logical choice, unless she seriously believes he might also be
+   Downtown. Cranston asks where this place is, and Sheridan tells him it
+   is the unofficial name for the area between the hull and the water
+   reclamation system, one of the most unpleasant parts of the station,
+   full of heavy machinery, pipes, and lead. Cranston decides that Jacobs
+   would use lead to defeat the scanners, and calls security to have them
+   search Downtown instead. Cranston leaves, and Ivanova asks him what he
+   was talking about, telling him that the entire area was sealed off
+   after Babylon 5 was made operational. Sheridan says that he hopes
+   trying to burn through the walls and doors in that area will buy
+   Garibaldi a few hours. He then receives a call saying that one of the
+   ambassadors wants to see him. He begins to say no, but decides
+   otherwise when he learns it is Ambassador Kosh. He goes off to the
+   meeting.
+   
+   Garibaldi and Franklin are questioning some of the people in a bazaar
+   in Downbelow, but can't find any information. They comment on how
+   there are no guards down there, but Garibaldi decides it must be
+   Captain Sheridan's doing. They stop to rest and to have something to
+   eat. While they are chatting about Dr. Jacobs and the past, when they
+   notice a merchant trying to sell Jacobs' pocketwatch, which Franklin
+   recognizes. Garibaldi strongarms the merchant into revealing where he
+   got the watch.
+   
+   [INLINE] Garibaldi and Franklin downbelow.
+   
+   An officer goes to Cranston and tells him that they have someone on
+   the line who has seen Jacobs. Cranston answers the call and talks to
+   the man on the other end, the same one who kidnapped Jacobs from
+   Downbelow. The man says he will turn over Jacobs for 10,000 credits,
+   to which Cranston agrees. The man says he will call again when he is
+   ready to exchange.
+   
+   Sheridan arrives in Ambassador Kosh's quarters, and asks the purpose
+   of the meeting. "You wanted to see me?" he asks Kosh.
+   
+   "You wanted to see me."
+   
+   "Well, I guess everybody does. To see what you really are inside that
+   encounter suit."
+   
+   "They are not ready. They would not understand."
+   
+   "Am I ready?"
+   
+   "No. You do not even understand yourself."
+   
+   "Could you help me to understand you?"
+   
+   "Can you help me to understand you?"
+   
+   "Well, I can try. Is that what you want? An exchange of information? I
+   tell you something about me, and you tell me something about you?"
+   
+   "No. You do not understand. Go." Kosh turns away.
+   
+   [INLINE]
+   
+   "Damn it, what do you want? What do you want from me? You know, ever
+   since I got here, I've had the feeling that...that you've been
+   watching me. The record shows you hardly ever went to council meetings
+   until I showed up. When I was captured, it was you who reached out and
+   touched my mind. And now you call me here? Why? Just to throw me out?
+   Are we just toys to you? Huh? What do you want?"
+   
+   Kosh spins around and intones angrily, "Never ask that question."
+   
+   "At least I got a response out of you. So, what'll it be, Ambassador?"
+   
+   "I will teach you."
+   
+   "About yourself?"
+   
+   "About you. Until you are ready."
+   
+   "For what?"
+   
+   "To fight legends."
+   
+   The lurker guarding Dr. Jacobs hears a pounding at the door which he
+   thinks is his companion, Max, returning. He opens the door, but finds
+   Garibaldi instead. Garibaldi knocks the lurker out, but not before he
+   is stabbed in the arm. Franklin tries to help Garibaldi up, and then
+   unties Dr. Jacobs. Though they try to usher him out of there, Dr.
+   Jacobs insists that they have to have the data crystal, which Max
+   took. Garibaldi tells Franklin and Dr. Jacobs to wait for him nearby.
+   
+   Max arrives back in the room to find the other lurker tied up. He
+   removes the gag from his mouth, but before the other can warn Max,
+   Garibaldi steps from the shadows, PPG drawn, and demands the data
+   crystal. He begins shooting at Max, missing deliberately, but coming
+   closer and closer each time. By the time Garibaldi shoots only an inch
+   away from his head, Max agrees and hands over the data crystal.
+   
+   [INLINE] "I'm in a bad mood."
+   
+   Cranston talks to Sheridan, reminding him that, in the past, internal
+   scanners have been used to locate radiation sources inside Babylon 5.
+   Sheridan tells him it required a lot of difficult rewiring, but
+   Cranston only wants to know why he was not informed about it. Ivanova
+   comes in and tells Sheridan that Dr. Franklin needs to seem him
+   immediately. Sheridan leaves, and Cranston turns to Ivanova. He asks
+   her about the internal scanners and how long it will take him to wire
+   his scanners up to Babylon 5's. She replies coldly, obviously
+   resenting his attitude toward her. She tells him that he didn't ask
+   for the information and that there is no way to know if the systems
+   are compatible or if it will work.
+   
+   Dr. Jacobs gives the data crystal to Sheridan and explains that it
+   contains the information obtained from his scans of Clark which proved
+   he did not suffer from a viral infection and that he has given
+   Garibaldi the necessary codes to unlock the data. Garibaldi, while
+   being treated for his arm injury by Franklin, reminds them that they
+   will need a statement as well. Sheridan says that they have another
+   problem now that Cranston knows they can patch their scanners into the
+   station's internal sensors, which would make it very easy to find Dr.
+   Jacobs. Franklin asks if it is possible to get him off the station,
+   but Garibaldi says it isn't likely, considering they have all the
+   docking bays covered. "Not entirely correct, Mr. Garibaldi," Sheridan
+   says.
+   
+   The configuration between the sensors and the scanners is complete.
+   Ambassador Kosh asks for permission to depart, but Sheridan won't
+   allow him to leave until after they scan the station. The station is
+   scanned, but they don't find Dr. Jacobs. Sheridan tells Cranston that
+   he is angry his station has been torn apart for no reason. Kosh asks
+   permission to depart again, which Ivanova grants. Cranston says he
+   doesn't understand since someone (Max) told him Jacobs was on the
+   station. Sheridan tells Cransgon that he can't be too sure of any
+   information he obtains aboard the station. Ivanova begins to tell Kosh
+   that he can open the jump gate, but Cranston protests, saying that he
+   wants the ship scanned. Sheridan tells him that it is an ambassadorial
+   vessel, but Cranston isn't satisfied. Sheridan reluctantly agrees to
+   scan the ship, and the scan find one life form, but it isn't human.
+   Sheridan offers sarcastically to return the ship to the station to
+   search it thoroughly, but warns Cranston that, if they find nothing,
+   it could cause a major diplomatic incident. Cranston gives his
+   permission for the ship to enter the jumpgate, which it does. Sheridan
+   orders Ivanova to help Cranston find out where Dr. Jacobs really went,
+   and help him in any way possible. He also tells Cranston that, as soon
+   as Ivanova is finished, he hopes Cranston will leave. Cranston says
+   nothing, but leaves C&C.
+   
+   [INLINE] "Give him your _full_ cooperation."
+   
+   Sheridan, Ivanova, Garibaldi, and Franklin arrive in bay 13, where the
+   Vorlon ship has redocked. Sheridan tells them that they are supposed
+   to wait until the ship recognizes them, which it soon does. Sheridan
+   explains that it knows them because it is alive. Kosh wasn't on the
+   ship when they scanned it from C&C, and since the scan only registered
+   one life form, it must be the ship. The ship opens up, and
+   tentacle-like protusions extract a large pod from it. When the pod
+   touches the ground, it opens to reveal Dr. Jacobs inside. Dr. Franklin
+   quickly revives him from an artificial coma, which Kosh insisted on as
+   a condition for the use of the ship. Dr. Jacobs revives. "While I was
+   asleep," he says, "the uh...the ship...It sang to me."
+   
+   [INLINE] The ship gives Dr. Jacobs back.
+   
+   Sheridan returns to the woman sent by General Hague and hands her a
+   data crystal, which he says contains all of Dr. Jacobs' information.
+   She accepts it willingly. "Good. It's not enough to go public with
+   yet, but it's a start. We'll get Jacobs onto one of our ships as soon
+   as possible. Thank you again for your help. You've just scored a major
+   victory for the good guys. You should be proud. Until next time,
+   Captain."
+   
+   "There's always a next time, isn't there?" Captain Sheridan asks.
+   
+   "You'd better pray it stays that way, Captain. Because as long as
+   there is a next time, at least there's a chance we'll win." She turns
+   to leave, but offers him one final thought before she goes. "Because
+   in this war, Captain, we need all the chances we can get."
+
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
+  
+   Ivanova is furious at news Sheridan brings: in order to help Babylon 5
+   become more self-sufficient, Babylon 5 is going to be merchandised.
+   Sheridan explains that the Zocalo is opening a gift shop so that
+   anyone who wants a present for someone, or themselves, can buy it and
+   help out the station. Ivanova is quite angry at this. "This is
+   demeaning. I mean, we're not some...some deep space franchise! This
+   station is about something!" Sheridan explains that her anger will
+   make her the ideal person to oversee the efforts of the gift shop to
+   make sure that no one on the station is demeaned. Sheridan explains
+   that he has to meet with Ambassador Kosh for another lesson in
+   understanding. He doesn't understand what he will be taught, but
+   realizes that he probably won't after he has been taught either.
+   Before he goes, he requests Ivanova pick up a Babylon 5 baseball
+   cap... for his sister.
+   
+   [INLINE] "_Me?_"
+   
+   On his way to the Zocalo, Sheridan runs into someone walking down the
+   corridor. Though everything seems fine at first, Sheridan soon
+   realizes that his link has been stolen. He sees the man running on a
+   catwalk above him, and he gives chase. While doing so, he is
+   intercepted by a Minbari who attacks him and throws him to the ground,
+   just near a PPG. He picks up the PPG and warns the Minbari to stay
+   away. "Death first!" is the Minbari's response as he reaches for
+   something. Sheridan fires. The force of the blast knocks the Minbari
+   down some stairs. Sheridan gets to his feet and, as he surveys the
+   situation, he sees another Minbari standing there, watching the
+   proceedings. The Minbari quickly leaves.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sheridan is attacked.
+   
+   Sheridan explains to Ambassador Delenn and Garibaldi what happened,
+   though they both find the situation strange, as no weapon was found on
+   the body. Garibaldi explains that it was only self-defense, but Delenn
+   tells them that the Minbari, Levell, comes from a very esteemed
+   family, and that her government wants answers. Sheridan apologizes,
+   but Delenn is not satisfied. "These are perilous times. We must do all
+   we can to avoid another conflict between our people over a
+   misunderstanding." Garibaldi tells Delenn that he has begun an
+   investigation in order to discover what happened, but Delenn tells him
+   that she has been ordered to begin an investigation of her own.
+   Garibaldi protests, but Delenn will not listen, claiming it is the
+   only way to decide whether or not Sheridan should be charged with
+   murder. Sheridan orders Garibaldi to find the Minbari, which will
+   prove to be a difficult task, given that Sheridan cannot give a
+   detailed description.
+   
+   Vir receives a transmission from Centauri Prime on Londo's behalf.
+   
+   Garibaldi is talking to one of the Minbari on the station, who says
+   that he was not present at the attack, which Garibaldi believes,
+   since, as the Minbari explains, Minbari do not lie. Garibaldi asks if
+   the Minbari knew who did it, and the Minbari accuses him of being
+   threatening. Before it can go any further, Lennier arrives and asks to
+   speak to the Minbari privately, which Garibaldi reluctantly allows.
+   
+   [INLINE] "If you're finished, Mr. Garibaldi?"
+   
+   Garibaldi and Sheridan walk down the hall, talking about the
+   situation. Garibaldi explains that Lennier always seems to be a step
+   ahead of his investigation, though they both hope that Lennier is not
+   orchestrating a cover-up. Sheridan asks about his link, but Garibaldi
+   says that it hadn't been used, and had probably been destroyed.
+   Sheridan asks why someone would take his link, and Garibaldi explained
+   that it was definitely something that Sheridan would want back, which
+   would make sense if the man wanted to be chased.
+   
+   They go into MedLab, where Dr. Franklin explains the result of the
+   autopsy. He says that it was indeed a PPG that killed the Minbari, but
+   that there is nothing that proves Sheridan innocent of an unprovoked
+   attack. Garibaldi asks Sheridan where he found the PPG, and Sheridan
+   tells him, though Garibaldi finds this suspicious as well. Garibaldi
+   suggests that the PPG was planted, because no member of the Minbari
+   warrior caste would carry one, and that the whole plot was merely to
+   set Sheridan up.
+   
+   Walking through the corridor near the newly established Babylon
+   Emporium, Talia literally runs into Vir. He is holding a drink and
+   seems quite shaken up. Talia asks him if he is okay, but Vir cannot
+   come up with an answer. He says that he can't stay, and seems to find
+   a great deal of humor in that remark. He vanishes into the crowd
+   before she can say anything else.
+   
+   Delenn and Lennier are talking to the Minbari, Ashan, who witnessed
+   Sheridan's killing of Levell. Despite his being in the same clan as
+   Lennier, he is being quite uncooperative, and will not answer any of
+   Delenn's questions. "I answer to other Minbari," he tells her. "Not
+   freaks." Hurt by this, she quickly exits, leaving Lennier to deal with
+   Ashan. "You have insulted her," Lennier says. "Her presence insulted
+   me," replies Ashan. Despite his feelings, he does offer to answer any
+   questions Lennier might have.
+   
+   [INLINE] "Not _freaks._"
+   
+   Sheridan tells Delenn and Lennier that, despite whatever the feelings
+   of the Minbari government are, he wants to see Ashan immediately.
+   After they leave, Garibaldi suggests that, because of the Minbari's
+   feelings, that might not be a good idea. Sheridan tells Garibaldi that
+   he has to try to reason with Ashan, so that he can figure out why
+   Ashan is lying about the incident, and that he doesn't want to disrupt
+   life on the station any more than necessary.
+   
+   Ivanova is looking around the Babylon 5 Emporium, inspecting the wide
+   variety of T-shirts, dolls, models, and even teddy bears. She is also
+   surprised by a human wearing a mask which makes him look exactly like
+   an alien. She turns around, only to find an alien wearing a human
+   mask. Somewhat startled and surprised, she makes a hasty exit.
+   
+   [INLINE] Ivanova inspects the merchandise.
+   
+   A well-dressed woman, with a brief case, enters the docking bay, and
+   meets up with Zack Allan. She tells him that she wants to meet with
+   Captain Sheridan. Allan asks her if she is expected. "No," she says.
+   "Dreaded."
+   
+   Sheridan asks Ashan why he would attack Levell, who merely answers
+   Sheridan by calling him Starkiller. Sheridan tries to explain to him
+   that what happened should remain in the past, but Ashan does not
+   agree. "Was it not an Earth man who said that those who do not listen
+   to history will repeat it? The Minbari listen. Very carefully." Delenn
+   and Lennier ask Ashan if it is possible that he could be making a
+   mistake in what he claims he say, but Ashan insists that he did not,
+   and asks on what side their loyalties lie. Lennier responds that they
+   want only to reveal the truth. Zack Allan and the woman enter, and the
+   woman introduces herself as Guinevere Corey, Sheridan's lawyer. When
+   she asks what they are discussing, Sheridan responds that they are
+   discussing the truth, which she calls "the favorite song of the
+   legally ignorant." Delenn asks if they are finished with their
+   discussion, but Guinevere answers affirmatively for Sheridan. Delenn,
+   Lennier, and Ashan leave.
+   
+   As they leave the office, Lennier and Ashan bid each other goodbye,
+   and Lennier comments that the situation does not look good for Captain
+   Sheridan. Delenn says that the situation should not exist at all, and
+   that Sheridan's personality isn't consistent with Ashan's statement,
+   which she labels "dubious."
+   
+   Sheridan tells Guinevere that he doesn't appreciate her calling him
+   ignorant in front of other people, and she changes her choice of words
+   to "naive." He claims that he doesn't need a lawyer, but she tells him
+   that she was rerouted here because EarthDome has decided to proceed
+   with an indictment against him. Sheridan is taken aback, and doesn't
+   understand why they decided to do that. She says that the only
+   solution that is good for Earth is if they go to trial and take the
+   judgment he is given, but that she doesn't believe they can convict
+   beyond a reasonable doubt. Sheridan thinks she is hiding something,
+   and she is. She explains that, because of the trouble this will cause,
+   Sheridan will have to step down as the Commander of Babylon 5 in any
+   event.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sheridan confronts Guinevere Corey.
+   
+   Sheridan returns to his quarters and expresses his frustration and his
+   doubts to Ivanova, who offers her support and leaves him to rest.
+   Sheridan is about to relax when the door chimes. This time, it is
+   Ambassador Kosh, who has come for the lesson. Sheridan says that he
+   isn't in the correct frame of mind for the lesson, which was
+   interrupted earlier. "Precisely the correct time," Kosh tells him.
+   "Come." Sheridan tries to protest, but ends up going with Ambassador
+   Kosh to the lesson.
+   
+   Zack Allan enters Garibaldi's office, and Garibaldi gives Allan the
+   file on Ashan, telling him to keep an eye on him, but not provoke him,
+   just so they can find out what he is up to, and if he is hiding
+   anything.
+   
+   Sheridan and Kosh appear together, walking through one of the most
+   inhospitable parts of Downbelow. Sheridan tells Kosh that he doesn't
+   understand why he is there. "Good," responds Kosh. After a brief walk,
+   they reach their destination, an access panel in a dead end. Kosh
+   instructs Sheridan to go inside. Sheridan asks why, and asks what is
+   inside. "One moment of perfect beauty," explains Kosh. Sheridan goes
+   through the access panel.
+   
+   [INLINE] "You want me to go in _there?_"
+   
+   The area is very cluttered, and the ceiling low, but he eventually
+   finds what Kosh sent him to look for: a strange, hunched-over figure
+   wearing a robe. Sheridan explains that he was sent to find this place,
+   but the being only pushes forward a small dish. Sheridan explains that
+   he doesn't carry money, but cannot convince the figure. He removes his
+   stat bar, which shows his position in Earth Force, and places it in
+   the dish, which the being quickly removes. The area is then filled
+   with many strange and beautiful patterns of orange light playing off
+   the cloaks of other figures who Sheridan hadn't noticed. The area
+   comes alive with the sound of a Gregorian chant, which Sheridan drinks
+   in.
+   
+   [INLINE] Beauty in the dark.
+   
+   Vir is sitting alone with a drink at the bar, when Londo comes up to
+   him. Though it is only Vir's second drink, it is obvious he is upset,
+   and Londo asks why he is acting that way. Vir doesn't understand how
+   Londo can criticize, after all the things he has done. Vir explains
+   that he is having a difficult time doing his job, which consists
+   mostly of keeping Londo's secrets. Londo offers to send Vir home, but
+   Vir knows he can't return to his family. "Do you think that if they
+   wanted me around that I'd even be here? They just wanted be
+   anywhere--anywhere away. They had me sent here two years ago because,
+   frankly, there wasn't much competition for the job. This was a joke to
+   them. Before I left, my uncle said to me, 'You and I deserve each
+   other.'" Londo tells him that is no longer true, which Vir knows only
+   too well. He tells Londo that Centauri Prime is sending someone new
+   for his position, which has become "too important," and that they are
+   sending someone better prepared for the task. Vir says that he doesn't
+   know what to do, because he feels as if he isn't wanted anywhere, and
+   that he has no way to escape from his problems. He apologizes to Londo
+   for getting him involved, and quickly stands up and walks away. Londo
+   begins after him, but is distracted by a group of women, mostly
+   Centauri, at a table nearby, laughing at a doll of Londo. Intrigued,
+   he snatches it away.
+   
+   [INLINE] Londo comforts Vir.
+   
+   Sheridan and Kosh are in the elevator, returning from the lesson.
+   Sheridan thanks Kosh for the lesson, and Kosh exits the elevator.
+   Ivanova enters, and Sheridan explains what he learned. "Beauty...in
+   the dark." Ivanova comments that the lessons must be working, because
+   he is beginning to talk just like a Vorlon.
+   
+   Delenn enters her chambers and finds Lennier there. She tells him that
+   she was arranging to have Levell's body prepared due to the customs of
+   his clan, and that she thinks there is some information that Lennier
+   needs to see. She plays it on a monitor, and Lennier reads it.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Sheridan and Ivanova are walking down one of the station's
+   corridors when an elevator door opens, and Londo steps out, angrily
+   brandishing the doll in his likeness. "Captain! Commander! Can we
+   talk?"
+   
+   Ashan is running through some corridors on the station, as if looking
+   for something. He vanishes behind a corner, and Zack Allan, who had
+   been following him, steps out. He tries to find out which way Ashan
+   went, but before he can give chase, two hands come down on him and
+   knock him out. Lennier has been following Ashan as well.
+   
+   Lennier runs after Ashan, and comes across him, talking to the cloaked
+   man who stole Sheridan's link. Ashan and Lennier prepare to attack
+   each other, and Lennier says that he wanted to prove Ashan's
+   innocence, but now sees that, since he was talking to the man who
+   stole Sheridan's link, his story was false after all, and that he
+   would have been discovered by station security had Lennier not
+   intervened. Ashan doesn't understand why Lennier would believe the
+   word of sation personnel over his word, and Lennier explains it is
+   because Delenn believes it, and she is honorable, and he honors her
+   words. "What do you honor, Ashan? The truth, or the obligations of our
+   clan?" Before he can say another word, Ashan escapes.
+   
+   [INLINE] Lennier and Ashan face off.
+   
+   Londo says that the Centauri Government will not allow insults such as
+   the doll. Ivanova says that it is just a doll, and that it wasn't even
+   constructed by station personnel. Londo calls the doll a mockery,
+   since it doesn't have any...attributes. It takes Ivanova and Sheridan
+   a minute, but they finally realize. "You feel like you're being
+   symbolically cas...t in a bad light," Ivanova tells him. Sheridan
+   ordrs Ivanova to go and have all the dolls removed from the Imporium,
+   which she does.
+   
+   "I do not lie when I say this could have been a major embarassment to
+   all concerned," Londo says.
+   
+   "Oh, I'm sure, Ambassador," Sheridan says. "You don't lie, the Minbari
+   don't lie, no one around here..."
+   
+   "Who said the Minbari don't lie?" Londo suddenly realizes his mistake,
+   but it is too late, for Sheridan has noticed it as well and asks Londo
+   what he knows. Londo explains. "A certain Minbari once lied to save a
+   certain Centauri Ambassador from embarrassment. Apparently, there is
+   honor in helping another save face." Sheridan then realizes that they
+   would lie to protect someone's honor, but that he doesn't know who, or
+   what, is being protected. Londo leaves, and Sheridan receives a
+   message from C&C, saying that a Minbari Embassy representative from
+   Earth wants to speak to him. Sheridan has them put it through.
+   
+   Delenn is sitting alone at the rock garden when Sheridan enters and
+   sits with her. He explains to her that her government wants Ashan
+   taken from the station, and sent back to the Minbari homeworld. With
+   that important witness gone, there can be no trial, which will be a
+   relief to Earth, though there will be much doubt left behind.
+   Sheridan's credibility will be destroyed, which he believes some may
+   have wanted from the beginning. Delenn moves away and doesn't face
+   him. He tells her that he knows how it feels to be all alone, but she
+   tells him that she is truly alone, as she is completely isolated from
+   her world and her government. He asks her why she said the Minbari
+   don't lie, if they will to save another's honor. "You must understand,
+   Captain, that there is no greater honor among my people than to serve.
+   They work for generations to create a legacy, a tradition. In the
+   service of their clan, they are ready to sacrifice everything. Their
+   individuality, their blood, their life." Sheridan tells her that this
+   is a common occurrence and that larger ideals can't be preserved if
+   small ones are sacrificed. Delenn gets up and tells Sheridan to follow
+   her.
+   
+   [INLINE] "Come with me."
+   
+   Ashan up with Lennier, who gives him parting instructions. Lennier
+   says that he will go to the Captain and explain his involvement with
+   Levell's death. Ashan says Lennier had nothing to do with it, but
+   Lennier tells him that, as a member of Ashan's clan, he is equally
+   responsible. Ashan tells him that, if he does that, he will dishonor
+   himself and their clan, but Lennier says that he will retain honor, by
+   protecting Ashan, though their clan will dishonored. Ashan explains
+   that it was their clan's leaders who decided to go ahead with the plan
+   without the blessing of the Minbari government, because they were
+   angered at the appointment of Sheridan as commander of Babylon 5. He
+   explains that Sheridan destroyed the Black Star by mining an asteriod
+   field, sending a fake distress signal, thus luring the ships in there.
+   He doesn't believe Sheridan has any honor. Lennier explains that he
+   lost family on the Black Star as well, but asks if there is any more
+   honor in this betrayal. Lennier asks why Ashan was talking to the
+   human who stole Sheridan's link, and Ashan explains that Levell paid
+   him to lure Sheridan away, and provided a weapon for Sheridan's use.
+   He says that Levell, as a member of their clan, must be protected.
+   Delenn, Sheridan, Garibaldi, and Guinevere Corey appear from behind a
+   door and confront Ashan.
+   
+   [INLINE] Protecting the clan's honor.
+   
+   Sheridan explains that Delenn received Levell's burial instructions,
+   and that saving the honor of their clan was the one thing that could
+   cause Ashan to lie. Lennier reveals a small recording device he used
+   during the conversation. The door to the room opens, and Zack Allan
+   leds Ashan away. Guinevere asks Delenn if the Minbari government will
+   contest their action, but Delenn says that whomever is responsible
+   will never take responsibility for what happened. Sheridan asks if a
+   public confession is really what they want; he tells Delenn that he is
+   willing to turn over all the information as long as Ashan promises to
+   make a statement about what he saw, with no attention at all paid to
+   the clan loyalty, or any other background, and that they will leave
+   Levell's motive as one more mystery. "And around here, who'll notice
+   one more?"
+   
+   Vir is in Londo's quarters, still drinking, and with a considerable
+   hangover. Londo asks Vir how quickly he can pack, since his
+   replacement arrived a few hours earlier. Vir begins to leave, but
+   Londo stops him, saying that he should pack Londo's things first. Vir
+   asks why Londo wants him to pack his belongings, and Londo explains
+   that he explained to the Centauri homeworld that if Vir goes, he goes
+   as well. Londo told them he considers Vir a good worker, and that he
+   needed Vir to work with him, which astonished Vir's family. Londo
+   tells Vir that he hasn't treated him very well, but that he can change
+   the way he acts. He asks Vir to stay, and says that if Vir leaves, he
+   will have to as well, and, should that happen, he will have to kill
+   Vir. "What are friends for?" Londo leaves, but not before Vir thanks
+   him. Londo also explains to Vir that he invited Vir's entire family to
+   stay with him for a once, knowing he wouldn't mind. Vir tries to
+   protest, but Londo is already gone. Vir goes back to his drinking.
+   
+   Sheridan and Ivanova meet together, and he asks her how the Babylon 5
+   store is going; he now believes it's a good idea to help defray
+   operating expenses. She presents him with a teddy bear, dressed in a
+   baseball jersey and cap, which he admires, including the motto on the
+   back: Ba-bear-lon 5. He notices the bear's monogram, which reads J.
+   S., which Ivanova tells him stands for John Sheridan. When this hits
+   Sheridan, his cheery mood changes, and he orders Ivanova to have the
+   store removed and everything gone by the next morning. She leaves to
+   follow his orders, but not before he takes the bear from her.
+   
+   Warren Keffer, in one of the Zeta Squadron starfuries, flies away from
+   Babylon 5. A communication comes in from the station. "Have you traced
+   that unidentified object?" Keffer is in the midst of responding, when
+   the starfury collides with a teddy bear. "Have you encountered
+   unidentified object? Can you describe it?"
+   
+   [INLINE]
+   
+   "Negative, Babylon Control. I don't think so. Not on a bet. Heading
+   back to the barn." Keffer pilots the starfury back to the station, as
+   the teddy bear floats, suspended in space.
+
+   [14][Next] 
+   
+      [15]Last update: February 25, 1996
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+  Transcript by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
+  
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+                                      
+                                ISN Network
+                                 "36 Hours"
+                             September 16, 2259
+                                      
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Announcer
+          We interrupt your evening schedule to bring you the following
+          special program. September 16, 2259. The Interstellar Network
+          News presents "36 Hours on Babylon 5" with your host, Cynthia
+          Torqueman, reporting live from the ISN News Center, in Geneva.
+          
+   Torqueman (at anchor desk)
+          [INLINE] Good evening, I'm Cynthia Torqueman. In the hundred or
+          so years since humanity went to the stars, we've established
+          outposts and colonies on over two dozen worlds in fourteen
+          solar systems. Out of all those far-flung outposts, only the
+          Mars Colony, plagued by scattered groups of separatists, who
+          have used acts of terror to intimidate the Earth-loyal
+          majority, has proven more controversial than the Earth Alliance
+          station, Babylon 5. Located in a sector of space near Epsilon
+          Iridani, designated neutral territory, Babylon 5 has defied the
+          odds and continued to operate as a free port, a center for
+          diplomacy, and a showpiece for the Earth Alliance Resources and
+          Technologies division. From its highly publicized debut three
+          years ago, recent polls indicate a growing dissatisfaction with
+          the time, money, and effort consumed by this space-borne
+          community. So, tonight, we take you to the center of the
+          controversy. An ISN crew and I recently spent 36 hours aboard
+          Babylon 5, asking hard questions and, on occasion, get in a
+          little over our heads. In the process of putting this report
+          together, it didn't take us long to learn the most important
+          rule of survival aboard Babylon 5: expect the unexpected.
+          
+   _Video Footage_
+          _(The bridge of a ship. Babylon 5 is visible outside, with two
+          much smaller ships in front of it)_
+          
+        Torqueman (voiceover)
+                This footage was shot from our position on the bridge of
+                the Earth transport Heyerdahl, on the final approach to
+                Babylon 5. The voices you are hearing are those of the
+                ship's captain and B5 Command and Control.
+                
+        Ivanova
+                Confirmed Heyerdahl. We...Narn transport N'ton, return to
+                your holding position at once. I repeat, return to
+                your...
+                
+        [INLINE] Narn ship
+                Shadraka.
+                
+        Ivanova
+                Centauri vessel Malios, break off.
+                
+        Narn
+                N'tok! N'tok!
+                
+          _(The Narn ship fires on the Centauri ship several times,
+          destroying it.)_
+          
+   Torqueman (at anchor desk)
+          A terrible explosion, conspiracy involving several of these
+          individuals _[pictures of Sheridan, Londo, and G'kar appear
+          over her shoulder],_ lies, deception, and the deaths of
+          hundreds of people. All this and more on "36 Hours Aboard
+          Babylon 5," here on the Interstellar Network News. We'll be
+          back with our story right after this break.
+          
+   Announcer
+          "36 hours...," sponsored by Interplanetary Expeditions.
+          Exploring the past to create a better future.
+          
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   _Commercial break_
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Torqueman (from a chaotic docking bay)
+          Thirty minutes ago, a Narn vessel opened fire on a Centauri
+          transport without warning or explanation. The bodies of the
+          dead and wounded are being brought to this central docking area
+          for transfer to various MedLab facilities on Babylon 5, which
+          are already working beyond maximum capacity. Behind me is Dr.
+          Stephen Franklin, Chief of Staff. Doctor? Doctor Franklin?
+          
+   Franklin (to medical assistants)
+          ...for immediate surgery and full CAT scan. I need more regent
+          packs over here, people.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          Dr. Franklin, Cynthia Torqueman, ISN news. What happened here?
+          
+   Franklin
+          I don't know. Somebody said something about an ambush. (to
+          assistants) All right, keep his head elevated thirty degrees
+          minimum or he'll choke on his own blood.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          Can you say what the reason was...
+          
+   Franklin
+          I'm sorry...
+          
+   Torqueman
+          Captain Sheridan! Cynthia Torqueman, ISN news. Do you have any
+          comment on what just happened here?
+          
+   Sheridan
+          No, no comment at this time. (to Franklin) Doctor...
+          
+   Torqueman
+          What about the Narn vessel that attacked the transport.
+          
+   Sheridan
+          We dispatched a fighter wing to apprehend them. We won't know
+          anything more until they're in protective custody. If you will
+          excuse me please.
+          
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   _Ambassador Londo Mollari, Centauri Republic_
+          This is exactly the kind of behavior that endangers the very
+          purpose of Babylon 5. This place is dedicated to finding
+          peaceful solutions to our problems. For the Narn to carry their
+          vendetta against our people into neutral territory like this is
+          reckless and irresponsible. And though we mourn our own losses,
+          we have felt strongly about our friends from Earth, ever since
+          we first encountered your world a hundred years ago. To
+          endanger your people for no reason...
+          
+   Torqueman
+          Then the attack on your transport was completely unprovoked?
+          
+   Ambassador Mollari
+          Of course.
+          
+   * * *
+          
+   _Ambassador G'kar, Narn Regime_
+          He's lying.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          Then can you tell us why your ship opened fire on the Centauri
+          transport?
+          
+   G'kar
+          I'll issue a statement after I have consulted with my
+          government.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          Are you saying your government sanctioned this attack?
+          
+   G'kar
+          No.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          Do you think attacks of this nature put everybody aboard
+          Babylon 5 in unnecessary jeopardy?
+          
+   G'kar
+          We are already in far greater jeopardy than you can possibly
+          imagine.
+          
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   Torqueman
+          For all the apparent danger in this part of space, it seems to
+          have had little effect on travel. Nearly a quarter of a million
+          humans and aliens are here at any given moment. While most are
+          in transit to distant worlds, many others actually live and
+          work here. What does it take to call a place like this home?
+          
+   * * *
+          
+   _Eduardo Delvientos. Dock Supervisor. Guild dockworkers on B5: 1500._
+          Well, it's a...it's a job. I've been in a lot worse places, let
+          me tell you. It gets crazy around here sometimes, you got
+          fifty, sixty ships a day coming through here, loading and
+          unloading, and every last one of them is a priority job, at
+          least that's what they tell us. (to a worker) Hey, watch those
+          crates over there. Get 'em over to the side. No, no, the other
+          side. (to Torqueman) We had a couple of problems here last
+          year, try to hit us with some budget cuts. You know, same old
+          song. But that's the past. You gotta go along to get along, you
+          know what I mean?
+          
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   _Second Lieutenant David Corwin. Earthforce personnel on B5: 6500._
+          Overall, I've found this to be a good working environment, and
+          a valuable experience. I've learned a lot while I've been here.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          And you've never felt that your safety has been compromised?
+          
+   Corwin
+          No ma'am.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          So this has been a positive experience for you?
+          
+   (Corwin smiles and nods)
+          
+   Torqueman
+          [INLINE] You enjoy working with everyone?
+          
+   Corwin
+          (Glancing at Ivanova over left shoulder) Yes. It's a calm,
+          pleasant environment. I don't think I've ever seen anyone get
+          upset here.
+          
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   _Captain John J. Sheridan. Recipient, Earthforce Silver Star for Valor
+          in Minbari War._
+          I guess it's the old joke, "You don't have to be crazy to work
+          here, but it helps." I suppose there is a...certain attraction
+          to being out here on the edge like this. A new frontier...
+          
+   Torqueman
+          New frontier is right. When Babylon 5 went online in 2257,
+          oddsmakers from New Vegas to Lloyds of London were predicting
+          it wouldn't last six months.
+          
+   Sheridan
+          Hmm. Well, I've never been very much on gambling. Never quite
+          found the time for it.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          You were originally a starship captain, correct?
+          
+   Sheridan
+          Yeah. The Agamemnon. She was a real beauty. One of the first
+          Omega class destroyers to come off the assembly line after the
+          war. Our job was part military patrol, part diplomatic mission.
+          We went around to most of the Non- Aligned Worlds, put in an
+          appearance, kept the peace, that sort of thing.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          Babylon 5 has been through some dramatic changes in
+          administration since it became operational. Would you attribute
+          these changes to...bad management, or, to quote former Senator
+          Hidoshi, "Is this horse just to big for anybody to ride?"
+          
+   Sheridan
+          Changes are part of the military life. Everybody goes into this
+          knowing that tomorrow you could be someplace you hadn't even
+          heard of 24 hours ago. I've been stationed so many places over
+          the years I can't even remember most of them. But you're right.
+          Some days this is one hell of a big horse.
+          
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   _Dr. Stephen Franklin. Chief of Staff. Medlab facility. Speciality:
+          Xenobiology_
+          [INLINE] You know what the folks back home don't understand,
+          the ones who've never left Earth, is just how dangerous space
+          can be. Aside from incidents like this, just the everyday
+          reality of living your days and nights in a big tin can
+          surrounded by a vacuum. I remember my first time on a
+          transport, on the Moon-Mars run. I was just a kid, maybe
+          seventeen. A buddy of mine was messing around, and zipping
+          through the halls, and he hid in one of the airlocks. I don't
+          know, I guess he was gonna try to scare us or something, I
+          don't know...But just as I got close, he must have hit the
+          wrong button because the air doors slammed shut, the space
+          doors opened, and he just flew out into space. You know, the
+          one thing they never tell you is that you don't die instantly
+          in vacuum. Just hung there, against the black, like a puppet
+          with his strings all tangled up. Or one of those old cartoons
+          where you run off the edge of a cliff and your legs keep going.
+          You could see that he was trying to breathe, but there was
+          nothing. The one thing I remember, when they pulled in his
+          body, his eyes were frozen. A lot of people make jokes about
+          spacing somebody, about shoving somebody out an airlock. I
+          don't think it's funny. Never will.
+          
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   Torqueman
+          Although the airlocks on Babylon 5 are considerably safer, the
+          last three years have shown that the station itself is anything
+          but secure. In its first year of operation, there were half a
+          dozen murders, three acts of sabotage including a bomb that
+          blew out two levels, and a barely averted attack by the Vorlon
+          Empire. Since then, there have been fifty deaths by violence.
+          So the question remains, given its cost in lives and money, is
+          Babylon 5 serving any useful purpose, or, as we're about to
+          see, is the whole thing falling apart at the seams?
+          
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   G'kar
+          I've just been briefed by my government, and I'm prepared to
+          issue the following statement. The Centauri ship that was
+          attacked by one of our vessels was not simply a commercial
+          transport. It was secretly transferring weapons of mass
+          destruction to ships bound for the front lines where they were
+          to be used in the war against our people. They have turned
+          Babylon 5 into a weapons supply post, and we cannot allow this
+          to continue, even if it means shutting down Babylon 5
+          completely.
+          
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   _commercial break_
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Announcer
+          "36 Hours on Babylon 5" continues with Cynthia Torqueman.
+          
+   Torqueman (at anchor desk)
+          According to figures released by the newly-formed office of
+          public morale, President William Clark has risen to dramatic
+          new levels of popularity, because of his administration's
+          emphasis on addressing the needs of Earth. As a result, recent
+          hearings in Earthdome have openly questioned how much time and
+          money should be invested in a project that seems perpetually
+          bogged down in non-human conflict. So, we took that question to
+          Senator Ronald Quantrell.
+          
+   * * *
+          
+   _Senator Ronald Quantrell. Chairman: Babylon 5 Senate Oversight
+          Committee._ (in his office)
+          Well, obviously, Babylon 5 is something President Santiago
+          believed in very strongly and I think we owe it to his memory
+          to try to make it work.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          That doesn't exactly sound like a ringing endorsement.
+          
+   [INLINE] Quantrell
+          Well, clearly we've taken a lot of heat, and the cost overruns
+          have been appropriately astronomical. But let's remember that
+          the Babylon Project was conceived right after the Earth-Minbari
+          war. At that time, the idea of a diplomatic station designed to
+          keep anything like that from happening again was very
+          appealing.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          And now?
+          
+   Quantrell
+          Now? Well...still too early to tell. Certainly we've rebuilt
+          our military forces to a point far in advance of where they
+          were fourteen years ago. If the Earth-Minbari war started
+          today, I think things might have gone a little differently. So,
+          while I'm not sure how much...concrete benefit we really derive
+          from Babylon 5 any longer, I suppose it still does keep us in a
+          highly visible position with other races, and of course it's
+          very important to interstellar commerce and trade.
+          
+   * * *
+          
+   Sheridan
+          Well, with all due respect to Senator Quantrell, speaking as
+          someone who did his part in the front lines, I'd have to say we
+          still haven't fully recovered from the Minbari war. And we
+          haven't anywhere near the level of technology we would need in
+          the event of another major conflict. And anybody who thinks
+          that we could hold our own with the Minbari, the Centauri, and,
+          God forbid, the Vorlons, is just plain kidding himself.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          You sound angry about it.
+          
+   Sheridan
+          No, I'm not. It just...it just sounds to me like...like
+          jingoism and self-deception and armchair quarterbacking. Any
+          time you lose a war, you just...you just wait a few years, and
+          you'll hear from everyone who thought that we could have won if
+          they'd have done the fighting.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          Except, of course, Captain, we didn't lose the war. The Minbari
+          did surrender.
+          
+   Sheridan
+          (Pause, then smile) Of course.
+          
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   Torqueman
+          Who are the people who run Babylon 5, and what do they do here?
+          What are their hopes and dreams? I'm standing in what's called
+          the Observation Dome, or C&C, short for Command and Control.
+          When the Captain is otherwise engaged with diplomatic or
+          business affairs, this place is under the watchful eye of its
+          perky and energetic commander, Susan Ivanova.
+          
+   Commander Susan Ivanova (to a ship)
+          All right, make one more sweep pulling in whatever you got,
+          then head for the barn.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          Commander Ivanova, would you mind telling us what it is you're
+          doing here?
+          
+   Ivanova (showing her a control panel displaying the HAZMAT team)
+          We're investigating Ambassador G'kar's allegations that the
+          Centauri transport was carrying weapons, justifying his
+          government's attack. The HAZMAT team outside is checking the
+          debris for any unusual levels of radiation or trace elements
+          that could indicate the presence of unauthorized weapons.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          While we wait for the analysis, would you mind telling us a
+          little about yourself, how you got here?
+          
+   Ivanova
+          Well, there's really not much to tell. I was born in the
+          Russian Consortium, but spent most of my life at school abroad.
+          Graduated from OTC ten years ago.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          How did you come to join Earthforce?
+          
+   Ivanova
+          After my brother Ganya was killed in the war, I felt that I had
+          to try and finish what he started. Of course, as my luck runs,
+          the war was over before I saw any action.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          Now, Commander, I'm sure there's more to your story than that.
+          
+   Ivanova
+          Yes.
+          
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   _Security Chief Michael Garibaldi_
+          What do I hope for? I hope to get through this interview
+          without getting myself fired. How's that for a start? Hmm. I
+          don't know, it's one of those questions I don't think about in
+          words. Maybe because so many times it seems like, if I say what
+          I want, it never comes.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          There must be something.
+          
+   Garibaldi
+          Yeah. There are...little hopes I guess. Every day I get up and
+          I hope nothing will happen. I'd love to be just bored out of my
+          skull for twenty-four hours. And, uh, I guess I keep hoping
+          that someday, somewhere I'll make a difference. That at the end
+          of the day, everything we've gone through for the past few
+          years will, uh, mean something.
+          
+   Ivanova (over communicator)
+          Garibaldi, we just got back the HASMAT report. We've got a
+          problem.
+          
+   Garibaldi (getting up)
+          See what I mean? Always something.
+          
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   Torqueman
+          So far, we've spent most of our time here talking to the
+          humans, but aliens make up nearly forty-two percent of Babylon
+          5's population. Many of them live here in the so-called "Alien
+          Sector," which provides alternate atmospheres for fourteen
+          different species. Ironically, the "Alien Sector" is how the
+          aliens here refer to the human part of the station proving once
+          again that beauty... and the beast...are in the eye of the
+          beholder. Probably the most elusive of all the aliens is
+          Ambassador Kosh Naranek, a representative of the Vorlon Empire,
+          sent here roughly two years ago. Nothing is known of the
+          Vorlons, in fact three expeditions sent into Vorlon space over
+          the years have never returned. The Vorlon government said they
+          had met with accidents...and suggested no further expeditions.
+          Even their appearance is a mystery, compounded by the fact that
+          Ambassador Kosh can only leave his quarters in an encounter
+          suit, which contains his atmosphere and other life support
+          equipment. A few moments ago, while we were setting up this
+          shot, we got our first glimpse of the Vorlon as he was leaving
+          his quarters just behind me. This is an ISN exclusive,
+          presented here for the first time.
+          
+   _Video Footage_
+          _(Cynthia Torqueman, wearing an oxygen mask, is speaking with
+          someone else also wearing a mask.)_
+          
+        Man's Voice
+                It's Ambassador Kosh, over here!
+                
+        Torqueman
+                Maxie, quick, the camera!
+                
+        _(The camera pans to reveal Ambassador Kosh.)_
+                
+        Torqueman
+                Ambassador Kosh! Ambassador! Cynthia Torqueman, ISN news.
+                Can we ask you a few questions?
+                
+        _(The doors in front of Kosh close.)_
+                
+        Torqueman
+                Ambassador Kosh! (to camera) Did we get that? Tell me we
+                got that. Did we get it?
+                
+   * * *
+          
+   Torqueman
+          Second in elusiveness to the Vorlon is Ambassador Delenn of the
+          Minbari Federation. After initially refusing several requests
+          for an interview, she finally agreed to talk to us.
+          
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   Torqueman
+          Since very few humans have ever been allowed on Minbar, perhaps
+          you could start by telling us a little about your world.
+          
+   _Ambassador Delenn. Minbari Federation._
+          We are the seventh planet from our sun _[a graphic of Minbar
+          appears over her shoulder]._ Almost one quarter of Minbar is
+          covered by our north polar icecap. Because our world is rich
+          with crystalline deposits, many of our cities are cut directly
+          out of crystal formations. During the spring, the patterns of
+          color caused by the light are breathtaking. Let's see, what
+          else? We have three basic languages, Len'au, Feek, and
+          Audronado, which is the language of the Religious Caste.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          Can you give us an example of Audronado?
+          
+   Delenn
+          Neech sach schnek, slem-ba. I am your friend, in peace.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          Your appearance, though, isn't typical of your people, is it?
+          
+   Delenn
+          No.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          According to station records, you looked quite different a year
+          ago. _[An image of Delenn's old appearance appears over
+          Delenn's shoulder.]_
+          
+   Delenn
+          I volunteered for this change, in the hope that it would lead
+          to a better understanding between our peoples.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          Over a quarter million humans were killed in the war with your
+          people. How do you think the families of those victims will
+          feel about your...change?
+          
+   Delenn
+          I, uh...I don't know. I uh...I would hope...
+          
+   Torqueman
+          I think they would feel hurt, betrayed. That by assuming a
+          human face, you're taking a part of us you're not entitled to.
+          What would you say to them? To all the husbands and wives and
+          children and brothers and sisters of the people who were killed
+          in the war with your people, and now see a Minbari...with a
+          human face?
+          
+   [INLINE] Delenn
+          I'm uh...I'm sorry, I can't...can we...can we stop this?
+          Please?
+          
+   Ivanova (over communicator)
+          Ambassador Delenn, you're needed in the council chambers.
+          Ambassador? Ambassador Delenn?
+          
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   Torqueman
+          We've just been informed that there's been a new development in
+          the Narn attack. The Babylon 5 Advisory Council and the League
+          of Non-Aligned Worlds have been convened to hear this update.
+          We've been given permission to record these proceedings in the
+          council chambers.
+          
+   G'kar
+          And now, thanks to Commander Ivanova's investigation, we have
+          proof of what we've been saying all along. An inspection of the
+          destroyed Centauri has found conclusive proof that she was
+          carrying fusion bombs and support equipment for ion cannons,
+          mass drivers, and heavy-energy weapons!
+          
+   Sheridan (banging gavel)
+          Now we have already filed a complaint with the Centauri
+          government on the grounds that Babylon 5 is neutral territory,
+          and is not to be used as a staging ground or a munitions depot.
+          
+   Londo
+          If I may make an observation...
+          
+   Sheridan
+          It is this kind of irresponsible activity, Ambassador, that
+          endangers this station and everyone here. It will not be
+          tolerated!
+          
+   Londo
+          Classified shipments and weapons are transferred outside the
+          station, from ship to ship. The risk to Babylon 5 is minimal.
+          
+   Sheridan
+          Oh, we've already seen your minimal risk, Ambassador.
+          
+   Londo
+          Caused by their attack on one of our vessels! Our ships have
+          the right to carry any cargo they choose. We will not surrender
+          our sovereign rights.
+          
+   Delenn
+          The sovereign rights of any race end with the threat of
+          innocents.
+          
+   G'kar
+          Enough! They're doing what they always do--using details to
+          distract us from doing what must be done! There are seven more
+          Centauri vessels berthed outside, and I have reason to believe
+          that they also carry weapons of mass destruction to be used
+          against our people. My government demands that these ships be
+          impounded and their weapons seized!
+          
+   Londo
+          No, no, no! We will not allow this!
+          
+   Sheridan (banging gavel)
+          This is Babylon 5's space. And here, we have sovereign rights.
+          
+   Londo
+          Our ships will defend themselves against any who try to seize
+          them.
+          
+   Delenn
+          Perhaps, if the transports return to Centauri space...
+          
+   G'kar
+          We cannot allow those ships to leave here with their weapons.
+          They'll just turn right around and use them against us.
+          
+   Sheridan
+          Then how do you intend to...[there is a loud sound, and the
+          lights in the room dim suddenly] What the hell?
+          
+   Ivanova (over monitor)
+          Captain, we need you in C&C. We've got a shooting war going on
+          out here.
+          
+   _Video Footage_
+          _(Securecam 15 shows several shots being exchanged before one
+          ship is destroyed. The blast causes debris from the ship to
+          strike the camera, and the image fades to static.)_
+          
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   _commercial break_
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Torqueman
+          The sounds you hear are heavy weapons on the Narn and Centauri
+          vessels doing battle just outside Babylon 5. The station is on
+          a priority one alert, and people are being evacuated to
+          shelters. We're en route to C&C to try and cover the battle. As
+          we speak, our vidsystems are being plugged into the station's
+          external cameras and communications systems, and we should be
+          seeing...
+          
+   _Video Footage_
+          _(Securecam 02 shows an image of several ships firing at each
+          other.) _
+          
+        Voice of starfury pilot
+                Coming in. Reading five, repeat five incoming hostiles.
+                No reply. Got the beacon targeting systems online.
+                
+        [INLINE] _(The image shifts to a camera inside a starfury
+                cockpit.)_
+                
+        Voice of pilot
+                Delta leader to hostile vessels. You are ordered to cease
+                fire at once. Do you copy? You are ordered to surrender
+                or we will open fire.
+                
+        _(Securecam 08 shows a Centauri vessel destroyed by a Narn ship.
+                The image shifts to Securecam 23, which captures more
+                shooting before it is disabled by fire from a Narn ship.)_
+                
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   Sheridan (in C&C)
+          Damage report?
+          
+   Ivanova
+          Levels brown ninety through ninety-two report damage. Hull
+          breach in blue seventy. Dropping pressure doors.
+          
+   Sheridan
+          Get a repair crew down there, stat.
+          
+   An Officer
+          Aye, sir.
+          
+   Sheridan
+          Any reply yet?
+          
+   Ivanova
+          Negative. Hostile forces continue to fire at each other.
+          They've started targeting our ships.
+          
+   An Officer
+          Delta squadron requesting permission to fire.
+          
+   Ivanova
+          Ambassadors Londo and G'kar on the link. They're saying that if
+          we open fire on their vessels, they'll consider it an act of
+          war.
+          
+   Sheridan
+          Screw 'em. We have a quarter million people here to defend. If
+          they won't stop this, we will. (to ships) All fighters, open
+          fire. Fire at will.
+          
+   Video Footage
+          _(In the cockpit of the delta leader.)_
+          
+        Pilot
+                Roger, Babylon Control. Delta squad, open fire. Target
+                engines and navigation if possible, but if you have to
+                take them out, do it. (to himself) Come on. Come on.
+                Heaters lit. Come to papa. Got it. Bombs away.
+                
+        [INLINE] _(He fires on a small Narn ship as he passes by the
+                observation dome.)_
+                
+        Pilot
+                This is seven. Target splashed.
+                
+   Ivanova
+          Two Narn vessels destroyed, two damaged and out of the fight.
+          Remaining Centauri vessels are offering to surrender.
+          
+   Sheridan
+          All right. Pick 'em up, bring 'em in, and throw them in the
+          brig. And I want every one of those ships scanned for weapons.
+          And tell Ambassadors G'kar and Londo that I want to see them in
+          chambers now.
+          
+   Ivanova
+          And what if they refuse?
+          
+   Sheridan
+          Then you can throw them in the...
+          
+   Ivanova (motioning toward camera)
+          Ahem.
+          
+   Sheridan
+          Then invite them again, as firmly and politely as you can. This
+          nonsense has gone far enough.
+          
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   Torqueman
+          The "nonsense" Captain Sheridan referred to is the
+          Narn-Centauri war, which, over the past several months, has
+          grown into a conflict which threatens to spill into other
+          systems and lead to an escalation of hostilities. Prior to the
+          battle we just witnessed, ISN spoke with representatives from
+          both sides, in order to better understand the history of this
+          conflict.
+          
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   G'kar
+          Roughly one hundred and fifty of your years ago, the Centauri
+          came to our world. Narn was a green and fertile place then. We
+          greeted them in peace, and spent the next hundred years in
+          chains. But we never gave up hope. We formed a resistance,
+          learned their secrets, turned their own machines against them,
+          and finally drove them from our world.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          How did you become involved with the resistance?
+          
+   G'kar
+          My family lived in G'kamizad, one of the larger cities on Narn.
+          My father... served in a Centauri household during the last
+          years of the rebellion. I was barely a pouchling at the time.
+          My mother was ill, unable to escape through the underground, so
+          we all stayed. It was a difficult time--we were striking deep
+          into Centauri resources. Things were tense. One day, my father
+          spilled a cup of hot jala on the mistress of the house,
+          and...and she had him killed. They took him out, tied his hands
+          together, and hung him from a Jalwa tree for three days. I came
+          to him the last night against my mother's orders, and he looked
+          down at me. He said he was proud and to go and fight and...be
+          all the things he never was. Then he died. The next morning I
+          ran away and killed my first Centauri.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          Why do you think they invaded back then?
+          
+   G'kar
+          Why does any advanced civilization seek to destroy a
+          less-advanced one? Because the land is strategically valuable,
+          because there are resources that can be cultivated and
+          exploited, but most of all, simply because they can. You have
+          experienced much the same on your own world. There are humans
+          for whom the words "never again" carry special meaning, as they
+          do for us.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          How do you respond to reports that your military has lost six
+          out of the last seven engagements with the Centauri forces, and
+          now the war consists mainly of holding actions and forced
+          retreats?
+          
+   G'kar
+          Centauri propaganda. We will never fall back. We will never
+          surrender.
+          
+   * * *
+          
+   Londo
+          When we first met the Narn they were, what, a primitive people.
+          We gave them technology centuries ahead of their own, took them
+          with us to the stars, taught them laws, civilized them. They
+          repaid us with terror and death.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          So you're saying that the Centauri originally came to help the
+          Narns?
+          
+   Londo
+          Of course. And at considerable expense, I might add. Which is
+          why we finally left. We wished them well, but the cost, you've
+          seen.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          Then you weren't driven off the Narn homeworld?
+          
+   Londo
+          Please. The Narn have rewritten history enough, don't you
+          think? If they wanted us gone, we were hardly going to force
+          the issue. But ever since, they have grown more and more
+          irrational, have gone out of their way to harm us, to seize
+          Centauri territory. Finally, we had to take a stand. They were
+          the ones who declared war. Not us. We want only peace.
+          
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   Torqueman
+          "We want only peace." Both sides say the same thing. But as
+          we've just seen, the reality is anything but peaceful. With the
+          skirmish outside concluded, and the captured Centauri vessels
+          about to undergo a complete search, things seem to have calmed
+          down a bit.
+          
+   Ivanova
+          What is it?
+          
+   Officer
+          Jump point forming in sector seven.
+          
+   Ivanova
+          Are they crazy? That's practically on top of us.
+          
+   Officer
+          Reading one Centauri battle cruiser.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          Maxie, do we still have a feed from the external monitors? Are
+          they on-li...
+          
+   _Video Footage_
+          _(Securecam 27 shows an enormous Centauri cruiser appear
+          through a jump point.)_
+          
+   Officer
+          We've got Ambassador Mollari on the link.
+          
+   Ivanova
+          Put him through. Ambassador Mollari, what the hell is going on
+          here?
+          
+   Londo
+          I'm sorry this has come as such of a surprise, Commander, but I
+          warned you not to interfere. You have no right to search or
+          detain our ships. If we don't act in our own defense, we invite
+          the same from others.
+          
+   Officer
+          Centauri cruiser is arming weapons, opening her gun ports.
+          
+   [INLINE] Londo
+          The cruiser will blockade Babylon 5 until our ships are
+          returned to Centauri custody intact and unopened. Any ship
+          attempting to enter or leave Babylon 5 will be fired upon,
+          boarded, and sent back. We will use the minimum possible level
+          of force, but if provoked, we are prepared to use deadly force.
+          Even against Babylon 5 itself.
+          
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   Announcer
+          ISN. The galaxy's most important network.
+          
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   _Commercial_
+          
+        _(A young boy sits alone in a living room, dejected. His mother
+                comes in.) _
+                
+        Mother
+                John, why aren't you outside playing with the other kids?
+                
+        John
+                They hate me.
+                
+        Mother
+                Now, John...
+                
+        John
+                It's true. I'm just...I'm different, Mom. I can feel what
+                they think about me, and they know I can. I called one of
+                them a liar because I knew he wasn't telling the truth
+                somehow. And he just kept hitting me until I said I was
+                the liar. I just don't know what to do anymore.
+                
+        _(A Psi Cop appears in the far corner of the room.)_
+                
+        Psi Cop
+                Don't worry, Johnny. We'll take care of it from here.
+                
+        John
+                Mom! Look! A Psi Cop!
+                
+        [INLINE] Psi Cop
+                That's right, Johnny. You know, there a lot of other kids
+                who feel just the same way you do. They're confused and
+                afraid, but they don't have to be. The problem isn't that
+                other kids don't like you, it's that they don't
+                understand you. But we do. You're special. You're a
+                latent telepath about to come into full bloom.
+                
+        Mother
+                My Johnny? A telepath?
+                
+        Psi Cop
+                Probably. But to be sure, take him down to the Psi Corps
+                Testing Center first thing tomorrow.
+                
+        Mother
+                How do I find one?
+                
+        Psi Cop
+                We're everywhere...for your convenience. We have offices
+                in schools and children's hospitals. We even have mobile
+                testing centers that travel the country. And if he
+                qualifies, we'll give him an education, a job, a purpose.
+                And, we'll pay all his bills for life.
+                
+        [INLINE] Mother
+                Oh my!
+                
+        _(A large Psi Corps symbol appears on the screen, with the words
+                TWO WEEKS LATER below it.)_
+                
+        Mother
+                Oh, John. I can't believe it. You've come so far. Just
+                look at you. We're all so proud.
+                
+        John
+                [INLINE] And I'm proud to be part of the Psi Corps.
+                
+        Psi Cop (to camera)
+                So remember. If you know someone who might be a telepath,
+                or think you might be one yourself, help them get the
+                help they need. Call the Corps!
+                
+        [INLINE] Announcer
+                Call government information for more on a Psi Corps
+                center near you. This message has been brought to you by
+                the Ministry for Public Information and your local Psi
+                Corps recruitment office.
+                
+        _(While the announcer is speaking, the words "THE PSI CORPS IS
+                YOUR FRIEND. TRUST THE CORPS." flash across the screen
+                for an instant.)_
+                
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   _Other commercials_
+     _________________________________________________________________
+                                      
+   Torqueman
+          As we enter our thirtieth hour aboard Babylon 5, the
+          Centauri-Narn crisis has not diminished. The various parties to
+          the dispute have gathered in council chambers behind me, in
+          closed session, to discuss the crisis. Meanwhile, all traffic,
+          in or out of Babylon 5 has come to a halt, due to the Centauri
+          blockade. _[Sheridan appears from the council chambers.]_
+          Captain, any progress in the negotiations?
+          
+   Sheridan
+          All sides are still talking. That's all I can say for now.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          Well, is it true that some of the senate have suggested that
+          you accomodate the Centauri by releasing their vessels without
+          further searches?
+          
+   Sheridan
+          As the commander of record on Babylon 5, I doubt that the
+          senate would attempt to undermine my position in these
+          negotiations by armchair quarterbacking. _[He enters an
+          elevator, and G'kar appears from the council chambers.]_
+          
+   Torqueman
+          Ambassador G'kar, do you have anything to say?
+          
+   G'kar
+          Only that this should prove once and for all that the Centauri
+          are a menace to more than just our world. This kind of thing
+          cannot be allowed, and we will take whatever steps are
+          necessary to make that perfectly clear to them.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          Well, what does that mean? Ambassador G'kar!
+          
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   Senator Quantrell (in his office)
+          Certainly the events on Babylon 5 which took place during your
+          recent visit are emblematic of what many of us at Earthdome
+          have been worried about for some time. By placing an Earth
+          installation between warring factions, we risk being drawn into
+          a conflict which has nothing to do with us, or Earth interests.
+          If we had not been in that place at that time, the terrible
+          loss of life might have been avoided.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          On the other hand, senator, they are at war with one another.
+          People die in war.
+          
+   Quantrell
+          Yes, but it wouldn't have happened in our backyard. What
+          happened next came with the reluctant support of Earthdome, but
+          hundreds of deaths...I don't see how we can support that sort
+          of thing. I'm only glad you made it out alive, Cynthia. We need
+          all the good reporters we can get.
+          
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   Torqueman
+          Ten minutes ago, Captain Sheridan received a coded transmission
+          from Earthdome on the current crisis. After considerable
+          negotiations, we've been allowed back into C&C...
+          
+   Sheridan
+          Captain John Sheridan, Babylon 5, to Centauri cruiser. My
+          government has rejected your demand that we release your ships.
+          We will not consider any demand made under terrorist threat. We
+          have activated our defense grid, and are prepared to defend all
+          ships coming through here. Any hostile action taken by you
+          against ships entering or leaving this station will be
+          considered an attack on Babylon 5 itself, and we will respond
+          accordingly. If they send back a reply, don't acknowledge it.
+          
+   An Officer
+          Aye, captain.
+          
+   Sheridan
+          We'll let 'em sweat for a while.
+          
+   Ivanova
+          I hope this works. I know that our defense grid can probably
+          hold them off, but the repurcussions...
+          
+   Sheridan
+          Oh, they're bluffing. I can't believe they'd take on the whole
+          station. That'd bring Earth in on the side of the Narns, and
+          the last thing the Centauri want is a war on two fronts.
+          
+   An Officer
+          Docking bay nine just linked in. The transport's ready to go.
+          
+   Sheridan
+          Bring her up. Activate autopilot. We'll run the transport from
+          here, make sure no one gets hurt. Just in case they're not
+          bluffing.
+          
+   Ivanova
+          Bring the maintenance bots around for a closer look.
+          
+   _Video Footage_
+          _(Securecam 23 shows the transport leaving Babylon 5.) _
+          
+        Voice
+                Move Securecam 23 to high overhead and Maintbot 9 through
+                14 at twelve-click intervals...
+                
+   Ivanova
+          You realize that if they do attack the transport, they'll turn
+          right around and fire on us next, figuring we'll have to
+          retaliate.
+          
+   Sheridan
+          I know.
+          
+   _Video Footage_
+          _(Maintbot 12 shows the transport making its way toward the
+          Centauri cruiser.)_
+          
+   Sheridan
+          All tracking stations. If you see their weapons targeting us,
+          open fire.
+          
+   _Video Footage_
+          _(Maintbot 17 shows the transport nearing the Centauri
+          cruiser.)_
+          
+   Sheridan
+          Any reply from the cruiser?
+          
+   An Officer
+          Negative, sir. No response.
+          
+   Ivanova
+          Their weapon system is still armed. I don't like this.
+          
+   _Video Footage_
+          _(Maintbot 9 shows the transport begin to pass under the
+          cruiser. The image shifts to inside the transport, where it
+          continues under the cruiser with no problems. The image shifts
+          back to Maintbot 9, where the transport makes its way past the
+          cruiser.)_
+          
+   Ivanova (as the officers at C&C clap)
+          Well, the transport's through. We called their bluff.
+          
+   An Officer
+          Getting a signal from the Centauri cruiser. They want to talk.
+          
+   Sheridan
+          Open a channel. Let's be gracious about this.
+          
+   Torqueman
+          Captain, any thoughts on the...
+          
+   An Officer
+          Second jump point forming in sector ten.
+          
+   _Video Footage_
+          _(Maintbot 06 shows a Narn cruiser arrive through a jump
+          point.)_
+          
+   Sheridan
+          Oh, hell. Babylon Control to Narn cruiser. We do not, repeat we
+          do not require assistance. Do not interfere. We have the
+          situation under control...
+          
+   An Officer
+          Narn cruiser powering up weapon systems.
+          
+   Sheridan
+          No! Listen to me, we do not need...
+          
+   _Video Footage_
+          _(Maintbot 12 shows the Narn cruiser firing on the Centauri
+          cruiser several times, but hitting once. The image shifts to
+          Securecam 23 where the Narn ship continues to fire, but is hit
+          several times in return by the Centauri creature. There are
+          explosions on both ships.)_
+          
+   Sheridan
+          All civilians to the shelters. Get me that cruiser, and I don't
+          care how you do it.
+          
+   An Officer
+          Aye, sir.
+          
+   _Video Footage_
+          _(Maintbot 02 shows the Narn ship attacking the Centauri ship,
+          which causes a piece of debris to fly directly toward the
+          observation dome.)_
+          
+   Ivanova
+          Close blast doors, now! _[The doors close, and the Dome is
+          rocked as the debris strikes it.]_
+          
+   _Video Footage_
+          _(Maintbot 12 shows the two ships exchanging more fire before
+          the Centauri cruiser is blown apart.)_
+          
+   An Officer
+          Narns have destroyed the Centauri cruiser. They're trying to
+          open a jump point.
+          
+   Ivanova
+          Can they make it?
+          
+   An Officer
+          [INLINE] I don't think so. They're hit bad. Jump engines are
+          malfunctioning.
+          
+   _Video Footage_
+          _(Maintbot 02 shows the Narn cruiser trying to generate a jump
+          point and enter hyperspace, but the jump point looks malformed.
+          The ship begins to explode. The view shifts to Securecam 15,
+          which shows the remainder of the explosion of the ship.)_
+          
+   * * *
+          
+   Torqueman (at anchor desk)
+          As journalists, we would be remiss in our responsibilities if
+          we suggested that events such as those you've just witnessed
+          were typical of the situation on Babylon 5. Like anyone else,
+          they have good days and bad days. But there can be no question
+          that it is a flash point that can only grow hotter as time
+          passes. And yet, growth only comes through pain and struggle,
+          so perhaps we should allow Babylon 5 time to realize, or one
+          day, even exceed the dreams we have invested in it. We'll be
+          back with some concluding thoughts right after this message.
+          
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+          _Commercial break_
+            __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   Torqueman
+          After the crisis was over, the debris cleared, and the bodies
+          counted, we asked each of the people involved in this story one
+          question: Given the danger, at the end of the day, as Mr.
+          Garibaldi said, is it worth it?
+          
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   Garibaldi
+          Absolutely. Sure, when things get tense out here, we have to be
+          careful. Our search of the Centauri vessels we captured proved
+          that they were bringing in weapons of mass destruction,
+          offloading them outside the station, and sending 'em on to the
+          front lines. Now that we know that, we can make sure it doesn't
+          happen anymore. We learn. That's what humans do.
+          
+   * * *
+          
+   Londo
+          Misunderstandings aside...yes, I definitely think it's worth
+          it. We must simply work harder to make sure we communicate with
+          each other to prevent this sort of tragic situation from ever
+          happening again. A violent attack by Narn forces is an
+          unacceptable response to a peaceful protest by my government.
+          And with the intervention of Earth, perhaps we can keep them
+          from making a similar mistake in the future.
+          
+   * * *
+          
+   G'kar
+          I don't know anymore. I used to think so, but now...
+          
+   * * *
+          
+   Ivanova
+          Yes.
+          
+   * * *
+          
+   Delenn
+          Of course it is. For the simple reason that no one else will
+          ever build a place like this. Humans share one unique quality:
+          they build communities. If the Narns or the Centauri or any
+          other race built a station like this, it would be used only by
+          their own people. But everywhere humans go, they create
+          communities out of diverse, and sometimes hostile, populations.
+          It is a great gift and a terrible responsibility--one that
+          cannot be abandoned.
+          
+   * * *
+          
+   Quantrell
+          Well...I guess we'll just have to see, won't we?
+          
+   * * *
+          
+   Franklin (to medics)
+          All right, med 2. Go. Go. (to Torqueman) Look, if we weren't
+          here right now, half the people in this room would be dead.
+          That should be a good enough answer for anyone.
+          
+   * * *
+          
+   Delvientos
+          Sure. What, are you kidding? I have a retirement pension to
+          make, you know?
+          
+   * * *
+          
+   Sheridan
+          Yes, but not for any of the reasons that you've probably been
+          told. The job of Babylon 5 is not to enforce the peace, it's to
+          create the peace. And this place was built on the assumption
+          that we could work out our problems and build a better future.
+          And that, to me, is the key issue. See, in the last few years,
+          we've stumbled. We've stumbled at the death of the president,
+          the war, and on and on. And when you stumble a lot, you...you
+          start looking at your feet. You know, we have to make people
+          lift their eyes back to the horizon and see the line of
+          ancestors behind us saying, "Make my life have meaning." And to
+          our inheritors before us saying, "Create the world we will live
+          in." We're not just...holding jobs and having dinner. We're in
+          the process of building the future. That's what Babylon 5 is
+          all about. Only by making people understand that can we hope to
+          create a better world for ourselves, and our posterity.
+          
+         __________________________________________________________
+                                         
+   Torqueman
+          I'm Cynthia Torqueman, ISN news. Good night.
+          
+
+   [14][Next] 
+   
+      [15]Last update: November 29, 1995
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
+  
+   Garibaldi and Zack Allen are supervising the recent influx of Narn
+   refugees. The station is running out of space and resources to treat
+   the many injured refugees from the Narn-Centauri war before they are
+   fit to return to the Narn homeworld. Zack suggests trying to move them
+   out sooner, but Garibaldi tells him that is against Captain Sheridan's
+   orders. Because Medlab is swamped, Zack asks Garibaldi to speak to
+   Sheridan about the matter.
+   
+   Vir, outside the Zocalo, finds Morden sitting at a table. Morden says
+   that he was expecting Londo instead, but Vir explains that Londo was
+   recalled to Centauri Prime for a consultation about the war effort.
+   Morden tells Vir he doesn't understand why Vir doesn't like him, since
+   he is doing so much to help out the Centauri. Vir asks why Morden sent
+   for him.
+   
+   "I sent for Ambassador Mollari," Morden tells him. "But you're here,
+   he's not, and it can wait. If restoring the Centauri Republic means
+   nothing to you, what does? What do you want?"
+   
+   [INLINE] "I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut
+   off your head and stick it on a pike, as a warning to the next ten
+   generations that some favors come with too high a price," Vir answers.
+   "I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this. Can you
+   and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"
+   
+   Morden doesn't reply, but hands Vir a data crystal with information
+   for Londo. As Vir is leaving, he waves to Morden, as he hopes to do
+   after Morden is dead.
+   
+   Garibaldi enters Sheridan's office and asks him for some discretionary
+   power over the Narn refugees. Sheridan tells him that he assumed the
+   station could handle the problem, and that it is hard to turn any of
+   them away. He instructs Garibaldi to have Dr. Franklin sort through
+   everyone, give them only as much treatment as they need, and then send
+   them off as soon as possible. Garibaldi agrees, saying that it will
+   not make Earth Central happy. Garibaldi notices a monitor on the wall,
+   which contains a diagram of the Icarus, the ship Anna Sheridan was on
+   when she died. Sheridan explains that he is trying to sort through the
+   rest of his wife's possession, and was going over the mission
+   information she sent him. Garibaldi expresses his regret, and asks to
+   look at the information. While filing through the crew manifest, he
+   sees a face he recognizes. Sheridan at first protests, saying that
+   everyone on the ship died with Anna, but Garibaldi insists he knows
+   better. "Captain, I know what I'm talking about. I've seen him before.
+   He's alive." He shows the Captain the picture he recognizes. It's
+   Morden.
+   
+   Garibaldi insists that he knows Morden, which makes Sheridan extremely
+   upset, since Morden should be dead. Sheridan asks why the security net
+   didn't catch him, and Garibaldi explains that, since they don't get
+   death certificates on everyone, Morden would not be found out unless
+   he broke station rules, which he hasn't done. Sheridan orders
+   Garibaldi to find Morden.
+   
+   [INLINE] Talia is in her quarters when her door chimes. A man enters
+   and introduces himself as Pierce MacAfee. She greets him and asks what
+   she can do for him. He explains that he is from the Ministry of Peace
+   on Earth and would like her support for a series of new programs. He
+   explains that the objective of the Ministry of Peace is to help humans
+   find peace with themselves, so it will be easier to attain peace with
+   other planets. He tells her that he will be giving a series of
+   presentations about the programs, and that, because she was
+   recommended to him by her superiors, he would like her to attend. She
+   agrees.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin is in his office listening to medical reports, and barely
+   able to keep his eyes open when Ivanova enters and notes that he
+   hasn't slept in 36 hours. He tells her that he has to keep working,
+   but she suggests he have someone else take over. When he tries to
+   protest, she orders him to get some sleep and then join her in the
+   mess hall for breakfast afterwards. Though he initially protests, he
+   eventually agrees, and leaves to get some sleep.
+   
+   [INLINE] A line of people are having their identicards checked by Zack
+   Allen. Morden gives his card to Zack, and is instructed to step out of
+   line and wait for a moment. Morden tries to avoid doing so, but when
+   he tries to leave, he is surrounded by several security guards.
+   
+   Sheridan sits across a table from Morden, saying nothing. Morden says
+   that it is traditional to charge someone if they are being held.
+   Sheridan says nothing, but produces a picture of his wife and gives it
+   to Morden. Morden asks what the picture is supposed to mean, and
+   Sheridan's only reply is to show a news report on the Icarus. Morden
+   finally understands the matter, and he explains that he was on board
+   the Icarus, but doesn't remember what happened. He was in an EVA suit,
+   unconscious, when a transport came to investigate the Icarus'
+   disappearance. The shock and trauma of whatever happened erased his
+   memory. Sheridan asks why Morden didn't check in with Earth Central,
+   and Morden says that it took him a long time to remember his name, let
+   alone file a report. He claims he sent a message, but that it must
+   never have been recieved. Sheridan calls him a liar, and Morden tries
+   to leave, but Sheridan won't let him.
+   
+   [INLINE] "You're not going anywhere."
+   
+   Morden reminds Sheridan that he can't be held without charges.
+   Sheridan explains that, since Morden is officially "dead," he has no
+   rights and no legal recourse. "You're playing a very dangerous game,
+   Captain," Morden tells him. "It could cost you your command." Sheridan
+   insists that Morden won't be leaving until he tells the truth.
+   
+   [INLINE] Ivanova and Franklin sit together in the mess hall, finishing
+   their breakfast. Franklin mentions that he had bad dreams, dreams of
+   the patients he's lost. Ivanova agrees that it is difficult to think
+   about all of the Narn refugees since, by the time they arrive, they
+   are behind help. Franklin asks her if she believes in God, and she
+   tells him that most of the time, she does. Franklin tells her that he
+   is a foundationist, and believes that "God is too big to be defined by
+   words" and that "the closer you get to defining God, the further away
+   it gets." She asks what this has to do with his dreams, and Franklin
+   tells her that, just before patients die, he can see God reflected in
+   their eyes. "I've seen a lot of reflected Gods today, Susan, and I'm
+   wondering how we can keep believing in them when they've stopped
+   believing in us."
+   
+   [INLINE] Sheridan continues his interrogation of Morden, finding
+   discrepancies in his story as they continue. As it continues, Sheridan
+   becomes more angry and more tyrannical. Sheridan asks what happened to
+   the Icarus, but Morden claims he doesn't know. Sheridan tells Morden
+   that, by the time he is through, Morden will wish he had died with the
+   others.
+   
+   [INLINE] Pierce MacAfee addresses a group of people in a conference
+   room, explaining about the Ministry of Peace. He explains that its
+   objective is to help people find peace with themselves. Looking at
+   Babylon 5 as a microcosm of Earth, MacAfee explains they have
+   developed a system called the Night Watch, the purpose of which is to
+   detect possible problems. He says it is a volunteer organization, and
+   that it pays fifty credits a week. All they need to do is wear a black
+   armband, so that people know the Night Watch is around. The Ministry
+   of Peace wants to raise public awareness and help people think about
+   peace. Zack Allen, sitting near Talia in the audience, asks what else
+   is entailed by being in the Night Watch. MacAfee says that those that
+   work against peace simply don't know any better, and they need to be
+   taught and rehabilitated; it's up to the Night Watch to spot such
+   people and report them. By doing this, they can protect society from
+   harmful ideas and misinformation. "We're less interested in actions
+   than we are in attitudes," MacAfee tells them. "We must help protect
+   society against its own worst instincts." He says he is proud to be a
+   part of the organization, and hopes that the others will join him.
+   
+   Sheridan goes to Garibaldi's office. He tells Garibaldi that he's
+   close to getting the truth out of Morden -- all he needs is to find
+   one provable lie in Morden's story. Garibaldi points out that Sheridan
+   has had Morden locked up for ten hours without charges, which is
+   blatantly illegal. He offers to have Morden followed, but Sheridan
+   refuses. The two argue about regulations. Finally, Garibaldi says he
+   can't be present as chief of security while something like this is
+   going on, and threatens to resign if Sheridan persists. Sheridan says
+   nothing. Garibaldi lays down his PPG, security card, and link, and
+   leaves the room.
+   
+   Sheridan is still sitting in Garibaldi's office when Zack Allen
+   enters. Sheridan tells Zack that Garibaldi has taken a leave of
+   absence, and that he wants him in charge of Morden until Garibaldi's
+   return. Zack agrees, and Sheridan receives a call from C&C saying that
+   Vir Cotto wants to meet with him. Sheridan says he will meet with Vir
+   in ten minutes. Before he leaves, Sheridan asks Zack to bring Talia to
+   the office so that he may speak with her.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sheridan meets with Vir. Vir says he's come to ask that
+   Morden be released; this stuns Sheridan, who asks how Vir knows
+   Morden. Vir is vague on the subject. Sheridan asks why Vir thinks the
+   station personnel have Morden. Vir replies that Morden didn't show up
+   for a meeting, and since the records show he's still on the station,
+   he deduced that Sheridan's people had Morden. Morden is a guest of the
+   Centauri Republic, Vir continues, and is thus eligible for diplomatic
+   immunity. This stuns Sheridan, and he asks why Morden is so important
+   to the Centauri Republic. Vir says that it is an internal matter, and
+   once again asks for Morden's release, but Sheridan refuses, on the
+   grounds that diplomatic immunity only applies once charges are filed.
+   Morden, Sheridan says, is in protective custody. "Protecting him from
+   what?" asks Vir. "I haven't decided yet," Sheridan says, and leaves.
+   
+   As Sheridan walks down a corridor, Ivanova catches up with him. She
+   tells him that she was briefed by Garibaldi, and is worried about
+   Sheridan's behavior. Sheridan tells her that he knows he may be acting
+   inappropriately, but that Anna meant a lot to him, and that he can
+   simply not let that part of his life vanish away so easily now that he
+   has proof her death may have been something more than an accident --
+   if she even _is_ dead. He says that he has to know, and that nothing
+   else matters to him.
+   
+   Talia apologizes, but tells Sheridan that she can't help him. She says
+   that Psi Corps rules do not permit unauthorized scans in these
+   circumstances. Sheridan tries to get around the regulations by
+   pointing out that Morden is "officially" dead, but Talia still doesn't
+   agree to his wishes. She says that she can do nothing unless he agrees
+   to a scan. Sheridan asks her to wait outside, then tells Zack Allen to
+   move Morden to a holding cell and escort Talia back to her quarters
+   through a section of the station that will cause the two of them to
+   pass each other.
+   
+   [INLINE] Morden moves down the hall slowly, accompanied by a full
+   security escort. When he and Talia meet, their gazes lock, and she
+   sees his face become hidden in shadows. She holds her hands to her
+   head and screams, and tries to avert her gaze, but not before she sees
+   the vague outlines of two strangely-shaped beings next to Morden. She
+   falls back into Zack's arms.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin examines Talia, who insists she's all right, but says
+   that, when she looked at Morden, she felt as if she were falling into
+   a bottomless well, and that she felt a great coldness. She also says
+   she thought she saw a shape with him. Sheridan enters and begins to
+   apologize, but cannot finish before she slaps him full across the face
+   and storms out. Sheridan tells Franklin he had it coming, and Franklin
+   agrees. Franklin gives Sheridan some advice. He knows very well how
+   people act when someone they love dies, but it's not always possible
+   to do anything about it, even if Sheridan sometimes thinks he can fix
+   everything. He says Sheridan has to face that fact, but he doesn't
+   have to do it alone. Sheridan smiles in understanding and leaves.
+   
+   He is barely outside of MedLab when Delenn and Kosh appear. Delenn
+   tells Sheridan that Morden must be released at once. Sheridan can't
+   believe that they are interested in Morden as well, and wants to know
+   why everyone is so interested in him. Delenn says that Babylon 5 could
+   be in terrible danger, and that Sheridan will have to trust them, but
+   that isn't enough for Sheridan. He demands answers. Delenn and Kosh
+   look at each other, and Kosh nods to her. She agrees to give Sheridan
+   the answers he wants, but warns him that, when he learns what they
+   know, he will never be able to sleep well again. "Come, Captain," she
+   says. "The greatest nightmare of our time is waiting for you." She
+   hurries off, followed by Kosh, and Sheridan is close behind.
+   
+   [INLINE] "There are beings in the universe billions of years older
+   than either of our races," Delenn begins. "Once, long ago, they walked
+   among the stars like giants... vast and timeless. They taught the
+   younger races, explored beyond the rim, created great empires... But
+   to all things there is an end. Slowly, over a million years, the First
+   Ones went away. Some passed beyond the stars, never to return. Some
+   simply disappeared."
+   
+   Sheridan, impatient, interrupts. "Delenn, I'm sure this is all very
+   interesting, but what does any of this have to do with Morden?"
+   
+   "Not all of the First Ones have gone away. A few stayed behind, hidden
+   or asleep, waiting for the day when they may be needed...when the
+   Shadows come again."
+   
+   "Shadows?"
+   
+   "We have no other name for them. The Shadows were old when even the
+   Ancients were young. They battled one another over and over across a
+   million years. The last great war against the Shadows was ten thousand
+   years ago. It was the last time the Ancients walked openly among us.
+   The Shadows were only defeated, not destroyed. A thousand years ago,
+   the Shadows returned to their places of power, rebuilt them, and began
+   to stretch forth their hand. Before they could strike, they were
+   defeated by an alliance of worlds, including the Minbari... and the
+   few remaining First Ones who had not yet passed beyond the Veil. When
+   they had finished, the First Ones went away... all but one."
+   
+   "There's still one of them left. Where?"
+   
+   Delenn, saying nothing, slowly focuses her gaze upon Kosh. "That is
+   why Kosh cannot leave his encounter suit. He would be recognized."
+   
+   "Recognized? By who?"
+   
+   "Everyone," Kosh intones.
+   
+   "For centuries, the Vorlons stood alone, the last remaining Guardians,
+   watching and waiting. Then, last year, I sent Kosh a message." Delenn
+   tells Sheridan of the time, before she began her transformation, that
+   she sent Lennier to Kosh with a question, to which Kosh answered yes.
+   
+   "If yes was the answer, what was the question?" Sheridan asks.
+   
+   "'Have the Shadows returned to Z'ha'dum?'" She tells him.
+   
+   "Z'ha'dum?" Sheridan says. "That's the world G'kar's been warning us
+   about all year."
+   
+   "Sheridan," intones Kosh, as the small circular opening in his
+   headpiece opens. "Learn."
+   
+   [INLINE] Sheridan looks into the hole, and his face is covered by a
+   strange green light. He sees a spaceship approaching a world.
+   
+   "The Icarus," Delenn says, "your wife's ship, sent to investigate the
+   ruins of an ancient race no one has ever heard of before."
+   
+   "Z'ha'dum," Kosh says.
+   
+   Sheridan, still mesmerized by a strange light from the encounter suit,
+   sees the crew of the Icarus, on the surface of Z'ha'dum, exploring the
+   planet. He sees inside a great crevice, where a strange and terrifying
+   creature stirs, eventually opening its fiery eyes.
+   
+   [INLINE] [INLINE] [INLINE]
+   
+   As the Shadow awakens, the opening in the headpiece of the encounter
+   suit closes, and Sheridan returns his focus to Delenn. "Anna...The
+   Icarus," he says weakly, "They found something. They woke something
+   up."
+   
+   "Yes," Delenn says. "Once awakened, the Shadows could not allow them
+   to leave in case they would warn others. Those who would not serve
+   were killed."
+   
+   "But were they all killed? Delenn, maybe... maybe some of them were
+   kept alive as prisoners. Anna might still be alive! Morden..."
+   
+   "...must be released!"
+   
+   "After what you just showed me, how can you ask me to let him go?"
+   
+   "Because right now, they do not know how much we know. The last time,
+   the Shadows lost because they moved too quickly. Now, they are being
+   careful, gathering their forces slowly. If you push Morden, sooner or
+   later, he will tell you what happened. Then he will be killed. And you
+   will be killed. The Shadows will move now, before we're ready for
+   them."
+   
+   "How are they going to know?"
+   
+   "Because Morden is never alone! Listen to me. Aside from the Vorlons,
+   we do not have the First Ones to help us this time. We are on our own!
+   We will have only one chance to stop them, and if we fail, billions
+   will die. There comes a moment when each of us must pledge himself to
+   something greater than himself. You told G'kar he had to decide
+   between revenge and the good of his own people. Now you must make the
+   same decision, Captain. It will be the most important decision of your
+   life."
+   
+   Zack tells Sheridan, who is watching Morden in his cell, that he
+   should get some sleep. Sheridan asks Zack how much he knows about
+   World War II, but Zack admits he doesn't know much. Sheridan tells him
+   how the British government knew, throughout most of the war, the code
+   that the Germans used for all their secret messages. The British
+   discovered that the Germans were planning to bomb Coventry, but if
+   they evacuated, the Germans would change the code. If the city weren't
+   evacuated, hundreds would die. The British decided not to evacuate,
+   and the city was destroyed. Sheridan says he saw an old newsreel of
+   Churchill visiting Coventry, and is still haunted by the look in
+   Churchill's eyes as he realized what he had done. Zack says he's glad
+   he doesn't have to make that decision, because he doesn't think he
+   could handle it. "How many lives is a secret worth?" he asks. A
+   strange sound comes from the monitor on which Sheridan is watching
+   Morden. Zack explains they had been picking up the sound for a while,
+   but that they believe it is due to faulty microphones in the cell.
+   Sheridan asks Zack to change the view on the monitor to scan for
+   different wavelengths of light. Zack does so, and while he's doing it,
+   Sheridan sees three spider-like black creatures in the room for a
+   brief moment.
+   
+   [INLINE]
+   
+   "What did you see?" asks Zack.
+   
+   "Nothing," Sheridan replies. "Shadows." He tells Zack to free Morden,
+   and tell him it was all a mistake, and that he is free to leave if he
+   chooses. Zack leaves as Sheridan continues to study Morden's face.
+   
+   Garibaldi is eating when Sheridan approaches and returns all his
+   security equipment. Sheridan explains that he freed Morden, and that
+   Garibaldi was correct. Garibaldi asks why Sheridan changed his mind,
+   but Sheridan won't say. Garibaldi says that makes him uncomfortable,
+   but hopes that, the next time something similar happens, Sheridan will
+   listen to him. Sheridan assures him there won't be a next time.
+   Garibaldi asks if Sheridan is okay as he leaves, and Sheridan claims
+   he is. Zack Allen approaches Garibaldi and asks if Sheridan is all
+   right. Garibaldi says he doesn't know, and then asks Zack about the
+   arm band he is wearing, which displays the colors of the Ministry of
+   Peace. Zack says that fifty credits more per week, for doing what he
+   does anyway, is a good deal.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sheridan, wearing an oxygen mask, enters Kosh's quarters. "I
+   let him go," he tells the Ambassador. "But there is a price tag
+   attached. You've been trying to help me so we can understand each
+   other. That's not what I want any more. I want you to teach me how to
+   fight them, how to beat them. Because sooner or later, I'm going to
+   Z'ha'dum, and I'm going to stop them."
+   
+   "If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die," Kosh warns.
+   
+   "Then I die," Sheridan tells him. "But I will not go down easily, and
+   I will not go down alone. You will teach me?"
+   
+   Kosh has but one answer for this question. "Yes."
+
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+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/039.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
+  
+   [INLINE] Sheridan is on a baseball field, practicing his swing, when
+   Garibaldi arrives. Sheridan explains that, because of difficult
+   negotiations between the Narn and the Centauri, he needed to take time
+   to get away from it all. Garibaldi says that, despite his problems,
+   Sheridan should be glad that he didn't have to spend his day in the
+   Triangle. Sheridan asks about it, and Garibaldi explains it is a
+   section of Grey Sector nicknamed by maintenance where there are
+   strange lights, sounds, and disappearances. That piques Sheridan's
+   interest, and despite Garibaldi's objection, he insists on going and
+   taking a look.
+   
+   [INLINE] Londo and Vir step out of an elevator, discussing the authors
+   and songs of some of the finest Centauri operas. They lose themselves
+   in the music, and continue reminiscing when a black robed figure
+   appears, arms wrapped around Londo's neck. "How fitting you should die
+   with a song on your lips, Mollari," the figure tells him. The figure
+   calls him "passo liati," and Londo knows who it is -- an old friend of
+   his, Urza Jaddo. Londo asks Urza not play such a trick again, and
+   introduces Vir and Urza to each other. Londo suggests they return to
+   his quarters, drink brevare and talk, but Urza has to decline,
+   promising they will do so later.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sheridan, flashlight in hand, walks down one of the corridors
+   in the Triangle. After searching around for a few moments, he sees a
+   body lying on the floor. He tries to wake the figure, but sees that
+   the being, a Markab, is dead. Sheridan tries to call Garibaldi, but
+   interference makes maintaining a clear channel very difficult.
+   Sheridan looks at the body again, and its hand suddenly reaches up and
+   grabs his face. Sheridan is able to wrench the hand away, and the body
+   falls down dead again. Sheridan finally contacts Garibaldi and tells
+   him to get to Gray 10 right away.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin examines Sheridan and tells him that there is nothing
+   physically wrong with him, except for the common effects of a sudden
+   fright. He also explains that the body's movements were due to gas
+   buildups inside the body. Sheridan asks what killed the Markab, and
+   Franklin hypothesizes head trauma, but will not know for certain
+   without an autopsy. Garibaldi finds the Markab's identicard and
+   identifies him. Sheridan tries to explain how they should proceed
+   next, but his vision becomes very distorted. Sheridan tells Garibaldi
+   that he feels dizzy, and Garibaldi recommends that Sheridan rest and
+   hear a report later.
+   
+   Londo begins preparing drinks, and Vir asks about Urza. Londo explains
+   that they had been friends since childhood, though their families had
+   been allied almost since the beginning of the Republic. Londo begins
+   reminiscing about his youth, even though Vir doesn't understand why
+   Londo's ties to the past are so strong. Urza enters, and Londo greets
+   him. They drink together.
+   
+   [INLINE] In his quarters, Sheridan is awakened by some strange sounds.
+   He turns on the lights, looks around the room a little, and is
+   confronted by a large flying creature, which flies at him. He manages
+   to duck and grab a PPG; he fires at the creature, but the shots go
+   through it and destroy a statue behind it. Garibaldi, alerted by the
+   gunfire, enters with another security officer. Garibaldi asks what
+   happened, and Sheridan explains that the creature was a grylor, from
+   Janos VII, which once stalked him. Garibaldi suggests that it may have
+   been a nightmare, but Sheridan knows, or at least believes, it was
+   real. Sheridan asks what happened to the Markab, and Garibaldi says it
+   looks like suicide, though they don't know why he would have killed
+   himself. Sheridan suggests it may have been a religious ritual, but
+   Garibaldi disagrees. Sheridan tells Garibaldi to keep searching for
+   answers, and says he'll be in C&C if needed.
+   
+   [INLINE] Urza and Londo, still drinking, are getting reacquainted,
+   talking about life and love. When they stop to get another drink, Urza
+   tells Londo that his name is much spoken of on Centauri Prime, and
+   that they believe that both his star, and that of the Republic, is in
+   ascension again. This pleases Londo, though he is still quite angry at
+   the Narns. Urza says that the previous Emperor wanted peace, but Londo
+   claims that the Emperor was wrong about the Narns. Urza explains that
+   the Narns were lured into the war by the same faction that murdered
+   the previous Prime Minister, which Londo says he heard was an
+   accident. Urza tells him that was the "official story," but not really
+   true. Urza tells Londo that a resolution is about to be brought before
+   the Centaurum, claiming that Urza's family is traitorous to the
+   Republic. Londo believes they couldn't prove it, but Urza says proof
+   isn't necessary, only the accusation, and that he will be disgraced if
+   the "villains" have their way. Urza asks Londo to stand with him to
+   save his family, and Londo says he will do what he can. This pleases
+   Urza, who leaves, promising a banquet to celebrate their reunion.
+   
+   Sheridan enters C&C as a jump gate comes online and a ship comes
+   through. While looking at a control panel, Sheridan begins seeing
+   strange patterns again. He tries to clear his eyes, but when he looks
+   out the viewport, he sees the Icarus, his wife's ship, appear and then
+   explode. Sheridan orders the area outside scanned, but no one else has
+   seen anything. Ivanova asks if anything is wrong, and Sheridan says
+   that he has to see to something.
+   
+   Sheridan explains what just happened to Dr. Franklin, who tells him
+   that there is nothing physically wrong with him, but that there may be
+   a new virus that can't be detected. He offers to put Sheridan in touch
+   with a Markab doctor who may be able to help him, but suggests that
+   his hallucinations are more likely stress-related. Dr. Franklin puts
+   Sheridan on medical leave, and, despite Sheridan's protests, Franklin
+   orders him to relax and enjoy himself.
+   
+   Londo finally makes contact with Refa. Londo asks Refa if what he
+   heard about Urza was true, and Refa says it is. Londo offers to vouch
+   for Urza personally, but Refa won't go along, despite Londo's claims
+   of being Urza's friend. Refa says he cannot stop the resolution,
+   because it has already gone through. Refa says that Urza's house is
+   already crumbling, and anyone that tries to help will go along with
+   it. Londo becomes outraged at Refa's impudence, claiming that Refa's
+   plans would have been no use without his help. Refa says there is
+   little he can do, but promises he will try. Londo tells Vir to get him
+   a drink, and then communicate with his contacts on Centauri Prime, as
+   he will need more help.
+   
+   Sheridan is back on the baseball field practicing when Garibaldi
+   enters. Sheridan asks if they found out anything else about the
+   Markab, and Garibaldi tells him that the Markab passed through sector
+   14 on his voyage here. Sheridan says he thought that sector was
+   restricted, and Garibaldi explains it is, ever since the incident the
+   previous year when Babylon 4 returned. Garibaldi explains that it was
+   kept out of the station logs because EarthForce wanted to perform
+   their own investigation. Garibaldi explains what happened to Sheridan,
+   saying that, even though the station is gone, an anonmaly is still
+   believed to remain. Garibaldi presents Sheridan with a copy of the
+   information, made before it was turned over to EarthForce, and leaves
+   Sheridan to his batting practice.
+   
+   Londo and Vir enter the exquisitely decorated and catered banquet,
+   where they meet up with Urza. The three of them sit down at a table,
+   and Urza toasts to their friendship and to the Republic. Londo
+   comments on the calibre of the guests at the party, and Urza tells him
+   that, with Londo's help, they will spread the word. Londo tells him
+   that this isn't necessary, since he helped, but Urza says that the
+   resolution was already presented, and will almost certainly pass.
+   Londo begins saying that Refa promised to help, but this angers Urza,
+   who says that Refa is responsible for the resolution in the first
+   place, and wants him out of the way because of how much he knows. Urza
+   seems insulted that Londo would help Refa, but Londo says that he has
+   a destiny to fulfill, and only if he does, will the Centauri return to
+   their rightful place in the galaxy. Urza says he doesn't want to
+   return to that kind of glory, and Londo offers to help, but Urza tells
+   him that the way they are proceeding will never do any good.
+   
+   [INLINE] Londo offers to leave, but Urza will not let him go. He snaps
+   his fingers, and a large case is brought to the table, from which
+   Londo draws a finely-crafted sword. Londo says he cannot accept the
+   gift, but Urza takes the sword from him and embeds it in the table,
+   challenging him to a duel to the death. Londo asks why he would do
+   this, and Urza tells him he would do it to save himself and his family
+   from dishonor. Londo accepts the challenge, and Urza tells him to
+   return in two hours for the duel. Londo and Vir leave.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sheridan is watching some images of Babylon 4's return when
+   he is suddenly gripped by a powerful headache. He looks around the
+   room in agony, his vision again blurred, and he sees his parents
+   standing there. He approaches them, but they are enveloped in a bright
+   flash of light. Sheridan looks over at the frozen picture of Babylon 4
+   on the viewscreen, and believes he knows what to do. He quickly
+   leaves, leaving his commlink behind while Dr. Franklin tries to
+   contact him.
+   
+   Vir tries to talk Londo out of the duel, but Londo will not hear of
+   it, saying that to deny the challenge would be disgraceful.
+   
+   Garibaldi receives a communication from Dr. Franklin, who asks him
+   where the captain is. A device Franklin gave Sheridan to measure his
+   stress monitored a strange neural surge just a few minutes earlier,
+   which caused the link to go dead, and Sheridan would not answer
+   communication requests. Garibaldi calls his security officers, telling
+   them to look out for the captain.
+   
+   At C&C, a Starfury is detected to be about ready to launch from the
+   station, and the pilot is identified as Captain Sheridan. He tells
+   Ivanova not to worry, and that he will be back soon. Sheridan
+   overrides the Starfury's controls, opens the bay doors, and launches
+   the ship. Ivanova calls Garibaldi.
+   
+   Urza's assistants prepare him for the duel when Londo and Vir enter.
+   Londo tries to convince Urza to not fight, but Urza refuses. Urza
+   tells Londo that he has often beaten him with such weapons, but Londo
+   says that his life was never on the line before. Londo begins removing
+   his jacket.
+   
+   Garibaldi, in a Starfury of his own, contacts Sheridan asking him what
+   he is doing. Sheridan says he is giving someone a lift, and that he
+   thinks the answer lies in sector 14. Ivanova, who has been listening,
+   realizes the significance, and Sheridan confirms her suspicions. The
+   two Starfuries continue their voyage.
+   
+   A referee tells Londo and Urza to begin the duel. They hold their
+   swords before them, bow to each other, and begin the fight. During the
+   course of the fight, they both manage to inflict some damage to each
+   other.
+   
+   [INLINE] Sheridan arrives in sector 14 and tells the computer to scan
+   the area. The computer replies, saying it cannot scan the area because
+   of increased levels of tachyon particles. A large glowing area appears
+   immediately in front of Sheridan's Starfury. Sheridan begins to
+   scream, and a long stream of light shoots out from his mouth and into
+   the glowing disturbance. After a few moments, the stream of light
+   completely vanishes into the disturbance, and it closes. Garibaldi,
+   right behind, grapples Sheridan's ship. He tows Sheridan back to
+   Babylon 5.
+   
+   [INLINE] The fight between Urza and Londo continues, both of them very
+   tired, and somewhat injured. After a few moments, Urza disarms Londo
+   and sends him carreening to the ground, and prepares to deal the death
+   blow, but Londo grabs his sword and thrusts upward. Urza falls to the
+   ground, but Londo catches him. Londo asks Urza why he did this, and
+   Urza tells him that he did it for his family, because he didn't want
+   them to share in his disgrace. This way, Urza dies alone, and Urza
+   makes Londo promise to look after them, which Londo promises to do.
+   Urza tells Londo that he will miss him, and dies in Londo's arms.
+   
+   Sheridan explains to Franklin, Garibaldi, and Ivanova that the
+   lifeform that inhabited him was sentient, but alien, adn was trying to
+   survive and return to its home. Sheridan explains that the alien
+   entered the Markab's body and drove him mad. He explains that he
+   deduced what it wanted by the images it created in his mind, using his
+   emotions for communication. The prospect of such a new and different
+   alien life form very much excites Franklin.
+   
+   Londo pours some more bravare when Vir enters, telling Londo that the
+   arrangements he asked for regarding Urza's family were made. Vir tries
+   to tell Londo that he didn't have a choice and had to kill Urza, but
+   Londo isn't sure -- he tells Vir that Urza was more skilled with the
+   blade, and that, by the rules of the conflict, Urza's family must be
+   taken in by him, which makes them immune to the effect of the
+   resolution; that was the reason for the challenge in the first place.
+   Londo tells Vir that, for the first time, he questions the choices he
+   has made. Vir tries to convince Londo that he should make new choices,
+   but Londo replies that he has started down the path and must continue
+   on it until it ends. He sends Vir away, saying that he wants to try to
+   get some sleep, if he is able.
+
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+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/039.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
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+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/040.html
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+  
+   On C&C, Ivanova tells Sheridan about a Markab cruiser that is ten
+   hours overdue that has resisted all attempts at communication. She
+   says she wants to send out Zeta squadron to find out what happened to
+   the ship, and that she will do so as soon as Lieutenant Keffer
+   returns, searching for what he once saw in hyperspace. Sheridan tells
+   Ivanova to order Keffer back to the station and curb further
+   expeditions.
+   
+   Lazarenn, a Markab doctor, examines a dead Markab with Dr. Franklin.
+   The death seems rather mysterious, and Lazarenn tells Franklin he
+   would prefer to keep jurisdiction over his own species. But, since
+   this Markab is the fourth dead Markab in three days dead of natural
+   causes, Franklin is suspicious. He tells Lazarenn that he will
+   continue to run further tests.
+   
+   Ivanova explains to Zeta squadron that their mission is to find the
+   Markab ship and determine the problem, if there is one. As she sends
+   them out, she tells Keffer that Captain Sheridan has ordered him to
+   curb his expeditions into hyperspace. Though he initially protests,
+   after he is threatened with a four-month suspension of flight
+   priveleges, he changes his mind, and leaves to join the squadron.
+   
+   Sheridan sits down for dinner with Delenn and Lennier. Lennier has
+   spent two days engrossed in an exhaustive cooking ritual, preparing
+   food for Sheridan's dinner, so that he may better understand the
+   Minbari. Sheridan is anxious to begin eating, but is informed that he
+   must also follow certain rituals in the eating of the dinner. Delenn
+   explains that, if they are not followed, Lennier will have to begin
+   again. Delenn and Sheridan exchange bowls, give part of their meal to
+   Lennier in thanks, and Sheridan places one piece of food in the place
+   set aside for Valen's return. Sheridan is then able to take one bite
+   before he must meditate.
+   
+   Zeta squadron arrives at the Markab vessel, and attempts to open
+   communication, to no avail. Keffer scans the vessel, but discovers no
+   life signs, though there are over two hundred life forms on the
+   vessel. All the Markab on the ship are dead. Meanwhile, Dr. Franklin,
+   while examining the Markab on the station, asks to have access to the
+   other dead Markab before they are sent back to their homeworld.
+   
+   Zeta squadron returns to the station with the Markab ship in tow.
+   Franklin tells Ivanova that they need a full medical team to
+   investigate it, and that he thinks Sheridan should be there as well.
+   Sheridan, who fell asleep while observing the Minbari rituals of
+   eating, is awakened by Ivanova telling him to go to the docking bay
+   where the Markab ship has been brought. Sheridan apologizes, though
+   Delenn tells him that the meal was completed before he fell asleep.
+   
+   Sheridan arrives in the docking bay to find Dr. Lazarenn there, not
+   wanting Sheridan or any other non-Markab inside. Dr. Franklin explains
+   that they aren't wanted aboard the ship because all four dead Markab
+   died from an infectious disease. Dr. Franklin demands to know how
+   terminal and contagious the disease is. "It is one hundred percent
+   terminal," Lazarenn imparts. "And one hundred percent contagious."
+   
+   The plague continues to spread among the Markab population as Dr.
+   Franklin confronts Lazarenn and demands to know why he wanted to keep
+   the plague a secret. Lazarenn explains that the plague is not
+   something normally talked about -- it is considered a disease that
+   only occurs to an immoral people, because the first documented case
+   struck an immoral population isolated on the Markab homeworld, killing
+   the entire populace. They assumed that the plague had been wiped out,
+   and therefore was no longer a threat. Lazarenn explains that Drafa,
+   the disease, had been used to frighten children into behaving, and was
+   still believed to only inflict the immoral. Though the first new case
+   had been discovered nearly a year ago, the Markab were still scared to
+   admit that the problem had resurfaced, and since none of them wanted
+   to be considered immoral, it was kept secret, which made the disease
+   spread even faster. In an attempt to escape the disease, the Markab
+   have fled to every Markab colony, including Babylon 5, spreading the
+   plague throughout the Markab populace. Dr. Franklin doesn't understand
+   why he wasn't consulted, but Lazarenn tells him that he was forbidden
+   by his government, which refuses to assist in any way. Franklin's last
+   question is whether or not the disease is infectious beyond the Markab
+   species, but Lazarenn has no way of knowing.
+   
+   A young Markab girl wanders through the corridors of Babylon 5,
+   looking for something. She soon locates what she is looking for, her
+   father, who is sitting against a wall. She touches him, and he falls
+   over. She cries out and turns around, into the arms of Delenn.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin talks to the command staff and his medical officers. The
+   disease is invisible while in its incubation period of up to several
+   weeks, but after it shows up, the patients live for about a day.
+   Garibaldi asks how far it has spread, and Franklin explains that they
+   have to assume the entire Markab population has been exposed. Sheridan
+   asks if the plague is limited to the Markab, but Franklin doesn't
+   know, and says that's what they need to find out. If the disease is
+   airborne, the recycled air aboard the station could put everyone at
+   risk. Sheridan asks Franklin what to do, and Franklin wants every
+   Markab brought in for testing so they can discover how the disease
+   works. The disease, he explains, takes over the central nervous
+   system, keeping it from working properly. Sheridan orders Ivanova to
+   put the station under quarantine, keeping all ships in the station,
+   and preventing other ones from coming in. One of the medical officers
+   suggests segregating the Markab away from everyone else, but Franklin
+   says that will only cause the disease to spread among the Markab
+   faster and that, if the disease is airborne, it won't make any
+   difference. Garibaldi says that, if all the Markab are in one place,
+   he can watch over them better when turmoil strikes the station.
+   
+   Turmoil does strike the station, causing a panic when no one is able
+   to leave the quarantined station. The Markab are continuously tested
+   for the plague, as more continue to get sick and die. The Markab
+   ambassador is outraged by the way the Markab are being treated,
+   blaming Sheridan for spreading fear among his people. He tries to
+   explain that his people are moral, and believes that Sheridan might be
+   part of a conspiracy against the Markab, or that even the immorality
+   of the humans had infected them. The Markab ambassador begins to
+   leave, and tells Sheridan that he and the rest of the Markab are going
+   into isolation to protect themselves from the immorality of others.
+   Dr. Franklin calls Sheridan and tells him that the disease is indeed
+   airborne, and that his people have found a dead Pak'ma'ra with no
+   visible signs of death. He believes the disease may be spreading into
+   the general population.
+   
+   The Markab ambassador herds his people into their isolation area,
+   reassuring them that they are pure and that they will be spared the
+   plague if they are good. The other races aboard the station are all
+   too happy to see them go.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin orders an autopsy performed on a dead Markab before it is
+   too late, but none of the other medical officers want to risk
+   exposure. Franklin offers to go in, but is interrupted by Lazarenn,
+   who offers to go in instead, since he knows much more about the
+   plague. Since the isolation booth is sealed, no one else will be in
+   danger should he contract the disease. Lazarenn enters the booth and
+   appraoches the dead Markab to begin the autopsy.
+   
+   Sheridan receives a call from Ivanova who tells him that the violence
+   against the Markab is increasing aboard Babylon 5. 4,000 of the
+   station's 5,000 Markab have entered the isolation zone, but the rest
+   may be in considerable danger if found by other races. Sheridan wants
+   the violence stopped as quickly as possible. Ivanova suggests he get
+   some sleep. Sheridan agrees, but as he is about to rest, Delenn enters
+   and tells Sheridan that she wants to be allowed into the isolation
+   zone to help the Markab. Delenn says that she has been taught to help
+   others when they are in need, and though Sheridan tries to convince
+   her otherwise, he is unable to dissuade her. She says that she
+   understands the risk, and that she and Lennier should do all they can
+   to help the Markab, since they may all be in need of similar help very
+   soon. She knows that she may have to remain in there if she contracts
+   the disease, but she is willing to make the sacrifice. Sheridan
+   relents and decides to let her enter the zone. "All life is
+   transitory," she tells him. "A dream. We all come together in the same
+   place at the end of time. If I don't see you again here, I will see
+   you in a little while, in the place where no shadows fall." She starts
+   to leave, but Sheridan stops her.
+   
+   "Delenn...? When I do see you again, call me John?" She smiles, nods,
+   and leaves.
+   
+   A few humans attack a Markab, and kick him in the stomach while he is
+   down on the ground. Garibaldi arrives and stops the torture, but the
+   Markab is near death. He reaches a bloody hand out to Garibaldi.
+   Hesitating only fractionally, Garibaldi takes the Markab's hand.
+   
+   Delenn and Lennier approach the gate to the isolation zone and are
+   admitted by the EarthForce officer attending it. They enter quickly,
+   and are immediately assaulted by the great pain and death they see all
+   around them, though they are able to keep a somewhat pleasant
+   attitude, knowing that they may be able to help.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin injects himself with stims in order to keep himself
+   awake. Lazarenn, still inside the isolation area, tries to convince
+   Dr. Franklin to sleep, but Franklin says that, if the plague has
+   spread, that won't matter much. They haven't found out anymore about
+   the Pak'ma'ra, but more and more Markab continue to die, though the
+   violence has been brought under control. Franklin explains that he
+   doesn't understand why humans never learn from all the diseases they
+   face, such as the Black Death, AIDS, and Chalmer's Syndrome. Lazarenn
+   asks about the Black Death, and Dr. Franklin explains how it hit
+   Europe in the 14th century, and that it too was considered an immoral
+   disease, possibly sent by the devil. Cats, the familiars of the
+   devils, were killed by the millions, but since they were the only way
+   to control the rat population, the true way the disease was spread,
+   the plague spread even faster. Lazarenn finds the situation humorous,
+   since often the strategy that makes the least sense is the one that's
+   done the most. He then collapses against the window of the isolation
+   booth, and explains that his suspicions are confirmed: he has
+   contracted the plague. He tells Franklin to run tests as quickly as
+   possible, now that he has someone in the earliest stages of infection.
+   
+   Delenn and Lennier minister to the Markab in the isolation zone,
+   trying to make them more comfortable, though it doesn't seem as if
+   they are doing much good. Delenn sees the young Markab girl she met
+   earlier, who is now unable to find her mother. Delenn calls to
+   Lennier, telling him to find her mother. When Lennier asks how he
+   should find her, Delenn responds, "Faith manages." Delenn asks the
+   girl her mother's name, and the girl tells her that her name is Mama.
+   "Faith manages," repeats Lennier as he begins the search.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin examines some of the data from the tests, and continues
+   to run more tests, though they only have a very short period of time.
+   Lazarenn explains how he feels, and Franklin orders still more tests.
+   While he is suffering, Lazarenn thinks back to how he and Franklin
+   first met many years ago. It was when Franklin was on layover on the
+   Markab homeworld, and Franklin was hitchhiking on starships. Franklin
+   looked upon everything as a test in those days. "Sometimes the test is
+   not to find the answer, it is to see how you react when you realize
+   there is no answer." A medical officer comes up with the results of
+   the Pak'ma'ra autopsy -- the plague is now affecting the Pak'ma'ra as
+   well. Franklin, exasperated and irritable, orders some officers to
+   find out what happened to the Pak'ma'ra, before time runs out.
+   
+   The young Markab girl is still worried about her mother, and asks
+   Delenn if she has been found yet. Delenn says no, but says she knows
+   what the young girl is going through. She once became seperated from
+   her parents on a visit to the city, and she became more and more lost
+   until she found herself in an old temple, where she decided to wait
+   until her parents arrived. Though her parents didn't come for hours,
+   she felt safe there, and fell asleep. A tall figure told the young
+   Delenn that she would be fine as long as she believed her parents
+   would come. The figure told her that he would not allow harm to come
+   to her. At that moment, Delenn's parents arrived in the temple. As she
+   completes the story, Lennier too arrives with the young girl's mother.
+   The young girl runs to her mother and hugs her, and soon turns around
+   to thank Delenn, but is barely able to keep her balance. The smile
+   vanishes from Delenn's face as she realizes what is happening.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin continues tests on the Pak'ma'ra, but continues to find
+   nothing. He tries to cross-reference Markab yellow cells with
+   Pak'ma'ra green cells. Lazarenn speaks up, but is unable to say much
+   beyond, "The yellow cells could be..." He attempts to say more, but
+   fails, and dies while speaking to Franklin. Franklin, in his rage,
+   overturns a cart of medical equipment, but his anger evaporates when
+   the computer reports that a match has been found.
+   
+   Franklin explains to Sheridan that the plague works by neutralizing
+   the chemicals in the synaptic gaps of a body, which prevent the
+   chemicals from relating messages from the brain between neurons. A few
+   races use specialized cells to manufacture chemicals used in neural
+   relays, but since humans don't work that way, they aren't in danger.
+   Franklin says the disease can't be destroyed, but he can stimulate
+   production of yellow and green cells so that they will eventually be
+   able to fight off the disease. He's prepared enough for five hundred
+   doses of the cure, but hasn't had time to test it, and there is nearly
+   no time left.
+   
+   Franklin, Sheridan, and Ivanova go to the isolation zone and enter,
+   and are greeted by a grisly sight. There is nearly complete silence as
+   they look around the isolation zone and see that every Markab has
+   died. Delenn and Lennier appear. Franklin asks if anyone is left
+   alive, and Lennier tells him that they are all dead.
+   
+   Lennier departs, but Delenn, overcome by the situation, falls crying
+   against Sheridan's shoulder.
+   
+   Delenn tells Sheridan that he should be congratulated for finding a
+   way to stop the plague. Sheridan tries to explain that it is because
+   of Franklin that they were able to prevent further infection. Sheridan
+   asks what happens next time, and Delenn says that, if they honor the
+   memory of those who died, and remember what happened, the other races
+   will grow, and further problems of this sort will not occur.
+   
+   "Medical ships dispatched to the Markab homeworld have confirmed the
+   death toll," an ISN reporter says. "The entire planetary population
+   has been wiped out by the plague. Over two billion dead, in addition
+   to another two or three million on other colonies and outposts.
+   Although it is expected that some Markabs may have survived on
+   isolated colonies, for all intents and purposes, the Markab
+   civilization has been destroyed." Franklin, sitting at a bar beneath a
+   video screen, listens painfully to the news report as other patrons of
+   the bar joke about the deaths of the Markab and spread rumors about
+   the dead Markab. The bartender shuts off the television set, refusing
+   to listen anymore.
+   
+   "Nothing changes," Franklin says to himself. He gets up from the bar
+   and walks away.
+
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
+  
+   Delenn and Sheridan meet each other at a Universe Today vending
+   machine. Sheridan expresses surprise that Delenn reads the paper; she
+   explains that, after her previous encounter with Earth's reporters,
+   she thought she should be better prepared and that, on Minbar, one is
+   told only about what one needs to know, and no more. Sheridan recycles
+   the copy of the paper he has and orders a new one. Delenn does the
+   same, but is informed by the machine that "Eye on Minbari" cannot be
+   inserted into her paper. Slightly embarrassed, she explains that it is
+   a good idea to keep track of what the humans are saying about the
+   Minbari, and a good way to learn things about the Minbari that she
+   isn't told about.
+   
+   A wounded man rushes through the sewers of the Mars Colony, where he
+   meets up with a Ranger. Just before the man dies, he hands the Ranger
+   a data crystal. "Take it to Babylon 5. Tell them... tell them it's not
+   safe." The Ranger takes the data crystal and escapes back into the
+   sewers, just as the people pursuing them catch up.
+   
+   Captain Sheridan and Garibaldi meet in the bathroom and begin a
+   conversation. After making sure it is clear, Garibaldi activates a
+   bug-jamming device and asks Sheridan if he gave any more thought to
+   the idea of bringing Talia in on their conspiracy. Sheridan agrees to
+   the idea, and they make plans to tell her in a few days.
+   
+   Talia and Ivanova are eating, musing over their new friendship. Each
+   blames the other for the difficulties in achieving the friendship, but
+   their conversation is interrupted by a call from C&C for Ivanova
+   telling her that a ship arrived through the jumpgate, and has done
+   nothing since its arrival. Ivanova goes to C&C to investigate. As she
+   leaves, Talia tells her that, due to a problem in her air recycling
+   system, she needs to find a place to stay for a few days. Ivanova
+   offers her quarters.
+   
+   Ivanova determines that the ship was hit, and tries to contact the
+   ship. There's no response from the one lifeform on board. She orders
+   the ship brought aboard the station.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin arrives at the ship and meets with Garibaldi, who says
+   the ship's serial number is faked, and that he doesn't want to report
+   anything until he finds out what's onboard. Dr. Franklin's aide tells
+   him that they found one human female aboard, unconscious, but alive.
+   They wheel her out, but Garibaldi recognizes her.
+   
+   Garibaldi tells Sheridan that the woman, Lyta Alexander, was Babylon
+   5's first commercial telepath, though she lasted only a few weeks. She
+   scanned Kosh after the assassination attempt and discovered that Kosh
+   saw Commander Sinclair as the murderer, which nearly ruined Sinclair's
+   career, though he was later proved innocent. Garibaldi explains that
+   she and Dr. Benjamin Kyle, who operated on Kosh, were recalled back to
+   Earth, and Lyta was never the same after the scan.
+   
+   In medlab, Lyta wakes up, and grabs a piece of medical equipment.
+   Holding Franklin at bay, she demands to see Captain Sheridan and the
+   rest of the command staff, and to not be left alone with anyone.
+   Franklin asks why, and she explains that one of the people on Babylon
+   5 is a traitor, and says she can prove it.
+   
+   Lyta appears before Sheridan, Ivanova, Garibaldi, and Franklin and
+   tells them that Babylon 5 has a great importance to a lot of people,
+   and that she has to come back to warn them. She explains that the
+   authorities on Earth didn't believe that she didn't see what Kosh
+   looked like, and that their scans revealed nothing -- she retained
+   only a feeling, an intense belief that she had to get to Vorlon space.
+   She recently escaped from the Psi Corps. While she was on Mars, she
+   got involved in the revolutionary movement and hired herself out as a
+   telepath. One of the underground's agents was murdered after he found
+   out about a secret sleeper operation, which would implant a new
+   personality, suited to Psi-Corps' needs, into one's subconscious. When
+   a special password is sent, via telepathy, to a person inhabited by a
+   sleeper program, the implanted personality takes over completely.
+   Thus, it is possible for someone to carry the program and not know it.
+   Lyta learned that such "moles" were implanted in several government
+   agencies, including Babylon 5, although she doesn't know who the one
+   on the station is. The codename of the mole is Control, and the
+   underground suspects he or she is in the command staff. Ivanova doubts
+   this at first, but Lyta insists she has the password and can send it
+   to activate the sleeper program. Sheridan promises they will discuss
+   it, but Lyta warns him to not wait too long because the personality
+   would attempt to destroy anything it perceives as a threat. She warns
+   them to be on the lookout, and that she can't be alone, because she
+   won't be safe. She is taken to a security cell.
+   
+   Delenn and Sheridan meet, and she asks him to meet her tomorrow to
+   talk about the food shipments to Narn. He seems distracted, and she
+   asks him what's wrong, but he initially doesn't want to talk about it.
+   He relents and explains that he feels bad because things had been
+   going well, but have taken a turn for the worse. They continue their
+   conversation, and Delenn is slowly able to cheer Sheridan up. She
+   tells him that, when one is in a bad mood, one merely needs to wait.
+   He finds her holding his hand when Garibaldi calls informing him that
+   the background check has been completed. Sheridan and Delenn part
+   hastily.
+   
+   Garibaldi tells Sheridan that, as far as he can tell, Lyta is correct
+   in all that she said. Sheridan warns Garibaldi not to trust her, but
+   Garibaldi says it is a gut feeling of his that she is telling the
+   truth. Sheridan suggests that Garibaldi's aide may have been the mole,
+   but there is no proof either way. Sheridan says that he wants to think
+   about it overnight before making a decision. Garibaldi asks if Ivanova
+   has come around, and Sheridan tells him that she hasn't.
+   
+   Ivanova is working out her anger slamming cupboards in her kitchen
+   when Talia comes in. Ivanova fixes some tea for them and asks Talia
+   about Lyta. Talia tells her that they spent part of their early
+   careers in intern programs. Ivanova asks if she feels that Lyta could
+   be trusted, and Talia says that she thinks she can. Ivanova also asks
+   where Lyta interned, and Talia tells her that she interned with the
+   Psi Cops before becoming a commercial telepath. Ivanova tells Talia
+   that she doesn't know who she can trust, and Talia agrees, saying that
+   she feels that she can only really trust Ivanova.
+   
+   Zack Allen enters Garibaldi's office and Garibaldi tells him to move
+   Lyta to a more comfortable holding area, since she may be there for a
+   while. As Zack leaves, Garibaldi asks about the Nightwatch armband
+   Zack still wears. Zack says he feels it's easy money.
+   
+   Talia wakes up and feels around in the bed next to her. There is no
+   one there, and she sits up with a start. Meanwhile, two officers
+   arrive in Lyta's cell and tell her that they were sent to transfer
+   her. They leave the cell, but on the way, they are assaulted by PPG
+   fire, which takes down both of the security guards. Lyta grabs a PPG
+   and returns fire at the assailant before running off. Though other
+   guards search for her, they are unable to find her.
+   
+   Sheridan can't believe that she hasn't been located, or even that the
+   attack happened, because he had almost believed she was wrong.
+   Sheridan doesn't understand who could have done it, since very few
+   people knew Lyta was there, but Garibaldi reminds him that the sleeper
+   personality was probably responsible. He orders Lyta put under
+   protective custody, and tells Ivanova and Garibaldi that he wants to
+   let her send the scan. Ivanova is obstinate, but Sheridan says that,
+   under the current circumstances, if they don't know who they can trust
+   and who they can't, they won't be able to function properly.
+   
+   Delenn is in her quarters composing a letter regarding trade relations
+   with the Lumati when she receives a call from Lyta. Lyta asks Delenn
+   to meet her in Brown 3 in an hour.
+   
+   Talia arrives at Ivanova's quarters to tell her that the air recycling
+   system has been fixed, so she'll be returning to her own quarters.
+   Talia asks her if everything is all right, and Ivanova says she
+   doesn't want to talk about it. Talia asks where she went the night
+   before, and though Talia offers help yet again, Ivanova refusts it,
+   saying that her secrets might soon come to the surface and haunt her.
+   "After you tell someone that you've been lying to them for years,
+   maybe even putting them in jeopardy, how are you supposed to look them
+   in the face again?" Talia tells Ivanova that there are people around
+   who care, though Ivanova still has doubts. Talia reminds Ivanova that
+   she is there for her.
+   
+   Delenn meets up with Sheridan in a corridor and tells him that she
+   received a message from Lyta. Sheridan asks where she is, but Delenn
+   promised not to tell anyone. Lyta will return, Delenn says, but only
+   if everyone is present. Sheridan tells Delenn to tell Lyta that he
+   agrees to her conditions.
+   
+   Sheridan returns to his quarters and finds Ivanova waiting for him.
+   She is very troubled and tells Sheridan that she thought she was
+   ready. She tells him that she can't allow any telepath into her mind
+   ever. Sheridan tries to tell her that he understands, but she knows he
+   doesn't. "I've told you that my mother was a telepath, and that since
+   I was born she could slip into my thoughts in a way that I could never
+   even describe to you. But what I didn't tell you was that I learned
+   how to keep her out when I wanted to, and that once in a while, I was
+   the one that touched her mind. I'm a latent telepath."
+   
+   "Susan, why didn't you tell me this before? I thought we could trust
+   each other."
+   
+   "It's got nothing to do with trust. I've spent my entire life hiding
+   this, Captain. It's not something you can just change overnight. It's
+   hard enough telling you this now."
+   
+   "You're right. I'm sorry."
+   
+   "For as long as I can remember, my mother drilled three words into my
+   head: 'Tell no one.' She taught me how to fool the tests given in
+   school, transferred me from one school to another, always staying one
+   step ahead of the Psi Corps. I'm probably not even a P1--I've never
+   been able to read anyone except my mother. I can pick up on feelings
+   sometimes, I can block a casual scan, and I know instantly if
+   someone's doing it. Nothing more. But that's enough for the Psi Corps
+   to come pull you in!"
+   
+   Sheridan tries to convince her that Lyta is not involved, though she
+   is hardly convinced. He says that he believes Garibaldi, especially
+   since he so rarely trusts anyone. Ivanova thanks Sheridan. "It's all
+   this nonsense lately... some days, I don't even know who I am any
+   more," she tells him. As she says that, Sheridan remembers the dream
+   he had a few months earlier (cf. [9]"All Alone in the Night.") As he
+   starts to explain, he receives a message from C&C saying that Delenn
+   has sent him a message: "Now."
+   
+   Delenn brings Lyta to Sheridan's office. Sheridan tells Lyta that he
+   agrees to let her send the password into the command staff of Babylon
+   5. She sends the password to Sheridan, but nothing happens. She
+   follows up with Franklin and Garibaldi. Garibaldi frightens everyone
+   by pretending that the password was a success. Though Garibaldi
+   suggests they move on to Ivanova, Sheridan tells him that they will
+   wait for now, as they have many other people to check. One by one,
+   they bring the command staff into Sheridan's office, where Lyta,
+   quietly in the background, sends the password to each. None of them
+   possess the program.
+   
+   After they've scanned all the EarthForce officers aboard Babylon 5,
+   Lyta is very discouraged that they haven't found anything and begins
+   turning her frustration on the troubled Ivanova. Franklin tries to
+   convince her that Lyta isn't implying anything, but Lyta isn't so
+   sure, and demands to know what Ivanova is hiding. Sheridan breaks
+   through the tension and tells them that this is what Psi Corps wants.
+   Seeing no other option, Ivanova agrees to have the password sent. Lyta
+   tries to send the password, but is unable to get through. "She's
+   blocking me," she announces. Ivanova drops her defenses and the
+   password is sent, but Ivanova isn't implanted with the program either.
+   Lyta tries to apologize to Ivanova.
+   
+   "Go to hell," Ivanova responds.
+   
+   Talia enters and says she's been looking for Captain Sheridan. As she
+   comes in, Lyta stares at her intently and sends the password. Talia
+   falls back and steals Garibaldi's PPG, firing at Sheridan, though he
+   is able to move out of the way in time. Garibaldi grabs the PPG away
+   from her and drags her out of the room as Sheridan orders her under
+   house arrest. But she doesn't go away quietly. "You blew my cover!
+   You're dead! Do you hear me? You're dead! The Corps is mother, the
+   Corps is father! You're dead, Lyta Alexander! We'll find you! The
+   Corps will find you!"
+   
+   Garibaldi can't believe that Talia could be the one. Sheridan says
+   that it isn't her fault, and that she's been carrying the sleeper
+   program around for years without knowing it. Their more immediate
+   concern is how much Talia knows. She knows about the underground
+   railroad, but they aren't sure about how much more. Franklin will be
+   protected by the Psi Corps' desire to keep its squelching of the
+   railroad a secret. In addition, Franklin and the others know about the
+   sleeper program, which Psi Corps definitely wants kept secret.
+   Garibaldi realizes that Talia knew a lot, and if Lyta hadn't come
+   aboard, they would have told Talia about their conspiracy. Sheridan
+   asks if there is anything they can use to defend themselves with, and
+   Garibaldi thinks he might have an idea: When Talia mediated for Kosh
+   and Abbut (cf. [10]"Deathwalker,") Kosh was given a data crystal which
+   he claimed contained "Terror. Surprise. Reflection. For the future."
+   Garibaldi says he will have to check on it a little more before he can
+   be sure.
+   
+   Ivanova goes to "Talia" and says that she wanted to see her before she
+   left. She doesn't blame "Talia", but hopes that some part of her will
+   hear her. "Talia" says that the program was complete, and that the old
+   Talia no longer exists. "Talia" explains to Ivanova the role she
+   played inside Talia's head, whispering instructions to her while she
+   slept. Ivanova believed everything, all the words that were meant to
+   get Talia close to Ivanova and what she knew.
+   
+   "You're right," Ivanova tells her. "The Talia I knew is dead." She
+   leaves.
+   
+   Lyta, wearing a gas mask, enters the alien sector and goes to see
+   Kosh. "I'm back," she says to him. "I can't stay. The Captain's made
+   sure I can get away before the Psi Cops get here, but... I had to see
+   you again, before my ship leaves. I never told them. I never told
+   anyone. I hid it all away in the smallest, tiniest corner of my mind.
+   They could have killed me and they still wouldn't have found it. Only
+   at night, alone, would I open that small door in my mind where I kept
+   the memory of you, and listen to your voice. Listen to you sing me to
+   sleep. I hope I can come back again, but I don't know. Until then,
+   Kosh, I want to see you again, just one more time." The head of Kosh's
+   encounter suit opens, there's a sound like giant wings unfurling, and
+   a brilliant light streams over Lyta as she gazes, one more time, upon
+   the being within.
+
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+  
+   On Centauri Prime, Londo meets with Lord Refa in the Emperor's throne
+   room. Refa explains to Londo that the war with the Narn is about to
+   end, much sooner than originally expected, and that Londo himself will
+   be the "architect" of the victory.
+   
+   Aboard Babylon 5, Delenn meditates in her quarters. While she is doing
+   so, she senses a presence. "Hello dear friend," she says, and a voice
+   chuckles all around her. C&C detects an energy surge coming from
+   Epsilon 3, and informs Ivanova, who in turn informs Sheridan, just out
+   of the shower. Ivanova's message is interrupted by a voice coming from
+   behind Sheridan. He turns around and sees Draal standing there. Draal
+   tells Sheridan that he has been watching, and introduces himself.
+   Sheridan tells Draal that he knows Draal took custody of Epsilon 3,
+   although Draal corrects him saying that the planet took custody of him
+   instead, returning to him his youth both in appearance and health.
+   Draal wants to invite Sheridan, and one other, down to the surface for
+   a visit at Sheridan's earliest convenience.
+   
+   G'Sten, G'Kar's uncle, tells G'Kar that the war with the Centauri is
+   not going well, and that Narn defenses have been severely weakened,
+   rolling back thirty years of territorial gains. G'Sten explains that
+   the Kha'Ri is trying to make the Narn believe that they are holding
+   their own against the Centauri, though that is far from the truth.
+   G'Sten says that their one chance is to attack the Centauri supply
+   depot at Gorash 7, which will require the entire Narn fleet. G'Kar
+   points out that, if the forces are taken away from the homeworld, it
+   will make it vulnerable. G'Sten realizes the risk, but insists that
+   there will only be a very short period when the homeworld won't be
+   defended. G'Kar offers to go along, but G'Sten declines, saying that
+   G'Kar's work on Babylon 5 may be even more important, and that, were
+   G'Kar's father alive, he would be proud.
+   
+   Delenn steps off the elevator and meets Sheridan to tell him that
+   Draal appeared to her as well. The two continue on together.
+   
+   Refa tells Londo that he strongly believes that the Narn are planning
+   an attack on Gorash 7. Londo asks if Refa's forces will be waiting for
+   the Narn there, and Refa tells him that he needs Londo's forces there
+   instead, because the Centauri forces will be carrying out an all-out
+   attack on the Narn homeworld. This idea troubles Londo, who tries to
+   convince Refa to pursue another course of action, but Refa says it
+   isn't necessary -- they will be using mass drivers, powerful weapons
+   outlawed by every species, which will decimate the cities, and allow
+   nearly effortless takeover of the planet. Londo tells Refa that he is
+   troubled by his allies and their strength, but Refa doesn't understand
+   his reluctance. Londo tries to warn Refa that moving too quickly might
+   cause things to spin out of control, but Refa won't listen, telling
+   him that numerous Centauri battleships are waiting hyperspace for
+   Londo's go-ahead, and that this action will save thousands of Centauri
+   lives. With only a little more convincing, Londo agrees to use his
+   allies, as long as it is for the last time. Refa assures Londo that
+   this is the last time their assistance will be needed, as the Narn
+   will be defeated, and this time, the Centauri will not allow the Narn
+   to be free again.
+   
+   Garibaldi expresses great doubt about the message received from Draal,
+   but Delenn insists that Draal is who he claims. Even Sheridan is
+   somewhat troubled by his altered appearance, though Delenn assures
+   them that he looked that way when he was younger. Garibaldi suggests
+   it may be a trick, and that the message might be faked, but Delenn
+   refuses to believe him. Ivanova reports that tests run on the message
+   determined it was sent from below the planet's surface, verifying that
+   Draal did indeed send it. Despite this, Garibaldi still wants to send
+   a security team, but Sheridan says he is only allowed to bring one
+   other, namely Delenn.
+   
+   Londo meets up with Refa again, and Refa tells him that it is time to
+   leave for the Narn homeworld--they will be on the first ship so they
+   can oversee the victory personally. "Come Londo," Refa tells him.
+   "Destiny awaits." Meanwhile, Sheridan and Delenn board a shuttle and
+   head down to Epsilon 3.
+   
+   G'Kar goes to MedLab, where Dr. Franklin is waiting for him. Franklin
+   tells him that one of the Narn refugees he treated was captured and
+   interrogated by the Centauri, and that the questions involved the Narn
+   homeworld's defense systems, and were particularly urgent. The refugee
+   transport got away easily because the Centauri warships guarding the
+   planet pulled out with little explanation. This puzzles G'Kar, as he
+   knows the Centauri to be very thorough. Franklin explains to G'Kar
+   that, during the Earth-Minbari War, the Minbari did something very
+   similar just before they attacked Earth.
+   
+   Sheridan and Delenn arrive on Epsilon 3 and begin searching the
+   tunnels of the planet. They arrive at a large walkway across a huge
+   chasm, which strikes Sheridan speechless.
+   
+   G'Kar urgently tries to convince G'Sten that the Centauri are planning
+   to attack the Narn homeworld, but G'Sten won't listen, saying the
+   mission is too far along to stop it without proof.
+   
+   Sheridan and Delenn arrive in Draal's chamber and see his body in the
+   depression, running the planet. An image of Draal appears and addreses
+   them, commending Sheridan for his work aboard Babylon 5. Draal
+   explains that he has explored the many secrets of Epsilon 3 and has
+   learned much about the galaxy, and Sheridan himself. He also knows
+   about Sheridan's conspiracy of light. Sheridan tries to deny it, but
+   Draal knows better, and assures him the information is safe. Draal
+   explains that he said a year earlier that Epsilon 3 would remain
+   dormant until such a time as it was needed, and that this is such a
+   time -- he's prepared to place the planet at Sheridan's disposal, one
+   of the first alliances of the coming war. Draal tells Sheridan that he
+   is not alone in the struggle, and that, should they succeed, there is
+   a great possibility of hope.
+   
+   As G'Kar prays fervently, the Narn ships come out of hyperspace above
+   Gorash 7 and prepare for the attack. They don't detect any ships at
+   first, but several Shadow ships soon appear and begin moving toward
+   them, ready for the attack. G'Sten tries to activate the jump engines,
+   but they must recharge first. G'Sten orders an attack against the
+   ships, and though the Narn score several hits with their energy mines,
+   the weapons of the Shadows are much more powerful, easily able to cut
+   through the Narn ships. The Narn warships are destroyed one by one.
+   Several warships combine their firepower and manage to sever a spine
+   from one of the Shadow ships, but it's a futile victory. Defeat
+   imminent, G'Sten orders the remaining ships to open jump points and
+   flee, but the Shadows fire something into the vortices, disrupting
+   them and causing the remaining Narn cruisers to be destroyed mid-jump.
+   An undamaged Shadow ship connects to the injured one, revitalizing it;
+   then all the Shadow ships vanish. G'Kar, sensing the outcome somehow,
+   grimly ceases his prayer.
+   
+   Draal tells Sheridan that it probably isn't a good idea to tell the
+   Earth government of the new alliance. Delenn asks Draal if he is able
+   to handle living alone on the planet. Draal explains that he has the
+   stars to keep him company, in addition to the others who live on the
+   planet and help maintain the machine. "There is one, in particular,
+   who..." He touches his head. He tells Sheridan that he is hearing
+   distress calls and that Sheridan needs to leave immediately. Sheridan
+   rushes on ahead, and Delenn tells Draal that she hopes to see him more
+   often. They exchange a quick goodbye and she leaves. "So much to do,"
+   he says, "so little time. We must get to work. Zathras! Zathras!" he
+   calls, but no one arrives. "Never around when you need him."
+   
+   Ivanova tells Garibaldi about the Centauri attack on the Narn
+   homeworld, and that she is worried what will happen when word about
+   the attack hits the station. He prepares for the coming riots, and
+   says she should send out a general alert as soon as possible.
+   
+   "We interrupt this program with this late-breaking story," says an ISN
+   reporter, as the patrons of the Zocalo watch. "Officials in EarthDome
+   confirm that the Centauri Republic has begun a devestating frontal
+   assault on the Narn homeworld. Reports continue to come in, alleging
+   that the main Narn fleet has been neutralized and that Narn is
+   completely encircled by its enemies. Neither government has yet
+   confirmed nor denied these reports, though some messages relayed from
+   Narn seem to corroborate the stories of massive destruction and
+   death...." The tension becomes too much and a fight between the Narn
+   and Centauri patrons of the Zocalo breaks out.
+   
+   The general alert is sent out as Sheridan and Delenn arrive back on
+   the station. Sheridan asks Ivanova what the situation is, and she
+   tells him that Garibaldi is doing the best he can. Sheridan has a
+   security officer escort Delenn to her quarters. Ivanova explains to
+   Sheridan that she has heard little more than rumors, though she does
+   know that the Centauri have used mass drivers in their assault.
+   
+   The war is not going well for Narn as the Centauri ships use mass
+   drivers to pummel Narn's cities with asteroids. As the destruction
+   continues, Londo watches, helplessly, at a window in the lead ship of
+   the fleet.
+   
+   "With the planetary bombardment in its fourth day," the ISN reporter
+   reports as the C&C staff watches, "the Narn government continues in
+   its refusal to surrender. Minbari, Vorlon, Earth, and other
+   governments have filed official protests with the Centauri Republic
+   for their use of mass drivers against the civilian population. But, so
+   far, the protests have had no effect. Although communication with the
+   Narn homeworld is difficult at best due to the continued attacks, word
+   has reached ISN of cities utterly destroyed, hundreds of thousands of
+   casualties, the total elimination of power and water over most of the
+   Narn planetary surface. Most of their major cities have fallen, food
+   shipments have stopped, the planetary economy has collapsed, and
+   medical treatment is virtually non-existent. Government analysists
+   predict that, unless the Narn government surrenders soon, their entire
+   infrastructure will be totally destroyed. To quote Senator Ronald
+   Quantrell, 'They're being bombed back into the stone age.'" Sheridan
+   can take no more and orders the feed shut off.
+   
+   G'Kar is barely able to maintain contact with the homeworld. The Narn
+   on the other end says that the only way to survive is to surrender.
+   G'Kar asks what will happen to the Narn on Babylon 5, but there is no
+   way to know what the terms of the surrender will be. G'Kar offers to
+   return, but as the only member of the Kha'Ri not on the homeworld, his
+   contact says, G'Kar should stay alive as long as possible. The Narn
+   delivers one last message to G'Kar from the Kha'Ri, which he says is
+   the hardest thing he's ever had to ask of G'Kar.
+   
+   G'Kar slowly enters Sheridan's office. "Captain Sheridan, I... I've
+   been instructed by government to come to you and ask for...
+   sanctuary."
+   
+   Londo arrives at his quarters to find Garibaldi and a contingent of
+   security guards, placed for his protection, there. Londo tells
+   Garibaldi to inform Sheridan that he wishes to convene a meeting of
+   the advisory council and the League of Non-Aligned Worlds.
+   
+   "A little over five standard hours ago," Londo tells the Council and
+   the League, "the conflict which began with the Narn declaration of war
+   came to an end. The Narn Regime has offered complete and unconditional
+   surrender. The terms imposed by the Centauri Republic are as follows.
+   One, the ruling body, known as the Kha'Ri will be disbanded and its
+   members subject to arrest and trial for the commission of war crimes
+   against the Centauri."
+   
+   "Earth requests the right to send observers to these hearings,"
+   Sheridan says.
+   
+   "That request is denied," Londo tells him. "Two. To prevent further
+   acts of terror by the Narn against our people, from this day on, the
+   penalty for the murder of any Centauri by any Narn will be the
+   execution of five hundred Narns, beginning with the perpetrator's own
+   family. Three. A provisional ruling council appointed by my government
+   will take up the responsibility of rebuilding a more civilized Narn
+   government as a colony of the greater Centauri Republic."
+   
+   "Is there anything else?" Sheridan asks.
+   
+   "Yes," Londo replies. "Just one thing. Because the Narn homeworld is
+   now a protectorate of the Centauri Republic, we reserve the right to
+   determine who can speak for Narn. As a result, Ambassador G'Kar may no
+   longer represent the Narn in any official capacity whatsoever. His
+   appointment as ambassador to Babylon 5 is hereby withdrawn. As the
+   only member of the Kha'Ri still at large, Citizen G'Kar will return to
+   Narn for trial."
+   
+   Sheridan tells Londo that G'Kar has been granted sanctuary. Londo
+   tries to protest, saying that the agreement between the Narn and
+   Centauri had important stipulations about the Kha'Ri, but Sheridan
+   tells him that neither he nor Earth signed that agreement, so they are
+   not bound by it. Delenn stands up, informing Londo that the Minbari
+   government also stands behind Sheridan's decision, and that G'Kar may
+   remain for as long as he likes. Londo gives in, but demands that G'Kar
+   be removed from the Council chambers immediately. G'Kar painfully
+   complies, but he has a few final words for Londo. "No dictator... no
+   invader... can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
+   There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
+   Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
+   The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again.
+   Though it take a thousand years, we will be free."
+   
+   Londo watches ISN as the reporter tells of the post-surrender events.
+   "And dancing in the streets as Centauri Emperor Cartargia declared a
+   week-long public celebration to commemorate the recapture of the Narn
+   homeworld. In related news, the Centauri Republic today announced
+   plans to annex several smaller worlds adjacent to Narn space,
+   declaring them protectorates of the Republic. While government
+   spokesmen insist that the Centauri do not have any expansionist plans
+   beyond retaking the Narn homeworld, others in Earthdome are less
+   sure."
+   
+   Sheridan tells G'Kar that he will miss G'Kar's imposing presence in
+   the Council chambers, and that he wants to help G'Kar in any way he
+   can to win back his planet. He offers his hand to G'Kar, who hesitates
+   at first: "The last time I offered someone my hand, we were at war
+   twenty-four hours later." As Sheridan leaves, he is contacted by
+   Ivanova; Delenn wants to see him in the conference center. He goes to
+   meet her.
+   
+   When he arrives, he finds that she and Garibaldi, and a large number
+   of other humans and Minbari, are in the room, waiting for him. Delenn
+   tells him that the people in the room have come to meet him and pledge
+   themselves to him -- they are the Rangers, Garibaldi explains, who
+   have been coming through the station to help fight the coming
+   darkness. Sheridan asks why Garibaldi didn't tell him; Garibaldi says
+   that he made a promise not to. Delenn explains to Sheridan that
+   Babylon 5 must be the fortress of Light to stand against the darkness,
+   and the Rangers are to help with that. The Rangers were under her
+   direct command, but she gives equal authority to Sheridan.
+   
+   Sheridan addresses them all. "I don't quite know what to say... For
+   the last year, things haven't exactly been going our way. I was
+   starting to wonder if it would ever get better. I think it just did.
+   Tell the other Rangers, the ambassadors, everyone in this army of
+   Light that Babylon 5 stands with you. Tell them... tell them that from
+   this place, we will deliver notice to the parliaments of conquerers
+   that a line has been drawn against the darkness, and we will hold that
+   line, no matter the cost."
+
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+  
+   In the Zocalo, G'Kar tries to convince the patrons that the Narn were
+   only the first victims at the hands of the Centauri, and that more
+   will follow. The patrons, however, become little more than annoyed,
+   claiming that the Centauri are only the Narn's problem. G'Kar tries to
+   warn them otherwise, but they refuse to listen to him. Eventually,
+   another Narn convinces G'Kar to stop his speech. Vir, standing on a
+   walkway above, has heard it all.
+   
+   Delenn walks to the end of a darkened corridor where she sees Kosh
+   partially hidden in the shadows. "Lennier said you were calling for
+   me," she says to him.
+   
+   "Yes," he replies.
+   
+   "Is there something wrong?"
+   
+   "You, perhaps. We have sent for an inquisitor."
+   
+   "An inquisitor? Why?"
+   
+   "To be sure about you. You will submit to his authority."
+   
+   "How will I know who it is?"
+   
+   "You will know... if you survive."
+   
+   Sheridan tells Lennier and Delenn that he isn't sure he understands
+   Delenn's request to help the inquisitor through custody since they
+   aren't able to say anything about him. Delenn explains that Kosh has
+   doubts about whether she is fit to hold her position in the army of
+   Light. She explains that Kosh must be certain the choice is correct
+   and that she is doing the right thing for the right reasons, and that
+   that is the inquisitor's job. Sheridan offers to help, but Delenn
+   insists she must go through it alone.
+   
+   G'Kar meets up with a man named Chase in his quarters, and tells him
+   that he needs weapons. Chase says that he has the weapons G'Kar wants,
+   light munitions that are easy to smuggle and use against the Centauri,
+   and will sell them for the right price. When G'Kar sees the price,
+   however, he says it is too high, since the Narn sold similar weapons
+   to Earth during the Earth-Minbari war. Chase decides to take ten
+   percent off the top of the price, which G'Kar agrees to pay. G'Kar
+   tells Chase before he leaves that this money is all the escaped Narns
+   have left -- the results will be fatal if Chase defrauds them.
+   
+   C&C detects a Vorlon transport coming through the jumpgate.
+   
+   Sheridan enters the Vorlon vessel's docking bay, which is quite messy
+   and quite dark. A man, dressed in Victorian clothes and carrying a
+   crystal-topped black walking stick, emerges from the shadows and
+   approaches Sheridan. "I believe I am expected," he says.
+   
+   Sheridan and the inquisitor walk on the walkways above the Zocalo, the
+   inquisitor looking at the establishment in disgust as they proceed.
+   The inquisitor will not say why he was on the Vorlon ship, and asks to
+   see Delenn. Sheridan tells him that she will come when they are
+   finished talking. "Nothing changes," the inquisitor says. "Corruption.
+   Immorality. Chaos." Sheridan asks when the inquisitor was last on
+   earth, and the inquisitor says it was long ago. Sheridan asks about
+   the Vorlon homeworld and tries to get him to describe the Vorlons, but
+   the inquisitor refuses, and merely explains that his name is
+   Sebastian, he came from London in 1888, and that he was taken by the
+   Vorlons to be used as an inquisitor. Sheridan expresses surprise that
+   the Vorlons have had contact with Earth. "The Vorlons have been
+   everywhere," Sebastian says. "The Vorlons... are." He demands to
+   either be allowed to finish the work, or to be allowed to leave, but
+   he plans to say nothing else. Sheridan tells Sebastian to follow him.
+   
+   Garibaldi meets up with G'Kar; he has learned that G'Kar is buying
+   weapons for use back on Narn. G'Kar, familiar with Garibaldi's
+   methods, confesses to doing that, but Garibaldi tells him that he
+   doesn't want the weapons coming through Babylon 5. But, because he
+   understands and appreciates the situation, and because G'Kar was
+   honest about his intents, Garibaldi tells G'Kar that he has a friend
+   who runs a transfer station in sector 90, all alone by a jumpgate, and
+   that, since the man deals mostly in illegal goods, it might be good to
+   send the weapons through there. Garibaldi mentions it's already been
+   arranged, thanks G'Kar for his honesty, and leaves.
+   
+   Delenn walks to gray 19, where she is to meet Sebastian. She enters
+   the area, which is very dark except for a few circles of light on the
+   floor. When she approaches the middle of the room, Sebastian's voice
+   tells her to stop. There are two manacles on the floor, which he
+   instructs her to put on. She can remove them at any time, although,
+   should she do so, she'll be deemed unworthy. Sebastian appears from
+   the dark and says to her, "Who are you?" She responds with her name,
+   which he says in unacceptable. She tries again, but he finds her next
+   answer unnacceptable as well. The mancles glow with energy that causes
+   her pain. This process continues for a while, but she will not give
+   Sebastian any answer he will accept. He ridicules her and her beliefs
+   that she is on a holy mission and tells her that she will not know
+   what to believe after he is done, and that she may die during the
+   inquisition. He tells her that, if she believes she is correct, she
+   will hold fast in the belief that the universe will not let her die.
+   
+   A Centauri follows Vir, telling him that he has a message for Londo,
+   but Vir insists that Londo will not speak with him. He goes into an
+   elevator where he finds G'Kar waiting. G'Kar stares at Vir intently,
+   and Vir says to him, "I'm sorry. I wish... there was something that I
+   could do. I tried telling them, but they wouldn't listen. They never
+   listen... I'm sorry." The elevator door opens and G'Kar walks out.
+   
+   Before he vanishes, though, G'Kar turns to Vir. He slices his hand,
+   letting the blood drip on the floor. "Dead... dead, dead, dead, dead,
+   dead, dead, dead, dead, dead... How do you apologize to them?"
+   
+   "I can't," Vir admits.
+   
+   "Then I cannot forgive," G'Kar tells him, and walks away.
+   
+   Sebastian's interrogation of Delenn continues, criticizing her belief
+   in her destiny. He tries to shake her beliefs, and tells her to call
+   out to the universe so it can help save her. When she refuses, a tap
+   of his cane sends pain into her body from the manacles again. She
+   screams out in agony, but there is no apparent response from the
+   universe. Sebastian asks her why she is where she is -- why she was
+   born. She says she was meant to be there, and Sebastian demands to
+   know why she believes that. He asks her what she would think if the
+   world believed otherwise, and she tells him she would believe the
+   world to be wrong. He asks how she can justify her being correct, yet
+   everyone else being incorrect. She admits that she has wondered the
+   same thing -- an answer Sebastian doesn't expect. He gives her ten
+   minutes to rest.
+   
+   G'Kar reports to the other Narn on the station that they are
+   developing an underground communications net, though weapons have
+   proved to be almost beyond their means. One of the Narn questions
+   G'Kar's ability to deliver the weapons, and tells him that it may be a
+   good idea to consider another Narn to lead them. The Narn tells G'Kar
+   that, because he can't communicate with the homeworld, they have no
+   reason to believe the weapons will get through. G'Kar says that the
+   only way to win back control of their homeworld is if they stick
+   together and don't fight internally. He proposes that he will remain
+   leader if he can communicate with the objector's family in twenty-four
+   hours, and agrees that, if he cannot, he will abdicate his position.
+   
+   Sebastian tells Delenn that her problem is that, even though she's
+   only part of the army of Light, she believes she must carry the entire
+   army. He tells her that her only destiny is to be the "nail that gets
+   hammered down". Afraid, she tries to get away from him, but he calls
+   her a fool, which she says is better than what he is -- merely a
+   tormenter who is not strong enough, worthy enough, or right enough to
+   achieve his own dreams, so he must prove others are just as bad as he
+   is. The manacles send pain into Delenn again, and Sebastian asks her
+   again who she is, but is again not satisfied with her response, and
+   her belief that she has a destiny. He tells her that it would be very
+   easy to kill her, and that he can do it any time he likes.
+   
+   G'Kar tells Sheridan and Garibaldi that he needs to get word from the
+   Narn on the station to the Narn on the homeworld. Sheridan tells him
+   that it is a difficult request to grant, but that he will do what he
+   can. G'Kar gives Sheridan a data crystal and leaves. Sheridan asks
+   Garibaldi if the Rangers are capable of taking the messages to the
+   Narn on the homeworld. Garibaldi says he doesn't think they're ready,
+   but Sheridan insists that they _be_ ready in case something more
+   important comes along. Garibaldi takes the data crystal.
+   
+   Lennier enters grey 19 and finds Delenn crumpled on the floor in pain.
+   Though he begs her to leave, she tells him that she cannot and that he
+   must leave without her. When the sound of Sebastian's cane comes
+   closer, she tells Lennier that he must leave immediately, and that the
+   only way to save her is to let her do this by herself. He rushes out
+   just as Sebastian approaches, and finds Sheridan in a nearby corridor.
+   He begs Sheridan to defy Kosh, since the inquisitor may be killing
+   Delenn.
+   
+   Sebastian continues torturing Delenn with the cane and the manacles,
+   which are now affecting her entire body. He stands over her and tells
+   her that her fate was dictated long ago, and that she has no control
+   over what happens. The door to grey 19 opens and Sheridan arrives,
+   something Sebastian indicates he has been expecting. Sheridan demands
+   Sebastian leave Delenn alone, and Sebastian asks why he should, and
+   what she means to him. Sheridan tells him that he doesn't have to
+   answer any questions, to which Sebastian agrees, before he sends
+   Sheridan flying against the wall. "Your turn now," he says.
+   
+   Sheridan, now held captive by Sebastian, begins undergoing his own
+   questioning as well. Sebastian asks Sheridan how far he is prepared to
+   go in the fight, and how much he is willing to risk. Sebastian tells
+   him that he may have to sacrifice everything in order to survive,
+   including his friends and comrades. He continues the interrogation,
+   hitting Sheridan with energy bursts from the staff repeatedly, as he
+   forces him to realize what he may have to sacrifice. Delenn cries out,
+   demanding that he stop. She tells him that he was sent to interrogate
+   her, not Sheridan, and that she will give herself up to him in order
+   to save Sheridan. Sebastian asks her if she is willing to trade her
+   life for his, to which she responds that, if she fails, other will
+   take her place. Sebastian asks about her cause, but Delenn insists
+   that this is her cause -- saving lives. Sebastian asks her if she is
+   willing to die alone and forgotten, but she tells him that she isn't
+   afraid. Sebastian waves his staff and vanishes, along with Sheridan's
+   bonds.
+   
+   The door to grey 19 opens, and Sebastian appears. "You can go," he
+   tells them. "You've passed. Both of you."
+   
+   "Passed what?" Delenn asks.
+   
+   "How do you know the chosen ones? No greater love hath a man than he
+   lay down his life for his friend. Not for millions, not for glory, not
+   for fame... for one person. In the dark. Where no one will ever know
+   or see. I've been in the service of the Vorlons for centuries,
+   looking... Diogynes with his lamp looking for a man willing to die for
+   all the wrong reasons. At last, my job is finished. Yours is just
+   beginning. When the darkness comes, know this: You are the right
+   people, in the right place, at the right time."
+   
+   Sheridan sits at C&C when he is approached by Ivanova who tells him
+   that the Vorlon ship is ready to leave. He asks how extensive Earth's
+   history files are on 19th century England, and Ivanova tells him she
+   should be able to find whatever he needs. He tells her he needs to
+   verify a name and address. "14... 14-B Harrisford Lane, London, around
+   1888." Ivanova asks for the name. "Sebastian," Sheridan replies.
+   
+   G'Kar and the other Narn watch the message obtained by the Rangers.
+   The Narn that previously questioned G'Kar's ability thanks G'Kar and
+   tells him that they will follow his lead.
+   
+   At the docking bay, Sheridan tells Sebastian that everything is ready
+   to go, but he won't let Sebastian leave just yet. "Mr.... Sebastian, I
+   did a little digging, based on what you told me. The records confirm
+   you lived on Earth in the year 1888. The records also indicate that
+   you vanished, suddenly, without a trace on November 11th, 1888. That's
+   a very interesting date, Mr. Sebastian. The morning after the last of
+   a string of murders in the East End."
+   
+   Sebastian turns silently toward him. "The city was drowning in decay.
+   Choas. Immorality. A message needed to be sent, etched in blood for
+   all the world to see. A warning. In the pursuit of my holy cause, I...
+   did things, terrible things, unspeakable things. The world condemned
+   me, but it didn't matter because I believed I was right and the world
+   was wrong. I believed I was the divine messenger. I believed I was..."
+   
+   "Chosen?"
+   
+   "I was... found by the Vorlons. They showed me the terrible depth of
+   my mistake, my crimes, my... presumption. I have done four hundred
+   years of penance and service, a job for which they said I was ideally
+   suited. Now, perhaps, they will finally let me die."
+   
+   "I think that might be wise."
+   
+   Sebastian puts on his hat and turns away, proceeding toward the ship,
+   and does not look at Sheridan again as he walks. "Good luck to you in
+   your holy cause, Captain Sheridan. May your choices have better
+   results than mine. Remembered not as a messenger, remembered not as a
+   reformer, not as a prophet, not as a hero... not even as Sebastian.
+   Remembered only... as Jack."
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
+  
+   Captain Sheridan is out helping to train Zeta Squadron against the
+   Centauri, should the need to fight them ever arise. One of the other
+   pilots is able to shoot Lt. Keffer quite easily, and is about ready to
+   start again when Sheridan receives a call from Ivanova saying there's
+   an emergency on Babylon 5. Sheridan orders Zeta Squadron to continue
+   practicing the maneuvers and returns to the station.
+   
+   Lennier enters the Zocalo where he finds Vir sitting there, nursing a
+   drink. Lennier sits down next to him and says to Vir, "Sometimes I get
+   so close, and yet it seems I'm shut out of the important things."
+   
+   "It's a useless feeling," Vir replies. "The ambassador is definitely
+   going through some changes. He even looks different."
+   
+   "Indeed, and now with the military starting to stampede over everyone
+   and everything..."
+   
+   "The coming and going and secret meetings..."
+   
+   "You never know what it's all about, until later, when it's too late."
+   
+   "They never listen to us."
+   
+   "It makes me nervous," they both say at once.
+   
+   "Same time tomorrow?" Vir asks.
+   
+   "Sure," Lennier replies as he leaves.
+   
+   Sheridan meets up with Ivanova who tells him that the Drazi and
+   Pak'ma'ra ambassadors are waiting for him in his office with an urgent
+   matter to discuss. Sheridan orders that all the fighter squads be put
+   through extensive training so they will be ready to fight if
+   necessary.
+   
+   Ivanova asks the Pak'ma'ra ambassador if he is certain that he is
+   correct, and he assures her that he is. The Drazi ambasador explains
+   that the Centauri have invaded both of their territories, taken
+   command of listening posts, and are preparing to attack other races
+   and other worlds. "War is spreading," the Drazi says. "Perhaps soon
+   they even attack you."
+   
+   Sheridan paces back and forth in his office as Ivanova arrives with
+   Londo. The conversation is very tense as they discuss the movement of
+   the Centauri forces. Sheridan asks why what the Centauri did to the
+   Narn wasn't enough, but Londo insists that they are merely trying to
+   stabalize the region, using the conquered worlds as a buffer zone,
+   though the Drazi and Pak'ma'ra don't agree. Londo says his people
+   merely want to establish a presence, and Sheridan demands to know
+   where it will end. He tries to convince Londo that the Centauri are at
+   the center of the trouble, but Londo refuses to listen. He warns
+   Sheridan not to overstep his authority, which ends at Babylon 5.
+   
+   Garibaldi tells Sheridan that Londo has been acting very differently,
+   and that he can no longer be talked to or reasoned with. Sheridan asks
+   Garibaldi how to get through to Londo, but Garibaldi says it can't be
+   done as long as Londo is afraid, and that he isn't able to keep up
+   with the climactic changes occurring all around him. Sheridan says
+   that he made a full report to Earthdome, and with the new races
+   involved, Earth can no longer ignore the problem. Ivanova calls
+   Sheridan and tells him that Frederick Lantz, from the Ministry of
+   Peace, has just arrived on the station, and Sheridan leaves to see
+   him.
+   
+   As Keffer and a fellow officer finish their training, they both admit
+   that they are very tired and wish they knew what was going on with
+   Sheridan. The officer suggests it might be the "ghost"--something
+   several other officers say in hyperspace while returning from sector
+   14. She explains that they said it looked like a cross between "a
+   spider and your worst nightmare."
+   
+   Sheridan meets up with Lantz, who introduces him to Mr. Welles, the
+   man in charge of the Nightwatch. Sheridan introduces them to Ivanova,
+   and Lantz tells Sheridan that he wants to interview Londo and the
+   ambassadors of the worlds affected by the Centauri expansion. Mr.
+   Welles says that he wants to speak with the members of the Nightwatch
+   aboard Babylon 5. Ivanova tells them that she can't believe they came
+   to Babylon 5 -- she never thought they would. Lantz explains that
+   Earth can't sit still forever, but it is good to know firsthand
+   whether they're about to make the right choice.
+   
+   Keffer meets up with another pilot in the Zocalo and asks him about
+   the ghost he saw. The officer, Mitch, tries to avoid the subject, but
+   Keffer is able to provide a flawless description of the ship, telling
+   him that he saw it as well, but that he wasn't able to record it or
+   get any other information about it. Mitch tries to convince Keffer
+   that he shouldn't try to search for it again.
+   
+   While discussing the situation with the Drazi and the Pak'ma'ra and
+   other tidbits of information about Earth with Ivanova, Lantz explains
+   that he wants to leave his grandchildren a good legacy, and that is
+   what he hopes to accomplish by working for the Ministry of Peace.
+   
+   On C&C, a jump point is detected opening up on the other side of
+   Epsilon 3, where it can only be detected by Babylon 5. It turns out to
+   be a Narn war cruiser, which hails them. The captain tells Sheridan
+   that, when the Centauri attacked the homeworld, his ship was on a
+   deep-space assignment, but that he hopes that they can help liberate
+   the homeworld again, and to do that, they need the help and sanctuary
+   of Babylon 5.
+   
+   Ivanova is just about to eat when Mr. Welles enters and asks to speak
+   with her. He asks her if she is happy, and she tells him that she
+   supposes she is. He says he likes to know as much as possible about
+   the people he works with, and that her record is exemplary, and asks
+   what her plans for the future are. She says she's happy on Babylon 5
+   for now, but isn't sure what the future holds for her; she may like to
+   captain a starship. Welles tells her that, with the help of the
+   Nightwatch, she can get her ship years earlier than she otherwise
+   might, and he offers to pull some strings for her if she will help
+   them discover disloyal people and potentially dangerous problems
+   forming on Babylon 5. She tells him that she has learned all about the
+   Nightwatch, and was worried about what she learned, and that she has
+   no intention of violating her personal beliefs to advance her career.
+   
+   Sheridan informs G'Kar about the Narn war ship, and says that it is
+   safe for the time being. G'Kar is happy about the news, and glad that
+   Sheridan plans to give them sanctuary. Sheridan tells G'Kar about
+   Lantz's visit; G'Kar is delighted to hear that Earth is prepared to
+   take sides, and rushes off to try to meet with Lantz.
+   
+   Mr. Welles addresses the Nightwatch members aboard Babylon 5 and is
+   pleased with their progress, except that of Zack Allan, who hasn't
+   been reporting much, such as a shopkeeper's vocal complaints about new
+   import regulations. Zack tries to defend himself saying that he didn't
+   see anything wrong with such talk, but Welles disagrees, saying that
+   this is precisely the kind of thing they should be informed of. He
+   tells Zack to be extremely careful about anything suspicious, no
+   matter how innocent it may seem. Zack is still very uncomfortable
+   about the situation, but admits that the reports about the shopkeeper
+   are true. Welles is pleased by this, and tells Zack that he shows
+   great promise.
+   
+   Mitch goes to Keffer and gives him a data crystal containing
+   information about sensor readings of the Shadow ship that may help
+   Keffer locate it. Mitch warns him that he may be risking his own life
+   by searching for the ship, and that he no longer wants any part of the
+   mysterious vessel.
+   
+   Lantz finishes meeting with the last ambassador of the League of
+   Non-Aligned worlds and prepares to meet with Londo when G'Kar arrives,
+   asking for five minutes of his time. Lantz refuses, though G'Kar does
+   his best to convince him otherwise.
+   
+   The captain of the Narn ship tells Sheridan that the repairs are going
+   slowly due to lack of power. Sheridan suggests shutting down the jump
+   engines so they can use the extra energy to assist in repairs, and
+   Sheridan assures the captain that Babylon 5 will protect them. Lantz
+   arrives at C&C and asks Sheridan about conducting fighter exercises
+   against Centauri combat models. Sheridan tells him that it is true,
+   and Lantz orders him to stop with the drills. Lantz also informs them
+   that he has been authorized by Earth to sign a non-aggression treaty
+   with the Centauri, forming an Earth-Centauri alliance to keep Earth
+   safe. "We will, at last, know peace in our time," Lantz says.
+   
+   As Welles walks down the corridor, he is approached by a technician
+   from C&C who was unable to attend the meeting. She does, however, have
+   other information for him.
+   
+   Sheridan can't believe the idea of the non-aggression treaty, and
+   Ivanova agrees; it protects Earth and leaves the Centauri free to
+   attack other worlds. Sheridan tells Ivanova that he no longer feels as
+   proud to be in Earth Force as he once did, and Ivanova tells him that,
+   as 2260 is nearly upon them, it may be a year to make the uniform mean
+   something again. She presents him with a small wrapped present, for
+   Christmas or Hannukah. He opens it up and finds a piece of metal
+   inside that he doesn't recognize. She tells him that she located a
+   piece of the Black Star and wanted to give it to him as a reminder
+   that sometimes it is possible to achieve something others believe
+   can't be done. Londo calls Sheridan and tells him that he has learned
+   that Babylon 5 is hiding a Narn warship and orders the ship and crew
+   turned over to the Centauri. Sheridan ends the transmission and wants
+   to know how Londo found out about it, and Ivanova suggests it was the
+   Nightwatch that was responsible. The two of them rush back to C&C.
+   
+   Sheridan orders a channel opened up to the Narn ship and tells the
+   captain that the Centauri know they are there. A jump point opens and
+   a Centauri battle cruiser arrives, blocking the Narn ship from fleeing
+   through Babylon 5's jump gate. Sheridan, who promised G'Kar he'd do
+   whatever he could, sends out Zeta Squadron to escort the Narn ship.
+   Lantz arrives at C&C and asks Sheridan to explain his actions.
+   Sheridan tells him that he promised Sanctuary to the Narn ship and
+   will do whatever he can to keep that promise. Lantz tries to protest
+   Sheridan's actions, but Sheridan has him taken out of C&C as Zeta
+   Squadron launches. He opens up a line with Londo and tells him that
+   the Narn ship will be granted free passage. Sheridan tells Londo that,
+   if the Centauri opens fire on the Starfuries, Babylon 5 will respond
+   with deadly force. He sends a copy of the transmission to the Centauri
+   cruiser and orders the defense grid activated.
+   
+   With the Starfuries in position, the Narn ship begins to move toward
+   the jumpgate. The Centauri cruiser changes its position, opens its gun
+   ports, and targets the Narn ship, Zeta Squadron, and Babylon 5 itself.
+   Sheridan targets the Centauri warship and tells Keffer to fire if
+   fired upon. The Centauri lock onto Babylon 5, but Sheridan refuses to
+   fire until the Centauri do, which happens after only a few seconds.
+   Sheridan fires interceptor shots and continues to defend Babylon 5 and
+   the Narn ship as it is escorted toward the jump point. Babylon 5 is
+   hit a couple of times, and Sheridan orders all weapons fired on the
+   Centauri ship. The Narn ship makes it through the jump point; the
+   Centauri ship, severely damaged by the station's attack, explodes.
+   
+   Lantz tells Sheridan that the Centauri are extremely upset over
+   Sheridan's actions, and despite the fact that morally and legally
+   Sheridan made the correct choice, Lantz refuses to accept Sheridan's
+   actions. Lantz tells Sheridan that the Centauri have accused them of
+   moving out of neutrality and into a pro-Narn position. Welles tells
+   Lantz and Sheridan that the joint chiefs agreed with Sheridan's
+   actions, which were in accordance with Earth Force regulations,
+   though, had Sheridan informed them of the Narn warship earlier, things
+   may have turned out differently. Lantz tells Sheridan that the
+   Centauri are willing to drop the entire thing if Sheridan apologizes.
+   Sheridan is outraged at this, though Welles tells him that he has been
+   ordered by the president himself, and that, should Sheridan go against
+   those orders, he would be removed from command of Babylon 5. Welles
+   explains that a meeting among all the ambassadors has been set up in
+   the Zen Garden.
+   
+   Zeta Squadron sticks with the Narn warship until Keffer's ship's
+   computer informs him that there is an elevation in neutrino levels --
+   one of the signals from Mitch's data crystal. Sending the rest of the
+   squadron and the Narn ship on ahead, Keffer breaks off to investigate.
+   
+   Sheridan, in his dress uniform, practices his apology. "I apologize.
+   I'm sorry. I'm sorry we had to defend ourselves against an unwarranted
+   attack. I'm sorry that your crew was stupid enough to fire on a
+   station filled with a quarter million civilians, including your own
+   people. And I'm sorry I waited as long as I did before I blew them all
+   straight to hell. As with everything else," he muses, "it's the
+   thought that counts." He leaves to go make the speech.
+   
+   Keffer, following the computer signals, finally spies the Shadow ship
+   and orders the computer to begin recording.
+   
+   All the ambassadors and their assistants have gathered in the Zen
+   garden, waiting for Sheridan's speech as Sheridan makes his way there.
+   As he approaches the transport tube, he is noticed by two young
+   Centauri. In the garden, Ivanova notices that G'Kar has arrived. She
+   tells him that he shouldn't be there, and he tells her that he has
+   come to speak on Sheridan's behalf, and that the League of Non-Aligned
+   Worlds may listen to him. Delenn and Kosh move off together to talk in
+   private.
+   
+   Keffer is scanned by the Shadow ship. He orders the computer to attach
+   a homing beacon and eject the system record. The beacon has barely had
+   time to leave the ship when the Shadow vessel turns toward Keffer, and
+   he is enveloped, screaming, in a blinding white light.
+   
+   Sheridan enters the transport tube and finds a place to sit down for
+   the trip. When the car arrives at the second transport station,
+   everyone except Sheridan leaves the car. When the car recommences its
+   motion, Sheridan hears a strange noise and notices that an explosive
+   device has been placed on a seat nearby and is nearly ready to
+   explode. Sheridan orders the computer to override and open the shuttle
+   doors. He springs out the door and the car explodes behind him.
+   
+   The explosion -- and the rapidly falling Sheridan -- capture the
+   attention of those in the Garden below, but there is very little time.
+   "In Valen's name!" Delenn says.
+   
+   "Oh my God!" Ivanova exclaims. "Emergency alert. We've got an
+   explosion in the core shuttle. We need rescue jetpacks and we need 'em
+   now."
+   
+   "What are you trying to do?" G'Kar asks.
+   
+   "He's more or less weightless," Ivanova explains. "But the ground is
+   rotating at sixty miles an hour. If we can't catch him, he'll be
+   killed by the impact."
+   
+   "You won't have time!" G'Kar offers.
+   
+   Delenn turns to Kosh, standing by her in a deserted section of the
+   garden. "Kosh, you know what's at stake. If you are going to do
+   anything, you must do it now!" The headpiece of Kosh's encounter suit
+   opens up, a brilliant blue light shining from within.
+   
+   Sheridan continues to fall as Ivanova receives another communication,
+   saying that the rescue team can't get there for two minutes. Ivanova
+   tries to get them to hurry, since they have only thirty seconds.
+   
+   Delenn looks up at Kosh as he emerges from his encounter suit. As Kosh
+   soars into the air, she recognizes him as a tall, winged Minbari, the
+   bone on his head carved into the shape of a crown. He is glowing with
+   white and yellow light as he flies toward Sheridan.
+   
+   Lennier also recognizes him instantly. "Valeria!" he exclaims.
+   
+   The Drazi ambassador sees Kosh as well, but sees him differently.
+   "Droshalla," he shouts out as he sees a light ensconced Drazi rise
+   into the air on her wings.
+   
+   "G'Lan," G'Kar says breathlessly, referring to the Narn clad in pure
+   white who is flying up to Sheridan to rescue him.
+   
+   Londo looks up as well, puzzled.
+   
+   As Sheridan falls, he too sees something different. A human male, clad
+   all in white, and outlined by a warm yellow glow against his wings,
+   holds his hands out to Sheridan, who grasps them. The figure,
+   appearing as an angel to Sheridan, helps him to the ground, again in
+   the secluded part of the garden. When he arrives, Sheridan is
+   astounded. "Kosh?" he asks. The figure nods.
+   
+   Delenn enters Sheridan's quarters. She was worried about him, but
+   Sheridan says he is fine. "The whole station's talking about what
+   happened. Every race that was in the garden saw something different...
+   yet the same. A being of light."
+   
+   "Yes," Delenn affirms. "Each according to his or her type."
+   
+   "But it was Kosh, wasn't it?" Sheridan asks Delenn, and she nods.
+   "That's what he meant when he said that if he left his encounter suit,
+   he'd be recognized by... everybody," Sheridan concludes.
+   
+   "For millions of years, the Vorlons have visited other worlds, guided
+   them and..."
+   
+   "Manipulated us? Programmed us so that... when we saw them, we would
+   react the right way?"
+   
+   "It is, as you say, a matter of perspective," Delenn tells Sheridan
+   solemnly. "What matters is that he has revealed himself to those who
+   understand--you, me... and those who have been watching. The Shadows
+   will know what Kosh has done. They will worry, afraid that he would
+   not reveal himself unless the Vorlons were prepared to stand against
+   them."
+   
+   "Are they?"
+   
+   "I do not think so. But as long as the Shadows believe the rest of us
+   are unaware of their existence, we have time to prepare."
+   
+   "Well, let's just hope that nobody find out about them until..."
+   Sheridan is interrupted by a call from Ivanova saying that Zeta
+   Squadron has returned, but Keffer has not.
+   
+   In the Zocalo, a Narn and Drazi both describe what they saw in the
+   garden. The Narn leaves, but the Drazi asks Londo, sitting nearby,
+   what he saw. "Nothing," Londo replies. "I saw... nothing." He turns
+   and leaves.
+   
+   Londo shouts angrily in the council chamber as Ivanova, in voiceover,
+   explains. "It was the end of the Earth year 2259, and the war was upon
+   us. As anticipated, a few days after the Earth-Centauri treaty was
+   announced, the Centauri widened their war to include many of the
+   Non-Aligned Worlds. And there was another war brewing closer to home,
+   a personal one whose cost would be higher than any of us could
+   imagine." The shopkeeper Zack informed on is forced out of his shop,
+   closed by the Ministry of Peace "pending allegations of sedition."
+   Ivanova, in her quarters, silently and solemnly lights her menorah.
+   "We came to this place because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for
+   peace. By the end of 2259, we knew that it had failed. But in so
+   doing, it became something greater. As the war expanded, it became our
+   last best hope... for victory. Because sometimes, peace is another
+   word for surrender. And because secrets have a way of getting out."
+   
+   The image of the Shadow ship, seen from the beacon Keffer sent out
+   appears as an announcer explains. "When our ship encountered a
+   distress beacon attached to an EarthForce recording device, these
+   images, released exclusively to ISN, were found on that recording.
+   Strategic analysts in EarthDome have indicated they don't know who
+   this new race might be... but promised to find out." The Shadow vessel
+   turns toward the camera and fires, reducing the image to static.
+
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
+  
+   While the station is being repaired, both inside and out, Sheridan
+   goes to the rock garden, where he meets Ambassador Kosh. He tells Kosh
+   that, ever since Kosh had saved his life the previous week, he hadn't
+   thanked him properly, and that Kosh hadn't returned his calls.
+   Sheridan asks Kosh if everything is all right.
+   
+   "Being seen by so many at once was a great strain. I returned to my
+   ship to rest. You have a question?" Kosh asks.
+   
+   "Nobody knows it was you. Everyone saw something different, something
+   from the legends of their own world. But it was still a terrible risk.
+   After taking such...such care to hide what you really are, why take
+   that chance?"
+   
+   "It was...necessary."
+   
+   "Well, as answers go: Short to the point, utterly useless, and totally
+   consistent. What I've come to expect from a Vorlon."
+   
+   "Good."
+   
+   "You know... I just had a thought. You've been back and forth to your
+   homeworld so many times since you got here, how do I know you're the
+   same Vorlon? Inside that encounter suit, you could be anyone."
+   
+   "I have always been here."
+   
+   "Oh yeah? You said that about me too."
+   
+   "Yes."
+   
+   "I really hate it when you do that."
+   
+   "Good," Kosh tells Sheridan as he leaves him alone in the garden.
+   
+   A large ship, piloted by a Drazi, blasts off from a planet, under
+   constant fire from two orbiting stations. The ship flies toward the
+   barrier around the planet, and manages to get through it, being
+   slightly damaged in the process. After the ship breaks through the
+   barrier, the pilot launches a smaller ship from it, which flies away,
+   escaping just as the larger ship is destroyed. The smaller ship is
+   fired upon and hit, but still able to make the jump to its pilot's
+   destination: Babylon 5. In order to speed up the trip, the pilot
+   orders all non-necessary life support power to the engines.
+   
+   Sheridan tells Ivanova, who is with him in the docking bay, that he is
+   tired of the unannounced visits of V.I.P's from Earth, since they are
+   never given enough information. The man they are waiting for arrives
+   and introduces himself as David Endawi, who asks that they go
+   somewhere private, and that Ambassador Delenn join them.
+   
+   Garibaldi brings the pilot of the small ship into the new Medlab
+   facilities, and Franklin tells Garibaldi that he will have Dr. Sanchez
+   do an examination, and inform him of the results. Garibaldi leaves,
+   and Franklin examines the man, dressed in the uniform of a Ranger. He
+   calls Sanchez to inform her he needs her help, but upon turning
+   around, the Ranger is gone.
+   
+   Londo is sitting at a bar drinking when Morden arrives, per Londo's
+   request. Londo tells Morden that he has been doing a great deal of
+   thinking and now, that the Narn War is over, they should reconsider
+   their relationship. He feels that the Centauri no longer need the help
+   of Morden's associates. Morden asks Londo if he is being premature in
+   his desire for them to disappear, since they might not know what lies
+   ahead, but Londo tells him he is sure, and wants Morden and his
+   associates to "go away." Morden agrees, telling him that he will meet
+   Londo in his quarters later, after meeting with his associates, to
+   discuss the dissolving of their partnership.
+   
+   Sheridan, Ivanova, Delenn, and Endawi are in Sheridan's office when
+   Endawi asks Delenn if, as a member of the older races, she has any
+   information about the mysterious ship that Lt. Keffer recorded shortly
+   before his death. Endawi asks what Keffer knew about the ship, and
+   Sheridan and Ivanova insist they didn't know what he knew about it.
+   Endawi explains that the ship is obviously from a highly advanced
+   civilization, and that they are worried about the threat the ship
+   might represent, and it is his job to gather information about it.
+   Delenn apologizes to Endawi, but tells him she has never seen a ship
+   of this type before. Endawi asks her if she's sure, but she insists
+   she is. Endawi asks if a ship like this had entered Babylon 5 space,
+   and Sheridan says no. Endawi asks for quarters to stay in until he has
+   been able to talk to the other ambassadors, and Ivanova escorts him
+   out. After they leave, Sheridan asks if the ship belongs to the
+   Shadows, who Delenn had told him about several months earlier. Delenn
+   acknowledges this, saying that it is important to convince the Shadows
+   that they are unaware of the Shadow's but that she didn't lie: she had
+   never actually seen on of their ships before. She says that Shadow
+   ships are relentless and nigh invincible, but Sheridan doesn't believe
+   it. She tells him that he will only feel that way until he sees what
+   they can do. "Take a good look, John. That is the face of our enemy."
+   
+   Lennier meets Delenn and tells her that someone is looking for her.
+   When she tries to brush him off, Lennier changes her mind by
+   presenting the badge of the man brought into Medlab, which Delenn
+   recognizes immediately.
+   
+   Endawi meets with Londo, and asks him what he knows about the ship
+   from Keffer's recording. Londo tells Endawi that this is the ship he
+   has seen in a dream where he is standing on Centauri Prime, with
+   similar ships passing overhead, until their numbers grow so great,
+   they blot out the sun. But, Londo says that's all he knows about the
+   ship, and apologizes that he couldn't be of more help. Endawi thanks
+   Londo, and leaves.
+   
+   Delenn and Lennier, in disguise, venture into Downbelow and enter a
+   tavern, where they sit down. The ranger comes up to them and gives
+   them drinks, which they initially do not accept, but soon do in order
+   to avoid drawing attention. Lennier tastes the drink and discovers it
+   has no alcohol in it. The Ranger, who identifies himself as Marcus,
+   says it proves he was waiting for them, since very few know of
+   alcohol's effects on Minbari. Marcus tells Delenn he needs her help,
+   but would prefer to discuss it in private. They leave the tavern, but
+   are followed. They soon run into a group of thugs, who insist they
+   give over their possessions. Marcus pulls out a Mimbari staff, and
+   begins fighting the thugs. Delenn and Lennier join in, and the thieves
+   are soon defeated. The three of them quickly run away.
+   
+   Ivanova enters Sheridan's office, where he, Garibaldi, Delenn,
+   Lennier, and Marcus are already waiting for them. Sheridan tries to
+   explain the Rangers to her, but she has already known about them for a
+   long time. Marcus tells all of them that the he came from Zagros VII,
+   a Drazi world, where there is a Ranger training camp, created partly
+   for safety, and partly because certain Minbari are uncomfortable with
+   the Rangers. Marcus explains that the planet was blockaded two weeks
+   earlier by the Centauri and that he believes the Ranger camp is the
+   target. He pleads for Sheridan to help the Rangers evacuate. Garibaldi
+   says that they don't have the means for such an attack, since it would
+   require a powerful warship and crew, but Marcus tells him they have
+   the means, if Sheridan and the others have the will. Ivanova reminds
+   Sheridan of Endawi, and Sheridan tells Garibaldi to take charge of him
+   while the others prepare to go to Zagros VII. They soon board a
+   shuttle, file a fake destination in the station's log, and they, and
+   an accompanying Minbari flyer, head out.
+   
+   Morden tells Londo that he wants to make sure that the Centauri are
+   clear on the details of their separation. He brings up a map of the
+   galaxy and draws a line on it, showing the quarter of it which the
+   Centauri may conquer at will. As long as they don't trespass into the
+   territory of Morden's associates, there won't be any problems. Londo
+   asks how he can be sure that Morden's associates won't attack him, and
+   Morden says he can't, but that they have what they want, and aren't
+   concerned with the rest. Londo quickly agrees to Morden's conditions,
+   but Morden tells him there is one more condition. There is one world,
+   on the edge of the Centauri boundaries, that his associates want
+   custody of, and he has already convinced Lord Refa to secure it until
+   his associates can arrive. When Londo asks if he might be able to see
+   the ships of Morden's associates one day, Morden tells Londo ominously
+   to ensure no Centauri remain near Zagros VII when his associates get
+   there.
+   
+   The shuttle and the flyer pull out of hyperspace and arrive near a
+   beautiful, strange, magnificent ship. "Her name," Marcus tells them,
+   "is the White Star. And she's yours, Captain."
+   
+   Endawi protests to Garibaldi that he was assured Sheridan and Ivanova
+   were available, but with some quick double-talk, Garibaldi convinces
+   Endawi that he isn't allowed to let himself know where they went. He
+   suggests that Endawi talk to G'Kar unofficially, since the
+   Centauri-Earth treaty prohibits official contact with the Narn.
+   
+   As they explore the ship, Delenn explains that the White Star is a new
+   type of Minbari warship--smaller and faster than normal, an amalgam of
+   Minbari and Vorlon technology. It looks just different enough so that
+   it cannot be identified. She takes them to the bridge, where the crew,
+   consisting of members of the religious caste, busily prepares the ship
+   for its mission. Sheridan tries to order them to Zagros VII, but
+   Lennier says he must act as interpreter, since most of the crew isn't
+   familiar with English. The ship blasts off toward Zagros VII.
+   
+   Endawi asks G'Kar if he knows anything about the mysterious ship. With
+   an exclamation of relief G'Kar turns an opened Book of G'Quan toward
+   Endawi, where there is a picture which bears a striking resemblance to
+   the Shadow ship. "They came to our world over a thousand of your years
+   ago, long before we went to the stars ourselves. They set up a base on
+   one of our southern continents. They took little interest in us.
+   G'Quan believed they were engaged in a war, far outside our own
+   world."
+   
+   "G'Quan?" Endawi asks.
+   
+   "One of our greatest spiritual leaders. The Book of G'Quan is copied
+   by hand from the original with every note and line precisely drawn.
+   This ship and your ship are the same. I tried to warn the others that
+   the ancient enemy was returning. But no one listened... Perhaps now
+   they will."
+   
+   "But if this is correct, why would they just disappear for a thousand
+   years?"
+   
+   "To all things, there is a time, Mr. Endawi. Perhaps this is theirs."
+   
+   While on their way to Zagros VII, Ivanova asks how Marcus became a
+   Ranger, and he explains it was because of his brother, who died trying
+   to warn him about a Shadow attack on the mining colony where he was
+   working. Marcus promised his brother he would carry on the mission.
+   The White Star comes out of hyperspace, near Zagros VII, and
+   approaches the planet. They call the Rangers and tell them to be ready
+   to escape. The White Star destroys the mines and stations around the
+   planet, but too easily. Sheridan can't believe there wouldn't be a
+   Centauri warship guarding it, and asks Lennier if the scanners are
+   working properly. To prove they are, Lennier shows him, displaying
+   more of the White Star's unique abilities. Ivanova detects a
+   disturbance, and they put it up on the screen. It is the ship they all
+   saw from Lt. Keffer's flight recorder: A Shadow ship.
+   
+   Sheridan declares that the Shadows must have come for the Rangers who
+   he promises not to abandon. Delenn insists they aren't yet ready to
+   fight, but they aren't given much of a choice when the Shadow ship
+   attacks. The White Star manage to maneuver out of the way of its
+   attack, which shocks Delenn, since the Shadows never miss. After they
+   clear the last mine blockading the Rangers, they tell the Rangers to
+   clear out. Sheridan tells Lennier to proceed to the jumpgate since the
+   Shadows won't suspect that the White Star can open a jump point
+   because of its small size, and he wants to keep every advantage he
+   can. Delenn says the ship will follow them wherever they go, and
+   Sheridan says he's counting on it. The White Star enters the jumpgate,
+   with the Shadow ship following close behind.
+   
+   Delenn pleads with Sheridan to call for help. They don't have any
+   chance of destroying the ship alone, since it is so much bigger than
+   they are. Alluding to the Black Star Sheridan tells her that he has
+   heard that before. As they continue through hyperspace, Sheridan asks
+   Ivanova what would happen if they were to open a jump point while
+   inside hyperspace, and Ivanova explains that it would be suicide: the
+   energy released would be too great to escape from. Sheridan asks
+   Lennier if the White Star is quick enough to escape, and Lennier says
+   he doesn't know. Sheridan says that they are probably near sector 45,
+   and that they should use that gate to try the maneuver. It is the
+   jumpgate near the Markab homeworld, which other races have been using
+   the strip the planet bare. The White Star opens the jumpgate, while
+   activating her jump engines. Just as the point forms, the White Star
+   escapes the jumpgate which explodes in a fierce burst of energy, which
+   damages the White Star, but destroys the tailing Shadow ship.
+   
+   The original shuttle and Minbari flyer arrive back on Babylon 5 to be
+   met by Mr. Endawi, who demands to know why they lied about where they
+   were going and what they were doing. Sheridan and Delenn say that they
+   had to tow a Minbari diplomatic shuttle to a nearby jumpgate. They
+   apologize, but Endawi is on his way back to Earth. He tells them he
+   has all the information he needs, and that he will send a copy of the
+   report.
+   
+   Back on Earth, Endawi presents his information to a senator in Earth
+   Dome, telling her what he found, though he reached nothing conclusive.
+   She tells him that she will inform him of what they find. Soon after
+   he leaves, two other men come into her office. One of them is Morden,
+   and the other is a Psi Cop. She tells them that there is little
+   information, and that the ship is a complete mystery to everyone on
+   Babylon 5 except legends. Morden suggests that the Earth government
+   dismiss it as an isolated incident, but the telepath disagrees, saying
+   that a threat to planetary security could be useful in speeding up the
+   program at home. Intrigued, Morden asks him to explain.
+   
+   Sheridan, Ivanova, Garibaldi, Franklin, Delenn, and Marcus sit around
+   a large table while Sheridan outlines his plan for a War Council:
+   Whatever anyone learns they will share every two weeks, in hopes that
+   together they can achieve more than they can working separately.
+   Sheridan tells them that they can say anything they like during these
+   meetings.
+   
+   Franklin says, "Well, then, I have a question. Granted, I am stuck in
+   Medlab most of the time, and granted, I'm usually the last to know
+   anything around here, and granted, we've all been pretty busy lately,
+   but could someone please tell me what the hell these Shadows are?"
+   
+   Sheridan indicates to Delenn that she should explain, which she does.
+   "There are beings in the universe billions of years older than any of
+   our races. They walked among the stars like giants, vast and timeless.
+   They created great empires, taught the new races, explored beyond the
+   Rim... The oldest of the Ancients are the Shadows. We have no other
+   name for them..."
+
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+  Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
+  
+   Commander Ivanova finds Garibaldi and Zack busy mocking two Drazi
+   missionaries seeking assistance in the docking bay; they claim to have
+   been drawn to B5 by reports that Droshalla, a Drazi holy being has
+   blessed the station. (In typical unfathomable Drazi fashion, their
+   attempts to share Zack's blessing are easily transferred to a nearby
+   plant.) With relative unconcern Ivanova asks Garibaldi to investigate
+   a set of anonymous messages to C&C declaring a countdown to chaos. The
+   threats become reality moments later when a lurker is blown to bits by
+   a booby trap in Downbelow.
+   
+   Still in Docking, Zack's day improves further when the arrival of a
+   chapter of monks interrupts his attempts to respond to the explosion.
+   In Downbelow, the heavy damage and confusion mystify the crew.
+   Although Garibaldi determines that it was a bomb, he can't find
+   anything worth blowing up.
+   
+   Meanwhile Ivanova is unable to dissuade Brother Theo from his flock's
+   determination to establish a mission on the station. When she points
+   out that the aliens passing through B5 may not want to be preached at,
+   that there is little space and that they will be in the way, he
+   readily replies with both the words of the Bible and the fact that the
+   monks themselves happen to be engineers and computer experts.
+   
+   Lennier is afflicted with a garrulous human neighbor while waiting in
+   reception for Delenn to disembark. He rises to greet her at the gate
+   just as there is an explosion in the corridor behind. Lennier hauls
+   her forward then steps past the gate to hustle Ambassador Mollari (who
+   happens to be arriving as well) to safety just as the pressure doors
+   close. Delenn watches in horror through the transparent frame as
+   Lennier is licked by flames and struck by falling objects.
+   
+   A staff meeting clarifies that these blasts are aimed at people, not
+   installations, and are being effective in their apparent purpose of
+   spreading chaos and terror. Sheridan orders martial law and the bomber
+   watches its imposition with satisfaction. While Lennier hovers in a
+   coma, G'Kar rails at Garibaldi about the Centauri responsibility for
+   the explosions and Londo insists to the captain and commander that the
+   Narn are widening the range of their terror tactics. But the truth is
+   that there is no sense to the attacks, and no one is claiming
+   responsibility.
+   
+   Londo manages to convince a doctor to let him stay with Lennier.
+   Though his bedside manner probably needs improvement, Londo seems to
+   have been genuinely moved by the young Minbari saving his life.
+   
+   Meanwhile security determines from a molecular trace of the bomb
+   materials that they were stolen from an ice mine on Beta 7, and that
+   the bomber seems to have struck before on Proxima 3. Garibaldi balks
+   when Sheridan orders a full investigation of all traffic from there to
+   B5 cross checked against possible gloaters filmed by security cameras
+   after the blasts. Ivanova has the bright idea of putting the new
+   engineering monks to use.
+   
+   Londo promises the unconscious Lennier to return, and departs on an
+   errand. Upon finding the transport tube occupied by a smoldering
+   G'Kar, at first he refuses to enter, but an instant later he leaps
+   inside to escape a rush of flame from a bomb blast further down the
+   corridor. Two hours later he rouses to find himself trapped in the
+   damaged tube under the pitiless eyes of the former Narn ambassador.
+   Londo proposes a plan of escape before the flames outside suffocate
+   them, but with exquisite mirth G'Kar refuses. Though he'd like to live
+   he would be delighted to watch Mollari die.
+   
+   The monks are successful, and Brother Theo points out to Garibaldi the
+   most likely suspect. As a tac team in full armor assembles to go after
+   the bomber, G'Kar croons and cackles to his nemesis, "Not many fishes
+   left in the sea/Not many fishes, just Londo and me."
+   
+   The team gathers near the bomber's quarters, but he's prepared for
+   them and demands to speak to the captain alone. Sheridan stuffs his
+   link down his pants and agrees to go in to negotiate. Garibaldi orders
+   C&C not to let anyone beep the captain under any circumstances. The
+   bomber wants free passage off the station, but lets slip that the
+   deadman switch he carries will set off a bomb to make the station
+   explode like the sun. This twigs Garibaldi to the fusion reactor. He
+   sends a squad to check it out, and as they scramble into action the
+   bomber attempts to terrorize the captain. All he manages is to get
+   Sheridan thoroughly infuriated with his threats, and to send his own
+   nerves haywire. Why is he bombing things? His only reason is that the
+   times are chaotic.
+   
+   The squad finds the bomb in the reactor, just before Sheridan sits on
+   his link. When he hears the beep the bomber panics. In the ensuing
+   struggle the deadman switch drops, transmitting to the bomb just as
+   it's propelled harmlessly away from the station.
+   
+   When the battered and damaged Lennier finally comes around, he
+   explains that he saved Mollari's life at the risk of his own because
+   "all life is sacred. But when the object of your actions does not
+   share that belief... ahh, I fear that I have served the present by
+   sacrificing the future."
+   
+   In the "last of the debris" from the last explosion on board, a rescue
+   team comes upon the two nearly asphyxiated enemies in the transport
+   tube. They curse each other with familiarity.
+   
+   "Bastard." Londo utters.
+   
+   "Monster."
+   
+   "Fanatic!"
+   
+   "Murderer!"
+   
+   "You are insane!"
+   
+   "That is why we'll win," G'Kar gasps.
+   
+   "Go be the ambassador to Babylon 5 they said. It will be an easy
+   position. I hate my life."
+   
+   "So do I."
+   
+   "Shut up!"
+
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
+  
+   Sheridan and Ivanova try to keep order as they meet with the transport
+   association to work out the new ship screening policy on Babylon 5.
+   Ivanova tries to appease the crowd, but they will not listen to
+   anything she has to say. One man stands up and accuses them of
+   hoarding the weapons so they can control everyone. He challenges
+   Sheridan, saying that, without his gun, Sheridan would be afraid to
+   fight. Sheridan steps down from the rostrum and hands his PPG to the
+   man, taking his less-powerful weapon away and using it instead. When
+   Sheridan asks the man to use the PPG, the man backs down. Sheridan
+   retrieves his PPG, and tells Ivanova to adjourn the meeting until the
+   next day, which she does. The crowd files out, and Sheridan is
+   upbraided by Ivanova for handing the man the PPG until Sheridan
+   explains that he removed the PPG's energy source prior to giving it to
+   the man. Two Narns enter the room, and one introduces himself.
+   "Captain Sheridan? Counselor Na'Far. I've just arrived and wanted to
+   check in with you. I'm here to replace citizen G'Kar."
+   
+   Na'Far explains to Sheridan and Ivanova that the Centauri believe
+   G'Kar is creating an armed resistance on the Narn Homeworld, and they
+   want it stopped. Sheridan asks Na'Far why he doesn't want the
+   occupation stopped; Na'Far says that he feels it is not yet the time
+   for action, and that he has been instructed to take over on Babylon 5.
+   Sheridan denies his request, and insists that Na'Far work out his
+   problems with G'Kar alone. Na'Far politely, but reservedly, thanks him
+   and leaves.
+   
+   In Earhart's, Garibaldi tells a very tired Dr. Franklin a story, but
+   Franklin is in no mood. Ivanova comes by and sits down with them.
+   Franklin says that he has been worried about Sheridan, who has been
+   under an extreme amount of pressure recently, but Ivanova insists that
+   he has had to be, because he has had more to deal with. Franklin
+   receives a call from MedLab, asking him to take an extra shift. He
+   reluctantly agrees, and goes off to the bathroom. While he's gone,
+   Garibaldi tells Ivanova that he looked through Sheridan's file when he
+   came aboard the station, and that he feels Sheridan is capable of
+   handling any problems that arise. Ivanova leaves, running into
+   Franklin on the way out. He is much more energetic now, and tells
+   Garibaldi that he plans to ask a beautiful woman sitting nearby to
+   dance, which he does.
+   
+   Na'Far talks to Londo, to whom he was instructed to report prior to
+   contacting G'Kar. Na'Far asks if he may speak with G'Kar, but Londo
+   avoids the request, instead asking whether or not it would be safe to
+   visit Narn, if the captured Narns are doing what they should, and if
+   the executions are continuing. Na'Far answers affirmatively to each.
+   Londo says that Na'Far may leave, which he does. Vir, who witnessed
+   this, asks Londo if it was really necessary to break the Narns' spirit
+   as well, but Londo insists that the Narn must lose their pride, or
+   they'll pose another problem later.
+   
+   Lt. Corwin tells Sheridan that they have been monitoring an alien
+   probe that has entered Babylon 5 space, a probe of no known design.
+   The probe, which appears to have no weapon systems, begins
+   transmitting a code to Babylon 5, a series of repeating signals that
+   will take the computer several hours to decode.
+   
+   Londo tells Delenn that he feels the rift that has grown between them
+   is unfortunate, and that he misses her as a friend. He tells her that
+   he has done her favors in the past, and now wants her to repay him. He
+   says that he believes Vir would be an excellent choice for a new
+   Centauri diplomatic mission to Minbar. Delenn asks why he feels Vir
+   should be sent to Minbar, and Londo attempts to lie to her, but she
+   catches him. "Over the last two years," he tells her, "to my
+   considerable surprise, I have become very fond of Vir. Sometimes in
+   his eyes, I see a younger version of myself, before... He would be
+   better off away from here. Away from what must be. He would only get
+   in the way." Delenn suggests that perhaps Londo needs Vir, but Londo
+   insists this isn't true, and gives Delenn Vir's papers. Delenn says
+   that she will do what she can. Londo leaves.
+   
+   Garibaldi and Franklin sit down for an Italian dinner in Garibaldi's
+   quarters, and Garibaldi begins to talk to Franklin about his use of
+   stims. Garibaldi tells him that, for obsessive compulsives like
+   themselves, it can be easy to form addictions. Franklin insists that
+   he doesn't have a problem, but Garibaldi, who noticed Franklin's stim
+   use back at Earhart's, tells him that he checked the records and found
+   that Franklin purposefully takes extra shifts, even though he is
+   always overworked. Franklin is upset that Garibaldi did this, but
+   promises Garibaldi he doesn't have a problem, and will cut back on his
+   use of stims.
+   
+   While Sheridan sits at a bar, Na'Far's bodyguard, Ta'Lon, the same
+   Narn Sheridan rescued the previous year from the Streib ship, appears
+   and tells Sheridan that he wants to repay the debt he owes. In his
+   desire to help the Narn after the Narn-Centauri War began, he ended up
+   Na'Far's bodyguard, but says that he is no longer sure if he is
+   protecting Na'Far from outsiders or other Narns. Ta'Lon tells Sheridan
+   there is a debt he must repay as a matter of honor, and though
+   Sheridan is initially resistent, he accepts Ta'Lon's offer.
+   
+   Lt. Corwin reports to Ivanova that the computer has finished analyzing
+   the probe's language codes. It was sent to initiate contact with other
+   life forms, and promises that, if a list of just over 600 questions in
+   many complex scientific and mathematical fields are answered within 24
+   hours, they will be rewarded with cures for disease and
+   highly-advanced technology, but should they fail, they will be
+   vaporized in a 500,000 megaton explosion when the probe
+   self-destructs.
+   
+   Ivanova and Sheridan try to work through solutions to the problem, but
+   are unable to come up with any acceptable alternatives other than
+   answering the probe's question. Ivanova tells him that most of the
+   questions are very technical and some nearly theoretical, and that she
+   had to send some of them back to Earth to be answered.
+   
+   Na'Far tells G'Kar that many Narns are starving, and that the
+   resistance is keeping the Narns on the homeworld from getting the food
+   sent by the Centauri. G'Kar tells him that they don't want the help of
+   the Centauri, but Na'Far says that Centauri food may be their only
+   chance for survival. G'Kar explodes, telling Na'Far that he isn't
+   responsible for the Narn invasion, and that he doesn't want to be
+   blamed for those problems. G'Kar insists that the resistance is
+   working to secure their own food and resources, but Na'Far despairs
+   that they will ever be able to bring in enough. G'Kar says that the
+   Centauri are simply trying to control them, a fact to which Na'Far
+   concedes, but insists that the time for action is not yet at hand.
+   Na'Far begs G'Kar to postpone his battle against the Centauri and
+   return home, while Na'Far looks after things on Babylon 5. G'Kar says
+   the other Narn on Babylon 5 will not accept Na'Far, and therefore he
+   must stay, but Na'Far tells him that the Centauri will persecute and
+   imprison their families if he remains.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin tries to treat an alien patient, but is unable to
+   communicate with him, and there is no translator available. Ivanova
+   calls and asks Franklin if he has received answers to the questions he
+   relayed to Earth. Franklin, under a great deal of pressure, orders the
+   patient away and looks in his desk to see stims inside, but quickly
+   closes the desk without using them.
+   
+   Vir insists that he doesn't want to go to Minbar, but Londo assures
+   him that he will have a good time, and that it is a good career move,
+   and that he will still return to the station now and then. He assures
+   Vir that he is simply trying to protect him, and is capable of taking
+   care of things himself. Londo is confident that Vir will adjust to his
+   life on Minbar.
+   
+   "Londo, if I leave, you'll be alone!" Vir objects.
+   
+   "Ah," Londo replies, "I have always been alone."
+   
+   Na'Far and Ta'Lon leave G'Kar's quarters and are accosted by some of
+   the members of G'Kar's resistance, who insist that he is merely a
+   puppet of the Centauri designed to carry out their will on Babylon 5.
+   One of the Narns insists that Na'Far's sole purpose there is to break
+   their souls, and wants him to go back to Narn. A battle ensues, but is
+   interrupted by G'Kar who stops them and tells them that they cannot
+   succeed if they fight amongst themselves. If the only way to solve
+   these problems is to return to Narn, he agrees to do so.
+   
+   With only six hours left, Babylon 5 has all but 75 questions answered,
+   and they continue to process more all the time. Sheridan asks if they
+   might be able to power up the weapons slowly so the probe wouldn't be
+   able to detect it, but this crisis is interrupted by another: Corwin
+   tells him that the transport association is demanding another meeting,
+   which Sheridan reschedules seven hours later.
+   
+   Garibaldi visits G'Kar, who is in the process of packing to return to
+   Narn. He explains his reasons, but Garibaldi tries to explain that the
+   Centauri will kill him should he return, a fact which G'Kar is only
+   too aware of, but believes is only the solution. Garibaldi tries to
+   convince him to stay, but G'Kar will not. G'Kar thanks him for his
+   concern, and Garibaldi leaves.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin, talking to a doctor on Earth, is outraged to hear that
+   they do not have answers to all the questions he asked. He blows up at
+   her, telling her to find the other answers, or else he will do what he
+   can before he dies to discredit her. He shuts off the link, and opens
+   his desk again. This time, he succumbs and injects himself with stims.
+   
+   Na'Far tries to rally the Narns aboard the station to his way of
+   thinking, and tells them that one great victory is better than
+   numerous small victories. He does a good job of persuading them of
+   this, but there is one thing that this plan omits that they all want
+   to have.
+   
+   With three minutes remaining, C&C rushes to get the answers
+   transmitted, but Sheridan stops Ivanova, saying that he thinks there
+   is something unusual about the situation, namely why a more advanced
+   race would wish to give less-advanced races technology beyond their
+   own. He says that wishing to eliminate lesser races, in that case,
+   doesn't make any sense. He proposes that the entire thing is a ruse,
+   designed not to destroy races who haven't reached a certain level of
+   technological awareness, but rather to destroy races who HAVE, and
+   present a threat to the probe's creators. With only 15 seconds
+   remaining, Sheridan orders the information to not be sent. The probe
+   leaves. Sheridan orders all of the answers relayed through a securebot
+   a large distance away from the station. The probe self-destructs,
+   destroying both itself and the securebot, but leaving the station
+   intact. While Ivanova tries to get the debris back to the station for
+   study, Sheridan laments that he now has to face the Transport
+   Association again.
+   
+   As G'Kar leaves the station, he is stopped by the many Narns of the
+   resistance, who insist that G'Kar is valued and needed on the station.
+   They refuse to let him leave, and though he tries to insist he is
+   leaving in order to help them, they will not let him leave. He reminds
+   them that their families may be in jeopardy, but they all realize this
+   and are ready to accept what happens if it means the freedom of all
+   Narns. Even Ta'Lon has been convinced to stay and join the Narn
+   resistance, and tells G'Kar that only with his help can they
+   eventually succeed. G'Kar agrees to stay aboard the station.
+   
+   Garibaldi and Franklin sit in Earhart's discussing recent events, and
+   though Garibaldi apologizes for what he said about the stims, Franklin
+   tells him that he does have his use of them under control, since he
+   managed to get through the previous days' trials without using them at
+   all. He asks where Ivanova and Sheridan are, and Garibaldi tells him
+   not to ask...
+   
+   ...Because they're embroiled in a Transport Association meeting, this
+   one even louder and more disorganized than before.
+   
+   Londo and Vir walk together in the docking bay, not saying a word. As
+   Vir boards a ship, he looks back to Londo, who does nothing but nod.
+   Vir enters the ship, and Londo turns and walks away.
+
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+  Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
+  
+   As Ivanova and Brother Edward banter over the outcome, Brother Theo
+   and Captain Sheridan are engaged in a match of wits over chess and
+   faith. Just as Brother Theo wins at both, Ivanova is called away to
+   meet Ambassador Kosh's arriving ship. She has been invited to witness
+   his ship deliver Lyta Alexander, the mysterious telepath who had
+   helped the B5 crew find the Psi Corps plant in their midst
+   ([9]"Divided Loyalties").
+   
+   Later, in Sheridan's office, Lyta explains how she had felt drawn to
+   Kosh since she touched his mind years before ([10]"The Gathering"). In
+   a final desperate attempt to find the Vorlons, she had herself
+   abandoned in a life pod at the edge of Vorlon space. Although she
+   agrees to submit to a medical exam by Franklin, she refuses to tell
+   anything about her experiences after the Vorlons rescued her. As
+   Garibaldi sums up for them all, "Nobody's ever been to the Vorlon
+   homeworld, and back again; and yet she goes and comes back like she
+   just took a trip to the corner store. And now she's working for Kosh.
+   Is anyone else as creeped out about this as I am?"
+   
+   In wrapping up business negotiations, Brother Edward explains that the
+   data transfer service his order provides is like the manuscript
+   illumination of the Middle Ages, namely a means to earn the money they
+   need to continue their work of "learning all the names of God from our
+   non-human brothers." As she is about to depart, the woman asks about
+   the black rose that falls from the monk's bag, but he is more
+   bewildered by it than she.
+   
+   Garibaldi and Delenn watch an ISN anchor report the sentence of Death
+   of Personality for a serial killer. The Chief explains that this type
+   of mindwipe is considered more humane than the death penalty, and that
+   after a criminal's memory has been erased, they are programmed to
+   serve the community they harmed.
+   
+   In MedLab, Dr. Franklin is intrigued to find that not only is Lyta in
+   excellent health, but all her prior chronic and congenital ailments
+   are also inexplicably gone. She manages to get away just as the gleam
+   of fanatic inquisitiveness appears in his eyes.
+   
+   Returning to his quarters, Brother Edward is terrified to see "DEATH
+   WALKS AMONG YOU" scrawled in blood across the bulkhead. When he
+   returns with a dubious Garibaldi moments later, all signs have
+   vanished.
+   
+   Londo catches Lyta exiting a transport tube. He is extremely curious
+   to hear what she has seen among the Vorlons. When bribery fails as an
+   enticement, he threatens to apprise the Psi Corps of her presence on
+   B5. Her promise to bury a never-ending nightmare in the psyche of
+   anyone who turns her in seems to cool his ardor.
+   
+   In an interview with Ambassador Delenn and Lennier, Brother Edward
+   asks about the Minbari faith. In return she asks him what the defining
+   moment of Christianity is to him personally. He replies by telling the
+   story of Jesus waiting all night in the garden of Gethsemene for the
+   Roman soldiers to seize him. Though he knew what was going to happen
+   and he could have escaped, Jesus chose to stay, to sacrifice himself
+   "to atone for the sins of others."
+   
+   "A very fragile human moment," Brother Edward tells Delenn. "And I've
+   often thought about that night, and I honestly don't know if I would
+   have had the courage to have stayed."
+   
+   Returning home Downbelow, Brother Edward bumps into an odd Centauri. A
+   moment later the corridor is pierced by a woman's scream of terror and
+   pain -- and the hideous whine of an electric saw. Confronted with the
+   same bloody message as before, the monk tries to run away, only to
+   watch his panicked steps begin splashing through filthy water. With
+   accusations and foreign sirens ringing in his ears, he collapses
+   nearly on top of the corpse of a mutilated woman -- one who has a
+   black rose stuffed in her mouth.
+   
+   Brother Theo finds Brother Edward sitting deeply disturbed in his
+   quarters. The older monk realizes the futility of his counsel, even as
+   he asks Brother Edward to refrain from digging after the source of
+   these waking nightmares. His fears are well founded, for the instant
+   Theo is gone, Edward queries the computer about the things he has
+   seen, cross-referenced against criminal records.
+   
+   Quickly assessing the situation, Theo goes directly to Sheridan to
+   enlist his aid in tracking down the information before Edward can.
+   Sheridan is astonished to think that the kind, generous man they are
+   all fond of could have been an irredeemable serial murderer.
+   Garibaldi's search turns up that the troubled monk was once Charles
+   Dexter, a.k.a. the Black Rose Killer, but not before Brother Edward
+   discovers the same. Security also finds that Brother Edward's visions
+   were not just hallucinations, but planted by somebody trying to rattle
+   loose the memories of the past. This suggests to Sheridan that the
+   strange Centauri was a telepath.
+   
+   Edward waits for Brother Theo to bid him goodbye. "I am a murderer,"
+   he says. "The sins of my former life must be atoned for." Theo begs
+   him to come back into the fold, "If you ask God to forgive your sins,
+   He knows what they are even if you've forgotten. Leave it in His
+   hands!" But it is to no avail. Edward goes to await his victims'
+   avenger, who has deliberately awakened the evil memories.
+   
+   Sheridan and Garibaldi attempt to interrogate the Centauri telepath
+   about who hired him. When he smugly refuses to divulge anything, they
+   toss a bag over his head, and usher in Lyta, who easily wrenches the
+   location of the avenger from his mind.
+   
+   Once again they are just a little too late though. By the time they
+   find Brother Edward's battered body strung up spread-eagle on a rack,
+   his life is nearly dissipated. Yet he forgives his tormentor. Finally,
+   he has found the answer to his question. He did have the courage to
+   wait in the garden of Gethsemene. As Edward draws his last breath,
+   Brother Theo administers the final sacrament of Extreme Unction, the
+   remission of sins.
+   
+   The monk's torturer is easily caught and proudly admits to the crime,
+   and two weeks later is sentenced to the death of personality. In the
+   course of a conversation about the meaning of revenge and the
+   difficulty of forgiveness, Brother Theo asks the Captain to meet the
+   latest addition to his order, who is about to be shipped back to the
+   monastery for training. It is the young psychopath, looking like
+   sweet, untrammeled innocence. Under Brother Theo's reprimand, Sheridan
+   struggles to overcome the bitter taste of forgiveness, and gives the
+   newest monk his blessing.
+   
+   After completing an errand for Kosh, Lyta joins him in his chambers.
+   As she faces him, a stream of energy leaps from her eyes and mouth
+   into the glowing orifice of his open encounter suit. It becomes eerily
+   apparent why she has no need of a breather in the methane environment.
+   Puffing and fluttering gently on her neck are a set of gills.
+
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+  
+   While Garibaldi and Zack Allen are walking down the corridor, Ivanova
+   calls Garibaldi, telling him there is a code 7-R, and Garibaldi says
+   he will be right there. Zack asks about the code, which he is
+   unfamiliar with, but Garibaldi skirts the issue and leaves.
+   
+   He arrives at the meeting of the Babylon 5 war council where Delenn is
+   talking about her ideas for the necessary gathering of new allies for
+   the coming war. "Many times over the last million years," she
+   explains, "the Shadows were fought to a standstill by the First Ones,
+   races immeasurably older than our own. After the last war, a thousand
+   years ago, we believe the First Ones went away forever, passing beyond
+   the galactic rim where no human or Minbari has ever ventured. But the
+   Vorlons remained. It is possible that some of the others may still be
+   around." She explains that some had gone to rest where they would not
+   be bothered, while still others walk among the stars on unknown
+   errands. Marcus warns that the First Ones are very old, and possibly
+   very dangerous, but Delenn says that they need all the help they can
+   get. Since they must be found and contacted in person, Delenn has
+   invited someone else to help: Draal. He approves of the idea, warning
+   them that, though it may be extremely dangerous, it will definitely be
+   "fun."
+   
+   Draal explains that Epsilon 3 contains stores of information that may
+   be helpful in locating the First Ones, though the information about
+   the First Ones suggests no one approach their dwelling places.
+   Sheridan agrees to go down to Epsilon 3, sort through the information,
+   and discover how they can best proceed next.
+   
+   Zack Allen meets Julie Musante, from the Ministry of Peace, in the
+   docking bay. She explains that she will be on the station for a while,
+   and would like her bags taken to appropriate quarters.
+   
+   G'Kar approaches Delenn while she shops at a kiosk, and asks how she
+   and Minbar are doing. He expresses concern at the many closed meetings
+   with Captain Sheridan she has been attending lately. She tries to
+   explain it away, but when he asks what she knows about Rangers, she
+   claims she knows nothing. G'Kar explains that his contacts speak of
+   both human and Minbari Rangers, and she acknowledges that this does
+   seem extremely unlikely. She leaves, but G'Kar promises to figure out
+   this puzzle.
+   
+   Sheridan arrives in his office, where Musante is waiting for him. She
+   explains that she was assigned as a political officer for Babylon 5,
+   since some of Sheridan's recent actions haven't been very politically
+   astute, and that her position is to help Sheridan make decisions that
+   reflect more favorably on the Earth government. Sheridan says that she
+   isn't required on a military outpost, but Musante says that the
+   station must answer to the demands of the Earth government. Sheridan
+   refuses to share his authority with her, but she insists her job is
+   merely to advise, and that the final decision has already been made.
+   She sets up a dinner date with him to learn more about the station and
+   recent events, and he tells her that, though he has a previous
+   engagement, he will attend. He calls Ivanova at C&C and tells her that
+   she will have to go to Epsilon 3 in his place.
+   
+   Zack shows Musante to her quarters, and she explains that it will be
+   his job to tell her everything she needs to know that Sheridan deigns
+   not to tell her. Since he is a member of the Night Watch, he has
+   priorities as well that must be fulfilled.
+   
+   When Ivanova arrives on Epsilon 3, Draal is at first angered by the
+   surprise, but she manages to convince him that surprises can be good
+   things. He laughs, deciding he likes her, and ushers her further into
+   the complex.
+   
+   At dinner with Musante, Sheridan tries to convince her that the
+   Centauri will continue to move in on the League of Non-Aligned Worlds,
+   but Musante insists that Earth would never align with a hostile
+   government. She tells Sheridan he should find ways to express these
+   concerns without causing problems on Earth. She tells him that Earth
+   has managed to solve most of its problems, since all of the trouble on
+   Earth with poverty, the homeless, criminals, and prejudice are caused
+   by those who refuse to work and those who are mentally unstable. She
+   explains that, sometimes, the only way to deal with problems is to
+   redefine them. Sheridan accuses her of ignoring the problems, but she
+   says it isn't necessary to point out society's flaws to their leaders,
+   and that anyone that does so is a troublemaker and unpatriotic. She
+   says that these are examples of the things she wants to help Sheridan
+   with, and that she only wants to help Earth and protect Babylon 5. She
+   says that she doesn't want to see him hurt and that she could come to
+   like him... quite a lot.
+   
+   Draal and Ivanova approach the matrix, where Draal's physical body
+   rests within. The image of Draal vanishes, and he removes his body
+   from the matrix. Ivanova puts hers in. He tells her to relax and open
+   her mind. "But whatever you do, do not stray from the Path."
+   
+   Ivanova finds herself travelling through the depths of space. "I can't
+   breathe."
+   
+   "It's all right," Draal tells her. "Try to calm your mind. Focus. All
+   life forms are connected. Look for the Path. Look for the Path."
+   
+   "I see it," she says as a strange ribbon of blue begins to form before
+   her eyes.
+   
+   "It is the power that binds us, one to another, across the darkness of
+   space. Focus on the First Ones, on the most ancient of ancients. Let
+   the Path take you to them."
+   
+   As Draal speaks, the Path becomes more and more solid and visible, and
+   Ivanova begins her journey upon it. After a few moments, she arrives
+   at a familiar planet. "I know this place... I've seen it on the star
+   charts. Sigma 957. They were here. I can feel their footprints in the
+   sand. Hear their words... whispered on the wind." She travels around
+   the planet, seeing it from all sides, and it seems to change, some of
+   it nearly vanishing into surrounding space, while other, more
+   mysterious forms come to its surface. "It's beautiful. They're coming
+   back again... soon. I can... Draal? Draal, something's wrong. Draal,
+   I'm not alone." She looks away from the planet. It sees me. It knows
+   I'm here. It... It's pulling me in. Can't stop it." In the fabric of
+   space, four points of light, which look very much like eyes, begin to
+   form and approach her.
+   
+   "It is the enemy," Draal warns. Pull away! Go back to the Path!"
+   
+   "I can't. It... It knows I'm here. It knows my name!"
+   
+   "Break off! I can't pull you off without killing you. Pull away! Don't
+   look at it!" Ivanova succeeds in looking away just as the fingers of
+   light are about to reach her, while still others appear, as if they
+   were reinforcements.
+   
+   "That's it," Draal tells her as the image ends. "Come back now..."
+   
+   "Wait... there's something else," Ivanova says as she finds herself in
+   a new new place, orbiting Jupiter, over a year ago. "That's EarthForce
+   1 before it exploded! I can warn them! I can save the President!"
+   
+   "No, it's too late. You're seeing the shadow of things long gone."
+   
+   The image freezes, and a new one appears, drenched in static. It is
+   the form of Vice-President Clark, sitting at a desk. "I have wanted
+   Santiago dead for so long," he says. "I wasn't sure we could really
+   pull it off. You're sure it's done?"
+   
+   Another voice, a deep male voice, that of Morden, responds.
+   "EarthForce 1 will never return from Io. The power is now yours,
+   Clark. Mr.... President."
+   
+   This image vanishes in a sea of static, and Ivanova once again sees
+   herself above Jupiter watching EarthForce 1 explode. She turns her
+   head away, and the image ends. Draal helps her out of the machine.
+   
+   "I do not understand! A normal human mind should not have been able to
+   do that!"
+   
+   "I saw it... I saw it all," she tells him. "The image I saw... the
+   message. Can you record it?"
+   
+   "Yes, but how..."
+   
+   "Do it, please. It's the proof we've needed that President Santiago
+   was assassinated, that Clark was behind everything. We've got it.
+   We've got it."
+   
+   Sheridan takes Musante into his quarters, where he fixes her a drink.
+   While he is busy, she takes the opportunity to undress, and comes over
+   to him. He tries to refuse her advances, but changes his mind and
+   lunges into a deep kiss with her when an image of Ivanova appears. She
+   soon vanishes when she sees what she interrupted, and Sheridan breaks
+   out of the embrace. He quickly enters another room, where Ivanova is
+   waiting. She tells him that she knows where the First Ones are, but
+   they will have to hurry. He says he is occupied, but tells her to
+   contact Garibaldi. She begins to tell him about Clark's message, but
+   doesn't have time. Musante calls out to him, and Ivanova knows she has
+   to leave. "Good luck, Captain. I think you're about to go where
+   everyone has gone before." She vanishes just as Musante enters.
+   Musante is quite perplexed when he hurries out again.
+   
+   G'Kar approaches Garibaldi, asking where Ivanova is, and Garibaldi
+   tells him that she was called away on urgent business. G'Kar prods
+   Garibaldi further, but he won't say anything, which incenses G'Kar. He
+   asks Garibaldi if what the Centauri have done has removed from him the
+   respect he has earned, since he can't get a straight answer from
+   anyone. G'Kar says that, though the two of them had never been
+   friends, they had also never been strangers. Garibaldi says that he
+   doesn't know anything that could help out him or the Narns. G'Kar
+   tells him that perhaps he can help Garibaldi instead, and rushes off.
+   
+   Zack approaches Musante, who is eating her breakfast. He asks how her
+   meeting with Sheridan went. "When it comes to your union situation
+   here," she tells Zack, "he must be a very good negotiator. I've never
+   seen anyone come up with so many creative ways of saying 'no' to a
+   simple proposition." Zack says that he prefers saying yes, but doesn't
+   get much further. She tells him that she has called a meeting to go
+   over political protocol, and that she expects him to be there. He
+   leaves, but Garibaldi, sitting nearby, has seen the entire exchange.
+   
+   Ivanova arrives on the bridge of the White Star, expecting to see
+   Lennier, but finding Marcus instead. He explains that he speaks
+   Minbari, and she tells him to set course for Sigma 957.
+   
+   Musante addresses the members of the Night Watch, telling them that,
+   from this point on, it is no longer appropriate for EarthForce
+   personnel to publically criticize the government or its decisions, and
+   that Night Watch investigations have been expanded to include past
+   associations. Several members of the Night Watch, including Zack, seem
+   distressed by this, but she explains that, in the future, certain
+   individuals in the government will be expelled under charges of
+   sedition, spying for alien governments, and immoral conduct. "With our
+   basic freedoms at stake, no response can be too extreme." She says
+   that the "abridgements" of traditional rights are only temporary and
+   that everyone will have to do their part to keep Earth "safe and
+   ideologically pure."
+   
+   The White Star arrives at Sigma 957, finding nothing. Marcus tells
+   Ivanova that there is nothing to do but wait, and that she should take
+   time out for herself occasionally. Ivanova gets angry at him talking
+   about her personal life, but is interrupted with a sensor beep. The
+   space near Sigma 957 fills with a web of energy, from the center of
+   which springs an enormous black vessel, with many strangely-shaped
+   protusions, and covered in dancing lights of all colors. As the ship
+   approaches, the White Star's energy begins to drain, and as they move
+   away, a small stream of energy extends toward them. On the bridge, an
+   image of one of the First Ones appears, and Ivanova tells it of their
+   situation. Though it registers no comprehension of what she is saying,
+   when she mentions that they have sided with the Vorlons, the figure is
+   not happy. She asks for their help fighting the Shadows, but the image
+   vanishes as the First Ones consider their decision.
+   
+   Sheridan and Garibaldi watch the recording of Clark's transmission
+   with Morden. Sheridan is excited that they finally have the proof they
+   need, but Garibaldi asks what they can do with it, without raising too
+   many questions. Sheridan says he will send it to General Hague, and
+   with built-in security measures assuring the recording's validity, the
+   evidence will finally put them where they need to be.
+   
+   The waiting continues, and eventually the First Ones reach their
+   verdict: "Zog." When the ship begins to move away, Ivanvoa and Marcus
+   interpret it to mean no. Ivanova insists that she will not let them
+   leave until they agree to help, and a sarcastic comment from Marcus
+   gives her an idea. She opens a comm channel and tells the First Ones
+   that the Vorlons said that they wouldn't be up for a fight, and that
+   they are not needed to help. "Come to think of it, we've got the
+   Vorlons. We really don't need much more help, do we?" As she continues
+   to praise the Vorlons, the First Ones become more and more angry. She
+   promises to move away and let them know when the fighting is over. The
+   First Ones seem to get more and more angry, but eventually the
+   previous image of the First Ones reappears. "When it is time, come to
+   this place. Call our name. We will be here." The ship vanishes,
+   leaving the White Star alone.
+   
+   Garibaldi and the rest of his security team watch an ISN broadcast
+   about the release of evidence linking Clark to Santiago's death; the
+   Senate is opening investigations. Garibaldi tells the team to try to
+   keep everything under control, and says that Musante has been recalled
+   to Earth. Zack especially is unable to grasp the idea of an
+   assassination, but Garibaldi is in no mood to hear it, since he knows
+   that Zack told her more than he should. He says that, after what
+   happened earlier, it was a long time before he could trust anyone.
+   Zack says that Garibaldi doesn't trust him, since code 7-R doesn't
+   exist. Zack asks him what is really going on. "Night Watch says the
+   only people who have to worry are the ones with something to hide,"
+   Zack says. Garibaldi asks him if he has a charge to make, but Zack
+   says he doesn't, and that he's walking a tightrope, and that he
+   doesn't know what to do. Zack leaves, telling Garibaldi not to talk to
+   him for the rest of the day.
+   
+   Ivanova reports the events of the mission to Sheridan, who tells her
+   that they will need all the First Ones they can find. She asks about
+   the situation with President Clark, and Sheridan tells her that
+   everything is a mess, but the truth has been released.
+   
+   Zack escorts Musante to the docking bay. She tells him that she
+   doesn't expect to be gone very long and that this situation is exactly
+   what she hoped to avoid. Zack asks her about code 7-R, but she tells
+   him she never heard of it. She hears the boarding call for her ship,
+   and says she needs to go, promising that they will find who is
+   responsible and punish them.
+   
+   Late at night, Garibaldi is asleep when he is awakened by his door
+   chime. He groggily turns the lights up low, gets up, and answers the
+   door, to find G'Kar there. "I told you I could help," he says,
+   thrusting a large tome into Garibaldi's hands. "The Book of G'Quan.
+   Read it. We'll talk afterward."
+   
+   "I... I don't read Narn," Garibaldi protests.
+   
+   "Learn!" G'kar says as he leaves hastily.
+   
+   "He hates me," Garibaldi says to himself as he makes his way back to
+   bed. "They all hate me. That's why they're doing this. To make...
+   me... crazy." He flops onto his bed, issuing one last command before
+   he goes to sleep. "Lights."
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+  
+   Sheridan approaches a store owner who is having an argument with a
+   member of the Night Watch. The member of Night Watch says that the
+   store owner, who has been hanging signs expressing his negative
+   feelings about President Clark, is committing acts of sedition.
+   Sheridan tries to calm him down, and says that the shopkeeper has a
+   right to his opinion. He warns the Night Watch officer that, if such
+   harassment happens again, the responsible party will be disciplined.
+   
+   Ivanova arrives in Garibaldi's office to receive a message from the
+   PsiCop Bester, who will be arriving on Babylon 5 in seven hours. He
+   claims that there is an individual on board who may be a danger to the
+   station, Earth, and the PsiCorps. Garibaldi tells her that he thinks
+   this visit, like Bester's others, is merely a ploy to check up on
+   them. It turns out that Bester's concerns may be justified, for a
+   crazed man, shouting, "The mountain is falling on me," is attacking
+   people elsewhere on the station.
+   
+   Sheridan warns the other members of the Babylon 5 war council that
+   Bester will soon be on the station. He tells them that, with the
+   current state of the station and everything that has been going on,
+   they can't afford to be scanned by Bester, who might not obey PsiCorps
+   regulations. Garibaldi suggests killing him if he learns too much, but
+   Sheridan won't hear of it. Delenn tells everyone that, although risky,
+   there may be an alternative to violence.
+   
+   Vir arrives off a transport to meet Londo in the docking bay. After
+   exchanging a few pleasantries, Londo asks Vir to tell him everything
+   about his trip.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin, in MedLab, is treating the man who had the crazed fits
+   earlier when a nurse comes in with one of his victims, who nearly died
+   in avalanche several months earlier. Since the crazed man had been
+   shouting about a mountain falling on him, Dr. Franklin asks him to be
+   tested for traces of Dust.
+   
+   When Bester's transport arrives at the station, Ivanova orders
+   everyone off the command deck so that she can perform a maintenance
+   routine, but she has other ideas in mind. "They don't know you, your
+   kind, the way I do," she says to herself. "They don't understand, they
+   think it's some kind of a joke. But nothing works with you people.
+   Nothing but force. Computer, activate forward defense grid. We can't
+   risk throwing it all away, not because of you. I've been saying it for
+   weeks now... The defense grid's been acting funny. Defense grid,
+   prepare to fire. Fire!"
+   
+   "Belay that order," shouts Sheridan, who entered unbeknownst to
+   Ivanova. He manages to convince her that this would be throwing away
+   her career, and that she would become exactly what she hates most. He
+   deactivates the defense grid and tells the computer to begin docking
+   manuevers.
+   
+   After his ship docks, Bester comes aboard the station, and is taken to
+   Sheridan's office, where Sheridan and the others are waiting, each
+   with a Minbari standing by them. Sheridan introduces them as Minbari
+   telepaths, who he has brought to level the playing field. He tells
+   Bester that he doesn't trust him, and blames him for what happened
+   with Talia Winters. Bester tries to bait Garibaldi on that topic, but
+   isn't successful. Ivanova explains that, while a human telepath
+   couldn't block a PsiCop's scan, a group of Minbari telepaths can.
+   Franklin gives him the choice of either taking the sleeper drugs to
+   suppress his telepathic abilities, or to put up with the Minbari
+   telepaths. Bester chooses to submit to an injection of sleepers.
+   
+   Londo, Vir, Delenn, Lennier, and the Drazi ambassador and his aide are
+   meeting together to try to solve the dispute between the Centauri and
+   the Drazi. Londo explains that the Centauri Republic wants a buffer
+   zone of seven planets, which is five more than he originally wanted.
+   This angers the Drazi ambassador, but Londo is unwilling to say
+   anymore, and tells the Drazi ambassador that, if he isn't careful,
+   what happened to the Narn homeworld might happen to the Drazi
+   homeworld as well. Londo and the Drazi leave, leaving Vir alone with
+   Delenn and Lennier. He thanks them for supporting his visit to Minbar,
+   and suggests that Londo might do well to visit as well. Delenn and
+   Lennier are unsure that that would help, but Vir insists that he knows
+   there is more to Londo than meets the eye.
+   
+   Bester explains to the command staff that he has come aboard the
+   station to find one of the main distributors of Dust, a drug which
+   allows the user to activate his or her latent telepathic gene,
+   allowing them to invade others' minds, living their life for several
+   hours. It is highly addictive, and more is required each time to
+   achieve the affect. When a telepath is read by someone using Dust, he
+   almost never recovers. Bester explains that he believes that the
+   seller wants to sell the Dust to alien governments to use as a weapon,
+   and that that is what the Corps is worried about.
+   
+   G'Kar tells Lindstrom, the Dust dealer, that their agreement called
+   for no selling of Dust while he was delivering it to G'Kar. G'Kar
+   promises to pay him, when he learns that it works as advertised.
+   Lindstrom presents G'Kar with a small packet of Dust, which G'Kar
+   explains he wants to use as a weapon. Lindstrom tells him that the
+   drug was designed for human telepaths, and might not work on the Narn,
+   whose telepaths and their families had been exterminated many
+   generations earlier. G'Kar tells Lindstrom they will continue business
+   after the Dust has been tested, but Lindstrom warns him that it could
+   be dangerous. G'Kar doesn't care, and sends him on his way.
+   
+   Garibaldi and Bester are walking together through a crowded area.
+   Bester explains that he wishes to protect Earth just as Garibaldi
+   wishes to protect Babylon 5. Bester says it is his job to protect the
+   human race from threats that only the Corps can stop. He says they may
+   be the only chance that the human race has for survival.
+   
+   G'Kar sits crumpled on the floor of his quarters, the empty Dust
+   packet sitting nearby. He croaks out the word "Mollari," and leaves
+   his quarters. He sees and hears the world around him differently while
+   he is under the effects of the drug, picking up the stray thoughts of
+   those that walk by him, and he is scarcely able to control their
+   effect on him. But, he does manage to make his way through the station
+   slowly, toward his destination.
+   
+   Garibaldi and Bester are interrogating one of the more powerful
+   members of Babylon 5's underground about what he knows about the Dust
+   dealer. When the man, Ashi, claims he doesn't know anything, Bester
+   says that he's lying, explaining that strong emotions cause him to
+   blurt out things like that sometimes, though the information can't be
+   used officially. Ashi explains that he was approached by a man with
+   numerous crates of Dust, but that he wouldn't help handle them. He
+   tells Garibaldi that the man has quarters in Red Sector, that he is
+   using the assumed name Morgenstern, and that he has a shipment coming
+   in this afternoon. Garibaldi sends the man away with two other
+   security officers, and then asks Bester how he was able to read the
+   man's thoughts. Bester explains that his uniform gives him a power
+   over others -- whether or not he can read their thoughts, they believe
+   he can. Garibaldi accuses him of using it merely for intimidation, but
+   Bester is quick to point out to Garibaldi that his uniform, too, can
+   be used for that purpose.
+   
+   Londo tells Vir that the report he is planning to send to the Centarum
+   is not appropriate, and that it demonstrates great political naivete.
+   Vir tries to explain his point of view, but Londo will not listen to
+   anything he has to say, only allowing Vir to leave in his explanation
+   of Minbari spirituality. Londo's door chimes, and Vir goes to answer
+   it, but is accosted and rendered unconcious by G'Kar, who then enters
+   Londo's quarters, a look of fire in his eyes.
+   
+   Garibaldi and Bester hide behind a large crate in a storage room,
+   hoping that they will be able to catch the dealer and the evidence all
+   at the same time, according to due process, which Garibaldi accuses
+   Bester of ignoring all too frequently. Several men enter the room, and
+   begin their dealings for the Dust. Garibaldi speaks into his link
+   quickly, and a shrill siren fills the room, dropping all of the men to
+   their knees, while Garibaldi confiscates the Dust. Several other
+   security officers enter and cart off the men involved in the deal.
+   
+   Londo, bleeding and unable to move, finds G'Kar standing over him, and
+   tries to make an offer to him. G'Kar, still under the effects of the
+   Dust, takes a trip into the depths of Londo's mind...
+   
+   ...He finds himself seeing Londo being assigned to Babylon 5, and
+   learns that Londo was appointed to his position of Ambassador only
+   because there was no one else who wanted it.
+   
+   G'Kar takes great pleasure, while inside Londo's head, in tormenting
+   him about this fact. Londo begs G'Kar to leave his mind, but G'Kar
+   refuses, demanding that Londo show him all of the secrets he has been
+   holding in. He delves further into Londo's mind...
+   
+   ...This time seeing the meeting Londo had with Morden in the garden
+   just before President Santiago's death.
+   
+   G'Kar reacts very strongly to this, finally learning that it was Londo
+   who was behind the plight of the Narn. G'Kar demands to know who he
+   was working with, but Londo refuses to tell him. Infuriated, G'Kar
+   rips the information he wants from his mind. The resulting montage of
+   images is so strong that it thrusts him out of Londo's mind, and into
+   his own...
+   
+   ...G'Kar finds himself back on the Narn homeworld, many years earlier,
+   witnessing the death of his father. His father asks him to honor his
+   name right before he dies. The image ends, and G'Kar hears a voice. He
+   turns around...
+   
+   ...To find an old Narn standing before him. The old Narn tells G'Kar
+   that both the Narn and the Centauri are a dying people, and that they
+   cannot simply fight forever, until both races have been exterminated.
+   Once that happens, there can be no winners or losers. G'Kar says that
+   he made a promise to his father to honor his father's name, but the
+   old Narn asks him to reexamine how he should go about that. He tells
+   G'Kar that, if they are a dying race, they should die with honor, and
+   no longer devote their life to fighting and hatred. "We are fighting
+   to save one another. And some of us must be sacrificed," he tells
+   G'Kar, "if all are to be saved. Because if we fail in this, then none
+   of us will be saved, and the Narn will be only a memory." The old Narn
+   vanishes, but G'Kar is not alone for long...
+   
+   ...A strange voice fills his thoughts. "You have the opportunity, here
+   and now, to choose. To become something greater and nobler and more
+   difficult than you have been before. The universe does not offer such
+   chances often, G'Kar."
+   
+   "Why now?" G'Kar asks. "Why not earlier? All this time... Where have
+   you been?"
+   
+   "I have always been here," the voice replies. G'Kar finally sees its
+   source as the sound of flapping wings fills his mind. G'Kar spins
+   around to see the white, glowing figure of G'Lan rise up and fly into
+   the distance.
+   
+   Once G'Lan has vanished, G'Kar can only sit and sob, with the
+   unconcious Londo nearby. Neither of them notice another visitor, Kosh,
+   who soon takes his leave.
+   
+   While Vir visits Londo, who is just regaining conciousness in MedLab,
+   G'Kar faces the ombuds who is presiding over the hearing where he is
+   being tried for his crimes. After G'Kar pleads guilty, Sheridan tries
+   to convince the ombuds that G'Kar's actions were caused by the Dust,
+   and therefore, not his fault. She disagrees, saying that the fact that
+   he went to Londo's quarters, constitutes premeditation. She sentences
+   him to a term of no less than 60 days in the station's prison
+   facilities. Garibaldi approaches G'Kar and offers him the Book of
+   G'Quan, which G'Kar had loaned him, but G'Kar asks him to keep it,
+   since he himself is now "somewhat closer to the source."
+   
+   After being released from MedLab, Londo and Vir speak of the last few
+   days' events, but Vir explains that he must leave that night. Londo
+   tells him that he should never allow the Centauri government to make a
+   joke of him or his work. Vir promises that he won't.
+   
+   Garibaldi escorts Bester to the docking bay, and though Bester has
+   enjoyed working with Garibaldi, the feeling isn't mutual. When another
+   PsiCop arrives for Bester, Garibaldi makes a hasty exit. As they walk
+   away, Bester says that he knew the original purpose of Dust, to create
+   telepaths from those without latent skill, would never work, but that
+   at least he has retrieved it; it's back among humans, where it
+   belongs.
+   
+   G'Kar sits alone in his prison cell, quietly thinking, and remembering
+   the words he heard the old Narn speak to him, while under the effect
+   of the Dust. "We are fighting to save one another. And some of us must
+   be sacrificed, if all are to be saved."
+
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
+  
+   While a man and a woman meet a docking ship, Sheridan, Ivanova,
+   Garibaldi, and Franklin are celebrating in Earheart's with many other
+   officers Corwin's promotion from lieutenant J.G. to full lieutenant.
+   Garibaldi asks why Marcus wasn't invited, but Ivanova explains that,
+   since Earheart's is for Earth Alliance personnel only, it wasn't
+   appropriate for him to be invited. Sheridan agrees with her, saying
+   it's probably best if he keeps a low profile.
+   
+   Things are not quite as celebratory, however, in Downbelow, where a
+   lurker is screaming in pain while a strange small creature, resembling
+   a scorpion, burrows itself into his back while the man and the woman
+   who met the incoming ship earlier stand over him, watching
+   expectantly. They go over to him after it has integrated itself into
+   him, but are dismayed because their plan didn't work. Security is on
+   its way, so they quickly take their leave.
+   
+   In C&C, Sheridan speaks with Ivanova privately about Corwin, and
+   whether or not he should be indoctrinated into their group working
+   against the Earth government. He asks her to meet with Corwin to
+   determine whether or not he would be a good choice.
+   
+   Marcus runs into a friend of his, Duncan, who works in a bazaar. They
+   speak for a few moments, and though Marcus tries to convince the
+   sickly Duncan to see a physician, he refuses. Marcus promises to see
+   him again soon.
+   
+   During Dr. Franklin's medical staff meeting, one of the other doctors
+   reports the unexplainable death of a man the previous night. Franklin,
+   wanting to determine the cause, asks that the body be brought to
+   MedLab 1.
+   
+   Marcus is meeting with some of his informants, one of whom tells him
+   that the Shadows are beginning to gather around sector 800, on the
+   border of Centauri space, and that a package Marcus ordered will
+   arrive within a week. Marcus tells him to learn whatever he can about
+   the Shadow buildup. Marcus speaks with someone else who tells him that
+   one of his primary liaisons is no longer interested in working with
+   him. Marcus goes to pay the man a visit.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin begins his analysis of the dead body, and while he finds
+   evidence of drugs, he can't find any other possible cause of death.
+   The computer, however, completes its scan, and finds one neural
+   anomaly. Franklin asks to see it, and the computer displays it: it is
+   the creature that entered the man earlier, and it is wrapped around
+   his spinal column. Franklin prepares to open up the patient.
+   
+   Marcus finds his contact, Samuel, who seems to be in fine health, but
+   has no further interest in working with Marcus, or explaining why he
+   no longer wishes to do so. Marcus is quite suspicious about this, but
+   leaves anyway.
+   
+   While Franklin completes the autopsy, finding a small, worm-like
+   creature in the dead man, the man and the woman seen earlier, with
+   Samuel, stand over the body of Duncan as yet another creature bores
+   its way into his back.
+   
+   Franklin finishes studying the biomass, discovering that it is 100%
+   genetically neutral, meaning it can exist in any life form. He begins
+   working to discover if it came from the station itself, or if it was
+   brought there by someone else.
+   
+   Marcus arrives back at the bazaar, trying to find Duncan, and is quite
+   perplexed when he is unable to do so. He speeks to another merchant,
+   who says that she saw Duncan earlier, but hasn't in a while.
+   
+   Alone in C&C, Ivanova tells Corwin that, since he has been promoted,
+   it might be a good idea for them to talk and get to know each other
+   better. Though somewhat apprehensive, Corwin agrees, suggesting they
+   meet in the mess hall, but Ivanova suggests a more private venue: her
+   quarters. This startles him further, but he nonetheless agrees.
+   
+   Marcus tries to explain to Garibaldi that the recent string of
+   disappearances might be a sign of a problem, but since no crime has
+   been committed, Garibaldi says there's nothing he can do. Marcus gets
+   angry at Garibaldi, claiming that he should look beyond protocol and
+   see what might be a serious problem, but this only angers Garibaldi
+   further. Garibaldi tells him that, if they are acting strangely, they
+   should speak to a doctor, but it isn't his jurisdiction. So, Marcus
+   speaks to Dr. Franklin who, at first agitated, eventually agrees to go
+   with him to investigate the problem.
+   
+   Corwin approaches a flower vendor, and tries to explain his situation,
+   with some difficulty, since he isn't sure himself what the situation
+   is. Coming to the conclusion that he has a date with someone
+   aggressive, the flower vendor gives him a large bouquet of synthetic
+   roses, saying that no woman is ever offended by roses, except by their
+   absence. Corwin agrees, and pays 40 credits for them.
+   
+   Franklin and Marcus go to Duncan's quarters, but despite their
+   incessant paging, he doesn't answer. Franklin reluctantly uses his
+   medical override to open the door, and Marcus rushes in, finding
+   something troubling inside. Franklin joins him, where they see that a
+   strange substance has eaten through one of the walls. Marcus goes
+   through the hole it created, and Franklin follows. It leads out into a
+   hall, where there is another man on the ground, with another creature
+   absorbing into his back. Franklin rushes to help him, but is stopped
+   and held at gunpoint by a group of those previously affected.
+   
+   Franklin and Marcus, in a makeshift prison cell, talk about the
+   situation, while Franklin explains the parasitic being he examined. He
+   warns that they could take over the whole station, but Marcus doesn't
+   understand why the creatures would take over the lurkers rather than
+   the crew. Franklin tries to get some of the others to help the fallen
+   man, but they refuse to do anything. He tries to explain that the
+   creatures are controlling them, but they say nothing. Franklin asks if
+   they can understand him, and one of them explains that the man will
+   stay there until they are finished, saying that Franklin's safety may
+   be in jeopardy should he try to interfere. Franklin backs further into
+   the cell, telling Marcus that they need to escape, which might be
+   difficult, since two of their three captors have firearms. Marcus says
+   that all they need to do is to get one of them to leave, which will
+   even up the odds. Franklin doesn't understand this, but knows that,
+   since Marcus told Garibaldi of their plan, he will be there soon. It
+   turns out, however, that Marcus did in fact not inform him. They are
+   on their own.
+   
+   Corwin arrives in Ivanova's quarters, bearing the bouquet of roses.
+   It's quickly clear she doesn't consider the meeting a date; desperate
+   to not look foolish he claims to have found the flowers lying outside.
+   She says that it is silly to spend money on high-priced synthetics,
+   but that she finds it romantic, and confides in him that she has a
+   weakness for roses. She thanks him for keeping them out of someone
+   else's hands, but definitely wants to find out who brought them to
+   her.
+   
+   Duncan arrives at Franklin and Marcus's prison, and tries to explain
+   his situation, and how he was helped. He says that he was Duncan, but
+   is now part of another species, the Vindrizi, and warns Marcus that he
+   will hurt Marcus if he interferes. The part of him that was Duncan
+   doesn't want that to happen. Duncan invites them to view the process,
+   but all Franklin understands is that the Vindrizi seem to kill
+   everyone they inhabit. Duncan tells him that only certain humans are
+   suitable for a merger, and that the Vindrizi want only to save lives,
+   and that there is no other way.
+   
+   Ivanova gives Corwin a cup of real coffee, which she grows in the
+   hydroponic gardens, counter to regulations. She explains that
+   sometimes you have to bend the rules to get what you want, and Corwin
+   agrees saying that, if it doesn't hurt anyone, or is good for Earth,
+   he has no complaints. She asks him what he does if his orders conflict
+   with what is good for Earth. Corwin tells her that everything will
+   fall apart if the chain of command isn't obeyed. He says that, if he
+   saw someone trying to gather officers to act against EarthDome, he
+   would report them, and asks if there is anyone she wants him to watch.
+   She says the question is merely hypothetical, asked only to learn
+   where everyone stands. She thanks him for coming, says good night to
+   him, and he leaves.
+   
+   Still in their prison, Marcus asks Franklin about Ivanova, and if he
+   has done something to offend her. Franklin assures him that it just
+   takes her time to get to know someone, and that she hasn't adjusted to
+   him yet. Marcus says that he is looking forward to finding out more
+   about her. Franklin finds it funny that they are talking about this in
+   their situation. As Franklin begins to convince Marcus that he isn't
+   her type, several of the Vindrizi-inhabited lurkers arrive and take
+   Franklin away, saying that one of them is ill, and that they need his
+   medical expertise. They take him to a room where a lurker is on the
+   table, dying. Franklin tries to convince them that the only way to
+   save him is to remove the Vindrizi from him, but they will not accept
+   no for an answer saying that, should he not help, he will be directly
+   responsible for the man's death.
+   
+   Marcus, alone in his prison, notices that the odds are now two against
+   one. With the odds even as he sees it, he convinces one of the guards
+   that a small device sitting on the table is actually a vital medical
+   device that Franklin needs. Marcus instructs him on the use the
+   device, which turns out to be his retracting pole; the guard knocks
+   himself out with it. Marcus is able to defeat the other guard easily,
+   and escapes his cell. He finds Franklin's hand link, and tries to use
+   it, but the computer won't let him, since he isn't Franklin. He grabs
+   his pole and runs off, while Ivanova, who detected the attempted use
+   of Franklin's link, sends security to brown 84 to find the culprit.
+   
+   Marcus easily defeats a guard patrolling the hallway. He grabs the
+   guard's weapon, and quickly finds Franklin. He grabs Franklin away
+   from the Vindrizi. The Vindrizi try to convince Franklin to continue
+   helping the lurker, but Marcus decides to try to talk to them in order
+   to get away safely. When he tries to threaten the Vindrizi, he is
+   interrupted by Duncan, who begs him not to do what he's doing. Marcus
+   asks what sort of a life Duncan will have if he is forced to remain
+   merged with a creature. Duncan explains that he and the others weren't
+   taken over, but volunteered.
+   
+   While Garibaldi and other security officers mobilize to search the
+   sector, Duncan explains that the Vindrizi were created over a hundred
+   thousand years ago to be living records of history, bearing evidence
+   of planets, cultures, and civilizations that will exist long after the
+   other races have died and all other knowledge has been destroyed or
+   forgotten. The only way the Vindrizi can survive is to take over the
+   bodies of other races. They choose those near death, so that they may
+   have new life and a purpose, which they may not have had before.
+   Marcus says that he doesn't trust the Duncan he sees now -- only the
+   one he knew. As if by request, the Vindrizi inside Duncan thrusts its
+   way out of him and scurries away. Duncan explains that his life,
+   before the Vindrizi, was destined to be completed in Downbelow, but,
+   when merged, he saw and knew things that he had never dreamed of
+   before. After the explanation, Franklin agrees to help the Vindrizi,
+   but only if he can be assured that he can approve all volunteers, and
+   that they all agree to it beforehand. The Vindrizi agree, and Franklin
+   calls Garibaldi, informing him of his location, and ordering a medical
+   team. Marcus tries to apologize to Duncan, but it does no good. Duncan
+   is sad at all he has lost, but apparently bears no ill will.
+   
+   Ivanova approaches Sheridan in C&C. Sheridan indicates toward Corwin,
+   without saying a word, as if asking what her analysis of his potential
+   was. She shakes her head, and they both look away sadly.
+   
+   Marcus catches up with Duncan in the docking bay, just as he is about
+   to leave. Marcus tries to convince him not to, but Duncan insists he
+   must. In the time while he was inhabited by the Vindrizi, he learned
+   that he was special, and he wants to go out and find things that might
+   make him feel that way again. Marcus again apologizes, but Duncan says
+   that he realizes he did what he did only because he cared, and tells
+   Marcus that he realizes that maybe everyone should become special
+   before it's too late. Duncan tells Marcus that maybe, when he finds
+   what he's looking for, he'll return. Duncan boards his ship, leaving
+   Marcus alone.
+   
+   Back in Earheart's, Franklin explains that so far, everything the
+   Vindrizi told him is the truth. Garibaldi asks what Franklin thinks of
+   Marcus; Franklin says Marcus did a good job, and tells Ivanova that
+   Marcus might appreciate a second chance with her. "That's it," she
+   says to herself. "He must have sent them!" She quickly excuses herself
+   and rushes out.
+   
+   Bearing the bouquet of synthetic roses, she marches forcefully through
+   the station, finally arriving at a table where Marcus is eating. She
+   thrusts the roses down on the table in front of him, haltingly
+   ordering him to "Keep 'em," before marching away again.
+   
+   "Thank you," he calls after her. "I will!" He picks up the bouquet
+   admiringly. "Well, I guess there's hope for us after all!"
+
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+      [15]Last update: February 24, 1996
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+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/051.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/050.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/052.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/051.html#TOP
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+  Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
+  
+   Garibaldi is griping about having to eat the same breakfast every day
+   for three years when an attractive covered plate arrives for Ivanova
+   with a little note attached. To everyone's astonishment it turns out
+   to be fresh eggs and bacon which Marcus has miraculously managed to
+   smuggle aboard as a surprise thank you gift. As he and Sheridan drool,
+   Susan swears to get even for this when she can find Marcus.
+   
+   At the moment however, Marcus is trying very hard not to be found, or
+   to be beaten up. He is busily fending off five or six men attacking
+   him and a woman in DownBelow. He succeeds, but just barely and the
+   woman is knocked out.
+   
+   The daily routine continues but in the background ISN reports new
+   evidence regarding President Clark and the assassination of his
+   predecessor ([9]"Hunter, Prey,") and that a newly discovered alien
+   race is a threat to planetary security ([10]"Matters of Honor.")
+   Marcus' charge appears to be safe in Medlab, but Marcus warns Dr.
+   Franklin that she is the target of assassins.
+   
+   Garibaldi checks up on G'Kar in his cell ([11]"Dust to Dust,") and
+   finds him in fine spirits. The former ambassador is using his
+   incarceration to reflect and write about the recent experiences of the
+   Narn so that past mistakes might be corrected. He is pleased to hear
+   that Garibaldi has begun to read The Book of G'Quan and says he will
+   let Garibaldi read his book when it is done. The meeting is cut short
+   when Garibaldi is called away to a War Council where his "package" has
+   arrived.
+   
+   The package turns out to be the woman Marcus has been protecting, Dr.
+   Mary Kirkish of Interplanetary Expeditions (whose slogan is "Exploring
+   the past to create a better future.") She tells the Council that she
+   had been working at a Syria Planum site on Mars seven years ago where
+   her team had discovered an alien ship like the one shown recently on
+   ISN. They dug most of it up and then were ordered to leave. From the
+   secondary base camp they watched unmarked shuttles fly to the site.
+   
+   Then one night another alien ship flew to the site and finished
+   digging up the buried ship, then descended into the dig site, from
+   which a nerve-wrenching screech was soon heard. Both the ships rose
+   into the air and flew away. Since then, one by one, the other workers
+   at the site have died or disappeared. It turns out that Garibaldi also
+   saw this alien ship when he was a shuttle pilot on Mars. He also found
+   a Psi Corps badge at the site. Kirkish continues, saying that another
+   such ship has been discovered in the crust of Ganymede. This time
+   EarthGov wants to try to keep the ship, possibly to use it to control
+   Earth. They must not have a chance to keep it, Kirkish warns. Her
+   story told, Lennier ushers her to a Minbari ship that will bear her to
+   safety.
+   
+   Franklin asks, "If Earth and the Psi Corps really are working with the
+   Shadows, this is too big. How can we fight something like that?"
+   Obviously shaken, Sheridan dismisses the Council, but asks Delenn to
+   stay.
+   
+   Zack is sitting in Garibaldi's office when the B5 Nightwatch liaison
+   comes in to remind him of the meeting tomorrow. Zack is uneasy with
+   the man's gung-ho attitude and isn't encouraged when he mentions that
+   watching unsuspecting people on security cameras makes him feel like
+   God.
+   
+   Standing deep in contemplation on an empty observation deck, Sheridan
+   removes the Earth Alliance insignia from his lapel. He goes with
+   Delenn to inform the others of his decision. They are aghast when he
+   tells them that he plans to take the White Star to Ganymede to knock
+   out the Shadow vessel before President Clark can gain control of it.
+   What if he is attacked by Earth ships? Will he fire on them? What if
+   he is captured?
+   
+   He tells them he will not be captured and charges them to cover for
+   him while he is gone for a minimum of 4 days. He also arranges for a
+   simulation of his own death if he should not be able to return.
+   
+   The Nightwatch liaison is happy to tell the meeting that their efforts
+   to expose disloyalty on B5 and on Earth have been a terrific success,
+   but that Earth has been sold out by traitors throughout EarthGov,
+   Earth Force, and the media, as part of an alien-instigated conspiracy
+   to weaken and overthrow the government. Thus, Nightwatch has been
+   given greater powers to investigate anyone who might be suspicious.
+   One officer speaks up, "In that case, does anyone know where the
+   Captain is?"
+   
+   He is falling asleep in his command chair halfway to Jupiter. Lennier
+   convinces him to retire to the sleeping quarters where he finds
+   Delenn. Utterly exhausted, he begins to talk about missing home and
+   his father. More than anything else right now, he says, he misses the
+   sound of rain because it can always put him to sleep. So to his great
+   relief, with a phrase Delenn summons the patter of rain on the roof.
+   
+   Marcus is briefing Ivanova in Sheridan's office about a force building
+   up on the border of Centauri space when she erupts at him. She claims
+   she doesn't understand how to relate to him, and she tells Marcus she
+   holds him personally responsible for the Captain's "suicide mission"
+   because, "Damn it! I don't have anyone else to blame!"
+   
+   Jumping out of hyperspace, the White Star picks up transmissions from
+   the Ganymede site.
+   
+   "Subject is approaching target. Repeat. Subject is approaching
+   target."
+   
+   Delenn explains that the Shadow ships need a sentient being to merge
+   with them before they can become fully functional, and this must be
+   happening right now. If a subject isn't prepared for the event the
+   resulting ship will be murderously insane. The crew listen and watch
+   in horror as the Shadow ship comes alive and begins attacking the
+   facilities around it.
+   
+   Knowing that any Earth cruiser wouldn't stand a chance against it
+   Sheridan quickly rides in to attack the Shadow vessel. Disoriented
+   though it is, nevertheless the alien ship is still capable of
+   destroying them. They damage it insignificantly but anger it enough to
+   chase them into the atmosphere of Jupiter. The Shadow ship fires but
+   only manages to ignite the hydrogen atmosphere. Both ships fly deeper
+   and deeper into the gas giant until the White Star's hull begins to
+   buckle under the pressure. At the last moment, Sheridan orders the
+   White Star to pull out. The Shadow is unable to stop falling and
+   implodes as the White Star soars towards space.
+   
+   Just as they begin to congratulate themselves the White Star is struck
+   again. This time the enemy is the Agamemnon, the Captain's old ship,
+   attacking and ordering them to surrender or be destroyed. Sheridan
+   won't fire on the Agamemnon and can't surrender. As he sits in his
+   chair indecisive, Delenn suggests opening a jump point while still
+   inside Jupiter's atmosphere. By opening it just at the edge of space
+   the explosive effects of the hydrogen are minimized and they are able
+   to scuttle to safety.
+   
+   ISN reports that an unidentified alien vessel has attacked and
+   destroyed an outpost on Ganymede before being destroyed in Jupiter by
+   the Agamemnon. In response to heightened concerns about planetary
+   security the president is said to be considering a new plan to
+   increase security.
+   
+   As Garibaldi says, they got away with it, but only for now. The
+   Nightwatch liaison has noticed that the Captain was missing for four
+   days. He deduces that Garibaldi must be covering for Sheridan and
+   suggests that Zack use his relation with the Chief to find out what's
+   going on. Zack vehemently refuses saying he won't betray a friendship.
+   "If he could trust me he would have brought me in this thing weeks
+   ago," he mutters, giving away the fact that he knows something fishy
+   is going on. The Nightwatch man angrily tells Zack he has to decide
+   between friendship and his job.
+   
+   Marcus dares to breach Ivanova's spare time in order to show her a
+   chart he has drawn up to explain his position on B5 and the hierarchy
+   within the station. As they share a laugh at his whimsy, Sheridan
+   pages Ivanova to turn on ISN immediately. Citing threats to planetary
+   security, President Clark has decreed Earth to be under martial law.
+
+   [17][Next] 
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+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/052.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/051.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/053.html
+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/035.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/045.html
+  11. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/050.html
+  12. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/052.html#TOP
+  14. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  15. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  16. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/051.html
+  17. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/053.html
+  18. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+  Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
+  
+   Londo insists on giving Vir unwelcome advice on how to phrase his
+   intelligence report regarding Minbar. Just as Vir finally loses his
+   temper, Londo receives a call from Centauri Prime telling him that
+   Lady Morella, the late Emperor Turhan's third wife, will be arriving
+   soon. Delighted, Londo exclaims that everything must go smoothly for
+   this important visit. As he goes to prepare he finds his exit blocked
+   by a corridor full of people in a panic because the Earth Alliance has
+   just declared martial law.
+   
+   The latest word for Sheridan and Ivanova from Earth is that President
+   Clark has just dissolved the Senate and the Elite Guard is moving in
+   on defiant members in their chambers. Joint Chief of Staff General
+   Hague is missing, but he left a message for Sheridan: "Everything's
+   gone to hell, John. You're on your own." They head to command and
+   control to try to steady the crew, ordering them to stay at their
+   posts and keep a squadron of fighters on patrol at all times.
+   Garibaldi catches Sheridan and Ivanova a moment later in the hall and
+   relays that an alert has been posted for General Hague, who is trying
+   to organize a counter strike. Hague is outnumbered, and the
+   conspirators realize that if the general is captured, they will be
+   arrested next. If he comes toward B5 they can help him, but in the
+   meantime, they and everyone else will keep watching ISN.
+   
+   Zack's viewing is interrupted by the Nightwatch liaison telling him to
+   come to a critical meeting in a couple of hours--and to bring extra
+   caps for his PPG just in case.
+   
+   G'Kar's singing is interrupted by Garibaldi setting him free from
+   prison. He is quite pleased and obliquely promises some assistance.
+   
+   Londo curses the crisis in Docking as he explains how much effort it
+   took to arrange Lady Morella's visit. Her importance is due as much to
+   her status as the ex-consort as because she is a prophetess, and Londo
+   hopes for some much needed advice.
+   
+   The four senior officers receive a briefing from General Smits
+   informing them that the Political Office has assigned all off-world
+   security responsibility to Nightwatch personnel, and over Sheridan's
+   protests orders them to obey the chain of command. This is the same
+   order that the Nightwatch liaison is relaying to security members in
+   their meeting. It is now their responsibility to root out the traitors
+   who have sold out Earth throughout the station.
+   
+   Returning to his quarters, G'Kar is astonished to find that Ta'lon has
+   been guarding the door throughout his incarceration.
+   
+   One by one, the security personnel approach the liaison and Zack to
+   decide whether to accept the Nightwatch armband or quit duty and hand
+   in their weapon and ID. Garibaldi knows what's going on and is
+   infuriated by it. It is a matter of personal honor to him that the
+   people he has carefully gathered and nurtured are not sold down the
+   river by what he considers the squabbles of Earth politicians. Even
+   though Sheridan begs him to reconsider, Garibaldi storms down to
+   security to confront the Nightwatch armed with only the force of his
+   character and his fierce sense of personal loyalty.
+   
+   As Londo attends Lady Morella, she speaks about the late emperor's
+   efforts to keep the present madness at bay and then asks why Londo
+   really asked her to come to the station. With rare candor Londo
+   replies that he needs a prophecy to discover whether in the great
+   future he envisions for himself, he has any hope of redemption. She
+   agrees to give him a reading before she leaves.
+   
+   Zack is unable to get the furious Chief to wear an armband or stop him
+   from crashing the Nightwatch enrollment procedures. Although they are
+   shamed, not a single Nightwatch guard wavers. Just as the Captain
+   predicted, Garibaldi is ousted and Zack is placed in command of
+   security.
+   
+   Alternately musing and inspired, G'Kar tries to explain his revelation
+   to Ta'lon. In order to save themselves the Narn must be willing to
+   give up pride and vengeance, be willing to die by the millions for
+   others and for the Universe itself. The humans are the key, he says,
+   and a key that they must turn to find salvation for all.
+   
+   The Captain shows Commander Ivanova the official order of martial law
+   on B5 which he must impose, but he refuses her offer of assistance in
+   order to shield her from association with this despicable command.
+   
+   Nightwatch officers move through the Zocalo, breaking up groups of
+   tense humans clustered around the news, while Londo tries to present
+   the atmosphere in a brighter mood for his tour with Lady Morella. She
+   is not taken in by the Ambassador, but is almost swept up in a riot
+   that erupts between civilians cheering word of General Hague's escape
+   and the Nightwatch. All monitors switch to Sheridan reading the
+   declaration of martial law as pandemonium reigns the marketplace.
+   
+   Franklin finds Sheridan filled with revulsion for the entire
+   situation, and the Nightwatch in particular. Suggesting caution and
+   faith in Hague, Franklin reminds the Captain that he can't disobey the
+   chain of command. This echo of General Smits prompts Sheridan to
+   realize that there was a hidden message in the General's briefing.
+   
+   Resplendent in full battle garb, G'Kar stalks into C and C to whisper
+   in Ivanova's ear that he has had an idea.
+   
+   A stressed and weary Zack comes home to find his living room staked
+   out by Garibaldi, Ivanova and G'Kar, with Sheridan ordering him inside
+   from the corridor behind.
+   
+   Lady Morella is disturbed when an incidental touch passes her Londo's
+   vision of himself on the Centauri throne.
+   
+   When Zack discloses to the Nightwatch liaison that the Captain intends
+   to replace the Nightwatch security personnel with a shipload of Narn
+   arriving soon in Bay 9, the man glows with excitement at the prospect
+   of catching them and arresting the entire command staff for sedition.
+   
+   G'Kar asks a packed meeting of Narn for their assistance, while
+   Sheridan broods in the darkness of his quarters. When the hour
+   arrives, the four senior officers stride towards a momentous encounter
+   and the end of their careers as they know them, and the Nightwatch
+   gear up to make a stand at Bay 9. When they are all in place, Zack
+   speaks, "Now!" into his link and dives out as the bay doors fall.
+   Sheridan addresses the trapped officers. He explains that any order by
+   the Political Office to Earth Force personnel is an illegal order, and
+   thus they are under arrest for conspiracy to mutiny until the order is
+   confirmed through the proper military hierarchy in a few hours or
+   days. In the meantime, the security lack will be made up by G'Kar's
+   Narn on the station.
+   
+   Lady Morella gives Londo his reading, but as prophecy tends to be, it
+   is obscure and not what he wants to hear. She tells him he will have
+   three opportunities to sidestep the fiery future awaiting him at the
+   end of his journey, and has already missed two others. He must save
+   the eye that cannot see. He must not kill the one who is already dead.
+   And if all else fails, he must surrender himself to his greatest fear,
+   knowing that it will destroy him. In addition she tells him that he
+   will be emperor someday. As an aside she informs Vir that he will be
+   emperor also, which amuses him enormously-until he realizes that she
+   isn't joking. "One of you will become emperor after the other is
+   dead."
+   
+   In single file and under the watchful eyes of Narn and loyal security
+   guards, the Nightwatch are permitted to surrender their weapons and
+   IDs and submit to house arrest.
+   
+   Sheridan expresses his gratitude to G'Kar but is disturbed and
+   suspicious when the former ambassador demands in return to be admitted
+   into the secret alliance he knows Sheridan has been gathering.
+   
+   Seated on far sides of their chamber, Londo and Vir eye each other
+   edgily while the Lady Morella's parting line hangs in the long
+   silences between them.
+   
+   "I never thought it would end like this," Ivanova remarks to the
+   Captain as they gaze out his office window at the station core.
+   General Hague is likely to be captured soon, and the other defectors
+   have already been shot down. They understand that they are next on the
+   list.
+   
+   "Me either," he replies.
+
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+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/053.html
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/053.shtml
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/053.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/052.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/054.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/053.html#TOP
+  11. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/052.html
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/054.html
+  15. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+  
+   In customs, Londo waits impatiently, complaining bitterly about the
+   inefficiency of the Narn security personnel and the stupidity of the
+   fighting between Earthers. Meanwhile that fighting continues as
+   General Hague's destroyer, the EAS Alexander, is under attack by
+   another Earth Alliance warship, the EAS Clarkstown. When there seems
+   to be no other choice, the Alexander destroys her pursuer and jumps
+   toward Babylon 5. As soon as news of this impending arrival reaches
+   the station's officers, they realize their dilemma. The Alexander is
+   being hunted down on charges of treason, but General Hague has been
+   their strongest ally in the fight against the growing darkness at
+   home. In the background, ISN reports that Mars has refused to
+   implement martial law in defiance of President Clark's orders. Trying
+   to protect the crew from the consequences of his action, Sheridan
+   announces in C & C that the arriving Alexander will be given
+   humanitarian assistance, but he has Garibaldi cut all transmissions
+   from the station just in case some of his crew want to report her
+   arrival.
+   
+   Delenn has received chilling news as well. A Minbari Ranger traveling
+   among the nonaligned worlds has discovered that the various races have
+   all been goaded by the Shadows into fighting their neighbors, first
+   for defense and then for conquest. The races believe that alliance
+   with the Shadows is the only way to be safe from Centauri conquest.
+   The Grey Council's only reaction is to comment that "The problems of
+   others are not ours."
+   
+   The commanding officer of the Alexander, Major Ryan, arrives on B5
+   bearing bad tidings. General Hague was killed during their last fight,
+   the attempted coup against Clark is only having marginal success, ISN
+   is on the verge of being shut down, and the majority of Earth Force is
+   either loyal to Clark or intimidated by him. As the crew discusses his
+   report, the news comes that Earth Gov has begun bombing civilian
+   targets on Mars.
+   
+   Delenn leaves to find the Grey Council just as the EAS Churchill
+   arrives with her captain demanding an immediate meeting with Sheridan.
+   
+   Gunfire punctuates the scene of terrified anchors at ISN reporting
+   that Orion and Proxima 3 colonies have declared independence in
+   protest over the bombing of Mars. Apparently ISN has been forced to
+   conceal information about activities in Earth Gov for the past year,
+   but before they can spill the story their final broadcast is cut off
+   abruptly amid falling debris. The Churchill's captain comes aboard to
+   inform Sheridan that transmissions were intercepted ordering elite
+   Earth Gov forces to Babylon 5 to both capture the Alexander, and take
+   control of the station, arresting the command staff and placing the
+   station under the direct authority of President Clark and the
+   Nightwatch.
+   
+   There is no more room to maneuver. Sheridan puts the question to his
+   officers: Fight or Surrender? If they fight and lose, more than a
+   quarter of a million lives might be at stake, and they will be
+   executed. If they surrender, they will be court martialed at the
+   least. Their decision is unanimous. It is time to make their stand now
+   against Earth and the darkness. They spring into last minute
+   preparations. Fighters are scrambled, Medlab is cleared, and ground
+   troops are geared up.
+   
+   An acolyte attempting to bar Delenn from the Grey Council chambers is
+   withered by the force of her purpose. Her words are even more powerful
+   before the Council as she accuses them of abandoning the very prophecy
+   they were created to meet, to stand against the Shadows "between the
+   candle and the star, between the darkness and the light." Berating
+   them for pride and presumption she breaks the leader's staff of office
+   before breaking the Council itself by calling on the Worker and
+   Religious castes to abandon the Warrior caste's indifference and
+   follow her into immediate action.
+   
+   Sheridan takes a moment in the midst of the crisis to call home for
+   what might be the last time. His father urges him not to worry about
+   his parents, and to remember the first lesson he ever taught him.
+   Never start a fight, but always finish it.
+   
+   Ivanova configures Draal's holographic system so the that captain can
+   transmit a speech throughout B5. He announces that warships are
+   enroute to seize the station and that in response Babylon 5 is
+   seceding from the Earth Alliance until President Clark is removed from
+   office.
+   
+   Knowing that one of the officers must be personally present to lead
+   the Star Fury squadrons into battle, Sheridan grants Commander Ivanova
+   permission to drop just in time to meet four heavy warships and
+   assembled fighters jumping out of hyperspace. His final effort to talk
+   the approaching captain out of a fight is ignored, and full scale
+   battle erupts. Joined by Star Furies from the Alexander and the
+   Churchill, the station's squadrons are mostly successful in defending
+   the station. Nevertheless, a breeching pod is able to penetrate their
+   defenses. It latches on to the station's hull, bores a hole, and
+   troops begin to jump through, where they are quickly engaged in
+   bloody, close quarters resistance from Garibaldi leading Narn and
+   human security personnel.
+   
+   The Churchill puts up an excellent fight, until with fire on all
+   decks, she sacrifices herself by ramming an enemy destroyer.
+   Distracted by the sight, Ivanova reacts too slowly to a collision
+   warning and is knocked spinning by another Fury. Sheridan immediately
+   orders her to eject, which she does, an instant before her fighter
+   slams against the hull of a cruiser. The Alexander and the station are
+   able to destroy the other attacking warships, but suffer such heavy
+   damage in the meantime that Lt. Corwin informs the captain that they
+   could not have lasted much longer.
+   
+   Relief is short lived. Three more destroyers arrive through the jump
+   gate and order Sheridan to surrender. Before he has a chance to
+   consider, four more jump points form. Instead of Earth Force ships
+   however, they expel Delenn commanding the White Star and three Minbari
+   war cruisers. She orders the attacking Earth Forces to withdraw. When
+   they refuse, she replies coldly, "Only one human captain has ever
+   survived battle with the Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in
+   front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else."
+   
+   They beat a hasty retreat. But they leave a bloody wake of dead and
+   dying both on the station and littered through space where the Minbari
+   take up sentry duty. Sheridan accepts responsibility for some of the
+   Churchill's lost Star Furies. Although he is proud of his crew, his
+   faith in Earth Force is shattered, and he vows not to wear his uniform
+   again until this civil war is over. To the Alexander, he extends a
+   standing offer of assistance, before she departs in search of other
+   allies.
+   
+   In Docking, the known Nightwatch are being deported along with
+   prisoners from the breeching pod, when Delenn comes aboard. John
+   greets her with gratitude, awe, respect and love. Although less
+   personal, most of the station feels the same way about him-as an
+   enormous crowd expresses enthusiastically in the Zocolo. Even so, the
+   respite is uneasy, and surely temporary.
+
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
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+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/054.html
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+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/054.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/053.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/055.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/054.html#TOP
+  11. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
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+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/055.html
+  15. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+  
+   Ivanova, in C&C, is joined by Sheridan. She explains to him that they
+   have succeeded in ridding the station of all the members of the
+   Nightwatch they know about, and that Garibaldi is trying to track down
+   the ones they might not know about. Garibaldi arrives, his arm in a
+   sling, and explains that he fractured it during the recent attack on
+   the station. He explains that most of the people on the station are
+   upset about the communications channels being shut down, but Sheridan
+   and Ivanova know they can't be reinstated until Earth can be prevented
+   from using them to retake the station. Garibaldi asks how long
+   Sheridan plans to be out of his uniform, and Sheridan explains that he
+   won't put it back on until the situation is resolved. He leaves to
+   make the rounds, which both Garibaldi and Ivanova are unsure about.
+   Sheridan insists he can take care of himself and leaves.
+   
+   Delenn is addressing some of the Minbari from the ships outside
+   Babylon 5, telling them that she was asked by Sheridan to thank them
+   for defending the station. They leave, and Lennier tells her that the
+   captain of the Minbari fleet wants to come aboard for a tour, which
+   she agrees to. Delenn asks Lennier what he thinks of the situation,
+   but he does not respond, instead saying that "what is, is" and that
+   the prophecy, which stated that the Minbari would unite with the other
+   half of their soul has come true. Delenn says that the prophecies may
+   be misleading and that, should the other parts come true, there is no
+   guarantee that any of them will survive.
+   
+   As Sheridan makes his rounds in the Zocalo, a gunman waits, enclosed
+   in shadows high above, targeting him with his weapon. Just as he is
+   about to fire, he is pulled away by Boggs, a former member of
+   Garibaldi's security staff, telling him that he was told to wait. The
+   gunman insists that he had a good shot, but Boggs is less sure, saying
+   instead that, should Sheridan fall, others would rise to take his
+   place and that, sooner or later, they will get their "pound of flesh."
+   
+   Delenn and Lennier approach Marcus as he returns from a voyage. Delenn
+   tells Marcus that she has called for the Nafak'cha, the rebirth
+   ceremony, which commemorates a great change that is coming, or one
+   that has already arrived. Marcus feels that the time may be
+   inappropriate, given that everyone will be embroiled in ceremonies of
+   their own for a while.
+   
+   One such ceremony is taking place where the members of EarthForce
+   commit the bodies of their comrades, fallen in battle against Earth,
+   to the depths of space, led by Sheridan, wearing his uniform one final
+   time.
+   
+   Lord Refa arrives at a table in the Zocalo where Londo is sitting.
+   Refa is unhappy at being dragged to Babylon 5 instead of Londo going
+   to him. Londo tells Refa that he has been studying the reports from
+   the frontlines, and expresses dismay at the fact that the Centauri are
+   fighting a war on so many fronts. Refa claims the Centauri can handle
+   it, and that their resources are greater than Londo thinks. Londo,
+   however, knows about his alliance with Morden and the Shadows, and
+   urges Refa to do as he did and break off his contact with them. Londo
+   tries to convince Refa that, by fighting wars on so many smaller
+   fronts, should the Shadows decide to conquer the Centauri, there will
+   not be much of a fight. Refa laughs at him, saying that Morden and his
+   associates are the greatest power he knows, and that they are the key
+   to his ascent to the throne. Londo tells him that Refa will do as he
+   says because he has poisoned Refa's drink. The poison works in two
+   parts, and should Refa not do as Londo asks, the second part of the
+   poison will be introduced to Refa as well. Londo orders Refa to
+   bolster the lines of defense around Centauri Prime, cease attacking on
+   the other fronts, and break off contact with Morden, unless he wants
+   to receive the other part of the poison.
+   
+   Garibaldi finishes accessing the command codes, and he, Sheridan, and
+   Ivanova follow through the procedures necessary to change the command
+   level passwords, which requires shutting down the security system and
+   restarting it. Delenn arrives, and has Sheridan go with her. She asks
+   him and the other senior officers to take part in the rebirth
+   ceremony, along with other ambassadors, G'Kar, and most importantly to
+   her, Londo, whom she feels is in the greatest need of rebirth. She
+   explains that they all need to put their pain behind them so they can
+   prepare for the greater struggles ahead.
+   
+   Boggs explains to a few others that he has received orders from the
+   Nightwatch office to no longer worry about killing Sheridan, but
+   rather taking care of Ambassador Delenn. Once she is done with, the
+   support of the Minbari will vanish, allowing Earth to retake Babylon
+   5. Though the gunman is worried, Boggs reassures him that Sheridan can
+   be blamed no matter what. The gunman is all too glad to be back
+   killing Minbari, as he used to do so, after extreme torture, during
+   the Earth-Minbari war. They begin preparing the plan against Delenn.
+   
+   Delenn, in disguise, arrives at a bar Marcus frequents in Downbelow.
+   She asks him why he isn't preparing for the ceremony, but he tells her
+   that he has decided against participating. She doesn't understand his
+   reluctance, but their conversation is cut short when someone he has
+   been waiting for comes in.
+   
+   Garibaldi turns off the computer system and restarts it. When it comes
+   back on-line, the codes have been changed, but something new has
+   happened as well: the computer has taken on an attitude of its own,
+   and is less than inclined to follow Garibaldi's orders, which is due
+   to a faulty artificial intelligence program, originally planned to be
+   integrated into the station, which accidentally came on-line. As the
+   computer taunts him and Ivanova, they plan to get rid of it yet again.
+   
+   Delenn and Lennier approach Londo about taking place in the rebirth
+   ceremony, but he is less than inclined to do what is necessary, which
+   involves giving away something that once held great importance to him,
+   and telling someone something he had never told anyone else. Delenn
+   explains that she feels he needs to make up for the past and prepare
+   for the future, but Londo claims he is already doing that, and has no
+   interest in the ceremony. He storms off.
+   
+   Their meeting with G'Kar goes equally badly; he claims that he is far
+   too busy with all of his new responsibilities to attend. Marcus
+   appears and comments on how everyone else is as disinterested in the
+   idea as he is. Lennier reminds Delenn that she was to meet the Fleet
+   Captain, and she goes to the docking bay, with Marcus in tow. On the
+   way, they stop for a few moments, and she asks why he doesn't want to
+   perform the ceremony. He tells her he has nothing left to give up for
+   it, and that, because he didn't listen to his brother when he was
+   first warned about the Shadows, he has already lost everything he
+   cared about. He joined the Rangers to help fill the gap in himself
+   created by the Shadows. He tells her that he has nothing left to give
+   up, but Delenn says that is exactly what he must sacrifice--his grief,
+   loss, and painful memories. He must forgive himself for being alive.
+   
+   Marcus quickly breaks off to tell security about Fleet Captain Lenann
+   coming on board, and Delenn goes to meet the newcomer. As he arrives,
+   however, she, Lenann, and one of his bodyguards are assaulted and
+   kidnapped by the scheming members of the Nightwatch.
+   
+   As Garibaldi puts up with the neverending ramblings of the computer,
+   Ivanova calls him to report the kidnapping. Delenn asks her captors to
+   let her tend to the bodyguard's injuries, incurred in the gunfire.
+   Boggs reappears and checks on the status of another member of the
+   Nightwatch, who is busy scrambling some circuits.
+   
+   While Sheridan talks to Marcus, who blames himself for Delenn's
+   kidnapping, Corwin reports that a call about the kidnapping is coming
+   in. Sheridan has it traced, and it goes through. It is Boggs who
+   explains his demands to have the Minbari cruisers leave in six hours,
+   or all the hostages will be killed. They have scrambled the Babcom
+   lines so the call can't be traced, and are monitoring all security
+   channels. He warns them not to do anything stupid, or he will have no
+   qualms about using violence, which he demonstrates by having the
+   bodyguard killed, despite Delenn's screams of protestation. Marcus
+   runs off to try to track Boggs down himself. Sheridan orders Garibaldi
+   to find out all he can about Boggs' contacts, and anything else they
+   may be able to use to find them.
+   
+   Marcus arrives in Downbelow, and sits down for a poker game with a
+   group of men he had previously had an agreement with to leave alone, a
+   deal which he has chosen to break in order to obtain information. None
+   of them are willing to help, though, and he promises that, if none of
+   them do, he will take them all down, followed by everyone else in the
+   bar. The game players rise to meet the challenge, and appear to
+   overshadow Marcus quite severely.
+   
+   Delenn and Lenann speak to each other in Minbari about a possible
+   escape method, but the gunman understands their language, which he
+   picked up during the war, and thwarts the plan by tightening their
+   loosening ropes. He tells them that neither of them will survive the
+   ordeal, but Delenn stuns him by telling him that she feels sorry for
+   him, something he doesn't understand. She tells him that he is an
+   unfortunate casualty of the war, and though the Earth and the Minbari
+   have managed to come together, he has not, and he is left all alone.
+   He starts to fire on her, but Lenann jumps up from his chair,
+   diverting the weapon, which severely injures him. Boggs appears and
+   stops the gunman from going any further.
+   
+   Marcus, meanwhile, has kept his word, having dispatched of everyone in
+   the bar except two of the poker players, who he soon takes care of. As
+   he surveys the damage, realizing there is no one left awake to give
+   him information, Lennier arrives and tells Marcus that he has come to
+   discuss the rebirth ceremony, asking him again to come. Marcus doesn't
+   understand why he's talking about that, and Lennier explains that it
+   was Delenn's last request, and that, if he doesn't continue the
+   preparations, there is nothing else to do. Lennier turns away, and
+   Marcus grabs him on the arm, something which infuriates Lennier.
+   Lennier rounds back on Marcus, explaining that he would like to tear
+   apart the station looking for Delenn, but can't. As his part of the
+   rebirth ceremony, he explains why he must do what she asks: he loves
+   her.
+   
+   Lennier explains that his love for her is not romantic love, but more
+   higher and more noble, a "pure, perfect love," that he knows can never
+   truly be returned, since she is fated for another. He has made a vow
+   never to leave her side, a vow Marcus recognizes as dangerous. At that
+   point, the last gambler Marcus downed awakes, and begins to tell
+   Marcus, under threat of more pain, what he wants to know.
+   
+   Ivanova explains that, though they still can't trace the call, they
+   did find a background sound which Garibaldi is able to identify as the
+   cooling system which feeds the fusion reactor in Grey sector. Sheridan
+   knows that isn't enough, but Marcus arrives with another piece of the
+   puzzle: the man he talked to overheard a contact in Security talk
+   about delivering some equipment for call scrambling to level 14. They
+   scan Grey 14 and find that it has been closed off -- supposedly under
+   Garibaldi's orders, orders he never gave. They begin preparing their
+   attack, which, Sheridan explains, begins with a surrender.
+   
+   As the Nightwatch members prepare to kill Delenn and Lenann, the
+   contact Marcus told about calls Boggs and reports that the Minbari
+   ships are leaving. Boggs tells his contact to send a narrow-beam
+   transmission to Earth. After the conversation ends, a loud sound is
+   heard, which Boggs rushes out to investigate. Lots of people are
+   running by, and one explains that a leak in the coolant system is
+   forcing evacuation of the sector. As the Nightwatch members try to
+   escape with Delenn and Lenann, they are led into an ambush led by
+   Sheridan and Garibaldi. Boggs is shot down, and the remaining captors
+   are pinned down, but when Sheridan makes a run to save Delenn and
+   Lenann, the gunman, only injured by a PPG shot, throws a knife in
+   Delenn's back and runs. Sheridan gives chase, eventually backing the
+   gunman into a corner. Sheridan's rage takes over and, without a
+   weapon, he beats the gunman senseless.
+   
+   Lennier tells Ivanova and Sheridan that Delenn will be okay, since the
+   knife missed her vital organs. Sheridan wants to continue with the
+   rebirth ceremony, but Lennier says that, since the ceremony must be
+   held within a certain amount of time after preparations begin, she
+   will not be able to conduct the ceremony. Garibaldi, meanwhile, is
+   still being taunted by the artificial intelligence. While he is in the
+   elevator, he is finally pushed too far, and shoots out the speaker.
+   
+   Lennier, at Delenn's side, is delighted to see that Sheridan has
+   arrived. Lennier leaves, leaving Sheridan to tell Delenn that they
+   have decided to bring the rebirth ceremony to her. He has chosen to
+   give up his uniform, and confides in her that he cares about her a
+   great deal, and that he was willing to kill the gunman with his bare
+   hands to save her. After he has finished, he leaves, and Garibaldi
+   comes in, carrying his uniform. He tells her that he is constantly
+   afraid what will happen if he ever completely lets go. Ivanova is
+   next, and, after putting her uniform on the growing pile, admits to
+   Delenn that she believes she loved Talia. Franklin and his uniform are
+   last, and he tells her, "I think I have a problem." After he is done,
+   and they are all about to leave, Lennier approaches them and tells
+   them that, as part of the ceremony, Delenn made them something, which
+   is waiting in their quarters.
+   
+   C&C is overcome with a quiet hush as Sheridan, Ivanova, Garibaldi, and
+   Franklin appear, resplendent in Delenn's gifts: striking new black and
+   grey uniforms. "What's the matter," Sheridan tells the shocked
+   officers, "Haven't you ever seen someone who's been reborn before? The
+   crisis, for now, is over. Tell the ships... We're open for business."
+
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/055.html
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/055.shtml
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/055.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/054.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/056.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/055.html#TOP
+  11. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/054.html
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/056.html
+  15. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+  Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
+  
+   [INLINE] Although the staff of Command and Control have survived
+   attacks by raiders, saboteurs, Centauri and their own fleet, they are
+   staggered by the sight of their very own Commander Ivanova-in the
+   flesh, and nothing else. She, however, is the soul of decorum, at
+   least until she looks down. Her horrified scream wakes her bolt
+   upright. "God I hate dreams like that!"
+   
+   Vir is enjoying a little dream of his own, stroking the imperial
+   trappings as he waits in the throne room for a meeting with a royal
+   councilor. The minister congratulates him on his excellent reports
+   from Minbar, while chiding him for relying on Ambassador Molari's
+   misleading advice in creating them. He then shares a delightful little
+   joke. "What's more dangerous than a locked room full of angry Narns?
+   One angry Narn with a key!" Vir hurries back to his quarters where he
+   steps into a room full of angry Narns.
+   
+   Susan shares some of her nightmares with the Captain at breakfast,
+   stopping short of describing this morning's. He suggests that her
+   subconscious is lagging behind her intellect in coming to terms with
+   the whopping changes in her status and prospects. But not to worry, it
+   will all pass. Besides, it could be worse, she could be dreaming she
+   was showing up to work naked, he teases her innocently.
+   
+   [INLINE] Alone in his rooms, Londo is planning a vicious sneak attack.
+   He lashes out again and again, but alas, too short, too slow. Finally,
+   the kitchenette in disarray, he vanquishes his insect tormentor, and
+   lofts its wrecked little body high in the air on the end of a noble
+   ceremonial sword. Before his instant of triumph dissolves into dismay
+   at the realization that one bug indicates more, he is interrupted by
+   the arrival of a ravishing young Centauri lady.
+   
+   Sheridan flirts with Delenn in the corridor, inviting her to dinner
+   that night in the lull before another crisis flattens them all.
+   
+   [INLINE] Londo barely manages to keep his puckishness in check as he
+   greets Vir with casual inquiries about the court. Then he launches the
+   surprise. The lovely damsel is Vir's arranged bride, Lyndisty. Vir
+   isn't sure what to make of it. The whole arranged-marriage business is
+   as daunting as her stunning figure. She however seems certain that her
+   destiny lies with him.
+   
+   Zack apprises Ivanova of an increase in the number of Narns passing
+   through the station with false documentation supplied by Vir. When
+   questioned by her later, Vir stammers that it's for the Narns' own
+   protection, that he's helping them by moving as many as he can to
+   camps on Centauri Prime, where conditions are much better than on the
+   wrecked Narn homeworld.
+   
+   [INLINE] John's excuses are flying just as fast when he presents his
+   attempt at flarn to Delenn. She forges though the meal stoically with
+   subterfuge and salt. Just as she gamely fills her plate, John dashes
+   off to respond to an emergency report of an assault in progress near
+   Londo's quarters, where an angry Narn is on a shankar rampage after
+   Vir and his wife.
+   
+   [INLINE] Ivanova calls Vir in again to find out why a Narn has
+   declared this blood oath against him, and to warn him of a second Narn
+   out for vengeance on the station. Vir claims to be completely in the
+   dark about that, among other things. Ivanova assures him that she is
+   no one to be giving advice on matters of sexual intimacy but he
+   insists that he knows no other women to ask. She uncomfortably
+   counsels enthusiasm, to Vir's enlightenment.
+   
+   [INLINE] It is advice that two others scarcely need as their passion
+   for one another is quite overpowering. Susan only makes her day even
+   more awkward by interrupting them in a clinch in John's room. But she
+   must summon the Captain to Londo's quarters immediately. According to
+   records from the Centauri government, Vir's refugees are all dead.
+   Londo swells with pride for his protege until Vir bursts out with the
+   truth that the Narn have all been saved, smuggled off Centauri Prime
+   through Babylon 5 and other places, and the records falsified so no
+   Centauri will come after them.
+   
+   In a day full of surprises, it is his bride who gives Vir the greatest
+   of them all when she presents him with the second Narn bound and
+   gagged on his chamber floor and ready for him to dispatch. She giggles
+   at his discomfort, explaining that when she lived on Narn after the
+   war she grew used to killing them. He grows more aghast at her callous
+   attitude.
+   
+   [INLINE] Mollari declares that Vir's embassy on Minbar has been
+   terminated, and all records of his actions have been expunged. But
+   what truly cuts Vir to the quick is Mollari's disappointment in him
+   personally, and the fact that Lyndisty is being sent back to Centauri
+   Prime, where her family will reevaluate the planned union.
+   
+   Sheridan becomes somewhat testy to find Ivanova using his office in C
+   & C. But she claims to have found a purpose now, namely, using Vir's
+   false authorization to continue the work of whisking a few Narn to
+   safety.
+   
+   Vir sees Lyndisty to her ship. Each thinks the other is sick, but
+   believes such odd notions about the Narn will pass with time. Vir
+   kisses Lyndisty goodbye, and they both vow to stay true to each other.
+
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+References
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/056.html
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/056.shtml
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/056.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/055.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/057.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/056.html#TOP
+  11. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/055.html
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/057.html
+  15. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+  
+   The Commander and Captain are relieved to see the first Earth
+   transport arrive since their secession from the Earth Alliance, as
+   they need the trade to pay the station's operating costs. However,
+   their defense needs are still uncertain since the Minbari war cruisers
+   can't be expected to hang around outside forever.
+   
+   The scarcity of trade isn't bad news for everybody. The postal worker
+   gouging Garibaldi one hundred credits for his last care package from
+   Earth, is positively loving the power it gives him to set his own
+   rates. In fact, the man treats Garibaldi's refusal to pay as
+   dismissively as the dangerous glint in his eyes.
+   
+   Meanwhile on the transport, one of the passengers tosses in his bunk
+   with nightmares. He stumbles down a narrow corridor between doors that
+   refuse to stay shut, terrified by the sights beyond them. He runs, and
+   finds a shining sword standing at the end, awaiting his grasp.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin is impressed to find that Marcus has diagnosed and
+   perhaps saved the lives of some sick lurkers, both because of Marcus's
+   perceptiveness and his concern. When he questions further about
+   Rangers, he learns that the brooch they wear is a symbol of Minbari
+   and human souls melding into one. But what really intrigues the doctor
+   is that in their training Rangers learn "about terror--how to use it,
+   and how to face it."
+   
+   Their conversation takes them past customs just as the restless
+   dreamer sets off a dozen alarms by striding through the security gates
+   wielding a broadsword and naming himself Arthur, King of the Britons.
+   Marcus is able to fast talk him into medlab where Franklin questions
+   him about his identity. "Arthur" replies that his last memory is of
+   dying on the battlefield of Camlan, all his mighty knights dead around
+   him, and that before he could rest he needed his brother Bedevere to
+   give Excalibur back to the Lady of the Lake. His return now to Babylon
+   5, he claims, signifies that he must be most needed here and now.
+   
+   When Marcus mentions Arthur in the war council, Sheridan is not
+   impressed, but the doctor seems almost eager to believe that the
+   Vorlons might have been responsible for preserving and restoring
+   another legend, even though the practical part of him discards the
+   notion. He can't investigate for psychological trauma however because
+   the man has escaped medlab.
+   
+   In DownBelow Arthur finds a distraught old woman, weeping because she
+   has been preyed upon by ruffians, and he swears to help her. He finds,
+   challenges and vanquishes a small group of villains, only to be
+   outnumbered again by their friends. However, a champion emerges from
+   the shadows in the form of G'Kar, who has been conducting business of
+   his own DownBelow, and together they set things right.
+   
+   Garibaldi isn't too keen on the idea of a crazy knight roaming the
+   station with a big sword, and tells his security to find Arthur.
+   
+   Sitting over a couple flagons of ale, G'Kar is still pumped with
+   enthusiasm over their victory. He grows even more impressed as Arthur
+   tells him of chivalry and the purpose of the Round Table, and he
+   subsides in awe when Arthur dubs him Sir G'Kar, the Red Knight.
+   
+   Garibaldi, on the other hand, is suffering from a lack of sufficient
+   awe--for the Post Office. He breaks into the package storage room only
+   to find the postal worker ready and waiting to turn him away.
+   
+   Arthur is lost again on the field of Camlan, telling G'Kar about the
+   misunderstanding that had started the battle in which his knights met
+   their deaths, but visions of Minbari vessels destroying Star Furies
+   are dancing in his head.
+   
+   Sheridan addresses ambassadors from the League of Nonaligned Worlds,
+   petitioning them to join an alliance to defend the station in return
+   for being able to use the station for trade, travel and even peace
+   negotiations among themselves.
+   
+   Marcus is able to convince Arthur to return to medlab, but promptly
+   regrets it when he learns that Franklin has discovered the dreamer's
+   true identity, and intends to tell him. When Marcus argues let the man
+   believe he is King of the Britons, Franklin contests that the truth
+   will help the man heal. So Franklin tells "Arthur" that he is David
+   McIntyre, and was Gunnery Sergeant on the EAS Prometheus which opened
+   fire on Minbari vessels in a first contact situation and thus sparked
+   the Earth-Minbari war. The memories flood back into him. In his
+   fertile imagination they mix with a vision of himself trying to give
+   back Excalibur but being struck down from behind by a black knight,
+   and this knocks him into a state of catatonic shock.
+   
+   The Captain is delighted to hear that enough of the League worlds are
+   signing on to the mutual defense treaty to keep the station in
+   business, but nobody's happy about what happened to "Arthur." Franklin
+   is the most upset, berating himself for trying to fix everything
+   again. With Marcus however he finally figures out what McIntyre came
+   to the station to do: to give up the King's responsibility, the King's
+   pain, the King's sword, to the Lady of the Lake.
+   
+   It is Delenn who is called upon to take up Excalibur, and thus relieve
+   the poor man's guilt for the war and its hundreds of thousands of
+   deaths.
+   
+   Garibaldi pays in full for his package, but springs a little surprise
+   of his own on the post office. Rent for the space the office uses is
+   due...and it costs one hundred and one credits.
+   
+   His spirit transparently lighter, McIntyre leaves the station bound
+   for Narn, where G'Kar thinks he would make an excellent organizer of
+   the resistance movement. Watching him depart, Marcus suggests that
+   Sheridan is forming a new Round Table with himself as Arthur, Kosh as
+   Merlin, Franklin as Percival, Marcus as Galahad, and Ivanova as
+   Gawain. Mordred is obvious, Marcus says, but who is Morgana Le Fey?
+
+   [14][Next] 
+   
+      [15]Last update: November 9, 1997
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+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/057.html
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/057.shtml
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/057.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/056.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/058.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/057.html#TOP
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+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/056.html
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/058.html
+  15. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+  Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
+  
+   A hopeful crowd has gathered in the Zocalo, eager to see the first ISN
+   broadcast since transmissions broke off violently after the imposition
+   of martial law a few weeks earlier. However, even Ivanova is
+   disheartened by the anchor's bold-faced lie that the final broadcast
+   had been made by alien-backed saboteurs attempting to overthrow Earth
+   Gov.
+   
+   Captain Sheridan is busy checking out one of the new fighters from the
+   Churchill when a distress call is logged. It is from a lone black Star
+   Fury, painted with an enormous Omega, and bearing the station's
+   favorite Psi Cop, Mr. Bester. Keeping carefully out of telepathic
+   scanning range the Captain asks Bester why he shouldn't just kill him
+   on the spot. Curiousity? Bester suggests. When there's no reply he
+   prompts impatiently, "Captain?" but finds the response: "I'm thinking
+   it over," rather unsettling.
+   
+   A frustrated G'Kar catches Ivanova in a corridor. He has fulfilled his
+   part of the bargain he made with Sheridan by having his Narns assist
+   with station security and even defense, and he demands that he now be
+   allowed to join the alliance Sheridan and the rest have formed.
+   
+   Stepping onboard the station, Bester is amused to find himself greeted
+   by a team of armed guards. Meanwhile the command staff watch him
+   suspiciously on a closed circuit TV and debate whether to drug him up,
+   lock him up or give him a chance to explain. Privately, Sheridan
+   manages to convince a reluctant Ivanova to be the first to meet him
+   since her latent ability will allow her to detect a scan. She greets
+   the Psi Cop in his cell with icy demeanor. Bester's idle needling
+   about her hatred for the Corps brings her to flash point faster than
+   he could have estimated, and earns him a resounding slap when he
+   mentions her mother.
+   
+   But it brings him to his point. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend,"
+   he remarks. He has found out about the Shadows and their influence
+   over President Clark and the Psi Corps, and he doesn't like it. They
+   interfere with his plans for a future when humans are ruled by
+   telepaths. He has come to Babylon 5 to find someone who hates Shadows
+   as much as he, because he thinks he knows a way to damage them.
+   
+   Sheridan and Delenn discuss G'Kar's demand. They both realize that
+   bringing G'Kar into their circle means they must own up to the fact
+   that they knew that he was right about the ancient enemy's return and
+   let his world be conquered by this enemy and the Centauri rather than
+   reveal their knowledge. Over Sheridan's objections the Minbari
+   Ambassador insists that it is her responsibility to tell G'Kar the
+   truth now since it was she who insisted that the secret be kept.
+   
+   Bester tells the gathered officers that a ship bearing weapons
+   components for the Shadows is en route to the Rim and needs to be
+   seized. He explains that he can pinpoint the ship's location in
+   hyperspace by homing in on the thought waves of the occupants.
+   
+   "Try not to drool on the controls," Sheridan mutters as Bester admires
+   the White Star's bridge. The instant the Captain leaves his seat,
+   Bester hops on, only to be booted out an instant later and ignored by
+   Lennier when he tries to give an order.
+   
+   Her head bowed, Delenn admits to the Grey Council's knowledge of the
+   Shadows and their alliance with the Centauri. If they had spoken out,
+   she explains, the Shadows would have acted openly and would have
+   annihilated the Narns rather than simply allowing the Centauri to
+   seize their homeworld. Instead of millions dying, billions would have
+   died -- whole planets, she gasps, horrified.
+   
+   "If I had learned this as my world was being bombed by the Centauri, I
+   would have killed you instantly," G'Kar hisses. "You understand that,
+   do you not?" Then he repeats the line from his Vorlon-inspired vision,
+   "'Some must be sacrificed if all are to be saved.'...Now I understand
+   that is as much about how we got here, as where we are going. I think
+   that one sentence is the greatest burden I have ever known." He admits
+   that if it were not for the Grey Council's inaction, his people would
+   be a dead race.
+   
+   As tears slide down her face Delenn says, "You have come a long way,
+   G'Kar. Further than I could have guessed," and she welcomes him into
+   the War Council, only hoping that he can forgive her someday.
+   
+   "Perhaps, but not today," he utters.
+   
+   The White Star knocks out the last of the Shadow fighters protecting
+   the transport and grabs it as an enormous Shadow ship looms out of
+   hyperspace. Lennier announces its presence, but the ship breaks off,
+   and Bester has a strange look on his face.
+   
+   The transport is carrying a cargo of human telepaths in cryogenic
+   suspension. The pilots are an unknown alien species who have committed
+   suicide rather than be captured. When Sheridan demands to know why
+   Bester didn't tell them about the cargo, Bester admits that he knew
+   Babylon 5 probably wouldn't expend any effort to save telepaths.
+   
+   When Franklin unfreezes one, he notices that she seems to have
+   cyberweb implants. He takes her ID bracelet to Bester, who
+   condescendingly begins to explain that she is a "blip" who refused to
+   join the Psi Corps. Suddenly his face grows numb. He must see her
+   immediately.
+   
+   She has other plans, however. By the time Garibaldi, Franklin and
+   Bester arrive at medlab, she has wrapped herself into an intricate
+   cocoon of wiring and is interfacing with the station electronics. She
+   wants to be free of the pain she's in, but the commands in her head
+   which tell her to attack the Psi Corps, are too powerful. As the
+   doctor knocks her out, she asks Bester, "Al, what have they done to
+   me?" and sends him images of her ordeal: alien brain surgery and
+   Shadow vessels.
+   
+   She knows him because she is the love of Bester's life, and carrying
+   their child. The Shadows were intending to plug these telepaths into
+   their newborn ships. If Bester hated the Shadows before, now he wants
+   to destroy them. For saving her life, he pledges his support to B5's
+   war before leaving the station.
+   
+   The recent events have reminded Garibaldi of something. Turning to the
+   Book of G'Quan, he finds it, and calls an immediate meeting of the War
+   Council in their new command center. It appears that all of the Narn
+   telepaths were killed by the Shadows a thousand years ago, because the
+   Shadows using the planet as a base in their last war feared them. The
+   Council members instantly realize that this might be why the Shadow
+   ship didn't attack the White Star with Bester aboard, because maybe
+   telepaths constitute a threat, and are therefore perhaps a weapon
+   against the Shadows. It's just in time, Ivanova reports, because the
+   Shadows have just begun attacking Rim worlds openly.
+
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+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/058.shtml
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/058.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/057.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/059.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/058.html#TOP
+  11. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
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+  15. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
+  
+   "August 3, 2260. Personal diary. Ten days ago, for the first time, the
+   Shadows began attacking openly." As Ivanova records her diary entry,
+   the Shadows attack Brakiri space. "So far, they've been hitting
+   targets close to the Rim--the minor powers, a few in the League of
+   Non-Aligned worlds. The attacks seem totally random, almost senseless.
+   If we thought it was nuts around here before, this has only made
+   things worse." Morden waits in line in the arrivals area. "We've had
+   to hire more security personnel to keep things calm, make sure the
+   wrong type of people don't get on board. But without our resources
+   back home for background checks, we have to assume there will be
+   lapses." Morden passes effortlessly through security. "Everyone's been
+   handling the stress pretty well, but sooner or later, something's got
+   to give somewhere." Dr. Franklin, alone in a room, injects himself
+   with stims, knocking over a lamp in the process. "Nobody's seen Kosh
+   in almost a week. When the Vorlon goes to ground, I worry." Kosh waits
+   in his quarters. "What's going through his... its mind, I can't even
+   guess. And Londo... Londo is Londo. You never know which way he'll
+   jump next..." Londo is making preparations with Vir for the largest
+   suite on Babylon 5 to be filled with flowers and reserved for Adira,
+   who is returning to the station. "So far, we've got everything more or
+   less under control, as long as nothing else goes wrong." Morden enters
+   his quarters, and at his side appears a group of Shadows.
+   
+   The Brakiri ambassador tells Sheridan and Ivanova that they cannot
+   fight the Shadows themselves, and asks for help. Sheridan says that he
+   can't help, since they no longer have Earth's support. Sheridan
+   explains that the Brakiri were wrong to have trusted the Shadows, but
+   the ambassador says he felt they were working for, instead of against,
+   the Brakiri. Sheridan tells the Brakiri ambassador that he asked the
+   Gaim ambassador to help the Brakiri, since the worlds near Gaim space
+   would only help if they were involved. The Gaim ambassador refuses,
+   saying that, if they join in the fight, the Shadows will notice them
+   and come after them. Sheridan tries to convince the Gaim ambassador
+   that the Shadows will come after them soon, but the only way the Gaim
+   ambassador will be swayed is if Sheridan can prove that he has power
+   equal to that of the Shadows.
+   
+   It is another hectic time in MedLab where Dr. Franklin and another
+   doctor, Dr. Hobbs, argue about a patient's condition as he lies in the
+   isolab, victim of a respiratory failure. As they are about to help
+   him, Garibaldi brings in another patient in desperate need of help of
+   his own. The techs in the isolab report that Dr. Franklin's treatment
+   didn't work, yet Franklin insists that they didn't follow his orders
+   correctly. Dr. Hobbs tries to convince him that he may be endangering
+   the patient's life, but her badgering and Garibaldi's persistence get
+   on his nerves, causing Franklin to shout at everyone. The new
+   treatment works on the respiratory patient, and Franklin mumbles out
+   apologies.
+   
+   Londo is by himself, recalling the time he spent with Adira a couple
+   of years earlier, and the happiness that she brought him. His memories
+   are interrupted by Vir, who has prepared the suite at Londo's behest.
+   Londo tells Vir he will be right there, and departs to inspect it.
+   
+   As Londo is on his way, however, the corridor suddenly glows with a
+   red light, and his path is blocked by Morden, who tells Londo that
+   they have something to settle. Morden tells Londo that he is
+   disappointed in him, that Lord Refa will no longer respond to Morden's
+   calls, and that the Centauri have pulled back their border campaigns.
+   Morden asks about the deal they made, and insists that the Centauri
+   government must continue their campaign. Londo believes Morden has no
+   interest in the Centauri Republic, and only wants to use them as a
+   distraction. Morden threatens Londo, saying that his associates may
+   turn their eye to the Centauri if Londo stands in the way. "Then we
+   will pluck it out," says Londo. He pushes past Morden and makes his
+   way down the corridor. A Shadow appears and speaks with Morden. Morden
+   insists that they need Londo alive, and that he will find other ways
+   to get what they want.
+   
+   Garibaldi arrives at Franklin's quarters. Franklin is getting ready to
+   put in more overtime in MedLab. He says he can handle it, but
+   Garibaldi doesn't agree. Franklin insists that his outburst was a
+   one-time thing, but Garibaldi knows it isn't. He tells Franklin that,
+   if he is still having problems with the stims, he can help, but
+   Franklin will not even tolerate the suggestion that he might have a
+   problem. Though Garibaldi tries to help further, Franklin will not
+   listen. Garibaldi tells Franklin that he will leave him alone, but
+   wants him to remember that he gave him a chance, and went to him
+   first. Garibaldi leaves.
+   
+   Delenn enters the war room to find Sheridan sitting at the table,
+   poring over reports of Shadow attacks. Sheridan says he can't
+   understand the methods the Shadows are using. Delenn tells him that
+   their tactics are the ones they used a thousand years previous to keep
+   the major powers at bay. Sheridan says that their only hope is to
+   organize all the other races into one force, something that has never
+   been done before, and might not even be possible, since they all have
+   their rivalries and agendas, which seem incompatible. Sheridan tells
+   Delenn that they can't score one victory against the Shadow ships, and
+   that, if they could, it might convince the others to join in the
+   fight. Delenn says that that is exactly what they should do, and
+   Sheridan asks how they do that. "I'm sure you'll think of something,"
+   she says, and leaves.
+   
+   "Every day, people around here start talking more and more like Kosh,"
+   he says to himself, smiling. Soon, the smile vanishes, and he begins
+   formulating an idea.
+   
+   Garibaldi searches through the Zocalo until he finds Dr. Hobbs sitting
+   by herself, filling out forms. Garibaldi tells Hobbs that she was
+   right, and that Franklin gave the wrong information to the techs.
+   Garibaldi tells her that he knows everyone in MedLab needs to have
+   blood samples taken regularly and tested, but Dr. Hobbs tells him that
+   the only one with the access needed to see the results is Dr.
+   Franklin. Garibaldi asks her to pull Franklin's files, but she refuses
+   to do so, though she will tell him where the information is. She tells
+   him that she doesn't want to see Franklin hurt. Garibaldi agrees, and
+   hopes it isn't too late. He gets up and leaves, but Dr. Franklin has
+   witnessed their transaction.
+   
+   Vir is speaking with a vendor in the Zocalo about the various effects
+   needed to complete the welcome for Adira. After he concludes the
+   business, he starts off, but sees that Morden is nearby. Trying to
+   avoid him, he heads off in another direction, only to run into Morden
+   in a corridor outside. Morden asks how he can help, but Vir refuses
+   the offer, hurrying away instead. Morden returns to the Zocalo, and
+   speaks to the vendor, who he convinces to talk about what Vir ordered.
+   
+   Garibaldi makes his way into Franklin's office, and begins using the
+   computer, but refrains at the last moment from opening the file.
+   Franklin sees him, but Garibaldi aborts at the last minute. Garibaldi
+   tells Franklin that if, on some level, Franklin doesn't know the
+   truth, Garibaldi can't help him. Franklin admits that he ran a test on
+   himself to prove that Garibaldi was wrong, but found enough stims in
+   his blood stream to prove that he was, indeed, addicted to them. He
+   tells Garibaldi how easy it was for him to lose track, but he knows
+   the numbers don't lie. Franklin asks Garibaldi what he intends to do
+   about it. Garibaldi leaves it up to Franklin, who then quietly leaves
+   MedLab.
+   
+   Sheridan and Kosh walk together down a corridor, with Sheridan
+   explaining his plan. "Nobody wants to fight a war unless they know
+   there's at least a chance of winning. You can give them that hope. As
+   one of the older races, your technology has to be at least as good as
+   the Shadows'. Now, if we can convince your government to send out an
+   expedition to engage one or two of their ships..."
+   
+   "No," Kosh replies.
+   
+   "All right, I know you can't take the entire Shadow fleet by
+   yourselves, but if you could beat them at just one fight, it could be
+   the break we'd need to get everyone organized. Then we'd have a real
+   chance. You could do it, couldn't you?"
+   
+   "Perhaps, but there are still few of us. It is not our time. It is
+   yours. We are not prepared yet." Kosh then begins to move down the
+   corridor, away from Sheridan.
+   
+   This incenses Sheridan. "Don't turn your back on me! Don't you even
+   try to walk away from me! Just who the hell do you think you are?! Oh
+   wait, I know what you think you are, what you want us to believe. But
+   I don't buy it. For three years now, you've been pulling everyone's
+   strings, getting us to do all the work and you haven't done a damn
+   thing but stand there and look cryptic! Well, it's about time you
+   started pulling your own weight around here!" Kosh turns around toward
+   Sheridan, his eyepiece opening and closing slowly, almost menacingly.
+   
+   In C&C, a tech reports to Ivanova that there is an energy surge
+   showing up on the sensors. Ivanova asks where it is, but the tech
+   can't tell--it is a non-localized phenomenon.
+   
+   "I hear you've got a saying," Sheridan continues, "'Understanding is a
+   three-edged sword.' Well, we've got a saying, too, 'Put your money
+   where your mouth is!'"
+   
+   "Impudent," Kosh says righteously, before turning away again.
+   
+   "Yeah? Well maybe that's the only way to get through to you. You said
+   you wanted to teach me to fight legends. Well you're a legend, too,
+   and I am not going away until you agree!"
+   
+   "Incorrect," Kosh intones. His eyepiece glows brightly, and a force
+   throws Sheridan against the wall. "Leave now!" he orders.
+   
+   "No!"
+   
+   "Disobedient!"
+   
+   "Up yours!" Sheridan is thrown against the wall by another blast from
+   Kosh, which gives Sheridan a cut on his face.
+   
+   "So, the real Kosh shows his colors at last, huh? You angry now? Angry
+   enough to kill me? Because that's the only way I'm leaving. Unless
+   your people get off their encounter-suited butts and do something,
+   I've got nothing to lose! God, my own government wants to kill me, and
+   if we lose this war, I'm just as dead! Our only chance is to get the
+   other races on board for this fight and right now you're the key to
+   doing that."
+   
+   "It is not yet time," Kosh tells him.
+   
+   Sheridan is even more upset now. "And who decides that time? You? You
+   put me in this position. You asked me to fight this damn war! Well,
+   it's about time you let me fight it my way!" Kosh tries to get away
+   again, but Sheridan won't let him go. "How many people have already
+   died fighting this war of yours, huh? How many more will die before
+   you come down off that mountain and get involved? Ships, colonies,
+   whole worlds are being destroyed out there, and you do nothing! How
+   many more? How many more, Kosh? How many more dead before you're
+   satisfied? Huh?"
+   
+   Kosh hits Sheridan with a very powerful force that throws Sheridan
+   against the wall, but this time he does not let go. "Go ahead,"
+   Sheridan invites. "Maybe one more death will help balance out the
+   books. Go on. Get it over with. Save us both the trouble later." Kosh
+   does not agree, and instead lets Sheridan go.
+   
+   "I will do as you ask," Kosh says, and begins walking away. After a
+   few steps, he turns back to Sheridan. "But there is a price to pay. I
+   will not be there to help you when you go to Z'ha'dum."
+   
+   "You already said if I go to Z'ha'dum, I'll die."
+   
+   "Yes, now."
+   
+   "All right. If that's the trade-off. If you want to withhold your help
+   when the time comes, that's fine. I'll go it alone."
+   
+   "You do not understand," Kosh tells him. "But you will." Kosh turns
+   away from Sheridan and silently heads down the corridor.
+   
+   Ivanova reports to Sheridan that the Shadows have been attacking the
+   Brakiri again as Delenn leads the ambassadors from the group of
+   potential allies into the war room. As the Shadows attack the Brakiri,
+   a new jump point opens, through which pass many Vorlon ships, which
+   begin attacking the Shadow vessels, destroying several. Though the
+   Vorlons are not immune to the attacks of the Shadows, they emerge with
+   far fewer casualties as the battle rages on.
+   
+   Londo and Vir are awaiting Adira's arrival in the cargo bay, yet after
+   the last passenger has left the ship, Adira still is nowhere to be
+   found. A group of medical officers appear from the ship with a body on
+   a stretcher. It's Adira. Dr. Hobbs, leading the team, doesn't know how
+   she died, but Londo suspects he knows--he remembers a recent
+   conversation with Lord Refa, on the topic of poison. Londo instructs
+   Dr. Hobbs to inspect her for poison, and as the body is carried away,
+   Londo begins crying.
+   
+   The battle concluded, the victorious Vorlon ships enter their jump
+   point and return from whence they came. Meanwhile, Morden receives
+   word from one of his contacts, and seems troubled by what he hears.
+   
+   Ivanova informs Sheridan that the news of the victory has spread and
+   that every ambassador aboard the station is ready to sign on. Sheridan
+   wants to go to Kosh and thank him, but Ivanova convinces him to go to
+   bed instead, and thank him the next day. However, someone does go to
+   visit Kosh without delay--Morden, who brings his Shadow associates
+   with him.
+   
+   As Sheridan sleeps, he dreams of his father. "John... Johnny..."
+   
+   "Dad?" Sheridan says, turning around.
+   
+   "I don't have much time, son," his father tells him as a great
+   struggle begins in Kosh's quarters. "I want you to know, you were
+   right. I didn't want to admit that. Just pride, I guess. You get--at
+   my age, you get kind of set in your ways. But it had to be done. Don't
+   blame yourself for what happened later." The struggle in Kosh's
+   quarters continues as Morden watches on emotionlessly. Sheridan's
+   father stumbles, apparently very weak.
+   
+   "Dad, are you... Are you all right?"
+   
+   "It's too late for me. I'm sorry for what I did before. I knew what
+   was ahead. I guess... I guess I was afraid. When you've lived as long
+   as I have, you... you kind of get used to it. I wish I could have done
+   more for you. There's so much I should have said... And now it's too
+   late. You're right. It's time you begin this war your way." He
+   wrenches in pain again. "I've got to go now, John."
+   
+   "No, no... don't... Don't leave," Sheridan pleads.
+   
+   "It's all right, son. See... As long as you're here, I'll always be
+   here."
+   
+   As the skirmish in Kosh's quarters ends, a pulse of white energy
+   flashes along the station's axis. Sheridan awakes, screaming Kosh's
+   name. Morden leaves the quarters of the Vorlon quietly, leaving
+   nothing behind but the charred, twisted remains of Ambassador Kosh's
+   encounter suit.
+   
+   Garibaldi explains that, although he searched the quarters with great
+   care, they found no sign of forced entry, and no sign of a body.
+   Garibaldi suggests Kosh might not be dead, but Sheridan and Delenn
+   know better. She says that the Vorlons asked that no one be told of
+   Kosh's death, since such news could destroy the newly-formed alliance.
+   Since Kosh is often not seen for weeks, it will give them time to send
+   a replacement. Sheridan says that Kosh knew what lay ahead, hence the
+   warning he gave. Sheridan feels guilty, believing earlier that Kosh's
+   warning about Z'ha'dum was punishment, rather than what it was--fear.
+   Delenn says that Kosh's encounter suit, and all his other personal
+   effects should be placed in his ship.
+   
+   Londo tells Morden that Adira's death was caused by poison, and he
+   suspects Morden knows the cause. Morden tells him that the last he
+   heard from Lord Refa, he was very upset with Londo, which would be
+   understandable given the fact that Londo poisoned him. Morden says
+   that Refa said something about "evening the score," but couldn't find
+   out more because Refa stopped talking to him after that. Morden offers
+   that he could have stopped him, had he known about it earlier, but he
+   expresses his most sincere apologies. Londo picks up a piece of
+   jewelry, which he gave to Adira, and muses about it sentimentally.
+   Londo laments that all those die around him, except those who most
+   deserve it. "That is about to change," Londo tells him. "You said that
+   you would go away for as long as I wanted. I no longer want that. All
+   I want now... is revenge. They took from me... the one thing that I
+   have ever truly loved. And you will help me, Mr. Morden, to strike
+   them down. Give me this... and the safety of my people, and let the
+   rest of the galaxy burn. I don't care any more. Will you help me, Mr.
+   Morden?"
+   
+   "Of course, Ambassador," Morden says, his face displaying concern. "As
+   ever, I am always in your service."
+   
+   Sheridan arrives in Medlab to meet with Franklin. Franklin says that
+   he feels he hasn't been doing a good job lately, and that he he can't
+   see anything else in the mirror but his job. He says he hasn't lived
+   very much in a long time. He admits to Sheridan that he has been
+   taking too many stims, hiding from the truth about himself. He says
+   that he no longer has the luxury to hide from his own problems, and
+   that he needs to stop lying to himself before someone else pays the
+   price. He informs Sheridan that he is resigning as Chief of Staff of
+   the MedLab facility. Sheridan tries to stop him, but Franklin won't
+   hear of it. The two shake hands, and Franklin leaves quietly, leaving
+   Sheridan alone.
+   
+   "And then what?" Garibaldi asks.
+   
+   "And then," Delenn explains, "once Kosh's belongings are loaded into
+   his ship, it will activate itself. The ship was made for him. It was a
+   part of him. In a curious way, it is alive. It cannot live without
+   him." Kosh's ship leaves the station and begins flying away. The ship
+   slowly makes its way toward a nearby star, which quickly envelops it.
+   "So it will grieve, as we do, in its own way," Delenn concludes. "And
+   perform its last duty, in memory of Kosh."
+
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+  
+   In a large building on Minbar, a Minbari, Rathenn, holding a large
+   box, chases after a robed figure. He tells the figure, who he calls
+   Entil'za, that the ancient books told the Minbari to enter the
+   sanctuary and open the box, which has remained sealed for over 900
+   years. The robed figure opens the box to see an envelope inside, with
+   the words "Jeffrey David Sinclair" written on it. The figure removes
+   his hood to reveal he is indeed Ambassador Sinclair. "How did he know
+   that you would be here?" Rathenn asks. "How did he know your name?"
+   
+   Back on Babylon 5, C&C detects a distress call coming from sector 14,
+   which surprises Ivanova since it has been quarantined for nearly 3
+   years after Babylon 4 disappeared there. Lt. Corwin plays the message,
+   and it is Ivanova's own voice, which a computer voice scan confirms.
+   "They're coming through," Ivanova's voice cries out desperately,
+   "repeat, they're coming through. This is Earth Alliance Station
+   Babylon 5. They're all over the place! They're killing us. Can anyone
+   hear me? They're killing us!"
+   
+   On Minbar, Sinclair sits by himself, contemplating what he has read.
+   Rathenn returns, saying that Sinclair's ship has been prepared.
+   Rathenn offers to listen to whatever Sinclair might have to say, but
+   Sinclair says the message was meant for him alone. He tells Rathenn to
+   have the others continue the work in his absence, and that he
+   appreciates Rathenn's trusting him when he first arrived -- something
+   no one else did. Rathenn merely says that it is because of Delenn, and
+   that he has done nothing extraordinary. Sinclair tells him that his
+   help has been invaluable, and that the Rangers will finish the work
+   ahead. He walks away, and Rathenn knows he will not see Sinclair
+   again. A Vorlon comes up behind him and offers, "He is the closed
+   circle. He is returning to the beginning." Rathenn asks what the
+   Vorlon means, but it walks away instead of responding.
+   
+   Ivanova plays back the distress signal for Sheridan and Garibaldi, but
+   denies ever having sent the message. Garibaldi corrects her, saying
+   that she hasn't yet, but since it comes from sector 14 -- a place
+   where time doesn't work right -- anything is possible. Garibaldi
+   relates to the others that, when he visited Babylon 4 two years
+   earlier, he had a flash-forward in which he experienced the fall of
+   Babylon 5, which could very well be the same thing to which this
+   message refers. Garibaldi tells Sheridan he wants to check it out, and
+   Sheridan agrees.
+   
+   Zack Allen is having quite a time trying to process the identicards of
+   those in the station's docking bay, but while he is processing them,
+   he comes across a very interesting one -- that of Ambassador Sinclair.
+   Zack welcomes Sinclair back to the station, and asks him if he plans
+   to be staying long. Sinclair says that is a more interesting question
+   than Zack probably knows, and disappears into the crowd.
+   
+   While Garibaldi begins the long trip to sector 14, Lennier enters
+   Delenn's quarters. She asks him if "he" is here, and Lennier tells her
+   yes. Lighting, a candle, she recites, "We are Grey. We stand between
+   the candle and the star." She tells Lennier that "he" is her friend.
+   Lennier tells her that he knows, but that "it must be done, or the
+   dream will die, and countless others will die with it." She says she
+   wishes she had more time, but that time is all they have. They both
+   walk away, leaving a letter, hand-addressed to Delenn, behind.
+   
+   Marcus and Sheridan are in the war room talking when Delenn arrives,
+   telling them that they must both accompany her to the White Star, with
+   Ivanova, and one other. The other is Sinclair, who enters the war
+   room. He tells Sheridan that he appreciates the work he has done
+   looking after the station. Garibaldi calls in, reporting that the
+   temporal rift in sector 14 is twice as large as it was before, and
+   that it is being created by a tachyon beam emanating from Epsilon 3.
+   
+   On Epsilon 3, Zathras and another caretaker watch what is happening to
+   the Great Machine, which Zathras describes as "not good." The other
+   caretaker suggests they tell Draal, but Zathras knows that it is
+   taking all of Draal's power to control the machine. Zahtras knows what
+   he must do, and he will do it, or else there might be great death.
+   
+   Sheridan asks Delenn why they are going to the White Star instead of
+   to Epsilon 3, but Delenn simply insists that they must go to sector
+   14. Sheridan doesn't understand, but Delenn promises to explain
+   everything when the time is right. Meanwhile, Garibaldi finally
+   arrives at sector 14, and performs a scan on the temporal rift formed
+   there.
+   
+   Two ships depart from Babylon 5, carrying those going to the White
+   Star. Sheridan tells Sinclair that he was very surprised to see him in
+   the war room, but Sinclair says that he was just as surprised to be
+   there. Sheridan mentions that Sinclair's timing seems to be more than
+   a coincidence, to which Sinclair replies that there are no
+   coincidences. Marcus tells Sheridan to quit while he's ahead, since
+   Sinclair has a reputation, back on Minbar, for seldom giving straight
+   answers to questions.
+   
+   Garibaldi, after increasing power to the scanners, picks up the
+   distress message from Ivanova, which he records. Ivanova reports that
+   the captain is dead, and their defenses are down. She says that the
+   enemy is boarding from all over, and that Garibaldi is rigging the
+   fusion reactors. She switches to external cameras, and the enemies
+   attacking the station are indeed Shadows. It is not long before they
+   deliver their final blow, and Ivanova's message is terminated.
+   
+   Everyone arrives in a conference room in the White Star. Delenn asks
+   Sheridan if he trusts her, and he admits that he would trust her with
+   his life. She invites them all to sit down. She begins by telling them
+   that she was aware of the transmissions from Epsilon 3 several hours
+   before they left, the same time that other information came into her
+   possession. "As you know," she explains, "our last great war against
+   the Shadows was a thousand years ago. With the help of the Vorlons and
+   a few others, we were able to defeat them, driving them from their
+   homeworld, Z'ha'dum. But... there is something you do not know. What
+   you are about to see has never been shown to anyone outside the Grey
+   Council."
+   
+   She touches a small device, and on the wall behind her, an image
+   appears showing a great space station, with many ships around it,
+   fighting. "This is one of the few surviving records from that war.
+   Toward the end, the tide of battle had turned against us. Our greatest
+   starbase, the center of our efforts in the war, had been destroyed by
+   the Shadows. Without a long-range base of operations from which to
+   launch our forces, we were doomed to lose the war. Then, as if in
+   answer to our prayers, a replacement arrived." She touches the device
+   again, and something very familiar appears on the screen.
+   
+   "Babylon 4!" Sheridan says in amazement.
+   
+   "Oh my God," Ivanova says. "We always knew that Babylon 4 had been
+   taken to somewhere in time, but we assumed it was into the future."
+   
+   "No," Delenn says, "it was taken into the distant past, where it
+   helped us defeat the Shadows. Without Babylon 4, we would have lost
+   the war, or it would have ended in a stalemate."
+   
+   "So you're saying the Minbari... that you stole Babylon 4...?"
+   Sheridan says.
+   
+   "Not quite," Delenn tells them. "Before coming to you, I received two
+   additional records from Draal. Remember, the Great Machine on Epsilon
+   3 has been there for over 500 years. During that time, it recorded
+   much of what happened in this area of space." She changes the image to
+   Babylon 4 again. "After Babylon 4 vanished six years ago, it
+   reappeared again, two years ago. Ambassador Sinclair and Mr. Garibaldi
+   traveled there at great personal risk to help evacuate her crew before
+   it vanished again."
+   
+   "It was a close call," Sinclair tells them, "we almost didn't get out.
+   We never did find out who was behind it."
+   
+   "And that is about to change," Delenn replies, changing the image
+   again. "This was recorded shortly before the station first disappeared
+   six years ago. As Babylon 4 neared completion, the allies of the
+   Shadows recognized it for what it was, and sent these ships to destroy
+   it. Striking without warning, they would have succeeded in their
+   attack, but something stopped them." A ship appears on the screen,
+   firing at the Shadow fighters.
+   
+   "The White Star?" Sheridan asks.
+   
+   "Delenn, are you saying we stole Babylon 4?" Marcus asks.
+   
+   "But that was years ago!" Ivanova says.
+   
+   "Yes!" Delenn says. "And that is exactly where we must go. At this
+   moment, the Great Machine is using all its power to enlarge the
+   temporal rift in sector 14. We will use it to go back six years into
+   the past. Once there, we must prevent the destruction of Babylon 4,
+   and take the station with us through time. Because, if we fail to save
+   Babylon 4, Babylon 5 will also be destroyed."
+   
+   Sheridan can't believe that he is responsible for the disappearance of
+   Babylon 4, but Delenn says that it has already happened, and all they
+   must do is establish the past. No one knew where the replacement
+   station had come from until she came to Babylon 5, and she was afraid
+   to say anything, for fear of changing the future. Marcus says he isn't
+   sure how moving Babylon 4 through time will save Babylon 5. Delenn
+   answers that, without Babylon 4, the Shadows would come out of the
+   last war much too strong -- something with which Sinclair agrees.
+   Sheridan asks where the information came from, but Sinclair just says
+   a reliable source. Marcus says that, if Sinclair believes it, he
+   believes it. Delenn says that, if they do not proceed, in the next
+   major attack by the Shadows, Babylon 5 will be destroyed. Sheridan
+   calls Garibaldi, who says that he has been recording everything he
+   can, and that the time stamp on the distress messages is eight days in
+   the future. Based on this, Sheridan reluctantly agrees to go along
+   with the plan. He calls Garibaldi and says they will investigate
+   further, and that he should return to Babylon 5.
+   
+   Lennier appears on the screen, and tells them that they are being
+   followed by something he believes comes from Epsilon 3. Delenn
+   explains that only the Great Machine can control such an unstable time
+   field, and that the ship that is following them will assist them in
+   helping control the time field. The ship docks, and Delenn, Sheridan,
+   and Sinclair go to meet it. Delenn explains that a homing device must
+   be placed in Babylon 4's central power core so that the Great Machine
+   will find a clearly defined target, and that Draal has sent one of his
+   aides to assist. That aide turns out to be Zathras, who clumsily
+   crashes into another Minbari. As Zathras approaches and tries to
+   introduce himself, Sinclair remembers having met him before. Zathras
+   is confused, but Sinclair explains it is in his own past. He warns
+   Zathras not to say anything to him that might change the past. Zathras
+   is very confused, but agrees. Zathras tells both Sinclair and Sheridan
+   that he is honored to meet them, but for different reasons. Sheridan
+   asks what the reasons are, but Zathras will not say, since Draal
+   advised him not to mention that, as well as other things, which he
+   doesn't remember. Delenn arrives and tells them that Zathras'
+   equipment is being unloaded, and that they are ready to proceed.
+   Delenn leads Zathras away, leaving Sinclair and Sheridan alone.
+   Sinclair tells Sheridan he needs a favor.
+   
+   As the White Star meets Garibaldi's Starfury, Sheridan tells Garibaldi
+   it is important to go back to Babylon 5, even though Garibaldi very
+   much wants to go with them back to Babylon 4. Garibaldi doesn't
+   understand, but complies. After Garibaldi has gone, Sheridan asks
+   Sinclair if he didn't want to talk to Garibaldi himself, and Sinclair
+   tells him he did. He walks away to a viewscreen, where he watches
+   Garibaldi's ship fly off. He remembers the flashforward he experienced
+   on Babylon 4, as well as the destruction of Babylon 5 he saw a couple
+   years earlier in Ladira's vision. He promises himself that he won't
+   let it happen.
+   
+   The White Star arrives in sector 14, and Zathras hands out small
+   devices to everyone, saying that without them, they may become unstuck
+   in time. These devices, time stabilizers, will protect them and keep
+   them from drifting. After everyone has put on their time stabilizers,
+   the White Star moves into the temporal rift.
+   
+   As the White Star makes its journey into the past, Garibaldi arrives
+   back at the station, where he meets Zack, who tells him that Sinclair
+   was there. Garibaldi is shocked, unable to believe Sinclair would
+   leave without saying anything.
+   
+   The White Star emerges from the temporal rift, and before long,
+   detects the ships sent to destroy Babylon 4, which are escorting very
+   powerful fusion bomb. The White Star moves to intercept the ships. The
+   ships fire on the White Star, but there is neglible damage due to,
+   Lennier explains, the ability the ship has to learn from previous
+   encounters.
+   
+   Garibaldi arrives in his quarters to find a message from Ambassador
+   Sinclair, but it requires a password. It isn't long, though, until
+   Garibaldi is able to guess the password, "Hello, old friend." The
+   message from Sinclair apologizes for not saying goodbye. Sinclair says
+   that, if he had met with Garibaldi, neither of them would be returning
+   from Babylon 4, and that Sinclair had to do whatever he could to
+   protect his friend.
+   
+   Though the weapons are outside optimum firing range, Ivanova is able
+   to fire at the ships manually, destroying the fusion bomb. A huge
+   blast is created, and the White Star is caught in it. Sheridan's time
+   stablizer is hit by a blast of energy, and he vanishes. Zathras runs
+   up to the damaged stabilizer, and explains that Sheridan has become
+   unstuck in time, and could be in either the past or the future. Though
+   everyone is very concerned and wants to find Sheridan, Sinclair knows
+   that the mission is what is truly important, and if they wait too
+   long, they may lose their one chance to move in under Babylon 4's
+   damaged scanners.
+   
+   Sheridan is thrown down onto the floor and kicked. He is picked up by
+   several guards, who say that he is awake again. Sheridan looks at the
+   figure on the throne, and recognizes it as Londo, who looks quite a
+   bit older than Sheridan is used to him.
+   
+   The White Star moves to grapple onto a stable area of Babylon 4.
+   Delenn has been deeply disturbed by Sheridan's disappearance. Sinclair
+   insists that he will be all right, and, to her stunned surprise, tells
+   her in Minbari that he knows what is coming. He asks if she is all
+   right, and she says she isn't. She says she is sorry, but he doesn't
+   want her to be. Sinclair tells her that he never knew before now where
+   he belonged in life, but that now, his path is clear.
+   
+   Sheridan asks Londo why he is there, and Londo tells him that he is
+   finally going to put Sheridan out of Londo's own misery, finally
+   punishing him for his crimes of neglect and convenience. Londo tells
+   him that, during the war, he drove away the Shadows, but that the
+   Shadows' servants came to Centauri Prime, and Sheridan allowed it to
+   happen. Sheridan is taken to a window, where he looks out upon the
+   burning, smoking city around him. "There's the legacy of your war,"
+   Londo tells him.
+   
+   The White Star connects to Babylon 4, and the crew exits the ship.
+   Though the configuration of the station is different, Ivanova believes
+   she can find her way around. Ivanova needs to secure the primary
+   corridors while they place the homing device, and Marcus goes off with
+   her to help. Sinclair asks Zathras if he will be able to unload and
+   prepare the equipment by himself, and Zathras indicates he can.
+   
+   "Ready?" Sinclair asks Delenn.
+   
+   "Why do your people always ask if someone is ready before you're going
+   to do something massively unwise?" she asks him.
+   
+   Smiling, he answers her. "Tradition." The two of them move off down
+   the corridor, to set the plan into motion.
+
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+  
+   Sheridan is brought around to face Londo, and Sheridan insists that
+   what he sees on Centauri Prime couldn't happen. He demands to know
+   what year it is, and Londo tells him it is the last year, day, and
+   hour of Sheridan's life -- seventeen years after he began the war
+   against the Shadows. Londo tells the guards that he is tired, and
+   wants Sheridan taken back to his cell. Londo promises Sheridan he will
+   meet whatever God he worships when next they meet, and Sheridan is
+   taken away.
+   
+   On Babylon 4, Major Krantz arrives on C&C to find that there is still
+   another hour or hour and a half until the sensors are back online
+   following the explosion. He says that he wants search teams increased
+   so that they are prepared in case anyone tries to breach the hull.
+   
+   Ivanova and Marcus are searching through the station for an access
+   panel, and though Ivanova thinks it will take a bit of luck to find
+   one, Marcus insists he doesn't believe in it. Ivanova, however, keeps
+   walking and doesn't notice that Marcus has disappeared until she is
+   trapped in the corridor between two security guards. Marcus, however,
+   drops down on them from above, and they are able to easily dispatch
+   the guards. After Marcus accidentally dislodges the cover from an
+   access panel with his staff, Ivanova is able to get right to work.
+   
+   Even though Sheridan is alone in his cell back on Centauri Prime,
+   without his time stabilizer, he is still unstuck in time, and
+   reappears briefly upon Babylon 4, noticed only by Zathras, as he
+   reaches, in pain, for a time stabilizer. Meanwhile, Sinclair and
+   Delenn prepare to set up their equipment, but the room in question is
+   currently occupied by a group of officers. Delenn is then overtaken by
+   a strange feeling, which she describes as someone walking over her
+   grave.
+   
+   Sheridan reappears back in the future just in time to have a visitor
+   -- an older Delenn. He asks why she is there, and she insists that she
+   didn't tell them anything, and that there is nothing they can do to
+   her. She was allowed one last moment with him, and she tells him that
+   she isn't afraid, that their son is safe. She tells him that she loves
+   him, and kisses him.
+   
+   Ivanova finishes her tampering, and the computer announces a hull
+   breach in the area. The pressure doors fall down behind the evacuating
+   crewmembers, leaving Sinclair, Ivanova, Delenn, and Marcus to do what
+   they need to until the station personnel manage to burn through the
+   door.
+   
+   Sheridan tells Delenn in the future that he isn't really there, and
+   that he isn't supposed to be -- he tells her that the last thing he
+   remembers was his time stabilizer being hit. She believes him, and
+   remembers that he had told her, a long time ago, that he had seen this
+   moment in their future. She tells him that there is much pain and
+   grief ahead of him, and that she sees in his eyes an innocence he lost
+   long ago. Delenn tells him that the war against the darkness can never
+   truly be won, but that they've created something that will endure for
+   a thousand years, that they succeeded at everything they set out to
+   do, but at a terrible price. Sheridan asks if there is anything he can
+   do, but Delenn knows the only way to change this future is to
+   surrender to the Shadows -- a price too high to pay. The guards arrive
+   again, and it is time for them to leave.
+   
+   Sheridan and Delenn are once again brought before Londo, who has
+   apparently been drinking quite a bit. Londo says he has to drink,
+   since it is the only way they can be alone -- he has no desire to wake
+   "it" -- his keeper. It doesn't care why he does what he does, as long
+   as he does it, and as long as Sheridan ends up dead. Londo sits
+   forward, painfully, showing the keeper attached to his neck. The
+   alcohol is the only way Londo can control himself for any period of
+   time, though he has very little time left. Londo tells them that his
+   world and all he hoped for is gone. He tells them that they are his
+   last chance for the Centauri, and his own redemption. He tells them he
+   has a ship hidden behind the palace, but that, in exchange for their
+   lives, they must help to free the Centauri. Londo tells them to leave
+   quickly, since his keeper is beginning to wake. They leave the throne
+   room quickly, and are taken away by a guard. After they have gone,
+   another visitor comes to Londo -- G'Kar, whom Londo refers to as "old
+   friend." Londo says they have no hope if the keeper wakes up and sees
+   what he has done. They have unfinished business, and Londo wants it to
+   end before the keeper stops him. He says he is as tired of his life as
+   G'Kar is, and G'Kar knows what to do. He places his hands around
+   Londo's throat, but after G'Kar begins to choke Londo, the keeper
+   wakes up, and Londo puts his hands around G'Kar's neck as well.
+   
+   As Sheridan and Delenn move toward the ship, Sheridan lurches
+   suddenly, and knows he's being pulled back again. But, before he goes,
+   Delenn gives him words to take with him back to the past. "Treasure
+   the moments you have. Savor them for as long as you can, for they will
+   never come back again. John, listen to me. Do not go to Z'ha'dum. Do
+   you understand? Do not go to Z'ha'dum!" Upon hearing these last words,
+   he falls to the floor, and is pulled away in time.
+   
+   In the throne room, both Londo and G'Kar lie on the floor, dead.
+   Another figure, however, arrives and picks up the imperial medallion
+   Londo wore around his neck. It is Vir.
+   
+   While the others move to set up the equipment, Zathras tells them that
+   he believes that the power supply in a spare blue space suit may be
+   able to make the time stabilizer work long enough for Sheridan to be
+   rescued. Though Marcus isn't convinced that Sheridan will reappear in
+   the suit, Zathras' plan succeeds, and that is indeed where he
+   reappears. Sheridan comments, however, that he feels like he could
+   drift away again at any moment. Marcus tells Sheridan that they have
+   secured a path to the central power core, and Sheridan plans to go
+   with Sinclair, until Delenn arrives, glad to see that Sheridan has
+   returned. He doesn't, however, tell her what he learned in the future.
+   
+   Sinclair and Sheridan are nearly done placing the homing device in the
+   power core, while Ivanova reports to them that she has rigged the
+   scanners to make it look like the station is about to explode. C&C
+   discovers this, but Major Krantz insists that they increase the output
+   to the power core, despite its not having been tested. The sudden
+   increase throws Sinclair and Sheridan away from the station just as
+   the surge of tachyon particles increases, and Babylon 4 begins its
+   journey through time.
+   
+   Zathras understands the problem, but insists it isn't his fault. He is
+   able to stop the station's movement through time, but not before
+   Sheridan becomes unstuck in time yet again. Zathras tells them that
+   the time device placed in the core activated prematurely, sending them
+   four years into the future, to when Babylon 4 reappeared before.
+   Zathras says they can't do anything else until they adjust the time
+   system. Ivanova tries to contact Sheridan, but Sinclair reports that
+   he has gone again, and that they have a slight problem.
+   
+   On C&C, the first officer convinces Major Krantz that, despite all
+   their work, it is necessary to evacuate to protect the lives of those
+   on the station. Krantz reluctantly agrees and orders a distress signal
+   to be sent out. Just as they are sending it, though, another increase
+   of tachyon particles hits the station, and Delenn...
+   
+   ...is standing against a wall in Sheridan's quarters, watching him
+   sleep peacefully. She walks over to a nearby table, and picks up a
+   snow globe, which she turns over, and admires. Without warning, the
+   door to the quarters opens, and a woman's voice says, "Hello." Delenn,
+   in shock, drops the snow globe, which shatters at her feet...
+   
+   ...just as she finds herself again aboard Babylon 4. Zathras explains
+   what she experienced was a timeflash, where one sees oneself forward
+   or backward in time, due to the instability of the system. Sinclair
+   arrives, but he isn't quite the Sinclair they knew -- he now appears
+   much older. He explains that, when he and Garibaldi went to Babylon 4
+   previously, they were exposed to the time field without any
+   protection. He didn't want Garibaldi along because he knew that
+   Garibaldi, too, would have something similar happen to him if they
+   should be exposed to it again. Sinclair says they need to finish their
+   job, and that they need to get Sheridan back. Zathras says he can fix
+   the time stabilizer, but needs equipment. Ivanova and Zathras leave to
+   try to find the equipment elsewhere on the station. Sinclair says he
+   is going back to the core to readjust the equipment, and tells Marcus
+   and the rest to stay with the White Star and monitor the readings.
+   
+   While Zathras searches through some equipment to find the tools he
+   needs to repair the the time stabilizer, Lennier reports to Sinclair
+   that seven ships are approaching the station -- one of which contains
+   Garibaldi and another Sinclair. Zathras finally finds what he needs to
+   repair the time stabilizer, and finishes just as he is discovered by
+   several security guards who level their PPGs at him.
+   
+   Zathras tries to explain to the security guards that he means no harm
+   as he takes them away, and Ivanova sees this and reports back to the
+   White Star. Marcus tells her that it will take them another two hours
+   to finish the repairs, but Ivanova knows they don't have that much
+   time. She says she will find a way to get to C&C to adjust the power
+   there.
+   
+   While Major Krantz brings the other Sinclair and Garibaldi onto the
+   station, explaining to them what happened aboard the station before it
+   was brought forward in time, Delenn arrives back in the station from
+   the White Star and sees Sheridan, still in his space suit, reappear.
+   
+   Krantz introduces the other Sinclair and Garibaldi to Zathras, who
+   looks up at Sinclair, and says, "Not the One." This confuses Sinclair,
+   but Zathras won't say anything else to him, and claims merely that he
+   does what he is told.
+   
+   Everyone on C&C evacuates, leaving Ivanova free to sneak in and begin
+   readjusting the power to the fusion reactors.
+   
+   Zathras tells Sinclair and Garibaldi that they need Babylon 4 for a
+   great war, as a place to gather to fight and organize, to help save
+   the galaxy "on the side of Light." Zathras explains further, saying
+   that, without the station, it is the end of everything. "The One leads
+   us. The One tells us to go, we go."
+   
+   Two security guards arrive in the corridor to find a figure in a blue
+   space suit, appearing and disappearing. The guards run and tell Major
+   Krantz, and everyone leaves the room where Zathras was being
+   questioned, including Zathras. They find the figure in the space suit,
+   which Zathras identifies as being the One. The figure in the space
+   suit apparently is having difficulty standing, and Sinclair begins
+   approaching it.
+   
+   Ivanova finishes what she is doing, and warns Sinclair, who has
+   finished readjusting the homing device in the core, to back off, as it
+   will soon become operational.
+   
+   The other Sinclair approaches the blue-suited figure and touches its
+   outstretched hand, but is thrown back by a large blast. In the
+   resulting commotion, Zathras runs to the figure and gives it the
+   repaired time stabilizer, warning the figure to take it and leave
+   quickly. The figure vanishes.
+   
+   Ivanova activates the station, and it begins moving. Zathras warns the
+   others to leave quickly, or else be trapped there forever. As Sinclair
+   moves away from the power core, Marcus discovers Sheridan, once again
+   on Babylon 4, with a new time stabilizer. Sheridan says that someone
+   must have put it on him and switched places. This confuses Marcus, who
+   doesn't know who has been running around Babylon 4 in the blue suit.
+   
+   The other Sinclair and Garibaldi, while trying to escape with Zathras,
+   lose him as he becomes trapped under a fallen pipe. Though Sinclair
+   tries to save Zathras, Zathras insists that he leave, telling him that
+   he has a destiny. Sinclair, though clearly confused, does as he is
+   told, leaving Zathras behind.
+   
+   As the ships carrying the Babylon 4 crew and the other Sinclair and
+   Garibaldi leave the station, Sinclair, just leaving the station's
+   core, stands on the outside of the station and activates his
+   communicator, to try to deliver one last message. "Babylon 4 to
+   Garibaldi, Babylon 4 to shuttle one. Garibaldi, do you read me? Watch
+   your back, Michael. Watch your back." But the target is outside of
+   communication range. Sinclair moves toward the airlock, just as
+   Babylon 4 begins to vanish one final time.
+   
+   Zathras, still trapped under the pipe, is approached by the figure in
+   the blue space suit. He looks up, and smiles. "Zathras knew... you
+   would not leave him. Zathras trusts... the One." The figure removes
+   its helmet; it's Delenn. The station vanishes again.
+   
+   Sinclair, inside the airlock, removes the headpiece from his own space
+   suit. "I tried," he says. "I tried to warn them. But it all
+   happened... just the way I remember it."
+   
+   "I know," Delenn tells him. "It's time. We have to go. They're waiting
+   for us." Delenn, and a morose Sinclair, leave to join the others.
+   
+   Sinclair and Delenn arrive on C&C, and Ivanova says that the
+   time-shifting controls can now be controlled from C&C. Sinclair says
+   he will set them off by himself and then return to the White Star, but
+   Marcus doesn't believe it. He knows that the system isn't fully
+   automatic, and that someone has to ride Babylon 4 back into the past.
+   Though he offers to do so, Sinclair won't allow it. "I'll take it back
+   because I've always taken it, and I always will. It's already
+   happened."
+   
+   "You don't know that," Ivanova protests.
+   
+   "Yes I do," Sinclair tells her. "You asked what brought me here.
+   Before I left Minbar, I was given a letter... from nine hundred years
+   ago." He hands the letter to Sheridan.
+   
+   "Whose handwriting is this?" he asks.
+   
+   "Mine," Sinclair explains. "I wrote this from the past... nine hundred
+   years ago. I went. It's as simple as that."
+   
+   "He's telling the truth," Delenn says. "I received one as well."
+   
+   "No," Ivanova insists, "I can't accept this."
+   
+   "If I go back to our time, the aging effect will probably kill me.
+   Isn't it better to choose life?"
+   
+   "Damn it, Jeff, I..."
+   
+   "Susan, it's all right. My whole life has been leading to this,"
+   Sinclair tells her. He asks her and Marcus to leave them for a moment,
+   so they can discuss something alone. After they have gone, Sinclair
+   asks Zathras why he pointed to Delenn when he said he followed the
+   One.
+   
+   Zathras explains that he is the oldest living caretaker of the Great
+   Machine, and knows things about it that even Draal doesn't. He tells
+   them that he knows all three of them. "All Minbari belief is around
+   three. Three castes -- worker, warrior, religious. Three languages.
+   Light, Dark, and Grey. The Nine of the Grey Council -- three times
+   three. All is three... As you are three. As you are one... As you are
+   the One." He turns to Sinclair. "You are the One Who Was." He turns to
+   Delenn. "You are the One Who Is." He indicates Sheridan. "You are the
+   One Who Will Be." He again refers to them in turn. "You are the
+   beginning of the story, and the middle of the story, and the end of
+   the story that creates the next great story. In your heart, you know
+   what Zathras says is true. Go now. Zathras' place is with the One Who
+   Was. We have... a destiny." Sheridan and Delenn both say their silent
+   goodbyes to Sinclair, and return to the White Star.
+   
+   Sheridan sits down in the captain's chair, and though it is clear that
+   everyone will miss Sinclair, Sheridan says they need to leave and
+   respect Sinclair's wishes. They break the docking seal, set the
+   engines to maximum, and head back home.
+   
+   The White Star emerges from the temporal rift, which closes behind it,
+   Sheridan assumes, to make sure no one else is trapped there. "That
+   door is closed forever," Delenn tells him. "And it is not the only
+   one. Lennier told you that a thousand years ago, human and Minbari
+   souls began to merge -- Minbari souls were being born in human bodies.
+   Something happened that opened that door between us. My change was, in
+   part, to even the scales and restore balance between our races, using
+   a device my people discovered a thousand years ago. You see... if my
+   people had found Babylon 4 with a human aboard, they would never have
+   accepted it."
+   
+   Marcus instantly knows what this means. "Dear God... 'A Minbari not
+   born of Minbari.'"
+   
+   As Babylon 4 continues its journey through time, Sinclair places a
+   Triluminary in the top of a machine -- the same one Delenn used to
+   begin her change. The machine glows a bright light, and a new
+   chrysalis begins to form, as Sinclair remembers his year aboard
+   Babylon 5, and how his whole life had, indeed, led up to where he is
+   now. As time passes, he finds himself inside the chrysalis, beginning
+   a change of his own.
+
+   A thousand years earlier, two Minbari ships arrived at Babylon 4, to
+   be met by Zathras. "Good. Good," he told the two Minbari that came
+   aboard. "Zathras knew you would come. This way." He ushered them
+   further into the station.
+   
+   When they arrived at the docking bay, they saw a great sight. Two
+   floating, winged figures of light, each hovering above an encounter
+   suit, flanked a Minbari figure. "I welcome you, and present this place
+   to you as a gift," the Minbari said. "I am called Valen, and we have
+   much work ahead of us."
+
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+Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
+
+   Londo is outraged that Babylon 5 has accepted the sole surviving Narn
+   heavy cruiser, the G'Tok, into the station's mutual protection
+   alliance. Garibaldi is unimpressed.
+   
+   A visibly upset Lyta Alexander visits Medlab searching for answers
+   about the death of Kosh but none are available.
+   
+   [INLINE] Garibaldi steps into C & C just as a red Vorlon personal
+   transport jumps in. He enigmatically warns Ivanova against paging the
+   Captain immediately. When Ivanova bites, he mentions that Sheridan has
+   taken a walk...outside. As Ivanova peers aghast out the window, the
+   Vorlon ship pauses to write a greeting on its hull to the spacewalking
+   captain.
+   
+   G'Kar treats a very appreciative Na'Kal to dinner in his quarters. The
+   conversation quickly sobers when Na'Kal reports that aside from the
+   G'Tok only about ten Narn vessels survived the war. He is further
+   disappointed when G'Kar says they cannot retaliate against the
+   Centauri, but must defend Babylon 5 instead.
+   
+   [INLINE] Waiting for the new ambassador to arrive, Ivanova tells
+   Sheridan that Garibaldi has gone to find Dr. Franklin, who has avoided
+   his quarters for several days. Sheridan is still astonished by
+   Franklin's revelation about his stim addiction. It is a day for
+   surprises. The new ambassador is considerably darker than the old
+   Kosh. They agree to refer to him as Kosh in public in order not to
+   endanger the fragile new alliance. But when Sheridan asks what he
+   should call him in private the Vorlon says, "Kosh."
+   
+   "We are all Kosh," he adds without elaboration.
+   
+   Garibaldi tracks Stephen down in the Zocalo. When Michael questions
+   him about his recent wanderings, Stephen explains that he is engaged
+   in a "walkabout." It is the Australian aborigine rite of soul
+   searching, and he hopes to find himself somewhere if he walks far
+   enough.
+   
+   [INLINE] The new Kosh examines his predecessor's quarters, Staring at
+   a wall, he perceives an afterimage, apparently of some Shadows and a
+   human.
+   
+   Lyta isn't sure what she is looking for, but upon nearing the new
+   ambassador's quarters she finds a very angry Vorlon. He tries to
+   throttle a piece of the old Kosh out of her but she insists that Kosh
+   wasn't with her at all when she left the last time. Her profuse
+   apologies seem to satisfy him marginally and she is permitted to stay.
+   
+   Later in Sheridan's office she almost admits that the new Kosh is
+   blaming her for the old ambassador's death. She drifts into her own
+   regrets as Sheridan muses about the Vorlons. "Is there a problem?"
+   Kosh's old voice asks. Lyta jolts alert.
+   
+   "I said, 'Is there a problem?'" Sheridan repeats.
+   
+   Lyta quickly replies, "No." Before she can leave the Captain has a
+   request for her.
+   
+   [INLINE] Franklin finds a nightclub where a beautiful woman is singing
+   a love song. "I understand you completely, it's over for you," she
+   croons as he stares at her smitten and begins to unwind.
+   
+   Sheridan explains his proposition to engage a Shadow vessel with a
+   telepath aboard the White Star in order to test the theory that they
+   are vulnerable to telepathic jamming. When he asks for volunteers the
+   aliens present are remarkably quiet with the exception of G'Kar, who
+   offers the G'Tok, and Delenn. Sheridan refuses to take Minbari
+   telepaths along as backup, but the council overrules him unanimously.
+   
+   To Stephen's delight, the singer, Cailyn, joins him while the club
+   closes up around them.
+   
+   Na'Kal refuses G'Kar's request to support the White Star, claiming
+   that Sheridan is on a fool's mission. The White Star leaves anyway
+   with only a single Minbari war cruiser as escort. They will jump out
+   of hyperspace as soon as a Shadow attack is reported and attempt to
+   engage the enemy alone.
+   
+   Holding her cut glass tumbler at eye level Cailyn peers at Franklin.
+   She believes that if she catches the refracted image just right she
+   can see someone's soul. But all she sees of him is pieces.
+   
+   G'Kar is awakened by a furious Garibaldi hurling back the book of
+   G'Quon. When the Narn protests his impotence in the face of Na'Kal's
+   refusal, Garibaldi reminds him that human pilots protected the G'Tok
+   during the last days of the war not because they wanted to and not
+   because they weren't afraid of dying, but because their commander had
+   the moral authority to order them to do it. As the leader of the Narn
+   in exile it is G'Kar's responsibility to lead, not Na'Kal's, Garibaldi
+   hisses, and then storms out.
+   
+   Franklin strokes Cailyn's shoulder in bed and tries to offer his
+   assistance. When she asks for a prescription painkiller Metazine to
+   help her sleep, he grows very upset and tells her she should drink
+   less instead. She is annoyed at his rebuke and reminds him that he
+   offered to help. He just refuses crossly and turns away.
+   
+   Waiting on the White Star, Sheridan tries to comfort Lyta. She asks
+   him about Kosh's death, and is intrigued when he tells her how Kosh
+   had touched his mind on that and another occasion. Just then a Shadow
+   attack is located. They jump in leaving the Minbari ship poised in
+   hyperspace behind them.
+   
+   Lyta prods the Shadow and collapses when it retaliates. As the Shadow
+   ship homes in on the White Star Sheridan shakes Lyta. In a flash the
+   telepath sees Kosh's death. Her fury steadies her and she halts the
+   Shadow ship in space. While it's paralyzed, Sheridan orders Lennier to
+   pour all power into the forward batteries, even to the extent of
+   taking the jump engines off line. The Shadow is destroyed.
+   
+   Cailyn filches Stephen's identicard while he lies sleeping and leaves
+   the room.
+   
+   [INLINE] Lyta announces that the Shadow got off a distress call before
+   they destroyed it. The jump engines still need ten minutes to
+   recuperate when four more Shadow ships arrive. The White Star flees as
+   the Minbari cruiser jumps in, but there are only three telepaths on
+   board and Lyta is exhausted. Evasive action isn't enough and soon the
+   Shadow locks on. In the instant before they are destroyed a jump point
+   opens for the G'Tok and other alien ships coming to the rescue. They
+   destroy the attacking Shadow and the remaining three enemies flee.
+   
+   Sheridan cackles with glee and rushes to the window. "And so it
+   begins," the old Kosh says to Lyta.
+   
+   Franklin wakes up and finds Cailyn lying on the floor with his card
+   and a vial of Metazine. He rushes her to Medlab only to discover that
+   she is suffering from terminal neural paralysis. Instead of the
+   overdose he assumed, she had collapsed from excruciating pain. She has
+   only six months to live. She begs him not to send her away, explaining
+   that singing in DownBelow makes her last days worthwhile because she
+   gives the people there hope.
+   
+   After docking Lyta rushes to tell the new ambassador that a piece of
+   Kosh Naranek may still be alive in someone else.
+   
+   Stephen enjoys one last song by Cailyn, then resumes walking.
+
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+   B5 is openly recruiting telepaths, but it is slow going. Sheridan
+   recalls Franklin's underground network for helping telepaths escape
+   Psi Corps, and Ivanova goes looking for the doctor, who is still on
+   Walkabout.
+   
+   A maintenance worker is checking a power failure in Grey 16 and links
+   with Central to inform them he can't find the cause of the
+   malfunction. As soon as he finishes communication, something pulls him
+   down the shaft he was working in, and he vanishes, screaming.
+   
+   [INLINE] On Minbar, Rathenn tells Delenn of his last moments with
+   Ranger One, and how his loss is being felt by everyone. Lennier
+   arrives with a box containing Sinclair's personnal belongings -
+   surprisingly few, which leads Rathenn to comment he lived his life as
+   only passing by, not wanting to carry any burden. Delenn assures
+   Rathenn she will send the box to Sinclair's family and prepares to
+   leave. Before that, however, Rathenn tells her that Ranger One's
+   position must be taken without delay, and he thinks Delenn would be
+   perfect for the job. She objects, but Rathenn is adamant.
+   
+   Garibaldi is cleaning an antique Smith & Wesson .38 that was his
+   Grandmother's when she was on an Earth police force when Zack arrives
+   with the report of the disappearance of the maintenance worker in Grey
+   sector. Garibaldi decides to investigate himself.
+   
+   Ivanova finds Franklin in Downbelow, starting to suffer from Stim
+   withdrawal. She asks him for data on the telepaths. He says that he
+   wiped it from the main computer, but he has a backup on his personal
+   system. He trades the data in return for being left alone, "no matter
+   what."
+   
+   Garibaldi and a tech supervisor visit the site of the tech's
+   disappearance, but find nothing. They argue about the number of Grey
+   levels, which are mostly industrial areas. He says 30, but she says 29
+   -- a mix-up on the blueprints that was never picked up due to the
+   speed of the construction of the station.
+   
+   Sheridan congratulates Delenn and tells her she is the perfect choice
+   for Ranger One. She points out that while she may be the logical
+   choice, she's not necessarily the popular choice. She decides to have
+   her initiation ceremony on Babylon 5. Sheridan is worried about how
+   public such an event would be, given that the Rangers have been a
+   secret organization up to now. That is about to change, Delenn assures
+   him.
+   
+   After he leaves, she is confronted by Neroon, who says he
+   underestimated her: he didn't think she had such ambition: Calling the
+   Rangers together after 1000 years of silence, and having the Religious
+   Caste building Warships without the knowledge or consent of the
+   Warrior Caste. Valen's law, he says, was quite clear: "Three Castes,
+   Worker, Religious, Warrior. They build, you pray. WE fight!" Delenn
+   points out that he broke that law when the Warrior Caste assumed a
+   majority voice in the Grey Council.
+   
+   Neroon demands that she renounce the leadership of the Rangers, and
+   accuses her of creating a vaccum of power on Minbar so that she could
+   occupy it. A religious zealot, guided by prophecy, taking command of a
+   military structure. He tells her he is sworn to stop her - no matter
+   the means. Lennier arrives and Delenn is distracted by seconds - time
+   enough for Neroon to vanish.
+   
+   [INLINE] Garibaldi takes the elevator down through each Grey level,
+   counting the time taken between floors. Between 16 and 17 the gap is
+   twice as long, so he takes the elevator back up and stops it between
+   floors. Opening the doors, he finds a previously unknown level,
+   strangely designed and strewn with garbage. He is then shot with a
+   tranquilizer dart by a ventriloquist's dummy.
+   
+   [INLINE] Lennier is outraged that Neroon, a former Grey Council
+   member, would threaten Delenn with death. After all, no Minbari has
+   killed another Minbari in over a thousand years. Lennier wants Delenn
+   to tell the captain about this, but Delenn refuses, and makes Lennier
+   promise not to tell Sheridan. They leave to prepare the ceremony.
+   
+   Garibaldi comes to and is confronted by a ragtag group of people, led
+   by a man named Jeremiah. The group believes that the universe is
+   sentient and is striving for perfection. It hasn't got it right yet.
+   After the next big bang, they say, everything will be perfect.
+   
+   Lennier arrives at Marcus' quarters and tells him he has come to break
+   a promise, by not breaking a promise. He promised Delenn he would not
+   tell Sheridan a thing. He cannot tell anyone in the chain of command,
+   because Sheridan would find out, but by telling Marcus, who is outside
+   the chain of command, he will not have broken his promise.
+   
+   Lennier informs Marcus of Neroon's intentions. Lennier can't stop
+   Neroon without causing a civil war between the Castes, but Marcus, a
+   non-Minbari, could. He would only need to delay Neroon -- once the
+   cerimony is done, it cannot be undone. Marcus, without hesitation,
+   agrees, but Lennier informs him that Neroon is one of the greatest
+   warriors of the Minbari, specially trained in killing humans, and very
+   good at what he does. Marcus only asks Lennier to inform him of
+   Neroon's whereabouts, as soon as he discovers them.
+   
+   Jeremiah explains to Garibaldi that the universe is alive, and each
+   individual is a part of the greater whole. The universe is trying to
+   understand itself -- something, he says, that the Minbari understand
+   perfectly. Garibaldi, however, is only really concerned about
+   escaping. That proves difficult, however - all pressure doors are
+   locked and the tube sabotaged.
+   
+   Preparations are being made for the leadership ceremony. Rangers
+   arrive by the dozens on the station. Sheridan and Delenn talk about
+   her past. After her birth, Delenn's mother entered a religious order,
+   the Sisters of Valeria, has seen her only twice since. Delenn's father
+   passed beyond the veil 10 years before. The war between the Minbari
+   and Humans broke his heart.
+   
+   [INLINE] Neroon and Marcus meet in a corridor. Neroon tells Marcus to
+   step aside, that Neroon's argument is with Delenn. _Then it is also
+   with me,_ Marcus says. Marcus invokes a Minbari fight-to-the-death
+   ritual. They go at each other with Minbari staffs.
+   
+   In Grey 17, Jeremiah - while Garibaldi checks every corner for an exit
+   - muses on how a new Big Bang will occur, this time conciously
+   directed, each part of the whole concious of its larger role, and
+   solving "a serious design flaw": that the Universe kills everything it
+   creates. Simulating pain due to the dart, Garibaldi manages to get rid
+   of one of the guards, and then hits another one, "persuading" Jeremiah
+   to show him the exit.
+   
+   The Ceremony is in progress, with Delenn being offered Ranger One's
+   vest and with virtually everyone present, except Marcus, whose absence
+   is noted by Sheridan and Ivanova.
+   
+   [INLINE] Garibaldi and Jeremiah find the worker's bloodied vest, and
+   Michael asks him if they killed him. Jeremiah says no. However, in
+   search for perfection, the cultists have imported a Zarg, one of the
+   most perfect forms in the Universe, moved by instinct only. "You have
+   a Zarg here? Are you nuts? They're the most dangerous aliens in the
+   sector!" A noise approaches them...
+   
+   Marcus is losing badly. Neroon says that he cannot back away from
+   Denn-Shar, but Marcus, as a human, can. Marcus refuses. Neroon asks
+   him why. For Delenn, Marcus replies: _We live for the One and we would
+   die for the One._
+   
+   Garibaldi, using a steam tube, manges to scare the Zarg a first time,
+   but he knows that is only temporary. He them discovers the bullets of
+   his Smith & Wesson in his back pocket.
+   
+   The ceremony is almost complete when Neroon walks in, carrying a
+   bloody staff which he throws as Delenn's feet. There is blood now
+   between the Humans and the Warrior Caste, he says. He does not believe
+   that they would die for him, but they would die for Delenn.
+   
+   Lennier finds Marcus and gets him to Medlab, where he will recover.
+   
+   Jeremiah can't understand why Garibaldi is fighting, since the death
+   at the hands of the Zarg is a perfect death. Garibaldi points out that
+   Jeremiah isn't out there with the Zarg either. Jeremiah hesitates, and
+   concludes he is not yet perfect enough. Garibaldi, using a local heat
+   souce, detonates the bullets inside the tube and they hit the Zarg,
+   killing it. They run.
+   
+   Neroon arrives and orders Delenn and Lennier out of the room so he can
+   speak to Marcus, one worrior to another. Neroon says that the death
+   that took place in their battle was his own. Marcus was willing to die
+   for someone of another race, when Neroon was going to kill one of his
+   own kind. He muttered something about Marcus being more Minbari than
+   himself.
+   
+   As he turns to leave Marcus gasps: "Next time you want a revelation,
+   could you possibly find a way that's not quite so uncomfortable?"
+   Neroon laughs.
+   
+   Garibaldi meets Sheridan at his office and tells him, "You wouldn't
+   believe the day I had." Sheridan won't have any of it, though: where
+   the hell was he while Marcus was being beaten up, someone was trying
+   to kill Delenn and someone was invading the ceremony? Garibaldi starts
+   telling him about the missing Grey level, the cult, the quest for
+   perfection, the killer predator...
+   
+   "Am I going too fast for you?" he asks.
+
+   [14][Next] 
+   
+      [15]Last update: January 25, 1997
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+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/063.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
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+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/064.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/063.html#TOP
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+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
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+  15. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+  Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
+  
+   Z Minus 14 Days
+   
+   The station is a flurry of activity as war preparations continue.
+   Since they can jam the Shadows, telepaths of many races are being
+   recruited and assigned to Army of Light patrol ships. G'Kar insists
+   that each telepath should be given a Narn bodyguard.
+   
+   Londo thinks G'Kar has been permitted to escape Centauri wrath for too
+   long, however. Vir is appalled that Londo could care about petty
+   revenge when the entire galaxy is suffused with war.
+   
+   [INLINE] Appreciating Brother Theo for the stability his monks have
+   offered in the chaos, Ivanova joins him in Docking to greet some
+   religious "colleagues." Personal and professional rivalry aside,
+   Brother Theo seems genuinely pleased to meet the Baptist minister,
+   rabbi, Buddhist monk and Islamic cleric who have arrived.
+   
+   Looking weary and haggard, Captain Sheridan is lost so deep in
+   contemplation that he is oblivious to Delenn's teasing. Nothing about
+   the Shadows' strategy makes any sense. The timing and location of the
+   attacks seem random and illogical, but the individual engagements are
+   tactically very logical. The Captain isn't eating properly, hasn't
+   slept well since Kosh's death, and is suffering from nightmares. So
+   Delenn bullies him into meeting the new arrivals for dinner that
+   night.
+   
+   Another arrival has the Centauri flustered - or at least Vir. Nothing
+   seems to faze Londo any more, not even Lord Refa and Minister Virini.
+   Londo outlines his plan to ensnare G'Kar by having Vir pass on the
+   tale that G'Kar's former assistant Na'Toth is imprisoned on the Narn
+   homeworld. G'Kar will then rush back to Narn to rescue her and be
+   taken captive by Londo's agents. Vir refuses until Londo threatens to
+   humiliate and destroy Vir's family in retribution.
+   
+   As smarmy as ever, Lord Refa presents his case to the Minister of why
+   his house should achieve ascendancy over that of Mollari. The
+   ambassador has spent too much time among aliens, he claims, and is no
+   longer loyal. The Minister wants the rivalry between the two houses
+   ended and is apparently on the station to determine which of the two
+   deserve his support.
+   
+   Cringing pathetically, Vir takes his mission to G'Kar, while Londo
+   informs the Minister that the division between the two houses will be
+   ended soon through his relieving the Empire of an ongoing
+   embarrassment. Vir can't contain his anger when he realizes that Londo
+   intends to kill G'Kar in order to curry royal favor. His outrage does
+   not go unnoticed by Refa's spies. Vir is captured and interrogated by
+   Lord Refa himself. When he tries to hold out, a telepath easily rips
+   Londo's plan from his mind.
+   
+   At dinner it is revealed that the religious leaders are part of an
+   organized resistance and intelligence gathering movement on Earth, and
+   come bearing information for B5. Before leaving, Reverend Dexter says
+   that he wants to hold a religious gathering on the station. The
+   Captain agrees over Brother Theo's humorous objections.
+   
+   Reverend Dexter finds Sheridan still working late in his office, and
+   asks him who he shares his heavy responsibility with. Sheridan grows
+   irritated with the minister's presumption, especially with the
+   implication that Sheridan is not being a good officer and the
+   suggestion that he should share his burden with the woman who loves
+   him.
+   
+   Z Minus 13 Days
+   
+   Peering into the cold, wind-wracked desolation of the former Narn
+   capital, G'Kar gathers his forces for a mission into the secret
+   caverns below the city. The ruins above are being rebuilt and
+   redecorated to look like the Centauri Imperial Palace. Refa has just
+   arrived and requests a security detail from Lord Drego to assist him
+   in capturing G'Kar.
+   
+   [INLINE] Musing in the war room, Delenn and Sheridan realize that the
+   Shadows are corralling refugees into zones where they can be
+   annihilated with ease. This war is "as much about terror as
+   territory," he argues. A strike against defenseless refugees would
+   have a great demoralizing effect on the Alliance. "It's what I'd do,"
+   he crows.
+   
+   "What?" Delenn gasps.
+   
+   When he tries to explain that they need to think like the enemy, she
+   grabs him by the arm and drags him out of the war room telling him he
+   seriously needs a break.
+   
+   G'Kar and his Narns proceed underground. Refa and his guards pick up
+   the trail and follow him into an ambush. Refa gloats, "You have taken
+   your last steps as a free Narn!"
+   
+   Back on the station, Reverend Dexter begins his sermon. The enemy is
+   not just something different. "We are all alien to one another," he
+   argues. "The enemy is fear. The enemy is ignorance. The enemy is the
+   one who tells you that we must hate that which is different."
+   
+   [INLINE] As the service continues, a far eerier ritual begins deep
+   under the surface of Narn. Refa orders his guards to attack G'Kar. His
+   face shows the first signs of fear when they fail to move. Then G'Kar
+   brings out a holo projector with a recording of Londo telling his
+   nemesis his fate. In return for Mollari freeing 2000 incarcerated
+   Narns, G'Kar has captured Refa, the Centauri who is personally
+   responsible for the planetary bombardment of Narn and the deaths of 5
+   or 6 million Narns.
+   
+   Holding aloft a data crystal, G'Kar admonishes his Narns only to leave
+   this on the body and keep the face and head intact for identification
+   later.
+   
+   "No hiding place!" the gospel singer begins in the B5 chapel. As the
+   congregation joins in joyously, Refa scrambles down a corridor into
+   the arms of waiting Narns. "There's no hiding place down here!." He
+   runs terrified back the way he came. "You know the sinner's gonna be
+   runnin' at the knowledge of their fate!" Refa barrels into a crowd of
+   eager Narns. "They'll be runnin' trying to find a hiding place when it
+   comes their time to die!" Even the Minbari begin to catch the spirit
+   and try to sing along. "No hiding place!" Refa's crest drowns under a
+   sea of spotted heads, and he is brutally attacked by the Narn as G'Kar
+   watches, then leaves.
+   
+   Mollari gives the data crystal found on Lord Refa's body to Minister
+   Virini, and explains how Refa had betrayed the Centauri to the Narn
+   and G'Kar to the Centauri. The minister seems surprised that Londo
+   asks for nothing in return for exposing this plot. Vir is furious
+   again however, this time for being set up and lied to. Londo says he
+   knew that Refa had a telepath with him, so of course he had to tell
+   Vir what he wanted Refa to believe. But Vir is not placated.
+   
+   [INLINE] Delenn has a final surprise for the Captain. In the long
+   period of preparation before the war, the Minbari have completed an
+   entire fleet of White Star class ships.
+   
+   Z Minus 10 Days.
+
+   [14][Next] 
+   
+      [15]Last update: November 9, 1997
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+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/064.html
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+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/064.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/063.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/065.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/064.html#TOP
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (n9641343@cc.wwu.edu)
+  
+   Z Minus 7 Days
+   
+   Delenn appeals to the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to assist the Army
+   of Light in the war against the Shadows. The League, however, is not
+   inclined to join them, without knowing what they are getting into.
+   Lennier urges them to trust Delenn, but they aren't sure, and even
+   though Delenn believes many of her previous actions should have earned
+   their trust, none of them are sure they want to weaken their own
+   defenses. Delenn promises that she will work to keep the other ships
+   as safe as possible, using as many ships as she can spare. She reminds
+   them that their time is short.
+   
+   Sheridan, addressing the War Council, explains that he believes the
+   Shadows are trying to lure everyone into one place, sector 83, in
+   order to attack them all at once. One ship, the White Star, will be
+   sent there to inform the fleet when the Shadows arrive. Sheridan
+   orders Ivanova and Marcus not to engage the Shadows without further
+   orders. He warns them both that, even if everything goes as planned,
+   they can hope for little more than a fifty percent chance of success.
+   
+   Delenn returns to the council chamber to find the entire League of
+   Non-Aligned worlds gone, except for the Drazi ambassador. He explains
+   that the others went to speak with their governments, and that the
+   other ambassadors have agreed to commit their ships. He hopes she's
+   right about her plan, as it will cost them all greatly otherwise.
+   
+   Ivanova and Marcus prepare to leave in the White Star, and the only
+   further advice Sheridan has for them is an old Egyptian blessing. As
+   the White Star begins the journey to sector 83, Marcus asks Ivanova
+   what the captain meant by the blessing. "May God stand between you and
+   harm in all the empty places you must walk," explains Ivanova.
+   
+   As Garibaldi walks down the corridor, he is met up by Zack on his way
+   to lunch. Garibaldi doesn't care to join him, since he is still more
+   than a little concerned about Dr. Franklin, who is still on Walkabout.
+   Zack doubts Franklin's choice, and Garibaldi agrees that it may be an
+   immature course. Zack tries to convince Garibaldi that he did
+   everything he could to help, but Garibaldi is not so sure; perhaps he
+   tried to help Franklin in the wrong way. Even though he knows it's too
+   late to help further, he hopes Dr. Franklin will find what he's
+   looking for--himself.
+   
+   [INLINE] In a crowded marketplace in Downbelow, a family of visitors
+   to Babylon 5 tentatively makes their way, the mother not able to
+   understand its appeal. She insists she heard the sqalid conditions are
+   due to Babylon 5's secession from Earth, though her husband disagrees.
+   While they argue, their daughter loses her ball, which is caught by
+   Dr. Franklin, lurking amongst the crowd. Though all he does is return
+   it to her and try to make her smile, the mother is vary wary and pulls
+   her away.
+   
+   Z Minus 6 Days
+   
+   Ivanova enters the White Star's sleeping chambers and awakens Marcus,
+   who is quick to run a check on the weapon systems. Ivanova observes
+   that Marcus is fluent in Minbari, and Marcus explains that part of his
+   training as a Ranger was to learn to be able to speak and think in a
+   Minbari tongue, and that, to the Minbari, it is as important as
+   fighting prowess. He offers to teach Ivanova, who politely refuses.
+   Though she does relent a little, she is intrigued by some words he
+   speeks to her: "You're the most beautiful woman I've ever met," though
+   she can't understand the Minbari tongue he speaks them in. He tells
+   her it is a greeting that means, "My words are inadequate to the
+   burden of my heart." She finds the saying unusual, but is anxious to
+   get to bed, though sleeping on the diagonal bed proves less than easy
+   for her. Marcus pesters her a little more but eventually leaves,
+   leaving Ivanova to attempt to rest. However, she has very little
+   success.
+   
+   Sheridan is in his quarters charging up his PPG when Delenn enters
+   with a progress report on the fleet. She explains that, as difficult
+   as forming the fleet was, keeping it at full strength will be even
+   harder. Sheridan tells Delenn he wishes she would stay behind during
+   the battle, what with everyone else being tied up, but she insists it
+   is important for her to go and that, when she returns, they will spend
+   the night together. Delenn explains to Sheridan, who misinterprets her
+   remark, that "when Minbari become close as we have become close, it is
+   tradition that they spend three nights together. The male sleeps, the
+   female watches." This confuses Sheridan until Delenn explains that
+   Minbari believe one's true face is only revealed during their sleep,
+   when they have no need to put on a different one for the people they
+   meet during the day. If the female likes what she sees, the ritual
+   continues. Delenn insists to Sheridan that she already does, and he
+   needn't worry about the lofty consequences, should that not happen.
+   "History awaits," she tells him as she leaves.
+   
+   [INLINE] As Franklin is exploring some of the dark environs of
+   Downbelow, he witnesses two thugs savagely beating up on a man.
+   Franklin tries to come to the man's assistance, but a vicious battle
+   between Franklin and the assailants ensues, leaving Franklin bleeding
+   profusely. The man he tried to save was dealing drugs and refuses to
+   help for fear of being caught. Some time later, Franklin is still
+   alone, despite his frantic shouting and attempts making progress out
+   of the secluded alcove in which he's trapped.
+   
+   [INLINE] Ivanova discovers the solution to sleeping on the White Star
+   -- removing the pillows from each of the beds, and making a bed from
+   them -- just as Marcus calls her to tell her that she's needed on the
+   bridge. When she arrives, he shows her that a small ship, made of the
+   same material as Shadow vessels, has appeared. It seems to be some
+   sort of a scout ship, but the White Star has little time to spare --
+   they can't move without their energy signature being picked up, and
+   since the planet they are hiding behind is about to come out of
+   eclipse, they are going to be seen very soon. The sun appears, and the
+   White Star is revealed to the scout ship. It sees them and begins to
+   send out a warning signal, but Ivanova orders Marcus to jam it before
+   it can warn the Shadows.
+   
+   Delenn, Sheridan, and Lennier, aboard the command ship of the fleet,
+   prepare for the battle. The telepaths are safe, and the other White
+   Star ships are on their way. Delenn is very worried about Ivanova, but
+   Sheridan insists she will be fine. Delenn leads Sheridan to the place
+   where he will lead the battle--a chamber much like that in which the
+   Grey Council met. Delenn tells him that he will be able to keep track
+   of the battle. Sheridan doesn't understand how, but Delenn promises
+   him he will when the time comes.
+   
+   [INLINE] Franklin, still bleeding and weaker than before, continues to
+   cry out for help, but to no avail. He mutters to himself about how
+   stupid what he's done is, and another voice from nearby agrees with
+   him. He looks up to see a healthy, clean-cut version of himself
+   standing nearby, agreeing. "You said you had to keep walking until you
+   met yourself. Well, here I am. So, if we're gonna talk, let's talk.
+   Only, I don't think you have enough time."
+   
+   The Shadow scout ship fires upon the White Star, but does no damage.
+   Ivanova is determined to prevent the Shadow vessel from getting out of
+   jamming range, and she prepares to fire. She returns fire on the
+   vessel, and does some damage, but angers it greatly -- the ship moves
+   to ram them, delivering a glancing blow that takes the White Star's
+   jump engines offline. Marcus detects an energy surge several thousand
+   kilometers away, and he puts it up on the view screen. Dozens of
+   full-sized Shadow vessels begin appearing. Without the jump engines
+   on-line, the White Star is in trouble. They know that they have no
+   chance of escape, so they signal their fleet.
+   
+   As the Minbari fleet moves to assist the White Star, and the Shadow
+   vessels continue to move closer, Dr. Franklin continues his
+   conversation with himself, who tells him that he has spent his whole
+   life running away from his father, his future, his life, and his work.
+   The other Franklin is upset at the wounded Franklin, who, when he
+   finally had everything he needed including a good job and people that
+   cared about him, just gave it up and ran away. He is also less than
+   happy that Franklin won't stop dying long enough to answer his
+   charges. He tells Franklin he doesn't care if he dies, as the two of
+   them parted ways a long time ago.
+   
+   [INLINE] As the White Star's jump engines begin to come back on-line,
+   Marcus determines that a Shadow vessel has detected the White Star,
+   and is moving to intercept. As it comes closer, a jump point opens,
+   and numerous ships emerge -- including the White Star fleet, Minbari
+   heavy cruisers, and the ships of the League of Non-Aligned worlds. As
+   Sheridan watches in the command room of the lead Minbari ship, a
+   circular viewscreen descends around him and Delenn, and he dispenses
+   his orders to the fleet. The battle begins.
+   
+   "Blood pressure's dropping fast," Franklin says, taunting his wounded
+   alter ego. He asks Franklin what he has to live for, and what he could
+   possibly want, since he threw it all away the first time. Franklin
+   insists he wants to do it all over again, and begins to regain his
+   determination. He begins to move, and pull himself up the ladder that
+   leads out of his prison. With his healthy self taunting him all the
+   way, and despite his wounded condition, Franklin is eventually able to
+   get out. With great difficulty, he makes his way through the station,
+   until he finally arrives in a Downbelow market area, where he is
+   dragged away by security personnel.
+   
+   The battle rages on, with all of the ships, Shadow and non-Shadow
+   alike, taking heavy damage. However, despite the Shadows' superior
+   numbers, Sheridan's battle expertise and the large number of telepaths
+   at his disposal manage to help keep the Shadow ships at bay, if only a
+   little. The battle comes to its conclusion, and despite heavy losses
+   on all sides, the Shadows, realizing what they are up against,
+   eventually retreat, leaving a massive graveyard of ships behind. As
+   they stand amidst the remains of their fleet, Sheridan and Delenn
+   embrace, knowing they have, for now at least, triumphed.
+   
+   Franklin, on a gurney, is taken back to Medlab as the remants of the
+   fleet and the numerous casualties therefrom are returned to the
+   station. Garibaldi asks Sheridan, once he is back in the docking bay,
+   how the battle went, to which Sheridan replies that it went okay, but
+   not great. Two of their ships were destroyed for every one of the
+   Shadow ships that were taken out, and Marcus reminds them that this
+   time they had the advantage -- they knew where the Shadows were going
+   to strike. Next time they won't be so lucky. But Ivanova is still
+   impressed -- they were able to unite with the League of Non-Aligned
+   Worlds against the Shadows.
+   
+   "So here's the big question," Garibaldi says. "Now that we've shown
+   them we can hurt them, how long until they come knocking at our front
+   door?"
+   
+   "That's what worries me," Sheridan says as he and Delenn leave.
+   
+   Z Minus 4 Days
+   
+   Garibaldi goes to visit Franklin, being treated for his wounds in
+   Medlab. Franklin finally regains consciousness, and Garibaldi tells
+   him that he is disappointed -- he lost 30 credits in a bet because of
+   it. Franklin, though still in great pain, is willing to admit that he
+   found what he needed -- a short, sharp kick to the head, which
+   Garibaldi says he would have been only too happy to provide. Franklin
+   also says that, when he found himself, he didn't like the person he
+   met too much. Garibaldi gets ready to leave, but reminds Franklin
+   before he goes never to do something like this again -- he can't
+   afford to lose another 30 credits.
+   
+   In Hyperspace, a Shadow vessel is travelling, but it stops for a
+   moment, and something emerges from it -- a ship. It flies off quickly
+   in an opposite direction from the Shadow vessel.
+   
+   Sheridan tells everyone that, though they did everything they could,
+   they took a big loss, and that it is only a matter of time until the
+   Shadows come looking for them. Sheridan wants to know how and when,
+   but Delenn suggests that they may be reluctant to do so, and with the
+   weapon on Epsilon 3 at their disposal, they may be foolish to try.
+   Ivanova doesn't understand why, when the Shadows could have attacked
+   at any time during the past year, they waited so long to attack now?
+   As Sheridan ponders this, he remembers part of his dream from long ago
+   -- something he's been doing ever since Kosh died.
+   
+   Ivanova, with a large raven on her shoulder, asks Sheridan, "Do you
+   know who I am?"
+   
+   Sheridan explains that, not too long after he had the dream, Ivanova
+   revealed that she was a latent telepath, and that she said she
+   sometimes didn't know who she was. Ivanova doesn't know how Kosh knew
+   that, but that the image does fit. He explains further that the dream
+   showed him wearing the uniform of a PsiCop, and Ivanova realizes that
+   that foreshadowed their siding with Bester. Sheridan further explains
+   he had an image of Garibaldi, with a dove on his shoulder.
+   
+   "The man in between is searching for you."
+   
+   Ivanova surmises that that could refer to Sinclair, but Sheridan is
+   unsure, feeling that there must be another explanation. He moves on to
+   the next part of his dream -- Ivanova, dressed in a black veil.
+   
+   "You are the hand."
+   
+   Ivanova doesn't understand why she would say anything that sounded so
+   strange, but Delenn explains that Sheridan has two hands, both equal,
+   but opposite, and that it is possible that is the "man in between" to
+   which Sheridan's dream was referring -- Sheridan's equal and opposite.
+   The final part of Sheridan's dream -- his looking up and seeing
+   himself -- seems to support that theory as well. Sheridan orders that
+   all of Babylon 5's squadrons be on flybys, since sooner or later,
+   trouble will find them. And he expects it to be sooner.
+   
+   Before long, Franklin is back up and around, advising those beneath
+   him in Medlab. Though he is confined to a wheelchair, he can still do
+   what he does best: give orders. Sheridan comes into Medlab and tells
+   Franklin that his job is waiting for him, should he still want it.
+   Franklin doesn't have to hesitate very long before saying yes.
+   Sheridan asks him if he is sure, but Franklin knows he is. Franklin
+   tells Sheridan that he used the stims to do more, when what he needed
+   was to do better, and he knows that he ran away when he quit to avoid
+   being fired. He explains that he has, for his entire life, looked at
+   himself in terms of what he wasn't, but never what he was, and that he
+   missed a lot of important things because of it. He knows he can't go
+   back and undo his past mistakes, but can appreciate what he has now,
+   and he can define himself by what he is and not what he isn't.
+   Sheridan asks what that is. "I'm alive," Franklin tells him.
+   "Everything else is negotiable." Sheridan's commlink beeps, and he
+   answers it. It is an officer telling Sheridan that Delenn is awaiting
+   him. Sheridan leaves, and as he goes, Franklin continues his advising.
+   
+   Later that evening, as another visitor arrives on the station,
+   Sheridan is in his quarters, asleep, while Delenn watches him
+   silently. Ivanova, however, is having trouble sleeping. Zack
+   interrupts her, telling her there is someone new onboard the station,
+   that he considers very important, and that concerns the captain. As
+   Sheridan sleeps, Delenn gets up from his beside and moves out to the
+   front room, where she finds a snow globe. She picks it up, turns it
+   over, and watches the falling flakes silently. The door to Sheridan's
+   quarters burst open, and a shadow appears in the doorway. What she
+   sees is enough to cause her to lose her hold on the snow globe, which
+   falls to the ground and shatters.
+   
+   [INLINE] "Hello," the figure, a woman, says as she appears in the
+   doorway. "You must be Delenn. I'm Anna Sheridan. John's wife."
+   
+   Z Minus 2 Days
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@cc.wwu.edu)
+  
+   "Humans have a phrase," Delenn narrates, as we see a recap of events
+   leading up to the present, while she watches over Sheridan as he
+   sleeps. "'What is past is prologue.' Minbari also have a phrase. 'What
+   is past is also sometimes future.'"
+   
+   The door to Sheridan's room bursts open, and he emerges, mouth agape,
+   staring at Anna. He can't believe what he is seeing, and asks her what
+   she's doing there. She asks him if that's the best she can do, but,
+   indicating Delenn, says she can understand under the circumstances.
+   Delenn rushes out, and Sheridan tries to stop her, but Anna lets her
+   leave. He tells Anna that he thought she was dead, and she expresses
+   surprise that Delenn didn't tell him. She says she's sorry she
+   couldn't tell him herself, and that she had to leave him alone for so
+   long with no word. But that's behind them now, and they're together
+   again. He pulls away, and she tells him she understands his doubts,
+   based on what Delenn told him. She tells him she will take any tests
+   and answer any questions to prove she is his wife. She says she's here
+   to explain everything to him to help him understand what it's really
+   all about. She says all he needs to do is come with her.
+   
+   "Where?" Sheridan asks.
+   
+   "Where else?" Anna replies. "To Z'ha'dum."
+   
+   As G'Kar and Ivanova walk through a storage bay, G'Kar explains that
+   the devices around them were delivered by the Gaim ambassador, and
+   that each of the weapons can deliver a blast of between five and six
+   hundred megatons, and they are very difficult to detect. Ivanova plans
+   to use them as mines to destroy Shadow vessels when they come out of
+   hyperspace.
+   
+   Sheridan watches in MedLab as a group of medical personnel examine
+   Anna. Dr. Franklin emerges and tells Sheridan that Anna is human, and
+   that all of her old medical records match up perfectly: It is his
+   wife. Sheridan protests that she died at Z'ha'dum, and Franklin asks
+   why he isn't glad she's back. Sheridan explains that he had to move
+   beyond her death, and now, with Delenn, things are even more
+   complicated. He asks Franklin if there is anything else, and Franklin
+   mentions that he found some epidermal scarring above the nape of her
+   neck, and that he doesn't yet know what caused it. Franklin promises
+   to run some tests, and Sheridan tells him that he has to know whether
+   or not it's really Anna.
+   
+   Sheridan, in his office, demands to know from Delenn if it really is
+   Anna. Delenn says she doesn't know, but Sheridan doesn't accept that
+   answer--the pictures she and Kosh showed him led him to believe she
+   was dead, but he wants to know why they did that if they didn't know
+   for sure. Delenn said she was sure Anna would not serve the Shadows,
+   but she admits she might have been wrong. Sheridan is adamant in
+   believing Anna would never go along, and Delenn says she has no other
+   explanation, but Sheridan can't accept that. He demands to know why
+   she didn't tell him if there was even the slightest chance she was
+   still alive. She says, that if she had, he would have gone to Z'ha'dum
+   after her, and they couldn't allow that.
+   
+   "You and Kosh... You couldn't allow it," Sheridan says. "I trusted
+   you, Delenn, I cared for you. I let myself start to love you. Do you
+   know what that means? Do you know how hard that was for me? All along
+   a little part of me was still in love with Anna, even though she was
+   gone--I had to fight that part off. Everytime I thought about you...
+   about holding you, about building a life for the two of us..."
+   
+   "John, you must believe me, I didn't know she was alive. We assumed
+   that she had died with the rest of the crew of the Icarus, that only
+   Morden had survived."
+   
+   "And had you known, would you have told me?"
+   
+   "That would depend. It would depend on what she had become. Z'ha'dum
+   is the homeworld of the Shadows. No one leaves there the same as they
+   arrived."
+   
+   "You... you would have denied me the right to make that choice. How
+   can you say that and expect me to ever trust you again?" He starts to
+   walk out, but Delenn stops him.
+   
+   "John, I do love you. If you believe nothing else I ever say,
+   please... please believe that." Sheridan, without responding, walks
+   out of the office.
+   
+   Londo and Vir are in the Zocalo, and Vir asks Londo why he has been
+   drinking so much since a diplomatic pouch arrived. Londo explains that
+   he has been promoted, to the position of advisor to the emperor in
+   matters of planetary security. Vir thinks that's great news, and
+   doesn't know why Londo is upset. Londo tells him that it's because it
+   didn't come twenty years ago, when he could appreciate it, but now,
+   since they are afraid of him, they want to put a leash on him so they
+   know what he's doing at all times. He knows that, if they see him
+   doing anything suspicious, he will soon be killed. A man, who
+   identifies himself only as "a friend" approaches the table. He says he
+   was sent by their "mutual associates" and tells Londo to leave the
+   station at once. Londo says he doesn't want to, and the man says that,
+   if he won't go, he won't be responsible, but that Londo must leave
+   quickly if he values his life. Londo and Vir know that it was more
+   than likely a friend of Morden's, and Londo doesn't like the sound of
+   the warning at all.
+   
+   As Dr. Franklin looks over the medical records, searching for an
+   explanation for the epidermal scarring, Anna tells Sheridan, in his
+   quarters, that she has never been examined in such deatil--by anyone
+   other than him. She tells him that the medical reports have confirmed
+   that she is Anna, but Sheridan doesn't understand what she has been
+   doing on Z'ha'dum for so long, and why she picked now to come back.
+   She can't tell him that, but says that he needs to come back with her,
+   and that they are eager to meet him. Sheridan asks what will happen if
+   he doesn't go, and Anna says she will leave without him, and he'll
+   never know the truth. She promises no threats and no
+   ultimatums--merely an opportunity to hear their side of the story.
+   Sheridan asks why she wants to go back, and Anna tells him it's her
+   home now, and she's doing important work, and that he'll understand
+   when he goes there. Sheridan still refuses until he gets some
+   answers--he wants to know what happened to the Icarus and its crew
+   when they landed there. Anna asks him if, when she tells him, he
+   promises to go back with her. Sheridan agrees.
+   
+   "Interplanetary Expeditions said that one of their probes out on the
+   Rim had found the ruins of an ancient civilization," begins Anna. "Dr.
+   Chang was putting together a follow-up expedition and he wanted me on
+   his team. It was the find of a lifetime. What he didn't tell me, or
+   most of the crew, was where he really got the information.
+   
+   "A few years earlier, IPX had found an alien ship buried beneath the
+   surface of Mars. It was unlike anything they had ever seen before. As
+   soon as it was exposed to daylight, an automatic beacon on board sent
+   out a coded message. They knew whoever the ship belonged to would be
+   coming in fast to pick it up, so they moved quickly. They analyzed the
+   ship, took pieces of it for study later, and planted a homing device
+   inside. Three days later another ship turned up and was digging it out
+   of the ground. When it left, IPX was able to track it through
+   hyperspace to a world out on the Rim."
+   
+   "Z'ha'dum," Sheridan realizes.
+   
+   "We didn't have a name for it at the time," Anna continues. "And Chang
+   was under strict orders from EarthForce New Technologies Division to
+   keep this top secret. As soon as we landed, we picked up an energy
+   source. We were told to check it out. And that's where we found them."
+   
+   "The Shadows."
+   
+   Anna tells him that that is not a descriptive name, nor their true
+   name, which is very long and nearly unpronouncable. She says they were
+   quite approachable, but Sheridan tells her to tell that to the rest of
+   the crew. Anna says that there was an accident, the crew was killed,
+   and the comm system was destroyed. They had no way to contact anyone
+   else. She says that, since the Shadows had just come out of
+   hibernation, they made a deal with the crew: If the humans would stay
+   silent, the Shadows would let them study their technology, which would
+   solve nearly all of Earth's problems and let them leap forward 10,000
+   years. Anna says she didn't want Sheridan to think she was dead, but
+   that he knows he always said his first duty was to Earth. In addition,
+   time doesn't work quite the same on Z'ha'dum as it does everywhere
+   else. She tells him that, now that she's back, she'll take him to
+   Z'ha'dum, so the Shadows can tell him what it's really all about. She
+   says that Delenn, Kosh, and the others have misled him, and it's time
+   to learn the truth. He agrees and embraces her, but while he does so,
+   his gaze falls on Franklin's medical report on a table across the
+   room.
+   
+   Garibaldi enters Sheridan's office and asks if there's anything he can
+   do to help. Sheridan tells him that, since the Minbari crew of the
+   White Star has never been logged into the security net, he wants
+   Garibaldi to begin that right away. The White Star can orbit the
+   station on autopilot. Garibaldi reluctantly agrees. Sheridan says he
+   also as a few other things for him to do, and hands him a list.
+   Garibaldi agrees to do it, but is more than surprised by what he sees.
+   
+   Sheridan, in his quarters, prepares for his trip to Z'ha'dum, by
+   making sure he is armed with a PPG at his side. He pulls another one
+   out from a drawer and looks at it critically in the mirror. As he
+   gazes into its surface, he realizes he is not alone.
+   
+   "If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die," says the old Kosh, whose image
+   is also in the mirror. But when Sheridan turns around, there is no one
+   else there. Sheridan turns back around, and looks at himself in the
+   mirror for a moment, before walking to his comm screen. He tells the
+   computer he wants to record a time-delayed message for Delenn.
+   
+   Aboard the White Star, Anna asks if Sheridan is sure he can run the
+   ship by himself. Sheridan thinks he probably can, as the design is
+   pretty intuitive, and Anna assures him he is guaranteed safe passage.
+   "Next stop," Sheridan says, "Z'ha'dum."
+   
+   On the journey through hyperspace, Anna examines the White Star, and
+   says she wishes they could have taken a different ship. As it is based
+   partly on Vorlon technology, it could be dangerous; the Shadows
+   believe they will die if anything even remotely Vorlon were to touch
+   the surface of Z'ha'dum. Sheridan says he won't take any chances, and
+   they'll take the shuttle down to the surface.
+   
+   Back on Babylon 5, Franklin catches up with Ivanova as she walks down
+   the corridor. Franklin asks why Sheridan left, and tells her that he
+   knows Sheridan read the report he gave him. Ivanova doesn't know what
+   he's talking about, and Franklin tells her it's about Anna.
+   
+   The shuttle lands on the surface of the planet, and Sheridan and Anna,
+   wearing oxygen masks, make their way through the harsh atmosphere to
+   the entrance of the structure. The air inside is breathable, and Anna
+   explains, for security reasons, the structure was moved underground
+   many centuries ago. They are about to go further, but Anna takes
+   Sheridan's PPG before she will let him go further. She explains this
+   part of the complex was designed specifically for them. She takes him
+   down a corridor, and to a door. She knocks, and a voice inside tells
+   her to enter. She does so, and inside are two humans. One is an older
+   gentleman, and the other is a very familiar face: Morden.
+   
+   Sheridan asks the older man who he is. The man insists it isn't
+   important, but Sheridan demands to know. "Who decides that the work
+   day is from 9 to 5 instead of 11 to 4? Who decides that the hemlines
+   will be below the knee this year, and short again next year? Who draws
+   up the borders, controls the currency, handles all the decisions that
+   happen transparently around us?" Sheridan admits he doesn't know.
+   "Ah," says the old man. "I'm with them. Same group, different
+   department. Think of me as a sort of middleman. And the name is
+   Justin."
+   
+   Delenn receives a time-delayed message from Sheridan. "Delenn," the
+   message says, "by the time you get this message, I will be at
+   Z'ha'dum... with Anna. I can pretty much guess your reaction when you
+   hear this, but I think it's the only way. When you and I were in the
+   time rift with Babylon 4, for a moment, I jumped forward in time. We'd
+   won the war, but Centauri Prime had been devastated. You said that
+   this future couldn't be changed. You also told me, 'Do not go to
+   Z'ha'dum. Do you understand? Do not go to Z'ha'dum!' I began to
+   wonder... What if that future happened because I listened to your
+   warning and didn't go to Z'ha'dum? What if... what if I could prevent
+   the fall of Centauri Prime and end the Shadow War by going there? What
+   I want... is to stay alive, to be with you. But you were right before.
+   This is about more than what I want. So I'm going, even though I know
+   it's almost certainly a trap."
+   
+   "You see, John," Justin explains, as he pours tea, "back, a million
+   years ago, there were forces prowling around the galaxy beyond
+   anything that we could understand. And, like anything else, most of
+   them outgrew this little corner of the universe, and headed off toward
+   greener pastures. Now, two of them stayed behind, shepherds, you might
+   call them. They wanted to look after the younger races, bring them
+   around, help them evolve into something better."
+   
+   "One of these was the Vorlons," Morden tells Sheridan. "The other was
+   what you call the Shadows."
+   
+   "The Vorlons are like your parents, I suppose," Justin continues.
+   "They want you to play nice, clean your room, do it by the rules. I
+   guess you could call them lords of order."
+   
+   "The others," Anna says, "the ones who live here, believe that
+   strength only comes from conflict. They want to release our potential,
+   not bottle it up."
+   
+   "It's really simple," Justin explains. "You bring two sides together,
+   they fight, a lot of them die. But those who survive are stronger,
+   smarter, and better."
+   
+   "It's like knocking over an anthill," Morden says. "Every new
+   generation gets stronger. The anthill gets redesigned, made better."
+   
+   "So that's what the Shadows do," Sheridan says. "Come out every few
+   thousand years, and kick over all the anthills, start wars, destroy
+   entire races."
+   
+   "A few get lost along the way, yes," Justin admits, "and that's
+   unfortunate. I don't think it was ever easy, but you can't let that
+   get in the way of the dream."
+   
+   On Babylon 5, Corwin reports to Ivanova that he is picking up a
+   disturbance coming from all around them. Many Shadow ships are
+   appearing outside, encircling the entire station. Ivanova orders a red
+   alert, and all the fighters are scrambled. None of the Shadow vessels
+   are attacking, but Ivanova still orders the fighters to launch, but
+   not to approach until she authorizes it.
+   
+   "Think about it, Captain," Morden says. "Look at the long history of
+   human struggle. Six thousand years of recorded wars, bloodshed,
+   atrocities beyond all description. But look at what came out of all of
+   that! We've gone to the stars, split the atom, written sonnets... We
+   never would have come this far, if we hadn't been at each others'
+   throats evolving our way up, inch by inch."
+   
+   "It was supposed to be an equal balance between our side and the
+   Vorlons," Anna says. "But the Vorlons decided that their way was the
+   right way. They enlisted the support of the other worlds, like the
+   Minbari. They even started interfering with the development of younger
+   races."
+   
+   "When you look at a Vorlon," Morden says, "you see what they want you
+   to see. They've manipulated us so we respond faithfully to them.
+   They've even at a genetic level, taking humans and adjusting them. Why
+   do you think certifiable telepaths came out of nowhere a hundred years
+   ago?"
+   
+   "They created telepaths on a hundred worlds to use as cannon fodder
+   for the next war," Justin explains. "But fortunately, our friends got
+   there first and with the help of the Psi Corps, made sure that they
+   came out on our side. John, they think that the human race shows great
+   potential. When all this is over, we can be riding high, the first to
+   rebuild, making things our own way. But the only thing that's standing
+   in our way now is you. So, we can either work together now, or we can
+   remove your support mechanism."
+   
+   The fighters begin to mobilize around the Shadow vessels, and
+   Garibaldi is among them. Ivanova tries to get through to Draal, but
+   communications are being jammed. Ivanova knows the ships' appearance
+   has something to do with Sheridan, but has no idea what it is, or why
+   they are waiting.
+   
+   "Everything depends on getting the other races to fight each other,"
+   Anna says, "to create conflict in order to promote growth and
+   evolution. By getting them to cooperate, you are working against that
+   goal."
+   
+   "Whenever this starts," Morden says, "there's always someone who tries
+   to organize the other races. You've done it. That's a commendable
+   achievement, but as far as our goals are concerned, unproductive."
+   
+   "So why don't you just kill me?" Sheridan asks.
+   
+   "It doesn't work," Justin says. "Somebody'd just come around and
+   replace you. That's always been the trouble with creating martyrs. We
+   brought you here hoping you'd understand us, work with us, not against
+   us. You're important. You're what they call a nexus. You turn one way,
+   and the whole world has a tendency to go the same way. Let go of those
+   other races. You can't hold them together. Evolution will be served
+   one way or another. You can work with us, or..."
+   
+   "Or you'll do to me what you did to Anna," Sheridan says.
+   
+   Justin, Anna, and Morden all look at each other. "I don't know what
+   you're..." Anna begins.
+   
+   "The memories are there, the voice is there, the DNA is there... But
+   the personality, the look in her eyes... The woman I loved, the woman
+   I married isn't there. She would never go along with this."
+   
+   "You're right," Justin tells him. "Just so. You see, when she came
+   here five years ago, she was given a choice. The same choice that
+   we're giving you. She made the mistake of choosing badly." As Justin
+   is talking, Sheridan's hand creeps down toward his leg.
+   
+   "You stuck her in one of those ships, didn't you?" Sheridan asks. He
+   uncovers a PPG strapped to his leg, beneath their field of view.
+   
+   "How did you know?" Morden asks.
+   
+   "A few months ago," Sheridan tells them, "we intercepted a ship full
+   of people who were going to be merged with the Shadow vessels. They
+   had implants in the brain stem, right back here. The scars in the back
+   of her head are in exactly the same place."
+   
+   "Our associates needed fresh bodies for the central processing units
+   in their ships," Justin explains. "But we pulled her out as soon as we
+   found out who she was and who you are. But once you've been inside of
+   one of those ships for a while, you're never... quite whole... again.
+   But you do as you're told!" Behind Sheridan a door opens, and a Shadow
+   begins entering the room, and Sheridan sees it out of the corner of
+   his eye. "And so will you!" As soon as Justin finishes, Sheridan jumps
+   up and begins firing the PPG at the Shadow.
+   
+   G'Kar runs into C&C. Ivanova asks if they can get the bombs outside,
+   but G'Kar says it would be too dangerous -- the blasts would take out
+   Babylon 5 as well. Ivanova is willing to risk it, and asks how many
+   they have. G'Kar explains that's why he's there -- two of the devices
+   are gone.
+   
+   A bleeding Sheridan makes his way through a rocky corridor, and
+   eventually comes to a balcony overlooking a Shadow city. Directly
+   beneath him is an enormous black abyss, and above him, a glittering
+   ceiling, seperating this place from the outside atmosphere. Sheridan
+   types in some commands on his commlink, and the White Star begins to
+   come alive. Inside, a voice from the bombs says, "Thermal fusion
+   system armed for detonation," and the White Star begins moving toward
+   the planet.
+   
+   "John," Anna says, as she arrives. "There's nowhere to run. Come back
+   inside. We can work this out." As the White Star hurtles toward the
+   surface, Anna continues. "I know this isn't the Anna that you knew.
+   What I am is what was made in her. A new personality. She can never
+   come back. But I can love you as well as she did."
+   
+   "Finally," Sheridan's message concludes, "I heard what you said when I
+   left. I want you to know, I love you Delenn. Goodbye." Delenn touches
+   the screen, and as the message ends, she collapses against the wall,
+   crying.
+   
+   Sheridan looks through the semi-transparent ceiling, and sees the
+   White Star on its way. He looks down into the abyss, and hears a
+   familiar voice--that of Kosh in his mind. "Jump... Jump now!" the
+   voice urges. As Anna and a group of Shadows begin to move closer,
+   Sheridan climbs over the edge of the balcony and leaps into the abyss
+   below. Anna watches, stunned, but has little time to contemplate
+   what's happening. The White Star crashes through the ceiling, and she
+   lets out a blood curdling scream as a white light floods the balcony.
+   The White Star impacts in an enormous exlosion.
+   
+   The Shadow vessels, without warning, all vanish immediately, and while
+   Garibaldi watches, a shadow comes over his viewport. No one on C&C
+   understands the sudden departure, unless it is because they are no
+   longer a threat, as G'Kar suggests. Ivanova believes she knows why,
+   though. "He's gone."
+   
+   As Delenn and Lennier pray over candles, we hear G'Kar's voice. "It
+   was the end of the Earth year 2260, and the war had paused, suddenly
+   and unexpectedly. All around us, it was as if the universe were
+   holding its breath. Waiting... All of life can be broken down into
+   moments of transition or moments of revelation. This had the feeling
+   of both..."
+   
+   Corwin reports to Ivanova that there has been no further word on the
+   Captain, but that they can't communicate with the White Star--he
+   thinks it's been destroyed. In addition, one of the fighters sent out
+   didn't return. Ivanova asks who the pilot was, and Corwin tells her,
+   "Mr. Garibaldi."
+   
+   G'Kar continues speaking. "G'Quon wrote, 'There is a greater darkness
+   than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost
+   its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it
+   is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the
+   death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never
+   surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of
+   transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the
+   shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is
+   always born in pain.'"
+
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+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/066.html
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+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/065.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/067.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
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+  15. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+  Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
+  
+   A week has passed since Captain Sheridan's ill-fated mission to
+   Z'ha'dum and Garibaldi's disappearance. No one on Babylon 5 is taking
+   this turn of events harder than Commander Ivanova, who stalks the
+   station lost in another world and spends sleepless nights regretting
+   the circumstances that have brought her to command. Meanwhile, Londo
+   has returned to Centauri Prime at the request of Emperor Cartagia,
+   Delenn fasts in prayer, and G'Kar transcribes it all with his hard won
+   equanimity.
+   
+   Ivanova's progress in the art of diplomacy vanishes as she tries to
+   browbeat the remaining League worlds into an attack on Z'ha'dum in the
+   Shadows' hour of weakness, or at the very least, to convince them not
+   to abandon the defense of Babylon 5. The Gaim representative is most
+   succinct in stating that the War Council members only "wish to find
+   your captain," who must certainly be dead. They perceive this alliance
+   to be useful in fighting a war for survival, not victory, which makes
+   a mission against Z'ha'dum simply suicide. The meeting breaks up
+   bitterly. In her anger with the selfish League worlds, Delenn has not
+   ignored the fact that again the new Kosh has not deigned to attend,
+   and she vows to find out why.
+   
+   With great excitement, the Emperor's Minister leads Londo to a private
+   royal audience. They find the Emperor a vapid young man preening at
+   himself in a mirror, proud of his ability to set trends in the court,
+   and amused to be able to toy with the powerful head of House Mollari.
+   He orders Londo to "handle the arrangements" (without explaining the
+   purpose) and mentions a mysterious personage who has specifically
+   requested Londo's expertise on Centauri Prime.
+   
+   In Londo's absence, Vir is receiving the Ambassador's intelligence
+   reports, one of which he passes on to Ivanova. To her distress it is a
+   description of Sheridan's actions on Z'ha'dum and his final,
+   presumably fatal, plunge. "With any luck we won't see Mr. Morden's
+   face around here any more," Vir laughs, trying to cheer her up.
+   
+   Londo doesn't have that kind of luck, however. He returns to his
+   chambers to find the horribly disfigured form of his enemy waiting.
+   Morden somehow escaped death from the White Star's bombs, but at a
+   high cost. Londo asks about Sheridan. "Which one?" Morden responds. As
+   Londo watches and listens with growing revulsion, Morden explains that
+   the Shadows are moving some of their forces off Z'ha'dum in case their
+   enemies decide to attack. They did it before, a thousand years ago,
+   planting their ships like seeds all around the galaxy. Now they've
+   convinced Cartagia to let them set up a base on Centauri Prime. Londo
+   refuses to assist the Shadows, but Mr. Morden just laughs, "You're
+   afraid of what someone else might do in your place."
+   
+   Lyta and the Vorlon meet Delenn in the garden. Speaking for her
+   master, Lyta expresses impatience and closedness. The Vorlon refuses
+   to assist in keeping the Alliance together, in sharing his intentions,
+   or in mounting an investigative mission to Z'ha'dum. Sheridan's life
+   or death is "irrelevant. He has opened an unexpected door. We do now
+   what must be done now. His purpose has been fulfilled." As Kosh
+   leaves, Lyta apologizes and follows.
+   
+   Zack finds an intruder in the Chief's quarters. His quick hopes are
+   dashed when it turns out to be G'Kar paying his respects to
+   Garibaldi's spirit (including "household god" Daffy Duck.) Recalling
+   Garibaldi's acceptance and support of his own spiritual
+   transformation, G'Kar vows to repay the debt by finding the Chief and
+   bringing him home.
+   
+   The Minister eagerly beckons Londo out to the royal Sand Garden. To
+   the Ambassador's horror he recognizes a scene from his worst
+   nightmare. Hundreds of Shadow ships are passing overhead. Inside, the
+   Emperor is beside himself with glee. When Mollari attempts to pull him
+   away from the window, he instantly finds a guard's knife at his
+   throat. "What did they give you?" Londo demands. If the Shadows hide
+   behind the Centauri, "when the war comes here, our people will die
+   first!" Such a sacrifice is perfectly acceptable to the Emperor, for
+   the Shadows have promised to give him godhead.
+   
+   Londo stumbles from the throne room in horror. "He is insane!" he
+   utters to the Minister. With great trepidation, the Minister warns him
+   about the ones who have said this in the past, and how their severed
+   heads now grace the Emperor's private chambers where he talks to them
+   late at night.
+   
+   A long stream of energy pours out of Lyta Alexander into the Vorlon's
+   encounter suit. It is clearly not the joyful burden it used to be, and
+   Lyta looks weary and haggard. She mentions that it feels "darker" to
+   carry the new ambassador, and asks if anything is wrong. The Vorlon
+   only dismisses her and orders her not to interfere with his plans.
+   
+   Late that night, Mollari wakes Vir up to demand his immediate presence
+   on Centauri Prime. He is not the only restless man in the palace that
+   night. The Emperor is paying a visit to his heads to tell them about
+   the day's success.
+   
+   On the station, a refreshed looking Lyta goes to Ivanova's quarters
+   with a proposition. She finds the commander brooding over her vodka.
+   Ivanova explains the meaning of the "hour of the wolf." It's that 3-4
+   o'clock in the morning time when fears and regrets and worries seize
+   your mind so you can't sleep. It's where Ivanova has been living for
+   the past seven days. Lyta brings her a new hope, or at least a plan
+   for action. If they take the new White Star to Z'ha'dum, Ivanova can
+   scan for Sheridan's signal while Lyta blocks the Shadows and scans for
+   the piece of Kosh still alive in him. Ivanova is only too happy to
+   try, but knows there will be no rescue mission for them if they fail.
+   
+   With Delenn and Lennier aboard they hop out of hyperspace near
+   Z'ha'dum. As soon as she begins blocking, Lyta's eyes turn oil black,
+   not a hint of white left. Ivanova sends a message to Sheridan's link,
+   Lyta searches for Kosh, and Delenn uses Lyta's scan to project a call
+   to John. The captain does not respond, but something else does. The
+   Eye which had almost trapped Ivanova when she used Draal's machine
+   ([9]"Voices of Authority") appears and mesmerizes them all. Ivanova
+   orders the ship down to the planet, but the White Star flips around
+   instead and jumps into hyperspace. Lennier had set a failsafe to
+   escape in case he was unable to hit a trigger once every two minutes.
+   They snap out of it, but they are all deeply moved. The Eye spoke to
+   them in the voices of their fathers.
+   
+   Their mission failed. They cannot reach Sheridan. But deep inside
+   Z'ha'dum, a shapeless form shuffles down a tunnel. A gold command bar
+   drops to the dust.
+   
+   As soon as Vir arrives, Londo tells him about the Emperor's madness,
+   and the intrigues of court. "And yet, in all of this, you have somehow
+   managed to walk through the corridors of power and not be touched. I
+   can only assume you have not been paying attention!" Mollari
+   continues, "I need a friend, Vir, and I need a patriot. You are both.
+   Will you help me?" Agreeing, Vir beams beatifically -- until Mollari
+   informs him that they must now assassinate Emperor Cartagia.
+   
+   Commander Ivanova makes a personal log. Biting back her tears she
+   admits that the captain is dead and now she must continue his work.
+   She still needs some help, but she knows where to find it.
+   
+   Deep within Z'ha'dum, John Sheridan shivers in front of a tiny fire. A
+   tall, bearded figure approaches. He only answers John's questions with
+   questions. Nevertheless, he seems pleased and intrigued by what he has
+   found.
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+   9. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/049.html
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@cc.wwu.edu)
+  
+   "Personal Log, January 8, 2261, Doctor Stephen Franklin reporting.
+   It's been fourteen days since Captain Sheridan was presumed killed on
+   Z'ha'dum--nine days since Mr. Garibaldi disappeared on patrol outside
+   the station. MedLab's quiet these days. The League of Non-Aligned
+   Worlds has broken up and everyone's going back to their homeworlds to
+   prepare for the next stage of war. We know the enemy's gonna strike
+   back. Rumor has it that this time's gonna be the last time. This time,
+   they're gonna end it. All we can do now is wait for the other shoe to
+   drop, or try and find something useful to do before the end. And right
+   now, short of hand-holding or a sympathetic ear, I can't think of one
+   damn thing..."
+   
+   Lennier enters MedLab as Franklin is recording and tells him that he
+   is committing a breach of protocol, but that there is a problem with
+   Delenn.
+   
+   Sheridan is floating deep in blackness, facing a creature glowing with
+   an inner light--its two tentacles hold him firm, and a voice resonates
+   two questions "Who are you?" and "What do you want?" over and over
+   again. Sheridan wakes up, and the figure standing over him asks him
+   what he was dreaming about. The man already knows he's thinking about
+   escape, and tells Sheridan he should give up the attempt. The man
+   knows Sheridan still wants to know his name; he says it's Lorien, and
+   asks a series of questions, eventually ending in the conundrum of
+   which came first--the word that created the universe, or the thought
+   behind it? Lorien knows Sheridan is still involved in the question he
+   wants to ask--Who are you? Sheridan is surprised Lorien knows the
+   significance of that question, and Lorien tells him the point of the
+   question is that there is never a good answer. He tells Sheridan
+   further that the question of what Sheridan is is easy--he's dead.
+   Sheridan doesn't believe him, but can find no proof, even in the form
+   of a pulse, that he is actually alive.
+   
+   Sheridan refuses to believe that he's dead, and insists it's a trick.
+   Lorien asks him what the last thing he remembers is. Sheridan only
+   remembers falling, seemingly forever. Lorien tells him that nothing
+   goes on forever, and that everyone hits bottom sooner or later. Lorien
+   asks Sheridan if he hit the bottom of the abyss, but Sheridan doesn't
+   know. Either Sheridan did, and he is dead, or he didn't, and is still
+   falling. Lorien also suggests he could be in-between, and Sheridan
+   asks what he could be in between.
+   
+   "Between moments," Lorien tells him. "When we are born, we are
+   allocated a finite number of seconds. Each tick of the clock slices
+   off a piece of us. Tick. A possibility for joy is gone. Tock. A
+   careless word ends one path, opens another. Tick, tock. Tick, tock.
+   Always running out of time. Yours is almost used up. You're between
+   seconds--lost in the infinite possibilities between tick and tock.
+   Tick. You're alive. Tock.... Well, it was a good life, but a short
+   one. Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Tick..."
+   
+   Sheridan grabs Lorien and demands to know what's going on, if he's
+   behind it all. "Who are you?" he asks, and remembers part of his
+   dream.
+   
+   "You're closer now, aren't you? Yes, I see you are. But closer to tick
+   or closer to tock? I don't know. Only time will tell. And here,
+   between the moments, we have all the time in the world..."
+   
+   G'Kar walks into a tavern filled with people and the strains of loud
+   futuristic rock music. He steps over to a table and speaks to a man,
+   telling him he heard he could find information about a piece of
+   Starfury the man sold to a trader elsewhere. The man says it was
+   salvage, and therefore legal, but G'Kar wants to know where it came
+   from, since it belongs to the Starfury Garibaldi was in when he
+   disappeared. The man doesn't want to talk, but G'Kar demands to know
+   how he knew where to find it. When things begin to turn violent, the
+   bartender intervenes, and tries to kick G'Kar out, something G'Kar
+   doesn't like. Before the bartender can do anything else, a man nearby
+   raises up his hood, revealing himself as Marcus, and a short fight
+   ensues, during which both he and G'Kar escape. The bartender sends two
+   Centauri guards after them, while he speaks to another one about
+   another matter.
+   
+   The chime on Delenn's quarters rings several times before she answers
+   it and Dr. Franklin steps in. She asks if there is a problem, and he
+   asks her if she is having a problem, since she hasn't had anything to
+   eat or drink in a week, which, although commonplace for normal
+   Minbari, may not be healthy for her. Delenn says that justice is
+   served by her fast, and everything that has happened has been her
+   fault, and she tells Franklin she is very upset that she broke the
+   bond and the trust between she and Sheridan. She admits that she loved
+   him and wanted to protect him, but thinks she should have trusted him
+   more than she did. She tells Franklin that her fast will continue, and
+   that should Sheridan be dead, her soul will join his, and she will see
+   him again, in "the place where no shadows fall." Franklin leaves her
+   alone with her grief.
+   
+   Marcus comes in from the outside, and reports to G'Kar that the
+   Centauri guards are still chasing them. G'Kar doesn't know why, and
+   Marcus explains that he is worried for exactly that reason. G'Kar says
+   he thinks Marcus worries too much, but wants to know why he's there.
+   Marcus says he came to look after him in case he got into trouble.
+   G'Kar tells Marcus that he is planning to go back later and find out
+   more about Garibaldi's Starfury, but Marcus offers to do it instead,
+   since the guards are all too eager to find G'Kar. Marcus asks G'Kar
+   why he is risking so much for Garibaldi, and G'Kar tells him that he
+   is doing it because Garibaldi was his friend, and he never had a
+   friend who wasn't a Narn. Marcus says he's doing it because he never
+   had a friend who was a Narn--when he had them at all. G'Kar picks up
+   Marcus' pike and looks at it, accidentally extending it while doing
+   so. G'Kar says he likes the weapon very much.
+   
+   The Centauri guards are with the bartender, looking through several
+   photos of Narns that may have been involved in the altercation in the
+   bar, and he eventually finds a photo of G'Kar and is able to identify
+   him. The guards tell him there is a reward on G'Kar--dead or alive.
+   Meanwhile, the man from the bar awakens--due to Marcus dripping water
+   in his face. Marcus threatens him, and demands to know where he got
+   the piece of the Starfury.
+   
+   Delenn arrives in Captain Sheridan's quarters, where Franklin is going
+   through Sheridan's personal effects on Ivanova's orders. While looking
+   through Sheridan's files, he found something he felt Delenn should
+   see. He hands her a data crystal which she plays as soon as Franklin
+   leaves.
+   
+   "Personal log," says Sheridan on the screen, "May 14, 2260. We
+   actually had a quiet day today--it's hard to believe with so much
+   going on lately. Now that we've broken away from Earth, everything has
+   hit the fan. It's not what I wanted. Frankly, it scares the hell out
+   of me, but it had to be done. The job now is to turn this around and
+   make it into something positive. My dad always told me that's the only
+   way you deal with pain. You don't surrender, you don't fight it--you
+   turn it into something positive. He used to say, 'If you're falling
+   off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You've got nothing to lose.'
+   And in a way, I feel the same way about Delenn. During the war, I
+   fought Minbari, I killed Minbari, saw many of my friends die at
+   Minbari hands. Here I am, in love with one of them. For a long time, I
+   thought about not saying anything, but... The moment my heart crossed
+   that line, there wasn't much I could do but see it through. Yeah, I've
+   fallen off one hell of a cliff, but when I look in her eyes, I let
+   myself think, maybe I really can fly."
+   
+   Marcus explains to G'Kar that the man got the location of the Starfury
+   from Interplanetary Expeditions, and that person would get one tenth
+   of the purchase price. G'Kar says he plans to go to the place where
+   the ship was found to search out for more information. G'Kar says that
+   Marcus should go back to Babylon 5 and search for the person from
+   Interplanetary Expeditions, and that Marcus should leave before he
+   gets offended. G'Kar says he needs Babylon 5's resources more than he
+   needs Marcus' help. Marcus leaves as G'Kar lays down to sleep.
+   
+   G'Kar awakens to the sound of footsteps, and sees shadows outside. As
+   they come closer, he grips his firearm tightly, but when they enter
+   the room, even though he gets off a few shots, he is taken down and
+   knocked unconscious.
+   
+   Delenn and Lennier stand before the gathering of Rangers, and Delenn
+   tells them that, even though most of their work has, until this time,
+   gone unnoticed, they must strike a blow that will serve as an example
+   to all the others. Lennier explains to them that the League of
+   Non-Aligned Worlds has dissolved, and that they must find those who
+   still believe in their cause. He says they need a single rallying cry,
+   and Delenn wants it to be the Rangers. She says their plan is to wait
+   seven days, for any other ships, and then attack Z'ha'dum. They have a
+   small chance of success, but they must try anyway. She tells the
+   Rangers that, with this attack, she is offering them the same chance
+   to fly that she heard in Sheridan's log.
+   
+   There is a knocking at Londo's door, and after taking up a weapon in
+   case of danger, he answers the door to find the Emperor's advisor, who
+   says the Emperor wants Londo to come immediately. Londo changes out of
+   his night clothes and goes to the Emperor's throne room. Though
+   Emperor Cartagia is initially upset at the delay, he tells Londo that
+   he wishes to present him with a gift. Londo attempts to refuse, but
+   Cartagia won't let him, and knows it's something Londo has been
+   waiting for for a long time. Cartagia activates a signal, and two
+   Centauri guards enter flanking G'Kar, who is wearing a yoke. Cartagia
+   says G'Kar is there for their amusement and that, should the amusement
+   cease, G'Kar will die. Londo, not knowing what to say, decides only to
+   thank Cartagia for the gift. Cartagia asks G'Kar if he has anything to
+   say, and G'Kar asks him only if he knows where Garibaldi is. "Who?"
+   asks Cartagia.
+   
+   Garibaldi is, in fact, in a solidly built, round room, as if an
+   observation room, with no windows and a well-sealed door. Garibaldi
+   pounds against it, but to no avail. A voice coming from unseen
+   speakers tells him to refrain, as he might hurt himself. Garibaldi
+   asks why they can't allow that, and the voice says merely that they
+   have their orders. Garibaldi asks who the orders came from, but the
+   voice won't tell him. The voice wants only to know what happened after
+   he left Babylon 5, and Garibaldi insists he doesn't remember, but the
+   voice says his vital signs indicate he isn't being honest. This
+   outrages Garibaldi, but the voice only wants to hear the truth. It
+   asks him time and again what happens, but Garibaldi insists he doesn't
+   remember. Garibaldi loses control and begins smashing everything in
+   sight, including his chair and the lights in the room. His rampage is
+   soon stopped, however, when a gas pours from vents in the floor,
+   knocking him unconscious. The door to the room opens and someone
+   wearing a gas mask--atop their PsiCorps uniform-- steps into the room.
+   
+   Londo enters G'Kar's cell, where the Narn is sitting in the corner.
+   Londo says it was foolish for G'Kar to leave Babylon 5, and that he
+   was followed as soon as he left. Londo tells G'Kar that, if he wanted
+   to die, he could have attended to it, but that, on Centauri Prime, he
+   will be afforded no such courtesy, and he will be tortured by
+   Cartagia--treated as a toy. G'Kar will suffer for days, weeks, or
+   months, but when they are done, G'Kar will die a very time-consuming
+   and painful death, each of his organs being removed one at a time.
+   G'Kar asks if the idea pleases Londo, and Londo admits that it
+   doesn't, and that it never would have. Londo says he would not wish
+   G'Kar's fate on anyone. Londo tells G'Kar that Cartagia is a monster,
+   and that he must be removed. G'Kar may be the means by which it can be
+   accomplished, but he will suffer greatly--something Londo can't
+   prevent. Londo tells G'Kar he must endure until the time is right, at
+   which point Londo will act. Londo asks if G'Kar will help, but he
+   doesn't answer. Londo begins to leave, and G'Kar tells him the price
+   for his assistance--he will help remove Cartagia only if Londo will
+   free Narn. Londo promises this to G'Kar, and then leaves the room,
+   casting a bright light onto G'Kar as he exits.
+   
+   Sheridan, still trekking through the tunnels in Z'ha'dum, finds the
+   fire he set when he first woke up. He realizes he has come full
+   circle, and Lorien says everyone does eventually. Sheridan knows there
+   must be some way out, but Lorien says that the only way out is to
+   surrender to Tock. Sheridan says he can't die, since he must aid the
+   Army of Light in the war, to prevent billions of deaths.
+   
+   "It's a terrible thing when your children fight," Lorien tells him. "I
+   warned the others, but they didn't listen. They never listen."
+   
+   "Your... children?" Sheridan asks.
+   
+   "Metaphorically speaking. Those who came after me. Children. Younger
+   siblings."
+   
+   "How long have you been here?"
+   
+   "A long time. So long... I was old when the molecules of your world
+   joined and called themselves land and sea and fish and man."
+   
+   "You're one of the First Ones."
+   
+   "No, not one of the First Ones. I am The First One."
+   
+   Sheridan knows Lorien knows a way out of Z'ha'dum, but wants to know
+   why he has stayed for so long. Lorien says he's waiting for someone,
+   and that Sheridan is the first to make it as far as he has. Sheridan
+   asks if the Shadows know, and Lorien says they do-- that's why they
+   come back to Z'ha'dum. They believe they're showing respect, but they
+   don't understand. "They used to," Lorien says, "but that was a long
+   time ago. A million years." Sheridan says Lorien doesn't look as old
+   as he is, and Lorien says he doesn't at the moment. Sheridan finally
+   realizes his dream was of Lorien.
+   
+   "Did you know you have a Vorlon inside you?" Lorien asks. "Well, a
+   piece of one."
+   
+   "If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die," Sheridan remembers Kosh saying.
+   "Jump... Jump now..."
+   
+   "Kosh..." Sheridan realizes.
+   
+   "Is that its name? I think I met it once, long ago."
+   
+   "He told me to jump. Did he know..."
+   
+   "That I was here? Almost certainly."
+   
+   "How..."
+   
+   "They can break off pieces of their conciousness and put it into other
+   organisms. It allows them to travel hidden through the galaxy, using
+   others as their eyes and ears. Kosh is in you, and he's part of the
+   problem. You're the other part. You're both still clinging to life,
+   both afraid to let go. You must lay down the burden of life, both of
+   you, and surrender yourself to Tock."
+   
+   "No, I can't," Sheridan says. "The others need me..."
+   
+   "You can't turn away from death simply because you're afraid of what
+   might happen without you. That's not enough. You're not embracing
+   life, you're fleeing death. So you're caught in-between, unable to go
+   forward or backward. Your friends need what you can be when you are no
+   longer afraid--when you know who you are, and why you are, and what
+   you want. When you are no longer looking for reasons to live, but can
+   simply be."
+   
+   "I can't... I don't know how to do that."
+   
+   "Then I cannot help you, and you will be caught forever in-between.
+   You must let go. Surrender yourself to death. The death of flesh. The
+   death of fear. Step into the abyss... and let go."
+   
+   "It's getting darker," Sheridan says, and the light around him starts
+   to vanish.
+   
+   "I know. You're close, friend. Very close. It's easy to find something
+   worth dying for. Do you have anything worth living for?"
+   
+   "I can't see you anymore..."
+   
+   "As it should be."
+   
+   "What if I fall? How will I know if you'll catch me?"
+   
+   "I caught you before."
+   
+   "What if I die?"
+   
+   "I cannot create life, but I can breathe on the remaining embers. It
+   may not work."
+   
+   "But I can hope..."
+   
+   As the world around him disappears completely, the words of Lorien
+   continue to echo. "Hope is all we have."
+   
+   Sheridan then begins to reexperience his emergence onto the balcony
+   above the abyss, and his leap into it, as Lorien's voice echoes,
+   asking him again, "Do you have anything worth living for?"
+   
+   While he falls, he remembers the voice of someone, a long time ago, on
+   the original White Star. "Sleep now. I will watch, and catch you if
+   you should fall."
+   
+   Lorien stands over the body of Sheridan, outstretched at the bottom of
+   the abyss, after Sheridan delivers his answer, in the form of a single
+   word.
+   
+   "Delenn!"
+
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+   
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+  Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
+  
+   Ivanova requests a favor from Delenn. She wants to borrow a White Star
+   ship to go in search of First Ones like the ones found at Sigma 957
+   ([9]"Voices of Authority") who might assist them in their desperate
+   mission next week against Z'ha'dum.
+   
+   Vir and Londo hear a party in the throne room. Draped in chains and
+   garbed in a punishing jester's costume which is thrusting spikes into
+   his head and body, G'Kar silently suffers the merry abuse of
+   Cartagia's courtiers.
+   
+   Ivanova and Marcus are having no success in their search, which is no
+   wonder considering that they are relying on wild stories that
+   travelers have told of godlike beings or ancient civilizations. So
+   far, they all lead only to dead ends.
+   
+   Zack has located the transport which is supposed to have found
+   Garibaldi's Starfury, and he takes a wing out to investigate.
+   
+   Alone with Londo in the imperial pleasure gardens, Vir finally erupts
+   in outrage against G'Kar's humiliation and agony and Londo's seeming
+   unconcern. Once again Londo counsels biding their time. The entire
+   business of plotting against the Emperor is too disturbing for poor
+   Vir. That is, until the Emperor chances upon them, waving bloody hands
+   and complaining strenuously at G'Kar's refusal to scream under
+   torture. Without a bit more action, Cartagia regrets that he will just
+   have to kill the Narn. It's really no fun any other way. After
+   Cartagia departs, Vir decides regicide isn't so objectionable after
+   all.
+   
+   Delenn pays a visit to Lyta Alexander. There is nothing in the
+   telepath's quarters but a mattress and the standard communications
+   console. A bit embarrassed, Lyta explains that the new Vorlon
+   ambassador has required her to remove everything else because they are
+   distractions, and since he can force her to obey, she has. Delenn
+   wants Lyta to find out why the Vorlons are not assisting in the
+   mission against Z'ha'dum. Lyta replies that the Vorlons appear to have
+   plans of their own and they don't seem to be interested in what
+   happens to others any more. Although terrified of the ambassador, Lyta
+   vows to try to help Delenn.
+   
+   Zack and his team find the transport they are looking for and order it
+   to surrender. When it maintains radio silence they fire to disable it.
+   It ejects a life pod and explodes. Inside the pod is Garibaldi, meshed
+   down to a table, unconscious, and wearing a week-old beard. A computer
+   voice says, "Activating program," and Garibaldi awakens for a moment.
+   Zack rushes him to the station, where Dr. Franklin is disappointed
+   that Zack can't tell him anything about who was holding Garibaldi; but
+   the prognosis is good and Garibaldi is expected to recover.
+   
+   The Vorlon streams out of Lyta to her great discomfort. She angrily
+   shouts that she deserves some respect for her sacrifices to the
+   Vorlons, and some answers. "Respect? From whom?" the Ambassador
+   replies. As she dejectedly turns to go she decides to chance it and
+   mentally probes the Vorlon. He slaps her across the room with a blast
+   of energy. Then, leaning forward, he says chillingly, "You would know
+   my thoughts? Would you?" The disk on the head of his suit dilates and
+   her screams begin.
+   
+   "A little scream. Is that so much to ask for?" Londo begs. If G'Kar
+   will just put aside his pride and give the emperor the reaction he
+   craves, he can live to fulfill his bargain with Mollari. G'Kar
+   refuses, arguing that he would no longer be a Narn if he gave in, and
+   that of course Londo can't possibly understand.
+   
+   "Yes I do," Londo retorts savagely, as he leaves G'Kar's cell. "Yes I
+   do!"
+   
+   Ivanova broods in the captains chair. With a couple of hours to kill,
+   Marcus asks her about her plans if they live through this war. She
+   wants to return home, travel some, pay her respects to her dead
+   father, but there's no one special waiting. Marcus has someone
+   special, he says, but she doesn't know it yet. He's never actually had
+   relations with a woman, it turns out.
+   
+   "I thought First Ones were rare," Ivanova mutters.
+   
+   Just then, the ship's controls pick up some odd signals which appear
+   to indicate a pocket in hyperspace hidden by a distortion field. They
+   switch course to investigate. As they enter the pocket, they can see
+   from the forward windows a vast fleet including some absolutely
+   enormous ships. The smaller vessels shooting around the edges reveal
+   that this is a Vorlon fleet on the move.
+   
+   Garibaldi comes to in Medlab. He tells Zack that he's having bad
+   dreams, but doesn't elaborate on the visions of Shadow ships and
+   incarceration that are hounding him. He seems surprised that two weeks
+   have passed since Sheridan left for Z'ha'dum, but not very surprised
+   that Sheridan died there.
+   
+   An enormous bird-shaped ship travels though hyperspace on an unknown
+   trajectory.
+   
+   Delenn thanks the Brakiri ambassador for bringing information
+   regarding what the other races are planning. Those who oppose the
+   decision to attack Z'ha'dum intend to hold a rally in the Zocalo to
+   gather support for stopping the assault. Delenn insists that the
+   Shadows will attack in any case so it's better to strike now when they
+   are weak. As he departs, the Ambassador asks if she knows anything
+   about the large vessel that seems to be approaching Babylon 5. She
+   does not.
+   
+   Vir and Londo are roused in the middle of the night and led by a
+   taciturn guard to a secret alcove. Vir is terrified. And well he
+   should be, for they are guests in Cartagia's personal torture chamber.
+   They are not the entertainment however... G'Kar is. The Emperor has
+   decreed that there and now, G'Kar will either cry out under the stroke
+   of the electro-whip, or die on the 40th beat. G'Kar suffers mightily,
+   as Londo surreptitiously mouths "scream" at him. At the 39th stroke,
+   the Narn finally gives a mighty wail and sinks to the floor.
+   
+   Jumping into B5 space, Ivanova orders an immediate meeting with Lyta
+   Alexander and a thorough scan of sector 70x10x53.
+   
+   Lennier sees an unusual level of activity in the Zocalo and notifies
+   Delenn.
+   
+   The huge birdlike ship exits the jump gate and initiates docking
+   procedures without the station's approval. Ivanova orders a security
+   red alert. Garibaldi struggles off his bed to go investigate.
+   
+   From a catwalk above the Zocolo, the Drazi leader begins to stir up
+   the crowd with anti-Minbari rhetoric.
+   
+   Zack isn't happy to see the Chief out of Medlab but can't stop to send
+   him back. Security forces square off against the personnel transport
+   as it approaches the floor of the docking bay. Two forms are visible
+   inside. But when the door opens, all Garibaldi can say is, "Well, I'll
+   be damned."
+   
+   The crowd in the Zocalo begins to grow more rowdy as the Drazi
+   continues. He claims that they will all be destroyed if anyone attacks
+   Z'ha'dum, just as Sheridan was. To the astonishment of them all, the
+   dead man himself steps up onto their platform.
+   
+   "Captain. We're sorry. We thought you were dead."
+   
+   "I was. I'm better now," Sheridan says ironically, sharing a look with
+   Lorien standing in the shadows.
+   
+   The Captain begins to address the crowd. No more hesitation. They must
+   now assemble the greatest fleet in the history of the galaxy. The only
+   man to have survived Z'ha'dum calls on them and their governments to
+   end this war once and forever, not just until next time. The crowd
+   cheers their support.
+   
+   Delenn rushes to his side, and as they embrace, John promises never to
+   leave her again.
+   
+   Ivanova finds Lyta collapsed in her quarters. "You know, don't you,"
+   Lyta says. "It's started."
+   
+   The war council gathers in Sheridan's office for a briefing. He
+   explains what he has learned about the Vorlon and Shadow objectives,
+   and how the balance between them has been lost. "Something, Mr.
+   Garibaldi?" Sheridan snaps at the Chief who is glaring at Lorien
+   suspiciously.
+   
+   "I just want to know who our new best friend is," Garibaldi growls. He
+   isn't satisfied with just a name, or Sheridan's assurances, or the
+   rest of the secrecy surrounding the Captain's return.
+   
+   Ivanova and Marcus enter with Lyta. The joy of reunion is quickly
+   overshadowed by the report of the vast Vorlon fleet followed by the
+   telepath's news. To everyone's horror it appears that that fleet has
+   just destroyed an inhabited planet because it had harbored a Shadow
+   force. The Vorlons have decided that it's time to destroy everything
+   that has been touched by the Shadows. Now the Army of Light must stop
+   both the Shadows and the Vorlons if anyone hopes to survive this
+   struggle.
+   
+   Meanwhile, the Vorlon planet-killer ship cruises towards its next
+   target.
+
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (n9641343@cc.wwu.edu)
+  
+   Please Stand By
+   Incoming Transmission
+   
+   The face of Commander Ivanova appears on the screen. "We're
+   pre-empting your normal BabCom service to bring you another update on
+   the continuing crisis. Two more deep-range planetary colonies have
+   been eliminated by Vorlon forces." The image changes to that of the
+   Vorlon fleet. "This footage was taken as the Vorlon fleet closed in on
+   Ventari III. The ship eclipsing the local star is presumed to be their
+   main weapon, the planet-killer. Below is a list of nearby colonies and
+   League worlds which are accepting refugees from Ventari III. We will
+   continue to update this list as the situation changes. If you are from
+   the Ventari system, you are asked not to return until authorized. The
+   local jumpgate has been destroyed, and hyperspace traffic is creating
+   a hazard at the jump intersection. Contact your ambassadors for
+   information on family members who may have escaped before the colony
+   was destroyed. We're taking in refugees and escaping ships as fast as
+   we can, but our resources are almost maxed out. We will repeat this
+   bulletin every twenty standard minutes until we receive new
+   information. Once again, please remain calm. Right now, our greatest
+   enemy is fear."
+   
+   As the transmission breaks off, a woman tries to make her way through
+   the overcrowded docking bay, but is knocked down. She begs someone to
+   help, but no one will even stop to look at her until someone reaches
+   his hand out toward her and helps her stand. It is Sheridan, with
+   Lorien close behind. Sheridan leads her to Zack, who is standing
+   nearby. Sheridan and Lorien move away. The woman asks Zack if it is
+   true that Sheridan came back from the dead, and Zack responds that he
+   isn't sure, but takes her off to contact her husband.
+   
+   "You heard?" Lorien asks, as he and Sheridan walk through the station.
+   
+   "I heard," Sheridan responds.
+   
+   "They need to believe."
+   
+   "Not in me."
+   
+   "You can't save them all."
+   
+   "I can try."
+   
+   "You'll fail."
+   
+   "We'll see."
+   
+   As Sheridan and Lorien walk away, the face of Ivanova, on a nearby
+   monitor, once again asks for everyone to remain calm. "Right now, our
+   greatest enemy is fear." However, the Vorlon fleet, undaunted,
+   continues on its way.
+   
+   Garibaldi is in his office, looking through securecam stills of the
+   docking bay. Zack comes in, and asks Garibaldi how he is. Garibaldi
+   says he's fine, but he'll be better once he gets back to work. Zack
+   notices what Garibaldi is doing, and asks him why, since Franklin
+   wanted him to take it easy. Garibaldi says if he doesn't do something,
+   he'll go crazy. He explains that he is worried about Lorien--wherever
+   Sheridan is, Lorien is. Zack says that it is probably because Lorien
+   saved Sheridan's life. Zack doesn't pretend to understand it, but is
+   glad Sheridan made it back alive. He asks Garibaldi if he's sure he's
+   okay, which annoys Garibaldi. Garibaldi asks Zack if he thinks he's
+   lying about not remembering what happened after his disappearance, and
+   Zack insists that nobody thinks Garibaldi is lying. Garibaldi,
+   however, is still upset that he's being kept at arm's length while
+   Sheridan, who went through similar circumstances, is welcomed back.
+   Zack tells Garibaldi that Franklin wants to do one more examination,
+   but after that, he'll be back on the job. Zack begins to leave, but as
+   he goes, Garibaldi tells him that he feels Captain Sheridan is
+   avoiding him, even though they were on good terms when Garibaldi left.
+   Zack says he doesn't know why, but is sure Sheridan has his reasons.
+   Garibaldi, taking this in, turns back to the securecam still of
+   Lorien.
+   
+   Londo enters the garden to find Emperor Cartagia waiting. He is
+   staring up at the sky, and asks Londo what he sees. Londo replies that
+   he only sees the stars, but a familiar voice from behind tells him he
+   isn't looking hard enough. It is Morden, who tells Londo the Vorlons
+   are out there, and attacking the worlds which have been subjected to
+   Shadow influence. Londo asks Cartagia if it's true, since he's heard
+   nothing about it, and Cartagia confirms that it is. When Morden tells
+   Londo that, during the last war, they put ships on planets so that
+   their fleet could never be entirely destroyed, Londo asks Morden if
+   the ships will be leaving. Morden says they won't, since he doesn't
+   feel that the Vorlons have the will to destroy a world as big as
+   Centauri Prime. Londo tells Cartagia the ships must leave, but both he
+   and Morden agree they won't. Morden says that, if the Vorlons meet up
+   with a Centauri fleet, and can see they are willing to oppose them,
+   they will ignore Centauri Prime and move on. Morden then bids Londo
+   goodnight, and vanishes back the way he came. Londo is outraged that
+   Cartagia would send Centauri ships to defend the Shadows, but Cartagia
+   says he has no intention of doing that.
+   
+   Londo and Cartagia walk back into the palace, and Londo tells Cartagia
+   he is relieved that Cartagia won't send the Centauri ships. Cartagia
+   says he reached Londo's conclusion as well, and that, when he realized
+   that, he learned that he liked Londo very much, since they think the
+   same way. Because of this, Cartagia tells him, he shows Londo
+   something very few others have seen--his "shadow cabinet," his
+   collection of heads. He says he was discussing the situation with them
+   earlier, and that one of them, a previous minister, got the idea to
+   not send out the Centauri ships. Londo asks Cartagia if that means
+   Cartagia will ask the Shadows to leave, but no--Cartagia wants the
+   Vorlons to come so that the planet can become an inauguration pyre to
+   commemmorate Cartagia's ascension into godhood. Cartagia reasons that,
+   when he becomes a god, his subjects will not be able to live without
+   him, therefore, if he takes them all with him, no one will be sad when
+   he dies. "Don't send the ships," Cartagia tells Londo. "Let them come!
+   Let it all end in fire!"
+   
+   Franklin continues to examine Garibaldi in MedLab, one test of which
+   includes an examination of the back of Garibaldi's head to see if
+   there is any evidence of his being put in a Shadow ship. Franklin
+   tells Garibaldi he's clean, but wonders what Garibaldi thinks
+   happened. Garibaldi says he thinks he was caught in the backwash when
+   the Shadows left the station's area. Franklin says that Garibaldi is
+   now clear to go back to work, but a memory stirs in Garibaldi's head,
+   which stops him for a moment. He agrees, and leaves. Sheridan enters,
+   and asks Franklin if there are any results on his tests, and he and
+   Franklin both go off, as Ivanova appears again on the BabCom screen...
+   
+   "This is a Command and Control update. The safe haven for refugees on
+   Tizino Prime is no longer responding. We believe they may have fallen
+   to the Vorlon advance, but we can't be sure for another--I guess--ten,
+   twelve hours? Before they attack, the Vorlons blanket all frequencies
+   so no reports can get out. There have been some changes to the list of
+   refugee stations. We'll have that information for you shortly--we've
+   lost three of them. All the governments in sector 57 have declared a
+   state of interplanetary emergency..." Reports coming in from survivors
+   indicate mass destruction on a planetary scale. We continue to need
+   medical ships, transports, anything that can fly. We're in special
+   need of atmosphere-capable shuttles to evacuate survivors from the
+   ground. We'll rebroadcast this message in twenty standard minutes."
+   
+   As the message ends, Delenn enters Sheridan's office where he has been
+   watching. Sheridan says that there's something in Ivanova's voice that
+   he hasn't heard in the ten years he's known her--fear. Ivanova is
+   afraid of what's happening. Sheridan tells Delenn it's the first time
+   he's seen her alone since he got back. Delenn says that's it been so
+   busy that it's understandable, but that she felt it was her fault that
+   he went to Z'ha'dum. She tells him she feared that, even if he came
+   back, he would not forgive her, and she would lose him again. Sheridan
+   tries to tell her she did what she thought was right, but Delenn knows
+   it was no excuse. She tells him she's sorry, but Sheridan tells her
+   that it was she that saved him when he fell at Z'ha'dum--it was the
+   memory of her that kept him going, and that she gave him the reason he
+   needed to come back. "Could I love that much and not forgive?" he asks
+   her. They embrace.
+   
+   In the war room, Ivanova tells Zack, Franklin, and Garibaldi that the
+   station is up to its ears in ships of all kinds. Franklin understands,
+   since MedLab is the same way. Garibaldi tells them, however, that they
+   are going to have a much bigger problem on their hands soon when all
+   the survivors come to Babylon 5 looking for someone--anyone--of their
+   own races that survived the Vorlon onslaught. Garibaldi knows there
+   isn't a thing that can be done to stop it, and the problem will get
+   worse since they are already well over capacity. Franklin suggests
+   that they shuttle as many people as they can to Epsilon III to keep
+   the population in check and when Sheridan comes into the room, he
+   agrees. Sheridan sits down and says they have an important problem--
+   Kosh. As long as he's there, they can't make a move without him
+   knowing about it. Sheridan says that they don't know how telepathic
+   the Vorlons are, and Sheridan has kept Garibaldi out of the loop so
+   that, in case Kosh can read from a distance, he won't learn of their
+   plans. Sheridan tells Garibaldi he wants the Vorlon gone. He wants to
+   give Kosh what he expects, so that they can do what they have to do.
+   Sheridan wants Garibaldi to take only a few people, and Garibaldi says
+   Kosh will wipe up the floor with them, a fact which Sheridan
+   understands only too well. Garibaldi leaves to go assemble the team,
+   and Zack gets up to follow soon after. Lyta and Lorien come into the
+   room and say that their part of the plan is ready. Lorien tells
+   everyone that the Shadows could kill Kosh because they were both First
+   Ones, but that, when a Vorlon is enraged, its power is beyond human
+   comprehension. Franklin asks what the plan is, and Sheridan tells them
+   all that as long as Kosh remains, billions of lives are at stake. "So
+   we're going to take out the Vorlon... any way we can."
+   
+   "This is Command and Control," Ivanova says on BabCom. "We have
+   another update on the Vorlon attack fleet. The Dura VII outpost has
+   fallen. I Repeat, Dura VII has fallen. All medical ships in the area
+   are being asked to help with the evacuation..."
+   
+   Garibaldi and his security team, wearing their oxygen masks, approach
+   Kosh's quarters, and ask to come in, but there is no response.
+   Garibaldi overrides the controls, and they all go in. Garibaldi tells
+   Kosh that the Captain told them to ask Kosh to leave. Kosh doesn't
+   respond. Garibaldi says that the request is now an order, and that
+   they will escort Kosh to his ship. The Vorlon has but one reply, "No."
+   One of the officers tries to approach Kosh with his PPG, but a blast
+   from the Vorlon sends him against the wall. The others fire at the
+   encounter suit, to no avail. Kosh, fighting back, creates a
+   high-pitched noise which, after a few moments, shatters the glass on
+   the front of the teams' oxygen masks. They run out of his quarters and
+   the alien sector, choking and gasping for air. They know they didn't
+   do any good, but they sent the message that they are willing to fight
+   back. Garibaldi hopes it's enough, and hopes that Sheridan knows what
+   he's doing.
+   
+   Sheridan is in his quarters when he is informed that Londo is sending
+   him a message. Londo asks Sheridan if the rumor about the Vorlons is
+   true, and Sheridan confirms that it is. Londo asks how far the Vorlons
+   are from Centauri Prime, since that information is not widely
+   distributed on the planet. Sheridan tells Londo it will be about a
+   week before they arrive. Londo asks if Sheridan is doing anything
+   about it, and Sheridan says that, though they won't have anything in
+   place for a while, they are doing their best, but there are no
+   guarantees. Londo wishes Sheridan good luck and signs off.
+   
+   Lyta enters Kosh's quarters. "I heard what happened," she tells him.
+   "I came to warn you. Sheridan and the others are going to move against
+   you."
+   
+   "It is done," Kosh replies. "They are irrelevant."
+   
+   "I know, I know they can't harm you, but I was thinking, it can't hurt
+   to have all the information you can about what's going on. To protect
+   yourself and the cause."
+   
+   "How?"
+   
+   "I told you, I wasn't here when Ambassador Kosh died... I didn't have
+   any of his essence with me. I thought he was gone. But, for a while, I
+   suspected that someone else here had a piece of him. I think I know
+   who it is, but I can't draw Kosh out of him... he won't let me."
+   
+   "A human?"
+   
+   "Yes."
+   
+   "Imprisons one of us?"
+   
+   "Yes."
+   
+   "Intolerable!"
+   
+   "If there is still a piece of him there, you can draw it out of him.
+   Use what it knows and take it back to Vorlon when this is all over. I
+   cared about Kosh... I'd like to know he finally made it home."
+   
+   "Show me."
+   
+   "The guards..."
+   
+   "They will not threaten us again. Show me!"
+   
+   Lyta and Kosh leave the quarters, and make their way through the alien
+   sector to the main part of the station. Lyta leads him down a
+   corridor. "It's this way," she tells the Vorlon. "We have to hurry...
+   I think he might leave soon."
+   
+   "Your thoughts are troubled," Kosh says, stopping.
+   
+   "I'm worried about Kosh, that's all. After everything we've been
+   through, I'd hate to lose the last of him now, and..."
+   
+   "What are you hiding?"
+   
+   "Nothing."
+   
+   "Open your thoughts to me!"
+   
+   "We don't have time for this..."
+   
+   "Open..." The eyepeiece on Kosh's encounter suit opens wide for a
+   moment, but it is too late... The plan has already begun. Sheridan,
+   who was hiding nearby, yells at Lyta to get out of the way, which she
+   does.
+   
+   Kosh, in the middle of the corridor, is suddenly bombarded with blasts
+   of electricity from several junction boxes, which hit the encounter
+   suit directly. From other hiding places in the room, many more
+   security guards appear, each firing their PPG rifles directly at the
+   encounter suit. Delenn appears while this is going on, and watches in
+   stunned silence. The current continues unabated, the security officers
+   keep firing at the encounter suit for nearly a minute. There is a
+   small explosion as the headpiece of Kosh's encounter suit shatters,
+   and a flurry of light emerges from within. Kosh emerges from the
+   encounter suit, but he appears this time as an enormous, glowing,
+   tentacled being which begins flying around the room, attacking
+   everything it can, and firing energy bolts of its own.
+   
+   As the Vorlon goes on its rampage, one of the security officers near
+   Delenn falls, and she attempts to bring him to safety. The current,
+   which exhausted itself shortly after Kosh was released, is no longer
+   effective, and Sheridan calls Ivanova for more, which she tries to
+   give him. While she does so, she receives a message from someone in
+   the docking bay saying that the Vorlon's ship is going crazy, trying
+   to break away from the station. She orders the ship to be cleared to
+   leave before it tears apart the station. Meanwhile, the Vorlon sets
+   its sights on Delenn as she tries to drag the security officer away
+   from its wrath. Sheridan sees this and jumps between them, but is
+   snared by a tentacle. The Vorlon ship clears the station, but Sheridan
+   is caught.
+   
+   Lorien, who has been observing, nods to Sheridan. "Now." Sheridan
+   manages to turn around and face the Vorlon, and as he does so, an
+   enormous golden shape, bearing much resemblance to the other one,
+   emerges from Sheridan's chest, and locks onto the other one. The two
+   forms begin fighting each other. Delenn understands what has happened.
+   
+   "It's Kosh... Kosh was inside him."
+   
+   "Yes," Lorien tells her. "The last of Kosh. And some of him, and some
+   of me."
+   
+   The two Vorlons, still fighting, flow through the ceiling of the
+   section and move through the rest of the station, eventually emerging
+   and coalescing onto the Vorlon ship, which is making its way away from
+   the station. As the two forms encompass the ship, it explodes as well.
+   Then, all is quiet.
+   
+   Delenn runs over to Sheridan, who lies crumpled on the floor. Lorien
+   tells her that his life force must be replenished, and places his hand
+   on Sheridan's chest. Lorien's hand glows, and Delenn asks if that is
+   how he brought him back at Z'ha'dum. Lorien tells her that he gives of
+   himself to replenish Sheridan, for a little while. Delenn asks how
+   long, but all Lorien tells her is, "Long enough." Sheridan regains
+   conciousness, and Delenn holds him closely.
+   
+   Londo waits nervously in Emperor Cartagia's throne room. When Cartagia
+   arrives, annoyed at being summoned on such short notice, Londo tells
+   Cartagia that, while he thinks that the emperor's coming godhood is a
+   momentous event, he thinks that others should see his greatness.
+   Cartagia asks why they should care what others think, and Londo
+   explains that, after the fall of Centauri Prime, there will be no one
+   left to sing Cartagia's praises. Once the Centauri are gone, there
+   will be no one left to remember him. Londo says what he has in mind is
+   that, if G'Kar's trial and execution were conducted on Narn instead,
+   the whole planet would be able to see Cartagia's greatness. Londo
+   convinces Cartagia that, if he does this, his name will be remembered
+   long after the fall of Centauri Prime. Though Cartagia is worried
+   about the barbarism of the Narns, Londo convinces him that gods should
+   not be afraid. Cartagia agrees with Londo's plan, and sets it in
+   motion. Londo tells Cartagia that he will go with him in order to
+   personally end G'Kar's life.
+   
+   Dozens of warships crowd around Babylon 5--Ivanova explains to
+   Garibaldi that Sheridan wants the biggest fleet in history to end the
+   war. Garibaldi asks what will happen if they win, since there is
+   nowhere else for them to go. And, if they lose, that's the end. "God,
+   I thought I was depressing," Ivanova says as she leaves C&C, allowing
+   Garibaldi to ponder this on his own.
+   
+   Delenn enters Sheridan's quarters to find him there with Lorien.
+   Sheridan says he has something to tell her that he feels she has a
+   right to know. Lorien explains that, when Sheridan was dying on
+   Z'ha'dum, he did what he could to help. He cannot prevent death, but
+   can extend and enhance life. Sheridan tells Delenn that Franklin's
+   tests revealed an energy inside him, repairing and sustaining him.
+   Lorien tells Delenn he did the best he could, but that he could only
+   give Sheridan back a portion of his life--twenty years, barring
+   further injury or illness. Sheridan tries to convince her that, though
+   he'll only be living until his early 60s, it's a decent life-span, but
+   Delenn is taken aback, upset since she believed she would have a much
+   longer period to spend with him. Lorien says that, after twenty years,
+   one day, Sheridan "will simply... stop." Sheridan asks Lorien to give
+   them a moment together, which he does. Sheridan tells Delenn it's all
+   right, and that he knew what he was getting into--his shortened life
+   is the price he had to pay. Delenn, however, isn't so sure--she feels
+   like she is still losing him before she should. Sheridan tries to
+   convince her that it's a long time--twenty more years than he would
+   have had otherwise. He pulls a small box out from a hiding place and
+   hands it to her--he says he got it in the Zocalo, and though it isn't
+   what he had in mind, it's merely a temporary engagement ring. She
+   clearly doesn't understand, and he explains that the ring is given to
+   a loved one as a down-payment for another ring--the ring exchanged
+   during a wedding ceremony. Sheridan tells her he wanted her to have it
+   so that she would know that, whatever time he has left, he wants to
+   spend with her. They kiss.
+   
+   Londo arrives to find Cartagia and two guards looking after G'Kar.
+   Londo tells Cartagia that their people on Narn are ready for their
+   trip. Cartagia pulls Londo aside and tells him that he doesn't like
+   the way G'Kar is looking at him. He asks Londo for advice, but Londo
+   says that he is sure Cartagia will make an appropriate decision. Londo
+   leaves hurriedly, and Cartagia continues to ponder the problem.
+   
+   "No, I don't care at all for the way he looks at me," Cartagia says to
+   himself. He reaches his decision. "Pluck out his eye!"
+   
+   "Which one?" asks one of the guards.
+   
+   "I don't know," Cartagia replies. "It doesn't matter!" He moves his
+   finger back and forth, trying to choose between the eyes, and he
+   settles on G'Kar's left eye. "That one," Cartagia says, and he leaves,
+   smiling. The two guards inside move closer to G'Kar, and as one of
+   them draws a knife, the cell door slams shut.
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+  Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
+  
+   The station spins amidst a growing cloud of warships and tension as
+   the coalition prepares to defend itself against the Vorlons and
+   Shadows. Ivanova finds the Captain brooding in C&C. It seems that the
+   Shadows have finally reacted to the Vorlon "planet killer" attacks
+   against worlds where they have influence with an equally destructive
+   offensive against Vorlon supporters. They watch with horror as a
+   report shows an evil cloud suffusing a world, rippling the surface and
+   killing all sentient life on it.
+   
+   "Giants in the playground," Sheridan remarks with disgust.
+   
+   On Narn, Londo has convened a secret meeting of Centauri leaders. In
+   no uncertain terms he and Vir explain that if Emperor Cartagia is not
+   killed today and the Shadows driven off homeworld, Centauri Prime will
+   be destroyed by the Vorlons.
+   
+   Ivanova tracks down the Captain again in his office. She tells
+   Sheridan he must be proud. Even if they die in the coming battle, it
+   will be at the head of what must be the greatest fleet the galaxy has
+   ever seen. When he tells her that he needs her to track down the
+   remaining First Ones for him and this will prevent her from
+   accompanying the fleet, she grows angry.
+   
+   When she was a child, her mother told her to wait at the neighbor's
+   house one day. She waited and waited and her mother never came. It was
+   the day her mother killed herself. Ivanova refuses to be left behind
+   again. She makes Sheridan promise, as one soldier to another, not to
+   protect her, but to let her be there when the final battle comes.
+   
+   The throne room rings with laughter as a jester entertains the court.
+   Emperor Cartagia enthusiastically explains his latest idea to Mollari.
+   When he attains godhood, Londo shall be his high priest. They will go
+   back to watch the Vorlons destroy Centauri Prime as soon as G'Kar is
+   executed. The emperor turns to find himself the object of the jester's
+   mimicry. The room stills and the courtiers quake until Cartagia
+   laughs, and everyone laughs with relief. Londo leaves to "check on
+   some arrangements."
+   
+   He is shocked to see the "arrangements" sitting in a dark cell, drawn,
+   bloodied, with only a single eye. But "an empty eye can see through to
+   an empty heart," G'Kar says. Londo tells G'Kar that his chains have
+   been weakened enough that he can break them at the moment before his
+   execution to create a diversion the Centauri can use to kill the
+   emperor. "Your heart is empty, Mollari. Did you know that?" Londo's
+   sympathy dries up at that remark and he leaves the Narn with the
+   injunction not to touch the emperor's person. "Leave him to us."
+   
+   Mollari returns to the throne room in time to see a body dragged from
+   the room and a jester's cap on the floor. "Humor is such a subjective
+   thing," Cartagia comments.
+   
+   Later that night Vir appears bearing a secret package. He is surprised
+   no one followed him. "Everyone knows that you are incapable of doing
+   anything really dangerous or subversive," Mollari smiles. The package
+   turns out to be anything but innocuous however. It is a needlelike
+   dagger with a button on the handle that when plunged deep into the
+   breast of the victim will release a toxin that can kill a Centauri
+   "almost instantaneously." They joke around about whether that might be
+   long enough for the emperor to say "Londo killed Aaaaagh!"
+   
+   As G'Kar is paraded through the corridors as a lesson to the Narn,
+   Cartagia idly mentions that he had G'Kar's chains replaced because
+   they looked weak. The emperor passes judgment, death by vivisection,
+   and asks for the Narn's plea. G'Kar only grabs his chains. With a
+   mighty pull he breaks them and attacks the emperor's guards. Londo
+   hurries Cartagia into an antechamber behind the throne.
+   
+   Nervously fumbling for his dagger and peering around for guards, Londo
+   distractedly tells the enraged emperor to be quiet. Cartagia turns on
+   him instead, punching Mollari in the face and knocking the weapon out
+   of his hand before getting him in a headlock. "You will burn with the
+   rest of Centauri," he says, then turns away to find a dagger in his
+   chest, in the hands of a horrified Vir.
+   
+   Within the hour Londo announces Cartagia's death to the court. In the
+   same moment he declares that this is a sign that they must leave Narn
+   forever. They must also return to Centauri Prime immediately to remove
+   the Shadow presence there. Since there is no clear line of succession,
+   he is named Prime Minister by a member of the Centaurum to lead until
+   a new emperor can be chosen.
+   
+   Back on Babylon 5, Lennier hurries into the war room with an
+   intelligence report. It shows that the Shadows, like the Vorlons, are
+   destroying planets hit-and-run style. He is interrupted by an incoming
+   report from a White Star scout, whose probes are able to show how the
+   Shadows operate. They surround the victim planet with a cloud of black
+   missiles. These missiles assault the planet en masse, burrowing
+   through the crust to the planet's molten core where they detonate
+   together. The resultant tectonic upheaval effectively destroys all
+   life on the planet within hours.
+   
+   Garibaldi is upset. "We are outclassed, boys and girls."
+   
+   But Lennier knows where the Vorlons might be heading next, Coriana 6,
+   a planet with over 6 billion people on it. They convene the League
+   worlds to discuss their next strategy.
+   
+   The Centauri must leave Narn immediately but Vir is no where to be
+   found. Londo's impatience with his assistant turns into distaste when
+   he finds Vir thoroughly drunk. But he softens in the face of Vir's
+   anguish. No matter how good the cause, Vir has just killed someone in
+   cold blood. Londo tells him what he did was necessary, that he may
+   have saved their people. "But you still have your heart. And your
+   heart is a good one. You would not be in such great pain otherwise."
+   Their conversation is interrupted by the fireworks of celebrating
+   Narns. Londo may regret the loss of his own heart, he says as he
+   leaves Vir, but in keeping his promise to G'Kar, at least he retains
+   his honor.
+   
+   The League representatives are appalled by their first vision of the
+   Shadow planet killing cloud. In this mood of despair Sheridan
+   announces they will stand against the Vorlons at Coriana 6. In
+   addition, it's time the Shadows and Vorlons fought each other directly
+   instead of attacking through the destruction of innocent worlds. The
+   Shadows will have to be tricked into joining them however. While the
+   League watches, Sheridan calls up the White Star scout ship again and
+   instructs her captain to attack a Shadow base near one of their main
+   staging areas. The Shadow response will be instant--and deadly.
+   Sheridan asks this crew to leak news of a nonexistant coalition base
+   near Coriana 6 to the Shadows, and to die in apparent defense of this
+   false intelligence.
+   
+   The Narn throne room is the scene of revelry once again, this time as
+   the Narn tear it to pieces. G'Kar is outraged when he sees this, and
+   even more infuriated when the Narns try to make him their new leader
+   to strike back against the Centauri once and for all. He will lead
+   only as a member of the Kha'Ri, not as a dictator. Angry at being told
+   off, one Narn asks him, while we've been down here suffering under
+   Centauri rule, "What have you endured?" G'Kar's answer begins in rage
+   and ends in ineffable mirth.
+   
+   The scout ship's final message is received at the station. The Shadows
+   have taken the bait. And so the greatest fleet anyone has ever known
+   sets off for Coriana 6.
+
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (n9641343@cc.wwu.edu)
+  
+   "Commander's Personal Log. We're still searching for First Ones to use
+   in our war with the Vorlons and the Shadows. There's less than
+   twenty-four hours left before everything hits the fan. We can't afford
+   to waste any more time. We have to get back to Babylon 5 and catch up
+   with the fleet."
+   
+   Ivanova tells Lorien that they need to move on--the five First Ones
+   they have found are enough, and she doesn't believe there are any
+   others. Lorien disagrees, saying that they need to have all six, and
+   that all they have to do is wait for a response to their signal.
+   Ivanova says she'll give him ten more minutes, but then they'll have
+   to go back. She says she hopes Sheridan's plan of attacking Vorlon
+   targets to force out their troops is working. Lorien admits it is an
+   interesting tactic--possibly futile, but very human. Suddenly, a large
+   ship appears outside, one Lorien apparently recognizes. He tells
+   Ivanova that this race is nearly as old as the Vorlons, and hasn't
+   spoken to any outside their race for centuries. Ivanova asks if
+   they'll remember him, but he knows they will.
+   
+   Sheridan and Delenn, in command of the White Star fleet, manage to
+   destroy a Vorlon observation post without too much trouble, and head
+   off to the rendevous point. After they enter hyperspace, Sheridan
+   looks at the fleet he has assembled--thousands of ships, dozens of
+   races, working together for the first time. "We've put together a hell
+   of a team, Delenn," he tells her. "You should be proud. Win or lose,
+   we'll go down fighting. Pour it on, Mr. Lennier. Take us into the
+   fire."
+   
+   As the fleet travels to Coriana 6, Lyta tells Marcus that she heard
+   the Vorlons are planning to move against Centauri Prime about the same
+   time they will arrive at Coriana, and she wonders why the fleet isn't
+   making its stand there. Marcus explains that Coriana was the logical
+   choice for the fleet to defend, since its population is twice as
+   large. Marcus hopes, though, that they pulled enough of the Vorlon
+   ships away to give the Centauri enough time to remove all Shadow
+   influence.
+   
+   Londo and Vir make their way to the throne room, followed by the
+   Regent, who begs for further instructions. Londo tells him that, with
+   the Vorlons less than 12 hours away, he wants the Shadows off the
+   planet. He tells the Regent to bring the ministers of War,
+   Intelligence, Transportation, and Security, and to clear the palace of
+   everyone who worked for Emperor Cartagia. The Regent leaves to follow
+   Londo's orders, and after he's gone, Londo tells Vir that they have
+   very little time left, but that they need to find Morden to tell him
+   the news.
+   
+   Delenn arrives on the bridge of the fleet's flagship, where Sheridan
+   is waiting, and tells him that Ivanova and Lorien have found all the
+   remaining First Ones. She tries to convince Sheridan that Ivanova's
+   ship won't help turn the tide of battle, but Sheridan explains that he
+   promised Ivanova she would be there at the end, no matter what. He
+   tells Delenn to radio Ivanova to arrive at the rendezvous point as
+   quickly as possible.
+   
+   Ivanova, after arriving back on the station, is preparing to leave for
+   the battle when Lorien comes in. He says that he was told she was
+   ready to leave, but she isn't quite--she says he seems quite impatient
+   for an immortal. He explains that he isn't immortal, and could die if
+   he fell ill or was injured. He was the first of the First Ones and the
+   last of his race. Ivanova doesn't believe he can be as old as he
+   claims, since no one could discover the technology necessary to
+   develop an immortality serum in one lifetime. Lorien explains,
+   however, that all of his kind were born naturally immortal. Ivanova
+   can't accept this; she is positive that everything dies. Lorien
+   explains that things are that way--now--but they weren't always. The
+   generations of beings that followed his own were mortal, and could
+   eventually die, but those of his time were immortal. He explains that
+   his race discovered the Vorlons and Shadows as infant races and guided
+   them, and the other First Ones, along the evolutionary path. Most of
+   the others eventually died or passed beyond the Rim to what lay
+   beyond. He explains that to live forever means to give up everything
+   else--love, companionship, friendship--since those will come and go.
+   Only races with a much shorter life span can truly appreciate these
+   things and experience them for all they are worth. "You should embrace
+   that remarkable illusion," he tells her. "It may be the greatest gift
+   your race has ever received."
+   
+   As the Vorlon fleet makes its way through hyperspace, the minister of
+   Intelligence arrives in Londo's quarters and asks to speak with him.
+   The minister tells him that the death of Lady Adira was preceded by
+   rumors that Londo had attempted to poison Lord Refa, and the minister
+   was asked, by Cartagia, to look into the matter. The minister
+   discovered these two matters were connected, and continued his
+   investigation even after Refa's death. The report he presented to
+   Cartagia was to be kept secret until after Cartagia's death. Londo
+   says that Refa was responsible for her death: the liner Adira was on
+   when she died came from Centauri Prime, and the poison that killed her
+   was of Centauri origin. The minister explains that it was not Refa who
+   ordered Adira's murder, but Morden. He says he suspects Morden wanted
+   to secure his position by making it appear as if Refa had killed
+   Adira. Londo dismisses the minister. Londo, alone, finally realizing
+   what he has done, loses control and starts tearing the room apart in
+   rage. Crying, finally understanding how Morden manipulated him, he
+   falls to the floor in tears.
+   
+   Ivanova and Lorien are trying to get the rendezvous as fast as they
+   can. Lorien tells her to be patient--patience and logic will win the
+   war, not weapons and firepower. He says that Sheridan knows this, but
+   he doesn't know if Sheridan knows he knows it.
+   
+   Sheridan looks out the window of the flagship, commenting that the
+   fleet, while not bad, is still not big enough to win. Marcus asks why
+   they are there, and Sheridan says, "Hoping the truth will set us
+   free... Before it kills us." He asks if the nuclear weapons are ready,
+   and Marcus says they are camouflaged by asteroids. Sheridan tells Lyta
+   to keep her mind open, and be ready for anything from the Shadows or
+   the Vorlons. They need her--she is their only advantage.
+   
+   Two guards bring Morden into the throne room, where Londo is waiting.
+   Morden demands to know what is going on, and Londo tells him about the
+   Vorlon fleet that is now headed to Centauri Prime. Londo tells him
+   that, now that Cartagia is dead, he wants the Shadow fleet removed
+   from the island of Selini. Morden declines, believing that the Vorlons
+   would never attack a world with 3 billion people. Londo realizes that
+   Morden and the Shadows are afraid. He says he must make sure that he
+   and Morden may speak privately. Two of Londo's guards fire their
+   weapons to the left and right of Morden, killing two Shadows, who
+   flicker into sight only briefly as they die. Morden tells Londo he's
+   insane, and Londo admits that--today--that's true. He gives Morden one
+   more chance to move the ships, but Morden refuses again. Londo says
+   that while the ships are impressive flying, at the moment, they are on
+   the ground. Morden notes that they can sense an approaching ship miles
+   away, so Londo doesn't have much choice. "What are you going to do,
+   Mollari? Blow up the island?"
+   
+   "Actually," Londo says, producing a small device from his pocket, "now
+   that you mention it..." As the island explodes, Morden reels as if in
+   pain. Londo tells him that most of the Centauri were evacuated from
+   Selini during the night, but that some stayed to maintain the
+   illusion. Londo orders Morden to be imprisoned, and the guards drag
+   him away. But, as he goes, Morden promises that, even if the Shadows
+   lose, their allies will make sure Centauri Prime pays for destroying
+   the Shadow fleet.
+   
+   Ivanova meets up with the rest of the fleet and tells Sheridan that
+   Lorien wants to come over to Sheridan's ship right away. Almost as
+   soon as Sheridan approves, though, Lyta realizes that both of the
+   fleets have just arrived in the Coriana system. As soon as they
+   appear, they begin moving toward each other. To get their attention,
+   Sheridan detonates some of the nuclear devices, which do damage to
+   both sides. This substantially angers both the Vorlons and the
+   Shadows, and the battle begins.
+   
+   Sheridan opens up communication with the Vorlon fleet, and implores
+   them to not destroy Coriana 6--its residents were forced by the
+   Shadows to allow a fleet to be based on their world, and don't deserve
+   to be destroyed for that reason. The Vorlons, however, don't respond,
+   and Lennier suggests they might not even be listening. Delenn asks
+   Lyta to send the Vorlons a telepathic signal to get their attention.
+   
+   As the battle rages on, Vir arrives in the throne room, where Londo is
+   waiting. Londo tells him that, despite the Vorlon fleet on its way to
+   Centauri Prime, they are no longer a threat, as he has removed the
+   last Shadow influence from the planet. Londo tells Vir to go into the
+   garden, where "a gift" is waiting. Vir does so. The gift is Morden's
+   head on a pike. Recalling the promise he made long ago, Vir looks into
+   Morden's eyes and waves.
+   
+   Sheridan asks Lyta if she's had any luck, but she hasn't been able to
+   open communication. Lennier informs Sheridan that the Vorlon
+   planetkiller is almost in range of Coriana 6. Delenn is reluctant to
+   call in the First Ones so soon, but Sheridan is not willing to let the
+   planet die. Sheridan orders Lennier to send the signal. Lennier does,
+   and the First Ones' ships instantly appear. Wasting no time, they
+   concentrate their fire on the Vorlon planetkiller, which is destroyed
+   easily. They turn their fire on the other Vorlon ships and on the
+   Shadows.
+   
+   Londo arrives in the Garden and joyfully explains to Vir that he has
+   sent a message to the Vorlons informing them that all Shadow influence
+   has been removed from Centauri Prime. Londo is sure they will turn
+   back, but Vir does not share his enthusiasm. Vir tells Londo that he's
+   wrong, that there is still one thing left that has been touched by the
+   Shadows. He points to the sky, where the sun is being eclipsed by
+   another Vorlon planetkiller. Londo realizes that they have come for
+   him, and since he sent the message, they knew exactly where he can be
+   found.
+   
+   The Vorlons still refuse to communicate with Sheridan and his army,
+   but Lennier does detect that they are sending a message to their other
+   ships, for reinforcements.
+   
+   Londo pleads with Vir to kill him so that Centauri Prime will be safe,
+   but Vir refuses. Londo's pleas are interrupted by the planetkiller
+   moving away to join the Vorlon fleet at Coriana.
+   
+   Lorien arrives on the bridge of the flagship of Sheridan's fleet.
+   Delenn begs him to talk to the Vorlons and the Shadows. She is
+   interrupted, however, by the voice of Lyta, now distant and ghostly.
+   "There is nothing to tell," she says as she turns around, her eyes
+   glowing bright blue. "You thought we could not touch you," she tells
+   him. "You were wrong." She focuses on him and Sheridan is paralyzed in
+   an energy field. Delenn moves to help him, but is warned by Lorien not
+   to do so, as it will kill him instead. "And you they have left..."
+   Lyta says, her eyes now glazed over with black, "...for us." She
+   glares at Delenn, who is paralyzed as well.
+   
+   Lennier runs to help Delenn, but Lorien warns him that, should he
+   interfere, they will lose the one chance they have to end the war.
+   Lorien explains that Sheridan hoped both sides could be provoked into
+   doing this. Lorien says that Sheridan wants everyone to know the
+   truth, what they may be asked to die for. Lorien puts one hand in the
+   air next to Delenn and Sheridan, and Lennier and everyone else can see
+   what Sheridan and Delenn see...
+   
+   Sheridan is wandering around in darkness, shouting, "Where are you?
+   Show yourselves!"
+   
+   Suddenly, a large block of ice is highlighted, with a woman frozen
+   inside, a glowing amulet around her neck. Without moving her mouth,
+   she speaks to him. "We are here. We do not understand you. We have
+   wished only the best for you. We only want to help you."
+   
+   "You're destroying whole worlds!"
+   
+   "The others are a disease. You have given us the opportunity to
+   eliminate it. We are grateful. Why do you oppose us?"
+   
+   "Because I don't like being used... or lied to."
+   
+   "We have not lied. Our goal is the same as yours--to destroy the
+   darkness."
+   
+   Sheridan asks why, in that case, they haven't struck at the Shadows
+   directly, since they had the technology to destroy Z'ha'dum all along.
+   The response he receives is, "You do not understand." But Sheridan
+   does understand, and he says that's what has the Vorlons worried. "The
+   Vorlons have a saying: understanding is a three-edged sword. Your
+   side, their side, and the truth." Sheridan believes the truth is that
+   the younger races no longer need either race to guide them.
+   
+   Delenn, too, stands in the darkness, when Ivanova's voice begins
+   speaking. Ivanova appears and walks toward her. "The Vorlons stand for
+   Order above anything else. No passion, no dreams... just discipline.
+   Obedience. They're frozen in place, an evolutionary dead end! Why side
+   with the old? Embrace the new. Growth through pain and struggle,
+   conflict and war. You of all people should understand this."
+   
+   "Your race came out of the last war stronger, better." Franklin says,
+   appearing from the darkness as Ivanova vanishes. "How much better, how
+   much stronger will they be after this war? You will rise from the
+   ashes with a strength and power beyond your imagination!"
+   
+   "Until you do it to us again!" Delenn tells him.
+   
+   "It is the cycle," Lennier explains to her. "It is the force of
+   history itself. You cannot win against that. We have embraced it.
+   We've helped it along, by creating conflict. Weak races die. Strong
+   races are made even stronger. Evolution must be served. There is no
+   other way."
+   
+   "No, that's what you want us to believe," Delenn says.
+   
+   Sheridan tells the Vorlon figure that he knows why they are doing it
+   the way they are--they don't want to destroy the Shadows, they just
+   want to destroy their message, their way of doing things, so everyone
+   will have to follow the Vorlons. Delenn knows the Shadows feel the
+   same way, wanting to leave the Vorlons alive so they can see the
+   Shadows were right. "It's about ideology," Delenn says.
+   
+   "Of course," Marcus says to her. "What isn't? Order versus Chaos.
+   Choose one."
+   
+   But Delenn says they shouldn't have to choose, because they aren't
+   given all the choices available. They are only given two. The battle
+   between the Vorlons and the Shadows is no longer about guiding or
+   helping the younger races, it's just about whether the Vorlon or
+   Shadow philosophy is the correct one. Sheridan knows this, too, saying
+   they are acting like arguing parents, manipulating their children,
+   getting them to take sides. "But what if the right choice is not to
+   choose at all," he asks.
+   
+   "What if we reject the idea that we must decide which of you is
+   right?" Delenn asks. "What if we simply walk away?"
+   
+   "You cannot do that," says another Delenn, coming of the shadows and
+   facing the first.
+   
+   "Then the war will never end!"
+   
+   "That is correct."
+   
+   "Then there is no hope."
+   
+   "There is only Chaos and evolution."
+   
+   "There is only Order and obedience," the figure in the ice says. "You
+   will do as you are told."
+   
+   "You will fight because we tell you to fight," the other Delenn says.
+   
+   "You will die for us when we tell you to die for us," the woman in the
+   ice says, "because the others know no other way."
+   
+   "That's where you're wrong," Sheridan tells her.
+   
+   A stray asteroid hits the flagship, and Lorien stumbles, accidentally
+   touching Delenn.
+   
+   "You've let them see," the other Delenn says. "You've let them
+   know..."
+   
+   But she cannot finish. Lorien removes both Delenn and Sheridan from
+   their paralyzed state, and that world shatters around them. The image,
+   and the illusion, is broken, but it is too late--the Shadow
+   planetkiller has engulfed the fleet. Ivanova calls to confirm that she
+   saw what Sheridan and Delenn saw, but the cloud is making the ships so
+   cold, it is affecting the engines and preventing them from escaping.
+   The temperature is dropping so low, it will kill them all in ten
+   minutes. Sheridan can't believe the Vorlons and the Shadows would let
+   the younger races die instead of ending their war, but Lorien knows
+   they aren't finished yet. Two figures appear on the bridge--one Shadow
+   and one Vorlon. Lorien explains they are giving Sheridan a second
+   chance to change his mind and ask forgiveness, to choose. Lorien says
+   that Sheridan's next words will decide the outcome.
+   
+   "The Vorlons ask only one question, over and over," Sheridan tells the
+   two figures. 'Who are you?'" He turns to the Shadow. "You... for you,
+   the question is, 'What do you want?' I have never heard you answer
+   that question. Who are you? What do you want?"
+   
+   "You don't know, do you?" asks Delenn. "You've been fighting each
+   other so long, you've forgotten. You've lost your way. So how can you
+   guide us? How can we learn who we are and what we want if you don't
+   even know it any more?"
+   
+   Sheridan tells them that, no matter who wins, in a thousand years, the
+   battle will start again. They are all a part of the cycle, but
+   Sheridan doesn't want to be a part of it. The younger races have
+   learned to stand on their own, and are prepared to make the mistakes
+   they will make as they find their own way. Delenn tells the Vorlon and
+   the Shadow that their secret is out, and asks them what they plan to
+   do next.
+   
+   "You do not speak for the rest," the Vorlon figure intones.
+   
+   "They will not follow you if you are dead," says the Shadow figure.
+   
+   Lennier detects a missile from the Shadow planetkiller being launched
+   at the flagship. With only ten seconds until impact, one of the Drazi
+   cruisers moves in front of the ship, and is destroyed by the missile's
+   impact. The other ships in the fleet follow suit, and another missile
+   strikes a Minbari ship, which moves in front just in time.
+   
+   Delenn tells the figures that the other races as well have begun to
+   reject them, and demands to know how they can have a war with no one
+   to fight it. Sheridan tells them they refuse to take sides in the war,
+   and refuse to let either race turn them against one another--they will
+   find their own way.
+   
+   "You can kill us one by one," Delenn continues, "and those who follow
+   us, and those who follow them, on and on, every race, every planet.
+   Until there's no one left to kill. You will have failed as guardians.
+   And you will be alone."
+   
+   "It's over because we've decided it's over," Sheridan says angrily.
+   "Now get the hell out of our galaxy! Both of you!"
+   
+   When neither the Vorlon nor the Shadow move, Lorien steps in. "As I
+   taught you and stepped aside, now you must do the same. Our age is
+   past. This... belongs to the younger races now. They have learned to
+   stand on their own. They have learned... to understand. Time to let
+   them go."
+   
+   "Will you... come... with us?" asks the Shadow figure meekly.
+   
+   "I have been here since the beginning. I will not leave you now. I
+   will go with you beyond the Rim, and we will see again all those who
+   went ahead of us, all those who we have missed for so long."
+   
+   "Then... we will not be alone?" asks the Vorlon figure.
+   
+   "No," Lorien tells them. "Never alone."
+   
+   The two figures vanish, and the Vorlon and Shadow fleets quickly leave
+   the system. As the power returns to the White Star flagship, the other
+   First Ones leave as well, all at the same time, leaving only Lorien
+   behind. "I waited a long time for someone to find me," he says. "Now,
+   like the others, I find I hate to leave. But none of us can stay
+   behind this time. That was why it was necessary to find all the
+   remaining First Ones. This... is yours now. And you have an
+   obligation... to do as we have done. To teach the races that will
+   follow you and, when your time comes, as ours has, to step aside and
+   allow them to grow into their own destiny. If your races survive, if
+   you do not kill yourselves, I look forward to the day when your people
+   join us beyond the Rim." Lorien begins dissolving, changing into a
+   tiny ball of light. "We will wait for you..." And then he too is gone.
+   
+   Londo tells Vir that he can't quite accept that the war is over, that
+   he doesn't know what to feel. Vir says that, given all they
+   accomplished, happy would be appropriate. Londo says that, every time
+   he has felt happy, something bad has happened to him. Vir says that he
+   thinks Londo should enjoy one single night of happiness while he can
+   get it. Vir is planning to return to Babylon 5, but Londo needs to
+   stay behind for a while and tidy up political matters, perhaps
+   returning to Babylon 5 himself, away from whatever repurcussions he
+   may have to face. Vir leaves, and Londo begins to enjoy his evening.
+   
+   The fleet comes through the Babylon 5 jumpgate, and as the flagship
+   approaches Babylon 5, Delenn and Sheridan sit, looking out a window as
+   the station grows nearer. He tells her the younger races have entered
+   a third age. First, they were too primitive to make their own
+   decisions. Then, they were helped along by the Vorlons and the
+   Shadows. Now, finally, they stand on their own. Sheridan says that
+   Lorien was right, that it is a great responsibility. Delenn says that
+   the galaxy seems smaller with the First Ones gone.
+   
+   "Feels like the magic's gone," Sheridan comments.
+   
+   "No," Delenn tells him. "Not gone. Now we make our own magic. Now we
+   create our own legends. Now we build the future. Now we stop..."
+   
+   "...being afraid of shadows," Sheridan finishes. Delenn smiles, and
+   the two of them hold each other, looking out the window at Babylon 5,
+   and the future they must begin to build.
+
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+  Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
+  
+   A Starfury formation spins past the observation deck amidst fireworks
+   and plumes of colored trails, while in the Zocolo a wild party is
+   raging to mark the end of the Shadow War. Sheridan and Delenn observe
+   the celebrations proudly, disregarding the uncertain future for the
+   moment.
+   
+   Trouble is brewing for them at home, though. President Clark sees the
+   station as a clear and present danger to him now that the Shadows are
+   gone and orders all his executive forces into action to take them out.
+   The first salvo is a propaganda offensive counducted with assistance
+   from the Psi Corps, and the station's favorite Psi Cop, Alfred Bester.
+   If Clark can turn public opinion against Babylon 5, he might be able
+   to win where a direct assault would fail.
+   
+   On Centauri Prime, Mollari is preparing to return to his ambassadorial
+   duties. The palace is not such a safe place for him after the death of
+   the Emperor. As he departs, Londo bestows upon the fluttering Minister
+   a delightful piece of news; the Centaurum has decided to name him
+   Regent until a new Emperor can be selected.
+   
+   While examining G'Kar, Franklin observes that he can probably fix the
+   Narn up with a human prosthetic eye. When he asks why G'Kar didn't
+   stay on Narn to lead his people, G'Kar replies that power corrupts.
+   
+   Shaving himself quietly, Garibaldi draws a grim face in the steamy
+   window. The com panel reports an incoming message. It is untraceable
+   and encrypted. It displays as a rippling pattern of light, no audio.
+   Garibaldi watches the entire message, then deletes it.
+   
+   He meets Ivanova, Franklin and Sheridan in the captain's office and
+   announces his resignation. They try to argue him out of it, but he is
+   steadfast. Their future in Earth Force is over; their chances for
+   going home are negligible; and if they weren't fighting the Shadows
+   for the right to choose their own destinies then what were they
+   fighting for?
+   
+   Zack is training a mixed team of humans and Narn in Customs. Just when
+   he tells them to flag anything unusual, he is astonished to see a
+   remarkably buoyant Londo Mollari come strolling through the gate. Zack
+   remarks to the trainees, "You never know who's going to walk in the--"
+   
+   "Door," Mr. Bester supplies, as he strides through under guard en
+   route to his usual quarters in the brig.
+   
+   Garibaldi opens his door to find the one-eyed Narn standing silently
+   on his threshold. He thanks G'Kar for going to look for him when he
+   was lost and as G'Kar stalks into the room he backs up stuttering
+   apologies that G'Kar was captured and tortured because of him. G'Kar
+   simply picks him up and sings, "Welcome home, Mr. Garibaldi!" He isn't
+   angry at all, because going in search of Garibaldi put him in the
+   position to strike the deal with Londo that freed his people.
+   
+   When Sheridan tells him, Zack also thinks Garibaldi's action is pretty
+   strange. The discussion is broken up by an ISN news that all travel
+   between Earth and B5 is prohibited.
+   
+   Zack finds Lyta surrounded by new purchases in her room. When he asks
+   her to come to the conference room to help them defend against Mr.
+   Bester, she grows angry. People use her, but no one is nice to her. A
+   bit bashfully, Zack explains that because of her association with the
+   Vorlons and their current reputation, most people are leery of her.
+   She is relieved to hear the truth. Taking another look, Zack offers to
+   come over with pizza later to help her set up her room.
+   
+   Londo's joyful bargaining in the Zocolo is quelled when he sees G'Kar.
+   He stifles his first intention of sidling away and approaches instead.
+   G'Kar tells him plainly that Londo no longer exists in his universe.
+   "Pray that we never notice one another again."
+   
+   Bester isn't happy seeing Lyta in the conference room and scoffs at
+   her abilities but the Captain isn't concerned, so Bester gets down to
+   business. He explains Clark's intentions towards the station and
+   mentions a specific plan. Before giving the details, Bester demands a
+   price. He wants to be taken to Z'ha'dum to look for abandoned
+   technology that might help him heal his lover. She is still in
+   cryogenic suspension while Dr. Franklin investigates the Shadow-made
+   wetware in her head. When Bester attempts to scan the command staff he
+   is blocked, and when he attempts to scan Lyta she mentally slaps him
+   hard enough to jolt his head back. Sheridan agrees to Bester's
+   proposition. Bester describes Clark's plan. A patrol of Star Furies
+   blockading the last jump gate to B5 will be attacked by a wing of
+   Black Omegas, elite pilots under the command of Psi Corps, and the
+   wreckage will be seeded with "evidence" that the attack came from the
+   station.
+   
+   As Sheridan's White Star leaves for Z'ha'dum, Ivanova takes Alpha
+   squadron to defend the station's blockaders.
+   
+   Zack visits the Chief to get the station security codes, and to tell
+   him he's making a mistake to quit. Garibaldi seems to satisfy Zack
+   with a philosophical answer about mistakes and second chances,
+   reminding him that the second chance he gave Zack by hiring him hadn't
+   been a mistake.
+   
+   Delenn and John share a rare quiet moment. When he complains that they
+   never get a break she tells him he wouldn't have it any other way.
+   
+   Ivanova's wing jumps out of hyperspace in time to save the patrol from
+   the Omegas which have just launched their attack. When the patrol
+   leader is confused, she tells him, "Reports of our disloyalty have
+   been greatly exaggerated."
+   
+   Lyta appears to be concentrating when Bester comes upon her on the
+   bridge. He wants to know how she can block him. She is obligated to
+   tell the Corps, he says. Her refusal is met by a threat to reveal
+   something she wants kept secret.
+   
+   Bester is unimpressed by his first sight of Z'ha'dum. Sensors indicate
+   that an evacuation of the planet is underway. The evacuees, allies of
+   the Shadows, are just leaving the local jump gate, and the planet
+   appears to be completely dead. Sheridan orders an immediate about
+   face. His instinct is correct as a moment later the planet explodes.
+   No one can rob the Shadows' grave now. Bester is enraged but Lyta
+   surreptitiously grins.
+   
+   The room where the cyrogenically suspended telepaths are kept is like
+   a morgue. Bester shares a moment with the frozen body of his lover. He
+   tells her door about sending his best pilots to their deaths for her.
+   Sheridan and the others might all be laughing at his failure now, but
+   he'd do it again in a second for her. Besides, he's got a surprise for
+   them that will hurt them more than they can possibly imagine.
+   
+   Lyta is visited by the Captain, who begins speculating about how a
+   powerful telepath in the amplified medium of hyperspace might have
+   triggered the evacuation and destruction of Z'ha'dum without Bester
+   being any the wiser. She explains that someone might want to hurt
+   Bester the way he has hurt so many other people, and that the
+   technology on Z'ha'dum should not fall into anyone's hands. Once her
+   explanation is out he allows his carefully contained fury to show. No
+   matter how much he might agree with her reasoning, he says that if in
+   the future "a command level decision were made without consulting me,
+   I would turn you over to the Psi Corps and let them turn you inside
+   out. Am I perfectly, crystal clear."
+   
+   "Yes sir," she replies. Before her dressing down has a chance to sink
+   in, a completely different visitor arrives bearing pizza.
+   
+   Ivanova mentions that news of the attempted ambush has filtered back
+   through Earth Force and only served to raise people's opinions of
+   Babylon 5. Sheridan is disturbed, though. He has been thinking about
+   where the allies of the Shadows might have gone. Ivanova assures him
+   it's nothing to worry about.
+   
+   On Centauri Prime, the new Regent is worrying. Having nightmares, or
+   so he thinks. Until he staggers out of bed to the mirror. He pulls
+   away his nightgown and is horrified to find an evil grey Keeper
+   snuggled up to his neck.
+
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (n9641343@cc.wwu.edu)
+  
+   Sheridan is sitting alone at the conference table in the War Room when
+   Ivanova comes in. Sheridan tells her it's strange to have the place so
+   empty, and though Ivanova insists the war is over, Sheridan isn't so
+   sure that it is, with all the trouble back on Earth. The quarantine
+   has pretty much shut down Babylon 5, but Sheridan is sure they will
+   find a way back from this setback as well. Ivanova asks him why he's
+   worried, and though Sheridan insists he isn't, she knows better.
+   Sheridan explains that he hasn't spoken to his father much since they
+   broke away from Earth, and that his last letter mentioned strangers
+   hanging around town, asking questions about his family. Sheridan told
+   his parents to get out while they could, but he hasn't gotten any word
+   since the embargo. Ivanova says that, being a former diplomat, his
+   father couldn't just disappear, but Sheridan is still worried. He asks
+   if everything else is okay, and Ivanova tells him that, despite a few
+   problems in customs since Zack took over for Garibaldi, they haven't
+   had a major incident.
+   
+   Zack enters the docking bay to find an incident in progress--a minor
+   fight, which one of the security guards says was started when several
+   new arrivals to the station wouldn't allow their cargo to be
+   inspected. They couldn't detect anything from the scans, so Zack moves
+   to open a crate, but the owner insists it's private property. Zack
+   orders the man to move, but he doesn't. As a last recourse, Zack fires
+   his PPG at the crates, which angers the man even further. Zack moves
+   to the crates, but before he can open one, it opens itself, and a
+   small levitating device floats out. Zack recognizes the device. "It's
+   a camera."
+   
+   "That's right," the man tells him as the camera films Zack and the
+   other security officers with their weapons drawn. "A camera. It goes
+   with the territory. I'm a reporter and this is my crew. And you just
+   made the evening news."
+   
+   Franklin meets up with Sheridan and tells him that he pulled some of
+   his doctors off duty in two other MedLabs to help move the
+   cryogenically frozen telepaths in some of the freezing units, which
+   are malfunctioning due to overuse, to other working units. Sheridan
+   tells him to do what he has to, but wishes he didn't have to keep the
+   telepaths frozen. Franklin is worried, though, that they could prove
+   dangerous to themselves or others with the leftover Shadow technology
+   still in their heads. Sheridan agrees and knows that even though the
+   Shadows are gone, they will need to deal with what they left behind
+   for a long time. Sheridan's commlink beeps, and a voice informs
+   Sheridan of someone's arrival. Sheridan tells him he's on his way. "I
+   thought we saw the worst of it with the Shadows, the Vorlons, the
+   war..." Sheridan tells Franklin. "But there's something far worse than
+   the Shadows: reporters."
+   
+   Sheridan arrives in his office, and the reporter is only too happy to
+   see him. He introduces himself as Dan Randall from ISN, and is quite
+   upset since Ivanova threatened to throw him out an airlock unless he
+   provided a full manifest of his equipment. Randall says they changed
+   the manifest so they would be allowed on the station. Sheridan insists
+   they would have let them on, but not their equipment since ISN is only
+   a source of propaganda for President Clark, and Randall would never do
+   an objective story. Randall insists that there is no such thing as a
+   completely objective journalist, but that he, and others still on ISN,
+   want to try to slip the truth through in small pieces, the best they
+   can do under the circumstances. Randall asks Sheridan to work with him
+   so that Sheridan's point of view will be represented and that,
+   otherwise, there's no guarantee.
+   
+   Garibaldi is in Downbelow, speaking with someone about retrieving a
+   priceless family artifact, which Garibaldi recognizes as a Drazi
+   religious statue the man is using to hide stolen valuables in. He
+   makes a deal for its retrieval and a percentage of what's inside.
+   Lennier appears and asks Garibaldi why he resigned. Garibaldi says
+   he's done his duty, and served his time, and just wants some time to
+   make his own life. Lennier tells him that, for the Minbari, it is an
+   honor serve one's people, but Garibaldi has had quite enough honor for
+   the time being. He asks about Delenn, whom Lennier says is doing well,
+   but Garibaldi quickly changes the subject when Lennier starts
+   mentioning Sheridan. It's too late, though. "Speak the Devil's name,"
+   Garibaldi says, "and he shall appear." Sheridan introduces Randall to
+   Lennier, whom he wants to escort Randall around the station so that he
+   can be assured of getting the most unbiased opinion possible. Lennier
+   starts Randall on his tour, and while no words are exchanged between
+   Sheridan and Garibaldi, there is clearly tension in the glances the
+   two exchange. Garibaldi picks up the photograph of the Drazi statue,
+   and remembers...
+   
+   He is alone in his prison cell, sitting in a chair, while a ghostly
+   voice repeats over and over, "You work for no one but us. You work for
+   no one but us." Garibaldi's memory fades and he gets up from his table
+   and leaves.
+   
+   Randall, Lennier, and the news crew are in one of the lifts. Randall
+   asks Lennier about the ship he noticed being repaired outside Babylon
+   5 when he arrived. Lennier explains that those ships, belonging to the
+   League of Non-Aligned of Worlds, were damaged during the war, and are
+   being repaired so they will be able to get back home safely. Lennier
+   says that the station charges only for the material needed for the
+   repairs, which Randall finds very generous.
+   
+   After making sure the cameras are recording, Randall asks Lennier
+   where they are. Lennier explains they are in Downbelow, where those
+   who come to Babylon 5 and can't afford to live on the station stay.
+   Lennier says that Sheridan is trying to put a stop to the exploitation
+   the Lurkers often face by instituting work programs. Just then,
+   Franklin and several other medical officers run by, carrying someone
+   who just had a heart attack. Franklin explains this, and accepts
+   Randall's offer to speak with him later. Just as Franklin is about to
+   leave, he receives a call on his commlink from someone in MedLab,
+   saying the cryo units are ready for restart. Franklin says he'll be
+   right there, and though he tries to keep the conversation discreet,
+   the camera, still recording, catches it all on tape.
+   
+   Lennier leads the reporters through a corridor, where Sheridan and
+   Londo are in the midst of a heated discussion, with Londo complaining
+   about the lack of heat in his quarters. The camera captures all of
+   this as well.
+   
+   Sheridan and Delenn are sitting together in his office while a young
+   woman finishes applying makeup to Delenn's face. Randall is
+   interviewing them, and begins by asking them if it was ever their
+   intention to break away from Earth. Sheridan insists it wasn't--he
+   seceded to protest bombing of civilian targets, and they will rejoin
+   once President Clark is out of office. Randall asks if Sheridan still
+   believes Clark was responsible for President Santiago's death, and
+   Sheridan says that he does, that Clark doesn't let anyhting stand in
+   his way. Randall asks Delenn how she feels about all this, and she
+   says that she is used to it--this sort of thing happens everywhere.
+   Randall comments on how close Sheridan and Delenn have become, and
+   asks if it is true that they might marry eventually, which Sheridan
+   won't comment on. Randall says that there must be other forces pulling
+   against them, but Delenn says that, despite all that, the heart does
+   not recognize boundaries on a map, hatred, or wars. She says if others
+   don't understand that, she will make them understand. Randall asks if
+   they are concerned about the repurcussions, but Sheridan says there is
+   no force in the galaxy that can stop all they have accomplished.
+   
+   Randall arrives at Garibaldi's table in Downbelow, and tells him that
+   they are getting ready to leave. He asks Garibaldi if he would like to
+   talk about his resignation, but Garibaldi is less than enthused to do
+   so. Randall appeals to him, saying that he is the only command staff
+   member who was with Babylon 5 from the start. He promises to allow
+   Garibaldi to say whatever he likes. Garibaldi remains silent for a
+   moment, as he decides what he wants to do.
+   
+   Ivanova is in Sheridan's office with a tray of food when Sheridan
+   comes in with a tray of his own. Planning to eat while they watch the
+   ISN broadcast, Ivanova asks if Sheridan is worried, since there will
+   no doubt be some bias on the broadcast. Sheridan says that they did
+   the best they could, and that they wanted to get it out into the open
+   as soon as possible, and since they managed to avoid major crises and
+   chose their words very carefully, he feels there is very little ISN
+   can do to them. Delenn arrives, and Sheridan turns on his monitor.
+   
+   "This is an Interstellar Network News special report. Reporting live
+   from the ISN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, your host, Alison
+   Higgins."
+   
+   Higgins begins by explaining that, two weeks earlier, they sent Dan
+   Randall to Babylon 5 to do a report, which will be shown later in the
+   broadcast. She runs through the daily headlines: President Clark
+   announced that his troops have reclaimed 75% of the Mars Colony which
+   broke away 259 days earlier, and the day has been declared a holiday.
+   Hearings also began on anti-Earth activity with testimony given by
+   members of the entertainment industry. Lee Parks, a Tri-Vid writer and
+   producer, testified, admitting that he used his Tri-Vids to spread
+   anti-Earth messages to outside forces to use against Earth. He also
+   names three others who helped him--Tri-Vid writer Carleton Jerrico,
+   and actors Beth Trumbo and Adrian Mostel. Higgins says Parks was sent
+   to a mental hospital where he will receive treatment to one day be
+   reaccepted into society.
+   
+   After a brief interlude with a segment of "This Year in History," the
+   Babylon 5 story begins...
+   
+   "Good evening, I'm Dan Randall. When we first approached the Ministry
+   of Information with the idea of travelling to Babylon 5 for this
+   story, they advised against. They believed it would put the safety of
+   myself and my news crew in jeopardy. But the first rule of journalism
+   is, 'You go where the story is.' Still, nothing could have prepared us
+   for what we found."
+   
+   Randall explains that, outside Babylon 5, everything seems to be
+   normal, but inside, most human residents are living in filthy and
+   dangerous areas of the station, while the best quarters in the station
+   are reserved for aliens and those running the station with taxes
+   collected from its inhabitants. Randall finds it ironic that the
+   Minbari were appointed the keepers of these humans, and runs a clip
+   without audio showing Lennier leading him through Downbelow. He
+   explains how any attempt at protest by these humans is put down, with
+   the humans sedated, as is demonstrated by one of them, on a gurney,
+   being escorted away by several medical personnel, including the Chief
+   of MedLab.
+   
+   Randall explains that, as they toured Babylon 5, they learned the
+   alien races were in control. Showing film of Captain Sheridan and
+   Ambassador Mollari, he asks why Sheridan, a decorated war hero, would
+   tolerate this from others.
+   
+   Randall explains that, to answer these questions, they talked to
+   experts. He introduces Dr. William Indiri, Dean of Psychiatry at
+   Harvard Medical School, and an expert on xenopsychology and Minbari
+   War Syndrome. Indiri explains that many Earth-Minbari War Veterans
+   suffer from an inferiority complex, feeling that other races are
+   better than humans. Indiri explains that, during the war, under that
+   administration, the Minbari were a vastly superior force, which could
+   lead those who fought against them to consider them morally superior.
+   Randall asks if the disease could cause someone to turn against their
+   own race, and Indiri agrees that it is possible, since most people in
+   such a situation could feel that an advanced species is closer to God
+   than they are, eventually forcing them to turn against everything they
+   believe in.
+   
+   "The second rule of journalism is," Randall explains, "'No one does
+   anything without a reason.' They may not admit it, even to themselves,
+   but the reason is there. To understand what's been happening on
+   Babylon 5 since their break from Earth, you first have to understand
+   why." He plays the segment of video taken in Downbelow when Franklin
+   responded to a colleague's call about cryo units. "A small piece of
+   conversation, overheard by chance. We'll find out what those few words
+   really mean when we come back."
+   
+   After a commercial break, the broadcast resumes, with Randall calling
+   attention to one of the ships docked outside Babylon 5 upon his
+   arrival. He explains that the warship is one of a fleet used by
+   Sheridan and Delenn in their recent military campaign, being fixed at
+   the taxpayers' expense. Randall explains that new weapons were added
+   to Babylon 5's defense system just prior to their secession from
+   Earth, and were used against Earth during the war. Randall shows this
+   as another piece of the puzzle, but wants to find the answer to it
+   all.
+   
+   The video taken of Delenn and Sheridan in Sheridan's office is shown.
+   On the tape, we hear Randall's voice ask Delenn of possible
+   repurcussions. "It will be a struggle," she tells him.
+   
+   "A struggle against Earth?" Randall asks her.
+   
+   "Of course. If they don't understand," she says, "we will make them
+   understand."
+   
+   "Anything that gets in the way disappears," Sheridan interjects.
+   
+   "There's a lot of people back home who might be concerned about what
+   you're saying. It sounds as if you're putting the mingling of Human
+   and Minbari above the safety of your own world."
+   
+   "There's no force in the galaxy that can stop what we've done here
+   together," Sheridan responds. "Nothing will be able to stop us."
+   
+   The tape ends, and Randall says that, if it sounds troubling, there is
+   good reason. He says that he managed to speak with Garibaldi, the
+   former security chief who explained it. More video airs, and Garibaldi
+   explains that he feels Sheridan is suffering from a "God complex" and
+   is acting like he's the Second Coming, as if he knows what's good for
+   everyone else. Garibaldi says he thinks he's gone over the top.
+   Garibaldi is sure he'll get in trouble for saying this, but says
+   someone had to say it.
+   
+   Randall continues by saying that, using information obtained aboard
+   Babylon 5, they were able to slip into a restricted area. The video
+   airs, with Randall, on the tape, explaining what he's seeing: A large
+   number of cryogenic freezing units in use. Babylon 5 should only be
+   operating four or five at a time, and in a limited capacity. None of
+   the names on the units match those in the station's logs. He wants to
+   know where the people came from, and why they are there.
+   
+   Randall explains that this is their Rosetta Stone. The humans come
+   from Downbelow, captured and sedated by Franklin's staff. Meanwhile,
+   alien ships are being built and repaired outside the station. Randall
+   says that you never build a fleet unless you're prepared to use it,
+   and he and others at ISN believe they know why.
+   
+   After another commercial break, the broadcast resumes, and Randall
+   introduces one last interview, which is significant for all that is
+   denied in it. The video shows Franklin, in MedLab, explaining his job.
+   Randall asks how long patients stay on the station, and Franklin says
+   they don't stay long, since Medlab aren't equipped to handle long-term
+   stays. Randall asks if he ever uses cryogenic freezers, and Franklin
+   says he does it very rarely, and that they aren't using any at all at
+   the moment.
+   
+   "Rule number three," Randall says, as the camera returns to the ISN
+   news desk. "People only lie when they have something to hide. We know
+   there are humans in cryo on Babylon 5. We saw them, as did you. So
+   what are they hiding?" Prodded by Randall, Dr. Indiri speculates that
+   Sheridan's Minbari War syndrome is causing him to want to change
+   humans to be more like Minbari.
+   
+   Randall explains that, with all they've shown, the truth is
+   self-evident, once you find they key. The key, he feels, is Delenn,
+   around whom all of what they uncovered revolves. Randall suggests that
+   the Minbari surrendered at the Battle of the Line so they could
+   destroy humanity from within instead. Though he says the idea of
+   mixing human and Minbari DNA may sound absurd, it has already
+   happened, with Delenn, when she became half-human. Randall concludes
+   that it must be Sheridan's plan to show others how good it can be to
+   be half alien and, should they disagree, or not want to go along with
+   the experiments, he will use the alien fleet he is assembling against
+   them, to "make them understand." Randall says that the fault is not
+   Sheridan's, since Earthforce should have discovered his disease
+   earlier and tried to cure it. This problem was only made worse by his
+   Minbari War Syndrome, coupled with the loss of his family's home in a
+   fire the week before resulting in his father's disappearance, and the
+   pressures of command.
+   
+   "Our job," Randall concludes, "is to report the news. Not to make it,
+   or guide it. But from this reporter's perspective, the situation on
+   Babylon 5 is deteriorating quickly, and must be dealt with. The
+   quarantine order will help prevent more humans from falling prey to
+   this genetics program, but it's only a short-term solution. As for
+   Sheridan, he does not deserve our scorn, our anger, or our contempt.
+   He is a war veteran, and that should at least earn him our sympathy.
+   We here at ISN hope he receives the best care possible so he can
+   someday come back to us. This is Dan Randall at ISN. Goodnight."
+   
+   The broadcast ends. Ivanova, directly in front of the monitor, with a
+   great amount of anger on her face, can do nothing but storm out of the
+   room. Delenn, initially seated, goes to Sheridan who stands, silently,
+   facing the wall. He will not speak to her, and he will not turn to
+   look at her. She goes after Ivanova. After a moment, Sheridan turns
+   the monitor off.
+
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+  Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
+  
+   A very aggrieved Zack is being subjected to a Minbari fitting of his
+   new uniform. His mocking of the ceremonial piping and general Minbari
+   fashion sense earns him a pointed reminder about looking gift horses
+   in the mouth. Zack admits to Lennier that he's really upset about
+   taking the Chief's rightful place. He insists that it's temporary
+   though.
+   
+   Greeting a Minbari delegation at the gate, Delenn requests one more
+   day to spend with Sheridan. She promises to tell him where she is
+   going, but not why. She is quite unsettled when the lead delegate
+   suggests that it would be more honest to tell the Captain that if the
+   _Dreaming_ does not go well, she will not be permitted to return to
+   him.
+   
+   Wearing her green Drazi leader's sash, Ivanova makes her way to a
+   Drazi religious party.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin is fitting G'Kar with a new prosthetic eye. G'Kar's
+   initial outrage when he realizes it's not his natural color dissipates
+   quickly when Franklin mentions that it will keep sending signals even
+   when it is removed from the socket. G'Kar instantly pops it out and
+   waves at himself at arm's length.
+   
+   On his way to Delenn's quarters, Sheridan passes a lift just as a
+   battered, bedraggled Commander Ivanova emerges supporting herself on a
+   cane. "Don't - Even - Ask," she utters and hobbles painfully away.
+   
+   Sheridan shakes his head, and enters Delenn's room. She greets him
+   wearing a sleek and revealing gown. He is pleased but baffled. She
+   reminds him of the Minbari custom of women watching men sleep for
+   three nights to determine their true nature, and requests that this be
+   their third night because tomorrow she must leave. He is happy to
+   agree, but it's clear from her indisposure that she isn't telling him
+   everything.
+   
+   He has to leave it unquestioned though and head off to a meeting with
+   Franklin and Marcus. Fed up with President Clark's lies about the
+   station, Sheridan has decided to send them on a mission to Earth begin
+   their retaliation. Franklin offers to ask a few questions about the
+   Captain's missing father while they're there, but the Captain
+   declines. It would only endanger the resistance.
+   
+   Delenn caresses John's sleeping face in farewell and departs. She
+   fails to notice Lennier waiting for her in the corridor. "I have
+   pledged myself to your side," he reminds her. She cannot leave him
+   behind.
+   
+   And so Delenn returns to Minbar where she is brought before her clan.
+   The clan leader, Callenn, disapproves of her liaison with Sheridan.
+   Taking an offworlder as mate has been forbidden since Minbari first
+   contacted other races. He claims that he seeks to only understand her
+   decision, not judge it hastily, and thus she must submit to the
+   _Dreaming_ to discover the reasons for her actions and agree to obey
+   her clan's ruling on the subject.
+   
+   Lennier volunteers as her second, to protect her in the _Dreaming_.
+   They both take deep draughts from a ceremonial chalice, then enter
+   through a guarded door into a room filled with mist. Lennier
+   recognizes from her actions that this is not the first time Delenn has
+   been in the _Dreaming_. Once as an acolyte she was second to Dukhat.
+   She begins to relive that time when she attended the greatest of the
+   Minbari and was terrified.
+   
+   "There's nothing to fear in the _Dreaming_. Only that which we take
+   with us," he told her.
+   
+   Suddenly she was on a ship being attacked. Dukhat, dead in her arms.
+   She screamed and screams, then and now.
+   
+   Her eyes black with horror, Delenn is comforted by Lennier.
+   
+   She plunges back into the past again. Delenn was curtly summoned by
+   Dukhat as he strode swiftly past her down a corridor. Glancing
+   nervously at her fellow acolytes she followed him humbly into the Grey
+   Council Chambers. As he stalked around the circle, he began to tell
+   her how the Grey Council had decided not to make contact with a
+   recently discovered species known as "Humans." He called them silly
+   cowards, drew her into the middle of their circle and asked her what
+   she would do. After stammering a little she replied, these humans are
+   a mystery presented by the Universe as a gift.
+   
+   Dukhat crowed with delight. This foolish young acolyte, he chided the
+   Council, carries the attribute of simple curiosity which you have
+   lost.
+   
+   Since he had thus alienated her from every member of the Council,
+   Dukhat took charge over Delenn's education. He instructed her to look
+   him in the eyes. "I cannot have an aide who will not look up," he
+   said. "You will be forever running into things."
+   
+   Presiding over the Council years later, Dukhat watched Delenn become a
+   member. As she uttered the sacred oath and held her hand up to the
+   triluminary, it suddenly glowed blue. The other Council members were
+   visibly surprised and disturbed.
+   
+   Later in her quarters, Dukhat congratulated Delenn again and began to
+   answer her question about the triluminary. It was brought by Valen,
+   and one story was that Valen was from far in the future. He had just
+   started explaining why he selected Delenn as his protégé long ago when
+   they were interrupted by a chiming.
+   
+   From the Council chambers they noticed a fleet of unknown ships
+   approaching. Delenn recognized them as humans. Suddenly they noticed
+   with horror that circling the scene was a group of Soul Hunter ships.
+   Dukhat ordered the gun ports closed on their ship, but the Earth ships
+   opened fire and in the battle Dukhat was struck down. With the Council
+   divided between taking revenge or taking stock, it was Delenn who cast
+   the determining vote to pursue the humans without mercy.
+   
+   The war became a holy war, relentless and all-consuming. Even though
+   she regretted her moment of rage soon, it was too late.
+   
+   Lennier tells Delenn that her relationship with Sheridan shows that
+   she is still seeking absolution for her guilt in the death of so many
+   humans. She asks him crossly, whether he truly believes that. No, but
+   this is what the clan will say when we tell them what the _Dreaming_
+   has shown, he replies. Callenn summons them forth telling them to rest
+   until the morrow, when they will tell what they have seen and a
+   judgment will be reached.
+   
+   Delenn is distraught. Trying to sleep, she watches Dukhat die in her
+   arms again and again, and for the first time notices his lips move,
+   but she can't make out what he is saying. She decides to go back into
+   the _Dreaming_ again. The clan leader tries to prevent her, but it's
+   too late. She and Lennier have already imbibed the potion. Handing him
+   the vessel she demands that he follow her in this time, so he can
+   understand. Callenn is apprehensive, but she comforts him with
+   Dukhat's own words to her long ago. "There is nothing to fear in the
+   _Dreaming_. Only that which we bring with us."
+   
+   The Earth ships were attacking. Pandemonium and destruction in the
+   corridors, and Dukhat was lying in her arms.
+   
+   "Listen!" Delenn commands Callenn and Lennier.
+   
+   Blood dripping from his mouth, Dukhat struggled to say, "There was a
+   purpose in my selection of you. Your heritage. You are a child of
+   Valen."
+   
+   Hours later, Lennier appears with an ancient scroll he has sneaked
+   from the Council archives which Delenn says proves her case. Lennier
+   is still confused, though. Delenn explains that since Valen was really
+   Jeffrey Sinclair, human and Minbari DNA have already merged. She
+   herself is one of his descendants, which explains why the triluminary
+   glowed for her. There is no purity in the Minbari race that can be
+   saved by her casting aside her alliance with Sheridan, she argues.
+   
+   Callenn begs her not to make this public, because it will disturb the
+   society deeply, and suggests a compromise. He will tell the clan that
+   she is fulfilling an ancient custom from the warring days of Minbar
+   when the victor would offer a daughter as a bride to the loser, as a
+   symbol of life.
+   
+   Sheridan greets Delenn as she docks. She tells him nothing except that
+   everything is fine now, and inquires after Marcus and Franklin.
+   
+   A transport lumbers along through natural space. Locked away deep in
+   its belly, a singing Marcus is methodically driving Franklin insane.
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@cc.wwu.edu)
+  
+   Sheridan is in his office when Ivanova arrives. He tells her that he
+   has been looking over his records and isn't sure how they will survive
+   when they begin running out of supplies, since even the black market
+   is unreliable. Ivanova tells him she will take care of the situation
+   for him, then says she is relieving him of command, since he has taken
+   no personal time in the previous nine months. He attempts to argue
+   with her, but she won't hear it, nor will she hear his attempts at
+   retaining command. Resigned, he leaves her alone with her work.
+   
+   Franklin and Marcus, on the transport to Mars, are trying to pass the
+   time by playing I Spy which, since there are very few things of note
+   in the cargo hold, isn't going very well. Marcus disappears and
+   reappears a few moments later, carrying a man in a neck-lock. "It
+   would appear we have a spy on our hands, Stephen."
+   
+   Franklin wants to know where the man came from, and he tells him and
+   Marcus that he got in through an access panel, which Marcus knew to
+   locked. The man says the Captain of the ship is his brother, and that
+   he helped him get through. Franklin wants to know why the Captain
+   didn't tell them, but the man says the Captain must have forgotten--
+   he gets forgotten a lot. When Marcus releases him, the man introduces
+   himself as John Demeter, commonly called Captain Jack. Marcus and
+   Franklin won't tell him who they are, but tell him that if he goes too
+   far into their section of the cargo bay, he'll pay the price. Captain
+   Jack says he won't push himself on them, and says that he was going to
+   offer to share his dinner with them, but Marcus won't have it-- they
+   have their own dinner: meal bars. Captain Jack, however, has something
+   much more appetizing: Insta-Eats. Franklin is attracted to the smell
+   of meat and potatoes coming from the small packet, but Marcus keeps
+   him from partaking, reminding him that they are to speak with no one
+   other than their contact.
+   
+   Sheridan is in his office/quarters trying to enjoy his vacation, but
+   finds it difficult since every channel and station coming onto Babylon
+   5 has been blocked due to jamming, except ISN. Sheridan reluctantly
+   listens to it, only to find a replay of Garibaldi's interview with Dan
+   Randall. After rewatching it, Sheridan turns it off.
+   
+   Sheridan approahces Garibaldi in Downbelow, and tries to talk to him
+   about the interview. Garibaldi no longer works for Sheridan, though,
+   so he isn't willing to talk-- he thinks Sheridan is upset because he's
+   challenging the Captain's authority. Sheridan considers it undermining
+   instead, but Garibaldi insists he is entitled to his opinion, and
+   thought free speech was something Sheridan was fighting for. Sheridan
+   wants to know where Garibaldi's anger is coming from-- he thought they
+   were friends, but Garibaldi tells him, "Yeah, well, maybe we both
+   thought wrong." Sheridan doesn't want Garibaldi to give Clark's
+   propaganda weight, and tells Garibaldi he's hurting the station and
+   the cause when he speaks out. Garibaldi starts to leave to meet with a
+   client, and tells Sheridan to go back to playing God. Sheridan follows
+   and reminds Garibaldi that his former job gives him credibility, which
+   he is using to undermine Sheridan's effort, and that, if Garibaldi
+   doesn't stop, he will make things very difficult for Garibaldi.
+   Sheridan tells Garibaldi to make a legitimate complaint if he has one,
+   but, if it's a personal attack, to stop. Garibaldi says he didn't make
+   it personal-- it was Sheridan who did so, as the focal point of a cult
+   of personality. The people are following Sheridan, not the cause.
+   Garibaldi feels Sheridan is starting to buy into his own publicity,
+   and Garibaldi says it's time someone started poking holes in that.
+   Sheridan tells Garibaldi that he doesn't want Garibaldi misusing his
+   authority, and hurting everyone else just to get at him. He storms
+   away, leaving Garibaldi behind. Among the many people in Downbelow who
+   witnessed this heated exchange, there is one particular group of three
+   men, near the back of the crowd, who seem particularly interested.
+   
+   Franklin and Marcus are eating their meal bars, while Captain Jack
+   continues to enjoy his own fine cuisine, which Franklin is not too
+   happy about. Marcus reminds him that they aren't supposed to talk with
+   anyone until they hear their contact's passphrase, which Captain Jack
+   begins speaking to himself. Captain Jack explains that he wanted to
+   check them out first, and then offers them some of his food. He hands
+   Marcus and Franklin their new identicards, and explains that, since
+   they get very few passengers, their access to the transit bureau is
+   limited to what they could steal--in this case, Jim Fennermen and
+   Daniel Lane, on their way to Mars--for their honeymoon. Neither Marcus
+   nor Franklin is thrilled by this, but they resolve to make the best of
+   it as the transport approaches Mars.
+   
+   Garibaldi is approached in the corridor by the three men who watched
+   his exchange in Downblow. One of them, the older of the three, tells
+   him they wanted to talk to him about his "former friend, Captain
+   Sheridan." The man explains that there are other people who share
+   Garibaldi's feelings about Sheridan, who aren't thrilled with Sheridan
+   turning against Earth. The man says he wanted to see what else they
+   had in common. He explains that he has extensive information on
+   Garibaldi, and wants to know if his objections are only half-hearted.
+   Garibaldi tells him he can wonder whatever he wants, and begins to
+   walk away, but the man stops him, saying that someone can become a
+   threat to a cause he believes in when other things, his ego or sense
+   of destiny, for instance, get in the way. If this applies to Sheridan,
+   he asks Garibaldi if he would feel obligated to intervene. Garibaldi
+   says he won't sell Sheridan out, but the man asks if Garibaldi really
+   can just stand by and watch the cause die, if he could have done
+   something to stop it. Without answering, Garibaldi walks away.
+   
+   While riding in a transport tube, Captain Jack explains that they have
+   been hearing some interesting stories about Babylon 5 on Mars
+   recently--such as the Babylon 5 crew using aliens to take everything
+   over, or that they had written off Mars entirely. Marcus assures him
+   that Captain Sheridan hadn't had time to deal with it while dealing
+   with the Shadow War--something Captain Jack knew nothing about. They
+   don't get much information on Mars, he explains, but Marcus is not
+   thrilled about having fought in a war about which the very people they
+   wanted to help knew nothing. Captain Jack doesn't even know who won
+   the war. Marcus jokes that the worst part of it all is being married
+   to Franklin, are married, and though Franklin objects, he is subjected
+   to several more well-spirited jabs as the transport tube pulls into
+   the station.
+   
+   Ivanova is in Sheridan's office, talking to four smugglers, each of
+   whom had, at one time or another, been caught on Babylon 5. She says
+   they were doing their job, and that, with the new conflict with Earth,
+   they hardly seen any of them anymore. One of the smugglers explains
+   it's becuase the penalties have become so much stiffer now--they are
+   in serious trouble with the EarthAlliance, and no one is buying new
+   weapons. Ivanova informs them that, in such a case, they should start
+   thinking about the future. She wants them to help bring in needed
+   supplies--food, medicines, spare parts--to Babylon 5. The smugglers
+   protest--there is no profit in bringing in those things. Ivanova tells
+   them, that, as long as they work for Babylon 5, they will get all the
+   equipment, repairs, and service they require to stay in operation,
+   but, if they don't, they might fall victim to unfortunate accidents.
+   They will all still make a profit, but, beyond that, Babylon 5 will be
+   willing to overlook their crimes against EarthGov, since everyone is
+   entitled to a fresh start. She asks them, with all they'll gain, what
+   more they could ask for. One of them, as he leaves, asks her, "You
+   seeing anybody, Ivanova?"
+   
+   Franklin, Marcus, and Captain Jack are making their ways through some
+   underground tunnels, to find the leaders of the Resistance. After a
+   short walk, they get where they are going, but find a welcome they
+   didn't expect--three armed men with weapons aimed right at them. The
+   leader tells tell them get up against the wall, but Franklin wants to
+   know what's going on--he thought they were expected. The leader
+   explains that they're expecting lots of people. He thanks Captain Jack
+   for bringing Franklin and Marcus to them. One of the men searches
+   Marcus and finds his Minbari pike. Marcus tries to explain that he's a
+   Ranger, which doesn't mean anything to the leader. The three men with
+   guns and Captain Jack lead Franklin and Marcus away. Franklin demands
+   to talk to someone in charge, and the leader says he's Number 2.
+   Marcus asks to speak to Number One, but the leader tells them they
+   have word that a hit squad was coming into kill the leader of the Mars
+   Resistance, from one of the outer sectors, and he has no reason to
+   believe Franklin and Marcus aren't that hit squad. The leader says he
+   only trusts the people he knows, and since he doesn't know Marcus and
+   Franklin, and they weren't specifically cleared through by Babylon 5,
+   he wants to test them first. He wants their identicards so they can
+   check Marcus and Franklin's story. If they are who they say they are,
+   they will talk. If not, they will be leaving "feet first." Marcus and
+   Franklin surrender their identicards, which Number Two takes. Captain
+   Jack asks to pay his regards to Number One, but Number Two wants him
+   to stay behind to comfort them, and to take blood samples so they can
+   match it against their DNA samples. Captain Jack and the two gunmen
+   stand behind to watch over Franklin and Marcus.
+   
+   Delenn enters the garden to find Sheridan there, obviously distracted.
+   He explains that he's mad at himself over the way his talk with
+   Garibaldi turned out. He says Garibaldi is like a complete stranger,
+   and that he feels like he's better at fighting wars than
+   relationships. Sheridan says he wishes he could find a way to turn
+   things around, but Delenn explains that Garibaldi has to find his own
+   way, as does Sheridan--their paths may simply not cross anymore. "It
+   is the way of things." Sheridan tells her it doesn't make it any
+   easier, but he asks her what she wanted. Delenn tells him that Ivanova
+   told her that he had some time off, and she begins to tell him of
+   another ritual they must perform in their relationship. He tells her
+   he's almost "ritualed out" and asks how many more there are. She says
+   there are as many as 50 more, and explains that this one--the
+   shan'fall--is about preparation and mutal understanding. She tells him
+   that they will spend the night together, discovering each other's
+   centers of pleasure, though it is done respectfully, with prayer and
+   meditation, since they should know all about each other if they are to
+   continue with their relationship. She tells him to meet her in her
+   quarters, and leaves. Sheridan is obviously quite taken with the idea.
+   
+   As Marcus and Franklin wait for word from Number Two, Captain Jack
+   tries to apologize to Franklin for what happened, but Franklin isn't
+   interested in listening. Cpatain Jack pulls a picture out of his
+   pocket and shows it to Franklin--it's his daughter, who just turned
+   eighteen. He hasn't talked to her in a while, but thinks about her all
+   the time, and is doing what he's doing to help her. Franklin notices
+   her address on the back, which Captain Jack claims he wrote down so he
+   couldn't forget it. Marcus asks Captain Jack if he's ever met Number
+   One, and Captain Jack says he's met her many times, and that they're
+   very close--Captain Jack says he wanted to bring her back something,
+   but couldn't find anything. They are interrupted by Number Two who has
+   done his check--and the numbers and DNA don't match. He wants to know
+   where their contacts are, and then threatens to kill them both. He is
+   stopped, though, by a woman who comes in from the corridor, telling
+   Number Two to wait a little longer. She explains she wanted to see
+   them for herself, and she wants to know what they're up to. Franklin
+   and Marcus notice something on Captain Jack's back, and fight away
+   their guards as Captain Jack attempts to fire on the woman, Number
+   One. Franklin tackles her to the ground, moving her out of the line of
+   fire just as Captain Jack fires. Marcus fires himself, and hits the
+   creature on Captain Jack's back. The dead creature is still there, but
+   Captain Jack is nowhere to be found.
+   
+   As Franklin studies the creature, Number Two comes in, explaining that
+   he found their real identicards--Captain Jack must have replaced them
+   with the fake ones. Franklin might have an explanation--Captain Jack
+   might not have had a choice. The creature was controlling Captain Jack
+   by overriding neural impulses. It was controlling him the whole time,
+   but Franklin realizes that Captain Jack had been giving him hints,
+   such as the photograph with his daughter's address, so that they knew
+   where to find her if he didn't survive. One of the scouts comes
+   back--they didn't find Captain Jack, but they did find out he broke
+   into a weapons case and stole a thermal grenade.
+   
+   In the transport tube, Captain Jack's communicator beeps. He answers
+   it, and Number One tells him that what happened wasn't his fault. She
+   wants him to come back, but he won't do it. He tells her they found
+   him in the middle of the night and attached that thing to him. He
+   tried to warn them, but the creature wouldn't let him. She tells him
+   that they killed it, but Jack knows you can't kill it all--it always
+   grows back. Number One tries to convince him not to do anything
+   stupid. Captain Jack tells her he always wondered whether or not the
+   transport tubes on Mars could withstand anything, and just as the
+   creature begins to regrow, Captain Jack pushes a button on the
+   grenade, and the transport car explodes, taking Captain Jack with it,
+   not destroying the tube in the process.
+   
+   Garibaldi is just finishing up with a client when Sheridan returns.
+   Sheridan says he wants to apologize for what happened, and asks if
+   they could try again. As he is speaking, though, a Brakiri woman comes
+   up to him and recognizes him as the one who went to Z'ha'dum, died,
+   and returned with the knowledge of good and evil. Sheridan tries to
+   stop her, but she insists on a blessing, which Sheridan doesn't want
+   to provide. Garibaldi grabs her away from him. "Come on! He's not the
+   Pope! He doesn't look anything like her," Garibaldi tells her.
+   Sheridan asks Garibaldi to leave her alone, and Garibaldi asks
+   Sheridan if it's because he likes what she's saying. Sheridan insists
+   it's because Garibaldi is hurting her, but Garibaldi won't let go.
+   Sheridan forces Garibaldi to let go of her, but for his attempt
+   receives a punch directly to the jaw, courtesy of Garibaldi. Security
+   comes to the rescue, but Sheridan won't let them do anything. He tells
+   Garibaldi that, because of all they've been through, he gets one punch
+   for free, but, should Garibaldi try it again, Sheridan will fight
+   back. Sheridan turns and walks away, as does Garibaldi soon after.
+   
+   Sheridan goes to Delenn's quarters, still rubbing his jaw, and rings
+   the bell. Delenn lets him in, but when he enters, he is surprised to
+   find Delenn isn't alone--Lennier and several other religious caste
+   Minbari are there with him. She explains that they are there for the
+   ritual--they will pray and meditate, but wait outside her bedroom, to
+   make sure that things don't go too far. Sheridan whispers to her that
+   he can't do it, but she tells him that it is important to her that he
+   do it properly. The engagement means a lot to him, and the Minbari
+   ceremonies mean a lot to her. Delenn leads Sheridan into her bedroom
+   and closes the door.
+   
+   Sheridan, apparently just after having woken up, enters an elevator to
+   find Lennier there. Sheridan doesn't say anything, but he doesn't need
+   to. Lennier, apparently somewhat distrought, turns to him and has only
+   one thing to say. "Whoo-hoo?"
+   
+   Number One tells Franklin and Marcus that the other leaders of the
+   Resistance are on their way, but it will take a couple of days. Marcus
+   isn't too happy about this, but Number One is willing to put them up
+   in a hotel where she has some control. She asks them to go out to
+   dinner with her, but Marcus declines, allowing Franklin to go alone
+   with her. Before they leave, Marcus asks her where they are staying.
+   She tells him it's the Red Planet Hotel, and mentions that, for some
+   reason, they were given the honeymoon suite. "Right. Fine," Marcus
+   says as they leave. "I'll remind you of this when we decide on custody
+   of the children."
+   
+   Garibaldi is sitting alone when he is approached by Wade and his
+   cohorts. Wade tells Garibaldi that he heard about the fight with
+   Sheridan. "I, uh... I think he's lost it," Garibaldi tells them. "He's
+   starting to believe the things everybody's been saying about him, and
+   buying into this hero worship stuff. It's become about him. Not what
+   we've been saying, not what we've been fighting for. And if he could
+   see straight, he'd agree with me, but uh... In the end... We're going
+   to lose everything we've been working for because of one man."
+   
+   "That's what happens," Wade tells him. "That's exactly what happens
+   when one man begins to matter more than the cause. Are you with us?"
+   
+   "I won't hurt him," Garibaldi insists.
+   
+   "No one's asking you to," Wade says. "You give him to us when we tell
+   you to. We'll see to it that he gets the help that he needs. Are you
+   with us?"
+   
+   Garibaldi does have to think for a moment, but does come to a
+   decision. "I'm with you."
+
+   [14][Next] 
+   
+      [15]Last update: August 23, 1997
+
+References
+
+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/076.html
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/076.shtml
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/076.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/075.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/077.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/076.html#TOP
+  11. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/075.html
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/077.html
+  15. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+  Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
+  
+   Commander Ivanova finds the Captain scowling at another ISN broadcast
+   "reporting on" the mistreatment of humans aboard Babylon 5. From the
+   tone they figure it is only a matter of time before Earth attacks the
+   station again, but this time as part of a "rescue mission." Just then
+   a more welcome message is logged from Franklin on Mars.
+   
+   The meeting with the leaders of the resistance is ready to begin as
+   soon as everyone arrives. Franklin and Marcus' mission to Mars is
+   well-timed. Number One of the Mars Resistance estimates that Earth
+   Force will have captured and subdued all of Mars within a few months.
+   But she warns that some of her allies are more dangerous than she is.
+   No sooner are the words spoken than Marcus rushes in exclaiming that
+   their hotel has just been bombed and 10 civilians killed. Number One
+   departs in a fury.
+   
+   These are not the only unprovoked attacks baffling the Army of Light.
+   A visiting Minbari, Forell, tells Delenn of raiders destroying
+   transports and ships along the borders of various peoples dependent on
+   the Minbari for their protection. Even more disturbing is the news
+   that the warrior caste refuses to protect these allies now that the
+   Grey Council has been broken.
+   
+   Delenn finds Sheridan in C&C and explains that she needs to take a
+   flight of White Stars out to determine who is attacking their allies.
+   He balks at her personal involvement until she reminds him not to
+   forget who she was, and who she is and what she can do.
+   
+   Number One angrily accosts Philippe, an Earth resistance leader, for
+   bombing the hotel without her authorization. What he does on Earth is
+   his business. What he does on Mars is her responsibility, and she will
+   gut him if he forgets that again.
+   
+   ISN is still replaying the story of Sheridan suffering from Minbari
+   War Syndrome, when a new idea strikes the Captain. He can't wait for
+   morning, and instead runs off to roust Ivanova from her bed and drag
+   her into the War Room. "I've been here before," she reminds him,
+   bleary eyed and unkempt. So he begins to explain.
+   
+   "You have a face people trust," he says. When she was giving status
+   reports during the war, she provided everyone with solid, reliable
+   information. Now it's time to do it again, he says, but on a larger
+   scale. This time, the War Room will become the Voice of the
+   Resistance, broadcasting live to ships, to colonies, and to Earth,
+   competing directly with ISN for ownership of the truth.
+   
+   As he exits with brisk enthusiasm, he tells her to go back to bed,
+   leaving her muttering more empty threats against his safety.
+   
+   The White Stars speed through hyperspace. Delenn asks Forell how bad
+   things are back home. The Grey Council held their society together.
+   Now the castes are at odds again. He tells her how the warrior caste
+   forced all members of the religious caste out of a certain city in the
+   midst of polar wastelands. Most of them died of exposure and
+   starvation. His family was among them. Although the warrior caste
+   stopped short of actually killing Minbari with their own hands, there
+   are few who wouldn't call them murderers for this action.
+   
+   With the resistance leaders all assembled, Franklin begins his appeal.
+   Sheridan is offering an alliance. He will support their cause actively
+   if they will fight with him to overturn President Clark. If they will
+   carry out any order coming from Babylon 5 no matter how strange, then
+   when it is all done, he promises that Mars will have its freedom. But,
+   Franklin adds angrily, this means no more terrorist attacks against
+   civilians.
+   
+   The White Stars pop out of hyperspace and find a distress signal being
+   send out by a dying Pak'ma'ra. They reach the site only to find a
+   fleet of unknown ships. Delenn is ready for first contact this time
+   and opens a channel. When ships identify themselves as Drakh, Lennier
+   is alarmed to discover that they speak Minbari. This could only occur
+   if this were not true first contact.
+   
+   It is instantly apparent who has talked to the Drakh before when
+   Forell pulls a weapon on Delenn and tells her that he has brought her
+   here to listen to their message.
+   
+   Number One grants the B5 duo her grudging approval, before catching
+   Franklin out as a liar. There is no way Sheridan could have sent the
+   message to stop terrorist bombing because news of these attacks isn't
+   getting off of Mars. Sheepishly Franklin admits that he just threw
+   that in to help her.
+   
+   As soon as she leaves, Marcus starts pestering the Doctor about his
+   new love. Franklin denies it until she walks back in and invites him
+   to dinner. (Marcus she assigns to guard duty.) "Touch passion,
+   Stephen," Marcus advises. "Don't walk away when it calls you by name."
+   
+   The White Stars follow the Drakh to their mother ship and Delenn
+   allows an emissary on board. Dark and deadly, the Drakh hisses,
+   shudders and trembles its way to the bridge.
+   
+   Forell explains that the religious caste needs allies in order to
+   defend themselves against the warrior caste. In exchange for some
+   deserted worlds along their border, these Drakh will help the
+   religious caste in the looming civil war. The Drakh want peace, he
+   argues. They only want a home.
+   
+   "Because they have just lost their home," Lennier finishes, mouthing
+   "Z'ha'dum" to Delenn.
+   
+   Forell admits that he couldn't have hurt Delenn, but he needed to show
+   her that here they had a way to be the "salvation of their people."
+   
+   Delenn tells the creature that she will return in a week with an
+   answer. "You will not regret this, Delenn," Forell says. The Drakh
+   stops and hisses with recognition, "Delenn!" before departing.
+   
+   She realizes her mortal danger at that instant. Now that these Drakh
+   know her, she tells Forell, they will take revenge for her part in the
+   Shadow war. The White Star fleet is surrounded and stationary. There
+   is no time to escape by jump point or by fleeing. So instead, she
+   orders Lennier to fly straight at the mother ship, "skin dancing"
+   along its hull until they have built up enough speed to escape through
+   jump points. In the process, White Star 16 is destroyed.
+   
+   Forell has been struck by a falling beam and is fatally wounded. With
+   his final words he begs Delenn's forgiveness. "No. I am sorry, Forell.
+   I should never have been away this long," she utters as his body is
+   carried away.
+   
+   Safe in hyperspace, Lennier begins to set a course for Babylon 5, but
+   now with blood in her eye Delenn overrides him and orders the White
+   Stars to attack. The angry, attacking White Stars make short work of
+   most of the Drakh fighters, and as the mother ship races for the local
+   jump gate, Delenn's flagship beats her there and fires through her
+   hull from stem to stern.
+   
+   Upon her return Delenn finds Sheridan in the revamped War Room.
+   Apparently there have been more sightings of the Drakh in other areas.
+   But that isn't the only bad news she brings him. "The caste system is
+   falling apart," she says. She must go to try and save her people from
+   the ravages of civil war, and attempt to rebuild the Grey Council.
+   Sheridan is unhappy to hear these words. But she comforts him, arguing
+   that humans form communities which are more powerful than the
+   individuals were before. This is humanity's strength, and also what
+   makes them dangerous. Since his return from Z'ha'dum, the Captain has
+   been trying to pretend that he hasn't changed. But he has. And now in
+   order to fight the battles ahead and rebuild what has been destroyed
+   he needs to be dangerous. With her gone, she knows that he will be
+   able to do that.
+   
+   Far away on Mars, a lonely Ranger sits on guard duty, listening to a
+   woman's voice gasping Stephen's name.
+
+   [14][Next] 
+   
+      [15]Last update: November 9, 1997
+
+References
+
+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/077.html
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/077.shtml
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/077.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/076.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/078.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/077.html#TOP
+  11. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/076.html
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/078.html
+  15. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@cc.wwu.edu)
+  
+   Garibaldi is in his "office" in helping a man reunite with his lost
+   wife/daughter--an act observed by Wade. He leaves and goes out into
+   the hallway, where he meets with another man. Wade tells the man that
+   it's about time Garibaldi got his first assignment, which will be a
+   chance to see how sincere he really is in helping them. Wade wants to
+   know how he handles himself in a crunch, and if he gets himself
+   killed, they will know they have the wrong guy. "At this point," Wade
+   tells the other gentleman, "Mr. Garibaldi is eminently expendable."
+   
+   Zack enters Sheridan's office to find the Captain staring, silently,
+   at a painting hanging on his wall. Sheridan explains that he has been
+   doing some thinking, and that there are some unpleasant things he
+   needs to take care of, which he can do now that Delenn is gone. He
+   tells Zack that, when Garibaldi resigned as Chief of Security, he
+   didn't turn in his link, identicard, or PPG. Zack tells Sheridan that
+   he doesn't think Garibaldi would take it very well, and that it
+   doesn't make sense that Garibaldi is acting the way he is. Sheridan
+   says that he wants this taken care of that same day. Zack agrees, but
+   wants to know why Sheridan is in such a hurry. "I don't like the
+   company he's been keeping," the Captain replies. Zack leaves.
+   
+   Dr. Franklin enters the war room, which is being reconfigured as a
+   broadcast newsroom. He sees Ivanova, who is helping to set things up
+   for the first broadcast. Franklin tells her that his business on Mars
+   is concluded, and the rest of the resistance is on the station. He
+   asks how she is doing, and she says that everything is ready to go,
+   except that they don't have enough power to send the broadcast
+   everywhere it needs to go. She says that she has been trying to find a
+   solution for days, but hasn't had any success. Franklin suggests she
+   try Epsilon III--there must be a source of power down there, since
+   they were able to evacuate refugees there during the Shadow War with
+   no trouble. Ivanova tells Franklin it's the logical choice, and that
+   "anybody could see that in about two seconds." Franklin tells her
+   that, of course, he never would have thought of it, and that it is a
+   great idea. Without discussing the matter further, Ivanova leaves to
+   catch a shuttle to Epsilon III.
+   
+   Zack arrives at Garibaldi's office, and asks him how he is. Garibaldi
+   says that he's doing fine, and that he likes working in this kind of
+   an environment--you get to see and know the people you help. Garibaldi
+   asks Zack how he is, but his response is less than enthusiastic. Zack
+   reluctantly tells Garibaldi that he needs his link, indenticard, and
+   his weapon. Garibaldi doesn't mind getting rid of the indenticard and
+   the link, but doesn't want to get rid of the gun. Zack presses him and
+   Garibaldi does give us weapon and starts to walk away, but Zack asks
+   him for the backup he knows he carries as well, which Garibaldi
+   unwillingly surrenders. Zack asks Garibaldi what he should have done,
+   and Garibaldi says he should have said no--that way, it wouldn't have
+   had to come from Zack. Without saying another word, Garibaldi turns
+   and walks away.
+   
+   As Ivanova's shuttle leaves Babylon 5, Garibaldi is in his quarters,
+   dressing, and watching an old Daffy Duck cartoon, in which Daffy is
+   continually tormented by an unseen assailant, who is controlling his
+   every move and the world around him. As the assailant is revealed to
+   be Bugs Bunny, Garibaldi's door chimes and Wade enters. Wade tells
+   Garibaldi that he has a job for him. He says he wants to hire
+   Garibaldi as a bodyguard and expedite something secret. Wade explains
+   that his contact has to perform important business on Babylon 5, which
+   might involve security--all Garibaldi has to do is to keep the contact
+   out of security's way while they are on board. Wade asks him if going
+   against his own security force will be a problem, and Garibaldi tells
+   him that--if he had asked that question the day before--he would have,
+   but now he doesn't. Garibaldi agrees to the job.
+   
+   Ivanova's shuttle lands on Epsilon III, and she begins searching the
+   corridors. She notices a being walking through the corridor and tells
+   him she needs to see Draal. When she finally sees who it is, it's a
+   familiar face--that of Zathras. She asks why he's there, and Zathras
+   explains that he works there. She says that Zathras was left 1000
+   years in the past, but Zathras insists they had never met before.
+   Zathras laughs and explains that Ivanova didn't meet Zathras, but
+   rather Zathras. This confuses Ivanova greatly, but Zathras explains
+   that there are ten members in their family, each one named Zathras,
+   but each one pronounced differently. Ivanova tells Zathras that she
+   needs power to help the broadcast, and, though he laments the fact
+   people always come to him for help, which he always provides, he does
+   agree to help her.
+   
+   Garibaldi and Wade are walking through the corridors, finding the back
+   way through the station to get to the docking area where they will
+   meet the contact without security interfering. Wade explains that
+   their contact decided to send his wife in his place so that she can
+   prepare to take things over later. They find who they are looking for,
+   and Garibaldi recognizes her instantly--it's Lise.
+   
+   Later, Garibaldi and Lise are alone in her quarters. He wants to know
+   what happened in the meantime, and why she lost her first husband, and
+   found another one. Lise explains that Franz was having an affair, and
+   that he used the court system, which favors Earth-born people above
+   those born on Mars, to file for divorce first. He got their daughter
+   and remarried, and plans never to tell the child who her real mother
+   is. Garibaldi is angry that she forgot all about him in her distress,
+   but Lise insists she didn't forget--she knew he was happy here and
+   didn't want to change that. Garibaldi tells her that she was his life
+   at one point, but she says they're different people now. She explains
+   that, six months earlier, she met Bill, and they got married.
+   Garibaldi realizes she must mean William Edgars, one of the richest
+   men on Earth. She insists that she didn't marry him because of his
+   money, but Garibaldi no longer wants to talk about it. He says that he
+   will, from that point on, only treat her as he would any client, and
+   after she goes back to Mars, he is going to forget any of this
+   happened, and now, he doesn't need to drink to do just that. Lise
+   tells him that she's glad, but they are interrupted by Wade, telling
+   them their shuttle is ready. The three of them leave.
+   
+   Londo is in Sheridan's office talking to him when G'Kar arrives.
+   Neither ambassador is happy to see the other, but Sheridan says he
+   needs them both there. Sheridan explains that commercial transports
+   are being raided along the worlds in the League of Non-Aligned Worlds.
+   Because of this, smaller worlds and empires are trying to rise to
+   prominence, which is causing quite a few problems. In addition, there
+   is the added problem of the Drakh, who are now on the loose with
+   Shadow technology. Sheridan says that the Rangers no longer need to
+   look out for the Shadows' return, but that he wants to use them to
+   monitor the borders of the League borders, maintain the peace, and
+   protect civilians. G'Kar feels that this could be seen as an act of
+   aggression, but Sheridan says they will only go where they are
+   invited, in exchange for technical support and the authority to carry
+   out whatever they start. Londo agrees with G'Kar--this is not a good
+   idea. Sheridan tells them that, if Londo and G'Kar both agree on this,
+   that might help show the League worlds that this is something
+   important. Londo is afraid it might be interpreted as a sign of
+   weakness, but Sheridan says it should be interpreted as their trying
+   to build something--to work together for a common goal. Londo says it
+   isn't fair, and Sheridan agrees, and asks Londo if he wants to blood
+   of the dead on his hands. He asks G'Kar as well, but neither responds.
+   
+   Zack enters his office and asks the computer for a status report. The
+   computer reads off a list of fairly mundane things, except for one
+   unauthorized entry, where 72 passengers disembarked a ship, but only
+   71 went through security. Only one access was recorded to the customs
+   bay--Security Chief Michael Garibaldi. Zack asks if more than one
+   security identicard is registered to him, and the computer answers
+   this affirmative. Zack orders the computer to cancel all identicards
+   and security clearances belong to Garibaldi.
+   
+   Garibaldi, Wade, and Lise are waiting for their contact in Down Below.
+   He eventually arrives, and hands over a secure cube--extremely
+   difficult to open--containing a small vial. Garibaldi asks what it is,
+   and though Wade initially resists, Lise explains that her husband has
+   discovered there might be a genetic danger to some telepaths, and that
+   this might be the cure to stop it. Wade explains that, in order to
+   keep a panic from ensuing, they want to keep it quiet, since no one
+   would believe that the disease can only be spread to telepaths. There
+   are plenty of people who would want to have it for themselves, and
+   they have invested far too much time and money to let it fall into the
+   wrong hands. Garibaldi, looking around, finds that a group of people
+   have noticed them. He tells the contact, Wade, and Lise that they all
+   need to get out, but it's too late--they have been noticed. A
+   firefight ensues, and the four of them run off, but are closely
+   pursued. They are shot at from the front, and the contact is killed.
+   
+   Garibaldi ushers them into another room, and then bars the door. They
+   try to exit out the back way, but Garibaldi's identicard no longer
+   works. Their assailants try to bash in the door, but Garibaldi
+   discovers another way out--he piles several crates on top of each
+   other and then takes everyone through a panel in the ceiling, just as
+   the assailants manage to break down the door. In the vents, Garibaldi
+   tells Lise and Wade to go ahead without him, while he lies in wait for
+   the others. They discover the hole in the ceiling, but when one of
+   them comes through, he simply looks at Garibaldi for a few moments,
+   but doesn't fire. He then vanishes down the grate. Garibaldi realizes
+   the implications and chases after Wade and Lise. He catches up with
+   them, and manages to pull them away just as PPG fire erupts through
+   the floor of the vent. The fire eventually stops, and Garibaldi tells
+   them that they need to go to Docking Bay 3--and to not stop thinking
+   about it the entire time. They get where they are going, but it's not
+   Docking Bay 3, just a corridor. Garibaldi explains that they must be
+   using telepaths to track their movements. A security officer passes,
+   and Garibaldi tells him that the shooters from Brown sector will be in
+   Bay 3, and to meet him there. Garibaldi tells Wade and Lise to pick up
+   a fake identicard and to get on the next transport out of there, while
+   he goes to Bay 3. Lise doesn't want to leave him, but Garibaldi says
+   she has to, and has Wade take her off. Garibaldi then runs off.
+   
+   It is dark in the abandoned Docking Bay 3, and the men who chased
+   after Garibaldi, Lise, and Wade are there. Before long, Zack and his
+   security team arrive. Zack demands to know who they are what they are
+   doing, but only one of them has a reponse: "To the future." They both
+   bite down on something, and fall to the floor. Zack calls MedLab, and
+   tells them to get there quickly, but as he is doing so, Garibaldi
+   arrives in the bay as well.
+   
+   Ivanova returns from Epsilon III to find Franklin waiting for her. He
+   asks how it went, and she explains that she thinks she has the
+   interface figured out. She wants to tell the Captain, but Franklin
+   says he doesn't think it would be a good time at the moment--Sheridan
+   is in a bad mood right now. As they leave, they pass Lise, who did
+   arrive safely.
+   
+   Sheridan has both Zack and Garibaldi in his office, and demands to
+   know what the deaths that occurred were about. Garibaldi says he
+   doesn't know who they were, but that they just came at them, and
+   killed the man who was supposed to meet with a client of his.
+   Garibaldi tells Sheridan he can believe him or not, but either way, he
+   won't say anything else. Sheridan tells Garibaldi that he jeopardized
+   the station, but Garibaldi says that Sheridan nearly got him killed,
+   and that it all could have been handled quietly had his identicard and
+   gun not been taken. He didn't break any laws, though--Sheridan points
+   out that he trespassed, violated security, and used an unauthorized
+   identicard, but Garibaldi invites Sheridan to fine him, but that
+   otherwise, he has nothing. Garibaldi starts to leave, but Sheridan
+   tells him that Garibaldi is operating there because Sheridan is
+   allowing him to, but should anything like that happen again, Sheridan
+   will shut him down right away. Garibaldi doesn't say anything as he
+   walks out. Garibaldi arrives back in his quarters, to find that he has
+   a message waiting. He asks who it's from, and the computer replies
+   that it's from Lise Hampton. Garibaldi tells the computer to delete
+   the message, and then he goes to bed.
+   
+   Later, Garibaldi receives a transmission from William Edgars himself.
+   Edgars tells him that Lise has arrived home safe, and that he heard
+   about what Garibaldi did and how, and that he is appreciative for what
+   he did. Edgars says that his organization could use Garibaldi, and
+   that he would like to hire Garibaldi on retainer, though he would have
+   to come to Mars, but it would definitely be worth his while. Edgars
+   thinks there wouldn't be much problem getting him past the quarantine,
+   and Edgars is sure he can work things out if Garibaldi is interested.
+   "Yeah," Garibaldi says. "I'm interested."
+   
+   There is a brief flash of static, and then a test pattern appears on
+   the screen, followed by Ivanova's face, in the war room.
+   
+   "This is Commander Susan Ivanova of Babylon 5, and this is the first
+   official broadcast of the new Voice of the Resistance. We're sending
+   this signal out to every ship that wants to hear the truth, to our
+   fallen comrades and freedom fighters on Mars and Proxima III, and to
+   Earth, which, despite what you may have heard, is still our home, and
+   still the one dream that we're as loyal to now as we ever have been.
+   Over the last three years, ever since President Clark took over, after
+   arranging the assassination of President Santiago, you have been
+   hearing nothing but misinformation, propaganda, and outright lies.
+   Now, we're going to tell you the truth. And we're going to keep
+   telling it until they shut us down, or until President Clark steps
+   down and returns Earth to the hands of its people. You can kill us.
+   You can bomb our colonies, destroy our ships, murder innocent
+   civilians. But you cannot kill the truth. And the truth is back in
+   business."
+
+   [14][Next] 
+   
+      [15]Last update: August 10, 1997
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+References
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/078.html
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/078.shtml
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/078.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/077.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/079.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/078.html#TOP
+  11. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/077.html
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/079.html
+  15. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+  Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
+  
+   The command staff arrives for breakfast to find Sheridan leaned up
+   against the wall carrying on a conversation with himself. Their
+   attempts to engage him don't get through, but his occasional outbursts
+   of laughter disturb their conversation. Trying to form the non-aligned
+   worlds into a union again is a daunting task, they agree, but one that
+   must be done.
+   
+   With an exultant shout, the Captain stands up and comes over to their
+   table. "There has got to be an easier way to do this!" he enthuses,
+   with his characteristic "I've got an idea" gleam in his eye. He orders
+   Marcus to take three White Stars to a sector of Centauri border space
+   and wait there for orders.
+   
+   As he leaves in a hurry, Ivanova gets up and sniffs his empty coffee
+   mug. "Just checking..." she remarks only half in jest. Franklin laughs
+   that this is after Delenn has only been gone three days.
+   
+   There is no laughter for Delenn, however. Lennier reports fighting in
+   the capital, the opening salvo of civil war. In the next days she
+   passes time in a chamber watching scenes of the capital city in all
+   its splendor, and she weeps to think of it in flames. "Did I do this,
+   when I broke the Grey Council?" she asks. Valen predicted that she
+   would, but since he was Sinclair, he could not have known what would
+   pass after the breaking. There is no prophecy to steer her course now.
+   
+   What she does know is that the fighting must be stopped immediately,
+   or they will all face a millenium of war. And so she goes to
+   rendezvous with the leaders of the religious caste. She has also
+   invited her old enemy Neroon of the warrior caste to meet her there.
+   
+   Ambassador Mollari is baffled that the Captain is asking him to deny
+   that the White Stars are patrolling the borders of Centauri space,
+   especially since their presence there was for the sole purpose of
+   inspiring the League worlds to allow White Stars on their own borders.
+   As Londo launches into a tirade about human psychology, Sheridan
+   reaches out comfortingly and smiling broadly says, "Trust me."
+   
+   Delenn strides purposefully on board the waiting Minbari war cruiser
+   into palpable tension, as she finds Neroon and a small party of
+   warriors lined up opposite a welcoming party from the religious caste.
+   Apparently Neroon's presence aboard the religious caste vessel has
+   been met with a hostility just shy of violence. Delenn states that he
+   is under her personal protection and demands to speak with him at
+   once. She stares his adjutants down until they make way for her
+   passage.
+   
+   Lennier turns toward the religious caste leaders, and as he passes by
+   they hiss their anger at the honor with which she treats Neroon. Loyal
+   as ever, Lennier simply states that they must wait for Delenn to speak
+   for herself.
+   
+   Alone with Neroon at last, Delenn asks for his help. When he reminds
+   her that the last time they met he intended to kill her to keep her
+   from taking control of the Rangers, she states that despite their
+   differences he has always acted honorably and to serve their people.
+   She explains that neither the warrior caste nor the religious caste
+   can win the war because it will unbalance their society.
+   
+   With a fragile trust they sit to discuss. He argues that their "world
+   gone mad" cannot be stopped easily, but she has a plan. Even though it
+   will expose them both to the mistrust of their respective castes, he
+   offers her his temporary support. Meanwhile, panicked civilians flee
+   through the burning capital.
+   
+   The Drazi Ambassador pounces on Sheridan in the Zocalo to ask about
+   the White Stars which have been sighted on the borders of Centauri
+   space. At first amiably and then curtly the Captain refuses to
+   comment, leaving the Drazi more frustrated than ever.
+   
+   After standing by waiting with his three White Stars for the Captain's
+   orders, Marcus is not pleased to hear that he's gone all that way to
+   destroy asteroids.
+   
+   "I see," he says, mystified. "Shoot a bunch of rocks, and then leave."
+   
+   Sheridan appears almost annoyed at being questioned, and tells Marcus
+   to follow orders. Ivanova tries to question him too, but he blithely
+   agrees that it was an unusual command and departs to find Franklin.
+   
+   The Drazi Ambassador calls upon Londo for an explanation as well, but
+   only meets with a categorical denial and a heap of insults thrown in
+   for good measure. He is now deeply worried and quickly huddles with
+   the other League ambassadors in the corridor. At that moment Franklin
+   finds them and asks them each to ask their governments to send extra
+   blood supplies for their species, just in case of an attack.
+   
+   The religious leaders are also busy trying to figure out what Delenn
+   is up to. She must intend to surrender, some say. One of them even
+   eavesdropped on her conversation with Neroon enough to hear her say
+   that the religious caste should not win the war. Another argues that
+   killing someone so revered would split their caste deeply. So the
+   first replies that they must martyr themselves and the entire ship to
+   prevent her from reaching homeworld. They place a small time-release
+   cask of toxic material in an air duct and prepare their hearts for
+   death, unaware that Lennier has observed their scheming.
+   
+   The Voice of the Resistance is about to begin broadcasting when
+   Sheridan casually steps into the War Room. Just as casually he asks
+   Ivanova to report that nothing happened today in sector 83x9x12. It
+   won't be a lie, he argues, because it's true. Keeping bewilderment
+   just barely at bay, the Commander goes on the air the next moment with
+   this announcement, and advises everyone to please remain calm. This
+   message and the intelligence that three White Stars engaged an
+   apparently invisible enemy in an asteroid field drives the perturbed
+   League ambassadors deeper into the arms of paranoia.
+   
+   Standing in contemplation in the cruiser's battle command center,
+   Neroon is suddenly attacked by one of his retainers. Delenn is
+   furious. After Neroon is taken away for care and the attacker thrown
+   in the brig, she asks the religious leaders to watch over him because
+   his caste believes he will surrender to her, and thus will do anything
+   to stop him. The religious caste members exchange a quick look, and
+   one asks if they really don't intend to surrender.
+   
+   "Don't be foolish," she retorts, and explains again that neither side
+   can surrender to the other or there will be chaos. She shakes her head
+   in dismay at the warrior caste who are so full of extremism that they
+   would attack one of their own. Her compatriots' remorse only grows as
+   she says gratefully, "But you. You are the steady rock beneath my
+   feet." They realize that it is now too late to prevent their own
+   pointless suicide.
+   
+   But they did not count on Lennier, who is able to reach the cask in
+   time to shut off the valve just as the poison begins to escape. "Have
+   we fallen so far that we cannot even trust ourselves?" he asks them as
+   he collapses from the effects of the fumes.
+   
+   Neroon reports that Lennier is being tended by his personal physician,
+   but until he recovers there is no explanation for how he was exposed
+   to the toxin. When pressed, Delenn admits how deeply she cares for
+   Lennier, that she is training him the way she was trained by Dukhat,
+   and that she utterly relies on him.
+   
+   Neroon tells Delenn that if their people are ever to understand why
+   she treated him with honor, it will be because she taught them, and
+   ruefully admits that he is finally coming to see why Dukhat chose her
+   to succeed him. "I do not know what lies ahead, Delenn. But I do know
+   that it is right that we are here."
+   
+   The League ambassadors call a hasty council meeting. When Sheridan
+   arrives, they present him with their demands. He must supply them with
+   the same defense he is providing the Centauri. He balks, but they
+   insist. He is only able to obtain the concession that they will give
+   his ships the authority to intercept ships on their borders, and they
+   will support his fleet in the event of a greater danger. Then they
+   dismiss him. He is only able to contain his glee until he reaches the
+   first lift.
+   
+   Lennier regains consciousness only to tell Delenn that he smelled a
+   leaking valve, but he denies the suggestion of warrior caste sabotage.
+   As soon as she leaves, the religious leaders cluster around to ask him
+   why he didn't tell her the truth. He explains that she lives in a
+   world where everyone is better than they really are. When they thank
+   him, he replies angrily, "I did it for her; I did not do it for you."
+   Her faith in their goodness was more valuable to him than her
+   knowledge of their weakness. And so they depart, deeply chastened.
+   
+   The Voice of the Resistance announces the League's new border patrol
+   initiative, and asks for news of the events on Minbar. Meanwhile,
+   Neroon leaves the war cruiser stealthily. In his first message to his
+   caste leader he announces with satisfaction that he possesses the
+   religious caste's plans and victory is at hand.
+
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+References
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+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/079.html
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/079.shtml
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/079.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/078.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/080.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/079.html#TOP
+  11. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/078.html
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/080.html
+  15. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@cc.wwu.edu)
+  
+   Garibaldi is asleep in his quarters when he receives a call from
+   William Edgars. Edgars tells Garibaldi he has a new assignment: to
+   make sure a new delivery coming through Babylon 5 gets through customs
+   without incident and makes its way safely to Io. Edgars explains that
+   he doesn't trust the government, the couriers, or his competitors to
+   leave the packages--containing compounds for his pharmaceutical
+   research department--alone. Garibaldi tells Edgars he will do the job,
+   but asks when Edgars might want him to come to Mars. "In the fullness
+   of time, Mr. Garibaldi," Edgars replies before signing off.
+   
+   Sheridan is in his quarters, unable to sleep. He calls C&C, asking if
+   they have been able to contact Delenn on Minbar. They haven't, due to
+   fighting in the capital city. Sheridan hasn't heard anything from her
+   since she left, but asks to be informed if they learn anything new. He
+   resumes trying to sleep.
+   
+   On Minbar, the capital city is in flames and most of the buildings are
+   in ruins. Delenn arrives in the hallway of one of the buildings, where
+   Lennier is treating some of the many wounded. Lennier tells her that
+   they have received word from the leader of the Warrior Caste. "His
+   forces have surrounded the city. He says, if we don't surrender by
+   tomorrow, for the good of our people, he will end the war by
+   destroying the city and everyone in it."
+   
+   Lyta is in the Zocalo with a woman who wants to hire her for freelance
+   telepathy work. Though all of Lyta's qualifications are in order, the
+   woman will not hire her when she learns that she is no longer
+   affiliated with Psi Corps. Lyta protests, but the woman will not
+   change her mind--her company needs to be protected from possible
+   lawsuits and other problems. She says that, until Lyta rejoins Psi
+   Corps, there is nothing she can do.
+   
+   Neroon arrives on one of the Warrior Caste ships and meets with the
+   Caste's leader, Shakiri. Shakiri says that the actions of the
+   Religious Caste--in trying to get Neroon to turn against the Warrior
+   Caste--prove they are unfit to lead the Minbari. Neroon asks what the
+   cost of the war will be. Shakiri tells him that the cities can be
+   rebuilt, and that the Minbari who die in the city will be reborn into
+   the next generation, but that those deaths will prevent a greater loss
+   of life in the future. Shakiri says that war should be only be entered
+   into for practical gains, and that the sooner the Religious Caste
+   learns that--due to their actions in the Earth-Minbari war--the
+   better. He thinks that, when Delenn sees the rest of her caste dying,
+   she will surrender in order to end the loss of life. Neroon asks if it
+   is wrong to value life in that manner, but Shakiri says that life and
+   death are only two consequences, both equal, and that Warriors look
+   upon death as a release of obligation. Shakiri tells Neroon to go
+   rest.
+   
+   Zack is in the docking bay, trying to organize things, when he notices
+   Garibaldi, off discreetly in the corner, dealing with another
+   gentleman. He starts to investigate, but is interrupted by another
+   security officer, asking what he should do about a new
+   arrival--Bester. Zack asks why Bester is coming to the station this
+   time. Bester insists he has not come to the station for any business
+   with the Command Staff, but is there for personal reasons. He promises
+   he will stay out of trouble, and though Zack tries to protest, Bester
+   points out it is a free port, and that he has a right to be there.
+   Zack tells Bester he has to check with the captain, and Bester
+   promises to wait. Zack goes to do so, but on the way, investigates the
+   corner where, a few moments earlier, he saw Garibaldi and the strange
+   man, who are now gone. Zack runs after him and tries to find out where
+   the package went, but Garibaldi insists he knows nothing about it.
+   Zack asks if Garibaldi is working for William Edgars, bringing
+   packages through illegally, but Garibaldi won't confirm or deny it.
+   Zack asks why Edgars, an extremely wealthy and reclusive
+   industrialist, would want to work with Garibaldi, which Garibaldi
+   finds offensive--he is honest, and minding his own business. Zack asks
+   how honest Garibaldi's work is, but Garibaldi finds it just as honest
+   as breaking away from Earth, taking over military equipment, and
+   starting their own independent state. Garibaldi tells Zack not to
+   bother him, and leaves.
+   
+   Delenn is waiting for Lennier in one of the rooms in the capital
+   building. When he arrives, Delenn tells him they have reached a
+   decision, and she wants him to relay a message to the Warrior
+   Caste--the Religious Caste is prepared to surrender, when and where
+   the Warrior Caste wishes them to do so.
+   
+   "...And news has reached us that a squadron of Starfury pilots, sent
+   to conduct raids against Proxima 3 in hopes of forcing them to accept
+   President Clark's martial law decree, have defected, joining the
+   Proxima resistance. This makes the fourth major defection in the last
+   two weeks. Refugees from sectors 400 through 600 are being taken in by
+   the medical colonies at Beta Iridani and the MacArthur midrange
+   colony..."
+   
+   Lyta is interrupted watching the Voice of the Resistance in the Zocalo
+   when Bester arrives. She is not very happy to see him, and tells him
+   to say what he has to say and leave. Bester tells her he knows she is
+   looking for work, since the corporations she wanted to work for called
+   Psi Corps to check on her. Lyta tries to deny what he's saying, but he
+   knows better--the command staff is getting along fine, but since Lyta
+   has no support mechanism, her life of being a freelance freedom
+   fighter isn't paying well enough for her to subsist much longer.
+   Bester says he wants to make a deal with her--he will add her name to
+   a list of deep undercover agents, allowing her to work and make a
+   living. She will have to wear the symbol, the gloves, and give ten
+   percent of her fees to the corps, and, after she dies, she will have
+   to give her body to Bester. He knows that the Vorlons altered it, and
+   that he feels that what they have done for her could be done for many
+   more telepaths later, allowing them to be more than what they are. He
+   shows her a contract, which he explains will be null and void if she
+   doesn't die from natural causes, since Sheridan would never turn her
+   body over otherwise. Lyta, however, is not impressed, and turns down
+   his offer. She walks away, but is noticed by Garibaldi on her way out.
+   
+   Neroon tells Shakiri that the Religious Caste has agreed to surrender.
+   In order to prove that the Warrior Caste intends to lead differently
+   than the Grey Council, Neroon suggests that Shakiri accept the
+   surrender on the planet, in the Temple of Varenni, where disputes were
+   settled before Valen, and where new leaders were selected in times of
+   war. In addition, the temple will distribute a record of the surrender
+   throughout Minbar. Shakiri agrees. Neroon has one question: he wants
+   to know what will happen to Delenn after the surrender. Shakiri says
+   that, in order to prevent her working against them in the future, they
+   will make sure the ship on which she travels to Babylon 5 after the
+   surrender never reaches its destination.
+   
+   Lyta is making dinner in her quarters when Zack arrives. He tells her
+   that Station Resources wants her to move to smaller quarters. Lyta is
+   very upset, but Zack explains that, with the Vorlon government gone,
+   she no longer has any source of income, and needs to leave. She is
+   very upset, but says she will try to find some way of working it out.
+   Zack is about ready to leave when he tells her that he needs to hire
+   her for a job--he wants her to scan Garibaldi without his permission.
+   Lyta is unwilling to do that, even for Zack. She might consider it if
+   it were someone else, but the two of them go back a long way. No
+   matter how much she needs the money, she isn't willing to violate
+   everything she's been taught. Zack apologizes and leaves.
+   
+   Garibaldi is at his table, just finishing up with someone who wants
+   Garibaldi to find his dog and cat, who are attempting to take over the
+   galaxy. Lyta arrives and tells him that she needs a job, and that,
+   because of her breaking with the Psi Corps, she can't get work with
+   anyone she trusts. Garibaldi explains to her that he doesn't use
+   telepaths, and doesn't trust them, but notes that, should he hire her,
+   he can also annoy Bester. He asks how wide her range is, and she
+   explains that it is much further than official records indicate.
+   Garibaldi says that he needs someone who can watch out for him in his
+   dealings with Edgars. Garibaldi agrees to give her a portion of his
+   own salary, but is interrupted when Bester arrives. They exchange a
+   few words, but Bester claims that Garibaldi is no longer worth his
+   attention, and begins walking away. As he walks by, Lyta tells
+   Garibaldi that Bester scanned him. This outrages Garibaldi who chases
+   after him and backs him against a wall. He demands to know why Bester
+   scanned him, but his anger is noticed by some security guards, who
+   restrain him and drag him away. As Lyta chases after him, Bester finds
+   that Zack, too, saw the whole thing.
+   
+   Delenn, Lennier, and some other members of the Religious Caste, are
+   walking toward the temple. Lennier laments that they are surrendering,
+   but Delenn says that the day is not yet over. She gives him a small
+   tube, and says all the instructions are inside. They enter the temple.
+   The rite of surrender begins, and Shakiri tells Delenn that this day
+   is the beginning of a new age for their people, and that the
+   hostilities can finally stop. She says that she speaks for the
+   Religious Caste, and that they surrender. This overjoys Shakiri, who
+   starts talking about rebuilding their cities and the Grey Council.
+   Delenn, however, is not finished. She says that the Religious Caste
+   does not give up their sovereign right to form a new government. She
+   says that Dukhat found no dishonor in surrender, and the she
+   recognizes the superior forces of the Warrior Caste, that the
+   Religious Caste helped to arm and train. Though the Warrior Caste may
+   be stronger, they aren't necessarily wiser. She says that she doesn't
+   want to throw away all they have done for the past thousand years, and
+   that the Temple of Varenni was used to bring the reality of war to its
+   leaders, and not just those who fight and die on the front lines. She
+   makes a gesture, and a hole in the ceiling opens, casting a bright
+   white light into the circle on the floor. She explains that, if they
+   are ignoring the wisdom of Valen, they must completely return to the
+   ways of the Ancients. The leader of each of the warring castes would
+   step into the circle on the floor, and the Starfire Wheel would open,
+   and its fire begin to destroy the leaders. Those who were afraid would
+   send others to enter the fire, or escape, and whoever reamined in the
+   fire to sacrifice their life would be representative of the true Caste
+   that should lead the Minbari people. Shakiri vehemently objects, but
+   Delenn insists it's tradition, and that she is willing to endure the
+   Starfire Wheel for the good of the Minbari people. If the Warrior
+   Caste will not do likewise, they don't deserve to lead. She steps into
+   the circle of light on the floor. "Valen said, 'Will you follow me
+   into fire?'" she says. "Will you?"
+   
+   Lennier protests, but Delenn will not move, and instead begs Lennier
+   to carry out her instructions should she die. Shakiri doesn't move, so
+   Delenn asks if he concedes leadership, if it is too easy to send
+   others to die for him, but that he isn't willing to die for his Caste.
+   The Starfire Wheel opens further, and the light around Delenn grows
+   stronger. Shakiri insists that the entire thing is madness and
+   refuses, but Neroon points out that Shakiri said that a Warrior does
+   not fear death, and asks why he is afraid. Shakiri asks if he speaks
+   for the Religious Caste, but Neroon says he speaks for their people,
+   and wants to know who he speaks for, and what he is willing to do--the
+   other Minbari people, all watching, want to know as well. Shakiri
+   steps forward and enters the light, as the Starfire wheel opens
+   further. Shakiri tries to convince Delenn to walk out with him, but
+   she refuses--he insists there are other ways, but Delenn says he
+   should have thought of that before he tore the Minbari people apart.
+   Shakiri jumps from the light, but Delenn does not leave, as Neroon
+   tells Lennier she promised to do. Lennier says she is making a point,
+   for all Minbari. The Starfire Wheel opens further, nearly all the way,
+   and Delenn is no longer able to withstand its force.
+   
+   "No!" cries Neroon as he runs forth. He forces himself into the light,
+   picks up Delenn, and hands her through the light to Lennier. Standing
+   in the flame, he cries out, "I was born Warrior Caste, but I see
+   now... The calling of my heart... is Religious! The war is over!
+   Listen to her! Listen!" The Starfire Wheel opens completely, and the
+   light utterly engulfs him. In mere seconds, he is gone, and only the
+   smoking circle, where he once stood, remains.
+   
+   Garibaldi is again asleep in his quarters when another message from
+   Edgars wakes him up. Though he is very upset, he manages to contain
+   his anger long enough to listen to Edgars. He has found out that
+   Garibaldi has hired Lyta, and doesn't want her to work for Garibaldi
+   if Garibaldi is working for him. Garibaldi asks why Edgars wants to
+   help telepaths, but not to employ them. Edgars says he doesn't trust
+   telepaths. He says that, if Garibaldi wants to keep his job, Lyta must
+   not work for him.
+   
+   Bester is in the Zocalo watching Lyta and Garibaldi have a heated
+   discussion. Lyta becomes very angry and storms away from the table, as
+   Bester simply sits and smiles. "Personal log: Bester, Al. August 3rd,
+   2261. By provoking Mr. Garibaldi, I have put him even further at odds
+   with his former associates, and further on the path I need him to
+   folow. What I came here to get, I got--even her." We now see Lyta
+   inside her quarters, wearing long black gloves, and the PsiCorps
+   symbol on her chest. Bester's contract is lying nearby, as she sadly
+   looks at what she has once again become in the mirror. "Guess you
+   could call it a bank shot," Bester continues. "Yes... I've had a nice
+   day."
+   
+   On the Grey Council ship, Lennier tries to convince Delenn that she
+   should wait before doing what she is planning, but she won't postpone
+   it a moment longer. Lennier says that, when she enters the Council
+   Chamber, what transpires will be broadcast all over Minbar.
+   
+   She enters the chamber where the nine circles of light surround one in
+   the middle. None of them are occupied. She steps into the center
+   light, and proclaims that she is about to restore the Grey Council.
+   She calls forth the members of the new Grey Council--two Religious,
+   and two Warrior. There are still five spaces vacant, but the tradition
+   must be broken-- there can no longer be three of each Caste. She calls
+   forth five other Minbari, all from the Worker Caste. She explains
+   that, when the Religious Caste and the Warrior Caste fight, the
+   Workers are caught in the middle--they build the ships for fighting
+   and the temples for praying, and they look to the other Castes to
+   guide their hands. The Workers want to do only what is best, and, from
+   now on, the Religious and Warrior Castes will be in the service of the
+   people, not the other way around. She steps from the center circle of
+   light, and explains that it is reserved in memory of Neroon, until the
+   time it will be filled by the one who is to come. She advises the
+   Council to judge wisely and well, as the leader of the Minbari, then
+   leaves so that the Council may begin.
+   
+   Ivanova comes into Sheridan's quarters, in a fury. She holds up a data
+   crystal and explains that it was taken by a transport bringing relief
+   supplies to Proxima 3. The crystal contains footage of an Earth Force
+   destroyer decimating a convoy of unarmed transports. She says that the
+   transports indentified themselves as only carrying wounded refugees,
+   over 10,000 civilians in all. She says she's going to put the video on
+   Voice of the Resistance as soon as she calms down.
+   
+   Sheridan, likewise, is outraged. "This madness has gone on long
+   enough. I don't care if we're not ready, I don't care if we're
+   outnumbered or outgunned, I don't care what ISN says about us. This
+   stops, and it stops now! Now, if earth wants to declare war on us,
+   then it is time that we took the war to Clark. You tell the others...
+   Starting right now, we fight back and we fight back hard!"
+   
+   "I thought you were looking for some other way than firing at our own
+   ships," Ivanova asks. "They were following orders."
+   
+   "Any crew that executes an order like that is guilty of war crimes,
+   and they deserve whatever they get," Sheridan continues. "No, we're
+   riding in, Susan. Anybody who wants to defect and join us, fine. If
+   they get in our way, we will knock them down. If they kill one of our
+   ships, we'll kill three of theirs. And we keep going. We never slow
+   down, and we won't stop... We're going after the colonies, then
+   Mars... and then Earth. And God help anybody who gets in our way."
+
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+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
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+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/080.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/079.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/081.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
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+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/079.html
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+  15. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+  Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
+  
+   Once again the station mobilizes for war. The murder of 10,000
+   refugees fleeing Proxima 3 has forced Sheridan to decide that it's
+   time to retaliate against Clark.
+   
+   Sheridan calls a full Council meeting first thing in the morning. In
+   return for the safety his White Star patrols have brought to uneasy
+   borders, he declares all League World military treaties with Earth
+   null and void. As Starfuries run drills outside, Ivanova requests that
+   each government contribute a military vessel to the defense of the
+   station. Other than that, they must take no part in the war.
+   
+   "We're going to take back our home. Or die trying," Captain Sheridan
+   concludes.
+   
+   Marcus races through the station to the War Room with a data crystal
+   that holds intelligence detailing the Earth Force blockade of Proxima
+   3. Of six destroyers, two were responsible for shooting down the
+   transport.
+   
+   Meanwhile, even though Franklin admits little progress on freeing the
+   Shadow-implanted telepaths, Sheridan demands that he get them mobile
+   as quickly as possible for an imminent mission.
+   
+   To Ivanova he explains his plan for attacking Proxima 3. By offering
+   the combatants a chance to surrender or defect, he will attempt to
+   minimize the Earth Force losses; nevertheless he will destroy any ship
+   that fights back.
+   
+   Vir is roused from a nightmare by Garibaldi at the door. When
+   Garibaldi asks for Londo, Vir lets it slip out that the Ambassador has
+   gone to speak with G'Kar, then divulges the plan to attack Earth. Vir
+   is surprised that Garibaldi is disgusted with Sheridan's move. Even
+   though he doesn't always agree with Londo, Vir says he continues to
+   follow, because sometimes Londo's right.
+   
+   Close quarters maneuvers continue outside under Lt. Corwin's
+   supervision. Ivanova orders the fighters to only accept commands that
+   are encrypted with the code of the day. Corwin remarks that they
+   should trust no one.
+   
+   "No," Ivanova remarks acerbically. "Trust Ivanova. Trust yourself.
+   Anybody else? Shoot 'em."
+   
+   The destroyer Starfuries patrolling hyperspace near the Proxima 3 jump
+   gate are oblivious to the fleet of White Stars gathering in the murky
+   redness there. Marcus learns that the resistance on the planet's
+   surface is being demolished by Clark's ground forces.
+   
+   G'Kar's writing is interrupted by Mollari's entrance. They take a
+   couple of shots across each other 's bows until Mollari admits that he
+   didn't come to fight but to talk. The past years have been very hard
+   on both of them. G'Kar snorts in derision, but Mollari continues
+   humbly, thanking G'Kar for his actions and endurance that set both of
+   their worlds free, telling G'Kar that he has come to respect him
+   deeply.
+   
+   G'Kar scorns both the thanks and the respect.
+   
+   Mollari forges ahead angrily. He is a patriot, he shouts, and yet,
+   through ill judgment he himself became his own enemy. So can he
+   possibly "understand who the enemy is?" Perhaps not. But he can
+   understand friendship, and the humans of Babylon 5 have been friends.
+   Thus he has convinced his government to put their full support behind
+   Sheridan, and requests that G'Kar do the same. Pouring out two drinks,
+   he proposes a toast "to the humans, and to the bridge that they
+   created between us, in the hope for a better future, for both our
+   worlds."
+   
+   As Mollari waits with glass raised, G'Kar pours his drink back in the
+   bottle. With heavy disappointment, Mollari departs.
+   
+   Sheridan and Ivanova have the difficult task of prepping the Starfury
+   crews for battle. They are told to defend themselves with deadly fire
+   and come home alive, yet show mercy to any non-combatant.
+   
+   Sheridan departs for the front leaving Ivanova to command the station.
+   His flagship White Star 2 sports newly painted Army of Light logos on
+   the wings.
+   
+   The commander of the fleet blockading Proxima 3 orders two destroyers
+   to attack the White Stars that jump out of hyperspace on the opposite
+   side of the planet. When he recognizes the ships as Sheridan's he
+   orders his destroyers to attack. Macdougan, the captain of the Vesta,
+   engages John in a conversation about the legality of Clark's orders.
+   When Macdougan refuses to enter the fray, fleet commander Hall grants
+   a field promotion to Macdougan's second, a rank he enjoys for about 60
+   seconds until the Vesta's crew ends it.
+   
+   The Pollux is destroyed, two vessels stand down, and another
+   withdraws. Fearing a tribunal more than death, Captain Hall orders his
+   crew to continue the fight until his own second relieves him of
+   command and surrenders.
+   
+   Sheridan calls the captains of the surviving destroyers together and
+   offers them the choice of going home or joining up. When they object
+   to his methods he argues that they swore to protect Earth, that they
+   work for all humans, not for Clark in particular. In the final
+   analysis one ship withdraws, one joins the defense of Proxima 3, and
+   two join Sheridan.
+   
+   As he drinks alone again in morose contemplation, Londo notices a shot
+   raised to the lips of another nearby. Sternly G'Kar orders Londo to
+   issue the joint statement of their worlds' support of Sheridan. He
+   refuses to sign it on the same page though. G'Kar departs just as
+   rapidly leaving the Ambassador choked with emotion.
+   
+   As the Voice of Resistance announces the victory and encourages other
+   Earth Force vessels to defect, Garibaldi leaves the station for Mars
+   vowing never to return.
+
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+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/081.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/080.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/082.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/081.html#TOP
+  11. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
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+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/082.html
+  15. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@cc.wwu.edu)
+  
+   "This is Commander Susan Ivanova brining you the Voice of the
+   Resistance. The liberation fleet continues to retake territory held in
+   violation of the Earth Alliance constitution. More ships on the other
+   side continue to defect carrying stories of atrocities carried out
+   under the direct orders of President Clark. In addition to the
+   liberation of Proxima III, the colony at Beta Durani and the mid-range
+   military base have also been freed. The long march toward Earth
+   continues."
+   
+   "Personal Log, Michael Garibaldi. It's started. They're really doing
+   it. This is what I was afraid would happen. But it's been coming for a
+   long time--ever since Sheridan got back. Before he went to Z'ha'dum,
+   he never would have gone up against his own--our own-- government like
+   this. I don't know--maybe he thinks he's Alexander the Great. And
+   maybe he thinks he's John the Baptist. And maybe he wants to take over
+   the whole operation for himself." The transport tubes on Mars appear.
+   "That's the part that worries me. That's the part that made me come
+   back here. Mars... I can't believe I'm back on Mars. Three times
+   before, this place almost killed me. I swore I'd never give it another
+   chance to finish the job. Humans got no business being here. No
+   business at all."
+   
+   Wade, who is sitting across from Garibaldi, tells him that they are
+   almost there, and that he needs to put on a blindfold to meet with
+   William Edgars. Garibaldi is reluctant at first, and Wade understand
+   that Garibaldi doesn't like to give up control, but if Garibaldi
+   doesn't play along, he will have to leave. Wade says that Edgars has
+   gone through a lot of trouble to get Garibaldi to Mars, and that the
+   average guy would be grateful. Garibaldi says he isn't the average
+   guy, and Wade notes that he wouldn't be there if he were, since Edgars
+   doesn't like average guys. Wade again tells Garibaldi to put on the
+   blindfold, but says he doesn't need to worry--they are going to
+   Edgars' private dock, so no one will think it strange. Wade informs
+   Garibaldi that, in olden days, the rising of Mars always precipitated
+   climactic events. "It was a bad sign. Now, there are two million
+   people living here," he says.
+   
+   "It still is a bad sign," says Garibaldi, now wearing the blindfold.
+   
+   "Mars," Garibaldi says, continuing his log. "Can't believe I'm back on
+   Mars. I've got to be out of my mind."
+   
+   Dr. Franklin is in MedLab running experiments on the Shadow-implanted
+   telepaths when Zack arrives. Franklin explains his troubles to
+   Zack--nothing he has tried to remove the implants has worked, and
+   pressure from Sheridan to do it hasn't made things any easier,
+   especially since he doesn't know what the rush is. Dr. Franklin leaves
+   for a moment, and Lyta, whom Zack had been looking for, enters MedLab.
+   He tells her he needs her to scan the victim of a mugging to confirm
+   the assailant's identity. She agrees to do so, and Zack leaves. She
+   goes over to look at one of the telepaths lying on the examination
+   table in the isolation lab, and the telepath's eyes open suddenly.
+   Franklin sees what's going on--the telepath sitting up, touching
+   Lyta's hand through the window of the lab, and calls out to her,
+   causing her to lose her concentration. The telepath returns to his
+   comatose state.
+   
+   Garibaldi arrives at William Edgar's compound, only to run into Lise.
+   She tells him it wasn't a good time for him to come, and that things
+   are too busy, but Edgars insists it is alright that Garibaldi is
+   there. Lise leaves to go assist the cook with dinner, and Edgars and
+   Garibaldi begin talking. Edgars asks Garibaldi why he insisted on
+   coming now, and Garibaldi explains that he was tired of not seeing
+   Edgars' face, wanted to know what he was helping Edgars do, and to
+   stop Sheridan if at all possible. Edgars insists he is just a
+   businessman, but Garibaldi knows better, since Edgars has some strong
+   political connections. Garibaldi tells Edgars that he doesn't trust
+   Clark, and Edgars agrees, though he shouldn't be stopped by a military
+   action, but from inside the system. Garibaldi admits that he feels
+   Sheridan wants to take over himself, but, while he can't let Sheridan
+   do that, he can't turn him over to Clark either. Garibaldi wants
+   Edgars to speak on Sheridan's behalf, which would increase his
+   political power, and possibly even put him in the Presidency himself.
+   Edgars finds Garibaldi's words intriguing, but informs him he won't do
+   anything further until he knows he can trust Garibaldi.
+   
+   Wade shows Garibaldi the room he will be staying, and then leaves him
+   for the night. The room is on the small side, containing little more
+   than a bed and a few light fixtures. Garibaldi settles in for the
+   night.
+   
+   Franklin chases after Lyta, who insists she's late for an appointment.
+   She apologizes for messing up his experiment, but he says that he's
+   glad she did what she did--it's the only reaction he had managed to
+   achieved. He asks her how she did it, and she tells him that she
+   looked at him, and heard a sound--the sound a Shadow vessel makes--in
+   her head, acted instinctively to make it go away, and he woke up.
+   Franklin asks her to come back after her other job, and convinces her
+   to try to help him.
+   
+   Garibaldi is asleep in his room when the door bursts open and several
+   figures in mask rush in. They grab him and force him out of the room,
+   and into another chamber, where only one figure, a woman, sits at a
+   table. The voice of Edgars, coming from unseen speakers, assures him
+   he is in no danger. Edgars explains that the woman is a telepath, and
+   she will only inform him if he is telling the truth when he answers
+   Edgars' questions.
+   
+   Edgars begins by asking Garibaldi what he thinks about telepaths, and
+   Garibaldi responds that he doesn't trust them--he doesn't like someone
+   being able to get inside his head, or being able to tell if he's lying
+   if he doesn't know when they are, or to be able to conduct business
+   with no records. He says the tension between telepaths and mundanes
+   will turn ugly someday, but hopes he won't be alive to see it. Edgars
+   asks if this means he feels they are a menace to society, and
+   Garibaldi answers, "The biggest one we've got."
+   
+   Edgars asks Garibaldi if he was sincere when he said he wanted to
+   locate and secure someone, and Garibaldi answers yes to both
+   questions. The telepath turns and nods.
+   
+   Edgars asks Garibaldi why the reason given for his employment--to keep
+   in-development pharmaceuticals safe from competitors isn't enough.
+   Garibaldi explains that Edgars could pay off anyone to keep the
+   secret, but that he feels he's being used as a scapegoat in case they
+   catch him in the act. Edgars asks Garibaldi if he's assuming he's
+   lying. Garibaldi says everyone lies, and though it's a sad view of the
+   universe, it's the only one he has.
+   
+   Edgars asks Garibaldi if he can remember anything about his
+   disappearance from Babylon 5 earlier that year. Garibaldi says he
+   can't remember anything. The telepath turns again, and nods.
+   
+   Edgars tells Garibaldi that he is finished, and can go. As he walks
+   toward the door, however, Edgars asks one more question: Is Garibaldi
+   still in love with Lise? Garibaldi answers no, Edgars thanks him, and
+   lets him return to his room. The telepath turns and shakes her head.
+   Edgars thanks the telepath and tells her that Wade will see to her
+   payment.
+   
+   Edgars enters his own room, to find Lise waiting up. She asks him how
+   it went, and he tells her it went fine, but he also tells her that she
+   was never mentioned. He says he thinks Garibaldi put it all behind
+   him, and that he thinks Garibaldi would be a fine addition. He tells
+   Lise not to worry, and that everything will be just fine.
+   
+   As the telepath gathers her coat and prepares to leave, Wade appears
+   in the doorway. As she turns to face him, he pulls a PPG and fires
+   several shots directly at her.
+   
+   In MedLab, Lyta and Franklin are standing over the same telepath from
+   before. He tells her to do what she did the last time, only slower--he
+   wants to learn to stimulate the same brainwaves artificially, but they
+   can worry about getting the implants out later. Franklin is ready, and
+   begins the computer recording. Lyta concentrates on the telepath, and
+   one of the monitor displays of the telepath changes. Franklin surmises
+   that the Shadow implants speed up brain functions--useful for running
+   a Shadow vessel--and that that causes trouble when there is nothing
+   around to control. The telepath's eyes open, and he sits up suddenly,
+   remembering his implant procedure. He grabs Franklin by the throat and
+   asks if the machines are gone. Franklin tells him they are, but the
+   telepath is still not calmed. "What am I? Why am I?" asks the
+   telepath, as he throws Franklin to the floor. The telepath turns to
+   Lyta. "I can't live like this," and picks up a medical device and
+   holds it to his own throat. Lyta stops him from going any further,
+   apologizes to him, and then puts him back to sleep. Franklin is able
+   to take over from there, but Lyta, disturbed and shaken, just turns
+   and leaves MedLab.
+   
+   Garibaldi arrives in Edgars' office the next morning, and asks to be
+   told the whole story about his involvement with Edgars, since he
+   apparently passed the test. Edgars begins by telling him that, in a
+   world run by telepaths, mundanes would be severely limited in what
+   they could pursue, and how they could behave--a world with no privacy.
+   It's a world neither Edgars nor Garibaldi want to live in. Garibaldi
+   feels that, despite certain members of the PsiCorps feeling they
+   should be in control, telepaths don't have enough power to take over.
+   Edgars says they don't, yet, but they are beginning to fight their own
+   battle of secrets and intimidation. He points out that, without the
+   PsiCorps badge, no one can really tell a telepath from a normal human,
+   and that they can inspire fear whether they show their true colors or
+   not. Edgars explains to Garibaldi that Clark has power given him by
+   the voters who were afraid of aliens and wanted to do something about
+   it. Clark has begun to pass that power on to the PsiCorps. He wants
+   complete and total loyalty, and he can only prove loyalty with the use
+   of telepaths. When President Santiago objected to this, Clark
+   eliminated him, with outside help, including the help of aliens, who
+   promised him all the power he could want. The aliens were interested
+   in the PsiCorps, which became Clark's "insurance policy" against them,
+   and he used them to gain more power still. He created the Nightwatch
+   and selected his own people to fill important positions, with
+   telepaths watching over everything. Edgars is sure that, no matter
+   what happens to Clark, the PsiCorps will not want to give up its
+   newfound power.
+   
+   Garibaldi asks what Sheridan has to do with this, and Edgars explains
+   that, should Sheridan go too far, Clark will remove the last
+   restrictions from the PsiCorps, giving them all the power they need,
+   turning it into a military and police force under his direct control,
+   which Garibaldi recognizes as thought police. When that happens,
+   Edgars believes, they will never let go of their power. Edgars tells
+   Garibaldi that Clark is not really in charge--that his own
+   megacorporation, as well as the others on Earth, have really been
+   running things behind the scenes for years. Now that the PsiCorps
+   threatens their bussinesses, they have to take action. Edgars wants
+   Sheridan out of the way so that they have enough time to perfect their
+   solution, and to keep him from putting too much power in the PsiCorps
+   too soon. Garibaldi asks Edgars how they can stop the PsiCorps when
+   Lise interrupts, telling them that breakfast is ready. Edgars asks
+   Garibaldi if he'd like to join them, but Garibaldi declines, instead
+   saying that he has some thinking to do. Edgars starts to leave, but
+   Garibaldi stops him and asks him if the story he was just told was
+   really the truth. Edgars tells him it's as close to the truth as
+   he--or anyone else--will ever get, but that it should be enough for
+   Garibaldi to decide if he wants to continue working with Edgars.
+   Edgars tells Garibaldi he hopes that he will, and then leaves for
+   breakfast.
+   
+   As the fleet continues on its way, Sheridan is talking to Ivanova, who
+   is still on Babylon 5. She tells him that they have turned two more
+   Earth Alliance ships over to the Resistance, a fact which pleases and
+   worries Sheridan--he always becomes suspicious when things start going
+   too well. He asks her about Delenn, and Ivanova tells him that she is
+   done with her work on Minbar, and will be back on Babylon 5 soon.
+   There is nothing else that she has to report, but he tells her that he
+   wants to talk to Dr. Franklin.
+   
+   Ivanova calls down to Medlab and tells him that Sheridan wants to talk
+   to him. Franklin explains that he thinks he found a way to neutralize
+   the implants. Sheridan asks Franklin how long it will take him to get
+   the telepaths up and running, but Franklin refuses to do anything more
+   until Sherdian tells him exactly what he wants to do with the
+   telepaths. Franklin gets rid of everyone else in MedLab, and Sheridan
+   begins explaining his plan.
+   
+   Franklin leaves Medlab, visibly shaken. While standing in the
+   corridor, Lyta arrives. She asks him if he's alright, and he says he
+   isn't. He says that, when Sheridan came back from Z'ha'dum, he never
+   understood why everyone thought he was acting so different. But, he
+   explains that the Sheridan he knew never would have asked him to do
+   what this Sheridan just did. Franklin admits that it is the only way,
+   but really wishes he were wrong about it. He asks Lyta if she is
+   available for a long-term job. She is, and he tells her to start
+   packing--they leave for Mars in a few days.
+   
+   Garibaldi is sitting on his bed when there's a knock on the door. It's
+   Lise, who has brought him his dinner. As she is about to leave, he
+   says he doesn't know what she sees in Edgars, besides his money. He
+   asks her what Edgars has that he doesn't. She insists it's not the
+   money, and that he's a good man, and that she does love him. She is,
+   however, very concerned about Garibaldi, and doesn't want anything to
+   happen to him, or to Edgars. Garibaldi tells her that she should have
+   tried to get things back the way they were, but that wasn't enough for
+   her--she didn't want to hold up the relationship herself. She wanted
+   him to care about something else, other than his job, and that he
+   never said that he loved her until she said it to him. She starts to
+   leave again, but can't force herself through the door. In a broken
+   voice, she explains that, after Franz left her, Garibaldi was too far
+   away, and that she needed someone in her life to be there for her, and
+   that Edgars was that person. She asks him if he would have left and
+   gone to her when she needed him, and he says he doesn't know. Crying,
+   she says that she is too old for that, and that Bill does care for her
+   and he does love her. Garibaldi apologizes for what happened, and
+   tells her that he did he did love her. She says she's sorry, too,
+   tells him to eat his dinner, and then leaves him alone.
+   
+   Edgars is standing over three beds when Wade comes in. Edgars tells
+   him that they are at a critical stage, and can't afford any mistakes.
+   Edgars sits down next to one of the beds, which contains a man with
+   white skin and lesions all over his face. He reaches under the plastic
+   covering the man's face, and touches his skin. Wade says Edgars
+   shouldn't touch him, but Edgars says the man can use some compassion,
+   and that he can't be infected anyway. Wade asks how long he's been off
+   the drug, and Edgars says five days--the drug is working faster than
+   before. The man moans, and Edgars tells him that, though it's part of
+   the process, it will be over soon. He gets up and tells Wade to put
+   the man down. He knows the drug works, but doesn't want to add to the
+   pain in the universe unless it's absolutely necessary. He leaves Wade
+   alone in the room with the three people.
+   
+   Garibaldi arrives in Edgars' office, and tells him that he's been
+   thinking about a lot of things. Garibaldi says that he has made his
+   decision--he is in all the way. Edgars is pleased, but Garibaldi wants
+   to know the rest of the story. That's not good enough for Edgars,
+   though--he wants Garibaldi to prove himself. The way to do that is to
+   give him Sheridan. If he does that, Edgars will tell him the rest.
+   Edgars wants Clark to feel secure in his position, and with Sheridan,
+   that will give Edgars the time he needs to do what he must. Garibaldi
+   doesn't want Clark to get Sheridan, since he is sure he'll kill him.
+   Edgars knows that Clark is an amateur, and will go through the
+   motions, but won't kill him, at least right away. Edgars says that
+   they need to take Sheridan out of the picture, and that it is time to
+   do so. Garibaldi tells Edgars that the easiest way to get to Sheridan
+   is through his father. Edgars says that Earth was torn apart looking
+   for him, but no one knows how to find him. Garibaldi, however,
+   does--he knows Sheridan's father has a rare blood disease which
+   requires the use of a certain Centauri drug, which is rare and
+   expensive, and easy to track. Edgars says that they still need someone
+   to set Sheridan up, and Garibaldi volunteers. Edgars tells Garibaldi
+   that he's doing the right thing, and hopes he understands it.
+   
+   "Mars. Three times before, this place almost killed me. And now...
+   I've finally finished the job. I can't feel anything anymore. I don't
+   know what I care about anymore. Except Lise. I screwed up both our
+   lives pretty good. Now I get to make up for it, assuming any of us can
+   ever make up for anything we've done in the past. Maybe we can't.
+   Maybe we just have to live with it, and get on with it, and do what we
+   have to--never what we want to. It has to be done. I hope he can see
+   that someday..."
+
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+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/082.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/081.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/083.html
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+  Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
+  
+   As Sheridan's forces approach Earth, the fighting grows more fierce.
+   Outgunned and unable to flee, Clark's remaining ships still refuse to
+   surrender.
+   
+   Meanwhile, Dr. Franklin and Lyta find themselves on Mars again with
+   their disturbing cargo.
+   
+   Garibaldi matter of factly informs Edgars that John Sheridan's trap
+   has been baited with his father. Pleased, Edgars again promises
+   Garibaldi the elusive reward of the whole truth. "I think the last guy
+   got thirty pieces of silver for the same job," Garibaldi remarks with
+   distaste as he leaves.
+   
+   Sheridan orders the opposing vessels to stand down again. One captain
+   finally breaks silence saying that Sheridan is only going to execute
+   them if they surrender. Sheridan's new ally Macdougan convinces the
+   young captain that its safe to stand down just as a new ship jumps
+   into the melee. To Sheridan's relief it's his old ship, the Agamemnon,
+   come to join his fleet.
+   
+   Number One is livid to discover that Franklin has brought a teep into
+   her facility without even thinking of consulting her. The dozens of
+   frozen telepaths he brings are equally unwelcome.
+   
+   Sheridan and the Agamemnon's crew share a fond reunion when he goes on
+   board. He's still there when Garibaldi's transmission catches up with
+   him. Garibaldi explains that Clark's people have captured Sheridan's
+   dad, and says he has a rescue plan which requires Sheridan's presence.
+   Against everyone's advice Sheridan decides to go to Mars alone, and
+   the Agamemnon agrees to transport him there.
+   
+   The hostility towards Lyta is not limited to Number One. Franklin is
+   baffled, until Lyta explains the Bloodhound program. Anyone suspected
+   of being in the Resistance is simply picked up and scanned. No due
+   process. Quietly Lyta begins to explain the other things Psi Cops have
+   done. One serial killer of telepaths now lives in an institution,
+   screaming all the time at the "things [we] planted in his mind." When
+   that happened she left Psi Cops for Commercial work, but from then she
+   became afraid of what telepaths could do. "Someday there's going to be
+   a war between telepaths and mundanes, Stephen," she predicts direly.
+   
+   Ivanova leaves the station to take command of the fleet in Sheridan's
+   absence, and Delenn agrees to keep watch over B5 until she returns.
+   
+   John pilots a fighter down to the surface of Mars. Garibaldi is
+   waiting in a smoky bar. As soon as the Captain sits, Garibaldi slaps a
+   tranquilizer patch on his hand. Furiously Sheridan stands and attempts
+   to escape, but like a lion brought down by jackals, the men who have
+   come for him are too many and too strong. Garibaldi just sits in his
+   place and watches impassively as his former friend and CO gets beaten
+   to a pulp.
+   
+   ISN's gloating begins immediately. Ivanova and Marcus watch in stunned
+   silence.
+   
+   Garibaldi returns to his boss, furiously demanding to be finally told
+   the truth. Edgars and Wade reveal that they have genetically
+   engineered a virus that attacks only telepaths. They have also
+   developed an "antidote" that needs to be administered to infected
+   telepaths every two weeks. Turning telepaths into a virtual slave race
+   is the only way they see to counter the threat of the "death of human
+   liberty and human thought." As a side-effect, by removing Clark's
+   power base in the Psi Corps, they will be free to overturn his
+   government easily. Garibaldi affirms that he is still on board and
+   Edgars informs him that now that Clark is distracted by the capture of
+   Sheridan, he can begin the process of releasing the virus.
+   
+   "The telepath prob--" he utters and stops. Hearing the holocaustic
+   parallel in his own words, he continues in a broken voice, "The
+   telepath problem...will finally be over."
+   
+   Unbeknownst to them all, a horrified Lise has heard everything from
+   her hiding place behind a column.
+   
+   When they have left the room Garibaldi sits quietly and pops a cap off
+   his tooth revealing a miniscule transmitter. Lise finds him later
+   waiting stony faced in a tube. She begs him to help stop her husband.
+   With eerily muted urgency Garibaldi only tells her to go home.
+   
+   Moments later a new passenger joins him and the car leaves the
+   station. Without hesitation, Bester jumps straight into Garibaldi's
+   mind and extracts Edgars' nefarious plan. Even the imperturbable Psi
+   Cop is stunned by the extent of this "final solution." Having finished
+   what he came for, Bester muses about what to do with Garibaldi next.
+   "I can feel you, you know...the real you, beating at the inside of
+   your skull, screaming to get out." Should he let Garibaldi free?
+   Should he keep him penned up forever? He explains to Garbaldi what
+   happened when he was captured by the Shadows.
+   
+   Bester got control of Garibaldi during the Shadows' attempt to
+   "adjust" him and managed to handle the procedure on his own terms.
+   That way he could thwart his enemies the Shadows (the virus of Edgars'
+   was surely Shadow technology after all), take revenge on the officers
+   of Babylon 5, and use Garibaldi as a weapon against his other enemies,
+   all in one move. Accentuating his naturally rebellious and suspicious
+   instincts turned Garibaldi into the perfect tool for digging to the
+   bottom of anti-telepath conspiracies. The odd messages Garibaldi
+   received from time to time tuned his conditioning until his real
+   personality was completely buried under the new one.
+   
+   And now Bester wonders what to do. Toying for an instant with a gun in
+   Garibaldi's face, Bester comments that now that Garibaldi's friends
+   know he betrayed Sheridan, he "can't go home again." Deciding to let
+   the real Garibaldi free, Bester exits the car and the train leaves the
+   station.
+   
+   Garibaldi sits impassively on the bench. A flash of reality slams his
+   mind. He shakes his head. Then another. And then again. He screams in
+   rage and whacks his head into the wall of the train.
+   
+   When Marcus informs Ivanova that Garibaldi has attempted to contact
+   them, she orders that if he shows up on the station he be shot on
+   sight. In the interim, with Sheridan captured and the fleet in limbo,
+   she vows to finish the job her Captain began.
+   
+   Garibaldi frantically searches Edgars' home for Lise but only finds
+   Edgars dead, the virus removed and Wade mortally injured on the floor.
+   Wade manages to whisper that Lise hadn't been there when they were
+   attacked.
+   
+   The ISN anchor reports the assassination of William Edgars apparently
+   by Free Mars terrorists. She also proudly congratulates former Chief
+   Warrant Officer Michael Garibaldi for rescuing the renegade Earth
+   Force Captain John Sheridan. While Sheridan continues to be pummeled
+   by his captors, she reports that now that he has been freed of alien
+   influences, Sheridan is expressing regret for his actions against his
+   home world.
+
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+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/083.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/082.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/084.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@cc.wwu.edu)
+  
+   In the dark of an empty room, Sheridan is lying on the floor, asleep,
+   voices floating through his dreams, reminding him of how he got there.
+   Sheridan is rousted from his sleep when the single door to the room
+   flies open, and from the light outside steps a man with a briefcase.
+   He studies Sheridan as several of his associates bring in and set up a
+   chair and a desk. "Do you have any allergies or illnesses I should be
+   aware of? Are you currently taking any medication? Have you had any
+   trouble with your heart?" Sheridan doesn't respond. "When I ask a
+   question, you will respond at once. You will not hesitate, you will
+   not consider, you will not lie. Cooperation will be rewarded,
+   resistance will be punished. Do you understand?"
+   
+   Sheridan doesn't respond, but gets up and moves toward the man. When
+   he gets fairly close, a device around Sheridan's neck causes him great
+   pain, and he crumples to the floor. The man explains they are Narn
+   paingivers, purchased during the war. The man explains that there is
+   no reason to harm him, since he is not the enemy--he has no personal
+   stake in what goes on. He is there only to do his job. He further
+   explains that, though he has no desire to inflict pain, he will do so
+   if it is required. He is not there to negotiate or assist him, but is
+   there to ensure Sheridan's cooperation, and will use whatever means he
+   feels are appropriate. He asks Sheridan if he understands, but
+   Sheridan doesn't respond. The man pushes a button on his table, the
+   door opens again, and two guards come in, force Sheridan into the
+   chair, and shackle him down. The man asks Sheridan again if he
+   understands, and Sheridan nods. "Do you any allergies or ilnesses I
+   should be aware of? Are you currently taking any medication? Have you
+   had any problems with your heart?"
+   
+   "No," Sheridan answers.
+   
+   "Good," the man replies. "Then we can begin."
+   
+   Sheridan is sitting in the chair, a bright light shining on his face,
+   when the Interrogator returns, this time, with the outside shrouded in
+   darkness. "Good morning," he tells Sheridan, but Sheridan believes
+   that, since it is dark outside, it can't be morning, as it was before.
+   The Interrogator walks to the door and demonstrates that it is he who
+   controls the lighting, not the time of day. The Interrogator opens his
+   briefcase and begins removing his effects when he appears to have
+   forgotten something, and retrieves his glasses from the outside. He
+   pushes a button on the table, causing Sheridan great pain. "Never
+   contradict me," he says. The Interrogator begins looking over
+   Sheridan's file, when he looks at his watch. He opens a small package
+   in front of him, and removes a sandwich, which he begins to eat. As he
+   eats, the Interrogator explains that he finds it interesting that
+   Sheridan had never previously shown interest in politics, and Sheridan
+   agrees--the Interrogator explains that, in that case, it is unlikely
+   he would try to overthrow his own government without outside
+   influence. Sheridan insists it's not true, but the Interrogator
+   doesn't believe him, and asks if he is that far removed from other
+   people. He says he will write that down as Sheridan's "first
+   fabrication."
+   
+   The Interrogator asks Sheridan if he would like some of his sandwich;
+   since they haven't fed Sheridan, and it is lunchtime, he would
+   probably like some. Sheridan says that, a few moments ago, the
+   Interrogator said it was morning, but the Interrogator insists that
+   you can't have cornbeef sandwiches for breakfast. Sheridan concedes
+   that it must be lunchtime somewhere, and takes the sandwich. The
+   Interrogator promises Sheridan that the sandwich will not kill him,
+   and Sheridan begins consuming the sandwich. The Interrogator explains
+   that this proves that everything is a matter of perspective, the truth
+   is fluid and subjective. "Out there, it doesn't matter what time it
+   is. In here, it's lunchtime if you and I decide that it is. The truth
+   is sometimes is what you believe it to be and sometimes what you
+   decide it to be. My task... is to make you... decide to believe...
+   differently. And when that happens, the world will remake itself
+   before your very eyes." Sheridan insists it's not true, but, the
+   Interrogator disagrees, explaining how the truth changed for Sheridan
+   whenever there was a new enemy for him to fight. Sheridan denies this,
+   but the Interrogator knows that a solider must accept what is ordered
+   to believe, unless he is rejecting everything he claimed to stand for.
+   
+   Sheridan finishes the sandwich, and begins commenting on it, but the
+   Interrogator claims he's being evasive. Sheridan says it's better than
+   being dishonest. The Interrogator points out that, while Sheridan has
+   changed the truth to suit himself, he has never lied to Sheridan. The
+   Interrogator says that it's for supper, and he begins to pack up his
+   things. As he does, he explains that, if you eat a little poison every
+   day, you will gradually become used to it. The contents of the
+   sandwich won't kill Sheridan, but the toxins will have their desired
+   effects in a few minutes. "I'll be back when they've had a chance to
+   clean up the place," the Interrogator tells him as he leaves.
+   
+   Sheridan is lying on the floor when the Interrogator returns, the next
+   "morning." The Interrogator asks how is feeling, but Sheridan is too
+   sick to respond. The Interrogator apologizes for poisoning him, but it
+   is part of the process. "We have to break you physically before we can
+   get to your mind." The Interrogator explains that the room is
+   monitored throughout the day, and if Sheridan won't cooperate, he
+   cannot be held responsible for what might happen. If Sheridan
+   cooperates, the Interrogator promises, they will let him go. He
+   removes a small flask and pours a drink for Sheridan, to help him out
+   of his dehydration. Sheridan is apprehensive, but the Interrogator
+   insists the drink is safe, and that, as Sheridan's only ally, he will
+   tell him only the absolute truth. Sheridan begins to drink the liquid.
+   
+   The Interrogator explains that he needs to correct some ommissions in
+   Sheridan's files, and begins asking if Susan Ivanova is still his
+   second in command. They just want to confirm her name for the records,
+   but Sheridan won't tell him, because the Interrogator wants it. The
+   Interrogator insists he doesn't care, but his superiors want complete
+   information. He asks Sheridan to sit in the chair, now that his
+   strength has returned, which he does. As he sits, though, he finds
+   himself automatically shackled in again. The Interrogator explains
+   it's for Sheridan's own good. "Oh, by the way, I should mention your
+   father... He sends his regards." The Interrogator says he's being held
+   at another facility, and that he is alive and well. He suggests that
+   Sheridan should thank him, which Sheridan does. He explains that he
+   believes Sheridan's father will only be held as long as Sheridan is,
+   but that they won't let him go if Sheridan continues to resist. The
+   Interrogator asks if Sheridan has been interrogated before, but
+   Sheridan says he would be surprised. The Interrogator finds this odd,
+   as he seems to have forgotten the rules. He holds up a piece of paper.
+   "This is your confession. It goes on at some length. So, uh, allow me
+   to summarize. You plead guilty to charges of treason, mutiny,
+   conspiracy to commit mutiny, sedition, terrorism..."
+   
+   "That's a lie!" Sheridan insists.
+   
+   "...conspiracy to overthrow the government, illegal seizure of Earth
+   property, assault on fellow officers, sabotage..."
+   
+   "Now just a minute!"
+   
+   "...willful destruction of public property, disobeying direct orders
+   of superior officers, and the murder of 547 officers and crew onboard
+   the E.A.S. Roanoke!"
+   
+   "I won't sign it!"
+   
+   "You will sign it! You will sign it and you will read it aloud in full
+   view of the public so they'll know we haven't forged your image or
+   your signature. You will name your accomplices. You will apologize to
+   the families and friends of those who have died fighting you. And in
+   the end, you will beg for mercy on the grounds that you're under the
+   influence of aliens who are trying subvert the government and
+   undermine the authority of the President."
+   
+   "I demand to see an attorney! I demand the presence of a full military
+   tribunal. You have no right..."
+   
+   "No, YOU have no rights! There's no courtroom here, Captain, no
+   tribunals, no attorneys, no justice, no mercy, no fairness, no hope,
+   no last-minute escape. You will walk through that door when you
+   confess and not one second before!" With that, the Interrogator leaves
+   the room.
+   
+   The door flings open and the Interrogator returns. "Good morning."
+   After a few moments, two guards bring in a Drazi and strap him to the
+   Interrogator's chair. The guards leave the three of them alone. The
+   Interrogator places a recording device in front of the Drazi, and asks
+   the Drazi to repeat what he previously told another interrogator. "I
+   was one of those who was reponsible for manipulating Captain Sheridan
+   into turning against his own government." Sheridan begs him not to
+   continue, but the Drazi keeps talking. "I confess to taking part in
+   the conspiracy to overturn your government." Sheridan tells the Drazi
+   he's giving them exactly what they want, and the Interrogator
+   agrees--when he's finished, they will let him go. The Drazi continues.
+   "Those who worked with me in this conspiracy were Commander Susan
+   Ivanova, Minbari Ambassador Delenn, Senator Ross Fowler..." The
+   Interrogator explains that, while the Senator isn't involved, he has
+   become a source of annoyance for the President. "I can personally
+   verify all of the charges against him. However, Captain Sheridan was
+   not responsible for his actions. He was not, uh, mentally
+   competent..."
+   
+   Sheridan tries to convince the Drazi that however much they tortued
+   him, he doesn't have to let them win, and begs him again not to
+   confess. The Interrogator says he's Sheridan's alibi--the one chance
+   he has of avoiding the death penalty, but Sheridan thinks that the
+   Drazi are strong, and he shouldn't let them win. The Drazi insists
+   there is nothing he can do, but Sheridan says that, if he resists, he
+   will eventually win. The Drazi says he is afraid, and never has been
+   before, but Sheridan pleads with the Drazi not to give them what they
+   want. The Drazi looks at Sheridan for a few moments, and then tells
+   the Interrogator he will not cooperate any further. Sheridan smiles
+   smugly at the Interrogator.
+   
+   "Are you sure? You understand that this is your last chance?"
+   
+   "What are you doing," Sheridan asks.
+   
+   "Do you understand that this is your very... last... chance?"
+   
+   "Yes," the Drazi replies.
+   
+   The Interrogator touches a key on the table, and four guards enter
+   with a gurney, which they strap the Drazi to. Sheridan protests, but
+   they will not let him go. "Room 17," the Interrogator tells them as
+   they wheel the Drazi out. The Interrogator returns to the subject of
+   Ivanova, and will not tell Sheridan what they will do with the Drazi,
+   despite Sheridan's demands that he do so. The Interrogator explains
+   that, while the Drazi was expendable, Sheridan is not--his superiors
+   want Sheridan honestly and sincerely broken if someone scans him. The
+   apology must be sincere, and that would save them all time and
+   trouble. As he is speaking, there is a scream in the background, and
+   the lights of the room dim for a moment. The Interrogator begins
+   packing up his things, and touches a button on the table. A recording
+   of his own voice begins playing. "You will cooperate with the State
+   for the good of the State and your own survival. You will confess to
+   the crimes of which you have been accused. You will be released and
+   returned to society a productive citizen if you cooperate. Resistance
+   will be punished, cooperation will be rewarded." The Interrogator
+   leaves for the "night," but his voice remains behind. "You will
+   cooperate with the State for the good of the State and your own
+   survival. You will confess to the crimes of which you have been
+   accused. You will be released and returned to society a productive
+   citizen if you cooperate..."
+   
+   The light of "day" streams in as the Interrogator returns. "...You
+   will confess to the crimes of which you have been accused. You will be
+   released and returned to society a productive citizen if you
+   cooperate. Resistance will be punished, cooperation will be rewarded."
+   The Interrogator shuts off the recording, and bids Sheridan "good
+   morning." He tells Sheridan that, unless he starts cooperating, he
+   won't be receiving any more of the intervenous nutrition he had been
+   receiving since being taken off solid foods. The Interrogator puts
+   Sheridan's "confession" down in front of him, telling him that that,
+   and a few recorded words, are all that prevent him from leaving the
+   cell. The Interrogator asks Sheridan if he wants to leave, if he wants
+   to be free, and Sheridan admits he does. All he has to do is sign the
+   confession. The Interrogator says they don't want him dead, but rather
+   as a symbol. They will not kill him, though, at least not right
+   away--they will wait until Sheridan has been forgotten. But, until
+   that time, Sheridan will have his freedom--they will encourage him to
+   travel, to spread the message that "you cannot beat the system." "Sign
+   and speak," the Interrogator says, "and you can leave here." As
+   Sheridan looks at the Interrogator, he sees Delenn standing behind
+   him. He smiles at her, as the Interrogator releases his arms from the
+   shackles. Sheridan looks at Delenn for the answer, but she says
+   nothing to him--she then vanishes as quickly as she appeared. Sheridan
+   stares at the confession for a few moments, then spits on it. He turns
+   to the Interrogator and utters his response.
+   
+   "No."
+   
+   "I... I really wish you hadn't done that, Captain. I really...
+   sincerely wish... you hadn't done that." The Interrogator picks up the
+   confession and his briefcase, but cannot find words. "I... I... I have
+   no control over what will happen next," he explains to Sheridan. "It's
+   out of my hands." He walks out of the room, the door slamming shut
+   behind him.
+   
+   The Interrogator bursts in and wakes Sheridan up. He tells Sheridan
+   that they are doing this to him because he is a war hero, and he was
+   made such in the public eye. People know him and recognize him, but
+   when war heroes start believing certain things, the public listens,
+   which threatens their credibility. And Sheridan's credibility needs to
+   go--he says that the best way out for everyone is for Sheridan to
+   confess and lay the blame on the alien governments. Whether it is
+   really true or not, they can make the public believe it. They will let
+   him live. But, it isn't the only way--they can forge Sheridan's image
+   and his voice, after he has died. There will always be doubt that way,
+   but the Interrogator explains that it is now an acceptable option. "I
+   can save your life," the Interrogator says. "Right now. If you'll let
+   me."
+   
+   Sheridan explains that he has considered the Interrogator's words,
+   that you can't fight the system, but, if the truth is fluid and
+   subjective, maybe you can, as long as one person refuses to break, or
+   bow down.
+   
+   "But, can you win?" asks the Interrogator.
+   
+   "Every time I say no," responds Sheridan.
+   
+   The Interrogator moves away, back to his table. "Captain John
+   Sheridan, will you, or will you not, sign a confession and endorse it
+   before a public hearing?"
+   
+   "No."
+   
+   The Interrogator hits a key on the table, and four guards enter with a
+   gurney, which they force Sheridan onto. He struggles, but can't
+   escape. "You understand that this is your last chance?" the
+   Interrogator asks as he bends over him. "Do you understand this is
+   your very last chance?" Sheridan doesn't respond. "Room seventeen,"
+   the Interrogator tells him. The gurney is wheeled down the hall.
+   
+   As Sheridan moves down the hall, a priest following him, reading him
+   his Last Rites, he looks toward his goal--the door at the end of the
+   hallway, through which light is streaming. In the middle of the light,
+   Delenn is standing. Sheridan is wheeled closer, and closer...
+   
+   The gurney is placed in one half of the room, the other half obscured
+   in shadows. Sheridan is unstrapped, and the guards leave. Sheridan
+   sits up weakly, and looks into the other half of the room, where a
+   figure in a black mask, black robe, and black gloves is standing
+   before a large device, covered in a black cloth. The figure adjusts
+   his glove and walks out. Sheridan is alone for a brief moment when
+   four guards enter the room and remove him from the gurney. One of the
+   guards removes the the cloth from the device in the corner, revealing
+   it to be... a chair. An interrogation chair much like the one in the
+   room he was in a few moments ago. He is forced into the chair and
+   shackled down. The guards move the gurney closer to Sheridan, adjust
+   it in a few ways, and it becomes a table exactly like the one in the
+   other interrogation room. The guards leave the room, with only
+   Sheridan and the shadowy figure remaining behind.
+   
+   Someone else comes in the room. "Good morning," the man says, placing
+   his briefcase on the table. "Now, before we begin your interrogation,
+   I'll need some information." Sheridan turns his gaze to the figure
+   standing behind the new interrogator. "Do you have any allergies or
+   illnesses that I should know about? Are you currently taking any
+   medication?" The figure in black steps forward and removes his hood,
+   revealing the Drazi that Sheridan had met in the other cell. "Any
+   trouble with your heart?" The Drazi bows his head, but Sheridan is too
+   stunned to respond to the interrogator's questions. "You will answer
+   my questions when they are asked. Resistance will be punished,
+   cooperation will be rewarded. Do you have any illnesses or allergies
+   that I should know about? Are you currently taking any medication?
+   Have you had any trouble with your heart?" Sheridan doesn't respond,
+   but lowers his head and continues to listen. "You will answer my
+   questions when they are asked. Resistance will be punished,
+   cooperation will be rewarded. Do you have any allergies or illnesses
+   that I should know about? Are you currently taking any medication?
+   Have you had any trouble with your heart? You will answer my questions
+   when they are asked. Resistance will be punished. Cooperation will be
+   rewarded."
+
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+  Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
+  
+   Seated at a small, bare table in the Captain's quarters, Franklin asks
+   Sheridan how he managed to escape. Who were his contacts in the
+   Resistance? Sheridan peers at him suspiciously. It isn't Franklin.
+   It's an interrogator and they are still in Sheridan's cell. Drugged
+   and weary, Sheridan's mind keeps shifting the location and persons
+   from the station to prison. The brainwashing hasn't succeeded though.
+   The Captain hasn't been convinced that he is under the control of
+   aliens.
+   
+   In a busy shipping station on Mars, Garibaldi meets up with his
+   contact. Apparently the Resistance doesn't believe that Sheridan's
+   kidnapping wasn't Garibaldi's fault. Several men leap out of the
+   shadows and beat him senseless. At their headquarters, Number One
+   offers Franklin a gun and the chance for revenge. "Steven?" Garibaldi
+   shouts when Franklin refuses. Instead Franklin rips the hood off
+   Garibaldi's head and angrily demands an explanation.
+   
+   Garibaldi stammers out how he was used by Bester, but only Lyta seems
+   willing to believe it. Garibaldi tells them that he knows where
+   Sheridan is being held, and they can get him out. But it's the same
+   story he used to lure Sheridan in the first place. Garibaldi pleads,
+   "You can't let Bester screw up my entire life and not give me the
+   chance to fix it. I can't go out this way!" Franklin is disgusted.
+   Seeing Lyta, Garibaldi begs her to scan him. She replies that no one
+   trusts telepaths here. Franklin wants to try it, but Number One
+   angrily decides just to shoot Garibaldi. Franklin grabs her gun as it
+   goes off, and Lyta snatches a rifle, spraying the ceiling with fire.
+   In the uneasy pause, Franklin covers Number One with the rifle while
+   Lyta goes to work on Garibaldi's head.
+   
+   She immediately finds Psi Cop blocks. Her eyes go full black as she
+   pushes harder until she finds the memories Bester concealed. When she
+   announces this, Number One scoffs. Furious, Lyta whips around, fixes
+   Number One with her eerie eyes, and convinces her with a rapid
+   braindump of Garibaldi's hellish experience.
+   
+   The White Star fleet engages and disables another two destroyers.
+   Ivanova orders the backup units to proceed with the evacuation while
+   the main fleet heads for the next target. When Marcus questions
+   whether they are advancing too slowly, she insists that this is the
+   one chance these crews will receive justice for their actions, and
+   besides, defectors will be needed when they hit Earth.
+   
+   Garibaldi shows Number One where Sheridan is being held. She says that
+   her people can get them inside, but they're on their own after that.
+   
+   On B5, a rather worried Lennier finds Delenn and informs her that
+   Mollari has called a full Council meeting without informing the
+   Minbari. The Centauri is just calling for a vote on an intolerable
+   situation, when Delenn arrives. It's unanimous, and with a
+   representative from Minbar present, it's even legitimate.
+   
+   "The humans have become the glue which holds us together," G'Kar
+   explains when Delenn objects. The Council feels it is their
+   responsibility to do everything in their power to prevent Earth from
+   turning in upon itself, as well as to repay the debt they owe Sheridan
+   for his defense of their planets during the Shadow War.
+   
+   In Delenn's stunned silence, G'Kar, Londo and Vir explain that they
+   have resolved to unite their forces to aid Ivanova's fleet, but they
+   didn't want to tell her until it was fait acompli, lest people say it
+   was based on personal interests.
+   
+   The Resistance fighter leads Garibaldi, Franklin and Lyta through old
+   access tunnels to the location where Sheridan is being held, but
+   refuses to accompany them further.
+   
+   Marcus brings the duty officer from one of the disabled ships on the
+   bridge with the claim that he has critical intelligence. Apparently
+   some of the "allies" they've picked up along the way are not real
+   defectors. Ivanova's intention to rendezvous near Mars for the final
+   assault on Earth, has been passed back to Clark, who has arranged to
+   ambush them with a fleet of new advanced-technology destroyers.
+   Ivanova and Marcus realize that their standard Earth Force allies
+   would be annihilated by an advanced destroyer fleet. There's no time
+   to change the rendezvous, so Ivanova decides that the White Stars must
+   try to take out the force alone.
+   
+   Garibaldi and Franklin jump a patrol in the tunnels. They win, but
+   Garbaldi takes a knife in the back. Franklin stitches the wound
+   crudely, but can't convince Garibaldi to stay behind.
+   
+   Captain James of the Agamemnon tries in vain to argue Ivanova out of
+   her decision. As soon as they set off, Marcus tries to convince
+   Ivanova to get some rest. He only succeeds by threatening to harry her
+   until she gives in. She agrees as long as he wakes her later and
+   sleeps as well.
+   
+   Wearing their old Earth Force uniforms, Garibaldi and crew stroll up
+   to the prison guard booth. The guard recognizes Garibaldi and commends
+   him for turning Sheridan in. He accepts Garibaldi's story about being
+   there to interrogate the prisoner and lets them pass.
+   
+   The two cell guards stop them. Garibaldi casually mentions the lock
+   "code" and Lyta grabs it from a guard's mind before attacking the
+   second guard with the thought of pain. Garibaldi takes out the other
+   one, but blood is now showing through his uniform. They hurry into the
+   cell and Franklin sets to work trying to revive Sheridan. Through his
+   drugged fog, Sheridan mumbles, "Michael! I was going to kick your butt
+   for ... something. But I don't remember."
+   
+   Before waking Ivanova, Marcus looks at her soulfully and utters,
+   "You'll never know." She curses when he tells her they're almost at
+   the target and he didn't sleep. Before rushing to the bridge, Susan
+   reminds him of the Minbari phrase he told her was a "greeting" the
+   last time they were here. "You are the most beautiful woman I have
+   ever known." She knows what it means now and thanks him.
+   
+   Trying to get past the guard post with Sheridan, the guards notice the
+   blood on Garibaldi's back, and demand that the rescuers step away from
+   the prisoner. They quickly shoot all the guards. Clumsily, Sheridan
+   picks a gun off the floor and unloads it into one of the guards,
+   shooting until the man is pulp. He looks at Garibaldi with very
+   cognizant fury and insists he's fine.
+   
+   The White Star fleet emerges at the rendezvous point. A dozen jump
+   points open on all sides and discharge a stream of destroyers. Ivanova
+   is horrified when she sees them. Black skins and barbs on semi-organic
+   hulls prove them to be based on Shadow technology. The force commands
+   her to surrender, and when she refuses, demands to know who she is.
+   
+   "Who am I?" she asks. "I am Susan Ivanova. Commander. Daughter of
+   Andre and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance and the boot
+   that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth,
+   sweetheart. I am death incarnate, and the last living thing that you
+   are ever going to see. God sent me."
+   
+   With these words she opens fire and leads the fleet into the toughest
+   battle they've faced yet. One by one White Stars drop, but they manage
+   to outmaneuver and outgun the enemy until every one is destroyed. With
+   her navigational controls damaged, White Star 2 is unable to avoid a
+   huge mass of debris hurtling towards the ship. In the aftermath of the
+   crash, Marcus picks himself up from the wreckage filling the bridge.
+   He finds Ivanova's limp body and carries it away.
+   
+   Stumbling through the wide corridors of a Minbari cruiser, Sheridan
+   suddenly stops and stares at the sight of Delenn. They embrace and he
+   promises to talk about what happened to him later, but now he has to
+   see Ivanova, who is being tended by Minbari doctors and Marcus. Her
+   head is bolted into a vice-like stabilizer, her face is a mass of
+   cotusions, and she is rarely conscious. She rouses when John comes and
+   begs him to tell her the truth. Is she going to live? Painfully, he
+   tells her, no. She only has about a week. And so she makes one final
+   request.
+   
+   Sheridan steps onto the bridge of the Agamemnon. With the permission
+   of her Captain, he announces that a friend has asked him to lead the
+   final battle from here. At this, the multi-planet force sets out.
+
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+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
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+  Synopsis by Arturo Magidin (magidin@math.berkeley.edu)
+  
+   The alliance fleet is in hyperspace. Aboard a Minbari heavy cruiser,
+   Marcus keeps watch over Ivanova. Delenn walks in, and tells him the
+   transport to take Ivanova back to Babylon 5 has arrived. Marcus argues
+   that she would want to be at the battle, and since she is dying there
+   is nothing else to do for her. Delenn disagrees: they can make Ivanova
+   comfortable in her last hours, and see to her needs, but not in the
+   fleet. Marcus holds Ivanova's hand in his, and leaves without a word.
+   Delenn also leaves, as two Minbari prepare to take Ivanova away.
+   
+   At the Mars Resistance HQ, final preparations are underway. Number One
+   arrives with an Earth Force officer, who will help smuggle the frozen
+   telepaths onto the destroyers orbiting Mars. It will be tricky, but
+   she'll try to make it work. Meanwhile, Garibaldi leads a small team
+   scouting a supply base on the surface. They are two hours away. They
+   begin to approach as shuttles leave the base to supply dozens of Earth
+   Alliance Destroyers.
+   
+   At a bunker on the perimeter of the base, an Earth Force officer asks
+   for a status report. With Sheridan's imminent attack, they expect the
+   Mars Resistance to take advantage of the confusion and attack. As the
+   officer attempts to contact another station, an NCO pulls out a
+   breather mask. The officer is getting no reponse. "What is wrong with
+   Bravo?" he asks. The NCO puts the breather mask on, pulls out a gun,
+   and answers: "Same thing that is wrong here." At that moment, the door
+   to the bunker opens; with the atmosphere thinning, the attacking
+   forces easily overpower the Earth Force personnel. The attacking
+   forces include Number One, Garibaldi, Franklin and Lyta. The NCO
+   indicates there was no opportunity to warn the base: the Resistance
+   now controls the perimeter. Franklin puts a device on Lyta's head and
+   starts working on it.
+   
+   Aboard the Agamemnon, Sheridan gives the attack fleet their final
+   instructions. In order to attack Earth, they must take out the bases
+   on Mars first; otherwise, they would expose their flank and end up
+   fighting on two fronts. The Earth Destroyers and White Stars will lead
+   the assault, and the League ships are to provide support and establish
+   a perimeter, but they are not to engage unless fired upon first.
+   
+   Aboard the Apollo, leading the Earth Force destroyer group, General
+   Lefcourt is in command. He has been called to replace the Apollo's
+   captain because Lefcourt is a soldier of the old school: he does not
+   take arms against his own government, no matter how justified he may
+   feel. And because he taught Sheridan at the Academy, and knows how
+   Sheridan thinks. Now he has to kill him, and everyone around him.
+   "It's a terrible day," he tells the Captain. "I wish to hell I had
+   never lived to see it."
+   
+   Lefcourt is informed the hyperspace probes have picked up something,
+   but decides to wait in normal space for Sheridan. No engagement in
+   hyperspace has ever been anything but a disaster for both sides, and
+   Sheridan will come out sooner or later.
+   
+   On the Mars surface, Franklin finishes adjusting the implants on
+   Lyta's head. She has to go outside to make contact; it will be really
+   difficult because of the distance, she says. She leaves the bunker,
+   and Garibaldi sends a final message to the fleet. Everything is ready.
+   
+   Aboard a White Star, Marcus seems thoughtful. "You are thinking about
+   Ivanova again." says Lennier. Marcus is indeed thinking about her, and
+   how she is probably better off on Babylon 5, where there may be
+   something they can do for her. Lennier advises him not to get his
+   hopes up, but Marcus ignores him. Marcus has called Dr. Hobbs on
+   Babylon 5. In all this time, he reasons, they must have come up with
+   something to deal with near death conditions. "No." replies Lennier.
+   "There is nothing _usable_ on Babylon 5." Marcus asks what he means,
+   but before Lennier can clarify, Garibaldi's message comes through.
+   
+   In the bunker, Garibaldi tells everyone to get ready. He's given the
+   fleet information accurate to within a few feet, which will enable the
+   White Stars to jump from hyperspace inside the atmosphere. A White
+   Star jumps in and starts attacking the base, helped by the Resistance
+   which is using the perimeter weapons.
+   
+   Gen. Lefcourt is informed that the Resistance has attacked four bases
+   on Mars, and Sheridan's fleet is attacking a fifth. But Lefcourt does
+   not want to be planetbound, unable to maneuver in the gravity well,
+   and orders the fleet to stay in formation. He is curious, though.
+   Sheridan wouldn't go on the offensive without an ace in the hole. What
+   is it?
+   
+   Meanwhile, Lyta starts contacting the frozen telepaths, now aboard the
+   Earth destroyers. As Franklin explains, they are aboard 30 of the
+   destroyers. They will awaken, merge with the computer systems and
+   render the destroyers useless. They are being used as weapons, he
+   admits, but they _are_ weapons. He cannot remove the implants without
+   the resources of Earth; if the Alliance doesn't win, the telepaths are
+   dead anyway. And each destroyer has 1000 people on board. If they do
+   not have to destroy the ships, they are risking thirty lives to save
+   thirty thousand.
+   
+   Aboard the destroyers, the telepaths awake slowly, as Lyta
+   concentrates.
+   
+   Sheridan's fleet jumps into normal space close to Mars, as Lefcourt
+   expected. But before he can give any orders, the Apollo's systems
+   begin to fail. Almost all of the destroyers report similar problems.
+   In fact, all but 10 of the destroyers are out of commission. Sheridan
+   orders a White Star squadron to open fire on them, targetting engines
+   and weapons. Disable them, don't destroy them, he instructs. The
+   squadron quickly accomplishes this.
+   
+   Aboard the Apollo, a security detail finds the shadow-modified
+   telepath and opens fire. Meanwhile, Sheridan is ready to proceed.
+   Human and Minbari forces are to jump to Earth, while the rest of the
+   League ships stay behind to keep an eye on the disabled destroyers.
+   Marcus rejoins the fleet, but leaves Lennier in command as he goes to
+   his quarters. He orders a search of Babylon 5 records relating to
+   death, terminal illness, and extreme measures.
+   
+   Marcus soon receives the results, and finds a reference to the alien
+   healing device ([9]"The Quality of Mercy.") He orders a shuttle to be
+   made ready.
+   
+   Aboard the Apollo, they have figured out the problem and eliminated
+   the telepath, but most systems are still down; they have no engines,
+   and no communications with the other ships, so they cannot let them
+   know what they found out. Gen. Lefcourt angrily orders engineering to
+   get the ship under control ASAP.
+   
+   Lennier arrives at Delenn's ship. He has been tricked by Marcus into
+   leaving Marcus' White Star. Marcus breaks formation and leaves. Delenn
+   contacts Sheridan to let him know. They figure he is on route to
+   Babylon 5, but they cannot contact the station: as soon as they got
+   inside Mars orbit they hit the jammers. They are too close to turn
+   back, and there is nothing to do but continue ahead.
+   
+   The fleet jumps to normal space, and Sheridan talks to the people of
+   Earth. He encourages those in the government who were afraid to speak
+   up to help place President Clark under arrest, to disband Nightwatch,
+   and to return the government to the hands of the people. As he does
+   so, Clark writes in his office, the planetary defense grid comes
+   online, and a group of armed security officers escort a woman down a
+   hallway.
+   
+   Sheridan continues: "This is not the voice of treason. These are your
+   sons, your daughters, whose loyalties have never wavered; whose belief
+   in this Alliance has forced us to take extraordinary means. For
+   justice, for peace, for the future... we have come home."
+   
+   President Clark hears people outside his office, and he types a final
+   command for the defense grid. He takes a gun, and shoots himself in
+   the head. The woman and the security detail break into the office to
+   find Clark dead and a note on his desk. The note contains the phrase
+   "The ascension of the ordinary man" over and over, with certain
+   letters circled. The letters spell out "Scorched Earth."
+   
+   As the fleet continues its attack on the defense platforms, the woman,
+   who is Senator Crosby, contacts Sheridan and tells him of the death of
+   Clark and his message. He has ordered the defense grid to fire on
+   Earth, and they cannot override the command. In ten minutes, it will
+   fire and level 40% of the surface.
+   
+   "Delenn, we need you," says Sheridan. "We are there," she replies. The
+   combined human and Minbari forces attack the defense platforms,
+   destroying them one by one as Minbari and human pilots give their
+   lives in the process.
+   
+   The Agamemnon is hit several times by missiles, as the race to destroy
+   the platforms continues. The Agamemnon is hit again, and is now
+   heavily damaged and unable to fire. The nearest platform is about to
+   fire, and no other ship is in range. Sheridan gives the order to ram
+   the platform in a suicide run.
+   
+   But before they can hit the platform, the Apollo comes out of
+   hyperspace. "We have monitored the situation. Hold on to your hats,"
+   says Gen. Lefcourt as he fires and destroys the last platform. The
+   Agamemnon emerges from the fireball, still in one piece.
+   
+   "You'll have to stand before a board of inquiry on this one,
+   Sheridan," says Lefcourt. "Still, welcome home, John. Welcome home."
+   
+   After the battle, Sheridan is wanted in EarthDome. Franklin is heading
+   to Babylon 5, hoping to stop Marcus, and Delenn has some business to
+   attend to.
+   
+   In an ISN special report, the reporter last seen on the air when ISN
+   was taken over by forces loyal to Pres. Clark ([10]"Severed Dreams")
+   is overcome with emotion as she welcomes back their viewers and
+   reports on the events of the past hours, alluding as well to her
+   imprisonment and those of other colleagues.
+   
+   Meanwhile Franklin continues to try to contact Babylon 5. He reviews
+   the logs that Marcus downloaded, in which Franklin mentions the alien
+   healing device and indicates that to save someone from fatal illness,
+   the other person connected to the machine must die.
+   
+   Aboard Babylon 5, in MedLab, a guard lies unconscious on the floor.
+   Marcus has connected himself and Ivanova to the healing device. As he
+   loses consciousness next to her, Marcus whispers: "I love you."
+
+   [16][Next] 
+   
+      [17]Last update: December 25, 1997
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+  Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
+  
+   An ISN Special Report.
+     * President Clark commited suicide last night. Cameras show the
+       Executive Office, a sheet thrown over a body in a chair with the
+       sign, "Traitor to Earth!" taped to the chest.
+     * Meanwhile, Sheridan has surrendered to Earth officials and awaits
+       their decision on whether to charge him with a crime. Despite his
+       current popularity, he still must justify his actions. There is a
+       shot of Sheridan seated in a conference room filled with milling
+       Earth Force personnel.
+     * Acting President Susanna Luchenko, of the Russian Consortium,
+       announced that the legal system will prosecute those who committed
+       crimes during Clark's term, and urged people not to take justice
+       into their own hands.
+     * ISN sends its prayers to Susan Ivanova, critically wounded on
+       Babylon 5.
+       
+   Franklin is oblivious to the thrill of captaining a White Star,
+   wishing only that the journey to B5 were already over, and afraid what
+   he'll find when he catches up with Marcus.
+   
+   But it's already too late. Two medics enter the infirmary and discover
+   Marcus' still form slumped over Ivanova's braced and bandaged body,
+   both of them plugged into the alien healing/execution device. When
+   Franklin arrives, he is immediately escorted to Ivanova, the medic
+   explaining on the way that Ivanova seems to be "cured" but Marcus was
+   dead when they found him.
+   
+   Ivanova is anything but happy to be alive though. She is curled up in
+   a medical gown on the floor next to a window where a sheet-covered
+   body can be seen inside. She hears someone approach and shouts at him
+   to go away.
+   
+   "Susan, it's me," Franklin says quietly, and sits down next to her.
+   
+   Rocking herself and weeping, Susan rails at Marcus for doing this, for
+   hacking through codes to find out about the device, for breaking all
+   the rules, and for never asking for anything. For sacrificing himself
+   for her, for taking himself from her, and for taking away the chance
+   that she could love him back. When she was resigning herself to her
+   death she heard someone say, "I love you," and wondered, "Is that
+   God?" Instead of drifting away however, she was dragged back into her
+   body, and then realized that Marcus was dying beside her, even as her
+   life began to beat more strongly. Incapacitated, she couldn't do a
+   thing to prevent it.
+   
+   After so many bad relationships, she was afraid of loving and being
+   hurt again, but she should have done it anyway, or at least "boffed
+   him once." When Stephen remarks that "that's one way to deal with
+   unrequited love," she replies, "All love is unrequited, Stephen. All
+   of it," and buries her head in his shoulder.
+   
+   Striding impatiently in a docking bay, G'Kar chides Londo for being
+   late.
+   
+   "You're early," Londo returns.
+   
+   When G'Kar objects that he is "never premature," Londo retaliates,
+   "That's not what I hear," allowing however that two minutes may well
+   be prodigious for a Narn. At this moment, Vir hustles up nervously
+   with something urgent and secret to tell the Ambassador. Londo
+   magnanimously offers to give G'Kar pointers on his problem, and as
+   G'Kar strides off in a huff, Londo comments that they are "developing
+   a strange relationship. At times I find I rather enjoy it."
+   
+   It appears that the Regent is ill and not expected to live much
+   longer. The Centauri government has requested Londo to return home to
+   lead them. When Mollari's expression remains annoyed, Vir explains,
+   "You're going to be Emperor, Londo! Isn't that wonderful?" Vir has no
+   way of knowing that Londo has dreaded this day more than anticipated
+   it.
+   
+   Awaiting his fate in Earth Dome, Sheridan has an unwelcome visitor.
+   Bester begins by denying everything about using Garibaldi, William
+   Edgars and a telepath virus, but admits that the wise course of action
+   would be to destroy such a virus while keeping the antidote--just in
+   case. Of course, he gloats, for a mental scan confirming Garibaldi's
+   story to be valid in court, the telepath would have to be a member of
+   Psi Corps.
+   
+   Sheridan smiles and replies, "You really think you've got it all
+   covered, don't you."
+   
+   Bester can't contain his real reason for coming any longer. He wants
+   to know whether his lover, Carolyn, was one of the telepaths used to
+   disable the destroyers in the final battle at Mars. If she was, Bester
+   threatens, Sheridan won't leave the room alive.
+   
+   The captain scoffs, "Death. Been there, done that." Using the
+   telepaths as weapons was the hardest decision he ever made, he claims.
+   Only thirty, single telepaths without families were chosen out of a
+   hundred. Making the Psi Cop agonize just a little bit longer, because
+   Carolyn was single and had no family, Sheridan shouts, "I know what
+   it's like to lose someone, just to find her and lose her again," and
+   he wouldn't even wish it on Bester. Carolyn is still on the station
+   and can be transferred to Earth as soon as it's safe.
+   
+   Bester's bluster drops and he sits weakly. "Thank you," he says.
+   
+   Sheridan's disgust doesn't waver. He continues that he knows that with
+   Clark out of power, Bester will have to regroup, but he won't stop
+   trying to take over the government. But Sheridan will be watching. And
+   when Bester starts a war between the telepaths and the normals
+   someday, he'll lose.
+   
+   Stung, Bester replies, "We'll see."
+   
+   Before he leaves, Sheridan reminds him not to rest too easy because
+   Garibaldi will be coming after him. Bester dismisses this, but
+   Sheridan assures him that whatever Garibaldi does, "it will be
+   creative, colorful, and extremely unpleasant."
+   
+   Garibaldi smashes a fat little man's face into a wall. "Where is she?"
+   he asks, meaning Lise. The man denies all knowledge. Garibaldi flings
+   him into another wall and explains the situation more clearly.
+   
+   Londo and G'Kar find Delenn musing silently. She congratulates Londo
+   on his promotion and he barks, "You've heard that already?"
+   
+   "There is little that does not reach me these days."
+   
+   Before the representatives from the non-aligned worlds arrive, she
+   wants them to read a proposal, because their support will be critical.
+   After a glance, G'Kar asks if she is sure she wants to do this. Londo
+   reads it and begins laughing. Nonplussed, Delenn says it isn't funny.
+   Londo chortles that being in the "presence of living history...makes
+   you giddy." When the others arrive, he tells them that he hopes they
+   "have all brought a change of underwear. You will need it after you
+   read this."
+   
+   Sheridan's patience with being cooped up is exhausted about the same
+   time it is decided what to do with him. President Luchenko explains
+   that the debate was between whether to give him the Medal of Honor or
+   shoot him, or both. She criticizes his "inconvenient" military action
+   and political naivete, but offers that in exchange for amnesty for his
+   crew and allies, he must resign from Earth Force. If he refuses, he
+   will be court martialed. Sheridan asks for the amnesty in writing and
+   agrees to resign.
+   
+   A man enters a warehouse on Mars. A big guy asks him, "How much do
+   they want for her alive?" They jump at a knock at the door. There's a
+   colorful package outside. They open it; it explodes and Rangers drop
+   down from the rafters as Garibaldi and more Rangers break in the door.
+   Running through building, Garibaldi calls, "Lise!" until there is a
+   muffled reply from behind a door. He breaks her out and they fall into
+   each other's arms.
+   
+   Approaching Earth, Delenn is in a reverie because the Council has
+   approved her proposal. "They will talk about this day for a hundred
+   years." Lennier says he wishes Marcus were here, and then asks with
+   emotion in his voice if Delenn heard Ivanova's comment about love
+   being unrequited. Delenn looks deeply at Lennier, touches his face and
+   tells him, "She's wrong, of course."
+   
+   ISN carries the news conference live. The President graciously
+   introduces Sheridan and declares that all sides in the recent war
+   fought for Earth. Explaining it as a conflict between love of Earth
+   and love of duty, Sheridan announces his resignation in the hopes that
+   the wounds can heal quickly.
+   
+   Then G'Kar rises to announce that the League of Nonaligned Worlds is
+   now dissolved, and there is a new Alliance instead. Delenn in turn
+   explains that Earth is being offered a chance to join in an economic
+   and political pact. She describes the common authority that all
+   members have agreed to recognize. The mission of the Rangers, she
+   explains, is to protect borders but not participate in wars, to create
+   the peace, but not enforce it. As she speaks, the room shakes as
+   dozens of White Stars jump into the sky above. From now on, all member
+   races may contribute to the Ranger ranks, she adds.
+   
+   In a private meeting, President Luchenko asks for something more
+   concrete than "peace" to convince realists to enter the pact. Delenn
+   casually offers artificial gravity. Luchenko takes the bait and asks
+   who will be in authority over the new alliance. Delenn explains that
+   they have a board, indicating herself, Londo and G'Kar, but they also
+   have an elected President as well.
+   
+   The President has his feet on the table when an Earth Force General
+   bursts in demanding to know where the letter of amnesty is. Copies
+   have already been given to the reporters, Sheridan replies smugly. As
+   they leave the room, Delenn appears at the end of the corridor with
+   someone to see him. It's his father, free and healthy. They embrace
+   and then Sheridan Sr. reaches out to Delenn, delighted to welcome her
+   into the family.
+   
+   ISN reports that Earth has agreed to enter the Interstellar Alliance.
+   At the press gathering, President Sheridan states that as part of the
+   agreement all member states must recognize the sovereign rights of
+   colony worlds, and thus, Mars will be granted independence.
+   
+   Watching this in bed, Garibaldi and Lise try to put off figuring out
+   what they are going to do next, but marriage seems to be in the plans.
+   
+   Ivanova has been promoted to Captain and has accepted command of a new
+   Warlock class warship for a yearlong shake-down cruise, ISN continues.
+   
+   Sheridan and Delenn were married in a private ceremony on board White
+   Star 2 while heading back to Babylon 5, the report concludes.
+   
+   Londo shuts the news off. As G'Kar picks rice off his jacket and pops
+   it in his mouth, Londo tells him to cut it out. If it were any good
+   would they be throwing it at people? He muses that he'd sure like to
+   see the newlyweds now. G'Kar looks distracted, and peering at him
+   Londo demands to know where his artificial eye is. It's sitting
+   innocuously on a table, aimed at the honeymoon bed.
+
+   [14][Next] 
+   
+      [15]Last update: January 14, 1998
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+  Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@cc.wwu.edu)
+  
+   President Sheridan and Delenn's shuttle is just returning to Babylon 5
+   after their honeymoon, and they are welcomed aboard by a party in the
+   docking bay, something Garibaldi knew Sheridan would want to avoid.
+   Sheridan promises to pay him back, but thanks the crowd, and takes
+   Delenn off into an adjoining hallway. Londo appears with G'Kar and
+   asks why there is a party for human weddings, instead of the Centauri
+   method of celebrating with a somber ceremony--he insists it is a bad
+   sign for the future. Franklin and Garibaldi have no interest in
+   discussing this with him.
+   
+   Sheridan and Delenn consult with each other about the
+   attention--Delenn wishes people wouldn't give the two of them all the
+   credit for what all of them did collectively, but Sheridan insists
+   that, in a hundred years, no one will know the difference-- probably
+   no one will even remember them. Delenn agrees, and they move down the
+   hallway, joined by Franklin, Garibaldi, Londo, and G'Kar.
+   
+   "And here's our first shot of the First Couple of the Interstellar
+   Alliance, President John Sheridan and Delenn, live on ISN," an
+   announcer's voice explains. "Their triumphant return to Babylon 5
+   after the liberation of Earth..." Then, the audio begins to break
+   down. "...generated good...messages from the Senate and the... former
+   League of Non-Aligned Worlds..." The screen erupts into static, and is
+   then replaced with a computer display screen.
+   
+   "Continuity error caused by high energy," a voice explains.
+   "Correcting for error. Resetting. Do you wish to continue?"
+   
+   Someone selects "Yes."
+   
+   "Reloading Sequence: Sheridan and Delenn. Please select a time period,
+   or select Auto Play for chronological display of records."
+   
+   "Auto Play" is selected.
+   
+   As the records load, the voice continues, "Loading records for period
+   covering one year through one thousand years from events shown. Please
+   stand by to receive."
+   
+   The voice resumes. "Accessing records from initial scanning date.
+   Standby."
+   
+   "ISN Night Side," an announcer says, "a no-holds-barred look at the
+   events of today that will shape the world of tomorrow. And now your
+   host, Derek Mitchell."
+   
+   Derek Mitchell appears in the ISN studio. He explains that the
+   previous few weeks-- with the end of the civil war and the creation of
+   the Interstellar Alliance-- have been quite overwhelming, and that the
+   purpose of this broadcast is to reflect on recent events. The
+   broadcast begins with a report from an investigative reporter, who
+   describes the important events in Sheridan's life and predicts it'll
+   be a struggle to hold together the newborn Interstellar Alliance.
+   
+   Mitchell then introduces a panel of experts to discuss the issue, and
+   each member of the panel is sharply divided. Henry Ellis, a political
+   speech-writer, feels Sheridan is underqualified to run the
+   Interstellar Alliance, and that he has no business being President of
+   anything. He thinks the Alliance is doomed from the beginning. Senator
+   Elizabeth Materie and journalist Leif Tanner disagree--they want
+   Sheridan to be given the chance to prove himself. They don't know if
+   the Alliance will work, but they feel he deserves the right to try.
+   Senator Materie accuses Ellis of trying to discredit Sheridan, someone
+   who might prevent his party from achieving a majority in the senate.
+   
+   Coming up on a commercial break, Mitchell asks them, assuming Sheridan
+   can make the Alliance work, if it will make a difference, and what the
+   most difficult problem to overcome will be. Tanner feels that Sheridan
+   has already made a difference, and Senator Materie feels that it's too
+   early to tell, as the most important developments will happen in the
+   next year, with many problems still needing to be solved. However, she
+   feels he can handle it. Ellis disagrees--he says that the only way the
+   Alliance will work is with the use of military force, which will cause
+   the Alliance to fall apart.
+   
+   "Thank you, thank you very much," Mitchell tells them, as he turns to
+   the camera. "We'll be back in just a moment to consider the political
+   implications of this new Interstellar Alliance, and the recent calls
+   for the formation of independent political parties on Mars..." The
+   audio and video cuts out, the screen filling with static.
+   
+   "Record ends," the computer voice resumes. "Auto play feature engaged.
+   Loading next sequence. Date: One hundred years from first time period.
+   Stand by."
+   
+   "...with another in our series of educational stellarcasts on the
+   100th anniversary of the Interstellar Alliance. Taking part in today's
+   discussion from Earthdome, historian Dr. Jim Latimere from the
+   University of York, Political Science professor Dr. Barbara Tashaki,
+   University of Japan at Tokyo, and psychologist Dr. William Exeter from
+   NYU."
+   
+   Latimere introduces those watching to the broadcast, and passes along
+   the first question to the others: What role did Babylon 5 play in the
+   creation of the hundred year peace? Both doctors agree that it didn't
+   play a role at all--Dr. Tashaki explains that individuals cannot
+   effect change themselves, they enable others to do the work for them.
+   Exeter feels they didn't do anything, and that the record of their
+   accomplishments is overrated. Tashaki claims the force of history was
+   all that saved them, after so many people died during the first year
+   of the Alliance's operation. As she begins to talk about Delenn and
+   Sheridan's son, she is interrupted by Latimere.
+   
+   His next question for them is where Sheridan and Delenn went wrong.
+   Though Latimere tries to defend them, Exeter says that one of their
+   problems was the establishment of a telepath colony on Babylon 5.
+   Tashaki agrees, saying that she felt it helped bring about the
+   Telepath War. Latimere tries to prevent her from associating events
+   too much, but she won't be swayed. Latimere then shows them a video
+   clip of Garibaldi, in a room, surrounded by people, begging them to
+   work with him. They refuse, but are soon confronted with a message
+   from Sheridan on a screen nearby refusing to bargain with terrorists
+   for the lives of hostages. Sheridan gives them the choice to surrender
+   or to die, with ten minutes to decide. One of the people raises a gun,
+   and the sound of gunfire is heard as Latimere ends the clip. Exeter
+   feels that Sheridan was pathological, and that he was power-hungry,
+   never letting anything get in his way. Tashaki thinks it was, instead,
+   a sophisticated PR campaign.
+   
+   "And then there's that bit about the way his death was handled," Exter
+   says.
+   
+   "Exactly," Tashaki agrees. "Everyone knows Sheridan died on Minbar.
+   The cover story they put out was designed to perpetuate the myth of
+   his character. And I guess it worked, 'cause a lot of people still
+   believe it, eighty years later."
+   
+   Latimere then asks them about Delenn--Exeter feels it's ridiculous to
+   believe that Delenn is still alive, living in seclusion, and that the
+   Alliance is using that for their own purposes. Tashaki also agrees,
+   wondering why, if the Alliance is truly that strong, they need the
+   lies and myths.
+   
+   Latimere asks if they feel the Alliance has been a force for good.
+   Exter basically thinks so, but also believes that the Alliance's
+   original motives may not have been as pure as believed. Tashaki thinks
+   that it is unfair to give Sheridan and Delenn undue credit. As she is
+   about to continue, an alarm sounds, and Latimere informs them that
+   there has been a security breach in the building.
+   
+   Three Minbari walk in, and the one in the lead is very recognizable.
+   It is a much older Delenn. "John Sheridan was a good, kind, and decent
+   man," she says. Latimere asks her if she came so far to say that, to
+   which she responds, "You came just as far to say less." She tells them
+   that they don't truly wish to know anything--they ignore that which
+   they truly know because it is inconvenient, and they invent that which
+   they do not know. Delenn insists that Sheridan was a good and kind man
+   that cared about Earth, even when everyone turned their backs to him.
+   She starts to walk away, but is interrupted by Exeter, mentioning that
+   they would expect her to say that. She tells them good-bye, and looks
+   around at their faces, finding nothing to give her reason to stay. She
+   turns and leaves.
+   
+   "Record ends," the computer voice intones. "Auto play feature engaged.
+   Loading next sequence. Date: Five hundred years from first time
+   period. Stand by."
+   
+   In room with a conference table, the rear wall glowing blue, a man,
+   Daniel, steps forward from the wall. He hits a few keys on the control
+   he is carrying, and the blue wall changes into a Babylon 5 background.
+   He explains, for the benefit of posterity, the "virtual environment"
+   is identical to that of Babylon 5 in 2262, and is as accurate as
+   possible, given the age of the records available, and the destruction
+   of the station 480 years earlier. He turns to the camera. "The purpose
+   of this simulation is to provide reverse-correct infospeak as support
+   for current changes in Earth policy. That is, the new policy that the
+   Interstellar Alliance is restrictive, against the best interests of
+   Earth. Intent is to deconstruct historical figures revered by Prole
+   Sector, thereby legitimizing current government policies."
+   
+   He activates the control holograms--one of Sheridan, one of Delenn,
+   one of Dr. Franklin, and one of Garibaldi. He explains that, to
+   determine if research has been thorough enough, the holograms will be
+   imbued with the psychological makeups of the people in question, and
+   will therefore behave "in a fashion consistent with realfact." The
+   holograms do believe that they are Babylon 5 in the year 2262, and as
+   the next step in the process, Daniel updates the holograms with
+   information gathered during the ensuing 500 years they cannot recall.
+   Sheridan realizes what Daniel is trying to do--use the vids as
+   propaganda (or, as Daniel calls them, "goodfacts") to justify a break
+   from the Alliance, because Earth needs room to expand that the
+   Alliance doesn't allow them. Garibaldi realizes they have been
+   recreated to provide false records. The people who created the
+   Alliance are now being used to undermine it. As the memories of the
+   last 500 years become loaded into their memories, the holograms
+   realize they are on the verge of another civil war, with the Daniel's
+   group wanting to invade worlds still loyal to the Alliance--their
+   legacy is a hindrance, and they must be deconstructed.
+   
+   As the four holograms begin to finally understand what's going on,
+   Daniel beings phase 3 of his project--a goodfact scenario. The area
+   around them changes to a corridor in Babylon 5, with Sheridan's
+   personality reprogrammed. He explains to a holographic group of
+   aliens-- who surrendered in hopes of finding mercy--that he shows no
+   mercy to the weak. He promises to "blaze a path across the galaxy"
+   using their blood. Sheridan orders his officers to fire at the aliens,
+   which they do. Delenn, Garibaldi, and Franklin begin to formulate a
+   plan, but they are stopped by Daniel when he begins a new simulation,
+   this time using Franklin, who explains--in a holographic medlab--his
+   method of using alien organs in human bodies to create a genetic
+   cross-breed for use by the Alliance.
+   
+   Daniel pauses the program to make some notes, and Garibaldi begins
+   speaking to him. Daniel has little desire to talk to him and tries to
+   deactivate the program, but Garibaldi suggests he not do that--he
+   might have some useful information. After all, Garibaldi claims, he
+   did most of the strategic planning during the war, and that kind of
+   information could make Daniel look very good to his superiors, but he
+   will need just a few questions answered. Daniel admits that he does
+   know what his superiors are planning--they are going to attack the
+   outer colonies, and the enemy nations on Earth simultaneously. He also
+   reveals that, to demoralize the enemy, they will attack civilian
+   population centers. Daniel asks what Garibaldi would suggest they do.
+   "I suggest," Garibaldi replies, "that you put your head between your
+   legs and you kiss your ass goodbye."
+   
+   Daniel attempts to deactivate Garibaldi, but it won't work--while all
+   of the new information was being downloaded into the Garibaldi
+   hologram, he learned how to use the system to transmit their entire
+   conversation to the "enemy" forces. Garibaldi predicts that, since
+   they are more humanitarian, they will probably only target military
+   facilities. Daniel doesn't believe him, but the red alert klaxons
+   sounding change his mind, and he still can't deactivate the
+   simulation. Garibaldi asks if, by any chance, they are currently on
+   military base, and, without replying, Daniel lets out an urgent scream
+   and leaves the room, running through the blue field as quickly as he
+   can. Garibaldi's hologram walks over to his comrades, and says to
+   them, "Rest easy friends. Rest easy," just as the base is engulfed in
+   a blinding flash of white light.
+   
+   "Record ends," continues the computer voice. "Auto play feature
+   engaged. Loading next sequence. Date: One thousand years from first
+   time period. Stand by."
+   
+   In an old library or study, with a man, in monk's robes, adjusts the
+   camera, amazed the mechanism still works after so long. He says he
+   needs to begin his report, but is interrupted by a knock at the door.
+   He answers it, and admits another, younger monk, bearing a large book,
+   into the room. Brother Michael, the younger monk, says he's having a
+   crisis of faith.
+   
+   Brother Alwyn asks what the problem is this time, and Michael replies
+   that he doesn't know why he's there, or what his purpose is, or to
+   what end he is pursuing God's work. Brother Michael explains that he
+   heard a rumor that their request for recognition has been turned down
+   by Rome again, and asks if it's true. Alwyn says they don't understand
+   the wisdom of their mission to keep alive knowledge of the past that
+   would otherwise have been lost after the Great Burn 500 years earlier.
+   Alwyn says that science isn't Rome's calling, but Michael wants to
+   know how they can be sure it is theirs. Since most of the records were
+   lost during the Great Burn, they only have word of mouth to go on.
+   Alwyn says they still have the holy books written after the Great Burn
+   that tell of the battles that burned the air and the sea, accounts
+   which can be verified by looking outside.
+   
+   Michael says it's all too clean and too thought out, and opens the
+   book he brought. He shows a picture of a being named Lorien, the Last
+   of the First. Michael says the others claim he was a fable created to
+   match scripture, but that no proof exists. Alwyn insists there is
+   proof, in space--a place they can unfortunately not reach. Michael
+   feels great sorrow at what has happened to Earth, and Alwyn reminds
+   him that is why they are there, to preserve the ancient knowledge that
+   still does exist. But Michael needs to know how they will ever create
+   the flying machines mentioned in the books, or if they will ever find
+   the truth that lies in the stars. He wants to know about Blessed
+   Sheridan, who lived and died, taken "bodily into heaven" and the other
+   people mentioned.
+   
+   The one element that gives Brother Michael the most pause, however, is
+   that of the prophesies of Delenn III, who predicted the
+   An'la'shok--the Rangers--would come to Earth in its greatest hour of
+   need and rebuild it. He says they have waited so long, and they have
+   never come, that he is beginning to doubt that, as well as all the
+   others. He is afraid that, because of that, his life might prove to
+   have all been a lie. Alwyn tells Michael he cannot help him--only his
+   faith can do that. Faith and reason must work together to look for the
+   reason to continue. Alwyn tells Michael that if the Rangers did come
+   back, they would never know about it. Their secret would be feared by
+   those who blame science for the Great Burn. Michael asks Alwyn if he
+   believes the Rangers are on Earth now, to which Alwyn responds that he
+   believes they could be. That's enough for him, and for faith. Alwyn
+   believes that should be enough for Michael as well. He closes the
+   book, and tells Michael to finish illuminating upon it, that he has
+   come too far to lose his faith. He ushers Michael to the door, but
+   before Michael goes, he says that he hopes that, if the truth lies in
+   the stars, he can one day walk among them. Alwyn tells him that he
+   prays his wish will someday come true. After Brother Michael has left,
+   Alwyn turns once again to the camera.
+   
+   "Alwyn Macomber reporting in. Nothing of substance to report since my
+   last. We think we may have gathered enough information from the time
+   pre-Burn to assemble a working gasoline engine. Obviously, there is no
+   gasoline in this part of the country, therefore, we ask the supply
+   department if they could... arrange to have a suitable supply of
+   gasoline found in the vicinity near the Abbey in a few days. Only this
+   time, for Valen's sake, please make it look like an old container! The
+   last one could have been produced a hundred years ago!" He moves to
+   his closet and opens the door, and pulls out a black uniform with a
+   green pin over the right breast. "We will rebuild the Earth, though it
+   take us another two thousand years. But this time... We will build it
+   better. I'm attaching a conversation I just had with Brother Michael,
+   who, I still think, would be a worthy recruit, after he's grown a
+   little. Give him another twenty years, and he'll be fine. Alwyn,
+   An'la'shok, first sector, end report. We live for The One, we die for
+   The One."
+   
+   "Record ends. Autoplay feature complete," says the voice.
+   
+   "Stand by," says a man.
+   
+   "System has finished processing and archiving records for period of
+   one million years from initial scanning date. Instructions?"
+   
+   "Our job is finished," the man continues. "Convey records to New
+   Earth."
+   
+   "Confirmed," the computer voice says.
+   
+   "Use enhanced tachyon sequence to ensure arrival in time for the
+   celebrations."
+   
+   "Confirmed. Note: Atypical solar emissions increasing in intensity.
+   Estimate Sol will hit nova in less than 5 standard hours. Recommend
+   immediate evacuation."
+   
+   "Tell the others not to worry," the man tells the computer. "I
+   wouldn't miss this for anything. Now go on." The computer display
+   compacts itself into a small point of light, which then floats off.
+   "This is how the world ends," the man says. "Swallowed in fire, but
+   not in darkness. You will live on, the voice of all our ancestors, the
+   voice of our fathers and our mothers to the last generation. We
+   created the world we think you would have wished for us, and now we
+   leave the cradle for the last time." The man turns and walks away, and
+   after a few steps, changes into a ball of brilliant blue-white light.
+   The ball of light floats over to the corner, where it merges with a
+   tall device standing there. The device activates, and a small
+   unit--closely resembling a head--emerges and the eyes glow.
+   
+   A lone green ship begins flying away from a yellow star. The symbol of
+   the Rangers is emblazoned on its side. As it creates and enters a jump
+   point, the star explodes...
+   
+   ...and becomes the flame of a candle.
+   
+   Delenn turns to Sheridan as they lie in bed. "You should sleep. We
+   both have early meetings."
+   
+   "Yeah, I know... I was just thinking about it all, everything we've
+   done... And what I said earlier... And I was wondering if they will
+   remember us a hundred years from now, or a thousand. And I figure,
+   probably not."
+   
+   "But it doesn't matter. We did what we did because it was right, not
+   to be remembered. And history will attend to itself. It always does."
+   They kiss each other, and then hug and smile.
+   
+   _Dedicated to all the people who predicted that the Babylon Project
+   would fail in its mission._
+   
+   _Faith manages._
+
+   [14][Next] 
+   
+      [15]Last update: February 10, 1998
+
+References
+
+   1. file://localhost/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar
+   2. LYNXIMGMAP:file://localhost/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar
+   3. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/guide/088.html
+   4. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/background/088.shtml
+   5. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/credits/088.html
+   6. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+   7. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/087.html
+   8. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/089.html
+   9. file://localhost/lurk/lurker.html
+  10. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/088.html#TOP
+  11. file://localhost/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
+  12. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/eplist.html
+  13. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/087.html
+  14. file://localhost/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/synops/089.html
+  15. file://localhost/lurk/lastmod.html
diff --git a/ftp/Synopses/compilation/README b/ftp/Synopses/compilation/README
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+Synop61.zip contains:
+
+The new compilation is broken up into four files:
+
+toc61.ps    new table of contents upto episode 53
+season1.ps  episodes 00-22
+season2.ps  episodes 23-44
+season3.ps  episodes 45-61  still-incomplete season 3
+
+The compilation up through episode 44, end of season 2 is exactly
+the same as previous compilations.  If you have those, then you need
+only the new toc61.ps and the season3.ps
+
+At the end of season 3, I will replace the season3 file.
+
+
diff --git a/ftp/Synopses/compilation/readme.txt b/ftp/Synopses/compilation/readme.txt
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+Synop66.zip contains:
+
+The new compilation is broken up into four files:
+
+toc66.ps    new table of contents upto episode 66
+season1.ps  episodes 00-22
+season2.ps  episodes 23-44
+season3.ps  episodes 45-66
+
+The compilation up through episode 44, end of season 2 is exactly
+the same as previous compilations.  If you have those, then you need
+only the new toc66.ps and the season3.ps
+
+This compilation is complete through season 3.
+
diff --git a/ftp/Synopses/compilation/season1.ps b/ftp/Synopses/compilation/season1.ps
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+<html>
+<head>
+<title>JMS Usenet messages</title>
+<link rel="parent" href="../index.html">
+<link rev="made" href="mailto:danwood@pobox.com">
+</head>
+
+<body>
+<h1>JMS Usenet messages</h1>
+
+<p>
+Transcripts of executive producer/writer J. Michael Straczynski's messages on
+the Usenet
+<a href="news:alt.tv.babylon-5">alt.tv.babylon-5,</a>
+<a href="news:rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5">rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5,</a>
+and
+<a href="news:rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated">rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated</a>
+newsgroups.  December 1994 and earlier collected by Dan Wood
+&lt;danwood@pobox.com&gt;.  (The preceding links will only work if you
+get those groups at your site <em>and</em> your browser is configured to
+read news; see your system administrator if you get an error.)
+
+<p>
+<dl compact>
+<dt><a href="latest">Collection point for recent articles</a>
+
+<p>
+<dt>1999
+<dd>
+    <a href="jms99-01-usenet">January</a> -
+    <a href="jms99-02-usenet">February</a>
+
+<p>
+<dt>1998
+<dd>
+    <a href="jms98-01-usenet">January</a> -
+    <a href="jms98-02-usenet">February</a> -
+    <a href="jms98-03-usenet">March</a> -
+    <a href="jms98-04-usenet">April</a> -
+    <a href="jms98-05-usenet">May</a> -
+    <a href="jms98-06-usenet">June</a> -
+    <a href="jms98-07-usenet">July</a> -
+    <a href="jms98-08-usenet">August</a> -
+    <a href="jms98-09-usenet">September</a> -
+    <a href="jms98-10-usenet">October</a> -
+    <a href="jms98-11-usenet">November</a> -
+    <a href="jms98-12-usenet">December</a>
+
+<p>
+<dt>1997
+<dd>
+    <a href="jms97-01-usenet">January</a> -
+    <a href="jms97-02-usenet">February</a> -
+    <a href="jms97-03-usenet">March</a> -
+    <a href="jms97-04-usenet">April/May</a> -
+    <a href="jms97-06-usenet">June</a> -
+    <a href="jms97-07-usenet">July</a> -
+    <a href="jms97-08-usenet">August</a> -
+    <a href="jms97-09-usenet">September</a> -
+    <a href="jms97-10-usenet">October</a> -
+    <a href="jms97-11-usenet">November</a> -
+    <a href="jms97-12-usenet">December</a>
+
+<p>
+<dt>1996
+<dd>
+   <a href="jms96-04-usenet">April</a> -
+   <a href="jms96-05-usenet">May</a> -
+   <a href="jms96-06-usenet">June</a> -
+   <a href="jms96-07-usenet">July</a> -
+   <a href="jms96-08-usenet">August</a> -
+   <a href="jms96-09-usenet">September</a> -
+   <a href="jms96-10-usenet">October</a> -
+   <a href="jms96-11-usenet">November</a> -
+   <a href="jms96-12-usenet">December</a><br>
+   (JMS wasn't on Usenet from January through March)
+
+<p>
+<dt>1995
+<dd>
+   <a href="jms95-01-usenet">January</a> -
+   <a href="jms95-02-usenet">February</a> -
+   <a href="jms95-03-usenet">March</a> -
+   <a href="jms95-04-usenet">April</a> -
+   <a href="jms95-05-usenet">May</a> -
+   <a href="jms95-06-usenet">June</a> -
+   <a href="jms95-07-usenet">July</a> -
+   <a href="jms95-08-usenet">August</a> -
+   <a href="jms95-09-usenet">September</a> -
+   <a href="jms95-10-usenet">October</a> -
+   <a href="jms95-11-usenet">November</a> -
+   <a href="jms95-12-usenet">December</a>
+
+<p>
+<dt>1994
+<dd>
+   <a href="jms94-01-usenet">January</a> -
+   <a href="jms94-02-usenet">February</a> -
+   <a href="jms94-03-usenet">March</a> -
+   <a href="jms94-04-usenet">April</a> -
+   <a href="jms94-05-usenet">May</a> -
+   <a href="jms94-06-usenet">June</a> -
+   <a href="jms94-07-usenet">July</a> -
+   <a href="jms94-08-usenet">August</a> -
+   <a href="jms94-09-usenet">September</a> -
+   <a href="jms94-10-usenet">October</a> -
+   <a href="jms94-11-usenet">November</a> -
+   <a href="jms94-12-usenet">December</a>
+
+<p>
+<dt>1993
+<dd>
+   <a href="jms93-07-usenet">July</a> -
+   <a href="jms93-08-usenet">August</a> -
+   <a href="jms93-09-usenet">September</a> -
+   <a href="jms93-10-usenet">October</a> -
+   <a href="jms93-11-usenet">November</a> -
+   <a href="jms93-12-usenet">December</a>
+</dl>
+
+<p>
+<a href="../index.html">To the Babylon 5 ftp directory</a>
+</body>
+</html>
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+(This is the first file of JMS postings on Usenet)
+===========================================================================
+| This text is compiled from posts by J. Michael Straczynski on the Usenet 
+| group alt.tv.babylon-5.  This document contains material Copyright 1993
+| J. Michael Straczynski.  He has given permission for his words to be 
+| redistributed online, as long as they are marked as being copyright JMS.
+| This document, as well as other Babylon-5 related material, is available
+| by anonymous FTP at ftp.hyperion.com.
+===========================================================================
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Jul 1993 03:22:56 -0400
+Subject: Passage through jumpgates
+
+     As has been stated previously, large starships, such as carrier
+ships, have enough energy resources to create their *own* entry into
+hyperspace, their own jump points.  The jump gates are mainly used for
+smaller ships, or big ships that want to conserve energy.
+ 
+     Thus, the Vorlons used the jump gate in order to detach their smaller
+ships *before* entering B5's space, so that they could go in on the attack
+immediately, rather than having to separate from the mothership after
+arriving via a separate jump point.  Since they were expecting some sort
+of Vorlon craft, no one thought much of it; the frequency matched with the
+ambassador's craft.  It's only when everything came out that they saw it
+was more than it seemed.
+ 
+     One other item: a jump gate isn't like a light bulb, you can't just
+switch it off suddenly.  There are massive reactions and energy flows going
+on in there, and it takes a fairly long period of time to shut one down
+without blowing the thing to kingdom come.  Also, you endanger any other
+craft heading for it or midway through a jump.  During the Earth/Minbari
+war, EA jump gates were encoded to reject any ship coming in on the wrong
+ID frequency, which helped to slow down misuse of certain gates, though
+the codes would eventually get cracked, which meant they had to be changed
+on a fairly regular basis.
+ 
+     In "Midnight on the Firing Line," you will see how a carrier-size
+ship makes its own jump point.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Jul 1993 01:50:01 -0400
+Subject: Re: FTL communication (was Re:
+
+     The Senator of the pilot, who was back on Earth, is someone who has
+in past been someone that Sinclair has come to for backing on things; he's
+the equivilent of someone on the Armed Services Committee, here as one of
+those civilian Senators overseeing Earthforce.  He would not be in any
+position to just come in and take over, any more than a Senator visiting a
+U.S. army base would be in a position to take over the base if there were
+a problem with the ranking officer.  But he might be able to bring some
+force to bear back in Washington, which might double-back to be of some
+use.
+ 
+     There are civilian branches and military branches, as with today, in
+which the civilian branch oversees the military, but in very formalized
+ways.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jul 1993 18:21:00 -0400
+Subject: Re: FTL communication (was Re:
+
+     The sense is that the commander of B5 is empowered to speak on
+behalf of his government the way a captain exploring new places is
+similarly empowered.  One thing that Sinclair does *not* do is order the
+Ambassadors around.  That would be a significant breach of protocol.  They
+are all on equal footing in that respect.  He is forbidden from using the
+station personnel or firepower to, for instance, hammer someone into
+signing a particular treaty, since that would be duress, and would be
+considered void.  It would also probably lead to a major confrontation that
+nobody wants.  There are definite checks and balances put in place on B5,
+as with any other major installation like this.
+ 
+     Sinclair, btw, was not the first choice for this post; they wanted an
+actual ambassador, but for reasons we'll reveal down the road, this didn't
+happen.  At one point we'll deal very straight-forwardly with this whole
+civilian vs. military question in the series, which should answer many of
+the questions being asked here.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Jul 1993 01:51:03 -0400
+Subject: A Couple of Questions...
+
+     The writer's guide to B5 is not available outside the B5 offices.  As
+for a B5 comic...yes, there are negotiations, and as soon as there's any
+news I can pass along officially, it'll be on the 'net very quickly.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jul 1993 03:21:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: Tamyln & TV Guide - From J
+
+     Regarding Catherine Sakai...believe me, this ain't a consort kind of
+relationship.  It will be monogamous, but difficult in many ways.  This
+has been an on-again/off-again relationship between them for years, made
+up of three parts passion and two parts teeth.  It will be a very fiery
+relationship.  And this is a woman with her own business, her own ship,
+who comes and goes as she wishes.  You have to understand that I love
+writing strong female characters, and Catherine will be probably one of
+the strongest.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jul 1993 04:03:07 -0400
+Subject: Something I've always wanted
+
+     Yes, the English model is very much what we're going for in the
+characters on B5.  No character is safe, and we want to play with them
+in some ways not usually done on american TV.  One other difference is
+the notion of a single story across X-season, as with many British
+series.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jul 1993 04:15:27 -0400
+Subject: Re: TV Guide
+
+     Just a correction: there is *no* story in the first season of B5
+entitled "Five Minutes to Midnight."  The first episode for the series is
+entitled "Midnight on the Firing Line."  Just FYI.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jul 1993 06:53:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: TV Guide
+
+     Two quickies: in G'Kar's comments to Lyta, he mentions that they
+would have to change the genetic structure of human DNA for his little
+idea to work, so there is that aspect to it.  As for Sinclair going after
+the Minbari assassin...there were several reasons for this.  First, this
+was personal for him; if the guy *wasn't* caught, he would be blamed for
+the death and sent to the Vorlon homeworld.  He had something very much
+at stake.  Second, if you have somebody with shapeshifting technology on
+board, the LAST thing you want is to send in a large group.  The tracking
+of the energy web used for the holographic effect was good, but only
+to a certain point.  It could say "He's ten feet away," but if there's 5
+guys within that range, it'll take you just long enough to react for the
+assassin to wipe out the bunch of you before you figure out which one he
+is.  But if there's only *two* of you, and you hear the shifter is within
+10 feet, you know *exactly* who it is and can react accordingly.  It
+seemed logical.  Also, you'd want someone there who you knew VERY well,
+in case there were a replacement...because while someone could emulate a
+face, they can't replicate memories, and Sinclair or Garibaldi could
+quickly figure out if the other was an imposter.
+ 
+     Yes, I probably could've stopped to explain this...but I figured it
+was readily apparent, and there was already enough exposition in the
+pilot to stun a horse.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jul 1993 19:12:08 -0400
+Subject: Re: TV Guide
+
+     Alas, I wish I could say that I'm doing B5 in hopes of pleasing the
+maximum number of people at all times.  Certainly there would be many
+people in town relieved to hear that.  But this is something that I'm
+doing because this is just the sort of series that I'd like to watch.  If
+I'm lucky, others will feel the same way.  If not...well, them's the
+breaks.  This show will either be a hit, or it'll go down in the biggest
+fireball since Tunguska.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Jul 1993 02:21:43 -0400
+Subject: Re: Something I've always want
+
+     So far, the network (PTEN) is letting us do everything we want to
+do, even going for our more dangerous stories.  Which pleases me beyond
+anything I can convey to you.  They're trusting us to do what we think is
+right.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Jul 1993 02:22:07 -0400
+Subject: Re: Something I've always want
+
+     We're definitely punching up the Commander.  And you're correct; not
+all problems in real life are resolved in a day, much less an hour (though
+that's really kind of a misnomer; generally the "span" of a TV story may
+cover 3-4 days of story time...you just see parts of that story selected
+for showing in a one-hour period...sort of the highlights).
+ 
+     We do plan to bring in some things that seem at first unimportant,
+then a few episodes down, learn the significance of it.  That can be a
+great deal of fun.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Jul 1993 05:11:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Cast additions/change
+
+     That footage...zero.  Other stuff...maybe.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
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+===========================================================================
+| This text is compiled from posts by J. Michael Straczynski on the Usenet 
+| group alt.tv.babylon-5.  This document contains material Copyright 1993
+| J. Michael Straczynski.  He has given permission for his words to be 
+| redistributed online, as long as they are marked as being copyright JMS.
+| This document, as well as other Babylon-5 related material, is available
+| by anonymous FTP at ftp.hyperion.com.
+===========================================================================
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Aug 1993 03:43:47 -0400
+Subject: characters
+
+     You make some good points about the number of characters in the
+show; it *is* an ensemble in the truest sense.  Not every character will
+appear in every show, only when they have something to *contribute* will
+they be there.  Also, it's possible to bring out something interesting
+about a character without dedicating an entire episode to that character.
+ 
+     It is, as you say, a very large cast: on the EA side, you've got
+Sinclair, Garibaldi, Ivanova and Franklin, with the telepath more or less
+on that same side.  Then on the alien side, you've got G'Kar and his
+attache Ko'Dath, Londo and his attache Vir, Delenn and her attache Lennier,
+Kosh and...nobody, really, plus other recurring alien characters such as
+n'grath (a *very* non-humanoid and interesting character), and of course
+Sinclair's recurring love interest, Catherine Sakai.  That's 14 characters
+right there.  That's a lot of balls to keep up in the air at the same time,
+and you have to use them carefully, to advance a given story, but also to
+give them moments in which their personalities can really come through.
+ 
+     This is, as stated, a *big* show.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Aug 1993 03:45:48 -0400
+Subject: Re: Rerun the Pilot!
+
+     The pilot will be rerun a couple more times between now and the
+series going on-line, definitely in November.  (And those who'
+'ve been asking for x-y-z axis movement will get it, btw.)
+ 
+     The only hesitation I have about the pilot is that the series is
+going to be *much* improved, and the pilot really will no longer be a real
+indication of what we have in mind.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Aug 1993 03:44:03 -0400
+Subject: is there anyone on who doesn't
+
+     The situation you describe is essentially correct.  One part of the
+problem comes from the fact that there have been so few even reasonably
+successful SF shows on television...and you can count the ones set in
+space on the fingers of one hand.  So with so few shows in this area, it
+is inevitable that people will make comparisons.  If SF space series were
+as common place, and had had as many variations, as the cop show, or
+the hospital show, I think you wouldn't really have this going on.  (When
+a new cop show comes on, people don't go around trying to figure out how
+it compares to CANNON or POLICE STORY.)
+ 
+     If B5 succeeds, proving you can do SF space series for a reasonable
+cost, I think you'll suddenly see a *lot* more of them.  (Already people
+are talking about the B5 "model" in terms of how to produce a show in this
+genre without hitting hideous cost over-runs.)
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Aug 1993 02:44:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Cast additions/change
+
+     Harlan is currently consulting on the series, and is even now
+writing a script for us.  So yes, he's definitely working away.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Aug 1993 02:50:39 -0400
+Subject: Wanted: Hardend Characters
+
+     We'll definitely be dealing with the aspects of how fighting in a war
+can affect you.  And this isn't just a vague promise: watch the end of the
+third (currently) scheduled episode, "Infection," for a scene between
+Sinclair and Garibaldi that really deals very straightforwardly with this
+issue.  It's a conversation you wouldn't expect to see in a show like this.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Aug 1993 01:51:25 -0400
+Subject: Wanted:  just a bit more reali
+
+     The main line I've been stressing with our writers and others who
+we're working with is the goal of making our humans more human, and our
+aliens more alien.  Much of our life is focused around things that don't
+generally show up in SF television...we cut ourselves shaving, we have to
+find a bathroom, our shoes don't fit...and these are the elements that
+help make a character more real somehow.  So yes, we're very definitely
+going for that aspect.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Aug 1993 01:14:59 -0400
+Subject: A thousand thanks.
+
+     You have my promise on both counts.  Frankly, if a common enemy came
+along...in the B5 universe they'd all probably fall over each other trying
+to sell each other out in hopes of being the one left standing when the
+dust clears.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Aug 1993 01:03:49 -0400
+Subject: Re: Wanted: less cheese, more
+
+     I wasn't gonna jump in here, but I have to at least answer your
+question: "Where's the rest?"  The rest is in the series.  You haven't
+seen the series yet.  You're comparing it against 7 years of TNG; rather
+consider if the ONLY thing you had EVER seen was "Farpoint."  We had a
+massive burden: to build an entire universe, based around a political
+drama, in basically 90+ minutes not counting commercials.  That meant that
+more time went into exposition and backstory than I'd like.
+ 
+     In my view, we've now done that, we've laid the foundation, and now
+we can sit back and tell stories...*character* based stories.  That's what
+I'm best at, and that's what the writers I've chosen to use on the series
+are best at.
+ 
+     The "rest" you ask for is there..in the series.  But I'm not asking
+you to take my word for it.  Check out the show.  Maybe you'll like it.
+And maybe you won't.  That's showbiz.  You don' like it, you don' gotta
+watch.  But I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
+ 
+     The miracle of the B5 pilot is that it got done at *all*, given the
+odds against us, given a team working together for the first time, without
+the benefit of an established universe, and actors who had never worked
+together before who had zero chance for rehearsal.  I'm not apologizing
+for the pilot; it had flaws, but I'm very proud of a lot that's in there.
+ 
+     Do the math.  You have a little over 90 minutes.  You have to
+introduce 9 major characters in the course of that story.  That gives you
+ten minutes of attention for any one character.  Now you've also got to
+tell the backstory.  You've got to establish who the various players are.
+You've got to put the present-tense story into motion, with beginning,
+middle and end.  And now you're left with maybe 3-4 minutes of "quality
+time" with any one character.  If we only had 2 or 3 characters, then
+it's a very different story...but that isn't the universe we have to work
+in.
+ 
+     Now that the series is going ahead, we can spend an entire *episode*
+dealing primarily with one character.  And do the same for others.  We
+have the time.  And that's what's important.
+ 
+     One last observation: you repeat the notion that it's all a "reaction"
+to TNG.  The treatment and screenply were complete and making the rounds
+in Hollywood in Spring 1987.  The basic material was written in 1986, at
+a point in some cases when TNG hadn't even *aired* yet.  So it could
+hardly have been written as a reaction to something that hadn't been seen
+yet, could it?
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Aug 1993 02:57:23 -0400
+Subject: Re: Wanted: less cheese, more
+
+     You repeat several times your insistence that I study TNG to see
+what they did right, use them as a roadmap.
+ 
+     Sorry.  I have no desire to study TNG.  I'm telling a different sort
+of story, in a different universe.  What TNG does right or wrong is more
+or less irrelevant to that universe.  That's like saying that (just to
+pick two names at random) Orson Scott Card should study Poul Anderson as
+a roadmap in his own novels.  This is utter nonsense.
+ 
+     A while ago, I got an email from someone who didn't like the pilot
+(and it may have been on internet, btw) mainly because of the communication
+devices.  He said, and I'm paraphrasing from memory, that every time
+someone used the wrist-links, it broke the illusion for him, since we all
+KNOW that by then the REALITY is that we'll be using the chest
+communicators that TNG uses, and I should be sure to include that in
+future episodes as a capitulation to that reality.
+ 
+     Sorry...TNG is a roadmap for TNG.  Not B5.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Aug 1993 00:58:02 -0400
+Subject: Various Topics
+
+     1) Language.  We don't have a universal translator.  You either have
+to speak English, Interlac, or Centauri, the three dominant languages.  If
+not, then you have to use a mechanical translator, which isn't set up for
+every brand new language they encounter.  I'd like to showcase at least
+one episode in which communication is really a problem.
+ 
+     2) Yes, for the most part, we're looking at humanoids...but not in
+all cases.  Look for one character in particular, n'grath, who will make
+his/its first appearance in the second episode.  This thing definately
+ain't human.
+ 
+     3) We have some interesting ideas for what can happen to the energy
+question.
+ 
+     4) Our crew members do what they're assigned to do, what their rank
+and designation specifies they should do.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Aug 1993 01:12:35 -0400
+Subject: Upcoming Conventions?
+
+     I'll be at both WorldCon in San Francisco the first part of
+September, and at Comic Con in a week or so.  I'll be bringing the same
+basic material to both places, so you don't have to do both.  But I can
+promise you'll find it interesting.  At this point, in addition, it looks
+like Michael O'Hare, Jerry Doyle, and Harlan Ellison will also be doing
+the SDCC B5 presentation as well.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Aug 1993 03:26:10 -0400
+Subject: One more *small* request of jm
+
+     I hate scripts that end with, "And they all laugh."  Even when I was
+working in animation, I avoided them.  Thus far, all of our episodes are
+slated to end with a tag, but in many cases -- and this is almost becoming
+a theme or a setpiece for us -- there's a questioning element to the tag,
+something unusual or offbeat that adds one other layer to what we've just
+seen.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Aug 1993 03:26:38 -0400
+Subject: Popularity of this group
+
+     It's all extrapolation, trying to keep an eye on what seems now to
+be a realistic expectation of the future.  The wild card, of course, is
+the assumption in the B5 universe that we've also integrated a fair
+amount of alien technology, which sort of jump-started our own space
+exploration efforts.  It vastly changes the whole equation....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Aug 1993 03:26:42 -0400
+Subject: ftp.hyperion.com
+
+     With regrets, I can't provide gif images without PTEN (justifiably)
+yelling on me.  I'm working to try and change their opinion, but so far,
+that's the policy.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Aug 1993 03:42:32 -0400
+Subject: Re: A thousand thanks.
+
+     Somebody said that what they liked about the show was the sense that
+it was altogether possible that you could turn on the show one day and
+find that the whole station had vanished, with the word "Crotoan"
+lasered onto a nearby asteroid.  Anything can happen.
+ 
+     And as much as possible, I'm going to try to keep playing to that
+aspect.  Anyone is fair game.  Characters should turn around, and become
+something other than what they seem to be.  And there can be even larger
+changes wrought on the whole tapestry of the show, some of which will show
+up in a *very* major way late in the third season.  I like pulling the
+rug out from under people.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Aug 1993 00:14:42 -0400
+Subject: The Known Galaxy -- How much i
+
+     I'm still mapping that aspect out.  We do make a distinction in the
+series between space in general and "known space."  In "Infection," one
+character comments that he's come "halfway across known space" to see
+someone.  But the details of that are still being worked out.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Aug 1993 00:14:54 -0400
+Subject: So who's Catherine Sakai?
+
+     Catherine Sakai is played by Julie Nickson Soul, an asian-american
+actor who's done quite a bit of work in high-profile films.  Her
+character is never Cathy, only Catherine (occasionally Cath to Sinclair,
+but *only* occasionally).  She's a planetary surveyer, working for one
+of the Earth corporations, looking for uninhabited worlds and asteroids
+for exploitation.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Aug 1993 00:27:02 -0400
+Subject: Re: Aspirin (Was Re: One more
+
+     "But it still doesn't change the FACT that in a few hundred years,
+aspirin WILL BE obsolete."
+ 
+     Don't suppose you'd be willing to produce the Journal of the American
+Medical Association for Spring 2257 to back up your statement of *fact*
+in this matter, would you?
+ 
+     The *fact* is that even now, we're re-discovering medicines and means
+of healing that go back centuries.  You may state clearly and with great
+confidence your opinion...but that is all that it is, it is not "fact," as
+you state.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Aug 1993 01:44:34 -0400
+Subject: Where can I find ???????
+
+     Beats me, but if you find an uncut version of B5, lemme know, because
+I'D like one.
+ 
+     The problem is that, unlike a motion picture, where you produce a
+cut on film, which you then trim down, we're editing on computerized image
+files.  We don't get around to finally cutting the film until we've made
+our final edits.  So no complete version ever existed on film.  The most
+that could be done is get those 25 minutes and *build* a new version with
+that footage...which would require additional scoring, editing, and other
+stuff.
+ 
+     BTW...just to put the word out: someone stole a painstakingly painted
+plaster cast of G'Kar -- full-size, head and neck -- from the B5 offices.
+If *anyone* should offer this for sale anywhere, please be advised that
+this stolen merchandise and should be reported.
+ 
+	                                                       jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Aug 1993 01:41:54 -0400
+Subject: Questions for JMS
+
+     Insofar as I know, Walker is mainly features PR and some network PR;
+we fall under the PTEN jurisdiction, so I don't think he's involved.  I
+don't yet know how much promotional material will be made available; it's
+a long ways until we go on the air, so there's time for that to get put
+together.
+ 
+     For those who want to send mail to B5, best to use this address:
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.  My name or
+B5 will suffice.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Aug 1993 02:56:03 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Last 2 weeks...
+
+     Re: the skin tab/Kosh's hand/encounter suit question...one of the
+reasons I can't wait for the series to get on the air is so that we can
+make one thing clear, once and for all: it is NOT an error, not a plot
+hole, it is a plot POINT.  It is a question that our *characters* will
+be asking each other.  How can this be?  This will come up more than once,
+starting with "The Parliament of Dreams" episode.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Aug 1993 03:10:52 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Last 2 weeks...
+
+     The point you raise is absolutely accurate.  When it comes to making
+up names for civilizations, or characters, one goes for the *sound* of the
+name or the sense of the name.  "Minbar" is one of those terms whose
+meaning, unlike Yangs and Coms (Yanks and Commies) is NOT well known; ask
+any 100 people on the street, and it's *very* unlikely that ANY of them
+would know what a minbar is.  Because the Minbari are very spiritual (well,
+half of them, anyway), and because I always liked the *sound* of the word
+"minbar," that became the name.  It has no dead-on meaning, there is no
+translation, it doesn't describe what they are.  I don't think it's as
+blunt as the examples cited, because it's a *very* obscure term; in all
+this time, only that ONE person recognized its origins.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Aug 1993 23:35:30 -0400
+Subject: Re: pilot inconsistancy
+
+     I'm going to try this again; for some reason, the last several notes
+I sent in reply to internet stuff hasn't gotten through.
+ 
+     The station *is* still rotating in the Vorlon attack scene.  The
+camera is more or less tracking with the rotation at that moment, but it
+is moving.  I was there at the early wireframe tests.
+ 
+     As for the Vorlon handshake (so to speak)...this will be dealt with
+in the series.  You have to remember that the original plan was to air the
+pilot and go *immediately* into series, where we'd bring up some of these
+questions.  There simply wasn't room to deal with EVERYTHING in that short
+pilot...and where we DID try and cover everything, we got gigged for being
+expositional.
+ 
+     Now we have to re-establish a few things since there's been a gap in
+time...but the poison incident will be raised in "The Parliament of
+Dreams" script to start with, and move on from there.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Aug 1993 01:27:56 -0400
+Subject: Re: A little scenario
+
+     Excuse me for being blunt, but since you're being blunt, you
+shouldn't mind a blunt observation in return.
+ 
+     You are an idiot.
+ 
+     I have no problem with someone finding genuine faults with a show,
+mine or otherwise...but it's something else again to *manufacture* faults,
+and then make them into errors.  I feel a little like Woody Allen in
+MANHATTAN, listening to the fellow behind him in line mouthing on and on
+about Marshall McCluhan's work, all of it absolutely wrong, until finally
+Allen drags Marshall out from behind the nearest wall to say to him, in
+essence, "You are an idiot."
+ 
+     You say, taking this as your premise, "it's pretty clear that a
+Vorlon is the standard 'shimmering-electric-blue energy creature that just
+happens to be humanoid.'"  No, it's not.  I don't care what you think,
+that is most definitely NOT what Kosh is.  So all of your error-finding
+based on that assumption is strictly nonsense.  I'm just amazed that you
+can sit there and say, "Oh, yes, this is what it is," when it's not, and
+at this moment only three people in the WORLD know what a Vorlon is.
+ 
+     You say that the Minbari "of course...should have had NO contact
+with them."  That's your assumption.  Your assumption is deadass wrong.
+Note how Delenn comes forth and bows to the Vorlon.  There is some
+familiarity there.  We will be finding out just HOW much familiarity there
+is down the road.  That's what we have the series for.  To develop these
+kinds of things.
+ 
+     You complain about things you think are obvious (and by the way,
+you're wrong in THAT message as well), but things that are subtle seem to
+rocket over your head at something just short of lightspeed.
+ 
+     And that background of familiarity DOES explain how the assassin would
+know how to hurt a Vorlon.
+ 
+     You have to understand that, despite being on televison, this is a
+BOOK.  It is a novel.  You have seen only the prologue to the novel at
+this juncture.  To conclude everything that will happen based strictly on
+that prologue is absurd.  (And please don't throw "Well, that's all we've
+HAD for a year" at me...it wasn't designed that way.  It was designed to
+go immediately into series, and begin both posing and answering some of
+the questions raised, so that at this moment, we wouldn't be HAVING this
+discussion.  You can't blame us for a corporate decision.)
+ 
+     So in any event, your entire 1-2-3 progression, based as it is on
+completely erroneous and presumptuous assumptions is totally wrong.  You
+will simply have to wait and see how it ends, as with any story.  If you
+don't, if this message has pissed you off, that's life.
+ 
+     In future, comment on *actual aspects of the production* all you
+like...but try to refrain from cooking up some weird scenario in your own
+mind, slapping it as an overlay onto my show, and somehow twisting things
+around to make it look like we're doing something dumb, when in fact your
+message doesn't touch reality at any two contiguous points.
+ 
+     How's THAT for a review?
+ 
+     (Oh, and a P.S. to those who parroted the comments of Jeff Jarvis at
+TV Guide about the "cheesy" special effects/CGI in the B5 pilot: we just
+received word that we've won an Emmy for Best Special Effects in a TV
+Movie.)
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Aug 1993 01:28:36 -0400
+Subject: Re: Strange Things
+
+     "I could swear I saw ships leaving B5 after Sinclair ordered it
+closed."  To which you reply, "I agree, and I mentioned it before."
+ 
+     Yes, you did.  Just one problem.  There ARE no such shots of any
+ships entering B5.  You have some shots of ships in a holding pattern
+outside, waiting until all is cleared, or heading on to secondary bases.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Aug 1993 01:42:49 -0400
+Subject: Confirmation requested... Koen
+
+     Whoever posted the note re: Walter Koenig is baldfacedly lying.
+Walter was in my office just this afternoon, in fact.  He's doing well,
+exercising, walking around, and looks great...a hell of a lot better than
+I would look under those conditions, that's for sure.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Aug 1993 01:43:01 -0400
+Subject: Re: "Silence" in Babylon-5
+
+     "Another one of those 'all alien men want Earth women' type things,
+if you'll disregard the psi-stuff for now."
+ 
+     In other words, disregard what is going to be probably one of the
+most dominant themes that will emerge in the entire series.  Disregard
+what you WANT to disregard in order to make a critical comment.
+ 
+     I look forward to embarrassing the hell out of you by about this time
+next year....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Aug 1993 01:13:48 -0400
+Subject: Re: inconsistancy in pilot
+
+     There was a reason we gave Londo the pilot opening monologue, yes.
+And another reason why we're giving Sinclair the opening monologue over
+credits of the first season, though with some differences.  We're also
+considering rotating any such opening between other cast members as well,
+but *always* in the past-tense, "Babylon 5 *was*...."  We're dealing in
+future history here, and we plan to do some interesting things with that
+aspect.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Aug 1993 01:16:00 -0400
+Subject: Re: A little scenario
+
+     We're definitely populating the show with ethnic groups from all
+over the place, including some not generally found in futuristic SF, so
+yes, we plan to do that.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Aug 1993 20:15:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: A little scenario
+
+     Actually, it's Kosh's ship that comes out of the jump gate backward,
+engines forward to assist with deceleration.  The fighters don't want to
+be slow-moving targets, so it stands to reason they wouldn't be
+configured for rapid deceleration.  They want to get into position as fast
+as possible.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Aug 1993 20:15:43 -0400
+Subject: Re: A little scenario
+
+     What you propose in your scenario is not it...but it does show that
+you're thinking along similar lines to what we're going to be doing.  That
+kind of thing, and the inner workings you describe, are very close to the
+surface of our story, and what we have in mind.  Or, said more succinctly:
+yes, you get it.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Aug 1993 20:45:55 -0400
+Subject: Jeff Jarvis, ET. AL. :-(
+
+     Paramount spends *vast* amounts of money advertising TNG and DS9.
+Also, from time to time, personal relationships between journalists and
+those they cover can influence their perceptions.  Beyond that...your
+guess is as good as mine.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Aug 1993 03:45:53 -0400
+Subject: Re: Babylon 5 Computer
+
+     What Kyle suggests...is closer to the truth than might otherwise be
+suspected.  We had filmed a scene -- which never made it into the finished
+pilot -- where Garibaldi, growing suspicious of his boss -- confronts
+Sinclair in the core shuttle.  One of the alibis he checked out doesn't
+hold up: Sinclair's.  The transport tube computer records don't indicate
+any delay.  Sinclair suggests that there's either a problem with the
+system, or it's been deliberately altered to remove that information.
+ 
+     It was, of course, the latter.
+ 
+     Now...stop and think about this for a moment.
+ 
+     The Observation Dome has equipment to detect approaching ships.  The
+spider transport approaches without being noticed.  The surface of the
+station would likely have sensors to detect something attaching itself to
+the hull.  Somehow these were over-ridden.  The only time that anyone
+notices, up in the Dome, is later, when Laurel isn't there, interestingly
+enough.  Someone deliberately programmed the transport tube to delay
+Sinclair.  The assassin would have to know this in advance.
+ 
+     We saw Londo with the assassin.  We also saw Garibaldi, Lyta,
+Dr. Kyle and -- later -- Sinclair with the assassin, each relating to him
+in different ways.  Who was the one person we never saw with the assassin,
+whose reactions might have told us something?  Who was the one put in
+charge of the station when Sinclair was pulled out of circulation?
+ 
+     Laurel.
+ 
+     We had some...interesting things in mind for this character.  Now
+that another character has come in, some things will be modified, but
+other elements will come in to replace them.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Aug 1993 00:45:50 -0400
+Subject: Re: Babylon 5 Computer
+
+     I kept Tamlyn in the dark about a lot of this.  She even mentioned
+this in an interview she gave somewhere.  I didn't want that knowledge
+to make her play the role anything other than it should have been played:
+as if absolutely innocent and sincere.  Sometimes you just gotta be
+sneaky....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Aug 1993 01:43:14 -0400
+Subject: Takashima (was Re: Babylon 5 C
+
+     There was an element of saving her own life...and another aspect of
+all this is that she may not have been acting entirely of her own
+free will during the first half.  There may be some influences that will
+emerge later.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Aug 1993 04:25:08 -0400
+Subject: Homosexuality in Space!
+
+     My feeling is that the best way of handling this question is to have
+a character, someone we see more than once, who we eventually learn is
+bi or gay.  This seems to me a much more intrinsically powerful statement
+than doing a "gay" story.  So that's what we're going to do.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Aug 1993 01:30:54 -0400
+Subject: Re: A little scenario
+
+     This has already been answered; had the character stayed with the
+show, gradually it would have emerged that the assassin had access to
+Laurel's codes because she provided them to him.
+ 
+	                                                    jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Aug 1993 01:32:18 -0400
+Subject: Kosh's reception
+
+     And who else isn't at the reception?
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Aug 1993 04:24:38 -0400
+Subject: The Opening momnologue (was: i
+
+     You're right; in my head, I was thinking "surviving characters,"
+but that does complicate the issue enormously.  Perhaps it's best to stay
+with the one voice for now after all....
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
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+===========================================================================
+| This text is compiled from posts by J. Michael Straczynski on the Usenet 
+| group alt.tv.babylon-5.  This document contains material Copyright 1993
+| J. Michael Straczynski.  He has given permission for his words to be 
+| redistributed online, as long as they are marked as being copyright JMS.
+| This document, as well as other Babylon-5 related material, is available
+| by anonymous FTP at ftp.hyperion.com.
+===========================================================================
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Sep 1993 00:50:02 -0400
+Subject: Mind over Matter
+
+     There are a handful of level P10s who can go beyond simple telepathy
+into telekinetics, but they are rare...and often very unstable.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Sep 1993 23:43:59 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS's "What To Expect"
+
+     Trust me, Babylon 5 is *not* an illusion.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Sep 1993 01:01:26 -0400
+Subject: Re: "Silence" in Babylon-5
+
+     In the script, the privacy mode involved going from a standard
+looking open booth to what suddenly looked like a flat black cube, which
+you could neither hear nor see through.  The director decided to try the
+lights.  It didn't work.  We're dropping it.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Sep 1993 01:02:39 -0400
+Subject: Scene I would like to see
+
+     Please do not post story suggestions for my view here.  Any time this
+is done jeapordizes my ability to do anything approaching that story
+because of the ever-present reality of plagiarism suits.  What you just
+proposed cuts into a story that we're developing, and now we're going to
+have to modify that in order to avoid any problems.  This kind of thing
+causes us great difficulty.  You can reassure all you want, but that
+doesn't change the reality...you seem like a nice fellow, but I don't know
+you, don't know if you'll change your mind, don't know anything.  So I've
+had to make a blanket policy regarding stories: you can come up with
+stories, or I can be present.  It's one or the other.  I don't mean to
+sound harsh, because I know your intentions are good, but if this occurs
+again, I'm going to have to bail out of Internet altogether.  This has
+happened once already; three would be too much.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Sep 1993 01:16:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: diversity in actors
+
+     We're casting people of every ethnicity, and every height.  Including
+shorter actors.  A guest starring character in "Believers" by David
+Gerrold is a Hispanic woman doctor, who's at *most* 5'2".  We didn't go
+looking for height, or shortness, only who was the best actor.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Sep 1993 01:16:48 -0400
+Subject: Strange comments
+
+     The scruffy person in the Varner files was the same homeless person
+who we just happen to see sitting right outside Varner's quarters, watching
+as he moves along.  This was played by Ron Thornton, because we wouldn't be
+seeing him in a major role, we'd just have to know someone was there.
+ 
+     Again, this ties into a specific story line that has been modified
+with a) the departure of Laurel, and b) the length of time since the pilot
+aired.  Who was the homeless man really?  It's no longer an issue, but it
+was related, yes.
+ 
+     But only in a very small way.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Sep 1993 01:17:11 -0400
+Subject: images from the conventions?
+
+     I would *love* to upload some graphic image stuff, but PTEN has a
+very strict policy about letting that kind of stuff float around.  If that
+should change, though, I'll be sure to move on it.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Sep 1993 02:17:27 -0400
+Subject: Re: Scene I would like to see
+
+     I think the alt.tv.babylon-5.creative might work.  Frankly, all I
+see of Internet is what's fed to me through GEnie, and it's just this
+one thread.  I'm not on it per se.  So all I have to do is make sure I
+don't get this thread to be at least marginally protected.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Sep 1993 02:17:53 -0400
+Subject: Re: WorldCon presentation on F
+
+     Your order is a bit off.  The short clip I showed was from "Midnight
+on the Firing Line," episode 1.  In order thereafter: "Soul Hunter," "Born
+to the Purple," "Believers," and then "Infection."
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Sep 1993 02:21:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: diversity in actors
+
+     Nope.  One generally refers to male and female performers as "actors."
+ That's simply the standard terminology today.  "Actress" has basically
+been releaged to the same dustbin as "stewardess."
+ 
+     (relegated, that is)
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Sep 1993 02:21:34 -0400
+Subject: Re: Scene I would like to see
+
+     Okay, expressing ignorance here: what is a "group" when one says a
+"creative group?"  I kinda got the impression it was a private thread of
+some sort.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Sep 1993 02:23:49 -0400
+Subject: Re: WorldCon presentation on F
+
+     We leave the question open.  Is he actually taking souls, or simply
+encoding the personality matrix and, in essence, creating an artificial
+version of the individual's personality?
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Sep 1993 00:21:25 -0400
+Subject: Re: WorldCon presentation on F
+
+     I didn't say they covered it up or ignored it.  In any event, it
+might be best to wait until you've seen the full episode before we start
+talking reviews and concerns.  Right now you're responding to what *might*
+be the point of the episode; best to wait until it's aired so that we can
+discuss what *is* there.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Sep 1993 00:31:37 -0400
+Subject: Babylon a poor name
+
+     The most common term I hear around is "Fivers."  Though someone came
+up with the notion of using the Roman numeral for 5, V, and decided that
+fans of Babylon 5 could properly be called "BVers."  Pronounced "beavers."
+ 
+     Naturally, we had him killed.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Sep 1993 00:45:11 -0400
+Subject: Religion in B5
+
+     Let me just lay the foundation here for a moment in the area of
+religion and Babylon 5.  I'm an atheist, that simple.  But that's me.  If
+you look at the long history of human society, religion -- whether you
+describe that as organized, disorganized, or the various degrees of
+accepted superstition -- has always been present.  And it will be present
+200 years from now.  That may not thrill me, but when one is a writer, one
+must deal with realities, and that's one of them.  To totally ignore that
+part of the human equation would be as false and wrong-headed as ignoring
+the fact that people get mad, or passionate, or strive for better lives.
+ 
+     So we do deal with the questions of religion, and spirituality, and
+their definitions, without being abusive.  A couple of stories on this
+area, like David Gerrold's "Believers" may be very controversial.  On the
+other hand, my script for "The Parliament of Dreams" is a straight-ahead
+showcase, in which every species on B5 is encouraged to demonstrate his
+or her dominant belief system, as practiced back home.  So we learn more
+about Minbari religion, more about the Centauri's rather Bacchanallian
+form of religion, along with others.  And Sinclair is put in the difficult
+position of being asked to show what Earth's dominant belief system is.
+The solution to which is, I think, kinda cool.
+ 
+     In the Babylon 5 universe, all the things that make us human -- our
+obsessions, our interests, our language, our culture, our flaws and our
+wonderfulnesses -- are all still intact.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Sep 1993 22:46:05 -0400
+Subject: Problem with JMS viewing possi
+
+     It's a valid possibility.  All I know is that the only way I'm now
+getting Internet at all is because Ron Jarrell (as I recall) set up my
+account as an Internet gateway for this specific group.  I don't see
+anything else because I'm not set up by him to see anything else.
+ 
+	                                                     jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Sep 1993 23:50:35 -0400
+Subject: Re: Physics of Babylon 5
+
+     On the issue of tryful in making our physics work,
+when I showed the material from B5 at ConFrancisco, one sequence is of a
+B5 fighter orienting itself and matching speed and rotation with an
+object it's trying to snare.  At one point, someone in the audience called
+out, "F=MA."  I thought he was heckling; turns out it was a mathematical
+compliment.  Force = Mass x Accelleration, and the way we were handling
+the docking and retrieval sequence indicated that the math in how it was
+done was correct.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Sep 1993 00:16:39 -0400
+Subject: Re: Scene I would like to see
+
+     In 1989, the bible, treatment, screenplay and artwork for Babylon 5
+was brought to Paramount.  This is documented.  It was reviewed, in depth,
+by many of the development people there, meetings were taken, and at one
+point, it looked as if we might have a deal.  Very abruptly this prospect
+evaporated, with Paramount passing on the grounds that it then had an SF
+series that had just gone on, and it would conflict.
+ 
+     What a development person at a studio does, incidentally, is to work
+with writers and producers involved in studio projects.  The development
+person guides the writers and producers in ways that the development
+person thinks that the project should go.
+ 
+     I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I do not believe that
+either Berman or Pillar ever saw the B5 material.  Further, that if they
+were asked to rip anything off, I think that they would outright refuse
+to do so.  These are honorable men.
+ 
+     They would never knowingly do anything inappropriate.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Sep 1993 04:56:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: diversity in actors
+
+     No, the dustbin contains expressions that are in common use by just
+about everybody in America...except those who get it *right*.
+ 
+     I should think that those in the entertainment business might just
+have some latitude in deciding what they should be called, don't you?
+Or do you feel that others should define who and what you are?  You sign
+your name "Stewart."  Should we all instead call you "Sparky the Wonder
+Dog" because that's what we prefer calling you?  Or do you have any voice
+at all in your name, your profession, your identity?
+ 
+     You get a vote in what people call you.  Dentists get a vote in what
+people call them.  Gynecologists get a vote in what people call them
+(thus avoiding confusion with proctologists, even though both are doctors
+whose specializations are within inches of one another).  And people in
+the entertainment industry get a vote in what people call THEM.
+ 
+     Where in this is your problem?
+ 
+	                                          yr obdnt srvnt,
+ 
+                                                         Sparky
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Sep 1993 21:57:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: Trent/Demon with a Glass H
+
+     The kyben are not necessarily part of the B5 universe.  First, the
+events that propelled Trent into the past don't happen for about another
+1500 years past B5's time.  Second, it's still a *possible* future, not the
+ONLY future.  So there's latitude here.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Sep 1993 01:46:06 -0400
+Subject: Trek vs. B5 - things NOT to do
+
+     Some general thoughts and reactions.  I can't really address the
+issues you raise vis a vis TNG, because frankly, I just don't watch it,
+or DS9.  So all I can do is discuss those issues in relation to B5.
+ 
+     1) Conflict.  There is a difference between being crabby, and having
+genuine conflict over something that MEANS something.  In the worst of
+mainstream TV shows (and some films), you have the characters bitching and
+crabbing at each other over things that really don't matter, doesn't end
+up changing anything at the end, and once the episode is over, no longer
+matters.  (Or is too easily resolved.)  It's the difference between just
+arguing, and a lead-in to a pivotal moment.  Sort of like crabbing about
+whether or not you want nuts with your chocolate sundae.
+ 
+     When we have conflict in B5, we try to make it about something that
+MEANS something.  We try not to use it for punctuation.  Conflict is
+desperately important in television...but you have to be careful when you
+use it, lest you trivialize it in the process.  And once the conflict
+becomes trivial, or simply redundent, you're dead.
+ 
+     2) Torturing characters.  The basic problem here is that this is one
+of the very easiest things you can do to a character; a cheap way to get
+sympathy for a character, and create danger.  You can take the notion of
+"Someone kidnaps Character A and terrorizes/abuses him/her, making the
+character confront something in his or her life, but the character comes
+through at the end" and drop it on *any* TV series.  And it'll work.  It's
+what's called a "moveable piece" in television jargon.
+ 
+     As with conflict, if done to excess, it becomes trivial.  We're doing
+one episode, "And The Sky Full of Stars," which puts one of our characters
+through real hell, partly physical, partly mental.  But we're ONLY doing
+that one, and it's not for something that'll be forgotten next week.  This
+episode, and what he encounters, will have significant consequences down
+the road.  It's not a throwaway, it's a major plot element.
+ 
+     3) Continuity.  Again, B5 is in essence a novel for TV, thus it has
+to have continuity.  And it will, and it does.
+ 
+     4) Characterizations and capacities.  This intersects with your
+concern about continuity.  One must keep continuity in what your
+characters are and aren't capable of doing, and who they are.  This we
+are also doing.  We are, however, also showing the various *sides* to our
+characters.  It doesn't change who they are, or what their skills are, it
+just showcases a different side of their personality.
+ 
+     5) Merchandising.  This is something I don't have major control
+over.  I'm consulted on deals once they're made, to make sure that the
+resultant product is up to B5 standards, but that's it.  I just don't see
+B5 ever being big enough to have that problem in any event.  It's not a
+25 year franchise.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Sep 1993 02:55:52 -0400
+Subject: Centauri Physical Appearance
+
+     Centauri males indicate status via hair.  So there are gradations
+common to all Centauri.  Centauri women are bald except for a long trail
+in the back.  It's the peacock situation, if you get the comparison.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Sep 1993 01:29:24 -0400
+Subject: A look at the competition
+
+     Frankly, I really don't see that DSV is in competition with B5, any
+more than, say, "Northern Exposure" is in competition with "Picket
+Fences."  They're different shows, on at different times.  Were they on
+on head-to-head, that'd be different.
+ 
+     That said, my two cents worth, re: "Seaquest" and "Lois and Clark,"
+hated it, loved them.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Sep 1993 01:31:21 -0400
+Subject: Centauri hair
+
+     There will be both sex and romance on B5 (sometimes together,
+sometimes not).  It's perversely appropriate that in the B5 series, it's
+not the Commander who gets laid first, or Garibaldi, or G'Kar...it's
+Londo.  And it's a very funny, but very touching and moving episode.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Sep 1993 01:45:49 -0400
+Subject: Re: A look at the competition
+
+     It's my understanding that B5 will be airing in most markets at 8:00
+p.m. Wednesday nights, replacing Trax, starting around the second week of
+January.
+ 
+	                                                    jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Sep 1993 01:55:58 -0400
+Subject: Re: Trek vs. B5 - things NOT t
+
+     My feeling here is, don't worry about the show, regarding your
+overcoming on the pilot.  Pilots are good, bad or uneven.  What matters
+in the analysis is the series.  You can have a great pilot and a
+disappointing series.  And vice-versa.  The series will air.  If it's
+good, people will watch, whatever they may have thought about the pilot.
+If it ain't good, people won't watch, and deservedly so.  In other words,
+the ball's in our court now.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Sep 1993 01:21:40 -0400
+Subject: Re: Centauri Physical Appearan
+
+     The Centauri aren't quite as human looking as one might presume,
+given what has been seen.  Wait...wait....
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Sep 1993 11:10:35 -0400
+Subject: Re: Problem with JMS viewing p
+
+     Thanks.  Production is going well.  Bit of news: because of his
+desire to do a couple big movies, a new album, and some touring, Stewart
+Copeland won't be available for the series.  So we've locked down
+Christopher Franke, of Tangerine Dream, who's done the soundtracks for
+Thief, Tommyknockers, Angel Falls, Universal Soldier and a bunch of other
+projects.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Sep 1993 11:41:49 -0400
+Subject: Re: Scene I would like to see
+
+     Just because there seems to be some misapprehension going on here,
+a point of clarification.  My initial "not here" message was not in
+response to some idle speculations about the show.  There was a message
+which contained a *detailed* story suggestion.  With luck, someone here
+who saw it can verify that.  I do not react like that lightly; only when
+necessary.
+ 
+     You may think that this "paranoia thing has gotten out of hand."
+That's as may be.  You're not on the receiving end.  I know many friends
+who have been at the receiving end of nuisance lawsuits, which consumes
+literally hundreds of thousands of dollars, and months to a *year* of
+someone's life.  And that even though they win the case.  It can kill a
+year of your life, exhaust your bank accounts (which are often not able to
+be recovered) in a lawsuit which may not even get to *court*.  Sometimes
+its a lawyer-spouse, sometimes just another goddamned greedy ambulance
+chaser who doesn't know a thing about creative issues, who's only after it
+in the hopes of getting a big settlement rather than a prolonged court
+case.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Sep 1993 02:47:27 -0400
+Subject: After B5 (was Re: Trek vs. B5
+
+     ...novelizations...1999....ack!  One crisis at a time.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Sep 1993 02:47:54 -0400
+Subject: Re: Trek vs. B5 - things NOT t
+
+     At this point, the only other con I'll probably appear at is LosCon
+here in LA in November.  (I say probably only because thus far no one has
+contacted me, and can only assume that sooner or later, someone will do
+so.)  The main problem is just getting away from town for any prolonged
+period of time while we're shooting.  I pretty much have to be at the
+stage all the time, since there are always a zillion questions to be
+answered, and another zillion meetings every day.  Once we debut, and
+we've finished shooting our first season (around late March), I'll be
+freer to pop up here and there.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Sep 1993 02:17:43 -0400
+Subject: Claudia Christian on HBO
+
+     You can also find Claudia Christian in "Hexed" and "The Hidden."
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Sep 1993 02:17:46 -0400
+Subject: Re: A look at the competition
+
+     The issue of Teen Titans Spotlight was a *lot* of fun to write; I've
+always found the character of Two Face interesting, and realized that no
+one had ever put that character together with cyborg, who also has a
+similar face and resultant problem...except he took a very different path.
+I find that writing comics is *much* more difficult that writing TV,
+because you have to compensate for the fact that the pictures don't move.
+Frankly, some of the most imaginative scriptwriting I see these days in
+in comics, from Ostrander and Gaiman and Moore and Morrison and others.
+ 
+	                                                      jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Sep 1993 04:26:29 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS on Gerrold, McGoohan
+
+     Some other actors you'd recognize who've done B5 episodes so far
+include David McCalllum, Clive Revell, Judson Scott, Fabiana Udeno and
+W. Morgan Shepherd.   We're getting a LOT of royal shakespeare company
+people in here, drawn by the material.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Sep 1993 02:48:39 -0400
+Subject: Babylon-5
+
+     I was at the Emmys tonight for the presentation of the B5 Emmy, and
+in the visual efx area, more than one shoe can get an Emmy.  So we got one,
+DS9's pilot got one, and Lucas' Young Indy show got one.  (We sat at the
+next table to Lucas and his bunch, in fact, and noted that he watched the
+B5 footage with considerable interest.)  So when you come right down to it,
+here we were, our first shot out of the box, and we ended up on the same
+level of appreciation as Trek and Lucas.  Not too dusty....
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Sep 1993 02:49:43 -0400
+Subject: PoV
+
+     I'm not sure I understand the question.  Perhaps you could restate
+it, with an example of what you mean.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Sep 1993 17:45:09 -0400
+Subject: Re: PoV
+
+     Ah, now I understand.  Yes, we will be getting more into the culture
+of our aliens, specifically how they relate to one another within their
+own societies.  We'll sort of sneak up on this, doing it gradually and
+increasing as we go.  We want to focus in primarily on establishing our
+main characters and how they relate to one another,and then begin extending
+outward.
+ 
+     The same applies to the general arc of the story.  You don't want to
+shove too much down somebody's throat all at once (he said, applying
+yet another lesson from the pilot).  So the first season, there will be
+roughly 4-5 stories that are heavily arc-oriented episodes, though we'll
+certainly drop tidbits in other episodes as well.  In the second season,
+the plan is to do 7-10 that tie strongly into the arc.  We'll stay pretty
+close to that figure for seasons 3 and 4, though 4 may have a few more,
+and 5 will have nearly every episode tied directly into the arc, because
+by that time most everybody will have twigged to what we're doing,and we
+can afford to do that.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Sep 1993 21:48:45 -0400
+Subject: Re: PoV
+
+     Oh, I think it'll be pretty obvious which are and aren't part of the
+arc as soon as you see them....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Sep 1993 00:57:52 -0400
+Subject: Who exactly is JMS?
+
+     To follow on Jonathan's note, and also give more info on what it is
+exactly I do...I created Babylon 5 in 1986/87, and have battled, along with
+Doug Netter, my business associate and fellow executive producer, to get
+this project to series for over six years.  I wrote and co-exec produced
+the pilot movie, the series bible and treatment, and will be/am writing
+roughly half the series episodes as well as exec producing.  (Th
+difference is that you just drop the co- from your title.)
+ 
+     What do I do exactly?  Aside from writing my own scripts, I assign
+stories to other writers, and select those writers to work with.  (Because
+B5 is tied to a story arc, many of our freelance scripts are based upon
+assigned stories.)  I'm also involved in every single stage of the series
+production: minus any notes from the studio (which are minimal, our last
+project got no notes at all, they're leaving us very much alone), Doug and
+I have final say over jevery aspect of the series.  (Generally Doug is more
+the businessman and deal maker, leaving most of the creative details to
+me.)  I do casting, work with the art directors on graphics, approve and
+work with the set designers, wardrobe people, prosthetics team, computer
+graphics team, visual effects, every single department.  I get final say
+on the editing of the shows, mussound effects, you name it.
+ 
+     One thing that distinguishes this show, I think, is that it's very
+much a *personal vision*.  This is my show, the way I want it to look, and
+sound, and feel.  And my feeling is that this is either going to work
+big-time...or we're going to go down in the biggest blast since Tunguska.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Sep 1993 01:04:49 -0400
+Subject: SeaQuest/live CGI  [was Re: JM
+
+     The way the CGI and live people will interact is currently highly
+classified.  But I've seen it, and it's *way* cool.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Sep 1993 00:53:57 -0400
+Subject: Re: Babylon 5's Emmy award.
+
+     Just to set your mind at ease, Sinclair does not routinely take out
+the fighter craft on routine reconnaisance missions.  In one episode,
+"Midnight on the Firing Line," he goes for a very specific reason for which
+ONLY he can go, and in "Soul Hunter" he goes because of a First Contact
+protocol.  Otherwise, others are sent.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Sep 1993 04:58:19 GMT
+Subject: Re: Babylon 5's Emmy award.
+
+
+     Generally speaking, the look of our show is more textured, and a
+little rougher around the edges.  Perfection bores me.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Sep 1993 22:02:57 -0400
+Subject: Invoke Silence?
+
+     As written in the script, the idea of invoking privacy consisted of
+sitting in a booth and, when privacy mode was invoked, the booth seems to
+become a solid, black block from the outside.  The director thought the
+same effect could be gained via the lights.  It wasn't.  And there won't
+be any future instances of this.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Sep 1993 22:49:49 -0400
+Subject: A question for Joe
+
+     My understanding of ANYthing to do with our CGI is limited and
+imperfect at best, but it's my understanding that we are indeed rendering
+it at 16:9.
+ 
+     Re: the episodes...thus far we're coming in on time, and on budget,
+and our episodes are timing out about right, i.e., we're not having to cut
+scenes out altogether, as we did in the pilot.  We're using just about
+everything we shoot, minus any snippets here and there to pick up the pace
+within a scene.
+ 
+	                                                    jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Sep 1993 22:50:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 in production.
+
+     Incorrect.  PTEN is owned in a shared capacity by the station group
+(including Chris-Craft Television/UTN) and Warner Bros.  Paramount has
+NOTHING to do with B5 or PTEN.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Sep 1993 22:13:21 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: "Sky" (Know fear!)
+
+     "makes me wonder as to the wisdom of releasing shots of what could be
+some of the best CGI to come out of (B5)."
+ 
+     Lemme give you a little hint about something.
+ 
+     We didn't let out the best.  We let out the *least*.  For the very
+reasons you specify.  And that was done at the very earliest stages of CGI
+work on the series.
+ 
+     It gets far, far, FAR cooler than that.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Sep 1993 18:48:16 -0400
+Subject: Design flaws of the B5 station
+
+     Y'know, the only thing that bothers me about these discussions is
+when something becomes a "flaw" because it's not how someone else might
+do it.
+ 
+     I've gone over your message, and frankly, what you say is a flaw is
+NOT a flaw.  It's the most logical approach we could come up with.  You
+use the zero-G cargo bay for huge, heavy objects and crates and god knows
+what where you need weightlessness.  People don't weigh very much.  You
+also don't have to worry about pumping in air in most cases; you can
+leave it fairly open, let the ships dock nearby, shuttle in the cargo
+right into the top bay, and move on.
+ 
+     You say that it's hard to dock in the center because it's moving,
+but I'd point out that in space, EVERYTHING is moving.  Even to dock in
+or use the zero-G area, a ship has to stop and orient itself to that
+area.  Everything in space is moving relative to everything else.  There
+isn't much difference involved for the approaching ship.
+ 
+     When a ship enters the regular bay, it moves further in and is in
+essence "grabbed" and lowered into any of a number of various docking and
+cargo bays.  The deeper the cargo bay, the more gravity.  So you can
+adjust as you go.  Also, this way, instead of having what is in essence
+one big garage (the zero-G cargo bay), you can shunt ships off by their
+category (civilian vs. military, alien vs. human atmosphere) to the
+appropriate bays.  You don't have to worry about shuttling people through
+zero-G once they leave their ships; they're in atmosphere, and on the
+"ground," where they can then get into a proper line to go through
+customs.  It's a *controlled environment*, which is what you want in a
+customs area, not everybody floating around everywhichway.
+ 
+     There are another half-dozen reasons why it's constructed this way,
+but those are the primary ones.  So frankly, I have to disagree with you:
+it is most definitely NOT a design flaw.  And not to be persnickety, but
+before classifying something a "flaw" in a message, you might consider
+next time asking why something is the way it is.  If I can answer your
+question logically, then it's not a flaw.  If I can't, then it is.  (Ditto
+to just going on this as an assumption that it IS a flaw, and then asking
+for additional, as though this were simply a given.  It isn't.)
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Sep 1993 21:43:11 -0400
+Subject: The Planet/Writer's guidelines
+
+     Yes, the nearby planet will eventually figure into the storyline.  No,
+I cannot currently tell you how.
+ 
+     We're not sure when the writer's guidelines will become available.
+We still have to work out the dynamic on that to figure out how to avoid
+getting swamped.  When I worked on the syndicated Twilight Zone, we got
+something in excess of 3,000 spec submissions...and my suspicion is that
+if we're successful, that would double.  (And that 3,000 figure was just
+for one season.)  We have to figure out how to create a situation that
+will create manageable numbers, or we'll be swamped, and nobody will get a
+fair shot because they'll be lost in the white noise.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Sep 1993 03:53:35 -0400
+Subject: Re: Design flaws of the B5 sta
+
+     It's hard to get a sense of scale from that docking bay sometimes,
+which is something we'll be addressing, to give a better idea of it...but
+for purposes of scale, you could dock several aircraft carriers or about
+two Enterprises in the size of that docking bay entrance.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Sep 1993 06:57:48 -0400
+Subject: E! show question about ship ID
+
+     The ship you see performing the rescue in the E! clips is one of
+the B5 fighters, located in their own docking bays in the station within
+the cobra-like arms you see on the sides of the forward part of the
+station (and hence nicknamed cobra bays).
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Sep 1993 16:27:48 -0400
+Subject: Filming Episodes Out of Order
+
+     There's absolutely no problem with the actors in terms of continuity
+because of shooting the season finale midway through the run.  First and
+foremost, again because this is a novel for television, the basic stories
+for the whole season are already written, and thus all of our actors know
+where they're going for this season.  Much as this is a straight line,
+everything in TV is out of order.  You generally don't shoot an episode
+in sequence, for instance...you often shoot the last scene first, the
+first scene in the middle, and the middle in the beginning.  Actors have
+to be able do adjust to that sort of thing, and they do so.
+ 
+     Also, in terms of being familiar with their characters...again, that
+is very much at their disposal.  We don't have the luxury of taking a
+full season to start to establish our characters.  We have to hit the
+ground running right from ground zero.  We'll be expanding our characters
+as we go, but again, nearly all of that currently exists in the B5 season
+one bible, which goes into considerable background history on all of the
+characters, and spells out in broad strokes what will be happening to them
+in this first season.  As a result of all this, our actors have been able
+to hit their stride almost from the first frame.
+ 
+     It ain't no kind of problem.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Sep 1993 16:28:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: The Planet/Writer's guidel
+
+     There's one other aspect to consider in all of this, though.  In a
+way, Trek has created a false image of how a TV show operates.  What I'm
+about to say should not be taken as a slam at Trek...it isn't.  This is
+simply the truth, this is what they do.  Sometimes it sounds less than
+politic to say it, though....
+ 
+     Trek is constantly scrounging for new stories...for new ideas because
+to some extent they've run out of ideas (at least, ideas that can be
+allowable within the ST universe...their exec, Jeri Taylor, is probably
+one of the very best writer/producers in town, and she could rip the lid
+off that show if they'd let her).  They've embraced/encouraged spec
+scripts from anyone and everyone just to get stuff in the pipeline.
+ 
+     Compounding this is the fact that they're operating in 25 years of
+history, meaning there's a lot they can't do for fear of repitition.
+ 
+     You have to understand...we don't have that problem.
+ 
+     At this juncture, if I so desired, I could close the front door to
+the office, and never hire a freelance writer because *this story is a
+NOVEL for television*.  It's the story I want to tell.  And each and
+every episode has been sketched out already for a full five year run.  If
+you're putting together a collection of unrelated short stories, then you
+solicit stuff all over the place.  But if you're writing a novel, do you
+ask people to submit ideas or stories?  This show doesn't operate like
+Trek...or like just about any OTHER show, for that matter.  It's very
+unique in that respect.
+ 
+     What I'm doing, however, is making sure that we employ freelance
+writers for a minimum of 50% of our episodes.  Most shows are almost
+entirely staff written, by contrast.  So far, though, all but one of our
+freelance scripts work off stories I've developed and assigned to them,
+as part of the overall arc of Babylon 5.  This gets the writer in tune
+with our show, so that they can then come up with their own stories and
+I can free up that slot in the novel, or replace a less strong story with
+a stronger one, thus strengthening the series overall.
+ 
+     When we start looking at specs, it won't be to look for ideas.  Many
+of those I've spoken to who've written spec Trek scripts don't really
+consider themselves scriptwriters; their hope is to sell the basic idea,
+get the credit, a little money, and so on.  The only reason for looking at
+spec scripts would be to find the very best *SF scriptwriters*, new or
+established, who get our characters and the dialogue, to whom we could
+then assign a story.
+ 
+     People shouldn't treat this show the same way as Trek; no other
+series operates like that show does.  Whether that's good or bad is
+anybody's guess.  All I can say is how *this* show works.  We will
+continue to do as much as we can to be open to new writers...one of our
+writers this season has only written one other produced live-action
+episode, and another has no live-action credits...but there are limits to
+our resources, and our approach.  We can't afford to field a huge reading
+staff, and don't need one.  It's just not the same kind of show.
+ 
+     Working this all out will require a solution of near Solomonic
+proportions...but it will be worked out somehow.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Sep 1993 22:59:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: Filming Episodes Out of Or
+
+     It never ceases to astonish me how, when there's not a problem, people
+insist on fabricating them....
+ 
+     First and foremost, every series shoots its episodes out of order to
+varying degrees.  Second, it is our decision to shoot 22 early because, as
+I stated originally, it's going to require some considerable post
+production/CGI, and the sooner that gets started, the better.  Also, some
+of our actors will be briefly unavailable during the holiday period, so
+we're trying to shoot the episodes that use those actors earlier, so that
+we can shoot the episodes that don't need those actors when they're off
+on vacation, then pick up the last few that involve those actors upon
+their return.
+ 
+     And it's not a "finale"...it's not designed to tie things up, but
+rather to open up a WHOLE lot of questions, kick over some tables, and
+make for one hell of a cliffhanger.
+ 
+     Honestly...you people get worried by the damndest things sometimes....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
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+===========================================================================
+| This text is compiled from posts by J. Michael Straczynski on the Usenet 
+| group alt.tv.babylon-5.  This document contains material Copyright 1993
+| J. Michael Straczynski.  He has given permission for his words to be 
+| redistributed online, as long as they are marked as being copyright JMS.
+| This document, as well as other Babylon-5 related material, is available
+| by anonymous FTP at ftp.hyperion.com.
+===========================================================================
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Oct 1993 00:19:46 -0400
+Subject: Re: Filming Episodes Out of Or
+
+     There's one thing to remember in all of these discussions; this is
+something that came up very early on, when I was almost exclusively on
+GEnie, and has been shown to be true over the year-plus that this dialogue
+has been going on.  Granted that there may be some small publicity value
+to my participation in all of this; from my perspective, the chief benefit
+is the exchange of information, a demonstration of respect for those who
+enjoy SF media, and the goal of providing a real behind-the-scenes look at
+how a show is done, for whatever help this may be to others thinking of
+working in television.
+ 
+     Consequently, this conversation can't be reduced to puff pieces.  If
+and when there is a problem, you won't HAVE to hear it on a rumor, you'll
+hear it first right here, from me.  This happened before, during and
+after the pilot's production and broadcast.  When there have been hassles,
+complications or other troubles, I've tried to address them head-on, and
+in so doing, illuminate the process a little for those looking on.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Oct 1993 17:27:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: Filming Episodes Out of Or
+
+     The reason you don't generally hear about shows shooting episode 22
+at number 12 is that most series don't know where they're going for the
+length of their season.  They're individual stories, rather than an overall
+vision for a whole season at a time.  That is what makes B5 different, and
+what makes what would otherwise be a huge and expensive SF series
+manageable from a fiscal point of view.
+ 
+     Because we know what stories we'll be shooting for the whole season,
+it lets us budget and adjust in ways no other show really can.  If we can
+only make a deal with X-actor for a limited period of time because he or
+she has to go off and make a movie, but we WANT X-actor because he or she
+is best for the part, we can push those episodes together and write and
+shoot them together for production purposes, and then air them later in
+the correct story sequence.  If we know we're going to be using X set --
+a very big and expensive set that takes up a lot of room -- in certain
+episodes, but not in others, we make it a point to try and shoot them
+back to back.  We're able to look ahead and match a certain kind of
+story with a certain kind of director, rather than being haphazard about
+it.  (I.e., even though it's not written yet, we know that story 11 will
+be a big action piece, and X-director is *great* on action, so we'll slot
+him in for that one, and use Y-director, who's good with smaller, more
+intimate stories, for episode 10.)
+ 
+     If we're not doing things the way you're accustomed to...then as far
+as I'm concerned, we're doing our job.  We're trying hard to redefine how
+you do a TV series, particularly in SF, if you approach it as a novel
+rather than as a series of disconnected stories.
+ 
+     And if I seemed to come down hard, it was to squelch this asap.  I've
+been on systems long enough to know how this works: person A says, "Gee,
+I'm worried, this could be a problem."  Then person B reads it, and passes
+onto another system, "Some guy over on Internet who knows this stuff says
+this could be a problem," after which it turns up on Compuserve as "Word
+going around says there's a problem."  And suddenly you've got ten zillion
+people asking you what the problem is, what you're going to do about it,
+when there IS no problem.  I've seen this happen again and again.  So when
+I see it, I figure the best way to handle it is to just come back with the
+facts.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Oct 1993 00:50:51 -0400
+Subject: Little niggle with the pilot..
+
+     We've totally redesigned the breather units to cover the eyes and
+face, and expanded the surgical scrubs to include the full body.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Oct 1993 01:14:33 -0400
+Subject: Re: Filming Episodes Out of Or
+
+     Immune from flaming?  Hardly.  I've been flamed so much, if I even so
+much as *touch* a Jiffy-Pop Popcorn shaker it goes off....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Oct 1993 01:21:03 -0400
+Subject: Re: Filming Episodes Out of Or
+
+     What you say is essentially correct...now that the actors can see
+where they're going to be by season's end, it definitely colors their
+performance, and adds layers of foreshadowing that aren't even scripted,
+but which come out almost subliminally.  It heightens things nicely, and
+adds depth to the portrayals.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Oct 1993 00:58:47 -0400
+Subject: Re: Filming Episodes Out of Or
+
+     I honestly haven't yet heard the final PR plans for B5.  The studio
+was up until just a little bit ago mainly concentrating on promoting the
+new fall season.  They've just finished that, and are drawing a breath
+before plunging into the January stuff.  I hope to know more soon, though.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Oct 1993 17:36:11 -0400
+Subject: Money
+
+     Money works as in any large city.  You come in with the money of your
+place of origin (assuming you haven't made adjustments prior to arriving),
+and exchange it for prevalent Earth value credits, as determined by the
+current exchange rate.  You are issued a credit chit that has your name,
+ID, other information, including genetic information to prevent forgery,
+and that has your available credits as stored in the B5 computer.  As you
+pay, as with any credit card, you whittle away at that amount until it's
+gone, at which point you either cash in more of your money...or go broke.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Oct 1993 17:36:11 -0400
+Subject: Robots
+
+     It's no *cute* robots.  Obviously, as in the pilot, there are
+maintainance 'bots and the like, though humanoid-like robotics isn't
+something we really plan to get into.
+ 
+	                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Oct 1993 18:01:50 -0400
+Subject: Re: Babylon 5 Frequently Asked
+
+     Yes, you're thinking of the same Richard Biggs.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Oct 1993 16:01:18 -0400
+Subject: * New season shot 16x9?
+
+     Yes, the series is being shot in letterbox aspect ratio, but until
+HDTV is more of a standard, it'll be broadcast using the conventional
+ratio.  For those of us who've invested in solid entertainment systems and
+good-sized TVs, we forget sometimes that most sets in use out there are
+18" or thereabouts, and letterbox just makes the picture too small for
+most viewers to handle.  Once HDTV becomes more the standard, then it'll
+be broadcast in that aspect ratio.  However, on the theory that those who
+buy laserdisks are better set-up for that kind of picture, it's my
+understanding that the laserdisks of B5 the series will be in letterbox
+format.
+ 
+     Re: Tamlyn Tomita...several things you have to understand.  You can
+have 8 really great actors, who all perform wonderfully individually, but
+sometimes the result is more than, or less than, the sum of its parts.  In
+an ensemble like B5, you have to look at what kind of synergy is generated
+by your cast.  We felt strongly that the result didn't really reflect the
+individual talents of our cast.  Tamlyn's a terrific performer...and she
+wasn't entirely happy with her performance.  It's not the kind of role she
+is really used to playing.  Which is not to say that at some point she
+might not return to the show in a different capacity....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Oct 1993 20:19:29 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Music, Sky, etc.
+
+    Zocalo is a word of, I believe, South American origin for the Grand
+Plaza, or central plaza...what in the States we'd call a mall, or a
+shopping center.  It's the area in B5 where you have shops, booths, some
+food and drinks, that sort of thing.  As I've said before, in the B5
+universe, we're *all* going to the stars, and we've worked in stuff from
+other cultures along the way to bolster that aspect.  I look forward to
+incorporating other elements from South American, Chinese, African and
+other cultures as we go.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Oct 1993 19:01:41 -0400
+Subject: One more "NO" for B5
+
+     I *hate* evil twin stories, and have never let them near ANY series
+I've ever worked on, let alone B5.  Feh.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Oct 1993 21:18:58 -0400
+Subject: Question: Continuity between P
+
+     Where possible, we're trying to fold production changes into the
+shows in terms of dialogue without getting bogged down in it.  At some
+point I'd like some character to comment that he wishes they'd stop
+changing everything around here...bad as digging up the streets.  My sense
+has always been -- and this includes the pilot -- that B5 is still more or
+less unfinished, there are sections still uninhabited, incomplete, so
+they're still working to get it right.  (They blew all their budget on B4,
+so B5 is having to scrape by with less.)  What happened in the pilot is
+still canon; that we may or may not choose to use something in future,
+such as the privacy mode, does not mean that it didn't exist, or that it
+doesn't exist.  Only that we may not need to use it.  IF at some point in
+time there was an absolute crying need for a privacy mode, we'd probably
+use the block mode rather than the lights, but as of this time, there's
+been no such need in any of our scenes for that.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Oct 1993 23:24:00 -0400
+Subject: Re: Replies to JMS
+
+     At one point in the series, to note the now-vanished Babylon 4, we're
+going to have somebody just standing in deep background wearing a T-Shirt
+that reads, "My Mother Visited Babylon 4 And All I Got Was This Crummy
+T-Sh
+ 
+     We're a sick bunch, but we're fun.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Oct 1993 03:58:39 -0400
+Subject: Re: Replies to JMS
+
+     Let me just dive into this whole telepath thing, which you keep
+bringing up as something that you feel doesn't belong in an SF series.  I
+strongly disagree (obviously, since it's in B5).  The problem with most
+uses of telepathy in TV SF is that it hasn't been done very well; it's
+either couched in mysticism or used as a deus ex machina.  Telepathy has
+had a long and distinguished history as a subject of *quality* SF, right
+up to and including Alfred Bester's "The Demolished Man," arguably the
+best book ever written on the subject.
+ 
+     What no one has done in TV, and what I want to do, is to ask the
+next question, which is what SF is all about.  Because if, in reality, we
+discovered tomorrow that there actually were provable telepaths among us,
+you can bet your bottom dollar that there would be laws passed about it
+the very next day, in every courthouse and congress around.  Questions of
+privacy, of criminal prosecution, of lifestyle, of regulation, all these
+and more get raised by that particular spectre.  And that is something I
+very definitely want to explore in B5...it's not just a throwaway, it's
+something that we will discover after a while is *central* to something
+that's going on in the B5 universe.
+ 
+     It's no more or less fantastic than jump gates and Vorlons, and there
+is room to explore how we as a people would react to something like this.
+ And that is what SF is *for* at its best.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Oct 1993 04:56:12 -0400
+Subject: Re: One more "NO" for B5
+
+     No, we did *not* do the Evil Twin story in the pilot, unless you so
+utterly narrow down your definitions to include comouflage.  The classic
+Evil Twin story comes in two forms: 1) The true twin brother/sister who
+pops up, is considered nice by everyone, and then turns out to be evil, or
+2) The Evil Twin who takes over the life of the Good Twin.  Either way,
+you have a very close relationship.  So I simply don't buy your assertion.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Oct 1993 04:58:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: Replies to JMS
+
+     Actually, there's very little in the B5 telepathy issue that comes
+anywhere near Bester's; I brought that up only as an example of how it
+can be, and has been treated well in fiction.  The notion of telepaths
+banding together has shown up in *lots* of different books and stories,
+though arguably Bester's is one of the best.  (One difference, fo
+instance, cited earlier, is that in Bester's book, psi's can't testify in
+court...in the B5 universe they can, but only under *very* restrictive
+conditions.)
+ 
+     As someone with degrees in clinical psychology and sociology, I've
+been noodling around with the sociological impact of psi's for a long
+time now, and figure this is the place to work it out.  (And no, there
+won't be any instances of magic qua magic on B5.  It has to be somehow
+explainable; even if it's extremely high tech that *looks* like magic,
+one has to be able to come up with a possible rational explanation.)
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Oct 1993 21:13:43 -0400
+Subject: telepaths
+
+     To answer your questions in detail would be to give out major plot
+points from the B5 series, and I'm loathe to do that.  Thus, I'll only
+answer some of the questions, and in no more than one sentence each.
+ 
+     Yes, a psi can go undetected, but generally not forever.  Some say
+the Psi Cops are witch-hunters, some think otherwise.  Breeding is
+generally arranged.  It is possible to have a schizoid telepath.  The
+Psi Cops can function as lie detectors.  Psi Cops are telepaths, rated
+ 
+P12, the highest level admitted level of telepath.  They are part of
+a guild, with some government regulation, though that's fuzzy.  They do
+not have the same rights as other citizens -- most have fewer rights than
+other citizens, a few have more -- and the different races handle their
+telepaths in different ways.
+ 
+	                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Oct 1993 00:05:49 -0400
+Subject: Re: One more "NO" for B5
+
+      I did not work on that version of Twilight Zone except as a
+freelance writer; thus I am not responsible for anything produced under
+that regime.  (I worked as story editor on the Zone mach 3, produced for
+ 
+syndication.)
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Oct 1993 21:53:04 -0400
+Subject: a question for jms
+
+     Interesting that your tagline should be a line from Tennyson's
+"Ulysses," which is a poem we often cite in the course of B5; both in the
+pilot, and again in "The Parliament of Dreams."
+ 
+     There's a fairly detailed past history of the B5 universe, which we
+are even now in the process of refining and putting into real order.  When
+we've done this, it'll be more available.  But we're already working on
+it, and most of it is already in place (of necessity, since we sometimes
+have elements from the past catching up with us, and we need to be fairly
+consistent in terms of what happened when, and where.)
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Oct 1993 22:44:11 -0400
+Subject: Casablanca In Space
+
+     I'd say that your analysis is just about 100% correct.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Oct 1993 05:18:52 -0400
+Subject: "The Gathering" Novel
+
+     Thanks.  That a lot of people are looking forward to the series is
+one reason I'm trying desperately *not* to over-hype this thing.  What
+happens in that case if you're not careful is that everyone starts to
+overlay the show with what would be their dream SF series...and there's no
+way it can be that to all people, at all times, in all places.  All we can
+really focus on is doing the best show we can...and I think that we've got
+something very special.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Oct 1993 00:19:04 -0400
+Subject: Better than DSN?
+
+     Insofar as I know, the series will be marketed as SF.  And that's
+the show we're giving them.
+ 
+     Interestingly, it's come back around to me, through channels, that
+some of the changes at those other shows are due at least in part to the
+concern about B5.  It's prodding them into doing stories that are more
+active, and more character based.  Which the writers have been asking for
+for a long time now.  Which is something I've felt from the start, that
+this genre *needs* some competition to make it stay fresh, to force each
+show to make better stories.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Oct 1993 02:30:05 -0400
+Subject: Re: About the series.....
+
+     Not to fear; KCOP is especially strongly dedicated to giving B5 a
+fair shake.  They've been very strong supporters of the show.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Oct 1993 05:17:48 -0400
+Subject: Things that make you go "The H
+
+     Laurel was not being altogether honest, and was helping to cover
+the activities of the person who was doing the assassination attempt.
+ 
+     (This, again, is a thread that would've come clear had we kept that
+character; nobody was supposed to figure it out going in, but rather put
+it together over time.)
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Oct 1993 19:58:03 -0400
+Subject: Substance use in B5 universe?
+
+     We will be dealing with the drugs issue, but it's something that I
+want to circle for a while and set up properly before dealing with.  I
+think certain elements would have changed by 2258, some more permissive,
+others more restrictive, and to understand how they function within the
+culture, I first think you have to set up how the culture works.  So it's
+definitely on our list of things to play with, but understand that like
+everything else of note that we're dealing with in this show, we're not
+going to do a "drugs are bad for you" story, or a "we should all get
+along and play nice" episode, or "we're all equal under the skin" story.
+My feeling is that if you haven't figured out that stuff by now, no TV
+show is going to teach it to you.  Those topics should be something we
+bounce a story off of, rather than making it the entirety of a story, the
+way you bank a cue ball off the edge of a pool table to come at your target
+from a different angle.  We don't generally come at *anything* dead on
+around here.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Oct 1993 20:05:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: Scenes _we know_ we'll NEV
+
+     We are, from time to time, implementing some pretty scary or unusual
+looking aliens.  In "Infection" there's a full-body prosthetic that's
+pretty impressive, and the insectoid character, n'grath, appears in many
+of our episodes (also a full-body prosthetic with animatronics and radio
+controlled stuff).  Personally, even though (or possibly because) he's
+fairly humanoid, I have found the 2nd soul hunter in the episode of the
+same name to be the creepiest of our aliens to date.  Very believable.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Oct 1993 00:52:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: Things that make you go "T
+
+     We'd originally planned to go for a more vague sexuality for Delenn;
+a male physically and primarily in the voice, on top of the natural
+female movements one gets from an actress.  In post-production, however,
+we couldn't get the voice to sound as good and male as we'd wanted.  In
+addition, a couple of convention showing of a rough cut saw people
+responding VERY strongly to her voice as it was, so we finally decided to
+let it stand and change the one reference to "he" to "she," and that was
+the end of it.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Oct 1993 19:49:07 -0400
+Subject: Detective Work: Joe, can you c
+
+     We were going to have a CGI creature in the bar at one point, but
+vetoed it at the last minute.  So it's not there.  However, a CGI
+character/alien/critter does play a substantive on-camera role in one
+episode this season entitled "Grail."
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Oct 1993 14:29:40 -0400
+Subject: Re: Substance use in B5 univer
+
+     Laurel was not standing upside down in relation to the station's
+rotation.  The docking bay, at the center of the station, for zero-g, was
+above her head, her feet pointed down, toward the rim of the station, in
+correct orientation.  Just FYI.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Oct 1993 15:44:05 -0400
+Subject: Centauri
+
+     Our dealings with the Centauri prior to the Earth-Minbari War were
+primarily economic and cultural, with some technological elements sold to
+us as well.  They have no interest in getting into a war, especiall on
+behalf of someone else.  They were primarily foot-draggers during the war,
+selling some stuff to us as needed, but generally not doing anything the
+Minbari would get annoyed by.  In particular, they didn't sell us any
+weaponry.  It was, oddly enough, the Narns who sold us many of the weapons
+technology we used in the war...stuff they'd captured from the Centauri
+during their own revolution.  The Narns needed the money, and need to
+forge an alliance with the EA, however tentative.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Oct 1993 21:47:25 -0400
+Subject: Why Sinclair?
+
+     There are many people in the Earth Alliance who are asking the same
+question: why Sinclair?  Why a *commander*, below a Captain in rank, to
+helm something as important as B5, rather than an Admiral, or someone of
+higher position?  Why Sinclair, who was on the fast-track up to the time of
+the war, only to suddenly and abruptly fall off the promotions merry go
+round?
+ 
+     They are all very good questions...and if I answered them here, I
+might as well go ahead and can the whole first season....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Oct 1993 22:32:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: Telepathy in B5
+
+     Regarding the Psi Corps news broadcast you noticed...yes, that is a
+very small clue to something.  You'll find out what in an episode titled
+"Mind War."
+ 
+     I've said before that we're telling stories on two levels; there's a
+third as well that slips in.  These are things that you're not SUPPOSED to
+really notice or even think about until some point down the road, if you
+happen to have watched several more episodes, and you look at the early
+ones again, suddenly (as with your noticing of the broadcast) some things
+that you swear you never saw suddenly snap into focus, the way you can
+look at a picture for a long time, and not see the design until you back
+up a bit and, once you can see all of it, the details come clear.
+ 
+     So from time to time, I drop in little things, a phrase, an
+unfinished sentence, a news item, stuff that people will assume is just
+background or filler...until later.  In a way, it's a little like being
+an illusionist.  It makes the writing just that much more challenging,
+because at no time can you ever let that get in the way of a person's
+enjoyment of one episode totally on its own.  It's just flavoring; those
+who've been paying attention will get it; those who haven't, it won't
+bother in the least.
+ 
+     It's something Delenn says in "Soul Hunter," something in a headline
+in Universe Today in "Sky," bits and pieces that just seem like wallpaper
+-- for now.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Oct 1993 03:33:54 -0400
+Subject: Re: Why Sinclair?
+
+     As will be discussed to some degree in "Grail," B1-B3 were sabotaged
+during construction, long before being completed.  B4 was the only station
+completed when it vanished.  Various degrees of this will play a role in
+the storyline.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Oct 1993 06:40:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: UFO
+
+     The two primary means of transport within B5 are the transport
+tubes (like elevators, from level to level) and the core shuttle, which
+runs the length of B5 through the garden/central core area.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Oct 1993 16:58:13 -0400
+Subject: Alien quarters a zoo on B5?
+
+     First, we decided that wasn't a right look for the alien sector, and
+that's the corridor we blew up at the end.  But the reason it was designed
+that way is important.  Your reaction -- don't the aliens have any
+privacy? -- is a very human, and specifically a very *western* point of
+view.  Our feeling at the time was, why should alien quarters look at all
+like human quarters?  Shouldn't they have a different perspective than
+typical Western-style hotels?  (In some degree, the quarters were
+patterned after Japanese mini-hotels, where you get basically a slightly
+larger coffin-like setup, which you crawl into like a torpedo tube, with
+a window at one end, which has a curtain, a TV over your head, and so on.
+ What we discovered is that many people ask for more alien aliens, but
+when we delivered on that, were asked why these things weren't more like
+what we expect, why aren't they like human quarters?  It's really a
+losing battle.)
+ 
+     The other point on this is that if you look closely, there are back
+areas accessible to residents, which can in particular be seen in the
+insectoid/antennae'd character's quarters.  The idea was that it would be
+sort of a front porch, where for lack of much else to do, you'd sit out
+on the porch, watching the passing parade.
+ 
+     But the reaction was less than favorable, we had to keep explaining
+that this proceeds from an alien POV, and so our alien quarters are more
+like human quarters now, minus the alternate atmosphere stuff.  I'm still
+not quite sure what to think of this.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Oct 1993 01:11:30 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Lots of good info. ;)
+
+     Actually, I'm rather abashed to say that I've never actually *read*
+anything by C.J. Cherryh.  Over the years I've found I have less and less
+time for reading, and thus focus in generally on authors I've known for a
+long time...if then.  There was a time when I read a *minimum* of 20 books
+per year, but I haven't read a full novel (though having started many)
+in nearly all of the past year.  Some nonfiction books, yes, sometimes for
+research, sometimes just curiousity (just finished "Secret Ceremonies,"
+one woman's adventures in mormonism), but no novels.
+ 
+     Anyway...also no plans at this time for any scripts from there.  I'm
+trying to focus in on hybrid SF writers, who've done both scripts and
+books, to save the learning curve of teaching a prose writer script form.
+ It can be done, and I'd like to try it in the second season, but we have
+to really hit the ground running in year one.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Oct 1993 01:43:00 -0400
+Subject: Re: SF/X in Space
+
+     We've found that what works best is to play primarily music as our
+space action/sound bed, overlaying just a tad with tonalities that aren't
+sound effects per se in most cases, but more sound cues that suggest a
+particular effect.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Oct 1993 03:51:18 -0400
+Subject: Question about Laurel in pilot
+
+     Nothing's set yet regarding any of the original cast not currently in
+recurring roles.  And that was the assassin who met Kosh in the airlock,
+not Laurel.
+ 
+	                                                                      jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Oct 1993 22:17:00 -0400
+Subject: Various Short Subjects
+
+     Too much to really delve into -- 57 letters in my box right now -- but
+to comment quickly: the techs in the observation dome tend to rotate in
+and out, with only a couple repeating.  They're meant to be fairly
+anonymous.  At some point we may decide to develop this a bit, but as of
+now we have 14 regular and recurring characters, not counting the usual
+roster of guest stars, and that's a lot to focus on for now.
+ 
+     The one thing that I dropped fairly completely due to the delay in
+getting the series going was the Laurel thread, which has now mutated and
+become something even more interesting, actually.  It's something that's
+enabled me to now build in a trap door that you won't see for a long time,
+even though it's sitting there in plain sight.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Oct 1993 01:44:45 -0500
+Subject: Different aliens in B5?
+
+     There were no asymmetrical aliens in the pilot, but there's a real
+dandy coming your way in the B5 episode "Grail."  You want nonhumanoid
+aliens, you *got* non-humanoid aliens....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Oct 1993 04:36:30 -0500
+Subject: JMS!  How is Chris' work progr
+
+     Chris Franke's work has been wonderful.  (Got the magazine finally,
+btw.)  Stylistically, it's all over the place, which is what we wanted;
+synth, orchestral, multi-cultural, experimental, you name it, at some
+point we've got it.  Because it's a multi-cultural show, with non-human
+points of view, we've freed up Chris to do pretty much anything he wants,
+and go as far as he wants.  We should have a clearer idea on the main
+title theme in the next week or so.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Oct 1993 04:39:24 -0500
+Subject: promo for season one in rebroa
+
+     I haven't seen the promo footage, so actually have no idea who you're
+referring to in the extra alien shot.  My guess is it's just one of our
+many supporting aliens; we have the B5 Advisory Council (Earth, Minbari,
+Narns, Centauri and Vorlons), and the League of Non-
+Aligned Worlds, representing the rest, and there are about a dozen or so
+of those, so it may be one of those.
+ 
+     Don't know when fighter models will come out; so far there's no deal
+set that I'm aware of.  And that's not really something I see as a
+priority; there's too much emphasis on merchandising in SF-TV and not
+nearly enough on telling a story.  That's where I want to keep my focus.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Oct 1993 21:01:57 -0500
+Subject: Re: Trek vs. B5
+
+     Let me just, against my better wishes, dive in here for just a
+moment on this discussion.  Especially as it relates to your slam against
+the characters and characterizations on B5.
+ 
+     People keep comparing the B5 pilot to either the DS9 pilot or the
+TNG pilot, often favorably, sometimes less so, but the reality is that the
+B5 pilot had to suffer under a burden shared by neither of those two other
+shows: establishing a whole new universe, especially given that the B5
+story is more of a political/action piece in which you really have to
+understand where everyone's coming from.  By the time they got around to
+making the TNG pilot, just about everyone knew what a Klingon was, what
+the Federation was, what phasers and teleporters were...this was all
+established cultural coin.  When Jay Leno would make jokes about Klingons
+on the Carson show (which it still was back then), he didn't have to
+explain it to anyone.  There's 25 years of shared history informing the
+story.  Same in DS9Thus in neither pilot was that much
+really or substantially *new* introduced, they didn't have to create the
+universe from scratch.
+ 
+    But that was exactly what was necessary for B5; the relationship
+between the five various governments is important to understanding the
+characters, and the show...as is the recent Earth/Minbari war, which isn't
+just backstory, it's something that will grow to play an increasingly
+important role in the series as time passes.  So there had to be time
+spent establishing each of those relationships, the political backstory,
+on and on.  In addition, we had 9 major characters to introduce along with
+the minor players.  AND we had to tell a fairly complex story within that
+framework.
+ 
+     After you allocate tthe history of the B5 universe, for the
+establishment of the plot, for the establishment of who our various
+players are in relation to one another, you've got -- at MOST -- 3 minutes
+left per character out of a 92 minute movie.  You can't establish a lot of
+character in 3 minutes.
+ 
+     Which is what strikes me as unfair in this conversation.  You're
+trying to compare 25-30 years of ST in its various incarnations, with its
+delivery of characterization over A WEEKLY SERIES to a single introductory
+TV movie of 92 minutes.
+ 
+     Plus, the pilot was never meant to be a stand-alone; it was meant to
+get all the pieces moving, introduce us, and follow up the very next week
+with *character-oriented stories*.  That was always the plan.  Had I known
+that it would be aired by itself, with a long delay until the series, I
+would have totally restructured it to make it more of a character story,
+and held off on the heavy background stuff until later.  And in addition
+to THAT, I again point to the 25 minutes of good character stuff that ended
+up on the cutting room floor because we were over, some of which has been
+shown to people at conventions.  Some of them also felt as you do.  They
+saw the extra footage.  And their reaction: "Oh, so THAT'S who that is!"
+And their opinions of the characters did a fast turnaround.
+ 
+     So what I'm saying here, fundamentally, is this: let's compare apples
+to apples and not apples to oranges.  You can't compare B5 to either TNG's
+or DS9's pilots, because they operated in pre-existing universes.  You
+can't compare the level of character  you get in a series to a TV movie,
+because one is 92 minutes long, the other is 22 hours long times the number
+of seasons run.
+ 
+     If you want to compare things, and that's certainly your right, may I
+suggest a moratorium on this entire discussion until the series comes on
+the air?  That will allow you to compare series to series, which seems just
+a tad fairer to me.  Any seconds?
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
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+===========================================================================
+| This text is compiled from posts by J. Michael Straczynski on the Usenet 
+| group alt.tv.babylon-5.  This document contains material Copyright 1993
+| J. Michael Straczynski.  He has given permission for his words to be 
+| redistributed online, as long as they are marked as being copyright JMS.
+| This document, as well as other Babylon-5 related material, is available
+| by anonymous FTP at ftp.hyperion.com.
+===========================================================================
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Nov 1993 00:46:49 -0500
+Subject: Comments on B5
+
+     Thus far, with 22 stories ready and slugged for this season, we
+haven't done any of the ones you warn against...so I guess we're doing
+something right....
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Nov 1993 02:48:23 -0500
+Subject: A (trivial) suggestion
+
+     Happily, we're doing that; the bartender is generally the same, we
+have a recurring character as one of the techs in the observation dome,
+some of our security people are repeaters, and so on.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Nov 1993 05:31:14 -0500
+Subject: Re: Trek vs. B5
+
+     One thing we're trying to do on B5 in this respect is to really use
+three-dimensional space, on the full x-y-z axis for ship movements and
+the like.  Opens up all kinds of wonderful opportunities.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Nov 1993 06:13:50 -0500
+Subject: Re: Trek vs. B5
+
+     Thanks.  The process has sometimes not been easy.  More often than
+not, one runs into fairly blunt opinions.  But that's part of the process.
+Many people I know in the TV or film business have tried to maintain such
+a line, and just get turned off or insulted and go away.  Or they come in
+briefly to get the PR invovled, a la "Sneakers," and then they're gone.  A
+few stay...George Martin, others.  And sometimes it's very hard to take it
+on the chin from someone you've never met, who's just called something you
+worked on for five years "crap" and sometimes for reasons that are more in
+the perception than the reality (such as the internet user who flamed me
+for using wrist links when it's clearly established that in the future we
+will all be using chest-communicators a la TNG, and thus every time I used
+our links it broke the illusion for him)....
+ 
+     But in the long run, it's been, and continues to be more of a positive
+experience than a negative one.  Because some of the criticisms have merit,
+and need to be addressed.  Other times, hard questions get asked, and I
+have to sit down and really think about this character or that situation,
+and in doing so, those answers end up helping the show.  Every day, I find
+anywhere from 30-60 messages in my GEnie box, most of them Internet relays,
+and it's like opening a puzzle box...you're never entirely sure what you're
+going to find inside.
+ 
+     And most of the messages are informed, and literate, and challenging,
+which is the part I enjoy most.  As for the rest...my sense is this: a long
+time ago, when we began this journey -- and I've been on-line talking about
+B5 on the nets for several *years* now -- the one thing that was foremost
+in my mind was the sense that SF media fans are probably the most exploited
+such fans around.  They're expected to be cash cows who line up and buy
+the products, no talking or shoving in the lines, and for god's sake no
+questions or hassle.  They're often valued for as long as they continue to
+buy the merchandise.  Every year, producers who don't know SF, and don't
+know fandom, and really don't care, trundle out their shows as the Next
+Best Thing Since Sliced Bread, raise a lot of attention...and when the show
+turns into crap, they're suddenly nowhere to be found.
+ 
+     When the pilot aired, I stuck around.  And I'll do all I can to stick
+around while the series is airing.  (The only glitches may be when I'm hip
+deep in production.)  This is my audience, and I feel that one should be
+responsive and receptive to one's audience, and not run out when things get
+uncomfortable.  You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.  See, the
+thing is, I *am* a fan, and I've *been* a fan, from a kid growing up on
+Bradbury and Clarke and Tolkein and Doc Smith to the present...I've sat in
+the audience and listened to those aforementioned producers at conventions
+and waited, only to be disappointed.
+ 
+     And when the time came to do B5, I swore that I'd try and do it
+differently...that there would be an ongoing dialogue with the viewers of
+the show, that we'd listen and be responsive and not just exploit, and if
+we didn't have answers to the hard questions then by god we'd go and we'd
+GET the answers.  Or look like idiots.  Because it's the fans who keep
+this medium alive, and to ingore that aspect seems to me inappropriate.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Nov 1993 01:11:20 -0500
+Subject: Re: Lifespan of a Centauri / h
+
+     We're using a tachyon communications system to handle the FTL problem
+regarding communications.  As for the coloration of the jump gate (if
+we're talking about the same thing), the wave effect is red-shifted when
+you enter the jump gate, and blue-shifted when coming out.  I think we
+had that slightly out of phase in the pilot; it's since been corrected to
+match correct red-shift.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Nov 1993 01:20:18 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Recent? stuff...
+
+     Actually, your description of how it would work is closer to how it
+does work and what's been done.  My description was less than perfect.
+When Ron does ship movement stuff, he programs in the dynamics of motion
+so that it's pre-calculated to be correct.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Nov 1993 14:00:52 -0500
+Subject: Re: Comments on B5
+
+     Re: "wonder at the mystery of life."  Hold that thought and write it
+down, and yank it out before watching "Mind War" and "The Parliament of
+Dreams."  You'll understand.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Nov 1993 02:53:12 -0500
+Subject: Question for JMS...
+
+     Kosh will "speak" in the series.  After a fashion.  But not as you
+might expect.  Suffice to say we've seen the final effect now in the mix
+of finished episodes, and it's *real* creepy.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Nov 1993 02:53:34 -0500
+Subject: Starfury launch error in cgi?
+
+     I'm sorry, but I don't agree that this is an error.  This launch
+scenario is the one best suggested by some of the techie types we've gone
+to.  In addition, you want to fire with the nose facing out because you
+want to get the engines going as quickly as possible, once you're clear
+of the bay, to get the ship *outward* as soon as possible, because the
+primary docking bay is at the "front" of the station, and you don't want
+to have a flight of fighters entering your primary traffic lane.  The
+noses of the furies when releeased are pointing in the "down" direction of
+centrifugal force, and that's the direction in which they should be
+released.  Nor would they travel diagonally along the station in any
+event; they'd go at a nominal curve away from the cobra launch bays much
+the same as a rock tied to a string flies away from you when you release
+it after whirling it around your head.
+ 
+     This works, and makes the most common, and scientific sense.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Nov 1993 02:54:02 -0500
+Subject: Starfury launch error in cgi?
+
+     P.S. The traveling diagonally alongside the station only works if
+the station is accellerating forward as well as rotating.  But the station
+isn't moving forward, it's stationary.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Nov 1993 02:54:09 -0500
+Subject: StarFuries
+
+     The Starfuries are intended ONLY for non-atmospheric combat.  They're
+not really built for atmospheres; they'd have all the aerodynamic facility
+of a brick.  There are "wings" of a sort which mainly exist to put the
+multidirectional thrusters in the right locations to be of most use, to
+allow the craft to fire engines in any direction at any time, so it can go
+forward, sideways, upside down, backwards, you name it.  The closer you
+put them to the center of a small ship, the less effective they are; you
+want them some distance away...and far enough so that when they fire to
+the side, they're not flashing right next to your field of vision.
+ 
+     The weaponry is mainly forward mounted.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Nov 1993 02:54:18 -0500
+Subject: Re: Trek vs. B5
+
+     "Would it be fair to compare the original ST pilot to B5's pilot?"
+ 
+     No, it would not.  Because there is nothing in common with them other
+than that they are both SF.  You can compare TNG to DS9 to TOS, because
+they're in the same universe.
+ 
+     Would it be fair to compare Cagney and Lacey with NYPD Blue?  After
+all, they're both cop shows.  But in fact, they're not the same kind of
+cop show; they share the same genre, but there ends the overlap.  The two
+shows are distinct, separate entities, just as Harlan Ellison's work is
+distinct from Bill Gibson's work, even though both incorprorate elements
+of SF.
+ 
+     The ST pilot existed in its own universe, and was primarily an action
+show.  The B5 pilot exists in its own universe, and primarily sets the
+stage for a political mystery/intrigue series.  It wasn't meant to serve
+the same functions as the ST pilot.
+ 
+     It seems to me that many SF fans continue to compare everything to
+ST because that's their primary frame of reference, and they continue to
+apply it whether it's relevant or not.  My suggestion...get another frame
+of reference.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Nov 1993 00:48:34 -0500
+Subject: Re: Trek vs. B5
+
+     Once again, there's a lot of false analogies here in any attempt to
+compare pilots, as in this TOS and B5 thread.  You're talking about
+transporters and other *technological* items.  And you're right, they
+didn't explain their tech.  Neither did we, with the exception of the
+changling net in the pilot, and only because it was a plot point.  We
+didn't explain how the jump gates worked, how centrifugal force kept the
+gravity in place, or any of that.
+ 
+     The difference isn't *technology*, it's *context*.  Once again, B5 is
+in many ways a *political* story.  Consequently it's necessary to explain
+who the players are in some detail, something that ST didn't have to
+worry about.  If you're reading a political thriller about the U.S. and
+the (now defunct) USSR, it helps a lot to know who's who.
+ 
+     Also, when ST started, there wasn't really a clear agenda, a place
+that they were going, story-wise.  B5 is a novel for TV.  And that puts
+on some pressures and problems other shows don't have.  Others may not
+see it that way, but it isn't their call.  It's my call, and I stand
+behind it, even while seeing some of the flaws in the pilot.
+ 
+     All of which again points up the...well, *pointlessness* of trying
+to compare the two shows.  Compare MASH to ALL IN THE FAMILY.  They're
+both comedies.  The similarity ends there.  Everything doesn't have to
+be comparable or dissectable (to coin a term) in reference to ST.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Nov 1993 03:48:22 -0500
+Subject: Re: Trek vs. B5
+
+     The first one-hour episode of the series, "Midnight on the Firing
+Line," does a fair amount of re-introduction, for those who've seen the
+pilot and need to be up to speed, and some introducing for those who
+haven't.  It is, however, largely an action-oriented story, into which we
+weave the characterization.  It manages to convey some of the same info as
+the pilot, but in a *much* more dramatic fashion.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Nov 1993 02:03:19 -0500
+Subject: Why fighters at all?
+
+     Why fighters?  Real simple.  The stations shielding is good, but not
+great; fighters could punch a hole in it.  So on that level, they're there
+for defense.  But aside from that, B5 is charged with being a port of call,
+and thus must keep those traffic lanes in its general vicinity safe.  So
+fighters are sometimes called upon to protect civilian vessels from a
+variety of threats.  Also, if a ship is disabled and unable to find the
+station, or otherwise hobbled, a fighter escort can be sent to get them
+to the station.  They're *very* useful.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+ 
+     (P.S.  Just a thought...but I've been watching the discussion of the
+Starfury launch sequence with great interest, particularly in light of the
+fact that only -- what? -- 20 seconds of B5 material has been released,
+and that alone has triggered off a detailed scientific discussion of
+rotational gravity, centripidal force, and other aspects of physics.  I
+can only wonder what more detailed discussions will be triggered once we
+actually begin showing whole *episodes*.)
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Nov 1993 20:44:08 -0500
+Subject: Re: Starfury launch error in c
+
+     Yes, this is what we were going for.  The use of outward force to
+push the fighters away from the station (rotational force) has nothing to
+do with catapulting the ships, it's just a low-fuel, high-economy way of
+getting the ships away by taking advantage of the station's rotation, so
+they can fire their engines at a safe distance from the station.  It's the
+fastest way overall to launch a whole bunch of fighters while leaving the
+primary docking bay clear for larger ships.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Nov 1993 01:46:20 -0500
+Subject: Re: Trek vs. B5
+
+     Then again, by the definition you apply, no good characterization
+can be done, no surprises can come along, in a novel, since a novel is
+generally planned out and outlined prior to being written.
+ 
+     But in fact you CAN do solid characterizations in novels; if anything
+a novel-like approach (as with B5) lets you do *more* characterization by
+virtue of constructing a whole person.
+ 
+     I would also point you toward "The Prisoner," which had a definite
+story, a definite beginning, middle and end, but is very MUCH a character
+story, with lots of surprises.
+ 
+     In any event, you may want to check out the series before pronouncing
+judgment...who knows, you might just be...surprised.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Nov 1993 01:59:47 -0500
+Subject: Re: Trek vs. B5
+
+     The other problem with "Twin Peaks," of course, is that they opened
+up a lot of questions, but never *really* answered any of them.  In B5,
+every question we ask, will be answered.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+ 
+     (I would also, btw, not characterize B5 as a "mystery" series; like
+Casablanca, it's a character-based story which uses intrigue and mystery
+to heighten the characters.)
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Nov 1993 01:04:36 -0500
+Subject: B5 schedule.
+
+     Babylon 5 is on schedule, and on-budget.  You can't be ahead of
+schedule in TV, because you have to allocate so many days for any single
+episode, and that's written in stone.  But we're absolutely spot on, and
+keeping to the budget, which is something of a first for an SF series.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Nov 1993 01:20:31 -0500
+Subject: JMS comments and encouriagemen
+
+     Thanks.  Anytime....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Nov 1993 11:06:44 -0500
+Subject: B5's Weapons
+
+     One thing to bear in mind is that the hand-weapon used by the assassin
+in the B5 pilot was the equivilent of a derringer; it wasn't made for such
+consistent use.  It has a longer recharge period than, say, a full-fledged
+hand-held PPG or a rifle version.  One thing we're trying to get into is
+the reality of how beam weapons would operate.  They would chew through a
+lot of energy, very fast, and need large energy supplies; the smaller the
+gun, the longer the power build.  What we've instituted with our regular
+weaponry is to include energy pods in the same basic holster as the guns.
+So you have a hand-held PPG with energy pod in place, looking more or less
+like a regular gun (in silhouette, anyway, meaning that it's hand held),
+with an additional pod at the ready for when that one runs out.  You run
+out, pop the pod, slap in another, and you're ready to go.  The rifle
+versions have larger pods which can fire even more quickly, and can go
+longer without recharging.
+ 
+     Though it's TV, we're trying to hew at least to some degree to what
+seems reasonable; guns shouldn't have an infinite firing capability, there
+is no such thing as an infinite power source that can fit into a small
+space, like a gun.
+ 
+     We've also redesigned the actual burst of the gun to make it look
+faster, and deadlier, than before.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Nov 1993 21:24:24 -0500
+Subject: Re: Why is it "Coming in Janua
+
+     Just some corrections to your message....
+ 
+     The January start time has little to do with the points you raise.
+It doesn't give us (or any other show) a longer lead time, because what
+you do is backtrack from when you want to be on the air, to when you should
+start preproduction to meet that date, then factor in about a month just
+to be on the safe side, as a buffer.  That applies whether your show goes
+on the air in January or September.  It's no longer a shooting schedule
+than any other show.  Our schedule is seven working days per episode,
+which is pretty much standard.
+ 
+      There's no "smaller episode package to try and peddle" because we're
+doing 22 episodes, which were pre-sold to the stations.  And nobody does
+27 episodes of any series anymore, not in years and years.  Even the most
+successful top-10 series -- and I was on one -- doesn't usually get more
+than 24 episodes total per season.
+ 
+     There's also no financial roll-over to the show, since it began in
+July (for pre-production), and continues throughout.
+ 
+     There are really only a few factors involved in a January launch: it
+does come toward mid-season when people have seen what else is out there,
+and you're not competing in the fall season push with major network
+shows that outnumber you 10-1.  Also, January/February are the next big
+Sweeps period for ratings after the fall, so that's the time you pick.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Nov 1993 21:27:10 -0500
+Subject: Minor visual discrepency final
+
+     That ain't it.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Nov 1993 04:26:27 -0500
+Subject: Re-runs of Capt. Power?
+
+     Better check the temperature in hell first...ain't gonna happen.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Nov 1993 06:33:20 -0500
+Subject: .AVI request
+
+     With regrets, a) I don't know how to do an AVI file, and b) even if
+I did, PTEN (which won't let me post gifs) wouldn't let me post that,
+either.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Nov 1993 13:04:48 -0500
+Subject: Re: StarFurries?
+
+     That notion of waivers has been proposed, repeatedly, and shot down,
+repeatedly unfortunately.  Not seeing ideas is the only way to protect
+oneself in these lawsuit-happy times.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Nov 1993 14:16:16 -0500
+Subject: Master plan, was Re: Trek vs.
+
+     I approached B5 with the theory that *every episode* must be able to
+stand completely alone, and be appreciated completely on its own terms.  If
+you never saw another episode of B5, you got a solid hour's entertainment
+out of it.  It's only as you see more episodes that you gradually become
+aware of a much larger story going on here.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Nov 1993 14:42:24 -0500
+Subject: Re: B5's Weapons
+
+     You want helium gas bursts when the PPG is fired?  You want it to
+look more like projectile weaponry when fired?  You want recoil?  You want
+the impact to diminish over distance?  You want the kind of sound you
+would get if something that superheated burst through a section of the
+air?
+ 
+     Guess what?  You got it.  That's *exactly* how a PPG operates.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Nov 1993 16:44:02 -0500
+Subject: Re: B5 computer screens
+
+     We've redesigned the monitors to look less like conventional CRTs and
+more like flatscreens.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Nov 1993 07:38:36 -0500
+Subject: There is no BOOM in space!
+
+     Unless extreme conditions merit it, we've generally gone more for
+music than for sound effects in space.  It works better, looks better,m
+sounds better.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Nov 1993 08:02:53 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Recent stuff
+
+     Either you or I should definitely cut back on caffeine.
+ 
+     Go, and sin no more.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Nov 1993 13:07:06 -0500
+Subject: Re: Re-runs of Capt. Power?
+
+     I liked POWER as well.  Quite a lot.  We did some good work.  But it
+has this rep for being violent, there was a lot of controversy around it,
+and thus far, at least insofar as I know, there's been no movement by the
+skiffy channel or anyone else to pick up that one season.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Nov 1993 16:20:57 -0500
+Subject: Re: text in pilot
+
+     Re: "Universe Today," my feeling was that there are specialized
+editions beamed out to various places...the Mars Colony gets one with
+stories skewed to their interest, and so on.  Including B5, since it's a
+major port.  The issues are printed on recycled material; finish a copy,
+dump it in a drop, and it's put out again the next day.  Synthetic
+material.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Nov 1993 16:23:21 -0500
+Subject: Re: List of "Magical" Technolo
+
+     Funnily, everyone has operated off the assumption that Knight One and
+Knight Two are telepaths or psi cops.  But I've never said that, or to my
+knowledge implied it.  (And no, neither character comes under that
+heading.)
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Nov 1993 17:29:25 -0500
+Subject: Re: Trek vs. B5
+
+     "It (B5) will be a show that is not based on characters but based on
+mystery."
+ 
+     Wrong.
+ 
+     Point a gun at someone's head.  See how it affects them.  Is the
+resultant story about the gun, or about the person it's aimed at?
+ 
+     On all of the series I've worked on, the one strong suit I've found,
+the only story I'm really interested in telling, is a character story.  I
+am not a big mystery fan.  What I enjoy are the characters.  While the
+background of our series forms a low-level subtext, every single story
+produced so far this season is a character story.  Very *strong*
+character story.  The only episode in which it's a little light is in
+the first episode, because we kind of re-establish our cast after the
+delay of the pilot.  Even so, there's more character stuff there than in
+the pilot, by quite a lot.  And the very next episode up, "Soul Hunter,"
+is an extremely powerful character story.
+ 
+     Anyway, it kind of amuses me to see someone say that B5 "will be"
+one kind of show or another.  The only person who knows what the B5 story
+will be is at this end of the keyboard.  And that *ain't* it.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Nov 1993 22:31:06 -0500
+Subject: Re: Question about Lita (sp?)
+
+     We're definitely keeping the Psi Corps, with the presence of our new
+station telepath Talia Winters, played by Andrea Thompson.  And I can say
+that the Corps will play a fairly substantial role in the series, in one
+way or another.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Nov 1993 07:49:56 -0500
+Subject: Re: Trek vs. B5
+
+     Thank you.  Be assured that we are working very hard not to
+disappoint you, and I don't think we will.  This is, as you perceive,
+not just another job for most of us involved with Babylon 5.  It is a
+labor of love by those who enjoy SF, *for* those who enjoy SF.  It's the
+show that *we* would want to watch, as fans.  Many of us are putting in
+20 hour days, fighting to make every frame just right, because it means a
+lot to us...and it is our hope that someday it may mean as much to others.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Nov 1993 08:10:28 -0500
+Subject: Re: Gravity Ring
+
+     Actually, it was always our thought that the recorders were made of
+an extremely ultralight material -- there's an actual term for this sort
+of thing that has just fallen out of my head -- kept in place by a fan
+system operating at high speed, gyroscopically controlled to remain
+stable.
+ 
+     Sort of small hovercraft technology up 200 years or so.  Ain't much
+magic or, for that matter, much high-tech involved in it.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Nov 1993 08:14:38 -0500
+Subject: Re: Observations from the pilo
+
+     Your assumption is correct; the assassin's weapon was a very small
+one...limited power, and a charge-up sequence that becomes longer the
+more it's used.  If the Minbari had shot Lyta, it would've taken too long
+for the gun to power-up again for him to shoot Sinclair...and he would've
+been captured.  We slightly expanded the power-up whine for each shot
+after the first one.  You'll note that the first shot, the one that takes
+out Varner, is almost immediate.  Points and fires.  Gradually it takes
+longer, and finally the gun runs out altogether (which is why, though we
+probably should've been clearer in showing this, the assassin finally
+went hand-to-hand with Sinclair...the gun was never meant as an assault
+weapon, more as a derringer, with a few shots in case he got into
+trouble).
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Nov 1993 08:21:03 -0500
+Subject: Will B-5 be a "cartoon"?
+
+     I don't have anything to do with the promos, for the most part,
+don't make the promos, and in this case still haven't seen this
+particular promo.  Sometimes I think they stress the action aspect more
+than the character stuff, because it's easier to blow out action in 15 to
+30 seconds than character.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Nov 1993 08:42:44 -0500
+Subject: Here's Info on LOSCON, where j
+
+     At the LosCon presentation on Thanksgiving Saturday, I'll be showing
+scenes from upcoming shows, one nifty out-take, and "Midnight on the
+Firing Line," our debut episode, *in its entirety*.  Present will be me,
+story editor Larry DiTillio, and tentatively, Harlan Ellison and several
+of our cast members.  They've given us the biggest room at the con, but
+it's already looking like it's going to be packed to the rafters, so I
+would suggest that anyone attending show up early...when we screened the
+B5 pilot at last year's LosCon, its west coast debut, there was nearly a
+mini-riot over seating.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Nov 1993 01:34:20 -0500
+Subject: Re: Series plot, was Re: Trek
+
+     Shawn, excuse me if I'm just a tad curt here, but given that you have
+not seen a single episode, have not read a single script for the series,
+for you to say that in the B5 series, characters "have been forced to take
+subordinate roles" is, frankly, more than a little nuts.  In the message
+from you just preceding that, you indicate that you don't think the show
+may work on ANY level, all based on your assumptions which have nothing --
+I repeat, nothing -- to do with the *reality* of what we're doing here.
+ 
+     If I might be so bold, may I suggest that you actually *see* an
+episode or two before reviewing the series?  One can review the pilot all
+one wants, but we've changed a *lot* since that pilot, including some
+elements of how we're going to approach the series and the overall arc of
+the story.
+ 
+     Call me crazy, but I kinda like to *see* the painting before I decide
+whether or not I like the brush strokes.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Nov 1993 01:47:03 -0500
+Subject: Re: Series plot, was Re: Trek
+
+     "The pilot wasn't good.  Face it!"
+ 
+     I'm at the head of the line to point out flaws in the pilot.  Flaws
+that we've dealt with.  But a) it still holds up, and b) you are trying to
+make your opinion into *fact*.  It ain't.  An awful lot of people liked
+the pilot a lot.  To them, it was good.  Maybe to you, it wasn't, but
+that's only true for you.  That you may think persimmon yoghurt is the
+best flavor ever created doesn't make it true for everybody else.  Just a
+moment for perspective here....
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Nov 1993 01:56:22 -0500
+Subject: Re: Will B-5 be a "cartoon"?
+
+     The point you make is absolutely true.  For every person who wants to
+do something, there are always 15 people to tell him or her why it can't
+be done, why it won't work, why you'll fail.  Okay, fine, there are risks.
+ Nothing of substance is ever accomplished WITHOUT taking risks.  Sometimes
+you fail, sometimes you don't.  But what's the alternative?
+ 
+     One of my prize items in my office is a WWII pin from the Royal
+Air Force.  It has the following motto emblazoned on it: "Who Dares, Wins."
+  You have to dare from time to time.
+ 
+     For six years -- seven by the time this series hits air -- there have
+been people saying that this show couldn't be done...that it couldn't be
+done for the money (we proved otherwise), that you couldn't get the kind
+of EFX you'd need in television (proved that wrong), and now this comes
+along.  And we'll prove that wrong as well.
+ 
+	                                                    jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Nov 1993 16:41:27 -0500
+Subject: User-Friendly and MSG to JMS
+
+     Interesting info re: the phone company.  I may use that at some point
+if the question comes up.  Also, our PR people are definitely working with
+the print media; I would imagine the push will start really manifesting
+itself toward the end of the year.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Nov 1993 16:41:48 -0500
+Subject: Why not guns?
+
+     Why use PPGs instead of Uzi-style projectile weapons/automatic
+weapons?
+ 
+     Most of the walls inside B5 are metal.
+ 
+     Does the term "ricochet" ring a bell...?
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Nov 1993 20:06:50 -0500
+Subject: Re: Trek vs. B5
+
+     Re: jms/jms...don't worry.  Everybody misspells Straczynski.
+ 
+	                                                           smj
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Nov 1993 20:30:26 -0500
+Subject: Re: Story Ideas Problem
+
+     The whole idea as to what constitutes an idea, and what constitutes
+a story, is fuzzy.  And the sad reality is that one need not be able to
+win a case in order to *file* a case.  And fighting a lawsuit can cost
+upwards of $100,000, which is usually unrecoverable.  It's just an
+increasingly ugly situation.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Nov 1993 04:11:07 -0500
+Subject: Re: Series plot, was Re: Trek
+
+     "If JMS had not mentioned the hole in Sinclair's mind, what would
+have been the reason for the assassin to try and kill Sinclair?"
+ 
+     Hello...did you see the same movie that I wrote?  The assassin was
+not there to kill Sinclair.  He was there to kill Kosh.  He tried to kill
+Kosh.  He tried to stay AWAY from Sinclair, did everything in his power
+to avoid Sinclair, ran from
+Sinclair, and only finally encountered Sinclair when Sinclair came after
+HIM.  Then it was nominal self-defense.
+ 
+     Had the "hole in the mind" reference never been made, it would have
+been clear -- at least clear to every other carbon-based lifeform who saw
+the movie -- that the assassin 1) came to try and kill Kosh, 2) in the
+hope of disrupting the purpose of Babylon 5, with the added benefit of
+3) if he failed in his mission, setting up Sinclair to take the rap for
+his actions.  At the very end, rather than be captured and interrogated,
+the Minbari assassin killed himself with an implanted bomb.  His comment
+to Sinclair at that moment was more of an "Up yours" comment, designed to
+shatter Sinclair with the knowledge that he knew something Sinclair
+didn't.
+ 
+     You keep saying he was there to kill Sinclair.  He wasn't.  He didn't.
+  He didn't try.  It makes it hard to have this conversation with you if
+your comments don't touch reality at any two contiguous points.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Nov 1993 00:28:40 -0500
+Subject: JMS' demons
+
+     An interesting bit of demonology.  And there is certainly some
+measure of validity to it.  A story is only as good as the questions that
+it answers.  The writer's job is to always ask the next question.  The
+problem is as often in finding the right question as it is in finding the
+right response.  One thing I've discovered in something like 10 years of
+net-surfing is that I'm always surprised.  And in the case of B5, there
+have been many questions raised, many challenges made, for which I didn't
+have immediate, ready answers.  It's forced me to think about things and
+come up with answers I didn't know I needed until the question was posed.
+ All things considered, it's been a valuable and educational experience.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Nov 1993 00:32:51 -0500
+Subject: Blooper Reel
+
+     There is, for lack of a better term, a Christmas reel...but it's
+strictly internal.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Nov 1993 00:58:31 -0500
+Subject: Who did it?
+
+     I don't even know why I'm dignifying this with a response...but a)
+MGM does not produce B5, the PTEN and Warner Bros. are the B5 umbrella,
+and b) B5's treatment and screenplay and bible go back to 1987.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Nov 1993 00:58:32 -0500
+Subject: Famous people
+
+     We're doing a few things in that area, mainly background stuff,
+using a consistent news network (Interstellar Network News, ISN), building
+up a picture about politics back home; the problem is that when someone
+says, "Did you see Ross Perot on TV last night?", we have a shared
+societal understanding of who Perot is.  That carries more meaning than
+just a random name.  But I take your point; it's something we've done a
+little, and don't mind expanding if we can avoid getting obscure.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Nov 1993 01:22:45 -0500
+Subject: Straczynski seems to be an ann
+
+     Let me, in far less pejorative terms than those used by you, try and
+set your mind at ease.  Or not.
+ 
+     Regarding how I present myself here...I don't think about it one
+way or another.  I honestly don't much care how I'm perceived.  Who and
+what I am, if I'm annoying or a saint or just another Joe, is utterly and
+completely irrelevant to the work.  Fifty years from now, when I'm long
+gone to dust, no one's going to remember me for being a swell guy, or a
+rotten guy.  All that matters, all that remains, is the work...if I did a
+good job, the work will live on.  If not...nothing matters.
+ 
+     My job here, as I perceive it, is to provide an inside glimpse into
+how a TV series is produced; to engage the viewers of SF television in a
+genuine dialogue and thus *engage* them instead of simply *exploiting*
+them, as is generally the rule, out of some measure of respect, and
+by virtue of being a fan myself.  I'm frequently asked by studio people
+why, in an average day where I get maybe 4 hours sleep, I continue to
+take part in a process that, overall, will maybe reach a few thousand
+people...a number so small it doesn't even show up in the ratings.  They
+sense, and they're probably right, that all of this dialogue probably
+won't add a single ratings point to the show.  Which is fine by me; that's
+not the entirety of why I'm here.  I could try to explain it to them, but
+I doubt very much it would work.
+ 
+     Okay, you find me annoying.  My response: that's life.  I never said
+I was bunny-rabbit cute.  Never promised that you'd like me.  Being well
+liked is not why I'm here.  I hope to provide a service.  If you find that
+service useful, that's great.  If you don't like the service, well, like
+I said...that's life.
+ 
+     To your point that I "don't understand the background in cyber
+politics," and that I should understand how these nets work...I've been
+modeming since 300 bps modems were considered speed-demons.  I was one
+of the first subscribers to Compuserve.  I completely understand how
+the nets work.  What I don't understand, and don't allow to fly without
+challenge, is an attack that stems from plain, mean-spirited vindictiveness
+by that small slice of the fan community that feels it is not only correct
+but *required* to tear down others.  If someone has an honest question or
+a problem with something, I try to answer that question with as much
+grace and politeness as I can.  And sometimes, when those questions come
+in very blunt terms, it's hard.  But I do try.  On the other hand, if I
+see someone coming into visual range with nothing more on his agenda than
+to slam people, insult people, villify and destroy someone out of an
+excess of bile and a notable lack of good manners...the kind of fan who
+gives the rest of us a bad name...then I feel no compunction
+whatsoever against firing back.  Hard.  Generally in proportion to the
+offensiveness of the original message.
+ 
+     This is the one thing that I've noted, time and time again, on this
+and other nets.  I've seen someone call down the vilest terms to describe
+a particular writer, smear the person, demean and debase the person, but
+when someone has the nerve to actually respond in kind, and call this
+person out in the same terms he used on someone else...well, THAT'S
+outRAgeous!  How rude!
+ 
+     My feeling: tough.  You don't want to get your face bit off, don't
+do something as monumentally stupid as sticking it in the lion cage.  Or
+more simply...try the Golden Rule sometime: do unto others as you would
+have them do unto you (a tenet that seems to be lost on a certain portion
+of BBSers).
+ 
+     Which brings me back around to Harlan Ellison.  You don't like my
+defending Harlan.  Or the fact that I am forceful in doing so.
+ 
+     So?
+ 
+     Harlan is my friend.  He has also been the target of cheap,
+unwarranted, vicious attacks by that lunatic fringe that sits festering
+on the edge of legitimate fandom.  Maybe you're content to see your
+friend jumped by strangers and beaten up for kicks.  Maybe you'd sit by
+the side of the road and watch.  Or turn away.  Or sell tickets.
+ 
+     I can't do that.  One thing that Harlan and I have in common is
+that we're both out of the streets.  I'm basically a New Jersey kid,
+born in Paterson, and raised for a long time in the streets of Newark.  If
+you know Newark, you understand what that means without further need of
+explanation.  Much of my attitude was formed in the streets.  And one of
+the first things you learn, the first rule you take to heart, is that if
+somebody jumps your buddy, or attacks your buddy, he's attacking you as
+well.  YOu don't cut and run.  Whatever the cost.  Maybe you think that's
+"macho posturing," as you put it.  It's the way I run my life.  I know
+such things aren't fashionable just now, but I happen to care deeply for
+and about my friends, and if they're in trouble, if someone is smearing
+their reputation or trying to harm them out of mean-spiritedness, I will
+not stand idly by with my finger up my nose pretending it isn't happening.
+ Maybe you can do that.  I can't.
+ 
+     I have no difficulty in, as you say, "letting water roll off (my)
+back."  But this wasn't my back.  It was a friend's.  I've put up with a
+LOT from people on some of these systems.  And not taken it personally.  It
+does roll off my back.  But a vicious smear or an attack on a *friend*
+will not go unanswered.
+ 
+     You don't like it, that's your choice.  I'm not doing it for you, and
+I'm not doing it to impress anyone, or make friends, or be nice.  This is
+what I do because I can't do otherwise, because this is who and what I am.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Nov 1993 19:26:09 -0500
+Subject: Re: Here's Info on LOSCON, whe
+
+     As an advisory, in addition to me, story editor Larry DiTillio, and
+tentatively Harlan Ellison, we've confirmed that Michael O'Hare, Mira
+Furlan, and Peter Jurasik will be at the LosCon presentation next
+Saturday.  More names may be added to that.
+ 
+     I request that I will make at the presentation, and which I'll set up
+here, is to minimize any kind of spoiler discussion of the episode until
+it airs.  It's two months to airdate, and we'd like some parts of the show
+to be a surprise to the viewers.  General reactions are great, but if we
+could keep spoiler-type discussions to a minimum, I'd be very happy.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Nov 1993 19:31:28 -0500
+Subject: Walter Koenig on QVC
+
+     Darn, I missed Walter's appearance on QVC; e it.
+As for when you can expect to see me on QVC...never.  That just isn't
+something I care to get into.  Merchandising is fine and inevitable, but
+I think that if you get too into it, it begins to change your direction a
+bit.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Nov 1993 20:00:41 -0500
+Subject: Re: Straczynski seems to be an
+
+     Much of the response I have to your message on a personal level I've
+said elsewhere, so I won't repeat it here.  But to deal with a couple of
+the things you mention....
+ 
+     "...because (I) knew this woman (Tamlyn, I) would use
+her on this show regardless of what people unconnected with her
+emotionally thought of her acting ability."
+ 
+     This is, frankly, untrue and a distortion of the facts.  Prior to
+casting Tamlyn, I had never before met her, and except at the screening of
+the pilot and one live TV gig, have not seen her again since doing the
+pilot.  I am not "emotionally connected" to her.  This is not nepotism.
+What you are doing is taking a thread that was on another system and
+distorting it.  There were some very harsh, demeaning things said about
+Tamlyn, many of them flat-out uncalled for...hurtful and ugly comments.  I
+stood up for Tamlyn as a performer.  When we did a later analysis of the
+pilot, our decision to recast the role of the lieutenant commander was
+influenced not by anyone's individual performance, but by the synergy of
+the performers as an ensemble.
+ 
+     Tamlyn is a terrific performer; if you've seen her in the Joy Luck
+Club, or her appearance on Quantum Leap, or elsewhere, her skill is much
+in evidence.  She is a kind and decent person, and no, I wouldn't allow
+her to be BBS brutalized by a certain small fringe element, and won't do
+so now, and won't allow myself to be bullied by that small fringe.  Any
+decisions made will not be based on that kind of crap.
+ 
+     Nepotism doesn't enter into it.  On that you're simply dead wrong.
+ 
+     On this "mental model" you've constructed of me based upon my many
+posts here...I am not liable for your perceptions.  A French writer once
+observed, "A book is like a mirror.  If an ass peers in, you can't very
+well expect an apostle to peer out."
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Nov 1993 20:01:51 -0500
+Subject: Re: Here's Info on LOSCON, whe
+
+     BTW, I suspect that the Woody Harper you're responding to, is the
+same Woody Harper who engaged in a bit of BBS terrorism/deliberate
+misinformation, and who I had to take a couple days to hunt down.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Nov 1993 05:13:05 -0500
+Subject: A PLOT REQUEST
+
+     No "evil alternate universe" episodes are planned, nor do I think
+they will be.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Nov 1993 07:16:46 -0500
+Subject: When will the Laserdisc of the
+
+     I know that the plan is to eventually release the episodes on disk
+in all their widescreen/surround-sound glory, but when that might be is
+anyone's guess.  Heck, I'll be first in line at the video store....
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Nov 1993 07:18:28 -0500
+Subject: Air Date
+
+     The date I've heard most often for the series' debut is January 26th.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Nov 1993 07:20:19 -0500
+Subject: Re: Babylon 5
+
+     Oops, the letter just sent to you was intended for Gharlane, and
+sent by accident (the letter about the
+B5 bathroom).  Sorry for the mis-type,and hope it gets to Gharlane.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Nov 1993 07:21:24 -0500
+Subject: Re: Babylon 5
+
+     The bathroom scene was written, but shifted back a bit because we
+decided to go for some different sets, and felt that the money could be
+used better there.  We have an *amazing* number of sets as it is; 16
+standing sets and another 10 or so swing sets.  So we'll either do that
+scene later in the season, or wait until season two, and a fresh
+construction budget.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Nov 1993 07:26:43 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS' demons
+
+     You're right; the events of the Line are something that Sinclair
+doesn't much like talking about, and has been advised *against* talking
+about.  When the Minbari surrendered, Earth put the best possible spin on
+it, tried to make the survivors of the Line look like heroes, but there's
+a general sense of what happened.  And a great deal of dismay over it.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Nov 1993 08:04:48 -0500
+Subject: Re: Babylon 5
+
+     I'd say that, in certain instances, you may be more right than
+wrong in your speculations.
+ 
+     While I've certainly been positive about the show -- and believe I
+have good reason to be positive -- I have avoid directly over-hyping the
+show.  I've never, to the best of my knowledge, said that this will be
+the best series in SF-TV history.  What I've said, by and large, is what
+we're *doing*, and not much more.  When I get excited about something, I
+say so, and I'm specific to that episode.  The greater measure of what you
+might term "hype" comes from those who've followed the show, and from one
+important fact: any promise I make on the content of a show, I keep.  I'm
+very careful about that.
+ 
+     The problem, though, with a show like this, presented in this
+fashion, is that when people come to expect a Great Show, long ahead of
+airdate, they begin to sketch out in their heads the show that *they*
+would most like to see, the show they would make if given the chance.  And
+that means you've got -- what? -- ten thousand different versions of a
+show.  There's no way that anything I do can be exactly what every single
+person would most like to see, what he or she sees in his/her mind's eye.
+ So there will have to be some readjustment to what the show *is*
+ 
+     I think, though, that the average SF-TV viewer is sharp enough to
+figure that out, and adjust.  For myself, all I can do is make the best
+show I can, the show that *I* would like to see made, that I would like to
+watch...and hope for the best.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Nov 1993 09:58:24 -0500
+Subject: Question on names
+
+     G'Kar's first assistant was Ko D'ath, who met with an unfortunate
+accident with an airlock.  The replacement is Na'Toth (no L), who will be
+staying around for a while.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Nov 1993 18:22:17 -0500
+Subject: Re: jms's "attitude"
+
+     You have now made several charges of nepotism against me.  If we all
+speak the same langauge, then nepotism is hiring people not qualified to
+do a particular job because they're cronies or relatives.  If someone is
+eminently qualified to do the job, it's not nepotism.  If the person is
+neither a friend nor a relative, it's not nepotism.
+ 
+     Please cite to me one single instance in which I have engaged in this
+kind of behavior, or withdraw your allegation.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Nov 1993 18:22:50 -0500
+Subject: Open response to Mr. Straczyns
+
+     So let me get this straight...your problem is that I have moments
+when I'm cheerful, and polite...and moments when, fatigued by 20 hour days,
+I sometimes get a little sharper than I might like.  Okay, I'm human.  So
+what?
+ 
+     Your other problem, at the center of this, is that I don't behave the
+way YOU think I should behave.  Once again...so what?  I don't HAVE to
+fit your definition.  I didn't fight all these years to find my own voice,
+and become my own person, and produce my own show, only to worry about
+whether I fit Rob's picture of a perfect person.  I'm sorry, but I have
+substantially more interesting things to worry about.
+ 
+     You use the word "sophmoric" a lot.  I could just as easily turn
+that around.  I could sit and dissect your messages, what I think you are
+by your language choice, approach, and similar subjects.  But you state,
+"You don't know how I (Rob) am, where I came from, or my background; I'd
+also rather not bring it up."  Curious how you seem to feel that YOU are
+off-limits to speculation, but others aren't...even though we're both
+on the nets.
+ 
+     This discussion, absent your unsubstantiated allegations, is rather
+pointless.  I am who I am, I behave the way I behave.  You don't like it.
+ I don't like your behavior or your tendency to stick your nose in my
+psyche and engage in some long-distance dime-store psychoanalysis, for
+which you are neither qualified nor welcome.
+ 
+     That's showbiz.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Nov 1993 20:46:30 -0500
+Subject: Query to JMS on a minor point
+
+     I've noticed the same thing; he blinks when he wants to, and refuses
+to let go of you the rest of the time.  We've also given him a LOT more
+to do of a character-based nature, and I think people are going to be
+very pleased in what they see.  The problem with the role of commander is
+that it's the toughest one in the bunch...he has to be firm and
+commanding, but vulnerable...able to be angry, but compassionate...ready
+to fight but just as ready for affection...and I think that what was shown
+of the pilot (minus the nearly half-hour that was cut) only really showed
+one side.  We're showing a lot more now, and Michael's doing a hell of a
+job carrying it all.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Nov 1993 21:34:53 -0500
+Subject: Re: Series plot, was Re: Trek
+
+     I never said that the commander's intent wasn't to set up Sinclair; I
+only said that he wasn't there to *kill* Sinclair.  That aspect of making
+Sinclair the patsy was very much part of the thing.
+ 
+	  (Oops, just realized that I mis-typed; that should be "I never said
+that the ASSASSIN'S intent wasn't to set up Sinclair," not "the
+commander's intent."  Slip of the tongue.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Nov 1993 21:45:50 -0500
+Subject: Re: Here's Info on LOSCON, whe
+
+     Then in the spirit of goodwill I apologize and we begin anew.
+ 
+	                                     jms (no smiley face)
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Nov 1993 21:47:50 -0500
+Subject: Request for JMS's Address
+
+ 
+     I can be reached at the following address:
+ 
+     14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Nov 1993 03:36:23 -0500
+Subject: Stories I never want to see on
+
+     Going over your list of stories...nope, nope...nopenopenopenope....
+ 
+     Guess we must be doing something wrong.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Nov 1993 03:14:04 -0500
+Subject: Re: Trek vs. B5
+
+     The advance plotting on the series has made the show neither more nor
+less difficult.  It's mainly just...*different*.  In addition to threading
+the arc through many episodes (sometimes in a big way, sometimes in very
+small, subtle ways), you've often got an A and a B story, plus we've got
+14 regular and recurring characters (though not all 14 appear in every
+episode), all of whom have their *own* individual character arcs...and
+that's a LOT of balls to keep up in the air at any given moment.  What it
+HAS done is to enrich the texture of all of our individual episodes.  You
+get a) a genuine sense that there are PEOPLE in your story, each with his
+or her own life, agenda, problems, and b) that these people are GOING
+somewhere, that there's a submerged thread that ties them together that is
+slowly, gradually coming into view.
+ 
+     This is a trick that I've learned to do on earlier shows, in different
+ways.  On Captain Power, we had an arc for that series, though less complex
+than this one...and we learned how to drop in just a reference here or
+there, continuing the feeling of a spider at the center of the story that,
+when it moved, caused the whole web to vibrate slightly.  Also, on the
+animated series The Real Ghostbusters, I had to write/story edit on two
+levels...making sure the show was understandable to non-adults, while
+at the same time slipping things in that only adults could appreciate.  The
+younger audience wouldn't get the references, but they'd go by so fast
+that they wouldn't notice, and that wouldn't get in the way of enjoying the
+story.  (And we got REAL obscure...an episode story requiring the presence
+of a specific small group of eskimos in order to conduct a ritual was
+explained to someone as "sort of an Inuit minyan."  Probably only five
+people on the planet caught that one, but hey, why not?)
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Nov 1993 23:17:58 -0500
+Subject: Making of Babylon 5 -document?
+
+     There have been several behind-the-scenes pieces cut already; one at
+8 minutes, slated mainly toward potential advertisers, has already gone
+out on the downlink.  At some point a 12 and 30 minute piece will go out.
+ When that happens, I don't know.
+ 
+     It's been sold overseas, to Channel 4 in the U.K., but don't have the
+specifics yet on other markets.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Nov 1993 23:21:49 -0500
+Subject: Re: Query to JMS on a minor po
+
+     At this point, I suspect that the only version of the pilot that will
+ever be released (barring major success on our part) is the one that's now
+in distribution.  Making a new version with the missing 25 minutes would
+require massive editing (there was never a full version made, since we're
+editing on computer file graphics, only going to film when we're done), and
+right now that's not in anyone's budget.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Nov 1993 01:20:19 -0500
+Subject: Re: B5 at LosCon
+
+     What you and the others seem to be pointing out is what I've been
+trying -- imperfectly, as best I can -- to communicate for some time.  In
+the case of "Midnight," can you follow that show and enjoy it absolutely
+on its own terms?  I believe that is the case.  There's another level
+there, the "little clues and hints" you mention, which will just skate
+past most casual viewers and not in any way interfere with their viewing
+of the episode...but if you're paying attention, and you catch them, it
+adds a new level.  The more you see, the more you begin to perceive that
+second level.  It's a cumulative effect that doesn't diminish the single
+episodes as stand-alones.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Nov 1993 01:44:10 -0500
+Subject: Re: B5 at LosCon
+
+     (Lost the last paragraph of my message.)  In any event, what I'm
+striving for is the idea that you can watch the episodes for the
+character stories, OR the story arc, OR the individual stories, OR all
+three at the same time, all in the same exact episodes.  You can get out
+as much as you're willing to find.
+ 
+     It's a very weird kind of writing...but at least on this end, it's
+kinda fun, actually.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
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+===========================================================================
+| This text is compiled from posts by J. Michael Straczynski on the Usenet 
+| group alt.tv.babylon-5.  This document contains material Copyright 1993
+| J. Michael Straczynski.  He has given permission for his words to be 
+| redistributed online, as long as they are marked as being copyright JMS.
+| This document, as well as other Babylon-5 related material, is available
+| by anonymous FTP at ftp.hyperion.com.
+===========================================================================
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Dec 1993 01:31:09 -0500
+Subject: When does the series begin bro
+
+     The series goes on the air around January 26th.
+ 
+	                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Dec 1993 01:35:38 -0500
+Subject: Legal aspects of the Bablyon 5
+
+     Going over all the information required for a decent answer to your
+question would take a very long time; suffice to say that we continue to
+look to the legal aspects of the B5 universe for complications and areas
+of conflict; and we're thinking through that legal system *very* carefully;
+look for some interesting extrapolations on this subject later in our first
+season....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Dec 1993 01:36:03 -0500
+Subject: Takashima Query/Observation
+
+     No one on B5 knows of Laurel's complicity.  With the removal of her
+character, certain aspects of that arc have been transferred elsewhere.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Dec 1993 01:42:21 -0500
+Subject: Re: Query to JMS on a minor po
+
+     In "Midnight," Sinclair had to be pretty much in command mode all
+during the episode as a character, so that influences the result.  But in
+later episodes, we get him out of those situations, out of uniform, and
+into other settings where he can be more relaxed.  So that's coming, and
+you'll see it *very* early on in the first season.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Dec 1993 02:26:25 -0500
+Subject: "Mind War" Spoiler
+
+     Most telepaths fall into the category of P1 through P10; all Psi Cops
+are P12s.  This is something we've established elsewhere, in earlier
+discussions.  They're the Men in Black.  They don't talk much.  They don't
+have to.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Dec 1993 20:07:29 -0500
+Subject: Bab-5..Too good to be true?
+
+     If there's anything about "Midnight" that I would change...ehh...
+that's a tough question to ask any producer or writer.  I can't think of
+anything I've done that I wouldn't want to go back and tweak.  The only
+real drawback we had was that we were still building sets as we filmed
+our first few episodes, so we didn't have access to all of the full range
+of sets.  Not that we really needed them, the story works fine in the
+sets we had, but we could've moved one or two shots around into different
+sets just for variety.
+ 
+     But aside from general tweaking, I don't think there's really
+anything I'd change in it.  My problem is that I'm too close to it, and
+there are a number of episodes we shot afterward that blow it right out
+of the water in terms of quality, production values and the rest; I'd
+have to say that my favorite shows to date, in order, would be The
+Parliament of Dreams, Mind War, And the Sky Full of Stars, Soul Hunter,
+Born to the Purple, Midnight, Believers, Infection, The War Prayer,
+Survivors and Grail.  Chrysalis, which we're shooting now, will probably
+take over the Favorite #2 spot from Mind War.  We're fighting to make
+every episode better than the one before it.
+ 
+     We're going to have a brass plaque put up here in the offices one
+of these days, before we finish, saying, "If you're not here to kick ass,
+get out."
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Dec 1993 02:36:51 -0500
+Subject: Re: Bab-5..Too good to be true
+
+     My feelings toward "Sky" haven't changed one iota; it's still got
+things in it you've never seen before on television.  I put "Parliament"
+and "Mind War" in front because the performances are just so wonderful,
+so compelling...and from a selfish reason, because I think I did some of
+the best writing I've ever done in those two episodes.  "Sky" remains an
+absolutely compelling piece of work, and it's got some visuals that'll
+just knock you out.  This is like asking a parent which is his favorite
+child; it's not always the obvious choice, the biggest and strongest and
+fastest; it's the one with the little quirks and eccentricities that he
+likes the most.  Ditto here.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Dec 1993 03:29:25 -0500
+Subject: Re: Some Wanna-See's revisited
+
+     The uniforms have pockets
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Dec 1993 20:44:00 -0500
+Subject: showing on channel 4?
+
+     Yes, Channel 4 in England has bought B5.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Dec 1993 14:39:52 -0500
+Subject: Teepers
+
+     Psi Corps level P11 are generally administrators.
+ 
+     "Teepers" is an interesting term.  Origin?
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Dec 1993 19:47:03 -0500
+Subject: Questions
+
+     Silvana Gallardo played Dr. Maya Hernandez in "Believers."
+ 
+     We're actually using a fairly large number of Hispanic actors in the
+series, along with other groups.  Just cast an actor named Jose Rey as a
+character named Eduardo Delvientos, as well as a great number of asians
+and african americans as senators, advisors, doctors, and so on.
+ 
+     It's been my belief, and I'll say it again, that if we go to the
+stars at all, we're ALL going...or no one's going.  We've got to get past
+this crap.
+ 
+     Kosh's voice is done by an actor, overlaid on musical notes which
+are Kosh's natural voice-tones.  (We hear the English via translator
+device.)
+ 
+     The February Cinefantastique will have a cover story on the B5 series.
+ 
+     There are a number of major magazines planning B5 stuff, but it's
+premature to announce them at this time.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Dec 1993 23:33:53 -0500
+Subject: Still using toaster?
+
+     The Toaster is still being used.  The comments re: silicon graphics
+workstations are hallucinations.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Dec 1993 18:46:18 -0500
+Subject: Re: *SPOILERS* Episode Info
+
+     RE: "Believers" ... "if this isn't done REALLY well...."
+ 
+     It was.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Dec 1993 18:46:37 -0500
+Subject: Little tiny bug in pilot? (new
+
+     Kosh's ship had to decelerate in order to dock inside the station.
+This is a reality of spaceflight...you must both accelerate and
+decelerate.  Both take time.  Especially if you're going to dock.  Plus
+there was time involved in setting up the docking procedure, turning over
+control to Babylon Control, lining up vectors and so on.
+ 
+     The fighters didn't have to worry about any of this.  They came
+shooting through the gate and barely slowed at all, speeding over to B5
+and taking up position.
+ 
+     There have now been several situations in which we've been accused
+of "mistakes" that have, instead, simply been things done scientifically
+accurately.  I have to say (and this isn't directed at you, just more of
+a general statement), we're not going to hand everyone everything on a
+silver platter, serving up pablum...the nature of a *science fiction*
+series is that you should THINK about things.  The acceleration/deceleration
+thing is one example; some thought about why this would be would have led
+to the answer.
+ 
+     And, as evidenced by other messages here, others have taken the time
+to look at it from that perspective.  Which I think is great.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Dec 1993 19:48:19 -0500
+Subject: A Couple Questions
+
+     There may be a two-parter in our first season, though not the
+cliffhanger episode.  Which is all I can say on that at this time.
+ 
+     Re: science advisors...we have a few we use from time to time, but
+for the most part our people KNOW sf, and those who design the EFX KNOW
+science, and our writers are good SF writers, so it really isn't much of
+a problem, we haven't had to go outside much at all.  We had to go to our
+medical advisor recently for some terminology, but we're happily very
+self-sufficient in that regard.  Nearly everyone involved in the show from
+a certain level on is a techno-wonk, and will sit for *hours* with you
+discussing how many feet per second a starfury travels when it first
+drops out of the cobra bay (I believe it's 32 fps), and so on.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Dec 1993 03:13:20 -0500
+Subject: starships
+
+      The EA starships are...too cool to try and describe here.  Better
+to let you see them in action.  (And no, no warp nacelles...that's
+another show....)
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1993 04:58:33 -0500
+Subject: Re: starships
+
+     I'll try to get the specs from Ron; I'd hazard a guess that some
+of the larger cruisers, like the passenger liner Asimov, are about 2
+kilometers across, much too large to fit into B5, so they have to use
+smaller transports to shuttle passengers to and from B5.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1993 05:52:30 -0500
+Subject: Re: Teepers
+
+     BTW, the Psi Corps is not officially part of the military, though
+they're regulated by the government.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1993 05:52:55 -0500
+Subject: Pilot Question? Religion?
+
+     Religion is actually a fairly common topic in the B5 series; it's
+in "By Any Means Necessary," "The Parliament of Dreams," and several other
+episodes, sometimes subtly, sometimes as a main theme.  And we will be
+dealing with cross-pollinization of religion across species and worlds,
+and you will see some of the Centauri pantheon of gods.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1993 05:53:00 -0500
+Subject: Alright, another tiny question
+
+     Your memory is faulty.  It was stated in the pilot that Kosh's ship
+took roughly 4 days to travel via hyperspace to B5.  That's from Vorlon
+space; we don't know where the fleet was when it entered jump.  Because
+such ships can make their own jump points, it could've been a lot closer
+to B5 space when it went in.  (And was.)
+ 
+     RE: your other point...it's not normally expected in the course of an
+average day that an invading fleet is going to come through; and in the
+course of the series, that's NOT a common problem.  Troops Attacking The
+Station is too easy a story.  What the gate is set up to do is recognize
+the energy signature/coded frequency of an incoming ship or ships.  It
+doesn't determine the size of the ship until it's about to come out, and
+thus adjust the placement of the gate sections accordingly.  If there were
+a war on, the allowable frequencies and codes would be changed regularly
+to prevent this problem.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1993 05:53:16 -0500
+Subject: Re: Questions
+
+     Of course, one problem with your message is that there are very few
+black australian actors in L.A., particularly if you're talking about
+aborigine actors.  This complicates casting.  That said, however, we are
+casting outside the usual American parameters as much as we can...and
+there *were* "turbans" (to use your phrase) in the pilot; check the
+business room scene, and others.  And there are more in the series.  We
+are working as hard as possible to get as wide a view of the future as we
+can.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1993 05:54:20 -0500
+Subject: Re: Teepers
+
+     Psi's can start at  P1 and work their way up a level or two, or
+start right out at an untrained P10 level...though they're not noted for
+their stability.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1993 06:53:42 -0500
+Subject: Re: Pilot Question? Religion?
+
+     Let me make one point clear re: my attitudes toward religion.  I'm
+an atheist.  Plain and simple.  Unlike many who claim to be christians,
+I've actually *read* the Bible.  Cover to cover.  *Twice*.  It has some
+very good writing, and some pretty awful writing.  I tip my hat to ANYONE
+who can get through Deuteronomy and Numbers without drowsing...while the
+story of Job has some of the best writing imaginable.
+ 
+     That said...I have no desire or interest in bashing somebody's
+religion as long as that somebody stays out of my face.  In terms of my
+writing, and my shows...if a writer wants to be honest, he has to look at
+the full spectrum of human experience and treat it honestly.  And though
+I do not believe as some might, there is some human impulse that keeps
+dragging us toward belief.  It is part of the human process of trying to
+solve the problem of life, the universe and everything (to quote Adams).
+And you have to respect that, even if you don't agree with it.  So I tend
+to treat the subject with respect.  Also with humor, on occasion, but
+never to bash.
+ 
+     Fanatics of *any* stripe are, however, ripe targets.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1993 19:29:53 -0500
+Subject: Re: New GIF's...
+
+     BTW, there will be a satellite feed of B5 series promos Friday the
+10th of December (12:30-12:45 p.m. ET), Thursday the 9th (9:45-10 p.m. ET),
+and Monday December 13th (3:30-3:45 p.m. ET) on Galaxy 4, Channel 21,
+audio 5.8=stereo (left), 6.2=stereo right, 6.8 mono mix.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1993 22:28:26 -0500
+Subject: Starship.gif
+
+     I think what you're referring to in starship.gif is NOT something
+that was uploaded by, or authorized by us...and is based on a photo that
+appeared, mistakenly, in Starlog, which had nothing to do with our
+series.  (Several such photos appeared in that spread, including a brick
+foundry.)  The starship.gif file has *nothing* to do with Babylon 5, and
+should be deleted from the ftp site.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Dec 1993 01:49:43 -0500
+Subject: Starship.gif
+
+     Jesus...don't yell.  I was talking as myself, about how fast a
+Starfury drops out of the cobra bay, this isn't B5 canon, this didn't show
+up in a script, this is just informal talk.  I'm sure if we have to go
+into measurements in the show, we'll either go metric or find some new
+system altogether.  (I believe we've used kilometers in at least one
+episode.)  Anyway...relax....
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Dec 1993 13:52:22 -0500
+Subject: What is the economic system?
+
+     The Earth economy still runs on basic capitalism; the corporations
+under-write surveying and exploitation of planets, in some cases then
+selling what they find to the government in return for a piece of the
+profits, or via direct exploitation itself.  (By law they're forbidden
+from exploiting or strip-mining worlds with sentient life.)  There is
+also, as we discover in one episode, a big market for archaeologists
+who dig into now-dead worlds for whatever technology they can find, which
+might have been ancient there, but are new to us.
+ 
+     There are a whole bunch of ships in Earthforce; it's been ten years
+since the war, and they've had considerable time to regroup.
+ 
+     Currently we're closed to specs, but that may change in year two.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Dec 1993 13:52:41 -0500
+Subject: Re: Jump Gates and Inertia
+
+      "What is the principle behind the jump gate?"
+ 
+      Manufactured by Whammo.
+ 
+      (Still working out the details.....)
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Dec 1993 14:19:48 -0500
+Subject: Alright, another tiny question
+
+     Okay, okay, 8 days not four...I knew it weren't no 3 weeks, though.
+The one thing to remember is that travel in hyperspace isn't the main
+problem; the real problem, time-wise, is the period required to get from
+a world to its nearest jump gate.  It might take 4 days to travel from
+World X to the gate, and 1 day to B5 in hyperspace...while another race,
+1 day from the gate, and 1 day to B5 in hyperspace, only has 2 travel
+days.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Dec 1993 21:05:22 -0500
+Subject: Returned mail: Service unavail
+
+     "Is Delenn being used, or is she using?"
+ 
+     Yes...and that's *not* an evasion of the question.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Dec 1993 02:33:23 -0500
+Subject: Re: What is the economic syste
+
+     The corporations sell some discoveries to the government if the
+government is in a better position to exploit the find.  The corps aren't
+all-powerful; they have limits as well.  If they find something they can
+exploit commercially themselves, and which they have the resources to get,
+then of course they'll do it themselves.  If the discovery is of greatest
+military utility, and is a real pain in the ass to get, they'll sell the
+info to the government in exchange for certain rights and fees.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Dec 1993 14:48:51 -0500
+Subject: Success of B5
+
+     "These people know what they are doing."
+ 
+     Then someone please tell me why I can never pull together matching
+socks in the morning....
+ 
+     Sentiment appreciated.  And with luck, we won't disappoint.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Dec 1993 14:49:21 -0500
+Subject: JMS - Please keep...
+
+     Yes, we're keeping the power-up sounds of the weapons, and the
+discharge sound.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Dec 1993 14:49:39 -0500
+Subject: Re: space suits
+
+     How can I get a copy of this russian space catalog?
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Dec 1993 14:49:59 -0500
+Subject: Re: Starship.gif
+
+     There are plans for cast-related shots to be uploaded in time, yes.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Dec 1993 21:49:24 -0500
+Subject: Re: Pilot Question? Religion?
+
+     "...it is very rare to see a character on TV with religious beliefs
+who *isn't* a fanatic."
+ 
+     Excuse me while I reach for my baseball bat.  You've just struck a
+nerve.
+ 
+     That is the biggest line of crap in the world, perpetuated by the
+religious right and parrotted all over the place as though it were true,
+and it's not.  The television landscape, past and present, is *littered*
+with religious-type people who are sympathetically portrayed.  I don't
+have my volume of TOTAL TELEVISION with me at the moment, but just off
+the top of my head...there were bunches of prayerful folks in "Little
+House on the Prarie," in "Father Murphy," in the "Father Dowling"
+mysteries, in "Helltown"...not to mention the many, MANY times they
+appear in dramatic series (we had about 5 sympathetic priest/reverend
+characters per season in "Murder, She Wrote").
+ 
+     One can *say* that it is rare, but saying it doesn't make it so.
+There have been religious people as stars of shows (I left out "Dr.
+Quinn" with guest stars of this nature) and guest stars of shows, as
+recurring characters and regular characters, in dramas and sitcoms....
+ 
+     Now: I've just named you a whole bunch of series, and once I get to
+my library can name you a lot more.  I for one would very much appreciate
+it if you could name one -- just ONE -- series with an atheist as the
+lead character.  An avowed atheist, just as Father Dowling is an avowed
+priest.
+ 
+     (Oh, yeah, and let's not forget the practicing catholics, protestants
+and jews portrayed in "Picket Fences.")
+ 
+     Your serve.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Dec 1993 21:02:31 -0500
+Subject: Poll
+
+     If I might make a suggestion...it seems to me that a poll on the
+B5 pilot at this time is fairly useless.  In most cases, it's been almost
+a year since anyone's seen the pilot, and that will affect things.  It's
+also a little unfair to do it at this time.  We've hashed and rehashed
+the pilot, its qualities and deficits, over and over and over...we're
+six weeks from the *series* going on line...would it not be better to
+do a poll of the series instead, once it gets going?
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Dec 1993 21:03:46 -0500
+Subject: Re: Pilot Question? Religion?
+
+     I didn't mention other (non-Western) religions because that wasn't
+what we were discussing at the moment.  But having said that...we do
+plan on showcasing other religions (human) as well as western ones.
+ 
+     If you don't see much of it on other TV, here's why: because those
+who complain most that, in a country with freedom of religion, their
+group (evangelicals) isn't portrayed enough then turn around and raise
+absolute hell the moment ANY other religion is portrayed on TV in an
+even remotely sympathetic fashion.  It took years for television to show
+jews on TV; we're still working on the rest.  If you show a Moslem or a
+Zen monk on TV, you get hate mail accusing you of advancing the cause of
+satanism...similar letters go to networks and sponsors and studios.
+ 
+     It's ironic that those who complain of persecution the loudest, ard
+(are) generally the ones with the most power, and the quickest to
+persecute someone else if it serves their purposes.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Dec 1993 21:08:35 -0500
+Subject: Re: Pilot Question? Religion?
+
+     I'm sorry, but there *are* accurate portrayals of christians and
+other religious people on television.  (And please don't cite TV Guide to
+me as a reference on *anything*...they buy into the okeydoke just like
+anybody else because they don't challenge the premise and investigate the
+actual facts.)  I would point out that David Kelley, producer of "Picket
+Fences," just got an award from Catholics in Media for his portrayal of
+that group of believers.  (Does that group fit one's definition of a
+group whose every, smallest, tiniest decision is based on the bible?  It
+probably doesn't, but that group is only a very small percentage of the
+population, despite their volume.)  Maybe the evangelicals don't
+consider Catholics, and portrayals of catholics, as christians, but that
+is an issue between you and them, not you and TV.
+ 
+     There's a sympathetic, realistic minister on "Dr. Quinn" as well as
+on many other shows.
+ 
+     Now, you again cite the party line about christians and other
+believers being portrayed as knife-weilding maniacs on TV.  Please now
+cite to me your specific examples.  I have been willing to provide you
+with specifics to the contrary.  Let's see what evidence you have about
+this fleet of maniac christians committing murders.  Names and shows,
+please.
+ 
+     See, what happens here is that people begin to fall for the Big Lie.
+Someone says "X is true."  And uncritical people accept this without
+really stopping to investigate for themselves.  They spread the statement
+that X is true, until finally everyone's saying it...but it isn't true.
+This is a *prime* example of this.
+ 
+	                                                       jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Dec 1993 01:10:53 -0500
+Subject: Re: Alright, another tiny ques
+
+     A little shamelessness is good for the soul...and yes, good writing
+can be very sexy...something about strengthening the fingers by hours and
+hours spent behind the keyboard....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Dec 1993 03:19:02 -0500
+Subject: Re: Using "God" and other idio
+
+     So far I don't think you're making an ass of yourself at all.
+ 
+     And as a pagan, I think you'll be quite intrigued by something
+we're doing (actually, several things we're doing) in an episode entitled
+"The Parliament of Dreams."
+ 
+     The points you make re: the use of vocabulary are very close to my
+heart.  I grew up reading mountains of books, chewing through Bradbury
+and Matheson and Clarke, as well as mainstream novels, history,
+philosophy and the literature of other cultures.  I love the rhythm and
+flow and sense of language, the simple elegance of an honestly stated
+emotion, and the lightning and thunder of argument.  (Which is one reason
+I enjoyed spending time in Ireland lately, running around Dublin and
+New Grange and -- I'm about to massacre the spelling -- Glen de loch; the
+Irish people are the biggest bunch of high-verbals you'll ever find.)
+ 
+     I grew up on books, and radio drama, and reading plays and writing
+all of the above.  Serling, Corwin, Chayefsky, Bradbury and Ellison tended
+to be the templates I looked to when I was learning, not how to write, but
+how to *listen*.  And I'm constantly feeling as though I'm just now, after
+several books, 500+ articles, short stories, and over 100 produced
+television scripts...just *now* learning a little of what it means to
+write...and how far I have to go.  It's a real challenge.  There are
+moments when I fire up an -- just about ANY episode -- of the original
+Twilight Zone, or some episodes of Night Gallery (such as Serling's
+"They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar") and I'm ashamed to even call
+myself a writer in that company.
+ 
+     Anyway, now *I'm* running off at the fingers....
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Dec 1993 19:14:33 -0500
+Subject: Recreation in B5
+
+     Sports/recreation are things we're still trying to work out; not the
+conceptual part, but the part about "okay, how do we SHOOT this?"  I'm
+not big on "virtual reality" parlors or combat...I think people will still
+be more interested in playing with real people than pixels.  So we're
+trying to find ways we can visualize, in a TV series, things like zero-G
+tag or football, other sports that use our unique space environment.  One
+possibility is now being worked on, and we'll see if we can work it out
+for this season.  In any event, it's definitely something we're thinking
+about...I just don't want to rush into doing it until I know we can do it
+properly.
+ 
+	                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Dec 1993 22:51:12 -0500
+Subject: Thoughts from a lurker
+
+     Though there was CGI involved with Power, it was Ron who really
+brought the idea of doing CGI for B5 to the forefront; we'd previously
+figured on using models.  This was about 2 years before we went on the
+air with the pilot.
+ 
+     We're trying to work out the languages to some detail, but not as
+much as I'd like, at this point.  It'll probably have to wait until the
+post-season hiatus before I can sit down and really start pulling
+together a rough dictionary of sorts.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Dec 1993 18:55:05 -0500
+Subject: Gays
+
+      We have no intention of avoiding the gay question.  We will not,
+however, do a "gay story," which is usually described by those friends and
+acquaintances of mine in derogatory terms...a la, "fags are people too."
+ The sense I get is that they resent the hell out of that kind of
+patronizing approach.  The one suggestion that comes most often is, "Why
+not simply introduce a character, we get to know that character over the
+run of a season, and at some point discover, practically in passing, that
+this person is bi or gay...*don't* make a big issue out of it, just show
+it."
+ 
+     And that's what we're going to do.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Dec 1993 00:04:30 -0500
+Subject: Re: Pilot Question? Religion?
+
+     How Orson Scott Card treats christians in his books, or how Marvel
+comics does so, is a whole other discussion.  It's also something of a
+distraction.  We're talking about TeeVee at the moment.  And what usually
+happens in these discussions is what is happening here...bogus statistics
+are thrown out, and then when challenged, people turn to smoke and turn
+the discussion to other areas.  As for the Crusades...yes, christians did
+a lot of killing in the name of religion.  One might not like that, but
+that also happens to be history.  It happened.  Even today, some looney
+or other gets it into his head that god told him to go up to the belltower
+and start shooting at people.  People who commit suicide because they
+think god told them to, or kill their families.  They are, however, the
+minority; the properly classified Lunatic Fringe.  For the most part, we
+seem to have evolved (if one can use that in a discussion of religion)
+past organized activities to where only a few still pull this stuff.
+ 
+     I have no problem with christians, or moslems, or any other group
+provided that they don't attempt to circumvent my own rights, and disallow
+my own views within my own group.  I have a number of friends who are
+absolute, solid Born Agains.  One of them is one of the country's most
+regarded cult-busters.  And we have *constant* go-arounds over the issues
+of the day, from every possible perspective...a value, I think, in having
+friends outside *SHOWBIZ*.  It keeps you in touch with views you don't
+necessarily agree with.  Generally speaking, no one really changes the
+other's beliefs, or lack thereof, but one does walk away with a better
+understanding of the other positions involved.
+ 
+     The one thing that all of my Born Again friends have in common is
+that they haven't shuttered their critical faculties; they believe that
+they were given the facility to think logically by god for a *reason*,
+and they apply that reason in equal measure to their faith.  When one of
+the apostles wanted to put his hand in Jesus's side to verify that he was
+indeed up and walking around again, he wasn't told "No, forget it, just
+take my word for it," he was allowed to do so.  Because reasoning is part
+of what makes us who and what we are, and sets us above the beasts of the
+field.  One of the greatest figures in the old testament is Solomon, who
+was esteemed because of his *wisdom* as well as his faith.  He thought
+things through in a logical, critical fashion, and came up with solutions.
+ It's only uncritical thinking that I have a problem with.
+ 
+     And what this has to do with Babylon 5 is anyone's guess....
+ 
+	                                                      jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Dec 1993 01:43:11 -0500
+Subject: Re: Pilot Question? Religion?
+
+     Garibaldi is an agnostic.  Ivanova is jewish.  Sinclair was raised
+catholic and underwent training as a Jesuit.  Dr. Franklin is a
+Foundationist.  Catherine Sakai is buddhist.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Dec 1993 15:55:56 -0500
+Subject: Re: Pilot Question? Religion?
+
+     I didn't say, and didn't intend to imply, that as you say, religion
+CAUSES insane actions.  What it can do is to legitimize some actions, and
+provoke others.  As an illustration of the former: the Bible was used to
+justify everything from the Crusades to slavery.  Incorrectly, as many
+believers are quick to point out today.  In the case of the latter: where
+generally speaking rock'n'roll does not encourage you to believe that you
+are being spoken to by supernatural beings, or that you were born sinful,
+and those more weird albums that do get into this stuff are generally not
+credible or recognized or legitimate...religion comes replete with devils
+and gods and is given fair legitimacy by society.  If you have someone
+with a fragile ego, someone who may be inclined toward hearing voices,
+someone who is already a touch disturbed, such elements may contribute to
+or exacerbate the problem.  Cause the problem?  No.  Contribute?  That's
+another issue....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Dec 1993 15:56:18 -0500
+Subject: Re: Pilot Question? Religion?
+
+     Of course there are atheists in high command ranks; I was asked to
+name those who had religions.  Atheism, despite what some say, is not a
+religion.  As for the ambassadors...I didn't know what could really be
+accomplished by naming their religions.  If I said -- as happens to be
+true, as we'll seen in an ep called "By Any Means" -- that G'Kar is a
+follower of G'Quan...what would that mean to anyone?
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+ 
+     (Computer glitch in the above...the title is "By Any Means
+Necessary.")
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Dec 1993 15:57:13 -0500
+Subject: Re: Pilot Question? Religion?
+
+     What kind of Jewish Ivanova is...is something she's trying to
+resolve in her own head.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Dec 1993 23:40:35 -0500
+Subject: sexy language (Was: Using "God
+
+     In what areas of my writing would I like to see improvement?  ALL of
+them.  And if I ever STOP looking for areas to improve...pick out a
+comely shroud, because I'm dead.
+ 
+	                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Dec 1993 13:58:47 -0500
+Subject: Re: Pilot Question? Religion?
+
+      "Have you been dodging the question of what Foundationism is?"
+ 
+      Of course I've been dodging it.  What I can say for now is that it
+has nothing to do with Asimov other than an echo in the name; the nature
+of Foundationism is separate and distinct, dealing with a spiritual
+Foundation of a particular nature.  It's a new religion that has come up
+in the time between the present and 2258.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Dec 1993 15:20:45 -0500
+Subject: Promos
+
+     Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution writes and assembles
+the promos, and gets them to the stations, which then have the option of
+running them as-is, or editing to their own preference.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Dec 1993 18:36:29 -0500
+Subject: Re: Pilot Question? Religion?
+
+     "I've yet to see proof for the nonexistence of god."
+ 
+     It is impossible to prove a negative, and it should not be the goal
+of any discussion to try and force someone to either prove a negative, or
+concede the validity of the opposing view.  In other words...if you say,
+"There are green penguins in the North Pole," it is not incumbent upon
+me to prove that there are, in fact, no green penguins in the North
+Pole.  It is incumbent upon the person making the *statement* to prove
+his assertion.  If it cannot be proven, then it must be dismissed.
+ 
+     Much is made of the notion that faith is something that should not
+require proof, that god objects to the idea of proving things.  But this
+position is not scripturally sound or based.  Christ made the repeated
+implication that he was there as the culmination of prophecy, that his
+walking around was living proof of prophecy...so clearly he felt no
+problem with offering proof *himself*, and offering himself AS proof, as
+a living person.  (I'm not taking a stance I accept theologically, only
+arguing the logic behind doctrine itself.)  When one of his disciples
+refused to believe that it was he arisen from the grave, he didn't say,
+"No, just take my word for it," he invited his disciple to stick his hand
+in the wound.  When Moses was called upon to prove his statements that he
+was speaking to Pharoah on behalf of god, *he* certainly had no problem
+with proving his statements, through the transformation of the staff and
+the numerous plagues that followed.
+ 
+     The whole notion that religion must proceed ONLY on faith, and that
+no proof can be required, is in *total* contradiction to what is actually
+in the bible, as acted by the key figures in both the old and new
+testaments.  It is an assertion made only some time thereafter, when the
+supposed proofs chronicled in the bible -- miracles, apparitions, the
+freezing in place of the sun, frog-rains and open wounds -- ceased to make
+regular appearances.
+ 
+     If Christ, asked to provide proof of his ressurrected self, has no
+problem at all with providing such proof, I cannot understand why anyone
+calling himself a Christian would have a problem with such a request.
+But then, as Mark Twain said, "If Christ were alive today, there is one
+thing he would not be: a Christian."
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Dec 1993 01:14:50 -0500
+Subject: Fan Scripts
+
+     The problem, of course, with (to use your term) "fan scripts" is that
+B5 is unlike just about any other SF series ever done for American
+television: it is a NOVEL for TV.  To clarify by way of comparison: let's
+say you're writing a novel.  And someone out there wants to write a spec
+chapter for that novel, without the knowledge of where you want to go with
+the novel overall.  It becomes next to impossible.
+ 
+     This show is not hard-up for ideas, as some others have been in the
+past.  Basically every single episode is broken-out in synopsis or outline
+for a full five-year run...110 episodes.  Now, we won't necessarily use
+all of those stories; there's room in each season set aside for non-arc
+related stories developed in close association with our writers.  Which
+generally means assigning them a story, or giving them an incident which
+must take place in the story, while leaving the overall episode story to
+the writer to develop.
+ 
+     *Every* episode this season, with one exception, has been based on an
+assigned premise, which I've written and given or described in detail to
+the writer.  (The exception is DC Fontana's second story/script for us,
+"Legacies."  The first one was assigned to get her well acquainted with
+our universe, after which she's in a better position to develop her own
+stuff in close coordination with us, and the overall story arc...when she
+developed "Legacies," we had to be sure to give her a certain number of
+scripts that circle the area she chose to explore, so that she would know
+where that part of the arc was going.)
+ 
+     Nonetheless, we're still determined to find some way to integrate
+newer writers with pros.  A fan script, for instance, might work as a
+sample, but almost certainly couldn't be bought on its own terms.  (And
+btw, this is actually the rule in nearly every series out there; even ST
+almost never buys a spec wholecloth, only in exceptional cases...as a
+matter of course, the spec just gets the writer in the door to pitch a
+story.  The difference here is that a spec might get the writer in the B56
+(B5) door to *get* a story assigned.  But again, we're still working out
+the dynamic of how that works.  The other complication, of course, is that
+we want to concentrate on using established SF writers, since that is the
+venue least tapped by other shows.)
+ 
+     The model created by ST in this regard has virtually nothing to do
+with how 90% of TV series work, and definitely nothing to do with the way
+B5 works.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Dec 1993 21:31:34 -0500
+Subject: Tech manual?
+
+     Ron's chomping at the bit (actually, he's chomped THROUGH the bit)
+to do a tech manual.  I wouldn't be surprised if there were one sooner or
+later, if the series is as successful as hoped for, but it's still a bit
+down the road.  As for merchandising...it's not so much that I'm against
+it, I just don't want it to get in the way, and it *won't* get in the way.
+ I won't allow it.  So I try to keep some measure of distance between me
+and that stuff.  If a deal gets made, all that matters to me is that it's
+done properly, and presented in continuity with the rest of the B5
+universe.  Mainly, I don't want this to get out of control, or turn into
+a "franchise."
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Dec 1993 02:27:35 -0500
+Subject: Re: Threads Wanted
+
+     Never did get the cap, no...haven't had the nerve to wear the shirt
+yet around the B5 office.  Somebody might ask me to explain it...and I'm
+not entirely sure that I could....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Dec 1993 02:30:24 -0500
+Subject: Re: Program Guides, something
+
+     I haven't yet heard the final disposition on the schedule for
+airing; we'll have plenty done, enough to run them straight through, but I
+don't know if PTEN will do that, or show new ones, then rerun a few, then
+more new ones, as they did with the other PTEN shows.  When I do know, I'll
+be sure to post the info.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Dec 1993 02:45:15 -0500
+Subject: Re: Tech manual?  (computer ba
+
+     Yes, PTEN is putting out an electronic/computer program that will
+be freeware, and will contain photos, inside info, some of the theme
+music in a .wav file, stuff about the station and the characters, and so
+on.  The already posted gif files aren't part of that.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Dec 1993 02:47:30 -0500
+Subject: Question on writing...
+
+     Well, it's not really like ST *or* NYPD (or many other alphabet
+shows).  It's kind of a weird balancing act.
+ 
+     As with any television show, in any given episode there is a Problem
+facing our characters.  A danger, a negotiation, a visitor, whatever; it
+has to be dealt with within that hour.  But when all is said and done,
+little threads have been introduced that begin to very lightly link other
+shows together.  For instance, a thread introduced in "Midnight" rises
+again in "Legacies" and "By Any Means Necessary."  In other shows, there
+is a character introduced who returns later, upon whose return visit we
+learn something different about them.  Some threads won't even LOOK like
+threads the first time you see an episode; they'll just skate past
+without drawing undue attention.  It's only later, on seeing some later
+shows, that you will suddenly twig to something in the first episode.
+The best comparison I can come up with is one of those rohrscharch tests,
+where it looks like an inkblot picture of an urn...until someone tells
+you that it's actually two people kissing...and then suddenly, WHAM!, you
+see it, and now you can't see anything else, and can't believe you didn't
+see it in the first place.
+ 
+     That, at least, is the theory.  We'll see how it all works starting
+in about a month.  It's really an experiment; no one's done anything this
+large, over so great a planned span before.  Should be interesting....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Dec 1993 02:48:59 -0500
+Subject: Children
+
+     There are not, as a rule, many kids on B5.  They are more the
+exception than the rule, and even there mainly traveling to or from one
+place to another with their families.  This is not a place where you come
+to raise families; it's a way-station, not a destination.  And given the
+fates of B1-B4, nearly everyone who chooses to come work there has left
+their families for a period of X-years to earn fairly good sized salaries
+working B5 (hazard pay and all that).
+ 
+     Hybrids are impossible in the B5 universe without direct genetic
+alteration.  You can't just have casual mating.  Interspecies sex may
+present opportunities for exploration, but the chances of a Narn
+impregnating a human are about the same as a human impregnating a fish
+and producing a motorcycle.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Dec 1993 02:57:49 -0500
+Subject: Re: Program Guides, something
+
+     The summary categories seem fine; I'd add one that wouldn't be used
+in all cases, but often enough to merit inclusion: "Important Stuff We
+Didn't Know Was Important Until Later."
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Dec 1993 02:57:56 -0500
+Subject: A Couple Questions
+
+     Structure: teaser, four acts, tag.  The four acts are longer than
+five acts (per act), and let you get a little deeper into the story by
+a smidge.  And no clear idea yet on the exact scheduling info.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Dec 1993 19:37:30 -0500
+Subject: Re: Merchandising Babylon5
+
+      I don't know if any company yet has approached or acquired the RPG
+rights.  And I don't *really* know enough about the area to suggest
+anyone, although most of the RPGs that I own are by Chaosium.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Dec 1993 20:35:54 -0500
+Subject: Re: Children
+
+     No, G'Kar wasn't lying to Lyta; he mentions in passing that there
+would have to be some genetic manipulation, so that part still obtains.
+ 
+                                                         jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Dec 1993 20:36:39 -0500
+Subject: Making of?
+
+      Yes, there will be a "Making Of Babylon 5" documentary, and it'll be
+hosted/narrated by Walter Koenig.  Expect it to air in most markets a few
+days prior to the series launch.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Dec 1993 04:00:21 -0500
+Subject: Re: Making of?
+
+     The documentary is on the making of the SERIES, not the pilot; it's
+a whole new critter, and we're being more careful not to let anyone get
+cutsie this time.  Looks like it'll be okay.  In any event, it'll focus on
+current stuff, not old stuff.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Dec 1993 16:32:47 -0500
+Subject: Commercials... yuck. :(
+
+     Get me the full information on which station, and what was shown, and
+I'll convey this to Warners, which will take care of it.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Dec 1993 21:57:56 -0500
+Subject: Re: Children
+
+     As I've noted elsewhere, G'Kar made mention of the need for
+genetic alteration/modification during the scene with Lyta.  Beyond that,
+though, G'Kar's personal perversion is sex with humans, which no one else
+seems quite able to understand....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Dec 1993 17:42:36 -0500
+Subject: Cinefantastique Article
+
+     I would not describe n'grath as a "Mafia boss," since that's a very
+specific term.  Nor is it really any kind of organization.  He's a fixer,
+somebody you go to when you need something...a bodyguard, forged
+identicards, what-have-you.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Dec 1993 20:14:27 -0500
+Subject: Re: *SPOILERS* Episode Info
+
+     The production order was determined only by production requirements,
+not the story.  The airdate schedule is the one that matters.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Dec 1993 23:46:29 -0500
+Subject: Re: Cinefantastique Article
+
+     The B5 cover story in CFQ should be in the March issue, which will
+be out around the first week of February/last part of January.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Dec 1993 22:44:38 -0500
+Subject: Re: B5 FAQL: Babylon 5 Frequen
+
+     "YET another Asian woman whose only purpose in a TV show is to be
+the love interest of the leading non-Asian man, really bites."
+ 
+     Tell me, how do you come to the conclusion that this is Catherine
+Sakai's ONLY purpose?  Have you read the scripts?  She has a relationship
+with the commander, yes.  If you choose to define a woman only in terms of
+her relationship with a man, that's your choice, but certainly not what I
+have in mind.
+ 
+     Catherine Sakai is a surveyer.  She has her own business.  She has her
+own ship.  In some episode, she has nothing whatsoever to do with the
+commander, she's off doing her own business.  In "Mind War," as one
+example, we see her for 30 seconds with the commander in the morning, with
+both going off to their respective jobs, and that's it...the rest of the
+story she's in is exclusively hers, concerning something she runs into
+while on a survey run.
+ 
+     Moreover, she has a role in the overall arc of the story that is
+considerably outside being somebody's main squeeze.  Perhaps you might
+consider actually *seeing* the show, and her character, before judging
+it.  If you're going to speak out against prejudice, as your message
+seems to imply, perhaps you should start with your own prejudices against
+something you haven't even seen yet, and stop judging women characters
+solely in terms of who they're involved with.  One of the areas I'm most
+proud of in my writing is the development of *very* strong female
+characters...and Catherine Sakai is one of the strongest, and most
+independent I've come up with  yet.  So how about you hold off judgment
+until you've actually *seen* who she is, and what she does...?
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Dec 1993 03:58:48 -0500
+Subject: Paintings in B5
+
+     The matte interior of the B5 garden was done very quickly, in a very
+brief period of time, when the model we'd built of the Garden ended up
+unsatisfactory.  We actually built a model of the thing, which was abou5
+(about) 10-12 feet long, big enough to walk through, showing the circular
+walls and garden...but it just didn't work for us.  So Ron quickly put
+together the garden matte used in the pilot.
+ 
+     We've re-done that, and I think it's better.  I think it works best
+in some of the night scenes, as in the Fresh Air Restaurant you'll see in
+"Born to the Purple" and other episodes, but it's better.  The only
+problem that I still have with it is that we've used a slight haze to the
+garden CGI/matte, since looking across about half a kilometer of open air
+you'd *get* a haze like that, but for my tastes it kinda flattens it out
+a bit, you lose the contrasts and kicks.  Others like it a lot.  It's
+something we're still tweaking for best effect.
+ 
+     The core shuttle, with its component CGI element, has been totally
+redesigned.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Dec 1993 18:12:21 -0500
+Subject: book?
+
+     Your friend is mistaken.  When I created Babylon 5 -- my own concept
+-- Warners did a search to make sure that the title hadn't been used or
+copyrighted elsewhere.  The search turned up a number of Babylon 2's, one
+Babylon 3, and an unpublished song entitled Babylon 4, but happily, no
+Babylon 5.  There has not been a book published with that name, insofar
+as we have ever been able to tell.  It's most likely that what your friend
+is thinking of is a book entitled "Alas, Babylon," by Pat Frank, which is
+a very fine novel indeed, and was written in about the period you mention.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Dec 1993 23:16:07 -0500
+Subject: B5 on break?
+
+     The cast and crew have a production break from last Thursday until
+just after New Year's.  It's a chance for all concerned to catch their
+breath.  The writing continues during this time, as does much of the CGI
+and a few other areas.
+ 
+     Don't have the details on the U.K. situation  yet.
+ 
+	                                                                     jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Dec 1993 03:44:23 -0500
+Subject: book?
+
+     The image/history/metaphor of Babylon has been used and interpreted
+throughout history, in books, songs, legends, you name it.  If you really
+dig into the history of the place, there's a lot there to lend itself to
+examination.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Dec 1993 03:44:32 -0500
+Subject: Re: Tamlym Tomita
+
+     I will tell you a true thing: it's been so long since we finished
+the pilot, and I've now directly supervised and written the bulk of 16
+episodes, and...I honestly can't remember how tightly sequential the
+individual scenes were/are in the pilot.  It all blurs after a while,
+after the sheer bulk of the series to date.  I'll try and check it out.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Dec 1993 18:26:34 -0500
+Subject: Art, music, and 1%
+
+     I would much rather let you see the answer to that question (pop
+culture) in the series rather than answer it here and blow it.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Dec 1993 23:22:24 -0500
+Subject: Re: B5 FAQL / Minorities in B5
+
+      I agree strongly with the points you raise.  And that's something we
+have been working toward in the series.  We try to fill out background,
+security details, business folks, travelers, and all the other divisions on
+B5 with an equal measure of ethnic backgrounds, and we strive to make the
+show 50/50 male/female.  If you also look at our roster of regular and
+recurring characters, that too is about 50/50 male/female.  We've also
+worked to keep that ratio *behind* the scenes as well...50% of our writers,
+directors and crew are female, many in the latter category holding jobs
+not traditionally open to women.  And it's only served to make the show
+better.  Our casting director has strict marching orders that, unless a
+script specifically calls for a particular ethnic background for a part,
+that part is to be open to *all* backgrounds.  So we see a mix for just
+about every major and minor role.
+ 
+     And yes, there are some people with hot-buttons about caucasian male/
+ethnic female relationships, and some with hot-buttons about ethnic male/
+caucasian female relationships.  I say a pox on *both* their houses.  So
+we're doing both.  The Sinclair/Sakai relationship is an example of the
+former, and we cast a dynamite black actor in a relationship story
+opposite Andrea Thompson.  The only thing a responsible producer can do,
+I believe, is cast what's right for the story, for whoever is the best
+performer, and if somebody doesn't like it, screw 'em.  As someone at the
+BBC once said, "There are some people we *want* to offend."
+ 
+     What astonishes me most is that, 25-30 years after Trek gave us the
+first inter-racial kiss on TV, we're still discussing this and working on
+this.  We're headed for the 21st century in 6 years (well, 7 if you count
+2001 as actually the first year of the 21st century) people...*deal* with
+it.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Dec 1993 18:43:56 -0500
+Subject: Jump Gates (Nitpicking)
+
+     1) Jump gates can only give you the frequency identification of a
+given ship some minutes prior to exiting hyperspace; just as it's about
+to exit, you can get much more detailed information, such as silhouette,
+mass, and so on.  By then it's pretty much out...but at least you know as
+soon as it's out what it is.
+ 
+     2) You can't just shut down a jump gate like a light bulb.  It is a
+VERY powerful piece of equipment, and it takes a long time to shut down and
+a long time to start up again.  It's like a nuclear or fusion reactor in
+that respect.  If you shut it down, it'll *stay* down for some time, which
+may put you in a very bad position if you have to leave fast, and that's
+the only way out.
+ 
+     (During the Earth/Minbari war, jump gates created by the Earth
+Alliance were programmed only to accept certain coded frequenies that were
+changed regularly.  [That should read frequencies.]  This helped prevent
+Minbari ships using EA gates.)
+ 
+     3) Really large ship, such as war cruisers and long-range explorer
+vessels are powerful enough to punch their own entance into hyperspace,
+creating a jump point.  (Something you'll see happen in our first
+episode, btw.)  They can go in and out of hyperspace on their own, so
+they don't strictly need a gate, which is primarily a) for smaller craft
+incapable of generating their own jump point, and b) to help larger craft
+conserve energy.  The Vorlon fleet could have come in via its own jump
+point, but the gate was there, and it allowed them to separate their
+smaller attack fleet while in hyperspace, so they could all come out
+together, as opposed to releasing them after making their own jump point.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Dec 1993 18:56:28 -0500
+Subject: Re: Nitpick about pilot
+
+      On your point that B5 looks and feels and, arguably, *is* something
+that humanity could build, is nominally within our grasp...this is
+something that we've been building toward for a while, is part of what we
+want to do with the show.  At a recent screening of some episodes for cast
+and crew, the one most frequent comment I got afterward was that it *felt*
+real, that this felt like how it might really be to work and live out on
+the fringe.  Many SF futures are so far beyond our grasp as to enter the
+realm of unattainable fantasy...I'd like to point to something as more
+within our grasp, to remind us that we can do this, and that maybe we
+SHOULD do this.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Dec 1993 01:59:07 -0500
+Subject: Feb Cinefantastique
+
+     I always look blurry in photos because I am by nature unfocused.
+Even inches away I'm fuzzy.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Dec 1993 23:58:38 -0500
+Subject: B5 series premier - who is rig
+
+     Given that the first episode won't be downlinked to the stations
+until January 20th, that puts the odds of it being broadcast on the 5th
+at fairly small, I should think....
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Dec 1993 23:58:44 -0500
+Subject: Casting
+
+     We've had no problem getting the word out, or getting people to
+understand our casting preferences.  The usual reaction is pleased
+astonishment....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Dec 1993 20:53:34 -0500
+Subject: Re: B5 FAQL / Minorities in B5
+
+     We're working on the variations within each race, not as throughly or
+consistently as I'd like, but we're working on it.
+ 
+     As for the commander...I could answer your question in more detail,
+but I can't without blowing a lot of what's being prepared.  He isn't just
+male by default, or by auctorial preference (though certainly I will be
+putting in a lot of my own background into him, and into Garibaldi); there
+is a very specific reason why he has to be male.  As for being caucasian,
+we auditioned from every group looking for the right person who did the
+best job in the audition.  He was the best for that part.  That's really
+about as deep as it goes.  We were prepared to cast whowever walked in the
+door and nailed the part.  That was Michael.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Dec 1993 20:55:47 -0500
+Subject: Time Slot for Babylon 5
+
+     The word that B5 will be on Sundays opposite Lois, SQ and others is
+both unsubstantiated and untrue and has been retracted by the persons
+posting that information.  In the majority of markets, it'll be on
+Wednesdays at 8 p.m., though some stations will be showing it on other
+days.
+ 
+		                                                      jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Dec 1993 18:43:33 -0500
+Subject: Questions,Questions and More Q
+
+     To a message with nothing but questions, a reply with nothing but
+answers.
+ 
+     Yes.  It would seem so, yes.  Probably, but so far nothing's been set
+as far as I know.  No.  There are contingencies, but the B5 story ends at
+year five, period.  I can't even consider that possibility at this time.
+Yes.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Dec 1993 18:58:11 -0500
+Subject: Re: !SPOILER! Program Guide en
+
+     Actually, n'grath is all lower space, Kosh Naranek uses both upper
+and loser case.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
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+===========================================================================
+| This text is compiled from posts by J. Michael Straczynski on the Usenet 
+| group alt.tv.babylon-5.  This document contains material Copyright 1994
+| J. Michael Straczynski.  He has given permission for his words to be 
+| redistributed online, as long as they are marked as being copyright JMS.
+| This document, as well as other Babylon-5 related material, is available
+| by anonymous FTP at ftp.hyperion.com.
+===========================================================================
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Jan 1994 03:13:03 -0500
+Subject: B-5 pilot: "The Director's Cut
+
+     The odds are zero, since the first version of the B5 pilot existed
+only as a computer-graphic file edited movie.  It wasn't edited on film,
+for real, until we'd pared it down.  We'd have to go in and totally
+re-edit and re-score, and I doubt that's going to happen.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Jan 1994 19:30:59 -0500
+Subject: Re: Sunday Newsprint (Spoilers
+
+     RE: the newspaper...Stephen Furst's contract brings him up to 22
+episodes in year 3 and doesn't mention anything beyond that only because
+there are no further increases in episodes; our seasons run 22 episodes.
+The plan is to have his character present throughout the full 5 year run.
+As for the review...I have a sneaking suspicion that he's talking about
+the pilot, since the cassette tapes of the first episode only went out
+on Friday.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Jan 1994 20:03:33 -0500
+Subject: Re: B-5 pilot: "The Director's
+
+     The computerized cut of the pilot is now dumped out of memory, and
+those portions only exist on a few VHS tapes of marginal quality.  Also,
+the footage in computer file form is *very* low grade, like a poorly
+scanned gif file, very low resolution.  It would be useless on a laser
+disk.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Jan 1994 02:57:04 -0500
+Subject: Re: B-5 pilot: "The Director's
+
+     I'm certainly not showing disdain for the missing material; I'm just
+saying it ain't *there*.  Now, if B5 turns out to be a megahit, there may
+be money set aside to re-edit the pilot some years down the road, but I'm
+not currently counting on it.  My chief concern now has to be the series.
+ 
+     As for keeping a record...I try, if spottily.  Oddly enough, the very
+best record of this process exists in the multi-megabytes that have been
+exchanged here, on GEnie and elsewhere.  It's something of a living
+chronology.  I try to take photos on the set (when I remember), and I'm
+keeping 1 copy of each day's dailies, instead of recycling the tapes.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Jan 1994 02:10:24 -0500
+Subject: Re: B-5 pilot: "The Director's
+
+     The bloopers reel/christmas reel we did is just for internal use, I'm
+afraid (though it's *very* funny).  As for the computer program...it hould
+be out in about a week, on schedule.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Jan 1994 02:23:34 -0500
+Subject: Re: Babylon Five List of Lists
+
+     Neame is Knight Two, Scott is Knight One.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Jan 1994 02:36:06 -0500
+Subject: DEMON ON THE RUN
+
+     We're still working out the dynamics of how these two universes
+would cross seamlessly, without doing damage to either.  We've got some
+solid leads, but this is 'way too early to get into them.  More down the
+road, one hopes....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Jan 1994 04:45:08 -0500
+Subject: Interesting Babylon 5 ad...
+
+     Just as a point of reference, because there's no way to tell this
+from the ad...that's not G'Kar speaking, that's the Soul Hunter.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Jan 1994 23:52:15 -0500
+Subject: jms's creds
+
+     Yikes; that's an awful lot of ground to cover.  I've worked as story
+editor or producer on such series as the new Twilight Zone, Murder She
+Wrote, and the live-action SF series Captain Power (seen by maybe ten
+people in the country before it was yanked off the air for being "the most
+violent show on television," a post now occupied by Brisco County Jr., we
+are told by congress).  I've written something on the order of 120-130
+produced episodes of television, and story edited probably twice that.  (I
+began in animation, story editing shows such as the Real Ghostbusters, the
+syndicated and first network season, before walking off the show when they
+compromised Janine's character.)  I've been nominated for Gemini, Writers
+Guild, Bram Stoker and Ace Awards.  Two nominations were for the
+adaptation I did for Showtime's Nightmare Classics series, "The Strange
+Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," with Anthony Andrews and Laura Dern.
+ I was on Murder for about two years before leaving to do B5.
+ 
+     I've written produced radio dramas (including for Mutual Radio
+Theater and Alien Worlds), published dark fantasy novels (hardcover from
+Dutton, Demon Night and OtherSyde), produced stage plays, and something
+on the order of 500 published articles.  Started out as a reporter and
+ended up working for the L.A. Times, TIME Inc., and others.  Anyway,
+that's a quick overview of it.  (And no, no show in the 70s; my TV credits
+begin around 1984.)
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Jan 1994 00:41:39 -0500
+Subject: Re: B-5 pilot: "The Director's
+
+     The computer program will be uploaded all *over* the place; it'll
+be around....
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Jan 1994 01:11:57 -0500
+Subject: Why the delay? (was Re: B5 Pil
+
+     We'd always figured on going right to series, but once we had done
+the pilot, the studio said, in essence, "Well, we've got a pilot,
+we don't know if the market will sustain more than one space SF series,
+no other SF series has done well lately...maybe we ought to air the pilot
+first, and get the ratings, before committing to a series."  And that's
+what happened...much to our consternation at first, but in the long run
+it was a blessing in disguise, because that interim period allowed us to
+really do a lot to make the show better.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Jan 1994 00:43:37 -0500
+Subject: too violent.....
+
+     Oh, believe me, take it seriously they did.  Power was characterized
+in the press by leading magazines as the most violent show on TV, there
+were organized protests, I ended up in televised debates on this concerning
+the show...and gradually the sponsor folded.  These things do happen....
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Jan 1994 03:47:26 -0500
+Subject: Re: jms's creds
+
+     I've always found "how/when did you get your break into writing" to
+be a very weird question, at least in my case; like asking a doctor, "when
+did you get your break into foot surgery."  It wasn't one thing at one
+time.  This is a career that I've prepared for, and worked toward, and
+entered incrementally over a very long period.  I always knew that I would
+be a writer, used to collect pencils and paperclips and could determine the
+better grade of erasers and #10 pencils at an age when most kids were still
+trying to figure out which end to hold.  It's just a quirk.
+ 
+     When I was 16, after having read comprehensively in every genre I
+could get my hands on, I decided that now was a good time to start.  So I
+began writing.  Short stories, poems, playlets, articles, you name it, I
+wrote it.  I didn't show anyone at first, just kept slamming words
+together in the process of learning how to make little explosions of
+character and action.  When I felt ready -- six months later -- I began
+showing it around.  The high school I was attending began producing some of
+my one-acts, and commissioned a full play from me; I began selling articles
+to local newspapers and magazines; even placed a one-act with a local
+theater, which decided to produce it before discovering that I was only 17
+years old.  (When I showed up, they kept waiting for my parents to arrive,
+until I pointed out that *I* was the JMS on the script.)
+ 
+     After that, it was just a process of *writing* and *sending it out*.
+There is no mystery, no big break, no sudden revelation or secret
+handshake.  Bit by bit, I sold more articles, sold more plays, sold some
+short stories, and bit by bit, almost without noticing, the list of credits
+got longer until one day, people started asking me when I knew I'd Made It
+as a writer, when it hadn't ever occured to me that I *had* made it as a
+writer...I hadn't realized it'd happened.
+ 
+     It's the difference, I suppose, between buying a finished house, and
+there it is...and watching the house go up brick by brick over a long
+period of time.  At what point did it "become" a house?
+ 
+     It's probably not a helpful answer, but it's the only one I have....
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Jan 1994 03:51:36 -0500
+Subject: Re: Why the delay? (was Re: B5
+
+     No, we generally don't announce the day/month in the episodes, though
+sometimes dates or seasons are referred to tangentially or offhandedly.
+The real significant progression is year to year, which is why each year
+of the show will be marked in the opening narration and parallel real
+time (season 1: 2258, season 2: 2259, etc.).
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Jan 1994 04:50:57 -0500
+Subject: Re: jms's creds
+
+     Only if the SciFi Channel picks up CP.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Jan 1994 07:26:38 -0500
+Subject: The Big Promo in LA
+
+     The half-hour making of promo will be shown on channel 13 twice; the
+first date I don't recall, but it'll definitely be on after the Clippers
+game airing before we debut.  (That game will actually be "Brought To You
+By Babylon 5.")
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Jan 1994 08:48:29 -0500
+Subject: Re: jms's creds
+
+     The first network season of The Real Ghostbusters, and its only
+official first-run syndicated season, the show was a monster hit.  Major
+league numbers, #1.  Naturally, as soon as that happened, everyone started
+to try and figure out how to "fix" it.  Everyone starts protecting his
+investment.  They want to play it safe.  Which inevitably leads to the
+show getting screwed up, but that never stops them.
+ 
+     So the network brought in consultants, who said that this is a kid's
+series, so you have to have *kids* in it (this after steadfastly refusing
+to diverge from the desire on our part to continue the tradition of the
+movie, using only adult characters).  The Junior Ghostbusters, one of the
+lamest ideas in TV history.  Then they started on Janine...who was much to
+their dismay a strong female character.  They felt that she should be
+changed to a more warm, nurturing character, that her dry sense of humor
+was too aggressive, and that she should be made more into a "mommy figure"
+(to use their terms).
+ 
+     Her clothes, eccentric and personalized, were deemed "slutty," and
+had to be replaced by dresses and soft blouses.  She should be made more
+deferential to the male characters.  She had to lose the pointed glasses
+she wore, replacing them instead with round glasses because "sharp objects
+frighten children."
+ 
+     Janine was a strong, forceful, independent character who could take
+care of herself, and you didn't mess with her.  She was sharp, and funny,
+and just a real kick to write for.  This was the kind of character I'd
+fought to preserve, and it had proven to be a hit...and now they wanted to
+turn that upside down and turn her into a mommy.  Ain't nothing wrong with
+mommies.  But there's plenty of mommy-figures in cartoons; why not provide
+an alternative view...a working career woman who is generally satisfied
+with her life?  Leaving aside the role-model question for the moment, I
+happen to really, really, *really* love writing strong female characters.
+I love strong female characters in general.  Most of my relationships
+have been with strong-willed, independent, very bright women.  I love it
+when I'm outsmarted or one-upped; it makes me work harder.
+ 
+     So when they did *this*...I shot back a very loud "Not a chance."  NOt
+on this show.  I went to meetings.  Got into huge arguments with these
+so-called consultants.  Finally, I said that if they were going to do this,
+they'd have to do it without my participation; I refused to participate in
+the lobotomy of that show, or that character.  So I resigned.  Later, when
+their new "approach" to the show began to nosedive, I was asked if I'd
+return.  I was then working on POWER, and couldn't...but agreed to write
+some episodes on the following conditions: 1) the new story editors were
+not to so much as *touch* my scripts, or the deal was off; 2) in my
+unverse the Junior Ghostbusters did not exist, and would not appear in any
+of my scripts; and 3) I wrote the old Janine, not the "new" Janine, and
+that was with all of her attitudes intact.  They agreed.
+ 
+     And that is the story.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Jan 1994 22:22:44 -0500
+Subject: Re: jms's creds
+
+     No plan to make the scripts available at this time, but who knows...?
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Jan 1994 22:25:50 -0500
+Subject: Will Joe be at I-Con?
+
+     Tentatively plan to be at I-Con, yes.  As for TRGBs, that was the
+series based on the movie, correct.
+ 
+	                                                   jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Jan 1994 22:38:37 -0500
+Subject: Violence
+
+     You're correct, particularly with reference to "Infection."  That
+episode has a lot of action, which you'd expect, and a big conclusion,
+which you'd expect.  What you *won't* expect, I think, is what happens
+afterward, in a conversation no one generally has in TV after big action
+stuff has gone down.  And it's something to chew on, I think....
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Jan 1994 22:39:39 -0500
+Subject: Re: jms's creds
+
+     Oh, they're there, all right...you've just been lucky.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Jan 1994 01:59:22 -0500
+Subject: Re: jms's creds
+
+     There's no way to replace them that I know of, other than just taping
+the shows all over again off the syndicated channels.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Jan 1994 03:35:31 -0500
+Subject: JMS - Conflict of Interest?
+
+     There's really very, very little that I would want to say in regards
+to Starlog.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Jan 1994 23:41:26 -0500
+Subject: cons
+
+     What is a PNW convention?
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jan 1994 00:59:10 -0500
+Subject: Morn type in B5?
+
+     What is a Norm/Morn type?
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jan 1994 06:07:22 -0500
+Subject: Re: jms's creds
+
+     My software is not easily set up to let me quote from stuff.  I get
+a list of messages...anywhere up to 50-55 at a time.  I read in batches,
+and when I see something requiring a response, the GEnie software is set
+up so that I type REP 25 (for message 25) and begin typing.  My personal
+software isn't set up to quote stuff; I'd have to re-list the message,
+capture it, edit it, all by hand...it becomes a major pain in the ass, adn
+(and) would increase several-fold the amount of work involved.  Meaning
+that I would have less time to respond, and thus could respond to fewer
+messages.  In general, I try to paraphrase or restate or clarify the
+original question in my reply, and usually I think it's clear enough.
+ 
+     But I'll work harder to be clear.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Jan 1994 02:47:55 -0500
+Subject: AOL connection...
+
+     There are B5 .wav files over on AOL?  Really?  Which ones?  I'd
+love to get hold of a few.
+ 
+     Just to clarify, btw, the trading cards are *not* the ones that have
+been circulating (the gifs).  These are new, and are mainly of the cast.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Jan 1994 02:49:35 -0500
+Subject: Re: Missed promo on WNAC! (But
+
+     Thanks.  Glad you liked it.  (And yeah, the Fresh Air Restaurant
+does look pretty cool.)
+ 
+     As for me...the TV camera doesn't like me, it just sorta slides over
+me and adds 10 years to me.  Complicated by the fact that when I'm shoved
+in front of a TeeVee camera, my head retracts like a turtle, my neck
+disappears, and everything goes everywhere.  Harlan, on the other hand,
+is comfortable before a camera.  The camera *loves* Harlan.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Jan 1994 07:56:21 -0500
+Subject: Hows B5 doing in the States?
+
+     It hasn't even aired yet....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Jan 1994 21:37:19 -0500
+Subject: Re: Missed promo on WNAC! (But
+
+     Actually, thus far, nearly everyone on our crew has appeared in the
+background of one episode or another, except for me.  Which is the way I
+like it....
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Jan 1994 01:10:41 -0500
+Subject: Babylon 5 in Writer's Digest M
+
+     Larry DiTillio's episodes this season are "Born to the Purple," and
+"Deathwalker."  He's currently working on a third, tentatively entitled
+"TKO."  And yes, he uses blood instead of ink...unfortunately, it's mine.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Jan 1994 01:10:44 -0500
+Subject: Earth in B5
+
+     While we will not be *seeing* much of Earth in B5 (as in going
+there), what's going on back home will be a *constant* undercurrent to
+the series.  You'll learn a lot about the state of Earth in 2258 in our
+universe during the course of the series.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Jan 1994 01:10:50 -0500
+Subject: Toaster Spaceship Data Files?
+
+     I really don't know if they'll be released as autocad stuff or not,
+but will try to remember to inquire.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Jan 1994 01:11:40 -0500
+Subject: Will we see you!
+
+     Nope, I don't do cameos; for me, it ruins the illusion.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Jan 1994 02:37:13 -0500
+Subject: Re: CRITICAL COMMENTS: "The Ga
+
+     The dustbuster guns are history.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Jan 1994 03:34:17 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Old and new stuff...
+
+     Oh, absolutely; I'd say that "Parliament," "Mind War," "Soul" and
+"Purple" are (to my mind at least) much better than "Midnight."  Mind,
+that's just my personal preference, your mileage may vary.
+ 
+     But I'd say that our two *best* so far are still "And the Sky Full of
+Stars" and "Chrysalis."  I just watched a cut of "Chrysalis" today which
+finally had all the CGI in it, and had to scrape my brain off the opposing
+wall, it's *that* good.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Jan 1994 10:02:49 -0500
+Subject: Script, New Character==dead Ch
+
+     You'll get your wish...and you'll wish you hadn't....
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Jan 1994 14:57:15 -0500
+Subject: Yo Joe! Some Questions...
+
+     On the theory that some of the militaries have blended, the system of
+ranks is kind of a cross between the navy and the air force (at least the
+ones with which our characters will have any interaction).  Probably an
+admiral would be more likely to run this place.
+ 
+     At some point, we'll probably see what it looks like from the ship'
+ POV leaving or entering hyperspace, yes.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Jan 1994 15:11:37 -0500
+Subject: A word about B5 in the press..
+
+     Part of the problem is that many reporters have come to expect, and
+come to associate that SF-shows = crap.  Or kid's stuff.  They've gotten
+very jaded with the same old promises every year.  So on that level, it's
+understandable.  There are areas where it's *not* understandable or
+defensible, but I'll leave that topic for another time....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Jan 1994 19:21:44 -0500
+Subject: Re: Will we see you!
+
+     As a matter of fact, in a couple of episodes you'll see a photo of
+the Earth Alliance president.  The photo itself is of Doug Netter, my
+associate on the show and fellow executive producer.  (The woman running
+against the incumbent president in the election featured on "Midnight" is
+played, in photo, by our wardrobe designer, Ann Bruice.)
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Jan 1994 03:29:21 -0500
+Subject: Please JMS!!
+
+     We've been pitched the Die Hard/Under Seige approach many times.  I
+turned it down.  It's been done.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Jan 1994 18:11:04 -0500
+Subject: Expanded seasons?
+
+     At this point, it's way too early to even *think* about topics like
+expanded seasons.  Obviously, yes, we could easily expand each season's
+worth of episodes from a story point of view.  That ain't no kind of
+problem.  As for the rest...only time will tell.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Jan 1994 18:12:02 -0500
+Subject: Spoiler Question (minor spoile
+
+     I have nothing to do with the description applied to the show by
+others.  In that episode, the affected person isn't "turned into" a
+machine.  It is sort of a living armor-like compound that grows over the
+person's body, and begins to influence the person in question.  That is
+the sum and substance of it; he isn't transmuted, his biology isn't
+changed, his brain isn't replaced, and so on.
+ 
+     My suggestion: judge the episode based on the episode, not on what
+choice of words someone else used in trying to synopsize the episode.
+Because Moby Dick can be summed up as, "A nut chasing a big fish."  But
+there's obviously more to the story than that, and it's not entirely
+accurate.
+ 
+	                                                      jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Jan 1994 18:12:51 -0500
+Subject: Skeptical about B5
+
+     There's nothing wrong with skepticism about the show.  I've said,
+from the start, judge us on what you see, not what I say.
+ 
+     Will you be disappointed?  That's not for me to say.  Inevitably,
+some people will be because *no* show can be the show you see in your
+head, the one you'd make if it were your show.  The problem with a show
+like this is that everyone begins to attach their dissatisfaction from
+other shows to it, and saying, "Well, THIS one will be my perfect vision
+of an SF series."  And it won't be.  It's my vision of what an SF series
+should be.  Some folks will feel the same way, some won't.  NYPD Blue is
+a very popular show.  Many people like it.  I can't get into it.  Tastes
+vary.
+ 
+     Will the show be well-produced?  Well acted?  Well written?  Well
+directed?  Will the EFX be what they should be: imaginative and rich
+and textured?  Yes.  These things I can promise.  Will the final result
+ring your particular chime?  That we'll have to see.  I can say that all
+the pieces are there.
+ 
+     Re: the commercials...the pacing of the commercials has nothing to do
+with the pacing of the show.  The show is the show, a commercial is a
+commercial.  They serve different masters and different needs.
+ 
+     No, not everything will be solved with a gun.  Sometimes, though, a
+gun is necessary as part of a solution to a problem.  Other times, it
+isn't.  And sometimes, the problem really isn't solved; sometimes our
+characters fail.  Sometimes things don't work out for the best at the end
+of the show.  Because life's like that.
+ 
+     One other thing that I can guarantee you is that our characters aren't
+stupid, they don't do things for dumb reasons.  Sometimes, in shows, it
+seems they make their characters momentarily stupid because that's the
+only way to get them into trouble.  We try to be smarter than that.  Our
+characters are as sharp as they come...which makes it more interesting
+when they get into trouble.  Sometimes being sharp isn't enough.
+ 
+     No two episodes are really alike.  "Midnight," aside from the task
+of re-introducing the characters, is something of an action piece, a
+run-and-jump.  "Soul" is a much smaller, more personal story, more
+character based.  "Purple" is funny, and sad, with a fair amount of action.
+ "Infection" is a heavy-duty action piece for the most part.  "Parliament"
+is a character piece with a very little action, but lots of fun.  "Mind
+War" has a hell of a lot of action, but also a mystery element to it as
+well.  Not a lot of humor in that one.
+ 
+     I think people will like the show.  I think they'll like the
+characters a lot.  But obviously I'm biased.
+ 
+	                                                     jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Jan 1994 02:02:22 -0500
+Subject: Gays
+
+     To give that information out now would defeat the dynamic of its
+revelation.  There's some stuff I can talk about, some that I can't.  That
+is one of them.
+ 
+     And how do you know you haven't already seen this character?
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Jan 1994 03:11:19 -0500
+Subject: Harlan Ellison & Babylon 5
+
+     The SF writing material I can't comment on just now, for a number of
+reasons.  Regarding any outside commentary...Harlan has commented on the
+show in his Sci-Fi Channel commentaries, and will do so in future.  He's
+also given several interviews about the show.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Jan 1994 17:32:06 -0500
+Subject: B5 Tech Readout v.0.0 : The Qu
+
+     There's too much to cover in one message, so in brief:
+ 
+     The station is a touch over 5 miles long.  It can hold roughly
+250,000 humans and aliens (many of whom are in transit at any point).
+The fighters are the SA-23E Mitchell-Hyundyne Starfuries, and B5 has
+four fighter wings, each with approximately 12 fighters.
+ 
+     The rings are classified, as is the encounter suit.  Psi Corps
+ratings are assigned from within the Academy, based on test results and
+personal interviews/training.  Restrictions: NO unauthorized scans
+-- you need the permission of the person, tacit permission, or written
+permission of next of kin -- and no "dipping," going into other areas
+not relevant to the current scan.  In criminal cases, psi's may not
+scan defendants during a trial or before to determine guilt or innocence,
+as this violates the right of due process.  After a conviction, a psi
+may be called upon to function in various capactities (which will be seen
+in "The Quality of Mercy").  A psi *may* scan the victim of a crime unable
+to remember details of an attack, but that information must be backed up
+by physical evidence, or it is inadmissible.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Jan 1994 21:48:45 -0500
+Subject: Starfury specs?
+
+     The starfuries are *only* non-atmosphere craft, and they can't hold
+more than one person.  The other specs are over at Ron's, and I'll try to
+remember  to snag them at some point.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Jan 1994 15:29:43 -0500
+Subject: Psis and Trials [was Re: B5 Te
+
+     No, the accused cannot ask for a psi to validate his or her
+innocence; the trial can ONLY proceed on the basis of evidence.  This is to
+prevent abuse, trials where a Psi looks at you and determines your guilt.
+When a life is at stake, you can't risk the possibility of some hidden
+agenda on the part of the telepath.  You'd have to use a telepath to
+verify the first telepath's scan, and on and on.  Best simply to exclude
+them from that aspect of the law.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Jan 1994 15:34:36 -0500
+Subject: Making of B5 outlets
+
+     I have no idea why a non-PTEN station would be showing the Making Of
+piece, but will look into it.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Jan 1994 20:37:14 -0500
+Subject: Scheduling
+
+     It's a good suggestion, and I appreciate the thought; how much direct
+influence I have over the rerun schedule is a question of some debate,
+though.  If I do have any influence, I will definitely apply it, but it's
+still being defined.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jan 1994 01:26:25 -0500
+Subject: Too many cooks...
+
+     What you are noticing is the same thing suffered by anyone who creates
+something; for a long time, it's just yours, and maybe a few others' as
+well.  But the point is to get it *out there*.  And when that happens, as
+with creating B5, it isn't *yours* any longer, it belongs to the viewers.
+It can take some getting used to, and you just have to learn to let go.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jan 1994 01:33:13 -0500
+Subject: Re: jms's creds
+
+     Yeah, you're right; I'd nearly forgotten about the "And Winston, the
+black character, drives the car and repairs it."  I pretty much went right
+through the roof on that one.  The consultants said that you have to keep
+characters to within a child's expectations.  I came within an inch of
+going over the table at them.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jan 1994 01:42:08 -0500
+Subject: ST vs B5 thematic musings
+
+     What you post in your message is *exactly* right.  I don't believe in
+the notion that, when we go to the stars, we have to leave behind our
+individual languages, and cultures, and ethnic backgrounds, and fashions
+of dress.  We bring that with us as part of who and what we are.  It's our
+differences that *strengthen* us.  It's not all going to vanish in 200
+years.  There are cultures in the eastern part of the world that have
+survived with minor changes for literally thousands of years.  250 years
+is the blink of an eye.  It's really a Western phenomenon; to us, 200
+years is a long time, the whole history of our nation.  That changes when
+you go outside.  I stood on the cobblestone walks of Trinity College in
+Dublin, and realized that on those same cobblestones some eager student
+raced across to the living quarters to announce news of a big revolution
+in the American colonies.  I stood in the neolithic burial mounds at
+New Grange, the oldest man-made stuctures in the world, older even than
+the pyramids...and realized that in human terms, 250 years isn't even a
+blip.  We're not going to change that much.
+ 
+     250 years ago, people worked, got married, had families, separated,
+had affairs, and hoped for a better world for their children.  250 years
+from now, it will be exactly the same.  Only the chrome of technology will
+vary.  For a good example of this, go find an SF movie musical called
+"Just Imagine" made in the 1930s.  Set in the 1980s, it pictured a world
+of people with names instead of numbers, pills instead of food, and birth
+by machine.  Much of TV SF makes the similar error.
+ 
+     The other point you raise is equally valid.  The one thing that to me
+always typified SF was the sense of *wonder*.  Of something mysterious out
+there.  And that is the one thing that I feel is so missing from much of
+TV SF; not to pick on ST, but the reality is that going from world to
+world seems like going from 7-11 to 7-11.  It's all established, there's
+not much mystery.  (Not in all cases, I'm sure that one or two could be
+found, but in general.)  There should be *differences*, and things we
+don't understand and will *never* fully understand.  (For me, one of the
+best episodes in this regard is "Mind War," specifically the tag of the
+episode, which still gives me a shiver even though I've now seen it over
+a dozen times.)
+ 
+     Anyway, point being...you're right.  And the first six episodes we
+air will give some indiciation as to whether or not we got it right.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jan 1994 01:44:08 -0500
+Subject: Re: Psis and Trials [was Re: B
+
+     Exactly.  The inadmissibility of telepathic scans of the accused,
+and even the *prohibition* against same, is the reason Sinclair wasn't
+and couldn't be scanned by Lyta in the pilot.  I could've explained this
+in some detail, but the pilot was already *so* exposition heavy that I
+figured it'd be better to wait until (I thought at the time) the next
+few episodes, which would get into that.  (That was when I figured we'd be
+going straight to series.)
+ 
+     Another example of what was assumed to be a lapse in story logic, but
+which was actually a plot point....
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jan 1994 18:02:50 -0500
+Subject: Re: jms's creds
+
+     Regarding the ads...when you have 14-16 regular and recurring
+characters, you have to determine which of them will end up in an ad,
+because anyone not included is bound to be offended unless you come up
+with some unbiased way of selecting them.  What was finally chosen was
+the number of episodes in which they appear.  The cut-off point was 13
+episodes.  At that point and above, you have Sinclair, Delenn, Garibaldi,
+Ivanova, G'Kar, Londo.  Below that you have Franklin, Lennier, Vir, Talia,
+Na'Toth, etc.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jan 1994 20:53:57 -0500
+Subject: Late B5?
+
+     No, the show isn't a year and a half late.  As it is, it's less than
+one year since the pilot aired.  It was our initial hope, and my initial
+belief, that we'd go straight into the series as soon as we finished the
+pilot.  But the studio, in its infinite wisdom, decided that since they
+HAD a pilot, it kinda behooved them to air it and get the ratings before
+committing to a series.  So we then waited until February for the airing,
+got the go-ahead to production around April/May, began shooting in July,
+got a whole bunch of episodes in the can, and now we're hitting the air.
+That is the sum and substance of it.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jan 1994 21:07:09 -0500
+Subject: Franke footage...
+
+     Chris does appear in the "Making Of" piece.  Beyond that, I don't
+know about ET or anything else.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jan 1994 22:04:33 -0500
+Subject: To JMS Regarding B5 electronic
+
+     Let me make it clear: I have nothing to do with the manufacture of
+the electronic press kit, or the platforms selected.  What I can say is
+that Warners distribution is not in the computer business (at least, not
+as of this moment).  They have a limited budget.  In testimony to the
+great commitment on-line for the show, they put together this EPK, and
+could afford to pick two formats in which it could be made.  They settled
+on MAC and IBM because those two are the dominant formats numerically,
+whatever the benefits, values and positives associated with the Amiga.
+ 
+     It was something never in the original plans, is done as a compliment
+to BBSers, is the first time ANY TV series has done this at *all*, and
+it has been met by some hostility from Amiga users because that platform
+wasn't included.  Yes, Amiga has provided Foundation (which we don't own)
+with some nifty tools.  And those tools have received, and will continue
+to receive *substantial* publicity through B5.  Millions more people will
+be reached concerning what the Amiga (and Toaster) can do because of this
+show.  So on that level, I consider the scales balanced.
+ 
+     As far as an Amiga version...Jim Moloshok, head of marketing for
+Warners, has given permission to a couple of people to hack the program
+into an Amiga format.  This is because whatever you might think, studios
+do not have infinite amounts of time or money.  I imagine that version
+will be out sooner or later.  We all do what we can.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Jan 1994 03:31:47 -0500
+Subject: JMS... A question about tech
+
+     I believe that Ron is working to put together a possible B5 tech
+manual sometime soonish.
+ 
+     The history of Earth for about the last 100 years prior to the time
+of B5 is broken out, and though it isn't laid out in detail in the
+series, it forms a reference backdrop for us, so it's all consistent when
+we refer to any part of it.  The pilot was 2257, the first year of the
+series is 2258, year two would be 2259, and so on.  The story requires 5
+years of story time as well as 5 years of real time to tell.  Things have
+to go through some real time lapse for the story to work out properly.
+Consequently, the narration at the top of the show ("...the year is 2258,
+the name of the place is Babylon 5") will be changed each season.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jan 1994 18:52:39 -0500
+Subject: Earth Shake!
+
+     Came through pretty much okay, all considered.  At the house, the
+living room fireplace is now IN the living room (on the floor), the patio
+has separated from the rest of the house, there's major cracks all over
+the place, everything that was on shelves is now on the floor...but the
+stage came through okay, and we're back to shooting today, if possibly
+on a reduced schedule.  (Everyone was given the option of not coming in
+today, but everyone wanted to show support, get back on the horse
+again, and get going.  Some even came in on their own time Monday to help
+with cleanup.)
+ 
+     Onward.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jan 1994 18:53:32 -0500
+Subject: Earth Alliance Starships
+
+     Yes, we will be seeing Earth Alliance starships.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jan 1994 18:53:41 -0500
+Subject: Re: Psis and Trials
+
+     I'm sorry, but whether or not you personally agree with the
+structure, the prohibition on the use of telepaths in court is NOT
+irrational, OR based on an irrational government.  Members of the Psi
+Corps are NOT just individuals walking around; they are *governmentally
+regulated and controlled*.  Any good defense or prosecution attorney
+could turn that against them.  Also, the Law Profession isn't ABOUT to
+turn over control of its actions to a bunch of government-regulated
+telepaths.
+ 
+     There are already restrictions in place on hearsay evidence, even on
+anecdotal or eyewitness testimony.  People are entitled to a fair trial,
+and due process, *based on evidence*, not the opinions of a State
+employee or someone controlled by the State.  This has been the history
+(at least in theory) of jurisprudence in this country for the last 200
+years.
+ 
+     Finally, the judicial arm of the government itself will not relinquish
+control over the courts to an outside agency.  Look at human nature; this
+simply will NOT happen.  It is not irrational, it is relentlessly
+logical, and based upon what happens now in our court system, and what is
+likely in the event of actual telepaths being discovered.  And again, you
+have to remember that there are competing governmental agencies involved
+here, this isn't just a bunch of civilian witnesses roaming around.
+ 
+     And on another level, there are LOTS of reasons for wanting the Psi
+Corps NOT to get this kind of control or influence.  Some might say (and
+in the course of this series, some WILL say) that the Psi Corps have too
+much influence as it is, they're trying to worm their way in all over
+the place.  They represent the all-seeing Big Brother, with the potential
+for massive abuse.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jan 1994 18:54:09 -0500
+Subject: What I didn't like (minor Midn
+
+     A few small quibbles with your quibbles:
+ 
+     1) In "Midnight," Sinclair is really not given a chance to show his
+character, since it's basically a reintroduction to the series, and there
+is a lot to cover.  He functions throughout the episode only in his
+official capacity.  In other episodes, you'll get to see some very
+different sides to his character, particular in "Parliament of Dreams."
+ 
+     2) The line, "You're too young to hurt that much," which actually
+is, "You're too young to experience that much pain," isn't from
+"Midnight."  It's from "Infection."
+ 
+     3) I agree, most of the plot lines are tied up pretty well (except
+for the telepath issue introduced at the end, which comes back at us
+again...as does, incidentally, the Raghesh 3 incident and other stuff).
+In responding to some of the criticism of the pilot, I tried to make this
+one far more self-contained.  Which is why I much prefer "Parliament,"
+"Mind War" and "Soul Hunter" over "Midnight."
+ 
+     4) Yes, Vir is very obsequious in "Midnight."  That's done in order
+to give his character somewhere to go, as gradually he begins to stand up
+to Londo and talk back.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jan 1994 22:07:16 -0500
+Subject: Re: Psis and Trials [was Re: B
+
+     A telepath is allowed to function neither way, to scan someone to
+determine he's innocent, or to act as accuser.  You mention the pilot,
+but *in* the pilot, Lyta didn't scan Sinclair.  She scanned a *victim*
+of a potential crime.  She was not asked to go in and look for the
+killer, she was asked to find out how the poison got into Kosh's
+system.  A telepath can do this.  (A telepath can, on some situations,
+also scan a victim unable to testify for physical reasons to find out
+who did the act, as I said before, **BUT** that must still be backed up
+with physical evidence, you can't just take the telepath's word for it,
+there MUST be physical evidence.)
+ 
+     All of which is why, in the pilot, it was *also* stipulated that
+the information gained was "inadmissible" (in Kyle's testimony).
+ 
+     There are a lot of reasons why this has been worked out to within an
+inch of its life, none of which I can comment on yet.  (The other aspect
+of all this that has to be borne in mind is that a LOT of people, many of
+them important, do NOT like the Psi Corps, don't *trust* the Psi Corps,
+and are actively against them extending their power.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jan 1994 22:09:17 -0500
+Subject: Re: Psis and Trials
+
+     The point you raise is very valid.  People forget the privacy issue
+as being very important.  (That's one problem I have with Troi, I'll have
+to grudgingly admit; there she goes, intruding into anybody's and
+everybody's mind without even so much as a by-your-leave, including
+aliens they've just met, as well as humans.  Mind your own business.)
+ 
+     One other element to consider in all of this is real simple: at the
+time in question, it's possible to alter one's memories.  (Remember,
+Sinclair is missing 24 hours from his memory.)  One can blank certain
+memories.  So it's possible that a person who committed a murder might
+pay big bucks to have that memory wiped.  Then you have to be sure to
+find a telepath who's good enough to see the "seams" (for lack of a
+better term) in the person's memory to know it's been modified.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jan 1994 22:21:44 -0500
+Subject: STTNGvs.B5 sociopolitical ramb
+
+     Your assumptions regarding the differences between the two
+universes, and our political/social setup, are quite correct.  We've taken
+the idea of a planetary government (not necessarily American in nature;
+we've gone back to some older ideas on the operation of a republic) with
+a senate and a President that is not looking to take care of everybody
+else's problems, and has enough problems on its own.  (In fact, at one
+point in the pilot, a Senator tells Sinclair "The Earth Alliance can't
+go around being the galaxy's policeman.")
+ 
+     I read, a long time ago, that what you have to do in a story is to
+get your character up a tree and then start throwing rocks at him.  So
+instead of making everything easy for our characters, I've constructed
+ universe that is *difficult*, where you have to work for everything
+you get, and nobody wants to cooperate unless they have to.  Never
+arbitrarily, though; characters have to have good reasons (or at least
+what they consider good reasons) for what they do.
+ 
+     For me, the process of overcoming a problem is more dramatically
+interesting -- and in a way more positive -- than a universe in which
+all over the problems have already been solved.  I want to show
+characters who have to deal with the same BS as the rest of us, but who
+manage to persevere regardless.
+ 
+                                                         jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jan 1994 23:50:42 -0500
+Subject: Re: STTNGvs.B5 sociopolitical
+
+     Re: your note about humans rolling up their sleeves, eyeing each
+other warily, while also trying to figure out the Outsiders...you've
+just done a very good synopsis of "By Any Means Necessary," which will
+air sometime around our second or third batch of episodes this season
+(batches being measured in sixes).
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Jan 1994 15:40:23 -0500
+Subject: Re: B5 and Trek
+
+     Actually, if you want to verify which came first, there's a very
+simple and easy way to do it that doesn't require taking my word for it.
+1) There's an interview with me in Starlog during the time I was story
+editor on the new Twilight Zone series.  I mention there about having
+been trying to sell a show called Babylon 5 for some time.  Also, I
+slipped a reference to B5 into my second novel, "OtherSyde," published
+around 1991 in hardcover by Dutton.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Jan 1994 15:40:55 -0500
+Subject: Questions on the Series
+
+     Thanks.  I hope that you will find the series bears out your
+optimism.
+ 
+     To your questions: 1) The method of transit is called a Jump Gate.
+2) We're still in the process of drawing up a detailed starmap with the
+distances from B5 to each of our major governments, but we're looking at
+roughly 25 light years from Earth.  3) The Earth/Minbari war lasted
+almost five years.  The terms of surrender were conditional; there was
+to be no reparation.  It was simply a cessation of hostilities.  It was
+not a clear-cut issue of being beaten or doing the beating; it just
+stopped...which left a lot of people feeling about the same way some did
+after Vietnam.  Peace with honor?  Maybe, maybe not.  4) The Earth
+government -- located in Earthdome -- is basically a republic, with
+reps from each nation serving as senators or in other capacities.  5)
+Earth has fougth in some other conflicts, on a smaller scale; prior to
+the Earth/Minbari war, they came to the assistance of the Non-Aligned
+Worlds against a race known as the Dilgar, which devastated whole worlds.
+(You'll see the last survivor of this race in "Deathwalker.")
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Jan 1994 15:41:15 -0500
+Subject: Digital Cards and so forth
+
+     The person responsible for the digital trading cards and the EPK
+is Jim Moloshok, at Warner Bros. marketing.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Jan 1994 15:41:22 -0500
+Subject: TV Guide Rating
+
+     You have your characters confused.  Bill Mumy's character, Lennier,
+is not the station's underground "fixer."  His character is Delenn's
+diplomatic attache, who has lived virtually his whole life within the
+confines of the religious caste, and has now been sent to B5.  The one
+you're thinking of is n'grath, who looks kinda like a 7 foot tall
+praying mantis.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Jan 1994 18:17:05 -0500
+Subject: Heraldry in Star Fury Markings
+
+     There are a number of influences that go into the markings on the
+Starfuries.  (And not all 'furies are so marked; only those that are
+generally used by only one pilot, to whom the ship is assigned.)  We
+took in general the WW II model, where pilots used to decorate their
+craft with nose art to personalize it.  So some of it is of that flavor,
+while others echo more ancient heraldry.  (Ivanova's 'fury has an old
+Russian two-headed eagle in stylized form.)  Yes, again, an attempt to
+connect past, present and future.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Jan 1994 19:08:33 -0500
+Subject: Re: Earth Shake!
+
+     The worst part of the quake, really, was that my house was without
+electricity until Midnight Thursday night.  So I'd write (up against a
+real deadline because of the quake) at the office, charge up my notebook
+computer, go home, fire up the notebook, and write scripts by flashlight.
+ 
+     Yikes.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Jan 1994 19:08:54 -0500
+Subject: Re: B5 & Earthquake
+
+     There *are* steps in Harlan's house, in his office leading from the
+pool room below to the second floor office proper.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Jan 1994 06:26:54 -0500
+Subject: Religious vs. Warrior Caste Mi
+
+     The religious and military castes have rarely disagreed on anything,
+until the religious caste ordered the surrender at the Battle of the Line.
+Since then, things have not been proceeding as smoothly....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Jan 1994 06:29:35 -0500
+Subject: Skeptical about B5 (I
+
+     "one's an apple, the other's an orange."
+ 
+     I've got dibs on the apple.
+ 
+     Regards to Eve.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+     ("One's an apple.  The other's an orange.  Together, they fight
+crime.")
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Jan 1994 06:34:49 -0500
+Subject: Time Between Movie and Series
+
+     Approximately nine months have passed since the time of the pilot and
+the birth of the series.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Jan 1994 06:39:05 -0500
+Subject: "Midnight" and the council (No
+
+     The Babylon 5 Advisory Council and the League of Non-Aligned Worlds
+functions in much the same fashion as the Security Council and the General
+Assembly in the U.N.  The smaller worlds and alliances can't weild as much
+power as any of the Big Five.  Together, they as a group get a vote equal
+to one of the Big Five; they can deputize one of their number to speak for
+them and cast that vote, which can often break ties or create ties.  It is
+not a terribly equitible situation, but it was the only workable solution
+that would be accepted by the other Ambassadors.  We'll see them chafing
+at this in "Deathwalker."
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jan 1994 02:04:50 -0500
+Subject: B5: Universe Today Babylon 5 E
+
+     Just a minor correctin: B5 did not miss even *one* day of filming
+due to the quake.  We gave everyone the option of staying home, but they
+wanted to come in...so we were shooting first thing Tuesday morning
+(Monday, remember, was a holiday).
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jan 1994 02:15:20 -0500
+Subject: Firearms
+
+     B5 doesn's have tractor beams; for the most part, they don't exist
+in Earth tech of 2258, though other species might have them.  (There are
+differences in tech between races.)  I'd rather not say too much about
+B5's defense system until you see it in action later this season.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jan 1994 02:18:58 -0500
+Subject: Delenn's gender?
+
+     Delenn was originally going to be a fairly sexually-ambiguous
+character...a male character, played by a female, with a computer altered
+voice...but we couldn't make the alteration sound good enough to satisfy
+us, so we left her a her.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jan 1994 02:18:58 -0500
+Subject: Re: STTNGvs.B5 sociopolitical
+
+     Yes, "Demon Night," published in hardcover by Dutton (and later
+nominated for a Bram Stoker Award) was my first published novel.  My second
+novel was "OtherSyde," also from Dutton.  Writing novels gave me the
+foundation I needed to really outline and prepare B5 as a novel-for-TV.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jan 1994 02:23:57 -0500
+Subject: Earth government
+
+     The status of the Mars Colony is in considerable debate in B5's
+time.  It's chafing under the EA's tight controls.  I wouldn't be
+surprised to see it try to secede at some point....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jan 1994 02:29:50 -0500
+Subject: Fighters
+
+     There are other kinds of fighters; it's a question of what's intended
+for use where.  The Raider ships, and the Narn heavy fighters, are both
+atmospheric and non-atmospheric ships.  Some fighters, such as B5's
+Starfuries, the Drazi Sunhawk, the Ipsha Battleglobe and others (you'll
+see the latter two in "Deathwalker") are configured only for non-atmosphere
+activities, and have different configurations.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jan 1994 02:31:57 -0500
+Subject: Re: alt.Babylon-5.creative
+
+     If story ideas start appearing on this group, I'll have to
+withdraw.  It ain't something I like saying, because I know how it sounds,
+but that's the reality of it, in this very, very litigious society.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jan 1994 05:54:29 -0500
+Subject: Re: Midnight...  questions  (S
+
+     And the action *doesn't* always happen conveniently located to a
+jump gate.  Sometimes, it can take *hours* or even days to get to where a
+ship or other object is located.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jan 1994 05:56:23 -0500
+Subject: Re: Card #15 error
+
+     Note: Insofar as I know, Warners has only released *10* .gif trading
+cards.  It's altogether possible that this #15 is bogus.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jan 1994 19:26:06 -0500
+Subject: ID of someone in Making of...
+
+     The fellow to whom you refer is John Copeland, one of our producers
+on B5.  We've got a John Copeland, a John Iacovelli, a John Johnston, a
+John Radulovic...we've got Johns all over the place on this show, oddly
+enough.  (Though you can never have enough johns, I suppose....)  And just
+as oddly, only one Joe.  Go figure.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jan 1994 19:33:52 -0500
+Subject: Finally! A sig!
+
+     By all means, use the sig, with my blessings.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jan 1994 20:45:42 -0500
+Subject: Re: alt.Babylon-5.creative
+
+     There's a general difference between "it'd be nice to see Garibaldi
+in civvies" as a discussion of things people would like to see in a show,
+and, "okay, Garibaldi is stranded on a planet with a talking moose who
+proceeds to sing show-tunes all night."  The latter is a *story*, and
+that is the thing I have to be careful not to stumble across.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jan 1994 20:48:29 -0500
+Subject: ALIEN DESIGN CONCEPTS
+
+      We're taking the position that some things might look similar to
+Earth life, but others won't.  n'grath has a fairly traditional insectoid
+look, but that is so pervasive here that it's a good chance it'll work
+out there.  On the other hand, the pak'ma'ra, which you'll get a good look
+at in "Legacies," are *quite* different from earth critters.  The basic
+problem, of course, is that all we have as a frame of reference, in
+reality, is Earth stuff; we haven't yet seen real alien life.  So
+anything we come up with is in some way, however distorted, based on what
+we can conceive of.  This is limited by experience.  This is the problem
+on ANY level in dealing with aliens.  Whatever we conceive will never be
+a fraction of what the reality would be.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jan 1994 20:49:07 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Earthquake, Budget, e
+
+     If someone wants to put the V material on the site, I have no
+objections.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jan 1994 20:51:10 -0500
+Subject: Re: Starfury specs?
+
+     Yes, you will see space craft carriers in at least one episode, if
+not more, this season.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jan 1994 22:54:00 -0500
+Subject: Bill Mumy
+
+     Bill Mumy makes his appearance in "Parliament of Dreams," but under
+contract the credit appears in all episodes produced.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jan 1994 23:00:15 -0500
+Subject: Re: ST vs B5 thematic musings
+
+     We'll be taking all KINDS of approaches to ship battles....
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Jan 1994 02:12:42 -0500
+Subject: Budget Cuts Too Obvious ...
+
+     I really don't know what you mean by budget cuts affecting the
+points you mention.  If we'd wanted to save money, we would've left the
+prosthetics and other design elements the same as in the pilot.  But
+after doing the pilot, we looked at the makeup designs for Delenn and
+G'Kar and decided we didn't much like the way they came out, and set out
+-- at considerable cost -- to redo them.  We did new life-casts, hired
+new people to re-sculpt the alien headpieces, and went to a somewhat
+more expensive variety of Delenn's headpiece.  As for G'Kar's makeup
+being a bit "thinner," that's because we went to a finer mask, which
+tears more easily, has to be replaced more often, at greater cost...but
+which gives the actor a LOT more freedom of expression.  To make a thick
+mask is a LOT less expensive than a thin one.
+ 
+     We changed things, yes...but out of personal preference.  Same with
+the observation dome, where we added an office for Sinclair, did the
+same with medlab for Franklin...you may or may not agree with a change,
+but please don't assume automatically that budget was involved when in fact
+it was not.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Jan 1994 04:13:14 -0500
+Subject: Re: CRITICAL COMMENTS: "Midnig
+
+     You're correct in your appraisal of the "coincidences" in the
+first episode.  Upon finding that Londo's nephew was there, they would
+of course trot him out to try and undermine Londo's credibility (you'll
+note that G'Kar made special mention of this, as if to say, "Is the
+Centauri ambassador calling his own nephew a liar?").  It'd be the same
+thing if the son of an American ambassador was on-hand when hostages
+were taken.
+ 
+     As for the choice of the attack's location...Londo wanted his nephew
+"far away from all this."  Someplace safe.  A fairly safe, mundane place
+is not going to have a major military presence...and hence is a perfect
+target for attack.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Jan 1994 08:49:12 -0500
+Subject: Query for JMS about "Making of
+
+     I spoke about the 5-year plan when they did the interview with me
+for the "Making Of" piece.  Why it didn't end up in it is anybody's
+guess....
+ 
+     Not glitzy enough, I guess.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Jan 1994 18:24:00 -0500
+Subject: Re: ALIEN DESIGN CONCEPTS
+
+     It's interesting you mention the floaters as being something "totally
+different from any Earth lifeform," because according to what Sagan said
+at an appearance, they're based to a large degree on jellyfish, combined
+to some degree (in terms of eating habits) with whales.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Jan 1994 18:27:04 -0500
+Subject: Re: ALIEN DESIGN CONCEPTS
+
+     Okay, but now, the only problem is...let's say we take your advice,
+and build an alien around the design of an oyster.  Now we have Sinclair
+having a converstion with an oyster.  Can you *imagine* the audience
+reaction?  Some things sound nice in theory, but when you build it, and
+try to play it for drama...it ends up very, very badly.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Jan 1994 01:46:52 -0500
+Subject: Midnight: thoughts...
+
+     Just a note...re: the CGI looking crisp and unblurred...the blurring
+you're used to seeing is an artifact of atmosphere.  There is no air in
+space, and thus no blurring.  (Check the latest NASA footage for more on
+this.)  That's of course why they put Hubble in space, to avoid the
+problems of blurring caused by atmosphere.
+ 
+     We probably could've put in atmospheric blurring to give it a
+different depth-of-field, but we have this bugaboo about being a
+-science- fiction show....
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Jan 1994 03:13:08 -0500
+Subject: EVIL HUMANS? (will there be?)
+
+     There are *plenty* of humans in B5's universe who are on the dark
+side of things, take my word for it.  I don't subscribe to the "we're nice
+'cause we're humans" philosophy.  You'll see 'em all over the show as the
+episodes pass.
+ 
+     It seems to me that generally in such shows, all the interesting
+things happen to aliens, are caused by aliens.  I like a show where you
+have interesting things happen to interesting humans, good, bad and
+indifferent.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Jan 1994 05:03:52 -0500
+Subject: Re: Midnight: thoughts... AND
+
+     Quick responses: Re the spotlights, we'd figured that since the
+transport had been freshly attacked, there'd be debris all over the
+place, and lots of particulate matter which would show up in the light.
+Re: the council...I tend to agree.  The prosthetics on our background
+aliens and the League started out okay, but we felt we could do better,
+and began a series of improvements, which can be seen most clearly in
+"Deathwalker," where they're all proper prosthetics rather than masks.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Jan 1994 07:03:54 -0500
+Subject: Re: Budget Cuts Too Obvious ..
+
+     Your tastes are your tastes.  You don't like something, fine, but
+that doesn't make it "dreck."  I like Delenn's makeup a LOT more now than
+in the pilot.  To me, it looks a lot more like what a Minbari SHOULD look
+like (and as it happens, there's only one person who can make that
+particular call).  I'm sorry you don't like it.  But dreck it ain't.  I
+think it's *very* elegant.  Tastes differ.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Jan 1994 01:31:29 -0500
+Subject: Question for JMS about Making
+
+     Sigh...no, there's no eye in the jump gate in our show.  The people
+who made the ads put it in, god knows why....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jan 1994 01:32:28 -0500
+Subject: Questions
+
+     I have no firm information, but would be surprised if B5 doesn't
+appear Down Under toward late summer/early fall.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jan 1994 02:49:06 -0500
+Subject: _Midnight..._ comments [Minor
+
+     That the Centauri *claimed* that we were a lost colony is not the
+same as indicating that we *believed* them.
+ 
+     As for the Narns...yes, they are portrayed in a favorable light in
+many episodes, from "By Any Means" to "Chrysalis" and "Mind War," to name
+but a few.  Nobody is just one thing on this show.  Not nobody, not
+nohow.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jan 1994 07:07:10 -0500
+Subject: Re: B5 review in Cleveland Pla
+
+     The problem, of course, is that any space-oriented SF series is
+going to be compared against Trek...which has 25 years of shared history
+behind it.  One episode, or even two of a new series simply cannot
+compete with 25 years.  Some critics observed that after seeing the B5
+pilot, they don't know as much about our characters as they know about
+Spock and Kirk.  Well, no...come back in 25 years and then we'll talk.
+ 
+     If you spend the time to do lots of character stuff, you get gigged
+for being slow and plodding (as happened in the pilot); if you go for a
+story with more action, they gig you for putting action above
+characterization.  This first episode has received *both* complaints; some
+said it was all action, some said there was no action.
+ 
+     You can get dizzy after a while....
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jan 1994 07:07:54 -0500
+Subject: Re: V Material
+
+     No, the info on the future history of Power was mainly in my head
+and Larry DiTillio's head, not written down.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jan 1994 07:43:06 -0500
+Subject: JMS:  Did you expect this?
+
+    I'm hesitant to get into the question of critics, and why they say
+what they say, because obviously anything I say is going to proceed from
+an agenda, and a certain bias on my part.  So if we accept that going in,
+then I suppose I can speculate a little....
+ 
+     As has been pointed out here by others, SF television has a history
+of getting crummy reviews.  I haven't seen one SF show, however good or
+bad, that didn't start out getting *creamed* by reviewers.  Some of the
+TNG original reviews that've been posted here are a hell of a lot worse
+than most of what the critics have said about us.  The majority of them
+do not like SF, don't care for SF, don't understand SF, and want to stick
+it in a pigeon hole, "Oh, it's like this."  What they don't recognize,
+they try to make fit their preconceptions...or they pan it.
+ 
+     Also, there's the issue of pride.  A lot of critics are (now) saying
+that TNG is this wonderful show (where once they derided it).  Same with
+DS9, and that everything else is crap.  Anything that might be perceived
+by them as a threat *to their published opinion* is something that they
+will attack.
+ 
+     Mind, I'm separating out those who might not particularly like the
+show from those who are going out of their way to assassinate the series
+before it even gets going.  I'd point to the USA Today review that just
+came out as emblematic of that approach.  He says that yes, it might get
+the ratings, it might succeed, but you should in essence be ashamed if
+that happens.  People have targeted this show with *incredible* vehemence
+bordering on character assassination.
+ 
+     I'd separate this out from some reviews that've come in, in the LA
+Times, and Hollywood Reporter, that didn't gush, that raised concerns,
+some of which I agree with.  They were actual analyses of the show, it's
+strengths and weaknesses, which are helpful, I think, to us and to the
+viewer.  I've *been* a reviewer, and I'm sorry, but the equivilent of
+"IT SUCKS" isn't a review.  It's a Beavis line.
+ 
+     Beyond that, deponent sayeth not.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Jan 1994 04:47:30 -0500
+Subject: Questions for JMS (some spoile
+
+     Quick replies to your questions: Spoo is.  What else can one say
+about spoo?
+ 
+     Those running B5 are a branch of what was/will be Earthforce Air
+Force/Air Command.  To reach a certain command level requires piloting
+experience, preferably under combat situations.
+ 
+     That was a Centauri weapon.
+ 
+     The scanners on the Starfuries detected no movement, no atmosphere,
+no signals, no warmth of bodies.
+ 
+     The Centauri station actually was rotating, as I recall, it's the
+camera angle that I believe doesn't showcase it as well as it might.
+ 
+     The lights on the fighters during the examination of the rubble
+were visible due to particulate matter spewed out during and after the
+attack.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Jan 1994 05:27:07 -0500
+Subject: Question to JMS (was Excellent
+
+     Okay, here are my favorites, in order, of the first six episodes
+to air: 1) "The Parliament of Dreams," 2) "Mind War," 3) "Soul
+Hunter," 4) "Midnight on the Firing Line," 5) "Born to the Purple,"
+6) "Infection."
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Jan 1994 05:47:28 -0500
+Subject: B5: "Midnight on the Firing Li
+
+     Just two quickies: 1) you *did* see somebody pay for a drink; in
+the bar at the end, Ivanova clicks her drink with her credit chit, which
+is used to pay for stuff (you'll see them used in more detail down the
+road).  2) you mention that Londo had evidence he didn't use...what was
+that?  Not the recorder, because by this time the Narna have admitted
+that they used force, but have couched it in the terms that they were
+invited in (the way the Germans were supposedly "invited" into some of
+the countries they invaded).
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Jan 1994 20:12:43 -0500
+Subject: Re: 10 Things JMS did...
+
+     Just for purposes of clarification, I am *not* a member of the NRA,
+or any similar organization.
+ 
+	                                                     jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Jan 1994 11:50:14 -0500
+Subject: Re: Babylon-5 Review in NEWSDA
+
+     "I just couldn't help think of only one thing: Curly of the Three
+Stooges with his finger in a socket."
+ 
+     Interesting.  Curly is/was bald.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Jan 1994 15:15:33 -0500
+Subject: Reaction of the Council. Spoil
+
+     It's interesting what we can read into faces...in Delenn's reaction,
+I saw concern, angst, but not that she believed the story.  That certainly
+wasn't the intent of the scene, or the script...faces are interesting
+things.  As for the rest, you're right; not everyone wants to do the Right
+Thing For The Right Reasons.  Some would prefer not to get involved.  So
+some might want deniability, want a reason not to go up against the
+Narns, or have sold out their votes.  A human looking at that screen
+could tell that the person was being coerced...but what about the other
+alien races, to whom a downcast face could be a sign of joy?  In any
+event, suspicion is one thing, but *proof* is another, and the legal
+system works on *proof*.  Nothing could be done until they had the proof
+that Sinclair got at the end, and chose to use behind closed doors to
+the same effect.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Jan 1994 23:39:26 -0500
+Subject: Congratulations on Midnight! (
+
+     That's terrific, I'm glad you enjoyed it.  And as you note, there's
+even spiffier stuff coming right down the pike....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Jan 1994 11:46:43 -0500
+Subject: REVIEW: Midnight on the Firing
+
+     Thank you for the good words.  We're really trying.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
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+===========================================================================
+| This text is compiled from posts by J. Michael Straczynski on the Usenet 
+| group alt.tv.babylon-5.  This document contains material Copyright 1994
+| J. Michael Straczynski.  He has given permission for his words to be 
+| redistributed online, as long as they are marked as being copyright JMS.
+| This document, as well as other Babylon-5 related material, is available
+| by anonymous FTP at ftp.hyperion.com.
+===========================================================================
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Feb 1994 04:14:51 -0500
+Subject: Scientific nit-picking
+
+     Your description of Earth Standard Time (EST) is fairly accurate.
+RE: the Raider ships...they turned by a less effective system of thrusters
+put in here and there, not nearly as powerful as the systems used by the
+Starfuries.  The reason -- verifiable by the shape of the Raider ships --
+is that Raider ships are handicapped by the fact that they're made to
+function both in space *and* within an atmosphere (hence the aerodynamic
+wing shapes), which gives it something of a problem when dealing with the
+Starfuries, which are made ONLY for fighting in space, and are most
+ideally suited to it.  The Raider ships make compromises for greater
+utility, which is generally okay unless they run into superior forces of
+ships designed for spaceborne combat.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Feb 1994 04:17:14 -0500
+Subject: Midnight Impressions (Possible
+
+     The quote is correct.  And thanks for the feedback, and glad you
+enjoyed the show.  I think it's going to be quite a ride....
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Feb 1994 04:32:40 -0500
+Subject: Re: CRITICAL COMMENTS: "Midnig
+
+     We did the title sequence in letterbox as a partial nod to the fact
+that we're shooting the series in that aspect ratio, though for now only
+the regular portion is being broadcast.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Feb 1994 04:35:18 -0500
+Subject: *SPOILERS*: MOTFL Episode guid
+
+     My suggestion: classify "Soul Hunter" under "Suspense."
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Feb 1994 06:09:58 -0500
+Subject: query to JMS.......
+
+     I don't believe in monolithic aliens who all talk exactly alike,
+with the same accents, any more than I believe in humans who all talk
+exactly alike. Hence, the difference between Vir and Londo.
+ 
+     When they're together in their quarters, they're talking in Centauri,
+which we hear as English, as in WW II movies, the Germans are obviously
+talking to each other in German, but we hear it in English.  (The only
+other alternative is to subtitle whole lengthy segments of the show, which
+is both unworkable, awkward, and unfair to blind viewers.)
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Feb 1994 06:10:51 -0500
+Subject: sinclair piloting a fighter in
+
+     You'll get a pretty good glimpse into why Sinclair jumps into a
+fighter any chance he can get in "Infection."  Part of it is to escape
+from stuff...the other goes much deeper, and much darker....
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Feb 1994 07:42:38 -0500
+Subject: Re: +/- Review: Midnight (SPOI
+
+     The whole idea of Talia calling the Psi Corps and having Ivanova
+removed for not liking her is, as you state, utterly absurd.  Life is
+like this...sometimes people don't get along.  What do you do, call the
+cops?
+ 
+     Second, Talia works for the Psi Corps, which is a *civilian*
+organization regulated by the government (though it certainly makes it
+(its) pretensions to military in dress and attitude).  Ivanova is a
+military officer.  A civilian has no authority over that.  The Psi Corps
+does not issue orders to the Earthforce Military.
+ 
+     The problem that I see so often, with some exceptions, is that people
+haven't stopped to think things through.  They think, "Well, they should
+just be able to go in and make things right."  Wrong.  This not only
+doesn't happen in real life, it doesn't happen in 99% of all fiction.
+It is an ST artifact that doesn't touch reality at any two contiguous
+points.
+ 
+     Just about half of the questions raised could be answered with a
+little thought, such as this one.  Similarly, the "Why didn't the Council
+see that Carn Mollari was being forced to read the statement, and act,"
+without stopping to consider a) that not all aliens read human
+expressions properly or well, b) suspicion isn't the same thing as
+proof, c) the smaller worlds would be loathe to take on the Narns, and
+d-f, which I'll list another time.  The attitude again is, "Well, this
+is *obviously* what's right, so they should do it."  People rarely do
+what is obviously right...and sometimes when they *do*, it's for the
+wrong reasons.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Feb 1994 07:45:23 -0500
+Subject: Re: Opening Narration
+
+     The rotating narrator thing was something that I mentioned en
+passant at the LosCon screening of "Midnight."  What I noted was that I
+was considering rotating the narrators each season; Londo for the pilot;
+Sinclair for year one; Ivanova for year two; Garibaldi for year three;
+G'Kar for year four; and Delenn for year five.  Haven't decided yet if
+I'm going to do it or not....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Feb 1994 18:49:49 -0500
+Subject: PRESSURE SUITS:  COOL!!
+
+     Actually, as you'll see in "Sky," sometimes the Good Guys *do* get
+their ships hit; sometimes they blow up and kill the person (as you will
+see), and sometimes they do damage without destroying the ship, in which
+case there is an eject mechanism that separates the cockpit part from
+the rest of the fighter, which contains the volatile reactors.
+ 
+      So in those circumstances, a flight suit is a *very* good idea....
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Feb 1994 18:50:33 -0500
+Subject: WILL WE VISIT ANY PLANETS?
+
+     We will be visiting a planet in the two parter, "A Voice in the
+Wilderness."
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Feb 1994 18:51:00 -0500
+Subject: Re: Midnight Comments (*SPOILE
+
+     The inconsistency you mention is not an inconsistency.  One fighter
+is always kept in lowered, launch-position when the others are out, so
+that it's ready to drop at a moment's notice.  The fighter you saw was
+moving into standby position in case needed quickly.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Feb 1994 18:58:14 -0500
+Subject: Transportation on Earth in the
+
+     There are *definitely* no transporters in the B5 universe.
+ 
+	                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Feb 1994 19:00:09 -0500
+Subject: Series premier thoughts (some
+
+     Just a quick note re: the idea of sending B5 ships out to safeguard
+all incoming ships...can't really be done.  There are only a very small
+number of fighters (comparatively speaking) on B5, and a *LOT* of ships
+coming in on a daily basis.  Once they're through the last gate, to B5,
+they're safe.  But there are gates in between, where they're vulnerable.
+ You'd have to safeguard the whole galaxy, practically.  Can't be done.
+ 
+	                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Feb 1994 19:06:27 -0500
+Subject: MOTFL's Title
+
+     "Midnight on the Firing Line" as a title was more my feelings about
+the episode and the series.  I knew we'd come under considerable fire,
+figured it was cool.
+ 
+	                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Feb 1994 21:10:07 -0500
+Subject: MOTFL Credits...
+
+      There are definitely more credits at the end of the episode; the
+station is NOT alloweed to cut credits like that.  They should be put on
+notice.  Call them, and tell us who did it.
+ 
+	                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Feb 1994 21:21:19 -0500
+Subject: Re: BABYLON 5 To Include Gay/B
+
+    I have not *made* a big issue out of this, and do not intend to do
+so.  In addition, when a certain characteristic is revealed in someone,
+it won't be in the center of a story or made into a treatise because at
+the time of our story it *isn't* an issue anymore, any more than being
+left or right handed.  No one frankly cares.  And it will not be given
+any more weight than that.  It will be treated fairly off-handedly.
+ 
+     A note to those who have taken up this issue to popularize it: there
+is a Monty Python sketch called "The Value of Not Being Seen."  Those
+who've seen it will get the reference.  To the rest...until something is
+done in a show, particularly something along these lines, it's best to
+keep a fairly subdued profile, because if people start getting hincky
+about something before we've shown how something is actually going to be
+handled -- with taste, discretion and subtlty -- it might cause some folks
+to bring pressure *not* to do it.
+ 
+     Let's all do one thing at a time...and let me do this according to
+the schedule that's set out for this.  Don't jump the gun.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Feb 1994 06:06:55 -0500
+Subject: Babylon 5 Writers Guide Re: Mi
+
+     Your pyramid of something happens, it's critical, confrontation,
+resolution, is not something *bad* in shows...it happens to be universal
+dramatic structure.  Introduction of the problem, rising action, climax,
+and denouement.  If you don't think this is appropriate, then you are
+dismissing literally 95% of all literature, all movies, ever created in
+the history of mankind.  So B5 meets the standards applied to literature.
+I don't see a problem here.
+ 
+     The rest of your note is little more than specious and petty.  And I
+would defy you to find *any* way to categorize "The Parliament of Dreams"
+by this breakdown.  Is there anything that you would *not* just go ahead
+and classify as a soap opera device?  From your list, anything you decide
+is soap opera goes on the list.
+ 
+     Specious and petty.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Feb 1994 06:08:28 -0500
+Subject: Re: Question to JMS (was Excel
+
+     Yeah, I keep flip-flopping on "Purple" and "Midnight" for the number
+4 and 5 spots...they're prety close.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Feb 1994 16:04:48 -0500
+Subject: Re: About the RFD Process
+
+     Since you raised the question about the explosion of messages...I
+have a small suggestion.  Right now, when I log onto GEnie and get the
+alt messages in my email via the Internet gateway, there are now about
+200+ messages a day.  I do read them all, but it's going to get a lot
+busier.
+ 
+     If there is a message out there by someone that requires a response,
+or is a specific question for me, if you could begin the note with JMS,
+in the subject header, I'll know to read that one first.  Others may have
+to sit in the box for a day or so until I can do a massive read.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Feb 1994 14:47:29 -0500
+Subject: Question about Kosh for JMS
+
+     Correct, Christopher Franke designed Kosh's voice.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Feb 1994 14:51:42 -0500
+Subject: New GIFs
+
+     BTW, have named an Earth Alliance Cruiser Hyperion, in notation of
+the library....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Feb 1994 15:10:07 -0500
+Subject: Question re Earth Alliance
+
+     You are correct in that the Earth Alliance consists in the main of
+humans.  Aliens are generally not integrated into the system, except in
+very low-level stuff.  (In some bronze-tech worlds where humans have come
+in and pulled an India/England relationship, you may have colonial
+governors who are native aliens, but are basically puppets.)  There's
+more than just Mars, Earth and the Sol colonies; there are a number of
+other worlds and systems out there into which Earth has made a dent.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Feb 1994 15:10:17 -0500
+Subject: Re: Pain in the butt?
+
+     "...at least it has a fricative."
+ 
+     HEY!
+ 
+     Watch that kind of language.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Feb 1994 15:11:11 -0500
+Subject: Re: USA Today Review--Londo is
+
+     Re: Londo as a romantic character...bless your heart.  You are the
+first to have nailed it absolutely on the head.  If I had to write a
+description of the character, I doubt I could have done any better than
+what you just wrote.  There are a *lot* of episodes that bring this out
+in him, including the next one up, "Born to the Purple," which I suspect
+will end virtually all of the hair jokes once and for all.
+ 
+     Anyway...yes, and thank you, that's it *precisely*.
+ 
+	                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Feb 1994 15:11:12 -0500
+Subject: Re: Centauri Hair??? (attn: JM
+
+     Generally speaking, yes, hair = status.  Very peacock-ian (to coin a
+phrase).  Certainly, you could wear your hair longer than your status
+permits, but it's like pretending to a status you don't have, which is
+viewed as pathetic.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Feb 1994 15:31:16 -0500
+Subject: My personal review of the B5 p
+
+     Sinclair's line, "Cut accelleration," was in regards to forward
+momentum, so he could more easily spin the fighter around.
+ 
+	                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Feb 1994 16:59:51 -0500
+Subject: Midnight on the Firing Li
+
+     Thanks.  What you say is correct; we have to look to the past, and
+determine its influence, and either learn from it, or be destroyed by
+it.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Feb 1994 17:04:46 -0500
+Subject: Millenial...?
+
+     The turn of the century with B5's conclusion is coincidence.
+ 
+     Mostly.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Feb 1994 17:05:07 -0500
+Subject: BABYLON 5 PILOT EPISODE ON CFT
+
+     Most B5 viewers that I've heard from call themselves Fivers, when
+they identify themselves as anything other than what they are, people of
+infinite taste and sensibility....
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Feb 1994 17:05:17 -0500
+Subject: MOTFL's title (was Re: Musings
+
+     Ah, another Chapin fan.  Yes, I definitely love his work, albet
+there is, sadly, not nearly enough of it.  Also Billy Joel, Indigo Girls,
+everything except country.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Feb 1994 17:11:04 -0500
+Subject: TV Guide advertisments?
+
+     Local ads are placed by local stations, not Warners.  If there's no
+ad in your local TV Guide edition, the problem lay with the local station.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Feb 1994 17:11:42 -0500
+Subject: Centauri Precognition and Mili
+
+     Re: precog and Centauri...here, as best I can recall, is exactly
+what I wrote for Londo: "My people, we have a way, you see...we know how,
+and *SOMETIMES* even *when* we are going to die...."
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Feb 1994 17:14:34 -0500
+Subject: Questions for JMS
+
+     Starfuries dock in the central docking bay, are repaired, prepped
+and lowered into the cobra bays.  And yes, you'll see this.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Feb 1994 17:58:42 -0500
+Subject: Midnight Complaints?
+
+     To have a station commander *and* a rep for Earth can be cumbersome
+in many ways, when someone has to give orders.  It's cleaner this way;
+and no different than any of the sailing vessels of the 18th century and
+before, when each captain was viewed as, and expected to perform as, the
+official representative of his country.
+ 
+     There is, however, a second agenda at work here, which you'll find
+out about a bit in "Raiding Party."
+ 
+     Re: Sinclair taking risks...watch "Infection" and its tag.  As for
+jumping in a fighter every show...no, that we don't do.  Of the 17 or
+so episodes we've shot to date, Sinclair only goes out in a fighter in
+maybe 3 episodes.  Ivanova, Garibaldi, or other fighter pilots go out
+elsewhere.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Feb 1994 18:01:53 -0500
+Subject: questions...
+
+     The item on the back of Sinclair's hand is a Link, which is their
+personal communications system/powerbook/mainframe access system/pager.
+ 
+     The blue and green painting on the Starfury is probably the Sea
+Witch, a personal design.  The stylized EA seen on the wings, and on the
+EA command staff, is the Earth Alliance symbol.  (The EA silhouette is
+then altered within the lines to accommodate different divisions, command
+with a crosshatching, security with a gun sight, and so on.)
+ 
+     No comment.
+ 
+     Some alien fonts, yes.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Feb 1994 18:10:48 -0500
+Subject: Re: Musings from my Garden. SP
+
+     Here's what I find curious (not necessarily in direct response to
+anything you said, but in general on this topic)...is that when Ivanova
+makes her remark to Garibaldi about snapping his hands off at the
+wrists, many people have assumed that she was insulting him, berating
+him, being bitchy, truly disliking and threatening him.
+ 
+     But the same words, put in the mouth of another male, wouldn't have
+drawn that reaction, and would've been classified under, "kidding
+around" or affable sarcasm.
+ 
+     Which is exactly what it is in this case.  In this place and this
+time, they're comfortable enough to mess with each other without it being
+taken seriously (among these characters, that is).  There are times they
+kinda like to phuque with each other a bit, just for the hell of it, as
+comrades will sometimes do.  ("Babylon Squared" has a great example of
+Sinclair and Garibaldi messing with Ivanova.)
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Feb 1994 20:35:26 -0500
+Subject: nit-picking, my 2 cents worth.
+
+     We considered for a while using lots of subtitles, but the problem
+is that this is a fairly dialogue-intensive show, and after about 10
+exchanges of dialogue, it becomes hard to keep up with subtitles.  The
+other problem is that there is a large viewership, particularly in SF
+circles, of blind people, and thus subtitles seemed a bit unfair.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Feb 1994 23:20:38 -0500
+Subject: Starfury launch sequence and m
+
+     Incorrect.  The Starfuries are launched from the rotating part of
+the station.  They're launched from the cobra bays, which are the cobra
+shaped projections alongside the round front of the station, and attached
+to it.  They definitely rotate.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Feb 1994 01:20:44 -0500
+Subject: So when does the merchandising
+
+     Frankly, I'm not in any hurry to see the show merchandised, though
+we're up to our ears in inquiries.  I think it's important, at least in
+the early stages, to keep all that stuff at arm's length.  Otherwise you
+end up in a situation where the tail begins wagging the dog.  Let's make
+the series as good as we can, first, and then worry about the toys later.
+ 
+                                                             jms*
+ 
+     (*who already has his B5 patches, watch, shirt, belt, mug....)
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Feb 1994 21:30:37 -0500
+Subject: Kosh's First Words
+
+     The scene was trimmed for time.  It may show up again later.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Feb 1994 21:46:42 -0500
+Subject: What are those blue fins?
+
+     The blue fins at the back of B5 are, as I recall, for the purpose
+of radiating internal heat out of and from B5.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Feb 1994 06:43:00 -0500
+Subject: Re: Opening Narration
+
+     Nope, "Purple" wasn't moved up to replace "Infection."  The former
+was always scheduled for #3, followed by the latter.  The episodes for
+this first batch were put together to alternate action/character,
+so "Midnight" has lots of action, there's a fair amount in "Soul," so
+we give a break in "Purple."  Then lots of action in "Infection," not as
+much in "Parliament," and "Mind War" is an absolute blow out.
+ 
+     These first six are really very much stand-alones, and fairly
+straightforward.  Starting with "Parliament," we *really* begin to cook,
+though.  The concern was that if we started out too complex, we might
+lose a lot of people.  Better to bring them in gradually.  Starting from
+"Parliament" onward, each episode gets more ambitious as well, in terms
+of character, story, EFX, sets, you name it, to where we've got 3
+stories running in "Mind War," all interesting, all with great
+performances, nifty character moments, and killer EFX.  That's why I've
+made it a point to say, just stick with us for the first six.  If you
+don't like what you see after that...you're not going to.  I don't think
+anyone should support a show just because it's SF.
+ 
+     (Though that's not much of a risk here; I've *seen* "Parliament" and
+"Mind War," y'see....)
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Feb 1994 18:52:28 -0500
+Subject: MOTFL: Mars Colony & G'Kar's f
+
+     Just as an advisory, I'd ask you to be more careful in your
+language, "...makes me wonder if JMS has lifted some ideas and milieu
+from Kim Stanley Robinson's 'Red Mars.'"
+ 
+     I do not "lift" ideas.  My ideas are my own.  The B5 storyline goes
+back 7 years.  There seems to be some conception in the public eye that
+TeeVee folks just sorta go out there, look at books, and start lifting
+things.  This is not only inaccurate, but I find it personally offensive.
+ 
+     Partly because I *know* Kim Stanley Robinson, albeit slightly.
+ 
+     I know you meant no harm, so don't take this as a flame.  I just felt
+that it required a response.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Feb 1994 02:15:55 -0500
+Subject: prejudice in B5(was:Re: BABYLO
+
+     You may perceive "alien" as a negative word.  It is also a correct
+word.  Now, one could refer to them as "atmospherically challenged," or
+"genetically other-abled," or "adhering to DNAlternatives," but among
+humans, talking to one another...they're aliens.  And to them, WE'RE
+aliens.  No, it ain't polite.  Who said it had to be?
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Feb 1994 03:18:46 -0500
+Subject: Replay in LA
+
+     B5 is replayed on Channel 13 at 11 p.m. Sunday nights.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Feb 1994 10:32:56 -0500
+Subject: Clive Revill on next week's ep
+
+      Correct, Clive Revill is in "Born to the Purple" this week.  We've
+actually had a *lot* of quality actors, drawn by the material, in our
+first season: Clive, David McCallum, David Warner, June Lockhart,
+Theodore Bickell, Morgan Shepherd, William Sanderson, Judson Scott and
+Walter Koenig, to name but a few.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Feb 1994 11:59:19 -0500
+Subject: Re: Opening Narration
+
+     So who says that that order was final or official....?
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Feb 1994 12:32:15 -0500
+Subject: Where's JMS
+
+     The Genie/Internnet gateway was down for a few days, hence the
+silence.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Feb 1994 16:35:43 -0500
+Subject: B5 comments (spoilers)
+
+     Just quickie responses: to your charge of sexism -- no female security
+guards, no female pilots -- you've only seen two shows so far.  In further
+episodes, we DO have female security guards, AND female pilots (including
+Ivanova, who goes into combat), AND female doctors (one of whom is
+Hispanic, and plays a major part in an episode), and females in every
+other capacity on board the station.  Virtually every female shown on this
+show has a career, responsibility, and for the most part is as content
+with that career as the men are.
+ 
+     Further, not only are our cast members equally male and female,
+we've taken this *behind* the camera...half or a little over half our crew
+are female, many in non-traditional jobs (traditionally male in Hollywood
+terms, in any event).  It's not just wardrobe and makeup, it's set
+and prop design, set *construction*, editorial, you name it.
+ 
+     As for the militarism needing to be repressed...there are already two
+other shows which feature repressed (or absent) military aspects; let's
+have something a little different.  I don't think all SF shows should look
+and feel alike.
+ 
+     As for the notion that it could use "a little of Trek's humanism,"
+I don't much like the way that's been defined there.  Seems to me that
+that version of "humanism" is placid, unpassionate, orderly and for the
+most part, with some exceptions, bloodless.  To me, humanism means
+embracing our flaws as well as our nobilities, and saying that we don't
+have to shed our basic humanity in order to go to the stars, but that we
+remain *humans*, with all that entails.  And we somehow persevere in SPITE
+of our flaws.  I find the process of overcoming more interesting, and more
+human, than assuming that we've already overcome everything.
+ 
+     The kind of humanism you're referring to isn't humanism, by my book.
+It's "we should all be nice to one another, and nobody should have any
+problems except the ones forced on us by bad guy aliens"...it's humanity
+as written by Barney the Dinosaur.
+ 
+     In any event -- and none of this is directed at you, it's more
+generic woolgathering than anything else -- my feeling is that you've GOT
+two shows already that advance that kind of thinking.  We're not Trek, we
+have no obligation to BE Trek, and if we just do what Trek is doing, what
+is the point?  It just becomes the same old thing.  I didn't fight for
+seven years to get this show on the air, to do Trek's vision of the
+future.
+ 
+     (The funny thing, of course, is that when TNG went on the air, people
+complained roundly about the lack of militarism and action in the show,
+that Picard surrendered too quickly, that it was too passive and too
+let's-all-be-nice.  Now a show that has action and an element of military
+is told that now we have to be like TNG is.  TNG was faulted for not being
+TOS.  We're faulted for not being TNG.  This stuff goes 'round and 'round.
+ The series will find its niche.)
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Feb 1994 05:33:28 -0500
+Subject: Soul Hunter -- B+ / D (Spoiler
+
+     When you say that you don't understand how the small thrust of the
+coffin could've carried it away from the statino since "anything
+released from the statin must also be in orbit," I can't help but wonder
+how closely you were paying attention.  A shuttle leaves B5, and moves
+well away from the station, and the coffin is launched from the shuttle,
+NOT from B5.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Feb 1994 12:02:25 -0500
+Subject: Music change from Gathering to
+
+     Copeland decided he wanted to tour, and do another album.  That
+kinda took care of doing this season.  And in the long run, it's worked
+out well, because Christopher Franke has in many ways, I think, far
+exceeded what Stewart did for us, good as that was.  There's some killer
+stuff coming, very aggressive, very moving and powerful.  His piece for
+"And the Sky Full of Stars," -Requiem for the Line-, is brilliant, sad,
+emotional, brave...just nifty.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Feb 1994 13:07:08 -0500
+Subject: Re: Midnight: thoughts...
+
+     Actually, only a portion of the music for any given episode of B5
+consists of synthesized music.  Much of it is performed by Christopher's
+orchestra in Berlin, which is hooked via digital lines to his studio here
+in town.  Not all, certainly, but more than you might think is from that
+live orchestra.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Feb 1994 16:11:59 -0500
+Subject: Re: Thoughts on why some "just
+
+     Your theory that the two different internal-mind views are
+inconsistent is, of course, *entirely* contingent upon the assumption
+that all minds work -- human and alien alike -- work the same way, see
+themselves in the same way, perceive the world around them and their part
+in that world in exactly the same way.
+ 
+     And, of course, if all minds thought exactly the same...we wouldn't
+be having this disagreement about inconsistency, yes?
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Feb 1994 00:55:55 -0500
+Subject: teeny problem with soul hunter
+
+     There *is* a beep there; it's just soft.  We learned after making
+that episode that some stations crunch down the sound a bit, dropping the
+highs.  We later bumped up the lows to make it more apparent.  It can be
+heard in most stations, unless they crunch the sound.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Feb 1994 00:56:11 -0500
+Subject: Ivanavah is my hero
+
+     I like Ivanova as well; she's got a very sly, very *sharp*
+intelligence going there.  She can deadpan you and whap you upside the
+head with a comment delivered almost as an aside, or an afterthought.
+It's the difference between wit and humor.  She doesn't tell jokes, but
+she's got a great sense of wit.
+ 
+	                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Feb 1994 00:59:40 -0500
+Subject: soul hunter, ferengis & fired
+
+     First, I'm not "star trekkin" anyone re: the translation on the soul
+hunter (not needing a machine).  He *has* been to earth.  Whether or not
+I have the opportunity down the road to get into this, that happens to
+be the truth within the B5 "backstory" that's been created.  In other
+episodes, when a translation machine is required, it's used.  (In
+addition to Kosh's and n'grath's translation devices, we use them in
+other shows, as in "Legacies" with a race called the Pak'ma'ra.)  In this
+one instance, he knew the words.  I don't consider that "star trekkin'
+anybody.
+ 
+     Re: your statement that the headwear of the S.H. is "stolen" from
+the Ferengi...may I be so bold as to respond to your rather loud note with
+some volume of my own?  To wit: watch something other than Star Trek, and
+maybe spend a little time learning stuff about your own world.  The
+headware is based upon the kind used in various african and aboriginal
+tribes.  Trek didn't invent it; we have photos of its use through
+history, as well as sketches going back further.  As it happens, the
+costume designer has never seen "DS9," doesn't watch TNG, has no idea
+what a Ferengi is.  Neither do I intend to not do something, based in
+real history, just because some other show has done drawn on that same
+background.
+ 
+     You clearly think that if something appeared in ST, then ST must have
+ 
+invented it, and that if it appears anywhere else, it must've been
+influence by ST.  Wrong on both counts.  I would suggest that you have
+been watching too much ST, and not nearly enough of the Discovery
+Channel.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Feb 1994 01:05:44 -0500
+Subject: Q to JMS: Make-up Time
+
+      Makeup takes anywhere from 2-3 hours for our main characters on a
+regular basis.  In some cases, we've done something pretty close to full
+body prosthetics on G'Kar, and that is nearly double the normal time.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Feb 1994 01:14:54 -0500
+Subject: Re: Religion in B5 vs religion
+
+     Yes, ST says that religion is dead by the 23rd century, but a) this
+ain't ST, and b) I think it's hogwash.  I'm an atheist, and certainly I
+wouldn't object to more people sharing that attitude.  But the reality
+is that the religious/spiritual impulse has been with us for as long as
+we've been alive, and it's not going to just stop suddenly in the next
+200 years.  If anything, if you look at Eastern Europe, you're seeing a
+resurgence there.
+ 
+     Your statement is predicated upon a) something massive and profound
+permanently changing the belief system of b) every person on the planet.
+At what point does it change for every single person on the planet?  And
+elsewhere?  Where is the switch thrown?
+ 
+     People run into problems in extrapolation when they make the
+assumption that things will be *drastically* different (barring some kine
+(kind) of real disaster, obviously; if a meteor crashes into the central
+United States, it's going to have a pretty substantial affect on the
+people living there) from what's going on now.  Fr'instance...the B&W
+SF *musical* "Just Imagine," made in the 1930s, set in the 1980s.  In
+the movie, people have numbers instead of names, they eat pills instead
+of food, all the usual cliches.  And, of course, they were wrong.
+ 
+     You're looking at 200-300 years as if it's a long time, which is a
+uniquely American point of view.  Go to Europe some time, stand in
+buildings that've been around longer than this nation, five, six, seven
+hundred years.  Go to New Grange in Ireland, stand as I did in the burial
+mound, the oldest man-made structure in the *world*, made before metal
+tools had been invented...and you get a sense of what *time* is.  300
+years is a blink.
+ 
+     I am an atheist.  But I'm also a writer.  And a writer is charged
+with the responsibility of being as honest as he can in his work.  The
+religious impulse, little as it appeals to me, remains one part of our
+species' attempt to define itself, and our place in the universe.  And
+it must be dealt with with a modicum of respect, and honesty.  What you
+like in ST may be more what you like, what you hope, but neither of us
+genuinely *knows* for certain what's going to happen 250 years from now,
+so they're both equally valid views.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Feb 1994 01:14:54 -0500
+Subject: Ship Type Grumbling
+
+     Re: non-sleek starships...the commercial transports we use (like the
+one attacked in MOTFL), the Iksha Battleglobe ("Deathwalker"), a very
+interesting ship in "Mind War," and a few others.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Feb 1994 09:41:35 -0500
+Subject: Re: BABYLON 5 To elicit attent
+
+     "Tell you what, as soon as JMS publishes a note to the effect that
+he's going to have a realistic hetero character, I'll send him a nice
+note of appreciatoin and support, and see if I can get all the hetero
+newspapers to carry articles about why we should give B5 a chance,
+because it will have unfashionable hetero types in it."
+ 
+     I'm going to have a realistic hetero character in B5.  Several, in
+fact.
+ 
+     Your serve.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Feb 1994 09:53:42 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Larry DiTillio, RPG?
+
+     No word yet on any B5 RPGs, though it would be a perfect candidate.
+And Larry's the right one to write it (assuming I'm not keeping him busy
+on other stuff).
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Feb 1994 10:02:46 -0500
+Subject: Re: USA Today Review--Londo is
+
+     The hairpiece used for Londo is woven backwards, so it'll hang
+upward, for lack of a better term.  Held in place with spray.  The
+costume is notable for its detail work...lots of medals, intricate
+symbols (scarab/beetle type jewels on the shoulder and collar), with many
+layers.  Beyond that,it's kinda hard to describe.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Feb 1994 01:10:38 -0500
+Subject: Re: BABYLON 5 To Include Gay/B
+
+     I must admit that I am amazed by your ability to fortell the future.
+This must come in very handy in Vegas.
+ 
+     You start with an assumption of what I might do -- your opinion
+based on what someone else has said -- then make that into a fact that I
+AM going to do it, and then say you have trouble with my decision; you
+assume it's going to be handled in a certain fashion, and then condemn
+that fashion; you say that issues are going to be raised, and you have
+trouble with that issue; you say the genetic factor will be brought up,
+which hasn't  been proven, and then question the ethics of doing so.
+ 
+     Let me state this as simply as possible:
+ 
+     1) You are wrong in just about every particular.  You do not know
+what I am going to do.  To make a guess, based on zip from me, then
+condemn actions based on a guess that is TOTALLY INACCURATE is truly
+the ultimate straw-man.  Let me restate: you are completely and totally
+wrong in your speculations on the issues, and how this will be handled.
+You don't have to guess, you don't have to assume, I'm telling you
+straight out: you're wrong.
+ 
+     2) You're a boob.  Please try to refrain from prophesy until and
+unless you are biblically empowered by a considerably higher source.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie5.geis.com
+Date: 17 Feb 1994 02:18:39 -0500
+Subject: Re: BABYLON 5 To Include Gay/B
+
+     Let me respond only to two points in your message.  The rest seem
+hardly worthy of response.
+ 
+     I am not, as you imply, going for "brownie points" from anyone.  I
+am telling a story.  I am telling the story that I've wanted to tell for
+seven years.  I have no interest in currying favor from any group, any
+organization, any fringe or mainstream elements.  You don't work for seven
+years to create the chance to tell your own story just to turn it over to
+the influence of others.
+ 
+     Did it every occur to you -- for even a *smidgen* of a second -- that
+maybe, just maybe, what I'm doing with B5 is being done BECAUSE IT ADVANCES
+THE STORY?  Because it is a legitimate part of the story?  You seem to
+think that if someone does something in this area, it HAS to proceed from
+either a personal political agenda, or the enforced agenda of others.
+ 
+     Which is a load of absolute and utter crap.  I don't care who signs
+on board, or who's offended.  That's not my concern.  My concern is in
+telling a story, as best as I am able.  Period.
+ 
+     To your second point, that if violence on TV is open to congressional
+inquiry, then nothing is wrong in "questioning (how) political and social
+issues are presented in entertainment programming."
+ 
+     Well, I'm glad someone has finally come out of the woodwork on this
+one.
+ 
+     This is exactly what happens in this situation.  Everybody waves the
+big VIOLENCE bugaboo around to get pressure built behind them...and then
+they begin to use this huge stick to go after their OTHER agendas, the
+legislation of ideas, curtailment of notions and issues that they don't
+personally like.  It's happened again and again, in comics, in kid's
+programs, in libraries across the country, in the recording industry, and
+now they're trying to do it to TV.
+ 
+     The hard part is always getting them to ADMIT that this is on their
+minds.
+ 
+     Thank you for breaking the silence.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Feb 1994 06:07:47 -0500
+Subject: Questions to JMS
+
+     The only meaning to "All alone in the night" is in its surface; no
+hidden subtext.  But it is a cool image.
+ 
+     There's simply nothing that I can say about Kosh just now.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Feb 1994 18:44:20 -0500
+Subject: Re: Mojo answers FX question
+
+     Mojo is incorrect.  The regular footage of live-action stuff on B5
+is shot widescreen, with the regular aspect ratio emphasized generally
+for initial broadcast in that format.  We picked footage from various
+scenes already shot for use in the main title sequence; compare Delenn
+and Sinclair walking in the central corridor in the main title, with the
+same identical shot in "Soul Hunter."  The widescreen is not a cropped
+image; there's more on either side.  Ditto other shots in that opening.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Feb 1994 18:44:23 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Starfury question
+
+     The engines being placed on the ends of the wings was primarily a
+decision based on maneuverability; but as you say, it would also make
+maintenance easier as well.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Feb 1994 18:44:42 -0500
+Subject: Mojo answers FX question
+
+     Mojo...Mojo...c'mere, Mojo...I wanna talk to you...siddown...no,
+look, I'm not gonna hurt you, Mojo...Mojo...we don't film the live
+action stuff on this show in 3:1 aspect ratio.  It's widescreen, Mojo.
+Super 1:78:1.  Go pick up a copy of dailies, Mojo, it's right at the
+start of the tape.  We crop the sides for normal broadcast.  Look at the
+main title, Mojo, notice a slight difference between the main title
+shots from "Parliament" and the broadcast version in the episode
+itself...like...IT'S SUBSTANTIALLY WIDER AT EITHER END?!
+ 
+     Don't run, Mojo...come back...stand still...it's just a baseball
+bat, Mojo...we're gonna play a little game...Mojo...Mojo...COME BACK HERE!
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Feb 1994 18:45:05 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Outtakes?
+
+     Yes, we're keeping the outtakes...somewhere.  I should check, see
+how much we've got now.  Very funny stuff.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Feb 1994 18:45:21 -0500
+Subject: Re: Music change from Gatherin
+
+     The "Requiem for the Line" music appears in "And the Sky Full of
+Stars," which airs in about 5 weeks.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Feb 1994 02:24:01 -0500
+Subject: Re: soul hunter, ferengis & fi
+
+     You're correct; information is *not* willingly shared among the
+various races.  It's hoarded and used and sold.  And yes, humans would
+probably have *heard* of Soul Hunters, distantly, as a legend.  I see no
+reason why they would believe they existed, particularly with a title
+like that, unless and until actually encountering one.
+ 
+	                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Feb 1994 02:27:57 -0500
+Subject: JMS : Babylon 5 legal question
+
+     It's never come up, and probably never will, but in terms of
+backstory, yes, it was legalized quite some time ago.  There are only a
+certain number of drugs not allowed on B5; those which would lead to
+destructive, violent behavior that would disrupt the station, and Dust,
+about which you won't be hearing for a while.
+ 
+     Near as I can figure, all grass makes you want to do is sit around
+eating pizza and watching old Lucy reruns....
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Feb 1994 02:28:29 -0500
+Subject: JMS? Who's Vice-Pres.? :-)
+
+     The Earth Alliance Vice-President is a character named Morgan
+Clark.
+ 
+     But you don't need to know that for a while yet....
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Feb 1994 02:30:27 -0500
+Subject: Re: Universe Today on paper?!
+
+     It's very easy to show things being different 250 years from now.
+You just have people running around using numbers instead of names, have
+people eating pills instead of hard food, using personal flyers, having
+their children raised entirely by machine....
+ 
+     In fact, all of that has been done...in an SF musical called "JUst
+Imagine," made in the 1930s, about life....in the 1980s.  And it was
+completely, totally off-base.
+ 
+     There's plenty of extrapolation in this show...phased plasma weapons,
+hyperspace, the Psi Corps, other political areas, on and on...and that has
+some great interest for me.  But for me, what the show is *most* about is
+how we are the same, not how we are different.  A key theme in this series
+is that this is US out there, in the stars, recognizeably US.
+ 
+     You cite the date 1721 as how things were "different."  People got
+married, held jobs, raised children, separated, had affairs, fought in
+wars, read books and the few pamphlets that were available, corresponded,
+on and on.  We do those same things today.  The *chrome* of technology has
+changed, but our basic human nature has not.  Nor will it in the next
+250 years.
+ 
+     Re: "Universe Today."  It's recycled material, light and portable,
+read it and trash it.  Even Asimov noted that there is nothing quite so
+portable as a piece of paper, or as efficient.  Computers were supposed to
+end the paper mountains inside corporate offices.  Have they?  No.  One
+look at my (or any) office shows that computers have cause MORE paper
+mountains, not fewer.  So why not extrapolate to "newspapers" that are
+tied into a major web, printed fresh in your quarters or thereabouts every
+day, with all the news you'd like to see printed, and the stuff you don't
+much care about left out?  Customized newspapers, skewed toward your
+interests.  THAT is "UT."  I just don't much want to sit there and explain
+the darned thing because it's just more exposition.
+ 
+     And who says the Dodgers won't be here 200 years from now?  They're
+still going (reasonably) strong after nearly a century already.  What
+will suddenly happen in the world that all the world's baseball teams will
+simply vanish?  There seems to be this sense that at some point in the
+coming future, somebody will throw a switch, and suddenly 90% of the
+things we're familiar with will just vanish...and I think that's nonsense.
+ 
+     What I want to do with this show is to connect our past, our present,
+and our future, melding familiar images with new ones.  This isn't what
+you're used to seeing.  But it's what I want to *do* with it.  Otherwise
+all you have are unattainable futures about people who we barely recognize
+as being humans, doing things we can't relate to.  I'm sorry, but that
+just doesn't interest me.
+ 
+     There's plenty of extrapolation coming down the road.  The first and
+foremost mistake people make about this show is seeing one or three
+episodes, that this is all there's going to be.  Wrong.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Feb 1994 05:15:04 -0500
+Subject: Re: Concerns about Scientific
+
+     Re: the question of consistency/inconsistency in the B5 universe:
+where you get inconsistency is generally when you have more than one
+voice in the show, creation by committee or different administrations.
+ B5 is my show, and it's as consistent as I am...which means sometimes
+you'll catch something small, a glitch between scripts written far apart
+(calling the main console Station One instead of the Primary Console),
+but on the big issues...I doubt very much it'll happen.  I've thought out
+this universe pretty thoroughly over the last 7 years.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Feb 1994 05:17:03 -0500
+Subject: June Lockhart (sp?)
+
+     June Lockhart is *not* a regular or recurring character on B5; she
+appears in one episode, "The Quality of Mercy."
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Feb 1994 00:42:08 -0500
+Subject: Questions re Centauris in "Pur
+
+     The correct term is the Centauri Republic.  It can be called an
+empire, but that's the name.  Trakis, Adira's owner, was not a Centauri,
+but (and this is something we may bring up at some point down the road),
+was at one point a Centauri slave.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Feb 1994 06:41:27 -0500
+Subject: Shoes & foreheads
+
+     Don't know if GAribaldi's shoes have a custom tread or not; it's
+possible.  Londo's spots don't vary with stress; sometimes they come
+through more depending on the lighting.
+ 
+     And yeah, I love the costuming.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Feb 1994 06:41:35 -0500
+Subject: Commentary
+
+     Yes, I try to log on here about once a day, and though it's getting
+tougher, I still read through *all* the messages in this area, though at
+times I skim a bit.  From my perspective, I try not to get in the way of
+the discussion, by either encouraging or discouraging positive or
+negative comments.  If I think someone is being unfair, or is just coming
+in to lob in a firecracker, watch everyone scatter and yell, and then run
+away (as the occasional spineless mindfucker among us is wont to do), I
+either fire back, or simply ignore the post.
+ 
+     The one major reason I decided to begin this interaction, despite
+CONSIDERABLE discourgement and disbelief from my peers, is that I think it
+may be of some use, and because I think that one should be willing to
+stand publicly with what you create, and because though many criticisms
+are issues of taste or subjective preference, sometimes (fairly often,
+actually), I learn something from the discussion, or I'm corrected in
+something, and that realignment is eventually reflected in the show.  I'm
+giving some serious thought to either revamping n'grath or killing him off
+given the reaction (paired with my own).  I won't be dictated to, but in
+some cases, as with n'grath, I may be uncertain, but willing to try and
+see if the experiment works.  Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, and
+the general perception here seems close to my own.  In addition, I was
+initially going to gloss over some of the legal aspects of the Psi Corps
+in "The Quality of Mercy," but when so many people expressed interest in
+how that worked, and when I saw some measure of confusion about it, I
+took the time to indicate how the legal aspects work when it came time to
+complete that script, thus answering the questions.
+ 
+     Sure, there've been more hostile or abusive or insulting messages
+posted here, primarily to get a reaction...I've seen that game before, and
+I'm neither impressed nor annoyed.  The general level of the discussion
+-- pro AND con -- is still generally of a high level, and quite
+revealing.  The experiment continues.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Feb 1994 06:48:40 -0500
+Subject: Re: Soul Hunter
+
+     Re: Delenn's alien-esque qualities...I have two photos from the set
+that are favorites.  I was walking through the offices to the stage, when
+I saw Mira in full make up in her Grey Council robes, picking up the day's
+shooting schedule.  I saw her, said hi from down the hall, raised the
+camera.  I snapped a picture.  Raised the camera again.  And in that one
+instant, she straightened, lowered her chin, something about her face and
+her body language absolutely altered.  I snapped a second photo.
+ 
+     Photo #1 is a picture of Mira Furlan made up to look like a Minbari.
+Photo #2 is a picture of Delenn.
+ 
+     Damndest thing I'ved ever seen....
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Feb 1994 06:50:06 -0500
+Subject: JMS-questions for ya
+
+     There's still rock and roll, plus other new musical forms that have
+come along, and still some franchises.  TZ3 is being played on various
+local stations, but not everywhere.
+ 
+	                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Feb 1994 06:50:15 -0500
+Subject: JMS? Actors & Arcs
+
+     Some of the cast know the full extent of their character's story,
+some know a little, some know very little.  In those cases where we need
+to set stuff up for down the line, we have to explain some of these
+things.  Some of the cast want to know their future, some don't.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Feb 1994 06:57:23 -0500
+Subject: B5 Newbie with Brilliant
+
+     Correct: Tristan Rodgers makes an appearance in "The War Prayer."
+ 
+	                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Feb 1994 21:12:24 -0500
+Subject: How much does one episode cost
+
+     The B5 budget is, alas, classified.  As for more gif files...I
+wouldn't be surprised to see them down the road a piece.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Feb 1994 21:12:29 -0500
+Subject: Re: Starfury Launching
+
+     Negative.  If you'll look to the right of your ascii drawing,
+you'll see a square (round in the series) section.  Several cobra-shaped
+arms surround that section.  That's where the fighters are launched.
+ 
+     You'll get a better view of this area as we go along, particularly in
+an episode called "Survivors."
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Feb 1994 21:22:37 -0500
+Subject: Re: Ban on creative works? Huh
+
+     Let me put this another way, to see if this may have more influence
+on your thoughts.
+
+     BABYLON 5 is owned by PTEN.  The names, the characters, *and the
+situations* are all part of what is owned through copyright, trademark
+and other legal means.  It can then choose to whom to license the right,
+for a fee, to produce material within that universe...novels, comics,
+whatever.  That sub-entity then has the legal right to publish works that
+use the B5 universe.  (And it's not just the names; if every character is
+the same, and the context is the same, and a work appears within that
+context with the names just changed, it is still copyright infringement.)
+
+     It is in the vested interests of PTEN to maintain ownership of its
+copyright and trademarks.  Otherwise why should any publisher pay for the
+rights to, say, publish novels in that universe?  If a work appears in the
+public domain, using copyrighted characters/situations, and is NOT gone
+after legally, then that portion of the original creation has itself
+slipped into public domain.  PTEN is currently going after several of the
+companies that have provided services to B5, and then have gone around and
+published ads in various magazines using photos from B5 *without* the
+PTEN copyright notice.  Those specific images run the risk now of becoming
+part of the public domain.  This has to be stopped and will be stopped, by
+PTEN.
+
+     I understand the need, the utility, and the fun of fanzines.  I've
+read many and own many.  I, however, am not PTEN.  I understand the
+desire to play with the characters, in electronic or printed form.  But
+that has nothing to do with PTEN's desire to protect its copyright.  The
+electronic medium -- BBSing -- has been found in several court hearings
+to constitute a form of publication.  There are, in fact, now several
+electronic publishers who circulate books/stories via this medium.  Any
+work appearing in this medium is subject to commonlaw copyright, so that
+the writer of that work owns it...which brings that writer into direct
+conflict if that work infringes upon the copyright of someone else.
+
+     If a flood of B5 stories (or camoflaged clones) began to appear on
+this or any other net, it would force PTEN to intervene legally with
+injunctions, cease-and-desist letters, and so on.  My own feelings about
+this really don't enter into it.
+
+     It becomes a two-sided risk.  On my behalf, I would simply have to
+withdraw rather than run the risk of being sued for something somebody
+might write that I might have seen.  It doesn't have to be proven that I
+even saw it as long as I had *access* to seeing it.  On the other hand,
+those doing so run the risk of entanglements of their own.
+
+     Is it fun?  No.  Not for either of us.  Part of the reason I created
+the B5 universe was to see what other people would do with it.  But this
+is the law.  And the law doesn't have to be fair.  It simply is.
+
+                                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Feb 1994 21:22:38 -0500
+Subject: Harlan Ellison and Babylon 5
+
+     Harlan is our conceptual consultant.  His job is to sit perched on
+my shoulder like Jiminy Cricket and point out to me the chuckholes,
+detours, and disasters-in-the-making that I might otherwise stumble into
+as I galumph my way through this show...and to harangue me and keep me
+on the SF straight and narrow and to challenge me constantly to do better.
+ 
+     He also reviews stories, helped write the opening narration, has
+given us several good concepts on the running of the B5 station, and
+otherwise...well...consults conceptually.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Feb 1994 22:17:43 -0500
+Subject: Why do B5 command staff go out
+
+     Why Sinclair goes out on missions: someone here just left a far
+better reply than I could write.  Check it out.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Feb 1994 17:58:00 -0500
+Subject: Did one need USA Today's Permi
+
+     "Universe Today" is a fictional newspaper, and thus no permission
+was required.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Feb 1994 17:58:01 -0500
+Subject: Babylon-5 Fan Clubs?
+
+     Since the series began to air, there's been a flood of mail and calls,
+so some kind of organization will be necessary to handle this, though no
+framework has been finalized yet.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Feb 1994 20:31:55 -0500
+Subject: Re: B5 comments (spoilers)
+
+     You ask, "Why would the Earth Alliance act this way?"  The question
+is, why *wouldn't* they?  Minus some limited supplementary contributions
+from the Centauri and the Minbari, the EA pays for this.  It's their
+dollar, they get to call the shots.  This isn't the Federation, where
+everyone's equally part of things.  The EA provides B5 as a service to
+other species, and as a meeting place.  It reflects the priorities and
+to some extent the prejudices of those who built it.  No, it's not a
+perfect or polite setup.  Nobody said it had to be.  Nor do I feel it HAS
+to be perfect or polite.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie4.geis.com
+Date: 15 Feb 1994 20:43:26 -0500
+Subject: Soul Hunter and General
+
+     Sinclair gets into some real strong arguments in many episodes; he
+is almost *constantly* at odds with Dr. Franklin in "Believers" (and just
+about loses it at one point), he's arguing and exhausted nearly the entire
+episode for "By Any Means" (and *does* lose it at one point, in a way
+that says get-the-hell-out, and is also weirdly funny).  Anyway, it's
+definitely there.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Feb 1994 22:17:47 -0500
+Subject: I like everything but....
+
+     Errr....when the ships are hit, they don't just vanish/get totally
+consumed; debris *does* fly off.  Check again.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie4.geis.com
+Date: 15 Feb 1994 22:32:37 -0500
+Subject: Re: +/- Review: Midnight
+
+     The symbol Talia wears isn't a Link or any other kind of
+communications system; it is *strictly* a form of identification, tagging
+her as a telepath and a member of the Psi Corps.  It serves no other
+function.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie4.geis.com
+Date: 15 Feb 1994 22:32:42 -0500
+Subject: Soul Hunter comments
+
+     In my original B5 material, the leader of the Grey Council was always
+Dukhat, going back 7 years.  I saw no reason to change it.  The moment I
+begin whipsawing my show back and forth to avoid tripping over somebody
+else, I'm just going to end up tripping over my own two feet.
+ 
+     And that was Johnny Sekka's actual accent (he's Nigerian-born).
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie5.geis.com
+Date: 16 Feb 1994 05:26:25 -0500
+Subject: JMS Question: Earth Alliance
+
+     The EA is fairly large, but not on a par with the Centauri at this
+point.  There are various space platforms/colonies, colonies on the Moon,
+Mars, a major transfer point off Io...they've gone in and "helped" a
+number of bronze-tech worlds (that happened to have certain resources
+useful to EA), and are generally spreading like mice in a cheese factory.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie5.geis.com
+Date: 16 Feb 1994 05:26:34 -0500
+Subject: JMS: What else is tabu here be
+
+     Fairly fleshed out stories or detailed suggestions are really the
+only thing that would cause a problem...everything else seems to be fair
+game.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie4.geis.com
+Date: 16 Feb 1994 05:46:18 -0500
+Subject: Re: +/- Review: Midnight
+
+     She wore the Psi symbol on her belt.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Feb 1994 10:53:30 -0500
+Subject: B5 Versus Tekwar in LA
+
+     Forget B5 vs. Tekwar in the ratings...I just realized that one of our
+best episodes in this first batch, "The Parliament of Dreams," is going
+to go right up against the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan skating part of
+the Olympics.
+ 
+     We're doomed.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Feb 1994 11:04:14 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Centauri Republic or
+
+     Sinclair functions within the parameters of Earthforce Command, but
+much in the way as a provisional governor might function.  He is answerable
+both to his superior officers in Earthforce, *as well as* the Babylon 5
+Senate Oversight and Appropriations Committee.  A senatorial liaison often
+works between Sinclair and Earthdome (the EA capital city).
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Feb 1994 11:09:35 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Centauri Republic or Empi
+
+     It was a slip of the tongue, to some extent; it's the Centauri
+Republic.  And very definitely there's a Roman influence on that
+particular civilization.
+ 
+     Re: scripts...a topic for another time....
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie5.geis.com
+Date: 17 Feb 1994 02:18:40 -0500
+Subject: "Bab" prefix
+
+     Re: your concern about putting "bab" in front of everything (the
+message to which you responded mentioned babcommand, babalert, babguard
+and so on)...it's not, and we don't.  There is only one thing with that
+previx, BabCom.  That's all.  There ain't no more.  The person who
+thought he heard bab-alert misheard MedAlert.
+ 
+     The concern as raised has *nothing* to do with our show.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie4.geis.com
+Date: 17 Feb 1994 03:35:48 -0500
+Subject: Christy Marx
+
+     Yes, this Christy Marx is the same as the one who writes games and
+has written comics as well.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie4.geis.com
+Date: 17 Feb 1994 03:35:39 -0500
+Subject: Re: What are those blue fins?
+
+     For the record: B5 is *not* purely solar-powered.  There's a HUGE
+fusion reactor at the far end of the station that takes up almost that
+entire long section.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie5.geis.com
+Date: 17 Feb 1994 07:12:15 -0500
+Subject: Babylon 5 '89
+
+     Don't really remember what the plan would've been if we'd gotten
+the Go order years earlier; but one way or another we would've made it,
+that's all I know.  Nothing's stopping this thing.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Feb 1994 07:36:15 -0500
+Subject: Re: Ban on creative works? Huh
+
+     "Why can't I write a story using the characters from B5 and publish
+it here for all to read?"
+ 
+     Because it's a violation of copyright and trademark.  What part of
+that sentence don't you understand?
+ 
+     If you write a story and -- using your own terms -- "publish it here"
+that instance of commonlaw copyright is a violation of the PTEN copyright
+and trademark.  My own personal feelings notwithstanding, *it's the law*.
+ 
+     The only thing that really bothers me in this whole conversation is
+that I didn't want to get into a discussion of legalities, or lawyers, or
+copyright infringement...all I said at the beginning was that I would like
+to be here, to stay here, to participate in this experiment.  And I asked,
+as a courtesy, to be kept away from any story ideas because it opens me
+up to legal liability.  That's all.  Just a courtesy, in exchange for the
+3 hours a day I spend on this system, reading 500 messages a day now, to
+keep the lines of communication open.
+ 
+     Why is the request for a courtesy insufficient, and people have to
+go to the legal aspect?
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie5.geis.com
+Date: 17 Feb 1994 07:12:15 -0500
+Subject: Babylon 5 '89
+
+     Don't really remember what the plan would've been if we'd gotten
+the Go order years earlier; but one way or another we would've made it,
+that's all I know.  Nothing's stopping this thing.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Feb 1994 17:47:25 -0500
+Subject: JMS Question: Where Were They?
+
+     The Centauri Republic tended to go after species where they could get
+some advantage; they'd find a world on the fringe of being able to hit
+space, with a technological base, move in and take over.  It's sharper
+and easier than taking over a world without tech; not much to offer.  By
+the time we got to that point, they had begun the decline of their
+empire, and basically greeted us with a shrug.  And there is no EA rule
+about non-interference.  The only real rule applies to surveying distant
+worlds for mineral resources, and a restriction against strip-mining
+worlds that contain sentient life.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Feb 1994 21:15:59 -0500
+Subject: JMS: "Infection" -- no spoiler
+
+     Thanks.  Sinclair's final speech there is the simplest truth about
+space exploration that I can think of...and the most compelling..and the
+most overlooked.  As Henry Kissinger once said, "It has the added benefit
+of being true."
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+10716
+::::::::::::::
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Feb 1994 02:42:35 -0500
+Subject: Born to the Purple  (Minor Spo
+
+     Fabiana didn't shave her head to play Adira; that's a prosthetic
+head piece.  Ditto with all our Centauriy women.  (Funnily enough, the one
+time we DID have a bald woman as a background extra, those not in the
+know on stage kept commenting on how fake the bald-cap looked....)
+ 
+     The planet behind B5 ain't the moon.  This is a LOT further out.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Feb 1994 02:57:58 -0500
+Subject: To JMS: They still use paper?
+
+     It's not a paper,but synthetic material.  A customized (to each
+person) copy of UT comes out in your quarters, you take it with you, read
+it, dump it in the recycler and get it again the next day.  And the
+"help" given by EA to bronze-tech worlds is on a "whether you want it or
+not" basis.  No prime directive here.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Feb 1994 03:36:05 -0500
+Subject: The annoying little space shot
+
+     We did a lot of exterior transitional shots in the first few eps of
+B5 to reinforce where we are and what this is; it diminishes in frequency
+the deeper into the series you get.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Feb 1994 04:42:36 -0500
+Subject: Concerns about Scientific real
+
+     Let me ask you a question: let's say we zip back in time for a
+moment.  It's now the year 1944.  Someone writes a science fiction story
+about life 50 years from now, 1994.  And in the course of that story,
+which gets into nuclear powered vessels, Mars probes, space shuttles and
+laser surgery...you get references to such outrageous ideas as Psychic
+hotlines, crop circles, and other things.
+ 
+     Does it stop being a science fiction story?  Perhaps...but it is
+fundamentally more *real* than if you pretended none of that existed, or
+tried to explain it all away.  The universe it too big, and 110 episodes
+is too short, to try and explain away *everything*.  I think that there
+should be mysteries.
+ 
+     Because mysteries will always be with us...and any attempt at SF that
+tries to deny that basic element of our existence is being untruthful to
+the history of human experience.
+ 
+     The whole science fiction/science fantasy argument is fairly recent
+in SF, as various parties drew up sides and closed ranks.  There's the
+Analog crowd, and the F&SF crowd...prior to Campbell and a few others
+really hammering down a set of rules, SF encompassed a whole *range* of
+ideas, and freely crossed borders, using various elements.  The classic
+Mark Twain story, "Sold to Satan" (I'm pretty sure that's the title)
+combines SF elements (the purposes of this new discovery called radium)
+with the supernatural (said component is a prime ingredient in Satan's
+physiology).
+ 
+     Now obviously I'm not going to do that, I have no desire to go that
+far.  But I don't think that you have to sit down and quantify every single
+mystery in life and reduce it to a catchphrase or some technobabble; why
+can't there still be wonders and mysteries and the unsolved in 2258, as
+we have them today?
+ 
+     Because you could write that 1944 story about 1994 without crop
+circles, or dial-a-psychic hotlines...and maybe it would be (by the
+lights of some) valid SF, it would *not* be valid extrapolation.  It would
+ESPECIALLY not be valid social extrapolation.  It comes down to: do you
+want an agenda behind a story, or do you want a story about where people
+may be in 200 years, and the kinds of things they might experience?
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Feb 1994 05:22:29 -0500
+Subject: (attn JMS) The New Group Debat
+
+     Correct: when we've told our five year story, the B5 series comes to
+an end in terms of original episodes, and then will, like all other TV
+series, go into long-term reruns.  There's one possible spin-off that
+has always been feasible, but it would not be a B5 series, rather following
+one thread in a different direction.  But that also has a definite end,
+after which there *can't* be any more followups, for reasons I can't now
+go into.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Feb 1994 06:11:25 -0500
+Subject: Q: JMS:  Station ownership
+
+     The EA has owned all of the Babylons; 1-3 were sabotaged early in
+construction, so it wasn't too much of a loss.  They dumped a BIG budget
+into B4, and when that died, barely passed the budget for #5, skimping all
+the way, cutting it down to bare bones operating expenses.  They will and
+would never approve a #6.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Feb 1994 11:17:48 -0500
+Subject: JMS Query; ref  n'grath
+
+     Garibaldi is quite aware of n'grath...and knowing that if he just
+vanished, somebody'd take his place in five minutes, prefers the trouble
+he knows to the trouble he'd have to track down.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Feb 1994 17:35:18 -0500
+Subject: Re: Ban on creative works? Huh
+
+     Obviously, I can't say anything officially here saying "Go write
+fanfic to your heart's content."  Because PTEN would (correctly) stick my
+head on a pike in the middle of downtown Hollywood.  However, let me be
+ABSOLUTELY clear in this: I have NEVER said, "Don't write it."  All that
+I have EVER said is, "Don't put it in a place where I can see it or
+stumble over it."
+ 
+     Email is a private system; so is a closed mailing list.  I'm not
+here to be PTEN's eyes and ears; I really don't care what happens out
+there in that respect.  My only real concern is that whatever it is that's
+happening, *I don't see it.*  It's better for all concerned if I don't
+see it, or don't have access to it.
+ 
+     So on a personal level, I have no real problem with what you propose.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Feb 1994 05:29:46 -0500
+Subject: Infection (spoilers)
+
+     I allow a small smile...in the course of any given script, I put in
+little things that I figure nobody will ever notice, but which for me
+help just a bit to keep on track with the character, and which may
+resonate to anyone paying attention.  You cite Sinclair's line about
+joining Garibaldi "on the LINE," and Garibaldi noting that Sinclair keeps
+putting his life "on the LINE," and the similarity to the phrase "the
+Battle of the Line."
+ 
+     It was a throwaway...but a conscious one.
+ 
+     He's still fighting the same battle.  He's never stopped.  In one way
+or another, he keeps putting himself out there, caught in a loop....
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Feb 1994 05:59:26 -0500
+Subject: Re: Talia's badge
+
+     The Psi Corps identification is worn both with pride and as a
+warning or advisory to others.  No bikini-tags yet.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Feb 1994 05:59:40 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Psi Corps Symbol
+
+     Er...the symbol Lyta wears isn't "an interconnected IU that looks
+an awful lot like the greek 'psi,'" ...it *IS* the Greek letter Psi, as
+is appropriate for a group of telepaths.  That was always our intent.
+(Funnily enough, while in college getting my first degree in Clinical
+Psychology, I belonged to Psi Chi, the national honor society in
+psychology.  Small world.)
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Feb 1994 21:04:34 -0500
+Subject: Little touches I live for (spo
+
+     Re: "That kind of direction."  Not to be nit-picky, but it was
+scripted that we would come to G'Kar just as she got to that line.  Not
+everything is from the director....
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Feb 1994 21:05:30 -0500
+Subject: JMS - two questions...
+
+     Don't know re: Harlan's photo.  The reader doing the Tennyson piece
+was just a regular voice-over actor.  The piece is from "Ulysses."
+ 
+                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Feb 1994 01:18:43 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Generic EZ Q's
+
+     The Earth/Minbari war started with a Minbari first encounter (by us)
+that went tragically wrong and resulted in a firefight, in which the
+leader of the Grey Council was killed.
+ 
+     Kosh's ship is still on B5, except when he takes it out.
+ 
+     Virtually all of the B5 story takes place within one galaxy.
+ 
+     Yes, Earth religions have had to come to grips with the existence of
+alien cultures; and religions from both sides have filtered into human an
+alien life.  We won't be dealing with that this season because we deal
+with the topic of religion a lot this season, and don't want to get too
+bogged down with it.
+ 
+     Franklin's associate wasn't a Foundationist, no.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Feb 1994 03:42:16 -0500
+Subject: "Infections" vs.  Guyver (spoi
+
+     I've never been a big fan of japanese animation, and have never heard
+of Guyver before it came up in this discussion.  (I actually thought that
+the Guyver references were some kind of reference to McGuyver for a long
+time, until finally I began to suss out that we were talking animation
+here.)
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Feb 1994 04:47:58 -0500
+Subject: Re: Infection <spoilers>
+
+     Re: the scene in which Sinclair tells an INS reporter that humanity
+has to stay in space because eventually our local star will go out and
+make futile our million-year struggle through evolution and blood, you
+say, "It's also been done a zillion times before."
+ 
+     Name five.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie4.geis.com
+Date: 16 Feb 1994 04:47:25 -0500
+Subject: Re: Babylon 5 Grade Report: "M
+
+     For what it's worth, in "Raiding Party," there's a line or two of
+dialogue mentioning that the Raider ships are meant for atmospheric and
+space maneuvering, with the recommendation that someone "aim for the
+airfoils," as that's the most vulnerable spot.  So that *is* specified at
+one point.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie4.geis.com
+Date: 16 Feb 1994 04:47:31 -0500
+Subject: JMS (et al.) A treatise on Cha
+
+     Your analysis sounds just about right on from where I sit....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie4.geis.com
+Date: 16 Feb 1994 04:47:35 -0500
+Subject: I liked it.
+
+     Re: the shape of the doors...they're set to notch into the wall,
+and in the case of depressurization, bolts shoot through the "teeth" that
+insert into the wall, to lock it securely into place.  It's much more
+airtight that way than a conventional door that swings or opens in the
+middle in case of an accident that opens a portion of the station to
+vacuum.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie4.geis.com
+Date: 16 Feb 1994 04:47:39 -0500
+Subject: Re: "Midnight" reactions
+
+     There was a problem with the initial episodes using the garden: we
+kept turning in good looking shots, and couldn't figure out why they
+looked weird later.  Turns out that the people at the color lab/video
+transfer facility (one person in particular) kept adjusting the color and
+gamma TO MATCH HIS MONITOR.  We finally found out about this and yelled.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie4.geis.com
+Date: 16 Feb 1994 04:47:42 -0500
+Subject: Re: RFD: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylo
+
+     "I certainly hope B5 can do (Battlestar Galactica) justice!"
+ 
+     (whoah...must've hit him harder than I thought....)
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie5.geis.com
+Date: 16 Feb 1994 05:24:06 -0500
+Subject: Re: query to JMS.......
+
+     There are no immediate plans to expand on the Sinclair Aircraft
+piece; some things are best just left there.  The logo is real, btw; we
+found it, and got permission to use it.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie5.geis.com
+Date: 16 Feb 1994 05:24:13 -0500
+Subject: Soul Hunter - A review of sort
+
+     Doing the intro was something that PTEN wants for all its shows; if
+you check out Trax and Kung Fu, you'll see it there, as well.  It's my
+hope that we can trim the narration down by 1/2 in second and subsequent
+seasons.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie5.geis.com
+Date: 16 Feb 1994 05:24:57 -0500
+Subject: WILL WE VISIT THE VEGITATED IN
+
+     Yes, we will.  In addition to the Zen garden, and the Fresh Air
+Restaurant, we'll be seeing the Orchard, the Pavillion, and the Maze,
+though you won't see the last one there for some time.  I don't think it
+shows up until "Chrysalis."
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie5.geis.com
+Date: 16 Feb 1994 05:25:00 -0500
+Subject: JMS at Icon?
+
+     Yes, at this point, I do plan to be at Icon....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie5.geis.com
+Date: 16 Feb 1994 05:26:22 -0500
+Subject: Transfer point at Io
+
+    The transfer point off Io is a Jump Gate, the one most generally
+used by Earthforce.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+ 
+     (It's not on Io, it's on a station *off* Io.)
+
+From: straczynski@genie5.geis.com
+Date: 17 Feb 1994 02:18:40 -0500
+Subject: "Bab" prefix
+
+     Re: your concern about putting "bab" in front of everything (the
+message to which you responded mentioned babcommand, babalert, babguard
+and so on)...it's not, and we don't.  There is only one thing with that
+previx, BabCom.  That's all.  There ain't no more.  The person who
+thought he heard bab-alert misheard MedAlert.
+ 
+     The concern as raised has *nothing* to do with our show.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie5.geis.com
+Date: 17 Feb 1994 02:18:39 -0500
+Subject: Re: BABYLON 5 To Include Gay/B
+
+     Let me respond only to two points in your message.  The rest seem
+hardly worthy of response.
+ 
+     I am not, as you imply, going for "brownie points" from anyone.  I
+am telling a story.  I am telling the story that I've wanted to tell for
+seven years.  I have no interest in currying favor from any group, any
+organization, any fringe or mainstream elements.  You don't work for seven
+years to create the chance to tell your own story just to turn it over to
+the influence of others.
+ 
+     Did it every occur to you -- for even a *smidgen* of a second -- that
+maybe, just maybe, what I'm doing with B5 is being done BECAUSE IT ADVANCES
+THE STORY?  Because it is a legitimate part of the story?  You seem to
+think that if someone does something in this area, it HAS to proceed from
+either a personal political agenda, or the enforced agenda of others.
+ 
+     Which is a load of absolute and utter crap.  I don't care who signs
+on board, or who's offended.  That's not my concern.  My concern is in
+telling a story, as best as I am able.  Period.
+ 
+     To your second point, that if violence on TV is open to congressional
+inquiry, then nothing is wrong in "questioning (how) political and social
+issues are presented in entertainment programming."
+ 
+     Well, I'm glad someone has finally come out of the woodwork on this
+one.
+ 
+     This is exactly what happens in this situation.  Everybody waves the
+big VIOLENCE bugaboo around to get pressure built behind them...and then
+they begin to use this huge stick to go after their OTHER agendas, the
+legislation of ideas, curtailment of notions and issues that they don't
+personally like.  It's happened again and again, in comics, in kid's
+programs, in libraries across the country, in the recording industry, and
+now they're trying to do it to TV.
+ 
+     The hard part is always getting them to ADMIT that this is on their
+minds.
+ 
+     Thank you for breaking the silence.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie4.geis.com
+Date: 17 Feb 1994 03:35:39 -0500
+Subject: Re: What are those blue fins?
+
+     For the record: B5 is *not* purely solar-powered.  There's a HUGE
+fusion reactor at the far end of the station that takes up almost that
+entire long section.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie4.geis.com
+Date: 17 Feb 1994 03:35:48 -0500
+Subject: Christy Marx
+
+     Yes, this Christy Marx is the same as the one who writes games and
+has written comics as well.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Feb 1994 08:10:21 -0500
+Subject: B-5: What are they wearing on
+
+     The devices on the backs of their hands are Links, which function as
+communications devices, interface with the B5 central computer, can access
+the PA system and so on.  They slap on and off easily.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Feb 1994 08:10:21 -0500
+Subject: Re: Concerns about Scientific
+
+     Just a minor correction: I was never involved with the production or
+writing of the original V series or miniseries; I was hired by Warners to
+write a new (and as yet unproduced) 4-hour miniseries to revive the V
+series in syndication.  The project was shelved when it was realized that
+it would be too expensive to try it for the syndicated market.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Feb 1994 21:57:42 -0500
+Subject: JMS:  Parliament?
+
+     A parliament is a gathering of officials, of representatives, which
+matches the story in terms of representatives of different places, and
+beliefs.  The dreams are the belief systems.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Feb 1994 22:10:25 -0500
+Subject: B5 and Cronos
+
+     The only Cronos movie that I know of is "Kronos," a mexican-filmed
+black and white film in which an alien device crash-lands and grows to
+skyscraper size and begins stomping its way across Mexico...looked like
+a cross between a rubik's cube and a peppermill.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Feb 1994 02:57:23 -0500
+Subject: Re: Concerns about Scientific
+
+     "I object to the PSI stuff because the show was said to be SF."
+ 
+     Yes, and telepathy has been dealt with considerably throughout the
+long history of SF.  One of the finest novels in the genre is Alfred
+Bester's "The Demolished Man."  Telepathy has also been used as a valid
+plot device in SF by Ray Bradbury, Larry Niven, Kurt Vonnegut, Brian
+Aldiss, John Brunner, Kate Wilhelm, Robert Sheckley, Eric Frank Russell,
+Walter M. Miller, Anne McCaffrey, Richard Matheson, Fritz Leiber and
+Samuel Delaney, to name but a FEW.
+ 
+     If you want to argue that telepathy isn't a valid area for SF, or
+doesn't qualify as SF, then your argument is with them, not with me.
+ 
+     And you'd lose.
+ 
+     (With luck, this will close this discussion once and for all.)
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Feb 1994 04:24:31 -0500
+Subject: Re: No more gay talk and Ivano
+
+     Actually, Ivanova gets to play hero a *lot* in this first season;
+in "Raiding Party," a little in "War Prayer," more in "Believers," and
+"A Voice in the Wildereness," and "Legacies," and a whole bunch more.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Feb 1994 04:24:44 -0500
+Subject: Stupid Question in "Infection"
+
+     Actually, the reporter's question was *not* (from a 2258 point of
+view) stupid.  Earth is far enough from the other major races not to
+have to worry about iminent invasion.  At the time of the story, there is
+a VERY strong isolationist movement growing back home, which you'll hear
+more about as we go in.  Space travel is *expensive*, even in 2258, and
+there are still a lot of problems to be resolved back home.  While the
+Earth administration in Earthdome keeps pressing to go further and
+further, various nation/states in the Earth senate are taxed further to
+finance explorations which they don't always share in equally, the Mars
+Colony is threatening secession...things are falling apart by degrees.
+So in light of all that, the question is *absolutely* valid.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Feb 1994 04:25:17 -0500
+Subject: Re: MOJO responds to FX chat
+
+     Re: boring textbooks and keeping you away from physics....
+ 
+     Ladies and gentlemen, the Amazing MOJO, one of the leading minds of
+the 14th century.
+ 
+     I gotta get a bigger ball-bat.
+ 
+     Go ahead.  Tell Ron you just wrote that here.  But wait until I get
+there first.  This one I'd *pay* to see.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Feb 1994 04:25:31 -0500
+Subject: Re: ALIEN ACCENTS
+
+     I quote your message verbatim: "What kind of accent (besides FAKE and
+FORCED) does the membari (spelling?) lady use?  I mean, what country on
+earth did they model her character's accent from?"
+ 
+     (rolling up sleeves)  Allow me to show you why you are an idiot.
+ 
+     There is a tendency, among the cerebrally impaired, to automatically
+decide that whatever they don't like is fake, or forced, or cheesy, when
+they are simply ignorant of what it means, or what it is.  Because it
+isn't instantly familiar, doesn't instantly match what they've seen before,
+they -- like you -- assume it's being done incorrectly.
+ 
+     Mira Furlan is a native-born Yugoslavian (back when that was the
+name of the country).  She came to this country only a year or two ago,
+fleeing for her life.  She had been that nation's premiere actress, having
+won any number of major awards, including the Palm d'Or at Cannes.  But
+because she refused to endorse either side in that bloodbath, she was
+hunted by both.
+ 
+     The "fake and forced" accent to which you refer...is her native
+accent.
+ 
+     Maybe next time you will take the required moment to *think* before
+shooting off your mouth, and phrase your question in order to get the
+required information before making allegations based on your own lack of
+said information.  One doesn't always have to attack something unfamiliar
+or insult someone's ability just because you don't like something.
+ 
+     Because from time to time, you'll prove yourself a boob.
+ 
+     Like this time.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Feb 1994 04:26:45 -0500
+Subject: Did you need Loyd's of London'
+
+     No need for Lloyd's permission, just for a casual reference.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Feb 1994 23:16:20 -0500
+Subject: (JMS) Research Grants
+
+     Thanks.  And agreed; the state of research grants, particularly for
+pure-research, but even for more practical applications, is in sorry
+shape.  Other nations invest *massive* amounts of money into research and
+development, we invest pennies...and we wonder why we're falling behind.
+ No one's looking ahead.  It's tragic, and worse than tragic, it's
+dirt-stick-stone stupid.  My condolences.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Feb 1994 00:32:10 -0500
+Subject: SPOILERS:The Parliament of Dre
+
+     "There was one big plot hole: Na'Toth should not have had such an
+easy time convincing the assassin that she had been assigned as backup."
+ 
+     Hmm...as I recall the episode, she *didn't* convince him at all, and
+in fact was inches away from having him blow her brains out when G'Kar
+came barrelling down the hall at them....
+ 
+     Just a thought.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Feb 1994 00:32:49 -0500
+Subject: JMS: INFLUENCES BESIDES CLASSI
+
+     In terms of visual-media SF, there have been a lot of influences over
+the years, mainly in informing my views of what constitutes SF.  There are
+the obvious influences from Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits, as well as
+Blake's 7 and the Prisoner.  Also loved Night Gallery, and still hold some
+measure of appreciation for the Invaders.  My favorite SF films are still
+(for the most part) those from the fifties and sixties; 2001, The Day The
+Earth Stood Still, Twenty Million Years to Earth and so on, though clearly
+there's been a lot of good work since, with Aliens and the Terminator
+films being favorites.
+ 
+     Anime has never really done much for me, I'm afraid.  It's hard to
+really say why; it's not that it offends me or anything, it just hasn't
+pushed the same buttons for me that other venues have.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+::::::::::::::
+gain, putting in
+phasing problems and other stuff.  We're trying to backtrack further and
+keep it from happening again.  (Part of the problem apparently sets in
+when they do the closed-captioning duping.)
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Feb 1994 15:50:16 -0500
+Subject: Re: BABYLON 5 To Include Gay/B
+
+     Let me put this as simply as I can...in the year 2258, nobody *cares*
+about your sexual orientation.  It doesn't come up.  No one makes an issue
+out of it.  There are no discussions, no proclamations, no inquiries, no
+"how will they react?"  It's like being left-handed or right-handed; no
+one really cares one way or another.
+ 
+     Can we now move on past all of this?
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Feb 1994 15:53:58 -0500
+Subject: B5mojo: Some things I want to
+
+     You've already got your wish.  You'll see big ships going *boom* in
+"A Voice in the Wilderness" and firing at each other, and the between the
+fins movement and other stuff even more outrageous in "Raiding Party."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Feb 1994 16:25:38 -0500
+Subject: "Collision course" in SH (spoi
+
+     Re: why soul hunter #1's ship was out of control...the second soul
+hunter comments that they've been tracking him, and caught up with him a
+few days ago.  They attacked, "and he escaped, his ship damaged."  That
+is what brought him here...and led his pursuers to this place as well.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Feb 1994 19:27:51 -0500
+Subject: JMS: talkshows
+
+     Jerry Doyle was recently on the Dini Petty show up in Canada, but as
+far as I know, no talk show bookings yet, though a few things are in the
+discussions phase.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Feb 1994 05:24:35 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Are you pulling a "St
+
+     In your complaints regarding the commander flying off on occasional
+missions (and he only does it about 3 times out of 22 episodes, so I
+hardly see this as a problem), you are forgetting several other *realities*
+of military life.  If you're a pilot, even as a commander, you have to
+log in X-number of hours flying time per month in order to continue to
+qualify for flight pay.  This is a *requirement*.  And it doesn't just
+mean flying around the station a few times.
+
+     Second, many commanders -- as recently as Vietnam and afterward --
+did and continue to go out on missions and sorties because it is rather
+expected of them, and because it maintains the respect of the rest of
+the squadron(s).
+
+     Third, and possibly most important, Earthforce is the same as the
+contermporary Air Force in one important respect: promotion up the ranks
+is tied *directly* to combat experience and, in this case, combat
+flying.  That's why women fighter pilots and helicopter pilots have been
+fighting so *vigorously* to be allowed to fly combat missions; they know
+that they can't be promoted fully up the line without that.  Sinclair has
+no desire to be a commander all his life, he'd like to move on.  Hence
+it behooves him to get in combat time whenever possible.
+
+     Your statement that it "doesn't wash" has nothing to do with how
+the military *actually* works, and everything to do with the skewed and
+inaccurate portrayal of the military that you get from Trek.  This is
+absolutely legitimate, and the B5 mailbox these days is partly crammed
+with letters from vets thanking us for getting this part right.
+
+     I suppose I could mention this in passing in dialogue, but then it
+becomes a matter of sticking in dialogue not because it's important to an
+episode, but because some folks would like things explained to them.  I
+don't think that's my responsibility.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Feb 1994 10:49:18 -0500
+Subject: JMS:  Are you pulling a "Star
+
+     I answered you elsewhere here on this topic earlier this evening.  To
+just nit for a moment, to say that Sinclair picks up "every derelict
+ship" seems a little unfair...he's picked up *one*, and only one, and
+only picks up one this entire season.  Why him?  A) Because he's good at
+it, B) he could use the flight pay, C) it'll look good on his record, and
+D) because as he says as he leaves, it's a potential first-contact
+situation.  (NOt to mention E, that he has a death-wish.)
+
+     I would submit to you that this is NOT the same as having one
+character do a zillion different jobs on the station.  I think that you're
+reacting to something you've seen on Trek, and are assuming based on an
+example of one that we're doing it in B5 as well.  We're not.  Also, in
+"Purple," Garibaldi sends a different team out to handle the gunfire, so
+there are others who do things.  Question becomes, how many new and
+recurring characters do you want to introduce?  There are currently *14*
+regular and recurring characters on B5, and there are many folks who are
+saying that's too many.  As it is, we do introduce an aide to Garibaldi
+who takes care of some stuff for him.  Just as Sinclair delegates to
+Ivanova, and Ivanova delegates to the observation dome techs.
+
+     I just feel that you're leaping to a conclusion based on a paucity of
+evidence, built upon your experiences with another show.  We're simply not
+doing this.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Feb 1994 10:49:19 -0500
+Subject: Earthdome: where is it?
+
+     Earthdome is on Earth.  In what used to be Geneva.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Feb 1994 00:42:46 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Parliament? Dreams?
+
+     You'll get more on the varied Narn beliefs in "By Any Means
+Necessary."
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Feb 1994 00:42:50 -0500
+Subject: General questions for JMS
+
+     I could've written B5 as a novel per se, as you say, having written
+published novels before...and it would've been one more SF novel.  No one
+has really attempted this kind of multi-year story, on this kind of scale
+before for American TV.  (The closest I can come to in terms of other
+shows is, interestingly enough, "Brisco County Jr."  I've been very
+pleased to see them developing a real story over time.)  It's more of a
+real challenge to try and do it for TV, for starters, and B5 has always
+struck me as better *suited* for TV.  Generally I can get a good sense of
+what medium a story belongs in, and this one felt like TV.)  I enjoy
+challenges, and doing a show like B5 for TV is a *real* challenge.
+
+     As for the characters, for the largest part they were created new
+when they came into replace those characters who were removed from the
+story arc.  There's not much carry-over.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Feb 1994 10:08:16 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: "See you next Wednesd
+
+     No, Wednesday was just the day she was due to return; she mentions
+that her next job has to be finished by Tuesday, and this makes
+Wednesday the next day she could see him.
+
+     I'm not terribly enamored of Landis, and would not deliberately
+stick ANY reference to his work in an episode of mine.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Feb 1994 10:08:45 -0500
+Subject: Something I'd like to see (was
+
+     You've already seen a non-O2 alien wearing a breather in an O2
+section; one of the two victims walking down a hall in "Infection" just
+before they get smeared.  Also an alien or two in the gallery in
+"Midnight," though I don't know how clearly they can be seen.  We do it
+from time to time....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Feb 1994 10:08:49 -0500
+Subject: Telepath a bad idea?
+
+     The point you raise is exactly correct; which is why we've set up
+the Psi Corps in such a way as to *prevent* them from becoming a deus ex
+machina all the time.  This is what's always bothered me about the way
+"empaths" are treated on ST; it's a terrible invasion of privacy.  The Psi
+Corps has strict rules about who can and can't be scanned, and under what
+conditions.  In "Purple," she couldn't just go scan Trakis; she had to be
+hired, had to be already engaged in a business capacity, and had to find
+it *only* in surface thoughts, no deliberate poking.  And this is the ONLY
+-- repeat, the ONLY -- time this is done in the entire season, aside from
+the accidental run-in with Londo in the pilot episode.
+
+     We'll get deeper into the rules and regs of the Psi Corps as we go,
+further establishing that there's a lot they're expressly forbidden from
+doing by law.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Feb 1994 10:10:12 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Some questions
+
+     We won't see G'Kar's mate this season.  In time.  And yes, we will
+learn a little more about telepaths in the other species, and how they
+work, in "Legacies" and in "Eyes."
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Feb 1994 13:36:29 -0500
+Subject: RE: BTTP and semi-clad women (
+
+     I confess I don't see the problem.  In real life, some women are
+scientists, and doctors, and atheletes...and some women dance in bars,
+some women hook part- or full-time.  Some men are scholars and diplomats
+and teachers...and some men are gigolos and thieves and *also* dance in
+bars.  Where exactly is the problem in portraying both sides of this?
+Have we become so concerned with being politically correct that we can
+not show a legitimate part of human existence?
+
+     B5 has all kinds, and both sides of all kinds.  Male and female,
+equally.  I "chose" exotic dancers for a kind of sleazy, not-entirely
+legitimate operation, a backroom club.  What would one *expect* to find
+there?  Opera singers?  You look at the situation, and you choose
+what is *appropriate to the situation*.
+
+     I would also point out that the dancers didn't "eagerly rush
+forward to betray their friend."  Londo was trying to find Adira in hopes
+of helping her.  He didn't say he was going to do anything bad to her,
+and he was probably known to more than a few of them.  He was simply
+trying to find her.  The coin was an added incentive.  Back when I was an
+investigative reporter, I did some research on strip joints while I was
+living in SAn Diego.  Spent a LOT of time talking to nude dancers (when
+they had their clothes on, I hasten to add).  And 99.9% of them had a
+rule: you want to ask questions, you pay.  That simple.  That's how this
+stuff *works*.  My job is to keep the B5 reality as close as possible to
+our reality in that respect.
+
+     Some of them probably wanted to help, knowing Londo was okay.  Some
+probably didn't care.  And some probably would've betrayed her at the
+tip of a coin.  Life's like that.  So again, where in this is the
+problem?
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Feb 1994 16:35:53 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS Attn --  Re: Babylon 5
+
+     The video noise and audio problem is apparently happening between
+the time we deliver the episode on D2s and when it's uplinked to the
+stations.  Apparently the show goes through 5 more generations, in order
+to add in commercials (1 pass), add in closed-captioning (another copy),
+and so on.  We're trying to track it down and see where in the process
+the glitch is happening.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Feb 1994 16:56:35 -0500
+Subject: Comments on "Infection"
+
+     In your review of "Infection," you ask where are the floating
+recorders we saw in the pilot.  Just as a point of reference...they were
+in "Infection," in the last scene with the reporter.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Feb 1994 00:23:58 -0500
+Subject: Where is that weapon?
+
+     The weapon to which you refer was not part of B5; it was on Space
+Rangers, and was shown as part of an overall SF-TV report.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Feb 1994 06:12:53 -0500
+Subject: What's Spoo?
+
+     Re: your desire to make and eat spoo at home...deponds on whether or
+not you ever want to have children later....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
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+===========================================================================
+| This text is compiled from posts by J. Michael Straczynski on the Usenet
+| group alt.tv.babylon-5.  This document contains material Copyright 1994
+| J. Michael Straczynski.  He has given permission for his words to be
+| redistributed online, as long as they are marked as being copyright JMS.
+| This document, as well as other Babylon-5 related material, is available
+| by anonymous FTP at ftp.hyperion.com.
+===========================================================================
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Mar 1994 19:47:35 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS... A question about te
+
+     Episode #5 is the two year anniversary of B5 going on-line; not
+two years since the pilot movie.  It took about a year and a half to
+grow to this point, and for the final of the Big 5 ambassadors, Kosh, to
+arrive, completing the group.  It's now roughly six months after that,
+into the new year.
+ 
+	                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Mar 1994 07:16:15 -0500
+Subject: to JMS-thoughts on gay/bi and
+
+     Yes, you will eventually become aware of a character with an
+alternative perspective.  And the Sinclair thing wasn't a statement one
+way or another; simply a logical extension of their relationship.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Mar 1994 03:11:58 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Two small questions..
+
+     In addition, if an ambassador was *known* to have an unlawful
+object, it *could* be subject to seizure...but the ambassador could not
+be arrested for possessing it due to immunity.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Mar 1994 03:12:15 -0500
+Subject: Assassins' Guild (was Re: POD
+
+     Re: your analysis of the assassin's guild...dead on.  Obviously you
+have known some Narns in your time....
+ 
+     Keep spilling those secrets and pretty soon the Thenta Makur will
+want a *professional* word or two with you as well....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Mar 1994 06:14:38 -0500
+Subject: Re: Little touches I live for
+
+     "So, I've been wondering who made up Londo's line in Parliament,
+`but in purple, I'm stunning!'"
+ 
+     Ummmmm.....the scriptwriter?
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Mar 1994 02:40:22 -0500
+Subject: Parliament Glasses
+
+     Re: the glasses...whether or not I'm ever to actually get into it or
+not, the Narns put a *high* premium on physical perfection.  They're not
+supposed to ever indicate any weakness.  It's a matter of shame to admit
+to it.  So there's not much of a market for body-aids such as eyeglasses
+back there.  It's something you hide.  So some among them buy elsewhere,
+as in the case of buying human glasses with the right prescription (then,
+as the assassin did, hiding them from view whenever not absolutely
+necessary).
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Mar 1994 02:40:23 -0500
+Subject: Mind War (Ivanova spoil)
+
+     Thanks for noticing that.  Yes, it *was* very important (to me, at
+least, whether or not anyone noticed it), that Ivanova was the one who
+handed Talia the water, and had that brief moment with her.  For those who
+understand their relationship, it adds a tiny layer; for those who don't,
+because the dialogue keeps on going over it, it's not obtrusive.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Mar 1994 02:40:36 -0500
+Subject: Psi rating
+
+     Talia is a P5, as Lyta was in the pilot.
+ 
+     Lyta was recalled to Earth shortly after the events of the pilot; as
+was the doctor who saw Kosh.  The only two humans exposed that closely to
+a Vorlon were shipped back to Earth as fast as possible (which you'll
+find out in, I believe, "War Prayer").
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Mar 1994 02:40:52 -0500
+Subject: JMS and the Five-year Plan
+
+     When that time comes, we'll likely look for writers whose scripts
+show they can *write* for our characters, and then assign stories to
+those writers.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Mar 1994 06:04:01 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Spellings, Ages, etc.
+
+     1) Morobuto: African philosopher and leader who united several of
+the warring countries in that area under one banner; the Ghandi of his
+time (2075-2124).
+ 
+     2) The race was the Xon.
+ 
+     3) The Third Fane of Chu'Domo.
+ 
+     4) There weren't many takes, but there's one *GREAT* out-take on the
+gag reel.
+ 
+     5) Yes, revealing ages 1 and 2 would reveal 3.  Be patient.
+ 
+     6) Never got around to using the t-shirt in a shot this season.  With
+luck, next one....
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+ 
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Mar 1994 18:18:36 -0500
+Subject: Disappointed in Babylon-5
+
+     Just some brief responses:
+ 
+     1) Aliens aren't *alien* enough.  You mention that the other shows
+get gigged on this too, so B5 shouldn't be exempt, though you then go on
+to note that we still have to cast on earth.  Question is, therefore, is
+the expectation realistic?  Fact is, no matter what ANYONE does, ANY
+alien on ANY tv series or movie is going to be written from a human point
+of view because it's a human writing it, and a human acting the part.
+There will never be an authentic alien until an alien really appears; the
+rest is just human speculation.  (And if you want to go for a really weird
+approach, remember that this is a visual medium, and having someone talking
+to a clam doesn't work *visually*.  You can do stuff in a novel that you
+simply cannot do in TV or movies.)
+ 
+     2) The episodic format.  I take the liberty of disagreeing with you,
+both in your premise and your conclusion.  Forget what anyone else ahs
+(has) said, or what you intuit.  What I said from Day One was this: that
+every episode *will stand on its own*, offering a complete story, but that
+over time, the accumulation of those stories will begin to present a much
+larger arc.  That was the promise.  Yes, stories are for the most part
+wrapped up in an hour.  That's precisely the point.  What we're going for
+is a *cumulative* approach, not a *consecutive* approach.  The more you
+learn about the characters and the situations, the more you can pick up
+on stuff.  Further, threads introduced in one episode *do* carry over;
+you see the problem with Ivanova, her mother, and the Psi Corps recurring
+in a very major way in "Eyes," "Legacies" and other episodes.
+ 
+     It is a *cumulative* process.  You have thus far seen 5 or 6 episodes.
+ We're talking long term here.  Further, don't hold me to a promise that
+I didn't make.  I said the shows would stand alone...and now you say that
+it's a broken promise, that the shows are resolved.  Yes, they are; that
+was the intent.  It's the *characters* and the larger threads that are
+not resolved within the hour.
+ 
+     3) The politics aren't very political.  Again, you're making a
+conclusion based on insufficient evidence.  "Deathwalker" is almost
+ENTIRELY politics and back-room deals between not only the Big Five
+governments, but also the League of Non-Aligned Worlds, just for
+starters.  Politics back home makes a MAJOR impact on the show in such
+episodes as "Eyes," "A Voice in the Wilderness," "Survivors" and other
+upcoming, filmed episodes.
+ 
+     You're looking for immediate gratification, as if this were a short
+story.  I'll say it again: this is a *novel* for television.  Every
+promise made will be kept.
+ 
+     The sciences...we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.
+ 
+     My main point is, you're alternately holding me to promises I
+didn't make, or gigging us for not doing things when in fact we *have*
+done them, *have* filmed them, they just haven't aired yet.
+ 
+     Having said all of that...the biggest hit TV series, according to
+ratings and research services, have a large number of viewers who love it,
+a smaller number who think it's okay, and a smaller number who *hate* it.
+No TV series is ever going to appeal to 100% of the audience; it hasn't
+happened, and will never happen.  It just may not be your kind of show.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Mar 1994 22:27:43 -0500
+Subject: Pilot Laser Disc - WOW!
+
+     Just curious, where did you obtain the B5 laserdisk from?  I don't
+have a copy myself, and would love to obtain one.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Mar 1994 03:20:15 -0500
+Subject: Re: War Prayer: what went wron
+
+     We'd at one point considered setting B5 at Chi Draconis, but have
+pretty much decided to leave it in the Epsilon star system.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Mar 1994 03:20:15 -0500
+Subject: Richard Compton
+
+     Richard directed two more episodes for us: "Grail" and "Believers."
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Mar 1994 03:47:11 -0500
+Subject: JMS: More Questions
+
+     I see no problem with the synopses.
+ 
+     The Xon did evolve into fair amount of intelligence.  There are a
+very few land masses on Centauri Prime, separated by huge oceans.  The
+two species evolved pretty much separately, on different continents that
+were absolutely unreachable until one or both sides developed sufficient
+technology for extended sea travel...and that's when all hell broke
+loose.
+ 
+     Psi ratings vary a little, but not much; a P5 can be made into a P6,
+but not much more.  Generally, what you are is what you are.
+ 
+     (Many lower-level psi's, P1-P2s, are tracked by the Psi Corps, but
+don't officially belong to it or function in any official capacity, as
+their skills are *so* minimal or erratic as to be of virtually no real
+use.  Still, they have to be tracked and logged for genetic purposes.)
+ 
+     With only one exception, you won't see time travel anywhere in the
+five-year run of the B5 story.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Mar 1994 04:04:13 -0500
+Subject: My JMS questions
+
+     To reveal the first two ages would be to reveal the third.
+ 
+     Yes, negotiations have been ongoing for a comic book series, and it
+seems to be finalized, though I can't comment officially yet.
+ 
+     The PPGs are Phased Plasma Guns, using superheated helium.  It
+doesn't ricochet like conventional slugs, dissipates quickly after a hit,
+can be adjusted to produce surface damage, or cut straight through the
+body, or to make a big impact without burning through.  At full strength,
+they burn straight through any kind of body, causing massive internal
+burns and damage to the internal organs.  The clothes melt right into the
+skin.  It's not a pretty thing.  Generally they're operated at a lower
+or less lethal setting.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Mar 1994 04:57:12 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: More Questions
+
+     The number of psi's in each category, from 1-12, gets rarer as  you
+get higher.  Lots of folks have a minimal tendency, very few have any
+real talent.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Mar 1994 05:19:11 -0500
+Subject: G'Kar is sexy! (re Cinefantast
+
+     Re: G'Kar appearing in only 12 episodes this year...that's all that
+his character was required for.  Prior to the season beginning, before
+one word was committed to paper, I broke out all 22 stories for this
+season.  (Note: in one case, D.C. Fontana walked in with a different
+story than was on the agenda, which I thought was better than what I had
+in mind for that slot, and used the same characters, so that worked out.)
+ We determined how many episodes all the characters were needed for, and
+made our deals accordingly.
+
+     Next year, as the story escalates, the plan is to make all of our
+alien ambassadors available for 22 out of 22, allowing us to be far more
+flexible.
+
+                                                  jms(hoping for a new year)s
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Mar 1994 20:42:23 -0500
+Subject: Re: Inside of B-5 reminiscent
+
+     Re: the Rama discussion....I'd just like to point one and all toward
+the Gerard O'Neill speculations about space habitats, which contained the
+kinds of things done in B5 and Rama and many other books about rotating
+space habitats.  Again, this stuff has a backing in real science.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Mar 1994 17:05:05 -0500
+Subject: Straczynski: Racist or Cute
+
+     Malcolm Biggs was just a name, nothing more.  Nor should anything
+more be read into it.  You're seeing something that's not there.  Lots of
+people have the first name Malcolm.  I have to confess that I'm angered
+at your message.  A character is named Malcolm, and you dig up a whole
+context that doesn't exist and call someone a racist because of it...a
+matter strictly of perception that doesn't touch reality at any point,
+and here we are working very hard to be ethnically balanced, showing
+primarily inter-racial relationships between our characters...I think
+you owe me and this show an apology.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Mar 1994 23:55:25 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Couple questions about te
+
+     The first question I can't answer, for story reasons.  For the
+second question, we'll delve deeply into the use of telepaths in
+criminal cases -- particularly their limitations -- in "The Quality of
+Mercy."  Also, there was a *long* thread about this not long ago, and
+I'm not sure I'm up to going through it all again...perhaps someone here
+can point to where the discussion is in the archive.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Mar 1994 00:31:25 -0500
+Subject: JMS: "Mind War" was mind blowi
+
+     Glad you enjoyed it.  As for Bester...no, you've got it somewhat
+reversed.  We'd initially offered Walter the role of Knight Two in "Sky,"
+but when his health prohibited using him, we went to Patrick McGoohan,
+who loved the script, wanted to do it, but was going to be out of the
+country at the time of shooting.  We then shifted Walter to "Mind War."
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Mar 1994 05:09:13 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Time Online?
+
+     I think, to cover all the net bases, I'm on...maybe 3 hours a day,
+just to keep up with the traffic.  It's very hard; that's a LOT to stay
+current with.  About 400 messages a day zip past my eyes.  But it
+continues to be an interesting experience....
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Mar 1994 05:28:50 -0500
+Subject: Re: Straczynski: Racist or Cut
+
+     Perhaps you wouldn't have so many people "pounding" on you if you
+avoided the tendency to run your mouth out of turn.  First you posted a
+false notice from VARIETY stating that I had been fired off my own show,
+and posted it on various nets as though it were the real thing.  You were
+caught out in this, mumbled about being unfairly targeted, but never
+showed the *least* regret over doing it.  You smeared my name, and never
+once apologized.
+
+     Nonetheless, I offered an open hand, and said "We begin again," if
+you recall, figuring that everyone is owed one act of boorishness.  Then
+came your current screed.  You backtracked and said that you didn't
+understand the context, that you assumed wrongly...did it occur to you to
+ASK FIRST?  No.  You started throwing around messages with allegations of
+racism.  You didn't ask for clarification, you started screaming
+"Racist."  And once it was explained to you...again, no apology, just a
+mumbled comment about being confused and making assumptions.
+
+     Have you ever considered not running your mouth for a change, not
+smearing people, not spreading rumors, not calling people offensive
+names?  Just because you were born with fingers doesn't mean you have to
+use them at a keyboard when your brain is clearly vapor-locked.  I don't
+know what problem causes you to engage in this kind of behavior, but in
+future keep it far away from me.  I didn't care for your hoax, I didn't
+care for your malicious rumors, I didn't care for your allegations, and
+I don't much like your "poor me" act now that you've gotten your dick
+caught in the door again.
+
+     Grow up and act like a man or get the fuck out of public view,
+because you're an embarrassment to anyone who considers himself a fan of
+SF; the kind of person who gives the rest of us a bad name.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Mar 1994 05:28:57 -0500
+Subject: JMS:  The Twilight Zone
+
+     Correct; I worked on the new Twilight Zone as story editor, also
+writing about 12 or so episodes.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Mar 1994 00:18:35 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Please help! (problems wi
+
+     We're looking into the KSTW situation, along with some others, but
+there may not be a lot we can do.  This kind of thing really has to be
+addressed at the local level by local viewers.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Mar 1994 01:04:55 -0500
+Subject: B5 Character development?
+
+     Re: seeing more character development in TNG at this time (you cite
+knowing Picard's role in the Crusher death, Riker and Troi, and that
+Data and Worf were orphans).
+
+     "We've seen nothing" you conclude in B5.
+
+    What we've seen so far in this show: that Sinclair has a missing 24
+hours during the war; that he was involved with Sakai on and off ever
+since the academy, and now has a monogamous relationship with her; that
+his father was a fighter pilot...that Garibaldi has been fired from the
+last several jobs he's had, and has a questionable reputation, and has a
+drinking problem...that Sinclair has a death wish...that Londo has three
+wives and a penchant for having affairs...that Ivanova's father has just
+passed away, and her mother committed suicide, and her brother was killed
+in the war....
+
+     I could go on, but I'm not sure what the point would be.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Mar 1994 01:06:20 -0500
+Subject: More G'Kar questions
+
+     Yes, he does have a wife, who may or may not show up in year two.
+
+     What does he mean by pleasure threshold?  This is one of those
+questions that can only be answered through demonstration....
+
+     I'd always conceived that the name was prounoucned GUH-kar.  Andreas
+started pronouncing it SHUH-kar.  I asked him why.  Andreas shrugged and
+said that he'd decided his character was French.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Mar 1994 03:01:53 -0500
+Subject: And the Sky Full of Questions
+
+     (From memory)...we'll know on the pickup in May; TKO and Eyes are
+separate scripts, by those names; we're finishing shooing 121 and about
+to start 122 (episode 22); the Narn fighters came out of the local
+jumpgate.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Mar 1994 03:17:59 -0500
+Subject: B5 Presentation at Phil & Ed's
+
+     I'm told I'm supposed to do one, but haven't been told when at this
+point.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Mar 1994 03:18:04 -0500
+Subject: Defensive Grid
+
+     Rather than explain the defense grid, I think I'd prefer to let you
+see it in action.  Which you will, in May, in "Signs and Portents."  Its'
+one of our heaviest action episodes of this first batch.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Mar 1994 01:24:19 -0500
+Subject: JMS at Pasadena Con?????
+
+     I'm told my presentation will be at either 1 or 2 pm on Sunday,
+which will be tight since I'm flying back from Houston that morning, from
+receiving an award Saturday night from the Space Frontier Foundation for
+Best Vision of the Future.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Mar 1994 04:50:48 -0500
+Subject: Re: SKY....  more space scenes
+
+     The CGI scenes were deliberately step-printed to give the shots a
+more dreamlike look.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Mar 1994 20:03:57 -0500
+Subject: JMS:  Straightforward Question
+
+     There will be new episodes in April through the end of May, then a
+long break of reruns, then new ones starting in September or October,
+through November.  (This is because the stations need to have new eps
+for the November sweeps.)
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Mar 1994 20:47:20 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS at Baycon?????
+
+     Nope, no plans to attend BayCon at this time.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Mar 1994 01:56:48 -0500
+Subject: Re: Telepath a bad idea?
+
+     There will be no more Ironhearts, and that character will not
+return.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Mar 1994 02:18:56 -0500
+Subject: Sky -- comments and other thou
+
+     Since I don't know how to send an individual message to this alt
+section -- I can only reply to notes in my GEnie mailbox -- I would like
+to pass along the following.
+
+     Networks usually renew their shows at the end of the season, when
+they've seen all the shows.  Syndication, and PTEN in particular, works
+differently.  The decision on whether or not to renew will be made in
+April/early May.  One factor complicating all of this is the new
+Paramount network, which is grabbing up stations and available timeslots
+by the bucket.  They are, apparently, making very good deals.
+
+     Point being...if you truly enjoy Babylon 5, I would suggest that
+the next two weeks would be the ideal time to write your local TV
+station -- which has a *direct* say in whether or not B5 is picked up --
+and tell them so.  It's kinda unfair to have to decide on a show after
+only a handful of episodes, but that's the hand all the PTEN shows have
+been dealt.
+
+     Would definitely be appreciated.
+
+                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Mar 1994 02:19:08 -0500
+Subject: Re: And the Sky Full of Questi
+
+     Casual mating between species *cannot* take place accidentally in
+the B5 universe.  There would have to be *massive* genetic engineering
+on someone to make it even remotely possible.
+
+     (And thanks for the comments on the show.)
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Mar 1994 04:46:35 -0500
+Subject: JMS How have you been influenc
+
+     The conversation is most useful as a sort of "sense of the room,"
+if the comparison is clear.  I find that a lot of it reinforces what I
+suspected.  As for yeaer two...won't know until next month sometime.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Mar 1994 04:54:10 -0500
+Subject: SKY...JMS / Writers Digest...P
+
+     There are over 200 pages of single-spaced notes, plus individual
+files with background stuff, for the full five-year span of B5.  I don't
+think it's fair to set up questions unless you know the answer well in
+advance.  So yes, it is all worked out.  I tried to take a fairly
+Tolkein-esque approach, fleshing out as much as possible of the B5
+universe, whether or not it ever gets actually used.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Mar 1994 21:42:49 -0500
+Subject: JMS - Q: San Diego?
+
+     I live in San Diego from 1974-1981, and it's actually a great place,
+so I'm inclined to tweak it once in a while, just for funsies....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Mar 1994 21:42:52 -0500
+Subject: Re: And the Sky Full of Stars
+
+     The ONLY reason that they were able to pick up the blasts in
+"Infection" was because they were SO powerful that they registered on the
+station's sensors.  Ordinary PPG blasts don't show up.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Mar 1994 21:42:57 -0500
+Subject: ...And Every Star...
+
+     My only reaction is that you know more than you know...you just
+don't know it yet.  Nicely thought out.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Mar 1994 01:52:27 -0500
+Subject: Welcome to alt.tv.babylon-5
+
+     Unfortunately, I'm home at the moment, and all those specs are either
+at the office, or in Ron's custody.  You might best direct the question
+toward Foundation, which looks on here.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Mar 1994 03:57:25 -0500
+Subject: Schedule?  Repeats already?!?
+
+     Here is the dilemma in which we find ourselves.  In the Good Olde
+Days of TeeVee, the new season (remember when there WAS a "Fall season?")
+began around September (in time for the November and February sweeps), and
+ended around the May sweeps.  Then Summer reruns through August.  The
+sweeps periods are the very competitive periods in which stations are
+monitored in order to set the price they can charge for commercials.  This
+is a VERY important time for the stations, and they want new product.
+
+     We go on the air in February.  No problem hitting the May sweeps.
+But the stations need new shows to also air in November.  So that means
+you have to stretch 22 episodes so that you'll still have new ones come
+November.  It's a pain, but that's what we're stuck with.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Mar 1994 21:54:24 -0500
+Subject: P5: And The Sky Full of Stars(
+
+     Okay, now noting that Janulewicz voted to give "Sky" a score of
+ZERO...here comes my question.  How legitimate can your poll be if there
+are clearly votes thrown in to skew the thing?  I've noted this guy's
+votes before, and he tends to vote *substantially* lower, often in a
+random-seeming way.  Obviously he sent in a 0 vote simply to screw things
+up.  Is there no way to filter these things out?  Because otherwise it
+just encourages mindfuckers to play at keeping the numbers low, in a way
+that has *nothing* to do with the show itself.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Mar 1994 01:13:47 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATSFOS-Tossing bodies out
+
+     "But the line about the body being bound to the station by gravity
+was idiocy of the most annoying kind, because it blatantly screams that
+the people writing and producing the show don't bother to check the most
+trivial elements of the science they portray.  What they happen to get
+right, they get right by sheer coincidence."
+
+     The only thing that I would agree with in your analysis is the word
+"idiot."  I would, however, apply it in your direction, since you so
+willingly applied it in mine, as the person who writes and produces this
+show.
+
+     1) We do fairly thorough research into the science of our show.  We
+work hard at it.  We subscribe to the various scientific journals, we
+use advisors on stuff we don't fully understand ourselves.  We make a
+concerted, conscious and deliberate effort to get the science *right*,
+as much as is practical within a TV format.
+
+     2) Your attitude is the kind of reprehensible crap I get from people
+who aren't paying attention, and just assume that if something isn't done
+to what THEY consider satisfactory, that people are just sluffing it off,
+that they're idiots, they don't bother.  My response: who the fuck are
+you?  Where the fuck were YOU when we were having production meeting after
+productin meeting trying to determine how to do some of this stuff?  I
+didn't see your name on the list, didn't see you in the room, where do you
+get off characterizing our attitude?
+
+     And now for the good part.
+
+     3) This weekend, I was at the Space Frontier Foundation to receive an
+award for Babylon 5 for Best Vision of the Future, part of which was its
+recognition of our *deliberate efforts* to get things right.  Zero-G
+maneuvering, civilian use of space, a working O'Neill station, on and on,
+all the stuff you think  happens by "coincidence."  And which has not
+generally HAPPENED on TV before.  In attendence were the Delta Clipper
+team of engineers, astronaut Pete Conrad, leading researchers with NASA,
+JPL, McDonnell-Douglas, you name it.
+
+     And one of the people there, who had been with SDI and the Space
+Program for 12 years, currently a top-level NASA consultant, pulled me
+aside and said that after seeing the line about the gravity not letting
+the body get very far -- and THAT is what was said in the script, and in
+the episode, NOT your characterization of a body "bound" to the hull --
+he said he sat down to do the math required to come up with the actuall
+MASS of B5, starting with the 2.5 million tons of actual structure, plus
+likely vegetation, quarters, occupants, ships docked inside...and when
+you add it all up, it came to about the same mass as a fairly small
+moon...and IT WOULD BE ENOUGH TO KEEP THE BODY FROM -- AS STATED IN THE
+SCRIPT -- GETTING VERY FAR.
+
+     The body would drift from the station a bit, get pulled back, hit
+the hull, bounce, drift a bit, and be pulled back.  Or go into a slow
+elliptical orbit.  (He mentioned that in the history of the Apollo
+program, little bits of debris that would flake off the outside of the
+ship would remain in proximity to the ship, just on the basis of ITS
+mass and gravity, and it's not very big.)
+
+     A couple of other high-level engineers backed him up, and said that
+it was quite reasonable.
+
+     What's the difference?  THEY sat down and did the math.  YOU just
+sat down and ran your mouth, and decided to go around insulting people
+for being inaccurate when in fact YOU are the one who "didn't bother to
+check the most trivial elements of the science."  I don't think you really
+grasp how big this place is, and how massive it is, and its effect on the
+surrounding area.
+
+     I, however, DO know how massive the station is, and DID bother to
+call around to a few people I know who know this stuff even better than I
+do, to ask them about this *before I wrote it*, just to be sure.
+
+     I put your message on the same level as the occasional screed that
+flies through here blathering on about how there shouldn't be gravity in
+the observation dome since it's in the center of the station WITHOUT
+stopping to LOOK at the goddamned thing and see that it's 1/3rd of the
+way down FROM the center, giving at least 1/3rd G.
+
+     Let me tell you a story.  It's about Van Gogh.  He was due to be
+visited for the first time by his idol, Gauguin.  He covered the walls of
+his home with his paintings, and awaited Gauguin's arrival.  Gauguin came.
+ One by one, he walked down the line of paintings.  Upon coming to the
+end of the paintings, he turned to Van Gogh and said, "You paint too
+fast."
+
+     "No," Van Gogh said, "you LOOK too fast."
+
+     You look too fast.
+
+     And next time, you might want to actually CHECK your figures before
+you go around calling people idiots.
+
+     Blockhead.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Mar 1994 01:59:32 -0500
+Subject: "Stars" *SPOILERS*
+
+     Re: your note about tense useage in those two lines you quote...you
+unfortunately got the tenses wrong in both sentences, which takes care
+of the concerns you raised.
+
+     Line #1: "He must never find out what happened."
+
+     Line #2: "Maybe you're still inside...maybe we're BOTH still inside."
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Mar 1994 16:03:11 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATSFOS-Tossing bodies out
+
+     Yes, it was always my assumption that the body was dumped out through
+the zero-g section, since that has more traffic with cargo loaders and
+unloaders and less security than the passenger-oriented bays and airlocks.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Mar 1994 16:03:28 -0500
+Subject: JMS: praise
+
+     The only problem with a personal log is that that's pretty  much
+associated with Trek, and I think that the way we've got it mapped out,
+it won't be necessary.  Any info a person needs for an episode will be
+contained or restated within that episode.  Thank for the note.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Mar 1994 16:30:00 -0500
+Subject: JMS: ok on bodies, how about s
+
+     There is a security problem on B5, yes.  And we hope to deal with it
+at some point.  It's inevitable, really; 250,000 residents, huge crates
+being moved in and out every day, people going and coming...they try to
+confiscate what they can, but a lot slips through.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Mar 1994 16:30:00 -0500
+Subject: Re: Three ages of mankind
+
+     An Indian interviewed by a friend of mine commented that while white
+peole have only one B.C., the native-american populatin has *three* BC's
+-- Before Columbus, Before Custer, Before Costner.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Mar 1994 03:26:06 -0500
+Subject: Kosh Quote
+
+     We filmed it, but don't know if we'll ever use the "when it's gone
+" line.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Mar 1994 03:47:39 -0500
+Subject: QUESTIONS
+
+     The EA pin on the chest (stylized) is for the Earth Alliance; the
+color-coded bar beneath is for division (gold is command, silver is
+command staff, green is security, red is medical division, and so on),
+and ranks go on the shoulders.  (Ivanova, as liaison between the
+commander and the command staff, has a split bar, gold and silver.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Mar 1994 03:57:34 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Mind Wars, the alien.
+
+     No, this isn't the mysterious sixth race.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Mar 1994 03:57:39 -0500
+Subject: Re: What the hell is "Quantium
+
+     That's weird...I thought Quantium 40 was another term for Element
+115.  Ah, well...I think I like your math better.
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Mar 1994 03:57:45 -0500
+Subject: JMS - planetary surveying (min
+
+     The gate was set up in what was believed to be a reasonably fertile
+and useful sector of space; the explorer craft can't take too long in any
+one area.  They find likely areas for exploitation, take a fast look
+around, drop a gate, and move on.  This allows other ships to come in and
+scope out the place in detail.  That's when they ran into whatever's
+walking around Sigma 957.  (And it's not there all the time, only from
+time to time.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Mar 1994 03:57:46 -0500
+Subject: Walter Koenig's characters
+
+     Koenig was originally on tap for Knight Two in "Sky."  When conditions
+changed, we went to others.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Mar 1994 03:57:55 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Ivanova Question
+
+     A Psi-rating comes through training and examination of a person's
+skills over time.  Ivanova's mother never went through the full sequence
+to get rated.  (Although they generally don't bother with P1s through
+P2s, so she was at least a P3 or above, in terms of raw ability.)  A psi
+rating isn't hereditary.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Mar 1994 04:09:19 -0500
+Subject: Re: Defensive Grid
+
+     Correct; "Signs and Portents" is the overall title for year one; but
+just as one may entitle a chapter in a book the same as the book itself,
+this episode has the year-title in it (which may signify that this one is,
+well, significant....).
+
+                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Mar 1994 04:19:14 -0500
+Subject: Re: Straczynski: Racist or Cut
+
+     Who did pick Malcolm for the guy's name?  I did, in the premise
+that I gave Dorothy Fontana.  I liked the sound of it.  I often go for
+the *sound* of a name, and how it matches the character.  Anybody who
+makes more of it than that has some issues of his/her own to deal with.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Mar 1994 04:19:15 -0500
+Subject: B5 arc
+
+     There is a five-year story arc, yes.  What's planned?  Cool stuff.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Mar 1994 04:19:15 -0500
+Subject: JMS: contracts?
+
+     Yes, at this point telling who's up for what episodes/seasons would
+be a bit of a spoiler....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Mar 1994 04:47:09 -0500
+Subject: Show support! Write!
+
+     At this point, given that Paramount's making inroads with the
+stations, I'd say that's where any letters should go, rather than to
+Warners...but the effort is appreciated, make no mistake.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Mar 1994 05:49:49 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Trivia question
+
+     Jeffrey David Sinclair.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Mar 1994 04:54:29 -0500
+Subject: B5 in Australia?
+
+     It's my understanding that B5 has been sold to 7 Network in
+Australia, premiering sometime this summer.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Mar 1994 18:27:50 -0500
+Subject: Spoil me!!!
+
+     In some areas, the B5 cover is alternated with a cover on Stephen
+King's new miniseries, so that may be why you're not seeing it.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Mar 1994 05:22:13 -0500
+Subject: That Cinefantastique article..
+
+     It is unfortunate that because ST has for so many years been the
+only game in town, everything gets measured next to it.  Part of this
+is the fact that there have *been* very few marginally successful SF
+shows, unlike mainstream shows, in which there have now been so many cop
+series that comparisons to any one show get kinda lost or drowned out.
+
+     As for the Gene Roddenberry comparison...I cringed at that as well,
+not in any kind of insulting way, but just because I want to do my own
+stuff.  I'm not the next Roddenberry; I'm the first jms.  He did what he
+did, and I'm doing what I'm doing.  (Another article used the phrased, "is
+inheriting the mantle of Gene Roddenberry."  When this hit the stands,
+Harlan called and asked when the mantle arrived, did it come FedEx or
+regular mail, could he come see it, and where did I intend to hang it?)
+
+     It is the nature of the journalistic beast....
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Mar 1994 16:34:01 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Ivanova Question
+
+      Enquiring minds that want to know, will...in the fullness of time.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Mar 1994 23:54:51 -0500
+Subject: schedule please!!!!!
+
+     Here's what looks ilke the final April/May schedule of new Babylon 5
+episodes:
+
+     April 20th, "Deathwalker," by Lawrence G. DiTillio.
+     April 27th, "Believers," by David Gerrold.
+     May 4th, "Survivors," by Marc Scott Zicree.
+     May 11th, "Signs and Portents," by jms
+     May 18th, "By Any Means Necessary," by Kathryn M. Drennan
+     May 25th, "The Quality of Mercy," by jms
+
+     Reruns will be scheduled from June 1st through October 5th in order
+to stretch new episodes into the November sweeps.  The tentative
+schedule thereafter looks like this:
+
+     October 12th, "Grail," by Christy Marx.
+     October 19th, "Eyes," by Lawrence G. DiTillio
+     October 26th, "TKO," by Lawrence G. DiTillio
+     November 2nd, "A Voice in the Wilderness, Pt. 1," by jms
+     November 9th, "A Voice in the Wilderness, Pt. 2," by jms
+     November 16th, "Babylon Squared," by jms
+     November 23rd, "Legacies," by D.C. Fontana
+     November 30th, "Chrysalis," by jms
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Mar 1994 23:55:35 -0500
+Subject: Another Prisoner Ref.
+
+     What you're seeing is a standard TV series "bumper," same as is used
+on most shows.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Mar 1994 02:23:46 -0500
+Subject: JMS: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5?
+
+     I believe Ron will be shifting over my gateway, yes (and we all know
+how painful that can be....).
+
+                                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Mar 1994 05:07:56 -0500
+Subject: JMS:  Contract Renewal?
+
+     We'll know by the first part of May whether or not we're picked up
+for year two.  Here's hoping....
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Mar 1994 01:59:56 -0500
+Subject: Christy Marx
+
+     Yup, that's the same Christy Marx.  (She also wrote an episode of
+the new Twilight Zone for me.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Mar 1994 02:04:31 -0500
+Subject: Re: RE: Harlan Ellison UL
+
+     The "little fuck" story is absolutely, completely untrue.
+
+                                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Mar 1994 02:07:44 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Season structure (was Re:
+
+     I dunno...I really don't think of it in those terms.  There are gaps,
+and we'll deal with them.  Whether or not that changes over time will
+remain to be seen; certainly I'd like it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Mar 1994 02:54:35 -0500
+Subject: *NOT* an urban legend; was Re:
+
+     Nope, Harlan doesn't mention the "little fuck" story in Glass Teat
+or elsewhere, as it didn't happen.  He's bemoaned to me many times that
+this story has attached itself to him.  Didn't happen.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Mar 1994 14:33:59 -0500
+Subject: JMS at Phil & Ed's Excellent C
+
+     BTW, I can *bring* some video to show, if it's desired; just wasn't
+asked.  (IF a suitable projection monitor can be arranged.)
+
+                                                                          jms
+
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+===========================================================================
+| This text is compiled from posts by J. Michael Straczynski on the Usenet
+| group alt.tv.babylon-5.  This document contains material Copyright 1994
+| J. Michael Straczynski.  He has given permission for his words to be
+| redistributed online, as long as they are marked as being copyright JMS.
+| This document, as well as other Babylon-5 related material, is available
+| by anonymous FTP at ftp.hyperion.com.
+|
+| Note: JMS switched over from alt.tv.babylon-5 to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5
+|       this month.
+===========================================================================
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Apr 1994 02:32:54 -0500
+Subject: Re: schedule please!!!!!
+
+     Insofar as I know, should we be renewed, the new season would begin
+in January, same as last one.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Apr 1994 03:14:29 -0500
+Subject: DS9 vs B5 question
+
+     Babylon 5 was conceived in 1986; the screenplay for the pilot (which
+was more or less what was shot) was written in 1987.  Also in 1987, art
+was commissioned and used to help in pitches to networks and studios.  The
+full project -- artwork, screenplay, series bible, treatment and sample
+stories -- was shopped to several places, including Paramount in 1989.  As
+for the rest...ehhhh.  Old news.  And the show stands on its own, which is
+the important thing.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Apr 1994 03:14:52 -0500
+Subject: Minbari motivations/ Ellison
+
+     Your wife is wrong.  The B5 story arc has nothing to do with anything
+ever appearing in Harlan's work.  They are separate and distinct.  I thunk
+up this story all on my lonesome....
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Apr 1994 17:46:55 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Euro catch-up?
+
+     I'm afraid I haven't a clue about the European rerun schedule; I'll
+try to ask around, though.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Apr 1994 18:00:28 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Euro catch-up?
+
+     Actually, it's my understanding that the series has been sold to, and
+will shortly begin running in: Channel 4 U.K., AUM Trinidad, Canal Plus in
+France, Taipei, Sky-TV, 7 Network Australia, Set Eitz in Germany, Proziba,
+Italy, and several other countries.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Apr 1994 18:12:58 -0500
+Subject: Re: schedule please!!!!!
+
+     Yeah, I'd say if you're looking for some cool CGI, you'll see it in
+"Signs."  I'd say overall that our most effects-heavy episodes are "Signs,"
+"Babylon Squared," "A Voice in the Wilderness" parts 1 and 2, and maybe
+"Chrysalis."  The first three in particular are real blow-outs.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Apr 1994 18:14:35 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Icon schedule?
+
+     Insofar as I know, my B5 presentation will be sometime Saturday.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Apr 1994 22:44:27 -0500
+Subject: Quote List & Legal Question fo
+
+     Insofar as I know, no, there doesn't seem to be anything legally
+inappropriate in what you describe.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Apr 1994 01:54:54 -0500
+Subject: Centauris, Narns, and Earth: q
+
+     The Centauri never really got around to us.  They've been in a
+decline for a long time; the Narn occupation was one of the last of their
+imperialist rampages.  Now they're pulling back further and further.  And
+also as re: Earth...space is big.  100 years ago, we weren't putting out
+any radio or television or microwave transmissions; they can't check EVERY
+planet.  We got overlooked for a long time by lots of different groups.
+
+     Re: weapons...the Narns got their hands on the Centauri leftover
+weapons, and the manufacturing systems put in place there during the
+occupation that nearly strip-mined their world.  Using that as a base,
+they got heavily into the weapons business, and continue to do so.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Apr 1994 01:55:23 -0500
+Subject: About Creative Stories for B5
+
+     The best solution I've seen offered here is to create a *mailing list*
+rather than a newsgroup for the exchange of this stuff.  That guarantees
+the users some measure of privacy.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Apr 1994 01:59:11 -0400
+Subject: Character Building Episodes?
+
+     We're doing a number of such character-building stories; in the
+foreground with "Believers" and in background with "Survivors," in the
+first part of the next batch, for instance.  And more to come.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Apr 1994 20:44:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: Sound in Space
+
+     Here's an interesting new element to throw out.  I've taken the
+time to call in some folks who know this stuff better than I do -- folks
+involved in the space program, who've been willing to do a little free
+work/research/thought -- and have asked them to *really* go over this
+whole sound in space issue.  What I've gotten back is interesting.
+
+     One of the questions I asked if, "If you're 100 feet away from a
+large ship that explodes, will you hear anything?"  The first answer I
+got back was, "Depends on who the "you" is that we're talking about.  If
+by "you" you mean the tympanic membrane in your ear...no, because you'll
+be dead, killed in the explosion at that kind of range."
+
+     But if we're talking about the microphone...things get different.
+
+     Ships contain atmosphere.  The bigger the ship, the greater the
+volume of atmosphere.  Now...a ship explodes.  Inside the ship, you can
+definitely hear it.  The hull ruptures.  The atmosphere blows out in all
+directions.  Within the range of that atmosphere, before it dissipates
+(which would be very fast), *you will hear sound in space*.  For as long
+as that atmosphere bubble extends.  You'll also hear objects whizzing
+past you within that curtain (provided that they're not moving past the
+speed of sound).  Then, very quickly, it'll fizzle out.
+
+     To the camera's POV, then, what you get is a sequence: flash, sound
+within a VERY limited range depending on the volume of air in the ship,
+quick whizz and quick fizz.
+
+     Then silence.  Obviously, any ship beyond that range exploding will
+be silent.
+
+     On the second question, "Could you hear a ship passing by?" there
+were also interesting responses.  In order for a ship to move through
+space, it has to be pushing out some sort of medium to propel it
+forward.  If that medium is in any way gaseous, and you pass directly
+in its wake, you have the same situation as the explosion: limited
+sound.  But you can't hear it from the side, or in front of the ship.
+And again, it's *very* short range, only within the residual gases being
+emitted.  Though there might be a shockwave effect if a ship passes your
+ship in VERY close proximity.
+
+     We're still getting some opinions on this from other experts, but
+this seems to be kind of a growing consensus.  All of which I find very
+interesting.  The sound-in-space issue has become something of a
+shibboleth among SF fans...if it's there at all, it means someone's being
+sloppy.  But the way it's shaping up, this may not be an either/or issue,
+dead silence or full sound.  I'll post more on this later, but thought
+y'all might like a preliminary report on this issue.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Apr 1994 00:49:57 -0400
+Subject: JMS: The Gathering Please
+
+     The pilot MOW will eventually be re-broadcast, but as of this time
+I don't know when that will be.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Apr 1994 01:24:20 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Gene Roddenberry biograph
+
+     This was bound to come up, so let me dive into this now and tell
+the full story.  (I hope someone will archive this out there, so that if
+and when it comes up again, the reply will be available.)
+
+     I have no vested interest in Joel Engel or his book.  My first
+contact with Engel was when he wrote a bio of Rod Serling, and I booked
+him on Hour 25 -- my L.A. based talk show on KPFK-FM -- in order to rake
+him over the coals.  (Needless to say, I'm a major Serling fan.)  We went
+toe to toe for two hours, and many listeners felt that I was very hard on
+him.  (And, in fact, I probably was; it's not easy when someone tackles
+one of your icons in full view.)
+
+     What I found was someone who had no agenda but to get out the story,
+as fully and factually as he could.  Whatever he said, he had at least
+two and usually more sources on.  As a former journalist myself, I could
+find nothing wrong in his methodology or his motivation.  I built a
+grudging respect for him over the length of that interview.
+
+     He caught a *lot* of flack over that book, and I guess it was about
+a year later when he called and said that he was going to do his next book
+after a subject that would not be as controversial.  Roddenberry.  He knew
+of Roddenberry's work, though he had no connection with the person
+himself, and figured the book would be a cakewalk.
+
+     Much to his dismay, he discovered that he was wrong.  The story was
+riddled with controversy, and a very different image than the one usually
+projected.  He lamented in one phone conversation (we spoke maybe six
+times in the course of writing the book, it's not any kind of real
+relationship; mainly he was hoping I could point him in one direction or
+the other for sources, one journalist to another) that those who spoke
+most positively of GR were those who never worked with him, while he wdas
+having the devil's own time trying to get anything positive out of anyone
+who *had* worked with him.  This was NOT what he had wanted to get into,
+and apparently several times offered to give back the advance, just to get
+out of the book....but a contract is a contract, and he was under an
+obligation to tell the story as best and as accurately as he could.
+
+     Engel -- who has worked for the NY Times -- has *no* connection to
+Star Trek, *no* axe to grind, *no* interest in doing a hatchet job on
+anyone.  If anything, he was hoping to *avoid* this kind of book.  He made
+it a point *not* to sensationalize in the book.  If anything, it's rather
+dry in places, specifically because he's trying to avoid even the
+appearance of exploitationalism.  He is a very thorough, careful reporter,
+and is careful not to say *anything* for which he doesn't have multiple
+sources.
+
+     Once word got out about the book coming out, many of those closest
+to GR began a process of damage control, accusing -- falsely, in my
+judgment -- Engel of bias, of doing a deliberate hatchet job, of having
+an agenda, on and on and on.  I have made it a point to try and speak
+honestly and frankly on this and other systems, and I can tell you point
+blank that he operates under none of these.  He did not set out to "dig
+up dirt" or to "do a hatchet job."  He wanted to tell the full story, as
+much as could be verified factually.  There's a *lot* of stuff he got
+that didn't end up in the book, which *would* have been sensational, but
+because he didn't have multiple sources, or because he felt it really
+didn't belong in the book, were omitted.
+
+     When he finished the book, he asked me to read it in case I wanted
+to give him a quote.  I accepted the book, figuring that I probably would
+NOT give him a quote, simply because I wanted to stay out of the line of
+fire.  When I finished it, I found that it was an honest, straightforward
+job of good journalism, and knew *instantly* that it would come under a
+great deal of fire, most of it unfair, and total misrepresentation by
+certain portions of the fan community.  In light of that, I felt honor
+bound to give some sort of quote.
+
+     And that, as they say, is that.
+
+     This isn't an easy area for anyone.  As somebody once said,
+biography has lent death a new horror.  Probably 25 years from now,
+somebody'll write a book telling about how Larry DiTillio was really the
+secret brains behind Babylon 5....
+
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Apr 1994 04:32:49 -0400
+Subject: Re: Sound in Space
+
+     Re: using ship's drives as weapons...we've kind of established that,
+in one episode where a certain party wants off the station, and indicates
+that unless his ship is cleared to leave, he'll use the ship's engines to
+burn through the hull.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Apr 1994 04:33:15 -0400
+Subject: Re: Sound in Space
+
+     By now, you've probably seen the note I sent regarding the ideas by
+some who work in the space community that there *is* sound in space, in
+a limited fashion (as when a ship, containing lots of atmosphere, blows
+up in the seconds prior to the atmosphere vanishing, and within that
+brief bubble).  One person in the space program told me that when the
+last satellite was fired from the space shuttle, they could feel the
+vibrations of its thrust inside the shuttle.  One poster here, at JPL,
+commented that the space probes get a shock wave when they pass the sound
+barrier in space (though I'm going to check this one out before I take it
+as fact).
+
+     That SF fans have for years insisted that there is no sound in space
+does not mean *de facto* that it's correct.  I've asked more people in the
+space community to look into this, and we'll see what they have to say.  I
+think the issue is greyer than you insist it is.
+
+     (And the attitude of, if there's sound in space, "we're being talked
+down to, we're idiots," is one that I find personally offensive.  If a
+story is complex, challenging, innovative, fresh...to then toss all of that
+out the window because it has some sound element in it seems to me rather
+narrow.)
+
+     There's no soundtrack in space, either.  Also no camera.  Also no
+actors.  Also no space station (along the lines of B5).
+
+     But to take another tack...you just come out of watching a cop movie.
+ The characters were well rounded, the story interesting.  Do you feel
+they made you an idiot?  That they talked down to you?  You should.
+Because to use your criteria, they did the same thing.
+
+     The sound of a gunshot you hear in the movie is *nothing* like the
+real sound of a gun; it's been magnified and boosted and had the lower
+range boosted up; it's probably been mixed with some other sounds to make
+it louder, so you can hear it half a block away.  The sound of a fist
+hitting someone's jaw is nothing like the real thing; what you heard in
+the film was likely a cross of various different sounds, from wood
+breaking to meat being slammed to synth material.  (There are some folks
+who work in town who've formulated punch-sounds and carefully protect
+the "ingredients" that went into it, each saying theirs is dramatically
+better.)  The sound of a knife entering someone's body is nothing like
+the real thing.
+
+     The footsteps you hear have usually been added by foley artists.
+Sometimes footsteps are removed because they're dramatically inconvenient.
+That group of people standing in the background talking?  You shouldn't
+be able to hear them from here, for starters, and in addition, that isn't
+THEM you're hearing; for filming purposes, the background extras say
+nothing, with the voices added by walla groups after production.
+
+     Just a reality-check here.  If you take the attitude that any time
+fake sound is added, one should feel insulted, then one must end up
+feeling insulted 100% of the time, in any movie or TV show ever made.
+Which seems just a tad silly to me....
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Apr 1994 01:02:40 -0400
+Subject: Message to JMS
+
+     Insofar as I know, virtually *all* of our craft -- fighters,
+shuttles, personal flyers -- have seat restraints.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Apr 1994 01:23:58 -0400
+Subject: DRINKING GAME: DIANE'S FIRST D
+
+     I see many people getting drunk this season from this game...but
+mainly from *whole drinks*.
+
+     Surprise....
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Apr 1994 01:23:59 -0400
+Subject: Psy-Core
+
+    The Psi Corps doesn't exist just to help telepaths avoid infringing
+on the privacy of others.  They service the business community, the
+military, some other governmental agencies...it's important that they
+control, regulate, and profit from telepaths.  You can't just leave the
+corps.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Apr 1994 20:54:02 -0400
+Subject: JMS - dumb question below.
+
+     The voice-over at the end of the show is George Johnston, one of our
+producers involved in post-production.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Apr 1994 23:54:48 -0400
+Subject: JMS - Sound in Space
+
+     Thanks for the additional info.  It's very interesting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Apr 1994 23:55:59 -0400
+Subject: babylon 4
+
+     No commander had yet been assigned to Babylon 4.  One Major Krantz
+had been assigned to oversee the final stages of construction, and was on
+board -- along with about 1300 others in the construction crew -- when
+the station vanished.  The station had only been on-line 24 hours, and the
+discussions of a commanding officer had just begun when it disappeared.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Apr 1994 23:56:02 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS Speaks (long!)
+
+     We've had some talks with merchandisers about the patches; we'll see.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Apr 1994 02:24:35 -0400
+Subject: Save The Universe In 60 Minute
+
+     Let me dive in and take issue with you.  The problem you seem to
+have with the show(s) is alas a part of basic dramatic structure.  You
+have an introduction, a rising action, a climax, and then a denouement.
+Aside from experimental theater kinds of things, that is the basic
+underlying structure to all movies, plays and television series.
+
+     "Twin Peaks," which you cite, really isn't a very good example
+because, in my view, TP *never* resolved ANYthing.  Thus it became an
+exercise in viewer frustration that eventually was a major reason why the
+show was canceled.
+
+     The first batch of B5 episodes tended to be a little more self
+contained because, remember, we're trying to bring viewers in here, and
+do so without startling or pissing them off.  We get a little funkier the
+deeper into the show we get.  In some cases, as with "Sky," parts of the
+story are resolved, parts aren't.  Generally, it's our feeling that if
+you have an open-ended B story, you generally have to include an A story
+that has some measure of closure.
+
+     "Signs and Portents" and "Babylon Squared" are two episodes offhand
+that I think are emblematic of what you're asking for.  The A story in
+"Signs" is resolved...but that episode really isn't *about* the A story,
+it's about something unusual that happens with the B story that begins to
+set a lot of things in motion for this season.  And that story is ended,
+but not *resolved*, if you get the distinction.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Apr 1994 16:49:40 -0400
+Subject: "Off the scale"
+
+     The other thing on "off the scale," of course, is that meters do have
+a finite end-point beyond which they're fairly useless, at least on the
+level a tech would have.  You design a system for what you're likely to
+encounter, plus some extra.  And some of the stuff they encounter is just
+beyond the parameters of that equipment.  Some of it is for dramatic
+impact, of course, but that was my reasoning, such as it is.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Apr 1994 17:13:54 -0400
+Subject: Could I build a space craft?
+
+      Alas, as much fun as this might be, can't be done.  It all has to do
+with the development process, which must be work for hire, in order to be
+owned properly by PTEN.  Ron's designs must be developed while under
+contract, not purchased or used later.  And he provides them exclusively.
+It's a real knotty situation, and frankly, a pain in the butt....
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Apr 1994 17:13:54 -0400
+Subject: Could I build a space craft?
+
+      Alas, as much fun as this might be, can't be done.  It all has to do
+with the development process, which must be work for hire, in order to be
+owned properly by PTEN.  Ron's designs must be developed while under
+contract, not purchased or used later.  And he provides them exclusively.
+It's a real knotty situation, and frankly, a pain in the butt....
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Apr 1994 18:02:59 -0400
+Subject: B5 merchandise
+
+     I decided early on to take the same approach on marketing B5 as
+was taken with Calvin and Hobbes (my favorite strip) by its creator: do
+either nothing or as little as possible for the first period of the
+show.  Don't become merchandise driven.  Concentrate on the story, on
+doing your *job* right, then later worry about the fringes.  So I've been
+dragging my feet on this.  But if and when we get picked up, I'll likely
+expedite this a bit.  The main one that has been approved so far has been
+Compton's CD Rom of the B5 universe, mainly because I can also see a lot
+of educational use in that one, how a show is made and how you create an
+SF universe, which makes it an exception in my view.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Apr 1994 03:09:25 -0400
+Subject: Will we see more soul hunters
+
+                         Eventually.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Apr 1994 05:08:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS - Sound in Space
+
+     "JMS reminds me a little of Kosh...or is it the other way around?"
+
+     If it helps, bear in mind in which brain Kosh was *created*, and where
+he resides in off-hours, in this big circle running around in my skull
+with Delenn, Kosh, G'Kar and Londo chasing one another endlessly, like
+white mice in a wheel....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Apr 1994 05:21:32 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 merchandise
+
+     The CD rom will cover EVERY aspect of production, from start to
+finish, giving the user a firm idea of how a show is assembled.  I want it
+to be VERY detailed.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Apr 1994 01:27:50 -0400
+Subject: Upcoming cons?  Chicago, maybe
+
+     I tentatively plan to be at the Chicago Comic Convention July 1-3.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Apr 1994 01:27:54 -0400
+Subject: Re: Sound in Space
+
+     Nowhere have I said, nor do I believe, the line, "who cares if the
+science is stupid."  We have, as you note, taken great pains to try and
+get the science right.  But if you've been watching this discussion, you
+have seen people with equal qualifications -- physics folks, space types
+-- arguing over the sound in space issue.  Indicating that it's not an
+absolute issue.  Is there sound within the atmospheric bubble of a ship
+as it explodes and moves outward for a certain period of time?  Many say
+yes.  And there's some disagreement on other areas.
+
+     So the reality of this is that there isn't a concensus, where
+everybody agrees.  I have 5 email notes from people who work in the space
+program explaining how it might work.  And just as many from people who
+tell me how it *won't* work.
+
+     So as long as there is not absolute, definitive proof one way or the
+other...one has to take a position one way or another...why not this way?
+ To my knowledge, no one has yet conducted an experiment in space one the
+sound issue.  Until then, it's guesswork, extrapolation, educated debate.
+We try to take a position somewhere in the middle.
+
+     If there were nothing here to debate, no one here would be debating
+it...especially not in the clinical, expert way many have so debated the
+issue.  If it's not a closed issue, resolved once and for all...then we
+will keep the issue open dramatically as well.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Apr 1994 01:33:57 -0400
+Subject: RE: B5 merchandise
+
+     Thanks for the comments on the show.  On the CD-Rom, more than a
+"making of" product, which is of course part of it, what I want to do is
+use it to help de-mystify TV production.  There's an awful lot of
+mythology about how things are done, and if we can help dispell some of
+that, all the better.  We've come up with some very nifty and innovative
+interactive stuff for it that'll help that process.  It'll also have
+extensive sections on the aliens, their homeworlds, cultures, language,
+music, future Earth history (between now and 2258)...a substantial guide
+to the B5 universe itself.  Hell, *I* want a copy....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Apr 1994 01:38:54 -0400
+Subject: Newbie Question....
+
+     The sector of space was chosen for B5 because a) it's pretty much
+in neutral territory, and b) of the neutral territory areas, this is the
+one that seems to have nothing of value in it, so nobody will be
+interested in fighting over what's there.  This may not necessariliy be
+true in the future.
+
+     The interior of the station does have some farm-land, orchards, an
+open-air hedge maze, and other green areas.  We'll be seeing them in
+varying degrees of detail throughout the series.  No specs are yet
+publicly available.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Apr 1994 04:44:38 -0400
+Subject: "Sky" and pet theories...
+
+     I missed this one in my mailbox...if any right speculations come
+along, I'll either a) not comment, b) lie, or c) change the story to
+avoid the possibility of entanglement.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Apr 1994 04:53:24 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Sinclair's brother
+
+     You won't see Sinclair's brother this season...and that's all I can
+say for now.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Apr 1994 05:00:30 -0400
+Subject: JMS -- Character similarities?
+
+     Actually, no...Catherine Sakai is based more closely on another
+woman of my acquaintance, with whom I was involved for quite some time.
+And that's all you'll get out of me on the subject.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Apr 1994 05:00:33 -0400
+Subject: Re: Poll: Sexiest B5 character
+
+     Actually, the planet to whom Adira refers is, "Davo."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Apr 1994 05:01:44 -0400
+Subject: Silly Question
+
+     I've always spelled it the Grey Council.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Apr 1994 23:52:03 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Lies!  Lies!  Lies!
+
+     Hey, c'mon, trust me...I would never tell you anything that was not
+in your best interests....
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Apr 1994 03:26:54 -0400
+Subject: quick questions for JMS
+
+     The budget is classified, but roughly half of TNG's.
+
+     Yes, there is the potential for planetary visits.  It may even be
+seen this season.
+
+     Yes, we're doing virtual sets...and there's a doozy in the first
+little bit of act one in "Signs and Portents."
+
+     Sinclair's hole will be filled in as we go.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Apr 1994 03:26:57 -0400
+Subject: JMS - What is the Hist. of the
+
+     Great Maker is a term for the creator or god that has currency among
+many different races.  Its origins are lost in history.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Apr 1994 23:29:28 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Lies!  Lies!  Lies!
+
+     And of course, if I said I would lie, who's to say I was telling the
+truth when I said I would lie?  I might've been lying about lying; why
+should I tell the truth about that?  Or this?  Or perhaps I'm being
+totally truthful, in which case I will cop to admitting being untruthful
+in this eventuality.
+
+     I need a vacation.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Apr 1994 23:59:09 -0400
+Subject: JMS- How's Harlen???
+
+     Harlan's doing just fine....
+
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Apr 1994 01:59:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: quick questions for JMS
+
+     Actually, the virtual set can be seen in "Signs" in May.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Apr 1994 04:29:43 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Offended?
+
+     I work with Larry DiTillio.  Nothing offends me.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Apr 1994 23:45:01 -0400
+Subject: JMS Questions: God & Schedules
+
+     The post to which you refer is correct; I'm an atheist.  But as part
+of that comes the attitude that, if I want my position respected, I must
+respect the position of others, and the fact that the religious impulse is
+a sincere part of the human race's attempt to understand itself.
+
+     And I wouldn't mind seeing some Hill Street folks making a trip
+through B5 sometime, either....
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Apr 1994 23:45:05 -0400
+Subject: The Starfuries aren't new...
+
+     Your message is correct; there are various "weights" of Starfuries,
+some much more massive and impressive.  The ones on B5 are light, fast,
+not overly complicated, and quick-strike machines.  Another kind, which
+you'll see in the two-parter, has cockpits fore *and* aft, a two-person
+ship with much heavier shielding and armaments; the "Black Omega" version
+is made for top speed as an interceptor with advanced stealth components.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Apr 1994 23:45:08 -0400
+Subject: Second Season pickup?
+
+     We'll know about year two around mid-May.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Apr 1994 23:45:11 -0400
+Subject: JMS: a cuppula questions
+
+     No real plans yet on what, if anything, to do with the scripts.  As
+for time now...we're still deep in post-production and meetings, so the
+days are still *very* full....
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Apr 1994 23:45:16 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  Q. about the April/May E
+
+     Yes, there will be arc-oriented material in the May programs.  The
+"Signs and Portents" episode in particular.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Apr 1994 23:45:21 -0400
+Subject: Dear Santa Kosh.
+
+     Well, this season, you will get 2.5 of your requested gifts, says
+Santa Kosh.  But he won't tell you which ones.
+
+     And you will get 5 of them the next year.
+
+                                                                     jm
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Apr 1994 23:45:25 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Autographs'n'Photos
+
+     Actually, at this time, there *is* no office handling autographs,
+photos or scripts.  We really aren't doing any of that at this time.  If
+there is a second season, we might set up an office to handle some of
+this, but we'll have to wait and see...sorry this wasn't a more positive
+reply.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Apr 1994 23:45:49 -0400
+Subject: Quick praise for Babylon-5
+
+     Many thanks....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Apr 1994 23:45:57 -0400
+Subject: G'Kar's song in PoD
+
+     The song is an original, by our series composer, Christopher Franke.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Apr 1994 02:15:30 -0400
+Subject: babylon 4
+
+     B1-B4 were located in roughly the same sector, with B4 using some
+of the materials from 1-3 leftover.  B5 was constructed about 3 hours
+(traveling time in real-space) from the location of B4.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Apr 1994 06:47:47 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Sinclair Memorabilia
+
+     As I recall, the photo and article is about Sinclair's ancestor, who
+fought in the Battle of Britain.  And the framed piece is indeed a
+Sinclair Aircraft logo.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Apr 1994 05:06:51 -0400
+Subject: JMS: DeathWalker questions (mi
+
+     The Dilgar War was one of the first conflicts that the EA got into,
+soon after establishing a presence in space.  We mainly entered it to
+try and make a "rep" for ourselves, then got more morally involved when we
+saw what was going on.  That and the Minbari War are the only real major
+conflicts Earth has been involved with, and Earth was not directly at risk
+in the Dilgar war, though if they hadn't been stopped, that might have
+changed eventually.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Apr 1994 05:43:54 -0400
+Subject: Re: Hologram Question
+
+     Of course, your argument assumes no other means of projecting a 3D
+image being developed in the next 200 years....
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Apr 1994 05:55:59 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Why rec.arts.sf.tv.babylo
+
+     What do I get from the newsgroup?  A "sense of the room," primarily,
+I suppose.  And knowing that someone's looking over your shoulder, and
+that this person is *right in your face*, and you can't avoid it, and you
+will havae to answer hard questions if you screw up, tends to keep you
+honest.  One can hide behind isolation.  One of the problems in TV is that
+if you get to a position high enough, lots of people around you start
+saying everything's just wonderful, you get "yes-men" and nobody tells you
+the truth anymore.  I don't think I have that problem here.  If anything,
+it's just the opposite; because I expect criticism...or, more accurately,
+because people *expect* that I expect criticism, that critiques are
+expected of them, there's MORE of it than on the systems where I lurk and
+my presence isn't generally known.
+
+      Beyond that...I've always felt that SF fans, particular SF media
+fans, are the most exploited group of viewers around.  They're expected to
+watch the show, pony up the dough for merchandise, then shut up and be
+good little viewers.  It's very difficult at times -- emotionally, and in
+terms of time and energy -- to stick around (there are currently 1,154
+messages in my GEnie internet mailbox), but I think that it's important
+to keep with it.  Because it's a way of showing respect to the viewer, to
+be open and accountable and responsive.  Sometimes I get cranky, but I'm
+human, and that'll happen from time to time.  Usually I avoid that.
+
+     It just seems the courteous and proper thing to do.  Does that make
+ANY kind of sense to anybody...?
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Apr 1994 03:33:14 -0400
+Subject: JMS:When are you going to be i
+
+     No plans for Texas at this time, alas....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Apr 1994 03:33:17 -0400
+Subject: JMS or anyone else on B5 unifo
+
+     Yes and no.  All Earthforce uniforms in this division are blue; EA
+marines are olive/brown; security and other NCO areas get grey.  Within
+those areas, it's further subdivided, and is distinguishable by the
+horizontal bars below the EA insignia.  Gold is command; silver is for
+command staff.  (Ivanova, being in between, has a divided bar, half gold
+and half silver.)  Red is medical, green is security.  Yellow is for
+science division.  The rank bars are on the shoulder.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Apr 1994 03:33:19 -0400
+Subject: Deathwalker Comments (Spoilers
+
+     Sinclair was taught by Jesuits...and as far as Kosh goes, better to
+have him where you can see him, than not.  They *are* a powerful group,
+and it wouldn't serve to ignore them.  We courted them for 10 years for a
+first contact...and now we're stuck with them.
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Apr 1994 03:33:21 -0400
+Subject: Re: Babylon5 On Set Romance
+
+     Re: the relationship between these two, and your statement that, in
+looking at the characters of Garibaldi and Talia, the relationship "seems
+so contrived...."
+
+     Errr....I don't know how to tell you this, but this wasn't referring
+to a relationship between the *characters*, but to one between the
+ACTORS.  Jerry and Andrea are, shall we say, very much involved.  That
+will not bleed into their characters.
+
+     Is this, perhaps, a shade *less* contrived...?
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Apr 1994 03:36:06 -0400
+Subject: Babylon 5 Blooper Reel?
+
+     At some point in the future, we may make this available, yes, but
+at this time we're in no special hurry.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Apr 1994 04:02:22 -0400
+Subject: question for jms
+
+     Nope, Jason Ironheart will not be seen again, insofar as I know.  I
+don't like beings with that much power running around the plotline....
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Apr 1994 04:25:20 -0400
+Subject: RE: JMS: Why rec.arts.sf.tv.ba
+
+     Anything I say here is public record...quote away.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Apr 1994 04:37:23 -0400
+Subject: Cliche in Deathwalker
+
+     "It also adds another piece of miracle tech never to be seen again."
+
+     Wrong.
+
+     In point of fact, virtually *none* of the new tech stuff is just
+gone...you'd be surprised what'll be showing up again down the road a
+piece....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Apr 1994 04:37:25 -0400
+Subject: Deathwalker: EEEVILL!  (spoile
+
+     Re: B5's roster of strong women characters...this is something of a
+bugaboo/obsession with me.  I *love* writing strong women.  (For that
+matter, I love strong-willed, independent, smart women in real life as
+well; I love being outsmarted, love it when someone can go toe-to-toe
+with me on something.)  Generally, and this isn't entirely intentional,
+women on shows I work on tend to get some of the best lines, as is often
+the case with Ivanova.  It's not a case of being "one of the boys," but
+being one of the *people*.  There's a subtle difference.
+
+     The women I write are often very close to many of the women I've been
+involved with over the years.  So far, no one's sued....
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Apr 1994 04:37:27 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Can your posts appear in
+
+     By all means, quote away....
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Apr 1994 04:37:29 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Why rec.arts.sf.tv.ba
+
+     Thanks...it's an interesting ongoing experiment.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Apr 1994 04:37:31 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 realism vs. ST idealism
+
+     While we were in an agrarian state, and an early industrial state,
+we a) were of very little use, b) had little to offer, and c) came at a
+time when the Centauri were starting to fall back into isolationism just
+a bit.  The Narn had the misfortune to be strategically well located, had
+many resources the Centauri wanted, and provided other advantages.  One
+doesn't just conquer worlds helter-skelter; it takes time, money, effort
+and some blood to conquer worlds.  You only choose those which offer you
+enough to make the process worthwhile.  That simple.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Apr 1994 04:37:33 -0400
+Subject: Why Babylon?
+
+     Ancient Babylon kind of began with a good idea, to form a central
+location for business, commerce, trading...and gradually went downhill
+from there.  The *idea* was solid, and that was the goal of the Babylon
+project...to form a place, a freeport, of trading, where cultures could
+come together.  And it sounded exotic.  Naturally, no one expects Babylon
+5 to go the way of the original Babylon....
+
+     After all, we're *so* much smarter now.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Apr 1994 22:29:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: Poll: Sexiest B5 character
+
+     I have spoken today to Andreas Katsulas regarding the charges you
+raise, and he was unaware of any charges being pressed until he today
+called and spoke with the officer in charge.  He does not have any such
+problem as you describe, and is taking action.  Your statement that he
+"chose to let it lay" is untrue because he was unaware of it.  It is my
+understanding, through him, that you have called his home, tracked down
+his employment (as indicated by your own message concerning his agents),
+and have engaged in all the behavior typical of stalkers.  You are in the
+process of defaming and libeling Andreas, and I urge you to stop now while
+you can.  Lawyers are now being called into the situation, and a report
+containing all of your behavior on this issue, particularly your printed
+statements here, is being filed with LA police.
+
+     The kind of person who comes on line and makes allegations such as
+this -- and a charge filed by someone proves *nothing*, by the way, only
+that the person involved chose to do so, as with the recent filing of
+assault charges by Roseanne, which she has now retracted saying that she
+was "just upset" -- is the lowest form of human being, who must find some
+way to strike out at someone.  If you've got a case, make it, otherwise
+shut up.
+
+     This is the kind of thing that most dismays me about the nets, the
+way in which one person can get on and use them to try and destroy another
+person's career, personal life and reputation.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Apr 1994 22:29:23 -0400
+Subject: Re: Poll: Sexiest B5 character
+
+     I just left Diane a message similar to yours in the Katsulas
+thread.  People, this is an untrue rumor being spread around and jumped
+on.  Please check the other message I just left for more info.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Apr 1994 22:29:28 -0400
+Subject: JMS - Call out the lawyers!
+
+     Info logged.  Will look into this.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Apr 1994 22:29:32 -0400
+Subject: Katsulas, was Re: Poll: Sexies
+
+     Let me just dive in on this.  I hadn't really been following this
+thread, and only learned of the ugly direction this had taken when I got
+a call today from Andreas.  He was hurt, and angry, and confused.  The
+incident in question, he emphasized, *never happened*.  He also indicated
+that he had received harrassing phone calls from one party involved, and
+that he had spoken with the police department where the "report" was
+filed, and that they consider it of dubious origin.
+
+     This discussion, and the allegations, are clear libel, and it's
+dismaying to see people taking up libel and innuendo without *any*
+background whatsoever.  This is an ugly thing that happens on the 'nets
+from time to time, sometimes from people who are disturbed, or want
+attention, or have an agenda.  One person, for instance, spread the rumor
+on the nets that I had been fired from B5 after the pilot; another put
+out a rumor that I was a coke fiend, when in fact I don't drink, don't
+smoke, don't do drugs, don't do *anything.*  The problem becomes that one
+person can log on here, make an irresponsible or untrue allegation, other
+people pick it up, and suddenly it's all over the place, and it becomes
+self-reinforcing.
+
+     Let me be clear: I have worked with Andreas for two years.  I have
+seen him at conventions, seen him with women, and he has never been
+ANYthing but polite and careful to treat EVERYONE well.  There has never
+been a single other complaint raised about him, from anywhere.  He is a
+gentleman of the old school.
+
+     Police here on the West Coast are being alerted to this problem, to
+the harrassing/stalking-like phone calls, and lawyers are being brought
+into the equation.  This is one of the dangers in gaining some measure of
+notoriety; one becomes a target.
+
+     I ask *all* of you to stop this thread at once.  It's untrue, and
+damaging, and libelous.  This will be dealt with by Andreas,  officially,
+and that will take care of it.  You are judging and condemning a good,
+decent man who has done nothing deserving of that.  This is an ugly
+example of rumor-mongering, character assassination, libel and probably
+verges on stalking.  Everyone...stay OUT of this, and let the legal
+process take care of itself.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Apr 1994 22:29:37 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Ellison caricature in "De
+
+     The vicker has *nothing* to do with Harlan; it was originally written
+with Gilbert Gottfried in mind, but he was apparently unavailable at the
+time.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Apr 1994 22:29:45 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Why rec.arts.sf.tv.ba
+
+     Generally, I'm able to tell mail from public messages if I've seen
+the header before.  Otherwise, I tell folks to put ATT:JMS in the subject
+line, so I'll know to check it when I see the list go by.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Apr 1994 22:30:33 -0400
+Subject: JMS: EA badge?
+
+     At this time, the EA badges are not available anywhere but in the
+B5 prop room.  In time, that may change....
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Apr 1994 22:30:38 -0400
+Subject: My beef with Bablyon 5
+
+     What I don't understand is why in order to qualify as SF, one MUST
+have non-humanoid aliens in large numbers?  (You already mentioned Kosh
+and n'grath, that's two.)  Leaving out the practical side of the
+argument -- that actors are (generally) human, and if you want ANY kind of
+characterization, you need an actor, animatronics aren't generally at the
+level yet that can give solid long-term performances -- the argument seems
+dubious from a scientific point.
+
+     To become a spacefaring race, one has to go through some measure of
+evolution, avoiding becoming prey, and becoming adept at making tools,
+using fire (or its equivilent), and so on.  From the biologists I've
+spoken with, the species with the best chance of survival are those with
+their sensory equipment at the highest point of their body, for instance;
+as with humans, that puts your eyes, ears and scent organs at the top of
+your body.  To avoid predators, you need legs, at least two.  Four is a
+possibility, but aren't as suited to handle difficult terrain or squeeze
+through narrow openings.  To ward off predators, and build devices of a
+technological origin, you need forelimbs, minimum two, and given that the
+universe tends toward bilateral symmetry, you'll probably get pairs.  And
+an opposible thumb (or other similar appendage) is certainly useful as
+well.  What you get is something fairly humanoid.
+
+     (As an aside, it's interesting to note that in all tales of UFO
+encounters -- and I'm not taking sides in this, just dealing with the
+subject -- the aliens aren't huge lobsters or insects, they're fairly
+humanoid.)
+
+     You can have a character who can relate to our characters, show
+emotion, carry on a long story...or you can have puppets.  Choose one.  I
+know there was Yoda (on whom was spent VAST amounts of money, and time
+that is only available on film projects), and that was well done, but
+even that was clearly a puppet.  The technology doesn't yet exist to do
+what you ask.  You might as well say, "It's not SF unless Straczynski is
+able to fly around the room on his own power."  The resources to do it
+aren't here yet.
+
+     Nonetheless, we're continuing to try and find some ways of doing
+this.  There's a *very* non-humanoid creature in "Grail," created by CGI,
+which is about 60-70% of what you got in Jurassic Park.  It's a start.
+Maybe in another few years, we'll have the tech to do more of this.  But
+for now, it's not good enough to do the job *convincingly*, and I'd rather
+not do it than do it badly.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Apr 1994 22:33:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: "Deathwalker" (spoilers)
+
+     Except of course that Sinclair said that the non-aligned worlds would
+have observers there at all times...there are no other Dilgar to help
+break her out...the Narns have no desire to attack Earth installations to
+break her out as long as they get their share of the serum...and there
+really was no other alternative short of war.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Apr 1994 01:39:41 -0400
+Subject: Hey, why all the gloves?
+
+     Talia, like all Psi Corps members, wears gloves because she has to,
+when in public, to minimize physical contact and accidental scans.  As
+for others wearing gloves...sometimes it's a fashion statement...and
+other times, well, space is very very cold....
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Apr 1994 01:40:57 -0400
+Subject: Re: My beef with Bablyon 5
+
+     Okay, but then you're going to have an actor trying to emote in
+scenes with an air-breathing octopus.  It's going to look *silly* because
+the tech doesn't exist to make it look REALLY good.  There are some things
+that work in fiction, and some things that won't work when you have to
+FILM them.  This is one of them.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Apr 1994 02:14:21 -0400
+Subject: Re: Katsulas, was Re: Poll: Se
+
+     I understand; it's easy enough to do.  I just encourage everyone to
+engage in critical thinking whenever something like this comes along.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Apr 1994 02:23:52 -0400
+Subject: creativity
+
+     would babylon5.creative be acceptable for *what*?
+
+     lost in a fog, as always....
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Apr 1994 04:25:43 -0400
+Subject: ATT:JMS (was: Sexiest)
+
+     I didn't bother getting the name on the message; others here likely
+know it and can provide that info.  Killfile seems best...just ignore
+the guy.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Apr 1994 04:28:10 -0400
+Subject: Deathwalker: SPOILERS and obse
+
+     Your statement about the serum being a means of getting to the truth
+-- or her truth at the very least -- is quite correct.  And appropos to
+current reality.  We look back at the Nazis, and others, and say, "Well,
+WE could never do that."  But of course we could.  Fine tune your
+attention to the frequency of misery and inhumanity, and in short order
+you'll pick up Rwanda, and Bosnia and a host of others.
+
+     Our capacity for greatness is as substantial as our capacity for
+evil.  And we must constantly be reminded of that duality; to pretend
+it simply isn't there, or is somebody else's problem, inevitably leads to
+tragedy.  (For those interested, btw, I would encourage you to check out
+a short story by Mark Twain, called "The Man
+Who Corrupted Hadleyburg."  I think you will find it *most* illuminating.)
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Apr 1994 23:27:58 -0400
+Subject: att jms
+
+     The doings of local stations are utterly beyond my comprehension.
+I have little to do with that aspect of it, and mainly suggest that you
+contact via phone your local station and see what the hell's going on....
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Apr 1994 14:35:48 -0400
+Subject: The Garden
+
+     There is some limited life within the garden...some birds (which
+you can hear sometimes), and insects, and the like.  (In one shot you
+can see an insect fly off one of our actors.  Yeah, sure, like we
+planned that....)  It's generally one season in the Garden, and plants
+requiring variation are raised in a separate hydroponics area, such as
+the orchard (seen in "War Prayer").
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Apr 1994 14:35:52 -0400
+Subject: DiTillio, GURPS, P5
+
+     You're grasping at straws.  If you take the full extent of what a
+telepath can do, split it in half, and you'll get what a lot of folks
+would consider a mid-ground, or a 5.  I've never read anything from
+GURPS.
+
+     As for Larry...he did the Grey Knight RPG, and co-wrote the Call
+of Cthulhu, and wrote Masks of Nyarlathotep, among others.
+
+                           jm(who can actually spell Nyarlathotep from memory)s
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Apr 1994 02:54:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: DiTillio, GURPS, P5
+
+     "I'm sure you can spell just about anything if you can spell
+Straczynski."
+
+     *
+
+     C'mere...no, c'mere...I just wanna talk to you a second...no, I'm
+not gonna hurt you, the bat is just for decoration...just stand still for
+a second, that's all I ask....
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Apr 1994 03:22:08 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Worst Case Scenario...
+
+     "What happens to Babylon 5 if...say, you're walking down the street
+and a wandering asteroid crash lands on you, three years into the story
+arc?"
+
+     What happens is this:
+
+     First they scrape up my remains.  Then they put me in the morgue.
+After a cursory examination, the death is ruled an act of god, which is
+the ultimate insult to an atheist.  Then they stick a big needle in one
+arm, and in my heel, and embalm what's left of me.  Then there's a
+service.  All of my friends come.  What they do with the rest of the rows
+after one is filled is anyone's guess.  Rent them out, I guess.  Next they
+plant me.  I lay there for a while, gradually coming to the realization
+that when they stuck me in this crummy suit, they yanked the pants into
+my butt and now I have to go through all eternity with a snuggie.  In time
+I get really annoyed by this, my essence rises up out of the coffin, AND
+HAUNTS YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR NATURAL LIFE!
+
+     Or, put another way, if you want to see the end of the story, it's
+in your vested interest to keep my ass ALIVE for the next 4.5 years.
+
+     Ever read Sheherazade?  Think about it.
+
+                                                                jm(rosebud)s
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Apr 1994 03:22:11 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Will we see missiles? (or
+
+     Oh, believe me, you'll get your missile-wish in spades, come the
+two-parter....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Apr 1994 03:23:27 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Kosh's "Voice"
+
+     "Kosh's voice-the rumblings and bells and stuff, not the translation-
+seemed to be missing a lot of the lower tones and bass that I remembered
+hearing previously."
+
+     He had a cold.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Apr 1994 03:23:29 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Doesn`t this get tir
+
+     "Are there any other print or comic writing credits we should know
+about?"
+
+     Yikes....
+
+     There's an *awful* lot out there, in one form or another, most of it
+in the area of journalism.  Something over 500 published articles, in
+VIDEO REVIEW, SAN DIEGO MAGAZINE, L.A. READER, PENTHOUSE, WRITER'S DIGEST,
+THE L.A. TIMES, TIME INC., way too many to list.  The fiction's a bit
+easier.  "Your Move," in Amazing Stories Magazine, my first published
+short story (that counts anyway); "A Last Testament for Nick and the
+Trooper," in Shadows 6; "Say Hello, Mister Quigley," in both Pulphouse and
+the Midnight Grafitti anthology; "Demon Night" and "OtherSyde," both
+novels from St. Martin (hardcover); the TZ comic, plus an issue of Teen
+Titans Spotlight: On Cyborg (Cyborg vs. Two Face) "Face to Face Two Face,"
+and an issue of the Star Trek comic, "Worldsinger."  Also a collection,
+"Tales from the New Twilight Zone."  And others.  But those are the
+highlights.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Apr 1994 17:45:08 -0400
+Subject: critters/evolution, was Re: My
+
+    In Gharlane's long post, the JMS quotes attributed to me are not in
+fact by me.  Just a reply.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Apr 1994 03:37:41 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS!
+
+     "Where are the children of Babylon 5?"
+
+     Where are the children of Los Angeles International Airport?
+
+     Answer: going and coming, but not generally staying for any period
+of time.  B5 is like a massive airport or airport/hotel complex.  The
+only people who generally LIVE there are those who WORK there; everybody
+else is going or coming.  It's not a place you'd bring kids (remember what
+happened to the LAST Babylon stations).
+
+     As it is, a kid -- adolescent -- appears in three stories this
+season: Purple, Believers, and Legacies...and that's at least two more
+than I'm comfortable with.
+
+                                         jm(bah, humbug)s
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Apr 1994 00:33:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: Enough White Man's SciFi..
+
+     And of course there still *are* conflicts between Earth countries
+at the time of B5.  Including conflicts over space.  In a news broadcast
+featured prominently in the upcoming two-parter, because of another item
+in the broadcast that's important for that episode, it's noted that the
+representatives in Earthdome from several countries have pulled out in
+protest on the grounds that since they do not benefit equally from the
+exploitation of space, they should not be expected or required to help
+pay for it on an equal basis as everyone else.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Apr 1994 00:33:49 -0400
+Subject: Earth Alliance is a farce
+
+     To: Carroll, Patrick C.
+
+     Glad you could join our little group.  I'm glad to see you here.  It
+proves that the prison work programs are indeed capable of some measure of
+rehabilitation.  Just keep on the lithium, and jump in whenever you like.
+
+     I look forward to it.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Apr 1994 00:33:58 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Why Vorlons on B5?
+
+     The Vorlons are the great unknown.  They occupy a *huge* sector of
+space.  No expedition ever sent to Vorlon space has ever returned, or
+sent back word.  No human had ever even *seen* a Vorlon prior to Kosh's
+arrival on B5.  Their technology is vastly superior to just about everyone
+else's.  To unravel the mystery, to maybe get a *piece* of their tech, is
+more than sufficient inducement, I'd think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Apr 1994 00:34:05 -0400
+Subject: Re: "Believers" (SPOILERS)
+
+     "The concept of loving parents being able to kill their child for
+their religions seems to be unrealistic."
+
+     Funny...I seem to recall this little story in the Old Testament
+about how a good and wise man was asked by god to sacrifice his own son,
+to himself kill his own child, and he was willing to do it, and was only
+stopped by god saying, in essence, "April fool."
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Apr 1994 04:20:08 -0400
+Subject: "Believers" & DS9 novel: Great
+
+     A couple points.  1) When "Believers" was written, Peter's book
+hadn't yet hit the stands.  2) Peter likely got his notion of the sick
+kid and the religious parents from the same basic source we did: the
+headlines.  This has been an ongoing problem in real life for some time.
+So he took that real premise, and did one story based on it, and we did
+another extrapolation.  This notion did *not* originate in the Trek
+universe....
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Apr 1994 04:20:11 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Appreciative Viewer
+
+     It was important to tell David to pull no punches because in TV,
+most producers *want* you to do so, and he had to know going in that this
+was the way the story would go.  David's a great writer, and David's a
+professional...meaning he understands where the general limits of TV are.
+If you're going to move the lines around, it behooves you to tell your
+writer that.  Knowing the rules, he went out and did a bangup job on the
+episode.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Apr 1994 04:43:13 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS!
+
+     Oops, I misspoke myself...I meant kids in Believers, Legacies and
+War Prayer, not Purple.  After a while, this stuff blurs....
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Apr 1994 22:19:29 -0400
+Subject: Burden of Proof (Was Re: "Beli
+
+     Well, I disagree with you.  (Big surprise.)  You say, if God showed
+up, and walked around my pool, would that be enough to convince me, then
+show why that's a flawed argument in any event.  But that's not what I
+said
+
+     Empirical proof must first be defined with a question.  You ask,
+"What constitutes proof of green penguins in the south pole?"  In that
+case, producing a green penguin, and putting it through tests to make sure
+it isn't just green lime dye, is sufficient.
+
+     Penguins are things; god is as much concept as thing.  So first you
+have to determine the *question* before you can determine what is
+reasonable evidence.
+
+     The main criterion for god would seem to be creation.  Just about
+every major belief system has some kind of creation myth, and that their
+god was responsible.  (Or one of their gods.)  So that would seem to me
+a good universal test.
+
+     So now we go with your scenario: God shows up at my front door.  (One
+hopes he has made an appointment.)  As you say, walking on the pool and
+glowing ain't sufficient proof.  But I never wanted that as proof.  So I
+say the following: "If you are who you say, provide empirical proof that
+is directly related to the assumption of your beingness, that is crucial
+and *specific* to the definition of god.  Create a planet in orbit
+between Mars and Earth, without disturbing the orbits of either of these."
+
+     Now...if this being could do THAT -- and creating a planet with a
+wave of the hand is arguably FAR beyond that of even aliens -- I think
+that 99.99999? of the human race would accept that as proof positive that
+this is either god, or something so astonishingly similar that any
+difference is no difference at all.
+
+     So yes, empirical proof IS possible.  By using the "walk on water"
+analogy, you picked something that is by nature flawed, wasn't what I
+had said, and really has nothing to do with the nature of god.  As any
+good scientist, you first have to find a reasonably acceptable definition
+of what would CONSTITUTE genuine proof.
+
+     Planet-building is *definitely* proof of godhood.
+
+     Please alert me as to when this demonstration will take place, so
+that I may cancel all other plans for the day.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Apr 1994 22:19:32 -0400
+Subject: Jumpgate colors...
+
+     Correct; red-shift is the reason for the changing jumpgate colors.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Apr 1994 22:46:26 -0400
+Subject: Is starfury a bad word?
+
+     The starfuries are referenced as such many times in the series; I
+think this starts with "Survivors," airing this week.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Apr 1994 22:46:28 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Black Omega Starfury Ques
+
+     Black Omega Starfuries are *hideously* expensive, rather like
+Stealth Bombers.  They have to be carefully maintained, and their
+existence isn't generally trumpeted.  (Like the Aurora, for instance.)
+They're not mainly a defensive system, but rather an infiltration unit
+used on black projects/covert missions.  They're not really meant for an
+operation like B5.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Apr 1994 22:46:31 -0400
+Subject: Re: "Believers"
+
+     Through a miscommunication, Warners thought TKO was in the slot in
+which we'd placed Quality, so that went out to TV Guide, and it's now
+too late to change the order back.  Doesn't matter; neither are really
+arc-stories, though it was hoped to hold back some of Susan's development
+in TKO just a tad longer.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+
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+===========================================================================
+| This text is compiled from posts by J. Michael Straczynski on the Usenet
+| group rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.  This document contains material Copyright
+| 1994 J. Michael Straczynski.  He has given permission for his words to be
+| redistributed online, as long as they are marked as being copyright JMS.
+| This document, as well as other Babylon-5 related material, is available
+| by anonymous FTP at ftp.hyperion.com.
+===========================================================================
+
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 May 1994 17:38:36 -0400
+Subject: A quote about another, related
+
+     Hmm...it seems Patrick and I have more in common than I thought....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 May 1994 17:39:55 -0400
+Subject: Survivors
+
+     "When are we going to get an Ivanova episode?"
+
+     "TKO," May 25th.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 May 1994 19:11:19 -0400
+Subject: A few questions
+
+     There is no tech manual currently available.  But with time, that
+may change.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 May 1994 23:20:32 -0400
+Subject: att:jms - explosions go boom
+
+     In general, you don't see a lot of light reflecting off other
+objects when there's an explosion because in general those objects aren't
+close enough to cause a reflection.  Now, in "Signs," which comes up in
+a couple weeks, there's explosions near a large object, and there we do
+get some reflected light.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 May 1994 23:39:32 -0400
+Subject: Re: "Believers" is insulting.
+
+     You base a great deal of your thesis on the comparison between B5 and
+the US, noting that the US can "exert tremendous influence" on other
+countries through economics and other areas, such as technology.
+
+     You still don't understand that B5 is *NOT* the US; we are at or near
+the bottom or the totem pole in terms of the Big 5 in the B5 Advisory
+Council.  B5 is a gathering place, neither more, nor less than that.  You
+seem to be taking the position that B5 should become the galaxy's
+morality policeperson.  We don't have the power to back it up, or frankly,
+the moral highground from which to dictate it.
+
+     And just who is the "ahem" group to whom you refer but don't name?
+Is there a problem with speaking honestly, and instead using asides and
+innuendo?
+
+     Hardly seems the moral thing to do.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 May 1994 02:01:33 -0400
+Subject: ???
+
+     If you're talking about selling a new series...unless you have a
+track record that shows you can run a series, it is not possible to sell
+your own series.  Simply doesn't happen.  MUCH easier to sell a single
+episode.
+
+                                                             jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 May 1994 02:45:18 -0400
+Subject: TO JMS: being a Believer
+
+     The hardest thing in the world is to stand alone.  Your friends will
+not understand, will resent you, will want you to just stop it and let
+life go back to where it was.  But you have to follow the quiet turning
+of your own considered conscience.  It's a hard road.  Good luck with it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 May 1994 01:14:11 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  Legal system on B5/in Ea
+
+     Yes, absolutely; in "The Quality of Mercy," you'll get a look at
+how the justice system has come to grips with the question of how to
+handle violent crimes in an environment like a space station, which has
+limited room for cells, limited resources, and other complications.  We
+do plan to get into this area a bit, without getting too LA LAW about it.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 May 1994 17:35:44 -0400
+Subject: ATT:JMS  Filming schedule
+
+     Yes, all episodes have been filmed, and are in the can.  They have
+all been edited.  Only two remain to be mixed (putting in the soundtrack
+and sound effects), and that's it.  We're done.  Assuming we're picked
+up, filming would begin around July 14 or so.  Some script work has been
+started to give us a leg up on the season, one way or another.
+
+     PTEN begins its year in January for reasons of its own selection.  It
+is a PTEN artifact of choice.
+
+                                                                        jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 May 1994 17:35:47 -0400
+Subject: Re: Will Mira talk to GEEKS?
+
+     "And jms seems to be doing just fine...right, Joe?"
+
+     Yeah...absolutely...fine...look, hand me those crayons, okay...though
+I don't know why...the black one's all flat and you can't make good lines
+with it and they won't let me sharpen it because the last time I used the
+sharpener I put Nurse Filbee's finger in it but that wasn't my fault, she
+pointed it at me, so if I just have the crayons, the ones with the good
+points, I can get this done, get this done, on deadline, the deadlines
+are important, do you like the peach color or the green for the rabbit...?
+
+     What was the question again?
+
+                                                                         jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 May 1994 18:41:21 -0400
+Subject: JMS:broadcast problems
+
+     I hadn't heard this before, but will definitely investigate.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                          jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 May 1994 02:48:32 -0400
+Subject: Did I hear Zarquon? ByAnyMeans
+
+     It's G'Quan.
+
+                           jms (a man who always knows where his towel is)
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 May 1994 02:48:36 -0400
+Subject: "By All Means Necessary" Minor
+
+     Exactly my point; there are differences between similar alien
+groups (like the Narn) in culture, language and religion, with BAMN being
+a good demonstration of the latter.  Which is why I could only shrug and
+say "Wait" after people started hammering on me here about monolithic
+alien religions after "Parliament."  We'd already filmed BAMN by then, so
+I knew it was there.  That's one thing about this show that some have
+found out...generally, what you'd like us to do, we've probably done or
+are about to do (hence the many times, when I'm asked about something,
+that we can just say, "Wait until X airs in 2 weeks" or somesush).
+
+     Still dancing as fast as I can....
+
+                                                                  jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 May 1994 18:25:23 -0400
+Subject: Re: Trekkers and Babylon 5
+
+     Let me dive in here for a moment, with some thoughts about the show,
+people's expectations, and the like.
+
+     In my case, I've always tried to be very honest about which episodes
+I think are spiffy, and which are less than effective, whether I wrote them
+or not.  ("Infection," for instance, is one of my least favorites.)  What
+I have talked about being special is the *series* per se.  The cumulative
+and total effect of it.  Where this series will go, is somewhere no other
+series has gone.
+
+     But you can't just dive in from zero.  You have to establish your
+world, and your characters.  Otherwise you'll lose your audience because
+it's coming too fast, and they're not sufficiently grounded to appreciate
+what's going on.  So the first batch of episodes were, for the most part,
+very straightforward.  They gave little hints and tastes of what was
+going on elsewhere, but they were fairly standard in some ways.  And, of
+course, we got hammered.  "Where's this special series that we were all
+told about?"  Well, to that, I say, "You haven't SEEN the series yet, only
+the opening."
+
+     My point of comparison, I suppose, would be "The Lord of the Rings,"
+which spends the first several chapters, a LOT of time...on Bilbo's
+birthday party, dividing up his belongings, bringing in Frodo, the
+relationships between all the various Baggins's and other relatives, with
+Frodo waiting around, and finally hitting the Road.  You get a *sense* of
+things happening around the corners, at the edges of the story, but for
+the most part, it's fairly standard.  Now, you could stop at this point
+and say, "Well, so what's so special about this?  It's just about some
+dumb birthday party."  But it's the *book* (or books) that are truly
+extraordinary; it's where the road takes you.
+
+     Like Tolkien, and Jonathan Carroll, whose wonderful books start out
+looking very nice and comfortable...and gradually take you to someplace
+strange and dark and unique...I've tried to apply a similar structure to
+Babylon 5.  It seems to be chugging along at a good clip along relatively
+familiar terrain.  Now my job is to walk up alongside the story with a
+crowbar and give it a good, hard WHAM! to move it into a different
+trajectory.  "Parliament" was just sort of a preliminary nudge.  "And the
+Sky Full of Stars" was a good, solid WHAM!  This week's episode, "Signs
+and Portents," is another WHAM, even bigger than the one that precedes it.
+
+     There are two more major WHAM episodes: "Babylon Squared," dealing
+with the fate of Babylon 4, and "Chrysalis," our season ender, which is
+really more of an atomic bomb rather than a crowbar.  So roughly about
+one-fourth of this season's episodes are WHAM episodes.  That figure will
+increase in year two to about one-third.  Year three (Neilsen willing)
+will be half-WHAM and half-not.  Year four would be three-quarters WHAM.
+And year five is all WHAM.
+
+     I guess where I'm getting in all this, is that I don't think that I
+have hyped the episodes.  (No, you didn't say this, I'm responding to what
+you're responding to.)  The only time I've slipped and waxed rhapsodic
+about the show...is when talking about the *show*, which is in my head,
+all of it...I know who the Shadowmen are, and what they want, and why the
+Minbari surrendered, and what the Psi Corps is up to, and who is on that
+shuttle you see in the last moments of "Signs and Portents," and what led
+up to that moment.  For me, the goal has always been the book in its
+totality.
+
+     Along the way, we have an obligation to make each individual episode
+stand alone, and be as entertaining as humanly possible.  We invest
+astonishing amounts of time working to make the show as good as it can be.
+ I try to keep down the "unrealistic expectations" you note as much as
+possible.  It's hard when you have such an incredibly talented team as we
+have assembled *not* to sometimes glow a little, but we do try and keep it
+down to a roar.
+
+     From my point of view, I think we've got a dynamite first season
+under our belts.  As I noted elsewhere, if in my entire career I never
+did anything more than "Chrysalis," I'd be happy.  Out of 22 episodes, I
+think we have maybe four that, if all the negatives vanished tomorrow, I
+wouldn't feel bad about.  The rest I'll put up against any other SF series
+ever produced.  That we could make something as nifty as "Mind War" in our
+first season should be achievement enough; to also have made "Sky," and
+"Signs," and "Babylon Squared," and "Chrysalis," and "Parliament" in the
+same first season is almost more than could've been hoped for.
+
+     And finally, some folks are never gonna like it.  Lots of folks like
+country music.  I can't abide it.  (Exceptions for bluegrass and anything
+from Leon Redbone and the Red Clay Ramblers.)  Tastes vary.  And we have
+encountered some who are defensive against the show, and dismiss it
+without a fair chance.  But there are always those on *every* show.  So
+this bothers me not at all.  What matters most to me is that we are true
+to the vision of what this show is, and true to our audience, that we don't
+dumb it down or fail to deliver 100%.  And in that, I feel very
+comfortable.
+
+                                                                   jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 May 1994 20:27:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Why are you a G-Man?
+
+     Due to a GEnie mailbox glitch, I missed the original posting, so I'll
+answer Malcolm's question here:
+
+     Why use G' instead of J'?
+
+     Ask the Narns.  They's crazy, those aliens.  Just don't do nothin'
+like we'd like 'em to.
+
+     It seemed like a good idea at the time.
+
+     Pick one.  Either are more or less accurate.
+
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 May 1994 20:27:46 -0400
+Subject: THOSE WHO HATE WORKERS
+
+     I'm told by the writer (*now*) that  yes, the Rush Act is indeed
+named after Mr. Limbaugh.
+
+                                                                        jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 May 1994 17:48:04 -0400
+Subject: Chrysalis and anti-government
+
+     "Do you have something against our government?"  No, this isn't our
+government in B5's time.  It has some echoes, but it's not the same thing.
+No, I'm not a libertarian.  I just believe, in looking at, say, 6,000
+years of recorded history, that government always tends to have with it
+varying degrees of corruption, stupidity, venality and dunderheads.  Ditto
+with any organization whose membership is larger than 1.  That, too, is
+part of our heritage.
+
+     The EA government is currently in a very bad state; something is
+starting to go very wrong at the heart of it.  We're catching it just as
+this is starting to heat up.  We're seeing signs (and portents) that the
+EA is taking a turn toward something nasty.  Question is, who's doing the
+turning, and why?  It's not a stereotype, or an analysis of our current
+system of government; it's a plot point.
+
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 May 1994 18:09:33 -0400
+Subject: Re: Egotistical Producer
+
+     The name of General Netter was stuck in as a tweak to Doug, it's a
+tuckerism (for those who know the term).  We've done it a bit here and
+there; I kinda started shutting the process down after a while, since it
+was getting carried away.  I don't want it to be obtrusive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 May 1994 18:14:38 -0400
+Subject: Blatant Humour in B5
+
+     For as long as I've been writing, I've had a very simple belief that
+comes across with B5 as well: try to get in one really great action moment,
+minimum one real nice character moment, one solid dramatic moment...and
+one moment or scene that's fall-down funny.
+
+     I like humor.  I like that characters can show another side of
+themselves.  If there is any real test of sentience, one of them must
+surely be the possession of a sense of humor, since it requires self
+reflection.  And there is always unintentional (on the part of the
+character, at least) humor.
+
+     SF-TV has generally taken itself either too seriously, with rods up
+butts, the humor forced...or it's not taken itself seriously at ALL, and
+gone campy.  This show takes itself seriously, but not in quite a way that
+lets it fit in either category.
+
+     For me, as a viewer, I enjoy the shows that are roller-coasters, that
+take you from something very funny...and slam you headfirst into a
+very dramatic scene.  Hill Street was like that, Picket Fences is like
+that now...why not SF?  I've also found that humor can help you reveal
+things about the characters.  The Londo/G'Kar scene at the elevator in
+"Signs and Portents," for instance.  It says something about both of them
+without coming out and *saying* it.
+
+                                                               jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 May 1994 23:04:17 -0400
+Subject: Women on ST, B5 are perfect
+
+     I dunno...I didn't think of Dr. Hernandez in "Believers" as a typical
+model-looking woman.
+
+                                                                   jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 May 1994 23:04:21 -0400
+Subject: "Signs and Portents" -- SPOILE
+
+     Re: the theme music at the end of "Signs," I think it was me (but I
+could be mistaken) who suggested to Chris, our composer, that he use the
+theme, but in *minor chords* rather than major chords.  Makes it very sad,
+and very effective.
+
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 May 1994 18:28:04 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Awestruck again!
+
+     I sympathize with your attempt; I'm not sure that *I* could get it
+down to 14 pages, you're probably doing it better than I could.  As you
+say, there's a lot of information there.  Most people probably aren't aware
+of just how much they know until they do what you just did.  It's good to
+know that this stuff gets noticed from time to time.
+
+                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 May 1994 18:29:25 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Do you feel a karmic debt
+
+     My "karmic debt" is first, foremost and forever to the story, then to
+myself, then to the audience, then to the studio/publisher.
+
+                                                                        jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 May 1994 18:32:05 -0400
+Subject: Questions for JMS
+
+     Since the second season is still being shaped, this is a question
+that might be better asked in a few months.
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 May 1994 22:09:26 -0400
+Subject: Correct this quote!
+
+     The exchange, I believe, was:
+
+     Sinclair: Lieutent Commander Ivanova, please escort Major Kemmer from
+the Observation Dome.
+
+     Ivanova: Certainly.  You will resist, I hope...?
+
+     It's from "Survivors."
+
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 May 1994 01:06:07 -0400
+Subject: Is B5 a double header May 18?
+
+     Negative.  TKO airs the following week.
+
+                                                                   jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 May 1994 06:28:13 -0400
+Subject: Re: Sinclair's D*CK!
+
+     I don't understand...what does Sinclair's duck have to do with
+anything?  We weren't even planning on introducing the duck until late in
+season two.  I suspect a leak.  Nothing worse than a leaky duck.
+
+                                                                    jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 May 1994 01:24:43 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Your appearance in Real G
+
+     Oh dear...er...umm....no comment.
+
+     (Damn, and I thought I'd burned the last of the negatives....)
+
+                                                                   jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 May 1994 01:24:46 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Signs & Portents
+
+     Let's just say that if you liked "Signs and Portents," you're gonna
+LOVE "Babylon Squared" and "Chrysalis."
+
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 May 1994 01:24:50 -0400
+Subject: Babylon 5 first episode error
+
+     Negative.  The error is yours.  Londo's nephew was *not* aboard the
+Raghesh 3 station.  He was on the planet below.  Check the credits; the
+actors are different people.
+
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 May 1994 04:48:53 -0400
+Subject: Thank you, JMS! S&P [SPOILERS,
+
+     The symbol on Ivanova's starfury is a traditional Russian
+star/herald.  Crews of Earth-based ships are always human.  And we did
+some minor tweaking to Kosh's encounter suit, yes.
+
+     BTW, for anyone looking on...Delenn didn't say, "They're back."  She
+said "They're here."
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 May 1994 22:32:42 -0400
+Subject: Signs & Portents: WHAM! (attn
+
+     The discrepencies have been noted, and will be looked into.  The
+questions you raise will be answered in time...but not here.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 May 1994 02:04:01 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Coincidence?
+
+     At the point in which we join the tale of the last of the Babylon
+stations, *everything* is in a state of flux...one government is on the
+rise, another is declining, Earth is taking some new and disturbing
+directions...so yes, they all feel there is a change coming.  It's a little
+thing, but we keep it alive to keep a sense of something moving on a web,
+and each movement makes the whole thing shake just a little.
+
+                                                                        jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 May 1994 02:30:23 -0400
+Subject: "A" and "B" plots
+
+     We're very flexible when it comes to A, B and C stories.  Some of
+our episodes, like "Survivors," are all A story, no B story at all.  Some
+have A and B stories.  Some, like "The Quality of Mercy," have 3-4 stories
+going on at once.
+
+                                                                           jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 May 1994 02:30:26 -0400
+Subject: Shadows of Shadowmen (spoilers
+
+     Since you've done such a great job of speculating, I give you a
+gift...a preview of something.
+
+     There's an upcoming episode with Delenn going to the Grey Council.
+As she joins the circle, in her Grey Council robes, she says, "In Valen's
+name, I take the place that has been prepared for me.  I am Grey; I stand
+between the candle, and the star.  We are Grey; we stand between the
+Darkness, and the Light."
+
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 May 1994 02:30:28 -0400
+Subject: What the HELL?! (S&P SPOILERS!
+
+     The raiders are gone for good, yes.
+
+                                                                        jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 May 1994 02:40:01 -0400
+Subject: JMS: S&P - ?'s I Don't Expect
+
+     They refers to humans.  There was no need to ask Sinclair, and he
+was under orders not to.  And who is on that shuttle...is an excellent
+question.
+
+                                                                           jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 May 1994 04:30:00 -0400
+Subject: @JMS, The intro
+
+     The first episode of season two will be narrative-intro'd as the
+year 2259.
+
+                                                                          jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 May 1994 05:38:59 -0400
+Subject: "Believers": Sci-Fi or ripoff?
+
+     Excuse me....
+
+     You don't think that "Believers" was SF.  Tough.
+
+     No, it didn't have warp gates, or tachyon emitters, or lots of
+technobabble...it was about people.  And the dilemmas they face.
+
+     Part of what has screwed up so much of SF-TV is this sense that you
+must utterly divorce yourself from current issues, from current problems,
+from taking on issues of today and extrapolating them into the future, by
+way of aliens or SF constructs.  And that is *precisely* why so much of
+contemporary SF-TV is barren and lifeless and irrelevant...and *precisely*
+why such series as the original Star Trek, and Outer Limits, and Twilight
+Zone are with us today.
+
+     Like Rod Serling and Gene Roddenberry and Joe Stefano and Reginald
+Rose and Arch Oboler and Norman Corwin and a bunch of other writers whose
+typewriters I'm not fit to touch, my goal in part is to simply tell good
+stories within an SF setting.  And by SF I mean speculative fiction, which
+sometimes touches on hard-SF aspects, and sometimes doesn't.  Speculative
+fiction means you look at how society changes, how cultures interact with
+one another, how belief systems come into conflict.  And as someone else
+here noted recently, anthropology and sociology are also sciences; soft
+sciences, to be sure, but sciences nonetheless.
+
+     It's been pointed out that TV-SF is generally 20-30 years behind
+print SF.  This whole conversation proves the point quite succinctly.  In
+the 1960s or so, along came the New Wave of SF, which eschewed hardware
+for stories about the human condition set against an SF background.  And
+the fanzines and prozines and techno-loving pundits of hard-SF declared
+it heresy, said it wasn't SF, this is crap.  And eventually they were
+steamrolled, and print SF grew up a little.  Now the argument has come to
+settle here.  Well, fine.  So be it.
+
+     I think it was Arthur C. Clarke who said that SF is anything I point
+to and say, "That's SF."  Go pick up a copy of "A Canticle for Liebowitz,"
+one of the real singular masterpieces of the science fiction genre, and
+it won't fit the narrow criteria you've set up for what qualifies as SF
+by your lights.
+
+     There is a tendency among the more radical hard-SF proponents to
+stamp their feet and hold their breath until they turn blue, to threaten
+that unless the book changes or the field comes around or the series
+cottens to *their* specific, narrow version of what SF is -- and that
+definition changes from person to person -- they'll take their ball and
+their bat and go home.  Fine and good.  And the millions who come to take
+their place in the bleachers and on the field will get to have all the
+fun.
+
+     Some of our episodes will fit your definition of SF.  Some will not.
+This worries me not at all.
+
+                                                                          jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 May 1994 01:33:55 -0400
+Subject: Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) on B
+
+     I think that's an absolutely *splendid* idea.
+
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 May 1994 01:33:57 -0400
+Subject: The same launching shots
+
+     I tend to agree re: the launching shots.  There were going to be som
+(some) new ones for S&P, but there were SO many new shots in that one that
+we just ran out of rendering time.  There's some new ones coming, though,
+and very dramatic looking, in "Babylon Squared" and the two-parter.
+
+                                                                         jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 May 1994 04:56:12 -0400
+Subject: Re: Message from JMS
+
+     Please do not stick this on O'Hare.  Whatever decisions get made, it
+is up to the producers -- me and Doug -- to implement those decisions, so
+ultimate responsibility rests with me.  If you're going to be angry at
+anyone, be angry at me.  Your anger is misplaced.
+
+     Again, this was *mutual*.  We looked at the story, the way a
+novelist looks at a novel he's one-fifth through writing, and you learn
+things writing the novel that you can learn NO other way, however much
+you plan and outline.  And at some point, you say, "If we leave things
+JUST as they are, no changes, we can do X and Y, which are both very
+cool.  But if we take a chance, and make some shifts in direction, we can
+do X, and Y...*AND* Z...and Z is *VERY* interesting indeed.  It opens up
+whole new areas for us to explore.  So we talked about it with Michael,
+who had some thoughts of his own...and now here we are.
+
+     Granted, it's taking a chance.  But we all swore a blood oath to
+make the show consistently better.  Any time a possible decision comes
+up -- like, Should we do "Believers," knowing that it'll get us in
+ENDLESS trouble -- we ask, "Will this benefit the show?"  If the answer
+is yes, we do it, regardless.
+
+     Once again, this is *mutual*.  So blame me.  And be assured, this
+isn't now going to be a band-aid covering...it will let us get deeper and
+faster into the meat of the storyline, and intensify the characterizations
+and relationships.  Sinclair's purpose in the large part of the first
+section of the story was really to get everyone together...to start the
+pieces moving.  And now we've got all the players in position.  The whole
+24 hours/Line thread was *always* going to be resolved at the top of year
+two, because you can't sustain that for more than 1.5 seasons at MOST.
+The audience, rightly, won't stand for it.  At that point, that mystery
+dispensed with (which would lead to other questions), Sinclair kinda
+faded a bit from the story, because now we have to bring the other
+players into the foreground.  So if he's going to fade *anyway*, why have
+him meandering around?  Why not "absent" him for a time...and up the
+stakes for everyone else, and help focus on other aspects?
+
+     The story will go where it was always going to go.  This much is
+certain.
+
+                                                                    jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 May 1994 18:31:23 -0400
+Subject: Re: Portents and Questions
+
+     "It has been divulged that Sinclair is coexisting in a parallel
+dimension Babylon 4."
+
+     Actually, this has *not* been divulged...what it is is a speculation
+based on an offhand comment by Michael at a convention.  I jump in here
+only because, well, that ain't it.  B4 is not in an alternate dimension,
+neither is there an alternate Sinclair.  Just a course correction to the
+discussion.
+
+                                                                         jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 May 1994 18:32:42 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Zima?!
+
+     Babylon 5 (the show) got not a dime for sticking in the Zima sign.
+We just thought...well, it'd be funny.
+
+                                                                 jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 May 1994 18:32:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: Message from JMS
+
+    Just to clarify again, this was a *mutual* decision.  There are some
+VERY interesting things that we can do if we take an extended hiatus from
+Sinclair aboard B5 (while keeping his character alive elsewhere) that we
+wanted to explore, and Michael had some thoughts of his own.
+
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 May 1994 18:32:46 -0400
+Subject: JMS: O'Hare leaving?
+
+     Londo's voice over does not specifically name Sinclair in the pilot.
+
+                                                                          jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 May 1994 18:32:49 -0400
+Subject: ATT: JMS PsiCops! (You are tri
+
+     Congratulations.  I was wondering when anyone was going to hit on
+the CSICOP reference.  I was looking for a good name for the pit bulls of
+the Psi Corps, and thought it made for a great play on words, and a very
+obscure almost-pun, to name them Psi-Cops.
+
+     I'm afraid you don't win a toaster, but a definite nod from deep
+inside Babylon 5.
+
+                                                                        jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 May 1994 18:59:13 -0400
+Subject: Re: Message from JMS
+
+     "...terrible mismanagement of the production staff to not have
+wrapped the main characters in contract for the duration."
+
+     We did.
+
+     As has been noted elsewhere...when you write a novel or produce a
+series, you learn things you can learn no other way.  And we looked at
+where we were with the story, and figured we could keep on going just
+fine as we were.  But if we did X, risky as it might be, it would open up
+whole new directions, and let us improve the quality of the story in its
+range, its scope, and its impact.  THEN we went to Michael for his
+thoughts.  Both sides had some good reasons for doing this.  This isn't a
+matter of "patching things over."  On our part, this is a deliberate
+decision which we think will improve the hell out of the story.
+
+                                                                         jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 May 1994 21:16:19 -0400
+Subject: "Babylon Squared" & "Chrysalis
+     "Babylon Squared" and "Chrysalis" will air in August.
+
+                                                                   jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 May 1994 02:43:33 -0400
+Subject: RUMOR: Michael O'Hare (Sinclai
+
+     Yes, it's quite true.  And it was precipitated, in large measure, by
+an in-house evaluation of the story, and where we stood, and what more we
+could do to make the story tighter, more interesting, and bring in some
+surprises.  Then followed our talks with Michael, who had some thoughts of
+his own.  And this is not a total separation; there may well be some
+sightings of Sinclair along the way from time to time....
+
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 May 1994 00:19:25 -0400
+Subject: JMS: two questions and a spoil
+
+     There will not be a title change during the 5 year story; and we may
+not have seen B5's full defense system.
+
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 May 1994 01:55:51 -0400
+Subject: Starfury merchandising (ATTN:
+
+     Galoob will do some limited toys, don't know if the Starfury will
+be among them, but I'd be very surprised if someone didn't start putting
+them out eventually (though nothing's set yet).  Hell, I want one for
+myself.
+
+     Best to the U of MN viewers.
+
+                                                                        jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 May 1994 01:55:57 -0400
+Subject: > Attn: JMS - re: Morden/Ed Wa
+
+     I agree; Ed did a great job.  He was perfect for that role.  (He has
+an oddly Rod Serling-ish quality to his stance, I've noticed.)  And he
+will definitely be seen again.
+
+                                                                   jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 May 1994 02:11:16 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Will we see Sinclair at a
+
+     At this point, we may well see Sinclair at some point in season two,
+but can't at this point tell you where.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 May 1994 11:47:49 -0400
+Subject: Re: Message from JMS
+
+     Yes, you're right, I meant to type Moria, but my brain glitched and
+it was late.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 May 1994 11:49:10 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS Re: Message from JMS
+
+     It was my letter, yes.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 May 1994 11:49:12 -0400
+Subject: Re: Message from JMS
+
+     The Battle of the Line and the hole in Sinclair's mind was always
+intended as the entry point or trigger to the story.  It's like Frodo
+being given the Ring in LoTR.  The story isn't about that, that's how we
+get INTO it.  Frankly, there's no way you can sustain that one element for
+five years, nor did we ever intend to do so.
+ 
+     The only difference in the resolution of that aspect is this: we had
+originally intended to resolve the missing 24 hours, and the Battle of
+the Line, by episode four, season two.  We've simply moved it up 3 eps to
+the first episode.  Because new players are coming onto the field, in the
+form of the Shadowmen, and other forces, and we now have to begin turning
+our attention to new mysteries.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 May 1994 02:56:35 -0400
+Subject: Don't erase your lab notes JMS
+
+     We must never cease striving for perfection.
+
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 May 1994 03:06:43 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Small Bit in S&P
+
+     The reference was mainly just a bit of black humor, no greater
+overtones or meaning than that.  I don't think it's fair to the audience
+to use something as obscure as that as a plot element.
+
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 May 1994 03:06:45 -0400
+Subject: There's a hole in your cast (w
+
+     In brief...yes, it was we who initiated the conversation with
+Michael, not vice versa.
+
+     Re: "sudden insight," it's no different than the insight a novelist
+(he said, having written two published novels to date) gets around the
+time he gets to page 200 and has a minor revelation about the story and
+the characters.  Why didn't he have that at page 1?  Or page 199?  Whop
+(Who) knows?  Part of it, I suppose, may have to do with the fact that
+while you're actully *making* the show, there's very little time for
+reflection...only panic and terror (to quote an earlier episode).
+
+     When we finished shooting season one, we -- ALL of us on the B5
+production team -- went away, and then came back again to do a post moretm
+(or mortem) (or morden) on the first season.  What did we do wrong, what
+did we do right, what can be improved?  My job was to think about the
+writing, the story...was it fine as tracked, or could it be modified and
+clarified and made better?  And the answer (as it usually is) was yes, it
+could.  This quiet contemplation could only really take place after we'd
+finished year one.
+
+     Re: point three, I really see no point in speculating; who knows?
+
+     On A, I pointed out that we *do* have all of our cast on options.
+
+     On B, to what I owe the audience...well, yes and no.  My sequence of
+what I owe, and to whom, runs as follows: I'm true first to the story,
+then to myself, then to the audience, then to the studio.  I think that if
+you EVER rearrange that list of priorities, you're doomed as a writer and
+should get the hell out of the business.  (While the latter two may be
+obvious, to illustrate the first two...yes, I'm an atheist, but if the
+story requires advancing a religious notion in order to do the story
+right, I'll set aside my beliefs and do it).
+
+                                                                         jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 May 1994 03:08:04 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Please don't pull a seaQu
+
+     It is my undiluted hope never to pull a seaQuest on you.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+     (who would *never* call his show babYlon 5.)
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 May 1994 18:32:10 -0400
+Subject: Sinclair's end
+
+     No story suggestions, please.
+
+                                                               jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 May 1994 18:54:56 -0400
+Subject: TKO - the worse episode ever
+
+     The question of what is or isn't SF is one of the most boring and
+pointless conversations you can have.  And I tend to ignore people who
+say, asyou do, "there's nothing sci-fi about the story."  (Partly because
+the term sci-fi is abhorrent and I don't like it.)
+
+     Babylon 5 is a dramatic series about people who live in a space
+station in the year 2258.  It is about their lives, on a daily basis.  And
+some things their lives come into contact with are "SF" oriented, and some
+things are oriented toward their personal lives.  To some people, unless
+it's got hardware and technobabble, it ain't SF.  For me, if it's on a
+space station, in the future, with aliens...it's SF.  (And by my lights,
+SF stands for speculative fiction...which includes speculation on
+society, religion, anthropology, psychology and lots of other areas.)
+
+     "A Canticle for Liebowitz" is one of the *classics* of science
+fiction.  But 99% of it takes place after a nuclear war, and there's NO
+hardware, no aliens, no space travel, no nothing.  Ditto for "Alas,
+Babylon" and hundreds of other SF stories and novels.
+
+     It's as if someone in the 1800s wrote a novel about live in the
+year 1994, and everything was about putting on jet packs and eating food
+pills and talking to my secretary whose name is A7B...and nothing in it
+about being married, or having friends over for dinner, or seeing a
+baseball game, or having friends pass away.
+
+     This is our best attempt at a realistic dramatic series set in the
+future, about the way people will live there.  It isn't always going to
+match the purely arbitrary notion that you *must* include some bit of
+technobabble or hardware to meet someone's definition of SF.  Like the
+original Trek, it's an opportunity to address issues and themes that are
+of general importance, and to advance the characters and the universe.  To
+me, it's important to say that, 250 years from now, we will *all* go into
+space, all our cultures will continue, judaism included.  No other series
+has done this.  Maybe you think that's unimportant because someone didn't
+reverse the polarity on the tachyon driver.  I happen to think that it's
+very important.
+
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 May 1994 03:28:21 -0400
+Subject: By All Means Necessary: movie
+
+     Your english professor has over-analyzed the problem.  Lots of
+people shake hands, and when you're going to go back to work, that's the
+thing to say.  Totally generic.
+
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 May 1994 01:05:08 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Your favorite SF...
+
+     Oh, man...my favorite SF?  Can I broaden this out to include the
+alternative, Speculative Fiction, and toss some other stuff in as well?
+
+     Loved the Foundation books, the Lensman series by Doc Smith, Stranger
+in a Strange Land...a lot of Eric Frank Russell's work (esp. Men, Martians
+and Machines), lots of Matheson's work, everything by Ellison (natch),
+much of Bradbury's early work (R is for Rocket, Martian Chronicles,
+Dandelion Wine, Golden Apples of the Sun)...I suppose when you come down
+to it, my favorite reading has generally been in the mainstream of SF;
+I've tried to get into the cyberpunk stuff, and enjoy a little of it, but
+the whole field just seems a trifle cold for my tastes.
+
+     I reread Pat Frank's "Alas Babylon" every couple of years just to
+savor it; same with Lord of the Rings.  Tried "Dune" and got through the
+first book but not the rest.  Seen one sandworm, seen 'em all.  Probably
+the only author I make it a point to seek out as soon as a new title hits
+the stands is Jonathan Carroll, who if you don't know his work I commend
+to you *highly*.  He's a contemporary dark fantasist, and nothing short of
+absolutely *brilliant*.  His first book, "The Land of Laughs," which may
+be found at some libraries, still puts me away.  "Bones of the Moon" was
+also terrific.  The next two weren't quite up to the first two, but still
+very good.  Just bought his latest, "From the Teeth of Angels," and plan
+to start reading as soon as time allows.
+
+                                                                         jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 May 1994 01:36:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: All good things... STUPID!
+
+     Waitasec...you're saying that the shot where the later Enterprise
+comes upward into frame and blasts the Klingon ship...that was CGI?  Are
+you *sure*?  I didn't tape it, and was watching from across the room at
+the time, so didn't notice.  If so I wanna know so I can go hammer some
+geeks who said on another service they could tell CGI from models, and
+they much preferred the models used in that shot.
+
+     As for the finale...ehhh.  An omnipotent alien tests a human to see
+if the human race is worthwhile.  Seems to me we've seen that story on ST
+a LOT.  And the time-bouncing to learn a lesson seemed awfully reminiscent
+of the DS9 pilot.
+
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 May 1994 01:36:47 -0400
+Subject: Re: = Attn: JMS - re: Peter Al
+
+     So far working on season two: me, Larry DiTillio, DC Fontana, and
+Harlan's turning his attention to his script.  Will be farming out some
+others as we go.  Will probably write for year two about what I wrote
+for this season, 12 or so.
+
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 May 1994 02:00:47 -0400
+Subject: JMS: TKO and Judaism
+
+     Thanks.  I guess what helps, in terms of all this religious stuff in
+a series run by an atheist, is that I've read most stuff from nearly all
+of the major and second-rank religions, and generally respect them all, for
+what they are: an attempt to understand the universe, and our role in it.
+ So I can treat them pretty much even-handedly.  Have even read the Bible,
+cover to cover, *twice*.  (Job was a lot of fun, great reading; anyone who
+can make it through Numbers and Deuteronomy has my undying respect.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 May 1994 20:52:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: I've discovered the key to
+
+      I absolutely positively *cannot* comment on this thread in any way,
+manner, shape or form.
+
+                                     jm(slightly nervous but dealing with it)s
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 May 1994 14:29:09 -0400
+Subject: JMS, a "joke" ???  was: Re: ZI
+
+     Okay, okay, okay, we won't do it again....
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 May 1994 14:33:00 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Your favorite SF...
+
+      We just thought it was funny....
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 May 1994 04:27:59 -0400
+Subject: Re: All good things...
+
+     "Without TNG to pave the way, we probably never would have had B5
+at all."
+ 
+     Actually...not true.  In fact, TNG has *hindered*, not helped, the
+rise of new SF series.
+ 
+     Here's the biggest reason (and to be fair, this can't really be held
+as TNG's fault, it's just the Way of the World).  The TV industry has had
+the belief, since the beginning, that the SF audience can only sustain one
+SF series, and that that is Star Trek.  (Or two ST series.)  The single
+biggest battle we fought from day one in trying to sell B5 was studio
+execs who said, "Look, there's already a science fiction show out there,
+the market can't handle more than one."
+ 
+     There's also the assumption on the part of many execs that there IS
+no market for SF series at all...there's a market for Star Trek, period.
+And look at the reality of it...in 7 years since TNG went on the air, how
+many successful first-run science fiction series have come out?  They
+have all fallen by the wayside, the few that went out...and they ARE few,
+extremely few.  If ST "paved the way," why did it take 7 years to do so?
+ 
+     And Paramount (a separate discussion from ST) has not exactly been
+helpful in terms of other SF series which it felt provided possible
+competition.  They've done a *lot* to try and hinder things.  Paramount's
+view of SF is, "Well, *WE* own space."
+ 
+     It took me literally seven years to get a B5 series on the air.  I
+know many, MANY writer/producers who've tried to get other SF series on
+the air in syndication, and after years of failure against the ST
+juggernaut, finally gave up.  So you'll excuse me just a tad if I take
+the idea of ST "paving the way" for anything *cum granus salus*.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 May 1994 04:55:40 -0400
+Subject: Re: RUMOR: Michael O'Hare (Sin
+
+     I have, to date, read something on the order of a dozen different
+rumors about the reason for O'Hare's leaving...that Warners marketing
+wanted him out, that he was offered the lead on Voyager, that this was
+actually planned out from the start, that he quit, that we fired him...if
+I were to deal with all of these, I'd be here all day.  Rumors are just
+that: rumors.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 May 1994 05:14:51 -0400
+Subject: JMS - V: REBIRTH!!!
+
+     Sorry, I can't post the rest of the V script.  But who knows, the
+novelization may show up one of these days....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 May 1994 05:14:54 -0400
+Subject: JMS query, was Re: Shadow Spec
+
+     Universe Today is reliable sometimes...and other times not.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 May 1994 09:07:17 -0400
+Subject: O'Hare to ST Voyager???
+
+     I spoke to Michael O'Hare the other day about the Voyager rumor (one
+of the many floating around), and he was *very* amused by the idea.
+ 
+     BTW, this is one area that needs mentioning.  Michael and I do speak
+frequently.  We'll probably have dinner with the Ellisons and him in the
+next week or so.  And we'll be doing a little something that will involve
+his character later this season.  This is, again, a fairly amicable
+situation.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 May 1994 05:47:21 -0400
+Subject: Re: TKO
+
+     At one point, there was a discussion in the scene about the whole
+gills/scales/fins issue, to define kosher...but it *really* brought the
+scene to a screaming standstill, and we needed to concentrate on the
+relationships at that moment.  In addition, as we looked at it, you would
+have to get into the question of how alien gills/scales/fins compare to
+earthly gills/scales/fins, because they're going to be very different in
+many ways.  In short order it became a massive Talmudic discussion, and
+we only have an hour for the show....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 May 1994 05:54:57 -0400
+Subject: JMS: TKO suffered from *bad* h
+
+     We're trying to get Warners to re-evaluate their approach to the
+teasers.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 May 1994 04:41:07 -0400
+Subject: E Con (ECONomics 101) & JMS
+
+     We've tried very hard not to let the merchandising get out of hand.
+I pretty much sat on it during our first season, and am now letting a few
+things go, like the CDRom, the soundtrack, the comic, some novels, and a
+few other things.  But this was never intended to be a *franchise*, and I
+would really rather not see it become one.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 May 1994 20:27:58 -0400
+Subject: Newsgroup idea
+
+     A newsgroup is still problematic; a private mailing list is far less
+so.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 May 1994 21:00:45 -0400
+Subject: JMS: a possible solution to "n
+
+     I appreciate your suggestion, but the safest way really is just to
+stay clear in general as much as I can.  Most of my entries on the files
+are time-stamped, and a few have been circulated, so there's a paper
+trail.  I'm just trying to avoid specific story suggestions in public as
+much as possible.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 May 1994 02:55:02 -0400
+Subject: Prophecy in Parliament
+
+     Yes, definitely keep in mind the intent of the ceremony...but be
+sure to remember *all* aspects of it.
+ 
+     Also, take a good look at Li, goddess of passion, in Londo's
+ceremony.  There's something about it that will be very funny later.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 May 1994 21:35:18 -0400
+Subject: JMS: TKO/Sitting Shiva
+
+     I'm very glad to see your note, and know that the story has had its
+desired impact.  The passing of close family is the most traumatic thing
+we can endure, and it must be faced with honesty and tenderness and the
+willingness to forgive, and mourn, and go on with life with a clear
+soul.  Good luck to you and yours as you gather.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 May 1994 21:35:20 -0400
+Subject: JMS: TKO and Judaism
+
+     To the problems some have with Theodore Bikell's accent not sounding
+real...it's my understanding that he was raised in Russia.
+ 
+     Ivanova does not have an accent because she was educated overseas,
+her father wanting her to have certain advantages the rest of her family
+did not.
+ 
+     Nowhere did we say that Andrei or the rest of the Ivanov family ever
+emigrated.  They didn't.  They live in Russia.  Or lived, in any event.
+Not everyone migrates to the US or to Israel, and not everyone wants to.
+ 
+     On the treel/kosher discussion...I can only shrug.  Nobody's ever
+shown that jews go forward into the future, placed them at the heart of
+a science fiction show as a regular character, nobody's shown shiva before
+in (and possibly out of) an SF series...and some folks are complaining that
+not every aspect of a treel's kosher-ness was discussed at dinnertime.
+ 
+     Some days, you just can't win....
+ 
+     Feh.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+===========================================================================
+| This text is compiled from posts by J. Michael Straczynski on the Usenet
+| group rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.  This document contains material Copyright
+| 1994 J. Michael Straczynski.  He has given permission for his words to be
+| redistributed online, as long as they are marked as being copyright JMS.
+| This document, as well as other Babylon-5 related material, is available
+| by anonymous FTP at ftp.hyperion.com.
+===========================================================================
+
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Jun 1994 00:58:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: TKO - Poor Episode (Spoile
+
+     I can't believe the degree to which this argument has gotten out of
+all proportion.
+ 
+     First, though, an aside...it has been the tradition of B5 areas on
+various systems to be a little more polite than other areas.  Granted, we
+all sometimes lose our temper and slip into name-calling.  I've done it
+myself.  But lately I've been seeing one after another, using every name
+in the book.  Points can be communicated without resorting to this sort of
+thing, and frankly, after a while, it simply loses its impact.
+ 
+     Just a thought.
+ 
+     Now, on the samovar issue...whatever your background, if your family
+grew up in Russia and has been there for several hundred years or more --
+and the Ivanov family has been there since at LEAST the 1800s -- you do
+become part of the culture.  That, as I always understood it, was part of
+the reason for making sure children learned hebrew, yiddish *and* the
+dominant language of the culture, to give their kids a fighting chance in
+a difficult world.  It's not so much a case of the culture assimiliating
+the individual (though certainly that happens as well), but the individual
+INCORPORATING the culture.
+ 
+     Ivanova is jewish.  Ivanova is russian.  Of the two, she tends to see
+herself as a russian first.  There's no value statement there, that's
+just the way she is.  Her parents were both russian, going back many
+generations on both sides.  Some in her family tree were jewish, and some
+were not; there was some intermarrying.  That may be part of why she sees
+herself as more russian than jewish, but it may be just a quirk.
+ 
+     (And to the protest of, "Well, you created her," yes, I did.  But
+there comes a time, if you've done your job right as a writer, when the
+character more or less takes over, and starts telling YOU who and what he
+or she is.  There are times I mentally turn to Ivanova and say, "Okay,
+what do *you* think?"  And she talks to me in my head, as do all of my
+characters.  It's part of making your characters real.)
+ 
+     When she went off to boarding school overseas -- part of an ongoing
+international system put into place by EarthGov to help its various member
+nations get along with one another -- she identified most strongly with
+that russian aspect in relation to those around her.  She learned to speak
+English without a perceptible accent.
+ 
+     The samovar is a valued and valuable part of russian life.  It is the
+family hearth, on one level, a possession passed on from generation to
+generation.  Knowing that Ivanova was not terribly religious herself, he
+would generally not leave her any of his personal religious artifacts, but
+would donate them to the local synagogue, while some, like a menorah, might
+go to other relatives.  People who could appreciate them and use them.
+The samovar is a very personal object; to the correspondent with a fiance
+who is russian...*I* am byeloruss, white-russian, one-and-a-half
+generation American born.  And I can tell you that the biggest fights I've
+ever seen over bequeaths were over a) money, and b) the samovar.
+ 
+     The problem with this discussion is that it has very little to do
+with who Susan Ivanova *is*, and more to do with the politics of what a
+russian or a jew or a russian jew *should be*.  She is what she is, like
+it or not.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Jun 1994 02:05:43 -0400
+Subject: Re: UK reviews: Born To the Pu
+
+     Actually, the intent was never to hit people over the head with whtat
+(what) a nice person Ivanova is...or to shove her character down anyone's
+throat.  She has an arc of her own this season, which involves reconciling
+some things with her family.  And we need to set *up* some things in her
+family in order to pay them off later in the season.  You have to start
+a bit early in order to get it all in without rushing it.
+ 
+     All of our characters have their own arcs, and their own stories, and
+their own forthcoming transitions.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Jun 1994 04:29:15 -0400
+Subject: JUMPGATE QUESTION
+
+     I think the bg of the shadowman shot may have been a solar system
+forming, or a nebula; I was told, we discussed it, and I've promptly
+forgotten.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Jun 1994 04:19:17 -0400
+Subject: Is it or isn't it?
+
+     I'm going to try and address your flame-bait with considerably less
+in the way of insulting content than you did.
+ 
+     1) The Zima thing was neither illegal nor against NAB or FCC regs,
+it was perfectly legit.  Before you start making accusations about
+illegality that are *completely* specious and ill-informed, you should
+investigate first.  Otherwise you speak from ignorance.
+ 
+     2) The argument of what is and isn't SF is one of the most
+bone-headed arguments one can conceivably get into, and to which there is
+no better solution than Damon Knight's comment, "SF is anything I point
+to and say, that's SF."
+ 
+     For me, SF means speculative fiction, which totally regardless of
+any opinion of yours, is a completely valid and acceptable definition.
+Speculative SF includes not just the hard sciences, but sociology,
+psychology, anthropology and other soft sciences.
+ 
+     To apply the standards usually listed by people such as yourself
+would totally disqualify some of the finest pieces of SF literature in
+the genre's history, from Stranger in a Strange Land to A Canticle for
+Liebowitz and most of Ray Bradbury's stuff.
+ 
+     Hence, I simply ignore what narrow-minded people try to impose on
+my show.
+ 
+     Babylon 5 is SF, as I and a whole lot more people than you define it.
+ It may or may not be a brand of SF that you like.  But whether or not you
+like it is totally irrelevant to whether or not it's SF.
+ 
+     The "critical look at the definition of science fiction" that you
+cite does not exist anywhere but in your own head...there IS no one such
+definition, and if there ever *were* any one such definition, then we
+could effectively declare the genre dead and in need of burial.
+ 
+     And you'll note that I did all of this without appending to the reply
+the use of such terms as "lame" or "mediocre."  Now, if you're willing to
+act grownup, we can continue this conversation.  If not, not.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Jun 1994 08:52:54 -0400
+Subject: JMS: another quick question ab
+
+     The idea first started as a question: how do you design an SF show
+for television that won't kill itself financially...then how can you
+design a show in such a way that it tells a story over X-number of years,
+like some of the multi-novel cycles that are the hallmark of SF
+literature?
+ 
+     The obvious framework seemed to be a crossroads or meeting place of
+some kind, a place of commerce and trading.  It's much more difficult and
+energy-consuming to go down into a gravity well every time you want to
+drop something off, so this led to a space station/community.  I kind of
+knew pretty much where I wanted to go right off the bat, but it took me
+another six months to a year to *really* decide on what the arc of the
+story was to be.  In the years since, I've added a bit around the edges,
+fleshed out some of the characters and their own personal arcs, but it's
+still essentially the same story.
+ 
+                                                          jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Jun 1994 22:59:14 -0400
+Subject: JMS: How much did B5 cost and.
+
+     Doing a conversion of EA dollars in 2258 to US dollars 1994 is a
+bit much for me to handle.  The EA was able to afford the first few on
+their own, since they were attempts that didn't get very far, but later
+had to accept Minbari and, later still, Centauri co-financing to make it
+viable.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Jun 1994 23:27:31 -0400
+Subject: Re: Starfury design (was Re: A
+
+     Correct, there are several different kinds of starfuries and models
+of fighters; the standard lightweight version used at B5; the more stealth
+oriented Black Omega fighters; and in the two-parter, you'll see the heavy
+military class, with turrets fore and aft, and pilots fore and aft.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Jun 1994 23:46:28 -0400
+Subject: JMS: You Produced ST:TMP???!!!
+
+     "...from the producers of ST:TMP...B5...."
+ 
+     Matthew...all I can figure out is that I'm paying off karma at a
+VASTLY accellerated rate.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Jun 1994 23:50:18 -0400
+Subject: > > Attn: JMS -- Warner, B5, a
+
+     1) It was felt that further emphasizing the personal stories would
+help with that demographic.  This is not a problem for us, since having
+established the universe of B5 in the first season, we were moving ni
+(in) that direction anyway for year two (and, in fact, did go that way
+already in the latter half of year one).
+ 
+     2) No, no real changes planned in the arc.
+ 
+     3) The O'Hare situation is an entirely different issue.
+ 
+     4) Warner hasn't said a peep about the alternate lifestyles character,
+despite many opporunities to do so.  You'll start to get a sense of this
+character more in season two.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Jun 1994 23:50:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: Babylon 5 (B5) "bad acting
+
+     The whole "bad acting/wooden acting" thing is, for the most part,
+something that came out of a lot of unfair (in my view) criticisms  of the
+show, because we're not doing hysterics, not doing "here's all of our
+character's history in five seconds," and not playing archetypes; they
+are people who you have to get to know.  And in some cases, it was just to
+find something to slam.  Same thing happened to many of the early reviews
+of TNG, and many of the net discussions of TNG.  It just becomes something
+everybody repeats, a shibboleth, something they can throw into the pot
+without fully understanding what they're saying.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Jun 1994 23:57:57 -0400
+Subject: B5 comic book schedual???
+
+     It's my understanding that the comic will debut close to the end of
+November.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Jun 1994 23:57:59 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Some Questions
+
+     Jonathan....
+ 
+     Are you *sure* you don't work for Warner Bros.?
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Jun 1994 02:30:27 -0400
+Subject: JMS: A most annoying televisio
+
+     Alas, there is nothing we can do about  your station's activities,
+as described.  Only local letters can make a difference.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Jun 1994 20:08:40 -0400
+Subject: How Long Until The Next New Ep
+
+     The next new episode for this season will air starting the first
+week in July.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Jun 1994 22:55:51 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  4 more for season 1?
+
+     Absolutely false.  We've finished our episodes for season one, and
+will not be shooting additional episodes.  We now begin shooting for
+season two.  The four more episodes rumor is untrue.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Jun 1994 23:56:21 -0400
+Subject: Re: TKO - SF & Religion
+
+     The atheist was not only first in line, he was the best dressed and
+smartest looking and nattiest one in the line.
+ 
+                                         jm(what a coincidence)s
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Jun 1994 04:56:13 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Re: TOYS! TOYS! TOYS!
+
+     I believe that's correct; the PPG consists of more than 20 pieces
+of machined aluminum, which has two lighting systems, one when the
+trigger is depressed (the barrel lights up, and a side light turns on),
+and another when you slap in an energy charge pod at the back.
+ 
+     I imagine that'll come out sooner or later (the plans).
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Jun 1994 04:56:15 -0400
+Subject: Re: ST:TNG episode "Believers"
+
+     "who sincerely hopes that JMS posts a clarification/retraction of
+his slams of the opposition...."
+ 
+     Please reprint for me the "slams" that you say I have posted, and
+then show me where they are in error.  If a misstatement of facts was
+ever made, I will retract it.  If not, not.  I will not take back any
+criticism just because you don't like it, and further, in my postings I
+generally make it a point *not* to slam.  So, again, please repost those
+messages for me.  Otherwise, as far as I'm concerned, I have nothing to
+retract.
+ 
+     Second, to the point of your message...we *showed* what happened:
+the raiders came out of nowhere.  She turned around.  Hit her engines, and
+ran.  We SEE her turn and run.  What in this is so incomprehensible to you
+that you felt you needed it *explained*?  And in the midst of the main
+story in "Believers" cranking rapidly toward its end, what would have been
+served by cutting away one more time just to show her running and firing
+backward as she ran?
+ 
+     We show nearly everything on this show; almost *nothing* happens off
+camera...as opposed (okay, you want a slam, here's one) to one episode of
+TNG that I recall where there was some kind of disturbance they were
+investigating, they were hit by the vortex (never saw it), the other ship
+(which we never saw) was hit by it, the ship was destroyed (we never saw
+it)...the whole THING was one big radio drama, with the crew narrating
+what happened rather than showing it to us.
+ 
+     In 14 episodes, we chose to let *one* incident happen off-camera,
+and it was a dramatic choice, leaving something to the imagination of the
+viewers, and to avoid interfering with a very dramatic moment in the main
+story.
+ 
+     Deal with it.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Jun 1994 22:13:05 -0400
+Subject: Books? Novels? etc.
+
+     Dell will be coming out with the first batch of B5 original novels
+later this year.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Jun 1994 03:38:11 -0400
+Subject: Re: lack-luster characterizati
+
+     The *reason* we had Garibaldi go through all the hoops he went through
+before finally falling into the bottle is because simply having Liana
+show up and depress Garibaldi isn't, frankly, sufficient motivation.  I
+don't buy it.  We wanted to strip away everything he had, and leave him
+with only *himself*.  So we took away his job, his reputation, his money,
+his home, neutralized his friends wherever possible...it was deliberate
+and systematic to peel him down to the bare essentials, to just Garibaldi.
+Take him all the way down before taking him back up again.  Because it's
+more dramatically interesting.  It's more logical that it would take
+something this major to drive him back into the bottle after staying sober
+all this time.  I'm sorry, I don't accept your suggestion that Liana's
+"anger and accusations" would "drive him over the edge as he deals with
+his guilt."  He's BEEN dealing with his guilt, and her showing up wouldn't
+be enough to drive him back into the bottle again.  I'm sorry, but as a
+producer or a story editor, I wouldn't buy that from a writer as being
+sufficient motivation.  Particularly not a character who's as strong and
+as bull-headed as Garibaldi.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Jun 1994 19:01:31 -0400
+Subject: Re: WHAM! next season?
+
+     Since the personal stories will be mainly b-stories, no, I don't
+anticipate any problem with the wham episodes.
+
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Jun 1994 19:01:34 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Mind War repeat
+
+     In the pursuit in the teaser, you could see one of the binary stars
+THROUGH Ironheart's ship; we deleted that shot and replaced it.
+
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Jun 1994 03:56:14 -0400
+Subject: ATTN:JMS:More wishes (was How
+
+     I believe the rerun schedule for TKO is correct; and we'll be showing
+second season new episodes in November for sweeps, not starting December.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Jun 1994 20:35:14 -0400
+Subject: JMS
+
+     Correct, I'll be at San Diego Comic Con on August 4-7, and will be
+showing some new stuff.  And will probably have some things to say about
+season two, but will obviously be holding back some stuff.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Jun 1994 20:35:17 -0400
+Subject: Editorial: Michael O'Hare's De
+
+     As it turns out, Michael O'Hare came by the office today, and we
+spoke at some length about this issue.  Michael has offered to compose
+a note confirming all that we've spoken about here, though I still don't
+think it's necessary.
+ 
+     There is no contradiction at work here.  Michael very much believes
+in the show, and wants it to continue.  So do we.  As far as writing
+campaigns are concerned, it's one thing to support a show, and another
+thing to attack.  Cynthia Lieberman, for instance, has nothing -- let me
+repeat, NOTHING -- to do with the running of Babylon 5, casting, or any
+other aspect.  She is in Warners public relations.
+ 
+     If you've got a problem, then your problem is with me.
+ 
+     In addition, people keep seeing this as a cut-and-dried situation.
+It isn't.  The reason Michael was here today was so we could film a piece
+that will appear later in season two, and will set up the framework for
+further appearances by Sinclair down the road.
+ 
+     If you send a lot of letters to Warner Bros., to the *wrong person*
+no less, all you will end up doing is pissing off Warner Bros., and with
+good cause.  And the rebound effect would be to hurt Michael, and hurt
+the show.
+ 
+     Now, if fans want to write in noting how much they enjoyed Michael
+as Sinclair, and that they would enjoy seeing him again down the road,
+that I have no problem with.  It's only the "WHY DID YOU DO THIS I HATE
+YOU YOU EVIL BASTARDS" kind of letter that can come out in this kind of
+situation that I've discouraged.  If people want to say they'd like to
+see Sinclair again on the show...that they enjoyed his performance...fine,
+because that's certainly what we figure on doing at various points.
+ 
+     Meanwhile, there's no one at Warner Bros. to complain *to*.  The
+ultimate action came from this office, and you should address any
+problems to me directly.  Or to Michael, who will be hitting the
+conventions over the next several months, and can certainly speak for
+himself.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Jun 1994 20:42:57 -0400
+Subject: UK Reviews: Infection
+
+      I didn't like it either.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Jun 1994 20:46:48 -0400
+Subject: Jump Time
+
+     Once you're in a gate, the objective (our POV) time involved is
+usually several days.  From a subjective (inside the ship) POV, the time
+elapsed is somewhat shorter.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Jun 1994 20:58:14 -0400
+Subject: JMS: letterbox
+
+     Given that most household TV sets are fairly small, no, it wouldn't
+be fair or prudent to begin broadcasting the episodes in letterbox at
+this time.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Jun 1994 18:00:02 -0400
+Subject: Parliament (mild spoilers)
+
+     Yeah, it's a favorite of mine, too.  And the race was called the
+Xon.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Jun 1994 18:00:05 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Mind War repeat
+
+     I'm reasonably sure that the UK and all later countries will get the
+corrected versions only.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Jun 1994 18:00:09 -0400
+Subject: Re: Third Age of Mankind (spec
+
+     While I can answer the question about the third age, I really can't
+at the moment, and to tell the first two would reveal the third.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jun 1994 01:21:19 -0400
+Subject: Re: lack-luster characterizati
+
+     What do I know about alcoholics, to portray them?  Well, aside from
+a degree in clinical psychology, and some internship work in the area, I
+come from a family with alcoholism going back at least four generations,
+and I'm talking *heavy duty*.  I am, in fact, the first male Straczynski
+in my branch of this particular stunted tree NOT to have this problem.
+ 
+     I have had far, far, far more experience with this area than I care
+to recite...and from that perspective, I have no problem with Garibaldi's
+portrayal.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jun 1994 01:21:22 -0400
+Subject: Re: Jump Time
+
+     There's long been speculation that one or more of the major races
+keeps a heavy cruiser standing by in hyperspace (as was mentioned in the
+pilot movie) in case B5 ever needs to get muscled....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jun 1994 01:36:25 -0400
+Subject: Re: Jumpgate physics
+
+     In order to prevent a jumpgate from being used by a particular
+ship, you have to know its access code, which you can then block.  This
+is easy once the ship is in B5, because that code is logged automatically.
+But unless you know *in advance* which ship, with what code, is going to
+be coming through from the other side, you can't block access.
+ 
+     Now, during the Earth/Minbari war, EA jump gates were programmed to
+block access to ALL ships *except* EA ships with codes that changed on a
+daily basis.  Implementing that on B5 takes permission from the Joint
+Chiefs, since it is a de facto act of aggression, and takes a lot of time
+in ANY event...just as shutting down the gate takes hours and hours, if
+not longer.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jun 1994 01:37:08 -0400
+Subject: YOOHOO!!! JMS!!!!
+
+     If you were to look at B5 realistically (which is kind of our goal),
+the realities are that a Lieutenant-Commander would not be promoted into
+that kind of position.  She's not *nearly* seasoned enough to be entrusted
+with a diplomatic posting (and can you *imagine* her trying to be
+diplomatic on a regular basis?).  So it'd have to be someone else.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jun 1994 01:48:32 -0400
+Subject: Sinclair's middle name
+
+     Jeffrey Sinclair's middle name is David, same as his father's first
+name.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jun 1994 21:33:12 -0400
+Subject: JMS: V - The Rebirth
+
+     Thanks; at this juncture, no more will be released from the script,
+in order to keep alive the possibility of a novel at some point in the
+future.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jun 1994 22:04:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: Editorial: Michael O'Hare'
+
+     "...the *possibility* that O'Hare could return at some time in the
+future.  No obligations, no plan for it."
+ 
+     We've already filmed one sequence with a return for season two, to
+start that ball rolling.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jun 1994 22:04:45 -0400
+Subject: JMS: O'Hare insanity
+
+     Thanks; I do try to play it as straight as I can.  If there's a
+problem, or a show that's not up to our standards, I'll say so.  I think
+that otherwise, the whole point of the exercise is lost.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jun 1994 22:04:48 -0400
+Subject: Re: Commander Tomolok (sp?)
+
+     "B5 should be better than Trek's first season, jms has been able to
+watch Trek for years before he made his show, and should have learned from
+them."
+ 
+      There are two things about this statement that make me absolutely
+fucking nuts.
+ 
+     1) There's this attitude that I see again and again that's somewhat
+confrontational, often from ST fans, that we have to do *better* than
+ST (and usually in ways that they feel can be measured against ST, even
+though it's a different series).  Some people say, "Well the characters
+aren't as gritty as in NYPD Blue or Homicide," or "I'm tired of people
+saying there's humor on the series, it doesn't compare with COACH."  It
+seems like it's not enough that we be simply a *good* show, we have to be
+THE BEST TEEVEE SERIES ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH IN ALL TEEVEE HISTORY or
+we're crap.  Talk about moving the borders around....
+ 
+     2) Re: watching and learning from ST...that's useful ONLY IF YOU'RE
+DOING MORE ST.  It's a whole different universe, different characters,
+different technologies, different rules.  It's like saying you should
+watch LASSIE to learn how to do DRAGNET.  Or, to stay within genres,
+watch DRAGNET to learn how to do NYPD Blue.
+ 
+     B5 was conceived before TNG went on the air, btw.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jun 1994 22:04:51 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: does this group affec
+
+     I have thus far changed about 3 or 4 minor elements because someone
+posted what could constitute a story idea that came uncomfortably close to
+what we were doing this season.  Fortunately, they were small things, and
+didn't affect anything substantial, but it is kind of a pain in the ass.
+ 
+     On the *other* hand...very often there are zillions of questions
+here about the characters, the universe, history, all that.  A writer's
+job in creating a universe is to try and think of every question, and
+answer it.  But far more questions get asked here than I could ever think
+of.  So, sometimes a question I'd never considered gets asked, I come up
+with an answer, and now it's part of the show.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jun 1994 22:04:54 -0400
+Subject: Parallel evolution; explanatio
+
+     From an evolutionary standpoint, you want your sensors at the highest
+part of your body, to look for prey or predator; you want your mouth that
+high as well, to eat leaves if need be.  To run from predators or after
+prey you need good legs, at least two; four can be hard to get through
+narrow areas, and tends to deprive one of two limbs that could otherwise
+be used for tools and the evolution of the opposable thumb required for
+technology.  It seems a very sensible arrangement across the board for
+an advanced species.  (And note that of all the UFO reports we hear about,
+they're always humanoid, not BEMs.)
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jun 1994 22:32:26 -0400
+Subject: New commander (was Re: YOOHOO!
+
+     Well, I could answer your questions, but that would kinda kill the
+first episode of year two....
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jun 1994 22:32:28 -0400
+Subject: [JMS READ!] Airschedule (say i
+
+     As it was explained to me by Warners, the HUT (Households Using
+Televisions) figures for August are notoriously low.  Also, they said
+that they thought that showing it once, then again in reruns that week,
+and then again before the start of season two would "diminish" the
+impact of what is, frankly, our best episode of the whole first season.
+ 
+     So they want to play it just the week before year two starts.
+ 
+     This ain't my decision, and I've debated it with WB until I've turned
+blue in the face.  They still think it's a wonderful idea.  Their
+motivation is only good.  I just don't agree that this is the best way to
+do it; a cliffhanger is supposed to...well...leave you hanging.  I mean,
+that's kind of in the description, innit?
+ 
+     Sometimes studios, like god, transcend all understanding.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jun 1994 22:32:31 -0400
+Subject: Re: Babylon-5 (B5) "bad acting
+
+     Re: the criticisms rendered...well done.  This is the kind of thing
+that many have been talking about; not "It sucks!" but what, specifically,
+do you feel works or doesn't work.  Although I don't agree with all the
+points raised, you did raise some good ones, worth considering.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jun 1994 22:33:50 -0400
+Subject: JMS: V Script
+
+     Nothing more is planned for the script at this time, and the rest
+probably won't be uploaded.  Maybe someday a novelization; we'll see.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jun 1994 22:51:32 -0400
+Subject: JMS - DSM III R  (re:lack-lust
+
+     Then again, while alcoholism rages in torture survivors, Sinclair
+didn't know he'd *been* tortured until just recently....
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jun 1994 22:51:34 -0400
+Subject: B5 Novels
+
+     Dell Books is doing the B5 series of novels.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jun 1994 22:51:36 -0400
+Subject: B5 Newsletter - What Happened
+
+     OKAY!  OKAY!  I'LL WRITE THE GODDAMNED ESSAY THAT CHRISTY MARX HAS
+BEEN NAGGING ME TO WRITE FOR THE LAST MONTH OR TWO OR THREE OR WHO EVEN
+REMEMBERS WITH HER AFTER A WHILE, JUST THIS CONSTANT DRONING, ON AND ON
+AND ON, "WRITE THE ESSAY, WRITE THE ESSAY, WRITE THE ESSAY," AND I TELL
+HER I'VE BEEN BUSY, I'VE BEEN NUTS, GO AWAY, I'M TRYING TO MAKE A SERIES
+HERE GODDAMNIT, BUT NOOOOOO, SHE JUST KEEPS ON COMING, WON'T STOP, AND
+NOW SHE'S SENDING HER AGENTS OF DARKNESS AFTER ME, THAT'S IT, YOU'RE
+WORKING FOR HER, AREN'T YOU, TELL THE TRUTH, I'VE SEEN HER OUTSIDE MY
+WINDOW AT NIGHT, WATCHING, WATCHING....
+ 
+     I am in *desperate* need of a vacation....
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Jun 1994 03:57:59 -0400
+Subject: "Mind War" -second thoughts
+
+     There's an awful lot there and most of it involves math, so I'm
+going to have to puzzle this out.  But for the other stuff...no, there's
+no in-joke in Sigma 957, but ***CONGRATULATIONS!***  You are the FIRST
+person to pick up on the Native American line that Ironheart quotes when
+he goes up against Kelsey.  (And yes, I believe it is ojibwe in origin.)
+I've always considered it a very powerful line (a prayer of protection
+against one's enemies), and wanted to use it.  That seemed the perfect
+opportunity to do so.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Jun 1994 03:58:01 -0400
+Subject: Re: Alleged JMS slam of TNG (R
+
+     Oh, please, if that's the best you can do.  You were asked to
+provide a quote in which I slammed Trek fans.  That message you quoted
+doesn't slam Trek fans.  It doesn't even MENTION Trek fans.  It refers to
+a couple of people -- and there messages WERE geeky -- who got very snotty
+and said that they had NEVER EVER used CGI on TNG, and that they could
+tell (even though I know from inside that in at least one prior episode,
+where Picard "joins" a band of crooks, they DID use a CGI ship in a
+couple of shots).
+ 
+     And you even admit that you aren't sure that it was directed at
+Trek fans.  Which, again, it wasn't; only at a couple of specific people.
+ 
+     Further, the "All Things...STUPID" header wasn't created by me, but
+was on a thread created by somebody else.
+ 
+     I have NEVER, in any post, slammed Trek fans as a group, and I don't
+think I've ever just roundly dismissed/slammed ST as useless or sucky or
+anything on that order.  If there was something specific to mention or to
+critique, maybe, but frankly I don't recall doing much or any of THAT,
+either.
+ 
+     You made an allegation.  And now you can't back up that allegation
+with anything.
+ 
+     Perhaps an apology might be in order...?
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Jun 1994 03:58:03 -0400
+Subject: Re: [JMS READ!] Airschedule (s
+
+     They're still planning to show "Chrysalis" in October; I'm still
+arguing.  We'll see who lasts longer.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Jun 1994 04:09:26 -0400
+Subject: Mind War suggestion (** SPOILE
+
+     The idea of a nosebleed caused by telepathic use is a little too
+Stephen King for me (Firestarter and the Dead Zone), and too Scanners.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Jun 1994 19:00:51 -0400
+Subject: UK RATINGS FOR "SOUL HUNTER"
+
+     Great, thanks for the information.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Jun 1994 20:31:09 -0400
+Subject: Re: [JMS READ!] Airschedule (s
+
+     Actually, you're quite correct; if the US doesn't show Chrysalis
+until October, the UK which is blowing right through them will have shown
+it in August.
+ 
+     Still hammering....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Jun 1994 20:31:12 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: does this group affec
+
+     The CGI exhaustive rendering sequences were for "Grail."
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Jun 1994 21:38:19 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Kemmer and Le Guin?
+
+     I think Kemmer's name was inspired by the actor's name from the
+Space Patrol series....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Jun 1994 03:45:49 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: request for interview
+
+     Yeah, 5:30 a week from Monday would sound good.  At least as of this
+moment; things sometimes get nuts.  Best to drop me a note (in email)
+a few days before, so a) you can remind me, and b) we can set up a phone
+number to call.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Jun 1994 18:23:07 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: does this group affec
+
+     Yeah, when all is said and done, I might see if somebody would be
+interested in publishing all the background material, but that's a LONG
+way off.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Jun 1994 18:30:48 -0400
+Subject: When do we find out what Ironh
+
+     We found out what gift Ironheart gave Talia *in* the episode itself;
+she can now move a penny with her thoughts.  She's slowly developing some
+limited TK ability of her own.
+ 
+     (This was in the tag.)
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Jun 1994 23:30:32 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 Newsletter - What Happe
+
+     BTW...and I attach this here only because I'm still fuzzy on sending
+new notes to the Internet...this Saturday, June 11, B5's own conceptual
+consultant Harlan Ellison will be signing books in the San Diego area, at
+Mysterious Galaxy Books, in the Claremont Shopping Center, from 2-5 p.m.
+In addition, for those who buy a copy of Mephisto in Onyx or Mindfields,
+and $25 in other books, there will be a reading by Harlan of a new short
+story at 6 p.m.
+ 
+     I'll also be there, on and off, hangin' around.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Jun 1994 22:27:10 -0400
+Subject: B5 mentioned in Merky news
+
+     How could any one newspaper get so many mistakes into such a small
+amount of space?  Amazing....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Jun 1994 22:27:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: BABYLON 5-THE SCORES
+
+     "I will stand by my statement that I still don't hear a real
+orchestra."
+ 
+     You can stand by it all you want, and certainly what you hear is
+subjective, and varies.  But you're still wrong.
+ 
+     The music varies, depending on what is needed for the scene.  Some of
+it is synth'd, but a LOT of it is indeed performed by the Berlin Symphonic
+Film Orchestra, Franke's creation.  We don't give credit on-screen to
+entities we don't use, sorry.  I've seen this in action.  So you can argue
+and disagree until your face turns blue...you're simply, flatly wrong.
+ 
+     And personally, I love the music, as do the majority of the people I
+talk to.  What you may be reacting to is that we add sounds that you don't
+generally see used in SF series, where it's just one more over-wrought,
+over-blown, bloated, self-indulgent John Williams ripoff.  We *do* use
+electronics from time to time and some sampling, for effect.  Maybe you
+don't like it, that's your choice.  But it is not "cheap," and not in
+lieu of using real instruments for other elements.
+ 
+     I've heard before from some ST "purists" who think there shouldn't be
+any electronic instruments in SF-television scores...just one more attempt
+to make every SF series look and sound just like Star Trek.  Sorry, not
+interested.
+ 
+     As to your allegation that Franke "sampled" (another term for stole)
+a piece off the Aliens soundtrack...1) I own that soundtrack, and have
+Franke's piece, and they're *not* comparable, 2) this allegation is so
+far beneath contempt that it doesn't merit response.
+ 
+     Chris is the most original, hard-working and dedicated composer and
+musician I've ever worked with.  And as far as the music goes...I was
+surprised the other day to get a gift from Chris...a CD with 50 continuous
+minutes of music from our first season, orchestrated into a one long and
+very beautiful piece.  (This isn't a commercial thing; he did it on his
+own, making custom covers with my name on my copy.)  I've played it to
+the point where I'd be worried about wearing it out if it were a standard
+record.  It's gorgeous, rich and full.
+ 
+     Your subjective tastes have nothing to do with objective reality.
+You were simply 100% wrong on one issue, and insulting in the other.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Jun 1994 21:01:25 -0400
+Subject: ... no subject ...
+
+     Well, I'm very impressed and pleased.  Thank you, and my best to the
+entire clan....
+
+                                                                 jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Jun 1994 19:48:55 -0400
+Subject: JMS!!  What are the rules?
+
+     Of the options you listed, only D poses a real problem; A-C are
+more or less okay.  The problem comes not so much from speculating on
+elements already introduced, as introducing *new* plot elements that
+have not been seen in the show to back up speculation or conjecture,
+which may or may not approximate what we're doing.  "The Minbari
+surrendered because in some episode we'll see someday the Earth had
+developed a giant killer space duck hidden on the dark side of the
+moon that would nibble the Minbari homeworld to destruction."  That is
+kind of the dividing line between what's safe and not-safe.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 00:42:42 -0400
+Subject: BABYLON-5 (B5) "BAD A
+
+     Chris: I'd say your analysis of the B5 approach to performance is
+pretty much dead on.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 00:44:04 -0400
+Subject: TO JMS: INTERVIEW?
+
+     To answer your question I'll need more info on the publication.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 00:50:28 -0400
+Subject: TV Guide & Fall Preview (was A
+
+     There are a number of people at TV Guide, including Jeff Jarvis, who
+want *zero* references to B5 at worst, to slam it at best.  If we went on
+the air in the spring again, they'd simply not mention us at all.  Does
+anyone actually think they cover things based on *quality*?  They don't.
+It's whoever buys the cover that week.  By going in the fall, they pretty
+much *have* to at least mention us, so that's a start.  But that's not
+the full reason; it has much also to do with rerun schedules and how you
+make episodes stretch between sweeps periods.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 00:58:15 -0400
+Subject: Mind War: Monorail ride
+
+     There is definitely minimal gravity in the core shuttle; what you
+can't see in MW, but can in Survivors, are the handholds recessed into
+the seats, walls and ceiling to help keep people in place.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 00:58:19 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Maybe this will work
+
+     Your jumpgate system sounds perfectly consistent with our thinking
+on the subject.
+ 
+     (This to the original poster.)
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 00:59:40 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS  SD Comic Con
+
+     I *imagine* my presentation will be on that Saturday, but I have no
+actual proof upon which to base that belief.  It is simply an act of
+faith at this point.  Re: bringing down cast members...we'll be in the
+thick of shooting, so I don't know who if anyone can make it (though Bill
+Mumy will be there for his concert).
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 00:59:44 -0400
+Subject: Question for JMS
+
+     Yes, our plans are to show some of the other homeworlds next season.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 01:26:32 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Canada reference?
+
+     So it's okay by you to mention that Canada was wiped out by the great
+genetics plague of 2134, and has been cut off from the rest of the world,
+the few remaining mutants kept out behind barbed wire and gun turrets, you
+really *want* I should mention that...?
+ 
+                                        jm(who may, or may not, be kidding)s
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 01:34:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: BABYLON 5-THE SCORES
+
+     Re: your continued allegations that B5's composer Chris Franke
+"uses synthesizers in place of live players"...I am going to say this
+just one more time: I don't care *what* your ears tell you; your ears are
+hearing what you want to hear.  Chris uses both synth AND a live
+orchestra.  He combines them.  What does it take to convince you?  I've
+BEEN there.  I've SEEN the process.  It's ONGOING.  What you say is being
+done is NOT what's being done.  Period.  You're pointing at a black wall
+and saying it's white.  I'm not to blame for your problem with colors.
+ 
+     You have two choices, one of which involves calling me a liar.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 03:49:58 -0400
+Subject: Re: Franke truth  WAS: Re: BAB
+
+     "The CD gift was nice I'm sure, but let's be honest it also sounds
+like he's sucking up a lot too.  Just remember who signs his paychecks."
+ 
+     Could you *possibly* be more smarmy about this?
+ 
+     FYI, a *number* of people got these gift CDs, a very small group
+that -- however this may surprise you -- includes people who do not pay
+him.  Chris has no reason to "suck up" to anyone.  He's already on for
+year two, his negotiations for the soundtrack with Warners have no impact
+on us and we have no say in it...it was simply something done out of the
+goodness of his heart, and his enthusiasm for the show.
+ 
+     For someone who sets himself up as in a position to go after other
+people, you sure engage in some dubious observations.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 03:50:01 -0400
+Subject: Att jms
+
+     To answer your questions in order...I use small initials jms because
+it looks cool, and keeps me modest.  (Someone pointed out that it looks
+like a derringer pointing right, but what do I know.)  Yes, we'll find
+out about the Minbari situation re: Sinclair in the first episode of year
+two.  And it will have future ramifications.  As for knowing what was
+going on in "Sky"...bear in mind that you (and other net-surfers) have an
+advantage 99.9% of the rest of the country does not: this conversation.
+ 
+     That 99.9% didn't even *know* about the hole in Sinclair's mind
+when "Sky" began because it hadn't ever been mentioned *in the series*
+up to that point.  Only in the pilot, which the majority of B5's current
+viewers never saw.  All of the discussions here lead netters to expect
+stuff that the rest of the nation has never seen, and thus can't expect.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 03:57:38 -0400
+Subject: JMS
+
+     There will be a new intro to year 2.  I would hope that the
+opening narrative would be shorter.  Not ready yet to announce who's
+going to be doing it.  It will probably include shots from years one and
+two.
+ 
+     Getting Patrick will depend on getting a script he likes.  It's
+certainly one of my goals.
+ 
+     And yes, there will be some new writers freelancing for us this
+season; I'm talking to writers like Peter David, and Scott Frost (from
+Twin Peaks and X-Files), a few others...and I'm going to keep hammering
+at Neil Gaiman to do us a script until he finally does one just to make
+me go away.
+ 
+     No immediate committments to the prior three, but we're seeing what
+we can do.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 03:57:40 -0400
+Subject: Mind war meditations...
+
+     "Is Kosh what he/she/it appears to be?"
+ 
+     Kosh is always and forever *exactly* what he appears to be, no less
+and no more.  At the same time, Kosh is absolutely *nothing* like what
+he appears to be.
+ 
+     These are not contradictory statements.
+ 
+     And this is about the straightest answer I've given yet on the
+subject, believe it or not.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 03:57:43 -0400
+Subject: Koenig was doing Shatner!
+
+     It's a funny thought, but knowing Walter as I do, I can say without
+fear of contradiction that he was *not* doing Shatner.  Given the chance
+here to do something *utterly* outside ST, which was his hope, and our
+pleasure to provide, he wouldn't do this, and having spoken with him at
+some length about his character and his performance, know that he *didn't*
+do this.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 19:42:04 -0400
+Subject: Re: BABYLON 5-THE SCORES
+
+     "Franke...is not cutting it..he's just not the right person for
+the program."
+ 
+     1) That's your opinion.  2) Your opinion is irrelevant.
+ 
+     The job of a composer is to work with the material as written and
+directed, to fit the vision of the person who's putting it together.
+Christopher's music is *exactly* what I envisioned wanting for the show.
+So he *is* exactly the right person for the show.  You don't get a vote
+on that.
+ 
+     And it's pretty cowardly for anyone to step up to the plate and
+criticize others behind a pseudonym.  My real name's up here, why isn't
+yours?
+ 
+     From your comments, your sense that you are obligated to "take on"
+me and other show runners, your grandiose sense of importance, your
+insistence that the world is the way you say -- no live players even
+though there are -- despite being repeatedly told otherwise, I would
+almost be tempted to conclude that you are suffering from delusions of
+grandeur...but I suspect that closer to the truth is that you are
+suffering from delusions of adequacy.
+ 
+     You are being an ass.  Go away.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 19:48:27 -0400
+Subject: Re: Elanic $0.02  Re: BABYLON
+
+     Once agan, Franke's approach to the show is not "wrong."  What you
+are doing is like walking into someone's home, which is decorated to
+their tastes, and saying it's "wrong" because it's not how you would
+decorate your house.  You don't get a vote.  It is right for what I want
+to do for my show, and so it is right.  Only one person gets a vote on
+what does and doesn't "fit" with this show.  And it ain't you.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 19:59:03 -0400
+Subject: The other Minbari Castes??!
+
+     You will see some of the warrior caste in "Legacies," coming up
+in July.  You don't see them much because they only go where they're
+needed.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 19:59:07 -0400
+Subject: Is any one else leaving ?
+
+     We certainly have no plans to replace any other cast members at
+this time.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 19:59:10 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 Newsletter - What Happe
+
+     Thanks.  Alas, the jackets are not currently for sale.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 19:59:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: BABYLON 5-THE SCORES
+
+     "I've stated that what I put forth was an opinion based on my years
+of working in the business of music for films and TV programs."
+ 
+     How can you say that when you operate under a pseudonym?  How do WE
+know you have "years" working in the music business?  We have no proof
+of this.
+ 
+     "I've answered your questions with facts."
+ 
+     No you haven't.  Not one.  Just more opinions.
+ 
+     "I DON'T HEAR AN ORCHESTRA AT ALL IN THE SHOW!"
+ 
+     So what?  That's your problem.
+ 
+     This is like two guys standing in a zoo, looking at an elephant.
+ 
+     "That's a duck," one says.
+ 
+     "No it's not, it's an elephant."
+ 
+     "I don't see an elephant.  I have experience.  It's a duck."
+ 
+     "I don't *care* what YOU see, it's an elephant.  Look, see that
+thing in front?"
+ 
+     "What?  Its bill?"
+ 
+     "That's not a bill, it's a trunk!  See how it waves back and forth?"
+ 
+     "Oh, well, then it's a broken bill...pity, you think they could
+afford to fix it."
+ 
+     "Look, tell you what, how about I put your head under the 'duck's'
+foot and see what happens...?"
+ 
+     We're not responsible for your problems with perception and tone
+deafness.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 20:00:36 -0400
+Subject: Re: Sinclair leaving !!! Need
+
+     You will find out the full story of why the Minbari surrendered in
+the first episode of year two, plus a little extra.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 23:45:23 -0400
+Subject: JMS, a "joke" ???  was: R
+
+     The Zima thing really is only visible in maybe two episodes; by that
+point the humor had run its course and we dropped it.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 23:48:04 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Chicago Comicon schedule?
+
+     No idea yet on the schedule, though my guess is that the B5 panel
+will be some time Saturday afternoon.  Will try to post more when I
+know it.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 23:50:43 -0400
+Subject: What are the Mutari?
+
+     The Mutari are those who fight in the Mutai; and you *did* see Narns
+and Centauri and others hanging around the ring.  The only ones you won't
+see there are Minbari.  It ain't their thing.
+ 
+                                                                            jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 23:53:17 -0400
+Subject: No change in new Mind War <was
+
+     We discovered, when we went to put in the revised CGI, that the
+international versions had already been made and transferred, and it would
+be nearly impossible to recall that part of the process...so it was left
+alone rather than have multiple versions of the same episode floating
+around.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jun 1994 23:53:21 -0400
+Subject: Re: We trust you JMS, really..
+
+     Londo's narration definitely does *not* name Sinclair specifically,
+by name.
+ 
+     Just in the interests of accuracy....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Jun 1994 00:14:09 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: When will we see aer
+
+     You will see Earth Alliance ships capable of moving in space and
+in an atmosphere in "A Voice in the Wilderness" two-parter.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Jun 1994 17:18:39 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Co-stars?
+
+     On returns...Hidoshi: uncertain...Garibaldi's aide: yes...Kalika: no
+...the reporters: some yes...Maya Hernandez: possibly...Sakai: also
+possible.  Soul Hunters: very likely.  Knights: yes, but not identified
+as such.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Jun 1994 17:18:41 -0400
+Subject: JMS : B5 CD?
+
+     Yes, there are plans for a B5 CD in the fall.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Jun 1994 17:20:02 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS!: Can you give them n
+
+     If one of the techs begins to perform actions that take him or her
+outside the merely functional, then yes, names will be given.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Jun 1994 17:20:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: BABYLON 5-THE SCORES
+
+     What you address in the last bit of the music in "Signs" is what
+I've been trying to get across.  The theme music appearing there is not
+quite what we use otherwise.  I suggested to Chris that it'd be cool to
+have the B5 theme there in *minor keys* or minor chords.  It's a somewhat
+different version, and playing a theme in minor instead of major keys or
+chords makes it somber, sad, unsettling.  We've just seen B5 explode, and
+doing that particular riff on the theme seemed to both of us a good idea.
+ Play it again, then the regular theme, and you'll see the difference.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jun 1994 00:58:12 -0400
+Subject: Why a jumpgate at Sigma 957?
+
+     An Explorer-class vessel looks for areas that look like likely
+prospects for exploitation, or which are good for logistical or other
+reasons, do a fast survey, drop a gate and move on.  Nobody *knew* about
+the problems in Sigma 957 until well after the gate was in place.
+ 
+     Generally, the race that builds the gate, owns it.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jun 1994 01:09:44 -0400
+Subject: "Who Watches the Watchmen?"
+
+     My source on this was the original, classical quotation.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jun 1994 01:11:05 -0400
+Subject: We trust you JMS, really... (w
+
+     Daniel: I appreciate your support and your thoughtfulness.  On the
+last point you raise...as well as writing for TV, I also write novels,
+with two published so far, and the next one (a 1,000+ page whopper)
+already outlined.  Thing is, no matter *how* much you outline, and prepare,
+and decide, "THIS is the story," once you actually get into writing the
+novel, things come out of the woodwork and surprise you; characters come
+to life and start pointing you in directions you hadn't considered because
+you hadn't previously spent that much constant time with them.  In a bit
+over two decades of professional writing, I have *never* written an
+outline that survived contact with the script, or the novel.  It sorta
+gets me into the story, and from there on I have to be open to adapting to
+what the story presents.
+ 
+     When I started my second novel, I decided that it would be the story
+of the female cop in the narrative.  It was *her* story.  About a quarter
+of the way in, I realized that it *wasn't* her story, it was the story of
+the two high school kids in the novel.  The basic storyline DID NOT
+CHANGE much, but the *emphasis* and the point of view altered as the focus
+moved from one to the other.
+ 
+     In some ways, that's the closest parallel I can come to as far as
+this situation is concerned.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jun 1994 01:35:41 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS
+
+     Neil's turned down some script work because he's up to his eyes in
+prior commitments, and doesn't take on stuff unless he feels strongly
+that he can give it the proper amount of time to do a good job.  But he's
+good enough to merit going back to again and again and again until he
+surrenders....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jun 1994 01:43:20 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Another annoying int
+
+     Pencil me in as potentially interested, depending on what dates
+we're looking at here.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jun 1994 01:44:41 -0400
+Subject: Re: BABYLON 5-THE SCORES
+
+     I was referring to ST purists, not ST purism, the latter of which is
+applicable to many, the former of which refers only to a few.  One of the
+things we get faulted on is that we're just not ST, and don't do things
+the same way ST does things, from music to props to stories, you name it.
+It's to that small group that I was referring.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jun 1994 01:44:45 -0400
+Subject: >** ATTENTION JMS ** re Tolkei
+
+     I think there are parallels you can draw between any two works; you
+can create parallels between B5 and Dune, Foundation, LoTR...any work in
+which there is an "epic" structure.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jun 1994 02:00:01 -0400
+Subject: Is Babylon 5 close-captioned?
+
+     Babylon 5 episodes are *definitely* close-captioned, so the station
+wasn't being quite forthright.  (Only once did one version of "Mind War"
+slip through uncaptioned, due to a glitch, later corrected.)
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jun 1994 02:00:04 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Dust?
+
+ 
+     No dust in year one.  Perhaps dust in year two.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jun 1994 02:10:16 -0400
+Subject: JMS: aspiring actor wants to k
+
+     We cast our extras through the Screen Extras Guild, using their
+member roster.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jun 1994 02:10:19 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Main title for Season 2 o
+
+     Since the show will have to be promoted for year two, and there will
+be articles all over the place, it's impossible for general viewers not
+to know, so there's no sense having to make two different openings to
+accomodate the first episode.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jun 1994 02:19:13 -0400
+Subject: B5 and LOSH (or: Now I know wh
+
+     Yeah, but y'know, I just *hated* what they did to the Legion; it got
+SO big and out of control that while I still buy the book (not really
+knowing why), I can barely follow the thing.  I dunno, it just lost
+something to me.  (Plus the artwork during the revamp was SO awful, and
+you could never tell who you were looking at.)
+ 
+                            jm(who actually thought Bouncing Boy was okay)s
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jun 1994 02:19:15 -0400
+Subject: Re: BABYLON 5-THE SCORES
+
+     "I don't care if he's using...ten pipe-smoking nuns playing kazoos."
+ 
+     Damn, we've been found out.
+ 
+     Okay, Sister Margaret Mary, who's been running her mouth downtown?!
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jun 1994 03:26:25 -0400
+Subject: Re: Message from JMS
+
+     Getting in someone else to play Sinclair would be the solution if
+the actor were the problem.  He's not.  It's a question of looking at the
+character (at least from my side of this) and saying, "Is there something
+different we can do here that's more interesting?"  This isn't a question
+of salvaging stuff.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jun 1994 03:39:03 -0400
+Subject: Re: Message from JMS
+
+     This to Patrick Rannou...I'm going to try this again, and see if it
+sticks.
+ 
+     We DO have options on our actors.  We DO and DID have options on
+O'Hare.  It was WE who first approached HIM, not the other way around.
+Your characterization of his actions here is not only inappropriate, but
+absolutely and catagorically untrue.  If you've got a problem, you've got
+a problem with me, not Michael.
+ 
+     Once again: this was MUTUAL, and it was AMICABLE.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jun 1994 05:41:05 -0400
+Subject: JMS: About writing for B5?
+
+     The problem becomes that, the deeper we get into the series, the
+more continuity there is between episodes, and the more you pretty much
+have to know what's coming the rest of the season to write episodes for
+the show.  Right now, all the scripts currently in the works have been
+assigned out on the basis of premises developed by me, because I'm the
+only one who knows where the hell the ship is going, particularly in light
+of the new character(s) coming in.  What I'm doing is looking at some
+spec scripts, determining if they've got what it takes, and assigning out
+stuff; we're *not* looking for outside stories.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jun 1994 05:41:07 -0400
+Subject: Re: Message from JMS
+
+     No, Sinclair will no longer command B5, that task will go to
+another, while he undertakes another task.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jun 1994 20:09:40 -0400
+Subject: JMS: How About Alan Moore?
+
+     Actually, when I was story editing the new Twilight Zone, I called
+Alan in England and tried to get him do do one for us.  He said he really
+has *no* interest whatsoever in doing TV.  Unfortunate, really (for TV).
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jun 1994 20:26:39 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Do a UK convention?
+
+     I'd actually planned on visiting England in May/June for two weeks,
+partly for vacation, partly for any PR work I could do for B5, but the
+workload kinda precluded that.  I certainly have no objections, should the
+opportunity arise, to do a UK con; I've visited England before, and enjoy
+it quite a bit.  Will take any excuse to go there.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jun 1994 23:40:16 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: About writing for B5?
+
+     Interfacing with the overall arc is one problem, to be sure; but
+even the independent episodes (and we'll have a number of them) will have
+new characters and situations to deal with.  Who is the new commanding
+officer?  Who's this new character introduced over here?  The status of
+this other character has changed, how does that manifest itself?  It
+becomes very dicey.
+ 
+     If the show and the characters didn't change, remained static, it'd
+be easy.  But they don't, not here.  (Also, it's worth noting that ST has
+kind of given people a false image of how TV works.  Ninety-nine percent
+of TV shows do not take ANY spec submissions.  ST did because -- and this
+isn't a slam, this is by their own admission -- they ran out of ideas.  We
+don't have this problem, and we tend to operate more like a regular TV
+series.)
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Jun 1994 05:30:40 -0400
+Subject: ATT: JMS - The Pit Crew
+
+     In a way, I kinda thought it was more interesting to play the C&C
+techs as just that: they are their jobs as far as we can see.  To give
+them a sense of being part of the machine.  They are occasionally referred
+to in dialogue, but only by job: "Station one, transfer data to main
+console."  I think we broke it down to one station each for environment,
+jumpgate/navigational assistance, security and a couple of other areas.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Jun 1994 05:30:43 -0400
+Subject: EA Military Forces, What DO we
+
+      Your analysis of the military aspects is about right.  We haven't
+shown that much of the "marine/army" aspect, though we'll be seeing
+ground-pounders and the like next season.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Jun 1994 05:32:23 -0400
+Subject: Re: Franke truth WAS: Re: BAB
+
+     That's great; enjoy the CD.  And the rest...will attend to itself, I
+suspect.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Jun 1994 05:32:25 -0400
+Subject: JMS---travel time from Earth t
+
+     The travel time from Earth to B5 is measured in days, though the
+amount of time seems shorter while in hyperspace.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Jun 1994 05:32:27 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Co-stars?
+
+     I'm reasonably sure that the nose art on the 'fury that got splashed
+at the top of "Signs" was that of a dragon, not a chesspiece.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Jun 1994 18:43:31 -0400
+Subject: Re: Elanic $0.02 Re: BABYLON 5
+
+     Part of the music question has to be traced down to my own personal
+tastes.  The way music works in an episodic program is like this:
+ 
+     Once the show is edited, we sit down to "spot" the episode.  This
+puts me, the sound effects people, dialogue editors, post-production
+supervisor, line producer, Chris Franke, and me into a room where we
+watch the episode through.  We note where dialogue may have to be dubbed
+or enhanced; what kinds of sounds we want with, for instance, various
+kinds of interiors or visual EFX...and where the mucis comes in, and where
+it goes out, and what *kind* of music it should be.
+ 
+     Generally, I pick the in- and out-cues for the music, though often
+John Copeland or Christ will jump in if they think I've missed something,
+or argue if they think it shouldn't start or stop at a given point.  Often,
+once the cue for a given section is picked, I'll leave Chris to come up
+with whatever style music he thinks is appropriate.  This is about 90% of
+the time.  About 10% of the time, I'll have a very specific idea about
+the music, and will convey this to him as best I can.
+ 
+     Overall, though, I've always told Chris to push it...to go absolutely
+as far with the music as he wants.  If it goes too far, we can always pull
+it back or duck it down a little.  Basically, I'm a rock-and-roll kind of
+guy...I like my music loud, and I like a LOT of it.  This show is often
+wall-to-wall music.  Chris often composes as much as 20-25 minutes of new
+music per episode; most hour shows have maybe 13-16 minutes of music per
+hour episode.  And he is often called upon by us to do some VERY long
+cues.  Often, TV music is just there to cover a transition (10-20 seconds),
+or establish a mood at the top or bottom of a scene, and get out (1 minute
+to 1 minute-30 seconds average).  We have many, MANY cues on this show
+that go 2, 3, even 4 minutes.  I think we actually had a 6 minute cue at
+one point in one episode.  Check act 3 of "Signs and Portents" and see how
+much music we crammed into that act; it's almost non-stop.
+ 
+     I like percussion, strings, woodwinds and horns, and I'm not as big
+on keyboard (synth or otherwise), and generally our music tends to reflect
+this.  I like music that is exciting and dynamic.  Sometimes perhaps we
+do a smidge too much of this, but I think it's better to err on the dynamic
+side than on the snooze side.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Jun 1994 18:47:37 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: 2nd season episode n
+
+     Let's see...just offhand, titles include "A Trick of the Mind," "A
+Distant Star," "Revelations," "The Long Dark," "Pestilence, Famine and
+Death," "Chrysalis, Part Two," and "The Geometries of Shadow."
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Jun 1994 18:57:10 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Do a UK convention?
+
+     Actually, no, the May/June reference was to 1994, not 1995; I'd hoped
+to get away before we began really cranking on this season.  I do hope to
+get away next year, 1995, around April/May to the UK.  Later than that is
+not workable due to production (assuming we get year 3).
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Jun 1994 19:09:33 -0400
+Subject: jms: I'd like to spec a script
+
+     This is something I'm really trying not to encourage, for all the
+reasons cited previously, plus the fact that we're trying to go with well
+known SF pros and established writers.  But if you're going to do it, the
+only way *to* do it is to have it submitted by an agent, through our story
+editor Larry DiTillio.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Jun 1994 19:10:59 -0400
+Subject: Re: Who would win: Sinclairs D
+
+     I think the term this discussion is searching for is, "Quacknobabble."
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Jun 1994 19:11:02 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: About writing for B5?
+
+     "IF one stuck to the general guidelines of the B5 universe...."
+ 
+     My point is, until we've established for you what those guidelines
+ARE, particularly in terms of the new characters we'll be bringing in,
+that's problematic at best.
+ 
+     "...do we attribute that to better writing (on TNG) after the first
+season?"
+ 
+     Yes.  Nobody knew what the hell they were doing there the first
+and second seasons.  Things improved quite dramatically when later they
+brought in Jeri Taylor, who was instrumental in stopping the revolving
+door of writers there (something just under 30 writer/producers have left
+or been fired off TNG since it started, which is *unheard* of in TV, the
+bulk of it those first two years, maybe 23 or so).
+ 
+     "Ya mean people didn't send in their teleplays for "Murder, She
+Wrote?""
+ 
+     Yes, they did...and as soon as it was determined (by partly peeling
+back the flap) that it WAS a spec script, it was sent *immediately* to
+Legal Affairs, which sent it back to the writer in question, with a note
+telling them that it had not been read, and not to do it again.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Jun 1994 01:11:02 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Cloaking tech.
+
+     Who says you haven't already *seen* cloaking tech?
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Jun 1994 01:27:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: 2nd season episo
+
+     Nobody asked me for descriptions, only titles.  And at this stage,
+it's WAY too early to give out even one-liners on the year two stories,
+since in many cases that would reveal events yet to come in year one.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Jun 1994 15:46:03 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Cloaking tech.
+
+     There are no invisible ships in the B5 docking bay.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Jun 1994 15:46:08 -0400
+Subject: jms: I'd like to spec a script
+
+     I understand your dilemma; understand, though, that under Writers
+Guild rules, I cannot encourage anyone or ask anyone or even participate
+in the process of speccing a script.  Your question underlines the
+problem I raised in my original message back.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Jun 1994 15:47:35 -0400
+Subject: ATT: JMS - The Pit Crew
+
+     The techs are trained to be redundent, in that one can man another's
+station if need be, though that person might not be as quick in some areas
+as the original tech.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Jun 1994 18:57:22 -0400
+Subject: Re: Elanic $0.02 Re: BABYLON 5
+
+     OKAY, OKAY, SO CHRIST AND THE TWO ME'S WERE IN ON THE MUSIC SPOTTING
+SECTION!  I ADMIT IT!  ANYBODY ELSE GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?
+ 
+     ...sigh...I can't win.
+ 
+     Typos have always been the bane of my existence.  I once did a humor
+column for the university newspaper.  Did an Easter column.  Wrote,
+"Celebrated Easter by running down a rabbit."  Okay, not great humor, but
+what do you expect in college?  One problem: due to a typesetting typo,
+the column comes out reading, "Celebrated Easter by running down a rabbi."
+ 
+     The Jewish Student Union -- in the person of five very large men
+waiting for me when I arrived, all unknowing, on campus the next
+morning -- was *not* amused.
+ 
+                                                                    sjm
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Jun 1994 21:50:26 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Why B5 isn't SF Pt 1
+
+     Dear Matthew:
+ 
+     So I log onto GEnie and see in my gateway 300+ messages, many of them
+titled "B5 Isn't SF", starting with a three-part meganote.  "Oh, no, not
+another pointy-head starting an argument," I decide.  So I wait, and wait,
+until I've cleared my desk, and I can sit down and decide whether or not to
+do battle, or simply reply with, "So what's your point?"
+ 
+     Then I read what's actually contained in your messages.
+ 
+     I can't decide whether to laugh or drive a semi-truck over your
+house.
+ 
+     So I've decided to do both.
+ 
+     See you in...oh...about an hour....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Jun 1994 21:53:11 -0400
+Subject: Actor I'd like to see: Robert
+
+     I agree, and wouldn't mind using Vaughn sometime.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Jun 1994 21:53:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 and LOSH
+
+     I just wish they'd leave the damned DC universe *alone* and get on
+with life.  I can't keep track of all the changes anymore.  Remember: if
+you pick at it, it won't heal.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Jun 1994 22:18:51 -0400
+Subject: Pronunciation? Help!
+
+     The *correct* pronunciation, the Old World version, would indeed
+be "stra-chin-ski," though I don't worry about that since nobody should
+ever have to worry about looking at a CZ and pronouncing it CH.  The
+Americanized version is "stra-zin-ski."  Which is more than fine, and is
+in fact what I use.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Jun 1994 22:20:16 -0400
+Subject: ATT: JMS - Tech Names Redux
+
+     I think that if you were to write and request a photo via Warner
+Bros. (directly to Marianne Robertson), you might get it.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Jun 1994 22:20:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS????
+
+     I'm putting this here because, by virtue of my initials being here,
+this should be a trivial enough thread for a trivial question.
+ 
+     On the theory that we are all generally 8 people removed from
+anyone else on the planet...an idle request.
+ 
+     When I was living in San Diego from 1974-81, I knew a young woman
+there named Liz Ochoa.  She's part Basque, red hair, a rose tattoo on her
+left wrist, and in 1978 or so had a 3 year old son named (I believe)
+Justin.  She lived in the northern part of San Diego around El Cajon.
+ 
+     I lost track of her a number of years ago, and if anyone out there
+happens to know her, just as an experiment, drop me a private note.
+ 
+     Let's see if this really works.  (And nothing weird here; she was a
+dear and good friend.)
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jun 1994 04:11:37 -0400
+Subject: AtSFoS -- whose mind is being
+
+     David...re the quoted lines...I like to have a bit of fun...and for
+those paying attention, a little...well...fore*shadow*ing.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jun 1994 04:13:01 -0400
+Subject: AtSFoS: ***Differences?*** (JM
+
+      No, there were no changes in the Sinclair ship-yank scene; what you
+may be remembering is a shot some magazine ran a while back which used a
+shot we discarded, which was a lot like what you describe.  The guys at
+Foundation called it the "snot shot," because that's kinda what it looked
+like (hence why we didn't use it).
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jun 1994 04:13:04 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Rules for submitting
+
+     We cannot take any outside ship designs for legal reasons.  We hae
+(have) contracted with Foundation to provide designs on a work for hire
+basis, meaning we go in owning it, rather than buying designs after the
+fact, which gets into rights and ownership questions, buyouts and the
+like.  Even offered freely, we really can't do that (and even so, I have
+this problem with people working for free).
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jun 1994 04:24:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: Pronunciation? Help!
+
+     You can't fool me.  I knew Kosh.  I worked with Kosh.  Kosh was my
+friend.  You are no Kosh.
+ 
+     Besides...Kosh doesn't type that well.  So NYAH!
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jun 1994 04:24:19 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: 2nd season episo
+
+     "Shame, the one you're missing was the most exciting performer."
+ 
+     You're *definitely* not looking closely enough.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jun 1994 04:39:07 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Why B5 isn't SF - Pt
+
+     That's funny, I just got a letter myself today.  It's still in the
+original Centauri, though...haven't been able to make much sense of it yet.
+ 
+     Ni tobo dula JMS:
+ 
+     Utsak vetsabi Dave Hill, rakasa-de "wham!wham!wham!" nee chu dokk
+anvil, dokk hammer, vobatsu ka "Pointy-Head."
+ 
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Jun 1994 04:58:01 -0400
+Subject: UK: PoD; See you next Wednesda
+
+     The line, "See you next wednesday," was basically an offhand line,
+slightly but not significantly based in the idea that in most markets,
+B5 airs on Wednesdays.  It was never meant to be a John Landis reference,
+and if I'd known it was (I'd never heard it before), would've changed it.
+ 
+     Not all of us in Hollywood have forgotten Vic Morrow.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Jun 1994 00:38:36 -0400
+Subject: UK: People missing the point.
+
+     You don't have to read another book to "get it" re: psi's making
+love.  Perhaps her problem was more with the making love part than the
+psi part.  Haven't read Julian May's book.  It's just the obvious answer
+to what happens if and when telepaths make love: if they truly open up,
+then you're going to get a mirror effect.  Have your lady friend stand
+between two mirrors and look at the effect.  This ain't rocket science.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Jun 1994 04:08:38 -0400
+Subject: Re: Rich & Famous
+
+     Re: "The Real Ghostbusters"...that show was a great deal of fun to
+work on.  I'm pleased that it continues to get mentioned and noticed by
+people.  (And the number of SF people who worked on it is actually quite
+interesting...Richard Mueller, Michael Reaves, JM DeMatteis, John
+Shirley, Arthur Byron Cover and others, in addition to the aforementioned
+David Gerrold.)
+ 
+     It was a show we were all free to go totally gonzo with, and it was
+a ball, occasional fights with suits notwithstanding.  We got away with
+some amazing stuff.  The bunch of episodes I wrote for TRGBs was pretty
+much the end of my involvement in animation, and I kinda wanted to go out
+with a bang.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Jun 1994 05:57:43 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 fans and ST fans.
+
+     This is to Ted McCoy...I have to take *factual* issue with your post,
+primarily on the grounds that you are comparing 7 years of TNG character
+development to 14 episodes of B5 character development.  I'd ask you to
+put yourself back in episode 14 season 1 of TNG and ask  yourself how
+much you really knew about the characters.  Not much, I'd venture.
+ 
+     To the factual side...you say that the Ivanova scene about her
+mother was tossed in once, and then forgotten.  Incorrect.  It comes up
+again and again and again; it's *crucial* to her character.  It pops up
+slightly in Mind War, bigtime in TKO, even more important in Legacies and
+a couple of other episodes this season.  (It particularly receives major
+play in Legacies.)  I think you should see at least one season before
+deciding that something is mentioned once and never again.
+ 
+     You say some of the ambassadors are villainous one moment, less so
+in another episode.  Quite correct.  That's varying their characters so
+they're not one-dimensional.  We all have good days, and bad days.  So do
+our characters.  If things are going well for him, Londo is a happy kind
+of fellow, out for a good time.  If things aren't...he can be a very
+dangerous person.  I don't see that as an inconsistency, nor is his
+character somehow being "violated" by those different elements being
+shown.  They are *all* who he is.
+ 
+     As far as the pre-planned story arc, you say the "characters are
+set," and thus unlikely to grow.  Given that you describe this as a
+negative, then you must not like novels, since their arc is preplanned
+from page one.  The characters in B5 aren't *set* in the sense that this
+is it.  Each one has his or her personal journey, and story arc, that
+they must make, and each one will end up *substantially* different at the
+end because of that journey.  The Londo you see at the end of five years
+is a very, *very* different Londo than the one you see now.
+ 
+     In any event, again, it's more than a little unfair to say, "Well,
+we've had more character development in series X, which has been on the
+air for seven years, than we've had in 14 episodes of series Y."  I would
+recommend at least giving it until the end of the first season.  You don't
+and can't dump characterization out all at once; you have to layer it out
+slowly, gradually.  That process consumes time.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Jun 1994 16:14:59 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS : B5 CD?
+
+     Lemme get this straight...you come on here, insult and slam Chris
+Franke's music, accuse him of minor theft, fraud (by way of saying that
+he is NOT using the orchestra that we're paying him to use), and being
+talentless...and *then* you can actually come in here and demand to know
+what label his CD is coming out on?
+ 
+     Screw you...wait in line like everybody else.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Jun 1994 17:45:20 -0400
+Subject: jms: Can a ship get caught bet
+
+     Yes, it could get caught, and I'd prefer not to go any further with
+this discussion, as it walks over an episode for season two, and I don't
+want to endanger it.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Jun 1994 17:45:22 -0400
+Subject: Unofficial Babylon 5 Dictionar
+
+     I don't have a WWW viewer (I don't even have a VVV viewer), so it
+may be best to send me the thing in a text file.
+ 
+                                                               jjjmmmsss
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Jun 1994 01:46:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 fans and ST fans.
+
+     The influence of actors on their characters is *vastly* over-rated
+and exaggerated by the media, and by viewers.  One of the real problems
+of television the last 20 years or so is that actors are sometimes weilding
+too much clout, and playing it safe with their characters.  Which is why
+so much TV is pablum that doesn't push the envelope.  Sometimes our
+characters *fail* at what they do.  In 90% of all TV series, it would be
+unheard of for an actor to allow his or her character to fail at something
+major, particularly if it's the lead.  This isn't good for TV, or for the
+viewers.  It reduces storytelling to the same-old same-old.
+ 
+     Nor, I believe, is the job of making a show to create characters that
+the actors are "comfortable with."  The idea should be to push and
+challenge your actors to go beyond where they've gone before.  This is why
+so many good actors who do TV take breaks to do stage plays, where they
+have the opportunity to push their skills to the limit...an opportunity
+all too often denied in TeeVee.
+ 
+     Very often, the actor moves into a vacuum where nothing has really
+been set up for the character.  That applies to the case you cite.  The
+character hadn't really been fleshed out, so the actor began adding to the
+role to make up the difference.
+ 
+     The difficulty I have is when the story-arc is described as a problem
+because it isn't haphazard or totally episodic as is every other TV series.
+ This isn't saying, "This is better."  What this is, is an experiment.  No
+one has ever really tried something on this scale for american TV before.
+I wouldn't do every series like this.  This is a *separate creature* from
+standard TV, as will continue to become more apparent the deeper you get
+into the show.  It is, for lack of a better term, a loosely connected 5
+year miniseries.
+ 
+     Point being, no one has ever done something like this before for
+american TV.  And maybe no one ever will again, depending on how all this
+works out.  I think that it's worth the trip.
+ 
+     Finally, re: characters not mentioning the "inner turmoil" they had
+in episode 3 again in episode 4...for one thing, you can't string it all
+too tightly, because in syndication, broadcast order gets shunted around.
+The episodes are designed to be viewed all, or in part, in order or out of
+order, and still work.  Additionally, in TV you only have X-number of
+minutes to tell your story; unless element X has some *direct bearing* on
+what's happening this episode, you can't just sandwich it in.  This applies
+to EVERY TV series, not just B5.  There has to be a current reason for it,
+you can't just drop it in for the hell of it.  You're asking for something
+that doesn't work dramatically.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Jun 1994 20:17:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: UK: PoD; See you next Wedn
+
+     Re: the article...email apart, best to send a copy to me at:
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+ 
+     Any further comments re: Landis would probably be unprintable.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jun 1994 17:47:19 -0400
+Subject: Key questions to be answered
+
+     Without commenting one way or another on various speculations, let
+me dive in for a second on the general issue of "what means what."
+ 
+     One of the things I learned doing other shows, like being on "Murder,
+She Wrote" for two years, was that you *must* play fair with the
+audience.  The clues cannot be so small, or so diminished, that they will
+zip by too easily.  There has to be at least a reasonable chance that
+people will glom onto things.
+ 
+     So the odds are that a single word, or a look, or something going on
+in deep background is probably *not* significant.  Anything in foreground,
+which is given some weight, *may* be significant.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jun 1994 18:15:40 -0400
+Subject: Second Vorlon
+
+     Kosh doesn't need an assistant.  In fact, no one's *really* quite
+sure what it is Kosh *does* most of the day.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jun 1994 18:15:43 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS : B5 CD?
+
+     I didn't answer your first demand for information because I didn't
+feel like it, and I don't have to.  You repeated the demand, and I told
+you to piss off.  Lots of people here asked what *your* "credentials"
+are in music...I don't see you responding to *their* requests, why the
+hell should anyone honor yours?
+ 
+     There will be a mountain of publicity on all the B5 licensing that
+will be coming out later this fall.  The CD (as opposed to the CD Rom)
+will be out in November, which is plenty of time yet for those who like
+the music to find out.
+ 
+     So it's a question of waiting two weeks to inform the fans of the
+show...or annoying you now in the present.
+ 
+     I opt for the latter.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jun 1994 18:15:45 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Question regarding Bill M
+
+     Yeah, it was an off-the-cuff reference to Billy Mitchell.  You and
+your wife are correct.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+ 
+     (Didn't really mean that much; just thought it wuz cool.)
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Jun 1994 01:37:01 -0400
+Subject: Re: Rich & Famous
+
+     Yeah, "Chicken, He Clucked" was one of the most twisted episodes I
+wrote for The Real Ghostbussters.  Our offices were located near this
+place that made broasted chicken, which was itself directly behind, and
+just upwind, of an apartment building.  I used to pass by this place
+every day, thinking about the poor people on the chicken side of the
+apartment building, where the smell from chickens broasting wafted in
+every day, day after day, seven days a week...and it was *strong* stuff,
+let me tell you...which led me to the notion of a guy who lived in just
+such an apartment, who is gradually driven stark, staring mad by it, and
+makes a deal with the Devil to sell his soul in exchange for getting rid
+of all the chickens in the world.
+ 
+     When I turned in the script, one of the two executive producers called
+me, said, "You are a sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick man," and hung up.
+ 
+     But we made the episode.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Jun 1994 04:40:24 -0400
+Subject: jms:  Civil liberties
+
+     Yes, there are definitely civil liberties.  In the specific
+instance you cite, you're looking at a camera feed from a B5 facility,
+which is as admissible as a videotape inside a supermarket; it's not a
+question of putting it in an unauthorized area.  B5 is owned by EA.
+ 
+     The whole question of how telepaths can be used gets very much into
+issues of civil liberties and privacy; that's why they're prohibited from
+unauthorized scans, and are not allowed to determine anyone's guilt or
+innocence by a scan of the accused, since it violates the right to due
+process.
+ 
+     We've thought it out a lot, but it would fill up a lot of room here
+to go over it in detail; perhaps best for now to let the show speak for
+itself.  (You'll see some discussion of this upcoming in "The Quality of
+Mercy," for starters.)
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Jun 1994 04:56:34 -0400
+Subject: Re: ? for JMS
+
+     As someone who participated in the design work on the Starfuries,
+you're incorrect; the engines are constructed in such a way, on all four
+wings, that they can fire with equal strength in any direction: forward,
+backward, top and bottom.  They demonstrate this capacity repeatedly in
+the show.  (In particular I suggest you check out "Signs and Portents,"
+when Ivanova's squad is recalled; you can get a good close look then.)
+ 
+     The design had nothing to do with X-Wings, which are standard type
+wings or airfoils, and one central engine.  Steve Burg, our designer,
+sat down and with some input from us, said, "What's the most practical
+and realistic design for fighters in a zero-g, non-atmospheric
+environment?"  A four-arm system, with multiple engines on all four arms,
+lets you move in any direction, flip, spin and so on, which comes in
+handy in a fight.  It does things you couldn't do in an atmosphere.
+ 
+     Also, we *have* shown ships decelerating, engines-forward.  In the
+pilot in particular, the Vorlon ship comes out of the jump gate
+backwards, engine leading; it decelerates, then turns around and goes in
+the front way.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Jun 1994 05:08:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: The One-Armed Man
+
+     Okay, Robert Chelovich, I'm getting pretty damned tired of your
+popping in here with your accusations against Katsulas.  So you and your
+girlfriend cooked up a complaint...that doesn't mean squat and you know
+it.  If you had a case, you'd make it; there are extradition law between
+states.
+ 
+     You are engaging in the character assassination, in an obsessed
+fashion, with a celebrity.  You are using this forum to destroy his
+career with false and misleading accusations.  You were not being spoken
+to in the thread, you simply jumped in.
+ 
+     You are, quite simply, full of shit.  And you are engaging in typical
+stalking behavior, which is visible to anyone seeing this.  Obviously you
+have no case, or it'd be made and there would be a trial.  But you don't
+have a case, so all you can do in your pitiable way is to come on here and
+try to smear his reputation.  You are a sad and pathetic creature who is
+venally bent on destruction for whatever excuse your fevered brain has
+cooked up.  The problems between you and your girlfriend are your own.
+ 
+     A courtroom is where these discussions are held.  That's where one
+makes a case, if one has one.  Do so, or shut up.
+ 
+     Because right now, all I see is an obsessed creature who springs onto
+any discussion, leaves his little assassinations, and then blips off into
+the shadows again, proclaiming "I will post no further on this thread,"
+AFTER you have done your damage.  Like all snipers, and cowards, you
+strike from the shadows.
+ 
+     People comment that they find Katsulas appealing...and you jump in
+and try to suppress them or frighten them away...you're right, there is
+a problem, and it is yours.
+ 
+     You've got three choices: 1) Make a sufficiently convincing case and
+go to trial (the fact that you haven't shows that there is nothing to your
+case whatsoever), 2) Deal with whatever the hell it is that's turning you
+into a net-stalker, maybe seek some therapy, or 3) simply shut up.
+ 
+     Otherwise how long do you intend to engage in this campaign of
+harrassment, defamation and slander?  Obviously you haven't got anything,
+but you continue...what?  One year?  Two?  Ten?  Twenty?
+ 
+     You have been asked, repeatedly, to stop in these baseless
+accusations.  You have already come perilously close to crossing into the
+area of stalking, malicious mischief, libel and several other areas by
+your continued assaults.  All such posts will continue to be not only
+forwarded to Katsulas' legal counsel for retention pending legal action,
+but to the LAPD's division that handles celebrity stalkers such as
+yourself.  The more you engage in this behavior, the more you build a
+case against yourself.
+ 
+     Your postings are obsessive, verging on the irrational.  Stop it.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Jun 1994 05:18:13 -0400
+Subject: Top Ten Things You Will Never
+
+     I have just read your list of Top 10 Things You'll Never See On
+Babylon 5.
+ 
+     We've already done one of them...this season.
+ 
+     "Eyes."  'Nuff said.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Jun 1994 18:13:16 -0400
+Subject: B5 FANS AND ST FANS.
+
+     Who said Londo was, of necessity, dead at the end of 5 years?  Not I.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Jun 1994 21:47:07 -0400
+Subject: Just a regular person who love
+
+     Your good wishes are noted and appreciated.  Many thanks.  I'd rate
+"Mind War" as one of my favorites from this season as well.
+ 
+     In any event, thanks again for the kind words.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Jun 1994 21:47:09 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS : B5 CD?
+
+     Once the CD is out, I'm sure it'll be able to be played anywhere,
+including DJ'd stuff at cons.  Go for it.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Jun 1994 21:47:11 -0400
+Subject: Cut in UK Babylon 5
+
+     Well, *that's* interesting...guess we'll just have to put in more
+violence in future to make up the difference....
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Jun 1994 21:47:13 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS : B5 CD?
+
+     I understand your concern; my sense is that, as a writer, my job is
+to find the right word for the right job.  I could describe a character
+as "dumb," but somehow "breathtakingly stupid" just sounds better.
+ 
+     I could describe a car in a story as simply a car, or say that it's
+a Mercedes 300E with silver finish and deep, plush seat linings.
+ 
+     I could tell someone to simply go away...or "piss off."  And the
+latter just tickles me a bit more.
+ 
+     The right word for the right job.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Jun 1994 02:17:37 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS
+
+     Let's say that I for one would love to see some models made, and
+am certainly pushing for it.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Jun 1994 04:13:32 -0400
+Subject: A question to any one or JMS..
+
+     There is a law called Commonlaw Copyright, which means that something
+is copyrighted in whatever form you print it -- electronically, in a
+booklet, even if it's performed verbally in public -- the moment you
+produce it.  You don't have to put a (c) notice on it, it's there
+automatically.  Anyone wanting to sign over rights to something must do
+so specifically, one item or message at a time, in writing, signed.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Jun 1994 04:15:14 -0400
+Subject: Babylon 5 is scary.
+
+     Then it's having its intended effect.  To me, the best SF has always
+left me with an uncertain feeling, as of having touched something quite
+extraordinary.  (Being young and discovering H.P. Lovecraft for the first
+time can REALLY do that to you, yikes!)  I try to build in a little of
+that same sense...the flip-side of the sense of wonder.
+ 
+     Humans have definitely had a rough time of it lately, in the B5
+storyline.  But we're going somewhere now, as our arc begins to shift.
+We have always struggled upward.  And there are some very interesting
+things in store for humans in the B5 universe....
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Jun 1994 04:15:16 -0400
+Subject: Babylon 5 in OZ???
+
+     Yes, B5 will make it to Australia later this fall.  I can't recall
+now which channel, but the number 7 keeps coming to mind.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Jun 1994 00:35:45 -0400
+Subject: Prepared for early cancellatio
+
+      The only way I've been able to get B5 to the TV screen at *all* ahs
+(has) been to totally deny any other possibilities; I can't even consider
+or discuss them.  The story will all eventually be told, that much I'm
+determined about.  I feel the same way you do; it's always the shows I
+like that get canceled...but so far we're doing okay, and we can only
+hope for the best.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Jun 1994 00:36:04 -0400
+Subject: Re: The One-Armed Man
+
+     So let me get this straight...Diane speaks well of Andreas, and you
+harrass her...you threaten to sue Andreas...you threaten to sue me for
+defending Andreas and describing your abusive letters in terms that are
+acceptable under the First Amendment.  Boy, you sure are busy.
+ 
+     And woefully uninformed.  Nothing -- *nothing* -- that I have said
+in any of my postings are litigious.  I've been riding the nets for a
+long, long, very long time, and I've studied communications law, and you
+got nothing.  It's simply more baseless threats, which again proves my
+point, that you're full of it.
+ 
+     Second, any case you might have cooked up in your head is now a dead
+issue because of *your* actions.  A complaint must be untainted by any
+apparent motivation on the part of the plaintiff to "get" someone.  But
+your repeated actions here have shown that this is part of a vendetta on
+your part against Andreas.
+ 
+     Anybody can file a complaint against anybody.  It proves *nothing*.
+ Roseanne Barr filed one against her husband, then retracted it later
+admitting that it was false.  Happens all the time.  A complaint is
+simply that, unsupported by evidence.  No charges have ever been filed
+against Andreas.
+ 
+     As for your comment about the irrationality of discussing alien
+planets and worlds...1) B5 is a *real* TV series, though perhaps in your
+current agitated state of mind, you hadn't noticed that, 2) nothing in
+discussing a fictional universe will hurt someone's career, as you are
+trying to do with Andreas.
+ 
+     You have called Andreas' home.  You have left repeated messages here.
+You have taken other actions, all to one singular goal: to try and destroy
+Andreas Katsulas' career.  And you put my messages discussing your
+slanders on the same scale, and say you'll sue?
+ 
+     Up yours.
+ 
+     You try to intimidate people here from talking about Andreas, you
+try to intimidate Andreas, and you try to intimidate me...your obsession
+is so profound that you're all over the map, in front of every person
+here reading your screeds.
+ 
+     You have some real problems here.  Deal with them.
+ 
+     But leave the rest of humanity out of it.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Jun 1994 00:37:52 -0400
+Subject: Re: ? for JMS
+
+     Why rocketry rather than gravity controls?  First, when you're in
+space, not near a gravitational source, you need *some* kind of system
+to create propulsion.  Again, remember, this is really only 250 years in
+the future.  You need to *push* against something to move through space,
+and this is about as far as our tech has gotten us.  We do not HAVE
+gravity control; if we did, B5 wouldn't have to rotate to create it.
+Some of the more advanced civilizations -- like the Minbari cruisers in
+"Sky" and other episodes -- use a different system; there's no visible
+or (to us now) recognizeable propulsion system.  Ditto for the Vorlon
+ships.
+ 
+     You're making a generalization that doesn't really apply.  (I'd also
+point you to the Vree saucers and the Ipsha battle ships in
+"Deathwalker," and the Drazi sunhawk in the same episode, which seem to
+use alternate systems.)  We're trying to set up varying levels of
+technology, with Earth near the bottom.  We've got jumpgates, which the
+Centauri introduced into our culture, but to some extent it's like giving
+an F16 to a bunch of aborigines; they may learn to fly it, but they may
+not be able to come up immediately with all the tech between their current
+level of society and that which could produce an F16.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Jun 1994 03:53:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: The One-Armed Man
+
+     Here's yet another example (one of many) in which you show you don't
+have a clue, and are twisting facts.
+ 
+     You write, "...everything that Bob said was substantiated."
+ 
+     Incorrect.  The only thing that Bob stated here was that a complaint
+had been filed, by you.
+ 
+     The complaint has not been substantiated.
+ 
+     The incident has not been substantiated.
+ 
+     This is how the Judicial system works, since you claim to be about
+to launch into it.
+ 
+     NOTHING -- I repeat, NOTHING -- that you have said has been legally
+substantiated.  And if it could be, would've been by now.
+ 
+     BTW, I spoke to Andreas today, who continues to be very upset by
+this whole thing, and he indicated that he wishes you would stop calling
+there to further harrass him.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Jun 1994 03:58:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: The One-Armed Man
+
+     RE: mental powers...there's still investigation into this area
+going on, and I don't think we've yet heard the final judgment...jump
+gates are a fairly reasonable extrapolation on folded space, wormholes
+and the like...and as for FTL travel, there isn't any, none of our ships
+travel faster than light per se; hyperspace is one way of avoiding the
+whole issue.  In normal space, none of the ships in the B5 universe
+travel faster than light.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Jun 1994 04:20:30 -0400
+Subject: Re: The One-Armed Man
+
+     PS #1: as Brian O'Neill said, any lawyer in his right *mind* would
+tell you that after filing a complaint, the #1 rule is, "SHUT UP!"  Do
+not go around making public statements about it.  Doofus-activity #1 from
+you.
+ 
+     PS #2: I have not said anything to you that anyone else here has
+not said, in some cases in far harsher terms that I have said it.  Since
+you said that you now intend to sue *me*, you must now also sue *them*
+as well.  Otherwise your suit becomes selective, and thus provably a
+vendetta.  So now how many *more* are you going to sue?  Or threaten?  Or
+harrass?  (I notice you accused the Doge of forging your mail, so I
+suppose we're now broadening our scope to include charges of forgery.)
+ 
+     You use threat of lawsuit to intimidate people, with *no* conception
+of the law.  Doofus-activity #2.
+ 
+     Would you now like to try for Doofus-activity #3, or go home now?
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
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+===========================================================================
+| This text is compiled from posts by J. Michael Straczynski on the Usenet
+| group rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.  This document contains material Copyright
+| 1994 J. Michael Straczynski.  He has given permission for his words to be
+| redistributed online, as long as they are marked as being copyright JMS.
+| This document, as well as other Babylon-5 related material, is available
+| by anonymous FTP at ftp.hyperion.com.
+===========================================================================
+
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Jul 1994 23:58:42 -0400
+Subject: DC Comics B5?
+
+     We are trying to keep the B5 comic part of B5 continuity and canon,k
+though without the requirement that you have to read it to follow the
+show, because that would be vastly unfair.  It just *fits*.  I.e., we
+establish a prior relationship with a woman on Mars for Garibaldi, and she
+can show up in flashbacks in the book, or in the present.  And yes, there
+is complete freedome to use Sinclair in the books since he's not entirely
+gone from the storyline at all, and still will carry a part.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Jul 1994 23:58:45 -0400
+Subject: JMS: hidden allusions and tips
+
+     I think maybe 45-50% of our subtext and allusions have been noted
+to date, which is *real* good.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Jul 1994 01:57:27 -0400
+Subject: Violence-question for JMS
+
+     No, so far the bullet-counters haven't much noticed
+B5, though they will in time, I'm sure.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Jul 1994 01:57:30 -0400
+Subject: Londo based on Brother Theodor
+
+     Actually, no, Londo was not based on Brother Theodore, who I only
+discovered some time later on Letterman.  But Harlan and Peter David
+mentioned at the panel that Brother Theodore could make a swell brother
+for Londo in some episode, so this is something I may consider....
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Jul 1994 01:57:33 -0400
+Subject: JMS TV 31 cutting previews & c
+
+     Will refer this to Warner Bros. programming on Tuesday.  Thanks.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Jul 1994 04:58:33 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  Do the actors know?
+
+     Some of the actors know a bit of what will happen well down the
+road; some know what will happen during any given season; some don't want
+to know *anything*, just find it out during shooting.  None of them knows
+the full story.  And none have asked.  I think the concern there is that
+they might begin playing the *result* rather than the process, that this
+prior knowledge might color their current performance, rather than making
+it a clean evolution.
+ 
+     Sometimes it gets wonky.  We filmed "Chrysalis" twelfth in shooting
+order, to air twenty-second.  Part of the setup to "Chrysalis" is "Signs
+and Portents," which shot 4 episodes later.  Meaning the actors had to
+act familiar with elements they hadn't performed yet, and hadn't seen yet
+in script form.  So in that case, I had to sit down and explain what the
+various aspects of "Chrysalis" meant, and where we were going, for it all
+to play.  Later, when "Signs" was published in-house, they got to see in
+more detail how the setup fit in with the payoff.
+ 
+     If asked, I would probably try to refrain from telling any of the
+actors the full story.  Let me rephrase: I simply wouldn't do it.  If they
+would ask where their individual character is going -- and some have --
+what I do is give them the general arc, but leave out a lot of specifics.
+ For instance, Peter knows *in general* that his character is going in a
+darker direction, but not how he's going to get there or what it means to
+the overall story.  And that, I think, is as it should be.
+ 
+     Thus far, only three people other than myself have read the synopsis
+of the full five-year arc, which is 3 people more than I'm comfortable
+with.  (One of them is Larry DiTillio, whose response was simply, "You're
+out of your fucking mind.  You've *got* to be out of your fucking mind to
+think you can even TRY and do this on TV."  Which seemed a pretty fair
+appraisal of the situation.)
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Jul 1994 04:58:35 -0400
+Subject: a question
+
+     "How did Sinclair's duck thing get started?"
+ 
+     Probably by watching an attractive woman walk across the room.
+ 
+	                               jm(quack in residence)s
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Jul 1994 05:27:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: hidden allusions and
+
+     Though you're correct about the shape of the EA symbol being a bit
+reminiscent of the Star of David...that wasn't the intent going in.  We
+took the letter A, stretched it out, put a stylized E over it, and got the
+basic silhouette.  The rest is happenstance.
+ 
+                                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Jul 1994 05:27:46 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Re-The Best CGI Crea
+
+     Yeah, the Feeder is pretty cool; wrapped up Foundation's rendering
+machines for the better part of a week just to pull that one off.  Alas,
+I really can't give out their address, as they'd hurt me badly.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Jul 1994 05:27:48 -0400
+Subject: JMS - yet another small questi
+
+     The bays are called Cobra Bays because that's kind of the shape of
+the bays from the outside as they wrap around the front, round part of the
+station (narrow at one end, flaring out big at the other).  The name
+refers to the look of the place, not what's stored inside.
+ 
+     Will definitely keep on...well, spacin'....
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Jul 1994 05:27:50 -0400
+Subject: Q: Naranek
+
+     Aliens with two names: Kosh Naranek (not used yet in the show, but
+it's there), Londo Mollari, Vir Cotto.  Single names: Delenn, Lennier.
+Composite names: Ko'Dath, Na'Toth, G'Kar.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Jul 1994 05:27:53 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Queries
+
+     No, the dominant belief system in PoD is that there IS no dominant
+single belief...except our willingness to tolerate our diversity.
+ 
+     Have never seen any Gundam, so no, no influence there.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Jul 1994 00:47:24 -0400
+Subject: Info gleaned from Chicago Comi
+
+     Minor correction: the first B5 comic issue, "In Darkness Find Me,"
+is the flip side of "Points of Departure," not "Midnight."
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Jul 1994 02:59:44 -0400
+Subject: What makes B5 different and sp
+
+     Patrick: a truly excellent and well-thought out presentation.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Jul 1994 02:59:46 -0400
+Subject: What makes B5 different and sp
+
+     Actually, one follow-up...one thing we've been very careful about is
+that when something is referenced in episode 9 that took place in episode
+3, you don't *have* to have seen episode 3 for it to make sense; the
+information you need is collapsed or somehow incorporated into the dialogue
+in episode 9.  Meaning that while VCRs and repeated viewings and groups
+can help to *predict* stuff, you don't need to have seen ANY prior episodes
+of the show to enjoy any one episode of the show.
+ 
+     But the *more* you watch, the more you get out of it.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Jul 1994 03:10:57 -0400
+Subject: points of view in B5 storyboar
+
+     If a story takes place in present tense, we can shift POVs around a
+bit; in the case of "Sky," we were *specifically* dealing with Sinclair's
+memory of events, thus limiting us to his POV.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jul 1994 00:25:50 -0400
+Subject: Re: Grail SPOILERS
+
+     Actually, no, the "forgery" story with the elderly couple didn't
+hold up, because repeating the steps they took didn't replicate the
+other crop circles.  The stalks are bent, never broken, a counter-
+clockwise section beneath a clockwise section, the stalks continue to
+grow, and the bend seems more from heat than pressure.  The forgery story
+was itself a fake, and has been largely discredited.  Not to say that
+there isn't some other way of doing it, but that ain't it, and thus far,
+no one has been exactly capable of duplicating a proper crop circle.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jul 1994 00:46:14 -0400
+Subject: Spioilers for "Quality of Merc
+
+     ...awwwkkk...don't ever do that to me again...awwwkkkk!
+ 
+                                                                 jm(thud!)s
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jul 1994 00:47:40 -0400
+Subject: Transport MARY CELESTE ?!
+
+     Yeah, it was a bit of *really* perverse humor...Jinxo survives all
+five Babylon stations, and leaves thinking all is well...on a ship named
+the Marie Celeste?
+ 
+     We're a sick bunch, but we're fun.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jul 1994 03:38:54 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Re-The Best CGI
+
+     Does someone get shot in something other than the shoulder?
+ 
+     Oh, yes...most definitely....
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jul 1994 03:38:57 -0400
+Subject: Re: Info gleaned from Chicago
+
+     The comics series is free to bop forward and backward in time, all
+over the B5 universe, wherever the writer wants to take it.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jul 1994 04:01:50 -0400
+Subject: Re: What makes B5 different an
+
+     Correct; the title of "The War Prayer" is a nod to Twain's piece of
+the same name, which should be ready by *everyone*.  Given the growing
+problems with illiteracy, I try to refer not to pop society so much, as
+to literature...Tennyson, Twain, even writers whose last names don't
+begin with T.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jul 1994 17:49:51 -0400
+Subject: Femme Fatales Article Cancelle
+
+       Your information is behind the times; Femme Fatales magazine ran
+a piece on the Women of Babylon 5 quite some time ago.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jul 1994 17:49:53 -0400
+Subject: jms: TRG songs?
+
+     Yeah, I wrote all the lyrics for the songs in "The Halloween Door,"
+including Egon's piece, and the lyrical (without music) goodbye to Poe,
+Bradbury and the rest.  I've written a few songs here and there, a couple
+of which have actually been recorded, but I won't tell you where.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jul 1994 17:49:56 -0400
+Subject: JMS: D.C. Fontana? (+ a flame)
+
+     Dorothy is not exclusive to any other project, so there is every
+reason to expect to see more B5 from her next season (and, in fact, she
+is writing one now).
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Jul 1994 17:49:58 -0400
+Subject: Re: DiTillo at Westercon 4/2
+
+     I've conveyed as much of this discussion as I can, never having seen
+the original posting for some reason, to Larry DiTillio, and he is very
+upset about it, feeling that many of his comments have not been represented
+accurately or have been taken out of context.  As far as the stations are
+concerned...it's the stations that are in partnership with Warners to form
+PTEN.  PTEN "guidance" comes from the Executive Committee, which is a few
+representatives of that group.
+ 
+     Every network show ever produced must have casting of regulars
+approved by the network.  Ditto with the company that creates a
+syndicated show (usually the studio).  It is the simple process of
+running the name or names past someone, for their approval, which is
+almost always assured unless the person is *very* controversial or just
+not right for the part.  Every show ever produced goes through this
+process, and it is exactly the same with B5.  We proposed the names for
+our cast, and they were approved.  It's as basic as that.  If Larry
+grumped a bit, it was because he was in the process of trying to pass a
+kidney stone at the time, which always makes him cranky.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Jul 1994 02:11:46 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  Voting Procedure of Coun
+
+     We didn't have the League of Non-Aligned Worlds up and running for
+the pilot.  They get one vote, determined by majority decision.  EAch
+mamber of the main Advisory Council gets one vote, equal to that.
+ 
+     In "Deathwalker," you had one abstention (Kosh), two to try her
+(EA and League), and three against the trial (Narns, Centauri and
+Minbari).  Abstentions don't count either way in such a vote; it's the
+negatives vs. the positives, and there were more no's than yes's.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Jul 1994 04:06:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: DiTillo at Westercon 4/2
+
+     Once again, some of this is getting distorted.  We are looking for
+the best person to play this new role.  Once we decide who it is we want,
+we will run this past PTEN for their approval.  It is nothing more or
+less than this.  Bostwick, who I personally very much wanted to work with,
+was NOT -- repeat, *not* -- turned down by PTEN.  We courted him for a
+bit, but in the final analysis he decided that he didn't want to do a
+syndicated series.  We have only this week, for the first time, formally
+presented the name of a prospective actor to PTEN.
+ 
+     As stated, Larry was in considerable discomfort due to a kidney
+stone, and has been more or less out of the loop, due to working on his
+first script and not formally beginning his term yet as story editor for
+this season.  As one example of this...the line that Sinclair will not be
+seen until *after* the second season is also incorrect.  We have already
+shot a sequence with Sinclair, which is slated for the second season.
+ 
+ 
+     Larry is very bothered about how this is being distorted, and he told me
+to remind certain people that he specifically said that if any of this
+turned up on the nets, he would find the person responsible, go to their
+home and kill them.  Granted, he was on painkillers at the time, but *I*
+certainly wouldn't push it.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Jul 1994 04:06:17 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Minbari Worrior Casts
+
+     Well, we'll be learning more about the warrior caste, that most
+definitely...as for the worrior castes...they're really a bunch of
+downers.  "Look, the economy, it's in trouble again...Earthers, hoo boy,
+what a pain they're going to be, we don't want they should move in next
+door, you see how they make noise...is there something on my nose?"
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Jul 1994 23:53:54 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  opening sequence changes
+
+     I will be better able to comment on changes in the opening montage
+after we have made them.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Jul 1994 23:53:56 -0400
+Subject: EYES <possibly spoilers>
+
+     As story editor, Larry's job is to get it right as much as possible,
+and keep the dialogue natural to the characters once created.  He's good
+at this, which is why I work with him.
+ 
+     And yes, Janet is a *great* director, and will probably do the first
+episode of year two for us.  We think she's nifty.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Jul 1994 15:27:34 -0400
+Subject: Reflections on "Grail"
+
+     John Flinn, who is our DP, has at various times also been an actor,
+and so we used him to play Mr. Flinn in the episode as well.  A cameo by
+yet another member of our talented and multifaceted production team.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Jul 1994 15:35:46 -0400
+Subject: A problem with S&P
+
+     I hate to burst your bubble, but the Raider ship *was* rotating.
+Look at it again.  It's most visible when the ship is being photographed
+from behind with B5 in the background.  You can see the round part of the
+ship rotating (with the docking bay at center).
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Jul 1994 19:27:53 -0400
+Subject: B5 Ratings
+
+     Just a couple points on the ratings cited...the reruns which were
+being broadcast at that time (and reruns get lower numbers anyway) were
+being killed by the NBA playoffs and finals, which were going on in the
+same timeslot.  (Actually, throughout June, everybody was getting hit to
+some degree; we got it worse because we were at 8 in many markets opposite
+the NBA, but it ain't that much of a difference.)
+ 
+     From the overnights on "Grail," we're pretty much back where we
+were prior to reruns, a definite jump upward...an increase of about two
+ratings points.
+ 
+     Cost-wise, btw, we're about the same price as "Kung Fu," so there
+isn't much difference in that respect.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Jul 1994 00:32:11 -0400
+Subject: Update to Babylon 5 Dictionary
+
+     Re: no entry for the O...Ombuds.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Jul 1994 00:51:10 -0400
+Subject: JMS:Re: Second Vorlon
+
+     If you ever *do* see a group of Vorlons on this show...run like hell.
+ 
+                                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Jul 1994 01:09:21 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  Please, NOOOOOOO!
+
+     This is getting vastly misrepresented.  What we're doing, which is
+something I noted here a long time ago, is trying to balance stuff a
+little.  We did a *great* job, I think, creating the alien characters; so
+much so that our human characters kinda got short shrift over the course
+of the first season.  Year Two will show us a bit more of the humans on
+the station; that is NOT the same as downplaying the aliens, and we're
+most emphatically NOT doing that.  In point of fact, *all* of the major
+alien characters will be appearing (by contract) in more episodes than
+was the case last year.  Even the diplomatic attaches like Vir and Lennier
+go from 6-7 episodes last year to 13 this coming year.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Jul 1994 01:10:48 -0400
+Subject: Attn: JMS  What do you want?
+
+     We'll continue to work at intensifying the relationships across
+the coming episodes.  "Eyes" does a lot, as do several more upcoming
+episodes.
+ 
+     As for "What do you want?" Morden...yes, he is a very significant
+character, and yes, you will be seeing him again.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Jul 1994 01:12:13 -0400
+Subject: Babylon 5 Filk Singers to Hono
+
+     Elena...with all due respect...you were a Nazi in a previous life,
+weren't you?
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Jul 1994 02:16:16 -0400
+Subject: Who founded the Babylon Projec
+
+    David...what an absolutely wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful
+question.
+ 
+    I think I'll answer this in an episode next season.
+ 
+    It's something that I've known, and just filed away, but yeah, this
+should be dealt with.  And I'll do so.  (Though now you have to wait to
+see it on TeeVee.)
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Jul 1994 18:05:59 -0400
+Subject: Uniforms
+
+      Your initial appraisal of the uniforms seems correct.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Jul 1994 21:47:44 -0400
+Subject: Misinformed
+
+     The way to defuse your potted pal is as follows:
+ 
+     1) DS9 is a direct spinoff of TNG, which is owned by Paramount.
+No one could pitch a ST spinoff elsewhere.
+ 
+     2) DS9 was created by Berman/Pillar, who were under contract to
+Paramount working on TNG, and thus would not have pitched it to Warner
+Bros. at any time.
+ 
+     3) B5 dates back to 1987.  If he would like to see some sneaky
+references to it in print, tell him to go check out a copy of OtherSyde,
+my second novel, published in around 1990, which contains a reference to
+Babylon 5.  Also, if he has a bunch of old Starlogs, if he wants to check
+in around 1988, he will find an interview with me in which one of the
+things mentioned is that I'm working to sell a show called Babylon 5.  A
+final reference to B5 is in an episode of Captain Power called "Final
+Stand," which I slipped in for funsies.
+ 
+     Your potted (to use your phrase) pal's obstinate opinions are
+irrelevant; the facts, in hard print, speak for themselves.  He's got
+things in reverse; B5 was pitched to Paramount in 1989; DS9 was never
+pitched to Warners.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Jul 1994 21:47:47 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS' Real Ghostbusters
+
+     I believe the episode in question (yes, one of mine) was entitled
+"Take Two," and ended with actual footage of the movie.
+ 
+     The wonderful part about that episode of TRGBs -- and this is
+something I kinda aimed at while writing it -- is that there are now
+whole bunches of kids out there who are absolutely *convinced* that the
+animated series came first, THEN the movie based on it.
+ 
+     The only thing better than messing with somebody's sense of reality
+is messing with a whole LOTTA people's sense of reality....
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Jul 1994 01:11:07 -0400
+Subject: Question about Sinclairs statu
+
+     Is it a conflict of interest...yes and no.  Sinclair functions much
+as a military governor in, for instance, California's past.  Someone in
+this position may speak on behalf of his government with neighboring
+countrires, and represent others.  Does it sometimes lead into a conflict
+of interest?  Yes.  Is it sometimes unfair?  Yes.  Which is kinda like
+life, and that's why I rather like putting him in an awkward position.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Jul 1994 04:09:38 -0400
+Subject: Thanks and praise!
+
+     jeremy: thanks.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Jul 1994 04:17:45 -0400
+Subject: JMS: .plan files
+
+     Email between folks is the best way to discuss story ideas; I think
+someone here put together a big list of folks doing it.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Jul 1994 04:30:23 -0400
+Subject: Re: Religion
+
+     Kevin is correct, I'm an atheist.  I'm also a human.  Part of my
+job (such as it is) is to try to come up with aliens that are at least
+fairly realistic, and treat them with respect.  How then is it any
+different for an atheist to treat religion with respect?  Particularly
+when that is all that most atheists request from religionists...that we
+be treated with respect (as opposed to our good old pal George Bush, who
+at a Chicago airport news conference, said in answer to a question that
+he didn't think atheists could really be considered patriots since this
+is supposed to be one nation under god).
+ 
+     Many people seem to have commented here on the notion that it is
+remarkable to see an atheist treating religion as much as it gets treated
+here, and as well as it gets treated here.  As Kevin originally pointed
+out in his note, we deal with the issue a *lot*, generally in positive
+ways.  I don't think it's remarkable at all.  A writer's job is to be
+honest, and try to avoid skewing stories to meet some personal agenda.
+Religion has been with us for thousands of years, and it ain't going
+away tomorrow or the day after or in the next 250 years.  Individual
+religions may come and go, but the totality of it...no.  Won't happen.
+ 
+     In addition, on one level it must be respected, if I chose privately
+to disagree with it: it is one more reflection of humanity's desire, its
+need to understand the universe around us.  Early man was stunned by the
+sheer wonder of the world around us, stumbled for some way to explain it
+...and, not being able to lay one's hand on a microscope, or an atom
+smasher, or a copy of the Origin of Species, turned to the only tools
+around at the time.  The instinct, to explain stuff, is exactly the same
+instinct that drives any scientist or rationalist; only the methodology
+and means of codification vary.  The religious explanation remains
+carved in stone (or tablets), where the scientific explanation is in a
+constant state of re-examination and flux.  But the intent behind both
+is the same.
+ 
+     I do not tolerate religious extremists.  Neither do I tolerate
+atheist extremists.  This nation was forged in the fires of diversity,
+and it is in a multitude of voices that you can hear the true sound of
+this nation.  Or, put slightly differently....do unto others as you would
+have them do unto you.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Jul 1994 05:49:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATT: JMS - Happy Birthday!
+
+                      ...bah, humbug....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Jul 1994 01:25:05 -0400
+Subject: Question for JMS, Re: Mind War
+
+     Some of the events in "Mind War" are significant indeed.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Jul 1994 03:43:32 -0400
+Subject: Who is JMS?
+
+     I often find myself wondering the same thing sometimes....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Jul 1994 03:43:35 -0400
+Subject: Re: Light Brigade
+
+     My original thought there was Tennyson, but I was also aware of the
+song, which I like as well.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Jul 1994 16:16:15 -0400
+Subject: "Voice"...
+
+     The preview seen for next week is not for "Voice," but for
+"Legacies," which airs just prior to "Voice."
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Jul 1994 16:16:20 -0400
+Subject: JMS: A Starfury Question
+
+     I believe they are used to control the thrust coming out of the
+engines.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Jul 1994 16:47:56 -0400
+Subject: JMS: "Eyes" Nods and Questions
+
+     Will have to ask Larry about Interweb, but it could easily have been
+a reference.
+ 
+     The masks were the basic (though somewhat modified) tragedy and
+comedy masks, associated with theater.  And a couple of times, Ivanova's
+mother does use the Russian nickname for her as well as the English
+version.  Susan was taught and raised to a large extent overseas, and
+they always tried to keep her in both worlds.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Jul 1994 16:56:08 -0400
+Subject: Re: *REALLY* Bad Previews
+
+     Warners sometimes feels the need to "enhance" the shows through the
+promos...and sometimes they enhance them right into an alternate
+dimension....
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Jul 1994 16:56:11 -0400
+Subject: Reflections on "Eyes" (SPOILER
+
+     Yes, Psi Corps members must wear the Psi symbol at all times when
+in public.  (Though since Grey was there undercover, that briefly went
+by the boards.)
+ 
+     And we've rebuilt the forced perspective in the central corridor for
+year two, using a 3D construction rather than a matte, and it looks a
+hell of a lot better.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Jul 1994 00:46:44 -0400
+Subject: Eyes--maybe a 5. JMS a child o
+
+     Sorry, but I don't agree with you about the characters being one
+dimensional.  (Big surprise.)  Londo...sometimes comic figure, sometimes
+tragic figure, in later episodes sometimes hero, and later still,
+something much darker.  G'Kar...much the same, but never at the same
+time.
+ 
+     As far as government types go...in the episode you cite, we show a
+Psi Corp rep who was *not* an evil type or an asshole.  In "Survivors" we
+showed a government agent -- the head of presidential security -- who was
+in fact not a baddie at all.  Had some issues, but was at heart okay.
+ 
+     I could point to the Soul Hunter, who was doing what he believed was
+right, which others believed was a horror.  I could point to "Believers,"
+which was nothing BUT shades of grey.
+ 
+     How can you say that the show demonstrates all government employees
+as being evil or stupid when, after all, our main human characters are
+themselves employees of the government?
+ 
+     I could go on and on and on...but don't really see much point to it.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Jul 1994 00:46:48 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Grey's Psi rating?
+
+     Mr. Grey would've been a P10.  PsiCops are P12s.
+ 
+     PsiCorps administrators at the upper reaches are P11 or better.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jul 1994 00:10:03 -0400
+Subject: JMS - Credits: An idle questio
+
+     Credits are negotiated by agents.  Starring is basically that, your
+main stars appearing in every episode; also starring are recurring cast
+members; with refers to recurring cast who are pointed to specifically.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jul 1994 03:40:06 -0400
+Subject: Ed Wasser
+
+     Guerra was one of the dome techs, who worked down in the pit during
+the Vorlon attack, and during the explosion sequence.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jul 1994 03:46:58 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  The Ride
+
+     Yes, in season two, we'll be seeing a lot of the jumpgates from up
+close, and straight through.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jul 1994 19:15:13 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Speculation
+
+     It's happened a few times, when someone's speculated too close to a
+coming story, and for reasons of concern over lawsuit, I've dropped it.
+So far it's only involved smaller B stories, but it has its moments of
+inconvenience, yes.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jul 1994 19:48:49 -0400
+Subject: Re: Drumhead parallels
+
+     Brett has already uploaded some of my comments from elsewhere on this
+topic.  Let me only emphasize some stuff here.  As stated, Larry never
+SAW the Drumhead.  We generally make it a point NOT to watch what's done
+on ST to avoid being influenced.  Second, the basic ending which you feel
+is strictly ST's can be seen in the Caine Mutiny, A Few Good Men and
+others.  "Eyes" was a direct consequence of all that preceded it in our
+first season.  It came about because Larry suggested that with all that
+Sinclair has done, sooner or later somebody's going to take notice back
+on Earth.  There would have to be some kind of investigation.  Because
+we are doing some very specific things with the Psi Corps this year and
+next, which I wanted to foreshadow, a PC telepath was inserted into the
+story, to show that they are starting to get a foothold into the military,
+with new laws concerning scans.
+ 
+     We knocked the story back and forth for some time, and it went through
+many different permutations.  We also figured that the episode should be
+kind of a Cliff's Notes guide to season one, hitting the high points for
+those who joined the series later than those who were here at the
+beginning.  The ending also went through various changes, but what made the
+most logical sense was to get the Colonel to admit bias in some fashion or
+another...and the only way to do this really was to get him so angry, so
+furious, that he'd incriminate himself enough, or open the door enough for
+Mr. Grey to verify the bias.
+ 
+     That was how the structure was arrived at.  I was there.  It had
+nothing -- *nothing* -- whatsoever to do with the Drumhead, which I have
+a vague memory was written by Jeri Taylor, who is a friend of mine, and
+further invalidates the very idea.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jul 1994 19:48:50 -0400
+Subject: Ninja likely *not* paid for
+
+     Correct; Kawasaki did not pay us a dime to use the bike in the show.
+We called around, to see who would loan us a bike, with the understanding
+that we'd be tearing it apart.  Because Kawasaki does advertise with some
+of the PTEN shows, someone there had a relationship with the company, and
+gave us a name.  After we tried a couple of other companies, we tried
+Kawasaki, and they agreed...not a donated bike, just a loaner.  And
+that's what we used.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Jul 1994 22:16:35 -0400
+Subject: JMS KBVO Fox 42 does voice ove
+
+     Alas, it ain't no violation....
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Jul 1994 00:37:14 -0400
+Subject: CD information
+
+     I'm sure that once the CD rom is out, this info will get distilled
+into various ftp sites.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Jul 1994 00:50:45 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Laserdisks
+
+      I don't at this point know when the series will be out on disk; my
+guess it that it won't happen until a third year, when there will be
+enough at one time to make the transfer process from standard-screen to
+original-format widescreen more financially reasonable; do it all in
+bulk.
+ 
+     Ironheart blew out the Omega starfuries.
+ 
+     And more money for Caitlin wasn't the problem.  She wants to do
+more feature films as a leading lady, rather than being a face behind a
+mask.  It's that simple.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Jul 1994 04:33:16 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Explain the Eyes trailer?
+
+     I have nothing to do with the trailers, except to sit in awe and
+astonishment, trying to recognize my episode in the trailer, which is a
+chancy business at best.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Jul 1994 18:21:26 -0400
+Subject: "Eyes" too much like TNG
+
+     You may want to reconsider your message after you see "Chrysalis."
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Jul 1994 18:21:29 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Speculation and Copyright
+
+     I guess the point where the line gets crossed is where it goes from
+speculation in the form of a question, to speculation in the form of a
+full-blown story suggestion.  "Maybe what this means is that in a future
+episode, Sinclair will be changed into a large pink fez, which G'Kar
+finds and sells to Londo, who....."  You get the idea.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Jul 1994 21:39:08 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS' Real Ghostbusters
+
+     Yeah, I knew Lorenzo Music while we were doing the show, but not
+afterward; we never really hung out or anything.  He's a roundish,
+friendly kind of guy.  We always had to separate him from Frank Welker
+and Maurice LeMarche in the sound studio, because if they were *ever* in
+close proximity, all kinds of hell would break out.  One day they got into
+a competition to do celebrity farts...little Doris Day squibs, a George
+C. Scott roller...we managed to keep it together until Frank let fly with
+his version of a William Conrad thunderer...which went on and on and on...
+windows blew out...buttons flew off shirts...and when it finally came to
+its conclusion, *no one* was able to do *anything* for about twenty
+minutes.  Shut *everything* down.  No one could keep a straight face or
+get a line out.  And Frank just sat there, smiling innocently.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jul 1994 00:36:32 -0400
+Subject: Re: "Eyes" too much like TNG
+
+     Re: Sinclair/Garibaldi/Ivanova basically liking each other; this will
+tend to stay, for many reasons.  One of the things that grates on mhy
+nerves about some dramatic TV is that they invent phony tensions and
+reasons for the main characters to bitch at each other, that generally
+don't mean a lot.  Also, we see a lot of conflict in other shows, but not
+a whole lot of what *friendship* means.  And loyalty.  These three are
+friends, as well as co-officers; they will go to bat for one another, will
+if necessary die for one another.  I find that a lovely emotion.  There are
+plenty of others who argue with them, and plenty of other shows in which
+the main characters yell at each other all the time; why not explore the
+other end of the spectrum?
+ 
+     I will grant you that this is one of the more idosyncratic parts of
+the show; I have always placed a very high premium on friendship...my
+friends know that they can call me at midnight, and even if they're on the
+other side of the country, or the planet, I'll be there on the first
+plane if they're in trouble.  And I know I can do the same with them.  For
+some reason friendship, and loyalty, have become kind of passe in TV, and
+movies, and many other areas, as I think of it.  So for me, this becomes
+something worth communicating.
+ 
+     Bear in mind, though, that after this season, Sinclair goes elsewhere,
+and suddenly there's a new dynamic introduced into the show, which no one
+is entirely sure how to deal with.  It disrupts them, and that is for the
+good, I think, as they try and work it out and decide whether or not they
+can trust one another.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jul 1994 16:15:30 -0400
+Subject: JMS: There he goes again <*>
+
+     Hey, a man's gotta have *some* fun....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jul 1994 16:15:33 -0400
+Subject: General question on writing fo
+
+     I have never seen *any* scriptwriting seminar that was worth $400 for
+a couple days.  You would be best advised to take that money and buy $400
+worth of scripts, the best-written scripts you can find.  Read every one of
+them three times.  By the time you have done that, you will have learned
+far more than you could have *ever* learned in any seminar.
+ 
+     And I have my own problems with McKee's school of thought as well,
+but that's another story.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Jul 1994 16:45:15 -0400
+Subject: JMS: WLFLTV 22 Struck by Light
+
+     Boy, those Paramount guys'll stop at nothing, y'know...?
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Jul 1994 00:21:16 -0400
+Subject: Attn: JMS: Local TV Stations
+
+     We do what we can with the stations, which ain't much.  Regarding
+future stuff...any time information is needed from prior episodes in a
+current episode, that information is *always* restated somewhere in the
+current episode, so it doesn't matter really if you miss a prior episode,
+you can follow it just fine.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Jul 1994 21:39:32 -0400
+Subject: I want to see some B5 stuff so
+
+     We kinda sat on merchandising for the first year; now there's a bit
+coming out.  Shirts, mugs and stuff from Creation (and others, whose
+names escape me at the moment), a CDROM in the winter from Compton's, a
+CD soundtrack around November, a comic from DC and some original novels
+from Dell (first one by John Vornholt).  Trying to keep it manageable to
+maintain quality control over the stuff.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Jul 1994 21:51:43 -0400
+Subject: Re: Strong women's roles in "L
+
+     Funny, I kinda thought that Dr. Maya Hernandez in "Believers" was an
+average (in the sense of not being a beauty queen) type person.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Jul 1994 21:53:08 -0400
+Subject: EA/Babylon 5 Uniforms
+
+     Sinclair and other officers are pure EA military, so they get the
+EA pins on the chest.  (Also the techs wear them in the dome, and others
+in charge of various divisions.)  Security is under the jurisdiction of
+EA, but are a separate component, staffed under B5 financing.  These, and
+medical, and scientific and environmental and other areas have their own
+symbol, which is worn on their chest and shoulder.  You can tell who works
+for EA because they have the EA also on their shoulder, whereas those who
+are employed directly by B5 have the B5 symbol on their shoulder.
+ 
+     The patches connote specialization: command is a starburst, lines that
+radiate into every area; security is a gunsight/targeting symbol; medical
+is a stylized medicine symbol, and so on.
+ 
+     Sinclair and Ivanova wear their officer's bars on their epaulets; not
+the triangular part per se, but the bars at the very far end of the
+epaulet, below the triangles.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Jul 1994 21:53:11 -0400
+Subject: Re: SURROUND Sound.....Oh yeah
+
+     Just for clarification, while Chris does a great job on the music,
+the sound mix is done in the studio with our regular sound guys, who do
+the surround mix.  We spend a *lot* of time getting the mix to sound
+just right, to take full advantage of the surround channels.  A lot of the
+credit here goes to George Johnsen, our co-producer, who is an absolute
+perfectionist about this stuff.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Jul 1994 23:33:48 -0400
+Subject: A thought about psi talents...
+
+     Interesting, innit, how they suddenly blossomed like that...?
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Jul 1994 23:33:51 -0400
+Subject: Misinformed
+
+     Yes, you're exactly right about the references in Writer's Digest;
+I'd totally forgotten about them.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Jul 1994 23:44:54 -0400
+Subject: Babylon 5 Frequently Asked Que
+
+     What does it do to the grand scheme?  Not much, really...except it
+allows us to broaden out the story and expand the scope of things.  It all
+still proceeds on track.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Jul 1994 01:50:50 -0400
+Subject: Re: babylon 5 w/o sinclair?
+
+     Re: Patrick McGoohan...this was a thought I had as well at one point,
+but we forget sometimes about the passing of time; #6 is ageless, but
+Patrick is now in his late 60s/early 70s.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Jul 1994 01:50:54 -0400
+Subject: Season 2 name?
+
+     Overall title for season two: "The Coming of Shadows."
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Jul 1994 00:53:27 -0400
+Subject: Re: I want to see some B5 stuf
+
+     No model contracts as yet; there have been some inquiries, but I
+don't believe anything's been finalized yet.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Jul 1994 00:55:55 -0400
+Subject: Points of Departure.
+
+     The idea of a Chrysalis II went by the boards once I really got into
+the script, and realized that C1 had tipped over too many tables to even
+HOPE to resolve them in one follow-up episode.  So the threads yanked
+in C1 will be paid off over several episodes, hence no C2; the first
+episode of year two is "Points of Departure."
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Jul 1994 00:56:00 -0400
+Subject: Re: Voices in the Wilderniss.
+
+     Stuff like wearing gloves is only enforced if you're a member of Psi
+Corps; Allysa wasn't.  In addition, though she had P10 *potential*, the
+talent was sporadic, came and went.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jul 1994 00:33:38 -0400
+Subject: Is there an Executive Producer
+
+     My GEnie/Internet gateway was down for the better part of a week;
+all back now.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jul 1994 00:33:41 -0400
+Subject: Mars & Psi Corps
+
+     Actually, the Psi Corp rep did mention that the Free Mars movement
+has been growing over the years, but that no one knew that they were quite
+this well organized, or well-armed, the sign of a good resistance; not
+that they "didn't know anything about the revolt."  Just a clarification.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jul 1994 00:33:44 -0400
+Subject: **JMS: Telepaths (was Voices i
+
+     Yes, the abilities are often discrete; a TK may not be able to
+scan anyone's thoughts.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jul 1994 03:11:00 -0400
+Subject: JMS: B5 Editorial: Lamentable
+
+     So in other words 2001 and Blade Runner don't qualify as decent SF?
+ 
+     I put this in the "get a life" category.  If seeing a name of a
+product on the back of a wall "consumes the great potential of the
+series," if that's all the person can see...I'm sorry, but that's that
+person's problem, not mine.
+ 
+     B5 takes place in the real universe, as much as we can make it such.
+We use language and cultural references that go back hundreds of years.
+One element was for a story point, the other was nominally a gag...deal
+with it.  That's part of our culture too.
+ 
+     Basically, for somebody to shitcan an entire series because he
+didn't like a sign he saw in the back of a room...hey, stop watching.
+ 
+     You're right; "Star Trek does not do this."  Which is as much
+incentive as anything else to DO it.
+ 
+     Yessir...we've certainly seen how Blade Runner and 2001 and the
+Terminator and Alien Nation and Enemy Mine have been ruined for all time
+by such things.
+ 
+     And let me add one other thing: we didn't make a dime off that stuff,
+no one paid Babylonian Productions to include it.  How ANYONE can turn to
+me and say with a straight face that this kind of commercialism (done
+twice in one year) will ruin B5 and use STAR TREK -- STAR frigging TREK,
+the single most merchandised, licensed property in the history of
+television -- as an example of SF purity is out of his mind.  It was STAR
+TREK, as noted in Engel's book, and Shatner's as well I believe, that
+stuck an IDIC symbol in in order to merchandise it; it's STAR TREK that
+changed Federation costumes between TNG and DS9 specifically so they would
+have another whole set of costumes to merchandise.
+ 
+     On our behalf, we have resisted over-licensing, doing only a little,
+if we can exert quality control.  I have deliberately fought against this
+show becoming a "franchise."
+ 
+     We have *nothing* to apologize for.  And I suggest to this person,
+as he sits wearing his Star Trek uniform, and his Star Trek communicator
+pin and his Star Trek phaser, and his Star Trek PJs, beside his collection
+of Star Trek pins, shirts, iron-ons, glow-in-the-dark Kirks and Spocks,
+Enterprise models, books and cutouts...as they say in the bible, take the
+log out of your own eye before you try to remove the splinter from your
+neighbor's eye.  To hold up Star Trek: The Franchise as the model of
+untouched non-commercial purity is the most laughable thing I have heard
+in *years*.
+ 
+     "B5 has brought the whole ediface crashing down by the blatant
+inclusion of advertising for commercial products."
+ 
+     What the hell do you think Star Trek *IS*?  (Leaving aside the story
+aspects for the moment, as he does for us.)  All the stuff you see on ST
+is for SALE.  Phasers, costumes, enterprises, pointy ears...they are ALL
+"commercial products."  Which makes the show, on one level, one MASSIVE
+advertisement.
+ 
+     Look...I got nothing against ST, or against ST licensing it's brains
+out.  I think it's terrific.  But for somebody, ANYbody, to use ST in
+this way as wonderful and free of commercial considerations, and hit US
+in this regard...give me a break.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jul 1994 03:11:03 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: B5 Editorial: Lamenta
+
+     RE: Coke being more "reasonable" in Blade Runner because it's
+closer...that doesn't seem to be the point of the original post.  It's
+ANY "commercial product" in a show that ruins it.  Extrapolation doesn't6
+seem to enter into it.  Which is what makes it, in my view, a doofus note.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jul 1994 03:12:27 -0400
+Subject: JMS: B5 Editorial: Lamentable
+
+     And just let me underline this again, on the "the sole motivation
+of this is money" (like Paramount produces ST because they think it'll
+cure cancer)....
+ 
+     The Babylon 5 production company received no money from either of
+these companies.  Okay?
+ 
+     If your "reviewer" is going to start making charges like that, he had
+better learn to get his facts straight.
+ 
+     Second, on the notion that current companies won't be around 200
+years from now...there are companies here in the US that go back to the
+1700s; there are companies overseas that go back 500 years or more.
+ 
+     This is as absurd as saying, in the 1800s, that by gosh, that
+Guiness company in Dublin won't last past the end of the century....
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jul 1994 04:17:26 -0400
+Subject: B5 in Australia, Infection, S&
+
+     "Infection" is definitely not indicative of the season overall; that
+is, in my view, one of our weaker, possibly weakest episodes.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jul 1994 16:26:23 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Recasting Na'Toth Rumour
+
+     Actually, no, it's not a rumor; I'd mentioned this some time ago, but
+apparently some didn't see it....
+ 
+     So to repeat: we'd had to replace Mary Woronov with virtually no
+notice after we found that she really had a hard time with the narn
+prosthetics (wouldn't wear the contacts, and other stuff).  In a panic,
+our casting director called in a favor from Caitlin Brown, who is mainly
+a leading-lady type actor.  She came in and, in fact, for the first
+episode (shooting almost immediately afterward) wore a variation of the
+Ko'Dath makeup, because there wasn't time to make one specific to her.
+ 
+     She came in without being under the 5-year option that generally
+exists in these situations.  Did one year, about 9 episodes, as Na'Toth.
+And had to turn down a couple of leading-female parts.  During the hiatus,
+she did a romantic lead character in a film with Jack Nicholson and
+Meryl Streep.  And had to ask the hard question: do I continue to grow as
+a romantic lead actor in feature films, or play Na'Toth?  She is a VERY
+gorgeous woman, and felt awkward hiding behind the mask and cutting
+herself out of leading female parts in feature films to do it.
+ 
+     We went 'round and 'round about this for some time, it was a very
+difficult decision for her because she likes the show and everyone here,
+but finally opted out.  On one level it's a pain in the butt, but we
+respect her decision.  And it *is* her call, not ours.
+ 
+     (Quick aside...pfffttthhpplttt to those who, in their theory that
+Sinclair/O'Hare quit, said that I'd naturally say it was mutual because I
+could never say it was the actors choice because somehow I'd get in
+trouble.  No, I *would* say it if O'Hare had opted out on his own.  And
+in this case, that's exactly what happened.)
+ 
+     We didn't recast Sinclair because that character is going somewhere
+from whence he may (and will) return, and because that serves the story;
+in this case, we are recasting Na'Toth.  By the end of season one, Na'Toth
+knows stuff that I need that character, G'Kar's aide, to know.  (Though I
+was briefly tempted to do the Murphy Brown Secretary line, with G'Kar
+getting a new aide every so often due to terrible airlock accidents...but
+I went to lay down for a while and the notion passed.)
+ 
+     So no, it's not a rumor, it's quite true.  In fact, we just finished
+up a casting session and found someone who's very right for the part;
+and though we weren't confined to this, is actually about the same height,
+same build, same attitude as Caitlin, and whose voice is very similar.  I
+don't think much difference will be noted in the long run, really.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jul 1994 16:26:26 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: B5 Editorial: Lamenta
+
+     Yes, you're absolutely right; we have maybe half Trek's budget.  If
+someone said, as you posit, "Here...stick this futuristic Pepsi can in
+the background of one of your episodes, as was done with Enemy Mine, and
+you'll get five hundred thousand dollars you can use to make a better
+show," I'd do it in a hot second.  Absolutely.  Because it would let us
+do bigger, and better, and spiffier episodes, tell even grander stories,
+hire REALLY big-name actors for guest spots...yeah, I'd do it.
+ 
+     It's just that it didn't happen *here*.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Jul 1994 16:57:28 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: B5 Editorial: Lamenta
+
+     Actually, the idea of Zima lasting even into 1995 is hysterical.  I
+keep fighting the urge to have some guy show up on B5, "Zo then I zays to
+him, nize ztation"...and five Narns just jump on him and beat the shit
+out of him, WHAMWHAMWHAMWHAMWHAM!
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Jul 1994 00:25:13 -0400
+Subject: Legacies Dune refer?
+
+     No, the name was not the same; his title was the Shai Alyt, his name
+was Branmer.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Jul 1994 04:45:09 -0400
+Subject: Cliffhanger city!  (A Voice in
+
+     I don't recall Ivanova ever telling Sinclair not to go exploring a
+planet; could you give me a reference on that one re: the about-face?
+ 
+     Re: showing nothing and thus pondering nothing...hey, it's zen!
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Jul 1994 04:45:11 -0400
+Subject: Cry ... Spoiler warning, some
+
+     As you will discover in part two, the system on the planet is
+breaking down, malfunctioning; there wasn't a concerted, organized
+attack, it was some automatic systems going on their own.  The alien
+WANTED to get found, that's why his image appeared, beckoning them, and
+asked them for help.  You're composing the problem in terms of an all-out
+offensive; it wasn't.  It was one segment of a system that is breaking
+down.
+ 
+     (In general, it's a good idea to check out both parts of a two-part
+episode before making story conclusions; some people have already missed
+the boat bigtime on a few things.)
+ 
+     A First Contact situation is one unlike any other: you don't want
+junior officers around to screw it up.  Remember, the Earth/Minbari WAr
+began when a First Contact situation got screwed up.  EA's policy is that
+it's better to risk two people than a full war, and those two people have
+got to be command-level personnel.  Soldiers get killed; it happens.  And
+yeah, you can leave a backup person at the shuttle...but what if *he's*
+the one to make actual first contact?  You're screwed.  Ivanova and
+Sinclair have been trained in this; in "Soul Hunter," Sinclair makes
+reference to the rules of First Contact Protocol.  If you like, I'll
+elaborate on this in some future episode.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Jul 1994 04:45:13 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: B5 Editorial: Lamenta
+
+     Do not twist my words around.  I don't like it.
+ 
+     When I said that Zima making it to 1995 was "hysterical," I was not
+making fun of people or kids who are or become alcoholics.  I grew up in
+an alcoholic family, and there is *nothing* whatsoever funny in that, nor
+was that intended in my message.  It was strictly a comment about the
+product probably not making it past 1994.  Period.  Don't go off on
+tirades against my message that have nothing to do with what i wrote, and
+then try and blame it on me.  That's not what I said, not what I wrote,
+not what was meant.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Jul 1994 00:34:14 -0400
+Subject: "Voice in Wilderness" forbiden
+
+     Re: the commander and Ivanova going...remember, this is a First
+Contact situation, and that requires the presence of at minimum one
+command officer under EA regs.  Two is preferred.  You don't want junior
+officers hanging around or taking hostile stances which might provoke
+a fight.  Remember that the last major First Contact situation was with
+the Minbari, which went afoul and gave us the Earth/Minbari War.  EA
+would rather lose two replaceable officers than start another war via
+misunderstanding or a fouled move.  This is a part of their First Contact
+Protocol, referenced in "Soul Hunter."  (I should probably expand upon
+this a bit in future episodes.)
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Jul 1994 00:34:15 -0400
+Subject: Re: "Voice in Wilderness" forb
+
+     RE: the big bridge shot...the storyboard artist came up with 3 shots
+we could use.  One of them was a wide shot across a crystalline ground
+like area, through which a path can be seen at ground level, but it
+was narrow and still really didn't convey the scale of what I wanted.  One
+other was not much different.  The third was a downshot designed to pull
+back, and though I knew it would make folks say "Krell!", I knwe that it
+was the right shot for that scene, so chose that one and decided to live
+with it.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Jul 1994 03:38:49 -0400
+Subject: Reflections on "Voice" (part 1
+
+     Actually, this was not the first B5 or Sinclair had heard about the
+escalating problem on Mars; remember, that was the main reason that Ben
+Zayn had been sent to B5 in "Eyes," smoking out sympathisers with the
+Free Mars movement.
+ 
+     Also, the fissure wasn't created by the quakes; Tasaki mentions it
+was artificial, but nudged open by the tremors.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Jul 1994 03:40:14 -0400
+Subject: Was "Voice" the Season Finale?
+
+     Nope, you've got a few more to go.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Jul 1994 03:47:01 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Re: B-4 and Sinclair
+
+     No commander had yet been assigned to B4; the highest ranking
+command personnel there was Major Krantz, whose job it was to supervise
+construction.  It was barely operational for 48 hours when it blipped out.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Jul 1994 05:00:54 -0400
+Subject: Re: "Voice" (pt 1) quibble (sp
+
+     Re: your suspenders of disbelief becoming unhitched....
+ 
+     You will learn how the alien knows English in the next part of the
+two parter.  (Hint: after all, he's been there for a long while, in a
+high-tech machine...you'd think maybe he could monitor transmissions.)
+ 
+     I don't think the Sinclair or Ivanova did automatically believe him;
+but they also had no real reason *not* to believe him.  And granted the
+place was going to hell, quakes and danger.  He wasn't armed, he seems
+rather sick, had to be helped away, almost carried...they won't turn the
+station over to him, they'll keep him isolated on the station, but there
+was no reason *not* to try and help him.
+ 
+     How do you know he's a good guy?  You don't.  But he wasn't exactly
+imprisoned in that thing; it was a support, more than anything else, as
+was shown by the fact that they were able to get him out fairly easily.
+ 
+     (And yes, your first guess was correct, it is a life support gizmo.)
+ 
+     Regards to your suspenders.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Jul 1994 01:32:45 -0400
+Subject: Interesting lines in "Voice"
+
+     It seems to me that every generation thinks that things are
+changing, usually for the worse.  In some cases, they may be right.  The
+B5 story is set at a point in time where things are very much in a state
+of flux.  Every so often, the wheel turns.  Everybody's feeling a sense
+of growing uncertainty, of the chairs being moved around.  They're right.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Jul 1994 03:57:30 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Naming Babylon 5?
+
+     Started with the notion of prior stations which hadn't worked out,
+made up a rough timeline, and settled on this being the last attempt, at
+#5.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Jul 1994 04:22:44 -0400
+Subject: JMS:Writing "Voice"
+
+     It was always intended to be a two-parter, and was written that
+way.  Background: the B5 2-hour pilot has done VERY well overseas in
+cassette form.  Many of the prejudices in the american press that caused
+us problems don't exist overseas (it's done *extremely* well in Japan on
+laserdisk, in Germany, and England, among others).  So they asked if we
+could do a two-parter that could be sold as a two-hour episode overseas.
+By all means, sez I.  So I structured it accordingly.
+ 
+     Bit of B5 trivia: during the dead of winter last year, I got hit by
+the flu as badly as I've ever been hit.  Temperature so high that I was
+near delerious at times, but refused to go to the hospital (I don't like
+doctors, and I was under deadline and couldn't afford the potential time
+away.)  We're talking mondo sicko here.  It was during this time that I
+wrote "The Quality of Mercy," a script which I have *no* memory of ever
+writing.  I know it's here, and I know I wrote it on an intellectual
+level, but the process...gone in the fever.
+ 
+     It was also around this time -- either at the top or bottom of the
+flu, I can't remember now -- that I wrote the "Voice" two parter.  And
+here's the trivia part...this isn't the original two-parter that I wrote.
+My brain already deteriorating, I wrote something that even I could see
+wasn't up to par.  Wrote the entire two-hour script.  Printed it up, and
+gave it to Doug and John.  Before they could even respond, I looked at it
+and decided it had to go.  So I trashed the entire script.  By now we
+were getting very close to pre-production, and I was getting sicker and
+sicker...but I more or less locked myself in my office, swallowed down
+massive amounts of vitamins (as much as my stomach could handle), kept
+forcing down coffee, and wrote 12 hours a day for about six days, after
+which the original draft was finished.  Turned it in; did some mild
+polishes thereafter, but what was filmed was essentially what I turned
+in in first-draft stage.  In this case I do remember some of the process
+because the only way I could focus was to keep the stereo up full blast;
+in the writing of "Quality," it didn't help...I was beyond recall.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Jul 1994 04:22:47 -0400
+Subject: <*> Cryptic message to JMS  8)
+
+     Honest to god, people, I don't know *what* the woman is talking
+about...she's speaking in tongues again....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Jul 1994 04:22:49 -0400
+Subject: Voice in the Wilderness CGI
+
+     The CGI are definitely getting better.  Year One was more or less
+getting used to the software and learning what was capable.  They've now
+gotten more sophisticated in their use of the equipment, more artistic
+in some ways...and the preliminary renderings I've seen for stuff in the
+beginning of year two is *very* cool.  It has even more of a sense of
+mass, and weight, and solidity.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Jul 1994 19:49:22 -0400
+Subject: Regarding the Voices 2 GIF fil
+
+     And what, pray tell, is the nature of this unusual gif?
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Jul 1994 20:16:45 -0400
+Subject: JMS: San Diego ComicCon Appear
+
+      Thank you for putting this note up; I wanted to post one myself, but
+am still unsure how to send an original message (not a reply) from GEnie
+to Internet.  That said....
+ 
+     In addition to whatever panels I'll be on, I will be doing *two*
+Babylon 5 presentations at the San Diego Comic Con this coming weekend
+(August 7-10).  The first will be that Friday, from 2-4 p.m.  The second
+will be the next day, Saturday, from 11-1.
+ 
+     At this point, the only cast member who may or may not be able to
+show up at either panel is Bill Mumy.  No others are planned.  So it may
+be just me at both.  The presentations will be a bit different on the
+two days, but I think the one Saturday may be more interesting if you can
+only attend one.  Will probably show the blooper reel (two, actually, one
+on each day), and a previously unseen episode will be debuted.
+ 
+     One advisory: at just about every con I've attended and done this
+kind of presentation, the B5 items tends to wind up as either the most
+heavily attended event, or close to it.  So if anyone's going, you may want
+to show up a bit early to make sure you get a decent seat.  Also, I tend
+to show up a bit early myself, to make sure the video equipment and stuff
+is working correctly, and hang out; sometimes I say stuff I can't say in
+front of a larger group.  (Those who were at the Chicago ComicCon on the
+first day can verify this one.)
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Jul 1994 20:18:09 -0400
+Subject: JMS:questions, queries, posers
+
+     The Psi question I can't answer at this point in time.
+ 
+     Jumpgate travel usually requires a few days within hyperspace,
+if you're going a LONG distance (say, Earth to B5).  Only a few minutes
+if you're going to a local gate.  That's time outside hyperspace; the
+span seems less when you're inside hyperspace.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Jul 1994 02:14:59 -0400
+Subject: Re: Regarding the Voices 2 GIF
+
+     It's a duck.  Yes, why, of course it's a ducky.  Why would I think
+anything else?  What a silly question.
+ 
+     It's a duck.  A texture mapped metallic duck coming out of a
+jumpgate.
+ 
+     A duck.  Of course.  A duck.
+ 
+     *
+ 
+     AAAAUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
+ 
+     *
+ 
+     (I wanna see it...and I wanna see it now.)
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Jul 1994 17:50:01 -0400
+Subject: > >  JMS: Are You Going to Con
+
+     No plans currently to go to WorldCon because a) we'll be in the
+midst of filming, and b) we haven't got a chance against Jurassic Park
+anyway.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+
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+===========================================================================
+| This text is compiled from posts by J. Michael Straczynski on the Usenet
+| group rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.  This document contains material Copyright
+| 1994 J. Michael Straczynski.  He has given permission for his words to be
+| redistributed online, as long as they are marked as being copyright JMS.
+| This document, as well as other Babylon-5 related material, is available
+| by anonymous FTP at ftp.hyperion.com.
+===========================================================================
+
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Aug 1994 01:58:19 -0400
+Subject: Minbari = Mri?
+
+     No, I did not use "The Faded Sun" as (to quote you) "a source when
+(I) created the Minbari."
+ 
+     That's called plagiarism.
+ 
+     And now I'm going to vent for a moment.
+ 
+     Why the fuck is it that every time a TV writer comes up with
+something, everybody scurries to figure out what book or short story it
+was swiped from?  That standard is virtually never applied to novels that
+I've seen.  But it always comes to us TeeVee types.
+ 
+     I have a brain, you know.  I'm perfectly capable of thinking up
+stuff on my own.  I've published novels.  I've published short stories.
+I've written plays.  I've never read ANY of Cherryh's work that I can
+recall.
+ 
+     Instead of suggesting something was cribbed, all you needed to say
+was, "So, JMS, where did you get the name Minbari?"
+ 
+     And I would've told you that a "minbar" is the name for a pulpit in
+a Mosque.  The first time I heard that, I thought it would be great as a
+name for an alien or an alien planet.  And the people who would live there
+would be called Minbari.
+ 
+     Not everything that comes out of TV is cribbed, okay?
+ 
+     End of venting.
+ 
+     If I seem a bit pissed, it's not specifically directed at you but at
+the general sense that TV writers have the creative capacity of blowfish
+and are incapable of creating *anything* on their own.  (And you weren't
+pointing to just the name but to the whole concept and parts thereof.)  I
+don't mean to flame, but I've heard it enough over the years, and I'm
+getting a little tired of it.
+ 
+     Every TV writer gets it, and almost no prose writer does, and that's
+simple discrimination and stereotyping.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Aug 1994 01:29:46 -0400
+Subject: Re: Minbari = Mri?
+
+     Aaron, re: Heinlein...now that's comedy....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Aug 1994 01:34:54 -0400
+Subject: JMS: What was ? "Voice 1"
+
+     That was a replacement part for a section of the station; they were
+being given final instructions on placement from C&C.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Aug 1994 01:56:26 -0400
+Subject: Question
+
+     Yes, I would think it fair to say that the Minbari have a thing for
+triangles and things that come in threes.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Aug 1994 01:57:51 -0400
+Subject: UK: BAMN
+
+     Re: who is Rush Limbaugh....
+ 
+     Leading American proctologist.
+ 
+     Trust me.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Aug 1994 01:59:14 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Dirt on the Lens!!! (Mini
+
+     My suspicion is that the shows are sent to the UK via parcel, not
+via satellite, but that's only an assumption.
+ 
+     Won't be starting production formally until August 10th.  Gearing
+up now.
+ 
+     Re: satellite...one of the more interesting stories I've heard lately
+is that B5 is *very* popular via satellite...in Iran and Iraq, both of
+whom lay claim of one sort or another to the original Babylon.  Apparently
+that a Westerner has set a series in their well-remembered Babylon that
+is NOT a negative thing but a positive thing has got both countries quite
+pleasantly astonished.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Aug 1994 01:59:17 -0400
+Subject: JMS: response to your Mri vent
+
+     To nick.plummer...Nicholas...you're quite right, of course, that
+ideas do not grow in a vacuum.  Everyone in SF stands on the shoulders of
+those who went before.  Heinlein invented slidewalks; after that, they
+were all OVER SF.  But for the most part, they're background elements, or
+sort of the collective unconscious of SF; the line comes when taking a
+race wholecloth and just filing off the serial numbers (or, in this case,
+some vowels).
+ 
+     We try to walk a fine line on this show, between being as original
+and innovative as we can...while once in a while giving a nod of respect
+and acknowledgment to those who preceded us (like the Prisoner).  My
+only suggestion, in future, is that such issues (as we say in Jeapordy)
+be phrased in the form of a question, rather than an allegation.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Aug 1994 01:59:19 -0400
+Subject: JMS: "Free Mars" in "A Voice i
+
+     Re: was the Free Mars movement a nod to Kim Stanley Robinson's
+Mars books....
+ 
+     I take your question as polite, and supportive, and genuinely
+curious, and so I answer back: no, the thread was nowhere tied to Kim's
+work.  Rather it grew out of a sense of history, looking at the tradition
+of colonies to outgrow their founders, and want to strike out on their
+own.  The United Kingdom being a good example of this.
+ 
+     Having now answered politely, I return to my closet to stick very
+long needles into my eyes....
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+ 
+     (Nothing to do with you, just the tenor of the day and messages
+preceding.)
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Aug 1994 02:00:43 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Spoo!?!
+
+     What is spoo?   Spoo....is.
+ 
+     (Spoo is also Oops spelled backward.)
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Aug 1994 04:21:45 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Are You Going to Con
+
+     Eric...nothing would gladden my heart more than if the B5 pilot
+won a Hugo (except the series winning a Hugo, which I think is a bit
+likelier, maybe).  It is the highest compliment that can be paid by the
+SF community of readers and viewers.  But one must be realistic, and I
+just don't see it outpulling Jurassic Park in the ballotting.  JP is the
+proverbial 500 pound gorilla.  Or the 50,000 pound T-Rex.
+ 
+     While we are only small mammals....granted we're mammals with guns
+and an attitude, of course....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Aug 1994 04:21:47 -0400
+Subject: JMS Re: <*> Cryptic message to
+
+     ...or, y'all are just fucking with me....
+ 
+                                               jm(where's my passport?)s
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Aug 1994 01:26:26 -0400
+Subject: Why Babylon?
+
+     Before it fell into depravity, Babylon was a center of commerce, and
+culture, and trade, and diplomacy.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Aug 1994 20:50:35 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  Is this really you?
+
+     I haven't seen the message, but that's my ID#, so that much is true.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Aug 1994 02:44:03 -0400
+Subject: JMS: You're Back
+
+     Peter Jurasik is *definitely* back as Londo for year two.  The
+show continues on.  The rumor is false.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Aug 1994 03:08:45 -0400
+Subject: "Babylon Squared" - Some thoug
+
+     Re: Garibaldi in the flash-forward scene...no, it wasn't any kind of
+"homage" to Aliens.  (And for the most part, I try and stay clear of any
+kind of homage unless it's primarily a throwaway; I want my story to be MY
+story, not a bunch of homages.)
+ 
+     The single most moving kind of story for me is the "last man on the
+bridge"...the last defender who has to hold the line while others get
+away, knowing he will probably not survive it.  This has great power for
+me, and for many others, which is why it shows up again and again in
+films, literature, TV and other venues.  The Garibaldi scene has NOTHING
+to do with Aliens, and everything to do with that figure.
+ 
+     Re: *why* it is that humans are special...has nothing to do with
+sacrifice, or dedication (well, that's not quite true, it has something
+to do with it), but that's not the totality of it.  There's one more
+element you don't know about yet, that won't be revealed until season two,
+episode one, "Points of Departure."  Once you see that episode, you'll
+fully understand that there is one very particular thing about humans that
+is very special indeed.
+ 
+     And yes, we did see the Grey Council guy in "Squared" who also showed
+up in "Sky."
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Aug 1994 03:16:53 -0400
+Subject: JMS: You BLOW my mind!!!!
+
+     Yes, you will see the Major Conflict that leads to the situation with
+Babylon 4.  We're building toward a massive conflagration here.
+ 
+                                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Aug 1994 16:37:09 -0400
+Subject: Creation's False B5 info
+
+     The speakers at Creation have a habit of running their mouths when
+they don't have a clue what the facts are.  I've already had to yell at
+them once in the last couple weeks, stating that Michael York had been
+selected as the new Commander.  Now this.  Frankly, I wouldn't believe a
+word they say about *anything*.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Aug 1994 16:37:12 -0400
+Subject: Untitled
+
+     I really don't know what the "B5 lovers" thing *is*, let alone how
+to get you in touch with them.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Aug 1994 16:37:15 -0400
+Subject: JMS: IS BACK! Questions!
+
+     Sheridan wasn't on the Line.  Have several options for his middle
+name, haven't decided which to use yet.  Chrysalis is still for October.
+And we've got plenty of scripts on hand currently; we wanted the same as
+last year, 6, in hand when we began shooting.  We've got that.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Aug 1994 16:37:17 -0400
+Subject: Windows .AVI of intro
+
+     I cannot comment on this sort of thing.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Aug 1994 03:19:40 -0400
+Subject: Recent Threads: two thoughts
+
+     Molly: assumptions right on both counts.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Aug 1994 03:41:11 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Babylon**2 question (spoi	[noticing similarity with "2001" suit]
+
+     Yeah, I guess there are some similarities, aren't there?
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Aug 1994 15:55:23 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Will every episode be rer
+
+     I think the majority of eps will have been rerun by "Chrysalis."  And
+all that remain after "Babylon Squared" to be aired are that one, and "The
+Quality of Mercy."
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Aug 1994 16:28:54 -0400
+Subject: Bye Bye Babylon: CANCELLATION
+
+     Which station are you referring to in your local market?  To my
+knowldge only the Cincinatti station has done this, and we're working on
+them.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Aug 1994 16:28:57 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Babylon^2 Question
+
+     The triangle only manifests itself for specific reasons, at specific
+times, neither of which were appropriate to that moment.  And yes, the
+Triluminary is much cooler...and does something quite interesting.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Aug 1994 03:14:18 -0400
+Subject: JMS: et all, PSI-Corps Questio
+
+     Re: who psi's can marry...this question is already being dealt with
+in an episode tentatively titled "The Customer is Always Right."
+ 
+                                                        (season two)
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Aug 1994 03:14:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: Creation's False B5 info
+
+     It's my understanding that the "information" about O'Hare was fed to
+Creation by -- big surprise -- someone associated with Paramount/ST.  You
+know, they could save themselves *endless* embarrassment (particularly in
+the "York is new commander" kind of situation, which caused them to send
+letters/faxes to all their "hosts") if they would, oh I dunno...maybe CALL
+US for information rather than taking stuff off the grapevine, particularly
+from anyone with Paramount.
+ 
+     (I've also heard just recently that allegedly Paramount is leaning on
+those who've directed ST episodes, who are free agents and not under any
+kind of general contract, *not* to direct B5.  We've already had one such
+incident of withdrawl after we'd made arrangements and all parties had
+agreed to the director doing an episode for us.)
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Aug 1994 05:46:10 -0400
+Subject: Re: Plaster-cast of G'Kar.
+
+     The plaster bust of G'Kar stolen from the B5 offices right before we
+began shooting Year One is still missing.  And again, if this ever shows
+up at a dealer's room, know that it is stolen merchandise and there is a
+police report listing it as such.
+ 
+     Anyone buying this will be buying stolen merchandise.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Aug 1994 15:12:02 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Any new sets for season 2
+
+     We've done a lot of work on the sets; refurbished, made better, put
+in windows that look out onto the Garden, expanded...and built some new
+sets, including an officer's club, a Bazaar, and other sets.  We took a
+blood oath: each year, bigger and better.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Aug 1994 15:12:05 -0400
+Subject: ?? for Joe (B^^2 SPOILERS)      [G's flashback seeing Lise]
+
+     The two flashbacks were designed so that they could run in any order
+(something you have to consider in syndication).  You get a slightly
+different "feel" from seeing them in a different order, but it still works.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Aug 1994 19:08:37 -0400
+Subject: Watching others watch...
+
+     Hey, as somebody once pointed out, we are vast, we contain
+multitudes...we are a mass of contradictions.  So our characters should
+be the same.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+    (And thanks.)
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Aug 1994 04:21:03 -0400
+Subject: JOE AT SAN DIEGO (3) (MIN
+
+     Neither panel was listed on my badge, and I only learned about
+them later, after they were over.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Aug 1994 04:21:06 -0400
+Subject: > > JMS & All:  Worldcon B5 pa
+
+     My replies, for the panel, in brief:
+ 
+     What works? What doesn't?  (Most things, some things.)
+ 
+     Can B5 become another Star Trek? (God I hope not.)
+ 
+     Succumb to second season syndrome?  (Year 2 scripts even better.)
+ 
+     B5 reflect politics of the 90s?  (No.  I hate the politics of the 90s.)
+ 
+     Survive its 5 year story?  (That's up to you.)
+ 
+     How handle the inevitable B5/ST comparisons?  (They're not
+inevitable.  They're inevitable only if you choose to make them so. )
+ 
+     Action/Character/Special EFX vs. good writing.  (Action and
+character are part of good writing, you don't separate them.  EFX must
+be in the  service of the story.)
+ 
+     Comparisons with X-Files.  (See above.)
+ 
+     TV SF's "last best hope."  (Only if you've learned that the
+universe will implode in 4 years.)
+ 
+     Why like/dislike it?  ("If you like that sort of thing, it's the
+sort of thing you'll like."  Abraham Lincoln.)
+ 
+     Plot or SFX more important?  (Neither.  Character first.  Then
+plot.  Then SFX.)
+ 
+     Why human female characters still 2-dimensional?  (Don't agree with
+the premise.  They're not.  Are you still beating your wife?)
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Aug 1994 04:21:08 -0400
+Subject: (ATTN JMS, others) Newbies
+
+     Dan: thanks, good points all.  And as you say, patience is key to
+newbie-greeting.  Sometimes when I've been up 20 hours, it's hard, but
+will work harder at it come schooltime.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Aug 1994 00:51:02 -0400
+Subject: B5 Writing, following a master
+
+     It is *all* designed to tie together.  Nothing is just tossed in
+arbitrarily.  Again, the best comparison is a novel.  The few freelance
+writers on the show (I wrote 12 last season) are given specific guidelines
+on what to include to tie stuff together later.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Aug 1994 15:51:35 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  LENN? and Comments
+
+     Re: Delenn/Lennier...there are certain recurring composites and
+word-segments that show up frequently in Minbari language (as in Rathenn,
+mentioned in "Voice 1," which resonates with Delenn).  I've worked out a
+system for this, though it's probably not as complex as it should be.
+ 
+     And thanks for your kind words.
+ 
+                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Aug 1994 21:39:37 -0400
+Subject: Why are the Starfury launch ba
+
+     The outside of the bays are wrapped around and triangular, kind of
+like cobra heads.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Aug 1994 21:41:03 -0400
+Subject: JMS: a casting question...
+
+     We do tend to try and stay open to gender stuff; usually there's a
+reason why someone is male or female, so it's cast that way.  But as an
+example...in "Quality of Mercy," the role as originally written was for a
+father/daughter combination.  In the process of casting, we thought, why
+not mother/daughter?  So that's how it ended up.  In "Points of Departure,"
+we have one of your requests already taken care of...a part of a war
+cruiser commander who could've been male or female...cast female.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Aug 1994 00:15:07 -0400
+Subject: Re: <*> <*>
+
+     I've decided youze guys are just messing with my mind.
+ 
+     Returning the favor, so to speak.
+ 
+     It's certainly been that kind of week...first a file vanishes on my
+computer, we need to print it, and it's gone...then I can see it again,
+no explanation...I get a messengered packet from Chris Franke, expecting
+it contains a tape, but it's flat and soft and I peek inside and I don't
+see a tape and toss it, wondering what he's up to now...the coffee machine
+isn't working right...everybody's messing with me, so why not here?
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Aug 1994 00:38:57 -0400
+Subject: Babylon Squared --- Way to Go
+
+     "How are you going to top this one, JMS?"
+ 
+     Chrysalis.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Aug 1994 17:26:33 -0400
+Subject: JMS: A few minor questions...
+
+     Promoting Ivanova to running the station would not be logical, since
+from a military and diplomatic standpoint she has nowhere *near* the level
+of experience required.  It wouldn't be done in real life.
+ 
+     G'Kar wasn't needed for the last few eps; he'll show up again in
+"Chrysalis," and a lot next season.
+ 
+     I think there'll be a tech manual eventually.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Aug 1994 17:58:51 -0400
+Subject: <*>  Joe really need a clue
+
+     I'm not sure I understand...if there was anything in the package,
+I didn't notice it, and so just tossed the envelope.  It's gone.  Why?
+Was there something I should've known?
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Aug 1994 03:28:28 -0400
+Subject: Re: **Spoiler: Chrysalis**
+
+     There's a couple ships look like Earthforce 1.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Aug 1994 16:03:56 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  CFPL in London, Ontario,
+
+    Unfortunately, this sort of thing is outside my direct purview.  The
+best way to deal with this is on the local level, with letters and calls.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Aug 1994 20:37:43 -0400
+Subject: Babylon Squared, Part II
+
+     Yes, you will definitely, at some point, see the flip side of the
+B2 episode.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Aug 1994 20:37:46 -0400
+Subject: Can JMS pull it off?
+
+     If I didn't have a good, solid, consistent ending, I wouldn't have
+started the story.  I always have the ending before I begin writing the
+beginning.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Aug 1994 03:51:29 -0400
+Subject: Re: <*>  Joe really need a clu
+
+     Okay, okay, okay, hold off the frantic email...I WUZ ONLY KIDDING!
+ 
+     I got the card from everybody, and I thank you for it.  It was a
+wonderful gesture.  But I *had* to get back at y'all for the weeks of
+grief leading up to it, yes?
+ 
+     Thanks.  Really.
+ 
+     And don't do it again.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Aug 1994 21:07:14 -0400
+Subject: JMS: What to Watch for in Reru
+
+     Scenes you should look at differently after "Chrysalis"...one that
+comes to mind offhand is "Sky," in the various Garibaldi scenes (can't be
+more specific than that right now).
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Aug 1994 22:21:23 -0400
+Subject: JMS and the net
+
+     Best thing about the net is that it forces you to ask questions.  The
+job of the writer is to come up with every possible question about your
+character and your world, and answer it, giving both greater
+verasimilitude.  But nobody can come up with EVERY conceivable question;
+but on the nets, you get questions you never *dreamed* of.  Which helps.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Aug 1994 01:31:57 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Don't do it!!!!!
+
+     I'm trying to make the B5 novels and comics as much canon as I can.
+Basically, they take place within B5 continuity, as episodes that might
+have been.  The first four issues of the comic deal with issues that hit
+the series, but from another point of view/location.  The novel uses B5
+as background of an event that makes sense within B5 continuity, and may
+be referred to in future episodes (not as a requirement, but only as
+background...no different than when you have to give background on any
+episode of stuff that's happened in the past, like Ironheart's escape,
+for instance, which we don't have to see/read about, but knowing is nice).
+
+     I *really* don't want these to be just throwaways media-tie-ins.  I
+want them to stand on their own as good work, *and* be part of our
+universe.
+
+     Thankfully, I no longer require sleep, and have transcended to a
+higher state of consciousness...ommmmmm....
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Aug 1994 01:48:13 -0400
+Subject: Question for JMS
+
+     Fasten, button.
+
+     Levi's Jeans forever!
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Aug 1994 01:48:19 -0400
+Subject: JMS lying? (was Re: Voyager Ca
+
+     If Sinclair was simply to be *gone*, we had *plenty* of time to
+edit OUT the scene in B4 that you saw and refer to.  It was self-contained,
+occupied only about 30 seconds, and could've been easily deleted (we ran
+long on that episode, and cut a shot of Delenn leaving the Minbari
+cruiser setting course for B5, which could easily have been put into
+the show in that scene's absence).  We only delivered that episode a few
+weeks before airdate, and the news re: Sinclair was announced MONTHS
+before that, while we were still in the process of editing it.  (And we
+can make changes literally up to a week or so before delivery.)
+
+     We could've deleted it, and left it a mystery, just as with Sigma
+957.  We're not afraid to do that.
+
+     In addition, the first four issues of the B5 comic will NOT be about
+the new Captain, they will be about *Sinclair*, and where he is, and where
+he's gone, and what he's doing.  Since at this point it would be
+hideously expensive to show that in the series, we're doing it in the
+comic.  And will continue to do it from time to time in the comic, AND in
+occasional shots in the series.
+
+     This is NOT what you do when the network comes to you and says, "We
+want this guy GONE."  When that happens, he's *gone*, period.
+
+     No, people should not believe everything they are told.
+
+     Nor should you assume that everyone is lying all the time.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Aug 1994 17:42:15 -0400
+Subject: JMS:Mephisto in Space?
+
+     While the TP themes in "Quality" go back through the history of SF,
+including the Demolished Man, among others, the basic storyline (re:
+Talia) came out of the pilot.  At the time, I was asked -- frequently --
+"Why didn't Lyta scan Sinclair to determine if he had tried to kill
+Kosh?"  My answer then -- which is in some of the archives -- was that
+it would violate the right to due process, that a defendant cannot be
+scanned to determine guilt or innocence (in fact, I recall a rather
+heated debate about that here a while back).  I promised that this would
+be elaborated upon down the road, and mentally logged in to do a show
+with that premise...and I'd already decided about the death penalty, and
+the use of telepaths in it.  So "Quality" came out of that, long before
+"Mephisto" was even written.  At one point, knowing that there were some
+common story areas, I called Harlan to tell him the "Quality" story, so
+that if there were any problems, I could revise it, but he said he saw
+no problem.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+Date: 8 Aug 1994 03:08:45 -0400
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Aug 1994 16:06:12 -0400
+Subject: "Mercy" -- SPOILERS of course
+
+     They cannot carry out the original sentence because the body is
+now dead, which would tend to diminish its social acceptability.
+
+     Dr. Franklin did not know that Mueller had yet found Rosen, or even
+knew of it.  There are no Babcom systems in DownBelow quarters.  To send
+a security team, when they're out searching, without cause, is neither
+realistic nor sensible.  He did the correct thing: to go and warn her,
+while at the same time making sure that security knew where he was going,
+and if they didn't hear anything, to send in a team.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Aug 1994 16:06:22 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Give us a chance!
+
+I think participants of this usenet group should be given a chance to
+come to your house, Paul,and tell you how to make love as a group project.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Aug 1994 20:11:19 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Lose the Hyperion. Bad De
+
+     That design will never be seen again.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Aug 1994 04:37:49 -0400
+Subject: What if a crucial actor/actres
+
+     No, that sort of thing can't be done on an episodic TV budget; when
+time comes to do the flip side of Bsquared, we'll integrate the first
+season footage, but the second part hasn't yet been shot.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Aug 1994 04:43:21 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Na'Toth casting?
+
+     The woman who will be playing Na'Toth next season is Mary Kay Adams;
+we're introducing a character who will be a Squad Leader for Zeta
+Squadron (the one that arrived in "Survivors"), Warren Keffer, which will
+be portrayed by Robert Russler.  (Many people noted that logically you
+would have a regular squad leader as well as in some situations the
+Commander going out, and most times it's the Squad Leader who's out there
+doing this kind of stuff.  And they're correct.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Aug 1994 04:10:25 -0400
+Subject: A message to jms
+
+     Thanks.  All of us involved in Babylon 5 work very hard at it, and
+your words of encouragement are a great help.
+
+     As an aside...the first season isn't *quite* over.  Our final
+episode, "Chrysalis," will be aired the week before the second season
+proper begins, figure the last Wednesday or so in October.
+
+     I think you'll find it most intriguing....
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Aug 1994 06:16:36 -0400
+Subject: [B5] Liar liar pants on fire..
+
+     Normally, this thread wouldn't even be worth my time to respond,
+moreso since I missed the original message, and can only see the replies.
+But that said...maybe because I've been up nearly 30 hours breaking my
+back on this show, to try and provide an occasional hour's entertainment,
+and I'm cranky, I figured I'd just say a few quick things.
+ 
+     Unlike Mr. Glover, who I believe is the same person who's been
+spreading this "JMS is lying about everything" crap on various nets,
+including Fidonet, every post that I have written about Babylon 5 for
+the last *three years* has been archived, organized, filed, and indexed
+for easy reference.  I would suggest that in three years of his own posts,
+you would probably find lots of contradictions in Mr. Glover's posts.  He
+is free from this kind of scrutiny.  I am not.
+ 
+     That said...if I were running around fibbing left, right and center,
+as he implies, because there *is* that vast pool of material, it would've
+been caught out *ages* ago.  I know that everything I write gets saved, and
+thus it behooves me to be as *abolutely* correct in what I write as I
+humanly can be.  From time to time, as the story has progressed, I've
+refined a small character point or two, but overall I've been pretty
+damned consistent.
+ 
+     And I have been *particularly* consistent in what I have said about
+Michael O'Hare.  I have said that it was mutual and amicable.  I said that
+we came to him first.  Those are not, as Mr. Glover would suggest, mutually
+contradictory statements.  Someone has to go first.
+ 
+     And let me just toss a note in Mr. Glover's direction...what the fuck
+is it to you what happens between Michael O'Hare and his employer in the
+privacy of their offices?  Suppose for the moment he quit because he saw
+me courting his pet chicken...what the fuck is it to you?  Who says you're
+entitled to ANY information?  How'd you like it if we went digging out
+information on how your employer treats you?  On why you were fired from
+your last job?  What business is it of mine?  None.  What business is this
+of yours?  None.  Except that you have no apparent life but that which you
+obtain through what you see on TeeVee, in the belief that somehow, by
+virtue of certain phosphor-dots resting on your corneas for a few seconds,
+we owe you *anything*.  We don't.  Bugger off.
+ 
+     As for Larry DiTillio...I showed him what was posted on this net
+from his apperance at LosCon, and he was *very* upset by the quotes, in
+his sense that they misrepresented what he had said.
+ 
+     I have yet to see the alleged quotes where I changed my story on
+something.  I don't think they exist.
+ 
+     I think that by describing the majority of viewers here as
+"sycophants" who "hang on (my) every word)", Mr. Glover attempts right off
+the bat to discredit anyone who might disagree with him.  He insults every
+member of this discussion in so doing, and I take great exception to that.
+ Anyone who disagrees with Mr. Glover is either a liar, or a sycophant.
+ 
+     Sod off, Mr. Glover.
+ 
+     And Mr. Glover also over-estimates not only his own importance, but
+the importance of this system in terms of ratings.  If you added up every
+single person who reads this forum, and all those on GEnie, Compuserve,
+(AOL and Prodigy on bounce-back), NVN, Bix and all the rest...it wouldn't
+be even a *blip* on the ratings.  Wouldn't even show up.  I'm here only
+because I want to be, and because -- despite the occasional Gloverite who
+trudges his way in here to sneer at people -- it's fun to hang out.
+ 
+      And I am not "A SALESMAN."  I am a writer.  I'm not here to sell
+anybody anything.  The people who come here are those who watch the show
+to begin with; those who watch Baywatch and have no interest in B5 don't
+come in here.  There's no point in singing to the choir.  Many of those
+here are those who've already decided they like the show...and others are
+certainly more than free with their criticism.
+ 
+     On another system, the indefatigable Mr. Glover commented that I
+MUST be lying about O'Hare, because after all if I ever admitted that
+someone walked off the show on their own, I'd be in trouble with Warner
+Bros, and I was thus protecting my ass.  And I think it was about a week
+later that I mentioned, on my own, that Caitlin Brown was going off the
+show, on her own, because she wants to do feature-film starring roles.
+Boy, I must be some kinda feeb to admit that in public, because I gots to
+protect my ass....
+ 
+     I said it because it was true.
+ 
+     One of the primary reasons I'm here is to try and educate people
+about how TV is done.  When I did the series of articles on the new TZ
+series for Twilight Zone magazine, I made it a point to include the good
+and the bad and the ugly, otherwise it has no worth.  I've come on here
+and said which episodes of B5 were great, and which I wouldn't mind if
+all copies of the negative fell off a pier; I've stated when actors have
+left on their own, and when we've changed our minds about them, and when
+deals have fallen through; I've been as hard on the show as anyone else.
+ 
+     But for Eugene Glover, whose own life is notably sheltered from
+public view, this is insufficient, and his own prejudices and internal
+bile levels, as indicated by the quotes from him, pursuade him that I am
+a liar.
+ 
+     Piss off, Eugene.  You're a mean, vindictive little guttersnipe who
+has nothing better to do than piss in other people's punchbowls, absent of
+any perceptible life, overwhelmed with your own feelings of self
+importance and righteousness, when in reality you simply suffer from
+delusions of adequacy.  I rarely use this kind of term, due to its basic
+offensiveness to SF/ST fans...but Eugene...get a life, get a grip, get a
+clue, but most of all...get away.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Aug 1994 15:12:45 -0400
+Subject: JMS:Are you about to LOSE the
+
+     I really don't know the ins and outs of the Detroit situation; I'll
+try and find out a bit more.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Aug 1994 03:53:49 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Set suggestion
+
+     The end of the central corridor was a painting; correct.  And I never
+liked it.  So over the break, we *built* another 15 or so feet to the
+end of the corridor, going up, so now it's quite real, and we can put
+stuff in there.  Much improved.
+ 
+	                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Aug 1994 02:22:39 -0400
+Subject: Thoughts on a close rewatch of
+
+     One lovely thing about "Signs and Portents," which you picked up on,
+is something I like to play with; implying one thing while saying the
+opposite.  Look at all the shadow's main representative, Morden, does: he
+asks people what they want; he gets tossed out of Delenn's quarters; he
+is pleasant in his demeanor at all times, never yells, always smiles, and
+is courteous; he takes an action which saves one of our main characters,
+Londo, from disgrace and resignation, and helps in the process of scragging
+the bad guys in the episode.
+ 
+     And yet everyone walks away thinking that the shadows are bad.  Which
+was of course the intent...by the way in which they did "good."
+ 
+     Kosh prevents humanity from achieving immortality, scares the hell out
+of Talia, never gives anyone a straight answer, doesn't seem to mind it if
+people fear him...and we walk away with the presumption that he is good,
+by virtue of the way in which he did things that were "bad."
+ 
+     In "The Quality of Mercy," I play a similar subtle game; the first
+time you hear about the alien device, you're told that it takes the life
+force from one person, killing them in the process, and gives it to
+someone suffering a terminal disease to restore them.  And everybody goes
+"yuck, that's awful."  But that is *exactly* what happens at the end, and
+the general reaction is, "That's good."
+ 
+     This is something I do a lot in my scripts, which I don't generally
+see a lot of other people doing.  You *really* have to construct the
+script very carefully to pull something like this off...a little game
+between me and the audience.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Aug 1994 02:27:02 -0400
+Subject: JMS! Episode Titles
+
+     I think the double-titles would screw up the methods by which the
+residuals are tracked for writers/directors/actors.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Aug 1994 02:32:45 -0400
+Subject: Re: [B5] Liar liar pants on fi
+
+     Ah, so Glover's message was originally posted in the alt section,
+where I wouldn't/couldn't see it, and wouldn't have known about it at all
+had there not been the reply here that somehow bounced.
+ 
+     Well, isn't that convenient....
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Aug 1994 04:14:33 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  Liars and Flames
+
+     Thanks; I'm not sure sometimes if this is a good skill or not.  Not
+only had I been up about 30 hours, but because of the way my GEnie news
+reader/mailbox is set up, I can only reply *on-line*, I can't go off,
+compose off-line, then upload it...it all has to be written on the fly.
+ 
+     (Maybe it comes from being a Jersey street kid, basically; we used to
+hang out on street corners, ranking each other for *hours*, each one
+according to the rules having to build upon the one preceding, until they
+got amazingly elaborate.  Or maybe I'm just a pain in the ass.)
+ 
+     That said, I try very hard *not* to do that.  I don't think it's a
+good thing in the long run.  I see a *lot* of abusive posts, and most of
+them I let slide simply because it seems the wiser path.  But every once
+in a while, somebody'll poke the bear, and it'll be late, and they'll be
+completely out of line...and something snaps and next thing I know I'm
+110 lines deep into something and my monitor is imploding.
+ 
+     As for *why* I was up 30 hours straight...Claudia Christian broke
+her foot over the weekend.  Broke it in *three places*, no less, while
+running in her back yard.  She had a lot of action in the next couple of
+scripts, and was in the midst of filming an episode currently.  So the
+scripts had to be revised to work around this, and as stated, we were
+shooting one, and about to shoot another, and it *all* had to be done in
+zero time.  By me.  Basically, we're talking about rewriting two full
+scripts in a couple of days, after which I was half blind and staggering.
+ 
+     So I was just a bit cranky that night....
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Aug 1994 04:14:47 -0400
+Subject: Re: [B5] Liar liar pants on fi
+
+     Morgan...there is a quantum difference between being called a liar,
+and receiving criticism on a story.  If you cannot see that, that is your
+problem, not mine.
+ 
+     "If it wasn't worth your time, then why did you respond?"
+ 
+     Because I felt like it.  However, to the rest of your points, which
+are specious and irrelevant, I don't feel like it tonight.  I will instead
+go along with your question, "why respond?"
+ 
+     Good suggestion.
+ 
+     Particularly when applied to your message.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Aug 1994 04:38:26 -0400
+Subject: Re: [B5] Liar liar pants on fi
+
+     Jim...re: your reply to Morgan...there is a curious neticism that
+I've seen all the years I've been riding the nets, and it's nothing new.
+ 
+     It's this: Person A writes something awful/scandalous/abusive about
+person B.  Person C says nothing.  Person B writes a heated reply.  Person
+C *now* speaks up to say what bad form it is to go after this poor person
+who was just exercising his right to speak, and suddenly person B is the
+bad guy.
+ 
+     It's okay to impugne someone's career, or life, or honesty, or any
+other aspect...but to call the person out for it...no, no, we can't have
+that.  Nonsense.  There is nothing in my agreement with any service that
+says I must be a non-responsive, unmoving target.  A bully is a bully, and
+needs to get responded to.  And character attacks must be responded to,
+whether or not some people (who had no problem with the original
+accusation) find it polite conversation.
+ 
+     Say what you want about somebody...but god forbid the person should
+speak up...an intersting philosophy, to say the least.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Aug 1994 04:38:35 -0400
+Subject: Change in Rerun of Believers
+
+     There were no changes in dialogue made in "Believers" subsequent to
+the first airing.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Aug 1994 22:10:26 -0400
+Subject: JMS: 2nd season writing proces
+
+     It's impossible not to have the characters change to varying degrees
+once you cast actors to play them.  Gradually, Mira's personality has
+grown into Delenn, Andreas has added a lot to G'Kar, Garibaldi IS Doyle,
+and Boxleitner is bringing a lot to Sheridan.  You get to hear the
+characters' voices more the deeper you go, season-wise, and that's great.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Aug 1994 05:28:32 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Musical Themes?
+
+     We've done a lot with themes over the season, and plan to do more,
+developing themes for all our characters.  I like interpolating bits and
+pieces of the B5 theme into parts of the show; the lower-key version at
+the end of "Signs" has always struck me as very effective.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+(meant to type "minor key."
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Aug 1994 02:02:16 -0400
+Subject: Re: [B5] Liar liar pants on fi
+
+     Michael Heser...I don't just respond to flame-bait.  I respond to
+something on the order of 100 messages a day, out of the 500 per day that
+I get.  In this one pass on Internet via my GEnie mailbox, I've just
+written about 15 so far, and I've got a bunch more to go through.  (And
+not one was a flame.)  This is an aberration, nothing more, and I do
+reserve the right to plink somebody upside the nose if he gets
+obnoxious.  The occasional aberration is good for you (now if only I could
+convince my wife of that...).
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Aug 1994 02:02:29 -0400
+Subject: JMS: new movie?
+
+     Correct, I will be writing the screenplay for the GRIMJACK movie,
+which will draw heavily on John Ostrander's story for the Demon Blood and
+Demon Wars stories.  Whether or not new books are coming I don't know.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Aug 1994 02:19:54 -0400
+Subject: Parallelism in TKO (Possible S
+
+     Yes, there are many subtle parallels between the two story elements,
+as you note.  At its core, is the use of tradition, and respect, as a
+means for greater understanding.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Aug 1994 21:51:10 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Conventions
+
+     At this point, beyond the Dallas con, and LosCon, nothing much is
+planned....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Aug 1994 01:05:48 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Some comments on your "no
+
+     Actually, there are varying religions within the alien species as
+well; G'Kar is a follower of G'Quan, while Na'Toth's father followed
+G'Lan, and Na'Toth herself doesn't really believe in anything (this as
+noted in "By Any Means Necessary").  So that diversity isn't strictly or
+exclusively human.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Aug 1994 04:19:38 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Warners' Wishlist
+
+     I don't recall ever mentioning any memo from PTEN "suggesting that
+something be done with the commander or year two, even if just a bunch of
+commander-centered episodes."  Warners/PTEN said that they would like to
+see a bit more character-oriented stories, which was jake by me because
+that's what we were aiming for anyway.  By virtue of being at least
+nominally an action/adventure show, there was always some sense that we
+had to have a lot of running around; now they're giving us the freedom to
+have more latitude, which by me is terrific.  They've given us no other
+notes.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Aug 1994 04:34:36 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Some questions...
+
+     You will see the healing machine from "Quality" once more.  Part of
+the reason for that story was to set up something within the B5 universe
+that will come in handy a long time later (but I'm *not* going to have it
+lying around indefinitely; it would cause lots of long-term complications).
+ 
+     (Some TV shows foreshadow/set-up stuff an act or two ahead of time;
+we do setups a full *year* ahead....)
+ 
+     Never saw "Star Blazers," so the Valen name has no relation there.
+ 
+     No idea on coming laserdisk prices.
+ 
+     When Zathras shows up in time, it'll definitely be recognizeable as
+Zathras.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Aug 1994 04:40:08 -0400
+Subject: JMS:B5/LSH Parallels Follow-Up
+
+     Re: the now-mandatory Psi badge in LSH...yeah, I noticed that too.
+If it is indeed a nod in our direction -- and spontaneous duplication is
+also always a possibility -- it's actually fun, from my POV.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Aug 1994 04:44:22 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: LSH/B5 parallel post-
+
+     This one to Kurt Bose...
+ 
+     "We heard about how everything and its mother was derived in some
+manner from the ideas this hack was pitching around Hollywood."
+ 
+     So now I'm a hack.  Tell me, Kurt, what have *you* done with your
+life?  I won't post my feelings about my work because that's subjective;
+but the nominations for Writers Guild, Bram Stoker, Ace and Gemini Awards
+over there on the wall might have a thing or two to say about this...or
+the Emmy for Best Animated Series the year I story edited The REal
+Ghostbusters...or the Inkpot Achievement Award from the San Diego Comic
+Convention...or the recent award from the Space Frontier Foundation for
+Best Vision of the Future...shall I go on?
+ 
+     To the point of what your screed said in this part...no, I have never
+said what you pillory me for saying.  I have certain very strong feelings
+about an incident with another series, but that's just the one.  You say
+"We heard about how everything and its mother was derived in some manner"
+from my work...please cite me where I have said this about anything else.
+Or I can save you the time...you won't find any, because they aren't
+there.
+ 
+     This is trait #1 of the net-bully...come up with an outrageous
+statement that someone never made, and then assault them for it.  Seen it.
+ 
+     "We heard all about how in HIS show, they weren't going to simply
+make all the aliens look like actors in funny makeup.  Well suprise, all
+the aliens look like humans in funny makeup."
+ 
+     Error #1: once again, I never said it.  I said we were going to work
+to avoid the funny-forehead scenario with full-head prosthetics.  This we
+have done.
+ 
+     Second, as earth-shattering to your perspective as this may be, there
+are currently no real aliens that we know of living on Earth.  No matter
+HOW elaborate the makeup, you're going to have an actor in makup (unless
+you're doing puppets, as a rule, and this isn't a puppet show).  Show me
+any movie or series where the main alien characters have been other than
+puppets or actors in makup, funny or otherwise.
+ 
+     Third...we are the *first* TV SF series to introduce a computer
+graphic alien, in "Grail," and we plan to do more of this next season.
+ 
+     "We were treated to comments from JMS like "Sinclair should really go
+over well with the ladies."  (This in reference to being cast on sex
+appeal.)  I'm sorry, but this comment is so boneheaded and contradictory
+and illogical that I can't even begin to respond.
+ 
+     Re: "no cute kids or robots," I was referring specifically to regular
+cast members.  We do not have cute kids as regular cast members.  And we
+de-emphasize kids in guest-casting.  In our entire first season we have
+had two, one in a B-story, and the other we killed off.  I don't see the
+problem which is making you so apoplectic in this.
+ 
+     "If JMS is really saying these things, doing these things, then he's
+insane."
+ 
+     And, of course, I didn't, and haven't been.  You're seeing them only
+in whatever alternate universe you're experiencing through prolonged
+exposure to your computer monitor's EMF.
+ 
+     "What I've heard about here and elsewhere makes me feel that his
+'pariah' routine of the put-upon genius whose work is shamelessly copied
+makes me wonder if there are REASONS for the role he's adopted."
+ 
+     First, see response #1.  Never said it.  What "you've heard" has no
+bearing whatsoever on objective reality.  Nor am I responsible for what
+may or may not have been posted on other nets by people other than me.  I
+am only responsible for what I say.  And what I say is generally archived
+somewhere, so actually checking the *facts* (I know, another foreign
+concept) is extraordinarily easy to do.  This you didn't do.
+ 
+     Second: never adopted a pariah attitude; never felt like one; never
+said any such thing.  Are you feeling okay?  Are things all right at
+home?  Do you hear spirit voices at night whispering into your ears the
+things that you'd have *liked* me to have said?  A helpful suggestion: if
+these voices ever tell you to go save France...don't do it.  I've seen
+that movie, you wouldn't like the ending.
+ 
+     Finally, what are these REASONS you're wondering about?  Nothing like
+a little vague innuendo and then zoom-flash out the back door.  Speak
+plainly.  You got something to say, say it.
+ 
+     (And in a note prior, when someone noticed the LSH telepath pin, I
+commented that it was probably spontaneous duplication/simultaneous
+creation.  My first impulse, despite your willingness to attribute to me
+some fanatical attitude, is that it wasn't a lift.  My second reaction, as
+written, is that if it was inspired by the Psi Corps, that it's really
+kinda cool...SF literature builds on itself, as with Heinlein coming up
+with slidewalks, which were then used by others.  I think it'd be cool if
+Psi Corps style badges started showing up in LSH; it'd mean that I added
+something to the genre.)
+ 
+     Okay..now let's see...I read through all the notes, responded in a
+manner without profanity, and ....oh, dear.
+ 
+     No profanity.
+ 
+     Can't have that.  So really, Kurt, and I say this with the love of
+Jesus in my heart...go fuck yourself.
+ 
+     And next time you want to go around calling someone a "hack," be
+prepared to let us all examine *your* work, okay?
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Aug 1994 05:14:03 -0400
+Subject: Send not thine tales for death
+
+     It does seem unfortunate that we seem to have to go through this
+fire drill every few months.  Look...the reality is, we manage to go
+through 500 or so messages a day (well, *I* go through them), and very
+rarely, in ALL the discussion and speculation, does anything come close
+to being a story idea.  As I commented on GEnie, at 500 messages a day,
+seven days a week (3500 messages a week, counting all the various
+services I'm on), this has only become a problem *five times*.
+ 
+     But five times is five times, and it never hurts to put out a
+reminder...because it's due to those reminders that it HAS been only five
+times.  Absent those reminders, it would've been more, that you can count
+on.
+ 
+     No one is here begruding the rights of people to speculate and
+discuss, least of all me.  You don't generally see me out here pounding
+down on people...the discussions here are very freewheeling, which is as
+it should be.  This is the one little area that I ask be set aside, and
+I just don't see it as a problem.
+ 
+     And I *do* wish that people wouldn't get bogged down in the legalities
+of all this.  On one level, while that's the core reason I made the
+request in the first place, what it comes down to is just courtesy.  I am
+here for hours each day, unlike any other TV producer, every day, and all
+I ask, as a courtesy, is no story ideas being posted.  When did we as a
+culture hit a point where a request as a courtesy was no longer valid,
+and everything had to be accompanied by legalistic wrangling and court
+orders?
+ 
+     I ask this one thing as a favor, in return for the hours spent here.
+Is this really so great a burden?  If people want to discuss story ideas,
+or come up with their own stories, all they have to do is set up a
+private mailing list to which I don't have access, and they can do so to
+their heart's content.  All I ask is that you don't do it where I can see
+it.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Aug 1994 05:14:12 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Season two episode order?
+
+     Episode 1 - Prod. #201 - "Points of Departure," written by jms,
+directed by Janet Greek.
+ 
+     Episode 2 - Prod. #202 - "Revelations," written by jms, directed by
+Jim Johnston.
+ 
+     Episode 3 - Prod. #203 - "The Geometry of Shadows," written by jms,
+directed by Mike Vejar.
+ 
+     Episode 4 - Produ. #204 - "A Distant Star," written by D.C. Fontana,
+directed by Jim Johnston.
+ 
+     Episode 5 - Prod. #205 - "The Long Dark," written by Scott Frost,
+director TBA.
+ 
+     Episode 6 - Prod. #206 - "A Spider in the Web," written by Lawrence
+G. DiTillio, director TBA.
+ 
+     The first six will be aired in production order.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Aug 1994 05:15:43 -0400
+Subject: Careful with those story ideas
+
+     One clarification: the problem on GEnie wasn't speculation per se,
+but a statement, "How about if Joe does a story about...."  That in
+particular turned it (unintentionally, but there it is) into a pitch of a
+story idea.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Aug 1994 23:02:48 -0400
+Subject: Who all should get letters pra
+
+     Letters can be sent to B5 staff and routed to Warners/PTEN through:
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Aug 1994 23:04:19 -0400
+Subject: How important to the Arc is Sh
+
+     How critical was Aragorn to the storyline of Lord of the Rings?
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Aug 1994 23:04:28 -0400
+Subject: JMS: How many eps?
+
+     This is from memory, but after we broke down the stories for the
+second season, and determined who we'd need for what stories, I think it
+came out to 22 each for Sheridan, Ivanova, Garibaldi, Delenn and
+Franklin; 13 for Na'Toth, Vir, Talia, G'Kar and Londo; and 8 for our new
+squadron leader.  (Oops, forgot 13 also for Lennier.)  Now these are the
+minimum contracted for, we can use them for more as they're needed.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Aug 1994 23:04:37 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Her.?
+
+     The line, "If I knew who God was, I'd thank her," was as written in
+the script.  We generally don't allow much improvisation on stage.
+ 
+     Many thanks.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Aug 1994 03:35:16 -0400
+Subject: Syndication Question
+
+     Okay, I'll try to make this coherent and brief, two concepts that
+don't necessarily relate.
+ 
+     Here's how it works with B5, which is how virtually all syndicated
+shows work.
+ 
+     I created B5.  Went to Doug Netter, made a handshake deal to make the
+series.  Five years pass.  Finally we hook up with PTEN.  PTEN buys the
+rights to B5, and owns it.  They then finance the production of the series
+through Babylonian Productions, which I and Doug own.  But the copyright
+to B5 belongs to PTEN, as Star Trek has always belonged to Paramount, not
+Gene R.  Rights don't revert to anyone; the rights belong to PTEN unless
+PTEN should cancel the series, after which I believe there's a period of
+about two years, after which it *then* comes back to me.
+ 
+     As long as PTEN exists, and the show is broadcast, it belongs to
+PTEN, regardless of how many times it's shown.  I don't know, or pretend
+to know, what would happen if PTEN ceased to exist, though I'm sure that
+procedures have been set up such that the revenue stream would continue to
+the original parties in PTEN, and the corporation itself would continue as
+a means of funnelling those funds.
+ 
+     Warners doesn't own PTEN per se; PTEN is a consortium of a core group
+of TV stations in association with Warners, and this executive committee
+votes funding on the show.
+ 
+     We are in some ways an unusual situation in that we're not a studio
+in-house production, like KUNG FU and TIME TRAX, which were created from
+within the Warners corporate structure.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Aug 1994 03:36:47 -0400
+Subject: Old Red Eyes
+
+     He'll be back soon enough....
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Aug 1994 18:54:06 -0400
+Subject: JMS: 'What do you want?' - nod
+
+     Actually, the origin of "What do you want?" comes from encounter
+groups I've run, and from other kinds of group psychotherapy, such as the
+original Synanon games; you ask, "Who are you?" over and over, refusing
+to take the same answer twice, to peel away the fabric of what the
+person is.  It's a slight jump to "What do you want?"  (I knew that
+degree in Psychology would come in handy one of these days.)
+ 
+     As for the B5 reference in "OtherSyde," I always knew it would be a
+series, because I've never allowed any other consideration.
+ 
+     (I think B5 hits Australia later in the fall.)
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Aug 1994 19:13:08 -0400
+Subject: JMS: What is this .
+
+     It came from the prop people at Warners/PTEN, who seem to be
+watching an alternate-universe version of the series....
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Aug 1994 20:07:06 -0400
+Subject: Sheridan
+
+     Yes, Sheridan is descended from Gen. Philip John Sheridan of the
+Union Army.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Aug 1994 02:16:39 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Speaking of First Comics.
+
+     I would *love* to do American Flagg! as a movie; I think it was
+probably Howard's best moment.  I've read a lot of his stuff, but somehow
+after AF! it never did it for me as much as that one did.  (And he
+certainly went...well, let's say where no comic has gone before...in Black
+Kiss.)  I think the rights might be tied up, however.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Aug 1994 02:22:18 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Arcane story twists et al
+
+     If you look at my scripts, you'll find that generally I write very
+tight, I don't leave a lot of threads hanging as a rule.  Same with the
+planned series.  No important threads will be left hanging by the end of
+it all.  And generally any really significant thread will be wrapped within
+a year of being introduced.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Aug 1994 21:54:13 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Question????????????
+
+     Medlab is the smaller facility exclusively for Dr. Franklin, as
+Chief of Staff.  There are larger medical facilities, more like proper
+hospitals, elsewhere on the station.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Aug 1994 22:01:11 -0400
+Subject: A note regarding "V" to jms
+
+     I guess my attitude toward "V" the series (as distinguished from
+the miniseries, which was great) is colored by the rather contemptuous
+attitude of the producers toward SF, and SF fans, leading to their
+decision to bring on soap opera writers.  I think they took a wonderful
+concept and just trashed it.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Aug 1994 03:02:09 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: A few questions
+
+     The script called for Garibaldi to take up the Big Massive Gun and
+fire, with a primal YELL that went on forever.  Any dialogue at that
+point which replaced the yell came from the actor.  The "you're already
+dead" was only relevant to the scene, not T2.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+===========================================================================
+| This text is compiled from posts by J. Michael Straczynski on the Usenet
+| group rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.  This document contains material Copyright
+| 1994 J. Michael Straczynski.  He has given permission for his words to be
+| redistributed online, as long as they are marked as being copyright JMS.
+| This document, as well as other Babylon-5 related material, is available
+| by anonymous FTP at ftp.hyperion.com.
+===========================================================================
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Sep 1994 00:48:15 -0400
+Subject: Re: SPOILEd math in Quality of
+
+     Just as long as you don't name any of your cats Kosh, you should be
+okay.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Sep 1994 01:59:00 -0400
+Subject: ATTN:JMS-Improvisation:yes or
+
+     When you're shooting a show, invariably you get to the stage and
+find that you have, for instance, three lines, one per character in the
+room...and you're trying to get them out the door, and it moves better
+if you give one line to one character and the other two to the other
+character.  That sometimes happens.  But rarely.  In the Garibaldi's yell
+case, it was written as a quick shot, he yells and we're out.  The
+director wanted to extend the shot a bit, visually.  I wasn't in the
+studio at the time, so Jerry improvised a series of yells.
+ 
+     This sort of thing is *extremely* rare on the show; the actors and
+directors know they *cannot* change dialogue on the set without approval
+from me or Larry.  On any given script, no more than about 3-6 lines get
+modified for staging purposes once we get to the set.  And always with
+approval required.  This is an absolute, hard and fast rule.  The only
+reason the Garibaldi thing happened is that they figured it was just a
+yell, so nothing could get messed up story-wise (which is the primary
+reason this is so strict; change one word in a line and it could screw
+up plot points three episodes down the road) by having him yell a few
+specific lines.  If I'd been there for that scene, I would've written him
+something a little less reminiscent of "Aliens."
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Sep 1994 01:59:08 -0400
+Subject: Yet another question for JMS..
+
+     I would love to have David Warner do another episode, though it would
+have to be an alien, for obvious reasons.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Sep 1994 02:23:06 -0400
+Subject: jms, i got a gripe! 8-) How co
+
+     Be patient; you'll see Centauri warships soon enough.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Sep 1994 15:33:58 -0400
+Subject: Re: [B5] Liar liar pants on fi
+
+     No, the ABCD comment wasn't meant in your direction, Jim, but due to
+my GEnie mail reader, sometimes I can only get into a discussion by
+replying to whatever message in the thread is in my box at the time.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Sep 1994 15:34:06 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Will we see big guns blaz
+
+     Believe me, by the time this story is done, you'll see *plenty* of
+big guns and major engagements.  It's fairly clear in the bits and pieces
+that we're moving toward one hell of a conflagration.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Sep 1994 05:27:38 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Water Buffalo
+
+     Unfortunately, I don't know what the statute of limitations minimums
+are up in Canada....
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Sep 1994 19:06:54 -0400
+Subject: Babylon 5 Novels
+
+     Correction to the LOCUS report: the first novel is "Voices," not
+"El Diablo," which was an early premise that didn't work out.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Sep 1994 02:25:25 -0400
+Subject: Joe's Life Being Ebbed By Radi
+
+     Actually, as I understand it, lead *magnifies* the EMF problem, so
+a lead-lined jockstrap is not something I contemplate with any degree of
+calm.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Sep 1994 02:29:18 -0400
+Subject: The Writers/Directors List for
+
+    Some addendums: Larry, Christy and David Gerrold all also worked for
+me on TRGBs.  Mark Moretti is now writing books 2-5 of the B5 comic.  The
+first Vornholt novel isn't "El Diablo," a premise that didn't work out,
+but "Voices."  Add Jerry Jameson to the list of directors, doing episode
+#8 for year two.  (Probably an episode called "The Coming of Shadows.")
+ 
+     On my behalf, have written more than just the one comie; wrote single
+issues of Teen Titans Spotlight, TZ comic, and the Star Trek comic.  Also
+2 novels and a bunch of other stuff.
+ 
+     Larry's second B5 script is entitled "GROPOS."
+ 
+     Also Kevin Cremin and John Flinn will both direct an episode this
+season.
+ 
+     Both David and DC will be starting new scripts soon.
+ 
+     I've just completed my fourth script for the season, "A Race Through
+Dark Places," shooting #7.
+ 
+     Lois Tilton is writing B5 novel #2.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Sep 1994 04:29:09 -0400
+Subject: The hiring of Boxleitner
+
+     For what it's worth, Sheridan is neither a "space cowboy" nor a
+"gung ho type."  This description has nothing to do with the character,
+and I'm not quite sure where you got this.  Certainly I never said or
+implied it.
+ 
+     Captain John Sheridan is a war hero, of sorts; he squeaked out the
+only real victory of the Earth/Minbari War.  (Which means the Minbari
+don't generally like him a lot.)  He did what he did because that's his
+job.  He's a professional soldier.  For the last two years, he's been
+commanding the Agamemmnon, a high-visibility Earthforce starship on deep
+patrol.  As such, he has had to learn to work with a number of different
+races and species.
+ 
+     In some ways, his character is somewhat more well-rounded than was
+the case with Sinclair, over whom a general sense of doom often seemed to
+hang.  Sheridan is often very thoughtful and introspective; at other
+times, he can be just a bit eccentric; he leads by respecting those who
+work under him, and giving them room to grow; like any career officer, he
+HATES the bureaucracy with a passion, and this is the one thing that can
+drive him nuts; he knows that commanding B5 is a great opportunity, but
+he also knows that his presence brings certain complications with it, and
+he's very ambivilant about that aspect; he's the son of a diplomatic envoy
+who disappeared on his 21st birthday, running off to see (of all things)
+the new Dali Lama being installed; he has a very easygoing manner, and a
+great sense of humor.  He quickly re-forms a friendship with Ivanova, for
+whom he has great respect and professional admiration.  (For a time she
+served under him at Io.)
+ 
+     He is, actually, a fascinating and intriguing character with a lot
+of different shadings...none of which have *anything* to do with being a
+"space cowboy" or "gung-ho type."
+ 
+     Anyway...point being...when it was announced that there was going to
+be a new Lieutenant-Commander, a number of folks went ballistic and said
+the show would now be ruined.  I said, in essence, look...I created
+Takashima; I can create an interesting character to replace her.  And I
+thunk up Ivanova, who according to the rec.arts.b5 poll is the most
+popular character on the show.  When it was announced that Sinclair would
+be STAYING with the show, after the pilot, a number of folks said this
+was bad, he was wooden, he stunk, get him off...and ended up being very
+enamored of him.  My only reply now about Bruce...give him, and me, a
+chance.  I genuinely think you will like what you see a *lot*.
+ 
+     In the course of the first season, Ivanova, Garibaldi, G'Kar, Londo,
+Delenn, others...they've exploded into strong characters.  You need an
+equally strong character designed to hold his own, and be memorable, in
+that august company.  Sheridan was designed knowing we had a much
+elevated playing field around the character.
+ 
+     Obviously, clearly, and irrefutably, an actor brings a *lot* to any
+role.  No question.  But it tends to begin with what is created.  I've seen
+it said here, repeatedly, that none of the characters are uninteresting;
+they all have lives, and agendas, that make them fascinating to watch:
+Londo, Morden, G'Kar, Delenn, Garibaldi, Ivanova...what those characters
+are came out of my head, in terms of who they are, what they say, what they
+believe, where they came from and where they're going.  Why would I invent
+a new character that was any less involving, or interesting, o
+multifaceted?  Particularly knowing that he's going to be a central
+character?
+ 
+     Speaking as someone who's been in fandom a long, long time, I know
+there is always a tendency for panic, to assume the apocalypse is upon
+us, that something is never going to be the same again.  I heard this after
+the Enterprise was destroyed in "The Search for Spock."  I've heard this
+a lot over the years.  It's generally over-reaction and worry before anyone
+has even seen a frame of film.
+ 
+     Bottom line being...wait and see, then judge.  I've tried very hard
+not to let you down, and I think so far I haven't done so...I have no
+intention of starting now.  Bruce is doing an absolutely *brilliant* job
+as Captain Sheridan, bringing a thoughtfulness and intensity and
+charm and intensity to the part that is a joy to behold.  Give him a
+chance.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Sep 1994 00:30:49 -0400
+Subject: Re: Babylon 5 comics
+
+     Small correction: I'm writing issue #1, and supplied the premise for
+issues 2-5, which are being written by Mark Moretti.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Sep 1994 00:30:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: The hiring of Boxleitner
+
+     Dylan...m'boy...ah thinks, that is, ah thinks you jes' ain't wired
+up entirely right....
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Sep 1994 00:31:02 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Franke defecting?
+
+     Most composers work on multiple projects, including series.  Chris
+is still doing B5, and we'll be sure to make the two shows sound different.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Sep 1994 00:31:10 -0400
+Subject: Harlan Ellison
+
+     The book is Harlan's autobiography, which he plans to write around
+the year 2000, and yes, that's his photo.  (He borrowed the prop when we
+were finished and casually carried it with him to a few places, just to
+make people nuts thinking there was a book out they'd missed....)
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Sep 1994 05:11:13 -0400
+Subject: Re: Chrysalis preview seen at
+
+     Dan Wood: I think the original poster was having some fun; there was
+no "Chrysalis" trailer VO anywhere, to my knowledge; that's simply the
+text of a message I placed on GEnie a while back.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Sep 1994 05:11:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: AAAIIIIEEE season finale '
+
+     Matthew: correct.  A lot more happens in "Chrysalis" than happened
+in "Signs and Portents."
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Sep 1994 05:25:25 -0400
+Subject: B5 & Violence: Light Years Awa
+
+     I'm afraid your logic is so far from reality that I'm not sure it
+can be called back.  The Suits as you call them have NOT asked for more
+violence or action in the show.  In fact, as reported in the trades and
+elsewhere, they have specifically asked for more character stuff and less
+violence.  (Basically...we're telling the story we're telling, and we were
+already starting to focus in on our characters, and we're doing more of
+that in year two, but we're not sacrificing action, which I happen to
+like.)
+ 
+     Re: "...the morality of being entertained by murder and violence,"
+I'm sorry, but this doesn't happen on television.  People are entertained
+by *representations* or *illusions* of those elements.  No one on B5 has
+ever been murdered or treated violently.  This is a fiction-based series.
+There's a difference.
+ 
+     I happen to feel strongly that the link between violence in the
+streets and violence in TV/movies is hugely exaggerated by people who
+think it's much easier to deal with the *picture* of the problem than it
+is to deal with the *problem*.  It's simpler to censor a TV show than it
+is to clean up the streets, provide jobs, properly fund schools, put more
+police on the streets, provide opportunities for young kids and get the
+hard drugs out of the community.
+ 
+     Frank, if you took *every* show with even a modicum of action off
+the air tomorrow...and left it off for seven days...there would not be
+one less murder in South Central Los Angeles, or any of our other major
+cities.  Not one.  Because television isn't the problem.  Every few
+years, the trendoids and the politicos decide that comic books are the
+problem, or movies are the problem, or TV is the problem...but the
+reality is that the PROBLEM is the problme, not the picture of the problem.
+ 
+     Not long ago, here in LA, a Santa Monica based anti-violence group
+went out to a video store which had a big honking picture of a gun in its
+front window, and picketed it.  Half a block away was a GUN SHOP.  But
+they didn't picket that, they picketed the poster.  They focused on the
+picture of the problem, not the problem.
+ 
+     For me, action is a necessary component of drama.  Meaning sometimes
+people get hurt.  You say, "ST expressed intelligence and humanism," and
+my only reply -- and I mean no offense to the hard-core ST fans, of which
+you are clearly one -- oftentimes it simply bored me to *tears*.  Nothing
+was really ever at stake.  Everything was sanitized.
+ 
+     I feel that B5 expresses just as much intelligence and humanism as
+any other show, including ST.  Maybe more.  And I'll tell you why.  In
+the ST:TNG universe, every human is perfect...no inner doubts, no violent
+tendencies, they're *genetically engineered that way*.  That's what they
+have said.  There's no quandry, no sense of questioning what should be
+done, they don't have to overcome, they have already done so.
+ 
+     So you can look at that show, and decide, "Well, I guess humanity is
+doomed to be violent until we can genetically engineer ourselves to be
+otherwise."  B5 humans aren't perfect.  They're flawed and scared and
+tempted by violence.  They're just like us.  And though their record isn't
+perfect, they frequently find ways to solve problems WITHOUT violence.  I
+think this is *profoundly* more relevant and a stronger message to send,
+that we can do it *today*.  We have the same problems they have, and if
+they can deal with it, maybe we can.
+ 
+     It is one thing to say, "Mankind has no further problems, no doubts,
+no insecurities," and another to say, "Here are some demonstrations of
+ways we can overcome our problems, doubts and insecurities."  Someone
+here recently posted a message "Everything I Need To Know In Life I
+Learned in Babylon 5."  I was really rather astonished to read it, because
+it took all the principles we've expressed in the show, or many of them,
+and put them all in one place...the capacity for self-sacrifice being one
+of the principles of sentient life...that it is better to find something
+worth living for than something worth dying for...on and on and on.
+ 
+     Humanism does not mean turning a blind eye to our problems; it means
+trying to elevate humanity from *inside*.  Intelligence doesn't mean we
+simply assume all of our problems have been solved by genetic engineering,
+which removes free will, just wipe the slate clean...it means that we need
+to see alternates and means of solving problems now.
+ 
+     Could Picard ever be tempted to do something illegal?  No.  Could
+some of our characters?  Yes.  In the case of Picard, it's a no brainer.
+In the case of a B5 character, we would see the struggle, the back and
+forth, and maybe it would be done, maybe it wouldn't, but there would be
+a REASON for it.  We see the process.  And I for one find that eminently
+more interesting.
+ 
+     Having action or make-believe violence in a show doesn't make it
+any less intelligent or humanistic than any other show.  When you start
+talking like that it's all kneejerk cliches and fuzzy thinking.  If it
+were true, then none of Shakespeare's dramas would have survived over the
+last several hundred years, and they *drip* with spilled blood.
+ 
+     Finally, I point you to two things: 1) the original Star Trek, w here
+Kirk says that yes, humans are a violent lot, we can and do kill; but we
+can decide, now and then, that we will not kill *today*.  That attitude
+is very much in line with B5.  So your problem isn't just with us, it's
+with TOS as well.  2) I refer you to a short story by Mark Twain called
+"The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg."  I won't tell you much more here than
+to read it.  It should be self-explanatory.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Sep 1994 05:57:43 -0400
+Subject: The Gathering did not win Hugo
+
+     Yep, that's pretty much what I said would happen.  And in my view,
+JP probably deserves the Hugo more than "The Gathering."  Next year, now,
+THAT is an open question....
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Sep 1994 19:11:29 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 & Violence: Light Years
+
+     By the way...I forgot the biggest irony of all in this discussion.
+The largest watchdog groups monitoring violence in television, according
+to their statements last season, rated the most violent shows on TV as
+TNG and DS9, along with Brisco County Jr.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Sep 1994 19:26:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: Year 2000??
+
+     "...the only way a B5/ST crossover could happen is in some sort of
+time travel/alternate timeline story...."
+ 
+     And over my cold, dead body.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Sep 1994 00:48:28 -0400
+Subject: THe pilot episode
+
+     I'm sure the pilot movie will show up again eventually, though I
+don't know when offhand.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Sep 1994 01:06:51 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  LaserDisc release
+
+     I suppose including the trailers would make for a good "compare and
+contrast" exercise in terms of what's actually IN the episode....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Sep 1994 01:16:52 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 & Violence: Light Years
+
+     Re: "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg," I will confess to being a
+bit of a Twain enthusiast/scholar (if I can abuse that latter term for a
+moment in a burst of unjustificed optimism).  I've read virtually
+everything the man ever wrote, up to and including his journals, which are
+fascinating on their own, albeit fragmented (for obvious reasos).  He
+even wrote many stories that could be considered SF/fantasy outside of
+"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court."  I find myself quoting him
+frequently.  The man knew how to turn a phrase and make a point.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Sep 1994 01:25:05 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 & Violence: Light Years
+
+     I have known many, MANY of the people who've written ST, and served
+on staff (specifically TNG at the moment), and this (the problem of perfect
+people) is how they describe the problem in creating stories with any
+degree of conflict.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Sep 1994 04:56:15 -0400
+Subject: Q:Intro Sequence
+
+     The window around Sinclair, Garibaldi and Ivanova is computer
+generated; the actors are not.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Sep 1994 04:56:22 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Introduction.
+
+     Yes, we'll definitely be redesigning the opening sequence visually
+as well as in the narrative.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Sep 1994 04:56:28 -0400
+Subject: Re: The hiring of Boxleitner
+
+     Alas, I wrote my note about Bruce around 1 or 2 in the morning,
+and I meant to balance out *intensity* with *intelligence*, but my
+brain saw the first letters i-n-t-e, and vapor-locked.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Sep 1994 17:47:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: The Gathering did not win
+
+     I think a large part of this debate will be determined by which
+episodes fall into the right dates for eligibility.  I think that, for
+instance, David Gerrold's "Believers" fell just on the other side of Hugo
+eligibility for this coming year.  Which means that (if I'm correct, and
+is someone could check that'd be great) only shows prior to that would be
+eligible.  The only real big ones in that bunch would be "And the Sky Full
+of Stars" and "Mind War."  Best bet may be to pick one of those two and
+focus there.
+ 
+     One interesting sidelight is that B5 is *very* popular in the UK,
+including Scotland, so it may have a fair chance.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+ 
+     (And the TNG finale isn't eligible this year, I think, having conme
+(come) in after the cutoff date.)
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Sep 1994 17:49:12 -0400
+Subject: JMS: UK Censorship - Chrysalis
+
+     Insofar as I know, there's only one scene that might cause them a
+problem for violence, but it's handled fairly discreetly...well, on
+second thought, there's two...but if they did get snipped, you wouldn't
+lose more than 20 seconds or so.  If this cost plot information or not
+would depend on how they edited it.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Sep 1994 17:49:19 -0400
+Subject: Re: He-Man (was Re: [B5] Liar
+
+     I once wrote, just for myself and for fun, the Ram Man Theme Song,
+to the tune of BONANZA: "Who is the man with the head of lead?  IT'S RAM
+MAN!  Who is as dense as a picket fence?  RAM MAN is his name!  Leaping
+here, bouncing there, jumping everywhere...."
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Sep 1994 17:49:25 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Slappers?
+
+     Yes, slappers = skin tabs, for introducing medication.  The ones in
+TKO had been stolen from B5 medsupplies.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Sep 1994 17:49:32 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Censorship
+
+     TKO's main importance is to the Ivanova arc, as she finally comes to
+terms with her father's death.  Do I have an opinion on C4's decision not
+to show TKO?
+ 
+     Absolutely.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Sep 1994 18:29:51 -0400
+Subject: jms: a few questions
+
+     As I'm told, Chrysalis will air the last week or so in October.  As
+for computer tech in 2258, it's something we're exploring for a story,
+Larry has an interesting idea or two on how to realize it visually, but
+it's hard to find something that's possibly accurate without making it
+godlike.  Still, we're trying...
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Sep 1994 18:29:57 -0400
+Subject: Re: You guys read Alfred Beste
+
+     The direction and intent and background of the Psi Corps is *very*
+different from Bester's "The Demolished Man."  What may cause some of
+the confusion is that when I decided to name the Psi Cop we'll be seeing,
+knowing of Alfie's work in the genre in general, and knowing that he was
+a close friend of Harlan's, I decided it would be a nice testimony to the
+man to name the Psi Cop Bester.  There's nothing beyond that.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Sep 1994 18:30:04 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Three quick questions...
+
+     No, actually, B2 was structured for maximum jarring effect, thus the
+sudden cuts back and forth, the sickly green light in B4...makes the
+person watching feel unexplainably anxious, which was a subliminal but
+definite intent.  So no, nothing much was cut.  And yes, eventually we
+will see the flip-side of the B4 story.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Sep 1994 18:44:58 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  Question
+
+     No, alas, Tech #1, Marianne Robertson has decided that she would
+like to travel next year with her husband Dick Robertson, and has some
+other personal plans in mind, and thus won't be back next season.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Sep 1994 18:45:04 -0400
+Subject: JMS (and all) : Reruns and Rew
+
+     Insofar as I know, the shows have been rerun in the same order in
+which they were originally broadcast.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Sep 1994 17:04:25 -0400
+Subject: Alien looking aliens
+
+     Bob Hoskins in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was talking to a cartoon
+that was supposed to be a cartoon; we were never expected to accept it as
+a real, live breathing creature.  We're so far doing one more major CGI
+critter as an alien for year two, but the rendering power required is
+absolutely MASSIVE.  (I'd also note that the budget for "Rabbit" was a LOT
+more than an average B5 episode.)
+ 
+     The problem, always, is having the alien interact with humans, not
+vice-versa.  You have two choices: a human in prosthetics, or essentially
+a puppet/animatronic face.  And the overall technology still isn't here
+yet to do that convincingly, up close, for television.  And if you want
+any real *emotion* from the character, you're going to have to have an
+actor inside.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Sep 1994 17:04:33 -0400
+Subject: VItW Part 1 - Another Question
+
+     Once removed from his place, Varn was able to lead them back to their
+shuttle.  It's not terribly dramatic, and I figured that was a fairly
+logical leap, so didn't feel the need to put in a scene which would just
+consist of VArn saying, "Left....now right...."
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Sep 1994 17:04:41 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Priority #1 question!
+
+     We always forward fan mail.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Sep 1994 17:04:52 -0400
+Subject: filming show despite ratings?
+
+     The only problem to shooting a show in case a network decides not to
+pursue it is where does one get $18 million or so per season in order to
+continue filming?  And if the ratings drop, how does one convince the
+stations to carry the show instead of higher rating series?
+ 
+     The B5 series will live or die on the ratings.  Fortunately, the last
+seven new episodes have continued the trend of increasing ratings, and we
+just went from #20 to #18 in the overall ratings for syndication, which
+is extremely good.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Sep 1994 03:48:30 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 & Violence: Light Years
+
+     "Ban guns and only criminals will have them" is one of those quick
+and easy catchphrases that's used to gloss over the details of any real
+problem.
+ 
+     And the problem at hand is that the majority of murders committed in
+this country are not committed by hardened (or even softened, or even
+lightly par-broiled and kneaded) criminals.  They are committed by average
+folks who one day get too wound up, too hot, too crazed, too frustrated,
+too depressed, and pick up a gun and shoot somebody...usually a spouse,
+or a competitor, or the local Post Office.  There have been cases where
+the person goes out, buys the gun, comes home and starts shooting.  This
+would be at least sometimes mitigated by a waiting period of a few days,
+during which sometimes tempers cool, or other options besides one's own
+death and the death of others become available.  (And how many times now
+have we seen news of a boyfriend or husband killing wife and kids and then
+turning the gun on himself?)
+ 
+     Most murders are acts of passion...and the "criminal" line simply
+doesn't wash there.  (Though certainly they're criminals *after* the
+fact.)  There was a NEWSWEEK or TIME magazine piece a while back, last
+year I believe, where they chronicled one week's worth of murders, and
+the majority of them are crimes of passion or suicides.
+ 
+     Yes, as you say, somebody can be killed with a baseball bat or a
+knife or a rock...but then you've got to *catch* them first.  And you can
+only do one at a time.  You can't spray a schoolyard with 50 teflon
+coated bullets in 30 seconds with a rock.  A knife is wonderfully
+inefficient.  A knife can cut and not kill, or even seriously wound you
+if it doesn't go deep enough; a bullet always goes deep enough, and if it
+doesn't blow through the other side, ends up bouncing around inside the
+body and puncturing internal organs as much as a foot from the point of
+entry.  Do that with a baseball bat.
+ 
+     My feelings on gun and gun ownership and crime are more or less as
+follows: ban assault weapons, they're good for nothing except killing other
+human beings in large numbers, you don't go squirrel hunting with an
+AK47...permit the ownership of rifles, shotguns, and handguns
+(non-automatic), but require permits, the same way you do for fishing or
+driving a car, and make sure that the person has to take X-hours of
+lessons in proper gun use, the way you practice for a driver's license; if
+you're going to own a gun, you should be trained to use it and use it
+efficiently...if someone commits a murder with a gun of any kind, throw
+the book at them.  I'm ambivilant about capital punishment, but I'm all
+for life imprisonment without possibility of parole.  Put more police on
+the streets and OUT OF THEIR CARS, let's see a return to community
+police who are known to the folks in the neighborhood.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Sep 1994 02:15:28 -0400
+Subject: JMS: How is a delegated story
+
+     In most cases, I work out the story fairly comprehensively, giving
+the writer a beginning/middle/end, and some of the characters.  In a few
+cases, it's less than that, a general direction and items which have to
+happen in that episode.  Very often it's in writing from me, ranging from
+a paragraph or two to a few pages.
+ 
+     Generally, in TV, this would mean that I would take shared story
+credit on the episode.  But there are no arbitrated credits on B5; the
+freelancer gets all the credit, and all the residuals, and rightly so.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Sep 1994 02:17:13 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Ad lib or not ad lib?
+
+     When it came time for that chant, nothing had been scripted; it was
+supposed to be a soft, under one's breath kind of chant.  Bill came and
+asked me and Larry if we had anything in mind.  We said no, whatever you
+decide is fine...and he ended up chanting his album cover.
+ 
+     Later...*much*...laater...when I discovered this, we discussed it at
+some length.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Sep 1994 02:18:58 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Re: B5 & Violence: Light
+
+     "B5 does respectfully acknowledge religion, and is therefore not as
+liable to get bit by this group."
+ 
+     Oh, they'll still gig us on violence; already have.  John Copeland,
+one of our producers, heard an NPR report a while back interviewing some
+rep of one of these pressure groups who complained about the violence;
+more will come.  And any group NOT represented will scream and yell
+because they think they're not being represented.  And given some other
+aspects of our show...oh, yeah, they'll come after us all right.
+ 
+     Where nothing exists, they'll just make it up.  When I was working
+with ABC on The Real Ghostbusters, a consulting group came in from one of
+these groups, to help the network avoid accidental satanic references, and
+to keep an eye on this stuff.  They gave the network execs their breakdown
+of the signs that a kid was getting into satanism.  Some of them (and
+this is verbatim): "He's curious.  He's sometimes sad.  He's easily
+pressured by his peers.  He's into heavy metal rock and roll.  He can
+sometimes be rebellious."
+ 
+     By their lights, those are guaranteed signs of satanism.
+ 
+     Not come after *us*...?  Oh, man....
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Sep 1994 02:19:09 -0400
+Subject: Re: You guys read Alfred Beste
+
+     I believe they are the same person, yes.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Sep 1994 03:10:02 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Minor Roles--Great Job!!
+
+     There are a number of security guard types we see frequently; one
+who is Asian, the dark-haired guy who we saw in "Sky" that you note (and
+who we also have seen elsewhere, including the picket crashers in "By
+Any Means"), and Lou Welch, who shows up from time to time, and continues
+into the next season.  They all continue to show up.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Sep 1994 01:34:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: He-Man (was Re: [B5] Liar
+
+     "This from the man who claims to hate filk."
+ 
+     Hey...I was young and stupid...now I'm older....
+ 
+                                                              ...and stupid.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Sep 1994 03:51:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: The hiring of Boxleitner
+
+     "Sounds like a forumla to really PO the Minbari."
+ 
+     Yup.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Sep 1994 03:51:53 -0400
+Subject: Why use real paper?
+
+     Paper (or synthetics) is light, foldable, portable, disposable and
+recycleable.  I remember being told that the coming of computers would
+put an end to paper...come on by my office someday...I have MORE paper
+and MORE drafts lying around now than when I was working on a typewriter.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Sep 1994 03:52:03 -0400
+Subject: religion
+
+     "I haven't seen any references to Jung yet."
+ 
+     Don't be silly...everyone on my show is jung at heart....
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Sep 1994 17:29:54 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: B5 baseball caps
+
+      Well, see, here's the problem: yes, Creation licensed some stuff
+from us, including the creation (so to speak) of B5 baseball caps.  So
+far, so good.
+ 
+      One day, about a week or so ago, John Copeland comes into my
+office with one of these caps, purchased at a Creation store in
+Glendale.  Shows it to me.  The stitching ain't great (they're supposed
+to run these things past me, and I didn't see this item), but the cap is
+more or less okay, I don't see why he's smiling.
+ 
+      Then the label attached to the cap swings out, and hangs in front
+of my eyes.  OFFICIAL LICENSED PRODUCT PARAMOUNT TELEVISION.
+ 
+      I went ballistic, Warners went ballistic, the caps were yanked out
+of the stores so fast they left a doppler trail behind them...so I don't
+know now if they'll be around for sale or not.  If so, I doubt very much
+that you'll see a Paramount tag on them.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Sep 1994 17:30:08 -0400
+Subject: Re: Russian
+
+     Just FYI...Marianne Robertson, Tech #1, was Swedish, not Russian.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Sep 1994 18:12:58 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Opening sequence
+
+      Re: the "last" of the Babylon Stations...y'all might want to bear
+in mind the syntax of the narration.  It speaks of B5 in the *past
+tense*.  "Bablyon 5 WAS the last of the Babylon stations...it WAS the
+dawn of the third age of mankind."  The narration is the voice of future
+history, the storyteller, long after the fact, spinning for us the tale
+of the last of the Babylon stations.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Sep 1994 18:18:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 T-Shirts
+
+     The shirst are definitely legit.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Sep 1994 18:20:13 -0400
+Subject: Bruce Boxleitner's Credits
+
+     There's not much I can do about outside costumes at the moment;
+they haven't been codified into designs that we can release yet.  Ann
+Bruice, our costumer, plans to put it all together eventually, but not
+for a bit yet.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Sep 1994 19:28:26 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 reminds me of...
+
+     I wish it were true about Twin Peaks having an overall story that
+they had planned out prior to filming.  Just recently, though, I had
+meetings with a couple of main writers/story editors on the show, and
+they said, yeah, they were making it all up as they went, they really
+didn't have a clue where it was going.  There was a general sort of theme,
+but as for having the story plotted out...apparently not.  Needless to
+say, I was vastly disappointed...I loved that show...still do, actually,
+even knowing this.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Sep 1994 03:37:29 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Warner Bros. Stores
+
+     In general, WB doesn't sell many TV series items through the stores;
+and only sometimes via catalog.  There are several WB shows that aren't
+represented at all.  (And B5 isn't produced by WB, it'san independent
+production aired on a network partly owned by WB, and that's a vital
+distinction to remember.)
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Sep 1994 17:56:29 -0400
+Subject: Re: WE WON THE EMMY FOR BEST M
+
+     The Special Effects Emmy generally reflects the work over the course
+of a season.  TNG submitted something like 6-8 episodes, ditto with other
+series.  Through a situation best left unexamined, only one B5 was
+submitted, "Sky," whereas "Mind War," also eligible, was not submitted.
+There wasn't enough to work from to make the determination to give B5 th3
+(the) award (there are no nominations in this category, only 3-4 juried
+awards).  This will be corrected next season.  In spades.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Sep 1994 18:03:28 -0400
+Subject: JMS, Artistic control in show
+
+    I think that the PRIMARY reason that B5 is as good as it has been is
+that we've been pretty much left to our own devices without much in the
+way of interference from the studio/network.  The day a studio begins
+messing around with a show is when it pretty much becomes doomed.  I don't
+see WB so much meddling with Chris' vision of the music as trying to find
+the best distributer...it's the *result* of that decision that then affects
+the creative product.  Certainly, if it were me, I'd go with Chris.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Sep 1994 00:43:19 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Three quick question
+
+     By the "flip side" of stories I was referring to the other side of
+events.  I.e., in episode one, Sinclair is reassigned, but we hear about
+this mainly when he's away.  In the comic, we'll see where he is, and
+see his reaction to what's going on.  In B-squared, we saw the present
+events in the vanishment of B4; in a future episode, we'll actually see
+our characters make the decision to go back in time and yank B4 forward,
+what went wrong, and so on.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Sep 1994 15:51:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Ready to puke?
+
+     The VOYAGER pilot is *$23 million*?!
+ 
+     The BABYLON 5 pilot was $3.5 million.
+ 
+     With $23 million, we could make 1.3 SEASONS of B5.  And have a bit
+of money left over for a wrap party.
+ 
+     Amazing....
+ 
+                         jm(who keeps thinking of what he could do with that)s
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Sep 1994 15:51:35 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Star wheel
+
+     Unfortunately, it would have to be a HUGE starwheel, beyond a
+manageable size; and wiring the lights at that range would be a problem,
+and the noise factor during shooting would be a pain.  I'm afraid that
+for now, it is what it is.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Sep 1994 16:19:00 -0400
+Subject: Ratings of PTEN
+
+     I think we're quite a bit ahead of Kung Fu just now....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Sep 1994 00:45:24 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Scripts available?
+
+     We're in the process of setting up some kind of fan liaison office,
+which would do some limited sales stuff, just enough to pay its own
+way.  Should this come about, we'll sell some of the B5 scripts through
+this office.  (One difference between us and ST is that we will pay the
+freelance writers a *royalty* on any scripts of theirs we sell.)  But
+this is still in the works.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Sep 1994 05:11:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Ready to puke?
+
+     By rounding it to 1.3 seasons, the number is still inexact; certainly
+we make the show for less than $1 million per episode.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Sep 1994 05:11:36 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Star wheel
+
+     If we put a blue screen behind the window, and did that, given that
+we tend to have long scenes in front of it, every frame of starfield has
+to be rendered, cut in digitally...it's a *very* time consuming process,
+and would detract from Ron & Co. doing the other EFX we use in the show.
+We don't have the ability to throw money at everything here.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Sep 1994 17:04:25 -0400
+Subject: Alien looking aliens
+
+     Bob Hoskins in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was talking to a cartoon
+that was supposed to be a cartoon; we were never expected to accept it as
+a real, live breathing creature.  We're so far doing one more major CGI
+critter as an alien for year two, but the rendering power required is
+absolutely MASSIVE.  (I'd also note that the budget for "Rabbit" was a LOT
+more than an average B5 episode.)
+
+     The problem, always, is having the alien interact with humans, not
+vice-versa.  You have two choices: a human in prosthetics, or essentially
+a puppet/animatronic face.  And the overall technology still isn't here
+yet to do that convincingly, up close, for television.  And if you want
+any real *emotion* from the character, you're going to have to have an
+actor inside.
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Sep 1994 17:04:33 -0400
+Subject: VItW Part 1 - Another Question
+
+     Once removed from his place, Varn was able to lead them back to their
+shuttle.  It's not terribly dramatic, and I figured that was a fairly
+logical leap, so didn't feel the need to put in a scene which would just
+consist of VArn saying, "Left....now right...."
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Sep 1994 17:04:41 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Priority #1 question!
+
+     We always forward fan mail.
+
+	                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Sep 1994 17:04:52 -0400
+Subject: filming show despite ratings?
+
+     The only problem to shooting a show in case a network decides not to
+pursue it is where does one get $18 million or so per season in order to
+continue filming?  And if the ratings drop, how does one convince the
+stations to carry the show instead of higher rating series?
+
+     The B5 series will live or die on the ratings.  Fortunately, the last
+seven new episodes have continued the trend of increasing ratings, and we
+just went from #20 to #18 in the overall ratings for syndication, which
+is extremely good.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Sep 1994 21:16:32 -0400
+Subject: Re: Sci-fi lunacy!!
+
+     I want to be there when someone informs Mr. Pavlocik that the new
+Voyager series has contracted with Amblin' Imaging to do all of its space
+effects (except for the main ship) with CGI by way of Amigas/Toasters.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Sep 1994 06:41:32 -0400
+Subject: # of aliens
+
+     What you describe is already what we're doing, deciding when a new
+races is better than one of our others.  Logically speaking, in a sector
+of space as massive as what we're talking about, you're going to have
+literally *hundreds* of worlds, possibly thousands, that have sentient
+life.  (I forget now the specific number of such worlds advanced by the
+Drake equation, but it's on the level of millions of such worlds in our
+galaxy alone.)  You'd also have subset worlds; a world controlled by the
+Centauri, for instance, whose inhabitants are not themseles Centauri, but
+some other race.  (Or species, more accurately.)
+
+     The pak'ma'ra (the carrion eaters) weren't just introduced for that
+one episode ("Legacies"), they have been seen before and since, starting
+with the very first episode.  Deathwalker and Varn ("Deathwalker" and
+"Voice") were both the last of their kind, or close to it in the latter
+case, so logically you couldn't have it be one of the previously seen
+races.  So that only leaves two or three that we've brought in in the
+course of a season.
+
+     We knew that when all was said and done, we wanted a minimum of 20
+or so races who would be available to us at all times, and now we've got
+those.  We've just finished a 35 page breakdown of each race's history,
+culture, language, politics, reproductive mechanisms and other areas for
+in-house distribution.  Most alien stuff will come out of this group,
+unless, again, there's a specific reason for bringing in a new one that
+would compromise the story otherwise.  (For instance, the Drazi play a
+role in several episodes next season.)
+
+     We're not just throwing them in helter-skelter; we wanted to build up
+a solid "repertory group" of diverse aliens, and now we've got that.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Sep 1994 06:41:48 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Ready to puke?
+
+     Virtually ALL dramatic series cost at or above the $1 million mark.
+A show as simple and cost effective as "Murder, She Wrote," without any
+CGI or models or big efx, with recurring cast and sets and not a lot of
+location shooting, cost around $1.2 million per episode.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Sep 1994 06:42:03 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Ready to puke?
+
+     Re: a lot of sets costing $23 million....we have 19 standing sets
+and 55 or so swing sets, on only our series budget and the pilot ($3.3
+million) movie.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Sep 1994 06:43:44 -0400
+Subject: Mind of the [Great] Maker
+
+     Marc: when being interviewed about my presence on the nets, some
+reporter will invariably work his or her way around to the question,
+"Yeah, but what do YOU get out of it?"  The answer to that could not be
+expressed any better than in my response to your analysis.  One of the
+wonders of being on the nets is that from time to time one will encounter
+a cogent, reasoned, thoughtful and perceptive analysis that comes at
+one's own creation from a totally unexpected direction, casting it in a
+new light.  Yours was such a message.  Many thanks.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Sep 1994 23:02:04 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Ready to puke?
+
+     Actually, my point was that we have *more* sets than just about any
+other SF series I can think of, including DS9.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Sep 1994 01:05:02 -0400
+Subject: Re: Sci-fi lunacy!!
+
+     Excuse me, Jason, but please explain to me what the fuck you're
+talking about re: "net-worship" after the pilot?  I got broasted, roasted
+and toasted here on Internet.  I got raked over every conceivable coal
+you can think of, and a couple you can't.  And there's plenty of criticism
+to go around.  If you didn't see some of it, that's your problem, that
+doesn't mean it wasn't there.  Say what you want, but don't distort the
+historical record to make a totally fallacious point.  I think you're
+seeing what you want to see, or somehow the discussion is pushing some
+button of yours that's got *nothing* to do with me.  If the conversation
+has gotten more positive since the series has come on, it's because the
+show has gotten better.  These people have no personal history with me,
+we didn't go to high school together, nobody here owes anybody money...if
+the show stunk, they'd say so.  (And those that think it does, do.)
+
+     I'm sorry, but on this one point you are singularly, 100% deadass
+wrong.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Sep 1994 21:06:33 -0400
+Subject: Re: Bored of Trek, try B5!
+
+     Correct, Gregory.  One of the things we learned from the pilot was
+that we shoved too much information at people too fast.  So I deliberately
+held back a lot of arc stuff in the beginning of the series, allowing
+people to move gradually into the B5 universe, learn more about it, and
+THEN start whapping them with the arc.  It isn't until "Mind War" and
+"Sky" that we really begin cranking the arc.
+
+                                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Sep 1994 21:06:46 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS, how long do we have
+
+     How long until: organic tech a la Infection (six months); healing
+machine (two months); the planet (now being adjusted slightly; within a
+year, give or take); the triluminary (one month); a vorlon (under one
+year); a shadow (one month).
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Sep 1994 23:02:23 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: novel serialization /
+
+     Doing a story in weekly arcs is really the only way to do it in what
+is a standard dramatic TV format, airing every 7 days.  On another level,
+the episodes aren't as tightly linked as a novel, because if so, then you
+couldn't afford to miss even one of them.  We try to be more flexible.
+
+     And loved "Tales from the City."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Sep 1994 17:39:10 -0400
+Subject: SQ
+
+     The dipping of a telepath into a normal's mind randomly, the kind
+of invasion of privacy you see on SQ, is *exactly* why rules were set in
+place for B5 telepaths.  Otherwise you've got incredible deus ex machina
+problems, and nobody has any right to privacy.  What's the difference
+between peeking into someone's mind without permission, which they seem
+to have no problem with, and peeking in their door while they're having
+sex?  They're both incredible violations of privacy.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Sep 1994 02:50:37 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Please read (was Re: This
+
+     Sorry, Allen, I have not seen a lot of facts on the other side of
+this issue (gun control); I have seen only rhetoric and fuzzy logic and
+a complete mischaracterization of my original message, including the one
+I'm responding to now.  Everybody characterized this as a "ban guns"
+argument, which it never was; I indicated the kinds of guns that I felt
+were appropriate, and those that I had a problem with from a logical
+perspective.
+
+     I haven't said anything more on the subject because, frankly, it's
+pointless; gun control, like abortion, is a topic that just goes on and on
+forever, each side stating and restating their positions and no one really
+ever changing their mind.  I've been on the nets too long, and seen this
+one too many times, to fall into this trap again.  I said what I believed,
+and what I still believe, and see no need for an act of contrition.  You
+seem to operate under the apprehension that I didn't fully investigate
+the issue, and if I just looked at the "facts" you and others present,
+the scales would fall from my eyes like Saul, and I would suddenly come
+around to your point of view.  Sorry, I *have* investigated the issue, and
+my feelings on the issue are as stated.  I did not see one new element in
+the discussion that I have not read a thousand times before elsewhere.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Sep 1994 08:46:27 -0400
+Subject: Re: SQ
+
+     From the way it was played, it seemed that the telepathy was a
+conscious, active decision (which reconciles with what was shown last
+season about telepaths in SQ).
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Sep 1994 21:49:10 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Please Make B5 More L
+
+    My story editor, Larry DiTillio, explained to me that the acronym in
+SeaQuest DSV stands for Doesn't Survive Viewing....
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Sep 1994 21:49:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: SQ
+
+     Joshua...no one has ever said anything about Paramount bugging
+devices or anything else.  The Babylon 5 pilot screenplay, bible, series
+treatment, and a flock of story premises was given to Paramount
+Television in 1989, where it was reviewed and discussed in depth.  Are
+we clear on this distinction now?  (Oh, yeah, also the extensive full
+color artwork was submitted with it.)
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Sep 1994 18:21:41 -0400
+Subject: [JMS+Radiophiles] Last resort
+
+     I have always been a MAJOR fan of radio drama, and have even
+written for the field (Alien Worlds, Mutual Radio Theater, others); also,
+many of those whose works influenced me came out of radio (Norman Corwin,
+Arch Oboler, Rod Serling).  I love dialogue, and because of the rather
+intricate overall story, this is definitely an information-intensive
+show, which is certainly like radio drama.  I also like trying to make
+pictures out of words, which is also out of that tradition, and trying to
+blend that with the visuals.
+
+     On another level, though, Linda Ellerbee once commented that if you
+could walk into another room and, listening to the TV, follow the story,
+it isn't TV, it's radio.  TV should take fullest advantage of the visual
+medium, and that's something that I'm working more on this season, now
+that we've established the core of the B5 universe over the first
+season, and the information required for that.  More and more scenes
+without dialogue, or a minimum of dialogue, to balance it all out.  It's
+really a learning process, every day.  I've written over 125 produced
+episodes of TV, for some of the highest rated shows around...and I still
+feel like I'm just beginning to learn how to write even half-decently.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Sep 1994 18:21:51 -0400
+Subject: Question: Why only one camera
+
+     All shows (including ours) sometimes use two cameras (referred to as
+the A and B cameras).  Adding a second camera costs money, because you
+now also need a second camera operator to run it, second focus pullers,
+dolly guys, on and on.  In general, all of your main footage (masters,
+close-ups and the rest) are always shot with the A camera *anyway*, with
+the B camera usually used for group reactions or coverage in action scenes.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Sep 1994 18:31:31 -0400
+Subject: A "promotion" for Ivanova??
+
+     *sigh*...yes, Ivanova has always been second in command; she gets
+promoted to Commander rank under Captain Sheridan.  TVG goofed.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Sep 1994 18:31:43 -0400
+Subject: To JMS: thanks for honoring As
+
+     You're most definitely welcome; it was something we did to honor
+Asimov, who determined the shape of this genre for many writers.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Sep 1994 18:33:17 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Videos?
+
+     Regular aspect ratio tapes should begin showing up this winter;
+letterboxed laserdisks to follow probably in the spring.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Sep 1994 07:00:21 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Thanks
+
+     Two responses: on your B5 comments...thanks, much appreciated.
+
+     Regarding the new Twilight Zone...I saw the same article you did on
+why MGM chose to make one more season, to have enough to syndicate, and
+was *furious* by it.  Yeah, MGM did it because if they *didn't*, there
+wouldn't be enough episodes to syndicate, and they would never again see
+the light of day.  The article seemed to make a big deal out of the idea
+that they were doing this so they could make some of their money back.
+
+     Well (and this isn't directed at you, as much as the article), I
+hate to break anybody's bubble, but NONE of the studios produce TV series
+because they think they're doing something good for the commonweal.  They
+do so because they think the show will make money for them.  It's then up
+to the writers and producers to try and make it something MORE than that.
+
+     The article was skewed and biased and snotty, and I'm *still* pissed
+off about it.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Sep 1994 15:57:30 -0400
+Subject: Don't Unveil Kosh
+
+     I think it would be profoundly unfair to viewers to keept hem
+(oops, keep them) hanging around for more than one more season waiting
+to see a Vorlon.  Though I understand and see your point.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Sep 1994 16:24:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 & DS9: Off to War
+
+     To Toby Papa Funk: "I'm a-twitter."
+
+     I think there's a typo there; given your insulting tone to the
+whole of this group, I think next time you write this you need to leave
+off the last three letters.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Sep 1994 16:25:02 -0400
+Subject: B5 Comic - When Available?
+
+     Should be out late November/early December.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Sep 1994 17:11:50 -0400
+Subject: Why does B5 exist?
+
+     B1-3 were sabotaged very early into production, so the cost was less
+than the inconvenience.  B4 was where they dumped all the money, and it
+was very iffy if there'd be a 5, until the Minbari came up to the plate
+and offered to help finance it.  For Earth, which was almost wiped out in
+the war, it's more a matter of self-preservation.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Sep 1994 02:04:20 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Questions about the B5 un
+
+     I've always said that there's a side story that could follow the 5
+year B5 storyline, which takes place in the B5 universe, and follows on
+the heels of the events in B5...but who knows if that would happen?
+
+     The one thing I would hate is for B5 to become any kind of so-called
+"franchise."  Because as soon as that happens, you're prevented from making
+any changes, from doing anything that might startle people, cutting into
+the piggy-bank.  Once that happens, you're dead.
+
+     I've also made no secret of my sense that, should B5 run its full
+five year course (and assuming the side-story doesn't go, which I would
+not exactly count on)...I plan to get out of TV.  By that point, I would
+have said pretty much everything I want to say in TV, and it's time to
+get out, buy a small house somewhere outside London, and spend the rest
+of my years writing novels, which is kinda where this all began.  (I've
+had 2 novels, 1 anthology, and a bunch of short stories published, as
+well as 500 or so articles.)
+
+     I never got into this to make a ***FRANCHISE***, and never really
+intended to become an executive producer.  I just don't like being
+rewritten...so I climbed higher, until finally there was nobody over me
+messing with my scripts.  Outside of the B5 reality, if someone came to
+me and offered me *staff writer* on a show -- the lowest position in the
+TV totem pole -- but with the guarantee that I wouldn't be rewritten, they
+wouldn't change the words...I'd take it in a hot second.  I'm here, now,
+strictly out of self-defense.
+
+     Two valuable social skills are knowing when to enter a room, and when
+to leave a room.  At some point, you have to get out or become something
+you don't want to become.  I've never really been part of the Hollywood
+SYSTEM, and have no desire to do so.
+
+     In "The Velvet Alley," Rod Serling wrote of a young advertising writer
+who becomes a success at writing television.  At one point, the character
+says (paraphrased from memory): "Here's the trap...in TV they pay you lots
+of money for what you do...then, slowly, your standard of living rises
+until you *need* that constant flow to stay at that level.  Then...they
+threaten to take it away from you if you don't behave.  And THAT'S when
+they've got you."
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Sep 1994 00:30:35 -0400
+Subject: Re: To JMS: thanks for honorin
+
+     The reference in "By Any Means" is to Matewan, where a terrible
+labor strike took place (and a film was made about it); the other is
+Matawan, which is where I lived for a while, but the reference is to the
+former, not the latter.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Sep 1994 00:30:39 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: "And The Sky Full of
+
+     The wisp of smoke is a wisp of smoke, nothing more important than
+that.  If something living in hyperspace bothers you...good, it should.
+The Psi Corps article is in frame for a reason.  Yes, we sometimes put
+additional or important information in the background, but I don't think
+we can be fair and assume that everyone sees it, so if you don't see it
+in one place, it's stated out loud later on...the background stuff is to
+give the alert viewer a fighting chance to guess some stuff BEFORE it
+happens; when stuff DOES finally happen, all the required information is
+supplied at that time.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Sep 1994 00:30:42 -0400
+Subject: Story arc question
+
+     "Mind War" is important to the arc because Psi Corps, and certain
+aspects of it, is important to the arc.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Sep 1994 18:30:49 -0400
+Subject: Candles And Stars in Babylon S
+
+     The notion of candles and stars in your note (Jason) would also
+seem to apply, for instance, to the role of Draal in "Voice."
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Sep 1994 18:43:02 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Earthdome question
+
+     Earthdome is in what was once Geneva, and is a domed city similar to
+some of what's done on Mars, though here it's to protect the city from
+outside threat.  We mainly hear about it because that's where B5's
+political, military and social ties are, but I'd like to expand outside of
+that...hear what's new in New York, that sort of thing (though we have
+heard references to the Russian Consortium, and to poor old San Diego...).
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Sep 1994 18:44:26 -0400
+Subject: Re: A "promotion" for Ivanova?
+
+     Major Krantz wasn't so much in charge of B4 as he was (as noted in
+dialogue) assigned to oversee the final stages of construction.  His job
+was to get the station finished, then turn it over to someone else to
+run.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Sep 1994 19:14:01 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 & DS9: Off to War
+
+     The working name for the sixth race is the Shadowmen.
+
+     And, as you note, one of things that I like to play with is the
+layering of ambiguity.  Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that
+we set up two sides: Shadowmen vs. Vorlons, which looks like evil vs.
+good.  Fundamentally, I would find that boring.  What you would then have
+to do is get into WHY they're doing what they do, and HOW they're doing
+what they do.
+
+     There is, for instance, the "good" that says, "We know what's best
+for you, we'll protect you, nurture you, but you'll do it our way, and
+we'll keep you away from ideas and beliefs you shouldn't be exposed to."
+Okay, maybe that fits one definition of good...but is it?
+
+     On the flip side, for instance, there's the "bad" that says "There
+must be conflict and death, because it's only through conflict and death
+that we grow stronger, that we can eventually create an ordered
+universe.  The gene pool must be kept strong.  To do that, there must be
+war and strife and death."  Okay, maybe that fits the definition of evil,
+but is it?
+
+     The key, again and always, is that nothing is what it seems on
+Babylon 5.  And even if it looks like it IS what it is, you have to look
+at WHY it is what it is...and maybe at that point it isn't.
+
+     One of the things about this show is that you see as much as you're
+willing to see.  You can gloss over it, say, "Okay, these are the good
+guys, these are the bad guys."  But the closer you look, the more you see
+the shades.  I imagine when the Shadowmen are more fully revealed, some
+folks'll think we're going for a basic good/evil conflict...but believe
+me, there's a hell of a lot more involved in it than that.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Sep 1994 19:14:05 -0400
+Subject: Next on Geraldo-- Is Morden Re
+
+     Morden tried to find out what the ambassadors would like.  Morden
+arranged to rescue an important Centauri artifact.  Morden helped wipe out
+the crooks.  Morden saved Londo's career, and asked for nothing in return.
+
+     And yet we get the sense that Morden is a bad guy.
+
+     Kosh destroys our chance for immortality.  Refuses to get involved
+in the affairs of others.  Is plainly studying us.  Terrorizes one of our
+main characters, Talia, for unknown reasons.
+
+     And yet we get the sense that Kosh is a good guy.
+
+     If anyone should ask, I really *love* writing this show....
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Sep 1994 19:30:16 -0400
+Subject: Morden = Rod Serling?
+
+     You noticed that too, huh?  Surprise me, too.  We'd cast him in the
+part of Morden, then the first day's dailies come in, and his stance, his
+manner, the way he looks...we all looked at the TV and said, more or less
+at once, "Holy shit, it's Rod Serling!"
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Sep 1994 19:30:19 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 acknowledging religion
+
+     "...you're claiming that an *atheist* is proselytizing for judaism."
+
+     Hey, it's a new organization, haven't you heard?  Atheists for Yahweh.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Sep 1994 05:54:31 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS (part III)  More Neve
+
+     We'll see more on Talia's additional talents in year two.
+
+     Yes, that is a triluminary on the grey council staff in "Sky."
+
+     No current plans for Ben Zayn to reprise.
+
+     Did I say something about the development of psi talent...?
+
+     The rest will have to wait.
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Sep 1994 19:37:35 -0400
+Subject: info, was Re: B5 & DS9: Off to
+
+     Correction: Jeri Taylor isn't full-time on DS9; she ran TNG, and is
+now co-running Voyager, which she co-created.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Sep 1994 19:37:40 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS (part III)  More
+
+     Ironheart was created, as one of many reasons, to exemplify a problem
+that is growing within Psi Corps.  There will be other symptoms, though
+not as grand as that one.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Sep 1994 20:39:16 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Origin of name Giribaldi
+
+     Garibaldi was nameed after the famous Italian war hero of the same
+name.
+
+	                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Sep 1994 20:43:27 -0400
+Subject: Los Angeles losing Babylon-5 (
+
+     The Sunday 11 p.m. rerun has been moved to Saturday nights at
+midnight.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Sep 1994 20:43:36 -0400
+Subject: How is Claudia?
+
+     Thanks; Ivanova's a lot of fun to write for. Re: Claudia...she's
+up and running around, though still wearing her cast.  We worked it into
+the script following the one she was shooting when it happened, and shot
+around her for the balance of that.  It's come up in a total of two
+episodes in dialogue, but otherwise hasn't affected the show; she's been
+great about it.
+
+	                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Sep 1994 04:50:59 -0400
+Subject: Loscon Babylon 5 Presentation
+
+     Well, I'm certainly glad to hear about the B5 presentation being
+scheduled for that Sunday; it's the first I'd heard of it.  I hadn't been
+notified or invited prior to this.  (Though in fairness, just after I
+read this here, I found a note on CIS from Lyon doing just that.)  In any
+event...yes, I'll be there.
+
+	                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Sep 1994 05:05:52 -0400
+Subject: Re: Morden = Rod Serling?
+
+     His name is in the credits; it's Ed Wasser.
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Sep 1994 02:47:25 -0400
+Subject: ATT JMS : Question on Rules...
+
+     Actor suggestions are fine.  As for Chrysalis, there's about 8
+to 10 days in "story time" between it and the events in "Points."  The
+next few shows track in real-time.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Sep 1994 05:50:25 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Seen at a convention....
+
+     Insofar as I know, those are bogus items.  All such items must go
+through my office for approval, and no one's sent those through yet.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Sep 1994 05:50:35 -0400
+Subject: UK: B5 ratings
+
+     There's some chance that I may be in London within a week or so of
+"Chrysalis" airing there.  Anything I should know about, any London
+conventions?  How's the weather out there this time of year (October)?
+Anything doing in London that's worth checking out?  (Plays in
+particular.)
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Sep 1994 05:50:44 -0400
+Subject: How do you write for B5?
+
+     I appreciate your interest; at this time, we're fully booked on
+scripts for B5.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Sep 1994 10:01:58 -0400
+Subject: Truth on Ohare <offical>
+
+     Mellissa Gilbert didn't state things exactly right, and was being
+provoked by Stern to say something controversial.  O'Hare already is
+slated to appear later in season one, so that alone takes care of the
+issue.  I'd also suggest the current Starlog interview with Michael,
+which also confirms stuff.
+
+     (Oops, typo above, I meant to type later in season *two*.)
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Sep 1994 01:01:23 -0400
+Subject: Re: Truth on Ohare <offical>
+
+     Michael O'Hare had *absolutely* no such "in-first-episode, so in for
+all" clause in his contract.  Not only that, but insofar as I know such
+clauses don't *exist* in ANY SAG contract.  This in particular is one of
+the most astonishingly stupid things I've heard in ages.  We gave some
+serious thought to having Michael in the first episode, except as I got
+into the story, it really slowed things down...and I'm kinda partial to
+mysteries.  I like *doing* something...and then a bit down the road you
+find out what it's all about.  (Like this is news to anyone here.)
+
+     And Sinclair *does* appear later on this season.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Sep 1994 01:01:42 -0400
+Subject: Effect of Earth-Minbari War on
+
+     You don't need to cut off every limb if you cut off the head.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Sep 1994 01:02:01 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Babylon 5 and DSS!
+
+     I'll pass it along, but hey, if people listened to me, you think
+we'd have to wait until October 24th to see "Chrysalis"....?
+
+	                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Sep 1994 01:02:25 -0400
+Subject: JMS: what other kinds of warsh
+
+     At various points I think you'll probably see all those various
+classes of ships.
+
+	                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Sep 1994 23:09:31 -0400
+Subject: JMS: the common cold?
+
+     Yeah, the common cold is still around.  Have been playing around for
+a while now with a story using that.  We'll see.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
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+===========================================================================
+| This text is compiled from posts by J. Michael Straczynski on the Usenet
+| group rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.  This document contains material Copyright
+| 1994 J. Michael Straczynski.  He has given permission for his words to be
+| redistributed online, as long as they are marked as being copyright JMS.
+| This document, as well as other Babylon-5 related material, is available
+| by anonymous FTP at ftp.hyperion.com.
+===========================================================================
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Oct 1994 01:00:50 -0400
+Subject: ***[JMS]*** Grail question, an
+
+     What is Sinclair seeking?  What are we *all* seeking?  Answers,
+and purpose, and the second half of the sentence beginning with the
+word "Why."
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Oct 1994 05:53:24 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Do a short bit in B5.
+
+     As much as fans of the show have asked for me to do a cameo on the
+show...I can't.  For starters, on many levels I'm making the show for
+myself...and if I see me up on the screen, it blows the illusion.  For
+another, I've always thought it a bush-league thing to do; I'm a *writer*,
+I work behind the scenes, as should be; when I see somebody like John
+Landis or Mick Garris sticking their face in on camera, I can only shake
+my head, and refuse to do the same.  It turns the exercise into a game
+of cutes.
+
+     Finally...I've seen me.  Ehhh.  Tell you the truth, most folks who
+finally meet me generally conclude that there's far less to me than meets
+the eye.  Besides...the cost in replacement camera lenses would be simply
+astronomical.
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Oct 1994 05:53:37 -0400
+Subject: Commander Sinclair's middle in
+
+     Sinclair's middle name is David.
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Oct 1994 05:55:09 -0400
+Subject: ???????
+
+     "jms, what do YOU want?"
+
+     I'll have fries with that.
+
+	                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Oct 1994 05:56:41 -0400
+Subject: Star Trek SPOILERS: Things tha
+
+     Two items: 1) you will never see an episode of B5 which sets up all
+kinds of cool conflicts, only to learn it was all a dream.  2) In addition
+to your comment about stations having to buy TNG and DS9 to get Voyager,
+word keeps floating around that if stations want Voyager, they can't take
+B5.  Interesting, huh?
+
+	                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Oct 1994 05:56:51 -0400
+Subject: Ratings: DS9 vs. B5
+
+     I'm not sure what I feel about a head-to-head DS9-B5 deal over in
+your part of the world; I don't think it's necessary, and may be less than
+constructive.  But I've always said, let the marketplace decide.  Meanwhile
+we'll keep telling the best stories we can, and hope for the best.
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Oct 1994 05:57:00 -0400
+Subject: Jeffrey Sinclair
+
+     It's spelled Jeffrey.  Jeffrey David Sinclair.
+
+     And thanks for the comments on the TZ book.  It's something very
+close to my heart....
+
+	                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Oct 1994 19:29:52 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Does it cost more to repl
+
+     The cost of running B5 is the same if once or twice per week; some
+stations like to get a bigger rating for airing it once a night, than
+splitting it over two nights.  (National sponsors like the combined
+rating; local stations can only sell according to what they get in their
+individual hours.)
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Oct 1994 19:31:31 -0400
+Subject: JMS: New Jerusalem?
+
+     New Jerusalem is a planet; there's a side-story about it that I'm
+contemplating getting into, so don't want to blow it here.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Oct 1994 21:03:20 -0400
+Subject: B5 storyline question...
+
+     There's the sense that A, B and sometimes C stories in TV should
+intersect.  My attitude: sometimes yes, sometimes no.  Depends on if you
+look at this as a real place or not, as opposed to a thematic exercise.
+What I go through in the course of a day has nothing to do with what
+happens to Larry DiTillio across town, except and unless it involves our
+mutual work.  Sometimes, as in "Quality," the stories feel like they
+resonate, and can be used to illustrate one another, and so they're
+linked.  In others, what I'm striving for is a sense of a "day in thed
+(the) life" of Babylon 5.  The one kind of story is neither better nor
+worse than the other, they're simply different.  One may like one more
+than the other, but to say they're "better" plots is just silly.  There's
+NO padding in this show, no stories put in to fill out time; just stories
+that we want to tell, period.
+
+	                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Oct 1994 02:04:56 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Please don't ever do this
+
+     The two most overdone types of stories are "it was all a dream" and
+"it was all a simulation to test humans."  What I gather is that this
+story was BOTH.  Be assured...you won't see any episode of B5 in which
+it's all a dream unless you know, in advance, that it's a dream...it won't
+be a bail-out clause later.  (I mention this only because there's one
+episode I'm playing with where a character is injured, and dreaming, and
+so we see the dream going on, but again, we'd know that going in.)  I
+think the other approach is just cheating the audience.
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Oct 1994 02:05:05 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Grail Continuity Error?
+
+     Re: missing cords................................eeek!
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Oct 1994 06:17:54 -0400
+Subject: Re: Star Trek SPOILERS:
+
+     I do not recommend doing ANYTHING WHATSOEVER to Paramount, and would
+urge everyone to maintain the same stance.  Let the market decide what
+happens; let the best show win (if you believe in competition) or let both
+shows win.  Leave it be.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Oct 1994 06:55:05 -0400
+Subject: Re: Truth on Ohare <offical>
+
+     "It wasn't JMS's call (re: O'Hare)."
+
+     Okay, I've sat on the sidelines through enough of this; I feel that
+I have to dive in on this.
+
+     Frankly, I don't much care what "the Hollywood" word is about
+Michael.  The word from Hollywood also said that we had fired ALL the
+cast, that we had fired Michael *and* Richard Biggs, that Michael had
+quit, on and on and on.  (The bit about firing Richard Biggs, btw, came
+up at a Conadian panel by someone who *swore* up down and sideways that
+it was true, and he'd heard it from someone at Warners.  I've got the
+tape of the panel.)
+
+     I don't know who you are.  I *do* know that there were only four
+people in the room when we broached this with Michael, and you're not
+one of them.  (Present: me, Michael, Doug Netter and John Copeland.)  We
+indicated that there were some new and interesting directions that the
+story could take in season two, but it would mean Sinclair vanishing for
+a prolonged period of time, and what were his feelings on that?  He noted
+that he'd been expecting this from where the scripts had been going, and
+that there were some opportunities that he wanted to explore on his own.
+It seemed like a good opportunity for both sides.  It was made clear at
+that meeting that Sinclair was *not* gone for good, that he *would* be
+back at various points, but not in the same capacity...because we had some
+nifty ideas about something we could do with that character outside of the
+confining role of Commander.  By the end of the meeting, it was decided
+that that was, indeed, what we would do.
+
+     We knew that Michael would be returning to New York soon to pursue
+some long-standing options, and since we knew we'd be needing him (and I
+knew where and when), I scripted out material for when he is seen again,
+and we filmed that prior to his jaunt so we wouldn't have to shlep him
+clear across the country later, and in case he should indeed be busy at
+the time.
+
+     I could frankly give a shit what anybody hears on the Hollywood
+rumor mill.  More nonsense goes out on those particular jungle drums than
+anyone can even conceive of...and anyone who takes them to heart is more
+than a little foolish.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Oct 1994 17:51:18 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  Are storylines in the co
+
+     The B5 comic, novels and series are meant to be compartmentalized
+and independent, but complementary; if you never read the comic or the
+novel, you'll never have a problem with the series; but as with the show,
+the more you see, the more you'll get stuff coming down the road.
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Oct 1994 17:51:41 -0400
+Subject: capitalism in babylon 5 lookin
+
+     Garibaldi hustled Naomi out of there because she was the head of
+the strike, and he came specifically to arrest her.
+
+     While to varying degrees there's less nationalism in the future of
+B5, it's not like everyone's suddenly talking like the folks on Melrose
+Place.  Americans are, nominally, one country...but you can get accents
+of varying kinds all over the country, sometimes within miles of one
+another.  This is just realism.
+
+     The star on Ivanova's helmet is a traditional Russian star, going
+back to Tsarist russia and beyond, not a Red Star.
+
+     The writer for "By Any Means Necessary" is Kathryn Drennan, who is
+very astute politically, a believer in the rights of workers (and all
+folks, actually), and think that characters are more interesting if they
+act smart than if they act stupid.
+
+     And yes, Ivanova's a hoot.
+
+	                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Oct 1994 18:16:18 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS : Throw away.
+
+     No, as a rule, there's no need to ask for the captain's blessings
+prior to a marriage.
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Oct 1994 02:14:11 -0400
+Subject: Blue Script?
+
+     I think the blue draft was the one just before we had our meeting on
+production and visual effects stuff, which led to some tailoring of the
+locations.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Oct 1994 08:57:38 -0400
+Subject: Chrysalis (Ooo) SPOILER ALERT
+
+     Without going into details in case anyone stumbles across this as
+a spoiler...we *did* show the wound, blood, burn, the whole bit in a
+close-up in the medlab.  If it wasn't shown, it might've been snipped
+there.
+
+	                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Oct 1994 09:17:03 -0400
+Subject: Re: Chrysalis (Ooo) SPOILER AL
+
+     Now that you've seen this much, now you can begin putting together
+the other level of the metaphor that is B5...consider: a war that did not
+end satisfactorily for us, not winning or losing, a sort of peace with
+honor....the death of a president...the rise of intelligence agencies
+and military power...start to sound familiar?  Now what we begin to do
+is to start moving around the pieces, shifting the mirror of the story
+to reveal different aspects of ourselves, as well as tell the other
+separate story of B5 itself.  Again, the idea is for this story to
+function on *many* different levels: future-history, myth, adventure
+story, mystery and a metaphor.
+
+	                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Oct 1994 09:20:18 -0400
+Subject: My *good* friend mister Stra-c
+
+     Thank  you...I think....
+
+	                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Oct 1994 09:20:30 -0400
+Subject: jms, you are out of your mind!
+
+     Hey...I do try....
+
+	                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Oct 1994 02:31:08 -0400
+Subject: B5 Pilot on Sunday (UK)
+
+     What time on Sunday will the pilot be running?
+
+     (Many folks have asked.)
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Oct 1994 04:08:16 -0400
+Subject: Any evidence of ATTENTION JMS
+
+     I get 500 messages a day; I scan for ATT JMS, and always try to
+answer, when I can answer.  Sometimes I can't, and remain silent.  Mostly
+I talk.
+
+	                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Oct 1994 04:08:34 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: prostitution?
+
+     I'd say that some forms of prostitution are likely legal at that time.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Oct 1994 04:08:50 -0400
+Subject: Re: Chrysalis SPOILERS
+
+     Re: the staging of Morgan Clark taking the oath of office; I gave
+very particular instructions to re-create the staging of the photograph
+in which Lyndon Johnson takes over from JFK after the assassination.  The
+same layout, posture, background, and so on.  We even had a photo on set
+for reference.  The creepy thing is that the day we shot the scene was the
+anniversary of the day it actually took place; very weird atmosphere on
+set that day.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Oct 1994 04:09:04 -0400
+Subject: "Chrysalis" -- MAJOR SPOILERS
+
+     Re: being fooled into thinking the crystal construct in Delenn's
+quarters was nothing more than a meditation thing...in general, it helps
+to remember that I subscribe to Anton Chekov's First Rule of Playwriting:
+"If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the
+gun by act three, scene two.  If you fire a gun in act three, scene two,
+you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one."
+
+     Waste nothing.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Oct 1994 04:09:23 -0400
+Subject: Re: Chrysalis (Yeah, yeah - SP
+
+     Kosh's brevity is one of the things I like best about him; in the
+year two episode "The Coming of Shadows," he has just two words in the
+whole episode...but they're guaranteed to give just about anyone the
+willies.
+
+     BTW, Kosh's statement, "And so it begins."  Referring to Delenn's
+situation, and to more than that.  Sound familiar?
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Oct 1994 04:28:02 -0400
+Subject: Re: UK-Chrysalis What happens
+
+     Only two Shadowman vessels hit the Narn base at Quadrant 37, not
+three.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Oct 1994 04:28:18 -0400
+Subject: JMS: PPG'S ?
+
+    PPG = Phased Plasma Gun.
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Oct 1994 04:42:27 -0400
+Subject: UK: B5 ratings
+
+     Not currently planning anything for London, Ontario.  In the fullness
+of time...who knows?
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Oct 1994 04:53:46 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS - Parallels (was Re:
+
+     If the B5 story tracked reality too closely, it wouldn't be metaphor
+anymore, and would lose all its fancifulness.  A metaphor creates a general
+state or feeling in this case, so no, it won't track history precisely;
+it's a blend of many things, history, the story of the original Babylon,
+various myths, lots of stuff.  Throw it all into a pot, and out comes B5.
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 8 Oct 1994 07:10:13 -0400
+Subject: Spoilers
+
+     You say that if people don't want to be spoiled, they shouldn't read
+spoilers.  But I think their point is that unless your message says
+spoiler in the title (and yours didn't) there's no way to KNOW that it's
+a spoiler until you read the message...at which point it's too late.
+
+	                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Oct 1994 01:40:57 -0400
+Subject: Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton  (was
+
+     Far be it from me to contradict the erstwhile Thaxton, but I would
+point out that actors CAN get out of their options VERY easily, if they
+really want to.  The simple reality is that if an actor DOES NOT want to
+be there, their presence can totally destroy the morale of a show, the
+cast and crew.  Caitlin Brown, I'd point out here, opted out of B5 of her
+own volition, and we chose not to gainsay her.  And I stated as much here.
+
+     And now an aside to Mr. Ford Thaxton...frankly, what the hell
+business is it of yours anyway?  Public figure?  You're posting here on
+Internet before literally *thousands* of people.  So how about you give me
+the last few employers you worked for, so that I may either a) contact
+them directly and obtain information on the reasons for your departure,
+or b) simply go ahead and make stuff up about the reason for your
+departures.  Or is it only fair if you do it to somebody else?
+
+     About every few weeks, I run across somebody else who has what he
+says is THE TRUE STORY...that posts on GEnie resulted in O'Hare being
+fired (stated as gospel at a convention by a journalist citing sources
+"inside Warner Bros."); that O'Hare walked over money issues (this one was
+on a number of systems); that Warners forced the issue; that JMS forced
+the issue...on and on and on.  This has gone beyond the absurd.  But some
+people, it seems, need to gossip, and to post rumors, and to get into
+areas that are, frankly, none of their business.
+
+     Say O'Hare was fired.  Why post that and ruin the man's career for
+the next several years.  Say O'Hare quit.  Why post that and generate huge
+fan animosity toward him?  Say the decision was advanced by me, and well
+greeted by O'Hare.  Why?  Well, because as Kissinger said, it has the
+added benefit of being true.  Mutual and amicable.  The other crap is just
+based on the desire of some people to hurt someone, or spread dirt, or
+boost their egos on the notion that information is power, and if we seem
+to have it, we thus have power.
+
+     Only four people were in the room when the conversation took place.
+You weren't one of them.  For me, that's the end of the discussion.  Until
+next time, when somebody posts that evil Martian microwaves were beamed
+into my head making me fire O'Hare...and that's the *true* truth.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Oct 1994 01:49:40 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS questions and questio
+
+     Amazing....fifteen questions and not *one* I can answer, except to
+say that they'll all be cleared up in the second season.
+
+	                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Oct 1994 02:27:37 -0400
+Subject: Morden, a double agent??
+
+     Correct, there are two C&C's on B5, on opposite sides of the
+front section.  In case one should be damaged, the other is a kind of
+backup.
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Oct 1994 03:39:27 -0400
+Subject: Where was Sheridan?
+
+     Sheridan was never on the original list because at that time when
+the EA needed Minbari financing for B5, they knew it'd piss off the
+Minbari to have it there, so he was never considered for the post at that
+time.
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Oct 1994 03:41:23 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Final episode title
+
+     My titles are often in a state of flux; "Signs and Portents" was
+originally titled "Raiding Party" in my notes, as the B5 FAQ notes
+somewhere.  So it may change, but for the time being, in my notes for the
+series, the last episode of year five has this note: Title? -- "Farewell"
+or "Sleeping in Light."
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Oct 1994 09:49:11 -0400
+Subject: Centauri Future?
+
+     The Centauri will, indeed, experience a renaissance of sorts; and we
+will see the Centauri emperor in "The Coming of Shadows."
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Oct 1994 00:59:28 -0400
+Subject: Sinclair, Garibaldi, Ivanova:
+
+     Issues 6-9 of the B5 comic from DC will focus on how Sinclair and
+Garibaldi met and formed their friendship.
+
+     (This is based on a premise from me, so it's canon.)
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Oct 1994 20:06:32 -0400
+Subject: Arrrgggggg!(CHRYSALIS SPOILS)
+
+     There's another reason why Macauley was used as Tragedy in a dream
+mainly centered around Psi Corps; it's not really something anybody needs
+to see or catch.  After "Revelations," it'll be clearer.
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Oct 1994 21:18:24 -0400
+Subject: Straczynski pays homage to...
+
+     Actually, these "homages" are all incorrect, and only exist in
+the perception of the perceiver....
+
+     1) the Douglas Adams "homage."  Nope.  Eric Sevareid once wrote
+that "working in television is like being nibbled to death by ducks."  I
+think it was in his book "Not So Wild A Dream," itself a line borrowed
+from a poem by Norman Corwin.  It's also a fairly common phrase.
+
+     2) Whitley Streiber.  Aliens like that in "Communion" have been
+shown and drawn a LOT longer than Streiber has been talking about them.
+No relation.
+
+     3) Forbidden Planet...the script called for a chasm.  I got three
+different storyboards from Ron.  The best looking was that one, and
+that's the one we went to, though I knew it would resonate.
+
+	                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Oct 1994 02:59:24 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Ivonova and Janine M.
+
+     No, Janine never came to mind while creating Ivanova.  I still like
+Janine a lot, but to me they're very different people.  Mainly I was
+looking at other people I've known from that part of the world, and my own
+background in that area, and acting accordingly.
+
+	                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Oct 1994 03:01:13 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Have You read Pourne
+
+     Having previously crossed swords with Pournelle, I don't tend to
+read much of anything he writes.
+
+	                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Oct 1994 04:17:49 -0400
+Subject: Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton  (was
+
+     Bruce Boxleitner was not hired because of TVQ.  Bruce was hired
+because he was the best actor for the part, *AND* because he had worked
+with Doug Netter and John Copeland before on other projects, and thus they
+knew him and had a very high regard for him.  You conveniently ignore that
+aspect of it.  Also, you ignore some of the other actors that we announced
+were also on the list, beneath Bruce, which included Roger Reece, who we
+were strongly considering as a backup to Bruce should Bruce not turn out
+to be available.  Roger is a dynamite actor, but has zero TVQ.  (To provide
+the "direct evidence" that Theron Fuller keeps nudging about, a call to his
+agent can confirm the discussions.)  There were several other actors whose
+names you've probably never HEARD of on that list...so if the only thing
+we wanted was a TVQ actor, if that was the reason for replacing O'Hare,
+then why would we be wasting time talking to actors without a TVQ?
+
+     "My only interest is that I can't stand BS."  Meaning you came into
+this with the ASSUMPTION, based on nothing, that this was BS.  As far as
+I'm concerned, it's your comments that are strictly bullshit.  Your whole
+attitude is one of just wanting to make people upset (your note about
+some truth to your getting a kick out of irritating people), and disdain
+at the people here as "worshippers."  It seems to me that anytime in the
+past, as with here, when somebody mouths off out of ignorance or bile or
+cupidity, and gets called on it, he tends to try and kill the messenger
+by describing the folks doing the disagreeing as "worshippers."  This is
+an old gag, and we've seen it here before.  Seen it, been there, boring.
+
+     Re: O'Hare not saying much about the situation in Starlog...item
+number one is that you're relying on what was quoted, and that may not
+(almost certainly was not) all that was said.  Item number two, and more
+important: Michael is a very private man.  He didn't say anything about it
+because it's none of anyone's business, and he wants to keep the whole
+show on a positive basis because he believes in it.  You operate off the
+boneheaded theory that someone who says nothing on the subject surely must
+have something to hide.  Now me, I was born in America, where a person is
+innocent until proven guilty.  You seem to operate from the assumption
+that everyone is guilty of whatever it is you think they're guilty of,
+until such time as they prove otherwise.  You must come from a very odd,
+and very dark place.
+
+     You can "stand your ground" all you want; you have nothing but your
+erroneous facts, misapprehensions, delusions and convenient misquotings
+to rely on.  Obviously you're laboring under some sort of problem in
+maturity or some other area, but either way it's got nothing to do with
+my show, or the people here.
+
+     And you have not answered my query: please provide for me the names
+of your last 3-4 employers, so that I may contact them, or speculate
+freely, about your reasons for departing said employment.  After all, you
+haven't said anything about them in response to a direct query...thus by
+your own reasoning you MUST have something to hide.  And by being here in
+front of several thousand "worshippers," you're as public a figure as
+O'Hare.
+
+     Why would I possibly want to know this?  Why, for the same reasons
+you express.  "I can't stand BS."
+
+	                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Oct 1994 04:19:32 -0400
+Subject: Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton  (was
+
+     A suggestion for those Theron Fuller is bugging about DIRECT
+EVIDENCE, and whose opinions he tends to dismiss for lack thereof...you're
+dancing a dance you can't win.  You should be asking what CONSTITUTES
+"direct evidence."  Insofar as I know, there are only two forms of direct
+evidence: eyewitness accounts at the time (viz: me), or physical
+evidence in the form of documents, DNA reports, fingerprints at the scene
+of the crime, and so forth.  In short, you're being asked to provide
+material that simply does not exist.
+
+     This is an old debate tactic, which works only so long as you don't
+ask the person to define the "direct evidence" in question.
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Oct 1994 00:32:42 -0400
+Subject: IMPORTANT: JMS FIRED!!!
+
+     Why does all this weird "JMS fired" shit always come out of
+an Arizona node, I wonder...?
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Oct 1994 00:33:02 -0400
+Subject: Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton  (was
+
+     "The show's ratings were going down at the end of last season."
+
+     Sorry, another fabrication on your part.
+
+     We were on an up-swing.  The only time we dipped badly was when we
+hit the first batch of reruns.  In point of fact, "at the end of last
+season," our final seven episodes EACH INCREASED OVER THE ONE BEFORE, by
+quite a substantial amount.  It was a sharp, definite upward curve.
+
+     You'd know that if you knew what you were talking about, instead of
+just making stuff up.
+
+     It's amazing how, to try and make people think that I'm less than
+forthright, they inevitably resort to lying....
+
+	                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Oct 1994 00:33:25 -0400
+Subject: Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton  (was
+
+     Theron Fuller...you keep asking for "direct evidence."  Please define
+what you would accept as "direct evidence" given that only four people
+were in the room?  Please be specific.
+
+     Obviously hearsay or direct statements (which are usually good
+enough for a court of law) don't seem good enough for you.  So what would
+be?  (IN a real world, not a hypothetical, as you state.)
+
+     You're demanding of people things that do not exist.  And trying to
+deride their opinion because they cannot provide that which does not
+exist.
+
+     You keep talking about logic and reasonableness...but having studied
+logic, I'm afraid you're totally out to sea on this.  YOU have taken a
+position for which there is *no* evidence whatsoever.  If you don't have
+a point to make, what's the point of the conversation?  If you do, what is
+your basis for that point?  Please show YOUR direct evidence, and be sure
+that it meets the criteria you set up for others.
+
+     Basically, and frankly, I think you're a mind-fucker, someone who
+comes on knowing full well that there's no way of proving anything (unless
+one wants to take the word of someone who was there), and thus tries to
+sow some dissension, some contention, to get people all riled up trying to
+meet and cater to YOUR demands...demands which you are not at liberty to
+make of them.
+
+     Now, may I begin to speculate about your last few jobs?  After all, I
+can hypothetically state that you were probably fired from your last few
+jobs for rather sordid reasons.  Now, can anybody out there show me DIRECT
+EVIDENCE to the contrary?  Oh, and I'm sorry, but the word of your
+employers doesn't count.
+
+     The oldest debate trick is to try and make someone prove a negative,
+that something *didn't* happen...which is exactly what you're trying to
+do here, and the unfortunate thing is that some folks have fallen for it.
+
+     I suggest you grow up and find another game to play.  This one is
+getting real old.
+
+     LOGICALLY, one never makes an assertion unless one has evidence.  To
+start with assumptions, as you have, flies in the face of logic.
+
+     So let's see YOUR direct evidence, Theron.  Let's hold you up to the
+same standards you seem to require of everyone else.
+
+     Well?  You're so fast to demand it of everyone else...surely you
+MUST have something more than just hot air, Theron?  Come on.  Put up or
+shut up.
+
+	                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Oct 1994 00:51:46 -0400
+Subject: Re: claudia christian
+
+     BTW, Claudia and I will be appearing at Stellar Occasions Convention
+in Dallas this weekend, at the Executive Hotel in Love Field.  I'll be
+doing two B5 presentations, at noon and six p.m. Saturday, including a
+showing of "Chrysalis" and other material.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Oct 1994 03:57:59 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Why DC comics
+
+     DC had kind of an edge because it's owned by Time/Warner.  But so far
+what I've seen of the book has been great, and given the people doing it
+there, should be more than worthwhile.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Oct 1994 04:03:44 -0400
+Subject: B5 in Germany?
+
+     B5 will appear on Sat Eintz in German starting around December, I'm
+told.
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Oct 1994 04:04:00 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Were you in the prev
+
+     Insofar as I know, no, I'm not in the B5 promo.
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Oct 1994 04:04:17 -0400
+Subject: More Greys!!!!
+
+     Actually, Christy has gone on record (otherwise I would not have
+noted it myself) that the trial scene at the top of "Grail" was written
+and inserted by me, since it was a bit short.
+
+	                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Oct 1994 04:28:36 -0400
+Subject: Demon Night and B5
+
+     This is way, way stretching it....
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Oct 1994 04:28:52 -0400
+Subject: Szarabacha(sp?) on B5!?!?
+
+     Yep, that's the same guy.  I thought he did *excellent* work on The
+Equalizer as well.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Oct 1994 01:05:54 -0400
+Subject: B5 Soundtrack?
+
+     Yes, there is a B5 soundtrack, and in the next couple of days I will
+be very pleased to announce who's doing it...and there just *might* be some
+good news for LosCon here in LA: we may have a limited edition available
+in time for the convention.
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Oct 1994 01:34:36 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Licensing Model Kits
+
+     We don't license out to manufacturers, but to distributers which
+then deal with manufacturers.
+
+	                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Oct 1994 01:34:51 -0400
+Subject: Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton  (was
+
+     Ford clearly doesn't know anything about the show, as you note or
+he'd be aware that "Chrysalis" was filmed #12.  As for "Babylon Squared,"
+which you mention...again, there's something interesting in timing here,
+which of course Ford will ignore, because he's a pinhead.  B2 aired long,
+LONG after the O'Hare conversation took place.  Months.
+
+     Now, if we really intended to change the story, if Sinclair was never
+to show up again, it would have been absolutely simple (since we were
+still plugging stuff into that episode up until a few weeks before it
+aired in August) to either snip that scene out, or re-shoot it with
+someone else.  It's a thirty-second shot, absolutely no problem.  But we
+didn't.  We left it in.  (And we've left other mysteries unresolved, we
+could've gotten away with it.)  We were about five minutes over in that
+episode, and there was plenty of stuff we could've stuck in to make up the
+time.  But, again, we didn't.
+
+     But naturally, none of this will matter to Ford, who is simply an
+idiot.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Oct 1994 04:43:47 -0400
+Subject: Ignore Ford Thaxton, maybe...
+
+     Excuse me, but the points *are* disputed, particularly the statement
+that ratings were down at the end of the season, when (as posted by me at
+the time, and verifiable via the trades) ratings for the last seven eps
+in a ROW were UP, each one higher than the one before.
+
+     This is really approaching theater of the absurd proportions....
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Oct 1994 03:46:35 -0400
+Subject: *1* reason Trek is better...
+
+     "If it weren't for Star Trek, B5 would NEVER have been accepted into
+the mainstream media."
+
+     Wrong on just about every count.
+
+     1) Neither ST nor B5 have been accepted by the *mainstream* media;
+they're still SF, and thus well out of the mainstream.
+
+     2) If ST is responsible for making the environment such that B5 could
+get on the air, what made the media receptive to ST?  Answer: Lost in
+Space, which was a ratings hit a year before ST hit the airwaves (and thus
+ST was looked upon in its first year as a cheap attempt to cash in on LiS's
+success, as pronounced by many reviewers at the time).  And how does The
+Invaders fit into all this?
+
+     Crediting ST with B5 getting on the air is simply silly, and against
+the facts.  In point of fact, ST has made it *SUBSTANTIALLY HARDER* for new
+SF series to get on the air, especially if they're set in space, in our
+future.  We were told, by every network and studio, that there is no room
+in the TV marketplace for more than ST; that the market won't sustain more
+than one show; that ST is a "non-repeating phenomenon" (direct quote), and
+that SF doesn't work on TV.  (And, in fact, look at the number of SF shows
+other than ST that have gone on for more than two seasons in the last, say,
+ten years.  Nearly zilch.)
+
+     We had to fight to overcome the ST influence on the marketplace to
+get B5 on the air; so you'll understand why I blanch just a little when
+I hear something like that.  I'd be much happier if ST just took credit
+for ST, rather than making them inappropriately responsible for B5, when
+ST was only one more obstacle for us to overcome.
+
+	                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Oct 1994 05:56:54 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Triple Damned?
+
+     Actually, "triple-damned" is a fairly common Earth phrase as well.
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Oct 1994 17:39:25 -0500
+Subject: Spoliers and Portents: A Seaso
+
+     A good and thoughtful analysis.  You also caught one of the aspects
+of "Chrysalis" that I was going for.  The teaser of that episode is very
+much just the sort of thing we've seen before; designed to lull you into
+a sense of, "Yeah, yeah, we've seen this."  Right down to the tired look
+on Sinclair's face.  Been there, done that.  Then you yank the viewer's
+blanket.  And structurally, it was designed to somewhat mirror the events
+in the first episode; the balance is shifting, things are going in the
+reverse of what we saw before.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Oct 1994 17:39:42 -0500
+Subject: reaction: Points of Departure
+
+     In a sense, yes, "Believers" now enters the arc...but so does "Soul
+Hunter," in a big way.  Replay Lennier's talk to Sheridan and Ivanova,
+then play Delenn's conversation with Sinclair and the Soul Hunter in that
+episode, and suddenly a lot of elements begin to intersect.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Oct 1994 21:39:04 -0500
+Subject: Quotes to remember. POD spoile
+
+     Re: you're noticing the line, "You talk like a Minbari" from Neroon
+to Sinclair in "Legacies"....yup.  Sometimes this stuff is in broa
+strokes, sometimes in teeny little things like that.  Also ties in even
+further with where Sinclair goes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Oct 1994 03:39:16 -0500
+Subject: Point of Departure
+
+     Some time ago, I mentioned (here and elsewhere) that "Points" was
+designed to be a less intense episode than either "Chrysalis" or the
+second episode of year two, "Revelations," which is in many ways even
+more intense than "Chrysalis."  I think you need to give viewers a rest
+here and there; if you did "Chrysalis" every episode at this point you'd
+scare the hell out of people, and we're trying not to alienate those who
+might be interested in checking out the first episode this year.  (I tend
+to use this approach overall as well; if we've had 2-3 serious episodes
+in a row, I write a funny episode, just to keep things varied.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Oct 1994 20:43:48 -0500
+Subject: Bab 5 in USA Today
+
+     USA Today and TV Guide got that aspect more correct than the USA
+Today piece.  Odds were *somebody* had to....
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Oct 1994 20:45:37 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS:Thank You
+
+     I very much appreciate your thoughts.  I sometimes think that a few
+people get so caught up in what they want that we're not doing to their
+satisfaction, that they don't see what we *have* done.
+
+     As for other books...DEMON NIGHT and OTHERSYDE are my first two
+novels from Dutton (hardcover); TALES FROM THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE in
+paperback; and a bunch of short stories in various magazines.
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Oct 1994 22:50:17 -0500
+Subject: USA TODAY and the Truth about
+
+     In my hand, I hold a bunch of articles that came out today about the
+O'Hare/Bruce situation.  TV Guide, the Washington Post, the Orange
+County Register and several others, all citing different sources, ALL
+CONFIRM what has been said here before by me and others.  The USA Today
+piece is simply an editorial assumption by the reporter that is not
+buttressed by any other information.  The other articles got it right;
+the one you cite did not.
+
+     But hey...a half dozen get it right, one just misses...I'm not about
+to complain.
+
+     Give it a rest and get a life, Ford.
+
+     If you say people should "accept the truth" because it appears in
+print, then I assume that YOU will now "accept the truth" and shut up and
+quit being a nuisance.
+
+	                                                             jms
+
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+===========================================================================
+| This text is compiled from posts by J. Michael Straczynski on the Usenet
+| group rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.  This document contains material Copyright
+| 1994 J. Michael Straczynski.  He has given permission for his words to be
+| redistributed online, as long as they are marked as being copyright JMS.
+| This document, as well as other Babylon-5 related material, is available
+| by anonymous FTP at ftp.hyperion.com.
+===========================================================================
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Nov 1994 03:16:11 -0500
+Subject: Re: USA TODAY and the Truth ab
+
+     Someone should point out to Ford the article appearing this week
+(out in many newspapers already) for the Tribune Syndicate, in which she
+states that, based on her interviews and sources, it WAS a mutual and
+amicable parting, that Sinclair is NOT gone, and basically reinforces every
+single point made here.
+
+     Assuming anyone really cares anymore...frankly, I'm getting pretty
+fucking tired and disgusted with the whole discussion.  Ford is an idiot,
+pure and simple.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Nov 1994 03:16:30 -0500
+Subject: ATT JMS & PAD:  (Re: Ignore Fo
+
+     The idea of, "ask a member of the WGA" why one should never trust a
+television producer is moronic in the extreme, because for the most part,
+the majority of producers in TV ****ARE WRITERS**** and members of the
+WGA.  I've been a member of WGA since 1978 or so, and have been a writer
+a lot longer than I've been a producer.
+
+	                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Nov 1994 04:46:58 -0500
+Subject: Re: Bab 5 in USA Today
+
+     *sigh*...I was up writing all night long, I meant to say that the
+Tribune Syndicate and TV Guide got the story more accurately than USA
+Today in that one respect (though the rest of the article seemed fine);
+unlike Ford, I have a life, and sometimes it gets tiring.
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Nov 1994 06:23:19 -0500
+Subject: Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton  (was
+
+     Woody Harper: you have ended your messages with a "quote" from me
+stating, "I'm foolin' 'em with these funny footprints!"  As with much of
+what comes out of your and Ford Thaxton's mouth, this is a lie and a
+fabrication, I never made that statement.
+
+     Just what the hell is your problem, anyway?  You put info out that
+I'm fired, you misquote me, you lie to others on systems about me...this
+is stalking behavior on your part, and I'm getting very, very tired of it,
+and I'm not going to stand for much more of it.  You may consider that I
+am now putting you on formal notice.  Henceforth, all further fabrications
+and downright lies that you post, all harrassing messages sent by you,
+all rumors and deliberate distortions will be forwarded from me to my
+attorneys, and gathered to be filed with an attorney in your state for
+potential prosecution under libel laws and anti-stalking laws.  Further, I
+may be forced to take personal legal action against you.  Remember that I
+have your address.
+
+     You have deliberately manufactured quotes from me.  You have stated,
+as fact, that I was fired from my job.  You have told others that I
+tracked you down for disagreeing with me, when in fact (as others here
+can and have agreed to testify), it was incidend #1, the firing story,
+that prompted this action.  You (and now, our latest homunculus, Ford
+Thaxton) deliberately distort and misrepresent and simply lie about
+matters injurious to my (and in the latter case, Michael O'Hare's)
+career.
+
+     I would also request the sysop of the system from which you are
+logging in to be aware of your stalking behavior, and to reconsider your
+continued access to this forum.
+
+     I have had enough of this obsessive behavior from you.  You are now
+under formal notice to stop it and stop it now.  I don't know what the
+reason is for this sick fixation of yours, but get some help for it.
+
+     If you don't stop, you, and your family, and your employer will be
+hearing from my attorneys in very short order.
+
+     Enough is enough.
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Nov 1994 19:13:31 -0500
+Subject: USA TODAY WRITER STANDS BY STO
+
+     So now why don't you call the bunch of other reporters who say the
+opposite of USA Today and ask if *they* stand beside *their* story?
+
+     You seem obsessed with Michael O'Hare's personal employment
+conditions...like I said, why don't you give me YOUR personal employment
+history and let ME make some phone calls?  Or shall I go ahead and
+answer my own question...that you're a sick, obsessed little fuck who
+has no appreciable life, and thus has to meddle in the lives and careers
+of others.
+
+     Get this straight: you are entitled to *nothing*.  Not even this
+reply.  Leave Michael O'Hare, and his career, alone.  You are trying to
+turn a pleasant situation between me and someone I call a friend into
+something that will, by rumor and innuendo, harm Michael O'Hare's career.
+The degree of your obsession is becoming an area of great concern to us
+at Babylon 5.  I hear that someone posing under an assumed name started
+calling here the other day, trying to worm out information about Michael
+and his employment.  Coincidence?
+
+     Get this straight: LEAVE MICHAEL ALONE.  Nothing here is any of your
+goddamned business.  It is a PRIVATE matter, everyone is content with
+life...who the fuck are you to try and distort and screw around with
+people's careers?  You are a viewer, who is entitled to what we put out
+over the air, and not one bit more.  Okay, you don't buy what happens to
+be the truth.  So the fuck what?  I don't care, no one here cares; the
+concern raised is because you are openly trying to harm me, and Michael,
+through your messages.
+
+     How about you get your OWN fucking life and leave everybody else
+alone?  And until YOU are willing to provide, here, your OWN employers,
+so that we can do to you (a public figure on these boards) what YOU are
+doing to MICHAEL, as far as I'm concerned you're nothing more than a
+coward and a loudmouth who gets off on causing other people psychological
+distress.
+
+	                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Nov 1994 19:26:50 -0500
+Subject: Re: Before There Was B5 There
+
+     In my view, Blake's 7 is a *terrific* show, and if we can come even
+close to that quality, I'll be happy.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Nov 1994 00:20:21 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Political opinions o
+
+     The similarity to the Kennedy situation, and the use of the LBJ
+swearing-in photo as reference for the Earthforce One shot, were
+definitely intentional.  Remember, we're trying to construct a metaphor
+here, as one of the levels on which the show operates.
+
+     What do *I* personally think re: the Kennedy situation?  I can't
+think of anything less interesting, and less grounded, than my own
+opinion on this subject.  I've done an awful lot of reading in this
+area, but there are a lot of folks who know a hell of a lot more than I
+do, with probably many of them on this system.
+
+     The House Subcommittee that investigated this issue some time ago
+came to the conclusion that there most likely *was* a conspiracy of
+some sort, but couldn't find any overwhelming evidence to any other
+shooter (these being two different but important issues).  Do I think
+there was some sort of conspiracy (and to qualify as conspiracy you only
+need one or two other people)?  Yes.  Were there other shooters?  My
+sense is probably, but not necessarily.  Will we ever know the full
+story?  No.  Should we ever stop trying?  No.
+
+	                             jm("Back, and to the left.")s
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Nov 1994 00:20:46 -0500
+Subject: Kill files!
+
+     Unfortunately, the GEnie gateway I use does not have a killfile
+feature.
+
+	                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Nov 1994 01:09:28 -0500
+Subject: Re: USA TODAY WRITER STANDS BY
+
+     What is most hurtful about this is that Michael O'Hare has been out
+there *really* pulling for the show lately, talking it up at the Big-E
+Con over the past weekend, wishing everyone well, looking to the future,
+reinforcing everything said here, he's been nothing but nifty...and along
+come people obsessed with poisoning the well and hurting Michael in the
+process.
+
+	                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Nov 1994 05:44:46 -0500
+Subject: USA, JMS, and YKW.
+
+     At this juncture, as you say, I have no further interest in
+responding to these people, since their agenda is quite clear.  So much
+crap has been said about this show, so much misinformation put out by
+people, that it can make you crazy.  (Several newspapers and stations said
+point blank that there were NO plans for Sinclair to return, that he
+would NOT return...and here I am in my office, looking at footage we shot
+which we're about to use for season two.)
+
+     To your comment about personalities entering the fray and/or getting
+targeted...I guess I keep forgetting that part of it.  I have never really
+considered myself a *PERSONALITY*...wasn't altogether sure I *had* one
+outside of the work....
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 2 Nov 1994 05:45:01 -0500
+Subject: Some ACTUAL SHOW questions WAS
+
+     We try to accommodate our actors where we possibly can.  For
+instance, one of our actors will tentatively be doing a CD Rom movie
+project, and will need two days off in the middle of shooting.  So while
+we can't guarantee (we just got in the script and are now breaking out the
+shooting schedule), we're certainly going to try our best to work this
+out, and probably will be able to.  Actors need to take every free chance
+they have to work; the more work they do, the better they get; the better
+they get, the better my show gets.  As long as it doesn't interfere with
+production, I have no problem with it.
+
+                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Nov 1994 01:45:16 -0500
+Subject: JMS (and others): Babylon 5 co
+
+     By the time B5 hits the UK, only the first 2 issues of the comic
+should be out, and there's nothing in any of those that could be
+considered a spoiler, so you should be okay.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Nov 1994 06:53:51 -0500
+Subject: Re: Ignore Ford Thax
+
+     Well, well...I've been getting some very interesting information on
+our friend Ford A. Thaxton, who is involved with a little enterprise
+called Silva Screen Records.  Perhaps Mr. Thaxton wouldn't mind discussing
+some of *his* personal business, like how why he has been using
+Christopher Franke's music in his released (remixed) without paying
+Chris any royalties...?  Apparently he has some real business problems
+with Chris, and I would think he has considerable motivation to smear
+anything that Chris is involved with.  Didn't mention that li'l old
+conflict of interest in your quest for the "truth," did old Ford.
+
+     And some of the things recently conveyed to me by some who've worked
+with, and for Ford, in HIS business practices, are quite illuminating, to
+say the least.  But I suppose he would think that was a private matter,
+not to be discussed on a network.
+
+     Maybe I should go and contact Edgar Froese in Germany, and ask about
+some of *his* recent dealings with Ford, so that I can post them here.
+
+     Nice little place Ford has, out there in Olympia, Washington....
+
+     My, but Ford's had such an *interesting* life...at least, so say
+the many people who've dropped me messages in the last few days, who have
+worked with him.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Nov 1994 18:38:29 -0500
+Subject: Re: Points of Departure -- SPO
+
+     Next week, in "Revelations," you get G'Kar, Londo, Delenn, Lennier,
+Na'Toth, Kosh, Garibaldi, Talia and everybody else.  Because there was SO
+much happening in #1, that got slid back a bit; also, there's a fair
+amount of time required for everything to do what they're supposed to be
+doing.  (Note that we're operating pretty much in real-time; "Points" is
+around 8 days after the events of "Chrysalis," and "Revelations" is about
+another week after that.)
+
+     One thing I noted here some time ago, as a large part of the reason
+I dropped "to be continued" from "Chrysalis" is that this is more of a
+three-parter than a two, and some threads pulled in "Chrysalis" won't be
+fully resolved in some ways until the third and fourth episodes.  There is
+a LOT going on, and if we try to cram it all into one episode (as I at
+first tried with "Chrysalis, Part Two") you don't give ANY of them the
+proper time to have any impact.
+
+     Finally, we're getting new people sampling the first episode of the
+season, as is true of most shows.  Thus, you have to put into dialogue a
+fair amount of stuff that otherwise you could just imply or rely on past
+experience/prior knowledge.  So you kind of introduce the newbies to the
+situation, and that requires a fair amount of exposition.  This is pretty
+much localized to "Points," however; with the next episode, we're up to
+full speed.  Episode 2 deals with as many issues/plotlines as "Chrysalis,"
+with the main difference being that here, they're *resolved* rather than
+left hanging.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Nov 1994 18:38:47 -0500
+Subject: Church of JMS
+
+     Speaking as an atheist, if there is to be a church of jms, then I
+must become its first apostate and refuse to believe in myself (adding
+further insecurity to my life), and nail a whole bunch of theses to the
+front door on the way out....
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Nov 1994 08:39:53 -0500
+Subject: The new "Tech #1" <sniff> (no
+
+     Just as an advisory...the woman who spoke up in PoD (the tech who
+told Sheridan that Security wanted him) is not a Tech 1 replacement; she
+was there just for that one episode.  We have a number of folks floating
+through that area now, because logically you would have rotating crews.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Nov 1994 21:47:59 -0500
+Subject: Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton (was
+
+     Well, well, well....y'all remember how for weeks and weeks old Ford
+has been in here, arguing that he had a right to know the inner workings
+of Michael O'Hare's business, his career, his employment, "the truth is
+out there," on and on and on ad infinitum?  Message after message after
+message, smearing by implication and innuendo, demanding the truth, that
+he was entitled to know, that this was the right forum to discuss such
+matters?
+
+     Well, after my ONE message here about *his* business, guess who has
+gone right up the flue and started whining to Warner Bros. about how it
+is unfair and wrong for me to discuss someone's business in a public
+forum...?  And buttressed it with threats (veiled and otherwise)?
+
+     I guess there are rules that apply to Ford, and rules that apply to
+everyone else.
+
+     I guess there are those who like to dish it out, but don't much like
+it when EXACTLY the same thing is done to them.  Fortunately there is a
+long, LONG trail of messages here from Mr. Thaxton which present a very
+clear picture of who started what, and why.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Nov 1994 23:09:52 -0500
+Subject: Re: USA TODAY and the Truth ab
+
+     This to Ken Schroder...a very good analysis of the situation re:
+Sinclair/Sheridan.  One other element, which will become clearer with
+the passage of time, is that Sinclair's main tie was to the Minbari
+storyline, which though not *resolved* per se in "Points," gets pushed
+back as the Shadowmen story advances.  So his impact on that storyline
+would have been second-hand.  Sheridan, on the other hand, has a direct
+tie-in to this latter storyline, though he does not know it yet.  Also,
+there are some military aspects coming that only someone commanding a
+starship recently, and working with some other aspects of the military,
+would have access to, and that is also something Sheridan brings to the
+story.
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 4 Nov 1994 23:11:33 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Mea Culpa (was : What I d
+
+     Jeremy: you are forgiven; go, and sin no more.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Nov 1994 03:16:16 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Good Choice!
+
+     The nice thing is that Bruce's likeableness (is that a word?) isn't
+just confined to the camera.  He's honestly a nifty guy.  He's friendly
+to everyone on the set, even casual visitors.  He's what's called a "team
+player," in that his concern is for the other actor, and gives as much off
+camera for the actor to play against as when he's on-camera.  He's charmed
+the hell out of just about everyone involved in making B5, and that's not
+an easy task.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 5 Nov 1994 03:37:33 -0500
+Subject: Another B5 media mention
+
+     I would be *profoundly* grateful if you could send a copy of the
+article to:
+
+     14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+
+     Thanks if you can oblige....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Nov 1994 03:27:59 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Assorted questions o
+
+     Laurel Takashima was not a psi, no.  Valen did have something to do
+in the struggle against the Shadows at a prior time.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Nov 1994 03:32:34 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS (nagging question & a
+
+     Valen's prophecy is something that will have to be revealed with
+time; if I gave it out now, it would ruin too much yet to come.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Nov 1994 05:09:00 -0500
+Subject: JMS: PoD Plusses (Minor Spoile
+
+     To your points...yes, we definitely plan to do more with Dr.
+Franklin this year.  My goal is to get Ivanova OUT of Ops, and Franklin
+OUT of Medlab on occasion, to see their real lives, and do other things
+with them (and I think you'll find some real surprises coming up very
+shortly).
+
+     The Earthforce lounge (EA personnel only) is Earhart's, named after
+the famed aviator.
+
+     (Consequently, as tradition, only swing or big-band music is ever
+played in Earhart's.)
+
+     Yes, we brightened things up a notch, but only a notch, because we
+discovered that a lot of the good work being done on the sets and the
+costumes wasn't being seen because we were too dark.  So we went up about
+one f-stop, but at the same time began using more shadows, textures and
+colors, so the show has a denser look to it.
+
+     Definite agreement on the CGI this year.
+
+     There are a couple of big, honking CGI episodes coming up fairly
+soon that're just terrific, the best Ron and Kevin have done to date.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Nov 1994 09:01:30 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Thanks for the good trans
+
+    An interesting summation; good stuff.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Nov 1994 18:29:42 -0500
+Subject: JMS? New info on New Series ?!
+
+     I'd rather speak to the new projects when there's more concrete news
+to convey.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Nov 1994 18:29:58 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: why do aliens lust a
+
+      Actually, it's mainly just G'Kar who's big into human females (so to
+speak); Lennier was more astonished than anything else.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Nov 1994 18:31:42 -0500
+Subject: Will we ever see...
+
+     You will see hyperspace from the inside briefly in episode 2, and
+bigtime in episode 4.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Nov 1994 18:33:30 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Do YOU have any info
+
+     It's my understanding that Seven Network in Australia will begin
+carrying B5 around December or thereabouts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 6 Nov 1994 21:28:59 -0500
+Subject: B5's music
+
+     Christopher writes the B5 music here; faxes it to Berlin, and the
+Berlin Symphonic Film Orchestra, which he works with.  The next day, he
+gets on a high-compression audio/video link (via phone and fiber optic
+lines) and conducts the orchestra in Berlin from his home here in LA.  The
+finished music is then sent here via those same high-compression lines,
+and transferred to DAT.  In some cases, if we need something fast, and
+it's fairly simple, he does it on his studio equipment.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Nov 1994 04:24:01 -0500
+Subject: "Things cannot hold..."
+
+     One aspect of the Yeats quote, and the Lincoln quote, and the
+Tennyson quote(s), and the many others, is that I think a lot of folks
+at some point tuned out of, or aren't interested in, literature and
+poetry because they've never really been exposed to it.  So just to be a
+little subversive, I work some of it into the show.  I choose that which
+has meaning to the show, and the characters, in the hopes that (as has
+happened here), viewers will dig out the original material and be exposed
+to some *really* nifty writing.  Granted that television must entertain
+at minimum; it should also elevate and ennoble and educate, and this is
+too good an opportunity to waste, provided one does not become didactic
+about it.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Nov 1994 04:24:14 -0500
+Subject: Mysticism (PoD Spoilers)
+
+     The fact that Minbari believe in souls does not make it so.
+
+     If a story is rigorously SF, but some of the people who inhabit the
+story have belief systems, does that automatically invalidate it as SF?
+
+     I don't think it's the position of this show to state whether or not
+a belief system is true but rather to explore the actions of those who
+THINK it's true; not to resolve arguments, but to start arguments.  (See
+"Believers" for more on this one.)
+
+     What the characters believe is subjective, and is their business.
+Or, as Sheridan says in a later episode, "I'm not saying what I'm saying.
+I'm not saying what I'm thinking.  For that matter, I'm not even THINKING
+what I'm thinking."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Nov 1994 10:02:00 -0500
+Subject: Sheridan didn't tell Clark !!!
+
+     This is correct.  Sheridan did NOT tell President Clark about the
+Minbari soul situation.  Clark already knew about it.  Sheridan's line
+is, "I spoke with the president.  He is the only other person who knows
+why the Minbari surrendered."  Also, in the first issue of the comic, this
+prior knowledge on Clark's part is clear as well.
+
+                                                                       jms
+Article 37979 of rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5:
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Nov 1994 19:03:34 -0500
+Subject: ATT JMS:  Comments from my wif
+
+     Tell your wife I'm getting kickbacks from the AMA.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Nov 1994 02:03:54 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Yeats The Second Coming-
+
+     Let's just say that I've read a lot of British literature, and quite
+a bit of Yeats and Keats and Shelley and others, and let it go at that for
+now.
+
+     Re: Lennier, the Grey Council fellow said, "Tell them what we've told
+YOU," not someone else.  Just to clarify.
+
+                                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Nov 1994 02:12:56 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Damn you, Mr Straczy
+
+     Let me reassure you.
+
+     It's all a carefully woven covert plot to destroy your attention span
+so you can't study.
+
+     Look!  Over there!  A comet!
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Nov 1994 02:13:09 -0500
+Subject: CHRYSALIS, blooper? (SPOILER)
+
+     Sorry, this isn't a blooper.  Garibaldi says, into the Link,
+"Garibaldi to Sinclair," which tells the Link to find Sinclair.  Then we
+have Sinclair's response.  No blooper.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Nov 1994 18:50:23 -0500
+Subject: Attn JMS
+
+     Thanks for the support, and the story; I kinda like that....
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Nov 1994 18:52:11 -0500
+Subject: JMS! HELP! RE: B5 -Capt Power
+
+     I had very little to do with Captain Power after walking off the
+show because I thought there was too much power being given to the
+merchandising aspect.  And I'm not sure how much to reveal; I can say
+that Larry DiTillio, who came in after me as story editor, edited an
+entire season worth of scripts; 24 scripts are lying around, waiting to
+be filmed.  I kinda gave him the elements I wanted to see dealt with, and
+left.  (I seem to remember a Starlog interview with Larry a couple of
+years back where the arc is pretty much spelled out for year two.)
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Nov 1994 18:52:23 -0500
+Subject: ATT JMS: Casting the pilot
+
+     Oddly, the only name I remember from casting the pilot, in looking
+for a Sinclair, before we found Michael, was John Rhys-Davies.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Nov 1994 20:37:03 -0500
+Subject: ATTN:JMS spoiler for revalatio
+
+     The platform seen in the opening of "Revelations" is a hazardous
+materials platform, which is still cleaning up the radioactive debris
+and other stuff from the blown Minbari cruiser in the last ep.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Nov 1994 20:47:40 -0500
+Subject: JMS : who won the court case ?
+
+     The human won the case, but damages awarded were minimal.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Nov 1994 20:50:52 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: New Officer's Lounge
+
+     Basically, I decided to name the EA Lounge "Earhart's" because she
+is an important figure in aviation history, and I wanted a 40s art deco
+style to the place, down to big band music, and it fit perfectly.  There
+have been more women aviators, civilian and elsewhere, than we know,
+particularly during WW II at home, and they deserve recognition.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Nov 1994 00:09:48 -0500
+Subject: CHARACTERS CHANGING
+
+     Somebody posted the other day that this is as if you're reading a
+novel, and something happens to a character, so you stop reading at
+chapter three.  Me, I'd want to keep reading to see what happens next...
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Nov 1994 00:10:01 -0500
+Subject: Attn JMS: Chrysalis and JFK (S
+
+     Actually, I was born in 54, so we're about the same age.  Oddly, I
+don't remember the day of the shooting; what I *do* remember is watching
+JFK's funeral, and not entirely understanding the depth of the event, but
+fully grasping the emotions around me.  That will linger forever.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Nov 1994 01:11:44 -0500
+Subject: ATT JMS:  Comments from my wif
+
+     AMA = American Medical ASsociation.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Nov 1994 00:31:50 -0500
+Subject: "Revelations" blow by blow (SP
+
+     Re: inconsistent writing and Narns...please bear in mind that there
+are two ways to encounter shadowmen: going out there, and them coming in
+to see YOU.  The Narns need not be (and were not) spacefaring when they
+encountered the shadowmen.  Or, more accurately, were encountered BY them.
+
+                                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Nov 1994 00:38:16 -0500
+Subject: JMS : Sheridan in from beginni
+
+     Sheridan, or more specifically the need for someone *like* Sheridan
+began to get through clearly toward the latter part of last season, as I
+began planning out season two's progression, and kept looking at elements
+of the story and trying to find ways to get Sinclair into the heart of
+them.  They felt contrived, for the most part; and the other characters,
+like Londo and G'Kar and Delenn, were *really* moving forward in a big
+way.  The role of Sinclair was becoming primarily that of a "problem
+solver," and when that happens, a sort of glass bell falls down around the
+character, and you can't do much with him.
+
+     So what the writer has to do is break that bell in one way or another;
+do something totally unexpected to him, and bring in someone who has a
+direct, personal connection with the storyline emerging in season two, so
+it's not contrived or forced.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Nov 1994 00:38:28 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Question and a comment [n
+
+     It's G'Quan (or G'Quon, my notes aren't in front of me).
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Nov 1994 06:06:12 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS
+
+     Insofar as I know, no, wasn't on Alternative Possibilities BBS.
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Nov 1994 06:54:40 -0500
+Subject: Revelations and Tolkien (spoil
+
+     "it is hard to explain how the Narns...could travel faster than
+light one thousand years ago."
+
+     Indeed, it would be, if that were what had happened.  Fortunately,
+it isn't.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Nov 1994 06:54:49 -0500
+Subject: Lawyers?
+
+     Evolution notwithstanding, there are still lawyers in the future;
+we've shown them (alongside defendants) but not given them any lines yet.
+But they're there.
+
+                                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Nov 1994 06:54:59 -0500
+Subject: ATTN: JMS...Opening music
+
+     No, we're not going to change the music.  The season one music was
+right *for that season*.  The events in year two are different; the music
+reflects where this season is going.  The complaints mainly come because
+it isn't the same.  It isn't *meant* to be the same.  It's not an inferior
+version of year one, it's a different cue, meant to evoke different
+emotions.  They say it isn't evoking the same feelings in them as the
+first year.  Good.  That's the intent.  It will be changed EVERY season to
+correspond with the general sensibility of that season.  (And while you
+note some who think it's lighter and airy, most others I've heard from say
+they think it's darker and more ominous.  It's all subjective.)
+
+     The only constant in the B5 universe is change.
+
+     I've written novels as well as TV.  Often, in my published novels, I
+include classical quotes at various points as chapter openings.  I pick my
+quotes to correspond with that section of the book.  Should I use the same
+quote over and over instead?
+
+     I am absolutely thrilled with the music as it is, and it's staying.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+     (And btw, I remember getting LOTS of complaints on the nets about the
+first season music, how nobody liked it, how they couldn't hum it, it was
+not symphonic enough, on and on and on.  Now everybody likes the old one
+and some don't like the new one.  Next year, folks'll be lamenting the
+loss of the second year theme.  Lots of folks complained about Sinclair.
+We took him off the chessboard.  Now a number of folks are complaining that
+he's gone.  What does all this mean?  It means you can't do a show by
+committee, whether that committee is a studio, a network, or a netgroup.
+The alternative is chaos and lowest-common-denominator programming.)
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Nov 1994 06:55:08 -0500
+Subject: JMS: What might have been...
+
+     The only problem with answering how things would've been different
+is that some information might get out by inference about how things might
+still *be*.  However, to do what I can with the question (never let it be
+said I don't try to accommodate....).
+
+     If Lyta had stayed on B5, her arc would be pretty close to that of
+Talia, except that she would have begun to form a strong link to Kosh,
+first in the form of dreams, then something with implications that could
+be read as menacing or benign.
+
+     If Dr. Kyle would have stayed around, he would have moved more into
+the position of advisor/paternal figure for Sinclair.  He also would have
+continued to be more scientist than doctor.
+
+     Takashima would have been revealed as having been in on the Vorlon
+assassination attempt by season's end, and would have betrayed Garibaldi
+in the events in "Chrysalis," either giving him over to those involved
+with the coup, or pulling the trigger herself.  While we would know this,
+our characters would not, for as much as another full season.
+
+     Carolyn Sykes would've gotten into major trouble with one of the
+major EarthCorps.
+
+     Finally, if Sinclair had stayed with B5 at this juncture, the events
+in "Points" (the reveal of the Minbari surrender) would've taken place in
+episode 3 instead of 1.  Episode 1 would've consisted mainly of the events
+in "Revelations," which was mainly as a bystander to the events around
+him, since the sister aspect specific to Sheridan obviously wouldn't be
+there.  Basically, with all the events surrounding Delenn, Londo, G'Kar
+and others, he didn't have one whole hell of a lot to *DO* in the first
+six to eight episodes, since that segment was set aside primarily to
+introduce the Shadowman war and get that cranking, and Sinclair had no real
+direct connection to that.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Nov 1994 06:56:44 -0500
+Subject: JMS:  A few odd bits
+
+     The changeling net face belonged to Ron in that sequence; not the
+same as that in the boarding area.  And the new VO in the end credits is
+done by Harlan Ellison.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Nov 1994 20:17:21 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Forever Babylon!
+
+     Thanks.  Positive feedback is always welcome.  Best to you and to
+your associates.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Nov 1994 20:24:46 -0500
+Subject: Too much net influence?
+
+     My sense has always been that no one hanging thread should be allowed
+to hang more than one season.  And all information needed to understand
+any thread must be included in the episode.
+
+     When I work here on the nets with notes about foreshadowing, it's
+basically to play and allow some folks to start to figure out stuff before
+it happens.  This is something that, from talking to many non-netted
+viewers, the regular audience member doesn't really try to do.  The
+emphasis in the minds of most viewers is tuning in to see what happened.
+The emphasis here on the nets is to try and figure out what's going to
+happen BEFORE it happens.
+
+     The influene on the show by the nets is really minimal, if at all.
+Mainly the purpose of the nets, from my perspective, is a) to help
+educate people about how a show is done, b) to show respect for some of
+those linked in who are in the SF community, and c) to get barraged by
+questions about my characters and universe, knowing that when I get hit
+by a question I hadn't considered, and answering it, I've learned a bit
+more about my own story, which helps round it out.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 12 Nov 1994 20:43:58 -0500
+Subject: Dear JMS-Question?
+
+     I tried to develop a basic language structure for each of the races
+on B5.  There are certain commonalities to the structure of names.  I
+came up with some prefixes and suffixes, and assigned meanings to them,
+the same as real names.  For instance, Rathenn (referred to by Delenn in
+"Voices") and Delenn have the same suffix, which has a specific meaning.
+You can break it down; Ner-oon (Legacies), Del-enn, Rath-enn, Der-onn, and
+so forth.  The various parts do have specific meanings, but I generally
+keep that to myself, just for amusement.
+
+     No Irish ancestry here that I'm aware of.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Nov 1994 07:42:00 -0500
+Subject: Revelations -- Wham!
+
+     Speaking of looking into the abyss...which comes from "Revelations,"
+it's a partial quote.  Neitzsche: "When you look into the abyss, the abyss
+looks also into you."
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Nov 1994 09:02:19 -0500
+Subject: Underwriting + Underacting = Q
+
+     "Whoever wrote 'Points of Departure.'"
+
+     That would be me.  The first three ("Points," "Revelations" and "the
+Geometry of Shadows") are mine.  The next three are by D.C. Fontana ("A
+Distant Star," Scott Frost "The Long Dark," and Larry DiTillio ("A Spider
+in the Web"), with Peter David's "Soul Mates" rounding out the first
+seven new eps to be broadcast in a row.
+
+     We then hit late December, and reruns through the Christmas
+holidays when nobody's home.  We'll come back then with "A Race Through
+Dark Places" (jms); "The Coming of Shadows" (jms); "GROPOS" (ld); "All
+Alone in the Night" (jms); "Acts of Sacrifice" (jms), then some more
+freelance scripts.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Nov 1994 19:03:35 -0500
+Subject: Attn: JMS: Shadowmen and Narns
+
+     "my question is who, what or how where (the shadowmen) beaten back
+then?"
+
+     All in good time....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Nov 1994 22:10:38 -0500
+Subject: DUMB SCREW-UPS
+
+     She's not seeing the shooter from outside Garibaldi's POV.  That
+shot in particular is *exactly* from Garibaldi's POV.  It's a lot like
+what is done in hypnosis, going back into somebody's memory and dragging
+out details they might have seen but not noted; the eye sees more than
+the brain recalls at any given moment.  When we shot that scene, I was
+on-set, and the camera was put *exactly* where Garibaldi was standing,
+so we'd be very careful that it WAS his point of view.  So though I hate
+to contradict you, it's not "a stupid plot hole from hell."
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Nov 1994 09:34:55 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Fighting in Hyperspa
+
+     They can fight, after a fashion.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Nov 1994 09:40:55 -0500
+Subject: Re: Underwriting + Underacting
+
+     Oddly enough, while I always had just one title for each of the first
+two season, I have several competing titles for year three, and haven't
+quite decided which to go with.  Somewhere near the top of the list is,
+"I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds."  May be a bit too much,
+though....
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Nov 1994 19:56:00 -0500
+Subject: RE: B5 & Tolkien
+
+     The only problem with this discussion is that it begins on the
+assumption that there is *any* kind of one-to-one correlation between
+B5 characters and LoTR characters.  There isn't.  There are, however,
+many aspects that they share in that they both are moving toward creating
+myth of a sort; if you've read Campbell's "Hero With a Thousand Faces,"
+you know that there are some constants that work throughout mythic-based
+fiction.  The Foundation books, the Lensman books, Childhood's End, all
+worked on a kind of myth-structure; so does B5 (at least in theory; how
+well it actually succeeds at that task will have to be seen with time).
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Nov 1994 19:59:04 -0500
+Subject: Chelo Stew!
+
+     This is really getting distressing.  This hate campaign is sick in
+the extreme.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Nov 1994 23:00:02 -0500
+Subject: (JMS, your thoughts?) Re: Real
+
+     Y'know, I'm really getting sick of Theron's whining and constant
+second-guessing and "personal observations" about me, Michael, and how
+this show works when he is absolutely without any information on which
+to base these suppositions.
+
+     No, Michael wasn't in the first episode.  Why?  Because after we
+went our separate ways in the spring, he headed back to New York for some
+pending offers there.  HE WAS NOT AVAILABLE TO SHOOT.  Okay, Theron?  CAn
+we be clear on this?  Can I be *ANY* clearer on this?  We DID grab
+a piece with him before he left, which will be dropped in later in the
+season.
+
+     I don't know which world you live in, Theron, but I live in the real
+world that has to consider cross-continental flights, shooting schedules,
+and a thousand other areas.
+
+     Further, in episode one, from a strictly creative point of view,
+I had to a) introduce a new character and make him interesting, b) tie
+up some important war threads from season one, c) come up with a present
+time/foreground story (the Tragati) to make the episode self-contained,
+d) keep all of the other characters moving...and a zillion other things.
+If I had dropped a piece with Sinclair into the midst of this, it would
+have royally screwed up my structure.
+
+     I COULD NOT HAVE GIVEN THAT SCENE THE TIME AND ATTENTION AND
+IMPORTANCE IT DESERVED.  When we *do* see Sinclair again, it will be in
+a context where it will be important, and can be handled properly.
+
+     I *really* don't like people second-guessing me; worse still when
+they imply motivations and engage in personal speculations that have
+NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the real world, or the story that I'm trying
+to tell.  Okay, Theron, YOU wouldn't have done it this way.  So go make
+YOUR show.  This is mine.  And I'll do it as I see fit, in order to tell
+the story that I want to tell.
+
+     Can we now resolve this and move on?
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Nov 1994 23:00:12 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Music and Harlan
+
+     Harlan is not actually *in* the story as a character, and the
+opening VO is for those IN the story.  It's not a merit thing, it's a
+story thing.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Nov 1994 01:29:18 -0500
+Subject: Why is B5 syndicated?
+
+     Real simple, non-tech answer: none of the networks wanted it.  They
+didn't think it could be contained and shot for a budget; they didn't
+think there was an audience for SF space stuff outside Star Trek (and many
+still don't); they didn't think the EFX could be done using CGI.  Every
+single one of them passed on it on the grounds that it couldn't be done.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Nov 1994 08:28:21 -0500
+Subject: JMS: RE: Underwriting + Undera
+
+     I scuttled my story for "The Customer is Always Right," a stand-alone,
+because I decided it wasn't up to par, and walked over some of the turf
+ST had walked over.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Nov 1994 02:45:31 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Utility Actor????
+
+     In order to create more involved alien makeups, and because many
+actors have a hard time with prosthetics, we created what we call the
+Babylon 5 Alien Rep Group; last year about five, and this year about 12
+actors who we have taken full head and (in some cases) body casts, so we
+can use them in mid-level speaking roles as aliens and rotate them in and
+out.  Since we had fewer last year, you saw Mark more than you'll see him
+this year.  Green Drazi #1 in "Geometry" is one such rep group alien.
+
+     We keep trying to find interesting solutions to interesting problems.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Nov 1994 04:09:18 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Re: Why is B5 syndic
+
+     No, neither B5 nor *any* of the ST shows get enough ratings to come
+near the basement in terms of network ratings.  So B5 will either survive
+where it is, or vanish.
+
+                                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Nov 1994 04:39:26 -0500
+Subject: ATT JMS! How can we help "save
+
+     The best thing to do, really, is to a) let the stations know, in
+writing, that you like the show, and why, and b) keep bringing in others
+to discover the show.  Near as I can tell, most of the new viewers we're
+now getting are coming not through ads or promos, but word of mouth.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Nov 1994 04:55:23 -0500
+Subject: 14 words
+
+     If I told you what the 14 words were, they wouldn't mean anything
+anymore.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Nov 1994 04:55:35 -0500
+Subject: Geometry of Shadows [SPOILER]
+
+     You hit on the head *precisely*.  When Garibaldi was popping the
+energy cap in and out of the PPG, he was on the floor, nominally in the
+dark, thinking of killing himself.  I didn't want to play it up, didn't
+want to make it what the story was about...just show him doing it, over and
+over.  And from Sheridan's face, seeing the last of this, it's clear he
+got it...and I thought he handled the scene *perfectly*, by his whole
+demeanor, but NOT talking about it except indirectly.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Nov 1994 04:55:48 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Vir and Londo (small
+
+     Be assured, Vir's position continues to be important, and he moves a
+bit closer to the limelight as he does so...remember, he's the one who
+has to watch Londo's actions like a man watching an accident in slow
+motion, and try to do what he can to stop it.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Nov 1994 00:40:25 -0500
+Subject: Historical models for B5 empir
+
+     Certainly, when I sat down to construct Minbari society, I looked
+into various historical models, and overall, though there are bits and
+pieces of one or another, I tried not to model it after any one group
+wholecloth.  Certainly there's allegory all over the place....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Nov 1994 02:12:29 -0500
+Subject: Noises in space and Harlan
+
+     Harlan, like many others who've bought the no-sound-in-space okeydoke,
+did ask for that, yes.  Then I figured I'd try and get the straight skinny
+on this, and sent messages around to folks at JPL, NASA, and elsewhere, and
+y'know what?  There IS sound in space.  The conditions and circumstances
+are fairly specific -- proximity to nebulae, proximity to the air-bubble
+contained in a big ship when it explodes, such that it can reach you and
+provide sound -- but there's a LOT of grey in this discussion, and lots of
+reason to think there IS sound.  We've just all bought into it without
+really doing the math.  Freeman Dyson, who currently hold Einstein's
+chair, came back with many circumstances in which you'd hear sound in
+space (and we've used them).  Folks from JPL and the High Altitude
+Observatory reported that when Pioneer broke the speed of sound, it
+registered a bow-shock of a sonic boom *while in space*.
+
+     I've got something like two dozen email messages from credible and
+well-grounded scientists who said, in essence, everybody ASSUMED this, but
+nobody ever really bothered to ASK if it were true, and do the math.  I'll
+eventually upload the file when I get around to cleaning it up.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Nov 1994 02:14:13 -0500
+Subject: ATTN: JMS: Organization, Man!
+
+     This is gonna sound really awful, and I'm not sure if this is good
+or bad, but my "method of organization"...is just basically that I keep it
+all in my head.  I've tried day timers, calendars, planners, and I tend to
+forget to write stuff down in it.  I just tend to keep all this stuff in
+my head.  Sometimes I forget something, but usually it's all there.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Nov 1994 02:15:55 -0500
+Subject: Does Harlan really have any in
+
+     Yes, Harlan and I are friends.  His role on the show is whatever he
+wants it to be, as he wants it to be.  He describes it as being a mad dog
+nipping at my ankles.  I describe him as alternatively a free-floating
+agent of chaos, or Jiminy Cricket, depending.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Nov 1994 02:16:20 -0500
+Subject: Re: GoS costumes (no spoilers)
+
+     Actually, Londo has two coats, a cloak, several different colored
+vests (blue, black, others), often wears just his shirt, we've seen him
+in his PJs...he's got a fairly large wardrobe.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Nov 1994 02:16:34 -0500
+Subject: Re: "The Geometry of Shadows"
+
+     Ivanova did NOT take the kerchief off either of the Drazi leaders in
+the council chambers; she walked PAST them, and signaled for two of the
+regular Drazi to come down out of the cheap seats.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Nov 1994 02:16:49 -0500
+Subject: "GoS" blow by blow (SPOILERS)
+
+     "A race that speaks in macros" referred to the Drazi constantly
+repeating their stance, Green must fight Purple, Purple must fight Green,
+over and over...macros.
+
+     Sheridan wasn't so much talking to himself at the end, as he was to
+the Tech who'd just asked about clearing the Technomages for jump.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Nov 1994 02:17:10 -0500
+Subject: GoS costumes (no spoilers)
+
+     Ann Bruice did a great job on the technomage costumes; I agree.  She
+found ways to implement what was described in the script that were both
+creative and wore well, and fulfilled the function.  I wanted black, with
+fine silver lines, and an almost circuitboard look to the patterns in
+places, but not *obviously* that, stylized.  She took that and came back
+with a true niftyness....
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Nov 1994 05:08:36 -0500
+Subject: Re: THE GEOMETRY OF SHADOWS --
+
+     I have yelled, frequently and consistently, about the trailers for
+the series, *especially* the use of prior episode's footage, since in my
+view it makes it look like a rerun.  The trailers are assembled by PTEN
+marketing, which is hooked on the idea of flashy visuals, and if they're
+not there, they borrow or cobble them.  And sometimes their version of
+the story doesn't touch reality at any two contiguous points.  It's got
+nothing to do with me, except that it annoys the hell out of me.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Nov 1994 05:10:15 -0500
+Subject: Re: Ivanova's Foot (minor spoi
+
+     Nope, that really was Claudia walking on her broken foot in the
+council chambers.  She's a trooper....
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Nov 1994 17:02:24 -0500
+Subject: ATTN: JMS A question
+
+     No major significance, no; the person doing the narration will, in
+theory, change each year.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Nov 1994 01:39:22 -0500
+Subject: Londo's fate (A DISTANT STAR s
+
+     This thread is also bogus.  The poster, enigma2336@AOL.com is
+screwing with everybody here.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Nov 1994 01:39:34 -0500
+Subject: Sheridan sux
+
+     Here's why I'm troubled by this discussion not at all.
+
+     I've been here before.
+
+     Last season, in the first handful of episodes we aired, some folks
+were screaming that they hated Sinclair, O'Hare was a terrible actor, on
+and on and on (many of them now the ones yelling about how he was the
+great thespic center of the story, and is irreplaceable).  Same thing now
+with Sheridan.
+
+     You get to know a character OVER TIME.  I made a conscious decision
+at the top not to go for broad-strokes characterization, but rather peel
+back layers over time.  Lots of folks hated Londo at first.  Then they
+got to know him *over time*, and turned around to the favorite character
+for many people.
+
+     This was made clearest to me after "Infection" aired, number four to
+be broadcast, when lots of people said that they felt O'Hare was finally
+settling into his role and had improved.  Only later they discovered that
+"Infection" was actually the FIRST episode we shot, it just aired later
+than it was produced (4 rather than 1).  It wasn't that O'Hare had settled
+into Sinclair, it was that the AUDIENCE was settling into Sinclair.
+
+     One of the things I've seen most often on the nets is a certain lack
+of patience...if the actor doesn't grab one right off with some folks,
+it's "he's a bad actor!"  No, you don't work as much, and as successfuly,
+as Bruce and be a bad actor.  He's not.  It's just taking time -- as with
+ALL our characters -- to get to know the audience, and vice-versa.
+
+     I've been here before...heard some yelling that they hated Ivanova,
+Claudia was a rotten actor, space her (now one of the most popular
+characters on the show), same for Garibaldi and others at varying times.
+But by season's end, once we got to KNOW who these people WERE, then that
+changed.  As it'll change here.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Nov 1994 03:47:01 -0500
+Subject: Londo being tortured in A Dist
+
+     Everyone who reads this thread...this is a bogus thread, the so
+called "spoilers" are fakes and have nothing to do with the episode.
+
+     I would, however, suggest that perhaps the poster of this original
+bogus storyline go work with the PTEN marketing people making trailers
+for our show...couldn't be any less accurate than they are now....
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Nov 1994 17:51:28 -0500
+Subject: Technomage: Shadowrun homage?
+
+     The techno-mages were not a homage to ShadowRun games, since I've
+never seen the game, and have never heard of it prior to seeing this
+message.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Nov 1994 17:51:38 -0500
+Subject: Five years!! That's it??????
+
+     I've mentioned before that there's a side-story that could go off,
+within the B5 universe, with a few of our characters, once the Babylon 5
+story itself comes to an end in its fifth year, but that's a long ways off,
+and I don't know if that's realistic.
+
+     You have to understand...I never came in wanting to be a producer.
+I'm a *writer*, and I only got here because it was the only way to protect
+the words...create and run the damned show so nobody can mess with it.
+Once I've finished the Babylon story, assuming it runs its full length,
+(5 years alone, more if there is that doubtful spinoff), the story is
+over.  Every story has a beginning, middle and end, and the story's over
+when it's over.
+
+     I've also made no bones about the fact that, should the Babylon story
+run its full term, I will have said just about everything I want to say in
+television, and plan to get out, go back to writing novels.
+
+     My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room,
+say it, and get the hell out.  (Second philosophy behind that one: when in
+doubt, roll in a grenade and come in firing.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Nov 1994 16:36:03 -0500
+Subject: B5
+
+     It was mainly for story reasons.  In any event...your support and
+kind words are appreciated.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Nov 1994 18:26:42 -0500
+Subject: A Distant Star
+
+     Yes, now that we had the images in hand, Bruce re-did the opening
+narration, and was able to nail it perfectly.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Nov 1994 02:25:29 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Centauri Emperor
+
+     The role of the Centauri emperor has been cast, and performed with
+marvelous skill, in the person of Turhan Bey.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Nov 1994 02:56:59 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: New Director?
+
+     We've signed a few new directors for year two; Mike Vejar, who did
+GoS, will return to do another one or two; have also brought in Mario
+Di Leo and a couple others.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Nov 1994 14:22:37 -0500
+Subject: Evidence (Revelations SPOILERS
+
+     Copies of the evidence were made, but the question is what is the
+available evidence to BE copied?  Frankly, there isn't much.  There are
+no witnesses, very little physical evidence.  If you tried to make a case
+with what they've got, you'd be laughed out of the courtroom.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Nov 1994 00:52:01 -0500
+Subject: The Geometry of Shadows (SPOIL
+
+     "Somehow the idea that her first assignment as Commander is
+successful only because of Garibaldi's competence and on a piece of blind
+luck is perhaps just a bit sexist."
+
+     There were *substantial* differences made between the first draft
+and the final, based on the fact that a lot of the physical stuff I'd
+written for Claudia -- getting herself out of the problem she was in with
+the Drazi -- had to be dumped because the actress had a broken foot.  So
+that aspect has to be remembered.  We pushed her to the limits, and I
+didn't want to push further.
+
+     I don't feel Sheridan was downplaying her promotion; he was sneaking
+it up on her to surprise her, making it more of an unexpected delight.
+
+     Re: the techno-mages being the "alien of the week"...they're humans.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Nov 1994 01:32:26 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: *PLINK* for TV Guide
+
+     The plink got deleted for time; will do it later.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Nov 1994 02:01:37 -0500
+Subject: Why didn't C-prime conquer Ear
+
+     The question isn't so much "Why didn't the Centauri conquer Earth?"
+as, "Why would they have WANTED to?"
+
+     We're kind of off the beaten track, and there's little logistical or
+tactical value to a base here; up until the last couple hundred years, we
+didn't have a technological base they could exploit, and when we finally
+did get one, the Republic was already beginning to shrink and lose its
+tendency toward expansionism.  Basically, we fell between the cracks, and
+for something as substantial as acts of conquer, there have to be solid
+goals, either real or imagined.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Nov 1994 02:06:14 -0500
+Subject: jms: Geometry comment
+
+     The idea behind the title "The Geometry of Shadows" was in a sense
+a metaphor for the techno-mages; geometry bespeaking the use of math and
+equations, the latter being generally something dark, or mysterious, or
+mystical.
+
+                                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Nov 1994 03:07:57 -0500
+Subject: <spoiler of Geometry of Shadow
+
+     Congrats; you're the first person I've seen to get the MacBeth
+parallel.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Nov 1994 19:58:54 -0500
+Subject: JMS: No ST style Technobabble
+
+     So many questions about hyperspace came up over the last year or so
+that we figured they should be addressed; be assured, we're staying as
+clear of technobabble as ever, despite my Spousal Overunit's absolute
+and unshakeable conviction that *everything* is, at its root, a math
+problem.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Nov 1994 22:43:36 -0500
+Subject: Season 1 Themes CD
+
+     There's a *limited edition* of 1,000 CDs being released now; there
+will be a much larger release around January for regular stores.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Nov 1994 08:47:17 -0500
+Subject: Re: Whom Will JMS Kill First?
+
+     Probably the person who puts our promos together for PTEN....
+
+                                                                         jms
+
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+===========================================================================
+| This text is compiled from posts by J. Michael Straczynski on the Usenet
+| group rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.  This document contains material Copyright
+| 1994 J. Michael Straczynski.  He has given permission for his words to be
+| redistributed online, as long as they are marked as being copyright JMS.
+| This document, as well as other Babylon-5 related material, is available
+| by anonymous FTP at ftp.hyperion.com.
+===========================================================================
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 1 Dec 1994 15:49:43 -0500
+Subject: Ship Names (minor ADS spoiler)
+
+     So tell me, Ligia, if Cortez had NOT landed in northern Mexico, do
+you think it would have remained undiscovered until now?
+
+     Fact #1: somebody was bound to discover the Americas.
+
+     Fact #2: any sufficiently advanced civilization or culture will
+inevitably attempt to exploit any civilization or culture not sufficiently
+advanced to fight back on a level playing field.
+
+     Blaming explorers for exploring has always seemed to me really kind
+of silly; do people *really* think that if Columbus hadn't landed here,
+it'd be 1994 and we still wouldn't know the world was round and that
+this continent was here?  It doesn't matter who discovered it, the same
+result would've come.  Somebody had to discover it sooner or later.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Dec 1994 08:57:58 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Re: insignia
+
+     Rank insignia are on the shoulders, as per tradition; the bars under
+the EA logo are for area; gold for command, green for security, red for
+medical, and so on.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 3 Dec 1994 09:03:48 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Baseball game
+
+     I don't recall the SeaQuest game results; I do know that ST called and
+challenged us to a game...we said yes...haven't heard back since.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1994 00:21:32 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  renewal notice when
+
+     If we bombed in November, we'd get NO.  If we did good, we'd get
+Maybe.  So far, we're still (happily) in Maybe.  We likely won't know
+for sure though until March/April.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1994 00:24:04 -0500
+Subject: Dayton Daily News B5 article
+
+     If somebody has a hard-copy of this article, it'd be great if it
+could be sent my way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1994 00:26:13 -0500
+Subject: Boxleitner, the new William Sh
+
+     First people complained that Sinclair wasn't expressive enough; now
+they complain that Sheridan's TOO expressive...Sinclair smiled too much,
+then he was too serious...now Sheridan smiles too much....
+
+     The Canadian TV Guide said Sheridan was as "wooden" as Shatner; now
+he's called as overly expressive as Shatner....
+
+     I dunno...maybe the hangup some people have with Shatner is the
+problem...and maybe they ought to get over it.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1994 00:34:31 -0500
+Subject: jms:interaction on net?
+
+     I appreciate the thought, Roxanna; I guess my main concern isn't
+so much nitpicking, that's part of the game going in; it's just whether
+or not my presence in an unregulated environment brings in so many
+poison darts from trollers and those out to make a hassle that it ruins
+it for others.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1994 00:34:43 -0500
+Subject: Re: jms:interaction on net?
+
+     And, of course, the reality is that there has not been ONE show
+ever produced in the history of television that could withstand the kind
+of scrutiny generally given to SF series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1994 00:37:17 -0500
+Subject: HEEELP!!! Dilgar War????
+
+     The war against the Dilgar was the one referenced in "Deathwalker."
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1994 00:37:40 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Sex questio
+
+     Me, I'm just waiting for somebody to refer to "The Long Dark" as "The
+Long Duck"....
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1994 00:38:06 -0500
+Subject: Is B5 really the "best hope fo
+
+     This is, of course, one of the great ironies of any free society,
+that in order to BE a free society you have to create the very conditions
+that could turn right around and destroy that freedom.  You have to
+allow things you don't like in the hope that there are enough checks and
+balances, and enough attractions to the current system to encourage
+folks not to change over.  (I think it was Che Guevara who said that
+every nation is three meals short of revolution.)
+
+     I keep playing with the notion of an opening narration a year or two
+down the road that says, "the Babylon Project was our last, best hope for
+peace.  It failed."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1994 00:38:31 -0500
+Subject: Spider in the Web CC fiasco no
+
+     Apparently there was a mixup on PTEN's side as to the order of
+episodes, and there wasn't time to get this one CC'd for the first
+airing, though it *will* be close-captioned for the rebroadcast.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1994 00:39:35 -0500
+Subject: JMS Quick question about comme
+
+     I actually don't know which sponsors would be considered primary;
+probably should, huh...?
+
+                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1994 00:41:07 -0500
+Subject: Aliens
+
+     The green/blackish scaly-headed aliens are the Drazi; the ones with
+the cthulhoid tentacles for mouths are pak'ma'ra; the fish-heads seen in
+"Deathwalker" are the Abbai...just for starters.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1994 00:42:38 -0500
+Subject: ATT JMS:  What would have happ
+
+     Okay, alternate-universe time to answer your question....
+
+     "What if Sinclair had not left Babylon 5?"  (Isn't this kinda like
+the Marvel What If? comics..."What If Dr. Blake's Nurse Had Been The One
+to Find Thor's Hammer?")
+
+     The differences would be more noticeable in the later episodes of
+this season, rather than the first batch, which are still dealing in
+large measure with the after-effects of the season finale.
+
+     So the first few episodes would have been somewhat the same in some
+ways to what is there with Sheridan.  The problem that I had was that he
+was becoming (and would have become) mainly a problem-solver character;
+there's a squabble or a problem between other characters who are rising in
+profile (G'Kar, Londo, Delenn, etc.), and he solves the problem in some
+way.  These, to me, were the least interesting episodes of our prior
+season.
+
+     It would've been necessary to bring in another character with a
+direct connection to the shadowmen, since Sinclair's main connection is
+to the Minbari, and it would've been straining credulity to plug him too
+much into THAT story as well...hero of the line, missing 24 hours, Minbari
+soul, AND a tie to the Shadowmen...c'mon, what else does he do, fly under
+his own power?
+
+     Had he stayed, the Shadowman tie probably would've gone to either
+Keffer or Garibaldi.  Which, again, further removes Sinclair from the
+main thrust of the story.  He would have stayed on as more of an observer
+of other people *acting*, while he *reacted*.
+
+     I can't get too specific otherwise without revealing, by contrast,
+what's going to happen later on this season.  Suffice to say this: watch
+the show up to and through "The Coming of Shadows," "All Alone in the
+Night," "Acts of Sacrifice," and "Hunter, Prey."  (That's about episode
+#13.)  You can then ask the question again, but I have a real suspicion
+that once you've seen those episodes, and what Sheridan does, you won't
+NEED to ask, because you'll see how he fits into the overall story in a
+very specific fashion with is 180-degrees different than Sinclair.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1994 00:48:57 -0500
+Subject: Sinclair Who? or The Long Dark
+
+     Re: Sheridan...thanks, and I think you'll continue to like him more
+the deeper we get into the season and we discover what's *really* going
+on with him.  Last season, "Chrysalis" was the episode at season's end
+that kind of turned the show on its head; this season it starts a LOT
+sooner than that...there are several episodes mid-season that whop the
+series upside the head and send it spinning in a very different direction,
+and they mainly involve Sheridan.  In particular, watch for "A Race
+Through Dark Places," "The Coming of Shadows," "All Alone in the Night"
+(which is a biggie, though it's designed NOT to look like that for most
+of the episode), "Acts of Sacrifice" and "Hunter, Prey."  With one or
+two exceptions, they run in a block come February.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1994 01:28:56 -0500
+Subject: JMS: This show of yours, "Baby
+
+     Well, it's good to know all those electives in college came in
+handy SOMEWHERE....
+
+     (I think I racked up enough electives in philosophy to come close
+to a major; as it was I minored in philosophy and literature in my first
+two degrees.)
+
+     There's a vast wealth of literature, poety, ideas, philosophy, that
+people -- average viewers -- know nothing about, because they may have
+been led to think it's dry,and dusty, and irrelevent, and less than
+interesting.  So if I can slip that in, and make it interesting, and
+encourage them to seek out this stuff (I can't tell you how many folks
+have written me to mention they checked out  Yeats and Tennyson based on
+seeing it in this show), then we're doing something worthwhile.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1994 01:29:04 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Ed Wasser-Good actor or n
+
+     Ed Wasser is sort of our discovery; I pretty much wrote the part
+of Morden with him in mind for the role.  He's great in it.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1994 01:32:41 -0500
+Subject: "The Long Dark" Review -- Spoi
+
+     RE: Londo looking "more wicked," we're doing some very small,
+subtle things to his appearance, his wardrobe, pulling him into a
+darker range of fabrics.  (Honest to god, you wouldn't believe how
+careful and detailed we are in setting this stuff up.)  He'll even be
+getting a new, slightly darker coat, straighter lines, closer in style
+to Refa's, before the season's out.  It's really interesting when you
+know where you're going....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1994 01:32:58 -0500
+Subject: Re: Where's the Ring? (minor L
+
+     Anyone who looks too closely for LoTR allegories will over the long
+haul be disappointed; remember, we're also constructing a story that
+casts an eye toward the events of the last 25 or so years, our own fall
+from a vision of the future, and it's designed to have some parallels to
+the story of the original Babylon.  Thus far, though a few have started
+to get glimmers of where this puppy's going, very few yet really get
+just how *big* this story is going to get.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 7 Dec 1994 23:10:47 -0500
+Subject: IMHO's on LONG DARK   **** SPO
+
+     Yes, we will eventually show the view into sheridan's office; we
+did it small in "Geometry," but not well, I think; we need to be back
+further.  So we'll do it again.
+
+     Until we get it right.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Dec 1994 00:22:38 -0500
+Subject: Yeats: The Second Coming (spec
+
+     Joseph: the only thing I'll say is that you stumbled upone one very
+VERY important element in your message...but I'm not telling you which
+one.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Dec 1994 00:23:07 -0500
+Subject: Hey JMS!  Great Show!
+
+     Many thanks; encouragement like this helps us keep going....
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Dec 1994 00:29:20 -0500
+Subject: JMS - Are Most T.V. Writers Ti
+
+     Television writers do, and risk, as much as the industry will allow
+them to.  The television business inclines one toward timidity, toward
+not making trouble, to the lowest common denominator.  The few that rise
+above that are those willing to take a stand and risk losing everything
+if they mess up (Bochco, Kelley, others).
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Dec 1994 00:33:44 -0500
+Subject: Harlan Ellison gone?
+
+     Harlan is still with the show, and his credit appears in the opening
+of each show's first act.
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Dec 1994 23:27:41 -0500
+Subject: Babylon 5 credits font
+
+     Serpentine Medium.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Dec 1994 23:36:36 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Spelling of Zahadoom?
+
+     Z'ha'dum.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 9 Dec 1994 23:41:14 -0500
+Subject: Uncredited Actor?, Future plot
+
+     Conaway is credited in the episode.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Dec 1994 00:00:27 -0500
+Subject: Bab-5 on German TV???
+
+     I believe it'll be on Sat Eintz starting December/January.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Dec 1994 00:02:09 -0500
+Subject: JMS:  Murder she wrote?
+
+     Yeah, I was there on Murder for two years; fun show.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Dec 1994 00:02:25 -0500
+Subject: JMS: From whence "Understandin
+
+     I just kinda thunk it up, based on my past experiences with these
+kinds of essentially theological organizations.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Dec 1994 01:22:43 -0500
+Subject: What's in Joe's head?
+
+     What's in Joe's head?
+
+     Gophers, mainly.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Dec 1994 15:09:51 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Can you help with Au
+
+     This is something I have *zip* control over, alas....
+
+                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Dec 1994 15:12:59 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Why keep harping on San D
+
+     Having lived in San Diego from 1974-81, it's just my way of giving
+a wink to the old home town.  Though there are some important things
+going on underground, in areas no one goes...the choice of SD is just
+a bit of fun.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Dec 1994 19:52:52 -0500
+Subject: Theron: WE WANT PROOF. OR, SHA
+
+     I hate to be the one to point this out, but B5's ratings have been
+steadily on the rise now for weeks; in fact, the President of WB/PTEN
+distribution came here to the stage this week to congratulate everyone
+involved with the show.  We're the 3rd rated dramatic series overall,
+in both ratings and demographics, and the demos are *killer*.  Our last
+rating for "Long Dark" gave us a 5.2, which will definitely put us in
+the top 18 or even 15 of ALL syndicated shows.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Dec 1994 21:22:20 -0500
+Subject: Moronic Fanboys
+
+     Excuse me, but has *anyone* here considered that Sheridan just might
+still be talking to the same tech he was speaking to not *five seconds
+earlier*?  He wasn't talking to himself, so much, or the audience, though
+the push-in (the only shot we had) worked against that.  He *was* talking
+to the tech.  Honest.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Dec 1994 21:28:21 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Comments & question re B5
+
+     It's not supposed to be a blasted landscape around Geneva, and didn't
+look like that in the pencils.
+
+     Ah, well....
+
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Dec 1994 21:28:34 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Making of Babylon 5
+
+     I'm sure it'll eventually come out again somewhere...
+
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Dec 1994 21:37:30 -0500
+Subject: JMS: What does Harlan do?
+
+     Harlan does on the show whatever he *wants* to do on the show.  He
+helped create the Ombuds character, added to the narration, does the
+final VO on the credits, sometimes talks with other writers about the
+show...he's our own personal free-floating agent of chaos....
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Dec 1994 22:08:46 -0500
+Subject: ANSWER ME!!!!
+
+     Some will.  Some won't.  Simple enough?
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Dec 1994 22:09:05 -0500
+Subject: How are you doing?
+
+     So far, we're doing fine...but there's still a very long road
+ahead of us.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 10 Dec 1994 22:10:54 -0500
+Subject: ATN JMS: Chrysalis (spoiler) a
+
+     Yes, if Laurel had stayed with the station, either she would have
+pulled the trigger on Garibaldi, or been directly involved in other ways.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Dec 1994 04:24:20 -0500
+Subject: ATT:JMS Re: Jeff Conaway
+
+     Yes, Conaway will be seen from time to time in the show.
+
+     We get a *very* good selection of name actors, many of whom don't
+generally do syndication (not at what we can afford to pay, much less
+than ST has), but they're generally drawn by the material.  At least
+that's what they tell me, and out of convenience and hubris I have come
+to accept it as true.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Dec 1994 23:04:43 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Media mention, well,
+
+     Now that's comedy....
+
+                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Dec 1994 23:27:30 -0500
+Subject: Re: Ivanova squirms (was Re: I
+
+     "I wanna see those gloves come off.  WHEN she's with someone."
+
+     How's the next batch of new episodes...soon enough for you?
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 11 Dec 1994 23:30:33 -0500
+Subject: Trading cards
+
+     There are also apparently supposed to be real trading cards coming
+out from Cardz eventually.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Dec 1994 02:16:43 -0500
+Subject: JMS: your faves
+
+     So far the best episodes of this year (in my view) are those in the
+next batch, starting January/February.  (My favorite from the first
+group is "Geometry.")  I think "The Coming of Shadows" may be the best
+(or at least my favorite) from the entire series to date.  I'd also put
+"Chrysalis," "Babylon Squared," "A Race Through Dark Places" and
+"Revelations" toward the top.  I suspect that "All Alone in the Night"
+will be up there, but I just today got the director's cut, and haven't
+seen it yet, though the dailies were terrific.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Dec 1994 04:20:28 -0500
+Subject: G'kar and Londo Tango.
+
+     Ah, but you're assuming that the Londo-strangling-scene is as it
+seems to be; maybe it is, but maybe it isn't.  You don't know the context
+yet.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Dec 1994 04:20:42 -0500
+Subject: JMS: A note of thanks.
+
+     The thanks more properly belong with those who've supported and
+discovered the show for what it is, like yourself....
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Dec 1994 04:20:55 -0500
+Subject: Thanks, JMS, for your guest st
+
+     McCallum was *very* pleasant to work with, very unassuming and
+quiet.  We've been very lucky with our guest stars; they have a strong
+respect for the text, and don't stray.  And they bring a lot to each
+performance.  On the subject of genre actors...they often created great
+characters, so memorable that they got typecast, and couldn't find work.
+This to me is a crime, and if we can cast them in ways totally opposite
+what they've done before (Koenig as Bester), and show the real range and
+skill these actors possess, we pay back a little of what they've given
+us, which we kinda owe them, I think.  It's simply a gesture of respect.
+
+
+     (Our first season, when Walter did his episode, when he would come
+to the lunch table -- all writers, producers, crew and actors eat
+together at the stage every day -- all the other cast members used to
+stand until he'd sat...tradition for a senior officer.)
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Dec 1994 04:21:12 -0500
+Subject: Moving Stars (One More Time...
+
+     Because the window is so large, making a revolving cyclorama with
+fiber-optic stars is physically impossible.  Doing matte composites for
+the lengthy shots which generally take place in C&C is also impossible;
+we could spend time rendering all those shots, but then wouldn't have
+time to render any OTHER CGI for the show.  We're still looking for a
+better solution, but for now, it is what it is.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Dec 1994 04:22:57 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Hook-up with David Brin
+
+     I know David Brin; have spoken to him, had lunch, you name it.  I
+think our working habits are attidudes are *very* far apart.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 13 Dec 1994 04:28:55 -0500
+Subject: Attn JMS (was Re: Is B5 really
+
+     And in my more evil moments, in light of the analysis of "it was the
+dawn of the third age of mankind," I'm constantly fighting the temptation
+to have someone show up at the station with his young daughter in tow and
+say, "This is Dawn.  She's three."
+
+     Just to watch everyone's antennae explode....
+
+     (This to Dawn Sharon, who reminded me of it.)
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Dec 1994 01:29:52 -0500
+Subject: SitW link to Stalking the Nigh
+
+     The Bureau 13 name was *entirely* coincidental on Larry's part.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Dec 1994 01:31:34 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Tom McDevitt tribute
+
+     Actually, it was caused by a charity SFWA auction; I bought the
+rights to have a ship named after me in Tom's new book (at that time).
+Ed Bryant was the auctioneer, who snared me into a bidding war with a
+woman with an even longer name than mine, finally provoking me with, "If
+you were a REAL man you'd jump another hundred dollars and shut her down."
+
+     I'm such a stooge....
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Dec 1994 01:31:54 -0500
+Subject: Re: Tv Guide Editor's View
+
+     I hear they're going to print a slightly edited (minus the more
+inflammatory stuff, I was in a bad mood at the time) version of my letter
+in their magazine, with a note from the editor to the effect that he will
+maybe give B5 "another chance."
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Dec 1994 01:51:45 -0500
+Subject: Question for JMS: Mimbari Warr
+
+     Prior to the time of Valen, the Minbari's greatest spiritual leader,
+there was killing of Minbari by Minbari.  There were three warring castes,
+which he pulled together when he formed the Grey Council (three from each
+caste forming nine, Worker, Warrior, Religious Caste).  Since that time,
+and the Minbari have been in space for well over a thousand years, they
+have pretty much hewn to that rule; it is their greatest taboo.  Once the
+three sides were integrated, the warrior caste mainly contented itself
+with external threats.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Dec 1994 04:29:29 -0500
+Subject: JMS: another clipping for your
+
+     Thanks for the info; much appreciated.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Dec 1994 04:31:19 -0500
+Subject: JMS: save $$ on CC? (was: Spid
+
+     Unfortunately, the CC company isn't set up to handle those kinds of
+files.  (And btw, we don't handle that directly; WB/PTEN makes the deal
+with the CC company.)  Generally, on the rare occasions when it isn't on
+first-run, it IS cc'd on the second run.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Dec 1994 18:30:05 -0500
+Subject: Not exactly technobabble... (b
+
+     I don't think referring to a medical problem or illness is in any
+way either technobabble or medbabble.  Either babble is just that, a long
+string of terms which suffice for plot points.  New medical conditions
+come along all the time, and require names.  Twenty years ago we didn't
+have the term AIDS.  If that had been used prior to the illness being
+discovered, would that be considered technobabble?
+
+     I think we need to be somewhat sensible here; from time to time one
+must explain something or refer to something of a technical nature.  I
+don't think that this must lead to a kneejerk response of classifying
+any kind of technical reference as technobabble.  Terms have meaning,
+and the more you generalize those terms, the less meaning they have.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Dec 1994 18:34:53 -0500
+Subject: jms: Sinclair's return
+
+     If I were to tell you when and where Sinclair might be seen again in
+year two, it would *totally* ruin any surprise generated by this when it
+happens.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Dec 1994 18:35:05 -0500
+Subject: JMS: FOX SCI-FI SPECIAL
+
+     They used the only episode Warners gave them...I could say more, but
+why steam up your monitor...?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Dec 1994 18:36:46 -0500
+Subject: Re: What about the new viewers
+
+     One of the focus groups done by Warners had the same reaction from
+one of the people; that B5 was too much a drama, too much character stuff,
+and not enough of what SF is.  So he was asked what he considered SF to
+be.  He lit right up and said, "Power Rangers."
+
+     I almost went for him, right through the two-way glass....
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Dec 1994 18:36:57 -0500
+Subject: Sinclair is "The One" - Right?
+
+     "Sinclair is 'The One' -- right?"
+
+     Question is, the One *what*?
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Dec 1994 18:37:12 -0500
+Subject: Thanks, JMS, for a great show!
+
+     Thank you very much; your kind words are very much appreciated.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Dec 1994 18:37:27 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Other comic stories
+
+     Part of me wants to follow the other characters from the pilot, but
+another part of me knows that only a relatively small portion of B5
+viewers have actually *seen* the pilot, and it might kinda lose them.  I
+dunno, still considering it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Dec 1994 18:37:42 -0500
+Subject: ATTN: JMS Question on Sensors
+
+     As Sheridan states in the conference room in "Points," they've
+never been able to crack the Minbari stealth tech, so there's no real
+upgrade to make.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Dec 1994 18:37:57 -0500
+Subject: Is JMS a Vorlon?
+
+     Yeah, a lot of my posts are dated in the wee hours, 1-3 a.m. or
+thereabouts; sometimes later.  (Though a few, like this one, are a bit
+more ordinary.)  You have to understand the schedule: I get to the
+studio early, I try to be on stage for filming as much as I can, then
+there's casting, meetings, editing, mixing, tone discussions with
+directors, on and on and on...then I come home around 8 p.m. or so, grab
+a fast bite, go into my office, write scripts until around midnight or
+one (occasionally blipping onto the modem while the dinosaur part of my
+brain tries to work out a story point), then do the bulk of my modeming
+live and on-line from then through the wee hours.  Then I crash and do it
+all over again the next day.  (I can use Tapcis for some off-line
+composing, but all my GEnie stuff and Internet stuff is written on-line,
+since the GEnie gateway can't handle offline stuff; once I've read a
+message here, it vanishes from my mailbox.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 14 Dec 1994 23:41:06 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Situation in Seattle, WA?
+
+     I don't know what the situation is or will be, but I'll endeavor to
+find out.  (Meanwhile, if you want to roll out the cavalry, feel free.)
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 15 Dec 1994 01:42:03 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Showing support for
+
+      Of everything, writing your local station remains the best way of
+supporting B5.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Dec 1994 00:40:30 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS : The name Vorlon?
+
+     This question is going to require considerable thought before I can
+find how to take what's in my head and explain it.
+
+     Also an exorcism, probably....
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Dec 1994 00:40:46 -0500
+Subject: JMS:Who watchers the watchmen?
+
+     "Who watches the watchmen" is an old Latin phrase, sometimes
+translated as "who guards the guards?"  Given sufficient time I could
+probably dig up the origin of the phrase; it's fairly common.
+
+     And thanks re: Ivanova...she's a hoot.  (And btw, Claudia and I are
+tentatively set to do a Horizons convention in England around Apilr or
+(er, make that April or) May.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Dec 1994 00:41:50 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Your letter to TV gu
+
+     I think if I posted it here, intact, it'd blow out the hub and crash
+the system...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Dec 1994 00:43:40 -0500
+Subject: JMS: phony promo for "Soul Mat
+
+     Not a fake promo, the WRONG promo...sigh...this one airs later.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Dec 1994 02:57:57 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Re: Question for JMS: Min
+
+     There are some differences in appearances, over years of tradition
+and change, between castes; primarily, the warrior caste tend to bring
+their bone-crests to jagged points.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Dec 1994 02:58:11 -0500
+Subject: JMS:Is The Future Fixed?(ie. P
+
+     "I think that pre-destination is about as unscientific as you can
+get."
+
+     Y'know, that's EXACTLY the sort of thing you'd say.  It was
+inevitable.
+
+     Free will or predistination...I don't think either has been in any
+way scientifically proven.  And your message indicates that you think one
+or two people CAN stop a war.  How?  With what information?  You're
+attributing godlike powers to our characters.  Sadly, in real life, all
+too often we're stuck watching the car accident in slow motion, knowing
+what's coming but unable to stop it.
+
+     The war *will* come (and they don't hear the narration, that's just
+for you the viewer); question is, how will it come out?  There's room for
+fluidity there, certainly.  So it's both...the war is inevitable; the
+outcome, less so.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Dec 1994 17:27:38 -0500
+Subject: JMS:  Keep the comic topical
+
+     Thanks.  I haven't seen the colored pages of later issues, but the
+pencils and, for the most part, inks are improving a bit.  And thanks
+again for the support.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 16 Dec 1994 17:30:43 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Is B5 doomed?
+
+     You're mixing apples and oranges; it may be tied for 20 with ALL
+show, but you're including talk shows, and game shows, and Entertainment
+Tonight.  In the ratings, you break out categories; and we're the third
+rated dramatic series, #3 out of 16 or 17.  And our demographics are
+stellar.  So things are looking very good right now.
+
+     Seeing numbers is one thing, but you have to know how they are
+interpreted by ad agencies and networks for it to count.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Dec 1994 04:24:14 -0500
+Subject: PARADOX!! Re: JMS:Is The Futur
+
+     Yeah, one can drag chaos theory into this...but this is a work of
+fiction, with a fairly traditional epic structure, meaning overall I'm
+more interested in myth than math.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Dec 1994 04:54:38 -0500
+Subject: Attn. JMS:  JMS as Father Chri
+
+     Okay, let's see, what can I tell you to tide you over...the next
+six new episodes that'll run are, in order, "A Race Through Dark Places,"
+"The Coming of Shadows," "GROPOS," "All Alone in the Night," and "Acts of
+Sacrifice," with "Hunter, Prey" being the final new one in that cycle.
+
+     I can say that all of those episodes (with the nominal exception of
+"GROPOS," which though it is a solid arc episode doesn't change the
+overall direction of the series) are stories that have major and
+substantial effects on the show's direction. In season one, we built all
+season to maybe three major WHAM episodes.  ("Sky," "Signs," "Chrysalis.")
+This year we have double that number at minimum, and with greater impact.
+
+     All of our major characters will start going through major
+upheavals in their lives during this period.  It's a *very* intense six
+weeks.  Several characters make decisions that completely change the
+direction of the show, and the way their character fits in with the
+series.  One episode will look very much unconnected to the arc until the
+last five minutes, at which point there's a revelation that will likely
+astonish some and confirm suspcions for some other viewers.
+
+     Simply put, by the end of those six episodes, in many ways the show
+you're used to isn't the same anymore, and the relationships between
+several major characters simply aren't the same anymore.  And most
+interesting for me is that we get to push some of the characters'
+emotions to the very edge...and snap them.
+
+     These six represent some of the strongest episodes we've ever done;
+I consider "Coming" to be probably the best episode to date.  In "GROPOS"
+we're going for broke and are doing some *amazing* CGI stuff.
+
+     How's that for a start?
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Dec 1994 04:54:50 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Signs reaction, ....
+
+     Thanks; "Signs" is definitely a real hoot....
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 17 Dec 1994 04:55:01 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Sinclair-Garibaldi Closen
+
+     Garibaldi is cautious, and careful, and his friendship with Sheridan
+will have to grow -- sometimes awkwardly -- with the new CO.  We are doing
+some intersting things with the Londo/Garibaldi axis, however....
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Dec 1994 04:11:05 -0500
+Subject: JMS-?'s and observations about
+
+     San Diego was nuked by terrorists some time earlier; but if you dig
+deep enough, you could probably build something with enough money; and
+who knows how bad it *really* is.
+
+     Ratings are very encouraging right now....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Dec 1994 04:11:15 -0500
+Subject: Re: BABYLON 5 Charges re: PARA
+
+     It's hard to believe that anyone could consider B5 "too expsensive"
+since it costs considerably *less* than DS9 or Voyager to produce, by
+quite a margin.
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Dec 1994 05:07:21 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Female Chars (Ivanova's T
+
+     Placement in credits has got *nothing* to do with placement in the
+story arc; it's a function of how many episodes the character appears in,
+and what the actor can negotiate for.  Totally separate issue.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Dec 1994 19:55:34 -0500
+Subject: JMS:  Londo and Shakespeare? (
+
+     The interesting thing for me in this and related conversations is
+that I frequently notice messages indicating that "jms is doing the whole
+Kennedy thing," or it's the Lord of the Rings, or it's Dune, or it's
+tracking the Bible, or it's following Yeats...or it echoes Shakespeare,
+as in this case.
+
+     In a way, they're all right, and in a way, they're all wrong.  Right
+in the sense that in trying to create myth, or a story using traditional
+epic structure, you can see echoes not only between B5 and other such
+stories, but also between those other epics.  The mistake is in thinking
+(and this isn't directed at you, just sorta woolgathering) that it is in
+fact a parallel to any one of them.  That leads you into the error of the
+blind men each touching a part of an elephant; if you think the trunk IS
+the elephant, you've erred, and all conclusions that follow are thus
+skewed incorrectly.
+
+     To the question of Shakespeare and Londo...yes, there's some
+resonance there, because Londo is an almost archetypal tragic/comic, or
+romantic/tragic figure.  There was certainly a fair amount of Falstaff in
+him; references to consulting three technomages certainly resonates with
+MacBeth being "endorsed" as it were by the three witches.  You can look at
+Londo and see Lear, or Hamlet, or others...and they all resonate to one
+degree or another, but none of them is wholecloth.
+
+     Right now, all that most viewers have of the B5 story is a piece of
+the elephant, and are assuming that that *is* the elephant.  Another good
+comparison would be to say that if you stop a reader part way into The
+Lord of the Rings, they'll assume it's all about some hobbits on the road,
+having adventures.  Because they don't yet know about Mordor, or Sauron,
+or the Rings, or Rivendell, or the sheer *scope* of the thing.  I don't
+think anyone has yet twigged to what this story is, really.
+
+     One of the things really lacking in American culture, I think, is a
+sense of *myth*.  So the story of Babylon 5 has a very mythic kind of
+structure.  I think that's important.  Which is why a lot of the elements
+I draw on aren't traditional television devices...literature, poetry,
+religion, hard SF, metafiction, Jungian symbology...there are an awful
+lot of ingredients in this particular pie, culled from the less likely
+aisles in the supermarket.  You have to remember that my degrees are in
+psychology and sociology, with minors in literature and philosophy.  So
+my tastes and predilections and resources are fairly eclectic and lean
+toward the classical.  (How else to explain an atheist who's read the
+Bible cover to cover *twice*?)
+
+     And I think I just answered your question in far more detail than
+could possibly have been desired....
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Dec 1994 20:12:48 -0500
+Subject: Observations on Season Two to
+
+     The only quibble I have with your message, and it's a small one, is
+your statement, "The success of Trek made B5 possible."
+
+     Not true.  In fact, Trek has made it infinitely *harder* to get
+other SF on the air, including B5.  The general concensus in Hollywood is
+that the market isn't big enough to sustain more than one SF show at a
+time (particularly if it's space-oriented), and that's ST.  (That may only
+NOW start to change with the growth of B5's ratings.)
+
+     At every network, every studio in town, we were told -- repeatedly --
+that there is NO market for space SF other than Trek, that they had the
+field to themselves, and there was no interest in trying to buck that
+scenario.  That's one of the reasons that PTEN was so cautious in putting
+B5 on the air, among others.  Even when we got the go for series, we were
+told that this was a dubious endeavor, because "we just don't think the
+market can sustain more than one show like this; we'll try it, but we'll
+just have to see what happens."
+
+     So believe me, ST has not "made B5 possible."  It has been an
+obstacle (one of many) to overcome.  Not just for us, but for other sF
+projects that have tried to get off the ground.  And over the last few
+months, we've now heard of other new SF shows gearing up in this area,
+because we've shown it can be done.  And I think it's terrific; the more
+shows, the more we have to compete with one another, the better the shows
+will become, and the ultimate beneficiary of this is the viewer.
+
+     Look at it this way...in the 25+ years since ST (and for the moment
+leaving out Buck Rogers, about which the less said the better), how many
+American SF series have there been set in the future with us as space
+faring people that have lasted more than just *one* season?  Answer: zero.
+ If ST had proven a market, wouldn't there be some in there?  ST has never
+shown that there's a market for more SF, only that there's a market for
+more ST.  B5 is the first show in over a quarter-century to play in this
+particular back yard and go more than one season.
+
+     So you'll undertstand why, when people sometimes suggest that ST made
+B5 possible, the hairs on the back of my neck stand up....
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 18 Dec 1994 20:24:34 -0500
+Subject: Re: Universal Moral code and G
+
+     The idea of getting all sentient life forms, human and alien alike,
+to agree on a UNIVERSAL MORAL CODE is utterly impossible.  Hell, get 15
+people together and have them decide on where to go for LUNCH can take
+you *days*.  The UN brought forth a Universal Bill of Human Rights, and
+there are STILL nations that haven't signed it, don't agree with it.  Can
+you imagine the GREATER differences of opinion when you start bringing
+non-humans into the equation?
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Dec 1994 03:08:22 -0500
+Subject: Re: Observations on Season Two
+
+     "Space: 1999" is, I think, *really* splitting hairs, in the sense
+that it is and was a British series.  Whether or not it was targeted for
+Americans, or made *acceptable* to Americans, is a debatable issue.  But
+it was something in the back of my head when I wrote my message....
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Dec 1994 03:26:53 -0500
+Subject: Re: BABYLON 5 Charges re: PARA
+
+     Yes, stations "have bills to pay," but buying a cheaper show isn't
+necessarily the solution if that show doesn't pull ratings.  Because the
+money a station earns to PAY those bills comes from advertisers, based on
+the ratings.  And B5 is currently rating very well.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Dec 1994 03:27:04 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS:  Londo and Shakespear
+
+     "People with psychology backgrounds are sneaky, devious,
+underhanded, untrustworthy bastards."
+
+     Yeah...and...?
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 19 Dec 1994 05:54:29 -0500
+Subject: re: predestination
+
+     Your interpretation is correct; the narration is designed as future
+history.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Dec 1994 00:45:18 -0500
+Subject: OFFICIAL UK C4 airdates for Se
+
+     If the problem is showing bare-kunckle fighting to the death, then
+somebody should point out to C4 that *nobody dies* in the match.
+
+	                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Dec 1994 05:06:56 -0500
+Subject: UK:Channel 4 latest
+
+     I'm piggy-backing this note to a UK letter in order to reach our
+friends across the pond.
+
+     Hullo!
+
+     I have a question/favor to ask.
+
+     There's a puppet kid's show that aired in the US around the early
+1960s that was made in England.  There it was called "Space Patrol," but
+here it was called "Planet Patrol" to distinguish it from another show
+called "Space Patrol."  I've been looking for copies of this show for
+literally decades; I've only found one.  I would be willing to make
+whatever arrangements necessary to get additional copies of this show.
+
+     (Hey, it was my fave show as a kid, what can I say...?)
+
+	                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Dec 1994 05:07:05 -0500
+Subject: Re: Observations on Season Two
+
+     Correct; Battlestar Galactica wasn't about Earth's future; it was
+about them looking for us, their lost tribe, in our present.  Doesn't fit
+the bill.
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Dec 1994 05:07:14 -0500
+Subject: Re: Universal Moral code and G
+
+     Of course, getting everyone to agree to support and promote life and
+intelligence means coming up with a definition everone out there would
+agree upon for both those areas.  Would some species even consider us
+intelligent?  Would their sensory apparatus be sufficient to distinguish
+us as living beings, or their biology be so different that by their
+standards we don't qualify?
+
+     And even here at home, some can use that debate for their own
+purposes.  I saw a documentary last night about Nazi propaganda films used
+before and during the war to encourage doctors to terminate the physically
+and mentally disadvantaged, particularly the latter.  They were routinely
+gassed in asylums.  The logic they used: the mentally insane suffered
+from "existence without life."  Thus there was no crime in eliminating
+them.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Dec 1994 05:07:22 -0500
+Subject: JMS Re: Power Rangers
+
+     Steen wanted to leave POWER to pursue other things; so I gave her a
+good death....
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Dec 1994 05:23:50 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Any images from the
+
+     Will try to upload a few down the road a bit.
+
+	                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Dec 1994 21:24:48 -0500
+Subject: B5 CD Booklet: Why stiff O'Har
+
+      I was actually kinda surprised by the omission myself; I do believe
+there's a photo of Michael in there (him and Jerry standing in front of
+the big fan set)...I can only assume that it was done under the current
+licensing, and that department sent him what was to be on there.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Dec 1994 21:24:56 -0500
+Subject: Attn JMS: Where and When is th
+
+     The Horizons con is in late April or May sometime, and takes place
+in Bristol.  Claudia and I aren't in any way involved, just working on
+the show.  (There's a chance Peter Jurasik may also attend.)
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Dec 1994 21:26:32 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Universe Today?
+
+     Re: putting out an expanded Universe Today...y'know, that's not a
+bad idea....
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Dec 1994 21:56:54 -0500
+Subject: att jms:  cramps?
+
+     If your desire is to be equal...we've already shown Sinclair and
+Garibaldi taking a whiz in the men's room.
+
+     And it's doubtful that Garibaldi's jockstrap would play much of a
+role in the story arc....
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Dec 1994 21:58:30 -0500
+Subject: JMS: How Many Planets? Balance
+
+     Earth Alliance has about 14 worlds/colonies in 12 different solar
+systems.
+
+                                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Dec 1994 21:58:38 -0500
+Subject: JMS-Demon Night
+
+     Thanks.  For a first novel, DEMON NIGHT is okay; learned a lot
+doing it.  Mainly just wrote it for myself, when I couldn't find the sort
+of book I wanted to read, then when finished, shoved it in the closet and
+left it there for about 2 years, when my agent said I should really write
+a book someday.  I said that I had, just for myself.  She asked to read
+it, loved it, sent it to an agent affiliate of hers, the agent in NY sent
+it to an editor, and the first one who read it, bought it.  Go figure....
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Dec 1994 22:00:20 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS:  Londo and Shakespear
+
+    OOOPS!  Just realized that the writer of that extremely perceptive
+message that I just replied to is a woman, not a man (looked at the
+name/address of the wrong message).  Well, you're welcome to a cigar
+too, Melanie.  Pull up a chair, and let's sit here and belch at each
+other, whattaya say...?
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Dec 1994 22:00:31 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: ? Re: Futurequest PB
+
+     Yep, the folks at Futurequest asked if we could donate our stages
+for their use when we weren't using them, and we said yes.  (So far I've
+seen part of our central corridor, and the dome tech's pit in C&C.)
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Dec 1994 22:00:41 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS:  Londo and Shakespear
+
+     "We see aspects of different myth-forms in Babylon 5 because they
+were the paradigms JMS used in developing his writing style, not because
+he's 'doing the Shakespeare thing.'"
+
+     Somebody give that man a ceegar.
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 20 Dec 1994 23:59:39 -0500
+Subject: Believers: operating over pare
+
+     Of course the surgical scars would've been a dead giveaway that
+surgery had been performed.  Also, lying to them would have also been a
+violation of medical ethics.  This was not a story about easy solutions.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Dec 1994 02:25:37 -0500
+Subject: B5 clips spotted on PBS "Futur
+
+     I know that shot (the work crew in EVA suits) has been used in the
+show; I'll be damned if I can remember in which episode it appeared.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Dec 1994 02:25:46 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: ? Re: Futureques
+
+     I seem to vaguely recall someone mentioning to me about maybe
+wanting to be interviewed on FutureQuest; I just wasn't sure what I would
+have to say that would be the least interest to anyone.  All of the really
+interesting stuff comes out of my characters' mouths.  You gotta
+understand, the overwhelming reaction upon meeting me is that there's
+less here than meets the eye.  Stick a camera in front of my face and I
+end up just standing there, finger in ear, going bibble-bibble-bibble
+until it's over.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Dec 1994 04:55:17 -0500
+Subject: Re: Observations on Season Two
+
+     I recently got a better understanding of what may have been forcing
+Paramount's hand re: their struggle to get a death grip on the stations,
+even at the cost of B5.  Over the weekend I had the chance to talk with
+somebody WAY up the ladder in the Star Trek arena, a major name.  From
+what I was told, the Paramount Network was in serious trouble of not
+getting the required number of stations for some time.
+
+     What this means is as follows: you're a national sponsor.  You want
+to make sure your commercials hit a certain percentage of the population.
+One of the ways to assure this is to get a certain number of TV stations
+in major markets; fall below that threshold, and the sponsors drop off.
+Call that figure X.  Apparently, up until a few weeks ago, Paramount had
+X minus about 10.  If indeed they were pressuring stations, that would
+seem to be the reason for it.  As of last week, however, apparently they
+now have the correct number of stations, and all is well (which explains
+why one person here on the Internet was told recently by his local
+station that it *was* kind of preferred that B5 be dropped, but that this
+wasn't the case anymore).
+
+     Overall, we've lost a few stations, but nothing so substantial that
+we can't find ways around it.  They've got their stations, we've got ours,
+and in most cases they're the same stations.  Fair enough.
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Dec 1994 17:04:46 -0500
+Subject: Re: B5 clips spotted on PBS "F
+
+     The cleanup crew in "Revelations" was out working the hazmat
+platform, that was a different object than the one shown in the clip.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Dec 1994 17:07:46 -0500
+Subject: JMS:Is B5 broadcast letterbox?
+
+     B5 is broadcast in traditional aspect ratio; the letterbox version
+will only be available later.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Dec 1994 17:10:53 -0500
+Subject: JMS: How come Dr. Franklin did
+
+     How do you know Franklin DIDN'T know about the biological changes
+Delenn is going through?  Remember the scene in "Revelations;" he's
+allowed inside ONLY on the condition that he not tell anyone what he
+learns.  A doctor's oath of confidentiality is crucial.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Dec 1994 17:11:07 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Language in the comic?
+
+     The word "bastards" was in the script I turned in to DC.  It got
+changed to "demons" by the editor.  That change was made at the last
+minute; all the inked and penciled versions I'd seen before had the right
+word in it.  I'm considerably less than thrilled about it.
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Dec 1994 17:11:25 -0500
+Subject: JMS: What about Projectile Wea
+
+     I have no objection to showing mass drivers, and the main problem
+with projectile weapons inside the station is that they have a nasty
+tendency to breach the hull, eliminating both parties.  Though you will
+see some projectile-type weapons used elsewhere around the first part of
+February.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 21 Dec 1994 17:13:06 -0500
+Subject: Re: Universal Moral code and G
+
+     Eric: I will now collapse your 114 line message into what you were
+trying to say behind the fog of words: you want YOUR belief system
+to be the primary one portrayed, because yours is the truth, and the rest
+are, as you say, "bullshit."
+
+     So get your own damned show...aside, of course, from the hundreds of
+hours of religious programming *already* filling the airwaves and cable
+systems every day of the year.
+
+     Sorry, but I'm under no obligation whatsoever to reinforce your or
+anyone else's particular idea of what the Truth is.  And your particular
+breed of intolerance is on of the uglier aspects of modern christianity.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Dec 1994 02:54:29 -0500
+Subject: ok, I wrote, now what?
+
+     Now you can rest, at peace with the knowledge that you have worked
+off at least fifteen karma points from that rather unfortunate prior life
+in the middle ages....
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Dec 1994 02:54:39 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: The big "E-A"
+
+     How the EA symbol came about is really kind of interesting.  I knew
+that we needed something nifty, but the preliminary designs created for
+this just didn't do it for me.  So I sat down with the graphics designer,
+and we started sketching stuff out.  At this point we were looking mainly
+for the right silhouette.  Circle was out; oval was too soft; triangle
+was too Trek.  At one point he did a star variation.  I looked at it, and
+somewhere in my head the right configuration was there, so I started to
+erase the points of the star, round them off, filled out the middle (and
+if you've ever seen me draw, it's a scary thing; I should stick to
+writing).
+
+     I knew the shape was right when I'd finished, but I knew there was
+still something missing.  That night, the designer called and said he'd
+been looking at it again, and he suddenly noticed that what we'd done was
+to put a silhouette E over a silhouette A, and when he sketched in the
+inner horizontal bars, tucked in the corner of the feet on the A, it
+came together perfectly.
+
+     My problem is often that I can see what I want in my head, but I'm
+limited on actually drawing it.  When we were doing the prosthetic design
+for the pilot for Delenn, our prosthetic designer hit a wall on the
+headbone section, finally threw up his hands and didn't know what to do
+with the thing.  I went over to the studio, we talked for a while, I
+couldn't quite communicate what was in my head, so I grabbed one of the
+sticks they use to shape the clay and started re-shaping the back and
+sides of the crest.  (He'd had them going straight down; I started to
+curve them, and hollow them out, making them more shell-like.)  By the
+time we were done, we had it worked out.
+
+     Which is really part of the fun in doing your own series; you get to
+stick your nose into parts of the production that normally you'd never get
+near, and do your best to screw it up, because that's what bosses do.
+I'm directly involved in costume approval, prosthetics, EFX, production
+design approval, everything.  (On a couple of occasions I've sketched out
+what I had in mind for costumes, much to the amusement of our costume
+designer, because they look like something a 5-year old would draw.  A
+drunk 5-year old, actually.  But they communicate the silhouette, and
+that's the important thing, despite the fact that she's keeping the
+sketches for blackmail.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Dec 1994 02:54:49 -0500
+Subject: Re: Symbolism vs. Functionalit
+
+     To the notion that there's no symbolism or ritual in the ways humans
+do things like cleansing oneself (unless, of course, you're from India,
+where there is a very real sense of ritual to these things), such
+symbolism can always be *introduced* into the routine.
+
+     Say, by showering with a chicken.
+
+     Works for me.
+
+                                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Dec 1994 03:25:27 -0500
+Subject: JMS: the original concept for
+
+     Yes, since you've sussed it...the plan was to turn Delenn from
+male to female in "Chrysalis," in my original plans, as well as making
+her half-human.  And yes, it would've had one hell of an impact...but my
+concern when I made that decision not do do this back in the pilot was
+based on the reality that we couldn't do it well.  The "male" voice,
+altered by computer-enhancement, just sounded REAL bogus; we couldn't
+get it right, and I had to decide between dropping it, and doing something
+the people would rightly describe as lame all season, just for one big
+payoff.  It was a tough call, but it had to be made.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 22 Dec 1994 03:25:38 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: ? Re: Futureques
+
+     Re: repeat performances (or is that re: peat performance)...I said
+just about all I could think of to say.  The show really has to speak for
+itself, and most of anything I'd have to say should be said there.  I
+don't tend to do a lot of interviews; I generally okay about one out of
+every twenty or so requests.  Don' wanna be no star.  The story is the
+star, and the actors are the stars.
+
+     To quote Meatloaf, "I ain't in it for the power, And I ain't in it
+for my health, I ain't in it for the glory of anything at all, And I sure
+ain't in it for the wealth."
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Dec 1994 03:50:19 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Exercise on B5?
+
+     Actually, bear in mind that while C&C is one-third G, the rest of
+the station is not, and the closer you get to the hull, the greater the
+gravity.  If Ivanova wants to experience one-g, she doesn't have to use
+exercise machines, she just has to go down to the right level.
+
+     Not entirely unrelated, though, we're figuring on gradually working
+our way to showing exercise, sports and sporting events on B5; just want
+to be sure that when we do it, it looks right.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Dec 1994 03:55:01 -0500
+Subject: JMS:  Great Job on second seas
+
+      Thanks; slowly but surely, we're figuring out how to make this
+show work....
+
+	                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Dec 1994 03:55:20 -0500
+Subject: JMS:  Why does it hurt?
+
+     Scanning only hurts if it's a deep scan, trying to dredge out lost
+or buried thoughts, or if the other person is resisting.  It can be
+anything from a headache to a migraine in intensity in general..
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Dec 1994 04:07:03 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Why is Londo the
+
+     "Morden is the mongoose."
+
+     So what's needed now is a conveniently placed cobra....
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 23 Dec 1994 19:39:31 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS:  Great Job on second
+
+     "So there really isn't enough action right now for my tastes."
+
+     You should be careful what you wish for...because you're going to get
+more than your share of action in the batch of episodes beginning January
+23rd...and when the dust settles, you may wish you'd wished otherwise....
+
+	                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Dec 1994 00:54:47 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Water on B5?
+
+     One can't do *science* fiction without some occasional references to
+technology; don't let ST poison the well here.
+
+     There's a fair amount of water on B5, all of it recycled carefully.
+You have to allocate some drip-irrigation for stuff like the hedge maze
+and a few other things because the mind needs stuff like that.  I would
+think that they manage to siphon off any growing humidity inside the
+central area rather than allow for unplanned rainstorms that might muck
+things up.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Dec 1994 01:19:49 -0500
+Subject: A visit from St. Joe
+
+     Dear Mr. DiMuzio:
+
+     I believe the Nuremberg Literary Crimes Committee would like a word
+with you....
+
+	                                                                     jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 24 Dec 1994 01:21:38 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Why is Londo the
+
+     I think you're being far, far too literal in looking for snake
+imagery....
+
+	                                                        jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Dec 1994 03:18:57 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Why is Londo the
+
+     There would have been more than one answer that would have sufficed,
+but one answer was better than all the rest.  Just the right mix of
+resentment, nostalgia, ambition, frustration and a sense of displaced
+destiny.  Londo was hitting all those cylinders when he answered Morden's
+question.
+
+	                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Dec 1994 03:19:05 -0500
+Subject: HEY JOE, Where's N'Grath ????
+
+     I kinda got disenchanted with the way n'grath came out; he may or may
+not return.  (In my mind I keep seeing some new enforcer with n'grath's
+head on his desk....)
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 25 Dec 1994 19:22:55 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Where did episode #
+
+     207 is "A Race Through Dark Places," guest-starring Walter Koenig.
+Because 207 required extra post-production work, and we wanted to bang
+in with a good name guest star at the top of our next batch of new eps,
+we moved 208 "Soul Mates" down one, as the last of the batch just aired.
+Everyone at PTEN was notified of this, but somehow somebody didn't get
+the word, and misinformation got out.  So for the week of January 23rd,
+that'll be "Race," followed by the rest pretty much in production
+sequence.
+
+	                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Dec 1994 19:47:18 -0500
+Subject: Hey JMS : Small season 2 plot
+
+     Not a plot hole; wait for "All Alone in the Night."
+
+	                                                                   jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Dec 1994 19:47:27 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Collars?
+
+     The collar change-over is intentional, carrying through the tradition
+of men's collars closing one way, women's another.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 26 Dec 1994 23:49:33 -0500
+Subject: Peter David does it again.
+
+     You mean like showing two of our command staff in the men's room
+taking a whiz?  (Oops, sorry, we already did that one.)  Maybe having the
+command staff talk about their zippers.  (Oops, did that one, too.)
+
+      Just thought of several others, but we've done those, too.
+
+      This show is about *people*, not statues or icons.  And it's in the
+little details, hassles, and physicality that we are reminded of their
+frailities and humanity...and see a little of ourselves in the process.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Dec 1994 04:19:00 -0500
+Subject: More concerns regarding the se
+
+     ...sigh....
+
+     Nobody at the network has been messing with the show.  My general
+feeling is that at the start of a new season, you're going to get a lot
+of new people to the show, sampling it, and you want to bring them in
+gradually.  (And as it is, there's been a LOT about the shadows in the
+first batch of episodes, in "Revelations," in "The Long Dark," and in
+other episodes.)
+
+     The first seven episodes were mainly to introduce Sheridan, and to
+ease in the new folks.  The next six new ones are *extremely* intense, and
+get into ALL the areas you said you wanted to see, from Santiago to the
+Psi Corps to the Shadow, you name it.
+
+     I don't think a show like this can be rushed; people tend to get
+impatient, which is understandable.  This show will get where it's going,
+but it'll have to do so at its own pace.
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Dec 1994 04:19:08 -0500
+Subject: More concerns regarding the se
+
+     P.S.  It occurs to me to correct what may be perceived as the tone
+of my reply, sent seconds ago.  I just answered the same question on
+another system (though that one was phrased rather...aggressively), and
+upon seeing it not fifteen minutes later, I just sorta sighed at it.
+It's a valid question, and I hope my tone didn't imply otherwise.
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Dec 1994 04:48:10 -0500
+Subject: Re: Peter David does it again.
+
+     G.T. Walton says, "I have followed Peter David since his early
+days."
+
+     Well...okay...but the peeking in his windows after dark has *gotta*
+stop....
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Dec 1994 04:48:18 -0500
+Subject: What repercussions ? Opinions
+
+     And here the same, as just noted earlier.
+
+     We're only seven episodes into the new season; you have to build up
+to some of this stuff.  Episodes 8 - 13 should satisfy just about all of
+your requests.  And then some.  B5 is a novel, and like any novel you have
+to  have little diversions and asides along the way to continue to bulid
+(build) the universe and your characters.  The deeper you get into it, the
+fewer of those you get.  But we ain't nearly that deep yet.
+
+	                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Dec 1994 20:45:58 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Delenn Sex-Change?
+
+     Yes, originally Delenn would also have changed sex in "Chrysalis."
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Dec 1994 20:46:12 -0500
+Subject: ST-TNG vs. B5 fans, any e
+
+     "TV needs more JMSs...."
+
+     Oh, dear....
+
+     "Hey, Morrie!  MORRIE!  Get another one of those crates down here!
+Yeah, the JMS-7 models.  How the hell do I know, some lady named Stef
+called down from the main office and said they needed some more, what am
+I, a crystal ball?  Just get it down here.  I don't *care* if you dropped
+it on its head and now all it does is sit inna corner and go "wubble."
+Happened to the last one, too, and nobody's complained yet...."
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Dec 1994 20:49:18 -0500
+Subject: What are we to be called?
+
+     What to call fans of B5?  How about the Incredibly Discerning
+In-Crowd, which would obviously be shortened to --
+
+     I can't...I just can't do it....
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Dec 1994 20:51:02 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: the original concept
+
+     Correct; once we'd decided to commit to Delenn being female in the
+series, the makeup was modified to lose some of the more male elements.
+
+	                                                                    jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Dec 1994 20:51:14 -0500
+Subject: Hey, Joe-TV38 is moving B5 all
+
+     The ratings are strong, but the ratings are also a function of when
+the show is aired.  Move the show around a lot, and the ratings will fall
+on any show, because folks can't find it.  Sometimes it's accidental,
+sometimes not.  "It is *life*" -- Zathras.
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Dec 1994 20:51:24 -0500
+Subject: Re: Favorite B5 lines
+
+     "Susan always gets the best lines, doesn't she?"
+
+     Yup.  Ah LIKES writing for Ivanova.  She's a hoot.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Dec 1994 20:51:33 -0500
+Subject: B-5 Comic Sold Out?
+
+     You were told wrong.  The book has sold very well, and DC is
+committed to further improving the project, both in terms of artwork, and
+quality in general (such as going to a better stock of paper in another
+issue or two, which won't bleed the color so much).
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 27 Dec 1994 21:20:10 -0500
+Subject: Re: Favorite B5 lines
+
+     See, for me, the best part about all of this isn't determining WHAT
+is a favorite line, but just that there ARE favorite lines....
+
+	                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Dec 1994 01:49:09 -0500
+Subject: B5 rules!
+
+     Thank you for the kind words (and my address appears above)....
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Dec 1994 01:49:29 -0500
+Subject: Re: Favorite B5 lines
+
+     Everything that the character says is the writing; everything the
+character does while saying it is the actor.
+
+     It's a funny kind of perception; I've now been at a number of cons
+with the cast members, and invariably they get the questions of "How do
+you create your character, how do you determine who the character is?", and
+I get the overall story-arc questions...almost as if these characters had
+existed outside, or were in the actors, and I stumbled upon them and put
+them into this arc.
+
+     When asked this question at LosCon, Peter Jurasik gave his usual
+answer, "I just say what they write for me to say."  Which obviously is
+a modest understatement; Peter breathes life into Londo and makes the
+lines work.  It's all synergy, I suppose....
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Dec 1994 05:17:48 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Pronouncing "Ivanova"
+
+     I've known Russians who've used the same kind of pronunciation we
+have given Ivanova.  It does vary.  Heck, my name is pronounced
+STRUH-ZIN-SKI, when it *should* be correctly pronounced STRA-CHIN-SKI.
+Both are acceptable.  And you get different pronunciations in central
+Russia from places like byelorussia or the more Eastern provinces.
+
+	                                                          jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 28 Dec 1994 05:17:59 -0500
+Subject: B5
+
+     If you like those kinds of character flips, you're gonna love the
+next batch of episodes....
+
+     There are some real surprises in there, some relating back to first
+season stuff, and characters.
+
+     It's easiest to flip a character when the story elsewhere is fairly
+straightforward, so you lull the audience in with a sense of "okay, this
+is the story, nothing major, shouldn't change anything," then you whap
+them hard when they're not looking.  So whenever you see a jms script,
+and there doesn't seem like there's that much to it...be careful.  The
+simpler the premise -- just a visit by someone to the station, someone
+taken prisoner and trying to escape -- the more you're being set up.
+
+     It's kinda like the nak'a'leen feeder...as long as you can hear it,
+you're safe...but the moment you hear nothing....
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Dec 1994 01:48:37 -0500
+Subject: Zathrus- Minbari/Human offspri
+
+     Nope; Zathras is one of his race, which aren't offspring of any
+other two groups.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Dec 1994 02:16:31 -0500
+Subject: New episodes?
+
+     New eps start week of January 23rd.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Dec 1994 02:16:42 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Do other B5 staff lu
+
+     I know that Larry DiTillio (my story editor) recently gained access
+to Internet; some other crew folks hang around, pulling out interesting
+stuff and posting hardcopies on the B5 Buzz: Messages from the Internet
+board erected outside Stage A.
+
+	                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Dec 1994 02:19:46 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Valen query
+
+      Valen called the Nine together and formed the Grey Council about
+a thousand years ago, give or take; died not long thereafter.
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Dec 1994 02:19:55 -0500
+Subject: Re: Favorite B5 lines
+
+     Though Caitlin left B5 to pursue offers to star in romantic lead
+parts, nothing to do with typeasting...your general concern is correct.
+We've tried to help avoid that on behalf of the actors.  For instance,
+visually, you can hardly recognize Peter Jurasik in makeup; ditto for
+Andreas and the rest of our alien cast.  This shouldn't inhibit their
+work in other areas (as opposed to seeing someone very recognizeable, but
+with pointy ears, which caused Nimoy great trouble for a long time).
+
+     In terms of the human characters, I've tried not to wrap any of them
+around one specific character trait.  They range from serious to comic,
+and do different things.
+
+     Typecasting is a real concern, and it has to be addressed by those
+who make the show.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Dec 1994 02:20:03 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Characters and Cult
+
+     Re: "turning weakness into strength," that's generally what humans
+DO.  We stare into the abyss, we *know* the cause is hopeless, we know
+we're probably gonna get creamed trying, but we straighten our shoulders
+and *do* it.
+
+     It is, I think, one of our better traits.
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Dec 1994 02:20:12 -0500
+Subject: JMS: ? on Amanda Carter
+
+     Larry slipped in the reference to John Carter of Mars, not our former
+prez....
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Dec 1994 02:20:21 -0500
+Subject: Filming order
+
+     All scenes in an episode are filmed together, over a seven day
+span.  If you mixed and matched scenes, by different directors, in the
+same episode, you'd have big problems with the directors' Guild, and in
+determining director's credit.
+
+	                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Dec 1994 02:20:30 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Con Alert Question
+
+     No plans for that part of the world, alas...but if they should ever
+materialize, I'll be sure to post the info here.
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Dec 1994 04:46:48 -0500
+Subject: Re: B5 rules!
+
+     (Putting this here only because there's nothing else relevant to
+tag it onto....)
+
+     Anybody out there with cheat codes for Wing Commander III...I would
+hardly object if one day I found them in my internet mailbox....
+
+     (I gotta get a *real* life....)
+
+	                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 29 Dec 1994 04:49:10 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Do other B5 staf
+
+     What gets posted on the B5 Buzzboard is mainly reactions to specific
+episodes, analyses of where the story may be going...understand that
+making TV is like yelling into a vacuum; there's no feedback other than
+the ratings, so folks take any chance they can to see how viewers react.
+
+	                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Dec 1994 01:45:47 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Cost of production CAPT P
+
+     The cost of an average POWER episode was supposed to be about
+$500,000 (for a half-hour show), but often ranged into $650,000 per half
+hour, which puts it WAY above B5 today on a per-hour basis.  It was such
+out-of-control costs that led me to wonder if one could design an SF show
+so that it could be done SENSIBLY....
+
+                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Dec 1994 04:45:28 -0500
+Subject: JMS: B5 vs. DS9 Legal Question
+
+     No legal action was initiated by me against anyone on this subject;
+my feeling in general is that such actions only poison the water for BOTH
+sides.  The better determinant is the open marketplace of ideas and public
+opinion.
+
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Dec 1994 04:45:37 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Episodes
+
+     I think they'll repeat the year one episodes after they've finished
+the new year two episodes.
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Dec 1994 04:47:23 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Psi Corps Question
+
+     There are genetic tests that check for the gene, which can be present
+or recessive; also, there's a network by which people who think they are
+telepathic, and thus troubled, can contact the Corps for help.  The
+vast majority of PC members come to them in very early childhood.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Dec 1994 04:50:25 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Loose threads...
+
+     1) The first B5 novel is due out from Dell in January, from John
+Vornholt.
+
+     2) The Grimjack movie is awaiting final negotiations between the
+various parties, and for me to clear out some room on my desk to be able
+to do the script justice.
+
+     3) I'm finishing the first draft of one SF series pilot movie over
+the brief Christmas break, due for one of the major cable networks; another
+project is awaiting some executive decisions.  (These things take time;
+B5 took five years.)
+
+     4) I'm hoping we'll see videotapes of B5 out by spring for the first
+season, laserdisks to follow maybe summer or fall.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Dec 1994 04:50:33 -0500
+Subject: Re: Favorite B5 lines
+
+      Timov's "WHO IS THIS?!" in that high-pitched voice would also be a
+great one for an answering machine.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Dec 1994 04:50:41 -0500
+Subject: Re: ST-TNG vs. B5 fans, any ex
+
+     On the whole Trek/B5 thing, here's something to ponder....
+
+     Over the Christmas break, my associate, Doug Netter (also an exec
+producer on the show) was staying at a hotel in New York.  One day, as he
+was going up in the elevator from the garage below, who gets in at the
+first floor but....Patrick Stewart.  Doug introduces himself.  Patrick
+is pleased to meet him, and mentions that he likes Babylon 5 quite a bit;
+that he thinks it has great promise, is constantly improving, and wishes
+it only good fortune.  He even invited Doug to tea, but Doug had family
+engagements, and had to pass.
+
+     Passed along for whatever use that piece of information may be....
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Dec 1994 04:07:02 -0500
+Subject: Re: ST-TNG vs. B5 fans - JMS
+
+     I would think that Patrick Stewart has considerably bigger fish to
+fry than appearing on a syndicated SF series as a one-shot.
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Dec 1994 04:07:16 -0500
+Subject: JMS: B-5 in chicago?
+
+     WPWR is becoming a Paramount station, yes; I believe, though, that
+B5 is being moved to another day, so should still be there.
+
+     (Just because I'm curious by nature...noting that your sig line
+indicates sysop of the National Islamic BBS...is there much notice of B5
+among the Islamic community?  I'm told that in some areas in Iraq and
+Iran, where some are able to pick up B5 off the satellite link, the show
+is known and responded to well, particularly since this is a Western show
+which is set in Babylon, which makes it a positive place.  [I believe,
+but am willing to be corrected, that both Iran and Iraq tend to claim
+Babylon for their own, though those who live there tend to feel very
+independent of both sides.]  Is there much awareness of the program among
+the American Islamic community, which you're probably more plugged-into,
+given the nature of your BBS?  I've had several letters from people
+noting, accurately, that Minbari comes from the word minbar, the pulpit
+in a mosque.  Anyway, just curious....)
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Dec 1994 04:14:33 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Battle of the Line number
+
+     Minbari losses at the Line were fairly minimal, more the result of
+good luck than strategy, or EA ships doing kamikazi runs into Minbari
+cruisers.  Very light.
+
+	                                                            jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Dec 1994 04:16:09 -0500
+Subject: B5 parties / cons in UK?
+
+     I believe there is a B5 con planned for April or May in Bristol,
+England.  Attending will be me, Claudia Christian, and Peter Jurasik.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Dec 1994 04:24:50 -0500
+Subject: Re: Favorite B5 lines
+
+     One of my favorite exchanges, which never seems to show up, is from
+PoD v.1, when G'Kar says to Tu'Pari, who has come looking for Ambassador
+G'Kar, "This is Ambassador G'Kar's quarters.  This is Ambassador G'Kar's
+table.  This is Ambassador G'Kar's dinner.  What part of this progression
+escapes you?"
+
+     Favorite line in the next new episode, from Sheridan: "I'm not saying
+what I'm saying.  I'm not saying what I'm *thinking*.  For that matter,
+I'm not even *thinking* what I'm thinking."
+
+	                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Dec 1994 04:36:21 -0500
+Subject: jms: Robert Jordan Influences?
+
+     Alas (and I suppose I should be ashamed of myself), though I've heard
+of Robert Jordan, I've never actually read anything by him.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Dec 1994 06:19:52 -0500
+Subject: Dont trust Sheridan (was JMS:
+
+     The president spoke truthfully; Sheridan could petition for a
+promotion for her, but it's up to Earthforce to grant it, so the line
+still tracks.  (Note also there's no pronoun there; "Giving her a field
+promotion."  The imperial We still stands, though.)  Also, Sheridan says
+he put through the paperwork the day after he got there; which is fairly
+close to the time frame in the story in which the President says they'll
+be giving Ivanova a promotion.  There's no discontinuity here.
+
+	                                                                  jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Dec 1994 22:49:56 -0500
+Subject: Church of Chris Carter  WAS:
+
+     Waitaminnit...just wait one friggin' minute...is or is not the Chris
+Carter of teleport.com who logs on here, to whom I've communicated on
+numerous occasions, THE Chris Carter of X-Files, or another?  If the
+answer is "another," that's a *terrible* thing to do to me; if the answer
+is yes....
+
+     Yo!  Chris!  (waving arms)  There are maybe two or three shows each
+week that I endeavor to catch; yours is one of them.  Absolutely terrific.
+ Terrific writing and performances, and some *very* nice cinematography
+and direction.  Probably one of the best shows around.  It's one of the
+few shows that, if we miss it, we'll call around to all our friends (both
+of them) and see if they taped X-Files.
+
+     Good to see somebody else doing it *right* out there.
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Dec 1994 22:50:05 -0500
+Subject: Re: B5 & Voyager making
+
+     Bigfoot is also a legend....
+
+	                                                           jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Dec 1994 22:50:14 -0500
+Subject: JMS: B5/ Canadian Cons?
+
+     No B5 reps that I'm aware of, though many negotiations go through
+the actors' agents, and we may not hear about it.
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Dec 1994 22:50:23 -0500
+Subject: Re: ST-TNG vs. B5 fans, any ex
+
+     Steve...that'll be interesting to see their response....
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 31 Dec 1994 22:50:34 -0500
+Subject: Re: Church of Chris Carter  WA
+
+     See my note elsewhere here, if this is the correct Chris Carter.
+
+	  (Same header.)
+
+	                                                               jms
+
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+===========================================================================
+| This text is compiled from posts by J. Michael Straczynski on the Usenet
+| group rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.  This document contains material Copyright
+| 1995 J. Michael Straczynski.  He has given permission for his words to be
+| redistributed online, as long as they are marked as being copyright JMS.
+| This document, as well as other Babylon-5 related material, is available
+| by anonymous FTP at ftp.hyperion.com.
+===========================================================================
+
+Date: 1 Jan 1995 04:56:39 -0500
+Subject: Signal/Noise in B5 and commerc
+
+     The signal/noise problem was of particular annoyance during the first
+four or five episodes.  We deliver on perfect D2 digital masters.  We
+kept seeing problems on broadcast that weren't there upon delivery.  We
+did a thorough investigation, and learned that the people contracted with
+by PTEN/Warners to handle stuff like closed captioning, and transferring
+film, and reformatting for commercials, and adding commercials, were
+using ANALOG tape, for starters, and sometimes, we discovered to our
+horror, USED STOCK.
+
+     It took us some time to fully detail and investigate the situation,
+with the result that several people found themselves with new bodily
+orifices chewed into their anatomy.  By about episode four or five it
+began to look substantially better.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+Date: 1 Jan 1995 05:03:55 -0500
+Subject: Attn JMS Credits cutoff!!!
+
+     We're doing all we can on this, but the stations seem to do what
+they want.
+
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 1 Jan 1995 19:51:53 -0500
+Subject: ATTN: JMS  Orson Scott Card/En
+
+     Haven't read that one, no.
+
+	                                                          jms
+
+Date: 1 Jan 1995 19:52:04 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Re: B5
+
+     What will we do for an encore after the mid-season biggies?  Just
+what we've been doing all along...just keep cranking up the volume....
+
+	                                                            jms
+
+Date: 2 Jan 1995 00:21:24 -0500
+Subject: JMS! PREVIEW IDEA: Add backsto
+
+     Unfortunately, the B5 previews/promos are done in-house by PTEN, and
+they jealously guard their authority over them.  They'd never let us do
+them.
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+Date: 2 Jan 1995 04:19:06 -0500
+Subject: ATTN: JMS
+
+     So many questions, so few answers I can give....
+
+     1) In theory, yes, Sheridan should be around for the rest of the arc.
+     2) O'Hare is currently doing network guest-starring roles that will
+give him broader appeal (for instance, playing a great bad-guy on a coming
+episode of the Cosby Mysteries).
+     3) Senator Hidoshi is out of office.
+     4) Background walla is done by the background walla group.
+     5) You won't see Minbar this season, but you will almost certainly
+see it the first part of next season.  You will, however, see Centauri
+Prime this season.
+     6) Lots of things will go BOOM soon.
+     7) The mess hall food is pretty good.
+     8) The D.Duck poster came from Warners, when we arranged (after much
+negotiation) to get the rights to use his character.  (This is the first
+series, apparently, given the rights to do so.)
+
+	                                                          jms
+
+Date: 2 Jan 1995 21:52:08 -0500
+Subject: Origin of word "Vorlon"
+
+                           ...sounded cool....
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+Date: 2 Jan 1995 21:52:15 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Trekke
+
+     First, so there's no error, I appreciate your effort here.  But I
+still do disagree with your premise that "ST paved the way for B5."  You
+can "stand by" your feeling as much as you want, but I was the one in the
+room with the network and studio execs telling me (and just about everyone
+else pitching SF space shows) that there was NO room in the marketplace
+for anything along these lines other than ST.  Even when PTEN was launching
+B5, that was a concern stated by them over and over.  There's what one
+feels SHOULD be correct, and there's what IS correct.  This is the point
+where those two conflict.
+
+     ST did not "legitimize SF drama for TV."  Star Trek legitimizes and
+leads to more Star Trek.  If people in Hollywood *really* felt the way you
+say, why has it taken *25 years* for another serious show like this to get
+made (again, leaving out Buck Rogers, which wasn't serious and frankly, to
+my mind, was only barely SF).
+
+     We had to fight tooth and nail to get this show on the air, to
+overcome the ST shadow.  We were told, specifically and repeatedly, that
+there IS no substantive interest in SF, and that ST isn't SF; ST is ST,
+and an interest in ST doesn't generally guarantee any kind of interest in
+another SF show.  And certainly Paramount has done nothing but throw road
+blocks in front of us at every conceivable step of the way.
+
+     I understand your feelings, and why you want to believe that your
+theory is true.  But it simply isn't.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 2 Jan 1995 21:52:23 -0500
+Subject: The Hugo Awards: Opinions
+
+     Far be it from me to try and influence people's opinions.  Well, all
+right...six inches away...but I'd tend to agree on the selection of
+"Chrysalis" out of all the season one episodes to nominate.  I still tend
+to think it was the best of the batch (though "Babylon Squared" and "Signs
+and Portents" come darned close.)  Question, though: are we sure that
+"Chrysalis" falls into the eligibility period for nomination?  I know
+there's a cutoff date at some point, though it's probably the year's end,
+so we should be okay.
+
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 3 Jan 1995 01:50:45 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Tr
+
+     Battlestar Galactica really isn't applicable to this discussion
+because 1) the "arena" under discussion has always been Earth in its future
+with humanity as a spacefaring civilization, which comprises 95% of all
+written SF, but had not been done on TV since Trek, and 2) Battlestar
+was really more of a Star Wars "homage" (he said politely), that has
+nothing to do with ST in *any* event.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+Date: 3 Jan 1995 04:20:20 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Tr
+
+     You may want to convey to these individuals that Stewart also invited
+Doug to tea, something he wouldn't have done if he were just fibbing about
+his opinion to avoid a faux pas.
+
+     In point of fact, we have had generally good relations with MANY
+of the actors involved with ST in one form or another.  Rene Auberjenois
+(I know I just misspelled that, but it's late, nearly 1 a.m., and I'm
+too tired to go into the other room to get the right spelling) told both
+Mira Furlan, myself, her husband, and just about anyone else in sight
+that he's seen B5 and enjoys it immensely.  We have had several actors
+involved with ST come by the B5 stages to look at the facilities and say
+hello.  The actor who plays Quark (my apologies to the actor, but his name
+has just fallen out of my head) invited Peter Jurasik to a party at his
+place to comment on how much he enjoys the show.
+
+     There is a small, vocal minority of Star Trek fans who hate B5 because
+it commits the ultimate crime for a show in Earth's future in space: it's
+not Star Trek.  In some ways, I find it kind of amusing, along the lines
+of those in the 60s who said you could be a Beatles fan, or a Monkees fan,
+but not both.  These are people who talk about Infinite Diversity in
+Infinite Combinations, but choose not to practice it.  They are the same
+sorts of people who were Lost in Space fans, and derided and insulted Star
+Trek because they considered it a cheap knock-off of LiS.  (And yes, there
+were loads of critics and viewers who said this, and wrote reviews that
+said this, and wrote to fan publications saying it.)  They are people who
+applaud ST because it was the work of one man with a vision, in its
+beginnings...and deride B5 which is a different vision.
+
+     What the actors, and the writers involved with Star Trek understand,
+that this small, vocal minority of ST fans do not, is that COMPETITION
+LEADS TO IMPROVEMENT.  These are people who want to see their characters
+stretched to new areas, given more to do...writers who want to take
+chances in their scripts and be bold...who have for much of the run of ST
+been held back by the corporate types who don't *want* changes, who don't
+want to take chances...and that's why you have a situation where Riker
+stays first officer for *seven years*, which fans complain about, and which
+would be the end of ANY officer's career in the real military.
+
+     Where I come from, science fiction is the literature of open
+mindedness.  It *welcomes* new ideas, and new approaches, and different
+views of our past, present and future.  Are they so insecure with Star
+Trek that they must attack Babylon 5?
+
+     If they are truly Star Trek fans, then they must know and appreciate
+the work done by people like Harlan Ellison and David Gerrold and Dorothy
+Fontana and Walter Koenig and, lately, Peter David...people who have not
+been well treated by Star Trek of late.  We have given them the respect
+that is due them, allowing the writers the chance they often did not have,
+to experiment and to grow.  When Walter Koenig did his first Babylon 5
+episode, whenever he came to the table at lunch, those in the cast at the
+table would stand until he sat...common when junior officers are being
+joined by a senior officer.
+
+     Dorothy, and David, and Walter, and Harlan, and others who were
+involved with the original Star Trek who have visited the set have said
+that they have only seen the atmosphere and warmth of this set on one
+other set in nearly thirty years...on the original Star Trek.
+
+     Mark Hammil has come by the studio to pay his regards for the show;
+Leslie Stevens, co-creator/producer for The Outer Limits made a similar
+pilgrimage to say how much he enjoys the show, and how he feels that this
+is the future of where SF should be going in television.
+
+     When we won the Emmy for Best Visual Effects for the first year in
+which we were eligible, it was the *first time* in six years that Star
+Trek had lost out.  Now with a second Emmy, a Hugo nomination, an award
+from the Space Frontier Foundation for Best Vision of the Future, another
+award from the Cult TV convention in England (beating out NYPD Blue and
+DS9 for best new series)...we are being noticed.  Even some reviewers who
+at first had the same disdain because we weren't Star Trek have begun to
+come around, and see us for what we ARE, not complain about what we are
+NOT.  (Some complained in the beinning that we were just a rip-off of Star
+Trek: DS9, which since we were around in development for 5 years prior to
+DS9 is nonsense...and then when they tuned in, and saw that we weren't a
+ripoff, turned their noses up because we weren't doing things like they
+were done in Star Trek.  I received mail and email from people complaining
+that we used hand-links when everyone KNEW that the REALITY of it was that
+in 200 years we'd be using the chest-pin communicators in Star Trek, "and
+every time I see you use this other thing, it breaks the illusion for me."
+
+     Long story made short...we're *not* going away.  We are telling a
+story, and we're going to tell that story until it's finished.  If a few
+wish to be like the Lost in Space fans who refused to watch Star Trek
+when it came on, that's their right.  Anyone who finds specific fault in
+an episode, and it IS a fault, not "Star Trek wouldn't have done it this
+way," that's also terrific.  To not like a show simply because it isn't
+Star Trek is simple bigotry...and to them I can only say that Roddenberry
+would be *disgraced* by that attitude in people claiming to be fans of
+hsi work.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+Date: 3 Jan 1995 04:51:21 -0500
+Subject: Re: ST-TNG vs. B5 fans
+
+     "And the ACTORS occupy the same universe as you, me, and jms."
+
+     Hrmmm...haven't known many actors, have you?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Novels canon?
+Date: 3 Jan 1995 15:50:18 -0500
+
+     We're certainly exerting every effort to keep the novels (and the
+comic) canon.  Ain't easy, but so far it's working.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Subject: JMS: has comic been cancelled?
+Date: 3 Jan 1995 16:23:26 -0500
+
+     The comic has not been canceled, and is doing very well.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Re: -  JMS on Patrick Stewart/
+Date: 3 Jan 1995 17:52:33 -0500
+
+     Got no problem with somebody not liking B5.  Not a one.  My only
+problem is when you have a few people so determined to protect the
+integrity of their fictional characters and their allegiance to one show
+that they must assume Stewart or someone else is lying, which then
+DIMINISHES the person's integrity.  It seems to me a little like the old
+Vietnam idea of burning the village to save the village.  I'm perfectly
+happy to let ANYONE not like B5 *on its own terms*.  It's only when the
+clique mentality sets in that I have a problem with it...and again, this
+applies only to a fairly small (but *very* loud) portion of ST fans.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Tr
+Date: 3 Jan 1995 18:02:41 -0500
+
+     To Laurie Antoniou: many thanks.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Season 2 filming
+Date: 3 Jan 1995 18:24:14 -0500
+
+     We are currently shooting number thirteen, editing number 12, mixing
+number 10, doing the EFX on number 11.  Seventeen scripts are currently
+finished.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Tr
+Date: 3 Jan 1995 23:02:12 -0500
+
+     Thanks for reminding me; quite correct, Michael O'Hare was invited to
+take (and did take) a tour of the set for one of the Star Trek movies; I
+guess it would've been Generations.  He went, and was well received, and
+Shatner said he liked the show.  (Though *there*, I suspect, it may have
+been more politeness, given the reaction as it was expressed to me.  But
+I could be wrong.)
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Trekke
+Date: 3 Jan 1995 23:57:02 -0500
+
+     "Do you really believe that the First Run Syndication business as it
+now stands would be as big as it currently is if ST:TNG had flopped (and
+do you honestly believe that Warner would have given PTEN a second
+thought, let alone Babylon 5, if TNG hadn't been such a success in First
+Run Syndication?"  Phillip Sral
+ 
+     A fair question which deserves a fair response.  For starters, the
+syndie business is *not* "as big" as described in your message.  So the
+premise is incorrect on the face of it.  The majority of new syndicated
+drama series introduced in the last couple of years have flopped and have
+either already been canceled, or are shortly awaiting same.  The only
+shows that have shown success at all have been the various Star Trek
+incarnations, Baywatch, and now B5.  Virtually everything else has
+crashed and burned in syndication.
+ 
+     Second, B5 is not part of first run syndication.  It is part of the
+consortium formed jointly by Warners and a station group which was then
+targeted to become a network.  (The new official Warners network will
+likely supplant and replace PTEN in a few years, after the contracts run
+out.  How that will affect B5 is anyone's guess.)
+ 
+     The movement into such new networks has nothing to do with the
+success OR failure of shows like and including Star Trek.  There's this
+little thing called the new "fin/syn rules," which recently got changed
+drastically.  As of the ruling a couple of years ago, networks can now
+own more of the product they put on the air.  Virtually all of it, in
+fact.  What does this mean?  That CBS can broadcast mainly shows made by
+in-house CBS outfits, rather than contracting with, say, Warners or
+Universal or other studios.
+ 
+     This frankly scared the hell out of the studios, whose major business
+is making TV.  So everyone started running around looking for ways to
+create venues independent of the networks...i.e., *new* networks, owned
+wholly or partly by the studios themselves, who could then create their
+OWN monopoly.  (Ain't big business wonderful?)  Paramount, Universal,
+Warner Bros, (and Fox already there)...they're ALL getting into it.  That
+was the single dominant reason why PTEN was formed.  Sheer survival.  Same
+with the Warners net, Paramount net, all the others.
+ 
+     Networks need programming.  All kinds programming.  Dozens of shows
+were pitched to the PTEN executive committee, including B5.  They chose
+this out of the rest of the pack *even though they were nervous about the
+perception that the market wouldn't sustain more than one such show*.
+They picked it for the simple reason that they liked it, and they
+believed in what we were going to try and do with the show.  Two of our
+biggest boosters were the people behind the whole operation, Dick
+Robertson and Evan Thompson, who formed PTEN and from the start, really
+understood what we wanted to do with B5.
+ 
+     ST was really either a) irrelevant to the process, or b) a hinderance
+to the process.  I *know* you want to believe otherwise, and I do
+understand why, and I wish I could reinforce that because it doesn't
+change anything for us one way or another...but it simply didn't happen
+that way.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS: Season 2 filming
+Date: 4 Jan 1995 00:33:40 -0500
+
+     Currently shooting "Hunter, Prey."  Then, probably in this order,
+"And Now for a Word" (also jms), "Knives" (Larry DiTillio), "There All
+The Honor Lies" (Peter David), and then "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" (jms).
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS-Centauri Jump Gates price?
+Date: 4 Jan 1995 00:33:50 -0500
+
+     We opened up trade relations with them to partially pay for the
+time we leased on Centauri jumpgates, and provided other services (of a
+benign nature).
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Personal re: Chris Franke
+Date: 5 Jan 1995 02:32:40 -0500
+
+     I genuinely have no idea if Chris is still doing "Mantis" or not; I
+know they're flailing right now in the ratings, and that they're making a
+lot of changes...basically, anything that ain't nailed down.  (And anything
+that they can pry up ain't nailed down.)  If one of those would be a
+change in composers, I wouldn't be at all surprised, given that scenario,
+but I honestly don't know one way or another; it's not something we tend
+to discuss.  We talk B5 with Chris, period.  I don't think the rest is
+any of my damned business.
+ 
+     One rather wishes other people we both could name would adopt a
+similar philosophy....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Re: -  JMS on Patrick Stewart/
+Date: 5 Jan 1995 02:30:58 -0500
+
+     Re: "...some B5 fans who act the same way," I think there are in
+general fewer of them, mainly because we haven't been on 25 years and
+become an icon.  And I generally discourage it; on CIS in particular, and
+here, I've noted that there are good people working hard on ST, but are
+being held back from doing all they're capable of doing by the studio's
+franchise approach.  They should not catch the rap for this; it's unfair.
+ 
+     I should also mention that the most vociferous B5 viewers in terms
+of ragging on Trek are generally those who are disenchanted and angry ST
+fans who feel they've been let down, and have something now to compare
+the other show with.  This unhappiness was there a LONG time before B5
+ever hit the screens.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Tr
+Date: 5 Jan 1995 04:51:51 -0500
+
+     My point sustains; getting a science fiction series on the air at
+all is mind-bogglingly difficult.  Getting it past one season is damned
+near impossible.  Of the series you named as examples of how SF has a
+market in TV -- Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, V, Salvage, Matthew
+Star, Flash, Greatest American Hero -- how many of those made it to or
+past a second season?  Though I'm kinda fuzzy on Buck (my brain has
+mercifully excised most memories pertaining to that one), and Battlestar
+had a *revised* show as another season...insofar as I can recall, those
+are ALL one-season wonders.
+ 
+     We're still talking apples and oranges.  The common question, the
+real killer, is "Is the market big enough to sustain two SF shows, and is
+there a market for SF at ALL?"  *Getting* a show doesn't prove that there
+is a market for SF; it only proves that somebody's going to try it again
+to find out.  If a show doesn't last, dies quickly, then that proves
+the market's dead.
+ 
+     This is one of the blind spots in TV logic which pertains mainly to
+the two groups you mention, SF and westerns.  If a cop show goes on and
+flops, nobody says there's no market for cop shows; *that* show failed.
+If an SF series fails, the interpretation is that there's no market for
+SF.  Also, in general, hollywood perceives all SF as more or less the
+same; it doesn't take into consideration, if an SF series dies, if it was
+a GOOD SF series or a BAD SF series.
+ 
+     Nowhere was this more true than with the V series (not the mini, the
+Kenneth Johnson stuff, which was great), where one of the producers told
+me, "As long as we have aliens and space ships and ray guns, we'll get
+the SF audience GUARANTEED; it's the mainstream we have to work at."
+ 
+     To understand this whole area, you have to stop thinking like a
+viewer and start thinking like a network programming exec.  (Start by
+lowering your IQ about 15 points.)  If a series runs only 1-2 years and
+fails, everybody loses; the studio and network will never recoup the
+expenses of production because these days you generally need 80-100
+episodes of a series to syndicate it.  Except for bargain-basement stuff
+like minimal fees for SciFi Channel reruns, you're dead.  You're out
+MILLIONS of dollars.
+ 
+     *NO AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION SERIES OTHER THAN STAR TREK HAS GONE
+ON FOR MORE THAN FIVE YEARS SINCE LOST IN SPACE*.  We're talking here
+twenty-four YEARS of failure (from a network/studio financial point of
+view).  This does not exactly encourage them to think there's much of a
+market.  Throw Logan's Run and Amazing Stories and the new Twilight Zone
+into the mix.
+ 
+     By entering its 2nd year, Babylon 5 has already beaten the odds.  If
+we get year three (oh, yeah, and Time Trax also didn't make it), then as
+far as I know, we'll be the first nominally-hard SF series other than
+Trek to do it in nearly a quarter-century.  (I'm excluding X-Files from
+this only because I don't quite think it fits as science fiction; I'm not
+quite sure what to classify it as other than Really Weird Shit, and a
+truly *nifty* TV series.  I love it.)
+ 
+     There are an *awful* lot of studio and network people watching us
+very closely; if we can be the first to break the curse, proving that
+there is a market for SF outside Star Trek that can sustain long enough
+for the studio to make back its money, I think you'll finally begin to see
+a lot more of it...and frankly, I can't wait; the more competition, the
+more SF, the better.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Cortez- Awesome Ship Name!
+Date: 6 Jan 1995 02:57:00 -0500
+
+     BTW, just to note a little something you might not notice in the
+show...we've adopted the tradition of putting the symbol for a given ship
+onto the bar in Earhart's, as many real contemporary officers' clubs and
+airforce/naval base clubs put the logos or markings of big planes or ships
+that come through there.  The Cortez symbol is the most visible among the
+various emblems you can see in a shot of the bar in "A Race Through Dark
+Places."  It comes at the moment we follow *another* old military tradition.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Syndication (Was: Re: JMS
+Date: 6 Jan 1995 02:57:08 -0500
+
+     Your assessment of the situation is more or less correct; it was
+the Paramount Theaters chain that was eventually divested from Paramount
+proper, since the government decided that it constituted a monopoly and
+couldn't be allowed to continue.  (Ironically, it was this divestment
+that, having made Paramount Theaters an independent operation, later helped
+ABC come into reality, as they were able to invest in the fledgling
+network during a time it was struggling.  This was viewed as a smart move
+by many, since common wisdom said that this new TV thing was never going
+to take off in people's homes, due to the expense in running land-lines to
+individual homes, broadcast being marginal technology then.  They figured
+there would be TV Theaters, where you could come and pay and see TV shows,
+boxing, sporting events, name it.  Universal spent major bucks on this,
+and even showed a major boxing event just this way as a test.  And now,
+of course, with satellites, and pay TV, and people gathering at sports bars
+to watch pricey events, we've come full circle.)
+ 
+     (Why do I *know* all this stuff, when I can't retain what I ate for
+lunch yesterday?)
+ 
+     Because studios had a monopoly, yes, they could force less obviously
+commercial films down the throats of theaters.  That changed with the
+new rules.  TV now, though, won't go through the same cycle, I think,
+because a) none of the networks are stupid enough to become total
+monopolies and invite the FCC in, and b) TV as a mass medium will always
+be more easily targeted by special interest groups.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Language on Bazaar sign i
+Date: 6 Jan 1995 02:57:17 -0500
+
+     I'll have to look at it again, but I'm reasonably certain that the
+second line in the bazaar sign is Centauri.
+ 
+	                                                       jms
+
+Subject: JMS:Question on Production Sch
+Date: 6 Jan 1995 02:58:53 -0500
+
+     We don't shoot in lots of 6 or 12; we shoot 22 episodes straight
+through.  The order in which they are run, and the pauses in between, do
+not in ANY way reflect the time period in which they are made.  We shoot
+straight through, with pauses for Christmas break, and to give our crew
+and cast a one-week hiatus on either side (usually between episodes 8
+and 9, and episodes 15 and 16), which helps keep them from burning out.
+ 
+     You really have to shoot straight through, because of the vast
+amounts of money required to rent equipment, pay salaries for crew and
+cast, pay staff and other areas.  Also, under Screen Actors Guild rules,
+if you hire someone for, say, 13 episodes, you must use them within a
+particular span of time.  If you don't, you must pay them the balance of
+committed episodes by the end of that period.  If you broke filming up
+as you suggest, you'd be in deep hock to your cast.
+ 
+     And you really can't separate out SFX from shooting live-action;
+often you need to have the actors work with the effects in composite
+shots, and sometimes you need the effects to play on monitors visible on
+camera when you're shooting.  All divisions are working at the same
+time, straight through.  You need to have effects people around frequently
+while shooting; to make two separate sequences means you double the time
+period you have to pay your effects people.
+ 
+     Here is the process of making B5 in metaphor...not only in terms of
+each season's production, but the history of this show overall.
+ 
+     You hitch yourself to the front of a train.  And you begin pulling.
+(In this case, I began pulling in 1987, but for purposes of the current
+discussion make that the start of each season.)  Slowly, painfully, the
+train moves an inch.  Then another.  Gradually, over time, it begins
+picking up speed.  For one brief instant there is an allowable moment of
+joy when both you and the train are going at the same, comfortable speed.
+Then it starts gaining on you, and you have to start walking faster, with
+the train bumping your heels, until finally you're running flat out,
+because you know that if you so much as stumble once, the train will roll
+right over you.
+ 
+     Then the season ends, you get to catch your breath...and start it all
+over again.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Future Quest
+Date: 6 Jan 1995 02:59:03 -0500
+
+     Basically, they asked if they could use our sets for a PBS program,
+and we said sure.  Not much more to it than that; I think we allowed them
+the use of our stages without rental charge, since it's a worthy cause.
+They were allowed to choose which shots to use.  I wasn't in the show
+because I wasn't asked to be.  Doesn't matter either way; ain't doing this
+to get my mug on TeeVee.  The lawsuits over nationally induced cardiac
+infarction ALONE would kill our budget....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS on Patrick Stewart/
+Date: 6 Jan 1995 02:59:11 -0500
+
+     To Ted...unfortunately, syndication does not help gurantee any show's
+success, even requiring fewer ratings points.  Most of the new dramas
+introduced in the last year or so in syndication have fallen by the wayside
+and have either been canceled, or are awaiting cancellation.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS:Question on Production
+Date: 6 Jan 1995 02:59:19 -0500
+
+     RE: "a TV episode usually takes 10-16 days to make," (Kokko), not
+quite correct.  We do the actual on-stage shooting in 7 days.  (Most shows
+are shot anywhere from 6-9 days per episode.)  Then it takes another week
+or so to edit, then the producers re-edit, then you spot the show for
+visual EFX and music, CGI is working, you mix the episode...the actual
+time required to physically make an episode once you begin principal
+photography is closer to 6-8 weeks.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: JMS: a filming question
+Date: 7 Jan 1995 03:20:53 -0500
+
+     As I recall, Mira was not in prosthetics at the time, and was out of
+camera range even for when the shot gets shown in expanded letterbox form.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Tr
+Date: 7 Jan 1995 03:22:02 -0500
+
+     Just a note of clarification on the notice that TV frigntened the
+movie studios (that should be "frightened")...yes and no.  In the beginning
+it mainly just frightened radio; Fred Allen (famous for the quote "TV is
+called a medium because it is neither rare nor well done") used to sport
+a button stating Stamp Out TV.  The studios *loved* TV in the beginning;
+at the time when TV began to come out, the studios were suffering their
+worst years since the Great Depression.  Universal Studios and Warner
+Bros. practically shut down altogether.  The number of films being made
+was virtually nil.  But they still had all these actors and writers and
+directors under contract, chewing up vast amounts of money at a time when
+the studios had zip coming in.  So they quickly turned many of these
+people over toward making TV shows; this is one reason why so many of the
+early TV anthology programs had big-name actors...the studios were burning
+off expensive contractual obligations.
+ 
+     Also, I'd suggest that serious SF was done prior to Forbidden Planet,
+including but not limited to Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers, The Day the
+Earth Stood Still (still one of the finest such films ever made) and many
+others.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Re:
+Date: 8 Jan 1995 00:11:19 -0500
+
+     In addition to the other good reasons for using Jupiter's moons
+that Nyrath stated, there's also the added element of energy (it's near
+Jupiter itself), and a base placed off Io would be somewhat more difficult
+to target from afar given the massive energy output from Jupiter, which
+would help mask things a bit.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Tr
+Date: 8 Jan 1995 00:14:07 -0500
+
+     The attribution to Ernie Kovacs of the "TV is a medium" line is
+incorrect.  Ernie loved TV.  Fred Allen hated it with a passion.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Re: - JMS on Patrick Stewart/B
+Date: 8 Jan 1995 00:14:20 -0500
+
+     On the other hand, if one follows the logic that a ship traveling is
+more likely to encounter danger than a stationary vessel, then one must
+now make the leap in logic that a bus traveling from New Jersey to
+Connecticut will have more dangerous incidents in 24 hours than New York
+City.
+ 
+     Bear in mind the crucial difference here...the Enterprise has maybe
+seven hundred, a thousand or so members of the same service, chosen for
+compatibility.  Babylon 5 has roughly two hundred and fifty thousand
+humans and aliens on board at any given moment, many from races where
+there is conflict between them.  I think the latter is bound to produce
+more and broader-based danger than the other.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Tr
+Date: 8 Jan 1995 01:34:32 -0500
+
+     This to Frank Springall...we weren't *talking* about shows from
+other countries.  We were addressing American-produced shows.  Yes, we
+could drag Dr. Who in here, but that's not really the *point*.  Doesn't
+mean that nothing produced outside the US is "interesting."  Obviously it
+is.  But that's simply not relevant to our discussion of the American
+television series, and how studios and networks *here* view the genre.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS  Realistic Timescale
+Date: 8 Jan 1995 04:46:36 -0500
+
+     I took a fairly conservative timeline; as was mentioned in "The Long
+Dark," as late as 2150 we were mainly confined to our own solar system,
+using sub-light cryogenic exploration ships on one-way missions to go
+further.  We got to leap-frog several hundred years of technology when we
+met the Centauri in 2151, who let us lease time on their jumpgates, and
+sold us the tech to make and maintain our own.  Had the Centauri or some
+other species not tripped over us, I think we'd still be driving around
+our own solar system for the most part by 2200, with maybe an excursion
+or two to our nearest star.
+ 
+     The space program is currently logjammed, and if it doesn't get
+cleared up soon, we're going to be left in the dust, literally as well as
+figuratively.  We have to get NASA off its image of two guys standing
+on a Martian hill planting a flag to communities of people working and
+living in space.
+ 
+     The space shuttle was primarily designed as part of a link; space
+shuttle builds space station; space station is hub for mars mission and
+lunar colony; lunar colony is hub for more mars missions and mars
+colony.  But we lost that thread, and now it's been relegated to being a
+high-tech ferry service.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Your views on trading cop
+Date: 10 Jan 1995 01:46:24 -0500
+
+     I agree with the policy of "Don't ask, don't tell."
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Tr
+Date: 10 Jan 1995 23:53:20 -0500
+
+     Actually, there are a lot of resonances between the process of getting
+B5 on the air and getting the original Trek on.  Both did considerable
+recasting after their pilots; both saw the series a full year after the
+first pilot (we kinda considered ep 1 of year 1 our second pilot); Trek
+ran into difficulty getting sold because of Lost in Space, and we had a
+hard time getting sold because of ST; when it went on the air, Star Trek
+was slammed by critics as being low-rent, cheesy, suited for saturday
+morning kiddie shows and nothing more than an attempt to cash in on Lost
+in Space, just as we got nailed by critics and charged with trying to cash
+in on ST; Trek was Roddenberry's singular vision, and B5 is another very
+singular vision, neither show a "committee" operation.  There are more,
+but I think the point is there.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Of Hair And Bone
+Date: 11 Jan 1995 00:21:55 -0500
+
+     When Delenn's structure changed, the epidermal layer on the head
+grew thinner; there is now a gap between the skin, and the bone which
+has grown out.  Hair can be draped through it, or laid over it.
+ 
+                                      jms
+
+Subject: Re: - JMS on Patrick Stewart
+Date: 11 Jan 1995 00:26:40 -0500
+
+     BTW, just as a switch-back to the original thread here...might
+intest folks to know that Michael O'Hare was invited by some of Patrick's
+Fan Club Members to see "A Christmas Carol," Stewart's reading, went
+backstage, met Patrick...and was subsequently invited to make an
+appearance at a local meeting of Stewart's fan club, where he was invited
+to come up on stage by Stewart, where the two shook hands and lots of
+photos were taken.
+ 
+     (At a recent convention, btw, Michael and Avery Brooks hung out
+together, had drinks, and discussed the hassles of being the commander
+of a space station....)
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Starfury as logo
+Date: 11 Jan 1995 00:26:51 -0500
+
+     If we ever need a team name, I'll try to remember this....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Technomage Symbol
+Date: 11 Jan 1995 11:25:48 -0500
+
+     No, actually, the technomage symbol (all of them, actually, including
+the ones on the wall) are all derivations, specifically altered, of old
+runes and the like.  In some cases, we removed words and inserted
+mathematical symbols.  The fiery symbol is all one piece, and is also an
+old rune.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Has season 2 been sold to
+Date: 12 Jan 1995 04:20:13 -0500
+
+     I haven't got a clue.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Actor in Eyes?
+Date: 12 Jan 1995 04:34:06 -0500
+
+     Don't recall off hand the name of the bartender, but it definitely
+wasn't Tim Choate.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Re: Arc.  Season II.  Big Pict
+Date: 12 Jan 1995 04:34:19 -0500
+
+     We could not film anything extensive with Michael because we don't
+shoot on the Warners lot, where there are facilities available.  We went
+our separate ways around late April/early May or so, after we had stopped
+shooting.  We're a small operation; when we make the series, we rent our
+equipment from Panavision, our lights from other places, sound equipment,
+some props...anything we don't rent goes into storage.  Our entire camera
+crew -- ALL of them -- were off doing another project.
+ 
+     I understand your feelings, but there are certain realities we have
+to work with, and if the cast is gone off either on vacation, out of the
+country, or on other projects (as all of them were), all of our crew is
+gone, and all of our equipment is gone, it's kinda hard to oblige your
+request to do scenes with these characters.  We had none of this back in
+our hands until we began shooting again in August, by which time Michael
+had long been in New York pursuing other projects.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: B5 on WB Network?
+Date: 12 Jan 1995 04:34:34 -0500
+
+     I would not count on B5 ending up on the Warners network; the two are
+very competitive (WB vs. PTEN), and WB is trying to form its own identity.
+ 
+     And the ratings for B5 place it generally third in first-run dramatic
+syndication.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Attn: JMS. counterculture on B
+Date: 12 Jan 1995 04:34:46 -0500
+
+     By 2259 the "counterculture" as we understand it is absolutely old
+fashioned and retrograde.  Seems like everybody's working to get In, not
+be Out.  Sort of an extreme gingrichification effect....
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS - Is there only one
+Date: 12 Jan 1995 04:38:22 -0500
+
+     The EA is the only government for planetary decisions; a few don't
+choose to subscribe back home, but then they're entirely cut out of from
+benefitting from star travel and other EA areas.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: JMS:Season 3
+Date: 12 Jan 1995 04:38:34 -0500
+
+     We'll probably get official word yes/no come April/May, though we
+will probably have some unofficial hints come February/March.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Diversity of B5 populace
+Date: 12 Jan 1995 18:30:20 -0500
+
+     Babylon 5 is not like your local community, with as wide-ranging a
+bunch of residents, including children.  It's more like an airport, and you
+don't generally see a lot of kids living at airports (unless you live in a
+community much different from mine).  There are two kinds of people in
+general at B5...those who live and work at the station (security guards,
+maintenance, dockworkers, other support staf) and people passing through
+en route to other places, on stop-over.  It's a place where you come to do
+business deals, staying over for a day or two, and then leaving.  You
+wouldn't tend to bring your kids to something like that, and families
+passing through go right from one ship to another, usually in a hurry to
+make their flight.
+ 
+     And we've had plenty of older characters, so your sweepin
+generalization is inaccurate, as are most sweeping generalizations.  From
+June Lockhart to Michael Ansara to Walter Koenig to Jane Carr to many
+others, we've gone beyond the 35-49 age range you cite.  We've also had
+many ethnic groups, and featured them; in fact, virtually ALL of the
+relationships (with I think one exception) have so far been from different
+ethnic backgrounds (Sinclair and Sakai, Talia Winters and Jason Ironheart,
+Dr. Franklin and Lockhart's daughter).  We've used asian actors (doctors
+in medlab, the scientist in "Voice," Taro Isogi in "Spider," Sakai),
+hispanic actors (in "By Any Means," Dr. Maya Hernandez in "Believers,"
+Wanda DeJesus coming up in "Hunter, Prey"), and a lot of african american
+actors.  We also populate all background shots with a wide mix of ethnic
+backgrounds.
+ 
+     In short, we're already *doing* it.  And we will continue to do more
+of it.  (Why doesn't Ivanova have a Russian accent?  Because she was raised
+overseas, and went to schools outside Russia, something we'll learn in a
+few episodes.)
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Re: B5 on WB Network
+Date: 12 Jan 1995 18:54:34 -0500
+
+     B5 dropped a bit in the recent ratings you mention because they're
+a) our reruns, and b) the Chrismas period, during which everything falls
+off.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Spec script guidelin
+Date: 12 Jan 1995 18:54:56 -0500
+
+     The spec script question is currently moot because we're full-up at
+this time.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Costume Questions...
+Date: 12 Jan 1995 19:28:00 -0500
+
+      Argh; just sent my reply here to the wrong thread (read the Diversity
+in B5 thread).  Brief version: leather all around, red piping to read
+better on camera, cleaner cuffs.  The other reply is more detailed.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Re: Diversity of B5 populace
+Date: 12 Jan 1995 19:30:02 -0500
+
+     My original reply somehow got bumped back; the panels on the uniforms
+are always leather.  Correct on the red piping and other changes; one of
+the problems with last season's uniforms was that they kinda blurred on
+camera, and the details went away.  The piping helps the details to pop
+a bit better on camera.  The cuffs were changed because in the old version,
+the leather cuffs caused the cuffs to gather, and never looked clean or
+crisp, which a real uniform would.  So we changed it.  I've been told what
+the rest of the uniforms are made of, but for the life of me can't recall
+just now.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS. counterculture
+Date: 13 Jan 1995 01:51:25 -0500
+
+     This to Katherine Teague...you're among the first to pick up on a
+deliberate writer's choice in the writing of the series.  In looking toward
+the period of B5, I tried to construct a society that had to come together
+on a planetary scale to fight a war for simple survival.  My thinking was,
+"Okay, let's assume that formality has come back into vogue; clothes tend
+not to be revealing, lines are more streamlined or severe, people address
+each other or refer to each other formally ("Mr. Isogi," "Ms. Winters," and
+so on).
+ 
+     I suppose a conservative could derive some satisfaction from this
+choice...though to quote Mephistophilis in "Faustus"......"Aye, think so
+still, 'till experience change thy mind."
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+Subject: Season 3
+Date: 13 Jan 1995 20:58:23 -0500
+
+      We'll know on a pickup come about April.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Why only one telepath?
+Date: 13 Jan 1995 21:21:35 -0500
+
+     Actually, since there aren't that many telepaths around, they cost a
+LOT to lease.  There probably should be more than one on B5, but the Corps
+hasn't gotten around to sending anybody else yet...so she's appropriately
+frazzled a lot of the time.
+ 
+     Humans rarely do things the way they should, logically....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: I need to know if this is true
+Date: 13 Jan 1995 21:19:52 -0500
+
+     Certainly, we're all big fans of Mark's work (currently enjoying him
+in Wing Commander 3), and should an opportunity come along, and a role
+good enough, we'd love to work with him.  But at this moment, nothing is
+set.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN:JMS  Stupid idea about KO
+Date: 14 Jan 1995 01:55:06 -0500
+
+            Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnope.
+ 
+	                                                       jms
+
+Subject: Enjoying B5 is enjoying Life
+Date: 14 Jan 1995 01:58:39 -0500
+
+     Thanks; and funny thing is, having seen the next batch of episodes
+as many as 20 times in the process of putting them together, I'm still as
+excited about them now as in the beginning.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: B5 & ZIMA
+Date: 14 Jan 1995 02:24:12 -0500
+
+     There's no Zima on the show in BG because we just did it for funsies,
+and now having done it, it's over.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Release of series onto Laser d
+Date: 15 Jan 1995 00:56:42 -0500
+
+     We do hope to have the (widescreen) disks out by summer or fall, once
+we finish re-transferring all the film stock back to its original format.
+The pilot can't be released in a producers' cut since it never existed in
+film, only in computer-image form on the Avid editing system.  To do the
+full film would require completely re-editing the film and re-scoring, and
+we don't have the resources or budget for that.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: Starfuries on patrol.
+Date: 15 Jan 1995 00:56:32 -0500
+
+     The starfuries were deployed from lunar bases, also from carriers
+that dropped everything they had.
+ 
+     Since this was a last-ditch effort, there was no point in keeping
+reserve starfuries on-board, and the big ships still made huge targets.
+This was almost entirely an offensive maneuver, not defensive.  You pop
+everything you've got, figuring that probably nobody will make it back.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+Subject: ATT JMS: Instantaneous Communi
+Date: 15 Jan 1995 01:31:30 -0500
+
+     Tachyon-based transmission systems.
+ 
+  That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+Subject: Re: - JMS on Patrick Stewart
+Date: 15 Jan 1995 01:42:38 -0500
+
+     To the best of my knowledge, NONE of the ST actors have any problem
+with any of the B5 actors, and vice-versa.  Much as some divisive fan
+would, as you say, like their characters to reflect their own feelings,
+the reality simply isn't there.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Murder, He Wrote?  (Re JMS)
+Date: 15 Jan 1995 01:46:59 -0500
+
+     Correct; I was a writer/producer on MURDER, SHE WROTE for two years,
+and wrote something like 10-12 episodes (I don't remember exac
+offhand).  For the last 2 weeks or so, USA network has been hitting the
+seasons I worked on, so my name has been there a lot lately.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+Subject: Re: B5 & ZIMA
+Date: 15 Jan 1995 01:47:14 -0500
+
+     Tagging this here because I don't know where else to tag it...I just
+got a GEnie note saying that approximately 100 letters from the Internet
+gateway never got to me; many are just rec-arts, but there's also on the
+list headers from a4jinna, roland@festival, TrboTurtle, dd36+, northrup@
+chuma, anewton, brauchfu, and others.  Just a warning...stuff does get
+munched sometimes.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Three Edged?
+Date: 15 Jan 1995 19:50:13 -0500
+
+     The metaphor functions on several levels: 1) in any argument, there
+is your side, and the other side, but if you're ever going to get past
+that and find agreement, or understanding, you must be open to a third
+idea, a compromise or intercession.  2) a real three-bladed or three-edged
+sword creates a wound that does not close again; knowledge, once received,
+and understood, is permanent and changes you forever.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Do Doctors Still Speciali
+Date: 15 Jan 1995 19:56:33 -0500
+
+     Negative; your assumption is incorrect.  Dr. Franklin is chief of
+staff of the medlab facility, and has been introduced as such.  We have
+seen many other doctors, from Dr. Maya Hernandez to the asian doctor
+brought in to help save Garibaldi in "Chrysalis."  There are probably
+about 100-150 doctors on B5, and we'll be showing more of them as we go
+on in the show.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Jovian moons
+Date: 15 Jan 1995 19:54:53 -0500
+
+     I think we'll probably get around to showing more of the Jovian
+moons one of these days.
+ 
+     We're also taking advantage of some of the recent Hubble photographs
+to scan them and use them as backgrounds in some far-space shots; there's
+one in "The Coming of Shadows," for instance.  Real space is *very* nice
+looking in places.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS -- "Producer's cut" S
+Date: 15 Jan 1995 20:23:49 -0500
+
+     The various drafts of the script have all the missing scenes, and may
+in time become available directly through Babylonian Productions along
+with other scripts.  The computer images are too grainy to ever be used
+in any kind of laserdisk or tape, very low-res.
+ 
+     The whole issue of the pilot still rankles me, on a personal level.
+I was still fairly new to executive producing, and was more prone to just
+accept the word of the director or the editor that this was as good as the
+cut would get, this was how it should stay.  I didn't speak up on some of
+my concerns, didn't just go in and re-edit the whole damned thing the way
+I felt I should have.  It was my error, and there's no one else to blame
+for it.
+ 
+     I've learned since to trust my instincts.  So when John Copeland and
+I go in to edit the episodes, we edit these things so tight they scream.
+In retrospect, I probably could've fit in about 18 minutes of the 20
+or so minutes we ended up cutting, by judicious editing, line-cutting,
+and just picking up the pace of the thing in every scene.  It's one of
+those, "If I knew then what I know now..." situations.
+ 
+     If we had the budget to re-edit the damned thing, which alas we
+don't, I can assure you it would be a VERY different-looking movie.
+ 
+     My fault.  Nobody else's.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Re: Murder, He Wrote? (Re JMS)
+Date: 15 Jan 1995 22:25:11 -0500
+
+     We had one of the M,SW directors over recently, and he mentioned that
+Angela, as with you, considers "The Committee" to be the best episode of
+the series.  I'm inclined to agree that it was probably one of the best
+scripts I did for the show, though I'm also particular toward "The Wind
+Around the Tower" and parts of "Incident in Lot 7."
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Re: Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin
+Date: 15 Jan 1995 22:23:25 -0500
+
+     "Not to cast aspersions on the physique of JMS, but he's not the
+youngest buck in the forest, forest, nor the sveltest.  What if he dies?"
+ 
+     HEY!  I'll have you know I'm just 40 years old, and at 6'5" I'm maybe
+ten pounds more than I should be.  Granted it all seems to have settled in
+one or two places, but I attribute that to the gravitational influence of
+a pinhole black hole that must have drifted past recently.
+ 
+     As to the question, "What if he dies?"...what happens is that they
+come and pick me up, bring me to the nearest mortuary, I'm autopsied,
+needles are inserted in my heel and elbow, the blood is removed from my
+body, embalming fluid is subsequently pumped in, I'm dressed in an
+ill-fitting suit, displayed briefly (against my wishes), shoved into a
+crematorium, my remains are transferred to ash, and I spend THE NEXT TEN
+THOUSAND YEARS HAUNTING YOUR ASS FOR ASKING A MORBID QUESTION LIKE THAT!!!
+ 
+     All my notes are triple-encrypted.  Only I know the password.  So it's
+in the best interests of EVERYBODY to keep my ass ALIVE for the next 3.5
+years.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Personal Query from JMS
+Date: 15 Jan 1995 23:14:49 -0500
+
+     For a while now, I've been trying to find some old friends with whom
+I've lost all contact.  Given the resource here, and the theory that we
+are all only 6 people away from anybody else...I thought I'd try it here.
+If anybody should know how to contact the following people, if y'all
+could send me a note I'd be greatly appreciative.
+ 
+     Liz or Elizabeth Ochoa.  Last known to be in San Diego.  Red hair,
+Basque background.  Rose tattoo on left wrist.  Resided in San Diego from
+1978 through 1981, had a 4-year old son named (I believe) Justin (who
+would now be about 19).  Liz would be roughly 39-40 years old.
+ 
+     Colleen Carnevale, also from San Diego, same age range.  Blonde, and
+formerly, through her father, a member of the San Diego Yacht Club.  She
+worked at the Whaley House up through about 1979, and worked as an
+Orientation Counselor at SDSU through about 1978.  May be married now.
+ 
+     Joanne Massie, formerly a high school teacher at Chula Vista High
+School, 1972.  Last I'd heard she had moved to Texas around 1975.
+ 
+     (Mrs. Massie was the one who got me into writing when I was just a
+kid, gave me the chance to follow my abilities.)
+ 
+     Joe or Joseph Trez, 40-41, resident of Matawan, New Jersey in about
+1970.  Nothing since.
+ 
+     Sherily Mattarocci, roughly 34, may now be married with a different
+name.  Formerly from Bonita, California.  (Oops, make that Sherilyn, not
+Sherily.)
+ 
+     Marcus Manecke, former cult member (Children of God), 42-44, lived
+in religious commune (unrelated to CoG) in Chula Vista through 1978, may
+now be living in the New England area.  He was also a musician.
+ 
+     Any info should be sent via private email.  These are all friends,
+just would like to find out whatever happened to them.  Thanks.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS -- "Producer's cu
+Date: 16 Jan 1995 04:50:59 -0500
+
+      It's a wonderful idea, and a kind suggestion, but it would have to
+come from Warners; a fundraiser wouldn't work.  Maybe someday....
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+Subject: Outer Limits on Showtime: Whic
+Date: 16 Jan 1995 21:28:02 -0500
+
+     The Outer Limits series will not be remakes for the most part, though
+I hear they may consider one or two.  Demon will definitely not be among
+them.  I had great hopes for OL, because I'd like to see some good SF
+being done on cable, but I don't think so...first, they dumped Joe Stefano
+and Leslie Stevens, froze them out of the show, pretty cold thing to do
+to the producer/writers who created the thing (legal maneuvering now
+complete, I understand, and they'll finally get their proper credit on
+the show)...Michael Cassutt finally bolted from the show as primary
+writer/producer a while ago, wanting nothing more to do with it....
+ 
+     When B5 went on hiatus over the summer, the new OL team -- the same
+people who brought you Space Rangers -- called me in to become a consultant
+or producer on the show, even though they knew it'd mean dividing my time
+(which was why consultant was better).  I met with them, and saw a
+breakdown of the stories they were planning to do.  I can't remember the
+last time I was so completely appalled.  I felt I could have nothing to
+do with the show in any way, manner, shape or form; I felt they had NO
+understanding of what the Outer Limits was supposed to be.
+ 
+     Here's just ONE example of the stories they were putting forth (and
+I feel that I can quote this one because I know it didn't get used, for
+the singular reason that Cassutt, when he came aboard, insisted that it
+NOT be done, having the same horrified reaction that I did.  But it's
+nonetheless emblematic of the rest of the stories.
+ 
+     A guy's hang-gliding.  Caught by a wind, he rises higher and higher
+until he passes out from lack of oxygen.  Comes to descending toward a
+military base.  He's captured by American soldiers, put in a cell...and
+in the cell across from him...is John F. Kennedy, who *didn't* die when
+the assassin's bullet hit his head.  He was cryogenically suspended until
+he could be fixed up.  Now this has been done, but Kennedy insists that
+they won't release him.  Together, the two manage to escape...at which
+point the guy discovers that the reason that they had him in a cell was
+that Kennedy came through the surgery a homicidal maniac determined to
+destroy the world...and now it falls to this guy to kill Kennedy a
+second time.
+ 
+     Go ahead...guess what the guys' last name just *happens* to be.
+ 
+     Yep.  Oswald.
+ 
+     I told the producers, "If you do this story, the entire american
+viewing public will descend upon your offices, drag you out into the
+street, slap two telephone poles together and crucify you.  And I will
+personally hand them the nails."
+ 
+     So we'll see...I don't know how much Cassutt was able to deter them
+from their path, especially since he bolted, which means he probably
+wasn't able to do much.  I'll take a look at it, because hope endures in
+the face of reason...but I think this is gonna be problematic.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Attn: JMS
+Date: 16 Jan 1995 21:24:46 -0500
+
+     We'll work this into dialogue to make it clearer....
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Intelligence at the "rim"
+Date: 16 Jan 1995 21:55:43 -0500
+
+     You won't have to wait for future seasons to find out what's going
+on out on the rim; you'll have a pretty good picture of it before the
+end of THIS season.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Re: - JSM & The Arc -
+Date: 16 Jan 1995 21:55:30 -0500
+
+     Wow, what a detailed analysis....
+ 
+     Okay, some good thoughts here.  Quick responses.
+ 
+     The best way to approach this is to discuss my approach to writing in
+general.  I've now written two published novels, and have a third ready to
+be written as soon as I have six months to a year to spare (i.e, not for
+a while yet).  My structure is always very tight on these things, in the
+sense that I plan out the basic *spine* of the novel.  I know I'm starting
+at point A, I want to end at point Z, and I want to hit a certain number of
+spots along the way.  Then I start writing.  Once I've committed to that
+STRUCTURE, everything else becomes expendable or fluid.  I've ha
+background characters suddenly lurch into the foreground, and major
+characters (or characters I *thought* would be major) fall into the
+background.  Sometimes, while chugging along the structure highway, I'll
+see something interesting just off the main road, and I'll go poke around
+in there for a while.
+ 
+     Basically, I like being *surprised*.  And I think, in general, that
+readers do as well.  At no time do I diverge from where I want to go; the
+spine never alters.  But the details are absolutely fluid.
+ 
+     When I write an episode, I do exactly the same thing.  I *HATE* to
+outline; I think it freezes the story too much.  So in general I just sit
+down at the keyboard, knowing the title of the episode, the primary
+incidents that have to happen, and a few character moments, and stgart
+writing.  And things suddenly occur to me, I get surprised by moments when
+the characters turn to me and say, "Hey, stupid, don't do THAT, do *THIS*."
+ And I go where they tell me.  The result is that the scripts I write tend
+to be VERY tight: they go where they're going, and move like a house
+afire...BUT there's the real sense that ANYdamnedthing can happen at any
+moment, because I'm not locked in.
+ 
+     The same applies to the series overall.  I know *exactly* where the
+series is going, the final denouement, the benchmarks of each season, and
+have brief synopses on most of the episodes.  But you have to be open to
+surprises, have to allow yourself to be pulled one way or another on the
+details, otherwise you get predictable, and you lose the spark.  Also,
+the reality is that actors are human; there can be contract disputes,
+health problems, any number of things...so there have to be trap doors
+built into the storyline for *every single one of the characters* without
+exception.
+ 
+     The closest comparison, I suppose, would be doing a story about
+World War II.  The individual pieces can move around, people can come and
+go, live or die, suddenly be revealed to be counterspies...but the basic
+progression, the storyline of the war, is not changed.  (Unless you're
+doing alternate history, which we're not.)  When I write, I basically
+carry the whole storyline in my head, and I run the episode through that
+to make sure that it all parses.
+ 
+     It's as if you've flashed back in time to WW II, and you're in a
+battalion going into Normandy Beach.  You know that in the long run, the
+Allies will win the war...but you look around at the other people in
+the landing craft with you, and you have no idea which of them is going
+to make it through to the end.  One is set.  The other is fluid.
+ 
+     The final destination of the story, and the chief points along the
+way...none of that has altered so much as an inch.  Within that structure
+I may move some elments up, push some back; you have to find the *feel* of
+the story as you write it, something you can't prepare for until you're
+actually writing it.  But the structure remains, giving me freedom to
+roam where I want...if I decide to kill off one of the three really major
+human characters in year three (and I'm NOT saying I'm planning on it, I'm
+just discussing hypotheticals), I can do it, and the overall storyline
+isn't touched.
+ 
+     A destination may be fixed on the horizon...but sometimes the most fun
+you have is getting lost from time to time on the way there.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: Intelligence at the "rim"
+Date: 16 Jan 1995 21:55:43 -0500
+
+     You won't have to wait for future seasons to find out what's going
+on out on the rim; you'll have a pretty good picture of it before the
+end of THIS season.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS: Have You Read Pohl's
+Date: 17 Jan 1995 02:20:12 -0500
+
+      I've missed a fair amount of Pohl's work, including the "heechee"
+stuff...but in any event, the shadows are all mine.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+Subject: Re: Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin
+Date: 18 Jan 1995 01:23:55 -0500
+
+      Re: writing "The Quality of Mercy" while half-dead with the flu...my
+staff knows well enough to *never* get between me and a script.  As Vir
+says, the consequences would be *profoundly* unfortunate.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Sinclair leaving B5
+Date: 18 Jan 1995 01:28:46 -0500
+
+      That story is absolutely, 100% bogus, and is one of a number of
+destructive, false rumors floating around right now.  When we were
+contemplating what to do with the role of Sinclair, we called Michael
+in, and we talked about it.  Nobody sent anybody a letter saying
+you're outta here.  That's a flat-out lie, nothing less, and whoever
+told you (Chris) this is either misremembering or deliberately giving
+out false information.  Nor have there been any problems between the
+company and Michael.  This is claptrap, nothing less.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: UK con appearance
+Date: 18 Jan 1995 01:30:33 -0500
+
+      Unfortunately I don't have the info on the UK con in April in
+front of me, it's at the office.  I can remember such things for only
+about 20 minutes when my brain seizes up and flushes the info.  There
+have been inquiries about attending the Wolf 359 convention later in
+the year, but thus far I've heard nothing formal from the convention, or
+specifics on how this would be worked out.  Be assured that there will
+probably be lots of info on this other con well before the April event
+(I keep thinking it's not far from Stratford-upon-Avon...).
+ 
+	                                                      jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Londo's Spots?
+Date: 18 Jan 1995 01:35:20 -0500
+
+      Insofar as I know, the spots are still there; sometimes theyre
+(they're) more visible than other times, depending on lighting.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+Subject: Re: Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin
+Date: 18 Jan 1995 01:23:43 -0500
+
+      I'M FINE!  DO YOU HEAR ME!?  I'M ABSOLUTELY, BLOODY, BOLLICKY,
+BUGGERY JUST PERFECTLY AND ABSOLUTELY ****FINE!!!**** I'VE NEVER BEEN
+BETTER, I'M FINE...I'M....I'M.....AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHH.......
+ 
+     ....................................................<thunk>
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Sheridan's name: Bla
+Date: 18 Jan 1995 01:48:44 -0500
+
+      Just coincidence in the name; he destroyed the Black Star, hence
+Starkiller.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Re: Outer Limits on Showtime:
+Date: 18 Jan 1995 01:48:32 -0500
+
+      Basically, I hated everything about the story...it was one of the
+old "three word endings" that are symptomatic of bad SF ("The killer's...
+OSWALD!"), it destroys the Kennedy image for NO reason, it's a dumb
+idea, it has no dramatic progression of any kind...it's just a dumbness.
+ 
+     I like alternative history stories as much as anybody; this one just
+was awful.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Death and Dyin <reprisal>
+Date: 18 Jan 1995 01:58:07 -0500
+
+     Re: the fate of any possible actor on the show...like I said, I've
+built in trap doors for everybody on the show with one fairly obvious
+exception.  (Viz: me.)
+ 
+     Hey, I've *read* Scherezade (though I can't spell it for squat); I
+ain't no fool.
+ 
+     As for "all this attention"...you're still talking mainly about the
+online community; the majority of the American public still doesn't know
+the show even *exists*.
+ 
+     But we're getting there.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: B5 mention in Akron Voyager Re
+Date: 18 Jan 1995 01:58:17 -0500
+
+     Would love a copy of the clip; can you send it to me via:
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423?  Much
+appreciated.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+Subject: Request: Rowan Atkinson on B5
+Date: 18 Jan 1995 01:58:27 -0500
+
+     Would *love* to see Rowan do the show sometime; also Tom Baker,
+Meatloaf, Alice Cooper, John Cleese.....
+ 
+     Maybe someday.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Episode list for winning new c
+Date: 18 Jan 1995 01:58:39 -0500
+
+      I'd omit "War Prayer" and put in "The Parliament of Dreams."
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Re: Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin
+Date: 18 Jan 1995 01:58:49 -0500
+
+      (To Jim Batka...thanks.)
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Stun Settings?
+Date: 18 Jan 1995 02:23:11 -0500
+
+      Yes; a PPG shoots superheated helium at high velocity.  You coul,d
+(could) lower the heat on the plasma, but still kick it out at the same
+velocity, so it wouldn't do as much damage, provided it didn't hit any
+exposed skin.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Re: Att'n JMS: Death and Dyin
+Date: 18 Jan 1995 05:21:08 -0500
+
+      "Do we play taps now, or just space 'im?"
+ 
+      (Go ahead, laugh...my hard disk gets cremated WITH me!)
+ 
+	                                                jm<thunk>s
+
+Subject: Re: Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin
+Date: 18 Jan 1995 20:07:43 -0500
+
+     I hope to make this my last message on the subject, in hopes that this
+topic will finally...er...die off.  It's really kinda morbid when you're
+on this end of the modem.
+ 
+     Bottom line...it ain't a matter of making sure somebody gets my notes
+on the overall storyline.  If you're a painter, you can give someone your
+notes on how to finish the painting in case something happens, but it won't
+be done *exactly* the way you would want it.  So better to leave it
+unfinished, with that part which *is* finished being 100% what you wanted
+it to be, than let it be completed by others, and not necessarily as well.
+ 
+     This show has to be done exactly, a certain way, or it won't be what
+I *want* it to be.  My notes are for my own use.  Maybe that sounds selfish
+or self-indulgent.  Maybe it is.  There are lots of writers out there as
+good or better than I am.  That ain't the problem.  Give 10 writers the
+same basic parameters and you'll get 10 different stories.  This is my
+story.  And where I go, it goes.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: The Crucible: ST vs. B5
+Date: 18 Jan 1995 20:08:11 -0500
+
+     Bruce's thoughts in this thread are about the most cogent analysis of
+B5 (theme and direction) I've yet seen, insofar as these elements are
+concerned.  Very precise.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Subject: JMS: PTEN contact info?
+Date: 19 Jan 1995 02:18:06 -0500
+
+     Correct; Dick Robertson is President of Domestic TV for Warners, is
+at the address noted in your message, and is the one to continue to
+receive any good wishes for the show.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Re: Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin
+Date: 19 Jan 1995 03:25:59 -0500
+
+     "How about if I found out I have terminal cancer and am going to die
+in one month.  Will you tell me how B5 is going to end?"
+ 
+     My condolences to your survivors.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: JMS:  Inspiration???
+Date: 19 Jan 1995 22:38:50 -0500
+
+     I'd have to say no, the Prisoner didn't inspire me in creating B5.  I
+enjoy the show, and nod toward it as a  milestone in SF history, maybe the
+best show made to date, but inspiration on this....no.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Re: B5 CREATOR COMMENTS ON VOY
+Date: 20 Jan 1995 02:14:37 -0500
+
+     "If memory serves, this is the first real praise (jms) has for ST.
+I think he is gaining real confidence about his own show."
+ 
+     I think you're trying to connect two unrelated things.  1) I have
+always had confidence in my own show, or I wouldn' be here.  2) Up until
+now, minus some good things in TNG, there hasn't been very much noteworthy
+(imo) *about* ST that I could say.  Now there is.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: ATTN AWK:Starfuries the only E
+Date: 20 Jan 1995 04:35:41 -0500
+
+     Obviously humans and the EA have other kinds of attack vessels; but
+the Starfuries are the ones most apt for protecting the station; it's a
+general purpose craft...not much use around Epsilon 3 for bombing runs.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS: did show concept cha
+Date: 20 Jan 1995 11:14:27 -0500
+
+     There was never any intention whatsoever of doing B5 within the
+context of the Star Trek universe.  It was always intended as a wholly
+original concept.  It was taken to a half dozen or more studios, and
+that included Paramount, yes, but Paramount doesn't just do Trek.  I never
+wanted to tell this story in the ST universe because it *couldn't* be told
+there; the rules that confine story areas simply wouldn't let it happen.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS 2 questions.
+Date: 20 Jan 1995 17:36:34 -0500
+
+     I've picked several middle-names for Sheridan; now I'm waiting to see
+which he grows into.  And to send stuff, send it along to me via:
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Props question.
+Date: 20 Jan 1995 17:46:10 -0500
+
+     Links are held on in the real world with a non-abraisve chemical
+used to hold prosthetics; comes off fairly easily, doesn't pull hairs,
+doesn't cause long-term problems.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Book?
+Date: 20 Jan 1995 18:10:54 -0500
+
+     What I'll do years down the road is beyond my contemplation; I know I
+have enough material for several books, but whether they get written is
+anybody's guess.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Will you sign my B5 comic
+Date: 20 Jan 1995 19:59:29 -0500
+
+     With a SASE, just to make it more guaranteed that I'll send it back,
+yes.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS: irony is our friend
+Date: 20 Jan 1995 20:34:50 -0500
+
+     Yeah, I don't doubt that Majel took some swipes at B5 (which show was
+that, btw?).
+ 
+     She's long been very frangible about the whole issue.  I think she
+doesn't like having her monopoly in any way threatened.
+ 
+     Here's an example of how Majel is, which can be confirmed by others
+online who were there: when I went to debut the B5 pilot at Wishcon, she
+had the presentation right before mine.  I had just under two hours to
+show the pilot, with maybe fifteen minutes of intro and technical setup.
+She was due to leave the stage at the top of the hour.
+ 
+     After me, was scheduled the auction to raise money for terminally
+ill children, the purpose of the whole con.  Remember that.
+ 
+     So the top of the hour came.  Majel didn't surrender the stage.  Ten
+minutes after.  Fifteen.  Twenty.  People began indicating for her to
+leave.  She refused.  She looked in my direction, said, "I see him back
+there, I know he's here," and kept *right* on talking.  And talking.
+ 
+     Finally, round about the half-hour mark, she finally stopped.  So
+now there was NO time for any discussion from me at all, and even if we
+ran through the tech setup as fast as possible, we would still cut deep
+into the auction.  It was a clear and obvious attempt to sabotage the
+showing, in front of a couple hundred witnesses.  Though she has been
+known to go a bit over from time to time at other cons, her reference to
+me, and the length of the overage, clearly showed it was intentional.
+ 
+     I told the convention people that I would be willing to only show the
+first hour of the pilot (its first screening anywhere), maybe try to find
+a time in the evening to show the rest.  They insisted: show the whole
+thing, and we'll just take it out of the auction.  Nonetheless, I kept my
+introductory comments as brief as possible, showed the pilot, and rather
+than keep the room tied up longer, crammed everybody who wanted to talk
+about it into a smaller room down the hall.
+ 
+     Later, several people from the con confronted Majel with this, as
+she was signing autographs.  They asked her point-blank if she'd done
+this *deliberately* to try and screw B5.  She just smiled.  Didn't matter
+that in the long run, her actions would just end up hurting the cause of
+aiding terminally ill children.  Later, due to a lot of people being very
+upset by her behavior, she offered to write a note apologizing.  Suffice
+to say it was never written.
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+Subject: NetGhoddess Meriday's Portrait
+Date: 20 Jan 1995 21:45:49 -0500
+
+     That's a great portrait, Mike.  BTW, I very  much enjoyed Wizard of
+Speed and Time, and wish things could have gone better over the long
+haul.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: JMS: you knew this was coming.
+Date: 21 Jan 1995 00:25:57 -0500
+
+     I understand the reason behind such suggestions, but at the same time
+I don't want to be getting hundreds of these things in the mail to sign.
+So case by case.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+Subject: Defense Grid: big PPG's or pro
+Date: 21 Jan 1995 03:52:48 -0500
+
+      A current reply on the makeup of the defense grid would be obsolete
+within the next 3 new episodes, so I'll defer until then.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Diplomacy questions
+Date: 21 Jan 1995 03:52:37 -0500
+
+     There are various embassies and diplomatic missions on various
+worlds (Earth has the most; Universe Today had a story about a Minbari
+embassy being bombed).  Because space on B5 is so tight, complete offices
+for every single ambassador would kill most of the available space; so
+they have access to the station's facilities for business rooms, meeting
+rooms, conference rooms and the like.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: ATTN, JMS: DEMON GLASS HAND II
+Date: 21 Jan 1995 19:50:45 -0500
+
+     Right now, we're moving fast toward accellerating and escalating the
+events of the overall arc, and having a hard time determining how to fit
+in a stand-alone in the last batch of episodes, so this may hav to wait.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Starfury Model Kit?
+Date: 21 Jan 1995 19:49:04 -0500
+
+     I keep waiting for a deal to get made for models...I think it'd be
+great....
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Season 2 Finale title?
+Date: 22 Jan 1995 01:29:21 -0500
+
+     I have several titles for the last episode of this season; won't know
+which fits best until I get there in the writing.  One possible title is
+"A Fall of Night," but I may not go with that one.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Attn. JMS:  Flashbacks?
+Date: 22 Jan 1995 01:29:40 -0500
+
+     I don't like loose threads hanging around, so all this will get tied
+up.  In some cases, we'll see flashbacks to stuff that happened "around the
+corner," so to speak, and in others we'll have dialogue explanations.  WE
+get the scoop on what question Delenn asked Kosh (via Lennier) before this
+season is out.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Re: Outer Limits on Showtime:
+Date: 22 Jan 1995 01:29:06 -0500
+
+      The season of Twilight Zone that I story edited and wrote for (about
+11 episodes or so) is in syndication currently, so may be showing up in
+your area somewhere.  We did some nifty stuff, I think....
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Chicago Convention from jms
+Date: 22 Jan 1995 03:16:11 -0500
+
+     For those who haven't haerd...there is going to be a major convention
+in Chicago on June 24th and 25th; particularly major for Babylon 5.  Guests
+appearing at the convention include me, Michael O'Hare, Mira Furlan, Bill
+Mumy and Richard Biggs.  This is the biggest gathering of B5 people since
+a surprise appearance at the San Diego Comic Con the summer we went on with
+the series.
+ 
+     It's called The Big Bang Convention, and the other guests include Mark
+Hamill, John deLancie, Robert O'Reilly and others.  Admission is $35 for
+general attendence (per day), $150 for VIP tickets, and $250 for Deluxe
+VIP.  I'll be giving a seminar as part of the program for prospective
+television/film writers...a Q&A structure, not a workshop where scripts
+will be evaluated.
+ 
+     The hotel is the Courtyard By Mariott in Elmhurst, with the con held
+at the Odeum in Villa Park.  The VIP pass includes the writing seminar,
+an acting seminar (both are, I believe, also available to non-VIP guests
+for a small fee, around $20), a gambling riverboat outing with con guests,
+hotel accommodations for both nights, and other stuff.
+ 
+     It's my understanding that the tickets for this convention are now
+available through Ticketron.  They expect something on the order of
+15,000 people to show up for this one.  I understand they're also doing
+some performance stuff between guests, and are working hard to make this
+a real Event.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: X-Files win is good for B5
+Date: 22 Jan 1995 07:41:58 -0500
+
+      X-FILES won the Golden Globe for Best Series?!  No shit!?  That's
+absolutely terrific.  I hadn't heard this.  Definitely deserved.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Question from a Trekker
+Date: 22 Jan 1995 07:38:06 -0500
+
+     Jeffrey...this is just a question, not a flame.  You say you wrote
+off B5 after one episode.  How long did you give the first two ST series
+to get their sea-legs?
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Licensing & merchandise questi
+Date: 22 Jan 1995 09:08:51 -0500
+
+     B5 stuff has been selling well for all our licensees.  I've been told
+that Creation has come back to license more stuff.  I don't know how much
+ink All-U has been getting on its shirts, but I haven't head anything.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Suger Ray Robinson on Babylon
+Date: 23 Jan 1995 00:49:34 -0500
+
+     It was Larry's idea to name the character Walker Smith, after Sugar
+Ray Robinson.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Re: Chicago Convention from jm
+Date: 23 Jan 1995 00:50:18 -0500
+
+     Nothing slated for the Detroit area that I'm aware of.
+ 
+	                                                     jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Sinclair in Twilight Zone
+Date: 23 Jan 1995 00:50:39 -0500
+
+     Actually, the doctor's name was St. Clair, not Sinclair, but it
+sounds like that...it's visible in the credits, though.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+Subject: Re: Chicago Convention from jm
+Date: 23 Jan 1995 00:49:57 -0500
+
+     I'll probably bring the blooper reel, a music video or two, and an
+unaired episode.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Re: Chicago Convention from jm
+Date: 23 Jan 1995 04:18:40 -0500
+
+     To Howard Shubs...the Big Bang Convention is most emphatically NOT a
+Creation Convention, has nothing to do with Creation, and has stated an
+intention to do a very different kind of con unique to their approach.
+The one is totally unrelated to the other.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Re: Homosexuality argument
+Date: 23 Jan 1995 04:16:51 -0500
+
+     ARE YOU PEOPLE ALL STILL ARGUING ABOUT THIS STUFF?
+ 
+     OKAY, THAT'S IT.  EVERYBODY CLEAR OUT.  EVERYBODY OUTTA THE POOL.  I
+DON'T WANT THIS JOINT BASHED UP AND BEAT UP EVERY TIME SOMEBODY DRAGS THIS
+ARGUMENT OUT OF THE CLOSET!  THERE'S GOTTA BE AN ISSUES FORUM SOMEWHERE!
+ 
+     IT'S LIKE THE GODDAMN DRAZI...EVERY FIVE YEARS YOU DIVIDE UP INTO TWO
+CAMPS AND BEAT THE CRAP OUTTA EACH OTHER!  AND AS IVANOVA SAID, "GRANTED
+THE OTHER RACES WOULDN'T *MIND* IF YOU KILL ONE ANOTHER, EVEN THEY WOULD
+PREFER YOU DID SO *QUIETLY*."
+ 
+     Okay?  Take it outside, people.
+ 
+     I don't care who's wrong, I don't care who's right, I don't care
+who had the last word or who got offended last.  Take it outside.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Please verify about
+Date: 23 Jan 1995 04:51:37 -0500
+
+     Keffer wasn't added because fans thought that sending the commanding
+officer into battle was inappropriate.  We will still continue to send our
+COs into battle when necessary.  Throughout the season, we've tried to
+flesh out the command levels.  We started with 2 starfury squadrons on B5,
+and added a third in "Survivors."  Logically, those are going to have
+squad leaders.  Adding in all three would be a stretch budget-wise, but we
+could at least add one, to show a different aspect of the crew.  And, in
+truth, you wouldn't have command personnel leading every single routine
+mission.  We'd kinda wanted to do this in the first year, but we didn't
+have the money for it.  In year two, we did, and thus added him.
+ 
+     Everyone who advertises on a show would like their products to be
+shown.  Likewise, everyone advertising on B5 wanted their stuff shown.
+The good thing about this, for a show with a limited (non ST) budget is
+that you could have access to their products without having to pay a
+license fee.  For fun, for instance, we stuck a Zima sign on the back of
+a couple of bars.  When Kawasaki came on as a sponsor, Larry kinda got to
+wondering how on earth you could ever work in a motorcycle...and got a
+fun idea.  So we went ahead and did it.  We never had to do either of
+them, or ANY of them.  My feeling since is that it probably wasn't worth
+doing it, best to leave this stuff out, and in year two we haven't done
+ANY of it.  Basically, it was a whim.
+ 
+     You'll note that SFU's description of the O'Hare situation doesn't
+quote anybody.  There are several questionable conclusions in the article,
+though overall they did a good job.  This, though, is one of them.  They
+also mis-labled about 4 or 5 photographs.  It also kinda bugs me just a
+little that they attribute all the setups on the visuals to the directors,
+when in nearly every case the script *specifically* describes how the shot
+should be set up.  I don't mind sharing credit with directors on some of
+this stuff, because it's a collaboration...I just don't like it when ALL
+the credit goes to the director, who used a beam of stark white light in
+a scene, because it said in the script, "Sinclair stands in a beam of
+stark white light."
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS - Christianity in 23
+Date: 23 Jan 1995 17:09:18 -0500
+
+     Many religious types in 2259 feel that god has appeared to other
+worlds in different forms; others feel that it is their obligation to go
+out into the galaxy and bring the *right* word; in other cases, whole new
+schisms and belief systems sprouted once alien contact had been made,
+including Foundationalism, which Dr. Franklin belongs to (you'll hear
+more about this from Franklin later this season).
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: UK: B5 coverage in `The Indepe
+Date: 23 Jan 1995 17:27:34 -0500
+
+     And from his statement "My theory is that the programe's a duffer,"
+he tells you right there that he's never seen the damned thing.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Scheduling
+Date: 23 Jan 1995 17:28:11 -0500
+
+     Year 2 is 22 episodes.  I don't think any of the breaks will be as
+long as year 1 since we started at a different time.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Reasons why Bab 5 is crap
+Date: 23 Jan 1995 17:30:24 -0500
+
+     The majority of "flaws" you point out are, I'm afraid, rather
+inaccurate.
+ 
+     1) Doors that swing up.  There's nobody just upstairs to be bothered
+by this; the levels are very well isolated from one another.  Also, they
+don't go straight up, they're cantilevered, so they swing up and *sideways*
+out of the way.  Also, from a technical standpoint, this is a better way
+of ensuring pressure door integrity.  If there's a hull blown out, and
+your doors move sideways or meet in the middle, you're going to lose air.
+If the door drops down into place, and is held by inertia, no holes or
+lines, it's *solid*.  (It's a solid seal, which is why you can hear it
+close.)  It's got nothing to do with trying to not be like Trek; it's
+finding what's most accurate and doing it.
+ 
+     2) No, we're not borrowing ST's ideas.  You say their communicators
+know automatically when you're talking to them.  Ours don't.  You have
+to physically toggle them.  Then, once you've done so, you say, "Sheridan
+to Garibaldi."  This verbally activates the system, and rings Garibaldi's
+Link.  He toggles his Link and says, "Garibaldi, go."  No AI is ever
+involved, really; it's a routing system.  (And you'll note that Garibaldi
+doesn't hear the "Sheridan to Garibaldi" part, only the stuff after it
+beeps.)  This is not only consistent with the rest of our tech, it's
+actually close to being workable *today*.
+ 
+     3) Re: aliens knowing about Earth...remember please that you're
+talking about AMBASSADORS here whose JOB it is to know all they can about
+their host.  So they study.  They don't know all of it; Londo and Vir got
+cats and ducks confused, and there's holes in their knowledge.  That's
+why they keep studying, as with G'Kar reading Earth writings.  If I
+am assigned as ambassador to Russia, I'd damned well better know as much
+as I can about the culture, the people, their history, their language,
+you name it.  Same here.  We have not yet to date shown non-ambassadors
+with this level of interest or knowledge about Earth.
+ 
+     A lot of the "problems" you cite could simply be worked out by doing
+a little thought on the reasons behind such things, rather than just
+assuming that it's an error.  About 90% of the criticism I see is
+kneejerk response, which when you point out how it makes sense if you
+just fire a few synapses, gets "Oh....yeah..." as a reply.
+ 
+     4) Zima was a gag.  Zima be gone now.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: JMS on Homosexuality argument
+Date: 23 Jan 1995 22:53:53 -0500
+
+     If this argument hadn't come through here ten times before this, I
+might not have minded; but this is something like the 11th go-around on
+this, and the fact is that I have not yet seen ONE person change his or
+her views on the subject one way or another.  It's NOT a dialogue; it's
+a series of monologues.  People hit their marks, scream at the top of
+their lungs, while somebody on the other side does the same.
+ 
+     The result is that it makes BOTH sides look like jerks, and the
+important information that needs to be communicated gets drowned in all
+the noise and vitriol.  Once the conversation has descended to that
+level, NO good cause is served.
+ 
+     Ironic thing is...the two sides have one thing in common.  I've
+received angry and abusive letters from BOTH sides in the debate for
+my message.  I've been called a fag-lover in one, and a right-winger in
+another.
+ 
+     Anybody here remember an episode called "Infection?"  Aside form its
+(from its) problems, there was one line in particular I'd like to cite for
+you: "You forgot the first rule of the fanatic: when you become obsessed
+with the enemy, you BECOME the enemy."  All I hear around here is
+screaming, and y'know, you all sound alike after a while...and when both
+sides begin using the same tactics, the same flames, the same instant
+condemnation...congratulations, you have become the enemy in whose use of
+those same techniques you find such disgust.
+ 
+     And this will probably get me *more* hate mail from both sides; which
+means I must be fairly close to the truth.  If I can offend BOTH sides,
+then I'm doing my job properly.
+ 
+     I wouldn't mind so much if this was new...but we're now in our ninth
+rerun of this conversation, and it's poisoning the well without changing
+one person's mind about much of anything.  Enough is enough.  It not about
+getting the truth out any longer; it's about who gets in the last word,
+and who's the most indignant, and who's a butthead and who's an asshole.
+This, to me, does not edify, ennoble or explicate the topic at hand.
+ 
+     We are rapidly becoming a nation that is polarized along every
+possible line; gay vs. straight, feminist vs. conservative, pro-choice vs.
+anti-choice...in a nation of laws we have started to resort to acts of
+terror on large and small scales on either side of the spectrum.  For two
+hundred years we prided ourselves on the idea -- sometimes flawed, and
+with occasional interruptions -- that we solved our problems at the ballot
+box, not with bullets or trunchens or muggings or firebombings.  But now
+more and more both sides are frozen in concrete, opposing opinions are
+no longer tolerated or are proof of disloyalty or stupidity or cupidity
+or bigotry or immorality, people are reduced to stereotypes and jingoisms,
+everybody's demonized and nobody *listens*.  We don't talk with each other,
+we yell AT each other.  We are two steps away from madness and one step
+away from Beirut.
+ 
+     In theory, people are here in this forum because they feel strongly
+about Babylon 5, and the optimistic (despite many obstacles) view of the
+future that we portray.  Well, if you feel that way, I suggest you ALL
+damn well start BUILDING the future instead of TEARING APART the present,
+start talking TO one another not AT one another, because the future ain't
+gonna GET here otherwise.
+ 
+     If people want to discuss this area in calm, measured tones, with some
+measure of respect, fine.  (And this applies to ALL areas of current hot
+debate, not just this one.)  If all you want to do is yell, over and over
+and over...frankly, take a hike.  There is a line between doing something
+for a cause, and saying you're doing something for a cause when you're
+just doing it out of ego, bruised or otherwise.  Parse your soul and act
+accordingly.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: JMS: B5's Epsilon 3 in SQ6?
+Date: 24 Jan 1995 02:28:03 -0500
+
+     I doubt very much that's Epsilon 3.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+Subject: Re: Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin
+Date: 24 Jan 1995 02:49:22 -0500
+
+     "..it's still unfinished.  A shame if B5 were to turn out the same
+way."
+ 
+     (sound of meaty fists clapping together)  Yeah...nice place y'got
+here...drapes, yeah, I like dat, real purty...be a real shame if something
+were to, maybe, *happen* to it, y'know?  So...you wanna put these jukeboxes
+in your diner or not...?
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Why Accelerate the A
+Date: 24 Jan 1995 05:03:35 -0500
+
+    I may not have been clear in my meaning when I said "accellerating
+the arc."  This doesn't mean doing anything ahead of schedule; it just
+means that now we begin cranking the story into a higher intensity level.
+We've been kind of floating toward our destination...now we begin the
+process of accellerating.  If you recall Literary Structure from English
+Lit 101, there's the Introduction, the Rising Action, the Complication,
+the Climax, and the Denouement.  Year one up through about the first
+eight episodes of year two are Introduction; we are now in Rising Action
+stage.  Remember that this is structured like a novel, and you'll
+generally have some idea of where you stand in the progression.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Bruce Boxleitner at MOC in Jul
+Date: 24 Jan 1995 05:03:51 -0500
+
+     Cool...that's quite a lineup of guests.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: TKO and Ivanova
+Date: 24 Jan 1995 05:20:32 -0500
+
+     If the deceased has been dead for quite a while, the period during
+which one must sit shiva is greatly reduced to a day or so, I'm told.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+Subject: Re: Reasons why Bab 5 is crap
+Date: 24 Jan 1995 05:20:45 -0500
+
+     I would suggest that this whole discussion kinda misses the point, as
+tends to happen.  Sure, I could stick in lots of references to ancient
+stuff...but why is it on Trek nothing of cultural value seems to have taken
+place after Shakespeare?  Doing antiquity is easy.  Modern is harder.
+ 
+     But the whole POINT of the exercise goes to the heart of the show's
+philosophy: I'm trying, rather desperately, to connect our present to our
+future, to say that's US out there, building the future, recognizeably us.
+We've lost the thread of continuity that ties us to the future.  I'm trying
+with this show to tie the two pieces of the string together again.  We
+have lots of ties to our ancient past (and I try to work those in as well,
+cultural and literary references), but it's the *future* that we seem to
+have lost touch with today, in our present.  So I'm trying to knit those
+together.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS - CANADA
+Date: 24 Jan 1995 05:20:58 -0500
+
+     "Have you ever mentioned Canada in B5?"
+ 
+     No, but I've mentioned San Diego.  Would you like me to extend the
+honor up north?
+ 
+     ("Okay, Rudy, load up another one of them five-hundred megaton jobs.")
+ 
+     Just kidding...I'm pleased that it's going over well in Canada, and
+will see what I can do to nod in that direction without irradiating the
+place.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Re: Reasons why Bab 5 is crap
+Date: 25 Jan 1995 01:04:06 -0500
+
+     How they know the person has finished talking is a) we either have
+our characters physically toggle off their Link, or b) when you drop your
+arm, it senses the change in gravity and orientation like a phone being
+hung up, and closes the connectoin.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: reading SF
+Date: 25 Jan 1995 01:45:02 -0500
+
+     One of the drawbacks to producing/writing a series is that it leaves
+you no time for...well, for *anything* else.  Thus I haven't been able to
+do much reading of late, though I keep buying books for when I have free
+time.  I love reading other authors; I like to be amazed.
+ 
+     I'd certainly recommend the works of Jonathan Carroll, particularly
+THE LAND OF LAUGHS if you can find it, or any of his later novels (VOICE
+OF OUR SHADOWS is also quite nice).  He's a contemporary-dark-fantasy
+writer who is *breathtakingly* good.
+ 
+     Most of the reading I do now is nonfiction, just to give the brain a
+break from storytelling.  I *strongly* commend THE LETTERS OF NORMAN CORWIN
+to anyone out there.  Also currently reading Hunter S. Thompson's new book,
+BETTER THAN SEX, just finished a book (alas I've just forgotten the title)
+by a woman raised in the Mormon church about her life in that world.  Also
+working my way through Ed Morrow's GRIM REAPER'S BOOK OF DAYS.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS  Is there a Canada in
+Date: 25 Jan 1995 01:45:41 -0500
+
+     Actually, the Blue Jays were sold to the Mars Consortium in 2200, and
+are currently vying for the Worlds Series.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS:Cameos
+Date: 25 Jan 1995 01:45:56 -0500
+
+     The only cast member to make a non-prosthetic appearance in a show
+is Caitlin Brown, who will appear as a lawyer in an upcoming episode.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Babcom '95 & blooper reel
+Date: 25 Jan 1995 01:45:22 -0500
+
+      I do plan to bring the reel, yes.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: JMS: how much of story was pit
+Date: 25 Jan 1995 01:52:36 -0500
+
+     Generally speaking, I didn't have to reveal much of the arc at all;
+the show was sold on the strength of the characters and current stories.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Subject: CGI Sinclair/Ivanova/Delenn/Lo
+Date: 25 Jan 1995 01:57:36 -0500
+
+     We'll be seeing more planet stuff shortly.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Why Accelerate t
+Date: 25 Jan 1995 02:15:01 -0500
+
+     I actually didn't go to any of the major film/sports schools; not
+UCLA or USC.  I attended (in order) Kankakee Community College, Kankakee,
+Illinois; Richland Junior College, Dallas, Texas; Southwestern Junior
+College, Chula Vista, CA; and finally San Diego State University.  Loved
+all my writing and literature courses.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Thoughts on second issue
+Date: 25 Jan 1995 03:32:01 -0500
+
+     Thanks, we're getting there....
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Blast from the present
+Date: 25 Jan 1995 03:59:50 -0500
+
+     Thanks, and welcome.
+ 
+	                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Why Accelerate t
+Date: 25 Jan 1995 05:20:13 -0500
+
+     "What was the spark that ignited your desire to create B5?"
+ 
+     It was a number of things, actually, that all came together at the
+same time.
+ 
+     1) I'd just gotten off an SF series (Captain Power) where the budget
+was out of control half the time.  It made me nuts.  I come from this very
+old fashioned school of thought that says if somebody gives you X-million
+dollars to make a series, it behooves you to act RESPONSIBLY.  Then I
+looked around more and found that virtually ALL sf series had gone and
+were going over budget, mainly because they weren't planned out properly.
+The emphasis was on just selling the idea, who cares what happens next.
+Whatever one might think of the episode, the 1/2 hour "Nightcrawlers"
+installment of the new TWILIGHT ZONE cost a tick over ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
+That's nuts.  I kept thinking, "There has to be a sensible way to do an sF
+series that's responsible, and by virtue of showing it CAN be done
+responsibly, help to create MORE sf from other people, since the industry
+overall is afraid of it."
+ 
+     2) I'd interviewed and known too many SF producers who knew absolutely
+NOTHING about the genre, didn't respect the genre, just wanted to collect
+the bucks and get out.
+ 
+     3) As a lifelong SF fan myself, I loved the sagas, the huge cycles:
+Foundation, Childhood's End, Lord of the Rings, Dune, and kept wondering,
+"Why hasn't someone done this for TV?"  To which the only answer is,
+"Nobody's tried."
+ 
+     Those elements just kept niggling at me until finally I sat down and
+worked out first how to design a series responsibly, then came up with the
+concept for the storyline.  (Learn from mainstream TV: don't go in search
+of new worlds, building them anew each week, create a place where the
+stories come to YOU, as they do in a hospital, a police station, a law
+office.  This led me to a space station.)
+ 
+     Once I had the locale, I began to populate it with characters, and
+sketch out directions that might be interesting.  I dragged out my notes
+on religion, philosophy, history, sociology, psychology, science (the ones
+that didn't make my head explode), and started stitching together a
+crazy quilt pattern that eventually formed a picture.  Once I had that
+picture in my head, once I knew what the major theme was, the rest fell
+into place.  All at once, I saw the full five year story in a flash, and
+I frantically began scribbling down notes.
+ 
+     I spent the next couple of years just expanding upon what I saw in
+that flash, building out the characters, the conflicts, the changes in
+alliance, shoring up the thematic elements which will only really become
+apparent over time.  In a way, in the midst of this, it was Tennyson's
+"Ulysses" that more surely pointed me toward the heartmeat core of the
+story, which is why I've quoted it in the pilot, in the series, and in
+issue #1 of the comic.
+ 
+     I knew, instantly, that this show might well be impossible to sell;
+that I could invest years of my life into the task, only to fail in the
+end.  And, in fact, it took *five years* to finally get this anywhere.
+During that time, had I dropped it, I could've likely sold two or three
+other more conventional series.  But like Sinclair, I strapped myself
+into this particular Starfury, pointed myself at my target, and swore not
+to flinch, no matter what.  (In discussions about this with Michael, we
+agreed that only he and I were really entitled to wear the patches from
+the Battle of the Line.)
+ 
+     For a long time, a lot of people told me to drop it.  My agent said,
+"Kiddo, you know I love the project, but I think you've got to face
+reality.  It's not going to happen.  I have several other gigs you could
+take if you'd drop this for a while.  Maybe later you can try again."
+Friends, family, acquaintances, network suits, studio suits, Major
+Agencies...everyone said let it go.  It's been four years, going on five.
+How much longer are you going to DO this?
+ 
+     As long as it TAKES, goddamn it.
+ 
+     I knew that there was a story I wanted to tell, something that I
+wanted to SAY.  And there is nothing more essentially deadly than someone
+who believes, rightly or wrongly, that he's on a mission, grandiose and
+possibly stupid as that sounds.  I also wanted to make this show because
+I wanted to SEE it as a viewer.  Several years ago, I was looking for a
+particular kind of book to read.  Couldn't find it.  So I wrote it, then
+shoved it in a closet.  My agent heard about it a year or two later,
+dragged it out, read it, and sold it.  Go figure.
+ 
+     Also, you have to understand...when I was a very young kid, I went to
+visit my grandfather's grave.  My grandfater was an alcoholic who died in
+the gutter.  Literally.  And was buried in a pauper's grave.  Ever been to
+a pauper's grave?  Lead pipe.  Brass number.  You check the roster to find
+out who's buried.  No name, no date.  He passed through his life without
+leaving footprints.  It terrified me beyond the capacity of words to convey
+to you.  I swore, at that moment, that I wouldn't go down like that, that
+I'd leave a mark, somehow, that I'd been here.  And on one level, that's
+what Babylon 5 is to me.  See, that's why nothing stops me...it's not about
+money, or fame, or merchandising...there's nothing they can use agains]
+me.  Whether I stand or fall doesn't matter.  If I write hard, if I work
+hard, what I have created will survive me.  Even when I'm forgotten, this
+will go on.  I will have left my mark.
+ 
+     That, at least, is the conceit I allow myself in the Hour of the Wolf,
+when everything looks futile, and I doubt myself the most.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: *what* kind of speci
+Date: 26 Jan 1995 04:10:58 -0500
+
+      Minbari are mammals, definitely; structural and skeletal variations
+(horn-like bone growth on the head, a slightly more raised and obvious
+spinal structure, different blood type), and probably in many ways the
+most biologically similar.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Why Accelerate t
+Date: 26 Jan 1995 04:34:00 -0500
+
+     Yes, we'll see the rings in time.  And no plans for a book down the
+road...one crisis at a time.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Jerry Doyle, Sto
+Date: 26 Jan 1995 04:35:50 -0500
+
+     Correct: Jerry Doyle was at one point a stockbroker.  He has since
+reformed.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: reading SF
+Date: 26 Jan 1995 04:37:43 -0500
+
+     "Why bother with the vasectomy?"
+ 
+     Who can remember...?
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Your Show is Number one w
+Date: 26 Jan 1995 04:39:33 -0500
+
+     My regards to your wonderfully discerning organization....
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS:  THANK YOU FOR B5 FROM HA
+Date: 26 Jan 1995 04:46:59 -0500
+
+     Thank you.  Have had only passing experience with Robotech; I've just
+never been able to get into Anime.  Glad to hear that 38 supports the
+show; I hear they're okay people.
+ 
+     In any event...thanks again for the encouragement.  It helps.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Richland College question
+Date: 26 Jan 1995 04:50:34 -0500
+
+     I remember little of the classes at Richland College except for a few;
+one was a History of English Literature class, which introduced me to Keats
+and Yeats and Tennyson and Shelley through an instructor who *loved* his
+work and the writers in question.  He just breathed life into the words,
+and he encouraged me strongly to pursue my writing.
+ 
+     Beyond that, there were mainly classes in psychology, sociology,
+some math stuff, and philosophy.  One was a History of Greek Philosophy
+course (Thales to Aristotle), which I just loved.  By virtue of taking a
+LOT of electives over the years in areas that interested me, I kinda ended
+up with a classical education.  It's more breadth than depth, but it gives
+me the tools I need (over the course of four colleges/universities and
+a couple of degrees) to find whatever more is necessary for stories or
+scripts.
+ 
+     The best thing about the year or so I spent at Richland was that at
+this time (around 1973), beat poetry was still in vogue (well, it was OUT
+of vogue everywhere else, but trends always start and finish first on the
+coasts, then work their way inland from there), and every day at noon by
+the commons there would be performances of beat poetry, which led me to
+explore Ginsburg and Ferlinghetti ("This Life Is Not A Circus Where"
+and "Christ Came Down" being two favorites) and other contemporaries.
+ 
+     I've always been naturally curious about stuff, and to me the college
+experience was the chance to find out about *anything*.  So I just dived
+in and took it for all it was worth.  If I'm going on about this a bit,
+it's because I know there are lots of folks here who are currently in or
+entering college.  If you only see the parking lot and the cafeteria and
+the bathrooms and the classrooms of the courses you have to take...you're
+missing the point.  It's an *amazing* opportunity that will likely not
+come your way again in such plentitude.  Take courses in areas outside your
+major, even if just to audit them.  There are amazing opportunities you
+can mine if you're a writer, also...college newspapers, magazines, low
+power local/college radio and TV stations, theater department productions,
+on and on and on.
+ 
+     Granted...a lot of college was a pain in the ass.  I took a lot of
+stuff I didn't want, didn't need, and have never used because they were
+required for my major.  (One semester, just to get RID of some of this
+stuff, I took 24 units -- crashing classes over my 16 unit limit in order
+to sneak past the rules -- at one time, while working part time.  It was
+a profound mistake, since it included 8 units of German and classes in
+Statistical Psychology, Biology and other stuff.  Major brain-fry.)
+ 
+     But overall, the experience was rewarding, and I encourage a
+generalist approach to others.  If you're going to be there, ENJOY it.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Why Accelerate t
+Date: 26 Jan 1995 04:50:06 -0500
+
+     The story is still going where I wanted it to go, but in general it
+is even better than I'd hoped it would be.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: What finally sold B5
+Date: 26 Jan 1995 04:50:19 -0500
+
+     What made all the difference was finding people who *understood* what
+we were trying to do.  In general, you know instantly if an exec Gets It or
+not.  Most didn't.  The first one to Get It was Evan Thompson, head of
+Chris-Craft Television, who put us onto Dick Robertson at Warner Bros.
+We didn't know at the time that PTEN was in the works (a joint venture
+between the two), but when it appeared, we were in line to get on.
+ 
+     We did multiple pitches to the station group's executive committee,
+and were pleased to see that they, too, Got It.  Once we proved that we
+could a) do the pilot, and b) do it for the budget, we got the Go for
+series.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Of Zima and Kawasaki
+Date: 27 Jan 1995 03:52:20 -0500
+
+     Correct.  We received not a dime from Zime or Kawasaki.  And believe
+me, if we had, I wouldn't be bashful about saying so.  Anybody wants to
+help finance this show and make it even better, bring 'em in.  Just
+hasn't happened.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Attn: JMS...the best laid plan
+Date: 27 Jan 1995 03:52:33 -0500
+
+     I'm awestruck...simply awestruck.
+ 
+     We should all wear white for the duration of the convention.  I'll
+send a memo on that at once.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Off Topic?
+Date: 27 Jan 1995 03:52:05 -0500
+
+     Sci-Fi Channel has indicated many times that they would like t
+acquire Captain Power, but (in what I must say I think is a doofy move)
+the producer won't release the show unless SFC agrees to finance new eps.
+Cart before the horse, if you ask me.  Get the show on first, create the
+need, THEN do more.
+ 
+     Doofy, I tell you.  Doofy, doofy, doofy.  Maybe even doofiest.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS Big Bang con
+Date: 27 Jan 1995 05:00:47 -0500
+
+     I'm *terrible* at gambling.  I might as well just pile the money on
+the coffetable and put a match to it.  Which is why I generally stay far
+away, or allow only small amounts of money (have actually only gambled a
+couple of times, been to Vegas only once).  I'm basically an obsessive-
+compulsive personality, and the LAST thing you want to do is hand someone
+like that a drink, a cigarette, a joint or a pair of dice (which is why
+I don't generally drink, smoke, do drugs or gamble).  I'd rather direct
+that obsessive behavior toward writing.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS:  What about alien doctors
+Date: 27 Jan 1995 05:13:19 -0500
+
+     As it happens, I'm writing a script right *now* that deals with the
+question of alien doctors.
+ 
+     I live to serve....
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: "Shadows" request from jms
+Date: 27 Jan 1995 05:15:10 -0500
+
+     A request for those who'll be seeing "The Coming of Shadows" on the
+satellite uplink tomorrow.  There's a lot of stuff in that episode, and
+it's probably the best one of the series to date.  It has a lot of sudden
+twists and turns that even "WARNING: SPOILER" in message headers won't
+keep from accidentally spilling out.
+ 
+     Thus, I'd like to make a request I don't generally make: if those
+who get the satellite feed could hold off on ANY plot revelations for a
+few days, until it starts airing, I would *very* much appreciate it.
+After you've seen the ep, you'll understand why I ask this.  General
+comments (liked it/hated it), or private email with questions or
+responses...all terrific.  I'd just like to try and keep this one as
+close to my vest as possible for a bit.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+Subject: Run Thru Dark Places  -spoiler
+Date: 26 Jan 1995 19:23:06 -0500
+
+     Two corrections: Talia did not walk off with Bester; they took two
+different routes away.  Check the tape.  Also, there was no reason for
+Ivanova to object to Talia taking off her gloves; she wasn't going to be
+scanned.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+Subject: Re: A Race Through Dark Places
+Date: 26 Jan 1995 19:29:18 -0500
+
+     B5 operates on EST, Earth Standard Time, as noted in episodes.  So
+they do have day and night cycles.  And it's the fear of what psi might
+do if they DID join together that worries people, and why we have a
+Psi-Corps.  Which is what Talia says.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Babylon 5 and new watcher
+Date: 26 Jan 1995 19:30:57 -0500
+
+     I'm not sure I understand what faces you have to recognize to follow
+"Race."  Bester is re-introduced with an explanation, as is Jason.  You
+don't have to recognize the guy from "Chrysalis;" if you do, great, it
+adds a level.  If you don't, it still tracks.  The only other characters
+are our reglars; so I'm confused as to what there was left to confuse them.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Religion and First Contact....
+Date: 27 Jan 1995 03:27:44 -0500
+
+     First Contact did factionalize or even destroy some religions; others
+sprung up afterward.  Others assimmilated the notion.  Franklin belongs to
+one that came up after First Contact.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Re: A RACE THROUGH DARK PLACES
+Date: 27 Jan 1995 15:57:33 -0500
+
+     You can generally squeeze 20-25 pops out of a standard PPG energy
+cap.  It won't need to be recharged for quite a while.  And there you
+just slap a new one in and drop the old one in a recharge bin.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: A fan letter, or THANKS JMS!
+Date: 27 Jan 1995 17:58:27 -0500
+
+     You're very much welcome, thanks.
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS on publicity
+Date: 28 Jan 1995 05:54:07 -0500
+
+     Let me be clear on this: we will take ANY opportunity, any help in
+getting the word out.  In many ways we are treated with a "stealth
+publicity" campaign by some within the studio; keep a low profile, or
+else god forbid somebody might write an article.  So all aid -- putting
+the word out, asking local papers for coverage, writing to magazines,
+anything and everything -- is appreciated.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Minor UK publicity for B5
+Date: 28 Jan 1995 22:13:53 -0500
+
+     I'd love if I could get copies of those two clips sent to me at
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.  Many, many
+thanks.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: JMS: episode SKIPPED IN DENVER
+Date: 29 Jan 1995 01:03:42 -0500
+
+     Apparently the station mixed up the two tapes.
+ 
+     I am *profoundly* bugged.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: When did you go to r
+Date: 29 Jan 1995 01:39:57 -0500
+
+     Okay...Kankakee in 1972-73; Richland 1973-1974; Southwestern
+1974-1976; SDSU 1976-1977.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  O'Hare presence = s
+Date: 29 Jan 1995 03:51:48 -0500
+
+     I have never stated, at any time, any specifics about the amount or
+duration of Sinclair's presence in the B5 storyline yet to come because
+a) there are things I wish to withhold, and b) some things must remain
+fluid because if Michael should get, for instance, a major role on a big
+network series offered to him, and with no guarantees of B5 next season,
+he would have to take it.  There are certain things planned, but I don't
+generally pin this stuff down until I'm absolutely sure I've nailed down
+all the corners.  We *will* see him briefly this season, and we will see
+more of him soon.  Beyond that I haven't commented, and won't comment.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: A NOVEL
+Date: 29 Jan 1995 06:09:46 -0500
+
+     "I WILL WRITE A SEQUEL TO THE POPULAR MOVIE & NOVEL BABYLON 5."
+ 
+     Nope.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Switched Episode Order? [
+Date: 29 Jan 1995 06:14:32 -0500
+
+     Yes, originally, "Soul Mates" was to air after "Race."  At that
+time, PTEN was initially going to show just 6 new episodes, and we would
+have come in after the rerun break with "Race," then "Soul."  When the
+ratings came in and looked good, they didn't want to interfere with
+the growth, and indicated they wanted to show 7 new eps in the first
+batch.  "Race," as you can see, was a very complex episode visually, and
+the only way to get it ready to run #7 in the first batch would've been
+to compromise the integrity of the show, and we simply won't do that for
+ANY reason.  "Soul Mates," on the other hand, required very little in the
+way of post production, so that was moved forward into the #7 slot.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Subject: BABYLON 5...AFTER THE METAL WA
+Date: 29 Jan 1995 06:14:41 -0500
+
+     Yes, I worked on CAPTAIN POWER, and stuck the reference to Babylon
+5 into one of my scripts as a nod to the future; did the same in one of
+my novels, OTHERSYDE.  Sort of a Tuckerism-before-the-fact.  (One good
+thing about this is that it inadvertantly ended up helping make it clear
+to people that I was working on this sucker since 1986/87 or so.)
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+ 
+
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Why Accelerate t
+Date: 30 Jan 1995 01:59:38 -0500
+
+     My first novel was DEMON NIGHT, published in hardcover by E. P.
+Dutton, and nominated for a Bram Stoker Award by the Horror Writers of
+America.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Attn. JMS S.EFX error in RTDP
+Date: 30 Jan 1995 03:02:31 -0500
+
+     The doorbell *is* there.  Recently, though, the satellite uplink
+company used by PTEN changed some of its audio feed channels; if your
+local station or whoever downlinked it didn't catch it, some audio got
+missed.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+Subject: Bester, Our Favorite Storm Tro
+Date: 30 Jan 1995 03:03:00 -0500
+
+     Bester's name was my idea.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: How Many *** To Screw In A Lig
+Date: 30 Jan 1995 03:03:18 -0500
+
+     Q: How many telepaths does it take to scew in a lightbulb?
+ 
+     A:
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+     (Also, what do you call a Minbari floating dead in the ocean?  A
+minbuoy.)
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: KCOP 13 (Was: Re: IMHO's on A
+Date: 30 Jan 1995 03:17:45 -0500
+
+     In editing, we always left black and let an act end properly; we
+were aghast at the clipping at the end of various acts.  We think some
+of it happened at the firm that drops in the national sponsor's
+commercials.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Something amusing waiting for
+Date: 31 Jan 1995 01:08:59 -0500
+
+     "Who's the K?"
+ 
+     Easy...the Kook who came up with this idea.
+ 
+                                                         jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: New PPG effects perm
+Date: 31 Jan 1995 01:31:24 -0500
+
+      Kevin kind of got overtaxed with stuff; however, he is doing a few
+things for us now here and there, and we're now using the same techniques
+for the new PPG blasts, so it should look normal next time you see them.
+ 
+	                                                              jsm
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS:What goes through you
+Date: 31 Jan 1995 17:42:34 -0500
+
+     "What goes through your head?"
+ 
+     Wolverines, mainly.
+ 
+     Sundays we get possoms.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Sheridan's lightbulb joke
+Date: 31 Jan 1995 17:43:05 -0500
+
+     Actually, a number of people hit on the basic idea of the Minbari
+surrender; there was some of this over on GEnie as well.  It's really the
+obvious joke.  I went for it as well, and appended the last part to set it
+apart.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Race through dark places comme
+Date: 31 Jan 1995 17:46:24 -0500
+
+     Also, bear in mind that Bester's parting shot in "Mind War" was
+exactly that, in essence an "Up yours" but subtle.  There was no reason
+for that to be given to anyone in "Race."
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin
+Date: 31 Jan 1995 17:57:44 -0500
+
+     All TV series are in essence owned by the studio that produces them.
+Hence, B5 is copyrighted and owned by Warner Bros./PTEN.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Military model for Earthf
+Date: 31 Jan 1995 17:58:06 -0500
+
+     Your analysis is not far off the mark.  There's some of the
+Stalinist approach, also some of the early Roman approach, where there
+was a great deal of overlap between senators and the military.  Because
+of having to pull so many different traditions together, I also figure
+it's kind of a hodge-podge, each division pulling for its own identity
+which may or may not be somewhat obsolete by now.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS:  Repeats and Canonical Ep
+Date: 31 Jan 1995 17:57:24 -0500
+
+     All episodes will tend to be repeated in original airdate order; but
+this doesn't bother me particularly, since if the series can't survive
+being viewed out of order, then it's flawed.
+ 
+     And yes, I believe they'll be picking up season 1's last reruns after
+the end of season 2.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin
+Date: 31 Jan 1995 17:57:44 -0500
+
+     All TV series are in essence owned by the studio that produces them.
+Hence, B5 is copyrighted and owned by Warner Bros./PTEN.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Ellison, guns and breaking win
+Date: 31 Jan 1995 22:20:25 -0500
+
+     The PPG is a jms addition, dating back to before the pilot.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
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+Subject: ATTN JMS - Convention in Md/Va
+Date: 1 Feb 1995 00:28:55 -0500
+
+      There are no plans that I'm aware of, but some cast members may
+have plans I don't know about.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Re: B5 & E2 in "Sci Fi Univers
+Date: 1 Feb 1995 03:13:50 -0500
+
+     Here's a great example of how critics don't have a clue about the
+genre or its roots, or what springs from what.  There's a review in
+today's Daily Variety (Tuesday) of John Carpenter's new film "In the Mouth
+of Madness," which on every level is an H. P. Lovecraft pastiche, from
+the structure, the characters, the locales, the names, everything.  So
+what does the reviewer call it 3-4 times?  A tribute to Stephen King.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: B5 Q's
+Date: 1 Feb 1995 03:23:41 -0500
+
+     I'm generally trying to avoid pets; they get in the way of the story.
+ 
+     The dead are either buried in space, or if their family can afford
+it, sent home.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS: Religion in B5 Qusti
+Date: 1 Feb 1995 03:23:20 -0500
+
+     "Why did you choose to make religion a part of B5 when all othert
+science fiction shows avoid it?"
+ 
+     Well, there's one good answer right there.
+ 
+     Second answer: why not?
+ 
+     Third answer: if one is honest as a writer, then even an atheist
+such as myself must acknowledge that it'll be around in 250 years.  It
+hasn't vanished in the last 6,000 years after all.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Reactions to "Race" (SPOILERS)
+Date: 2 Feb 1995 04:57:09 -0500
+
+     The Lurker didn't say "Jason cracked."  If it was captioned that
+way, I'm as surprised as anybody else.  There was another name there,
+the name of the man who was being interrogated back at Mars Colony.
+ 
+     EST = Earth Standar Time, not East Coast time.  Greenwich Mean Time,
+basically.  (Above should read Standard.)  There's Local Time, and EST;
+ordinary official business is usually timed to match EST.
+ 
+     No, Garibaldi's authority doesn't exceed Sheridan's.  But when
+Sheridan's superiors give Garibaldi a direct order to have the quarters
+locked out, that they are illegally occupied...Garibaldi must comply.
+That is standard legal military procedure.  (Funnily enough, I've gotten
+a couple of notes from folks in the military -- one Navy, and one
+Marine -- citing similar petty stuff happening to their COs.)
+ 
+     At five miles long, with hundreds of miles of piping, leaks are
+going to happen.  Some are more serious than others.  At that moment,
+Sheridan was concerned about psis, not leaks.  He's trying to be
+inconspicuous; he wouldn't stop in the midst of all this and order a
+repair team.  He'd probably do it later.  ("Come alone," he was told.
+So now a maintainance team shows up....)
+ 
+     Just some thoughts on the comments.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS: Will we see Zathras
+Date: 2 Feb 1995 05:20:49 -0500
+
+     Of course we will see Zathras again at some point.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: attn jms: Dragoncon/NASFIC
+Date: 2 Feb 1995 00:51:11 -0500
+
+     No plans for Atlanta, and we're booked on stories.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Sheridan spoiled?
+Date: 2 Feb 1995 04:20:54 -0500
+
+     Certainly, for the last couple of years, Sheridan has commanded an
+Earth Alliance Starship where when he asked for someone to do something,
+they jumped to do it.  On B5, nobody jumps except onto your back.  This
+will take some getting used to....
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Re: Space Opera
+Date: 2 Feb 1995 06:56:38 -0500
+
+     BTW, and just so this is clear to everyone...the request to avoid
+discussion was just for the satellite people; now that the show has
+begun to air regionally, all bets are off, though as always messages
+with spoilers should be noted as such.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: *** The Coming Of Shadows ***
+Date: 2 Feb 1995 16:32:08 -0500
+
+     Noted elsewhere: it's cool to discuss details now that it's begun
+airing, with appropriate spoiler notices.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: The Coming Of Shadows - **SPOI
+Date: 2 Feb 1995 16:36:51 -0500
+
+     Re: the name Rangers...hey, when you grow up watching The Lone
+Ranger, and spend lots of time researching the Texas Rangers when you
+work (briefly) on Walker...certain names spring unbidden.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Subject: JMS Shadows: Almost a 10!
+Date: 4 Feb 1995 05:24:33 -0500
+
+     Sinclair didn't send the same letter.  Same greeting, to keep the
+recipient secret.
+ 
+     Only the Ranger knew who got what.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS: Ultraviolet Clearanc
+Date: 4 Feb 1995 04:51:22 -0500
+
+     Ultraviolet Clearance is a term that I think either Larry or I
+started using a long time ago on other projects.  Insofar as I recall,
+it has nothing to do with Paranoia.  We just got tired of seeing Red
+Alert, and figured, okay, what's above red in the spectrum?
+ 
+`                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Re: Londo's Dream <TCoS SPOILE
+Date: 4 Feb 1995 04:51:29 -0500
+
+     Actually, G'Kar has seen a shadow fighter, not a shadow cruiser; no
+one who sees one of those tends to survive the experience.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: CoS - Sherridan's bluff  - (sp
+Date: 4 Feb 1995 05:21:55 -0500
+
+     Londo would *never* send the shadows against Earth, at least not at
+this time.  That would galvanize everybody against the Centauri, while
+G'Kar will have a very hard time getting any support since they've pissed
+off so many people and burned so many bridges.  And remember, bluffs work
+when the other person's more scared of what you might be doing than what
+he thinks he can do in response.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS  -  Sinclair & Billi
+Date: 4 Feb 1995 05:30:22 -0500
+
+     Description of the credit given in the show is determined under SAG
+rules by amount of screen-time/dialogue.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: JMS: TCoS direction (quasi-spo
+Date: 4 Feb 1995 05:32:41 -0500
+
+     The emperor falling scene, as with those around it, were shot as
+written, down to the slow-motion notation, the close on his head hitting
+the floor, the women clutching one another...all in the script.  But it
+takes someone as skilled as Janet to take what somebody else might screw
+up and elevate it into something truly nifty.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Best lines from The Coming of
+Date: 4 Feb 1995 05:33:39 -0500
+
+     You left out my favorite quote from the show, from the Emperor:  "The
+past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us...and
+our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible
+in-between."
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Mistake on COS
+Date: 4 Feb 1995 05:33:43 -0500
+
+      The Narn just brushed past them, and would not have heard what they
+were saying.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS Alien Ships don't
+Date: 4 Feb 1995 05:33:48 -0500
+
+     The Hyperion definitely did NOT have artificial gravity; the captain
+was strapped in at all times.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Re: THE COMING OF SHADOWS -- *
+Date: 4 Feb 1995 04:51:15 -0500
+
+     "What was with G'Kar's left eye?"
+ 
+     Plucked out.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS CoShadows Question.
+Date: 4 Feb 1995 21:18:14 -0500
+
+     The centauri veiled telepaths are mainly wired into one another.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Damn you, jms, DAAAMMMNNN YYYO
+Date: 4 Feb 1995 21:20:04 -0500
+
+     "DAAAMMMMMNNNN YYYOOOOUUUUUUU!"
+ 
+     It is a small price to pay for immortality.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Mistake on COS
+Date: 4 Feb 1995 21:16:12 -0500
+
+     The Narn was just passing quickly through scene, in a hurry, and
+couldn't have heard what Londo and Refa were quietly discussing.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Distribution Q's
+Date: 4 Feb 1995 21:57:06 -0500
+
+     The local station situation is beyond my comprehension, alas.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: B5 CD
+Date: 4 Feb 1995 21:57:20 -0500
+
+     I've now hear the 4th suite in the B5 CD, the new one that will be
+added to the general release CD.  Just gorgous.  Christopher asked which
+pieces I'd like included, and there's the Garibaldi-cralwing-to-the-tube
+music from "Chrysalis," the killing-zone music from "Signs," and some
+other just gorgeous stuff.  I think it adds something like 10-12 minutes
+to the CD.  I figure it'll probably be set to go out by the end of the
+month or shortly thereafter.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS: When do you consider
+Date: 4 Feb 1995 21:57:32 -0500
+
+     I don't think I ever can quite view an episode as complete; I always
+can think of one thing or another that could've been done.  And sometimes
+even the broadcast version isn't the end.  In occasional episodes there
+have been small, but noticeable (to me, anyway) CGI glitches which, even
+though we've seen the footage a zillion times, we don't see until the day
+it airs.  And when possible I ask that the scene be re-rendered, dropped
+into the master, and re-satellited.  We've altered the main title about
+five times since episode one, just trying to make it look or sound
+better.
+ 
+     When eventually we do the transfers to tape and laserdisk, I'll
+probably go in there and futz around some more...little things that very
+likely nobody will ever notice, but to me they're important.
+ 
+     Someone once said, "No work of art is ever finished, only
+abandoned."
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS: background video glitch i
+Date: 4 Feb 1995 21:57:45 -0500
+
+     The Stellarcom logo cycles through; it comes up and down to meet in
+the middle, holds for a while, and then vanishes to starfield...then comes
+in again.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Why Are Shadows Still a Secret
+Date: 4 Feb 1995 22:02:46 -0500
+
+     "Why might the Minbari not be spreading the word?"
+ 
+     A very good question, that will be answered within the next nine
+episodes (that should be broad enough).  Suffice to say there is a very
+logical, and very obvious reason.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Julian May's Contribution
+Date: 4 Feb 1995 22:34:31 -0500
+
+     Julian May is not involved with B5, and I'm embarrassed to say that
+I've never read any of his work.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Centauri hanshake
+Date: 5 Feb 1995 02:50:39 -0500
+
+     Because to some extent the roman civilization is one of the sources
+for constructing the Centauri, I adapted their handshake (checking for
+knives) as their greeting; "I offer the hands of friendship."
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Re: B5 CD
+Date: 5 Feb 1995 04:18:03 -0500
+
+     Re: typos...sometimes the carpal tunnel gets worse than at other
+times, and the thought of going back and retyping sentences to correct
+typos is just too much.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Thank you!!!!!
+Date: 5 Feb 1995 04:55:22 -0500
+
+     No, thank *you* for being there for us.
+ 
+	                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Re: "Is Babylon 5 that good?".
+Date: 5 Feb 1995 04:55:30 -0500
+
+     The hard part is getting fans of ST to step back and look objectively
+at the show, and realize that AS fans of ST, they should allow it its
+chance.  ST began as one person's original vision, which is now in its
+third distillation of that original vision.  B5 is an original vision, the
+first since ST to try something on this scale.
+ 
+     And there are many parallels between the histories of the two shows.
+ 
+     B5 and ST both had to overcome vehement fans and critics who much
+preferred a prior SF show (ST and Lost in Space, respectively).
+ 
+     B5 and ST both worked for a long time to get on the air, and both
+ended up in making casting changes in the commanding officer and the
+first officer.  (Kirk followed Pike, and Spock followed Number One, as
+Sheridan followed Sinclair, and Ivanova followed Takashima.)
+ 
+     B5 and ST were primarily the product of one person's vision and
+creative control.
+ 
+     B5 and ST both extrapolated the future of Earth and space travel using
+the best contemporary science, both created whole species and set up
+vast interplanetary politics and languages.
+ 
+     I just have this hunch that a number of "screw-B5" ST fans are going
+to end up in a few years like the "screw-Star Trek" Lost in Space fans
+who thought ST was crap trying to steal LiS's audience and place in the
+TV landscape.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: JMS: The Transparency of Shado
+Date: 5 Feb 1995 06:35:13 -0500
+
+     In "Chrysalis," they are distortions visible in the air when they
+wish to be...and not when they don't.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: JMS: GROPOS: all CGI??(spoiler
+Date: 6 Feb 1995 00:16:28 -0500
+
+     Can I comment on this later?
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+Subject: How many comparisons between B
+Date: 6 Feb 1995 01:56:56 -0500
+
+     P.S.   Any attempt to make this story track along LoTR is going to
+fall pretty fast.  Every so often, people try to attach a template to the
+story...it's tracking the history of old Babylon (it is, somewhat), it's
+based on the Kennedy/Vietnam parallel, it's LoTR, it's Dune, it's
+Foundation, it's Childhood's End...truth is it ain't ANY of them.  And I
+wouldn't spend a grand total of 10 years of my life getting, and making
+this show just to do LoTR with the serial numbers filed off.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: How many comparisons between B
+Date: 6 Feb 1995 01:56:40 -0500
+
+     Some stations still haven't adjusted the audio channel feeds on the
+satellite downlink; you may want to notify your station if the audio
+problems continue.  (The downlink was changed a couple weeks ago.)
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: acting - plots - etc
+Date: 6 Feb 1995 02:30:38 -0500
+
+     Gabriel: have read your analysis of the characters and dynamics on
+this show, message headed above.
+ 
+     Marry me.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Coming of Shadows *SPOILERS*
+Date: 6 Feb 1995 04:20:47 -0500
+
+     Your feelings about the war starting are exactly what they should be,
+and what I wanted to achieve with "Shadows."  In SF TV, very often, as
+you state, it's "Yeah, let's get a war on!  Blow stuff up!"  But to hear
+of a *real* war...it's very, very sobering.  When we hear that Gulf troops
+were being sent into the Mideast, when we heard of soviet troops sent into
+Prague...your heart stops for a moment.  When Kennedy put American ships in
+a Cuban blockade and the world held its breath...THAT is what it feels like
+to step into possible or real war.  All you can think of is, "How the HELL
+did we get into this, and how the hell do we get OUT of it?"  And that was
+at the emotional core of "Shadows."
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: The Coming of Spoilers (Season
+Date: 6 Feb 1995 04:20:57 -0500
+
+     Michael: you may want to check your original posting here; several
+sections seemed to have dropped out altogether.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Re: Londo's Dream <TCoS SPOILE
+Date: 6 Feb 1995 04:20:37 -0500
+
+     As it happens, the Royal Theme is on the new section Chris just
+finished for the final suite of the B5 cd.  I've listened to it, and
+it's *quite* nice indeed.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: TCoS Costuming ?
+Date: 6 Feb 1995 07:12:01 -0500
+
+     The broach worn by the Rangers was designed by me and Ann Bruice,
+our costumer.  I sketched (dopily and badly) what I had in mind, which
+was a stylized human and minbari on either side of a gemstone, both wokred
+(worked) into the same metal, and holding the gemstone.
+ 
+     She then took this drawing that looked like it had been drawn by a
+drunk five year old and translated it into a striking piece.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: JMS: A question... (SPOILERS f
+Date: 6 Feb 1995 17:53:05 -0500
+
+     "How are you going to top this?  And when?"
+ 
+     I think there are several coming episodes that in segments go past
+"Shadows," though I'm not sure if they'll have the same cumulative effect
+- so much HAPPENS in this one....
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Subject: JMS: I think there'll be a rio
+Date: 6 Feb 1995 18:27:39 -0500
+
+     This is very upsetting; they knew ages ago that I wouldn't be able to
+attend.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: JMS: I want REVENGE!
+Date: 6 Feb 1995 18:31:25 -0500
+
+     Figures...we just can't get a break....
+ 
+                                                         jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Thank you for a great job
+Date: 7 Feb 1995 02:09:40 -0500
+
+     A very humble thank you....
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS: B5 on any cable-onl
+Date: 7 Feb 1995 06:34:41 -0500
+
+      Alas, no cable only stations are carrying it that I know of.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATT JMS: StellarCom
+Date: 7 Feb 1995 06:34:50 -0500
+
+     BabCom is still used for intrastation messaging; StellarCom is for
+messaging elsewhere.
+ 
+	                                                    jms
+
+Article 57031 of rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5:
+Subject: Off Topic?
+Date: 27 Jan 1995 03:52:05 -0500
+
+     Sci-Fi Channel has indicated many times that they would like t
+acquire Captain Power, but (in what I must say I think is a doofy move)
+the producer won't release the show unless SFC agrees to finance new eps.
+Cart before the horse, if you ask me.  Get the show on first, create the
+need, THEN do more.
+ 
+     Doofy, I tell you.  Doofy, doofy, doofy.  Maybe even doofiest.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Iowa State cancelled
+Date: 7 Feb 1995 19:27:27 -0500
+
+     I had been invited to, and agreed to come to the Technologies
+conference at the university, but had to cancel some time ago due to B5
+commitments.  John Iacovelli will be speaking there in my absence, on the
+technology of entertainment.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Babylon5 is lousy!!!
+Date: 7 Feb 1995 22:08:59 -0500
+
+     Very nice.  Now finsh your cauliflower or you can't stay up and
+watch Gilligan's Island.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: JMS: About Babcom again....
+Date: 8 Feb 1995 01:24:13 -0500
+
+     I specifically didn't want to see that particular logo/screen ever
+again; the name is okay, appropriately dopey, but the on-screen display
+sucked bigtime.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: JMS: What did you tell Jurasik
+Date: 8 Feb 1995 02:18:05 -0500
+
+     I ended up giving Peter info on "Signs" prior to shooting "Chrysalis"
+last season; that was the biggie there.  For "CoS" in order for the scene
+to match what's going to happen several years down the road in the series,
+I had to kinda give him the context of the dream, and what was really
+happening in that scene, and what caused it, and how he got to that place
+with G'Kar's hands around his throat.
+ 
+     He seemed quite...astonished.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS:  Writing "The Coming
+Date: 8 Feb 1995 02:19:57 -0500
+
+     Yeah, on several levels, writing "The Coming of Shadows" was hard;
+there were times I felt as though I'd just jumped onto the back of a
+runaway dynamite truck.  Halfway through that story you can feel the arc
+kinda moving underneath you, like some huge, dark fish about to break
+surface.
+ 
+     The only way to make a viewer feel a character's pain is if you feel
+it in the writing, and a lot of that came through.  I live with these
+characters running around in my head 24 hours a day...and when I'd finally
+finished "Shadows," it was as if they all sorta stopped and looked at
+each other, and at me, and said, "Gee, thank you EVER so fucking much,
+jeezus, why don't you just go pluck somebody's eye out while you're at it?"
+ 
+     To which the only reply is, "Now that you mention it...."
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: 3 questions...not just for JMS
+Date: 8 Feb 1995 02:29:29 -0500
+
+     Re: Kosh suddenly showing up at council meetings...remember that
+observation for the next few weeks.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: TCoS & my Computer A
+Date: 8 Feb 1995 02:31:26 -0500
+
+     You don't require my permission to show it in class; by all means,
+proceed.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Re: ATT: JMS Fan ads for _B5_
+Date: 8 Feb 1995 04:37:53 -0500
+
+     We will happily and gratefully take any venue by which word of the
+show is spread further.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+Subject: Re: Thank You
+Date: 8 Feb 1995 05:08:31 -0500
+
+     Just an observation on the serial discussion...you're talking apples
+and oranges.  You can't compare a film serial from the 30s or 40s with
+TV; they're not the same thing.  Yes, serial stories were done then; but
+in American TV, they haven't been done in this fashion (I'm exempting
+soap operas which sorta redefine themselves moment by moment).
+ 
+     As an aside...serials in the early days of movies didn't start out
+for the purpose of telling one story as its expressed goal.  (And, in
+fact, if you watch some of them straight through, what you find is a VERY
+simple story/structure, along the lines of "Stop them from stealing the
+very famous Star of Rhodesia Diamond" which is broken up into barely
+connected individual pieces.  Very often, the studio would have a vague
+idea about where it would end, and just filled in the middle with car
+crashes and fist fights and dynamite explosions.
+ 
+     The reason for that continuing structure lay with 1) the fact that
+at that time, and in the years before, most of the magazines of the time
+serialized books a chapter at a time, a technique that goes straight back
+to Charles Dickens.  So that was the template at the time.  And 2) most
+or all movies in those early days consisted of one-reelers, or at most
+two-reelers, since it was felt then that audiences probably wouldn't sit
+still for two hours for a movie.
+ 
+     Consequently, you'd go down to the local Rialto, and you'd get a
+traveling tab show...local live performers, a singer, some piano, a short
+animated cartoon, a Chaplin or Laurel and Hardy one-reeler, then work
+your way up to maybe a half-hour movie, or a two-reeler.  Gradually, as
+movies got longer, the serials also got longer, in many cases ending up
+as full-length features themselves.  Or they were phased out.
+ 
+     So it wasn't that the studios were looking to tell a story over five
+years; it was that they felt the market couldn't sustain more than bite
+sized stories.
+ 
+     Proving again that a little knowledge of history is a dangerous
+thing....
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Subject: B5's Story Arc = No Free Will
+Date: 8 Feb 1995 05:10:21 -0500
+
+     One problem, of course, is that your message about predestination
+being a drag is that you think you know where it's going.  When we first
+went on the air, I saw many messages from people saying "Boy, this is
+gonna get real boring, everybody's part is already laid out in order for
+this to be a five-year story, Londo's the funny guy, G'Kar's the bad
+guy, they're locked into their roles...."
+ 
+     Well, now...I think we see the flaw in that particular approach.
+ 
+     On the notion that "plots are less than organic," plots are by
+definition not organic.  Plots are artificialities which we graft onto
+a sequence of events in order to give them meaning.  As someone noted,
+"The king died, and the queen died" is not a plot or a story; "The king
+died, and the queen died of grief" IS a story, IS a plot; there is
+connective tissue.
+ 
+     There is always a guiding hand behind the story, otherwise you'd
+just have the characters sitting around and having random things happen
+to them.
+ 
+     And not all foreshadowing is real foreshadowing; some is planted as
+red herrings.  Some foreshadows don't mean what you THINK they mean.  I
+have planted no end of turns, twists, surprises, reverses, double
+reveals, backtracks, ironies and revelations all along the path.
+ 
+     I have always considered the Babylon 5 story to be, in essence,
+future history.  "Babylon 5 WAS the last of the Babylon stations.  It WAS
+our last, best hope for peace."  Past tense.  If I write a novel about
+the incidents of World War II, then I'm dealing in history.  The events
+are set...but where the characters go is another question.  You can read
+all the information about how we got a thousand clues and foreshadows to
+what was going to happen at Pearl Harbor...but it happened anyway.  The
+guiding hand of Fate...or a crucial bobble at the wrong moment?  One can
+look back at it now and argue both sides.
+ 
+     Finally, any time a writer writes a novel, the characters are all
+going somewhere under the guiding hand of the author.  That's what a
+novel IS.  Scrooge is GOING to be visited by three ghosts, and he's GOING
+to reform, and that's the end of the discussion.  Unless you're willing to
+throw long-form novel writing out the door as an artform because it's not
+appropriate that the characters should be on a specific and crafted
+journey....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS :  Thanks
+Date: 8 Feb 1995 15:10:06 -0500
+
+     Thanks; I think I like the four-dimensional analogy....
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Subject: JMS: inspiration question
+Date: 8 Feb 1995 15:10:25 -0500
+
+     Yeah, I know from Cerebus, I'm a big fan of the book.  I'd rather
+there was more book in the book and fewer lettes/less filler, but there
+you are....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Coming of Shadow spoilers
+Date: 8 Feb 1995 15:10:49 -0500
+
+     The alien healing device was specifically used in treatment of
+illness; the Emperor suffered massive damage to his heart and othe
+internal organs, which simply restoring some life energy wouldn't help.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+Subject: Gropos (spoilers)
+Date: 8 Feb 1995 15:09:48 -0500
+
+     Where does it say in the episode that the B5 defense grid is "strong
+enough to stand against the likes of the shadows?"
+ 
+     It doesn't.  And it wouldn't.  Not for five seconds.
+ 
+     You don't have to find something hard to believe if it was never said.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: (Attention JMS) Ivanova's Mono
+Date: 8 Feb 1995 15:11:17 -0500
+
+     To the question "Who thinks up these things," there are only two
+answers: me, or the writer whose name appears on the script when it's
+not me.  Occasionally me or Larry adding to the other person's script.
+That's it, no big committee.  Generally, all you have to do is check
+the writing credit.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Products on-screen
+Date: 8 Feb 1995 15:38:23 -0500
+
+     Correct; all sponsors advertising on a TV series (different from the
+ET situation) would generally like their product shown.  For kicks we
+did it with Zima and Kawasaki, and for that, yes, we did have to get their
+permission.  The fun wore out, and we haven't done it since.  I'd love to
+have someone pay us to show their product; it'd mean we were being held in
+esteem in the public eye.  And would help the budget.  We'll see.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Franklin's Patients (SM &
+Date: 8 Feb 1995 15:49:58 -0500
+
+     Not a contradiction.  I don't believe in omniscient or all powerful
+devices that function like literal deus ex machinas and heal everybody all
+the time.  It was stated *plainly and clearly* that the device was used
+in healing terminally ill patients.  They cannot undo physical damage from
+gunshots (the regen packs and other devices were used to heal Garibaldi's
+wound, and the alien device was used to raise his life energy level enough
+to bring him out of the coma).  The emperor suffered a massive attack that
+destroyed parts of his heart.  Can't be fixed by this device.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATT JMS: B5 Flaws
+Date: 8 Feb 1995 18:06:55 -0500
+
+     Re: "fixing" the "guy with the bozo hair," I don't see this as
+something that needs to be fixed.  The problem is with some people's
+provincialism and rapidity with stereotyping and the like.  It's also
+in large measure an American fixation with hair; the show is playing in
+MANY european markets, and this tends not to be a problem there.  I find
+it interesting that some people can accept red eyes, reptilian features,
+pouches, six-set genitalia, jump gates, headbones, shadowships, but fall
+apart because of somebody's hair.  Americans are fixated on this stuff;
+an entire generation was pegged, stereotyped and ridiculed because of
+their hair; you can go down to parts of LA and see hair styles that make
+Londo look like a protestant minister by comparison.
+ 
+     There is a notion that one must "fix" something if a few people have
+a problem that stems from their perception.  This is what leads to lowest
+common denominator programming.  I don't do that.
+ 
+     (Not directed at you, but the report.)
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: === Actors reactions
+Date: 8 Feb 1995 18:11:18 -0500
+
+     There's always a rush to find out what's in the new script.  In
+ageneral, first drafts only go to PTEN and the various department heads
+in order to get them on line for the episode requirements.  The final
+draft is released to full distribution a few days to a week later.  But
+invariably, within hours of releasing the first draft, it's floating
+around on stage, going from hand to hand, as people find out what's going
+to happen next.  There's always a real sense of enthusiasm and genuine
+curiosity.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Subject: What do the Shadows want?
+Date: 8 Feb 1995 18:11:48 -0500
+
+     This is the main question that hasn't been asked much.  If one takes
+as read the notion that B5 doesn't go in for the stereotypical "let's
+destroy everything" bad guys, that there's more going on...then what is
+the agenda of the shadows?  Okay, you win a war, now you own it all,
+what do you do (besides visit Disneyland)?  There has to be more to the
+answer of "why" than what appears on first blush.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: GROPOS - SPOILERS AND QUESTION
+Date: 8 Feb 1995 18:12:20 -0500
+
+     While it's true I don't mind dark endings, I would note that the
+episode was written by Larry.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Where are the Vorlons?
+Date: 8 Feb 1995 18:12:54 -0500
+
+     ^You'll see a lot more of Kosh starting in three eps.
+ 
+                                            jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: === Production check
+Date: 8 Feb 1995 18:13:21 -0500
+
+     Script being filmed: "Knives" by L.D.  Script in prep: "In the
+Shadow of Z'ha'dum."  Script just going final: "Confessions and
+Lamentations."  Script in editing: "There All the Honor Lies."  Final
+post production/efx on "Hunter/Prey" and "And Now For a Word."  New
+script, not titled yet, being written.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Article 60961 of rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5:
+Subject: Re: Thank You
+Date: 8 Feb 1995 05:08:31 -0500
+
+     Just an observation on the serial discussion...you're talking apples
+and oranges.  You can't compare a film serial from the 30s or 40s with
+TV; they're not the same thing.  Yes, serial stories were done then; but
+in American TV, they haven't been done in this fashion (I'm exempting
+soap operas which sorta redefine themselves moment by moment).
+ 
+     As an aside...serials in the early days of movies didn't start out
+for the purpose of telling one story as its expressed goal.  (And, in
+fact, if you watch some of them straight through, what you find is a VERY
+simple story/structure, along the lines of "Stop them from stealing the
+very famous Star of Rhodesia Diamond" which is broken up into barely
+connected individual pieces.  Very often, the studio would have a vague
+idea about where it would end, and just filled in the middle with car
+crashes and fist fights and dynamite explosions.
+ 
+     The reason for that continuing structure lay with 1) the fact that
+at that time, and in the years before, most of the magazines of the time
+serialized books a chapter at a time, a technique that goes straight back
+to Charles Dickens.  So that was the template at the time.  And 2) most
+or all movies in those early days consisted of one-reelers, or at most
+two-reelers, since it was felt then that audiences probably wouldn't sit
+still for two hours for a movie.
+ 
+     Consequently, you'd go down to the local Rialto, and you'd get a
+traveling tab show...local live performers, a singer, some piano, a short
+animated cartoon, a Chaplin or Laurel and Hardy one-reeler, then work
+your way up to maybe a half-hour movie, or a two-reeler.  Gradually, as
+movies got longer, the serials also got longer, in many cases ending up
+as full-length features themselves.  Or they were phased out.
+ 
+     So it wasn't that the studios were looking to tell a story over five
+years; it was that they felt the market couldn't sustain more than bite
+sized stories.
+ 
+     Proving again that a little knowledge of history is a dangerous
+thing....
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Do ALL dreams come t
+Date: 9 Feb 1995 19:47:27 -0500
+
+     Not all Centauri dreams come true; however, the ones in which they
+see their deaths tend to be pretty accurate.
+ 
+                           jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Names
+Date: 9 Feb 1995 20:14:13 -0500
+
+     Delenn's flyer is called Zhalen.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS - Thoughts on CoS an
+Date: 9 Feb 1995 20:13:41 -0500
+
+     I'd say Londo has a long way to go yet before he hits bottom.
+ 
+     Added the new B5 symbol 'cause it's cool.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: I want to know more!
+Date: 9 Feb 1995 20:27:25 -0500
+
+      No plan for now to make scripts for B5 into books, though we may
+eventually release some of the scripts themselves.  I think the tapes
+should be out by summer sometime.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: ATTN:JMS...Episode titles
+Date: 9 Feb 1995 20:38:37 -0500
+
+     I always have to have a title before I begin writing, since the
+title always influences the feel of the show.  I try to design one that
+is literary, or refers to a literary influence; it should have a certain
+rhythm, and avoid coming at the subject of the episode too dead-on.  For
+instance, one could call the recent Psi Cop episode with Bester,
+"Capture" or "Chase."  But I wanted it to be evocative, to conjure up
+the image of people slipping through the shadows, pursued by others, and
+to continue this season's trend toward titles that indicate a coming
+night.  Hence, "A Race Through Dark Places."
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: 3 x "And so it begins..." CoS
+Date: 9 Feb 1995 20:41:03 -0500
+
+     Actually, Londo does not say, "And so it begins."  He looks at his
+clock, to see if the time of the attack has come, and says, "It has
+begun."  Somewhat different, and very specific to that situation.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Re: B5's Story Arc = No Free W
+Date: 9 Feb 1995 20:40:40 -0500
+
+     But there's "some guy out there who controls your life with his
+word processor" in ALL television, ALL fiction.  Even if it's a one
+hour script, for another series, what happens to that character has
+been determined by the writer.  THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FREE WILL IN
+A FICTIONAL CHARACTER'S LIFE.
+ 
+     As for working within the B5 universe itself, as Ladira said, her
+visions are of things that MIGHT be.  The whole POINT is that people
+make choices in this show.  Yes, they're the choices the writer provides
+them...but what other choice is there?  If you can materialize Ivanova in
+a real Babylon 5 and let her do as she chooses, I'm all for it.  Until
+then, somebody has to make up the story, and the universe, and the
+situations.
+ 
+     And, once again, you're assuming that you know where fate is going
+to take any given person on this show.  And you're almost certainly
+wrong at one level or another.
+ 
+     This kind of reminds me of conversations I find at conventions, when
+I appear with the actors.  The actors get questions like, "How do you go
+about creating the character?" and I get, "What will the stories be?" as
+though I was walking down the street one day, stumbled across these
+independently-existing characters, and shoved them into this storyline.
+You cannot, in any conceivable fashion, minimize the contribution of the
+cast, which is superlative.  But I created Ivanova, and Sheridan, and
+Sinclair, and Garibaldi, and Kosh, and Londo, and G'Kar, and the Earth
+Alliance, and the Vorlons, and the Psi Corps, and I write the words they
+say, the rooms they're in, the changes in their lives.  Just like every
+novelist you've ever seen.
+ 
+     There's no such thing as a character having free will within the
+structure of a story.  Certainly they can seem to come alive in the
+writing process, but that's not the same thing.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: A just system ? (was Run Thru
+Date: 9 Feb 1995 20:59:03 -0500
+
+     Correct, the Earth Alliance is not necessarily a just system.  Quite
+correct.  Thus I'm not sure where I see the problem.  Has humanity ever
+had a 100% just and equitable system?
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: The Start of The War
+Date: 9 Feb 1995 21:06:23 -0500
+
+     "I'd love to know what you have planned next...."
+ 
+     Prolonged torture, revelations, surprises, a whole new spin on the
+direction of the show, conspiracies of light and dark, weird sex, the
+turning of hunters, accusations, bigger revelations, and the death of
+two billion people just to get the ball rolling.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+ 
+     (and that's just the next 8 episodes)
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Q on the casting of
+Date: 10 Feb 1995 02:43:44 -0500
+
+     Turhan originally came in to audition for Elric in "Geometry;" we
+wanted someone with more menace (Ansara), but we were all just blown away
+by how wonderful and sweet and nice a person he was, and as he left, I
+told John Copeland, "I'm gonna write a part just for him."
+ 
+     So I did, and we cast him, and everyone on the set loved him...to
+the point that, at the end of the shoot, they were saying, "You BASTARD,
+how could you bring this WONDERFUL man in here and then KILL HIM OFF SO
+WE CAN'T HAVE HIM BACK?!"
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: "Long Night" and "So
+Date: 10 Feb 1995 03:11:06 -0500
+
+     These two stories have been indefinitely shelved.
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+Subject: Stuph From jms
+Date: 10 Feb 1995 03:11:25 -0500
+
+     General and sundry to whoever might be interested....
+ 
+     1) Next Thursday evening (the 16th), I'll be at Planet Hollywood in
+Chicago along with Claudia Christian, Mira Furlan, and Michael O'Hare
+to do a PR appearance in part for the show, in part for the convention
+there in June, and for some various non-story-related announcements.  The
+plan is to watch the episode there that night, do Q&A and generally hang
+out.  Though this is usually a closed deal for publicity (ET and CNN and
+other media will be there), a limited number (I think 150) tickets have
+been allocated for fans of the show in the area, I think $30 apiece.
+Contact the same folks running the Chicago Big Bang Convention ahead of
+time to order tickets; these will probably sell out quickly.
+ 
+     2) Chris Franke has finalized the revised CD soundtrack; the new
+suite, entitled "The Geometry of Shadows," adds about 12-14 minutes to
+the CD, which now weighs in at about 55-56 minutes.  The new suite
+includes the second season main theme, selections from "Chrysalis" and
+"Survivors" and "Signs and Portents" and "The Coming of Shadows," as
+well as an extended version of "Requiem For the Line."  The first 2,000
+copies have already been booked and will be sent to fill orders hanging
+fire from the UK, with broader distribution starting in March.  This is
+from Sonic Images, which because it isn't *as* large a company as Warner
+Records or others, but is still good sized, will be fighting to meet all
+the orders that have come in and are coming in.
+ 
+     Thus, I suggest that if you want to a) get the soundtrack, and b)
+not wait for back orders, you contact your local record store or discount
+distributer service and order the CD right off, which will help assure
+getting them as they come off the line, and help Sonic Images best plan
+their run.  The CD also comes with an expanded booklet, with more
+pictures from the show (including a 3-shot of me with fellow producers
+Doug Netter and John Copeland...but hey, buy it anyway).  It's a wonder
+to behold.
+ 
+     3) At this point, I've confirmed that I'll be in the UK twice this
+year, once at the Horizons Convention in Birmingham come April, and then
+in September at the Wolf 359/Gathering convention in Manchester.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Advertisers
+Date: 10 Feb 1995 05:36:46 -0500
+
+      Yes, the advertisers are coming from a better grade, and I'm told
+all the ads are sold out through the second quarter, well in advance.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Re: Best lines from The Coming
+Date: 10 Feb 1995 05:37:03 -0500
+
+     "That was indeed a great line.  Who wrote it?"  (Re: the Emperor's
+speech to Sheridan.)
+ 
+      >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>jms
+
+Subject: JMS: UK opinions
+Date: 12 Feb 1995 02:19:46 -0500
+
+     Opinions always matter.  It's sometimes hard to put my brain back
+where it was X-months ago, but of course I'd love to hear all the UK
+reactions.  And in a way, it might be fun for those who've seen this a
+while ago to see others going through the same thing now.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Quickie L.A/jms/Harlan Alert
+Date: 12 Feb 1995 03:00:53 -0500
+
+     Tomorrow, Sunday, 2-4 p.m., Harlan Ellison will be signing his new
+comic DREAM CORRIDOR (and maybe other stuff, though I don't know that
+for sure) at Golden Apple Bookstore in Los Angeles.  I'm also planning
+to tag along and spend more money than I should on this stuff....
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: "What" is jms?
+Date: 12 Feb 1995 04:03:40 -0500
+
+     Some have suggested the Old Fart of the Galaxy.
+ 
+     Some have suggested the Big S.  (I look upon this with suspicion.)
+ 
+     Or the Old Crank of the Galaxy.  Or Great Maker.
+ 
+     I dunno...maybe just Joe...?
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: JMS: The Future?
+Date: 12 Feb 1995 04:14:27 -0500
+
+     We don't know what the future holds for PTEN; we can only hope to
+keep B5 sufficiently successful that it will have a berth somewhere no
+matter what.  We'll see....
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Which Hubble image?
+Date: 12 Feb 1995 04:14:35 -0500
+
+     I'll have to go back and ask which Hubble shot was used as bg in the
+Narn colony shot.  The recognition problem becomes when you take the 2D
+image and extend it in 3D for purposes of movement.  But I'll get it
+in any event.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: ATTN:JMS - B5 WAV or MOD files
+Date: 12 Feb 1995 04:03:46 -0500
+
+     Actually, the rights to B5 audio clips/screen saver/wallpaper have
+been sold to the same company that did the Terminator 2 package, and may
+be out by summer/fall.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Your lucid dream...
+Date: 12 Feb 1995 04:14:41 -0500
+
+     Not that much going on, I'm afraid to say.  Upper floor renovations
+are about finished, and now they're doing some foundation work.  A couple
+of new stores opened downtown.  Spent a couple of dreamtime nights over at
+the local college, doing Q&As about writing.  Went past an accident on the
+main road the other night, car half-in and half-out of the water.  Folks
+seemed okay.
+ 
+     That's about it.
+ 
+     (For those looking on, to explain...I know this is weird...but for as
+long as I can remember, most of my dreams have taken place in the same
+sort of dream town that's gradually built slowly over the years.  I have
+a house there, know where the stores are, the theaters...it has no
+correlation to anything real, it's all contemporaneous with the present,
+and generally just a flip-side.  Fairly dull, actually.  I think the
+reason my brain generated this was that we moved from house to house and
+town to town every six months to a year when I was growing up, and this
+is/was my brain's attempt to form solidity by *creating* a home town from
+bits and pieces of the others.  So at night, I leave *here* and go
+_there_.)
+ 
+     Oh!  Wait, we *did* have a bus strike recently, so that's at least
+something interesting.  Haven't heard how it turned out, though.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Any word on a third seaso
+Date: 12 Feb 1995 04:34:36 -0500
+
+     We should get definitive word come April.  Right now, I'd venture
+that it's about 65/35 or 70/30 that we'll get picked up.  Basically, a
+bit better than 50/50, which is where we were this time last season.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: JMS: GROPOS: all CGI?? NOW??
+Date: 12 Feb 1995 04:36:14 -0500
+
+     Everything in the battle sequence at the end of Gropos is CGI; no
+models, despite the shadows.  Real fire was sampled for the flames, though.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: jms: Line in Cos (minor spoile
+Date: 12 Feb 1995 04:46:57 -0500
+
+     "A word or two in the right ear...."
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Change of commanders
+Date: 14 Feb 1995 18:58:48 -0500
+
+     The story arc proceeds very much as planned; the change of COs allows
+us to do all we had in mind originally, plus some more on top of it.
+In addition, there are trap doors for every character in case there's ever
+a problem.  As in a WW II movie, characters may come and go, but the story
+of the war is the story of the war.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: Re: "What" is jms?
+Date: 14 Feb 1995 18:59:22 -0500
+
+     Someone over on another service suggest Joe'quan.
+ 
+     Currently in process of hunting him down.
+ 
+     "Hand me my chainsaw, mother, I'm going out to catch dinner."
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Demon Night and Oth
+Date: 15 Feb 1995 00:28:13 -0500
+
+     I'd have to go back and reread either my notes, or the book, but my
+general *sense* is that the reason they didn't use explosives to close up
+the door centuries ago was that they didn't have such explosives to use.
+ 
+     Certainly not among the native american population of the time.
+ 
+     Actually, hardcover or soft, the book is out of print, and thus I
+no longer get royalties on the book.
+ 
+     There are, as you say, certain themes in my work that tend to recur,
+because I'm still trying to get a handle on them...why do we do the thigns
+(things) that we do?  What are the hairline fractures in our personalities
+that cause one person to become a Mother Theresa and another to become a
+serial killer?  What are the choices between here and there?  Basically,
+the fundamental questions of who are we, what are we doing here, why are
+we doing what we're doing, where are we going, and what shall we do when
+we get there?
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: JMS: "Stribers:" am I right???
+Date: 15 Feb 1995 00:30:12 -0500
+
+     Streibs, actually.  Just for accuracy.
+ 
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Exhibiting Babylon 5
+Date: 15 Feb 1995 01:14:16 -0500
+
+      If the showings are free, then insofar as I know, no permission
+is required.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS Vorlon shown in teas
+Date: 15 Feb 1995 01:58:06 -0500
+
+     I have no idea what was in the teaser, but since we haven't provided
+anyone with images of Kosh absent his encounter suit, it wasn't that.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS:Do you enjoy talking to us
+Date: 15 Feb 1995 00:51:24 -0500
+
+     I don't know enough about how these informal RPG groups function, so
+really can't comment.
+ 
+     Do I enjoy it?  For the most part, yes.  The other frustrations are
+pretty much the same ones faced by anyone else on the net; the occasional
+offhand insults or dismissals, the trolls and flames, the person who says
+"If this had been a ST episode, I would've given it a 10, but since I
+expect more from B5 I'm only giving it a 2"  rather than judging it simply
+on its own merits, the person who feels he has to find SOMETHING negative
+to say or he feels he's not participating properly....
+ 
+     I've been riding the nets for over 10 years.  So after a while, you
+come to know what to expect.  And the majority of it is nothing less than
+swell.  Whether the analysis is positive or negative, often it comes with
+thought and consideration and cogent, perceptive commentaries, and one
+can't help but learn and be impressed.
+ 
+     Most of the other folks I know who work in SF TV think I'm insane to
+be here, to this extent, every single day.  Because there's often a kind
+of love/hate relationship between SF TV people and viewers.
+ 
+     Here's an example (and please, this is NOT a case of "the author
+speaking through an imaginary third person").  This is a writer/producer
+who's worked on a number of SF series (or in one case, a contemporary
+fantasy series), who no longer works in the genre, instead seeing out work
+in non-SF/fantasy venues.  I ran into him at a local newsstand here in
+Sherman Oaks a while back, and I asked him about his decision.  This,
+though a paraphrase from memory, is what he said:
+ 
+     "The viewers drove me out of it.  I just got tired of it.  While
+some of them are okay, the majority of them are just damned ungrateful.
+You bust your ass making a show, 12-16 hours a day.  You put it out there,
+and all they ever want to do is nitpick.  They crab, they bitch, they
+moan, they pick things apart until there's nothing left.  Then when you're
+finally canceled, they scream at you asking why you're not on the air.
+Well, if you'd *supported* the show when it was on the air instead of
+bitching about it all the time, maybe it *would* be on the air.  In two
+years on [insert name of a high-visibilty police-type series] I haven't
+had any of that.  Same with the other non-SF shows I've done.  They turn
+on the show, and either they like it, or they don't like it, they don't
+tear it to shreds in front of your eyes, call you names, insult you or
+bitch at you.  [Name and Name] feel the same way about it that I do, and
+they're looking to get off [series name] for the same reason.  They're
+just going crazy with it.  It's got nothing to do with not wanting to
+hear negative opinions, just the way they do it."
+ 
+     Now, obviously, I have some very real disagreements with some of the
+sentiments expressed here.  Part of it, I think, is that I do come out of
+the world of being a fan, and I think I better understand the situation,
+that it comes out of being invovled with a show and the ideas behind it
+in a very visceral fashion.  Also, I think that if you're not on the nets
+or out among the fans regularly, all you'll here ARE the negative things,
+because those are the ones who tend to write...those who're pissed off.
+People who like a show don't often write in to say so.  But on the nets,
+or at conventions, you're more apt to encounter them.  Absent that, it's
+easy to see how someone might come away with the notion that it's all
+just negative.
+ 
+     Are there, from time to time, unfair or ill-considered criticisms of
+this or any other show?  Of course there are.  That goes with the
+territory.  Are they disproportionately outweighed by the thoughtful and
+insightful criticisms?  Definitely.  As for how you're treated...I feel
+that if you treat fans with respect, they will treat you with respect, and
+as a consequence, while there have been some occasional hiccups here and
+there, I'd have to say that yes, I do enjoy the exchange, it is both
+entertaining and rewarding, and I'm happy to continue it.
+ 
+     Even if some of my associates *do* think I'm nuts.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Dou you read non-ATT
+Date: 18 Feb 1995 04:40:16 -0500
+
+     Because I get so much mail, I scan first for ATT:JMS messages that
+are first-timers; when I've gone through those, I then try to make time
+for initial replies from others to that starter-thread.  After a thread
+has been around for a while, I often phase out in order to deal with the
+new ones that need replies.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Question: What did Delenn ask
+Date: 18 Feb 1995 05:19:51 -0500
+
+     Delenn's question to Kosh in "Chrysalis" was never stated, but it
+will be revealed before this season is out.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS: "We" versus "I" (AAitN Sp
+Date: 18 Feb 1995 05:25:30 -0500
+
+     Re: we/I...yes, it's interesting, isn't it?  You'd almost think it
+was contradictory or something.
+ 
+     You may tell your friend that the city hit in "CoS" was CGI, not
+a model.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Subject: JMS : Revelations CGI question
+Date: 18 Feb 1995 06:02:22 -0500
+
+     Correct; the Narn bridge is CGI.  Re: the explosion...we shot a
+lot of live pyrotechnics for Ron's use; but don't recall offhand which
+was used here, live or CGI.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: B5's story structure (was an i
+Date: 18 Feb 1995 06:01:56 -0500
+
+     Another comparison somebody made about B5 recently was to Bradbury's
+Martian Chronicles books; independent, but they add up at the end.
+ 
+     To follow up on your (Dianne's) other point...yes, from time to time,
+as we push ourselves to the limit, we're going to crash and burn.  That's
+part of the risk if you really want to try and do something different.  We
+push the envelope...and sometimes get a papercut.  I had, for instance,
+MUCH more in mind for the EFX in the final confrontation in "The Long
+Dark."  But we were, alas, about this > < much ahead of the technology to
+pull off what I wanted.
+ 
+     The pattern is, write an episode that goes a little further than the
+last time.  See if you can do it.  Find which aspects of that worked, and
+push it *again*.  If we can do a stationary base and mine field with one
+batch of ships in "Midnight," can we do a larger base and *two* competing
+groups of ships (three if you count the shadows and centauri) in "Coming
+of Shadows")?
+ 
+     As Paul Bryant says at Foundation, we try to ride the bleeding edge
+of storytelling and technology.  Or to quote an old SAS pin I own, "Who
+Dares, Wins."
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  A User Plugs B5
+Date: 18 Feb 1995 06:07:34 -0500
+
+     Many thanks; your efforts are very much appreciated.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: B5 on Cover of April '95 Starl
+Date: 18 Feb 1995 06:07:53 -0500
+
+     Yeah, I'd heard about the cover.  I know that the editor there swore
+to all and sundry that he would *never* give a cover story to B5, but it
+appears the requests from viewers became so much, and their deliberate
+omission so obvious, that something had to be done.  (I no longer
+cooperate with any interviews for them, though I can't by all rights ask
+my cast to do the same.  Whenever I give interviews for other magazines
+where the writer also works for Starlog, I specifically request that it
+not be used there.)
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: haunting images....
+Date: 18 Feb 1995 03:56:49 -0500
+
+     For what it's worth, I have the same situation...images from the
+various episodes stay with me long after they should go.  We've worked
+hard to create a sense of, "Here's some extrapolation, one possible
+future" and keep it as rigorous as possible.  It *is* a very weird
+feeling at times.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Tractor beams?! TRACTOR B
+Date: 19 Feb 1995 06:04:03 -0500
+
+     It has never been stated that other worlds or species or
+civilizations don't have the technology to use gravity, magnetic or other
+forces to move objects.  It was used in "Sky Full of Stars" when the
+Minbari cruiser pulled in Sinclair's ship.  *We* don't have that tech
+yet, and must work around it, but a few others do.  As with the other
+note I left on another topic, I don't see the problem here.  This seems
+perfectly within the realm of probability for any reasonably advanced
+species; it's just that we haven't reached that point yet.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Glad to see charact
+Date: 19 Feb 1995 06:04:15 -0500
+
+     By the way, in addition to the re-appearance of Neroon, you may
+have noticed that the first Grey Council member Delenn addresses is the
+same one we saw in "Points of Departure."
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: 'All Alone in the Dark' used a
+Date: 19 Feb 1995 06:04:28 -0500
+
+     Sheridan and the other fighters flew at a slight angle right past
+the window in C&C.  I don't see where the problem is in this.  The window
+wasn't used as a monitor, it was used as a window.  The starfuries came
+out of the cobra bays as the station rotated them planet-side, they banked,
+and headed toward the gate, passing C&C.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Coverage in STARLOG
+Date: 19 Feb 1995 20:43:24 -0500
+
+     Clarifications and elaborations upon your note.
+ 
+     I wasn't addressing articles "on spec," which I know they don't much
+buy over there.  But there are many, many article writers who use the
+same interview for different magazines, sometimes avoiding competing
+marketplaces, sometimes in different countries.  There are some writers
+working out of the UK who interview me, and the material ends up in
+Starburst or TV Zone or other magazines there.  A writer may be on an
+assignment from Sci-Fi Universe or Cinefantastique, and may also write
+for Starlog.  My request to those writers is that you can use any interview
+with me for any of those publications except Starlog.
+ 
+     While I know that Starlog has, from time to time, done articles on
+other shows, or the rare insightful piece, it remains almost primarily a
+Star Trek/Paramount flack.  At the moment, I'm holding the current issue
+in my hands.  It has *18 pages* of Star Trek related ads; Patrick Stewart
+wall plaques; Patrick Stewart Photo Book; Star Trek Collector's Chess Set;
+Deep Space Nine Magazine; Star Trek mouse pads; Picard figures; Seatrek
+95; Cruise Trek; Star Trek pins; Star Trek conventions; Star Trek
+soundtracks; Brent Spiner records; TNG magazine; TNG holographic t-shirts;
+Star Trek posters; more Star Trek t-shirts; Star Trek Collector's
+Portfolio; Star Trek blueprints; more Star Trek posters; the Voyager
+magazine...all this in just ONE issue.
+ 
+     Is there anything WRONG with any of this?  Absolutely not.  But it
+does tell us a little about what they are.  And what they're not.
+ 
+     STARLOG is not a magazine covering the science fiction media scene.
+It is a Paramount/Star Trek flack publication that INCLUDES some limited
+coverage of other stuff, at its whim.  Other series come on the air, and
+the attitude is "Well, let's see what happens after they've been on the
+air for a long time before we give them any coverage."  VOYAGER is
+announced and the coverage is almost ORGASMIC...cover stories, one feature
+article after another after another, in many cases before the show even
+hits the airwaves.
+ 
+     But that's different, because that's the company that buys 80% o
+their advertising space.  Which, again, is fine...just don't pretend to be
+something other, because the editorial policy follows the line of the
+money for the ads.  Which isn't immoral, it simply is.  STARLOG has no
+motivation to be responsible, or even-handed, or even accurate, when it
+comes to covering non-Star Trek shows; it doesn't have to since the bulk
+of its money comes from Star Trek and Paramount.  So it can operate under
+the whim, or pique, of its editors more so than a more general-interest SF
+magazine.
+ 
+     I stopped cooperating with Starlog because I got tired of their
+inaccuracies in interviews I participated in, tired of screwed up credits
+and pictures; especially tired of cheap-shot articles that bitched about
+how the last Twilight Zone series was being done so that MGM would have
+enough to syndicate so they wouldn't lose their shirts, totally eliminating
+the possibility that the stories told there could have ANY merit when
+the financing was for profit (like Star Trek is being made by Paramount
+out of their concern for the commonweal and to cure cancer)...tired of the
+obvious editorial bias.  I received direct word from Starlog reporters that
+there would never be a B5 cover because of the editor's pique, obviously
+hoping that if such was withheld, maybe the show would die and the problem
+would be obviated.  Well, we didn't go away, and now the pressure and the
+obviousness of their omission has forced them into doing a B5 cover.
+ 
+     I'm sorry, but I've worked as a journalist for publications like the
+Los Angeles Times, TIME Incorporated, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and
+I've *seen* how editors should run their bureaus.  STARLOG ain't run that
+way.  It is, purely and simply, a Star Trek magazine with pretensions of
+being something other.  Now, if all you want really is Star Trek coverage,
+and maybe to keep informed of other stuff...that's nothing less than
+spiffy.  But please don't try to convince me of anything else, because it
+simply ain't so.  And the conflict of interest is so thick you could cut
+it with a spoon; they know they can't piss off Paramount because if
+Paramount pulled their ads on Monday, on Tuesday STARLOG would be out of
+business, as opposed to magazines that may have a more general, and thus
+less controlling, slate of advertisers.
+ 
+     After my last communication with STARLOG, I'd nominally decided to
+withhold ALL cooperation with the magazine, including my cast, directors,
+everyone.  Subsequently, I realized that this would be unfair to those
+people, who deserve some recognition for their work and publicity for
+their careers.  Unlike STARLOG's editors, I don't impose my personal
+pique upon my work situation.  I will withhold any personal interviews,
+however.  Which probably suits them just fine anyway.
+ 
+     So in the end...everyone's happy.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Some de-briefing!  --AAINT Spo
+Date: 19 Feb 1995 20:08:24 -0500
+
+     If you trust Sheridan, there's no need for a lengthy report; plus,
+a written report, no matter how well encrypted, can be broken or fall into
+the wrong hands.  The best record of a secret meeting that could get you
+fired or killed is no record at ALL.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Acts of Sacrifice SP
+Date: 20 Feb 1995 03:25:05 -0500
+
+     As it happens, I made it a point to be on-set the day we shot what we
+ended up calling "the Ivanova dance."  Wanted to make sure it was done
+correctly.  We only had to shoot it about three times, only in the master,
+no coverage.  The crew was absolutely breathless after the first take,
+from keeping from laughing.  It was very funny.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Saw "B5" Promo at WB Studio St
+Date: 21 Feb 1995 05:07:37 -0500
+
+     Really?  They're running promos?  That's very cool.....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Your Family
+Date: 21 Feb 1995 04:48:20 -0500
+
+     There's fairly little I'd want to say about my family on this forum
+(or any).  Not in something that'll be archived.  Suffice to say that it
+wasn't terrific; we probably could've been a poster family for
+Dysfunctional Post-Nuclear Families.  The question's fine, but this is
+something that I'll talk about at cons, or in person, but not on-line.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+
+Subject: ATT JMS:Changed story on GoS
+Date: 21 Feb 1995 19:08:26 -0500
+
+     Mainly it was written with Ivanova solving her problem on her own,
+without Garibaldi being there.
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+Subject: ATT JMS: From Worst to First!
+Date: 21 Feb 1995 22:36:13 -0500
+
+     Well, that's welcome news, and I look forward to their next report.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Whose dream? (no spoilers)
+Date: 22 Feb 1995 06:23:42 -0500
+
+     And of course there's the story of the man who dreamed he was a
+butterfly, and when he awoke, wondered if he was actually a human
+who dreamed he had been a butterfly, or a butterfly who was dreaming he
+was a human....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: All Alone in the Night - Anayl
+Date: 23 Feb 1995 05:23:45 -0500
+
+      Ejecting would not have purchased Ramirez's life because when the
+system came back on line with its analysis, it announced that the
+radiation was "already at terminal levels."  From the instant he heard
+that, he was a dead man waiting to stop moving.  He could've sent the
+ship back, risking a faulty autopilot...and might've died for nothing if
+it encountered the *slightest* glitch en route.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: Thoughts on Sheriden's Dream (
+Date: 23 Feb 1995 05:24:01 -0500
+
+     Without commenting much on the rest of this message, there is an
+element of what you say in Sheridan's look up to see himself in the
+dream.  In a way, there are several Sheridans in that dream, signifying
+changes currently in the works, changes yet to come, messages
+forthcoming or unrecognized.  It's a very reflective dream, which will
+grow clearer the deeper one gets into the show.
+ 
+     Certainly there are some archetypes that always creep into a work
+of this sort; for all we all not Jung at heart...?
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+Subject: Question About Acts of Sacrifi
+Date: 23 Feb 1995 05:24:17 -0500
+
+     Nope; the Lumati aren't the same species as Zathras.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Your Family
+Date: 23 Feb 1995 05:49:39 -0500
+
+     Will not be at NasFic; will try to be at Worldcon, duties permitting.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS; Repeat quote please.
+Date: 23 Feb 1995 05:49:56 -0500
+
+     Alas, I don't recall specifically what I wrote; but I'm sure it
+ in ONE of the archives.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS  Stop it! Stop it! S
+Date: 23 Feb 1995 05:54:47 -0500
+
+      "When I look in my coffee cup at 3 a.m....I see a brilliant but
+EVIL author at his computer."
+ 
+      Hmmm....it's only 2:37 a.m. as I read this...so clearly this must
+be referring to someone other than me.
+ 
+      "Behind him, tentacles are waving in the shadows."
+ 
+      Yes, definitely someone elAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Bravo on the Ramirez Sequ
+Date: 23 Feb 1995 05:55:05 -0500
+
+     One of the themes in this show is how you face life...and how you
+face death.  Ramirez faced his honorably.  In the end, honor and dignity
+are all we have left.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Re: Acts of Sacrifice <SPOILER
+Date: 23 Feb 1995 06:17:59 -0500
+
+      Actually, not to split hairs, the idea of sex sealing deals goes
+back a heck of a lot longer than Larry Niven.  It's been part of treaty
+signing and stuff going back to ancient Egypt, other parts of the middle
+east, even parts of medeival europe.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Earthforce oath?
+Date: 23 Feb 1995 06:18:15 -0500
+
+      The Earthforce Oath: "Wow, look at all those ships, there must be
+THOUSANDS of them coming this wa
+
+Subject: JMS: Acts of Sacrifice (OW! TH
+Date: 23 Feb 1995 06:25:12 -0500
+
+      The greatest accomplishment a writer can attain is to make his
+reader or viewer feel the pain he feels from his characters, and the joy,
+and all the other emotions.  If they were painful to watch, they were
+painful to write.  So I guess this writing stuff may work out.
+ 
+     (And if you think THIS is an emotional roller coaster, wait a bit.)
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATT JMS:Can We See More on Non
+Date: 23 Feb 1995 06:28:03 -0500
+
+     I think you'll see a lot more of one of our non-aligned worlds, the
+Marcab, very shortly.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  USENET in credits?
+Date: 23 Feb 1995 06:28:16 -0500
+
+     Unfortunately there are strict rules on what can and can't be
+included in credits; this ain't one of them.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Attn: JMS :  Newsweek blurb
+Date: 23 Feb 1995 06:28:29 -0500
+
+     Yeah, well, this and two bucks will get me a cup of coffee at the
+Fame is Fleeting Cafe.
+ 
+     "Rome Eternal, High and Palmy
+     Home of Caesar and Salami
+     Power fades and glory tumbles
+     At'sa the way the pizza crumbles."   --  Victor Buono
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Warner / Pictures
+Date: 24 Feb 1995 04:51:23 -0500
+
+      A coffeetable book is a great idea, which we've discussed, but have
+had no bites yet.  As for the publicity...with luck, we may get a bit more
+soon (having carried on a bit about it).
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Babylon 5 - A Homeric Tale
+Date: 24 Feb 1995 05:19:26 -0500
+
+     As someone who has a great fondness for Homer's work, I think you
+have just paid me the highest compliment conceivable.  Thank you.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+Subject: Lumati- Did You all forget?!
+Date: 24 Feb 1995 02:43:59 -0500
+
+     Zathras is not part of the Lumati species.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS:  "AoS" and Life on the B5
+Date: 24 Feb 1995 03:23:04 -0500
+
+     Suffice to say just about everyone thought the scene was a hoot,and
+everyone wanted to be there when it was done.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Please confirm what
+Date: 24 Feb 1995 23:22:27 -0500
+
+     It was a dove, yes.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Attn: JMS - AoS Emotional
+Date: 24 Feb 1995 23:45:29 -0500
+
+     Thanks.  For me, emotions are the *point* of drama, to elicit some
+feeling from the audience; or what's the point?
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: character writing
+Date: 24 Feb 1995 23:53:24 -0500
+
+     Without mistake, I do draw upon a lot of my own background and
+personality and experiences in relationships and other areas for my
+work; it's hard, sometimes, because you've dealt with something in your
+heart and nominally closed it...then you not only open it up, and write
+it down, you watch other actors doing it.  Certain parts of the Sakai -
+Sheridan axis, particularly their first meeting, and throughout that
+episode, are almost verbatim.
+ 
+     I don't think that using it in any way invalidates it for future use;
+by exploring it once, you learn something about your feelings that you
+may not have known before.  With time, and age, and experience, and
+reflection, events take on different perspectives.  It's like the
+difference in writing about your parents when you're 16 vs. when you're
+50.  Same subject, different perspective.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Re: Babylon 5 Fans
+Date: 25 Feb 1995 01:50:27 -0500
+
+     I will only say that I was as surprised by those fans as anyone
+else (I was in editing all day when that was shot).
+ 
+     Well, we're always saying around here, the more fans the better....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: B% them used in ST:TNG/Taco Be
+Date: 25 Feb 1995 03:33:15 -0500
+
+      Is there any way you could get me a copy of that commercial, at
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423?  Would be
+much appreciated.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS: Lafayette Escadrille
+Date: 25 Feb 1995 03:39:56 -0500
+
+     Re: the Flying Tigers...I don't know if anyone noticed it, but
+the symbol on Sheridan's helmet is the Flying Tigers symbol, used by
+permission.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+Subject: JMS: When will we understand t
+Date: 25 Feb 1995 03:38:11 -0500
+
+     You'll see at least one piece of Sheridan's vision decoded before
+season's end.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS: Bravo on the Ramirez
+Date: 25 Feb 1995 03:41:43 -0500
+
+     "There needs to be some with god, or else what you build your life on
+will collapse."
+ 
+     Nope.  Start with many of the Founding Fathers, many of whom were
+deists or freethinkers or non-believers.  Go back to pre-christianity, to
+the great works of literature and art and architecture that survive to
+this day.  You cannot stand in the shadow of the Pyramids, or in the
+massive burial mound in New Grange (the oldest standing structure on the
+planet, pre-bronze age), and not feel awe and respect for what has been
+done.
+ 
+     (Nuts, I left out the word "relationship" in the first sentence,
+after "some."  Pretend you read it there.)
+ 
+     Lots of people pretend to, or offer lip service to, or may even in
+their view have "some relationship with god."  But not damned nearly
+enough of them have some relationship with the suffering of their fellow
+human beings.  There was our good old buddy James Watt, who said that we
+don't need to preserve the forests because soon Christ will return and
+eliminate the problem.
+ 
+     Understand clearly and do not misrepresent in any reply: I have NO
+problem whatsoever with believers of any stripe.  My problem emerges when
+someone tells me that if I don't think as they do, my life is without
+meaning or foundation.  No one is entitled to make that determination but
+me.
+ 
+     I'm an atheist.  Straight up.  I believe in the stubborn nobility of
+the human being singular, the dignity and grace of our art and our
+intellect and our heart.  I believe that a race which can write a sonnet,
+split the atom, and walk on the moon has *nothing* to apologize for.
+I believe that because we are only here for the duration of our life, and
+that there is nothing after, that therefore *each* life is as precious
+and valuable a resource as diamonds, and far rarer.  The Mona Lisa is of
+note because there's only one.  There is only one of each of us.  To quote
+from Lost Horizon, I believe there can be no greater or nobler creed than
+the simplicity of, "Be *kind* to one another."  I believe that we are
+stewards of our planet and brothers and sisters to the entirety of its
+population.  I believe in the power of common men and women who, despite
+pain and loss and overwhelming odds, can come together in common cause
+and walk together into the future.  I look to World War II, where ordinary
+people, starting out outgunned and unprepared for war and hit by
+depression and surprise attack, shrugged off their coats, straightened
+their spines, and walked off to beat the mightiest military force the
+world had ever known; David facing a black-uniformed Goliath that stood
+astride the planet on legs of fire and steel.  *That's* what we can do
+when we make up our minds to do it.
+ 
+     As Delenn said, we are better than we think and nobler than we
+know, and at the end of the day, when we face that black, implacable
+wall of death, for my money what matters is being able to look back at
+one's life the way one looks at the end of a long day; did we fight our
+own battles, were we as kind as we could be, did we move the future a
+little closer, did we uplift and ennoble and enrich?
+ 
+     It says in the Bible, "no greater love hath a man than that he lay
+down his life for his brother."  In the case of Ramirez, or the crew of
+the Narn cruiser in "Acts of Sacrifice," it's true regardless of whether
+the person is an atheist or an alien race.
+ 
+     Your question is framed around the premise of "who serves god?" but
+my concern is "who serves humanity?"  One may be a monk and remain in
+a monestary, and speak once in a dozen years, and serve god through the
+daily effort and daily prayers that are the beginning and end of his
+days.  One may be an atheist who gives to charity, helps build homes for
+the homeless, and helps his fellows where possible.  The former serves
+only himself; the latter serves humanity.  Both may approach their bed
+at night with a clear conscience within the dictates of their beliefs.
+(And yes, obviously those are two extreme examples, I'm not trying to
+describe one camp or the other in such all-encompassing terms.)
+ 
+     That which I choose to build my life upon will not "collapse"
+because it has met the criteria I set for it.  I've told my stories,
+touched other people; daily I receive letters from people who say that
+my show has inspired them to begin careers in the sciences, or helped
+them to deal with the death of a parent, or were moved by the sacrifices
+portrayed in this show to give a little of themselves and switch to major
+in social sciences or social work, or to become involved in charities.
+The good work of this series will continue long after I am gone, and that
+cannot be taken away, cannot collapse.  It is already done.
+ 
+     And in the end, yes, all we have is the question of whether we go
+with dignity and honor, knowing that we have lived our lives with passoin
+(passion) and compassion in equal measure.  For me, that knowledge is
+enough to sustain me when the game is finally called on account of
+darkness.
+ 
+     You do not have to believe as I do.  I do not consider your choice
+a vain or foolish one, or attempt to invalidate it, or suggest that it
+will collapse of its own weight.  All I ask is the same in response.
+ 
+     Do not consider this a flame, for it is not meant as such; only as
+a most...vigorous response.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: jms: Ivonova's Mating Habits..
+Date: 26 Feb 1995 03:47:54 -0500
+
+     Thanks.  We only shot 3 takes of that scene.  She nailed it.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Help!  What's The Sanctuary?
+Date: 26 Feb 1995 03:52:06 -0500
+
+     The Sanctuary is where Sheridan and the Emperor had their lengthy
+conversation; it's *all* a virtual set except the floor.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Ivanonva's Age ?
+Date: 26 Feb 1995 03:51:49 -0500
+
+     I'd say Ivanova is in her mid-thirties, thereabouts.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS: Season Two Architect
+Date: 27 Feb 1995 03:10:16 -0500
+
+     My sense is that B5 is constantly being fixed, and improved, and made
+more liveable, so there will be changes in quarters, new areas opening up,
+and the like (which covers Earhart's).  Though if we ever have a B5 Grand
+Opening for a Wall-Mart, I'm leaving....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: 1994 Hugo Nominations
+Date: 27 Feb 1995 03:43:13 -0500
+
+     Reminder to everyone...the more nominations are spread around between
+lots of different episodes, the less the chance of any one of them getting
+nominated or winning the thing.  If this is really something y'all want to,
+do...think hard.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN:JMS: terrific writing & a
+Date: 27 Feb 1995 03:38:22 -0500
+
+     Thanks, and I will convey your good wishes to Mira.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: I find it strange that
+Date: 27 Feb 1995 14:36:19 -0500
+
+     Re: sneakers or the equivilent...this is a good point, and may need to
+be addressed.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
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+Subject: Viewers for Quality TV for B5
+Date: 1 Mar 1995 05:59:26 -0500
+
+     I'm *very* pleased to announce that the latest survey by Viewers For
+Quality Television (VQT) has selected BABYLON 5 as the #1 ranked
+syndicated drama, and #16 *overall*, putting it ahead of such series as
+MURPHY BROWN, DS9, SEINFELD, DR. QUINN MEDICINE WOMAN and THE SIMPSONS
+in their listings for Highest Quality Shows.
+ 
+     My thanks and appreciation to all those who took the time to seek out
+VQT's surveys, and continue to do so, in order to bring attention to the
+hard work being done on this show, and it is our hope that we continue to
+merit your attention and support.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: Attn.: JMS: Observation on Dia
+Date: 2 Mar 1995 06:17:33 -0500
+
+     All audio tracks are made very clear when they leave our hands; at
+various points along the way, our audio generally gets messed with, losing
+the dynamic range and having the midrange stuff hammered; this is done by
+some stations and the satellite folks, so that may account for some of
+what you're experiencing.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: Re: SeaQuest Rips Off "B5"
+Date: 2 Mar 1995 06:15:44 -0500
+
+      Yeah, telepaths and their trials and tribulations have been done in
+print SF forever; but in 50 years of broadcast TV, no one's ever done it
+before B5...and it didn't take long for somebody else to jump on it once
+we did it.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: B5 CAN attract the n
+Date: 2 Mar 1995 06:52:24 -0500
+
+                ...many thanks.
+ 
+	                                                      jms
+
+Subject: ATTN:JMS repost. Thoughts re P
+Date: 3 Mar 1995 12:25:40 -0500
+
+     Yes, generally telepaths do let down their defenses while they make
+love; you can keep them up, but the concentration level is very difficult.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Season two production ord
+Date: 3 Mar 1995 13:47:52 -0500
+
+     Last season we were able to shoot out of order because we began
+shooting in July and aired in January; now we began in July and air in
+November, so we can't switch things around.  No difference otherwise.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: What does Harlan Ellison do on
+Date: 3 Mar 1995 15:10:02 -0500
+
+     He does whatever he wants to.
+ 
+                                                        jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Question regarding f
+Date: 3 Mar 1995 15:10:23 -0500
+
+     Yes, I have asked that any B5 related zines refrain from now from
+(for now) from printing story ideas, as this could cause me great trouble.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: How Do You Pitch a S
+Date: 3 Mar 1995 15:13:06 -0500
+
+     I operate off the notion that a network or studio has the right to
+know what they're buying, and that I shouldn't go into an office to sell
+a series (B5 or otherwise) unless I know where it's going, to one extent
+or another.  Hence, all series projects I do, I pitch with a series bible,
+multiple episode synopses, a sample script, and artwork if necessary to
+convey the concept.  I'm a one man traveling road show.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+Subject: ATTN:JMS Samuri Tradition
+Date: 3 Mar 1995 15:24:20 -0500
+
+     I'll have you know that playing "My Achey Breaky Heart" to an
+unwilling listener is specifically forbidden under the Geneva War Crimes
+rules.  So THERE.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: B5 Cliches/ Pet Peeve
+Date: 3 Mar 1995 15:31:27 -0500
+
+     What can I say...I work with Doug Netter...I can NEVER get out of his
+office without being pulled back by a comment or two, and because I'm
+absent minded, I'm always adding an afterthought as I leave the room.  So
+for my money, this is just how folks talk.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Why the long wait?
+Date: 3 Mar 1995 15:32:14 -0500
+
+     Same reason as Voyager and DS9 now go into reruns; so they (and we)
+can have new eps for sweeps, which is what the PTEN stations want.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Question...
+Date: 3 Mar 1995 15:34:39 -0500
+
+     The real world is what I see.  The real world is what you see.
+Strangely, they are never the same real worlds.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Question about Hunte
+Date: 3 Mar 1995 15:35:10 -0500
+
+     Actually, no, the idea of making it Dr. Kyle had never entered my
+mind.  On reflection, might've been interesting if it had....
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Writer's strike?
+Date: 3 Mar 1995 15:37:27 -0500
+
+     Since negotiations between the WGA and the Alliance companies seem
+to be going along well just now, and since the WGA only renegotiates
+every four-five years, so the next one wouldn't be until B5 had run its
+full course, the question seems to me moot in any event.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Is this common? was Re: A
+Date: 3 Mar 1995 21:08:53 -0500
+
+     Some bits and pieces are shown around the stage or posted on the
+stage bulletin board, but not too much.
+ 
+                                                         jms
+
+Subject: JMS: sigh (was Re: What does H
+Date: 4 Mar 1995 04:28:40 -0500
+
+     "You may as well have not responded, sir."
+ 
+     "If you don't wish us to ask such questions, then please say so and
+(we) will refrain from asking in the future."
+ 
+     Don't get snippy, Chuck.
+ 
+     I get 500 messages a day or more.  I don't have to answer any of
+them.  I do.  I don't owe you any kind of reply whatsoever; I could have
+simply seen it and moved on.  Don't snip at me because you didn't like
+the answer, or it wasn't as detailed as you might want.  Also, this is
+one particular question that I've answered, oh, about 30 times now, in
+excruciating detail; you'll forgive me if on number 31 I shorthand it a
+bit.
+ 
+     The answer I gave you was also 100% correct, whether you liked it or
+not.  Harlan does on the show whatever Harlan wants.  If you're not
+satisfied with the answer, that's your lookout, not mine.
+ 
+     For the 30th time (and a lot of this is probably in the faq, but after
+12 straight hours writing, and another 10 hours producing, and getting
+maybe 3 hours sleep out of the last 36, I will take the time and retype
+it all again, this time for your benefit, since you seem to begrudge me
+my prior response.  He has helped write the opening narration; he hsa
+created the character of the ombuds; he has worked with me in getting some
+of our freelance writers on-track; he has made costume suggestions, set
+suggestions, music suggestions...as I said: He does whatever he wants.
+ 
+     I hope that this answer, which is available in the faq, suffices for
+you.  For your next question, download the faq and try to ask one that
+I haven't already covered 30 times.  Or if you do ask an old one, and I
+give you a brief answer, because I'm tired, and I've been typing all day
+and all night, and my arms hurt all night long and all day long because
+of carpal tunnel syndrome...don't come back at me with attitude, because
+frankly your attitude sucks.  You could've said, "Could you amplify a
+little more?" and that would've been sufficient, and I probably would've
+obliged.  But I answer hundreds upon hundreds of messages every single
+week; don't pull this kind of crap on me.
+ 
+     "You may as well have not responded, sir."
+ 
+     Yeah, well, maybe next time I won't.
+ 
+     "If you don't wish us to ask such questions, then please say so and
+(we) will refrain from asking in the future."
+ 
+     Does your mom know you talk to people like this?
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Compliments from a viewer
+Date: 4 Mar 1995 04:47:15 -0500
+
+     Thanks...and sorry...and my best to you and Helene.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: B5 T-Shirt and Cap Info (jms)
+Date: 4 Mar 1995 05:25:54 -0500
+
+     In reply to the many who've asked...All-U, which has one of hte
+licenses for B5 merchandise, has been supplying mainly to distributers
+but has now started taking individual orders.  These are *truly* nifty
+t-shirts and caps, authorized and approved.  There are t-shirts (short
+AND long-sleeve) for the cast with station, station with B5 logo and
+the words "the last best hope," station/logo/planet, and station with a
+starfury in foreground.  The cap has the B5 logo embroidered.  These
+are quality shirts, folks.  When these guys grabbed the license, and
+we saw how good they were, we ordered boxes and boxes of 'em for the
+studio, and these are the exact same ones worn by many of our crew and
+cast.  The artwork is laid down nicely, not heavy, well detailed, and
+true to the look of the show.
+ 
+     Orders can be placed at All-U at 1-800-424-2558, ext. 105.  Shirts
+and caps are $17, with long-sleeve shirts at $25, plus shipping.  As I've
+noted before, we're doing limited merchandising, mainly that which can be
+controlled for quality and done right.  These definitely qualify.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Kosh is not being cryptic.
+Date: 4 Mar 1995 05:27:54 -0500
+
+     Ah, at *last* someone who understands Kosh.  Yes, Andy, that is
+precisely it.  Of all the lines I write in the course of an episode, the
+ones that take the longest are always Kosh's lines; anyone can be cryptic;
+that's easy.  You have to kind of re-hardwire your brain to think like
+Kosh thinks.  He sees directly to the point of what the issue is, and that
+we sometimes can't follow has nothing to do with him being mysterious, as
+it does with just not being able to stand back and look objectively; clear
+seeing, as they say in Zen.
+ 
+     There's an old Zen saying; when you are hungry, eat; whey you are
+tired, sleep; this way will you confound your enemies.  Kosh's dialogue
+tends to be a stone dropped into water that drops straight down.  The
+more I can pare down his dialogue to just what is *absolutely essential*
+the more it is Kosh.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS: B5 Fan clubs?
+Date: 4 Mar 1995 05:29:47 -0500
+
+     We've been trying to push a B5 fan club through Warners, and have
+had tough going, but in time, and with luck, that'll change to some
+extent or other.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS; Repeat quote please.
+Date: 4 Mar 1995 05:57:11 -0500
+
+     Reason I said to keep it was that I knew I'd forget it...and I have.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: UK B5 group
+Date: 4 Mar 1995 06:23:51 -0500
+
+     I can basically handle one big group on internet at a time; when
+rec.arts.b5 was created, I moved here from alt.b5 and haven't been on it
+since.  (Also, my access to internet is via a gateway created by another
+kind user that I can use via GEnie; I don't directly get into internet.)
+So my guess is probably not, barring anything extraordinary.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: You and the "actor-b
+Date: 4 Mar 1995 18:36:58 -0500
+
+     Actually, we have even MORE fun on the set; which is why it's a great
+place to work.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS: What's with Warner's
+Date: 4 Mar 1995 18:51:03 -0500
+
+     I think to some extent we're falling between two chairs, given that
+most of Warner's attention now is in promoting the WB network.  It's
+been the topic of...considerable discussion lately, and with any kind of
+luck at all, we might get a bit more PR down the road.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS: sigh (was Re: What do
+Date: 4 Mar 1995 18:51:28 -0500
+
+     Apology accepted.  Forgiven, forgotten, gone.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: JMS: G's bubbles (H,P spoilers
+Date: 5 Mar 1995 04:45:59 -0500
+
+      P.S.  For folks who, as you indicated, like to freeze-frame this
+stuff and look at it later, I slipped in a little something JUST for you
+guys (and, well, yeah, it also serves a plot point, and pushes part of
+the arc), but it's something the freeze-framers will enjoy...look for it
+in the first couple of episodes in the next batch of new episodes.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: JMS: G's bubbles (H,P spoilers
+Date: 5 Mar 1995 04:45:52 -0500
+
+     The word-balloons went by when the monitor was off-camera, and we
+were on Franklin.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: The Ship Who Sang
+Date: 5 Mar 1995 19:09:32 -0500
+
+     There was no intended reference to Anne McCaffrey's story; Kosh tends
+to speak naturally through a series of musical/tonal/atonal chords, and I
+figured his ship would communicate in the same way, which to another would
+sound a little like singing.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: How many episodes in
+Date: 5 Mar 1995 19:14:14 -0500
+
+     It's 22 per season.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Change in Kosh's voice?
+Date: 5 Mar 1995 19:21:44 -0500
+
+     There's been no change in the tenor of Kosh's voice that I'm aware of.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: re: Hugo nominations
+Date: 5 Mar 1995 19:22:00 -0500
+
+     The Sci-Fi Universe rankings were only the opinion of the individual
+reviewer, and doesn't reflect the majority of fan opinion I've seen on
+the show; the survey that comes out here every episode or so tends to be
+more reflective of overall opinion.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Doug Netter does Naked Gun?
+Date: 6 Mar 1995 01:20:15 -0500
+
+     Nope, it's some other Doug Netter.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Note on growing audi
+Date: 6 Mar 1995 15:52:22 -0500
+
+     That's a great report, thanks, very encouraging.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: B5 visibility- wouldn't mercha
+Date: 6 Mar 1995 15:55:01 -0500
+
+     I fought merchandising the first year to focus on the show; all too
+often the tail begins wagging the dog.  Now we're doing a little, here and
+there.  Merchandising doesn't really drive ratings; ratings drive the
+sale of merchandise.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Dr. John Glassco - *SPOILERS*
+Date: 6 Mar 1995 16:22:58 -0500
+
+     The funny thing is...NOTHING quoted in the article has ANYthing to
+do with B5...not the rat, not the android, nothing.  I can only assume
+it involves ST, because it's got nothing to do with what we're shooting.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: CGI -- What's missing still?
+Date: 8 Mar 1995 05:38:26 -0500
+
+       I think the CGI in composites looks more real because it's up next
+to items we know ARE real.  Re: transferring the CGI to film...this will
+be done as part of redoing each episode to meet HDTV standards and laser
+disks.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subject: ATT: JMS- Generic apology
+Date: 8 Mar 1995 05:40:26 -0500
+
+     Robert Christopher...don't be silly.  Though the sentiment is
+appreciated, and the gesture a noble and good one, what you describe just
+happens; I've been on the nets too long to let most stuff bother me.
+ 
+     I'm not bashful; if you ever do something that requires an apology,
+you won't have to wonder about it.  I remember seeing your post, and as it
+came in a batch of similar messages, didn't bother me overmuch.
+ 
+     Bottom line...s'okay.  Don't worry about it.
+ 
+     You have nothing to apologize for...well, except for that shirt...and
+those *shoes*...c'mon, RC, you gotta stop letting your mom dress you.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Morden in pilot?
+Date: 8 Mar 1995 05:40:40 -0500
+
+     Re: Morden apparently appearing in the pilot...certainly the actor
+does, yes.  That cannot be denied.  You're correct in that to date, I have
+not commented on Morden being this same person.
+ 
+     And the secret answer to this is...oh, hell, there's the phone....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Request: StarShip Yamato on B-
+Date: 8 Mar 1995 05:40:59 -0500
+
+     The next big weapon you see on B5 will be a hell of a lot nastier
+than even a wave-motion gun....
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS: The End of the Arc an
+Date: 8 Mar 1995 05:41:16 -0500
+
+      This is aimed at Theron Fuller, who once again proves that he has
+not the vaguest idea what the hell he's talking about.  I'm getting tired
+of constantly having to do this, and I swore it off for a while, because
+it's like trying to teach a snail to tapdance ("Oh, look, dear, isn't that
+cute, it's trying to *think*!")...but once more I sally forth in spite of
+remaining wisdom.
+ 
+      To your statement that we "sold the national advertising at cut
+rates to fill the space"...claptrap.  Have you *watched* the show lately?
+We've gone to larger sponsors than in our first year, higher prestige
+sponsors.  Also, ratings for national sponsors are based on the cumulative
+national ratings, when you add together the two runs per week.  And ever
+since we went on the air, we have been increasing our ratings every single
+damned quarter, Theron.  Okay?  Can we be clear on that now?  Increasing.
+Or in fewer syllables, UP.  We went from a 3.2 to a 3.7 to a 4.0 to a
+4.3 to a 4.4 and now we're hovering at about the 4.9 area about to break
+into a 5.0.
+ 
+      IN ADDITION, you towering mudslide of misinformation, ou
+demographics are STELLAR.  We have alternately the #2 or #3 ranking in
+ALL syndicated dramas in demographics, and just recently outdid DS9 for
+the first time.  Using the formula that advertisers use to determine ad
+rates, this pushes our regular ratings to an ad-rate figure of 6.5.  The
+ads are being sold at top rate, to major sponsors, who have booked the show
+SOLID through the fourth quarter.
+ 
+     PTEN has not asked for ANY changes in looking toward a possible
+season three, and right now it looks VERY good for that season; the only
+thing that might prevent it would be a cataclysmic drop in the ratings,
+and that hasn't happened.
+ 
+     What you do, Theron, is create this crisis that exists only in your
+own fevered brain...oh dear the show sucks in the ratings...AHA! that
+MUST be why they changed between last season (wrong), and they must be
+planning to "dumb down the show even further" for the third season in a
+desperate attempt to survive!
+ 
+     I don't know what voices you hear in the middle of the night, Theron,
+but their evaluations do not touch reality at any two contiguous points.
+And I've grown weary beyond the telling of you sounding off here and
+spouting nonsense as though somehow you had the facts and figures in front
+of you.  You don't.  You're making all this crap up.
+ 
+     Please take it somewhere else.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS "Tie a RED Ribbon Rou
+Date: 8 Mar 1995 05:41:33 -0500
+
+      The ribbon was there as a "drop," a signal that a meeting was to
+take place between Sheridan and his contact, in this case Sarah, which
+happens in the very next scene.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: I'm confused about 5year arc
+Date: 8 Mar 1995 05:41:52 -0500
+
+      The five years applies to the series; it's six if you count in
+the pilot.
+ 
+	                         jm(mathematics not zathras' skill)s
+
+Subject: Attn: JMS: "Souls"
+Date: 8 Mar 1995 05:42:12 -0500
+
+      I'm afraid that asking my opinion on souls will matter very little
+in an analysis of their use in B5 in that as an atheist I don't believe in
+any kind of afterlife, which kinda negates the discussion.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Bubble & Squeak
+Date: 8 Mar 1995 05:44:32 -0500
+
+      Yes, I know all about Toad in the Hole and Spotted Dick, and in
+general both conditions can be cured with regular doces of antibiotics.
+ 
+           jms(who has eaten many times at Porters in Covent Gardens)s
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: You'll find this amu
+Date: 8 Mar 1995 05:44:59 -0500
+
+     ...quark photos...sigh...I can't get a break....
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: You know you've OD'ed on Babyl
+Date: 8 Mar 1995 05:45:21 -0500
+
+      Cats markings *do* move when you're not looking.  I thought everyone
+knew this.
+ 
+	                                                      jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Babylon-TRGB Connection?
+Date: 8 Mar 1995 05:44:47 -0500
+
+      I didn't write that episode of THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS; I'm fairly
+sure (this was a while ago) that Richard Mueller wrote "I Am the City."
+ 
+      (Though I did story edit that script, as well as the 77 others in
+that one season.)
+ 
+      Among the episodes I wrote are "Citizen Ghost," "Ragnarok and Roll,"
+"The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's Attic," "Xmas Marks the Spot," "Mister
+Sandman, Dream Me a Dream," "When Halloween Was Forever," "Chicken, He
+Clucked," "No One Comes to Lupusville," and a bunch of others.  In general,
+the really sick and twisted ones were usually mine.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Re: Can we get rid of imperial
+Date: 8 Mar 1995 05:47:15 -0500
+
+      And by the way...those who keep saying we should be showing metric
+in the future...hey, I've *seen* the future, and metric was dropped in
+2181 in favor of the original system, mainly to annoy the hell out of the
+French.
+ 
+      So *there*.
+ 
+      And if it doesn't happen in 2181, you can come correct me.
+ 
+      If you can find me.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Question about Bab5 production
+Date: 8 Mar 1995 17:25:00 -0500
+
+     Sometimes for production reasons, a section of dialogue may be looped
+(a glitch in recording, off-camera noise, a faulty radio mike, any number
+of common occurances).  We match the looped dialogue to the original with
+proper room tone...and you can't easily tell it was done.  But we've known
+for some time that our audio is getting crunched via the WB delivery
+process, and some stations which cut out the dynamic range, particularly
+those broadcasting in mono.  After all that, the differences can become
+noticeable.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Subject: A theory on Vorlons
+Date: 8 Mar 1995 17:24:07 -0500
+
+     Are the Vorlons the bad guys and the shadows the good guys?
+ 
+     That ain't it.
+ 
+     Are the shadows the bad guys and the Vorlons the good guys?
+ 
+     That also ain't it.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Atten JMS: Status on other pro
+Date: 8 Mar 1995 17:27:43 -0500
+
+     I hope to have word on some other projects I've been developing over
+the next few months.  In all cases, while I'll create the series and will
+be nominally exec producer, a secondary show runner will be brought in to
+handle most of the work, even though potentially some of the other gigs
+would pay more for that position than I'm getting now.  B5 has to come
+first.
+ 
+                                                    jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS Kosh 'n' Zen
+Date: 8 Mar 1995 17:55:16 -0500
+
+     We have a number of variable sounds we can use to create Kosh's
+voice at various points.
+ 
+     Re: Zen...I find it an interesting approach, though I don't put that
+much more stock in it per se than any other system.  It applies an
+intriguing way of seeing the world, and I enjoy many elements about it,
+so I use it for story stuff or characterization sometimes, just as I draw
+on other areas.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS: The End of the Arc an
+Date: 8 Mar 1995 17:55:59 -0500
+
+     Ratings tell you how many people are watching.  Demographics tell
+you what *sorts* of people are watching...age, income, sex, that sort of
+thing.  The advertisers like to reach people who spend money, preferably
+on their products.  You can have a highly rated show, but if (to indulge
+for a moment in the crass-think exercised by ad people) that audience
+consists mainly of people in their 70s and above...it's hard to GIVE away
+the ads.  You can be a lower rated show, but if you can deliver within the
+desired demographics, the advertisers will come to you.
+ 
+     The B5 demographics are absolutely dynamite, and that's *very* good
+for us.  We get a lot of people in the 18-49 range, our largest share of
+viewers, mostly educated, good consumers.  They die for that kind of
+viewership.
+ 
+     Translation: they've seen who YOU guys are...and they like what they
+see.  Well, maybe except for that one guy in the loud Hawaiian shirt over
+there in the third row....
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: ATN JMS: Mr. Reno in S&P
+Date: 8 Mar 1995 17:58:27 -0500
+
+     I don't believe they were the same actor.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS Grey Council questio
+Date: 9 Mar 1995 04:18:56 -0500
+
+     What can I say...the worker caste always gets forgotten....
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Exploring dangerous ships
+Date: 9 Mar 1995 04:19:22 -0500
+
+     They went because it was NOT an unknown ship, it was an Earth
+registered ship, and they had done considerable scans (as noted in
+dialogue) prior to entering the ship.  If YOU were the captain of a
+modern carrier, and you found a ship from 100 years floating past,
+wouldn't YOU want to investigate it?  There was absolutely NO clear and
+present danger.  Further, they were not, in fact, attacked by anything
+in the ship; the thing would have gotten out whoever had opened the
+cryogenic freezer.  So what difference would it have made to send in
+some "expendable lackies" when nothing was at risk anyway?
+ 
+     This is, frankly, Picard-think.  When TNG went on the air, everybody
+yelled and carried on about how Kirk wouldn't let someone else go down
+to the planet instead of him; after a few years, suddenly it became SOP
+that the captain NEVER goes into any situation with possible jeapordy.
+ 
+     You judge cases on an individual basis.  There was no reason for
+them NOT to go into the ship, every reason FOR them to go into it, and
+nothing whatsoever happened once they WERE on board the ship to show that
+their safety assessment was incorrect.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: DiTillio!  Ragnarok-
+Date: 9 Mar 1995 17:43:10 -0500
+
+     We had a war going there for a while (Larry and I would occasionally
+declare war on one another for no particular reason).  Larry named a bald
+butler in one of his episodes for another show "Straczynski."  So I
+countered with the twisted dwarf named DiTillio in one of my episodes for
+TRGBs.  He then came back at me with a deranged magician named The Amazing
+Straczynski in another episode.  Then Marc Zicree got Larry, me, AND
+dragged Kathryn into it in "Lights"...at which point, having been
+blindsided, we decided it wasn't worth doing anymore and looked for other,
+more productive means of warfare.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: The Pirate PlanetR
+Date: 9 Mar 1995 17:43:36 -0500
+
+     You'll see Epsilon 3 again this season.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: How to Keep B5 on the air.
+Date: 9 Mar 1995 17:42:43 -0500
+
+     Sentiment appreciated, but don't do the $10 check routine, as it will
+get us in trouble with the FCC.  Letters alone carry plenty of weight, and
+your support is received with much gratitude.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Re: Dress UP!!!  JMS can *SEE*
+Date: 10 Mar 1995 04:32:11 -0500
+
+       "...after several dozen rapid revolutions, you might meet up with
+the Vorlon."
+ 
+       I think I can pretty much guarantee that.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Vorlon influence?
+Date: 10 Mar 1995 04:32:32 -0500
+
+     I've never been able to work up enough steam to read "Lathe."  I've
+read some of Ursula's work, but have often enough found it slow going that
+I just kinda ran out of enthusiasm.  It's on my "when you have time, read
+this" list.
+ 
+     In terms of writers now...I can't think of that much being done now
+in SF that really moves me or grabs me on a visceral level; not so much
+because it ain't there, because it probably is, only that since jumping
+onto B5 I've had *very* little time to read much of ANYthing.  Most of what
+I do read seems to end up in other genres...lots of nonfiction, some dark
+or contemporary fantasy.  (I've noticed this trend before; if I'm doing a
+humor-oriented show, I won't watch or read anything comedic...if I'm doing
+a mystery, I'll avoid mysteries...don't know why, really.)
+ 
+     I'd definitely recommend Neil Gaiman, one of the best writers out
+there right now in any area.  Terry Pratchett.  And Jonathan Carroll,
+without question.  He doesn't have quite the cachet of a Stephen King or
+a Jorge Luis Borges, but believe me, they'll be looking back at this guy
+for years to come, he's *that* good.  Harlan keeps telling me to read
+Poppy Z. Brite, and one of these days I'll get around to it.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS>>>Technomage Seeks he
+Date: 10 Mar 1995 04:32:53 -0500
+
+     "...tips on being a technomage."
+ 
+     Real technomages don't need tips.  They simply Are.
+ 
+     General advice would be...never eat anything bigger than your head,
+never shoot pool at a place called Pop's, never eat food at a place
+called Mom's, the difference between horses and humans is that they're
+too smart to bet on what *we'll* do...and a fool and his money were
+lucky to get together in the first place.
+ 
+     That'll be one dollar.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subject: Earth Alliance ship names
+Date: 10 Mar 1995 04:34:49 -0500
+
+     Also the Schwartzkopf (in "Gropos") and the explorer vessel Cortez.
+Interesting juxtaposition between the Agamemnon, and the fact that G'Kar
+is something of a Cassandra figure in our story....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Re: Dress UP!!!  JMS can *SEE*
+Date: 10 Mar 1995 04:49:49 -0500
+
+      "jms is a big boy...undoubtedly accustomed to all our styles of
+dress, and presumably, undress, while posting."
+ 
+      Well, yeah, that's true, I just think that's a very strange place
+to keep your mouse.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Re: Babcom 95 - A UK Con of so
+Date: 10 Mar 1995 04:53:15 -0500
+
+     So, Steve, what is it you're not saying about B5 programming at
+WorldCon yet...?
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Micro Machines Canc
+Date: 10 Mar 1995 04:49:32 -0500
+
+     I find this very surprising and somewhat dubious, given that last
+I'd heard the orders were going well.  Our demise is ALWAYS being
+prematurely announced; lots of folks looking to buy the B5 comic were told
+it wasn't coming out, ditto for the novel.  But I'll look into it just to
+be sure.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Murder, She Wrote
+Date: 10 Mar 1995 04:55:20 -0500
+
+     Hrmm...I'm going to try and do this from memory, and it was a while
+back..."Incident in Lot #7," "To The Last Will I Grapple With Thee" (the
+winner for the longest MSW title on record), "The Wind Around the
+Tower," "The Committee," one about a well-known actor returning to appear
+in a play in Cabot Cove whose former manager is murdered (I've forgotten
+the title), "Lines of Excellence," and several others.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+ 
+     (I think they're playing stuff from my tenure on USA now, in fact.)
+
+Subject: Re: Was Morden On The Icarus
+Date: 10 Mar 1995 04:55:37 -0500
+
+      "If we assume, due to our vast suspicion of jms, that they are the
+same person, then that implies...."
+ 
+      Of course, if one *knows* that he is viewed with suspicion, one
+might just play into that.
+ 
+      Or not.  Or pretend to do so.
+ 
+      Sleep well.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: B5's sexiest character
+Date: 10 Mar 1995 04:55:54 -0500
+
+     And here I thought maybe it was me.
+ 
+     It's the hair, isn't it?
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Those three little things
+Date: 10 Mar 1995 04:56:12 -0500
+
+     Another thing that can be now re-interpreted is the look on Jack's
+face when Garibaldi didn't go for the whitewash of the security guard's
+financial records in "Sky," and how that body managed to get out of the
+station without security being aware of it....
+ 
+	                                                       jms
+
+Subject: Re: Atten JMS: Status on other
+Date: 10 Mar 1995 04:55:05 -0500
+
+      We were mentioned in USA Today on Thursday?  Where and what was it?
+ 
+      Re: the rest....ehh...let it go.  (Would, btw, very much appreciate
+a copy of the Patriot/Ledger article, since I've never seen it.)
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS: Babylon-TRGB Connecti
+Date: 10 Mar 1995 18:34:57 -0500
+
+     "The Collect Call of Cthulhu" was written by Michael Reaves from a
+jms notion (at least I'm pretty sure it was; I was handing out premises
+left right and center back then, and didn't take credit for any of them,
+so I'll leave room for error there).  I did write the follow-up episode,
+though, "Russian About," which btw had Walter Koenig doing a voice job.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: My Ears Have Turned
+Date: 10 Mar 1995 18:38:31 -0500
+
+     Usually the person him- or herself puts up the meeting flag.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Re: B5 is a surreal farce!
+Date: 10 Mar 1995 20:58:30 -0500
+
+     Humor is always a very subjective issue, particularly when it comes
+to SF, which in TV has either been non-existent/forced, or campy.  So
+a lot of times you get this knee-jerk reaction against it; they should
+all be dry and serious and self-important.
+ 
+     I try and push just about everything on this show just a notch past
+the proverbial envelope.  Sometimes I fall down.  That's the risk when
+you take chances.  I don't intend to stop taking chances, because what's
+the point otherwise?
+ 
+     And sometimes the extremes work.  And sometimes in humor you just
+do something completely gonzo.  My favorite scene from Hill Street Blues
+in this regard was the one in which they spend (in a b story) the wholed
+(whole) episode trying to rescue/find the mayor's dog.  Finally, after
+much angst, they find it.  It's at the station.  This little rat-dog
+critter, a real creep.  Lt. Howard Hunter is playing with it, bouncing a
+ball.  The ball bounces off the desk and out the 4th floor window...and
+the dog sails after it, right through the window...and Hunter just sorta
+stands there, and quietly, unobtrusively, hoping not to be noticed,
+walks away.
+ 
+     I nearly killed myself laughing.  And I thought, Damn, why can't we
+do this kind of humor in SF?  Just *go* for it.
+ 
+     And now we are.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Re: Dress UP!!!  JMS can *SEE*
+Date: 10 Mar 1995 20:58:51 -0500
+
+     Re: posting while in lingerie...hmm...perhaps we can discuss this a
+little further....
+ 
+     Though if the some of the guys are also going to continue posting in
+lingerie, I think they should at least shave their backs, y'know...?
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: E-Mail
+Date: 11 Mar 1995 02:17:34 -0500
+
+      Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've gotten them, and in some cases have
+responded, but the GEnie interface sometimes bounces stuff.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Great Flame!
+Date: 11 Mar 1995 02:10:58 -0500
+
+     We *have* military advisors on the show.  And we use them constantly
+on various scripts.  You may think that all military people think or act
+in one way.  (Probably you think they all should think like you do.)  You
+don't like the way I do it...probably prefer the way Trek does it.  Fine.
+I happen to get a LOT of mail from people in the armed services, or who
+were in it previously, applauding the way B5 treats the military.  But I
+suppose they're ignorant too, since they don't think like you do.
+ 
+     I'll only bother to answer one other question: why stations are in
+many cases moving the 2nd airing of the show to less than terrific times,
+or trying to get out of it altogether.
+ 
+     1) There are only 2 hours per night of prime time space available on
+independent stations, 8-10 p.m., since nearly all their news programs
+start at 10 p.m.  That's 12 hours per week, total, to fit in all the PTEN
+shows, the UPN shows, the WB shows, the Fox shows, plus other syndicated
+programs.  There's a glut of new programming right now, and it's a buyer's
+market.  And while a rerun of that week's B5 may do well, it's still less
+than the first run a few days earlier, since most folks have seen it, and
+a new episode of another show might do better.
+ 
+     2) National sponsors pay for advertising based on the cumulative
+national rating.  You can get a 3 on the first night, and a 3 on the second
+night, and end up with a 6 rating, which is *terrific*.  Local stations,
+however, don't have the luxury of cumulative ratings; they go by what it
+gets *that night* in *that hour*.  If they only show it once, or put the
+rebroadcast in a less handy place, they can motivate more people to watch
+the first run, moving it up to a 4 or 5, meaning they can get a LOT more
+from sponsors.  In later time periods, the money is always less anyway,
+so putting it on at 1 a.m. doesn't make any real difference money-wise.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN:Jms When it`s all over
+Date: 11 Mar 1995 02:25:34 -0500
+
+     Well...the most honest and straightforward answer I can give you is
+that I don't know.  On one level, being online is a lot like being in the
+mob; the only way you get out is feet first.  ("Every time I think I'm out
+they pull me back in!" -- Godfather 3.)  On the other...if B5 does go its
+full measure, I'll almost certainly bail out of TV, which kinda concludes
+the experiment.  I'm also painfully (literally) cognizant of the impact of
+the CTS which generally makes each night difficult for me after hours and
+hours of typing, and I think I would rather cut back at that time on BBSing
+and put it into writing if my typing eventually gets curtailed.
+ 
+     (General notice...I've seen just about every article, message and
+document on carpal tunnel syndrome; the last thing this forum needs is to
+get filled with more messages on the subject.  Pretend you've sent it, and
+I'll be fictionally grateful, and we'll both save a lot of time and
+cyberspace.)
+ 
+      And yes, I'm wearing the gloves; have had them on non-stop for the
+last couple days, including at the office, since I'm blasting through the
+last four scripts for this season nominally all at once, since they have
+many thematic connections that work better if I write 'em together.
+ 
+      So anyway...I don't know.  I'll probably always be around, to one
+extent or another, responding at age 80 to somebody's question about just
+what DID Harlan Ellison do on my show before he won the Nobel Prize...?
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Re: B5's sexiest character
+Date: 11 Mar 1995 22:20:58 -0500
+
+      I try to avoid doing cameos; it ruins the illusion for me.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subject: Re: Yo Theron
+Date: 12 Mar 1995 20:25:20 -0500
+
+     Deborah (assuming this really is you and not Theron logging on under
+another name to get some sympathy)...I'm sorry but you fail the test of
+logic on just about every conceivable level.  By your lights, it's okay to
+smear people's reputations, announce that people are not to be trusted,
+imply that they are liars, all that's fine as long as one doesn't use bad
+words.  What a wonderfully convenient and perverse world you live in.
+ 
+     You look around and say, well, gee, Joe hasn't produced the ratings,
+maybe something's wrong, why are they being withheld, maybe the whole
+truth isn't being told...you want to know the details, and demand that I
+provide them to you.
+ 
+     First Deb (or whoever)...screw off.  I don't have to provide you with
+zip.  You say you work at a campus, you're a student.  Allow me to introudce
+you to the concept of "research."  This isn't top secret classified
+material; this is the most easily accessible information on the planet.
+Every week DAILY VARIETY and the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER list ratings for the
+syndicated and network shows (and yes, they ARE considered two separate
+things, as anyone who bothered to do the LEAST amount of digging into the
+question instead of relying on the person they're smearing and badrapping
+to provide it for them because they ask for it, like it's some kind of
+holy obligation).  You wanna know the ratings?  Come our next batch of
+new episodes, why don't you just drag your smarmy, accusatory, "you know
+you really can't trust him, he's a producer, oh, we won't call him a liar,
+but we'll just whisper it" ass down to the campus library and LOOK IT UP.
+ 
+     "...one producer who goes only by his initials...."
+ 
+     Excuse me, but what the hell does THAT bit of smear-tactic mean when
+my name is right on top of every single damned message I post?  Do you mean
+that after all this time you -- gasp! -- don't know WHO I AM?  You mean you
+see "only" some initials on the bottom of a message and you're so confused
+by who this might be that you've fallen down the dark, dusty staircase you
+call your cerebullum and now can't get up?  Good heavens, I've had an
+alias all this time and I haven't known it!  I'm a stealth producer!  No
+one knows who I am, just those....INITIALS!  Suddenly I feel like the
+Batman.
+ 
+     In addition, I *have* posted the specific ratings on many occasions,
+here and elsewhere.  For the last week on Compuserve (verifiable by many
+here who are also on CIS, since after all I'm a producer and can't really
+be trusted to say anything honest about the business) I posted the ratings
+for various areas of the country, including share, and how the general
+overall ratings have increased.  Probably sooner or later that stuff will
+be reposted here, because it always is.
+ 
+     You and Theron (unless you are one and the same) have this nutty
+notion that you can ask anything you want, be as accusative and slanderous
+as you want, but that's okay...and if *everything* you want and ask for
+isn't provided INSTANTLY, in excruciating detail...well, then, my goodness
+something's WRONG, isn't it?
+ 
+     Re: my veracity, you say, "I'd be wary and seek a second opinion or
+read very carefully to see what info isn't being said."
+ 
+     And because something isn't being said, you thererfore assume that
+something's wrong, being held back.  And what precise second opinion did
+you have in mind?  Perhaps the PUBLISHED TRADES I commended to you a
+moment ago?
+ 
+     Enough.  Enough of you, and your father/alter ego; enough of your
+smears, and your oh-so-carefully-phrased-not-to-use-bad-words, let's jsut
+call him a liar *quietly*, and your lurking on the back fence as we have
+a decent conversation, adding nothing but a murmuring, soft voice that
+mewls "don't trust him, don't trust him"...at whom somebody ought to toss
+an old shoe.
+ 
+     I'm not going to do your damned homework for you, Deborah, do it
+yourself.  And if you've got ANYTHING to say, ANY proof that what I've
+said here is anything other than what's been posted, you or that
+homunculus Theron should speak up or shut up.  Every time we get a nice,
+pleasant, friendly atmosphere going here, and a good conversation, you two
+poster children for co-dependency swoop in here and piss all over th
+place.
+ 
+     Get a clue or get out.  I've had it with both of you.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS: Babylon-TRGB Connecti
+Date: 13 Mar 1995 03:53:31 -0500
+
+     The Halloween character was named Samhein.
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Character and Person
+Date: 13 Mar 1995 03:59:46 -0500
+
+     Robert...on the other hand, I sometimes look at it as training
+exercises for Ivanova dialogue.....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: Mira at Vulkon, 3/12
+Date: 13 Mar 1995 03:59:55 -0500
+
+     If Tom's people were selling Starfury patches and jackets, they should
+not have been doing so, since they have not yet to my knowledge licensed
+ANYthing from Warner Bros., and this would not be legit.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS - More "Alien" Alien
+Date: 13 Mar 1995 03:53:15 -0500
+
+     You should be careful what you wish for....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Longest Thread Ever
+Date: 13 Mar 1995 04:23:56 -0500
+
+     Longest thread I ever saw...probably the one off my old brown
+sweater, which got caught on a nail and unravled, oh, I'd say about maybe
+fifteen, twenty feet.
+ 
+     Also, *any* abortion or gun control debate.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN. JMS????
+Date: 13 Mar 1995 04:17:38 -0500
+
+      It's a bald female extra.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+Subject: JMS: A few questions for you i
+Date: 14 Mar 1995 02:00:39 -0500
+
+     The Mars Colony was really pretty much up and running and fully
+operational by the middle 2100s, so you've got a generation or two who
+have been born and raised there.
+ 
+     The Psi Corps was established around 2150 or so (I'll have to check
+my notes to be sure).  Bester is not a teek.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: ATT JMS  Who is third in comma
+Date: 14 Mar 1995 02:00:51 -0500
+
+     Actually, I think the third in command would be Major Atumbe, who
+we've referenced in dialogue on the show, but have never shown.  I keep
+meaning to do so, but it always ends up feeling forced, and it's hard to
+work in new recurring characters when we have something like 16 as it is.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: My show can beat up your show!
+Date: 14 Mar 1995 05:21:08 -0500
+
+     I agree on not ragging on the X-Files; it's a fine show, and I enjoy
+it a lot.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: JMS:UK The Avengers
+Date: 14 Mar 1995 05:21:16 -0500
+
+     I very much enjoyed The Avengers, though Kathryn is a much bigger
+fan than I am; she's seen just about every one of them.  (They're now
+showing the eps in uncut, crystal-clear version over direcTV, which she
+is enjoying.)  I don't think it's really any kind of influence, but it's
+a great show, no mistake.
+ 
+	                                                     jms (2:10 a.m.)
+
+Subject: Bad Rumour - Sheridan Leaving?
+Date: 14 Mar 1995 05:21:00 -0500
+
+     The rumor is flatly untrue.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Re: Yo Theron
+Date: 14 Mar 1995 05:26:01 -0500
+
+     I don't believe this...the allegation that I'm not really me, that
+I'm some shlub working on the B5 payroll into whose hands The Great And
+Powerful Oz...I mean *J*M*S* has given his credibility, his reputation,
+whom *J*M*S* has taught how to *write* just like him...this dialogue has
+just hit a brand new low.
+ 
+     It's now 2:03 a.m. Pacific time.  If I ain't me, I'm not paying me
+NEARLY enough money to be me at this hour of the night.  Yes, it takes a
+lot of time to go through this stuff...which is why I'm UP at this ungodly
+hour of the night, responding to all this stuff in real-time, writing on
+the fly.
+ 
+     ...I just sat here for several minutes, trying to wrap my brain around
+how on EARTH to respond to this latest bit of nonsense...and realized,
+why?  This is the nuttiest thing I've ever seen.  What's the point?
+ 
+     And no, there are NOT two sides to every story.
+ 
+     And finally, this has nothing to do with critiquing my show.  This is
+what always happens in these threads; somebody mouths off about something,
+makes an unsubstantiated claim, and then when the net collectively hands
+them their heads, complains that people are too sensitive about critiquing
+their show.  Except, of course, that's never been what they've beend oing
+(been doing) in the first place.
+ 
+     Why on earth am I even HAVING this boneheaded conversation?
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: Re: Yo Theron
+Date: 14 Mar 1995 05:30:44 -0500
+
+      Jeremy...or Jere7my...I don't *hate* the Fullers; I reserve that
+for only a very few on a very short list (those still surviving).  When I
+think of the Fullers, I kinda think of Neice Bertrice, who lives with her
+family on some nice suburban street, with her Uncle Horace who lives in
+the basement and collects paper sacks and string and complains about that
+damn Roosevelt, and only comes up once every second Thursday to piss in
+the cassarole and set the cat on fire...and when Mom and Dad look over at
+old Uncle Horace, and wonder if maybe he might need a little assistance,
+ain't quite the fellow he used to be, she stamps her foot and cries and
+shouts at them and asks why they're being so mean to sweet Uncle Horace,
+and they should leave him alone and stop saying bad things about him,
+after which she races upstairs to her blue bedroom and slams the door,
+hugging her pink bunny and saying over and over that Uncle Horace is fine,
+just FINE, while downstairs the cat is smoldering again.
+ 
+     And I think that qualifies as the longest sentence I've ever written
+on line.  Or whoever I am.
+ 
+	                                                      jms (2:25 a.m.)
+
+Subject: Re: B5 is a surreal farce!
+Date: 14 Mar 1995 05:50:14 -0500
+
+     Red Dwarf is one of the gaps in my SF education; I've caught bits and
+pieces of the show, enough to enjoy it, but not enough to really get a
+feel for the show.  Also, there's a certain kind of British humor that
+doesn't work for me as well as others; The Young Ones (I think that's the
+name) leaves me only marginally amused while Fawlty Towers or AbFab will
+put me on the floor in minutes.  Red Dwarf (what I've seen of it) tends to
+fall into the former category; don't know why, really.
+ 
+	                                                     jms (2:20 am.)
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS - What's wrong with
+Date: 14 Mar 1995 05:50:25 -0500
+
+     I just didn't *buy* n'grath.  He looked cool, but did he look
+SENTIENT?  That's the next level that I don't think has been reached yet;
+I think we're on the right track, but I can't ever dare settle for less
+than being a perfectionist.  That means being more critical than the
+audience in some cases.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Re: Yo Theron
+Date: 14 Mar 1995 05:59:46 -0500
+
+     Flat out, Deborah-Who-Threatens-To-Complain-To-Warner-Bros., every
+single message with my name on it is written by me.  You're right; the
+way to do it is cut down on sleep and food during the week, which is what
+I do.  Because unlike those who only come in here to foul the nest, I
+happen to actually care about this dialogue.
+ 
+     Now, I've said it, straight up.  Either I'm flat-out lying or I'm
+not.  And y'know, I don't really give a damn what you think.  And my
+reaction should someone mention "the fullers" I can tell you now, and
+save you the imagining.
+ 
+     "Who?"
+ 
+	                                                           jms (2:47 am)
+
+Subject: Re: Yo Theron
+Date: 14 Mar 1995 05:59:55 -0500
+
+     Ah, and now we get down to it...Deborah threatens to let Warner Bros.
+know what I'm saying here.
+ 
+     Folks, take a good luck.  This is the repeated paradigm.  Person X
+starts smearing my reputation (or anyone in the public eye).  Offers that
+I (or other person) doesn't have a right to be upset because after all I'm
+a well-known kinda guy, and thus sacrifice all rights to an opinion, or to
+defend myself.  They speculate about my veracity, my name, my identity,
+my figures, my existence...that's okay...but when it's turned back on them,
+they get huffy and start sending faxes to Warner Bros.
+ 
+     They can give, but they don't like it in return.  Remember Ford
+Thaxton, who saw no problem in impugning my reputation here?  Guess who
+started sending REAMS of faxes to WB, quoting my messages (and others
+here) in some hope of "getting me" for talking back.  And now young miss
+Fuller threatens to do exactly the same thing.
+ 
+     She will harm me not in the slightest.  The only possible result if
+this continues is that eventually WB might say they're tired of the faxes,
+and ask me to stop hanging out here.  'Cause as long as I *am* here, I'll
+speak honestly, which is my responsibility.
+ 
+                                                          jms (2:33 am)
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: International spread
+Date: 14 Mar 1995 06:18:56 -0500
+
+     Certainly the more countries that B5 is sold into, the more htat
+(that) Warners will want to do the show; only catch is thta PTEN is a
+consortium of WB and the stations, and the stations have no direct
+reward from foreign.
+ 
+                                                      jms (3:01 am)
+
+Subject: Re: Yo Theron
+Date: 14 Mar 1995 06:19:05 -0500
+
+     "If the ratings are so good then he has nothing to loose by
+revealing where they would be located."
+ 
+     <thud>
+ 
+     I quote "The Lady's Not For Burning" ... "Am I invisible?  Inaudible?
+Do I merely festoon the room with my presence?"
+ 
+     THEY'RE IN THE TRADES, LADY.  WALK 200 FEET TO YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY AND
+LOOK IT UP.  You've now been told where they're located in 15 different
+messages from different people.
+ 
+     I give up..................
+ 
+	                                                        jms (2:50 am)
+
+Subject: Re: Great Flame!
+Date: 14 Mar 1995 07:00:22 -0500
+
+     It is now 3:10 a.m.  I am now leaving my GEnie gateway to Internet
+with about 150 as yet unread messages, mostly "flame" and "yo theron" in
+nature.  I'll do a quick run on a couple of other systems, then crash
+around 4-4:30 a.m., to get up at 8 a.m. for meetings tomorrow.  Just so
+everyone knows my schedule.
+ 
+     I've just gotten a note from someone quoting Ms. Fuller on another
+service in which she again threatens to "write to Warner Bros., and let
+them know what their representative is doing with their time and money."
+  She concludes, "That kind of behavior needs to be stopped, period."
+ 
+     John Ford can verify this if he chooses to do so.
+ 
+     It's apparent that we do not all play by the same rules here.  You
+and I and the rest of us rely on the arguments we pose.  Some here run to
+complain to various authorities because "this kind of behavior," being a
+free exchange, "needs to be stopped, period."  They can't win the
+argument, so they go whining off to somebody to beat up on the person
+they're arguing with.
+ 
+     Cowardice, plain and simple.
+ 
+     Maybe it's because it's now 3:14 a.m., and I'm tired, and this is
+bullshit, and I've seen 1/3rd of the messages in my mailbox (and yours)
+given over to this, but this has gotten sick and ugly and senseless.
+ 
+     Henceforth, I will not respond to *any* messages from either Fuller,
+father or daughter.  I will no longer give their sad, pathetic lives the
+satisfaction and validation of a response.  Which is clearly what they
+most dearly want, and most profoundly cherish.  To feel persecuted, to
+be the center of attention, to pretend to be the wounded soul up upon the
+cross.
+ 
+     But at least Christ died quietly and didn't go running off to the
+Pharisees to complain.  If one is going to wear the cloth of the martyr,
+one should play the part to the hilt.
+ 
+     This is the last message I will write in this thread.  Nor will I
+read any more in this thread.  I suggest one clear path of action to
+everyone here:
+ 
+     Ignore them.  Don't respond.  Ms. Fuller said this "needs to be
+stopped."  Okay, fine...let's stop it our way.  Ignore them to death.
+ 
+     It's the only way to make them go.
+ 
+     Granted, some of you will ignore reason (as I did), but suffice to
+say, I'm saddened and sickened and dismayed by this, and let them lie to
+their heart's content.  This is the kind of behavior that makes me
+question frankly the wisdom in being here.  At least at 3:20 am, when
+this stuff grates on me the most.
+ 
+     Everybody out of the pool.  Somebody's pissed in the water and
+made it uncomfortable for everybody else.
+ 
+     Either way...I'm outta this thread.  Let the cowards and the
+crybabies yell into a vacuum.  I really don't give a shit anymore.
+ 
+     I'm tired.
+ 
+                                            jms (3:20 a.m.)
+
+Subject: JMS: Kosh Neranek?
+Date: 15 Mar 1995 00:35:15 -0500
+
+     The full name is given in "And Now for a Word," later this season.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS:UPN's got a show called BA
+Date: 15 Mar 1995 00:35:28 -0500
+
+     We're definitely aware of Paramount's attempt to launch a show called
+BABYLON on the bulk of the same stations that carry Babylon 5, which would
+result in confusion and take advantage of our rep to date.  We're getting
+into it.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Will you write one n
+Date: 15 Mar 1995 00:35:42 -0500
+
+     A detailed novel down the road, when the series is finished, is
+certainly a possibility...but right now, tired as I am, nearing the end
+of this season, it sounds about as appealing as a high colonic.  I also
+think sometimes that if I do my job right, there shouldn't be the need
+for books later; on the other hand, there's mounds of stuff I've never
+used from my notes.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Middle names?  *chu
+Date: 15 Mar 1995 00:35:55 -0500
+
+     Jeffrey Sinclair's middle name (as noted in "Sky") was/is David.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Attn: JMS  -  THANKS
+Date: 15 Mar 1995 00:41:04 -0500
+
+     Thanks....
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Subject: UK: Inconsistent critics
+Date: 15 Mar 1995 00:41:20 -0500
+
+     The turn-around of the critics that we're starting to see does seem
+to indicate that evolution continues in the world around us.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS: Guide/Book (was: re
+Date: 15 Mar 1995 02:51:08 -0500
+
+      Thing is...we add new viewers every week (ratings increase when
+you add viewers) and they tend to stay...and I don't think I've ever seen
+more than six notes from people who said they had to kind of catch up to
+follow the story.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Re: Call To Ignore
+Date: 15 Mar 1995 02:38:05 -0500
+
+     Kate: sleep?   What's sleep?
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Re: Loved your Debra/Thoron ra
+Date: 15 Mar 1995 02:56:03 -0500
+
+     I'm posting this here because this conversation has just gotten
+even uglier, and I felt this should be mentioned right now as it's
+happening.
+ 
+     I have today received two pieces of email indicating that, in
+addition to threatening to write to Warner Bros. to try and shut me up,
+Deborah Fuller has now contacted her university administration on the
+premise that my comments to here in all of my public messages (I have
+never sent her private mail) constitute sexual harrassment.  She is
+apparently hoping to use the university as leverage in bringing a
+complaint against Warner Bros., or suing, or who knows what.
+ 
+     (My suspicion is that she's using the message in which I tell her
+to drag her ass down to the library and look up the ratings herself as
+the incident of sexual harrassment.)
+ 
+     She seems determined to exercise every untruthful tactic to try and
+destory this conversation by forcing me to withdraw, by direct complaint
+to the studio, to her university, whatever it takes.
+ 
+     Apparently the person to whom the complaint has been filed at the
+university is Cynthia Barnes, CBARNES@SWAN.ADMIN.UIUC.EDU.  All of my
+messages to either Fuller have been here, in full view of everyone.  If
+anyone here would like to write a note telling this person what you've
+seen, this would be terrific.
+ 
+     I've been on the nets since 1985.  This is probably the lowest
+thing I have ever seen, the lowest tactic I have ever seen, to try and
+kill the messenger in a debate that one is losing.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: A Nielsen Family's T
+Date: 15 Mar 1995 03:27:53 -0500
+
+      Interesting comments; and thanks, the support is appreciated.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+Subject: If we knew then... (MotFL)
+Date: 15 Mar 1995 03:28:01 -0500
+
+      I *cannot* tell you how pleased I am that these elements are starting
+to be noticed.  Now you have enough pieces to start seeing the overall
+patterns and pictures.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: JMS: more questions
+Date: 15 Mar 1995 16:30:46 -0500
+
+     The Hour of Scampering is usually around tea-time, according to the
+Vorlon/Human Translation Dictionary.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Re: Loved your Debra/Thoron ra
+Date: 15 Mar 1995 16:32:50 -0500
+
+     I'm told that Cynthia has now received quite a few responses, and
+thus no more may be required at this time so anyone else may want to
+hold off.
+ 
+     As an aside, in another message I glimpsed a question about direct
+response to email from the Fullers not being answered...even though I do
+not have a killfile, I do have to log onto GEnie at 2400 baud because
+that's the line they provide for gratis accounts.  At 2400, I can see
+the address before I see the message.  Thus any time I see that it is
+from either Fuller, I simply hit ESC and delete the message unread.  I
+will continue to do this with any message written by either of them.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Technomages - where from?
+Date: 15 Mar 1995 16:33:09 -0500
+
+     There are technomages on many worlds; the ones in "GoS" were human.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Messages re:  fuller
+Date: 15 Mar 1995 17:00:38 -0500
+
+     I will admit that I am now confused.  I received a letter from Ms.
+Barnes in private mail asking about charges of harrassment.  I received
+a second message from John Ford copying his response to Ms. Barnes re:
+charges of harrassment.  Now she says charges haven't been filed.  I
+have absolutely no understanding of what's going on, I only passed along
+what had been sent to me.  Perhaps John can further illuminate this.  I
+will confess to being an Internet newbie, and thus sometimes easily
+confused by the system and its parts and pieces, but this seemed to me
+very straightforward.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS:How do Vorlons Scampe
+Date: 16 Mar 1995 01:03:51 -0500
+
+     The Vorlons do not scamper terribly well, but no one has yet told
+them this.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: ship types/classes
+Date: 16 Mar 1995 01:04:09 -0500
+
+     We won't be seeing many new EA big ships this year, but next year,
+oh, yeah.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: B5 episodes on Videotape/lasre
+Date: 16 Mar 1995 01:04:26 -0500
+
+      According to what I was told the other day by someone with WB
+distribution, the tapes should be coming out sometime in the next month
+(for the first season).
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: And Now for a Word??
+Date: 16 Mar 1995 01:06:19 -0500
+
+     "And Now" was not deferred; it'll be the 2nd new episode up.  "The
+Customer is Always Right" was deferred when I learned that ST had done an
+episode along similar themes.  Once I can figure out how to adjust it,
+maybe it'll be revived.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subject: JMS: B5 to be picked up by FOX
+Date: 16 Mar 1995 01:06:37 -0500
+
+     There are no plans for Fox, and there have never been any
+discussions with Fox about picking up B5.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS    DC COMICS 4 Story
+Date: 16 Mar 1995 01:35:12 -0500
+
+     Laura Hitchcock at DC and I have discussed it, and I'd like to do a
+four-issue arc, and she'd like to have me do it, so it'll probably
+happen.
+ 
+     I'm playing with the notion of doing the story as a backgrounder;
+one probability is setting the story during the start of the Earth
+Minbari war, to show how that all got started.  Is there any other
+piece of B5 background that we've touched upon in the series (no new
+story ideas) that folks might like to see elucidated?  (The next cycle
+will show how Garibaldi and Sinclair met.)
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: HEY JMS: I Like the Show
+Date: 16 Mar 1995 05:24:44 -0500
+
+     Thanks.  I'm less than ecstatic over the reruns myself....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Is next week a new e
+Date: 16 Mar 1995 19:18:57 -0500
+
+     New eps starting end of April.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Does the title sequence keep c
+Date: 16 Mar 1995 19:27:24 -0500
+
+     Yes, there were a series of continuing modifications to the main title
+sequence throughout the first third or so of the new second season
+episodes.  My sense is that just because it's being broadcast is no reason
+to just drop it if you're not ecstatic.  I wasn't; I felt some things could
+still be improved, whether or not anyone else ever noticed.  We also did
+revisions to reflect changes in the show, moving Ivanova and Keffer up in
+rank, for instance.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATT:JMS Titles and full names
+Date: 16 Mar 1995 19:27:39 -0500
+
+     The screen actors guild has rules about putting characters like Kosh
+in the main credits, since it's not really human; voice credits can't go
+up front.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: JMS> B-Squared's "mythical" st
+Date: 16 Mar 1995 21:01:35 -0500
+
+     Actually, the story of B4 has been rerun; it's the viewers who've
+vanished mysteriously.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: RATINGS RATINGS RATINGS RATING
+Date: 16 Mar 1995 21:03:35 -0500
+
+     Ratings always fluctuate from week to week; but in general we're
+between the two figures you cite, 4.6 and 5.0 or 5.1, which is up overall
+from last season, where we tended to average a 4.1 or 4.3.  There is a
+constant, slow growth as the show gains viewers mainly through word of
+mouth.
+ 
+     The fundamental issue here boils down to one very basic fact: PTEN
+gets the ratings.  If the ratings are good, we'll be renewed.  If the
+ratings are not, we won't.  Simple as that.
+ 
+     Last season at this time, I put the odds of renewal at about 50/50.
+And I encouraged viewers to write their stations and Warner Bros. the
+closer we got to pickup.  Right now, I'd place the odds at 70/30, which
+is very good.  I am cautiously optimistic; sometimes shows can get
+canceled for the damndest reasons, and you never really know which way
+the blade is going to cut...nonetheless, I think we're okay, which is
+why I haven't gone out of my way to urge a lot of letters or email.  You
+only want to call out that kind of support occasionally, if and when
+really needed, otherwise it becomes trivialized by over-use.  You
+should only impose rarely.
+ 
+     We'll know our fate for year three by the end of April.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS    DC COMICS 4 S
+Date: 16 Mar 1995 21:29:59 -0500
+
+     Dennis: definitely did NOT ask for story ideas, and specified such
+in my original post.  I was wondering what elements that *have already been
+introduced* as backstory people would like to see expanded upon in a
+comic.  Nothing more.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS : A few points
+Date: 18 Mar 1995 00:18:35 -0500
+
+     PTEN's fate has not been put on hold; the renewal is coming up same
+as last year, in late April.
+ 
+     There's no one escaping Deathwalker's ship; it's just debris spinning
+away.  She's dead as a mackeral.
+ 
+     We'll be notified directly by our PTEN liaison when the decision on
+pickup is made.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Bruce not going? VUL
+Date: 18 Mar 1995 01:25:41 -0500
+
+     Actually, this is the first time I've heard of this.  I don't often
+go into convention stuff with the cast.  So I really don't quite know what
+to say; I'll delicately inquire, but I honestly do try and stay out of
+stuff the actors do outside work per se, because it's intrusive, and any
+suggestions or reactions sometimes carry more weight than they should
+because they come from one's exec producer.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Babylon vs Babylon 5
+Date: 18 Mar 1995 05:30:12 -0500
+
+     Actually, while many titles cannot be copyrighted, they CAN be
+trademarked, as Babylon 5 is trademarked, and that *can* be enforced.
+ 
+     The "Ghostbusters" story, in brief, is this:  Filmation did a
+live-action kids show with Forrest Tucker (it was really awful) some
+time before Columbia Pictures/Ivan Reitman did their movie.  Both the
+Filmation series and the projected film were called "Ghostbusters,"
+a situation that developed when the title failed to show up on a
+title search.  With the film about to be released, Filmation made a
+considerable stink, and won the rights to a) a lot of cash, and b)
+the right to do an animated series called Ghostbusters.
+ 
+     And, in time, that's exactly what was done, much to the chagrin of
+Columbia/Ivan Reitman.  In turn, they decided to do their OWN animated
+series, and just to pink Filmation, called it "The REAL Ghostbusters."
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Where IS JMS?
+Date: 19 Mar 1995 03:29:18 -0500
+
+     I'm watching you *right now* through your window.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+ 
+      P.S.  Stop that.
+
+Subject: Re: If we knew then... (MotFL)
+Date: 19 Mar 1995 03:53:35 -0500
+
+     Yes, the tatistascope (or whatever the name is), I remember that
+one from I think grade school or thereabouts.  Main reason I remember is
+that I actually scared the hell out of my teacher, and was briefly
+accused of cheating.
+ 
+     They erected the 'scope in the classroom, and showed one word at a
+time, going from small one-syllable words then increasing.  They flashed
+the words in increasingly briefer intervals, two seconds, one second, a
+half a second...fewer and fewer people were able to keep up.  I got all
+the way through to the highest the machine could handle, 1/12th of a
+second, or therabouts.
+ 
+     Next the teacher started going into combinations of words, two or
+three at a time.  People started dropping out faster.  Again, I stuck
+with it to the end.  The teacher began to wonder what the hell was going
+on.  (This was at a time when I'd learned that if you acted smart, you
+got beat up, so I was deliberatly holding back on my grades and tests to
+skate through in the middle ranks.)  But here I kinda figured it was a
+game, and didn't equate it.  So I just went on to see how far I could
+push it.
+ 
+     She kept expanding the length of the sentence.  I was finally able
+to hit 2 and 1/2 lines at 1/12th of a second before she stopped and
+said I was to stay after class.  I was accused (in front of the vice
+principal) of cheating, having looked at the sheets of lines somehow,
+because this was at or above college level ability.  The vice principal
+at first wouldn't believe me, but I finally managed to convince him to
+pick other material and I'd try again.  Reluctantly, he did it, going
+right to the full-sentence stuff.
+ 
+     Same result.  And the look on the teacher's face as she realized I
+wasn't cheating was quite...remarkable.
+ 
+     Oddly enough, this has served me in small ways lately.  Sometimes
+in the later stages of post-production, when the final print has been
+assembled by the super-computer, every so often a glitch will happen
+and one random or wrong frame will get stuck somewhere, or you'll have
+a single frame of black between a CGI sequence and a live-action
+sequence.  We're talking here 1/24th of a second.  I almost always
+catch these.  I did this once during one of our audio mixes and the
+guys running the board couldn't believe it, and ran the film back to
+make sure I wasn't messing with them.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Subject: The Third Age and The Coming o
+Date: 19 Mar 1995 04:18:53 -0500
+
+     Melody/Big Cat:
+ 
+     Your message is smarter and more perceptive than you know.
+ 
+     And you know a lot.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: "New Age" jms?  >:-)>
+Date: 19 Mar 1995 04:23:41 -0500
+
+     I take great pains to a) treat religion with respect while b) not
+advancing any one specific creed or belief in the process.  I've been
+accused (in this forum) of advancing the cause of Judaism; now I'm told
+I'm advancing New Age philosophy; I've heard other opinions.
+ 
+     I have no interest in doing *any* of these things, and anyone who
+perceives an agenda where none exists may be extrapolating from their
+OWN personal beliefs and agendas.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Talia, the Rumors Continue
+Date: 19 Mar 1995 04:30:21 -0500
+
+     I don't think *anyone* should flame Deneuve over this, since this
+is something that the actress has been quoted as saying in other
+publications.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS:Babylon 5 Competition
+Date: 19 Mar 1995 04:30:37 -0500
+
+     Okay, if you really want my opinions....
+ 
+     DS9....what I've seen of it just puts me to sleep.
+ 
+     Voyager...good characters, potentially interesting situation, hasn't
+been pushed enough; falling back on the tried and true when, after this
+many Treks, it really has to go balls to the wall.
+ 
+     seaQuest...great potential, wasted.
+ 
+     VR5...interesting possibilities, waiting to see what they do with
+it.
+ 
+     X-Files...absolutely terrific.  In my office in the B5 studio, I have
+one mug.  It's not a B5 mug.  It's an X-files mug.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Re: "New Age" jms?  >:-)>
+Date: 19 Mar 1995 17:29:06 -0500
+
+     Basically, the term New Age has been adopted as an appellation used
+by some of the fundamentalist right to describe anything they don't happen
+to agree with.  And you're correct; much of what is *packaged* as New AGe
+is primarily stuff cobbled up from older beliefs; similarly, there's a
+lot of early Judao/Christian theology that's cobbled up from Zoroastrian
+and Roman and Greek myths as well.  Everything's tied to everything else.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Re: TNG v Bab 5
+Date: 19 Mar 1995 17:54:47 -0500
+
+     Y'know, this discussion is as essentially dopey as "Which would win
+in a fight, Superman or Mighty Mouse?"
+ 
+     (And, of course, this whole "who would win?" go-round is dependent
+upon the notion that this would take place during that one fraction of a
+second in which the crew hasn't been turned into children, or the
+dilithium crystals haven't decayed, or the ship's got a skeleton crew and
+is running on automation, or the holodeck's taken command of the ship,
+or...well, you get the idea.)
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: rest of season.
+Date: 19 Mar 1995 17:54:58 -0500
+
+     I think we've got about 9 or so episodes left to air; I don't think
+that there will be the delay in the last ep this year as last time, but
+that's a PTEN decision of which I haven't yet been advised.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Re: Tolkien references
+Date: 19 Mar 1995 18:03:28 -0500
+
+     For me, the concept of the Rangers isn't tied to Norris; that isn't
+the reference I was talking about.  Being on that show, I kinda had to
+look into the history of the Texas rangers in general, and being the
+curious kind of guy I am, I widened out into the Army Rangers, and other
+sorts.  I'd been looking for a kind of name to attach to this group, and
+the more I thought about it, the more it fit.
+ 
+     As far as the costume is concerned...it's not medeival based; if you
+look at the ranger's outfit, than go look at a Minbari warrior outfit,
+you will discover a LOT of points of comparison.  It was *designed* to
+echo Minbari warrior caste clothes, to reflect the fact that these two
+sides are working together.  Go fire up "Legacies" and look at his
+uniform, then look at the ranger.  You'll see the similarities in
+silhouette and line in various places.
+ 
+     Of course I've read and enjoyed Tolkein.  But as I've said, I have
+no interest in doing LoTR with the serial numbers filed off.  I've
+dropped references to it in dialogue, but the structure of the story has
+nothing whatsoever to do with LoTR.  Basically, a lot of people have come
+up and said, "Oh, this is the same as Foundation," or "This is the same
+as LoTR," or "This echoes a lot of Dune," or "This is obviously a
+Homeric tale," or "There's a lot of Star WArs here."  It uses the same
+tools as all mythic structure fiction uses.  Hence it resonates.  But I
+didn't sit there and think, "Hmm...Gandalf left, so I'll have Sinclair
+leave."  That's just plain silly.
+ 
+     It's really a matter of what you bring to the table, that affects
+what you see in the story.
+ 
+     The roots of the symbolism and structure of B5 go back a hell of a
+lot longer than this.  Here...I'll give you one free.
+ 
+     G'Kar is in many ways my Cassandra figure, who in the Greek tales
+was granted the gift of prophecy...all the disasterous things she
+predicted would come true...but she was cursed by the gods that NO ONE
+would ever believe her.  And later, when the war was at its height,
+she ended up in the service of.....
+ 
+     Okay, five points to the person who can supply that answer, and see
+the connection.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS--Re: B4's fate?
+Date: 20 Mar 1995 05:21:01 -0500
+
+      You may tell your friend that this is the most nutso theory I've
+ever heard.  Nothing was stolen.  It's part of the story.
+ 
+                                                    jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS - Publish B5 bible?
+Date: 20 Mar 1995 05:37:34 -0500
+
+     It's something I've considered, but frankly, that's 3 years down the
+road, and a bit beyond my ken at the moment.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Subject: SACRAMENTO! PERMANENT TIME CHA
+Date: 20 Mar 1995 05:39:08 -0500
+
+     And if Sacramento has offered an open invitation to folks to write
+in about the time change, then I very strongly second this; it may be a
+way of seeing if folks *really* want it or not, and if they get enough
+support, perhaps it WILL become permanent.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: * JMS (or Anyone):  RATINGS QU
+Date: 20 Mar 1995 15:30:50 -0500
+
+     I believe the ratins for the week you cite were a Voyager re-run,
+so the actual first-runs tend to be higher.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Influence
+Date: 20 Mar 1995 16:07:56 -0500
+
+     I don't believe, or recall, ever asking the net to go after someone.
+As far as I know, I have never done that and never will do that; if there
+is a need from someone for information, or support, then sure, I'll say,
+"Listen, if you have time, and you believe in the project then..." and
+let it go.
+ 
+     Do others flame because I flame?  Monkey-see, monkey-do?  The whole
+reason I got into this last contretemps (stupidly, in retrospect) was I
+read one of the threads I normally stay away from, in which I came across
+the individuals in question...and there were flames racing back and forth
+already.  This particular flame war, to varying degrees, was going on
+long before I got involved with it again.  And persists now that I've left
+it, AND asked that people simply ignore them and not respond.  If I have
+the power you suggest -- and I don't for a moment believe I do -- then
+all and sundry would have followed that suggestion.  Hasn't happened.
+ 
+     (Also, I tend to think that people are responsible for their own
+actions.  If someone is bringing down the fury of the net, they should
+look at their own behavior and be corrected on it.  It's the classic
+schoolyard scenario of hitting the kid who hit *back*.)
+ 
+     Generally, my response is proportionate to the message.  I try to
+deal even with the offensive messages with some measure of rationality.
+But there comes a point where someone behaves in such a sleazy fashion
+that only a tactical nuke can suffice.
+ 
+     You say it can be "vulgar."  These are perfectly valid anglo saxon
+terms.  If colorful language was good enough for Shakespeare, it's good
+enough for me.  "Vulgar" is a word people often use when they don't like
+forthrightness...we should be mealy mouthed and hide our feelings behind
+layers of BS.  Mark Twain was described as a "vulgar" writer.  So was
+Dickens, believe it or not.  Picasso's work was called vulgar.  So that
+word means nothing to me.
+ 
+     I calls 'em as I sees 'em.  If I'm forthright about what happens in
+the business, the network, the show...why should I start censoring
+myself when it comes to the nets?
+ 
+     There's also a certain element of netspeak that enters into this;
+in general, it seems like it's okay to smear somebody, to lie about
+somebody, to question someone's integrity, particularly if it's done
+without vulgar language, just the sharp blade of innuendo...but it's NOT
+okay for the subject of this to get upset about it.  To get ANGRY about
+it.  Even when it's justified.
+ 
+     Finally (and I know this may read intemperate at times, but it's not
+intended as a flame) I'm nobody's role model.  Nor should I be.  If
+anything I should be taken as a warning to anyone sensible NOT to go the
+way I go, because the path ain't worth the pain.  I'm a loose cannon.  I
+don't know when to shut the hell up.  And I think that the population of
+this net is sharp enough, and hip enough, and
+intelligent enough and common-sensical enough to KNOW that; I just don't
+think there's much problem here with "let's do what Joe's doing because
+Joe's doing it."  The problem is that some people knowingly and
+deliberately go out of their way to make other people *crazy*...and thus
+reap the whirlwind.  I can just barely manage to be accountable for my
+OWN nutty behavior let alone be held responsible for the actions of
+others on EITHER side of this.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS:  Do you watch the s
+Date: 20 Mar 1995 21:05:09 -0500
+
+     I always watch the show when it's first broadcast, and usually in
+the reruns if I happen to be home, to make sure the audio and video
+aspects are still correct (and someday that'll happen).  As I "am"
+Babylonian Prods. (co-owner with Doug), I get copies of the tapes
+automatically, and as a terrible act of self-sacrifice, I've volunteered
+to receive the first set of pre-release laserdisks to check them out,
+do all the usual quality control.  When they come out for real, I'll
+probably buy a set.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Re: "New Age" jms?  >:-)>
+Date: 20 Mar 1995 21:34:03 -0500
+
+     David Falk: yes, I'm sure this is what you have been taught in
+church, but that you were taught it doesn't mean that it touches reality
+at any two contiguous points.  It is imperative for many branches of
+fundamentalist christianity to constantly feel conspired against...so
+they cite humanist manifestos and theosophical societies and concoct
+these vast and dark organizations that exist nowhere but in the minds of
+those who conceive these theories.
+ 
+     "New Age" is one of these notions.  Basically, it's anything that is
+not Christianity, except satanism, though the phrase "new age occultism"
+sometimes blurs that line.  Here we've got dozens and dozens of different
+groups, maybe even hundreds, all with competing notions, all with certain
+levels of antagonism toward one another...described by you as a specific
+religious movment with similar systems, concocted through a "content
+model developed by the theosophical society, one of the early mind
+science cults."
+ 
+     Having now so defined it as a deliberate conspiracy, and part of a
+cult out to control our minds, you can dismiss it, AND add into it
+anything you choose.  And this is exactly what happens.  You say you
+don't agree or like my saying that this gets done by fundamentalists, then
+you turn *right* around and do it yourself.
+ 
+     Once again, I don't believe a word the new age groups or any other
+group puts forth.  Nor am I tarring fundamentalist groups.  I'm simply
+saying out loud and in public what's generally said in private among
+the majority of fundamentalist groups.  That tends to make some of them
+upset.  Like when you confront them on the school prayer issue; and you
+pare it down to the notion that they want THEIR prayers prayed, that
+they don't want a prayer to the great turtle on whose back the world
+rests, or to Thor, or Zeus, or Mammon, or Mohammed, or Buddha.
+ 
+     Having read the bible cover to cover twice, I can sometimes only
+conclude that Christ would be *profoundly* unhappy with many of the things
+said and done in his name.  He didn't like people to make specatacles of
+prayer and devotion.  Remember the suggestion to go into your closet to
+pray?  That only the hippocrites and pharisees make big deals of their
+belief by dragging it out into the public places?  Christians were urged
+to lay not your hands upon the law, to keep separate from the state, to
+offer to Caesar that which was Caesar's and to god that which was god's;
+because the state was by its very nature corrupt, christians were told to
+keep apart from it.  I think he would be ashamed, and disgraced, at the
+notion of christian theme parks and the transition of personal belief
+into big business.
+ 
+     (Misspelled hypocrites and spectacles above.  Pretend they were
+spelled correctly and we'll move on.)
+ 
+     There is much of christianity to commend it; its emphasis on faith,
+and charity, and devotion to others...and there is also much that works
+against it, a tendency toward brittleness and persecution complexes and
+vindictiveness and the tendency to portray anything that is not itself
+as evil or satanic or a conspiracy...and a huge dollop of defensiveness.
+You can find fundamentalists on both sides of this division.  It's just
+that to some, if you speak this way about a part, you are accused of
+speaking this way about *all*.  But I don't fall for that gag; I've
+seen it too many times.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Re: Comments on AOL Transcript
+Date: 21 Mar 1995 04:02:23 -0500
+
+     The ellipses at the ends of various lines in my AOL interview were
+only standard notations that more was coming in the sentence on the next
+coming line; nothing more.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: "The Great Maker"
+Date: 22 Mar 1995 01:46:44 -0500
+
+     By season's end, you will see Kosh.  You will know where the shadows
+come from.  There will be a major development in the war.  How's that
+for a start?
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Re: B5's effect on DS9
+Date: 22 Mar 1995 02:30:02 -0500
+
+     I agree that our show isn't a threat to any ST show, though Paramount
+has certainly evidenced that it feels that way, from getting Stephen Furst
+bumped off the Arsenio Hall show when it was still on because of his B5
+connection, to pressuring one of the directors we'd hired (who mainly does
+ST episodes) to get out of his contract (which we allowed to keep him out
+of trouble), to making a new show called BABYLON which will air on nearly
+all the same stations that air Babylon 5, to...well, the list goes on.
+ 
+     We have, apparently, had the effect of changing ST's vow never to do
+CGI, and in fact they've hired the same group we use to do some CGI
+effects for DS9 (ships and the like).
+ 
+     Glad to see that they are following our lead.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Re: "New Age" jms?  >:-)>
+Date: 22 Mar 1995 03:02:30 -0500
+
+     There is considerable historical evidence that crucifixion was
+practiced as a means of punishment by the Romans toward the Jews at the
+time in question (though the methodology varied considerably from some
+of the accounts; a nail driven through the hand would be torn off fairly
+quickly by the weight of the body; ropes were commonly used as the main
+support, with spikes for...emphasis).  Certainly one can infer, even from
+the limited evidence, that someone bearing this name was indeed
+nailed up.  Whether he was a deity or simply a very good man with some
+very good ideas which have gotten somewhat distorted in places...is kind
+of the essential question.  I tend to go with the latter.  But that's
+just me.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Attn:JMS- UK order of shows.
+Date: 22 Mar 1995 03:02:48 -0500
+
+     Originally, "Soul Mates" was intended to be broadcast after "A Race
+Through Dark Places."  ARTDP required a rather substantial amount of
+post production work and audio design; "Mates" did not.  Rather than
+rush "Race," we decided it was okay to air those two in reverse order.
+If they have aired with "Race" first in the UK, then yes, it's different
+than the US order, but it *is* the correct production and story order.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS: Influence
+Date: 22 Mar 1995 03:09:20 -0500
+
+     I repeat and stand by my original message: I have never asked anyoned
+(anyone) to go after anyone else here.  You (Jim Shupe) cite the Cynthia
+message, but that was a request for *support* in what looked like a bad
+situation coming; there was NO request for anyone to flame anybody in my
+message.  You're comparing apples and oranges.
+ 
+     "would you use such language directed at a person in front of a group
+of 1st graders?"
+ 
+     Probably not.  But the people assembled here aren't first graders.
+First graders aren't on the nets.  First graders can't read generally.  So
+why should I limit my language and information and messages to the first
+grade level?
+ 
+     Sounds like lowest common denominator programming to me.
+ 
+     I understand your concerns, Jim, but the minute this forum turns into
+a medium for free and untrammeled exchanges for everyone EXCEPT me, I'm
+outta here.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Quickies from JMS
+Date: 22 Mar 1995 03:34:59 -0500
+
+     As I write this we are now just under one month away from finishing
+filming on year two.  Last day of shooting is April 20th.  I have now
+written 14.5 episodes out of 22, and should have the very last script
+for this season (#15 for me personally) done by late next week.  By the
+end of April we should know whether or not we have been renewed.  We are
+now hip deep in pursuing that goal.
+ 
+     This time of season is much akin to that moment in "The Pit and the
+Pendulum" where the swinging blade is about 1/15th of an inch from the
+chest of our unwitting protagonist, and the rats are chewing at his bonds,
+and there's some small debate about which set of teeth is going to hit
+flesh first.
+ 
+     Consequently...for the next 30 days, you might find me more than
+usually intemperate.  More bluntly, expect to find me tired, irritable
+and generally, garden-variety cranky.  I'm getting 3-4 hours sleep per
+night, and upon arriving at the B5 offices I look rather like a death row
+inmate walking the last mile...which is about the standard look on anyone
+running a show this time of year.
+ 
+     I will continue to try and moderate my replies, but if an unintended
+edge creeps into the phosphor dots crawling across your screen...you'll
+know whence it comes.
+ 
+     Or to quote the Terminator...."I need a vacation."
+ 
+     Item the second:
+ 
+     Tomorrow, Wednesday, at 8:00 p.m. in most markets airs a wonderful
+stop-motion piece called "The Wrong Trousers" on PBS.  Story in brief:
+a man and his dog take in a penguin as a boarder...and the story take a
+funny/dark turn worthy of a Hitchcock movie.  It's simply the best thing
+I've ever seen in this medium, and encourage everyone to watch.
+Absolutely hysterical, and wonderfully done.
+ 
+     Item the third:
+ 
+     To allow for more time to finish the EFX work and some audio work,
+we'll probably reverse the first few episodes and start with "There All
+the Honor Lies" at the end of April, and spring "And Now for a Word" as
+the first true May sweeps episode.
+ 
+     As you were....
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: JMS's vast mug collection
+Date: 22 Mar 1995 15:39:11 -0500
+
+      Actually, yes, there are B5 mugs available from Creation, at cons
+and via mail order.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS Re: "The Great Maker
+Date: 22 Mar 1995 15:39:39 -0500
+
+     It's very hard to just sit back and enjoy the show.  I'm always
+looking at it critically....what did we do right, what did we do wrong,
+is this the best angle *really*, should this music cue have started five
+frames sooner, why is there a little glitch in the doorframe behind the
+character, why did I write "the" instead of "a," what can I learn from
+this to apply toward future shows...you can go mad.
+ 
+     In general, I have to watch an episode (after it's finished) ten to
+fifteen times minimum before I can actually *see* it as a whole, more or
+less as a viewer.  Which means it often takes a couple-three years before
+I can truly appreciate it.
+ 
+     (This is true of just about anything I write for TV, btw.)
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: JMS: How old is Psi Corp?
+Date: 22 Mar 1995 21:36:29 -0500
+
+     Telepaths were finally and conclusively proven to exist around the
+early 2100s; by about 2120 or 30 the Psi Corps was formalized and became
+a branch of the government.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Re: "New Age" jms?  >:-)>
+Date: 22 Mar 1995 22:06:58 -0500
+
+     I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as
+soon as scholars begin teaching darwinism and geometry in church.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Rogue telepath in aR
+Date: 22 Mar 1995 22:07:25 -0500
+
+     Yes, this was deliberately the same character from "Chrysalis."
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS's vast mug collection
+Date: 22 Mar 1995 22:07:47 -0500
+
+     I think it would be just about impossible to put Kosh on the outside
+of a mug.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Att'n JMS Re: Influences, Sand
+Date: 22 Mar 1995 22:21:29 -0500
+
+     Have never, in my entire life, seen an episode of the Sandbaggers.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Influence
+Date: 22 Mar 1995 22:22:03 -0500
+
+     Jay...on one level, I understand what you're saying, in theory at
+any rate.  Maybe it's because I still don't really take myself very
+seriously that I have a fundamental hard time with the notion of becoming
+a POP (Person Of Power).  It seems, I dunno, kinda goofy.
+ 
+     So I'm still not really convinced that I have it; or, having it, that
+I would *want* it.  It's sort of like the statement, "If nominated I will
+not run, if elected I will not serve."
+ 
+     The only thing that truly matters to me is that the work survive, and
+that the work receive the attention it deserves because of the hard work
+by so many talented people that goes into it...and to tell a story.  As for
+me...ehh.  I figure I'm doing good if I can just dress myself....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: JMS:  Only 7 basic stories?
+Date: 23 Mar 1995 01:52:25 -0500
+
+     What I've always been taught is that there are three basic stories:
+man vs. man, man vs. himself, man vs. environment.  But such distinctions
+are false and fairly misleading; they generalize but do not perceive.
+ 
+     There are as many stories as there are people.  If you take someone's
+life and spin it out in a book or a movie, it's 100% different from the
+life of the person across town.  If you base your stories simply on plot,
+then sure, you're going to run into problems.  If you base your story on
+character, and make your characters distinct, this problem doesn't occur.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS do you ever get frea
+Date: 23 Mar 1995 02:03:15 -0500
+
+     "Do you ever think, `My god, what have I started?'"
+ 
+     Who has time?  (And why does this make me think of a Talking Heads
+song?)
+ 
+     The job of a story is to be seen by others.  If no one ever sees it
+it does not fulfill its purpose.  I generally don't really look at this
+as personal approbation, rather as a sense that the story has been seen,
+and it's good enough that people enjoy discussing it and arguing over it
+and debating it.  Which is the point: to initiate discussion.  If it does
+that, than I can't be anything other than deleriously happy.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Season Two Opening i
+Date: 23 Mar 1995 05:30:14 -0500
+
+     We'll probably keep whichever opening was originally associated with
+the episode, just to simplify things.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: "New Age" jms?  >:-)>
+Date: 23 Mar 1995 05:34:06 -0500
+
+     Here's the irony in this whole discussion: one of the friendly crew
+members on B5 named Eric came up to me at lunch and said, paraphrasing
+from memory, "I really want to thank you for what's in the show, the last
+few in particular [stuff that won't air until the next batch]; I'm a
+Christian too, and it's good to see someone else who believes the same
+way actually getting good christian messages out there about prayer and
+faith."
+ 
+     At which point I gently explained that I was an atheist...and he just
+kinda looked at me, as if I'd just grown three heads and feathers.  Later,
+he stopped by my office, citing another line used in the show before and
+echoed again in something we'd just shot ("You should be careful what you
+ask for, because sometimes the universe listens") and repeated his initial
+thesis, perhaps in the belief that this time I'd cop to being a christian.
+Nope.  But we've had some good conversations about it.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: Re: "New Age" jms?  >:-)>
+Date: 23 Mar 1995 06:08:50 -0500
+
+     Eric R: very well reasoned and thought out; a good message, and a
+good approach.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Religion Threads
+Date: 23 Mar 1995 16:03:54 -0500
+
+     What I find vastly rewarding is the fact that in general, religion
+is one of those things that you either don't discuss on boards, or you
+get into vast, massive, heated and vituperative flame wars that make
+Carthage look like a tea party.  But here, in general, the topic has been
+able to be discussed and different views aired in a non-accusative
+fashion...not argued, but *discussed*, which I think is nifty.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: JMS: How'd you meet Harlan?
+Date: 23 Mar 1995 22:08:44 -0500
+
+     No, I wasn't involved with "Paladin" or the CBS version of TZ except
+to write one episode (I story edited the syndicated version).  I actually
+met Harlan for the first time on a Writer's Guild picket line outside CBS
+a couple/three years before.  Just exchanged a few words, that's about it.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Subject: Re: male women on b5
+Date: 24 Mar 1995 05:24:29 -0500
+
+     "Would YOU want to have sex with someone who, as you started to go to
+bed, began to tell you light bulb jokes?"
+ 
+     Note to myself: I think I may have discovered the problem in my
+technique....
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Re: male women on b5
+Date: 24 Mar 1995 05:31:04 -0500
+
+     Al Bell: I suspect that to some extent you are working through some
+issues that don't really have that much to do with Babylon 5.
+ 
+     Bear in mind also that B5 is a fairly controlled environment; you've
+got 24 hour a day access to communications and security.  Also, 95% of the
+people Ivanova has to deal with are subordinates, under her in rank; if
+any of them were to make a move, aside from coming away with one fewer
+hand, that person would be court martialed instantly and spend the next
+several years UNDER the brig.
+ 
+     You portray a universe of "women as victims," and maybe there are
+some elements of your background that may lead you to that sense that
+such has to be or is generally the case.  I think we've victimized
+people enough; women need to stop being victims and stop being afraid.
+ 
+     And I'm not saying that fear is invalid; in our current world, it's
+all too present.  You're talking to someone here who grew up in a familyi
+where wife-beating was common; I've seen such violence up close.  I've
+seen friends who've gone through this.  Which is maybe one reason why I
+chose to allow myself one utopian thought in a fairly dystopian B5
+universe: that in the armed services, and some other areas, it's not
+even a matter of discussion anymore; it just doesn't happen.  Womeen are
+100% equal with men.  A woman is no more likely to be sexually harrassed
+in B5 than a man, depending on how your preferences direct you.
+ 
+     There are damned few women role models who are strong, and capable,
+and intelligent, and witty, and physically able to defend themselves on
+TV.  Everywhere one turns the victim image is propagated; if I have gone
+a bit in the other direction to make a point, and TO point to something
+better, I think that's justified.
+ 
+     Besides, I happen to LIKE strong, capable, intelligent, funny women.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Big Bang Con: Anyone a VIP?
+Date: 24 Mar 1995 05:31:41 -0500
+
+     I would urge anyone considering buying tickets for the B5 stuff to
+hold off.  There are some problems.  I hope to have more specifically to
+say on this in a day or so.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Religion/Religious d
+Date: 24 Mar 1995 15:34:14 -0500
+
+     To your question...as it happens, yes, I'll be doing a four issue
+arc of the comic, writing it throughout May/July, to appear in November.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: EA Seal in Revelations
+Date: 24 Mar 1995 15:38:43 -0500
+
+     What you're seeing is the seal of the President of the Earth Alliance,
+which is a modified version of the EA logo.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: Evolution and prayer in the sc
+Date: 24 Mar 1995 15:39:23 -0500
+
+     Why did I ever, ever, ever, ever mention this topic?
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Subject: From JMS: No B5 at Big Bang
+Date: 24 Mar 1995 16:42:18 -0500
+
+     This is a very hard message to write, but it has to be said, now,
+before the error compounds itself further.
+ 
+     Several weeks ago, a number of us -- me, Claudia, Mira and Michael --
+flew out to Chicago for a "dry run" of sorts for the Big Bang, held at
+Planet Hollywood.  It did not go well; there were many problems behind the
+scenes, which we worked to keep the fans from seeing: logistical,
+organizational, and other problems.  Our experience was that the whole
+exercise was poorly run, and there were other concerns raised about how
+business was being done.
+ 
+     Upon returning, I have said very little about the whole event, and
+sent Tom Christofferson a 4 page fax detailing the items that worried me
+about how things were being run, and indicated that unless things changed
+rather dramatically, neither I nor my cast could support this operation,
+because in the end it was the fans who would be hurt.
+ 
+     Subsequent to that came the capper.
+ 
+     Tom approached us about licensing a product: high quality leather
+jackets in rememberance of the Battle of the Line.  He requested the
+original artwork for all the Battle of the Line patches, which we have
+never given to anyone else.  The purpose was to make ONE demo jacket
+to show to Warners Licensing to show how it would look.
+ 
+     So you can imagine my dismay when I learned, over this system, in
+messages posted by others, that he was selling the jackets (which had
+NOT been licensed) at Vulkon; selling the patches; that he had taken
+artwork provided for use only as backdrops at the convention and had
+turned them into posters and was selling the posters.  People buying the
+posters and other material were told, and was even printed on them, that
+all proceeds were to benefit the Starfury Project, which had never been
+finalized, no arrangements had been made...buying these items on the
+assumption that they were contributing to a worthy cause.  They weren't.
+ 
+     This is not only a violation of copyright, but a violation of trust,
+on top of the other concerns we had about the convention.  Warner Bros.
+Legal Affairs is already onto this.  We didn't know he was doing this,
+he had no right to be doing this, and this is, as they say,the straw
+that breaks the camel's back.
+ 
+     Consequently, we must withdraw all support from this convention;
+neither I nor anyone else involved with Babylon 5 will attend.  If you
+were planning to attend specifically to see Babylon 5 folks, then I
+strongly suggest you secure a refund or change your plans.
+ 
+     All of us here are bitterly disappointed, because until our first
+trip we had great hopes for this.  Primarily, however, we are
+disappointed and saddened for the fans of the show, who were looking
+forward to this as much as we were.  A lot of people were very excited
+about it, ourselves included.  But once again the theory is proven that
+sometimes things that look too good to be true often are.  It is my
+feeling that, even the pirating aside, the convention would be a total
+disaster, and in the end the fans would be the ones hurt by it, and we
+can't allow that.
+ 
+     With great regrets....
+ 
+                                            J. Michael Straczynski
+
+Subject: JMS: The Centauri Emperor's la
+Date: 24 Mar 1995 20:02:53 -0500
+
+     He meant "you two" as in Londo and Refa.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Totally Unrelated to
+Date: 24 Mar 1995 21:13:43 -0500
+
+     (If one longs to have a book like Elfquest, does that make one guilty
+of Pini envy?)
+ 
+     The Pinis indicated they don't want synopses uploaded, so that's out,
+and my memory isn't what it used to be, if it ever was.  What I *do*
+remember is that we tried to keep the new stories in line with what had
+gone before, and were going into an overall story that would complement
+what was being done in the comics.  I vaguely recall that it involved some
+members of the Holt disappearing, and a quest being launched to find them.
+ 
+     We kept the characters the same as in the books, the language, the
+maturity...which is why the Pinis loved it...and which is why CBS finally
+passed.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: B5 and Big Bang stuff
+Date: 26 Mar 1995 00:35:38 -0500
+
+     Matt...you would be well advised to stay out of the middle of this,
+because you're being used.  To address some of your points:
+ 
+     1) It is NOT common practice to take orders for items that you do
+not have the license to sell.  This is a breach of the law.
+ 
+     2) Patches *were* purchased, people here have bought them.  This is
+a breach of the law.
+ 
+     3) Posters wrongfully adapted from provided material were sold.  This
+is a breach of the law.  There was NO understanding at any point that this
+was agreed to for the Starfury deal.
+ 
+     4) CMC does NOT have signed contracts with all the B5 personnel,
+myself included.  Neither have many of them been given any kind of
+advance.
+ 
+     A Force For Good does not misrepresent contracts.  Does not sell
+goods that it does not have the right to sell.  Does not tell you that
+it's understood that material provided is there ONLY for one-time use in
+making a demo -- which was stated to me, and John Copeland, and others --
+and then turn right around and start making bunches of them and selling
+them, without telling anyone, and at first *denying* it when confronted.
+ 
+     Further, remember that this comes as the culmination of OTHER
+concerns raised during the Chicago visit.  It was my feeling, upon
+returning from that visit, that CMC did not have the wherewithal or the
+capacity to deliver upon its promises, and that the convention would be
+a total disaster.  It was that concern which prompted my lengthy fax to
+CMC.
+ 
+     I could go down the list of things that went wrong behind the scenes
+of the first visit, but it would again require four pages.  Understand
+clearly: every single one of us returned to LA *very* worried about how
+things were being handled.  CMC had a lot of ideas, but it seemed to all of
+us that they didn't have the ability or the organization to pull off those
+ideas.  The rest was icing on the cake.
+ 
+     Please, everyone, don't get into the middle of this; this is now
+in lawyer territory.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Re: From JMS: No B5 at Big Ban
+Date: 27 Mar 1995 16:08:54 -0500
+
+     To Kent Lucas: I just wanted to add how pleased everyone was at the
+friendliness of the folks at Capricon, and that the brief time in the film
+room was a real highlight for us.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Subject: From jms: B5 Soundtrack Info
+Date: 27 Mar 1995 17:16:41 -0500
+
+     Elena has already posted some of this, but since it probably got lost
+in the recent confusion....
+ 
+     While Christopher Franke's new and expanded BABYLON 5 SOUNDTRACK
+is being released later next month, it's possible to order it NOW from
+Sonic Images, Chris's own company.  Be the first on your block, and all
+that.
+ 
+     There's an additional 12-15 minutes worth of music on this as opposed
+to the original limited release, which sold out its run within a matter of
+weeks.  It has an expanded booklet, more photos, and is gorgeously
+packaged.  (Elena can release a more detailed summary, so watch for her
+message.)
+ 
+     The soundtrack, which contains music from the first, and some from the
+second seasons, has been orchestrated into one long suite, about 52 or so
+minutes.  It's just beautiful.  It also has the first and second season
+main title themes, and the best pieces from our better episodes...including
+something added for just this release, a 4+ minute extended version of his
+haunting theme for the Battle of the Line.
+ 
+     It can be ordered direct *now* from Sonic Images for $13.99 each,
+plus $3 shipping and handling in the US, Canada and Mexico, or $6 S&H
+to all other countries.  Checks/orders can be sent to Sonic Images, P. O.
+Box 691626, West Hollywood, CA 90069.  I'd move quickly, because if the
+limited is any indication, these are going to sell out quickly, and you'll
+avoid a wait later.
+ 
+     It really *is* very cool, folks....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+ 
+     (Only CD release, no cassettes.)
+
+Subject: Re: B5 and Big Bang stuff
+Date: 28 Mar 1995 02:01:22 -0500
+
+     Matt, I have never considered that your motives have ever been other
+than the well being of Babylon 5.
+ 
+     In that respect, we are alike.
+ 
+     One thing to remember is that B5 has developed a very hard-won
+reputation for square dealing, and for taking care of those viewers who
+have chosen to support us.  This comes from the executive producer's
+office.  On anything that uses the B5 name, or which is connected to
+B5, we take great pains to make sure everything's on the up and up, that
+when merchandise goes out, or deals are made, it is done straight-up,
+done properly, and the quality is assured.  Anytime anyone buys anything
+or supports anything involving B5, they have to *know* that it went through
+my hands, that it's been checked out, vetted, and approved not by aides
+but by the people who make the show.  Sometimes that's a pain in the ass,
+but it's the only way of protecting the fans in the long run, and the only
+way I know how to make this show.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Babylon Squared: Who are we fi
+Date: 28 Mar 1995 02:10:52 -0500
+
+      Robert Lynn Rhodes: in return for your good post, here's a gift:
+while we won't see Zathras this season, we will HEAR his name, but not
+from anyone who was on B4.  He's around, but he's not *here*.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Cut bits?
+Date: 28 Mar 1995 04:25:28 -0500
+
+      Every episode is cut to varying degrees; I think there's been
+maybe one out of 42 shot to date that's come out exactly right, without
+anything having to be cut.  (You always err a little on this side
+because the last thing you want is to come out SHORT, which is a major
+pain in the butt, and by the time this is known it's often too late to
+shoot stuff within the timeframe of that episode.)  Generally, you WANT
+an episode to be about 2-4 minutes over, so you can trim and tighten.
+ 
+     Generally speaking, our episodes come in 5-8 minutes over *in the
+director's cut*.  One or two have gone as far as 10 minutes over in that
+cut.  And what's discovered is almost always that there's a lot of air,
+long lingering shots that slow down the pace...my feeling is that 1) it's
+better to have more story than time than more time than story, and 2)
+all our episodes should be edited at a dead run, so tight they scream.
+ 
+     Consequently, while episodes may start out long, and often missing
+scenes deleted by the director, once John Copeland and I go back in and
+start tightening the screws, we almost always get all those scenes BACK
+again, and then I line-cut here and there within scenes.  So with very
+few exceptions, there aren't very many scenes that would've added
+anything that are missing, even from "Revelations."  I think that that
+was one of our longer ones, and we dropped bits here and there, but
+in the long run nothing much really of consequence.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: KCOP changes B5 rerun time
+Date: 28 Mar 1995 04:27:17 -0500
+
+      As well as the KCOP changes, we've heard of other stations moving
+B5 into better timeslots for both first and second run.  As the show
+continues to gain momentum, and gets noticed, we hope to see this trend
+grow.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: A Kosh speculation... higher m
+Date: 28 Mar 1995 04:27:31 -0500
+
+      Just to clarify...I *think* what I said was that you couldn't GET
+Kosh on a mug, not that you couldn't FIT Kosh on a mug....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Blooper for Sale?
+Date: 29 Mar 1995 01:59:41 -0500
+
+     Selling the blooper reel(s) is something we've discussed, but so far
+haven't decided one way or another.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: JMS: what merchandise has been
+Date: 29 Mar 1995 02:03:17 -0500
+
+     Thus far, there are licensed caps, shirts, a soundtrack, an LCD game,
+Micromachines, the comic, the novels from Dell...and soon to come, trading
+cards, a screen saver and some other stuff.  The most common illegal stuff
+tends to be fake Links, patches, pins, PPGs, Starfuries and boarding
+passes.  None of this has been licensed, so if you see it, it ain't legit.
+ 
+     I think this should stay within the purview of the fans, rather than
+sending us constant notification of this.  I don't want people to feel
+obligated to rat this stuff out; that's our problem.  Don't support it,
+but I refuse to turn enjoyable con weekends into exercises in Big
+Brotherism.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+Subject: To JMS Re: Big Bang Expo
+Date: 29 Mar 1995 05:33:08 -0500
+
+     Anne: straight up...do you want me to set aside my beliefs on how
+conventions should be run and just say "the hell with it?"  What if the
+con turns out, as I suspect it would, as a disaster and a disappointment?
+Then what happens to the fans?
+ 
+     The fans are not being punished.  I'm put in mind of "A Comedy of
+Terrors," where Vincent Price keeps trying to slip poison into Boris
+Karloff's soup, saying it's medicine, only to be thwarted by Karloff's
+daughter, who rips the bottle away...and in response, the addled
+Boris bemoans the fact that she keeps taking away his medicine.  And she
+gets the rap.
+ 
+     What makes this show special, and the reason you like it, amon
+others, is that it stems from certain principles and idea.  Are you now
+asking that I set aside that which makes the show what it is?  Because that
+would be the result.  One learns a lot about a person by whom one sleeps
+with.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Artwork for B5 merch
+Date: 29 Mar 1995 20:33:13 -0500
+
+     They are going to be trading cards, not gaming cards, which makes
+the details more or less moot.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: The Big Cat Comes Back
+Date: 30 Mar 1995 02:09:10 -0500
+
+     Melody: marry me.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Spoiling Vorlons for JMS
+Date: 30 Mar 1995 06:04:10 -0500
+
+     I've never been overly worried about Kosh, because though some have
+strayed near, no one has entirely *got it*, so it's cool.  There have been
+one or two stories, small ones, that yes, have been scuttled because
+they've been suggested here, but not too much.  Basically, if I were to
+keep changing directions every time somebody makes a guess, I'd be all over
+the landscape.  You can't tell a story that way.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+Subject: CSICOP = Psi-cop?
+Date: 30 Mar 1995 06:04:20 -0500
+
+     At one point, I did hear CSICOP and like the sound of a variation of
+that, as PsiCop.  So yes, that was part of it.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Sheridan's Speech
+Date: 30 Mar 1995 06:02:23 -0500
+
+     No, it was only omitted as part of collapsing the speech for time.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Subject: JMS: ab fab
+Date: 31 Mar 1995 04:39:00 -0500
+
+     Is this the New York portion of AbFab?  Is it as good as the rest?  I
+wondered if they were going to take the edge off because of the American
+connection.
+ 
+     (Sadly, I will have to deny every being a fan of AbFab the day the
+Roseanne Barr version hits TV.)
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Re: If we knew then... (MotFL)
+Date: 31 Mar 1995 17:37:13 -0500
+
+     Re: parallel visuals between MotFL and CoS...yes, precisely.  In some
+ways, they were set up as mirror-image parallels of one another, to show
+how the wheel turns, to quote G'Kar.  The opening council meeting, the
+attacks, the determination to kill the other, alternately Garibaldi or
+Sheridan having to stop them by calling on the question of consequences if
+followed up on...it shows CoS as sort of the "dark mirror" of the first
+episode.  Everything we saw when we first thought we knew what the series
+was has now totally reversed and been turned on its head.
+ 
+     They also focus on one of the main questions that B5 addreses itself
+to: what is important to you? what are you willing to sacrifice? how far
+are you willing to go to get what you want?  For me, a large measure of
+defining WHO we are is by WHAT we are willing to do, and what we want, and
+the means by which we pursue those goals.  The other theme of course is
+sacrifice, which recurs throughout the show in one form or another.
+ 
+     Sometimes, I think, people get so caught up in what's happening and
+why that they miss what it's *about* on a more cellular level.  And that's
+the question of who we are.  Identity.  The importance of *one single
+person* and the ability of that person to act as a fulcrum, intentionally
+or otherwise, upon which vast events can turn.  Choices.  What you value
+most.  Those, to me, are the issues most worth exploring.  We're told
+every day, beaten down with the notion that we're powerless, that we
+can't change things, you can't fight city hall...and of course it's not
+true.  You can fight.  And sometimes, you can even win.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subj:  From JMS re: Big Bang
+Date:  95-03-30 17:29:34 EST
+
+     Several confusing elements have come out about this whole situation; I
+wanted to dive in for a second to (hopefully) straighten out some of them.  
+
+     To the question of what and when...the Planet Hollywood excursion was
+intended as a "dry run" (to use Tom Christofferson's words) so that we could
+see how things worked.  Prior to that time, we thought everything was fine.
+Upon returning from Chicago, all of us had very grave concerns about what we
+had seen, in terms of organization and the ability of CMC to pull off the
+convention.  I took one week to talk to various cast members, think it over,
+and then sent a 4-page fax to Tom C. explaining that we were all very
+concerned, and delineating how things were going to have to be done in future
+if B5 was to cooperate with this operation.  He agreed to those points, or
+seemed to.  I wanted to give Tom a second chance to demonstrate that he could
+do things right.  It was about a week or so later that we learned about the
+pirated merchandise, the copyright infringement, and that promises made to
+us, and to me personally, by Tom had not been kept.  
+Thence commenced a *very* angry phone conversation with Tom, after
+initially denying to John Copeland that anything amiss had happened.  I told
+Tom at that time that after giving him a second chance, he had blown the
+whole thing and we were going to pull out.  He said that if we said this
+publicly, it could kill the convention and hurt him.  He then suggested that
+he would cancel the convention, no names, no blame; it would let him get out
+with some dignity.  The few cast members who had been given partial advances
+would be allowed to keep them (since the cast, as well as the fans, were the
+ones most likely to be harmed).  At that time, I went along with it.  So I
+waited.  A week passed.  More time passed.  It became clear after a while the
+he was NOT going to cancel the convention, and he continued to maintain that
+everyone was coming when I had made it *absolutely* clear to him over the
+phone that this was not going to happen.  (So those fans who called and were
+told by him that this was all news to him, were not told the truth.)  By now
+my alarms were going off pretty loud, and I felt it was time to go public.
+ To the notion, expressed by Tom, that CMC is not the same as the company
+that made the pirated material (posters bore the markings T3, for
+T-cubed)...again, this is misinformation.  To the notion that Tom is not
+directly running CMC, and just an employee who messed up...again, not true.
+As part of the material I requested from Tom, I wanted a full fiscal
+background check.  He sent me several pages of information.  In his letter of
+February 28, to me, he indicated that CMC was working with the merchandising
+and licensing aspects; the financial information he gave for CMC was the
+financial statement for T3, represented to us in that letter as being the
+backing and structure of CMC.  He represented to us that financially and
+corporately T3 *was* CMC.  Tom signed the actors contracts on behalf of CMC,
+and in the corporate information provided to us by him lists himself as Vice
+President of both CMC and T3.  Different names, but all part of the same
+company and corporate structure.  Further, when we (Michael, me, Mira and
+Claudia) met with Tom and his associates at the T3 headquarters, Tom
+represented to us in front of T3 staff and executives that T3 was involved in
+equal partnership with CMC in running Big Bang.  
+
+     Further, remember again the full extent of this, and how things
+happened.  Tom C. requested artwork for B5 patches for a "demo" jacket.  Upon
+meeting him in Chicago, he made quite a big deal out of the fact that he was
+keeping these secret; he pulled them out from under his jacket and hidden in
+the trunk of the car, repeated that these were for our eyes only.  I repeated
+to him, in front of witnesses, what I'd said previously: that these were not
+for distribution to ANYone outside the company. 
+e (Tom) also stated to me that he had PERSONALLY overseen the
+production of the patches, and their manufacture.  So CMC, in the person of
+Tom, *did* make those items (and at the time, Claudia mentioned that she saw
+a LOT more than the few he was supposed to show us for approval, and wondered
+why).  After telling us repeatedly that this was all just for approval, he
+then turned around and began selling them without authorization, without
+license.  There was NO misunderstanding.  He told us one thing, repeateddly,
+and then did something else.  Ditto on the artwork.  
+
+     He'd requested/bought CGI images to be used as backdrops or banners AT
+THE CON.  And ONLY for that purpose.  That was provided to him.  He showed me
+prints of the images at Planet Hollywood, indicating that they were having
+some problem in blowing them up to the right size.  As people noticed them, I
+repeated to Tom that these were not to be used for any other purpose.  He
+said he understood that.  And then turned around and made the prints he
+showed me (again indicating to me that he was directly responsible for the
+artwork) into posters, and began selling them.  
+The notion that CMC isn't responsible because the posters had T3 on them
+is a classic shell-game.  He and CMC are directly responsible for their
+manufacture.  
+
+     To the notion that all actors and I are paid and contracted to appear:
+again not true.  Only a couple of actors had received any kind of small
+advance.  I had never signed any contract.  I have already sent back the
+advance with a formal letter stating that I will have nothing to do with this
+operation.  
+
+     From the very instant we arrived in Chicago, things with this convention
+weren't right.  This is only the capper, after having given CMC a second
+chance.  Matters of trust were constantly violated.  Private conversations
+were repeated widely (Jerry Doyle had NOT given Tom permission to announce
+his engagement, for instance).  Dealers promised information and other
+material after buying space received nothing.  I was *very* worried about the
+fact that everything was being paid for by CMC in cash, without any credit
+references being used.  Advances were paid with *money order*.  It created
+the impression that money from ticket purchases was being used to pay for all
+this, and a con of the size that CMC had discussed would take great resources
+to pull off.  There were constant foulups on every level...the hotel we'd
+been booked into canceled the reservations, and didn't seem to know anything
+about it, and we ended up cruising through Chicago near midnight trying to
+find a hotel.  If you're going to run a convention for thousands of people,
+you'd better have your act together if you can't even handle four people.
+(The hotel was also canceled because there had been no credit reference
+provided.)  The logistics at Planet Hollywood were a nightmare, fans couldn't
+hear anyone unless they were right next to the person, and there was pirated
+material everywhere.  I was shown home-made PPGs and links and pins, told
+they were working with Tom for eventual licensing from WB...and then, the
+next day, at CapriCon, we were put at a table where these items were BEING
+SOLD.  Time and time, our trust has been betrayed, promises have not been kept,
+legalities have not been adhered to, and the clear impression we got upon
+coming back from Chicago was that there were *real* problems, that this
+convention was never going to come off unless DRASTIC changes were made.  We
+were in the process of trying to deal with that when the final straw was
+finally laid on the camel's back.  This is not a case of a simple
+misunderstanding, except where CMC are trying to create the false impression
+of one to cover their butts in this.  
+
+     I probably should have gone public with this earlier than I did.  But I
+was trying to give CMC one last chance to make things right.  Which was my
+mistake.  (Note: anyone wishing to repost this to Internet is free to do so.)
+
+               jms
+
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+Subject: Big Bang Con: Refunds
+Date: 1 Apr 1995 02:06:27 -0500
+
+     I'm wondering if the "tell us WHY you're requesting a refund" is to
+try and set up B5 for a lawsuit....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: Re:  Continuity between variou
+Date: 1 Apr 1995 05:03:19 -0500
+
+     It is nowhere stated that the messages to Garibaldi or Delenn is
+the first communication they've had from Sinclair; only the first that
+WE've seen.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Fear of flying?
+Date: 1 Apr 1995 20:36:18 -0500
+
+     It's Ray Bradbury who hates to fly.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Uploading the arc?
+Date: 2 Apr 1995 22:01:34 -0400
+
+     My notes, alas, are very free-form, jumping back and forth; so you
+can't just peel off the year 1-2 notes without substantial editing.  I.e.,
+"Have Kosh say X because we'll need this in year 2 when X does Y."
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: JMS: UK C4 ratings
+Date: 3 Apr 1995 05:37:11 -0400
+
+     Yeah, I'd love to see the C4 ratings; if you think it'd be better
+email, that's fine, or public, either way.  I understand we're doing VERY
+well at C4, one of their higher-rated American shows, but I haven't been
+given the hard-and-crunchies by WB International.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Point about bloopers
+Date: 3 Apr 1995 05:23:13 -0400
+
+     Bloopers still use the likenesses of the actors, ARE the actors, shot
+on our sets, using our costumes...one can't take that and sell it around
+town without giving something back to the actors, I think.  If we should
+end up ever selling the blooper, or scripts, we would find some formula to
+give back to those involved.
+ 
+     I'd expect to hear more on the CD Rom after the 3rd year pickup.
+ 
+     Valen willing.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Attn: JMS - "Only decent SF on
+Date: 3 Apr 1995 21:37:25 -0400
+
+     I slipped the reference to B5 into OtherSyde to see if it would become
+a self-fulfilling prophecy or just a fictional reference.  Just for fun.
+ 
+     My books are out of print because I guess I haven't actively pursued
+keeping them IN print.  When I finish my next novel, I'll probably be able
+to get them back into print, but that won't be until B5 is done, since the
+next book -- a contemporary dark fantasy -- is targeted at about 1,000
+manuscript pages, and I won't really be able to get into it until then.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: New to list
+Date: 4 Apr 1995 19:02:19 -0400
+
+     Thanks for joining the ranks, Steve.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: From JMS re: Poster Request
+Date: 5 Apr 1995 00:57:32 -0400
+
+     As has been noted, a number of items were sold at Vulkon in Cleveland
+that should not have been sold.  We're trying to acquire some of the
+posters that were being sold at the Big Bang table, specifically the ones
+marked that they were to benefit Project Starfury.  If you have one, and
+would like to let it go, we'll trade you either an official B5 crew cap,
+or an autographed copy of our very first script for the B5 series,
+"Midnight on the Firing Line."  If you're so inclined, drop me a note in
+email and I'll get you the address.  Thanks.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: What's up with Mojo???
+Date: 6 Apr 1995 04:51:08 -0400
+
+     The Lightwave software is being exported to DOS platforms, so that's
+the reason for the change-over.
+ 
+     BTW, Ron's gotten in some *very* nifty new software, and has come
+up with some new tricks that I hope we can incorporate before the end of
+this season, all again blurring the line between physical models, CGI and
+Real Stuff.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: favorite scene so far...
+Date: 6 Apr 1995 04:56:52 -0400
+
+     Re: the shadow vessels flying overhead as Londo looks up...that was
+me.  If my name's on a script, and you see something there as a story
+point, it was in the script.
+ 
+     That particular image is very striking, and I think part of that comes
+from its origins: I've had dreams with just that sort of image.  There's
+something that just *gets* to you on a very subconscious, almost cellular
+level, when you see that scene...I don't know why, but it does.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: A possibly nasty metaphor
+Date: 6 Apr 1995 05:01:53 -0400
+
+     David: you hit it *exactly* on the head.  Again, as you point out,
+stuff here operates on a lot of different levels.  I try, where I can, to
+make a given scene do more than one thing.  The hall argument is a good
+example of this.  The script stipulated a human being stuck between G'Kar
+and Londo.  Not any other race.  Had to be a human.  Because that becomes
+emblematic of how we're stuck between the two sides in the war, something
+which is *very* strongly brought home in the next batch of episodes.
+ 
+     Obviously, the first most important thing in that scene is just the
+gag, the humor.  It has to work on that level, and that's how it came to
+me first: just the gag.  Then, when it came time to write it, that's when
+I start poking at things to see if I can layer on another level of
+meaning, and I saw a way to do a little (very little) visual foreshadowing
+of stuff to come.  Didn't matter if anybody ever noticed it or not; it
+was never really intended to be of much note, just a little item that
+becomes a nice bit of irony later.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: Attn: JMS - Are there churches
+Date: 6 Apr 1995 04:59:53 -0400
+
+     There isn't sufficient room in B5 to accommodate a variety of plaes
+(places) of worship; hence, some rooms are set aside for use by different
+people as needed and as available.  The sanctuary is often used for this,
+as is the rotunda.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: How Much Surround?
+Date: 6 Apr 1995 02:40:58 -0400
+
+     The amount of surround that goes into a show depends on the nature
+of the show.  For instance, there was some very good use of surround in
+"A Race Through Dark Places," "And the Sky Full of Stars," "Mind War"
+and "The Long Dark."  If it's just a casual Zocalo scene, there ain't
+much you can do with it.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS, Why Only 22 Episode
+Date: 8 Apr 1995 21:47:59 -0400
+
+     All PTEN series are 22 eps per season.
+ 
+     Season three (PTEN willing) would start in November.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: How Were Shadows Defeated Firs
+Date: 8 Apr 1995 22:05:40 -0400
+
+     All the questions you asked here, Mike, will be answered in the
+very next batch of new eps, airing in May.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Thanks
+Date: 8 Apr 1995 22:18:39 -0400
+
+     Thanks; it's been fun, that's for sure.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: > Attn: JMS - Who is Douglas N
+Date: 8 Apr 1995 22:40:37 -0400
+
+     Doug Netter is my business partner in Babylon 5, and co-owner of
+Babylonian Productions, along with me.  A lot of what he does is the
+behind the scenes business stuff, sometimes liaisoning (?) with Warner
+Bros. on those conversations when it's considered too dangerous to let
+me talk to them directly, and sitting in on casting, that sort of thing.
+A lot of what he does is mollifying execs when I make them nuts; he tends
+to get a lot of phone calls that begin with, "Do you KNOW what he's done
+NOW?"
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subject: B5-Micromachines observation
+Date: 8 Apr 1995 22:42:37 -0400
+
+      As it happens, I just had some new prototypes of MicroMacs from B5
+come through my office for approval.  Some nifty stuff, including the
+atmospheric shuttle, a Narn heavy cruiser, the awful purple Centauri
+liner, and the President's Earthforce One, which is REALLY nifty....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: Can Starfuries fly in atmosphe
+Date: 10 Apr 1995 00:18:03 -0400
+
+     As established in "A Voice in the Wilderness," season one, starfuries
+cannot function within an atmosphere environment.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: tCoS: Londo's Dream
+Date: 10 Apr 1995 00:18:44 -0400
+
+     Londo, in his vision, sees the shadow vessels, but he does not know
+(in his present tense version) that that's what they are.  He's had this
+particular dream for years now, long before meeting Morden.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: show renewal?
+Date: 10 Apr 1995 03:04:49 -0400
+
+     We'll know by the end of the month.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Re: What's up with Babcom 95 ?
+Date: 11 Apr 1995 03:21:35 -0400
+
+     The problem, of course, is that fan cons usually operate very close
+to the financial edge, because they're *not* about making money.  Which is
+good on one level, on several actually...but the problem you run into is
+when you then have to bring in guests from overseas.  Traveling from the
+US to the UK costs a LOT of money, plus hotel, food, on and on.  Most of
+the smaller fan-run cons can't afford to do that in general, or for only
+one person; a profit con really represents the only chance most people will
+ever have to see several people from a given show, though Wolf 359 is doing
+a bit more in that area.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Ship designs reflect on '2010'
+Date: 11 Apr 1995 03:22:04 -0400
+
+     The ships on 2010 and Babylon 5 operate out of the necessity of
+traveling without standard SF artificial gravity.  These designs have been
+discussed among scientists (in general) for ages; so there's no intention
+to be close to 2010, but when both are based upon the same scientific
+principles, there will be echoes.  Form follows function.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS:
+Date: 11 Apr 1995 04:25:50 -0400
+
+     Jeff: that would be a fair assumption based on what the technomages
+said, yes.  Keep an eye out for "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" for more.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!
+Date: 11 Apr 1995 20:35:32 -0400
+
+     It's certainly my hope that Warners will rerun the first season at the
+conclusion of this season.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Re: What's up with Babcom 95 ?
+Date: 11 Apr 1995 20:33:12 -0400
+
+     As it happens, I've had occasion to have several long talks with the
+Babcom organizers, and have nudged them more in the direction of doing more
+of the things one might expect at a fan-con: more interaction, more
+personalization, breaking down the walls a bit.  Some of the things now
+under discussion: a more relaxed social situation, close to an ice cream
+social sort of thing, so it isn't all just a presentation; a personal
+Q&A session about breaking into TV; Peter has spoken to them about letting
+folks watch as the Optic Nerve people make him up into Londo; and others.
+Again, these are still in the conversation stage, but my sense to try and
+encourage them toward a more personalized and fan-responsive format.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Re: Atheism (was "New Age" jms
+Date: 11 Apr 1995 20:52:21 -0400
+
+     The notion that if one says, "I do not believe in God," that one is
+making "a positive religious claim" and thus is religius is, of course,
+eminently silly.  If I do not believe in green penguins at the north pole,
+am I now a believer in non-green-penguinism?  If I were to sit down and
+itemize all the things I don't believe in, then by your statment these are
+now beliefs, and there are an infinite number of beliefs because there are
+potentially an infinite number of things I don't believe in, and I'm not
+sure I can sustain that many beliefs without imploding.
+ 
+     The first rule of debate and sophistry is to redefine the terms of the
+argument in terms favorable to your position.  This is what's being done
+in the "if you don't believe, you therefore believe" argument.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: speculations about confessios
+Date: 12 Apr 1995 02:10:44 -0400
+
+     Note: the original message in this thread goes beyond speculation based
+based on what's presented to portraying an entirely new story idea.  To
+avoid further complications, I might recommend moving on.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: B5 MicroMachine news (maybe)
+Date: 12 Apr 1995 03:01:24 -0400
+
+     The MicroMachines *are* out, they *have* been purchased, and more are
+being commissioned.  (Several new prototypes came through my office for
+approval last week, including a Narn heavy cruiser and Earthforce 1.)  I
+can only conclude that some dealers, who didn't know or think to orde
+them, are saying they're not coming out just to cover their own butts.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: READ comic 5
+Date: 13 Apr 1995 01:57:48 -0400
+
+     I have to say I'm very pleased with issue #5.  It came out very well,
+and nicely captures both the look, feel and dialogue of the show.  There
+were some bumps along the way in issues 2-4, so I didn't say much, but
+THIS one I can highly recommend.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Big Bang: ATTN JMS
+Date: 13 Apr 1995 01:58:24 -0400
+
+     Faramarz: after I went to Chicago to check out how the con was going
+to be run (before this we only had what we'd been told over the phone), I
+came away with the terrible belief that this convention was not going to
+be run properly, was incapable of being fixed (after providing several
+chances for the organizers to show they could do so), and had to make a
+hard decision: back away, or endorse a convention that I don't believe in,
+which I believed was systemically flawed, and the hell with the fans who
+get burned.  It's a crummy decision to have to make, and I didn't like
+having to make it.  But there *is* no middle ground on this.
+ 
+     If you want to book passage on the Titanic, and I keep suggesting
+that maybe that might not be a good idea...am I being unfair to the
+passengers?
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Speculation vs Story
+Date: 13 Apr 1995 04:25:49 -0400
+
+     I didn't read much of that thread (since I already know who jms is
+going to kill next), but nothing of what I saw crossed any lines into
+story ideas.  It's when new scenarios are painted in detail ("And then
+Sheridan met the great cosmic space moose, who gave him the Golden Wazoo
+of the Minbari, which was actually the alien healing device with a
+mustache")...that any trouble emerges.
+ 
+                         jm(who can now no longer do this story)s
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Re: Atheism (was "Ne
+Date: 13 Apr 1995 04:54:07 -0400
+
+     If I say to you, "Did you lock the car door when you parked it?" and
+you say, "I believe so," is that a belief that is equal to, say, the
+tenets of Judaism?  Is that equal to the theses Martin Luther nailed to
+the church door?  Are you now a believer in Locked-Doorism?
+ 
+     If you define any belief as reliion, then you diminish and
+trivialize religion.  (Oops, typo above.)  Words mean what they mean, not
+what we want them to mean when it is convenient for us.  The Oxford
+American Dictionary defines religion as "belief in the existence of a
+superhuman power, especially of gods or gods, usually expressed in
+worship; a particular system of faith and worship."
+ 
+     "Belief" is not the key word in the preceding sentence; it's the
+phrase "belief IN the EXISTENCE of a superhuman power."  It's what the
+belief is IN.  If it does not contain the belief IN the existence of a
+superhuman power/god, then it is NOT religion.  Period.
+ 
+     This is just one more offshoot of the whole (and boy, do I hate to
+even mention this) evolution/creation thing, where schools said, "No, we
+cannot teach creation, we teach science, not religion."  So the
+creationists decided to come back with "Oh, but evolution IS a religion,
+so why them and not us, huh?  Huh?"  It's an attempt to redefine terms
+for advantage.
+ 
+     Me, I stick with the Oxford Dictionary.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Re: Atheism NOW
+Date: 14 Apr 1995 01:01:13 -0400
+
+     If the question is "Which is the greater good, self sacrifice or
+honesty within the B5 universe," I'd have to for a third option.  Both
+of those are behaviors in service to a given cause.  And it's the
+selection of the greater *cause* that is most important; is it a
+constructive cause, or a destructive one?  Are you helping humanity step
+forward, or step back?  This isn't situational ethics, because the ethics
+going in have to be the same: building the future, helping those who
+cannot help themselves, spreading hope, fighting repression and pushing
+for freedom and responsibility as linked concepts.
+ 
+     Our characters in B5 are flawed; sometimes they fall short of their
+own goals.  The Minbari don't generally lie; but the often tell only part
+of the truth.  If G'Kar has gotten away with something in the pilot, and
+can't be brought to standard justice, some other way of meting out
+justice will be found, even if that means fibbing to him about a
+transmitter he's swallowed...i.e., lying.
+ 
+     But even Sinclair said it: everybody lies.  Everybody means
+everybody.  Even if it's only a case of, "Listen, I tried to make it to
+the party, but traffic was just a mess, I got up late, the dog ate my
+homework."
+ 
+     I make some distinction between this and my own personal view; the
+work of the author does not always represent what the author believes on
+a 1-1 basis.  (If it did, there'd be NO religion in B5.)  Personally, I
+think I put loyalty and honesty at the top of my pantheon.  I've worked
+very hard to maintain a certain reputation, and it means a lot to me.
+And anyone here who knows me knows that if you try and go after someone
+I consider a friend, you will have to go through me first.
+ 
+     The problem with putting self-sacrifice at the tippy top of your
+own personal Maslow's Pyramid of Self-Actualization is that it only
+functions as a subset of something else.  Self-sacrifice...to do *what*?
+You are willing to die for a cause.  Is that cause right?  Are you too
+easily and readily prepared to sacrifice?  The other, less terminal form
+of self-sacrifice is giving to other people, working to make life better,
+but I don't tend to believe that's sacrifice as much as simple personal
+responsibility.  We should do it as freely and as easily as we breathe.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: So JMS won't spend the money e
+Date: 14 Apr 1995 01:02:09 -0400
+
+     Babylonian Productions does not skimp or hold back money for
+publicity because BP does not have ANY money for publicity or promotion.
+Period.  Warner Bros. Publicity handles all PR for Babylon 5; we have
+zero control over that area, but a little influence, that's all.
+ 
+     Nor can we simply decide, out of the blue, to produce a 23rd episode
+of the show.  Warners and the stations making up PTEN make an executive
+decision on the pickup and number of episodes.  It is not within our
+purview to violate that.  Further, that would mean coming in under budget
+over the season in an amount equal to the price of one episode, which we
+have never done, and never will.  Each season, we come in just a smidge
+under budget.  And I do mean just a *smidge*.  Pocket change, compared to
+the overall cost of the show.
+ 
+     The small under-budget from year one was invested into new sets and
+costumes and to get a leg-up on CGI for year two.  The small year two
+underage will likely be put toward the production on year three, assuming
+we're renewed.  Neither Doug nor I take a dime of that.  Recently, Warners
+did a spot audit, as they do for any series.  They showed up at 9 a.m.,
+saying they'd be here for a few days.  A few hours later, they said they
+might be able to finish by the end of the day.  By lunchtime, they were
+finished, and said that this was the best set of books they'd ever seen.
+ 
+     So the line about maybe someday putting the profits back into the
+series, we've been doing that since day one, insofar as the under-budget.
+As for profits...there aren't any that we get.  Our contract with WB
+gives us a percentage of the NET.  Now, anyone who works in Hollywood
+knows there's no such thing as net profit.  It takes a VERY long time for
+a TV series to ever show anything.  Once the series is finished, and no
+more shows are being produced, and the series enters long-term syndication,
+lessening the expenditures, then there may finally be some small profit,
+but at that point the show's done.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS!:WAS SHERIDAN AT THE
+Date: 14 Apr 1995 01:03:11 -0400
+
+     Sheridan was not at the Line, no; the Minbari hit big at a number of
+outer EA systems, then unexpectedly leapfrogged *everything* at once right
+into Earth.  Several of our bigger ships were still en route.
+ 
+                                                            jm
+
+Subject: "Casting Couch"
+Date: 14 Apr 1995 01:12:20 -0400
+
+     We're very fortunate in that the casting couch has been less of a
+problem in the Industry over the last ten-twenty years than it has been
+in the past.  The CC was most in play when studios were run by one or two
+individuals who could dictate to their producers and directors who to use
+in a movie.  Over time, as power within studios and networks got more
+widely spread among other executives, directors, producers, you name it,
+there isn't any one person any longer who has that clout.  Does it still
+go on?  I believe it does, at a much reduced level, and mainly in the
+film arena, where again there's more individual discretion.
+ 
+     That kind of discretion is less readily present in TV, so there isn't
+the power to fuel the temptation.  For instance, on B5, our casting
+sessions include: casting director Mary Jo Slater, me, Doug Netter, John
+Copeland, Larry (if it's his episode, otherwise not), the director of
+that episode, a reader to work opposite the actor, and sometimes, if the
+role is crucial opposite a regular performer, that performer is there.
+That's as many as 8 people, as opposed to one big studio guy sitting behind
+a desk, smoking a stogie and eyeing whoever's opposite him.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Re: Atheism (was
+Date: 14 Apr 1995 02:03:50 -0400
+
+     "Religion is the belief ABOUT the existence of a superhuman power."
+ (As opposed to IN the existence of a superhuman power.)
+ 
+     No, it's not.  By your definition, if I'm a Protestant, and I don't
+believe in Thor, by virtue of that belief about Thor, now I'm a beliegver
+(believer) in Norse mythology.  That's simply silly.
+ 
+     There is a difference between saying, "I believe there is no god,"
+and "I do not have within me the belief in the existence of a god."  The
+latter is not a belief in, or about, any kind of power; it is the total
+absence of belief.  You cannot turn that into a religion, no matter how
+many times you repeat your thesis.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Re: Atheism (was
+Date: 14 Apr 1995 02:13:44 -0400
+
+     Sorry, Kristin, I won't be put into your box.  You say some
+comparative religion studies include Dianetics.  A professor can choose
+to include or exclude anything he or she wants.  What's it to me?  And
+yes, parts of Shinto don't involve god, but parts do.
+ 
+     Most significantly, howver, ALL the examples you cite to me DO
+believe in a superhuman power...specifically, a soul, which is reborn in
+one way or another in all the beliefs you named.  So the definition still
+applies.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Question about "Accu
+Date: 15 Apr 1995 02:51:32 -0400
+
+     The books are canon in broad terms, in that the events generally did
+happen, but the details can vary given that you've got diverse hands doing
+the work (including the comics).  I try to work with them both in as much
+detail as I can...I read the novel manuscripts preperatory to being
+typeset, and same for the comics, making suggestions and changes as
+necessary.  (In one comic issue I added a change to one panel that should
+send some shockwaves out here and there...just two words that might raise
+some neck-hairs.)
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Yes, I *have* gone insane
+Date: 15 Apr 1995 02:51:38 -0400
+
+     Bed rest.  Plenty of fluids.  Aspirin every 6 hours.  And one very
+heavy mallet-whack every two hours.  You'll get better, I promise.
+ 
+                                                             jms*
+ 
+     (*who wonders if suggesting mallet-whacking is really such a good
+idea, what with the whole Jocelyn Elders thing....)
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS - Future of B5?
+Date: 15 Apr 1995 02:51:44 -0400
+
+     We'll know by the end of the month.  We continue to be cautiously
+optimistic.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Link question
+Date: 15 Apr 1995 02:54:53 -0400
+
+     The Links are individually coded; when someone says, "Garibaldi to
+Sheridan," the Link system (tied into the B5 central computer, which can
+also provide research and other data) dials up the code for Sheridan's
+link, and breeps.  The transmitters are *very* powerful, and are usually
+boosted by systems inside B5.  If a Link were stolen, it could be
+detected instantly upon being used.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Silly Question
+Date: 15 Apr 1995 02:54:59 -0400
+
+     I would think that Londo and G'Kar might actually find something in
+common in appreciation of Gilbert and Sullivan.  In fact, G'Kar's "little
+fishie" song in "Parliament of Dreams" was intended to be a bit G&S in
+nature.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS: How are we doing?
+Date: 15 Apr 1995 03:07:24 -0400
+
+     I'd say that overall the nets, collectively, have done very good at
+picking up on what's going on in the show.  I think the larger themes have
+been missed in places, but I think that in many ways that's because the
+larger pieces haven't yet been inserted into the jigsaw puzzle so that
+others can see what's going on.
+ 
+     The greatest errors, I think, come in looking too closely for
+parallels to other fiction.  "Oh, I get it, it's just like X."  That line
+will lead you only into error.
+ 
+     In any work of fiction, there are two primary elements: theme and
+plot.  Plot are the incidents, theme is what it's *about* on a very
+core level.  Plot has been well analyzed; themes not necessarily.  To tie
+this paragraph and the one preceding, for instance, a number of folks
+considered that the events in "Acts of Sacrifice" with the Lumati were a
+shot at the Prime Directive/non-interference.
+ 
+     Nothing could have been further from the truth, and it wasn't until
+this was mentioned here that it even occured to me.  Take a look at
+Washington DC these days, and the larger culture.  People being
+warehoused, other people who *should* be in homes shoved out onto the
+streets to fend for themselves, a general callousness that seems to be
+creeping into the bones of a society that was born on the premise that
+we should be at minimum kind to one another.  I figured that one would
+get a lot of discussion going on the degree to which society is, or should
+be responsive to the least of its citizens.  Darwinism vs. charity.  And
+some of that did emerge.  But a fair measure of it got siphoned off into
+comparisons with ST.
+ 
+     That, however, is really the exception rather than the rule.  I very
+frequently find myself surprised at the depth of analysis that goes on
+here, and the toughtfulness behind it.  Quite a few have Gotten It.  Some
+are still backing up far enough to see the whole picture.  And maybe at
+times I'm not being sufficiently craftworthy in my work to make those
+elements sufficiently clear.  But the deeper we go, the more there is to
+get, and the more folks *do* seem to be nailing it.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Re: READ comic 5
+Date: 15 Apr 1995 03:33:12 -0400
+
+     About the new paper and price...I did the first issue, and while the
+pencils were quite good, and the inks okay, when they put the coloring in
+the paper just absorbed the hell out of it and it looked like crap, from
+my POV.  (And I'm not speaking out of school; I said much the same to DC.)
+Parts were nice, but other parts...yikes.  I felt, strongly, that we
+needed a better quality of paper, otherwise a lot of the good work that
+was being done was going to be lost.  It would cost more, but finally DC
+-- which, to be fair, has only been VASTLY supportive of B5, and the comic
+and their only intention is to make it as good as possible -- decided to
+go with the better quality paper.  The main question was whether or not
+there was enough of a reader base to warrant it; there was, and they did.
+ 
+     I've overall been quite happy with how the book is being handled.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Notes from jms
+Date: 15 Apr 1995 04:04:58 -0400
+
+     Just some quick random thoughts....
+ 
+     For those who've been nudging other folks to try out B5, you may want
+to tell them that this coming batch of eps is probably the best time to
+dive in.  In particular, our second new show (airing the first week of
+May) is designed in part to help new viewers coming to the show to catch
+up on background.  (No, not a clip show, or anything like that...I think
+you'll like it.)  I also *strongly* recommend that you videotape this
+episode, entitled "And Now For a Word."  There's something in there just
+(or primarily) for the videotapers.  Consider this a heads-up from the
+inside.  You'll know what it is when you sorta see it.)
+ 
+     For those who've asked...yes, I'll be doing another cycle of the B5
+comic, a 4-issue arc that'll probably hit the newsstands about the time
+our second season (PTEN willing) goes on the air.  I've decided that tat
+(at) this stage it'll follow a Ranger, bringing us into contact with lots
+of different parts of the B5 universe, and may also use it as a kind of
+bridge between seasons 2 and 3.
+ 
+     We should know officially about the fate of our third season by the
+end of this month.  We continue to be cautiously optimistic.
+ 
+     For all the bitching I've done about Creation, I have to say that
+I'm very pleased by something that just came through my office for
+approval: a B5 jacket with the silhouette of the station embroidered on
+the back, and the B5 symbol in front.  It's *very* nicely done.
+ 
+     The B5 trading cards, originally to come from Cardz, will now be
+coming out from Fleer, and I'm actually quite pleased by that, since I
+really like a lot of the work Fleer has done on their comics-related
+stuff.
+ 
+     Unrelated to B5: I just picked up the laserdisk for the letterboxed
+version of "The Haunting (of Hill House)" and it's amazing.  I've never
+seen it in that format, only the version altered for conventional TV
+aspect ratio.  There's stuff going on in the edges of this film that are
+brilliant.  Just seeing ALL of Hill House, vast against the night, rather
+than the one dark clump in the center of the frame, is worth the price of
+admission.  (An example: just as the lead character stands in the hallway,
+thinking aloud that the house seems to be reaching for her, you see in the
+letterbox a spider-plant just past her shoulder that does indeed, from the
+way its' shot, seem to be grasping at her, something you can't see in the
+regular version.)  The film is *full* of stuff like this, and I feel as
+though I've seen the movie for the first time, even though I've watched
+the prior version literally dozens of times.  (Yes, along with "Seconds,"
+it's one of my favorite films.)
+ 
+     If you have a laserdisk player, pick this one up.  It's nifty.
+ 
+     On Monday we begin our last week of filming.  We're going for an
+eight-day shoot this one time, rather than our usual seven-day shoot,
+because of the extraordinary EFX requirements to pull off the finale.  It
+should be a doozy.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS: alt.tv.ab-fab
+Date: 16 Apr 1995 05:08:50 -0400
+
+     I think AbFab is sick and twisted and *very* funny....
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Names
+Date: 16 Apr 1995 18:19:41 -0400
+
+     Yes, there are other Narn names with the G' prefix.  There's a city,
+G'Kamazad, which we hear about in "And Now for a Word," and another
+character named G'Sten whom we meet in "The Long, Twilight Struggle,"
+among others.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: Station slot changes - one man
+Date: 16 Apr 1995 18:19:48 -0400
+
+     There are no guarantees this side of the grave.  But the end of this
+story will be told, no matter what.  At this moment, things look very good
+for year three, and we'll know by month's end.  If we continue to add
+viewers, as we're doing, there shouldn't be a problem seeing it through.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: CRASHED Vorlon S
+Date: 16 Apr 1995 18:21:25 -0400
+
+     The picture is just something Ron cobbled together for a magazine
+cover; no B5 meaning at all.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Thanks a LOT!
+Date: 16 Apr 1995 18:48:16 -0400
+
+     You're most definitely and profoundly welcome.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+Subject: Why B5 races are at the same l
+Date: 16 Apr 1995 18:48:27 -0400
+
+     Except, of course, they're *not* all at the same level.  The Minbari
+are well ahead of Earth and the Centauri and the Narns; the Narns are
+slightly ahead of Earth, and the Centauri are ahead of both; the Vorlons
+and the Shadows are both head and shoulders above all the rest; the Drazi
+are probably a bit less than Earth.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: Re: So JMS won't spend the mon
+Date: 16 Apr 1995 18:50:24 -0400
+
+     "Who gets the fees and royalties from Babylon 5 licensed
+merchandise?"
+ 
+     Warner Bros.  This income is cross-collatoralized against costs of
+production and distribution in determining net profit.  Translation: no
+net profit.  I do not get a creator's fee from the comic or the novels.
+All income goes to Warners, which then puts it against costs.
+ 
+     "Who gets the fees from personal appearances?"  The person making
+the appearance.  I do not get any money from actors' appearances.  I do
+get small fees for my own apperances, but the problem is that because of
+my height, I generally need to fly first.  Most cons can afford to pay
+for either coach or business.  So I make up the difference, which in many
+cases means I end up either breaking even, or losing a bit.
+ 
+     "Who gets the royalties from Babylon 5 publications?"  Warner Bros.
+See above.
+ 
+     "Are these fees and royalties plowed back into the series
+production?"  No.  Warners collects those fees and puts them into an
+account marked INCOME.  Costs associated with the creation of the show are
+marked DEBITS.  The job of ALL of the studios is to make sure that, on
+paper, the INCOME never gets higher than the DEBITS line.
+ 
+     Re: the production costs...we tell Warners what we think it will cost
+to make the show at its best level.  That is what they give us.  And that
+is what we use to make the show.
+ 
+     This is how all TV shows work, particularly at the syndication level.
+Hugely rated network shows can use the leverage to re-negotiate and change
+the profit formula slightly to redefine "net" and remove such things as
+distribution fees and the like.  That's not the case with B5.
+ 
+     And now for the one personal observation...you have now hit a new low,
+Theron.  You can't find anything else to attack, your claims are consistent
+bullshit, so now you start throwing around the suspicion that maybe someone
+(viz: me) is making huge amounts of profit on B5 and short-shrifting the
+production.
+ 
+     Have you no shame at *all*?
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: "The One" (Sinclair & Delenn)
+Date: 16 Apr 1995 18:48:35 -0400
+
+     "So who IS the One?  Some of the evidence points to Sinclair, but
+other bits seem to indicate Delenn.  Yet neither seems to fit all the
+facts above."
+ 
+     Exactly.
+ 
+     What you have here in your message are two pieces of the puzzle.
+You're confounded by the fact that somehow they don't quite seem to fit
+into one another.  That's because there's one last piece missing in this
+part of the picture, which fits in between them.  The intent is to put
+this piece into clear view in year three, probably between episodes 8 and
+11 approximately.  At that point, the question of the One will be fully
+answered.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: Actors and why movies/TV are m
+Date: 16 Apr 1995 18:48:43 -0400
+
+     If only attractive people are picked to become stars, then someone
+PLEASE explain Jim Belushi to me.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: JMS
+Date: 16 Apr 1995 19:05:39 -0400
+
+     When out amongst real folk, I just answer to Joe.  Actually, I'll
+answer to just about anything, but Joe is probably most expedient.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: An offer re: B-5 Mod
+Date: 18 Apr 1995 02:39:27 -0400
+
+     The only way models can be made is if they're licensed through Warner
+Bros., so you'll have to go through them on this.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS:Does Sheridan wear al
+Date: 18 Apr 1995 21:01:00 -0400
+
+      Yes, Sheridan wears all his medals (absent those too big or showy for
+chest-display).  As for Andreas, we're putting him up for an Emmy for his
+work (also other cast members), and can only hope the Academy recognizes
+the fine work he's done.  Beyond that, there's nothing the fans can do but
+hope....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Re: So JMS won't spe
+Date: 18 Apr 1995 21:05:58 -0400
+
+     Yes, what I said was what I intended.  Do the studios profit from
+their series/movies?  Of course.  But many of the contracts with their
+people -- actors, writers, producers, directors -- stipulate that they get
+a piece of any net profit.  Consequently, the studios do all they can to
+make sure that *on paper* it looks as if they've never had a profit.
+ 
+     There have been many cases of stars who, twenty years after their
+shows entered syndication, asked where the heck their profit is, and were
+told that the show is still in the red.  Does anyone believe this?  Of
+course not.  But getting into their books for audits is hard; ask Art
+Buchwald.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Pardon me, but...
+Date: 18 Apr 1995 21:06:25 -0400
+
+     Yes, that was me, and the info is correct.
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+Subject: Shelved/Unused scripts
+Date: 18 Apr 1995 21:06:57 -0400
+
+     Insofar as I can recall, there are no unusued *scripts*.  There were
+a few abandoned outlines, and some stories that I wanted to get around to
+writing, which I decided to shelve for one reason or another long before
+they were written down in any form.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Bisexuality thread
+Date: 18 Apr 1995 21:10:55 -0400
+
+     I thought we had adopted "don't ask, don't tell" as our national
+policy regarding this issue.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Ivanova's sex scene
+Date: 18 Apr 1995 21:34:45 -0400
+
+     Judelon: bingo.  When I scripted that scene, that's exactly what was
+intended; it goes from the pickup line "come here often?  yes, I do" to
+"dinner, drinks, kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss GRAB!" then asking how
+it is for the other person, then "I slept with you the other night, you
+didn't call, you didn't write, I think you do it just for spite!"
+ 
+     In a way, the way it's written, it IS sex human style, in that it has
+all the elements in, say, about 30 seconds (which is also about right in
+some cases).  From meeting through bed to breakup....
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: JMS: What does it take?
+Date: 18 Apr 1995 22:26:51 -0400
+
+     A lot of notes are amusing, or interesting, but don't seem to
+require a direct response.  I have to be fairly stringent in determining
+the extent of replying, or I'd be doing nothing else.  Basically, if a
+thread seems to meander after a while, I'll generally bail out after a
+few days.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: sm ... an observation
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 03:12:01 -0400
+
+     What Londo loves doing is yanking G'Kar's chain.  That's all the
+line should be taken to imply.
+ 
+     (The headache comes from stuff he doesn't understand.)
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS' unusual typing speed
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 03:12:30 -0400
+
+     I use a standard keyboard, and it's only 120 wpm, not 140, and only
+when I'm at fever pitch.  I usually coast along at between 90 and 100.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Re: J*S - the magic initials?
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 06:49:57 -0400
+
+     It would've been very difficult for the lead character in Captain
+Power to have my initials since his name was Jonathan Power.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: JMS: What would you have done
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 06:50:05 -0400
+
+     If we'd only had models to work with, then we would've found some way
+to make the models work.  I think a lot of the difficulty with TV EFX is
+just not thinking things through, and doing everything last-minute.  We
+don't generally have that problem.
+ 
+     One of the options we discussed at the time was shooting model EFX
+sequences in a slightly different way.  Because I know the story for each
+year ahead of time, we could've ganged all the EFX shots together.  I.e.,
+you know you're going to have battle scenes in episodes 3 and 7 between
+the same two races, same kinds of ships.  So you double up your cameras
+for different angles, and basically shoot both at once, then isolate the
+different pieces for either of the two episodes.  We also would've had a
+second unit shooting 2 days per week as a visual EFX unit.
+ 
+     Either way, it would've been done.  We're quite happy that CGI came
+along when it did, but we would've found some way to do it regardless.
+The history of this series is that of determination despite whatever
+obstacles are thrown at us.  Once we set our minds to the course, nothing
+stops us.
+ 
+     Patience, determination, direction and strength.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Re: Babylon 5 contest in May!
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 06:50:13 -0400
+
+     I've been told what's going to be offered as main prize(s) (five) for
+the B5 contest...and man, lemme tell you, if I could, *I'd* enter.  Way
+cool.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Could B5 (the series) be made
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 06:53:45 -0400
+
+     Robert: you're onto something here.  Just so you know.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Re: B5 CD
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 06:53:55 -0400
+
+     Actually, to correct this, the last track in the European version
+has more *perussion* and fewer strings, whereas the American version has
+more strings and less percussion (this in the longer, reorchestrated
+suite of the Requiem for the Line).  This was because Chris sent me the
+tape with the last track for my approval.  I listened to it, and thought
+it was great...but for me, what really makes the RftL theme so beautiful
+and moving and tragic and powerful are the strings in counterpoint to the
+rest of the rhythm.  Here they were missing.  So I called, and said, "It
+really needs the strings."  By this point they were already pressing the
+European edition, and it was too late to do anything about it.  It was
+subsequently revised for the American release.  So now there are two
+versions floating around out there; the percussive version is nice for
+the driving aspect of it, it hits you hard in the gut; the string version
+hits you in the heart and breaks it.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS BIG BANG CON!
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 06:54:04 -0400
+
+     P.S.  Yes, I tentatively do plan to be at Chicago ComicCon a week or
+so later.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS BIG BANG CON!
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 06:54:14 -0400
+
+     Some of our cast members have decided to risk what all believe is a
+potentially troublesome situation and go to Big Bang, despite the problems
+we've had with them, because it was learned subsequent to the initial
+decision not to take part in it that many folks had bought non-refundable
+airline tickets, and may not get ticket refunds.  They're determined not
+to see the fans burned by this.  Babylonian Productions, Warners nor I can
+endorse or support the con in any way; we've been burned enough.  Thus I
+can't go.  But I must commend our cast for rising above the problems
+presented to us at the other end, and risking more problems by taking part.
+ 
+     For their sake, and the fans, it is my hope that this somehow comes
+out okay.  Suffice to say we're going to be watching *very* carefully.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: another reason jms hates filk
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 06:54:23 -0400
+
+     Dear Mr. Thiesen:
+ 
+     I recommend having someone else start your car for you for the next,
+oh, fifteen years or so....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Thoughts on Relationships
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 06:54:35 -0400
+
+     I'll have more of a response on this after the end of this season.
+ 
+     Trust me.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Life expectancy
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 06:54:57 -0400
+
+     In "Soul Hunter," Franklin notes that the average human life span is
+now about a hundred years.  It's quite a bit longer for the other races;
+G'Kar is about 70 or more, but is considered mid-range, equal to a human
+in early 40s, among Narns.  Delenn is in about the same position, equal to
+30s-40s in her terms, but in years a bit older.  They are a pretty long
+lived people.  Centauri aren't quite as long-lived, but they do a bit
+better than the Narns.  The Vorlons......are.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: appearing in bookstores near y
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 06:55:08 -0400
+
+     Yes, the reporter/writer was given permission to quote liberally from
+my prior posts.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subject: Re: So JMS won't spend the mon
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 06:55:24 -0400
+
+     Kevin: I'm paid a salary per episode produced, a creator's royalty
+of a few hundred bucks per ep, and the script fee for any script I write.
+By conventional standards, as compared to truly worthwhile jobs, like
+teaching, it's a good chunk of change; compared to what you get on a
+network show, it's basically chump-change.  But I ain't really in this
+to make a gazillion bucks; I want to tell this story.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+Subject: JMS: "And Now For a Word" Infl
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 06:55:36 -0400
+
+     Where it came from, in part, was oddly enough, a theatrical
+exercise.
+ 
+     There's a thing you do in theater training where you're told to talk
+about a subject, never use the word "I" ...but in the end wind up telling
+us more about *you* than the subject you're speaking about.  So I began
+to wonder if I could apply this exercise, in a limited way, to an episode
+of the show.  I can't say more than that without spoiling things, but
+suffice to say you learn a lot about all kinds of people, and the way you
+learn it says a lot about those involved.  It's a *very* subversive and
+tricky episode, and I *very* much suggest taping it, so you can go back
+and check something out later.  You'll know what.  If you don't, you'll
+kick yourself later.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Okay, I'll try it
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 06:55:50 -0400
+
+     Watch the eps between the end of April and the last one in the end of
+May.  If these don't get you, nothing will.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: All Alone in the Nig
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 06:56:22 -0400
+
+     Re: Ramirez being "a pretty uncommon name."
+ 
+     Not in LA it isn't.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Re: So JMS won't spend the mon
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 06:56:33 -0400
+
+     Neil: on actors getting a piece of their merchandise...roll this one
+around for a bit...the majority of ST actors (excluding Nimoy, Kelley and
+Shatner) have each gotten, roughly, $16,000 as their share of profit
+sharing/merchandising over the 25 years of ST history.  Ain't life funny?
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+Subject: ATTN:JMS What if both sides wa
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 06:56:45 -0400
+
+     Both sides can hire their own teeps (telepaths), or jointly hire the
+same one, who is adjudged neutral.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS: The Signal?M
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 06:56:56 -0400
+
+     The pattern was supposed to change a bit more than it did on screen;
+call it a bit of interpretation of notes between me and Foundation.  It
+has not happened again.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Significance of meta
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 21:08:37 -0400
+
+     The strip indicates branch of military; this is explained in some
+detail in "There All the Honor Lies."
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS  Publishing the Arc
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 21:31:15 -0400
+
+     I just don't know if my notes would be in sufficient shape and
+coherence to publish; they jump all over the place over several hundred
+years of history, including backstory.  We'll see.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS' unusual typing speed
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 22:04:11 -0400
+
+     Oddly enough, the new keyboard I use at work *does* come with optional
+foot controls (which I didn't get).  It's a Kinesis ergonomic keyboard,
+with the keys in recessed wells.  The footpads handle control codes and
+other stuff.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Kudos from Old Hicko
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 22:04:59 -0400
+
+     Many thanks....
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: JMS: done writing, then?
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 22:05:26 -0400
+
+     Bob:
+ 
+                     pfthpft........
+ 
+                                                         jms
+
+Subject: Background noise.
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 22:16:14 -0400
+
+     It was probably the Centauri translation.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Recording B5 from TV
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 22:18:55 -0400
+
+     I really have no idea about the British taping laws; certainly one
+should always obey one's local ordinances.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subject: Re: So JMS won't spend the mon
+Date: 20 Apr 1995 22:29:26 -0400
+
+     It was always clear that we'd go with either 22, 24 or 25 episodes
+per season, so that was accommodated in the early structure.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS...San Diego ComicCon
+Date: 21 Apr 1995 17:18:55 -0400
+
+     I *always* go to San Diego Comic Con...it's my one big trip ever
+year.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Buttons?
+Date: 21 Apr 1995 17:19:24 -0400
+
+     Your friend is correct.  While people are treated equally in the EA,
+it seems not contradictory to have certain fashion aspects continue on
+into the future, such as the reversal of buttons.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS INCOME=DEBTS?
+Date: 21 Apr 1995 09:24:25 -0400
+
+     I do not hold the copyright for B5.  The copyright for ALL shows is
+in the hands of the studios.  Roddenberry, for instance, did not own (and
+his estate does not own) Star Trek.  Paramount does.  Look at any of the
+ST merchandise: (c) (year) Paramount Television.  Warner Bros./PTEN holds
+the copyright for B5.
+ 
+     Thus, if they license it to a comics company, it's between the company
+and the "creator" for legal purposes...Warner Bros.  Ditto for the novels.
+Why do I thus get involved anyway?  Because they're based on my show, and
+I have a personal interest in making sure they're done right.
+ 
+     And as stated, the goal is to keep income below debits *on paper*,
+not in reality.
+ 
+     Because all studios know that if they can show no net income, they
+never have to pay profit participation.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Kosh CGI Question
+Date: 21 Apr 1995 09:24:35 -0400
+
+     What we have in mind for Kosh is going to tax our capabilities to the
+limit.  It will be a mix of prosthetics, CGI, compositing, wardrobe, an
+unusual kind of matte, different exposure techniques, on and on and on;
+the visual effects meeting on just this one sequence was the biggest one
+we've ever had, drawing in every department (also practical effects,
+visual effects, rotoscope, and others).  The sequence exists in lots of
+different pieces which will take us months to assemble, so I haven't seen
+the final product yet, but if we've done this right, it should be a real
+doozy.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Kosh CGI Question
+Date: 21 Apr 1995 09:24:53 -0400
+
+     PS...as an aside on EFX...we constantly slip EFX in and a lot of
+folks don't even notice it, because we don't point to it or make a big
+deal out of it.  It's just *there*.  One example of this I mentioned was
+the sanctuary in "Coming of Shadows," a virtual set that doesn't exist
+in reality.
+ 
+     Here's another one.
+ 
+     In "Soul Mates," and in the main title, you'll see the shot of the
+bazaar.  It's a wide shot, showing the two levels of the bazaar, with
+people walking on either side of the second floor, looking down into the
+main area.
+ 
+     Secret revealed: there IS no second floor.  Doesn't exist.  We made
+the second level digitally.  To the best of my knowledge (though I might
+have missed something), I don't think anyone noticed this as being a CGI/
+composite effect.  It's just there.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS - B5 Renewed says WW
+Date: 21 Apr 1995 09:25:07 -0400
+
+     Well, it's certainly encouraging, but we still haven't been given the
+formal notification about a pickup.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS INCOME=DEBTS?
+Date: 21 Apr 1995 09:25:16 -0400
+
+     You have to understand in all this that the studios agenda is always
+to guarantee maximum return for the studio and its stockholders, and the
+minimum or nothing for those who create the product.  This is the modus
+operandi for *all* studios.
+ 
+     Example: I worked on MURDER, SHE WROTE as a writer/producer for two
+years.  It's a highly-rated top ten network series.  The shows air two or
+three times on network, then are taken off.  Such programs usually go into
+syndication, where the studio receives a per-episode fee from the
+syndicator.  In syndication, you get a straight residual, which for a
+third/fourth run (now the first syndicated run) would be a couple/three
+grand.  Not bad.
+ 
+     But more and more, shows like M,SW are sold to *cable* like USA
+Network, where the formula is different.  There you, the writer, get a
+percentage of the gross price paid per episode by the cable network.
+Okay, so far so good, right?  Except one day, some smart executive at
+Universal realized that the studio is also part owner of USA Network, and
+that by selling the episodes at market price, they were charging
+themselves an arm and a leg.  So why not charge the *bare minimum* to
+themselves, and sell the show cheap to their own branch?  So a show that
+would normally be sold to another cable network for, say, a couple
+hundred grand, one time, they turn around and sell instead to a cable
+network they own, where it can run indefinitely, and sell it for a couple
+hundred dollars...knowing full well that all the talent involved get a
+percentage of the purchase fee.
+ 
+     Result: the third/fourth run of one of my M,SW episodes (the first
+on USA) which, anywhere else, would bring in 2 or 3 grand brings in a
+grand total of....$28.
+ 
+     You know that old joke about the (ethnic group) actress who was so
+dumb she slept with the writer?  There's a reason...because she'd heard
+that in LA, *everyone* screws the writer.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: More Ellison bullshit!
+Date: 21 Apr 1995 19:20:24 -0400
+
+     So your response to perceived intolerance from Harlan for the
+views of others it to hope he's taken off the air, and drops dead.
+ 
+     Tolerance is a double-edged sword.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: regarding Babylon 5's ratings
+Date: 21 Apr 1995 20:01:16 -0400
+
+     Bear in mind you're comparing apples and oranges.  The top 20 shows
+in syndication include mainly game shows and talk shows.  You have to do
+what the studios do, and separate out the dramas from the rest of the
+pack.  And among dramas we do *very* well, particularly in our
+demographics.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: "Watch it cold"
+Date: 22 Apr 1995 01:30:33 -0400
+
+     If there were three episodes I'd say should be watched as cold as
+possible, I'd say..."In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum," "The Fall of Night,"
+and "The Long, Twilight Struggle."  (To some extent, I'd also inclulde
+[include] "Confessions and Lamentations," and "Divided Loyalties.")
+ 
+     Unfortunately, that's the bulk of the remaining episodes, as opposed
+to CoS, which was a one-off situation.  Hell, in some ways, when compared
+with "Struggle," "The Coming of Shadows" is a light comedy in which nothing
+much happens.
+ 
+     Remember, the deeper we go into the story, the more we're going to
+start cranking things.  Each new batch starts off with a lighter, "let's
+get acquainted" episode, but they turn fast.  So I don't know what can
+really be done about spoilers and stuff, except to hope for the best.
+ 
+     "Confessions" isn't per se a wham episode, for instance, but it does
+have some very sharp turns, and it's an extremely intense episode on a
+par with "Believers."  It makes no compromises and takes no prisoners, and
+I imagine it'll stir up about as much debate as did "Believers," if not
+more.  When we did playback after doing the audio mix a few days ago,
+there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
+ 
+     So while it isn't a whammer, it's an *emotional* episode, and you
+should come to it as unprepared as possible.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Subject: There All The Honor Lies -- SP
+Date: 22 Apr 1995 21:34:15 -0400
+
+     So after I'd read Peter's script, and decided to go with it, he
+asked about Ivanova's line, "This isn't some kind of Deep Space franchise,
+this place is ABOUT something."
+ 
+     "Are you really going to use that?" he asked.
+ 
+     "Absolutely," I said.  "It's fall-down funny."
+ 
+     Long pause.  "You people really ARE dangerous over there, aren't you?"
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Buttons?
+Date: 22 Apr 1995 21:34:35 -0400
+
+     Ah!  Yes, the reversal of buttons was a conscious decision.  Our
+costume designer asked which way I wanted to go with it, and I said yes,
+let's continue that tradition into the future.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Re: B5 CD
+Date: 23 Apr 1995 05:20:37 -0400
+
+     For track 12, Christopher did a much longer, full-length version of
+The Battle of the Line sequence, adding a lot of depth and letting it play
+out fully.  So yes, parts of it echo what's on the disk earlier, but in a
+better, extended-play version.  For me, it's one of the best tracks on the
+disk (though I somewhat prefer the American version over the European
+version, due to the strings).
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: SitW SD CGI??
+Date: 23 Apr 1995 05:40:50 -0400
+
+     The San Diego shots are models.  We're trying, in different episodes,
+models vs. CGI.  Next season, PTEN willing, we're going to try some new
+stuff in planetary models interlocked with CGI for cities and stuff, to
+help us further broaden out the series.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Attn. JMS: Larry DiTillio no l
+Date: 23 Apr 1995 05:42:42 -0400
+
+     The information is essentially correct.  This year, I wrote 15 out
+of 22 episodes.  Larry provided an additional 3.  That leaves 4 freelance
+scripts, and in all four of those cases, I did pretty much all of the
+rewriting on them.  Consequently, Larry spent a lot of his time more or
+less cooling his heels.  There really wasn't that much for him to do.
+Next season, I'll probably write 17 or 18, so again, there's not really
+enough for a story editor to *do*.  A story editor rewrites.
+ 
+     Also, this is the kind of show where I've set the parameters from day
+one (actually from 1987), and Larry's strength is in world-building and
+determining the direction of a show.  There isn't much room for that.  So
+overall, it seemed to make sense to free him up to go after shows where he
+can have more influence, do more rewrites and more original scripts; let
+him make his mark.  He has great strenths in areas not being utilized,
+particularly as a script doctor.  And there are several very interesting
+opportunities out there for him.
+ 
+     So while we're still allocating a budget for a story editor for next
+season, just in case I get swamped, right now there are no plans for any
+one new in that position.  It's just not something that fits into the
+unusual way that B5 operates, we've found.  (A story editor also works in
+generating stories or listening to pitches...and, again, those are all
+pretty much worked out ahead of time; all but one of the freelance scripts
+this season were based on assigned premises from me, based on my notes for
+this season).  Look for him soon in other projects where he can mold the
+direction in interesting and unique areas.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Re: So JMS won't spend the mon
+Date: 23 Apr 1995 05:47:41 -0400
+
+     Yeah, maybe it wasn't a direct shot this time, but you have to
+understand how Theron works.  It works something like this....
+ 
+     T: "That's a nice haircut."
+ 
+     S: "Thank you."
+ 
+     "It shows your profile to best effect."
+ 
+     "Thank you."
+ 
+     "Good sculpting on the back."
+ 
+     "Umm, hmm."
+ 
+     "So overall, it's a very nice haircut."
+ 
+     "Thank you."
+ 
+     "Well, for an axe murderer...."
+ 
+     After a while, y'know...why wait?
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Pak'Ma'Ra ! RA! RA!
+Date: 23 Apr 1995 05:54:45 -0400
+
+     The pak'ma'ra are indeed tech scavengers; the tentacles move (we do
+this via remote control), and are used in securing their food and moving
+it into the mouth cavity; their "teeth" are more like beaks in structure;
+their whole culture is based on the notion that they're basically
+superior to everyone else, which is why they eat carrion in part, to
+demonstrate their superiority over all others (they don't eat their own
+kind); they do breathe oxygen, but because of the shape of their mouths,
+cannot form human words, and thus rely on translation devices.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Kosh CGI Questio
+Date: 23 Apr 1995 05:54:57 -0400
+
+     All episodes will be done on time.  On the best of days, it takes 52
+days from start of filming to delivery; this one will take a bit longer,
+but still be delivered on time.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: att JMS wowee
+Date: 23 Apr 1995 06:16:21 -0400
+
+     "...just saw your picture on the web page.  You are a cutie pie!!!"
+ 
+     Actually, that picture is of Horatio P. Farquar, an explorer who was
+lost while pursuing stories of the Yeti far in the Himalayan mountains,
+and whose picture I used shamelessly for my own purposes.  In truth, I am
+two-headed (the other one only goes by the name Bob) and am frequently
+trotted out for the annual Cat Frightening Festival in La Mesa.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS: Minbari Questions
+Date: 23 Apr 1995 06:16:36 -0400
+
+     The Minbari do have magneto-gravitational control in limited ways.
+The ships are mainly cool shapes they came up with, in line with their
+particular aesthetic.  The Minbari mainly dislike Sheridan for HOW he won
+his battle, as well as for the fact that he did it at all.  You'll get
+more on this in the next ep.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Significance of "twi
+Date: 23 Apr 1995 06:18:27 -0400
+
+     Yes; work it out as you have, but take it further...we start with a
+point of departure...then after some revelations, examine the geometry of
+shadows, then begin to more forward, a race through dark plces.  We come
+toward the long dark, our past a distant star.  We carry the motif of a
+world getting dark.  The coming of shadows that darkens into the long
+twilight struggle, the last period between day and night...and we end the
+season on...the fall of night.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS - Influencing the fu
+Date: 23 Apr 1995 06:23:18 -0400
+
+     Nothing more the fans can do now but wait; time will now tell.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: favorite sf shows
+Date: 23 Apr 1995 18:31:44 -0400
+
+     Unfortunately, because of the demands of making B5, I don't generally
+get to watch a lot of TV.  I try to catch the X-Files whenever I can, and
+I'd have to say that's probably my personal favorite of what's out there
+right now.  (Fittingly, in my office, I don't have a B5 cup on my desk, I
+have an X-Files mug.)  I like MST3K enormously, and we had kind of an
+exchange program going; they sent me a picture personally autographed by
+all the main guys on the show, and we sent them a bunch of B5 caps.  They
+mentioned our show recently on their series, and now I have to find some
+way to repay the favor.
+ 
+     I've only seen a couple of VR5's and am thus far having a hard time
+getting into it.  That may change with more viewings.  I gave up on Earth 2
+and SeaQuest some time ago, though some folks have been trying to get me
+to take another look on E2, saying it's improved, so I'll try to give it
+another shot when I get some free time.
+ 
+     My favorite shows generally tend to be ones from a while back, like
+the Prisoner, the original Star Trek, Outer Limits, Thriller, Twilight
+Zone, Blake's 7 and a few others.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: JMS: What can a cellist do?
+Date: 23 Apr 1995 18:32:09 -0400
+
+     That's terrific.  I've printed it up and will pass it on to Mira when
+I see her next.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Real Life Aliens and B5
+Date: 24 Apr 1995 00:01:53 -0400
+
+     "I feel that B5 is the most likely candidate I have yet seen for the
+clandestine involvement of real aliens."
+ 
+     Note to myself: increase security.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Cheers and boos on the la
+Date: 24 Apr 1995 04:31:33 -0400
+
+     "I presume they are selling Londo dolls and the ones used in the show
+were samples."
+ 
+     Nope.  There are no Londo dolls.  No G'Kar dolls.  No dolls of any
+kind.  No B5 clocks or starfuries (minus the MicroMachines) or frisbees or
+postcards or the like.  There's *very* little out there.
+ 
+     Which is how we like it.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Re: Attn. JMS: Teddy Bear<spoi
+Date: 24 Apr 1995 04:31:48 -0400
+
+     Everything featured in the Babylon Emporium was just made up by us.
+Insofar as I know, none of it is real merchandise.  (Everyone, including
+the crew, are so starved for B5 stuff that when we finished filming the
+ep, we sold off the stuff, at cost, to those in the crew who wanted them.
+Two guesses who wound up with the Londo and G'Kar dolls....)
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS
+Date: 24 Apr 1995 05:04:31 -0400
+
+     On my office wall I have two large areas set aside for quotes, wh ich
+are on 2x3 placards.  I switch them in and out depending on my mood and the
+situation.  (Up now are "The point of no return.  That is the point which
+must be reached."  And "To define is to kill.  To suggest is to create."
+All the quotes are about writing in one way or another.)
+ 
+     Another of them, which will get its turn shortly, is "Writers are not
+necessarily corrupted by money.  Rather they are distracted, detoured into
+other venues."
+ 
+     I don't wanna be distracted.  Making TV and telling stories is hard
+enough without adding an extra layer of nonsense.  I make a good living.
+I agree to license the stuff I'd personally like to have.  But money has
+never really *meant* that much to me, except the freedom to write what I
+want, when I want, whenever I want.  When I left Murder, She Wrote to do
+B5, I took a pay cut even though the position was higher.  My agent said
+I was nuts.  That's fine.  Most of the jobs I've had, in the end I've
+walked off, despite people waving money, when I thought that I could no
+longer tell the stories I wanted to tell.
+ 
+     After a season on CAPTAIN POWER, when I wrote pretty much anything I
+wanted, I got the sense that the second season was going to be more in the
+control of the sponsor.  They put a deal on the table for year two; I had
+no other options waiting.  Nonetheless, I passed.  When I was on Jake and
+the Fatman, the company screwed over my exec producers, to whom I owed a
+great deal of allegiance.  When they quit, I also walked, even though this
+was my first major network staff credit, and I had nothing else pending,
+and in fact ended up not working for several months.
+ 
+     Point being...nothing *really* matters to me but telling a story, and
+being free to tell it the way I want.  And if I got into heavily trying to
+exploit every single dime out of B5, approving anything and everything,
+softened where the show was going to help it get lots of spinoffs....it
+wouldn't be the story I want to tell anymore.  A good part of what this
+show is, is subversive, and some elements are a bit on the controversial
+side.  If I had my eye on the dollar, I'd've never put "Believers" into
+production.  Or "Confessions and Lamentations" this season.
+ 
+     Also, I'm 40.  I'll be 41 in July.  If B5 goes its full 5 year run,
+I'll be 44/45 at the end.  And I will have said pretty much everything I
+want to say in TV.  At 45, I'll probably have 20 years in me to write all
+the novels I want to write before the game is called on account of
+darkness.  I really don't want to waste that time running a franchise when
+I should be telling stories.  You find your story, you get on the stage,
+tell it and get the hell off the stage.
+ 
+     Finally, I'm leery of money past a certain point.  Rod Serling wrote,
+in "The Velvet Alley," "Here's how they get you: they bring you to
+Hollywood, and they pay you vast amounts of money for what you write.
+Slowly, your standard of living begins to rise to where now you NEED that
+income every day to maintain it.  And then they threaten to take it away
+from you...and then they own you."
+ 
+     'Nuff said.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Spirituality spoilers and spec
+Date: 24 Apr 1995 05:04:53 -0400
+
+      Bob: not bad, not bad....
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Why no action figures?
+Date: 24 Apr 1995 23:41:55 -0400
+
+     I'm not *entirely* opposed to the idea of action figures, but let's
+a) do that a bit down the road, and b) make sure it's done *right*.  The
+last thing anyone wants is for this stuff to look crummy.  So while we've
+had some inquiries, my sense is to wait for the right time and company,
+rather than just rush out and do this stuff.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Posting followups
+Date: 25 Apr 1995 01:13:51 -0400
+
+     I use the GEnie internet gateway.  If I try to repeat the lines in a
+message back, using autotype, it skips lines and becomes unintelligible.
+There's no other software solution to this problem.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Too long between new epis
+Date: 25 Apr 1995 01:14:37 -0400
+
+     I have no control over the rerun schedule.  That's a PTEN decision,
+based on wanting new eps to show during sweeps.  I'd much rather they
+played 'em straight through...but hey, who listens to me?
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS - Ivanova Questions
+Date: 25 Apr 1995 01:15:15 -0400
+
+     There's a *very* serious Ivanova episode coming up in the remainder
+of this season.  And re: the stat badge...gold is for command, silver is
+for support/technical staff, so as liaison between those two, Ivanova's
+stat bar is split.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Merchandising...
+Date: 26 Apr 1995 02:45:09 -0400
+
+     The only problem with making a JMS producer doll is that ideally it
+would have to be anatomically correct, and that would cause it to keep
+tipping over on the shelf....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS BIG BANG CON!
+Date: 26 Apr 1995 02:48:00 -0400
+
+     Anything I write on line can be posted to other services.
+ 
+     And thanks.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Mamma don't let your babies gr
+Date: 26 Apr 1995 02:46:34 -0400
+
+     Actually, the security insignia isn't a target, it's a gunsight.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: JMS: LaserDisc Questions
+Date: 26 Apr 1995 03:53:01 -0400
+
+     Unfortunately, I don't yet know the answer to either of these
+questions, but when and if I do, I'll definitely post them.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: JMS: "There All *THE* Honor Li
+Date: 26 Apr 1995 03:51:09 -0400
+
+     I had the same THE thought, but Peter tells me it's a quote, and the
+quote has the THE in it, and by an act of faith I have come to believe
+him.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS: Why no action figures
+Date: 26 Apr 1995 04:04:44 -0400
+
+     Captain Power was, certainly, an extreme case, and yes, I walked off
+that show after the first season because I felt the merchandising was
+starting to drive the show, and determine where the stories were going to
+go.  That won't happen on this show because I won't *let* it.  If that
+makes me a little leery on this stuff...well, that's better than being too
+eager, I suppose.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Re: Thaxton's Return
+Date: 26 Apr 1995 04:31:40 -0400
+
+     1) There is no requirement to the stations that they take B5 to get
+Kung Fu.  This is, quite simply, a lie.
+ 
+     2) I have posted the ratings before.  They have continued to grow
+during new episodes, and fall back during reruns, as do all shows.  The
+statement that the ratings are going down is, quite simply, a lie.
+ 
+     But that's what Ford does.
+ 
+     So what else is new?
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Acts of Sacrifice - Ivanova
+Date: 26 Apr 1995 23:08:37 -0400
+
+     Where did the idea for Ivanova's sex scene come from?  Listen to the
+words...beat for beat, it's an average date, from meeting, dinner, sex, and
+vanishing shortly afterward.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Season 2 and 3 schedules?
+Date: 26 Apr 1995 23:08:04 -0400
+
+     The last season 2 episodes will be broadcast in July.  We're hearing
+that if we're picked up, it's 50/50 as to whether PTEN wants the new year
+3 episodes to start in November or January.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS BIG BANG CON!
+Date: 26 Apr 1995 23:06:13 -0400
+
+     Big Bang is a for-profit convention, like Creation, and we've had
+some real problems with them.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS INCOME=DEBTS?
+Date: 26 Apr 1995 23:12:19 -0400
+
+     Unfortunately, the whole selling-to-yourself strategy is totally
+legal, since each group makes up their own mind what to charge, and there
+really IS no going rate.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Sheridan's distress call  (max
+Date: 26 Apr 1995 23:12:47 -0400
+
+     In picking up a distress signal from an Earth warship, the Black Star
+would've swooped in and blown it to bits.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Alien Night?
+Date: 26 Apr 1995 23:33:07 -0400
+
+     "Alien Night" is something we're kinda keeping under wraps for now,
+until we get a firm production deal.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Re: Mamma don't let your babie
+Date: 26 Apr 1995 23:32:36 -0400
+
+     A gunsight from the POV of the shooter.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Subject: Ivanova's character developmen
+Date: 27 Apr 1995 05:20:12 -0400
+
+     The problem is that if you have Ivanova constantly threatening people,
+it gets real old real fast, and after a while loses any real menace or
+threat.  So you use it sparingly.  Otherwise it swiftly lapses into cliche.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: JMS in the UK this weekend
+Date: 27 Apr 1995 05:37:23 -0400
+
+     For those in the UK, Claudia Christian, Peter Jurasik and I will be
+swooping in for Babcom 95, held this weekend (the 29th and 30th) in
+Birmingham at the National Exhibition Center.  This will be a more fan
+friendly convention than is usually the case at event-style conventions.
+ 
+     We hear tickets are going fast, so if you're doing to go, best to
+look into it.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
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+Subject: ATTN JMS: Permission to Use B5
+Date: 9 May 1995 01:20:23 -0400
+
+     Alas, for contractual reasons, all that stuff has to go through
+Warner Bros.,and I suspect they'd turn it down.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: ANFaW "Cold Equation
+Date: 9 May 1995 01:28:54 -0400
+
+     I don't see *any* similarity whatsoever.  "Cold Equations" was most
+definitely NOT about a "teenager who accidentally 'spaces' himself."  For
+starters it was a girl, but MOST important, in "Cold Equations," it was a
+deliberate *choice* to walk out the airlock.  The whole premise of the
+story is that the young girl stows away on a ship bringing vaccine to a
+colony world.  Only other person on the ship is the pilot.  The ship is
+stripped down for speed; there's only enough fuel for the pilot, the ship,
+and the landing.  If she stays, the ship will run out of fuel on or just
+before re-entry, they'll die and the colonists will die.  If the pilot
+sacrifices himself, she can't land the ship on her own, same result.  So
+she must make the conscious decision to sacrifice herself to save the
+others, because you can't argue with math.
+ 
+     That is absolutely different from somebody screwing around and
+accidentally getting blown out an airlock.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS: Has the Arc Changed
+Date: 10 May 1995 00:37:04 -0400
+
+     Actually, no, believe or not the arc really hasn't changed much; it's
+gotten filled out a bit in places, but the direction hasn't altered.  I
+had always had kind of a (?) in the thing as to how to transition clearly
+from Sinclair to the Shadows, because I needed some way to connect the
+stories, but having Sinclair have a hook to the shadows just strained
+credulity past the breaking point.  Gradually I figured out a way to do
+that, and that (?) was filled.  Other than that, no; it's going where it
+was always going.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subject: SPACE BATTLES (some spoilers)(
+Date: 10 May 1995 00:37:23 -0400
+
+     Actually, all sides in battle use ECM (Electronic Counter Measures)
+to throw off the targeting systems on the "enemy" vessels.  But usually
+it only takes a couple of quick firings to compensate (which is what we've
+done).
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Harlan Ellison on TV Tonight
+Date: 10 May 1995 00:47:18 -0400
+
+     B5 conceptual consultant Harlan Ellison will be on Politically
+Incorrect tonight at 11 pst, check your local listings for local times.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Why Is Babylon 5 So Bad?
+Date: 10 May 1995 04:19:15 -0400
+
+     Dear S.S. (an appropriate acronym, assuming this is indeed your real
+name) ...there is a quote about books which applies just about as well to
+televsion.  I pass it on to you as the sole reasonable reply to your
+missive.
+ 
+     "A book is like a mirror.  If an ass peers in, you can't exactly
+expect an apostle to peer out."
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: To JMS: Stop the Conspiracy St
+Date: 10 May 1995 05:04:16 -0400
+
+     Short answer: No.
+ 
+     Medium answer, from Rod Serling, when a device he created for a
+fictional story (a bomb wired to a plane set to detonate when the plane
+dropped below a given altitude) ended up being used in real life: "A
+writer cannot be held accountable for the pathology of fools."
+ 
+     Long answer....
+ 
+     Fiction ain't the problem.  To say that it is "immoral" for SF
+writers to tell stories about government conspiracies is not only contrary
+to the very nature of fiction and SF in particular, it also misses the
+point by a thousand miles.
+ 
+     It isn't that folks in the backwoods have been watching TV shows or
+reading novels about fictional government conspiracies...it's that some
+folks have been making "documentaries" and writing tracts that are
+supposed to be THE TRUTH about what's going on.
+ 
+     It isn't fiction that's the problem...it's G. Gordon Liddy telling
+people that if they're going to shoot at ATF officers they ought to aim
+at the head because they wear flak jackets...it's Jesse Helms who told
+the press that if Clinton ever came to his state the Pres better bring a
+bodyguard with him...it's Rush Limbaugh and his other ilk who for years
+have been making the distinction between Liberals and Americans...it's
+fanatical elements within the Religious Right who feel the need to create
+vast government conspiracies that say the government is going to come and
+stamp the Number of the Beast on their forehead any moment now....
+ 
+     A climate of fear and paranoia and disloyalty for the crime of
+disagreement has been created and fostered by those who have most to
+gain from it.  And now they are trying to run from what they have done.
+It ain't TV shows about stuff happening in the far future.  I don't think
+anyone out there watching B5 has any belief whatsoever that this stuff is
+real, and present, and can be responded to.  If there are one or two
+lunatics who might possibly read something into it, they could do so to
+ANY program, regardless of content.  People have committed crimes and
+murder and gone insane because of things in the Bible...should we therefore
+ban the Bible?  One recent movie-goer was killed because he got the last
+bag of popcorn at a movie theater, and another patron was pissed off
+about it.  Should we ban popcorn?  There's nothing you can do that someone
+won't read something into.  Should we destroy all storytelling out of the
+fear that somewhere, someone MIGHT be provoked by it?  You can't live in
+fear.
+ 
+     Your concern obviously grows out of the Oklahoma situation, but this
+has no bearing upon that whatsoever.  The problem is poverty, and
+ignorance, and political rhetoric, and manipulation in the real world,
+not the fictional one.
+ 
+     A TV writer can turn an audience against a killer, a stalker, a
+criminal.
+ 
+     It takes a politician to turn us against ourselves.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Garabaldi's Eyes??!
+Date: 11 May 1995 01:09:21 -0400
+
+     (sigh)  Our rotoscope EFX guy was waiting for a bunch of PPG EFX to
+finish rendering in that battle scene, and was bored, and like many such
+EFX types, filled in the eyes of Garibaldi with weird stuff while waiting
+around.  When the other scene finished rendering, he got out, believing
+that he had not saved that one frame.  Unknowingly, he had.
+ 
+     Nobody caught it until after broadcast.
+ 
+     We talked.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Re: In the Shadows of Z'Ha'Dum
+Date: 11 May 1995 16:23:01 -0400
+
+     When Delenn underwent the chrysalis, it modified the epidermal layer
+at the back of the head, making it somewhat smaller, more human; this left
+a gap between the bone (which grows out from the temples and joins at the
+back, like antlers in reverse), and the hair comes through this gap.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: New Vegas
+Date: 11 May 1995 16:24:48 -0400
+
+     New Vegas is on Mars.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: JMS!  WWII/Za'ha'Dum Question
+Date: 11 May 1995 16:25:57 -0400
+
+     Correct; Delenn and Kosh have said nothing about G'Kar's claims
+because they're trying to keep a low profile.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Delenn's Hair???
+Date: 12 May 1995 01:38:34 -0400
+
+     I had her hair changed.  I felt it was starting to make her look VERY
+severe, and arch.  I much prefer the new version.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Taking No Prisoners,
+Date: 12 May 1995 01:38:44 -0400
+
+     Thanks.  Certainly the last 4-5 episodes of the season are totally
+uncompromising and unflinching.  Very tough stuff in places.  But that's
+kinda the fun.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: From jms re: Internet Gateway
+Date: 17 May 1995 22:22:21 -0400
+
+     To those who've inquired: my regular GEnie internet gateway is down
+and has been for the last several days.  This happens periodically, for
+whatever bizarre reason.  I can still get private email, but not the
+usenet.  It generally comes back up again in a bit.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Subject: Good writing Bad writing in Za
+Date: 17 May 1995 18:24:31 -0400
+
+     Except, of course, that Earth identicards use genetic fingerprints,
+which they have access to, and the idea that the ID is forged or a fraud
+could be dispensed with in, oh, about ten seconds by just checking his
+DNA against the file.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Enough of this "B5 is this and
+Date: 18 May 1995 01:09:56 -0400
+
+     What I find fascinating in this whole discussion is that, whenever a
+novel comes out, people don't generally go through page by page and say,
+ s"Oh, I think Niven was ripping off/drawing from "Lensman" when he did this
+part."  They generally only do this to TV people...because it's assumed
+that TV people don't have an original idea in their head, and can ony
+(only) borrow from other people.
+ 
+     Though I may sometimes nod to one or another landmark of SF, I'm not
+doing the Prisoner, Lord of the Rings, Childhood's End, MacBeth, the
+Illiad, The Mountains of Madness, or any of the thirty other works that
+I'm supposed to be doing, all mutually contradictory.  I'm telling this
+story, my story, and though it's nice to be compared to such other works,
+it does become bothersome after a while when everybody tries to pin down
+which work I'm supposed to be "doing" when they NEVER do this to novelists,
+because this is TV.  C'mon, people, I've written published novels, and
+short stories, and plays, and radio dramas, and I *do* have a brain in my
+head to maybe make up something on my own, y'know.
+ 
+     (And yes, my server is back up again, though I think it doesn't have
+anything from the days in which I wasn't online, and just picked up from
+today.)
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS: a few background que
+Date: 18 May 1995 02:42:29 -0400
+
+     Security personnel are part or EA, but primarily hired by and work
+for B5.  Garibaldi is part of Earthforce proper, and is ranked a Chief
+Warrant Officer, correct.  And the Narns did help us during our last war.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Vir's Comments: ItSoZ Spoilers
+Date: 18 May 1995 02:42:59 -0400
+
+     Then again, there's always the character of God's Fool, who wanders
+in and out of the most dangerous situations, is reckless with his life,
+yet in the end is the only one to survive.  Just a thought....
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Subject: JMS: You kids are warped, you
+Date: 18 May 1995 02:43:17 -0400
+
+     Yeah, the air freshener was a cool touch....
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+Subject: Shadows must be incompetent! (
+Date: 18 May 1995 02:43:34 -0400
+
+     The shadows are only incompetent if there is not a reason why they
+have not chosen to pass beyond the rim.  There is.  And they *are*
+currently playing it slow and patient; they *have* learned.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Worldcon in August
+Date: 18 May 1995 02:42:44 -0400
+
+     At this point, no, no one from B5 is slated for Worldcon or Nasfic.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS  - Anna *Sheridan*?
+Date: 18 May 1995 02:44:04 -0400
+
+     Anna chose to take Sheridan's last name.  Her decision.  You have the
+option.  Some do, some don't.  If you start to pass rules that no woman
+CAN take her husband's name or she's betraying something, then you're being
+just as restrictive as those who insist a woman MUST take her husband's
+name.  Me, I'm pro-choice on every level.  She felt like it.
+ 
+     (And I note that my own spousal overunit kept her own name.  But then,
+who in her right mind WOULD take Straczynski...?)
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Official... or not!
+Date: 18 May 1995 19:33:21 -0400
+
+     Unless they're dealing with the Dell books, no, this Starbooks thing
+definitely ain't legit.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS, The Word ZaHaDum. S
+Date: 18 May 1995 19:31:26 -0400
+
+     A very good analysis of the name.  And no rest, as we're still in
+post production, and hopefully gearing up soon.  (Well, a little rest.)
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Foul Balls in "KNIVE
+Date: 18 May 1995 20:53:11 -0400
+
+     Actually, Sheridan WAS hitting fair and home run balls in the front
+of the show; later, though, when he was more rattled, they were all foul.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN:JMS--Thanks for Vir
+Date: 18 May 1995 20:52:51 -0400
+
+     Thanks.  I like Vir a lot.  Many folks were willing to write him off
+in the beginning, not understanding that there was more beneath the
+surface (a problem Vir has also had in his "life").  But you gotta be
+careful; characters have a way of surprising you.  And I like that, and
+intended that, Vir be the first one to stand up to Morden.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: JMS:  Icarus Problems
+Date: 18 May 1995 20:57:43 -0400
+
+     The Icarus is a zero-g interior vessel while in spaceflight; the crew
+just has to deal with it.  It piggy-backs on larger, jump capable ships,
+making arrangements for pickup after X-days or weeks with the same or
+another ship.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Icarus name connection in
+Date: 18 May 1995 20:58:02 -0400
+
+     No, I picked Icarus because I was up to I in the Name Dictionary.
+ 
+     Yes, unless I've been unknowingly receiving spirit messages, table
+tappings or divine revelation, it was an intentional connection.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+Subject: I hate this damn Greek dichoto
+Date: 18 May 1995 20:54:27 -0400
+
+     Of course, you're assuming the shadows are evil sui generis.  May not
+be that simple.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Congratulations to JMS! (Was R
+Date: 18 May 1995 21:13:07 -0400
+
+     Let me clarify this.  We have not -- NOT -- been officially renewed,
+nor is PTEN looking for money.  Every year, the two parts of PTEN (the
+stations, and Warner Bros.) engage in negotiations over that year, in
+terms of deal points, commercial times available to sell, number of runs
+per week and other areas.  They have indicated to us that they would like
+the PTEN shows to continue, but that is all contingent upon both sides
+working out their differences on deal stuff.  That is where we stand at
+this moment.  It's taking a while for them to nail all this stuff down.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: JMS : CGi in "And Now For a Wo
+Date: 18 May 1995 21:13:33 -0400
+
+     "Whoever thought up the idea of *security cams* for FX shots...."
+ 
+     That's how it was scripted.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Left hand?
+Date: 18 May 1995 21:13:50 -0400
+
+     I'm right-handed.  Most of our cast are lefties.  Who knows why...?
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: JMS: What rastB5 means to me..
+Date: 18 May 1995 21:14:04 -0400
+
+     That's wonderful, and I appreciate seeing it.  It's been fun here,
+too, all things considered.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Now you did it!!!
+Date: 18 May 1995 21:14:21 -0400
+
+     The balance of season two eps will show up in reruns between the end
+of May and the next batch/last batch of year two eps...which I've learned
+will be held until *OCTOBER* to (in theory) help folks get a running start
+on year three (still awaiting final word).  Also, WB is concerned about
+running year one reruns because it might confuse people to see a different
+CO running the place.
+ 
+     (I just report the news, I don't make it.)
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: One question answered, anyway
+Date: 18 May 1995 21:28:24 -0400
+
+     Again, look at the Kosh/Morden scene in "Signs."  A light is
+suddenly blown out off to one side.  Morden didn't move.  So who did
+it...but his constant companions?
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Subject: What happened to Harlan's voic
+Date: 18 May 1995 21:28:40 -0400
+
+     All the voiceovers on PTEN shows were dropped this season, us, Kung
+Fu, and Pointman.  Corporate decision.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: why ask the question at all?
+Date: 18 May 1995 21:29:15 -0400
+
+     Because the story's not just about causing conflict.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: The one problem my gf has with
+Date: 19 May 1995 01:58:46 -0400
+
+      Your girlfriend is a yak?  This seems very strange to me.  But if it
+makes you happy....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: References
+Date: 19 May 1995 02:05:43 -0400
+
+     Securecam is NOT a reference to Max Headroom.  It is a work formed
+out of Security and Camera, which is the function of the ones mounted on
+the station, as Maintcam goes on the maintainance bots.  The Psi Corps
+line in the commercial is not a reference to Paranoia.
+ 
+     Not everything in this show is a reference to some other show.  We
+do have some interest in doing our *own* story, rather than nodding to
+every series on the face of the planet, and not all concepts started in
+the other shows that used them.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS Who do we write about
+Date: 19 May 1995 02:06:01 -0400
+
+     Airing schedule decisions are made by Warner Bros.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Neurotic Question
+Date: 19 May 1995 02:06:15 -0400
+
+     He said stop because Zack had found the right wavelength (at least
+briefly) and didn't want him to go further and lose it again.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Subject: This is going too far
+Date: 19 May 1995 02:05:27 -0400
+
+     Then again, you are assuming that you are being told the truth about
+the bothersome phone call.  I'm not saying it *ain't* true, or that it is,
+only that I've seen this gag pulled before, where somebody comes in, posts
+a message that gets an argument going, gets ganged up on, and then says
+he or she is being "threatened" or intimidated in some way, in order to
+play the victim (and also win an unwinnable argument) and get people on
+his/her side.
+ 
+     In all the years I've been on the nets, I haven't encountered one real
+case of this, and given the nature of discussion on this forum, there have
+been *real major* flamewars which cause this one to pale into
+insignificance, and if THOSE didn't provoke such calls, I don't see why
+this one would, all of a sudden.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS says PTEN wants to del
+Date: 19 May 1995 02:19:07 -0400
+
+     There are NO "production time restraints" involved in delaying the
+last 4 episodes until October, which can be easily verified by the fact
+that we'll be delivering all the finished episodes in time for the UK to
+air these same last 4 episodes in June/July.  They'll just sit on a shelf
+here in the US until October.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Season 2 Delay/18 we
+Date: 19 May 1995 02:19:20 -0400
+
+     Warners is reluctant to rerun season one episodes because they're
+afraid of confusing the audience with a different CO on B5.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: When Will He Put It
+Date: 19 May 1995 02:25:59 -0400
+
+     Remember, we the audience have information withheld from Sheridan.
+But he'll have it all pretty much together by season's end.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Notes from jms
+Date: 19 May 1995 04:04:44 -0400
+
+     Some quickies....
+ 
+     1) Claudia Christian, Bill Mumy and I will be appearing (on various
+days/times) at the Creation MegaShow to be held at the Anaheim Convention
+Center, in California, May 27-28.  I don't know when they'll be up, but
+I'm slated for Sunday.  (Plus Mark Hammil, Stan Lee and some Voyager
+folks.)
+ 
+     2) Parents with small kids who watch B5 may want to consider
+screening the next episode, "Confessions and Lamentations," first, in
+order to determine how to talk to your kids about it.  It's a *very*
+intense episode and uncompromising.
+ 
+     3) Yes, as discussed elsewhere here, Warners has scheduled the last
+four episodes of this season to run in October, to build momentum toward
+what (we hope) will be the season three debut, though no official word
+has yet been given on year three.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: More "Old Friends?"
+Date: 20 May 1995 04:57:57 -0400
+
+     No plans for Ironheart just now.  We will be seeing Draal again this
+season.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS Who do we write a
+Date: 20 May 1995 04:46:27 -0400
+
+      I cannot make a formal statement on this in either direction.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Z'Ha'Dum pronumciati
+Date: 20 May 1995 19:17:08 -0400
+
+     The difference is just in accent.  ZA HA DOOM is the way I pronounce
+it, but ZA cHA DOOM is also acceptable (from someone who's learned to
+more or less accept the 47 different ways in which one may pronounce
+straczynski).
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: B5 Book 3: Blood Oath
+Date: 21 May 1995 03:59:12 -0400
+
+     As stated, all of the B5-related items -- books, comics, merchandise,
+you name it -- go through my hands.  Usually I have only minor notes; in
+some cases, I have more substantive notes.  Nobody's fault, it just
+happens.  When you've got diverse hands tugging the B5 universe in various
+directions, sooner or later someone's going to go down the wrong road.  It
+is my job, and responsibility, to pull it back when that happens.  That's
+the whole point.
+ 
+     Book #3 had, as stated, gone down some wrong roads, and needed to be
+brought back into alignment with the series.  I had a substantial number
+of notes.  Not John's fault, it just Is.  Or Was.  The revisions required
+to bring the book back into line were going to be enough to push back the
+publication date by a month or two.  Dell wasn't exactly thrilled with
+the idea.  I insisted.  We went back and forth.  Finally, the revisions
+were implemented.  Hence the slight delay.  (The revised manuscript has
+already come and gone through my office, and been approved, thanks to
+John's careful revisions.)
+ 
+     No relation to the other PTEN stuff; this is just jms being a pain in
+the ass.  But that's part of the process, so that when you see something
+with the B5 name on it, you know it's been done reasonably right.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Re: C&L reaction: spoilers
+Date: 23 May 1995 01:26:06 -0400
+
+     Re: Lyta and G'Kar...G'Kar *specifically* stated in that scene that
+there would have to be substantial genetic manipulation to make the
+mating work.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS - Alternate Distribut
+Date: 23 May 1995 22:49:33 -0400
+
+     Due to the nature of our contract with PTEN, which in essence owns
+the copyright to B5, I don't think there *are* any alternatives.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Screw the plague! (possible sp
+Date: 24 May 1995 00:51:14 -0400
+
+     Next time I will try and locate every other producer in town and
+see what they plan to produce, so I can plan accordingly.  When I wrote
+the episode, Outbreak hadn't been promoted yet or known about, Voyager
+hadn't aired, ER hadn't told me what they were going to do...if I'd
+known there would be such a glut...well, I probably would've done so
+anyway, because this isn't so much about the plague and saying its'
+dangerous, but about our attitudes when we are confronted by this, which
+really hasn't been dealt with that much in SF.  (And I'm sorry, but
+don't even *try* to bring the Voyager story into this; the ship is
+threatened by a cheese contamination?  I almost fell off my chair.)
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: So-- how much does it cost to
+Date: 24 May 1995 03:22:53 -0400
+
+     The budget for B5 is classified, but I can say it's under one
+million per episode.  (ST is generally $1.4 to $1.6 million.)
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: which comes first...
+Date: 24 May 1995 04:47:55 -0400
+
+     Actually, the chronological order was *supposed* to be "Knives," THEN
+"Z'ha'dum."  In "Knives" you get the reminder about Anna, then in
+"Z'ha'dum" you get the payoff.  That was originally how they were intended
+to be aired, but there was *so much* CGI work and rotoscope work and
+creature animation involved in "Knives" that it got flopped to second in
+that order.  So while it works *best* the way it was intended, it still
+works okay in this order.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Some technical questions
+Date: 24 May 1995 04:54:42 -0400
+
+     The majority of those questions are best left to Ron to one day
+explain in a tech manual, as he has more of the hard-science info at his
+fingertips than I do.  Certainly, both tachyon and ansibles are part of
+an instantaneous communications system.  And yes, there was some amount
+of conscription during the wars.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Subject: "Rip-Offs" and Con Organizing;
+Date: 24 May 1995 20:51:23 -0400
+
+     I would venture that there has been some change in the tone and
+attitude of some conventions over the years, not always favorable.  Now,
+bear in mind, I've been a fan of SF for all my life, I've gone to cons
+for well over 15 years as Just Another Guy, so in some of this I have my
+Fanboy hat on, though from time to time my Producerboy hat may slip on
+as well.
+ 
+     There are some conventions I never miss; LosCon here in LA, and San
+Diego Comic Con, because both have a sense of real fun about them, and
+the people running them are generally swell (absent one or two years of
+LosCon when, I dunno, something went weird at the ConCom level).  As a
+rule, Westercon is great, Icon is great, and though I haven't had that
+much exposure to Chicago ComicCon, that seems pretty nifty as well.
+ 
+     But over the years, at some other conventions (not all of them, but
+a growing number), you start to run into a problem in fan/pro
+relationships.  One convention I know of (no names) didn't bother to send
+out invitations to the pros or offer guest passes because "Well, they
+always come every year ANYway, so why spend the money on stamps?  BECAUSE
+IT'S POLITE TO BE ASKED, YOU NUMBSKULL.  Consequently, a number of pros
+passed and didn't come.
+ 
+     I've had a real problem with a couple of recent WorldCons, where I
+shelled out my own money as a pro with a whole lotta TV SF credits to
+fly up, paid for my own room, transportation, everything...and was told
+upon arrival that even having done all this, and after they'd used my
+name to bring in more people, they WOULDN'T EVEN GIVE ME A GUEST PASS to
+the convention.  I had to pay to get in.  When they pulled this one on me
+in San Francisco, I chewed those involved several new orifices, and only
+went to the one panel I really wanted to do, and otherwise said "screw
+it."
+ 
+     More and more, it seems, conventions which rely on pros to draw
+attendees adopt a give-a-shit attitude toward those pros, as though tyey
+(they) are *expected* to perform, and should be happy for the chance to
+appear anywhere.  I cannot tell you the number of calls I get from people
+putting cons together *right now* that explain, "Yes, we want you as our
+GoH, but you'll have to pay your own way at every step," often including
+buying admission.  When you protest, they get snippy and say, "Well, you
+know, we're doing this for YOUR benefit, to give you exposure to your
+show to the fans, we're doing you a favor."
+ 
+     At which point I usually hang up the phone hard enough to shatter
+phone lines from here to New Orleans.
+ 
+     Now let me repeat...this is not the standard, but it has been
+happening enough, and growing, that a lot of pros are having second
+thoughts about the whole convention idea.  A number of 'em just won't go
+anymore...and where that's unfortunate is that it hurts the goodly number
+of great conventions put on by terrific people, and there are many.
+ 
+     It's caused me to be very selective in the conventions I attend, and
+I work hard with my cast, who are new to all this, to try and help them
+avoid any that I know are going to be trouble.
+ 
+     I'm not sure what the root of the problem is, whether it's some fans
+taking pros for granted, or the growth of cons as Big Business rather than
+just a chance to have fun and hang out, or what.  So I can't even begin to
+describe what needs to be done, only to agree with Paul that there is a
+problem, but to disagree with him on the notion that there aren't good ones
+out there.  Yes, you can be taken advantage of, and that happens more than
+it should in every area, and SF cons are no exception.  But I don't think
+it's time yet to throw the proverbial baby out with the proverbial
+bathwater.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Scientific Progress goes BOINK
+Date: 24 May 1995 21:42:07 -0400
+
+     Tom, we *do* have a medical/biological advisor, whose primary
+comment on the notion that a virus couldn't pass between one species
+and another..."We have yet to contact one other alien life form to make
+an analysis.  We do not know for a fact that their biology will be
+radically different than our own.  Until we actually make contact, it's
+as likely as not."  A biologist works from what's known; unless you've got
+a specimen of alien life somewhere and aren't showing it to anyone, or
+you're simply making a guess, which is neither more nor less correct until
+we have something testable in our hands.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Re: Take my Biologist, please!
+Date: 24 May 1995 23:30:48 -0400
+
+     "...they are very similar in their cellular/biochemical makeup."
+EXACTLY.  That's why it was stated in those specific terms in the course
+of the episode.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: B5 Video and Time Ou
+Date: 25 May 1995 01:50:42 -0400
+
+    Yes, please, by all means, send a copy of both, actually, to me at
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.  Thanks!
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Was that all? (spoilers for "C
+Date: 25 May 1995 20:40:50 -0400
+
+     Suffice to say there's one more major hit yet to come, and I do mean
+major.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Subject: ATT JMS: other episodes out of
+Date: 25 May 1995 20:46:49 -0400
+
+     I think there are one or two out of order, but at this point I'll be
+damned if I can remember anymore....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Re: "Rip-Offs" and Con Organiz
+Date: 25 May 1995 20:57:55 -0400
+
+     Re: Tom C.'s statement that he "had to call in a lot of favors" to get
+us into CapriCon is one of the -- no, make that THE -- most ludicrous
+thing I have ever heard.  More of his trying to inflate his position.  I
+suspect that if Michael O'Hare or I or anyone else showed up at a con, we
+probably wouldn't have a hard time getting in, given the number of requests
+that come in for their presence.
+ 
+     More CMC bullshit.  Pure and simple, and as with all the CMC bullshit,
+painfully obvious for what it is.  Which is one of many reasons I withdrew
+any endorsement from B5 for their "event."  I wouldn't work with these
+people if I were dying of cancer and they were paying in chemotherapy.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: For JMS:  Cons and Con Jobs
+Date: 25 May 1995 21:20:59 -0400
+
+     Dan'l...you make a lot of good points. The only one I'd argue with
+is the "Worldcon is an exhibition, and all attendees at businsss
+exhibitions pay to get in."  (Paraphrase)  Not true.  Invariably, any
+good exhibition of business convention allows for industry passes; I was
+at E3, the big multimedia exhibition/convention in LA a week or so ago,
+with 30-40,000 attendees, and media pros/industry types were comp'd,
+because it's the presence of these individuals that brings in others.  If
+Worldcon is, as you say, more a business than a convention (which is
+on one level kinda less than it was intended, he said wistfully), then
+it should begin acting like one.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: New B5 CGI AVIs on AOL
+Date: 25 May 1995 21:23:35 -0400
+
+     IF the clips are directly provided by Warner Bros., as is the case
+with the avi's uploaded to AOL, then they may be re-uploaded anywhere.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS Series 2, Channel 4 a
+Date: 25 May 1995 21:28:01 -0400
+
+      The shows will continue to air weekly.
+ 
+                                                        jms
+
+Subject: C&L Analysis *SPOILERS*
+Date: 25 May 1995 22:52:27 -0400
+
+     What you also have to do is step back for a moment and remember that
+the dinner began prior to Keffer and the rest leaving B5; and was ending
+about the time they got back.  Add up the time indicated, and you've got
+a ritual that has gone on for at LEAST 3-4 hours now, probably closer to
+5-6; seated in a small room, legs crossed, after what was almost certainly
+a busy day.  Show me somebody who WOULDN'T doze off after a while.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: C&L (spoilers)
+Date: 25 May 1995 23:10:04 -0400
+
+     John: you have made a very perceptive observation.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Re: "Rip-Offs" and Con Organiz
+Date: 25 May 1995 21:27:40 -0400
+
+     1) Tom C. informed me that arrangements had been made with Capricon
+for the bunch of us to appear there on Saturday, though explaining that it
+"couldn't be put into the program because we didn't have an exact time."
+Which seemed kinda funny to me at the time.
+ 
+     2) Upon arriving, at Tom's insistence (I at no time even knew about
+the convention until Tom told us we were booked to stop by as a "goodwill
+investment"), it did seem that *nobody* knew we were coming, which upset
+me more than a little.
+ 
+     3) I did insist on a room rather than being stuck in the dealer's
+room, at a table selling unauthorized merchandise.
+ 
+     4) As we left the convention, I had a very angry conversation with
+Tom, in that insufficient groundwork had been done, no preparations or
+arrangements had been made, and the entire thing was sloppily done, and
+that it couldn't be allowed to be done this way again.
+ 
+     So Bruce, if you're going to start talking about "the net of a
+thousand lies," I strongly suggest you get your OWN facts straight first,
+because all of points 1-4 preceding can be verified by all the cast
+members who were in that car.  You, I note, were not present.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: JMS: and anyone else who knows
+Date: 26 May 1995 02:20:03 -0400
+
+     To answer your questin: I will be at the Anaheim Convention Center on
+Sunday at the Creation MegaShow.  Claudia and Bill Mumy will also be there
+thoughI think Bill is Saturday only.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Big Bang Warning from jms
+Date: 26 May 1995 02:35:47 -0400
+
+     I just received a message from someone I know that there is an ad for
+the Big Bang Convention in the current issue of STAR WARS INSIDER that
+just came out listing me as attending.  I am in the process of getting my
+hands on the actual ad to verify this, but since the source is a reliable
+one, I wanted to alert anyone who might see this that I am most definitely
+NOT attending, CMC/Tom Christofferson has known this for months now, and
+the advertisement is absolutely false in that regard.  He has been
+forbidden to use any references or representations regarding me or Warner
+Bros., and if this information turns out correct, and I have no reason to
+doubt that at the moment, this will be turned over to lawyers.
+ 
+     Meanwhile, to repeat: I will NOT be attending this convention, nor
+is this convention in any way endorsed by Babylonian Productions or PTEN
+or Warner Bros.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Re: "Rip-Offs" and Con Organiz
+Date: 26 May 1995 21:20:32 -0400
+
+     It's very sad, Bruce, that you think the only way to get a response
+is to insult people and use emotionally-laden "hot-buttons" to try and
+inflame them.
+ 
+     I've generally found that a reasoned, simple, polite question gets
+answered far more often.  Perhaps next time you should try it.
+ 
+     Jerk.*
+ 
+                                                              jms
+ 
+        (*emotional hot-button #47, I knew you wouldn't mind)
+
+Subject: Shadows and the facts of life
+Date: 26 May 1995 21:20:59 -0400
+
+     Morden never said "wait" in the hall with Talia.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS detractors take note
+Date: 26 May 1995 21:22:14 -0400
+
+     Exactly.  You will note that Macabee says, of the Ministry, "...or
+Minipax, as we like to call it around the office."  It's an in-house
+joke, not the real name of the thing.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Re: "Rip-Offs" and
+Date: 26 May 1995 21:22:43 -0400
+
+     I've only heard back second- and third-hand, but from what I haer,
+(hear), "da guys" had a great time at Marcon.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  More thumbs up
+Date: 26 May 1995 21:21:47 -0400
+
+     Thanks; all support gratefully accepted.  Welcome to the fold....
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Re: C&L Analysis *SPOILERS*
+Date: 26 May 1995 21:51:04 -0400
+
+     Londo has not yet finished doing exactly what the shadows wish, though
+he has made a good start of it; and no, there were very few others involved
+in the Narn/Centauri war.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: C&L: NO Spoilers!
+Date: 26 May 1995 21:53:46 -0400
+
+     Frederick: thanks....
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Re: "Rip-Offs" and Con Organiz
+Date: 26 May 1995 21:50:13 -0400
+
+     Here's a dilemma I'd like to throw out to those who've run conventions
+before, because I don't have a good answer for it, and maybe it'd help to
+illuminate the discussion a bit.
+ 
+     I was talking to X, who is a prime mover behind one of the for-profit
+convention companies.  I noted, in the course of the conversation, my
+surprise that Actor Y had not been invited to many conventions by that
+company.  X's response: "Well, that's because Actor Y keeps showing up at
+fan conventions for free.  How can we justify paying someone who's lowered
+his/her market value like that?"
+ 
+     Initial reaction: that's rather odious thinking.
+ 
+     Secondary and tertiary reactions: you're an actor.  You don't really
+come out of the SF field, you don't know the ins and outs, or what the
+diff is between a fan con and a profit con.  Convention A asks you to do
+their convention, and will pay $4,000 plus transportation and airfare.
+Convention B asks you to their convention, but can't pay anything but the
+hotel and a guest pass.  Actors are not limitless pools of money; they
+have the same fiscal nuts to crack as everyone else...mortgage, car,
+alimony, kids, doctors, name it.
+ 
+     It does put things very much in the favor of the paying cons when it
+comes to actors and the like.  How does one tell an actor not to do it?
+(Not that it is my job or anyone else's to do so, and I'm not entirely
+sure it would be *right* to do so...any opportunity an actor has to
+perform for an audience, and be properly compensated for that performance,
+should be seized.)  So maybe it isn't so much "don't do this one," as "be
+OPEN to the other type as well."  But then how do you counter the X/Y
+conversation above?
+ 
+     It is, frankly, a real mess....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: "Chrysalis" question
+Date: 26 May 1995 22:25:27 -0400
+
+     As I recall, she intended primarily to tell him of the souls business.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Home world destroyed?  <S
+Date: 26 May 1995 22:25:05 -0400
+
+     I didn't say destroyed, I said decimated; and no, this wasn't it.
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: diversification of s
+Date: 27 May 1995 01:38:04 -0400
+
+     I think it's more a case of those species who might find B5 a
+habitable place, tend to go there.  I think we'll continue to see more
+diversification as the techniques to realize that dramatically continue
+to increase.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Subject: PC Babylon
+Date: 27 May 1995 05:48:26 -0400
+
+     PC's got nothing to do with it.  But 1) the syph epidemic didn't
+occur to me, and 2) this was nowhere NEAR the level of plague that we were
+addressing.  It didn't occur to me while writing it, and if it had, I
+probably would've excluded it because it wasn't relevant.  I would also
+add that *all* sides in this particular storyline acted with varying
+degrees of irrationality, so if there was one side or the other held up
+as wiser or better, I sure didn't see it.  Or write it.
+ 
+     There are legitimate complaints one can bring of political
+correctness.  Unfortunately, it has gained such wide currency, and is
+used so broadly in non-applicable areas, that the term has lost most of
+its meaning and effectiveness.  Nowadays PC is meant to mean anything one
+disagrees with, anything with a possible moral or idea, to denigrate
+anything and everything but absolute rudeness.  It's a dismissive, nothing
+more.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Re: JMS: Home world destroyed?
+Date: 28 May 1995 01:51:03 -0400
+
+     Keith...re: decimated defined...that would be telling.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Pros at Cons
+Date: 28 May 1995 01:51:20 -0400
+
+     Actually, I don't tend to use the hospitality suite much at cons;
+I generally hang out in the halls or in the dealer's room or in going to
+panels, rather than hiding out.  I also don't tend to eat much before a
+presentation as it kafuffles my synapses and all I can do is stand there
+and belch (which, granted, is some small improvement over my usual
+performance).
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Actor's addresses?
+Date: 28 May 1995 02:19:37 -0400
+
+     Anyone involved in making B5 (actors, crew, others) are reachable at
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: JMS: San Diego Comic Con
+Date: 28 May 1995 02:19:52 -0400
+
+     I *believe* that I'm slated for both that Saturday and Sunday.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Attn:JMS- Any "Con's" on this
+Date: 28 May 1995 02:20:14 -0400
+
+     Closest I'm coming is Chicago comic con in July; I think there may
+be a Florida convention sometime next year.  I don't get around a lot...
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Maybe have a B5 CGI competitio
+Date: 28 May 1995 03:37:58 -0400
+
+     Only problem: all CGI for this show must be *created under contract*,
+not purchased after the fact, as a work for hire.  A competition is simply
+not workable.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Re: "Rip-Offs" and Con Organiz
+Date: 28 May 1995 03:46:41 -0400
+
+     It's probably a glitch in my brain, but I rarely evaluate conventions
+in terms of how "useful" they are, but rather if I and folks seem to have
+a good time.  So in that sense, I probably enjoy the fan-cons more, because
+there's more room for interaction.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Someone's Impersonating jms
+Date: 28 May 1995 04:38:00 -0400
+
+     I recently received information that someone is impersonating me in
+Internet Relay Chat.  This person has been going under the handle of
+straczynski@nwlink.com.  I have just sent this creep a message privately
+outlining the whole *host* of civil, criminal and related laws under which
+I will prosecute him if he continues in this action.  Be advised that this
+person is out there, and if you see this address, or anything similar,
+be advised this person is committing fraud.  Anyone who wants to further
+assist with tracking down this person is welcome, though we already have
+quite a bit.  Email replies only.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: C&S and Delenn (SPOI
+Date: 29 May 1995 01:32:31 -0400
+
+     Re: why Delenn would do such a thing...hold out for "Comes the
+Inquisitor"...it gets into her rationals on such things.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Sandman reference in C&L?
+Date: 29 May 1995 01:34:13 -0400
+
+      It's mainly an extrapolation on an alien breather based on WW II
+style gas masks.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS:Sheridan's helmet.
+Date: 29 May 1995 01:51:01 -0400
+
+     We selected (with permission) the Flying Tigers logo for Sheridan out
+of respect; not out of any sense of foreshadowing the nature of his
+involvement.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: C&L,ItSoZ, and Quality of Merc
+Date: 29 May 1995 01:51:15 -0400
+
+     Ah, about time; I was wondering when someone would get around to
+remembering "Quality of Mercy" in this....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: C&L Opinions
+Date: 29 May 1995 19:57:24 -0400
+
+     The only thing wrong with this whole argument is that it doesn't touch
+reality at any two contiguous points.  I will not defend the notion that
+the episode stated that all Americans felt that AIDS was a penalty from
+god because it never said that.  Ever.  In any way, manner, shape or form.
+The problem is that some people are so caught up in the current situation
+that they lose all sense of perspective.  Fact is, most people DID think
+that the Black Death was a punishment from God, or the work of the devil,
+as Franklin says.  The Markabs had a similar belief.  Nowhere was that
+applied in dialogue to humans or the AIDS situation.
+ 
+     The whole point of the episode is NOT political; it says that if you
+make a disease political on either side, you're gonna die.  You have to
+set aside all that crap and just Deal With The Problem.  The only "side"
+this episode took was in advocating compassion for those afflicted.
+ 
+     I have enough just dealing with what's actually *in* my series; don't
+compound the problem by adding things that you saw only in your own head,
+and which exist nowhere in dialogue or in the story.  You are adding the
+template of your own beliefs as an overlay, and seeing this story through
+it.  That ain't my problem.  If you see this disease as political, that's
+your lookout.  This show says that ANY attempt to politicize a disease is
+species-dangerous thinking.  Period.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: A wee note;)
+Date: 29 May 1995 19:57:41 -0400
+
+     Jackie: thanks....
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: B5 and CLaudia Adoration
+Date: 29 May 1995 19:57:55 -0400
+
+     On behalf of meself and Claudia...thanks
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
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+Messages from Babylon 5 executive producer J. Michael Straczynski on the
+Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.
+
+
+Date: 1 Jun 1995 03:28:01 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Season really delayed, or
+
+     The last four eps of this season are being held by PTEN until
+October, yes.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 1 Jun 1995 03:33:58 -0400
+Subject: Attn: JMS - Any plans for a Se
+
+     A "secrets of B5" kind of one-hour special would be a great idea, if
+we could convince WB to go for it.  But right now, we're still waiting on
+the series go, let alone anything else.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 1 Jun 1995 05:56:22 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: The First Ones
+
+      She was speaking of species, not individuals.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 1 Jun 1995 03:33:47 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Space Cooties at Zha'ha'd
+
+     To Jim Jones: the shadows on Z'ha'dum are no more a tribute to the
+Cooties than your name is a tribute to new and fascinating uses for
+Kool-Aide.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 1 Jun 1995 21:11:45 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Larry DeTillio leav
+
+     There's really not much *to* tell.  Because I wrote 15 out of 22 this
+season, and I held virtually all of the writers meetings, and personally
+created and handed out the stories to freelancers, there wasn't a lot for
+him to *do*; he spent a lot of time when he wasn't doing his scripts
+more or less sitting on his hands.  Larry's a world-builder, coming from
+a gaming background, and this world was already built.  There wasn't that
+much for him to do, and his skills were being wasted.  He'd never have a
+chance to shine and come out from under the jms shadow to be recognized
+for what he can do.  (Very often, stuff in his scripts would get credited
+to me, often incorrectly.)  This situation would only get worse in later
+seasons, with more and more arc stories, pre-determined, coming into the
+foreground.  So it was really for the best.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 1 Jun 1995 21:41:54 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Triluminary an Artifact?
+
+     "There is good reason to believe the Minbari Triluminary device
+is an artifact not created by the Minbari."
+ 
+     DING*DING*DING*DING*DING*DING*DING*DING!
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 1 Jun 1995 21:27:11 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  Does Ed Wasser smoke?
+
+     Not insofar as I know.
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+Date: 1 Jun 1995 21:07:06 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: short season?
+
+     No, the sliding of 4 eps toward fall wouldn't affect the length of a
+third season.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+Date: 1 Jun 1995 21:07:34 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS - C&L and QoM -
+
+     It should also help in all these discussions to remember the
+way the machine functions; it's not so much an alien HEALING device as an
+alien LIFE TRANSFERRAL device.  If someone is actually dying, or close to
+it, the only way to save that person is to take the life from someone
+else.  So you really don't gain anything (which was why they used
+condemned murderers for the original device).
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 1 Jun 1995 21:31:56 -0400
+Subject: Britain - last,best hope thwar
+
+     Okay, folks, CALm DOWn.  Ch 4 hasn't gotten the last batch yet
+only because we're finishing the last bits of tweaking.  "Twilight" is
+totally finished.  "Divided Loyalties" is getting the final EFX put in
+this week, and will probably be delivered to WB on Friday.  (This would
+be the first up of the last batch.)  "Confessions" is finished and scored
+absent 2 EFX shots, which will be in tomorrow, and we'll probably deliver
+on Monday/Tuesday, with "The Fall of Night" delivered about a week after
+that.  They'll have the episodes in time to play them.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 1 Jun 1995 21:32:54 -0400
+Subject: JMS: What is the Legend of the
+
+     I think I'll perhaps leave this question be for a little while....
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 2 Jun 1995 04:35:38 -0400
+Subject: Re: Britain - last,best hope t
+
+     RE: my mention of "Confessions" in the final four...I misspoke, and
+meant to say "Comes the Inquisitor."
+ 
+     Soon I'll be saying tire when I mean to say bisquit.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 2 Jun 1995 04:37:48 -0400
+Subject: Technobabylon
+
+     Michael, you're confusing your terms.  You can't say that because
+B5 has rotational artificial gravity that therefore this equals
+technobabble.
+ 
+     Science fiction -- note, SCIENCE fiction -- relies on elements of
+technology.  You cannot have SF without some element of changed or
+new technology.  Thus your notion that ANY technology = technobabble
+means that ALL SF is technobabble.  In so doing, the term loses all
+meaning.
+ 
+     Technobabble specifically refers to paragraph after paragraph of
+dialogue explaining how the neutrino filters invert the tachyon field
+distancing array and corrupt the magnetic flow systems into an inert
+state...which is later solved by MORE technobabble.  The operative word
+here is BABBLE, which in this case means to go on and on.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 2 Jun 1995 04:38:00 -0400
+Subject: Re: Britain - last,best hope t
+
+     Wait...I wuz wrong.  We checked personally with the Channel 4
+programmers, who are out here on the West Coast for an international TV
+big-deal, and apparently they *are* going to hold up on the last four
+just 2-3 weeks, specifically because to air it would be to put it up
+against the Tour de France, and nobody would ever see the darned thing.
+Just a slight delay, a couple/three weeks...hey, could be worse, could
+be October.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 2 Jun 1995 21:06:09 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  The Planet... What'
+
+     We'll see Draal and the planet below B5 in the last batch of new
+eps this season.  And the plural of Minbari is Minbari, as the plural of
+Moose is Moose.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 3 Jun 1995 00:00:33 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Comes the Inquisitor?
+
+     "CtI is the only episode in the last four that we know nothing about."
+ 
+     And if I figure out how I happened to achieve that (short of just
+keeping my big yap shut), I'll do it some more.  There should be some
+surprises, yes?
+ 
+     And it's an arc story, yes, but in a very odd way.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 3 Jun 1995 00:00:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: Mirrors and reflections
+
+     Yes, there is a reason for the mirror/reflection motif, and for
+Kosh's comment.  What is a reflection?
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 4 Jun 1995 04:03:57 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  Official request for tra
+
+     Isn't it more fun to leave the piece untranslated?  Shouldn't some
+things be left to the imagination?
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 3 Jun 1995 23:59:15 -0400
+Subject: TREK IS BEST
+
+     Dear Ryan: regarding your comment that DS9 and the other ST shows are
+superior because they use "real models" instead of CGI...they DO, in fact,
+use CGI ships in all their shows, including Voyager, and they use THE SAME
+COMPANY WE DO, Foundation Imaging.  (They just finished doing a Solar
+Sailing vessel for, I think, DS9.)
+ 
+     In short...you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 3 Jun 1995 23:59:24 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS -- Quick question...
+
+     Yes, I slipped a reference to B5 into an old episode of Captain Power
+called "Final Stand," and into my second novel, OtherSyde.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: Sun,  4 Jun 95 08:29:00 UTC
+Subject: Why are you here (rastb5)?
+
+     The notion that I'm asking for no story ideas to be posted so that I
+can rip off story ideas is the most lame-brain statement I have heard in
+10+ years of being on the nets.  Saying "no story ideas" doesn't kee
+anyone from suing; it just keeps useable ideas out of where I can see them,
+period.
+ 
+     I have said, often, and repeatedly, and clearly, why I am here.  The
+problem is that you have one or two absolute mindless conniving distrustful
+fuckheads who have no perceivable life other than to try and ride my ass
+about one thing or another, swinging from one stupid theory to another to
+another with as much astonishing speed and illogic as the Simpson defense
+team.  They will seize upon anything, ANYthing, and try and twist it around
+to try and convince others that somehow, somewhichway, I'm getting away
+with something, I'm conning people, I'm lying, I'm actually Reichminister
+Goebbels who set up a twin for the little WW II misunderstanding and am
+currently trying to sneak back into the United States disguised as Rondo
+Hatton.
+ 
+     Loonies and feebs and creeps, oh my.
+ 
+     Okay, you want it straight up?  Here it is.  I'm here for a number of
+reasons.  1) I like to get kind of a sense of the room; I'm not going to
+change anything, but writing for TV is like writing for a vacuum; you nevr
+(never) get to see the reaction.  This is the ONLY chance I get to get a
+reaction to something I've written and produced, and maybe it's ego, maybe
+it's just that I work very hard to make something effective,and want to see
+if it had the desired effect.  Writers and artists and singers are like
+that.
+ 
+     2) I think that TV producers in general get a very skewed sense of
+who's in the audience.  This exchange gives access to people across the
+country to someone who makes TeeVee, and lets me hear them.  How often
+would someone in Clearwater, Oklahoma, have the chance to express an
+opinion to someone in LA making a TV series?  Not bloody often.  And that
+is in large measure, I think, why TV has become so insular.  And so
+unresponsive to its audience.  So I'm kind of a test-case volunteer for
+this, in the hopes of luring more producers onto the nets and creating a
+more open exchange, making producers accountable for what they make.
+ 
+     3) I've dedicated over 15 years of my life to trying to demystify
+TV production and writing.  I've written columns and columns, reams of
+articles, a book...all trying to help people understand how this medium
+works, because you can't control or influence something unless you truly
+UNDERSTAND it...why things are done a certain way.  This is part of an
+educational project that I've been doing for over a decade, a natural
+outgrowth of that process.  By the time this is all done, there will be
+an online document of hundreds of archival pages -- maybe thousands --
+covering the development, birth and ongoing creation of a TV series at a
+depth never before chronicled, which will be available to students and
+universities and ordinary folks.  I think that's a valuable experiment.
+ 
+     Finally: 4) I'm an SF fan.  I think SF fans are, overall, the most
+exploited bunch around.  They're expected to line up, buy the toys,
+watch the show and shut the hell up.  I think it's time some respect for
+that audience was shown by allowing them a voice.  This is part of my
+sense of personal obligation to the field that spawned many wonderful
+years of reading.
+ 
+     My request has always been just that, a request, and a simply stated
+one.  You can talk about story ideas all you want.  But I simply cannot be
+here if you do that.  I will not run the risk of being sued, or having the
+show that I've labored over for, now, eight years being victimized by some
+crazed yahoo who posts something and then decides I've ripped him off,
+despite the fact that this material has been sitting in my computer for
+YEARS.  And a Crazed Yahoo (tm) doesn't have to win, doesn't even think
+he may have a chance to win...but defending a case can run hundreds of
+thousands of dollars, thanks to our wonderful legal system, and can tie
+up episodes for years.
+ 
+     You cay some of these people think the chances of a lawsuit are
+"ignorable."  Yeah, for them.  They're not the ones at risk.  If they're
+wrong, it's "Oh, huh, guess I was wrong."  For me it's several years of
+courtrooms, lawyers, depositions and the like.  It's frankly not their
+call to make.  It's mine.  Warners knows I'm here, and I periodically
+have to reassure them that I'm keeping the promise about not exposing the
+show to risk.  And I have to maintain that stance, or vanish.
+ 
+     I would remind a very few of the feebs I noted before that in fact,
+there WAS no rec.arts.b5 area until I showed up on the alt group.  At
+that point, membership jumped *dramatically* enough to merit the
+formation of a rec.arts group.  I have no particular infatuation with my
+own sense of importance -- much the contrary -- but I do know that my
+being here is in many ways directly responsible for there BEING a
+B5 rec group.  Now I'm being told, "Hey, why make special rules for him,
+who cares, let him blow off if he doesn't like it."
+ 
+     Not a special rule.  Just courtesy.  Plain and simple.  Why is it
+that one can no longer simply make a request out of courtesy?  Instead one
+must now back it up with lengthy treatises about legalities and laws and
+risk factors...and one's own personal motivations are challenged and
+questioned and suspected and put on trial and smeared by a callous few to
+whom the very concept of "courtesy" is a foreign idea, and who exist only
+to bring grief to me and the bulk of users here.  There are PLENTY of
+ways for people to suggest story ideas to one another without exposing
+them to me...email lists, private groups, whatever.
+ 
+     The theory, as I understand it, is that people are coming up with
+story ideas because they like the show.  Why, therefore, would they
+choose to *endanger* the show by posting them where I can see it?  I had
+this recently with a fanzine publisher who turned down a B5 fictional
+story because I'd asked, politely, that none be published until after the
+show had ended.  The writer got very upset and said, "Well, who CARES what
+he wants?"  The side-product was more important than the creation that
+spawned it.
+ 
+     I've made my motivations clear from day one.  Anyone who wants to
+challenge them can go fuck themselves, I don't have to answer to them or
+give them any credence whatsoever by even acknowleging them.  It's in all
+the faq files from the beginning; let them go do some research, it's all
+there.  They pick on this today; tomorrow they'll move onto something
+else, because they don't actually CARE about the truth.  They care about
+being hyenas, and biting at people who didn't bow down and kiss their
+respective asses.
+ 
+     And frankly, that to me has become one of the most wearing aspects of
+being online; the wackos and creeps who just live to make trouble.  For
+that reason alone, I sometimes think, "Fuck it, I don't need this, I don't
+need to go to bed angry, I don't need the distraction when I'm trying to
+write, I'm doing this to do a Nice Thing.  Period.  And if all I'm going
+to get is a few relentless assholes bitching at me 24 hours a day, then
+the hell with it."  Then the sane part of me remembers that the word FEW
+appears in that sentence.  And that these few jerks are irrelevant, despite
+their attempts to create relevancy for themselves by attacking others.  And
+I calm down, and after a bit, log back on again.
+ 
+     To continue the experiment, as outlined above.
+ 
+     And that's the sum and substance of it.  It's really a question of
+which people prefer: having access to the producer of Babylon 5, or
+blowing out huge story ideas.  There can be one, but not the other.  It
+ain't the best case scenario, but it's the only workable one.  It's my show
+that would be at risk otherwise, and I'm sorry, but on that count noboty
+(nobody) else gets a vote.  Nobody else is entitled to determine the
+risk factor, or determine if it's relevant.  That's my call.  And should
+enough people decide their story ideas are what they really want to
+discuss, or even a few (it only takes a couple to pose sufficient risk),
+then I'll simply have to fade outta here.
+ 
+     Because the experiment will continue, on other systems.  Compuserve,
+GEnie, others...where the understanding is respected, and courtesy rises
+above self-interest or unwarranted personal attacks.  And AS HAS BEEN THE
+CASE HERE, I should point out, since this thing began.  If a few people
+want to change that, well, that's their right.  I just can't be here if
+it happens.  That simple.
+ 
+     And yes, you can repost this, but if you do in the public forums,
+do so in toto.  The usual band of self-styled critics/hatchet folks will
+get all bent out of shape because I used a couple naughty words here and
+there, and because I got all bent out of shape simply because they did
+something as innocuous as impugning my motives and implying theft on a
+daily, consistent basis, but y'know what?
+ 
+     Fuck 'em.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: Sun,  4 Jun 95 09:02:00 UTC
+Subject: Why are you here (rastb5)?
+
+     A postscript to my previous note.  I debated including this, because
+it sounds self-serving, but it also happens to be the truth, so after
+thinking about it, I'm going to add it anyway.
+ 
+     I don't get paid to be here.  Nobody asked me to be here.  Nobody's
+forcing me to be here.  (And a few here would, apparently, love nothing
+more than to drive me off here so they can say whatever they want without
+the inconvenience of the target for their attacks disagreeing with them
+with anything as unfair as facts.)  I'm a voluntee
+ 
+     I am, insofar as I know, the ONLY television producer to be on-line
+to this extent, creating what is really an interactive experience.  This
+is a great experiment, one which will probably go down in the record
+books when people look back at the history of the net.  There have already
+been huge articles about this in books and magazines.  We're pioneering
+something here.  And a lot of other producers I know are looking on to see
+how this all shakes out.  If it works, others will come on-line.  If not,
+if they're just going to get hammered and slandered and abused, they're
+not.
+ 
+     Maybe the problem is...I'm free.  And you respect something to the
+extent you pay for it.  My consulting fees are in excess of $100 per
+hour.  I spend 3 hours per day just on the internet.  That's 21 hours a
+week, 2 and a half work days per week.  Most of that I spend not in
+forwarding my own ego, or selling merchandise, or making money...I spend
+it answering questions.  Who was this actor?  What did this mean?  Why
+are CGI used?  How long does it take to make an episode?  What does a
+producer do?  How do you write a character?  How do you sell a show?
+ 
+     It's the kind of information you can't get anywhere else unless you
+want to take one of those triple-damned McKee seminars and spend, oh,
+about $500 for one weekend doing so.  I read and I read, 500 messages per
+day slip past me, some in detail, some less so.  I provide a service.  I
+provide information.  I answer questions.  I don't do it for the ratings,
+beause if you added up all the people who read this group, which I think
+is about 10,000 people, they won't even show UP on the Neilsen ratings.
+ 
+     I do it, in addition to the reasons given a moment ago, to provide a
+service.  Were I providing this service to a studio, or as a consultant
+on another project, it would cost them a couple thousand bucks a week.  I
+do all this without asking for money, or gifts, or even respect (he said
+with a glance to the people riffling their papers in the back of the room
+and tossing spitballs).  I have only ever asked for *one thing* in exchange
+for this service: no story ideas.
+ 
+     And I honestly don't think that's a terribly high price for the hours
+and days I spend here when I should be writing, or trying to relax a bit,
+or maybe going out to dinner once in a while.  I'm chained to the keyboard
+when I write scripts; and then volunteer to stay up here, until 2 or 3 or
+even 4 a.m., dead-tired, answering one more ATT: JMS note, because I think
+maybe, just maybe, it's important, and right, and honorable, and
+respectful.  I don't think most folks understand what this takes out of me
+on a daily basis.  And I suppose they shouldn't have to.  It's not their
+problem.  It's my choice.  I don't even like bringing it up, because it
+sounds self-serving.  But with all this going on, I figured maybe it
+SHOULD get mentioned.  Because it's the truth.
+ 
+     Anyway, enough.  It's now 2:03 a.m., and I have 248 Internet messages
+in my mailbox to get through before I crash tonight.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 4 Jun 1995 05:28:16 -0400
+Subject: Re: Someone's Impersonating jm
+
+     Only because it's late, and I'm kinda pissed off anyway (see the note
+which Vinay will be reposting any time now), let me dive into this with one
+or two comments which, I hope, will end this discussion.
+ 
+     (And I won't even mention my sense that those who seem least to
+understand the need to protect one's name are the ones who don't have much
+of a name TO protect.)
+ 
+     Lemme bring you up to speed on something a few of you know about, but
+the majority probably don't.  There have been a couple of other cases of
+people impersonating me.  One of the most serious was someone who, saying
+he was me, using my address, began logging onto certain sex-oriented
+alt and rec groups and began leaving messages that were...disturbing, to
+couch it delicately.  Suffice to say they involved minors and let it go
+at that.  I found out about this when messages in response to this began
+showing up in my mailbox.  Other equally disturbing messages were brought
+to my attention by a few others here who log onto some of the other parts
+of the internet.  (They can step forward if they so choose.)
+ 
+     One of these individuals is now facing criminal charges.
+ 
+     Lawyers brought into this made it *absolutely clear* to me, in NO
+uncertain terms, how this should be dealt with.  At the first hint, I must
+send the person a message asking to cease and desist.  This will help to
+root out which are impersonators with fake addresses, and which are real
+people with the same name.  I note someone here (in a reply quoting it)
+bitched, "Well, why didn't Joe try to contact this person here?"  I did,
+you idiot.  And the message bounced back.  At that point, Orders From
+Lawyers #2 kicked in.  You must hit them as hard as you can, as fast as
+you can, as publicly as you can.  Don't wait.  If it turns out to be
+benign, you can always apologize later.  If you DON'T, any time that you
+don't respond but know what's going on can be taken as permission or
+agreement.
+ 
+     Two great ironies strike me here: 1) that one or two of the people
+who have most implied that maybe this isn't really me (one of the ten
+zillion nutty conspiracy notes they flash around) seemed to find no
+problem with a system -- automated or manned by a person -- which might
+further fuzzy up what's me and what's not. 2) Citing the person who got
+accidentally bombarded with notes, a situation which BEGAN with a threat
+of a harrassment lawsuit aimed against me (something which the person
+here conveniently forgot).
+ 
+     I don't care if it's automated.  I don't care if it's a person.  I
+have a name, and a reputation to protect.  Naming a bot morden.bot is not
+the same thing as jms.bot because jms is a real person and morden is not.
+It has the same end result of blurring the lines.
+ 
+     In any event, there has to be a forceful, hard response at ANY time
+an impersonator emerges or seems to emerge, as fast as possible, because
+of several other rather ugly incidents that have taken place.  And if
+ANYbody has a problem with that, I really don't care, because it's my name
+and reputation that's at stake here, not yours.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 4 Jun 1995 19:34:18 -0400
+Subject: Why I'm Here: Addendum
+
+     Only because I'm an idiot, and I forgot, and I thought it was implicit
+in the message I wrote, but sometimes implicit isn't sufficiently clear
+(certainly not when I'm behind the keyboard)....
+ 
+     The other aspect is that you're all (well, mostly) a bunch of cuties.
+ 
+     Occasional nincompoops notwithstanding...I see more well-considered,
+substantive, bright and funny comments here than I can count.  There isn't
+a day that goes by that I don't sit here and perk up at a particularly
+insightful message, or laugh at the latest Top Ten or whatever.  The
+majority of messages here are nothing less than terrific, and I hope that
+that implication was clear enough in my message(s); if not, take it from
+this one.
+ 
+     As for the few weasels...my spousal overunit has a great saying:
+"Don't fight the rabbits; the lions'll get you."
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 5 Jun 1995 19:14:56 -0400
+Subject: Re: Why is joe here (rastb5)?
+
+     To Eric Wampner: Vinay DID have my permission to repost the
+material publicly; said permission was even included within the post,
+if you read it thoroughly.  So I think you owe him an apology.
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 5 Jun 1995 17:22:31 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Music tastes?
+
+     Actually, I listen to just about every kind of music there is, except
+hard-core country-western, which I can't abide.  I have a fairly large
+collection of music, and stuff goes in and out depending on my mood and
+what I'm writing.  In rock, I'm partial to Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins,
+Melissa Etheridge, Meatloaf, Indigo Girls, Billy Joel, Enya, Slade and
+a lot of others.  I always go for strong individual voices and strong
+writing.  I'm a sucker for the kind of music that makes you start pounding
+your arm on the arm of your chair and makes the hair on the back of your
+neck stand up.  Bonnie Tyler stuff.
+ 
+     Other than that...classical, a *little* new wave, Celtic, Japanese
+(KODO music in particular), Aboriginal music, medeival music, jazz,
+big-band (LOTS of big band), musicals, soundtracks...you name it.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 5 Jun 1995 17:39:21 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  CGI question
+
+     In that scene, the door to the Copernicus was real; the CGI wa
+wrapped around it.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 5 Jun 1995 18:06:08 -0400
+Subject: Top Ten Reasons Joe Reads the
+
+     Now THAT'S comedy....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 5 Jun 1995 18:10:28 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Have You Gotten Ever
+
+     Yeah, there was one thing I didn't get, only because those involved
+kind of imploded.  The final revelatory scene at the end of "The Long
+Dark" was supposed to be one HELL of a lot more impressive than it was.
+I really wanted to see something extraordinary.  What we got...wasn't
+it.  That's the only case that I can remember.  PTEN has never come to us
+and said, "Joe...it's too weird."  Performance wise, I think the part of
+Inspector Cranston in "Hunter/Prey" could've been better executed.  But
+overall, I have to say I'm very satisfied.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Date: 5 Jun 1995 20:11:27 -0400
+Subject: YAGGGH!
+
+     I'm getting two copies of EVERYTHING via my gateway!  Is anyone else
+having this problem?
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 6 Jun 1995 03:20:50 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Starfury name origin
+
+     The 'fury comes from the conventional air force useage in general;
+star is self-explanatory.  But yes, it does have its roots in tradition.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 6 Jun 1995 00:38:32 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: putrid pun that must
+
+     That has to be the best/worst title I've ever heard....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 6 Jun 1995 03:20:39 -0400
+Subject: Re: YAGGGH!
+
+     No, it's *still* going on.  Your message to me (to which I'm now
+replying) is also doubled.  EVERYTHING is coming in twice except for
+private mail.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+Date: 7 Jun 1995 04:35:10 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Have You Gotten
+
+     "That admission was impressive!"  (Ross Bench)
+ 
+     Not really.  Kinda wish it was, but it ain't.
+ 
+     You have to understand, for all the criticisms on this or any other
+net, there is nobody -- NOBODY -- harder on this show than we who make it.
+ Nobody gets spared.  Opinions are not withheld.  This is a show where
+one of my producers, John Copeland, for instance, can walk into my office
+after getting a new script and say, "Joe...it sucks."  (Most notably,
+this happened on the first draft of "Soul Hunter," which I knew didn't
+work as soon as I finished it, but still put it into the pipeline because
+I wasn't sure of my own opinion at that very early stage in the first
+season, decided I was right after all, and yanked back the script from all
+parties with a note simply explaining that I had been momentarily
+possessed by an idiot.)  We're all very open about this stuff.
+ 
+     What I guess maybe doesn't always come through is that if you ask me
+a straightforward question about the show, or behind the scenes, I'll
+give you a straightforward answer.  I've never been big on politics or
+self-preservation.  Which ep disappointed me with the EFX?  The Long
+Dark.  Which do I consider my worst ep?  Infection, and it's entirely
+my fault; if it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage.  Is there
+anything I'd like to re-do?  Yeah, probably parts of Voice 2.
+ 
+     Happily, of all the stuff we've done, there's only about 5-10% that
+sometimes glitches.  Mostly, it's light years beyond anything I could have
+hoped for.  And lemme tell you...in advance...for those who thought "The
+Coming of Shadows" was something, I've seen the final version of "The Long,
+Twilight Struggle," and it's even better.  Better than "Z'ha'dum."  It's
+probably the best we've done.  I've poked and prodded that one all over,
+and it's solid.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 7 Jun 1995 04:46:46 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: B5 multimedia CD
+
+     Should we get the final word on renewal, I'd expect the cd-rom to be
+out by about Christmas.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 7 Jun 1995 04:55:11 -0400
+Subject: Is it safe to come out?
+
+     Of *course* it's safe to come out.
+ 
+     Silly girl.
+ 
+     Much better.
+ 
+     Hmmmmmm?  Light switch?  *What* light switch?
+ 
+     Perhaps there's a problem with the fuse box.  I think I'll go check
+with my new friends, Mr. Black and Mr. Decker...just wait right there...
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 7 Jun 1995 05:04:46 -0400
+Subject: Re: YAGGGH!
+
+     All better now.  Ron fixed it.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 7 Jun 1995 05:16:15 -0400
+Subject: B5 CD and Drum Corps?  Any tho
+
+     Yeah, I love drum corps stuff.  And yes, a lot of Chris's stuff
+would work well in that form.
+ 
+     "A member of the JMS militia."  Somebody around the office came up
+with a great name for this...the Joe Corps.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 7 Jun 1995 05:18:23 -0400
+Subject: Re: Someone's Impersonating jm
+
+     I never see Fulleristic messages directly, because I kill the notde
+(note) as soon as the name appears on my screen, but seeing this small
+quote in Wayne Humfleet's message about DF calling the B5 production
+office...I'm pleased to see that admission.  Basically, the call was to
+complain to the office about me, read what I'd been writing on the nets
+in answer to DF's attempts at glossalalia (not *entirely* sure I spelled
+that right), in an attempt to make trouble and get me off the nets.
+ 
+     This is the difference between us.  I do not call her office, or her
+school, or her employers, to complain about the nutty, libelous thnigs
+(things...fingers are tired) she says here.  But folks like her, and a
+few others, because they can't win on the merits of their arguments, they
+seek to shut the other person down.  They fax complaints to Warner Bros.,
+they call my place of work and complain.
+ 
+     It is, frankly, the very lowest form of net behavior I've ever seen.
+If you can't win, try and silence the opposition.  But hey, it worked for
+the brown shirts, right...?
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 7 Jun 1995 18:05:43 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Babylon Music
+
+     The deal for the music was only for the pilot; you can't mix and
+match composers once you get to series.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 8 Jun 1995 06:35:46 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Comic Cancelled?
+
+     We've not yet heard the final, definitive word on this.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 8 Jun 1995 07:00:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: Why I'm Here: Addendum
+
+     Zafaran (and Travers)...thanks.  We'll muddle through.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+Date: 8 Jun 1995 07:00:32 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Those Pesky Prophets
+
+     Nnnnnnoo, not really; the Centauri don't actually have an
+equivalent to G'Quan or Valen.
+ 
+     Believe it or not, this one answer may add another layer to a scene
+in one of the last episodes of this season.  You can infer it backwards
+once you see it, but now you'll have it going n.
+ 
+     Or in, as the case may be.  (Gotta stop typing before 3:45 a.m.)
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Date: 8 Jun 1995 07:00:40 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: You and Latex
+
+      I have direct control/approval over every aspect of the show, but I
+try as much as possible to leave the talented people alone to pursue their
+vision of the show.  In the case of prosthetics, when a new race comes
+aboard, the elves at Optic Nerve will generally come up with several or
+just a few sketches.  I review those sketches, and if there's one they
+prefer, I go with that one, unless I feel strongly otherwise.  Other
+times they have no real preference.  Once approved, they proceed apace,
+and I'll see it one more time when the sculpture's finished, then not
+again until it's on the stage.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 8 Jun 1995 07:00:48 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Music tastes?
+
+     "Will you marry me, Joe?"  Robert Hayden
+ 
+     Not until you shave, stop wearing that terrible cologne, and divorce
+my sister.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 8 Jun 1995 07:00:57 -0400
+Subject: Question on emmys
+
+     We received an Emmy for Best Special Effects for the B5 pilot
+(beating out TNG that year), and a second Emmy for Makup for the first
+year of the series.  We've also received the Cult TV award from England
+for Best New Series, the Space Frontier Foundation Award for Best Vision
+of the Future, and the Jewish Televimage Award, plus the pilot wsa
+nominated for a Hugo.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 9 Jun 1995 00:19:39 -0400
+Subject: Re: OFFICIAL RENEWELL!!!!
+
+     Re: "A RIGHT BLEEDIN BASTARD."
+ 
+     Now, now.  You can't fault people for their enthusiasm, and Brett was
+reporting what he heard, without elaboration.  Let's all play nice, shall
+we?
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 9 Jun 1995 00:19:58 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Jump gate sideways?
+
+     Yeah, we'll probably get around to showing that one of these days.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 9 Jun 1995 04:00:32 -0400
+Subject: JMS IS RUINING TELEVISION!
+
+     Jeff....thanks, that means a lot.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 9 Jun 1995 03:51:59 -0400
+Subject: Re:Vir to die before season en
+
+     "Do I understand you correctly?"  Timothy H.
+ 
+     god, I hope not....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 9 Jun 1995 03:52:15 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Music tastes?
+
+     Yeah, it's mainly the Nashville stuff I can't abide.  Bluegrass is
+quite good, I'm partial to the Red Clay Ramblers, so that stuff is fine.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 9 Jun 1995 03:52:33 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Chicago Comicon
+
+     My plans for the con aren't finalized yet.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+Date: 9 Jun 1995 17:27:18 -0400
+Subject: "Infection" revisited, was Goo
+
+     Yeah, I kinda guess that "Grail" would be my alternate for worst ep;
+I guess I'm generally just harder on eps I wrote myself.
+ 
+     BTW, given the reasons you cite for liking "Sky," I think you're gona
+(gonna) LOVE "Comes the Inquisitor."
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 8 Jun 1995 01:42:07 -0400
+Subject: OFFICIAL RENEWELL!!!!
+
+     Well, this is all well and good, but what's odd is that as of the
+moment I'm writing this, NOBODY has said *boo* to us about renewal being
+official yet, from Warner Bros.  I have a vague suspicion that something
+is rumbling around the corporate WB offices that involves PTEN in some
+way, but I have no clue whatsoever what that is, or even IF it is, could
+just be swamp gas.  It's certainly a good omen, but it ain't official
+until somebody calls us from WB or PTEN, tells us, and we're authorized
+to exercise our option on cast and production staff for year three.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 8 Jun 1995 01:43:54 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: How's the finale?
+
+     How does the finale compare?  Hmmm...depends on what you're looking
+for.  "Inquisitor" is primarily a character piece, virtually no EFX, but
+very intense.  The story is kind of straightforward, with a few kickers
+along the way.  "Twilight" is a heavy story episode, that zips all over
+the B5 landscape, between the Narns, the Centauri, and elsewhere (he said
+vaguely).  The finale, "The Fall of Night," is actually kind of deceptive;
+it starts out fairly calmly and tightens fairly fast.  The story is not
+as back-and-forth or layered as Twilight or Coming, it's really about one
+thing.  Visually, it's the most ambitious thing we've done to date, and
+probably the most ambitious EFX stuff done for a TV series *ever*.  I
+don't think you'll feel left wanting after the episode is done.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 8 Jun 1995 01:45:36 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Ganya Ivanov Questio
+
+     We learn a bit more, but you're right, it wouldn't hurt to learn a
+little more about him.  Maybe I'll do this.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 9 Jun 1995 18:07:07 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  The great stories..
+
+     I actually don't think there are only X number of stories.  I've
+heard this theory, and don't subscribe to it.  There are as many stories
+as there are people.  Then again, someone once wrote, "Of course everything
+has been said; but since nobody was paying attention, we must begin again."
+ 
+                                                                jms
+ 
+     (My usual definition of a story: what does A want, how far is he
+willing to go to get it, and how far will someone else go to stop him?
+That makes every story individual to the person's background.)
+
+Date: 9 Jun 1995 18:07:23 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Question about show
+
+     Merchandising isn't factored against ratings; ratings are of use to
+advertisers in determining how much to pay for an ad.  They don't care if
+there are Londo dolls, how many people wll see their commercials?  The
+merchandising is good for WB, but not if the ratings drop so that the show
+can't be sustained by advertising.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 9 Jun 1995 18:12:46 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS Ivonava's Collar
+
+     Traditional women's fashion, clasping on the reverse side.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 9 Jun 1995 04:25:38 -0400
+Subject: Re: Why many Trekies dislike B
+
+     Karen Cravens: funny thought...one could also read your note a
+different way and with one minor distortion, come away with "He who
+lives by the Trek will die by the Trek."
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 9 Jun 1995 04:34:09 -0400
+Subject: From jms....We Got Year Three
+
+     Since apparently this has broken on AOL via John Copeland before I
+could post it...yes, I can confirm that we've been renewed for Year
+Three.  I got the call late today, and have spent part of the evening
+doing Producer Stuff, part trying to push through a bit of a bug that
+hit last night (and thus took some of the edge off the news), and only
+late this evening was able to get on-line to confirm.
+ 
+     It's a full order for 22 episodes, and we begin shooing July 31st or
+thereabouts.
+ 
+     Thanks in particular to all of Babylon 5's "netted" friends, who have
+held the Line alongside us for the preceding two years, and with whom we
+hope to continue sharing the foxhole for the next three.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 9 Jun 1995 04:29:43 -0400
+Subject: End of Series=End of War??
+
+     It'd be foolish, I think, to try and extend the shadow war across
+3 years of the B5 series; I think it'd get redundent real fast.  I'd say
+there has to be more than that, wouldn't you?
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 9 Jun 1995 04:29:58 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS : A thank you
+
+     Carolyn: your words are kind, and highly appreciated.  Thanks.
+ 
+                                                        jms
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1995 04:21:30 -0400
+Subject: from jms: my address changed
+
+     I don't *quite* know why, but for some reason my address seems to
+have changed to firewall rather than genie.  Until we get this fixed,
+y'all may want to copy me at both addresses for private mail.  Weird....
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1995 22:18:06 -0400
+Subject: The Big Cat in the Hat . . .
+
+     Melody....
+ 
+     Wow.  Holy smokes.  That was an amazing message.  I've saved it to
+disk for the archives.  Excellent points, all.  (And I share some of your
+concerns about the paying conventions.)  Really well done.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1995 22:20:05 -0400
+Subject: JMS: The shape of things to co
+
+     Well...some of what's coming in year three can be deduced from the
+last four eps; let's have those first, then we'll talk.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1995 22:20:10 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Renewal/stripping
+
+     I imagine they probably won't strip B5 until much later, maybe not
+until we've finished our run.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1995 22:31:24 -0400
+Subject: Re: From jms....We Got Year Th
+
+     It's our understanding that ch4 in England will show the third year
+in *letterbox format*, from preliminary discussions taking place with them.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1995 22:31:29 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Who speaks for you h
+
+     Well....erm...uhm...*I* speak for me.
+ 
+     And some folks, who remember what I said, sometimes repeat it.
+ 
+     Unlike those who simply ignore it, or distort it.
+ 
+     What gets me is when somebody says, "Well, who are YOU to post here to
+defend him?"  Well, who are YOU to post here and attack?  Everybody's an
+equal when it comes to speaking up.  If one can make someone else's
+business your own enough to attack, how is that different from making
+someone else's business one's own enough to defend?  This is absolutely
+illogical, and can only, I assume, proceed from a desire to have me respond
+personally to them.  Which I have absolutely no intention, or desire, to
+do.  You will note the very important sentence that comes up frequently:
+"If what I wrote wasn't important, then why all these reactions?"
+ 
+     That's the key, and it's very sad.  To respond directly, WHATEVER you
+might say, creates the sense that they are important.  And they LIKE that.
+The more furor, the more angry messages get provoked, the more important
+they feel.  If you respond directly, you're doing *exactly* what they
+want you to do, and feeding the fire, and soon the conversation becomes
+about the conversation, rather than the substance that provoked it, and it
+spirals off and away into madness.
+ 
+     They are petty, and venal, and I have absolutely nothing to say to
+them.  If others choose to talk to them, well, why should they complain,
+since it's that very action that makes them feel important?  It's a logical
+contradiction.
+ 
+     But then, logic has *nothing* to do with this.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1995 04:27:33 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Shadow Archetypes?
+
+     How Jungian are the shadows?   Hrrmmmm...that's a hard one to
+answer, because in part it requires revealing more than I want to at the
+moment.  To varying extents, yes, certainly.  But there are also some
+elements of Joseph Campbell, the Old Testament, and Freud.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1995 05:22:30 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Starfury Problem...
+
+     Some new starfuries will be arriving at B5 next season....
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1995 05:04:46 -0400
+Subject: The Great War
+
+     Never said the shadow war would be over in one year.  Only that it
+wouldn't last three.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1995 05:04:58 -0400
+Subject: Re: Are B5 Scripts Available?
+
+     Recognizing that some folks would like to examine the scripts (hell,
+if I were out there, I'd be kinda curious), once the B5 Fan Club gets up
+and running (we're nearly there to getting the darned thing approved after
+negotiating with WB for nearly a year), there are plans afoot to release a
+limited number of B5 scripts for sale through this venue, so they're
+properly authorized and complete.
+ 
+     The word "complete" is important because in, oh, 95% of the cases,
+some dialogue ends up on the cutting room floor.  Sometimes it's only a
+few lines or words, sometimes it's a short scene, or several paragraphs
+worth of dialogue which add to the scene, but when we got into editing,
+felt weren't *absolutely necessary* (and we're always long on our eps,
+from my sense that it's better to have more story than time than more
+time than story).  (And no, expanded episodes won't ever be available on
+tape or disk.)  All that material will be available in these scripts.
+ 
+     Give us another couple months on this one.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1995 05:32:17 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS   ABOUT BRUCE B...
+
+     Bruce knows stuff only on a season-by-season basis.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1995 05:29:15 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Wishlist for season
+
+     In looking at the story breakdown for year three, there isn't much
+on that wish list physically, except for one big addition to our little
+B5 universe.  Beyond that...we're going to make some modifications to
+C&C that I've wanted to do for some time now, add a couple of recurring
+characters, do a bit more CGI than we're doing now...but the rest of the
+pieces are all there.  Now it's time to just focus in on the story.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1995 05:29:26 -0400
+Subject: Q vs Jason Ironheart
+
+     I see we've worked our way back to the "Who would win in a fight,
+Jesus Christ or Superman" thread....
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1995 22:16:56 -0400
+Subject: JMS
+
+     "We need the Bab5 equivilant of a tribble."
+ 
+     That would be me, yes.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1995 22:17:22 -0400
+Subject: ATT: JMS: Will Season 3 *end*
+
+     You're asking me to try and predict the actions of PTEN a year in
+advance.
+ 
+     Me, I'd rather bet on the horses....
+ 
+     Odds are better.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 12 Jun 1995 02:39:42 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS - Unresolved Psi stu
+
+     I think some of the loose ends of which you speak will be dealt with
+by this season's end....
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 12 Jun 1995 02:53:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: Are B5 Scripts Available?
+
+     The long cuts exist only in the computer; there was never a fully
+extended, on-film ep cut down for time.  Once we make our cuts on the
+computer, the film is assembled only once, for the final product.  We'd
+have to go in and re-edit EVERYthing to make it work.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 12 Jun 1995 02:55:27 -0400
+Subject: a quote
+
+     Bingo.  As I mentioned before, the "long twilight struggle" title
+is a quote; you correctly identified the source in the JFK quote.
+ 
+                             jm(wish I had a toaster to award)s
+
+Date: 12 Jun 1995 03:05:05 -0400
+Subject: B5 descriptive narration for t
+
+      I don't really have an answer for you, but I'll try and look into it.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 12 Jun 1995 05:24:44 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  Price of Three Trilumina
+[Would we be on the right track if we guessed that the triluminaries were
+ given to the Minbari in exchange for a promise to help out in the next
+ war against the Shadows?]
+
+     "Would we be on the right track?"
+ 
+     Not really.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 12 Jun 1995 05:48:51 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Which age of mankind is it NOW?
+
+     It would be fair to say that this is the second age of mankind, yes.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 12 Jun 1995 19:50:04 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Background questions
+
+     I just can't imagine myself writing that much info on Minbari clans
+without my brains exploding and then running screaming out into the night.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 12 Jun 1995 19:56:01 -0400
+Subject: JMS: A quick question.
+
+     Bear in mind, the 200 pages of notes aren't per se a straightforward
+outline; as I worked out bits of the story, I added it to the material
+as I went along, so sometimes you have year three stuff right alongside
+year five stuff.  Each season I go through my notes, pull out the stuff
+relevant to that season, put it in the right order, and fill in any gaps
+in-between.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 13 Jun 1995 00:56:07 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS
+
+     "He's a little too big to be held easily in the palm of one's hand."
+ 
+     Bless your heart....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 13 Jun 1995 01:02:04 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: WB studio question
+
+     The signs are for shows WB *produces*.  They don't produce B5,
+Babylonian Prods. does that.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 13 Jun 1995 18:21:53 -0400
+Subject: ATT JMS RFD: Moderation
+
+     I imagine that the odds of my continuing are pretty much the same
+for options 2 through 4; option 1 will eventually cause a problem, I
+think, the way things are going.  While the group was of resaonable
+size, it was easier to influence things; with the mammoth increase in
+membership, and the increase in plot speculation, eventually the limit
+on what I can afford to be exposed to will have to be hit.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+[In reply to:
+
+ Holy Valen! So the warrior caste has been ticked off for 1,000 years.  No
+ wonder they're so scary.  They've held a grudge against Valen for that
+ long. Now all their scoffing at the prophecy and the religious caste
+ makes sense.  Personally, I think these guys killed Dukhat to ruin
+ Valen's prophecy  -- Revenge motivation (of course the humans could have
+ gotten VERY lucky and I'm wrong).
+ 
+ Delenn refuses to help the Children of Time because someone interfered
+ with Minbari religion and the results have caused her and her people to
+ avoid doing so to others.  Valen is said to return.
+ So 1,000 years ago, how did Valen do his coming and going?  I'm beginning
+ to seriously wonder is this Valen guy was a Minbari at all.  Someone
+ subduing a violent caste sounds like manipulation.  And those prophecies
+ do hint at more knowledge than the Minbari had at that time.  Of course
+ he could be a Minbari with powerful friends so he could maintain control
+ and reign in the warrior caste AND set up the new Minbari government.  Or
+ he could be powerful himself.  Perhaps he had the help of three
+ triluminaries; I'm sure their powers, creatively applied, could go a long
+ way.
+ Christopher Novosad]
+
+Date: 13 Jun 1995 18:53:25 -0400
+Subject: Holy Valen!
+
+     Christopher: save this message of yours and keep it at hand going
+into the second season, around the 10th episode or so.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+ 
+     (sigh...I meant third season, wrote second...still dealing with
+the renewal.)
+
+Date: 13 Jun 1995 03:25:02 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:
+
+     The warrior caste was subdued by the coming of Valen, who brought
+the law about not killing other Minbari, and formed the Grey Council.  The
+Rim is the edge of known space.  The absolute bottom/rim gravity in B5 is
+about 1.2 G; the C&C gravity is about 1/3rd G.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 14 Jun 1995 01:03:16 -0400
+Subject: Babylon 5 avaliable for video.
+
+     With all the inquires about video, I thought I'd inquire of WB.  Much
+to my astonishment, after I made my way through the complex web of studio
+people, the person at the other end of the phone told me that apparently
+there ARE no immediate plans to release the videos, because there is
+concern that if they're available, it'll bring down ratings; also because
+WB and the PTEN stations own the shows jointly, and some kind of complex
+negotiations would have to take place to sell the show domestically.  I
+pointed out that the cassettes are for sale in the UK, and doing very well,
+and that if WB wasn't going to air the first season for a long time, then
+why not release THAT one cassette for now?  No clear answer, but I've got
+another name to speak with (upon his return from out of town), and we're
+going to push for this from other directions.  I'm sure we'll get it done,
+but it may take a bit.
+ 
+                                          jm(perpetually astonished)s
+Date: 13 Jun 1995 03:28:48 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: "Coming of Shadows",
+
+      It didn't show up in the script, and probably won't, but the Emperor
+probably did have a vision of his death, and the Vorlon.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Date: 13 Jun 1995 05:18:56 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: The future of B5 if.
+
+     If something happens to me...nobody gets the notes.  The whole POINT
+is that this is a personal story, told out of a personal vision.  So if
+you want to see this story finished, it behooves y'all to keep my sorry
+ass alive for the next 3 years.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 14 Jun 1995 01:15:32 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: The flow from Season
+
+     No, the last ep of this season wasn't per se a cliffhanger, though it
+does tip over a few things, so it flows from 222 to 301 fairly smoothly.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 14 Jun 1995 05:18:45 -0400
+Subject: JMS, Top ten signs your addict
+
+     You're welcome.
+ 
+                                  jm(tap-tap-tap-tap tap-tap)s
+
+Date: 14 Jun 1995 05:18:29 -0400
+Subject: Re: Holy Valen!
+
+     Whether one becomes religious, warrior or worker caste is something
+that arises early on, not through birth or genetics, but what you are
+called to do, or feel called to do.  If you believe that you are calleed
+to the religious life, you go to that part for a time, a few years, and
+that is determined by you and to a certain extent, others.  If you seem
+not suited toward that, they may work with you to find what you are more
+suited for (and perhaps you felt *expected* to be called a certain way,
+but that's not really where you're best suited).
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 14 Jun 1995 17:59:11 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: a question about wri
+
+     Writing for the page and writing for the stage are considerably
+different processes; what looks good in a book sometimes sound bogus
+coming out of someone's mouth.  Which is why it's so hard to translate
+much of Bradbury's stuff to the screen; the language is lovely on the
+page, but the second someone starts saying it, something goes wonky
+and it sounds off.
+ 
+     The only real key that I've ever had is to try and make yourself
+stop writing and start listening; create the characters, make them as
+real to yourself as you can, then get out of your own way and try to
+listen to what they say and do, rather than trying to force them to behave
+the way you think they should.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 14 Jun 1995 01:03:28 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS   Minbar
+
+     We'll see Minbar at least once in year three, perhaps more.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 14 Jun 1995 17:50:42 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: question about PTEN
+
+     PTEN is a business consortium between Warners and the stations that
+air B5.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1995 02:07:03 -0400
+Subject: One eensy moderation concern..
+
+     I don't get the alt. group.  I get only this one internet group,
+through the good offices of Ron Jarrell.  I deliberately don't accept
+any of the free Internet offers that are occasionally made, and don't
+slip out into other areas.  This is the only one I get, via my GEnie
+mailbox.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1995 02:07:17 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS - A few questions....
+
+     We *somewhat* compose for standard aspect ratio, but often our
+directors frame quite a bit off center, or have stuff going on over in
+the edges, or otherwise work to make the whole thing interesting when it's
+returned to widescreen format.  You will see B4 again in year three, yes.
+Interesting about the war in DS9, that's all I'll say on it.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+ 
+     (Except that we'll do it better.)
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1995 02:25:45 -0400
+Subject: Mr. JMS: Media Bias?
+
+     How can "Word" be a commentary on current allegations of bias (which
+I think are out of all proportion) since the media is now supposedly
+anti-government (nonsense), and the newscast in ""Word" was more than just
+a bit spoon-fed government propaganda?
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1995 02:26:03 -0400
+Subject: Mr. JMS: Shadows - Why?
+
+     Of course we're going to find out more about why the shadows are
+doing and what they want; it'd be kinda pointless otherwise, no?
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1995 02:35:44 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: On conspiracy theori
+
+     A very good and well-reasoned analysis.
+ 
+						                        jms
+
+
+[Steven Orso's "Unified Field Theory of Conspiracies."  The Shadows and Vorlons
+ are battling to control what their successors will be like; the Shadows want
+ to cull out weakness, and are behind all the conspiracies, which can all be
+ viewed as strong people edging out weak ones.  The mind control in comic
+ issue #7 suggests that Takashima's participation in Sinclair's frameup in
+ "The Gathering" might not have been a conscious choice; she served on Mars,
+ where Garibaldi and Sinclair saw what they saw.]
+
+     Along with John Miller's examination, this has to be one of the
+most well-thought-out analyses yet.  I'd say that a lot of it holds
+water.  (One nice side-element...I noted a while back that the comics
+were not necessary to follow the series, as anything there would be at
+some point mentioned in the show if it were important; here, you've
+used it correctly to presage and four-wall the series and deduce some
+very good stuff.)  Splendid work.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+[The attack on the Narn outpost]
+Date: 14 Jun 1995 17:51:02 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: CGI -- art
+
+     Thanks.  That scene in "Coming of Shadows" is one of my favorites;
+it does, as you say, convey that sense of wonder which is one of my main
+goals with this show.
+ 
+     Until "The Long Twilight Struggle," nothing else has come close to
+that scene for me.  But there's some stuff in there that finally manages
+to surpass it.  Just gorgeous and scary and awe-inspiring.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1995 04:21:42 -0400
+Subject: Babylon 5 Prayer (Humor, of co
+
+     Forgive them, Kosh, they know not what they do....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1995 04:21:56 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  Is it getting easier?
+
+     Easier?  It never gets any easier.  (Nor should it.  The minute it
+becomes something you toss off quickly, easily, is the moment you should
+get out of the business.)  If anything, it gets harder, because you're
+constantly trying to out-do what you did last week.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1995 18:26:30 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Screen savers?
+
+     Yes, there will be a B5 screensaver out from Sound Source later
+this year.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1995 18:26:54 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS retire????
+
+     Certainly George R.R. Martin and Melinda Snodgrass are looking to do
+more producing; Morgan and Wong from X-Files are off doing Space; so
+there's hope.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+
+[Dates unknown, but sometime in June]
+
+     Interestingly enough...yes, Warners does seem to take an interest in
+where the series is going.  The one comment I hear most often is that they
+enjoy seeing where the stories are going, and that they're not really like
+the stories being done elsewhere.  This is the only one of the PTEN shows
+to pick up even one Emmy, let alone the two we've received.  There were a
+number of folks at WB who initially really weren't sure about us, who have
+subsequently come around and have been very supportive.  Two of the main
+folks who've taken an active interest and supported us are Dick
+Robertson and Evan Thompson, between them the two Main Men of PTEN.
+Without them, there wouldn't BE a Babylon 5 series.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+ 
+     If you still have a copy of that article, and write-up, could you
+send it along to me for my files at the following address:
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423?  The line
+"most Trek-like" is hysterical; well, I think THEY think in terms of,
+ST is successful.  Thus another show in space that succeeds is most ST
+like.
+ 
+     War is peace.  Freedom is slavery.  Jesse Helms is human.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+ 
+     Haven't had the time to watch ANY of the Outer Limits, I'm afraid.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+ 
+      IF it's an established and well-attributed quote, then it's okay to
+mention it, yes, as "the long, twilight struggle" is a partial quote.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+
+      Yes, the Centauri/Narn war is a very handy distraction, which the
+ shadows could use.  That's one of the two reasons they helped set the
+ whole shebang going.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+ 
+     The Narns believe the Centauri are perfectly capable of doing this
+on their own; they've done it before, after all.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+     I hope the reaction would be both; what a ride, and that's deep
+(though I probably wouldn't use that exact wording).  It should also
+create the sense that you've gone off and lived somewhere else, and
+somewhen else, for five years.  When I got finished reading the Lensman
+books, my sense wasn't really either of those expressed above, but a sense
+that I had visited a real place, and lived through massive changes,
+empires that rose and fell, and seen a genuine saga with massive
+repercussions.  It should really have the sense of finishing a good book,
+one which one would like to go back and reread again later.
+ 
+     There are a number of philsophical undercurrents to the story, of
+course, some of which are apparent now, some which will become clearer
+later, and certainly a lot of action...but I'm shooting for something I
+can't really define for you, except to say that it should somehow be more
+than the sum of its parts.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+[Vir to die before season end?]
+     Now, what kind of storyteller would I be if I actually answered
+that question?   Hrmmmmm?
+ 
+                                                               jms
+ 
+     Sure, I can tell you what happens in the last four eps.
+ 
+     Really Awful Stuff.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+[What kind of jazz do you like?]
+     Jeez, I like a lot of it...Cout Basie, and Glen Miller, and Arty
+Shaw (though some of his later stuff got a bit derivitive of the earlier
+material), Tommy Dorsey, Gershwin...there's a CD came out a few years
+ago, a reconstruction of a number of performances debuting new material
+for the first time, and there's Gershwin playing (for lack of a better
+term) the beta version of "Rhapsody in Blue," with *riffs he later
+discarded*, and you can hear the differences, and understand why he made
+them.  Cab Calloway...dynamite.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+     Yes, the theory is to show the last 4 eps in October, and go right
+into year three eps the next week in November, no break, so you'd get
+about 8-9 eps in a row, rather than the usual 5 or so.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+ 
+     Never said the shadow war would be over in one year.  Only that it
+wouldn't last three.
+
+     The long cuts exist only in the computer; there was never a fully
+extended, on-film ep cut down for time.  Once we make our cuts on the
+computer, the film is assembled only once, for the final product.  We'd
+have to go in and re-edit EVERYthing to make it work.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+: "Now the trumpet summons us again: not as a call to bear arms, though arms we
+:  need; not as a call to battle, though in battle we are; but as a call to bear
+:  the burdens of a long, twilight struggle--year in and year out, rejoicing in
+:  hope, patient in tribulation--a struggle against the common enemies of
+:  man--tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself."
+:                                    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
+: Mike Daniels
+ 
+     Bingo.  As I mentioned before, the "long twilight struggle" title
+is a quote; you correctly identified the source in the JFK quote.
+ 
+                             jm(wish I had a toaster to award)s
+
+
+Date: 16 Jun 1995 01:03:29 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Why No B5 Covera
+
+     The English press has *always* been very receptive to B5, ranging
+from the genre/fan press to such publications as Time-Out and even the
+London Times, which has spoken well of the show.  It's mainly here in the
+States that the problem manifests itself.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 16 Jun 1995 04:50:08 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Name of 3rd Season
+
+     I'd rather wait a bit before making that declaration official.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 16 Jun 1995 04:24:11 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Minbari Prophecies & War?
+
+      There was the prophecy, but they didn't know specifically to which
+race it pertained until much later.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Date: 16 Jun 1995 04:27:27 -0400
+Subject: Re: DS9 establishes a new nadi
+
+      Ehhh....every year, DS9 promises something new, big stuff brewing,
+there was war talk last season...people fall for the okeydoke...it
+doesn't happen...ten months later, they're back with more hype and
+promises...seen it, been there.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 16 Jun 1995 21:22:48 -0400
+Subject: Re: * * *  JMS Nude!...  * * *
+
+     I don't think there should be any further revelations about me
+nude; I wouldn't want to be inadvertantly responsible for anyone being
+struck blind.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 16 Jun 1995 21:22:27 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS "Cassandra falls in se
+
+     "Cassandra fell in service with the Greeks."
+ 
+     Yes, but which in particular?
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 16 Jun 1995 21:23:11 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: political Q's
+
+     While most of the major powers have their-race colonies, each of
+them has client worlds inside their jurisdiction that are not their own
+species.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 16 Jun 1995 21:27:59 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS - "Cobra" bays?
+
+     The exterior launch bays are narrow along for some distance, then
+flange out into a kind of diamond shape; they resemble cobras, hence,
+cobra bays.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Date: 16 Jun 1995 21:30:44 -0400
+Subject: --Why I'm upset with DS9 and V
+
+     An aside to the discussion: I often hear folks who defend DS9, and
+some *with* DS9, say they can't do much action because they can't afford
+it.  I have *no* idea why this should be so, as a) both the current ST
+shows use a hell of a lot more stock footage than we ever do, and b) both
+ST shows have roughly twice the budget we have per episode.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 16 Jun 1995 21:57:20 -0400
+Subject: JMS?? Re: RFD: rec.arts.sf.tv.
+
+     I was asked if I wanted to be part of the discussion on this, and I
+opted out, because I don't want to be in the position of unduly pressuring
+anyone; I also barely understand the internet structure, and couldn't
+add much of substance anyway.  Just end up muddying the waters further.
+ 
+     Nor would my feelings on this be of much use, since they are totally
+conflicted.  I like the free-ranging discussion that comes with an
+unmoderated group.  On the other, there are more and more story ideas
+being posted in the course of speculation.  One or two that I stumbled
+across scared the hell out of me, though fortunately they ended up going
+off in directions I had no intention of going in.
+ 
+     I don't generally access internet through any other venue than this
+one, provided by Ron Jarrell through my GEnie gateway, which minimizes my
+contact with the net.
+ 
+     My hope was that in not influencing the discussion, those minds which
+understood the situation could come to some reasonable compromise
+situation.  I do think that Jay has come down a tad harder than I would
+have in similar circumstances, but that does not negate the core of the
+concerns; I did not initiate this whole moderation debate, but it was bound
+to become an issue sooner or later.
+ 
+     What I've told Ron, and Jay, and others, is that I want a solution that
+affects/impinges on others as little as possible.  This is, fundamentally,
+MY problem, and I've always felt uncomfortable making others compensate
+for my problem.  So I simply, honestly don't know what to do.  (I know that
+Ron has some ideas he's going to call about next week, so maybe he'll have
+a solution.)
+ 
+     There are times I do think it'd be better and simpler for me just to
+withdraw from internet, since after all I can still be reached easily via
+email, and my address is on the nets, so folks wouldn't have a hard time
+reaching me.  But I don't know if that's right either.
+ 
+     All of which should give you some idea of why I'm not doing much in
+this discussion; I can pretty convincingly argue just about every point of
+view.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 16 Jun 1995 22:30:44 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS:  When do we get to see defensive mods on B5
+
+     You'll see some of them in use by the end of this season.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1995 02:27:35 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Little Lost Delenn
+
+     Well, it's about TIME somebody noticed that little exchange in
+"Confessions and Lamentations."  Sometimes I stick stuff so obviously in
+the foreground that I'm afraid it's going to be too blatant, and then
+nobody seems to notice it, looking instead at the tiny stuff in the
+background.
+ 
+     Unfortunately, all I can say for now is that it is significant to
+Delenn's character and growth, and her sense of being special, and called
+into the religious caste.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1995 02:29:42 -0400
+Subject: JMS: A Kosh Question
+
+     "Have we seen Kosh lie?"
+ 
+     With Kosh, who can tell...?
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1995 02:00:48 -0400
+Subject: Re: DS9 vs B5 comments
+
+     *sigh*...my screw-up.  I was thinking Jake Sisko, when I should
+have thought Ben Sisko.  Mea culpa.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1995 02:01:02 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Little Lost Dele
+
+     Interesting how many B5 viewers know the lyrics to JC Superstar....
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1995 04:48:32 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: How are you trea
+
+     A lot of TV execs don't know from SF.  Or SF concepts.  So it became
+useful to have some nice, friendly, non-threatening pictures to show 'em
+to introduce them to the concepts behind the show.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1995 04:48:22 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Merchandise in Santa
+
+     From the description, I can't tell if it's legit or not; so I guess
+you may as well just assume the best.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1995 05:17:31 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Little Lost Dele
+
+     "This is the second time you've mentioned chainsaws in as many weeks.
+Is there anything you'd like to talk about???"
+ 
+     ...
+ 
+     You've never worked with actors before, have you?
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1995 18:39:48 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Bureau 13 game?(!)
+
+     No, the Bureau 13 rpg precedes our show; we weren't aware of it at
+the time we did the episode.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1995 18:39:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Little Lost Dele
+
+     Actually, the stage version of JC Superstar was just released on
+gold CD, as well as being available on regular CD, so it's slightly
+better for the audiophiles amongst us.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1995 18:43:16 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: How are you trea
+
+     I think Max Headroom was kind of uneven; much of it I liked, some
+of it fell flat for me.  Overall, though, I liked more than I didn't.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1995 18:43:36 -0400
+Subject: Channel 4 - Right to Reply.
+
+     If you have the opportunity, please convey to Channel 4 the
+following from me: My undying thanks to everyone at Channel Four who
+have supported Babylon 5, and who have demonstrated remarkable patience
+with what has apparently been a flood of messages, phone calls, letters
+and skywriting incidents.  (Well, okay, I made up the last one.)  From the
+proverbial horse's mouth...we have now delivered to Warner Bros. two of
+the remaining four episodes.  The first was delivered three weeks ago,
+the second about a week ago.  The third should be in their hands this
+week, the last a bit thereafter.  I have no clear understanding what the
+airing arrangements might be between C4 and Warners, but any support that
+we can provide is there for the asking.
+ 
+     We sometimes allow ourselves the conceit that Babylon 5 has a very
+British feel to it, as much of the better SF has come from the UK, and
+its tone is not far from what we do.  We are thus inestimably pleased by
+the great support C4 has shown for the series, the friendliness, courtesy
+and patience of its staffers, and we look forward to a long and
+productive relationship.
+ 
+     Now, about that six p.m. timeslot....
+ 
+                              sincerely, J. Michael Straczynski
+                              executive producer/creator, BABYLON 5
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1995 18:43:59 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Little Lost Dele
+
+     The Phantom of the Paradise CD is very hard to get; I grabbed two
+copies while in the UK, and have since only seen one other here in the
+states.  (Got Paul Williams to autograph both of them for me while he
+was here.)
+ 
+                                                         jms
+
+Date: 20 Jun 1995 01:38:12 -0400
+Subject: Re: DS9 vs B5 comments
+
+     Ted: I think your note is even-handed and well considered.  For me,
+any one of the items you discuss being present isn't a big deal; it's the
+cumulative effect of all of them being present in both shows, at the same
+time, airing within weeks of one another.
+ 
+     The result of all this nearly killed B5 in its early stages, which
+I think was the desired effect.  You must understand that when B5 was
+announced in the trades for the first time in November of that year (2-3
+months prior to the announcement of DS9), in articles that described it
+pretty succinctly (space station, rogues, renegades, all the usual H'wood
+hype), it was often referred to as Warner's attempt to create a space
+franchise (see above re: hype).
+ 
+     There has *long* been bad blood between Paramount and Warner Bros.
+Particularly since Paramount was then already setting the blocks in place
+to create its own network, and PTEN was being birthed right then, setting
+the stage for major conflict.  The number of syndicated stations is very
+small, and the hours available per station equally small.  Faced with
+that kind of scenario, big guns tend to be pulled out.
+ 
+     Whatever the sequence of events might have been, the result was that
+I ended up sitting in meetings with Warner execs who said, "How am I
+supposed to sell this show?  It's *identical* to DS9 in any way that
+matters, the syndicated market can't sustain two identical shows like
+this, and they've go the Star Trek name to entice station owners.  Nobody
+knows from 'Babylon 5.'"
+ 
+     Understand, since the debuts, the shows have gone off in different
+directions, but we're talking the first season and the pilot.  Nearly all
+the articles described them as nearly identical at that stage.  And the
+details of character don't often play to TV execs who only see the broad
+strokes, the "quick concept."
+ 
+     The fact that the two shows were so similar at that time, one a nobody
+show from nowhere, the other bundled with the STAR TREK (tm) name, came
+within an inch of killing Babylon 5.  (Which wasn't helped by A Certain
+Studio telling advertisers that B5 was going to be crap, cheaply produced,
+and not to bother.)  That's one of the main reasons why it took nearly a
+period of four months before we finally got the go order for year one,
+after everybody crunched the ratings, and the demos, and decided to take
+a chance on it.  And even THEN we were told, "The syndie market can't
+sustain two shows like this; you're gonna get creamed."
+ 
+     Through the clipping service, I saw one newspaper/magazine article
+after another calling B5 a "clone" of DS9.  Because they considered them
+identical.  Many ST fans felt the same way, and said so, openly.  "Jeez,
+they copied EVERYthing," one noted.  Now, when we point out which really
+came first, suddenly some of these same folks say, "Nah...they're not
+alike at ALL.  Don't be silly."
+ 
+     One could get whiplash from such a thing.
+ 
+     To step back a second, the reality is that this sort of thing happens
+in hollywood all the time.  When "The Abyss" was being produced, several
+other films with identical concepts were rushed forward (remember Deepstar
+7 or 9 or whatever that was?).  Consequently, one of the things you most
+protect are the details of your project.  You don't want a possible
+competitor to know what you're doing.  Unfortunately, right there in the
+files at Paramount was every last detail about how we were going to do B5,
+the station, the stories, everything.
+ 
+     Now, I'm sure that the Paramount execs said, "No, no...we won't look
+at it, we won't open the drawer, we'll remain pure and virginal and even
+though we're trying to beat Warners in creating a new network, even though
+they're threatening to break our monopoly on space/future shows, we won't
+open that file drawer, no sir."
+ 
+     They could not possibly have said, "Okay, open the file drawer.
+Let's take a peek at what they're going to do.  We won't copy it, exactly,
+but knowing what they're doing will allow us to co-opt a little of their
+franchise, enough to cut them off at the knees in the marketplace.  We
+won't tell Berman or Pillar about this, because they would never go along
+with it, but we'll just *guide* them here and there.  We give notes all
+the time in development, who's to know where they came from?"
+ 
+     And just to be clear, so the sarcasm doesn't get in the way: I have
+never, *ever* felt, or believed, or thought, that Berman or Pillar EVER
+saw or knew about the B5 information.  Had anyone suggested anything of a
+less than straightforward nature, they would have refused; of that I have
+no doubt.  No sarcasm, that's what I think.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 20 Jun 1995 01:55:55 -0400
+Subject: B5 Cancelled rumor
+
+     Any newsletter that identifies itself as "Mr. Data's" ANYthing can
+generally be construed as being wrong as it pertains to any info re: B5.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 20 Jun 1995 01:01:48 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Little Lost Dele
+
+     Bruce: saw "Chess" in London after it'd been around for a few years;
+was surprised that they'd softened some elements from the sountrack stage.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 20 Jun 1995 01:12:33 -0400
+Subject: Paramount swipes B5 idea!
+
+     Actually, I would be very happy to let Voyager be the one to own the
+notion of holding back the last four eps if we could just air ours NOW.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 20 Jun 1995 02:00:17 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  Up Front Again?  (Season
+
+     Yup, just keeping that thread alive, since it's going to come up in
+a major way in the last four episodes.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 20 Jun 1995 05:20:32 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Weird Question
+
+     Valen is the Minbari pronunciation.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 20 Jun 1995 05:24:34 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS Re: Talia Leaving?
+
+     Brutwug: ah, but you WILL see Pat Tallman again on B5; this season, no
+less.  We live to serve....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 20 Jun 1995 05:28:31 -0400
+Subject: Do actors _like_ doing cons?
+
+     Insofar as I know, *all* of our cast enjoy going to cons, perhaps
+mainly because they do NOT see it in terms of "drooling SF geeks" or "holy
+reverence."  This is their show as much as mine; they work hard, and they
+respect and appreciate their audience.
+ 
+     Ask anyone here who was at Babcom in Birmingham.  Or at Marcon in
+Ohio.  Peter was always accessible, friendly, hung out; we all went double
+the allotted time to make sure everyone got an autograph (we signed 3,000
+in two days, probably more).  Richard and Jerry hung out with fans at the
+Marcon, in the bar, the lounge, the green room, room parties.  Theydo seem
+to honestly enjoy the exchange.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 20 Jun 1995 05:48:28 -0400
+Subject: Re: evolution in B5 universe
+
+     RE: the bone crests on the Minbari, the notion expressed by David
+Sueme detailing evolutionary notions omits the most rudimentary fact
+about such things when he says it's illogical from a birth perspective:
+They're not BORN that way, any more than elks are born with full-length
+horns.  Like any other species that grows bony-matter outside the head
+(deer, cows, bulls, certified public accountants), it's either not there
+at birth or nascent.  It gradually grows out.  Ditto for the Minbari.
+There are elaborate rituals of shaping and honing and cutting as one's
+crest grows.  Some crests are shaped more in tune with the military caste
+than the religious caste, for instance.
+ 
+     It grows out to create a protective sheath around the back of the
+head, where the internal skull can sometimes be fragile, to provide
+added reinforcement.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 20 Jun 1995 05:48:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: Smoking Guns?(fountain pen
+
+     Re: Patricia Swan....AH!  Another pen-lover.  Dittos all around.  I
+love pens.  All kinds pens.  But clearly the fountain pen is my favorite.
+For my money, the Parker fountain pens are always the best.  I tried the
+Mont Blancs for a while, didn't work for me.  But the Parker Centennial,
+the Sonnet and the Duofold are terrific pens.  (Did you know they're
+discontinuing the Duofold?  Rushed out and picked up two more when I
+heard that.)
+ 
+     In the category of "This is god's way of telling you you've got too
+much money," I noted an ad from Nakimi for a fountain pen made of layers
+of Japanese Urushi lacquer, carved maple, ornately wrought designs of
+18-karet gold and hand-wrought silver.  A strikingly beautiful pen.
+ 
+     Price?  $6,000.
+ 
+     You gotta be outta your mind....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 21 Jun 1995 01:34:22 -0400
+Subject: Centauri first encounter
+
+     When they encountered us, the Centauri empire was already shrinking;
+we were off the beaten track and had little of value, or strategic
+interest.  We were a curiosity, with some nice cultural stuff for trade.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 21 Jun 1995 01:33:50 -0400
+Subject: JMS: What have we missed?
+
+     If I told you *everything* that seems to have been missed, I'd be
+highlighting things that will come and should be surprises....
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 20 Jun 1995 17:24:54 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: jms 3 Questions
+
+     How I got Walter is, basically, I know him, and I asked him.  Not
+much more to it, really.  The psi symbol is taken from the greek letter.
+And don't have much info on cons at this point anywhere in that area,
+I'm afraid.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 20 Jun 1995 17:25:22 -0400
+Subject: ATTN  JMS:  What's the office
+
+     Actually, my office ain't much to write home about.  Main thing is,
+where all of the offices and walls in the office area here at the B5
+studios are white, mine is painted battleship grey.  Brown desk, black
+sofa and cabinet, TV and small stereo.  A few B5 items here and there,,q\,
+including a model vorlon transport made and hand-painted by Ron, a couple
+of awards.  On the walls: not much, a woodcut of a skeletal dwarf riding
+a flying pig and carrying a scythe; a shot of the B5 station; the season
+two/three B5 poster; calendar; and my schedule board where I keep track of
+scripts, which is adorned with huge (1.5 foot by 3 foot) boards, one on
+either side, which contain individual quotes.  I swap out the quotes on a
+regular basis.  On now: "To define is to kill, to suggest is to create,"
+Mallarme.  "The point of no return; that is the point that must be
+reached," Franz Kafka.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 21 Jun 1995 05:59:21 -0400
+Subject: ?????
+
+     G'Kar is not leaving the show.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 21 Jun 1995 01:57:14 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: How does Vir know?
+
+     Vir was there when Londo summoned him to do the hit on the Narns in
+"Coming of Shadows," as seen in the ep.  It's quite clear he knows what
+Morden is all about.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 21 Jun 1995 01:59:31 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Why Io?
+
+     Putting the jumpgate near Jupiter makes it harder to detect by long
+range weapons systems, given the energy output from Jupiter.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+Date: 21 Jun 1995 02:04:42 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Banana ice cream!
+
+     ...nuts got no business being in any self-respecting ice cream,
+banana or otherwise....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 21 Jun 1995 02:03:41 -0400
+Subject: JMS: New Theme Music?
+
+     Narration will be shorter.  Music will be more aggressive, more
+martial.
+ 
+     Interesting things coming.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 21 Jun 1995 02:04:01 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Finished the last 4
+
+     Haven't heard a final decision on this yet.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 21 Jun 1995 02:04:23 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Perth Conventions
+
+     Haven't ever been to a Perth convention, but from your note I look
+forward to trying it out one of these days.  Thanks.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 21 Jun 1995 05:55:23 -0400
+Subject: Mr. JMS: SAG regs on clips....
+
+     There is a clip rate for actors, don't have the figures before me.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1995 03:28:53 -0400
+Subject: Re: The Last 4 (Question)
+
+     I got some *very* interesting information today re: the UK airing
+of the Final Four, and I'll be verifying it over the next few days.  If
+what I've heard is correct, this will be *very* cool for UK viewers, who
+will NOT have to wait until October.  Watch this space for updates.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1995 04:50:31 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Series Title Questio
+
+     In other words, basically, you want me to tell you the end of the
+story.
+ 
+     notachance
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1995 04:15:56 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS : A Spaceship...
+
+     Sure.  But you have to promise to blow it up real good.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1995 04:20:05 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Number Of Stations C
+
+     Insofar as I know, the number of stations has stayed fairly
+stable, +/- a couple here and there, for which others have usually taken
+up the slack.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1995 04:20:24 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: How are the Centauri
+
+     According to the latest reports from the front, the Centauri are
+generally doing fairly well, though Narn reports continue to insist that
+they are holding their own.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1995 04:20:53 -0400
+Subject: Re: DS9 War?
+
+     Yeah, the bit where Sinclair gets his link/hand tangled in his coat
+was scripted that way.  He wasn't sure about it at first, didn't know if
+it would look goofy or not, but it looked real, and that's what I wanted.
+Invariably, when a new script comes out, one or another actor reacts with,
+"He wants me to do WHAT?"  (fill in the blanks...sing a Gilbert&Sullivan
+style libretto, orgasm on camer, do the hokey pokey)  But it nearly always
+works out.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1995 04:21:08 -0400
+Subject: Re: The One little thing about
+
+     The ant was paid strictly according to SAG rules (Screen Ants Guild).
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1995 04:25:53 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Opening credits
+
+     Placement in the credits is determined by contracts with actors.
+And I held off using "ambassador" in each credit because it looked too
+repetitive.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1995 04:35:35 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS The Coming Od Shadow
+
+     I approve all casting, so yes, I approved Turhan Bey as the Centauri
+Emperor.  He did a lovely job.  Re: broadcasting B5 wide in the US, this
+won't happen until HDTV is widespread.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1995 04:50:50 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Models?????
+
+     No models have yet been licensed.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1995 04:51:08 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  Another Long-Range Set-U
+
+     Yes, part of the reason for the QoM episode was to set up the notion
+of an implanted personality as acheivable tech.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1995 05:06:40 -0400
+Subject: From JMS: What Exec Prods Do
+
+     Every couple of days, as today, I get one or another message saying,
+"In this episode, did you have anything to do with, or were you involved
+with...." and it's the script, or an actor, or whatever.  All legitimate
+questions.  In thinking about this, it occured to me that maybe it might
+be a good idea to go over what an executive producer actually *does*.
+ 
+     So file this under "How I Spend My Days," by J. Michael Straczynski,
+Age 12
+ 
+     1) I write scripts.  12 the first year, 15 the second.  When you see
+my name on a script, every action and dialogue was written that way.  My
+scripts are very detailed.  There is very, *very* little improv allowed
+on the show, not necessarily because I think each word is golden but
+because a changed word can mess up an important sentence that foreshadows
+something 4-6 episodes down the road.  If an actor is having a problem
+with a line, which happens occasionally but rarely, and wants to substitute
+one word with another, somebody comes from the stage to my office, 15 feet
+away, and checks to make sure it's okay.
+ 
+     2) I work with the prosthetics/makeup people in conceptualizing
+and approving makeups.  I partly sculpted the original version of Delenn's
+headpiece in the pilot.  Prosthetics folks read the script, come up with
+several designs, run them past me, and I approve one or the other.
+ 
+     3) I work with the costume designers, again with final approval on
+all elements.  Sometimes if I have something specific in mind, I'll try
+and sketch it out.  (I can't draw for squat, and our costume designer finds
+my pathetic scribblings very amusing, and...."cute."  I once drew a kitty
+on the same page as a costume note, just to show her i was improving my
+range.  She stuck it on her wall.  Argh.)  Usually she comes up with
+designs, runs them past me, I make some notes or suggestions of varying
+coherence, and she runs with it.
+ 
+     4) I approve all set designs, and again, once in a while, will get
+into the act with a rough sketch of one sort or another.  Any artwork,
+posters, signage, set dressing, props...all go through my office for
+personal approval.
+ 
+     5) Along with the director and a few others, I sit in on all casting
+and have final right of decision, along with Doug, and we rarely
+disagree.
+ 
+     6) I approve all directors and writers for the show, and work with
+both.  In the case of directors, we speak about the episode many times,
+and have "tone meetings" just before shooting in which we go over every
+page to discuss the visualization and make sure we're on the same track.
+I try to slip out onto the set when possible to make sure we're still on
+the right track.  If I see something that may not be what I had in mind,
+I'll either defer if it works, or if I'm concerned, I'll pull the
+director aside for a quiet discussion, and let the director relay my
+notes to the actors.  (On the set, there can only be one voice, and that
+is the director, in terms of relaying instructions to crew and cast.)
+ 
+     7) I work with the composer, determining in- and out-cues for music,
+and where I have something in mind, expressing it to Christopher.
+ 
+     8) Working with the CGI folks on exactly what given sequences should
+look like, and how long they should be.
+ 
+     9) After the director makes his/her cut, John Copeland and I go in to
+make the producer's cut.  We sometimes re-edit every frame, or do a light
+dusting.  Generally I work more with the character stuff, and he's good at
+action stuff (hence my nickname for John, Captain Action).  We sometimes
+spend as much as two days going over every single frame, to tighten and
+make it stronger.
+ 
+     When you have a crew and cast as talented as we do, a lot of the
+preceding stages amount to basically saying "yup" a lot, and in all of
+this, John Copeland is my good right arm; I rely on his judgment
+implicitly.
+ 
+     (John is also our resident military expert, and he does a lot to
+keep us in line with tradition.  I think when the B5 history is eventually
+written, his importance to the show will really come through.)
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1995 18:54:40 -0400
+Subject: B5 CDROM What Happened?
+
+     The CD rom was put back when Compton's cut back its list of titles
+from several hundred to 38.  We're now renegotiating with several other
+companies who are actively pursuing the license, and hope to have this
+locked down soon.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1995 19:53:44 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Thanks for doing GRO
+
+     I'd have to go back and check, but I'm pretty sure it was a row of
+stars or a row of ships going around Earth.
+ 
+     And thanks.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1995 19:58:09 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS : Should I Buy Unlice
+
+     For reasons that are probably self-evident, I really can't comment
+on any of this...though I wouldn't mind getting the address for the person
+selling these PPGs and stuff....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1995 20:06:39 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  "What I really want to d
+
+     I dunno...I keep going back and forth on this.  For my purposes it's
+easier to find directors who see the show my way, and hire them; and not
+the ones who don't.  I sometimes consider directing -- mainly because it
+makes John Copeland get all twitchy every time I broach the subject, and I
+like to watch him vibrate into another dimension -- but mainly...it'd
+require getting up WAY too early.  My agent says I'm nuts for not taking
+the opporunity, which is there, if I wanted it.  But so far...ehhh.....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1995 04:18:28 -0400
+Subject: Dissapointed with the Soundtra
+
+     Err...both main themes ARE incorporated into the soundtrack, one at
+the top of track 10, the other earlier.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1995 04:18:41 -0400
+Subject: Re: Holy JMS-Re: DS9 establish
+
+     Excuse me, Michelle, but I resent your message.  I have absolutely
+NO control whatsoever to the airing schedule of Babylon 5; I can help
+set up which episodes within a given period will air, in what order, but
+when PTEN decides that NO episodes are going to air in that period, there
+ain't squat I can do about it, and believe me, I tried; I can't count the
+numbers of phone calls I made, to no effect.  To take a situation over
+which I have no control, which I didn't know when I was writing or
+producing the episodes, about which I am *very* upset, and try to make
+me responsible for that, and therefore that I am a hypocrite for holding
+back the great war, is just about as low as one can get.
+ 
+     Further, you're operating out of what you think the war is.  It's one
+large war that spirals into another.  The Narns and the Centauri are at
+war.  You can't just dismiss it as the trigger; thousands of Narns and
+many Centauri are *dying*.  And the last four episodes are planned to
+escalate the hell out of this.
+ 
+     I'm sorry if it's not sufficiently nasty at this point to satisfy
+your bloodthirstiness.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1995 04:18:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:Harlan Ellison o
+
+     What I have to say about Christopher Priest and his piece of crap
+Deadloss Visions, little more than attempted literary assassination, from
+a personal vendetta aided and abetted by Groth and Feeley, would fry your
+modem connection and violate just about every provision Congress just
+slapped onto electronic communications.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1995 04:18:16 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Hyperspace effects
+
+     Yes, the mass energy shown in the gates shows why Explorer craft
+like to conserve energy.  And you're pretty much on the beam about how
+Shadow vessels move in and out of hyperspace.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1995 20:00:27 -0400
+Subject: Re: DS9 vs B5 comments
+
+     Why on earth am I suddenly getting a zillion rerun old messages
+with the Fidonet notation at the end of each one?
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1995 18:17:21 -0400
+Subject: Star Trek vs. B5
+
+     It's also worth mentioning that one of my hopes in doing b5 is that
+it will encourage others to pick up the ball when I've finished playing with
+it and do other linked/novel-structured stories, so far from thinking that
+ST is "ripping off" anything by adapting to a long-term structure, I'd be
+quite pleased.
+ 
+     I'd rather it weren't *my* story, but anything else...terrific.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1995 18:55:24 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:Harlan Ellison o
+
+     Unfortunately, Bob, you are one of those people of whom Harlan
+speaks when he says you have no sense of the real history of the story
+behind ST.  He did more than just write "City"...he brought in ohter
+SF writers, rewrote them on the QT in some cases, fronted ST to SFWA and
+vice versa; he was the one who fronted a mass mailing to leading SF pros
+and other urging them to do all they could to keep the show on the air
+when it looked like it was going to be canceled at the end of its second
+season.
+ 
+     He did more beyond that, but that's a start.  So on that count, you
+are absolutely wrong and ignorant of the facts.
+ 
+     Item #2, he has never "cheated or swindled" the authors involved with
+"The Last Dangerous Visions."  Each author was paid, with a fee that
+covers X-amount of time.  At the end of X-amount of time, he sends another
+check to renew his right to publish those stories.  Any author who wants
+to pull his story, can do so, and some have.  Most haven't, and are
+content to wait.
+ 
+     The paralogia you exhibit in your message is blatant and sad.  You
+try to attack his statements on ST with false and uninformed opinion, then
+drag in TLDV as if to somehow verify his lack of character in speaking his
+mind about Star Trek.  Using anything, however false or irrelevant, to
+discredit the messenger who's saying stuff you don't want to hear.
+ 
+     Tough.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1995 00:52:22 -0400
+Subject: JMS :  Ivanova Romance Questio
+
+     There will be an Ivanova romance...but not necessarily with whom you
+might expect.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1995 04:26:39 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: *Is* B5 History Bein
+
+     The closest thing to a history is something I've been working on a
+bit here and there, trying to put together a daily (or twice-weekly)
+journal on the making of the third season, filling in backstory along
+the way.  We'll see if I can keep this sucker going throughout the
+season.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1995 16:28:39 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  Season Three, Episode Te
+
+     I think it's a bit early for me to be giving out spoilers for ep 10
+of year 3.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1995 16:29:03 -0400
+Subject: Re: DS9 establishes a new nadi
+
+     The problem with the competition discussion is that it doesn't address
+the issues from an industry standpoint.  It's not an issue of "Well, DS9
+isn't sweating because they're getting better ratings than B5."  It's not
+per se a competition on that level.  What worries Paramount is ANY other
+show like B5 even existing, because it dilutes their monopoly on this
+kind of space show, which has existed for 30 years.  Also, over time, DS9's
+ratings have gotten very soft; a number of their folks have drifted over
+to B5.  Given their huge expensive budget, even while they may stay way
+ahead of us in the ratings, if they drop below a certain point it's going
+to cause them problems.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1995 16:29:22 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:Harlan Ellison o
+
+     Please cite for me, Rob, those stories you've heard about literary
+assassination by Harlan.  I would like to see them.  Invariably they are
+total fiction of grossly exaggerated by those who want to do harm.
+ 
+     As for not delivering a book manuscript for X-years...this is not a
+big deal, frankly, and it's not the business of anyone not directly
+involved.  Hell, I've been trying for the last six years to finish the
+revisions to the scriptwriting book; I've said I was just about finished,
+only to get hammered by something and time slips.  It happens to every
+writer.
+ 
+     And the same people who say, "Why hasn't he finished his work?" are
+the ones who chivvy and harrass him, send him abusive mail, subscribe him
+to magazines he doesn't want, start organizations like Enemies of
+Ellison, and do everything they can to wind him up to the point where
+nobody could get ANY work done.  That he's delivered as much as he has,
+equal to or more than my output on any year, is amazing, given that this
+is ALSO the man with Epstein/Barr (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) and has had
+two heart attacks and two surgical heart procedures.
+ 
+     Gee, I wonder why he's distracted.
+ 
+     Priest and the rest of his ilk should get a fucking life and maybe do
+some work of their own instead of harrassing Harlan.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1995 16:32:51 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Will the original sc
+
+     Well, we'll see if there's enough interest at that time.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 23 Jun 1995 16:40:47 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:Harlan Ellison o
+
+     Except, again, you're characterizing a twisted, biased hatchet job
+by someone with an agenda as a legitimate report, and basing your
+reactions on that assumption.  It ain't.
+ 
+                                                         jms
+
+Date: 24 Jun 1995 03:21:59 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN  JMS:  What's the off
+
+     Oh, hell, I forgot the one pre-eminent feature in my office: a framed
+MST3K picture of Mike and TV's Frank and Dr. Foresster and the 'bots, all
+signed by the relative charcters, living or robotic.
+ 
+     It was a present for my birthday, and in return I sent 'em a box of
+B5 caps.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 24 Jun 1995 19:18:46 -0400
+Subject: Re: From JMS: What Exec Prods
+
+     I don't think *any* topic is off-limits when it comes to discussing
+B5, because no topic is off-limits when it comes to *making* B5.  So
+questions/discussions of costumes, makeup, EFX, philosophy, mathematics
+(not Joseph's skill, however), set design...whatever.  I may not always
+have an answer, but I'll either find one or come up with a reasonably
+plausible alibi.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 24 Jun 1995 19:19:06 -0400
+Subject: Illuminati invade B5
+
+     The handclasp used in "Coming of Shadows" was a traditional clasp
+used by Romans, usually in order to check if the other person was carrying
+a knife.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 24 Jun 1995 19:18:56 -0400
+Subject: Re: DS9 establishes a new nadi
+
+     Yeah, the new "Space" series should further take SF from being a
+one-show monopoly and making it into a regular genre like any other, IF
+it proves successful.  Given that Morgan and Wong (from X-Files) are
+behind it, I have great hopes, and wish them nothing but success.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 24 Jun 1995 19:36:02 -0400
+Subject: Re: Holy JMS-Re: DS9 establish
+
+     Ted: you're comparing apples and oranges (again).  There is a profound
+difference between PTEN (to use your term) "meddling" with what dates to
+SHOW the program, and Paramount "meddling" with what goes INTO the
+program.  Further, I've seen just as many people here hitting critical
+mass about the PTEN delay as those discussing Paramount/ST, probably more.
+ 
+     "Does this mean that people like Franklin who criticize Trek writers
+for Paramount decisions but don't criticize jms for PTEN decisions are
+being hypocritical?  Absolutely."
+ 
+     Ted...what the fuck are you talking about?  I'd like to know because
+this doesn't parse on any level; it doesn't touch reality at any two
+contiguous points.  A writer is responsible for only one thing: what goes
+into the script.  You might as well blame the writer for some station
+airing the show at 11 p.m. vs. 8 p.m.  Which is sheer madness on your
+part.
+ 
+     There is creative meddling with the program's contents, and scheduling
+meddling which all happens after the contents are completed.  These are
+as different as night and day.  A writer is responsible for the contents
+of his/her scripts; and is NOT responsible in any way, manner, shape or
+form for the scheduling of that episode.  I'm sorry, Ted, but this is one
+of your more extraordinarily dumb postings, and there've been some
+real whoppers, lemme tell you.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 24 Jun 1995 20:48:50 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Franklin's religion and m
+
+     ...okay, Rebecca, I'll bite...what were the deconstructionist
+interpretations of Franklin's speech?
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1995 02:45:04 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: CGI in GROPOS
+
+     That was all CGI, yes.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1995 22:24:46 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Did it work?
+
+     There are still about 3 shots left to come on "Fall," but yeah, so
+far it looks like it's gonna work.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1995 22:25:04 -0400
+Subject: JMS:Why Babylon?
+
+     The name was mutually arrived at by the nation/sponsors of B5, and
+the man who initiated the project, looking back at the original story of
+Babylon as a place where different languages came together.  I'd started
+to do a story about the founder of the Babylon Project, but it kinda got
+shoved aside; I'll do it eventually.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1995 22:53:02 -0400
+Subject: ATTN:JMS  Chicago Comicom
+
+     Yes, I do plan to be at Chicago ComicCon.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 24 Jun 1995 02:54:38 -0400
+Subject: Giving JMS Feedback on last 4
+
+     Actually, the writing of the next batch of scripts has very little to
+do with reaction to the last four; the story is the story.  And, as it
+happens, the first three are now written, and I'll be starting on script
+four next week.  By the time the first episode airs in the UK, we will hvae
+(have) 5-6 scripts in-hand.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1995 22:50:05 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Ranger-hood
+
+     One could certainly argue the position that those who become Rangers
+are drawn to Minbar for that purpose, and speculate about what might be
+propelling that.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1995 22:50:26 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: when do we get to se
+
+     There is nothing special about the spots on Na'Toth's forehead, and
+we may or may not see her again.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1995 22:53:18 -0400
+Subject: ATTN, JMS: Lyta-Talia question
+
+     Different character, different story.  And you'll see Lyta in the
+final four, and probably in year three as well.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1995 22:53:47 -0400
+Subject: UK showing end of Season 2 bef
+
+     The showing of episodes in the UK won't have any effect on US
+ratings, as the few copies that work their way back here won't be in
+sufficient numbers to affect the Neilsens.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1995 22:53:59 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Interzone #97 talks about
+
+     Jeannette: yeah, if it's a good piece on the show, send it or a
+copy along.  BTW, got the music.  All very nice, but especially like
+Roy's stuff.  Some of his little tirades are quite impressive.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1995 22:53:32 -0400
+Subject: Re: Holy JMS-Re: DS9 establish
+
+     Alex, I never said I *wasn't* bugged about the delay in episodes;
+only that it's not something within my control.  I would much rather they
+were shown in July.  I've always said that.  Schedules are not the
+writer's jurisdiction.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1995 23:05:31 -0400
+Subject: From jms: Harlan Merchandise
+
+     Most of you may not be aware of the existence of the Harlan Ellison
+Record Collection.  Harlan Ellison, besides being Conceptual Consultant
+for Babylon 5, and a leading writer, is also an amazing performer on
+stage, and when reading his own material.  One of his recordings was
+recently nominated for a Grammy Award.
+ 
+     All prior releases from HERC have been on LP (and they are all
+terrific, recordings of "I'm Looking for Kadak" and "Jefty is Five" and
+a collection of his appearances such as "On the Road with Harlan
+Ellison").  Well, now his first CD is out, his reading of the award
+winning story "Paladin of the Lost Hour," which was also done as an
+episode of The Twilight Zone, guest-starring Danny Kaye.
+ 
+     If you've never heard Harlan read, you've got to check this one
+out.  He doesn't so much read as *perform* the story, playing all the
+parts, with inflections and accents and a wonderful dramatic flair.  As
+with all the rest, it's a joy to listen to.
+ 
+     This brand-new, first-time ever release of "Paladin" is 55 minutes
+in length, and the price is $16.50 plus $2 for postage and handling.
+Again, this is the CD.  There are discounts for those who join HERC
+which for a yearly membership fee of $8 gets you the HERC Newsletter,
+with bits from Harlan, edited by his wife Susan Ellison, and access to
+all of his previously published books *and* prior HERC recordings.
+(For HERC members, btw, the "Paladin" CD goes for $15 with $2 postage
+and handling.)
+ 
+     The address, for those interested, is: The Harlan Ellison Record
+Collection, P. O. Box 55548, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413.  (Checks or money
+orders only, no plastic.)
+ 
+     I've been meaning to pass this info along for a while now, but the
+release of "Paladin of the Lost Hour" gives me a good opportunity to do
+so finally.  For those who like audio books, radio drama (some of the
+recordings incorporate some elements of production, and sound effects,
+though minimally), performance art, storytelling...this is definitely
+something you'll want to consider.
+ 
+     (If anyone wants to add this info to any of the WWW pages out there
+for future use in the archives, that'd be a Nifty Thing.)
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 24 Jun 1995 03:27:51 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Who checks your scri
+
+    Generally speaking, not that much checking needs to be done; I try to
+write from what I know, or can research on my own.  In a few cases, we've
+brough in advisors in specific areas; military advisors for GROPOS,
+medical advisors on "Confessions", that sort of thing.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1995 01:27:53 -0400
+Subject: Re: DS9 compared to B5
+
+     Actually, I think we broke RoTJ's record for ships on-screen in the
+pilot; Ron was rather pleased about it at the time.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1995 03:50:50 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Congrats from Austra
+
+     Thanks, and I'll pass this along to David Gerrold.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1995 03:50:59 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS  Idle curiosity...
+
+     Actually, yes, it does have a name, but the darned thing is in my
+notes, and I'd have to go digging it out.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1995 06:51:16 -0400
+Subject: ATTN, JMS: Jumpgate question
+
+     You might as well ask who invented the computer.  The principles have
+always been there, written in the universe for people to decode, as we
+have been doing throughout centuries.  At various points, races stumble
+upon items like jumpgate technology the same way they stumble upon fire,
+or radium, or the piston engine.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1995 06:51:31 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: No Na'Toth? But you
+
+     No, I never said that the character of Na'Toth was needed to relay
+information to another character.  (It would be infinitely better if the
+tens of thousand of people you cite who memorize every comment checked
+the actual statement, 'cause often it's misphrased from memory, and then
+I get held accountable for it.)  I said that she had to have certain
+information, period.  Specifically, when G'Kar came back, I needed
+someone there who he could talk to about the shadows, and get us into
+that part.  Someone who knew he'd been gone, and why.  Otherwise, he'd
+be spilling his guts to a total stranger, and he wouldn't *do* that.
+Hence, you need Na'Toth.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 27 Jun 1995 06:51:51 -0400
+Subject: ATTN, JMS: Literacy
+
+     No plans for a READ poster at this time, no.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 25 Jun 1995 03:23:00 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn.:  Big Bang Con Atten
+
+     J. Potts...your report reflects exactly what I'd been afraid of,
+that the event was going to be an organizational disaster.  The cast were
+game to go for the fans, and I'm glad to see that they did okay in that
+regard, but they can't do much about how the con is organized.  This all
+pretty much confirms that my concerns were justified.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1995 03:50:19 -0400
+Subject: JMS:Delenn's age
+
+     She is between 60 and 70, which in Minbari terms is a very young
+woman.
+ 
+     (amend that, not *very* young, as 18, but equal to a human female
+in her 30s)
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1995 03:50:45 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Ideas to help newbie
+
+     We broached the idea of a one-hour "Mysteries of
+Babylon 5" special to PTEN; unfortunately, it seems problematic.  Fox can
+set aside a block of time because it's a true network; PTEN would have
+to go to each station individually and sell the one-hour show, and that
+is apparently very difficult.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1995 04:05:29 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS--EA gives B5 to
+
+     Hardin: the key issue, always, is the introduction of new plot
+elements and actions not previously introduced.  It's the difference
+between saying what something may *mean*, and suggesting something that
+may *happen*.  The more precise the suggestion, the more problematic it
+becomes.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1995 04:26:53 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Plausable deniability?
+
+     I have made considerable mention that I don't access the internet
+any other way.  Proving access is key to any legal problems.  If I'm here
+posting regularly, that de facto proves access.  If I'm not, it becomes
+more difficult to prove.
+ 
+     Second, the material *is* all put away, and dated, but the key isn't
+just winning the case, which would happen; I just would rather not spend
+the next 2 years of my life subsequent to a problem in depositions, and
+hearings, and more hearings, and closeted with lawyers in the course of
+defending myself against somebody.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1995 03:51:09 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Writing Software Que
+
+     I used to use Wordstar, with macros to adjust dialogue margins,
+almost constantly in writing scripts.  Then the last two places I worked,
+including Universal and "Murder, She Wrote" went over to Movie Master,
+which is basically a no-brainer script program that has all the margins
+and formatting set up.  After learning that one, it kinda stuck, and
+that's the one I use now for B5.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1995 03:55:24 -0400
+Subject: JMS Club
+
+     You're going to hell for that, you know that, don't you?
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1995 04:05:07 -0400
+Subject: From jms: ComicCon Schedule
+
+     For those in the Chicago area, my schedule at the Chicago Comic Con,
+held this weekend at the Rosemont Convention Center, Rosemont IL has been
+firmed up.  Here it is:
+ 
+     FRIDAY: 3-4 p.m. jms w/bloopers and other stuph.  4-5 Michael O'Hare
+gives an acting seminar.
+ 
+     SATURDAY: 11 a.m. Michael O'Hare Q&A session.  1:30-3:00 special jms
+presentation (*be there*).  4-5 p.m. jms writing for TV seminar.  There
+will be some kind of informal B5 reception in the evening, somewhere, with
+jms, Michael, and Peter David.
+ 
+     SUNDAY: 1-2 p.m. B5 panel with jms, Peter David and Michael O'Hare.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1995 04:20:43 -0400
+Subject: JMS----Jumpgate colors???
+
+     Don't know if my prior note got through; it's due to red shift.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1995 04:21:07 -0400
+Subject: First Blood
+
+     There does seem to be some symbolism in that, though I think it came
+more subconsciously than consciously; the Narns and Centauri classify the
+other as the deadly enemy, but the visible fights and woundings have come
+from their own kind.  We are always our own worst enemies.
+ 
+     Though that will change, shortly.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1995 04:21:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS----Jumpgate colors???
+
+     The colors correspond to red-shift.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Date: 29 Jun 1995 03:54:39 -0400
+Subject: Attn: JMS - Ivanova Question (
+
+     Yes, Ivanova brought a secret with her to the station.
+ 
+     But, who didn't, after all?
+ 
+     This IS Babylon 5.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1995 00:53:01 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: If you could be a B5
+
+     I'd probably choose Delenn.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1995 00:57:14 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS - Babylon5 on Armed
+
+     We're investigating the issue; we're very popular with the military,
+and are trying to find some way to work it out.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1995 01:36:59 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS - fan mail by proxy
+
+     That's really very gratifying to know.  I'm please that there is
+sufficient there to merit her attention.  My regards to her.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 26 Jun 1995 17:27:32 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Who all knows the Arc?
+
+     Nobody knows every aspect of the arc; I release enough each season
+so our crew can plan ahead.  A couple of people have seen a brief
+10-page synopsis of where it's going, but that's very vague.  And I intend
+to keep it that way.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+Messages from Babylon 5 executive producer J. Michael Straczynski on the
+Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.
+
+
+Date: 1 Jul 1995 01:20:31 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Fleer B5 Cards!
+
+     The cards will cover all of B5, from the pilot to the present.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 1 Jul 1995 00:28:49 -0400
+Subject: Lestat going to jail? ***** IM
+
+     Insofar as I know, there's nothing in the B5 faq that could cause
+any problems for WB.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 1 Jul 1995 01:20:40 -0400
+Subject: Some products I noticed:
+
+     I'm never as anyone pictures me.  I like it that way.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 4 Jul 1995 03:25:03 -0400
+Subject: Lestat reprieved (Send forth y
+
+     Uh-oh.
+ 
+     When I saw faq in your inquiry to me, insofar as I knew, we were just
+discussing a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) file, the same as we've seen
+many times before.  I did NOT know that it was essentially a note saying
+that mass reproduction services were being offered for episodes.
+ 
+     Whether money is charged or not is not the issue; if someone is making
+group copies of episodes for others, that is an infringement of copyright,
+and *believe me*, Warners will come down hard on anyone doing this.
+It's common practice to make 1-2 copies of something for an archive, or
+for a friend, but to make multiples like this and supply them in htis
+(this) fashion is going to put you in deep legal shit with the suits at
+WB, *trust* me on this.
+ 
+     I would strongly urge you to reconsider.  Your heart is in the right
+place, as far as enthusiasm for the show goes, but to do this on the
+scale you are suggesting breaks not only US and UK laws individually, but
+collectively as well, and you could end up in serious trouble.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 4 Jul 1995 03:27:25 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Is B5 Limited to the
+
+     For all intents and purposes, our story pretty much takes place
+within the Milky Way Galaxy.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 4 Jul 1995 03:27:51 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Would you attend a p
+
+     If fans would be willing to endure such a terrible burden, I would
+kind have to share it.  I just can't imagine anyone willingly thinking
+that this was a Good Thing.  I mean, sitting through 112 hours of ANYthing
+is a very daunting notin.
+ 
+     Or notion.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+Date: 4 Jul 1995 03:28:16 -0400
+Subject: Re: Dave Shao's post bites
+
+     In my orignal reply to Davaid Shao, I specifically asked that people
+NOT pile on him because of this.  It's resolved.  I'm now on a moderated
+newsfeed, and all is well.  No story ideas can now reach me from this
+service.  Over, done, forgotten.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 4 Jul 1995 03:30:40 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Us nitpicking netter
+
+     I'm not entirely sure I understand the question.  Some "nitpicks" have
+contained valid points; some haven't.  Some have been based on incorrect
+perceptions that are easily corrected.  Some are factual.  I
+am not entirely sure what you mean by "not taken into account."
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 4 Jul 1995 03:32:54 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  What will we see ag
+
+     That would be telling....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 6 Jul 1995 01:24:43 -0400
+Subject: JMS: did Delenn's transformati
+
+     Yes, one might well believe that the transformation has had an effect
+on Delenn's lifespan.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 6 Jul 1995 01:24:19 -0400
+Subject: So WHO are the "Klingons"?
+
+     I went to *great pains* to indicate that the Fed-co-opted-by-Klingons
+analogy was NOT a one-to-one analogy, only something to indicate the
+magnitude of the change.  So this discussion has no bearing on the
+situation.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 6 Jul 1995 05:19:23 -0400
+Subject: Attn:jms San Diego Comicon
+
+      The only thing I know for sure is that I'm doing a lengthy B5
+appearance that Saturday at 11 a.m.  The rest I haven't heard definitively
+yet.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 6 Jul 1995 05:19:43 -0400
+Subject: death of a dream
+
+     Don't give up the dream yet; the next Star Wars movies will use CGI
+and digitech exhaustively; and the word is he's doing to re-do all the
+EFX in the first SW movie this way, as well.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 7 Jul 1995 01:40:14 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Question about Cath
+
+     They did not get married, due to Sinclair's new posting; it was put
+on hold.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Date: 7 Jul 1995 01:44:41 -0400
+Subject: Re: Big Bang
+
+     Eric: BB was *not* a fan-run con, it was a for-profit con, and those
+who put it on made *considerable* mention of the notion that they had done
+Gen-Con for previous years, and thus were absolutely skilled at this.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 7 Jul 1995 01:45:01 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Thank You
+
+     Thanks.  It was honestly no trouble at *all*.  It was great fun.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Date: 7 Jul 1995 01:45:31 -0400
+Subject: ATTN:JMS  - Carolyn Seymour
+
+      We've never had any conversations with Carolyn Seymour re: B5.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 7 Jul 1995 01:47:55 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Casino Painting?
+
+     It's a progress mural, starting with early civilization, the pyramids
+and stuff in the lower right corner, through the development of agrarian
+cultures, technology, cars, planes, jets, all moving left to right on the
+canvas, through space flight and finally, in the upper-right corner, B5.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 7 Jul 1995 01:47:31 -0400
+Subject: S4C and the last 4 eps
+
+     The first new ep in the UK airs July 25; the remaining 3 after that
+each subsequent Tuesday.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 7 Jul 1995 01:47:06 -0400
+Subject: !HEY JMS!: The *B4* Thread?
+
+     The B4 thread will be resolved in detail, yes.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 7 Jul 1995 04:19:42 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Do you read the novel or
+
+     I read both.  The Ivanova/Talia thing wasn't handled exactly as I
+had thought it would, and missed some parts of it (it was very late that
+night), and by the time I caught some of it, it was too late.  The comics
+version shows creatures that are not the shadows themselves but some of
+the many creatures who serve them.  I try to catch all I can.  I sent the
+third book back for a *total* rewrite which put it behind a couple of
+months, but that's okay by me.  Better right than on time.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 7 Jul 1995 04:26:59 -0400
+Subject: - PTEN -  ** double sigh **
+
+     Difference is, Kung Fu started a while *after* we began airing our
+second season, so they had some in the bank, as it were, for July.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 7 Jul 1995 18:08:15 -0400
+Subject: It's Official !  B5 Comics Get
+
+     Nope.  The CBG info is old.  I was just told yesterday that the
+contract for the B5 comic has been extended through 24 issues total, not
+the 11 noted in the article, which gives us a year and a half or so to
+build the audience further for the book.  It's doing well, and having only
+been out for six issues, needs a fair shot at finding its audience.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 7 Jul 1995 18:47:38 -0400
+Subject: Lestat gives up (Victory for t
+
+     Lestat, nothing is served by public displays of self-pity.  On the
+electronic screen, it simply comes off as indulgent and "poor me,"
+whether that is the intent or not.
+ 
+     You say you have been judged by others, and you think unfairly so.
+I have pointed out, as have others, that if you make mass copies of this
+show, for distribution to others, *free or otherwise*, it's illegal, and
+you will get nailed by Warner Bros.  This is not judgment, it's a fact.
+ 
+     It's like saying, "I'm going to take this book from this store and
+not pay for it," and everyone says, "But that's shoplifting," and you
+come back with anger because you're being judged.  No, those are the laws,
+and it doesn't matter if you intended to simply give it to someone else
+without cost to yourself.
+ 
+     Spending months mass-copying B5 episodes from the UK to the US is
+patently illegal; you not only violate US and UK copyright laws
+individuallly, but collectively; you would even violate the federal laws
+regulating the transport of illegal goods via interstate mail.  You could
+be *hurt*, and badly.  And believe me, if WB found out about it, you
+WOULD be, for doing this on the scale you describe.
+ 
+     We've recently run into someone who was selling unlicensed B5 tapes
+here in the US.  Mass produced.  This person has been identified, and
+evidence gathered, and now this person is going to be prosecuted, and
+subpoenad, and spend months in courthouses and giving depositons and
+paying fines and potentially doing time, depending on the breaks.  The
+only difference is that one does it for money, the other doesn't, but THAT
+isn't the core of the problem, it's copyright infringement.
+ 
+     People here, myself included, have gone out of our way to tell you
+that what you proposed was illegal, and would get you in massive amounts
+of trouble, to *save you from getting hurt*.  You could be standing on a
+ledge, about to jump, with people telling you not to do it, and then turn
+around and yell at them for interfering in your own business.  Well, it
+ain't just your business, and it is for your own good.  If you cannot see
+that, it's nobody's fault but your own.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 7 Jul 1995 18:47:12 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Series shown out of
+
+     You may want to call your station and tell them to check with WB
+International Distribution, which knows and understands that they are to
+be shown in broadcast order, and will help them to know what that is.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 7 Jul 1995 23:15:05 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Apologies!
+
+     No problem, Bob.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 7 Jul 1995 23:26:19 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: If you don't mind br
+
+     Okay, lemme see...we're on in Singapore, Thailand, Italy, Germany,
+England, Australia, France, Middle-East TV (covering Israel, Jordan and
+some other places in that area), Greece, parts of South America, and a
+few more beyond.  That's all I can recall offhand.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 7 Jul 1995 23:28:07 -0400
+Subject: - Attn. JMS: 3rd-hand nun stor
+
+     I'd love to get more information on this; heck, we can use it for PR
+if nothing else.  I'd particularly love to know what specifically they
+like about/watch for in the show.
+ 
+     (In thinking about this, there's some stuff in the second or so
+episode of year three that they're absolutely gonna *love*.  All I can say
+is that I hope I get a product placement notation from the Vatican.  BTW,
+there were real nuns in the line in "Parliament of Dreams.")
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 8 Jul 1995 06:00:40 -0400
+Subject: JMS at San Diego Comic Con?
+
+     Yes, I'll be at SDCC, giving a 2-hour presentation that Saturday.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 8 Jul 1995 06:00:28 -0400
+Subject: More sci-fi on TV!
+
+     I saw a promo (4-mins) for Space at Chicago Comic Con; my first
+thought was that the CGI was *awfully* blurry/low res, I hope that was
+only test footage for the promo reel.  Other than that, with Morgan and
+Wong backing it, at least I have good hopes for the writing.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 9 Jul 1995 04:48:43 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS : Has the Great War a
+
+     Wars generally don't just *begin*, they roll into one another and
+grow.  When did WW II begin?  When Germany annexed the Sudetenland?  When
+they invaded Poland?  When England got into it?  When Pearl Harbor got
+bombed?  Did it in a sense begin with the assassination of Archduke
+Ferdinand, which led to WW I, which with a minor pause led into WW II?
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Date: 10 Jul 1995 02:30:49 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Crystal storage...
+
+     There's a number imbedded inside the crystal; the only way to change
+it is to shatter the crystal.  Also, if you pop it in an conventional
+crystal port, it can project the entire directory, source material, and
+other information instantly.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+Date: 10 Jul 1995 03:38:19 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS - will comics spoil
+
+     There's only one case of this conflict, so if you want to avoid any
+spoilers, here's my recommendation: when the last issue of this current
+story arc comes out, resolving the Mars/Sinclair/Garibaldi thread, pick
+up that last issue and stick it in a bag until after the first new ep
+airs in October.  THEN read it.  You'll know it when you find it.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+ 
+
+Date: 10 Jul 1995 03:38:33 -0400
+Subject: Re: Elana leads B5 Group at We
+
+     Okay, Elena, you can be Queen of B5 Fans.
+ 
+     But I get to wear the tiara.
+ 
+                                                       *^^^*
+
+Date: 10 Jul 1995 03:40:48 -0400
+Subject: B5 Fan Name? (was Re: Attn JMS
+
+     Two most frequently used terms: Babylonians and the Grid Epsilon
+Irregulars, for the station's location.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 10 Jul 1995 20:12:53 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: When it all over, in
+
+     I'd kinda like to take *all* the remaining months off that are
+allotted to me, and just write when I want to.
+ 
+     Which, sadly, knowing me, will probably be full-time anyway.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 10 Jul 1995 20:13:55 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: L. Ron Hubbard and D
+
+     Never read Dilbert.  As for ElRon...I know people who were there the
+night of the party, decades ago, when L. Ron -- then making a penny a word
+for westerns and SF and other genres -- was told, "Look, you want to make
+REAL money, get into the religion biz."  That night, he went home and
+began cranking out Dianetics, written on butcher paper (his usual medium,
+which he kept on a roll behind his typewriter, and would rip as needed).
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 10 Jul 1995 20:14:30 -0400
+Subject: JMS.more viewers!!
+
+     I have, alas, zip control over promos; they're done by the station
+there, and WB.  We're not authorized to do that.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 11 Jul 1995 01:34:48 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Unanswered Questions
+
+     For their own purposes, the shadows chose to stay on this side of the
+Rim.  The other questions will be answered soon enough.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 11 Jul 1995 01:41:47 -0400
+Subject: You know you've been watching
+
+     Similarly, I saw "Norton utilities for people," and my brain saw,
+"Morden utilities for people."
+ 
+     I've been writing too much.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 11 Jul 1995 02:02:42 -0400
+Subject: Chicago ComiCon Report (!SPOIL
+
+     BTW, Mark, as promised, we amalgamed your name and Julie's into one
+name (Julie Musante), and that has now been used as a major character in
+"Voices of Authority," as per the auction.  It's a big role, and a very
+memorable character who has some...intriguing scenes with Sheridan.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 11 Jul 1995 02:02:57 -0400
+Subject: B5 Analysis
+
+     Message received, but not much I can comment on; probably better to
+let the questions be answered in the show than here.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 11 Jul 1995 05:25:12 -0400
+Subject: Att JMS: No sidestepping now,
+
+     Yes, Harlan returns next season as our consultant.  And believe me,
+he's been VERY busy, mainly with his comic from Dark Horse, DREAM
+CORDIDOR.  He's written new stories for every issue, plus all the
+interstitial pages, in addition to his work with me on B5, plus several
+other new stories, a script for a new Showtime anthology that's a
+knockout which has a bunch of big-name directors fighting over it.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+Date: 11 Jul 1995 05:49:41 -0400
+Subject: Mr. JMS: Kosh = Anagram?
+
+     No, no anagram intended in KOSH.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+Date: 11 Jul 1995 05:49:50 -0400
+Subject: Mr. JMS: Outer Limits/Twilight
+
+     My favorites from the Outer Limits...Soldier, Demon With a Glass
+Hand, Cold Hands Warm Heart, and others whose titles I've forgotten
+(the sentient tumbleweeds, the house where nobody got old, the kid and
+his alien tutor, and the Zanti misfits, natch).
+ 
+     From Twilight Zone...Walking Distance, One For the Angels, just
+about all the Serling episodes, actually.  In general, TZ is one of my
+overall high-points in TV.  Very few drones.
+ 
+     What often gets ignored is Night Gallery, which had some very decent
+stuff in it, most specifically They're Tearing Down Tim Reilly's Bar,
+which I always fire up when I think I'm getting too confident in my own
+writing.  Brilliant.  Absolutely brilliant writing.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 11 Jul 1995 23:59:35 -0400
+Subject: AAITN Question
+
+     The Streib saw an alliance between Earth and Minbar at that moment,
+which is the LAST thing they wanted to go up against.  Also, you don't go
+to war at the drop of a hat just because somebody sinks or shoots down
+one of your ships.  This is one of the cliches in storytelling.  And what
+the Streibs were doing was totally unjustifiable in any event.  Do you
+gear up for the massive hassle of total war -- supply lines, fleets, all
+the rest -- because of this incident?  Remember, the purpose of the ship
+was to find races weak enough for them to attack with impunity; they don't
+want to go up against a force that can strike back.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Date: 12 Jul 1995 02:25:17 -0400
+Subject: Looking for Captain Power
+
+     Yeah, the Siskel and Ebert thing was great.  For those who didn't
+hear about this...we worked *very* hard to make Captain Power nominally a
+show for grownups, screw the toys.  And we got hammered in the press,
+mainly by people who hadn't watched the show.  So one day, I'm watching
+SisBert doing their collective thing, a video round-up installment of
+their review show...and suddenly they say, look, we don't normally talk
+about TV series, but there's this one show you gotta check out, it's got
+a dopey name, and forget the toys, but there's something Going On with
+this show, it's really got a great story.
+ 
+     It was, alas, too little too late for CP.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 12 Jul 1995 02:01:43 -0400
+Subject: B5 Novels....
+
+     The third B5 book from Dell is due out sometime in the next 4-6
+weeks.
+ 
+     Dell has licensed another 5 novels, and is currently considering
+proposals/outlines *from established SF pros* (with several novels
+published, preferably not just media tie-ins) for these books.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 12 Jul 1995 02:26:50 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Mars colony
+
+     Well, the Mars colony grew over time, from a few people to cities.
+It covers about 150 years, though the first 50 of that were very small in
+nature.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 12 Jul 1995 02:27:01 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Chicago CC?
+
+     I *greatly* enjoyed the Chicago ComicCon.  Lots of fun, many good
+people, a hard-working staff dedicated to making sure things go well, a
+terrific operation.  This was only my second year there; I went for the
+first time a year ago, dragged along by Harlan.  Glad I went.
+ 
+     High-points for this convention...helping pile on a shoplifter (me
+and another guy, the one who ran the booth in the dealer's room) trying
+to escape, the two of us holding this guy, struggling to get away, for
+the cops, and a con organizer saying to him, "Hey, you've just been
+arrested by a celebrity," and the shoplifter's response, "Fuck you"....
+the B5 reception, even *with* the MST3Kification of one of my episodes...
+the pleasant, friendly, enthusiastic fans who were a joy to meet...it was
+an unvarnished terrificness.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 12 Jul 1995 01:53:14 -0400
+Subject: Big Bang Refunds (aka CMC meet
+
+     To hear that the two numbers for Big Bang/CMC are alternately
+disconnected or no longer answering is most disconcerting.  I can't recall
+hearing of anyone getting refunds that weren't put through quite some
+time ago.
+ 
+     I strongly urge all people who have not yet received refunds from
+these people to get together and jointly consider what actions you might
+take, particularly in terms of the VIP tickets.  Because with current
+reports, plus the non-payment of Michael O'Hare's $5,000, I have grave
+concerns about anyone getting their money out of this.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 12 Jul 1995 05:18:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: Lestat gives up (Victory f
+
+     Elizabeth: you're correct, in that nothing can stop individual copies
+from floating across the Atlantic.  That's going to happen, and has
+happened, for some time.  What sent off fireworks and red flags was the
+notion of *mass producing* these things.  That's the kind of thing that
+gets you raided by the FBI.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 13 Jul 1995 01:57:03 -0400
+Subject: Dressed in Black
+
+     There is no significance to the clothing; that's just what they were
+wearing when Sheridan called.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 13 Jul 1995 01:57:08 -0400
+Subject: Keep your day job Vir!!
+
+     Re: the SPACE cgi being blurry...I'm kinda surprised.  I'd seen the
+demo reel at Chicago ComicCon, and saw that it was blurry there, even hard
+to focus on, but figured it was a low-res test they used in the earlyl
+promotion reel.  I was sure they'd go to something a bit more high-res for
+the real thing.  I'm astonished.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 13 Jul 1995 04:27:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 Novels....
+
+     Of course it's a pain in the ass.  It's a PROFOUND pain in the ass to
+keep track of all this.  But it's kinda in the job description.  As far as
+the novels go, an outline comes in, on spec, and I work with it to make it
+fit in continuity, or at least not contradict anything being done in the
+series.  Sometimes that means major changes, sometimes it's minor stuff,
+but something always needs to be done.  And done again, as much as can be,
+when the actual manuscript comes in.  It's one more thing, but then my
+life is generally "one more thing."
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 13 Jul 1995 05:08:04 -0400
+Subject: Commander roles in war
+
+     Eric: a very good analysis/contrasting of the roles of the two
+characters.  Very much dead-on.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 13 Jul 1995 05:24:22 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Vorlon Homeworld(s)
+
+     We'll see the Vorlon homeworld eventually.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 13 Jul 1995 05:24:28 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Selling your soul to
+
+     That's a very hard question to answer, if I'm going to try and answer
+it totally honestly.  Sitting here now, at this moment, with year 3 a go,
+I'd say, "If they said replace Ivanova and Sheridan, I'd refuse, even if
+it were a condition of pickup."  That's what I'd like to think I'd say.  I
+hope that it's what I *would* say.  At least, at this moment.
+ 
+     But now I try to put myself in that future frame of mind...I have 200
+or so people who work for me, who'd be out of jobs.  The story would be
+aborted, and the series ultimately a failure because it didn't go to term.
+Everything we'd built so carefully these last 2-3 years would be down the
+toilet.  We'd have to dismantle the sets, sell old props, vacate the
+stage...emotionally, it would be devastating.  Many careers would be hurt.
+ 
+     At that point, it would come down to, Do I hurt 2 people or 200?
+ 
+     So I guess, really, the answer is...I don't know.  I know what I'd
+like to do, particularly if I felt strongly that I could get them to back
+down.  It's a question of who blinks first.  Fortunately, WB and PTEN are
+VERY happy with our cast, feel they're doing great jobs, and we're on the
+cusp of breaking through, so I gravely doubt that decision would ever have
+to be made.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 13 Jul 1995 05:24:33 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  Question on Rangers
+
+     There are female rangers, yes.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 13 Jul 1995 05:24:38 -0400
+Subject: Re: Looking for Captain Power
+
+     Thus far, SisBert do not seem to have noticed B5.  Re: The Real
+Ghostbusters, that 78 episode first season was a lot of fun...the first
+opportunity I had to just go nuts and do anything I wanted to do, and the
+producers stood by me, however nuts I got.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 13 Jul 1995 05:24:43 -0400
+Subject: UK SPOILERS: Courtesy and Cons
+
+     What could also help is if there are specific questions among the
+UK viewers based on the final four, what you can do is send it to me via
+private email, I'll reply, and it can then be reposted openly to the UK
+group.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1995 03:14:09 -0400
+Subject: JMS: A question about photos
+
+     There's no real hidden meaning in the photos.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1995 03:14:20 -0400
+Subject: Att JMS: Your Thoughts on the
+
+     The net is like any form of technology; it can be used for good or
+ill depending on who's behind the keyboard.
+ 
+     On another level (if I can mix metaphors for a moment), the net is
+like a large, and very capricious beast.  If you show the least fear, it
+will eat you.  It's very clear that most of the folks at ST are afraid of
+the nets, they HATE the nets, because info they don't want out GETS out,
+the criticism can be very harsh...it's tough.  In the case of B5, we work
+WITH the nets, to the extent that even after showing an episode, giving
+people new information, and information = power on the nets, if I ask that
+it not be posted publicly until the show airs, in virtually every case
+that request has been granted.  Because you know who I am...and I know who
+YOU are.  That dialogue doesn't exist with ST.
+ 
+     For those not plugged in, it can be terrifying.  Mira Furlan has
+commented, in one on-line message, that the nets can be very cruel.  This
+is true.  People forget sometimes that there's a person at the other end
+of the keyboard, and especially when critiquing actors, do so in terms so
+often cruel and unnecessary and hurtful.  Michael O'Hare recently commented
+at Chicago comic con that he was *deeply* hurt by many of the things said
+about him on the nets...here in particular.
+ 
+     So it takes a *very* tough skin to stick it out here, lemme tell you.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1995 03:42:57 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: A few quick question
+
+     Basically, G'Kar is both laughing and crying in that scene; in
+essence, he's having a nervous breakdown right in front of your eyes.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1995 05:23:54 -0400
+Subject: Stupid question for JMS
+
+     Who she's attracted to depends on who bought dinner....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1995 05:24:00 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Comics spoilers #9+?
+
+     There are no spoilers that I'm aware of in the next 3 issues.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1995 05:24:05 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: B5 comic #8 question
+
+     I think that non-memory of the event is a good assumption.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1995 05:36:18 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Licensing Pins/Patch
+
+     All somebody has to do is approach WB licensing and license the stuff.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1995 05:36:24 -0400
+Subject: Horns on the station..?????
+
+     The projections are for stabalizing, and repairing, ships bringing
+in cargo.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1995 05:36:35 -0400
+Subject: Re: Looking for Captain Power
+
+     Yeah, I walked off the show when they a) decided to emphasize Slimer,
+and b) make Janine a "mommie" character rather than the hard-as-nails,
+sharp, sarcastic person she'd always been.  It wasn't a show I wanted to
+do anymore.
+ 
+     I've actually walked off a *lot* of shows in my time, something I only
+really realized lately.  Walked of The Real Ghostbusters when they softened
+it down and knocked all the corners off; walked off Captain Power when the
+toy company got too much control over the stories; zipped off Jake and the
+Fatman when my exec producers got screwed over (if they went, I went);
+finally left Murder, She Wrote to do B5.  All but the last were over story
+control/story integrity.  My agent is frequently driven to distraction over
+this.  Money doesn't work to hold me.  If it ain't right, it ain't right.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1995 05:36:47 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Don't forget us
+
+     You're right.  Henceforth I shall be sure to separate Britain from
+Scotland, to avoid upset.
+ 
+     Lord knows, you upset the Scots, you're likely to get kilt.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1995 05:36:55 -0400
+Subject: Rumors about character changes
+
+     I don't suppose you could give me the name of this particular SF
+editor (I suspect I know who it is) who's spreading around this particular
+bit of nonsense...?
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1995 05:37:03 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Reruns during the long dr
+
+     Alas, ain't squat we can do about this, it's a PTEN decision.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1995 05:51:20 -0400
+Subject: B5 writer(s)
+
+     Re: "he writes at close to Asimov's speed."
+ 
+     One thing I miss here, and wish there was more of, was more on the
+task of writing.  I think there's a good opportunity here for more on the
+technical side of all this...the writing, how the different departemtns
+(departments) come together, all the production stuff nobody tells you.
+ 
+     So on the writing speed issue, a little something that may be of
+use.
+ 
+     Mark Twain said, "Never write a scene until you have finished it to
+your satisfaction."  Meaning in your head.  You should always play the
+scene over and over in your head, filling it out further and further each
+time, until you can play it like a movie.  Then, when it's all worked
+out, you sit down and transcribe it.
+ 
+     This is kinda how I work.  I finish a scene, load up what I need to
+do in the next scene...and distract myself, here on the boards, doing
+something else, and gradually filling out the scene over and over until
+it's crystal clear.  Then when you sit down to write it, it goes quickly.
+ 
+     Also helps to type 120 wpm, but the other helps a *lot*.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1995 00:26:07 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Cause & Effect? (Comic 8
+
+     You didn't *really* expect a public answer on this one, did you...?
+ 
+                                                        jms
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1995 03:48:50 -0400
+Subject: Quickie from jms
+
+     The weekend of July 29th, I'll be doing a presentation at San Diego
+Comic Con that Saturday from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.  If you're anywhere in the
+area, I suggest you try and be there.  You may need to get there a bit
+early; each time I've done one of these presentations, even though they
+keep giving me progressively bigger rooms, they keep filling up.
+ 
+     Couple more merchandising items in the works, looks like they might
+be kinda cool.
+ 
+     As noted in a side-topic, and thus probably missed, Dell has signed
+to do 5 more B5 novels.
+ 
+     The B5 stage is getting busier every day, as more folks begi
+reporting back to work.  The first batch of scripts are being broken down
+by the Assistant Directors into shooting schedules, construction is going
+bigtime on a couple new sets and a total redesign of another (Medlab), all
+continues on-track for day one of shooting on July 31st.
+ 
+     To the best of my knowledge, Michael O'Hare has *still* not been paid
+the balance of his fee for appearing at Big Bang, a total of $5,000.  Nor
+has there even been any contact from them.  Phone calls remain unreturned.
+ 
+     We hope, in a few weeks, to be announcing, finally, an official
+Babylon 5 Fan Club, which will offer some items not available anywhere
+else.  (Some of them will be made by the same people who make the real
+props themselves, thus guaranteeing 100% authenticity to what'd done in
+the show.)  (Make that *what's*.)
+ 
+     We hope that, within a year or so of the fan club getting going, to
+put together a *proper* B5 convention, with not only the actors, but
+people from every department, giving them the chance to show what they
+do, and how, and allow a chance to interact with viewers.
+ 
+     Lately, from published figures, B5's overnights have been above those
+of Voyager (3.4 compared to 2.7 or thereabouts).  Much to the surprise of
+people at PTEN, B5 episodes which have now aired multiple times are still
+doing very well.  This is very unusual in reruns.
+ 
+     There *may* be some movement on the videocassette issue.  More on this
+as it develops.
+ 
+     Finally, expect a big online presence/push for the October/November
+period, possibly with a B5 web page and other new on-line resources
+(multimedia and the like) provided by PTEN.
+ 
+     My sense is that right now, we're *just* about where X-Files was just
+before it broke through.  I think we'll finally break through that glass
+ceiling in our third season.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1995 06:08:12 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS - writing CGI ?
+
+     Nothing can be storyboarded until it's written in the script first;
+so usually it's something like
+ 
+EXT. NARN HOMEWORLD (CGI)
+ 
+A giant space aardvark emerges from a jump-point, snarling and spitting.
+ 
+      There's only been one case where all I wrote was, "They fight.  Ron,
+go nuts."  Other than that, it's always scripted shot-for-shot, often as:
+ 
+ANGLE - SHERIDAN'S STARFURY
+ 
+As it blows TOWARD CAMERA, and we
+ 
+REVERSE - HIS POV
+ 
+The giant space aardvark turns, prepares to fight.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1995 06:08:55 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Delenn Question
+
+      I'd suggest that, in "There All the Honor Lies," it's implied that
+Delenn's reproductive system has come to function more closely to that of
+a human female.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1995 06:08:17 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS:  About your writing
+
+     Sherry:  er, uhm...yeah, that's...kinda...it.
+ 
+     Um.
+ 
+     In which tree would you like me to leave the money at midnight?
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1995 06:19:26 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Real Ghostbuster
+
+     Yes, the events as described in the article you describe (it was in
+"Penthouse") are correct, and happened as written.  (I should know, I
+wrote it.)
+ 
+     When I sent the article in to Penthouse (knowing full it would
+forever firebomb any chance of ever working in animation again), they asked
+why on *earth* I sent an article on kid's TV to *PENTHOUSE* for
+chrissakes.
+ 
+     "Because I want the creeps at Broadcast Standards and Practices,
+who turn white at the slightest hint of anything improper, to have to
+flip through Penthouse to get to the article about them."  The woman at
+the other end of the phone just about croaked laughing.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1995 06:19:33 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 writer(s) NOW ATT: JMS:
+
+     Yeah, I think that kind of educational approach would be a hoot.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1995 06:36:03 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS Why all the dreams?
+
+     Dreams function on many levels.  Some cultures use them as a kind of
+second, or parallel reality.  They make good literary devices.  Also,
+there's a fair amount of thematic undercurrent about free will vs.
+predestination, and one of the ways to tap into that is to use dreams as
+subtext and metaphor.
+ 
+     My own dreams are not particularly noteworthy, except in one respect:
+about 90% of them take place in the same place.  See, I always moved around
+when I was a kid, spending as little as 6 months, sometimes a full year,
+moving with my family from town to city to state from one end of the
+country to the other.  (Don't ask.)  So I think in large measure to counter
+that sense of rootlessness, my brain kinda created this "home town" and
+that's where I spend much of my dreamtime.  I know the layout of the
+place, where the stores are, my favorite comics/magazine shop, the same
+house (in which the renovations are *finally* finished to the second
+floor, I'm happy to say, and now they've gone on to doing some landscaping
+and suchlike outside), there are even a couple of theaters in which I see
+movies I *almost* remember the next morning.  (I actually wrote down one
+of them in some detail, a Star Trek movie, belive it or not; did the
+whole outline beat for beat from the dream.  Not bad.  Not good, but not
+bad.)  We had a third theater in town, but it got cobbled into a mini-mall
+and it's just too much of a mess.
+ 
+     And *nothing* extraordinary happens there.  It's pretty much just a
+mirror for what I do in my waking hours.  Story problems I'm working on
+during the day, I'm working on "over there" at night, just in a different
+mental place.
+ 
+     Back to the show...I have, at times, used early dream images.  The
+shot of Londo looking up to seeing huge ships passing overhead in "The
+Coming of Shadows" is a direct dream-steal from years ago.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1995 06:44:13 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Selling your sou
+
+     There's always been a side-story that could spin off from B5, but the
+main core story is over at the five-year mark.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1995 06:44:18 -0400
+Subject: JMS: The Process of Card Makin
+
+      Re: the Fleer process...I approve the selection of photos, and the
+text, and will approve the final look of the cards as well.
+ 
+      The process has been wondefully painless, Fleer has been nothing
+but helpful and cooperative.  Not much has been omitted.  And as for
+why do them: I figured they'd be cool...and I think they will be.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1995 06:44:23 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Talk Show Help?
+
+     Frankly, our folks just aren't *asked* much, because the talk shows
+think nobody's interested in B5.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1995 06:44:27 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: WoH
+
+     I am woefully and dreadfully ignorant on virtually ALL anime, WOH
+included.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1995 06:44:33 -0400
+Subject: + Attn: JMS  -  Shadows' Timel
+
+     All good answers come to those who wait....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1995 06:46:40 -0400
+Subject: Re: Looking for Captain Power
+
+     I have nothing but good things to say about Angela Lansbury.  She is
+probably one of the classiest performers I've worked with, fiercely loyal,
+takes responsibility, wonderfully talented...I think she knew that I was
+flattered and impressed to be working with her, and I kinda suspect she
+thought it was kinda cute, in a dopey kind of way.
+ 
+     Our offices were not far from the shooting stages on the Universal
+lot, and most of the time I was stuck behind the keyboard.  But when it
+was one of my scripts on the floor, I'd try to get out there once or
+twice, just for a few moments.  I'd slip in, watch for a little bit, and
+then vanish again...and one day Angela came out and pulled me in, saying
+that she was intrigued by the way I'd just materialize and vanish again,
+that it was like some magical white horse appearing out of nowhere, and
+then vanishing.  She and her husband Peter were both very kind to me.
+ 
+     They even put my novel, OtherSyde, on the bookshelf in the set of
+her New York apartment; it can be seen occasionally in some shots.
+ 
+     She's tough, but fair.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1995 06:50:51 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 writer(s)
+
+     Putting the characters through pain is never a problem for me.
+That's where all the *interesting* stuff happens.  And growth only comes
+through pain and struggle.  So it's for their own good, really.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1995 22:08:15 -0400
+Subject: JMS - your agent?
+
+     I generally don't give out my agent's name.  That information is
+available to those who know how to find it, and have a reason for finding
+it.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1995 22:08:21 -0400
+Subject: Attn. JMS: Novels, comics, etc
+
+     We've certainly had a substantial number of older actors and
+characters on the show, from June Lockhart to Turhan Bey and Michael
+Ansara and many others.  My sense is that with advances in medicine,
+you can be active a LOT longer than is currently considered to be the
+case, so it isn't much of an issue in B5.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1995 22:21:04 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Re: UK Newsgroup gat
+
+     If it wouldn't be too much of a pain in the ass, if you could just
+forward the reviews of the episodes (first one in each new string), that
+would be more than sufficient, thanks.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1995 22:21:23 -0400
+Subject: Chrysalis - Did anyone notice?
+
+     The security guard's reaction was due to the chain of command solely.
+We don't let our people off that easily, that it was due to being mentally
+influenced.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1995 22:37:41 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS! (from Elana) The B5
+
+      I'm sorry, the number you have just dialed has been disconnected,
+and there is no new number.  Please check your number and dial again.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1995 22:39:53 -0400
+Subject: B5 Blooper Reel.
+
+     If we can get the B5 fan club up and running (or when, as it looks
+now), we hope to offer the blooper reel, or a version thereof.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+Date: 15 Jul 1995 22:40:03 -0400
+Subject: JMS: How bad is the #8 spoiler
+
+     Alas, to tell how bad a spoiler it is, would be to put it into
+context...to put it into context spoils the episode even FURTHER.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1995 04:32:59 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS - writing CGI ?
+
+     That was kinda the problem; Sinclair didn't really *have* a direct
+or personal connection to the Shadows.  I figured it'd be too much to do
+that on top of his direct, personal connection to so much else of the B5
+storyline.  I figured he'd get into it by virtue of his involvement with
+so many others touched by it; problem is, very soon that turns you into
+an expositional sounding-board or a problem-solver, with the other person
+at the core of the story.  It's one of those things you don't really see
+until you're well into the writing of the story, as with any novel.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1995 04:33:05 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS - writing CGI ?
+
+     The "They fight; Ron, go nuts" was in "Coming of Shadows," I believe.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1995 04:57:54 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS:Online presence?
+
+     I think the coming B5 web page will have links with other pre-existing
+web pages, though there will probably have to be understandings and
+the like made before any such site can be even nominally "endorsed" by the
+link.  Like a minimum of non-authorized uploaded material (in terms of
+avi files and the like).
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1995 04:57:59 -0400
+Subject: Re: Att JMS: Your Thoughts on
+
+     Jeannette: I saw a great commencement speech today by Tom Brokaw on
+CSPAN...he had a lot to say about the Internet, interestingly enough,
+and a great term for the more offensive among us...the "petty
+dysfunctional."
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1995 04:58:03 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Why all the drea
+
+     Yeah, I've discussed this here before; sometimes things come up more
+than once around here in answer to questions.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1995 04:58:07 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Just a Few Questions
+
+     All our CGI was being done on Amigas; I think they've now totally
+transitioned to a PC base.
+ 
+     Re: my computer...I have two, one at my home office, the other at the
+B5 main stage office.  They're both pretty much the same, though: Dell
+Pentium 90s, 32 megs ram, 1 gig drive (office) vs. 2 gig drive (home),
+4x CD Rom, 17" monitor (Nanao vs. Supermatch), 28.8 modem, Imagine 128
+bit video card (office) vs. 64bit #9gxePro (home), Soundblaster 16....
+these systems didn't just arrive, guys with orange vests and cones helped
+them taxi into place.
+ 
+     If B5 runs it total five years, I'll most likely retire from TV.
+ 
+     None of the other B5 actors are on the Internet that I know of,
+though some do get printouts from folks.
+ 
+     Currently, I watch X-Files (though lately it has seemed much in need
+of a good fourth-act every episode), which is about the only genre stuff
+I have time to watch consistently.
+ 
+     To the last question, authors I'd recommend: Michael Bishop, Jonathan
+Carroll, Connie Willis, Ed Bryant, any of James Blish's stuff (though he's
+no longer with us)...that's all that comes to mind offhand, but there are
+a bunch more I'll think of the second I get offline.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1995 06:19:47 -0400
+Subject: JMS: does Sheridan have a thou
+
+     Joseph Campbell is good if you're looking to analyze something AFTER
+the fact; to do so before the fact, or while you're creating, makes the
+result too by-the-numbers.  You have to try NOT to become too aware of the
+myth-process in fiction, or you become like the centipede asked which leg
+goes first.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1995 06:37:31 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Script ownership
+
+     This is a grey area.  The WGA says that the show owns the characters
+and the situation unique to the show; but the writer owns the physical
+script.  The studios say they own it ALL.  This will probably never be
+clearly resolved.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1995 06:37:38 -0400
+Subject: Attn. JMS: Planning B5 Music
+
+     We have an Audio Spotting Session.  At this, I sit down with John
+Copeland, Chris Franke, George Johnsen, and screen the newly-finished
+episode (it's been edited and on-lined).  I call out the time-code for
+the beginning and endings of sections where I want music.  E.g, "Okay,
+in at 03:23:15 (three minutes, 23 seconds, 15 frames), out at 04:15:23."
+Sometimes I will have specific ideas on the kind of music ("I think we
+need to go soft here, mainly strings, some brass, but *light*"), other
+times I just leave it to Chris to get what the sense of the scene is.  If
+there is a big EFX sequence going on at the same time, as in a battle
+scene, the sound design people (also in the meeting) and I go over the
+scene with Chris, and decide which elements will be carried by sound, and
+which by music, making sure each carves out sufficient space in either the
+high-end or the low-end to accommodate the other.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 17 Jul 1995 04:50:00 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: In your copious free
+
+     Probably the author I'm biggest on in general, with a very few
+lapses, is Jonathan Carroll, a contemporary dark fantasist who does things
+with language I can't figure out for the life of me; the closest thing in
+literature to close-up magic.  It's *right there* but you can't see how he
+created that image.  Beyond that, alas, I don't have much time for reading
+right now....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 17 Jul 1995 05:07:23 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS  About the Emmys...
+
+     What're the odds of B5 getting anything other than a technical Emmy?
+ 
+     Oh...about the same odds as B5 ever getting produced, back when I
+came up with it in 1986/7.
+ 
+     Didn't stop me then, either.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 17 Jul 1995 05:09:33 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS - writing C
+
+     Oh, there's a scripted CGI sequence from "Twilight" that I think
+you'll like even MORE, Scott....
+ 
+     Two, actually.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 17 Jul 1995 05:09:37 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: More to the music???
+
+     I work very closely with Chris Franke.  As for themes, most of hte
+(the) major characters have their own themes, and there's a B5 theme
+which often gets interpolated in various ways, sometimes in minor chords
+(as in "Signs and Portents"), here and there.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 17 Jul 1995 05:11:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Why all the drea
+
+     I think I picked up 1 or 2 books of the "Worlds Collide" series,
+couldn't make heads nor tails of it, and moved on.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 17 Jul 1995 05:16:46 -0400
+Subject: Big Bang Con Reports, Please?
+
+     Just heard that, on top of Michael getting stiffed for $5,000 of his
+speaking fee, Mark Hammil's second check for the balance of his fee, a
+remainder of $10,000...bounced.  As did the check for his travel
+expenses.  As did Walter Koenig's second check (though in his case he was
+lucky in that it happened *before* the convention and he was able to get
+it, at threat of not showing up).  These people are amazing.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 17 Jul 1995 05:16:51 -0400
+Subject: B5 theorys & thoughts
+
+     "I'd come to the conclusion that we were witnessing the continuing
+battle between good and evil."
+ 
+     Half-right.  The other half involes *defining* what good and evil
+ARE, and are not.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 17 Jul 1995 05:16:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Script ownership
+
+     It is conceivable that WB, owning the rights to B5, could take and
+create a sequel of its own, without my participation, except that there
+would have to be payments/arrangements made.  I *may* have some clause
+regarding ancillary programs in my contract as far as participation is
+concerned, but not in preventing it from happening in the first place.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 17 Jul 1995 05:19:02 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Real Ghostbuster
+
+     I've written something on the order of maybe 500 published articles;
+far too much for anyone to start going after or organizing.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+ 
+     (And most of 'em were stupid, in retrospect.)
+
+Date: 17 Jul 1995 05:19:06 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Souls & God in B5
+
+     Be careful in ascribing too much of an author's work to an author's
+personal beliefs.  I do not have to believe in Minbari to write about
+them.  Ditto for souls, god, or anything else.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 17 Jul 1995 05:19:10 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: How did you develop
+
+     My main thought on developing Sheridan was to make more of an arc
+to him; Sinclair had already gone on the hero's journey to some
+extent, and where he was was pretty much where he was...in the case of
+Sheridan, I wanted someone who would at first not be up to the challenge
+of what was ahead, and who would grow into that.  (Look at Luke
+Skywalker in the first SW movie, then in Jedi; that's the hero's
+journey.)
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 17 Jul 1995 10:20:05 -0400
+Subject: Re: Quickie from jms
+
+     (first progress on tapes, then:) "What about the laser disks...?"
+ 
+     Let me first move this mountain to Mohammed, then we'll worry about
+that one over there....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 17 Jul 1995 10:20:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: Quickie from jms
+
+     Some smaller sets, called "swing sets," do get dismantled at various
+times, including hiatuses (hiatusi?).  This is called a "fold-and-hold."
+The bigger sets stay up at all times.  They only came down once, briefly,
+after the pilot, because we changed facilities.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 18 Jul 1995 07:26:41 -0400
+Subject: 2 Questions for JMS (or anyone
+
+     We're still negotiating/discussing tapes; definately would like to
+get more into what future-music might sound like.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 18 Jul 1995 07:27:18 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS - Congrats on Progre
+
+     Thanks.  We keep trying, every season, to make it better than the
+one before....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 18 Jul 1995 07:27:14 -0400
+Subject: JMS at San Diego Comic-con
+
+      It'll be that Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
+ 
+      Be there.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 18 Jul 1995 07:31:28 -0400
+Subject: Re: Joe and the Forces of Mark
+
+     Y'know, I really wish I could agree, and say yeah to the "correct
+spelling of integrity is straczynski" notion, but the god's honest truth
+of it is..."the correct spelling for pain-in-the-ass is straczynski."
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 18 Jul 1995 07:31:35 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Naming Babylon
+
+     Not bad, not bad....
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+Date: 18 Jul 1995 07:33:44 -0400
+Subject: JMS: CGI cover for comic #9?
+
+     Yes, Ron did a CGI cover, though I've only seen a B&W repro, and
+can't vouch for it in detail.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 18 Jul 1995 07:33:53 -0400
+Subject: STAR TREK/BABYLON 5 ratings?
+
+     Lately, our overnights have been slightly better than Voyager's,
+interestingly enough.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 18 Jul 1995 07:52:17 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Dumb Trivia Query re: Mur
+
+     No idea on the Bill Mumy question.  Re: M,SW...yes, I believe that
+Cabot Cove was fairly close to Portland.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 18 Jul 1995 07:54:28 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: CHICAGO COMICON QUES
+
+     Individuals paid anywhere from $600-$900 in the auction, designed to
+help make up the shortfall when Big Bang stiffed Michael to the tune of
+$5,000.  The total from the auction raised $3,800, to which I added
+$1,200.  This does not, in my mind, defer CMC's responsibility to make
+good on the balance of his payment; my hope is that it would show what the
+fan community is REALLY made of, and to shame CMC into doing the right
+thing.  So far, from CMC...dead silence.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 18 Jul 1995 07:54:34 -0400
+Subject: TV guide B5 art.out
+
+     Here's how my karma works, though...we *finally* get a good article
+on B5 in TV Guide.  That kind of press has a brief, week-long effect on
+raising ratings in many cases.  So I learn that in quite a few markets,
+including LA, B5 is pre-empted next week, so it's a wash.
+ 
+     I must've *really* pissed somebody off in a prior life.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 18 Jul 1995 07:54:39 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 writer(s)
+
+     Re: your (Vinay's) experiences lately with doctors and x-rays, here's
+one I don't know if I've mentioned or not before.
+ 
+     About, oh, a year ago, I went in for my usual checkup, and my doctor
+took a chest x-ray (I was kinda stressed, and he wanted to take a look).
+So the x-ray comes in, and he says, "You have a shadow across your
+heart."
+ 
+     "What the hell does THAT mean?" I asked.
+ 
+     "I don't know," he said, "I've never seen anything quite like it.  I
+can't tell if it's an enlarged vessel casting a shadow, or some unusual
+muscle tissue, or what.  So I took it downstairs to a cardiologist and
+asked for his opinion."
+ 
+     "So what'd he say?"
+ 
+     "He said, "The guy's got a shadow across his heart."
+ 
+     There've been several x-rays since, no change, nothing ominous,
+except they can't quite figure it out.
+ 
+     Ah, modern medicine....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 18 Jul 1995 08:03:40 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Happy Birthday, Joe!
+
+     That was *just* good enough that I'll probably let you live.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 19 Jul 1995 03:36:13 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS - writing CGI ?
+
+     No, there was never a one-to-one correspondence between Sinclair and
+Sheridan.  Catherine Sakai would never have developed the shadow link.
+Bear in mind, if it's a straight transposition from A to B, then there's
+no NEED for B.  The whole idea was to bring in someone who could be put
+into situations Sinclair couldn't without straining credulity.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 19 Jul 1995 03:36:20 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Questions from book
+
+      The starfuries drop for the same reason a bucket flies away from
+you when you're swinging it and let go; the rotation causes the pressure
+of gravity, which pushes the fighters out the bays.  Very simple, and
+factually based.
+ 
+     The scan of Ivanova in the book was a bit more than I'd wanted, but
+that one bit slipped by me.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 19 Jul 1995 03:48:49 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  animals on b5
+
+     Haven't really gotten into this question on the show; probably should.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 19 Jul 1995 03:48:59 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: opening narration
+
+    Laurel was transferred; the narration was always intended to change
+between characters each season.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 19 Jul 1995 17:00:16 -0400
+Subject: Curious about JMS thoughts
+
+     I think I generally get a good sense of fan thoughts here without
+having to poke the bear to excess....
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Date: 19 Jul 1995 17:00:30 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS  What's it like befo
+
+     It's really kind of hard to explain; it's a mix of many things, some
+tension (everything has to be ready to go on July 31st, no delays, no
+revisions, no backsies); it's a bit like going back to school after a long
+summer break (less so for me, since my "summer break" is filled with
+the summer school of writing scripts)....
+ 
+     A dead stage is a dark, depressing thing.  No actors, no sound, just
+H8xX[Jedifices standing and waiting for someone to give them life.  Now, slowly,
+you have carpenters appearing, set dressers appearing, lighting crews
+appearing, and there's sound, hammers banging and cranes lifting and drills
+whirring...people walking from set to set discussing revisions,
+improvements...the previously empty halls are populated by runners, PAs,
+directors, staff, crew...it's like this huge engine slowly beginning to
+turn, and every day you hear the turbine whine growing just a little
+louder until you know the sucker's about ready to take off.
+ 
+     So there's a LOT to do; but overall it's a very good time.  As of
+now, five scripts have been published in-house and in WB, and everyone is
+nuts about them; the set improvements are great; the actors are excited,
+and everyone's ready to kick butt.  It's cool.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1995 02:52:32 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Your dream....
+
+     "You seem to accept the concept of dream predictions."
+ 
+     Nope.  Dreams are ways of working out elements of one's day, problem
+solving, self-analysis and escape.  I don't believe they can predict much
+of anything.  I used it because it was a very striking image, and the
+subconscious can come up with stuff that resonates.  And yes, the image
+long predates B5.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1995 03:25:41 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Ambassadors
+
+     Londo: nobody else wanted the job, it was considered low-priority.
+Delenn: it was the calling of her heart.  G'Kar: a good career move to
+ally new forces, and he was an up-and-comer.  Kosh: is.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1995 04:01:11 -0400
+Subject: ATTN jms : Some questions...
+
+     The eagle is a traditional Russian eagle/symbol, commonly used in
+Russian heraldry.  Draal is, indeed, the minbari who took custody of
+Epsilon 3.  We stomped the noisy cricket.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+Date: 20 Jul 1995 04:06:48 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: The comic book again
+
+     Last I heard, we're still on for 24 issues.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1995 04:29:13 -0400
+Subject: Re: Why is Ford in rastb5?
+
+     There are any number of simple reasons why Ford is on the nets.
+He is here because he is a petty, vicious, vindictive person who takes
+personal joy in assaulting his "victims" as he puts it on AOL.  You want
+to see the true face of FT?  Go over to the Neutral Zone in the Star Trek
+main area on AOL.  He uses that phrase to describe those he disagrees
+with.
+ 
+     He's here because he likes the attention, because if he can make you
+angry, it somehow validates his existence, makes him feel important, gives
+him a sick thrill.  It is the same mentality witnessed in the juvenile
+who throws a stink bomb into the girls locker room to watch them scurry
+and get mad.
+ 
+     He's here because he's offended by the very notion that the opinion
+of ANYone else should be considered in any way more valuable, informed or
+popular than his own.  If a question is asked of me, he's upset and stamps
+his little foot...why should I be asked for an opinion if HE wasn't?  My
+opinion *can't* matter any more than his, the very notion is abhorrent to
+him.  He is that sort of creature noted by Kurt Vonnegutt in "Welcome to
+the Monkey House," who if he cannot see well, insists that others be
+blinkered; if he cannot run quickly, others must be hobbled.  There is
+just room enough in Ford's universe for Ford; anything else must be
+attacked, dismissed, ridiculed, abused.
+ 
+     He's here because he's a net-stalker after someone with notoriety,
+no different than the kind of person who follows around celebrities and
+leaves harrassing notes, and when he doesn't like what they say, snarls
+and accuses them of one thing or another.  He is here because he's a
+bigot, stating that because of someone's job description -- producer or
+writer -- that person is, de facto, a liar, untrustworthy.  A socio
+economic racist.  If he were to say such things about jews, or african
+americans, as a class, he would be instantly seen for what he is, but he
+can hide his bigotry behind the notion of accepted cliche.
+ 
+     He's here because he feels he has a *right* to be here, to say
+anything he wants, and anybody who says otherwise, who squeaks any kind
+of protest, is attacking his freedom, is a kneejerk worshipper of
+the object of his hateful obsession...but who has no compunction
+against sending faxes of my messages to Warner Bros., as he has done, to
+try and force them to force me off the nets and shut off MY opinion.
+Because the universe should rightly favor the opinion of Ford and nobody
+else.
+ 
+     He's here because he can enjoy the privilege of striking from
+the shadows, of making statements without the least factual proof behind
+them, vanishing when convenient and lashing out when convenient, all from
+the warm recesses of blessed anonymity, because nobody here monitors his
+activities, his words, his job, his off-line truthfulness.
+ 
+     He makes pretense of being open-minded and fair...but again, those
+on AOL, just go check out the messages referenced above to see his true
+face.  He posts ratings when they show B5 not in the top 20, because
+it's rerun time, and carefully omits noting that B5's overnights are now
+higher than Voyager's (1.7 from Voyager to 2.9 for B5, both in reruns),
+because he has staked his opinion on the often-repeated assertion that
+ratings = quality, and the universe of Ford cannot allow, cannout
+countenance, the notion that B5 might be rating higher than Voyager.
+Hence the telling omission.
+ 
+     He does not sow, neither does he reap.  He exists here only to be
+difficult, to insult, to enrage, to inflame and excorciate and belittle
+because it makes him feel like a big man, makes him feel like he's done
+something with his life...he *enjoys* it when the folks here get mad.  He
+gets off on it.  The worst thing you can do is get upset because that's
+what he likes.  You're doing *exactly* what he wants you to do.
+ 
+    The only thing to do with him is to simply ignore him, and do not
+respond directly.  I do not read his messages, I only sometimes run into
+bounce-backs in a quoted message from somebody else.  Because he is, in
+the end, a sad and pitiable figure, our resident Gollum who bites and
+snaps because he can do no other, because he sees in the world at large
+only a reflection of himself...it fills his world, and reinforces what he
+believes the world to be.
+ 
+     If I were to ask *anything* of this group, and I've rarely asked
+much of anything...it'd be to simply ignore him.  Don't respond, because
+no matter what you say, however logical or reasoned your argument, it
+will be twisted and turned and distorted, returned with insult and
+derision, regardless of your statement's merit.  If you know that going
+in, then it becomes clear that there's no point, really, in writing or
+saying anything to him, because you know what the response will be
+even before you write it.  Just leave him  be.  If he consistently fails
+to find the sustence his obsession demands, he will soon enough leave to
+lick his wounds elsewhere, and complain about the mean people who
+refused out of spite to validate his existence and his opinions by virtue
+of response.  He is that kind of person who must verify his existence by
+the echo produced by his shoutings.  Do not be that echo.
+ 
+     (And perhaps this should be reposted when next he comes round, if
+anyone cares to archive it; I frankly can think of nothing else to say
+to or about him or his ilk.  If I say anything, it's "Why should HIS
+opinion matter?"  If someone else says anything, it's "Why are you talking
+on his behalf?"  No win.  So maybe keeping this around, and pointing to
+his more obvious tricks, will help keep this a tidier and more pleasant
+place to hang out.)
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1995 04:31:25 -0400
+Subject: B5's emmy nominations
+
+     Three Emmy nominations is great, from where we sit; we got one on
+the pilot movie (and won), two on the first season (won another), and
+now three on the second season...and there are several vital categories
+we haven't heard from yet, which won't be decided for another couple or
+three weeks: directing, sound editing, music and visual EFX, and we have
+hopes of nailing at least one more in that group.
+ 
+     It's sobering when you stop to realize that of all the shows on
+network and syndication, only *eleven* dramatic series were chosen for
+nomination in various categories...with B5 earning as many nomations, or
+in some cases more than, Lois And Clark, Murphy Brown, Murder She Wrote,
+The Tonight Show, DS9 (with 2), the Simpsons and many others.
+ 
+     Actors *always* get overlooked in genre shows, that's unfortunately
+the nature of the beast.  So that aside, we're nothing but pleased.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1995 04:37:38 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: BABYLON 5 EMMY NOMINATIO
+
+     Which reminds me...I wanted to note that just about everyone
+involved with B5 is *ecstatic* over X-File's nomination as best series.
+It's a terrific show, and deserves the nod.  It's also maybe only the
+second or so time a genre/nominally SF show has gotten that nomination,
+and that bodes nothing but good for the SF-TV business.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1995 04:55:18 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Your thoughts on TV
+
+     The lead paragraph notwithstanding...I'm quite pleased by the TV
+Guide article, all things considered.  There are a few things one can
+nitpick, but the overall tenor and tone is very complimentary, and after
+all the hassles with Jarvis (now gone, I hear), I think we have a chance
+to get a leg up on next season and some decent PR.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1995 05:06:12 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Evidence and *witnesses*?
+
+     Certainly a lot of people would like to get to the Vorlon homeworld
+sometime and look around....
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1995 05:06:20 -0400
+Subject: Adventures of Petey and Joey a
+
+     I was kind of aghast when I saw that Peter had printed what happened
+in the dealer's room at ComicCon, when I helped tackle and bring down a
+shoplifter, holding him for the cops for about ten minutes while he was
+hoping to get away.  I found out about it when I went into my local comics
+store and the owner came over and said he felt a lot safer seeing me
+there...and I wondered what the hell he was saying, he was obviously
+kidding on the square...then I found out.  Ah, well....
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1995 05:20:42 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS -- Comic #8 Design yo
+
+     I didn't get too much into that one shot in the comic; it seemed
+reasonable under the circumstances.  The one panel where I *did* get
+screwed was saying, "Hey, look, this here episode's going to air just
+before the book comes out, so why don't we REALLY tie the book and the
+show together by inserting this one panel I came up with here...."
+ 
+     Sometimes I outsmart myself.....
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1995 05:20:49 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Full or part time o
+
+     It really depends on the breaks.  Sometimes a regular cast member
+can be there every day; sometimes they get a day or two off here and there
+within the course of an episode.
+ 
+     Guest actors are booked by days needed, or if it's a major part, then
+a full-week deal is made.
+ 
+     What most folks probably don't know is that when you shoot an episode
+you first begin by doing a production board, and what scenes are shot in
+which order is determined by *where the scenes take place.*
+ 
+     For instance: we have 3 stages.  So in the morning, we'll shoot all
+the scenes that take place in medlab.  If that takes all day, then that's
+how long we're there.  Once we finish, if it's say around lunchtime, we'll
+generally try and stay in the same stage to minimize the hassles of going
+from stage A to C, because then you've got to re-rig and set up and that
+kills time.  Sometimes you'll change stages if you've got Actor B only for
+3 days under contract, and you have to adjust.
+ 
+     We take it as a matter of pride that in 44 episodes, we've had only
+about 8 days of overtime on a shoot, and never once have we done a forced
+call on an actor.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1995 05:49:57 -0400
+Subject: JMS: The Child is Father to Th
+
+     I've just written...oh...about 20 messages in the last hour, from
+questions here...none of them stopped me.  This one did.  I guess I
+didn't see it coming.  Some personal stuff I don't generally get into on
+the nets.  I'll sometimes talk about it at conventions, but I try not to
+drag it in here.  But since it's come up, I guess I can handle the
+answer.
+ 
+     No, I didn't have a particularly great upbringing.  I grew up within
+an abusive, alcoholic, wife-beating environment.  We moved every six
+months or every year, trying to stay one step ahead of creditors, used the
+last name "Stark" when Straczynski was too "hot."  I really didn't
+understand the situation much; I figured every family was like this.  I
+didn't begin to really get a sense of how crummy it was until I began to
+see how other families *did* have normal lives.
+ 
+     My feeling about it overall is...don't whine or whinge about it,
+deal with it and move on.  Too many people use crummy childhoods to
+explain away crummy behavior in the present.  That doesn't wash with me.
+Does that "emotional baggage" still "haunt" me, to use your terms?  No,
+not really.  Am I still pissed about some of it?  Hell yes.  Why not?
+ 
+     There's a line in a Billy Joel song..."You still have a rage inside
+you / That you carry with a certain pride / It's the only part / Of a
+broken heart / You could ever save."  That's kinda it, but not quite so
+maudlin or self-indulgent.  Anybody who had a perfect, blemish-free
+youth and adolescence raise your hand....
+ 
+     That's what I figured.  So we deal with it.
+ 
+     (Great joke...when Jesus intervened in the stoning of a woman and
+said, "Let you who are without sin cast the first stone," and suddenly a
+rock comes flying into frame, and he says, "Mommmmmmmm!")
+ 
+     I do tend to use some of it in my work, because it grounds me in
+reality, and the reality of *the scene*.  I used a lot of it in an
+episode I wrote for TWILIGHT ZONE, "Acts of Terror," about a wife
+beater...which ended up being used (and is still used) at some shelters
+for battered women in counseling centers, about how to find your own
+power and authority.  But that's what a writer does; I've used bits and
+pieces of my life all over the show, including the scene between Sinclair
+and Catherine Sakai when they get back together for the first time, which
+is almost verbatim from stuff I've gone through.
+ 
+     If there's anything that has stayed with me, it's manifested itself
+in a fierce loyalty to friends, because when you move every 6-12 months,
+you don't get much chance to find them.  I grew up in the streets of Newark
+and less terrific places, and you learn a little something about sticking
+together when you grow up in the streets.  Anytime somebody wants to take
+on a friend, they have to go through me first.  Hurt me and I'll hurt you
+back in equal proportion; hurt a *friend* and I'll tear your fucking head
+off.  And then I'll get nasty.
+ 
+     Is that a particularly salutory trait?  No, not really.  It sounds
+good on paper, but it puts me into constant trouble.  I've tried to
+moderate that a little...but how do you moderate loyalty?  When the phone
+rings at 3 a.m. and it's someone you know in pain or in trouble or in
+jail...how do you quantify and decide *this* time you'll go but *next*
+time you won't?
+ 
+     So yeah, I've had a tough ride.  I sacrificed a lot to get here; I
+have zero social life, except for my pal Harlan.  I haven't been to a
+party in something like two years; don't get out to see movies but maybe
+4-6 times a year; when I was breaking in, I had to choose often between
+food and writing supplies...and always chose the latter, and if you look
+in one of the back issues of WD, you'll see a picture of me from taht
+period, at 6'5" weighing about 150-160 pounds.  But that was my *choice*.
+We all gotta do what we gotta do; I decided that I'd either make it as a
+writer, or I wouldn't make it at *all*.
+ 
+     Because sometimes, kiddo, that's what it takes.
+ 
+     But with all of that...the present-tense reality is that I'm pretty
+reasonably content.  I'm doing the only thing in the world I'm the least
+goddamned good at, and people are actually *paying* me to do that which
+I'd have to do for free otherwise, because I can do no other.  I have a
+nice house, and I work on a show I enjoy, I write what I want...so I'm not
+angry all the time, as I was once before.  Most days I figure that's a
+good thing; other times, I worry if it's taken the edge off the work.  But
+in the interim consideration...I'm content.
+ 
+     As for pursuing a Psychology degree...wasn't out of any particular
+desire to understand myself.  Hell, at that time, I hardly even wanted to
+associate with myself, much less understand myself.  No, I just went in
+with the assumption that you should never major in writing if you really
+want to BE a writer...learn other stuff, read other books, see other kinds
+of lives...become a generalist, so you can apply a little bit of everything
+to the work.  That seemed most conducive to being a generalist.
+ 
+     Until Skinner came along and suddenly math was involved.
+ 
+     But that's another story for another time....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1995 05:50:06 -0400
+Subject: JMS, JV, et al.: Writing
+
+     The two keys in creating characters for TV are: allies and enemies,
+you create people who you know will come into conflict with one another,
+because conflict is a huge part of drama, not the whole of it, but a
+necessary ingredient.  So you also build some who can be sympathetic, or
+funny by turns, but you don't want to minimize or throw away a character,
+you add a layer of depth to it to give meat to the humor when used.
+ 
+      It's kind of like planning a military campaign, really.
+ 
+     The world and the characters of B5 kind of came together at the
+same time, one feeding off another until they took on a life of their
+own.  And building both was a joy.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1995 05:50:12 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS  What's it like
+
+     The tracking of people, notifying and confirming hirings is the job
+jointly of the Unit Production Manager (Kevin Cremin last season, Skip
+Beaudine this season), and the Line Producer (John Copeland).  When we
+gear up, everyone is checked on availabilities, and if there's nay
+(any) problem, they have plenty of time to adjust.  Usually there are
+lots of folks in that department who can give recommendations, and there
+is quite a list of folks who want to work with us.
+ 
+     When there *is* a major change in crew or staff, Doug and I are
+brought into it, to confirm and ratify.  If it were a really big change,
+as in a cinematographer, then WB would get into the approvals process.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1995 05:50:17 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: non-television B5 be
+
+     Ask me again in 3 years; I'll probably have a good answer then.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 22 Jul 1995 01:49:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: The Child is Father t
+
+     No, I don't really think trauma is a requirement for artistry; I
+know a number of writers who had nearly idyllic backgrounds.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 22 Jul 1995 02:21:01 -0400
+Subject: JMS:Openning music
+
+     Chris: the point you make is exactly right.  The music for each
+season is designed to reflect the progression of that season; some feel
+they don't like season two as much as one, because it doesn't summon up
+the same feelings.  But that's the intent; it's not supposed to summon
+up the same emotions.  It's kind of the equivilant of creating a
+different cover for every new installment of a series of connected
+novels.
+ 
+     What do I have in mind for season three?  What I indicated to Chris
+Franke was to look at a piece of music he did in "The Long, Twilight
+Struggle" and interpolate some elements of that into the main theme, with
+a very hard sound.  The piece in question is about the middle of the
+first really...um...busy scene after the act break.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 22 Jul 1995 02:25:05 -0400
+Subject: Attn:JMS:Emmys in Promos?
+
+     We do hope the noms are used in promos, yes.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 22 Jul 1995 02:25:08 -0400
+Subject: Eastern Washington - B5 Is Bac
+
+     Are you *sure* they're not going to show the final 4?  Last I heard,
+all the stations were going to show them.  Could this be a mis-heard
+bit of info about the delay to October?
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 22 Jul 1995 02:37:16 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS Questions on Ghostbu
+
+     "Ulysses" is probably the most moving of Tennyson's work, for my
+money.  It speaks to something profoundly entrenched in the human
+spirit.  It's something I try to put in front of people at any
+opportunity.
+ 
+     As for Janine...the change bothered the hell out of me, to go from
+a strong, smart, fashion-aware (in a weird way), independent woman...to
+a mommy-character.  And, in time, they kinda realized that I was right,
+and the consultants were wrong...mainly when the mailbags filled with
+angry letters from mothers and young girls raising ten kinds of hell.
+ 
+     But by then they didn't have any solution except just change her
+without explanation *again*...which is when I chimed in and said, "I
+can fix this.  But you've got to let me do this MY way."  They did, and
+it was done.
+ 
+     I was somewhat disappointed by Ghostbusters II.  It took an awful
+long time to get going, and then just fell back on much of what it had
+done in the first movie.  It made the producers nuts when they got
+audience responses from lots of people saying that they like the TV
+series better than the movie, and that the movie was "just for kids."
+ 
+     One of my favorite moments from that was writing an episode called
+"Take Two," in which Hollywood producers come to the guys and say they
+want to make a movie about the team...so they go to LA, have a little
+adventure...and the episode ends with actual footage from the first
+movie...with the result that millions of kids were convinced, totally
+conVINced, that the series *preceded* the first movie.
+ 
+     It was one of the more wonderfully sick things I've done.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 22 Jul 1995 02:37:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: Why is Ford in rastb5?
+
+     John: I don't think FT cares about winning the argument at all;
+it's just pissing in other people's tea that gets him off.  And yes, he
+has as much *right* to be here as anyone; that wasn't my point, so much
+as pointing out the contradiction between his feeling that he should be
+here, and his actions to get me off because I don't have that same
+right.  The operative term is hypocrisy.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 22 Jul 1995 02:20:58 -0400
+Subject: BABYLON FIVE BEEF!
+
+     This was one of the problems created early on by reporters looking to
+create a feud.  What I *said* was, "We hope to kick Star Trek's butt, by
+providing some real competition, and they can kick ours, and in this
+process of each trying to out do the other, the ultimate beneficiary is
+the audience."  It's the same point I've made here again and again.
+ 
+     It's amazing what can happen to a quote when you leave off part of
+it.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 23 Jul 1995 01:54:15 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS, JV, et al.: Writing
+
+     Yes, you're correct, the alignments in B5 vary depending on whose
+agenda is in force at that moment; and they change with time.  But in
+general you always need conflict, especially in TV, and to varying degrees
+in other works.  It's the seed from which drama emanates.  When I was on
+Murder, She Wrote, you couldn't just have Jessica go to somebody and get
+the information easily.  There had to be some conflict involved, there had
+to be *work* to pry it loose.  Otherwise it just falls flat.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 23 Jul 1995 01:56:34 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Full or part ti
+
+     Recurring actors can be dealt with in any number of ways; if it's
+a person who appears in, say, 8 episodes, we make a deal for that number
+in general, and have first call on them when needed; if it's a part that
+occurs maybe 2-3 times in a season, you can't make that deal, but in our
+case, I tend to know which episodes a character will appear in long before
+the scripts or outlines are ever written, so we make a deal for those
+specific dates.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 23 Jul 1995 01:56:43 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS - The ship that got S
+
+     No, the ship at Sigma 957 was definitely NOT a shadow vessel.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 23 Jul 1995 11:35:13 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Episode title questi
+
+     "The Geometry of Shadows" seemed to me a good metaphor for the
+technomages; a mix of science with something dark and mysterious.  How do
+you work out the geometry of something that in one sense doesn't really
+exist, but is a projection of something else that DOES exist?  That
+seemed to me as good a notion of technomagic as anything else.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 23 Jul 1995 11:38:21 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Speaking in Parables
+
+     I think that, by all rights, anybody should be able to "get" each
+episode.  The only thing that varies is their degree of..er...getness.
+ 
+     Getnosity?
+ 
+     Whatever.
+ 
+     The stucture is fairly straightforward: the primary story in any
+given episode is relatively self-contained and self-explanatory.  You can
+see that one episode, and no others, and be able to follow it.  If you
+CANNOT do this, then the episode has failed.  The key, as I've noted from
+the start, is that the MORE you see, or know, the MORE you can get out of
+any episode.
+ 
+     The impact of Talia's situation should be the same whether you saw
+the comic or not.  (And, remember, the idea was that the comic would come
+out AFTER the remaining year 2 episodes, as a nice little frisson, not as
+required data.)
+ 
+     I continue to get email and snail mail from people who are still just
+now finding the show...and they watch one episode, and that's fine, then
+they watch a couple/three more, and THEN they realize that there's an
+overall arc, that this is a bigger story than first appears.  For those
+who dig out every last detail, it's hard to imagine following the shw
+(show) minus all this...but it's absolutely possible, and happens
+consistently.  It's your *perception* that has altered by virtue of now
+knowing what more is there.  If you don't know the rest, you can still
+enjoy pretty much everything there on its most basic level, as an action
+or character story.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1995 00:06:25 -0400
+Subject: Even Quicker Notes from jms
+
+     Last reminder: next Saturday is San Diego Comic Con, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
+and if you're in the area, you may want to drop by for the B5 presentation
+scheduled for that time.
+ 
+     A company is in the process of licensing a slick, full-color B5
+magazine; looks pretty good.  More as this develops.
+ 
+     For those into this sort of thing...the literary SF review,
+FOUNDATION, published out of England, is doing a whole issue on media SF,
+with particular attention to B5.  I've turned in what they say will be the
+ceterpiece of the issue, a 28 page, 7600 word article titled "Approaching
+Babylon."  Although it contains a few things mentioned on the nets, about
+90% of is it new stuff, background info, personal observations and the
+like.
+ 
+     Finally, one week from tomorrow, we start filming on year three, with
+episode #301, "Matters of Honor," which also introduces a new recurring
+character named Marcus.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1995 02:52:03 -0400
+Subject: Attention JMS  Re: increasing
+
+     There is generally an increase in action when large groups of
+populations go to war....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1995 02:52:26 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS - Long Twilight Strug
+
+     As noted here a while back, yes, the title derives from Kennedy's
+speech.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1995 02:52:13 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Passing Through Geths
+
+     Before one judges the relevance or applicability of a given title to
+a given episode, it might be wise if one first SEES the episode, don't
+you think...?
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1995 02:52:40 -0400
+Subject: JMS - Actors?
+
+     If I had an unlimited budget...Sean Connery, Peter O'Toole, Jerry
+Lewis, Arnold Schwarzeneggar and Sigourney Weaver.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1995 03:10:57 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Re Babylon quiz
+
+     I can't really get involved with the quiz on any level.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1995 03:48:58 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Scripting
+
+     Eventually we may sell scripts of the show; we'll see.
+ 
+     Re: fourth acts...they're difficult to pull off on the best of days,
+because you've got to pull together a lot of stuff in a very short amount
+of time, and make everything make sense.  And sometimes, in the last season
+or thereabouts, I kinda got the feeling that some of the X-Files eps I saw
+somewhat fell apart in the fourth act, where it didn't come together, or
+things happened too conveniently, or what it WAS was less interesting than
+it was SUPPOSED to be.  It happens.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1995 03:49:25 -0400
+Subject: JMS: A comment
+
+     Thanks; I've tentatively decided to keep the beard, I think it's okay.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1995 03:49:14 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Patrick McGoohan on
+
+     Nothing would make me happier than to someday use Patrick in an ep.
+ 
+     Well, maybe 10 million dollars in small bills....
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1995 17:27:08 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Cap. Power writing
+
+     No, I pointedly had zip to do with anything concerning CP
+merchandising.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1995 21:44:18 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Any clues to Final F
+
+     Yeah, several of the elements you raise will be dealt with in the
+final four.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1995 01:08:31 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Sinclair Focus?
+
+     Delenn is not Sinclair's "romantic consort," to use the phrase you
+invoke.  There was a closeness between them, and a relationship there,
+but not romantic.  Several of your questions are based on assumptions
+that are not necessarily correct.
+ 
+     A goodly portion of the Sinclair/Minbar thread will be dealt with
+this coming season.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1995 11:28:11 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Dreams (again)
+
+     There's a difference between what I believe dreams mean, what the
+Centauri believe dreams mean, and what dreams mean to the Centauri, in
+that universe, and what they mean to me in our universe.
+ 
+     I suspect the truth lay somewhere between Shroedinger and Jung.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1995 12:19:10 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Episodes away from B
+
+      We do plan to continue our practice of getting more ambitious each
+season; we saw virtually none of the homeworlds in year one; in year two
+we began to see more of Narn, and Centauri Prime, with some locations in
+the latter.  We will continue to expand in each following year; in year
+three, we plan to show Minbar, more of Centauri Prime, the Narn
+homeworld, Earth and *maybe* the Vorlon homeworld, if I can figure out how
+to do it at this stage without totally imploding the show.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+ 
+     (Oh, yeah, and Z'ha'dum....)
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1995 11:48:33 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: ReadMe!
+
+     I think the Kosh stuff is *very* cool...but I don't want to over-sell
+it; best to see it cold.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1995 11:09:36 -0400
+Subject: Re: Even Quicker Notes from jm
+
+     I think that's mainly because I hadn't settled on a name at the time.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1995 11:37:32 -0400
+Subject: Re: Why is Ford in rastb5?
+
+     Well, I see that the individual who goes by the handle Rev.
+Commander Wayne has come into the fray, fresh from fabricating nonsense
+on AOL.  For those not aware, they're quite a clique these three: Wayne,
+Ford, and a fellow named Randy Hall.  Those of you with AOL access should
+go check out their screeds in the Anti-B5 topic on the ST Neutral Zone
+board, and in the ST vs. B5 area in the TV section.  Basically, you've
+got 3 people who write dozens and dozens of messages to each other, in
+open forum, as though by doing so they create a sense of there being
+others of similar inclination.
+ 
+     Another one for those with killfiles.  Anyone with the *least*
+suspicion that maybe they have something open-minded to say about
+anything, check out the areas noted above.  They're trolls pure and
+simple, folks.  We just wasted a lot of time with them over on AOL,
+believe me.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1995 11:48:59 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Rangers in Season 3?
+
+     Yes, the Rangers will play a more important part in year three, and
+Sinclair's part in it will be revealed.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1995 11:54:48 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: What are your inspir
+
+     I didn't look to any writers or other works for inspiration for B5;
+I came up with the story mine own self.  To "look for inspiration" always
+sounds deliberate to me, "Hmm...whose template can I use...?"  I don't
+work that way.  It's basically the product of all the stuff I've seen and
+read over the years, my interest in politics, philosophy, literature,
+sagas, SF, language, culture, history...it's this huge, honking stew
+which I more or less fitted into the B5 statin.
+ 
+	                                   jms       (station)
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1995 19:30:46 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Telepaths in prison?
+
+     Expect more on this topic in third season.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1995 19:43:36 -0400
+Subject: Clearing the air.
+
+     Good heavens, I was virtually unaware of the degree to which this
+had escalated.  To add, quietly, my two-cents...when I found one of my
+posts had been edited by Jay for spoilers, I inquired of him privately
+and indicated that this might not be A Good Thing, since I'd been fairly
+careful in my phraseology.  He accepted that, and apologized, and was
+quite gracious about it.
+ 
+     For my money, you can't keep spoilers out of here, protected or
+unprotected, except by virtue of shared kindness and understanding.  The
+whole REASON for my getting a moderated newsfeed, as I now do, was to
+PREVENT the need to moderate the newsgroup for content.  It thus seems
+to me slightly unproductive that it's now done for spoilers when we took
+this step of moderating my feed, and inconveniencing many of the rastB5
+Rangers, to avoid moderation.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1995 03:51:41 -0400
+Subject: JMS: imposed tv sf format?
+
+     Most TV shows in the 60s were one-story episodes.  The medium became
+a bit more complex as time went on, and people wanted to learn more about
+the characters and the world.  We've done some episodes that didn't have
+a B or C story at all; it's whatever the story requires.
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1995 02:52:30 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: jms non-B5 Ques
+
+     My scriptwriting book is not currently in print, though a) it's
+still available in many libraries, and b) I hope to have the new edition
+turned in shortly.  Yes, it deals with the agent/writer relationship.
+And currently we're not looking at specs for B5 due to the fact that the
+stories are all pretty much worked out.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1995 03:21:19 -0400
+Subject: Attn jms: Suspension of Disbel
+
+     I dunno...one can make the argument, as you do, that because I don't
+believe in relgion, or telepathy, and have thus no axe to grind or agenda
+to advance, I can do so equitably...but something about that logic sounds
+a little too slick and self=contratulatory...so I'll just leave it at...
+I dunno....
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1995 03:21:26 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: SD ComicCon: will "s
+
+     I don't think there'll be much problem getting in the door or getting
+comic con tickets; but: come early, because the con has 27,000 people or5
+more attending, and the lines to buy tickets can be absolutely hideous.
+Arrive at *minimum* an hour early (10 a.m. or better).
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1995 03:23:38 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: OtherSyde
+
+     It was okay for a second novel; I can do better, though, I think.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1995 03:23:44 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Season 3 Q's & Div.
+
+     My guess is that C4 will begin carrying season 3 in the spring.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1995 03:23:51 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: SPOILERS for Divided
+
+     No, nothing was edited out by C4 or anyone; the footage we had to
+work with in editing had a *slight* matching problem.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1995 03:23:57 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Pronunciation of "Straczy
+
+                     struh-zin-ski
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1995 03:24:03 -0400
+Subject: How do I submit story ideas?
+
+     We *have* our story ideas for the show.  Five years worth.  Bear in
+mind that Star Trek is the exception to the rule of how TV series work;
+no other show accepts story ideas from folks out there.
+ 
+     (I'm speaking specifically of non-established writers.  Spec scripts
+can sometimes get through on shows, but nobody else really looks for just
+story ideas.  On B5, all but 2 freelance scripts have been based on
+story ideas I've assigned out.)
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1995 02:47:58 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Zack Allen
+
+     You'll be seeing more of Zack next season, definitely.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1995 02:48:04 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS Psicorps badge
+
+     No, the Psi Corps symbol is not based on the Cummunist hammer and
+sickle; it's the Greek letter psi which stands for the mind.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1995 19:48:32 -0400
+Subject: + Attn: JMS:  Thanks! +
+
+     Just doin' what I do, don't know no other way....
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1995 20:03:45 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Divided Loyalties
+
+     Absolutely *nothing* from prior seasons/episodes has been discarded.
+So if that's your concern...don't worry about it.
+ 
+     Nothing was trimmed by C4.  There was a slight matching problem in
+the footage, that's all.
+ 
+     In very tense situations, some people feel compelled to somehow break
+the tension.  Hence, that sequence.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 29 Jul 1995 03:54:30 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Your secret writing
+
+     I'm not *sure* I wrote that episode of TRGBs; I know I story edited
+it, but it may have had another writer.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1995 23:59:19 -0400
+Subject: JMS: "Pitching a Winner"
+
+     The short story I'd done in high school -- god, do you *really* want
+to know this? -- was a comic story about the Lady of the Lake popping up
+again in the present to offer Prince Charles Excalibur...and him not quite
+knowing what to do about it, then security was called and...well, it got
+quite interesting, particularly since she'd popped up in his bathtub.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 31 Jul 1995 00:04:08 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Favorite Dictionary?
+
+     For everyday use, I tend to yank out the Oxford American Dictionary,
+which is nearest at hand, and I find it very complete; for real, serious
+writing stuff, then I go to my copy of the Oxgord English Dictionary,
+which is sort of the Mount Olympus of dictionaries, both in complexity
+and sheer weight.  Other books...Roget's Thesaurus, What's What, and a
+shelf load of books on mythology, history, politics and psychology.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 31 Jul 1995 17:36:45 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn jms: Suspension of Di
+
+     Although there have been many interesting anecdotal studies on
+telepathy, in any laboratory model it has not yet been shown consistently
+and reliably to exist.  So I'm holding the subject in personal abeyance
+until the day when somebody can walk into a research lab at MIT or
+elsewhere and get 10 out of 10 cards right *consitently* and *repeatedly*
+under strict laboratory conditions.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+ 
+     (consistently, that is)
+
+Date: 31 Jul 1995 17:37:09 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS Will Peter David be
+
+     Peter is currently busy doing not just his comics, but co-writing
+every episode of HIS new TV series, Space Cases, with Bill Mumy...but if
+there's room in there somewhere, we've discussed the possibility.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 31 Jul 1995 17:37:37 -0400
+Subject: Attn:JMS Face on Mars
+
+     It's actually a pak'ma'ra butt.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Date: 31 Jul 1995 17:39:05 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: X-Files et al
+
+     Actually, my guess is that X-Files does have a larger budget than we
+do, since they do a LOT of location filming, which is very expensive (als0
+David Duchovney just got a bump in salary to $100,000 an episode).  And
+yes, one may discuss "Twilight" with those across the pond who've seen it
+here.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 31 Jul 1995 17:43:06 -0400
+Subject: Correspondence Note from jms
+
+     To all those who've sent, or are planning to send, any mail to the
+actors, crew or others involved with Babylon 5 at the snail mail address
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423....
+ 
+     BE SURE to have somewhere on the envelope the words C/O BABYLON 5,
+or it may very well be returned.  This is not the main studio address,
+which is not disseminated, and sometimes the addresses/names get kind
+of obscure.  This will allow the mail to be routed properly.  If you do
+not include this line, it may never reach its destination.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
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+Messages from Babylon 5 executive producer J. Michael Straczynski on the
+Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.
+
+
+Date: 1 Aug 1995 06:17:49 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Female characters
+
+     Writing women has never been a problem for me.  I like women, both
+romantically (when I was still in the marketplace) and intellectually, as
+friends.  For as long as I can remember, the majority of my friends have
+been women.  I have a goodly number of men friends, but what can I say, I
+like the way many women think.  Specifically, I like women who are usually
+smarter than me, who are funny, independent, self-assured and know their
+own mind.  So it's not much of a stretch, therefore, that when I sit down
+to write female characters, *that's* what tends to come out most of the
+time.
+ 
+     I've had a *lot* of relationships in my time; the total number of
+intimate relationships (yeah, I'm talking about *that*) I once figured
+worked out to about 50.  On one level, I'm not terribly proud of that
+figure, it reflects a period when I was trying to find...I dunno...
+SOMEdamnthing...but on the other hand, it's given me a LOT of material from
+which to draw.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 2 Aug 1995 03:28:16 -0400
+Subject: The Long Twilight Struggle.
+
+     Thank you.  I'm quite frankly thrilled beyond words at the preliminary
+reactions from the UK to this episode; we worked *really* hard on it, and
+I can't tell you what the reactions mean to us.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 2 Aug 1995 21:44:28 -0400
+Subject: "Downbelow" a ref to Cherryh's
+
+     Actually, no, there was no intended not; I wanted the sense that this
+place was down, as in downtown, downtrodden...briefly considered Down Under
+but figured our viewers in Oz might be (rightly) bugged by it.  So Down
+Under became Down Below, and I put them together into one word for slang,
+DownBelow.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 2 Aug 1995 21:46:18 -0400
+Subject: QUES#1: Before the Agamemnon?
+
+     Sheridan was captain of a smaller ship, somewhat Hyperion-sized,
+during the war.  When the Aggy became available, he was given that
+command.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 2 Aug 1995 21:47:32 -0400
+Subject: JMS: What's delaying VHS/LD in
+
+     Warners isn't sure there are enough people out there who'd want to
+buy the show to make producing them worthwhile.  So we're trying to help
+them over this.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 2 Aug 1995 22:41:20 -0400
+Subject: ATT JMS: Well, how did the fir
+
+     Our first three days of shooting have gone terrific; everyone's in
+fine spirits.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 2 Aug 1995 22:42:46 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Script book
+
+     Actually, I keep hoping to get the revised version of that book out
+one of these days.  As for sharks...one can choose to become one, or not
+to become one.  Ask anybody.
+ 
+     Ask Londo.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 2 Aug 1995 22:44:11 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Question about Black
+
+     Yes, he did send a fake distress call, and took out the Black Star
+when it came in to (they thought) wipe out a disabled ship.  He's never
+denied this to anybody.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Date: 2 Aug 1995 22:44:37 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Change of Terms
+
+     Babcom is for local, in-station calls, and inter-ship stuff;
+StellarCom is for long-range planetary calls.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 2 Aug 1995 22:47:41 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Where can I get one
+
+     I think costuming customizes the shirts that way.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 3 Aug 1995 03:21:07 -0400
+Subject: = Attn JMS: Psi Corp Question
+
+     Of *course* the telepath issue will have to be dealt with; this is a
+logical progression of the story, no?
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 3 Aug 1995 03:52:51 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Twilight(spoilers)
+
+     "how can it get any better?"
+ 
+     Has to, though.  We took a blood oath on this show that each season
+must be better than the one preceding.  In many ways, we're still the new
+kids on the block, and we can't afford to ever once let our guard down and
+settle for anything less than constant striving.  And, frankly, though it's
+endless struggle, it's kinda fun on another level; we discover and invent
+new ways to do things, and new approaches to story and production, on a
+regular basis (tomorrow we're seeing some new CGI tricks from Ron via some
+beta-test software that should let us do some truly nifty stuff...).
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 3 Aug 1995 03:56:25 -0400
+Subject: Re: Trend: Fan Interaction
+
+     This is one of the more delicate areas in viewer/producer interaction
+here on the nets.  On one side, if you say, "Yeah, we fought the studios,
+the networks, nobody tells us how to do our show," and viewers respond with
+enthusiasm, then another viewer has a suggestion, and you don't take it,
+suddenly it has the potential to come off like a snub.  Yes, on one level,
+shows don't exist without fans.  Shows also don't exist without networks
+and studios to finance and produce them.  There are two masters at work
+here.
+ 
+     My take on this is very simple: nothing good has been done by
+committee since the pyramids and Stonehenge.  The bigger the committee,
+the more watered-down or diffuse the final result.  B5 viewers, as cute a
+bunch as they might be, basicallyk constitute the largest committee on
+record.
+ 
+     If somebody finds a glitch in the show, points out an error, asks a
+good leading question, I (or frankly any reasonable producer) would be a
+fool to ignore it.  But you've got to know your own mind, and what it is
+you want to do with your show, and be absolutely, totally committed to
+following your inclinations and your instincts, or very shortly you'll end
+up wandering in the wilderness beyond hope of recall.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 3 Aug 1995 03:56:41 -0400
+Subject: B5 Magazine
+
+     A deal has been closed with Sendai to produce a regular, official
+B5 glossy magazine, yes.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 3 Aug 1995 04:01:22 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS- Actors( & Accents)
+
+     Actually, the lead guest character in the first episode of year three,
+one Mr. Endawi, is a Nigerian, and our new recurring character, Marcus
+Cole (a Ranger) is British, and played by Jason Carter.  So you have two
+non-American accents occupying major parts of the first ep next year.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 3 Aug 1995 04:25:33 -0400
+Subject: Quotes from Jeri Taylor on sto
+
+     There's nothing even remotely askew in anything Jeri said.  There are
+two philosophies at work here (arc vs. non-arc), and neither is
+intrinsically or inherently better than the other.  It's a matter of
+personal tastes, and what you're trying to accomplish.
+ 
+     The Martian Chronicles was written as a series of short stories within
+a universe, somewhat loosely, but which together make enjoyable reading in
+one volulme.  That's ST or most conventional series.
+ 
+     The Dune books are tightly plotted stories over a long, pre-planned
+arc.  This is the structure B5 employs.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 3 Aug 1995 04:48:36 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Animated Series
+
+     It's a good idea, but I kinda stay away from animation these days,
+having been somewhat burned out on the area.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 4 Aug 1995 01:48:55 -0400
+Subject: ATTN Rangers:  Are ep. title s
+
+     If the episode titles are based on previously established real
+quotes (as "the long, twilight struggle" is excerpted from a Kennedy
+speech), then it's okay.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 4 Aug 1995 04:22:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Twilight(spoiler
+
+     "If what's coming is truly nifty, then what do you call what you've
+shot so far?"
+ 
+     The stuff we did yesterday.
+ 
+     Never look back.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 4 Aug 1995 04:22:13 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Production Q - Sound FX
+
+      Yes, insofar as I know, all the sounds we use in B5 for items we
+created (PPGs, hyperspace, starfuries, shadow ships, on and on) are
+original creations.  Hyperspace was a real toughie.  One thing I wanted
+was a kind of hollow sound, like when you cup your hands over your ears.
+So the sound designer put together a LOT of different sounds, including
+putting a condom over a microphone and putting it deep into his swimming
+pool.  (How he explained the open condom wrappers to his wife later is
+anyone's guess.  "No, really, I needed them to do some sound design.")
+ 
+     I kept a fairly tight rein on sound stuff in the beginning, until
+the sound designers caught what we were after, and now mainly what
+happens is that when we do the audio spotting for the episode, we stop
+at a point where a new sound is needed, or we introduce a new locale in
+the station and have to discuss the audio mapping.  We talk about it in
+general terms, unless I have something terribly specific in mind, and
+the sound folks go off and do it, and I don't think I've had much of a
+problem with anything they've done.
+ 
+     Sometimes, a sound will consist of various pieces, and when we get
+in to do the final audio mix, I/we may go through the pieces and if
+there's  a conflict between a sound effect and a music cue (if both are
+taking up the same space in the low end), we may adjust the sound effect
+or omit one of the pieces to carve out room in the audio and make sure
+they don't just mush together.  This is particularly true given that
+often Chris Franke incorporates lots of natural (and unnatural) sounds in
+his music, and we have to make sure to give emphasis to the right one for
+the dramatic moment.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 4 Aug 1995 04:26:30 -0400
+Subject: JMS' "Murder, She Wrote" on US
+
+     Ah, yes, that episode was the first I wrote for Murder, She Wrote
+while engaged there as writer/producer.  So yes, there should be others
+coming up in the current batch by me.  It really was a fun show in many
+ways; I'd still be there now in all likelihood had not B5 come along when
+it did.  It's hard to find a truly literate show to write for.  And the
+cast was uniformly great, inclusive of Angela and Bill Windom.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 4 Aug 1995 04:26:38 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS or Ron Thornton (if
+
+     Oh, good, one more church from which I'm going to have to become an
+apostate....
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Date: 4 Aug 1995 04:26:47 -0400
+Subject: Twilight struggle subtext- spo
+
+     Without spoiling anything...yes, in this regard, I've always noted
+that there are some echoes of WW II in the overall storyline, and some
+applies here.  Also, again, the purpose of a large measure of the show is
+to elicit discussion of such issues as this...where are the mora,
+(moral) responsibilities in such a situation?  What are the ethics of
+mass warfare?  Where does expediency begin and compassion end?  *Should*
+compassion have to end for the greater good?
+ 
+     If we can start some bar fights, I'll have done my job.
+ 
+     Fact is, I don't have one single damned good answer.  But I've got a
+whole LOTTA questions....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 4 Aug 1995 04:26:54 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS- Actors( & Accents)
+
+      Actually, Lord Refa has an accent almost identical to Londo's, and
+Emperor Turhan had quite an accent as well, so we'e done a lot of this
+already (also Londo's friend in Knives).
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 4 Aug 1995 05:00:33 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Dialogue writing
+
+     Let me just start off by disagreeing with your thesis, that the
+length restrictions and format of TV writing tend to mitigate against good
+writing.  By that same token, sonnets (which use a very strict formula or
+format) can't be good, or haiku, we should toss out iambic pentameter
+altogether, and short stories, often considerably shorter than a half-hour
+TV script, must also be unable to contain quality writing.
+ 
+     The form doesn't matter.  It's what you bring to the table.
+ 
+     Similarly, the issue of rushed writing...many of the classic SF tales
+of the 50s and 60s were written as fast as humanly possible because back
+then writers were paid a penny a word, and you had to really crank the
+stuff out there to make any kind of living.  It was quite common for writers
+of many of the SF magazines of the time to go into the publisher's office,
+see the cover for an issue a few months down the road, and on the spot come
+up with a title, a story premise, go home, write it, and bring it in the
+very next day.
+ 
+     We're talking here margins.  Margins aren't important.  It's what you
+choose to fill the margins, the care you exercise, the passion you bring to
+the page, that makes the difference.
+ 
+     Yeah, a lot of TV writing is pretty marginal.  Sturgeon's Law: 90% of
+everything is crap.  How many novels are turned out each year that sink of
+their own weight in zero time?  How few novels are really and truly
+substantial?  How many short stories?  Out of all the SF novels and short
+stories and short-shorts and novellas and novellettes published each year,
+how many will survive on the shelf 5, 10, or 15 years from now?
+ 
+     Mark Twain said, "If you would have your fiction live forever, you
+must neither overtly preach nor overtly teach; but you must *covertly*
+preach and *covertly* teach."  That, to me, is one primary ingredient; it
+must, at its root, be *about* something more than car chases and bomb
+blasts and shootouts.  On some level, however cellular, it must instruct
+and ennoble and elevate and enrich, make us question or consider.
+ 
+     Then there is the basic level of writing style, but that is a very
+personal flavor.  Hill Street had an elegance of simplicity, the writing
+was often raw and piercing on a sheer gut level.  I loved it.  When I sit
+down to write, I tend to drift toward a somewhat more literary-sounding or
+theatrical style, probably because of my own influences.
+ 
+     It comes down, really, to whether or not you have the inclination to
+sit down, whichever style you use, and stare at the screen for half an
+hour until you find just the right word, the mot just, that serves better
+than any other possibly could.  Some writers will do that, some won't.
+David Kelly does it on ER and Picket Fences and other shows.  So do the
+folks on The Simpsons.  And many other shows.  A lot of folks dump on TV,
+ignoring similar failinlgs in literary SF or other genres, but like any
+exercise in accepted cliche, the reasoning is flawed and often (though
+not always) unjustified.
+ 
+     As for my personal list of writers whose work I admire...Kelly, as
+noted, definitely.  Mainly, though, I grew up on the genre TV writers of
+the 50s/60s, like Rod Serling, Charles Beaumond, Richard Matheson, Robert
+Bloch (that should be BeaumonT, not Beaumond), Ernest Kinoy, Harlan
+Ellison, Joe Stefano, and though he was fading from view by then, Arch
+Oboler, and the kinetoscopes of Paddy Chayefsky, Reginald Rose and others.
+ Later, I added Norman Corwin to the list, as a chief point of inspiration,
+stylistically.  (There are a number of writers who call or consider
+themselves "Norman's Kids" in that we've learned much about writing, and
+the integrity of writing, from Norman Corwin...including Ray Bradbury,
+Charles Kuralt, Walter Cronkite, Stan Freberg, and many others.)
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 5 Aug 1995 02:51:48 -0400
+Subject: ATTN:JMS  Will the Us ever cat
+
+     The US will be back ahead of the UK very soon, with year three, for
+one vital reason: the US breaks up new shows with reruns; the UK runs
+straight through and stops.  The rerun schedule generally allows us to
+coast along at a reasonable schedule for delivering episodes.  If the UK
+started at the same time as the US in year 3, we'd hit snags as we
+hurried to deliver shows.  (We shoot in 7 working days, or 2 days longer
+than a conventional week...so if you're showing a new ep every true 7
+days, once a week, you're going to get ahead of production very quickly.)
+ 
+     So year 3 starts in the US in November; it will likely start in the
+UK in January/February.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Date: 5 Aug 1995 02:51:58 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: tLTS Reporter Quote
+
+     Yes, "They're being bombed back to the stone age" is a Vietnam era
+quote.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 5 Aug 1995 02:54:06 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Slight sound glitch
+
+     "I can't wait to see how ou torture us next week!"
+ 
+     Funny line, that, which you'll understand in a few days.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 5 Aug 1995 03:22:58 -0400
+Subject: ATTN:JMS  What's the latest on
+
+     It should be up on the web by late September.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 5 Aug 1995 03:23:04 -0400
+Subject: ATT JMS: Twin Peaks
+
+     I liked Twin Peaks a lot, though the truth is they really had NO idea
+where the heck they were going, and they kinda threw stuff in randomly a
+lot.  (This from one of the staffers over there at the time in the writing
+department.)  If you missed one ep you were screwed in trying to follow it,
+but jeez, it was a great ride while it lasted.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 5 Aug 1995 03:23:10 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS- Actors( & Accents)
+
+     I've never, ever said that the aliens/humans in B5 got language
+translation implants, VIPs or otherwise; that's strictly a Star Trek
+device.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 5 Aug 1995 03:35:55 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: TLTS<spoiler>dubbed
+
+     No, his voice wasn't dubbed, or changed, by anyone; might've been a
+glitch in local audio or something.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 5 Aug 1995 03:50:12 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  The making of CGI s
+
+     An extensive video clip tape is something we're considering for the
+fan club, yes.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+Date: 5 Aug 1995 03:50:19 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Profit participation
+
+     Because if agents ask for gross points on the part of writers or
+certain others, they'll be flatly denied and somebody else will be hired.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 7 Aug 1995 05:20:33 -0400
+Subject: Attn: JMS-What will "Official"
+
+     We've had some preliminary discussions about what would be on the
+official B5 web page, and at the moment, I can't talk about any of the
+things we have in mind until they've been realized.  Much of it is stuff
+definitely not included in other web sites.  Plus some interesting
+opportunities.  Be patient...we haven't dropped the ball elsewhere....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 7 Aug 1995 05:20:40 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  Writing changes?
+
+     Every show is on deadline, to one extent or another.  As for the
+rest....
+ 
+     It's hard to say.  I know that my style has changed somewhat since
+B5 began, and the approach I take *to* the writing has changed a bit, but
+it's a very hard thing to put into words.  It's like learning a new
+little trick during sex...you're not quite sure where it came from, it's
+still the same concept, but something about it works a little better for
+you.
+ 
+     In one way, because it's my own show, I'm no longer having to yoke
+myself to somebody else's conception.  Whenever you're working for a
+writer/producer above you, a certain measure of your time is spent in
+second-guessing, however much you may also be trying to expand that
+character at the same time.  "
+ 
+     "Okay, I'm going to go this far, but I know if I go *too* far, the
+guy's gonna lean on me, say the character wouldn't do that, and I'll have
+to go back and restructure."
+ 
+     So that problem doesn't exist for me now.  In some ways, it's given
+me greater latitude and confidence, but at the same time it's caused me to
+be *much* more intensely critical in examining my own work.  I know that
+creatively, I'm pretty much out on my own here, and if I don't take great
+care to be sure that the work is up to par, there's nobody to backstop it
+above me.  "With great power comes great responsibility."  Peter Parker.
+ 
+     Probably the main thing that's happened is that I've grown slowly
+comfortable enough with things to begin taking real chances; doing scenes
+without any dialogue whatsoever (the Emperor's fall in "Coming," certain
+long segments of "Twilight"), and some fairly intense monologues; it's let
+me be free enough to do some radical stuff visually, to stretch to the
+limits of what I think I can do.
+ 
+     What happens, if you're a writer who cares about your work, is that
+you write along at one level for a certain amount of time, you hit a
+plateau, this is as good as you are...but you keep poking at the edges,
+and after a while you get frustrated, because your reach is exceeding your
+grasp, and you know this should be *better* than it is, but you don't quite
+know why, or where, you can't conceptualize it...then suddenly you break
+through the ceiling, to another level, and your writing changes from that
+point on...until the next time.
+ 
+     I'm very aware of having gone through several of those since starting
+the B5 series.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 7 Aug 1995 05:24:42 -0400
+Subject: Excuse me, I may be ignorant..
+
+     "I am become" is perfectly acceptable useage, albeit somewhat
+archaic.  It's even in my oft-quoted "Ulysses" by Tennyson: "I am become
+a legend."
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 7 Aug 1995 05:34:44 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Possible plot twist
+
+     That turn is coming.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+Date: 7 Aug 1995 22:24:38 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS or anyone: The three
+
+     Only one of the novels is likely to be an actual arc novel; the rest
+are pretty much on the fringe.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 7 Aug 1995 22:21:58 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  What about next yea
+
+     All I can really do for now is hope that they don't do it again
+next year; my gut says probably they won't, but what the heck does my
+gut know?
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+Date: 7 Aug 1995 22:23:33 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: More soundtracks?
+
+     I would be very happy to see a series of soundtracks out there.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Date: 8 Aug 1995 06:17:30 -0400
+Subject: Attn: JMS  B5 & CU-See Me On t
+
+     No, but we *are* investigating the very real possibility that we may
+do some CU-see-me stuff live from the B5 stage during the season, once
+per episode, cast interviews and the like.  Not finalized yet, though.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 8 Aug 1995 22:39:26 -0400
+Subject: Nitpicky question for JMS
+
+     Actually, ben-Zayn is an Middle Eastern/Arabic name.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 8 Aug 1995 22:40:43 -0400
+Subject: Re: Marcus the Ranger
+
+     The actor playing Marcus is Jason Carter, British, most lately on
+Viper and other shows.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 9 Aug 1995 19:32:40 -0400
+Subject: Ellison TREK Book! (from jms)
+
+       It's the story that followers of STAR TREK have been discussing,
+analyzing, disseminating and hearing for nearly thirty years, involving what
+polls and conventions have consistently shown to be the single best episode
+of the original STAR TREK series ever produced: "The City on the Edge of
+Forever."
+ 
+       What *really* happened?  Who *really* did the final produced script?
+How did the original script come to be, what was in it (and almost as
+important, given rumors, what *wasn't* in it), and what do those most
+directly involved have to say about it?
+       For the first time, you'll hear directly not only from Harlan
+Ellison (the article in the TV Guide special ST issue was basically just a
+warm-up), but also from Leonard Nimoy, Peter David, DeForest Kelley, Walter
+Koenig, D.C. Fontana, Melinda Snodgrass and George Takai...not in
+interviews, but in essays they have themselves written on the subject, for
+publication for the first time.
+ 
+       Publication where, you ask?  In THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER, the
+definitive book on the subject just completed by Harlan and those indicated
+above.  The limited edition book contains not only the first version of the
+script, but subsequent revisions, two of the original treatments, actual
+correspondence printed here for the first time which will dispell many of
+the rumors circulating for over 30 years, afterwords by those noted in the
+paragraph above, and a 20,000 word introduction by Harlan Ellison.
+ 
+       Publication of this book is one of the most eagerly awaited events by
+followers of STAR TREK.  Advance orders have been pouring in, and only 330
+copies of the special limited edition remain, at $75 plus $5 shipping and
+handling (UPS insured) from Borderlands Press, a noted and prestigious
+publisher of quality limited edition books.  These will be shipping on
+October 1st.  The book has already been completed, and is now at the
+printers being typeset and bound.
+ 
+       A regular trade hardcover edition will be available later, starting
+December 1st, at a price of $25, plus $5 S&H.
+ 
+       This, as they say, is the Real Deal, with information withheld from
+publication for 30 years, made available here for the first time, along with
+the ability to show the progression through various stages of the script
+that became "The City on the Edge of Forever."  For writers interested in
+studying scripts, for followers of the show who want exclusive behind the
+scenes info, for anyone with an abiding interest in things Trek...this is
+going to be *the* book to buy, the only Star Trek-based book ever likely to
+come from Harlan Ellison, and thus a sure collector's item.
+ 
+       Visa/Mastercard orders can be placed at 1-800-528-3310, or send check
+or money order to BORDERLANDS PRESS, PO Box 146, Brooklandville, MD  21022.
+ 
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1995 00:40:00 -0400
+Subject: Re: Comes the Inquisitor (Coul
+
+      Kosh always speaks of himself in the plural form.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1995 00:40:16 -0400
+Subject: (no subject)
+
+     Who has time to talk to other writers...?
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1995 00:40:30 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:Comes The Inquisitor
+
+     Your friend Sharon is clearly a woman of infinite taste and refined
+sensibilities.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1995 00:40:40 -0400
+Subject: Toronto Trek 95 Thoughts
+
+     I've now heard this report re: Majel several times, and suffice to
+say I'm *most* intrigued.  If anybody out there has a recording -- audio
+or video -- please let me know in private mail.  May be able to swap
+something in return.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1995 00:38:10 -0400
+Subject: Help: Big Bang Refunds?
+
+     I've been informed of late that, in addition to Michael O'Hare and
+Mark Hammil getting stiffed for, respectively, appearance fees and fees
+plus travel expenses, to the total of $26,000, that the photographer who
+was contracted to shoot the con wasn't paid, neither was security, neither
+were the travel agents for the airline arrangements.  I'm told that Tom
+has gone to ground, and am trying to confirm if he's just blipped off
+the map.
+ 
+     Nearly all these other people, btw, are fans...which is what I was
+worried about, that fans would be the ones hurt by this, which is what
+I said from day one, but the Big Bang apologists came out and said I was
+over-reacting, exaggerating, that *I* was the problem...and now they see
+what's happened, and suddenly they've gone silent and also can't be
+found.
+ 
+     Cassandra, indeed....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1995 00:39:35 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Babylon 5 started in
+
+     I hadn't been aware of much of this, and alas I'm powerless to do
+anything about it.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1995 00:39:47 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Comes the Inquisitor
+
+      Mentioning just the first name may not have been necessary for
+UK viewers, but it was necessary for the rest of the planet.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1995 00:37:57 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: slander vs. you on "
+
+     I have never, at any time, owed anybody for a spec script because I
+don't BUY spec scripts, ever; the shows on which I have worked have on
+rare occasions bought spec scripts, but then they've been bought; the only
+time you owe on a spec is if you used it or produced it, and I've never
+done that.  So this person is frankly nuts.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1995 00:38:22 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Query re Comes the I
+
+     "Jack" was the media appellation; whether Sebastian is a first or
+last name is left open.
+ 
+     I looked at who this historical figure could be, but no one else fit
+into the area I wanted.  It was a decision born of necessity, not whim.  I
+needed someone far enough removed not to have any current victims' families
+still alive; someone known to a worldwide population (anonymous wouldn't
+have worked because why would Sheridan have known about him, why should we
+care, why should it resonate, and we'd spend time explaining what he did
+that would have meant cutting out other material in the episode); the
+other serial killers tend to have clear fates, whereas Jack vanished and
+is thus "available" to us; visually that period makes for a striking
+contrast to 2259.
+ 
+     And, again, you have to look at who he *was*...a fanatic, trying to
+clean up Spittlefields (good cause) by hatred (wrong reason) and murder
+(wrong means), the EXACT thing Delenn warns against at the very start of
+the show.  (Did you know there's a letter in the London Times for that
+period that tries to explain the Ripper's motives as a cry ofr
+(for) understanding about conditions in that part of London?)  He felt he
+was a divine messenger, learned he was not, and in bitterness has become
+the single best inquisitor you could've had in that job.
+ 
+     Every single thing about Jack made him *perfect* for that role, as
+mirror, menace and warning sign.  So I used him.  And I'd do it again.
+You have to find what works best for the story, and do it.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1995 00:38:37 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: You've done it again
+
+     Thanks; it's actually a favorite episode with a lot of folks on the
+show.  Not too dusty, I think....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1995 00:42:03 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS
+
+     Fleer cards are due out in September.  Sheridan sent an EA distress
+signal; the Minbari were in genocidal mode, so it didn't matter to them
+the condition of their enemy.
+ 
+     RE: religion, my atheism, and religion in the show...my own
+background...is my own background.  Suffice to say I came to my position
+as an atheist through a long, difficult and trying road.
+ 
+     Have I studied other religions?  Yes.  I was sufficiently interested
+in the subject sui generis that I minored in philosophy during college,
+to the point where I was about 9 credits short of a degree in the area.
+(Well, and a thesis, but why quibble?)  I've read the Bible cover to
+cover, twice; the Bahagavad-Gita, the Book of Mormon, I've got a whole
+shelfload of Zen books, books on Judaism, oriental and occidental
+mythology and religion, the Koran, you name it, I've probably got it.
+It falls under the general heading of, "Humanity trying to understand
+itself, and its role in the universe," and that seems to me a perfectly
+valid impulse.  We just all take different roads to get there.
+ 
+                                                        jms
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1995 00:42:12 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  B5 Addiction
+
+     The purpose of writing is that it should have an effect on the
+audience/reader/viewer.  Insofar as that happens, on what grounds could I
+possibly object to folks getting into the show?  (Heck, I live the darned
+thing 24 hours a day, with Londo and G'Kar and Kosh and Garibaldi and
+Ivanova chasing each other around in my head all day and all night; why
+not spread it around a little?)
+ 
+     So far there's been none of the "Oh, god, what have I created here?"
+you cite, because really, I've found that in general, the show tends to
+attract a fairly thoughtful, bright bunch, given some of the complexity of
+the story, so I'm nothing other than thrilled.
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1995 02:23:23 -0400
+Subject: Delenn@TorontoTrek
+
+     BTW, anybody who has a copy (audio or video tape) of Majel Barrett's
+talk at Toronto Trek, in which she mentioned (positively) B5, I'd love to
+get one, may even be willing to swap for it.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1995 02:26:30 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS and unauthorized merch
+
+     Yeah, any info on these guys would be great.
+ 
+	                                                     jms
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1995 02:26:46 -0400
+Subject: Second Year Show Sequence
+
+     Denise/D.D. ...thanks!
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1995 02:26:59 -0400
+Subject: Brits as villians (was Comes T
+
+     This really is one of the nuttier threads I've seen...we've had
+plenty of Brits on both sides of the issue...David Warner in Grail, the
+character of the Ombuds, many others, plus our new recurring character,
+Marcus Cole, a Ranger played by British actor Jason Carter...I think some
+people are being just a *bit* too sensitive on this.  (Also the doctor in
+"Hunter/Prey" who's on the side of the angels, others.)
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1995 02:22:32 -0400
+Subject: Re: Ellison TREK Book! (from j
+
+     Robert: Harlan is not on the nets, nor does he have a modem, so he
+does not have access.  He is part of the B5 team, and as such I feel no
+more compunction in announcing the book than any appearance at a con by
+one of our actors, or the appearance of an actor in another show or play,
+which I've done from time to time.  People have gone to great length to
+locate my own books, and I figured the same folks would like to know about
+his book, for the same reason.  Finally, Harlan asked if I would do it as
+a friend, since again he doesn't have ACCESS to the nets, and I obliged.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1995 02:24:00 -0400
+Subject: JMS: What Does Your Wife Think
+
+     ...!
+ 
+     I have a *wife*?
+ 
+     Good heavens, why wasn't I informed?  I mean, I know I've been busy,
+but really....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1995 03:04:17 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  Reflections at the Midpo
+
+     The overview still holds up pretty well, I think.  Toward the end of
+season two, I think things got just a *tad* too convoluted in places, so
+that's being cleared up a bit, the dry brush trimmed back, the red herrings
+cleared away, because we've got to start focusing on the real story, not
+the misdirections.  That's probably the one thing I'd go back and revise,
+because in general, you can't just bring something up and walk away form
+(from) it later; it's got to either fit, or be reasonably, logically
+explained away.  So some time has to be spent on that now.  But that's
+been done pretty effectively in this first batch of episodes, and now
+we're down to really cranking on the shadow war.
+ 
+     In four more episodes (writing-wise), I'll be at the exact midpoint
+in the story, which on one level is a little hard to believe; it's gont
+(gone) by so fast.  Seems like yesterday that we just got started.  Which
+is why the overview is very helpful; by constantly reminding me where we
+should be, it doesn't let me get lost in the neverwhere of TV production.
+ 
+     All things considered...we've had some bumps on the ride, a detour
+here and there, the occasional flat tire, but doggone it if the old
+jalopy ain't still going exactly where it's supposed to go.  Some days the
+thing seems to have a mind of its own; I started writing #7 the other day,
+and I'm well past halfway finished writing it, it's coming out almost as
+though it already existed, and I've just managed to "tune into" it, like
+the sculpter who knows that inside a block of wood is a horse, he just has
+to start chopping and cutting until he finds and releases it.
+ 
+     So long answer to a short question...we're still on course, and I'm
+still quite pleased with where we're going, and how we're getting there.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1995 02:31:16 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Q about the B5 "Bibl
+
+     Eventually I may publish my notes on the series, assuming it's worth
+publishing.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1995 03:06:37 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Butterfly Costumes
+
+     Where Delenn gets all those wardrobe changes is one of those
+questions that, in a real world, doesn't warrant close scrutiny.
+ 
+     And yes, her costumes tend to be emblematic of where the character
+is, and who she is.  Consequently, there will be some year three additions
+to underscore her more assertive nature; there's a green costume in
+particular that shows up in the first episode that's just *killer*.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1995 18:11:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: Abuse of this newsgroup by
+
+     To Robert Merritt: I hear your concern.  My only thoughts on it,
+are that it really isn't a contradiction on Harlan's views on ST, since
+it's very vehement about what happened, and why, and includes the text
+of the TV Guide piece, so you know right off that it's totally
+consistent with his prior statements.
+ 
+     The other thing is the notion of what he's said about people on
+the Internet...this has been blown out of proportion.  He has been often
+and consistently ill-used by some people on the nets who have used this
+great technology to put together anti-Ellison groups, to harrass and
+chivvy him at every turn; it has led to fax bombs, abusive mail, harmful
+rumors, even threats of various sorts, so you can, I think, understand
+why his feelings are not bunny-rabbit cute toward us.
+ 
+     At the same time, though, he has never, to my knowledge anyway,
+dismissed ALL netters; he's addressed his concerns to the venal and
+petty dysfunctional (of which we know a few here in our own neck of the
+woods) who *abuse* the technology.  Heck, he's even begun diving into
+the water lately, doing some on-line conferences to better educate
+himself on the process.  So I don't think we should take his comments
+directed at a portion of the users, and extend them to include everyone
+here, because I don't believe that is the intent or purpose of the
+message from Harlan.  Just a thought for you....
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1995 16:58:02 -0400
+Subject: Abuse of this newsgroup by JMS
+
+     On this system, there are discussions of where to find Micro
+Machines, prices on toys, where to find the soundtrack, where to find my
+prior books, where to find cassettes of previous work by other actors,
+and nobody raised a peep about this.  The notification about Harlan's
+book falls into exactly that same category; if people have a problem with
+Harlan, that's their problem, but to say the rest of this is and has been
+okay, but to single this out, is hypocrisy at its most obvious.
+ 
+     I have, on occasion, used this forum to point people to things
+I thought would be of interest, related to their interests, including the
+PBS airing of "The Wrong Trousers," which I promoted here all over the
+place, and which helped lots of them find a show they loved.
+ 
+     So if we're going to make an issue out of this, then we should no
+longer tell anyone where they can find the sountracks, or the toys, or
+the books, or the prices thereof, or actors other work, or my other
+books, which have no relation to B5 other than that I wrote them.
+ 
+     If this were strictly an advertisement for something that had nothing
+to do with B5, then that's one thing, but Harlan Ellison is Babylon 5's
+Conceptual Consultant, and has been for going on three years now, and I
+see absolutely *NO* reason, moral or ethical, why he should be denied the
+support of this forum except some people's compulsion to attack anything
+involving Harlan.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1995 16:57:39 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS. Is PTEN going to rec
+
+     No, there's no chance of reconsidering, if for no other reason than
+it takes minimum 6 weeks to get changes plugged into TV Guide, and that
+window is gone.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1995 16:58:24 -0400
+Subject: Mr. JMS: Psi Badges
+
+     No, no company has yet licensed B5 badges or pins, including psi
+corps pins.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1995 17:34:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: Abuse of this newsgroup by
+
+     Dennis, what the hell is this "abuse of celebrity" you cite here?
+And what the hell is with this comparison of murdering people?  Are you
+seriously equating telling people about Harlan's book with murder?  Because
+that's what you say in response to Blair's note that it's supportive of a
+friend.  "So is killing your friend's enemies."  That's a horeshit
+and inappropriate metaphor, and you've *got* to know that.
+ 
+     And "abusing" celebrity...please define that for me, Dennis, because
+I'd like to know, specifically, what we're talking about without resorting
+to loaded language and jingoism and catchphrases.  My mandate for what to
+discuss here is pretty damned broad, from where I sit, and I noted in a
+prior note the ways in which this is NOTHING different than what has been
+ done here before, consistently, in non-directly-B5 related ways.
+ 
+     When it came to keeping out story ideas, rather than moderate this
+group, I went to a moderated feed to my mailbox, because I didn't want to
+inconvenience this group.  I spend *hours* a day here, sometimes as many
+as five hours at a shot, over the course of a day, and I don't ask for
+squat in return, I don't ask for personal favors except the non-story idea
+deal which is professional not personal, I answer *endless* questions
+about TV production, and the industry, many of which have NOTHING to do
+with B5 except that they're both television media...and you're telling me
+that the one time I want to do something for someone who works on this
+show, you're gonna bust my chops and accuse me of abusing my position?
+ 
+     I've taken a lot of cheap shots in my time in this forum, but this
+one has to take prize.  Totally aside from everything noted in the
+paragraph immediately preceding this one, there was absolutely NOTHING
+unjustified or inappropriate in that message, given what's gone before.
+ Nothing.
+ 
+     Hell, there have been order forms for the soundtrack posted here,
+prices and phone numbers, forms to give to stores to order the comic or
+the soundtracks, I look at the message headers and there's someone giving
+the ISBN numbers for my prior books which have nothing to do with B5...I
+haven't seen anybody say one damned word about any of that.  This is
+absolutely NO different.
+ 
+     Give me a fucking break already.  This is ridiculous.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1995 17:34:38 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  Kosh's Personal Pronouns
+
+     Re: the reference in "War Prayer."
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+     Oops.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1995 17:37:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: Help: Big Bang Refunds?
+
+     "Cassandra" has nothing to do with respect; it comes from the idea
+of someone warning about possible harm, and nobody believing until it's
+too late.
+ 
+    E?Ka  y`rAnd by the way, Colin, it wasn't just "one man's opinion," it was
+the opinion of me and every other cast member who was there for the
+Planet Hollywood thing.  And it was the opinion of people who *were
+there*, and however a "feeding frenzy" might bother you, it was also the
+absolute truth, as has been borne out by facts.  And sometimes those who
+jump in when they think a "feeding frenzy" is going on, without knowing
+all the facts, end up doing more harm than good, however well-intentioned
+their actions.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1995 18:04:41 -0400
+Subject: Big Bang: Finally over for me
+
+     I find it very strange that those at the Emperor's Headquarters
+would say they weren't involved in CMC, that it was Tom and some anonymousM+@%~@~
+U<
G*D,2
+would say they weren't involved in CMC, that it was Tom and some anonymous
+backers, since the business information provided to me by Tom early on
+lists the same people at T3 as partners in CMC, including Todd Fischer,
+ who I believe owns EH.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1995 18:11:37 -0400
+Subject: Twilight Struggle (spoilers)
+
+     Re: what you could see of the planet's surface...one of the side
+effects of the technology used is that, realistically, it would throw up
+a *hideous* amount of smoke, dust and debris, and you wouldn't see much
+of anything.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1995 21:27:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: Abuse of this newsgroup by
+
+     John Robinson: yeah, sometimes I get a little long-winded...it
+probably would've been more effective if shorter, but I just get all
+excited about something some times, like this book, and before I know
+what happened, I'm looking at paragraphs, I tell you, whole
+PARAgraphs....and then I get confused and fall down.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1995 20:37:50 -0400
+Subject: Big Bang URGENT from jms
+
+     If I have seemed a bit easily annoyed lately, there is a reason for
+it.  Addressing that reason will require some assistance from some of you
+reading this.
+ 
+     After, and during the Big Bang incident, word began to filter back to
+me that Tom Christofferson was engaging in a smear campaign against many
+of those involved in B5.  This includes me, Claudia, Michael O'Hare and
+others.  This on top of never paying the balance of Michael's fee, not
+paying Mark Hamill, not paying (I'm told) the photographers, or security,
+or travel agents....
+ 
+     So I have been biding my time, waiting and collecting reports as they
+have come back to me.  Several have confirmed Tom's comments, in an attempt
+to discredit my comments about BB, that I had been "thrown out of the
+Writers Guild," plus other aspersions on my career.  Other comments about
+Claudia's personal life have been logged.
+ 
+     Over the last few days, some more aspects of this have come to light
+that have pushed this entire situation over the edge, to the point where
+we are now going to have to take serious action, because people are being
+hurt.
+ 
+     Here is a brief quote from a letter that arrived by mail from
+someone reliable, and involved with the Visions convention.  Two quick
+prefaces: 1) Michael O'Hare had been contacted by Visions about doing a
+convention for them; that discussion suddenly and mysteriously stopped a
+little while ago, and 2) For those who were there, and know, at the Chicago
+Comic Con, when Michael O'Hare was stiffed for $5,000 by Tom Christofferson
+and Big Bang, I conducted the one and only fundraiser I've ever done, to
+make up the difference, and show what fandom was *really* about.  It was a
+shining moment for all involved.
+ 
+     Now the quotes.  (The source has asked for public anonymity for the
+time being, even though we in-house know who this person is.)
+ 
+     "One of the things that REALLY disturbed me is the following
+malicious rumor.  Supposedly, the "real" reason JMS had to hold the
+script auction at Chicago Comic Con was 9$?Bnot because Michael O'Hare
+wasn't paid by CMC, but because "he has a bad cocaine habit" and therefore
+"never has any money."  Apparently JMS supports this particular abuse
+by raising money to help him out.  Normally, I'd ignore this sort of
+thing, but people on the Visions convention staff believe it enough to
+not want MOH coming to the convention this year."
+ 
+     Enough is enough.  This is flatly and totally untrue, and is put out
+only to try and disguise the truth, that CMC did not pay Michael th
+balance of his fee.  There has to be some excuse cooked up, and this is it,
+one whose side effect could be to help destroy someone's career, and ruin
+convention appearances.
+ 
+     Those involved in this slander -- and that is *exactly* what it is,
+not to mention several other charges -- have had enough rope, and now we
+intend to reel it in.
+ 
+     Over the next several days, I will be contacting legal counsel in
+Illinois, including the DA's office, and coordinating with others who
+have been harmed in this way to bring serious charges against those
+involved.  I think a $50 million lawsuit would be a good place to start.
+We will also investigate the question of possible criminal charges to be
+filed.  We will seek to include Hamill's bad checks, and O'Hare's
+situation, and others who have not been paid as well, to broaden out the
+charges.
+ 
+     That to save face for their actions, certain individuals would be
+willing to destroy someone's career, to spread false and malicious
+rumors, against me, and Michael, and Claudia, and others, is something
+that should rightfully inflame every person reading this.
+ 
+     Those behind this are *not* nice people.  And they have had a
+tendency to run their mouths.  (Those at Visions who may have been
+involved in spreading this malicious slander should also consider
+themselves put on notice, and I suggest that they be forthcoming in this
+matter to us to avoid legal entanglements.)
+ 
+     I know that many folks here have had conversations with Tom C.
+in which he has laid out some of his lines.  Some have felt, in their
+messages to me, unsure about repeating what he said because it's like
+snitching.  It's not.  What we are looking at are harmful lies that will
+hurt people, have already hurt Michael, and have the potential to do so
+in future.  This must be addressed, severely, and firmly, and within the
+parameters of a court of law.
+ 
+     If you have been privy to these or other baseless allegations, and
+wish to help Michael and myself and others involved in Babylon 5 by
+fighting this, please send me a private note containing your best
+recollection of what you were told, and when, and if you are wiling to
+restate this under oath.  The more people we have who confirm some of the
+hateful things being represented, the more surely this can be
+prosecuted.
+ 
+     Michael O'Hare has been harmed enough by the loss, by the lies, by
+the failure to meet a promised payment by CMC; Mark Hamill is out well
+over $20,000 from various areas, others have been hurt; to have certain
+individuals out there alleging drug abuse when none exists, trying to
+destroy someone's career on top of everything else to cover their own
+incompetence and deception, cannot and must not be tolerated.
+ 
+     Once again, I extend a request for help to everyone out there who
+has had contact with Visions and CMC and Tom Christofferson, on behalf
+of the fans, and B5 personnel, who have been harmed.  If you can help us
+to close this down, please do so.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 06:54:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: Abuse of this newsgroup by
+
+     "He (Harlan Ellison) needs the bucks for his medicare payments."
+ 
+     Robert Holland...Harlan makes well into six figures annually.
+ 
+     So let's talk about *your* income now, shall we?
+ 
+     And if that strikes you as a cold, mean-spirited comment...you had
+it coming.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 07:04:58 -0400
+Subject: Expressing Appreciation to JMS
+
+     Bruce: that's very much appreciated, thanks.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 07:01:46 -0400
+Subject: Re: Babblings 222 - Meeting Re
+
+     I don't understand (only getting the tail end of this)...I was not
+at any Babblings gathering at any Page's bar.  Did I miss something?
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 07:16:22 -0400
+Subject: Attn: JMS Paladin of the lost
+
+     Actually, "Paladin of the Lost Hour" was done by the TZ2 crew before
+my incarnation a year later, so I'm not responsible for that one by
+Harlan (though I will accept credit for helping bring "Crazy As a Soup
+Sandwich" by HE to the screen).
+ 
+     And yes, it's a hell of a good story.  Did I mention here that HE
+just did a reading of this very story, "Paladin" for the Harlan Ellison
+Record Collection, the very first such reading put out on CD?  That you
+can obtain copies of this splendiferous CD by contacting HERC at PO Box
+55548, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423?
+ 
+     And why am I mentioning it here now?   Oh....just to honk off Dennis
+a little more.  And because by my on-line clock, I've now been on for
+3 hours, 39 minutes, 39 seconds (I literally have to answer everything
+on-line in this news reader or it can't get through), going through 975
+messages, and after a while, y'know...what the heck....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 06:54:50 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Regarding Mark Hamil
+
+     We've talked to Mark about appearing on the show someday, and he
+probably will, when we've got the right story.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 06:55:46 -0400
+Subject: Comments on the Big Bang Con!!
+
+     The fans are in *no* way responsible for the problems at the con,
+that's a whole other situation.
+ 
+     I love your comment that Tom "let JMS out of JMSs contract with the
+con," since I'd never SIGNED a contract of any kind.  This is yet another
+untruth from Tom C.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 06:56:26 -0400
+Subject: Re: Abuse of this newsgroup by
+
+     Robert Holland: my, how venal you get, how you imply and weasel
+around the truth.  And, frankly, just lie.
+ 
+     "He (Harlan) dislikes fans of any kind.  Including his own."  This is
+an outright fabrication.
+ 
+     I *very* rarely mention stuff for sale on here, except in response
+to requests from others.  Further, the #1 comment from people is that
+they would like more merchandise.  Why is there so little?  Because for
+2 years, I've dragged my heels, resisted and held back on merchandising,
+because I don't want it to get out of hand.  This is a matter of
+longstanding public record.  So much for your "sell sell sell" notion.
+ 
+     "I had the impression Ellison's limited-press book wasn't selling
+well through regular channels."  Impossible, since the book isn't even
+on the STANDS yet.  Further, one of the reasons for putting the word out
+was that they were fast running out of copies...of the 1,000 run limited,
+only about 300 remained availabe, and those were gone quickly, so the
+limited is sold out.  Since most of these were being grabbed up by
+collectors and others, none of whom tend to frequent the net, I figured
+I'd put the word out to others who might now know before they were all
+gone.  So, so much for THAT bit of fabrication.
+ 
+     "(Harlan) writes scripts, then takes his name off when he doesn't
+like the editing."  This is standard WGA policy if a writer feels that
+the end result does not reflect his intent, and he doesn't mind burning
+the occasional bridge.  Where in here is the problem?  That's his right.
+Same right attendent upon ALL WGA members, and used by many.  So what?
+ 
+     "The oddest thing is that Ellison isn't writing any scripts for
+B5...he must have some resentment or disagreement with the arc...very,
+very strange."
+ 
+     No, there's nothing odd or strange here, except in that venal little
+pea-pod you consider your cranial cavity.  Harlan is up to his ears in
+other work, putting out a monthly comic over which he sees every single
+tiny aspect, writing for other shows (including the new anthology cable
+series "Hunger," for which series several leading directors are now
+vying for his completed script), a bunch of new short stories, getting
+the "City" book out the door, getting "Slippage" out the door, getting
+through two angioplasties and substantial earthquake damage which caused
+personal injuries...AND serving on B5 as consultant.
+ 
+     If he had a problem with anything, he wouldn't keep signing on
+every year.  On the one hand, you chastize him for taking his name off
+projects if they're not to his liking, then assume somehow he's working
+on and lending his name to something not of his liking.  That you cannot
+see the paralogia and fuzzy logic there is breathtaking.
+ 
+     Harlan, in short, has a life.
+ 
+     You may want to consider acquiring one of your own...preferably not
+one modeled after the Borgias, which seems your current inclination.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 07:00:38 -0400
+Subject: Re: Help: Big Bang Refunds JMS
+
+     I don't think it's so much "feeling" that I'm responsible for the
+cast members, and for the fans, I *am* responsible for them, on some
+levels.  Particularly in the case of Big Bang, because I foolishly and
+stupidly fell for the okeydoke and said it looked like a good thing prior
+to flying out and personally checking the thing out...at which point every
+alarm bell in my brain began ringing overtime.
+ 
+     If B5 is used as endorsement, inducement or connection to an event,
+a product, anything, it has to be done *right*, or people are going to get
+burned.  And there's no one out there in that position of verification
+but me.  So I tend to be somewhat protective of our fans, and our cast.
+ 
+     And, I guess, for me, in a lot of ways this show is personal...it's
+potentially the last thing I'll do for TV, if it goes the full 5 years,
+and this is the thing you do for yourself, to leave something you hope
+will be of value behind, that will survive you.  You're not just doing it
+for the money, you're doing it because you kinda *have* to, and when it
+gets reduced to that, or exploited, or those who believe in the show are
+exploited, or ripped off, or conned, or cheated, or given something that
+is inferior or cheap...I go into meltdown.
+ 
+     It is, to quote a Twilight Zone episode about a pitchman, the pitch
+of a lifetime...one for the angels.
+ 
+     And I guess it's because, being a fan, I've been ripped off same as
+everybody else, and I won't have it here.  I refuse.
+ 
+     Finally, in the BB case, I feel particularly strongly; we're fighting
+for Mark every bit as hard as for the regular B5 cast, as for the fans.
+And, again, *I* can be found...others who ran BB can't.  So many of those
+screwed over come to me...and I've heard some doozies...because they
+can't do anything about it.  But I can.  And I will.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 07:02:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: Abuse of this newsgroup by
+
+     Dennis: you consider Harlan a "bigot" because he thinks some netters
+are stupid, ignorant, flame-baiting, offensive, venal, vindictive,
+spiteful little web-weasels.
+ 
+     Yeah, Dennis, you know, you're right...looking at some of the notes
+that've come my way, I can't *imagine* where he EVER got a notion like
+that...it can ONLY be bigotry, can't POSSIBLY be true.
+ 
+     Thank you for clearing this up.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 07:02:43 -0400
+Subject: Re: Big Bang URGENT from jms
+
+     Mike: the other thing that's so annoying in the note you critiqued,
+the "wealthy actors" bit, is that in syndication in particular, ain't
+NObody getting wealthy.  Right across the board, the rates for actors,
+writers and producers are roughly HALF what they are at the network
+level.  Whereas a network hour script gets about $25,000 or more, the
+going rate for syndication is $14,000.  Actors also have a very different
+scale for syndication vs. network.  (This is one of the inequities that
+I think needs to be addressed in light of the growth of syndication; the
+rates were originally given to help syndication get a leg up; well, it's
+GOT its leg up...also the other leg, both arms and a head.)
+ 
+     (Which is why I also find it amusing when someone snipes at me for
+the money I'm making on B5...I was making more as a lowly co-producer on
+MURDER, SHE WROTE than I'm making NOW as Executive Producer of B5 on a
+per-episode salary basis.  But I left M,SW *anyway* to do this because,
+frankly, it's more important to me than just about anything.)
+ 
+     We make this show for UNDER $1 million per episode, as compared to
+DS9, which goes for $1.4 to $1.6 million per episode.  And we put it all
+on-screen.  So believe me, ain't NObody getting rich off this show.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+ 
+     (Which is a long way of saying...I agree with you, you're right.)
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 07:05:37 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:CopperCon?
+
+     Don't think I'll make CopperCon this year, alas.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 07:06:15 -0400
+Subject: Re: Big Bang URGENT from jms
+
+     Laura: suffice to say I've had a very good conversation with the
+Visions people, who seem to basically be good folks who got stuck in a
+bad situation, and we're having some very positive, constructive
+discussions, they're being quite forthright and helpful.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 06:53:43 -0400
+Subject: jms: Lines of Excellence Quote
+
+     "The exercise of vital powers, along lines of excellence, in a life
+affording them scope."  It's not so much a quote as the Greek definition
+of happiness.  I've always felt that contained just about everything you
+need.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 06:56:58 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS <SPOILERS> THE FALL
+
+     Max: thanks.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 06:58:07 -0400
+Subject: JMS: CtI and Sebastian's last
+
+     Sebastian's final words were part of the same sentence he began
+while speaking directly to Sheridan's face...insofar as I have ever
+considered the scene, he IS talking to Sheridan.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 06:58:36 -0400
+Subject: What's it like? (Was Attn JMS:
+
+     What's it like for me?  Race to the studio in the morning, run from
+one meeting to another, with directors, art department, costume department,
+prosthetics, grab an hour with the door closed to write my brains out,
+maybe get onto the stage for 5 minutes to watch a particular delicate
+scene being shot, race back to more meetings, race off to editing, grab
+another couple hours writing, race home, grab a sandwich, write a few
+hours, and do BBSing.
+ 
+     Sometimes, in all that, it's very possible to actually forget what it
+is you're doing, to forget to *enjoy* it, because you're too much in it
+("the world is too much with us").  That happens, alas, all too often.
+ 
+     But every once in a while, one realizes just what one *is* doing,
+from some comments on the BBS (holy smoke, the episode WORKED!), to
+days like today, when there's one scene in particular in dailies with
+G'Kar and Londo, that is *so* perfect, *so* brilliant a performance
+that you realize suddenly what you're doing, and what you've touched,
+and then, for a moment, it's fun.
+ 
+      Then there's another meeting....
+ 
+      Well, I figure I'll probably most enjoy all this long after it's
+finished.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 07:07:07 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: TFoN: Congrats!( Vag
+
+     The B5 ep C4 is showing on the weekend is a repeat.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 07:10:05 -0400
+Subject: StarQuest'95 and Warner Brothe
+
+     Here's what has transpired.
+ 
+     Some time ago, I warned many people here about publicly offering to
+make lots and lots of copies of B5 episodes -- the final 4 -- from the UK
+to the US.  I was concerned about this on many levels.
+ 
+     In the midst of this, one of the netters faxed WB Legal Affairs a
+series of copies of these posts.  At which point WBLA went into total
+and complete meltdown, due to the copyright violation aspects, which are
+rightfully their concern.
+ 
+     They have been with us since, and now monitor the nets.
+ 
+     Public offers of substantial video copying will *invariably* bring
+in such things.
+ 
+     Ivanova's Rule #9: I will *listen* to jms.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 07:12:27 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Stellar Occasion '95
+
+     With regrets, I won't be able to work out stopping by Stellar
+Occasions this year.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 07:13:24 -0400
+Subject: Re: Ghostbusters episode you M
+
+     Actually, the GBs episode "Night Game," about the baseball game,
+though story edited by me, was written by Kathryn Drennan, author of
+"By Any Means Necessary."  She wrote two other GBs, "Egon's Dragon" and
+"The Man Who Never Reached Home."
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 07:14:03 -0400
+Subject: Re: Abuse of this newsgroup by
+
+     You know when you can tell that one side of an argument has gone
+belly-up?  When they resort to inappropriate metaphor.
+ 
+     "Well, what if jms posted a Get Rich Quick letter?  Or molested a
+fan in an elevator?  Or committed murder?  Or bombed the World Trade
+Center?  Or...or...or...."
+ 
+     Because they cannot logically defend the area that is under debate,
+they attempt to redefine the debate to something that is indefensible,
+and *totally* irrelevant.  It's not "What if X did Y," it's "Here's X,
+and let's just discuss what DID happen, not what might happen in
+somebody's fevered imagination."
+ 
+     This is SO stupid....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 07:14:47 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS MID-POINT
+
+      No, I was responding to a note re: midpoing in the series from a
+total point of view, i.e., on a 5 year run, year 3 is the midpoint, and
+in fact, in another month or so, I'll have written episode 11 of year
+three, which is the *exact* halfway point on that axis.
+ 
+      I put *zero* faith in the Syd Field school of thought.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 07:17:11 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS The Fall of Night
+
+     Thanks; it's a good start, and we've got a long road ahead of us,
+but believe me the encouragement is appreciated.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 02:35:24 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Have you ever wonder
+
+      I wish I could see it without foreknowledge...I think that'd be
+great, but alas it can't be.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 02:32:03 -0400
+Subject: Re: The Wrong Trousers (was Re
+
+     BTW, from the same guy who did "A Grand Day Out" and "The Wrong
+Trousers"....he's doing a new project, a black and white film noire
+clay-animation short, whose name I don't recall, but all of the parts are
+played by Kirk Douglas (or figures representing Kirk) at various points
+of his career...I've seen a few clips, and they're *hysterical*.
+ 
+     BTW#2...I heard today that "The Wrong Trousers" is now on sale on
+cassette at many video stores.  If you haven't seen this, go out and either
+rent the tape or buy it, it's a sheer, unadulterated, no-holds-barred
+delight, one of the few things that has sent me crashing to the floor with
+unbridled, hysterical, eyes-watering laughter.  It's *that* good.
+ 
+     BTW#3...if that's another advertisement...who cares, it's nifty.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1995 02:26:51 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS:Question on B5 soundt
+
+     No gold/silver CDs to my knowledge from Chris.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1995 18:25:57 -0400
+Subject: Murder She Wrote on USA Thursd
+
+     As it happens, Tomorrow (Tuesday) one of my other M,SW episodes is
+on, entitled "Incident in Lot 7," which has a little fun at the expense
+of Hitchcock.  Prentiss wasn't exactly what I'd envisoned for the role,
+but overall it came out okay.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1995 21:28:31 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Character Developmen
+
+     All scripts are tightly scripted.  The actors are not involved at
+that level.  When the script lands on the stage, it's performed as
+written.  If an actor has a problem with a particular word or line, I'm
+happy to take a suggestion or provide an alternate word.  But that's it.
+This is in part because with a 5-year story, with foreshadowing, changing
+one word could have major repercussions.  And because it's my show, and
+it'll be done the way I wrote it.  I didn't work five years to get this
+show on the air to turn it over to any committee of any kind.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1995 18:23:41 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  E-mail
+
+     I do accept email from strangers, yes, though due to the massive
+amount of mail, public and private, it has to be understood that I can't
+engage in detailed, lengthy correspondence in private mail.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1995 19:37:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: Abuse of this newsgro
+
+     Re: a few demented souls who think nobody should ever be treated
+any different than they are (which also omits responsibility for ones
+own behavior)...anybody here see HARRISON BERGERON on Showtime, based
+loosely on the Kurt Vonnegut story?  What great timing....
+ 
+                                                        jms
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1995 19:36:56 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: MBTI?
+
+     Nope, but once took the MMPI, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality
+Inventory, as part of getting my Psych degree.
+ 
+     Think it said I came out to a PITA...Pain In The Ass.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1995 19:38:41 -0400
+Subject: Help help I'm being repr-
+
+     Here's the ultimate irony.  I write one message that honks off, oh,
+I'd say maybe 6 guys out of the 10,000 or so who hang out here, and they
+pillory me endlessly...and in so doing, write dozens of messages that
+honk off *hundreds* of people, probably more from my email, even go so far
+as to insult those people directly...but THAT'S okay.
+ 
+     Where's the Red Queen when you really need her...?
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1995 19:36:13 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Have you read ...
+
+     No, haven't read it, but will try to check it out.
+ 
+     Thanks.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1995 19:36:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: Abuse of this newsgroup by
+
+     Robert Holland: in one message from you, you take a shot at Harlan's
+income (or what you perceive as his income), saying "He needs the bucks
+for his medicare payments."
+ 
+     But then, when I turn the question back to you, and your income, you
+say, "of the many measures of a man, income is nominal."
+ 
+     So which is it, Robert?  Or is it only irrelevant when it's you, and
+relevant when it's somebody at whom you choose to snipe?
+ 
+     Hypocrite.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1995 21:01:10 -0400
+Subject: New Ship (ATN  JMS)
+
+     The odds of the EAS Straczynski ever showing up in a B5 episode are
+slim and none.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1995 21:08:25 -0400
+Subject: Mr. JMS: Network vs. Syndicati
+
+     Correct: while the money and PR budget for syndication is about half
+what network shows get, the trade-off is that you're left alone, and you
+get full season orders, rather than 6 eps, or 12 eps with a possible
+buy in the back nine.  It lets you relax and just do the show rather than
+constantly looking over your shoulder.
+ 
+     We have not had a script note since the 3rd ep of year two; haven't
+had a note on a producer's cut of a ep since year one.  They trust us more
+and leave us alone more, in large measure due to being in syndication,
+and I'll trade *any* amount of money for that freedom.  We could *never*
+have done "Believers" or "Confessions" on network TV, given their sense
+that SF = KidVid.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1995 21:34:48 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: General Thoughts pos
+
+     Alan: thanks, comments like that really help us keep going.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1995 21:36:34 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: How is quality of B5
+
+     Unfortunately, there is no one overseeing that aspect of it, and I
+can only trust in blind fate at this pointl.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1995 21:40:16 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:
+
+    Zack wasn't in the opening credits for year two because he came in
+with just one or two eps going in...but the more we saw him, the more
+we knew he could give us just what we were looking for in one part of the
+overall story, and so it grew.  And the Fleer cards have several
+different approaches...arc cards, episode cards, character cards and
+so on.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1995 20:58:10 -0400
+Subject: Re: Abuse of this newsgroup by
+
+     My software, and the GEnie software, does not quote; if I want to
+quote someone, I have to *retype* the whole bloody quote.
+ 
+     I sometimes think I'd like to apply that to folks who quote a 432
+line message, just to add "I agree!" at the end.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1995 21:30:09 -0400
+Subject: Re: Abuse of this newsgroup by
+
+     Kelly: thanks.  I had a good five year ride with HOUR 25, and though
+there were some problems, enjoyed it thoroughly.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1995 02:17:19 -0400
+Subject: BAD NEWS ON B5 EFFECTS EMMY!
+
+     Yeah, unfortunately this is a year where we're against the Earth 2
+and Voyager 2-hour pilots, upon which they spent *hideous* amounts of
+money, with considerable publicity.  But hey, we'll take the 3 emmy noms
+we've already gotten and be happy.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1995 02:17:35 -0400
+Subject: B5 Comic cancelled according t
+
+     #11 is the last regular, monthly issue.  However, DC has contracted
+for roughly 13 more issues to be published in one-shot specials and
+4-issue miniseries over the course of the coming year.  This is a done
+deal, ink on the contract and all that.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1995 18:00:27 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: What happens AFTER B
+
+     There's always been the possibility of a side-story that would go off
+in the B5 universe, after the B5 main story, but frankly the odds on that
+happening are extremely slim at best, I think.
+ 
+     Other than that...if B5 goes its full 5 year run, as I've noted here
+before, at that point (1998) the tentative plan is for me to retire from
+TV, go back to writing plays and novels.  I figure I'll have said all I
+have to say in TV, and at that point you get off the damned stage.
+ 
+     About the only thing that could lure me back, aside from a B5 side
+story, would be an anthology series, because I love that form dearly, but
+the odds of that are even smaller; there seems such growing discontent
+with the genre at the studios, despite some small successes here and
+there.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 23 Aug 1995 21:03:09 -0400
+Subject: ATT JMS>>>OTHER VORLONS???????
+
+      Yeah, I kinda think you'd *have* to see more Vorlons than just
+Kosh after a while, yes...?
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 23 Aug 1995 21:01:47 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS: Jeff Conaway questi
+
+     You can send the material to Jeff c/o Babylon 5, Suite 260,
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 23 Aug 1995 22:13:48 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Reading speed?
+
+     I actuallly don't know what my reading speed is; I do know it's
+pretty fast -- I was reading at college level while in 9th grade,
+according to tests at the time -- but actual speed, I don't know.  Never
+took a speed reading course, though; I figure, if somebody took two years
+to write a book, you shouldn't blow through it in two hours.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 23 Aug 1995 21:06:58 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Bester
+
+     Walter's first appearance this season will be in "Dust to Dust,"
+#306.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 23 Aug 1995 21:13:32 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: B5 Bloopers Tape
+
+     Bloopers are not currently available, but may become so down the
+road a bit.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 23 Aug 1995 21:12:26 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Will Cards have spoi
+
+     I worked with the writer doing the cards to make sure that the info
+on the final four does not contain spoilers.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 23 Aug 1995 22:40:16 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  Updating the WHAM Estima
+
+     Yeah, I'd say the wham percentage still holds; there are fewer in
+the first part of the season, but more in the latter half of year three,
+so it really does work out to about half.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 23 Aug 1995 21:16:05 -0400
+Subject: Milton Katulas???
+
+     I have no idea if there's a relationship, but I'll try to remember to
+ask.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 23 Aug 1995 22:19:22 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Change of Pace / Change o
+
+     Good idea, Steven, and what I'll try to do is post a couple of
+background items as you suggest, get that process going agian.
+ 
+     (again)
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 23 Aug 1995 22:17:48 -0400
+Subject: Re: Abuse of this newsgroup by
+
+     "Joe's over-reaction to my statement makes me believe 'he doth
+protest too much.'"
+ 
+     Nope.  It's physics.  The bigger the stink, the bigger the "ewwww."
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 23 Aug 1995 22:16:02 -0400
+Subject: The Price of the Peace
+
+     David Shao: pressure on the group regarding any character's sexuality
+will result in zip from me.  I don't give in on that on either side of
+the question.  We've touched on elements of this in "Divided Loyalties,"
+and will again in future.  Not because of any pressure, but because it is
+what I choose to do with my show.
+ 
+     I appreciate your interest, but B5 is what it is because I have
+always tried to follow my heart, and not surrender control of that to any
+network, studio, focus group or any OTHER group.  It is what it is, take
+it or leave it.
+ 
+     I would also suggest that, since you were the one who faxed messages
+from this system to Warner Bros. Legal Affairs, concerning the UK final
+four tapes, resulting in their now continued presence here, I would suggest
+that you have already had a substantial impact on things here...why not
+leave well enough alone for now in other areas?
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 23 Aug 1995 21:27:03 -0400
+Subject: I don't know ...
+
+     The books and comics and other ancillary material is considered
+complementary but never required.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 23 Aug 1995 21:25:35 -0400
+Subject: ATTN jms:Costume Designer
+
+     Yes, Anne Bruice got married just a bit before we began shooting on
+year three.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1995 17:38:08 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS - Great Show!!
+
+     Thanks; it's my abiding hope that the show will function primarily to
+a) engender discussion on the issues raised, and b) create a sense of
+wonder, because both, I think, are somewhat lacking around us.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1995 17:38:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: The Price of the Peace
+
+     David...leaving totally aside the issue of the tapes for now, even
+though that was your motivating factor...it's a breach of the ethics of
+this system to send postings by others, myself included, to the people at
+Warner Bros.  Second, we were already *handling* the issue, were already
+dealing with it.  Until that moment, I referred matters of concern to
+those empowered to act, at the proper, lower-level areas.  What your
+letter did was to embroil the two heads of Warner Bros., who until that
+moment didn't know the system much existed.
+ 
+     And now folks from legal affairs regularly monitor the nets.  Because
+you poked the head of the dragon.  You can explain to your heart's content,
+but that is the consequence of your actions.  It was wrong.
+ 
+     Again *we were dealing with it*.  But once your letter crossed
+certain desks, who were unaware of the fact that we were dealing with it,
+the call went out, "What the hell is THIS?"  If you needed information,
+it was right here, and any question could've been answered by me.  And,
+in fact, was.  By essentially ratting out the entire group to WB Legal,
+however well-intentioned your motives, you've caused me problems in having
+to then go back and fix the damage, explaining that we were already on
+top of the issue, and caused others problems as well.
+ 
+     I wasn't going to make a federal case out of this, but when I saw
+your note indicating possibly yet ANOTHER cause celebre you were about to
+start throwing around out there, and urging action, I worried, given how
+this LAST one was handled.  Or mishandled.
+ 
+     Sometimes, David, it's best to just leave things alone....
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1995 20:02:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: Mr. JMS: Network vs. Syndi
+
+     You want to know what it comes down to?  What it *really* comes down
+to?  Here it is.
+ 
+     This was stated by a network exec: "Look, the reality is, anybody
+with money these days has got cable, they've got VCRs, laserdisks, so the
+networks get what's left, the guys without a lot of money, or education,
+and that's going to have to be our target audience."
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: "straczynski" a common name? (
+Date: 27 Aug 1995 04:00:22 -0400
+
+     Straczynski is a very uncommon name; the only ones who have it are
+actual relatives.  There are only about a dozen or so in the whle
+(whole) country (yes, I've checked).
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: Sublime language (was Re: Attn
+Date: 27 Aug 1995 05:58:55 -0400
+
+     I do have certain linguistic elements that I tend to re-use to
+subconsciously define the characters a bit.  Londo tends to use verbal
+prologs a lot, "It occurs to me," "You know, I was thinking," that sort
+of thing, which connotes that he's always working through what he's going
+to say before he says it, and puts the pronoun I or Me at the center of
+his way of thinking.  I often insert "Yes?" in his dialogue ("A great
+shame, yes?" "A terrible thing, is it not?") and variations to hint at
+the notion that this is a person looking for acceptance, validation,
+agreement.
+ 
+     Where Londo tends to put his personal pronoun at the beginning of
+his lines, Delenn has a tendency to put them at the end of her sentences,
+de-emphasizing personal importance.  Sometimes it lends her a kind of
+prolix speech pattern, but that's an inevitable consequence of that kind
+of structure; sometimes the verbs also get shoved back in the sentence,
+giving things a somewhat Germanic structure.
+ 
+     So some elements of phraseology, grammer, even phrases per se do
+tend to recur, but I try to keep them mainly to that person, or to that
+group, as a device to reinforce identity.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Re: "straczynski" a common nam
+Date: 29 Aug 1995 02:07:16 -0400
+
+     Yeah, the John Straczynski in Arizona is a cousin on my father's
+brother's side...as noted, if it's spelled exactly the same, then the
+person is always a direct blood relative.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS: S. Furst's schedule (was
+Date: 29 Aug 1995 02:10:11 -0400
+
+     The shared days, when Stephen does our show in the morning, and then
+the other show in the afternoons, are only when necessary; we're using
+him also during his hiatuses (hiati?) from the other show, so we have him
+all day every day for as much as a week at a time.
+ 
+     We were happy to accommodate on this because while Stephen's role
+on B5 will always be important, and will grow, the role is such that Vir
+will/can never be the star of the story, whereas in the sitcom he has the
+chance to be the lead, and we think that's worth supporting.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: *OLD* ? about B5 pil
+Date: 29 Aug 1995 02:12:06 -0400
+
+     The pendant was a gift to Michael from his son, and he asked to wear
+it in that shot.
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+Subject: What to do? Pre-October Fun
+Date: 29 Aug 1995 02:13:36 -0400
+
+     Also recommend: The Haunting (of Hill House) and Seconds.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Scarcity raises value :-) WAS
+Date: 29 Aug 1995 02:14:58 -0400
+
+     Having read that...well, *I'm* tired now....
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Apologies to JMS, WB, et al...
+Date: 29 Aug 1995 02:16:30 -0400
+
+     The main problem, as I understand it, is the issue of the shows that
+have not aired here yet, which touches international law re: copyright;
+in general, though, if someone has made a tape of something, and wishes
+to show it to a group of friends, and no cost is attached, I'm not aware
+of any complications to this.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Subject: Is JMS still here?
+Date: 29 Aug 1995 18:08:05 -0400
+
+     I'm never quite all here on the best of days.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: B5 and Jung (was Re: Shadows/V
+Date: 29 Aug 1995 18:44:13 -0400
+
+     Well reasoned.  An analysis of some of the stuff in Jungian terms,
+as I've noted here before, is not entirely unproductive.
+ 
+     It really is a hodgepodge of bits and pieces, a Frankenstein monster
+assembled from elements of myth, and archetype, and history that I've been
+kind of subconsciously assembling over a long, long time.
+ 
+     Certainly the issue touches strongly on the whole question of who we
+are, how we define ourselves, our place in the universe (as we perceive
+it, and as we are *able* to perceive it, stuck as we are in th
+metaphorical fishbowl).
+ 
+     One of the problems, I feel, when film makers or novelists use Joseph
+Campbell's approach to storytelling is that they're going by the numbers
+in terms of the *action* involved (okay, the hero has a trial to endure,
+enters the cave, and so on), without looking to, or paying attention to,
+the philosophical/mythological underpinnings of the actions, what they
+MEAN in a larger context, what they are meant to tell us about ourselves
+and the world.
+ 
+     So it's an ongoing process to redefine the myths, and in so doing
+redefine the way we perceive ourselves.  Or something like that.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Re: Does B5's Anonymity Bother
+Date: 29 Aug 1995 18:52:56 -0400
+
+     Part of the problem in this discussion comes down to TeeVee
+Terminology and how the industry works, or doesn't, logically or
+otherwise.  It's the difference between ratings, rankings, demographics
+and other niceties.
+ 
+     Just to get into this for a second...you have two shows on competing
+networks: Lois and Clark and Murder, She Wrote.  M,SW gets *substantially*
+higher ratings than L&C.  Now, which is more profitable for the network?
+ 
+     Answer: Lois and Clark.  Because the show attracts the demographics
+(males/females 18-40) that advertisers want.  So the commercials on that
+show sell for more than M,SW commercials, which generally reach a much
+older and, from an advertiser's POV, less meaningful demographic.
+ 
+     So a show can be lower rated, but more successful.  It's definitely
+Alice in Wonderland reasoning, but there you are.  That's why CBS is
+frantically trying to up their demographics, and why they hate shows like
+Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman.  It's one of their few ratings hits, but it
+doesn't draw the right demographics.  They need the show for the PR
+value, to maintain a presence in the top shows, but they hate it behind
+the scenes.
+ 
+     B5 is slowly starting to crack two audiences: the ST audience, and
+the mainstream audience.  I frequently hear from people whose letters and
+email (some of it visible here) begins, "I don't usually watch SF, but I
+have started watching B5."  ,\gsC
+ 
+     Our ratings need not ever be as big as the ST shows to be as
+profitable, particularly since we only cost about half what they cost.
+If they go up a point or two, say to a sustained 4.5 or 5 or better,
+which I think is possible this season, we're golden; if we sustain or
+build just a little, we're still okay.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Control groups?
+Date: 31 Aug 1995 04:24:25 -0400
+
+     The funny thing is, on the control groups where I lurk, there is
+generally LESS speculation and "let's guess the story" and story ideas
+than where I *am* around.  Generally, what you tend to get are simply
+people's reactions to stuff...I liked this one, or didn't like that one,
+how come they did something stupid, where can I get info...that sort of
+thing.
+ 
+     My experience has been that the *most* critical nets are the ones
+where I'm known to hang out, because folks know their concerns have a
+chance of reaching me.  That's probably the biggest difference.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: SPOILERS and Peculiar Event Al
+Date: 31 Aug 1995 04:24:39 -0400
+
+     Yeah, I'd say it's fair to say that you haven't heard the last of
+Interplanetary Expeditions.  Remember the rule: before you use the gun,
+you show it on the mantle.  You play fair.  And create the context in
+which the payoff later works.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: B5 MM TNG?
+Date: 31 Aug 1995 04:48:55 -0400
+
+     The box for the new MicroMachines installment came through my hands
+for approval about a week ago (two new boxes, actually), so my *guess* is
+that they'll be hitting the stands in about a month.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Allusion to Sciento
+Date: 31 Aug 1995 04:49:41 -0400
+
+     The use of markabs was definitely NOT a reference to Scientology in
+any way, manner, shape or form.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Are You Ever Surpris
+Date: 31 Aug 1995 04:49:59 -0400
+
+     In *general*, the P5 ratings poll tends to reflect my own opinions
+of the show, which is generally a good thing, I suppose.  The ones I
+think are knockouts tend to do well.  From time to time, I'm a bit
+surprised -- I still think that Parliament of Dreams is rated lower than
+I'd rate it, ditto for Soul Hunter and one or two others -- but what I've
+found is that generally the real serious episodes get rated higher, while
+the lighter ones (like Geometry of Shadows, which is still something of a
+favorite) get rated lower.
+ 
+     What's great is that this season, we haven't had one single episode on
+the level of War Prayer or Infection or Grail, some of our weaker first
+season eps.  The worst we've done is pretty darned good.  What we're now
+working for in year three is that they're all better than that at their
+baseline rating.  And so far, they're killer...our second episode for year
+three, "Convictions," has a very different feel from anything we've done
+on the show to date, a very dark, scary and gritty feel, and probably one
+of the best character sequences in the series to date.  We're also doing
+some major EFX blow-outs of a type other than "they go into space and
+shoot stuff."  Very interesting, creative, offbeat stuff.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Costume question
+Date: 31 Aug 1995 04:49:23 -0400
+
+     I think it came out of the Victoria's Secrets catalog....
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Why doesn't HBO car
+Date: 31 Aug 1995 04:51:41 -0400
+
+     1) HBO turned down B5 years ago.  2) HBO does not do regular dramatic
+series a la B5; they do sitcoms, and anthologies, but not this kind of show.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Still "Getting Dark?"
+Date: 31 Aug 1995 04:52:16 -0400
+
+     "It's Getting Dark" was originally planned to be my third published
+novel after "OtherSyde," but in the interim, after I began writing it (and
+IGD was planned to be a modest sized novel, 500 pages max), I stumbled
+upon a much better and, unfortunately, bigger story I wanted to write, a
+contemporary dark fantasy whose title is too cool to sacrifice by giving it
+out here.  The new book will probably be about 1,000 pages, give or take,
+and I've got all the research and reference stuff here, ready to go, as oon
+(soon) as I have the time to write it, when B5 is done.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: Question about casting
+Date: 31 Aug 1995 04:52:37 -0400
+
+     Garibaldi will *definitely* be in season three, is in even now, and
+is being used better now than before.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  B5 Writing Process
+Date: 31 Aug 1995 04:53:26 -0400
+
+     B5 was *never*, ever, at any time, pitched on the nets, or even
+discussed on the nets, while it was in development.  Not even the name
+was ever said.  So I don't know where this particular myth has come
+from.
+ 
+     The first time I ever started talking about B5 (except in an offhand
+reference in a Starlog article) on the nets was about November 1991, when
+we'd finally been given the go-ahead for production on the pilot movie,
+but couldn't officially talk about it until WB announced it.  During that
+time, I only described it as "That Which Cannot Be Named" (TWCBN for
+short) on GEnie.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Re: FS: softcover "Demon Night
+Date: 31 Aug 1995 04:53:04 -0400
+
+     Bantam put out a paperback version of DEMON NIGHT; no softcover has
+been published of the hardcover edition of OTHERSYDE; my anthology, TALES
+FROM THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE, was only published in paperback.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Ellison & the Inquisitor
+Date: 31 Aug 1995 05:06:56 -0400
+
+     Harlan was not involved with the creation of the Inquisitor.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Because we care... (Was:
+Date: 31 Aug 1995 05:06:38 -0400
+
+     I have taken the comments for what they have been worth.
+ 
+     I have also begun having others start my car for me.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Candle motif
+Date: 31 Aug 1995 05:20:09 -0400
+
+     Candles are, I think, wonderfully emblematic of life, and of being
+a single ray of light, or hope, in a dark place.  The Grey Council stands
+between the candle and the star; watch G'Kar's action re: a candle in his
+quarters...and in that scene (for those who've seen TLTS) note how many
+candles are in the room in the beginning, and at the end.
+ 
+     We are the candle that burns brightly, stubbornly, effectively...but
+briefly.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Candle motif
+Date: 5 Sep 1995 03:12:04 -0400
+
+     Sherry...thank you.  The level of attention to detail is the *only*
+way that this story will be told properly.  It means you sit down with the
+director, and others, and you make totally clear -- there, and in the
+script -- what you saw in your head when you wrote it.  As well as repeatd
+verbal themes, cues, phraseologies, it's important (since this is a visual
+medium) to incorporate visual cues that add to the thematic thrust of the
+piece, that create a mood, or convey an emotion or a thought on an almost
+cellular level.  The hardest part is being careful not to OVER use them,
+because then they lose all meaning and impact.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Attn: JMS Fall Of Night Spoile
+Date: 1 Sep 1995 01:50:50 -0400
+
+     There was no deliberate homage, but the individual who helped design
+that, working with me, was Steve Burg, who has worked on Abyss and T2.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS : Anwers on last 4 ep
+Date: 1 Sep 1995 01:52:45 -0400
+
+     Public questions will be answered if sufficiently vague or cloaked in
+spoiler notice; private will be answered if brief.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: WB/Turner = B5 on TB
+Date: 1 Sep 1995 01:54:05 -0400
+
+     No chance of B5 on DSS or Turner.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Were the Narns in Space?
+Date: 1 Sep 1995 01:55:10 -0400
+
+     The Raghesh 3 claim is only about 20 years old; the Centauri came to
+Narn over a hundred years ago.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Babylon 5 Trading Cards (detai
+Date: 1 Sep 1995 02:09:59 -0400
+
+     That list omits Sinclair, who is definitely in the set.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: JMS:  Merger?
+Date: 1 Sep 1995 02:09:35 -0400
+
+     I doubt the merger will have any effect on us whatsoever.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JOE: Micro Machines and a
+Date: 1 Sep 1995 02:10:24 -0400
+
+     Let's see...the new MMs have Earthforce 1, an atmospheric shuttle,
+a Narn heavy cruiser (from Coming of Shadows)...and that's all I can
+recall just now.  I posted a full list on GEnie, but can't remember them
+all now.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Housecleaning Note from jms
+Date: 4 Sep 1995 18:59:06 -0400
+
+     A couple quick things I have to clarify for the record.
+ 
+     1) I get over 500 messages a day, when the internet railway is
+working (which it hasn't the last couple/three days).  No problem,
+except when people send me 4, 6, or even 10 private email messages in a
+day, asking questions that should more properly be asked in the public
+forum.  Otherwise a) I end up answering the same question, privately,
+over and over, b) I don't answer in which case I'm seen as snubbing the
+person.  In particular, I'm often sent long, LONG messages requiring
+very detailed discussions in private mail...and if I stopped to answer
+all of those, nothing in the public forums would get answered, and no
+scripts would be written.  And again I'm in the position of a or b above.
+ 
+     If you have a question about story, or characters, or other B5
+elements, unless there's some profound and overwhelming reason why you can
+NOT let others see it, *POST IT IN THE PUBLIC FORUM* so that the discussion
+can serve others who may have similar questions.  There is no reason why
+that kind of discussion should be kept in private mail.  And if it's
+public, it has a much better chance of getting a reply, or an in-depth
+reply, than if it's private.
+ 
+     Just trying to get some kind of handle on the huge incoming email
+problem before I drown out here.
+ 
+     2) Regarding the B5 snail-mail box...that address has been provided
+as a drop for mail for the cast, primarily, and somewhat for myself.  It's
+basically a fan-mail address.  But lately, more and more, people have been
+sending in mail with story ideas, which my staff generally catch before I
+see it.  The usual line in the letter is, "I know you said you couldn't see
+story ideas in the public forums, so I thought I'd send this to you in
+hard copy so you could consider it."
+ 
+     NO, NO, NO, NO and, in case I wasn't clear....NO.
+ 
+     One person even has begun sending *weekly packets* of stuff, and this
+one's going to have to go to Legal Affairs to beat the crap out of him.
+ 
+     The mail drop is provided, by me, out-of-pocket, as a courtesy to the
+fans.  It is not to be abused.  If story ideas/outlines/scripts continue
+to arrive -- they are currently being either round-filed or sent back
+unopened, if we can tell what they are -- I will have no choice other than
+to close the mail drop.
+ 
+     I hate to be a grump about this stuff, but as more folks find the
+show, correspondence-related matters threaten to spin out of control, and
+it's important to kind of re-establish the ground rules a bit.  It's only
+a relatively few folks who're not getting or haven't heard the message,
+but it's worth stating for the record anyway.  So if this info could be
+included in the faq, that'd be great.
+ 
+     3) Quick aside...to the person who sent me the private mail about
+candles...which I accidentally deleted and couldn't find again to reply...
+the answer is yes, and thank you.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: !HEY JOE! - Bruce Campbell On
+Date: 4 Sep 1995 20:54:55 -0400
+
+     We're certainly open to Bruce C. on the show sometime.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Subject: Comes the Inquisitor - no spoi
+Date: 4 Sep 1995 20:55:18 -0400
+
+     I don't think Wayne has done that much TV work before, he's primarily
+a stage actor, but in any event, he's certainly brilliant as Sebastian.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: ATTN: JMS, a few questions abo
+Date: 5 Sep 1995 03:11:58 -0400
+
+     Suffice to say we will get into many of those questions in the final
+four eps....
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS: B5 Audience Demograp
+Date: 5 Sep 1995 03:11:38 -0400
+
+     The demographic info is of little use to me, only to advertisers; and
+in that respect, we have a large concentration in the 18-49 age range,
+high disposable income, usually high school or college educated, so the
+commericals have sold quickly and well for WB.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Attn JMS: TCOS emperor analysi
+Date: 5 Sep 1995 03:11:51 -0400
+
+     The emperor said exactly what, in the hallway, Londo said he said.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Harlan Ellison
+Date: 5 Sep 1995 03:11:54 -0400
+
+     You're in luck: White Wolf Press has signed a deal in which they will
+put back into print something like 25 of Harlan's books; they should start
+hitting bookstores around the Fall.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: !HEY JOE! - The Season III Ope
+Date: 5 Sep 1995 03:11:42 -0400
+
+     Haven't recorded the new open yet, but will soon.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Subject: Spoiler (tFoN): Jewish Themes
+Date: 5 Sep 1995 03:11:45 -0400
+
+     Moshe: an excellent analysis of the theme behind that scene, which
+as you state ties directly into the theme of the whole episode, and
+moreover, somewhat sets up the theme for the coming season...who will
+determine your identity, the rules you follow, who will lead you, and
+who you are...the question of, as you say, those who wish to accommodate
+and give in to pressures from within and from without.
+ 
+     Didn't want to be heavy-handed about it, so I figured those who got
+it, got it; those who didn't, would see a nice candle scene which sets
+the mood, even if they don't get the full thematic/symbolic aspects that
+others would get.
+                                                                    jms
+ 
+     (not a Talmudic scholar, but I play one on TeeVee....)
+
+Subject: Shadows and Numerical Progress
+Date: 5 Sep 1995 03:12:01 -0400
+
+     Give Tim Lynch a ceegar.  Yes, more ships are starting to appear,
+as more ships become available.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Subject: B5 mentioned in latest Economi
+Date: 6 Sep 1995 02:37:31 -0400
+
+     Okay, fine, so what did the Economist SAY?
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: BLACK STAR
+Date: 6 Sep 1995 02:39:43 -0400
+
+     Minbari ships, representative of Minbari culture, also have the
+three castes present (worker, religious, warrior).
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Cdn connection to B5
+Date: 6 Sep 1995 02:41:01 -0400
+
+     There can be no issue of Canadian content, or connection, to B5
+since B5 is not filmed in Canada, but is filmed in the general Los
+Angeles/Valley area.  No canadian company produced EFX for us either.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Subject: Re: !Dude(s)! - Here Is The B5
+Date: 6 Sep 1995 02:41:36 -0400
+
+     To all reading this thread: you don't have to buy the B5 font from
+ANYone who says he has created one.  We use Serpentine Medium Bold, which
+is freely available on most any decent font package.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+Subject: JMS: You are an idiot with mus
+Date: 6 Sep 1995 02:42:38 -0400
+
+     Chris: before you go around calling people (viz: me) an idiot, you
+may want to, perhaps, get your facts straight.  We had planned on having
+Stewart Copeland (not John Copeland, who is our producer, though this is
+the name you cite) do our series music, but he declined, wanting to take
+the time to tour and try to work on an album.  He was not available to us.
+ 
+     That said, I am *extremely* happy with Christopher Franke's work, and
+think it adds immeasurably to the quality of the show.
+ 
+     Idiot comments notwithstanding.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: JMS: Budgeting Question
+Date: 6 Sep 1995 02:43:46 -0400
+
+     Each show does have its own budget, but they rarely vary much from
+the "pattern budget," which is the amount that overall each one should
+cost.  If we do one episode that's a huge blow-out, of course, we'll try
+to make the next one a little less huge, just to be sensible.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Messages from Ea
+Date: 6 Sep 1995 03:09:16 -0400
+
+     Whether it's "bland" or not depends on what the messsages might be,
+yes?  The only thing I'll say for the episode is that it may be one of the
+biggest whams of the first half of year three, and one of our most
+ambitious episodes of the series.  Generally, my feeling is that titles
+should augment the episode, or add something, or collapse something into
+a thematic whole.  When you see what convictions are at hand, the episode
+"Convictions" as a title works better; ditto for "Messages."
+ 
+     Besides, a nice, quiet, inoffensive little title gives me a better
+chance to sneak up behind you and whack the heck out of you....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subject: jms            Ambient camera
+Date: 6 Sep 1995 03:10:15 -0400
+
+     I think that visual style, much as I like it, would probably get in
+the way on a show like this.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Subject: The White Star (Season 3 Spoil
+Date: 6 Sep 1995 03:11:29 -0400
+
+     Actually, I don't believe I've said *anything* on any system about
+this question.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
+
+Subject: Re: I fondled a Celebrity!!!
+Date: 6 Sep 1995 03:12:23 -0400
+
+     At this stage, not having talked with Claudia, I don't know if the
+escapade is true or not, but basically it's harmless, and I wouldn't be
+at all surprised.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 7 Sep 1995 20:34:27 -0400
+Subject: jms - Advertising budget for 3
+
+     There is an advertising budget for year three, but I don't yet
+know what that is in toto.
+ 
+                                                         jms
+
+Date: 7 Sep 1995 20:34:29 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Season 3
+
+     I am thus far *very* happy with season three; we've got three shows
+in the can (edited, not yet scored or mixed), and shooting number four
+as I type this.  I think we're already a notch above our general episodes
+from year two, and "Convictions" is extremely intense, with a very
+different look and feel from anything we've done before.  Has kind of an
+NYPD Blue feel to it.
+ 
+     Next week we start filming "Passing Through Gethsemane," directed by
+Adam Nimoy, guest-starring Brad Dourif.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 7 Sep 1995 20:34:31 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Casting Suggestion: Edwar
+
+     Woodward, we're told, generally doesn't do syndicated TV.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 7 Sep 1995 20:58:13 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS Please Keep Writing
+
+     You learn to write by writing.  You learn to write better by never
+settling or getting too comfortable with your own work.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 7 Sep 1995 20:58:16 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS - Is con Con-Rad Real
+
+     We've been contacted about an awards ceremony, but details are still
+being worked out.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 7 Sep 1995 20:58:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: Shadows and Numerical Prog
+
+     Never said you're seeing their entire fleet, you're seeing what they
+can afford to send out at any given moment on relatively low-priority jobs.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 9 Sep 1995 02:59:12 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: WB Legal Dept
+
+     A is fine; B may get dicey since admission is charged...if it ain't
+direct admission, that's different.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 9 Sep 1995 03:31:58 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: TLTS battle (spo
+
+     "Why didn't the fighters do anything?"
+ 
+     They did.  Look more closely.  They engaged the Narn fighters in
+dogfights all over the place.  They're hardly more than specks against the
+huge ships, but they're definitely there.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 9 Sep 1995 03:32:52 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Interplanetary Exped
+
+     Interplanetary Expeditions will figure *prominently* in at least one
+year three episode.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 9 Sep 1995 03:34:07 -0400
+Subject: Re: I fondled a Celebrity!!!
+
+     <fweeet!>*  Okay, folks, look, I spoke to Claudia, and the story as
+recounted is fairly accurate.  Claudia was in RenFair mode, which to her
+is another role to be played, and it was just in jest, horsing around.  The
+thing about Claudia is she doesn't back down from any kind of challenge,
+a trait she shares with Ivanova, and when called upon, responded.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+ 
+     (*ten credits to the comics fan who recognizes that cry)
+
+Date: 9 Sep 1995 03:47:00 -0400
+Subject: A Few Questions for JMS
+
+     We'll see more of the Epsilon 3 complex this coming season, yes.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+Date: 9 Sep 1995 04:01:43 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Request younger
+
+     Excuse me, but I don't believe in ageism on either end of th
+spectrum.  I don't hire old writers, I don't hire young writers: I hire
+WRITERS WHO CAN WRITE.  Period.  Some, like Scott Frost, are in their late
+20s/early 30s; some like Peter David and Marc Zicree are in their 40s;
+some like David and Dorothy and Harlan are older.  Young writers are not
+intrinsically better or worse than old writers, and vice-versa.  This is,
+frankly, a dumb discussion; substitute "white" or "black" for young or
+old, and the stereotyping and illogic of the discussion should be evident.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 9 Sep 1995 04:06:09 -0400
+Subject: Takishima -- SPOILERS for "Div
+
+     Mike: your assessment is pretty much correct.  Laurel was to be the
+traitor initially; as I noted long, long time ago, and you quoted, she was
+not, in fact, acting entirely under her own volition.  There would indeed
+have been an implanted personality there, acting without even her knowing
+about it.  And it would've been this implanted personality that would've
+shot Garibaldi.
+ 
+     When I took Laurel off the board, elements of this were transferred
+to other characters.  This is the kind of thing I mean when I say that even
+with changes here and there, the story continues to go where I want it to
+go.  We don't necessarily remember *which* general put the briefcase with
+a bomb next to Hitler's chair in the bunker, only that it got done.  Some
+chairs are moveable, some are not, as anyone who's ever written a novel
+from an outline can tell you...you start moving the chairs around, but you
+always keep going where you're going.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 9 Sep 1995 04:18:59 -0400
+Subject: Roswell Tape Rx
+
+     I cannot have any kind of informed opinion about the Roswell films,
+since I have no more information than anyone else, which is to say, just
+that which was presented in the Fox special.
+ 
+     I can only make one observation: whenever we have had an alien
+character in the show get wounded, and bleed, it's a hideously difficult
+process, and you run point-to-point tubes with blood; it spurts from one
+location, the spot where the tube ends.  (Just getting G'Kar's hand to
+bleed in one of the final four eps was a pain in the ass.)
+ 
+     The body upon which they performed the autopsy bled smoothly from the
+entire surface of each cut and incision.  Even with the best prosthetics
+available to us right now, we couldn't do this.  So if it's a fake, it's
+the most clever one in history, and uses technology nobody else has yet.
+The person behind it could write his own ticket in the EFX/prosthetics
+business *bigtime*.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 9 Sep 1995 04:19:40 -0400
+Subject: JMS (or anyone else) -- Sex an
+
+      "What kind of birth control do the Centauri use?"
+ 
+      Conversation.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 9 Sep 1995 04:33:35 -0400
+Subject: jms - What time do you get up
+
+     Unfortunately, in my case, I'm all over the map, depending on when
+meetings are held...sometimes very early, sometimes later in the morning.
+I'm usually up until at least 3 a.m. every night of the week, sometimes
+as late as 4-4:30 a.m., so how much actual sleep I get is a very flexible
+notion.
+ 
+     As for the crew...crew call is 7 a.m. M-F, as a rule.  If an alien
+is in the first scene, prosthetics crew can sometimes show up as early as
+6:00 a.m.  Actors and crew actually hit the stage at 9 a.m.  (7-9 is spent
+basically waking up, rigging lights, setting up cameras, other stuff.)
+ 
+     We shoot until about 7 p.m., rarely any later.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 9 Sep 1995 04:35:03 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS,  Star requests?
+
+     If we has the money ST has to offer, we could get major stars, but
+we don't; most of the guest stars we get are drawn by the quality of the
+material.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+Date: 9 Sep 1995 04:51:48 -0400
+Subject: Attn: JMS B5 franchise
+
+     I can only reply to one message at a time, so this has to be a
+public note, Greg.
+ 
+     Yes, WB owns the copyright to B5.  Could they continue it past the
+fifth year?  Technically, yes, they could, without my participation (though
+as indicated, there's always been a side-story/alternate series, and that
+would be the way to go, though I think the odds on that ever going ahead
+are doubtful.)
+ 
+     Which is why I made sure we shoved a bomb down B5's throat in the
+early stages.  It's got a self-destruct mechanism built right into it.
+ 
+     See, usually, when you make series deals with actors an
+sub-contractors (like Foundating Imaging, our prosthetics people, others),
+you go for 7 year options.  TNG, for instance, had 7 year options; as do
+the other ST shows.  This is fairly standard.
+ 
+     When we made the deals for B5, we made them...for five years.
+ 
+     During those five years, salaries and fees are all set ahead of time.
+This serves you well, in the sense that Foundation's name is already
+growing, and somebody coming in now would have to pay more than we are,
+also in part since we helped them get going.  Actors, once freed from the
+pre-set salaries, on a hit show, come back and renegotiate.
+ 
+     The result of all this...is that if WB wanted to do a sixth season
+of B5, the costs of going back and making deals with all these people and
+sub-contractors and others would be SO hideous, so terrible, that it
+couldn't be done for anywhere near the money available.
+ 
+     So, as stated...the show is designed to fiscally self-destruct at
+the end of the fifth year.  What other projects may follow will have to
+be totally separate situations, assuming they're done at all, which is
+highly doubtful.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1995 05:55:26 -0400
+Subject: Is the President really dead?
+
+     President Santiago is dead as a doorknob.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1995 23:40:38 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: M,SW/Night Fear
+
+     Actually, yes, I do have a pet theory about who the Ripper was, but
+I'm so embarrassed over the west end/east end typo in one of our episodes
+that I don't know if I'll ever have enough courage to broach it to anyone.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1995 23:43:27 -0400
+Subject: Attn jms: An Absence of Rabbit
+
+     No problem there.  In life, we kinda get to know what to expect on a
+day to day basis...but that doesn't stop crises from coming at us out of
+nowhere (though if we'd been smart enough we could've seen them coming),
+and sometimes the worst thing is that we DO see it coming, and are sure we
+can somehow avoid it...and still get hammered.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1995 23:44:49 -0400
+Subject: JMS: What would you do if....
+
+     Doesn't matter what I'd write; they'd never let me shoot it.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1995 01:47:30 -0400
+Subject: = ATTN. JMS:  Proper Vorlons?
+
+     We will see them.  Eventually.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1995 02:01:34 -0400
+Subject: Just how many people watch B5?
+
+     I have it on good authority that we're watched by at *least* seven
+people.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1995 02:03:53 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Where did Kosh go?
+
+     First he returned to his encounter suit, then he went to his ship,
+and stayed there for quite a while.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1995 02:04:50 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Doors and such
+
+     You'll notice the doors are wedged, with overlapping, key-like
+sections into which the doors settle.  When they close, the sound you hear
+is the door sealing shut, and pins extruding into place to keep the door
+shut (in the key-wedges).  That's also why they slide down, rather than
+part in the middle; it's totally airtight in case of pressure falls.  So
+yes, we *did* think of it, and took care of it, by thinking of a new way
+to do the doors.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1995 02:05:55 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS:  Pres. Clarke's car
+
+     No, telepaths are generally excluded from holding high public office.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1995 02:26:39 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Season 3
+
+     Brad read the script, fell in love with the part, and dived for it.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1995 02:35:32 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Titles (was Message
+
+    No, sorry, the titles kinda have to be where they are....
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1995 02:35:59 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS Crew Autographs
+
+     To get autographs, send a self-addressed stamped envelope, and what
+you'd like signed, to the B5 mail drop.  (Note: WB doesn't pay for any
+photos, the cast pay for those out of pocket, so it's hard for them to
+oblige on this.)  The address is:
+ 
+     14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423, and make
+sure you put ATT: (CAST NAME), C/O BABYLON 5
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1995 02:36:20 -0400
+Subject: *JMS* ATTN: JMS *JMS* JMS (or
+
+     The definition of "conversation"....ah, of course, you mean oral
+intercourse.
+ 
+     Ain't the language just one great big lovely pinata of unexpected
+wonders...?
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1995 02:49:58 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS (one question)
+
+     At this point it's too early for me to even *think* about what I will
+or can or can't do with the side-story...just getting this puppy out the
+door is a full-time obsession....
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1995 02:51:14 -0400
+Subject: Shadows and problems...
+
+     I would not create a race as potentially unstoppable as the shadowsx
+(shadows) without making sure they had one -- but only one -- Achilles'
+heel.  Though it may take our characters a long time to figure out what
+that is...almost *too* long....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1995 02:51:45 -0400
+Subject: Attn: JMS B5 Walking the Talk
+
+     Correct; while one cannot deny the effects of poverty, and drugs, and
+crime, and illiteracy, there's something numbing and destructive about the
+death of myths, of a broader social mythology, and we're working hard to
+provide that.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1995 02:52:12 -0400
+Subject: Is Sheridan an Atheist?
+
+     Basically, Sheridan believes in a lot of things; he's very eclectic
+in his views, can incorporate lots of different perspectives, and has a
+respect for all views.  In one of the early season 3 eps, in fact, one
+character upbraids him for having "no clearly defined pattern of faith,"
+to which Sheridan replies, "I'm eclectic, open-minded."
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1995 02:52:28 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS - How to Keep New Vie
+
+     Of course, that would require lopping a minute or so of program
+content to make room for that synopsis...and I don't think I want to do
+that.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1995 02:52:49 -0400
+Subject: JMS:  "Messages" Move?
+
+     Both 7 and 8 would both be seen in the second round of episodes;
+we did the switch to pair up the right episode with the right director.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1995 02:17:00 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Closing Speech in "TLTS"
+
+     Certainly, Sheridan is slowly growing more into a leader who must
+be able to step to the front in this kind of way, yes.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1995 02:17:24 -0400
+Subject: Attn: JMS - Cameo and other st
+
+     No, I have no plans to ever make a cameo appearance on B5....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1995 02:18:04 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: British editors on r
+
+     I'd only heard about the one G'Kar scene being chopped; there were
+more?   Sigh...
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1995 02:18:25 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: "Time On Target" (mi
+
+     It's an actual military term for launching a lot of stuff, so that
+even though it's launched at different times, it all arrives at once.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1995 02:18:46 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Londo's believabilit
+
+      He's as believeable as any person would be under those conditions; we
+often go off the far end, come back, screw up, make up...it's what we do,
+we're a mass of contradictions.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1995 02:19:20 -0400
+Subject: Canadian TV GUIDE 16-22 Sept
+
+     Would love to get a copy of this article, if at all possible.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1995 03:20:20 -0400
+Subject: Fweeet! (Was:Re: I fondled a C
+
+     <fweet!> is what they used in the comics when the silver age Hawkman
+spoke to his birdie-buddies.  (Some of you got this.)
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1995 03:33:11 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Slow motion? <CoS & Chrys
+
+      Slow-motion (or camera overcranked) is almost always indicated in
+scripts.  I like slow-mo.  It can add a dreamlike quality to a shot, and
+prolong a sense of imminent trouble.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1995 03:33:36 -0400
+Subject: Re: MO'H's Departure (was Re:
+
+     I can't believe this discussion has come back again.
+ 
+     Okay, this to Robert Holland and all the other jerks who can't
+seem to get it right.  This is the only thing I'm going to say on thi
+issue because everything I have to say, I've said elsewhere, repeatedly,
+and despite everything, this keeps coming up.
+ 
+     Quite simply...what the fuck business is it of yours?
+ 
+     What happens between Michael, or any other actor on this show, and me,
+is my business, and theirs, not yours.  You have no right to an
+information otherwise.  Fuck off.
+ 
+     Every time this comes up, I tell the person who drags it out of the
+mud, "Okay, give me the name and address of the last couple of employers
+from whom YOU parted company.  Let me start speculating about that on the
+nets."  But they always decline.  Because they're goddamn cowards who like
+to speculate on how somebody ELSE left their job, what *really* went on,
+because well, that's FUN and it's their BUSINESS and why NOT...but when it
+comes THEIR turn, well, that certainly isn't right, that's not fun, and
+it's nobody else's business.
+ 
+     (And don't give me the "public persona" crap either; by posting here
+ad infinitum you're just as public as anybody else in this discussion.)
+ 
+     What infuriates me most about this is that I just got back from
+spending 4 days in the company of Michael O'Hare...we were on panels
+together, we had dinners, lunches and breakfasts together, we hung out
+(all, I hasten to point out, in the company of witnesses), we had a great
+time because we know and understand the situation, and we're both
+comfortable with it.  And then I come back here to find THIS shit going
+on again.
+ 
+     Why don't you guys just get a frigging life that doesn't involve
+sticking your snout into other people's business, and maybe tend to your
+own...or give us the same opportunity to do the same to you, and your
+employer/employee history.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1995 04:10:07 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Theo (the name)
+
+     Finding character names is sometimes easy, sometimes hard; it really
+does vary.
+ 
+     And Theo was named for Vincent's brother.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 20 Sep 1995 15:30:36 -0400
+Subject: The dancer and the dance
+
+     What I love is when I hear somebody say, "Well, if Patrick Stewart
+were playing this role, nobody'd say HE was wooden."  I wish those people
+had a better sense of history, because when the reviews of TNG's first
+season came out, just about every reviewer around called TNG's acting --
+Stewart included -- wooden.
+ 
+     Revisionism...it's a lovely thing....
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 21 Sep 1995 20:38:25 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS - Wolf359
+
+     Majel Barrett-Roddenberry and I got on quite well, as you note; we
+set aside any prior misunderstandings and got on with it.  We hung out,
+joked a lot together during autograph signings, had a late dinner (along
+with Michael O'Hare and Ed Wasser), and she told the audience at her
+presentations that she considered B5 the only other intelligent SF show
+now on the air, suggesting that fans support the show.
+ 
+     It was, overall, a very pleasant experience, problems with air
+conditioning (or the lack thereof) notwithstanding.  The attendees were
+great, polite and friendly and enthusiastic about the show...a most
+impressive experience.  And the clips from upcoming year 3 episodes went
+over *very* well, including a scene with Londo and G'Kar that is likely
+my favorite of the series to date.  (Another scene with Londo and Lennier,
+btw, contains a small nod to the online fans of the show; we can't and
+won't use story ideas, but there's been so much humor, reams and reams
+of it, every imaginable kind of joke, that I dropped one of these jokes
+into an episode...one that's come up at a lot of conventions and on the
+nets endlessly.  Just to acknowledge the fans in the only way I can.)
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 21 Sep 1995 21:01:54 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Thanks
+
+     Thanks; the initial perception (oh, look, another ST ripoff) is
+something we really had to fight hard to overcome, so you're not alone in
+that.  Thanks for being open to checking us out.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1995 03:40:09 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: WB and UPN to merge?
+
+     If the WB network and UPN merge it'll have little to no effect on us,
+since PTEN is a different arrangement altogether.  That's my suspicion,
+at least, until I hear otherwise.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1995 04:03:38 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS - SCRIPTS
+
+     I always leave a fair amount of flexibility in the series/season
+outlines; to do otherwise seems foolish.
+ 
+     We don't generally do a lot of revisions.  Once in a great while
+you'll get something that goes through 4 colors (drafts are color coded),
+but they're rare.  And invariably *all* such drafts after the first are
+mainly revised to handle set changes or production requirements, not
+story, dialogue or other creative stuff.  This season, in all but one
+case, I write the first draft, clean it up a bit for the second/final
+draft, it goes into production, we adjust for sets ("Can we make this
+the conference room instead of Sheridan's office so we can do it on the
+same stage and avoid a camera move to stage in the middle of the day?"),
+and it's filmed as written.
+ 
+     There's often a perception -- I saw it again at Wolf 359 -- that
+lots and lots of people have input into the writing of the script.  Not
+so.  I write it alone.  Nobody sees nothin' until the first draft is
+finished.  I then show it only to WB (which hasn't given me a single
+script note since episode 4, year 2), producer John Copeland (who looks
+at it for any possible production headaches, too many extras or sets,
+other physical elements), my partner Doug Netter (who doesn't generally
+give creative notes, as per our tradition), and if necessary, Ron at
+Foundation, Optic Nerve, and the director.  A couple of cast members
+like to look at first drafts, just out of curiosity to know what's
+coming next, but don't give notes or suggestions.
+ 
+     Once I have in hand any production hiccups, I clean up the draft a
+bit, adjust the production, EFX or prosthetics elements, make my last
+minute personal revisions on the script (dialogue, structure, whatever),
+then it's published as a Final Draft which goes to everyone in the cast
+and crew.  The various departments then begin work on realizing what's
+in the script.  We have meetings to discuss it to make sure everyone's
+on the same page.  I meet with the director to make the same assurances.
+Last minute production-oriented changes are made ("Do we have a Ranger in
+among the extras here?  Do we need 12 Narns or will 8 do?").
+ 
+     And then the script hits the stage, and we shoot it.  As written.  If
+an actor has a problem with a particular word, it can be changed after
+checking with me to make sure that word isn't there for a very special
+reason (a clue, foreshadowing, whatever).
+ 
+     The scripts are extremely detailed, with inserts, camera angles,
+slow-mo indications if necessary, lighting notes, you name it.
+ 
+     Some scripts I tinker with a lot before issuing that first draft;
+others blow right out of the printer as though pre-written.  Sometimes
+the most important ones are the ones that need or get the least revision,
+because I see them the most clearly; and often it's the more trivial
+episodes that seem to require lots of finessing.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1995 21:06:41 -0400
+Subject: Re: MO'H's Departure (was Re:
+
+     I've stopped reading this thread, for obvious reasons, but thought
+I'd reply to one of them in the box just to let you all know: I spoke
+with Marc Zicree today about other stuff, and in the course of the
+conversation, mentioned this whole situation.  He was, quite frankly,
+aghast and appalled.  He offered to post a note here stating his position,
+which is: that he had no first-hand information at all about the O'Hare
+situation, and was operating off what he'd assumed to be the case (we had
+never really discussed it, as he'd moved on to other projects long before
+any of this happened).
+ 
+     He asked me to apologize on his behalf to anyone who might have been
+caught up in this because of his speculations.  Anyone who wants
+confirmation of this can drop him a note, or as stated, he's willing to
+come in and say this publicly.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1995 21:07:06 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Why Theo?
+
+     I've always liked the name Theo, from Vincent's brother, so there
+was the sound of it; also the sense of it, in that Theo was a guide, a
+counselor, a confidante, which Theo might come to be in this; and, finally,
+Theodore means (I just lapsed on the actual definition) but either chosen
+(favored) of god or messenger of god (have to check my dictionary of names
+again), which is appropos.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1995 21:34:30 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Nervous Breakdown
+
+     Thanks; it can get difficult to continue some days, but the other
+options are not a possibility for me.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 23 Sep 1995 05:51:22 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: B5 Card question <wa
+
+     I'd kinda wanted to do more backstage shots, but was told there
+wasn't room.  Next time.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Date: 23 Sep 1995 05:51:32 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - SCRIPTS
+
+     Yes, it was "A Distant Star," and as I recall, the note was mainly
+that the teaser needed a snappier hook than it had, just the arrival of
+the Cortez.  Agreed with it, but there wasn't much we could do with the
+structure of it.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1995 20:43:40 -0400
+Subject: Mira Furlan in LA Play
+
+     Mira Furlan, best known here as Ambassador Delenn, is currently
+starring in a production of Sophocles' classic play ANTIGONE.  This
+modernized version is directed by Mira's husband, Goran Gajic, and adapted
+by Deanne Stillman.  It's a chance to see Mira out of makeup, and in a very
+different kind of role than you've seen before.
+ 
+     The play is currently running at the Hudson Guild Theater, 6543 Santa
+Monica Boulevard, in Hollywood.  Performances are Thursdays-Saturdays at 8
+p.m., Sundays at 7.  Tickets can be acquired by calling 213-660-TKTS.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 25 Sep 1995 03:38:03 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:What if the show does
+
+     This is a question I can't even allow myself to consider.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 25 Sep 1995 03:37:46 -0400
+Subject: Attn. JMS Naive query about se
+
+     The script never technically leaves my hands.  Once the final draft
+is written, it's given to every department, which breaks it down in terms
+of set, extra, day-player, EFX, music, sound and other requirements.  We
+have visual effects, art department and other meetings to go over what's
+in the script and make sure we all understand what's required.  Any new
+designs for prosthetics, costumes, EFX, ships, or other episode-specific
+elements are drafted, and shown to me for approval.
+ 
+     The script department breaks down the script in terms of shooting
+schedule, timing of scenes, and arranges a production board indicating
+which scenes will be shot on which days  (Based on which sets are being
+used; you don't shoot in sequence...you do all the C&C scenes done on day
+1, then move into the Zocalo for all those scenes, and so on.)
+ 
+     The director and I have a tone meeting to go over the script page by
+page.  At this time, the director sometimes suggests changes in locales
+for production purposes, though this often happens earlier in the process.
+ I make sure we both understand what each scene is about, context and
+subtext.  Then there's a production meeting of all departments, where we
+all go through one last time and break down each scene of the script by
+what's required.
+ 
+     The director then takes the script to the stage, and shoots what's
+written.  Dailies arrive each day thereafter, and go to post production,
+where an editor does a preliminary assembly of the episode.  If the
+episode appears to be coming in long, we have the option of trimming a
+scene here or there in shooting...or expanding if it's coming in short.
+ 
+     After 7 days of shooting, the raw film is complete, and the editor
+gives the director his assembly.  The director then comes in and takes
+about 3-4 days making his or her cut.  The director's cut then goes to
+me, and John Copeland and I go in to make the producer's cut, often
+re-editing every single frame, though sometimes less, depending on many
+different factors.  This is done on computers, the Avid.
+ 
+     This final edit is then used to assemble the actual film (we take the
+Avid computer disk and turn it over to a supercomputer which assembles the
+film overnight).  Using this online copy, I now sit down with the composer,
+and sound people, and watch it again, going through it and noting where
+sound effects and music are required, and what kind I have in mind.  "In
+at 03:13:18 (three minutes, 13 seconds, 18 frames), out at 04:14:22.  I'd
+like something soft, strings mainly, underscoring that doesn't get in the
+way...with a tone change at 04:05:13, into the action, and since we've got
+a lot of combat going on there, we need you to clear out the low-end for
+the battle stuff."
+ 
+     Composer and sound EFX people then do their thing, and a couple weeks
+later, we do the audio mix.  (During this time, Ron and company have
+delivered the last of their CGI.)  At the audio mix, all of the final
+elements are inserted/layered in, including any last-minute looping or
+dubbing.  This done, the episode is delivered to PTEN about 5 days later.
+ 
+     Total time to complete an episode (after the last day of filming per
+se): 52 days.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 25 Sep 1995 03:50:04 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS - More on Scripts
+
+     "So why do you rush your work out the door?"  I don't.  The script
+takes the amount of time needed to get it right.  Sometimes I take 7-10
+days to write a script.  Sometimes I do it in just a couple of days; and
+often, the 2-3 days jobs are actually better because it's done in white
+heat, with the image clearest in my mind.
+ 
+     In television, you can't take 6-8 weeks or even 2 weeks to turn in a
+script; it's got to be done on a schedule; remember, you're using up one
+script every 7 days, and you have to have scripts in hand 3 in advance
+minimum for proper prep work.
+ 
+     "I find input from my writing group to be very helpful."  I don't.
+I've been writing professionally for 23 years now (started at 17), full
+time for the last 17.  I know what I want to say, and how I want to say
+it.  Does a sculpter go to a sculpting group and say, "Y'know, I think I
+see a horse in this bit of clay, but I'm not sure, what do the rest of
+you think?"  An artist follows the dream or the vision that is in his or
+her head.  There's this notion that writing is somehow different; it ain't.
+ 
+     Nothing decent has been done by committee since Stonehenge and the
+pyramids.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 25 Sep 1995 04:02:22 -0400
+Subject: Ivanova shackled to buffoon (w
+
+     At the start of year one, Claudia came to me and said she'd love to
+do more funny stuff in her role; don't change anything in the story, just
+let her have some fun here and there before All Hell Breaks Loose in year
+three.  I let her have that.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 25 Sep 1995 04:14:19 -0400
+Subject: Space: AAB First Impressions:
+
+     Finally managed to catch SPACE tonight (on tape, working late), and
+overall I thought it was very promising.  The production values alone are
+amazing, and it's clear that every dime is right there on the screen.  It
+has a lot going for it, and I wish them the best of luck.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 26 Sep 1995 23:16:41 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Followup to naive qu
+
+     We usually have most of the CGI in place when we do the edit, yes;
+and yes again, we have about 9 episodes at all times simultaneously in
+varying stages of production and post-production.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1995 06:35:05 -0400
+Subject: Re: Ivanova shackled to buffoo
+
+     To the question raised: yes, if Sheridan had shown the Lumati around,
+the request would have been made to him, as it was to Ivanova.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1995 06:34:51 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS How's the fan club?
+
+     We hope to have the fanclub officially announced within the next 10
+days or so (after 3 years of bugging WB about it, which couldn't see why
+there'd be enough interest in the show).  Not a big fan of anime, I'm
+afraid.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1995 06:35:57 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Your musings on SPACE
+
+      I think Space shows a great deal of promise, and I'll certainly try
+to keep an eye on it over the next several weeks to give it a fair shot.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1995 06:35:17 -0400
+Subject: ATTN:JMS Babylon 5 soundtrack
+
+     Not actually familiar with the legalities of .wav uploadings; you may
+want to drop a note to Chris Franke on his web page from Sonic Imagaes and
+inquire directly of him.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1995 06:35:29 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Dailies?
+
+     Dailies are prints of the film shot the day before, transferred to
+videocassette for easier viewing.  It's the raw footage shot from every
+angle (master, two-shots, singles, close-ups), which is also given to
+the editor, who begins to create a rough assembly of the episode.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1995 06:37:04 -0400
+Subject: B5 and ST: the men
+
+     Christine...ah, Christine...where the hell were you when I was
+looking...?
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1995 06:35:46 -0400
+Subject: attn JMS: "Gajic"?
+
+     Actually, it was Christy Marx, who wrote Grail, who named Aldus after
+Mira's husband.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1995 06:36:52 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - More on Script
+
+     The group critiquing process may be, and likely is, useful when one
+is an art major or learning to write or draw.
+ 
+     Then you have to leave that nest and fly on your own.  The whole
+PURPOSE of workshops and critiquing should be to help you find your own
+voice (for a writer) or your own eye and style (if an artist).  It should
+help you make the work more muscular, and less artificial...peeling away
+the layers until just the individual stands there, saying *exactly* what
+he wants to say.  The group isn't there to make you write like the group,
+or please the group; it's there as a means of finding your own voice.
+ 
+     Once you've found it, you have to walk away.  Otherwise the whole
+endeavor has been for nothing.
+ 
+     Back in college, I took two writing workshops led by Richard Kim, a
+transplanted Korean novelist, very well regarded.  I learned a *hell* of a
+lot.  I signed up for a third semester.  Now, mind, I liked  the class,
+we liked each other, it was good.  FIrst day of class, he looked out,s aw
+me, and said, "Go.  You've learned all you can learn.  Don't take any more
+workshops, from me or anybody else here.  You have the tools, now find your
+voice.  If you stay here, you'll risk losing it."  At the time, I felt
+as though it were a rejection, but over time I began to understand what he
+was talking about.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 30 Sep 1995 04:51:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: Jeannette announces JMS' B
+
+     When we first announced casting Walter Koenig on B5, lots of people
+moaned, "Oh, no, not Chekov on B5."  What you got was Bester, who has
+become one of our most noted and discussed characters.  It's unfortunate,
+but some people confuse the role with the person.  "...the worst character
+ever in the entire ST universe" has nothing to do with the person, or the
+role she will be portraying: the Lady Morella, Emperor Turhan's third
+wife, a prophetess and seer.  It's a *very* serious, significant role,
+absolutely unlike anything she's done before.
+ 
+     This, btw, is called "typecasting," which is one of the primary
+reasons why so many talented actors who helped to create Star Trek and
+other series couldn't get work for so many years...they did so good a
+job that they forever *became* that character.  Let's not be guilty of
+that crime here.  Majel's character will no more be Troi than Bester is
+Chekov.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 30 Sep 1995 04:51:43 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Will you write B5 af
+
+     The question is a bit like asking someone climbing Mount Kilimanjaro
+"Think you'll do more of this again later?" when he's at the halfway
+point, the ledge is half an inch across, the ice is slipping and the wind
+is biting his nose off.  When I've recovered, I'll think about it....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 30 Sep 1995 05:37:57 -0400
+Subject: Re: Mira Furlan in LA Play
+
+     BTW, yesterdays' LA Times gave Mira's play a glowing review, very
+positive, which is terrific.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+Date: 30 Sep 1995 05:37:58 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Uk TV Listing!!
+
+     Oh, that's *wonderful*...could you send me a copy of that piece?
+The address here in the US is as follows:
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.  Send it to
+my attention; I'll post it on the B5 stage wall for others to
+appreciate.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
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+Date: 2 Oct 1995 02:20:19 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 and ST: the men
+
+     "...wearing the red silk dress, like we'd agreed...."
+ 
+     Oh.
+ 
+     YOU were supposed to be wearing the red silk dress.
+ 
+     Then I definitely got the message confused.  Most unfortunate, though
+several nice men *did* buy me drinks that night....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 3 Oct 1995 03:13:26 -0400
+Subject: attn: JMS after B5, Azimov?
+
+     I think the rights to all Asimov's works are taken, alas.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 3 Oct 1995 03:13:29 -0400
+Subject: = ATTN. JMS: New Story Editor?
+
+     No, there is no story editor currently on the show; nothing to do with
+ego, just not enough outside work to really merit it.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 3 Oct 1995 03:25:12 -0400
+Subject: Re: Space:Above&Beyond (Opinio
+
+     Saw the second installment of "Space" the other day; very good, I
+thought.  Vastly encouraging.  Continued good luck to them.
+ 
+     (One aspect of this general discussion...when the B5 area goes up on
+AOL, and then later on the web, it's designed to have sections dedicated
+to *other* SF shows as well, to encourage folks to check them out, on the
+theory that other shows in the genre are not a threat, but a bonus for
+everyone, healthy competition.)
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 5 Oct 1995 03:43:50 -0400
+Subject: Delenn And Sherdian
+
+     You're assuming, of course, that the Delenn/Sinclair relationship was
+based on romantic love...might be something just as deep, but very
+different....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 5 Oct 1995 17:56:29 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS:'Fall FX Question (TF
+
+     A wire harness was used; and the effect you ask about was a mix of
+CGI, live action, and rotoscope.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 5 Oct 1995 17:58:48 -0400
+Subject: KBHK (San Francisco Ch 44) B5
+
+     There must be an error in your transcription, because "Matters of
+Honor," season 3's debut, should be on the list between "Fall" and
+"Convictions."
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 5 Oct 1995 17:59:01 -0400
+Subject: JMS:Re: Space:Above&Beyond (Op
+
+     I agree; SPACE has a great deal of potential.  I watched the second
+episode, and enjoyed it.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 5 Oct 1995 17:59:16 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Question on script w
+
+     You have to write toward the act breaks, so that each act ends on a
+strong point or hook to bring the audience back after the commercial.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 5 Oct 1995 17:59:38 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Cards Illustrated gi
+
+     Great news about the review; let me know when it appears.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 6 Oct 1995 19:11:38 -0400
+Subject: Schedule in LA?
+
+     The first of the final four airs next week in LA on Wednesday 9 p.m.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 6 Oct 1995 19:36:07 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS on Compuserve: October
+
+     Of course, bear in mind that there *is* no correct answer to
+Sebastian's question...because no matter what answer you give, the
+question will be repeated.  It's a process, not a goal, designed to
+tear down the artifices we construct around ourselves until we're left
+facing ourselves, not our roles.  At some point the "answer," such as it
+is, must transcend language.
+ 
+     Since the episode aired, I've received many notes from philosophy
+teachers and religious instructors and those who ran the Synanon game
+noting that they've used that technique as well, or intend to do so from
+now on.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 6 Oct 1995 19:36:17 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS : today ?
+
+     Jeez...I've already forgotten much of what I've done today, it goes
+so fast, but....
+ 
+     Grabbed a few hours sleep (dropped at 3 a.m., a bit early for me
+most days), came in for a production meeting, which is when we bring in
+all the department heads and go over the script page by page one more time
+before getting ready to shoot.  Went over specifics on extras, types of
+wardrobe we're going to need, monitor playback stuff, endless details.
+ 
+     Proofread the first issue of the B5 collector's magazine for error
+and revisions (should be out shortly from Sendai).  Made last minute
+revisions to script for "Messages From Earth" prior to shooting.  Viewed
+dailies.  Returned calls to Warners and others.  Spoke with PR person about
+series launch, getting copies of the first two year 3 eps to reviewers in
+time for print deadlines.  Finalized outline for my next script, title not
+yet set.  Lunch.  Went over contracts for B5 fan club that have finally
+come in, making revisions on a couple of points, hope to announce this
+formally soon.
+ 
+     Jumped to script 10 and made some revisions I'd been thinking about
+last night.  Walked on set and spoke to the director, made sure the scene
+was going right, also checked with Jason Carter on a few things.  Took
+care of some fan mail.  Finalized casting on "Messages."  Booked director
+for the two-parter, Adam Nimoy, whose first ep for us is dynamite, and
+checked on casting for several episodes down the road, to make sure the
+actors would be available.
+ 
+     Made final changes to new main title, and met with Christopher Franke
+to go over his first pass at the new music, made some suggestions, and
+he'll get a new version to me over the weekend.  Received and reviewed
+director's cut of "Dust to Dust," in preparation for going in next week to
+edit the producer's cut.  Went over new costume designs for some cast
+members with wardrobe, made final suggestions.  Approved some new patches
+for use down the road, and additional artwork for parts of the station.
+Gave interview for article.
+ 
+     Called several actors to go over various things with them; met with
+the director for "Messages" again to go over some possible new EFX; ditto
+later with another EFX person.  Got first draft of #10 "Severed Dreams"
+out the door to WB/PTEN.
+ 
+     Approved casting breakdown so it could go out to casting agencies for
+#9, "Point of No Return."
+ 
+     That's it for so far today; it's now 4:00 straight up, and I've still
+got another 3 and a half hours to go (I generally leave the studio about
+7:30 p.m., go home, grab a fast bite, and get to writing.)  Oh, yeah, and
+took a moment to log on (big cluster of new messages finally, about 500 or
+so), and plow through some of them, including the one to which this is a
+response.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 6 Oct 1995 20:01:29 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: your Foundation arti
+
+     As I have not yet received my OWN copy of FOUNDATION that has my
+extensive B5 article in it (hello?  Mr. Edward James, Editor and
+Publisher? are you out there?), I can't exactly help others finding the
+darned thing....
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 6 Oct 1995 20:01:53 -0400
+Subject: How did Billy Mumy connect wit
+
+     Bill Mumy came in to audition, same as everybody else.  It was known
+then that it was a recurring role (contrary to his recollection of things),
+and when he walked in the door, I knew he was right.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 6 Oct 1995 20:14:10 -0400
+Subject: Re: Majel Barrett-Rodenberry
+
+     Patrick: at Toronto Trek, Majel told an assembled crowd that she
+felt badly about the misunderstanding, and wanted to call and apologize;
+she went to either Berman or Pillar to get my number (can't recall now
+(3v`Wr$dwhich she said)...and told a very funny story of what happened then.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 6 Oct 1995 20:14:21 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: "The Sky" as deliber
+
+     Some references to the sky are just that and no more; other times
+it is a process of playing to archetypes and sensibilities.  There are a
+number of recurring images and thematic elements in the series, which
+sometimes combine into new elements.  This coming year we'll hit the
+topic of pride quite a bit, and loyalty, and what loyalty *means* when
+the house of cards begins to fall apart...my sense is that for all the
+stuff going on on the surface, there has to be an equal or larger amount
+of subtext, stuff going on sub rosa, like a shark gliding beneath the
+water.  'Cause that's where all the *really* interesting stuff happens.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 8 Oct 1995 04:47:46 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS IS FULL OF SHIT!!! (Wa
+
+     Since this has come up, I went back and checked the source, and did
+a verbatim quote of the article that appeared in a recent (this past week)
+edition of the Los Angeles Times.  Because nobody should accept info minus
+attribution and provenance.  The comments came from Kerry McCluggage, the
+head of the Paramount Television Group; other comments were from Berman.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 8 Oct 1995 04:59:40 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS - Season 4: we'd all
+
+     All you can do is make your voices heard at the local level; station
+programmers are required by FCC rules to operate "in the public's interest,
+necessity and convenience."  So they have to be responsive to letters and
+petitions.  Beyond that, it's all beyond my control; only local voices will
+make a difference.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 8 Oct 1995 05:00:01 -0400
+Subject: JMS: 3rd Season Questions
+
+     B5 does not get new 'furies in the premire; the Asimov will likely
+return, though not a big story point; the Aggy does have 'furies aboard,
+yes, and it's considerably more powerful than the Hyperion, though both are
+jump capable.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+Date: 8 Oct 1995 05:25:37 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: dubbing of Delenn in
+
+     Nothing was changed per se; I trimmed the scene by a few lines here
+and there for time, something that happens a lot, so that's probably what
+you're noticing, a bridge between snippets.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 8 Oct 1995 05:25:40 -0400
+Subject: Two B5 movies coming?
+
+     Formal reply: NO B5 movies are currently "in the pipeline," not one,
+let alone two.  It's something Doug (my partner) has said he'd like to do
+someday, but then he'd also like to fly under his own power.  There have
+been NO formal discussions on this at all.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 8 Oct 1995 05:37:38 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS IS FULL OF SHIT!!! (Wa
+
+      Dave Thomas: exactly...a rumor is exactly that, and sometimes it's
+a way of testing the waters.  If DS9 fans want to make sure the show stays
+around, they need to support it.  Right now, nothing's been decided, and
+I made that eminently clear in my original message about this.  There's
+much still being discussed; even Berman in that LA Times article worried
+that they may have "gone to the well too often."  I think they're going to
+wait until the 30th anniversary hoopla is over before making a final
+determination.
+ 
+     Meanwhile, thanks for confirming what I said, that this stuff is out
+and in the streets around town, as well as being indicated in industry
+related articles.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 8 Oct 1995 05:37:42 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS  Another scripting q
+
+     Act Breaks: FADE OUT, [End Act One]  - new page - [Act Two] FADE IN:
+ 
+     B5 as teaser, acts 1-4, tag.
+ 
+     Establishers aren't numbered in a treatment, or called out.
+ 
+     Credits aren't listed in a script; and don't worry too much about
+the margins being *exactly* right; they vary considerably.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 8 Oct 1995 05:37:45 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS!  Question from a tre
+
+     Majel will appear in year 3 episode 9, "Point of No
+Return."
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 8 Oct 1995 05:37:50 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS on Compuserve: October
+
+     BTW, to Jeannette, Laura, JM Egolf, Sarah, all the others, thanks
+for openly discussing what are surely difficult issues; it's been very
+instructive, and helpful for the future.  And the discussion itself has
+been moving and insightful; thanks for risking and giving in this way.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 10 Oct 1995 22:01:47 -0400
+Subject: Re: WHY DID JMS POST THE RUMOR
+
+     Why did I post it?  Real simple.  I was in the midst of an ongoing
+discussion on the STAR TREK forum on Compuserve.  I wasn't in the B5
+area.  The topic at hand was Voyager, and people wondering about it and
+its relation to DS9, the latter not generally getting the respect that
+they feel it deserves.  Having just heard the story around town that the
+friendly folks at Paramount are worried about DS9 pulling viewers away
+from Voyager/UPN for a second time in just a few days (from a high ranking
+person with Star Trek), a concern that others have confirmed here has been
+floating around for a while now, that they too have heard...and having
+just had a number of articles coming out in the mainstream press asking
+very similar questions about whether or not there's too much ST around
+(including the LA Times and TV Guide), it was timely, it was of potential
+interest to ST fans, it was in the ST area, so I mentioned it...the same
+as I'd mention any other piece of news.  No more, no less.
+ 
+     There can be no agenda because there's nothing to achieve that would
+be to the detriment of ST or the elevation of B5.  The implicit
+assumption is that if ST folks want DS9 to continue, they should make that
+eminently clear via continued support.  That is the only possible result
+of that information.  Yes, indeedy, one can clearly see how that benefits
+B5, can't we?
+ 
+     The other day, in a similar ST topic, I mentioned that I *very much*
+liked the episode of VOYAGER that aired on Monday.  Heaven only knows
+what dire conspiracies that comment will imply to some with no fucking
+life (viz: Mr. Thaxton).  I mentioned it on CIS for *exactly* the same
+reason that I mentioned the bit on DS9...because I figured it might be
+of interest to the readers, and because that's what was on my mind at
+that time.
+ 
+     As opposed to the estimable Mr. Thaxton, who has been spreading all
+kinds of vicious rumors here which ARE destructive, which are and have
+been hurtful, and which are without support.  It seems to me more than
+a little hypocritical that someone who does nothing but spread lies,
+gossip, rumor, character assassination and innuendo would go into
+meltdown over a rather reliable story that has been picked up by major
+newspapers, and confirme by others here.
+ 
+     And then, when these facts come out, he falls back on the only tool
+he has left: to villify, impugn or otherwise call into question the
+motives for doing so.  Never mind that it's actually a Real Thing, why
+did you SAY it?  For the reasons given.  If that's not enough for some
+pinheads among us, tough.
+ 
+     And haven't we all gotten tired of the game by now?  Ford or one of
+his few netbuddies posts something outrageous, eliciting responses taht
+are justifiably angry, and then proceeds to make fun of the replies because
+their anger is perfectly in tune with the offense.
+ 
+     This is the classic bully's tactic...hit you and hit you and hit you
+until he gets the reaction he wants, and then he makes fun of your
+reaction, hoping to get another one.
+ 
+     How much longer does this have to go on before people catch wise to
+his game?  How much longer can one justify falling for the old "pull my
+finger" gag?
+ 
+     If you're doing this on my behalf...don't.  Just *ignore* the man; I
+get FAR more upset when I see others being attacked for the simple crime
+of defending me against baseless attacks than I ever would get over the
+original attack, in large measure because I simply Do Not Read his posts
+anymore.  He is irrelevant to my life, to the life of anyone involved
+with the show, and to the show itself, and to all of you.
+ 
+     We all know that no matter what is said or done, somehow he or one
+of his three or so ilk (and that's ALL THEY ARE), will attempt to twist
+it around to make it sound somehow dubious.  That's because they are
+sick, lifeless, twisted individuals who have nothing else to do.  So if
+we know this is always going to happen...why even bother reacting to it?
+ 
+     I have 543 messages sitting in my mailbox right now; the majority of
+them are the "SHIT" thread in one of its various incarnations.  Is this
+really the best use for this rec.arts area?
+ 
+     If you have killfiles...use them.  Don't you understand that by
+responding in any way, manner shape or form, you are giving him *exactly*
+what he wants...and *encouraging* him to do more of it?  You are creating
+the problem by giving him validation...validation that only comes in the
+form of the echo caused by his voice.  Stop being the echo.
+ 
+     I don't read his posts anymore; if I see it come up on the header,
+I just delete it.  The only way I know something's going on is when I
+see a big thread, and sometimes run across an imbedded quote.  And
+y'know, I'm much happier about it.
+ 
+     You must understand that this is simply what he does.  One of the
+benefits of being one of his many targets is that you tend to hear from
+others...people at record industry magazines, radio stations, other
+composers and producers who have been targeted by Ford, harrassed and
+stalked on the nets.  HE STAYS UNTIL PEOPLE UNIFORMLY IGNORE HIM.  The
+more you ignore him initially, the more outrageous, defamatory, libelous,
+smarmy and ultimately desperate his comments will become.  But eventually
+if he is frozen out, he will go away in search of new prey.
+ 
+     This is how he gets off, people.  Pure and simple.  Some of the horror
+stories I've heard from others similarly targeted would curl your hair.
+And along the way, I've learned a lot about Mr. Thaxton, more than I
+really wanted to know.  More, I suspect, than he would be happy to know
+that I know.
+ 
+     We have new episodes beginning this week.  Ignore the jerk.  I ask
+this as a personal favor; I get more upset by seeing this drag on, and
+seeing others get hurt and insulted, than by *anything* Ford can ever say
+to me.
+ 
+     Because anything he has to say is a fiction, or simply irrelevant.
+ 
+     So stop this.  Please.  As a personal favor.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 11 Oct 1995 05:30:21 -0400
+Subject: ATT: JMS -- WAS JMS on Cmpsrv:
+
+     "What's the difference between 'having a Minbari soul' and 'having
+been a Minbari in a previous life'?"
+ 
+     The difference, Jamie, is *huge*.  And extremely significant.
+ 
+     Here, I'll give you a freebie...there's something massively,
+mind-bendingly significant in a throwaway line in one of the first three
+episodes of year three that seems to have little bearing on this, but in
+fact is hugely involved in this *exact* issue.
+ 
+     You'll know what it was much later in the season.  But this heads-up
+might point you in the right direction.  Suffice to say there's a very
+definite reason I phrased that as I did.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 11 Oct 1995 05:42:45 -0400
+Subject: > ATTN. JMS:  Ratings and Reru
+
+      Franklin: I'm sure they still think it was a good idea.
+ 
+      If you need me, I'll be on the roof....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 11 Oct 1995 05:55:13 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS You Got Competition
+
+     I'm quite happy to have competition.  The more the merrier.  As an SF
+fan myself, I love nothing more than seeing good SF on the air, and I have
+to say I *very* much enjoyed the last Voyager episode, I'm quite happy
+with X-Files, I'm in love with a lot of the dialogue and camerawork on
+American Gothic, I've enjoyed all the Space episodes to date...the more
+voices, the more competition, the leaner and better the overall result.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 12 Oct 1995 03:59:34 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: (Spoilers) Divided L
+
+     No, the Ivanova revelation in "Loyalties" has nothing to do with
+replacing Talia; that is a moot point in many ways, since Lyta is back,
+and since other things happen which take that issue off the table in
+any event.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 12 Oct 1995 03:59:44 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Inquisitor Question
+
+     I'd say there's a very good chance that the Vorlons have more than
+one Inquisitor.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 12 Oct 1995 04:11:38 -0400
+Subject: Ellison CITY Note
+
+Harlan Ellison has requested that I post this in places where
+those likely to have ordered the forthcoming CITY ON THE EDGE
+OF FOREVER limited-edition hardcover can find it.
+ 
+Message begins:
+ 
+Here is the answer to the question of why a three-week delay in
+shipping THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER became necessary.
+ 
+A minor production glitch.
+ 
+Nothing more mysterious or ominous than that.
+ 
+Once the book had gone to Thomson-Shore in Dexter, Michigan for
+printing, and was in production, it was discovered that more
+than 150 corrections to the text--some significant, others of a
+niggling nature--but all troublesome to a greater or lesser
+degree--had slipped past, and had not been integrated.
+ 
+Tom Monteleone of Borderlands Press was out of the country.  But
+his concerns for shipping on time--we've been paying the price
+for a premature announcement of this title four years ago ever
+since that miscalculation was made--were preeminent.  Nonetheless,
+because of my insistence that this book (a book of great personal
+importance to me) be as close to perfect as possible, I took
+the necessary action to hold the production at a pre-final stage
+till Tom returned and we could get the changes made.
+ 
+That has been accomplished.  Tom Monteleone has been very
+gracious in accommodating my concerns, and the book is back in
+the tube at Thomson-Shore right now.  Three weeks max is what
+Dave Raymond, Customer Services Manager, tells us.  Three weeks
+and the book, a beautiful beautiful package, will be in the
+hands of those who've ordered it.
+ 
+It is unfortunate that Tom Monteleone's interim message on the
+Borderlands Press 800-order line has been misinterpreted by
+some people.  All is well, and the CITY is on its way to waiting
+eyes and hands.  Thank you for asking.
+ 
+                                                Harlan Ellison
+
+Date: 12 Oct 1995 04:24:28 -0400
+Subject: Attn: JMS Bab5 Soundtrack Seas
+
+     Actually, there is some year two music on the CD, on the last two
+suites.  No schedule yet on disks.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 13 Oct 1995 01:45:53 -0400
+Subject: Attn: JMS -- why were specific
+
+     They tended to go from what photos and art was available from WB, and
+in large measure...that ain't a lot.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 13 Oct 1995 06:06:32 -0400
+Subject: The Great War of rastb5
+
+     "Somebody please tell me what the hellis going on?"
+ 
+     Easy.  Somebody accidentally let humanity in here.
+ 
+     Noisy lot, aren't they?
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 13 Oct 1995 06:18:58 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: B5 Comic #11 -- Mark
+
+     There's nothing that I'm aware of in comic #11 that would place it
+after "Confessions."  It's a general pamphlet prepared by Psi Corps some
+time before.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 13 Oct 1995 06:33:41 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS' powers of prediction
+
+     Actually, the plan to run TNG originally for just 5 years was
+specifically *stated by Paramount* to the news media, nothing to do with
+predicting anything.  Also, at that time, I knew a lot of folks who were
+working over at TNG as writer/producers, and that was what they had all
+been told was the case.  When the show finally began to kick into gear,
+ratings-wise, they decided to extend it to seven years, and it took quite
+a bit of finageling to get everyone back on board (that was why they did
+the Borg two-parter with Patrick Stewart...if he had decided not to sign,
+they would've used this as a means of getting rid of the character); you
+don't have to do this IF YOU HAVE OPTIONS ON THE ACTORS.
+ 
+     There was no predicting involved.  I reported what was being said by
+those directly involved with ST:TNG at the time, what was in the press,
+and what was being told to agents.  Nothing more, nothing less.  Five
+years WAS the original plan; check the first newspaper articles about the
+show, it's all over the place.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+Date: 13 Oct 1995 06:33:56 -0400
+Subject: Re: WHY DID JMS POST THE RUMOR
+
+     I disagree with the term ego in this connection.  (Big surprise,
+right?)  On one level, anyone who is involved in any aspect of the arts
+has exercised ego in the sense of, "I am going to make little black marks
+on this piece of paper," or "I am going to make colored brushstrokes on
+this canvas, and they will be sufficiently impressive that you will want
+to pay money for them."  That aspect is part and parcel of working in any
+form of the arts.
+ 
+     But B5 specifically?  I don't think so.  First off, there's a great
+deal of misunderstanding in this discussion about how television works.
+In a TV series, the story editor *NEVER, EVER* rewrites the executive
+producer.  It would be a hideous breach of protocol.  On MURDER, SHE WROTE
+or JAKE, or other shows, I *never* touched my exec's scripts.  The network
+puts an executive producer/writer on premises for one singular reason
+(not counting the one billion others): to set the tone for the writing for
+everyone else to follow.  They rely on YOU to absolutely govern that
+aspect, or you're not doing your job, and betraying your commitment to the
+network.
+ 
+     So when someone says "It's ego not to let the story editor revise the
+executive producer's scripts," that betrays a total lack of understanding
+of how television production works.
+ 
+     Finally, working 5 years to get B5 produced had nothing to do with
+ego and everything to do with obsession.  There's this story that I like,
+which I hope others will like.  The ONLY way that this story will ever be
+told is if one person fights for it tooth and nail for every day of every
+year required to tell it.  I have an obligation to this story to see it
+through.  Getting doors slammed in your face for five years takes its toll
+on the ego; ego says, "Screw it, go find a nice cushy job on another show
+where nobody'll slam the door on you."  Obsession says, "Keep going."
+Ego hates to fail.  Obession *requires* that you fail from time to time,
+in striving for something greater.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 13 Oct 1995 07:25:13 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Production Question
+
+     Flashback scenes are usually part of a prior scene, and thus are
+shot in color, shown the first time, and transferred to black and white
+for flashback use.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 13 Oct 1995 08:20:45 -0400
+Subject: Re: jms is anti-Trek?
+
+     "JMS loves the fact that you worship him...."
+ 
+     Yessir, boy-howdy, and there ain't nothin' like signing onto your
+account and seeing ten gazillion messages titled JMS IS SOMETIMES / ALWAYS
+/ GENERALLY / 99.9% FULL OF SHIT to make you feel like the living
+reincarnation of Thor hisownself.
+ 
+     "you ain't never gonna be on the show" ... actually quite a few folks
+on the nets have come by the Babylon 5 stages, have been paid to edit music
+videos, have even come to *work* for us...PwdrdTstMan from AOL now works at
+the B5 stages, another internetter known to most folks here is now working
+at WB on the B5 AOL page, others have come here as well, even as extras a
+few times.
+ 
+     "and you ain't havin' dinner at Master JMS' estate."  As soon as
+Master JMS *gets* an estate instead of a fairly simple 3 bedroom house in
+a reasonably nice neighborhood, I'll let you know if this happens or not.
+In the interim, I've had dinner and lunches with folks from the nets for
+quite some time now.
+ 
+     "thrill of a lifetime feeling that they are actually interacting with
+their 'god'"   See paragraph 2 above.  Amazing how if anyone does anything
+of merit, and some folks acknowledge that, others have to characterize
+that in Deity terms.  Is there no in-between?  Oh, silly me, it's just a
+rhetorical device to deride the issue at hand; sorry, for a moment there I
+thought you were interested in accuracy, Ross.  My apologies.
+ 
+     And frankly, if I were ANY kind of deity, I'd have a LOT more hair and
+a *MUCH* deeper voice.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 13 Oct 1995 20:25:13 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS Your opinion on comi
+
+     I wasn't terribly pleased with the artwork on 9 and 10, I thought it
+could've been much better.  As for the story, David Gerrold had proposed
+(and written) that as an outline for an episode; I said I didn't think it
+worked for our show.  Which opened the door for DC to pick it up, and since
+he felt so strongly that it *did* work, I figured I'd let him proceed.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 13 Oct 1995 20:37:22 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS- Peter David.
+
+     I'm certainly open to his doing more for us.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 13 Oct 1995 20:37:35 -0400
+Subject: Re: jms is anti-Trek?
+
+     To John Lawrence Morgan: no, I don't get to watch ST very often;
+that's because doing this job is a 25-hour-a-day responsibility.  I'm at
+the B5 offices from early in the day until 7:30-8:00 at night, I grab a
+fast meal, sometimes just a sandwich, and charge into my home office and
+start writing.  I try to break away for a very few shows; American Gothic,
+Space, the Simpsons, X-Files and 60 Minutes during the course of the week.
+I have no time for anything else.  That's why I log on here often at 3 a.m.
+because that's the only time I have left after work.  (Today's an
+exception; I get to work at home today since we've given the crew a couple
+days off to catch their breath.)
+ 
+     And yeah...given the choice between spending those last couple of
+hours vegged out watching TeeVee, and coming on-line and hanging out with
+people, almost my last vestige of human (sorta) contact...I choose the
+latter.  What in this do you have a problem?
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 17 Oct 1995 04:15:18 -0400
+Subject: JMS: You did it to me again!
+
+     Ben....we try.....
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+Date: 17 Oct 1995 04:27:54 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Lyta's P Rating (Dis
+
+     Didn't say Talia WAS a psi-cop, Talia said she *interned with* the
+PsiCops.  Bear in mind that you're going to need support staff, lower
+level liaisons, and a bunch of other positions as well as the actual cops.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1995 06:17:43 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Comic #11 --
+
+     Tritium: you actually believe *anything* in a PsiCorps propaganda
+booklet?  Only about 10% of what's recorded in that booklet is true, and
+even that's distorted.  The character in the booklet is totally fictional.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1995 06:18:05 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS on Compuserve: October
+
+     Jamie: I don't consider myself an "abuse survivor."  I think that
+term has been so over-used, exploited and trivialized in some corners by
+application to the smallest of problems ("My father once hit me when I
+was 12 so now I'm an axe murderer/going through regression therapy in
+search of one more time when it might've happened") that it takes away
+from people who've had terrible, mind-bendingly awful backgrounds with
+serious personal violence, sexual violation, psychological torture and
+other aberrations.  I'll probably get roasted for this, but it does seem
+to me that talking about one's "abusive childhood" has become the newest
+trend, and one more way of denying personal responsibility for who one is
+and what one does...and, ultimately, detracts from the attention and
+needs and real problems of those who *have* suffered terribly.
+ 
+     Yeah, I had a crummy childhood, followed by a crummy adolescence;
+vast sections of it were a nightmare.  Fundamentally...so what?  I never
+considered that anyone's had a Leave It To Beaver childhood.  Some were
+better, some were worse.  Doesn't mean I still don't get pissed about it,
+doesn't make me any more willing to have contact with my family, but I
+have never considered myself in the light of those two words.  That, to
+me, is one more manifestation of the victim mentality that seems to be
+all OVER the place.
+ 
+     People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much
+energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and
+not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past,
+and getting on with their lives.
+ 
+     And, again, I *very carefully and specifically* exclude from this
+discussion, and the preceding paragraph, those who've gone through true,
+serious abuse in childhood, who must spend years rebuilding their lives
+and their trust and their emotional infrastructure.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1995 07:02:42 -0400
+Subject: TLTS: Opinion (no spoilers)
+
+     Dennis: thanks, we're starting to get better at this stuff.  It's a
+nifty episode.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1995 07:09:00 -0400
+Subject: To JMS: Congratulations!!  <DL
+
+     Christian: I quote Mark Twain: "The test of any good fiction is that
+you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the
+bad to fail.  The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to
+land in hell, together, as quickly as possible."
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1995 19:34:11 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS : Important KOSH ques
+
+     The more people who have to *see* Kosh as one of their own, the
+greater the strain on Kosh, as you'll note in the first ep of year three.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1995 19:36:14 -0400
+Subject: JMS: dumb DL question (really
+
+     What was the passwor?  I'm hideously tempted to say, "Z'ha'dum."
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1995 19:36:48 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Murder1 & B5
+
+     I for one would love nothing more than to claim that B5 "paved the
+way...for Murder One," but truth is...the network folks probably haven't
+even noticed.  From all I hear, Murder 1 has more to do with the long
+term fascination with the OJ trial than anything B5.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1995 19:37:50 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Going to Loscon?
+
+     I'll be at LosCon over Thanksgiving because, well, I have no life;
+if anyone else attends depends on their schedules.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1995 19:38:11 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS:Metaphysical question
+
+     Nia: I'd say you're reading WAY too much into this.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1995 19:38:39 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Back door into plot?
+
+     Yeah, originally it was the Kosh-scan that would've gotten Lyta in
+trouble; the TK aspect was originally going to come in from another angle,
+but I was able to collapse the two in Talia, and then bring Lyta in from
+a different direction, as you'll see in one of the first batch of new
+year 3 eps.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 21 Oct 1995 06:10:48 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Explain editing proc
+
+     Film is shot on the stage, then transferred to video, which is then
+digitized onto the Avid computer editing system, which holds every take of
+every scene.  A scene is shot many times from various angles: wide master
+shot, three-shots (3 people), two-shots, singles, raking twos, close
+ups, medium shots, extreme closeups and sometimes downshots (as well as
+CGI and composite shots).
+ 
+     John Copeland and I then go in and work on the version of the episode
+edited by the director to do the producer's cut.  We sit down with the
+editor, and go scene by scene.  The usual construction is as follows: you
+get a wide master shot so we know the geography, where we are, and where
+everyone is in relation to that.  Gradually you go closer, into threes or
+twos, then singles or closeups for dramatic emphasis, coming out into the
+master from time to time when someone has to move, or to break the sense
+of claustrophobia.
+ 
+     When you get in close, you have over-the-shoulder shots, meaning
+you're shooting past one character's shoulder to the other.  Then you do
+the same thing in reverse, so you see both sides of the conversation.
+You do these one at a time, for lighting purposes; you light one side of
+the room for the scenes looking left-right, then move the camera and the
+lighting around for the scenes when you're on the right side looking
+left (or, phrased differently, you light for Susan looking at Talia,
+then Talia looking at Susan).  The actors then do the scene again, with
+the camera on the other side.
+ 
+     The actor has to be very careful to always repeat each movement
+exactly; if he picks up a teacup on the word "quibble," he has to make
+absolutely sure he picks up the cup on exactly that same word, every
+time, in every take, in the same way, in the correct hand.  If the
+actor slips (and this sometimes happens), when you go to show the other
+side of the scene, you suddenly find you have a matching problem; in
+the shot over Talia's shoulder to Susan, the actor raised a hand; in
+the shot over Susan's shoulder to Talia, the actor (generic term that
+includes women) *didn't* raise a hand.  So when you edit the two, you
+have a matching problem.  You can sometimes avoid this by just staying
+on one side of the shot, but then you can't get the other character's
+on-face reaction to what's being said.  And in that scene in particular,
+we *needed* to see both sides.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 21 Oct 1995 06:10:55 -0400
+Subject: Query:  Will the Shadows attac
+
+     Babylon 5 is still needed for their own purposes, as an easy way to
+keep an eye on things and get to the people they need to get to, so
+there's no need for them to attack B5.  They certainly wouldn't do so
+just because Morden was busted...that's beneath their concern, as long
+as he keeps his mouth shut.  Which he did.  Doesn't mean, though, that
+in fairly short order they won't take steps to be as sure as they can be
+that, in fact, the secret *is* still secure....
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 21 Oct 1995 09:31:04 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: You got some bad, BA
+
+      Two things transcend all human understanding: the concept of god,
+and PTEN publicity.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 21 Oct 1995 19:34:27 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Question (& mild SPO
+
+     In part it's John's take on the character, but what I indicated to him
+was that Draal's gone through some considerable changes by entering the
+heart of the machine; it's given him greater understanding, and the freeing
+aspects of greater humor.  It's almost like -- and I hate to even use the
+reference because somebody'll say "Oh, that's what he's doing," and I ain't
+it's just a point of comparison -- Tom Bombadil in LoTR...quite funny, but
+also someone not to be trifled with.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 21 Oct 1995 19:34:29 -0400
+Subject: ATTN: JMS - A few questions...
+
+    Land armies, deliberating Shadows, probably not, for various reasons;
+gloss off CGI, 3D starmaps, new tech and better rendering, yes.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 21 Oct 1995 19:57:37 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Internauts coming fo
+
+     There's not much sense to it; it just happens with some folks.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 21 Oct 1995 20:09:14 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Scripted Facial Nuan
+
+     Generally, you don't so much indicate the face (with some exceptions)
+as the mood...in parentheticals in dialogue (growing horror) (with
+meaning) (sotto voce) and in narrative description (his face fall as he
+sees Morden enter).
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 21 Oct 1995 20:09:17 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: Rehearsals and Takes
+
+     The number of scenes varies depending on the amount of action
+required.  On balance, the average TV script has about 60-75 scenes or
+shots in it.  From time to time, in B5, we've gone as high as 130 shots
+in episodes like "Twilight" or "Fall."  I think we just blew out our
+record here with "Severed Dreams," which has close to 140.
+ 
+     Number of scenes shot on any day depends on how long the scene; you
+can do 4 really long shots or 8 fairly short scenes.  The amount of
+rehearsal varies depending on the scene, how many extras or what kind of
+action/stunts are required.  The more action, the more you rehearse, to
+ensure nobody gets hurt.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 21 Oct 1995 20:20:54 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Episodes 19 &20
+
+     No, Divided precedes Twilight.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 21 Oct 1995 20:32:29 -0400
+Subject: Attn:jms  authorship of B5?
+
+     For starters, I have problem with the auteur term.  What most folks
+forget is that this term originated with the Cahiers du Cinema (I think I
+may have hideously misspelled that) which actually began a series of
+screenings/presentations on each aspect of film-making, the writer, the
+director, the cinematographer...started with the director...and basically
+got so caught up in that aspect that they dropped the rest.
+ 
+    So let's stick with "author" for the moment.  To that question, yes,
+I do consider myself the author of the B5 story, the creator of itsz
+characters and universe.  Insofar as we enter other areas, my position is
+that of navigator...I point to a spot on the horizon, and say "That's
+where we're all going."  Each department/artistic aspect of the show,
+from props, to costumes, to the director, works to most accurately create
+what I see in my head.  The most common question is, "Is this what you had
+in mind when you wrote it?"
+ 
+     I keep an eye on every aspect of the show, to make sure it's what I
+see in my head.  If something isn't right, it's redone until it *is*
+right.  Nonetheless, I try to provide as much latitude as possible to my
+people, to let them be as creative as they have the potential to be.
+ 
+     Sometimes there's some irony in the situation; in "And the Sky Full
+of Stars," for instance, Janet is noted for the notion of having Sinclair
+standing facing these lights that go out, one by one, except for the one
+that spotlights him, when he's confronted by Knight Two, people say, "Oh
+what a great directorial idea," but that's spelled out to the smallest
+detail in the script.  Ditto for the intercutting of scenes in the fall
+of the emperor in "Coming."  That's often attributed to the director, but
+it was specifically scripted that way, right down to the use of slow-mo
+for some shots, the way in which he falls, all of it.
+ 
+     This is because of that nutty auteur theory that many directors have
+wrapped around themselves like a flag.  With the obvious exception of
+writer/directors, I've never seen any director do much with the auteur
+theory and 100 blank pages.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 23 Oct 1995 21:56:55 -0400
+Subject: JMS: Talia and Ivanova *spoile
+
+      I didn't show a kiss because, in my experience, it's easier on all
+around if one steps into the shallow end of the pool first, and walks
+into the deep end rather than diving in and splashing everybody in the
+process.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 25 Oct 1995 03:39:32 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: RAVES and KUDOS for
+
+     Cecil: my deepest thanks for that.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1995 00:58:49 -0400
+Subject: Re: DS9's life or death
+
+     To the inquiry about TV contracts...when an actor gets a contract on
+a show, it's not a guarantee of anything; it's all one season at a time.
+ALL TV series are like this: you (the producer/studio) have an OPTION on
+the actor, by contract.  Meaning you own the actor for that period of time
+AT YOUR DISCRETION.  In other words, if you're renewed for a given season,
+you have the option of hiring (or not hiring) the actor back for the
+next season.  The actor does *not* have the option.  If you then hire the
+actor, it's pay-or-play for that season, meaning if you decide to let the
+actor go mid-season, you must still pay him for the balance of episodes
+committed for.
+
+
+     So an actor's contract is not a guarantee of *anything*.
+
+
+     As for the budget on the two-parter...DS9's ratings have been on a
+steady decline for the last several seasons, according to the trades and
+newspaper articles.  Paramount sells advertising based on the ratings; if
+they drop below the promised level, they have to start giving money back
+to the advertisers (not a good thing).  So regardless of a series
+projected duration, they *must* start improving the ratings...hence you
+spend a little more up front, grab some ratings, give the show a boost,
+and maybe make it up here and there later in other shows, or simply write
+off the additional shooting costs against the benefit of not giving money
+back to advertisers.
+
+
+     No judgment here, no predictions, just answering the questions that
+came up about how things work in TV.
+
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1995 00:59:17 -0400
+Subject: Kosh's appearance (Spoilers_)
+
+     This is not a bad assessment, Nicholas.  And yes, I remember that
+quote from CS Lewis, very evocative.  (Have read the Screwtape Letters,
+Perelandra, That Hideous Strength and others.  He sometimes indulged in
+straw-man logic, but always written entertainingly.)
+
+
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1995 19:57:32 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: A couple of question
+
+     Actually, what's been referred to is the Jump Gate off Io; we saw
+this colony facility before, in Chrysalis...it isn't *on* Io as much as
+in orbit near it.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1995 19:59:15 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: What did the actors
+
+     I try avoiding telling the actors anything more than what is needed
+for each episode as it comes, otherwise you risk them subconsciously
+playing the result rather than the process.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1995 19:59:52 -0400
+Subject: Attn Jms:  More PKD in B5, wha
+
+     Nope, sorry.  "Garibaldi" comes from the Italian war hero of the
+same name.  Have never read Dick's "Exegenis," and that has nothing to
+do with "Exogenesis" the episode.  Don't know anything about any row
+between PKD and HE.
+
+
+     I'm chagrined to say that I've read *very* little of Dick's work,
+though I did read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," which of course
+became Blade Runner.  He just got a wee bit weird, even for me.
+
+
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1995 20:00:27 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Influences?
+
+      Have not read Rice's "The Adding Machine" or seen it, but from the
+apparent time period, it's likely of the school of playwriting that has
+most influenced my work in general, mainly in terms of style.
+
+
+      I somewhat tend to moderate my writing style between the fairly
+straightforward and simple to slightly more theatrical in nature, more of
+the Serling/Chayefsky/Corwin mode.  I like playing with language, and
+English is a terrific language to play with.  There was a time in this
+country when literate syntactical construction was something honored; now
+everything tends to be more toward the y'know, I was, you know, hanging
+around the corner store, y'know, and Bob comes up to me, and he says....
+
+
+     If you look at the original Twilight Zone, some episodes of the
+original Star Trek, the Outer Limits...you see a kind of reflective
+writing that delights in slamming nouns and verbs together to see what
+kind of explosion you get when the syntax hits critical mass.
+
+
+     It saddens me a bit now that anybody who sounds too literate is
+often put down as showy or being theatrical.  Listen to the speeches of
+Kennedy and Churchill and FDR, look to the great orators of our long
+history of a nation, from Lincoln to Jefferson.  Their use of language,
+of an idea well formed and delivered, propelled this nation toward its
+current destiny, forged one country out of dozens of squabbling states.
+I listen now to politicians, hoping and waiting for the one who
+understands that the words have to dig into our souls and take root,
+must have power and the purity of language well-used.  And I just don't
+hear it anymore...which is perhaps why we have consensus takers and not
+leaders these days.
+
+
+     It saddens me that literacy has become suspect, and degraded, given
+how many millions of years of evolution spent developing the ability to
+create language.  The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by
+our facility with language.  The less precise the useage, the less clear
+the process of language, the less you can achieve what you want to
+achieve when you open you mouth to say something.  We have slowly
+bastardized and degraded and weakened the language, abetted and abided
+by a growing cultural disdain for literacy, a cyclical trend toward
+anti-intellectualism.
+
+
+     So I write my characters as sharp, and as witty, and as intelligent,
+and as literate as I wish I would be under those sorts of circumstances,
+which of course I never am.  Maybe to remind people of the power of
+language...mainly because I just love the sound of words carefully
+stitched together.  My dramatic conceit is that in 2259, we have had a
+moderate rebirth of formality, and the kind of literacy you would often
+see in letters from the turn of the century, and the 1930s.  Because it
+allows me to write it the way I want.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1995 04:42:12 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Explain editing
+
+     Sometimes we do use two cameras, yes, usually for big scenes with
+crowds and lots of action.  If you're in tight, it's hard to light for
+both sides; the light generally goes just one way, then you relight for
+each new angle.  Even so, we run two cameras often, but not always, as
+the cost is prohibitive.
+
+
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1995 04:42:37 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS:  Q's not asked from
+
+     What's been happening the last few days?  Well, we're now shooting
+episode #9, "Point of No Return," and today was Majel Barrett's second
+day of shooting on the show; she has two more days to shoot.  So far the
+episode looks very good.  We're finishing the last EFX shots on "Voices
+of Authority," episode #4, which will air after episode #5, "Passing
+Through Gethsemane" because the latter requires almost zip EFX, and is a
+better cap to the Novemer sweeps.
+
+
+     I just finished writing episode #12, "A Late Delivery From Avalon,"
+and we're in pre-production on #10, "Severed Dreams."  I'm currently
+breaking out the story for #13 (not titled yet), which I'll probably start
+writing this weekend.  We should get the director's cut on "Messages From
+Earth" (#8) sometime middle of next week.
+
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1995 04:43:07 -0400
+Subject: Attn JMS: I (think I) got it!
+
+     Shadows weren't trolling, just passing through; the Narn fall is not
+in the best interests of the army of light.
+
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1995 21:51:25 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS :  expression
+
+     There have been many explanations for where this phrase comes
+from.  SoMost of them are obviN%=yously spook etymology, but the first one I
+heard -- and who knows if this is right -- comes from WW I, where just
+before one side would go into battle, they'd send one man up in a hot
+air balloon to scout the enemy's location.  If you saw the balloon
+going up, you knew combat wasn't far behind.
+
+
+     Wherever it comes from, though, that's the general meaning of
+the phrase.
+
+
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1995 22:04:38 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Notes to actors abou
+
+     No, I don't believe I gave any voice direction on that one.
+
+
+     But certainly, the most trouble is always caused by people who are
+sure they know what they're doing.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1995 17:41:18 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Caitlin Brown in CtI
+
+     No, no Caitlin.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1995 17:41:22 -0400
+Subject: Who is Norman Corwin?
+
+     He is only one of the finest writers this country has ever produced.
+Go to your local library and look up his work.  Take it home and read it
+(or listen to it).  In addition to being one of our preeminent essayists,
+and a primary influence on such notables as Edward R. Murrow, Charles
+Kuralt, Walter Cronkite, Stan Freberg, Rod Serling, and is possibly *the*
+primary reason Ray Bradbury decided to become a writer in the first place,
+he was this nation's finest and most regarded radio drama writer of his
+time, moreso than Arch Oboler or Orson Welles.  He write the radio drama
+"On A Note of Triumph" aired on *all three* radio networks on VE day,
+wrote cantatas for the UN, was a contemporary and friend of Carl
+Sandburg, wrote the feature film "Lust For Life" about Van Gogh...look
+into any copy of "Who's Who."  The listing goes on forever.
+
+
+     Unfortunately, at the height of his career, he was one of many who
+ended up grey-listed, because one little creep who owned a chain of
+supermarkets published a rag called Red Channels, which one day listed
+Norman's name because some of what he'd written struck this jerk as being
+maybe sympathetic to the Reds (never mind that this was stuff he had been
+commissioned by the government to write during WW 2 to demonstrate
+solidarity during the war).  Despite this, his niche remains secure, and
+he is what's known in the biz as a *writer's writer*.  He has been a
+friend and a mentor for over 15 years, and I've learned much from him
+about what it is to be a writer, and a human being.
+
+
+     I'm serious.  Go to your local library and look up his work.  Or to
+your local bookstore and track down a copy of his latest book, a collection
+of his letters (cunningly entitled Norman Corwin's Letters), published in
+hardcover by Barricade Books, containing his correspondence to friends,
+family, and such notable long-term friends as Ray Bradbury, William
+Shatner, Rod Serling, Robert Altman, Ken Burns, Philip Dunne, Charles
+Kuralt, Walter Cronkite, Burgess Meredith, Philip Roth, Gregory Peck,
+Eric Sevareid, Bill Moyers, Erik Barnouw, Groucho Marx, Carl Sandburg,
+Leonard Bernstein, Bette Davis, Edward R. Murrow...well, you get the
+idea.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1995 17:41:26 -0400
+Subject: Video Video I want it on VIDEO
+
+     If someone wants to pull out the address I listed on Compuserve,
+there's the name and address of the person who makes the decision on
+video releases, B5's in particular.
+
+
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1995 17:41:30 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: ISN question - How c
+
+     There are other networks, but the cost of a hyperspace/tachyon link
+to places like B5 is prohibitive, so they're fairly local.  ISN has
+relays and branches in lots of places.  It would be fair to say that ISN
+is taking heat from the EA gov't to portray things a certain way, yes.
+Where this leads, we'll have to see.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1995 17:41:38 -0400
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Patrick McGoohan?
+
+     We'll go after Patrick when we get another script suited for him.
+
+
+                                                            jms
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1995 23:41:49 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS, Vorlon singing & mis
+
+     Peter David wants to re-use the teddy bear in his new series, Space
+Cases...so we'll see.
+
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1995 23:54:19 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Could you clear some
+
+     I could address those issues here, but I'd rather do them in the
+show...otherwise it kinda defeats the purpose in making it.
+
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1995 23:17:40 -0500
+Subject: JMS and Coincidences
+
+     It's real simple.  Ron Thornton showed me three variations on the
+Great Machine shot.  Because you're looking at a composite shot, you have
+to shoot either sharply angled down, or dead across, and full-figured,
+since you have to put them into another piece.  That meant either a
+horizontal shot, or a 3/4's vertical shot.
+
+
+     Two of the shots on the storyboards were horizontal; one showed our
+characters way off in the distance on a ribboned path lined by crystals.
+It'd be pretty, but it looked like another tunnel shot, and I wanted to
+show something that wasn't claustrophobic.  Also, we'd be limited in the
+camera move, and our characters would look kinda like peanuts.  Not
+terribly dramatic.  The second shot just didn't work for me, I don't
+entirely recall the reason now.  The third possibility seemed the most
+dramatic...it was a high angle shot, it had depth, it would let us start
+on our characters and do a camera move/pullback in post production, it
+worked on every level.
+
+
+     My second thought was, "Shit, somebody's going to gig us on the
+Forbidden Planet thing."  Nonetheless, it was the right shot, for the
+right reasons, and we chose to go with it.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1995 23:17:45 -0500
+Subject: Attn JMS: CTI Thoughts/Feeling
+
+     Will: thanks, and you're quite right; it does say something about the
+Vorlons that they'd use Jack for this purpose.  Now we just have to further
+define what that is.
+
+
+     BTW, just to append it here, not strictly appropos of your message...
+I've noted a number of people say, in essence, "Boy, was I disappointed
+that he said Jack at the end, what does he think we are, morons?"  And I've
+seen plenty of comments from people who didn't know it was Jack until that
+very last moment, for whom it was a revelation.
+
+
+     It's pretty clear, to lots of folks, that the test was in some ways
+(most, actually) more for Delenn's benefit than Kosh's...lots of folks got
+this...and then others have said, "Well, if that's what he meant, why
+didn't he just have one of them come out and SAY this, say what was learned
+or that this was for THEIR benefit?"
+
+
+     So frankly, whether one comes out and says something, or does not come
+out and say something, someone on one side or the other is going to give
+you a hard time about it.
+
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1995 23:17:49 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: To whom would we wri
+
+     I'll try to post the address later, but in the interim, I gave the
+address of the person at WB video over on CIS, so somebody'd probably
+already got it here.  ('s)
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1995 23:17:52 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS : Theo & his Brothers
+
+     No, these are not the monks Sheridan met earlier.
+
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1995 16:13:22 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Maybe setting recor
+
+     Actually, it was pointed out to me recently that as far as can be
+determined (and if there's any solid info to the contrary, I'll gladly
+take it) that no one has ever single-handedly written a full season of
+a dramatic, one-hour series.  Even David Kelley often uses co-writers on
+many of his episodes of ER and Picket Fences.  I have not yet set this out
+as a personal challenge, because I think you have to be open to what may
+come your way from other places.  But it's something I'm keeping a vaguely
+interested eye on....
+
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1995 23:20:16 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn Jms:  More PKD in B5,
+
+     Okay, I've just read a bunch more of these...okay, I admit it, you
+got me...I'm doing Philip K. Dick right down the line...and I'm also
+doing George Orwell right down the line...and I'm doing Lord of the
+Rings beat for beat...and Chalker...and...and Cherryh...and I'm doing
+a variation on the Bible, and King Arthur, and the history of Babylon,
+and the Idylls of the King....
+
+
+     What?  What's that you say?  You can't be doing all of these right
+down the line, all at the same time?  Sure I can.  Because there IS no
+B5.  There's a blank signal that registers in your brain, triggering the
+last thing you read, or the most important thing you read.  It's a
+carefully rigged US Government psychological warfare experiment.
+
+
+     I give up.
+
+
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1995 23:20:37 -0500
+Subject: JMS:  Alice Cooper influence o
+
+     No, no nod there.  (Again, same thing as my last note.)  It's a
+longstanding device, used by therapists, it's a big part of the Synanon
+game (for those who know what that is)...Alice Cooper used that kind of
+structure, but so did Meatloaf in "Life Is A Lemon And I want My Money
+Back."  (What about your childhood?  What about love?)  It's in many
+poems from the Beat Poetry period...it's a device with a long tradition.
+(Heck, read the book of Job sometime.)
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1995 21:36:46 -0500
+Subject: "Comes The Inquisitor"  SPOILE
+
+     There have been a great number of films and TV programs with one sort
+of interrogation scene or other; I'd commend "Closetland" for something
+else on this order.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1995 21:36:50 -0500
+Subject: Attn. JMS: AOL B5 site - SHIP1
+
+     I believe that's an alien probe from "A Day in the Strife."
+
+
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1995 21:36:55 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Explain editing
+
+     Cameras don't run themselves; along with the cost of renting a second
+camera (we don't own them), there's the cost of the crew to operate it,
+camera operator per se, you double the cost of your people on the floorl.
+  Er, floor.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1995 21:37:02 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS:The Quintara Marathon
+
+     No, I've never read them.  "I am wondering if they had any relation
+to B5."  No, because that is called plagiarism.
+
+
+     I'm not yelling at you, James, I'm just taking a moment here to make
+a general comment.
+
+
+     Ahem.  To everyone looking on.
+
+
+     STOP ASKING ME IF I AM DOING ONE BOOK OR ANOTHER BY ANOTHER WRITER.
+
+
+     That is called plagiarism.  It's called theft.  It's not a question
+that novel writers get, only TV writers.  I know that's not your intent,
+but that's what it is.  I didn't fight for five years to make this show to
+do somebody else's story.  This is its own story.  Nobody else's.  It may
+not occur to you -- likely does not -- but this is a *supremely* offensive
+comment to any writer.  It implies that one cannot come up with one's own
+story, one has to borrow or rip off from somebody else...again, a comment
+usually directed toward TV writers.  I've never seen a novelist asked if
+he was doing somebody else's novel.
+
+
+     I may sometimes nod in tribute to those works that have come before,
+but that's all it ever is.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1995 22:55:11 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Childhood -How was i
+
+     Without going on overlong, as some of this has already been covered,
+it wasn't terrific as a kid.  We moved every 6 months to a year, blowing
+from town to town (economic reasons), always the new kid, hence very few
+friends at any time.  None that lasted more than that 6-12 months.  No
+one town that constituted a home town.  So I read a lot...novels, comics,
+you name it.
+
+
+     Wasn't a nerd in high school; I just passed through their ranks
+unnoticed, like some kind of translucent Eisenglass figurine at the back
+of the room.  I went back to the 20th reunion...to find that only one
+person sorta kinda remembered me.  No one else.
+
+
+     As for writing...I always knew that I'd be a writer, for as long as
+I can remember.  Even as a kid I collected pens, had an interest in all
+things writing.  The second that I was old enough to take typing classes,
+I did.  Ended up taking 4 semesters of it, until by the time I left I was
+the fastest typist they'd ever produced, 'cause I knew full well I'd need
+that skill when I got going.  In my senior year, having studied the style
+and structure of most of my favorite writers (I can do a lethal imitation
+of just about any writer's style), I decided, at 17, that I'd prepared
+enough...time to start Writing, and selling.  And I did, right then.
+
+
+     And I've never looked back.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1995 22:55:17 -0500
+Subject: ATT JMS: Shorter episodes?
+
+     I don't believe the length of the show has changed much more than a
+few seconds; if there are minutes missing, it's something happening at
+your end of the signal.
+
+
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 31 Oct 1995 02:05:20 -0500
+Subject: JMS:  A Opening Naration Quest
+
+     If one simply makes up a costume for one's own use, I can't see any
+problem with that.
+
+
+                                                                      jms
+
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+Date: 2 Nov 1995 19:08:34 -0500
+Subject: Re: Rumor central.....
+
+     No, the events in "Demon With a Glass Hand" take place roughly 1,000
+years further up the pike from B5's time.
+
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1995 19:08:38 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  No Janet Greek in S
+
+     Janet isn't directing any episodes this season because she wanted to
+take time off to work on her own screenwriting projects.  She took one or
+two high-priced network gigs to fill in the gaps, plus she's squeezing in
+one Hypernauts episode, but that's it.  Once she's done?|e we hope to he(?iave
+her again next season (ratings willing).
+
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1995 19:08:45 -0500
+Subject: JMS: B5 merchandise
+
+     No, those all look licensed to me.  BTW, Creation Entertainment in
+Glendale CA has these nifty B5 jackets and the best B5 mugs I've seen
+yet; they're oversized black ceramic mugs with the B5 logo on one side,
+and a silhouette of the station on the other side, both done in silver.
+Really nifty.
+
+
+     BTW #2: there are three patches that are starting to show up at
+conventions: an Earthforce3t#@ppz1s Off-World, Death's Hands, and the Starfury
+"Ugly But Well Hung" patch.  These are *strictly* illegal, and we're
+backtracking this to the source.  If you see any of these, let me know
+where and when and any info you can get on who was selling them and/or
+their source.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1995 19:08:48 -0500
+Subject: Re: Is JMS away for a while?
+
+     General note to everyone: it usually takes 5-7 days from the time a
+note is posted to the group to show up on my computer here, partly because
+it has to be filtered by the Rangers, partly because my newreader often
+just doesn't show anything for days at a time, then I get 1,054 messages
+in one huge lump.
+
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1995 19:08:52 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS-B5 IS A RIP OFF OF JM
+
+     I deeply resent this implication.  I have never even been in the
+same *room* as myself, have never allowed myself to have access to any of
+my material, and the notion that I would stoop to using such second-rate
+material is a simple affront.  If I find out that I've been spreading this
+vicious rumor, be assured that I will track me down and beat me senseless
+until it stops.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+     I really need a break....
+
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1995 19:08:57 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Two questions (minor
+
+     Normally the purple coat is associated with a more benign Londo from
+earlier; the dark coat marks a later time.
+
+
+     Who's my alter-ego on the show?  All of them, to one extent or
+another.  They're pieces I've kind of sliced off and deposited into one
+part of the story or another.  The theory is that, once sliced away, they
+are the free to go off and grow into something larger on their own, and
+hopefully become something greater than the source.
+
+
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1995 19:09:14 -0500
+Subject: Wallace & Gromit - LASER DISK
+
+     Heard about it.  Got to video store the day of the release.  Bought
+it.  All is right with the world now.
+
+
+     "Fancy a bit of cheese, Grommit?"
+
+
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1995 19:09:18 -0500
+Subject: Ellison Book from Borderland
+
+     Actually, the delay is now gone.  Harlan's book is completed, and
+is being shipped.  Many copies have already gone out.  (Yes, I have mine,
+and it's really a gorgeous book.)
+
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1995 19:09:22 -0500
+Subject: The Reson why the US will NEVE
+
+     Yes, I'm sure the dealers selling *illegal* copies of B5 at the
+convention told you that real, licensed tapes won't be released.  Now, I
+wonder why this could be...hmm....maybe to *encourage people to buy their
+illegal pirated tapes, perhaps*?
+
+
+     Work it out, people.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1995 19:09:27 -0500
+Subject: Inquisitor: "What about....?"
+
+        "What about eternity?"  It was an adlib from the actor just to cover
+the moment when Delenn rises, knowing it would likely never get heard over
+the rest of it.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1995 19:09:30 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  TFoN...
+
+     "Who is master here?  The man or his work?"
+
+
+     That's like one of those questions, "Which came first?  Thought or
+language?"  Can you really have thought without language?  And how can
+you develop language without thought?"  (See the stuff on the breakdown
+of the bicameral mind for some on this.)
+
+
+     That's a question I don't think any reasonable writer can answer.  At
+times, a lot of the time, really, I'm not entirely sure.  There's the
+talent, and the vessel, and sometimes the latter seems a poor vehicle for
+the former.  The story, once set in motion, takes on a life of its own.
+To a very large extent, what I do when I write an episode is to peek into
+the B5 universe and find out what happened there that week.  Sometimes I'm
+as much surprised as anyone else by what these characters have gotten
+themselves into *this* time.
+
+
+     The flip side, of course, is that there's an awful lot of me in this
+story, in the characters, the situations, the questions that get explored
+in the course of the story.  I'm working through a lot of issues here,
+no question.  It's my hope that there's enough interest in those issues
+and questions to affect others.
+
+
+     On that level, it's a very personal show.  And it consumes ever
+waking hour of my life.  I think I've kind of lost track of where the line
+is between "the man and the work."  It's all the same.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1995 17:38:31 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Sound Editing
+
+     Thanks.  We spend a *great* deal of time on the sound on this show,
+to make it interesting and so it stands out without being obtrusive.
+
+
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1995 17:38:38 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Marshall Teague is back!?
+
+     Yes, Teague's Narn character returns at least twice this coming
+season.
+
+
+                                                          jms
+
+Date: 6 Nov 1995 22:18:16 -0500
+Subject: I am not ready yet!
+
+     Just lie down, have a nice glass of warm milk, Q| b*/#=7F=7Fmaybe a =
+nice fish
+sandwich, it'll pass....in about 3 more years.
+
+
+                                                          jms
+
+Date: 6 Nov 1995 23:03:00 -0500
+Subject: ATTN: JMS - how are the rating
+
+     So far, the ratings are good, and WB is pleased.  (Even had one of
+the Big Guns come down here for lunch last week to hang out with the
+cast, and indicate that they're pleased.)  The sweeps period beginning
+this week is the real test, though.
+
+
+                                                            jms
+
+Date: 6 Nov 1995 23:13:29 -0500
+Subject: JMS: regarding CTS/RSI
+
+     Thanks; already using the Kinesis keyboard at work....
+
+
+                                                           jms
+
+Date: 6 Nov 1995 18:56:06 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Did he, or didn't he
+
+     After the Centauri tried to kill him, the need for an apology was
+somewhat obviated.  Had he still been forced to do so, the one he
+rehearsed was the one he intended to give.
+
+
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 6 Nov 1995 18:56:28 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  Why are stations no
+
+     The problem is that some of the stations don't realize or understand that
+they've been showing the same one season's worth of reruns since May, and
+that that's why the ratings dropped after a show's aired 3-4 times.  The
+rerun period hurt us a lot, no breaks, no new episodes in 5 months.  In
+other cases, they never supported the show, don't want it, want to make
+room for UPN or Fox shows (when that network owns the station), and so
+they look to drop it.
+
+
+     If a station drops the show, contact other local independent stations
+and ask them to pick it up.  Because what's significant is that in those
+markets where the show is supported, as soon as we hit with new episodes,
+the ratings banged right back up to where they were, and the overnights
+have been increasing every week since we went back on with new stuff.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 6 Nov 1995 18:56:35 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Job
+
+     What would I say to one of my characters if asked to justify what I
+had done to them?
+
+
+     "I figured it'd make things a *lot* more interesting.  To see what
+(and if) you'd learn.  Because it makes for good drama, and I like to be
+entertained at this end.  Because I can.  And because I felt like it."
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+     (Where were you when I brought forth the whale....)
+
+Date: 6 Nov 1995 18:56:55 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS Favorable Article in
+
+     If I could possibly get a copy of this sent to me at the B5 mail
+drop, I'd be infinitely appreciative.  That's, as usual, suite 260 at
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
+
+
+     Thanks.
+
+
+                                                           jms
+
+Date: 8 Nov 1995 18:46:38 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Confirm Season 3 title?
+
+      I've been holding back because I wanted to really see the shape of
+this season, the color and texture of it, the overall theme put into
+effect...and frankly, the only really apt title, much as I like the other
+quote, is the #9 title, "Point of No Return," because that sums up so
+much of what happens in year three to everyone.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 8 Nov 1995 18:50:44 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Influences?
+
+      I was more or less unaware of this latest battle until someone aske=
+d
+if I'd seen it.  Most of it's scrolled by, except for Marco Bernardo's
+post and a few others; since his quotes a lot, I'm going to use his as a
+kind of rosetta stone to address the others.
+
+
+      One of the biggest hot buttons lately (in general, not just here) h=
+as
+been the question of language vs. culture, and how the two inter-relate.
+There seems to be the sense that language =3D culture, and that unless yo=
+u
+speak street language, the language of a minority, you are somehow giving
+up your culture.  Which is, of course, nonsense.
+
+
+      Lemme give you some examples.  I'm basically one-and-a-half
+generation American; my father was born ehre of immigrant parents, but
+lived his formative years back in Byeloruss.  My family came here, and th=
+e
+single most important lesson was, "Learn English."  For years there was a
+second language spoken around the house -- a sort of polyglot mix of
+polish, russian and=1A*| white-russian --(6 but outside the house, and ou=
+tside of
+the kind of "little europe" community we often lived in, English was the
+way to go.
+
+
+     Similarly, in Jewish culture, it is standard to learn Hebrew, Yiddis=
+h
+and *the dominant langauge* of whatever country they're in.  Why?  Real
+simple.  Economics, and common sense.
+
+
+     Sure, you can choose to speak only street language, or a culturally
+influenced language, but if you choose that, you are going to limit your
+economic prospects.  Particularly as we become more and more an informati=
+on
+based society.
+
+
+     None of this required sacrificing my culture.  I could have chosen t=
+o
+maintain my second language, but I chose to focus in on this one.  My
+CULTURE, my heritage, where I'm from, where my family is from, the histor=
+y
+of my people...that's still intact.  None of that is sacrificed in the
+smallest way.  I'm still proud of where my family came from, and the
+struggle taken to reach this country.  It's got nothing to do with one's
+language.
+
+
+     English has become the langauge of economics not just in this countr=
+y
+but in others as well.  That's an undeniable fact, I'm sorry if it's not
+a kind fact.  In this country, unless you're in a primarily hispanic or
+italian neighborhood, if you walk up to someone and start speaking spanis=
+h
+or italian at them, the odds are you'll get a blank stare.  (This is also
+partly our own native ethnocentrism creeping in.)  Go to Europe, and you
+will find an English-speaking person a hell of a lot more often.  Because
+that's becoming the standard for economic reasons.
+
+
+     I know a number of african-american educators who are driven to
+despair over the street english question.  I'll recap the main points tha=
+t
+they stated: "Don't they realize that dz=14hstreet english is *slaver's*
+english?  Slave masters didn't want their slaves to know english, to spea=
+k
+well, because that way would lead them into thought and the ability to
+control their own lives.  They wanted them to speak poorly, to get their
+ideas across inefficiently, to be hobbled at the cerebral cortex.  That's
+why one of the biggest crimes you could commit would be to be caught
+reading a book.
+
+
+     "Street english isn't anybody's culture; they weren't speaking
+street english when our people were ripped from our native countries.
+It's not our culture.  It's got nothing to do with us.  It's just a
+bastardized form of english used to keep us repressed.  If people want to
+stay in touch with their cultural roots, there are more efficient ways
+to do it that don't lead to further repression because we can't compete
+in the business world."
+
+
+     Yes, language changes, new words are introduced, the whole purpose
+of language is that it should be fluid.  It should be fluid enough to
+add new meanings, new terminologies, words from foreign places that are
+in some ways more effective.  In this way, the language becomes more
+precise through addition.  The more the language becomes *imprecise*,
+the more poorly it is used, the more people are limited in thier
+(their) possibilities.
+
+
+     It's real simple, people, and it's got nothing to do with anybody's
+culture.  If I wanted a career in math, I'd have to learn the rules of
+math and be able to apply them.  If I want a career using language, the
+better my grasp of the rules of that language, the better.  In this
+country, it's english; in mexico it's spanish, in germany it's german;
+it's not one being any better than the other, that's just common sense.
+
+
+     Now, I suppose you could choose to only speak broken english, or
+street english, or an otherwise inefficient form of english, whether it's
+in the barrio, or little italy, or little korea, or little poland in
+Chicago...and that's fine, *provided you never intend to leave and pursue
+work outside that community*.  Because if you do, you're screwed.  Becaus=
+e
+if you're from little italy, and you move into little korea, you know
+what?  You've got noting much in common, their culture is as valid as
+yours is...the only thing you *may* have in common...is english.  And if
+there isn't that bond, your economic prospects are zilch.
+
+
+     In the first wave of immigration into this country, the emphasis was
+on learning english as fast as possible.  You moved in to little italy,
+or little germany, or the other immigrant neighborhoods that sprouted up
+along coastlines and harbors, in New Jersey and New York and parts west,
+which gave you a brief leg up, while you learned the language, and the
+culture enough to master it and move out, pursuing better opportunities
+outside that small community.  Now, the small community has become the
+dead-end in many cases, and learning to deal with the dominant culture
+around you has become perceived as a threat to one's culture, which one
+left behind in another country.
+
+
+     Okay, you bring your culture with you, that's great...and the next
+guy brings *his* culture with him, and that's great...and neither of you
+learns a middle-ground language, and *that's* great...and two hundred
+thousand more guys do the same, and *that's* great...until one day when
+a bunch of *your* guys have to make deals with and buy and sell to the
+OTHER guys.  Then it's a problem.
+
+
+     What makes a nation a nation is a certain commonality, something the=
+y
+share in common.  That's our strength, and our life's blood.  The more we
+are fractured, the weaker we become.  We fought a civil war because we
+were A united states, not THE united states, because we weren't americans=
+,
+we were Virginians, or Carolinans.  And now we're fighting a new civil
+war in the streets because we're hispanics or eastern europeans or native
+americans.
+
+
+     People need to stop being threatened by the use of "you" instead
+of "se" or "du" or "vou."  It's a word.  It doesn't detract from where yo=
+u
+came from, who you are, what your culture is.  Stop trying to make the
+overall culture bend to your specific needs, because it won't, and in the
+end you're the one hurt by limiting your options.
+
+
+     We evolve by becoming smarter, faster, better.  By adapting to our
+circumstances.  Why do you think we're here and the dinosaurs are dead?
+Because us little mammals adapted, and adjusted, and sought out the best
+way to survive in our new environment; we didn't stay locked in the way
+we were because that was our culture before.
+
+
+     Street language is poorly used english, mixed with a smattering of
+the local ethnic verbiage, whichever ethnic group happens to be there at
+the moment.  That's all it is.  Take pride in the ethnic background?
+Absolutely.  If you speak spanish or italian or korean, don't you want to
+speak it as well as you can to communicate with your neighbors?  If so,
+then why is it *not* okay to speak english as well as you can?
+
+
+     No we don't always speak in complete sentences, I lapse into street
+profanity and syntax when appropriate for color or effect...but when it
+comes down to it, I have options *outside* that.  I have the flexibilily
+(flexibility) of doing both.  If you don't have that flexibility, you're
+screwed.  It's as simple as that.
+
+
+     Finally, on the subject of elistism...it's sad when someone who
+simply suggests that we should strive to be as good as we can at somethin=
+g
+-- whatever that something might be -- is an "elitist."  I always
+figured it was the human heart always striving to be the best possible at
+what we do.  Yes, let's praise mediocrity and fuzzy thinking and imprecis=
+ion
+instead.  Because that's what we end up with.  The less precise your
+language, the less capable you will be of conveying what you want.
+
+
+     When did we reach the point when saying it's okay to be less than
+we are is a grand idea, and saying we should work harder to master an
+everyday part of our lives is something to be derided and insulted?
+
+
+     Jeannette has been unjustly maligned in this conversation, for sayin=
+g
+something that totally reconciles with the nature of this program: to
+always shoot for the absolute best.  And those of you who jumped on her f=
+or
+this should be ashamed of yourselves.
+
+
+     You don't want to learn standard english?  Fine.  You don't have to.
+Just don't ever leave your neighborhood, because the people three blocks
+down feel the same way about THEIR language and THEIR culture, and they'r=
+e
+every bit as entitled as you are.  M=1Egw=7Ftz=1F!B=7FAnd then we will ha=
+ve more and more
+neighborhoods and communiites that can't communicate with each other, tha=
+t
+can't deal with one another, that fight with each other.  I'm all for it.
+It makes for great drama.
+
+
+     Maybe you've heard about it...the Tower of Babel.
+
+
+     And if that makes me an elitist...I couldn't be happier.  Because
+only being an elitist, a perfectionist, striving to be better than the
+next guy, has given us an Einstein and a Jorge Luis Borges and a Santayan=
+a.
+ It has given us Nelson Mandela and the Beatles and Churchill and everyon=
+e
+who has ever won an olympic foot race in the last thousand years.
+
+
+     A society is measured by the marks left by the best of us.  Any
+society that forgets this is on the downward slide.  Elitism is an
+evolutionary stance.  It's not a bad word.  It respects that which is
+(to that culture or society) best and brightest in all of us, the potenti=
+al
+we have for greatness.  "An elite squadron" means that they're the best
+they are at what they do.  "An elite few" means the same thing.
+
+
+     Elitist?  Hey, Jeannette...if it's true, wear it as a badge, because
+that's what it is.
+
+
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1995 19:09:52 -0500
+Subject: A few questions for JMS
+
+     Expect a gap over the Christmas period, with new episodes (after the
+current batch) starting up in late January for the February sweeps.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1995 20:12:45 -0500
+Subject: Attn JMS: Story Breaking?
+
+     Okay, first a disclaimer: no one method of creating a story is
+intrinsically better or worse than any other...it depends on what works
+for you.  Telling someone how to make their story is like telling someone
+how to have sex; sometimes the suggestion is well received, but generally
+you just piss the other person off.
+
+
+     To the heart of your question now....
+
+
+     As you note, the ST shows use a process called "breaking" a story;
+in which you get everybody in a room, they all begin kicking around ideas,
+picking at the story, while someone writes down on a board what the group
+comes up with.
+
+
+     I don't use that, and frankly, I hate it.  What happens, I feel, is
+that a group dynamic comes into the picture and you get something that
+has been committee-ized, and there's no longer any one distinctive
+voice.  It goes through so many diverse hands that by the end all of the
+corners have been knocked off.  When I look at most committee-ized
+stories, regardless of show, my usual reaction is, "It took TEN of you to
+write THIS?"
+
+
+     I sit down, I come up with a story I like, I pull it apart to make
+sure it makes sense, and I write it.  When a freelancer works with me, I
+assign the notion, or listen to the pitch, and then send the writer away
+to work up the story into an outline.  Then we discuss it, one on one.
+Then it gets written, and sometimes I rewrite it afterwards if needed.
+There are no creative committees in B5; that's why you never see more than
+one name on a script.  Whether it's a freelancer or an in-house script,
+we respect the original voice of the individual writer.
+
+
+                                                          jms
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1995 20:13:31 -0500
+Subject: Matters of Honor (re B5 s
+
+     I don't consider the "bonehead maneuver" to be technobabble, for
+several reasons.  For starters, the "babble" part isn't there; TB goes
+on into long explanations of neutrino waves and particle theory and
+elements that have to be recalibrated, on and on and on....
+
+
+     Second, a prime requisite for TB is that it's a technology that
+comes out of nowhere, artifically invented to create a problem and/or
+create a solution.  Neither applies here; we've seen jump gates and
+jump points now for three years; we've seen them disrupted in "The
+Long Twilight Struggle."  It was just using the tech we've already
+established.
+
+
+     In a way, it's kind of unfair that we get hammered when we use a
+little teeny piece of technology because ST has abused it for so man
+years.  That's not our fault, and one shouldn't develop a kneejerk
+response so that ANY reference to technology becomes technobabble.  If
+that's the case, then the term becomes meaningless.
+
+
+     This is, also, a *science* fiction show; if sometimes we have a
+touch of science, it's the nature of the show; you can't have SF
+without at least some measure of tech...otherwise you've got fantasy.
+The day we do a page and a half of discussions about particles being
+recalibrated, particles that didn't exist twenty minutes before the
+need became apparent, *then* we can get gigged on technobabble.
+
+
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1995 20:18:10 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Jumppoint Question
+
+     Usually detectors in the ships prevent them from being formed on
+top of something vital (though sometimes you *want* to do that as a
+weapon)...and we *have* seen other POV shots of the gate opening, including
+one from the back of the jump gate toward the oncoming ships (I think it
+was in "All Alone").
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1995 21:25:47 -0500
+Subject: Hope JMS answers this...
+
+      We will eventually see more than one vorlon at a time, yes.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1995 21:26:38 -0500
+Subject: JMS:  Matters of Honor (spoile
+
+     Be of good cheer; the jumpgate blast destroyed the pursuing vessel.
+
+
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1995 21:27:10 -0500
+Subject: MoH observation (SPOILER)
+
+     Yeah, we made some small modifications to the headpiece (good call,
+Corun).  It merges more seamlessly behind, it's raised slightly at the
+crest, and the ends blend more smoothly into the skin in front, to make
+the whole thing more natural.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1995 21:30:23 -0500
+Subject: Re: B5 rips off Trek Again! (T
+
+     I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly
+angelic character), whose likes have been written about for, oh, about
+4,000 years, is ripping off Star Trek, has his head so thoroughly up his
+ass as to have blipped into an entirely new intestinally-based reality
+and desperately needs to get a wider frame of reference.
+
+
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1995 21:31:07 -0500
+Subject: ATTN:JMS - Tampa Tribune Babyl
+
+     John: thanks; we got a copy of the article when it ran out here.
+It's progress, slow but steady.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1995 21:31:54 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Influences?
+
+      I've now caught up on more of this discussion, and I think that
+introductions are definitely in order.
+
+
+      Tom McLean, Thaxton and Fuller; Thaxton and Fuller, Tom McLean.
+
+
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1995 21:32:22 -0500
+Subject: ATTN: JMS  I'll send you TV We
+
+     Yes, the address is correct; I look forward to getting the material.
+And thanks for staying out there and supporting the show.
+
+
+                                                            jms
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1995 21:36:24 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Pgh review (& very minor
+
+     David: thanks, and I'm pleased that the show has that effect.  It is
+a moving, effective episode, I think.  (Got a copy of the article,
+thanks.)
+
+
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1995 22:09:18 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: More SF less plot
+
+     Without character development, no one really cares about the science
+aspect, because it doesn't affect anyone we care about.  Science fiction
+is composed of two parts: the science, which we deal with where we can,
+and where it's appropriate to the story, and the fiction, which must hew
+to the rules of any fiction...characters you care about.  To skew the show
+toward techie and away from plot or character is just to engage in mental
+exercises about what effect component X might have on tachyon B...and I
+tend not to find that terribly interesting.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1995 22:09:59 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Another "Paving The
+
+     The effect of B5 is something that we'll only be able to really
+gauge over time; for me to say it's had an effect in paving the way for
+other shows in an unequivocal tone of voice would be indulgent and
+self-congratulatory, and maybe *partly* true, but to what extent, who
+knows?
+
+
+     I do know that we've shown for the first time that there's room for
+other space SF series than Star Trek.  We haven't yet broken through in a
+huge way (nor do I really expect us to), but after this long the ratings
+are still solid enough, and the demographics solid enough, that we're
+still here, wheras Pointman and Time Trax and Space Rangers have all gone
+away.
+
+
+     Would Fox have gone with Space A&B had there not been a B5?  I don't
+know.  The network is very happy (rightly so) with what Morgan and Wong
+did for them on X-Files, and was looking for a new berth for them, so it
+is entirely possible they would have made something with them regardless.
+Would it have been a space show?  As likely as not.
+
+
+     Did we make it a bit easier?  I hope so.  Don't know it for certain,
+except that by using CGI as consistently as we have, as well as we have,
+THAT element was, I'm sure, partly the reason they went ahead, because
+it'd be a hideously costly show to do with models, and we were the first
+show to use CGI (beating Space Rangers there), and the first to show it
+could be used consistently in this fashion.
+
+
+     I also know that we've had many producers come to us and ask to be
+shown how we do things on this show to produce the quality we have at the
+price we have.  The Babylon 5 Model, they call it, and that will certainly
+help create an atmosphere where more shows can be done.
+
+
+     And, finally, for the first time, we negotiated a syndicated series
+deal with the local IATSE union, which will almost certainly attract more
+shows back to LA for syndication and cable.  (Many shows have gone to
+Canada or Australia because they were afraid of trying to make a deal with
+local unions, that it would cost too much to make it here.  So there had
+never been a syndicated TV contract until we sat down and worked one out.)
+
+
+     So overall, it's my *hope* that we will have made it easier for other
+SF shows to get on the air; do I *know* this to be true?  Not with
+absolute certainty.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1995 22:23:58 -0500
+Subject: Episode Review (Fall of Night)
+
+      Paul: I'd suggest that many of the "dumb things" about the episode
+are things you've concocted in your own perception.
+
+
+     Much of your message is based on the premise that shadow shipw
+(ships) can cloak...from this follows your notes about how come it's so
+easy to break, on and on.  Shadow ships don't have cloaking devices.  They
+phase in and out of hyperspace, that's all (as you'll see more clearly in
+"Matters").  That's also why they can be seen in hyperspace (your other
+concern).  You're making an assumption, that they can cloak, and then
+using this as a basis for criticizing that cloaking being done
+inconsistently, when the basic premise you're applying is incorrect.
+
+
+     The shadows don't much care about if you can track them, because if
+you try, you're dead.
+
+
+     We haven't "deteriorated" Paul.  The error was in making assumptions
+instead of simpy first asking if a given premise was accurate.
+
+
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1995 22:42:00 -0500
+Subject: Re: B5's Plot holes
+
+     When a movie or book is over, one can analyze the plot holes; right
+now there are a few things that have to be paid off, but there aren't any
+plot holes that I am aware of.
+
+
+                                                          jms
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1995 05:07:25 -0500
+Subject: Notes from jms
+
+     Several items:
+
+
+     1) For those in the LA area, I'm going to be at LosCon at the Burbank
+Airport Hilton on Thanksgiving Sunday, I think it's around 1:00 for a 2
+hour B5 presentation.  Don't know yet if any cast will attend, but there
+should be some interesting stuff.
+
+
+     2) Normally I don't flog the merchandise, but I gotta tell you, today
+I saw the pennultimate version of the B5 screensaver from Sound Sources,
+and it's *gorgeous*.  There are 150 still images, each with .wav sounds,
+including music in many places, PLUS technical files, PLU
+video/sound/music sections where you can see a Vorlon ship dock, see the
+Cortez come out of the gate, see the Streib attack, see Starfuries dropping
+and jumping...I was just knocked out by it.  They've done a *great* job
+on it.  (These are the same folks who did the recent Terminator screen
+saver.)  Apparently it'll be out in time for Christmas, but it's going to
+be a *limited edition*, so you may have to act quickly when it hits the
+stands if you want one.  (I'm definitely going to be using it.)
+
+
+     3) If you've been abused by Ford A. Thaxton, I suggest you drop a
+line to postmaster@aol.com and let them know about it; do it soonish, btw.
+  (I *think* that's the correct address for the AOL administration folks;
+if not, somebody can correct it.)  Given that this abuse has been going on
+now for nearly a year, and shows no sign of relenting, and some have asked
+privately and publicly what can be done, I see no reason why this should
+not be pointed out here.
+
+
+     4) There's a B5 magazine out now, which (although I still don't have
+a finished copy in hand yet) (he said pointedly) (or a copy of the issue
+of Foundation that printed my article, hello, editor Edward James, can
+you hear me?)...anyway, it's a pretty nifty little magazine.  When I met
+with the editor working on it, I specifically noted that they should not
+turn the magazine into a puff piece...let there be some rough edges, and
+hard questions.  (So I kind of dropped my face into my hands when I read
+some of the stuff about how Claudia spends her off-time...and a few other
+choice items...but still, it's best to have it absolutely straight.)
+
+
+     5) To the questions about ratings that have arisen of late...the key
+to any discussion of ratings is real simple: Is the show getting the
+ratings it needs to stay on the air?  If it is, then it does; if it
+doesn't...it's gone.  Where Time Trax and Pointman and Space Rangers are
+gone...we're still here.  Because the numbers crunch.  It sure as hell
+ain't because of my sterling personality and good looks.  Studios and
+networks aren't in the charity business; they're here to make successful
+programs.
+
+
+     The problem with B5 is the unusual situation that we're in, in terms
+of stations, times, and number-crunching.  So I thought I'd take a moment
+to explain some of this.  There are three elements to the ratings: the
+ratings numbers (where you are in the rankings overall), of which one
+component is the hourly rating; the shares; and the demographics.  The
+latter two are the more important figures.  The share is the actual
+percentage of people watching television who are watching your show; so
+a 10 share means 10% of everyone watching TV at that moment is watching
+your program.  The demographics tells the studio/network what kind of
+people are watching...WHO, as opposed to how many.
+
+
+     For instance...here are two hypothetical shows.  One gets a high
+rating, the other a medium or low rating?  Which is more profitable for
+the studio/network?  It can very easily be the *lower rated* show, IF
+that program delivers the choice demographics that advertisers want to
+reach.  Which is why many lower-rated Fox shows are more profitable to
+that network than many CBS shows, which skew toward an older audience
+with less disposable income.  (Ick, TeeVee numbers talk....)  The relative
+costs of the show are also a factor.
+
+
+     The final thing to factor in is that B5 is in the positino of being
+on a number of stations that are primarily either Fox or UPN stations.
+Meaning we get bumped a lot, or we get the 3 a.m. slot.  This is primarily
+true in the smaller markets; in the big markets, the show generally gets a
+better berth.  You live or die by the ratings in the big markets, because
+those are the areas the advertisers want.
+
+
+     (And if you've stayed with me this far, you're far more patient than
+I would be...this stuff gives me a headache on the best of days.)
+
+
+     Now that we've established the language, we proceed....
+
+
+     The demographics for B5 are among the best around in syndication,
+which is why we have generally attracted leading national sponsors to the
+show.  So virtually all of the commercial spots are now sold out for the
+third season, at a rate that PTEN is *very* happy about.  (Some of the Big
+Guns from WB/PTEN have come out to the stage over the last week, simply
+to congratulate us on how the show is doing.)
+
+
+     On the national numbers, we get hit a little because of the problem
+with the smaller markets/Fox and UPN stations noted above.  I'll walk you
+through an example.
+
+
+     Take "Comes the Inquisitor."  Here are some of the individual market
+ratings.  (And by way of comparison, anything above a 3 rating and a 6
+share is golden for advertisers on this show.)  St. Louis, a 3.5 rating
+and an *11* share; Portland OR, a 6.7 rating and a 10 share; Kansas City,
+a 7.0 rating and an 11 share; Orlando a 2.5 and a *13* share (you now see
+how the ratings/share issue can get confusing; you can be in a small
+market, so your rating is small, but the *share*, the percentage of actual
+people watching your show, can be extremely high).  For the next couple
+of episodes, you find Kansas City with *another* 7 rating/13 share;
+Portland OR with an 8.4/13; Minneapolis with a 4.7/8; Baltimore with a
+5.0/7...on and on and on.
+
+
+     Then you factor in the smaller stations, over three periods.  First
+you get the Combined Overnight Average, which for Inquisitor was 3.6 and
+a 5 share (very good).  The second figure is the Monday-Wednesday average
+of the stations playing it during that period, which jumps to a 4.4 and a
+7 share (*extremely* good).  The rest of the days, Thurs-Sun, are mainly
+in the smaller markets, where we're on weird hours, or get pre-empted a
+lot.  Now you finally factor in *those* numbers, and you come out to a
+national average figure of 3.4 (no shares are given in national averages,
+btw).  Which is fine, and in any event, the main numbers that matter are
+the major markets in any event.  But even if the majors were far less than
+they are, the national average is still enough to give advertisers what
+they want.
+
+
+     All that matters to these folks is cold, hard math...and the math
+supports Babylon 5.  So we stay on the air.  It's really about that
+simple.  That's the ultimate response to anyone casting doubts on what
+we're getting.  If we weren't getting good numbers, we wouldn't be here.
+Period.  (And our ratings are increasing, btw....taking the last batch
+in order, the Monday-Wednesday average for B5 went from a 4.1 rating and
+a 6 share, to a 4.3 rating and a 6 share, to a 4.4 rating and a 7 share,
+to a 4.6 rating and a 7 share.  We're adding viewers in a slow, but very
+steady fashion.  Those are the kinds of numbers studios and networks LOVE
+to see...a nice, straight, upward incline.
+
+
+     (Here in LA, this week we again beat DS9 in the local ratings,
+with B5 getting a 5.8 rating and a 9 share, and DS9 getting a 5.9 rating
+and an 8 share; again, the share being the critical number.)
+
+
+     This is, overall, more than I have ever wanted to write or even think
+about the ratings.  But a lot of folks have asked lately, so I thought I'd
+take a moment, since the numbers have started coming in, to go over the
+facts and figures, and try -- as best I can -- to explain them.  The
+formulae used to compute profitability and ratings and shares and rankings
+is somewhere just short of alchemy and a bit further than necromancy; I
+barely follow them (mathematics not Zathras' skill)...all I know is that
+WB is happy, and if WB is happy, and PTEN is happy, we're happy, because
+that means we get to stay on the air and continue telling our story.
+
+
+     6) I may not have mentioned it here, but Michael York will be guest
+starring in "A Late Delivery from Avalon," episode #12.  And Walter Koenig
+is slated to be in #14, "Ship of Tears," as well as in "Dust to Dust"
+(whose number I've just forgotten...I think it's
+#7).
+
+
+     7) If you haven't done so yet, check out the Wallace and Grommitt
+tapes and/or laserdisks.  I'm going to keep after you until you do; they
+are just terrific.  Best and funnkiest stop motion I've ever seen.
+
+
+     8) We're nearly finished shooting episode #10, "Severed Dreams,"
+which forms the final part of a kind of three-pronged arc right in the
+middle of the season, inclusive of episodes 8 and 9, "Messages From
+Earth" and "Point of No Return."
+
+
+     "Messages," for my money, is so far the best we've ever done, though
+I'll be more able to lock that down once I've seen the final CGI.  It and
+"Dreams" are real CGI blowouts; in the latter, there are literally 100
+shots -- CGI, live action, and compositing -- in *four pages* of action.
+This is an all time record for us (and that doesn't count the stuff earlier
+in the episode).
+
+
+     I don't usually go this far, but folks, let me give you my personal
+guarantee: you're in for one hell of a ride come mid-season, with these
+three episodes.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1995 19:46:55 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: is Kosh the last Vor
+
+     The Vorlons are one of the remaining ancient races; Kosh is one of
+the Vorlons, not the last of them.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1995 07:28:21 -0500
+Subject: JMS... effects question...
+
+     When the fighting staff expanded, it was CGI; physical otherwise.
+
+
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1995 07:28:48 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: front and back
+
+     We established in the pilot that Vorlon ships tend to emerge engines
+first to quickly decelerate, then turn around and enter forward.
+
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1995 07:37:40 -0500
+Subject: Attn JMS: What was that noise?
+
+     No, you heard something, all right...just a little bit of shadow whisper
+for those who got it; those who don't, won't notice.
+
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1995 07:38:16 -0500
+Subject: Re: B5 on TNT!
+
+     To clarify some growing misunderstandings: TNT will begin showing B5
+episodes only *after* the series has run its course, and at that time, it
+will acquire the full run, not just one year.
+
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1995 07:38:57 -0500
+Subject: Will Kim Strauss appear in 3rd
+
+      Yes, Kim is in the third season.
+
+
+                                                          jms
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1995 04:45:10 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Maybe setting recor
+
+      Actually, the point raised is a valid one; I'd omitted the British
+shows because they tend to be more author driven in any event; McGoohan
+probably wrote 90% of The Prisoner (under various names), and there have
+been similar examples elsewhere.  I was mainly thinking of American TV.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1995 23:24:42 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  New Opening Sequenc
+
+     The music is indicative of the mood this season.
+
+
+     And thanks.
+
+
+                                                        jms
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1995 23:25:28 -0500
+Subject: * A ????? of Vorlons *  (was:
+
+     That would be a conspiracy of vorlons.
+
+
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 16 Nov 1995 22:00:52 -0500
+Subject: whatever happened to... ?
+
+     Na'Toth was back on Narn during the attack; the actor who plays Lou
+has gone on to other projects, and we haven't heard the last of General
+Hague....
+
+
+                                                     jms
+
+Date: 16 Nov 1995 22:01:43 -0500
+Subject: Scientology and B5?
+
+     There is absolutely, positively, NO scientology link or refrence in
+the name markabs.  I find the organization generally abhorrent.
+
+
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 16 Nov 1995 22:02:54 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Season 3 title
+
+     Mainly because the new title for year 3 is more appropriate to teh
+feel of this season.
+
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Nov 1995 22:32:42 -0500
+Subject: Answer to Impossible Question
+
+     In theory, the final episodes would air in the summer of 1998.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 16 Nov 1995 22:33:51 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Hiatus question
+
+     Currently filming episode #11; the actors get a Christmas break from
+12/14 to 1/2.  I'll be home writing for all of that.
+
+
+                                                            jms
+
+Date: 16 Nov 1995 22:34:18 -0500
+Subject: Re: Notes from jms
+
+     Theron, quite frankly, fuck off.  This is none of your concern.  I
+have received multiple notes from people asking what can they do about
+harrassment and insults and abuse from Ford.  I responded and gave them
+the option, and let others similarly bothered know how to respond.  IF
+no one has been abused, no one will notify AOL.  If they have, then they
+will.  I didn't ask people to go out and just write complaining mail,
+the letter was *specifically* directed toward those who genuinely feel
+they've been abused.
+
+
+     And I'd like to know where the hell you get off sticking your nose
+in here.  You sit there saying I should be held accountable for every
+word I write here...so why shouldn't others be held equally accountable?
+Double standard.  But that's what I've come to expect from you.
+
+
+     It's real simple, Theron.  It's called democracy.  If people feel
+they've been abused, they have the right to say so.
+
+
+                             jms
+
+Date: 16 Nov 1995 22:35:16 -0500
+Subject: JMS: B5 and TV Guide?
+
+     As far as TV Guide is concerned, we're perennially a stealth program;
+can't find it with radar, sonar, AWACS....
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 16 Nov 1995 22:37:35 -0500
+Subject: Attn JMS: Don't tell me how to
+
+      You're confusing several different issues.  Of *course* people have
+the right to comment on the show; hell, that's been going on here, both
+positive and negative, since the pilot film.  You can like something, or
+not like something.  But if somebody gets up an attitude and says, "Hey,
+I watch your show, and I have a right to input, and you should do your
+show THIS way from now on," that person is going to be told to bug off.
+That the show is seen by many folks gives them an interest, and that's
+great; but there's a line in *proprietary* interest that can't be
+crossed.  The show that has attracted people is what I've chosen to put
+in; if enough people like it, they'll continue to watch; if not, not.
+
+
+                                                              jms
+
+Date: 18 Nov 1995 20:00:08 -0500
+Subject: Questions for JMS
+
+     The rim, and the "veil" beyond which the bulk of the First Ones
+passed, is the Galactic rim.  As for why the shadows are doing what
+they're doing...that's kind of the key to the whole thing, which we
+haven't turned yet.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1995 00:11:02 -0500
+Subject: Re: B5's Plot holes
+
+      Re: Minbari lying...it has been established, repeatedly, that the
+Minbari do lie *when it means saving someone else's honor*.  That was
+even stated, openly, in the very same episode about Sheridan's frame
+job, "There All The Honor Lies."  Londo says, right there, that the
+Minbari will lie for a greater cause, another's honor.  The same was done
+in "The Quality of Mercy."  Delenn fibbed about the ship in "Matters"
+because in so doing, she saved Sheridan's honor.
+
+
+     This is not a plot hole, it's been established clearly in the series
+on multiple occasions.  We have never, ever, at any time said conclusively
+that Minbari never, ever lie.  This is another example of certain persons
+simply not paying attention, and then blaming the show for their own lack
+of continuity in attention.
+
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1995 00:12:45 -0500
+Subject: ATT JMS Why not show eposide i
+
+      Because most Americans have TV sets 21" or smaller, letterboxing
+doesn't work in that framework.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1995 06:09:39 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Story Breaking?
+
+     What I do is this: I get a pad of legal-sized paper, and divide it
+into six quadrants, all on the same page, standing for teaser, four acts
+and tag.  I drop the beats of the story into the relevant places where I
+think they'd logically fall (the big moments always go at act breaks).
+This way I can see the entire flow of the story at one glance, which is
+important for getting a feel for the episode.  If one act gets over
+burdened, I just draw a line moving one beat to another act.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1995 06:09:59 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Series Time equal "R
+
+     Yes, one year of story time equals 1 year of "real" time.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1995 06:10:22 -0500
+Subject: attn jms:ratings
+
+      Our ratings have been consistently rising since we went back on
+with new episodes.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1995 06:10:37 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS... effects question...
+
+      If you didn't notice the effect, that's good; you shouldn't in
+many cases.  (How many folks noticed that the two-story shot of the
+blown sector of Convictions after the elevator boom is a digitally
+composited set, using two different sets?)
+
+
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1995 06:10:54 -0500
+Subject: MoH final scene hole (SPOILERS
+
+     Yes, Endawi is more or less a good guy, in that he's totally
+uninvolved with Morden or anyone on that side.  He was doing what he said
+he'd been assigned to do.
+
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1995 06:08:29 -0500
+Subject: JMS: Budget breakdown?
+
+     I can't give you specifics, because that stuff is generally
+considered private.  One thing I can say...there's what called "above
+the line" and "below the line;" above the line includes the total
+costs for cast, producers, writers, directors, and the like; below the
+line is construction, art department, makeup, costume, and so on.
+
+
+     On the average show, the above the line is as much as two thirds
+of the total budget, in large measure because the producing staff is
+large, and the producers take out huge budgets.  In the case of B5, the
+above the line is less than *half* the total budget.  Every penny of
+our budget is up there on the screen.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1995 06:12:48 -0500
+Subject: <<<JMS:  Brother Theo???>>>>
+
+      We'll see Theo here and there as we go along this season.
+
+
+                                                               jms
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1995 06:13:00 -0500
+Subject: JMS quoted in Animaniacs
+
+      I think it's right fine to be quoted; hope they won't mind now when
+a quick shot of the Tasmanian Devil Jr. rolls through B5....
+
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1995 07:20:38 -0500
+Subject: ATTN: JMS - Thanks & a Questio
+
+     I do plan to do more with Ivanova this season, yes, and get her out
+of C&C a bit more often.  (Especially in "Voices of Authority," coming
+up.)  Do I ever sleep?  Take a look at the timestamp on this message....
+
+
+                                                           jms
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1995 07:20:56 -0500
+Subject: What to get jms for christmas?
+
+      jms does not like christmas.  jms does not DO christmas.  do not
+send jms anything.  ANYdamnthing.  is jms absolutely, totally, crystal
+clear on this issue?
+
+
+                                                             jms
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1995 20:57:25 GMT
+Subject: Re: What to get jms for christmas?
+
+>       jms does not like christmas.  jms does not DO christmas.  do not
+> send jms anything.  ANYdamnthing.  is jms absolutely, totally, crystal
+> clear on this issue?
+> 
+>                                                              jms
+)
+
+
+Not even a nice teddy bear?
+
+
+Wait, Joe, put that down, I didn't really mean, ow, ugh, umph...!
+
+
+DKB
+
+Date: 20 Nov 1995 16:41:20 -0500
+Subject: Antique pens
+
+      Actually, just to correct, the gift from President Santiago in
+Hunter, Prey was not a pen but a watch; and the pen in Fall of Night was
+a gift from Lantz's wife, not the President.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1995 18:32:22 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: B5 background detail
+
+      Yeah, that info will probably become available eventually, but I
+don't currently know when or in what form.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1995 18:32:41 -0500
+Subject: JMS: are Monks flip-side of te
+
+      No, I wouldn't think of them in technomage terms; if you look at the
+history of many of these orders, they've generally pulled together people
+of varying skills.  Ain't really that new an idea....
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1995 18:34:22 -0500
+Subject: 9 Billion Names of God and Bro
+
+       No, there's no connection whatsoever.  The Tibetan monks in the
+story were specifically coming up with all the names of god in order to
+bring about the end of the world; Theo et al have come as an exercise in
+comparative religion, to learn what the other races call god, and how it
+compares.  As others have done before, right here on good old earth.
+
+
+                                                            jms
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1995 18:36:30 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: What *would* you do
+
+     First thing I'd do is increase the fees paid to the cast and crew,
+who deserve to share in what they've done.
+
+
+     Then I'd allocate the rest to: expanding and improving our sets and
+costumes; renting a secondary stage facility to give us more blue screen
+potential, where can get further back from the subject and create better
+looking composites...and build more standing sets rather than switching
+sets in and out of the stage; I'd do more planetside stuff, and more CGI
+in the course of a season.
+
+
+     It wouldn't so much change the show as make us able to more fully
+realize the story visually.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1995 18:37:25 -0500
+Subject: Great War  - Mental vs. P
+
+      Actually, in the comic, you never saw shadows influencing anyone's
+mind; you saw their humanoid (in this case) servents doing this.
+
+
+                                                                jms
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1995 18:37:43 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: You set fire to Doug
+
+      Actually, you're confusing incidents; it was my office door that
+got set afire (back at Filmation), and it was Larry, not Doug, because I
+had stolen the platen out of his typewriter as part of that day's planned
+warfare campaign.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1995 18:38:00 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS:  New Sets and Lack o
+
+     We had considered refurbishing C&C, but didn't get around to it this
+season.
+
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1995 18:38:18 -0500
+Subject: Legal _B5_ Marathon? Need Advi
+
+     Insofar as I understand it, if one is showing the tapes one made
+oneself, and is not charging for admission, there's not a problem.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1995 19:34:35 -0500
+Subject: Joke Source(Convictions Spoile
+
+      I don't actually know for certain the origin of the joke; it was all
+over the nets, and the BBSs, uploaded places with several gazillion other
+lightbulb jokes (after I'd made the original version of this in the show),
+which is why I figured I'd drop it into the episode, since it was so common
+and associated with the nets.  While in the UK, I met a young man who said
+that he had been the first with that variation, and I have no reason not
+to believe him.  (A couple other people sent me email saying that they
+had also come up with that one; it's kind of obvious I guess, but again,
+I have no way of knowing what's true because it was just all over the
+place, never with attribution.)
+
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1995 04:32:32 -0500
+Subject: ATTN: JMS Thanks for Marcus' l
+
+     It's predictable that I'd put someone into the show with who's a guy
+with thick, long hair...since every time I look in the mirror I realize
+more and more that where I'm concerned, thick, long hair will always be
+an unattainable, science fiction concept....
+
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1995 04:32:34 -0500
+Subject: ATTN JMS: Vir in "A Day in the
+
+     You will see Vir many times again in the course of the third season.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1995 01:09:28 -0500
+Subject: jms resigns rastb5
+
+I've been debating this step for, quite literally, months now.
+What has finally tipped the balance is seeing the extent to which
+rastb5 has been virtually taken hostage by a very few people
+who have no interest in this forum except to tear down this show
+in general, and me in particular.
+To that effect, they lie, manufacture facts, speculate based on
+premises that have no basis whatsoever in reality, engage in smear
+campaigns, insult and abuse users of this area, drop innuendo when
+they have nothing else to grab onto...they leap into threads that
+should by all rights be reasonably safe from flame and turn them
+into referendums on whether or not jms is a liar, in the kind of
+logic that stems from "are you still beating your wife?" premises.
+
+
+The progression is always the same: a smear message, or an outright
+fabrication, gets posted; it generates heated replies from other
+users; those users are then attacked for being unthinking followers
+or sycophants (when the reality is that the original message was
+bone-headed and simply *wrong), thus ensuring that the conversation
+is not about the subject anymore, but rather the conversation becomes
+about the conversation...and in that form, it can go on forever,
+spreading out into more and more threads until all you see after a
+while are flames in every direction.
+
+
+I try to stay out of it as much as I can...but sooner or later
+something so odious, so despicable, such an obvious, irredeemable lie
+gets posted that I lose my temper and have to respond.  I sit here,
+and take sucker punches to the face, every single time I sign on from
+some of the outrageous stuff that goes on here; I take it quietly,
+but after you're punched in the face three, four, five times a day,
+for weeks at a time, damn it sooner or later you're going to hit back,
+and hard.  And that's when the same cadre of imbeciles comes back and
+says, "Gee, look at that, see how badly he behaves?"
+
+
+More and more lately, I have been signing on here, and by the time I
+log off, I'm furious.  Furious for the unsubstantiated character
+assassination directed against me...and over the course of the year
+plus I've been here, not one -- not ONE -- of the allegations from
+Fuller, Fuller or Thaxton have *ever* been proven out, but they just
+forget that and move on to the next attack...as well as the attacks
+on other users here who have chosen to defend me against these
+baseless attacks.
+
+
+In the past, where it's been just a few threads here and there, and
+I knew what they were, I could just avoid them.  But in their
+ceaseless attacks, designed to provoke a response from me, they
+have begun throwing their nets consistently wider, so that they're
+all over the place; I can't avoid the hassles and the grief.  And
+if I see some of this crap, which is untrue and unfair and designed
+for no other reason than to cause me grief...I get angry, and when
+I get angry, I can't write, and that hurts the show.
+
+
+And I will not allow the show to be hurt.  When it crosses that
+line...it stops.  One way or another.
+
+
+I've tried reasonable appeals; those were taken as signs of weakness,
+turned into further attacks, and ultimately failed.  I've asked
+people here *not* to respond to these abusive individuals, because
+if they get only silence for their efforts, they will go away; they
+live for the echo of pain caused by their words; find validation and
+reason to live in that echo.  That failed.  And now the level of
+toxicity has risen to a level that can no longer be tolerated.
+
+
+And before anyone even *tries* to turn this into "oh, joe just doesn't
+want to hear negative stuff about his show, he doesn't want to hear
+any criticism, he just wants to be god" (and you know who you are,
+and fuck you too), it's got *nothing* to do with criticism of the
+show, positive or negative, made from having genuinly thought out
+the problems.  I've always responded well to any kind of criticism
+that is well-considered, and always will.
+
+
+This has to do with a small handful of people who have, through
+their incessant, stalking, compulsive behavior ruined this forum for
+not only me but a great deal of other people who've emailed me to
+say that they don't post here any more, because they've gotten
+tired of being attacked, tired of reading the endless tirades and
+smears and assaults on me and other users.  The good people get
+driven away, and the bad people refuse to go, or to moderate their
+behavior, and there is no mechanism currently in place for others
+here to moderate their behavior.
+
+
+I have become, in many ways, the football used to pull others on
+either side of the line into an ugly and destructive game.  And
+the only way to stop it is to remove the football.
+
+
+So I am posting this as notice that I will be resigning from
+rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 effective the end of the month.  To Ron
+and the Rangers...stop sending me the list at that time.
+
+
+Because the simple reality is that once I'm gone, the prime lure for
+those who've turned this place into a constant flame zone for the
+last year will have left.  And in time, so will they.  It's sad
+when a handful of people can take something that is of value to
+thousands, potentially tens of thousands, of users worldwide, and
+chew away at it until there's nothing left, simply because of their
+own twisted obsession.
+
+
+I cannot go to bed, or get up in the morning, furious over the
+latest offense committed here by the tyrannical few; I've lost
+endless hours sitting here angry over the falsehoods and the
+smears and the innuendo.  I can't afford to do that anymore.
+
+
+And just so they cannot weasel their way out of it later, cannot
+say "well, it wasn't me, it was just the climate, it was the
+fault of those guys over there...look, a comet...." I point the
+finger squarely at the Theron Fuller, Deborah Fuller, and Ford
+Thaxton, with a couple of other accomplices not worthy of comment.
+I hope you enjoy seeing your names in a post by me, folks, since
+that's what seems to excite you, because this particular message
+is likely to be the last.  You've finally succeeded in driving
+me off rastb5, which was clearly your intent from the start.
+
+
+I will continue to be present on CIS, Genie, AOL and a few other
+places, which have more than their share of critical commentaries,
+but are moderated to prevent this kind of abusive behavior.  When
+the rastb5-info group is open, I will post to that area, and take
+questions via that forum.  But I will no longer post to, or read
+the main rastb5 area any longer.  I simply can't afford the
+heartache anymore.
+
+
+The experiment in interaction between viewers and the makers of
+B5 will continue; they just will continue in other places.
+
+
+People ask why more producers don't come on-line.  This is the
+reason.  Because there are some people out there who are obsessed
+with anyone who has even the smallest celebrity (and there ain't
+much smaller celebrity than being a producer); people who feel it
+is their god-given obligation to tear down the other person, and
+to make sure that there cannot *possibly* be anyone in their
+universe more important than they themselves.  They do not sow,
+neither do they reap; they only shred and tear and abuse.
+
+
+If you're ever going to see more producers on-line, you're going
+to have to look seriously into ways to keep the least reputable
+elements from turning it into a bloodbath.  Because when some say,
+as has been said here, "it's my right to say this, and you have to
+take it," the response is, "No, I don't."  If you stay, you become
+an enabler, a co-dependent, who allows the abuse to continue by the
+conscious decision to remain where you can be hit.
+
+
+To the rest of you: I apologize for having to take this step.
+Some of you know how difficult this decision has been for me, the
+long months I've spent debating it back and forth with friends,
+family and other netters.  I have enjoyed the exchange, have learned
+much from the commentaries, and the discussion, have made many
+friends and acquaintances.  Were there any way I could stay, be
+sure that I would.  But when I have to stare at a monitor, when
+a script deadline is upon me, and all I can think of is, "That
+goddamned liar is spreading the same old crap *again*," then
+something has got to go.  In this case, that's me.
+
+
+Because sure as hell, they won't.  Not until their punching bag
+
+
+With the obvious exceptions, I will miss you greatly.  As stated
+above, I'll be here through the end of the month, just to finish
+clearing out stuff, and ease this transition, though probably in
+somewhat reduced capacity.  I hope to see many of you via the new
+info group.  Though the discussion will not be quite so free
+wheeling as it is here, because of the moderated structure there,
+it will be good to look upon your faces (well, your pixels) in
+the months to come there.
+
+
+Again, my apologies.  I wish this could be handled in some other
+way, but that doesn't seem likely.  You cannot know how your
+words, and your efforts, on behalf of B5, have been appreciated
+not just by me, but by everyone involved with the show.  It's
+been a great experience, a chance to learn, and a hell of a ride.
+See you on the flip side.
+
+
+                                   With great affection,
+
+
+                                   J. Michael Straczynski
+
+Date: 1 Dec 1995 04:39:47 -0500
+Subject: from jms: benedictions
+
+     Tonight is the last night of my feed from rastb5, and I wanted to
+send along a quick note to resolve the few last things remaining to be
+discussed or addressed before that happens.
+
+
+     Since my note went up -- raggedly, here and there, due to some
+problems with the server, apparently -- I have now logged slightly over
+900 private email messages in my GEnie mailbox.  This in addition to the
+rest of the feed per se.  I'm slogging through them as fast as I can,
+trying to give personal responses to as many as I humanly can; if over
+the course of the next week or so, if you've sent me a note, and don't
+get a response, assume that either got crunched by the often cranky
+GEnie newsreader system, or it didn't specifically seem to require a
+response...or my hands fell off and rolled under the table.
+
+
+     Nonetheless, a general thank you to everyone who's sent in mail on
+this.  It's disturbing to realize that about 75% of all of the notes thus
+far received begin with a variation on "I used to post on rastb5 (or I
+just lurk on rastb5) but don't post because the atmosphere just got too
+poisoned by the deranged few you mentioned."  Literally hundreds of
+people seem to have been driven from rastb5 by the rampage of a few
+others who don't want to be attacked or abused by those few.  This is
+terribly saddening to realize.  That they have been driven off is more of
+a real issue than my being now in this position.
+
+
+     Anyway...to all those who wrote, I am moved and touched by your
+words, and if there were any way around this, I'd take it.  I know that
+some are working behind the scenes to put together a moderated newsgroup,
+but I don't know if that will happen or not.  The goal of any such should
+not be to eliminate criticism -- heck, there's never been a lack for that
+here or on any of the other systems -- but just to keep out the truly
+dysfunctional.  That may be a very promising route, but I'm not holding
+out much hope that it'll happen.
+
+
+     Surprisingly, the #1 comment that has come in is, "What on earth
+TOOK you so long?  If I were in your shoes I'd've been out of here MONTHS
+ago."  Glutton for punishment, I guess.  Kept thinking we could work a
+way around this.  But as has been pointed out by others, I guess it was
+inevitable.  I didn't see that because I suppose I didn't really want to
+see it, or cop to it, or realize that this was running out on me.  I have
+vastly enjoyed the open lines of communication, have met a great number of
+interesting people both on-line exclusively and even in person in many
+cases.
+
+
+     Anyway, I wish it could be otherwise.  For the most part, you're a
+cute bunch, and I won't even space you for being cute.
+
+
+     (Oh, and speaking of "for the most part," a sidelong glance in the
+direction of Robert Holland is in order, whose latest poison pen letters
+are wonderfully emblematic of the problem here from the start.  He has
+implied since this all came out that in leaving here, I'm somehow "getting
+away with something," that it's nothing to do with him or his ilk here on
+the system, nononononono, can't be that...it's just that I'm on AOL now
+leaving tons of messages by his reckoning, and it'd happen regardless.
+Which is so obviously boneheaded and stupid that it almost doesn't merit
+response...but what the hell....
+
+
+     (The AOL B5 page has, maybe, 1/1,000th the number of users as rastb5;
+I log on maybe every two-three days, and leave maybe a total of 5-10
+messages in the course of a week.  So much for his claim about the total
+number of messages left.  AOL is confined just to the US, and doesn't have
+even a *fraction* of the coverage of rastb5.  But Mr. Holland, in his usual
+subliminal sleazosity, tries to find some subterfuge, some hidden agenda,
+something he can point to in vague terms and wonder what I'm getting away
+with.  This is the game he and the others here play constantly; there is
+nothing they can go after in reality, so they come up with vaguely worded
+allegations with no real core to them, just designed to somehow cast a
+shadow on this show or myself, specifically to get people, myself included,
+to respond, defending when no real charge has been made.  It's the oldest
+trick in the book; get the other person to defend themselves against a
+non-existent charge, in the hope of creating the illusion of smoke and
+the perception of fire...and, of course, getting everyone upset in the
+process.  I fell for it too many times; we all did.  This is the last time
+I will do so.  Mr. Holland belongs in the same company as the rest of his
+associates.  They will *always* find something to complain about, even if
+it means manufacturing it themselves.)
+
+
+     But it's no longer my problem.  Just as it's no longer the problem of
+several hundred others who've logged off here in the last year due to the
+hassles, and the others who have either left, or are about to leave for the
+same reason: the tyranny of the petty dysfunctional.
+
+
+     So we turn back toward the light, and happier topics.  This is, after
+all, a benediction, not a jeremiad.
+
+
+     I'm told that the info area doesn't quite function as I'd thought,
+so we'll see what can be done here.  From time to time, I will try to put
+together a letter from home, as it were, to send here to rastb5; I won't
+see any of the responses to it that aren't emailed directly to me, but
+the intent would be to send along information that might be useful from
+time to time for folks to have.  I'm not expecting to do this very often,
+but will try to do it here and there as I'm able.
+
+
+     In other news...since this I guess kinda counts as such a letter...
+I'm happy to note that the paperwork for the B5 fan club has finally,
+FINALLY, come in in finished form.  Once it's vetted by our people, we
+hope to get it signed and get this long-overdue baby going.  We've had
+a number of discussions about this, and how to handle it, maybe a survey
+of folks to see what kinds of limited-edition items they'd like to see us
+make, maybe a web-page for the club, other options.  (If we should start
+selling limiteds on the EA pins, patches and stuff, what we'll probably
+do is have them made by the same companies that supply us with the real
+props used in the show, so they're absolutely identical in every way, not
+just knockoffs.  It's a little more expensive that way to make, and we
+won't make much of anything off them because we'll keep the prices at a
+reasonable level, but I think that's the way to go.  Neither Doug nor I
+are looking to make this into a profit center; if it can more or less pay
+for itself, and help organize folks, give them something nifty from the
+show, then that's sufficient.)
+
+
+     Oh...and we're investigating the possibility of licensing the damned
+videotapes ourselves, producing them pretty much at cost.  Don't know if
+we can pull this off or not, but we're going to try.
+
+
+     Michael York is currently shooting with us in "A Late Delivery From
+Avalon," and doing an amazing job.  This may turn into one of our best
+episodes, from a performance and emotion perspective.  I had a few doubts
+about the script -- it has a kind of writing style I don't use very often,
+and very stylized in appearance -- but it's coming out great.
+
+
+     Script 15 is entitled "Interludes and Examinations," and has a plot
+turn I hadn't seen coming, but which fits perfectly into the arc; I think
+you're going to be stunned.  (I was.)  As I write this, I've just started
+writing "War Without End, Part One," #316, the first part of the two
+episodes that bring Sinclair to Babylon 5, which we'll shoot sometime
+after the first of the year.  It's been touch and go, but we've finally
+been able to schedule all of the guest cast members from "Babylon Squared"
+for this one, which is the flip side of that episode.  It's probably going
+to be the most expensive show we've done yet, due to the hideous production
+requirements for this one.  It's also the one I'm most nervous about
+writing, even more than "Fall of Night," because an awful lot happens here,
+and it has to be done just right.  It's going to be probably the toughest
+writing job of the series to date.
+
+
+      I'll be putting Sinclair and Sheridan together a lot, which is
+shaping up to be an interesting combination.  We're also going to see
+Minbar for the first time.
+
+
+      (We just now got the finished copy of "Voices of Authority" in; man,
+do I wish we'd had this early enough to run in place of PTG, great as that
+one is.  The EFX are terrific, eye-popping.)
+
+
+     Oh...speaking of eye-popping, I've gotten a copy of the B5 Screen
+Saver/Limited Edition Entertainment CD Rom, and it's nifty.  I suggest it
+to everyone, with a caveat: if you're not a computer neep-neep kind of
+person, have someone help you install the thing.  It took me several
+passes to figure everything out.  And once you DO install it, even though
+it says "do you want all the images?" and you say yes, it doesn't put them
+all on.  Once you've finished -- and I'm putting this here because as far
+as I can tell this isn't documented *anywhere* -- go to the setup menu,
+and hit install.  Make sure your CDrom is in the drive.  Go to the
+Images subdirectory on the CDrom, and you'll suddenly see 150 or so
+images that were *not* installed.  Highlight all of them, copy them over
+to the pdesk/images subdirectory on your hard disk, then add them, and
+select them.  Most neeps out there could probably figure this out, but I
+couldn't, so I pass this along for those who are as computerchip
+challenged as I am.  Once it's all *there*, and actually even before that,
+it's gorgeous...the images are crisp and brilliant, the full-motion video
+stuff is terrific, there's music and sounds and other stuff...I can't
+commend it highly enough.  (Oh, yeah, I think it sometimes bumps up
+against Norton Desktop, but it's only happening on one of my two Dell
+machines running ND, so it may be something I'm doing wrong.)
+
+
+      For those who asked about books...there's going to be a Creating
+Babylon 5 book out from Boxtree Books in the UK this summer.  I just
+finished proofing it, and it's pretty good.  I think the photo selection
+could be better, but the actual text is quite good.
+
+
+      (A pause while jms tries desperately to remember if there's any
+other real hard news to pass along here...and the brain goes blank.)
+
+
+      We're going to be shooting through December 14th, at which point
+we break for the Christmas hiatus through January 2nd.  I hope to take
+some of that time and catch up on scripts a bit.  We'll probably debut
+the first season 3 gag reel at the party.  (Then run like hell.)
+
+
+      OH...yeah, and before I forget (again), to those who asked about
+the Stephen Furst item in TV Guide...he's doing the Chicago Hope show in
+a two-parter, he's not joining the cast of regulars.  The piece in TV
+Guide is ambiguous and can be read that way, much to Stephen's chagrin.
+He'll be doing more shows for us this season.
+
+
+      There's a conference in the Compuserve Convention Center on Saturday
+from 2-3 p.m. Pacific time.  Just me at this point.
+
+
+     Knowing this is the last note I'll be sending for a while, I'm
+tempted to keep shoving stuff in here.  I just realized that I wish this
+didn't have to stop.  But it kinda does, doesn't it?
+
+
+      So...to those of you who have been terrifically helpful to me over
+the term of this long experiment...to the Rangers for filtering out the
+feed and protecting me from story ideas...to Sherry for the great analyses
+of episodes, and Orso for his cogent thoughts...actually, I shouldn't be
+singling people out because I've been forever astonished and gratified at
+some of the brilliant and insightful observations that have floated across
+my monitor in the last year or so.  I've been delighted, amused, impressed,
+floored, dumbfounded, intrigued, awakened, and occasionally horrified
+(usually in a good way).
+
+
+     It is my abiding hope that in return, I've given something of use
+here.  I feel strongly that we cannot hope to control or influence o
+improve a dragon with as many heads as TV until and unless we understand it
+first.  I hope that I've helped a little to demystify how it all works, so
+that folks have a better chance of getting what they *want* rather than
+what some producers or studios want to shove down your throats.  If it has
+served that purpose to any degree, then the exercise has been worthwhile.
+
+
+      My best to all of you.  When I can, I'll try to post messages in a
+bottle and send them along to the group as occasional updates.  Meanwhile,
+take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you
+will forever be led by others.  Find what scares you, and do it.  And
+you *can* make a difference, if you choose to do so.
+
+
+     Babylon Control, clear.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
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+From: straczynski@genie.geis.com
+Date: 30 Dec 1995 07:55:16 -0500
+Subject: Letter Home from jms
+
+     In my last general posting to rastb5, I mentioned that from time to
+time, I'd try to post the occasional "letter to home" just to keep folks
+up to date on matters Babylonian.  Now that I can catch a breather, I
+figured I'd take this opportunity to do so (though since it's 3:15 a.m.,
+this'll likely be short).
+
+     "catching a breather" refers to the script situation.  I've just
+finished writing 316 and 317, the two parter, "War Without End," which was
+a very difficult task, given the amount of story and logistics that had to
+be put into it.  While writing "Babylon Squared," to which this is the
+flip-side, I figured, "Oh, sure, yeah, I can get this all in on the other
+side, no problem," but when it came time to do it, it got awful tight, but
+finally I fit it *all* in.  (Well, all except one teeny, tiny sentence,
+about where Zathras was first seen, and how, 'cause to do what I'd first
+had in mind would've taken another 3 pages, and I didn't have that, so
+that one element I'll have to just deal with later somehow.  But that's
+it.)  Hopefully, one need never have seen B2 in order to watch and follow
+WWE.  (Which was one of the hard parts, since B2 may or may not be aired
+prior to this, all the background information *had* to be in the episodes,
+so that's a lot of background to include.)
+
+     This now leaves 5 episodes to be written for this season.  At this
+point, Lyta should factor strongly in one or two of these, there will be
+some direct confrontations between our side and the shadows, then a really
+nasty final episode for year three.
+
+     I'd suggest, btw, that if there are any folks you've been waiting to
+bring into the fold on B5, you may want to consider 8 and 9 in the new
+cycle, the last of that bunch in February.  Eight is potentially one of
+the best, possibly the best episode we've produced to date.  Much as I'd
+have wished PTEN would've aired 10, the final part of the 3-episode arc
+that changes direction on the show, a week after 9, even though it'd be
+out of sweeps period...it's probably for the best.  When producer George
+Johnson saw the scrpt for #10, "Severed Dreams," he laughed, walked over
+to me and said, "Boy, this is the best episode we're never gonna deliver.
+ARE YOU NUTS?!"
+
+     As an example of "ARE YOU NUTS?!" in "The Fall of Night," in the
+sequence between the first Garden shot and the end of Sheridan's rescue,
+about 6-7 pages of script, there were, I think, about 60 or 65 EFX and
+practical shots.  In just the span of 4 pages in 310 there are roughly
+100 EFX and practical shots.  In EFX terms, it's probably one of the
+biggest shows we've done, so it's better to give Foundation a little extra
+time to get it right rather than rush them.
+
+     (Oh, and lest I forget, yes, Zathras does return in "War," as does
+Sinclair, who has a lot of great scenes with Marcus, Sheridan, Delenn,
+Zathras and others.  It also has some real surprises in store, including
+some flash-forwards from WAY down the line.)
+
+     Another "oh, yeah, I nearly forgot"...for those out there who have
+young kids, or if you're a bit on the squeamish side yourself...there's
+one EFX shot at the end of the teaser for "Exogenesis" that you may want
+to avoid.  When it was finished, John Copeland brought it into my office,
+fired it up on my TV, and looked away, saying, "You look, it creeps me
+out too much to look at it again."  It's...pretty strong.  So you'll miss
+the minimum possible, here's the sequence: first there's the Screaming
+Man (a), then a cutaway to two people (b), then back at the Man for the
+first part of the shot (c), the two people again (d), the man (e), and
+finally the two people.  What you want to avoid, if there are real young
+kids in the room, are shots c and e.  That's it for the whole episode.
+For non-netted folks, it'll go by pretty fast, but I figured it'd be
+worth mentioning as an added piece of info for the netted amongst us.
+
+     ("Exogenesis" is the 2nd episode up, after "Voices of Authority,"
+which premieres the next batch around January 29th.)
+
+     Some more info on the fan club...the announcement that was posted to
+the nets, which appeared on various news wire services, and on-line
+services (authorized reposts) was issued after the basic contract came in
+from WB authorizing us to do the fan club.  This after, oh, well over a
+year of kvetching at them to let us do it.  That's all we have at the
+moment: the contract allowing us to do it, which was signed right before
+the Christmas hiatus.  There's currently no one on staff, there IS no
+staff, until after the 2nd of January.  We've interviewed some folks and
+will make a final decision that week.
+
+     The way this is gonna work is that Doug and I will both contribute
+half the operating expenses for the fan club apiece.  (We feel fairly
+comfortable with this, since the fourth year is currently looking pretty
+good.)  We'll either run it through Babylonian Productions, or set up a
+separate company for it.  (Note: NDE does not own the fan club, and I do
+not work for NDE in any capacity whatsoever; it's a totally separate
+entity, owned entirely by Doug Netter.  Doug's company produced The Wild
+West miniseries/documentary, is doing Hypernauts with Ron Thornton; I
+have/had nothing to do with either.  Because Netter Digital Entertainment
+has a staff, whereas Synthetic Worlds Ltd. is mainly just me, NDE offered
+to put out the release on this.)
+
+     Once the fan club is set up either way, as in-house BPI or as its own
+company, the person hired to run it will report directly to me, and I will
+share final authority of it with Doug, though as with most of the licensing
+stuff, that generally gets deferred to me anyway.  Our hope is that the
+fan club will earn enough to break even its first year; if we do that,
+we'll be doing great.  On the boards are a newsletter, probably quarterly
+to start, then monthly if the need is seen.  (This is all still being
+worked out in detail, so don't take any of this as canon yet.  I'll be able
+to be clearer after the first week of the year.)
+
+     We're going to get the same sub-companies and suppliers to produce
+a small number of items that produce them for the show, so they're 100%
+authentic.  We're currently looking at doing links, EA badges, a selection
+of patches, Sheridan's EAS AGAMEMNON cap from "Knives," some scripts,
+maybe photos (we're still debating this)...and we're going to go back and
+ask permission to do the videos on a limited edition basis.  So it's not
+going to be a lot of stuff, just enough so we hope it can pay for itself
+after a while.  None of the areas we're going to be doing are currently in
+conflict with any other licensee of B5 material.
+
+     Similarly, we'll probably set up a B5 fan club web page, which will
+not conflict with the AOL or WWW web pages since the plans are to design
+it *specifically* for just the fan club members, which would be a fairly
+modest portion of the online community.  We mainly figure it'll be used
+for signing onto the club, ordering one of the aforementioned items, or
+linking off to other sites.  (We hope to include information on stuff being
+produced by other companies as well, to help folks find this stuff.)
+
+     We're told by the media sales folks at WB that the commercial spots
+for B5 are sold out through the third quarter of 96, at extremely good
+rates, which again encourages us for a fourth season.  (We definitely
+wouldn't be investing our own money in the fan club if we thought
+otherwise.)  As usual, though, we won't have any kind of final word on
+next season until probably around April or May.
+
+     The Christmas hiatus ends after the 1st, so we're back at work on
+the 2nd shooting "Ship of Tears," with Walter Koenig returning as
+Bester.  Expect some major revelations about Bester's background, and
+where his character is going.
+
+     It's strange to think that by the time the next batch of new episodes
+have finished airing, end of February, the last 5 remaining scripts will
+be finished.  (Sometimes I have to catch myself, thinking, "Oh, I can
+mention this, since that happened *ages* ago..." then remember that yeah,
+it was a while ago, in episode 7, which HASN'T aired yet.)  Overall, in
+terms of performances, story, the look of the show, and the music, this is
+definitely our strongest season ever.  For reasons too convoluted to go
+into, I was watching "Midnight on the Firing Line" today, and it's amazing
+how far the story has come, and how much it's changed.  And you havent
+even *seen* the really *major* changes yet, which start in the next batch
+of episodes.
+
+     Oh, one final thing...if you want to avoid being spoiled, do NOT read
+the current TV Zone's B5 coverate (with Jason's interview) until after the
+next batch has aired...some very specific stuff is kinda given away.  If
+you don't mind being spoiled...go for it.
+
+     Anyway, that's it.  It's now almost 4 a.m., and having worked out
+the details of #318, I'm going to crash now.  As I noted before, I don't
+know when or how often I'll be able to post these; I'll try to get in
+one more before the new batch starts up, if I can, at which time we
+should have the fan club info more fully in hand.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+Date: 3 Apr 1996 15:58:51 -0500
+Subject: Note From jms
+
+Took AOL a while to show this group on their newsreader, but it finally
+came through today.  Some preliminary thoughts tossed out for discussion,
+for the record, for the heck of it.
+
+Yes, the new group is now moderated.  But no, that should not be taken or
+interpreted by anyone as inhibiting constructive criticism.  We learn by
+doing.  That means sometimes we make mistakes.  When that happens, it's
+not just a Good Idea to let us know, it's *necessary*.  If you can point
+to something in an episode that doesn't work...then point.  If it's an
+objective goof, then it's something we can learn from.  If it's a
+subjective opinion, then it opens up discussion from all sides.  
+
+During the whole moderation discussion, I tried to be as quiet as I
+humanly could, to avoid influencing the decision.  People have to vote
+their conscience, nothing more or less.  Those who voted for or against
+the group did so because they felt it was the Right Thing To Do.  Nobody
+should have a problem with that.  
+
+This group, fundamentally, is for the users.  For all those who felt they
+had to stop posting or just drop out of the prior group, and those who
+stayed in the original group and want some options.  The purpose, as I
+understand it, is to moderate those situations where you have someone who
+is chronically abusive to other users, engaging in personal attacks. 
+Simple truth is we're all gonna lose our temper from time to time, use
+terms in the heat of an argument we probably shouldn't...but it's my sense
+that this shouldn't be interfered with until and unless it becomes a
+chronic problem.
+
+That said, however, I leave these determinations to the moderators,
+suggesting only that a light hand is better than a heavy hand.  If along
+the way some of my messages get blipped as we feel our way through this, I
+don't have a problem with that.  (This to those who said it would be a
+problem.)
+
+(An aside: I heard that some were arguing that this was about "control." 
+And they were right.  But not the way they wanted to be right.  To control
+means to limit your options.  The few who used this argument did so
+because they knew that if you want to participate in B5 discussions on
+Usenet, without paying for one of the commercial services, there's only
+been one game in town.  You had to go there and listen to them, and put up
+with their abuse.  That is as much a form of control as anything they were
+railing against.  Now, users have options, choices.  You can go either
+way, enjoy whichever environment you prefer.)
+
+The purpose of this, from my side, is to continue the experiment in
+interactive television that's been going on on-line for several years. 
+I'd hope that folks take advantage of this to find out more about how
+television is made, how this kind of story gets produced, to help
+demystify television so that in the end we can get better choices by
+knowing what to ask for, and understanding the medium.  In a way, the
+answers and information I give are only as good as the questions that get
+asked; I'll try and anticipate questions and areas of interest, but it's
+up to you to mold this forum as you see fit.  Make it something that fits
+your needs and interests.  Don't lurk.  If you have a great question, put
+it out where everyone else can profit from it.  
+
+The welcome mat is out, the porch light is on, and there's lemonade over
+by the front rail.  I hope you'll all sit for a while and hang out.  Looks
+like it's gonna be a nice night....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Apr 1996 17:29:22 -0500
+Subject: Re: WSBK
+
+"First I would like to welcome JMS back"
+
+Thanks, glad to be here. 
+
+"...second I would like to know if it is true WSBK Boston has decided to
+drop B5."
+
+I don't actually know.  I heard this on the nets, but so far even WB
+hasn't been apprised of anything about this.  (We called them as soon as
+we heard, and it was news to them.)  I know it was posted during a flurry
+of April Fool's jokes, but I don't know for sure if it was that or
+something else.  We're looking into it, though, and as soon as we know, or
+if anyone hears anything else, we'll go into it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Apr 1996 17:31:20 -0500
+Subject: Re: Three Ages of Mankind -- Speculation
+
+No, this isn't it.  What I'll say is that the issue is more philosophical
+than technological in nature.  But you won't be able to figure the third
+age yet because you don't have all the information you need to make that
+determination.  After the end of this season, you'll have most of it,
+however.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Apr 1996 17:30:20 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Video releases
+
+We're still going back and forth on the video releasing question; there's
+movement to do it ourselves, but if we go that route, it means doing only
+limited editions since we can't handle huge orders; then there's some
+movement on the notion of another video company licensing it from WB,
+which means that more can be produced, probably at less cost to people
+than a limited edition.  (Which is good.)  So we're still sussing all this
+out.
+
+The only problem with putting 3 or 6 episodes on a tape means either
+taping at a slower speed, which means a drop in quality, or a larger tape,
+which also raises the price and runs into the peril of more tape jams.  
+
+BTW, we recently found out that for sure France is getting the widescreen
+versions of the show starting this season, so we're looking into the
+notion that whoever does the tapes will use those versions.  But this is
+still preliminary.
+
+jms
+
+Date: 3 Apr 1996 17:48:26 -0500
+Subject: Re: Severed Dreams *spoilers*
+
+"...my favorite part, I must say was when Sheridan kissed Delenns hand. 
+I've been waiting anxiously for this to happen and it finally did!  My
+housemates all laughed at me but I guess I'm just an incurable romantic."
+
+This is a problem?
+
+We are in need of more romance.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Apr 1996 18:14:58 -0500
+Subject: Re: What has Kosh/Delenn told Sheridan about Shadows?
+
+I think it's fair to say that they've been holding back information from
+Sheridan.  The question is what, and why, and for how much longer?
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 01:13:35 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Series Artistic Design?
+
+The way it usually works is this: when I write something new into the
+show, a new alien race, a new costume, or a ship, the person who handles
+that department comes to see me when the script is published.  They ask
+what I had in mind.  I describe what I need it to do, or if I saw it
+clearly in my head what it looked like. 
+
+The person then goes away and comes back with sketches.  Sometimes it's
+just one, sometimes a number.  If the latter, I go through the sketches
+and pick the one that matches most with what I envisioned.  In either
+case, I'll make whatever suggestions seems appropriate and not too stupid.
+ Sometimes I'll modify the drawing myself, even though I can't draw for
+sour owl poop.
+
+When our original prosthetic designers on the pilot couldn't figure out
+what to do with the Minbari crest, I went down to the place and literally
+helped sculpt the original bone piece; I gave John Iacovelli a rough
+sketch of the layout of the White Star; modified costume designs and other
+stuff on Kosh and other characters.  That sort of thing.
+
+Having said that, however, I have to emphasize that in the long haul, I
+have to do very little in the way of course correction or revision.  Once
+we discuss it, the folks around here know their craft, and the show, well
+enough to hit it virtually every time.  And I try to leave plenty of room
+creatively for them to play and have fun with it.  Usually the approval
+process amounts to little more than "Yup, looks good to me."
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 01:13:22 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: You Babylon 5'ed you computer yet?
+
+"I was curious if you've done your computer up any."
+
+I'm not at *all* sure I know what you're asking.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 01:13:44 -0500
+Subject: Re: Technical Gaffe? (**SD SPOILERS**)
+
+I figured that they'd come in through the outer hull, secure the inner
+hull area, then go up in and through a side wall, which would be faster
+for purposes of a mass entrance.  If you blow a hole in the floor,
+everybody has to crawl out one at a time; you blow a hole in the wall,
+bunches can come through at once.  There was a fair amount of distance
+between where they came in, and the hull.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 01:13:30 -0500
+Subject: Re: Marcon (was JMS: Series Artistic Design?)
+
+"In fact, I think I'm advanced registering for Chicago ComiCon, which
+sounds incredible."
+
+Yes, it's great.  The Chicago and San Diego comic cons are both terrific;
+if you've never been, go.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 01:14:42 -0500
+Subject: Re: Technical Gaffe? (**SD SPOILERS**)
+
+Damn...I think I put a spoiler in the top of the prior message...hope the
+heading is some protection.  (And no, Jay, not a mistake, just figured
+it's better tactically.)
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 00:58:00 -0500
+Subject: Re: UK calling
+
+I don't know for certain the C4 situation, so I can't say, but there have
+been, and continue to be discussions about the widescreen version, so it's
+still a possibility.
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 01:00:05 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS, Re: show length
+
+No, I think the time you cite is about right for the running time of the
+show.
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 01:13:17 -0500
+Subject: Re: Jumpgates and StarFuries (possible spoilers for Severed Dreams)
+
+If you're opening a jump point, usually you make it a habit to have all
+your fighters on board or else risk leaving them behind.  A jump gate can
+be more easily used and held open for fighters.  When you arrive at your
+destination, you can launch your fighters as you emerge.
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 04:14:59 -0500
+Subject: Convention quickie from jms
+
+The weekend of April 12-14, Patricia Tallman, Stephen Furst and I will be
+at the SyndiCon syndicated television convention at the Cathedral Hill
+Hotel in San Francisco, along with a batallion of other teevee folk.  Info
+via syndicon@aol.com.
+
+Also, the first weekend in May, Pat, Richard Biggs and I will be at Marcon
+in Columbus, Ohio.  Marcon has its own web page for more info.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Apr 1996 17:43:21 -0500
+Subject: Re: Severed Dreams Question
+
+Garibaldi wanted to hold up, cut off the boarding party at a bottleneck,
+but the Narns, *being* Narns, raced right into the battle.  At that point
+Garibaldi had to follow them in or let them get wiped out for no good
+reason.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 04:33:34 -0500
+Subject: Re: On a different note, jms
+
+Well...if you really want me to answer this question, I will...but in
+general I try to stay away from this kinda stuff because it makes my head
+explode.  I'll try to be calm and reasonable about this.
+
+Re: the v-chip...see, when I was a kid, I knew what hours I was allowed to
+watch TV, and what hours I wasn't.  I knew what programs I was allowed to
+watch, and what programs I wasn't.  It wasn't done with a chip in a TV
+set, it was done when my parents looked at me, the time, or the tube, and
+said, "Okay, that's it, up to bed now."  For my money, for starters, the
+v-chip is an abrogation of responsibility by parents.  It's the modern-day
+answer to everything: build a chip, find a quick and easy solution.  
+
+Never mind that the criteria are so vague that all kinds of stuff is going
+to get through even with the chip set (when I was working with ABC, you
+had censors and parents groups who considered a door slam to be an act of
+violence, and counted it as such)...never mind that you're subordinating
+your view of what your limits are to an unseen group of TV execs or
+monitors who will decide what rating to give a show, a rating which you
+might quite disagree with, on a ranger of scales that are *very*
+subjective (they use about 5 levels of numerical values assigned to
+suggestive language or action and the like), never mind that parents
+should be watching TV *with* their kids (yes, I know that we have latchkey
+kids, and single parents, but there are other ways of solving
+this)...never mind ALL that....
+
+Most of what is violent on TV is movies run on commercial networks, not so
+much regular TV programs.  The majority of produced programs are still
+sitcoms.  So for me, the whole thing is based on a false premise.  But
+more than that, it seems outrageous for congress to on the one hand try
+and repeal the assault weapon ban, then try and regulate TV violence. 
+It's inconsistent.  
+
+They're not dealing with the problem, they're dealing with the PICTURE of
+the problem.  If we make the picture go away, the problem will go away. 
+No it won't.  It will be solved by sane gun laws (I'm not against owning,
+but registering seems a good idea), and dedicated assaults on poverty,
+unemployment, crime, drug use and the eradication of hope.  It will be
+solved by parents and kids spending time together, rather than letting a
+chip determine what they watch on TV.  It will be solved by education for
+the young, and firm punishment for the guilty.
+
+But see, that takes nerve.  And it isn't easily done.  And may be
+unpopular in some sectors.  So it's easier, and gets more coverage, to
+attack *Hollywood* when things get bad.  It's fuzzy thinking, dead-catting
+and scapegoating, nothing less.  When people were frightened by the Soviet
+Union during the 50s, and the US couldn't actually *do* anything about
+it...they turned on Hollywood and attacked all those commie sympathizers
+undermining morality and creating a commie-ready society via words and
+images.  We can't fix violence, so now we turn again to the pictures of
+the problem as though they *were* the problem.
+
+If every violent program in the nation were blipped off the air for 48
+hours, and replaced by reruns of the Donna Reed Show, there would not be
+one less death in South Central LA, not one less drug overdose in Bed-Stuy
+in New York, not one less Freeman in Montana.  (At most you'd have several
+more incidents of people shooting out their TVs.)
+
+Here, for me, is the ultimate analogy.  A few years ago here in town,
+there was an anti-gun group that came up with the idea of a protest march.
+ They marched in front of a video store which had a big poster in the
+front of it in which there was a huge picture of a gun.  They marched in
+front of the video store.  Half a block down was a gun shop.  Nobody
+marched in front of the gun shop.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 04:36:28 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Question About Writing of Seasons 4 & 5
+
+I haven't actually broken down how I'm going to do this next year, in
+terms of what to assign and what to do in house.  I'll have a somewhat
+better idea once I sit down with the outline, break out the various parts
+of it for the period in question, see what I want to throw out or keep
+from that based on things that I've modified this season or changed my
+mind about....
+
+At that point I'll have a solid notion of the stand-alones that can be
+farmed out.  At this juncture, having just finished writing all 22 this
+year, and almost finished with production, I'm still catching my breath. 
+Check back with me on this closer to late May or early June.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 04:38:24 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS, Claudia Christian on Sci-Fi Buzz.
+
+"Last week's episode of Sci-Fi Buzz featured an interview with Claudia
+Christian. During the interview, they showed clips from an episode
+being filmed. Would you please tell me the name (or number) of that
+episode?"
+
+I believe, from what I saw, that it was a piece from "Grey 17 Is Missing."
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 04:40:55 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN. JMS:  Question Re: Ship Names
+
+"...what company in their right mind would name one of their ship's the
+"Marie Celeste"?
+
+Dunno, but I'd bet good money that whoever it is, it's an Australian
+company.  Nothing frightens those people; they're fearless.
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 04:44:26 -0500
+Subject: Re: galaxy exploration
+
+Not that much of the galaxy has really been explored yet; it'd take
+centuries for us to get even a small part of it all covered.
+
+jms
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 04:45:35 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS (*spoilers Voices of Authority)
+
+Spoiler Space 
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+"Just wondering if we would see the First Ones from Sigma 957 this season,
+since there are supposed to be some direct confrontations the between 
+Army of Light and the Shadows?"
+
+No.  It isn't their time yet.
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 04:50:35 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Question About Babylon 1-3
+
+"What were the designs for Babylon 1-3. Were they based on the Babylon 4 
+model or the Babylon 5 model? "
+
+They were designed to eventually become what we saw in B4.  None of the
+first 3 got much past the early stages of construction.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 04:51:54 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Norman Corwin on NPR
+
+"Our NPR station in Chicago is planning on broadcasting "13 by Corwin,
+a star-studded anthology of Norman Corwin's greatest radio plays."  
+Any recommendations on particulars to watch for?"
+
+Just sit back and enjoy a use of language like nothing you've ever heard
+before.  You're in for a real treat.
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 04:55:26 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS:  Drama and Romance
+
+"Will we have a great romance??"
+
+First you gotta buy me dinner and flowers.
+
+Seriously...yes, I think there's a heck of a good romance looming just
+over the horizon in the show.
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 04:43:38 -0500
+Subject: Re: Point of No Return  (* Spoilers *)
+
+(* Spoilers for Point of No Return  *)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Ok, at the end of this ep. Susan explains that 4 of the 5 cruisers with
+Gen. 
+Hague where distroyed. So did Earthforce get them or did Clark have the 
+shadows do it?"
+
+
+It was an ambush by Earthforce ships.  (Actually, only 3 were destroyed,
+the other two took off separately, trying to throw off a united pursuit. 
+But you know how ISN's been lately....)
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 15:40:26 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Fan Reactions and Changing Assessments
+
+"One thing I wondered about, while reading the CIS and occasional AOL
+repostings here, is how JMS felt about the general fan reaction to
+"Messages From Earth", "Point of No Return" and now "Severed Dreams"
+(which I don't see until Saturday). 
+
+""Messages From Earth", after all, was widely anticipated based on JMS's
+own assessment that it was the best episode of the series to date. The
+general reaction here was one of letdown, and looking back, I still see it
+as the weak link in this important tryptch. Even if I see the three
+episodes as essentially one huge episode, or a three-act episode, then
+"Messages" is a weak first act.
+
+"What I'm wondering, now that JMS is thankfully back in our neck of the
+woods, is how much these kinds of general reactions surprise him or change
+his own perceptions of episodes. Does he see "Messages" in a different
+light now, judging from how many of us thought it had structural,
+story-telling problems that can't be resolved, in the way that some other
+misperceived 'problems' have been, by developments later in the arc?"
+
+
+One of the problems in any discussion of this sort is the tendency to
+accept one's own perceptions as the facts.  The reaction I saw from fans
+when "Messages" hit was that it was one of our strongest episodes.  Okay,
+you felt differently, and that's fair.  But it doesn't invalidate the
+many, *many* people who felt otherwise.  I'm even willing to go out on a
+limb here and say that it was very popular with the majority of viewers. 
+It came out very high on the P5 survey as well.  I happen to like
+raspberries more than strawberries.  Does that mean that raspberries are
+objectively better than strawberries and that the producers of
+strawberries should reconsider their position?  Of course not.
+
+Which, in a way, is the answer to your question.  There has never, in the
+history of TV, been one episode of any series which is uniformly hailed by
+every viewer, and liked or disliked for exactly the same reason. 
+Everybody sees the episodes differently.  If I were to start running after
+10 million viewers to change my opinion of the shows, with 10 million
+opinions, each of whom thinks that their opinion is right (and it is, but
+it's right for *them*, it's not *objectively* right), each of which is
+contradictory with every other view...you'd go mad.
+
+You just can't tell a story that way.  
+
+(BTW, what "story problems" are there in "Messages?"  None have been
+pointed out to me so far of any substance.)
+
+So anyway, I'm happy that you enjoyed "Dreams," and that it compensated
+for any lack of spiffiness in your view of "Messages."
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 15:50:34 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Season Finale (Title Classified)
+
+"Or is it a matter of the title being a spoiler for an episode between now
+and
+then?"
+
+Yes, that's my concern.
+
+While I'm on the subject, an advisory: I gave a short interview to
+Entertainment Weekly the other day for their story about cliffhanger
+endings for various shows.  Now, the piece is going to run in May since
+that's when most shows (most *sensible* shows) will be doing their
+cliffhangers.  Ours won't run until July or October, depending on who you
+talk to.  
+
+There's a point where you have to decide between publicity (good for show)
+and secrecy (good for viewers), in the process of keeping the show on the
+air (also good for viewers).  So I let a few things out of the bag.  If
+you don't want to be spoiled, then you may want to avoid picking up and
+reading that story.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 15:54:26 -0500
+Subject: Re: jms: Remember WENN?
+
+Haven't run into Remember WENN yet, and don't know enough about the
+current state of radio drama to comment intelligently.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 15:42:32 -0500
+Subject: Re: MST3K ref in upcoming B5
+
+	"I hear a rumor every now and then that there will be a reference
+(sometimes a "major reference") to MST3K in an upcoming episode of B5.
+Is there any truth in this?"
+
+
+Nope.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1996 15:47:07 -0500
+Subject: Re: Question about JMS participation
+
+What I generally do when I log onto the group is look first for any
+messages tagged ATT JMS; once I've run through those, I make my way
+through the rest.  I tend to give first attention to main headers,
+secondary to followup (RE:) messages, just for reasons of time.
+
+So yes, the ATT still works, as long as it's used when appropriate.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Apr 1996 02:23:12 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS *SPOILERS* Is it me
+
+"Is it me or do the Vorlons seem scared to fight the Shadows. Or anyone 
+that they dont know they can win against. You have said in the past that 
+the Vorlons are not enough to take on the Shadows so I assume you meant 
+it in military terms. But I am sure with all the other races they could 
+take on the Shadows. But they seem to be massing up forces so that they 
+dont have to. I would guess they have never actaully fought the Shadows
+yet"
+
+To your later question...yes, in a sense, you're onto something, but
+you're looking in the wrong direction.  But you're close.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Apr 1996 02:26:07 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS or other -- CC at Syndicon?
+
+Claudia couldn't make it, but Pat Tallman, Stephen Furst and I will all be
+at Syndicon.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Apr 1996 04:53:22 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Larry DiTillio's initial reaction to the arc
+
+What Larry was responding to was the totality of the storyline, not so
+much any one particular item.  If you stop for a moment and look back at
+just how *much* has been covered just in these first two-and-a-half aired
+seasons, you realize how far the story has come.  It's the whole of that
+tapestry that is kinda boggling sometimes.
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Apr 1996 04:56:48 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attention JMS
+
+"If or when the video's are released, will they be letter boxed and
+suround It just 
+seems that if they are filmed in wide screen, they would be nice to see
+them that 
+way."
+
+We're still discussing this; nothing's set yet.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Apr 1996 04:59:22 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Cast members and writing/directing
+
+Insofar as I know, only Stephen Furst has any directorial background (and
+he's quite good at what he does).  So far, none of the cast has made any
+real noise about directing.  Frankly, I'd like to make sure it doesn't
+come up, because if one cast member directs, then logically and
+reasonably, you find yourself in a situation where you can't deny anybody
+else.  Then they're *all* directing, and the acting slips.  Most of the
+cast don't seem terribly interested in the notion anyway, so with luck
+it'll be a moot point.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Apr 1996 05:05:47 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Is C&C a Corwin reference?
+
+No, C&C is a standard military reference to Command and Control.
+
+jms
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Apr 1996 05:04:47 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Fan Reactions and Changing Assessments
+
+The other thing to bear in mind in all of this is that the degree to which
+we are affected by an episode depends to some measure on what we bring to
+the experience.  Some elements are going to register more with some than
+with others, due to our background and experience.  Some women reacted
+*very* strongly to "Comes the Inquisitor" because of their feelings about
+the whole male/female dynamic and the way it had touched their lives
+previously.
+
+We will never all agree on these things, and never should.  If we all
+agreed we'd be the Stepford B5 Viewing Association.
+
+(Oh, and one other thing...very often, viewers re-assess episodes after
+the fact.  "And Now For a Word" being a good example.  When it first came
+out, a number of folks weren't sure about it, because they were taken
+aback by the narrative device.  Lately, on the rerun, a *lot* of them, on
+various nets, said they'd watched it again and re-evaluated their opinion,
+felt it was under-rated, and better than they'd first thought.  So, again,
+which opinion do you listen to?  Fundamentally, you have to follow the
+story where it takes you.  Nothing else makes sense.)
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Apr 1996 04:48:48 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: "Severed Dreams": Opinion Without Spoilers
+
+Yes, the number of commercials were the same; no idea if there were more
+or less local spots than usual, but I'd doubt it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Apr 1996 04:50:55 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATT JMS: CGI Sign on hull?
+
+I actually don't know what the sign says; I'll have to check it at a later
+point.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Apr 1996 04:52:27 -0500
+Subject: Re: Boneheads
+
+"Is that bone head thing on Delenn part of her or is it a Minbari type of
+hairband?"
+
+It's a bone that grows from a small nub when born, as do antlers.
+
+"And if it is part of her, how the heck does she do her hair?"
+
+With difficulty but great patience.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Apr 1996 04:50:33 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS:  Hill Street Blues Fan?  (Possible spoiler for Point of No Return)
+
+No, actually, the name was Pirello, Francis...hadn't realized it was a
+sound-alike for Furillo until dailies came in.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Apr 1996 04:54:33 -0500
+Subject: Re: Boneheads
+
+"Is that bone head thing on Delenn part of her or is it a Minbari type of
+hairband?"
+
+It's a bone that grows from a small nub when born, as do antlers.
+
+"And if it is part of her, how the heck does she do her hair?"
+
+With difficulty but great patience.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Apr 1996 04:56:52 -0500
+Subject: Re: Note From jms [SPOILERS for Severed Dreams]
+
+Compliments not backhanded at all, and gratefully accepted.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Apr 1996 05:00:12 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Fathers (small spoilers)
+
+spoiler stuff.....
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+spoilers have always been here....
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+"There is a certain sweetness between Sheridan and his father.  Sheridan's
+father is certainly the one that I wish I had.  Is he yours, JMS?"
+
+Not by the farthest stretch of the imagination, which is all I'll say on
+this.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Apr 1996 04:58:17 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Widescreen Cost Effects
+
+"It is my understanding that, with the exception of the pilot, B5 is
+filmed in widescreen format;  episodes are then cropped to standard TV
+size.  While I can appreciate the beauty and grandeur that widescreen
+provides, I wonder if it also inflates B5's special effects, or
+filming budgets."
+
+Negative.  You have a *slightly* higher cost per foot for film stock, but
+that's fairly minimal.  Once it's in the camera, it's no more expensive
+than anything else.  The only cost factor comes in once somebody decides
+to re-telecine all the film stock *back* to that format.  But that's a
+one-time price.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Apr 1996 05:02:31 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  "Severed Dreams" episode title
+
+
+Date: 6 Apr 1996 05:09:31 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  StarFuries -- *why*?
+
+spoiler stuph
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+"What are all those StarFuries *for*?  What do they do in a big
+battle, other than fill up the screen with cool action?
+
+Every battle I can recall (I've seen every ep except B^2; but I 
+have a life and haven't watched them all many times, so I could
+misremember something) has had a lot of StarFuries flitting
+around and shooting at each other, and occasionally getting caught
+in the crossfire of the Big Guys who are also shooting at each
+other.  
+
+The issue is, however, finally decided by the Big Guys, one of 
+which invariably blows the other up (or chases it off or whatever).
+
+"The battle scenes in SEVERED DREAMS are perfect examples.  Opening
+sequence -- Bunch of StarFuries flitting around; eventually one
+Big Guy's main battery punches out the other one.  Defense of B5:
+same basic concept; one Big Guy is torn to crap by another, while
+the other two go down in a rammerjammer suicide run.
+
+So whatinole were alla them StarFuries even out there for?"
+
+
+A lot more ships came in with the Roanoke and the Agrippa, support ships
+and others.  Probably more breaching pods.  They took out those.  They're
+also used to keep the enemy starfuries from disabling the defense grid on
+the station, leaving B5 free to use its weapons on the larger target/worse
+threat.  They're often used to soften up the enemy, harrass them like a
+pack of hounds falling on a prey.  In "Fall of Night," we saw a Centauri
+vessel in large measure taken out by the Starfuries with some B5 support. 
+So they definitely play a part.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Apr 1996 04:54:59 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS- Severed Dreams (SMALL SPOILER)
+
+spoilers...
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+We shot that last scene with Garibaldi *after* we'd shot the sequence
+showing his injured leg.  We don't shoot in sequence.  So we had to cover
+it in the next episode.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 06 Apr 96 17:17:25 GMT
+Subject: cmsg cancel <4k5f0p$537@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
+
+Article cancelled by denebeim@zaphod.
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1996 04:46:13 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Severed Dreams (Possible spoiler)
+
+No, the shot you refer to (won't elaborate to spoil anything) was its full
+length, wasn't cut.  That's how it came from Foundation.  You end on
+impact.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1996 05:00:28 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS- The Gloose is loose!
+
+To be quite objective about it, from my admittedly subjective opinion
+(have I qualified this answer enough?), there's much to commend
+Hypernauts.  It's a show worth checking out.
+
+For my money, however, I have to say that pound for pound, character for
+character, I tend to *prefer* "Space Cases," because it's just a hoot to
+watch.  A lot of fun.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1996 05:01:10 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Cliffhanger? Why bother?
+
+Because the story calls for it.  Whether they show the cliffhanger three
+months or two weeks before the fourth season (assuming renewal), this is
+where the story goes.  It was constructed like a series of novels, a
+multi-volume saga, and like any good series of novels, you end on
+something big.
+
+And this year, season three ends on something really honking big.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1996 05:00:07 -0400
+Subject: Re: Will there be a Mac version of the screensaver?
+
+Yes, I've been told that a Mac version will be out in a month or two.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1996 05:00:46 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Ivanova's Pierced parts
+
+Claudia wears only one earring as a testimony to both her fictional
+brother, killed in the Minbari war, and her real brother, who passed away
+some time ago.
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1996 05:00:56 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: So, we've seen two types of "Shadows?"
+
+The one is a ship, the other is/are the aliens themselves.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1996 05:09:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: At The Midpoint (Spoilers for everything)
+
+"It's all this stuff that I think really makes the show. The mystery
+certainly helps, but the puzzles are no longer my main reason for
+watching."
+
+Aaron: exactly.  This was something I said a lot around the first part of
+the second season, that this really *isn't* a mystery novel, in any
+conventional sense, no more so than any novel whose ending is yet to be
+revealed.
+
+You picked up on exactly the themes that are present in the show, with
+some more to come shortly.  Personal sacrifice for a cause -- perhaps a
+good cause, perhaps not, depending on how wisely we make our decisions --
+is probably the dominant theme at this point in the story.  
+
+It's worth mentioning that this story was initially conceived in the midst
+of the Me Generation, the decade of "I've got mine, jack, screw you all." 
+Since then the culture has gotten increasingly factionalized, groups of
+Me's pulling and tugging at the fabric not only of the country, bvut of
+the planet itself.  The idea of personal sacrifice, of personal service to
+a cause, seems to have become...passe.  Old fashioned.  Silly.
+
+We have an obligation to one another, responsibilities and trusts.  That
+does not mean we must be pigeons, that we must be exploited.  But it does
+mean that we should look out for one another when and as much as we can;
+and that we have a personal responsibility for our behavior; and that our
+behavior has consequences of a very real and profound nature.  We are not
+powerless.  We have tremendous potential for good or ill.  How we choose
+to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it.  We're
+told every day, "You can't change the world."
+
+But the world is changing every day.  Only question is...who's doing it? 
+You or somebody else?  Will you choose to lead, or be led by others?
+
+(Y'know, there are moments I look at the preceding paragraphs, and I
+realize that it wa said more succinctly, and better, and more movingly in
+"Lost Horizon," with this simple sentence: "Be *kind* to one another.")
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1996 05:11:46 -0400
+Subject: Re: On a different note, jms
+
+Wes: sure, if there's anything in my post worth putting up on a wall,
+assuming it isn't a Post Office wall...please, proceed.  Thanks.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1996 05:20:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS:  Documenting your experiment?
+
+"Question:  There is no question that B5 is unique in many ways.  I
+think I remember you once referring to it as an experiment in
+television.  I'm wondering if you have considered, or maybe you are
+already, documenting the experiment.  By this I mean documenting the
+philosophy behind the show, what makes it unique, what works, what
+doesn't, etc.  This way others who might want to work toward improving
+the quality of TV might have a set of ideas from which to build their
+own path.  It is clear that you have a commitment to make quality
+television, might such documentation be valuable to others who have
+such a commitment also?"
+
+Yes, it would.  And yes, I am creating such a document.
+
+This is it.  This online interaction is that document.  And as of that
+note, you're a part of it.
+
+Between the Lurker's Guide and other archives, this is a *living document*
+that chronicles every aspect of the show, good and not so good.  I've
+already heard from professors and academicians who've archived the
+material for use in classes on television production, students who're
+doing term papers based on the material, even a few producers who've used
+it as a resource in putting together shows using the Babylon Model, as
+it's now being called, to do quality SF for television.
+
+So to anyone looking on...keep up the great quality of the questions.  A
+film student at UCLA in 2004 is reading this right now, and he needs the
+information for his Master's Thesis.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1996 05:26:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: The best girlfriend in the world...
+
+"Severed Dreams had a line that was better than Ivanava's sex scene.  Wow,
+do these women get lines!"
+
+Can't help it.  I've always been vastly enamoured of strong, sharp, funny,
+independent and strong-willed women.  (Well, me and 99% of the rest of the
+male population, most of them just won't admit it.)
+
+I love it when anyone -- male or female -- comes up with a killer line. 
+Claudia and I are always going at it, each trying to top the other...and
+I've found out the hard way that you don't challenge her on the theory
+that she'll back down.  Won't happen.  Ivanova's just the same.  Mira is
+also dedicated, fierce in her convictions, extremely bright and worldly.  
+
+So why should their characters be any less than the women themselves?
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1996 05:29:26 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Question about Morden
+
+"Last year at the Chicago Comicon you mentioned that we'd be seeing more
+about Morden, where he comes from and how he got where he is.  Is that
+something that will be addressed this year or is that slated for farther
+down the road?"
+
+You'll learn a lot more about Mr. Morden by the end of this season.
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1996 05:32:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: Severed Dreams (No Spoilers) [NOT!  Spoilers]
+
+Elayne:
+
+"I *gasped* at this shot.  How was this done?  This was REALLY effective."
+
+
+
+
+I'm always getting this confused in my own mind, but basically it's using
+two contradictory moves with the camera.  You dolly in (push the camera
+toward the object) and push out with the lens (or vice versa...that's the
+part I'm forever getting confused about...like remembering battery
+connections, is it positive to positive or positive to negative...?).  In
+either event, you're basically going in and out/away at the same moment. 
+It's a nifty effect.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1996 05:33:33 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS A Note and a Compliment
+
+Mike: thanks.  I think this one is gonna cross a LOT of lines.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1996 05:33:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: Honesty  *SD Spoilers*
+
+spoiler response....
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+I was living in Delenn's head when she uttered those lines for the first
+time.
+
+She wasn't bluffing.
+
+Delenn *never* bluffs.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1996 05:34:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  "Severed Dreams" episode title
+
+This is very odd.  I did reply to it.  Guess the AOL system ate it.
+
+Trying again...
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+If B5 was a dream given form, and the EA had the potential to be something
+more than it has become, and the two part ways, then you have severed
+dreams.  (I had a much more elegant and interesting reply, but obviously
+it entered Vorlon space and hasn't been allowed out again.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1996 05:39:02 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS- Severed Dreams (SMALL SPOILER)
+
+"I cannot imagine what it takes to track all of the pieces and snippets
+filmed out of order!  This is a fascinating glimpse into what goes on
+making a show..."
+
+
+Cindy: that's why a producer must be a good multitasker.  You've got to
+keep not just the one episode in your head, but more.  For instance,
+dailies from the day's shooting before come in, for 5 scenes that are out
+of sequence, and you have to be able to look at them, knowing what was
+shot before in your head, and know intuitively if it's going to match. 
+Then a CGI 8-second shot for another episode comes in, and you have to
+know how it'll match up with the live action which is still being
+edited...and the director has a question about scene 28 in the next
+episode to be shot...the editor wants to know if you meant what you said
+about reversing scenes 34 and 35 in last week's episode....
+
+It can make you totally and completely nuts.
+
+At that point, it's all Darwinian producing: evolve or die.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1996 05:43:10 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Babylon Squared & War Without End
+
+We did both; we reshot some scenes from B2, and used some footage directly
+from that episode.  Some pretty elegant matches, too, I think.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1996 05:43:32 -0400
+Subject: Re: Am I here, yet?
+
+No, you're over there.
+
+And you're going to *stay* there until you clean up this room, buster.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1996 05:46:22 -0400
+Subject: Re: jms: How Different Will T(EM)CBoS Be?
+
+Mainly, I tried to focus on the areas not covered by all the other books. 
+And very few of them get into more than one area of scripting.
+
+As for radio...I did include the revised chapter on radio drama, with the
+proviso that the field itself is shrinking still, except for occasional
+big projects which are off-limits to freelancers.  The main growth area, I
+think, will be in audio books, which are getting more and more to sound
+like radio dramas.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1996 18:40:35 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATT JMS: Writing and visualization.
+
+"You were talking about the process of writing a B5 episode.  You said
+(IIRC) that you visualize a scene in your mind, get all the movements,
+dialogue, camera angles, etc. locked down just so inside your head, and
+then simply transcribe what you see."
+
+That's correct.  I play it like a movie in my head.
+
+"Do you use this approach for novels and stories, or just for TV?  Since
+TV is a visual medium, I can imagine visualization working
+beautifully...but novels tend to focus on the internal, the way people
+work.   We get to see more than just what they look and sound like--we get
+to see inside them, rather than _deducing_ what's inside them from what we
+see and hear.  I ask because I've been trying your visualization approach
+in my own writing, but I worry that it comes out like a transcript of a TV
+episode--everything is vivid on the page, but it all seems so
+externalized.  I feel like I'm missing opportunities for delving because
+they don't show up on my two senses, and thus don't get included in the
+blocking in my head."
+
+I still visualize the scene, but I do it differently in a work of prose. 
+The key there is to see it *from the perspective of the character*.  In a
+TV script you're the omniscient camera.  I do a little of that, just to
+know the movements, but the rest of the time I spend behind the
+character's eyes.  How does the room look?  Can I smell the woodburning
+fireplace from here?  Is the room hot or cold?  Where am I?  You have to
+use all your senses in a novel.
+
+"How the heck do you _remember_ everything that passes in front of your
+mind's eye?  I get a scene going in my head, know the characters are
+_here_, then move _here_, and the bathtub is _here_, and I take
+notes...but then, when it actually comes to sitting down at the keyboard
+and writing it, I discover that half of the little fillets have vamoosed. 
+("Now what was I thinking about a llama?")  If I took enough notes to
+capture them all, the note-taking would be equivalent to the
+story-writing, and I'd have the same problem.  So...how do you do it? 
+Train your mind to be more like a steel trap and less like a steel sieve? 
+A new and different kind of note-taking?  Hooked on Phonics?  (For that
+matter, how do you take notes?  What does a sheet of note paper look like
+when you're done with it?)"
+
+I don't actually take notes on scenes.  If a great line comes to me for a
+scene I'm working on later in the day, I'll rip out a PostIt and slap it
+on my monitor, but that's about it.  Sometimes I'll write down the act
+breaks on a sheet of paper, but even that I haven't done in a long while;
+I usually just sit down at the keyboard and start rolling the "film"
+through my head, no outline, just a sense of where I have to go.
+
+It's just a mental quirk; how does an actor remember every line of
+dialogue in a play, plus all the stage movements, prop locations, stunts,
+and the rest?  I've always had a very good visual memory.  If I go to your
+house once, I can usually remember the layout years later.  Take me to a
+strange city, drive me across town and drop me off, and as long as it's
+light, I can find my way back again on foot with very little in the way of
+errors.  
+
+I was at the hotel in Manchester UK for only a couple of days for Wolf
+359...but I can remember every detail of the hotel's layout: come in the
+front glass door, to your right at 2:00 are steps leading down to the
+restaurant.  Straight ahead, steps leading up to the lobby.  Check in
+counter is to the left.  To the right is a metal grillwork area leading to
+a second lobby and the smaller conference rooms along a hall which jogs
+slightly to the left.  The B5 viewing room was just before the left jog. 
+Back in the main lobby, there are benches and chairs along the right wall,
+then there's a door on the right to the dealer's room, a pair of
+close-able doors to another sitting area (sofa on the left this time),
+then the elevators to the rooms (left side).  Turning right at the
+elevators takes you to the stairs descending to another floor.  Keep going
+in the hall and it brings you to the main hall at the end of the hall. 
+White double doors.  At the far end of the main hall are curtained doors
+leading to the street.  Additional doors to the hall are at the right
+side, which can bring you back to the conference rooms.  (One of the door
+hinges is slightly damaged.)  Four square support posts near the stage
+area, and several more on the right angling around.  The first time I
+walked in, to check out the area and rearrange the chairs around the
+posts, there were approximately 10 people seated there, on the left-ish
+side of the room.  More women than men.  One of the men had on a grey/blue
+shirt and a cap.  He noticed me as I went about my business.
+
+I picked that one because there are some Wolf-folks around here who can
+verify if that's correct.  But I can go back 10 years of conventions and
+do the same.  It's just a quirk.  I *never* get lost.  Once I lock onto a
+place, I can go back 20 years after the fact and find everything there. 
+Don't know if it's training, or  just a trick of genetics, but I have an
+*extremely* visual memory.  
+
+I remember the look on the face of the first woman I dated when she told
+me it was all over.  I remember as a kid where my cat sat and looked at
+me, very strangely, almost sadly, before it went out into the back yard to
+pass away, there in the high grass.  I remember exactly where I was
+standing, the time of day, the number of people on the school yard the day
+I took down the school bully because nobody *else* would (age 10).  I
+remember the exact shape and layout of the rose tattoo on the left wrist
+of a woman I dated in college.  I can remember the phone number of the
+parents of another woman I dated in college by visualizing the sheet of
+paper I wrote it down on because it was raining and I was at a public
+phone booth and the rain smeared the numbers.  I remember exactly where I
+was standing, and what was going on in the background of the campus
+newspaper when I learned that my friend Chris Parker -- a good man, a kind
+man, a professor with the Psych Department who wore clown suits to staff
+meetings to keep things in perspective -- had just been killed in a
+motorcycle accident, and the gleep who said it happened because he was an
+atheist and he had it coming...though I *don't* remember what happened
+between that moment and the moment they peeled me off him.  I'm told I
+vaulted over the desk and tackled him full-on.  I'll take that one on
+faith.
+
+Writers are living compilations of moments, which they reinterpret and
+revisit, carving them into characters and stories.  The more you can
+remember, the more you can recreate how you felt, the better you can turn
+around and invest those same feelings and reactions in your characters. 
+The problem is that all too often, we go through our lives unaware of so
+much that goes on around us, we don't *pay attention* to our lives.  And
+we miss the moments.  And in the end, the moments are all we have.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Apr 1996 01:33:01 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Your Comic Arc
+
+I'll probably use the Marcus-arc story somewhere in the show now; it's too
+good to waste.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Apr 1996 01:39:56 -0400
+Subject: request from jms
+
+Today I got online and found nearly 100 new email messages in my AOL mail
+box.  Most of them were of two types: asking general questions that could
+just as easily be asked in public forum, so that others could benefit from
+the discussion, or copies of public replies also sent to me privately.
+
+Please please please please *please* use the email address ONLY for
+personal or confidential correspondence.  If my email gets flooded, I
+won't be able to reply to anybody after a while via email, because I won't
+be able to *find* anything.
+
+Thankyew.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Apr 1996 01:31:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: Thank you JMS!!!
+
+Thanks.  Any writer hopes that his work will touch people.  I cannot tell
+you how much it means to accomplish that from time to time....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 8 Apr 1996 04:25:27 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATT JMS: Writing and visualization.
+
+"Do you find that music or sounds can have the same effect? Hear a line
+from a song and lock into a moment in time? Remember not only the
+visuals but the emotions of that moment?"
+
+Absolutely.  I think everyone has that experience.  If you want to get
+technical about it, it's probably a version of state-related learning.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Apr 1996 04:57:40 -0400
+Subject: Re: Bester in future episode/s ??
+
+You'll be seeing Bester again in about 4 weeks.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Apr 1996 04:57:51 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS, where did it all come from?
+
+Where it came from was really a thought experiment...how would I design an
+SF saga *specifically* for television, that could really be told no other
+way (except for maybe a 5-volume series of novels).  I considered the many
+quality mainstream shows that had a base of operations where the story
+came to you (St Elsewhere, LA Law, others) instead of going off in search
+of the new planet of the week.  That led me to the notion of a space
+station.
+
+Then I kinda got into some of my thoughts on where we've come from as a
+people, where we might be going, some political, social and historical
+extrapolation, and one day...bang...it just slammed into my brain like a
+.44.
+
+And now here we are....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Apr 1996 18:46:59 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS:  Ceremonies of L & D -- whew! (Spoilers)
+
+I'm sure the title of the last episode this season will eventually leak
+out, but no, I'd like to keep it down for now.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Apr 1996 03:40:48 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Haig, Talia contracts? (spoilers for Severed Dreams)
+
+"I'm tired of getting used to characters only to have the actors leave the
+show.  Can't you get better contracts with these actors?"
+
+Regarding Talia...our contract was ironclad.  If we had wanted the
+character to continue, it would have.  
+
+Regarding Hague...it's much harder to hold an actor on a once-in-a-while
+basis.  Every show is hostage to that.  It's a reality of life.  We don't
+have contracts with folks who play one or two parts a year.  Screen Actors
+Guild doesn't allow that; you make deals as they come up.  You can't stop
+an actor if he wants to jump ship under those conditions; and if you try,
+you have an unhappy actor on your set who'll just walk through it because
+he or she doesn't want to be there.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Apr 1996 03:43:24 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  De-Mystifying Television
+
+The process is quite a bit more elaborate than that, hence the cost.  You
+have to back to the original negative stock and re-develop every frame of
+film print to the proper perspective, then adjust all the CGI to match.
+
+However, this is being done already, with France preparing to show season
+3 in the widescreen version.  It just takes a while, and it costs.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Apr 1996 03:48:52 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 Cancelled?
+
+Just to clarify this...yes, somebody posted that to the official WB
+site...but it wasn't anybody in *ANY* way associated with Warner Bros. or
+any of the stations.  
+
+I've been saying for months now that PTEN seemed to be fading, and that we
+would eventually end up in direct syndication.  This is months-old news. 
+I can only assume that somebody here is getting his info wrong or is
+deliberately distorting it.
+
+We have not -- repeat, NOT -- been canceled.  For starters, the meeting at
+which that decision will be made won't be held until the end of April,
+first part of May.  The decision *cannot be made* until the execs finally
+meet to assess everything at that time.  So any messages before then
+should be dismissed.
+
+Also, be sensible, look around...WB is spending a large amount of money,
+well over a quarter million dollars, buying radio spots, and TV spots, and
+the covers of newspaper TV magazines in over 80 major cities to promote
+the coming batch of episodes.  Many TV stations are announcing that
+they're returning to airing the show twice a week now.  WB is doing its
+contest for B5.  If we were canceled, this would all stop *instantly*. 
+But it's all going ahead.
+
+And, finally, no one's said boo to us about it.  The day Kung Fu was
+dropped, they were notified within 24 hours.  You *have* to be notified at
+that point to make various financial arrangements, deal with sets, return
+any deficits, and so on.  And again, no one has said anything of that sort
+to us.
+
+Have there been ups and downs?  Of course.  The syndicated TV market has
+all but imploded over the last 2 years, thanks to WBN, UPN and Fox
+swallowing up almost all the available time slots on indie stations.  But
+we're still here....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Apr 1996 03:49:27 -0400
+Subject: Re: Sky full of leftovers?  (SD spoilers)
+
+"After any encounter like this, the sky around B5 is going to be littered
+with debris, especially around the jumpgate, which falls neatly into the
+"bad things" category for a station with such high traffic.  Who gets the
+job of cleaning up?"
+
+
+We've previously shown a hazmat platform that goes out into local space to
+clear up debris and any toxic fuel cores and the like.  It's standard
+operating practice.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Apr 1996 03:50:09 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Blooperlon 5
+
+We've discussed doing a blooper reel via the fan club; we'll see.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Apr 1996 04:02:26 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATT JMS: Writing and visualization.
+
+"Does our brain work like a computer putting tasks into background mode?
+How many times do we rack our brain for an answer that eludes us, only to
+have it pop out sometime later when we've totally forgotten that we were
+ever thinking about it in the first place? Like the chemical messages have
+taken the round trip to Jupiter to get to where the answer's stored. Like
+the core story of B5 just popped into JMS' head one day. The way I go home
+from work with a nagging problem and find the answer pops into my head
+when I wake up the next day."
+
+
+Absolutely.  Often I'll hit a snag in a script, and I'll go away and
+deliberately *not* think about it, letting the subconscious chew at it
+like a dog worrying a bone.  Then, usually about the time my head hits the
+pillow -- having finally relaxed -- the answer comes back as if of its own
+volition.  Same thing happens in the shower.
+
+I nowhere "saw" this process at work more clearly than when I fell prey to
+Tetris (from which I'm still trying to recover).  I'd often play it late
+at night, just before going to bed.  As I closed my eyes to sleep, I'd
+still be seeing those damned green and yellow L-shapes, the blocks and
+lines...my brain was still adjusting the pieces, seeing ways of making
+them fit that I'd overlooked before.  Because my brain had a visual
+referent, I could *see* it happening behind my eyelids.
+
+Which is exactly what we all do in problem solving.
+
+Humans is funny critters....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Apr 1996 04:04:51 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:Internet Influences
+
+"Just how much has reading the newgroups affected your writing style for
+the show?  Do you think interacting with us on the Internet has been a
+positive affect or could you have turned out B5 without us?"
+
+My writing style is pretty much my writing style.  (Minus adjustments made
+for the different ways characters talk on the show.)  
+
+Yes, the interaction has been positive, in the sense that I get asked a
+zillion questions about the show, the universe, the characters, their
+history and the tech involved.  As a writer, it's your job to ask, and
+then *answer*, every question conceivable about your story and characters.
+ The more questions you've asked yourself, the better the job you can do.
+
+Now, there's a finite number of questions one can ask oneself.  But on the
+nets I get all KINDS of questions.  In answering those, I think about new
+areas of the B5 universe, and the whole thing becomes stronger.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Apr 1996 04:04:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Directions to Hollywood
+
+I'd say that the first edition, written and published in 1981, should now
+be set aside now that the new version is coming out, which is a lot more
+up to date with the changing marketplace and other trends in the media.
+
+It's also a much better book in general.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Apr 1996 04:10:30 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: related question on writing (was Re: ATT JMS: Writing and visualization. )
+
+"do you ever find your characters almost outright refusing to go where you
+ want them to?  this happens to me from time to time, where I want her to 
+go one way, and she decides to go another.  It's rather annoying."
+
+Yes, but it means you're doing it *right*.
+
+Yeah, it happens.  Every once in a while, a character will go left instead
+of right in my head, and I'll try to yank him back, and he'll refuse to
+go, and I'll get into this sort of weird mental dialogue trying to find
+out what the hell's wrong and what's going on.  I've now created the
+characters sufficiently well now that they're alive, and I've come to that
+point now where, if a character says "I want to do X" in a script, I'll
+tend to go with it, figuring it may work and take me in some new
+directions.  Every once in a while, we'll get to the end, and it won't
+work, and I'll have to backtrack to where we went off the road...and,
+natch, the character just sits sullenly in the back of the car, refusing
+to admit he read the map wrong.
+
+But when it *works*...the character surprises me, and if I'm surprised,
+the odds are good that you're going to be surprised.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Apr 1996 04:10:53 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATT JMS: B5 and Lord of the Rings?
+
+All the elements you point to are just tools that recur in any saga of any
+size.  The dark forces, the one who turns, the source of ancient
+wisdom...it goes back all the way to the Illiad and the Odyssey.  Compare
+Kosh to the Oracle at Delphi and you'll have a pretty close match.
+
+LoTR and B5 use the same tools, which have taken on different names over
+the last 6,000 years.  That's all.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Apr 1996 04:12:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Renewal Status
+
+"Do you have any information that you can pass along concerning the
+renewal of B5 for a 4th season?"
+
+Nope.  We won't know anything until the execs gather for their meeting at
+which this will be decided.  That meeting will take place late April/early
+May.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Apr 1996 04:12:34 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATT JMS:New cast pictures (potential spoilers)
+
+No, the map is more conceptual than anything else; for any kind of detail
+work, other screens are used.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Apr 1996 05:25:59 -0400
+Subject: OFFICIAL B5 FAN CLUB NEWS!
+
+The following information about the OFFICIAL BABYLON 5 FAN CLUB was
+just released by B5FC coordinator Jim Lochett, and is now available.  (The
+address given should now be used for convention information sent to cast.)
+
+                                                       ***
+
+Join today and you will receive the Official Membership Kit, including:
+
+     A Subscription to The Universe Today: The Official Newsletter of the
+     B5FC filled with exclusive interviews, news about Babylon 5, and
+     exciting merchandise offers.
+     An 8x10 Cast Photo
+     Full Color Babylon 5 Mini-Poster (13"x20")
+     B5 Fan Club Button & Full Color Sticker
+     Membership Certificate (Signed by the show's Executive Producers, J.
+     Michael Straczynski and Douglas Netter)
+     Membership ID Card granting you discounts on merchandise,
+conventions,
+     etc., as well as access to the Members Only section of
+TheStation.com,
+     the B5 Fan Club Web-site (to be up May 1996).
+     Plus as a bonus, the first 100 people to join get:
+     A Limited Collection Sticker of the alternate B5 Logo as designed by
+     artist Peter Ledger.
+================
+
+To Give a Membership as a Gift, simply make a copy of the entry form, fill
+in the name of the person you wish to make a member, and send it off.
+(Don't forget to include your name on the Suggestions line, so that we can
+include a gift card.)
+
+Each year the Renewal Kit will offer new and different goodies, savings,
+and of course another year's subscription to The Universe Today.
+
+Remember, this is more than just your run of the mill fan club; the
+Babylon
+5 fans time and time again have gone that extra step for the show, and the
+Babylon 5 Fan Club is our way of giving something back to those who've
+been
+so loyal to us.
+
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+
+----------------  CUT HERE FOR THE END OF THE FORM  -------------------
+
+Date: 9 Apr 1996 04:57:46 -0400
+Subject: Re: Rumors of Cancelation flying, are they bogus?
+
+Yes, it's bogus.  The message sent to the B5 web was sent by a user, not
+from anyone associated with B5 or WB.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 9 Apr 1996 19:51:07 -0400
+Subject: Spoiler Warning in VIR .avi/trailer
+
+Just an advisory...I finally saw the trailer for "Sic Transit Vir," and
+I'd suggest anyone who wants to enjoy the show *not* watch the trailer, as
+it gives away stuff that shouldn't be given away.
+
+I.e., if the trailer for The Maltese Falcon said, "...and see the surprise
+when the black bird is discovered to be an imitation."
+
+jms
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Apr 1996 05:27:39 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Question about "Interludes"  (BIG, HUGE SPOILERS!)
+
+In general, under certain kinds of circumstances, this being one, I would
+go for a more stylized scene; some things can't be conveyed in too literal
+a fashion.  
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Apr 1996 04:50:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Your views on Star Trek?
+
+Re: the hiring of Walter Koenig and Majel Barrett...in the former case,
+this is a very talented actor, who is also a friend, and has never been
+given the chance to showcase his real skills.  We provided that chance. 
+In the case of Majel, she wanted to appear in the show to help eliminate
+some of the division between B5 and ST fans.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 17 Apr 1996 06:52:54 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Any information on Harlan's heart attack
+
+He's doing much better today, up and about.  But we're advising everyone
+to give the family some space and quiet time for a bit.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Apr 1996 06:52:56 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Question about writing
+
+"When you sit down to write an episode, what form is the initial draft? 
+Is it 
+in script format?  The reason I ask this, is because I've begun writing
+short stories for a comic book, but I've found that when writing the first
+draft, writing it in script format takes up too much time and hinders the
+creative process of storytelling.  It's much easier for me to write in
+short-story form, then convert it to a script format.  Do you find this a
+similar problem or does the conversion from *story* to 
+*script* take place in your head?"
+
+It pretty much happens in my head.  When I sit down to write, I generally
+have a good notion on where it's going, some notes on post-its, and from
+my overall outline.  Then I just open up the script program Movie Master,
+which provides the right margins for dialogue and narrative and the like,
+and just start writng the actual script.  There's no interim level; I
+think in script terms.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Apr 1996 06:52:43 -0400
+Subject: from jms: I'm here, sorta
+
+To all who've inquired...I'm here, just not as much lately.  I was out of
+town and offline from Friday through Sunday, and returned to Harlan's
+situation.  We've been doing all we can to help at this end, and things
+are looking good now in that regard, but it's taken time and concern, on
+top of still being a bit swamped with post production, and there are a LOT
+of messages here to catch up on, which can be a bit daunting.
+
+Give me a bit of time to catch my breath, clear the decks and otherwise
+get stuff in order, and I'll be able to catch up here a bit.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 17 Apr 1996 06:53:06 -0400
+Subject: War Without End (* Spoilers *)
+
+(* Spoilers for War Without End *)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+As Sinclair notes when he arrives at B5, his status as ambassador is
+pretty much gone after the coup.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 18 Apr 1996 01:19:11 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS, about role playing?
+
+"what is your experience with role playing games and how has it affected
+your writing?"
+
+I've actually taken part in at most two RPGs in my time, and while they
+were interesting, I don't think I'm overmuch interested in doing them
+again, nor did I walk away from the table with anything more than, "Well,
+that was fun, sorta."  
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Apr 1996 19:37:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: A Gun on the wall.
+
+It's fair to say that you will be seeing that Narn cruiser again; it's
+still out there.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 19 Apr 1996 05:01:22 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: New uniforms and the cast
+
+In general, it's my understanding that the cast really like the new
+uniforms.  They're lighter, easier to move around in, cooler under the
+lights, and they like the styling, the rogue element to it, and the
+Minbari aspect.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Apr 1996 07:59:49 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: who said "not now!" (ItSoZ)
+
+No, I don't believe anyone is actually saying "not now" in that scene.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Apr 1996 08:01:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: for JMS
+
+But if I answered your question, you'd know before the episode aired, and
+where would the fun in that be?
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Apr 1996 08:01:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS Series Bible
+
+No, the series bible is really a very general thing and was only really
+used much in the first year; it's now very much out of date.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Apr 1996 08:01:54 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Who else?
+
+Folks I'd still like to see on the show: Patrick McGoohan, Patrick Macnee,
+Tom Baker, Penn Jillette, Meatloaf, Alice Cooper, Kevin McCarthy.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Apr 1996 08:00:33 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Making episode script(s) available?
+
+This is something we've discussed doing, and may indeed do at some point. 
+In the interim, the tentative plan is to have the script for "The Coming
+of Shadows" included in the new edition of my writing book, due out in the
+fall.  
+
+What would make all of this even more interesting is the fact that *every
+single script* has at least something that's been trimmed out of it;
+sometimes just a few lines, sometimes a couple of small, expendable
+scenes.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Apr 1996 07:59:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Is Ikara 7 connected to the last Shadow War?
+
+There is a connection between the Ikarran situation and the shadows, but
+only a tenuous one.  They had heard of the great enemy rampaging all over
+the place, and had cobbled together a very primitive source of organic
+technology that would kill anything and anyone that was not pure Ikarran
+(which, of course, led to their destruction).  Sinclair, at the time, hit
+it dead on..."When you become obsessed with the enemy, you *become* the
+enemy."
+
+                                    
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Apr 1996 08:01:36 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Music and ComiCon
+
+Yes, I am planning for now to attend San Diego ComicCon; it's my one big
+chance to go nuts buying Cool Stuph (tm) every year.
+
+As for the music I listen to...that just got hashed over on CIS, and
+reposted here, so I'm loathe to go into it all again.  The short version
+is that I listen to just about anything and everything except hardass
+Country/Western, which I just can't get into.  I couldn't warm up to Garth
+Brooks if we were cremated together.  Not to say it's bad, only that it
+doesn't work for me.
+
+In general terms, the music I listen to while I work tends to be of the
+harder, more driving or intricate sort; if it's too soft, I fall asleep
+and tip over in my chair, making an awful clatter as I hit the deck.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Apr 1996 04:54:59 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS' absence & Harlan in hospital
+
+Correct.  I spent almost all of Wednesday with Harlan at the hospital, and
+he's doing MUCH better.  I'm obliged not to say much more than that, but
+as stated, he's doing amazingly well post-surgery.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Apr 1996 04:46:38 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: "War Without End" title inspiration
+
+Actually, the quote is usually "world without end," and no, that wasn't
+the inspiration for the title...it's just very descriptive of the story.  
+
+Have tried 3 times to order the t-shirt from Land's End, and they're still
+back ordered.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Apr 1996 05:06:35 -0400
+Subject: Re: direction of written Narn?
+
+The computer was a goof; Narnish is written right to left.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Apr 1996 00:52:01 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS, you tease!  (STV spoilers)
+
+Me?  A tease?  Moi?  I just report the news, I don't make it.
+
+The kiss is coming.  But I wanted to do it in such a way that it somewhat
+unexpected, in a way that would have even more weight than under any other
+possible conditions.  How do you turn a kiss into a wham?  (Aside from
+kissing the right person, natch.)  Stay tuned....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Apr 1996 04:41:49 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS  'Process or result'
+
+Probably the one person who's had to know the most of what's coming is
+Peter Jurasik, because we've had to flash forward to his future the most
+of anyone, and he kinda needed to know what it meant and how he got there
+in order to play it properly.  After that...probably Mira, then Sheridan. 
+The rest are on a need to know basis.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Apr 1996 20:23:36 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTM:JMS is the reincarnation of......
+
+So I guess this means I should cancel my plans for writing "A Tale of Two
+Kitties"....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Apr 1996 20:25:02 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS
+
+Yes, I read the Foundation books, but it was a while ago; it *could* be
+done for TV, but it'd be tremendously difficult and hideously expensive
+from a production standpoint.  For now, anyway.  In, say, another 10-15
+years, with more changes in the technology of television, it might be more
+feasible.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Apr 1996 11:08:39 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: "Gone Native" (*Slight spoiler for Sic Transit Vir*)
+
+No, when Londo goes to Delenn earlier this season to ask about having Vir
+appointed to the Centauri diplomatic mission, he mentions then that the
+mission has been closed for some time, "some trouble I believe with our
+previous liaison."  This just paid that off; those Minbari are just a
+darned bad influence, I guess.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Apr 1996 11:08:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Source of Minbari Prophecies?
+
+A number of the Minbari prophecies were written down by Valen himself, at
+the time when he called together the Grey Council and led the last great
+war against the shadows.  They have somehow tended to be quite
+astonishingly accurate.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Apr 1996 11:08:31 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS I heard that with you writing the entire season, you will be the 1st in tv history?
+
+Thanks.  And yes, I'll be the first in American TV to do so; when you get
+into the UK, however, you've got Terry Nation, who wrote all 16 (18?) of
+Blake 7's first season, which represents some pretty nifty writing on his
+part.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Apr 1996 04:43:21 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Something to consider
+
+No, the missing scenes and lines blipped out of episodes can't be put back
+in again later without totally rescoring everything, and they'd be of
+varying lengths; it's not do-able in any sense (unfortunately).
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Apr 1996 04:43:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - Cynthia Torqueman
+
+Yes, the Torque- part of her name came from Torquemada, that's correct. 
+Just seemed appropriate since we were shortly doing an episode with an
+inquisitor.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Apr 1996 22:09:19 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Will TNT edit reruns?
+
+Usually, you get big cuts in shows going from network to cable because the
+restrictions on the number of commercials are greater for the former than
+the latter.  However, the number of spots in syndication are about the
+same as for cable, so there shouldn't be any need for cuts.  Also, once
+the show hits TNT, you won't be using the Kung Fu (certainly) or B5
+(probably) promos anymore, which frees up another 30-45 seconds for
+commercials.
+
+So overall, I shouldn't think there'd be much need for editing.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Apr 1996 22:10:47 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS, you tease! (STV spoilers)
+
+"Has anyone told you lately what an evil, evil man you are?"
+
+Why, you old sweet-talker you....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Apr 1996 22:09:53 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Has B5 been renewed yet?
+
+We'll know sometime next month, after the PTEN committee meets again.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Apr 1996 22:13:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: three behind the scenes
+
+The foreign mailings were initially going to be ground; we're
+investigating whether or not we can afford, without raising the price, to
+do airmail instead.
+
+We're taking other steps to see if we can make things easier for the UK
+fans.
+
+As for where I am, I'm still kinda all over the place, here, CIS, GEnie,
+AOL primarily.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Apr 1996 22:14:24 -0400
+Subject: Re: Did Delenn TELL A LIE to Sheridan?  [spoilers Sic T.V.]
+
+It's been established that Minbari can and do lie when it's done to save
+the honor of another.  Here, Delenn saved face for Sheridan at dinner.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 23 Apr 1996 23:28:28 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Means of Foreign Payment for Fan Club
+
+We just had a meeting today about the fan club, and in response to some of
+the questions here about the UK, we're investigating how best to handle
+this to make it easier for folks outside the US to get involved.  We hope
+to have some answers soonish, so UKers might want to wait just a bit
+before sending in their subs.  
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Apr 1996 04:08:02 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Airing Dates
+
+Start with a correction: the final 4 from last season aired in October,
+not November.  That aside...
+
+No, it didn't take that long to finish the CGI, since they'd already aired
+months before in Britain.  We will have all the CG and incidental stuff
+finished for S3 in July, in time for the August UK airings of the last
+batch of episodes.  But PTEN sometimes holds back a handful of episodes to
+put on prior to the new season to help ramp up the ratings and get a
+running start.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Apr 1996 04:04:40 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Changes in the Story due to Actors
+
+"First, I've heard the actor who played General Hague was supposed to
+continue with the show but ended up going someplace else."
+
+That's correct.  He bailed at the last minute, even though we had first
+dibs on him.  Not much point to forcing an actor to stay if he wants to
+go; you just get an unhappy set and a less than stellar performance.  That
+situation led to changing a grand total of 3 lines.  Anything in Hague's
+situation is what's called a "moveable piece," meaning it can be easily
+assigned to others.
+
+"Second, I've heard the actress that plays Delenn was supposed to remain
+fully Membari but didn't like the heavy make-up"
+
+Nope.  That was never the intent.  She was *always* going to make this
+change.
+and is now part-human.
+
+"Third, the Sinclair thing.  We all wonder if he's supposed to be back or
+what (probably, "or what")--especially based on the "Babylon Squared" show
+where Sinclair is the apparent leader of the Good Guys (tm)."
+ 
+Watch the two-parter.  We'll talk afterward.
+
+"I heard Bruce Box...(uh, I'm too stupid to spell his name correctly)
+isn't happy with the ratings, etc."
+
+Point being...?  Bruce is happy with the show, and staying with it; like
+the rest of us, he wishes the show got more attention here in the US on a
+par with what it gets overseas, particularly in the UK.
+
+"I'm wondering...how do you deal with these things and keep the necessary
+consistency?  Are you just "rolling with the punches" and letting the
+changes take place but keeping the main story idea intact?  That's my
+guess.  Perhaps no one actor or person is essential to the story?"
+
+As a writer, doing a long-term story, it'd be dangerous and short-sighted
+for me to construct the story without trap doors for every single
+character.  Because Stuff Happens.  An actor can get hit by a meteor, walk
+off, whatever.  So I deliberately and very carefully constructed this
+puppy to be more or less airtight no matter what happens.  You want to
+drive from LA to San Diego.  You figure on taking the 5 freeway all the
+way down.  Only when you get to the Slausen Cutoff (insert joke here),
+there's a traffic jam...so you get off, take some alternate streets, and
+come back again right back on track.  Same thing here.
+
+That was one of the big risks going into a long-term storyline which I
+considered long in advance; you can't predict real-world events, so you
+have to compensate for them and plan for them in advance.  Otherwise you
+could paint yourself into a corner.  
+
+Similarly, there are story changes that come up at me by surprise, which
+make total sense, which result in actor changes.  As a writer, you have to
+be flexible enough to recognize a stronger, better path when it presents
+itself; to be so rigidly locked into your prior structure eliminates
+spontaneity and the chance to explore new routes.  This is exactly the
+same thing that happens when you write a novel; you learn things 1/2 way
+through writing a novel you can learn no other way.  
+
+I've been writing and selling since I was 17.  In all that time, I've
+never once followed an outline beat-for-beat once I got into the main
+writing, whatever the final venue.  No outline survives contact with the
+enemy.  It's a *guideline* that keeps you on track when you waver, and
+serves as base camp, providing security when it strikes you to go off and
+explore a path you hadn't noticed before.
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 24 Apr 1996 14:58:52 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Melissa Gilbert on B5??
+
+Yes, Melissa pops up in two episodes toward the latter part of the season.
+ The part is a good one.  That's all I can say for now.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Apr 1996 00:43:48 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Public knowledge of last episode title.
+
+Well, there's what one would *prefer*, and there's that which is
+*sensible*.  And the sensible answer is that no, once the last S3 episode
+airs in the UK, there's no way on earth you're gonna keep that out of the
+public eye, and there ain't much sense to protecting it or hitting it with
+spoiler regs.  I'd let it go at that point.  
+
+(And, frankly, it'll probably slip out some time before that; when it
+hits, it hits, I've decided to let it go at that point...you just ain't
+gonna hear it from ME, that's all.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Apr 1996 00:53:10 -0400
+Subject: from jms: to support B5
+
+I've noted, and been sent, a number of messages asking how folks can best
+support or coordinate support for B5 among the stations, which are the key
+to keeping the show going and healthy.
+
+Just in the last few weeks, Warner Bros. has set up a web page designed
+specifically to assist in this area, noting the fan interest in aiding the
+show.  It contains email and snail mail addresses and phone numbers and
+contact names for all the stations now carrying B5, broken down by state
+and city, with suggestions on letters, and a new gif and jpg image of the
+revised B5 symbol (sword and B5 logo) which can be put on other web pages
+to link them in.
+
+As has been noted, WB wants to continue the show, and the key right now
+are the stations which are being pressured to limit time to other shows in
+deference to UPN, Fox and others.  (Lonseome Dove, for instance, was just
+canceled, even though it was getting good ratings, because the producers
+just couldn't find enough stations to make it worth it for the national
+advertisers.)  
+
+So if you're looking to coordinate B5 support, I commend to you this web
+page:
+
+                      http://www.babylon5.com/support
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 25 Apr 1996 18:50:52 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5's acceptance (NO spoilers)
+
+I think this is fairly accurate; I've long felt that this show wouldn't
+really take off until, ironically, it was over and in long term
+syndication.  Which is okay by me...
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Apr 1996 01:35:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN Moderators, JMS, Everyone: A Proposal for all of the many questions to JMS
+
+Good hearted an idea as it might be, I'm not sure it's necessary.  Now, if
+it's a question we've seen a thousand times before, and I've answered lots
+of times before, if anybody wants to kick in with that answer, that's
+fine, but overall....
+
+I guess part of this is that very often the ATT JMS notes aren't really
+questions, or advance a particular thought that doesn't seem to lead to a
+response.  When a very specific question is asked, about writing or the
+show or the like, then I tend to answer.  If someone uses ATT JMS and
+says, as is often said, "I was thinking that the Minbari are an advanced
+species, and maybe because of this they don't have the same approach to
+justice we do, so we shouldn't judge them," my usual reaction is to nod
+and move on, because they've expressed their opinion, and there really
+isn't much I can add to that...it's their feeling about something.
+
+As opposed to, "What, historically, have the Minbari done about the
+question of justice?" which leads to a discusssion.  To some extent, like
+any conversation, the quality of the answers you get depends on the
+quality and specificity of the questions asked.
+
+Also, right now, since we're not shooting, in a way during the hiatus
+period I become something of a balloon sans air.  There isn't that much
+interesting to talk about at this end, we're not doing anything but post
+production; the sets are all dark, awaiting word.  And, finally, I do tend
+to get somewhat quiet each season while we wait for word on renewal.  This
+brief period between April and renewal are really my own down-times on the
+show...and I'm kinda like Marcus, if I don't have something to say, I
+generally don't say anything rather than waste people's time filling up
+space.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 26 Apr 1996 07:39:09 -0400
+Subject: Re: ALDFA (**NO** Spoilers)
+
+I agree, I think Chris did a great job on this one (he's done some
+spectacular work overall this season, on Severed, Interludes, Ship and
+others later this season).  What I'd told him in this case I wanted was as
+much as possible in the way of natural instruments as opposed to synth, so
+that it fit more with the feel of the episode.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Apr 1996 07:39:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Books and TV Plot
+
+My theory is that *in general* the novels and comics tend to be canon, but
+the details may not always be, mainly because it's virtually impossible to
+ride herd on every single line of all this the way I do the show.  It
+physically can't be done.  But where possible, we keep it as close to
+cointinuity as possible.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Apr 1996 07:39:11 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Entertainment Tonight?
+
+No, that wasn't me in the shot.  I generally stay out of camera range when
+they come to talk to our cast; I prefer they have their time in the
+limelight rather than horn in on it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Apr 1996 07:39:24 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Borrowed Characters
+
+"I've noticed a few instances where the Star Trek progeny have borrowed
+specific ideas from print SF with some changes to make story plots.  The
+Dyson sphere and a ruined arms-dealer planet are specific examples and I
+vaguely remember others.  I'd like to see some of the better SF characters
+visiting B5 such as Slippery Jim DiGriz (alias Stainless Steel Rat) who
+are never going to see the movie screen for technical reasons.  Can this
+sort of thing be done?"
+
+No, not here.  I generally consider that sort of thing to be too close to
+the line bordering plagiarism for comfort.  Somebody went through a great
+deal of work to create certain characters; I'd rather not poach on their
+turf.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Apr 1996 07:39:23 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Changes in the Story due to Actors
+
+Cindy: absolutely, pass along anything here you think may be of any value.
+
+There's a lot of misinformation and bad mythology about how writing works,
+and how TeeVee works...anything that helps to clarify those areas is
+nothing less than terrific.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 28 Apr 1996 05:07:49 -0400
+Subject: on moderation from jms
+
+Over the last several days, I've received a fair amount of email on the
+subject of the moderated group, and the question of messages...present,
+slowed, deleted and adjusted.  I've sent a number of notes to Jay
+inquiring about the situation, and giving my thoughts to him.  On the
+theory that conversations in public serve the commonweal more than
+conversations in private, I wanted to take one moment and reiterate my
+feelings on this subject...which were stated very clearly in one of the
+first messages on this group, and my very first overall.  But as someone
+once noted of recurrent themes in literature, "Of course everything has
+already been said.  But since no one was paying attention, we begin
+again."  Nothing is lost by clarification.
+
+(Preliminary aside: I'm told that apparently some messages that folks
+thought were being cut were, in fact, simply held up in the system by the
+software or may not have been showing up in their local system for
+whatever reason; this seems to be true, insofar as I can tell.)
+
+The moderated group, as I understand it, is designed to primarily control
+three problem areas: spoilers, excessive personal attacks of a chronic
+nature (especially libelous or defamatory material), and story ideas.  The
+second is what drives out other users, the last is something which cannot
+be where I am for legal reasons. 
+
+Not for content.  Not for language.  Not for unpopular opinions.  Not for
+opinions of controversy.  Not for critical opinions regarding this show. 
+If somebody wants to say, "Joe, I'm sorry, but 'Avalon' just really
+sucked," he should be perfectly free to do so.  Others may be perfectly
+free to disagree, and allow the two sides to discuss the reasons for their
+viewpoints.
+
+I said it in my first message here, and I'll repeat it: from time to time,
+somebody is going to lose their temper, or say something less than
+prudent, or explore some of the more colorful aspects of the English
+language.  From where I sit, there is nothing wrong with this.  We all
+have momentary lapses.
+
+Note the penultimate word: *momentary*.  If someone is *chronically* and
+consistently engaged in this stuff, ongoing personal attacks, then you
+warn, you warn a second time, and then and ONLY then do you delete.  A
+blipped message should be the tool of last resort, not the instrument of
+first choice.  
+
+When I was first approached about the moderated group, I expressed this
+very clearly, as well as my own willingness to be moderated when and if I
+might ever cross the line.  I said that I would be more than glad to be a
+part of a moderated group *as long as* everybody felt comfortable speaking
+freely, that moderation would only be implemented for the extreme cases,
+the chronic abusers, the trolls and the flamers and the fabricators and
+those who exist only to bring grief to other users.  That was my position
+then, and it remains the same now.  A lighter hand is always better than a
+heavier one; always better to err on the side of letting something
+through.
+
+Sometimes, you can only get pertinent information by asking impertinent
+questions.  And as I scan through the group as it stands now, there are a
+lot of impertinent questions lined up.  Which is great.  There are also a
+few questions about some of the material on the edge of that.  Those need
+to be addressed, or at least discussed openly.
+
+For the record, I think the moderated group is performing well overall. 
+In just a few short weeks by my counter it's logged about 7,000 messages,
+and will shortly pass the unmoderated group in volume.  The atmosphere is
+friendly, and the questions and discussions good.  A nice mix of critical
+messages and positive ones, and almost always in the spirit of
+constructive criticism.  
+
+So this is not a flag on the play, only an advisory and a restating of
+what I noted here in the beginning.  The moderators have a hideously
+difficult task ahead of them in the sheer volume of posts, and they are
+doing an exemplary job.  That doesn't mean mistakes won't be made. 
+Mistakes are inevitable as we all learn the feel of this place, and grow
+together.  If they have not been made yet, and I'm not sufficiently
+conversant on the whole situation to say they have, then they will most
+certainly be made in future.  That's simply the nature of any new process
+being implemented; there is trial and error.
+
+We learn, we adjust, and we move on.  It's what humans do.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 28 Apr 1996 19:09:25 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: ALDFAvalon Music question
+
+No, we can't use any outside music; it all has to be done via our composer
+(unless we purchase the rights, obviously).  Here, though, it's all Chris.
+ We had a long conversation about the kind of music I wanted, I encouraged
+him to think in terms of Celtic music, natural instruments primarily
+instead of synth or electronic instruments, that sort of thing.  But no,
+no Claanad was used.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Apr 1996 19:10:30 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATT JMS: I *liked* ALDfA (& a ?)
+
+The ability to forgive is certainly one of the foremost principles of
+sentient life, even Draal would agree with that.  
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Apr 1996 01:19:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: Forces of light?  (SPOILERS up to "Interludes")
+
+Just to be sure on spoilers....
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+"In other words, it seems like our heroes have been more or less sitting
+on their thumbs, embroiled in internal problems, waiting for the war to
+start.  Next week, I suspect they'll start to pay the price."
+
+The former part of this is not entirely true.  Some stuff has been going
+on in the background, but it's been very secretive...which is why you
+don't know about it yet.  They've been working like the dickens, getting
+some stuff ready...and you'll find out what that is in an episode later
+this season.  They needed to buy time, and now that they've had it,
+they've used it well.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Apr 1996 01:29:11 -0400
+Subject: Re: Att: JMS
+
+It's down there...possible spoilers.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+You basically had two large convoys meeting one another.  Two Minbari
+ships were hit and destroyed, a third damaged badly; this was the one
+carrying Dukhat and the Grey Council, including Delenn.  
+
+Just for the record, what happened after that...the Minbari ships opened
+fire, and a number of the Earth ships were fragged.  The rest fled as the
+Minbari ships hesitated, waiting to see what happened to Dukhat.  When it
+was learned that he was killed, they took off and pursued the ships back
+to an Earth base.  Initially, one of the Earth captains explained that
+they had encountered hostiles (trying to cover his ass), and when the
+Minbari ships appeared, all hell broke loose.
+
+It was shortly after this "cowardly attack" on their ships, and the
+assassination of their leader, that the Minbari declared what is in
+essence a jihad, a holy war, against Earth.  The worker class went along
+with it, even though the religious caste was unsure...but divided, they
+couldn't raise sufficient objections to the war to stop it initially.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 29 Apr 1996 20:08:09 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS
+
+Well, they're interesting speculations, and obviously I can't say one
+thing or another about them at this time.
+
+But on another level, you're right; if the clues are properly placed, and
+the story proceeds in a logical, consistent fashion, about 20% of the
+people will guess correctly on where it's going (this from my years on
+Murder, She Wrote).
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 29 Apr 1996 21:23:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: End of A Late Delivery From Avalon
+
+The references given (he said vaguely, to avoid spoiling anybody) were
+first and foremost intentional to the story and to set up stuff...but as I
+wrote it, the way this stuff has been discussed online did come to mind,
+and on some level it was probably a slight *plink*, yes.
+
+Sort of a "yeah, well, TWO can play at that game, and most of you missed
+THIS particular analogy, so THERE."
+
+I am in serious need of a vacation, I think....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Apr 1996 04:11:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Was this the original plan?
+
+The curious thing...the interesting thing...is that in just about
+everything I've ever written, yes, I generally follow where I want to go,
+end up where I want to end up, but once I get *into* it, once the
+characters come alive on the page, I inevitably find better ways of doing
+things, stronger and more muscular paths to the story, more interesting
+side roads.  
+
+Also, this original story was worked out in 1986/87; that's nearly ten
+years ago.  In those ten years, I've become -- or like to think I've
+become -- a better writer, learned more, written more, picked up some new
+tools I didn't have then.  So you have a situation where the writer in
+1996 looks at the writer in 1986 and says, "No, listen...there's a better
+way.  Yes, we'll still get to Disneyland on time, you'll still have plenty
+of time to ride the haunted mansion...but if we go *this* way, we can stop
+off and also see Knotts Berry Farm, and the Winchester Mystery Mansion,
+and maybe even Hearst Castle on the way."
+
+The destination is still the same..but I've found a *lot* more interesting
+ways of getting there.  Which, after all, is what an outline is for: a
+safe home base that allows you to wander off, knowing that you can always
+return to it if you get lost.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Apr 1996 04:14:11 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Why five years?
+
+Knowing the syndication marketplace, I figured five was about the best you
+could do before being canceled as new shows came in and the marketplace
+changed.  At least, for a new show.  Six felt too long, four could be done
+but I kinda wanted a little breathing room if at all possible.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Apr 1996 04:12:21 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: The stats (was: Re: on moderation from jms)
+
+"One minor correction Joe.  The moderated newsgroup surpassed the
+unmoderated one's daily volume since the *second* day it came on line."
+
+kewl....
+
+Now to go pass out from overexposure to math....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+Date: 1 May 1996 23:12:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Character Popularity/Writing them out
+
+sorta kinda spoilers, I guess....
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+"So, to sum up, has it been hard making these changes after you and all of
+the fans have gotten to know them?  Or is it simply a matter of:
+"Well...it's their time...?"
+
+It's both, kinda.  In the case of one character, who's been with us a long
+time, and who...shall we say delicately, is en route to becoming an
+ex-character by the end of this season...it was hard knowing the actor,
+because the actor said, "Was there something I did wrong?"  To which you
+can only answer truthfully and say no, not at all, just the opposite...you
+did a GREAT job, that's why we're offing you.  If you'd been just
+mediocre, nobody'd CARE."
+
+In another case, also later this season, it was *very* difficult for me
+personally to do it, very emotional...and I wouldn't probably have done it
+at all if the character hadn't basically grabbed me by the lapels and
+dragged me kicking and screaming to that point of the story and said,
+"Look, this is right, you know it, I know it, now DO it."  So I did.  (And
+the cast and crew were equally stunned.  Of everything that's been done on
+the show to date, THAT one thing got the biggest reaction; nobody'd eat
+across from me for two days at lunch after that.)
+
+Bottom line...you've got to go where the story leads you.  That *has* to
+be your first and foremost obligation.  If it's anything else -- catering
+to the audience's expectations, or your own preferences -- rather than
+doing what the cold logic of the story *demands* you to do...you're
+finished.  
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 2 May 1996 03:37:39 -0400
+Subject: Re: What does the -len or Len- indicate?
+
+Basically, I went through and came up with common suffixes and prefixes
+for Minbari names, the way Russian names have combinations of certain
+letters (-ovna, -ova, -vich), and associated various backgrounds and
+castes and houses (fanes) to them.  So you have Delenn, Rathenn, and
+others of similar name.  
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 6 May 1996 04:07:41 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Attention to detail
+
+Janet: thanks.  It's just always seemed to me that if you're going to
+create a fictional universe, you should do your homework.  Now, having
+said that, there are plenty of areas where I haven't fleshed out some
+stuff as much as I'd like (and no, I'm not telling you where they are;
+it's nothing you'd notice, really).  But I could do that every day, 24
+hours a day, and still not finish everything...a universe is a BIG place. 
+Still, the more I can do, the realer the show becomes.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 6 May 1996 04:11:19 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Utility for Mac
+
+Yeah, apparently I got some misleading information from them.  I was told
+by one rep that the April push was to launch the mac version as well;
+apparently that was changed, but no one ever told me.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 6 May 1996 04:10:45 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Enlightenment through laughter
+
+Nuts...I'll have to go drag out my Zen books on this one...it's a
+reference I came upon for "the laughing buddha," which features a very old
+painting of same, and the thoughts on laughter and enlightenment.  That
+might be a good reference point for starting off, at least.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 6 May 1996 04:12:56 -0400
+Subject: Re: DS9's plummeting ratings, was Re: EP: ALDFA Dream Sequence
+
+No, DS9 isn't the top drama in syndication; it regularly gets beaten by
+both Hercules and Xena.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 6 May 1996 04:00:19 -0400
+Subject: Re: "The man in between is searching for you" et al...
+
+Either the guide got it wrong, or I misspoke, or you're misremembering.  I
+said, specifically, and this season, that the dream Sheridan had would be
+explained, in detail, by the end of the *third* season.  And it has, and
+it's already been filmed.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 6 May 1996 04:04:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: Last 5 season 3 episodes will be held back.  WHY?
+
+I don't yet know the full story, I just came into this info this weekend,
+having been away at a convention, and will try to verify it this week.  
+
+The bad part of this, if what I've read is correct, is that you've got 4
+months of reruns, June-September.  But *most* shows are in reruns at that
+time, especially syndicated shows.  You've only got 22 episodes per year,
+that means you're going to have reruns 30 weeks out of the year.  
+
+The reason Warners held back 4 episodes last time for October was so that
+they could help ramp up the ratings in the November sweeps.  If they're
+doing the same thing here, on the up side, that would at least seem to
+indicate some optimism about renewal, otherwise what would be the point in
+burning them up in a non-sweeps period (like October)?
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 7 May 1996 05:08:05 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS: Warner Bros. and B5 promotions
+
+There's no B5 wall because a) it's a syndicated show and low priority to
+them, and b) those are for WB productions, and we're not a WB production,
+we're a Babylonian production *distributed* by WB.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 7 May 1996 05:08:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Ship of Tears: Lighting or FX?
+
+The reflections you cite were all done real-time with an LCD projector.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 7 May 1996 06:43:11 -0400
+Subject: Re: Interludes and Examinations  (* Spoilers *)
+
+spoiler space...
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+It wasn't my idea.  It was Kosh's idea.  It was his pulling me that way
+that led to it.  "Trust me," he said.  I followed.
+
+And yeah, it does hurt.  Pat Tallman was devastated at the screening. 
+Even my own crew wouldn't talk to me for a day or so after the script came
+out.
+
+Which is when I knew it was the right thing to do.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 7 May 1996 04:16:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:Editing question for "Interludes and Examinations",  Spoilers.
+
+spoilers....
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+"JMS, why did you edit out the scene where the Ranger follows Morden and
+ends up being killed by the Shadows?  Don't you think fans of the show
+would rather see that than the scene in the bar where Garibaldi asks for
+info on Franklin's blood from the other doctor?  When you edit the show
+please keep in mind what the fans would what to see.  Rangers and Shadows
+fighting is much more exciting than a unimportant scene that could have
+been left out easily."
+
+Because it was important to set up what Garibaldi wanted, where it was,
+and how he was going to gain access.  It had to show his concern for
+Franklin, the moral ambiguity in asking for this, the betrayal we see on
+Franklin's face, the difficulty in Dr. Hobbs dealing with his request. 
+The ranger scene was a brief piece that was really unconnected to the rest
+of the story, had no setup elsewhere or payoff, was only a brief piece of
+action.  I needed the time to establish the character and plot information
+in the Garibaldi scene.
+
+And when you cite what "the fans" want to see, bear in mind that there
+ain't no such critter.  There's what *you* like, but *you're* not the
+entirety of the fans.  Some fans thought "Avalon" was one of the best of
+the series to date; others thought it was just a character piece and
+wanted more action and arc and called it a "waste."  Some people when they
+read a novel read for the action, then when they come to a few pages that
+establish the look of the forest, or some character background, jump ahead
+a few pages to where the action starts up again.  Some do just the
+opposite.
+
+My obligation, first and foremost, is to the story, and to tell that story
+as best I can.  If I start trying to second guess what *The Fans* want,
+when there is no ready concensus, when there ain't no such thing, when
+different fans want different things, it'll just get watered down and
+wander around lost.  
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 8 May 1996 03:36:10 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Interludes and Examinations (spoilers)
+
+Thanks, yes, Bruce did a great job in that scene; there's a touch of
+madness in it, which is quite understandable.  As for the Rangers, they
+get a new, added role later this season.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 8 May 1996 03:36:34 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Possible to change WB's mind?
+
+I honestly don't know if their minds can be changed about this; you can
+try if you wish, but I have a hunch this is one of those immovable
+objects/irresistable force scenarios.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 8 May 1996 03:39:02 -0400
+Subject: Re: (no subject)
+
+When we're in production, this year in particular, I grab maybe 3-4 hours
+sleep a night, and crash on the weekends.  It's just the nature of the
+beast.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 8 May 1996 21:24:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: Interludes and Explotations (spoilers, por supuesto)
+
+No, none of the shadows there were winged.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 9 May 1996 01:34:30 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS: "Interludes & Examinations" teaser
+
+The visual styles in transition between shots came from the director,
+which he went over with me when we had our tone meeting.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 9 May 1996 01:31:57 -0400
+Subject: Re: Hidden by a Mask (Interlude Spoiler)
+
+It was....
+
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+Definitely Morden.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 10 May 1996 06:25:03 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS and the Hero System
+
+No, I've never read the Hero system, and have no idea what it contains.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 10 May 1996 06:30:29 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Use of Social Psych in Writing B5
+
+There's a little of lots of things in the writing, it's hard to pin down
+any one of them; I don't sit down and say, "Okay, now to use some
+psychology on this."  A writer is like a sponge; you pick up lots of
+colors and strangenesses, then when you come to write something, you
+squeeze, and everything comes out together.  I write what the dark and
+scary parts of my brain seem interested in writing about.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 10 May 1996 19:58:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Entertainment Weekly
+
+I guess they realized that the May episodes weren't our season enders, not
+officially over until October, and decided it wouldn't fit.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 10 May 1996 21:23:52 -0400
+Subject: Re: Does JMS post here????
+
+Re: being less active here...in some ways it's the interface, which I find
+kind of cumbersome...mainly, though, right now there ain't much on my end
+to talk about.  Overall, my posts to all the nets are down right now,
+because when we're in hiatus -- and this forum went up right as hiatus hit
+-- all is shut down, and there ain't much going on to tell folks about. 
+One becomes something of a balloon with the air let out.  And, natch,
+there's the annual anxiety of waiting for word.  Once things start gearing
+up, and we get word, I'll have more to talk about.  Otherwise, I just
+hesitate to fill up space with words just to hear the sound of my own
+voice.  I'm kinda like Marcus that way, I talk when I have something to
+say that might be remotely interesting to people.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 10 May 1996 21:46:52 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B13?  DiTillio?
+
+Larry's off working on other projects now, and B13 has been
+reneamed/subsumed into other branches of the government.
+
+jms
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 11 May 1996 04:54:30 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS, AOL has a bad news reader, thats your problem
+
+Oh, I have lots more problems than news readers...but yeah, that's one of
+the hassles here; I'm investigating different servers, may possibly switch
+after a bit.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 11 May 1996 04:58:53 -0400
+Subject: Re: Interludes and Examinations
+
+"I'm going to withdraw my rating of '10' on "Severed Dreams.""
+
+So who says there can only be one episode worth a ten...?  If you can have
+many worth a 9, why not many worth a 10?  If one skater at the Olympics
+gets a 10, why can't another?
+
+Just idle thoughts at 2 a.m.....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 11 May 1996 04:59:04 -0400
+Subject: Re: Interludes and Examinations
+
+Bruce is doing a *great* job, and definitely growing into the part.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 12 May 1996 04:24:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS (#2 Try) Fabulous Supportive B5 Article
+
+It's a great article, yes, thanks; I have someone sending me a copy, so
+shouldn't need the OCR version.  But via your message I got to read it
+first, so thanks.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 12 May 1996 04:32:47 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS HOUR 25/SF lovers read
+
+Hour 25, when I hosted it, was a pretty eclectic mix of stuff.  We covered
+hard SF, fantasy, horror, comics, TV, movies, you name it; we/I
+interviewed writers, directors, producers, directors, artists, the whole
+gamut.  Neil Gaiman, Walter Koenig, John Carpenter, Bill Gibson, Jonathan
+Carroll, Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Tim Powers...if they were involved in
+speculative fiction in any of its forms, sooner or later they came to Hour
+25.  (Hmm...why, there's a slogan in there...)
+
+The first half-hour was mainly nattering, news of the SF world, local and
+national, nominations of various sorts, who was in town, some brief
+reviews, personal anecdotes...nattering.  The next hour was spent in heavy
+interview mode; the last half hour or so we opened up the phone lines for
+questions from listeners.
+
+The same format is being used in the current incarnation, with some
+modifications: more shorter pieces rather than in-depth single person
+interviews, more canned interviews, more software and space program info,
+that sort of thing.  The personality of the individual host tends to shape
+the show.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 12 May 1996 04:36:05 -0400
+Subject: Production Process (was Return of the Newsgroup Timekillers)
+
+The only problem with walking you through "The Coming of Shadows" is that,
+well, the production process has gotten so blurred that I barely remember
+much of it.  The problem being that one doesn't just do one at a time, you
+basically work on 8 episodes all at the same time, in varying degrees of
+preparation or completion, and so there's no clean point of demarkation. 
+One flows into the next, into the next, into the next....
+
+I can, though, speak in generalities, and that might be something of
+possible interest to people.  I'll divide it up into sections, so that if
+anyone is interested, we can discuss the various parts and pieces in
+subsequent messages.  An episode is produced in the following stages:
+
+1) Writing.  Not much to discuss here; you just sit and bleed onto the
+keyboard.
+
+2) First Draft Script.  It's sent to department heads (costume, wardrobe,
+CGI, prosthetics, often the director).  Preparation begins.  (Hereafter
+just "prep.")  
+
+3) Final Draft Script.  Full distribution: cast, crew, casting, everybody.
+ We are now fully in prep.
+
+PREP: Meet with all department heads, discuss and approve designs for
+sets, prosthetics, other episode-specific areas.  Full prep lasts 2 weeks.
+ Meet with director to have a "tone meeting" to go over every scene to
+make sure we both understand what everything's about.  Individual visual
+effects meetings, art department meetings, other meetings.
+
+SHOOT: Seven 12-hour days, weekdays only.  Script is shot out of sequence,
+going by sets.  (I.e., all Medlab scenes are shot first, then all C&C
+scenes, and so on, to minimize camera/lighting moves, which take a long
+time on any show.)
+
+POST: 52 days (average).  Director does first cut of episode, then John
+Copeland and I make the final producer's cut.  Visual EFX, CGI and roto
+work are all inserted.  Sound spotting meeting with Chris Franke and sound
+EFX guys to spot where music/sound cues are.  Other meetings.  Final audio
+mix and delivery for insertion of commercials, credits, closed-captioning
+and satellite uplink.
+
+Any of those areas are fair game for further inquiry.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 12 May 1996 04:38:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: writings for season 4 and 5?
+
+Yes, I'd be willing to let outsiders to arc stories, though I'd have to be
+a lot more vigilent.  (Actually, some arc elements have appeared here and
+there in freelance scripts, when I've noted the necessity of their
+inclusion.)  They generally are told only what they need to know.
+
+The only thing that could compel me to write all the episodes next season
+would be if we were told, up front and in advance, that the show was going
+to run four years instead of five, and I had to pull it all together to
+finish the story.  (Which can be done, though obviously it ain't my
+preferred method.)  It'd also have to be much more of a serial in
+structure.  Absent that, no, I don't plan on doing this again.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 12 May 1996 04:47:53 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Surprised You??? (SPOILER for "Interludes and Examinations")
+
+spoilers....
+
+
+
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+
+Yes, I think Kosh sort of "hit the wall" when he saw that Sheridan wasn't
+going to go away; I think finally he was ashamed, and recognized his fear,
+and in a sense the air went out of him, and he reconciled himself to what
+had to be.
+
+You're right about the mentor; sooner or later, the mentor has to step
+aside (or fall by the wayside) for the others to grow into the hero's
+journey.  Originally this was slated to happen a bit later...I think, on
+some level, I was reluctant to do it, because to write this kind of stuff
+you have to *feel* it yourself, and I think I was avoiding that as much as
+Kosh was avoiding his fate.  I didn't want to go through writing that.  So
+I kept putting it off.  I knew it *had* to be done...but not yet....
+
+And that's when, for lack of a better explanation, Kosh stepped up and
+began to pull me in that direction in the script.  It was time.  His
+passing shouldn't be frittered away or minimized; it should happen at the
+right moment, and this was that moment.  It's almost impossible to
+describe this to a non-writer, but the character, this fictional
+construct, was simply determined to have his way, and that was the end of
+it.  I kept trying to dance away in the script, to go back into safer
+waters...but each time was pulled back in this direction, until finally I
+had to admit that yes, this was the right time, and the right way, to do
+this.
+
+And Kosh fell.
+
+But what finally convinced me was the realization that this was not only
+right for now, but right for *later*...though you won't know what that
+means for a while yet.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 12 May 1996 04:53:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: a spoiler line in I&E....
+
+I think the line was just enough to make Kosh look at what he was, and
+what he was doing.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 12 May 1996 04:59:40 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS  B5 National Ad
+
+The ads certainly would seem to bode well...we'll have to see.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 12 May 1996 05:05:02 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Keeping your relationships alive
+
+Y'know, it ain't often that a question stops me and leaves me staring at
+the screen for ten minutes trying to decide what the hell to say....
+
+I guess the answer isn't a good one, Stef.
+
+Everything in my life is subsumed into the work.  Especially for B5.  You
+must understand, this isn't just a show for me, isn't just a job, some
+bucks.  This show means almost everything to me right now.  My personal
+life, my health, my relationships, everything comes second to the work.  
+
+And someday, there will be a reckoning for that. 
+
+I'll likely revisit this subject at some point in the future...but not
+tonight.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 13 May 1996 02:30:04 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Edisode Credits (was Re: Production Process)
+
+Unless the actor negotiates something specific, that kind of credit is
+pretty much left to the discretion of the production company.  On the
+theory that it helps the audience to identify characters, we generally try
+to use the names right from the script and identify them clearly.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 13 May 1996 02:30:57 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Your writing process
+
+Wow, talk about lots of questions....
+
+1/ Going in to a new episode how do you decide what the B plot will be? Do
+you write the B plot concurrent with the A? (The two plots often seem to
+contain thematic counterpoint.)
+
+In breaking out the season in advance, I have a selection of arc stories
+and non arc stories worked out.  (In his Starlog interview, Larry
+DiTillio, prior story editor on the show, mentions going through the lists
+of stories I make up each season.)  In looking them over, it's easy to
+know which are A stories and which are B stories by the relative size of
+the story and how much time would be required to tell it.  A lot of time =
+A story, less = B story.  If a story is strong enough that it doesn't need
+a B story, it's left alone.  If, on the other hand, it's a bit slim, or if
+I want to do more of a slice-of-life episode, then I pull in a B story.
+
+Once I've decieded this, I look for a B story that's an interesting
+counterpoint to the A story; if A is very dark, B tends to be lighter. 
+Sometimes I try and come up with a dramatic counterpoint or ironic or
+thematically similar sub-story.  
+
+Once this is done, I write both at the same time, much as you see it,
+right through, going from one to the other, not writing them separately. 
+I need to do this to be able to feel the flow of the story, where the
+segues are, and to create counterpoint and tension. It needs a certain
+kind of rhythm, and if you write them separately you won't get that. 
+
+2/ You say that you play out a scenario in your head before putting
+fingers to keyboard. How much of an episode do you tend to picture before
+writing anything?
+
+Quite a lot of it, actually.  Once I know the basic story, I cue the
+"video" up in my head and start playing it over and over, gradually
+becoming able to see the images more and more clearly, filling in the
+blanks between scenes and the like.  Once I know where all the pieces go,
+I begin writing.  (On some occasions, as a writing test, I'll launch in
+with just a general sense of where I want to go and charge through it for
+the adrenalin rush...sort of like an acrobat performing without a net. 
+This works particularly well when I know the episode is going to contain
+surprises, or should have a sense of immediacy that sometimes can diminish
+if you think about it too much in advance.)
+
+3/ Is it purely experience that allows you to develop a script that will
+fit within the time frame of each episode?
+
+Yeah, it's just doing it.  I almost never look at the page count as I
+write, it's just a matter of *feeling* it, knowing how much time is
+passing, and when you should begin racing toward the climax. Sometimes I'm
+a few pages over, but usually I can nail it spot on.
+
+4/ What percentage of time - roughly - is spent in the head, writing the
+script itself and revising afterwards?
+
+Hard to say.  I have them on a back burner as I'm doing other stuff,
+waiting to go on script #whatever.  Even though I'm not consciously
+working on them, I know that subconsciously it's bubbling away.  Once I
+start actually typing, I can finish a script in anywhere from 3-4 days (if
+I'm in white heat over the story, in which case my door is locked and
+nobody DARES bother me) to 10 days.  Revisions take only a few days,
+mainly for production purposes.
+
+5/ When writing a script you must be roughly aware of where the ad breaks
+will be; do you initially ignore these or do you write to fit them?
+
+No, you need to write to the act breaks so that you end each act on a
+hook; again you need to have that sense of how the acts flow at top and
+bottom.
+
+6/ Is there a writer's term for the coda that completes each episode?
+
+It's called a tag.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 13 May 1996 02:31:30 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Directors on Short Leash?
+
+It's a very careful and deliberate dance.  The reality is that many of our
+directors add a lot to the show in terms of visual style, pacing, and in
+working with the actors to bring out the story.  
+
+The way it works...the director gets the script.  The director and I talk
+about the script (several times).  The director then also has his own
+meetings with the various departments, telling them what he'd like to have
+as visual elements (sets and lighting elements and practical on-set
+effects like squibs, sparks, exploding walls, that sort of thing).  He
+walks the sets, diagrams out the angles, works out the shooting schedule
+with the first AD.  
+
+In most cases, the script is written in master shots, i.e, 
+
+INT. MEDLAB
+
+Franklin looks at Delenn's lifeless body.  Sheridan enters, exchanges a
+serious look with the doctor.  Garibaldi enters carrying popcorn.
+
+And there the director can frame the shot however he chooses.  In some
+cases, if I want something in particular, I call out the shots.  As in....
+
+INT. ZOCALO
+
+Morden waits at a table as, in BG, an as-yet unidentified NARN approaches.
+ Morden doesn't even look up as he approaches and pulls something out of
+his pocket.
+
+ANGLE - A KITTY
+
+freshly skewered and ready for broiling.  It's little kitty eyes loll up
+at us.
+
+MORDEN
+
+smiles and pockets the kitty.  Nods, as we
+
+WIDEN
+
+and the Narn continues on his way, and we PAN OVER to a sign on the wall:
+"Kitties Cannot Hide," as we DISSOLVE TO:
+
+In those cases, the director shoots those specific shots.  
+
+It's once a director hits the stage floor that the main difference and
+quality comes through.  A good director enhances a script, brings out
+nuances in performance, helps elucidate the story, keeps the camera
+moving...the ones I tend to favor are the directors that transmute one
+shot into another...going from a three-shot to a two-shot to a closeup and
+a reverse all in *the same camera move*.  Ah luvs that kinda stuff.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 13 May 1996 02:31:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Surprised You??? (SPOILER for "Interludes and Examinations")
+
+Mainly, I think I was just trying to avoid it...put it off as long as
+possible...but the character knew, even more than I did, that this was the
+right time to do this.  It's a very hard thing to do this to a character;
+the only way to get that kind of emotion into a script is to feel it
+yourself as you're writing it, and that's a painful thing to do.  So I was
+avoiding it.  But he outfoxed me...as usual.
+
+That's Vorlons for you.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 13 May 1996 03:50:57 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Your writing process
+
+"Do you get ideas uncontainably leaping out at you for script n+2 while
+you're working on script n?"
+
+Constantly.  And while en route to work.  And while in the shower. 
+And...well, you get the idea.
+
+If I'm writing script n, and something hits me, I grab the nearest thing
+that isn't on fire or moving, and scribble it down, with the result that
+my desk is constantly a snowstorm of bits of paper and post-its.  The
+really big ones get post-it'd to my monitor at the B5 stage and my home
+office.  By the end of this season, my monitors looked like hedgehogs....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 13 May 1996 20:24:49 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: TheStation.Com
+
+The site will be up within the next week or so, we're just checking out
+the beta site and making some improvements.  It's megacool.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 14 May 1996 07:49:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Your writing process
+
+"How do you cope with how different that movie is from the final product?"
+
+Happily...in 90% of all cases, it ain't that different.  
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 14 May 1996 07:53:09 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Your writing process
+
+"These ideas, I assume, are all related to B5 characters and their story.
+Or do you get ideas for a new story involving a purple dinosaur with a
+high annoying voice who just specializes in eating little teeny tiny
+children?"
+
+That's certainly a story whose time has come.  I'd go see it.
+
+"Point being, we already know you suffer from multiple personalities: JMS,
+Kosh, Delenn, Sinclair, Sheridan, Garibaldi, Ivanova, and Marcus, and then
+the plethora of recurring characters who all run around with their own
+voice.  Just how many are you? Is it a set number or are you constantly
+adding new characters for stories you'd like to write after B5."
+
+Like every writer, I imagine, you constantly find your brain firing on
+different things.  If I'm not doing B5 stuff, it goes chugging off in
+search of other things.  Over the course of the last season, in addition
+to completely rewriting and revising my scriptwriting book, due out this
+fall, I outlined a couple of books, wrote a 2-hour pilot for a major
+company, developed another project with Warners (both of which are happily
+dormant for now), wrote up premises for several other series, about half a
+dozen movie outlines (two of which I'm currently writing in script form as
+I wait for renewal), and other stuff.
+
+It's just what I do.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 14 May 1996 07:51:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Your writing process
+
+"For scripts that are given to other writers do you find you do much if
+any mental picturing of the episode?  If so, how does that affect the
+writing process between you and the other writer?"
+
+No, you only get into that part of it when you're going to sit down and
+actually WRITE the sucker.  It's a matter of bringing in the freelancer
+and (assuming s/he hasn't come up with a story independent of me, which
+happened about 4-5 times in toto) saying, "Okay, in this episode the giant
+blue penguins of Rigel 4 steal Ivanova's shoes," or handing the person a
+few paragraphs to several pages with detailed story notes.  Then the
+person goes away.
+
+The first "mental picture" I have of it is when the writer brings back an
+outline based on those notes.  This is always hard for me, as is the first
+draft script, because the characters rarely talk like our characters talk.
+ They don't sound right, don't always behave consistently, there's bits of
+backstory that contradict what's been established, and that has to get
+fixed.  So it's like seeing a distorted picture, and your job is to bring
+it closer into focus.
+
+(This is an inevitable aspect of freelancing.  There simply isn't time to
+learn all there is to know about a show before you begin writing; you have
+to come in, do it fast, and then move on to the next assignment if you're
+going to make a living at this.  That's the Freelance Life.  I hate the
+Freelance Life.  I like to stay around, get to know the characters,
+rummage around inside their heads and find what's there.  Freelance
+scripts almost always tend to be about the guest star character; if you
+look at mine, most of them don't really tend to have a big guest
+character, with some notable exceptions.  I find our regular characters
+more than sufficiently interesting.)
+
+What's most ironic about the freelance situation is that you often have
+people who say, "Straczynski oughta use more freelance writers, they bring
+in perspectives he doesn't have."  They cite the "moment of perfect
+beauty" in Peter's script, Londo's "my shoes are too tight, and I have
+forgotten how to dance," the alien abductor courtroom scene in Grail,
+Deathwalker's comments about how she plans to create her monument...all of
+which are scenes or sections I wrote and inserted into scripts by other
+people.  (One of my best lines for G'Kar is one I'm not credited for, in
+Zicree's script, "The universe runs on the complex interweaving of three
+elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest."  I actually saw
+some messages noting that jms never seems to be able to write something
+that succinct.  Well, actually...I did.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 14 May 1996 07:20:10 -0400
+Subject: Re: Interludes & Exams(analysis-3)SPOILERS!!!
+
+Just a quickie aside...the background/depiction of Brakiri space was taken
+right from a Hubble deep-space shot.  We use them a lot, as provided to us
+by the folks who keep track of it all and keep it running.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 14 May 1996 07:35:36 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Tapes seen at con
+
+Those copies are blatantly illegal and the individuals making them are
+subject to federal prosecution.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 14 May 1996 07:39:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Your writing process
+
+"With Comes The Inquisitor...how obvious was it to you that G'Kar  was
+going to be the counterpoint to Delenn and Sebastian.  was it an immediate
+connection, or did you have to sit and look, and then think "Ah...that's
+the one?"
+
+That one was a pretty easy one.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 14 May 1996 07:40:52 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Your writing process
+
+"Where does the run sequence then come from?  How much does the decisions
+on how the Bs run in and out, affect how you sequence the As?  Some of
+your Bs get to be major elements down the line, so how aware are you of
+this when you're selecting>  Do you end up getting there and looking back
+and *then* realising where you were going, and deliberatly weaving from
+then on - or have you always been aware of when weft turned warp?"
+
+Where does dance come from?  Where does music come from?  Where does
+making love come from?  How do you instinctively know what to do?
+
+Beats the hell out of me.  I just listen to the music....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 14 May 1996 07:37:52 -0400
+Subject: Re: Production Process (was Return of the Newsgroup Timekillers)
+
+"I was wondering how much time it takes to cast the guest spots and get
+them properly costumed.  It would appear to be a logistical nightmare to
+try and come up with a design much less fit a costume for a character when
+you don't know what actor will be hired.  Have you ever had problems
+getting access to the actor for fitting (say they were working on some
+other project or something)."
+
+Usually, if it's an elaborate costume, it's already in the works when we
+begin the casting process.  It's very rare when we get a part that calls
+for someone of an unusual somatotype (very large or very small), so the
+costume is made fairly flexible, able to be sized.  Once we cast the
+person, we send them right down to wardrobe, where they're measured, and
+the final adjustments made to size.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 14 May 1996 07:24:53 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: In honor of mother's day (spoilers up to I&E)
+
+Good point; I should endeavor to get into this more in future.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 15 May 1996 15:15:43 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attention JMS!
+
+"Hi there, I am writing on behalf of my friend who is a massive B5 fan.
+He is always talking about it and actually seems to live it. His E-Mail
+address
+is ssbamab@cr47c.staffs.ac.uk
+How can he become an official ranger and get the Isil'zha badge ?"
+
+Oh, that's easy.  First he has to get to Minbar.  Once he does that, just
+let me know and I'll take care of the rest.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 15 May 1996 15:13:34 -0400
+Subject: Re: Serious nitpicks for WWE Part One
+
+Spoiler space.....
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+"1) Assuming the present is the time period during which we watch Babylon
+5 and the period we saw at the beginning of the WWE episode, does the
+possible fall of B5 (if the mission fails) take place in the past or the
+future?  We see Ivanova screaming in the mysterious transmission that
+"they're killing us" and that the Captain is dead, so I assume this
+indicates that the possible fall of B5 takes place in the future since
+Sheridan is the only Captain (Sinclair was a Commander, non?).  But we
+also see Sinclair reliving his flashback with Gerabaldi from Season one in
+which B5 falls, and he then seems to indicate that his mission is to
+prevent such a catastrophe.  Since Sinclair is there, with Gerabaldi, this
+would seem to suggest that the fall of B5, if the mission fails, takes
+place in the past in relation to the present with which we are all
+familiar.(Breath) So, if the mission fails, when will B5 fall; past of
+future???  Or perhaps put another way:  Will B5 possibly fall under
+Sheridan's command or Sinclair's?  <-- God, that's complicated."
+
+Nope.  The scenes are all in the future.  Garibaldi specifically
+identifies the distress call as coming from 8 days in the future. 
+Sinclair's vision wasn't a flashback, but a flash forward; even the
+blowing of B5 was identified by Lady Ladira as in the future.  It's
+*always* been placed in the future, though most of this was in the first
+season, which hasn't been reshown.  Also, in the first act, Garibaldi
+again *specifically states* that when they went to B4, there was a glimpse
+of the future and the fall of B5.  
+
+"2) Faced with the end, why would the bloodied Ivanova feel compelled to
+deliver a play-by-play to a non-existant audience?  Or even to one that is
+there?  I found that strange."
+
+First she was trying to get help.  Second, there should be some record of
+what happened for those who would investigate.  They would need to know,
+just the way a signal operator sends out a distress call for as long as
+possible as the ship sinks.  SOP.
+
+"4) About Delenn's slide show:  It looks as though Minbari ships have
+remained basically the same for the past 1000 years.  I could not see one
+change.  Why is that?"
+
+Because you weren't looking closely enough.  The older Minbari ships are
+much longer and tubular in design; you'll see them better in the second
+half, but there's definitely a difference.
+
+"5) The preview showed Gerabaldi giving 'em hell with a big gun.  Why
+wasn't that in the episode (I know, some scenes in previews don't show up
+in the actual ep, but it seemed important)?"
+
+Because we were seeing the sequence from Sinclair's point of view; he was
+gone by the time Garibaldi began firing, so he wouldn't have seen it. 
+Story logic.
+
+"7) Londo spoils us all by telling us Sheridan wins the war--suspense exit
+stage left--unless the time line is somehow further altered, which would
+go against the inevatability theme JMS seems to be playing."
+
+Okay, everybody who thought I was going to have our heroes fight a war for
+two whole years or so, and then *lose it*...a major dramatic
+disappointment to say the least...raise your hands.
+
+In any event...quite frankly, several of your "serious nitpicks" are
+actually incorrect, and come from making assumptions or simply not paying
+attention when someone says something clearly in dialogue, as Garibaldi
+does, that the flash was of future events, and then IDs the signal as from
+8 days ahead.  
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 15 May 1996 15:14:24 -0400
+Subject: Re: War w/out End (no spoilers)
+
+"I have *never* seen anything like this show.  JMS is absolutely
+amazing!!!!! (JMS, will you marry me?) :)"
+
+I'm not that easy.
+
+I require dinner and flowers minimum.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 19 May 1996 01:30:25 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 (of course)
+
+"The reason that I ask is that I have been able to "peg" all your episodes
+up to the recient TO THE LETTER."
+
+I knew you would say that.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 19 May 1996 01:30:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: WWE Part One - Spaceship question (spoilers)
+
+No, the Minbarai cruisers are different in the shots from the past;
+they're longer and far less ornate, almost tubuler.  You can see a little
+of it in 1, and you'll get a better look in 2.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 19 May 1996 01:30:19 -0400
+Subject: Re: War w/out End (no spoilers)
+
+"(and you will *never* know how close you came to being included in the
+"white linen shirt black leather trousers" thread last summer ... )"
+
+As has been proven endlessly in 1950s science fiction films, there are
+some things that Man Was Not Meant to Know.
+
+I suspect this covers several of them.
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 19 May 1996 05:18:50 -0400
+Subject: Re: Is Rathenn played by same actor as the Traveller?
+
+No.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 19 May 1996 05:19:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: writing now vs. then
+
+Hmm...that's a tough question, and one I've never gotten before.  (And
+those are hard to come by, lemme tell you.)
+
+If I'd gone right into the series in 1986, what would've been different in
+the writing and the show in general...hmmm.....
+
+Given my notes of the time, I think it probably would've been more from
+Sinclair's point of view.  The characters would've likely been more
+defined in terms of their relationship with Sinclair, as opposed to seeing
+their lives out on their own, without that defining *context*.  That's
+probably the single biggest creative difference.  I don't know if I
+could've given it the depth of characterization or sub-plots that I feel I
+can do now.  Certainly, the time spent on Murder, She Wrote taught me a
+*lot* about setting up clues, foreshadowing, construction, and playing
+fair with an audience, experience I didn't have in 1986.
+
+On the other side, you've got the reality that CGI wasn't available then,
+and it'd all have to be done with models.  It would've been *very*
+difficult to do all we've done now with CGI, using models; I think you'd
+have to cut way back on the scale of the thing.  It's very doubtful we
+could've done the Narn homeworld bombing from "Twilight," or the rescue in
+"Fall."  I'd've had to come up with some other way to do that.
+
+Basically, I think the show would've still presented an arc, still
+would've been ambitious for its time, but I don't think it would've been
+*as good* as it is now.  In a way, though the long wait was frustrating,
+it put us in the right place at the right time to do this show the way it
+needs to be done, both creatively and physically, from a production
+standpoint.
+
+On the other hand, one can probably make a good argument that if the show
+were done in the year 1999 instead of 1996, with even 3 years more
+advancement in CGI and EFX, and 3 more years of writing experience, it
+might be even better then than now.  Who knows?  All I know for sure is
+that the show being done now, is the show I want to do, the way I want to
+do it, and I'm very comfortable with that.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 19 May 1996 05:21:02 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: creative process
+
+"just wanted to know how you came up the idea to do Babylon 5 it's a
+complex storie and it amaze me how one person could think of something
+like that."
+
+Caffeine.  Lots of it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 19 May 1996 05:21:28 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Blipped?
+
+Just different meanings to the word; no intended overlap.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 19 May 1996 05:20:40 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Your writing process
+
+"What about personal demons? You said once that Sheridan's father was not
+like your father. Is it something like you would have wished him to be? 
+And Ivanova's father, the same? If this is too personal don't answer it,
+but I just wonder to what extent your personal demons have to enter into
+your writing process. O, and in what forms. How far into those parts of
+yourself that hurt the most do you have to look?"
+
+Suddenly lately I'm getting all these questions that leave me staring at
+the screen for minutes at a time, trying to come up with an honest answer.
+
+(several more minutes pass...AOL is getting its $ from me tonight, that's
+for sure.)
+
+Okay, I have an answer...well, I have a *reply*, and as we all know, while
+all answers are replies, not all replies are answers.  This is the best I
+can do.
+
+I have this theory that there are five kinds of truth.  The truth you tell
+to casual strangers; the truth you tell to your friends; the truth you
+tell to only a very few intimate people in your life; the truth you tell
+yourself; and the truth you will not admit even to yourself.
+
+(Note: some people have distorted this to mean you tell contradictory
+things to different people; no.  Just the *extent* of the truth, how deep
+the blade cuts, is the operative issue.)
+
+On reflection, the answer to this one falls into the category of the fifth
+truth.  There are some questions I'm just not prepared to deal with yet,
+not in any specifics, anyway.
+
+In general terms...yes, that aspect is always there, if you're writing
+honestly, and telling a story that matters to you.  Sometimes, that's
+painful.  There are some scenes this season that were very hard to write,
+because of the personal stuff that went into them.  The trick is to not
+bleed too much onto the page so that you obscure the words, or it becomes
+simply self-indulgence.
+
+An example far enough away that I can look at it now...in the first season
+(for the old timers still around), when Catherine Sakai and Jeff Sinclair
+got together again for the tenth time, there were some fairly emotional
+exchanges.  The one where she comes to his quarters, unsure why she's
+really there, starts to leave...that whole exchange is pretty much word
+for word a conversation I had in real life.  (There's a lot of that in the
+relationship stuff in this show; it shows up here and there.)  It was
+something I was even then still dealing with, and worked out via the
+script.
+
+When we got ready to shoot that section, and the scene when they first
+meet, the director, actors and I went off to rehearse that one privately. 
+I practically had to nail my feet to the stage floor to stay through it
+all.  Finally, when we were all comfortable that the scene felt right,
+everybody headed out, and I pulled the director aside.  I said, "The scene
+is fine; you need to know that now so you'll understand...I won't be here
+the day you shoot this stuff.  I won't be anywhere *near* this set.  I'm
+still a little too close to this."  I just couldn't be there.
+
+So yeah, sometimes the writing gets very personal.  Unfortunately, I don't
+know any other way to do it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 19 May 1996 05:22:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: Local Review & Yo, JMS!!
+
+That's a great article, could you possibly send along a copy? Thanks.
+
+As for the one-hour special...it's something we broached to WB. 
+Unfortunately, unlike Fox, which can program whatever it likes, we're a
+syndicated show, and the only way to get a 1-hour special is to sell the
+hour to every station individually, and apparently that's a huge pain in
+the ass.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 19 May 1996 19:21:24 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Why Ditch Garibaldi? WWE Spoilers....
+
+It's a story point, and it'll be explained clearly in part two.  What, you
+think I'd have something this odd going on and not explain it?
+
+It's coming.  Be patient.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 19 May 1996 19:26:32 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS : WB Takeover and B5
+
+It shouldn't have any effect on us either way; personally, I doubt the
+merger would take place.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 19 May 1996 20:02:56 -0400
+Subject: Re: *Tiny* Dissapointment w/ WWE1 <*Spoilers*>
+
+The problem, Jaime, is that you've got about 42 minutes to tell your
+story.  You have to get into it, and get into it fast.  Unless there's a
+reason for the scene to be there, if it doesn't move the plot along, it
+shouldn't be there.  You'll note there isn't even a B-story in the
+two-parter...there wasn't room.
+
+Sure, it would've been nice to have Sinclair  meet G'Kar, sit around, talk
+about how they've changed...have Sinclair and Londo meet, talk about
+stuff...have him and Ivanova sit around, talk about stuff...but then
+you've got just a bunch of scenes that are basically, "Well, hello, how've
+you been?"
+
+The next sounds you would've heard would be the click of remote controls
+changing channels across the nation.
+
+As it is, in that two-part episode, you've got Delenn, Garibaldi,
+Sinclair, Sheridan, Marcus, Ivanova, Lennier, Zathras, Major Krantz,
+Krantz's second...it's our most character-intensive episode in a long
+time, all of them being present in every other scene, plus the other three
+characters we see in part two.  It was, quite simply, stuffed to the
+gills, and there wasn't room for a single wasted word.  
+
+That's the difference between a novel and a television show; you can stop
+the action in a book as often as you want to have asides, but you can't do
+that in TV with as much facility.  To do the scenes you describe would've
+meant turning this into a three-parter, and as it is part one is almost an
+extended teaser for part two.  It would've been moreso with these
+additional scenes.
+
+If it isn't necessary, it shouldn't be there.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 20 May 1996 04:28:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS pops a gasket. WAS: Re: Liars, Damn Liars, Statisticians, Fuller, & Straczysnki
+
+Yes, indeedy I did.  And I did it over there because we try to keep flames
+OUT of the moderated group.  I've not said a word about the individual
+involved here, or on any other service (despite that person's continued
+attacks on me) since the mod group went up.  The situation existed there
+long before I finally got sick of it and responded.  (Odd choice, btw, on
+what you chose to include and what to leave out of the message thread.)
+
+In any event...this is a flame-free area.  Let's keep it that way.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 20 May 1996 04:29:19 -0400
+Subject: Re: *Tiny* Dissapointment w/ WWE1 <*Spoilers*>
+
+Beth: I quite agree, didn't mean to imply otherwise...it would've been
+nice to see some of those scenes, it just wasn't practical.  And you have
+to make hard choices.  As someone once said of writing, "You have to kill
+all your darlings," meaning the nifty little things you'd *like* to do, as
+opposed to the things you *have* to do.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 20 May 1996 04:30:15 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Your writing process
+
+That's the great thing about being alive...there's always a new trauma
+waiting just around the corner for you to learn from and draw upon.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 20 May 1996 04:29:46 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Confusing error in WWE, Spoilers
+
+spoiler reply
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+No, both Sheridan and Delenn *are* made up older.  If you particularly
+look at Delenn out in the light of later scenes in WWE2, you can
+DEFINITELY see the difference.  With Sheridan, it's a greying of the hair,
+and some lining on the face.  Londo, though, if you recall, is much older
+than Sheridan to begin with.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 20 May 1996 04:47:59 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Murder, She Wrote?
+
+No, actually, I didn't watch the episode...I was on the nets at the time.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 20 May 1996 04:48:32 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: KCOP Color Shifts
+
+Huh...I have no idea why this would be, and didn't notice it when I
+watched it on my set.  Maybe it's a cable situation with your set?  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 20 May 1996 19:19:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: ....And So It Begins....
+
+Thanks.  Actually, the first Triluminary was found by the Minbari, not
+made by them, in a vessel they ran into about a thousand years ago.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 20 May 1996 19:07:30 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Inconsequentia
+
+Tell him to enjoy it while he can...because as we get older, our hairlines
+all start looking more and more like Minbari....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 20 May 1996 19:17:56 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: SciFi Buzz&Which Ep. Was Filming?
+
+That would've been "Grey 17 Is Missing."
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 23 May 1996 18:19:07 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Dubbing in Ship of Tears?
+
+If thsi refers to the War Room scene with Garibaldi at the end...yes,
+there was some looping done.  The best performed scene had some
+unacceptable noise in it from the chair Jerry had been sitting in at the
+first part, then he went slightly off-mike at the second point.
+
+jms
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 23 May 1996 18:19:23 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: you mean twisted genius! (spoilers for WWE 2)=
+
+Thanks.  As I wrote the episodes prior to WWE2, I kept leading up to that
+first kiss, over and over, but deliberately never quite getting there.  I
+knew that when it came time to do it, I wanted to do it in just the way
+you describe...it would and wouldn't be a first kiss, both at exactly the
+same time.  So there's the moment everyone's been waiting for, but not in
+quite the way anyone had expected. 
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 23 May 1996 18:19:41 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Torment Us, Please
+
+Well, not too much to say about the last 5 at this point...Erica Gimbel is
+in "Walkabout," for which I wrote two songs...Pat Tallman's also in that
+one, meeting the new Vorlon in town...there's a bunch of different
+religious folks hanging around in "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding
+Place," Franklin hits a crisis point in "Shadow Dancing," Melissa Gilbert
+appears in two eps toward the end of the season, as does Jeff Cory...we'll
+get to see Morden again, and Refa, and some more Centauri nobility.
+
+The big stuff I'm obviously holding back.
+\
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 23 May 1996 18:19:11 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Familiar Sentiments?
+
+While my experience on other shows has not been quite the same as
+Hertzog's, I can understand his sentiments, certainly.  I've been
+uncommonly fortunate in that in most of the shows I've done, I've had a
+pretty free hand to do pretty much whatever I wanted.  But nowhere as much
+as on B5.  Nowhere, man.  
+
+(sorry)
+
+I wanted to check out Nowhere Man more often, but only actually managed to
+watch the first and last episodes of this season.  I thought it held great
+promise.
+
+To the overall tone...yes, there are times when doing a show becomes a
+terrible, grinding responsibility on a day-to-day basis.  Especially one
+as mind-bogglingly complex as B5.  You can't just go off and sit by the
+shore for a day or to, it's the totality of your waking life.  Go watch
+Jack Klugman in "A Game of Pool" from TZ1, you'll understand.
+
+In that light, the online experience -- with its occasional ups and downs,
+potholes and rooftop snipers -- can be a source of great emotional
+sustenance.  (When one is not driven mad by them.)  It's a great
+community.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 23 May 1996 18:19:42 -0400
+Subject: B5 in Millimeter Magazine
+
+There's a good cover story on B5 in Millimeter Magazine, the main industry
+magazine for production of TV and film, explaining a lot of how we do what
+we do.  It's a good piece.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 24 May 1996 03:58:24 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS What Are babylon5 chances?
+
+Coming into renewal, the odds tend to be pretty much the same each time,
+from where I sit...either 60/40 or 50/50, depending on my mood that day. 
+We'll know soon enough.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 24 May 1996 06:25:48 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Do other writers resent you?
+
+"Is that script writing book you wrote considered by some akin to a
+magician giving up his secrets for all to see?  I know I can't wait for it
+to come out this fall, and I intend to learn all I can from it when it
+does. I was just wondering if some feel that there is an unwritten rule in
+the writers guild (or something) that discourages releasing the details of
+the scripting process to the general public?"
+
+If that were the case, then given the massive numbers of scriptwriting
+books out on the market on any given day, there would be whole *legions*
+of writers at whom Guild members were honked off.
+
+So the answer, basically, is no, for many reasons.  For starters, the
+bottom line truth is that there really aren't any secrets, any mysteries,
+any tricks, any secret handshakes...it comes down to good writing, or what
+someone in a position to hire considers good writing, in combination with
+persistence and a certain amount of luck.  There's really nothing *to*
+give away.
+
+Additionally, I've met a number of working writers who broke in and credit
+the writing book I did with a measure of responsibility for their success.
+ A person has to learn the essentials somewhere, after all.
+
+(BTW, the new and expanded edition of The Complete Book of Scriptwriting
+is due out in October from Writer's Digest.  I can give the full info if
+so desired.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 24 May 1996 06:30:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS wwe2 (spoilers)
+
+1.  Since you've stated that the Babylon squared time travel incident
+would be the only one for the entire series, is there any way we might get
+answers to somet of the questions that seemed to be raised from the far
+future?
+
+In a sense.
+
+2.  How much will sinclair's knowledge of the future affect what is to
+come?
+
+Sinclair has no further knowledge of the future; he knows only what he saw
+up through and including the White Star.
+
+3.  The question I'm really dying for an answer to though, is this: 
+Hasn't this episode in a sense made a large part of the arc
+anti-climactic?  I mean, we now know that the forces of light are
+victorious again, at least to some degree, we know of David (named for
+sinclair?), we know what becomes of Londo etc.  Whenever most of the major
+characters are in a life threatening situation, we now know that they
+survive it (it would seem).  
+
+We also "knew" that G'Kar would strangle Londo...what you didn't have was
+context.  As we saw in part two, context is everything, and getting there
+is half the fun.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 24 May 1996 06:34:13 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Understanding Delenn
+
+"Would Delenn have been as close-mouthed with her non-Minbari allies about
+the Shadows and their motives as she has been through WWE 1-2 if, instead
+of attacking various beings from other races, the Shadows had attacked the
+Minbari?"
+
+A darned good question.
+
+My gut says...no, she wouldn't have.  She'd probably justify it on the
+assumption that the Minbari know the full story, thus are not expendable.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 26 May 1996 14:48:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: My First Question!  (End of season #3 SPOILERS?...)
+
+If at any point we were to use another person to play Anna, we would
+almost certainly reshoot that video piece and drop it into the original
+episode.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 26 May 1996 15:33:39 -0400
+Subject: Re: Cancelled?  What gives? (ROCK)us[HARD PLACE]
+
+You must understand that this is a loop.
+
+The stations often tend to reply with, "We'll continue to air the show as
+long as WB makes it."  What's key to WB airing the show, however, is the
+number of stations that agree to air it, preferably with double runs,
+because that's where WB makes its money with the national advertisers.  If
+WB were to lose X-number of stations, it wouldn't be profitable for them,
+and thus they wouldn't continue to make it, thus the stations that *did*
+want it couldn't buy it.
+
+Compared to this, the chicken/egg equation was easy.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 28 May 1996 14:11:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS and Any Other Interested Parties, Season Three
+
+Okay, some responses.  I trust you will allow me to be as blunt in my
+replies as you were in raising the points initially.
+
+Regarding the Warner Bros. concerns...there really isn't much I can add to
+what you said, and certainly nothing there I'd choose to contradict.  So
+we'll take that one as read and move on.
+
+To the creative issues:
+
+"Did Sheridan and Ivanova really think that Vir was killing off thousands
+of Narn while he was on Minbar. Hey, this is Vir, not Josef Mengele we are
+talking about. Did they really think it was necessary to drag this all out
+in front of Londo instead of privately."
+
+No, they didn't think he was doing it personally, only that he was
+expediting the transfer of Narns offworld for this purpose.  You think
+someone like Vir could not do this.  But most of the Nazis who send Jews
+to die weren't Josef Mengele, carving into bodies...they processed numbers
+from behind wire-framed glasses, and were quiet, sometimes even cheerful
+individuals with wonderful wives and children.  The greatest evil can
+often wear a benign, smiling, affable face.  And remember, people can
+change on this show.  You look at Londo in season one, is this someone you
+could buy taking part in the bombing of the Narn homeworld and the death
+of millions of Narns?  Yet that's what happened.  And their belief was
+that it was probably Londo who was behind it all...it's Londo to whom
+Ivanova expressed her outrage, not Vir, who she figured was probably being
+pushed into it at his behest, so logically she *would* take this right to
+Londo.  She figured, as you did, that Vir certainly wouldn't think of this
+on his own, but Londo could (and says so in the episode).
+
+"Why didn't the Shadows get on the horn and start screaming that they just
+made sushi out of Kosh. The alliance is new, shaky, unsure of Sheridan.
+What a great time to screw over everyone by announcing we killed Kosh."
+
+Because for starters, it's bad form.  If you kill somebody else's
+ambassador, that's not the sort of thing you proclaim proudly, it tends to
+bounce badly back onto you.  Also, this was primarily a personal
+situation.  There's more, but it's a bit further down the road story-wise
+that might help clarify this further.
+
+"Was it just me, or did anyone stop to think just how Bester got to B-5
+space in a Starfury without using the local jumpgate. Who brought him and
+more important, why?"
+
+He simply tagged along with an Earthforce jump-capable ship, and asked to
+be dropped off.  I considered bringing this up, but it was just dead
+exposition; it would be easy enough to do.
+
+"Then out of the hundred popcycles in the Shadow transport, we just happen
+to pick the one guiding light in Bester's life. God, aren't we lucky."
+
+Yes, and how amazingly coincidental that of all the women around, Oedipus
+would just happen to murder his father and marry his mother without
+knowing he had done so.  Okay, it was a coincidence, I'll own up to that. 
+We have very, very few of them on the show.  And the reason the word
+"coincidence" exists, and the word "synchronicity," is that sometimes
+stuff like that does happen.  You ever pick up the phone to call somebody
+and have that person already on the line calling you?  You ever think of
+someone you haven't seen in a while and run into them the next day?  It
+happens.  As long as it doesn't happen to excess, and become a venue for
+sloppy storytelling every week, it doesn't bother me, it's a legitimate
+plot device.
+
+And you misspelled popcicle.
+
+"We have a wonderful security system on B-5. Our monitors will show you
+everything, except a twenty foot long fusion reactor trigger that was put
+in the most sensitive part of the station by a certified nut case."
+
+Show me where we ever said our monitors "will show you everything."  They
+don't, they can't, and never have.  This is a city, and a quarter million
+people live here.  It would be impossible to monitor it all.  As for the
+fusion reactor...that was a ten foot object attached to a place where only
+station maintenance people went, which was his job.  He was cleared for
+that kind of access, and until/unless the device was activated, it was
+electronically dormant, you wouldn't notice anything.  Nor did it attract
+much attention.  Even though they *knew* something was there, they STILL
+had to look long and hard to find it, because it had been made to look
+just like everything else in the area.  
+
+And it's not like everybody *knew* he was a "certified nutcase" at the
+time.  He didn't have an identicard that said CERTIFIED NUTCASE on it.  He
+worked in station maintenance.  Nobody knew Tim McVeigh was a nut until he
+blew up a building.  Nobody knew that quiet little man in Boston was out
+strangling women in his spare time.
+
+You seem to operate in blacks and whites; this show is about greys.  And
+most of the concerns you raised are, I think, easily addressed.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 30 May 1996 06:03:10 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Renewed in Atlanta!
+
+Thanks, that's good news.  Right now the stations are being canvassed by
+WB for their final decision, so this is a good time.
+
+jms
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 May 1996 06:17:45 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: GBoR (Guinness Book of Records)
+
+Is it actually worth doing this?  I dunno....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 May 1996 06:17:56 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Why "War Without End"
+
+As Delenn says, the war is never entirely over...there are always new
+battle to be fought.  If it ain't the shadows, it's the shadows over
+Earthdome of a more human nature.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 May 1996 06:17:56 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Would a TV Movie Work?
+
+Or you can try explaining that every episode generally has all the
+information you need to follow it.  We're constantly adding new viewers,
+and they're almost always up to speed in just 2-3 episodes, if that long. 
+Just jump on in, the water's fine.
+
+The occasional repetition of some bit of background or foreshadowing can
+be slightly bothersome for constant viewers, but that is necessary if
+you're going to continue to add new viewers, which is important for any
+series to stay on the air.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 May 1996 06:17:43 -0400
+Subject: jms on radio in LA
+
+For those in the Los Angeles area, I'll be on HOUR 25 this Friday from 10
+p.m. to midnight, on KPFK 90.7 FM.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 31 May 1996 01:28:07 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: B5 Demos  Was: JMS on CompuServe...
+
+Okay, I dug out the demographics report that just came in for 2nd quarter
+1996.  This will eventually be broken down into smaller and smaller groups
+now that the quarter is done, so you can know how subset groups are doing,
+but that won't be along for a while now, and won't contradict anything
+here.  (I'm very eager for the subset breakdown...should prove most
+enlightening.  The demos only break down the 18-49 age range as that's the
+most fiscally important.)
+
+Anyway, here's the breakdown for the second quarter in the 18-49 age
+range, the most sought after group for advertisers, for men, women, and
+both.  The higher the number, the better your coverage within that group;
+1000 is nearly impossible to get.  Warners is *extremely* pleased by this;
+it's the first time we've had the best demographics of all dramatic
+series.
+
+BABYLON 5
+Women: 429
+Men: 497
+Both: 1057
+
+DS9
+Women: 408
+Men: 473
+Both: 881
+
+BAYWATCH
+Women:364
+Men: 315
+Both: 679
+
+BAYWATCH NIGHTS
+Women: 340
+Men: 343
+Both: 683
+
+RENEGADE
+Women: 369
+Men: 362
+Both: 731
+
+HIGHLANDER
+Women: 393
+Men: 394
+Both: 787
+
+HERCULES
+Women: 369
+Men: 360
+Both: 730
+
+XENA
+Women: 355
+Men: 380
+Both: 735
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 31 May 1996 18:55:12 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Writing questions
+
+"Do you have an idea of how many scripts you'll be farming out to other
+writers this season?"
+
+Not at this time.  There are several imponderables yet to be filled in.
+
+"Are those writers handpicked/recruited by you, or do you ever get a
+sample of someone's work dropped in lap by their agent and decide to go
+with them?"
+
+For this show, they're hand picked; on other shows, it's been more open.
+
+"When we get to season 5, do you think that you'll be able to write the
+episodes without having to put in so many references to previous shows for
+new viewers, i.e. "if you're watching by now, you know what's going on"?"
+
+If it's as serial as I think it's goign to have to be, there may have to
+be a bit more of them, but I may do some of them a little differently,
+less obviously.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 31 May 1996 19:00:19 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS article on his experience in writing for animation--what mag?
+
+The magazine was indeed Penthouse, though I forget the article title and
+date.  It dealt primarily with the nightmare visited upon networks by
+consultants and pressure groups.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/ftp/Usenet/jms96-06-usenet b/ftp/Usenet/jms96-06-usenet
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+JMS Usenet messages for June 1996.
+
+Date: 1 Jun 1996 13:35:50 -0400
+Subject: Re: score one for you, JMS
+
+Well, if he's your friend, then his good taste had to struggle out from
+under the shadow of alternate programming sooner or later....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Jun 1996 21:50:09 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: B5 Demos  Was: JMS on CompuServe...
+
+I've checked into this (the 1057 figure), and they sent out a new report
+and it's still the same figure.  If you add the two figures together,
+they're 926, which is *still* the highest figure around, so the facts
+still stand.  
+
+We had broken 1000 several other times in the "both" category, the week of
+4/1 at 1057 and 4/29 at 1022; don't have the other weeks at hand.
+
+I talked at length to one of the researchers about this, and he said he
+was going to backtrack with the Neilsen company and see what they had to
+say.  (They're the company that actually does the computations and pulls
+in the figures, WB has nothing to do with it, all syndicated shows get the
+same reports.)
+
+He did indiate that there are a certain percentage of forms that come in
+where the person with the ratings book for one reason or another chooses
+not to put down either his/her sex or the sex of the person watching with
+them.  (Some consider it a privacy issue, some don't want to indicate that
+they're alone at home at night watching with a person of the same sex, so
+they "forget" to put it down, or just withhold the information.)  So
+there's always some variance; they can't just ignore the data of the
+number of persons watching, but they can't plug in what they don't have.  
+
+For instance, in Hercules for that quarter, you've got a figure of 369 for
+women, 360 for men, and a total of 730, which is 1 more than the two
+figures combined.
+
+So the researcher is going to backtrack some more, but indicated that it
+may be that we have an unusually high number of same-sex couples who watch
+the show, but may be somewhat closeted about it.  Which would be
+consistent with the fact that we get a lot of mail from gays and lesbians
+who watch the show.
+
+I'll be out of town for a couple weeks, but will eventually get back to
+this.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Jun 1996 07:54:57 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS - Family Addicted to Babylon 5
+
+Thanks, and I'm glad the show is something an entire family can watch
+together.
+
+Re: Battlefield Earth...the only problem (well, one of many) is of course
+that a great deal of that series of books was written long after Hubbard's
+death.
+
+No plans to be up in SF for a bit.\
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Jun 1996 07:57:13 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: SD Comic Con
+
+I do plan to be at San Diego Comic Con; haven't firmed up any specifics
+yet.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Jun 1996 02:54:48 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: CGI records
+
+I actually don't know/haven't considered who's closest on EFX these days,
+but I'd be willing to bet that the revised Star Wars EFX beat us and
+everything else....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Jun 1996 17:28:22 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS - Intro for next season
+
+I've pretty much decided on the narrative style for next season, and who's
+involved, but would rather hold off on that for a bit.  Suffice to say
+it'll be done in a style and in a way we haven't used before.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Jun 1996 17:28:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATT JMS: Demographics numbers
+
+I posted a long reply on this in the original demos thread; rather than
+repeat, you may want to check there.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Jun 1996 17:28:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: SPOILERS Season 4 First Episode
+
+"In retrospect we now know that the Lurker's Guide announcement that B5
+has 
+been renewed for season 4 was not premature at all."
+
+Incorrect.  The Lurker's Guide said that the show had been renewed.  It
+had not yet been renewed, and has not *formally* been renewed yet.  You
+don't say the baby has been born if it's still hanging around in it's
+mother. 
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1996 14:52:01 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Did You Really Say This?
+
+I don't believe I ever stated it quite that way, mainly I have emphasized
+that there may be justifications for actions on both sides.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1996 14:53:52 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS--Production Process, Music
+
+In reverse order...
+
+1) Changes between 1st and final drafts are almost always production
+changes ("can we put this scene in the Zocalo instead of the sanctuary, so
+it'll save us a lighting change and camera move?") and some dialogue
+tweaks.  Occasionally a scene will get trimmed a bit if it looks like the
+show's coming up long.
+
+2) Music...after John and I have done our cut, we sit down with the sound
+effects people and Chris Franke for the spotting session.  Here, we watch
+the episode all the way through.  I indicate where I want the music to
+start, and where I want it to stop, and what kind of music I have in mind,
+if it's that clear to me.  
+
+E.g., "Music in at 12:23:15 (twelve minutes, 23 seconds and 15 frames),
+out at 14:10:20.  We've got some heavy sound effects going on here, battle
+stuff, which will take up a lot of the bottom and midrange, so you may
+want to go for a bit higher frequency stuff.  Strings would be good
+through this, counterpointing the battle.  I wouldn't mind if you could
+somehow interpolate the Requiem theme through this part."  Chris then goes
+off and makes magic.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+From 
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1996 13:07:23 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: re. Double-Runs in LA!
+
+Thanks; yes, LA will be getting the double runs, as will Chicago, I
+believe, and a number of other stations, based on the continuing
+improvements in ratings.
+
+BTW, to anyone looking on...sorry I've been silent of late.  I was in the
+UK for over a week, and I'm still on the jetlagged side, trying to catch
+up.  Have been quiet all around lately, just trying to get my head back
+into whatever time zone I'm in, and gearing up for year 4.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1996 01:36:28 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Is B5 dead?
+
+It's amazing...we just get renewed for year 4 and 8 days into that renewal
+people are asking us if we're dead...we've been declared dead more often
+than Lazarus.
+
+No, it's not a particular problem.  The situation is that PTEN is no
+longer a real entity anymore; we're now a syndicated series now that the
+network has gone south.  Many groups were nominally held together by that
+thread; once the contractual thread was removed, there's going to be some
+reshuffling of stations.  It's an everyday part of the business.  In some
+other cases, because WB held off as long as it did on a decision, due to
+the PTEN situation, a few places have filled their slots.
+
+The problem with the nets is that if you see 6 messages about how a
+station is opting out of the show, the perception is of 6 places where it
+happened, when it's just the one.  This exact same thing happened this
+time last season.  There's always a case of musical chairs around this
+time of the year.  
+
+WB is lining up stations to replace those which have opted out.  Bear in
+mind that UPN stations and FOX stations have obligations to those networks
+which preclude their responsibility to this one show; if UPN wants another
+night on their schedule, it has to come from somewhere.  It happens all
+the time.
+
+Once the dust settles, I'd say all or nearly all of the areas in question
+will have alternate stations available for the show.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Jun 1996 09:02:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Chicago ComiCon?
+
+Yes, I'll be at the Chicago ComicCon in Rosemont this coming weekend, with
+a 2-hour B5 presentation slated for Saturday from 4-6 p.m., and apparently
+there's some sort of off-convention B5 reception at 7:30 or thereabouts. 
+(Not everyone who enjoys the show wants to pay the bucks for the whole
+convention, so this was thunk up last time as a freebie for general fans
+in the area at a local hotel.)
+
+A caveat...the B5 presentation has generally been the biggest thing at the
+con the last few years, so if you're going to be there, be early,
+otherwise the seats get filled and folks get stuck in the doorway and the
+hall.  Last time the main room held about 2,000 and still got jammed.
+
+I won't be bringing an episode -- WB isn't allowing this anymore for its
+shows -- but can bring clips and other fun stuph.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1996 04:12:02 -0400
+Subject: Re: Memories from Chicago Comicon (includes question for JMS)
+
+"Having read JMS's posts on the net for years and now having seen him talk
+in person, I have heard probably hundreds of anecdotes from him about his
+life, his career, growing up, getting the show on the air, and managing
+the cast/crew to keep it going.  It dawned on me last weekend that many of
+these stories are quite similar to the example stories that one finds in a
+book on self-esteem, self-motivation, and management books (the ones about
+how to get the most out of your employees by making sure they enjoy
+working for you).  JMS:  Have you ever considered writing these down into
+a book about your philosophy/ motivation/etc?   I think it would be great
+reading!"
+
+I think it would be an absolutely hideous waste of several dozen
+old-growth trees.
+
+It would be the height of stupidity and arrogance on my part (your
+suggestion was well-intentioned and sincere, don't confuse the two) to
+even consider the notion.  I have nothing to teach *anybody* in these
+areas.  I don't have any answers, only questions.  And my experiences are
+generally so idiosyncratic, so much the product of just falling on my face
+a thousand times until one day I figured out a way so that I didn't *have*
+to fall on my face anymore, that I can't imagine they'd be of much use to
+anyone, and their entertainment value is mainly either anecdotal or for
+humorous effect.
+
+A book about the trials and tribulations in making the show...sure, maybe.
+ A book of my philosophy about this sort of thing, with anecdotes?  I
+can't imagine anything that could be more boring and self-serving.\
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Jun 1996 20:04:40 -0400
+Subject: Re: att JMS
+
+There are no plans currently for the return of Talia.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+JMS Usenet messages for July 1996.
+
+Date: 2 Jul 1996 01:18:41 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS - Director's cut of re-runs
+
+Can't be done; also, there is no previous cut, only avid-generated
+computer files with the images, not film...and they wouldn't be director's
+cuts, but producers' cuts.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Jul 1996 05:02:38 -0400
+Subject: Re: If you had one question to ask JMS
+
+"How has the response of fans to B5 been different from what you had
+expected?  What fan response has most surprised you?"
+
+Probably the extent to which fans have formed strong communities around
+the show, and gotten together.  That's probably the main thing.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Jul 1996 01:02:38 -0400
+Subject: Re: attn:JMS please deny
+
+No, I had no idea that scientologists used an alien group called Markab,
+and frankly would've changed it if I had known.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Jul 1996 23:58:05 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS: Position on Captain Power?
+
+I was the story editor on Captain Power.  The show was created by Gary
+Goddard, not by me.  I was brought in to basically run the story part of
+it once he had sold it.  In that capacity, I was more or less left alone,
+and could do what I wanted (though the first episode has a lot of Gary's
+fingerprints all over it).  Some of what we did there was pretty good; in
+other cases, I wouldn't mind if the negatives fell off a pier somewhere
+and were never seen again by humankind.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Jul 1996 01:05:38 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 slips under Time Magazine radar
+
+"I find it interesting that the article talks about SF's "comeback" where
+I really didn't see it diminish (at least in the last decade or so)"
+
+Here's what happens, having been part of a whole lot of these articles
+over the years:several new SF shows come along.  You get called for
+interviews about this sudden explosion of SF.  Six months go by.  The
+shows disappear.  And now you get calls for interviews about why SF
+doesn't seem to work on TV.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Jul 1996 00:44:30 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Road Trip/Babylon 5 Parties
+
+I'm glad to hear it's been a great experience...and take care of yourself
+out there on the road.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Jul 1996 00:44:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: New Merchandise - legal or not?
+
+"BUBBLE BATH??!!"
+
+The stuff is being sold under the overall heading "BUBBLE BUDDIES."
+
+How could I *not* approve something like that?
+
+I brought one back with me from SDCC (no, I hadn't gotten one yet), and
+our co producer George Johnsen did fifteen minutes on that one.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Jul 1996 22:03:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: General Note from jms
+
+In October you'll get the final 5 from this season, then 4 or 5 more from
+year 4, so that's 9-10 in a row.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Jul 1996 20:57:41 -0400
+Subject: Re: Con Report: JMS at San Diego Comic Con, July 6, 1996
+
+Well...suddenly I don't have anything to say at conventions, since all my
+best gags have been listed...sigh....oh, well.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Jul 1996 01:35:05 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Happy Birthday, Joe! - 1996
+
+                                          ...humbug....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Jul 1996 04:03:51 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Directing B5?
+
+"Specifically: in an ep like "Severed Dreams" where cgi effects take up
+literally almost 1/4 of the script, how much input does the director have
+on "camera" angles, close ups of 'Fury pilots, and the way in which the
+SFX is intercut with live action?  Or is that entirely your job?"
+
+Generally, a lot of that material is either storyboarded, or supervised by
+our on set EFX supervisor, who determines the angles to be used.  This is
+especially important in an episode like Severed Dreams when you have to
+make sure that the pilots are oriented the right way on camera (i.e.,
+going from left to right, and facing left to right) if that's the
+direction their ships are going in; otherwise you'd have to flop the film
+to make it match.  In larger set pieces, using virtual sets and composite
+shots, the director has more influence.
+
+"Also: when dealing with an ep with a lot of flashbacks or reused footage
+(WWE, especially part 2), how much freedom does the director have?  Does
+he/she have to match the style of the previously show footage (in terms of
+angles, close ups, pacing, etc), or is there more room for the director's
+own style?"
+
+In the case of WWE, you had to match lighting and composition pretty
+closely.  That's about the only time it's really become an issue.
+
+"(one more question: if someone other than you had written "Babylon
+Squared", would they have to be paid royalties for the reuse of parts of
+that episodes script and footage in "War Without End"?)"
+
+Anyone who writes a scene which is reused gets residuals.  Doesn't matter
+if it's me or anybody else, as a Writers Guild member, it's guaranteed and
+required.  Also the actors, the director, and others get re-use fees of
+varying amounts depending on how long the sequence is.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Jul 1996 04:07:38 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: The University of JMS NOW Babylonian Ranch
+
+"More concretely, however -- any chance of Babylonian Productions doing a
+series of workshops (directing, acting, SFX, costuming -- I know *you*
+couldn't do writing, because of the story idea thing) at a convention? Or
+*as* a convention?"
+
+This is only something we've discussed in relation to a convention.  If we
+were to put on a B5 convention, via the fan club, one of the things we'd
+do would be to make it an informative experience.  Each of our
+departements -- makeup, costume, EFX, others -- would give presentations
+to folks interested in those areas (you could probably pick 2 or 3), so
+you'd have something a bit more than the usual, "Okay, I'm on stage, what
+do you want to talk about?"  Again, the goal is to help folks understand
+how this TeeVee critter works.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Jul 1996 04:24:15 -0400
+Subject: Re: Can't WB Home Video at least release the PILOT on video?
+
+The videotape situation has absolutely *zip* to do with the Turner
+situation.  We got a reading on this from WB long, long before the Turner
+deal was even a glimmer in Wall Street's eye.  Basically, it's an in-house
+problem.  Most of the studios have a philosophy of, "If someone's going to
+do something with one of our shows, we should do it through an internal
+branch of the company."  But if they themselves don't want to do it, they
+tend to hold onto it even if someone else wants to do it NOW on the theory
+that they themselves MIGHT want to do it in future.  
+
+It's a territorial thing.  We have the right to do this, and we won't
+surrender that right, because our division refuses to lose that control,
+whether we actually ever do the project or not.
+
+This is, remember, a business where people running studios pay vast
+amounts of money for things they know they'll never do.  It's always less
+about money than about pride, jurisdiction and control.
+
+In our case, "proper channels" for B5 would be Warner Home Video.  Unlike
+Fox and Paramount, WHB doesn't generally release TV series on video.  They
+tend to look more to big-deal movies, documentaries and miniseries.  And
+they tend to do the big-ticket items that they know will sell millions of
+copies (like the Batman movie, and some of the animation stuff, which has
+a different agenda).  They look at a syndicted show, and shrug.  
+
+Warners International, on the other hand, is by their mandate set up to
+handle the release of whole series on tape, and that aspect wasn't a
+problem in the UK.
+
+So we've been negotiating with them for almost 2 years now to do the
+videos ourselves.  There's been some movement, gradually, but it's been
+the kind of movement associated with glaciers.  Eventually we'll get
+there; we just have to keep saying "yes you will" one more time than they
+can say "no we won't."
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Jul 1996 19:35:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: Unexpected Straczynski writing credits
+
+EEK!
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Jul 1996 20:10:37 -0400
+Subject: Fan Club Email Address
+
+Jim Lockett, head of the Official B5 Fan Club, just got himself an email
+address.  So if you haven't yet received one item or another, or have any
+inquiries regarding the fan club...he can be reached now at the following
+address: 
+
+                                 JPLB5@AOL.COM.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Jul 1996 05:17:08 -0400
+Subject: Re: Still haven't got my fan club stuff yet, what's up?
+
+Write to jplb5@aol.com, and they'll get right on it.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Jul 1996 06:04:33 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS Redemption
+
+Thanks.  From where I sit, you can't just play the damnation card in
+drama; you have to also play the redemption aspect.  When you look at the
+early Twilight Zones for instance, you see redemption there as much a key
+issue as a Bad Guy getting what's coming to him.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Jul 1996 06:04:35 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Blatant Plug time - When is your screenwriting book coming into print?
+
+Yes, at this point, the Hugo-nominated script for "The Coming of Shadows"
+will be in the new edition of my scriptwriting book.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1996 01:10:16 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Concerns about "Shadow Dancing"?
+
+"You've mentioned a couple times that the upcoming "Shadow Dancing" will
+be 
+quite violent.  Should I be concerned about, say, my two-year old watching
+it? 
+She's as hooked on the show as I am, and would probably feel quite left
+out..."
+
+This is a tough one...I've given it a lot of thought since I saw this, and
+my sense is to advise the following:
+
+If you possibly can, videotape the episode.  Get the time code on the
+various pieces.  We cut in and out of two stories, an A and a B story. 
+One is violent, the other is not.  You don't have to see the one, or see
+much of it, to follow the other.  For someone as young as 2, I'd suggest
+fast-forwarding past the B story stuff.  It's still within what's
+generally permitted on TV, but it is kinda harsh.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Jul 1996 02:06:13 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Question, "Hour of the Wolf"
+
+"Have you ever contemplated doing an episode of B5 that unfolds in real
+time (i.e. one minute of screen time is one minute of plot time, as done
+in the movies "Miracle Mile" and "Nick of Time"), or would that be
+counterproductive to the sorts of stories you're trying to tell?"
+
+Actually, yeah, I have considered doing that...it can be a very limiting
+structure, and the story has to be just right for it to work.  Haven't
+quite worked out all the snags yet.
+
+"Or is "Hour of the Wolf" a story of that particular variety?"
+
+Nope.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Jul 1996 04:02:28 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Found any of these people?
+
+I found Sherilyn and Marcus, but not any of the rest.  Ah, well, gave it a
+good shot, and had some great help.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Jul 1996 15:05:09 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: fan club problems
+
+Karen: we recently found that the post office sent back whole *packages*
+of the fan club material to us, which they held onto for almost two
+months.  We used two different post offices for the mail drops; we used
+the same amount of money for the mailing on all the mail drops, what the
+first one told us it should be, and that was fine...the second decided it
+should be more, never told us, and just sent the stuff back after a while.
+
+There've been similar problems with the mailings, though many people are
+now getting their stuff.  Jim's been flooded with messages -- he showed me
+a stack two inches thick -- and he's processing them as fast as he can. 
+Better to solve the hassle and get them out again than answer each one of
+the emails.  
+
+This is a new venture, remember, there's some shakedown time.  Jim's
+dancing as fast as he can.  You'll either get a reply or a packet soon.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1996 17:37:34 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Directors for 4th Season
+
+"Do you have directors lined up for the first few episodes of the fourth
+season yet?"
+
+Mike Vejar is going to do a bunch, we've got Jesus Trevino, David Eagle,
+and are currently setting up some new directors on the show.
+
+"Also, do the directors for B5 have contracts that they will direct X
+number of episodes in a season, or are they on a verbal agreement type of
+thing, or is it something else?"
+
+It's never verbal, that's too easy to abuse on either side.  It's all done
+via deal memo, usually one or two at a time, or if we know the director
+well, for several at once.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+JMS Usenet messages for August 1996.
+
+
+Date: 1 Aug 1996 15:33:32 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS's new scriptwriting book LOCIS listing; ISBN included
+
+"1) Will you be doing a book tour for your scriptwriting book?"
+
+There are no plans for that at present, though I may try to coordinate
+something or other when I do the occasional convention.
+
+"2) How can we get your book signed in the event of no book tour?"
+
+Conventions, mainly.  Problem is that the book is coming out right when
+we're in the thick of production, and getting away at this time is nearly
+impossible.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Aug 1996 15:37:27 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Milton?
+
+If by this you mean "better to reign in hell than serve in heaven," then
+no, that ain't it.
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Aug 1996 15:40:39 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Character Aquisition
+
+"How did you pick / decide upon the actors who are presently involved in
+the story?  And are you planning on appearances by "named - major"
+personalities in upcomming episodes?"
+
+If by this you mean how do we cast the actors...the actor comes in and
+auditions, reading dialogue for that character from a given episode.  The
+one that comes in the door and is most what I saw in my head when I
+created the character, gets the job.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Aug 1996 16:04:24 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Shadow Hugos...
+
+Interesting...we'll see how this compares to the real results.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Aug 1996 16:08:41 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Will Adam Nimoy direct any 4th season episodes?
+
+We've asked about Adam, but he may be booked on other shows, alas.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Aug 1996 00:17:21 -0400
+Subject: Re: Mr. JMS: So, which is the best of Final Five?
+
+It would be an even tie I think between the final two, "Shadow Dancing"
+and "Z'ha'dum."  The two episodes are also linked at the hip, so they're
+really more like one unit...not so much a two-parter, but siamese twins,
+story-wise.  They're both very exciting, move the arc forward hugely, and
+though they rely on a lot of backstory, are also good points for folks new
+to the show to dive in, because they also *explain* a lot of backstory, so
+they can get into it.
+
+They're both just lovely, knockout episodes.  And, at times, scary as
+hell.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Aug 1996 00:21:50 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Shooting
+
+Filming begins August 26th.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Aug 1996 01:04:53 -0400
+Subject: Re: AAA Rating on Customer Service
+
+"I've seen you be gracious, informative, and mentoring in this newsgroup
+but this takes the cake."
+
+(shrug)
+
+No big, it's just part of the service.  Jim's right down the hall, ain't
+much of a problem to take ten minutes to go down the corridor and annoy
+him.  In fact, I'll take any chance I get to annoy him....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Aug 1996 01:06:10 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Question about maybe new show
+
+The sequel would be a syndicated show.  We'll see....
+
+Meanwhile, something I probably should mention since it showed up in the
+trades the other day...my associates, Doug Netter and John Copeland are
+directly involved in a new series which is just about set to go into
+pre-production, called "Battleground Earth."  The series is based on a
+series bible and script written by Gene Roddenberry in the early 70s. 
+Majel Barrett Roddenberry is also directly involved with the show.
+
+I've been more or less sworn to silence until the news broke in the
+Hollywood Reporter.  I first found out about this shortly after Majel did
+our show, at which time she was very impressed with how we do things here,
+and decided she wanted to work with us.  David Kirschner, primarily known
+as a film producer, is also involved with the series.
+
+They initially asked me to write the new 2-hour pilot script, since a) the
+original is considerably out of date, given when it was first written, and
+b) there was a general concensus that a Roddenberry/Straczynski
+collaboration would be infinitely promotable.  The job was basically mine
+for the asking, but after giving it a great deal of thought, I declined,
+even though the money was good and the show would get a lot of promotion. 
+I have a moral obligation to B5, and that has to come first, I can't have
+any outside distractions.  So instead I've recommended a very good SF TV
+writer who's worked on a number of network shows lately (no, don't ask, I
+won't tell you, and it's probably not who you'd think anyway, and it'd be
+inappropriate for me to say in any event until a deal is signed).  I think
+it'll be a good match-up of talents.  Beyond that, I have no involvement
+with the series, and it'd also be inappropriate for me to talk any more
+about the content or nature of the show; that will have to come from those
+directly involved.
+
+(BTW, for those who get the Sci-Fi Channel, B5 producer John Copeland will
+be on their new show VORTEX, along with Majel, this Friday.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Aug 1996 15:04:16 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Question about maybe new show
+
+"This sounds like a very exciting show, but will Netter and Copeland still
+be able to perform their duties on B5 or will you have to replace them?"
+
+Doug's job on B5 is primarily oriented toward the business end, so that's
+not a problem; John was in on the sale of the project, but now that it's
+done, a line producer will be brought in for that show (John's the line
+producer on B5), so John will definitely be staying with B5 in his
+capacity of producer, and not directly involved in the daily running of
+the new show.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Aug 1996 23:22:23 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: your Meyers-Briggs type
+
+No, haven't taken that particular test, though while I was in university I
+took a number of personality inventories and the like as part of my degree
+plan in psychology.  Right up through the MMPI and others.  The career
+evaluation inventories indicated that I should be either a clerk or in the
+Air Force.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Aug 1996 23:25:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 Beards
+
+Sort of the ZZ Top of television production....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Aug 1996 23:51:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Idle thoughts.
+
+Well, one can always assume that Morden received some help, in one form or
+another, in adjusting to the shadows....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Aug 1996 23:51:52 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Shooting
+
+No, I'm afraid the new episodes won't be aired here in the US until
+October, with the first year 4 eps beginning in November.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Aug 1996 17:43:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: New Twilight Zone
+
+Actually, the character in that episode of the new TZ was Jeremy St.
+Claire, not Sinclair.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Aug 1996 17:43:57 -0400
+Subject: Re: What's so important about Z'ha'dum?
+
+Yeah...you'd almost think there was something or someone there that they
+considered important.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Aug 1996 18:04:16 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: season 4 intro vioceover...
+
+"So basically, what I'm asking is does the fact that G'Kar gets the last
+major speech in season 3 mean that he gets to do teh voiceover for season
+4?"
+
+Not as such, no....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Aug 1996 18:05:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: Why JMS really believes in God?
+
+I love it when people decide to tell me what I *really* believe, or don't
+believe, that what I say and think is my view of life isn't really it at
+ALL...and then throw all the old, cliched, hackneyed "how can god allow
+evil to happen" straw men into the argument so they can be easily shot
+down, when that has *nothing* whatsoever to do with my attitudes on the
+subject.  And the notion that it takes more belief to have a non-belief
+than belief to have a belief is so illogical, so deep in paralogia and
+cliched thinking as to be beyond commenting on because any response would
+be utterly and permanently drowned out by laughter.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Aug 1996 02:46:07 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: The Real Ghostbusters
+
+"If I am not mistaken, you worked on the Real Ghostbusters cartoon show. I
+also remember reading that you wrote a few scripts.  Which scripts did you
+write? How much were you involved in the show?"
+
+Yikes...trying to remember them all, there were something like 15-20
+episodes that I wrote..."Janine, You've Changed"..."Ragnarok and
+Roll"..."Citizen Ghost"... "No One Comes to Lupusville"..."Take
+Two"..."Xmas Marks the Spot"..."The Halloween Door"..."Mr. Sandman, Dream
+Me a Dream"..."Russian About"... "Chicken, He Clucked"..."The Haunting of
+Heck House"...a whole bunch of others.
+
+I was story editor on that series, for both the ABC and syndicated
+versions, editing 78 episodes in one season.  It was a hoot; we got to go
+totally nuts and be obscure and adult and funny and outrageous.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Aug 1996 02:50:05 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Driving
+
+"I was really surprised to read in the TV Guide article that you don't
+drive. How have you been able to live in auto-dependent Southern
+California for so many years with out giving in and starting to drive? I'm
+amazed that you manage to do it..."
+
+So am I, some days.
+
+It's a moral thing; I'm a *terrible* driver, easily distracted, my depth
+perception sucks, and...I hit things.  And they frown on that.  So for the
+good of the Commonweal, even though it's a monumental pain in the ass, I
+stay off the road. 
+
+So when I can't catch a ride with someone, I have an occasional (per-job)
+driver, or I get cabs.  Used to ride the bus all the time.  All the time I
+was working at Filmation at the start of my TV staff career I bussed it
+in; took about 2-2 1/2 hours to get from Glendale to Encino, approximately
+a 45 minute drive by car.
+
+Now it's usually just a car, one way or another, but it's still a pain. 
+At the same time, though, I know I could never live with myself if I ever
+harmed someone else, so here we are....
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Aug 1996 02:50:38 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Idle thoughts-request enhancement
+
+Yes, it would be a correct assumption.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Aug 1996 04:44:12 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Shadows' motives?
+
+"Do you agree with the Shadows motives?"
+
+Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.  Motives are one thing; the means to
+achieving that motive, however, are a different issue.  And those means I
+do not agree with.  But on some level, their motives can make sense...as
+can the Vorlons' motives....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Aug 1996 05:00:50 -0400
+Subject: Re: jms' beliefs
+
+Since I've got nothing else to do at the moment...well, except write....
+
+1) he prefers pepsi to coca-cola, though he prefers zima to both of them.
+
+Actually Pepsi and Coke are about the same to me, though in a pinch I'll
+go for Coke over Pepsi.  As long as it's got caffeine, I'm a happy man. 
+Otherwise it's coffee (Arabian Mocha Sanani, preferably, or Silawesi). 
+Don't drink Zima.  Don't drink *period*.  Last thing you want is to give
+an obsessive-compulsive personality a drink.  Don't smoke or do drugs. 
+Utterly boring.  My only vices are chocolate, coffee, soft drinks, and the
+net.
+
+2) he prefers dogs to cats, and prefers irish terriers over all other
+dogs.
+
+MUCH prefer cats to dogs.  All kinds cats, but Abyssinians the most,
+followed by your basic tabby cat.  Dogs are okay, but overall the one
+breed I'd ever consider owning -- even though it'd be a second career/job
+to raise the creature -- would be an English Border Collie, the
+obsessive-compulsives of the dog world.
+
+3) his favorite sports are kickboxing and the ultimate fighting
+championship.
+
+Don't generally watch sports.
+
+4) his favorite color is purple.
+
+Black.
+
+5) his favorite newspaper is usa today (all those nifty computer generated
+graphics).
+
+Who has time for ANY papers these days...?
+
+6) his favorite breakfast is bacon and orange juice.
+
+You left out scrambled eggs, a toasted water-bagel and coffee.  
+
+7) his preferred method of mailing packages is UPS.
+
+FedEx.
+
+And just to round stuff off...I use MovieMaster for script formatting,
+Wordstar for general writing, my favorite meal is a good lean steak with
+mashed potatoes, spinach, cut corn, I use a Dell pentium computer tricked
+out with every device on the planet (including, shortly, ISDN), just
+picked up an IBM Thinkpad 560 as my main road computer system, like my
+foods well done, and my favorite TV shows (after B5, natch) are 60
+Minutes, MST3K, The Simpsons, and X-Files.
+
+That ought to blow a hole in this thread, I think....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Aug 1996 05:03:59 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Poetry on B5
+
+I've read Matthew Arnold, but have always found him a bit dry for my
+tastes.  I go for the more passionate, beat-the-drums stuff.  
+
+I'll continue to try to find ways to work in bits of it here and there,
+never hurts to let people know there's stuff other than TeeVee out there. 
+Should sneak in a much longer version of Tennyson's "Ulysses" early in
+season four.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Aug 1996 17:30:45 -0400
+Subject: Re: jms' beliefs
+
+jdn...yes, I got that it was sarcasm...I was just goofing around....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Aug 1996 02:49:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: jms' beliefs
+
+The final 5 eps for this season will be broadcast in October, leading into
+year 4 in November.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Aug 1996 05:03:56 -0400
+Subject: Re: Why JMS really believes in God?
+
+"For the next few months all we're going to hear are threads from Morgan
+and
+Co. regarding Joe and the scene where Brian stands at the window
+starkers."
+
+On the other hand, at least it'll be a much smaller thread....
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Aug 1996 00:08:16 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: 4th Season Episodes
+
+We're currently 4 scripts into the 4th season; on the season title, that's
+usually something I hold back announcing until we're a bit deeper in.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Aug 1996 00:02:57 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: your Meyers-Briggs type
+
+I'm starting to get the ugly notion that my messages aren't getting throgh
+the AOL internet feed.  I sent two notes on this, both mentioning that I
+took the test, and came out an INTJ, even gave the web page number for the
+full analysis, but I don't think it ever go through.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Aug 1996 01:29:36 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: More edited out of I&E?
+
+Yes, there was a bit edited out of the Sheridan/Kosh conversation, but
+nothing of real importance.  It was at the beginning, as he catches up
+with Kosh, and discusses his meeting with the League worlds and how
+important it would be for the Vorlons to get involved.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Aug 1996 16:12:35 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Jeff W. coming back -- any chance?
+
+Actually, Jeff has just become John Copeland's executive assistant,
+something of a move up; don't know if he'll be putting on the headpiece of
+the new Vorlon in town yet, but we'll see...
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Aug 1996 16:14:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: Is it asking too much?
+
+"Is it too much to bloody ask to be able to see *one* mere episode of
+Babylon 5?"
+
+Sure...come on by the office, I've got 5 of 'em just sitting here. 
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Aug 1996 16:23:59 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Advice for other online producers?
+
+"You're in a unique position, as the first TeeVee producer/writer/show
+creator to interact on Usenet with the fans of your series.  I'm writing
+up a Usenet dossier for Bryce Zabel, executive producer of _Dark Skies_,
+who is thinking of coming online in an interactive capacity when his show
+starts airing this fall.  Do you have any advice that he, or others who
+come online in the future, would find useful?"
+
+Hi, Bryce.  Don't know if we've met, but I've seen your work, and seen you
+about; was lurking in the back of your Fangoria talk a bit ago.  Also saw
+the pilot (ve haff vays); I think it has great potential.  How you're
+going to work the structure of the story once they're out, without
+support, we'll see.  (said vaguely to avoid spoilers)  That aside....
+
+He should be sure what he's here for.  If it's just promotion...it almost
+ain't worth the time involved.  Lots of folks have used the nets to
+promote stuff, but for one thing it pisses people off that once the
+promotion part is over, boom, they're gone (a la "Sneakers" a year or so
+ago).  And the cold reality is that if you added up everyone who reads the
+nets...it ain't even a blip on the ratings.
+
+The best way to maintain a presence on the nets is to get a sense of the
+room, to see if what you're doing is working *in general*.  You'll get
+tons of conflicting opinions, so you can't let that sway the story...but
+you'll know, in general, if the story you're telling is getting through,
+and succeeding.
+
+I'd strongly suggest you adopt the same "no story ideas" policy I've used,
+particularly with a show like "Dark Skies," where it would be easy for
+somebody to say, "Okay, aliens get involved in X real-life historical
+situation," even though it's the obvious thing, which you'd already
+planned to handle, and then sue you for plagiarism.  Best to avoid it all
+up-front.
+
+How you deal with criticism is up to you.  We all react differently. 
+Online fans are bracingly blunt in their opinions; this is generally a
+good thing, except where sometimes some of them forget they're talking to
+a real person, not a computer screen.  But it's a good thing overall.  If
+someone's being unfair, say so, but other than that...you're in for quite
+a ride.
+
+The good thing about the nets is that it's the great social equalizer. 
+The bad thing about the nets is that it's the great social equalizer. 
+Anyone with a modem has equal access, equal say.  Which is terrific.  We
+can be tall, short, fat, skinny, old, young...what matters is the quality
+of the thoughts and the clarity of their expression.
+
+The flip side of this...if someone came toward you with a bright orange
+fright wig, dead cats strapped to his chest and a live parrot up his ass,
+you'd have sufficient warning that this may be a Loony, and thus avoid the
+person.  On the nets, you don't get that kind of advance warning.  There
+are some loonies here.  They get the same access as everyone else, they
+can get on because they bought a modem, but they live for the singular
+purpose of making your life a living hell, because you have created
+something, they have created nothing, and they can only live with that
+contradiction if they tear you down.  Some of them are literally
+psychologically disturbed, and potentially dangerous.  And you won't have
+any notion who they are until one day, after exchanging private or public
+mail, the dog satellite goes by overhead and they turn on you viciously,
+start spreading rumors, attacking you in public...and you realize that
+yep, this person has a parrot up his ass.
+
+Happily, those folks remain the exception rather than the rule.  The
+remaining 99% are fun, and intelligent, and can teach you things about
+your own show you didn't know were there.  
+
+Jump on in...the water's fine.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Aug 1996 23:16:25 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: At what price / personal life?
+
+Except that I don't think there's much of interest in my personal life,
+and it has little to do with the work itself.  
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+From 
+
+Date: 9 Aug 1996 23:23:19 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS  -  What In Valen's Name?!
+
+Some difference of opinion among the Minbari.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+From 
+
+Date: 9 Aug 1996 23:22:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS : Wantings...
+
+No, there isn't enough info yet to know what the shadows want; that's in
+the final 5 of this year.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Aug 1996 14:15:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: At what price / personal life?
+
+"In order to fully understand the message, you must understand the
+messenger."
+
+
+Hrrmm...yes and no.  Understanding the messenger can add a second layer of
+interpretation, but the primary layer must stand on its own or it's
+flawed.  I don't need to know that Joe Orton was gay to fall out of my
+chair laughing at "Loot," don't need to know that Chekhov had a drinking
+problem to appreciate "Uncle Vanya," don't need to know that Mark Twain
+lost both his daughters tragically to appreciate "Letters from the
+Earth"....
+
+Well, okay, I'll give you Twain, as the tragedies in his life fed right
+into his later work.  That's the yes part in yes and no.
+
+It's just that I already put out a lot of info on my personal life, likely
+more than I should, and the question "what price have you paid?" can only
+solicit a self-indulgent and self-serving answer.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Aug 1996 03:05:02 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo
+
+Yes, I'll be at the Hugo ceremony, no question about it.
+
+jms
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Aug 1996 03:13:32 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Centauri Emporers/Godhood
+
+"While looking through the new selections in the Lurker's guide, I was
+reminded of something. In Chrysalis Londo asks how many gods there
+currently are (I believe he's only referring to the ones that were
+Emporers) and Vir replies that there are fifty, then he corrects himself
+and says technically fifty-one, but there was one that he never really
+considered a god."
+
+Ah, yes...that one wasn't an emperor, that was Zoog, which was really just
+a household god, primarily associated with one noble family, that somewhat
+imposed Zoog where possible, forced the religious establishment to
+recognize the temple they'd built to Zoog...it was strictly an act of
+vanity on their part, to create a god, and elevate a household god, which
+never really carries much weight, to something greater, adding to the
+general pantheon.
+
+"Also, could you tell us what happened with the original Ambassador To
+Minbar? The one that "Went local" as Londo recalls it?"
+
+Went native.  Bought into the whole Minbari theological system, dropped
+his Centauri citizenship, was last heard of in a distant retreat trying to
+grow a bone.
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Aug 1996 16:44:50 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Dream sequence from AAitN
+
+Just offhand, yeah, I think all the info is there for the dream...either
+way, it'll be explained by the end of the third season.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Aug 1996 16:47:09 -0400
+Subject: Re: Brian and Wendamatica go nuts! or The Drool Contest.
+
+I do hope that these stories will not use B5 characters or situations, as
+I've asked repeatedly, and politely for the most part, that there *NOT* be
+any B5 fanfic where I can see it.  (Would prefer not to have it anywhere,
+but the odds of getting that are slim, I suspect.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Aug 1996 16:58:22 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Writting Difficulty:(
+
+I try to write but find my work greatly influenced by outside sources such
+as other written works, movies and television shows.  I seem to be unable
+to write something that hasn't already been done or write something that
+has been done in a different way.  Does that make sense?"
+
+There's a quote, I forget who said it: "Of course everything has already
+been said, but since no one was listening, we must begin again."
+
+The problem, I see, in what you've described...and this is on the benefit
+of three paragraphs and ten seconds thought, so take this with a grain of
+salt...is that you don't actually know what it is you want to say as a
+writer.  Or that you need to say.  You're drawing sources from outside
+wriers, TV shows, "unable" to do otherwise, by your statement.
+
+Let me toss another quote in here, again from a source I can't recall:
+"Too many people mistake a passion for reading with a desire to write." 
+It's possibly you may fall under this category.
+
+See, the problem with the writing biz is that everyone has access to
+keyboard, and we all think we can write, if we just had the time to do it.
+ Not true.  Give me a warehouse full of paintbrushes and easels, and 100
+years, and I may in time become adequate, but never more than that.
+
+Writing is a mug's game.  It's heartbreak.  It's pain and struggle and
+rejection and isolation and the only reason...the ONLY reason...to do it
+is if you've got something to say, something that burns in you so that you
+can't *NOT* write.  If you're doing it on a whim, as a curiosity, as you
+say "trying your hand," then this may not be the field for you.  This is a
+hardass, hard-work, lifetime job, and if you're not driven to say
+something, maybe you should consider something else.
+
+On the other hand...you're 18.  Sometimes it takes us a while to figure
+out just what the hell it is we want to say, or want to do.  What it is
+you need to say may not have occured to you yet.  On a third hand, I think
+all writers begin by playing around with other writer's voices, using
+techniques of other writers as sort of training wheels while they hone
+their own voice, dropping them by the wayside as new personal techniques
+are perfected, until the writer's voice is unique.
+
+Decide what it is you want, and what you *need,* not what seems like
+itmight be kinda interesting...the rest takes care of itself.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Aug 1996 15:48:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5 in Pournelle "Life on Mars" article.
+
+I know that Alex is a big fan of the show, have spoken with him several
+times, so that's likely where the mention came from.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Aug 1996 16:08:53 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS, *grin*
+
+"Perhaps there have been some spelling drifts in the next three centuries,
+and JMS spends so much time in the future that he has trouble with our
+local-present archaic English....."
+
+I would point out that the phrase "local-present archaic English" is
+ungrammatical and at odds with English useage.  You could say, "with our
+current-day English which he finds archaic," but not what you've written
+here, which implies that English is present only locally -- presumably
+local to where you are, when in fact English is present in many parts of
+the globe -- and that the present English is also archaic in fact, as
+opposed to being perceived as such by me....
+
+I could go on and on about this particular turn of phrase, because it's
+ungrammatical on several levels, but this forum has better ways to spend
+its time.
+
+Note, however, that I could have done this with *many* of your posts,
+which correct me or others on one word, while containing whole *phrases*
+which violate the rules of grammar.
+
+Which is what you do.
+
+The difference is, I have manners and don't feel it's my god-given
+responsibility to correct other people on their useage on-line.  
+
+One could also offer a thought or two about the notion of "not seeing the
+forest for the trees," correcting people on little word choices while
+oneself applying incorrect phrases.  
+
+One could also take exception with your notion that if you have made up
+your mind about an issue, then that is the single and sole truth, and that
+anyone who offers a contrary opinion is either stupid, or deliberately
+misleading people, since there cannot possibly be reasonable differences
+of opinion about such issues as gun control, there cannot be any
+possibility of reading studies in different ways, there is Gharlane's way,
+which is the Truth Eternal, and those who are deliberately stupid or
+willfully misinformed.
+
+There is a phrase in the bible, Gharlane: go and pluck the log out of your
+own eye before you try and remove the splinter from someone else's.
+
+You repeatedly use sloppy grammar, misuse the English language, and turn
+its complexities on its head in order to support your political
+positions...then have the audacity to correct the grammar and spelling of
+others.  I don't do this to you, even though your messages provide
+boundless opportunities for this.  Because I try to err in the direction
+of politeness.
+
+So may I suggest that, with your studies in grammar, spelling and syntax,
+you consult a book of manners and expand your horizon in that area as
+well.  And since you take umbrage whenever someone objects to your
+advising them on grammar and other niceties, I'm confident that you will
+not in any way argue with or be upset by this reply to you, since that
+would be a direct contradiction to your own stance on being corrected.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Aug 1996 16:09:40 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: 5000 down, how many to go?
+
+No, then I wasn't clear...there were 1,000 waiting to be mailed that week,
+there have already been piles and piles sent out over the last few weeks,
+as can be confirmed by many here.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Aug 1996 16:09:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Non-spoiler sequel question
+
+There's a story for the sequel, an arc it'd follow, but it wouldn't be as
+intense an arc as with B5...more stand-alone in nature.  A bit more fun in
+some ways.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Aug 1996 23:41:39 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Embarrassing Fan Club item
+
+We did check the card before it went to the printer; expiration was
+spelled correctly.  When they came back, due to the need to get things out
+fast, they weren't rechecked...and some got out.  We had them redo the
+print run, but some had gotten out by then.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1996 04:02:52 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Model Kits
+
+No, those model kits are 100% unlicensed.  However, I've been told just
+this week that WB has finalized a contract for a model license...I'll post
+the info when it's permitted for me to release it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1996 04:03:53 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks, & questions on Foundation & MST
+
+I've no idea what Foundation is up to outside B5.
+
+As for MST3K...yeah, I'd heard Trace was leaving.  Vastly unfortunate. 
+They've bounced back from losing Joel (and, in some ways, I feel it's a
+definite improvement), from the first assistant Mad Scientist (ditto
+squared), sorta came back from losing TV's Frank (though Forrester's mom
+just doesnt do it for me, and the show still lacks something without
+Frank)...but to get by without Dr. Forrester...AND Crow...or at least
+Crow's voice and attitude...I dunno.  That's gonna be a tough one.
+
+I met Trace briefly in San Diego, and spoke with him on the phone a couple
+of times over the last year or two.  I love MST3K, and my assistant at the
+time, prior to Joanne, got the full cast to sign a photo for me, which is
+now the ONLY non-B5 item framed on my office wall at the B5 stage.  (In
+return, we sent them a batch of B5 caps.)  
+
+So we'll see what happens, they're a good bunch and I'm willing to give
+them the benefit of the doubt...but this one's gonna be real tough.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1996 04:27:36 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:parrots:(was:Advice for other online producers?)
+
+"And the funniest part of all is, JMS actively supports the party and the
+individual politicians who brought you the "Communications Decency Act,"
+which would, if it hadn't been hamstrung by a court which had actually
+read the Constitution, have resulted in eventual restraint of such modes
+of expression......"
+
+That's right, Gharlane.  I supported the individuals now residing in the
+White House, and still do...because I'm not a one-issue person.  Is the
+CDA a stupid, invidious, badly written, paranoid, neanderthal, repressive
+bill?  Absolutely.  And I supported the people who were actively against
+it, as I was actively against it.  I don't have this notion that I must
+agree 100% with a politician, or have that politican hew to every single
+belief which I hold, in order to support him or her.  There can be
+respectful (or loud) disagreements on principle on individual points.
+
+The issue is: *on balance*, which side do I tend to support?  Both parties
+are flawed.  Candidates on both sides have eccentricities, failings,
+misfired notions.  But on balance...you've got Bob Dole, who doesn't have
+any notion on the leadership of this country except the vague idea that
+he's *earned* his shot, and he's going to have it.  It's not about
+providing a new vision, it's just about being the one wearing the pointy
+hat.  He wants the ultimate promotion.
+
+Kemp I find interesting, but saddled with Dole this is a non-starter.  And
+from where I sit the Republican party has capitulated to the Religious
+Right on every issue of substance...people who've said they want to
+designate this a Christian nation, drag creationism into the schools
+(saying they want balance, but I don't see anybody offering to let folks
+teach Darwin from the church pulpit on Saturday nights), who've whipped up
+so much hatred against physicians and classes that murdering doctors is
+simply an unfortunate consequence....
+
+Are there flaws to the Democratic side?  Absolutely.  An inability to come
+to grips with social programs long in need of serious reform, a
+soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed approach to social organization,
+de-emphasis on infrastructure in deference to social programming, too much
+concern about words and not enough concern about actions, grass-roots
+disorganization....
+
+You say you're a fan of this show.  Well, consider this: that if the
+government envisioned by Phyllis Schlafly and Pat Buchanan and Robert Dole
+and Bob Dornan and Alfonse D'Amato (possible spelling error there) ever
+took serious hold in this nation, Babylon 5 -- with its sometimes
+subversive nature, its open and frank discussions on religion, death,
+sexuality, violence, the conflict between belief and medicine -- would be
+the first program chucked out the door.
+
+It was under the Reagan years that the Captain Power series -- for all its
+flaws, some episodes very good, some less so -- got shot out from under
+the producers because of the then-fashionable assault on violent TV by
+pressure groups (many of them on the far right), so don't tell me it can't
+happen...I was the one on the opposite side of the conference table when
+religious-right "consultants" on Satanism advised the network on another
+show where I was working on what they had to do to avoid sending
+unintentional Satanic messages, which meant leaving out references to
+fictional books like the Necronomicon, being unable to use the name
+Lovecraft, and being told that the signs of a kid succumbing to Satanism
+are "he's curious...he's sometimes depressed...he tries to reject
+authority...and he's susceptiple to peer pressure."  No, I'm NOT making
+that up, that's verbatim.
+
+And these are the same groups bending the Republican party to their own
+whims.  I've seen their work up-close and personal, and I tell you
+frankly, that if they got in charge, this show would be deep-sixed so fast
+it'd make your head spin.
+
+The present administration may be muffin-headed at times, may have its
+personal pecadillos and quirks...but compared to the mean, venal,
+anti-intellectual, anti-artist opposition, the opposition of Jesse Helms
+and Pat Buchanan...I'll take it, and be glad of it, and when something as
+inherently dopey and destructive as the CDA gets passed, be absolutely
+open in complaining about it.
+
+And thank you for dragging my personal politics back into this...and
+throwing it in my face.  Anything else you'd like to drag up?  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1996 16:06:09 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:parrots:(was:Advice for other online producers?)
+
+"I find your logic slipping a bit. First off to compare what is wanted in
+the teachings of the _public_ schools against what is done in the
+_private_ church is flawed.  What is done with government money is well
+within the right of the people to voice their opinion on."
+
+Except, of course, that the churches have *tax exempt* status, on the
+theory that they are separate and apart from the State...yet have been
+mingling more and more in politics.  I'm absolutely deleriously happy if
+they want to get into politics, but then drop the tax exempt status.  So
+given that the church is getting a free ride with our government money, as
+you say above, it's well within the right of the people to voice their
+opinion on (dangling participle notwithstanding).  
+
+Basically...make up your mind.  Do you want to be involved with partisan
+politics?  Do you want to be a part of the State, as many folks now want
+to make this a Christian nation?  Then start carrying your fair share of
+the tax burden.  It's not fair to say, "we deserve to interfere with
+government," then when the tax man comes around say, "we deserve to be
+separate from the government."  Choose one.
+
+"While it is very tragic that "doctors" have been killed over this issue,
+what I know 
+as fact makes me understand it a bit."
+
+That you have put "doctors" in quotes, and indicated you can understand
+the wanton murder of civilians, tells me you have just struck your colors.
+ So if you knew a baby was going to grow up to be a doctor, who provided
+abortion services, would it be okay to abort *that* baby, or just wait
+until they're older and kill 'em then?  May as well be efficient, save
+college loan money and the like, yes?
+
+And while I see anti-abortion groups lobbying for that aspect, I don't see
+many of them offering to adopt crack babies, or babies that are the result
+of incest or rape, or funding social services for all the infants that
+will be born if they get their way.  Pass every law you can think of to
+make sure they're born, protect those rights... then toss 'em aside after
+their born.  Sure, that makes sense.  Why didn't I see it before?
+
+"Are the "..." sequences a pause or are you leaving out text? For example
+,was the quote "he's curious about death, he's sometimes depressed to the
+point of talking about suicide, he tries to reject authority by openly
+experimenting with drugs....". All of these would be bad signs."
+
+No, I said I'm quoting verbatim...verbatim means as said, unedited.  They
+didn't say that a bad sign was that he's curious about death, just that
+he's *curious*, that he's sometimes depressed, and that he listens to
+heavy metal music (I forgot that one), and that he rejects authority. 
+Broad-based statements.  
+
+The religious right uses fear tactics on a daily basis to get what it
+wants.  To describe what they've actually done isn't fear tactics, it's
+strictly reporting what happened.  If you find it scary...well, so do I.
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1996 00:08:50 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: New B5 Web Presence
+
+Just checked it out.  Nicely done....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1996 00:12:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Walkabout cast list?
+
+Then the Radio Times is in error.  It happens.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1996 00:20:12 -0400
+Subject: Re: www.thestation.com is up, but...
+
+Actually, just to clarify all this...the site is up, but not officially
+all together yet; we're still waiting for approval from WB before putting
+some stuff online, and making the full area list available.  Right now
+it's basically just a shell, which we'll put things into as we go.  But we
+haven't announced the site being up yet because it's still more or less in
+beta stage.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Aug 1996 04:02:39 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:parrots:(was:Advice for other online producers?)
+
+"If you were actively against (the CDA), why weren't you using your public
+position to anathematize the California senator who was a major initial
+proponent of the CDA?   Why didn't you spearhead a movement for her
+recall?"
+
+Real simple.  I'm very much aware that the nature of my work gives me a
+platform, a soapbox...and I tend to look to that famous Greek philosopher,
+Peterus Parkerus, who opined, "With great power comes great
+responsibility."  That platform is accorded me by people who have come to
+trust that I have no personal agenda underlying my storytelling, that I'm
+slogging my way through to try and find out what the hell the right thing
+to do is, and to do it.  That trust is hard-won and not lightly to be
+exploited.
+
+When and if I should use that soapbox, it has to be something bigger than
+the CDA, bigger than something that might be self-serving...rather than
+using up that resource on one cause or another that's best dealt with in
+other ways.  Otherwise, why just that one cause, and not the many others I
+feel strongly about?  Should I be here with twice-weekly sermonettes about
+violence against women, the need for improvements in schools, and a
+hundred other issues?  This ain't the Let's Hear JMS's Latest Political
+Rant Forum (though sometimes it does tend to become the Gharlane's Latest
+Political Rant Forum, but that's another topic for another time).  I tend
+to get into these things (and always with subsequent regret) only when
+poked or prodded or otherwise poked in the eye.
+
+There's only one thing I'm currently considering using this limited
+platform to address, something that should get support from every side of
+the spectrum, and would be a worthy legacy of this show, apart from the
+storytelling and the series itself.  But I'm still pulling my thoughts
+together on this, because if I get into it, it's going to take a lot of
+work.  So we'll see.
+
+As for the rest of your message...it's more of the usual liberal-baiting
+Gharrolousness that reduces everything and everyone involved down to the
+most basic stereotypes and eliminates discussion by replacing it with
+scarecrow logic, demonizing, and rhetorical dead-catting...so really,
+what's the point?
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1996 02:45:12 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: 'different' viewpoint....
+
+I've actually seen it; saw it a while ago, while surfing the B5 sites.  I
+like the approach you've taken...it's twisted.  I like that.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1996 02:46:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS: An oddly... topical song?
+
+Thanks, and thanks for forwarding on those lyrics; they're terrific, and I
+enjoyed them.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1996 02:48:25 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Greetings, Thanks & Season 4 in UK
+
+Thanks.  Haven't yet heard about the UK airdates for year four, but as
+soon as I hear, I'll note them here.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1996 02:48:50 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS : Are there enough fingers pointing?
+
+Hmmm...I think you've got most of the fingers, but not all of them....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1996 02:51:16 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Post B5 post
+
+"When all has been revealed at the end of year five, have you considered
+releasing a guide to these modifications and what effect they had on
+getting to the overall conclusion? If nothing else, those of us playing
+the guessing game would be interested to see where we have been given
+additional side-tracks or simplifications."
+
+Nope.  No more than a magician hands out a manual after a performance
+showing how that darned rabbit got into that tiny hat.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Aug 1996 06:38:27 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks
+
+Thanks...it's always a hoot.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Aug 1996 14:33:21 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn:JMS -Thank You
+
+Thanks.  That's why, as a fan myself, it's important to get this show
+right.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Aug 1996 20:05:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTM JMS: Thanks and one small question
+
+No, while Sheridan is a descendant of Phil Sheridan, Garibaldi is no
+direct relation to the famed Italian war hero.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+From 
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1996 02:27:10 -0400
+Subject: Re: A Civilian in Babylon
+
+No other civilian viewings at the office are planned; this was a one-off. 
+It was brought to my attention that in my original response to Wendy,
+which was made lightly and in jest, I'd committed a UM, an Unintended
+Meanness, and it was important to me to fix that.  This was done.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1996 23:47:22 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS- Do *YOU* Agree With What The Shadows Want?
+
+"I don't know If this has been asked before, but I would like to know if
+you are part of the 1/3 who will agree with the Shadows intentions?"
+
+It's...not that easy.  Can I make a pretty good argument for some elements
+of what they're about?  Yes.  (And did, in the ep.)  It's a matter of
+extremes...their notion is fine, taken in small doses...in larger doses,
+no.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1996 23:39:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Who's the Oldest???
+
+"So who is older, the Shadows or the Walkers???"
+
+The shadows, but just by a smidge.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Aug 1996 04:51:15 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Who *WAS* the Oldest???
+
+"So, if that is the case, were there ever species older than the shadows?
+"
+
+Well...at least one....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Aug 1996 17:30:40 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS also available on rastb5m
+
+"Due to time constraints, I don't subscribe as a reader to the newsgroup
+directly, but pick up Brent Barrett's listserver "b5jms". There is a faint
+possibility that each of my questions was somehow answered by another fan
+with great detail..."
+
+It's possible.  If it's an informational request, and someone gets to it
+first and answers accurately, there's not much point to my stating the
+same thing twice, when there are 500 more messages waiting.
+
+"...but I have seen very "trivial" mesages, just natter and fun that you
+have answered, yet some questions which ONLY you could have answered went
+completely unnoticed."
+
+Some, yes; many, however, *do* get answered.  Sometimes I choose to "not
+see" a question if it's something that, if I answer it, will give
+something away, or if I don't have a good answer, or I just don't know, or
+if I get caught up and I'm just unable time-wise to reply.  
+
+I'd point out to you and another poster who said that a reply from me on a
+given issue was "required" that I'm not on salary or retainer here; there
+is no obligation in my part to answer ANY questions.  I do as much as I
+can keep up with, and there's a lot TO keep up with.  I'm dancing as fast
+as I can.  But telling me that an answer is required, or busting my chops
+because you're not satisfied that I haven't answered every single question
+put to me isn't going to help.
+
+"According to test postings I've made, other people appear to get the
+messages on the group, so I ask with all sincerity, do you "skip over"
+messages on rastb5m, or is there some "personal" affront that is
+associated with my name?"
+
+Given that I don't have any idea who you are, and have no memory of your
+name, it seems unlikely that there is any affront.  I haven't noticed you
+before now.  
+
+"Given your tendency to shred offensive people and not just ignore them, I
+tend to think that somehow you don't see my messages."
+
+It's altogether possible.
+
+"Would you be kind enough to let me know if my "idle commentary" and "dumb
+questions" are being read by you?"
+
+Why?  First, you'll note that you're calling them dumb and idle, not me,
+so don't attribute that to me.  Second, should I sit here and do this for
+every user on this system?  Or just you?  For every message posted, should
+I say, "Hello, User, I just saw this message, hello..."
+
+"I don't necessarily need an ego scratch every time I post - the benefits
+of your "being busy" are wonderful, so I don't mind if you don't have the
+time to respond to everything - but some indication that you are at least
+*seeing* what I post would be nice. Thanks."
+
+See above.
+
+"As an example, I am extrememly concerned that the final episodes of
+season three may not air in Canada because of the switch in broadcasters.
+Could you please officially confirm whether a special arrangement has been
+made to have the new station(s) air the eps at the same time as the rest
+of the world gets them? I have e-mailed the station, but have received no
+response. I've seen the speculation on various web pages, but would like
+an official word from you."
+
+I don't have one.  I don't know what the situation is in that regard.  If
+that was youre question, and I didn't have any information, I likely
+would've passed it by until I did have accurate information...assuming I
+saw it all, and I don't recall doing so.
+
+There's a tendency some can fall into of thinking they're the only ones on
+the net, and thinking, "well, he can respond to me, or do this one thing
+for me, it's not like everyone else is doing it," when in fact lots of
+other people have exactly the same outlook.  I've asked, repeatedly, that
+people not send private email with story questions best put in public
+forums...but every day I have 30 or more of them, each thinking, "well,
+it's just me."  
+
+I answer as many questions as I can out of the 500+ that float in front of
+my eyes every day.  If there's not a reply, don't assume I'm "affronted,"
+I don't take affront out of the ether or arbitrarily.  And when there IS
+affront, the person involved knows about it pretty fast.  
+
+There's a certain wisdom here about "the perceived center of the
+universe," but it's too obvious....
+
+
+
+Thanks again.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 15:22:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Intertwining "A" and "B" stories
+
+I answered this one in considerable detail earlier; I'd hate to be
+redundent.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 15:31:57 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS *and* everyone else!: Thanks
+
+Thank *you*...the pleasure is entirely mine.
+
+Re: information dense, that's about right.  I believe in writing fairly
+lean; if it doesn't belong there, it shouldn't be there.  Thanks for
+noticing.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 16:00:19 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Misdirection, or Misdirection? (Walkabout spoilers)
+
+No, those are two different scenes; the first one takes place in Kosh's
+quarters, the second one out in the hallway.  Perhaps that could've been
+made clearer....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 16:00:16 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Writing
+
+"Just out of curiosity--which is harder for you, writing an episode (not
+counting the physical aspect) or letting someone else do it?"
+
+Yes.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 16:00:22 -0400
+Subject: Re: Lyta - P5 or P10?
+
+Lyta has been certified as a P5 by the Psi Corps.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 16:00:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Is this a Licensed Product?
+
+Yes, it's licensed, back from the pilot, which exlains why there are
+Vorlon ships coming at the station.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 15:21:08 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Favor to Moderators?
+
+"Considering the service that the moderators provide to us, would it
+bepossible to provide themwith tapes of the final 5?"
+
+WB will not allow us to make tapes available to ANYone, for any reason.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 23:08:16 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS (Dream Sequence)
+
+The entire dream sequence will be laid out and explained by 3rd season's
+end.
+
+(Can you tell it's going to be a busy final five...?)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 23:08:15 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: an old, unaswered question
+
+Why telepaths began to appear among humans...is something you'll find out
+by this (3rd) season's end.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+From 
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 23:12:03 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Walkabout (SPOILERS)
+
+don't look
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+It was the same effect you would get in a massive energy burst that
+"paints" shadows on the wall, which only he could see.
+
+And no, there's nothing dangerous at all about a fleet coming out of
+hyperspace or a jump point together.
+
+The look of the new Vorlon was developed by John Vulich of Optic Nerve
+based on my suggestions.  I got in after a bit and redesigned/sketched the
+headpiece a bit, and recommended the colors used.  We're actually doing a
+bit of fine-tuning on the new Vorlon prior to next season.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 23:13:56 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS - About Walkabout
+
+You've been watching Empire too much, yes....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1996 00:02:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: Mr. JMS: 4th season intro & title
+
+Yes, I've decided on who will give the narration, and what it will say,
+and the overall title of the season...but why just blow that out now and
+lose the impact of actually *doing* it?
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1996 23:06:34 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Walkabout (Spoiler)
+
+Because Bester is on Earth or Mars, can't just drop everything and come
+when beckoned, and it would take 3 days to get there, and they were in
+kind of a hurry to test this.  Besides, P10s are very few and far between;
+they're more likely to have lower levels as their main weapons, so best to
+see what impact those will have.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1996 16:14:28 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Blow by Blow spoilers..
+
+I gave my reasons in a second post on CIS, and would rather have that go
+through than repeat it all again at length.  In brief, I just think that
+in that much detail, it removes any and all chance of surprise, of seeing
+how something happens.  And the episode is held hostage to how well the
+person presents the synopsis.  For instance, you could say, "in this
+episode, Kosh dies."  Okay, that's a spoiler, and that's fine...the person
+can know what to expect, but still not know *exactly* when it's going to
+happen, and still enjoy it when it does.
+
+Similarly, if someone does a beat-by-beat and describes something very
+flatly, or poorly, it can prejudice the viewer against the episode before
+it even airs.  I can't tell you the amount of email I've received from
+people who say, "I read this detailed synopsis of X on my listserve, and
+from the way it was described it sounded really dopey, but it was great!" 
+
+
+Bottom line...I didn't ask people not to post them, can't enforce it if I
+wanted to, I was just kind of aghast.  Obviously people are gonna do
+whatever they wanna do, that's a given.  It just sorta brought me up short
+a bit, that's all.  Especially knowing how often this can get in the way
+of enjoying the episode, even for those folks who want to be spoiled.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Aug 1996 22:59:25 -0400
+Subject: Re: Att JMS: Writers' Boot Camp?
+
+Disclaimer: I know nothing about this program except what I've heard
+casually around town, so take everything that follows with a grain of
+salt.
+
+Anyone who tells you that, by following a formula, you will turn out a
+saleable script in 6 weeks is almost always lying.  If the program here is
+mainly just in discipline, and that's something you need to apply butt to
+chair and fingers to keyboard, then that's a different issue.  So beyond
+that, I can't give you an informed recommendation either way.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1996 03:35:16 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Religion, Creativity, etc.
+
+"I just saw "Passing through Gethsemane" again, and felt compelled to
+write, for the first time.  I understand you're not religious, but I just
+wanted to take the time out to thank you for your respectful treatment of
+the issue in that episode."
+
+Thanks...but it really isn't a big thing, it's just being honest as a
+writer.  
+
+And if it's helped urge on your own creative works, as you say, then all
+the better.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1996 03:37:07 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS or JPL: Who edits the editor?
+
+Comments should go to Jim.  I only had a chance to review the newsletter
+after it'd been laid out, and caught some errors, not others.  I've also
+asked Harlan to help with the newsletter, subsequent to the first issue,
+so that should add to it a bit.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1996 03:42:04 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:Questions about Z'Ha'Dum and some background mythology...
+
+"1) Why has Z'Ha'Dum not been destroyed by the Vorlons et al in one of the
+previous wars to prevent the Shadows return?"
+
+Funny, that...you'd think maybe there was something of interest there.
+
+"2) If the planet has been there for so long, would not the star that it
+orbits have died quite some time ago, given that the Shadows are so old?"
+
+I don't think so.  Stars live an awfully long time.  
+
+"3) Was Kosh inspired by the Russian myth of "Koshchei the Deathless"?"
+
+Nope.
+
+"4) Is the Minbari caste system inspired by the Zoroastrian belief that
+was 
+prevalent in ancient Babylon? They too divided themselves into 3 castes,
+warrior, religious and worker."
+
+I kinda knew about this in the back of my head, so it may have been
+subconscious, but if the question is did I consciously do this, no, I
+ain't that smart.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1996 05:51:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS ... World Con Autograph
+
+I haven't heard about a Saturday session, but we'll see what happens when
+we get there.
+
+I think they've *way* underestimated the interest there...
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Aug 1996 14:28:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: Who writes Marcus.
+
+I wrote that particular line; knowing the longstanding British/French
+"feud," for lack of a better term, it seemed appropriate.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Aug 1996 19:59:01 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: 5th season?
+
+"...the rumor I heard is more specific and goes on to say that a critical
+character won't be around for a fifth year."
+
+This is another nonsense rumor.  Not a single cast member has stated this
+to us.
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1996 18:00:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Actors' Preparation
+
+"I was just wondering how the actors get themselves back in character
+after several months off, especially since there is supposed to be
+something of a cliffhanger from the end of Season Three.  Will the whole
+cast get to sit down and watch the Final Five, or At least the Final One
+in order to help get them mentally back into the B5 Universe quickly? 
+Have any of them seen the episodes, yet?  I'd love to hear their
+reactions!"
+
+Usually they just pick up the script...and get right back into it. 
+They've got the characters down now, so there's not a lot needed to get
+back into it.  Some of them run lines with each other, like Stephen and
+Peter, since that relationship is something very special, but mostly they
+just learn the lines and come in.  Some of them want to see the final
+episodes, but some don't.  The only one to see most of the last two
+episodes thus far is Bruce, who was just totally knocked out by them.  
+
+Peter has said that whenever he needs to get back into character, he just
+straightens and says, "MISter GARiBALdi," and he's right back into it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1996 18:05:10 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: About Quakers
+
+Yeah, I know, I know, it was late and I screwed this up...I realized it
+ten minutes after posting the message (and noted such in my next reply). 
+mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Aug 1996 22:34:29 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Novels vs. TV -- How difficult?
+
+"As one who has successfully accomplished both, which do you consider the
+most difficult: Getting a first novel published, or getting a first TV
+series on the air? I'm not speaking in terms of the amount of work
+involved, rather I mean the difficulty in overcoming the odds against you
+in each respective field."
+
+This is a no-brainer.  The TV series is the hardest.  To write and sell a
+novel, you need just write the novel; once it's out there, you don't have
+to have written 15 prior successful novels to get it sold.  The book is
+judged on its quality and marketability, and if it's good, somebody buys
+it.
+
+My first novel, DEMON NIGHT, sat in a closet for, oh, about 2 years
+(having written it just for myself) until my agent got wind of it, sent it
+off to a NY affiliate, who sent it to an editor/publisher, who bought it
+on sight.  This was when I didn't really have much of a name in TV (which
+actually works against you in literary circles), so that wasn't a factor. 
+Now, obviously, that's an extremely fortuntate and atypical series of
+events, but still indicative in this sense....
+
+People come to me and say they want to sell a TV series.  I try and tell
+them it's impossible if you don't have a credit list an arm long.  Not
+difficult, we're not talking here degrees of difficulty or "overwhelming
+odds," there ARE no odss.  It's simply impossible.  Can't be done.  Hasn't
+been done.  
+
+Ideas are a dime a dozen.  What a network wants is someone who's shown he
+or she can run a series, write for TV, and produce for TV.  (Or film for
+those who've crossed over.)  If a network is going to spend upwards of $22
+million for a series in one year, not even COUNTING what's spent on
+advertising, marketing, publicity, overhead and the like, they need to
+have a certain comfort factor, they need to know that the person knows
+what s/he's doing, and is an experienced writer/producer or, preferably, a
+full-blown show runner.
+
+You don't have to have that for novels.  The odds of selling a first novel
+are, from what I heard somewhere once, about 1 in 6,000.  The odds of
+selling a first TV series if you don't have credits are 0.  
+
+If you *do* have credits, the odds are still massively stacked against
+you.  Every season, the networks put maybe 10-15 shows each into
+development.  That refers to as little as a single pilot script order, or
+as much as multiple scripts, a produced pilot, or pilot plus X-number of
+episodes.  Of those 10-15, maybe 4 or 5 will ever see the light of day. 
+The rest simply vanish.  So that's about 50 possible series per year (and
+that's a very generous figure).  There are around 6,000 members of the
+Writers Guild.  
+
+Most writer/producers go through several development deals before ever
+getting anything on the air.  And B5 wasn't my first in that sense.  I
+developed series for CBS, ABC, syndication groups, re-developed the V
+series for Warner Bros., and others.  It's a very, very long progression
+to this particular chair.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Aug 1996 06:16:11 -0400
+Subject: Re: Who writes Marcus.
+
+"The writers on Voyager could do it in their sleep."
+
+They could.
+
+But they never do.
+
+Therein rests the difference.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Aug 1996 06:25:36 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Novels vs. TV -- How difficult?
+
+> It's a very, very long progression to this particular chair.- jms
+
+"Well, I'm glad you're in it, that it fits you so well, and that you're as
+comfortable in it as you are."
+
+Well, yeah, mostly, until every second Thursday when they hook it up to
+the wall socket....
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Aug 1996 18:48:34 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Novels vs. TV -- How difficult?
+
+"If this is the case (which I know it is), how come there is so much out
+there that is, in a simple word, terrible?  I mean, if some of these shows
+are the ones that DO get through all this, I shudder to think about the
+ones that don't."
+
+Because so much of TV is formulaic, and because the networks often get
+into the process too much, knocking off all the corners and edges that
+make a concept interesting.  I think that's starting to change, but we'll
+see how far it goes.
+
+"Also, does this set-up mean that established writer/producers can easily
+get something through that never would otherwise (Steven Bochco and "Cop
+Rock" comes to mind...)"
+
+Yes.  The networks often make long-term deals with major producers and set
+aside stuff sight unseen.  The 10:00 timeslot is basically "owned" by a
+very small group of producers, with the rest of the prime-time hours a bit
+more up for grabs.
+
+"On a completely different note, you've written some plays-- how much of a
+Producer role did you take on some of those, and how much did you enjoy
+that aspect of it-- how does theatre compare to TV?"
+
+I had zip involvement as producer, and wouldn't have been qualified to do
+so.  I enjoyed it immensely, and plan to get back into theater one of
+these days.
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Aug 1996 21:05:09 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Do Any B5 Actors Read Newsgroups?
+
+I don't actually know...I do know that Peter, Stephen and Jason are on
+AOL, which would theoretically give them access to the net, but whether or
+not they come into the usenet groups to read, I dunno.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1996 00:26:32 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Writters Question?
+
+"1.  How do you go about finding relatively obscure records for
+researching a story?  I have tried every resource I know of short of
+packing up and traveling a 500+ miles to the city in question just to go
+to the library.  And is there a newspaper archive you know of that has all
+of the newspapers online? "
+
+I don't know the online databases well enough to comment here; when I did
+this sort of thing, I generally just went down to City Hall Records and
+started there, and the local newpaper morgue.
+
+"2.  As someone who has written both science fiction and horror, do you
+think one is easier than the other to work in."
+
+Horror, only nominallyl, because you don't have to be quite as rigorous
+about the science (though the supernatural aspect must be consistent), and
+because it's an easier thing for me...I like scaring people.
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1996 22:16:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS:Can't ask him, so i'll ask you+Ed Wasser.
+
+In general, I connect to Usenet via my AOL account, regular 28.8 modem for
+that.
+
+I have a couple of web accounts, one on Earthlink (soon to go away) one on
+IBM net, using Netscape 2.0 for most stuff, FreeAgent for the rest.
+
+Now, I'd *bought* a Motorola ISDN modem, but even though I've configured
+it right, had the lines put in, it's greenlighted...can't seem to connect
+to anydamnthing, and I don't have the ISDN numbers for IBM net (and
+getting this info, despite some help from a few folks over there, is like
+pulling teeth)...I'm wired to the gills, but the triple-damned thing ain't
+happening.  Some days I just despair....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1996 16:47:50 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: work, if any, after Star Trek
+
+"It seems to me that William Shatner got a lot more work than the rest. Is
+there a reason for this that you know of?  Would it help the
+eventually-to-be-ex-members of the B5 cast?"
+
+Not for some time, and not consistently.  That he was the lead helped, but
+the actors from that period had a real problem which, fortunately, has
+been mitigated a bit in the last 10 years or so.  Working in SF isn't as
+much a liability anymore, so it shouldn't be a big factor for current
+B5/ST actors.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1996 17:09:38 -0400
+Subject: Re: Att JMS: Your pending mainstream success...
+
+"After season three's writing marathon, do you consider yourself a science
+fiction writer, at least to the extent that you won't be annoyed when our
+soundbyte media feels the need to pigeon-hole you into a single category?"
+
+I don't tend to put myself into any one category, but generally don't get
+bugged when I'm referred to one way or another.  After my first couple of
+horror novels, and a nomination for a Bram Stoker Award, and the Nightmare
+Classics gig for Showtime, I was called a horror writer...I did The Real
+Ghostbusters and they said I was a comedy writer...I went to conventions
+while I was a writer/producer on Murder She Wrote and one person with whom
+I shared a panel asked what somebody who just wrote TeeVee mysteries was
+at an SF convention and why anyone should listen...and now people call me
+an SF writer.
+
+It doesn't bother me.  It's actually kind of funny on one level, that
+people feel they have to somehow pigenhole you by whatever you've done
+last.  But beyond that, as an SF fan, with a great respect for the genre,
+if somebody calls me an SF writer, I don't mind.  
+
+"I think TNT will really establish this series in the mainstream culture
+and wonder if you've ever had to fight the public's perception of you."
+
+I think the mainstream public was for the most part unaware of me.  Still
+is, I think.  And that's okay too.  It's about telling a story, not
+getting a certain kind of approbation.
+
+"Do you think you'll be able to resist the gravitational pull of
+"science-fiction" fame?  Before your writing has been pretty much all over
+the place and not giving anyone the opportunity to ensconce your name into
+a genre.  Do you see yourself writing science fiction for a long time or
+being a guest at science fiction conventions every once in a while for the
+rest of your life?  Or will you purposely zig-zag away in another
+direction?"
+
+I'll probably just keep doing what I'm doing.  I've been playing around
+with a notion for a series that could do something quite revolultionary
+for mainstream TV, and that'll get me described as a manstream/intrigue
+writer...if it goes anywhere.  If not, I'll just keep going from genre to
+genre as the stories grab me.  That's the only real criterion I can apply.
+ I follow the story that interests me.  If that happens to be a horror
+novel, it's a horror novel; if it's an SF story, it's SF.  I go where the
+story takes me.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1996 17:09:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: At what point?
+
+Most of that will be covered in year four.  Especially the Earth
+situation.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1996 17:10:34 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Hour 25 (Aug. 23, 1996)
+
+That's great.  Hour 25 can be a good venue into the SF community out here;
+it certainly eased my transition when I came to LA.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Aug 1996 19:16:15 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: ratings confusion
+
+No confusion, just different terms.
+
+Stations that tend to support the show tend to do great ratings; San
+Francisco, Portland, Washington DC, others...the show does gangbusters. 
+In places where the show is not well supported, or it has a crummy
+timeslot, then the ratings are not as good.
+
+When your station refers to low ratings, they're referring to their
+specific area, for starters, which often hits the problem noted above. 
+Stations have zip interest in the national ratings, since they only sell
+their local spots based on their ratings *there*.  Nationally we do quite
+well.  The national advertisers are all very solid, and the cost per
+minute is high enough for WB to make a tidy profit.  But that doesn't help
+a local station where it's not getting support, or otherwise not doing
+what they need it to do for them.  
+
+In many cases, we've found that a station may have taken a show not
+because they actually wanted the show, but because they didn't want
+anybody *else* to get it initially, to prevent that threat.  Or because
+they were part of a station group that bought it as a package.  And thus
+it doesn't get supported.  Invariably, when a station in this category
+drops the show, it *helps* us because another station almost always picks
+it up, and just as invariably does *better* with it than the first one.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Aug 1996 01:34:10 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Influences
+
+Without belaboring the point, as Yevgeny noted, yes, Serling was a huge
+influence on me, as a writer, and in my writing, slightly different
+things.  I find it's useful, whenever I find myself getting too
+comfortable, thinking I've got it sussed, to sit down and watch anything
+he wrote...it humbles you *real* fast, and makes one realize that one
+isn't qualified to even carry his pencil case.
+
+If there were a pantheon of influences, I'd put Rod Serling, Harlan
+Ellison, Norman Corwin, Ray Bradbury and HP Lovecraft at the very top of
+the pile.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Aug 1996 02:17:28 -0400
+Subject: Re: I ask why...
+
+"In other words, it's cheesy makeup."
+
+Once again, the remarkably inept Theron Fuller demonstrates that he
+doesn't have a clue about what he's talking about.  But he does that so
+often now, that one hardly even notices anymore.
+
+"Cheesy" has specific connotations.  Words mean what they mean.  It refers
+to how it's used, how much is paid for it, how slipshod it is, and how
+cheap it is.
+
+Mira's makeup is overall the most complex of all the characters.  It is
+also the most expensive after G'Kar.  It also takes longer than just about
+anyone else on the show.  Bill is out in about 90 minutes, sometimes less.
+ Andreas can get out in just under 2 hours.  With Mira's makeup, it's
+extremely subtle, very thin to get out the emotions that come through the
+movements of the skin, and takes as much as 2 and a half hours to apply
+properly.  The bone piece is especially difficult and expensive, as it has
+to contain elements that work into the hair, which also has hair
+delicately woven into the edges, and has to fasten at the temples without
+any noticeable movement.  
+
+"The justification for this is that Joe Straczysnki Himself once explained
+that Delenn's "bone arrangement" was done for the convenience of the
+makeup artist and the actor."
+
+No, I never said that.  You're making this up, as you make up half the
+information you post and state as fact.  Your grasp of reality, always
+tenuous, seems to be getting worse after you targeted some poor innocent
+person as being the alleged Il Porco, possibly doing his business damage
+and attacking his character in a public forum based on *zero* proof, and
+being, in fact, totally wrong.  But you never let the facts get in the way
+of your statements, as here...I never made the statement you attribute to
+me.  Never happened.  You are, as always, lying.  
+
+If it were done for convenience, we'd've stayed with the overall bald cap
+Delenn had in the first season, which took *less* time than what she has
+now, and was overall less expensive.  The change itself was done for story
+reasons, as she became more human.  We needed to see the hair.  There were
+two ways of doing this, one to have the hair come down through the bone,
+the other to attach hair to the back of the piece and use a wig, which
+seemed silly.  (Though, again, some hair is woven into the bone piece to
+smooth the lines.)
+
+"Like the non-rotaing star field in the C&C shots, it's an example of
+where the low budget of the series pokes through in a particularly jarring
+manner."
+
+No, it's not that we're or it's low budget.  The problem is a mathematical
+one.  C&C rotates *below* the center of the station, the core of the
+rotation.  So the rotation wouldn't be at the center of the window, but
+rather above it, so you'd have a movement from side to side that's far
+more pronounced.  To pull off this in a practical effect, you'd have to
+build a *round* starfield about 30 feet high, which is bigger than just
+about any TV soundstage around, and would have to rotate without making
+noise at that size (almost impossible).  To do blue-screen compositing of
+starfields for the length of scenes we play in C&C is outside the limts of
+ANY TV series, including ST, which invariably uses a star curtain for
+window scenes of the same size as the B5 C&C, or sparingly uses bluescreen
+for smaller windows seen less frequently.
+
+You continue in your practice of lying, misquoting, and making up stuff to
+cause friction or slam the show or myself.  You attack people who don't
+even know who you are and smear their names on the net for being someone
+they're not and never even heard of.  You're a sick, pathetic, twisted,
+vicious individual, Theron.  Sop why not take your bile and your lies and
+your delusional bullshit somewhere else.
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+JMS Usenet messages for September 1996.
+
+Date: 2 Sep 1996 23:57:30 -0400
+Subject: Re: The Legend is True
+
+Re: the number of folks at the two B5 presentations (the official one and
+the hastily arranged second) at Worldcon...the first room held (seated)
+1500 people, I was told.  There were about another 500 who were allowed
+finally to stand in the back.  So figure 2,000.  The second panel was in
+A9, which held 800, and we had about 2-3rds of that, so figure about
+400-600, so you're looking at a total of about 2,400-2,600, which is about
+what we had at San Diego Comic Con.  We're talking here roughly 1/2 of the
+entire Convention attendance, maybe a smidge less.
+
+I was forwarded a piece of email from one of the convention organzers
+expressing his grave doubts that the presentation would draw more than 20%
+of the whole convention...we got nearly 50 percent.
+
+I have to say, btw, that this WorldCon was probably the best, and most
+well organized WorldCons I've ever attended.  No hassles, no frustrations,
+it was just a joy.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Sep 1996 23:38:34 -0400
+Subject: Re: Spoilers for "Grey 17 Is Missing"
+
+spoiler replies....
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Yeah, I really can't disagree with that analysis.  The Jeremiah thread was
+one of those things that looks great on paper, but when you get it into a
+camera...I dunno, it's one of those weirdnesses that happens in
+television.  Sometimes you've got what you think is an average script and
+it just roars to life on-camera, and something that looks great on paper,
+but in real life...ehh...I'm happy with all the other stuff in the
+episode, but the Jeremiah thread didn't come off as it should've.
+
+I think in part it's also my fault, in that my brain was gearing up for
+the stuff that begins ramping up starting with the next episode, and the
+Grey 17 thing was something I'd wanted to do for a long time, and there
+wasn't going to be a chance to do it down the road, if at all, after this
+season, so I went for it.  As for the Zarg, that's also one of those
+things that didn't come off visually as I'd wanted.  So overall, I'd
+agree...of all the season 3 eps, this one is probably the least effective
+of them all.  But one in a season, that ain't too bad....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Sep 1996 00:12:00 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn:JMS Kudos, Kudon'ts and other points of interest.
+
+We do sometimes use cover for our security teams, as we did in "The Long
+Dark" and "Ceremonies of Light and Dark," but the problem is that our sets
+aren't really set up for that sort of thing as a rule.  But we do it where
+we can.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Sep 1996 00:13:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Just at Thank You
+
+Thanks...we try.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Sep 1996 00:13:00 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Bradbury
+
+I think I probably haven't separated out Bradbury's work for special
+attention mainly because it's so much "in the air," that it's part of
+one's environment, and one doesn't notice it sufficiently to comment on
+it.
+
+Bradbury was one of the first SF authors I stumbled across, specifically
+"The Martian Chronicles," which just blew my brains across the wall and
+splattered them on the library windows.  His use of language, imagery, the
+very human details of his work...it astonished me.  Sometimes I hear
+Bradbury creeping into my dialogue from time to time...a turn of phrase or
+a word choice.  
+
+Interestingly enough, if you ask Bradbury who was one of his primary
+influences, prehaps the most singular influence, he'll cite Norman Corwin
+as well.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Sep 1996 00:14:28 -0400
+Subject: Re: Quit complaining about JMS's comments
+
+"Something to think about.  If people complain too much about JMS's posts
+then perhaps he might not take so much time out of his busy schedule to
+enlighten us with them."
+
+Not much chance of that.  Zero, actually.  I've been riding the nets, and
+taking the brickbats with the praise, since 1984.  Very little fazes me. 
+Complaints are part and parcel, and sometimes they're justified, and
+sometimes they're not, but they're just a part of the process.  
+
+Nutcases are, natch, a somewhat different issue...but them we just deal
+with.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+From 
+
+Date: 3 Sep 1996 00:14:25 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: How long to complete an episode?
+
+Once I start writing, it takes me about 7-10 days to finish a script. 
+Usually scripts are done several weeks before preproduction begins.  Prep
+then starts about 2 weeks prior to shooting.  Shooting takes 7 work days. 
+Post takes on average 52 days.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Sep 1996 00:19:39 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATT JMS: Demon Night
+
+Morgan: in hearing the sorts of books you like, I have two words for you:
+Jonathan Carroll.  Try his "Bones of the Moon," or if you can find it,
+"The Land of Laughs."
+
+"Demon Night" was a decent first attempt; I never actually wrote it
+intending for it to ever be published; I just sorta wrote it for myself,
+as an exercise, then stuck it in a closet for almost 3 years until my
+agent one day suggested I write one someday, and I mentioned I had one. 
+Almost didn't give it to her, figuring it was an okay start, but I needed
+to really learn more.  She read it, loved it, gave it to her NY associate,
+who sold it to the first editor who looked at it, and it got a Bram Stoker
+Award nomination from the Horror Writers of America.  So what the heck do
+I know...?
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Sep 1996 00:15:47 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATT JMS: Demon Night
+
+Writing novels is something I do want to get back to; my next novel is
+already fully outlined, I have all the research stuff I need, but it's a
+1,000 page story, and I need one fairly focused year to write it.  So as
+much as I enjoy writing novels, it'll have to wait until I'm done with B5,
+alas.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Sep 1996 00:08:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!
+
+Thank you, we're all extremely proud and excited.  It's a terrific
+validation of everything we've been working toward these last 3+ years.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Sep 1996 00:09:27 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Can B5 be shown on DiSH Network DBS ?
+
+Syndicated shows can't be/aren't available on dishes of either sort; since
+B5 is syndicated, that leaves us right out.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Sep 1996 00:10:25 -0400
+Subject: Re: No new eps til Nov?  Is this true?
+
+Incorrect; new episodes begin in October, with the final 5 from year 3,
+then the season 4 episodes begin in November.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Sep 1996 00:10:36 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for Worldcon.
+
+I was happy to do the second presentation.  I was kinda tired...I put a
+lot into these things, so I was physically dead meat by the time the
+second one came around...but that was the only slot they had open, and I
+was determined that people weren't going to get stiffed.  Anybody who's
+been in line for hours -- and some people were there a LONG time --
+deserves more than that.  I've been in those sorts of lines, and gotten
+cut off or shut out, and I won't let it happen to anybody else where I'm
+concerned.  
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Sep 1996 00:35:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: BattleGround Earth: New Series with b5 ties
+
+"Could this have anything to do with that nasty rumor floating around
+about the possible loss of B5's season 5 because of people affiliated with
+the show leaving to do something else?  I've been out of the loop for a
+couple of week (starting grad. school).  Last I heard about this rumor
+was...nothing.  No confirmations _or_ denials..."
+
+Up until right before I left for Worldcon, I hadn't heard a word of this
+rumor.  Then I got an email from someone asking if it were true.  I asked
+if WHAT were true?  The correspondent explained that according to rumor, I
+was leaving B5 to go to Fox and develop shows for them.
+
+Suffice to say this was the first time I'd heard ANY of this, and it's
+utterly false.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Sep 1996 03:43:28 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS.  Is it the end or the beginning?
+
+The broadcast schedule for B5, like god, transcends all understanding.
+
+And thanks for all the rest.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Sep 1996 03:45:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:The writer's rights to what he writ
+
+"I'd be interested in how you would answer the conceit (my word) of those
+who
+believe that by selling his work (and therefore 'using' the public) a
+writer has no right to deny access to *any* of his works after death."
+
+That's like saying that if a woman has sex with someone a few times, that
+person is entitled to have sex with that person forever thereafter, that
+the person can no longer say "no" having once put out.
+
+Which is, of course, nonsense.  The writer's work belongs to the writer,
+and if s/he chooses to have any unpublished material destroyed upon
+demise, then that is the writer's right.  It's nobody else's business.  
+
+Similarly, in my case, I destroy all my previous drafts of whatever I
+write.  Anyone who wants to go through my files and pull out the earlier
+(inferior) drafts of scripts or stories, looking for my handwritten
+revisions...you ain't gonna find them.  They're gone, trashed, roundfiled.
+ 
+
+A writer has the right to release that of his or her work which they
+desire; it's their work, after all.  Nobody else gets a vote on that.
+
+"And doesn't this impinge in part of the Cult of Personality question?"
+
+Only in that some folks believe that they have a proprietary interest in a
+writer, and that by virtue of spending X-dollars buying books, they *own*
+that writer, or a piece of that writer, and that that writer is
+accountable to them, owes them something more than the work, and the
+respect between a writer and a reader.
+
+Wrong.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Sep 1996 19:14:46 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS, subject HUGO   ( B5 WON!!!!!!!)
+
+It's correct that I was wrong; I'd assumed, because 12 Monkeys was listed
+last on the announcement of nominations, that that was the one that had
+been added when we pulled "Fall."  And we all know what happens when we
+assume....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Sep 1996 03:13:11 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Syndication? (was Re: Attn JMS: Can B5 be shown on DiSH Network DBS ?)
+
+"If the DiSH Network satellite system adds WSBK as they are planning to
+do, who could/would object to the resulting transmission of B5 ?"
+
+
+Oh.
+
+Well, offhand, I can't think of anyone who would...so maybe that would
+work.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Sep 1996 03:14:30 -0400
+Subject: Re: Snow White
+
+"So what're the chances of getting Ed Wasser to dress in drag and play the
+Dark Queen?"
+
+On any given Saturday night...pretty good.
+
+
+\
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Sep 1996 03:15:15 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Kudos, Q about Lost Episode?
+
+It's not that the episode was abandoned; I had the title, but there was
+never a script written to go with it.  The threads got pulled into other
+episodes.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 05 Sep 96 03:58:34 GMT
+Subject: cmsg cancel <503clo$ud@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
+
+Article cancelled by denebeim@zaphod.deepthot.cary.nc.us.
+
+Date: 05 Sep 96 03:59:45 GMT
+Subject: cmsg cancel <50gbb4$fnd@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
+
+Article cancelled by denebeim@zaphod.deepthot.cary.nc.us.
+
+Date: 4 Sep 1996 04:10:06 -0400
+Subject: jms bags on IBM
+
+You ever just finally reach a point where you've Had It?  
+
+I pass this along as an open letter to IBM, and a warning to anyone here
+about buying from IBM.
+
+I've seen all the same ads you have, and after being very wary for a very
+long time, I finally decided to go for an IBM Thinkpad 560.  Everything
+said it was a great machine.  So I called IBM to order it.
+
+Only IBM doesn't sully its hands with direct orders.  It sends you to a
+secondary company, one of a bunch that handles that sort of thing, and you
+place your order with that company.  Okay, fine, I can handle that.  I
+place the order.  I'm told it'll go out within 3 days, Federal Express.  I
+plan to have it all broken in so I can bring it to Worldcon with me to
+avoid losing any work time.  
+
+A week passes.  More.  I call IBM.  They have no record of it.  I have to
+backtrack to their secondary company.  The secondary company misplaced it,
+never bothered to tell me or IBM.  Finally it goes out.  Arrives with the
+wrong spare battery.  I call them again.  They tell me that I should
+package up the wrong battery, and they'll send me back the right one. 
+This was weeks ago.  Still hasn't happened.
+
+I used the Thinkpad for about 10 hours all total, just getting used to
+Windows 95.  Went to turn it on again, all powered up...it doesn't react. 
+Either I get a dead screen, or it hits the IBM in the upper right corner,
+but nothing more, no beeps, no error messages, nothing.  
+
+So I call Technical Support.  I spend over an hour with them, explaining
+it, as they look into various books and can't figure it out.  I take it
+apart on the phone with them, still nothing.  They tell me someone will
+come by the next day to fix it (at great cost, natch).  Or I can mail it
+in, but I *need it* for that Thursday, when I leave for Worldcon, so I
+can't send it out.
+
+Next day comes, but IBM doesn't.  I get two phone calls again, asking me
+to explain what the problem is.  I tell them.  They say someone will be
+over by the end of the day.  Nobody shows.  Tomorrow, they tell me.
+
+So the next day, a repair tech from IBM arrives...almost two hours
+late...and takes one look at the Thinkpad 560 before announcing he knows
+NOTHING about this model...*doesn't even seem to know how to turn it on*. 
+I show him.  He has no idea what's wrong, but goes into the other room to
+take it apart.  Spends 2 and 1/2 hours doing this (at $125 an hour) before
+emerging to say he's got the screen to come on, but a) he has no idea what
+was wrong, and it might go wrong again, and b) in taking the machine apart
+he's totally bown the configuration, and do I have the configuration
+disks?  No, because the IBM secondary company never SENT me the disks.
+
+So he says he'll take it that evening, and have it back in the morning,
+thinking he may be able to download the software off IBM.  He's come to
+service a Thinkpad 560, but doesn't have any of the software for it, and
+isn't entirely sure how to get it.  It's now Thursday.  I have no chance
+of having this for Worldcon now, so I'm going to lose 4 days work because
+of this.
+
+I call in from the con, and I'm told he's returned with the IBM, and says
+it now works, but he doesn't know for how long.  So today I show up, and
+find that it's in exactly the same condition as when I left, it hasn't
+been configured, he simply and flatly lied to me because he didn't know
+what to do, or how to do it.
+
+So now I have a totally non-functioning IBM Thinkpad 560, for which I paid
+a total of almost $6,000.  Three phone calls to IBM after this have led to
+zero response.
+
+I've been buying computers a long, long time.  I've gone through about six
+full systems and 5 laptops, in each case they lasted long enough to pass
+on to other people to use.  I've never had this much trouble with a
+product, and with their technical support, in 12 years.  And you can't
+find any kind of decent support or clues on where to go on their
+convoluted, impossible-to-decipher web page structure.  I signed onto IBM
+Global Net, which has been equally as frustrating.
+
+So if you're thinking of buying an IBM Thinkpad, folks, I'd urge you to
+consider another company.  This is the most hideous experience I've ever
+had with a computer company, and if I'd had ANY idea how wretched it was,
+I'd never have gone to IBM in the first place.  This is an utter and
+absolute disgrace.
+
+jms
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Sep 1996 03:36:48 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 vs. ST:V
+
+Can someone answer me some questions about the premiere, 'cause some stuff
+just didn't seem to make sense.  I've tried to never pick on ST:V for its
+stories, for obvious reasons, but some stuff here just jumped out at
+me....
+
+Why were Starfleet officers, or hardened renegade Maquis, standing around
+huddled and cold, rubbing their arms like lost children and looking
+helpless when they should've been survival-trained at the basic Academy
+level?  They were taught every aspect of a circuit board and a tachyon
+field...but they don't know you can make fire easier with a couple of
+flints than rubbing sticks together?  They looked utterly helpless without
+their technology.
+
+If the Kazon are mad because Voyager won't share its technology, then they
+don't have that technology, right?  So in that case, how were they able to
+know how to run every circuit of the ship when they came aboard, with zip
+time to study it?  It seems to me they knew how to run it, how to fix it,
+how to adjust it...so how is it they can say they don't have the
+technology?  
+
+You come across bones lying on the ground, and nobody considers that these
+may have been either a) a burial site (leave it alone) or b) remains from
+a predator (get the hell out)?  
+
+They built a solar still out of the dead ensign's uniform, but they
+couldn't make a fire?  Say what?
+
+And then people just wander out of camp, by themselves, in the night, when
+they know there are predators and enemies around?  
+
+Starfleet Academy must've become nothing more than an engineering school,
+because a Boy Scout has better survival skills than this bunch.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Sep 1996 21:58:24 -0400
+Subject: Even More Nominations
+
+Though it's nowhere in the Hugo league...Sci-Fi Universe just contacted us
+with the list of nominees for their awards.  X-Files got 10 nominations,
+Babylon 5 got 8 nominations, DS9 got 7, S:A&B got 6.  None for Voyager
+that I can see on the list.
+
+Categories in which B5 is nominated:
+
+Best Series
+
+Best Actor (Bruce)
+
+Best Supporing Actor (Peter and Andreas)
+
+Best Supporting Actress (Mira and Claudia)
+
+Best Teleplay ("War Without End," jms)
+
+Best Special Effects
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+>From 
+
+
+Date: 8 Sep 1996 01:59:10 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS  LEGAL RESPONSIBILITIES
+
+Stations are required to show credits; often they don't.  We complain, we
+get ignored.  It's vastly annoying.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Sep 1996 02:00:29 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Your Tirade (WAS Re: JMS on CompuServe (Sep 05, 1996))
+
+Yeah, I know it was probably what he wanted...but not the *way* he wanted
+it.  
+
+And sometimes I just need the target practice....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Sep 1996 03:25:29 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: You Son Of An Emporer
+
+Ah...a very sad case, that.  Turhan's only child, his son, died during a
+boating accident, of all things.  He drowned.  His personal guard, who was
+apparently unable to find Turhan's son in the murky water, was found dead
+several days after making his report; his own death was officially ruled a
+suicide, out of grief.  But there are always stories....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Sep 1996 03:27:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 Dating Profile Now "Onlyne"
+
+Re: your note....
+
+I am sometimes asked, Do you ever regret creating B5?
+
+Until this message, the answer was no, of course not.  Now, however....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1996 23:38:07 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS (And the Rock - Spoilers)
+
+Thanks.  That was one of those scenes which, when you do it, you know it's
+gonna stay around for a while....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1996 00:00:10 -0400
+Subject: Re: Sci-Fi Channel's WorldCon Coverage (Dissing B5)
+
+I was *very* bugged by the bozo the SciFi Channel sent to cover Worldcon. 
+His report wasn't about the con, it was about *him* AT the con.  Here's
+the guy in the dealer's room, putting on funny hats.  Here's the guy
+telling jokes.  Here's the guy acting cute with a prosthetic puppet.  On
+and on and on.  (It's the same kind of annoyance you get with a restaurant
+review that tells you all about the reviewer, and how they got to the
+restaurant, and what their friend talked about, on and on, when all you
+want to know is if the food's good.)
+
+The stress was on oddly dressed fans, cuteness, bad jokes, clowning
+around, all by the "host," and virtually nothing of value on the con
+itself.  You'd get ten seconds of something potentially interesting, then
+he'd jump in again.  Nearly all of the interviews were with media people,
+with very few (and brief) exceptions like Connie Willis and James White.  
+
+And yeah, B5 got stiffed, but that's a lot less annoying than the feature
+overall, and how it was approached, to be cynical or cute by turns, to
+make fun of it all; it's the kind of approach I'd expect from the
+mainstream, not a channel dedicated to SF...of all the famous authors
+there they could've interviews, jeezus, maybe one of the last chances to
+get van Vogt, they could've talked to Silverberg, others, c'mon....
+
+(And no, that wasn't me in the shot, but someone who kinda looked like me.
+ And they misspelled my name on the hugo list.)
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1996 00:13:22 -0400
+Subject: Re: Mr. JMS: A few questions....
+
+To your questions:
+
+Yes, we'll see Theo once more in year 3.
+
+You'll hear more from ISN in year 4.
+
+The new Vorlon arrives in "Walkabout," and Lyta's situation will be
+explored more in the first part of year 4.
+
+The Earth First and other groups haven't gone away, but been consolidated,
+as we'll find soon enough.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1996 00:16:16 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Changes?
+
+I don't know that I'd *change* anything in the show if budget were not an
+issue, since it's story driven...I think I'd just do MORE of it all.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1996 00:15:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: Sci-Fi Channel's WorldCon Coverage (Dissing B5)
+
+I was *very* bugged by the bozo the SciFi Channel sent to cover Worldcon. 
+His report wasn't about the con, it was about *him* AT the con.  Here's
+the guy in the dealer's room, putting on funny hats.  Here's the guy
+telling jokes.  Here's the guy acting cute with a prosthetic puppet.  On
+and on and on.  (It's the same kind of annoyance you get with a restaurant
+review that tells you all about the reviewer, and how they got to the
+restaurant, and what their friend talked about, on and on, when all you
+want to know is if the food's good.)
+
+The stress was on oddly dressed fans, cuteness, bad jokes, clowning
+around, all by the "host," and virtually nothing of value on the con
+itself.  You'd get ten seconds of something potentially interesting, then
+he'd jump in again.  Nearly all of the interviews were with media people,
+with very few (and brief) exceptions like Connie Willis and James White.  
+
+And yeah, B5 got stiffed, but that's a lot less annoying than the feature
+overall, and how it was approached, to be cynical or cute by turns, to
+make fun of it all; it's the kind of approach I'd expect from the
+mainstream, not a channel dedicated to SF...of all the famous authors
+there they could've interviews, jeezus, maybe one of the last chances to
+get van Vogt, they could've talked to Silverberg, others, c'mon....
+
+(And no, that wasn't me in the shot, but someone who kinda looked like me.
+ And they misspelled my name on the hugo list.)
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1996 00:19:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Did you think you were going to win?
+
+I honestly didn't know how it was going to work out.  I figured
+(correctly, as it turned out) that the main opposition would be Apollo 13.
+ Which for my money would've been a good selection.  (Is it SF?  The
+description John Campbell and, I think, Heinlein gave for SF is "the
+impact on humans of technology."  It even uses the Analog Magazine
+approach of finding a technical solution to a technical problem.  If
+Apollo 13 doesn't count that way, what does?  Is it fiction?  Nnnnnooo, I
+suppose, though certainly elements of it were fictionalized for purposes
+of drama, and I guess that counts somewhat.)
+
+Anyway, that dispute aside, and I can see why it's not a clear issues for
+a lot of folks...understand that I've never won a major award before. 
+I've been up for Ace Awards, the Writers Guild Award, the Gemini Award
+(the Canadian equivilant of an Emmy), the HWA Bram Stoker Award,
+others...but hadn't won, and as a result, you get very guarded about these
+things.  So I didn't know for sure until the words left Roger Corman's
+lips.
+
+And I have to say...this show has won a lot of awards in different areas,
+Emmys and others, but this one, for me, means the most.  Even Warners is
+excited about it, and is taking out a double-page ad in most of the trades
+this Friday, with others to appear the following week.  (We encouraged
+them to also congratulate the nominees for the award as wel, since they
+were all very deserving, it was stiff compettion.)
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1996 00:22:38 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS-Appreciation of Support Cast
+
+Supporting cast are *very* important, they add to the sense and feel of a
+working universe that exists outside the main characters.  Again, it's
+that sense of reality.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1996 00:17:33 -0400
+Subject: Re: Another JMS award at Worldcon
+
+Yeah, the Shadow Hugo (an ominous name for what's basically a
+coaster-shaped circuit board with a bronze plate on it) went to B5 from
+Sci-Fi.Com, which was actually the first SF award B5 has gotten, beating
+the real Hugos by about 24 hours.
+
+The reason they had to come out of the SFFWA suite to give me the award
+had to do with my feelings toward SFFWA, from which I resigned over their
+attitude toward media writers and the dramatic nebula (bottom line: all
+media writers are hacks, and it's not real writing, and even though media
+work, scripts, are eligible for membership, or were then, they're not
+eligible for the Nebula because it isn't really writing).  
+
+Actually, what I said to the folks from scifi.com was..."I wouldn't go in
+there for the presentation if I were dying of lung cancer and they were
+offering free chemotherapy at the door."  Nothing against many of the
+SFFWA members, many of them are fine folks who're taking the rap for a
+provincially minded leadership, but after the grief I got from SFWA over
+all this before, the hate mail, the vindictiveness, the resignation (to
+this day they still haven't had the guts to print my letter of resignation
+in the Journal), I just couldn't go in there for the award.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1996 04:05:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Your AOL Home Page
+
+Urrrk....that isn't set up yet for anybody else, I was just sorta screwing
+around with it, and having a hard time with the interface, basically
+abandoned it halfway through putting it together.  Please ignore it...I'll
+delete it asap.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1996 23:47:36 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Foundation Imaging Collapse - Sinking into the sand?
+
+The post put up in public forums was a private email, and since I didn't
+keep a copy of it, I can't verify if every word is as I wrote it or not. 
+There's a lot I can't say on this publicly at this point, though I hope to
+be able to do so soon.  Business stuff that has to get ironed out first.
+
+What I will say about the CGI for season 4 is just this...that the
+equipment being used is equal to, or better than the equipment at
+Foundation; the animators are largely those who have worked on B5 in the
+past, who were let go some time ago when Foundation downsized, with a few
+outside additions, just as Foundation would add to its ranks from outside;
+and there should be *zero* difference onscreen to what has been the case
+on B5, except that it will continue to improve over what we've done in the
+past.
+
+As usual every season, we start out with lighter CGI episodes, and build
+to big stuff as we go.  That will be the same this season as last.  Our
+first really big CGI episode last season was "Messages," which was around
+episode #8, then "Severed," episode #10.  This season we'll hit with big
+stuff around episode #6, which will likely be as big as "Severed."  Rather
+than push stuff back, we've been able to move CGI stuff forward and expand
+on scenes.
+
+Basically, the bottom line is that whatever we've done on the show has
+been with one and only one goal: we thought we could make it better by
+doing X.  Invariably, when people hear what's up, the inititial reaction
+is to panic...until they actually SEE what we're doing...and then it
+becomes clear.  This is no different.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1996 23:53:30 -0400
+Subject: Re: And the Rock Cried Out (* Spoilers *)
+
+No, the song in "Rock" is an old gospel song.  I've always had a soft spot
+for old gospel songs and spirituals because of their wonderful use of
+language and imagery, and you can dance to 'em.  Not that I dance, but the
+theory is there, at least.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Sep 1996 01:29:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Your HomePage
+
+The homepage on AOL is just a dinky thing, and not able (I think) to use
+anything really fancy, it's a very "dumb" interface...not much to be done
+for it.  I have to get around to dumping it....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1996 15:46:59 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS : Possible re-edit of Grey 17 *spoilers*
+
+We did the best we could with what we had...we'd have to go back and
+reshoot the whole sequence, and that we can't do.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Sep 1996 04:52:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Passing the torch . . .
+
+"Who exactly owns the 3D models, the textures, all the stuff that
+Foundation made for the EFX in the episodes?  I assume you or Warner Bro.
+does."
+
+WB owns it all.  WB owns the copyright on B5 (as does every studio
+producing a series, as Paramount owns ST), and anything produced in the
+process of making that show.  
+
+"Part of the reason I ask is, I swear I saw some models or parts of models
+in Hypernauts.""
+
+Very likely.  I think the rule is that if you change it more than 50%, you
+can use it for secondary purposes.
+
+"Are the new guys (NDE) still using Lightwave 3D/Video Toasters etc.?  It
+would be a major pain to try and convert all the 3D models over into a new
+format.  Also, I'm a Lightwave fan . . ."
+
+I'm reasonably sure it's all been ported over to a PC platform, but it's
+still Lightwave.  These are the latest machines off the line, and they're
+extremely fast and powerful.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Sep 1996 04:53:11 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 dreams of Londo
+
+Speaking of dreams...I recently got caught in a dream feedback loop.
+
+When I was at Worldcon in Anaheim, I made the mistake of eating a hot
+pretzel in the shape of Mickey Mouse's head right before going to bed.  In
+the dream, I had this thick head of hair...and somebody asked me how it
+felt, having this thick head of hair, and I said, "Great, and now at last
+I have a title for my autobiography: `I Dreamed I Had Hair.'"
+
+And on this I shot staight awake, thinking "What the HELL was THAT?"
+
+It's Mickey's fault.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Sep 1996 19:41:04 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS (Anyone) - New Designers?
+
+"With the change in CGI houses, can we expect a "new approach" or
+substantial change in the *design* of new ships, cities, creatures, etc?"
+
+Nope.  The CGI is created by using set geometries, textures and other
+elements that are stored as data.  We have virtually all that data at
+hand; as a result, it is made of the same identical elements, and will be
+indistinguishable from anything done before.  So no, what's been
+established won't be changed at all.  What we will do is increase the
+level of detail and texturing in some of the models, so that we can bring
+them closer to camera, something I've been wanting to do for a while now. 
+(The closer we get to camera, the bigger and more massive the object
+appears.)  
+
+I saw some of the first renderings today, and as this was the first stuff
+off the line, I was in hyper-critical mode, looking for something to
+quibble with.  I couldn't see any difference between this and what we've
+had in the past.  (One was a nifty little sunrise shot, the lights going
+off as a group of starfuries fly past.)
+
+There are also about six or seven new major ships we'll be seeing in the
+first batch of year 4 episodes that are being built now, and the first
+renderings on them looked very cool.  
+
+"Or - are the show's principle designers still on board?"
+
+Yes and no.  Steve Burg was a principal designer of the Agamemnon, the
+Starfury design, the Minbari cruisers, B5 itself, and other ships.  He's
+hip-deep right now working on "Contact," and not available for a while
+yet.  We've always had to sandwich in Steve's stuff between his major film
+gigs.  (He did major design work on The Abyss, Waterworld, T2, others.) 
+As soon as he's free, we'll send some stuff his way.  Eric Chauvin, who
+has done our digital matte paintings (Centauri Prime exteriors, palace,
+others) and other stuff, like the ship-lift used by the Lumati, is still
+with B5, doing the same stuff.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Sep 1996 01:28:15 -0400
+Subject: Re: Mr. JMS: The Files from Foundation
+
+Virtually all of the graphics files are in hand, so all the pieces are
+already in place.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Sep 1996 00:28:53 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Captain Power
+
+There was a certain amount of teeth-cutting on CP, a chance to try bits
+and pieces of an arc, and some techniques we'd later use on B5.  It
+weren't a bad show, all things considered....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Sep 1996 00:33:08 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: You set the pace
+
+Yeah,  a lot of folks seem unaware of what we're doing here...when we see
+articles on how net-folk and tv-folk interact, it's almost always about
+X-Files or the other shows.  We seem hardly visible, some days....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Sep 1996 00:29:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: TNT Showing Reruns....
+
+The series will begin on TNT 6-9 months after we finish our initial run.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1996 21:40:53 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: WB's Perception on Newsgroups.
+
+I think the studios are gradually coming to perceive the importance of the
+nets, but their perception is probably 10 years behind the reality.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+From 
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1996 21:19:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: Babylon 5 - the long slow slide
+
+It has to get real dark before it can get light; and if you're going to
+have a war, you have to have battles.  But believe me, there's a lot more
+coming down the pike of a different sort.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+From 
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1996 15:56:03 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Why no accent for Ivanova?
+
+As Ivanova's mentioned from time to time, she was born in the Russian
+Consortium but raised mainly outside the country, from boarding school to
+boarding school, to keep her one step ahead of the Psi Corps.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1996 03:44:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS, "Say Hello, Mister Quigley"
+
+Actually, I adapted my story for "Say Hello, Mr. Quigley" into an actual
+short story, and it appeared a year or two ago in the Midnight Grafitti
+Anthology, and in Pulphouse.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1996 00:50:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Starwolf -- what do you think so far?
+
+I'd be happy to comment...except it ain't my project, and I think any
+commentary from me on David's project would be inappropriate.  It's his
+pony ride.  I'll say only that David's been around a LONG time, he's a
+solid writer, he knows and respects the genre, and if anyone can pull off
+a show like this, it's him.  I'm looking forward to it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1996 01:08:50 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: May I quote you?
+
+You can quote my message...I'd have to dig through endless files to find
+my SFWA resignation...but the message only tells about 10% of the story,
+so it's almost not worth the trouble.  It's kinda like a Martian landing
+right after the end of the Civil War and asking a soldier trudging back
+from the final field of battle, "So, what happened?"  Where do you
+start...?
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1996 04:08:50 -0400
+Subject: Re: Londo's Lament, Redemption or Fire?  (long)
+
+There's another way to look at this, which occured to me as I was writing
+it, so I structured it accordingly.
+
+Morella: "You must save the eye that does not see."
+
+Londo:  "I...do not understand."
+
+I.
+
+Eye.
+
+We never actually saw how she spelled or meant this.
+
+Given Londo's background, one could almost make the case that the
+discussion was about him.  Not saying that's it, but it's a possibility
+and a subtext.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1996 16:04:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: (SPOILERS for Shadow Dancing) Babylon 5 kits?
+
+Basically, Monogram/Revell will be doing the model kits; the deal just got
+put through so there aren't any other details yet.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1996 18:40:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: What happened to your website?
+
+You have to understand, I'm a perfectionist...nothing leaves my hands
+until it's as good as I can make it.
+
+I was diddling around with the AOL software for making a web page, and
+seeing what worked and what didn't, on the theory that down the road I
+could use it to put out some more personally-oriented stuff (like my
+writing book) without taking up time on the public forums to do so. 
+Anyway, I was just playing with it, and had left what I was doing in
+place...and somebody found it.  It was never intended to be seen in that
+state, so I deleted it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Sep 1996 02:51:45 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: "Grey 17" & Carl Sagan
+
+No, I hadn't even read that passage...it basically goes back a lot longer
+than Sagan.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Sep 1996 15:40:23 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: New Sets?
+
+Yeah, we've got some new ones coming this next year...some underground
+stuff at other places, more Narn locations, exterior sets and interior
+sets on Centauri Prime, more Earth stuff...basically we're looking to
+continue expanding the show.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Sep 1996 18:10:09 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks!
+
+This is obviously not your sister's fault, but rather her boyfriend's
+fault.  I think you have every right to be exercised about this, as it
+bodes poorly for future family relations should this relationship turn
+serious.  (Remember, the key to the universe is always having someone to
+blame, so you're halfway there.)  Go to him, man to man, and tell him to
+insist to your sister that you be allowed to watch the show.  
+
+Or watch it and lie about it later.
+
+I won't tell.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Sep 1996 18:14:39 -0400
+Subject: Re: Star Trek's and Babylon 5's special effects
+
+The only problem with comparing B5 and ST EFX is that more and more, ST is
+going to our mode of doing things.  The first new Voyager ep up this
+season had most of their space EFX provided by Foundation, the CGI company
+we've been using.  So the fundamental elements were the same, by the same
+people, using the same technology, at the same company.  
+
+On the theory that one doesn't deliberately do things that will be
+*inferior* to what you have done before, that the ST shows are gradually
+changing over to CGI, in many cases from the same people that provided our
+CGI, would seem to imply that they themselves have decided it's
+better...which makes the whole discussion kinda moot.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+From 
+
+Date: 21 Sep 1996 23:22:36 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: any more mysteries?
+
+There are always new mysteries....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Sep 1996 23:23:54 -0400
+Subject: Re: Hi JMS
+
+Thanks.  None of the Zone episodes have been released on tape, as far as I
+know; they're available kind of spottily here and there on broadcast.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Sep 1996 01:33:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: How's Your Sanity?  ;-)
+
+Re: higher levels of mental disorder among writers...I don't agree with
+that at all.
+
+     Neither do I.
+
+Shut up, nobody asked you for your opinion.
+
+     Hey, I have access to the keyboard too, you know.
+
+I'm not listening.
+
+     Neither am I.
+
+Never mind...let me get back to this later, when Certain Parties --
+
+     I heard that.
+
+-- have gone to sleep.  Meanwhile, I'd just pass this along for your
+edification: in surveys of the clinically insane, the #1 goal for most of
+them when they get out, what they want...is to become psychologists or
+psychiatrists...like the fellow who made this analysis of writers.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Sep 1996 01:35:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:Darker show in season 4?
+
+We do a lot of Dolby surround EFX, and often get compliments on it.  The
+problem may be in the station broadcasting it in your area.
+
+S4 will be...more mature, but darker per se...depends on what part of it
+you're talking about.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Sep 1996 18:29:29 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: I Demand Restitution!!!!
+
+Unfortunately, the laws regulating the transportation of dangerous goods
+do not permit the shipping of bagels through the mail service.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+JMS Usenet messages for October 1996.
+
+Date: 1 Oct 1996 18:14:56 -0400
+Subject: Re: Att JMS: BabPro Responsibilities? WAS Re: Cons and Your Health
+
+John Copeland is a producer on the show, a line producer (technical term).
+ Problem is, he's only on AOL.  I try to direct people to the right areas
+in general terms -- if there's a fan club question, go to Jim Lockett at
+jplb5@aol.com, for instance -- but basically, I'm here, and if a question
+comes my way, I kinda have to answer it because there's nobody else here
+to do it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Oct 1996 18:13:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Writing With the Subsocscious
+
+"Do you think that you write at both the conscious and subconscious level
+simultaneously."
+
+I think any writer has to operate at both levels at the same time.  You
+learn to trust your instincts.  There's a certain point when you're "in
+the zone," to use a sports phrase, and the logical part of you is
+structuring the plot, and the illogical, intuitive part of you is filling
+in the corners.  You have to be open to both voices for it to work.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Oct 1996 18:16:15 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS: Writing season 4
+
+Basically, nobody sees anything until it's in first draft form.  Harlan
+functions on an as-needed basis; if I have a question, or if there's an
+area which could benefit from his input, I call him in, but for the most
+part, the scriptwriting is a one-person affair.  The job of the writer is
+to listen to the small voice in the back of his head, and too often too
+many voices just get in the way.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Oct 1996 18:16:28 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS When are you going to rest?
+
+I rest when the series is finished.
+
+And I ain't complaining.  Believe me, I fought too long and too hard to
+get this story on the air; I'm not going to start complaining about the
+hours.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Oct 1996 18:18:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS When are you going to rest?
+
+PS...Stephen Furst will direct #8, "The Illusion of Truth," and we're
+shooting #4 right now, so we've got a ways to go yet.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Oct 1996 18:19:43 -0400
+Subject: Re: Well, WE knew that! WAS JMS on Genie: September Messages
+
+sigh...I should never have said anything about this....
+
+I'm doomed.
+
+Besides, naked women already *have* ribs...it just takes a little more
+work to get to them....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Oct 1996 18:19:34 -0400
+Subject: Re: Cons and Your Health WAS: Re: ATTN JMS: Bizarre Story
+
+(enter embarrassed, chagrined mode)
+
+Folks, it's okay...I'm fine.  I get kinda ragged some days, but it goes
+with the turf, like I said.  I come from a fairly long-lived family,
+mainly out of spite....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Oct 1996 18:18:47 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Risky Writing? (Z'ha'dum spoilers)
+
+Well, I think you can't do something like that without knowing how you're
+going to pull the character's fat out of the fire, and it has to make
+sense.  I think people will be satisfied with what they see.\
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Oct 1996 16:48:51 -0400
+Subject: Re: Review of OTHERSYDE by J. Michael Straczynski
+
+I think I pretty much agree with the comments, criticisms inclusive. 
+OtherSyde was my second novel, and I was still learning my craft, so it
+has some rough edges, though overall I think it works.  
+
+Re: some dangling threads and a hurried sense to the last third...again, I
+agree.  The book was about 100 pages over what the publisher decided what
+he wanted to put out, and sliced off a lot of threads, and hurried a lot
+of the other stuff.  Which is one reason why I haven't let the book be
+reprinted since; I'd prefer to go to the longer version...and I'm
+embarrassed to say I don't know where the draft is.  (Or the files.)  I
+think the longer version worked a lot better.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Oct 1996 03:53:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS:question on the warrior and the spirit
+
+That relationship, the warrior, the spirit, and the flesh, is just what's
+dealt with in very short order....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Oct 1996 03:57:56 -0400
+Subject: Re: Justice in Genocide? (was Re: Z Ha Dum (* Spoilers *))
+
+Spoiler reply:
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Lemme put it to you this way, Neely.
+
+If someone pointed to an aggressor city (and for the shadows there's no
+distinction between civilian and military, it's all the same, the only
+thing that drives them on), which was unified by its desire to wreak havoc
+and commit massive warfare, and said, "By eliminating that city of 100,000
+agressors you will save the lives of 8 billion innocent bystanders," I'd
+push that button in a hot second, and never regret it.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Oct 1996 02:18:58 -0400
+Subject: Re: Writing policy change (was: Walkabout)
+
+"Was there some incident that we don't know about? It seems to me that
+there must have been. "
+
+Nope.  No incident.  The situation with year 3 was that *so much* was
+being paid off, and set up, and foreshadowed, and required such intimate
+knowledge of where the show was going, and where it'd been, that it made
+it nearly impossible to bring in any outside writers.  
+
+There has never been any series in television history where every episode
+was utterly beyond criticism.  Some are better, some are worse, some are
+average.  There are many Twilight Zones by Rod Serling that are utterly
+brilliant.  And some that just fall flat.  That's the nature of the beast.
+ Sometimes something will look great on the page, and fall flat on the
+stage.  (And sometimes it happens in reverse; you think you've got
+something that won't work, and somehow the filmed version just takes off.)
+ There's a lot about Walkabout I like; and there's some stuff that just
+didn't work out.  You try something different here and there, and
+sometimes it works, and sometimes it don't.  TV, or any form of writing,
+is the constant process of trial and error.  It's not like one day you
+forget how to write, or you're writing bad...you very rarely fall below a
+certain facility once you reach it.  
+
+There's not a writer alive who has turned out nothing but terrific stuff. 
+Now, one could turn out a lifetime of mediocre stuff, by not trying...but
+I think it's better to shoot high, and sometimes fall, knowing that you'll
+get something great one out of every five tries, than not try at all and
+just do okay.  
+
+"Grey 17" is the same thing, for me.  There are bits in that I like a lot.
+ And some parts of it just fell down dreadfully.  That's simply the nature
+of the beast.  I thought I'd try something different in the tone of "Grey"
+and while most of the writing works (mostly), the production fell down on
+a couple of aspects.  It happens.  It doesn't mean anything.  
+
+On the other hand, the following 3, "Rock," "Shadow" and "Z'ha'dum" are
+some of the best stuff we've done.  The preliminary P5 survey has
+"Z'ha'dum" as the best episode of the entire series to date.  Did I
+suddenly learn to write better?  If there were a problem with being tired,
+then by all rights you should see a descending order in quality.  But
+these last 3 are some of our best work.
+
+The real key here is something I heard someone say a while back about TV:
+a flaw, or a flop, or a misstep happens by accident as often as by
+inability; but real quality is never an accident.  So the latter is more
+indicative of the level of the show than the former, since accidents or
+missteps *always* happen.  
+
+"Walkabout," for me, is a good episode with a very few clunky parts; for
+me, it's a middle of the road episode.  "Grey" falls a bit short of that,
+for me.  But then, I'm very hard on my shows; a lot of folks have liked
+"Walkabout" a *lot*.  I didn't much like "Infection," but many did; and
+some shows I love dearly, like "Geometry," don't catch on.  It's
+subjective.  And where you say the battle falls short, others like it...so
+on one level, I'd caution against applying your standard as an objective
+one that is somehow more true than another, and thus asking "what's wrong
+with *you* that I had this opinion?"  If everyone on the planet shares
+that opinion, then you've got something.  Otherwise....
+
+And there are always some people who don't want the character stuff at
+all, they want battles...and some for whom the CGI is of secondary
+interest to the plot...and those who want arc stories *only*...and those
+who like the stand-alones.  Some of it is a function of what you want.
+
+Anyway...point being, and I went around the barn a few times to get there,
+no, there's no "incident" and I don't even know what this could refer to. 
+Some episodes work better for some people than others.  That will happen
+whether you've got 1 person or 50 people writing scripts.  I caught a lot
+of *very* negative comments on Peter David's script, which you cite (as
+well as many positive ones).  The Brits in particular seem to uniformly
+dislike that one.  And in the P5 surveys, the freelance scripts are *all*
+in the bottom third of the rankings.  So it's really not a question of
+freelancers or no, it's just that TV is variable, as is any kind of
+writing.  Not every episode is going to work for you.  Nor should you
+expect it to.  I'm very much an X-Files fan...but there are some scripts
+that work better for me than others.  Doesn't mean anything other than
+that show didn't quite jell for me.  That's the nature of TV.  
+
+I'm sure somebody will cite this as being defensive about it, but honest
+and true, I'm not.  I'm just trying to explain it from this end of things.
+ My prior exec producer said, "You're doing *real* good if, in a season,
+you've got one-third that are pretty good, one-third that are okay, and
+one-third you never want to see again the rest of your natural life."  I
+think we do a heck of a lot better than that, and that's a heck of an
+accomplishment.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 4 Oct 1996 17:06:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Season Four, the HUGO, and the WWWF Grudge Match
+
+"1)I've noticed that, according to the Lurker's Guide, you have written
+the first eight episodes of season four.  Are you planning to write the
+entire season?  I hope so.  Season three kicked ass.  I can only assume
+that the Hugo must have revitalized your writing spirit."
+
+It was a big help, no mistake.  
+ 
+"2)How does it feel to be in a class of sci-fi writers that produced such
+classics as Star Wars, Alien, 2001, and of course old Harlan's classic
+Trek episode?"
+
+Well, that kind of approbation is granted by time and time alone, not by
+the person doing the work...if the show survives and thrives twenty years
+from now, as is my hope, ask me again then.  Now, it would be presumptive
+of me to do so.
+
+"3)Did you get a chance to read the WWWF Grudge Match a few weeks ago?"
+
+No....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Oct 1996 21:28:30 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS   "Opus 322, blues in VCR-major repair"
+
+Yeah, but didn't the hassle just add to the experience?  Now you've not
+only seen the episode, but you've got a great story to tell about it.
+
+Take the magic when it comes.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 6 Oct 1996 06:02:46 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: HELP!!!!
+
+Writers known primarily for TV work are not generally the ones hired for
+high profile film work.  I've done some film assignments (none produced),
+but for a Heinlein, they'd go to a screenwriter, not a TV writer.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Oct 1996 01:35:22 -0400
+Subject: Re: Walkabout question (spoiler for Walkabout)
+
+In "Severed Dreams," the dilemma faced by the Alexander in the teaser is
+that if they jump, they'll end up leaving their fighters behind.  A jump
+engine rips the area open for that one ship, and closes it again right
+behind it.  What sometimes happens, as in "All Alone," is that *as a ship
+comes out*, it releases its fighters.  But you can't just follow a ship
+into a jump point formed by another ship.  You'd probably get torn apart
+when space folded back on you, because the field opening the point is
+primarily around the other ship.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 7 Oct 1996 01:00:29 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Shadow Dancing assemblage (*SPOILERS*)
+
+Simple....you don't bring in the big guns like that until you're ready for
+the final assault.  You don't whistle 'em up when convenient.  You can
+probably go to the well just once with these guys, and you want to do so
+only when you're ready for D-Day.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 7 Oct 1996 01:32:09 -0400
+Subject: Re: "Walkabout" Enters the Twilight Zone (minor spoilage)
+
+Well, that's what happens when you invite a Narn to dinner.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 7 Oct 1996 15:24:59 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Season 3 to 4 transition
+
+The events in 401 take place roughly 7 days after 322.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Oct 1996 16:02:45 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Clarification (WAS Re: Writing policy change SPOILERS)
+
+"By "incident", I meant perhaps a Roddenberry-esque communication
+breakdown between producer and writer"
+
+No, I get along with me fairly well most days...someone has to.  Of
+course, there are some days I won't talk to me, stalk out of the room
+whenever I walk in, and there was that time I locked me in the closet
+until I forced me to finish a script, the embarrassing moment when we both
+showed up for a meeting dressed in the same chiffon number and answering
+to the name Dorothy...but other than that, no, no noteworthy incidents to
+report.
+\
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Oct 1996 15:33:08 -0400
+Subject: Re: All that Jazz (WAS: Re: Walkabout Science Nit Pick) Spoilers removed
+
+Here's what I think is a bit of cultural short-sightedness.  Everybody
+keeps saying, "well, if they had that kind of music, shouldn't it have
+been shown to be an oldies bar or something?"
+
+Look at classical music for a moment.  Goes back to Beethoven, Brahms,
+Bach and lots of composers whose names don't even begin with B.  And
+earlier.  Now, I don't mean to alarm anyone or startle anyone with this
+revelation, but classical music is *still being written and performed*
+hundreds of years later.  Not old stuff, new stuff, of that school and in
+that style.  The orchestral suites in the Star Wars movies are strongly
+based on classical compositions...is that "oldies" stuff?  You've got one
+of the longest running musical plays running now in London, in "Phantom of
+the Opera," a *new* composition (well, mostly, knowing how Webber works).
+
+Jazz and blues kinda formally began in the 1920s and 1930s, but its roots
+run back to spirituals and african-american music in the 1800s.  And it
+didn't just stop suddenly in the 1930s.  There's still new material being
+written in that style now; so should Stevie Ray Vaughn's albums or
+performances have been labeled "oldies?"  After all, it's sixty years
+later and more.
+
+Certain musical styles will stay with us for a long, long time.  Not
+performances based on old stuff, but new material in that vein, for those
+forms that have shown themselves to be enduring.  200 years from now, in
+addition to other forms, you're still going to have original blues songs,
+original classical compositions, original jazz, original compositions in
+the style of gregorian chants, on and on and on.
+
+It's odd when people try to apply illogical rules to the future that don't
+apply now; no one said, as noted, that a Stevie Ray Vaughn concert should
+be billed as an "oldies" event, or an oldies bar...even though it's over
+half a century since serious blues started going...it's just silly.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Oct 1996 15:35:04 -0400
+Subject: Re: How Deep Space Nine creates its special effects...
+
+All of which, of course, is why Foundation Imaging, which provided B5's
+CGI effects since the pilot, is now doing much of the EFX work for ST.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Oct 1996 16:07:09 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Epilogue Speeches (minor spolier?)
+
+The only thing worse than the way I look on camera, is my voice.  Eck. 
+No, not a chance.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Oct 1996 03:09:09 -0400
+Subject: Re: How does JMS feel about fan fiction?
+
+Bottom line, and real simple:
+
+I've asked that fans *not* write any fan fiction set in the B5 universe
+while the show is on the air.  Remember, most ST fanfic began after the
+show was over, to keep those characters alive.  We're still around.
+
+Fanfic is a threat to us, in that if someone writes a story, puts it in a
+fanzine, and something remotely similar is done in the show, that person
+could decide to sue.  It happens; Marion Zimmer Bradley lost an entire
+*book* over this, when her publisher refused to put the book out because
+of the threat of lawsuit from a fanzine with a similar story.  
+
+When someone posted a basic story idea similar to what was planned for
+"Passing Through Gethsemane," that script went into cold storage for over
+a year; only when the fan involved offered (greatly chagrined) to write
+and sign a legal release, and delivered it to me, could that story be put
+back into prep.  If he had not been this kind, THAT EPISODE WOULD NEVER
+HAVE BEEN MADE.  Roll that one around for a while.
+
+It seems to me that if someone wants to write B5 fanfic, it's because that
+fan likes the show, appreciates what's done, and respects those who
+created it.  And that selfsame fan would not want to jeapordize the
+continued existence of that show.  And would, therefore, honor this
+request from those who make it for the duration of the show.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Oct 1996 02:40:48 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Art of Screenwriting
+
+The script which, I hope, WB has included, for "The Coming of Shadows," is
+written exactly the same way I write *all* my scripts, whether for B5 or
+Murder, She Wrote or any other series.  And there's really no one way to
+do this, which is something I make clear in the book...you find the style
+that works for you.  I've seen, and bought, scripts that were very spare
+when it came to camera stuff, and scripts that were chockablock with them.
+ Ain't no one answer in this business.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Oct 1996 03:08:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS AND ALL: Interesting article in Chicago Tribune
+
+Re: places where B5 isn't mentioned and should be...here's another, which
+came out this week, and it's hit that point now where I just have to
+laugh....
+
+The current issue of Cinefantastique has a whole two or three page article
+about how Voyager is now using story arcs across episodes.  They consider
+it a new kind of storytelling for them, but cite the notion that it *has*
+been used here and there.  The magazine (not the folks at the show)
+enumerate such examples as Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, LA Law...of which
+2 out of 3 shows are no longer on the air...but what's the one they
+*don't* mention?  The only one really doing this in SF until lately?
+
+Yup.  I think the magazine deliberately pre-censored themselves on this,
+because they suspect that the folks at Paramount grind their gears bigtime
+if B5 is EVER mentioned as in any way having an influence on their shows. 
+
+
+Here's JMS's rule of journalism, which you'll see repeated in 90% of the
+articles on SF out there: if it's an article on B5, ST is almost always
+mentioned somewhere; if it's an article on ST, you almost *never* see B5
+mentioned.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Oct 1996 20:19:15 -0400
+Subject: Re: All that Jazz (WAS: Re: Walkabout Science Nit Pick) Spoilers removed
+
+"But it *would* be nice to hear some Zeppelin, or Beatles, or Blues
+Traveller, rather than semi-mainstream fare."
+
+Yup.  Only problem...it costs an arm and a leg, and that's one limb more
+than we can afford.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Oct 1996 21:06:26 -0400
+Subject: Re: Philosophy ? (SPOILERS for F5) WAS JMS's "old" GEnie posts
+
+"When is walkabout a legitimate choice, and when is it a cop-out?"
+
+When you're more afraid of what you're running *to* than what you're
+running *from*.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Oct 1996 02:06:43 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Profound thanks
+
+The pleasure and the thanks are entirely mine; it's been a good run, and
+the new shows are just spiffy, and one is rarely afforded the chance to
+grow, and try new things, and push your luck.  I'm happy that viewers have
+stuck with us through it all.  It's been great.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Oct 1996 02:13:58 -0400
+Subject: jms in Tampa, also jms book
+
+Two quickies....
+
+1) This weekend, 11-13th, I'll be in Tampa Florida for Necronomicon, a
+convention being held at the Chamberly Plaza Hotel/Convention Center. 
+I'll be bringing the bloopers, some clips from as-yet unaired shows, and
+other goodies.
+
+2) My totally rewritten, updated and expanded "Complete Book of
+Scriptwriting" hits the stands this week in hardback, $21.99, from
+Writer's Digest Books (ISBN 0-8987-9-512-5).  The book can be found at
+stores, and you can pick up any copy of Writer's Digest Magazine and order
+from them via their 800 number (which I don't have at hand, alas).
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 22:55:12 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn: MOJO, were there any regrets?
+
+RE: the notion of seeing a boat on a lake in the central Garden area...the
+reason I didn't want to do it was that it's silly.  It stretched credulity
+enough to show the baseball diamond (which I've since never returned to,
+for that very reason), but to waste water and space like that in a
+confined location like B5, which is always short, and needs everything to
+be somewhat functional, struck me as a Foolish Thing.  The whole idea here
+is that they're under stress, locked in a tin can.  To do a scene like
+this would undercut that.  Would it look cool?  Sure.  Would it be right
+for the story?  No.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 23:00:12 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Inside the mind of the Great Maker
+
+Thanks.  It's the sort of book -- a retrospective -- that would be useful,
+I agree.  On the one hand, I'm not sure I'd be up to writing it right
+after finishing the series; I think I'll probably be off in a coma
+somewhere.  But if I wait too long, some details will get lost.  I think
+I'll have to think about this some more....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 23:09:57 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - Necronomicon
+
+To the thread in general...thanks.  It was a great convention.  Kinda blew
+out my vocal cords a bit, but other than that, it was terrific.  Thanks.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 23:13:28 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS (Z'Ha'Dum spoilers) WOW! & the Tea Set
+
+The props department found the teapot, and found it very suiting to the
+environment, so they went with it.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 23:14:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Love that title...
+
+Thanks.  I labor over titles a long time...I can't actually begin writing
+an episode until I have the title worked out; dunno why, it's just one of
+those glitches.  And yeah, it's a good and in this case, very apt title.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1996 23:15:33 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: wasting Wayne
+
+Wayne Alexander plays Lorien, a character you'll see throughout the first
+six episodes of season 4.  We wanted to give him more to do.\
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1996 19:15:01 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS gets a Trojan
+
+Just to jump in...I've now got most of the disk restored, still working on
+the windows system directory (logging on to AOL from work), but it's
+almost in hand, so there's no urgent need for email instructions at this
+time...it should be okay soon.  Thanks.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1996 19:16:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Future Episodes (no spoilers, I think)
+
+Yes, a substantial amount of the S4 storyline takes place off B5.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Oct 1996 19:16:32 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Your "virus" problem
+
+Alas, I didn't write down the email address, as the sender said that it
+was on the supposed jpg image.  And then my system went kablooey, so
+there's no way to backcheck it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Oct 1996 01:53:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: Sci-Fi Universe Awards-Congrats to Mira Furlan & Peter Jurasik
+
+Peter Jurasik won for Best Supporting Actor, and Bruce won for Best Actor.
+
+The web site got it wrong; B5 won for Best Series, not X-Files...an error
+which was repeated onstage, as one of the presenters read the name
+X-Files, which was on the prompter, even though the card in his hand read
+B5.  This led to a very embarrassing moment for a poor X-Files fellow who
+went up there to accept, only to have it taken away.  
+
+Mira, btw, was never notified of her nomination, or invited to the awards.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Oct 1996 02:28:16 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Where Credit Is Due?
+
+WB determines and tells us how the credits are to be displayed; we have no
+latitude in this.
+
+jms
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Oct 1996 01:51:15 -0400
+Subject: And the Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place  (* Spoilers *)
+
+(* Spoilers for And the Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place  *)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Re: the rabbi singing the gospel song...a couple of points.  First, if
+you're visiting someone's church, it's only considered polite behavior to
+go along with what's there.  I have a number of Catholic friends who would
+sometimes go to temple with Jewish friends...and when it came time to
+sing, would do so.  Why should it not work the other way around?
+
+Second, as I seem to recall, the line about "no hiding place" is taken
+from the Old Testament, which forms a substantial portion of Judaic
+teachings (but not the whole of it, a mistake many make).  Yes, there's
+some later stuff worked in, but the heart of it is from a common ground.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 20 Oct 1996 02:10:41 -0400
+Subject: Re: And the Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place (* Spoilers *)
+
+Waitaminnit...I retract part two of my reply...I think I just stooged the
+origins of that song.
+
+(whaddyawant from me, I just spend 12 hours putting my hard drive back
+together....)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 20 Oct 1996 02:31:24 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS  And The Rock Question ( * SPOILER * )
+
+I don't think she was so much withholding the information, as they just
+weren't ready yet, and the need for them wasn't there yet.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 20 Oct 1996 20:03:27 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - Your Druthers
+
+Without commercials is always a preferable format for one-hour.  It's just
+more intense that way.  (But for something longer, some kind of break is
+good, even plays break up by acts and intermissions.)  
+\
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Oct 1996 19:09:29 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS  And the Rock...  (spoiler)
+
+Not sure it was so much a look of disappointment as..."Okay, I know
+something here isn't on the level...but he's got it very well
+surrounded...and is it worth sticking out my neck to get into this?"
+
+And yes, Refa was his last name/family name.
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Oct 1996 21:13:17 -0400
+Subject: jms scriptwriting book info
+
+(This is the last time I'll be forwarding this info for a while; I got
+requests from several nets for more info, since the prior notice was
+fairly brief, and now that I have a minute to spare, I'm passing it along,
+but I don't want to monopolize this overmuch with what is, in essence, a
+commercial....)
+
+As I mentioned in my earlier note, bundled with the Tampa convention info,
+the new edition of my book, "The Complete Book of Scriptwriting," has just
+come out from Writer's Digest Books.  
+
+It has chapters on breaking in as a writer for film, TV, stage and radio,
+which have been rewritten stem to stern from the prior edition, fully
+updated, old info trashed, again completely revised...plus new chapters on
+animation, the Writer's Guild, Warning Signs, altogether about 100,000 new
+words.  (The book is huge, 424 pages, one stop shopping for the
+script-inclined.)  It's basically the book I wish someone had written when
+*I* was starting out in the biz.
+
+It also contains the *complete* script for the Hugo-award winning B5
+episode, "The Coming of Shadows," with material deleted from the actual
+episode for time.
+
+You can order the book via your local bookstore (ISBN# 0-89879-512-5), or
+via www.amazon.com, or direct from WD (800-289-0963).  It sells for $21.99
+in hardback.  
+
+It took me about 3+ years to finish the rewrite on this, because I wanted
+it to be right.  Now it is.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Oct 1996 16:05:35 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Third age no longer mentioned?
+
+By not mentioning it, now you're mentioning it, so to get something
+mentioned maybe it's better not to mention it, or mention not mentioning
+it, or by not mentioning that you've not mentioned it let someeone else
+mention that you've not mentioned it.
+
+By the time you finish the preceding sentence, the word "mention" will
+have lost all meaning.
+
+And we'll get back to this issue in season 4.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Oct 1996 16:06:30 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks and public apology
+
+Thanks in return...and the intent of your message was clear, I'm not sure
+you have anything to apologize for, but lobbing one out there on general
+principle will rarely cause distress.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Oct 1996 22:11:18 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS jms scriptwriting book
+
+Thanks; I'm glad the book is of use (when you can pry it away); that's
+what I was  hoping for, to do some good with it.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Oct 1996 04:59:31 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: When? (B5 novel with Anna Sheridan)
+
+It's due to come out as the first of the next batch of three from Dell.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Oct 1996 05:02:36 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS (Re: And the Rock )
+
+You gotta understand...nobody touches my computer.  It's a thing with
+me....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 23 Oct 1996 21:40:11 -0400
+Subject: Re: Fanclub Problems -- how does one get a respo
+
+I copied your note to Jim Lockett's account; this will expedite things.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Oct 1996 21:47:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Shadow Dancing Director (!Spoilers!)
+
+You're right; no one should have made a big deal out of her walking past;
+that was indicated to the director, but not followed through on.  Kim's
+done a lot of other shows, but after this one wasn't available again due
+to committments.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 24 Oct 1996 03:24:29 -0400
+Subject: Re: "ATTN JMS:A ratings question"
+
+No, nothing new, and I'm really kinda bugged about it.  Because of the
+TNT/WB merger, most of our people over at WB who used to give us the
+ratings aren't there anymore or have been shifted over to other
+divisions...they don't like taking the time to give each individual show
+they work on the ratings breakdown because it takes up too much of their
+time.  
+
+The only figure I've heard so far was the overall national (final) rating
+on the first new episode, which was a 3.2, which is great for coming back.
+ The station by station figures I've seen for the second week are higher,
+so the overall should be higher, but until they see fit to tell me, I can
+only guess, and the trades don't usually publish comprehensive lists.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Oct 1996 23:35:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: the hype for Star Trek-Voyager
+
+I agree.  I've more or less reconciled myself to the reality that this
+show is only going to get its proper recognition once we've finished it,
+and it's running in long term syndication.  Such is life.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Oct 1996 03:04:34 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS -- New B5 Cards -- what were you thinking?! :)
+
+We're limited to what WB has in stock; WB only sends a photographer to the
+set 1 day out of every 7 we shoot.  They usually send someone on days when
+there are action sequences.  So very often, guest stars don't get shot. 
+The Fleer folks have to make do with what WB chooses to shoot.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Oct 1996 03:07:13 -0400
+Subject: Re: SHADOW DANCING (spoilers)
+
+>...and the BIGGEST bitch of all about the episode (and JMS - pay
+>attention) was the "miraculous" recovery of Marcus. I like him as a
+>character, and enjoyed the further development of his unrequited love
+>for Ivanova (along the Lancelot/Gueniviere parallel). But, two
+>episodes ago, he had the freaking SHIT beat out of him (remember the
+>bloody Minbari staff anyone???).
+
+Yes, I do remember.  But for starters, we're talking about more than two
+weeks of story time.  Between Grey 17 and Rock was several weeks, then
+you've got about 2 weeks from Rock to Shadow Dancing.  That's five weeks,
+and now you've got the issue of medicine 250 years from now...and you can
+be sure that these kinds of injuries will be fixed much more quickly.  It
+isn't like he showed up the very next day like this, we *did* allow for
+proper amounts of time.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 25 Oct 1996 14:55:49 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Shadow Dancing Jungian Psychology...
+
+"Is Sheridan to meet his shadow next week?"
+
+Well, now that you mention it...
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Oct 1996 16:02:51 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Shadow Dancing at Avalon (Spoilers)
+
+"When I saw "A Late Arrival at Avalon," Marcus's line asking "Who is
+Morgana La Fey" got me to begin speculating that Anna Sheridan was alive
+and that she was working for the Shadows.  My question is whether or not
+Marcus's line was intended that way--i.e. as foreshadowing that a
+significant female figure not presently on the scene (Anna?) would arrive
+at B5 to play Morgana to Delenn's Lady of the Lake?"
+
+
+
+yup.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1996 22:45:07 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS:What does the signed card look like
+
+It's similar to the regular jms card, with a seal/imprint, my signature,
+and a blue area for the signature itself.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1996 23:06:02 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Captain Power question
+
+I'm pretty sure the song was "Little Brown Jug."
+
+Or was it "Little Brown Bag?"  The first two words are correct.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1996 23:07:56 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS...your updated Scriptwriting book
+
+I definitely agree; the well-done 30 or 60 second spot is a true rarity,
+and requires just as much attention to detail, the story involved, it has
+to move you or touch you at some level...it's a *very* tough business.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1996 23:31:51 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: ratings --- here's some.
+
+And here's some great info: I've mentioned that we've been consistently
+growing in ratings, and the second episode back, "Grey 17," hit #19 in the
+ratings, so we're back in the top 20 for the first time in quite a while!
+
+I've mentioned before the slow upward tracking, from 60s to 50s to 40s,
+and then to 30s...and now we're right smack into the top 20 (as per this
+past Friday's Daily Variety).  We're very pleased.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1996 22:48:58 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Anti-male joke ruined my enjoyment of Shadow Dancing (*SPOILERS*)
+
+"I gritted my teeth tighter when the dialogue launched into some anti-male
+paranoia about "What if the male demands the female stay a second night?",
+and the various "vengeances" she could take for a custom that is, after
+all, steeply in her favor. I could accept all that in an anthropological
+sense: "Look what anti-male customs the Minbari have. Isn't that
+fascinating, if you put the moral judgements aside?". But then... Yeesh!"
+
+The "vengeances" she cites, should the male insist she stay another night,
+are "she can leave once he falls asleep, complain to the elders, even cut
+off his access to her family."  These hardly sound like anti-male
+rhetoric, but rather precautions taken to deal reasonably *should* someone
+get out of line.  It doesn't state that all men do this, but sets in place
+what to do should *some* men do this.
+
+This is not a problem of context.  It is a problem of perception.  It has
+nothing to do with the scene, and everything to do with how you perceive
+the role of males in society.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1996 23:35:21 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Awful sound problem on Shadow Dancing
+
+We've been running this down, and we suspect that the tapes are being
+transmuted from digital to analog and back again when they insert the
+commercials after we turn over the eps to WB.  We're working to fix this,
+it happened before and we beat the crap outta some people at the
+subcontracting company.  We may have to do it again.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1996 02:10:16 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Your health
+
+I eat fine, and in general am fine.  It's always a risk, though, going to
+conventions, because the odds of catching something from 2000 people in
+close quarters, with considerable contact is fairly high.  And the flu's
+running around this season.  So I got hammered just at the end of the last
+con I did in Tampa.  Probably caught it the first day of the con, 'cause
+it hit by Sunday.  But them's the breaks.  
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1996 02:12:51 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Back Home?
+
+It's a good question, to consider just how much Earth knows about all
+this.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1996 03:02:20 -0500
+Subject: Re: Shadow Dancing Q: Audio Dropped?
+
+No, we just figured we'd let the music take it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1996 19:43:25 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Suggestions for SF marathon?
+
+"I'm the SF Marathon Director for the MIT Lecture Series Committee, and
+was just wondering what you, Joe, would recommend...  what are your
+favorite SF movies of all time?"
+
+For starters, I'd include "Seconds" on your list, the only marginally SF
+film done by Rock Hudson which to this *day* scares the hell out of me. 
+John Frankenheimer was never better.
+
+I'd also include "Fail Safe," "Dr. Strangelove," "Seven Days in May" and
+"The Manchurian Candidate" which (for my money) do have some SF aspects to
+them...if "Alas, Babylon" is SF, then "Fail Safe" and the others can be
+included in that.  It's also a grouping that gives newer audiences a sense
+of where this country was at a very precarious point in its history.
+
+Of films more definitely in the SF area...Forbidden Planet, The Day the
+Earth Stood Still, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Invasion of the Body
+Snatchers, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (stop staring at me like that,
+it's got aliens and...and space ships...and...and mad scientists and stuff
+like that, and it's got a beat and you can dance to it), Aliens, High
+Plains Drifter (fantasy), Terminator 2, The Road Warrior, The Princess
+Bride (fantasy), On the Beach, Night of the Living Dead, Brazil, Alien,
+The Haunting of Hill House, Blade Runner, First Men in the Moon, When
+Worlds Collide, Village of the Damned, Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers,
+Phantom of the Paradise and Day of the Triffids.
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1996 20:02:09 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Z'ha'dum Question...Spoilers
+
+Yes, Justin is the man in-between...the "middle man," as he describes
+himself.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1996 00:12:13 -0500
+Subject: Re: I bought a book today, oh, boy!
+
+That's a GREAT story, thanks.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1996 01:27:18 -0500
+Subject: Re: Babylon 5 Licensed Kits <> Revell 1997 Releases.
+
+They only got the license a couple/three weeks ago, long after the kit
+would've gone to press.  It's way too early to expect anything in print.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1996 01:30:31 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: You and the Cast...
+
+Except for tone meetings with directors, no, not really.  The cast are
+very happy with what's going on, so there isn't that much to say.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1996 15:40:38 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Z'ha'dum inquiry (SPOILERS)
+
+Justin thought he had some influence...but perception and reality are
+often at odds.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1996 16:06:55 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Confusion about ratings
+
+I don't think those were the actual neilsens, but someone's assemblage of
+info.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1996 15:43:32 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Z'Ha'Dum Double Whammy (*No* Spoilers)
+
+That's terrific, hadn't yet heard the details.  Thanks.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1996 16:05:27 -0500
+Subject: Re: Captain Power Question
+
+No, you're correct, that episode, "Retribution," was the last one
+produced.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1996 20:52:20 -0500
+Subject: 402 Spoiler Warning
+
+I just got a copy of the ad that's going to run in TV Guide for "Whatever
+Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" in two weeks.  It's a great ad, well composed,
+well done, but it's also a major spoiler for something you will NOT want
+spoiled.  So avoid the ad if possible.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1996 04:03:22 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Election Day			(bryoung2@vt.edu (Brian De Young))
+
+Not that it does or should matter...voting is an individual act and how
+one person votes should not have influence or bearing on anyone else...but
+I plan to vote for Clinton.  For my money, Dole has shown himself to be a
+mean, venal little man who thinks that he should get the job because he
+earned it in the Senate.  He doesn't have any real plans for it, he just
+wants the pointy hat; he thinks he deserves it.  Feeling you're next in
+line for promotion, for me, isn't sufficient reason to be given the
+mandate to run the country.
+
+The only thing he's ever put on the table was the 15% tax cut, which
+strikes me as nothing more than a bribe.  
+
+Frankly, my gut -- which has almost always proven correct around election
+year -- tells me that Dole is gonna get whomped *badly* come November.  It
+may be the most punishing loss a republican has taken in years.
+
+Which, I suspect, will not be a surprise to the republicans.  I think they
+figured, on some level, that Clinton would probably be re-elected -- very
+few sitting presidents have been booted out of office while running for a
+second term -- and they decided to hold off on their big guns until the
+2000 election, rather than fritter them away in 96.  "Dole wants the
+nomination so bad, let him have it and get pasted; we'll be over in the
+bar, wake us when it's over."
+
+In 2000 you're going to have Gore running hard on the democratic side,
+again with an "I deserve it" attitude, though Veeps have traditionally not
+done that terribly well when going for the Big Chair.  He'll likely get it
+unless someone comes charging out of the corner with a dynamic program and
+personality, which is, of course, always a possibility, though he'll have
+the democratic establishment on his side.
+
+On the republican side, you're going to see Kemp and Pete Wilson
+scrabbling for the nomination for certain; who else, we'll see.  (Don't
+laugh re: Wilson.  Lemme tell you a story I heard back when I was a
+reporter in San Diego, at a time when Wilson was just mayor.  And an
+unpopular mayor at that.  One day one of the other reporters came into a
+restaurant we used to hang out at, and he was...well, he wasn't plastered,
+but he'd been knocking them back.  Very quiet.  Finally, we got him to
+talk.  He said, and this is pretty much verbatim, "Wilson met with the
+kingmakers today," he said.  "They're going to run him for senator, then
+they're going to run him for governor, and they're going to run him for
+president."  This was the most absurd thing we'd ever heard, and said
+so...again, he was barely holding on for *mayor*; prevailing logic was
+that he'd be lucky to be elected dogcatcher next time around.  He shook
+his head.  "They'll run him for senator, then governor, then president." 
+And after they ran Wilson (and won) for senator, then governor, and
+started poking him out the door for president (stopped only when his
+throat went out)...I stopped laughing.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Oct 1996 15:54:45 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: When the writer's block cometh..
+
+"What I want to know is, when the muses fly away and bring the dreaded
+monster of writer's block on you, how do YOU deal with it?"
+
+You're going to kill me when you hear this...but since I started writing
+and selling at 17, I've never, ever had writer's block.  It's finding time
+to write it all, and deciding which thing to write, that's always been
+hard.  But (not to tempt the universe here), I've never had writer's
+block, and can't imagine it.  Even if it ever did hit, I've got so much
+outlined and premise'd out in the files I could work off that for
+literally *years*.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+JMS Usenet messages for November 1996.
+
+Date: 1 Nov 1996 23:07:17 -0500
+Subject: joe's heart (from jms)
+
+Honestly, people...I can't believe anyone still falls for this stuff.
+
+So there I was, over in the editing bays (away from the B5 stages),
+editing 406, merrily nipping and tucking and rearranging, when a phone
+call comes from the stage.  In a harrassed voice, the person on the other
+end explains that they have been flooded with calls asking about a rumor
+that I'd passed out on the way to work and had been taken to the hospital
+with a heart attack.
+
+C'mon, people...this is the oldest gag in the book.  It's been done to
+Harlan, Walter, Jimmy Doohan (which makes me thing a ST person is behind
+this) and others.  
+
+Lemme put it to you this way: if anything should ever happen to me, you
+will never have to hear about it from someone else, or a rumor.  I have
+people here who will post the information, and all pertinent details,
+direct from Babylonian on my behalf.  If you hear this sort of nonsense
+from anyone else, you can totally ignore it.
+
+And to the person who says he "heard it:" you obviously did not hear
+anything of the kind, and you made it up deliberately to cause trouble. 
+If you did hear it from someone else, let's hear a name.  If not, then you
+are to be held responsible for this.  And, frankly, for the grief caused
+to the set, the stage, and many other people who called out of concern,
+the person responsible for this is less than a creep.  This is just
+another form of interneterrorism.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 3 Nov 1996 01:06:52 -0500
+Subject: Re: Sorry! (jms in hospital)
+
+James: let me explain why what you did was a Bad Thing.  And let me now
+proceed to bust your chops over this.
+
+A rumor like that is started for only one reason: to hurt.  By passing it
+along, you compound the problem.  You become the instrument of their
+assault.  Too many people have a tendency to take what they see on the
+nets as either true, or worth investigating, and they then pass it on to
+the next net, and the next net...it becomes a kind of interactive virus,
+spreading further.
+
+The result: the small staff at Babylonian were harried with endless
+numbers of phone calls.  People got annoyed.  Time was wasted.  I got
+pulled out of editing to deal with this.  I spent several *hours* last
+night tracking this down and posting messages to other systems putting
+people's minds to rest.  Hours that could (and should) have been spent
+writing.  Very close friends of mine overseas and elsewhere saw this and
+panicked, some were deeply emotionally upset, and would like to get your
+throat someplace near their fingers for posting this in the first place.  
+
+Make no mistake: though it was not your intent, *you did harm*.  As does
+anyone who takes what some jerk says in IRC or elsewhere like this and
+reposts it without doing the least amount of checking.  And don't take the
+"I wanted more information" line with me, James.  You want information,
+all you have to do is send email to the moderators of this forum, who can
+call the stage, and find out.  Then you have your answer, real easy. 
+Instead what you did was the effect of lobbing a hand grenade into a herd
+of horses.  
+
+So don't blame the other person.  You posted the original message, and
+added two more "clarifications" to it that were equally bogus.  You
+started the stampede.
+
+"Sorry" doesn't cut it.  "Sorry" doesn't restore the lost hours of work,
+the annoyed employees, or placate the friends of mine who you deeply
+distressed.
+
+Never, ever, ever do this to me again.  
+
+Or I will be most upset.
+
+You wouldn't like me when I'm upset, James.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 3 Nov 1996 19:54:32 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Censorship and "Wolf" (no spoilers)
+
+"In "The Hour of the Wolf" there are two scenes -- you know which ones --
+that seemed quite a departure from what one usually sees on TV.  Did you
+write "Wolf" before or after your revelation that you were not bound by
+Standards and Practices.  'Cause if you wrote this *before*, then we're in
+for quite a ride."
+
+Aside from the desk scene, which was the other you're referring to?
+
+Oh...and the answer is...before.
+
+Hang on.  It's going to be a bumpy night.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Nov 1996 19:54:46 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS:Newsweek and E-Mail
+
+Darn, I was going to look for that one today and I forgot....
+
+Yeah, we're a fully wired show.  Scary, innit...?
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Nov 1996 19:55:19 -0500
+Subject: Re: Hour of the Wolf (NitPick :)
+
+The ships provided by Delenn are White Star class ships, hence the useage.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+Date: 5 Nov 1996 08:16:51 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS thanks from a new viewer
+
+"Does it hurt to give birth to an entire universe?"
+
+Not really, but the post-partum depression is a bitch.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Nov 1996 08:18:06 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Great Book!! Thanks!
+
+Thanks.  The script is a good example of how things work,and how the
+writer forms what the director does.
+
+I'll try to stop by Bix...it's just the pace of so much stuff makes it
+hard.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Nov 1996 08:22:38 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: The lost hours of work and the worried people as a result of THE RUMOR
+
+"As much as you hate to admit it, you're an important person, not just out
+there, but in the lives -- right there, in our faces, guiding us for a
+small, or large part of the day -- in the lives of millions of people.  We
+care about you enough to cause chaos.  But it's not any one person's
+fualt."
+
+I'm not important.  The story, yes, maybe...but not me.
+
+James was the one who initially posted it, having been exposed to the one
+person in IRC who wanted to do this.  If B5 is about choices, consequences
+and responsibility, we have to own up to making a choice to go public with
+something rather than check it out, recognize that there are consequences
+to other people when you do this, and then accept the responsibility for
+those consequences.
+
+"Quite frankly, when it comes to B5, I find that the people are a lot more
+polite and honest than other 'netters, and I have come to trust people."
+
+This part I agree with.  I can't tell you how often I've had convention
+organizers, from Worldcon and elsewhere, tell me how pleasantly surprised
+and pleased they were that the B5 fans were invariably well-spoken,
+polite, intelligent, and friendly.  We've got a good rep, and I guess I
+want to protect that.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Nov 1996 05:52:59 GMT
+Subject: Re: JMS's "Complete Book of Scriptwriting"
+
+The date stated obviously refers to the US, not to the UK.  The US
+experiments in TV fell a bit by the wayside when the war hit.  Some
+European communities kept at it.  But question: are you sure, when the BBC
+refers to its founding in 1936, that they're not referring to BBC *radio*?
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Nov 1996 08:11:51 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: your reading list?
+
+I read him in college, but not much since then, I'm afraid.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Nov 1996 07:04:33 GMT
+Subject: Re: B5 Filming/Studio Question
+
+No, we don't film on the Warner Bros. lot, and we're not set up to do any
+kind of tours.  
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Nov 1996 07:06:25 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5 MIDI on Web Page?
+
+I cannot give permission for *anything*, as the copyright is owned by
+Warner Bros., not me.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Nov 1996 07:08:18 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: HourOTWolf CGI *No Spoilers*
+
+The non-moving Centauri Prime shot is an original Foundation shot; the one
+where it's moving (with the cruiser fly-bys) is the new one, and there's a
+lot more detail now in the surface of the planet and other stuff.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Nov 1996 07:11:54 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Questions About Scriptwriting Book
+
+I debated long and hard about including a section about comics in the
+script book, and finally opted against it, on several grounds.  1) I
+wanted to specialize in performance-style scriptwriting, involving living
+people, and 2) while I've written some comics, I don't feel enough of an
+expert yet to set down my poor understanding in book form.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Nov 1996 07:38:54 GMT
+Subject: Re: For JMS
+
+Thanks, and good luck with your own writing.  Follow your passion; the
+rest will take care of itself.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Nov 1996 23:08:05 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Why is no one offended at BOTH old races?!?
+
+"After watching Z'ha'dum and "Wolf"  (No spoilers here), my main thought
+was basically,  who the hell are these old races who assume moral
+superiority based on technical superiority?  How dare they interfere with
+our development as a species just to suit their own petty needs? I wonder
+if any character  on the show will take that same line of thought and
+expand upon it?"
+
+Well, until now, that's been primarily unknown to the other species.  Now,
+thanks to Sheridan's trip to Z'ha'dum, and stuff coming up, that
+information will start to get out.
+
+So yeah, you may find someone or someones picking this thread up....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Nov 1996 06:19:18 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: WOLF reaction (no spoilers)
+
+I seem to vaguely remember the title "It's a Very Nice Day," but will have
+to work to connect it to a story.
+
+And thanks...it's a good start to the season.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Nov 1996 22:56:49 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Why the Theme Change?
+
+We change the theme every season to reflect the tonaity and direction of
+that season's story.  Every season when it butts up against the previous
+season's intent, a lot of folks ask why change it, it was better
+before...and then, by the end of the season, when people see how it fits
+in, generally they like it a lot...and then ask why it got changed for the
+*next* season....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Nov 1996 23:03:50 GMT
+Subject: Re: New FX
+
+"The first S4 episode (Hour of the Wolf) doesn't have nearly as many FX as
+the later S3 episodes, and what is there is mostly stock shots of the
+station rotating, etc."
+
+There are as many CGI shots in "Wolf" as in most of our episodes, and more
+than in "Rock," a later S3 episode.  There's also the new establishers of
+Centauri Prime the planet, the revised Palace shots, new establishers of
+the station, a big new shot of the interior of the Garden that pans down,
+the beside-Z'ha'dum sequence...there's a LOT there.  So a) your latter
+observation is, I gently point out, factually inaccurate, and b) most
+station shots have been recycled stock since year one, adding new ones
+each season then dropping them into rotation (so to speak).
+
+We always balance big EFX shows with smaller ones, building up to some big
+stuff.  We're doing the same thing here this year as we've ever done.
+\
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Nov 1996 23:05:26 GMT
+Subject: Re: Hour of the Wolf: non-spoiler(?) question
+
+There's more to Lorien than meets the eye.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1996 06:09:09 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: New Novels Known?
+
+The first book is by Jeanne Cavellos, following Anna Sheridan and the
+Icarus to Z'ha'dum; the second follows Vir and Londo to Centauri Prime at
+the time of the events in these first six episode; and the third follows
+Sinclair to Minbar after leaving B5 and setting up the rangers.  This time
+out, I decided to assign out the stories, to make sure they were accurate
+and in continuity.  The first one up may be the best to date, I'm 2/3rds
+through it and haven't made a note yet.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1996 08:58:03 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Another Hour Nit...*minor spoiler*
+
+"best I can tell from my (admittedly limited) knowledge of Centauri
+physiology, he would have been looking in the wrong place - kinda like
+looking down a human woman's socks, or something."
+
+Tell that to a foot fetishist.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1996 06:53:55 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Regarding B5 sets on 'FutureQuest'
+
+They asked if they could borrow our sets, and we said sure...anything to
+help.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1996 03:57:14 GMT
+Subject: Re: The Hour of the Wolf -- homonym question (* Spoilers *)
+
+It's definitely born, not borne.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1996 09:01:39 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Spoilers in the "...Garibaldi" trailer for Ep #403
+
+Correct, I have no editorial control or influence over the trailers; I see
+them when everyone else does.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1996 20:42:51 GMT
+Subject: Re: Wow! "Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi" & a concern
+
+"when we were watching "Hour of the Wolf" G'kar had a line (when answering
+Zack) that caused all of us to bust out laughing because of it's relation
+to rec.humor.  Was this intentional?"
+
+As I've no idea what this refers to...nope.
+
+And thanks.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1996 00:31:23 GMT
+Subject: Re: Rumor of first season actually (finally) being released on video...
+
+No, like all WB rumors, this one isn't true either.
+
+Understand...if there were going to be a video release, I'd be all over
+the place announcing it.  
+
+If you hear a rumor, and it didn't come directly from me, you can almost
+always discount it.  What happens, I talk about.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1996 20:41:13 GMT
+Subject: Re: To JMS and the gang
+
+Thanks, and yes, there was a hint of Gene in her dialolgue about Turhan.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1996 20:37:41 GMT
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: You Did It (WHt Mr. Garibaldi? *SPOILERS*)
+
+Thanks.  The script was easy to write story-wise, I think it only took me
+a few days (in general, the faster the write, the better the script, when
+it comes to something like this...writing in white heat is best), but
+*very* difficult from an emotional standpoint.  I was just about as wasted
+after writing it as you were after seeing it.  There's a lot of stuff in
+there that's difficult or painful to touch, and you can only hope that it
+comes out okay.  I'm happy it did.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1996 09:46:20 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS "The" Tony Dow?
+
+Yup, it's him.  He's also directing "Atonement" for us this season.\
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1996 09:53:11 GMT
+Subject: small jms email rules
+
+     Okay, it's time for the usual recitation of email rules.
+
+      1) Please do not send me inquiries about the storyline in private
+email.  You may think, "Well, it's just me," but at last Neilsen count
+there were about 15 million of you out there, and only one of me.  I can't
+get into lengthy discussions about the plot or storylines in email.  I end
+up answering the same questions multiple times, and the answers go to only
+one person at a time.  If you have a story question, ASK IT IN A PUBLIC
+FORUM, NOT IN EMAIL, so that others can benefit from the answers.
+
+     (Here's where this gets silly.  Often, when I'm speaking at a
+convention, I'll ask, at the end, "Any other questions?"  And nobody puts
+their hands up, even though we've got a few minutes left.  Then, as soon
+as the presentation is over, 50 people rush the stage with questions they
+want to ask...many of them very good, and which the audience would've
+loved to hear answered.  You tend to be a very smart, perceptive
+bunch...don't deny others the quality of your questions.)
+
+
+
+      2) Please, please, PLEASE do not send me story ideas in email.
+
+      3) Do not send jpgs or anything else that requires downloading; I
+was hit by a trojan horse and virus lately, and consequently I have a very
+firm no-download policy on anything else coming into me via email.
+
+      4) Private email should be used for things you cannot discuss in a
+public forum, or for which confidentiality is needed for other reasons. 
+I'm swamped with 500 messages a day...if it doesn't have to be sent email,
+please don't do so.
+
+      5) Requests for agent suggestions, or requests to read your scripts
+or stories, will be met by stony silence.
+
+      6) We cannot give studio tours, or afford to send out scripts, or
+story bibles, or actor photographs.  When the actors do this, bear in mind
+that it is a kindness *that comes out of their own pockets*, as there is
+no budget from WB to send photos.  
+
+      I hate to be as brusque as this, but I'm starting to get overloaded
+with email, and an occasional advisory seems necessary.
+
+      Many thanks.
+                                                                  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1996 23:32:08 GMT
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: What ever happened to Quality?
+
+The characters figure it out later this season.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1996 23:37:20 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Stealing scenes from other works
+
+But the thing is, I wasn't *thinking* of LoTR...I was thinking of Orpheus
+going into the underworld, of the classical notion of descending into hell
+to find oneself or something else...it just bugs me when someone assumes
+that they know what was in my head at a time when I wrote something, and
+then take that as a given and start making me explain it or acting as if
+this is true, when it ain't.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1996 23:33:29 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Faith in Future Eps?
+
+Belief in one thing or another is *always* important.  Only the subject is
+sometimes worrisome.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1996 06:00:53 GMT
+Subject: Re: Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi (* Spoilers *)
+
+"I watched _What Ever Happened to Mr Garibaldi_ last night and was struck
+by the scene where Mr. G was being questioned by the disembodied voice. 
+That scene was very similar to the style of another one of my favorite
+shows _Homicide: Life on the Streets_.  I'm just wondering if that was an
+intentional nod to that show."
+
+This is kind of embarrassing, but...see, I don't watch much TV anymore.  I
+don't have time.  I think I've seen maybe two episodes of Homicide, total.
+ So we were in with the editor to do our producer's cut of 402, and I was
+trying to describe what I wanted...jarring, disorienting cuts, don't worry
+if it matches, use conflicting takes or overlaps of takes...and finally
+the editor said, "Oh, you mean the Homicide look."  And it'd been so long
+that I asked them to explain to me what that meant, and John got into it,
+me with him, and ended up with what we've got.  I've got to start watching
+TV again, beyond X-Files, 60 Minutes and Simpsons.  (Well, I've added
+Millennium, so that helps.)
+
+"Second question. Last year on ABC the show _Murder One_ tried having one
+main story, like an arc, through the whole season.  It was following a
+single
+trial (I assume you know this).  That show basically got a "that's nice"
+from the crowd and not much else.  Do you think that the  concept of an
+ongoing story works better in a science fiction show  than say a cop show?
+ Was it more the execution of _Murder One_  that did in the idea of one
+trial per season?  I would be curious to hear your thoughts."
+
+No, I don't really think it's genre specific.  Frankly, I think the
+viewing audience was *so* sick to death of the OJ trial that the idea of
+watching ANOTHER homicide trial take a week was just too much for them.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1996 07:54:25 GMT
+Subject: Re: *SPOILERS* [ATTN:JMS] Observations after 'Whatever Happened ...'
+
+"They are being made to choose between life and death, action and
+inaction, hope and despair.  They are in the position of having to either
+lose faith, or keep it."
+
+Yup.  Got it in one....
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1996 07:57:27 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Expanding Symmetries (No Spoilers)
+
+I briefly considered giving G'Kar a second, after the revolving door
+Na'Toths, but as I looked at it...as you say, the others all DO have one
+like that, and I figured it might be good to have someone *without*
+that...especially after the fall of Narn, when the staff would be
+canceled.  And there's something I like about G'Kar being alone in all
+this.  Anyway, it varies the mix a bit.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1996 08:01:19 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: I was right...
+
+Good luck to you.  In doing what you're doing, you are removing yourself
+from the system, and the system always objects to that.  Follow your
+voice, and your passion, and you will never go wrong.
+
+Again, good luck.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1996 08:10:43 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATT JMS: personal ? SPOILERS for Walkabout and after
+
+"Are you *still* dealing with this, in Sheridan's situation on Z'ha'dum,
+and the decision he has to make? Is this where you get your strength of
+will, that you've faced this decision yourself?.....You've been dealing
+with the whole issue of finding something worth living for, rather than
+something worth dying for, since when, "Infection"? "
+
+In retrospect, that was something I probably should not have mentioned,
+and would not have, had the thing not just utterly blindsided me in the
+middle of the conference.  What got me through the attack, and its
+aftermath, those years ago, was sheer unadulterated rage...that I would
+not allow them to take my life because I had stories left in me to tell. 
+And no matter what, I'd tell those stories.  At first, I'd made my peace
+with myself...I'd never gone out of my way to hurt anyone, had helped
+where I could, had done some good work...I had a few things on the shelf,
+not a lot, but a start...but then I just started to get mad about it, and
+pulled myself back from the edge.  
+
+So yeah, in a sense, I've faced that black, implacable wall...and it does
+drive you, after a while.  And I do think, to a large degree, I'm still
+trying to define myself, to find what it is that's at the center for me,
+beyond the work.  But then, I don't think that's terribly special...it
+seems to be the standard dilemma in an industrial society.  
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1996 08:11:53 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Claudia Christian & Episode 402 (spoilers for "Whatever...")
+
+No, those scenes were always written with Franklin in mind.  There was a
+brief scene with Ivanova originally in the ep, but it was snipped for
+time.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1996 09:35:02 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: General B5 question
+
+"Does reading through all these Internet discussions of your work,
+speculations, and analyses help you not only generate ideas but maintain a
+higher level of cohesion and complexity in the saga?"
+
+No, for one primary reason: there is no continuity of opinion about much
+of ANYdamnthing among the netizens out there.  Which is the good thing
+about all this; no two people see the same show.
+
+But from this end, the story is the story is the story.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1996 09:39:35 GMT
+Subject: Re: JMS: Archetypes in B5?
+
+---->*My question, then, is this:  "Is babylon5 intended to be a modern
+myth?  If so, what influences might have lead to the scripting of the B5
+saga?  Jung? Campbell perhaps?"*<----
+
+Yes and no.  I'm aware of Campbell's work, and have read much of it...but
+bear in mind that his analyses came *after* the creative fact.  If you try
+to consciously implement that during the writing, it can start making the
+writing feel artificial.  It's the difference between the first two Road
+Warrior movies and Thunderdome...in the gap between 2 and 3, he read
+Campbell, and started doing things by the numbers rather than following
+his gut instinct.  Consequently, 3 feels the least natural.
+
+It's the job of the storyteller to provide myth, or perhaps more properly,
+to reinterpret and reinvent myth, since myth tends not so much to be
+created as to be newly understood, as we remake the world in our own image
+every 15 years.
+
+This is one responsibility that TV has, for the most part, abrogated.  So
+I'm trying as best I can to draw some archetypes and myths out of the
+collective ether and stitch them together into new patterns for new
+audiences....
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1996 09:32:45 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS "Poss. Spoiler for next ep after Whatever Happened..."
+
+The scene was snipped for time.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Nov 1996 06:42:25 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: sory if you got this before, but I'm not sure it went through
+
+No, I didn't write for the V series, only did a 4-hour miniseries that was
+not produced because it was too costly for syndication...and no, haven't
+read the Niven book.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Nov 1996 06:41:01 GMT
+Subject: Re: jms and TV was: Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi (* NO Spoilers *)
+
+I love the history channel.  I end up landing there late at night and
+watching whatever's on, especially the newsreel stuff.  Just terrific. 
+Interestingly, of all the new channels, THC is the one growing the fastest
+right now.  It gives me a small glimmer of hope....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1996 10:23:27 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: WHTMG Timeline inconsistencies?  (SPOILERS)
+
+No, this is a case where jms screwed up.
+
+Originally, the script read, "It's now 14 days since Captain Sheridan left
+for Z'ha'dum and was presumed killed.  Nine days since Mr. Garibaldi
+disappeared while on patrol."
+
+I went to edit the first sentence to make it active rather than passive
+syntax.  In handwriting on the page (after the first draft, the typists
+take revisions and implement them), I meant to write, "It is now 9 days
+since Captain Sheridan was presumed killed at Z'ha'dum."  I either missed
+changing the days, or the typist didn't put it in (it happens), and that
+draft of the script is long gone.  But without knowing which, I'll just
+take the rap for it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1996 10:24:05 GMT
+Subject: Re: JMS:Contract with Foundation dropped?
+
+We were unable to make a deal with Foundation this season.  All the new B5
+effects for fourth season, including the first two aired, were done
+in-house.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1996 10:14:27 GMT
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: More Homicide/B5 similarities of technique . . .
+
+"HANNAH:  It's all trivial . . . It's wanting to know that makes us
+matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. -Tom Stoppard,
+"Arcadia""
+
+Saw this play while I was in London about a year and a half ago.  Liked
+parts of it, but as much as I like Tom Stoppard's work overall, I think
+that if they're going to produce a play like this they should at least
+have the politeness to TELL you that there's math involved.  I didn't know
+there would be a test.
+
+(And since somebody's bound to ask...in addition to Stoppard, I'm very
+fond of the work of Joe Orton, Harold Pinter (though a little of that goes
+a long way), and Alan Ayckbourn (whose "Norman Conquests" is/are
+wonderful).  I also saw "Dancing at Luhnasa," and to this day don't
+understand what all the furor was about, though it was a fine enough
+play.)
+
+Whenever I'm in London, I try to see as much theater as I can, because so
+much of it is so well done there.  Though, I must confess, I dozed off
+halfway through a Restoration period sex farce (well, an attempt at same)
+at the RSC Swan Theater that was dry as sawdust.  "The Woman in Black"
+remains one of the most entertaining small plays in London, a terrific
+little ghost story that draws you in whether you want to be drawn in or
+not.  (The Buddy Holly autobiographical play is thin on plot, great on
+music.  But then, so was "Return to Forbidden Planet," and that was a hoot
+also.)  And the new staging of "An Inspector Calls" is just terrific.
+
+This has been your theater review for the day.  Thankyew.
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 02:04:16 GMT
+Subject: Re: Universe Today #2 ???
+
+I have the new edition on my desk, in final form, and it's going out now. 
+The problem is that normally, when licensed stuff comes through for
+approval, I get it in and out the door in 48 hours.  But since this is our
+own license, I can't approve our own stuff, and it has to go through WB. 
+WB sat on this thing for about two months.  We're trying to work it out
+with them to get things approved more quickly.  It's kinda ridiculous.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 02:06:51 GMT
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS, videos, e-mail, 'n stuff
+
+The problem is in getting WB to kick loose of the rights to the videos. 
+We've been negotiating endlessly with them to let us do them...but they're
+kinda like a monkey with its hand around a nut in a jar...it can't get it
+out, but won't let go, either.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 02:08:27 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Have you read...
+
+Nope, haven't read it, have no intention of reading it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 02:07:43 GMT
+Subject: Re: Att JMS: Yes, I know you don't celebrate Christmas ... :-)
+
+Oh, I know Levenger's, believe me...they have whole barrels of my money
+over there.
+
+Great catalog, and nifty stuff.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 02:10:27 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: How far away is the rim from B5?
+
+They are separated by an infinite number of plot points....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 02:05:22 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Pythonesque cat in episode 402?
+
+The cat was my idea.  Cats are endless sources of humor.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 20:31:57 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS (and everyone else) : Why reruns after only four eps?
+
+Yes, it was just 4 of 4, but you also had the last 5 of season 3, so
+that's 9 in a row.  
+
+Basically, WB airs the show during sweeps periods.  That means you've got
+November, February, May and sometimes July.  They've always done this.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 20:37:16 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Okay, this is dumb, but we've always wondered about it
+
+The "teeth" sections, which overlap the door, have metal dowels that slide
+into place into the door itself, holding it absolutely tight in case of a
+hull breach or other decompression.  
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 20:52:11 GMT
+Subject: Re: The Summoning: Welcome back to the 50's, kids! (Spoilers)
+
+Re: "magictech"...I believe it was Arthur C. Clarke who pointed out, "Any
+sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
+
+You wanna go argue with Clarke, feel free.
+
+Lemme just make one point here.  In the handful of decades between the
+discovery of the atom, and its use at Hiroshima, we learned how to blow up
+substantial portions of the planet and render it uninhabitable.  But it
+would've taken a lot of them, hundreds, to do the job.  In the 50 years
+since then, with the development of thermonuclear weaponry, the job is
+even easier.  It's been reckoned that you'd only need about 75 really
+decent sized thermonuclear detonations to render the entire continental
+United States dead and uninhabitable.
+
+The shadows and the vorlons are *millions* of years ahead of us.  We're
+talking differences in technology that are orders of magnitude beyond what
+we can hope to comprehend. 
+
+I think a planet killer eminently achievable.  
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 20:45:09 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Season 5 rumor
+
+I've been repeating this time and again...and I'm going to stop now for a
+while, because I don't want to keep doing this 5 times a week.
+
+Nothing has been firmly decided by WB yet.  If there were, you would've
+heard it.
+
+Every season, we're barely into the new stories, and everyone asks, "Is
+this it?  Is it?  Huh?  ANSWER ME?  WHAT ARE YOU HIDING?  WHY WON'T YOU
+CONFIRM OR DENY THIS?"
+
+Because I don't know.  Because WB doesn't know.  Nobody will know ANYthing
+for sure until probably February.  Which is what I said last year, and the
+year before.  
+
+I don't mean to be sharp about this, your message was fine, I'm just
+getting a bit worn down by this every year.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 20:40:07 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: WHtMG music (spoilers!)
+
+During the music spotting session, where I indicate where music comes in
+and goes out, my main note to Chris on that final sequence was, "Break our
+heart."
+
+He did.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1996 20:41:41 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: WHtMG music (spoilers!)
+
+"Was this scene redone for WHtMG?  I'd have to compare, but I think I
+would've noticed that hopeful smile at the end of Z.  It would've been
+just a -little- out of place, under the circumstances."
+
+It's *exactly* the same footage, frame for frame.  Only your perspective
+has changed.  
+
+Sort of like Shroedinger's TV show.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1996 00:10:08 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Scripts?
+
+Dunno if they'll ever be released...currently the only commercially
+available copy of a B5 script is in my Complete Book of Scriptwriting, for
+"The Coming of Shadows."
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1996 00:12:29 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS : Spoiler credits!
+
+Credits are done through screen actors guild regulations, and thus can't
+be helped if they appear in inconvenient places, I'm afraid.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1996 00:15:13 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Summoning (minor spoilers)
+
+"Joe, as I just said to a friend,  you're spreading a madness with your
+writing.  Have you no shame, sir?  No conscience?  No compassion for the
+minds you're destroying?"
+
+Don't be silly...remember, I'm a television producer....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1996 02:58:16 GMT
+Subject: Re: JMS' Purpose for B5 (Philosophical)
+
+"JMS leaves us to find our own answers and that looks like, to me, his
+message in Babylon 5.  You can't just have someone give you all the
+answers.  At some point you have to break away and find your own answers
+to your own questions.  This seems to be the idea in a lot of his
+scriptwriting and his posts.  In fact, the essence of B5 revolves around
+it.  You don't know what other people are thinking, the good guys arent
+always what they appear to be, and life is NOT black and white.  Relying
+on others for answers makes you a slave to them because you believe
+whatever they tell you."
+
+
+DING!
+
+Give that man a ceegar.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1996 20:53:13 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: The Summoning (* Spoilers *)
+
+Actually, to your question, I've taught before, and would enjoy doing so
+again in some kind of university environment.  (I taught writing at San
+Diego State University for a semester as well, but the other instructors
+didn't much like that a working writer was teaching writing instead of an
+academic doing it, as they felt it sullied the program and made it too
+commercial.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1996 22:57:42 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Jackets
+
+Those jackets are exclusively for cast and crew.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1996 22:56:19 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Who, What, Why (Philosophical)
+
+That only works if you define yourself by what you do...not what you are.
+
+But as Lorien says, there's never a good answer to it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1996 09:21:29 GMT
+Subject: Re: Pasadena Convention
+
+"And please JMS, don't be hard on Andreas--he's had a hard time the last
+few eposides, and with the stress of Peter messing with his nipples, you
+could see why he broke and did the gag."
+
+Oh, no...he doesn't get off that easy.  I've got 9 episodes left to write
+this season, and that's ample opportunity to make his life a living hell.
+
+"Let's see...he's my employer...he can make me do ANYthing he wants me to
+do...I've got an idea, let's fuck with his mind!"
+
+Oh, but I'm going to enjoy this *mightily*.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1996 09:22:11 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: New B5 Advertisement!!!!!
+
+Cool, I gotta see that!  Thanks, I didn't know.
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1996 09:22:49 GMT
+Subject: Re: Attn. JMS: Kevin Dobson?
+
+No, this Kevin is an Australian director.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1996 09:33:47 GMT
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: A Thank You
+
+Thank you, your words are most kind.
+
+I guess you have to understand...I come at this from the perspective of
+having been an SF fan myself, I've *stood* in those lines.  And been cut
+off.  I swore, up one side and down the other, that if I should ever get
+my chance to do something of merit, if I ever got known (outside of
+America's Most Wanted), that I wouldn't allow ANYone to experience that
+feeling.  I've signed for sometimes 3, 4 hours at a time.  Doesn't matter.
+ Nobody leaves emptyhanded.  Nobody.
+
+This has infected many members of our cast, who feel as I do...and they go
+far, far, FAR beyond the call of duty.
+
+'Cause, basically...it's the right thing to do.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1996 09:26:34 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Frightening Speech in Summoning (spoilers for same)
+
+Yup, I'd say it's very likely that some people close to Sheridan are going
+to be wondering about his attitude...and maybe even acting on it.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1996 09:53:21 GMT
+Subject: Audio Advisory (from jms)
+
+So earlier this week we did the audio mix on almost all of 404, "Falling
+Toward Apotheosis," which airs this coming week.  We did all but 7
+minutes, because they were seven...big...minutes.
+
+Last night, after working at the stage from early morning on, John
+Copeland, George Johnsen and I left about 7 p.m. to go and mix the audio
+for those seven minutes.
+
+We finished at 2:30 a.m.  (And I had to get up at 7:30 a.m. for a meeting,
+no less.)
+
+Point being...if you've got a friend with a good TV and a spiffy audio or
+surround sound system, you may want to watch this next one over at their
+place.  
+
+Just a thought.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1996 02:55:30 GMT
+Subject: Re: JMS over on CIS
+
+It's a combination of the ease of the CIS interface, that I can do it
+offline more easily, and the type of questions.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1996 05:21:28 GMT
+Subject: Re: Question to JMS about the background of developing the alien nations & organizations
+
+Yes, I certainly tend to draw on historical parallels for parts of the B5
+universe backstory.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1996 03:26:25 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Ode to JMS: In honor of season four
+
+                                           ....hrmpfrh....
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1996 03:34:34 GMT
+Subject: jms conference on Monday
+
+Just a quick advisory...I'll be doing the first major online conference on
+the B5 website at 6:00 p.m. Pacific time this coming Monday.  That's
+http://www.thestation.com for the official B5 fanclub site.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1996 00:17:12 GMT
+Subject: Re: Attn:JMS Babylon 5:Crusaders-Reality check
+
+Actually, I've said pretty much from the very beginning of the first
+season, that there was a side-story that could go off, which I'd be
+interested in telling.  And that may be a possibility.
+
+And it's not Crusaders (which always makes me think of Crusader Rabbit);
+it's The Babylon Project: Crusade.  (That's the working title, anyway.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1996 00:15:52 GMT
+Subject: Re: Falling Toward Apotheosis (* Spoilers *)
+
+Remember, they do have a certain physicality about them, even in that
+form, and the nature of the poison was such that it would affect that kind
+of life form using a crystalline base (note in the pilot the screen reads
+analyzing crystallne structure, and you filter light or refract or distort
+it using a crystalline structure).
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1996 09:08:54 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS (B5 Videos)
+
+Yes, we shoot widescreen, and hope to release in that form eventually.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1996 01:15:33 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Arc ending this season?
+
+"I then pick up a copy of TV Zone(UK Magazine for sci-fi etc) and read in
+it an interview with Bruce Boxleitner which clearly states the shows 5
+year arc is ending this year.  And then I pick up a copy of Cult TV, with
+an interview with JMS in it, and this also features the same info, except
+this time it states quite clearly that Warner Brothers have asked JMS to
+resolve the shows 5 year arc this season."
+
+Yes, I have those two magazines as well, both from the same publisher. 
+And I was rather upset when I saw them, because, if you will go back and
+read them again, you will see that nowhere are Bruce or I quoted as SAYING
+that there is only going to be 4 years.  The *magazine* says that, the
+writer says that, but they nowhere provide a quote from anyone backing
+that up.  I *sure* as hell didn't say that, and Bruce has indicated the
+same thing to me.
+
+The magazine is making assumptions.  Let me state this again: nothing has
+yet been decided for certain.  If it had been, I would tell you.
+
+Look...let's be logical about this, shall we?  If I knew this would be the
+last year, what possible mileage is there in keeping this secret?  I'd
+want to put this info out there in hopes of either a) getting a campaign
+going, or b) bracing the fans for the inevitable, if it were inevitable
+(the joke about your mom's on the roof and we can't get her down).  
+
+Let me repeat this: I DON'T KNOW.  WB DOESN'T KNOW.  Nothing has yet been
+decided for certain.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1996 05:59:14 GMT
+Subject: Monday chat screwup
+
+Just a note to apologize to those who showed up at thestation.com for the
+chat Monday night.  DirectNet, the people who handle the server (and as of
+this moment we are giving strong consideration to going elsewhere, after
+this fiasco), figured (without asking us) that they'd get maybe about 100
+or so people, based on other chats.  They allocated memory and other
+resources accordingly.
+
+So when about 2,000 people showed up...it blew the system to hell and back
+again.  Result: chaos, confusion, lock-outs, angry calls to DirectNet,
+server errors...a mess.
+
+(It's always the same deal...at conventions, online...they always
+underestimate how many people are going to show up.  It's almost funny
+enough to make me reconsider gouging out the eyes of several DirectNet
+personnel and feeding them to hamsters.  Almost.)
+
+I can only apologize, and say that as with all things we try for the first
+time...this will *not* happen again.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1996 09:44:18 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS: A 5 Year Universe Done in 4 Years?
+
+The story will be finished, one way or another.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1996 01:48:14 GMT
+Subject: Re: JMS: Next time, use IRC. =)
+
+No, it wouldn't have been as bad if they'd been prepared for us.
+
+Also, while many boast about IRCs being the end-all of these things, the
+IRC that I did while in Tampa had just as many servers blow up, all over
+the place.
+
+Final figure was that 6,000 tried to get into this thing...there ain't a
+server on the planet that can handle that.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Nov 1996 01:03:15 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: how we spend Saturday evenings
+
+Thanks.  I'm happy that the show can provide a bridge between so many
+diverse and interesting people.  It makes the efforth worthwhile.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Nov 1996 01:04:51 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Bright Mountain Range
+
+Those are city lights, visible as any big city is visible from space by
+the lights.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Nov 1996 01:14:08 GMT
+Subject: Re: Paradigm shifts and B5/Trek
+
+"I felt as if I had been *deprogrammed,* and stopped thinking of the
+future in terms of that one vision of it, and being a hard scientist,
+that's a pretty embarrassing admission to make.  But it was stunning
+to*feel* it happen to myself.  After a lifetime of watching Trek as the
+*only* vision of the future that most people were aware of, it's amazing
+to become fully aware of the depth of the belief suspension, until it
+seems like the "real" future is the one with the Crayola uniforms and the
+communicators on the chest."
+
+This was something I began to really understand during the first season,
+and was something I hadn't anticipated going in.  Some of the reaction
+against B5 was so strong from some groups of ST fans...it wasn't just one
+show vs. another, there was a vehemence in it that was coming from
+something deeper.  
+
+Eventually I began to figure it out, that it was also two competing
+visions of the future.  I've mentioned before the angry letter I got that,
+among other things, said that the person was thrown every time one of our
+characters used a hand link when "everyone *knows* that by then we'll be
+using chest communicators."  It was a vision thing (to use a fairly recent
+campaign slogan).  The problem then becomes, for lack of a better term, a
+religious problem...competing ideologies, notions to which one has
+committed oneself.  And the most heated wars are always religious wars.
+
+It's been...interesting.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Nov 1996 04:35:52 GMT
+Subject: Re: What's happening this season?
+
+Deanna: thanks.  Your words are most kind, and eminently appreciated.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Nov 1996 04:44:32 GMT
+Subject: jms & co at LosCon (LA)
+
+This Thanksgiving Sunday, from 2:30-4:30 p.m., there will be a B5
+presentation at LosCon, an annual fan-run convention here in Los Angeles. 
+LosCon was the very first convention to get behind B5 and support it, and
+our appearance there every year is something that means a lot to all
+involved.  It also tends to be the biggest event of each year's
+convention.
+
+For the first hour it'll be me, with clips from episodes as yet unaired,
+the first pass at the season four bloopers (shown here for the first time,
+still in rough form, some elements of which will be cut as we get further
+along), a music video or two, and the like.  The second hour I'll be
+joined by producer John Copeland (aka pigdog13 on AOL, frequent SF Vortex
+guest, and resident Media Sex God), co-producer George Johnsen, and
+conceptual consultant Harlan Ellison.  Peter Jurasik may make it by,
+contingent upon family obligations, but that's unconfirmed.  We always try
+and debut stuff there.
+
+LosCon is a good sized (1,000 or so) fan-run convention that's been going
+on here in LA for decades, and a great deal of fun.  This year it's taking
+place at the Burbank Airport Hilton, just abaft from, well, Burbank
+Aiport.
+
+Because the B5 presentations are the biggest thing at each year's LosCon,
+you may want to show up a bit early.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1996 06:43:59 GMT
+Subject: Re: Paradigm shifts and B5/Trek
+
+"No one's claiming Trek doesn't have its failings.  The issue at hand is
+the B5 folk who feel compelled to constantly ridicule Trek.  There's not
+much point, and the attitude is suspiciously cult-like, even if they
+aren't really a cult."
+
+One fallacy in your thinking: while there are many ST fans who haven't
+seen B5, there are insofar as I know *no* B5 fans who haven't seen ST, and
+in most cases, began as ST fans.  These are the same complaints many of
+them have had with ST for a time long before B5 ever came on the
+map...only now in some cases they have a show which is doing what they
+have been saying should be done for some time now.  
+
+This is not a B5 problem...it's an internal ST problem.  
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1996 09:44:24 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS- Ever Been to Toronto?
+
+"I have noticed that you make appearances at many conventions and even
+went overseas but I have yet to hear you make an appearence in Toronto or
+any other part of Canada. Is it a matter of being invited or is it a lack
+of free time?"
+
+Yes, no, and none of the above.
+
+There is a time question, in that that's a LONG flight from L.A., and
+getting away is tough.  I do happen to like Toronto, I was there several
+times while working on Captain Power and The Twilight Zone, and when I was
+nominated there for a Gemini Award (the Canadian equivilent of an Emmy). 
+I've always enjoyed my time there, so it's nothing against the city,
+believe me.  
+
+The other problem is venue.  I've been invited by Toronto Trek, for
+instance, by some very nice people there...but I have kind of a standing
+policy about not going to any conventions whose names relate to Star Trek,
+because when I did them I always got gigged for "poaching" by many ST fans
+who still perceive this as a zero-sum game.  I don't put this onto my
+cast, who can go as they choose, but again they don't have the same onus
+in this regard that I do.
+
+Aside from that one, I haven't heard from any cons of sufficient size to
+make the long trip worth doing.  Going that far for less than about 1500
+people is hard to justify in the midst of filming.  (That's turned into
+one of my few rules about conventions...the further away it is, the more
+there has to be a goodly number of people to justify it...because I *hate*
+traveling, and really long trips also cut into my work on the show...so
+the more time away from the show, the more I have to justify it
+logistically.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1996 00:06:09 GMT
+Subject: Re: ***ATTN JMS: Atonement***
+
+Thanks...I really do think that this show will be around for a long, long
+time....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1996 00:07:43 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Londo and "Falling Towards Apotheosis"
+
+Thanks.  The Londo stuff is nice, and you do get a sense of the kind of
+person he was before the empire began to slip, and his fortunes with it. 
+He can definitely pull it out when he wants to.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1996 00:08:26 GMT
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS: Does this apply (Andreas/Peter)
+
+Suffice to say you'll hear about it.....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1996 00:10:00 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS another compliment (possible *Spoilers*)
+
+"What I like most about B5, I guess, is this: Shit happens.  Shit happens
+to us, not the guest aliens of the week.  Shit STAYS happened."
+
+That's a great last line...I may refer to that in future, thanks.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1996 06:13:33 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Biggus Headus
+
+"I have been wondering for a while...with the constant inundation of
+respect, adoration and awe from most on this newsgroup(not to mention
+conventions and fan mail), just how do you keep it all from going to your
+head?  I would personally find being dubbed 'Great Maker' a little
+intoxicating."
+
+I guess it's easy to not let that happen since, for me, it's all for the
+show, not for me personally.  I have a very hard time applying that to
+me...the show is the show.  I'm still the same goofball I was before I
+made B5.  And I find that whenever I start getting cocky, the universe
+whaps me upside the head, and makes me humble *real* fast.
+
+Example...the other day, we were finishing up the editing on 408, "The
+Illusion of Truth."  Making the producer's cut is the hardest thing I do,
+and I'm just exhausted at the end of it.  So I'm taking a five minute
+break, waiting for the elevator to go downstairs and grab a coke, just to
+wake up...and I'm alone, walking back and forth in the hall...in that
+kinda dopey way you do when you're just utterly whacked...I go a few
+paces, swing my leg around, half/stagger back the other direction, go a
+few paces, repeat...my mind elsewhere....
+
+And the door opens, mid-swing...and I start for it...and being off-balance
+I end up doing this drunken-looking stagger right past the elevator
+doors....
+
+The way it would've looked from the inside is as if the elevator doors
+opened up on the fourth deck of the Lusitania, tilted and going down, and
+some crew member was tumbling down the angled deck....and the door closes
+again.
+
+I was too embarrassed to get into it, and waited for the next one.
+
+So it's real easy for me to keep modest...I don't think I have much
+choice.
+
+"Do you ever find it affecting your writing?  Your dealing with the cast &
+crew?
+
+No, they also have their ways of keeping me modest...hence Andreas' recent
+little gag...for which he will pay dearly....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1996 09:10:13 GMT
+Subject: Re: JMS makes my wife squeal Saturday Nights!
+
+"My petite, demure wife, a professional woman of letters, turns the lights
+down on Saturday nights (when the show airs), sprawls on the floor,
+demands total control, and then when some piece of dailoge strikes her
+just so, shreeks, holding in laughter, so she can hear the rest.   Then
+when there is a great space scene, load moaning commentary like, "No, no,
+no...  YES! Yes, yes!!!" is shouted."
+
+(laying back, lighting a cigarette)
+
+I'm sorry, what were you saying?
+
+Okay, who wants pizza?
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1996 09:16:51 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Congratulations on your current ratings trend!
+
+Yeah, the rankings sometimes drop even when the hard numbers increase when
+you're in sweeps period, and everybody's fighting it out and there's a lot
+of stunt programming going on.  To stay in the top 25 is a great thing,
+and the growth in households is even better.  That's between 10-15 million
+core viewers, and that's very good for a syndicated show, especially when
+other dramatic shows like the ST series have seen definite drops (as per
+the latest Entertainment Weekly).  And our demographics remain the highest
+for any syndicated series, so that makes the show extremely attractive to
+advertisers.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+JMS Usenet messages for December 1996.
+
+Date: 1 Dec 1996 03:11:02 GMT
+Subject: Re: Women and B5 (was Re: Paradigm shifts and B5/Trek)
+
+"And yet, these women can also be women. Delenn in her black dressturning
+heads, giggling at John's jokes, and teasing him. Then to turn around and
+destroy the Grey Council, save B5 from the Earth Alliance, and become
+Ranger One. The depth, the honesty, the reality of her. It is wonderful to
+see such a character, to know that there are role models for a feminine
+woman who can be hard as nails."
+
+I wish I could take more credit for this..."Oh, sure, I did this to create
+strong role models, it was all conscious"...but the truth is, those are
+the kind of women I've always found attractive: sharp, smart, funny,
+strong, sexually assertive, credible...*women*.  Those are always the ones
+I dated, the ones I hung out with as friends (on the theory that men and
+women *can* be friends, it doesn't have to turn into dating)...so it's
+just really a case of writing what I find appealing.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Dec 1996 09:42:37 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Gold Channel
+
+We'll be updating the Gold Channel fairly often, there's lots of material
+there.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Dec 1996 09:47:23 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:Re: New PPG blasts in S4? (spoilers for FtA)
+
+"She was specifically referring to the PPG blasts and the "Kosh's head
+exploding" effects.  After which I told her that the old company was gone,
+off to do ST:V."
+
+Actually, Foundation was not the sole source of PPG bursts; that's roto
+work, and was often done by Kevin Kutchaver, and others not at Foundation.
+ Oddly, we just had a meeting about PPG bursts, because we've done about 4
+or 5 different versions over the last 4 years.  We decided to go back
+closer to the ones in Soul Hunter in future, since they just look nastier.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Dec 1996 10:07:17 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: The mother of all coincidences?
+
+Actually, Kyle, we're all watching you and controlling you....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Dec 1996 10:12:08 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Thank you!
+
+Thank *you*, and my best to all our fans in Norway.  That's a long way to
+go, for a kid from New Jersey....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Dec 1996 20:48:42 GMT
+Subject: Re: Why does JMS make you laugh right before horrifying you? (Spoilers for #403)
+
+It's the roller coaster theory: if you move someone to horror or fear or
+shock from a neutral place, the emotional jump is less than if they're
+laughing...then suddenly you whipsaw them into the absolute emotional
+opposite.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Dec 1996 20:45:47 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS; the FX look fabulous!
+
+Thanks.  And we intend to continue pushing the EFX this season...the CGI
+in 406 will be either equal to or more than "Severed Dreams," for
+instance.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Dec 1996 00:51:30 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: To thank you
+
+Thanks.  Hope is one of the things that seems greatly missing from most
+commercial entertainments, and if they do try to do something in this
+area, it often tends to wander into the treacly or saccherine.  We have to
+entertain, that is the requirement...but there has to be more, for me, for
+it to be worth doing.
+
+Thanks for the kind words.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Dec 1996 04:52:01 -0500
+Subject: Re: Women and B5 (was Re: Paradigm shifts and B5/Trek)
+
+Just checked back into this thread....
+
+"There was the instance in GROPOS of Delenn being saved by Dodger -- but I
+can't for the life of me think of a single instance of a MAN being in the
+victim's position.  I'm ready to be proven wrong, though, since my memory
+is faulty.  Anyone with counterexamples is welcome to provide them."
+
+ALL ALONE IN THE NIGHT.  Sheridan's taken by the Streibs, and it's Ivanova
+who puts together the rescue effort, and is directing the attack on the
+Streib vessel, and who decides "screw it, frag 'em" when it seems they
+killed Sheridan...then stops his pod from being killed, and orders his
+rescue.
+
+Also, in PARLIAMENT OF DREAMS, G'Kar was restrained and about to be killed
+but for the intervention of Na'Toth.
+
+I know there are other examples, but those are the two that come to mind
+off the cuff.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Dec 1996 23:49:07 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Fourth Season Title
+
+Nope, that ain't it...and since I haven't TOLD anyone what it is, not even
+Doug or John, anyone who says he's heard it is, of course, incorrect.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Dec 1996 23:49:44 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Fan Viewings of B5 in the UK
+
+It's Warners' position that the import and exhibition of episodes, at cons
+or at fan gatherings, is a violation of international copyright, and yes,
+they will prosecute.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Dec 1996 00:00:56 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Computer Games and story ideas (*spoiler for WHTMG*)
+
+"In WHTMG, Marcus is talking to G'Kar about his friends and says he's had
+"Damn few of them, and most of them are dead." My instant reaction was
+"That can't be an allusion to Return to Zork." Can it?"
+
+Y'know, if I were to read this group as an outsider, I'd think that this
+jms person was incapable of coming up with a single line on his own.
+
+NO, it wasn't a Zork reference, for chrissakes.  Can we possibly get any
+more obscure here?  I don't even know what this REFERS to.  Marcus came
+from a mining colony.  The shadows struck, and killed everyone there. 
+Hence, the line above.  
+
+There was some goofing around with SF references early on in the show;
+this got out of hand, and it stopped.  I don't sit here, thinking, "Oh,
+goody, I can make a reference to The Day The Earth Stood Still here," or
+some other show.  I write what is appropriate for the character to say. 
+Period.
+
+I'm sorry if I'm a bit cranky in answering this, but jesus christ, people,
+give it a rest and stop looking for references that don't exist.  There
+are only so many permutations in the english language, and something has
+got to echo somewhere for everyone...but that ain't the source.  "Oh,
+look, he use the word THE in this episode, he must be nodding at "The
+Ipcriss Files" or "THEM" just leaving off the M to throw us off."
+
+Your point of reference is your point of reference, it's nothing to do
+with me.  It's like a Rorscharch test, you see what you're familiar with. 
+
+
+As a writer, you work your brains out trying to come up with something,
+and you try your damndest to make it original, and fresh, and
+interesting...do you have any idea how infuriating, how maddening, how
+bottomlin *insulting* it is to have 10,000 people parsing every sentence
+and saying, "Oh, here, did you take this from that?  Is this a reference
+to this over here?"  
+
+NO, IT'S NOT.
+
+I allowed a little of that in the first season or so, often in scripts by
+other people, on a couple of occasions by myself, but that's the end of
+it, because everyone decided that the show was one big easter egg hunt. 
+Fanfic is full of this stuff, which is perhaps why everyone keeps looking
+for it here.
+
+If it's an absolutely blantant, and extremely recognizeable line, line the
+Tolkein reference in year two's "Geometry," then yeah...but some of  this
+is getting so obscure and ridiculous that it's starting to make me crazy.
+
+Can we *please* declare a moratorium on this for a while?
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Dec 1996 00:05:18 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Does WB give you a raise?
+
+We get a modest budget increase each year, yes.  Cast and producers
+usually get about a 10% bump each season, tied to contract, not the show's
+ratings.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Dec 1996 00:09:28 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn jms: Any ratings news?
+
+They're going very well.  The last batch of episodes were 3.8 in the
+ratings, which is much better than last year, and put us fairly
+consistently in the top 25.  Though the rankings dropped a bit because of
+the number of people watching during sweeps, and the stunt programming,
+the number of households watching the show went up about 100,000 per week.
+ So WB is extremely pleased; we stay at the #5 rated dramatic series, and
+that ain't bad.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Dec 1996 00:14:54 -0500
+Subject: Re: '97 Hugo - Which episode?
+
+As I understand it, only the episodes aired in calendar year 96 are
+eligible for the Hugo in 97.  "Gethsmane" aired in November of 95, so it
+would be ineligible.
+
+Everything in season 3 starting in January/February through the first 4
+episodes of year 4 is eligible.
+ 
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Dec 1996 05:41:00 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Warner Bros
+
+The potential problem is many-headed, like a hydra.  The short
+version...the entity that created PTEN was a consortium of independent
+stations and WB.  That entity basically no longer exists, and now WB is
+funding B5 in its entirety.  When a corporation disappears, the wise thing
+to do is to dissolve all the assets and cash it all in, NOT keep spending
+money on it.  
+
+It's a weird situation in that the *copyright* is owned by WB, but in many
+ways, the *show* is owned by PTEN, so WB can't just go around reassigning
+rights within its own organization.  And WB Network, as a network, must
+define its own image...we know, from in-house discussions, that they would
+not take on B5 because they want to create their own shows, not inherit
+them second-hand.
+
+See, with most companies, the goal for each division is real simple: make
+money for the parent company.  But WB is a series of little kingdoms which
+are DESIGNED TO COMPETE WITH EACH OTHER, *not* to cooperate, on the theory
+(when this was put into place as executive policy) that this would lead to
+more aggressive divisions.  
+
+WB is happy with the show...the problem, and we're (and they're) still in
+the process of gauging how much of a problem this is...is that we're
+caught in this kind of corporate spiderweb, and the spider is gone.  All
+that remains is this series of entanglements, contracts, rights provisions
+and the like.  
+
+You also have to remember that while B5 has been making money for WB from
+day one (a requirement of all WB shows these days), you don't start making
+any real money on a show until AFTER you've finished producing it...so you
+aren't spending anything, just reaping the financial benefits of long-term
+syndication.
+
+So we're just in this maze for now, trying to figure out if that glint in
+the distance is daylight, or a Minotaur with an Uzi.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Dec 1996 05:50:03 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Re: Snow White WAS Re: JMS on CIS 12-08-96
+
+"Of course the question that I have is, what prompted you to write the
+play in the first place?"
+
+Sigh....
+
+I was 18 years old.  I'd had about 5 or 6 one-act plays produced at
+Southwestern College, to generally good reviews.  (I really hate to use
+the term, but I was kind of a prodigy in some ways.)  Anyway, one day, the
+head of the theater department pulled me aside and said, "Look, every
+summer we do a summer stock production that runs about 12-16 weeks,
+usually for younger audiences.  Most of the time they're established
+plays, but sometimes we do an original if we see potential.  I'd love to
+see what you could do with something like the Snow White story.  And we
+can afford to pay a reasonable fee for it."
+
+Understand...this was the first time I'd been *commissioned* to write a
+full length play.  I was somewhat conflicted about the whole thing, most
+of the plays I'd done had been either offbeat comedies or these terribly
+indulgent and self-impressed treatises which will never, ever be seen by
+anyone again (I have the only recordings of them), and this was about as
+far away from that as you could get.  But it was the chance to have a
+long-running summer-stock production, and at 18, fresh out of high
+school...I fell for it.
+
+After it ran for that year, I sent the script off to a play publisher,
+figuring they'd turn it down, but not wanting to waste it...and they
+picked it up.  And it's still there.  And every six months, I get these
+royalty statements showing that it's being performed all over the
+planet...from the US to Singapore, Thailand, once from Burma,
+Germany...urk....
+
+It was intended for kids...and ONLY kids.  So when adults go see it,
+knowing my current work...I just blanch, that's all.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Dec 1996 15:56:48 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS:Re: Falling: Preview discrepancy
+
+I am forever amazed by what ends up in the trailers, and never see them or
+know what's in them until they air.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Dec 1996 15:56:54 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS (Script Content and Analysis)
+
+"If/when you have to review dialogue from an earlier episode, how do you
+do it?"
+
+I pick up the binder with the script and look at it.  We keep these around
+in an adjacent office.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Dec 1996 15:57:22 -0500
+Subject: Re: Snow White WAS Re: JMS on CIS 12-08-96
+
+Also, you can't just go around buying rights back from publishers; the
+business doesn't work that way.  Only if it goes out of print can you get
+a reversion of rights.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Dec 1996 15:57:51 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS et al.: Cast and Crew comments
+
+We do encourage our crew to get out there, and some do, but most are
+fairly quiet types.  You have some of them over on AOL, pitching in, but
+still not as many as could be.
+
+I've taken it on myself to work to get more of our crew out into the
+limelight lately, to make sure they get proper attention for their work. 
+I dragged George Johnsen in front of the crowd at Worldcon, and again with
+producer John Copeland at LosCon a few weeks ago (those were,
+respectively, their first times appearing at cons).  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Dec 1996 15:58:11 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Re: Snow White
+
+"Besides, you're your own worst critic, aren't you?"
+
+Yeah...which is why I don't like anything out there that ain't 100% right.
+ Ah, well.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Dec 1996 19:16:10 -0500
+Subject: Re: Triluminary WAS NEVER CREATED??!? (JMS, what have you done?)
+
+As will be noted in an upcoming episode, the Triluminaries originally came
+from Epsilon 3 with the other equipment brought aboard by Zathras.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Dec 1996 14:21:02 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Cranky (Rock Cried Out extremely minor spoilers)
+
+"Who do you share the B5 burden with?"
+
+On reflection, I don't think I have much of a better answer than Sheridan
+did.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Dec 1996 10:23:38 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - President Clark and action on Earth?
+
+Suffice to say that the show's storyline has always proceeded in waves,
+and we're getting close to this particular one surging back into the
+foreground....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Dec 1996 10:29:38 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: What can *I* do to save B5?
+
+Only the ratings count for Warner Bros.  Just keep watching the show, and
+getting others to give it a shot.  That's all anyone can ask for.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Dec 1996 10:29:38 -0500
+Subject: Re: Gold Channel @ www.thestation.com
+
+We'll be dropping in new material on the Gold Channel about every 4 weeks
+for now, until all the fan club folks get on board, then move it up to
+about every 2 weeks.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Dec 1996 10:29:38 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Lurker's Guide?
+
+I think The Lurker's Guide is an invaluable resource; I check it often
+when I need a quick fact about a prior episode and don't want to hassle
+with digging through scripts or tapes to find it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Dec 1996 10:29:39 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS; the FX look fabulous!
+
+"However, there was the one shot where the - whoops!  Sorry - force of
+habbit."
+
+I assume you're referring to the one shot in the opening where we zip over
+the back of the station, which was never completed in the 3 years of the
+show, in which instead the polygons were just stretched rather than being
+properly mapped and given specularity.  We've subsequently fixed that.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Dec 1996 10:29:38 -0500
+Subject: Re: What about the unions
+
+"But where does B5 get its money?"
+
+This was mentioned in an episode shortly after "Severed Dreams"-- they
+collect fees from the ships that come to B5 (docking fees, customs fees,
+storage and importation fees, taxes on identicards, credit chits, quarters
+and others).
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Dec 1996 11:00:55 -0500
+Subject: Re: Masters of the Universe
+
+This was the first TV series on which I was a staffer, acting as a story
+editor (with Larry DiTillio) and one of the main writers for the series,
+and its subsequent companion series, She-Ra.
+
+And I'm confident that sooner or later, I'll have to answer for this
+before the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Dec 1996 23:37:36 -0500
+Subject: Re: Delenn=Johnnie's boot-licker? (Was Women and B5)
+
+"Considering her past role in Minbari society, though, I expect her to
+snap out of it pretty soon.  She was *trained* to take charge, and even
+the things she's endured lately won't supress that conditioning forever."
+
+Oh, most definitely...count on it.  She's done more than enough "oh john"
+stuff for my tastes...that will start to change, and soon.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Dec 1996 23:39:07 -0500
+Subject: Re: Dear Santa-czynski: What I want for Chrysalis 1998
+
+Well...I see SOMEone has just taken out a new life insurance policy....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Dec 1996 15:43:45 -0500
+Subject: Re: Little Boxes (was Re: Women and B5)
+
+All of which is, of course, the irony in the situation...many times, fans
+ask for shows with colors other than black and white, shades of grey,
+changes in character...but when you start executing those changes, showing
+more than one side, even contradictory sides (as humans are masses of
+internal contradictions) often some of them yell "HEY! STOP THAT!"  
+
+Which goes back to the moral: "Be careful what you ask for."
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Dec 1996 01:37:22 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: CD-ROM?
+
+"...hello from Starfire Sacramento, a sci-fi club that adores your work."
+
+Hello back.  I assume this refers primarily to B5?
+
+"Are there any plans for a CD-ROM game or somesuch based on Babylon 5? "
+
+Doug and I acquired the rights to do a B5 informational CDrom, which we're
+now in the process of developing for next year.  It's going to be a bit
+more than a guide, very subversive and funny in its way.
+
+There have been a number of inquiries about a game for CDrom, but so far
+no one has really come up to the plate in a serious fashion.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Dec 1996 01:39:42 -0500
+Subject: Re: Little Boxes (was Re: Women and B5)
+
+"I know, that you've quit jobs before over this, and that gives me the
+trust I need to keep watching, but I'm still a little nervous and I see no
+reason not to say that.  Or to stop from analyzing Delenn's character any
+more than I've done with anyone else on the show."
+
+Couldn't agree more.  Never said or implied otherwise.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Dec 1996 01:34:54 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: any more StarFury battles coming up?
+
+"Will we be seeing any more of that kind of battle this season?"
+
+(Insert Beavis and Butthead "huh-huh-huhhuh" sound here)
+
+Oh yeah.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Dec 1996 15:16:47 -0500
+Subject: Re: Television vs. Theatre
+
+"For JMS' background in theatre check out the Snow White threads"
+
+Actually, there's an awful lot more than that.  I used to be a theater
+reviewer for the Daily Californian and KSDO Newsradio, as well as having
+written a number of other produced plays.  The last one I did was "The
+Apprenticeship," a full length turn-of-the-century pseudo-British comedy
+which ran for about 16 weeks at the Marquis Public Theater in San Diego.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Dec 1996 15:38:06 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS
+
+Yes, Ghar, and we all know what a bastion of patience and tolerance you
+are, and that your tastes are the norm and nobody else could possibly
+enjoy something if you do not unless they are an idiot, we've been down
+this road before.  
+
+You are free to have your opinion.  And I am free to hold mine.  And in my
+opinion, the Jeanne Cavellos book is probably the best one of all the Dell
+books to date.
+
+One reason for the difference in these next batch of books is that I got
+deeply and intensively involved with the books this time around, which
+time didn't permit me to do in the past.  I made the time, because I felt
+that they needed improving.  I worked closely with Jeanne on the backstory
+(Anna's experience leading up to, and on, the Icarus), made sure she got
+scripts prior to airing so she'd know what was being done, and so on.  The
+third book (based on an assigned premise) follows Sinclair to Minbar and
+starting up the Rangers, and though I haven't seen the manuscript yet,
+it's easily the most comprehensive tie-together of the B5 universe that
+I've seen yet.  The second book (this is in order of publication) by Al
+Sarrantino is also based on an assigned premise, set on Centauri Prime
+around the time of the first 4 episodes of season 4.
+
+In the past, it's been a question of outside writers coming up with a
+notion or a scientific idea (expressed poorly or well is a matter of
+opinion), and then trying to work that into the arc, or as a stand-alone. 
+This time the three books all fit tightly into continuity, and there
+aren't any based on goofy nonscience notions.  (The Sarrantino book is a
+little off the mark in terms of the way the characters speak, and I sent
+it back with some notes, whereas Jeanne's book went back without one
+single, solitary note.)  
+
+In the past, the books have been primarily about the guest characters,
+since that's what outside writers want to write about, the characters they
+introduce.  This time I insisted that our characters had to be at the
+*center* of the story, not the periphery.
+
+So overall, these three books are the best, especially Jeanne's.  Now,
+based on what went before, you may want to prejudge these.  Such is life. 
+But I do object to you smearing Jeanne's ability or accuracy without any
+information whatsoever on the content of the writing involved...she spent
+a great deal of time researching archaeology and anthropology to use in
+the background for Anna and the mission, and I think she's done a bang-up
+job.
+
+But like all things B5, the book will stand or fall on its own.  And this
+one will stand.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Dec 1996 22:49:16 -0500
+Subject: From jms re: year 4 or 5 or both
+
+There's been a fair amount of speculation and concern about the fifth
+season, and how the story is laying out to handle the possibilities of
+renewal vs. no renewal.  Though the ratings have continued to improve
+despite the shifts and changes in the syndication marketplace -- it's a
+very different market than it was when we first debuted -- nothing is
+certain yet about a fifth season.  Some at WB say yes, some say no.  My
+job is to pick my way through this minefield and make it all  work, and
+assure the story ending where is was meant to end.  So how does one do
+this?  
+
+Here's the skinny.
+
+First, you have to understand that writing is a *process*, and that
+process is constantly changing.  Ask any writer, and they'll tell you that
+many times they've been working on a short story, or a novel, and they
+have to edit for space.  This applies to both fiction and nonfiction
+writers.  Sometimes it's done by the writer, sometimes by the editor.  On
+my second novel, the editor told me at the halfway mark that we'd have to
+keep the book down to 100,000 words, which was about 75-100 pages less
+than I'd been planning on, so the story had to be adjusted to fit.  As a
+journalist, I've often walked into the office with a story in hand and
+been told, "Okay, you've got 15 column inches," or 25 column inches, or 10
+column inches...and you just learn to write to fit.  Every writer goes
+through this.  
+
+And in most cases, the average person never knows.  Done properly, it
+should be seamless.  Look at Stephen King's The Stand, cut by almost 25%
+by the editors at first, then later released with all the ancillary
+material replaced.  I've read both, and the latter is not appreciably
+better than the former...if you didn't know the material was there, you
+would never have missed it.
+
+This also happens on a per-episode basis.  At LosCon, I showed a finished
+scene from 405, and the daily of the master shot of the same scene, which
+had another minute or so of material cut from the finished scene.  We cut
+material all the time; if you added up all the material cut from the third
+season, you'd have enough for almost two episodes.  And we often slide
+manterial from one episode into another; we slid Ivanova's scenes in 402
+into 403, and another scene from 405 into 406...we've done that in prior
+seasons as well.  Sometimes you go back and you *add* material.  Again,
+it's all part of the process.
+
+(Interestingly enough, I just bought the new laserdisk of "Young
+Frankenstein," which has about 15 minutes of material cut from the movie
+for time.  I watched it the other night, and of those 15 minutes, 13 were
+easily expendable...only one scene was fairly interesting, but not really
+necessary.)
+
+Okay, so how does all this relate to B5?
+
+My obligation as a storyteller is to get to the end of the story in a
+satisfying way.  So after we got the year 4 renewal, and knowing that the
+PTEN business situation had the potential to impact us (when the network
+that supports you is no longer there, so now your entire structure is shot
+out from under you...you've got a problem), I looked at the structure for
+the story, and began planning adjustments so that it could go either way
+without padding anything, and without shortchanging the story.
+
+First thing I did was to flip out the stand-alones, which traditionally
+have taken up the first 6 or so episodes of each season; between two
+years, that's 12 episodes, over half a season right there.  Then you would
+usually get a fair number of additional stand-alones scattered across the
+course of the season.  So figure another 3-4 per season, say 8, that's 20
+out of 44.  So now you're left with basically 24 episodes to fill out the
+main arc of the story.  
+
+Now, that arc is very intensive, and has three primary threads: the
+resolution of the Shadow war, the situation regarding Earth, and a series
+of smaller sub-threads that feed off those main threads.  But if you
+charge right from one to the other, it's going to feel rushed, you're
+going to need some breathing room between major movements, particularly
+after the shadow war.  Not so much stand-alones as episodes that let you
+begin to rearrange your pieces for the next major movement.  So now you're
+back up to about 27.  
+
+Okay, so *now* what do you do?  The solution to that came in several
+unassociated pieces.  
+
+First came the word of the two B5 TV movies for TNT, which were envisioned
+as taking place within the arc of our main story.  Suddenly I had 4 hours
+into which I could slide some of this material.  One sub-thread I'd been
+planning on was a 3-episode arc that would look at how the Earth/Minbari
+War started, and Delenn's situation at the start of the war, joining the
+Council, that sort of thing.  Now I was able to split that out.  So in the
+series I can, in an episode, get into Delenn's role in the war and go into
+the background of how she got to know Dukhat, how she got into the Grey
+Council, and so on...all the stuff you'd need to see prior to the war. 
+Then the two hours covering the rest, the progress of the war itself,
+could be covered in the two-hour movie.
+
+With the *benefit* that we'd have a little more money for the movie than
+we would for two conventional hours, so we could do *more* in the way of
+EFX, production value, and so on, which you're going to need to really
+sell the E/M war.  So strangely enough, and as tends to happen, this has
+put us in the position of doing it *better* than if I'd dropped it into
+two standard-budget episodes, as was my original plan.
+
+Another sub-thread wouldn't have been introduced until late in year 5, in
+part to set up the possibility of a sequel (which, as I've stated from the
+very earliest days of the show, was always in the back of my head) and
+which would stand on its own in any event; a thread designed to illustrate
+the notion that the duration tends to be a lot longer than the war. 
+(You'll understand that one later.)  That sub-thread would've filled about
+3-4 episodes.
+
+Now, again, having the second 2-hour movie lets me slide that piece of
+story into that category and cover nearly all of that ground in doing so. 
+The remaining material could (and will, one hopes) be covered in the
+actual sequel itself.  (If the sequel never ends up going, the material
+will be sufficiently stand-alone to still work on its own.)
+
+Then, finally, you take the stand-alones you pulled out earlier (which
+nobody would miss, not knowing what was in them), and the final couple of
+sub-threads (not yet introduced or implied in the main series) and slide
+them into the sequel series, CRUSADE.
+
+So if we *had* to collapse everything into a fourth year, it would all fit
+perfectly.  If word came that there *was* going to be a fifth year, you
+commission some scripts early, drop some of the stand-alones back into the
+slot, and bring up the sub-threads that would otherwise have been
+transferred into the sequel.
+
+Bottom line is...you're covered either way.  You end up where you wanted
+to end up, the main threads get dealt with, secondary or tertiary threads
+have other venues in which they can be dealt with...you're solid.
+
+There's nothing particularly extraordinary or amazing in this...this is
+how all writers work, since there are always going to be varying
+constraints in length or venue.  Writing is a process, and that process is
+such that it is infinitely variable while still proceeding where you want
+it to go.
+
+So that's where I am currently.  If I know the fate of the fifth year by
+late February or early March, I can then flip either way and get out
+cleanly.  Worst case scenario is that I might have to write alternate
+scenes or alternate endings for scenes in the last few episodes if the
+word comes much later than that, just to give me the flexibility to adjust
+the story in editing, which would definitely take place after we wrapped,
+at which time we have to have word by contract.
+
+None of this could've been done in three seasons...we had to have a
+minimum of four to give us the flexibility of cutting either way.  There's
+no point to reading a book that leaves you hanging for an ending, and B5
+was meant to have an ending.  At this juncture, finishing off script 15, I
+feel very comfortable with the way all this is laying out.  The flow is
+there, and I know we'll get where we need to.  No matter what happens,
+we're covered.  We can handle year 5 without padding, and handle year 4
+without shortchanging the storyline.  Granted it took only slightly less
+planning than the invasion of Normandy, but it works, and that's the
+crucial thing.
+
+Anyway...I've gone on for longer than I'd intended.  I hope that this will
+answer some of the questions and concerns raised about the situation, and
+explains how you do some of the planning for this kind of thing.  Again,
+this online experiment is about letting people understand the process of
+telling a story like this, and of making a TV show in general.  As I've
+noted before, telling a story of this nature for television, with all the
+exigencies and real-life surprises involved, is like doing an elaborate
+step-dance while people are throwing live chickens and chainsaws at
+you...but I knew that would be the situation going in, and it was only a
+matter of whether or not the story was worth the grief involved in telling
+it.
+
+And it most definitely has been.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Dec 1996 03:10:34 -0500
+Subject: Re: An Open Letter to JMS
+
+And this really isn't about setting records, that ain't the point, only a
+byproduct.  The emphasis has to be quality; quantity means nothing if it's
+a lot of bad TV.
+
+(If one chooses to really quibble, 92 TZs are mainly half-hours, so you're
+looking at about 50 hours, and the number of jms B5's have already
+exceeded that number.  But again, this is really a rather silly
+discussion.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Dec 1996 03:12:00 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS  New sets?
+
+Well, let's see...more Earth sets, a lot of stuff on and in Mars, Minbar,
+some more on Narn...we've got quite a few coming, actually.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Dec 1996 03:30:25 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Viacom on the Rampage
+
+Actually, WB and I have already had discussions about this (along with
+John C. and others in B5 production).  What we proposed, because of the
+unique relationship between us and the online community, was that WB *not*
+go after the fan web pages AS LONG AS they attached the proper copyright
+info to any graphics or other material that's owned by WB.  This prevents
+the material from falling into the public domain, which is the main
+concern here.  (Most folks don't know that you can lose your copyright if
+you do not make best, concerted efforts to defend it.)
+
+It's a sane and sensible policy, and thus far it seems to be working.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Dec 1996 02:52:52 -0500
+Subject: Re: Season's Greetings, jms!
+
+"But is there an original holiday greeting which applies to an atheist?"
+
+Yes.  Bah, humbug.
+
+Works for me.
+
+jm(are there no workhouses? are there no prisons?)s
+
+
+Date: 20 Dec 1996 02:53:54 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Syndication order Q
+
+"Do you folks hand them to them as a package?  Or does WB?  If the former,
+will you just hand them everything, as in "here's the show, here's the
+listing, here's the order, etc."?"
+
+WB handles all distribution, and they'll be given the airdate schedule,
+most likely, and that will become the template.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Dec 1996 02:55:27 -0500
+Subject: Re: From jms re: year 4 or 5 or both
+
+"I for one appreciate your forthrightness, and the insight into how you
+handle the writing of such a huge arc-story was fascinating!"
+
+Thanks...again, that's part of the reason for all this, so people can
+better understand why things happen the way they happen when making a TV
+series.  There's so much misinformation and bad mythology out there...if
+this can ameliorate that a bit, all the better.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Dec 1996 02:57:54 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Chanting for enlightenment
+
+Like most things one writes, the only real answer is, "A little of both." 
+One part of your brain says it's nifty, the other part sees the
+significance.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Dec 1996 02:58:52 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN. JMS?? Did Harlan get his silver "5" pin from San Diego?
+
+Yes, I believe I did...though I don't recall his response...they're
+utterly gorgeous, though, and I've often worn them.  Thanks again for the
+gift, it's lovely.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Dec 1996 02:56:59 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: What was that? (* FTA Spoilers
+
+The idea was to short out and "crack" the suit, getting the vorlon out, so
+the last of Kosh and Lorien and Sheridan could deal with him in a weakened
+and more vulnerable state.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Dec 1996 03:04:51 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS The end
+
+"What this boils down to is... is the ending you invisioned at the start
+of Babylon 5 the same today as it was then?"
+
+For the most part, yeah...it's gotten a bit refined over time, the way it
+always does the closer you get to it...it's like seeing a mountain from a
+great distance, then closing in until you can make out the details.  But
+basically, yeah.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Dec 1996 03:04:08 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS
+
+Nothing is set yet.  See my recent note on this.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Dec 1996 03:05:17 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Fave charities
+
+"I know you don't do Christmas. Any favorite charities you'd like to
+encourage fans towards, instead?"
+
+I'd say your local charities should come first: battered women shelters,
+AIDS hospices, and the like.  If you need something national, I'd say the
+Red Cross, or the Boy's and Girl's Clubs (which kept me off the streets
+and out of trouble for more years than I want to think about), or if you
+want a good political group, Norman Lear's People for the American Way or
+Harry Chapin's World Hunger Year.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Dec 1996 03:13:09 -0500
+Subject: Re: An Open Letter to JMS
+
+"Jerry 'Garibaldi' Doyle (sp) recently stated in an interview that he was
+looking to leave mid season this year (season four).  Whether the writer
+of the article (the interviewer) made it look like Doyle (sp) was unhappy
+or if Mr. Doyle real is unhappy, it came across that way.  He seems to
+blame the writing (you in this case) for not developing his character
+more.  To add fuel to the fire, the rumor mill has been grinding out that
+Bester will be reappearing soon and Doyle's character will be leaving on
+the same show.  How do you as the semi-sole writer of the series respond
+to an actor who believes that his abilities are not being fully used."
+
+First, I've never seen Jerry say that in print, and he's not leaving
+mid-season year 4, and in fact he's had more to do this season than he has
+in a long time.  He has a huge arc this season.  B5 is an ensemble show,
+so there's always going to be some times when actors get more or less to
+do, that's part of the job.  
+
+I commend to you the article that just came out in (you'll pardon the
+expression) Starlog this month...it's an interview with Jerry that
+addresses all of those points, and disputes all the commentrs you just
+made here.  
+
+"If WB in the US wouldn't sell the tapes to us and the UK is selling them.
+ Would it be possible to have a studio (anyone who has the equipment) over
+here set up to buy the tapes from the UK (which is done on PAL) and pull
+them off and record them back on to VHS standard without violating the
+copyright laws?"
+
+Nope.
+
+"Rod Sterling and the Twilight Zone will be mark that few writers and even
+few producers will ever be able to hit."
+
+It's Rod Serling.  If you're going to use the name, learn how it's spelled
+(you got it wrong each time you typed it).  On the matter of script
+numbers, I replied to that elsewhere.  On the rest...Rod is one of my
+icons, so believe me, I know his work far, far better than most people.  I
+have read his original scripts (many not available anywhere but via CBS),
+have collaborated with him posthumously on the Twilight Zone v2.5, I know
+his wife, Carol, and his neice, Sandi Serling, is one of our publicists. 
+Believe me, I know from Serling.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Dec 1996 03:15:18 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  The Christmas Thing - A Modest Proposal
+
+Thanks, but no, the best gift you can give me is to get involved locally
+with the charities and causes that will directly affect your life and the
+lives of those around you.  Change the world before someone else does it
+for you.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Dec 1996 22:37:06 -0500
+Subject: Re: An Open Letter to JMS, Part #2
+
+"My momentary laspe of mispelling doesn't take away from the fact that the
+path now being traveled by JMS was cut by people who came before him. 
+Remember that in the early 60's, News shows were from 15 minutes to 30
+minutes, your average show was only 30 minutes and no one was doing hour
+long SF shows.  RS was on the cutting (bleeding) of writing and networks
+were always ready to cut him loose. He didn't have an expensive budget for
+FX."
+
+He had an expensive budget for FX *for that time*, not in comparison to
+now in terms of dollar-for-dollar.  
+
+And yeah, we all stand on the shoulders of giants...so what's your point? 
+Before me there were others, like Rod...and barely preceding Rod there was
+Paddy Chayefsky and Reginald Rose and Arch Oboler...and on and on and on.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Dec 1996 22:38:12 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: TV Rating System (an obvious question)
+
+"What rating will B5 receieve under the new TV Parental Guidelines system?
+TV-PG, right?"
+
+I have no idea.  Syndication may not come in for the same hits as the
+network shows.  
+
+I favor TV-RFI...TV-RUN FOR IT!
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Dec 1996 17:42:16 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Tnak you for your wonderfull book
+
+Thank you.  I understand that the book is doing extremely well, and the
+reaction so far has been very positive.  Thanks again, and good luck.
+
+jms
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Dec 1996 21:10:25 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Second Favourite show on TV
+
+I'd say probably either X-Files or 60 Minutes, which are starting to
+resemble one another more and more these days....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Dec 1996 21:10:25 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Change of heart regarding the WB Network?
+
+I don't think the WB network is a likely candidate in any event, so it's
+kind of a moot point.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Dec 1996 20:56:04 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: The other door in "Z'Ha'Dum"
+
+In a way, I was going more for the visual, the image...the whole show is a
+matter of what door you choose to go through, and the door not taken.  If
+you wanted to take the scene *absolutely* literally, then since that room
+adjoined Justin's, the shadows were inside.  Or you can take it a little
+more metaphorically.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Dec 1996 21:00:41 -0500
+Subject: Re: Joe's Relationship with B5 Viewers
+
+"...do any other producers maintain this level of dialogue with their
+viewers?"
+
+None that I'm aware of.  Some maintain a presence on-line on an occasional
+basis, or on one or two services, or have someone filter their
+messages...but none at this level that I can name.  
+
+"But there must come a point when you turn away from the keyboard and
+laugh "it's just a tv show"."
+
+It is...?  Good heavens...then what's that Vorlon doing in the living
+room...?
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Dec 1996 20:57:23 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Frightening Speech in Summoning (spoilers for same)
+
+Certainly there will be some people who will wonder exactly the same thing
+you do, within the context of the show...and wonder if Sheridan's gone too
+far, gotten too messianic in his approach....
+
+Ah, the fun never stops....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Dec 1996 00:44:48 -0500
+Subject: Re: Inquest magazine spoils season 4 title (*spoiler*)
+
+"Into the Fire"
+
+Nope.  That ain't it.
+
+It's the title of a script that nobody's seen yet.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Dec 1996 04:47:26 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Wanna bet? NO!
+
+Actually, the Star Trek lottery scratchers are already out here in
+CA...someone gave me one a few weeks ago, astounded that Trek had now
+become part of legalized gambling...but with the ST casino going up in
+Vegas, a scratcher doesn't seem like that big a deal.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Dec 1996 23:21:27 GMT
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Wanna bet? NO!
+
+Actually, the Star Trek lottery scratchers are already out here in
+CA...someone gave me one a few weeks ago, astounded that Trek had now
+become part of legalized gambling...but with the ST casino going up in
+Vegas, a scratcher doesn't seem like that big a deal.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Dec 1996 23:42:04 -0500
+Subject: Re:  ATT:JMS WAS Joe's Relationship with B5 Viewers
+
+"You've said that you're still afraid that you'll give a presentation and
+no one will come -- do *you* sometimes go home and think, "Boy, that was a
+dumb thing to say", "Geez, I didn't put that at all well" etc.?"
+
+The question is have I ever done a presentation and *not* thought that
+afterward.  I invariably will ask someone I know, if present, "Was that
+okay?  I really muffed that part before the tape...and I didn't get this
+guy's question, but now I see what he was trying to ask now that I'm off
+the stage..."  I always have this kind of grunge feeling that I muffed it,
+did I provide enough for the people who came all this way...on and on and
+on.
+
+So yeah...ALL the time.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Dec 1996 00:34:48 -0500
+Subject: Re:  ATTN JMS: Are B5 crew "Rangers"?
+
+Yes, the second patch on the B5 command staff is a Ranger patch; the
+theory is that there's the League/B5 alliance on one side (one patch), the
+Minbari and the Rangers on the other (second patch), and the B5 command
+staff holding them all together.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Dec 1996 04:24:31 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: *only* 3 billion people on Centauri Prime?
+
+Basically, I figured with a culture in decline, often the birth rate goes
+down; it's also a fairly small world, all things considered...and a LOT of
+them live on other colonies, they've been spreading out a lot longer than
+we have...and of course they have always been sensible about birth control
+and population growth, one of their few wisdoms, and one we could learn
+from.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+JMS Usenet messages for January 1997.
+
+Date: 1 Jan 1997 22:39:09 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Actors in sequel
+
+Nothing has yet been finalized (or even near to it) on the cast.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Jan 1997 23:19:34 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: who can you hire/fire?
+
+"You're the writer and executive producer, and also big and tall. My
+question are, within the limitations of the budget you get, who controls
+the money?  Who has the final say over who to hire or fire, and what to
+spend money on or not?  Do you control all of that, or do you
+havemini-budgets for individual groups and let managers below you handle
+the smaller details within?  Can you briefly list the parts of the
+management hierarchy above and below you for, say, 1-2 levels?  Who's your
+boss and your boss' boss?  To whom are you the immediate boss and who
+reports to them?  Or maybe it's all a very flat hierarchy?"
+
+Doug and I own Babylonian Productions.  Once the budget is allocated by
+WB, we have full, final and complete discretionary control over it all. 
+Now, if we're going to do something major -- fire or hire a recurring
+actor or director -- we have to contact our liaison at WB and explain why,
+and what impact it has on standing contracts.  Once they are brought into
+the loop, they generally stamp "okay" on it and we move on.  They only get
+into the major issues, not the smaller, day to day things.  
+
+Guest stars: Doug and I have final authority, no need to check with WB;
+costume designs, sets, CGI, prosthetics...I generally deal with all of
+that, with John Copeland.  John handles a fair amount of this stuff as
+well, but if there's any kind of decision that needs to be made, to
+finalize stuff, it comes to me.  
+
+And that's really the whole chain of command: me and Doug, then John; and
+at the approval process for major changes, WB.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Jan 1997 23:26:36 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: What about your emotions? (writing question)
+
+The emotional impact is always strongest in the writing of the scene
+itself. 
+
+The only way to write scenes such as the ones you list is to feel them
+yourself, as strongly as the characters do.  Anything less, and it comes
+across as fake or forced.  I felt very strongly when I offed Kosh...it was
+very difficult for me, which was good, because then I knew it'd be hard on
+others as well.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Jan 1997 23:27:46 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS:  Delay in Season 4 title - waiting on year 5?
+
+No, I'm mainly just sitting on the title because I'd like to set up the
+next movment into which that title plays; it's something that's said in an
+episode, and I want it to have the right context.  So I'm just sitting on
+it for a bit.  It's not waiting for any outside factors; John and others
+know the title, which is the title for episode 415.  No big.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Jan 1997 23:38:36 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: faster graphics group?
+
+"So, my question is, do you see an improvement in the way or speed f/x are
+done nowadays?  With what you have now, would you expect to ever have to
+change schedules b/c f/x was taking too long?"
+
+No, not really, because the system is about as fast as you can get it, and
+so far we haven't seen any need to rearrange episodes or put anything back
+due to cgi.  (#406 is as big as anything we've ever done...usually, we do
+something that big toward the end of a season, with Severed Dreams an
+exception.)  
+
+It's mainly faster now in terms of the approval process.  Foundation would
+lay off a jpg image of a shot in process, but it's just one frame...when
+they'd deliver, it would be on an exobyte or laser disk transfer, and it
+would come down from their offices in Santa Clarita once a day.  So often
+you can lose a day or so in that process.  Now, it's over at post, which
+is 12 minutes away.  We zip down, see the whole shot (sometimes in
+wireframe or low-res tests), and approve or make changes at that stage,
+saving a LOT of time in terms of re-do's and the like.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Jan 1997 02:38:24 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Changes in belief
+
+"During the creation, writing and producing of Babylon5, have any of your
+everyday beliefs been changed by your work? Has the planning and
+construction of say an individual scene or theme ever had a profound
+effect upon any of your personal views?"
+
+Changed...no, I'd have to say not.  What it has done is clarify much of
+it.  If I'm going to deal with some of these issues, I have to sit down
+and really *think* about them...what do I think, what do others think, and
+why do I/they think what I/they think?  So it has a tendency to make one
+more reflective.  And while I've got pins stuck in a few things -- so I
+can come back and consider them again when I have time -- overall, no, not
+really.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Jan 1997 02:40:27 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: characters in control
+
+"Has a character (not actor) ever suggested a direction to you that you
+didn't take, but later on seemed like the direction you should have taken?
+I would think they would all be fighting for screen-time, or is that just
+some actors?"
+
+Not really, mainly because if my subconscious mind is sufficiently up in
+arms about something as to throw a fictional character at me and yell at
+me, it's usually a sign that I should Shut The Hell Up And Do As I'm Told.
+ So when it happens, I *very* rarely ignore it.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Jan 1997 02:42:53 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS -- several anecdotes
+
+Heath:
+
+It's very rare when I'm stunned into speachlessness.  That one (actually
+all of that as a unit) just did it.  Thanks.  
+
+Who knows...maybe this show might work out yet....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Jan 1997 02:43:40 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: We haven't got it yet.
+
+I think you'll be getting the rest of the big picture with the next batch
+of eps.  Almost all the cards are on the table now.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Jan 1997 02:45:31 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: V script on-line
+
+I won't post the whole script, because I'm considering what can be done
+with it yet, including the possibility of getting WB to authorize a
+novelization, which would be the very last official chapter in the V
+story.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Jan 1997 01:26:09 -0500
+Subject: Re: Question For JMS
+
+Thanks...and the eyes were a projection of a shadow face, as you can note
+in the main title.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Jan 1997 01:28:39 -0500
+Subject: Re: B5 Content Rating
+
+Nobody asked me about it...so I don't know who puts it on.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Jan 1997 01:29:02 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS-On Location?
+
+We've only gotten as far out as the parking lot.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Jan 1997 01:32:10 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Future Publications
+
+Actually, the writing book is out now...and I doubt the series bible will
+ever be made available.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Jan 1997 15:01:16 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Will we see more about any of these people?
+
+Out of those six, you'll be seeing 4 of them again, soonish.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Jan 1997 15:04:44 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS heros?
+
+I think it's a matter of showing the formality and traditions of the other
+races.  You're right, that humans don't honor their fallen heroes as much
+as they should, but they never really have....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Jan 1997 03:17:10 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Whence came Apotheosis ...
+
+Eye are a riter.  Eye read buks and eye remember wurds.  Wurds r my
+bizness.  Eye have seen that wurd many, many times. Like in the
+dikshonary. Eye read the dikshonary for funn.  Eye likes wurds.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Jan 1997 19:53:37 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Legality of burning downloaded clips into CD
+
+If the clips were provided by WB, then I imagine it's legal, though again
+I'm not an attorney and am speaking off the cuff; if they're grabs off the
+broadcast, they're illegal to START with if they're being distributed over
+the net, so any secondary use is equally unlawful.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Jan 1997 17:35:10 -0500
+Subject: Re: Why was CC looking for work in the first place? (was: Claudia Christian loses LadyLaw roll to Marcia Clark
+
+Lots of our cast members have always done projects on the side; Stephen
+did the Misery sitcom, Andreas has done some feature work, including
+Executive Decision, Peter did a miniseries for cable...the Lady Law gig
+would've required one day a week just introducing stuff a la Robert Stack
+on Unsolved Mysteries.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Jan 1997 17:35:12 -0500
+Subject: Re: The WB and B5
+
+Actually, the article got it wrong; at one point we went in to discuss the
+sequel to B5 with the WB network, but we have never talked to them about
+picking up B5, because we know that's not a possibility, given the
+competition between the two arms of WB.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Jan 1997 21:13:46 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: 415?
+
+415 and 416 are both in (the latter entitled "The Exercise of Vital
+Powers"), and 417 should be in soonish.  S4 is going great so far, we're
+very happy with it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1997 03:34:01 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Can you go crazy with sequel?
+
+In some ways, yeah, I think I will have some real opportunities that
+didn't exist with B5, in that for the first 3 years we had to fight to get
+ourselves taken seriously by everyone, including WB.  Now we have some
+credibility, and that gives you a certain freedom.  
+
+Also, the arc was, for me, a relatively new tool which took me about a
+year or so to really figure out how to use...then I used it relentlessly
+for a very long time.  Now it's just one more tool on my belt, and I can
+use it with a bit more precision.  It's the difference between using a
+rapier and a broadsword.  
+
+It'll probably start out looking fairly conventional, as did B5 our first
+year, just until the suits get comfortable and start ignoring us (they're
+all OVER you in your first year), and then, again as with B5, we'll start
+getting really subversive...ah loves being subversive....
+
+And there'll be the folks who'll say, "Oh, it's just X," just like they
+did with B5 in the beginning, saying "Oh, it's just like DS9," which is
+*perfect* because it lets me sneak up behind them and just WHACK 'em
+upside the head when they're not looking, as with B5.
+
+Basically, without saying too much, it'll be a MUCH larger canvas, and the
+kinds of stories I can tell will be CONSIDERABLY more varied and have more
+opportunities to explore all kinds of interesting stuff, so I can go a bit
+more nuts on production values, alien stuff, and other areas.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1997 04:04:40 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU APPROVED!
+
+Thing about the autographed cards...there was no money involved in this,
+it was done as a cool thing for the fans.  (Okay, I *did* ask for a full
+set of the Kingdom Come cardset, because I didn't want to run all over the
+planet running down chase cards)...and man, you have NO idea how long it
+takes to sign 900 cards.  Hours, I tell you...hours and hours.
+
+I suppose I could've signed more, to make more available to fans, but my
+right hand fell off and it took a day and a half to stich it back on
+again.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Jan 1997 18:41:12 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS has another job?
+
+And you stiffed me for a tip, buddy....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Jan 1997 18:50:44 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Why take net points?
+
+Because, if the show is successful in the long term, it gives you the
+authority to go back and audit the show so you *can* get something, maybe,
+years down the road.  If you don't get it into your contract, you can
+never go back.  So you just swallow it and hope you can do something with
+it someday.  It just becomes a bitch to prove they made a profit, because
+they control the books.
+
+For instance...we know that the first 3 years of B5 made a profit for WB
+because WB has a policy of not renewing unless a profit is being made. 
+Pure and simple.  We've heard, off the record, that the show posted
+profits of between $1.5-2 million per season.  (And mind, that's while
+we're still in production, spending money to make the show.  The instant
+you stop production, and there's no more negative cash flow into filming,
+it's all income from that moment on.)
+
+But the actual, official profit statement sent to Doug and I for season 2
+showed that we were about $42 million in the red.  The only way for that
+to happen is for not one commercial to ever be sold, not one merchandising
+deal ever to be made, not one cassette sold overseas...nada.
+
+The process is to assign percentages to various arms of the company.  The
+distribution fee is (these are off-the-cuff numbers, not necessarily
+accurate but indicative) 30%; then the overhead is 40% of all monies; 25%
+for publicity; 30% for production of prints, shipping, and the like.  So
+what you're looking at here is over 100% in fees...and when you start from
+that position, it takes you YEARS to whittle away at the production costs,
+costs of film...by which time additional fees have been charged against
+you...and on and on and on....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Jan 1997 04:48:11 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: FAN USE OF B5 STUFF
+
+You can use images, as I understand it, AS LONG AS they bear the proper
+copyright info, "copyright and trademark 1997 PTN Consortium."
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Jan 1997 23:38:45 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: If WB owns B5, lock, stock, and barrel...
+
+"This is what concerns me about a B5 spin-off.  If the show now becomes
+too
+popular, the anticipated spin-off just may turn into "Moppets in Space". 
+I guess I don't have much confidence that the successors to B5 will not
+turn into Voyager."
+
+I created B5.  I didn't create Voyager.  And I have no interest in doing
+moppets in space or anywhere else unless I can run a truck over them.
+
+This ain't gonna be a problem.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Jan 1997 23:39:30 -0500
+Subject: Re: Just wanted to thank Joe again for the show
+
+Thanks.  In some ways, the show created itself...but I'm more than happy
+to take the credit for it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Jan 1997 04:17:57 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: 415?
+
+Let me clarify a small point in all this. 
+
+We shoot straight through, from August to May.  We don't stop, we can't
+stop, except for the occasional holiday, like Christmas or Thanksgiving,
+plus one four day hiatus in the fall, and one in the spring.  That's the
+only way to make our delivery dates, and to produce this or any OTHER
+series.
+
+You can't take a position of, "Okay, I'm going to stop writing scripts and
+wait to see what happens."  So if that's the point of concern -- why is
+Joe writing if he doesn't know? -- it's because you just can't stop
+filming.  The cost alone would be hideous, and that alone would guarantee
+the death of B5.
+
+You have to get the basic script into the hopper literally 6 weeks before
+you shoot it, so that there's adequate time to build costumes, design and
+construct sets, plan EFX shots and the like. 
+
+What you can do, though, and what's being done to some extent, is to plan
+out alternate scenes, and alternate endings to scenes, *within* those sets
+and using those EFX.  It's not that unlike a computer game tree.  Once we
+get closer to filming them, we'll have a better idea of where things
+stand, and I'll know which way to go.
+
+You want a bottom line, I'd say it's this: the last sweeps period, we
+averaged a 3.8 rating, the highest we've had in a long, long time.  A huge
+jump.  If we can crack a 4 rating in the February sweeps, I think it would
+be very hard for WB *not* to give us a fifth season.  If we fall short,
+then it becomes more problematic.
+
+So as of now, it's all in the hands of the Neilsen gods, starting January
+27th.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Jan 1997 19:32:01 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Your bag of tricks
+
+"Is "the online experiment" also now in your bag of tricks? I.e. assuming
+you get to season 5, the 2 TV movies and/or Crusade, do you intend to have
+the same presence online or do you want to appear in forums and newsgroups
+less often?"
+
+Thing is...I don't consider the online thing part of my bag of tricks,
+which mainly I would consider technical or literary or structural devices
+used in the writing.  
+
+You've got to understand that I didn't just jump online when B5 rolled
+around.  I've been online since about 1984..logging onto Compuserve and
+other BBSs via a Kaypro II with 64K RAM and 128K floppies, NO hard drive. 
+When B5 came along, I just kept doing what I'd been doing from the start. 
+More of it, granted, but it's the same thing.
+
+So in future...yeah, I imagine I'd keep online, until it finally drove me
+nuts.  Perhaps not as much as now, only because the CTS acts up more some
+days than others, and it's only going to get worse and I'll have to
+concentrate that on the writing...but yeah, I'll be here.
+
+I've always been here.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Jan 1997 19:35:16 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: 415?
+
+It would be inappropriate for me to address a direct question about or
+which would be conveyed to a Neilsen family...all I can say is that in the
+syndication market, which has a much smaller base to begin with, every
+little bit helps.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Jan 1997 17:26:32 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Your bag of tricks
+
+I can't use voice recognition stuff...I think through my fingers.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Jan 1997 17:27:06 -0500
+Subject: Re: ''ATTN   JMS''
+
+I can only say that you'll get most of the answers to those questions
+soon.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Jan 1997 17:22:28 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Is the future all it's cracked up to be? (repost)
+
+No, the future is now largely set...the Londo/G'Kar death scene will
+happen as foreseen.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Jan 1997 17:24:25 -0500
+Subject: Re: Babylon 5 & Mormonism
+
+"Two data points a statistical proof does not make, but the similarly
+between the names, and the similarity of the Mimbari/Earth soul transfer
+to the Mormon teaching (correct me here if I am wrong) that in the next
+life our souls go as a type of god to another planet to populate it make
+me wonder if there is some Mormon influence in the B5 mythos."
+
+Not no way, not no how.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1997 17:15:24 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: What about your comics about Marcus?
+
+The Marcus story was folded into one of the upcoming novels.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1997 17:17:18 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Sweet Revenge
+
+Oh, I got him...but I'd prefer to save that story for the next convention
+rather than blow it online quite yet.  I'd like to have *some* new
+material that people haven't already heard.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1997 17:30:33 -0500
+Subject: Re: Ratings for syndicated action shows
+
+DS9 is still toward the top of the ratings, but the "naysayers" are
+correct about the decline in actual numbers.  (And DS9 does fall below
+Xena and Hercules in many cases, btw.)
+
+Here are the Neilsen figures for DS9 for the last several quarters:
+4th quarter 95: 7.1
+1st quarter 96: 6.7
+2nd quarter 96: 5.9
+3rd quarter 96: 4.8
+
+The jump in 4th quarter 96 is apparently due to a lot of new eps airing,
+and some stunting...the Tribbles episode and the like.
+
+By comprison, here are B5's numbers of the last number of quarters:
+3rd quarter 95: 2.7
+4th quarter 95: 2.9
+1st quarter 96: 3.0
+2nd quarter 96: 3.1
+3rd quarter 96: (being retablulated for some errors)
+4th quarter 96: 3.6
+
+DS9's season-to-date average has gone from 6.8 to 6.1.
+B5's STD average has gone from 3.0 to 3.3.
+
+And our demographics continue to be better than DS9.
+
+This isn't a qualitative statement, only to confirm what has been said:
+that DS9's ratings have been declining (also noted by the trades, which
+have found drops from 18% to 20% for both the ST shows) and that B5's
+ratings have been growing during the same period of time.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1997 17:06:02 -0500
+Subject: Re:  ATTN JMS: Watching TV
+
+"when you're watching TV, especially shows like the Tick, which is clever
+and 
+well written, how much of you can just watch the show, and how much takes 
+mental notes and analyzes and second-guesses the writers?"
+
+It's about 50/50.  In terms of comedy, I'm always subconsciously working
+out the punchline as soon as the setup comes in.  I'm not one of those
+people who laughs out loud most of the time at TV shows or movies because
+I often get there early.  Where I do lose it is when the comedy is totally
+unexpected and unpredictable.  I love being surprised.  
+
+But in general, part of me is always studying, whether I'm consciously
+aware of it or not...structure, rhythms of dialogue, that sort of thing. 
+I didn't know quite how much I do this until one evening back in
+college...see, I have this habit of tapping my fingers to the rhythms of
+dialogue, on my knee, or on the desk, I'm not aware of it most days, it's
+just a way of physicalizing spoken rhythms, and we all have different
+rhythms when we speak that tell a lot about us...and I was at a movie with
+a young lady, and didn't realize I was tapping out the rhythms of the
+dialogue on her shoulder until she WHAPPED me a good one.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Jan 1997 23:23:10 -0500
+Subject: Re:  ATT JMS: Visual look of Season 4?
+
+The lighting varies depending on what's being filmed; you go for a whole
+different mood in Z'ha'dum than in the Zocalo.  You can do more.  The
+sense and mood changes from episode to episode.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1997 03:53:09 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS to Appear on IRC [97 jan 22]
+
+Hang on, though...I just found out tonight that they have a maximum
+capacity of 250 on this thing, and I'm determined not to have another
+debacle like the last one.  So this may not come off.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1997 03:59:30 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Season 5 vs. Sequel
+
+I know it seems like a weird contradiction...it comes from a weird
+situation.
+
+PTEN, the network that airs B5, is no more.  Most of the stations have
+joined UPN, and the corporate structure is no more.  Imagine, for
+instance, the hassles in keeping a show on ABC if ABC suddenly no longer
+existed.  But the rights were tied to ABC, the people who once owned it
+want to cash in their chips and get out, and they can't take the show
+anywhere else...partly for competitive reasons, partly because the rights
+are held by a company that basically no longer exists.
+
+You may keep at it for a while, because you believe in it, and it's
+showing a profit, but there's always those guys in the corporation who
+keep pressuring you to let it go and clean out the books.  Those guys are
+in a tussle over B5 that has almost zilch to do with ratings, or letters,
+and everything to do with corporations and the  financial organization
+thereof.
+
+So while all this is going on...they're also saying, "Well, we believe in
+this, and if we can't move the show elsewhere, and the rights are tied up,
+perhaps another show that's free of the corporate entanglements and rights
+hassles would be a good idea, both on its own, as a fall back if the
+corporate wrangling gets too much, and/or if the series does go to 5
+seasons as a companion show for crossovers."
+
+In other words...it's all in a state of total flux while the corporate
+guys try to figure out what to do next.  And we're caught in the middle,
+unable to do anything but watch and see what happens.
+
+Does this explain some of the confusion and conflicting signals?
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1997 04:07:25 -0500
+Subject: Re: Ratings for syndicated action shows
+
+To confirm demographics...this stuff is usually in detailed form in the
+networks hands, but places like Broadcasting Magazine often do updates on
+it as well.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1997 06:57:59 -0500
+Subject: Re: Ratings for syndicated action shows
+
+"Someone should tell me why someone like me can't like B5 AND DS9 without
+having to defend one or the other; I like 'em both, don't shoot me!"
+
+I couldn't agree more.  My quibble was with those who look facts they
+don't like in the face and write them off as "naysayers."  Numbers is
+numbers, but personal tastes are personal tastes, and as far as I'm
+concerned, the more SF the merrier.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Jan 1997 08:57:54 -0500
+Subject: Re:  ATTN JMS:  Atlanta Journal Article
+
+It's the same article that got printed in the NY Daily News, and a) it
+takes a comment of mine completely out of context, b) they're going to
+publish a follow up correction in a couple of days, and c) we get this
+every season.  We won't know for a little bit yet.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Jan 1997 01:41:07 -0500
+Subject: Re:  ATTN JMS: "End of History?"
+
+"the end of history" is a term used by some sociologists, historians and
+social scientists to describe significant changes...some of them are
+referring to the present as the end of history.  That's a VERY poor and
+inadequate explanation of the term, and I'm confident that others here
+probably know the details and can explain it better than I can.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Jan 1997 01:43:40 -0500
+Subject: Re:  ATTN JMS: Janet Greek.
+
+Janet's off doing network stuff these days.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Jan 1997 16:55:48 -0500
+Subject: Re:  ATTN JMS: Fav tracks on new CD?
+
+I'm going to have to listen to this a few more times before I know which
+tracks I prefer.  There's a nifty extended version of the first season
+theme music that's very nice...other stuff that's most impressive...I'm
+very pleased overall.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1997 02:12:54 -0500
+Subject: Re:  ATTN:  JMS - Title of Season 4 (SPOILER?)
+
+Yes, that's the correct title.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1997 02:12:57 -0500
+Subject: Re:  ATTN JMS:  Toys, premiums, tie-ins, and your input
+
+We haven't done a whole lot of merchandising mainly because I want to get
+into that slowly, and not let it begin to influence the show or put
+priorities in the wrong order.  
+
+I work to varying extents with the licensees, but basically I get input at
+every stage of the product's development, from conceptual artwork or
+outlines, through to the final product.  
+
+For instance, today I got the revised transparency for the Delenn
+collector plate coming out from Hamilton...and it's gorgeous, just signed
+right off on that one, probaby the best of the two I've seen so far (#1
+being Sheridan).  Delenn/Mira almost glows off the image at you.  Others
+require more more work...when the novels come in, I do what I can, but
+often the deadlines are so tight that in the past it's been hard to get
+all the stuff I want revised, revised.  This time on the next 3 I worked
+more hand-in-glove at the outine stage, so that they would be better.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1997 04:12:38 -0500
+Subject: Re: News Service Report: Season 5 "Looks Doubtful"
+
+The newspaper syndicated strip that carried the first report about the
+show being doubtful just ran a follow-up on Friday taking back that
+comment.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1997 04:15:57 -0500
+Subject: Re:  ATTN  JMS:  At this point, can we help w/renewal
+
+No, at this point it's all between WB and the stations.
+
+One other complication to all this is that both WBN and UPN are adding
+another night each, and that chews up more available spots...and there are
+a LOT of other new syndicated shows coming out, from Stargate to Total
+Recall and others, and X-Files, NYPD Blue and Homicide are all also
+hitting syndication at the same time, so it's very, very, very scary out
+there right now.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1997 04:11:02 -0500
+Subject: Re:  ATTN JMS : Whatever Happened To . . . Mike Vejar
+
+Mike got grabbed up by other shows for most of the fall before we got word
+of our pickup.  Once we got renewed, we booked him as fast as we could,
+and he's directing one for us right now.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1997 21:52:45 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Favorite SF authors
+
+Sheckley's stuff is great.  His novel, "Mind Swap," I think the name was,
+is just hysterically funny.  And Callahan's Crosstime Saloon is always
+great stuff.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1997 21:57:36 -0500
+Subject: Re: TNT, B5 Movies, and Reruns
+
+Your understanding is correct, and basically the show would start
+rerunning on TNT about 6 months after the show is finished.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1997 22:41:08 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: What if season 5 gets a go too late
+
+That scenario is not very likely.  We should know soonish.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1997 22:42:48 -0500
+Subject: Re: Could B5 go to a network?
+
+No, there's no chance.  The problem is that B5 is owned by a consortium,
+with WB on one side, and the station group on the other.  When you see a
+show hopping networks, it's often (for instance) a Universal show that
+goes from ABC to CBS.  Universal still is the sole owner of the show, it's
+just a question of which network shows it, and the network doesn't own it.
+
+With PTEN, WB and the stations own the show, though the copyright for most
+actual artifacts of the show belongs to WB.  WB Network wants to carve out
+its own identity rather than taking leftovers from another, competing WB
+division.  The regular networks won't take an off-syndication show.  The
+idea of WB going to Paramount/UPN...well, that one's self-explanatory as a
+non-starter.
+
+It can't even go to TNT because of contractual elements between WB and the
+stations.  So it's either this arrangement, or nothing.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Jan 1997 04:32:42 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Favorite SF authors
+
+And before anyone yells at me, 10 seconds after I posted this, I
+remembered that the Callahan's books were by Spider Robinson, I know, I
+know, mea culpa, I stooged it, what can I say...?
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Jan 1997 20:20:40 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  TNT Reruns of B5
+
+It's my understanding that B5 will run daily on TNT, M-F, at 6:00 p.m.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1997 01:41:03 -0500
+Subject: Re: F1 Resolution - Too Easy? (Spoilers 406 -> )
+
+>Thanks to the super-wonderful Spoiler Junkies page
+>the apparent resolution of the problems imposed by the
+>ultra-powerful First Ones is revealed. 
+
+Except, of course, that ain't what happens in the episode.
+
+That's what you get for reading spoilers instead of watching the episode,
+especially summaries which a) sometimes don't present the whole picture,
+and b) which I've lately been able to get my hands on and, even though the
+main story has to go out, I'm able to...edit out...little but important
+details, JUST TO PISS OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO READ THE DAMNED THINGS!
+
+Finally, FINALLY, I have my vengeance over the spoiler junkies....ha HA
+ha-ha-HA ha HAAAA....
+
+I need a vacation....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1997 09:46:48 -0500
+Subject: Re:  Harlan Ellison on "Politically Incorrect"
+
+"H.E. was saying that the McCarthy hearings and red-hunting trials in the
+USA from 1947 to 1954 were "just as bad" as Stalin's justice system.
+(Which is of course absurd, but it's very Harlan.   It's unlikely he would
+actually defend such a claim if he weren't hyper-excited.  Of course, it's
+also unlikely he'll ever cease to be hyper-excited.)"
+
+Absolutely incorrect.  I and many other people feel the same way.  The
+House UnAmerian Activities Committee (HUAC) destroyed innocent people with
+just as much efficiency and cruelty as the Stalinist courts ever did. 
+(Remember the lesson from "Infection"..."when you become obsessed with the
+enemy, you BECOME the enemy.")
+
+J. Parnell Thomas and Joe McCarthy decided that there were X-number of
+communists in the military, industry, radio and the motion picture
+business, and they were determined to find them whether they existed or
+not.  People were brought before the committee and told to name names of
+those they thought might be red.  Not that they *were* red (and some, a
+very few, were), but that they *might be*.  And even if you didn't know
+anyone who *might be*, if you didn't name SOMEbody, you might be assumed
+to be hiding something...and end up blacklisted yourself.  
+
+It was crime by association, by implication, by innuendo, by distortion
+and by lie.  People saw their careers destroyed, their lives ruined, their
+families devastated.  They had to flee the country to work.  Some went to
+jail.  Some were so utterly destroyed by the process that they committed
+suicide.  
+
+No, it wasn't equal to the sheer numbers of the Stalinist death
+camps...but in terms of a one-to-one experience, the one was every bit as
+vile, sadistic and unholy as the other.  And just as random.  
+
+One film maker, hired BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT to make films during the
+second world war about the benefits of working with the Russians to defeat
+the Nazis later found those same films used to prove he was a commie
+sympathizer.
+
+A leading radio dramatist of his age was never even called before the
+committee, but his name was listed in Red Channels, a crummy little
+broadsheet published by the owner of a SUPERMARKET CHAIN in the East
+Coast, a guy who one day decided that this writer was a little too pink
+for his tastes...and that writer's career stopped THAT DAY.
+
+If Harlan got exercised about it...and if I got exercised about it...it's
+because we are writers, and many writers, actors and directors who had
+never done anything to anyone, who had nothing to do with reds, were
+destroyed in full light of the national media.  Jeff Corey didn't work for
+about 20 years after his run-in; same for Zero Mostel.  It's something we
+feel *very* strongly about.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Jan 1997 02:03:01 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS  Are you at all concerned about "Farewell"?
+
+"Are you at all concerned that, when it's all said and done, that some
+fans will scratch their heads and wonder:  "You mean thats it?""
+
+No, I don't think so.  The story for "Sleeping in Light," the last B5
+episode, is such that it is completely moveable, and self-contained, and
+buttons down the arc in what I think is a very moving fashin.  I think
+that when it's all said and done, the average reaction will be to sit back
+and say, "That was a good story."  Obviously you can't please everyone,
+and you can't expect to.  But basically, yeah, I think it's going to end
+well.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Jan 1997 02:06:05 -0500
+Subject: Re: YO JMS Dilbert & Geo. Washington
+
+"I've never actually seen the comic strip myself, but, gosh, I'd think
+Patrick McGoohan (sorry for the spelling) or one of the other actors or
+personalities (like yourself) we fans would like to see guest star or
+cameo on the program would be more appropriate?"
+
+We're still after McGoohan, but again that will depend entirely on the
+role.  I'm toying with one now that we'll send along and see what happens.
+ The Adams thing is a quick cameo...for McGoohan you want to do something
+major.
+
+"Another question: I was thumbing through some SF magazine or other when I
+spotted you posing with an award (sorry, I can't remember which one).
+Anyway, 
+you weren't smiling. All the photos I've seen of you you never smile. Come
+on
+Joe - smile for the birdy!! Once in a while? Sometimes I think you've got
+wooden teeth or something."
+
+I hate cameras.  I'm mind-bogglingly unphotographic.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Jan 1997 21:59:50 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - What about "The Babylon Project"?
+
+I just got in the full-color proofs of the main book, and it's not only
+gorgeous, it's the best single compilation of B5 universe information that
+I've ever seen.  They had to do a fair amount of filling in the gaps here
+and there, but what went in fits perfectly, and I highly recommend it. 
+They went to a great deal of work and research on the show, and you can
+see it in every panel.
+
+So it should be out soon, since this is the final version.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Jan 1997 09:17:37 -0500
+Subject: Re: jms graphics note (cgal repost)
+
+"Joe, I don't think anyone *really* doubted that the new FX would be any
+good."
+
+Then, Mojo, if nobody "doubted that the new FX would be good," explain to
+me whence came all those messages from pseudonymous individuals posted on
+the newsgroup saying that they were going to be crap, that there wouldn't
+BE any EFX, that the show was going to hell...on and on.  My message was
+in reply to those individuals who set out deliberately to trash us.  If
+they didn't doubt the EFX would be good, then why did they say so?  If
+they did post messages that the EFX would be crap, which they did, then
+why would you say that no one doubted it?  Are you suggesting they
+deliberately lied in their messages?  Or that the messages, which exist,
+did NOT really exist (dream state) or that they were in fact accidentally
+crossposted from Bizarro World.  "New B5 EFX am bad!" meaning that they're
+great.  Perhaps that's what you're suggesting.
+
+"I'm sure that your Foundation Imaging-trained team, using Foundation
+Imaging objects and Foundation animation techniques will turn out some
+very fine work indeed!"
+
+It's nothing to do with Foundation one way or another...the message posted
+was in reference to the people who were slamming the people who were now
+doing the B5 EFX...that has nothing whatsoever to do with what I was
+discussing.
+
+If you felt this strongly about the quality of those doing the EFX, then
+I'm surprised you didn't defend these individuals from the attacks then
+being made.  If they're Foundation trained, using Foundation tech, and
+someone's out there trashing them, I'd think that Foundation would
+actively want to defend them.  I guess when it looked like they'd be crap,
+there wouldn't be much point to defending them...but when they came out
+well, then I can see why one would want to jump in and make sure that
+Foundation shared the credit.
+
+(BTW, your note accidentally left out Eric Chauvin's fine work on the
+show, who created many of the images of Minbar, Earth, the Garden and
+other amazing sights...or Steve Burg, who helped design the Starfuries and
+many other ships, neither of whom are part of Foundation.  It would be an
+error for people to assume that Foundation was the be-all and end-all of
+B5's EFX, and I know that neither you nor Ron would want to create that
+impression.)
+
+And certainly, we continue to use Eric on the show, and others, who were
+never a part of Foundation Imaging.  So it wold be an error to imply that
+they all came to us from there.
+
+Our animators have acquired a wide range of experience, at Foundation and
+elsewhere.  We have always spoken well of Foundation, which came into
+existence because Doug and I were willing to give Ron a chance.  And we
+have never wished them anything but good fortune.
+
+Our continued best wishes to everyone there.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+JMS Usenet messages for February 1997.
+
+Date: 1 Feb 1997 14:03:38 -0500
+Subject: Re: The Long Night ( *Spoilers* )
+
+
+
+:I am unaware of any *deliberate* attempt to have people tortured to
+authenticate information. The deception consisted of several elements."
+
+That you may not be aware of it does not mean it's incorrect.
+
+I ran across this information in an article in The Los Angeles Times about
+8 years ago.  It was something of a big deal because the situation had
+been kept secret ever since the war, and when it came out it caused a
+great deal of distress (and discussion) about the ethics involved.
+
+I called a couple of other people who I talked to when the article first
+came out, and their recollection of it is the same as mine.
+
+I'll try and get around to doing a search on the LA Times database, to see
+if I can find the exact references, though I don't know if their search
+engine goes back that far.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Feb 1997 03:27:31 -0500
+Subject: Re: jms graphics note (cgal repost)
+
+Mojo:
+
+I will point out to you that in my original message, I never even
+MENTIONED Foundation, or referred to it in any way, manner, shape or form.
+
+You did that on your own.  You made baseless statements about our entire
+EFX team coming from Foundation, when you know this is an absolute and
+utter fabrication on your part.  
+
+If you've got a problem with this topic being brought up, it's you who did
+it, so take your concerns to the mirror.
+
+Me, I'm out of this.
+
+"All I can say is that Joe REALLY doesn't know how to take a sarcastic
+comment in good stride!"
+
+Maybe, in future, if you didn't just drop in "sarcastic comments"
+randomly, you wouldn't have problems like this.  Every time I have made a
+positive comment about the EFX this season, you have jumped in with
+sarcasm.  Grow up, Mojo.
+
+Meanwhile, as far as I'm concerned, this thread is over.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Feb 1997 01:20:36 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: pat tallman question
+
+Unless it's a small stunt where we have to see her face, such as getting
+tossed against a wall, it's always a stuntwoman for the bigger stuff. 
+Same as all our cast.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Feb 1997 01:26:15 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: From B5 to Crusade - A Transition $ Q!
+
+We're still discussing how the transition would take place.
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Feb 1997 09:09:12 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Is it really you?
+
+"He (Mr. Ellison that is) also mentioned that J. Michael Straczynski took
+over hosting a radio show in the LA area. I haven't ever heard of this
+before (as opposed to knowing about Cap'n Power- one of my favs as a kid,
+Ghostbusters, etc.), and I was wondering if it was really you."
+
+Yeah, that was me.  The show was HOUR 25, a 2-hour weekly talk show
+covering SF, fantasy, comics, horror, you name it.  I hosted the show for
+5 years on KPFK-FM.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Feb 1997 09:12:01 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS -- The Long Night - Something magical happened...
+
+That's an amazing (and amazingly gratifying) report...thank you very muc
+for that.  And my best to the NY fans.  Thanks again.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Feb 1997 14:50:58 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - Choice of Music in "The Long Night"
+
+It's not exactly a question of choosing the music: I sit with Chris
+Franke, our composer, and indicate, "Here's where the music starts, and
+ends."  If it's source music, we discuss the type of music, and he then
+composes it.  We don't choose from library stuff on the show.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Feb 1997 19:03:51 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS where's Bester?
+
+He'll be up in 2 more eps.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Feb 1997 19:14:28 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS -- Say cheese!
+
+Suddenly this whole photographic/photogenic discussion has taken a
+frightening turn....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Feb 1997 19:13:04 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Regarding Babylon 5: the Sequel
+
+Yeah, there will be an arc to the sequel series, but not quite as
+intensive or rigorous as the one in B5.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Feb 1997 21:33:52 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Background graphics for ITF (no spoilers)
+
+We use the Hubble images (provided by them) a lot on the show, including
+these current couple of episodes.  We digitize them, then enhance them
+into 3D.
+
+There aren't any official B5 paintings going on now, the only artwork of a
+collector's sort now is the collector's plate series from Hamilton, which
+is very nice (the Delenn plate in particular is *gorgeous*).
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Feb 1997 21:34:49 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - "Into the Fire" (spoilers)
+
+Thanks...and the shadow voice was definitely Ed Wasser.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Feb 1997 01:44:28 -0500
+Subject: Re: Into the Fire ( *Spoilers* )
+
+Over?  As Londo said..."Oh, I haven't even *started* with you yet."
+
+Was the story of Earth over after WW2?
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Feb 1997 02:06:00 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Background graphics for ITF (new spoiler question)
+
+Yeah, John Copeland and I picked the specific images used in that one.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Feb 1997 15:15:20 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS
+
+Yes, when you write a novel, you own the copyright; nobody can touch it
+without your permission.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Feb 1997 10:12:34 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Only on Babylon 5 . . . (no ITF spoilers)
+
+ 1.) The CGI was excellent and seemed very different than in previous
+episodes, much larger, better defined, darker.  Was this an effort on
+your part, or the post-production department?
+
+We're trying some new rendering techniques...I think they're working very
+well.  (Some of the stuff in the next episode has a very realistic feel to
+it.)
+
+  2.) Have you found some way to slow down time or compress the episode
+into a shorter span?  When I finished this one, I swore I had watched a
+two hour movie.
+
+You did.  We arranged for a time dilation bubble to appear over your
+house.
+
+  3.) Any reaction from the actor or staff on this one?  Especially, Ed
+Wassner? (Might be a bit of spoilers in the answer to this one)
+
+Ed wants to come back as an alien.  I see no problem with this.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Feb 1997 02:36:14 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Revellogram model kits
+
+I saw the ad copy for the first batch of models when they came through my
+office for approval...the Starfury is going to be one of the first ones
+out, and if the ad just came through, then it means they're about to start
+marketing it, so I'd keep my eyes open.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Feb 1997 02:38:44 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS & ALL: Very cool web site!!
+
+The early information on Vorlons was just put in there to make the studio
+happy, since I didn't want to reveal what they were -- it'd be kinda hard
+to explain to business types -- because they wanted *something* to hold
+onto.  The same material includes drawings done again just to help them
+relax.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Feb 1997 02:42:19 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Question about scores
+
+I think there are certain separated rights...but for the examples you
+cited, they were probably done via arrangements with the studios, not the
+composers.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Feb 1997 02:45:53 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS   <spoilers for #406>
+
+Ghar...your comments are well and good and have nothing to do with
+reality.
+
+First, the Rangers situation is not a typical military situation.  They
+are primarily from Minbar, both in terms of actual Minbari and humans
+trained there.  They are specifically under Delenn's charge, with Sheridan
+*sharing* that authority.  He did not know Ericsson because they're a
+large bunch to whom he has not been introduced, and likely they don't have
+very large records on them.  This is a *de facto* army, not a *de jure* (I
+hope I spelled that right) army...there ain't a lot of paperwork on the
+Rangers.
+
+Second, it was Delenn who sent for this particular White Star, more for
+its strategic location...which Sheridan used because it was closest to the
+goal.  Your observation is like saying that General Patton should know
+*instantly* about every soldier on the line in battle, however distant he
+is.  Which is simply absurd.  Watch some old WW2 footage someday...there's
+General MacArthur walking among some troops..."What's your name, son? 
+Where are you from?"  By your lights, he should have known that.  
+
+Third, re: the encryption notice...of *course* they're all
+encrypted...what Sheridan said was "we're RE-encrypting this message EVERY
+THREE SECONDS, so be sure to have your system keep up."  That's an
+escalation in layers of encryption so elaborate and involved that it makes
+the system actually slow down.
+
+Before you start flaming, I suggest you stop and consider what you're
+saying some time, and that there may be other elements at work beyond just
+what you THINK should be the case.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Feb 1997 12:55:13 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: I'm going "huminahuminahumina..."
+
+Thanks.
+
+You can sit down now.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Feb 1997 12:56:31 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS--Pushing the Envelope (SPOILERS, Into the Fire)
+
+Thanks.  Now comes more fun...again, it's all about process...going from
+post-war (Minbari) to an uneasy peace, to showing how a war starts to come
+about, the actual beginning of a war, its progress, then the aftermath. 
+That arc really is at the core of the show...the changes that take place
+through this process.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Feb 1997 13:11:51 -0500
+Subject: jms thinkpad story: end notes
+
+Just a follow-up since a few have asked....
+
+A while back, I posted about the IBM Thinkpad 560 that I bought, which
+went kablooey within 24 hours and could not be fixed, and the multiple
+incompetent attempts to make it work by techs who had never touched this
+model before.  I vented here in my frustration about it all.
+
+Well, what then happened was that a Very Nice Man named Robert Kirk at IBM
+heard about this, and intervened.  Through his own resources, he had it
+checked out thoroughly, and discovered that the motherboard was wired
+wrong, and badly, with some connections not fully made, so it'd work one
+minute, and not the next.
+
+It's subsequently been replaced, and it has been running fine ever since. 
+I've held back saying anything more until I was sure...but it's a fine
+little machine, now that it's working.
+
+Sometimes, as with any bureaucracy, you have to get their attention, and
+that's what the nets are good for.  I heard from several others who had to
+go through similar steps..and if you plink them in public, they will
+sometimes do what they will never do for you in private.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Feb 1997 19:25:25 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Qs about Crusade
+
+"Can you tell us if Crusade is going to be a definite length eg B5
+is/was supposed to be 5 years (still hanging on for season 5
+announcement and sadly for season 4 to start showing in UK)."
+
+There's a definite ending in mind, yes, but there's some room to play
+within that framework.  Again, there's an arc, but not quite as rigorous
+as with B5.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1997 20:16:19 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATT JMS:  Proportions of writing
+
+Thanks...at last, I'm well proportioned....
+
+I've always preferred the arc, both inside an episode, and between
+episodes, and even in the course of a season, where there's the resolution
+and then there's time to consider, reflect, and show the impact of these
+things.  It's not just about solving the technical problem that way...it's
+about the people who solve the problem and how they are affected by the
+problems and solutions.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1997 20:22:12 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATT:JMS Into the Fire ( *Spoilers* )
+
+Yes, if Sheridan had not pushed Kosh into the trigger event that started
+to accellerate the story, the events that followed...wouldn't have.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1997 07:11:24 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for the job!
+
+Thanks...the show can be a nudge, but only a nudge...you have to do what
+needs to be done, and you did exactly this.  All praise and responsibility
+rests at your feet; I got nothing to do with it, but I will, with thanks
+and appreciation, reflect for a moment the sunshine of your accomplishment
+as though I actually had something to do with dawn.  Good luck.
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1997 07:14:02 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS B5 Soundtrack Vol. 2
+
+The two songs may show up somewhere someday, but I'm in no rush...I like
+the soundtrack being instrumental.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1997 07:03:39 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Comparison to "Lucifer's Hammer"
+
+I agree, it's often the aftermath that holds the greatest interest.  The
+Civil War tells one kind of interesting story; the Reconstruction that
+followed, which endured for many years longer than the war, tells another,
+just as interesting story.
+
+There's a line one of the characters will say soon, "The duration's going
+to be a lot longer than the war."  It's a very true comment.
+
+One of my favorite books is "Alas, Babylon," by Pat Frank, which is about
+a nuclear war (written in the early 60s).  But the war happens entirely
+off-stage, way in the distance...and the book focuses on one small
+township dealing with the after effects, and the day-to-day realities of
+surviving in a changed world.  I've always been partial to that kind of
+storytelling.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:12:56 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: How could you? -- SPOILERS for 'Epiphanies'
+
+
+
+"Was this your intention - to get a response from those of us who follow
+the Sheridan and Delenn story line closely? Some how, I feel manipulated
+and very disappointed."
+
+Yes, as I sat in the editing room, I thought, "Hmmm...if I do this, it'll
+get the Sheridan and Delenn fans' knickers all in a knot...."
+
+Every scene goes through some editing...there is barely a scene we film
+that doesn't get a line or two or three snipped.  Sometimes the edit is
+noticeable, sometimes it ain't.  The only thing you can decide is, "Does
+this move the story along or not?"  I was chasing about another 20 seconds
+(which was all we're talking about here), and the back-and-forth didn't
+really add anything to what was already in that scene.  I treated it the
+same as I would treat any other scene.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:13:42 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  A request for a "final curtain bow".
+
+
+
+We've been considering something along those lines, but even broader,
+which is all I can say about it for now.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:13:57 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Holographic storytelling and irony
+
+
+
+I'd say that about 75% of the ironies are deliberately planned, and 25%
+come out of the general ether as I'm writing.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:14:35 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: promised end vs. non renewal
+
+
+
+"As you seem to be very quiet about the possible futures, here is my
+question:
+	What do you *want*? :-)"
+
+To tell stories.
+
+It's all I've ever wanted.
+
+As for the future of B5, whatever happens...I proved that it could be
+done, when the Industry said it couldn't.  What I set out to achieve, I've
+achieved...now it's just surviving the last stages of it all.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Feb 1997 09:59:01 -0500
+Subject: jms quickies
+
+For those in the Los Angeles area, I'll be doing a B5 presentation at
+Gallifrey, at the Airtel Hotel in Van Nuys, including a new blooper reel
+and scenes from episodes yet to come.
+
+I'll also be at Megacon in Orlando, Florida in about a month.
+
+Preliminary, unofficial word is that we got a 4.1 rating for the second
+new episode, our highest in 2 years.
+
+Also, the new issue of Sci-Fi Universe has two articles by Stephen Smith,
+one of which, a week following the production of B5, is probably the best
+and most comprehensive article ever written on the subject.  I commend it
+wholeheartedly.
+
+Finally, Antioch Publishing is hitting the bricks shortly with a line of
+B5 nifties, ranging from bookmarks to bookplates, and other stuff.  It's
+beautiful stuff, made for readers.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Feb 1997 06:06:32 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATT: JMS No Models from Revell?
+
+"recently I read that you saw ads for the model ships to be made by
+Revell/Modello, and thought they'd be out soon.  I rushed out to the local
+hobby shop, where the owner had heard nothing new on the subject."
+
+These were ads that were coming through my hands for approval.  They won't
+be appearing for a while yet...but definitely later this year.  They
+wouldn't be sending me ad copy if they weren't planning to do something. 
+Since the ads just came through, they wouldn't have shown up in the latest
+catalog.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Feb 1997 06:08:45 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: GenCon Attendance?
+
+No, nothing is currently in place for GenCon.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Feb 1997 06:09:59 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS
+
+The PTEN logo remains because that's what owns B5; the thing is no longer
+functining as it did, but on the books it remains.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Feb 1997 06:11:17 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Epiphanies (spoiler
+
+My suspicion is that they're dropping the B5 promo into what was the Kung
+Fu promo spot, since KF ain't no more.  They can't put in any more
+commercials because they're up to the maximum limit, and most fans have
+indicated wanting to see the longer promo not the short one, which is
+often cut off.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Feb 1997 06:16:46 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Question about B5 novels
+
+In the past, we've taken pitches, but overall I've felt that the books
+strayed too far from canon by doing it that way; the latest batch were
+more directly influenced.  One is taken right out of B5 canon, the
+Anna/Icarus story, and it's one of the best to date; the second one up is
+based on a premise I wrote up and was assigned to the writer (it's the
+weakest of the three, set on Centauri Prime while G'Kar was still held
+prisoner, but still okay); the third is also based on a premise, and
+follows Sinclair after leaving B5 to form the Rangers...I worked very
+closely with the writer here to ensure that virtually *every line* is
+canon.  Frankly, if anyone asks from now on, "What happened to Sinclair
+after leaving B5?" I can point to this book and say, honestly, "It's all
+in there."
+
+I think we'll continue to work this way more in future.
+
+Dell only works with published authors with agents and credits.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Feb 1997 06:17:02 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: quickies (Was: jms quickies)
+
+Sorry...Megacon is the weekend of March 15th.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Feb 1997 06:19:21 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: 14th April for season 4 in UK?
+
+"I had written to them about the repeats of Season 1 (which we're not
+getting in Wales) and after explaining that their commitment to Welsh
+langauge programming did not allow them sufficient airtime for as many
+repeats as the main C4, they went on to say, "However, you'll be glad to
+know that the next series has been provisionally scheduled to start on
+the 14th April 1997 on Channel 4. That series will definitely be shown
+by S4C, although I am unable to give you a date and time at present.""
+
+This is the first time I've heard a specific date, so I can't comment with
+any kind of competence one way or another...I can only nod wisely, as if I
+knew what the hell was actually going on....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Feb 1997 05:08:24 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Complete Book of Scriptwriting
+
+Thanks...no, haven't written any other technical books, and all my fiction
+is currently out of print.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Feb 1997 13:33:31 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS - WB Mixed Signals, Ratings...
+
+Yeah, it's enough to drive a Vorlon to hyperventilate....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Feb 1997 21:05:32 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: audio problem during "The Illusion of Truth"
+
+My guess is it was caused by the downlink, but I'll try to verify.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Feb 1997 04:43:26 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Master story tellers are never boring
+
+Thanks...and yeah, I'll be at Marcon this year, story-bag in hand....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Feb 1997 04:57:29 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Question about B5 novels
+
+"Is this book consistant with what happened to Sinclair in the first few
+issues of the DC comic? Or is the DC comic now non-canon?"
+
+It's *absolutely* consistent with the comic, the events of which are
+mentioned at some length in the novel.  I'm telling you...it ties in the
+comics, the first year, the following year, the development of the
+Rangers, what happened to Marcus and his brother, what happened to
+Catherine Sakai, we learn a lot more about Valen...it's going to be pretty
+cool.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Feb 1997 17:00:09 -0500
+Subject: George is Here!
+
+I just saw the first message I can remember from George Johnsen, B5
+co-producer and head of Post Production on BABYLON 5.  His message here
+was signed George Johnsen <ndeiprod@earthlink.net>.
+
+For those interested in the details of post-production -- sound, music,
+editing, CGI, other stuff -- George is the guy to ask.  George is
+one-third of the Terrible Triumverate without which B5 would not happen,
+and even if it did happen, wouldn't be a fraction as good as it is.  (The
+other two being me, one presumes, and John Copeland, one fears.)
+
+Everybody join in welcoming George...make him feel at home...and feel free
+to ask him all the technical questions you've considered asking me, but
+knew you wouldn't get back an even reasonably intelligent reply.  (Insert
+evil laughter here.)
+
+(George also makes a *great* convention speaker, incidentally.  Simply a
+word to the wise.)
+
+George also did the closing voice-over in season 1 of B5, by the way.  
+
+This newsgroup is now officially bi-producial.  Bi-producerial. 
+Something....
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Feb 1997 17:01:50 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: I-CON
+
+I'm pretty sure we'll all be there for all 3 days...I know Harlan and I
+will, pending any last-minute adjustments.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Feb 1997 04:37:46 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Drooling and muttering
+
+Sounds like the drooling has stopped, but the muttering continues....
+
+And thanks muchly.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Feb 1997 04:52:11 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  MegaCon
+
+My main B5 presentation will be that Saturday, March 15th, from 3-4:30, at
+the Orange County Convention Center there in Orlando.  I'll be there with
+bloopers, some scenes from episodes to air in May, and other gimcracks.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Feb 1997 04:57:51 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade/B5 ending?  ** SPOILERS**
+
+"You have pretty consistently said that you would *end* B5, and that there
+would *never* be a sequel.  Instead, you would do something in the B5
+universe, but not realated to the B5 storyline.  The description sure
+sounds like a sequel to me."
+
+What I have said about this from the beginning, and the ONLY thing I have
+ever said about this, was that there was a side-story in the B5 universe
+that could go off from the main story.  That has been quoted in many
+different places, and on line, and definitely includes any plans for
+"Crusade."
+
+BTW, that new characters were mentioned does not exclude any current cast
+members...doesn't include them, either, but bottom line, that ain't a
+complete list of characters.  There's room and flexibility in there,
+depending on what happens.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Feb 1997 05:04:44 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS-New comics?
+
+Yes, here's the skinny: 
+
+There's going to be a new 3-part story arc for the comics.  It'll first
+appear in the UK, serialized in the B5 magazine (which will be regularly
+published over there shortly, to coincide with new episodes), then it will
+be gathered together and published in the US by DC Comics.  The books are
+being written/assembled in-house, to avoid conflicts with editors.
+
+I've written the first issue, which brings the Valen story into the
+foreground, and the second two parts are being written by Peter David.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Feb 1997 05:02:51 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Complete Book of Scriptwriting
+
+"Are there any plans to put any of [my books] back in print?"
+
+Ehhhh...no, not really.  
+
+I'd rather see my next novel come out first, since it's going to be a
+better book than those preceding it.  (Yes, I'm writing it now in my
+copious free time.)
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Feb 1997 15:21:24 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: You really depress me
+
+If it's a little close to home...you have to remember I came out of
+journalism, that was where I cut my teeth as a writer, working for
+newspapers and magazines.  You see a lot of the tricks, some good, some
+not so good, used for purposes that are sometimes good or not so good,
+distortions on the left and distortions on the right. So it wasn't hard to
+just tweak it a bit.
+
+Thing to remember, though, is that this isn't ISN as we've known it in the
+past, at least not to this extreme.  If anything, this ep should point to
+the difference between journalism, albeit biased, and propaganda, which is
+all ISN is now, and how only an informed viewership can prevent the one
+from sliding into the other.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Feb 1997 21:32:03 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: New book?
+
+Thanks.  I'm loathe to say too much about the book for now, because I tend
+to prefer to talk about these things closer to completion, so I know it's
+something that will *happen*.  I can say for now only that it's an SF
+novel, probably with a good mainstream appeal to it, in a contemporary
+setting.  I'm not able to work on it as much or as often as I'd like,
+stealing away a few hours here and there, but I'm about 100 pages into it
+now, and hope to have it done by the end of the year.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Feb 1997 05:10:26 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Sheridian's model :-)
+
+Actually, I think the Starfury model was an illegal one we confiscated.
+
+Waste not, want not...
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Feb 1997 05:16:03 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Sonic Images and B5 CD vol2
+
+"You should have gotten her name and asked to speak to the manager (or
+call back later).  I don't think that JMS will be able to do anything
+about this -- he doesn't work for or manage Sonic Images."
+
+No, but it never hurts to make a phone call (which I did)...
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Feb 1997 15:19:25 -0500
+Subject: The Illusion of Truth ( *Spoilers* )
+
+Spoilers for The Illusion of Truth
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+"3 - In the Delenn/Sheridan interview, there is a 
+    change in the vocal acoustics of the journalist
+    for the "new" questions he asked.  "
+
+
+And not just in the voice quality...look at the footage again.  He's
+sitting in a different chair, in a different room.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Feb 1997 22:08:45 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: audio problem during "The Illusion of Truth"
+
+Hey Folks-
+
+The audio problem on TIoT was caused by the uplink at the uplink
+facility that Warners is using this year.  This facility is not all
+digital, like our facility was last year, and these analog-y problems
+creep in from time to time.  The buzzing mentioned happened specifically
+on the "hypertext" captions (tell the truth, how many people touched the
+button pads?), and was caused by the audio channel being too close to
+video with a high white level.  (Video pro alert- yes i know this is an
+overly simplified explanation) 
+
+WB is in the process of fixing the problem.
+
+Any of the other mentioned problems, voices shooting off into the
+surrounds, steering effects in stereo, dialog level fluctuations are a
+local phenomenon.  
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Feb 1997 22:09:10 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN GEORGE:  Equipment question
+
+Hey, Lee-
+
+Whoa- sounds more like a lightwave mailing list question! :-)
+
+The arsenal looks like the following- 
+
+Alphas for design stations serving 5 animators and one animation
+assistant (housekeeping and slate specialist).  Most of these stations
+run Lightwave and a couple add Softimage.  VERY plug-in hungry.  PVR's
+on every station, with calibrated component NTSC (darn it, I hates ntsc)
+right beside.
+
+P6's in quad enclosures for part of the renderstack, and Alphas for the
+rest, backed up 2x per day to an optical jukebox.
+
+Completed shots output to a DDR post rendering and get integrated into
+the show.
+
+Shots to composite go to the Macs running After Effects, or the SGI
+running Flint, depending on the type of comp being done, and then to the
+DDR (8 minutes capacity on the SGI).
+
+Boy it sure sounds easy!  The only problem is, we have a killer schedule
+and very picky producers, and ESPECIALLY picky viewers! :-)
+
+It is, however, a bunch of fun!
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Feb 1997 22:14:26 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn GEORGE: Interceptors
+
+Mark-
+
+The interceptors have two components, one that throws a ball of energy
+at an incoming weapons charge (physical or energy) and causes
+dissipation, and the other is a net-like energy web that reduces the
+severity, but does not deflect or absorb, beam type energy.  This allows
+some time for maneuvers after beam contact.  
+
+Note that Major Ryan (He'll always be D-Day to my brother!) was very
+reticent to fire on the Clarkstown at all.  Knowing that the
+Interceptors were down made his job all the more difficult.  The rear
+facing beamn on the Alexander is similar in design to the front facers
+on the Clarkstown.  When the C-town fired on the rotating section ofthe
+Alexander, it did not explode, as the interceptors were still active.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Feb 1997 17:06:46 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS: First question I've ever asked you
+
+No, the last name isn't dubbed, only Jarrico was dubbed, because it was
+mispronounced.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Feb 1997 18:49:26 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATT JMS: B5 in April '97 MacUser
+
+Hey Tom!
+
+Even though the Joe uses "another" platform, the show actually uses
+many!  Macs have been essential to the creation of the show from the
+beginning.  Even farther back, the Amiga and the Newtek Toaster were
+employed.  
+
+Currently we use Pentiums and Alphas for animation, Macs for Editing,
+Matte paintings and Compositing, and SGI's for Compositing and titling. 
+If that isn't platform independent, I don't know what is!
+
+So, Andy can continue to like the show, AND be true to the magazine he
+works for!
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+(and Mac user since the 128!)
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Feb 1997 18:49:42 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS or GEORGE--Questions about ISN cameras
+
+Jeff-
+
+The ISN cameras are not capable of autonomous operation, but they can be
+progammed within a parameter set.  The wand is a control device to
+change those parameters.  Thus, one operator, two cameras (or more!)
+
+There was a distinct anti Minbar/Minbari sentiment among this particular
+crew, as evidenced by the later parts of the show, and it isn't hard to
+imagine that the bumping was at the behest of the wand wielder.  If
+Lennier was simply annoyed, advantage ISN.  If he reacted violently,
+advantage ISN. I'm sure that footage will be used on another ISN
+propoganda broadcast.  (You can see it on Channel 134 of your cable)(Oh,
+sorry, Channel 134 is not availbale in all sectors after curfew)
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Feb 1997 20:25:28 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Question on Ethics in Writing
+
+The line about meaning what you say is an old saying that goes 'way, way
+back, long before the O'Toole movie.  And as far as Caligula goes, the
+sense of it is there, but not the details...and even if they *were*,
+basing part of a story on historical precedent, on actual events, is
+hardly inappropriate.  (And in this case, again, it isn't based on
+that...evocative of it, yes, but nothing more.)
+
+The notion of the Vorlons and Shadows representing Order and Chaos goes
+back to the Babylonian creation myths, that the universe was born in the
+conflict between order and chaos, hence part of the reason I decided to
+name this show after Babylon.  That's called *research*.  It informs the
+show, but it is not the show.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1997 13:18:52 -0500
+Subject: Re: Atonement; slight spoiler
+
+"My question is, since we can see that the ship's engine is running, why
+aren't all of the objects in the hold laying against the bulkhead as a
+result of the ship's movement?  Aside from that, it was a pretty neat
+effects shot."
+
+Because it's accurate; it's the same reason you don't see everything
+slammed up against the back wall of the shuttle even though it's circling
+the earth at thousands of miles per hour.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1997 18:49:21 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  News release
+
+
+
+No, the Netter release categorically does NOT state that there will not be
+a fifth season, only that TNT has the rights to the 88 episodes and is
+hoping to get them on ASAP...but we're told by WB that this does not
+preclude year 5, which would (in the case of renewal) run in syndication
+cuncurrently with the reruns on TNT.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Feb 1997 04:55:19 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Can you elaborate on Netter Digital Press Release?
+
+Happy to explain.
+
+"And now this letter comes out from your company which seems to imply
+there won't be a fifth season."
+
+NDEI is not my company.  I don't own it, don't work for it, it's entirely
+Doug's separate company.  With a stockholder's meeting coming up, he told
+his financial PR person to pump out a release to get a little heat
+going...and there was the TNT deal to pick up the B5 episodes that clicked
+over at 88 episodes.  That is the point at which they can get the show
+clean, and there's the two movies for TNT to announce as go projects.  
+
+The financial PR person put this out, rather than the B5 publicists, or
+WB, and it never went in front of me or John Copeland.  It just went out. 
+That TNT gets access to 88 doesn't preclude a possible season 5, which
+could air concurrently, a la the way Lazarus Man did.  
+
+When I came in and found email on this, and saw the release, I raised hell
+with Doug about it.  He said "the entire 88 episodes" just refers to
+what's solid right now, it doesn't mean it's going to be all there is...to
+which I said it could be read that way, and many people *were* reading it
+that way, and his person could've saved everyone a lot of hassle if it'd
+been run past me first.
+
+One thing's for sure: This Will Never Ever Happen Again.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Feb 1997 17:53:01 -0500
+Subject: Re: Sound problems?
+
+Steve-
+
+It is most assuredly NOT the way the sound is done on the show.  We do
+take advantage ofthe extra dynamic range offered by digital post
+production, and that sometimes results in a 2 or 3 db difference between
+us and the commercials, but not the phenomenon you describe.  I would
+love to speak with your affiliate to see if there is some help we can
+offer.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Feb 1997 17:53:48 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS & George Johnsen: hi from .hu
+
+Andras-
+
+Cineon is not the only processor to have a grain remover/grain adder
+module in the software.  The discreet logic Flint, Adobe After Effects,
+and Lightwave 3D used on B5 also have various modules and plugins for
+grain manipulation.  We use 'em all the time on composite and blue
+screen shots to make the generated elements fit into the film elements.
+
+We shoot with Panavision Gold super 35.  We have tested nearly all of
+the emultions currently available, and 5298 is what John Flinn III, ASC
+likes the best, so that is what we use.  He feels it preserves the look
+he is going for the best.  I know an EXR test was scheduled, but we
+haven't gotten there yet.
+
+We record all of our CG elements to hard drive and optical disc.  The
+images are created "resolution independent" meaning they could be
+rendered for anything from video game to Imax, based on user input.  For
+the NTSC version, we output to digital tape, eventually.
+
+Hey, advertise Kodak all you want, they make good film.  Love that
+Kodachrome, even thogh it's disappearing.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Feb 1997 21:52:00 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN George Johnson: No more space battles like Long Twilight
+
+>Kevein responded to:
+|> 
+|> I was wondering why we haven't seen any other space battles like
+|> we saw in the Long, Twilight Struggle.  I believe this is the one
+|> where *SPOLIERS FOR LTS BELOW*
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+
+Kevin-
+
+Well said, well strategized!
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProd, B5
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Feb 1997 21:51:29 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN George: No more space battles like Long Twilight Struggle?
+
+In article <5f1pep$jff@larch.cc.swarthmore.edu>,
+fox@allspice.cs.swarthmore.edu (Annie Fox) writes:
+|> 
+|> I was wondering why we haven't seen any other space battles like
+|> we saw in the Long, Twilight Struggle.  I believe this is the one
+|> where *SPOLIERS FOR LTS BELOW*
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+|> 
+
+Peter-
+
+There are most likely both types of battles you mentioned plus a few
+more types we don't imagine as yet.  You will see more of the Long Range
+stuff if the story dictates.  Remember that there weren't any Shadow
+fighters in the scene you indicate, only battlecrabs (yes, now we call
+them that, too), so the weapon size and distance could be greater.  The
+element of surprise is also a player, as is the fact that these weapons
+were still quite unfamiliar to those being attacked.
+
+Our intention with the closer range battles was to convey several
+dramatic things.  One, a more intense, less calculated battle.  Two, a
+more personal fight for the participants, as these current fights are at
+once more desperate and more monumental,  Three, these are combination
+fighter and larger ship battles. In addition to the large capital ships
+being involved, there are a high number of smaller, more manueverable
+ships that have no reason to exist, if technology is so great that
+battles can only be fought from a distance. I am convinced that the
+distances displayed are plausible for fighter-type battles.  In all of
+the history of pilot to pilot combat, there is always a component of the
+direct engagement of the enemy.  Technology continues to advance, and
+after every major advance, the battle distances expand out..... for a
+time.  As soon as the pilots figure out how to react to the weapon, and
+defend against it, the engagement distances close up again.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProd, B5
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Feb 1997 05:52:56 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: The Magic of Intention
+
+I'm kinda prohibited from saying anything leading to a neilsen family.
+
+I can only look out at the clouds and consider what a pleasant day it
+is....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Feb 1997 05:56:57 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Design of Novels' Covers
+
+"What are the chances of the publisher choosing a new graphical theme
+for the novel covers? The previous covers mistakenly placed the books in a
+class unworthy of the subject: main character (B5 station), flanked by
+several alien and beautiful woman/heroic captain caricatures, adorned by
+dime store typography -- elements straight from Book Graphics 010. "
+
+I've been screaming about the covers from day one...and finally just put
+my foot down.  "But it helps give us continuity," they say.  "Sure," says
+I, "cover 1 is a crappy cover, so let's make a whole LOT of crappy covers
+that are all crappy in the same way so we can make 'em consistent."
+
+Jeanne's book is more or less of that mold; the second uses a similar
+philosophy but is better rendered; and the third book coming up has
+probably the best cover to date, showing the Minbari temple and some great
+sketches of Sinclair, Sakai and Cole.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Feb 1997 11:40:33 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: 'Go' for re-editing the pilot?
+
+"Now that TNT has set a definite date for airing the
+series, have they given you a 'go' for re-editing The Gathering? If so,
+how much will you be able to put back (the character stuff with Sinclair?)
+Might you even re-score it with Christopher Franke music?"
+
+We're still negotiating that out, but in hopes of this going, we've begun
+redigitizing the footage so we can get into the main scenes we want to
+work on.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Feb 1997 17:17:15 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  I-Con
+
+I think Saturday is my main day there.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Feb 1997 19:45:22 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Do you shoot in advance?  (Spoilers?  Maybe.  Up 
+
+
+
+Somtimes, yeah, we'll gang together shots in one location that will spill
+across several episodes, and definitely did that in Garibaldi's case.  I
+just figure out what's coming, and write those specific additional scenes
+prior to the rest of the scripts.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Feb 1997 21:15:54 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: IMAX B5?
+
+Laura darling,
+
+Are you trying to kill me?
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+PS- we'd love to do it.  Our animation is resolution independent, but
+there would be much additional work in creating the level of detail that
+the large frame would require.  Would be great fun to do, and Boy, would
+it sound good!
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Mar 1997 04:19:35 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Are *you* happy with S4 perceived "rush"?
+
+Truth: I go back and forth.  The "Into the Fire" thing, for instance...it
+would've likely been a two-part episode, but it still would've ended up
+exactly where it ended up.  A few more big explosions, but I wonder also
+if that really adds anything past a certain point.
+
+>From a production standpoing, since "Fire" darn near killed us in the CGI
+department, it's probably a darned good thing it DIDN'T go for 2 eps. 
+That puppy had something around 120 or 140 EFX shots.
+
+Overall, I'm actually quite happy with how this season is going, in terms
+of the intensity of the arc and the emotions and incidents.  Parts
+would've been a bit more laid-back if I had decided not to cover my bets
+on renewal, and maybe the situation has worked out to the best (again the
+ABA principle, Art By Accident).
+
+So I dunno...all I know is what's in the episodes this season, and it's
+pretty cool overall....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Mar 1997 02:29:26 -0500
+Subject: Re: Atonement ( *Spoilers* )
+
+The ship with Marcus and Franklin *wasn't* spinning...hence, no gravity.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Mar 1997 02:46:31 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Re: Compuserve's 'To Sysops from jms'
+
+The CIS situation seems to now be working out; the policy of backrooming
+messages has been stopped, and the larger policy is being reexamined and
+may be restructured.  
+
+Again, it's the B5 rule...if you make a stand, and approach the problem
+from the perspective that you can make a difference, you can.  And it
+wasn't just that it was me, believe me...it was the many, many people who
+stood up and said the same thing.  You decide to change things, and you
+change things.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+JMS (and coproducer George Johnsen) Usenet messages for March 1997.
+
+
+Date: 1 Mar 1997 04:19:35 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Are *you* happy with S4 perceived "rush"?
+
+Truth: I go back and forth.  The "Into the Fire" thing, for instance...it
+would've likely been a two-part episode, but it still would've ended up
+exactly where it ended up.  A few more big explosions, but I wonder also
+if that really adds anything past a certain point.
+
+>From a production standpoing, since "Fire" darn near killed us in the CGI
+department, it's probably a darned good thing it DIDN'T go for 2 eps. 
+That puppy had something around 120 or 140 EFX shots.
+
+Overall, I'm actually quite happy with how this season is going, in terms
+of the intensity of the arc and the emotions and incidents.  Parts
+would've been a bit more laid-back if I had decided not to cover my bets
+on renewal, and maybe the situation has worked out to the best (again the
+ABA principle, Art By Accident).
+
+So I dunno...all I know is what's in the episodes this season, and it's
+pretty cool overall....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Mar 1997 02:29:26 -0500
+Subject: Re: Atonement ( *Spoilers* )
+
+The ship with Marcus and Franklin *wasn't* spinning...hence, no gravity.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Mar 1997 02:46:31 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Re: Compuserve's 'To Sysops from jms'
+
+The CIS situation seems to now be working out; the policy of backrooming
+messages has been stopped, and the larger policy is being reexamined and
+may be restructured.  
+
+Again, it's the B5 rule...if you make a stand, and approach the problem
+from the perspective that you can make a difference, you can.  And it
+wasn't just that it was me, believe me...it was the many, many people who
+stood up and said the same thing.  You decide to change things, and you
+change things.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Mar 1997 03:53:40 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JSM: Rolling Exposition
+
+"How do you balance the twin needs of story advancement and plot-point
+repetition?"
+
+It ain't easy, lemme tell you.
+
+Basically, I sit back and say, "If I came into the story at this point,
+would I be able to follow the action and make even a rough sense of it,
+even if I might miss a few of the subtleties?"  If not, then I backtrack
+and layer in whatever I think is necessary.  Sometimes I think I err
+slightly in the direction of too much recap, but I'd rather do that than
+totally confuse people.
+
+I know it makes our regulars nutsoid, but there isn't any way around it
+since we can't do a "last week on B5" segment.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Mar 1997 05:05:27 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS &.. George ..letter from Sweden
+
+* How can I that live here in Sweden get a hold of your "Complete
+Scriptwriting..:", since I can't order by Mail order?
+
+Other than online, via www.amazon.com, you're stuck, I'm afraid.
+
+* How can a club get you to appear on a convent?
+
+Well, first you'll have to smuggle me past Sister Mary Theresa Thomas, and
+into the nun's quarters...then just leave the rest to me.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Mar 1997 15:52:49 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: What do you think of new MST3K?
+
+I've only seen the first 2 installments (the second 2 are on tape,
+awaiting a time when I have 4 hours to spend), and I think they're doing
+well.  The new Crow is generally okay, though the person doing the
+voice/puppetry (his name just fell out of my head) needs to animate him a
+bit more.  Trace understood that you have to make Crow a living character,
+and it ain't just the voice.  Crow had very visual and expressive
+movements, which so far the new guy hasn't quite gotten yet.  
+
+I wasn't that impressed with Dr. Forrester's mom in the previous season,
+but she seems to be doing well now that she's out on her own, much more
+interesting.
+
+I still miss Trace, though...he added a LOT to that show's edge.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Mar 1997 15:53:58 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Stealing lines from friends (slight Atonement spoilers)
+
+
+
+Actually, several women at the stage wondered that LONG before the episode
+even aired.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Mar 1997 16:01:32 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn. JMS:  Who screamed "CUT!!"?
+
+
+
+Thanks.
+
+The ONLY one on a stage who is empowered to yell either "action" or "cut"
+is the director.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Mar 1997 17:54:09 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey
+
+I'm definitely familiar with Campbell's work.  In the case of B5, it was
+sort of in the back of my head, but I didn't work to stick to the
+progression point for point, because I was afraid then it becomes
+mechanical.  "Hero" is good for analysis *after* the fact, not during...if
+you try to apply it during the creative process, it becomes like the
+centipede asked which foot goes first.  It's an analytical device, not a
+creative device.  
+
+That was the problem with "Beyond Thunderdome."  Prior to then the Mad Max
+movies were written on their own terms; prior to BT, George Miller read
+"Hero," and worked too hard to make it all fit.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Mar 1997 03:22:13 -0500
+Subject: Re: How to send self-addressed envelopes for photos/autographs?
+
+Understand that WB does not provide photos to the cast for publicity
+purposes; neither does Babylonian.  Any photos provided by the cast come
+out of their own pockets.  The cost is *very* prohibitive given the number
+of fans requesting same.  The cast tries to oblige as much as they can,
+because that's the sort of people they are, but be advised that this is a
+burden on them....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Mar 1997 03:24:20 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Finish of production
+
+We wrap season 4 on May 5th, with the two movies for TNT wrapping June
+30th.  But you also have to allow 52 days of post production for the final
+end of the episodes.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Mar 1997 03:30:20 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS:  Kathryn's novel
+
+Kathryn, for obvious reasons, is the only person on the planet whose
+knowledge of the B5 universe is second only to my own.  Especially the
+backstory, the history of the characters and worlds, and so on.  She's
+seen virtually every frame of film.  So when I got the idea of having one
+of the books follow Sinclair's story after leaving B5, through a year of
+story time that weaves in and out of the books, the comic, and the
+show...she was the logical candidate.  The only one that made sense.  She
+was hesitant to do so at first, for various reasons, but she's always been
+very fond of the Sinclair storyline, and Michael O'Hare, and wanted to
+tell that story.  So she agreed to write it.
+
+And of all the novels, this one is 100% canon...it's also the most
+exhaustive attempt to tie in all the storylines done to date.  Anybody
+wants to know what happened to Sinclair, it's in the book.  That's a
+genuine chapter of the story arc.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Mar 1997 03:32:26 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS: Any chance of more Dukhat?
+
+Plans are to have Dukhat in the B5 prequel.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Mar 1997 13:55:32 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn. JMS:  Who screamed "CUT!!"?
+
+
+
+"While I'm certainly willing to believe that the director did it here,
+this is not a straight answer, in that "Cut" ended up part of the show,
+and was therefore in the script, at least after the fact."
+
+No, it was never in the script, before or after.  We just grabbed the
+whole audio because it worked.
+
+"By way of example, surely an actor playing a director shooting a scene
+could shout either instruction, yes?"
+
+Sigh...
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Mar 1997 18:55:43 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: My Clone, My Choice: Ignore the Ban!
+
+"As an atheist, do you find Clinton's ban on human cloning somewhat silly?
+ Do you think of a cloned child as any different than any other child?"
+
+Go ahead, ask me the easy ones that won't get me into trouble....
+
+I think people are overly-frightened by the idea.  They have an
+exaggerated idea of what it means.  You can clone me (a scary thought on
+its own terms, but that's a different discussion) to your heart's
+content...but the fact is, though the genetic makeup is the same, the
+environmental, social and psychological conditions that made me what I am
+(insert joke here) will not be present for the new kid, and you'll get a
+VERY different adult.  
+
+In a sense, there's been 50% cloning going on throughout history; it goes
+on every day, every 30 seconds: a child is conceived using DNA templates
+from two people, the parents.  Now we're talking about DNA templates from
+one person. 
+
+Should caution be used?  Absolutely.  A total ban on research?  How can we
+make proper ethical decisions without the most thorough information we can
+get our hands on?  "No, let's not find out what's really involved until
+*after* we make our decision."  This is like having a trial after the jury
+has rendered a verdict.
+
+Because that technology has potential uses *outside* strict cloning.  If a
+father is infertile, could you use the cloning techniques to separate out
+his DNA and use it to fertilize his wife's eggs?  There are many other
+possible uses for this technology; to throw the baby out with the DNA
+seems to me a poor idea.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Mar 1997 15:33:22 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Seeing characters in your head
+
+
+
+When I introduce a new character, I just kinda see a sense of the
+character in my head, an outline...if you take off your glasses, and
+you're nearsighted, that will give you some sense of it.  When an actor
+comes in and hits it, the character goes into sharp focus.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Mar 1997 13:39:44 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Finish of production
+
+Jms at B5 wrote:
+> 
+> We wrap season 4 on May 5th, with the two movies for TNT wrapping June
+> 30th.  But you also have to allow 52 days of post production for the final
+> end of the episodes.
+> 
+>  jms
+
+Assuming that the writer didn't put so much in the script that the poor
+post production unit can't finish it in 52 days!
+
+George J
+CoProd, B5
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Mar 1997 13:40:01 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN:GEORGE - Slow-mo problems?
+
+Ralph-
+
+I just pulled the Atonement master and looked at the scene you
+mentioned.  I don't see the problem, but that doesn't mean that i doubt
+your tape.  There are several ways it could have happened, from uplink
+error to downlink error to local affiliate error.  We did experience a
+problem in the ISN broadcast recently where the uplink dropped out, and
+there was a hold frame during a shot of Dan the Reporterman for 2
+frames, but that doesn't appear to be the problem you describe. 
+
+Can you be any more specifc as to symptom?
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Mar 1997 14:17:09 -0500
+Subject: Re: I wish JMS had ignored the season 4 / season 5 thing.
+
+Understand that you over-estimate the power of fandom in the current TV
+market.
+
+For starters the studios have gotten used to letter writing campaigns by
+SF fans, and no longer give it the same weight they used to.  
+
+If WB decides to drop year 5, it will be an internal business decision,
+and will not be subject to appeal.  About one-third of all new shows
+presented at NATPE this year to the stations either aren't going or are in
+serious trouble because WB, UPN and FOX are grabbing more nights of
+committed programming at local stations...in simple terms: there is no
+room at the inn.
+
+That's the single biggest obstacle right now to WB renewing the show, I'm
+told.  That the market has changed, and the stations either have other
+commitments, or are tempted by new, highly-promoted shows, as opposed to a
+fifth year of a show they know.  
+
+I've had to make adjustments to cover my bets in either direction; if I
+did what you describe, and there ended up not being a year 5, the story
+would not have an ending, and the thing would be pointless.  It's not a
+matter of "sticking to one's guns."  It's a matter of protecting the fans,
+and the story, because I have no control whatsoever over what's going to
+be decided shortly.  Neither do the fans.  It ain't the same world as when
+ST was saved for one more season.  We've been told, point-blank, that WB
+*wants* to do the show next year, because they're making a LOT of money on
+it...but if there's no room for the show at enough stations to make it
+viable, they won't be able to do it.  (And they can't take it to cable, we
+found out this week, because the PTEN contract for the show expressly
+forbids it).
+
+I've isolated the threads that would go into a year 5; if we get year 5,
+I'll pull the triggers on that, and we'll do those stories.  If not, those
+threads will go into the sequel.  Either way, we're covered...because I
+can't ask fans to stick around for 4 or 5 years of a show, and not achieve
+resolution.  It would be thoughtless and cruel.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Mar 1997 14:17:23 -0500
+Subject: Re: Worries about TNT showing B5?
+
+It's my understanding that TNT will not cut anything from the shows...in
+fact, due to PTEN dropping the Kung Fu 30 second promo (temporarily filled
+by a 30 second B5 promo at 40 minutes into the program), we were told this
+week that we now have an additional 30 seconds that we can add to the
+show's length.  When we heard this, we asked if we were to put this in
+only to have it cut by TNT later, but were told that it would be left
+intact.  (They can't put in any more commercials because it's currently at
+the maximum allowable limit under FCC rules.)
+
+I imagine the logo will appear, as it standard with all such shows.
+
+I have to say that TNT has proven to be *very* excited about picking up
+B5, and they want to do a great deal of promotion for it, and plan to make
+it a real centerpiece.  If fans of the show want to write to them to
+continue to encourage this, and to thank them for wanting to treat the
+show right (thus encouraging more of this in future), and suggest their
+support and creative freedom for the upcoming sequel now in negotiations,
+I certainly think nobody would object....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Mar 1997 14:18:30 -0500
+Subject: Re: Atten JMS:  re: merchandising
+
+"I read that you have decided to increase the amount of merchandising for
+the show.  Any guesses as to specific types of product?"
+
+We're going to be doing a few more things, incrementally.  Del Rey is
+coming out with more nonfiction B5 books, starting with reprints of the
+Bassom UK books on B5, then the 3 volume episode guide covering the first
+three seasons (with more to come, obviously), and a number of other
+nonfiction books that are starting to move ahead, detailing the production
+and related areas of B5.
+
+The Hamilton Collectors plates will start coming out shortly (the Sheridan
+one is very nice, but the real killer is the Delenn plate, which is just
+stunning), same for the Antioch Publishing stuff, including bookmarks,
+bookplates, journals, magnets and the like (and they've done some
+*terrific* stuff at Antioch, including bookmarks with each year's
+narration).  
+
+I saw a test run on the first part of the B5 informational CDrom which
+we're doing in-house the other day, and it's just spiffy...gorgeous
+looking, and it's going to be just a bit on the subversive side, as is
+standard with anything B5.  I'll have to check, but I think we're shooting
+for a spring release on this one.
+
+There's more cards coming out from Fleer, a new version fo the B5 comic
+(with a starting 3-issue arc written by me (issue 1) and Peter David (2
+and 3), some character figures to be released in groups of 3, and the
+Monogram/Revell models coming down the pike shortly.  The B5 RPG and
+tactical games are almost ready to ship.
+
+Not a lot, but a bit more.  Mainly, it's just the cool stuff I'd like
+myself....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Mar 1997 13:42:14 -0500
+Subject: Re: Atten George - film?
+
+David-
+
+A complete film print is never made.........yet.  (I have learned that
+never is a very bad word used in this forum:-))
+
+The international (read PAL/SECAM) and archival (read 16:9) versions are
+from a conformed negative, that has black placed where the effects shots
+are.  Those shots are converted or remade from the digital source, and
+cut into the show in the WB resolution independent post environment.
+
+We have done tests (early on and recently) to prove that the CG and
+composites can hold up to film transfer, so who knows what the future
+will bring? BUT... there is no complete film prints of any episode at
+this time.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Mar 1997 13:22:41 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS and/or GEORGE:  Videssence, Inc.?
+
+Oh those Netter financial press releases!
+
+SRGB is a new calibration standard for a cool burning, stable,
+predictable lighting for entertainment and other uses.  Currently in
+development are a new "kit" of stage lights that will excite the
+emulsion of film properly so that what is seen on the set can be exactly
+what is realized on the film when it is transferred.  The lights are
+based on a custom flourescent formulation with a digitally switched
+power supply and exciter.  This is new territory, and has some exciting
+possibilities for production.
+
+The Videssence lighting is being used at B-5 primarily as "gimmick"
+lighting until such time as JFlinn3 decides that it is a reasonable
+replacement for the Incandescent lights that are the norm for film based
+production.  When the lights are perfected, there will be no visible
+color difference to the viewer.   The technology involved will allow 
+smaller instruments to be used, and there will be some different effects
+possible.  These will be realized after the baseline success has been
+achieved.
+
+When that happens, I will let you know what to look for!
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Mar 1997 03:53:43 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - Trinkets and Baubles
+
+Re: t-shirts...I forgot to mention that the B5 official fan club now has 3
+t-shirts available that are pretty nifty.  And we plan on shortly coming
+out with Agamemnon caps, various pins and other stuff.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Mar 1997 03:53:46 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Buying the rights? (was Re: I wish JMS had ignored the
+
+"Could the fans form a co-op to buy the rights?  What would it cost?"
+
+WB would never sell.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Mar 1997 04:02:03 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Games
+
+All some gaming company has to do is option the game from WB.  I'm for it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Mar 1997 03:51:39 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5 in Encyclopedia Britanica yearbook for 1996
+
+Cool...at least we got mentioned.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Mar 1997 13:45:27 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  SFWA  How about a new group?
+
+I dunno about new groups...the more I see of SFWA, the more I begin to
+understand why writers work alone....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Mar 1997 13:45:52 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: The Day After Your "Bobby Ewing Moment"
+
+Here is what will happen between now and 1 March 97
+        to your Babylon 5.  <long description follows>
+                You may change one -- and only one --
+                thing, large or small, that concerns
+                Babylon5.  Choose.  Choose NOW.
+Your choice, joe?
+
+
+More chocolate frosted doughnuts on the craft services table on days when
+we have lots and lots of extras and I don't get my fix when I arrive in
+the morning.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Mar 1997 20:56:16 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn: Jms "I want my Londo Action Figure"
+
+I forget which company, but one of the companies that produces
+high-quality figures (about 10" high, individually boxed) will be coming
+out with B5 characters in the near future, now that the deal is closed. 
+They'll come out in groups of three, starting with Sheridan, Delenn and
+G'Kar.  The second batch will be Londo, Ivanova and Kosh.  I can't recall
+the next batch offhand, though certainly Garibaldi is in it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Mar 1997 20:57:27 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS-----How many episodes?
+
+422 wraps shooting in May, yes.  Then the two TNT movies will follow
+shooting in May/June.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Mar 1997 20:58:04 -0500
+Subject: Re: The Illusion of Truth: Gutsy and Brilliant! (spoiler)
+
+"This B5 episode should be required viewing in University media and
+history classes."
+
+Funny thing is, I've since received several requests from instructors at
+various colleges asking if they could use the show in their classroom to
+illustrate the points raised.  Kinda nice....
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1997 06:04:14 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Writing Question
+
+"Do you always write the ending first?"
+
+No, because the exact *shape* of the ending never come clear to me until
+after I've written all the material preceding.  I *know* where it's going,
+I have a fairly clear vision whenever I write a script of where I want it
+to end, but I don't actually write it first, no.  Mark Twain said, "You
+should never write a story until you have finished it to your
+satisfaction."  So yeah, you do have to know it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1997 06:06:19 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS or anyone who knows
+
+In that kind of situation, my *guess* (and that's all it would be) is that
+the book would be eligible in its own Novel category, and the script would
+be eligible in that category, noting the "based on" in the credits.  But
+again, that's just a guess, as I haven't read *nearly* enough Alice in
+Wonderland to truly appreciate or wrap my brains around how SFWA would
+deal with this question.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1997 13:23:59 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: B5 reference in X-Files episode
+
+Thanks...I hadn't heard that Psi Cop story...much appreciated.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1997 13:26:37 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS/SFWA/Scripts
+
+That's one of the things about scripts...lots of people (and I'm
+generalizing this beyond SFWA) like to pretend that a script is somehow
+vastly different than any other kind of writing, often because they have
+an agenda (including the notion that you have to pay $450 per session for
+a consultant to teach you how to read it), but fundamentally...a story is
+a story is a story.  Dialogue is dialogue.  Only the margins vary.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1997 13:24:23 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Why doesn't PTEN sell B5 to WB?
+
+"My question is this: If PTEN is so anxious to close up for good, why not
+simply renegotiate the original contract and sell to WB, who can then
+consign the fifth season to TNT for production?"
+
+The show cannot appear in first-run on cable; the PTEN agreement
+specifically precludes this, it turns out.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Mar 1997 03:02:27 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Shakespeare
+
+I've considered the "was it/who was Shakespeare" discussion...and while
+it's academically interesting, it doesn't much pull me in.  Doesn't
+matter, in one sense.  Doesn't matter of Macbeth was written by him, or
+someone else, or a frighteningly advanced species of peacock that to
+everyone's surprise evolved an opposable thumb...it's still one of the
+great masterworks of the english language.
+
+"Truth is beauty, and beauty truth; that is all you know and all you need
+to know."
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Mar 1997 02:55:40 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Directorial debut
+
+Yes, I'll be directing 422, which I'll also write.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Mar 1997 08:51:46 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Intersections in Real Time (no spoilers)
+
+As this has the potential to be a very cool and somewhat experimental
+episode, I'd rather say nothing until later.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Mar 1997 22:31:16 -0500
+Subject: Re: Atten George - film?
+
+Jay-
+
+No, I wouldn't like to have B5 lost in a nuclear holocaust, but film
+won't do us any good in that instance, as the theatres will also be
+blasted, methinks.  
+
+As to the issue of archival, there is no complete film print, but all of
+the live action sequences are conformed on negative, plus the animation
+files are stored so that they can be recreated and rerendered at
+whatever resolution is needed (post explosion, of course).
+
+This protects us from allowing our follow on civilizations from being
+fooled by the shadows.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Mar 1997 03:20:16 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS
+
+I think if I nudge George, I can get him to come to SDCC this summer....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Mar 1997 03:21:31 -0500
+Subject: Re: Thanks, but no thanks
+
+You're mistaken.  Gold Channel (my private journals and photos) is the
+only area closed to non-Fan Club members.  It's *free* to FC members,
+there is no other charge involved.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Mar 1997 19:17:33 -0500
+Subject: Re: Thanks, but no thanks
+
+"And by the way, I think it's pretty darn unscrupulous to take material
+that JMS published for the enjoyment and education of B5's fans and charge
+money for it. I somehow doubt that that was his intent, and your attempt
+at forcing me to pay to
+see material which costs you virtually nothing to publicize is disgusting
+and very untypical of the high-quality fan community that B5 posseses."
+
+Err...the material you mention is taken from my personal journal, and was
+never published anywhere.  When we were coming up with the maximum we
+could give to FC members to make it worth doing (and I tend to err in the
+direction of doing more than less), I thought as a bonus, a niceness for
+the FC members online, to put my journal up there.
+
+Whatever you may think, you are not entitled to everything I write for
+free.  And this section isn't charged for in ANY event; it wasn't even
+mentioned in the original FC applications or brochures.  It's a baker's
+dozen, lagniappe, a little extra we gave that only the fan club members
+can have access to.
+
+"If I wanted color photos, I'd've bought color photos. If I wanted a
+button,
+I'd've bought a button. But if I, as a fan, want to learn more about the
+show I love, and you have the means to provide me with that online and
+expect me to PAY for it."
+
+No, the only thing involved here in FC membership and the Gold Channel. 
+The informational areas on thestation.com are open to anyone; the chat
+area is open to anyone; the message center is open to anyone; the station
+tour is open to anyone; this one area alone is set aside for FC members.
+
+Bottom line...it's *my* material, and I can do with it as I so choose.  If
+I want to make of it a gift to FC members, I can do that.  I'm sorry you
+don't like it.  And I assume that you will now let anyone use anything of
+yours that they want, since to withhold or make them pay for something of
+yours is the old porno trick.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Mar 1997 20:00:24 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Model Stuation
+
+Brad-
+
+The first model out will be the Starfury.  The model business is still a
+very tedious process, as any manufacturer will tell you.  We sent out
+blueprints and three views of the Starfury months ago, and they have
+just asked for more this week.  They have a sculptor building a master,
+and then they will cut steel tooling, whick will be test shot, test
+built, and refined before we see it on the shelf.  All in all a tediuos
+and frustrating process.  
+
+Fortunately, the process on different models can work simultaneously, if
+they are not using the same sculptor.  The release schedule will be
+adjusted as the project proceeds.
+
+It is interesting that the merchandising for B5 is starting to get
+REALLY hot.  Warners Special Products is really B5 happy right now. 
+Hope this bodes well for future products!
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, Babylon 5
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Mar 1997 20:01:04 -0500
+Subject: Re: New episodes
+
+Leo-
+
+Not exactly true!  We start new episodes the week of April 28 with
+episode 410 (Racing Mars), and go straight through  May with new eps.
+
+All of our syndication contracts are for the full season 4 with the
+entities that are broadcasting the show now.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, Babylon 5
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Mar 1997 20:00:10 -0500
+Subject: Re: Letterboxing
+
+Hi 5heads!
+
+Letterboxing will not happen on TNT.  Sorry. They will be showing the
+original episodes uncut, in their original broadcast form. 
+
+If and when DVD happens for B5 it will most certainly be 16:9.  All of
+the prep work is done for that release.
+
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Mar 1997 20:00:36 -0500
+Subject: Re: TNT in Dolby Surround?
+
+Confirmation:  TNT is indeed broadcasting in full Dolby Surround Stereo.
+
+George J
+CoProd, B5
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Mar 1997 04:28:08 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Apologies for Megacon
+
+I was, and remain, very upset about the video/audio situation, especially
+since I made a point of going to the area a few hours earlier (as some who
+were sitting around waitinf for Peter's panel can testify) to check out
+the equipment, and told everyone concerned that I didn't think it was
+going to work out right, but they *insisted* that they'd tested it, and it
+would be fine...and wouldn't change it...and, of course, it sucked.
+
+I'm assured that, if I come there again, this will not happen again.  I
+don't know if that's going to be a good enough guarantee, it may take a
+little more than that next time.  
+
+I love it when someone tries to say, "No, no, our experts and techs
+checked it."  HEY!  I WORK IN TEEVEE!  I PRODUCE A SERIES!  I KNOW WHAT
+I'M TALKING ABOUT DON'T TAKE ME FOR HAVING JUST FALLEN OFF THE TURNIP
+TRUCK!  
+
+...sigh....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Mar 1997 05:35:46 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Star Struck - Effects on your writing
+
+"Have you ever had any problems writing a part for an actor you admire?"
+
+Not really, since in 99% of all cases the program, whatever it is, is cast
+*after* I turn in the script.  
+
+"Have you ever been star struck?"
+
+When we had Paul Williams, and Michael York...yeah, definitely.  And I
+turned all fanboy, had Paul autograph 2 of my CDs for "Phantom of the
+Paradise," and had York sign my laserdisk of "Cabaret."
+
+"How do you deal with writing for people you greatly admire?"
+
+See above.  It's usually after the fact.  In any event, I just write the
+character, not the actor.
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Mar 1997 03:27:49 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Sequel Scriptwriters
+
+I have some interesting ideas, but let's get the show off the ground
+first....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Mar 1997 03:41:14 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Star Struck - Effects on your writing
+
+I wasn't able to find the CDs anywhere here in the US, I located them in
+the UK, at Virgin Records.  Maybe a UK fan can help you find it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Mar 1997 12:29:08 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS: Thanks for MegaCon
+
+
+
+I thought the fans were great, and in some respects the folks running it
+were good to work with, but the video/audio fiasco still irks
+me...especially considering what I found out later, which was that there
+was an Anime room with a perfectly good AV system which they'd glommed
+onto and we could've transferred to that room.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Mar 1997 21:54:16 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: Anybody who knows - Will JMS address the government breakup
+
+The problems caused by the breakup of the Grey Council will form a major
+part of the story arc about mid-season.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Mar 1997 21:08:10 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: The Shadow Within
+
+Thanks...yeah, everything I've heard back so far from fans has backed up
+what I said here a while ago...that this one was the best B5 book to date.
+ 
+
+Re: C4's debut...I have no direct information from WB on this. 
+(Interestingly, many at WB don't know either.)  Ironicallly, I only know
+what's on the nets, and some British fans said that the C4 duty officer
+gave April 14th as a possible debut, but that's the extent of what I know
+(or don't know) (or might know in an alternate universe, in another
+incarnation) (truth is beauty, beauty truth, this is all you know and all
+you need to know).
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Mar 1997 21:08:26 -0500
+Subject: Re: - Ellison Reported to Say No 5th Season -
+
+There was another post by Harlan in his forum, and a few others on usenet,
+in which he retracts this, btw...it was late, he was tired, and he
+misspoke.  He's utterly chagrined by it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Mar 1997 21:08:56 -0500
+Subject: Re: Jms, are you OK?
+
+Of the choices given....
+
+1. Too busy. Will get back when I'm not utterly snowed under.
+2. Not feeling very well at the moment.
+3. Haven't anything of interest to say right now. Thought I'd wait 
+    until I had some news.
+4. The questions being raised at the moment have already been 
+    answered or aren't addressed to me.
+5. Couldn't get my computer to post to the new address 
+    (b5mod@deepthot.cary.nc.us.).
+6. Other (please specify if it's not top secret).
+
+It's 1, 3, and 4, with a little of 6 going on.  I'm just completely up to
+my ass in alligators with production right now.  As usual, WB wants to
+hold 4 episodes for October, but that means because they held back there's
+going to be a big crunch of new shows in May sweeps.  Nine eps in a row. 
+So we're busting our butts to get stuff ready.
+
+They'll be airing 310 through 318 between April 18th and June 13th.  Which
+will at least give us a big boost and ramp things up.
+
+"You're getting us worried, Great Maker. Are you OK? ( }:-( )"
+
+Fine.  Pooped.  But fine.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Mar 1997 18:51:00 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Westercon?
+
+I'll definitely be at Westercon.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Mar 1997 01:48:55 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS -- Jack McDevitt question
+
+Yeah, the Starship Straczynski is in Jack's novel as a result of a charity
+auction.  I could never do it in my own work, but the idea of a starship
+with that name was very funny to me, and I held my own in the auction
+(this was a long time ago) against a woman with an even longer and more
+convoluted name than my own to get that one.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Mar 1997 01:51:43 -0500
+Subject: Re: - Ellison Reported to Say No 5th Season -
+
+Re: 422...this one is a stand-alone episode which I specifically designed
+in order to have the flexibility to air it either as 422 or as 522,
+depending on what happens.  This way if year 4 is all there is, we get to
+where we need to get; if we get year 5, then we shoot 501 and air it in
+422's spot, and air 422 in place of 522.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Mar 1997 01:33:56 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Babylon 5 novels
+
+Yeah, Jeanne did a great job on the book.
+
+And what you describe is exactly the approach I've already begun taking
+with the books, and will continue to do so in future: using them to
+explore the areas and things that are mentioned in the show but not
+actually shown, background and foreground stories, linked to the history
+of B5.
+
+There's a thousand years of story there to play with....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Mar 1997 01:36:15 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - Q on writers, religion, & the Oscars...
+
+It's not my experience that most writers in town are agnostic, but I don't
+get around as much as Jodi (no sarcasm intended; she's done a wide range
+of work).  I wouldn't agree, though that doesn't make it untrue, just that
+my experience doesn't reflect that.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Mar 1997 01:34:08 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: "Seconds" on Laser
+
+On the release: cool, I'll definitely pick it up.
+
+On the remake: feh on Paramount.  They already made it right the first
+time.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Mar 1997 11:06:15 -0500
+Subject: Re: JMS' Top 10 Pet Peeves (Humor) (fwd)
+
+Speaking of the Lucas thing in your list (reasonably funny, btw)....
+
+When I was in Orlando for Megacon, on Sunday, I didn't want to spend the
+whole time in the hotel, so I went out and had a perfectly awful night
+(it's too awful for details)...and I got back around 10 p.m., figured I'd
+go for a late dinner to the Sizzler's next door to the hotel.
+
+Went in, wearing my B5 jacket, and as the guy shows me to my seat, he
+says, "I know you...yessir, I know who you are."  
+
+I mumbled something at him, the usual bit about being recognized, and he
+continued.  "You're here for the convention, aren't you?"  So I allowed as
+how I was....
+
+"I knew it, I knew it," he said.  "You're one of them Trekkies."
+
+The only thing that kept me from killing him was that I didn't know the
+penalty for murder in Florida.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Mar 1997 14:37:14 -0500
+Subject: Re: Possible Tech-type Issues: EF Starship Questions
+
+The answer in Real Life vs. Reel Life is substantially correct.  There
+are always dramatic decisions to be made that can a) appeal to current
+tech eyes, and b) satisfy our fixed budget. 
+
+This is a hard line to walk, and we keep stepping over it in both
+directions.  We keep asking questions, and following advice (thanks,
+John!), but there are astill things that we do that simply look good,
+and fit the story.  We are constantly improving even our stock shots,
+though.  Notice the shuttle sequence in 410 now has retro fire in the
+bay before main engine burn, and the main engines don't burn forever,
+like they did before.  We had a reverse-burn (decelerating) transport
+coming into Mars in 410 that was cut for time, leaving the "manouvering
+to orbit shot" only (which, I'm sure, will get some people up in the
+air, but hey- we can't buy the commercials!) We will continue to improve
+the science we use as we go.
+
+One of things we discussed substantially before we did it was the
+rotating sections on the EA destroyers.  If we had locked them down, as
+some say we should have, we would be having this discussion about magnet
+shoes or something to explain why there were no floating folks in the
+interior shots during engagement.  
+
+As to explosive decompression, we have always postulated that anything
+hit hard enough to have serious ED would probably be hard pressed to
+sustain viable survivors.  I suspect that there will pressure suits used
+in the short term and some Webb suit variant that will be used in the
+mid term of outer travel.  We are not doing any "Nightflyers"- style
+decompression gags in the near future, so we will not deal with that
+issue yet.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Mar 1997 14:37:41 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS re:holding back final 4 eps till fall
+
+Kids-
+
+The WB MO has always been to hold some eps until the following season. 
+The only thing that has happened here is that the post production
+schedule has been moved up to allow a bigger block of new episodes in a
+continuous string.  Sine the ratings for B5 always grow through a period
+of new eps, imagine what will happen this time!
+
+Geez, folks, you always blast us during reruns- why is it that giving a
+bunch of new eps in a bunch is a trigger for much worry and speculation?
+
+There has been NO official or unofficial decision on S-5 at this time. 
+This occurance is independent of that decision.  That is not to say that
+there hasn't been discussions...........
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer (and meeting boy), B5
+
+
+
+
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+JMS (and coproducer George Johnsen) Usenet messages for April/May 1997.
+
+
+Date: 1 Apr 1997 12:30:40 -0500
+Subject: Re: New episodes?
+
+Penny-
+
+The new broadcast schedule starts the week of April 21 and runs 9 weeks
+straight.  This is quite similar to what we did last year, only the big
+block of episodes started the first week in April and ran through May.
+
+I can tell you that there are some mighty cool shows in the batch, and
+that the effects crew is really humping to make the satellite date on a
+few of them.  (Hey, if it was easy, everybody would do it!:-)
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Apr 1997 02:06:17 -0500
+Subject: Re: B5 and "ethical" awards (ATTN JMS)
+
+B5 has won the Space Frontier Foundation Award for Best Vision of the
+Future, and an award from the American Cinema Foundation for presentation
+of values in a dramatic television series.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Apr 1997 12:26:21 -0500
+Subject: Re: StarFury vs. Thunderbolt
+
+Hardware afficianados:
+
+As in all warcraft, there are different purposes for different
+vehicles.  The Starfury is still considered a front line craft by
+Earthforce (and a lot of other people, evidently, as the Black Omega
+Squadron uses it as their weapon of choice).  There are upgraded
+versions of the 'fury still being built and used.  In fact, the retrofit
+package is one of the things that the B5 armorers would dearly love to
+get their hands on now that the station is embargoed.
+
+Since the Thunderbolt is designed to handle atmospheric flight as well
+as space flight, some compromises were made making it a different beast
+to fly in space.  It is equipped with the latest in offensive and
+defensive systems, and has more to keep under control than the 'fury,
+hence the two person approach.  Control freak pilots don't care for the
+'bolt, as it takes two to operate.  It does have heavier armor, as well
+as the heat shielding that comes with atmospheric incursion.
+
+There are other ships in the EA arsenal that are of slightly different
+characteristic, like the Badger assault fighter and the Olympus class
+Corvettes that give a wider range of capabilities of a pretty well
+rounded force.  
+
+I suspect that the Earthforce arsenal is made up of the pet projects of 
+dreaming generals, greedy contractors, and plain old visionaries much
+like ours is now.  This means that there is a wide range of hardware yet
+to be seen.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Apr 1997 02:24:30 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5 PRESS ALERT! I'm dealing with reporter; need advice
+
+The only things I'd mention, that are worth passing on to the
+reporter...the tendency of B5 to form communities...the use of fairly
+rigorous science in the basis of the show, and how we've become NASA's
+newest darling...the overall story arc...the ethical issues the show deals
+with...all the obvious stuff.
+
+If the reporter tries to create a B5 vs. ST dynamic, that's something to
+be cautionary about.  But that's all.
+
+Beyond that, you'll do fine.  Sheridan certainly hasn't had any problems
+with reporters, after all....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1997 22:53:16 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN GEORGE:  Severed Dreams nit-pick
+
+John-
+
+Yup.  The show was seriously under the gun for delivery when those shots
+were done.  If I remember correctly, a couple of these shots came in on
+the same day we were to deliver, and there was no time to re-render them
+and still make the satellite.
+
+If I were to tell you it would never happen again, I would be a big
+liar, or a deluded optomist, but we try.  Animators are human, after
+all!  :-)
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Apr 1997 02:52:41 -0500
+Subject: Re: Omega-class cruiser design
+
+Kevin-
+
+Methinks you refer to the Aggie Class, not the Omega, as the O's have no
+rotator. 
+
+Anyway-  The Destoyers are all business.  There is no need for extra
+storage space onboard, and certainly no need for passengers!  This
+allows for a portion of the cylinder describing the same arc as the full
+cylider ships.  At one time, we strongly considered locking down the
+rotator section during battle to increase manouverability, and  not
+using a cylinder or sphere would have made this concept more practical
+in presenting a narrower target to the opposition.  As it is, we
+postulate that the control systems of the class can take into account
+the additional torque generated by the spinning section. 
+
+Besides- we would have to spend a heck of a lot more on filming Zero G
+sequences if we locked down, or strap all the actors to their seats. 
+Tough to do that acting thing in a 5 point belt for any length of time!
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Apr 1997 02:52:59 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS
+
+See, Joe uses this wacky keyboard, and sometimes he just misses! :-)
+
+Yes, the new ones start with 410.  They will finish with 418 if and only
+if I can keep my crew awake for that long......:-o
+
+George J
+CoProd, B5
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Apr 1997 12:24:53 -0500
+Subject: Re: Afraid to criticise? Hardly! (was: criticism of B5 in RASTb5)
+
+>From the perspective of the staff, I can say that rastb5m gets read with
+regularity, while rastb5 gets read from time to time.
+
+The issue is not criticism, which usally has some basis when offered in
+either group (okay, I'm being polite- sometimes it's just flamebait). 
+
+The issue is civility.  When the work is treated with respect, whether
+it is loved or hated, the poster gets taken seriously.  When the
+criticism is thoughtful, we can agree or disagree, but at least we can
+talk.  Whether it is through the moderator, or through moderation,
+rastb5m is a more homey place to hang out.  
+
+The fact is, there is not one episode that we wouldn't like to have at
+least one more tweak on before it really escapes into the cosmos. As a
+very good friend of mine says often, Art is never complete it is only
+abandoned.  From that perspective, criticism is mutual.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+PS- about the last scene bears...... really have to ask Joe.
+
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Apr 1997 17:35:39 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN GEORGE: Docking question
+
+Docking Procedures are under the control of C and C as soon as they lock
+on to their docking beacon.  Whenever a pilot tries an overide, you get
+the potential for an accident, like we saw with G'kar's G'Quan Eth
+plantin "By Any Means Necessary".
+
+The station's synchronizers lock into the ship's local computers and
+that's all that's needed.
+
+George J
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Apr 1997 17:36:02 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Is B5 ready for HDTV?
+
+There are several schemes in proposal form for both the upconversion on
+standard broadcast, to make new sets useful with those who prefer to
+continue to broadcast using the equipment they have, and downconversion
+for those whop wish to watch a new channel with an old teevee set.  This
+will take the form of an inline box that decodes the signal and puts out
+a standard NTSC compatible signal.
+
+I am off to the National Assoc of Broadcasters meeting to see what the
+latest lies, er I mean proposals concerning HDTV are.  Rest assured that
+B5 is ready whatever dopey backwards compatible signal format they come
+up with. We do a conformed film neg of every episode for archival that
+is just for this purpose.  CG and composites can be rerendered to
+whatever new rez that is required, and we welcome the opportunity. 
+
+The biggest problem is that storytellers and hardware folks aren't the
+only ones with input into the standard.  The computer folks want in, and
+this will make the format even more confused.  Recent gov rules have
+allowed the standard to be made more computer friendly.  This means that
+MSNBC is just the start!
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Apr 1997 17:36:02 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN GEORGE: Severed Dreams-hole in a WALL?
+
+Boris-
+
+We don't really know where the Marines actually penetrated, but their
+first hole would be through the "floor". If we assume that they know the
+station well, it is likely they would punch through an "unimproved", or
+storage area first, as it would be easier than to burn through a fully
+habitable area. Then they would go through a wall or a door to get at
+the goal.  We postulate that they actually were shown entering through
+their second burn, and entering the occupied area.
+
+All the 95's are in the same relative position, sequenced from the
+center.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1997 18:38:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: Omega-class cruiser design
+
+Okay, Okay- I'm the first contestant for the dumbass of the week award!
+
+Of course it is the Omega Class.
+
+Too many hours, too many ships, too many file names.  For those who
+care, the files in Lightwave are labelled AgClasDestr, so I fell back on
+most recent contact protocol.
+
+Anyway, the rest of the answer does not suffer from the same caffeine
+induced hallucination, and is correct.
+
+George J
+CoProd, B5
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1997 18:39:40 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN George: The transmition in Epiphanies (Spoilers)
+
+David-
+
+Believe it or not, that piece started as color bars.  It was twisted
+using Flint software from Discreet Logoc on an SGI Maximum Impact using
+fractal morphing plug ins.
+
+Feedback is a wonderful thing......
+
+It is certainly concievable that Fractint would work to create a similar
+effect.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Apr 1997 18:02:31 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 Spinoff / In the Beginning.
+
+Excuse me, but the Londo scene in question is the one that takes place
+moments before Sheridan and Delenn are brought in, and then allowed to
+escape.  (War Without End.)  He can't exactly see to their execution since
+they outlive him in story continuity, now can he?
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Apr 1997 15:05:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: Omega-class cruiser design (POSSIBLE SPOILERS)
+
+
+
+Mark and folks-
+> :
+> : POSSIBLE SPOILERS
+> :
+> :
+> :
+> :
+> :
+> :
+> :
+> :
+> :
+> :
+> :
+> :
+> :
+> :
+> :
+> :
+> :
+> :
+> :
+> :
+> :
+> :
+> :
+
+
+You have it substantially correct.  (Even though i have been known to
+get it confooosed from time to time- too many hours, not enough pillows)
+
+The Nova Class Dreadnaughts have been around for quite a long time, but
+are getting a "sprucing up" for further development. As we discovered in
+our own navy, there is a need for several classes of ship of varying
+sizes.
+
+ The Omega Class are the next development in that series.  The habitat
+section was added, as well as more armored sections.  There is a further
+development of that class under discussion.  You can also see some
+design elements of the class contained in the Cortez.
+
+The newer ships under development are all of smaller classes, like the
+Olympus Class Corvette, the Badger heavy fighter, and the Cotten Class
+Deep Penetration Tender.  We will see these participate heavily in the
+second of the TNT movies.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Apr 1997 05:08:10 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for ICON!
+
+Thanks...and your question was a good one, which is why I kinda moved away
+from it....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Apr 1997 13:54:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Ted Turner, WB and what if God was one of us.
+
+Yes, the PTEN agreement excluded doing our show for first-run on
+cable...but it was the only offer anybody made to us.  We took it, because
+after five years of trying to find someone who'd trust us to do the show,
+you don't walk away from the table once you have what you wanted.  Who
+knew if it'd take *another* five years to get that far?  In year 1, it
+wasn't the venues, it was the notion that a show like this could be *made
+at all* let alone successfully.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Apr 1997 18:00:08 -0400
+Subject: Re: attn jms : autograph queues
+
+I think it would take about the same amount of time...and I don't know if
+I could take it seriously, it's too much like a receiving line at
+Buckingham Palace, and I share nothing in common with Lady Di (well, other
+than the wardrobe, but I digress...).
+
+(Then again, Di shaares nothing in common with Buckingham Palace
+anymore...)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Apr 1997 00:14:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JOE: B5 Informational CD question please
+
+Janet-
+
+The CD will be multiple platform, as Joe uses several Intels, John
+several Macs, and I use a PowerMac, 32 NT's and 24 Alphas.  We gotta be
+able to run the darn thing ourselves!
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Apr 1997 00:14:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN GEORGE: Babylon 5 on DVD?
+
+Clay, Jay, Claudia, and other DVD interested folks:
+
+The discussions we have had concerning DVD with Warners have all been
+based on 2 episodes per disk, with supplimental material, and full use
+of DVD's capability. 
+
+4 episodes per disc hits the compression scheme pretty hard, and I don't
+like the way it looks, so we will stick with two per, IF this were to
+become a product.
+
+(Big IF by the way, for reasons we have already discussed in this forum)
+
+And, btw, ehat do you mean where are you, George?  I've been here
+working my behind off getting these episodes out!  :-)
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Apr 1997 03:11:12 -0400
+Subject: Re: Episode 422/522 Finale.. Question
+
+"What are the chances of major spoilers being leaked from "Sleeping in
+Light" over the next year?!?!?!?"
+
+I'm sure some of that's bound to happen...but the reality of it is that if
+you add up all the people who are online and might get this information,
+you'd actually end up with only about 4% of the viewing audience...so
+it'll still have its desired impact.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Apr 1997 19:07:41 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5 airing order on TNT
+
+We definitely plan to work with TNT to make sure the air order is correct.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Apr 1997 21:21:15 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: I-CON notes and Drall
+
+Yeah, Michael was down with a very serious 24-48 hour intestinal flu bug
+that pretty much put him away, but he pushed past it to come to the con.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Apr 1997 04:21:40 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Gratuitous use of the word "Hell"
+
+The hell you say....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Apr 1997 19:54:57 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN GEORGE, JMS: the monkey, the nut, and the jar
+
+> Do you enjoy it enough to want to do it again?
+> Can B5 episodes be re-rendered well enough for theater sized screens?
+
+Yes and Yes.  The resolution of the renders we are doing now allow for
+the highest rez digital video storage currently available in NTSC. For
+theatrical release, all we need do is flip this little chromium switch
+here.......and out comes a ready to transfer film frame render.
+
+
+> Not only would it be nice to see B5 on a really big screen "TV",
+> if fans flock to theaters to see B5 episodes,  WB's mind-set might allow
+> it to issue video tapes.
+
+I'm not really sure if this is a plausible strategy.  Someone at
+Warner's would need to book the theatres, and that would be the same
+folks who think home video wouldn't fly.
+
+> Does B5 have press kits that it gives to reporters?
+> If so, would WB allow tapes of "And Now for a Word" and "The Illusion
+> of Truth" to go into the press kits?
+> B5 might get more requests for press kits than there are reporters.
+> JMS would report this sad situation to WB with the suggestion that he
+> start charging most folks (non-reporters) for press kits.
+
+Creative thinking, but......
+
+ 
+> To sell "The Coming of Shadows" as a promotional item, would JMS have
+> to talk to the same monkey (Warner Home Video?) that has its hand around
+> the nut in the jar?
+
+Yup.  The home video issue is truly Warner's to deal with.  We can hope
+that it will eventually be dealt with, but i sure wouldn't guess when or
+in what format.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Apr 1997 06:13:58 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: new 67 year old viewer
+
+That's truly wonderful...thanks for that report, it made my day.  Best to
+your dad.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Apr 1997 19:31:42 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: How's you directing debut going
+
+Not directing yet, still in prep, balancing that with finishing writing
+the first two movies.  Just finished the first draft on the second one
+this morning (about 4:45 am), then planning to take the weekend to revise
+them both.  Then it's back to prep.  Expect me to be offline a lot during
+that period, because I'll be going in at 6:25 a.m. and wrapping every day
+at 7:00 p.m.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Apr 1997 00:52:53 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Watching 24 B5 eps in a row...
+
+(grinning ear to ear)
+
+Thank *you*.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Apr 1997 14:40:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JOE: Surviving the idiots
+
+
+One simply learns.
+
+And when negotiation fails, you just roll in a grenade and come in firing.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Apr 1997 03:30:29 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Happy Passover!
+
+I do not celebrate Passover (wrong group, and I'm an atheist in any
+event), but I will pass along your kind wishes to the rest.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Apr 1997 17:47:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS: Sleeping in the Light
+
+
+"But seriously, what kind of responses do you expect to see in this
+newsgroup
+the week following the last episode?"
+
+In a way you're kind of asking the wrong person, as I'm inside the
+fishbowl and can't see the show the way anyone outside can see it.  The
+only gauge I have is the reaction the script got around the stage when
+people on the crew and cast read it.  (With a note attached explaining the
+possibility of airing it as 522 or 422, but that either way thsi would end
+up the story.)
+
+Pretty much everybody cried.  I came home to a message on my machine from
+Mira, who was almost unable to speak, and another from Claudia who said
+she was honored and proud to be a part of this, and the script had made
+her cry.  Bruce, Richard, big beefy guys on the crew...all said the same
+thing.  And there I have to concur; I lost is several times as I was
+writing it, due to the content; there's one scene in particular...you'll
+know it when you see it...that put me away for an hour when I finished
+writing it.
+
+But here's the thing...*every single person* who cried at the script,
+ended it feeling that it was not a sad script in the end, or a down
+ending...that it left them feeling proud, and tall, and *positive*...that
+life goes on...that it was a reaffirmation of life itself, on its most
+primal level.  They felt good about the ending.  And that was a great
+relief for me, because I was trying something *very* difficult from a
+writing perspective, and at first blush it looks as if I've pulled it off.
+ (Now I get to go in as director and *totally* screw it up.)
+
+Only one fan has read the script...someone whose opinion I trust.  Because
+I was curious about the reaction from that side of the screen.  And the
+reaction was *exactly* the same.
+
+So how do I think people will react?
+
+I think a lot of people will cry.
+
+But by the end of it, I think it will come around, and be all right...and
+mainly, that people will then look back at the whole story, through all
+these long years, and say, "It was a good story."  And close the cover,
+and put it on the shelf with the other books that will be reread again
+down the years, and turn off the lights, and go to bed feeling that the
+time was well spent.
+
+Which is the most any writer can ever ask for.  To tell a tale worth
+telling  To make people cry.  To make people laugh.  And even, once in a
+while, make them think about things, and see the world just a little
+differently than when they began.
+
+And then they can centerpunch me on the freeway, or throw a plane at me,
+and I won't even mind.  Because everything I set out to prove, I proved. 
+Everything I set out to say, I said.  
+
+I've carried this story like a hermit crab carries its shell for five long
+years, counting the pilot.  It's been an *awfully* long and difficult
+road, and no one will ever really know just how hard this show was to
+make.  Nor should they, because it isn't the difficulty that makes the
+story, the *story* makes the story.  But one way or another, aired as 522
+or 422, when it airs the burden is off at last.  Then it no longer belongs
+to me.  It belongs to you.  As should be.
+
+And, in the end, I think you'll be pleased.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Apr 1997 17:53:36 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS OR GEORGE: ships changing size?
+
+Boris-
+
+Actually, we never change the size of the ships. (Okay, before you start
+furiously typing...)   The lenses that we use change often, and
+depending on the style of lens selected, the ships may appear closer or
+farther away from another object.  This makes things confusing for
+sure.  Add to that that the relative distance between two objects may be
+compressed to allow for better screen composition, and we may start to
+explain what you are realizing.  The hardware of B5 is a bit "undefined"
+from a tech point of view.  This will be remedied in upcoming
+publications.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Apr 1997 18:37:25 -0400
+Subject: Re: Heartfelt thanks!
+
+Thanks.  And at least one of your wishes is assured...TNT will air reruns.
+ The rest is still being discussed.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 May 1997 22:51:24 -0400
+Subject: Re: Action figures?
+
+As much as i would like to have them on my desk....
+
+There has not been a license granted for traditional action figures at
+this time.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 May 1997 02:31:39 -0400
+Subject: Re: Contract Questions
+
+	--Considering the way you have been jerked around by WB, what are 
+your contract obligations to them, beyond the end of B-5? 
+	--If you are then a "free agent" with whom would you partner for 
+future TV projects?
+	--Are there any other brain-children waiting in the wings?
+	--Are any scifi TV projects contemplated?
+
+My contract is specifically for B5, if it were to go away (and there's
+some interesting, positive movement going on behind the scenes right now)
+I would have no further obligations or ties to WB.  I've turned down a
+number of network gigs along the way, preferring to stay with B5 (even
+though some of them would've paid twice or more what I get on B5) so
+finding another berth wouldn't be hard.
+
+And yeah, I have some other projects simmering in the background that
+might go with or without a fifth season.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 May 1997 00:20:43 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS, *ALERT*  *ALERT*
+
+The host misspoke...
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 May 1997 01:33:52 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Anything special done on last day of Shoot?
+
+Around lunchtime, I began to notice people filtering out -- crew and
+others -- wearing white t-shirts with blue lettering that read, on front,
+"Shhh...the Great Maker is Directing."  And on the back, "...and on the
+seventh day we wrapped." JMS 4:22 May 5, 1997.  It was a nice thing, and
+we're considering making the shirts available via the fan club.
+
+Since it's customary for directors to bring in food on the last day of an
+episode shoot, I brought in food at the end of the day, and folks stayed
+around until late in the evening, just hanging around, chatting, eating,
+and the like.  (I headed home around 7 mainly because I was just bushed.) 
+We also took a big family picture that will go into the end credits of the
+episode, whenever it will finally air.  A lot of our past directors, crew,
+actors and others showed up for the thing, and stayed for the party,
+knowing that either way, this was going to be the last episode of the
+series, whether it's 4 or 5 years.  
+
+Then everybody went away for a few days, and now we're back shooting movie
+#1, "Thirdspace."
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 May 1997 18:34:46 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Spoilers: Episode 422 Confusion
+
+"In other words, because 422 takes place in the far future (2281), it is a
+
+stand-alone episode.  It can be dropped into ANY position in the B5
+schedule 
+....as long as its last.  Correct?"
+
+Bingo.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 May 1997 19:52:57 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  522 always 2281?
+
+Yes, the final chapter in the series was always going to fall in 2281, 20
+years after the events in 2261.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+JMS (and coproducer George Johnsen) Usenet messages for June 1997.
+
+Date: 30 May 1997 13:16:05 -0400
+Subject: Re: No Surrender, No Retreat ( *Spoilers* )
+
+"were these White Stars tired or something? I would've expected that a
+couple of them could just go slice-slice, sever the rotating sections on
+the EA ships and have 'em for breakfast."
+
+Sure, if all you're interested in is slaughtering the opposition...they
+were designed for "destroy"...when you have to pull your punches to avoid
+just going in and killing EVERYthing in sight...which will only work
+*against* you in the long run, it becomes more difficult.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Jun 1997 20:33:24 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: "In The Beginning" is *linear*???
+
+Never said it was linear, only that it predates B5.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Jun 1997 16:00:19 -0400
+Subject: Re: Att: JMS, George, MOJO, etc., about CGI, EFX, etc.
+
+Gary-
+
+As to what the process sounds like, I'll leave that to your imagination,
+but the rest of the process goes something like this:
+
+The script will dictate a direction to look.  Joe has some amazing
+pictures in his head, and sometimes they actually pop out and leak onto
+paper!  Other times it takes more help.  There is a discussion around a
+table not unlike the one that you describe, where the general
+characteristics of the race and their mode of conveyance are discussed
+in detail.  The ideas that result are communicated to a designer
+(creature specialist, futurist, technical illustrator, theortical
+scientist, or animator- depends on the type of design required) for a
+concept sketch.  Once that is adjusted and approved, a modeler builds
+the object in the appropriate animation software, and the surfacing
+begins!
+
+At completion of that point, a move test is done, approved or rejected
+by myself, John Copeland, and JMS, and the object is added to the
+animator's arsenal.
+
+Yes, it is collaborative, and fairly time consuming, but it does result
+in some cool ships that no single vision could produce!
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Jun 1997 16:06:32 -0400
+Subject: Re: "Conflict of Interest" and PPGs (Mild Spoiler)
+
+Seriously Mild Spoiler for CoI:
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+PPG fire through an HVAC tube wall
+
+This is substantially correct.  The PPG blast is extremely hot, and will
+melt through the plastic coating and the metal lining inside the tube.
+The entire energy of a PPG will not come through the tube (unless by
+some coincidence the exact same area is hit twice or three times), and I
+believe that this was propoerly portrayed in the sequence.  Even if it
+isn't the entire energy blast, it will hurt like hell and de-mobilize an
+individual meat packet (person) for the bad guys to come get later.
+
+It did take a *very* long time to burn through the bulkhead door to
+allow them access to the hallway, and said door did mildly glow in the
+affected areas prior to melting through.  The station hull is even more
+heat resistant.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Jun 1997 14:41:56 -0400
+Subject: The Blooper Show Response
+
+
+I recieved this letter from Dick Clark Productions the other day, and I
+share it here with their permission:
+
+ 
+
+Dear Mr. Johnsen:
+
+We deeply regret any confusion or unintentional problems caused by the
+deletion of the Babylon 5 bloopers from our last special.  Although we
+had every intention of using the bloopers, last minute changes by the
+network, and overall time problems with the show, forced us to eliminate
+a number of good bloopers at the last minute.
+
+Unfortunately, the TV Guide ad, which our production company was never
+shown, was already put to bed at the time of the final edit.  Had we
+been aware that the Babylon 5 bloopers were listed in TV Guide, we would
+have made every effort to retain them in our show.  We hope to make this
+up to you by including Babylon 5 bloopers in our next special.
+
+Again, may we apologize for a situation that was not in our control.  We
+look forward to a long future with mutual benefits to both of our shows.
+
+Sincerely,
+
+Al Schwartz, Executive Producer/Director
+Barry Adelman, Producer/Writer
+
+
+
+
+
+After all of the posting, we thought you should know.  
+
+George J
+CoProd, B5
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Jun 1997 01:26:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN:  JMS
+
+The schedule for 522 is separate and apart from the schedule for the
+movies, so there shouldn't be a problem.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Jun 1997 01:39:00 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: lunchtime on the set
+
+Lunchtime is one of the best times on set.  We have a large area set up
+outside the back of the stage, a big picnic tent sort of arrangement, in
+the open air, and the food is brought in, and it's kind of like a big
+family picnic 5 times a week.  A lot of goofing around, laughter, hanging
+out and BSing, big political arguments usually involving me (moderate to
+left), Jerry (slightly to the right of Atilla the Hun) and Jason (acting
+representative from Mars).  In the case of massive applied prosthetics,
+they stay on because it would take too long to reaply them, and in general
+they're not hard to work around; the background aliens just pop off their
+heads.
+
+Curiously...and I consider this something of a psychological or
+sociological study, albeit very informal...at lunchtime *almost
+invariabley* the Narn extras sit with the other Narn extras, Centauri sit
+with Centauri, Earth troops with Earth troops...it's interesting to see
+how fast this sort of thing happens.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1997 06:42:34 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Writer's Block
+
+This is probably going to honk off a lot of other writers, but...I've
+never had writer's block.  Never.  Not ever.  Not in the 26 years since I
+started writing seriously at age 17.  My problem has only been in getting
+it all *down*, there's so much to work from.  If I dried up right now on
+stories, what I have in notes alone could probably carry me through the
+next 10 years.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1997 08:05:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  If S5 airs in January, what will happen to S5 on 
+
+The S5 new eps and S1-4 reruns would be simultaneous...which would mean
+that one could piggy back on the PR of the other.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 11 Jun 1997 21:15:08 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: "Proceed with messing it up" (was Re: ATTN JMS:
+
+There have only been a couple of very rare cases when a director has said
+"Why did you do this?"  Usually we explain why -- we were running long, an
+EFX shot didn't work out, whatever -- and it's never a problem.  There
+have been, I think, about 3 cases when a director said it was really
+important to him to do it a certain way in one shot, and if a director
+feels that strongly about it, we tend to think we should go along with it.
+ 
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Jun 1997 17:02:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: "In the Beginning" for newbies and vets
+
+ItB contains surprises and turnarounds for many of the series veteran
+fans, and it does a great job of laying the foundation for the first two
+seasons for the newbies.
+
+It's a most elegant dance...and I'm actually kinda proud of it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Jun 1997 20:38:46 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Writer's Block
+
+"That, I think, explains how you got so damn good (with "the tools", as
+you've
+put it) so damn fast. Practice, practice, practice, they say---and you
+can't
+stop."
+
+Yep.  Especially the Can't Stop part.  I've written an average of 10 pages
+per day, every day of the year but 3, since I was 17.  
+
+I also think that working in journalism has helped a great deal; you can't
+walk into the office, a story needed by noon, and say, "Y'know, I just
+don't feel the muse today."  The next thing you'll feel is your butt on
+the concrete sidewalk.  You learn a certain discipline there that has
+helped me greatly over the years.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1997 03:45:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Directing
+
+"Having read through this months edition of Starburst (I think), Claudia
+Christian mentions that you enjoyed directing.  My question is a very
+simple one:  would you do it again, and what part of the directing the
+episode did you find the most enjoyable/rewarding?"
+
+I really don't know if I'd say that I *enjoyed* it...my main concern every
+day was somehow getting through it without embarrassing myself, or letting
+down the crew or the cast or, ultimately, the viewers.  I wanted the
+direction to the the equal to the performances I knew were waiting to be
+unlocked.  I haven't commented on it much for the same reason you rarely
+see me saying that a given script of mine is good...I'm too close to it
+and too critical of everydamnthing I do.  But so far everyone of the crew
+who's seen it, and a few others, were very much moved and satisfied by it.
+
+I don't know if I'll do it again or not...my gut says probably not.  If I
+*were* to even try it again, it couldn't be anything other than a final
+episode of a season, given how much is involved in prep if you're going to
+have a chance to get it right.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1997 14:27:49 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  I still love this show!
+
+Thanks...and they have definitely become more chapters lately, one running
+into the next, into the next...it's a lot of fun.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1997 20:49:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS/George - TNT Movies (videotapes?) in the UK
+
+Christopher-
+
+> But my question is this: for those of us who--on principle--don't have
+> either cable or satellite (just terrestrial TV), are TNT likely to
+> release
+> the B5 movies on videotape at some point here in the UK, given the market
+> success that the WB tapes of the B5 series have been over here?
+> 
+
+Nothing has been decided yet, but success breeds success, doesn't it?
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1997 02:27:36 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS
+
+I appreciate the interest...as for my birthday, I don't generally spread
+that info around, mainly because I don't like to make a big deal out of
+it, and prefer to just let it go.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/ftp/Usenet/jms97-07-usenet b/ftp/Usenet/jms97-07-usenet
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+JMS (and coproducer George Johnsen) Usenet messages for July 1997.
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1997 19:21:26 -0400
+Subject: Re: Season 5 **OFFICIAL**
+
+"OK, who's studios will it be filmed at? That's ashitload of equipment to
+move. Will WB rent thier stuff out (not likley) Does TNT have studios in
+the LA area equiped for this??"
+
+We never shot on the WB lot.  We have our own off-lot facilities, which
+will be the same for future episodes.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Jun 1997 19:31:53 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: "Deadloss"?
+
+"ust out of sheer curiosity, what did you think of Christopher Priest's
+"Deadloss"?  Anything printable?"
+
+Pathetic.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Jun 1997 01:00:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Gross or net?
+
+"I hope you got more than 6% of the CDs I've bought."
+
+Don't get a penny of those...those are soundtracks and not included in the
+merchandise area (don't ask why, I barely understand it myself).  Ditto
+with videotapes.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Jul 1997 21:32:50 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN. JMS - Whiskers in real time?????  (Minor spoilers)
+
+Bruce had some time between episodes, and began to grow the beard for
+real, and we darkened it down for later acts.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 11 Jul 1997 20:19:53 -0400
+Subject: Re: B5 INFO CD-ROM
+
+Shou Ling wrote:
+> 
+> Heya!
+> 
+> Some time back there was discussion of a Babylon 5 Information CD-ROM,
+> which JMS said would be "kinda subversive" in some respects.
+> 
+> Is the bloody thing out yet?  If not, WHEN?!?!?!?!?!
+> 
+> I'm driving the local Electronics shop nuts!
+
+Geez!  Calm down a bit!  The check disk is being circulated through
+Babylonian Productions even as we speak for fact checking and
+operational stability.  We are working on a deal for distribution, and
+will let everyone know when the deal is done.  Shouldn't be long now,
+but in this group quoting a date or even a time frame is VERY
+dangerous.  :-)
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
diff --git a/ftp/Usenet/jms97-08-usenet b/ftp/Usenet/jms97-08-usenet
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+JMS (and coproducer George Johnsen) Usenet messages for August 1997.
+
+
+Date: 25 Jul 1997 02:25:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Likelihood of CC guest appearance in S5?
+
+I don't think it's a matter of reconciliation, though a number of folks in
+the cast are more than a bit upset with her decision.  But that aside....
+
+In fifth year terms, given the situation, and contractual problems in
+bringing a departed regular in to guest star...my guess is that the odds
+are slim and none.  It'll almost certainly have to wait for either the
+third TNT movie or feature projects.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 25 Jul 1997 02:25:39 -0400
+Subject: Re: My last word on CC (hopefully)
+
+I've already stated that we will keep the door open for the third TV movie
+and the feature, should that happen.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 25 Jul 1997 20:57:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Claudia'n'residuals
+
+ Claudia's statement that the actors were asked to give up their
+residuals now makes sense ... to me, anyway, and I'm writing to ask 
+where or if I'm wrong in this deduction ... in that the actors *were*
+asked to give up residuals that might be able to cover their rent for
+a month in exchange for residuals that might be able to cover lunch.
+Her statement about "giving up residuals" could be taken as a bit 
+of exaggeration, as, by the previous scale, the basic cable residuals
+*are* pretty much nonexistent on a making-a-living basis."
+
+Prior to getting the S5 renewal, we called in as many actors as were
+present and explained that shows made for basic cable are, according to
+the Screen Actors Guild Basic Agreement, different in many ways from
+syndication, as syndication is different than network, in terms of
+residuals.
+
+In network, the fees generally start higher, and the residuals start at a
+higher percentage of that fee as well .  In syndication, the fees are
+smaller, and the residuals start at a lower percentage.  (For writers, for
+instance, I think the going fee for a network script is about $26-30,000
+and the first rerun gets a high percentage of that back to the writer; in
+syndication, the script fee is about $15-16,000 and the first rerun starts
+at an even lower percentage of that fee.)
+
+For basic cable, things get more complicated.  The fees paid stay the same
+as syndication, so across the board actors' fees, directors and writers
+don't get touched.  But the various Guilds gave basic cable a break in
+terms of encouraging original production, and in rerunning
+network/syndication fare.  For instance, there's one formula for something
+made for network/syndication and later run on cable, and another for
+something made *specifically* for basic cable.
+
+And it's the latter that we had to explain to the actors, because under
+SAG regs, again as part of the various guilds' decision to give cable a
+break to get it up and viable (so that it can later be brought up to par
+with syndication), the formula is that the amount paid to an actor above
+double-scale is credited against residuals.  Once that is burned through,
+residuals accrue to the actor again.
+
+That was the ONLY item mentioned in terms of residuals.  Bear in mind in
+ALL this that we *cannot* make ANY deal that contravenes what is
+established by the various guilds, so asking any actor to give up
+residuals forever, as some have suggested, cannot be done by us or ANYone
+because we are Guild signatories.
+
+
+ jms
+
diff --git a/ftp/Usenet/jms97-09-usenet b/ftp/Usenet/jms97-09-usenet
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+JMS (and coproducer George Johnsen) Usenet messages for September 1997.
+
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1997 15:22:56 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Writing and Music
+
+>When I sit down to write, I tend to pick out a CD and set
+>it to loop only noticing hours later that I'd heard it 7 or 8 times in a
+>row (which drive my wife nuts).  Are you also a victim of the writing
+>coma?
+
+What an interesting question....
+
+There's this thing called "state related learning," which means that if
+you learn something while, say, in a given room, or under certain specific
+conditions, you will be able to remember it better in that same condition
+or state.  
+
+When I'm writing, often I'll find or stumble upon a CD that puts me in the
+right state of mind to work on it...and when I go in the next day, or a few
+hours later, that one will be the one I fire up, to get me going.  So it
+may play a lot over the course of a number of days.  It ain't *all* I
+listen to, though I do sometimes listen to it sequentially, I can't listen
+to just one thing endlessly, but it does get played a lot.
+
+That's the first time I've been asked that question.  It's rare when I
+find a new one.  Thanks.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1997 02:17:04 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS at Defcon 4 in Tulsa
+
+The problem is in getting to Tulsa from LA...there is no good way to get
+there, they ALL require 2 planes, the latter invariably being a putt-putt
+job, and the shortest layover is about 90 minutes, and the show requires
+some time spent here that day...so I won't be in on Friday until late, but
+the main presentations are Saturday at 1:00 in any event, and on Sunday, so
+that's fine.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1997 02:21:13 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS. Not at all important question
+
+>  I was wondering what television shows have influenced you with reguards
+>to your writing?   What shows did you watch before (or even after) you
+>started your writing career that you consider to have a large impact on
+>the way you view television?
+
+I'd say that the original Twilight Zone was a big  influence, as was the
+Outer Limits, the Prisoner, Blake's 7, and the original Trek.  The writers
+most influential were Serling, Chayefsky, Reginald Rose, Matheson,
+Bradbury, Ellison.
+>
+>  And the question that I am always dying to ask creators of my favorite
+shows. 
+
+>Did you ever catch the British espionoge show, The Sandbaggers? If
+>so what was your opinion of it?  How about the muhc more recent EZ Streets
+>and PIcket Fences? 
+>
+Only saw Picket Fences of those three, which I enjoyed, though it got
+kinda wonky in its last season or two.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1997 02:26:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Can B5 get an Emmy? Ever?
+
+>Seems to be some old story going around about how B5 isn't eligble for an
+>Emmy for some reason. I remember WB had something to do with it, said they
+>didn't want it in there for consideration - will that change at all with
+>the recent TNT deals, or is B5 just never going to be eligible
+
+No, we're eligible, and have been nominated and have won in other
+categories in the past, though all below the line stuff (i.e., not in the
+writing/directing/acting categories).  
+
+We had some problem when we (like 90% of other shows) sent tapes of our
+episodes to Academy members, many of whom had not been aware of the show. 
+Some people in WB PR got upset because we kind of upstaged them, and
+insisted we not do so again.  TNT, on the other hand, is going to be very
+helpful to us in this in future.
+
+However, since we are syndicated, and SF, the academy (which notoriously
+ignores both categories) we will almost certainly continue to be ignored.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1997 05:24:00 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:
+
+>The Drazi god seems to bear an awfully strong
+>resemblance to the Chief of the Vogon Constuctor Fleet in "The
+>Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy"
+
+It was built up around a buddhist statue, as I recall.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 23 Sep 1997 03:14:09 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS/GEORGE: A question about the TNT deal
+
+What we've been told by TNT is that they "intend to run B5 until they wear
+out the sprocket holes," meaning that they're going to keep doing it for a
+long, long time....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Sep 1997 03:15:31 -0400
+Subject: Re: attn JMS: Warner Bros Negotiations
+
+>I'm curious as to whether or not you have any part in the negotiations for
+>stations/networks that carry B5; like Space:TIS in Canada (the new SF
+>network).  
+>
+>--
+
+No, I've never been involved with that part of it in any way.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Sep 1997 03:22:53 -0400
+Subject: Re: MODERATE ME: Open letter from Spider Robinson
+
+I think Spider's got a perfectly valid point.  
+
+I can't see much in there to disagree with.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 23 Sep 1997 17:08:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Casting of Rebo & Zooty
+
+>
+>Joe,
+>
+>I heard a rumor that Rebo and Zooty may make an appearance in season 5.  
+>Is this true?  If so, I'd like to make a casting suggestion.  
+>
+>With a name like Zooty, I picture a short, somewhat squeaky-voiced type 
+>of guy.  I believe the perfect choice for this role is none other than 
+>Harlan Ellison.  Just imagine him lifting his leg and saying "Zooty - 
+>Zoot Zoot".   I bet he'd work real cheap too.  
+>
+>Rebo would probably be the straight man in the act.  You'd need a big, 
+>tall guy with a wry wit.  Someone with a natural chemistry with Harlan's 
+>character.  Who could be better qualified than yourself?  Why not, 
+>you've done just about everything else on the show .  It'd be great to 
+>see you in a cameo.
+>
+>What do you think?   :)
+
+I suggest Thorazine, and lots of it.
+
+jms
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Sep 1997 18:06:47 -0400
+Subject: The Exercise of Vital Powers ( *Spoilers* )
+
+Spoilers for The Exercise of Vital Powers
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+>
+>Okay--in the last scene, when Garibaldi comes into Edgars's living
+>room to tell him that he's "in", Edgars is sitting on the sofa
+>reading a book. I suddenly realized I MUST know what book he was
+>reading.
+
+The Bible.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1997 03:57:28 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: More "Captain Power" Info
+
+The entire story is bogus.  This is just some company or person who has
+the rights to the old episodes, and may be trying to whip up enthusiasm.
+
+Whatever the case...we spoke to the folks at Landmark today, which company
+owns CP lock, stock and barrel, and they categorically denied that ANYthing
+is in the works.  They've been trying to get something off the ground for a
+long time, but no, there are NO new episodes in the pipeline.  It's a bogus
+story.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1997 18:09:31 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS-B5 at the University
+
+Unfortunately, neither we nor WB are in a position to make tapes
+available; they will have to come through other sources.  I can only convey
+my best wishes and good luck with the class.
+
+You may also want to check in with the folks at the University of York who
+are doing an academic conference on B5 in December in case there are any
+papers that could be purchased and used.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1997 21:34:08 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: CGI setup?
+
+No, the setup hasn't changed.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 26 Sep 1997 02:52:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS (was Re: JMS on CompuServe (Sep 25, 1997))
+
+Baltimore will be Worldcon in July.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Sep 1997 14:17:34 -0400
+Subject: jms a bit out of action
+
+Last Sunday, while at a convention in Tulsa, I threw my back out very
+badly about 90 minutes before I was to do my second presentation (slipped
+in the shower and badly wrenched my back).  Though I could barely move (a
+very nice lady tied my shoes for me because I couldn't reach that far
+without blacking out from the pain), I did the presentation anyway because
+I knew that a number of fans had driven as long as 5 hours to be there and
+I was determined not to let them down...and apparently that was a mistake,
+because though it seemed to be getting better Monday and Tuesday, by
+Wednesday it's almost incapacitated me.  Have been offline for 24 hours,
+seeing doctors and getting drugs (have all the advice and pharmaceuticals I
+need just now, thanks), and the few hours I have where I can be behind a
+keyboard have to be put in on scripts.  So I'll be a bit diminished here
+until I'm on my feet again.  Could be just a few days, maybe longer.  
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 27 Sep 1997 19:12:05 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: New Ep titles?
+
+In no particular order....
+
+The Paragon of Animals...In the Kingdom of the Blind...The Day of the Dead
+(Neil Gaiman's script)...A View from the Gallery...The Very Long Night of
+Londo Mollari...No Compromises...Strange Relations....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1997 09:43:25 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  B5 Shot Glass?
+
+> No, I'm not confused; the confused person here is the one who claims to
+>> find alcohol abuse an ugly thing, and appears to have childhood memories
+>> of the horrific effect of intrafamilial alcoholism, whether in his own
+>> or someone else's...... and yet takes a willing part in the glorification
+>> of a product....
+
+Creation secured a license for glassware; I approved the license artwork,
+not thinking of anything other than regular glassware (mugs, whatever).  I
+was as astonished to see it used on shot glasses as anyone else...and
+subsequently made a recent call to Warner Bros. asking that the license for
+this particular item not be renewed after they are finished selling the one
+already made.  It's my fault, I should've anticipated a shot glass, it's
+just not something that I think of, but there's no reason to penalize
+Creation by making them warehouse stuff they can't sell.   So they'll sell
+what's there on hand, and that will be the end of it.
+
+It's already a dead issue.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1997 20:25:20 -0400
+Subject: Re: So long... [SiL spoilers]
+
+>Up to ItF was good, but I can't stand the aftermath, or what I see as JMS'
+>condescending and holier than thou attitude towards fans.
+>
+>
+
+I was going to respond politely until I got to this part.  Let me put this
+to you plainly:
+
+You are an idiot if you take these spoilers at face value, and an equal
+idiot if you think from this you know how it's all going to go down.
+
+You don't know what SiL is about, since that hasn't been released in any
+form, btw, not even synopses...and for some time now I've been deliberately
+leaving some info out of the synopses *specifically* because people like
+you, who look ahead and write off the shows forthcoming, piss me off no end.  
+
+All I can say in conclusion is that your analysis of what's coming in the
+storylines is SO off-course, SO ill-informed and wrongheaded that it's
+hardly worth addressing.  You've not only jumped to conclusions, you've
+jumped right off the cliff.  Maybe, rather than being prejudicial, you
+might actually want to *see* what's there before making a judgment about
+it.  This is no different than the fundamentalists who pass judgment about
+a film based on what they read about it, rather than first-hand experience.
+
+Hope that wasn't too condescending....or the little gift I dropped into
+"Deconstruction" for folks who read spoilers and then dismiss the show as a
+result.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1997 21:48:03 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: ReBoot 3rd season
+
+I don't know if it's still the case, but Larry DiTillio, story editor for
+2 years on B5, was/is the story editor on ReBoot, and he's always been big
+on arcs, which is why he came to B5 in the first place.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1997 21:51:35 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Question regarding a 6th season
+
+I didn't say it would be difficult to turn down doing a 6th season, but
+that the situation would *be* difficult.  Obviously, their first choice
+would be to have me do it...but just as obviously I don't want to do a
+sixth season, 'cause the story ends in 5, and even TNT has been actively
+promoting S5 as the last season of B5.  Now, in theory, WB could do B5
+without me, since they own the copyright, and that would be the last bullet
+in their gun if I got real difficult about it.
+
+The only other option would be to do a "Tales from Babylon 5" sixth
+season, which would be an anthology series, to all intents and purposes,
+using our characters almost like a repertory group.
+
+But we'll see...it's still a long way off, and as Ted Kennedy once said,
+we'll drive off that bridge when we come to it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Sep 1997 15:11:36 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN : JMS (or TWIMC)
+
+> Now there don't seem to be any more! I've asked here
+>previously, as well as sending messages to babylon5.com, but still
+>haven't heard a thing.
+
+Now that the show has moved on to TNT, rather than going througn WB itself, WB
+ has kinda moved on in many respects.  TNT will be leading the vanguard from
+ now on.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+JMS (and coproducer George Johnsen) Usenet messages for October 1997.
+
+
+Date: 2 Oct 1997 06:22:02 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Don't hate us spoiler junkies!
+
+I understand what you're saying on one level...but you have to understand that
+ for every person who reads the spoilers just to savor what's coming, I get 1-2
+ who use it to jump funky on me and complain about what's coming before seeing
+ it.
+
+So you might understand why I get a bit cranky about this issue.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 2 Oct 1997 06:23:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: Sleeping in Light ( *Spoilers* )
+
+The other thing in all this to remember is that once I learned the source of
+ material for the spoilers' page (the synopses that WB is required to provide
+ to TV stations), I made it a point ot have WB route the synopses to me for
+ editing.  While I can't force too much stuff out of them or they become
+ useless to the purpose mandated by the FCC...stations have to be responsible
+ for, and informed about, what they broadcast...I *can* and do omit certain
+ little details whenever I can.
+
+Why?
+
+Because the spoilers page pisses me off...because no matter what's in them, I
+ get grief over them...and anybody who reads these things (altered or
+ otherwise) and assumes they know the full story and goes off because of it
+ deserves whatever they get.
+
+The synopses are not for general distribution outside the TV stations; if other
+ people are getting them, they're breaking the rules and ruining the dramatic
+ impact of episodes by letting the shape of the episodes get out before
+ broadcsat, and as far as I'm concerned, that entitles me to fuck with them.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 2 Oct 1997 06:23:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:"Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman"
+
+>What are your thoughts regarding this book?
+
+I don't know enough about it to form an intelligent opinion, so all I can do is
+ buy it when it comes out and see if it's any good or not.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 2 Oct 1997 06:59:36 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS - A few good words
+
+Thanks...I do get short sometimes (especially under the current conditions of
+ the back annoyance, the carpal tunnel, and the pain killers)...but overall it
+ work out.
+
+>P.S. Thanks for giving me a reason to get a DDS dish;-]
+
+An interesting idea occurs to me, btw, now that you've mentioned this.  TNT has
+ wondered aloud how many people are going to sign up for cable or dishes
+ primarily for B5.  If you (reading this) have done so, you may want to let
+ them know over at http://www.tnt.turner.com
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 2 Oct 1997 20:58:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS you insidious bastard!!!!!!(just kidding)
+
+That's good to know.
+
+It's worth noting that I know a number of writers who have been, and in some
+ cases are, associated with ST in one incarnation or another (and some of the
+ cast), and they have been more than content to have us letting people know
+ that the problem is the studio's limitations, not the potential writing, that
+ has been the problem...so I'm glad that the studio may be loosening the reins
+ a little, possibly due to fan pressure, to let the writers do what they want.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Oct 1997 21:03:39 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Title for Season 5?  *Possible Spoiler*
+
+I had to give the S5 title to TNT today so they can begin promoting it, but
+ would rather they brought it out at this point.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Oct 1997 21:05:29 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Don't hate us spoiler junkies!
+
+>You're implying at least  50/50 ratio of reasonable people like Alison to the
+> jerks who jump ugly on you.  
+
+Okay, okay...math not Zathras strength....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Oct 1997 21:07:35 -0400
+Subject: Re: "endgame" (*spoiler*)
+
+You're right in terms of what Garibaldi did and didn't do, and we've avoided
+ the ultimate repercussions in other places for other things (he said vaguely,
+ not wanting to post spoilers)...but you can only do that so far, and if you go
+ further you start cheating.  You also remove the dramatic impact of the
+ actions of your characters if they do not have consequences.  In this case, it
+ ties very much into this character's background...and would, in another
+ universe in which CC decided to stay, have spun out into some rather
+ interesting developments.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 3 Oct 1997 05:22:57 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Smokers?
+
+You will eventually see one person smoking on B5, at the performer's
+ request...but other than that, I think it's not something I want to encourage.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 3 Oct 1997 15:23:55 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Stations are dropping B5 left and right!
+
+> Is it at all conceivable that a certain B5-friendly
+>cable network could help us out here? 
+
+We're talking to them about some long-term solutions, but to the immediate
+ problem...no, there's nothing that TNT can do.
+
+What you're seeing is the reason we couldn't do B5 in regular
+ syndication...commitments were made to WBN, to UPN and Fox and other weblets
+ that are chewing up ALL the available slots on syndicated stations...there's
+ no room at the inn.  Also, we're now a lame duck show for the stations, some
+ of which are kind of annoyed that we're now going to cable (their direct
+ competition), and don't want to back-handedly promote somthing that's going to
+ their competitor.  (I think some of them would have preferred we go quietly
+ into that good night than become a competition.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Oct 1997 17:53:08 -0400
+Subject: Re: Endgame ( *Spoilers* )
+
+I can suggest for now that you hold off these questions until after the episode
+ airs, so I can discuss them more openly.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 3 Oct 1997 20:20:19 -0400
+Subject: Re: thestation.com down again?
+
+
+Dunno...it works fine when I log on.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 5 Oct 1997 04:36:23 -0400
+Subject: from jms: cool merchandise
+
+I'm putting this in a few different places, so forgive any redundency....
+
+We're starting to pull together the licensed B5 merchandise being put out by
+ the fan club, and I'm very pleased by it...especially the pins, as noted
+ below.  For a long time now, pirate dealers have been putting out fake B5
+ Earth Alliance pins, and they've been crummily made, either flimsy or
+ breakable or thick and clumsy, and charging fair-sized bucks for rotten,
+ inferior products.  No more.  Now you can get the real things, identical to
+ the acual props in every single respect, and overseen directly by Babylonian
+ Productions to ensure that they're accurate.  (Along with everything else
+ here.)  But that's been a real sore point for me for a long time, and I'm glad
+ to have it taken care of once and for all.
+
+The following products are now available via the Fan Club website, located at
+ http://www.thestation.com
+
+1)  product # FCM - Fan Club Membership
+
+This gets you the quarterly Universe Today, access to the Gold Channel personal
+ logs on thestation.com, and discounts on all FC products.
+
+2) product # FCTC-01 - Fleer/Skybox Special Edition box with JMS autograph
+
+3) product # FCTC-02 - Fleer/Skybox Special Edition box with Bruce Boxleitner
+ autograph.
+
+4) product # FCJ-01 - Earth Alliance Pin
+
+Baked Enamel blue and gold-tone pin, just like the real ones. Pricing: member
+ $12, non $14
+
+5) product # FCS-04 - "The Great Maker" T-shirt
+
+When I directed "Sleeping in Light" (422), during lunch a substantial number of
+ cast and crew disappeared from the set, and returned wearing these shirts as a
+ surprise.  A lot of people asked for these to be made available, and now they
+ are.  Front reads, "Shh...The Great Maker is Directing". The back reads, "And
+ on the seventh day we wrapped". Pricing: member $14.95 L & XL $16.95 for XXL,
+ non $16.95 L & XL $18.95 for XXL.
+
+6) product # FCP-02 - Recognition Chart Poster
+
+This one I like a lot because it's just stinking cool...it's a perfect replica
+ of the recognition poster seen in pilot ready room on B5, struck from the same
+ master.  It has Minbari, Shadow, and Earth ship silhouettes, as you'd see on a
+ WWII battleship.  32"x24"  Pricing: member $8, non $10.
+
+7) product # FCH-01 - Aggie Hat
+
+The product number may be revised.  This is the crew cap for The Agamemnon,
+ Sheridan's ship prior to being assigned to B5, seen in "Knives" and which will
+ be seen in the fifth season as well.  (And those who see the final 4 will see
+ that the Aggy has a lot more to do with the story.)  Pricing is, I believe,
+ the same as the next item:
+
+8) product # FCH-02 - Psi Corps Hat
+
+This is another one we've been asked to produce by fans.  The cap is black with
+ the Psi Corps logo on front. "The Psi Corps is your friend" is embroidered on
+ the back.  Pricing: members $16, non $18
+
+9) product # FCBK - Antioch Babylon 5 Calendar 1998
+
+This is possibly the best graphic product associated with B5 publishing to
+ date.  It's just gorgeous, with montage prints, quotes from the series, photos
+ galore, and many of the major events in the B5 storyline noted by date.  This
+ is a limited edition with serialized numbers. We have the lowest numbers
+ available on the market. Pricing: members $11.95, non $14.95
+
+And there are the CD's available from us, done by Christopher Franke:
+
+  product # FCCD-01 - Original Soundtrack 
+  product # FCCD-02 - Messages From Earth
+  product # FCCD-03 - Avalon
+  product # FCCD-04 - Z'Ha'Dum
+  product # FCCD-05 - Shadow Dancing
+  product # FCCD-06 - Severed Dreams
+  product # FCCD-07 - Walkabout
+
+Again, all this can be obtained via the Fan Club site, which has an order form.
+  Some of this has yet to be added to the form, so in the case of short or
+ limited orders, this will let you get a jump on things before they're sold
+ out.
+
+What we're doing here is what I think should be done with this stuff: you make
+ what you personally would want just because you think it's just cool....
+
+jms
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 5 Oct 1997 21:42:23 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: (Spoilers) 419 Question
+
+Yes, there was a small scene that got cut for time.
+
+Good catch.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 6 Oct 1997 02:38:54 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: copyright issue
+
+>I've put together a couple of B5 logo sets and was wondering if I
+>would be violating the copyright if I offered them free on my website.
+>all the pictures I used were taken from the newsgroups or free sites
+>on the web.
+
+I don't actually know the answer to this...my guess is that somewhere in the
+ files they would have to have the WB (c) notice, otherwise you run the risk of
+ turning them in to public domain stuff, which makes WB very cranky.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 6 Oct 1997 02:39:19 -0400
+Subject: Re: Between the darkness and the light
+
+>I was wondering if any of the execs at 
+>paramount have looked at Babylon 5 and 
+>what it has become and thought something 
+>like,  "Boy I messed up when I didn't
+>grab that show when it was offered to
+>me."
+
+No, I doubt it...the only thing that has ever reached us was the frequent
+ lament at the top that we're "messing up the franchise that it took (them) us
+ 25 years to build."
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 6 Oct 1997 11:02:06 -0400
+Subject: Re: Between the Darkness and the Light ( *Spoilers* )
+
+>Was Between the Darkness and the Light shot after it was known Claudia
+>Christian was leaving the show?
+
+Negative.  We'd finished all S4 shooting at the time this occured.
+
+  Unless something miraculous happens in the
+>next show....  Were new scenes shot and edited in to the ending?
+
+Negative.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 6 Oct 1997 21:00:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: City of Sorrows - Great Job Kathryn!!!!!
+
+>Sinclair is stated
+>as missing for 48 hours rather than 24, but otherwise it's perfectly
+>correct).
+
+That was a typo we *both* missed...
+
+> I don't know if you've noticed this, but if one takes the Arisia 3
+>"twice the size" of Earth statistic as meaning twice the volume, it works
+>out to a little over 2-G. 
+
+Yeah, she transposed the mass figures when she was putting it all down, and
+ hopes to correct this and the above in the next printing.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Oct 1997 05:44:19 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: T-shirt quality
+
+Which shirts are you referring to?  If they're the Creation shirts, they've
+ been up and down in quality, but they've started working harder.  The All-U
+ shirts tend ot be extremely good.
+
+If they're pirated shirts, there's nothing I can do to help you.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 10 Oct 1997 05:54:44 -0400
+Subject: Re: Between the Darkness and the Light ( *Spoilers* )
+
+>In the show In Between Darkness and the Light the woman in the
+>interrogation room said  "put a BULLET in his head" but, they do not
+>use guns any more???  Was this a mistake???
+
+Nope.  We've established (in Grey 17 is Missing, for instance) that guns are
+ still used on Earth and elsewhere; but in a space station, you don't want a
+ slug-thrower because it tends to a) ricochet a lot off metal walls, or b) cut
+ through something vital that would breach the hull potentially.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 11 Oct 1997 19:09:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Time constraints and video
+
+>There are ways of looking at this issue--1) this is a chance to restore
+>the original intention and 2) the forced changes really don't matter
+>much in the grand scheme of things.  Which side of this issue do you
+>come down on?  (As far as I can tell, the only episode you've really
+>wanted to get your hands back on is "The Gathering")
+
+Unfortunately, it would require doing a re-edit on the episodes, plus
+ re-scoring, and re-mixing, and that takes a fair amount of money, so it's not
+ something we can do.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 11 Oct 1997 19:10:29 -0400
+Subject: Re: I want B5 models dammit!!!!!
+
+They'll be out from Revell this Christmas.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 12 Oct 1997 20:17:41 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Cover of _Locus_
+
+>Just how tall *are* you, O Great Maker?
+>
+>
+
+Right around 6'3"-6'4" depending on whether or not I slouch.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 12 Oct 1997 20:19:33 -0400
+Subject: Between the Darkness and the Light ( *Spoilers* )
+
+Spoilers for Between the Darkness and the Light
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+The Advanced destroyer group was still somewhat in the works when they hauled
+ it out to go after the fleet.  They'd been expecting mainly to go after other
+ Earth ships (as was noted in the episode), and didn't count on exclusively
+ being confronted by Whitestars.  Still, there were a lot of them here, and
+ they did a lot of damage by sheer force of numbers.
+
+Corwin would be running the station in everyone's absence.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 12 Oct 1997 20:22:23 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Shorter filming time?
+
+>I heard that Mira Furlan has been commenting about the shorter filming time
+>of 
+>season 5 (6 days instead of 7 days per episode) and that she feels she does
+>not 
+>have time to properly rehearse.
+
+I find that an odd statement, since the time to rehearse is still the same.  I
+ directed "Sleeping in Light" in 6 days, and we never had a problem with
+ rehearsal time.  Besides, most actors rehearse while other scenes are
+ shooting, running their lines.  So again, I don't know what she's referring to
+ here.
+
+Re: shooting time...yes, we went from 7 days to 6 days, which is an increase of
+ only about 1 page per day.  (Our shooting scripts are only about 42 pages, so
+ you're going from about 6 pages per day to 7 pages.)  There were several
+ reasons for this, one financial, but more important, TNT wants to run all the
+ S5 episodes STRAIGHT THROUGH WITHOUT BREAKS.  22 episodes in 22 weeks.
+
+Now, the first few aren't a problem, because you're looking at January and we
+ started filming in August.  Six months.  And it takes 52-65 days for
+ post-production work for each episode.  (Note: I'm not including 501, which we
+ had to rush through to air in 422's place.)  But there's a heck of a lot LESS
+ time between when we finish 522, and when we air it.  So we have to make sure
+ we can get all the episodes done in time.
+
+Frankly, I don't see that it's made that much difference.  If I could direct in
+ 6 days, anybody can.  And the prep time for the director is the same, so that
+ hasn't changed at all.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 12 Oct 1997 20:25:15 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: 8 minutes?  IIRT & BTD&TL spoilers)
+
+>At Defcon 4 in Tulsa, you mentioned that you had included eight minutes in
+>Intersections in Real Time which you pulled and added to Between the Darkness
+>and the Light.  Now that both episodes have aired, I hoped you might indulge
+>my curiosity by telling me which eight minutes. 
+
+The Garibaldi material through the map sequence with Number One was originally
+ in "Intersections."  It got shunted over to 419 when 418 ran 7-8 minutes long,
+ and 419 ran 8 minutes short.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 12 Oct 1997 12:44:36 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - Do you approved of this (FWD:### BABYLON 5 Card Game
+
+While the product is sanctioned, the email is apparently not coming from them,
+ but from a store that is *selling* the stuff.  That is not under my control,
+ unfortunately.
+
+Frankly, I object to this, and have sent email saying so.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 13 Oct 1997 14:06:24 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: "The Gathering" re-edit a no-go?
+
+
+No, the funding was approved, and we're working on it now.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 14 Oct 1997 04:04:23 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Am I crazy?
+
+>I just think it would be great to watch the entire series
+>without knowing what will happen next.  I envy the future viewers of the show
+ on TNT.
+
+I sometimes think about this myself.  I'd love to be able to see the show the
+ way viewers do...without knowing what didn't go right, what got trimmed, what
+ line wasn't quite properly delivered...I'd love to be able to sit home and see
+ this unfold.
+
+>       And so.  Do you think I'm crazy?  
+
+Just back away from the keyboard and keep your hands where we can see them.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Oct 1997 04:04:46 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Expense of title sequences?
+
+>Some rumours have been going around the net that title sequences are very 
+>expensive to make and that's why they aren't updated very often... except of 
+>course on Babylon 5.  So, what's the truth?  Is a title sequence expensive or
+>is
+>this just another rumour/lie that has grown a life of its own on the net?
+
+(shrugs)
+
+I dunno...I guess there's some money involved, but not with B5.
+
+See, most shows hire somebody, a company, to design their title sequence.  That
+ costs about $20-30,000.  A fair chunk of change for some shows.  Also, they
+ like the same title each season to give that comfortable continuity networks
+ need.
+
+We don't have that kind of money to toss around on a title design, so each
+ season I design the titles.  I write the narration, and work with the editors
+ (sometimes with John Copeland) to choose the images, and then I work with
+ Chris to tell him what kind of music I want to go with the titles.  So our
+ cost is just the editing time, and the new composition...maybe a couple grand,
+ tops.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Oct 1997 04:06:14 -0400
+Subject: Re: attn: JMS - Earth, Final Conflict
+
+Haven't seen the show yet...and the back is better.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Oct 1997 04:12:31 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS: Showing all Sides
+
+>JMS, you've always tried to show every point of view and what motivates your 
+>characters. Why have you not shown Clark's point of view?
+
+I tried to do it through his lieutenants and plenepotentiaries (hope I spelled
+ that right, I'm too tired to get the dictionary down).  ISN gives you his
+ point of view, ditto for Nightwatch, MiniPax, others.  I think if I had him
+ just saying it out loud, it would diminish him much the way that repeated
+ exposure to the shadow vessels gradually removed their mystery and menace. 
+ Less is more.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Oct 1997 04:17:52 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATT JMS: Updates on your "home town"?
+
+>A few times you've mentioned you dream lucidly, and that most (all?) of
+>your dreams take place in a town that only exists in your head.
+>
+>Anything going on there recently? or is it all crowded out by the 2260's?
+>
+>
+
+I don't know...lately, I've been falling asleep so exhausted that I don't
+ remember my dreams...I close my eyes, it gets black, and then it gets morning.
+  
+
+We're in the final stages of finishing off the prequel, and between that and
+ everything else, I got a grand total of 90 minutes sleep yesterday through
+ today.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1997 00:53:02 -0400
+Subject: Re: Susan's Speech, "Darkness and Light" (Spoilers?)
+
+Yeah, it was a bit over the top, deliberately so.
+
+I put it in the category of a boxer who's going up against an opponent who may
+ be well matched...and wants to psych the other person out.
+
+If you look at "Give me liberty or give me death!" or similar statements, made
+ to rally support or make a point, they're generally bigger than life, a bit
+ over the top.  That's so we can know where the top is so we can climb up there
+ ourselves.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1997 01:43:22 -0400
+Subject: Re: Endgame Problems (Spoilers)
+
+Okay, one general response here...people are seeing rush where in many cases
+ there is NOT a rush.  Look, pay attention here: WE'RE IN THE FOURTH ACT OF THE
+ EARTH CYCLE.  Like the fourth act of an episode, you have to really start
+ cranking.  You want it to be at white-heat once you hit the ground.
+
+What's in Endgame, and most of Between... was always going to be there, with or
+ without a 5th season.  I made my trims in the period PRIOR TO these episodes,
+ for the most part.  
+
+This is the culmination of something we've been building now for three years,
+ and I'm going to make it as damned fast-paced as I can.  
+
+So don't go into this assuming it was rushed...it's *fast*, and that's the
+ difference here.  
+
+People complain when we do character stories that the arc isn't moving fast
+ enough...people complain that it's moving too fast when the arc is in full
+ gear...sombody get a concensus going here, okay?
+
+Now, to the other points, described as "flaws":
+
+>The absolute worst was the business of smuggling the telepaths aboard
+>the EA destroyers. You would have me believe that on 30 seperate ships,
+>not one cargo handler or quartermaster would happen to notice the giant
+>freezer cases with frozen bodies clearly visible through the glass? 
+
+In something like this, you don't move unless you have the main quartermaster
+ at the Mars base ON YOUR SIDE.  You stuff it all into cargo loaders and
+ crates, and ship it up.  Have you ever seen military shipments?  I looked into
+ this, and security for big crates like this is done *at the point of
+ shipping*.  So that one's down.
+
+
+>1) Marcus deserts to return to B5 to save Ivanova. Sheridan feels there
+>is nothing that can be done because radio contact is not possible due to
+>EA jamming. Why not detach a single Star Fury to get beyond jammer range
+>and warn B5 via radio? Or send it dashing back to B5 to warn the staff
+>in person? 
+
+>Mega screw up. It just doesn't work. Sheridan would have immedietly
+>authorized dispatch of a courier. Jammers are old technology and
+>doctrine would dictate the use of couriers as a regular fallback.
+
+Okay, here's where YOU'RE wrong.  (If you can sit there and say that things are
+ "mega-screwups" and say I "bit the big one" in places, you don't mind--can't
+ mind--if I take same tone, do you?
+
+You don't send a ship away to chase one person when you're going into a battle.
+  You don't KNOW what ships you are and aren't going to need.  In theory  you
+ took everything you had because you thought you needed it.  Yeah, Marcus was a
+ friend, but a lot of friends would die this day.  You think he would put
+ Marcus's situation ahead of the fleet?  Isolate one ship and risk it to go
+ after him?  Ever been in the military?  You talk about it, but what you
+ propose doesn't make sense.  Would Patton have sent back a tank because
+ somebody fell behind?  No.
+
+The other point comes where you clearly misunderstood what was being
+ said...massively misunderstood...bit the big one, one might say.  To
+ elaborate, since this touches a point above:
+
+>2) The Agememnon is about to ram the defense grid satellite, conveying
+>Sheridan and crew to certain doom. At the last moment, the Apollo saves
+>the day. The General says "We were monitoring the situation" or words to
+>that effect. 
+
+>HOW??? No communication is possible through hyper space due to earth
+>jamming. The Apollo is in Mars orbit,
+
+No, that's NOT what was said.  The jammers are set up to cut off communication
+ OUTSIDE MARS ORBIT.  That's what was said, that the jammers cut in once they
+ were past Mars (for security purposes).  The same thing was said in Lines
+ Of..., where Franklin was having a hard time getting word to B5 *past the Mars
+ jammers*.  Further, if all communications were cut off in Hyperspace, inside
+ Mars orbit, then you couldn't have had ship-to-ship communications to tell
+ Sheridan ABOUT Marcus, could you?  No, you couldn't.
+
+Do you know why you're seeing flaws that don't exist?  Because you think it's
+ rushed, so you're LOOKING for things, and actually misinterpreting things
+ because of it.
+
+> The effects of
+>season compression are painfully evident
+
+No, what's evident...is that you're not paying attention.
+
+And in future, you may want to phrsae things as questions, until you're
+ absolutely sure what's opinion and what's fact, and be as polite in your
+ comments as you would like me to be in my reply.  Okay?
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1997 16:41:54 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS : Integrity of UK B5 Magazine
+
+Yes, every argument has two sides.  But not all sides are equally valid or
+ truthful.  If they were, then you could never decide between A and B.  If I
+ say that the Germans won WW2, and you say they lost WW2, they are different
+ points of view...but one is slightly more valid than the other.
+
+What is stated in the magazine is what happened.  There are no subjective
+ characterizations here, those are the specific events which have been
+ corroborated now by a number of people.  Should the B5 magazine put in things
+ that we know to be utterly and totally false?  For instance:
+
+>For example, a key element in Claudia's contract "dispute" (for lack
+>of a better word) was that because the show was not being renewed par
+>se and was in fact being transferred to TNT, she was asked to give up
+>residuals for those shows - a "pay cut" to use her words. 
+> I expect
+>such a critical detail to be mentioned when presenting an unbiased
+>article on just why she did not renew her contract. Instead, the
+>article completely failed to mention it, choosing instead to mention
+>that she passed on renewal of her contract without giving any reason
+>why. 
+
+Let me put this to you in the most straightforward way I can: this is an
+ absolute and total fabrication, and has been from day one.  No actors have
+ been asked to give away their residuals, and no actor was asked to take a pay
+ cut.  It never, ever, ever happened.  
+
+What did happen was this: there are different formulas for residuals in
+ network, syndication, and cable TV.  The network formula is the largest fee
+ per rerun, followed by syndication and then cable.  In cable, AS PER THE
+ SCREEN ACTORS GUILD rules, the amount an actor is paid over double-scale is
+ credited against the domestic residuals (also not foreign residuals) in much
+ the way an advance is paid against a book.  When that amount is earned out,
+ the residuals begin again.  This is standard cable residuals.  So a) nobody
+ was giving away residuals, and b) all of the actors received their pay
+ increases this season as per their contracts.  Every one of them.
+
+So you ask me why that wasn't mentioned.  Because it is simply, flatly, and
+ categorically and PROVABLY untrue.  It's not a matter of presenting another
+ opinion.  It's not true.  Period.  Never happened.  
+
+As for not explaining why she chose not to re-up for S5, that would have
+ required subjective implication, and she never TOLD us.  She simply allowed
+ the offer from WB to lapse, let the contract expire, so we had no tie on
+ her..and she left.
+
+Yes, she asked for fewer episodes, but to be paid for all of them, and that was
+ expressed to me prior to her passing on the offer.  But nobody ever said,
+ "Okay, you didn't give us X, so we're passing."  They just let it pass without
+ comment.  TO THIS DAY they have not communicated to us their specific
+ reasoning.  Should the magazine speculate on what's going on inside the heads
+ of other people?
+
+>It also failed to mention Claudia's offer to work 18 of the 22
+>scheduled episodes 
+
+She didn't offer that.  She offered to work in 18 but get paid for 22, which
+ constitutes a pay raise, which violates our contracts with all the other
+ actors.  Again, why should we put something in that is not true?
+
+>and the fact that she had been dissatisfied with
+>her role, feeling it had afforded her little opportunity to develop.
+
+Again, she never said that to us, or said it to the magazine.
+
+>t is also on record that Claudia
+>said she was never given the option of working and being paid for 18
+>episodes, an option she said she would have been satisfied with.
+
+Where is that on record?  It was certainly never expressed to us during all of
+ this when it was going on.  And she has never said, in the post you mention,
+ that she would do 18 episodes  for only 18 episodes pay.  Check the original
+ post.  It's not there.
+
+You say that her POV was not represented.  Ours was not represented on her
+ websites (any of them).  I imagine therefore that you have sent email to those
+ sites, and to Claudia, protesting that as well.
+
+There's a kind of mentality that says that you can't make any kind of choice
+ between two arguments, that all sides are equally valid.  But that's not true.
+  Some statesments are more valid than others IF they can be proven.  Every
+ single statement we have made has been proven, and verified by cast members,
+ and even those at the Blackpool convention who were there as fans.  There is
+ not one shred of evidence to back up the statements that pay cuts were asked
+ for, or residuals were given away, both of which would violate SAG rules and
+ are simply untrue.  
+
+If something is a fabrication, should it be printed "as-is?"  Or do you post
+ rebuttals to it within the same article, and get into a brawl in the magazine?
+  Or do you simply state the absolute bare facts, without characterization, and
+ let what's *provable* stand on its own?
+
+That latter approach was the only way to go.  
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1997 20:46:38 -0400
+Subject: Re: Endgame ( *Spoilers* )
+
+>Trav1701 (trav1701@aol.com) wrote:
+>: In article <tHlQ00O5IMlW091yn@teleport.com>, larryc@teleport.com (Larry
+>: Caldwell) writes:
+
+>: >Yup.  Gotta be the dumbest line ever voiced on B5.  I guess Sheridan's
+>: >lasers musta run out of bullets, so there's nothing for it but to stoke
+>: >the boilers and send her to the bottom.  Ew, ik, retch, gag.
+
+As long as I'm being cranky (it's 4:30 a.m. and I'm entitled)...I see you based
+ this reaction off the teaser.
+
+Y'know, you might actually want to see the episode, and put this in context,
+ before calling it "the dumbest line ever voiced in B5" and making fun of
+ "running out of bullets."
+
+Spoiler info....
+
+
+
+
+
+
+THEY KICKED THE SHIT OUT OF THE SHIP AND BLASTED IT WITH MISSILES AND THE ONLY
+ THING HOLDING IT TOGETHER WAS BALING WIRE AND SPIT.
+
+Now...next time...maybe you'll wait and actually *see* the thing before you
+ judge something?
+
+Or am I expecting too much?
+
+Y'know...Morgan and Wong from X-Files used to be on the nets a lot, and they
+ got out because they were driven to despair by the casual, callous cruelties
+ of people who judge harshly and without any kind of information...Mira was on
+ for a while, and isn't on anymore, because she says people are just casually
+ cruel, they bitch about things that aren't even true half the time.
+
+I know a lot of others, actors and producers, who just don't want to put up
+ with this crap.
+
+Some days, I don't blame them.  Some days, I think I'd like to join them.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1997 21:01:39 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Effects in "Endgame" *POSSIBLE SPOILERS*
+
+>However, one thing I noticed is that the surface "shots" of Mars done by
+>your special effects people were beautiful.  Much, much, much better
+>than any other Mars shot you have done.
+
+Thanks...actually, most of the prior mars shots were done by an outside
+ contractor, who's been doing such shots for the history of the show.  NDEI's
+ boys wanted a chance to do them, and did so.
+
+>And, I am including the great
+>integration of moving figures on the graphics and the nice shots of the
+>shuttles leaving.
+
+Yeah, they're not bad...we still need to improve a bit on the movements, and
+ the camera still moves a bit too fast, which gives it that computer-y
+ feel...but overall, not bad.
+
+>One thing though...how long did it take too render the Mars exterior
+>shots used throughout "Endgame"?
+>
+Quite a lot, I understand.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 16 Oct 1997 14:15:11 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS - 4th and 5th season UK video tapes
+
+>However, since WB has  dropped
+>the  series,  will  they nonetheless continue to release the UK videos
+>for the 4th season?
+
+No, WB hasn't dropped the series; it's just airing in the US on TNT, that
+ doesn't affect international distribution or video sales.  It'll be the same
+ as always.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 16 Oct 1997 14:14:58 -0400
+Subject: Re: Babylon 5 a failure?
+
+Y'know, people who throw ST at us and say that B5 is a failure forget that the
+ first ST only went 3 seasons, and was considered a total and complete failure
+ by the television industry for years.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 16 Oct 1997 14:15:25 -0400
+Subject: Re: Endgame ( *Spoilers* )
+
+>Same with "ramming speed".  There simply isn't one speed that's better
+>for ramming than other speeds.  
+>But just asking for "ramming speed" is Just Plain Silly.
+>It can be retconned, it can be foregiven, but it's Just Plain Silly.
+
+(he taps his foot as yet another expert lurches into the field)
+
+You are in a space ship, in a vacuum, heading toward target X.  You understand
+ that it takes time to transfer energy and movement toward another plane, so
+ you go at X-speed toward that object if you want the option of applying
+ thrusters and angling away from the object before you slam into it.
+
+If, on the other hand, you *want* to hit the object, and you have no interest 
+ in holding back your thrusters to allow you to diverge from the target in the
+ amount of space remaining between you and it, you proceed at Y speed, with
+ your thrusters putting out their maximum amount of fuel.  
+
+Y = ramming speed.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 16 Oct 1997 14:17:16 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: The Rescue (BtDatL spoilers)
+
+(* Spoilers for Darkness and Light *)
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+>Or would the rescue have proceeded much as we saw?
+>
+Yes, it would have.
+
+Some have complained about the rescue, arguing that they wanted to see a big
+ battle.  (To which answer #1 is wait 7 days.)  They wanted to see the fleet
+ smack Mars and free him in a big battle.
+
+Well, if you do that, you can kiss goodbye any chance of the fleet then doing
+ what it's SUPPOSED to be doing, which is the ligberation of Earth.  While
+ they're tied up and planetbound (on one side) at Mars, Earth swoops in and
+ knocks them out.  Y ou also lose any possible aspect of surprise.
+
+It *had* to be done quickly, through the back door, rather than the fleet that
+ some might have been expecting, so it'd look like a Resistance job, not a
+ Fleet job.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 16 Oct 1997 14:18:40 -0400
+Subject: Re: Between the Darkness and the Light ( *Spoilers* )
+
+>Here it is,
+>near the end of season 4 and you introduce a new important talent,
+>Ivanova's eidetic memory. I'm not saying it's out of character for her
+>or that it contradicts anything in the past. My point is that with all
+>that came before and your exposure on the web you must have planned this
+>well in advance>so as not to open yourself up to "why didn't she
+>remember ...?" questions. In a novel, if you or an editor finds a
+>contradiction with what came before, it can be changed.
+
+
+(also taps foot...)
+
+She's a latent telepath.  About a P1.  As has been established on the show in
+ the past.  That gives her a slight edge in many areas.
+
+Also, an eidetic memory does not equal facility with language.  I have a
+ somewhat eidetic memory.  I can usually remember visuals and things said to me
+ with extreme clarity.  (Unless I'm in convention mode at the time, at which
+ point all bets are off.)  But I have a real problem with learning languages,
+ which involves not just memorization, but *translation,* which is a skill, a
+ knack that some others have and some don't.  (Spanish rolled off me, but for
+ some reason I have a knack for German, though my vocabulary's gone all to
+ hell.)
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 17 Oct 1997 18:58:37 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS : Integrity of UK B5 Magazine
+
+>Joe can you confirm whether or not it is a copy of the WB press
+>release. If so, I think I just proved my point.
+>
+No, it's not.
+
+Look...the article posts items that have not been contradicted by Claudia.  The
+ basic series of facts as presented are, as far as I know, unchallenged.  
+
+It says that "opinions differ" on the background of the situation.  No, it
+ doesn't give her story on the background, but it ALSO DOESN'T GIVE MINE. 
+ Nowhere in there is there any background from this side of the desk.  If one
+ side were presented in detail, that's one thing...but NEITHER background was
+ quoted in this, only the specific facts of what happened: that she didn't give
+ the extension (she admits this), that the deadline passed and the offer was
+ withdrawn (ditto).  
+
+Other folks want to fight over the why, fine...the article only had the
+ obligation to go into *what* happened, not get into the fannish fight over the
+ whys and wherefores...which, frankly, if I'm to be honest, are really none of
+ anybody's business...and would never have been had Claudia not started this at
+ conventions.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 17 Oct 1997 20:35:45 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn. JMS: Should you take a vacation from the net?
+
+>Besides, you've mentioned before that you've been on the net for years;
+>I'd think you'd have learned how to shrug this sort of thing off by now.
+>If you can't stand the heat, get outta the kitchen. 
+
+It's not the heat, it's the stupidity....
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1997 10:20:04 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS Question on the budget
+
+Specific dollar amounts are secondary to one basic truth: the studios aren't in
+ the charity business.  If a show makes money, if it is a *success*, they keep
+ it on the air.  If it ain't, the show is history, it's that simple.  If B5
+ were a "failure" it sure as hell wouldn't be on for a fifth year, and we
+ wouldn't be in serious, last-stage negotations with WB for a *sequel series*. 
+ You don't try and sell a sequel for something that didn't work.
+
+WB has made hideous amounts of money on this show.  From their point of view,
+ it's a massive success.  There's simply no other reason they would keep the
+ show on the air.  Period.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1997 10:20:25 -0400
+Subject: Re: why bother?
+
+>If you are sick of people asking you questions or bothering you about
+>the whole CC thing, and/or picking at the plot, why do you answer them
+>anymore ? 
+
+It's just hard, that's all...I have this belief that refuses to go away that if
+ you explain something in a reasonable way, with all the facts at your
+ disposal, people will, in the final analysis, generally be reasonable.
+
+I got on here in large measure because I wanted people to *understand* this
+ business, and I guess I keep trying to get them to really understand this one.
+  
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1997 10:21:04 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: _3_ projects this summer?
+
+I think your friend is confused....
+
+He may also have been thinking of Hypernauts, which was done by Doug in
+ coordination with Thornton and Optic Nerve.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 19 Oct 1997 10:21:24 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: DO YOU *UNDERSTAND* Vorlons?
+
+I could give you an answer, but it would take a million years to parse it, so
+ best to leave it be, I suppose....
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 20 Oct 1997 00:23:17 -0400
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS; Episode time shorter?
+
+>We've noticed that the episode time has been cut back from the usual 44:00
+>even
+> to ~ 41:45. What's the story? Is it just our local affiliate or is this
+> universal? It doesn't seem like we're missing anything, other than obvious
+> edits to fit that have already been discussed here. What's the story?
+
+The time hasn't been cut back, unless your local station is cutting out stuff,
+ but the time you give second there is correct.  The only change is that we got
+ *back* 30 seconds to put into the show after last season, when they dropped
+ the Kung Fu promos.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 20 Oct 1997 06:20:10 -0400
+Subject: Re: JMS:  TNT/PTEN/WB/etc
+
+In Which our Correspondent Swallows His Fists....
+
+>Given the fact that TNT is putting much more into supporting and
+>promoting the show for the final season, do you regret that this kind of
+>support has not been there for the previous four seasons?  I know that
+>you have had minimal trouble with WB creatively, but they really didn't
+>*support* the show as well as they could have.
+>Do you think that the hands-off approach made the show better by making
+>you work harder?
+
+This is about as much a deal with the devil as I can imagine.
+
+But on the whole, without getting into specifics...the truth is that this show
+ is going to be around for 20, 30, maybe even 50 years, if I did it right.  30
+ years from now, it won't make any difference if we got good PR or we didn't,
+ if we were well received when we first went on or not...the story is the
+ story, and I was allowed, most remarkably, to tell it my way, with virtually
+ no creative interference, and that will be noted in years to come, not the
+ rest.
+
+I'd take that deal again in a hot second.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Oct 1997 19:52:46 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Endgame & Titles Question
+
+>Second, and unrelated, a question occurred to me this weekend.  Will
+>"Sleeping in Light" have its own unique opening title sequence and/or
+>theme music?
+
+SiL won't air until next year...but yeah, we've done some stuff to the credits.
+
+BTW, saw the first pass today on the S5 title sequence, based on my outline to
+ the editors...looks pretty spiffy, and a big difference from what we've done
+ before, stylistically.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 21 Oct 1997 10:20:39 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Choosing what to show (SPOILERS for 421)
+
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+>One question, though:  After all the time and care that you put into
+>slowly developing the relationship between John and Delenn, why did
+>you choose not to show their wedding onscreen?  I can think of several
+>perfectly legitimate reasons for doing this and am mainly curious as
+>to what factors went into that decision.
+
+This was something I debated back and forth for quite some time.  I finally
+ came to the idea of having it happen off-camera because I thought, frankly,
+ that it would come off as corny to show it; it would be an obvious appeal to
+ ratings and the like, and I tend to shy away from that.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 21 Oct 1997 10:21:05 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: ENGAME & WRITING*****SPOILERS****
+
+>1. When you write, do you put in the "change of scene" to the special
+>effects scenes - the scenes which will be added after the cast filming -
+>or do you format the final product after the effects are done - in
+>editing?
+
+I don't quite understand the question...all of the show, every single shot, CGI
+ or live-action, is spelled out in the script, which is given to the various
+ departments to make it happen.
+
+The best way I can demonstrate this is if you want to go to your local library
+ and find a copy of my writing book, and check the script for The Coming of
+ Shadows against the episode.
+
+>2. How much of the final product is like what you have imagined?? More?
+>Less? Do you ever change the layout of an episode BECAUSE of the
+>finished visuals?
+
+It's generally 80-110% of what I saw in my head.  Sometimes I'll shift around
+ the scenes to better the flow of an episode once we see how they look on film.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 23 Oct 1997 05:52:54 -0400
+Subject: Re: ATTN:  JMS,  B5 Cookbook???
+
+The book is being edited now, and I should get it soon, so expect it about
+ Christmastime.  
+
+Basically, I just think it'll be a hoot.  The recipes are real, with
+ substitutions if you can't get the real thing from offworld caterers, and it's
+ set right in the B5 universe, as if it were written in that time period, with
+ all the usual Chef attitude that goes into it.
+
+I was kinda doubtful when WB first proposed it, and I still haven't seen the
+ final manuscript, but I think it could be kinda fun.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1997 03:16:28 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Season 5 writing style
+
+>Now that B5 has a guarenteed station and timeslot, and the previous
+>seasons will be run 5 days a week, does that mean you will be writing
+>season 5 with less of the recaps and other nods to "people just tuning
+>in"?
+>If you see a Klingon on Star Trek, or Cancer Man on X-Files, or Sideshow
+>Bob on the Simpsons, etc. etc. ad nauseam, they don't stop and point out
+>when and where we saw them before; they just go.
+
+Difference is, this is a continuing storyline, and so I think you do need to
+ have the occasional bit of exposition in there for the folks who don't (or
+ can't) watch and track every single episode.  You should be able to come in at
+ any point in the story, and watch an episode, and get something satisfying out
+ of it.
+
+Doesn't really have anything to do with the time slot, it has to do with being
+ fair to the majority of the audience.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1997 13:14:01 -0500
+Subject: Re: Rising Star ( *Spoilers* )
+
+
+No, Sinclair's middle name was David, not Sheridan.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1997 13:18:25 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Sierra really has some fine people
+
+
+>Not only that, but "The Official Guide to J. Michael
+>Straczynski's Babylon 5" sounds like one wonderful CD ROM...
+
+I was very iffy on that...I am getting this vague sense that I'm becoming a
+ brand name, and I'm suspicious of that sort of thing.  At first they wanted it
+ in a proprietary sense, "J. Michael Straczynski's Guide to the Babylon 5
+ Universe," but I vetoed that because Jason Brezhinski did 90% of the actual
+ work on the thing, researching every smallest detail shown in the series, and
+ if anyone should get that credit, it's him.  The final title only came about
+ through a lot of haggling.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1997 13:19:02 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS what's left for S5
+
+
+Things that *could* show up (leaving in some ambiguity just to keep some
+ surprises):
+
+The start of the telepath war
+The start of drakh war
+Londo's fate on Centauri Prime
+The first year trying to make the Interstellar Alliance work
+Inter-faction fighting among the Alliance members
+The development of Mars as an independent state
+The legacy of William Edgars' black projects
+Fallout from the civil war, and the feelings about it
+How Lennier, Sheridan and Delenn will get along now
+
+How's that just for starters?
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1997 18:54:38 -0500
+Subject: Re: TNT - Reshowing All episodes, 5 days a week Question
+
+Yes, seasons 1-4 will be shown in the proper order, AND it's 6 days a week, not
+ 5, they'll also do Saturday.
+
+TNT: All B5, All the Time.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1997 15:03:14 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - you fink... :-> Rising Star (*spoilers*)
+
+>After YEARS of buildup, you held John and Delenn's wedding off camera.  
+>A-HEM!  You sir, are a fink... :-> 
+
+You're such a sweet-talker....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1997 15:07:32 -0500
+Subject: Re: 422, Questions and observations, SPOILERS
+
+>I was surprised that CC was cut from the opening credits. I was under
+>the impression that if an actor A appeared as character X in Y number of
+>episodes per year, actor A was entitled (actor's guild rules??) to an
+>opening credit in every episode that season. 
+
+Because Claudia was in the original 422, it changed the way we had to do the
+ credits, since that won't air until 5th season.
+
+>In the end, life looks
+>promising, but the getting ther part is pretty ugly.
+>
+>
+Yep, that's the way it usuallly is.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1997 02:02:12 -0500
+Subject: Re: Emotional Reactions to "Deconstruction"? ****SPOILERS
+
+I think it's fair to say that Sinclair has been in large measure forgotten by
+ Earth by the time of Deconstruction...but Valen lives on in the memories of
+ the Minbari...a reasonable trade-off.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1997 02:05:12 -0500
+Subject: Re: Good supporting characters(possible spoilers for EndGame and
+
+>And the President in Rising Star, which I loved, had such a bad Russian
+>accent I couldn't get past it.
+
+I love comments like that.
+
+Beata, who played the President, is a native-born Russian.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1997 21:02:54 -0500
+Subject: Re: Deconstruction of Falling Stars- Spoilers**
+
+>SPOILERS FOR DECONSTRUCTION OF FALLING STARS
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>
+
+Just a few quick reactions:
+
+>(although I did comment on the fact that they
+> were still using English in a million years)
+
+That's what you heard, that doesn't mean that's what it was; same as when you
+ go to Minbar, they're not speaking English, that's just our hearing of it.
+
+>  BTW when was the last time anyone heard a news anchor talk
+> about the old testament? 
+
+Ted Koppel.
+
+> the portrait of him as a kid done in Black and White.  What they
+> ran out of color film?
+
+Even now portraits are often done in black and white just for artistic merit.
+
+> (although I have a problem with the idea that NYU will be
+> around 100 years from NOW!)
+
+Trinity College is a working college in Ireland that dates back to the American
+ Revolution.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1997 21:04:36 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: If you had a million more dollars a show...
+
+> What made you decide on the # of shows to do a year.  =
+>DS9 for instance does 26 I believe.  Dd the number 22 seem right, or is =
+>that standard TV practice?
+
+22 is what a network needs each season to get its money back.
+
+>If you had a million more dollars a show, what would you do with it? 
+
+I'd blow the sides off your TV set.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1997 21:06:51 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: voiceovers for S5 ads/trailers
+
+We had nothing to do with the promos, so the guy probably worked only for WB.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1997 01:12:41 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS - Re: Deconstruction of Falling Stars- Spoilers**
+
+RE: what I do and don't respond to...often the criticisms you note as "meaty"
+ (including some of those you raise) are in large measure subjective...why did
+ I do *this* instead of *that* because the correspondent in question thinks X
+ should be done instead of or in addition to Y.  There is no way to actually
+ debate that, or answer it, because it's subjective...what you want in a story
+ may not be what I want, but too often because it isn't what someone else would
+ do, or like, it's "bad."  Or a plot hole.
+
+So it isn't so much as responding to the nitpicky notes as those that can be
+ objectively answered.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1997 15:54:45 -0500
+Subject: Rising Star ( *Spoilers* )
+
+Spoilers for Rising Star
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+>1.Did you come up with Zathras(and Zathras, and Zathras, etc.)before
+>your morning coffee?
+
+After.  Caffeine akes all the difference in the world.
+
+>2.Can we assume that the wonderful little scene of Londo and G'Kar, at
+>the end of Rising Star, wondering how it was going in the Sheridan
+>bedroom, and the EYE being misplaced, says a little something about
+>Vous????
+
+Absolutely not.
+
+By the way...that's a nice outfit.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1997 19:02:37 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Deconstruction and Sinclair
+
+>Were the headlines picked to foreshadow some events?
+
+In several cases, yes.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 31 Oct 1997 01:25:44 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Earth:FC a B5 redux?
+
+>I've watched the first three "Earth: Final Conflict" (EFC) episodes that 
+>have shown in my area.  I recall that you were offered the opportunity 
+>to participate in its production and turned that down.  Is it fair to 
+>surmise now that, compared to "Babylon 5", EFC only offered you a "been 
+>there, done that" experience?
+
+Not really...but a) I want to do my own projects, b) it would always be first a
+ GR show not a JMS show, c) I had a suspicion htere would be hassles from ST
+ fans over it, and d) the story just didn't appeal to me.  I only do stuff I
+ can be excited about; life's too short to do otherwise.
+
+jms
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Oct 1997 01:32:36 -0500
+Subject: Re: to JMS: deconstruction
+
+It depends on your point of view.
+
+The fact, as I see it, is that no one and nothing will ever solve all of our
+ problems at once, now and forever.  People will always be people.  You can't
+ wave a magic wand and fix it all.
+
+Yes, there was another war...but had the Shadows not been stopped by our
+ characters, there likely wouldn't have been a human race at ALL anymore.  
+
+Yes, there was a war, and many died in it...as tends to happen in war...but the
+ nominal right side in it came out on top, which would not have been the case
+ but for Garibaldi's simulacra giving them a leg up on things.  
+
+We have had, continue to have, and will always have wars, and grief, and
+ struggle...we will climb up and fall down...but each time we climb a little
+ higher, and in the end, we *do* build the world that our ancestors would have
+ wanted for us...we *do* leave the cradle at last, and we take our place among
+ the stars teaching those who follow us.
+
+For my money, that's as happy an ending as we or anyone can ever hope for.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Oct 1997 21:02:39 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Are you going to do this again??
+
+>	I was wondering, *if* Crusade becomes a reality....
+>	Are you really going to subject yourself to this Usenet thing
+>again?  Not only is it tough on you as far as the hours you keep, but
+>this isn't exactly joyride either.
+
+Not as much, no.  
+
+I promised I'd stay online in a major way as long as the show was being
+ broadcast to continue the online experiment...but once that's done, I've
+ already decided that I have to pull back and not be as substantive a presence
+ as I've been until now.
+
+I won't get off altogether -- I'm an onliner and have been since 1985 and I'm
+ too old and cranky to start making major changes to my lifestyle now -- but
+ some of the destructiveness of some of the stalkers out there has taken a real
+ toll on me over the years.  So I'll still be *around*, here and there, but not
+ as constant or major a way as present.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+JMS (and coproducer George Johnsen) Usenet messages for November 1997.
+
+
+Date: 1 Nov 1997 12:22:37 -0500
+Subject: Re: Ship Recognition Posters
+
+>The item that I was looking forward to recieving the most was the Ship
+>Recognition Poster.  When the shipment arrived< I recieved a note that
+>told me that there were problems with the printer and the posters had been
+>delayed. 
+>  Does anyone have any information about when these posters are
+>supposed to come out?
+>
+They just came in the door a couple of days ago, and they're *gorgeous*.  I got
+ mine right off the top, natch....
+
+That's the fun part, making the merchandise and cool stuff you'd just want for
+ yourself....
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 1 Nov 1997 12:23:58 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: How does the cast/crew celebrate Halloween?
+
+They're very odd...one came dressed as El Nino (hair blown to stay on one side,
+ wearing a slicker, with a watergun and minifan to blow spray on people), crew
+ members came dressed as *other* crew members...very odd....
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 1 Nov 1997 20:24:53 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Odd idea
+
+I would like to note here that I read this on November 1, 1997; almost 3 months
+ after the filming of "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari."  
+
+My reasons for this will be evident later; be careful on suggestions.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1997 15:27:15 -0500
+Subject: Re: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* )
+
+
+We hear this every season.  It's okay.  
+
+The season will be better than this one, which was better than the one before. 
+ 
+
+It's what we do.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1997 23:29:01 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn. JMS: Congratulations & Thank You
+
+No, the thanks are all mine, for your staying with us from the beginning.
+
+Thanks.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1997 23:29:50 -0500
+Subject: Re: B5 is in wonderful company on TNt
+
+>Seen the TNT's first Monday night Nitro film starring Terry "Hulk" Hogan and
+>Carl "I can't find work" Weathers _Attack on Devil's Island_ ?
+>
+>
+
+Actually, the set night now for B5 is *Wednesday*, not Monday.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1997 23:38:42 -0500
+Subject: Re: Deconstruction:  YOWZA YOWZA YOWZA!!!
+
+Yeah, a lot of folks have found the eventual "going out" of Sol to be
+ depressing...but as was stated 'way back in our VERY FIRST EPISODE, this is
+ the one thing we can be sure WILL happen, sooner or later (probably later).  
+
+All the more reason to get off the planet, asap.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1997 23:32:37 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Delenn & Deconstruction question...
+
+> How exactly did Delenn get into the studio so quickly?
+
+Most TV studios that I've seen have back doors that open out onto the back lot
+ or the outside for fire control reasons.  You can get into any of the 3 B5
+ stages from the outside in, oh, about 5 seconds through any of a number of
+ doors.  (Note to anyone looking on: yes, those stage doors are secured, and
+ there are guards, and unless you're a Minbari you're not getting in.)  And
+ most of the TV studios I've been in have been the same.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1997 23:40:14 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Anthology Series
+
+>Outside of a sixth B5 season which you've said would be "Tales of..."
+>eps, would you ever consider creating an anthology series for
+>television?  Are anthology series as tough to get started and keep
+>rolling as I've heard?  Are they more expensive to produce?
+
+Actually, I've tried several times to get anthology series off the ground, but
+ unless they're tied to a pre-sold name, nobody's interested.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1997 23:45:04 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS Who influences the actors?
+
+>The actors are
+>all quite talented, but who works with them to give them that extra bit
+>of insight, or inspiration that they all seem to have, and what form
+>does the feedback take?
+
+On a day-to-day "What the hell does THIS mean?" basis, that would be me, or if
+ I'm otherwise engaged, John Copeland.  On an episode-by-episode basis, that
+ would be the director.
+
+Most everything is covered in the script; if there are additional questions
+ they can go to one of the above.  If I or someone else in that group has a
+ note, we pass it on directly to the actor.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1997 23:49:34 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Playing with fire (humor)
+
+Ah...Amerikanski humor.
+
+Is most funny.
+
+We bomb now.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Nov 1997 23:46:26 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Endgame--myth connection
+
+Them whacky ancient Greeks...popping up in all the least likely places....
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 4 Nov 1997 03:14:13 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS and anyone who cares to read: Psicorp Pins
+
+>my heart is set on a PsiCorp Pin, instead of the EA pin.
+>Is there any chance a real and licensed replica of the Psicorp Pin going
+>to be made at all?
+
+By sheer coincidence, the prototype is in for the Fan Club, and we should have
+ the first full order in hand within the next 7 days.
+
+And they're totally cool and consistent with the show.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Nov 1997 23:13:20 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS  --- lessons Learned
+
+>	Now that you are heading into the final season of the show I wonder
+>what you feel is the most important thing you;ve learned is?
+>That is, if you could go back in time and warn yourself of one thing, or
+>give yourself one piece of advice what would it be?
+
+As it happens, it was something Kathryn said about year 2: "Don't figh the
+ rabbits, the lions will get you."
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 4 Nov 1997 23:14:50 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Letter From the TV Station
+
+TNT has all rights to the show in the US (doesn't affect foreign distribution)
+ for I think about 4-5 years.  They've told us they plan to wear the sprocket
+ holes out of it, because they believe it'll do very well for them.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 4 Nov 1997 23:15:03 -0500
+Subject: Re: attn jms: are there new scenes in the TNT promos?
+
+No, I believe the promos are all built out of S1-4 footage.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 4 Nov 1997 23:19:55 -0500
+Subject: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* )
+
+Spoilers for The Deconstruction of Falling Stars.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+>JMS... how can I put this... we know the ending.  I mean, we KNOW it.  We
+>know
+> it.  We know it.  They get rid of the virus.  There is no virus in 100
+>years. 
+> There is no Telepath domination in 100 years, and there is DEFINATELY an
+> Alliance in 100 years. 
+
+I think that, if we all put on our logic caps for a moment, I'm not liable to
+ wipe out all of Humanity in the course of pursuing the Crusade series.  (It
+ would wreak havoc with residuals, for one thing.)
+
+As with anything else, B5 (in whatever incarnation) is about *process*.  You
+ saw Londo being strangled by G'Kar...but you didn't know how they got there. 
+ You know the result of the Earth/Minbari war...but I suspect there will be a
+ lot of surprises in "In the Beginning."
+
+As with all things, the joy is in the going.  We all know we're going to die,
+ that as the poet said, "we are born astride the grave."  But knowing that
+ inevitable reality has never stopped human endeavor before....
+
+It's the journey and the doing that matters.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 5 Nov 1997 16:32:19 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Season 5 renumbering?
+
+
+Yes, the S5 episodes will be renumbered prior to broadcast.
+
+More Soviet Revisionism in action....
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 5 Nov 1997 16:33:13 -0500
+Subject: Re: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* )
+
+
+You hit it dead on the nose there every time...great and insightful message.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 5 Nov 1997 16:34:05 -0500
+Subject: Re: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* )
+
+
+>you've provided characters and cultures that the fans of B5 
+>really come to appreciate, and it would have been a cool thing to have 
+>seen how all these facets of the B5 universe fared during the 100, 500, 
+>1000, and ultimately the million years later perspective that 
+>"Deconstruction" gave us.
+
+With another 45 minutes, would've loved to.
+
+>So what else has been happening with everyone all this time?
+>
+>
+KEG PARTY!!!
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 5 Nov 1997 16:34:19 -0500
+Subject: Re: Hubris in "Deconstruction"... Minor Spoilers
+
+
+>I find it disheartening that JMS would go to the trouble and expense of
+>removing her bit from the intro (and not, for instance, Jason Carter's.)
+>Yeah, so I'll learn to live without her on B5, but I LOVED her character and
+>am stung by this obvious slap.
+
+Here's another lesson: ask questions before making assumptions.
+
+As I've noted elsewhere, WB called us 3 days before we were to uplink the
+ episode and informed us that if we kept CC's credit in place on that episode,
+ since she also appears in S5's final episode, it would trigger a substantial
+ payment.  Jason we could leave in because he's not in Sleeping in Light,
+ whereas she was.
+
+It wasn't our choice, and it had nothing to do with anything other than the
+ fact that she's also in SiL.  If you'd prefer, I could've cut her out of that
+ one, and we could've had her credit in Deconstruction, but I doubt that's a
+ solution either of us would approve of.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 5 Nov 1997 17:49:38 -0500
+Subject: small note from jms
+
+
+      Some general stuff; this has been posted elsewhere, so if you've seen it
+ before, there ain't much need to see it now.
+
+      Today, John Copeland and I finished re-editing "The Gathering," the B5 
+pilot movie.  While there were some areas we couldn't get into because of the 
+complexity in redoing the mix, virtually every scene got tinkered with to one 
+degree or another, and most important, the roughly 14 minutes of footage left 
+out of the original version is now back in.  The whole thing is tighter and 
+faster, and there's more recent CGI, we'll have Chris Franke re-score it, and 
+it's just in general a lot better.  (Some parts of it even make more sense 
+now.)  
+
+      One additional change: because of the desire on PTEN's part to have as 
+many commercial breaks as possible, the 6-act script was jerry-rigged and 
+broken down into 9 acts.  One side-effect of this is that 9 acts wears on 
+you, and wears you out, more than the standard 6.  You start to get a feeling 
+of being led up to things too often, and there isn't time to dwell on the 
+acts you're in.  I was finally able, with this re-edit, to move scenes back 
+around again to what I originally wanted in a 6-act structure (you'll see a 
+number of scenes juxtaposed from their original order).
+
+      Anyway...the TNT Special Edition is much improved over the original.
+
+      Other stuff: the fanclub site continues to expand and improve.  If you 
+haven't been around in a while, you may want to check it out again sometime 
+soon (http://www.thestation.com).  The chat room is running better than ever 
+before, there are new graphics, and the B5 Emporium should be online in a 
+matter of days allowing purchase of B5FC stuff online with credit cards.  
+(Mail order stuff is still being processed.)
+
+      Latest additions to the lineup: Psi Corps hats and pins, patches of 
+various sorts, Earth Alliance pins, Ship Recognition charts in poster form, 
+and others.
+
+      Finally, I'll be a Guest of Honor at this year's LosCon, held 
+Thanksgiving weekend in L.A. at the Burbank Airport Hilton.  My 2-hour B5 
+presentation will be Sunday afternoon, where I'll be showing clips from the 
+two TNT tv-movies (including lots of stuff from the finished prequel), from 
+upcoming S5 episodes, new bloopers and so on.  I'll also be joined by John 
+Copeland, producer, and Harlan Ellison, our conceptual consultant.  This is 
+always an SRO venue for us -- LosCon has been a part of B5 from the start -- 
+so you may want to get there early.  (Or even go the day before; it's a fun 
+convention.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 5 Nov 1997 18:03:53 -0500
+Subject: Re: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* )
+
+
+If you listen to the computer system it mentions "atypical solar emissions"
+ causing the problem...someone or something's messed with the sun.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 6 Nov 1997 23:41:18 -0500
+Subject: Re: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* )
+
+>When Sinclair referred the sun going cold and burning out in Season 1 in
+>the ISN interview, was he prescient or was Desconstruction mapped out then?
+
+One needn't be prescient...it's *going* to happen one day.
+
+And to the second half...yeah, Deconstruction (or at least the events that
+ would go into it)  was mapped out back then.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 6 Nov 1997 23:41:27 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Gathering SE: Kyle Scene
+
+>Will the defining moment of Kyle's character, the scene in
+>which Laurel asks him what he saw in Kosh's encounter suit, be
+>re-added to the pilot? 
+
+Yep.
+
+Virtually everything left out, is now back in again.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 7 Nov 1997 12:33:18 -0500
+Subject: B5 Tape Fraud, from jms
+
+A number of folks have been spammed by a series of notes from a group called
+ VulcanEntr@aol.com offering tapes of B5 bloopers and rarities.  Under any
+ circumstances, NO ONE has been licensed or authorized to sell ANY B5 bloopers,
+ extracts, excerpts or interviews, anywhere on the planet.  (And this goes for
+ the B5 electronic press kit, which is specifically denoted as freeware and
+ it's illegal to sell them.)  If you see these tapes for sale ANYwhere, be
+ advised that you are dealing with stolen goods.
+
+Back to VulcanEntr...it was brought to their attention by a fan that they did
+ not have the rights to sell these tapes...they replied to the fan that they
+ DID have the rights, and had verified this with the B5 production office; even
+ had a convention organizer send a similar note, both threatening the fan
+ slander suits for such statements (that they were bootleggers).  The
+ convention organizer, Jon Bernam, of JD Productions, said that he had received
+ a copy of a letter from B5 to Vulcan Entr. giving them the rights to sell this
+ material.
+
+All this was forwarded on to me...and I then contacted them and in very short
+ order, VulcanEntr said that they never, ever at any time had any B5 tapes,
+ that a couple of part-time employees had misused their account to put out
+ these notes offering these items for sale...although Bernam stated that these
+ tapes had been on a table at his convention....
+
+VulcanEntr said they never had any knowledge of any of this, so how then did
+ Bernam get a copy of a letter supposedly authorizing this?
+
+I think the operative phrase here is, "duck and cover."  You'd think they would
+ at least get their stories straight.
+
+So consider this a fact-finding and weasel-hunting expedition.  If you ordered
+ a tape from VulcanEntr, and that check has been cashed, then if Vulcan Entr.
+ is correct and these tapes never existed...that's mail fraud.  If you DID get
+ a copy of these tapes, it's piracy and in the purview of the FBI.
+
+Obviously, I would prefer to continue going straight to the source for my
+ answers here, but overnight BOTH parties canceled their AOL accounts and have
+ vanished from sight.
+
+Suffice to say that any information on this situation will be very much
+ appreciated.  So that we can arrive at all the facts.  Meanwhile, the moral is
+ to stay clear of video pirates and bootleggers.
+
+jms
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 7 Nov 1997 12:53:22 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS  Have you heard this CD?
+
+I've heard about them, though I haven't had a chance to listen to them
+ yet...but I gotta give you a big recommendation:
+
+Portishead.
+
+Yes, that's the name of a group, fairly new, brilliant stuff.  Go and buy.  I
+ was right about Red Clay Ramblers, and Squirrel Nut Zippers (just before
+ everyone else discovered them) and now I'm telling you...these guys are gonna
+ be *huge*.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 7 Nov 1997 19:26:05 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: "Babylon 5 Journal"
+
+I have no idea what this is.  Unless it's the blank-book from Antioch.
+
+jms
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 7 Nov 1997 19:28:37 -0500
+Subject: Re: You may never read this, but thank you JMS
+
+Thanks...and my best to your father as well.  I'm glad the show can be
+ something that brings folks together like this.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 8 Nov 1997 10:59:26 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Talking to Rod
+
+>So you're an idol.  I know its still hard for you to
+>comprehend.
+>	Feels weird, doesn't it? 
+>
+>
+More than just a little.  I still have a hard time seeing myself in that role. 
+ I just sorta do what I do; I'm doing what I was doing 10 years ago, even
+ longer, just writing the kinds of stories I like.  Same person, different
+ context.  
+
+But I constantly doubt...I doubt if the show is good enough, if the work is
+ good enough, if we did it right...I wonder if the show is getting enough
+ attention, so I go out to try and get it, but then when it comes, I worry
+ about the cult of personality...and then I worry that I'm worrying needlessly
+ because one thing that typifies B5 fans is that the don't seem to fall for the
+ cult of personality BS... and then I watch something by Serling and I feel
+ like a total fraud...and then I have to face the blank page and worry that
+ whatever the heck it was I did last time, I won't be able to do it again....
+
+I know, I know...thorazine, and lots of it....
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 8 Nov 1997 11:00:36 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  How did you hone your "Time-bubble" method of writing?
+
+>The time-bubble has appeared much more recently, especially in
+>"Endgame".  The amount of story you can put into such a small time
+>frame is incredible.  I don't think I've seen anything quite like it.
+
+It's one of those things I don't know if I can explain adequately, or sensibly.
+  A lot of it is totally instinctive, I don't sit down and think about it, I
+ just do it.  But to dissect...part of it is the intensity of the scenes, I
+ think.  Strong emotion extends time, stretches it; if you've ever been in a
+ major traumatic situation, a few minutes can seem like hours.  The more you
+ can put your character into a situation of intense emotions, and create those
+ same emotions in the viewer, you will in effect slow down perceived time.  
+
+Also, there's the matter of context here.  If you've set something up in prior
+ episodes, in something like "Endgame" there's no set-up which means exposition
+ and chews up time; you go right for the high point in the story bell-curve,
+ and you stay there.  So the part you're used to seeing take only a few minutes
+ at the end of an episode becomes almost the entirety of the episode; same
+ result.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 8 Nov 1997 11:01:12 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Deconstruction(spoilers)
+
+> was the use of
+>combined words such as "realfact" and "goodfact" in the 500 year
+>sequence similarly a tip of the hat to David Brin's "The Crystal
+>Spheres", which made considerable use of this technique?
+
+Since I never read it, the answer would be no.  
+
+This is a common technique in literary SF, from 1984 to Brave New World, some
+ cyberpunk stuff...it's pretty common stuff.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 9 Nov 1997 16:44:28 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  I'd like a new book if you don't mind...
+
+
+>So whats the latest news on any new literary projects of
+>yours?  And...will Demon Night or Othersyde ever be reprinted?
+
+Eventually, yes, but I don't want those to be the first books out the docket
+ after B5.  They're both pretty good, but I think that whatevert I do in the
+ aftermath of B5 has got to be a hell ofa lot better than "pretty good."  
+
+Basically, between the name value that has accrued to the show, and my
+ background, I figure that good will can carry me through 2 or 3 books...but if
+ they're not killer books, that's gonna be where it ends.  If anything, that
+ knowedge is going to make me work *harder* on the books than if there were a
+ lower profile involved, where you can make mistakes and nobody sees them.  
+
+As for the future, I'm working on a couple of novels at roughly the same time
+ as everything else...it's just a matter of when what gets finished, and how I
+ feel about it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1997 07:53:29 -0500
+Subject: Re: Who cares if DS9 imitates B5
+
+>If the producers and writers of DS9 find inspiration in B5 fine. 
+
+It might be, maybe, if Paramount hadn't spent 5 years trying to shut us down,
+ bury us, along the way intimidating at least one director into not  working
+ with us, and generally doing everything imaginable  to drive us off television
+ so they'd have the only space show in town.  
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1997 23:30:37 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Will there ever be a B5 Encyclopedia?(or anyone who
+
+The B5 cd-rom, coming out later this month, has a LOT of information on the
+ show and its races, so that may qualify.
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1997 23:46:53 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS, B5 merchandise
+
+I'd say, strictly on an appearance basis, that the 6" figures are a bit better
+ than the 9" ones.  And as for the collector's plates, Hamilton did its usual
+ market tests with mainstream collectors (who don't know from B5) and ST fans,
+ and based on this decided that there wasn't any market out there for B5
+ collectibles.
+
+No comment.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1997 23:51:13 -0500
+Subject: Re: Portishead
+
+>Consider yourself vindicated: they are really popular, but they've kind
+>of peaked already.
+
+Well, if I hadn't heard of them (and most people haven't that I've talked to)
+ then it's a new thing for me.  
+
+Peaked already?  The second album is great, and I think that their popularity
+ is only going to grow, particularly here in the US.  
+
+Folks looking on...I ain't kidding.  If you haven't listened to either fo the
+ Portishead albums, you're missing a real treat.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1997 23:57:04 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Why no Sinclair in "The Beginning" ?
+
+> How's it possible to make
+>a movie about the Earth-Minbari war without even mentioning
+>Sinclair?
+>
+>
+Nobody said he wouldn't be mentioned; using the footage we shto from "And the
+ Sky Full of Stars," he's in the last part of the movie.  Bear in mind that at
+ the time he was a squadron leader assigned to Earth as part of the defense
+ network there, so didn't have a great deal to do with the larger parts of the
+ war.
+
+Basically, each character (with the exception of one or two) gets one or two
+ scenes in the movie (we have a lot of them, remember).  To bring Michael out
+ from New York, at first class airfare, plus accommodations, salary, for one or
+ two scenes (one of which we already *had* him for) was impossible under the
+ budget, much as we discussed it and would've been interested in doing so.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1997 09:01:40 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Best Books International/B5 scripts?
+
+No, no scripts can be sold except the "The Coming of Shadows," and only in my
+ writing book, and the edition from Boxtree, that's it, anything else is
+ illegal.
+
+jms
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1997 11:24:42 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Comic Queries?
+
+>  Have you written any other comics?
+> 
+Yes; wrote an issue of the Twilight Zone comic for NOW comics, a DC Teen Titans
+ Special, Two-Face vs. Cyborg, the ST comic you mention, and the first B5 comic
+ issue.
+
+>      What comics have you enjoyed reading and dare I ask, do you enjoy
+>reading nowadays?  (and you can't just say Neil's stuff.  That's
+>cheating.)
+>
+
+Most anything by Alan Moore, though he's started getting a tad obscure even for
+ me.  I loved Marvels, and just bought Alex Ross' Justice Society print.  Also
+ very fond of Grant Morrison's work.   
+>     Any new info on the B5 comic?
+
+It's already coming out in installments in the B5 UK magazine, and
+ solicitations are going out in Diamond Distributers catalog for the US
+ printing from DC (three issues).
+
+As it turns out, I've just approached Dark Horse as the top of my list for a
+ new comic I've come up with, also with a 5-year arc but with nothing to do
+ with B5, something I don't think has been done much in superhero comics
+ before.  I'm giving them a little while longer to get back to me on it, and
+ then I'm going to take it out to the marketplace.  Justd went to DH first
+ because I've loved their prior work.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1997 11:25:01 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Peter David's "In The Beginning"
+
+>Is Peter David's novelization of "In The Beginning" going to hit the
+> marketplace before the premiere on January 4th?
+
+It'll be timed pretty close to the airing.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1997 11:32:06 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn:  JMS - Change in Attitude Toward Bester
+
+>Every time I see a telepath being treated as less-than-human, my sympathy for
+>Bester increases a bit.  Is that your intent?
+>
+>
+
+Yup.
+
+And there's an episode later this 5th season, "The Corps is Mother, The Corps
+ is Father," which will show the other side of the Psi Corps coin.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1997 14:51:51 -0500
+Subject: request from harlan
+
+
+Harlan has asked me to ask y'all if you could do him a favor:
+
+He is looking to get as many copies as he can of the Science Fiction Book Club
+ "Things to Come" booklet/circular for December listing his book "City on the
+ Edge of Forever" and any flyers that went with it.
+
+If you have these on hand still, if you could send it on to Harlan Ellison c/o
+ Babylon 5, 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423, it
+ would be *very* much appreciated.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1997 14:54:13 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS:illegal ranger pins?
+
+
+Yes, the Ranger pins are illegal, pirate merchandise.  Also crap, from what
+ I've seen.
+
+We're moving as fast as we can to get high-quality pins out there to cut the
+ knees out from under the crooks.  Earth Alliance pins are now available
+ through thestation.com, and the Psi Corps pins just came in.  We hope to have
+ Ranger pins soon, though they will be a little more costly since they're huge
+ and require a great deal of work to produce if they're going to look like what
+ they're supposed to be.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1997 14:56:00 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS -- Thanks and Thoughts (*SPOILERS* for S4 final 4)
+
+
+Thank you for the kind words, and the sonnet.  It was lovely.
+
+As for Marcus...the characters will have more time to grieve down the road, and
+ the repercussions of his life and death will be felt long after his passing,
+ and echo through parts of the fifth season.
+
+Thanks again.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1997 14:57:17 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn. JMS - B5 Fan Club Emporium
+
+
+>Doesn't that Fan Club do phone orders?
+>
+We're not set up for phones yet. 
+
+>I just got two of the Antioch B5 Calendars Uncomyn Gifts.  They're
+>incredible!
+
+Yeah, they're great
+
+>Antioch calendars, and some other items
+>through the Fan Club to give to some B5 buddies for Christmas.  Snail
+>mail may not make it in time. A phone number for orders would cut the
+>time in half.
+
+As it happens, either today or tomorrow the B5 fan club website
+ (www.thestation.com) will be finally set up to take orders via the site
+ itself, with a *very* secure credit card server.  So you can log on as soon as
+ it's up, put in the info, and it'll get processed fast.  (Especially for
+ initial orders, before things start to get busy.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1997 14:57:41 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS Yahoo article accurate?
+
+
+I'm not quoted at ALL.  I never, at any time, said that B5 fans were in any way
+ smarter than ST fans.  The person who wrote the article came up with that as a
+ lead that has, and had, nothing to do with anything I said.  All I talked
+ about was the close relationship with B5 fans through treating them with
+ respect.  I think he may have been looking for a quote like that, but I didn't
+ give him one, and thus it didn't appear.  
+
+Never said it.  If I had, it'd be there.
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1997 15:55:50 -0500
+Subject: Re: Space Patrol/Planet Patrol?
+
+
+The UK series was named Space Patrol, but when it came time to show it in the
+ States, they renamed it Planet Patrol to avoid legal complications and
+ confusion in the marketplace.
+
+As it happens, I'm getting a full run of the tapes in about a week from the
+ distributer, and looking forward to it, as it was one of my favorite shows as
+ a kid, though nobody else I ever spoke to in 20 years had ever heard of it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 20 Nov 1997 09:24:19 -0500
+Subject: Re: Zathra not be liking Portishead
+
+>Zathra next is buying Portishead.  Zathra put CD in player, and dog of 
+>Zathra is starting to howl.  Zathra is rarely ever hearing such terrible 
+>noises.  Zathra is now looking for Zathras.  Zathra wants to be giving 
+>Zathras very big wedgie.  
+
+Zathras say Zathras has tin ear.  Zathras say Zathras behind times.  Zathras
+ would say "feh" but Zathras not having background in Early Eastern European
+ and Yiddish vocabularies would be stretching credulity.  Zathras not like
+ stretching credulity, always snaps back and hits poor Zathras in the face.
+
+But Zathras understand.  Many different kinds of music in universe, not all
+ Zathras like.  Is why there are nine of us.  All have different opinions, all
+ speak opinions, all good people.
+
+One has tin ear.
+
+feh.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 20 Nov 1997 09:24:35 -0500
+Subject: from jms B5 online store is up!
+
+The B5 emporium, allowing online ordering of all B5 fan club stuff (including
+ the Great Maker t-shirts the crew made for 422, Agamemnon caps, Psi Corps
+ hats, Earth Alliance pins, autographed boxes of Fleer cards, Ship Recognition
+ Posters, and other cool stuff) is now up and working with a secure credit card
+ server at http://www.thestation.com and taking orders.  
+
+More cool stuff to come, including Psi Corps pins and the B5 informational
+ CDrom and so on.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 20 Nov 1997 09:25:50 -0500
+Subject: Re: Someone has seen an In the Beginning test screening
+
+>
+>According to Ain't It Cool Coaxial News, TNT is currently test screening
+>In the Beginning.  The person who reported it was very impressed.  Ther
+>article is at http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/coaxial/971117/1.html but
+>it really doesn't say anything that we don't know.
+
+Actually, it wasn't a test screening, it was a screening for cast and crew.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 20 Nov 1997 09:28:15 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Widescreen anywhere in world?
+
+My reply was in reference to a widescreen film release, or at least that's what
+ I thought I was replying to.  To go to film for widescreen would take some
+ work and recompositing the stuff to film stock.
+
+Yes, B5 is shown in widescreen in France and Portugal.  Bear in mind that these
+ tend to be digital transfers from digital betacam to PAL format, as opposed to
+ transferring all the CGI to film stock.
+
+At the end of the day, when the series is done, we'll transfer all the CGI to
+ film so we can deliver the entire series on film stock.  
+
+jms
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 20 Nov 1997 09:47:58 -0500
+Subject: repost from jms
+
+For some reason my other message never showed up (and several others seem to
+ have not shown up)....
+
+1) Harlan Ellison asks that if you still have the December Science Fiction Book
+ Club circular, Things to Come, mentioning his book City on the Edge of
+ Forever, and/or the flyers that came with it, to send them along to him via
+ the B5 mail drop, 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+
+2) The B5 emporium is now available for online purchases at www.thestation.com.
+
+3) I'll be Guest of Honor at LosCon in Los Angeles over Thanksgiving Weekend at
+ the Burbank Airport Hilton showing clips from Season 5 and the prequel, and
+ new bloopers.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 20 Nov 1997 09:48:30 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Directing creativity and richness in CGI
+
+>I was interested in how you're able to direct the CGI creations to
+>match the story so well.  They would work from scripts I'd expect -
+>are there story boards you use as well? How much lead time does all
+>that CGI creative process need?
+>
+>
+Sometimes there are storyboards, based on what's in the script, if it's a very
+ complex sequence.  Usually, it's shot for shot what's in the script, though
+ the animators find ways to visualize that in creative and exciting ways,
+ making it dynamic.
+
+Each numbered scene calling for CGI is done individually, then sent back for my
+ and John Copeland's approval.  Usually that means just saying yes, but
+ sometimes we ask for adjustments.  
+
+It takes about 52 days to finish all the CGI for one episode.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1997 13:08:24 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS : In The Beginning -> Ivy's Brother?
+
+>I was wondering, is there any chance that we'll see Ivanova's brother in In
+>The
+>Beginning?
+
+I'd say a very good chance.
+
+>P.S. What was that thing about Larry Ditillio setting your office on fire?
+
+We'd declared war on each other across the hall, and I'd stolen his platen. 
+>From there, it escalated.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1997 13:01:50 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: CD prices at B5 Emporium
+
+>The _correct_ regular prices for these CD's, from the Sonic Images web
+>site, are $13.99 for the soundtracks, and $10.98 (_below_ the Member
+>Price!) for the episodes. 
+
+That's because Chris, as maker of the CDs, can charge less since there's no one
+else in the loop.  That's pretty much the wholesale price.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1997 13:27:06 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS Yahoo article accurate?
+
+Didn't know that, so it's definitely the editor, then, not Craig.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1997 14:19:53 -0700
+Subject: Re: Official Guide to B5 CD Rom
+
+>Why does the babcom unit never work?
+>
+>
+
+It's broken.  But what it does now is let you eavesdrop on what's going on. 
+Click on the Babcom screen, and you get .wav files from some of the more
+memorable lines of the show.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1997 14:30:56 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS   B5 FanClub Emporium is GRREAT!
+
+Thanks, though Jeffrey Willerth gets most of the credit for getting this puppy
+up and running.  
+
+So far the orders are coming in strong, and the first batch of orders (100 in
+the first day alone) went out the very next day.
+
+We're going to be adding more cool stuff shortly to the store.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1997 14:41:57 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  How do TV critics see the show?
+
+The critics will usually get a copy of the cassette for review.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1997 14:43:19 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Copyright Infringement?
+
+I think Valen is a fine idea for a name...others have done similar, so don't
+fret it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1997 14:47:21 -0700
+Subject: Re: Someone has seen an In the Beginning test screening
+
+>So, it's possible that the person who gave the glowing review was probably an
+>insider and probably biased to give a good review.
+
+Not necessarily.  A number of folks not directly involved with the show, who
+didn't know diddly about B5, were invited as sort of guinea pigs to see how the
+show would be received, and many of those on the show brought friends who
+hadn't seen it before, so it could've been anyone.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1997 14:47:08 -0700
+Subject: Re: Harlan Ellison's job description
+
+>What does he actually do?
+
+Anydamnthing he wants.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1997 17:24:03 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  The Third Age of JMS
+
+>	JMS'  journey has just begun. I wonder if it will be as crazy as the
+other
+>two Ages of JMS...
+
+I've never had a sane one yet.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1997 21:32:58 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  What will be cut?
+
+>Joe, if you're going to put back some 14 minutes of material in 
+>the Gathering, what, if anything, will have to be cut to make room
+>for it?
+
+Not much, just little snippets of things...the show was *very* slow paced, and
+once you pick up the pacing within scenes, whole vast tracts of time appear.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1997 02:53:34 -0500
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS Yahoo article accurate?
+
+One more thing...
+
+>   Average IQ of a "Star Trek" fan: 152.
+>
+>            Average IQ of a "Babylon 5" fan: 170.
+>
+>            At least that's the way "Bab5" fans
+>            figure it.
+
+I never mentioned IQs, nor were they mentioned by the reporter to me during the
+ interview.  Further, the journalist here does not put those words in my mouth
+ in ANY event, he says that's "the way the B5 fans figure it."  
+
+In any event, I was as astonished to read that as anyone else.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1997 00:04:56 -0500
+Subject: Re: Criticism: Official UK Magazine
+
+>Thankfully, many of the negative criticisms directed at the magazine
+>are now being dispelled. It is particularly gratifying to know that
+>the Editor, John Freeman, with whom I had talked regarding my
+>concerns, is open to ideas, is willing to listen and act on concerns,
+>has responded to ideas and most of all has had the integrity to
+>re-approach the CC affair in an open, honest and forthright manner. I
+>have been scathing in my criticism before, because I felt it was
+>wholly justified. Likewise, it is only fair now to give credit now to
+>John and his team for making the efforts they obviously have made to
+>improve the magazine to what is now a good standard.
+
+At risk of being perceived as doing an "I told you so," let me point out just
+one thing.
+
+The interview with CC that you cite as being fair and just and balanced *WAS
+ALREADY IN HAND AND TYPESET AND APPROVED BY ME PERSONALLY* when the previous
+issue appeared...before then, actually, because the production process runs
+about 7-8 weeks for articles, though news features tend to be more timely.  
+
+So basically John and I put up with a great deal of accusations and mudslinging
+and invective on not being fair when there was already a very fair ("too fair"
+some have grumbled) piece in and slated to appear in the very next issue.  The
+brief piece in 3 was just a last minute addition to the whole thing, because it
+couldn't go uncommented upon for that long to wait until issue 4.
+
+My point being...we do try and do the right thing.  We ask that you trust us to
+continue doing so, and let us have the benefit of the doubt until shown
+otherwise.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1997 00:05:09 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5 online store is up! but at what cost?
+
+The shipping costs of everything that comes out of the B5 fan club is on an
+absolute par with everyone else out there.
+
+As for shipping...yes, we could charge less for shipping, but we have been
+cognizent of the requests from B5 fans that their stuff arrive *intact*.  The
+calendars you cite don't just go out in regular envelopes, as others tend to
+ship them...they go out UPS in a very strong container to prevent damage to
+what is, after all, a collectible item.  Basically, you get what you pay for.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1997 00:58:24 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN:  JMS  Creation Vs. LosCon
+
+>Did you guys get those travel pods working or is there a lot of cross
+>town drivin' going on?  Which should I attend?  At $40 bucks a wack I
+>just want to see the best show.
+
+Basically, the actors will be at Creation that Sunday; I will be doing my B5
+presentation (bringing clips and bloopers and other cool stuff) the same day at
+LosCon at the Burbank Airport Hilton.
+
+So basically it's a clear-cut choice; if one wants to see actors, one goes to
+Pasadena; if one wants to see writers (and there are many other writers at
+LosCon) one goes there.   
+
+(BTW, I'll be doing selected other panels at LosCon Friday and Saturday as
+well.  But the main B5 showcase is Sunday.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1997 00:58:44 -0500
+Subject: Re: Londo and G'Kar
+
+>Has G'Kar forgiven Londo?  Why?  (Details are appreciated.)
+>
+>
+
+I should think there are a couple of steps that have to happen before that can
+take place.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1997 20:22:25 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATT: JMS: The Third TNT Movie
+
+>I saw you mention the shooting dates for the third TNT movie, which must
+>mean the script is in the can -- would you please give us loyal fans
+>some tantalizing hints about this one?  When does it take place, which
+>characters does it feature, ANYTHING 
+
+Actually, no, it isn't written yet.  I won't be able to have a clear field to
+write it until after I've finished writing the 5th season.  I know in general
+what I want to do with it, have fleshed out a lot, but until I've run the
+premise past TNT and WB officially, I can't comment.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1997 00:14:55 -0700
+Subject: Re: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* )
+
+Re: the whole money thing...if I'd been in this for the money, I would've
+stayed where I was on Murder, She Wrote.  I took a substantial pay cut to come
+do B5, even though the position here was higher than my position on M,SW.
+
+The script fees for syndication are a little over half what they are for a
+network show; the residuals are more in network; the producing fees are double
+what I'm getting in network...there ain't no pile of gold in syndication, boys
+and girls.  If I was in this for the money, I'd go back to nework TV.
+
+Thing is, I can't tell these kinds of stories in network TV.  So I'm here. 
+
+Nobody's put a pile of gold in front of me yet.  Not that I'm opposed to the
+idea, it'd be nice if someone did it, I'd certainly be inclined to be
+grateful...but it just hasn't happened.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1997 00:15:11 -0700
+Subject: Re: request from harlan
+
+>Why does he want to take them away from us?
+
+Nobody's taking anything from anyone; he asked for any copies that people had
+which were probably going to be thrown out in any event, as most were.  That's
+the extent of it.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1997 00:15:21 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: thestation.com
+
+We changed servers and the system upgrade when we changed providers; you need
+to go to the main menu and sign in now.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1997 00:15:41 -0700
+Subject: Re: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* )
+
+>1) Will TNT 'shave' the show to put in more commercials?
+>
+
+Nope.
+
+>2) Is there a book or CD or site that you, JMS, would recommend
+>as a way for someone to pick up the story.
+
+There's the lurker's guide (www.midwinter.com) and thestation.com, and the new
+B5 informational CDrom which just came out has heaps of info about the B5
+universe.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1997 00:16:32 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATT: JMS: Those StarFury Models ...
+
+Yes, the models are a go, in fact I just recently approved the master mold for
+the station, which is going to be huge.  
+
+Should be out soon; we went back and forth a few times getting the texturing
+right on the Starfury wings, but we finally got that worked out, and the things
+look great.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1997 00:22:14 -0700
+Subject: Re: Official Guide to B5 CD Rom
+
+>I also kinda hoped that we'd be able to learn more about the Dilgar and
+>Markabs even though they are gone but this CD was full (640MB) so I guess VOL
+>2 :)
+
+The conceit we used in designing the cdrom was that it's a guide to the present
+B5 as of the end of the fourth season...them's what's gone, is gone, them's
+what remains, get discussed.  It's the guide you'd get upon arriving, rather
+than a history of the B5 universe, which is a daunting prospect.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1997 18:01:37 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Emporium
+
+I don't believe the figures (the 6" or the 9" ones) will be available from the
+Emporium, no.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1997 18:02:10 -0500
+Subject: Re: att: JMS -- Do you miss the feedback?
+
+Well, bear in mind that I've had about 4 years of feedback, so there's
+that...and in our first season, there was just as much lead time so we're used
+to it.
+
+And there's only a 3 month break here between the last S4 ep and the new
+season, which is less than we've had in other cases.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1997 18:01:51 -0500
+Subject: Re: Slightly off topic: zinc lozenges
+
+Your best bet is to combine the zinc lozenges with chewable vitamin C, usually
+at a base of about 2 to 1 in favor of the C.  I have found, each time, that it
+cuts down the symptom and duration of the cold or flu 30-50%.  Just be sure to
+eat something with it, because the acidity can build up pretty fast otherwise.
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1997 18:02:41 -0500
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Kudos to Peter David
+
+It's *out* already?  I thought it wouldn't be coming out until mid-December.  
+
+Anyway...yeah, Peter did a fine job with the book.  He added a few bits here
+and there, for which he should get the credit, and overall did a very good job
+of it.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1997 18:09:57 -0500
+Subject: Re: B5 fans support death penalty??
+
+>The death penalty clearly exists in the B5 universe;  I don't 
+>know how jms feels about the issue.  
+
+Basically, it's this.
+
+There are some individuals who, I believe, should never, ever, under any
+circumstances be allowed to return to free society, due to the heinous nature
+of their crimes and/or the degree of certainty that they will continue a
+pattern of such crimes.  Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, others.  
+
+For individuals such as these, I am in favor of the death penatly UNLESS...and
+this is a very important unless...life in prison, when rendered as a pentaly,
+MEANS life in prison.  All too often, someone who has committed the most
+heinous of crimes may be sentenced to life...but gets out in 15 or 20 years.  
+
+I'm a real simple guy, and from where I sit, if you take a life via murder in
+the first degree (as opposed to accidents, manslaughter or similar
+situations)...where you've done it deliberately, with malice and forethought,
+then you give up your life.  Now that can be a life spent behind bars.  I'm
+perfectly fine with that, and if that is the situation, then no, there's
+absolutely no need for a death penalty and I'd be first in line to have it
+struck down.
+
+The legal system needs teeth, but it also needs sanity.  It needs to make the
+violent among us understand that if you do this terrible thing, there will be a
+sure and certain penalty waiting for you that will remove your ability to take
+part in the free world.  It need not be the death penalty if some other sure
+and certain penalty is available.
+
+This, for me, ain't a political thing or about agendas or left-wing or
+right-wing.  The bird needs both wings or it ain't gonna fly.  The heart says,
+"There must be balance, in one way or another."  By the same token, I think we
+need better gun control laws and gun registration laws.  (Let's not get into a
+whole gun discussion because they fall apart real fast...I'm only offering my
+opinion, not seeking to change anyone's views.)
+
+I'd make the following exchange: we get stiffer gun control and registration
+laws, but if a citizen has had no history of violence or criminal activity, and
+can show cause why it would be useful, would make it easier to get carry
+permits so that lawful citizens could carry them.  And if a gun is used in a
+crime, you hit them with the full extent of the law.  
+
+The first part of that is probably perceived as the liberal idea; the second
+half conservative; the third, moderate.  Put them all together and you have
+something more cohesive than isolating any one of them.
+
+While I'm mouthing off, if I were running things (and aren't we all just a
+little glad I'm *not*?), I'd go into the inner city and declare eminent domain
+over the slums and the ghettos and other long abandoned buildings and
+tenaments, seize them, and send in the Army Engineering Corps to get them up to
+snuff for low-cost housing.  Hell, if we could build a city in Saudi Arabia in
+2 months, what could we do in Watts?
+
+Given that the president has sole authority over the waterways of the country
+(per the constitution), a flick of the pen could issue an order requiring that
+companies using river water for their manufacturing facilities have to locate
+their intake valves DOWNSTREAM from their output valves, so that if they don't
+clean up the stuff that goes into the river...they have to suck it in ten feet
+downstream.  You'd cut back on water pollution and it wouldn't cost the country
+a dime.
+
+I'd suggest that any corporation that came out of this country and shuts its
+doors, moving its operations overseas to use cheap labor and putting all the
+people who created that business out of jobs by the tens of thousands...should
+lose the right to sell to this country.  If we're good enough to buy your
+products, we're good enough to make them.
+
+If FDR could make a New Deal and get this country on its feet after something
+as financially debilitating as the Great Depression with work programs, surely
+in the 90s when the economy is, they tell us, booming, we should be able to
+create workfare programs to get people rebuilding the infrastructure, repairing
+our crumbling bridges and schools and sewers and fixing potholes.
+
+Now, obviously some people reading this will say "what's it gonna cost if we do
+this?"  (To which part of the answer is in the paragraph immediately preceding
+this.)
+
+To which I also say, "what's it gonna cost if we *don't*?"
+
+There...you now know more than you could possibly have wanted to know about my
+positions on stuff.  All of which is, incidentally, utterly and completely
+irrelevant to the show.  
+
+I just wish people would quit fighting over whether to use the left or the
+right oar when the boat is sinking.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 29 Nov 1997 18:10:06 -0500
+Subject: Re: Harlan Ellison going to court as witness????
+
+>Towards the end, in a paragraph beginning "AJ Bielow is working on this 
+>case,....." it is claimed that Harlan Ellison may be going to court as a 
+>witness in her favour.
+
+As soon as I read this, I called Harlan (9:10 p.m. Friday night) and he stated
+that he is not involved with any Dr. Who project or suit, and that he is not
+testifying as a witness in any such situation, and that this is not a true
+statment.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+JMS (and coproducer George Johnsen) Usenet messages for December 1997.
+
+
+Date: 4 Dec 1997 23:30:40 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Sierra guide "easter egg" (Possible SiL spoiler?)
+
+>Wording this carefully so as not to totally spoil the surprise for those who
+>haven't found the "hidden" area, as well as to avoid what could be a *major*
+>spoiler for the show... would this be the "multiple choice" answer section?
+
+Yup.
+
+And your conclusion is correct.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 4 Dec 1997 23:30:25 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS  - Are these licensed?
+
+Yep, the stand-ups are licensed and legal.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 5 Dec 1997 20:35:53 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATT: JMS: Inconsistencies in the Canon -- SPOILERS FOR "IN THE
+
+I think that most of the inconsistencies you note are primarily due to the
+translation from scrilt to print, prior to Peter seeing any of the actual
+footage (it's never stated in the script, for instance, that any of the Grey
+Council have seen Valen).
+
+While Entil-zha has a vague translation, which is what is stated in"Dream,"
+we've translated isil-zha ever since Marcus appeared in the show...Franklin
+asks while they're in medlab, if you recall, and he points to the center stone
+and says it's called isil-zha, meaning the future.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 7 Dec 1997 00:14:42 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Before the break
+
+>Can you tell us which episodes are in 1).  writing, 2).  pre-production,
+>3).  filming, 4).  post-production?
+
+1) 517
+2) 514
+3) 513
+4) 510-512 for editting, 507-509 for music and EFX.
+
+Normally I'd be writing 518 right now, but I'm still playing catch-up after the
+back and the flu hassles last month.  We're still 3 ahead, though, where most
+shows the pages are landing on the stage during filming, and I'll be completely
+caught-up and actually ahead after the Christmas break, which is when I'll turn
+my attention to writing the 3rd TNT movie.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 7 Dec 1997 00:14:50 -0700
+Subject: Re: B5 Figures Question
+
+They didn't individually number the boxes, apparently.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 7 Dec 1997 00:15:28 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Six Flags B5-themed attractions?
+
+No, no plans for any kind of B5 attraction or park.  Some folks from Vegas came
+to us with an idea, but I nixed it for the same reasons I asked for the
+withdrawl of the B5 shot glasses from Creation, I just don't think lining
+something up with a Vegas operation is emblematic of what B5 stands for.
+
+What we *are* working on is something still in the development stage, which is
+a B5 showscan ride, the sort with the moveable seats, high-speed
+high-resolution film and a high-definition big screen you find at places like
+Universal Tours or elsewhere.  Here we could do something artistic, very
+exciting, with a lot of extreme CGI and put  you in the middle of a big Shadow
+battle on Mars, through the atmosphere of Jupiter, and ending at B5.
+
+Heck, I'd ride that one.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 7 Dec 1997 00:15:54 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  3rd TNT movie...
+
+>	Is there a title, or even a working title yet?
+Yes.
+>	Is there a tentative airing date?
+Under discussion.
+>	Who will be in it, from B5: TOS? 
+Ditto.
+>	Will it involve the legendary and often-mentioned battle between the
+"teeps" and the mundanes"?
+Negative.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 7 Dec 1997 00:17:03 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Music..
+
+>You seem to be interested in music, and I was wondering if you have 
+>ever heard the singer Lorena McKennit?
+>
+>If yes. What did you think of her? 
+
+I'm aware of her work, and have enjoyed it.  As I've noted here before, I think
+that some of the best single artist work in rock now is being done by women
+artists: Meredith Brooks, Sarah Machlachlan (I think I misspelled that), Fiona
+Apple, others.
+
+Most of the good work coming from the guys these days seems to be coming from
+groups...Squirrel Nut Zippers has finally crashed the mainstream, and if you
+haven't checked out Cherry Poppin' Daddies, do so...it's a great mix of big
+band sound with rock style lyrics (and some cover stuff) that's real nice.
+
+I recently picked up a couple of Primus CDs and I'm still working out what I
+think of them...on the one hand, there's some really interesting stuff going on
+there, but it's completely weird. (Which is not a bad thing, btw.)  Their
+"Professor Nutbutter's House of Treats" (especially the video) makes the hairs
+on the back of my neck stand up...so I dunno...but it's interesting stuff. 
+Also just picked up Sneaker Pimps, but haven't had a chance to listen to it
+yet.
+
+Because I don't have time to watch much TV or see movies, music is about the
+only thing I have access to now since I can play it while I'm working.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 8 Dec 1997 07:55:14 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Escape from B5?
+
+>I've noticed that a lot of artists have trouble escaping their creations
+>and moving on. Some like the state of affairs, others don't:
+>What about you? Is there life after B5, is it out of your reach, and how
+>do you feel about the situation?
+
+It's my sense that B5 will be kind of the capstone to my career; I will go on
+and do other things, including books, other TV projects, plays, as I've always
+done...but there's no doubt that B5 will loom large in that company.  And that
+doesn't bother me at all.  If it were something I was ashamed of, then yeah,
+it'd be a drag.  But that ain't the situation.
+
+I have, at last count, about 8 different TV projects out there, several
+different film scripts (just finishing up another this month), which have been
+optioned at one point or another, I'm working on 2 books and a stage play, none
+of which have *anything* to do with B5.  Some of them will go, and some won't. 
+That's the writing life, it's a mug's game.
+
+But the goal, at the end of the day, is to have enough stuff up on the shelf so
+that, when you're gone, people can wander in and take it down and say, "Oh,
+this is who that person was, and this is how he saw the world."  In that light,
+B5 is one heck of a big item on the shelf, and I'm perfectly happy to be
+associated with it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 9 Dec 1997 10:05:59 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Could the dog be too heavy for the tail?
+
+>the least successful of the novels, and comic books,
+>were attempts at creating an original story based in the B5 Universe.
+>However, with B5, the Arc itself is so stringient, that it
+>makes it difficult to do the same thing.  Unless the B5 Universe is
+>expanded further with Crusade and the B5 TNT movies, I suspect that B5
+>novels will only succeed if they are parts of the Arc already set in
+>place. 
+
+I suppose ist's a matter of perspective.  B5 is future history; the events of
+that history are set (to my mind, at least), but that isn't much different from
+books about real history...there are a nearly infinite number of them, covering
+every possible subject.  Each passing year provides enough grist for several
+hundred books about the events that took place in that year.
+
+If -- and this is shooting pretty damned high -- IF we were able to use these
+books to fully flesh out a consistent universe, with a full and detailed and
+self-referential history, BUT making each of them interesting and sufficiently
+self-contained for the casual reader to get into them, and could do this over a
+number of years, look at the huge tapestry you'd create.
+
+That's the theory of what we're going to try and do with the Del Rey novels. 
+We may succeed, we may fail, but it's going to be an interesting experiment.
+
+For instance:
+
+The first of the 3 trilogies from Del Rey is a Psi Corps story that spans about
+a hundred years or so, from the early days of the Corps to the aftermath of the
+Telepath War, with Bester being the linchpin in the storyline bridging all
+three books.
+
+To make them absolutely canonical, or as much as conceivable, I sat down and,
+based on my background notes for the series, wrote the outlines for the first
+two novels, and will be finishing up #3 shortly.  These will then be assigned
+and fleshed out to novel length.
+
+So we'll see if this works.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 9 Dec 1997 10:08:25 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS  Writing quality
+
+>Do you ever get sloppy when you're writing, especially on deadline,
+>late at night, etc, and when/if it does happen, what do you do about it?
+>
+>
+
+On deadline, no, but late, when I'm tired...it can happen to anyone.  What you
+have to do is take steps to be self-correcting.
+
+For starters, I never sit down to write a scene until I've finished working it
+out in my head, which usually happens well before I get to a keyboard.  So if I
+hit the keyboard late, it's not a question of being creative, it's remembering
+precisely what I'd thought of earlier.  (Which is why my desk is a constant
+clutter of post-it notes.)  
+
+Even so, things can slip by, which is why my pattern of writing is to start the
+day's writing by going over and rewriting the last 5-10 pages I've already
+written, rather than just jumping right into the next scene.  I find this helps
+me find any stupid stuff that slipped in, and I get back into the swing of the
+writing again.  I trim and tighten, and I'm ready to go on the next section,
+while being sure that the one preceding is solid.  Which is why, when the
+script is finally published in-house for production, there's very little
+revision done to it because it's already been revised several times in the
+writing process.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 9 Dec 1997 10:06:48 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Holiday celebration?
+
+>I was just curious as to whether the cast and crew of B5 do anything to
+>celebrate the holidays together before breaking for Christmas?  If so,
+>what, party, exchange cards, etc?
+
+Every year we give gifts to the crew, ranging from B5 jackets to fleece
+sweaters to other cool stuff, and have a christmas party.
+
+Fewer seem to survive them every year.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 9 Dec 1997 19:48:19 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Franchising the Final Frontier
+
+>Do you think that the Trek franchise, although a quality product, has grown a
+>bit stale and overextended as of late?  Due to oversaturation caused partly
+>by
+>the large number of shows under the Trek umbrella (TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager)
+>and
+>also in part by too much product mass marketing
+> it's reached a
+>point where the franchise sustains the need for the productions and
+overshadows
+>them, rather than the other way around.
+
+I think (actually, I know) from conversations with many of the folks over at ST
+that some of them are very aware of the problem, that there's a limit on how
+often they can go to the well.  The sense among fans I speak to is that it's
+become a license to print money, and that the driving force is avarice rather
+than storytelling, with the result that the creative people are straitjacketed.
+
+> With Crusade coming up, the TNT telefilms and
+>the exposure of B5 on TNT in a larger market than in syndication, the
+>prospect
+>of a feature film looming on the horizon, and the introduction of model kits,
+>reference and game CDs, and other collectibles, I wondered if you had similar
+>concerns and reservations about B5 becoming a marketing franchise in the long
+>run, if that franchising could possibly hurt either the quality of the shows
+>and the products stemming from them (novels, etc.). and how you would address
+those issues for the long-term?
+
+Well, for starters remember that it's taken ST 30 years to get to this point of
+saturation, and we're only 5 years in at this point, so in theory we've got 25
+years to go before we become real pains in the ass.  But that aisde....
+
+This is something that I've been wary and watchful of from the very first days
+of the show, which is why I've dragged my feet on licensing for the most part
+over the years, doing only a few things, seeing how they worked, they trying
+other things, to see where we could control the quality.  It's trial and error,
+but I'd rather do trial and error on a small scale and learn rather than on a
+big scale and crash and burn.
+
+I think it helps that there's one single voice behind all this, to make sure
+that the story remains at the center of the thing, and the tail does not begin
+wagging the dog.  What we do, should be cool stuff that I would like
+personally, which I can promote honestly and say "this is cool."  And that's
+where we're starting to get.
+
+Basically, if we apply the same common sense approach used in making B5 to the
+ancillary stuff, we should be okay.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 11 Dec 1997 22:12:24 -0700
+Subject: Re: Pegasus Publishing: A poor experience
+
+There's two Pegasus companies out there (Pegasus? Pegasi?) and one is licensed,
+one is not.  Be careful which is which.  The nonlicensed one has been only
+trouble.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 12 Dec 1997 22:39:11 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: credits on opening
+
+Some actors just like being last 'cause they think it draws more attention to
+the credit.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 12 Dec 1997 22:40:24 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Falling off roofs just to see season 5
+
+Be careful up there...those damn reindeer are capable of anything, especially
+when they get too much rum up their snoots.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 12 Dec 1997 22:41:08 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn:JMS:Excalibur
+
+>Is the Excalibur that was given to Delenn in LDaA the "real" Excalibur or
+>just a symbolic representation of it?
+>
+>
+
+Since that wasn't really Arthur, the odds of that really being Excalibur are
+substantially reduced.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 12 Dec 1997 22:41:58 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: The real end of the series
+
+>Since you're on ep 517, that must mean 521 is round the corner.. so I
+>gotta wonder when it's gonna hit ya (and the rest of the cast and crew)
+>that the end of writing, end of filming, end of post-production work, etc.
+>is coming soon.
+
+I dunno...on one level, I think everyone's too busy to give it much thought. 
+On another, having gone through all this last season, I think to some extent
+it's already been burned through, and we're past that stage now.  (Anger,
+denial, depression, bargaining, acceptance - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.)
+
+That there's going to be another TV movie is a big help for everyone, and the
+prospect of Crusade keeping our crew busy is a help to them, and WB is still
+muttering about a possible feature film which is keeping everyone's spirits
+up...so it's surprisingly low key and okay.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 13 Dec 1997 11:30:08 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Does Harlan Also Want...
+
+Harlan's gotten copies of the material, so there's no need for more, except to
+thank those who sent stuff along on his behalf.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 13 Dec 1997 11:41:44 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Moore Watchmen question
+
+>I've read that you're a fan of Alan Moore (along with other comic book
+>writers).  Can I assume that you've read  Alan Moore's "Watchmen" comic
+>series,
+>which I think was the best comic story ever?
+
+Watchmen was bitching.  I think it redefined comics in much the same way as
+Dark Knight did (though not followed up on as much, and alas too many
+publishers thought that they could do DK by just getting dark and depressing
+which is why a lot of them lost a lot of readers).  DK also holds up well.
+
+>Also, what other comics had an impact on you?  You pull some of your
+>writers from the comic medium, and you use comics for B5 storytelling.  Is
+>there a reason you use so many comic writers on B5(Gaiman, David)? 
+
+I think the Miracleman series by Moore is still one of the most brilliant
+things I've ever read.  I'm partial to his work, Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman,
+Peter David and a few others.  I also thought that Mage was one of the best
+books around (just this week discovered that apparently it is or has been
+coming out again with a new sequence, so I'm going to have to to back into the
+comics store again for the first time in a while).
+
+I loved Grendel, and some of the Grendel followups by diverse hands.  The
+Aliens comics from Dark Horse are (were) great most of the time, taking the
+storyline to new levels.  I enjoyed the heck out of Marvels, for the
+photorealistic approach which took a mortal's eye view of superheros.  Ditto
+for Uncle Sam and Kingdom Come.  And, of course, Cerebus; I think Dave Sim is
+the only other person who can understand what it is to do a story of this scale
+and duration.  Also enjoyed Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo.
+
+Comics are a visual, concise medium, which is why I think the writers involved
+can translate so well to television.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 14 Dec 1997 14:11:13 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: B5 book submissions?
+
+>Since you're riding herd on the new Babylon 5 novels
+>to bring them more in line with series continuity and to create mini-
+>arcs, is Del Rey actually accepting submissions for Babylon 5 novels,
+>or are you or the editors assigning your story outlines to established
+>writers?
+
+At this point, I'm writing the outlines, which are being assigned to outside,
+established writers.  I've already turned in the first two installments of the
+first 3-volume series on the Psi Corps.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 15 Dec 1997 05:04:53 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS or TNT People: Promo Question
+
+If it's the one I'm thinking of...what happened was this: I never much liked
+the way WB in general promoted the show, which was an all-action, no-thought
+kind of approach.  Knowing TNT was going to be coming in, and not wanting to go
+through the process of reinventing the wheel, I wrote up what I thought would
+be a great approach to the commercials, and I made a version of it here, which
+I showed at a couple of conventions, noting that this is how I'd like the show
+to be promoted (showed it at Westercon, in fact).  
+
+When I went to Atlanta to meet with the TNT folks, I brought it with me, and
+showed it to them...and they loved it, and asked for copies.  What came out is
+extremely similar to the structure of the one we did here...and it works great.
+ It sells the overall story, the emotion, the rising and falling of
+empires...all that.  They've been extremely open to our ideas and suggestions,
+which is terrific.  I can't say enough good things about TNT.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 15 Dec 1997 05:05:38 -0700
+Subject: from jms re: email
+
+Just a reminder that private email is expressly for matters of a private or
+personal nature.  General questions about story, character, theme or plot
+should be put forth in the public forums, so that others can benefit from the
+answers and to help keep me from answering the same questions repeatedly in
+private mail.  My mailbox is starting to fill up with this sort of mail, and
+I'd rather not just ignore it, but rather redirect it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 15 Dec 1997 21:14:56 -0700
+Subject: Re: Lockley
+
+>What role did TNT picking
+>up season 5 have to do with the casting of Tracy Scoggins?
+
+Zip.
+
+We picked her, she was the best person for the role, even Jerry felt that in
+the audition, we told TNT this is who we want, and they said great.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 15 Dec 1997 21:16:36 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATT JMS: First scene?
+
+>in more than one place you talk about
+>B5 coming to you in a flash (in the shower! IIRC) So I have 2 questions:
+>
+>1) Will/has that scene actually make/made it into the show? or did it
+>"wind up on the [virtual] cutting room floor"?
+
+It wasn't *a* scene...it was sort of a general view of the whole thing, a sense
+of the overall story, where it would go, who would be it...not any one
+particular scene.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 15 Dec 1997 21:23:34 -0700
+Subject: Re: To JMS or anyone - UK viewer needs help!
+
+Tell the other British fans they can relax; one of the ways I made sure that
+neither WB nor anyone else could air Sleeping in Light was to simply not finish
+it.  The shooting is done, obviously, and it's all edited together...but we
+haven't even started rendering the CGI yet (no need to, and other stuff is
+pressing), haven't done the audio mix, none of that.  Just a little
+insurance....
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 16 Dec 1997 13:02:48 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5 fans not on cable or internet
+
+> I would
+>guess, however, that many B5 fans think
+>it is over.  Is TNT doing anything to
+>attact the attention of B5 fans who are
+>not on cable or the internet?
+
+I know, I hear from a lot of folks who *are* on the net and who think the show
+has been canceled.  All TNT can do is what they're doing, a massive print and
+TV ad campaign to let folks know.  There's a ten million dollar value campaign
+behind the launch on TNT, print ads, bus ads, there will be commercials on ST
+and X-Files, a four-page spread in Entertainment Weekly in the next week or so,
+and I've been giving a busload of press interviews lately: TV Guide, USA Today,
+Chicago Tribune, others, and I'll be shlepped out to NY sometime in January to
+do more press stuff.  They're dedicated to really selling this thing.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 17 Dec 1997 08:32:45 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: TNT versus WB
+
+>Has TNT's involvement
+>influenced your decision to go with a spinoff? 
+
+No, the B5 story ends where it ends; I always wanted to do the follow-up story,
+from the beginning, and said so...so it didn't really affect that one way or
+another.
+
+But certainly, TNT has been extremely supportive of the show, on every
+imaginable level, and it's terrific.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 17 Dec 1997 08:33:18 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS: how do execs constrain Voyager writers?
+
+A studio can influence the direction of any TV series, and its writers, by
+bouncing scripts that they don't like, by telling the producers what direction
+to take the show...they can influence the tone, the kinds of stories told (safe
+vs. controversial) because it's their money, and their show.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 17 Dec 1997 08:34:33 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Final Scene in 522
+
+The finale of 522 is just what I wanted it to be.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 17 Dec 1997 08:34:57 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS -Starfury Model Question
+
+The finished model just came in this week, with full shrink wrap, box, pieces,
+everything...very nice.  There were some delays that came from our side, as we
+worked to make it more authentic and more in keeping with how they look on
+screen.  Revell was happy to cooperate, even if it delayed things a bit...with
+the result that it's a better product.  (Among the things we asked for: to
+reposition the forward guns, alter the tilt of the engines, texture under the
+wings as well as on top, that sort of thing.)
+
+Basically, I'd rather have it *right* than have it Tuesday.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 17 Dec 1997 08:36:46 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5 fans not on cable or internet
+
+Here's ironic...apparently the last ST cover didn't sell well at *all*, and
+because of that, TV Guide has wondered if a B5 cover would sell well...again,
+some of them have a hard time separating out one show from another, they seem
+to think they're all the same.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 18 Dec 1997 18:12:57 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  "In the Beginning" and the Hugo...next year?
+
+>Just a quick question about which B5 episodes will be your
+>choice for the Hugo ballot ( we all know you will get several nods)
+>"The Face of the Enemy" would be my choice, with "Endgame" a
+>close second.
+
+Both those are good, "Face" could be best, but there's also "No Surrender, No
+Retreat," which gets forgotten sometimes in this.
+
+>Will "In the Beginning" be available for consideration this
+>year, or next year?  I'm guessing the Jan. release makes it next year,
+>but I'm not sure how they work things at the Hugos...
+
+Yes, ItB will be eligible for the following year, as will Sleeping in Light,
+which should make things interesting.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 19 Dec 1997 15:08:29 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS Should Have Written B5 *MY* Way
+
+BTW, the one big reason that Sakai could not have filled Anna Sheridan's role
+in awakening the shadows...and this is the one thing that everyone who
+advocates this theory tends to forget...is that they were *already up and
+awake* in the first season, as we saw in "Signs and Portents."  They were up,
+around, and had had some time to build stuff up, reclaim some of their ships,
+and in other ways get organized and develop their contacts.  
+
+Also, Morden was already working for them.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 22 Dec 1997 08:43:25 -0700
+Subject: Re: attn jms: 3 Simple ???  In the Beginning SPOILER
+
+>In the Beginning SPOILER
+>
+>
+>S
+>
+>P
+>
+>O
+>
+>I
+>
+>L
+>
+>E
+>
+>R
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>S
+>
+>P
+>
+>A
+>
+>C
+>
+>E
+>
+>
+>Since only *you* can really give us definitive answers to these questions,
+>I'm hoping you'll be feeling the generousity of the season....
+>
+>1.  Did Sinclair undergo a "preliminary psi probe" as assumed by Delenn in
+>Peter David's novelization of In the Beginning (page 246)?
+
+I don't have the book in front of me, but if that refers to the one after his
+capture, then yes.
+>
+>2.  Is the Eartforce Academy two, three, or four years?
+>
+It varies depending on what aspect and how far you want to go and what your
+goal is, as with some divisions of Officer Training School (OTC).
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 22 Dec 1997 08:44:14 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Season 5 wardrobe question
+
+Sheridan: civvies (as President of the Interstellar Alliance).
+
+Franklin and Zack: the black uniforms.
+
+Lochley: in EA blues (and will stay that way).
+
+Garibaldi:  civvies (for a different sort of position).
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 22 Dec 1997 08:44:37 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS Entertainment Weekly
+
+TNT has *definitely* stepped up to the plate on all counts.  They said they
+intend for every person in the country to at least have *heard* of B5 by the
+time they launch S5.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 22 Dec 1997 08:45:21 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  When do you feel most at home?
+
+>When do you feel most at home during the creative process of
+>the show?
+>	Is it on the set...getting your hands dirty...actually seeing
+>your vision come to life?
+>	Or is it while you are writing...actually giving such
+>wonderful life to the characters that inhabit that vision?
+
+First and foremost, I'm a writer.  That's not just what I do, it's who and what
+I *am*.  So of all the things I do, that's when I'm most in my element.  John
+Flinn can beat me on stage in composing a shot, John Copeland can configure a
+fight scene better in editing than I can (most days), Chris Franke can come up
+with touches in music that I would never think of...
+
+But behind the keyboard, nobody can touch me.  (Hmm...I wonder what my
+subconscious would make of that statement; I think I just said more than I
+wanted to.)  
+
+Anyway...this is where I'm at home.  My goal is real simple: to write better
+than anyone who can write faster than me, and faster than anyone who can write
+better than me.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 22 Dec 1997 08:45:43 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn:  JMS -- Psi Corps pins
+
+The Psi Corps pins are in, have been in for a couple of weeks now, and they're
+just gorgeous...I don't know why they haven't been added to the Emporium yet,
+they should be there now or soonish.  They're absolutely the same as the ones
+we use in the show, same as with the Earthforce pins.
+
+Among the crew, so far the Psi Corps hats have turned out to be the most
+popular...they're buying 'em up fast.
+
+BTW, down the road there may be a limited edition of the Psi Corps pins signed
+by Walter....
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 22 Dec 1997 19:47:45 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: what about Narn?
+
+Yeah, we'll get back into a bit of the Narn thread in S5.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 22 Dec 1997 19:48:51 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  I-Con
+
+>>>I was wondering why you decided to not go to I-Con this year.
+>>>
+
+Wasn't invited.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 23 Dec 1997 10:54:38 -0700
+Subject: No Compromises. ( *Spoilers* )
+
+> >1.  Is having such a large hole in the
+>        story [is this a parallel to JeffreyS?]
+>        gonna spoil Season 5 for us?
+>
+>        2. Should we just wait until TNT shows
+>        the Final 4 again and *THEN* watch S5?
+
+My gut reaction...because S5 starts pretty cleanly, and Sheridan's new
+situation is set up right from the git-go, I think that you'd be okay to just
+dive in.  Not knowing at the time that there'd be any kind of problem in the
+airing of the final 4, but having learned from experience that nothing about
+this show is EVER easy or predictable, I did sort of a primer about where
+things stand now in the top of the teaser, done breathlessly by Corwin as
+Lochley arrives.
+
+(That ain't much of a spoiler since it happens in the first few minutes of the
+show.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+-- 
+* Jay Denebeim  Moderator       rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated *
+* newsgroup submission address: b5mod@deepthot.ml.org             *
+* moderator contact address:    b5mod-request@deepthot.ml.org     *
+* personal contact address:     denebeim@deepthot.ml.org          *
+
+Date: 23 Dec 1997 09:51:58 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: 4 on the floor?
+
+>1.  Is having such a large hole in the
+>        story [is this a parallel to JeffreyS?]
+>        gonna spoil Season 5 for us?
+>
+>        2. Should we just wait until TNT shows
+>        the Final 4 again and *THEN* watch S5?
+
+My gut reaction...because S5 starts pretty cleanly, and Sheridan's new
+situation is set up right from the git-go, I think that you'd be okay to just
+dive in.  Not knowing at the time that there'd be any kind of problem in the
+airing of the final 4, but having learned from experience that nothing about
+this show is EVER easy or predictable, I did sort of a primer about where
+things stand now in the top of the teaser, done breathlessly by Corwin as
+Lochley arrives.
+
+(That ain't much of a spoiler since it happens in the first few minutes of the
+show.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 23 Dec 1997 09:52:45 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Your involvement with Crusade
+
+> If Crusade is a go, what will be your involvement with the 
+>show compared to what you do on B5? The same? Much less?
+>
+>
+I'll exec produce, same as with B5, develop the overall arc, as with B5 (though
+it's not as rigorous an arc), do all the same stuff in editing, post, all the
+same stuff.  About the only real difference I foresee would be my intent to
+only write about half the episodes this time around; I'm looking forward to
+seeing what other writers can do in the B5 universe.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 23 Dec 1997 09:56:20 -0700
+Subject: Re: Aargh! Screwed by WB!
+
+>Warner Bros couldn't sell it to a nationally available station.
+>N-o-o-o-o-o, that would have been too easy. They had to sell it to
+>individual stations in the major markets. 
+
+As I understand it, that's because the natinoal stations up there are less than
+interested in general in taking syndicated American shows, and mainly want
+American shows that have been on network TV (and American shows are becoming an
+increasingly hard sell up there).
+
+Translation: it ain't WB's fault.  I'm always more than happy to give them the
+rap if it's deserved...this time, it ain't.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 24 Dec 1997 08:29:55 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Who writes Season 5?
+
+There's other material there, including Neil Gaiman's "Day of the Dead."
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 24 Dec 1997 08:30:15 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS
+
+Galoob has announced they're ONLY doing Star Wars stuff.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 26 Dec 1997 11:26:32 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Attempting the Improbable (another writing question)
+
+>On a totally
+>hypothetical, if you had accepted the exec producer, writer job at a
+>suffering show (like SeaQuest, or Space Above and Beyond,) would you
+>place your focus on creating quality within the individual episode, the
+>season, or the story-arc. Or in other words, if a show is broke, how
+>would you go about fixing it?
+
+If a show doesn't work, there's only one way to fix it...and it ain't adding
+battles, or arcs, or chrome...it's the characters.  Audiences will tune in to
+see what happens next to the characters they care about.  If that bond ain't
+there...you've got nowhere to go.  It all proceeds from character.
+
+As for SeaQuest, about the only thing that would've helped there would've been
+depth charges.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 26 Dec 1997 11:26:53 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Bucconeer
+
+Yes, I'll definitely be at Worldcon.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 26 Dec 1997 16:01:42 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Rewriting on cue?
+
+>	Reading your script for "The Coming of Shadows" in "The
+>Complete Book of Scriptwriting", one can see that lines were cut from
+>the original show.
+>	I was wondering...do you often changes lines and/or entire
+>scenes on the set?  Anyone who writes always wants to improve on what
+>they wrote AFTER they re-read it.
+>	I keep wondering if any of the more memorable lines from the
+>show were written on-the-fly during shooting.
+
+No, never.  For starters, it's *vastly* unfair to the actors.  They have to
+memorizes pages and pages of dialogue, and to hit them with new stuff on the
+stage, when they haven't had a chance to digest the material and dig out the
+subtext and themes, means the performance will not be as good regardless of the
+material.
+
+There is *no* improvising allowed on the set, either.  If an actor wants to
+change even a word, the first AD has to come find me and get approval first.
+
+Where you make the revisions are in the stages prior to when the actors get to
+the stage.  A first draft is published, which goes to all the department heads.
+ Between the first and the final drafts (we only do about 2 drafts here), you
+have about a week to make any revisions you choose to make.  Bearing in mind
+that I don't publish the first draft until I'm absolutely satisfied with it,
+there ain't much that gets changed, usually bits of dialogue and production
+related stuff.
+
+The cuts you see were done in post-production, as the show is edited for time. 
+We slice lines and bits to fit in the available time.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 27 Dec 1997 12:48:32 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Cookbook??
+
+>Any news about when the Cookbook will be out?
+>
+>
+
+I just finished my notes on it before we broke for the Xmas hiatus, so sometime
+in the early Spring, I would think.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 27 Dec 1997 12:48:53 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Actors and script changes
+
+>Joe, you've mentioned this a number of times, that actors can't
+>change the dialog without approval.  I'm wondering whether it's
+>frequent for an actor to come and *ask* for a change, and whether
+>they tend to get the change if they ask for it, and if the changes
+>have made a difference.  Any memorable examples?
+
+Yeah, in most cases, unless it's an egregious change, or one that changes the
+meaning of a sentence, I usually go along with it.  It also doesn't happen very
+often.  Usually they come in with a question about something if I'm setting up
+a thread for the future, so they can give it the right subtext.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 27 Dec 1997 12:49:54 -0700
+Subject: Re: B5 CCG review
+
+Steven:
+
+Thanks for the review.  I'm not as up on card games as I'd like to be, and on
+some of this I have to essentially take some of the stuff on game-play on
+faith, because that's not something I know a lot about.  So it's good to know
+it worked out.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 27 Dec 1997 19:36:36 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:A Splendid Little Program..
+
+>I had the sense that a small portion of the behind-the-camera shots came
+>from episode shootings that haven't been aired.  Was I grossly mistaken?
+
+No, you're correct...WB shot B-roll during other episodes in the past, and some
+of that got used, and TNT sent a crew out as well to grab some stuff during the
+last of season 4, including the two movies.
+>Have you ever considered using Andreas in a part without
+>makeup(ferinstance,as a close relative of a major character)?
+>
+>
+
+Yeah, but he won't do it.
+>And I am assuming this promotion show was shot before T.Scroggins joined
+>the cast...Y/N is ok.
+
+Yup.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 28 Dec 1997 23:32:09 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Less of C-n-C this season?
+
+The 8 episodes is the *minimum guaranteed*, not the maximum.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 29 Dec 1997 13:35:26 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: I want my xmas stuff!!!
+
+>My mom ordered me some stuff from the fan club for Christmas.  I got the 
+>ship recognition chart and the calendar and they are very cool.  She 
+>also got me a mebership, but never got any of the stuff from that, she 
+>wrote snail-mail asking about it, but hasn't gotten any response.  
+
+Because of the christmas rush, we got the actual gift items out first, and are
+getting the memberships out afterward.  We should be catching up soon.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 29 Dec 1997 13:35:47 -0700
+Subject: Re: Running Time for "In the Beginning"
+
+Dry time: 94 minutes 10 seconds.
+
+
+ jms
+
+Date: 29 Dec 1997 13:36:19 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Speaking at ICON 98
+
+>The people at ICON say you weren't invited this spring because they don't
+>like to have the same speakers two years in a row.
+
+Which is perfectly understandable; I didn't say there was anything amiss in not
+being invited.  Someone asked why I wasn't going to be there, and that was the
+answer.  I wouldn't expect them to invite the same folks two years running.
+
+>But what really got my attention was the fact that they're going to have
+>Claudia Christian instead. Is she going to be representing the show?
+>Because if she isn't, you should know that this is the impression the
+>ICON people are giving.
+
+Claudia is certainly capable of representing and discussing her experiences and
+time on the first 4 years of the show.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 30 Dec 1997 08:36:48 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Ch 4 has Season 6!! Starfury kits out in UK and alcohol
+
+>Is it normal for the writer/creator to have as much
+>input and power as you seem to?
+
+In TV, the writer/producer is the one in charge.  The more producer-heavy a
+show is, the more that gets spread around.  Certainly folks like Bochco and
+Kelley are unchallenged in this respect; ditto Chris Carter . It's simply a
+matter of whether or not it's sufficiently important to you that you'll fight
+like hell to maintain control.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 30 Dec 1997 08:37:10 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Where is Jerry Doyle?
+
+There were some contract hassles, and Jerry ended up not being in either of
+them (the blame tends to go with the agent at the time, which Jerry
+acknowledges, and that situation has been changed).  He and we definitely would
+like him to be in #3.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 30 Dec 1997 08:37:22 -0700
+Subject: B5 Starfury Models Out
+
+I'm hearing from the UK that the first Revell model, the Starfury, is out and
+for sale there.  Which means it may well be available here now as well.  Anyone
+out there confirm this?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 30 Dec 1997 08:30:23 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Your goal for CRUSADE
+
+>You've been fortunate to accomplish everything you set out to do with
+>BABYLON 5.  So, what's your goal for CRUSADE?  Aside from continuing the
+>year-to-year improvement?  If the BABYLON 5 story is about the need for
+>community and the need to look toward the horizon, what is the CRUSADE
+>story about?
+
+What I want to do with Crusade is take the tools we learned to use in B5 and
+apply them in a different (and in some ways, more ambitious) manner.  It'll
+have an arc, now that we've shown that it works, but not as rigorous an
+arc...less overtly political but more thematic.  Also, after 5 years of
+angst-driven storytelling, I'd like to see if I can use the same tools to do
+something a little more fun.  I've lived in the dark side of the B5 universe
+for a long time, and while there's plenty of darkness still out there, I kinda
+want to go and do something a bit more adventurous...and which explores all the
+places in the B5 universe that we've heard about, but never seen.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 30 Dec 1997 22:27:38 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS' ego trip
+
+Point one: I had absolutely nothing to do with the content of the Guide except
+to review some of Bruce's on-camera narration for fact-checking purposes.  I
+didn't see it until it was done.
+
+Point two: "now I have to go to all the trouble of either buying illegal
+drugs...or become a serial killer."
+
+Wouldn't you find either option redundent?
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 31 Dec 1997 09:00:37 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Your goal for CRUSADE
+
+I started including a sig on the net because I kept getting emails asking for
+the address of the fanclub site, and my own, so I figured this would take care
+of it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 31 Dec 1997 09:01:02 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN TNT PARTYGOERS! Bring your camcorders! :-D
+
+Better still...how about folks bring digital cameras as well and take jpg shots
+of the various parties and upload 'em here?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 31 Dec 1997 09:03:00 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Save me from Trek merchandize, please!
+
+We'll be doing more stuff, gradually...I'd just prefer to do this stuff slowly,
+and do it right, than dump a whole lotta stuff out at once.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 31 Dec 1997 14:51:07 -0700
+Subject: Re: The Guide Special
+
+>Actually, it made me wonder if leaving was her choice.
+
+Give me one good reason, ANY good reason, why WB or I (and those are the only
+two forces involved) would want her to leave.  If either of those had wanted
+her to go, then we wouldn't have been so upset when it was announced in the
+trades that she was leaving, now would we?  WB wouldn't have extended its offer
+to her until the very last minute, would they?  (Why put ANY offer out to her
+at ALL if they didn't want her back?  Remember, becasue she opted not to sign
+the extension, she was not an employee of B5 when she left.)  And I certainly
+wouldn't have been sitting across from her in a hotel pub in Blackpool at
+midnight trying to understand why she was leaving, and urging her to call her
+agent so she could stay, would I?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 31 Dec 1997 14:51:13 -0700
+Subject: Re: attn: jms and everyone: revised episodes
+
+That ain't revisionist history...them's typos.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 31 Dec 1997 14:54:07 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS- YOU and your CABLE!
+
+>And it's not only that, but ALL the cartoons!
+>("What's that, Avenger?  Bird-Boy's in trouble?")  And NOW it seems that I'm
+>going to have to watch B5 every day of the week!  This new season better be
+>pretty good, because my family's brains are turning to mush!
+
+Ruh-roh....
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+JMS (and coproducer George Johnsen) Usenet messages for January 1998.
+
+
+Date: 2 Jan 1998 12:35:07 -0700
+Subject: Re: Who Provides Lighting and Grip Equipment?
+
+All our hard equipment for actual photography (lights, camera, related stuff)
+is rented each season; same for most shows.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 2 Jan 1998 12:35:14 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTEN: JMS  Re: my delicate question(s)
+
+No, I haven't yet, and I should.  Thanks for poking me.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 2 Jan 1998 12:35:36 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Rewriting on cue?
+
+>Do you work differently when you write for the stage? Would you send the 
+>B5 scripts through additional revisions if you had the time? 
+
+No, in writing my play now, and in those I've written before, I generally just
+write it the way I hear it, and it's up to the actors to find a way to make
+that work.  (If something absolutely falls on its face and doesn't work and
+it's the fault of the words, however, then you gotta fix it.)
+
+As for question 2...understand that there isn't a frame of B5, or a page, that
+I wouldn't keep tinkering with ad infinitum.  Every time I look at ANYthing
+I've done, I always want to go back and tweak something.
+
+As somebody once said: art is never finished, only abandoned.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 2 Jan 1998 12:35:59 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS   wait and see?
+
+>I'm wondering if both you and WB are waiting to see the B5 ratings on
+>TNT before finalizing a deal on Crusade.
+>
+>
+
+Nope.  The contract has been sent to me for signing several times, and each
+time it has had some problem or another that needed fixing.  (See, this is how
+the process works: your agent and the studio negotiate over the phone.  Come to
+terms.  Deal memos go out, which often don't reflect the conversations, but
+they hope you won't notice.  You catch the "errors" and send back the memos. 
+Next come the actual contracts, and sonuvagun, more "errors" have slipped
+through, and now THEY need to be corrected, if you can find them in the 90
+pages of 8 point type.  So that's been the only real holdup.  It's standard.)
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 2 Jan 1998 12:36:39 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Oscar Season perks
+
+>I have noticed that studios routinely offer free entry to theaters for 
+>Academy and Guild members during award season.
+>Do you take advantage of the chance to see all your favorite flicks for 
+>free?  Or is it no big deal?
+
+Who has time to see movies?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 2 Jan 1998 12:36:50 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS
+
+Thanks, to you and your cat.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 3 Jan 1998 12:52:13 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Any future additions to Gold Channel?
+
+Yeah, I gotta give Jeffrey more chapters...I keep leaving the disk at home.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 3 Jan 1998 18:06:33 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS: sigs and baiting
+
+>When I saw you and Claudia chatting live 
+>on AOL a few years ago, I read genuine respect and affection from both of 
+>you.  It couldn't have been as simple as just losing an employee, and it 
+>really burns my britches people haven't stopped to realize that you 
+>probably took a personal shot to the gut when she failed to sign.
+
+Steve...you have no idea.
+
+Thanks.  It needed saying.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 4 Jan 1998 09:16:17 -0700
+Subject: In the Beginning ( *Spoilers* )
+
+Spoilers for In the Beginning
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+It's 35 years from the time in which Londo is speaking, and Anna and Sheridan
+weren't married during the war, they were married after.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 4 Jan 1998 09:19:08 -0700
+Subject: Re: attn: JMS, The Official Babylon 5 1998 Calendar
+
+I agree that Antioch should consider doing some of these as prints; the
+calendar is just gorgeous.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 4 Jan 1998 09:19:27 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS : The complete book of scriptwriting
+
+Our first two seasons were roughly 40-50% freelance, which is a substantially
+higher average than most shows.  Years 3 and 4 were mine, mainly because of the
+difficulty in farming out stories in that situation.
+
+Crusade will almost certainly to back to the 40-50% freelance mode, which is
+frankly my preference, and it's been that way on all the previous shows I've
+done.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 4 Jan 1998 09:19:43 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS- REAL dumb question.
+
+>So, I'm watching TNT's guide to B5 in the same room as my
+>parents, and when they mention the Centauri's 6 genitals, my mom asks
+>an all important question....  Which one do they use for urination?
+
+That assumes the urinate out of the same organs they use for sex; ain't
+necessarily the case.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 4 Jan 1998 09:20:25 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  B5 theme question
+
+> I finally caught "Guide to Babylon 5" this morning on TNT, and right
+>after it was an episode of New Twilight Zone from 1989, penned by none other
+>than you.  Was TNT even conscious that they were doing this, or was it merely
+>strange luck?
+
+I certainly didn't know about it.
+
+>The episode of NTZ was the one where a secret military project
+>accidently opened up a wormhole.  The lead character was sent through for
+>"risk assessment" and also to find the others that had been sent through
+>before him.
+
+Ah..."The Wall."
+>the general theme of the episode seemed
+>very B5ish, in terms of personal responsibility, making sacrifices for the
+>greater good, questions of duty and honor, etc.  Which brings me to my
+>question.  
+> Did these themes become important to you in 1986(?) when you first had
+>the whole B5 story come to you in a flash, or did the B5 story come to you
+>because you had been dwelling on these themes for much of your life?
+
+I've always tried to deal with issues that matter to me in what I write.  I
+can't do it any other way.  If you pull out any of my work, from whatever show,
+I try to sneak in the issues that get caught in my filter.  Hell, it's even in
+the animated series I wrote.  
+
+I was with friends recently, and just for (as John Copeland says) shits and
+grins, I fired up an old episode of He Man a few weeks ago, which was my first
+TV staff writing gig of any substance.  I picked up "Origin of the Sorceress." 
+And the friends commented that virtually all of the themes in B5 are right
+there in that one episode.  Not the plot, the characters, none of that...the
+*themes*, the points of personal sacrifice, responsibility, on and on.
+
+I believe, very strongly, that TV should not be just entertainment.  It must
+entertain, yes, because if it doesn't entertain ain't nobody gonna watch
+it...but as Mark Twain said, while it must not overtly preach or overtly teach,
+it must *covertly* teach and covertly preach.
+
+It's there in about 95% of all my work...especially on The Twilight Zone, and
+in other shows to varying extents.  I don't tend to do moral shows -- if you
+haven't figured out by now that racism is bad, a TeeVee show ain't gonna teach
+it to you -- but I do try to do ethical shows, which get people to talk about
+what's at issue.
+
+No matter how dopey the show, as long as you approach it with, as Balzac said,
+"clean hands and composure," and tell the stories that matter to you, about the
+issues that count, the work is valid.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 5 Jan 1998 00:35:44 -0700
+Subject: Re: new edit of The Gathering ( *Spoilers* )
+
+>So Kosh recognizes that Sinclair is the same person he knew  1000 years in
+>the past as Valen; since Kosh didn't know that this wasn't really Sinclair
+>(else why greet him so?) wouldn't this have given Sinclair a dangerous
+>foreknowledge? 
+
+Internal dialogue...what he was thinking, his reaction.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 5 Jan 1998 00:39:28 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Cost question...
+
+>	I'm going to make this extremely brief; About how much has it
+>cost so far in production costs so far, not including promotions?
+
+If "it" means the series, it's always been under $900 thousand per episode.  If
+"it" means ItB, the production cost was just a tick under three million bucks.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 5 Jan 1998 00:41:07 -0700
+Subject: Re: San Jose Merc's Faint Praise for B5
+
+The San Jose Mercury basically predicted our demise a long time ago, and
+critics have a way of getting snippy when what they say will happen, doesn't. 
+We've seen that in a few other reviews as well.  They don't like having their
+noses (and their predictions) rubbed in our success.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 5 Jan 1998 00:45:34 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: One Quick Question.
+
+>Do you get nervous at times like this?
+
+Nervous doesn't even come CLOSE to describing it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 5 Jan 1998 00:47:34 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS- Cameo questions- ITB and tG
+
+>	Was that you negotiating in the scene with Patricia and the
+>crooked businessman in The Gathering?  
+
+Nope.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 5 Jan 1998 00:59:50 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS  - Londo
+
+>He really is going to hell isn't he? He's going to burn like newspaper
+>dipped in sheep grease. 
+
+There's certainly a karmic point of no return, isn't there?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 5 Jan 1998 08:50:50 -0700
+Subject: Re: The Missing Third Question
+
+"Why are you here?" asked by Lorien, is #3.  The balance point between the two.
+
+There's a fourth question coming, though.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 5 Jan 1998 09:04:33 -0700
+Subject: Re: Production Crew?
+
+>You have freelance directors, freelance scriptwriters, freelance actors.. Are
+>there any "normal" crew associated with a production, and if so, under what
+>company do they fall?  (Babylonian Productions?)
+
+Those (actors, writers, directors) are all above-the-line people.  The
+below-the-line crew are all regular employees: camera operators and grips,
+carpenters, costumers, others.  Most of the company consists of regular
+employees, under BP.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Jan 1998 09:23:33 -0700
+Subject: Re: In the Beginning ( *Spoilers* )
+
+>>>  (But what happened to "No kids or cute robots"?)
+>>
+>> I was wondering that, too.  It would have been
+>>more like JMS to have Keepers on the kiddies'
+>>backs.
+
+Hello...is anyone there...?  I always said that in relation to SERIES REGULARS
+AND RECURS.  Every time we have a kid on the show, and we've had several,
+somebody throws this at me without once remembering that this applies to series
+regulars/recurs, like Wesleys or the bots from Buck Rogers.  
+
+And then somebody gigs me for something I didn't say.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Jan 1998 09:23:46 -0700
+Subject: Re: In the Beginning ( *Spoilers* )
+
+No, the karmic point of no return is the whole of his life, from ItB's events
+through the bombing of Narn, which led to the death of hundreds of thoudands or
+more.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Jan 1998 09:25:49 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Early shows...
+
+Thanks...I agree, the efx have to stay secondary to the characters.  You may
+not remember the details of a plot, but you remember Captain Ahab....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Jan 1998 09:26:15 -0700
+Subject: jms note re: tapings
+
+There was a glitch in the Sunday broadcast of In the Beginning.  They missed a
+commercial break after the first act (as Lenonn goes to see Dukhat), and
+inserted one in the middle of act 6.  That will be corrected in the next run,
+so anyone who wants to get a copy of the movie with the right act breaks should
+tape the next one.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Jan 1998 09:26:51 -0700
+Subject: Re: ITB - the Party in Portland - Afterwords (no spoilers)
+
+At the LA party, there was a second level above the one where we were all
+hanging out, and civilians were shooting pool and carrying on at the second
+level until an employee went to talk to them.  A beat later, one of them, a
+woman, leaned over the rail to look down at what we were doing (having been
+oblivious to it prior to this), saw the TVs showing ItB, and turned to her
+companion, saying, "Oh...it's something to do with Star Trek."
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Jan 1998 09:27:00 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: View into C&C from outside of stattion updside down?
+
+Nope, they're in the right position.  The central docking bay is in the center
+of the station, and C&C is about one-third of the way away, so the head of the
+person is pointing up toward the docking bay.
+
+We don't make t hose kinds of mistakes.
+
+jms
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Jan 1998 09:35:13 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN:  JMS (In the Beginning)
+
+Thanks...and it wasn't so much a case of Ulkesh turning against the effort, but
+finally hitting the end of his patience with the humans, and his predecessor's
+decision to let the "natives" get out of control.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Jan 1998 09:35:20 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Foreshadowing and "Infection"
+
+That's the thing...I wrote this show for the long-term, and if you watch it in
+the way it'll be shown in the long-term, daily, it becomes a whole different
+show.
+
+It was a bitch to pull off, too, lemme tell you....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Jan 1998 09:35:36 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS, congrats on ITB
+
+The reactions were just terrific...and yeah, was very nervous and hoping it
+went well.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Jan 1998 16:20:19 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Writing Question
+
+>That started me wondering -- just how much can you separate the
+>characters from the plot?  Maybe you have a character with the potential
+>to be just fascinating, but if you don't give him anything interesting
+>to do, how will your audience know?
+
+People are fascinating by what they do or say, you can't have a character who's
+fascinating but does nothing, so it's kind of a moot point.
+
+But in general, plot proceeds from character...it's from defining who the
+character is, what he wants, how far he's willing to go to get it, and how far
+someone else will go to stop him.  From that comes all the rest.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Jan 1998 16:20:25 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: The Book Of G'Kar?
+
+>Whatever happend to the Book Of G'Kar? Is he still working on it? Or
+>did his imprisonment by the Centauri distract him? Will we hear more
+>about it in the near future?
+
+Quite a bit, actually, and very soon.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Jan 1998 16:23:46 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: How does it feel...
+
+Relieved.  Pleased.  Tired.  Proud.  And very soon to be massively depressed as
+5 years worth of post-partum depression kicks in.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Jan 1998 16:23:39 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Under-budget?
+
+>B5
+>seems to be alone in an place where most producers think that budgets
+>are made to be ignored.
+
+On every season, and on every one of the TV movies, we have come in a bit under
+budget.  Every time.  Not by skimping, really, but simply by planning properly.
+ 
+
+See, I have this silly notion that if somebody gives you $21 million bucks or
+so to make a series, it kinda behooves you to act responsibly.  
+
+A little over $100 million will have passed through this company in making 5
+years and 3 movies of B5...and every dollar has been accounted for, well spent,
+and handled with sufficient responsibility that WB has gotten back its
+underbudget on each season.  We have periodic audits, as with every production
+company working with a studio, and they're gone within a few hours of arriving,
+proclaiming our books the best they've ever seen.  
+
+It's responsibility, a concept not often understood on this end of the coast.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Jan 1998 16:24:42 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: My Cat is a Vorlon!
+
+GET OUT OF THE HOUSE!  GET OUT OF THE HOUSE RIGHT NOW!
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Jan 1998 16:25:37 -0700
+Subject: Re: HEY JMS! Answer a couple of questions(****sanity**** warning)
+
+>1. Have you finished writing the last three scripts for the 5th season?
+>
+No.
+
+>2. Does Claudia Christensen have a guest shot anywhere in Season 5? 
+>
+No, and who is Claudia Christensen?
+
+>3. What exactly is Thirdspace supposed to be about? No spoilers please
+>
+Then don't ask.
+
+>4. Do you find me attractive? 
+For what purpose?
+>4b. Do you need a poorly paid lackey to beat people up and clean your boots?
+No.
+>4c. Can I be your friend? 
+Not without you contravening the restraining order.
+
+>5. Well there be a security guard named Kenny who will die before the end of
+every episode in season 5? 
+No.
+>5b. If so can I play Kenny?
+>
+Only if you will consent to being eaten by rats afterward.
+
+>6. Is your talent on loan from god like Rush Limbaugh's?
+No, I get to keep mine.
+>6b. Can I have some of the enormous sums of cash you must have? 
+What enormous sums of cash?  This ain't a real network, son.
+>
+>7. Shoes. What's the deal?
+>
+They're supposed to make it harder for you to swallow your foot.
+
+>Now that I am done with my serious questions I have a few that I am
+>legally obligatted to ask under the terms of the 1988 Arms Reduction Act:
+>
+>Why?
+Because.
+>Frog's Ass: watertight or simply waterproof?
+What you do in the privacy of your home is your concern.
+>Wrestling: fake or pretend?
+Kabuki Theater.
+>
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 Jan 1998 20:29:25 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: In the Beginning?
+
+You're most certainly welcome...the pleasure has been all mine.
+
+What's a storyteller without an audience?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 Jan 1998 20:31:51 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Is this bogus mechandise?
+
+I"ve never seen the extra-sized card, so I can't say.  It doesn't sound
+amiss...you may just have had the worst string of luck in the last decade in
+terms of getting the righit boxes.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 13 Jan 1998 11:16:11 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: "Excaliber" Similarities (Possible Spoillers)
+
+>Anyway, as the movie "Excaliber" is at it's end, and Percival throws
+>Excaliber into the river, and King Arthur is boated away to his final
+>resting place.  A possible similarity to what comes for Sheriden? 
+
+Who can say...?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 13 Jan 1998 20:32:54 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - Has anyone asked you this?
+
+>1)  Who are YOU?
+>
+I am a writer.
+
+>2)  What do YOU want?
+>
+To tell stories.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 13 Jan 1998 20:33:16 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Timing of Stories and Acts
+
+One thing I always try to do is to not end the story at the very last second,
+but rather give time for the implications of what we saw or eperienced to sink
+in (consequences and responsibility), and/or to set up what's coming next.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 13 Jan 1998 20:33:36 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS: Best of Season 5?
+
+Actually, I say watch 'em all...usually each season we have one where you go,
+"oh, well, it was a good effort."  This time, so far they're all solid; in many
+ways, I think it's our best season to date.  There are a couple that will
+doubtless split the fan reactions down the middle, as Deconstruction did, but
+that's intended, just to keep folks from getting complacent...no, in general,
+I'm pleased with them all.  
+
+I'll leave it to the viewers to determine which of them is best.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 14 Jan 1998 07:00:58 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  What about the Vorlon homeworld
+
+All I can say is that you'll hear about this more in S5.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 15 Jan 1998 07:39:10 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS: Foundation Imaging authorizing models?
+
+Foundation Imaging does not have the authority to license or authorize anything
+of this nature.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 15 Jan 1998 07:39:02 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Re-use of clips in "In the Beginning"
+
+I think if you add up all the footage from other episodes, it's probably less
+than about 5 minutes total.
+
+I figure, if we shot it right the first time, why redo it?  Also, if we take
+the position that this "happened," it should be identical, and a restaging
+wouldn't be identical.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 15 Jan 1998 07:38:51 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS - And The Sky Full Of Stars Question *SPOILERS*
+
+>1. Who was the Minbari who was in Delenn's shower?
+
+A member of the Grey Council, seen in later episodes.
+
+>2. And, why would his order be: "He must never know what happened. If
+>he should find out, he must be killed. Do you understand, Delenn?" 
+
+Because if the word about the Sinclair/Valen/soul issue got out before their
+people could be prepared, it could rip Minbari society apart...and since the
+Minbari also believe in reincarnation, better to "recycle" Valen's soul than
+see the world he cared so much about torn asunder.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 15 Jan 1998 07:45:16 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: B5 copyright
+
+Warner Bros. owns B5.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1998 07:20:44 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn. JMS: Room for Improvement - Kitchen? Bedroom? Living Room?
+
+>While you are obviously a *very* gifted professional writer, I'm sure
+>that there is still at least one area in which you're specifically,
+>consciously working to perfect your skill. I'm wondering what that area
+>(those areas?) is - what do you find the most difficult to do well
+>writing-wise? What tends to disappoint you the most about your writing?
+>And what are you doing to try and improve that area (those areas?) that
+>give you trouble?
+
+There isn't any part of it that I think I've totally whipped...and I hope I
+never do, because the moment you think you've got it all sussed, you've stopped
+trying, and the work stultifies.
+
+So there isn't really any one area, just a general sense that I have to
+continue to get better...and the only way you get better is to keep trying new
+things, in different combinations.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1998 07:21:50 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: "...Sky Full of Stars" (*SPOILERS FOR ALL SEASONS*)
+
+>Joe, as I was watching "And the Sky Full of Stars" I was struck by
+>something that seemed like the hand of the Great Maker was involved (and
+>you did write the ep).  Specifically, I was struck by the three questions
+>Sinclair asked of the Grey Council during his abduction:
+>Who are you?"
+>
+>"What do you want?"
+>
+>"Why are you doing this?"
+
+The first two definitely; the third is a bit of a stretch, though it may be my
+subconscious is again being smarter than I was at the time.  Note also that the
+"what do you want?" question is echoed over and over...as it would later be
+echoed all over by Morden.  If you go back over the actual logic of how the
+scene would have played, that bit only works if you allow for the
+hallucination.  That was the hand of the author showing where, frankly, it
+probably should not have showed.
+
+>P.S.  Is the (as you stated will be coming) *fourth* question located in
+>your Sierra reference guide?
+
+Could be....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1998 07:22:15 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Write how many episodes?
+
+>>* Do you know yet how many episodes you will write
+>>in season 5?
+
+Because a couple of freelance scripts didn't work out, it's come in at 21.
+
+>>* To what number will your record-breaking string of
+>>consequitively written episodes extend?
+
+60
+
+>>* Counting all five seasons, how many of the
+>>110 episodes will you have written?
+
+I think it's 91.  If you put all the episodes, the pilot, and the 3 movies
+together, it's equal to 50 full-length feature films in 5 years.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1998 07:22:26 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  So that's why . . .
+
+>It gave me goose bumps and made me feel wistful all
+>at the same time.  Excellent job, sir.
+
+I have the same reaction to it...thanks.
+
+>BTW, so that's why we never saw the back of the station!  I must ask,
+>whose idea was that?  I thought it was hilarious.
+
+I confess it was my idea...damn taggers are everywhere...it's my one indulgence
+in 5 years.  Doesn't any good artist sign his work?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 16 Jan 1998 18:35:11 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Disappointed by Season 5 Credits (Credits Spoilers)
+
+Re: the voices in the mov file...
+
+1) The separation left-right isn't correct, so it muddies the sound.
+
+2) We had to do audoi grabs from episodes for the first pass at the main
+titles, since there wasn't opportunity to revoice the lines and make them
+clearer.  Starting around episode 7 or so, we dropped in the re-do's and made
+the thing clearer overall.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 17 Jan 1998 13:11:30 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn. JMS: Verse drama? WAS Room for Improvement - Kitchen?
+
+I've tried verse drama, even tried to do it with the new play I'm writing, then
+finally had to abandon it...it's just hideously difficult and I find gets in
+the way of my saying what it is that I want to say; I concentrate more on the
+how than the what, the pattern rather than the content.  I guess my brain can
+only work in one direction at a time.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 18 Jan 1998 16:54:13 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Are you the Universe? (minor random spoilers)
+
+>the show) has come from your mind.  You've stated on many
+>occations that you talk to them regularly to find out how each would react
+>to the situations you give them.  All of them (and their interactions) are
+>expressions of YOUR thought processes.  You are the universe!
+>
+>Is this what you were going for as you wrote the series?
+>
+Heavens, no...if I'm the universe then it's a low-rent galaxy, lemme tell
+you....
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 18 Jan 1998 16:54:33 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS: R-M Starfury Models; Thank You!
+
+Thanks...still haven't gotten mine yet, but we're very happy about the models. 
+Revell did a great job and was very open to our corrections and notes and nits.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 18 Jan 1998 16:54:44 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS Season 5 Intro
+
+>I was wondering though if the way the intro is done (and that is all I will
+>say to prevent spoilage)
+>is not your way of getting to those who said B5 wouldn't last 5 years.  
+>
+>
+
+No, I dealt with that lot in 5 seconds of 422...no reason to give them any
+further attention.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1998 06:29:12 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS:  When others write B5 episodes
+
+>
+>How much influence do you have when others write the occasional B5 episode?
+>I
+>am particularly curious about the Kosh scenes.  Do you write up a thorough
+>outlines and assign them out, or are the writers give the guidelines and told
+>to think something up?
+
+Kosh often tended to get revised in-house to make him consistent, mysterious
+rather than a fortune-cookie, which often happened.
+
+Writers got variously verbal notes, a page or two, or in some cases, several
+pages of notes/outline material on an episode.  But a script is very long, so
+they had to come up with a lot to fill in the gaps.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1998 06:29:19 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn: jms Theatre?
+
+I have a modest theatrical background, with about a dozen one-acts and a
+handful of full-length plays produced.  That's where I cut my teeth as a
+dramatic writer, so that tends to sneak out every once in a while.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1998 06:29:29 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Not reshot?
+
+Nope, we didn't reshoot that.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1998 06:32:33 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Who wrote this line?
+
+>"The avalanche has already begun. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
+>
+>Is that Gerrold, or Straczynski?
+
+That was Gerrold, as I recall.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 21 Jan 1998 18:07:39 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS : Thirdspace -- Novelization?
+
+Haven't seen the manuscript yet on the Thirdspace novelization, so I can't
+comment, though I suspect he added stuff there to fill it out.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1998 16:51:10 -0700
+Subject: Re: Ratings for B5 first season; how do they compare?
+
+>  However, I lack a frame of reference for
+>pre-prime time syndicated strips.  In particular, how is B5 doing
+>compared to Lois and Clark, especially how did Lois and Clark do last
+>month when it ran in B5's current time slot?
+
+The daily ratings have been substantially higher in both number, and in the
+demographics, which is crucial for advertisers who want to reach a specific
+audience.  L&C did about a 1.4 or 1.5 average, which they'd be happy if B5
+reached or equaled.  The first 3 B5 eps of this week, for instance, all I have
+so far for this week, were all 2.0...so TNT is delerious.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1998 17:08:09 -0700
+Subject: Re: No Compromises. ( *Spoilers* )
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+>> I'm not sure exactly what it is about them...it just felt too contrived,
+>too
+>> much the "gotta add the new plot device here".  Especially with Sheriden's
+>> comment to Garibaldi along the lines of 'we both know there's going to be a
+>> telepath war any day now.'  Huh?  Did they watch "Deconstruction"
+
+This is hardly a new plot element...this has been brewing for 4 years now, with
+the growing telepath underground.  As for the latter part of that comment...did
+you already forget that in "Rising Star" there was a conversation between
+Sheridan and Bester about the coming telepath war?  
+
+Not my fault if you're not paying attention.
+
+>> I would think that these guys would believe exactly the opposite, that the
+>> peep/human conflict had been eliminated, since Edgars (the guy who planned
+>to
+>> direct the war) was taken out of the picture.
+
+No, Edgars wasn't trying to *start* a war, he was trying to solve it BEFORE it
+started.  He knew it was coming, is coming, and was trying to give normals an
+edge.  That edge is now gone.  Again, you're misinterpreting or misremembering
+what's been established and saying it's an error on our part.
+>>
+>> *       Why did the telepaths need permission to come to Babylon 5?  I
+>though it
+>> was open to anyone who could pay the rent.
+
+Individually, yes...but again, pay attention, we're talking about a COLONY,
+which means you've got several hundred people living in one area, under one
+authority (Byron), with an unknown or unspecified agenda, whose presence might
+bring problems from the Psi Corps and elsewhere.  So yeah, they're going to
+need somebody's permission.  
+>> *       Why did Sheriden promise a "hands-off" relationship (with
+>exceptions) in
+>> regards to Lochley's responsibilities and powers, and then, in the very
+>same
+>> episode, break that promise by finding an exception?  It seemed too
+>> convenient, too pat.
+
+He didn't break his promise...he moved this into a political decision, which is
+his purview.  He said specifically, "If it's a political problem, or involves
+the Alliance, it's my turf."  This is a strategic decision on behalf of the
+Alliance.
+
+>> *       Where the heck did this "image projection" power come from?  Can
+>Bester
+>> (one of the most powerful peeps we know) do it?  If so, why has he not?  If
+>> not, are these peeps more powerful than Bester?
+
+Well, now you've got a contradiction.  Either we have seen this before, or we
+haven't seen it before.  You say where did it come from, then cite an example
+of where it's been seen before.  And if you'll go back and rewatch that
+episode, you'll see that teeps can act collectively and be very strong.
+
+>It took an entire mob of
+>> peeps, in "A Race Through Dark Places", led by the Ironheart-intensified
+>> Talia and the rogue peep that Ironheart brought on board (previously seen
+>in
+>> "Chrysalis") to project visions into Bester's head.  
+
+No...again, you're distorting the situation.  The task wasn't just to send an
+image into his head, it was to CONVINCE HIM that this image had really
+happened, and it took a lot of them to do this to a Psi Cop.  That's why it
+took so many of them; he's a strong target.  It ain't the same as doing it to a
+normal.  You're not thinking through what you're saying.
+
+>Bester, a single
+>> powerful peep, was able to manipulate Garibaldi's personality and integrity
+>> in such a profound way that Garibaldi betrayed all his friends.  
+
+No, he wasn't...they had to drug him, and do all kinds of work on him to make
+that happen.  Again, you're in error.
+
+>Here we have
+>> a whole colony of peeps with the ability to vanish, create a sound-vacuum,
+>> and project visions.  And they need to ask permission to stay on the
+>station?
+>> Why don't they just move in, set up shop, and turn silent and invisible as
+>> necessary?
+
+Maybe because they are (or are trying to be) the good guys?  Maybe because they
+don't actually vanish, or turn off sound, they can individually manipulate
+somebody by pressing on receptors and distorting things like their time
+sense...but they're going to show up on cameras, and on sensors, and unless
+they want to constantly try and control every single person on the station in
+large groups as they pass by, they're going to be discovered, and booted off
+the station.  So they may as well do the right thing and ask.  Just because
+someone *can* steal doesn't mean they *should* steal.
+
+Besides, where are they going to live?  Quarters have to be assigned, and
+they're always short on space.  Food has to be paid for.  On and on.  Your
+contention doesn't make sense...they're not gods.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1998 17:22:21 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn:  JMS Michelangelo
+
+Folks...the opening credits are where we show the real names of the people
+involved.  They're not part of the show per se.  We went into the central
+docking bay to reveal the jms credit before; do we assume it's there?  It was
+revealed in a Starfury flyby, was it there?  We always place it somewhere in
+the shot.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1998 17:24:07 -0700
+Subject: B5 comic out now!
+
+The first issue of the B5 comic is now out, the first part of the 3 part story
+done by me (#1) and Peter David (2&3).  "In Valen's Name" is on stands now from
+DC Comics.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 08:49:00 -0700
+Subject: Re: My take on No Compromises (Beware of Spoilers)
+
+>Agreed.  It's almost as if they were doing a first episode for a new
+>series...almost, except that we know most of these characters and know
+>where they've been and what they've been through.
+
+One note: due to the TNT ad blitz, we went into this on the assumption that we
+were (and did) pick up a LOT of viewers who had never before seen B5.  These
+folks would need to be brought up to speed on the returning characters and
+situations, and the regular viewers would need to be brought up to speed on
+Lochley...so I wrote it with that intention.
+>I personally liked Lochley a lot more than I thought I would.  Scoggins
+>really can act. <g>
+>
+>
+
+Yup.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 20:50:37 -0700
+Subject: Re: Well if "No Compromises" sucked:
+
+>Urm, FOUR in a row being bad, actually -- I forgot In the Beginning.  The
+>last two episodes of season four were tripe, ItB was tripe, and NC was
+>tripe.
+
+You forgot one very important phrase: "in my opinion."
+
+Because there other opinions out there, and in the case of ItB you are
+outnumbered around 99 to 1.  Just because you say it doesn't make it so.  
+
+Because all-encompassing general comments based on one person's subjective
+opinion is tripe...and surely you would not wish to commit tripe, woud you?
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 25 Jan 1998 20:51:03 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS needs a technical advisor, was Re: Regarding "No Compromises"
+
+Excuse me, folks, but he was using a B5 starfury, which is programmed like all
+starfuries there to sync up with the station's rotation for purposes of
+docking, ejecting, and holding position for repair purposes.  All a pilot would
+have to do is tell the on-board computer to sync up the thrusters with the
+station's rotation, and it'd be done.
+
+This is a no-brainer...which is why I didn't specify it in dialogue (also it
+would've killed the drama of the momen).  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1998 17:20:49 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Ohhhhh.. you stinker.
+
+>When Garibaldi is walking into Lochley's new room, an
+>aide is hanging the symbol of the Earth Alliance on the wall.  Garibaldi
+>looks at it and states, "Hmmm.. it's a little crooked."   Somehow I
+>think that he meant more than how the symbol was hung on the wall.  Is
+>that a hint of things to come?
+
+No, but it was certainly meant as a subtle double-entendre, given his recent
+experiences.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1998 03:14:46 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Original "The Very Long Night..." Question (spoilers)
+
+Nothing like this was planned for Susan; I just liked the title and adjusted
+it.
+
+And in Russian, it's Ivanov for males, Ivanova for females.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1998 03:17:21 -0700
+Subject: Re: Cats:  Shadows or Vorlons?
+
+>The setup:
+>
+>1.  One of our cats has decided that the cable box is a great place to
+>sleep.  It's warm, it's in a cozy spot.
+>
+>2.  We're taping B5.  We have choir rehearsals on Wednesday nights
+>(we're supplying our cantor with copies of seasons 1-3 as he didn't pick
+>up on B5 until late.
+>
+>3.  We get home, we get our snacks, we plop down to watch the episode.
+>
+>The payoff:
+>
+>We get approximately 10 minutes into "The Long Night..." and suddenly
+>we're watching a preschool thing.  I fast forward thinking it was a
+>problem with our cable company.  No--it switches a few minutes later to
+>some Charles Bronson movie.
+>
+>Now, I don't know if we're being made to pay for some transgression
+>(okay, we did throw him and the other felines into the garage while the
+>realtors were tramping through), but here's what he did:  he turned the
+>box on, switched channels twice, and turned in off!
+>
+>This is not normal feline intelligence.  You tell me, is this a Vorlon
+>or a Shadow we've got here?
+>
+>
+
+Neither.  He's like all cats: he's a Keeper...they sit on your shoulder,
+they're invisible unless they want to be seen, they glare at you out of one
+baleful eye, and gradually they take over your life.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1998 03:20:30 -0700
+Subject: Re: Season 5 quotation marks? (no spoilers)
+
+I never wanted the quotation marks, so it'd be like a novel first page...but
+each season, before I could catch it, some went through and I had to eat it. 
+So this season I made sure to clarify that up front.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1998 21:37:29 -0700
+Subject: Re: The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari ( *Spoilers* )
+
+>It seems to be a shame (to me at least) that an atheist should have a
+>better grasp of spiritual truths than many Christians.  
+
+Only Nixon could go to China.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1998 21:38:02 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: TVLNoLM Directing/Camera Shots (Spoilers)
+
+>1) Was it just me THINKING that the lighting had changed or did it actually 
+>do so?
+>
+We did the light change, and enhanced it further in post.
+
+>2) Was the scene shot with a steady cam mounted to someone or was
+>that some sort of boom (or was it the floating cameras that ISN uses)?
+
+We attached the camera to his body.
+
+>3) Was the long single shot the idea of the director or was it spelled out
+>in the script by JMS?
+>
+It was in the script.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 30 Jan 1998 07:19:18 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Londo Mollari, G'Kar, and my grandmother
+
+Thank you for saying all of that; if we can be witnessses for hope, for the
+possibility of joy and dignity, to one another, then there's a chance for *all*
+of us.
+
+And my sincerest condolences on your loss.  From your comments and
+observations, I think she did a great job, and you should be proud.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 30 Jan 1998 07:22:24 -0700
+Subject: Re: Cats:  Shadows or Vorlons?
+
+>So--since there are 6 cats in the house (don't ask), just how much trouble am
+>I
+>in?
+
+I can't say exactly, but one of them just logged in under your account.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+JMS (and coproducer George Johnsen) Usenet messages for February 1998.
+
+
+Date: 2 Feb 1998 09:20:32 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - TVLNoLM
+
+>You have come so far in the last five years.
+>
+I do hope so...we've learned a lot doing B5 over the years, and this kind of
+intense writing tends to teach you a LOT in a very short amount of time.
+
+>And what's really amazing is I'm pretty sure you're going to top it at 
+>some point this year!
+
+Hope so again...that's the other part.  I think we all have to keep challenging
+ourselves on a daily basis, or what's the point of going on?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 2 Feb 1998 09:43:01 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN:  JMS - Medium question
+
+It would've been 'way outside our budget capacity to produce it as an episode.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 2 Feb 1998 14:43:44 -0700
+Subject: Re: The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari ( *Spoilers* )
+
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+
+Re: the idea that Londo has "apologized" before....
+
+Remember G'Kar's comment: that in other circumstances, Londo wasn't sorry he
+DID it, he was sorry he got CAUGHT.  That was the point of the exercise.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 2 Feb 1998 17:03:24 -0700
+Subject: Re: The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari ( *Spoilers* )
+
+
+Bill is still on the show; there's a bit of a break as his character is off on
+anla-shok training, but he does come back, and in fact has a rather substantial
+arc of his own at a certain point later in the season.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 3 Feb 1998 09:50:50 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Upcoming titles
+
+Yeah, I've used that quote in other places, back to CP days, so it was in the
+back of my head.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 3 Feb 1998 09:53:45 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Resolution
+
+>Now that you are in the process of writing the final script, I'd just
+>like to ask has the season shaped up the way you wanted it? And will 522
+>provide the same sense of resolution that 421 did?
+
+Yes and no...the last part of the season is very tight, 17-19 are very much of
+a piece, 20 sets up one final thread, then 21 and 22 are more designed to *lead
+up to* the held-over 422.  That's one of the main differences...if it'd aired
+at the end of S4, it would've been a bit of a jump, but now can lead up to it
+more smoothly.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 3 Feb 1998 09:53:30 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: comment on "TVLNoLM"
+
+Thanks...we're slowly bringing Londo full-circle, and what an odd little voyage
+it's been.  And so much sadness yet to come.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 3 Feb 1998 09:53:51 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn: jms  - How was the directing for 517?
+
+Haven't seen the director's cut yet, but Goran did a great job, based on
+dailies.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 3 Feb 1998 09:53:59 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS- semi-silly No Comprimises question.
+
+That would be *terribly* self indulgent of me....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 3 Feb 1998 13:43:14 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: cats, CTS and clubs
+
+>Cats- I've always assumed that you don't like felines but a recent posting 
+>made me wonder if maybe you do.  So.... do you like cats?
+
+Absolutely.  But with all cats, it's half affection, half psychological
+warfare.  Goes with the turf.
+
+>CTS - are you still suffering? 
+
+It comes and goes.
+
+>Clubs - can members of the UK fan club access "thestation" site?
+
+If by that you mean members in the UK of the B5 official fan club, then yes;
+but membership in the UK fan club (a separate organization) is not membership
+in the official organization.  But of course anyone can access thestation.com,
+it's just that fans get certain areas and discounts others don't.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 4 Feb 1998 00:10:37 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn:JMS Whatever happened to George Johnsen?
+
+George was a NDEI employee who worked with us on Babylon 5, and after spending
+4 years of no sleep getting the show together, decided to move on and pursue
+other opportunities, of which there are many.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 4 Feb 1998 15:03:26 -0700
+Subject: Re: Chrysalis Credits Intact!
+
+TNT has pledged to show one episode per season with out any kind of voice-over
+or crunching, as a nod to the fans.  Usually the season ender.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 4 Feb 1998 15:43:27 -0700
+Subject: from jms: life meets art?
+
+Check out this site:
+
+http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9802/03/holliman/
+
+The photo of Node One, part of Nasa's new space station -- a city in space,
+they call it -- looks kinda like B5's core design. 
+
+Just a little frisson...kinda fun.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 4 Feb 1998 15:53:56 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Writing old ST:TOS comics
+
+I was always a fan of the original Trek, and really felt I had a handle on
+those characters; always wanted to write for them.  So I managed to talk my way
+into the gig.  It'sa favorite of mine, one of the better comics I did.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 5 Feb 1998 23:43:13 -0700
+Subject: Re: Declaration of Principles -- Spoilers for Paragon of Animals
+
+> No matter the pain
+>  No matter the darkness
+>  No matter the loss
+>  No matter the fear
+>We are one, here, gathered together in common cause.
+>We agree to recognize this singular truth
+>  and this singular rule:
+
+Just a typographical correction: this should be, at the midway point,
+
+No matter the fear:
+We are one.
+Here, gathered together in common cause,
+We agree...(etc)
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 5 Feb 1998 23:59:04 -0700
+Subject: Re: from jms: life meets art?
+
+>Seriously, though... if an ant saw Node One, then asked another ant "What
+>was that?", what would the second ant say?
+>
+>
+>
+
+RUN FOR IT!
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 6 Feb 1998 07:04:27 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: S5 script writing
+
+Peter and Bill's script didn't work out.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 6 Feb 1998 07:04:20 -0700
+Subject: Re: WHERE'S LOCHLEY?
+
+>Still, she's the new captain -- where is she?
+
+Settling in on station stuff...this is all Alliance stuff.  
+
+She'll be in a run of several starting next week.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 6 Feb 1998 07:06:47 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATT JMS:  Is Harlan going
+
+While we're not doing the Demon story this season, Harlan has co-story credit
+on two episodes this season.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 6 Feb 1998 22:15:53 -0700
+Subject: The Paragon of Animals ( *Spoilers* )
+
+Spoilers for The Paragon of Animals
+
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+White Stars are not invulnerable.  If they saw what they were told were a
+friendly fleet coming in, to join them in an offense, they would have their
+defenses down.  And a full-scale Drazi fleet would also somewhat outnumber the
+White Stars.  A Pearl Harbor style attack on White Stars would effectively
+decimate the fleet before they would have a chance to respond.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 6 Feb 1998 22:21:45 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn jms : Where is SiL?
+
+>who has the copy of SiL, Warner Brothers, Bab. Productions, or TNT?
+
+To make sure it didn't get out accidentally, we've held onto it, and have not
+yet put in the CGI to make sure it didn't get aired by accident.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 7 Feb 1998 10:15:55 -0700
+Subject: Re: attn jms:  You've had a lot of fun writing these,
+
+If it weren't fun, wouldn't be no point in doing it....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 7 Feb 1998 10:16:44 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Last 3 titles
+
+>Now that you have written the last 3 episodes, could you reveal their
+>titles?
+
+I could.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 7 Feb 1998 10:17:18 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: How do you feel?
+
+>Now that a major portion of your work
+>will be over are you not going to know what to do with all that free time?
+
+What free time?  
+
+>You must feel relieved, sad, euphoric, and proud because that's what you've
+>done to me in just the first few episodes this season.  I bet you'll be able
+>to identify with how Sinclair would have felt if he'd stayed after year one,
+>being outside the action a little more. 
+
+Certainly all those emotions and still others raced through me when I finished
+typing the last words of episode 522 a few days ago.  There's no way to
+describe it.
+
+>So what's left to do as Executive
+>Producer these next few weeks?   
+
+Writing the next 2 movies, to be shot in April/May; doing all the other
+production stuff (working with the various departments -- costume, prosthetics,
+CGI, sets, directors, actors), post production stuff (doing the editing,
+working with the composer on music, others on sound, more CGI, other stuff),
+dealing with the mountain of licensing approvals that has piled up on my desk
+due to being more interested in the show than that stuff, and (one hopes)
+shortly gearing up for Crusade.
+
+Also just had a new 4-hour miniseries that I wrote optioned by a major company.
+
+Other than that, not much going on.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 8 Feb 1998 11:30:24 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Curious phrasing
+
+No, I phrased it that way only because it isn't the last episode of the season,
+that's "Sleeping in Light," shot last year.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Feb 1998 09:19:01 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS
+
+>-In season 2, we had all these cool 'exterior' kind of shots into
+>Sheridan's Office and Earhart's.  (Ex: the shot of Londo at the window
+>of Sheridan's office in "Geo. of Shadows")  What ever happened to them?
+>
+>
+
+Bottom line...I keep forgetting to write them in.
+
+>-I'm a columbia house guy, collecting all the tapes -I wonder what
+>versions of the shows you are using.  For instance, in the US, we lost
+>the "Whole Garden Maze" in the ep with Londo and Morden in the Garden.
+>Are we gonna get the complete UK version or the US version?
+
+The US version was only for the first airing; all subsequent airings have been
+correct, and should be correct here (they told us they burned the incorrect
+master...we'll see).
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Feb 1998 09:35:58 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: How do you feel?
+
+>About which, of course, being the modest person you are, you will not tell
+>us anything unless we specifically ask.
+>
+>Hint? Itty bitty spoiler? even an "eep", huh, prettly please, huh? :-)
+
+Because it's based on a true story, and I'd rather not have anyone else jump
+the claim here, I'll be quiet for now.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1998 14:27:29 -0700
+Subject: Re: I've got the B5 merchandise blues.
+
+
+You can also order all this stuff from thestation.com, and we'll get it out
+fast.
+
+But I'll send a note to Sonic about your situation.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1998 14:27:49 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: your projectss
+
+
+>Vocabulary lesson, please.
+>"Optioned" means that a major company can make the miniseries, but doesn't
+>have to, correct?
+
+An option is the standard protocol in deal making.  It is a fee paid to the
+writer allowing the studio or network to hold onto the material while it puts
+together the rest of the deal.  Consider it a downpayment.  Once the deal is in
+place, the rest of the money follows.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1998 06:30:00 -0700
+Subject: A View from the Gallery ( *Spoilers* )
+
+Spoilers for A View from the Gallery
+
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+>In one scene Byron and friends combine to turn away an
+>invading soldier, but in another scene Byron alone places images into the
+>mind of the maintenance worker, Bo. Why did Byron need help with the
+>soldier but not with Bo? 
+
+Because there's a substantial difference in will and intent in making a person
+who's come to murder you turn around, and creating a momentary illusion in
+someone's head.  It's the degree of effort involved.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1998 09:00:45 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS Gallifrey?
+
+Yeah, I'll be blipping into the Gallifrey convention Sunday afternoon for an
+hour-plus presentation and some autographing thereafter.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1998 09:00:57 -0700
+Subject: Re: Lockley's hair   was Re: First Take - A View from the Gallery
+
+Scoggins did exactly what you suggest, Diane.  She figured, "This isn't about
+hair."  She was awakened, and had to get to C&C fast, she ain't gonna do her
+hair, just ponytail it back.
+
+She didn't realize, in making that choice, that it would make her a) look that
+severe in the uniform, since she was still getting used to it, and b) give her
+the Ivanova "peanut-head" as she used to call it.  She later realized this was
+a bit of an error, and has never done it since.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 14 Feb 1998 09:01:16 -0700
+Subject: Re: A View from the Gallery
+
+>Remember, with the gravity produced by the station's
+>rotation, portholes must be in the floor.  Hence, in _The Long Dark_,
+>Schultz's character appeared to be looking through a floor drain.  For
+>Bo and Mack to have looked out the porthole in the lower wall, they must
+>have been walking down a rather steep incline.
+
+Nope.
+
+Look carefully at the station.  It is in segments; and at the outer wall of
+each of those segments, as with the sanctuary, you can get an outer view.  You
+can see the lights from some of these areas that have portholes in the station
+when it's dark.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 15 Feb 1998 09:42:49 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Claudia line...direct hit! ("AVFtG" spoilers)
+
+Correct;  it was never meant as a shot at Claudia, but rather at the folks out
+there whose only interest is in rumors, and starting trouble, and feeding
+feuds.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 15 Feb 1998 09:42:59 -0700
+Subject: Re: Where is B5 getting all its starfuries/
+
+This issue comes up in about a week.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 17 Feb 1998 22:16:44 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Now that it's all over...
+
+>How do you feel?
+>
+>
+
+I've felt pretty much everything since finishing 522...but most of all, I guess
+I feel relieved that we actually did what we said we were going to do, and went
+the distance.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 17 Feb 1998 22:16:59 -0700
+Subject: Re: To jms: Babylon 5 and other science fiction shows
+
+>You have mentioned on many occasions
+>that one of the things you wanted to do with this show was deviate from
+>more "traditional" American science fiction, such as Star Trek. Do you 
+>actually not like these shows, or did you just want to make
+>something different? 
+
+It's the latter.  To do something differently isn't to say that it wasn't done
+right before.  It's not a good/bad issue.  I wanted to do something that
+nobody'd done before, in part BECAUSE nobody'd ever done it before...where's
+the challenge otherwise?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 19 Feb 1998 08:42:42 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn. JMS: Many thanks for your help
+
+>Thanks much for helping out with my question a week or two ago regarding
+>Sonic Images' customer service.  My friend got his Christmas gift at last,
+>with apologies (and a little something extra) from the gang at Sonic Images,
+>and justice is done.
+
+I live to serve.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 19 Feb 1998 08:42:50 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  No liscensed White Star models?  What's This...?
+
+It is most definitely and emphatically NOT licensed, and NOT official, and
+anyone buying this is being ripped off if they are being told otherwise.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 19 Feb 1998 08:43:02 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS Re: TNT Cuts scene from V-in W part 1
+
+Yes, this is true...an engineer punched in the wrong time-code on the act-in.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 19 Feb 1998 08:43:12 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  The New TNT Movie Story Ideas
+
+They asked what I'd like to do in a couple of movies...I thought about it, and
+sent on a couple of brief premises...they read 'em said they loved 'em, and to
+go and do.  Creatively, they're leaving us completely on our own, something
+we've earned with them.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 20 Feb 1998 13:19:24 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Marcus Cole
+
+There are no current plans for anything further from Marcus this side of the
+grave.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 20 Feb 1998 13:21:18 -0700
+Subject: Re: Learning Curve ( *Spoilers* )
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+> please
+>please please don't throw in a typical jelousy-based story line with the
+>little woman mad about a prior relationship. Geeeez. 
+
+It's amazing to see how many people (not speaking directly to you, but the
+flood of email and public posts on this) who go right for cliche in how
+something like this would be handled, and then have jumped to the conclusion
+that that's what would be done *here*.
+
+Believe me, that aspect ain't what this thread is about.
+
+jms
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 22 Feb 1998 01:11:00 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Another Quickie on further TNT movies
+
+Thirdspace is set in the 4th season, about one-third in.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 22 Feb 1998 01:15:23 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: My Take on Season 5
+
+Charles, at risk of being terribly unproducerish...will you for chrsissakes
+relax?
+
+Everything you're saying about Lochley here -- and I mean EVERYTHING -- was
+said about Claudia Christian when she came on board as Ivanova.  "Oh, she's
+wooden, she's trying to hard to be tough, get rid of her and bring back
+Takashima."
+
+I told people to give her time, they'd learn that there's more there than meets
+the eye.  They said I was making excuses for a poor casting choice.  So let's
+all just give the woman and the character a chance, okay?  You've seen her now
+in a total of 3 episodes, which were designed to put her toe-to-toe with
+Garibaldi.  There's more there.
+
+And yeah, I wanted to give viewers a rest-up for a bit after the excesses of
+S4.  Okay, so you can't see where it's going.  That's okay by me (you don't see
+the coming telepath situation, for starters?)...people were saying in seasons 1
+and most of 2 that they didn't see it then, either...then they saw it when I
+chose to let it be seen.  
+
+This year has one of the most intense series of arcs we've ever DONE.  And by
+the end of it you'll be happy you HAD these few lighter episodes because I'm
+going to kick the crap out of the viewers.  We have not just one, but two and
+maybe (depending on how it comes out) three episodes this season I'd put toe to
+toe with Coming of Shadows for intensity, for arc, for major shifts.
+
+Further:
+
+People saw "By Any Means Necessary," and said it wasn't an arc episode...it was
+just about a strike.  But later, after what came up, this was seen as the FIRST
+EPISODE in the real turn-around and reversal of Londo/G'kar...here Londo was
+being the bad guy for the first time, and here G'Kar was showing a spiritual
+side.  That one episode marked the absolute start of that reversal...which only
+became clear well AFTER the fact.  DURING the fact, I had to put up with people
+assuming that it had nothing to do with the arc.
+
+How can you say you don't think it's going anywhere when you haven't seen where
+it's gone?  
+
+Y'know if I were just an audience member, I'd be sitting back and enjoying this
+show and wondering where it's going to go without making judgements based on
+ZERO information on where it is or isn't going.  Have you read the scripts?  Do
+you know what's in 518?  
+
+Have you seen the shot where a tearful Delenn embraces Londo for what may be
+the last time?  Have you seen the phoenix that rises out of Byron's actions? 
+Have you heard about the bombing of Psi Corps back home?  Have you seen what's
+living under the palace on Centauri Prime?  Have you seen what the regent sees
+when he looks up on the very last night of his life?  Have you seen the
+terrible darkness that Lennier discovers at the worst possible moment of his
+life?  Have you seen the REAL other side of Lyta, and what she can do?  Have
+you seen the Drazi homeworld, and the terrible secret they're hiding there?  
+
+Have you?
+
+Because that's only a FRACTION of what is coming this season, the smallest
+part.
+
+Maybe you're getting reruns of episodes...I'm getting reruns of comments from
+past seasons...which were shown to be wrong then, and they're wrong now.
+
+Let's talk about Season 5 as a whole once you've actually SEEN it, shall we?
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 22 Feb 1998 23:18:27 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: My Take on Season 5
+
+As long as I'm being unproducerish....
+
+>Still,
+>continuity is earned and not promised; it develops organically and not
+>merely retrospectively. Insisting that there is an arc on the basis of
+>future developments amounts to a cheat, and an embarassing one on the part
+>of a writer of JMS's stature.
+
+I'm sorry, but this comment ranks in the top ten percentile of astonishingly
+paralogical remarks I've ever seen.  What you're saying here is that the ONLY
+thing that constitutes an arc is if the audience sees it before it happens, if
+it's told it's there...as opposed to an arc that becomes clear in the light of
+FUTURE EVENTS.
+
+But an arc IS A STORY THAT GOES INTO THE FUTURE EVENTS.  That is the very
+DEFINITION of it.  How many people here said they started watching B5 in its
+first season and didn't know there was an arc until "Signs and Portents?" 
+Plenty, I've seen them.  So unless it's *predictible*, unless you've been
+briefed ahead of time that something's coming, paying it off in the future,
+which is how I'm writing it, doesn't count.
+
+Yes, I referred to future developments because THAT IS WHAT AN ARC IS, future
+developments.  
+
+This is the most astonishing conversation I've had on the nets in months.
+
+Excuse me, I think I'll go get a ball peen hammer and bang myself between the
+eyes for a couple of hours, it'd be easier and less painful in the long run....
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 23 Feb 1998 11:45:03 -0700
+Subject: Re: Strawmen, irritation with
+
+Russ:
+
+You're setting up just as many strawmen as those you cite.
+
+Basic and fundamental truism: if somebody doesn't like an episode, I'm
+absolutely okay with that.  Some episodes, like the Mack and Bo show, the
+coming Psi Corps show, Deconstruction, those are written with the full
+knowledge that it's going to divide people's opinions.  I *expect* that it'll
+be cleanly divided between those who hate it, and those who love it. 
+
+Basic and fundamental truism #2: No show, no single episode, will appeal to
+everyone.  It's a bell curve: some at one end will hate it, some at the other
+will love it, most will be generally in the middle.  It's if that bell curve
+starts to skew one way or the other that you have to watch.
+
+All that I and others have been doing is pointing out realities to those who
+have, in essence, said that something isn't there when it is.  How many times
+lately have I read, here or on other nets, "Now that we're in reruns we see all
+the threads that tied the show together that we didn't see before, all the
+foreshadowings of what was to come."  
+
+There's a lot of stuff seeded in these early episodes that will, as with the
+first several seasons, be more apparent in retrospect.  That's ALWAYS been the
+case with B5.  
+
+I'm also trying to provide a historical perspective.  People jump on Lochley
+saying she's wooden (meaning she doesn't overact and chew the scenery as with
+so much of what passes for TV acting)...and preferring Ivanova...completely
+forgetting that for most of the first season, and then some, people were
+complaining that Ivanova was wooden, they didn't like her Russian accent (which
+she didn't even have), they said "dump her."  They did the same thing with Vir.
+ "Flounder in space!  Throw him out an airlock."
+
+Then, later, as the characters continue on, the opinions change.  This has been
+the pattern from the very first day of this show.  I see nothing wrong with
+noting this.  If it's proper to critique the show, and it is, good or bad, why
+is it bad to critique the criticisms and bring a historical perspective to the
+discussion?
+
+Look...if somebody doesn't like an episode, I'm fine with that, always have
+been.  It's when it enters into the sweeping generalizations category,
+paralogia or downright silliness about the season as a whole, which nobody's
+seen yet, that I finally have to say "c'mon..."
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 24 Feb 1998 11:34:41 -0700
+Subject: Re: To jms: Babylon 5 and other science fiction shows
+
+
+I've actually heard from some other folks on other SF style shows that our
+tendency to push things has make it a bit easier for them to get tougher
+stories through.  This is a Good Thing.  The more quality SF series, the better
+for everybody.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 24 Feb 1998 11:43:25 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS - Seven Days In May and the Earth arc
+
+
+Thanks...Seven Days in May is an excellent movie, one of several that, if I'm
+channel-surfing and come across, I can't *not* watch it.  They did a more
+recent version of it for cable -- HBO, I think -- but the original will always
+be my favorite.  
+
+And yeah, Rod had an amazing way with words...still holds me in awe.
+
+BTW, if you liked that one, I commend Fail Safe to you as well as The
+Manchurian Candidate.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 24 Feb 1998 11:43:47 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: What are you hiding?
+
+
+> WHAT ARE YOU HIDING?
+
+That would be telling.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 24 Feb 1998 11:43:57 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS:  Silly questions
+
+
+>- My husband wants to know if there are really 10 Zathrai, or whether it is
+>just one that has been time travelling *way* too much.
+
+Yes, there are ten Zathri...despite the restraining order.
+
+>- I was wondering if you could explain a bit more about how you manage to do
+>things like bring in new major characters. You have said that you know what
+>threads need to be continued somehow, so I imagine you start with that.
+>What
+>needs to be accomplished and can any of the regulars take that over? If not,
+>I
+>picture in my mind your going to the B5 universe and saying " I need someone
+>who can, for example, run the station, keep the major characters on their
+>toes
+>and handle emergencies with minimal violence - who do we have that can handle
+>it?" Then a few people show up and you pick the one that suits your needs
+>best.
+
+That comes pretty close...it's a matter of looking at the logistics and
+backgrounds of people and, if a thread has to be adjusted ("What do you MEAN
+Wayne Alexander just got hit by an asteroid?!) you look at the next logical
+person in the show whom you can then beat up even further.  
+
+It's not quite "one of you step forward," but it's close.
+
+And sometimes it's a situation where you know that actor X hasn't had as much
+to do as might've been the case, and an opening in thread A lets you do more
+with that person.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 24 Feb 1998 11:44:07 -0700
+Subject: Re: Very Interesting Experiment/Suggestion
+
+
+What the experiment also does, which you touch on, is to show how changing an
+angle on an actor, making it a close-up rather than a long shot, can make the
+scene more or less dynamic...how you can get out of scenes earlier than in the
+first version, and thus pick up the pace.  
+
+It is, as you say, most educational.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 25 Feb 1998 14:06:29 -0700
+Subject: Re: attn. jms: one pass viewing or 2 pass?
+
+>When you write the episodes with foreshadowing and other such puzzle
+>pieces to be clarified later, do you do so with the intent of the viewer
+>watching reruns of old episodes on a second pass and seeing how all the
+>pieces fit together, or do you write with the intent of the first
+>viewing pass, with the foreshadowing  having more of a subliminal effect
+>preparing for the further denouement? You couldn't have known that TNT
+>was going to pick up the show and run all the back episodes could you? 
+>
+>
+Whether it was TNT or someone else, it was inevitable that someone would pick
+up the reruns of the show; so I put stuff in to work both ways, as
+foreshadowing, and things you could pick up on later, on re-viewing, that
+suddenly jump out at you.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1998 15:47:31 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn:  JMS - History - Season 5 spoiler (sort of)
+
+>Will we get to learn more about the history between Byron and Bester?
+>
+>
+
+A-yup.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1998 15:47:41 -0700
+Subject: Re: Nothing in this place is as it appears.
+
+>But then again, he could be the cigar who's just a cigar.
+
+I thin Corwin's more of a tiparillo....
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 27 Feb 1998 00:55:15 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: SR song
+
+No, I came up with that song for the episode, and designed it to sound like any
+of a zillion other such songs out there, so it'd sound familiar.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 28 Feb 1998 18:12:08 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: When is the final day?
+
+
+>1. When is the final day of Season 5 shooting?
+>
+It's either March 20th or 21st, I forget....
+
+>2. If the existing B5 cast is appearing in the currently planned movies,
+>when are they scheduled to finish shooting?
+
+We'll likely shoot in April through May.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+JMS (and coproducer George Johnsen) Usenet messages for March 1998.
+
+
+Date: 1 Mar 1998 00:52:12 -0700
+Subject: Re: Garibaldi/Lochley - Dare I Ask?!?!
+
+>Is it just me or is there a strong possibility that there might be a pairing
+>up
+>of Garibaldi and Lochley?
+>
+>
+
+The odds are zero and none.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 1 Mar 1998 00:55:17 -0700
+Subject: Re: Strange Relations, Sex, & JMS (Spoilers)
+
+>JMS is a
+>sexual conservative. Garibaldi isn't allowed to sleep with the
+>ground-pounder in GROPOS, Marcus is a virgin, saving himself for the
+>right one, Sheridan and Delenn don't actually have sex until after
+>they're married (unless they did in that Woo-Hoo Minbari ritual, but I
+>was never sure about that). There are other examples.
+>
+>
+The Garibaldi/GROPO thing was originally slated in the script for them to go to
+bed with each other...it was Jerry who objected loudly enough for that to be
+changed in the script.
+
+Then there's Franklin and Number One who jumped into bed very quickly, we have
+Garibaldi and Lise in bed in "Between the Darkness and the Light," Franklin and
+the singer in downbelow... there are plenty of counter-examples.
+
+Conservative I ain't.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 2 Mar 1998 13:50:13 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Merchandise located, licensed or not?
+
+Yes, the CCG is legitimate and licensed.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 3 Mar 1998 07:50:56 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Intersections/The Crucible Parallels
+
+The parallels are in history, not in the literature.  These things happen....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 3 Mar 1998 07:51:13 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn:  JMS - Do you believe?
+
+>Do you believe in telepathy and other such talents?
+
+I think there are certain non-supernatural phenomenon that are currently beyond
+adequate description, but which can sometimes be observed and will one day be
+classified...a lot of it to do with synchronicity....
+
+But if you ask me point blank, do I believe in mind readers...no.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 5 Mar 1998 10:09:10 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Why did you call him Byron?
+
+It's a play on words that becomes a bit clearer later.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 5 Mar 1998 16:37:39 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS (Secrets of the Soul) **Spoilers**
+
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+
+>How did you (or do you) approach a regular on the show and tell them
+>that you want them to do a really intense scene the likes that has not
+>been done on the show before (ie Byron/Lyta)?  I had only seen stuff
+>like that on NYPD Blue, but people on that show know what they are
+>getting into.  Just curious.
+
+I talked to both actors involved, made sure they were okay with it, and then
+scripted it out in very detailed form, and shot with a closed set, just
+necessary crew, nobody else.  
+
+(Funny item: in the script, I'm right in the middle of describing the sex
+scene, and in the narrative description, I write, without even thinking about
+it, "I wonder which is more embarrassing, reading this or writing it?"  It goes
+out that way.)
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 6 Mar 1998 18:21:19 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Day of the Dead moved?
+
+We suggested moving up DotD because the NBA playoffs will hit after #12, and
+better to have 3-4 intense episodes in a row, culminating in 12, than to break
+up the middle, which would've been okay as a respite if there wasn't going to
+be a break, but since there is a break now, I want to slam the last few before
+it hits for more impact.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Mar 1998 18:59:42 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS
+
+>It seems to me that things are not progressing (plotwise) as quickly as
+>they have in previous seasons.
+
+Folks have repeatedly said that in the first season, they weren't aware there
+WAS an arc until episode 16, "Signs and Portents."  Then, later, they would
+look back and see all the setups going on.
+
+That will be much the same situation here.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Mar 1998 19:00:04 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Just watched SOtS
+
+Thanks..for all of that.  
+
+And yeah, once this season is over, my presence on the nets will substantially
+diminish...but it's been a great experience, for the most part, occasional
+nutcases and bozos notwithstanding.  In the last year, I think more could've
+been done in this ongoing conversation about educating people on the nature of
+making TV, which was one of the reasons for doing this...but in many ways I'm
+limited by the quality of the questions asked, and lately it's been more
+posting of reactions (good and bad, that isn't meant to be a critical comment)
+than questions related to who/how/why/what.
+
+Right now, we're shooting 521...three more weeks total, and the Babylon 5
+series is over.  Seems vaguely hard to believe.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1998 12:01:07 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS:  Witness for the Defense?
+
+> Oftentimes when people criticize the show, or a character or
+>whatever, you rise to its defense.  I could understand you answering
+>questions people have about different aspects of the story - that helps
+>us all.  But rebutting people who don't like X or Y or whatever?
+>
+>Your work is your work.  There is no need to defend it or its quality.
+>
+>So, why do you do this?
+>
+Usually, I don't...if someone doesn't like something, he doesn't like
+something, that's fine and to be expected.  It's when someone deliberately
+distorts something that I tend to get into it.
+
+Why?
+
+Because I'm an idiot, that's why.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1998 12:02:45 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn. JMS:  The Gathering
+
+I don't know if the new version will be available, I doubt it, though.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 11 Mar 1998 23:06:49 -0700
+Subject: Re: New line of B5 T-shirts released
+
+The glow in the dark sweatshirts are licensed, yes.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 11 Mar 1998 23:07:26 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN.: JMS - Writing Process
+
+>When writing the scripts for B5 (or any other show), do you "see" the
+>script in novel format or in teleplay format in your mind?
+
+Neither.  I see the scene itself, as if watching a movie.  I play it over and
+over...initially, it's kind of out of focus, and incomplete, I have some
+pieces, not others...the more times I play it back in my head, the more it
+gradually comes into focus, and the missing pieces begin ot fill in...until I
+see the whole scene, end to end, in perfect focus.  Then I use whatever form
+I'm writing in -- a novel or a script -- and write it in that format.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 11 Mar 1998 23:09:43 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Story Timing in General
+
+>One of the things that annoys me about some TV shows is the
+>unbalanced timing.  The main crisis takes too long to build
+>up to, and the resolution takes place in the last 5 minutes,
+>or in some cases, during the last commercial break.
+
+>B5 seems to me to be a lot more balanced in this respect.  Do
+>you try to begin the resolution by a certain time to allow
+>time to show the actual resolution before the final break,
+>and use the epilogue for something else?  Or just how do you
+>try to do it?  Is it in the editing?
+
+It's generally the same...I use a straightforward approach to the stories:
+teaser sets the tone for the episode, hooks the audience, makes you wonder what
+the heck's going on.  First act introduces the problem in greater detail; here
+and in act two you get the characters dealing with the problem, with a major
+problem or complication hitting at the bottom of act 2...act three prepares
+your characters to deal with the situation, and act four deals with the
+situation, leaving the tag (and sometimes part of the fourth act) to have some
+nice character moments.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 11 Mar 1998 23:17:50 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Question, since you'll be online less often
+
+>When fans send you snail-mail, do you delegate someone else to read it, or
+>do you read it yourself?    How should it be addressed?
+>
+>
+No, nobody else answers my mail but me...however, remember that private email
+is only to be used for personal matters or confidential matters that can't be
+discussed elsewhere.  That won't change even after my online participation
+falls back a bit.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 Mar 1998 17:22:15 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - Day of the Dead **Spoilers**
+
+>My question is that as much as people
+>who follow a particular religion might have a crisis of faith, do
+>atheist ever have the same crisis where they self examine what they
+>believe?  Not that you would change what you would believe, but the
+>characters in the series constantly show the signs of self doubt.
+
+I think you *have* to question what you believe (or don't believe, or believe
+you believe or believe what you don't believe) on a regular basis, the way you
+exercise any muscle.  If you leave it unattended, it gets flabby and soft and
+intellectually lazy.  The peril of the unexamined life is one of the things
+I've often railed about in one place or another...whether or not you come back
+to your original position after a lengthy self-examination, the important thing
+is that you *do* it from time to time, honestly and straightforwardly, because
+you could change your position, or if you don't, at least you now have more
+reasons and a better understanding of it, so that you can defend it and talk
+about it rationally rather than get angry because you can't articulate why you
+believe what you believe.
+
+And I believe that may be one of the longest unbroken sentences I've yet
+written....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 Mar 1998 17:22:47 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: B5 newcomer thanks you
+
+Thanks...that's great company for any writer.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 14 Mar 1998 00:12:08 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Reduced Net Presence
+
+>You've mentioned that after B5, your net presence will be substantially
+>reduced, which I can certainly understand. But I'm curious--do you also
+>anticipate reading less on the net? As far as I can see, you now read
+>virtually every posting in several forums. Will you in future be more
+>like the rest of us, who only pick out the threads that interest them?
+>
+>
+Yes; the only other option is to go mad after a while.
+
+>I guess what I'm trying
+>to say is that the sense of wonder I felt then at the idea that a show's
+>creator would actually interact with fans in this way has never left me.
+>Thank you so very much for not only creating a great TV show, but for
+>sharing your thoughts with us.
+
+All things considered, it's been a pleasure.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 14 Mar 1998 00:12:35 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS - Where do we send the gifts?
+
+No presents necessary; we got to tell our story, our way...what greater present
+can anyone get than that?
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 14 Mar 1998 00:13:47 -0700
+Subject: Re: Day of the Dead (*Spoilers*)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+>Why didn't JMS bring Ivanova back to B5 to be visited by Marcus Cole, her
+>brother, or her father?
+>
+>Why didn't JMS put Sheridan in the zone to be visited by Kosh or Anne
+>Sheridan?
+
+I didn't write it.  It's Neil's script.  The characters he chose are the ones
+he wanted to play with.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 14 Mar 1998 00:37:41 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS--Who chose visitors for DotD?
+
+Neil chose the characters he wanted to play with.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 17 Mar 1998 18:14:37 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Actors returning for "dead" roles - Day of the Dead
+
+No, there's no prior understanding...Neil picked the actors he wanted, and we
+checked on their availabilities.  If they hadn't been available, we'd've gone
+for other characters.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 18 Mar 1998 23:32:32 -0700
+Subject: Re: We're Missing out on some of the Arc!
+
+>But out of the first 8 episodes in season 5, only
+>two were arc episodes. 
+
+That's an assumption; it's not a correct one.  
+
+>That means that the
+>greatest number of arc episodes season 5 can
+>have is 16. From the plot summaries, it seems
+>that there are two or three more non-arc
+>episodes later this season, so this makes 13-14
+>arc episodes for season 5.
+
+No, there's now only one stand-alone left in the balance of S5.  And, again,
+you've got arc material in the first batch, whether you choose to recognize it
+now or not.
+
+>So the total number of
+>arc episodes in the series will only be 56 or so.
+>We'll be missing out on 5-8 episodes, which is
+>a good 10% of the arc.
+>
+>So what happened? Where do you think the
+>material was cut from?
+
+Nowhere.  You can't apply math to a creative situation, and in an ongoing
+process solidify everything so much in stone in season 1 that you can't adjust.
+ 
+
+It's going where it was meant to go.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 18 Mar 1998 23:33:14 -0700
+Subject: Re: Budgets for Season 5
+
+>With the move to TNT, one assumes that dollars spent per episode have
+>shrunk.  Is it just me, or do the shows seem to have a lot less CGI in
+>them this season?
+
+Yes and no and yes....
+
+Someone online did a recent breakdown, and actually the amount of CGI in the
+first batch of S5 episodes is slightly higher than S4, and S4 is slightly
+higher than S3 at that same point.
+
+But that said...I did keep the first batch just a *bit* on the light side in
+order to have room to do the massive amount of rendering on "In the Beginning"
+and "Thirdspace," the latter of which has (finally delivered) topped out at 27
+minutes of CGI out of 94 minutes, which has got to be some kind of record.
+
+And *that* said...each season we have increased the amount of CGI we've done,
+both in the amount and the complexity of the shots, and this season is no
+exception.  We're trying some new things, different kinds of CGI...you'll see
+some of that in "The Ragged Edge," for instance.  Much more sophisticated
+compositing, more difficult to shoot, but more visually interesting.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 18 Mar 1998 23:34:14 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS : C&C Gravity
+
+>#I'm just curious about how C&C has normal gravity when it is located in
+>the center of the spinning station. In the fall of Night (And other
+>episodes) it is established that the middle of the station is low grav.
+
+It isn't.  The center is the docking bay.  C&C is one-third of the way below
+that, so it has about 1/3rd gravity, so a 200 pound person weigs 66 pounds, not
+likely to go floating around.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 18 Mar 1998 23:37:21 -0700
+Subject: new jms short story out
+
+So Harlan says, "Only *you* could find having a new short story published to be
+as important as doing a multi-million buck TV series."  Okay, so it's true.
+
+I recently finished a new short story (almost novelette length), "We Killed
+Them In the Ratings," which has just been published in a new collection edited
+by Martin Greenberg, Blowout in Little Man Flats, a mystery anthology featuring
+a lot of Big Name folks.  It's kind of a fun (if dark) story about a local TV
+news program that comes up with a new approach to covering murder stories.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 18 Mar 1998 23:58:19 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Last Days Saying Goodbye
+
+>have you ever had the desire to continue the stories
+>of the surviving characters in the years leading up to Sleeping In The
+>Light.  Either through novels or comics or even CD-ROM multimedia?
+
+The planned novels are going to expand on the arc, getting into the history of
+the Psi Corps and Bester, the Technomages, and Centauri Prime.  Filling in the
+corners of what's established.
+
+>Do you want (or not want) to leave the world of B5?  Yes, I know
+>the story is almost over and there will be a new series, but it won't be
+>the same.  Not better or worse, just not the same. 
+
+Yes and no.  Make no mistake: this has been a burden, the heaviest one I've
+ever carried, and it's come close to ruining my health on more than one
+occasion.  I'll be glad to set it down....
+
+But it's going to be hard to set it down.  As you say, whatever follows, it
+won't be the same.  Everyone on set is feeling it right now.  
+
+It's just...it's just real hard, that's all.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 18 Mar 1998 23:59:00 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: thank you for your work by french and belgian 
+
+Thanks, and my best to the French fan community for their long term
+support...eventually the others will come around.  It may take decades, but
+that's okay.  The show is the show is the show, and always will be.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 18 Mar 1998 23:59:26 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Fans on Alabama radio
+
+Everyone on the show does Londo saying "Viiiiirrrr," as well.  It's required, I
+think.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 19 Mar 1998 17:55:57 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  The Run.
+
+Thanks...every promise we made, we tried to keep.  On balance, I think we
+succeeded.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 20 Mar 1998 07:10:19 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATT: JMS: When are you "Leaving" Us?
+
+I'll start pulling back after the last ep has aired.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 20 Mar 1998 07:10:12 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - Mack and Bo, Gravediggers and The Complete Book of
+
+>While watching 'Gallery', my wife and I couldn't help but compare Mack
+>and Bo to the gravediggers in Hamlet.  Was that your intention,
+>especially in light of Byron's quote from the same act?
+
+It did come to mind at various points, but I didn't want to make it an homage
+to anything.
+
+> WGA rules prohibit a producer from soliciting anything written
+>from a freelancer (without paying for it) and so the oral pitch
+>evolved.  But I got the impression that in some cases it was acceptable
+>for a freelancer to prepare written treatments in lieu of a pitch if the
+>writer so decides and the producer agrees.
+
+Yes, some writers hate to pitch, and prefer to leave pages (called, most
+creatively "leave behinds"), which also eliminates the need to rely on the
+story editor to properly convey your story to the producer.
+
+>directors can
+>take offense when the narrative part of the script is too detailed
+>because it takes away from their ability to tell the story the way that
+>they see it.  I got the impression that you feel that one should have
+>enough of a narrative to tell the story and then it's up to the
+>director's discretion on whether to use the narrative instructions.
+
+Screw 'em.  Write it the way you see it.  If they don't like it, they can black
+it out; if it scares them that badly that they will fall apart, they shouldn't
+be directing.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1998 01:41:31 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: wrap party emotions?
+
+>How intense were your feelings that day? At the chat room we were being
+>informed of what went on over there, but how much more things were in
+>your head?
+
+Everything...all of them...every possible emotion was going through me from one
+second to the next.  People were in tears.  It was hard.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1998 02:24:50 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Getting rid of the voices
+
+They will grow distant with time...that will attend to itself, though happily
+there will be visits from time to time, and all will be as familiar as if we
+had just seen one another.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1998 02:32:58 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  What now?
+
+>In terms of what's still to be done on B5, how much is done at the
+>studios?  Will there still be people there for some time to come,
+>considering that you'll be doing the movies?
+
+Basically, everyone's around but the camera crew...we have to do construction
+and other work for the movies, so I'd say we're at 80% normal for the next 10
+days, until filming on the next movie starts on the 30th.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1998 22:35:30 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS  Season 5 Quick Question
+
+Those are colored trailers coming from the back of two starfuries.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1998 22:35:24 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: My personal thanks
+
+That's great to hear, thank you...and good luck in the continuing fight.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1998 22:38:05 -0700
+Subject: Re: Thanks Joe, from a far of place
+
+I read it....and my thanks to you and the other fans in Estonia.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1998 22:39:05 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATT JMS: So how Far behind is the US going to be for the end?
+
+Nothing's confirmed yet, but from what I'm starting to hear, Canada and Great
+Britain may get the last few episodes before they air in the US.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 23 Mar 1998 17:57:27 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Thoughts on 5 successful seasons
+
+Thanks...and "River" is a heck of a movie, I think...now we just have to film
+the darned thing.  (Janet Greek is directing.)
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 25 Mar 1998 17:34:07 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: What makes you laugh?
+
+I like humor that surprises me...unexpected twists and turns of logic on the
+one hand, and just in-your-face screaming out loud humor on the other hand. 
+George Carlin is a favorite.  For reasons I do not fully understand, Buddy
+Hackett (of all people) leaves me absolutely breathless and on the floor.  Sam
+Kinneson had a much similar effect.  Dennis Miller's black-and-white HBO
+half-hour destroyed me; utterly hysterical.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 25 Mar 1998 17:35:30 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for the introductions
+
+Thanks...the marginalia and sharing of info has been a great part of the fun
+for me as well.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 25 Mar 1998 17:34:21 -0700
+Subject: Re: In the Kingdom of the Blind ( *Spoilers* )
+
+Because we have only $3 million on which to make these movies, we have to
+rotate the cast because we can't afford to have them all in any one of them. 
+Bruce and Mira were in the first two, so we gave Tracy a shot and put in Jerry
+as well as Corwin (his first), Zack and Franklin.
+
+We're just looking for ways to be fair to the maximum number of cast with the
+resources we have.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 25 Mar 1998 17:34:35 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attention :JMS
+
+> I am about to graduate with a Ph.D. in sociology from the
+>University of Kansas, and I am curious to know where you studied
+>sociology. Excellent show!
+
+Thanks.
+
+I got my first BA in Clinical Psychology (with a minor in Philosophy) and my
+second BA in Sociology (with a minor in Literature) from San Diego State
+University.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 Mar 1998 11:41:16 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Wow!
+
+Thank you for all of that...and as you say, some fires may be averted, but for
+others, there is a point of no return, whatever we might feel about it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 Mar 1998 11:41:58 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn: Anybody who knows: TNT B5 ratings - How are they?
+
+The last rating we got for last  week puts us in the top 15 of all basic cable
+shows, and we're the top-rated show on TNT after wrestling.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 Mar 1998 12:05:53 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Season Intros
+
+>I was wondering when or perhaps what gave you the idea to
+>make each seasons intro different. Is this something you had planed from
+>the beginning or something the you came up with later.
+
+No, it was something I wanted to do from the git-go, even though it's costly to
+redesign the title sequence and music every season.  Each season is one volume
+in the overall story, and my theory is that in a trilogy, for instance, you
+have a different cover on each book that sets the tone for that particular
+volume.  If B5 is such a work, then it should have a similar to each season's
+"cover."
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 Mar 1998 12:07:37 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for everything
+
+Thanks, Cheryl...it's been great.
+
+(And yeah, I remember the "Murder She Wrote in Space" thing, lots of folks said
+it...didn't bother me.  There's no reason anyone should believe a TeeVee
+producer when saying the sorts of things I was saying, until the point could be
+proven.)
+
+And yes, you're right...whatever follows, it won't hold the same place, or have
+the same impact, as B5.  It'll be its own show, and it'll be exciting, but B5
+will always be a special and unique case.  I know this particular confluence of
+events will certainly never come my way again...but it doesn't have to.  It did
+so once.  And that's all that matters.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 Mar 1998 11:42:04 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Music recommendation
+
+I've got all three of the CDs by Cherry Poppin' Daddies, and I think two of the
+three are terrific; the third (earlier) CD is kinda generic, I think they were
+still trying to find their sound.
+
+Zoot Suit Daddy is a nifty song, and it's impossible to listen to their current
+album and remain sad about anything.  I love that they mix a swing/big band
+sound with contemporary (and sometimes raw or edgy) lyrics.  They're just
+terrific.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 Mar 1998 12:06:36 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS -- Other Messages in Your Arc
+
+I hope you're right.  I've long classified B5 not as a *moral* show, because I
+don't have any morals to give anyone, but rather as an *ethical* show, posing
+questions and bringing up issues as honestly as I can, to let the viewers
+discuss the implications and come to decisions on their own.  If we have
+succeeded in doing that, then I'm happy.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 Mar 1998 15:28:51 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn. JMS: Virtual sets?
+
+
+We've done a lot with virtual sets and environments, and will continue to
+expand, both as needed for episodes now, and as R&D for future projects. 
+There's a nifty virtual environment in "The Ragged Edge," and we plan to do
+more.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 Mar 1998 15:30:10 -0700
+Subject: Re: Something's new about this season (AToT  * Spoliers *)
+
+
+>What's left is everyone (the member races, the
+>Centauri, the Narn, the telepaths) trying to work out who's lying, who's
+>breaking the rules, and what to do about it.  Basically, group dynamics.  No
+>great enemies.  No ancient forces.  Just people.
+
+After any big war, that's the big battle that still awaits...how do we work out
+living together?  Do we fall apart, or stay together?  Wars of revolution have
+traditionally been followed by civil wars because the new dynamics are changing
+and people take a while to adjust.  And this show has always been about
+process: before, during and after.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 27 Mar 1998 21:49:56 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS: (ToT SPOILERS) Guest star credits
+
+Screen Actors Guild rules specify where you can and can't put credits, and
+those rules don't concern themselves with spoilers.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 27 Mar 1998 21:51:05 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Reusing effects shots
+
+We've been using various establishers as stock from the very first year until
+now.  The show would be impossible to do otherwise.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 27 Mar 1998 21:51:14 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS....
+
+>Anyways, now that the story arc is done, are the actors themselves still on
+>contract to do any more movies, or will they have to sign contracts for each
+>individual movie?
+
+No, it's all on a per-project basis from here on out.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 29 Mar 1998 01:41:54 -0700
+Subject: Re: Phoenix Rising ( *Spoilers* )
+
+You're both right.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 31 Mar 1998 20:33:04 -0700
+Subject: Re: Strange Thought (Goes back to Season 1)
+
+>Say that Sinclair hadn't been reassigned to Minbar and had gotten married
+>to Catherine Sakai.  Would she have been on the Icarus on its mission to
+>Z'ha'dum?  I'm trying to remember if she did work for IPX (think she did).
+>Would that then had been the driving force for Sinclair (and not Sheridan)
+>to go to Z'ha'dum?  
+>
+No, for one simple reason.
+
+The Shadows were already on the loose in Season 1, if we recall correctly.  Mr.
+Morden was running around, and the Shadows were cleaning Lord Kiro's clock and
+restoring the Eye to Londo.
+
+The mission to Z'ha'dum had already taken place, and the shadows were already
+on the move...so the scenario you suggest was simply not possible.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+JMS (and coproducer George Johnsen) Usenet messages for April 1998.
+
+
+Date: 1 Apr 1998 10:21:39 -0700
+Subject: Re: Top 10 never-to-be-solved mysteries of B5
+
+Well, at least 3 of those do get answered....
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 1 Apr 1998 23:44:57 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS.  Comments on Phoenix Rising<spoilers>
+
+>Thank you for creating this beauty, and if any more new
+>episodes have this kind of feel to them, I feel like i'm going to have
+>to send you a medical bill, for I will surely end up in the hospital.
+
+Then you'd better up your insurance, real soon.
+
+I'll just say this: we were lucky to get one "Coming of Shadows" episode a
+year, a while back.  In the latter half of this season, especially from about
+516-520 or thereabouts, we have one just about eveyr week.
+
+I gave folks a respite for the first part, because in the second part of this
+season, I'm going to hurt you.  There will be some light at the end, because I
+wouldn't end this otherwise, but in the interim, it's gonna be pretty damned
+intense.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 1 Apr 1998 23:53:16 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Bruce B and Cast Turmoil?
+
+The real bottom line is, it's not easy when one's horse is shot out from under
+one.  There's no way to take it lightly.
+
+I've been saying for five years, "This is a five year story.  When it's over,
+it's over."  But there's the statement, and the reality of the statement; two
+different things.  To the viewers, it's the end of the story.  To an actor,
+it's "I'm out of work now because Joe said it was a five year story instead of
+a six year story."  
+
+I know that a lot of the cast have been in denial about this for a long time,
+many of them said in interviews, "Yeah, well, Joe's said it's a five year arc,
+but I don't see why it couldn't go longer."  But if you live in that notion,
+then when the reality hits, it hits hard.
+
+So the reaction is perfectly understandable on an emotional level.  When a show
+is over, everyone's gone.  In this town, that usually means "you're fired, the
+network doesn't like you or the show."  It's a personal rejection.  Here it was
+my decision, from the git-go, that this series would go five years and no more.
+ That's kind of a new thing, and takes some getting used to.  You can only
+interpret it by what you've experienced before.
+
+One or two cast members may transition over into Crusade, assuming it goes
+ahead, but that show *has* to be its own show, it can't be just a repackaged
+B5.  (And I'm referring to regulars here, there's plenty of room for
+guest-starring roles for nearly all of our characters at one point or another,
+plus the likelihood of more B5 TV movies, plus the real possibility of a B5
+feature.)
+
+It's an emotional reaction, and totally understandable.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 2 Apr 1998 00:00:56 -0700
+Subject: Re: BAB5 Night of the Long Knives?
+
+Read my lips.
+
+The Series Is Over.
+
+What did you *think* was gonna happen when the show ended?  Everybody was just
+gonna hang around?  
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 2 Apr 1998 19:44:52 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Lolita and the Public (I swear this is on-topic!)
+
+There are no thoughts too radical for a people to view; there are just some
+people too radical to control the  thoughts of others.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 3 Apr 1998 22:07:09 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Can Crusade really work?
+
+There are many other good writers out there who I have every confidence can do
+a good job on Crusade.  And bear in mind that any script that comes in
+generally gets revised by me, so I'll be in there.  The plan for now is that
+I'll do about 11 scripts out of 22, and have freelancers doing the other half.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1998 00:31:00 -0700
+Subject: Re: Canadian TVGuide Article ATTN:JMS
+
+Could you send me a copy of that issue?  The info about Gene rewriting him is
+totally incorrect.
+
+Send it to me if you can at 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks,
+CA 91423, I would be vastly appreciative, so I can get it to Harlan, who can
+correct their information.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 4 Apr 1998 00:33:02 -0700
+Subject: Re: attn JMS: Byron's name
+
+Well, we had Simon and Peter, who worked with Byron, and of course the most
+famous Byron is Lord Byron...
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 6 Apr 1998 18:13:16 -0600
+Subject: Re: Better Things Come in Small Packages
+
+Significantly, while the Pasadena con was asking $50 for autographs, over half
+the B5 cast was at the Glendale Galleria today and yesterday (and me with them)
+meeting the fans face to face and signing autographs and getting to see props
+and other stuff...for free.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 6 Apr 1998 21:06:20 -0600
+Subject: Crusade Confirmed
+
+As has come out in the press today, CRUSADE: The Babylon Project, is officially
+a go project as a series.  We start shooting July 27th to go on the air January
+6th.  More info will follow over time.
+
+Also, for those of a collecting nature...tomorrow will see the publication of
+the Babylon 5 issue of the Hollywood Reporter, a tribute to the show and some
+of the new production techniques we've pioneered.  You can try various news
+stands or libraries as a main source for this one.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 6 Apr 1998 21:09:19 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS--Questions on Crusade Development Process?
+
+>what sorts of issues do you
+>consider in determining whether to *change* main people on the team for
+>new series. It's not just a matter of whether they have been doing a great
+>job or not because sometimes (as, I think, in the case of the DP) you
+>just want something quite different for the new series.  I'm not asking
+>who else you might be changing, but just how you, as Executive Producer,
+>go about thinking this issue through for each of the main production
+>people.
+
+We're not doing a lot of changing.  One thing that does tend to get changed for
+a new series is the *look* of the show, you want Crusade to have a different
+and distinct appearance, to be its own show.  So for instance we're bringing in
+new graphic designers to do screen stuff and signage and other related stuff.  
+
+Other times it's an individual choice.  Anne Bruice-Aling recently had a baby,
+and she wants to dedicate the next year or so toward raising her kid, so while
+she'll remain available for occasional stuff or consulting, we'll have someone
+else heading up the wardrobe department.
+
+Mainly, you want to hold onto as many of your original people as you can,
+because we've trained our folks to work in a certain, particular way.  Nobody
+else really does things the way we do them on B5, and it's wiser to hold onto
+your crew, and give incentives, to keep them around.  (We tend to promote from
+within the ranks and reward loyalty rather than bring in new folks, that sort
+of thing.)
+
+>(2) What does the document often called the series "bible" actually cover? 
+>What kinds of background do you think it is helpful to provide to other
+>writers in such a document, and what kinds of things do you prefer to
+>avoid?  (I'm guessing you may be actually writing such a thing right
+>around now.) 
+
+I put in it basically whatever I think will be useful to anyone, as much as I
+can think up.  Characters' names, backgrounds, descriptions, the kinds of
+stories we are looking for, the kinds of stories we *don't* want to see, what
+is good SF and what ain't, sample storylines we plan to develop, that sort of
+thing.
+
+I'm now in the process of converting over the "sell treatment," done for the
+network, to a working series bible, which will go out to those writers with
+whom I've either worked before, or whose work I know and have wanted to work
+with for a while (as was the case with Neil Gaiman).
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1998 05:47:52 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: A Defining Moment
+
+>What is the defining moment of Babylon 5 to you? The one moment when it all
+>comes together?
+
+If this is concerning individual episodes...it's in the editing and the audio
+mix stages, that's when it actually becomes an episode.
+
+For the series overall...I don't know how to answer that.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1998 05:47:58 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS: Rewriting Harlan in TV Guide
+
+Negative; the revisions to Harlan's script were apparently done by DC Fontana
+and Gene L. Coon, not Roddenberry (see Harlan's book on this for more info).
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 8 Apr 1998 20:35:23 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTEN JMS    re:Earth Final Conflict
+
+Haven't seen any of the show yet.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 8 Apr 1998 20:35:33 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Why no techno-babble?
+
+Because this show ain't that show, and I personally find it dull and
+impenetrable.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 8 Apr 1998 20:49:53 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Flawed Concept in Crusade? (Possible Spoiler)
+
+A couple of other people have raised this question; here's why I consider it a
+non-issue.
+
+Does anyone here really think that, after X-years of following the Crusade
+story, we're going to come to the end in which our heroes look out through the
+window of the Excalibur at a dead Earth...glance at each other...shrug...and
+say, "Oh, well, I guess we should've found it ten minutes earlier, huh?"...and
+head off into the sunset.
+
+Anybody out there see this as a likely scenario?  Raise your hands.  
+
+Yes, they're going to find the cure at some point.  Where and when and how, and
+in what segments, is one issue...and the rest is the journey to *get* there. 
+It's like saying, "We know the wagon trains got to California, so nothing
+interesting could've happened along the way."  Tell that to those who died
+along the way.
+
+You're confusing the issues with the following:
+
+>If the 
+>show's basic premise is that the hero's are searching for something
+>(in 
+>Voyager's case, a way home; in Crusade, a cure) then the viewer knows in
+>
+>advance that they will not find it (until possibly the end of the series, if
+>at all). 
+>Because if they did, it would by defintion, change the shape of the
+>show. 
+
+There you make my point for me.  That's the frustration aspect: you know if
+they get home, the show's over.  So they will never get home, the viewer knows
+that, and gets frustrated.
+
+Here, you know that eventually, somehow, humanity will be saved.  So there's no
+frustration knowing it ain't ever gonna happen.  Instead, you can sit back and
+see how it happens, and who is affected by what happens.  
+
+This is something very common to what I've done with B5's story telling. 
+Starting at episode 1 of season 1, we learn that G'Kar and Londo will die
+strangling one another.  I put those cards right on the table, face-up.  Did
+that ruin anything for anybody?  Much to the contrary, as we learned the
+process that led up to, and following, that incident.  If anything, knowing
+that in advance added a whole new layer and subtext to the show.
+
+I've always looked for ways to experiment and turn viewers preconceptions
+upside down and back on themselves.  Crusade will let me take this a step
+further.
+
+Bottom line...I didn't turn suddenly stupid.  I know exactly what I'm doing
+with this.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Apr 1998 20:34:15 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade/Net presence?
+
+No, once B5 is finished airing, I'll still be pulling back a bit.  It's that or
+go mad....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Apr 1998 20:45:26 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Visions of Madaline Marie O'Hara?
+
+>If you (or any other atheist) saw a Vorlon out of his encounter suit, What
+>would you see?
+
+Probably Dick Cavett.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 11 Apr 1998 16:51:50 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - Five years
+
+>What if they hadn't respected your wishes? How would that have played 
+>out? Since WB owns the show, couldn't they continue to make it without 
+>your input?
+
+Two words: scorched earth.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 13 Apr 1998 16:51:34 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN.: JMS - Newsgroup Experiment
+
+>1) Do you consider the exchange of ideas with your viewers to have produced
+>the result you were expecting?
+
+I really wasn't looking to the result as much as the process.  I expected a
+conversation, and I got one.  Some of it has been odd, we've had the occasional
+boorish gatecrasher, but on the whole I think it has been instructive in both
+directions.  What more can one ask of a party?
+
+>2) Have other producers, such as  (but not limited to) Messrs. Wolf &
+>Bochco, ever asked you about this, and if  so, what was your advice?
+
+Nope.
+
+>3) Has the exchanges with a select few turned you away from the fans at all
+>(i.e., made you more jaded or wary)?
+
+Certainly the presence of the psychos has from time to time made it more
+difficult; one gets the urge to just yank the modem out of the wall rather than
+go out into the room one more time where the nutcases can get to you.  I've
+been lied to, lied about, slandered, libeled, accused, villified, tarred (and
+sometimes feathered) in absentia, and dead-catted for, essentially, the crime
+of talking to the people who like my show.  And the emotional cost of that does
+add up over time.  
+
+>4) Do *you* see any downside to having a moderated group - was there any
+>drop in *constructive* criticism from rastb5 to .mod?
+
+Nope.  There's as much constructive criticism there as anywhere else.  What it
+doesn't have is the same degree of whacko postings by the emotionally infirm.
+
+>5) Do the "joke" e-mails offend or flatter you?
+
+When they come to my private email account, yes; I have enough to wade through
+as it is, my private email should be used only when necessary, not for jokes or
+the like.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 13 Apr 1998 16:51:52 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: HDTV
+
+We have, from the beginning, been shooting in widescreen and doing a complex
+audio mix and delivering conformed negatives for the purpose of working in the
+HDTV mode.  We plan to do more in terms of digital delivery and 5-1 audio sound
+for Crusade, among some other tricks we're planning.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 13 Apr 1998 16:52:48 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Why We're Bored
+
+There is an interesting story told about the first time that Gaugain (I know I
+probably misspelled that, I should know how to spell it but it's late and my
+art books aren't at hand) went to visit Van Gogh.  Van Gogh, anticipating his
+arrival, had filled the halls with his latest work, to display it for the
+master.  Because they fell into certain categories where he came to expect
+certain things, he did not notice the intricacies of what was going on in the
+composition.
+
+His guest walked down the hall, considering the work -- sunflowers, landscapes
+-- and at the end of the tour, announced, "You paint too fast."
+
+"No," Van Gogh said, "you LOOK too fast."
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 13 Apr 1998 16:52:53 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Freelance writers and Crusade
+
+I'll be handing out premises to established writers I want to work with.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 13 Apr 1998 16:53:10 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS, Crusade newsgroup...
+
+I won't be involved online as much, no, and whether or not there's a Crusade
+group is not really my call.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 13 Apr 1998 16:53:23 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  General Things
+
+You will be hearing the fourth question, yes, and I haven't had time to keep up
+with Millennium, unfortunately.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 13 Apr 1998 16:55:17 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: "The Ragged Edge" and Season 5 Comments
+
+Thanks...after our last stand-alone this coming week, they're all on a par with
+"Edge" or better, frankly.  
+
+As for the virtual sets stuff...yeah, some of the early Mars stuff was iffy, I
+agree.  That's part of the experimentation process, you never hit it dead-on
+the first time.  We learned each time we did something like that, and continued
+to experiment until we could more carefully and completely integrate the CGI
+virtual sets with the live action, and we're continuing to get more ambitious
+about it.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 13 Apr 1998 16:55:46 -0600
+Subject: Re: Why doesn't Sheridan warn him?!
+
+>Why the
+>heck doesn't Sheridan try to warn Londo about what he saw??
+
+This comes from not separating out what we the viewers know, from what the
+characters know.  
+
+What Sheridan knows is that 17 years from now, Londo had something on his
+shoulder called a Keeper, which may or may not have a direct connection with
+the apparent attack on Centauri Prime by Shadow allies.  
+
+What he doesn't know is, did this happen 16 years ago?  Or six months ago? 
+What process led it to happen?  What should he be warning Londo *about*?  He
+saw the result...but what process, what event should he warn Londo about to
+avoid this?  He doesn't know that the Regent has a keeper, the Regent could be
+acting in these ways for his own reasons entirely.
+
+Further, there's a certain trickiness about time stuff.  Okay, so he warns
+Londo about something he doesn't really understand...does he now change the
+future?  Does he have someone else other than Londo now on the throne, who
+won't spare his and Delenn's lives?  
+
+There are too many variables, and not enough actually known by him, to say
+anything that would be of any use to anyone.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 13 Apr 1998 18:05:28 -0600
+Subject: Re: Seeking confirmation
+
+Not true.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 14 Apr 1998 07:18:52 -0600
+Subject: Re: [Season 5 Spoilers] A problem with the 'attack' arc.
+
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+Y'know, maybe you should wait to see how this pans out before you say it's a
+problem.  I *wanted* the audience to know the Centauri are behind this, for
+reasons that will become clearer in the episodes that follow.
+
+Again, with this show, it ain't the who or the how, it's the *why*.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 15 Apr 1998 07:14:21 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Your "typical" day?
+
+>Howdy, I was just wondering what you'r typical day was/is like. I've heard
+>rumors about how much you write, but I've never hear that you actually "eat"
+>or
+>"sleep". 
+
+Too much of the former, not enough of the latter.
+
+>How much time did you spend on the B5 set while they were filming?
+
+It varies.  In the beginning of the series, I spent a lot of time on the stage,
+because we were setting the style and look of the show, and directors were
+still trying to figure out what I wanted, and how to deliver what I wanted. 
+Over the last couple of years, though, that's decreased...in part because the
+directors and the cast all know what's expected, and it's become a well-oiled
+machine.  It's also in part due to the increase of my responsibility on the
+writing/producing side...by the time I take care of what needs doing, the day's
+nearly over and I haven't even made it out to the set once (which kinda bums me
+out when it happens).
+
+>   How much time do you spend answering these on-line questions?
+
+I'm on line generally 2-3 hours a day.
+
+>   How much time do you get to sleep?
+
+On weekdays, during production, average about 3-4 hours a night.  I'm at the
+stage in the morning, lunch is usually about 1, I'm there until about
+6:30-7:00, I get a bite to eat on the way home in most cases, I get behind the
+keyboard at about 8-8:30, and I'm there until I crash about 4:30 a.m., and then
+I crash.  On weekends I try to make up for the lost sleep as best I can.
+
+>   How much time does it take to write or "fix" a script?
+
+Writing a script is invariably faster than fixing an outside script.  I can
+write a script from zero in an average of 5-7 days.  On a few rare occasions
+it's gone longer, but when that happens, I find I lose the white-heat of the
+story, and it wanders a bit.  In a few cases I've written a script in a day or
+two (A View from the Gallery all came out of my keyboard in one day, between
+about 4 p.m. and 3 a.m.)
+
+>   How much time do you spend at home or at "work".
+
+It's all work.  Just the office differs.
+
+>Just typical everyday things.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 17 Apr 1998 18:54:08 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn.JMS
+
+It's just experience.
+
+On the one hand, you have to be brutal with your *writing*, you can't be too
+close to the material.  You have to be able to look at how you present
+something from as objective a point of view as you can.  
+
+On the flip side, you have to be as faithful and true to your characters as you
+possibly can.  There's the person and there's the telling of the person, and
+they're two different creatures.  Learning how to differentiate the two is just
+a matter of experience.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 20 Apr 1998 19:22:47 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: "River of Souls" Casting
+
+>I was wondering what prompted your casting of Ian McShane.  I loved
+>him in his comedic role in "Lovejoy."  But, are you planning to cast him
+>in a somewhat comedic role, or is it a more dramatic one?
+>
+>
+He's a fine actor; in fact, John is a major Lovejoy fan, so he was hot to get
+Ian on board.
+
+>And, hey, Martin Sheen.  Joe, you are moving up in the world.  Did you
+>ever think when this B5 started you'd be writing for Martin Sheen?
+
+No, and I'm very pleased.  I'm a huge fan of his work and have been forever.  I
+was knocked out when we got him...he considers it one of the best parts he's
+had lately on a creative level, and he's been a kick to work with.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 21 Apr 1998 19:51:05 -0600
+Subject: Re: The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father ( *Spoilers* )
+
+It says Maternis, Paternis.  Mother, father.  Latin.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 21 Apr 1998 20:00:21 -0600
+Subject: Re: Another B5 Movie Announced!?
+
+>Just browsing through imdb and found a listing for another movie - after
+>River of Souls- to be called Shadows and Lies.
+
+Nope, never heard of it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 21 Apr 1998 20:00:57 -0600
+Subject: from jms re: email
+
+Every so often I have to go out with a policy note, so this is it.  If you've
+seen this before, ignore it.  If not....
+
+Understand that my private email is reserved for matters that cannot be
+discussed pubicly, and extremely personal matters.  It is not to be used for
+questions about plot, or character, or theme.  Otherwise I end up answering the
+same question individually 50 times instead of answering it once publicly so 50
+people can get the same information.  
+
+Do NOT send me jokes, humorous forwarded notes, chain letters, spam or other
+stuff.  You may think, "Well, it's just me sending along one little joke," but
+bear in mind there are roughly 10.5 million "just me's" out there.  My email is
+getting to be impossible to deal with.  Unless there is an overwhelmingly good
+reason why a note should be sent via email instead of in a public forum...keep
+it public.
+
+Particularly difficult is if someone sends me multiple notes after I reply once
+or twice, and if I don't respond to subsequent notes, gets annoyed at me.  I
+reply if there is a reason to reply; if not, not.
+
+Please understand that my private email is a privilege, and not to be flooded
+with casual story requests or jokes.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 24 Apr 1998 21:34:45 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS - Credit Question
+
+>I am curious as to why Walter Koenig (who as far as I
+>can tell has appeared in more S5 eps than either Mumy or Furst) is left out
+>of
+>the canned opening credit sequence. Is this due to contractual
+>considerations?
+>Stylistic reasons (i.e. a no "bad" guys policy)?
+
+No, you put someone in the main titles when you make an overall deal, usually 8
+episodes or more, with an actor in advance of the season.  With Walter, we
+average about 4 eps per season, and they are each negotiated individually, as
+they come up.
+
+>I have one acquaintance - a S.T.
+>fanatic -
+>who solely justifies his condemnation of B5 as a S.T. clone by Koenig's
+>presence.... Kinda makes you wanna clean the gene pool, but there you have
+>it...)
+
+So in other words, your friend thinks that an actor who is in one successful
+show should never work in the TV business, ever again, on any other show,
+whether he's a good actor or not.
+
+Your friend is a yutz.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 Apr 1998 03:05:58 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn jms: Season 5 Opening
+
+>I prefered the original Season 5 opening.  The newer one uses new voice
+>overs that are so...bland.  At least the original opening had sound bytes
+>directly from older episodes and they had life/emotion in them.
+
+The problem, however, is that since they came from the original production
+track, they had a great deal of background noise on them, and in many cases
+weren't satisfactory to be heard clearly by most people.  We could put them
+back, but then many people wouldn't be able to understand them well, which
+kinda defeats the point.
+
+>Also, there's always a greenish streak that flashes from left to right at
+>the end of the opening credits.  
+
+Those are colored streamers/trailers being made by a pair of Starfuries.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 Apr 1998 03:05:50 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN Jms Season 4 Compression
+
+I basically slid the thing forward about 4 episodes or thereabouts; the
+resolution as shown was always the planned resolution.
+
+Interestingly, there have been a number of reviews of the B5 videotapes running
+in the British SF magazines, and several of them have mentioned how Into the
+Fire actually played much better seen all as a piece with the preceding and
+following episodes than they thought it did the first time, which is what I
+kinda figured would be the case.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 Apr 1998 03:06:04 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Scripts & Studios
+
+>It was pointed out in the Scriptwriting book that any script sent to a
+>studio and rejected is basically a black hole forever; it can't be
+>resubmitted there. But what about the writer? Is the writer shunned, or
+>just the script?
+>
+>
+Depends on how bad the script was.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 Apr 1998 03:07:35 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Writing staff
+
+>However, you have stated that you plan to write about half of the episodes
+>yourself, and give the other half to freelancers.  Won't using freelancers 
+>be difficult, as each writer will have to be taught about your universe?
+
+Yep, though having a series bible will help.
+
+>And won't it mean more work for you, having to make sure each script is
+>true to the Crusade characters and universe?
+
+Yep again...having freelancers is actually more difficult even than doing them
+myself, but frankly, the only way to find writers who you *can* eventually
+bring on staff is to make freelance assignments and see who can hear the music
+and who can't.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 28 Apr 1998 17:50:22 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Shadows and Hegel?
+
+This has come up before...and yes, there is a certain amount of Hegelian
+thinking in the approach of the Shadows philosophy, that conflict is a
+requirement for progress.
+
+It's also couched somewhat in Jungian terms of the Shadow, which seemed as good
+a place as any to hide the necessity of conflict.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 29 Apr 1998 17:27:40 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: TCIMTCIF Spoilers: Dating Error
+
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+>In this episode, a telepath named Harris develops Multiple Personality
+>Disorder, kills his room mate, and flees to Babylon 5.  He leaves behind
+>several documents.  One of them was dated with the year 2264.  The current
+>year is only 2262.  Why the calender error?
+
+One of his personalities was a Time Lord.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 29 Apr 1998 21:17:14 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:Black and white pictures, in the future???
+
+Why not?  
+
+I have some pictures of me in B&W as well as color, mainly because in many
+cases B&W *looks* better under various lighting conditions.  Go to any good
+sized display of art photos, and you'll see that the *majority* of them are
+B&W.  
+
+There seems to be this notion that the future means throwing away anything that
+isn't at the edge...and it ain't true.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 30 Apr 1998 18:10:08 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: TCIMTCIF Spoilers: Dating Error
+
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+And let us also remember, about this guy getting the date wrong on what he was
+writing....
+
+HE WAS A NUT.
+
+thankyew
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+JMS (and coproducer George Johnsen) Usenet messages for May 1998.
+
+
+Date: 1 May 1998 07:01:13 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS  Big Screen Directors?
+
+I wouldn't want to say anything on this issue that might preclude any
+discussions; everything is fluid at this time, since nothing is set.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 1 May 1998 07:06:35 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Did cast changes have a real impact in the arc?
+
+No disrespect intended, but I have answered this question about as many times
+as I intend to.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 3 May 1998 12:17:48 -0600
+Subject: jms at MIT Monday
+
+For those in the Boston area, I'll be speaking at MIT this Monday (the 4th)
+from 7-10 p.m.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 3 May 1998 12:43:04 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Did cast changes have a real impact in the arc?
+
+>No problem at all.  Most of us (who count ourselves as fans) won't consider
+>your answers to be evasive.  However, in light of our perception of "The
+>Business", I pray you'll forgive us our cynicism.  Just please don't be put
+>of by our perceptiveness.
+
+You don't seem to understand the issue here.
+
+Practically every person who gets on and finds this group (or others like it)
+believes he or she is the first to ask a given question.  I have now answered
+this question, in stultifying detail, at least two dozen times by now, and it's
+all in the faq files and on the lurker's guide and elsewhere.  Why should your
+cynicism compel me to retype again what I've already typed 24 times before? 
+The implication seems to be that your time is worth more than the time required
+to look it up in the faq file or the lurker's guide, but my time is such that I
+*must* repost the info for the 25th time or somehow appear suspect.
+
+I suggest you get your priorities straight.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 5 May 1998 11:06:41 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn. JMS.  I quoted you in a sermon.
+
+Very cool....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 6 May 1998 07:28:24 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS: Year 5: To Arc or Not to Arc?
+
+This was always a five year story.  All I did was move 4 episodes out of season
+5 into season 4 so we could close up the Earth Civil War story and provide
+closure to that part of it if there wasn't a season 5, isolating what was to be
+in 5 a bit.
+
+Once we got the go ahead for S5, I knew that this might be my last chance to
+experiment without anyone looking over my shoulder, in case Crusade didn't go
+and I ended up back at one of the networks (where intrusion and formula is the
+key).  I wanted to do off-format shows like The Long Night of Londo Mollari,
+and The Corps is Mother, and A View from the Gallery.  
+
+The ony way a writer learns is to try new things, and take the parts that work
+and add them to his toolbox.  I saw here some opportunities to experiment, to
+try new things, to mess with the format...to change the show, and the show is
+ABOUT change.  So I did so, and I'd do it again.
+
+There's always ALWAYS been a lull between major arcs in the show.  Always.  You
+need it in particular when you go to a daily strip syndication situation, for
+pacing.  The problem is that on the one hand you have a lot of adrenaline
+junkies who think that unless there's a whole lot of stuff blowing up nothing's
+happening, and those who think that unless they know in advance that this is an
+arc episode, it's not an arc episode...unless you telegraph it literally and
+hugely they dismiss it.  
+
+These are the same yahoos who were saying in year 1 that there was no arc at
+all, kept saying it right up until Signs and Portents, when finally I whacked
+them hard enough that even they could see it...and then, on the reruns on TNT,
+are now saying that the pieces were all there from the very, very start, they
+just didn't see them before.  
+
+And they're falling for the same thing again.  
+
+Without what's going on in the first half of the season, the major stuff that
+happens in the second half of the season won't matter, wouldn't play as well,
+and wouldn't have the same impact.  They are part and parcel.  This was what I
+wanted to do with the fifth season, this is precisely what I worked out, and
+once again it has to do with process, and change, and how one new set of events
+rises out of the ashes of the last one.
+
+So basically, my reply to the hysterics and the whiners is this: when this
+season is over, and you see how it all lays out...then we'll talk.  To say it
+ain't there before you know what's there, before you see the connections, is
+just plain stupid, and if they can complain to me about no arc, I can complain
+about their shortsightedness.
+
+Frankly, the remaining episodes of this season represent some of the very best
+work we've ever done, maybe even the best work we've done, but they wouldn't
+have NEARLY the impact they will have if we hadn't done what was done in the
+first half of this season.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 May 1998 14:18:10 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS Convention Schedule ATTN:JMS
+
+No, I'm still planning to attend the Calgary convention.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 May 1998 14:18:55 -0600
+Subject: Claudia Confirms She Quit
+
+To those folks who have been ragging on me when I said that Claudia was the one
+who quit the show, that she was NOT fired, and calling into question my honesty
+and my forthrightness...I point you toward the Summer issue of Sci Fi Invasion,
+containing an interview with Claudia wherein she confirms, point blank, without
+equivocation, that she quit the show.  
+
+I would hope these same individuals would now have the spine to apologize, but
+I very much doubt it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 10 May 1998 14:34:44 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Questions about Crusade Casting
+
+Though nothing has been set yet about Crusade, I would expect at least guest
+appearances by some or many of our previous B5 cast here and there.
+
+>P.S. About Garibaldi...havent you had enough fun with him? 
+
+Not by half.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 10 May 1998 14:35:02 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Time Warners Synchronicity
+
+> To make the experience of viewing TNT programming
+>less painful for your fans, have you considered writing some
+>storylines for TNT Monday Nitro?  TKO was considered a less-
+>successful episode -- could you "redeem" yourself here?
+
+>The wrestler Sting appears to be a Crow knock-off.  Are you open to the
+>possibility of professional wrestlers dressing as Narns or Minbari?
+>How about the Nitro Fly Girls dressed as Centauri slaves?  I think
+>someone wrestling in a Vorlon encounter suit would be interesting.
+>
+>
+
+So...have the drugs worn off, or are they just kicking in...?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 10 May 1998 14:35:09 -0600
+Subject: Re: Finishing book 9, are there anyothers?
+
+Del Rey Books will be coming out with a novelization of ThirdSpace in a little
+bit (also by Peter David), Yvonne Navarro has just started working on the
+novelization of The River of Souls, and John Gregory Keyes is doing the first
+planned original B5 trilogy around the birth of the Psi Corps (it covers about
+100 years), based on my outlines.  More are also in the works, including
+another trilogy based on the fall of Centauri Prime.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 10 May 1998 14:35:31 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Media blitz for end of series?
+
+I don't know, no one's said anything to me about it yet, but it's a bit early
+for that.
+
+Personally, I think that a build-up to the end of the show would be great,
+although "Sleeping in Light" isn't exactly a big-bang lots of explosions kind
+of episode, so it might not be as promotable in that sense.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 10 May 1998 14:35:23 -0600
+Subject: Re: A message for JMS on usenet
+
+It's a good idea...but River and Sleeping are very different in tone and
+attitude, and frankly, putting them together would work to de-emphasize certain
+special aspects of both.  And Sleeping, as the culmination of the 5 year story,
+really does merit a night of its own.  And as I look at that story, I think
+that the Wednesday before Thanksgiving may actually be the perfect time for it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 10 May 1998 14:35:43 -0600
+Subject: Re: article on JMS's MIT visit
+
+>Occurs to me that I can't think of a current scifi show that does. Nope.
+>Thinking about no scifi show currently in production has "cute kids and
+>robts as regulars." It's pretty wierd that JMS empahsizes this when it is
+>true of every show on the air. Even the ones that are worse than B5 has ever
+>been.
+
+Sisko's kid son in Deep Space Nine, and the Ferengi kid in the same series.
+
+That's two kids in the same show.
+
+Maybe the problem is not in the proposition as advanced, but rather in your
+thinking.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 11 May 1998 09:47:49 -0600
+Subject: Re: a message to JMS
+
+>Anyway, I home school and my mom wanted me to write this. What she wanted
+>me to ask is why you like the poem Ulysses. Sinclair quoted it twice in the
+>show and I read it was a favorite of yours.
+
+Poems -- any incarnation of the writen word, really -- speak to us at various
+points in our lives, and at different ages we derive different things from
+them, meanings and subtleties and subtexts that we did not perceive before, but
+which become apparent as new layers are added to us.  It's not that the work is
+different, it's that we change and are able to see more in it.
+
+Ulysses was always a poem that spoke profoundly to me of new beginings and of
+endings, and of the ways in which we can, and perhaps should, face them...the
+stubborn nobility of the human spirit that does not surrender despite pain and
+overwhelming odds and the infirmity of age.  It is, at its heart, a *brave*
+poem, and it stirs me like little else.
+
+>Oh yeah, I also wanted to ask if you like comics, and if you do, which
+>ones?
+
+I've kind of gotten out of the comics habit lately, mainly because I've been
+busy, and for a while comics kind of went south, the writing was falling apart.
+ Now there's some good stuff being done, the Uncle Sam miniseries from DC, I'm
+also intrigued by what they're doing in the new approach to Superman (using
+many of the classic allusions and structures), and the new (to me) Martha
+Washington books from Gibbons and Miller, and the new Mage book from Matt
+Wagner, who has always been one of my favorite writers.  I think things are
+starting to look up again a bit for comics.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 11 May 1998 09:48:18 -0600
+Subject: Re: Claudia Confirms She Quit
+
+>My
+>question is Did she quit after the "Marcus sacrificing himself to save her"
+>part was filmed?  
+
+Yes.  It was after all the season 4 episodes had been filmed.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 11 May 1998 09:48:43 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN jms: Idees Fixes (was: Claudia Confirms She Quit)
+
+>... and you'd think the new photos of the Cydonia region from the Mars
+>Surveyor might lay to rest the stories about the face/city/pyramids that
+>sprung up from the Viking photos. 
+
+Difference is this time we have a note from the Cydonia equivilent stating the
+unequivocal truth here.  If we sent a camera over Mars and there was a big huge
+5 mile long sign saying IT AIN'T A FACE, OKAY, IT'S JUST A DUMP FOR OUR OLD
+PEPSI CANS, I think that would go a long ways toward resolving the situation.
+
+>Can you tell us whether we'll find out more about the Fourth Question
+>   in the next group of episodes? or do we have to wait until the ones
+>   being held back for fall are aired?
+
+It's in the last batch.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 May 1998 08:17:35 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Landing on your feet
+
+
+Some of it's landing on your feet, some of it is a conscious decision from day
+one to allow the random incidents of real life to affect the show, whether it's
+an actor leaving, someone breaking a leg, whatever.  It adds a sense of
+realism, rather than recasting or just ignoring the situation.  It's a
+challenge, no mistake, but it leads in some very cool directions.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 May 1998 08:17:44 -0600
+Subject: Re: Comments of New Fan since TNT Aired B5
+
+
+Thanks, and like you, I look forward to the next bunch of guys who'll take what
+we did, and do it better.
+
+(And with any luck, it'll be us.  But I'm okay with it even if it's somebody
+else.)
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 May 1998 08:33:00 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Questions about Crusade Casting
+
+
+>The no-B5-regulars-in-crusade demand was made by TNT.  Someone said that
+>Bruce Boxleitner made some *choice* comments about that but I dont know
+>about that part for sure.
+>But im pretty sure JMS confirmed the TNT part of
+>it.  Check with Lurkers because something was put up on the nwes or crusade
+>guide page about it.  Again, I think JMS said something but I cant remember
+>if I found it here or elsewhere.
+
+Absolutely, positively untrue.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 May 1998 09:26:41 -0600
+Subject: Re: Crusade: A Fiscal Repackaging of B5
+
+
+You are obviously posting this to try and throw back my words at me about DS9,
+made several years ago, being without any new vision behind it.  Because that's
+all you're really capable of, trying to come up with new cheap shots.
+
+My message at the time dealt specifically with a context which you ignore: TNG
+was created by Gene Roddenberry (with some considerable help from David
+Gerrold); those who followed then took those elements and repackaged them into
+DS9 without actually *inventing* much: it was all made by someone else with a
+vision (Roddenberry, who also had the original ST vision).
+
+It was a new show, but not a new vision, because that vision was created before
+then, by others.  Hence, my comments at that time.
+
+In this case, the person who created the original vision of the Babylon 5
+universe (which would be me) is still alive.
+
+That's why the context in such a discussion is everything; the single message
+from me out of the context of the whole discussion results in missing the
+entire point: my feeling at that time that those making DS9 didn't bring much
+new to that show that was not created by others, who were no longer alive.
+
+And by the way, if you're going to steal my words, and put them in your message
+(while twisting the context) and pretend that they're your own, that's called
+plagiarism.
+
+Why don't you just give it a rest, Cronan?  And by the way, why don't you post
+your real name some time?  You sit there and snipe from the shadows constantly,
+attacking me and others in this forum, many of whose names are known...it takes
+a certain kind of coward to do this kind of crap from behind the safety of
+anonymity.  If you feel so strongly about your opinions, which you shove around
+as if they mattered, then you should be prepared to stand behind them.  You
+search out my posts by my name and twist them around, why not give us the same
+luxury by giving us your real name?
+
+Either you believe in the rightness of your opinions, in which case you should
+have no problem standing behind them, or you do not, in which case you are a
+coward.  Which is it?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 May 1998 09:34:18 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Feeling Delphic?
+
+
+I've said plenty about what's coming...now it's time to let the episodes speak
+for themselves.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 May 1998 09:34:34 -0600
+Subject: TV Guide Vote
+
+
+For anyone interested, TV Guide is doing a poll about departing shows.  It's
+over at:
+
+http://www.tvgen.com/farewell98/vote.htm
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 May 1998 11:57:02 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Film vs. Video
+
+Videotape is always cheaper than film, but looks flatter, so you only use it
+when you want to create a sense of a different kind of image or processing
+system, or to give some things a sense of immediacy.  The physical production
+requirements are about the same for film or video.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 May 1998 12:00:28 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: A great cascade of words
+
+"Of course everything has already been said.  But since no one was listening,
+we must begin again."  I don't recall the source of the quote offhand, but it
+applies here.
+
+There are billions of published words out there.  But no two people put them
+together in the same way.  That's the important difference.  You can't measure
+yourself against others in that respect; you can only figure out what you want
+to say.  If you say it interestingly, others will read it; if not, not.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 May 1998 15:07:02 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS  Babylon 5 Models
+
+I understand that Revell will be doing more beyond this, so this may become a
+big area for them.  To get a license, you have to have both the manufacturing
+and distribution capability to make it worth WB's while.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 May 1998 15:09:24 -0600
+Subject: Good Schedule News
+
+For starters, for those who haven't heard yet, there are 4 new episodes to air
+starting May 27th.  They culminate in a hell of a dilemma at the end of the
+four, and in many ways they are the first four in a five parter.  
+
+The airing of The River of Souls has been pushed up to November 8th to allow it
+and Sleeping in Light (November 25th) to be given more individual attention and
+special promotion by TNT, so one won't get lost in the other.  It also means
+less of a wait.
+
+Also, when TNT starts rebroadcasting the whole 5th season starting the first
+week of July, that will correspond with their debut of their new satellite
+system, which will allow same-time broadcasts for both coasts...meaning the
+fifth season episodes will be on at 8 p.m. on both coasts...AND they're adding
+an 11 p.m. rebroadcast the same day to give folks the most flexibility with the
+show, something that many of you have asked for.
+
+TNT has been listening.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 May 1998 15:12:25 -0600
+Subject: Re: Crusade: A Fiscal Repackaging of B5
+
+Another flaw in this argument -- other than the fact that Cronan totally misses
+the point of the entire original message of mine he took as his own and
+misappropriated, because it is in his vested INTERESTS to miss the point -- is
+that in point of fact, Crusade is going to cost MORE than B5.  DS9 was planned
+to cost less than TNG going in, that was one of the points at hand (whether or
+not it actually did cost less, I don't know, but that was the apparent intent).
+
+The first year budget on Crusade is substantially more than for B5's last
+season, and all the previous seasons (and we're going back to a 7 day shooting
+schedule), because in this case we're going to a lot of new alien worlds and
+locations, and that costs more.  So the premise of doing another show because
+it wiil cost less is invalid on the face of it.
+
+Not that matters to Cronan, because nothing matters to Cronan other than Cronan
+and his obsession with riding this show and looking for any possible
+opportunity to rag on it, me, and those who enjoy it.  
+
+It's getting old, Cronan (or whatever your real name is).  I don't know what
+your problem is, but get over it.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 May 1998 18:01:22 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: LA OR NOT (OFF-TOPIC?)
+
+For TV you have to live in LA; for films, you can go in and out.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 May 1998 20:52:34 -0600
+Subject: Re: Crusade: A Fiscal Repackaging of B5
+
+There is no point in replying further to you, Cronan, because the replies would
+mean nothing to you because you don't care about the content of the replies. 
+You say that you're here as a fan of the show, but in fact in the unmoderated
+group you've been ragging on B5 and its fans and jumping in with Holland and
+Theron and Ford and the rest of the dysfunctional gang over there for a long
+time before you decided to stick your snout in here. 
+
+You don't care about a reasoned discussion, you don't want a reasoned
+discussion, you're here simply to troll, to get a rise out of people, myself
+included.  
+
+Since you found it amusing to call up my own post, I decided to pull out your
+public replies from the unmoderated group concerning all this.  Do we see here
+the comments of someone generally concerned abou the show?  Or do we see here
+someone who is enjoying getting a rise out of people, someone who is doing this
+only to cause upset?
+
+I quote (the non-bracketed comments are your own words:
+*********
+>But look at all the willing little fishes, with their open gulping mouths!
+
+Silly boy.
+
+>Personally, I would have avoided introducing any "new" words of my own into
+>JMS', just to keep it purer, for a stronger backlash when the critics come
+>snarling along behind.  But that's just me, and you do P&SC better than I
+>ever could.
+
+If I didn't do Cronan and you didn't do Infinity then we'd have serious
+problems, wouldn't we. 
+
+>But look at all the willing little fishes, with their open gulping
+mouths!
+
+You people are out to embarass me.
+
+> ...why no AFT-S cross, you poop?  Was it something I said?  ;-)
+
+Well this wasn't the kind of thing that you usually goes to AFT-S...
+it is funnier than I'd hoped, BTW.
+
+*********
+
+You think it's funny.  You enjoy that your comments get these sorts of
+reactions from the "little fishes."  You say you're being quite open here about
+who you are, that it has nothing to do with your comments...and then you say
+that if you "didn't DO Cronan" you'd have serious problems.  Hardly the sort of
+thing one says about one's own name now is it?  I find that a very interesting
+statement, and a telling contradiction.
+
+A fan of the show?  No.  A troll?  Yes.  
+
+And I have far more interesting things to do with my life than deal with
+trolls.  Go find another target, Cronan.  I'm not buying, and I'm not  playing.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 14 May 1998 10:19:54 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: LA OR NOT (OFF-TOPIC?)
+
+>> For TV you have to live in LA; for films, you can go in and out.
+>
+>For *United States*-oriented TV, maybe.
+>
+>For example, things have improved in Toronto since your last visit here.
+
+Yes, well, when the person asked about LA, I assumed they were interested in
+matters pertaining to the United States.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 14 May 1998 10:47:18 -0600
+Subject: Re: Fed up with S5 naysayers
+
+Bottom line for me is, I don't shy away from criticism.  Frankly, the things
+I've said about my own episodes have often been harsher than anything anyone
+else has ever said or will ever say.
+
+But what you have to be careful about is this kind of statement:
+
+>Was the fiasco known as A View from the Gallery planned well in
+>advance?  I hope not.  I prefer to consider it the result of being in
+>a rush to complete the writing for the season.  At best, maybe an idea
+>that sounded good at the time (and it was a damn good idea), that,
+>like Grey 17, just didn't get pulled off.
+
+This comes under the heading of "In my opinion."  All too often these things
+are stated as *facts*, which they are not, rather than *opinions*, which is
+what they are.  In point of fact, there are a LOT of people who enjoyed AVFTG
+enormously, some even considering it the best of the last year or so.  (In
+fact, interestingly enough, the British fans seemed to have across the board
+liked it far more than the US fans...I'm still parsing that one to figure out
+why...and many of them can't figure out why some folks here had such a
+reaction.)
+
+Anyone who has ever been involved with a writing workshop knows that there is a
+difference between constructive criticism and destructive criticism.  The main
+difference is the person who says "This sucks," rather than saying "This is why
+this story didn't work for me."  The former is a unilateral statement that does
+not allow for anyone else to hold different viewpoints; the latter allows you
+to more constructively address the elements that didn't work for you, and may
+not work for others.
+
+You didn't like View.  Fair enough.  I loved it, and still do, and many others
+do.  Also fair enough.  Doesn't mean it's bad, doesn't mean it's good.  Either
+way, it's precisely what I wanted to write, and in this show, I write what I
+want, what I enjoy, what I want to see.  If enough others like it that we stay
+on the air, then I'm doing it sufficiently well; if not, not.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 14 May 1998 11:04:35 -0600
+Subject: Re: *S5 Spoilers* What is the proper order of "DotD"?
+
+
+It was originally intended to be set after "Phoenix Rising."
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 14 May 1998 11:12:57 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: A follow-up question to "A Defining Moment"
+
+
+>Which scene, which line or which moment tears your heart out emotionally or
+>otherwise affects you as powerfully? Or is it yet to come in the remaining
+>episodes?
+>
+>
+It's yet to come.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 15 May 1998 00:09:25 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS: Question on a convention
+
+The primary folks running the Voice of the Resistance con are the same ones
+behind the Wolf conventions, which I'm actively boycotting until a) I hear from
+the fans that the way fans are treated there has improved, and b) until I get
+the promised accouting from the two conventions I attended, both of which were
+supposed to turn over the profits to local charities, both of whom were
+supposed to provide accountings when requested, neither of which has yet been
+done.  I want to be sure that the funds raised went where they were intended,
+in the full amounts.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 15 May 1998 00:13:42 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS: Crusade and Lip Gloss
+
+I agree, and this is something we try to watch, to keep the show looking
+properly military, and not fall into cliche.  We'll definitely continue trying
+to do this in future with Crusade.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+Orig-From: Kathryn Morton <ac3441@wayne.edu>
+Orig-Reply-To: ac3441@wayne.edu
+From: zofran@deepthot.ml.org
+
+One of my favorite great makers of a century past
+had these things to say that give me a reality 
+check when I need it.  And I think we need it here.
+
+Oscar Wilde (alledgedly) said:
+
+"The truth is rarely plain and never simple."
+
+"There is no sin except stupidity."
+
+"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things
+are corrupt without being charming.  This is a fault."
+
+"The well-bred contradict other people.  
+The wise contradict themselves."
+
+"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. 
+People are either charming or tedious."
+
+"It is only the intellectually lost who
+ever argue."
+
+"All art is quite useless."
+
+"We teach people how to remember, 
+we never teach them how to grow.
+
+"Life is far too important to be taken seriously."
+
+And, of course:
+
+Custom's Agent:  Do you have anything to declare?
+Oscar Wilde:  Only my genious.
+
+Rebo's definitely got a good taste for his 
+quotations.
+
+-- 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+  Kathryn L. Morton            k.morton@wayne.edu    
+  Enrollment Systems                  
+  Wayne State University
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++    
+    All of us live in the gutter,    
+    but some of us are looking at the stars.	            
+				                                                     
+				-Oscar Wilde	                                        
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+
+
+From zofran@deepthot.ml.org Fri May 15 00:07:47 1998
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+Date: 14 May 1998 00:35:01 GMT
+Date: 14 May 1998 00:35:01 GMT
+Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
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+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS: Crusade and Lip Gloss
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS: Crusade and Lip Gloss
+Orig-From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
+From: zofran@deepthot.ml.org
+
+I agree, and this is something we try to watch, to keep the show looking
+properly military, and not fall into cliche.  We'll definitely continue trying
+to do this in future with Crusade.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+From zofran@deepthot.ml.org Fri May 15 00:07:50 1998
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+References: <6j07vj$8au@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> 
+    <1998051001252400.VAA28635@ladder01.news.aol.com>
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Questions about Crusade Casting
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Questions about Crusade Casting
+Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 19:21:46 -0400
+Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 19:21:46 -0400
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+Orig-From: "Admiral Corwin" <sniper@ovnet.com>
+From: zofran@deepthot.ml.org
+
+
+Diane K De wrote in message
+>When did JMS say THAT?  To my knowledge he has never said such a thing.
+Where
+>does this stuff come from.
+>
+>>That
+>>said, could someone please tell me if Jason Cartier's Departure from the
+>>show was on good terms.  If so, is he willing to do (or has he done if Ne1
+>>knows) Guest appearences on B5 or Crusade.
+
+I spent two days with Jason at the Pittsburgh Comicon. (Time with him is a
+real experience) ;)  He always corrects people when they say his character
+is dead.  Marcus gave his life-force for Ivanova and was subsequently frozen
+in Medlab.
+
+I don't think he's too happy about it, but he seems to understand that's the
+way things were going to be.  He did joke about how in the future, JMS is
+going to let everyone go and play every part in the Babylon 5 series
+himself.
+
+Funny guy, he said that his two sons in England are big Star Trek fans.  I
+don't think that he's kept up with the show since he's left, but if Marcus
+ever returns I don't he would have either.
+
+Bob Barker
+
+
+
+
+From zofran@deepthot.ml.org Fri May 15 00:07:55 1998
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+Date: 14 May 1998 00:39:50 GMT
+Date: 14 May 1998 00:39:50 GMT
+Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
+To: b5mod-moderate@deepthot.ml.org
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+References: <35572250.60A44BF4@mindspring.com>
+Subject: Re: Season 5 so far(minimum spoilers)
+Subject: Re: Season 5 so far(minimum spoilers)
+Orig-From: alisane@aol.com (Alisane)
+From: zofran@deepthot.ml.org
+
+<<Subject: Re: Season 5 so far(minimum spoilers)
+From: Susan Phillips <vampry@mindspring.com>
+Date: 5/11/98 9:38 PM US Eastern Standard Time
+Date: 5/11/98 9:38 PM US Eastern Standard Time
+Message-id: <35572250.60A44BF4@mindspring.com>
+
+I really don't know why I bother except that I care for the show so
+much.
+
+I still cannot understand how someone, anyone, can take a part of a
+whole and decide that the whole is bad because that part is.  If you
+find part of an apple with a worm in it, do you get rid of the whole
+apple?  (I try not to, myself...but perhaps that is just me.)
+
+No, not every episode of season 5 has been slam bang whizzo!
+
+But that's no reason to conclude that the rest of the season will be
+bad.  It's also no reason to keep harping on the fact that *you* (and
+I'm using this in the general, not the specific) don't like the season. 
+You don't.  Okay.  
+
+I do.
+
+There are things coming up, I'm sure, that will knock people's socks
+off.  Too, this is a whole different type of show.  Personally, I'm
+applauding JMS for taking risks.  Not all of them succeed but that's the
+nature of risks, isn't it?
+
+Sue>>
+
+To pick a nit, the only "you" that said the season was 'shite' because of the
+bad eps is Cronan.  Others, myself included, have expressed concern/criticism
+about the content of some of the eps in S5 based on literary, technical, and
+artistic observations.  I don't think anyone besides Cronan has stated that
+they didn't like the season, merely that they were mildly disappointed that it
+did not seem to contain the same amount of attention to artistic detail that
+most of the rest of the series has.  NOONE has said anything about them not
+containing arc and therefore being bad.  If you examine the criticism/critiques
+in the light they were offered, perhaps you will see that it is because we DO
+care that we make them.  I personally LOVE B5 be it S1 or S5. I just know it
+might have been just a wee bit better, but the nature of producing  a series is
+enough of a challenge for even the best. Producing and writing is an
+increadibly herculean effort.  I have nothing but admiration for anyone who
+tries, and nearly religious awe for anyone who suceeds like JMS has. This fact
+does not blind me to minor flaws, however much I may admire JMS and his series.
+
+Alisane the InSane
+
+
+From zofran@deepthot.ml.org Fri May 15 00:07:58 1998
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+Subject: Re: Good Schedule News
+Subject: Re: Good Schedule News
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+From: zofran@deepthot.ml.org
+
+John W Kennedy <jwkenne@ibm.net> writes:
+> Bob MacAdu wrote:
+> > 
+> > Jms at B5 wrote:
+> > >
+> > > TNT has been listening.
+> > >
+> > 
+> > To what? The bitter hostility of the fans - ie the people they lied to
+> > when they said they *cared* about this show and that they would run all
+> > 22 episodes of S5 without a break? Hardly.
+> 
+> They never said that.  JMS said once that someone from TNT said that
+> they hoped they could do that.  Somehow that little story has expanded
+> into an oath sworn on the True Cross by Ted Turner himself.
+
+Actually, what JMS said was:
+"The plan for now is to air one new S5 ep per week every week for 22 weeks."
+
+(found in DejaNews, posted to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated on 1997/07/02.)
+
+And, what he said about the NBA finals was: "[TNT] came back to us
+with the notion that we would continue new episodes until hitting
+#100, break for the NBA games, then come back (starting with another
+possible half-hour special) afterward at the same time to finish the
+season."
+
+(found in DejaNews, posted to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.info on
+1998/01/23 as part of message "JMS CIS Digest: 22-Jan-98 11:46 through
+23-Jan-98 12:41 (19 msgs)"
+
+So, my problem is this: 
+
+First we're told we'll get 22 episodes in a row.
+
+Next we're told that there will be a break for the NBA games and then
+we'll get the rest of the season.
+
+Now we're told that, after the break for the NBA games we'll get 4
+episodes, and then, at some time in the fall after all the other
+series have started their new seasons, we'll get the last 5 episodes.
+
+Where does it end? I think the series has suffered a lot from this
+bizarre practice of saving the last 5 episodes for the next
+season. Those episodes don't feel like part of any season because so
+much time has gone by since you last saw new episodes. Why does it
+keep happening? I can't think of any other series that does this.
+
+Frankly, I hate what all series are doing these days (showing 4
+episodes, then repeating them, then showing 3, then repeating them,
+etc.) I'd love it if everyone went back to the system of showing all
+the new episodes, then repeating them once, then showing summer
+replacements. It was a lot easier to keep track of things.
+
+--Adina
+
+
+
+From zofran@deepthot.ml.org Fri May 15 00:08:03 1998
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+Path: ciao.cc.columbia.edu!mb210
+To: b5mod-moderate@deepthot.ml.org
+Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
+Subject: A call for peace
+Subject: A call for peace
+Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 19:39:37 -0400
+Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 19:39:37 -0400
+Organization: Columbia University
+Lines: 22
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+Orig-From: Maia  Bernstein <mb210@columbia.edu>
+From: zofran@deepthot.ml.org
+
+Am I alone in the impression that this newsgroup is rapidly devolving into 
+a war zone?    Flames, trolls, counter-flames, counter-trolls,
+counter-counter-flames....ad nauseum.    Both sides believe that the other
+side is responsible for all the ugliness.   "He started it, I'm just
+defending myself!"...makes me think of the Centauri and the Narn.   
+Does it matter anymore, who started it?   What matters is that it is
+destroying the newsgroup.    Might I suggest a truly innovative response
+to truly offensive posts:   ignore them!   You might find that silence is
+a _most_ effective last word.
+
+
+Maia
+*******************************************************************************
+	I will arise and go now, for always night and day
+	I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
+	While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavement gray,
+	I hear it in the deep heart's core.
+
+                           --From "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by W.B.Yeats
+********************************************************************************
+
+
+
+
+From zofran@deepthot.ml.org Fri May 15 00:08:07 1998
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+From: "Cheryl Martin,,,," <zofran@deepthot.ml.org>
+To: b5mod-moderate@deepthot.ml.org
+Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 19:49:13 -0600
+Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 19:49:13 -0600
+
+
+
+From zofran@deepthot.ml.org Fri May 15 00:08:10 1998
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+To: b5mod-moderate@deepthot.ml.org
+Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Time Warners Synchronicity
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Time Warners Synchronicity
+Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 00:11:12 -0400
+Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 00:11:12 -0400
+Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc.
+Lines: 33
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+References: <6itc2g$25o$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> 
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+Orig-From: "Jon Cohen" <Jon1856@email.msn.com>
+Orig-Reply-To: "Jon Cohen" <Jon1856@Bigfoot.com>
+From: zofran@deepthot.ml.org
+
+    [The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set]
+    [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set]
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+
+JMS-Sir-'thank you, thank you, thank you-please-no WCW et al in any of your shows!!!!   
+
+-- 
+Jon
+To reply, use my link below.
+Jon1856@bigfoot.com
+ICQ # 948660
+Let us go in: The fog is rising.
+Emily Dickinson's last words-1886
+Jms at B5 wrote in message <1998051008114100.EAA28227@ladder03.news.aol.com>...
+>> To make the experience of viewing TNT programming
+>>less painful for your fans, have you considered writing some
+>>storylines for TNT Monday Nitro?  TKO was considered a less-
+>>successful episode -- could you "redeem" yourself here?
+>
+>>The wrestler Sting appears to be a Crow knock-off.  Are you open to the
+>>possibility of professional wrestlers dressing as Narns or Minbari?
+>>How about the Nitro Fly Girls dressed as Centauri slaves?  I think
+>>someone wrestling in a Vorlon encounter suit would be interesting.
+>>
+>>
+>
+>So...have the drugs worn off, or are they just kicking in...?
+>
+> jms
+>
+>(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+>B5 Official Fan Club at:
+>http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+From zofran@deepthot.ml.org Fri May 15 00:08:14 1998
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+Subject: Re: Harlan Ellison's input to B5
+Subject: Re: Harlan Ellison's input to B5
+Date: 10 May 1998 23:13:50 -0400
+Date: 10 May 1998 23:13:50 -0400
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+
+In <6j3ape$4n6$1@news7.ispnews.com> xocxoc <paul@xocxoc.nu> wrote:
+[. . .]
+: I do not know if this story was written before or after  Ellison
+: started working on B5, but the concepts of telepathic love making, brain
+: scans, brain wipes, and telepathic background noise are all very similar to
+: B5
+
+These are all old tropes in science fiction, going back past THE
+DEMOLISHED MAN, past SLAN.  
+
+
+
+-- 
+-- 
+Copyright 1998 by Gary Farber; Web Researcher; Nonfiction Writer, 
+Fiction and Nonfiction Editor; gfarber@panix.com; B'klyn, NYC, US
+
+
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+Subject: SF Cruise Officially Off
+Subject: SF Cruise Officially Off
+Orig-From: whocruiser@aol.com (WhoCruiser)
+From: zofran@deepthot.ml.org
+
+Dear Friends-
+
+Sadly I have to inform you that the decision has been made to call off the
+Sci-Fi Sea Cruise for 1998.  So what happened?  The detailed cancellation
+announcement appears on the cruise web site (listed below), along with a fan
+survey that we hope you will respond to in order to help us decide how best to
+go about any rescheduling efforts for the future.
+
+Most sincerely- Dan Harris
+
+************************************************************************
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+Read about The Sci-Fi Sea Cruise at: http://members.aol.com/SFCruise
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+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Time Warners Synchronicity
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Time Warners Synchronicity
+Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 08:42:22 GMT
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+From: zofran@deepthot.ml.org
+
+On 10 May 1998 14:35:02 -0600, jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5) wrote:
+
+>> To make the experience of viewing TNT programming
+>>less painful for your fans, have you considered writing some
+>>storylines for TNT Monday Nitro?  TKO was considered a less-
+>>successful episode -- could you "redeem" yourself here?
+>
+>>The wrestler Sting appears to be a Crow knock-off.  Are you open to the
+>>possibility of professional wrestlers dressing as Narns or Minbari?
+>>How about the Nitro Fly Girls dressed as Centauri slaves?  I think
+>>someone wrestling in a Vorlon encounter suit would be interesting.
+>>
+>>
+>
+>So...have the drugs worn off, or are they just kicking in...?
+>
+
+Whatever, the Narn Chapter of the Betty Ford Recovery Center stands
+ready to help in his detoxification.  
+
+Only they use the Wood, not Gold, Cure to drive out the toxins...
+--
+*Begin Subliminal Message*
+*You will use only virgin paper.
+*You will find uses for whale blubber.
+*You will drive large, gas-guzzling cars.
+*You will never, ever, recycle.
+*End Subliminal Message*
+
+
+From zofran@deepthot.ml.org Fri May 15 00:08:28 1998
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+Subject: Re: article on JMS's MIT visit
+Subject: Re: article on JMS's MIT visit
+Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 00:09:38 -0400
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+Orig-From: "Adam DeFranco" <interesting@earthlink.net>
+From: zofran@deepthot.ml.org
+
+And did you happen to catch this weeks DS9 episode?  Well o.k. they did kill off
+all
+but one of their crew, so they are redeemed in that sense.
+
+As a kid from the 80's (I do find it troubling actually considering that there is
+an
+entire generation that has no conception of the implications of that fact.  Truly
+a frightening time to grow up, of course this younger generation will probably
+have
+it tougher, what with power rangers, barney, spice girls, hanson and the rest
+of their ilk, yargh) I watched much of the japanimation that made it through to
+american TV.  At this time, those programs became the definition of popular
+Sci-Fi.  These shows stuck to a specific formula for generating their characters.
+(Dashing hero, Rouge/Smuggler, Princess, Big Guy)  As a part of this formula
+there was always a kid, usually he wore glasses and was some sort of prodigy,
+typically the kid would have some a robot as a companion, sometimes there
+would be some furry alien pet or mouse involved.
+
+    "Speed Racer, the Mach 5 vs. Racer X showed us the way."
+
+No, after living through all that, you're going to have to do a lot better than
+denial to
+convince me that B5 hasn't challenged a genuine stigma attached to SF.  It may
+not seem contemporary, but it's still fresh in my mind.
+
+
+
+Interesting and his dog Spot, what was your favorite Force Five story?
+
+
+Jms at B5 wrote in message <1998051008343200.EAA03335@ladder01.news.aol.com>...
+>>Occurs to me that I can't think of a current scifi show that does. Nope.
+>>Thinking about no scifi show currently in production has "cute kids and
+>>robts as regulars." It's pretty wierd that JMS empahsizes this when it is
+>>true of every show on the air. Even the ones that are worse than B5 has ever
+>>been.
+>
+>Sisko's kid son in Deep Space Nine, and the Ferengi kid in the same series.
+>
+>That's two kids in the same show.
+>
+>Maybe the problem is not in the proposition as advanced, but rather in your
+>thinking.
+>
+> jms
+>
+>(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+>B5 Official Fan Club at:
+>http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+From zofran@deepthot.ml.org Fri May 15 00:08:33 1998
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+From: "Cheryl Martin,,,," <zofran@deepthot.ml.org>
+To: b5mod-moderate@deepthot.ml.org
+Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 20:09:54 -0600
+Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 20:09:54 -0600
+
+
+
+From zofran@deepthot.ml.org Fri May 15 00:08:42 1998
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+To: b5mod-moderate@deepthot.ml.org
+Subject: For JMS
+Subject: For JMS
+Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 23:38:15 -0500
+Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 23:38:15 -0500
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+Orig-From: "Mary F. Garrett" <malia@beaches.net>
+From: zofran@deepthot.ml.org
+
+Great Maker,
+I am a loyal B5 fan, having watched from the very beginning. A work the other day 
+I was listening to the ABC new the Item they were talking about the US envoy being sent to the Middle East trying to finalize a peace agreement.  They said that this agreement was "The Last Best Hope For Peace".  Babylon 5 is affecting the language of the world much like Star Trek has.  Others might have heard and reported it to you already, but just in case no one has I though you would like to hear about it.   
+
+I love the show, your writing, an also appreciate your diligence in keeping B5 a top quality show.  I really enjoyed "The inside B5" show where we finally got to see your face, love the beard.  We have something beside B5 in common, I love watching Dennis Miller Live.  His rants come pretty close to the truth (IMHO) most of the times.  I don't miss a show if I can help it.  Malia
+
+Date: 15 May 1998 01:31:45 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: status of  the non-Babylon work
+
+>It's been a while since you've said anything about it, but are you going to 
+>get the time (with Crusade approved) to finish that other novel you were 
+>talking about?
+>
+>
+
+I'm working and have been working on a number of other, non-B5 projects (such
+as the short story that just came out in a mystery anthology), but they're all
+long-term projects that proceed at a page or two a day, as I have time for
+them.  There's a novel, a short story collection, a play, other stuff...but the
+show has to come first, so it'll be a while before anything happens to them.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 15 May 1998 01:25:42 -0600
+Subject: Re: Intersections - Is there truth?
+
+One way or another, it's always about truth.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 15 May 1998 10:00:50 -0600
+Subject: B5 Fan Club Addition
+
+As the fan club has expanded and been reworked, we've worked to play catch-up
+on orders, improve the site, and increase the numbers and quality of in-house
+products.  To that end, we've just brought on someone who will run the thing
+full time, instead of all of us pitching in part-time.  
+
+The new addition is Julie Walker, previously head of the MST3K fan club. 
+Knowing both the fan area and the environment, she should be a huge help in
+getting us to the next level.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 15 May 1998 17:16:54 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS, Your Voice from the Past
+
+Thank you; and for me, it's enough just to be *mentioned* in the same message
+with Shakespeare.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 15 May 1998 17:26:42 -0600
+Subject: Re: B5 Fan Club Addition
+
+>Just wondering, what kind of background, schooling, experience and
+>such is normally needed to fall into this line of work?  Any idea?  It's easy
+>to
+>guess what kind of background a secretary, doctor, lawyer, etc. needs - I
+>just am
+>curious about this kind of work as a profession
+
+It's an odd mix...one has to have a knowledge of the fans that is based on real
+experience, but not be a "fanboy" (if I can use that term) where it can become
+about self-aggrandizement...you have to want to serve the needs of the fans,
+and the company.  Also you have to be a business manager, able to pull together
+a real, honest to god company and expand it.  Sort of a fan technomage.  That
+she had been involved with a fan club based on a TV series, and made it into a
+going concern, was crucial to her selection.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 15 May 1998 17:26:59 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Season 6 B5?
+
+No, TNT has never announced there was going to be a sixth season; they have
+acceded to my wishes on this.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 15 May 1998 17:28:37 -0600
+Subject: Re: B 5 thoughts
+
+Thanks...for me, it's been a covenant with the fans, to keep my promises when
+made.  I've been on the other end of broken promises by guys promising the
+moon, the stars and the sky, and don't want to do it to fans in return.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 17 May 1998 15:09:52 -0600
+Subject: Re: B5 Fan Club Addition
+
+
+>Um, what happens to Sandy Bruckner? She was working with the Fan Club.
+
+Nothing.  Sandy was never involved with the business operations of the fan club
+on a day-to-day managerial level.  Sandy's work for the club continues, in the
+same areas as always: cons, thestation.com and Universe Today/Headline News.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 17 May 1998 15:09:42 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Harlan Ellison vs Frank Sinatra encounter?
+
+
+Yeah, I've heard it, but the details are fuzzy, and fairly elaborate, so it's
+best for me not even to try and recount them.
+
+As for the address to use for me...the B5 mail drop is fine, though soon I'll
+be shunting all that over to the main B5 fan mail address.  For now, send it to
+my attention, c/o Babylon 5, 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks,
+CA 91423.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 17 May 1998 15:11:10 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  "Babylon" by A.G. Stephens
+
+
+Never came across that one before...how totally, massively cool.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 18 May 1998 11:40:15 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: My $.02
+
+Thanks...the whole process of making this show has meant a great deal to me,
+and I suspect it will continue to be a major part of my life for years to come.
+ Sad and triumphant does kinda cover it, doesn't it?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 18 May 1998 17:37:13 -0600
+Subject: Re: Claudia Confirms She Quit
+
+But see, this is where I lose all respect for this kind of discussion.  Just
+about every time we introduce a new character, some folks say he or she is
+wooden...then, later, this is a good character and THAT character is wooden.
+
+But then there's that word, which is the core of it for me.  These days,
+over-acting is taken as acting...acting which has any kind of subtlety or
+reality is termed "wooden" when it's simply not chewing up all the scenery in a
+room.
+
+On a strictly technical basis, my personal feeling is that Tracy is a better
+performer than Claudia; that's a non-biased appraisal, said in the same way
+that I can say that Andreas on a strictly technical basis is a better performer
+than Stephen...though I'd rather not use such words as "better," which gets
+into subjective appraisals, when some things -- extent of training, skills one
+brings to the job -- can be more objectively explored.
+
+Bottom line...Ivanova was a yeller; Lochley is a thinker.  They are two
+different characters.  You can't look at Lochley and expect her to be the same
+character or act like Ivanova.  That would be an insult to both the character,
+the actor and the audience.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 18 May 1998 17:39:47 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Sequel theories/Pros & Cons
+
+I already answered this in the course of my initial reply, by putting it into
+the context of what was the situation before, and what is different now.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 19 May 1998 14:25:22 -0600
+Subject: jms/jc TV Guide Online Tuesday
+
+
+John Copeland and I will be doing a chat on the TV Guide Online site tomorrow
+at 7:00 p.m. Pacific, 10:00 p.m. Eastern.  Just FYI.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 19 May 1998 14:27:25 -0600
+Subject: Re: Arc of JMS
+
+
+Let's play a game for a moment.  Let's say there are 30 people out there who
+don't like you.  For whatever reason.  They don't like your work, your face,
+whatever.  30 people out of a much larger universe of people.
+
+Now, those 30 people go online, where you hang out, and they leave dozens --
+literally dozens -- of messages attacking you, every day.  They put out
+absolute and downright lies, total fabrications...they cite contracts that
+don't exist, they put out the word that you've had a heart attack just so the
+switchboards at your office get flooded and people get upset, they send you
+trojan horses and viruses, and impugn your ability, your credibility, your
+honesty, your relationships with your co-workers.
+
+And they do this day after day, week after week, month after month...for six
+years.  Unflaggingly, untiringly, just one nonstop series of attacks.  Yeah,
+it's 30 people out ofa much larger universe, but over time, even a whole human
+being can be eaten by ants.  They have an impact substantially greater than
+their numbers or real influence would warrant.
+
+And you cannot hit them, you cannot strike back (it's okay for THEM to say
+whatever they want about you, but if you do it back somehow that's wrong), so
+your hands are tied unless you want to spend several hundred thousand dollars
+suing them (which mind you, you're not entirely ruling out), all you can do is
+take it, and take it, and take it.
+
+And then one of these jokers will come up with "Well, if you can't stand the
+heat..." and you vow you will make them eat their lower molars.  It's not heat,
+it's pathology.  It's netstalking.  It's a genuine mental aberration, a
+sickness, an obsession...these are the cyber equivilents of those who stab
+Theresa Saldana, or shoot John Lennon...the person who threw a cup of warm
+vomit in the face of an SF writer at a convention, the person who fills in fake
+magazine subscriptions to another SF writer, or stakes out their house, or eggs
+their house...only the weapon of choice varies.  Here it is the computer, the
+lie, the net.
+
+There's nothing wrong with criticism, I've said it a thousand times, I don't
+care if someone's opinion is positive or negative.  That has nothing to do with
+obsessive, destructive personalities...who use that smoke screen to divert
+discussion away from the fact that they're just plain nuts...and because there
+are little or no safeguards on the net, it drives away civility, it drives away
+real discussion, it dries away those who are tired of being attacked for daring
+to express a positive opinion about something...and in the end, it drives away
+people like me.  I know too many producers, directors and actors who just won't
+go on the nets because they don't need the grief that comes from the genuinely
+disturbed  personalities who hang out waiting to jump on them.  Just because
+someone can buy a computer and plug it into the wall doesn't mean that they
+themselves are wired up right.
+
+It's these types of individuals who are the main reason that I will be pulling
+back from the nets after B5 is over.  Had I not promised to stay here for the
+duration of B5, such that I do not make false promises, I would have been out
+of here long, long ago.  
+
+When people talk about taking better care on these newsgroups to keep out the
+loonies, the Free Speech issue comes up.  But what about the free speech of
+those who are, over time, intimidated and libeled and endlessly attacked by the
+fanatical few, derided and abused until they finally decide that it just ain't
+worth their time anymore to put up with the grief?  What about their free
+speech?  If an area is rendered toxic by a small handful of users...who
+benefits?  Where is the freedom to express oneself?
+
+I've seen one person come into a group, and leave vicious attacks to just about
+everyone in the group, and then to everyone who defended everyone in the group,
+until it's all just one huge brawl, with the abuser at the center of it,
+*glorying* in all the trouble he's caused, because now suddenly it's all about
+him...it's all how he did this, and he said that, and how dare he this, and it
+gives them a sense of importance.  They batten on it, they feed on it, and do
+all they can to make it worse.
+
+If you were standing in the street, and someone walked up to you discheveled,
+with madness in his eyes, clearly deranged, and began shouting at you two
+inches from your face, would you stand there and say, "No, it's okay, it's his
+free speech."  No, you would walk away, or help someone who was being assaulted
+verbally by this person.  (And before somebody says "it's just words," the
+Supreme Court and every court in the land has found that words have power to
+hurt, to defame, to abuse, and to incite.)
+
+Thing is, on the net, you can't see these twists for who and what they are. 
+Which is how they manage to get by.
+
+So yes, to the point of your message...they have taken a toll on me over these
+many years, to the point where I will be moving a bit off-net when B5 is done. 
+And I don't much like it; but there really isn't much choice.  Sure, I could
+keep on going toe-to-toe with them for the *next* five years, day in and day
+out...but to what end?  For what purpose?  To explain myself to them?  They
+have no interest in explanations.  If you counterattack, you just feed them; if
+you ignore them, they take it as permission to continue doing so, and others
+take it as implicit endorsement of what they said.  
+
+This group was founded not to be a criticism free group, but mainly to be a nut
+free group.  It has largely, though not consistently, succeeded at that.  Even
+so, stuff slips in under the radar nets that would never be allowed to stand in
+a paying system, which can provide some measure of security against the more
+serious brain-damage cases.  Point being that until and unless the newsgroups
+can find ways to deal NOT with critical posts, but with the genuinely, truly
+disturbed people who are attracted by certain forms of entertainment, it's
+always going to be a hostile place for people like me to enter.  So you're not
+going to get many folks who're willing to put up with it.  Fewer people to
+express opinions, or offer facts.  Which again seems rather contrary to the
+goal.
+
+Which, in some ways, is what the netstalkers want.  What matters to them most
+is their own opinion, and their own importance.  Neil Gaiman, in conversation,
+once rightly pointed out that these are the same folks who, at his signings,
+will position themselves next to the autograph table, and begin expounding
+their opinions as loudly as they can, to no one in particular, just to hear the
+sound of their own voice, and to make sure everyone else hears them.
+
+And there is one crime which they will never forgive: if you come at them with
+a fact that contradicts their opinion.  If they believe that everyone in
+Hollywood is a certain way, then they will do all they can to prove this of
+you, whether it's true or not, because they can't tolerate any other
+possibility.  Contradict them, and they will go after you forever and chase you
+away, because they don't want anything interfering with their view of the
+world.
+
+Free speech is a great concept.  I make my living at it.  But free speech is
+only possible with *accountability.*  If someone publishes an article that is
+defamatory, or abusive, you can go after them in court, and pursue legal
+penalities.  The nature of the net makes that far more difficult.  So there is
+no accountability: no peer pressure, no ostracism, no penalties...and thus, no
+free speech.  There is nothing in the constitution that guarantees that you can
+say anything you want about anyone you want, without ever fearing for the
+consequences if you're wrong, or malicious, or abusive, or destructive.  
+
+The net also allows people to fairly well conceal their identities, and with
+anonymity you further lose accountability...you can say anydamnthing you want,
+and they can't track you down,or at least it becomes massively difficult, and
+more difficult still to prove in court.  And so it goes on.
+
+Which is why, in the end, it will have to go on with me in a vastly reduced
+capacity.  The difference between me and them is that my name is on everything
+I write; I stand behind everything I write.  If I *ever* put out a provable lie
+-- and all lies are provable sooner or later -- it would come back to haunt me.
+ So I have to be honest.  They do not.  And you can't exist in a situation
+where it's not a level playing field, where both sides aren't playing by the
+same rules.
+
+And frankly, what would be the point?  Twenty years from now, who in hell is
+going to care what five or six guys in a usenet group said to each other in
+bagging on the show or myself?  The show is the show is the show; nothing they
+say can ever change that.  So why put up with it?  Some will say, "Just ignore
+them."  But you can't.  It doesn't work that way.  And that's the *problem*. 
+Too much gets ignored, and they don't go away, they only get louder.
+
+So all of this is what weighs on me every time I log on; and, I would suggest,
+weighs on more than a few users as well, given the multitude of emails I get
+that begin, "I hate to bother you in private mail, but I'm tired of being
+attacked every time I say in public that I like B5, so..."
+
+I guess you could say this is all about evolution and change, as you note.  I
+suppose you could even point to my messages, and note the changes there,
+wrought by five years of being dogged by the pathologically unstable.  It takes
+a toll, I won't lie.
+
+But at the end of the day, it ain't evolution and change.  It's just the usual
+bad apples messing up the barrel for everybody else.
+
+See, some things *never* change.
+
+And some people never, ever evolve.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 19 May 1998 14:45:02 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Home Video question
+
+
+>I think I saw in one of your
+>digests that they're may be a widescreen/letterbox version.  Is this
+>true?  and if so why would a show designed for television use movie
+>screen sizes?
+>
+>
+We've tried to stay ahead of the technology curve where possible.  So all of B5
+except for the pilot was filmed widescreen, and cropped for regular current TV
+aspect ratios.  Why?  We just think like that.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 19 May 1998 15:00:59 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn. JMS: Stephen Furst.
+
+
+Your information is not correct: Stephen Furst has not been signed to Crusade;
+there are no current plans to have him as a regular character, though we do
+hope to have him as an occasional guest star, and possibly to direct some
+episodes.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 19 May 1998 15:25:49 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: The answers to the questions.
+
+
+There is no single answer; we each have to find our own.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 19 May 1998 22:39:41 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Where's Vir?
+
+He's around...you'll see him quite a bit more in the new episodes to come.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 19 May 1998 22:57:53 -0600
+Subject: Re: Arc of JMS
+
+>I want to clarify something from my earlier post, and the reply from
+>JMS.
+>
+>It was not intended as an attack that the man has changed over time in
+>his public responses on the net.  It was an observation that the tone of
+>his posts has changed, nothing more.
+
+I never took it as anything else.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 20 May 1998 09:33:10 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS... B5 Fan Club
+
+Yeah, I'll definitely try to stop by there when I can, now that we've pretty
+much overcome the software glitches, which kinda kept me away for a bit.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 20 May 1998 09:33:52 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Sequel theories/Pros & Cons
+
+>This reminds me of the response given during Prime Minister's Question Time:
+>I
+>refer the right honourable gentleman (or woman) to the response I gave some
+>moments before.
+>
+>A very civilized response.
+
+Which is about where the civilized part ends...having watched a fair amount of
+Prime Minister's Question Time on CSPAN, I have to say it beats professional
+wrestling any day of the week.
+
+I understand only about half of what's under discussion, but it's pretty damned
+entertaining nonetheless.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 20 May 1998 09:39:10 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS - Babylon 5 Wars and Babylon Project
+
+One of the things we've begun doing is to start coordinating more closely all
+the licensees, and there are going to have to be some revisions in the game
+books to bring them into line with the overall story, and other licensees.  We
+just recently brought on a reference editor whose job it is to catalog every
+bit of information between licensees, and between B5 and the licensees, and
+start making it as canonical and consistent as possible.  It's a hideous job,
+but we're determined to do it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 20 May 1998 09:39:05 -0600
+Subject: Re: The Death of Civility
+
+>Here's a novel idea.  Once you've identified the people you consider
+>trolls, why not just killfile them and save yourself the aggravation?
+>The same principle applies here as it does out there you know.  If you
+>don't like what some people have to say, ignore them. 
+> I'm not willing to infringe on the rights of
+>others to freely express themselves just to protect him from the
+>verbal barbs and personal slights that we all endure on a daily basis.
+>Just remember,  there's always that killfile option. 
+
+Okay, Morgana, let's try an experiment.
+
+Let's say that somebody logging on under a pseudonym posts a message,
+identifying you by your true and complete name, and says that you have a
+criminal record for child molestation.  Since you have killfiled that person,
+that information zips on out there, unchallenged, until it gains common
+currency...and begins to come back at you from other sources.
+
+So by your lights, that's okay?  It wouldn't bother you in the least?  That's a
+good thing?
+
+It's one thing to killfile somebody because you don't care about their
+comments, their opinions...but what these people tend to have their opinions
+about...is me: personally, creatively, even legally.  
+
+And the scenario I posted a second ago, incidentally, is a valid one.  I have
+had people impersonating me on pedophile areas, another charged me with murder
+on another national system; yet another briefly suggested that I should be
+murdered.
+
+It's real easy when it's just a subject being discussed; but when it's you, by
+name, it ain't so easy, Morgana.  
+
+So I suspect that if the above scenario took place, you would not be quite so
+sanguine about it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+Subject: Re: Att JMS, please
+Subject: Re: Att JMS, please
+Orig-From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
+From: zofran@deepthot.ml.org
+
+>One, this week's _Zocalo_ quotes you as saying that the last bit of work
+>was done on B5 the Series as of May 15. 
+>
+>Congratulations! and thank you again for being living proof that a person
+>with a plan *can* beat the system, if they are willing to make the
+>committment and the sacrifices
+
+Thanks...it's been tough, but worth it.
+
+>n a recent post, you
+>mentioned that Usenet tolerates pathological behavior which the "paying
+>services" are less likely to put up with. 
+>
+>Does this mean that you'll be more active on the private nets than this
+>public forum, although in a reduced amount in all places, due to time
+>constraints?
+
+Dunno...haven't really thought that far ahead yet.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 20 May 1998 09:39:51 -0600
+Subject: Re: DVD required for PC98 Standard
+
+Actually, I have a DVD drive in my new system, from Dell, and I have to say
+it's maximum coolness.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 20 May 1998 09:40:19 -0600
+Subject: ANOTHER poll...?
+
+This one's cool...apparently ABC News is holding a poll for what the new Space
+Station should be named, and Babylon is holding at position #4.  
+
+The url for the poll is:
+
+http://www.abcnews.com/sections/science/DailyNews/spacestation_name980510.html
+
+This could be funny....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 20 May 1998 09:41:35 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN Jms: This still true
+
+>Are we being whammed and not even knowing it?
+
+That's kind of what I've been saying for a bit...the whole Byron thing, for
+instance, ain't just a throwaway, ain't just there for what we saw.  It's a
+trigger for a series of things.
+
+But you'll see that soon enough.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 20 May 1998 12:12:04 -0600
+Subject: Re: Att JMS, please
+
+>One, this week's _Zocalo_ quotes you as saying that the last bit of work
+>was done on B5 the Series as of May 15. 
+>
+>Congratulations! and thank you again for being living proof that a person
+>with a plan *can* beat the system, if they are willing to make the
+>committment and the sacrifices
+
+Thanks...it's been tough, but worth it.
+
+>n a recent post, you
+>mentioned that Usenet tolerates pathological behavior which the "paying
+>services" are less likely to put up with. 
+>
+>Does this mean that you'll be more active on the private nets than this
+>public forum, although in a reduced amount in all places, due to time
+>constraints?
+
+Dunno...haven't really thought that far ahead yet.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 20 May 1998 17:01:20 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Voice of the Resistance Con - "Economical" with the 
+
+Nope.  I said exactly what I meant.  I said that I would not have anything to
+do with any Wolf-associated convention virtually the week we got back, and
+announced it on the nets.  Now you say that 
+
+>the
+>decision was made (I believe) not to invite you to any more of their
+>conventions. This was some time before your public outburst at the
+>committee.
+
+This would seem a bit like time travel, since it happened right after the
+convention.  Also, I see you include "I believe."  So in fact you don't know
+for a fact that any such decision was ever made.  And if it had been, it's
+highly unlikely that it could've been made prior to my announcement.
+
+So having already said that I would not be involved with any Wolf convention or
+Brian Cooney until they got their act together in terms of their treatment of
+the fans, I wouldn't exactly expect to be invited, since I've already *said* I
+wouldn't go to any of them.  So your point is completely moot.  
+
+>To your credit (and to maintain truthfulness on my part) you did apologise
+>publically on the UK B5 group for your bad manners at the convention, but I
+>do not expect that this will make any difference to the committee's
+>decision - I know it made no difference to the unpaid volunteer stewards
+>that you upset.
+
+No, what I said on the group was that I was often in a bad mood at the
+convention...because of the utter incompetenced, ineptitude and gross stupidity
+I saw in the running and operations of the convention that started right from
+the top.  
+
+So the stewards were upset...well, then, perhaps they would not be upset if I
+hadn't had to yell about fans standing FOR THREE AND FOUR HOURS AT  A TIME to
+get the autograph of an actor only to find that the actor was no longer there,
+if I hadn't had to see people *literally* close to passing out from overheated
+conditions and long lines, if I hadn't had THE HANDWRITTEN OUTLINES FOR THE
+FIRST FEW SEASONF IVE EPISODES THROWN OUT at my hotel by staff when Wolf
+convention didn't take care of the room properly and my stuff got moved when I
+was away at the con, costing me several weeks worth of work.
+
+Yeah, I was in a bad mood...deal with it.  I kept it away from the fans, and
+directed it where it was most appropriate: at those who were involved in the
+day to day operations of the con, from the top to the bottom.  It was the
+single most incompetently run convention that I have attended in over a decade
+of convention going.  I was told, "Well, there are just too many people." 
+Crap.  I came to the last Wolf convention after WesterCon Seattle, which had
+JUST as many people, and was probably the BEST run convention I've seen in a
+long time.
+
+I'm sorry it upset a few stewards...but when I see fans in literal physical
+distress, when I see this kind of incompetence and abuse for people who paid a
+great deal of money to be there, when I ask for but do not receive promised
+statements that would set my mind at ease as to whether or not the money
+supposedly raised for the convention actually GOT where it was intended to go
+(information thta I have *still* not received, despite being told that it was
+both available and forthcoming)...I get pissed, because at core, I'm a fan, and
+I won't see fans being abused in this fashion.
+
+What I said was that I won't have anything to do with any Wolf associated
+convention until such time as I hear from the fans that the conditions at these
+cons have improved.  
+
+Deal with it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 20 May 1998 17:21:10 -0600
+Subject: Re: The Death of Civility
+
+Tim: sure, you can just choose to ignore it when someone does you a disservice,
+when they malign you or smear you...that's an option.
+
+Only problem with it, is that it doesn't work.
+
+For instance: over on the other group, a particular net-kook posted a message
+citing a supposed contract between me and AOL in which I would be paid to be
+exclusively on AOL and thus would not be contributing anything to any usenet
+group, and that THAT was the reason that I left the unmoderated group.
+
+It was, of course, an unvarnished lie, of the kind I've come to expect from
+such individuals.
+
+The problem is that this isn't a big, obvious lie...it's a subtle one.  And as
+a result, it got propagated and picked up around the nets, and I had to answer
+a couple dozen angry email messages from users saying that I'd sold out to AOL.
+ So tell me, how does ignoring that kind of thing solve anything?  
+
+You say ignore 'em.  I say you can't just ignore this kind of crap, or you end
+up condoning it by silence.  Difference in philosophy, that's all.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 20 May 1998 17:23:47 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Movie scripts
+
+Actually, I think where my episodes have had problems has been where I've had
+too much time to think about them, and second guess myself.  The more time
+between starting it and finishing it, the more I tend to lose the fingerprints
+of the characters and the situation.  Both the examples you cite, for instance,
+were that way, and suffered from too MUCH tinkering on my part, frankly.
+
+As for the feature...that one is going to be the object of some considerable
+attention from me.  I'll probably do what I tend to do for special stuff
+(should it get into development): noodle it and play with it and outline stuff
+until finally it refuses to wait any longer, then take a week or so and do
+nothing else but burn through the draft, then stick it in a box for another
+week, not look at it, then come back and pretend somebody else wrote it and
+tear it to shreds, then rebuild.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 20 May 1998 22:32:31 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - So-Cal cons
+
+I'll definitely be at LosCon in November; that was where we first debuted B5
+footage and news, and this one will take place 2 days after the very last
+regular episode of B5 airs.  I'll be there.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 21 May 1998 09:50:02 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: The Official Guide to J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon
+
+>1) Why the guide contains no Government\Alien data on Vorlons or
+>Shadows?
+>
+>2) Why the guide contains no character reference to Morden, Bester,
+>Kosh, Lorien, Sinclair all crucial characters but does contain data on
+>Timothy Chase and Ashi Van Troc - each of whom had a 2 minute segment
+>in one episode (Long Twilight Struggle and Dust To Dust resp.)
+>3) Why the guide contains no pictures of Vorlon or Shadow ships?
+>
+Because the guide is set in the time period of the fifth season; it is a guide
+to B5 *as it is in the fifth year* of the show, at which point the Vorlons and
+the Shadows are all gone.  We had to choose which year in which to set the
+thing, because of folks going in and out of the story.  We took the conceit
+that this is the kind of thing that someone arriving at the station would
+reasonbly or conceivably get.  It isn't a guide to the history of B5, it's a
+guide to the station, and who's in it, in season 5.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 21 May 1998 09:50:35 -0600
+Subject: Re: B5, JMS and the net
+
+>	As far as I can see, we are no longer talking about a place
+>where JMS is free from personal attacks.  We are beginning to discuss
+>a place where he is free from _creative criticism_.
+
+Show me one post where I have said that.  You and Charles both.  Just one post.
+ Any post.  Where?  
+
+This is a straw man argument; I've never said it, have said exactly the
+opposite on numerous occasions, and wouldn't want it.
+
+Nor am I asking anyone to change anything here.
+
+The topic came up.  I responded about what things are like at this end.  That
+was the end of it.  Frankly, I've already heard from some in the satai mailing
+list, and have told them I can't see what if anything could be changed, and
+that I'm not *looking* for anything to get changed.
+
+I was just talking about what this has been like.
+
+Can we please stop the unjustified, unmerited straw man arguments now?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 21 May 1998 09:50:44 -0600
+Subject: Re: Arc of JMS
+
+BTW, Laura, congrats on the starfury art thing...I went to check it out, looks
+great.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 21 May 1998 09:55:02 -0600
+Subject: from jms re: the debate
+
+If I can be allowed a moment's indulgence...this won't take much longer than
+that.
+
+This whole discussion began when someone posted a message noting that some of
+my messages of late have not been as chipper as those posted in earlier days. 
+I responded, and in some considerable detail, pointed out some of the
+shortcomings and problems in being on-line.  
+
+Never once in that note, or any of those that followed, did I say one word
+about not wanting criticism.  Not wanting to be stalked, sure, not much liking
+it when I get deliberately sandbagged or lied about or ambushed, absolutely. 
+But not one word about criticism.  I did not ask for changes in the moderated
+group, did not ask to have anyone booted, did not ask for a new charter or
+group, did not suggest that criticism be eliminated...did not do any of those
+things.  I have only said that, because of the problems that exist, after B5 is
+over, I would be pulling back (though not eliminating) my online presence,
+which is, after all, my right.  There is no written contract requiring that I
+remain on the firing line forever...let the next guy take his or her turn in
+front of the sniper nests for a while.
+
+But it's nothing to do with honest, fair criticism.
+
+For six years, I have answered honest criticism fairly, evenhandedly, and as
+objectively as I could.
+
+Those raising the flag in this current fracas, however, do not seem so
+inclined.
+
+It's like this: do I, or do I not, share the same right to free speech as
+anyone else here, especially those who raise that particular banner at a
+moment's notice?
+
+If so, then do I not have the same right to express a critical opinion as
+anyone else here?
+
+I have, for six years now, announced to anyone within listening range the
+benefits and the positive aspects of being on the nets.  I am not, however,
+blind to the faults and flaws of said correspondence, and said so, when someone
+asked.
+
+I raised a critical opinion.
+
+And for that, any number of folks have jumped up and down loudly announcing
+that this is somehow unfair, or a sign of censorship, or just generally, garden
+variety wrong...dumping all over that original message.
+
+Or, to quote Franklenstein's monster, "Criticism good.  Criticism of criticism:
+bad."
+
+So it seems to me that we have a logical contradiction going on here, in which
+it's okay for people to voice critical opinions of me or the show or anything
+B5...but it is NOT as right to voice a critical opinion of the nets and/or some
+of the people and/or gatekeeping processes involved.  Frankly, if I had been as
+brittle and quick to fire off flames in response to simple criticism as those
+here have done in answer to my opinion about the nets, I wouldn't have lasted
+five minutes.  
+
+So I would suggest that these same individuals try to apply a little of the
+patience toward criticism that I have had to show.  I've had to put up with
+positive and negative comments for six years, surely you can do so for a few
+days, in relation to the nets.  Or should no one criticize these things?
+
+It's real simple.  Either I have the same right to a critical opinion as
+everyone else, and the same right to express same, or I don't.  If I do, then
+those who argue in favor of open criticism should have nothing to complain
+about...unless they're upset because it's their ox being gored instead of mine
+for a change.  If I don't...then I would suggest that that is massively unfair
+and totally inappropriate to a free and open exchange of ideas.
+
+It's either a level playing field, or it's not.
+
+Let me know when you've decided.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 22 May 1998 09:44:38 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Dumb Question Time (S1/S2)
+
+>That being the case (and here's where it gets dumb), was there an
+>overwhelming
+>reason why the switch was done *right* at the S1/S2 break?  As opposed to,
+>say,
+>keeping Sinclair on the station for one episode, maybe two, enough to make
+>the
+>fans think that it all was just a bad rumor -- and *then* yanking Sinclair
+>off
+>the board, using your patented
+>sneak-up-behind-the-viewers-with-a-sockful-of-sand (TM) technique?
+
+Several reasons.  For one, Michael is basically a New Yorker, and wanted to be
+back there to pursue some stage opportunities.  We went our separate ways in
+May, and filming for S2 didn't start until July/August, so he would've had to
+uproot himself twice to do a few eps at the start...also, contracts being what
+they are, we had to either renegotiate his contract, or renew it for all 22,
+contractual terms don't allow for you to bring on the actor like that for only
+a couple if the contract requires 22.  And, finally, it was just cleaner that
+way.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 22 May 1998 09:46:57 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: about DofS and Phoenix Rising (very very mild spoiler)
+
+>I just saw the reairing of DofS and ive got a question: did you already
+>shoot "phoenix rising" when you put together DofS or did you use the footage
+>of the Garibaldi hostage scene from DofS in "Phoenix Rising". 
+
+The latter.
+
+>also, i saw the promo for the next ep of season five.  Was Lennier lying
+>down in the minbari fighter or is it just the camera angle?
+
+The former.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 22 May 1998 09:47:14 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Many Thanks
+
+Thank you; it's funny how synchronicity puts the right lessons in front of us
+at the right time, if we're willing to notice them.  And those questions are
+the ones we all have to wrestle with, and answer, sooner or later.  Good luck
+on your new journey.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 22 May 1998 09:47:21 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS et al: Accountability - A Call to Revolution?
+
+You're being far too reasonable, thoughtful and progressive.  Stop that, you
+know the rules....
+
+Thanks.  Good stuff.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 22 May 1998 10:01:02 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Question and Thoughts regarding show continuity and
+
+>Is there some sort of endemic problem with actors' contracts or long-term
+>script coordination which makes the unique quality of your show impractical
+>to implement in most other shows?  It would be truly sad if this was the
+>case.
+
+Nope, it's a philosophical thing, not a business thing.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 22 May 1998 23:09:58 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Some Self-Indulgence
+
+>I was wondering what's it like for you as an sf
+>books/movies/TV fan when people mention you or talk to you in
+>the same breath as Gene Roddenberry or George Lucas and tell
+>you that what you've done in creating a universe that has
+>affected so many peoples' imaginations will probably be as
+>well-remembered and well-loved as the STAR TREK and/or STAR
+>WARS universes? 
+
+My first reaction is generally pretty much the same...I cringe, because on some
+level, it ain't me, it's the show.  (This ain't falses modesty, it ain't
+looking to be contradicted, I know and fully understand my role in the show
+*intellectually*, I'm talking about the *emotional* response.)
+
+To me, Lucas is LUCAS, all caps.  He's a big deal, a celebrity, a truly
+creative force of nature.  In my head, he's seven feet tall.  I'm just me.  So
+it's hard to look at myself in the same fashion.
+
+Which, I suppose, is a good thing.  It helps me avoid the whole ego inflation
+thing which, in my view, is what's ruined a lot of Ray Bradbury's work (for me)
+in recent years.  It's as if he's not as much interested in telling real
+stories as in being Ray Bradbury.  I don't know that that's the case, but that'
+s how I perceive it.  I think the moment you buy into your own public image,
+you're dead.
+
+>When you set out, did you have it in the back
+>of your mind,  "Y'know, one of these days, my universe could
+>well be up there with the others!!"
+
+I don't think I let myself think that far ahead; if I had, I would've frozen
+up.  The other day, somebody referred in a message to the Straczynskiverse, and
+I about fell over....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 23 May 1998 00:42:31 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: In The Beginning Merchandise
+
+>I was wondering if there were plans for releasing an
+>In The Beginning musc CD, since a lot of the music was amazing stuff.
+
+We've talked about it, and I know he'd like to do it, so it's a matter of time,
+I suppose.
+
+>Is Franke also creating a large
+>score for the B5 game?
+
+Yup.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 24 May 1998 11:20:16 -0600
+Subject: Re: Arc Discussion Maelstrom?
+
+As I noted in my private reply to you on this...ain't nothing wrong with asking
+questions.  You only get pertinent information by asking impertinent questions.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 24 May 1998 11:23:42 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS - Grief
+
+I think those are very good points...thanks for making them.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 24 May 1998 11:20:08 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Royalties question
+
+> a one second clip of the Babylon 5 station.  So my
+>question is: who gets paid for this use of WB copyrighted material, how
+>often do they get paid (one lump sum, every time the image is shown, etc.)
+>and about how much would they get paid?
+
+If I recall correctly, they asked for and received a waiver, so as far as I
+know, there's no money involved at all.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 24 May 1998 11:23:58 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Many Thanks
+
+Thansk; in addition to that....
+
+>Thanks Joe, for all the truly
+>outsanding writing!  Not just on TV, either.  I have loved your
+>postings where you let out a little of yourself... the chocolate
+>loving, Parker pen using self... the opinions on music and the
+>off topic stuff all add to making it a fuller experience
+
+Four words: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.  If you liked Cherry Poppin' Daddies (and who
+wouldn't?) you'll LOVE Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 24 May 1998 11:24:11 -0600
+Subject: Re: Plotline Arcs in Television Series
+
+>Now that Babylon 5 has used the
+>plot-arc, and has shown that it can be done quite successfully, have any
+>other shows currently in production begun to use a predetermined arc?
+>One example may be Earth: Final Conflict; it definitely has an arc in
+>its development, but is the storyline for the series predetermined like
+>Babylon 5's?
+>
+>
+Dark Skies was announced as using a five-year arc, and in a recent interview
+with the producers (Starburst? TV zone?  one of those) of the Stargate series,
+they've said they're trying to do a B5 arc approach, though not quite as
+intensive.  I think it's great; the more we can add new tools, the more
+diversity we get as viewers.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 24 May 1998 11:24:22 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Defining Episodes?
+
+It's hard to say...I think Deconstruction may be a defining episode, certainly
+Sleeping in Light is that way, as is 519.  Hard to say why until they air....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 24 May 1998 11:27:22 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: The back burners
+
+>But...how easy is it for you to switch gears?  While writing itself is
+>simply telling a story, each medium calls for a completely different set of
+>rules and processes.  
+>	Do you find yourself, for example, saying "I think I'm in my
+novel-writing
+> mood today"..?
+>Or do you, being a somewhat obvious workaholic who just loves what he
+>does, find it easy to pick up any of these projects at any given time and
+>jump in full steam?
+
+What happens is that my main goal for the evening is, say, writing a B5 script.
+ I'll come to a point in it where I'll have to sit back and stew over what
+comes next, how to pull it off.  It's often easy to know WHAT you want to do,
+it's the HOW that's hard (worse still if you want to do the HOW *well*.)
+
+That's strictly subconscious stuff, letting the brain chew on it, so while
+that's going on, I'll go work on something else, or jump on the nets, whatever
+it takes so I *don't* leave the keyboard and go watch TV, since I can lose
+several hours that way.
+
+Which one I pick depends on who I want to play with that day.  This week I've
+been spending my "thinking" time on my play, just a page or two here and there,
+no rush.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 24 May 1998 11:30:43 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks, comments, and some mild disagreements
+
+First, thanks for all the nice things.  >That said, I do disagree with a few
+things. As a Las Vegas
+>resident, I was disappointed a few months ago when you said that you
+>didn't feel that Las Vegas was a suitable place for a B5 Theme
+>attraction. Las Vegas is a fabulous place for such an attraction. Star
+>Trek the Experience is incredible. 
+>With the addition of a multitude of
+>attractions, we're a family destination as well as just a gambling
+>mecca. And, having driven through LA, I find Vegas much less offensive.
+
+On the other hand, Las Vegas as a family destination is made possible by and is
+a subset of the gambling.  Take it as read that a great many families and nice
+people live and work there; that ain't the issue.
+
+Vegas exists for one reason: to separate you from your cash as fast and as
+efficiently as humanly possible.  You feel it the moment you get off the plane.
+ Gambling is a real problem for a great many people, otherwise there woudln't
+be so many billions of bucks floating into Vegas every year.  At minimum,
+you'll leave Vegas a few hundred bucks poorer.  But at worst, particularly with
+compulsive gamblers, it provides a venue for the destruction of lives, the
+bankrupting of families, the sacrifice of college funds and pensions.  I've
+stood there and watched rows of people at the slot machines, most of them women
+(I don't know why the slots tend to attract more women than men, as opposed to
+other forms of gambling, but that's my perception of it), none at a glance much
+able to afford it, dropping dollar after dollar into the slots, from huge
+buckets, a buck a minute, minute after minute, hour after hour after
+hour...frankly, it creeped the hell out of me.
+
+See, I *know* what it is to be an obsessive-compulsive personality.  I get
+addicted to stuff real easy, which is why I have made it a painstaking process
+to stay away from drugs, alcohol, smoking and gambling.  I'd be lost if I EVER
+got into any of those things.  Writing is the ONLY addictive activity I allow
+(well, that and chocolate).  So it's extremely easy for me to put myself into
+that mindset, to know how it must feel to get lost in the activity of pulling
+the arm, listening to the whirring slots, the clicks, drop another dollar,
+pull, watch, drop, pull, watch....
+
+I've seen it destroy people.
+
+Yes, there are now many cool exhibits in Vegas...but if you pulled ou the
+gambling tomorrow, could they be self-sufficient?  They exist to pull in
+families, so the kids can play *here* while their inheritance is being placed
+on Red Seven over *there*.  If anything, it makes the whole place even MORE
+cynical, if that's possible.
+
+A while back, a license for B5 shot glasses slipped past me in an overall
+glasses-licensing deal.  I couldn't cancel the license legally, but I asked WB
+to intervene and ask the licensee to stop making them as a courtesy to me
+(which they did).  They sold out their inventory, and that was that.  They set
+a tone that I could not support morally.
+
+Similarly, I cannot morally justify any B5 association with Vegas.  I know a
+lot of folks don't find Vegas offensive, as you note above, and a lot of others
+thought the stance regarding shot glasses was overkill...but I have to follow
+my own conscience.  It's okay not to agree with it; it only has to keep me on a
+straight line, your straight line may vary.
+
+Sometimes it gets into some very grey areas.  For instance, one licensed shirt
+has "The Zocalo: Our Last, Best Chance for a Stiff Drink."  I puzzled over that
+one for almost two weeks before I finally decided whether or not to let it go
+ahead.  On this one, I felt it would be inappropriate to pull it, because in
+fact that's what one DOES in the Zocalo, I do show drinking there, and no one
+on Earth currently can get to the Zocalo to get a drink there.  (And if you
+*can* get to that Zocalo, you've had one too many.)
+
+If the Zocalo was a real place, or if it mentioned a real name of a drink, then
+I think I couldn't have approved it.  This is a reference to the activities
+that take place in a fictional universe, so it made it through on a
+technicality...though I'd be lying if I said I was still entirely 100%
+comfortable with that decision.  I go back and forth on ths one on an almost
+daily basis.
+
+(My problem is that I can argue 9 sides to any 8 sided argument.)
+
+>My other disagreement is in music. After seeing numerous posts
+>about the group "PortisHead", I broke down and bought an album.
+>Fortunately I had a gift certificate. Sorry, but I find loose fan belts
+>more enjoyable. Oh well, everyone's taste is different. 
+
+Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.  Trust me on this.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 24 May 1998 16:20:12 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: In awe of your post re"free speech"
+
+
+Thanks....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 24 May 1998 16:41:37 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Have I missed this?
+
+
+Nothing has been set yet re: the music.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 25 May 1998 00:03:08 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN. JMS:  Cookies?
+
+I like oatmeal cookies, oatmeal/raisin cookies, chocolate cookies, mud pie
+cookies, and chocolate chip cookies.  Not big on biscuits or hard cookies.
+
+However, that said...sometimes folks very generously send me packages of
+cookies and the like, but unless I know the person sending them to me VERY
+well, they have to go out, because you should never put anything in your mouth
+unless you know where it came from.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 25 May 1998 00:04:14 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Desires Engendered by DoFS
+
+This is one of those imponderables that fits into the category of, "If I ever
+have enough time, I'll think about it."
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 25 May 1998 00:05:30 -0600
+Subject: Re: Att JMS, pls: "writing" question?
+
+>what part of "writing" are you referring to here? The "smashing words
+>together to see what happens" (another paraphrase, I think, but close
+>enough) or the storytelling part?
+>
+>
+
+I can't really separate them out.  There's foreplay and there's sex, and in a
+way they're both the same thing, same process, so to me it's all the same
+thing.
+
+>If you had to stop writing fiction, would you turn to a) writing
+>non-fiction, or b) some other form or storytelling? or are the two so
+>closely entwined that neither would satisfy you without the other, and
+>we'd be left with that "JMS-puff of smoke"?
+>
+>
+
+I'd find something.  If not scripts, then novels; if not novels, then short
+stories; if not stories, then articles; if not articles, then songs; if not
+songs, then plays...I get nervous when I ain't writing, and one way or another,
+I'd find something.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 25 May 1998 00:09:41 -0600
+Subject: Re: Crusade Newsgroup - Moderated
+
+>An example in B5 context:  what if I posted "JMS, I think the
+>overall quality of Season 5 has suffered substantially because of
+>a lack of good dialogue editting."  Is that a flame?
+
+Nope.
+
+>What if I said,
+>"I think JMS suffers from Tom Clancy syndrome sometimes, and the
+>quality of the show would improve if someone less personally attached
+>to every word of dialogue were brought in to edit."
+
+Annoying, but not a flame.
+> Or what if
+>I said "The ending of the Shadow War sucked!  Why on earth would these
+>two exceedingly powerful species suddenly start listening to our
+>opinions and meekly taking our suggestions?  Totally ruined my
+>suspension of disbelief!"?  Is that a troll?
+
+Nope.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 May 1998 10:09:13 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: The arc, the whole arc, and nothing but the arc...
+
+Eventually I may do a book about the whole making of the show in general...but
+it's going to have to wait quite a while....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 May 1998 10:11:58 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn Jms : Crusade Production Questions
+
+>As my understanding goes, which may well be fallible, when a new
+>production starts it is the producer and the production designer who
+>get together to decide the feel and visual look of the show. 
+
+Your understanding is correct.
+>John
+>Iacovelli (spelling?) was production designer on B5. Will he occupy
+>the same role on Crusade or will a new perspective be brought to the
+>table to freshen things up and provide something a little different?
+
+No, John is still with the show, though we've brought in some new designers and
+graphics people to work alongside the folks we've had from day one, so there's
+definitely new blood (and the old blood ain't bad either).  
+
+I've stood on, and we've shot in, the set for the Excalibur, and I think it may
+be the coolest starship *I've* ever seen on film for TV, frankly.  
+
+>Also, how do things proceed from an outline\idea to fleshing out a
+>fully fledged production? How do the producer and production designer
+>pull everything together? How will the use of more virtual sets
+>influence what you guys are doing now?
+
+It goes from the scripts.  For instance, the first script written will be the
+third one produced, to allow more time for production design on some of the
+elaborate set and other requirements.  And yes, we'll be doing more with
+virtual sets.
+
+>Will you be using a script editor in Crusade, similar to the way Larry
+>De Tillio was used in seasons 1 and 2 of B5 before you started writing
+>all the episodes yourself?
+
+Even when Larry was on B5, I ended up rewriting the script to one degree or
+another, not to correct anything Larry did, 'cause he's one of the best, only
+to bring it into line with my view of B5, which is eccentric and subjective at
+best.  So at this point, there's no need to bring on a story editor, though
+I'll be keeping my eye out for possibilities to serve in that capacity on later
+seasons, once I find out who can write for this show and who can't.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 May 1998 10:12:05 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: too may arc shows?
+
+>So does that mean we will never see a B5type experience-show anywhere. 
+>That sort of thing, I would pay real money to see
+
+We've gone back and forth on a possible B5 Showscan ride that would be used in
+amusement parks, but we'll have to see.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 May 1998 10:12:51 -0600
+Subject: Re: vetoing glasses & Calvin and Hobbes
+
+Resisting the impulse to just merchandise the hell out of the show from day
+one, particularly in questionable areas, has certainly been ironic (and costly)
+since the ONLY area I get an actual, real (if small) percentage of the show
+(the studio will always work the books so it never shows a profit on paper) is
+in merchandising.
+
+>And has there been any fake B5
+>merchandise spotted?
+
+Plenty.  If you've bought a link or an EA insignia at a con, it's a fake.  All
+patches sold other than through the B5 fan club are fake.  There's a huge
+amount of fake 4th season posters that flooded in from Germany (you can tell
+the fakes by checking the poster: if it's unusually heavy photoreproduction
+paper, and the B5 logo is blurry...it's a fake).  The White Star models that
+are out there are unlicensed...it goes on and on....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 May 1998 10:13:08 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde
+
+No, my version -- done for Shelley Duvall's Nightmare Classics -- starred
+Anthony Andrews and Laura Dern.  The cassette can be found here and there at
+some places.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 May 1998 16:11:29 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS: god, I had no idea...thanks for sticking with us
+
+Thanks..it's been a trial, no mistake, but in the long haul, worth the effort.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 May 1998 20:37:22 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Claudia at BayCon
+
+>I didn't actually make it to BayCon this weekend, here in Silicon Valley,
+>but I saw a flyer indicating that Claudia Christian was supposed to be
+>present.  Do you have an opinion on her appearing as a "B5 representative"
+>at conventions?
+
+I've never had a problem with it, though she obviously represents B5 as of the
+first four seasons, not the fifth or thereafter...sort of the ghost of
+Christians past....
+
+(couldn't resist)
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 May 1998 20:47:05 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: fake merchandise? was Re: vetoing glasses & Calvin and
+
+>Does this include the stat bars/EA insignia (etc) sold by Janet Lawn
+>Costumes here in the UK? I know the uniforms she makes are authorised
+>(or were?) and just took the badges as part of the deal...
+
+No, those are okay, I was referring to the American scene.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 27 May 1998 08:47:17 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Voice of the Resistance Con - "Economical" with the
+
+>I have just re-read the thread, and what you say is untrue.
+>
+>I'll explain my problem here in the simplest terms possible.
+>
+>Conventions invite guests. Not the other way around. If a convention
+>invites a guest who then refuses to go, then the convention can be said to
+>be "boycotted". If a convention does not invite a guest, then the guests
+>opinions of the convention, it's organisers, and anything else to do with
+>it is irrelevant.
+
+No, it's not.  Are you sure English is your first language?
+
+I said, immediately after the last Wolf, that I would not be involved with any
+Wolf or Cooney convention until they got their act together in their treatment
+of fans and their organization.  You can call it whatever you want...I made it
+quite clear that I would not be receptive to any invitation until they fixed
+the problems, so of course they're not going to issue an invitation having been
+told that I won't go.  
+
+What part of that is unclear?
+
+There are many concerns in how the fans in the UK are being treated and
+exploited.  For instance, Warner Bros. DONATED their theater in London for the
+purpose of a *free screening* for B5 fans as a gift.  Warner Bros. Legal
+Affairs has just discovered that those running the convention (which would be
+Bryan Cooney and other Wolf folks) are charging TWENTY POUNDS PER PERSON for
+what was set aside as a gift to the fans.  There was never supposed to be any
+admission fee charged for the screening.  (Suffice to say WB is investigating
+further.)
+
+And the beat goes on....
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 27 May 1998 08:53:35 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: BEST ways to say thanks? (longish)
+
+Thank you for those wonderful words.  If fans of this show can carry some of
+what they find here out into the real world -- building communities, asking
+questions, building the future *consciously* rather than letting others do it
+for you -- then that is the best testament, and the only thanks, that could
+ever be required.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 28 May 1998 00:18:48 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: fake merchandise? was Re: vetoing glasses & Calvin and
+
+>She apparently wasn't having enough business or wasn't making a large enough
+>profit to make it worthwhile.  Also, the license she had to make uniforms had
+>expired and in order to renew it WB was asking for a great deal of money.
+>After hearing that, I lost a great deal of respect to WB.
+
+The problem is that she was, in essence, a one-woman business, and the number
+of costumes she could put out was *very* small, meaning that most of the fans
+who wanted them wouldn't be able to get them.  Letting the license go to a
+larger entity means that more people would be able to get them.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 28 May 1998 00:21:29 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn Jms : Crusade Production Questions
+
+>This is my point, how did you and the production designers work on
+>this. Did you give them an outline of a few points and discuss the
+>feel \ look or did you give them a broad brush to be creative and come
+>up with something seriously cool?
+
+It's hard to define...it's a long process of give and take.  John Copeland and
+I both knew we wanted something different, a new kind of look, and we went back
+and forth discussing it between us until we were ready to talk to the
+production design folk.  We told them in general terms what we were looking
+for...then they went away, and came back with several preliminary designs.  We
+sat and talked about them, made revisions and suggestions, threw one thing out,
+kept the other thing, got another version done, and on and on until there was
+something that we felt worked.  Ditto for the CGI version (for which there is a
+very early version on the B5 fan club site).  The final look of the CGI is much
+sleeker and more refined.
+
+>What about costume design and alien design. Again is this a case of
+>you setting a rough overall position on what you want or is it more
+>hands on?
+
+Same process.  I discuss with Optic Nerve and the costume folks what I have in
+mind.  They go away and come up with drawings.  They submit those drawings;
+John and I go over them, pick the ones we like, suggest modifications, toss out
+what we don't like, and the process of refinement continues.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 28 May 1998 00:19:21 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: An Unusual Thank You
+
+>I pondered that for a long time, and finally I came to see that the
+>*truly* important bits of writing are integrity, honesty, craft, and
+>heart.  I bought your scriptwriting book, which both reinforced this view
+>and made me see that there are a lot of interesting stories I could tell.
+
+You can tell a good story in just about any venue, provided you approach it
+with, as Balzac said, "clean hands and composure."  What matters is what you DO
+with the form, not the form itself.
+
+> I and my guests had fun, the actors had fun, and ... the audience
+>laughed themselves silly, threw marshmellows, booed, cheered, and fell in
+>love.  I'm getting paid for this, and hope to sell it to a play-publishing
+>company in the next few weeks.
+
+That's the real key: have fun with it, and do what you want, and the rest tends
+to take care of itself.
+
+Or to quote AnthonyHopkins quoting somebody else, "Be bold, and mighty forces
+will come to your aid."
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 28 May 1998 07:29:30 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: How Do You Read a Book?
+
+>1) How do you approach reading -- do you read novels differently
+>than manuals?
+>
+>
+Not that I'm aware of consciously, no.  I guess I go to a manual looking for
+information, and I go to *enjoy* a novel.
+
+I have to be careful doing research, because after a while I find that the
+facts get in the way of the *telling*...it's like, "Okay, I just spent $300 on
+books about this stuff, and now YOU'RE going to pay for it!"  I have to leave
+it alone for a while until the notes go away and the sense of it remains.
+
+>2) How did you transform the passage in _Le Morte DArthur_ to the
+>poignant counterpoint in B5?  Did you read the Cliff's Notes?
+>Was there some other play, book, etc. (i.e., _Excalibur_) that
+>moved you?
+
+I guess the difference is that a writer of fiction or scripts has to put him-
+or herself into the scene, to feel what someone else has described in technical
+terms.  From that comes emotion, from emotion comes contact.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 28 May 1998 07:29:02 -0600
+Subject: Re: Meditations on the Abyss ( *Spoilers* )
+
+Sounds like voodoo psychology to me; never heard of it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 29 May 1998 11:59:46 -0600
+Subject: Re: Meditations on the Abyss
+
+>How can someone who claims to be an atheist write so eloquently and
+>profoundly about God?
+
+Only Nixon could go to China.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 29 May 1998 17:36:59 -0600
+Subject: Re: How much does an actor cost?
+
+    [The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set]
+    [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set]
+    [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly]
+
+>I'm now reading that the £14000 paid to Wolf for the ITB screening is the 
+>fee for getting the actors to appear. This still seems rather a lot, but 
+>maybe Americans have different expectations? It seems a US actor gets 
+>paid more than a UK one. Does this kind of money seem extortionate to 
+>Americans, 'cos it does to me.
+
+That is absolutely not the case.  The actors are being paid their main fees by
+the convention, for the convention, has nothing to do with the screening.  They
+were offered a *small stipend* to also show up at the screening.  Again, I
+can't break the confidentiality of the actors, but I can say that if every
+person who came paid about 2-3 pounds, it would cover the whole nut.
+
+Which has nothing to do with the fact that Wolf *cannot* charge for this
+screening, which was set aside to be free for the fans, and as far as I know,
+will not be allowed to do so.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 29 May 1998 17:37:16 -0600
+Subject: Re: Meditations on the Abyss ( *Spoilers* )
+
+>When Dr. Franklin explained his religious beliefs to G'Kar, he
+>said what I have always believed.  When you boil down all the 
+>religions currently known, they all come back to the same
+>basic tenets of good and evil.  It is only money and politics
+>that distort religion.  So, now I know I am a "Foundationist".
+
+>For years, I have been looking for a way to define my 
+>beliefs.  (I was raised in a very fundamental Bible-thumping
+>way as is typical in the southern states.)  And in a few minutes
+>of dialog you made it all so clear. 
+
+Thank you.
+
+The first meeting is July 17th, 2005.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 29 May 1998 17:38:16 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS  About you....
+
+>The biggest benefit for me from all of this is developing consistency.
+>Watching you being consistent and true to your word and your past is a great
+>inspiration.  Now, more than ever, I do my best to be like you in this
+>matter.  That way, my past never 'catches up to me', so to speak.
+
+Thanks.  One of the few things a person has of any real value is his word. 
+Once given, you have to keep it.  That's a big deal with me.  And I tend to
+expect the same from others.  I guess it comes in part from having gotten a lot
+of promises as a kid growing up, which never came to fruition.  Promises were
+made to assuage guilt and soften disappointment.  I vowed that if I gave
+someone my word, then by god I was going to keep it.  
+
+Similarly, I try to repay the other side of things.  One of my other beliefs
+(could there be ANYthing more tedious than this, he thought, looking back over
+the last couple of self-indulgent paragraphs) is that I never forget a kindness
+given, or an injury received.  Probably not the most well-balanced of all
+philosophies, but it works for me.  
+
+>I know you occasionally fly off the handle, but who doesn't?  Not only have
+>you created a great story, but you've shown that someone can really be a
+>solid, unmovable rock in a harsh storm of senselessness.  And sometimes, you
+>have to throw that rock at a few people.
+
+I like that, and I may steal it for myself.  Thanks.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 29 May 1998 17:39:33 -0600
+Subject: Re: Noble Dignity in Meditations
+
+>I know an episode of B5 ranks high when I not only laugh, but I also get
+>that combination of chills and teariness that uniquely expresses that
+>deep quality I call Noble Dignity. (Think of Patrick Doyle's "St.
+>Crispin's Day" music in Branaugh's "Henry V".)
+>
+>That's what Lenier and Montoya managed to evoke in me in MotA.
+>
+>And it makes me wonder, Joe, what it is in your life and readings that
+>has provoked so much of this quality in you. It shows up so often in B5
+>that it clearly functions as a core element in your soul.
+>
+Another one of those questions where I'll have to go for the "I" reply, which
+should always be viewed with suspicion as any answer given will be self-serving
+and massively one-sided.  That disclaimer aside:
+
+Understand that on the one hand, I am a massive and unrepentent cynic.  I've
+seen all the worst characteristics of humans toward one another, and have
+generally accepted it as common coin.
+
+And yet....
+
+And yet every day we hear stories of incredible self-sacrifice and
+selflessness.  There is -- on the other hand that is twin to the one above -- a
+stubborn nobility about humans that can't be denied.  At our worst, we are very
+bad indeed; at our best, we can be truly quite amazing.  I put those words in
+Delenn's mouth, long ago...that we are better than we think, and nobler than we
+know.  Usually, those qualities only tend to really come out when our backs are
+against the wall...then somehow the pressure turns lead to gold and tin to
+iron.
+
+It's the kind of thing I try to apply in my own life, usually with mixed
+results, occasionally failing, even occasionally pulling it off once in a
+while.  I think you have to fight for what you believe, that you can't ever
+back down and let a casual evil pass (and the casual ones are the really deadly
+ones), that you have to push every day to be somehow just a little better than
+you were the day before.  
+
+Lots of so-called religious groups try to force us to accept that we are by
+nature sinful and bad.  I don't buy it.  Any race that can split the atom, walk
+on the moon and write a sonnet has nothing to apologize for.  We do the best we
+can with what we've got, and on balance, allowing for the flaws and the
+occasinal Ayatollah, we've done pretty damned good, and we should be proud of
+that instead of beating ourselves over the head.  Yes, we still have a hell of
+a long way to go, yes there are problems, no we can't ever stop trying to
+address and fix the problems that exist, we can't get complacent... but we've
+beaten most of the microbes and the diseases, conquered the air, given birth to
+Mozart and Buddy Holly, and we ought to once in a while allow for a moment of
+quiet pride in that.
+
+Because you can't build on what you ain't proud of having done in the first
+place.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 31 May 1998 02:50:46 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Looped dialogue for the Drazi merchant?
+
+It got revoiced because the actor ended up sounding almost exactly like the
+cowardly lion....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 31 May 1998 02:51:00 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade - throw us a bone please
+
+We've cast one or two actors who will be in the series; the physical set for
+the Excalibur is built; the refined CGI Excalibur is nearly finished; costumes
+are being designed; and we have what we think is a pretty cool series logo.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 31 May 1998 02:51:26 -0600
+Subject: Re: Philosophies
+
+>>     B5 has been very refreshing. Besides being a wonderful story, for me
+>> very remeniscent of the first time I read the Lord of the Rings, I have
+>> found in the treatment of religion an the acceptance of its place in the
+>> human condition.
+
+Here's a funny aside.
+
+I got an email not long ago from a female pastor out in the midwest, who said
+she had just come back from one of these multi-faith, interdenominational
+retreats where everybody tries to find some common ground.
+
+Apparently the first day went pretty slow, lots of false starts and stops, then
+that evening, at dinner, somebody mentioned B5...and in short order you had a
+bunch of pastors, preachers, rabbis, priests, buddhist monks and others all
+pitching in with their own reactions to the show, and their interpretations.
+
+I think that's kinda cool.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 31 May 1998 02:52:40 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Music Critic par excellence
+
+Thanks.  Music is very important to me, and I love finding really cool stuff
+(and if you like that stuff, don't forget Red Clay Ramblers, for a more
+bluegrass sound).
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 31 May 1998 02:53:06 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Your alter ego???
+
+>My question is this -- was G'Kar always intended to be such an articulate
+>and wise character?  
+
+Yeah, he was always set to grow into this.
+
+> Does he serve as your favorite mouthpiece and alter
+>ego?
+
+Sometimes.
+
+>And if so, is this because the character resonates with you, or does
+>Andreas' superb acting skill have something to do with it?
+
+I think it's both.  Making G'Kar more of a writer, I've been able to get out
+some of that...and knowing that whatever I write, Andreas can bring to life is
+a big plus.  
+
+>In short, is it the character or the actor which seems to draw the best
+>writing out of you?  Over time I assume that you start writing to actors'
+>strengths...
+
+If you held a gun to my head, I'd have to say that of the scenes I write, the
+ones with both G'Kar and Londo are the ones that somehow just sing...I could
+write about those guys nonstop, and never get tired of it.  There's just some
+dynamic that comes into place more when they're together than seperately.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 31 May 1998 02:53:19 -0600
+Subject: Re: Noble Dignity in Meditations
+
+>Now 
+>I have returned to read this, with the rhythms of Corwin still ringing in my 
+>ears and through my veins -- and what I hear is one of Corwin's spiritual
+>sons at work while at leisure, here on the Net!  
+
+(allows a quiet smile)
+
+There are a number of us who call ourselves Norman's Kids; we who drew on his
+inspiration and his words.  Others who have so identified themselves in one way
+or another are Ray Bradbury, Rod Serling, Charles Kuralt, Edward R Murrow,
+Walter Cronkite, Stan Freberg and many, many others.
+
+Every once in a while, I'll think that something I've done reads a little bit
+close to something Norman Corwin would've written, and excusing the hubris of
+that, it's a tough goal to hit.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 31 May 1998 23:40:26 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Silencing the voices
+
+>If the characters speak to you inside your head, is killing them off the
+>only way to silence them?  I just had this scary thought that you might
+>want to shut them all up in order to move on.
+>
+There are other ways.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+JMS (and coproducer George Johnsen) Usenet messages for June 1998.
+
+
+Date: 1 Jun 1998 17:28:23 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Lochley?
+
+>Is it me, or have we not seen Captain Lochley for a while? Are we going
+>to see her more in these last seven episodes?
+
+Definitely.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 1 Jun 1998 17:28:28 -0600
+Subject: Re: River of Souls (Movie #3) Question
+
+>I have a question that I was hoping someone could answer for me. I
+>was wondering where "River of Souls" takes place in the Season 5
+>storyline (i.e. between which episodes)? 
+
+It takes place six months into 2263.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 2 Jun 1998 00:16:09 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS A Professor's Letter to JMS (forwarded)
+
+>At some point, I envision teaching a class in rhetorical
+>philosophy using B5 as the point of analysis.  I hope that is
+>something that would be acceptable to you as a use of your
+>universe--what a marvelous way to open up Plato, Aristotle, Cicero,
+>and Quintilian to new generations. 
+
+What, no Marcus Aurelius?  For shame.  We'll have to knock ten points off your
+grade for that one.
+
+Seriously, though...to the degree that the show can encourage discussion, and
+dialogue, and the free exchange of ideas that point to the history of
+literature and philosophy, I am a happy man.  By all means, if it's useful, use
+it.  (As I understand it, this spring there is a class nominally in the
+Philosophy of Babylon 5 at the University of Illinois at Urbana.)
+
+And thank you...not just for the kind words, but for the open mind that
+preceded them.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 2 Jun 1998 08:24:22 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for the recommendation
+
+>When did swing come back?  I must have been asleep or something...but
+>it's wonderful music and never fails to make me feel better if I'm down.
+
+I dunno...seems like the kids today call it "swank."  I first came across it
+with the Squirrel Nut Zippers, then Cherry Poppin' Daddies, now Big Bad Voodoo
+Daddy...there are any number of swing clubs opening up these days (we had the
+B5 wrap party at one of them here in LA)...I don't know what made it hit
+critical mass, but I'm glad it did.
+
+What I like about some of these, like Cherry Poppin' Daddies, is that they
+apply the music of swing to some pretty raw-edged lyrics, which makes for a
+combination that is at once modern but familiar, edgy but reassuring.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 2 Jun 1998 08:28:44 -0600
+Subject: from jms re: Norman Corwin
+
+Every so often, Norman's name comes up here, and I get any number of emails
+asking about his work, and how to obtain it.  
+
+Norman Corwin is (and has always been) American's pre-eminent radio dramatist,
+as well as one hell of an essayist...he has written screenplays (such as the
+Oscar nominated Lust for Life), composed cantatas for the UN ("Yes, Speak Out,
+Yes"), was a contemporary and friend of Carl Sandburg and Edward R. Murrow (not
+to mention Humphrey Bogart and Elsa Lanchester and Charles Laughton), and his
+radio dramas run the gamut from important historical documents ("On a Note of
+Triumph" was commissioned to be broadcast on VE day by all three networks), to
+light fantasy/sf (from "The Reluctant Molecule" with none other than Groucho
+Marx and Vincent Price, to "The Curse of 589" starring William Shatner and Carl
+Reiner), to the biography of Miguel de Cervantes ("The Writer with the Lame
+Left Hand"), and his watershed collection, "Thirteen by Corwin."
+
+To give you some idea of the kind of actors who come out for a Corwin script,
+here are a few of the names who appear on his programs: Charles Kuralt, Pat
+Carroll, Franklin D. Roosevelt (yes, you read that right), Jimmy Stewart, Orson
+Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Marjorie Maim, Martin Landau, Jack Lemmon, Charles
+Durning, Ed Asner, Sammantha Eggar, Norman Lloyd, Frederic March, Robert
+Benchley, Henry Morgan, Richard Dysart, Jill Eikenberry, James Earl Jones, Fess
+Parker, Esther Rolle, and others, with music conducted by Bernard Herrmann and
+Leopold Stokowski among others.
+
+This is a writer who has inspired a generation of other writers, from Rod
+Serling to Ray Bradbury, Charles Kuralt, Studs Terkel, Norman Lear, Robert
+Altman, Stan Freberg, and somewhere far, far down the list...myself.
+
+Norman's work and his inspiration have been seminal for me as a writer, and as
+a person, though I'll never quite hit the same interstellar gulfs he leaves
+between his footsteps.  
+
+If you don't know his work...find out about it.  Let me give you a starting
+point:
+
+http://www.lodestone-media.com
+
+Here you can find the majority of his radio dramas, both from the heyday of the
+form, and more contemporary stuff, along with an excellent introductory program
+about Norman, as well as the actual scripts, which deserve the study of anyone
+who chooses to call himself a writer.  
+
+Norman is a *writer's writer*.  He's the sort we all point to and say, "That's
+what I'd like to be able to do someday."  
+
+I don't generally put up something that is as blatantly an advertisement as
+this.  But in this particular case, it's worth the attention of any B5 fan, as
+the core of the fire that set me in motion, inspires and informs much of the
+ethical content of Babylon 5.  He is not only my friend, he has been my mentor
+and my benchmark for nearly twenty years.
+
+If you're not sure what to get when you get to lodestone, I suggest the Charles
+Kuralt bio (featuring interviews with Terkel, Bradbury, Altman, Lear and
+Corwin) about "On a Note of Triumph," the actual broadcast of "Note" itself so
+you can hear the whole thing straight through, and "Thirteen by Corwin."  (John
+Copeland's personal favorite is "Fifty years after 14 August" commemmorating VJ
+day.)
+
+If you want only to go for the more modern stuff, then I'd suggest "We Hold
+These Truths," "The Writer with the Lame Left Hand," and for something truly
+unique, "No Love Lost," about a fictional meeting between Thomas Jefferson,
+Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.
+
+Trust me on this one.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 5 Jun 1998 19:17:02 -0600
+Subject: Re: Production quality = going down
+
+>I have to say, Meditations did not impress me as being well shot, and
+>looking back I can see that as being characteristic of the season.  Boring
+>camera angles in recent episodes, the sets are much more plain than they
+>used to be, and most scenes are now just people standing around (no
+>action).
+
+I have to say this is one of those comments that just astonishes me.
+
+Some episodes have always been more action-oriented than others.  In order to
+move story along, you have to have dialogue scenes; the more complex the action
+you're trying to get across, the more you need to tell.
+
+Boring camera angles?  The director of "Darknes" was Mike Vejar, who is our
+most innovative director.  He did "In the Beginning," "The Face of the Enemy,"
+"Messages From Earth" and most of our really cool episodes.  He likes the
+close-up, it's where the good stuff happens.  He chose to direct the show in
+this style, what on earth does a stylistic decision have to do with production
+quality?
+
+"the sets are much more plain than they used to be."  How is this physically
+possible, since the sets we've been shooting on are the same ones we used
+before?  Nothing got removed or stripped out, they're *exactly* the same.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 6 Jun 1998 11:51:15 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Prostitution on Babylon 5?
+
+I think it would be next to impossible to prevent prostitution in an
+environment such as this.  And in some cultures, it would not be a big thing at
+all, not illegal, and cultural behavior between members of the same species
+that is allowable within that society is generally allowed on B5 as well,
+provided that it does not affect anyone outside that species.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 6 Jun 1998 11:51:28 -0600
+Subject: Re: Darkness Ascending= Damn Amazing!  <Spoilers>
+
+>Nice to see certain characters back in their old forms.
+>Delenn is not a lady to mess around with- even in an arguement.  She
+>didn't merely hand Johnny's butt back to him, she GIFTWRAPPED the
+>fragger, and put a pretty bow on it!  Nice verbal Judo, there. 
+
+That's one of my favorite scenes from that episode...she basically yanks his
+pants up over his head and ties them in a knot.  Someone trained in the
+religious caste can argue her way around just about anything and anyone.
+
+Minbari religious caste make Jesuits look like intellectual softies by
+comparison. 
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 6 Jun 1998 23:46:36 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATT:JMS: FWD OF "HELP WANTED"
+
+Thank you for that; it was deeply moving, and I will make sure that this sees
+the light of day on the wall of stage B, where some posts are put up for the
+whole crew to see.
+
+My very best to you.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 6 Jun 1998 23:47:30 -0600
+Subject: Re: Darkness Ascending Spoilers
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+The amount of oxygen taken would have been very minimal, given the size of
+Lennier's ship (little more than coffin-sized), and the volume would be
+replaced by the carbon dioxide from Lennier's ship.  The hole would have been
+self-sealed by the Minbari fighter, which was designed to do this sort of thing
+in order to sneak past enemy lines.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 6 Jun 1998 23:47:42 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS: LodesTone President
+
+>Apparently, your 
+>online post has become their best advertisement. :)
+
+I live to serve.
+
+>During the course of the conversation, he shared with me that you are an 
+>extremely pleasant person,
+
+That's it, damn it, I'm suing.
+
+>and that thanks to your order, he himself is 
+>now a Babylon 5 fan!
+
+Well...okay, then maybe next time....
+
+>Oh, and one more thing, the president says he'd like to hear you scribe 
+>your own radio program.  So, what do you think of the idea?
+
+Love to.  I've been asked by the folks at Seeing Ear Theater at the SciFi
+channel to do some stuff, that's still in the discussion stages, though. 
+Beyond that, I'm always interested in doing radio drama.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 7 Jun 1998 02:25:22 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade Question
+
+It's about half a mile long.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 7 Jun 1998 02:25:39 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN. JMS - Columbia vs. Warner Video
+
+Thing is...Columbia only had the rights to the first season, so the rest would
+*have* to come from WB...but the great thing is, the WB tapes are only $14.95
+per tape, 5 bucks less, and still for two episodes (and nifty covers).  And
+they will be released in order.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 8 Jun 1998 16:07:35 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Episode Scripts
+
+This is one of those "we'll see" questions.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 8 Jun 1998 16:14:16 -0600
+Subject: Re: Darkness Ascending ( *Spoilers* )
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+>It would be perfectly reasonable given his known personality for Sheridan
+>to have not assigned Lennier to the Centauri border for any number of
+>reasons, and not necessarily to "protect Delenn."  And if that *wasn't*
+>one of his reasons, he'd have her butt hand delivered with a singing
+>telegram to go with it.  But instead, her reasoning just happens to be
+>right.
+
+>Mind you, I love Delenn's character, but she should be right by reason
+>and not right by dramatic license.
+
+She's right because she's married to the guy and knows him inside and out,
+including how he thinks and why he does things.
+
+When you live with somebody like that, you can go out and buy a pair of shoes,
+and in the morning, complain that they're too tight...and never mention it
+again for the rest of the day...then in the evening you sigh, as you're taking
+them off, and he or she says, "Don't worry, we can always have them stretched."
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Jun 1998 23:41:22 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATT: JMS: How is this done???
+
+Sometimes the video is done in advance, but most often on the show the person
+is within earshot, on a partial set, so they can interact live with the actor.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1998 00:08:03 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATT: JMS: Frustrated Fan Asks Merchandising Question
+
+Good point.  We should fix that.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1998 00:23:13 -0600
+Subject: from jms: spoiler junkie info wrong
+
+Invariably, there's wrong info out there, and I end up having to send out
+replies to ten zillion emails asking me about it.  
+
+The latest one: apparently the spoiler junkies page says that somebody named
+Paul Woodward has been cast as the captain on the new series, Crusade.
+
+We have not even *met* anyone named Paul Woodward, and we have not yet begun
+casting in earnest for the captain.  So this is completely untrue.
+
+Please be warned whenever you see stuff on some of these pages that there's a
+lot of speculation out there that gets passed around as being from "informed
+sources" and ninety percent of it is ka-ka.  Don't believe everything you read.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1998 00:32:58 -0600
+Subject: Re: ##ATTN.: JMS In Re.: WB's 'Invasion America'##:
+
+Haven't seen it, haven't had time.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 10 Jun 1998 09:40:05 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS: Teaching B5
+
+As far as I know, academic use of the broadcasts is perfectly okay.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 Jun 1998 01:15:27 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS:  Editing/directing/writing
+
+>I
+>would like to know how much of what we saw was due to his input.  Did
+>you write it specifically to be presented in this manner or was this
+>what he and the editor came up with?
+
+It's shot for shot what was in the script, but at the same time, a director
+must take that shot and make it live.  Goran did that admirably.  He kept the
+camera moving, framed his shots very nicely, got into the emotion of the scene,
+and worked very well with the editor; we only did a light dusting in the
+editing room.
+
+Since a number of folks have asked, here is the opening scene as written.  (I
+only have the first draft in my home computer, modifications were done in the
+office, which involved trimming some of this for time.)
+
+****************
+  
+FADE IN:
+
+EXT. BABYLON 5: A new shot, closer, emphasizing the darkness of the station in
+eclipse.
+
+INT. DELENN'S QUARTERS - BEDROOM
+
+Sheridan is in bed, alone as we will discover in a moment.  He rolls over,
+stirring, and we SHOOT PAST HIM to the doors, where we SEE a single flickering
+light through the translucent glass.  He sits up.
+
+INT. DELENN'S QUARTERS - FRONT ROOM
+
+REVERSING past Delenn to the bedroom doors.  She is seated on the floor, a
+single candle burning before her, the flame halfway down it, praying or
+meditating as the doors open and Sheridan stands in the opening.  His voice is
+quiet.
+
+			SHERIDAN		Delenn...?  Are you all right?
+
+She nods, distantly, not taking her eyes off the candle.
+
+			SHERIDAN		You should sleep.  It'll be morning 
+	soon.  You'll need all your strength 
+	for what's ahead.
+
+She nods again, but doesn't move.  He gives it a BEAT, knowing 
+she is in a place where he can never reach her, then goes back 
+into the bedroom, leaving the door open.  We PUSH IN SLOWLY on Delenn's face
+
+TIME-CUT - HER QUARTERS - LATER - ON THE CANDLE
+
+The fragile, guttering flame has now burned three-fourths of 
+the way down.  As we slowly PAN UP to Delenn's face, not having  moved in all
+this time, we become aware of the SOUND of the shower running.  She doesn't
+note it, until it stops.  Then 
+there's a BEAT and she looks up toward
+
+ANGLE - THE BEDROOM
+
+Still mainly dark, suggesting pre-dawn, mainly just the light 
+spilling from the bathroom entrance as Sheridan comes out in a 
+robe, toweling his hair.  His manner here is sober, almost 
+somber.  He's trying to keep this normal, but knows that this 
+is going to be a difficult and momentous day.  The more we can 
+set that tone here, the better.
+
+			SHERIDAN		It's...all yours.
+
+She nods, distantly.  WIDEN as he goes to the bed and sits.  He 
+pulls on one slipper, puts his foot down, and picks up the other 
+slipper...and just sort of stops.  He doesn't want to put it on.  
+He doesn't want this day to come.  He doesn't want to do what he 
+knows he's going to have to do.  The slipper just dangles from 
+his fingers, the strings cut. Delenn gets up, approaches and sits next to him,
+both with that faraway, haunted look.  She touches his back, and leans against 
+his shoulder for a moment, both taking comfort and strength in the momentary
+contact.  Then she gets up and moves into the bathroom, the robe sliding off
+her shoulders as she steps OS.
+  
+A BEAT, and Sheridan finds the wherewithal to put on the other 
+slipper...and sits there momentarily as we HEAR the VO SOUND of a GAVEL
+POUNDING, and the VO SOUND of the council, along with:
+			SHERIDAN (VO)		There comes a moment, in all of our 
+	lives, when we have to do something 
+	we'd rather not do.  When we know 
+	something we'd rather not know.  This 
+	is one such moment.
+
+He stands and moves OS.
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 Jun 1998 01:15:33 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Which "Gathering" from WHV?
+
+I don't know...I *suspect* it will be the original version, but I don't know
+that for a fact.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 Jun 1998 01:19:13 -0600
+Subject: Re: AAMD,TA  Spoilers
+
+>The one thing that is really bugging me though is; Isn't anybody on B5
+>wondering WHY the Centauri are doing this?  There really is no
+>rational explanation for them to be doing this.
+
+That question comes up bigtime in the very next episode.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 Jun 1998 01:19:27 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn. JMS: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder - Producer's or
+
+>So....Director's Cut or Producer's Cut?
+
+There has never been anything BUT a producer's cut on the show.  John and I
+edit every episode after the director's cut is done, and that's what's aired.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 14 Jun 1998 14:29:52 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Did Sakai become Minbari too?
+
+No, she didn't.  Which was part of the scandal that later came.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 14 Jun 1998 14:30:13 -0600
+Subject: Re: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder ( *Spoilers* )
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+>Yeah, I thought that was weak too.  A better method of establishing
+>the weapons as Centauri would have been by a thorough analysis of the
+>blast damage.
+
+That's what was said, in addition to the rest.  Reference was made to examining
+the damaged ships.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 14 Jun 1998 14:35:54 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: and a bottle makes three
+
+>I am really enjoying the Cherry Poppin' Daddies and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
+>CDs you mentioned. Thanks for the heads up. 
+
+Not a prob.
+
+>In both I notice a major fascination with alcohol consumption, abuse and
+>its consequences the likes of which I haven't run into since the Gin
+>Blossoms debut. 
+>It lead me to wonder, in light of poor Mr. Garibaldi's current treatment
+>in your hands, exactly when did you start listening to this stuff?
+
+Unnecessary; there's a long history of that stuff in my family. 
+
+Which is why I stay far, far away from alcohol, drugs or ciggies; when you have
+addictive personalities in your family going back generations, it's generally a
+bad idea.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 14 Jun 1998 14:36:36 -0600
+Subject: Re: Regurgitation in S5
+
+Someone on the crew wondered aloud if this was a subconscious metaphor for me
+finally getting the last of the B5 story out of my system....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1998 23:47:59 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for never doing this!
+
+Someone actually made that?
+
+Amazing....
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1998 23:50:13 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS:  Candle Metaphor in 'And All My Dreams ...'
+
+Nicely deduced.  The problem is always in trying to work this stuff into
+dialogue without it sounding preachy or a big lump of exposition.  So all you
+can do is string it along, and hope folks notice.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1998 23:57:30 -0600
+Subject: Re: I think I just saw JMS on TV
+
+It repeats Thursday at 5:30 and 9:30 p.m.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 16 Jun 1998 00:01:48 -0600
+Subject: Re: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder ( *Spoilers* )
+
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+>Did the Centauri warships attack Centauri civilian ships as well as the ships
+>of other races?  Or were Centauri ships left alone (and was the Alliance
+>incredibly thick in not working out who was behind the raids?)
+
+It was stated in the episode that at least one Centauri low priority ship was
+attacked.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 16 Jun 1998 15:26:06 -0600
+Subject: Re: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder ( *Spoilers* )
+
+If some people are upset at the Centauri moon, that's a damned silly thing to
+be upset about.  Most moons are too small to have any real atmosphere, so
+there's nothing to keep meteors from hitting and causing craters rather than
+burning up on entry.  So you're going to have pockmarks.  We made it a point to
+have the patterns different than our own moon.  It's round because most
+planetary bodies *are*.  And the local sun has the same basic spectral
+qualities as Sol, so you're going to get similar bounce-back on the light.
+
+An equal amount of effort goes into making that moon or a more odd one.  But
+not everything has to be constantly different just to be different.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 16 Jun 1998 15:32:59 -0600
+Subject: Re: Season 5 - WOW
+
+Actually, the S5 theme is a variation on the music in the second B5 soundtrack,
+the Voices of Authority track.
+
+Thanks.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 16 Jun 1998 15:36:42 -0600
+Subject: Re: attn JMS: SD ComicCon
+
+
+I don't have an exact schedule; what I'm going to have to do is swoop down for
+the presentation, and come back the same day.
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1998 09:02:31 -0600
+Subject: Re: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder ( *Spoilers* )
+
+No, what you're noting is just about right.
+
+I wanted this job to be something Sheridan grows into.  He's going to make
+mistakes; he's not trained for this kind of job, and errors are part of the
+learning process.  In Deconstruction it's noted that he said himself that the
+teep situation was the worst mistake of his entire career.  There were others.
+
+The first year of any new government is rocky at best; mistakes get made,
+sometimes huge ones.  What he will have to do is learn from them.  Even by the
+last few episodes, he has his act more together; moreso as the years pass.  In
+some ways, and this was something I was going for in "Asunder," he's been
+pulling back, trying to figure out what to do and in some ways, cutting against
+his best instincts to keep things together.  It's really after he blows at the
+end of "Asunder" that he begins to do what he should've done all along: go with
+his instincts, rather than second-guessing himself.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1998 09:02:47 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN:  JMS
+
+>My question to you is this:  If you (or anybody) had to do it all over again,
+>is there a way you could set up a contract so you would get what is rightly
+>yours?
+
+If I'd walked into the room with three or four hit series under my belt, I
+would've walked out with a considerably different deal.  As the deal currently
+stands...well, as you say, hell will be covered with frost before I see any
+profits, given the way such things are defined in a first-time series.  The
+definition on Crusade is a little better, but only a little.  
+
+On the other hand...I find it very hard to get too upset about it, because the
+bottom line is I'm being paid to tell the kind of stories I'd have to tell
+anyway, for free.  Where else can you get a deal like that?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1998 09:04:19 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS: Thirdspace note
+
+>The second movie from one of TV's most creative sci-fi series that is
+>far too complicated to explain but too good to miss, even if you don't
+>know the background.  
+
+Now THAT'S comedy.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1998 09:05:30 -0600
+Subject: Re: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder ( *Spoilers* )
+
+>Anyone see a 3? Somebody please tell me you see a 3......
+
+As you'll see in about 24 hours, really nothing could have been done to prevent
+this conflict; certain forces wanted it, and were going to have it, no matter
+what.  Awake or asleep, it would've been provoked somewhere, somehow.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1998 16:41:32 -0600
+Subject: Re: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder ( *Spoilers* )
+
+Of course, everyone's assuming here that the awful state we find Centauri Prime
+in, in WWE, is caused entirely by war....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 17 Jun 1998 16:43:30 -0600
+Subject: Re: DS9 episode
+
+Excuse me, but all I said was that I was amazed that the story, as described to
+me, got on.  I did not specifically condemn anything in the episode, and
+generally don't coment on DS9 stuff.  Someone mentioned it to me online and
+specifically asked for my reaction.  I was as brief as I could possibly be, one
+line, no more, no less.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 18 Jun 1998 08:43:59 -0600
+Subject: Re: attn JMS: SD ComicCon
+
+I think it's going to be that Saturday, late morning/early afternoon.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 18 Jun 1998 21:05:07 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS:  writing and tears   (AAMDTA Spoilers)
+
+
+>A thoroughly impertinent question: do you ever cry when you write?
+>
+>	I'm curious because I occasionally start to cry when I am writing
+>poetry or fiction, though if I am deeply involved in the work I may not
+>even notice until later.  
+> I remember your saying once, I think on
+>this newsgroup, that if you do not move yourself, you will not move the
+>audience.     
+
+On occasion, yeah...I think you have to really feel that if you want to do it
+to someone else.  When I bumped off Kosh, there was a little of that...and
+there were some scenes in "Confessions and Lamentations" that did that, and
+definitely in "Sleeping in Light."
+
+Thing is, last night I pulled out the tapes for the last two episodes, "Objects
+at Rest" and "Sleeping in Light," and watched them back to back, and I was an
+absolute wreck afterward.  There are a couple of scenes in both of them that
+just put me away.  That's *good*, they should, they have to, but man...I was
+just gone.  
+
+But strangest of all, the final credits sequence and what we did with them for
+SiL is also very deeply affecting...and I'm not entirely sure why, I think it's
+something operating at an almost subconscious level, about seeing certain
+images juxtaposed.  Darndest thing....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1998 07:27:08 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: Jms - MOFAS - A compliment
+
+>How many other shoes have you got to drop on us?
+
+A couple more shoes.
+
+And a boot or two.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 19 Jun 1998 08:40:18 -0600
+Subject: Re: Why did the Shadows need "Fresh bodies for their CPU's"???? 
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+The control pods mainly work via remote control, their functionality (as Lyta
+noted) is limited.  For the shadow vessels, you need a fast reaction,
+independent-thinking cpu of a higher order...also because a shadow vessel is a
+hell of a lot more advanced and complex than a Centauri cruiser.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 20 Jun 1998 12:47:03 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN  JMS:  Could you speak to TNT's lack of a Trailer for 
+
+
+>It would be a big kindness to hear why TNT is not promoting Thirdspace
+>with the same vigor they did for B5 thus far. They haven't really
+>answered
+>the question
+
+Usually you don't promote a show until a couple of weeks before it airs.  The
+promotion for ItB was also the promotion to launch the entire SERIES, which
+needed bigger lead time.  In TV, you rarely promote a standalone like
+Thirdspace more than a couple of weeks before airing.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 21 Jun 1998 02:35:04 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS - sorry - Clarification of "ruined summer"
+
+I took it with humor, as it was clearly meant to be taken.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 21 Jun 1998 02:32:07 -0600
+Subject: Re: AtTn JmS:  The Harlan Award
+
+>Tell us, for the sake of
+>future TV producers who may work with Harlan and the people who love them,
+>how did you do it?
+
+Simple.  Just respect what he brings to the table, and don't fuck with him.  In
+over a decade of calling Harlan a friend, I have never seen him go after
+anybody who didn't go after him first.
+
+>What I want to know is how much  of the quarter-million-book-library
+>mentioned in the same show Harlan has actually read.  Come to think of it,
+>I also want to know Harlan's reading speed, JMS's reading speed, and if
+>either of them can recommend an effective, reliable and reasonably priced
+>speed-reading course!
+
+I figure if somebody took time to get it right, you don't speed read past it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Jun 1998 18:47:19 -0600
+Subject: Re: AttN jms: Where Are All the American Playwrights?
+
+>Wasn't one of the original promises of PBS to bring back this type of
+>"alternate" programming to TV? They do have the occasional great
+>drama, but it seems to be wholly of British origins. Where are the
+>new Serlings or Chayefskys on the tube?
+
+Yeah, well, PBS seems to be dropping the ball, frankly, most notably with their
+decision not to do more Tales of the City, largely because of political
+concerns, leaving it to Showtime to take up the standard.
+
+>I hate to blame everything on American TV executives and their
+>perspectives (or lack thereof...). Would you mind sharing your
+>insider view?
+
+Main thing is the different time periods.  When TV first got going, they were
+frantic to legitimize the form, and drew in a lot of writers from radio drama
+and the stage.  (Actually, Serling came mainly from radio, not so much stage.) 
+So there was a concerted recruitment effort.  Also, one of the problems is that
+there's a bit of an onus attached to TeeVee in the Theater world, so a lot of
+folks who could do good work in TV don't come and play with us.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 24 Jun 1998 04:16:29 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Londo's "old" makeup
+
+>It just struck me how *convincing* Londo looked 20 years into the future as
+>an
+>old man.  The makeup is startlingly believable, much more so than most other
+>"old" makeup I have ever seen
+
+>So what's the secret?  How were you and your crew able to pull off something
+>that no one else, with any size budget, was able to successfully accomplish?
+
+I think it comes from the makeup folk knowing every line in Peter's face from
+five years of working with him, and how to bring it out, something you don't
+often get in films.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Jun 1998 20:47:11 -0600
+Subject: Re: Effects in MoFaS
+
+The CGI is now being produced at 24 frame per second, starting about 517 or
+518, at a higher degree of resolution, nearer film-res.  We're doing 24 so it
+matches better with the live-action which is also shot at 24 fps.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+JMS (and coproducer George Johnsen) Usenet messages for July 1998.
+
+
+Date: 3 Jul 1998 15:12:16 -0600
+Subject: Why More Producers Aren't Here
+
+Here's a small slice of life to explain why more producers and cast members
+aren't online.
+
+I kept getting emails (and public postings) from a fellow going by the handle
+of goodx6 here on AOL (goodx6@aol.com).  I have said before that I would rather
+that general plot questions (which these were) would be addressed in the public
+forums, but frankly, these were not questions that I really felt warranted
+answering because much of it had been covered.  So I didn't answer, and spent
+that time answering other questions.
+
+More of the same exact emails continued to come in.  I ignored them.  The
+person in question then *demanded* that I answer his emails and his public
+messages.  I explained that I did not *have* to answer any questions at all,
+and with limited time, tried to put my efforts and energies into questions we
+hadn't already covered.  He sent another very harrassing note, and I plinked
+him.
+
+So today, I found out I couldn't get email (and there were several important B5
+related emails that should have been here).  I found that I couldn't receive
+ANY email because I had received nearly 1,000 emails from the same account
+(masquerading under two different names, but sending identical emails) saying
+that I was a queer for not answering goodx6's questions.  (The handles were
+jesus4834 and TWare97181.)  Obviously goodx6 either asked this person to do
+this, since the conversation was originally carried out in email, or they are
+all the same person.
+
+The assumption here seems to be that I am *required* to respond to inquiries,
+and that if I don't, I'm entitled to be harrassed.  
+
+This is not the first time this has happened to me.  And this will probably not
+be the last.  It took me about 20 minutes to clear out my mailbox, deleting
+almost 1,000 harrassing emails by hand, another 10 minutes to send on the info
+to AOL's terms of service...and it shoved out all the online AOL email
+backfiles, some of which I use for reference.
+
+And this is the kind of thing that after a while makes one more convinced that
+pulling away down the road is exactly the right thing to do.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 7 Jul 1998 13:15:13 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS: in the spinoff...
+
+My feeling for now is to make the feature, if one gets done, fairly
+self-contained, since I imagine a lot of folks may go who haven't seen the
+show.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 8 Jul 1998 10:08:52 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATT: JMS: A Challenge!
+
+It would be a question of what the group of rogue telepaths had *done* prior to
+his running into them.  If, for instance, they had killed any of his fellow Psi
+Cops, I think (to turn a phrase on its head) the gloves would come off.
+
+Byron's people weren't a threat to Psi Cops until the very end. 
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 8 Jul 1998 10:08:57 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: A curious new effect of watching B5
+
+>Has exposure to "Babylon 5" innoculated me against the mass of US TV?
+
+Maybe...meanwhile, continue to take two episodes and call me in the morning.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 8 Jul 1998 19:11:44 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Thoughts and thanks
+
+Thank you...as someone will note later this season, the part of me that is
+going will very much miss the part of you all that is staying.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 8 Jul 1998 19:12:30 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS and all other victims of cyberstalking
+
+Thanks for the information...I'll be using it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 9 Jul 1998 17:27:50 -0600
+Subject: Re: ANT JMS - how many Vorlons could dance on the head of a pin?
+
+>How many Vorlons could dance on the head of a pin?
+
+As many as want to.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Jul 1998 11:24:22 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS my deepest gratitude...
+
+Thanks, that's great to hear, good luck.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 11 Jul 1998 16:24:01 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS  The Kosh figure is hideous!!!!
+
+I guess opinions vary...I think it looks kind cool.
+
+Question: did you get the one that actually says Kosh, or the Vorlon Visitor
+figure?  If the latter, the color scheme is off because it ain't Kosh.  The one
+that says Kosh is pretty close, in my view.
+
+Got mine the other day, and rather like it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 12 Jul 1998 03:53:52 -0600
+Subject: Re: White's Guide exclusive figure
+
+The only figure I know is the one that's out at most any comics store, so I
+don't see how it's exclusive to them (and it looks like the regular one as
+well).
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Jul 1998 03:57:28 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Not WS LD's- what happened?
+
+>Havne't seen any explanation of why you had no pull in this, after
+>saying that you wanted to have WS LD's and DVD's.  We all thought your
+>merchandise pull was sufficient that you wouldn't have let these new
+>LD's go without the WS treatment.
+
+WB is one of those big companies where one branch often doesn't know what the
+other is doing.  No one told me about the LDs until I heard about it on the
+nets, because it never occured to anyone to mention it.  (I've since mentioned
+it to the folks at Image, so we'll see about the WS stuff.)  
+
+What you have to understand is that the video aspect of the show is not
+considered by contract a part of merchandising.  (I know, doesn't make any
+sense, but it's one more way of keeping money out of the hands of the writers
+involved.  Same with soundtracks, so I don't get a piece off either of those
+except for the WGA mandated royalty, which is more or less zero.)  
+
+As some note of how far off these things can be, a big full-page ad in Video
+Magazine this month for the VHS tapes mentions that the show  is now on TNT,
+instead of **UPN*** (it began on PTEN, which is WB, as opposed to UPN, which is
+Paramount).
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Jul 1998 04:00:03 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Not WS LD's- what happened?
+
+PS...just to be clear, btw, the show *is* available in widescreen *right now*,
+having worked with the WB high-tech boys to produce these versions over the
+last year for HDTV and foreign use.  I've seen a couple of the finished
+widescreen versions, and they're gorgeous.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Jul 1998 04:04:13 -0600
+Subject: Re: Did you say...
+
+>You were going to DragonCon because HE was going to be there? What be
+>your plans as of late on that con? I'm seriously looking into going
+>now....
+
+Nope, won't be there.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1998 18:41:05 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:RE: OTHERSYDE
+
+Thanks, it's a good book.  "Demon Night" was a first novel, and therefore kinda
+rough in places.  "It's Getting Dark" has yet to be written.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Jul 1998 18:42:42 -0600
+Subject: Re: Way cool promo with JMS
+
+>And it had the added bonus
+>of actually seeing JMS talk about the movie.  Now I have a face to put with
+>the notes.
+
+Yeah, well, nothing's perfect....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1998 00:22:19 -0600
+Subject: Re: Thirdspace
+
+Anybody can follow this movie and enjoy it; whether you've seen the show before
+or not.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1998 00:23:05 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn:  JMS
+
+>Do you watch your own shows after they are done?  If yes, (and I assume it is
+>yes), have you ever been able to watch the show with fresh eyes?
+
+I watch the episodes bunches of times; pieces during shooting in dailies, the
+directors cut (twice, once to just watch, again to make my notes), again when
+John and I do our producer's cut/edit, again when we do the audio spotting
+(sound EFX and music), again when we mix the episode, again on VHS to check how
+it sounds on a regular TV stereo, and again when it airs to check the
+transmission.  That's 7 times just to start.
+
+It takes me about a year or two to be able to really *see* the show,  to stop
+anticipating each line before I hear it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 16 Jul 1998 00:25:45 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATT JMS    Re: Demon Night
+
+Thanks...apparently, some dealers are selling the book(s) for a couple hundred
+bucks apiece, which I'm kind of chagrined about, wishing they were better
+books.
+
+Which is why the next one I write has got to be a good one, because a lot of
+folks will probably pick it up as an act of faith and a compliment to B5, and I
+don't want to disappoint them.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Jul 1998 11:12:17 -0600
+Subject: Re: Thirdspace ( *Spoilers* )
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+>Was it just me or did that dream scene with Ivanova and Vir looking at
+>>the
+>>tower and the buildings around it look like something out of one of Wayne
+>>Barlowe's paintings?  
+
+If you check the credits, you'll see that we engaged Wayne's services to help
+us design both the creature, the artifact, and the dark city.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1998 14:05:22 -0600
+Subject: Re: attnJMS:Gary Cole on Crusade?
+
+Yes, I can confirm that Gary Cole has signed on to play Captain Matthew Gideon
+of the Starship Excalibur in CRUSADE.  
+
+We're very excited to  have him aboard.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Jul 1998 23:51:56 -0600
+Subject: Re: Thirdspace--------Why?
+
+Okay, you want an answer to this, I got an answer for you.
+
+Because I felt like it.
+
+Because I've done five years worth of angst and dark storytelling, and I wanted
+to do one story that was just for fun.  
+
+Because I'm a huge fan of the type of Cthulhu mythos stories done by H. P.
+Lovecraft and August Derleth and Clark Ashton Smith and Lord Dunsany, and all
+my life I wanted to just cut loose and do something like that.
+
+Because I hadn't done a story like that for B5, and I want to try new things,
+experiment, do a funny story, a spooky story, a high-tech story.
+
+And because a show needs to be shaken up once in a while.  
+
+A while back, Neil Gaiman pointed out to me that the problem with a certain
+percentage of fandom is that they like your work for what it is, because it's
+different, but then they won't tolerate any variation from what you're doing,
+and what you've done in the past.  They condemn it because it isn't exactly
+what they figured they would be getting.
+
+No, this wasn't a huge part of the arc, which is one of the main complaints (as
+is the case here).  So what?  Look, not everything that happens to me in my
+life, or you in yours, is part of a specific thematic arc.  I came up with the
+idea of a five year arc as a tool to give me MORE flexibility in storytelling,
+to add a new tool to the form...not to find myself being told that if I do
+something outside that very rigid arc that it's meaningless and shouldn't have
+been made.
+
+It was meant to be a light entertainment set in the B5 universe, nothing more,
+nothing less.  That should be the purpose of the movies, to do some hard-arc
+stuff, some lightly related stuff, and some stuff that is totally
+self-contained...heavy stories and light stories, to provide the freedom to
+*play* in the B5 universe.
+
+And *that's* why I wrote the thing.  
+
+And the ratings were terrific, with each quarter hour improving over the one
+before, and I've gotten more positive email from people who have never watched
+the show before than I have on anything else.  Because you don't have to know
+the show to just sit back and enjoy this one.
+
+Not everything should require that you do a massive amount of homework in order
+to watch it; not everything has to be of the arc; not everything has to be
+about angst.
+
+I wrote this one just for fun.  
+
+If you don't like it, fine; but to say it should not have been written, that
+somehow it doesn't belong in the arc and therefore in your opinion shouldn't
+exist, ain't your call to make, frankly, and just slaps on more limitations.
+
+This is why there is so little divergence in the Star Trek shows; the studio
+has learned that it has to more and more narrowly define what constitutes a
+Star Trek story...and in time it becomes so narrow that you can't do much of
+anything new in it.  
+
+What the hell is the point of HAVING your own show if you can't from time to
+time go out and just do a story that's completely off-base, just for fun, just
+for yourself?  If nobody watches it, then you've got a problem...but in fact
+this came out to be the 5th highest rated cable movie of the week, so by gosh a
+lot of other people liked it as well.
+
+I'm not defending the movie because there is nothing to defend.  It succeeded
+for me, creatively, and it succeeded for TNT in the ratings, we got to test out
+some new tech and CGI, and I got to fulfill a years-long desire to play with a
+kind of Old Ones/Lovecraftian story.
+
+Deal with it.
+
+Maybe *you* want to so narrowly define the B5 universe that something like this
+could not be done...but *I* have no interest in doing that.
+
+The moment you lose the ability to change the format and play and tip-over the
+whole thing, and do totally arbitrary things because they please you...you may
+as well find yourself a comely shroud, because creatively you're dead.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1998 04:20:48 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Who Was Jack The Ripper Really???
+
+Who was the one person whose wife actually wrote a letter to the London Times
+suggesting that the ripper maybe was trying to tell them something, and that
+maybe he'd stop if they listened?  Who was the last person to see at least two
+of the victims alive on missions of mercy to the jail?  Who was reported to
+have become unhinged by the filth in the area around the murders when he found
+a rat in his breakfast? Who had medical experience? Who left England suddenly
+after being questioned, with the murders stopping soon afterward?  Whose
+transcripts of interviews with church officials and British police are *still*
+kept under lock and key? Who is the sort of person who might say -- as the only
+witness to hear the ripper reported hearing him remark to one of his victims --
+"You would do anything but pray?"  Who had the same last name -- and was a
+likely relative -- of the man living with the very last victim, the only one
+killed in her room (suggesting she knew the killer)?
+
+The Reverend Samuel Barnett.  That's my choice.  
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Jul 1998 15:19:19 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: From UK: Final 5 - are they finished?
+
+Yes, the episodes are finished, and in the can; have been for some time.  I
+suspect, given the time frame here, that WB felt they should wait until the
+final 5 are shown here for them to be shown overseas.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Jul 1998 16:12:59 -0600
+Subject: Re: Cable Ace Awards?
+
+>I was wondering when the cable ace awards are during the year.  It
+>seems like a place ripe for B5 to pick up a few awards.
+
+Absolutely.
+
+Unfortunately, they just canceled the awards to fold cable into the regular
+Emmys.
+
+This is typical of our luck.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Jul 1998 16:14:27 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Making of?
+
+>When B5 will show its final episode, it would be great to see a really big
+>"B5-Making of" with behind the scenes-scenes, bluper (blooper?) reels and so
+>on. I think that would be great for the fans.
+
+I'll mention it.
+
+>A week ago, "DF1", the german digital Pay-TV showed the whole 4th season at
+>once (!!!) Yes, really! No kidding! no breaks, one episode after the other
+>(I guess 18 or 22 hours.) 
+
+Holy smokes...I wonder what the reaction was for folks seeing it that way.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Jul 1998 16:42:54 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Mind wanderings
+
+I dunno...I don't like to spend a lot of time poking around in my subconscious
+on these issues; there's albino alligators living down there, y'know.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1998 17:35:36 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Interesting B5 Experience
+
+>I did some editing and found that I
+>could fit a season on two T-160 cassettes (in the EP mode) if I only had one
+>open/close credit per tape and cut all commercials.
+>
+>What I discovered is this, Babylon 5 really is incredible when viewed this
+>way, it's like a 7h 35m movie!   
+
+Exactly.  That was the challenge, to make it work on an episodic basis, but
+then run together.  
+
+This particularly works in S5 starting from about "Meditations" right through
+"Sleeping in Light."  Just play it straight through, and it's one long episode.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Jul 1998 23:43:32 -0600
+Subject: Re: jms-B5 Comic Collection?
+
+Yes, they may collect other issues in future.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Jul 1998 17:17:23 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Bravo on acquiring Cole! A few questions, though...
+
+>So - when will the series start? Have you any episodes written / or even
+>started filming? Cole is to be the captain of what? A white star? A
+>Terran Starship?  I'm anxious to start on this new adventure!
+
+Begins airing January 6th; 6 episodes are now written; we start filming Monday;
+and Cole's character is captain of the Excalibur, a prototype destroyer
+combining human, Minbari and Vorlon tech.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
diff --git a/ftp/Usenet/jms98-08-usenet b/ftp/Usenet/jms98-08-usenet
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+JMS (and coproducer George Johnsen) Usenet messages for August 1998.
+
+
+Date: 1 Aug 1998 08:12:47 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn:JMS.... A GET WELL SOON message
+
+Thanks...no, I'm still writing, even with the heavy antibiotic medications. 
+I'm still going into the office, but on half-day basis, which is about all I
+can handle right now (and probably more than I should).  The danger with this
+kind of pnumonia is that it can feel like it's getting better, and you push
+it...and then it nails your ass to the wall.  (That's what nailed Jim Henson,
+who had the same basic kind I have.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 1 Aug 1998 08:26:53 -0600
+Subject: Re: MOFAS and Captian Power Question - No Spoilers
+
+No, it's an Earthforce Academy logo.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 1 Aug 1998 23:21:46 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS: Thanks, I needed that!
+
+You're welcome....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1998 02:48:23 -0600
+Subject: Re: B5 on laserdisc
+
+I spoke to the folks at Image just before leaving for the UK.  They had been
+told, repeatedly, by WB that there *were* no widescreen versions of B5
+available.
+
+Well, after hearing this, I gave 'em the names of the folks in the WB high-tech
+division who've been conforming the widescreen negatives, and the odds are good
+that they're going to do this.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1998 02:55:17 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS  Where (if at all) to purchase episodes???
+
+The first new tapes from WB Home Video hit the stores this week.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1998 02:58:20 -0600
+Subject: Re: How's Joe's health?
+
+I'm getting better.  The pneumonia definitely knocked me for a serious 3-4 week
+loop.  I'm past nearly all of it now, just a bit weak at times from it all.  At
+the Wrap Party, I had to go up and rest between panels and presentations, and
+at same wasn't quite as energetic as I'm used to being. 
+
+But it's all pretty much over now...and I got to shed 12 pounds I wanted to
+lose in any event (didn't want to do that in 7 days, but there you are).
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1998 03:20:36 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn. JMS:  Writing question
+
+>How do you deal with cutting material?  Is it hard for you?  I notice in
+>Lurker's guide that sometimes you have slid things into other episodes. 
+>Any other way to use good material that has to be cut?  Can you suggest any
+>strategies for editing?
+
+Only one thing works, and that's to pretend the stuff was written by somebody
+else, so you can take a fairly objective look at it and cut whatever's dross.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1998 03:30:26 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Psi Corp pins made by 'Filmwelt,' Berlin, Germany
+
+The german pins are licensed; I approved the final designs, and hadn't noticed
+that the Psi symbol was unstandard; we've used some variations in the show as
+well.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1998 13:08:02 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Thanks again for setting the example
+
+Thanks, and good luck in dealing with folks like this, in this way.  It's
+tough, I know.
+
+Thanks again.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1998 13:18:10 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATN JMS:  Kathryn?
+
+In most ways, I think Kathryn does fit that description.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 28 Aug 1998 09:21:57 -0600
+Subject: Re: jms-Season 5 Acting differences after SIL
+
+I think it did add a small note of somberness and foreshadowing to the S5
+performances of a few cast members, which is why I had previously avoided
+letting them know too much, to avoid the trap of having them play the result
+instead of the process.  It happens.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
diff --git a/ftp/Usenet/jms98-09-usenet b/ftp/Usenet/jms98-09-usenet
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+JMS (and coproducer George Johnsen) Usenet messages for September 1998.
+
+
+Date: 3 Sep 1998 00:42:28 -0600
+Subject: Re: to jms: westercon
+
+Folks who came got a preview screening of Thirdspace.
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Sep 1998 10:30:04 -0600
+Subject: new psi corps novel out
+
+Just for those who haven't heard yet, the newest B5 novel -- first in a trilogy
+of books about the origins of the Psi Corps through and beyond the events of
+the fifth season -- is out.  "Dark Genesis," by J. Gregory Keyes, from a jms
+outline.  For my money, this is probably one of the best B5 novels ever done,
+and it takes quite a risk, because even though you see ancestors of some of our
+characters (the books cover about 80 years), there are none of the regulars in
+it.  It's our first attempt to really flesh out the B5 universe and future
+history.  
+
+Anyway, it's a hell of a read, and I commend it to you without reservation.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 3 Sep 1998 15:36:59 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - B5 LaserDisc Commentary
+
+Apparently Image has now confirmed with WB that the widescreen versions do
+indeed exist, so that's good...on the other hand, they were produced in PAL
+format for overseas, and it costs a few pennies here and there to convert them
+to NTSC standard for American use, and WB is wondering if it's worth the time
+and effort to do so.
+
+So a bunch of emails to Image encouraging them to continue to press on this
+issue might have some weight....
+
+And yes, we've discussed adding further material, such as commentaries,
+bloopers, lost scenes, whatever.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Sep 1998 17:53:28 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - Comparisons
+
+>Last night, I was browsing the latest issue of TV Guide (the Canadian
+>Edition) and was intrigued by the description of Mercy Point's premise
+>as:  "Think of it as ER meets Babylon 5."
+>
+>I'm just curious what your reaction is to new shows being compared to
+>B5.  
+
+I'm fine with it, though each show should be allowed to find its own identity,
+it shouldn't have to feel (nor should its viewers have to feel) it must be
+compared with B5.  
+
+That we've been able to create a new paradigm in SF TV is a niceness, and the
+notice is welcome and long-overdue.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1998 22:21:08 -0600
+Subject: Re: jms- Some Dark Genesis Comments/Questions (Some spoilers)
+
+The next book is in at the publisher, and I should be getting a copy of the
+manuscript in the next week or so.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1998 22:22:27 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: SiL postproduction
+
+>Aside from it being done later and any changes in technology or technique
+>resulting from that, was anything done to Sleeping in Light in
+>postproduction differently from how it would have been done had there been
+>no fifth season?
+
+Nope.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1998 11:47:49 -0600
+Subject: Re: The death of ISN
+
+
+Understand that video clips fall under the aegis of the various Guilds: screen
+actors guild, directors guild, writers guild, others.  Even *we* can't take,
+digitize, and put up digital clips of shows at ANY length on thestation.com. 
+This has nothing to do with anything other than the fact that this is not
+allowable by anyone, for any reason, other than WB itself.  To allow even a 10
+second clip on a TV talk show, there have to be waivers (usually automatically
+given) by the guilds; it's a contractual issue that supercedes anything and
+everything else.
+
+Attempts to broaden this out to anything else are invalid because everyone else
+is being left alone, because nobody else is doing this.  The policy stands.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1998 11:50:14 -0600
+Subject: Re: VORcon contract problems?
+
+
+Apparently a number of people have not been confirmed for this, including
+Damien London, who sent me a note to say that while someone had spoken to him
+about this months back, nothing else ever happened, and he's definitely NOT
+confirmed.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1998 18:09:34 -0600
+Subject: Re: A word to the wise.
+
+
+
+The TNT memo was apparently real, from within the network to others in the
+network.  But the egregious points have gone away.  
+
+Not only that, but they've allocated a huge chunk of change for us to upgrade
+sets and add a bunch of new sets to the series, stuff we'd been planning to do
+later, but can do now instead.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 21 Sep 1998 01:18:16 -0600
+Subject: sleeping in light suggestion
+
+
+I was watching "Sleeping in Light" again today (I have a tendency to run the
+last ten minutes plus the credits over and over...to see if it'll stop getting
+to me, and so far it hasn't), and had some thoughts on it for folks out there. 
+
+People often ask if there's anything they can do in return for B5, something
+I'd like and I do have some ideas, here at the end, regarding SiL.
+
+I think it would be a wonderful thing if more folks than usual got together for
+viewing parties on this one.  Not newcomers, not folks who haven't seen the
+show, just the "family," if you will.  If B5 has helped to create communities,
+then I think this last episode should be for that community.
+
+I also think you'll find some interesting tie-offs in this show...something
+about Minbari beliefs about souls born in the hearts of suns, and a pay-off to
+why the narrations of this series have always been in the past tense, and a
+gift to the crew of this show...to which end I *strongly* suggest that even if
+you don't normally tape this series, that you do tape *this* episode so you can
+go back and check some stuff at the end.
+
+"Sleeping in Light" airs in just a little over two months, and every time I
+look at it, it has the sense of something very special coming to its
+conclusion.  It's so damned hard watching it...and yet there's something about
+it that is massively uplifting at the same time.
+
+Anyway, I was just thinking that often viewing parties are used to bring in new
+folks to B5, but this one, I think, should be for the family.  Maybe local fan
+groups want to get together, find someone with a good-sized TV, and watch. 
+It's one of those Moments, I think, that will be remembered a long time
+thereafter.
+
+And I've got TNT's promise not to run a voice-over or squish the credits at the
+end.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1998 14:57:20 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Outlining Dark Genesis?
+
+
+
+I think my outlines for each of the Psi Corps novels was about ten pages each. 
+It spelled out the broad strokes of what happened in each one of them, and left
+Gregory to fill in the gaps and work out the details in conjunction with myself
+and our reference editor, so that all the timelines jived and everything made
+canonical sense.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+
+From schillin@spock.usc.edu Tue Sep 22 14:56:28 1998
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+From: schillin@spock.usc.edu
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+Subject: Re: VORcon contract problems?
+Subject: Re: VORcon contract problems?
+Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 23:28:43 +0100
+Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 23:28:43 +0100
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+
+Britwombat wrote in message <19980917115255.03502.00000582@ng155.aol.com>...
+>
+>>
+>>Has VORcon established contracts with the stars they have scheduled to
+appear
+>>next month? If not, how can you guarantee the convention will go on as
+>>planned?
+>>
+>
+>I was at Starcon at the end of August where Jason Carter was a guest.  He
+was
+>heavily promoting VorCon with his convention manager, Luther Trotter, and
+>according to him, it is all confirmed.
+>
+>Cari
+
+Luther is the co-organiser of VORcon, apparently.
+
+Ali
+
+
+
+
+
+From schillin@spock.usc.edu Tue Sep 22 14:56:36 1998
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+From: schillin@spock.usc.edu
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+Subject: Re: Fw: A word to the wise.
+Subject: Re: Fw: A word to the wise.
+Date: 21 Sep 1998 14:58:03 GMT
+Date: 21 Sep 1998 14:58:03 GMT
+Organization: Alcatel Network Systems, Inc Raleigh, NC
+Orig-From: berrpm@aur.alcatel.com (Patrick M. Berry)
+Orig-Reply-To: berrpm@aur.alcatel.com
+To: b5mod-moderate@deepthot.ml.org
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+
+
+In article <007e01bde43e$cffe59a0$5e327118@cr1003146-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com>, "Jeff Vavasour" <jeffv@physics.ubc.ca> writes:
+>     [The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set]
+>     [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set]
+>     [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly]
+> 
+> Jms at B5 <jmsatb5@aol.com> wrote:
+> >The TNT memo was apparently real, from within the network to others in the
+> >network.  But the egregious points have gone away.  
+> 
+> Dare I ask, might the fan uproar have encouraged some reconsideration?
+
+It's probably encouraged some reconsideration of their security measures.
+
+
+
+
+From schillin@spock.usc.edu Tue Sep 22 14:56:38 1998
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+From: schillin@spock.usc.edu
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+Subject: *crunchcrunch*  What?? (was: ATTN JMS: Any more Crusade news?
+Subject: *crunchcrunch*  What?? (was: ATTN JMS: Any more Crusade news?
+Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:29:40 -0700
+Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:29:40 -0700
+Organization: PsiCorps
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+Orig-From: Rat & Swan <labrat@pacbell.net>
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+To: b5mod-moderate@deepthot.ml.org
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+
+
+ck@zipcon.net wrote:
+ 
+> See, it's not the coffee that's the problem for me, it's those damned
+> styrofoam cups. Other people look at me strange the first time they see me
+> finish one off, but I say, if you're going to enjoy a cup of coffee, you
+> might as well get the whole experience.
+ 
+> *burp*
+
+Huh? (blinking) B-but you're making it sound as if Styrofoam ISN'T
+supposed to be eaten!
+
+What do I do with all these packing peanuts and clam dip?
+
+Guess I'll have to call the family and tell 'em to stay home. Party's
+off 'til we find some crisps...
+
+I have to say that from context alone, one can NEVER tell for sure what
+Earthers consider to be food! Hph!
+
+Swan
+
+
+Psi Corps
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1998 19:22:53 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: galen
+
+
+> i'm
+>looking forward to "crusade" because of the galen-character.  i saw a
+>clip of galen at westercon, and i was really impressed.  is peter
+>woodward doing as well in the role as you had hoped?
+
+Peter is superb as Galen, utterly brilliant.  I think we lucked into a
+character and an actor that is going to be extremely popular with fans.  I
+couldn't be happier with his work to date; I'd put his work up there with Peter
+Jurasik and Andreas Katsulas, easily.
+
+>also, i live in the san diego area.  when did you move here, how long
+>did you live here, and did you like it?
+
+I lived in San Diego a few times, the last being from about 1974 to 1981.  I
+actually rather enjoyed living there (I went to and graduated from San Diego
+State during that time).  I cut my teeth as a journalist there, and got my
+first stage credits.  I felt that the town was a little too provincial, and
+still is a bit, but would've stayed if what I wanted to do could be done there,
+but living in LA is necessary to work in TV.  Figures that they'd upgrade the
+place just after I left....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1998 23:32:06 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - production halted?
+
+
+Yeah, actually I mentioned this in passing a couple of days ago on
+Compuserve...wasn't that big a deal, but to recap for here:
+
+In addition to the Christmas break, we have always taken a one-week hiatus in
+the middle of shooting to avoid burning out cast and crew.  This was true of B5
+throughout its history.  One week in the fall, one in the spring.
+
+TNT has allocated additional money to build some major (large) new sets that we
+had thought we'd have to wait until season 2 to implement, and to improve some
+of the sets.  (We were always fighting to spiff up sets throughout B5, and we
+always had to bring in our new sets gradually, like Earharts and the War Room
+and others.) 
+
+Since they're going to give us the money for that now, we figued we'd extend
+the hiatus by a few weeks (a paid break for most of the actual shooting crew),
+though we still have the art department, costume, construction, props and
+several other departments still working away to build the sets and stuff.
+
+We start shooting again October 19th.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Sep 1998 17:30:52 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Sleeping in Light the day before Thanksgiving (US)?
+
+
+>I looked at my calendar, and the schedule for the final episodes puts
+>"Sleeping in Light" on the day before Thanksgiving.  That's a lousy
+>place to put a season/series finale--lots of people are
+>traveling/visiting family on that date.
+>
+
+On the other hand, not everybody has family to travel to, or the means to
+travel.  So perhaps a family gathering of another type, particularly among
+folks new to each other in local fan areas, might be even more appropros.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Sep 1998 23:36:43 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn Joe: SIL viewing parties
+
+
+>But what I want to
+>suggest is that not only do we set up viewing parties at homes, but maybe
+>at Sports Bars as well, as long as it is cleared with the places to avoid
+>scheduling conflicts with a sporting event.
+
+Given the content, and the likely reaction of fans to that content, a sports
+bar is probably the *least* correct venue....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Sep 1998 18:29:03 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn Joe: SIL viewing parties
+
+
+>Great. We're gonna cry, aren't we?
+>
+Yup.
+
+At least twice.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Sep 1998 16:03:25 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: songwriting
+
+
+>i read at the lurker's guide that you once wrote a song with a member of
+>the busboys.  what music-performer would you most like to write a song
+>for?
+
+I ain't that good to write for the people I like to listen to...
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+JMS (and coproducer George Johnsen) Usenet messages for October 1998.
+
+
+Date: 8 Oct 1998 17:37:30 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS: Anti-VORcon?
+
+
+It should be noted that both Sierra FX and Precedence Publishing are taking
+steps to make it clear that while they are sponsoring *events* at the
+convention, they do not *endorse* this partuicular convention, distancing
+themselves from it.  Signs will appear at their booths further reinforcing
+this.
+
+Additionally, Tracy Scoggins will not appear, Bruce may or may not be there
+depending on what happens with a movie he's shooting in Toronto, Optic Nerve
+will not be bringing down an exhibit, and WB is this week putting VorCon on
+official notice about the showing of ANY copyrighted videotape material from
+the show.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Oct 1998 20:42:49 -0600
+Subject: from jms: crusade update
+
+
+It's been kinda hectic here, between the new sets under construction, meetings,
+and other stuff, some of which has been hinted around by others.  At this
+point, we're still on target for filming to start up on October 19th.
+
+One of the issues brought up by TNT had to do with a decision we all made early
+on that the first episode up, Racing the Night, would just jump right into the
+story, without doing the usual pilot-episode thing of showing the team coming
+together, which was our other option.  
+
+On reflection, TNT figured that the best thing might be to do that "coming
+together" episode after all, to set the stage for all that follows.  It's a
+lateral change, really, you could have it or not, either way, it's dealer's
+choice.  But if we're going to do that, we may as well get the sets and other
+stuff ready to go for that first episode and the ones that will immediately
+follow.  We're also making some adjustments to the wardrobe (and I've come up
+with a pretty funny way to make the transition in the story).  All of the prior
+produced episodes are still in, and still going to be broadcast, nothing's
+changed that as far as I know.
+
+Anyway, things continue to progress, the script for the alternate first ep is
+in, and all should be cool from this point on.  Which is not to say there
+haven't been some knife-fights...but we seem to have reached some
+understandings....
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Oct 1998 20:01:11 -0600
+Subject: Re: from jms: crusade update (mostly humor)
+
+
+More on the costumes in another thread, but suffice to say...skin tight they
+ain't.  We're going for a more conventional military look in terms of jump
+suits and cargo pants, something a little rougher looking...but that elsewhere.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Oct 1998 20:37:00 -0600
+Subject: from jms II: more crusade
+
+
+My newsreader was down for a couple days, and I've been hunkered down writing,
+so I'm just now getting a chance to get out and address some of the stories
+going around.  Best way to do that is with a quick overview....
+
+We're still set to go back into filming on October 19th.  As I mentioned in a
+prior post, TNT felt the need for an actual introductory episode, one that sets
+the story by bringing together our characters together for the first time, more
+of a conventional pilot in that respect.  "Racing the Night" was written to
+take place about 5 months after the Drakh attack, so that we got right into
+things.  The "bringing people into the story" story will, therefore, take place
+shortly after the Drakh attack, two-three days later, to be precise.
+
+Since we're doing a first introductory episode, TNT kinda wanted to have the
+new sets in place for the first few eps (though they can't appear in the first
+one for story reasons), and since we're making some wardrobe adjustments, they
+figured they may as well have those in place as well.
+
+Nothing in the story has been changed.  The five episodes already made will be
+aired, and you will see that the characters, the story, the feel of the show is
+*exactly* the same between those first 5 filmed, and those that follow.  What
+it comes down to are some cosmetic changes, some new sets, and an episode that
+sets things in place.  
+
+As we come back, the first two episodes up to be shot will be scripts we
+already had in hand, then the new introductory episode, "War Zone," another one
+we already have, one new one, then another one from on-hand, which will take us
+through into the Christmas break.
+
+No scripts are being thrown out, no episodes are being scrapped...none of that
+has taken place, or is taking place.  The show is the show is the show.
+
+(And on the costumes themselves...no, they're not going to be "skin tight"
+things; we're actually kinda going in the opposite direction.  They're more
+typically military jumpsuits, black, neatly tailored, similar to some Air Force
+or Marine uniforms.  And the only people who will be wearing these are the
+basic technical crew, Captain Gideon (Gary Cole) and Lieutenant John Matheson
+(Daniel Dae Kim); the others are civilians, and thus are not affected.
+
+Regarding air dates...we have thus far not been told if they want to push for a
+January airdate or not.  Part of the complication to all this is that if we
+make #8 in shooting order the first aired, we have to do a hideous amount of
+post-production on CGI to get it ready in time.  Rather than make us rush it,
+they have said they might consider waiting until the February sweeps.  Another
+option is to go in March, if they don't want to go up against the Network
+sweeps period (which is traditionally death for basic cable)...but the problem
+*there* is that you can only air 4 episodes and then TNT would go into the NBA
+playoffs, which means it would be another 6 weeks or so until any new eps could
+be shown.
+
+So on that score, nobody's decided anything yet, we don't know and haven't been
+told because they haven't decided where will best serve us, so we hit the
+ground with the least network opposition.
+
+Anyway, that's where things are.  Hope this puts to rest some of the rumors out
+there.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Oct 1998 00:19:57 -0600
+Subject: Re: from jms II: more crusade
+
+
+>How much of the CGI could be done "speculatively", concurrent
+>or even before the filming of the episode?
+
+Zip.  Because until it's edited, you don't know how long to make the shots, or
+how they'll intercut with the live action...and there's all the stuff from
+other eps to deal with as well.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Oct 1998 22:51:03 -0600
+Subject: Re: Starting on Harlan?
+
+
+>You should have seen him whining on Sci-Fi's StarTrek Special Edition.
+>
+>His story may have been butchered, but complaining 25yrs later isn't going
+>to help.
+
+Better then that lies should triumph?
+
+And I'd suggest Shatterday as a good place to begin with Harlan.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Oct 1998 14:23:05 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: CGI Re: from jms II: more crusade
+
+>BTW how are you planning those CGI parts? Are you providing exact
+>storyboards with ships and beams or do the CGI people just create
+>something along your script or do you check it prior rendering in
+>wireframe form or similar
+
+Pretty much all of the above, depending on the complexity of the sequence.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Oct 1998 21:23:05 -0600
+Subject: quickie update from jms
+
+To the gazillion or so folks who've asked in email...yes, we began shooting
+again on Monday the 19th, as scheduled, making the show we desired to make, and
+we're cranking along just fine.  Actors are happy, crew are happy, everybody
+happy but Zathras...but Zathras never happy...Zathras happy once, had friend
+once, but wheels fell off, very sad....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1998 16:58:07 -0700
+Subject: computer games and comic - jms
+
+I posted this accidentally to the UK group, had meant to post it here:
+
+For a while now, every once in a while, one computer game company or other will
+drop me an email note, and ask if I'd be interested in lining up with one or
+the other to design games for them.  I haven't said yes to any of them because
+a) I'm not as familiar with the scene as I'd like to be corporately, c) I've
+been busy mounting Crusade, and c) I've been busy working on the Sierra B5 game
+to make it as good as possible.  But the thought keeps occuring...hell, I could
+put in the same amount of time I'm putting on the B5 game on a game of my
+own....
+
+So I figured...what the heck.  Everybody I know who's in computer games is
+online, and so I thought, all right, let's say I'm open to the possibility. 
+The B5 game is nearly finished from a design perspective, so that time is now
+open.  The filming on Crusade is going fine, we're ahead on scripts...it's a
+good time to have some talks, broaden out the work a bit.
+
+So to those who've inquired before (your info is long, long gone, I'm afraid),
+and anyone who's looking on from one of the game companies, who might be
+interested in a jms line of games...lemme know.
+
+Also, I'm also pleased to announce that I have a new comic title of my own
+coming out next year from Top Cow (a division of Image Comics, publisher of
+Witchblade and Spawn)... something I've been quietly working on for the last
+three, four months...and which I think may have a fairly considerable impact on
+the field.  
+
+(It's the way I'm hardwired...if I don't have 2-3 projects going at the same
+time, whether a book or a story of something else, I just get nuts....)
+
+More info has been posted about the comic in various places, including
+mania.com.  The comic is called RISING STARS, and it's set to debut next April.
+ I've just turned in the first script (for the preview issue), and will be
+getting down to writing issues 0 and 1 shortly.
+ 
+The story follows the events after the small town of Pederson, Illinois, is
+struck by a mass of energy from an unknown, but non-terrestrial source. 
+Everyone who was in utero at the time of the flash   is affected, resulting in
+113 individuals who develop abilities of a most unusual and highly individual
+form.  (The power is to some degree shaped by who they are, just as they are
+shaped to some degree by the power.)
+  
+It is set in a realistic universe, timed to real-world events (it covers a span
+of about 60 years, starting in about 1969), where there have never been
+super-powered individuals before.  It looks at how the world reacts to them,
+and how they react to the world.  We follow these characters through their
+early years, into adulthood and to the ends of  their lives, mapping all the
+changes they go through, and how they change the world.
+  
+It's an extremely ambitious 24 issue miniseries (with the potential to go back
+and further develop any of the stories presented earlier along the way).
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1998 01:08:18 -0700
+Subject: Re: Two more days
+
+This is a devastating episode, by the way...so much happens in this that it's
+kinda staggering, actually.
+
+Of the final 5, this one, and the last two, are my favorites.  And I like 'em
+all.
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1998 01:15:05 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Top Cow?!
+
+I'd actually heard a lot of good things about Top Cow, and my understanding
+going into this was that I would have total creative freedom, and it would be a
+writer-driven book.  The artist they've talked to is someone whose work I've
+admired, and this book is going to have a very different look from the rest of
+their titles.  The folks over there seem to really have their act together. 
+They only launch about 2 new titles a year, and that means they have to be
+special...and they want this to be that kind of project.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1998 18:32:37 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Top Cow?!
+
+>How closely do you plan 
+>on collaborating with your penciller--will he have much leeway in 
+>layouts/"camera" angles/etc. or do you script a page pretty tightly?
+
+I script pretty damn tight...as much as a half-page to describe a panel, in
+great detail.  I'm doing those pages the same as I do my B5 and Crusade
+scripts: hideous amounts of detail.
+
+And yeah, we want to go for a much more realistic look to this book, because
+it's essential to making the story work.
+
+>if you seriously plan on bucking the System and 
+>producing a book that operates on the assumption that dialogue and 
+>characters are *not* interchangeable, I can guarantee you at least one 
+>regular reader.
+
+Done and done.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1998 18:32:44 -0700
+Subject: Re: computer games and comic - jms
+
+>I'm not "tearing it down" as you put it.  I am simply
+>pointing out the fact that the idea is not original.
+>In fact, it sounds like a direct copy from the films,
+>although I'm sure JMS will make a LOT more
+>interesting story of it than the films.
+>
+
+Sorry.  Ain't the case.  Damned was about a colonization effort by aliens,
+achieved by getting human female pregnant, and the kids were strictly
+telekinetic, and died at about age 7.
+
+There is no alien colonization thing going on in the story, it only affects the
+women who are already pregnant, and it follows their whole lives.  You may as
+well say that the Three Mile Island story is a Damned story because it charts
+the effect of outside forces on pregnant women and their offspring.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1998 00:55:43 -0700
+Subject: Re: Two more days
+
+BTW, there's a couple of nifty reviews of the final 5 episodes by Glen and by
+Robogeek on ain't-it-cool-news...very touching stuff.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+JMS (and coproducer George Johnsen) Usenet messages for November 1998.
+
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1998 14:47:24 -0700
+Subject: Re: Pointless goodbyes (TFoCP)
+
+If you want goodbyes, you should be happy soon.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Nov 1998 16:03:50 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Schedule for next book(s)
+
+The next book manuscript is in hand, it should be a month or two away.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Nov 1998 15:36:29 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Who's Fiona Avery?
+
+Fiona came aboard as our continuity editor to help keep all of the B5 licensing
+stuff as canon as humanly possible.  So that means learning all she can about
+the B5 and Crusade universes, second probably only to me.  
+
+A couple of months ago or so, she wrote a spec Crusade script just to see if
+she could do it, as an experiment, never intended or figured we'd buy it.  I
+read it...and walked into John Copeland's office and said, "Am I nuts, or is
+this as good as I think it is?"  He read it, said it was great...and we bought
+it, plus one more.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1998 17:28:18 -0700
+Subject: Re: jms- Another TNT Commercial Break Question about River Of Souls
+
+We've complained to TNT about this; it does seem to be a recurring problem,
+caused by the folks doing the broadcast stuff Not Paying Attention To The Cue
+Sheets.
+
+It is, to say the least...infuriating.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1998 18:23:01 -0700
+Subject: Sidelights (from jms)
+
+1) I spoke to TNT in more detail about the commercial weirdnesses in The River
+of Souls, and apparently the problem was not their fault.  The processing
+company that does transfers from our digibeta masters to what they can air puts
+timecode on the tape; that timecode is used to calibrate where commercials go
+from the format we provide.  The timecode was off by quite a bit, so when they
+put in the commercials, they were in the wrong spots.
+
+2) Interesting note...I've now heard from about a dozen people who've seen
+"Sleeping in Light" (critics and friends of critics who got advance copies). 
+And with at most one or two exceptions, every single one of them has been doing
+the same thing: running the last 8 minutes or so (from the start of act 4
+through to the very end credits) over and over and over, 5-6 times or more.  I
+find that interesting because that's *exactly* what I've been doing with it
+since getting the final tape in my hands.  I'm not sure exactly what motivates
+it, but there's something going on there that hits home across the board.  I
+was astonished to hear that others were doing the same thing I was in this
+respect.  Will be curious to see if others have the same reaction.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1998 18:23:21 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Squishing SiL credits in UK- HELP!!
+
+No, I haven't talked to C4 about this...this may be something the fans may want
+to take up with them, as my contact and influence with C4 is limited at best.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Nov 1998 14:46:35 -0700
+Subject: Re: Hey joe!!!  teleplay????
+
+>I've noticed that you have been
+>co-writting some of these eps with Harlen.. but in the opening credits it
+>also
+>says teleplay by J. Michael Straczynski (my apologies if I just botched your
+>name)  so whats a teleplay??? and why all of a sudden are you making use of
+>one???  
+
+There are two parts of writing an episode: the basic storyline, sometimes
+presented as an outline, and then the actual script which is a more specific
+elaboration on that story.  Story is, "King John and Queen Mary live in the
+castle and they have a hard night between them."
+
+Script is: 
+
+EXT. CASTLE - NIGHT
+We see the banners unfurling in the breeze, and go to
+
+INT. CASTLE - NIGHT
+KING JOHN and QUEEN MARY are in bed.  He's awake, she's sleeping.  He looks up
+at the ceiling. 
+
+                                  KING JOHN
+                 Why me?  Of all the gin joints and
+                 castles in England, why did she have
+                 to step into mine?
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1998 18:36:12 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS  When was River of Souls Written?
+
+>Was RoS written after all the bandwidth-slaying over carbon dating in
+>ThirdSpace?
+
+No, long before.  We shot it at the end of season 5, and Thirdspace was not
+aired until quite a bit later.  So it was written about two-thirds through S5.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1998 20:35:25 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Bye for now, and thanks
+
+Thanks, and good luck....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1998 20:38:20 -0700
+Subject: Re: Goodbye
+
+>I get the feeling that I'll never find them again, though...except
+>in the  "Call to Arms" movie, of course.  (Sheridan and Garibaldi
+>*are* in that one, aren't they?) 
+
+Also Lochley and Zack.
+
+>I don't want to say goodbye.
+>
+
+Me either.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1998 20:38:30 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Subtext in Objects in Motion *spoilers*
+
+>Was the scene Harlan's
+>idea, and if so, did he write the scene?
+>
+The general notion of the thread came up between us.  The actual scenes were
+written by me.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1998 20:38:46 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: How much longer you here, really?
+
+I'll probably hang for a bit after SiL....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1998 00:48:47 -0700
+Subject: Re: Hey joe!!!  teleplay????
+
+>And, for the record, exactly one episode has been cowritten by JMS and
+>Harlan Ellison: "A View from the Gallery."
+
+For the record, it's two, counting "Objects in Motion."
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Nov 1998 12:40:43 -0700
+Subject: Re: Objects in Motion ( *Spoilers* )
+
+She was hoping somebody would be there.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Nov 1998 12:40:50 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: "Objects in Motion" (SPOILERS!!)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+>earlier this year, you talked about a "B5"
+>episode where Bruce Boxleitner says the line "I'm going to miss this
+>place".  You then became so emotional, you had to leave the set.  Since
+>Bruce says the same line in "Objects in Motion", is this when it
+>happened? 
+
+It's in the next one.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1998 15:18:48 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5 lasers, Widescreen, and Image Entertainment
+
+The series is available on widescreen; in PAL format for overseas.  It would
+apparently cost WB about $1500 per ep to convert to NTSC, and they don't want
+to spend the money.  Absent that, the Image release will be the best release in
+the best form currently available, and I commend it highly.
+
+jms
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1998 15:18:52 -0700
+Subject: Re: Image info on B5 laserdisc
+
+Posted to another thread...
+
+The series is available on widescreen; in PAL format for overseas.  It would
+apparently cost WB about $1500 per ep to convert to NTSC, and they don't want
+to spend the money.  Absent that, the Image release will be the best release in
+the best form currently available, and I commend it highly.
+
+jms
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Nov 1998 20:13:43 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn jms: Before You Go...
+
+Thanks...it's been one of those true once in a lifetime expriences for me as
+well, that's for sure.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1998 11:15:58 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5 lasers, Widescreen, and Image Entertainment
+
+>Um, it's not going to be in "the best form currently available", unless I
+>misread and Image is coming out with this on DVD.
+>
+>
+
+Because B5 is not currently availble on DVD, it is the best form currently
+available.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Nov 1998 14:56:18 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN jms:  you SOB
+
+Thanks...and that's my job, hard as it is sometimes, to reach in and yank the
+feelings out.
+
+Because there ain't much TV that does that, and it's important from time to
+time that we feel.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Nov 1998 15:11:42 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Start date for Crusade?
+
+Because 108 is now the slated fist episode, so that we can use it to introduce
+the new characters rather than jump in in-progress, it means it will take
+longer to complete the CGI and stuff than 103, since it was shot later.  TNT
+needs the eps a month or two prior ot airdate for critics...and there's the
+concern about showing only 4 episodes in March (which is when it would all be
+rady) and thenbeing cut off for 8 weeks by the NBA playoffs.
+
+So they figured going June 2nd would avoid all of the problems, and put the
+show out when the network shows were in reruns...meaning it has a better chance
+of scoring large numbers, a strategy that worked well with other shows like
+90210.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Nov 1998 15:10:34 -0700
+Subject: Playboy Online Article
+
+For those completists, there's an article in the current Playboy Online about
+B5 coming to an end...it's kinda nice, actually.
+
+http://www.playboy.com/pop/tv/f-1.html
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1998 10:56:40 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Star Wars Trailer
+
+
+>Just wanted to hear what you thought of the Episode 1 trailer
+
+Thought it looked great...and definitely raises the idea that maybe there
+shouldn't be a B5 movie until after the last of the three new SW films is out
+and done.  Ain't no way any other SF film project can compete with that.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1998 10:27:19 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks (short form)
+
+You're most welcome.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1998 10:16:43 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Thank you.
+
+Thanks...it's been fun.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1998 10:19:01 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATT: JMS Have your questions been answered?
+
+>Who are you? What do you want? Where are you going? ....
+>These questions of yours have had a...unexpected effect on me. Changed me in
+>ways I'm still trying to figure out.  So I have to ask:
+>In the last five+ years, have you, yourself, found answers to any of these
+>questions?
+>
+Yes, but they keep changing.  Maybe they're supposed to.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1998 10:19:10 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS:  With Much Thanks
+
+Thanks...it's the moments that stay with me as well.  Plot details can blur,
+but Londo and G'Kar stuck in that tube...that goes on forever.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1998 10:19:19 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Yet Another Heartfelt Thanks
+
+Thanks, and good luck to you and your wife.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1998 10:19:55 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS -- Gratitude and awe
+
+Thanks....
+
+>Some people on the TNT boards have expressed some doubt about Crusade. 
+>And who can blame them?  It's hard for us mere mortals to imagine anyone
+>outdoing B5, even you.  But I think you can do it.  I don't think you've
+>exhausted your creativity just yet
+
+Folks had the same doubts before B5 hit the air.  I'm used to it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Nov 1998 10:20:38 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Your opinion of your work
+
+>I don't intend to sound like I'm placing you on a pedestal but do you think
+>that in years to come film and language students of all ages will study
+>Babylon 5 In the same way that our generation studies the works of
+>Shakespear and even the authors you have paid homage to, such as George
+>Orswell and Isaac Asimov? The deep and complex storyline I think warrants a
+>fair bit of academic analysis.
+>
+>
+Actually, that's already started.  A number of academic essays on B5 have been
+collected in "The Parliament of Dreams," published in the UK (I think someone
+here may have the info on purchasing it).  I found in reading it that I was
+smarter, stupider, more liberal, more conservative, more progressive, more
+reactionary, than I had previously imagined.
+
+Such analysis (and it was/is good reading, btw) is flattering, sometimes
+daunting, but brings out stuff always worth considering.  Whether the subject
+matter is in the long run truly worth the ink, only history can tell. 
+Obviously I think so, but again, I have a vested interest in saying that.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 16:21:18 -0700
+Subject: re: sleeping
+
+>Remember, though, that those instructions were given in a season 5 episode,
+>after Sleeping In Light was filmed.  They wouldn't go out of their way to
+>refer
+>to a script that hadn't even been written.  And a Neil Gaiman script at that.
+
+Actually, in that scene, Neil didn't write Kosh's message.  He asked what it
+would be, and I gave him that, knowing that I'd been looking for a way to slip
+that in as early as season 4.
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 16:22:25 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: SiL - The Best Thanksgiving Gift Ever (SPOILERS)
+
+>One more thing.  "Spiritual" and "atheist" are
+>not opposites.  And you are the most spiritual
+>atheist I have ever known.
+>
+>
+
+Threats will get you nowhere.  (said with humor).
+
+Thanks.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 16:22:41 -0700
+Subject: Re: Sleeping in Light ( *Spoilers* )
+
+Those were lovely words; thank you for them.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 16:23:07 -0700
+Subject: Re: Sleeping in Light ( *Spoilers* )
+
+>I admit: I like tidy endings.  Any thoughts (JMS?)
+>
+>
+
+They don't exist.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1998 16:24:37 -0700
+Subject: Re: Sleeping in Light ( *Spoilers* )
+
+I agree about the end credits; as we see their faces the first time, and the
+last time, they appear in the series, you can see the years and the story in
+their faces.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Nov 1998 02:43:04 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: A Long Wonderful Trip
+
+Thank you, and my condolences on your loss.
+
+If the show said anything of value, if the words took root and meaning, then
+the effort expended in making it was eminently worthwhile.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Nov 1998 02:44:41 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS (ite, missus est)
+
+Thank you, and I hope that someday I can be worthy of such wonderful words and
+comparisons.  But to my eyes, I still got a long, long way to go to keep
+getting better as a writer.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Nov 1998 02:47:05 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: SiL - spoilers - Language?
+
+Yes, there was some element of ritual in their goodbyes; it's a Minbari
+farewell, hence the "good night," not goodbye.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1998 15:06:55 -0700
+Subject: Re: Putting Money into JMS's Pocket
+
+>Is there a B5 video sales outlet through which more money is put
+>directly into your pocket compared to others?
+>
+>Thought you should reap more of the $800+ I will be spending as official
+>videos are released.
+
+No...it may come as a surprise, but I don't get a direct cut in any way of the
+sales of videotapes (for whatever reason, Hollywood doesn't consider that
+merchandising, so I don't get it that way).  The only thing I get -- thanks to
+a wonderfully short-sighted WGA contract covering cassettes --  is the standard
+writer's royalty, which comes after the distributer gets his money back...which
+means you get zip for the most part.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1998 15:08:55 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS--Thanks for B5, S5, and Holographic Writing
+
+But what was the end result of the class?  What final conclusions did they come
+to?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1998 15:12:01 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5, TV movies, Crusade
+
+I think it's safe to say that we'll be hearing more about the telepath crisis
+and its consequences in Crusade....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1998 15:17:55 -0700
+Subject: Re: jms: More Than Words Can Say
+
+Thanks...that's the goal, more than anything else: to make people feel
+something for the characters, to break the glass in the TV set and pull people
+through.  If we succeeded in that, then the effort was worthwhile.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1998 16:39:57 -0700
+Subject: Re: SiL Final Credits
+
+We are bound to maintain the S4 credits by contract.  We could not modify them.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1998 16:41:34 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: You changed two lives for ever
+
+That's great...congratulations and good luck to you both.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1998 16:46:08 -0700
+Subject: Re: Sleeping in Light ( *Spoilers* )
+
+We are bound by contract to use the credits as they were applied in S4, when
+SiL was shot.  You can't just put people's credits in a show for sentimental
+reasons...they trigger residuals, royalties, fees, and other contractual areas.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1998 16:46:41 -0700
+Subject: Re: Sleeping in Light ( *Spoilers* )
+
+Dear Mr. Tolkien:
+
+I just wanted to say that I think the way you ended THE LORD OF THE RINGS was
+crap.  You didn't provide any closure.  Instead of spending time with the
+hobbits clearing out the shire (come on, urban renwal in LoTR? give me a break)
+and lots of goodbyes, you SHOULD have shown me what happened to Tom Bombadil,
+he was an important part of the story, and you just left his story thread there
+unresolved.
+
+You made a big deal out of the elves going to the west, but we never SAW it! 
+We never found out what was there, or what Bilbo found when he got there, or
+what happened to the dwarves, or what happened to Merry and Pippin....
+
+You betrayed your audience by not resolving every single plot thread you
+introduced in your book, and as a result, it is never going to be of value to
+anyone, ever, and will never go past its first printing.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1998 16:49:11 -0700
+Subject: Re: Sleeping in Light ( *Spoilers* )
+
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+>A single 5-mile long chunk of station is a hell of a lot Less of a 
+>hazzard to navigation  in the vastness of space than a tillion small chunks.
+>Yes, most will in 100 years de-orbit into the planet below, but surely not
+>all.
+
+There are weapons systems on board that station, computer systems, other stuff
+that would be too much of a hassle to dig out, and you don't want squatters
+setting up residence there, or raiding the place for what they can get, and
+maintaining a military presence there to prevent it would be expensive.  With
+trade no longer coming through, the money to keep the station operating was
+gone.
+
+>One ending which would requre less suspension of disbelief (for me) would 
+>have beren to de-orbit the station, then blowing it up, as it hits the 
+>atmosphere.
+>   This would fully consume the material of the station as small chunks burn
+>in the atmosphere, eliminating
+>free-space and orbital debris, and no big
+>chunks hitting the planet.   
+>   Coulda been a cool FX to watch the debris showering down with a camera
+>POV on the planet's surface.  
+
+I don't see how sending a 5 mile long station plummeting into the atmosphere of
+Epsilon 3 is any more or less real than blowing it up in space, where salvage
+crews can come in and take the metal.  We already *saw* bits of the debris
+burning up in the atmospher in the second shot... and as for sending the whole
+thing hurtling down, well, I think Draal might have a thing or two to say about
+that....
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1998 17:06:25 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Novels vs. TV
+
+>1)   Now that you've been through the whole series, which format do you
+>think allows you more creativity:  novels, where you can plan out your
+>vision from the beginning with no interference, or television, where the
+>real world intrudes with budget concerns, actors leaving, etc?  I guess the
+>real question is what do you like better, having time to plan things out, or
+>having to think on your feet?
+
+They're apples and oranges.  You really can't compare them.  For the bulk of
+B5, there *was* no interference, and I could write as I wanted.  Yeah, you have
+actors leaving and the like, but sometimes you can be halfway through a novel
+and realize you need to drop somebody...and go back and revise 200 pages.  
+
+Both are processes, neither is set in stone the first time you sit down to
+begin the actual writing.  Some tools are better meant for one form or the
+other, but the process is pretty much the same in both.  So I like working in
+both, equally, just for different reasons.
+
+>2)  You've explored a 5 year arc and stand alone TV movies, have you given
+>any thought to telling a story, either Babylon 5 related or something
+>completely new, in either a miniseries format (6-8 hours) or a limited run
+>series (maybe 22 episodes to start and end a story)?
+
+Not as such, though Crusade is a 5 year story.  And the new comic I have coming
+out from Top Cow/Image is a 24 issue limited series.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+JMS Usenet messages for December 1998.
+
+
+Date: 1 Dec 1998 16:03:05 -0700
+Subject: Re: Sleeping in Light ( *Spoilers* )
+
+>"...if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing
+>and tying it up in a bow for you, why, do us both a favor and write your
+>own damn book, only have the decency to call it a romance instead of a
+>history, because history's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of
+>ribbons and knots that can't be untied. It ain't a pretty package but
+>then it's not your birthday that I know of, so I'm under no obligation
+>to give you a gift."
+
+I knew there was a reason I liked his books....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Dec 1998 16:19:50 -0700
+Subject: Re: Sleeping in Light *Spoilers*
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+On a more serious reply (though no reply is actually needed, I think...no story
+this big can wrap up the stories of EVERYONE...and the point is that life goes
+on, we dip in and we dip out of the story at various points, but it goes on of
+its own volition...I posted this over on CIS earlier regarding the various
+threads:
+
+The Drak and Centari Prime?
+
+      Vir is Emperor now.  Londo asked Sheridan to free his people; we can
+assume he did this...but we will also be showing this in the Centauri Prime
+trilogy of books in more detail.
+
+Londo?
+
+      We saw Londo's fate in War Without End Part 2.
+
+Lyta?
+
+      The telepath crisis and events surrounding it will provide a lot of the
+background to Crusade.
+
+Bester and the Psi Corps?
+
+      Ditto.
+
+G'Kar?
+
+      We saw his fate in WWE2 also.
+
+Garibaldi and Bester?
+
+      This will be covered in the Psi Corps trilogy, of which volume 1 is out 
+now, and volume 2 is in my hands for editing.
+
+B5's seemingly needless and useless destruction?
+
+      Neither needless nor useless.  It was built cheapest of all the stations,
+and it takes a lot of money to maintain it.  With trade routes now going around
+it, there isn't enough income to support it.  So do you leave it  intact, for
+others to occupy or raid for weapons systems and other systems too difficult to
+yank out?  Or take it out, the same way we implode buildings 
+now?
+
+Sheridan's son - we guess he survived the Drak and their intended keeper?
+
+      This will also be covered in the Centauri Prime trilogy...but if you sit
+back you can do some of the work to figure out a large part of this.  As Londo
+states, his situation in WWE2 (Sheridan and Delenn captured on Centauri Prime)
+takes place 18 years after the events in 2260, which would put it at 2278.  The
+urn, given to Sheridan in 2262, is supposed to be given to the heir at the
+occasion of his/her 16th birthday, by Centauri tradition.
+
+      That would put the urn presentation at...ding!...2278.
+
+      In 2278, Sheridan and Delenn have been drawn to Centauri Prime.  We know
+their son is involved, because Delenn says "David is safe."  So they  were
+somehow able to save him, because we know that in 2281, David is alive 
+and well and serving in the Rangers (SiL).
+
+      You can see the shape of the events there...once again the clues are more
+or less in plain sight...but again, this will be drawn out in the books in more
+detail.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Dec 1998 19:25:57 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Setting for A Call to Arms
+
+Five years after the events of Season 5.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Dec 1998 19:29:24 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn Joe:  A Piece of Lurker's History
+
+That's quite lovely...thank you.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Dec 1998 22:43:43 -0700
+Subject: Re: New B5 novel by JMS?
+
+It's the first 3 issues of the B5 comic from DC gathered in a graphic novel.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Dec 1998 12:29:05 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: The Future of B5 (tm)
+
+
+>Could you PLEASE say a word or two about the direction of B5, and what
+>your attitude towards B5-the-series and B5-the-brand-name are? I.e.
+>could you take a shot at killing off some of this "franchise" bitching 
+>and moaning?
+
+>Specifically: many, many quotes in the Lurker's Guide, esp. on the SiL
+>page, talk about how you didn't want to turn B5 into a franchise. Some
+>people are now pointing at the books, comics, and WB's efforts to shut
+>down fan sites and shouting "the sky is... er, *ahem*, I mean, 
+>FRANCHISE!!! run!!". 
+
+Bear in mind that nearly all of those people are the same ones who said B5
+wasn't as good as Trek because it didn't have the same power in the
+marketplace...so now they try the other avenue to criticize.
+
+It's kinda hard to say there's a B5 franchise since the series is now OFF THE
+AIR, and I've already said to Doug that I don't want to even think about a
+feature for a while.
+
+They're also distorting the record.  What I have said at conventions since the
+dawn of time, or at least the dawn of B5, was that I didn't want to rush into
+merchandise, that I'd seen the tail wag the dog too often.  "If the show is a
+success, there's plenty of time down the road for merchandising...let's make
+the show first and worry about the rest later."
+
+Well, we did that.  We made the show.  So what is the problem exactly?  Are
+they saying that having sweated blood to make the show for 5 years, I shouldn't
+be entitled to earn a living from it?  That fans who want to see parts of the
+story shouldn't be allowed to?
+
+You shouldn't fall for these guys...these are primarily  people have no
+interest in a reasoned argument, they're just looking to make trouble.  At the
+beginning, they pointed to the dearth of B5 merchandise and said the show had
+to be crap...now they're pointing to a few things that have gone on the market
+and saying it's a franchise and now therefore it's crap.
+
+Same song, different tune.  Trolls, nothing more.
+
+In a few cases, you run into the folks who are well-intentioned, but come from
+the "SF is in the gutter and needs to stay there and never be successful or
+it'll lose its artistic integrity" school of thought.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Dec 1998 10:21:32 -0700
+Subject: quickie from jms
+
+Sorry I've been a bit quiet lately...I've answered a number of notes publicly
+here ad there, on rastm and elsewhere, but we've been putting the final touches
+to the first finished Crusade ep, "Racing the Night," shot 103...all the EFX,
+music, sound, all that stuff is in and it's done, so we know what we're dealing
+with, and it looks terrific.  WB called to say it's the best we've ever done,
+and possibly the best thing they've seen.  But it's taken a lot of long nights
+to do the final mix, and get caught up on scripts before the Christmas break,
+so I've been a bit absent.  
+
+I was also kind of overwhelmed by the responses to SiL..and to all those who
+said such kind things, thank you.  It's something I'm very proud of, and I'm
+pleased by the response.
+
+On the issue of unanswered questions, raised by some...the first question a
+writer has to answer is, "Who, ultimately, is my story about?"  In any novel or
+short story or movie or TV series, who are the essential protagonists?  B5 was
+always about the station, first and foremost, and the other main characters in
+this future history were Sheridan, Sinclair, Garibaldi, Delenn, Londo, G'Kar,
+Franklin and to an extent, Ivanova.  Everyone else comes under the heading of
+minor or secondary characters...on the long-arc series level, the same as a
+guest star in a single episode of a regular series.
+
+It would be impossible...let me say this again, impossible...to track the whole
+history of all of the other characters in this show; it would take another
+whole series just to do the Lyta/G'Kar adventures.  We showed the resolution of
+all the main characters in the story.  That was my primary obligation.  We can
+take some secondary measures to fill in information on some of the secondary
+characters, but in a TV show there's only so much you can do.  Hell, I've had
+people send me email demanding to know what happened to the people rescued from
+Babylon 4....c'mon, some common sense, please.
+
+And on another level, I think it's better to let people make up their own ideas
+about what happened with folks like G'Kar and Lyta...
+
+That said...that topic is closed, as far as I'm concerned.  I told the stories
+of the main characters of the show, which is what was promised.
+
+Mainly, this is intended as thanks to everyone for the kind words.  It seems
+fitting that having spent the last 5+ years sending out words, to now receive
+words in return.  The circle is closed by that, and it's been terrific.
+
+Thank you to everyone here...warts, weirdnesses and all, it's been fun.  As I
+said, I'll be pulling back a bit now, because I kind of need to get a life
+again, and I need to concentrate on Crusade...but this experiece will always
+count as one of the most astonishing and gratifying of my career.
+
+Thank you again.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Dec 1998 20:04:53 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS RISING STARS preview & #0 info?
+
+>If you're still out there Joe, I'm hoping you can give further info
+>on your upcoming comic series.  There's a RISING STARS Preview issue, 16 
+>b&w pages for $5 (probably $7.50 Canadian, *ouch*!) solicited in the new 
+>Previews catalog from Diamond distributors.  Also, a #0 is to
+>be included in the March issue of Wizard magazine.
+>
+>
+
+I'm still here, just sorta coasting, mainly replying by email to stuff I see
+that needs replying to, and wondering why on earth people are still responding
+to Cronan as if a) he had anything of value to say, b) were actually a carbon
+based life form, instead of a juvenile troll in need of attention....
+
+>The info given is unclear whether the preview or #0 are actually comics 
+>style stories or text and art samples from #1-on?  And the preview only 
+>lists the artist as "various" and nothing for #0.  Who is/are the 
+>artist(s)?
+
+The preview is 70% story, 30% art samples and other supporting stuff for the
+book; the issue 0 is a full story.  Top Cow hasn't released info on the artist
+yet.
+
+So far, everybody there is massively jazzed about the new book; the scripts
+(I've turned in the preview, 0 and 1 so far) keep getting passed from person to
+person as they come in, and read and reread.  Apparently they're knocked out by
+it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+JMS Usenet messages for January 1999.
+
+
+Date: 2 Jan 1999 19:33:13 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS (please):Tears
+
+Many thanks...and I hope JRRT isn't spinning in his hobbit hole over that one.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Jan 1999 19:34:59 -0700
+Subject: Re: Any ideas about the release dates of the novels?
+
+>When is the second book of the Telepath Trilogy supposed to come out
+
+Literally any time now.
+, and
+>when
+>is the first novel of the Centauri Trilogy supposed to come out?
+
+Spring.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Jan 1999 14:59:31 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Budgets, Budgets, and more budgets!!!!
+
+The B5 tv movies produced so far cost just a tick under $3 million.
+
+We could almost certainly do a high-quality theatrical feature for about $35-40
+million.
+
+The average going price for a feature these days is $55 million.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Jan 1999 09:29:42 -0700
+Subject: note from jms re: evan chen
+
+I posted this on Compuserve...just passing this along here as well on the topic
+of the music for A CALL TO ARMS.
+
+     I suppose we could've stayed with the safe choice, with Chris, or done 
+a nice, safe, droning Voyager style score that you don't even notice, but 
+we're looking to take chances, and that means some people will like what you 
+do, some won't.  Some won't like it because it's different.  Neil Gaiman told 
+me that a number of fans of any form, including his own, say they want 
+something new and challenging that takes chances...but it they don't like the 
+form of that chance, they blame you for somehow doing it wrong...and they 
+want the next new thing to be just like the last thing you did.
+
+      I can't tell you the number of people who said "why can't you just do 
+the John Williams style music instead of this?"  Because it's been done, and 
+it's cliche, and by god we're going to push what's "expected" to try some new 
+things.  Otherwise what the hell's the point?
+
+"Of course, you've been through this before.  I seem to recall a lot of 
+people complaining when Christopher Franke replaced the composer for the 
+pilot.  I don't doubt that a lot of the people screaming loudest now are the 
+very ones who complained about Franke when he started."
+
+      I don't know about the latter, but I can sure confirm the former.  And 
+that's why I sometimes wish the viewer responses were logged as much as my 
+own have been.  When we brought in Chris to replace Stewart Copeland, you 
+can't *believe* how much email I got from people saying to trash him, fire 
+him, it's that "euro-trash techno-crap" most called it.  "He uses sounds and 
+banging instead of music," people complained (which he did mainly in the 
+first two seasons), "it's distracting and it's not appropriate, get rid of 
+him."
+
+      But we didn't.  I told people to give him time to settle into the show, 
+and on the other hand to let them get used to a different kind of sound than 
+what they expected.  ("I guess you couldn't afford to hire a real composer 
+like TNG uses," was another popular line.)  
+
+      Evan ain't Chris, nor should he be, nor should he *have* to be.  He is 
+a brilliantly talented composer.  This is his first shot at a dramatic 
+series, and as he settles in (as Chris settled in), I think people are going 
+to be as loyal to what he's doing in Crusade as they were to Chris in B5.  
+He's a classically trained composer, who threw it all away to come study jazz 
+under some of the best jazz men in Chicago...washing dishes to support 
+himself when he had been at the top of his field in China...because he loves 
+music, and loves to experiment, and he took a chance.
+
+      In the course of Crusade, we're going to see some places we've never 
+seen before...and thanks to Evan, we're going to hear some things we've never 
+heard before.  He's a find, and a genuine, fresh talent, and I stand behind 
+him 100%.
+
+      And the people who say they are fans of Chris Franke's should think 
+twice before doing to him what so many people did so rudely to Chris when he 
+first came aboard.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Jan 1999 19:27:00 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Book Trilogies
+
+The third trilogy (actually the second to go into the works) is a Technomage
+trilogy, with Jeanne Cavelos writing.
+
+Peter David is doing the Centauri trilogy.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Jan 1999 23:57:37 -0700
+Subject: Re: copyright ownership
+
+Standard stuff: any studio owns all the rights to the show it makes.  Paramount
+owns ST, not Roddenberry's estate.  Similarly, WB owns B5, lock, stock and
+docking bay.  They also own all the designs, the ship models, and all of that. 
+It's all copyrighted and trademarked, down to the schematics.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Jan 1999 07:14:03 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Something Bugging me greatly!!!!!
+
+Peter David has already done one script for Crusade, "Ruling from the Tomb,"
+shot a few weeks ago.  Looks good.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Jan 1999 00:17:04 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - MegaCon99
+
+>As a viewer of B5 since the beginning, I was thrilled to see that you are
+>finally making a trip to my part of the world at the MegaCon in Orlando
+>March 5-7.  I was wondering which day (or hopefully, days) that you will be
+>speaking?
+
+I believe that my main presentation in the big room will be on Saturday;
+there's one Sunday as well, but not as big a deal.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Jan 1999 13:15:41 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS: Outside Writers I'd Like to See...
+
+Peter David has done a script for Crusade this season, Larry DiTillio is
+currently working on one, as is Richard Mueller, in addition to a couple of
+scripts by Fiona Avery.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Jan 1999 13:16:34 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Why, Joe, why?
+
+So in other words, I cannot have or express an opinion of my own.  You can say
+that you do not like the CTA music, but I cannot say that I do not like the
+droning Voyager music, is that it?  The freedom of expression goes only one
+direction?  
+
+Sorry, Von Bruno...that doesn't wash.  Either it's a level playing field or it
+ain't.
+
+Go repress somebody else.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Jan 1999 13:17:23 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:News? Pretty Please?
+
+>How's filming going? What episodes have you filmed lately? 
+
+We finished shooting #12 today.  Tomorrow Stephen Furst begins shooting on
+"Appearances and Other Deceits."
+
+>(Or does that require Vorlon-level passcodes?)
+>How are the old crew and the new cast interfacing?
+
+They're getting along famously; the new cast are a very serious bunch, and
+totally dedicated to the work.
+
+>And how are you? Gotten any naps lately? :)
+
+In May.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Jan 1999 15:17:35 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Internet/Convention presence???
+
+I think I'm going to end up doing fewer conventions than in previous years; to
+some extent I think I may have gotten over-exposed, and over-personalized the
+show when it's the show that should be at the focus.  So yeah, overall I'll be
+doing a bit less than usual for the next year or so.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Jan 1999 23:22:00 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Matheson
+
+>I noticed that the last name of the first officer of Excaliber in Crusade is
+>Matheson. (Hes supposed to be a teep, I think, am i right?)
+>
+>Is this a nod towards legendary horror writer Richard matheson?
+
+Yup.  I fell in love with Matheson's work as a kid, and since we had Bester in
+B5, I figured it might be good luck to have Matheson in Crusade.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Jan 1999 17:18:41 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  River of Souls
+
+>Sorry to bother you, but I was wondering if you could shed any light on what
+>happened to the "River of Souls" novel.  According to Waldenbooks it was
+>supposed to come out in mid-December; according to Amazon.com, it's not
+>published until December 1999, and it isn't listed at all on the publishers'
+>order form in the back of the "Call to Arms" novel.  I'm asssuming it was
+>canceled, but was wondering why.
+>
+
+We pulled the book.  For a variety of reasons, it wasn't where we wanted it to
+be, and the quality we needed it to be, so it was dropped.  We hope we can try
+and do something else with the novelist at some point in the future.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Jan 1999 17:39:17 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JOE PLEASE!
+
+>PLEASE! I know you couldn't stop the Big Breakfast debacle, but could you
+>phone C4 and explain why this is so important to us? You're the only one
+>they might listen to!
+
+No one listen to Zathras....not C4...not any other kind of explosives or
+gas...very sad...much hangings up at other end of phone...heard that C4 was
+taken back in time, was center for great war of britfans...Zathras not know
+what britfans means, but is sure it must be important to great war against
+darkness....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Jan 1999 17:40:09 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS: A couple of Crusade questions
+
+>Has the delay in starting the broadcast helped or hindered you in
+>production?  I can see how having some extra time in preparation can be
+>a help, but I imagine it can also encourage a little too much fiddling
+>around in search of perfection. 
+
+No real impact either way...we contract with our CGI and stuff to be done by a
+given date, and that date can't be expanded without additional fees, so it will
+still get done in the same amount of time.
+
+>Question 2:  assuming that the report of the content of "Appearances and
+>Other Deceits" is correct, what was the creative process involved in
+>coming up with this solution?  Was it one of those blinding flashes of
+>revelation or was it a more mundane logical solution?
+
+I was just thinking about how to use the changes to the benefit of the story
+rather than an annoyance, thought of my reaction to the level of annoyance,
+wondered how Gideon would react, and just started giggling...figured I could
+turn it around and in a sense take a shot across someone's bow...so there it
+is.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Jan 1999 20:31:29 -0700
+Subject: Re: A thank you & a small history of the net
+
+Thanks, I appreciate all of that.  The Internet has had an effect on a lot of
+people in that way, and though there's much negative, those elements do count
+as positives.
+
+Continued good luck to you.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Jan 1999 20:33:32 -0700
+Subject: Re: jms- Megacon
+
+>Fan-run cons are well-known, are non-profit 501(3)(c) organizations, are
+>run by long running organizations, etc.  JMS should know this, but for
+>some reason he asserts that his test of their legitimacy is whether they
+>are organized enough to pay him a large fee.  He says, as I recall, that
+>the test of gathering a large sum of money tests their organization.  Or
+>somesuch.  I hope I have that wrong.
+
+Yes, you have that wrong.  You have that MASSIVELY wrong, on just about every
+conceivable level.  I never said what you represent above.  
+
+Further, the majority of the conventions I do each year ARE fan run
+conventions.  From Marcon to LosCon to Stellar Occasion to WishCon to a small
+fan-run con in Calgary last year...from big ones to small ones, they are nearly
+ALL fan-run cons.  
+
+As for fees...there are usually fees because I'm being asked to take away a
+weekend, the only time I have a chance to rest up, and fly somewhere to,
+essentially, perform.  It's a very strenuous thing for me...I often lose as
+much as 5-10 pounds over a weekend convention because I'm running my brains
+out, sometimes from early morning to late evening with maybe a half-hour for a
+fast bite at lunch and often going straight through dinner.
+
+Even so, even with all that...it's a token fee, maybe one third what folks like
+Bruce get (or even less), and it's a function of distance traveled.  For
+LosCon, and Gallifrey, and other local cons...there's no fee at all, because I
+can go and come back.  If it's cross country, then yeah, the fee goes up with
+distance, because if I'm going to travel that far, I need to make sure that
+there are going to be a reasonable number of people there.  So that mitigates
+toward cons that can afford a speaker's fee.
+
+And again, I deliberately keep my fees to a fraction of what is generally
+required by cast members for the very reason that it puts me in reach of
+smaller conventions.  I do this as an act of respect toward the fan run cons
+across the country and elsewhere...so I take your comments here as a personal
+slap in the face.
+
+I never, ever, at any time said that a given fee somehow legitimizes a
+convention.  It's a stupid thing to say, and I never said it, never implied it.
+ 
+
+Please refrain from attributing to me things I never said.  I have a hard
+enough time handling what I DO say to worry about all the ones I didn't say.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1999 19:29:59 -0700
+Subject: Re: Season 5 B5 cards
+
+I agree, I'm pretty pleased with how this set came out.  Some of the images are
+still a bit dark for my tastes, something we tried to address as best we could
+with screen grabs, but the set looks very nice.  Though that one picture about
+turning out the lights from SiL will doubtless just drive down the price of the
+whole darned set....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Jan 1999 19:33:07 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Gold Channel
+
+We're totally revamping Gold Channel; you should see the new version fo it
+shortly.  It's going to be updated more frequently as well, with
+behind-the-scenes photos from Crusade and elsewhere.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Jan 1999 12:32:51 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS Quick Questions
+
+>1) When you have to transfer the widescreen version of B5 to the regular
+>aspect, do you have to pan and scan, or are the side of the screen just used
+>as 'beauty space' when shot, and so can be clipped without damaging
+>composition?
+
+It's the latter, though we've been composing more for widescreen and actually
+putting the edges to good use in Crusade.
+
+>2) Back before B5 satarted and the media interest was muted at best,
+>Cinefantastique put together a knock out B5-dedecated issue, with previews of
+>most of the first season (when they were called things like 'The
+>Ressurectionist' and 'Raiding Party'). Interviews, the whole works. Is
+>anything similar planned around the start of Crusade?
+
+Dunno...nobody's said anything about it to me thus far.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Jan 1999 12:33:33 -0700
+Subject: two jms quickies
+
+1) For those who haven't heard, there are new Sifl and Ollie installments now
+airing on MTV at 8:00 p.m. East and West Coast times.  If you thought sock
+puppets couldn't have their own talk show, well, you're just wrong, that's all.
+ It's a wonderful, funny, utterly demented program.  Give it a shot.
+
+2) Stephen Furst asked me to mention that a huge portion of the B5 cast who
+attended VorCon here were stiffed for the bulk of their fees.  Michael O'Hare,
+Peter Jurasik, Mira, Bill, Pat, Jeffrey and others were never paid what they
+were promised.
+
+That the cast nonetheless came out and peformed and did their all for the fans
+in spite of this says a lot for them, I think.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Jan 1999 18:01:45 -0700
+Subject: Re: Interesting JMS Quote and Crusade
+
+>> I saw this in my archives and found it interesting in
+>> respect of the mess Crusade got into having to reshoot
+>> material to insert into existing awful episodes.
+
+Nothing was reshot to be inserted into prior episodes.  The episodes are being
+aired as originally written and edited.  No changes have been made, no
+additional material filmed.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1999 08:55:07 -0700
+Subject: Re: Evan Chen Not on CRUSADE yet!!!!!!
+
+If I thought Evan Chen was an error, whether I chose to admit it or not, I
+would not have him on as composer on the series.
+
+But it was not an error, as testified by the many folks who've come out of the
+woodwork (many of them musicians) to say that they loved the music on ACTA. 
+Your opinion is your opinion, and that's fine...but there are other opinions
+just as valid.  So don't use your opinion as proof that an error of fact has
+taken place, and thus that I'm not admitting it somehow being indicative that
+I've changed.
+
+And Evan *is* doing the music on the series.  We've scored three so far, and he
+continues to improve with every episode, as Chris Franke improved with every
+episode.  WB thinks he's a genuine find.
+
+We will soon be putting up the main title for CRUSADE on thestation.com, and
+you can see some more of what he's doing musically, and I have to say it's
+great.
+
+I have no intention of making a change in composers for CRUSADE.
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1999 22:03:45 -0700
+Subject: Re: Evan Chen Not on CRUSADE yet!!!!!!
+
+>Will the Crusade opening theme and opening credits change with every season,
+>like
+>B5?
+
+Dunno yet...probably, though to what extent, I don't know.  We just finished
+this one, and it was the toughest one we've done, and the most unusual, so I
+don't even want to think about the next one yet.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Jan 1999 22:07:39 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS, was Re: Ramming Speed
+
+Since this debate began, I've heard from any number of people...and any number
+of military types who actually would be in a position to either hear this, or
+say this.
+
+And it's totally a reasonable line.  Some, including former commanders on
+shipboard and ordinary sailer-types  noted that there are two Really Worrisome
+Orders: the first is "Emergency speed," which means "kill warning bells,
+disable safety systems, give her everything she's got and let me know just
+beore the engines burn out."
+
+The other is...ramming speed.  Which means "kill warning bells, disable safety
+systems, full emergency speed, today is a good day to die."
+
+The basic delineation is that when you're in battle, you use the bare miminum
+of words to express what you're trying to say, because seconds can mean the
+difference between life and death and success and failure.
+
+One could, indeed, make the longer, more involved statements others have said
+they'd've preferred...but by that time, there would be no surviving ship to
+give the order to.  Further, you want to give the crew the minimum possible
+time to think about what these orders *mean*...so you keep it short and sharp
+and rely on their training to get them to do what the order implies.
+
+Yes, it's an old-fashioned term...but there's such a thing as tradition in
+military language, where ships have decks even though they're not wooden decks
+anymore...and there isn't a naval officer anywhere who on leaving port doesn't
+say "set sail," even though he could be commanding a nuclear vessel without a
+sail in sight.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Jan 1999 17:42:43 -0700
+Subject: Re: Evan Chen Not on CRUSADE yet!!!!!! (Ramming Speed Comment)
+
+>Um, this is a non-existent concept.  It is meaningless.  The only
+>possible maximum speed is light speed.  This is simple ninth-grade
+>physics.  What part of this do you not understand?
+>
+>So long as thrust is applied, your speed increases.  It continues to
+>increase forever, never quite reaching lightspeed.  How many times must
+>people state simple facts of physics?
+
+This is true only if you do continue to maintain thrust without ever turning
+off your engines.  Which means you would burn out your engines, or run out of
+fuel.  
+
+This is a pedantic point.  Maximum speed would refer to what this given
+starship can do in regular operations, with finite fuel and common-sense
+applied to how long and how hard you burn the engines.  A Starfury knows what
+its maximum speed is if it ever hopes to return home; it's the OPERATING system
+we're talking about, not the greater laws of physics in the universe.  A pilot
+just needs to know "How fast can I push this puppy?"  Yeah, a jet fighter can
+exceed specs...and he'll black out, burn out, and crash.
+
+This is a case of not seeing forest for the trees.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Jan 1999 17:44:24 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Sheridan a bit too grey?
+
+Actually, I believe that's Bruce's natural color.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Jan 1999 00:31:20 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Comicon
+
+Yes, I do plan to be at ComicCon.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+JMS Usenet messages for February 1999.
+
+
+Date: 1 Feb 1999 23:09:04 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS - Directors for Crusade
+
+Yes, Goran has been slated for a Crusade episode.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Feb 1999 23:09:04 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Star Trek style shuttle/fighter bays and TNT 
+
+> One part of it
+>that caught my attention is a reference to the shuttle and fighter bays
+>being pressurized, but having them open to space, the atmosphere being
+>kept in by a 'magnetic' shield or some technowizzit.
+
+No, there is a definite (and very large) airlock door that closes after ships
+enter the flight deck, so it can then be pressurized.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Feb 1999 23:11:15 -0700
+Subject: Re: The A Call To Arms Poster
+
+It's a typo.  The folks who did the poster never checked with us before they
+printed it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Feb 1999 18:46:49 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN jms: Sleeping in Light Novelization
+
+> Have you ever thought of making a novelization of
+>"Sleeping in Light"? Either writing it yourself or assigning it to
+>another author?
+
+No, not really.  Not sure I'd want it done that way.  Let the internal
+thoughts/monologue stay internal.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Feb 1999 14:46:50 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Is "War Zone" History?
+
+>will you be reverting back to your
+>original plan and air "Racing the Night" first? I ask since you stated that
+>TNT
+>requested you reshuffle your story and make an introductory episode, titled
+>"War Zone".
+
+No, because the season was structured in such a way as to make that impossible.
+ You'll understand when you see what was done.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Feb 1999 14:47:35 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: SIL Clip in B5 CD-ROM
+
+Yeah, it was meant as a surprise, but that's the only one like it there.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1999 17:06:39 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Whatcha up to now?
+
+>I was just 
+>curious how you will be spending your time during this potentially nerve-
+>wracking waiting period? Will you be writing more eps for Crusade? 
+>Working on your new comic (I can't wait to see it!)? Actually getting 
+>some sleep for a change?
+>
+All that...plus working on the show, doing post production on the episodes
+already in hand (CGI, music, sound, editing)...I'm actually about as busy as we
+are during shooting.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Feb 1999 23:39:26 -0700
+Subject: Re: B5 on Drew Carey show
+
+We worke with the folks from the DCS on this.  When they asked if they could do
+it, I only asked that they use our makeup and costume folks so it was
+authentic, rather than what Ellen did with 'em.  I think they did a great job
+with this on Drew.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1999 11:41:05 -0700
+Subject: New Words
+
+Every so often, I come up with new words for stuff...came up with a couple the
+other day, thought I'd pass 'em along.
+
+When you're talking on the phone to someone who's online in a chat or doing
+email, and there's that constant pause between what you say and their
+reply...that's "net-lag."
+
+When you're making a turn in a car and there's people in the way: a flack of
+pedestrians.
+
+Tha'ts it...just a thought....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Feb 1999 22:20:20 -0700
+Subject: Re: attn: JMS. Book release order?
+
+>There seems to be some confusion arising on the UK newsgroup about which
+>group of the three trilogies will be coming out next. I know a lot of us
+>want the Centauri Prime trilogy next (for obvious reasons) but it sounds as
+>though the Technomage trilogy is coming out first (after the Psi Corps
+>trilogy is finished). So which is it? And, if the Jeanne Cavelos novels will
+>be out before the Peter David ones, when can we expect Peter David's work to
+>hit the book shops?
+>
+>
+My guess (it's to some extent a matter of how fast they get it done after I
+turn in the outlines) is that we'll get the next Psi Corps novel first, then a
+Technomage novel, then the final Psi Corps/Bester novel, then the first
+Centauri novel, the second Technomage novel, and after that your guess is as
+good as mine.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Feb 1999 02:07:52 -0700
+Subject: Re: New Unauthorized Babylon 5 Book Out
+
+I would appreciate it if some kind soul could send me a copy of this book
+(notify me first so we don't have ten folks sending copies in, and wasting
+their time), because this book apparently uses vast tracts of my internet
+postings, which is a gross violation of my copyright.  I've given permission to
+use my postings on other internet systems, but never to be used in a book or to
+be sold for profit.  
+
+Under my AOL agreement, and my CIS agreement, and the electronic copyright
+acts, these public postings are my express property and cannot be used without
+my permission.
+
+This applies to magazines as well as books.  To anyone else thinking of
+poaching -- and we had to deal with a UK publisher on this very issue lately,
+and won -- the copyright to this material will be vigorously protected, so
+don't even *think* about using it and selling my words for your profit.
+
+These are freely provided, to fans, for their private and non-profit use, with
+my permission.  NO permission is granted for anyone or anything else.
+
+I fully intend to bring suit against Mr. Schuster for copyright infringement.
+
+
+>A new unauthorized Babylon 5 book was released recently.  I bought it in NYC
+>at
+>St. Mark's Comics.  Here is the book info:
+>
+>An Uncensored Guide, The Unauthorized, Uncensored Guide for Fans of Babylon 5
+>"Inside Babylon.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Feb 1999 15:19:56 -0700
+Subject: Re: attn.JMS.UK appearances
+
+There's nothing currently scheduled for the UK.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Feb 1999 16:04:08 -0700
+Subject: Re: New Unauthorized Babylon 5 Book Out
+
+As noted in another thread, the situation has been resolved, and Mr. Schuster
+has agreed to remove the copyrighted material from all future copies of the
+book.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Feb 1999 16:04:08 -0700
+Subject: Re: Schuster's unauthorized book
+
+I've communicated with Mr. Schuster, and he has agreed to remove from future
+copies of the book all of the material taken from my internet postings.
+
+That doesn't affect the copies already on stands, but all copies produced
+henceforth (it's a self published operation, with limited numbers made at any
+time) will be done without that copyrighted material.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Feb 1999 12:06:22 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Next con appearance?
+
+I'll be at Megacon in Orlando, Florida the weekend of March 5th.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Feb 1999 18:40:48 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Sifl and Olly
+
+>In the latest B5 magazine, it says that you may be voicing one of the
+>puppets on an upcoming Sifl and Olly episode.  Will this still be
+>happening?
+>
+>
+
+Haven't heard back.  Liam said they wanted to make me into a sock puppet for
+the show.  I said it would be redundent, but they were welcome to go for it. 
+So we'll see....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Feb 1999 22:44:24 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Does cast/crew get paid?
+
+It depends on the department and the position within that department.  Some
+folks can get holding money, some go on the union roster for day-work elsewhere
+until the dust settles.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Feb 1999 18:44:26 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn. JMS:  Writer Ageism/60 Minutes
+
+>Is or was there any writer ageism present in your experience writing B5 and
+>elsewhere?  60 Minutes did an interesting piece on older writers having
+>trouble working?  What's your take on this issue?  I think a good writer
+>regardless of age with a good story can sell it.
+
+I haven't personally experienced it, but only because I'm still in my middle
+40s (44).  However I know a number of people who *have* been affected by it,
+and it's a genuine problem.  The irony is that many of the shows that say "we
+want mid-twenties writers only" are being run by guys in their fifties...so if
+they can create it and write for it, why can't somebody else in that age range?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1999 14:07:43 -0700
+Subject: from jms re: Crusade
+
+Bottom line:
+
+The reason we've been waiting so long for news is that the SciFi Channel has
+been crunching numbers for weeks, trying to make the deal work with WB, and
+doing their level best.  The programming folks there loved the show (and
+special thanks has to go to Programming Head Tom Vitale at SFC who worked
+hardest to make this work).
+
+The problem is simply this: the money to fund a series is a BIG chunk of
+change.  SFC had already allocated its budget for the year as of January 1st,
+and there simply wasn't enough left in this year's budget to pull it off. 
+Also, the emphasis now is on spending money on shows where one owns a piece of
+it, and Crusade is owned entirely by WB.  
+
+At the end of they day, they just couldn't make the dollars work, though they
+tried their damndest, and are only to be thanked.
+
+I'm told that if the ratings are good on the 13 which TNT will still air, all
+the eps made so far will be shown, there may be a second season, but we'll see.
+
+Meanwhile, I'm taking the day off.  There have been seven offers for overall
+deals and multiple network pilot deals with both networks per se and studios on
+my desk for about a year now, ever since B5 ended, which I've been putting off
+to do Crusade.  Now I'll pick one of those deals and make it.  So the next
+thing from me you see will almost certainly be on one of the major networks. 
+I'm going back into the deep water again....
+
+Meanwhile, my thanks to all those who emailed and wrote and called and
+supported.  It's a good show, as will be seen when the shows are aired, and I'd
+rather lose a show I believed in than keep one I didn't believe in.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Feb 1999 22:24:30 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS & ALL: Do NOT despair.
+
+What you have to understand at this point is that there's really no time left. 
+It takes a large amount of money to hold a cast and crew together while other
+options are being sought, and even then options on varoius cast members and
+others begin to expire fast.
+
+WB can't keep spending holding money while they're seeking another prospect. 
+It's a business decision, but a sensible one, given the large amounts of money
+involved.  Their approach now is to believe in the show enough to get it on the
+air, let the ratings speak for themselves, and see what happens.
+
+My only regret is for the cast, who are all uniformly terrific, and who are
+caught out in all this.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Feb 1999 22:24:37 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS:  Are you still going to Megacon
+
+Yup, I'll be there.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Feb 1999 22:25:16 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Network projects!
+
+>So what sort of offers have you recieved? I'm just curious...anything
+>sci-fi-ish, or a drama? 
+
+It's a number of things; to run some network shows, to create others (blind
+pilot deals, meaning I write it, they buy it)...one network called late Friday
+as word got out and asked if I'd do a non-SF TV movie for them while the rest
+is in discussion (I said sure)...I can't talk about it much until the dust
+settles and I decide where to land.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+JMS Usenet messages for March 1999.
+
+
+Date: 3 Mar 1999 23:07:58 -0700
+Subject: Re: Elia Kazan
+
+>I find it rather grimly amusing that those who profess the
+>greatest horror at "The Black List" now demand that Elia Kazan
+>remain blacklisted, forty years later, and get indignant, bent
+>out of shape, and even violent at any cracks in *that* black list.
+
+Langauge and words have specific meaning.
+
+To be blacklisted means that you cannot work, cannot pursue your livelihood.
+
+Kazan has worked successfully for his entire life.
+
+Further, most of those prosecuted under the blacklist were totally innocent and
+never did the things they were accused of doing.  No one has ever said that
+Kazan didn't name names.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Mar 1999 08:32:39 -0700
+Subject: Re: PsiCorps 2: Deadly Relations...a readers review
+
+I think book 2 is terrific as well, maybe in some ways better than 1 because
+though it's not as epic, it really makes the Psi Corps come alive in some nifty
+ways.
+
+I haven't seen 3 yet, but it should be a real kick.
+
+The technomage trilogy, at this point, may work out to be my favorite, given
+how much of the B5 storyline it interweaves.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Mar 1999 08:32:55 -0700
+Subject: Re: Crusade : It's the ratings folks!
+
+>First, it's the ratings. As I remember ACTA got something in the range
+>of 2.3 to 2.8, something like that. That my friends is everything. If it
+>had gotten, say a 10, TNT would be falling over itself to keep the show.
+
+Nothing on cable -- nada -- gets a 10 rating.  The successful shows get
+somewhere from a 1 to a 3 rating, that's it.  That's all the penetration you
+can get given the number of sets that have cable.
+
+Sliders, considered a big hit on SFC, generally gets a 1.0 rating.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Mar 1999 08:32:59 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Is WB still interested in a B5 Feature Film?
+
+Yeah, but I'd rather wait a bit.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Mar 1999 12:59:34 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Who pulled the plug?
+
+>Was it your choice to cancel the series because you
+>felt it was being interfered with creatively, or did TNT cancel it because
+>you wouldn't do things their way?  
+
+I do not have the power, authority or contractual ability to cancel a show and
+take it elsewhere.  WB owns the show, lock stock and barrel.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Mar 1999 13:30:27 -0700
+Subject: Re: Crusade: What Episodes
+
+>I have seen upto 16 episode titles for Crusade.  My question is what are
+>the 13 episode titles that have been produced and will go to air?
+
+Warzone
+Each Night I Dream of Home
+The Memory of War
+Visitors from Down the Street
+The Well of Forever
+Patterns of the Soul
+The Needs of Earth
+Racing the Night
+The Long Road
+Path of Sorrows
+Ruling from the Tomb
+The Rules of the Game
+Appearances and Other Deceits
+
+
+The last one written and turned in was called "End of the Line."  John blames
+me for the synchronicity.
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Mar 1999 22:17:25 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Book outlines, how detailed?
+
+The usual length of my outlines tends to be about 15-18 pages per book, so
+45-54 pages total per trilogy.  It's fairly extensive and has all the major
+beats worked out.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Mar 1999 18:12:57 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: The beginning of the next GREAT story...
+
+Thanks...I'm looking forward to playing in other worlds.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Mar 1999 18:13:27 -0700
+Subject: Re: Elia Kazan and Forgiveness-"Passing Through Gethsemane"
+
+Usually a condition of forgiveness is apology and repentence.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Mar 1999 18:13:08 -0700
+Subject: Re: Is the Pern TV Series JMS's next project?
+
+Nope, ain't me.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Mar 1999 18:13:33 -0700
+Subject: Re: PsiCorps 2: Deadly Relations...a readers review
+
+>By the way, is A Call To Arms novel canon with respect Galen was an
+>apprentice
+>to Elric or were these artistic embellishments by the author.
+
+Yes, that's canonical.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Mar 1999 18:13:58 -0700
+Subject: Re: attn: JMS
+
+>I'm curious if you have seen the commercials for the movie "Wing
+>Commander". It opens with the narrator saying "Earth's Last Hope", and
+>he sounds so much like the narrator for Babylon 5. I wondered if you
+>would think this a compliment to your opening of Babylon 5.
+
+No, I'm fine with it; it ain't like we copyrighted that phrase, and they
+probably didn't think of us at all in that regard.  I'll certainly try to see
+the film if I can, since I enjoyed the game.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Mar 1999 19:06:38 -0700
+Subject: Re: Sleepin' In Light
+
+>Does any one know where I can buy the score to "sleeping in light"?
+>
+
+www.sonicimages.com
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1999 15:55:59 -0700
+Subject: Re: What B5 spinoffs wouldn't WB own?
+
+WB owns it all, including any and all spinoffs.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1999 19:36:59 -0700
+Subject: Re: Babylon 5- Deadly Relations- Bester's Ascendant
+
+>I, for one, cannot bring myself to purchase a book that covers ground that
+>should have been covered in the Babylon-5 television series.
+>
+
+1) The B5 series was never about the Psi Corps, it was about the station and
+the people who live there.
+
+2) Should the show have told everything there was about IPX, the Psi Corps,
+EarthDome, and all of the various institutions involved?  Show me any series
+ever created that can do that.
+
+3) The Psi Corps books cover over a hundred years of history, and Bester's
+final fate comes years after the events of the B5 storyline.  There is NO WAY
+to include all of that in any one series.  You are asking the impossible, and
+complaining because we cannot do what simply cannot be done by any series,
+ever, anywhere, ever created.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Mar 1999 15:03:10 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: jms: Is there hope?
+
+"There's always hope, because it's the one thing nobody's figured out how to
+kill yet."  -- Galen.
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Mar 1999 15:04:53 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Can we help?
+
+>Would letters from viewers help them to make this decision?  And, if so,
+>who should we write to?  One source suggests writing to Bonnie Hammer,
+>the Senior VP of Programming.   Also, Stephen Chao, the President of
+>Television and Marketing for USA
+
+Yes, both those would be good choices.
+
+And the best time for this would be after the episodes start airing in June.  I
+think we have about 5 weeks before the actors' contracts expire in July.  (They
+will be running all 13 straight through, or so they tell me.)
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Mar 1999 17:11:33 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn:JMS-Biography
+
+>I have just read "the last word" in this months B5 magazine and i was
+>glad to see you writing about yourself for a change.I found it a   very
+>interesting if brief insight into the man behind the story.
+
+Thanks, I'm always leery about that, and try to keep a low profile in that
+respect.
+
+>I was wondering if you would ,at some point in the future,consider
+>writing your biography, as i am sure a great many people would be very
+>interested.
+
+I dunno...I've actually been asked to write one, but have so far declined; it
+just ain't that interesting a life in many respects, and I'm only 44, writing a
+bio at this point would be rather self-indulgent.  I guess -- and I'm not being
+fascetious here -- I can't imagine anything less exciting to read than my bio.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Mar 1999 17:11:46 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: What about The Further Adventures of Lyta and G'Kar?
+
+I'm writing 3 B5 short stories for Amazing Stories magazine; the first is a
+Londo (shortly after he became emperor) story; also doing a G'Kar/Lyta story,
+and a B5-setting story, all following these characters after the events of
+"Objects at Rest."
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Mar 1999 17:12:47 -0700
+Subject: Re: From Orlando:  Thanks JMS
+
+Thanks, the pleasure was all mine.
+
+And it was important to get those two eps out there, because it's a *good*
+show, and nothing defeats the naysayers like the truth.  Independent reactions
+to the episodes is the best antidote to the nonsense.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Mar 1999 19:45:30 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS
+
+>Haven't seen them yet, but just read description of Crusade opening titles.
+> Sounds sorta like the second part of the opening to The Prisoner, the part
+>with the episode title and episode credits.  Was this your intent?
+
+No, it draws from the primary questions asked in the B5 series.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Mar 1999 14:31:40 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade Theme
+
+
+It's hard to separate out the two, the theme and the images.  We actually had
+the music first from Evan, which is normally not the way we do it, we do the
+visuals first.  So we set it aside, and did the edit on the shots, which are
+designed to create a fairly exotic feeling.  
+
+Then when we had it done, just out of curiousity as a temp track, we laid in
+Evan's original music...and it cut right to the music, beat for beat, shot for
+shot, right on the cuts, to the second.
+
+We wuz astonished....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Mar 1999 14:36:13 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Why are you so pessimistic? (not Crusade)
+
+
+Actually, I'm something of an optimist, all things considered.  I've just
+learned that only hard roads lead to good places.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Mar 1999 16:06:41 -0700
+Subject: preview to jms comic out now
+
+For those interested...the new issue of Wizard Magazine is out this week, with
+both an article about, and a preview issue for, my new comic series from Top
+Cow, RISING STARS.  Wizard can be found at nearly all comic stores and most
+newsstands.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1999 22:17:55 -0700
+Subject: Re: preview to jms comic out now
+
+I'm going to be moving back and forth in the story's timeline, using an ongoing
+investigation into something happening in the present to get me into those
+backstories.
+
+Thanks on the comic...I think it's gonna be fun.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Mar 1999 22:18:23 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Selling Crusade to foreign networks?
+
+We can't sell the show anywhere, only WB can, as the owners of Crusade.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Mar 1999 19:15:13 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Rising Stars Question
+
+>I just got Rising Stars #0, & I was wondering when #1 will be out?
+>
+>
+July, to coincide with the big Wizard comics convention in Chicago.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Mar 1999 22:04:49 -0700
+Subject: Re: preview to jms comic out now
+
+>There's a web article & art preview at:
+> http://www.detnews.com/metro/hobbies/comix/stories/9903/19/
+>
+>Are these pages from the #0 (art by Brian Ching), or #1 (art by series
+>regular Kui Cha)? 
+
+Dunno, I'll have to go look and see what they used.
+
+BTW, just closed the deal today to write a TV movie (non-SF) for one of the
+networks while we're waiting for pilots to be picked up in May.  Should be fun.
+ (Can't talk about it at this time beyond that.)
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Mar 1999 00:28:20 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Rising Stars & Wizard World Chicago '99
+
+Yes, I do plan to be at Chicago Comic Con this year, schedule permitting.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Mar 1999 17:54:04 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn. JMS: Rising Stars Comic
+
+><<I saw a preview of your new comic "Rising Stars" and I'm looking
+>forward to a Watchmen quality story.  It's been a while since
+>something really good has been published in comics. >>
+>
+>It depends on what you mean by "a while"  There are some very good comics
+>currently being published although most of them lean more towards four color
+>action than watchmen-esque darkness.  
+>
+
+There's lots of good stuff out...the new Mage and Grendel books, the Alex Ross
+stuff (any of it, definitely liked his latest, Uncle Sam), I've bought but
+haven't yet read Kubuki which I hear is also quite good.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Mar 1999 18:10:02 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Kosovo [off topic]
+
+I go back and forth on this whole thing.  On the one hand, I think the
+atrocities against the Albanian population *have* to be answered, and they
+*have* to be stopped, and the only voice the Serbian leaders seem to listen to
+is the voice of force.  (Though so far that doesn't seem to have happened.)
+
+On the other hand...I think there's a qualitative difference between this and,
+say, bombing Iraq, which is very much isolated from its neighbors, and has no
+desire to piss off its neighbors (for the moment and only for as long as it's
+in its own interest not to).  Yugoslavia is dead center of a lot of other
+countries into which this conflict could spill over into something considerably
+larger and more dangerous.
+
+Let's remember that WW1 began with a single gunshot in that region.
+
+So bottom line...I dunno, I go back and forth on an almost hourly basis. 
+Basically, I think either it'll work, or it'll start a massive war in a region
+noted for a resentful populace and any number of leftover nukes.
+
+Roll the dice....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Apr 1999 19:47:02 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: future Babylon 5 projects ?
+
+There are not more B5 TV movies on the boards, though next week we're shooting
+the live-action elements of the Sierra computer game (with Lochley, Sheridan,
+Delenn, Garibaldi and others).
+
+Aside from the coming novels, I've just turned in the first of three B5 stories
+that will be appearing in Amazing Stories Magazine.  The first one, "The Shadow
+of his Thoughts," is a Londo story taking place in the days shortly after his
+coronation as Emperor.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Apr 1999 19:49:23 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: George Lucas on 60 Minutes
+
+I missed it, durn it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Apr 1999 09:09:29 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS: words coming back
+
+>I've said it before and I'll say it again as often as anybody'll stand still
+>to
+>listen.  What I see as your greatest strength as a writer is the 'density'
+>that
+>you bring to your stories. 
+
+It's just the way I'm hardwired.  Years ago, a bunch of us (college years) went
+in to help put down a carpet in a building, using scraps from a carpet store,
+and everybody's putting down these huge swaths of carpeting, and I'm over in
+the corner with these 2 and 3 inch pieces making a complex pattern, and they're
+all "will you STOP that and just grab some big pieces," but it ain't how I'm
+wired up.
+
+It's all in the details.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Apr 1999 11:07:28 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: effect of Crusade cancellation, SW:TPM on B5 theatrical
+
+It shouldn't have any effect on that one way or another.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Apr 1999 18:54:22 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Amazing Stories
+
+>You had written about some upcomming stories that you're writing for
+>the new Amazing Stories magazine. I hope that you'll let us know when
+>they'll be comming out.
+>
+>
+
+It should be in the one after the current one which just hit the streets this
+week.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Apr 1999 20:48:56 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Advice for budding writers???
+
+>As someone who hopes to one day get into the television writing scene,
+>what advice do you have?
+>
+>I don't mean in terms of the actual writing of the show/project/etc, but
+>in terms of getting it on the air, getting the "important people" to
+>actually read it? I know you went through a lot to get B5 on the air
+>(especially wiht a premise that everybody doomed to failure as soon as
+>they heard it), so how did you do it? You were already known in the biz
+>when you pitched B5....but if someone new was trying to break through
+>what sort of things would he have to do?
+
+I get this question all the time.  There is only one reply that I can give you:
+it is impossible -- let me reemphasize that, impossible -- for a newbie to sell
+a TV series without a long track record working in the business.  So there's
+really no advice that can be given.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Apr 1999 18:09:33 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Advice for budding writers???
+
+>are you trying to say...it's impossible? :). I figured as much
+>already...but it seems like an endless circle. You cant get in w/o a
+>track record...but if you can't get in...then how do you get a track
+>record?
+
+Of course you're proceeding from a false assumption.  New people get in every
+year.  Every writer started out as an unknown, and not in the WGA, without a
+track record.  You start trying to sell individual scripts to shows on the air
+currently, then work your way up.
+
+New members in the WGA are added every year, in substantial numbers.  Those
+people all sold for the first time.  Happens all the time.
+
+Not to flog my book...but go to your local library (cheaper that way) and check
+out my Complete Book of Scriptwriting.  It may help.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Apr 1999 21:50:38 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Bradbury Award
+
+Thank you, I'm very pleased.  It's a recognition for the show, not just my
+work, as far as I'm concerned.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Apr 1999 19:12:15 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS (a few questions)
+
+>Is Sheridan alive during Crusade or does he die between A Call to Arms
+>and Crusade?
+
+Sleeping in Light is 17 years after the events of B5; Crusade takes place about
+5 years after the events of B5.  Sheridan is alive for the first part of SiL.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Apr 1999 22:14:16 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS: Congrats on Hugo Nomination
+
+We're all very pleased and honored by the nomination, thanks.
+
+jms
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Apr 1999 22:32:28 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS - Thoughts on "Earth: Final Conflict"
+
+Haven't seen a full episode, so can't comment.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Apr 1999 20:43:17 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: And now for a word JMS- viewer reaction after SiL
+
+Please convey to those  on de.rec.sf.babylon5.misc my thanks, both  to them and
+to all the B5 fans in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.  It's amazing to watch
+the end of the show roll out across the planet, with each new country
+experiencing the conclusion in a new wave each time.  
+
+Pardon the spellings and grammar in what follows, this is massively ugly on my
+part, all from memory, but:
+
+Meinen Deutsch ist nicht gut, aber zu alles B5folk auf de.rec.sf.babylon5.misc,
+Deutschland, Ostterreich und Switzerland: Danke Sie.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Apr 1999 17:26:30 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - OT (The Matrix)
+
+>Just saw"The Matrix" for the second time. Not to often that I find a
+>story that tries and keep all the loose ends tight.
+>What did you think of it?
+
+I was blown away by it.  I think it's a terrific film and possibly a watershed
+for SF movies.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Apr 1999 19:46:54 -0600
+Subject: jms = big rock
+
+Sent this a while back, but it never got on...
+
+For those who are interested in these sorts of things, I learned recently that
+Kitt Peak Observatory in Tuscon, Arizona, has just formally named an asteroid
+discovered by them in 1992 8379 STRACZYNSKI in recognition of B5.  (This is the
+formal designation, as per the Astronomical Union.)
+
+Suffice to say it's a tremendous honor.
+
+Finally, I'm a rock star....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Apr 1999 17:04:33 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS:  Sheridan:  "There is Some Much I Still Don't
+
+There was a certain amount of intentional symmetry there, yeah.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Apr 1999 19:08:38 -0600
+Subject: Re: jms = big rock
+
+>Wes, it looks like I'll have to update straczynksi'ed to include a secondary
+>definition: straczynskied - (1) vt past tense - To be inspired towards
+>simultaneous and profound curiosity, anticipation, awe, dread, and somber
+>reflection through the skillful use of misdirection, foreshadowing, mental
+>torture, and other literary devices leading to disturbed sleep, frightening
+>nightmares, hallucinations, compulsive behavior, and general obsession. (2)
+>vt past tense - To be obliterated by a large asteroid with the name 8379
+>STRACZYNSKI that doesn't go boom 
+
+Oddly, I heard a while back from some Russian speaking folks, and depending on
+how you pronounce it and where you put the inflection, Straczynski can mean
+either "terror" or "passion."  I kind of like the symmetry of both....
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 May 1999 19:27:33 -0600
+Subject: Re: jms = big rock
+
+>Straczynski is a Polish spelling which would make sense if it came from 
+>modern Belarus or western Ukraine, which Poland used to rule.
+
+That's my understanding, that its roots are in Belorussia (Belarus).
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 May 1999 19:28:53 -0600
+Subject: Re: jms = big rock
+
+>Methinks, we've discovered the fifth horseman. :-)
+
+Well, the first 3 horsemen were sabotaged and destroyed, and the fourth
+horseman disappeared mysteriously, and....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 May 1999 16:47:52 -0600
+Subject: Re: The Babylon File Volume 2
+
+There is a point, however, where bias and being opinionated leads to error and
+untruth, because one is so adamant to advance one's own viewpoint that all the
+other facts get skewed to support that.
+
+All through Lane's book, he skews the facts to bolster his point of view, much
+as a creationist skews the facts of science to bolster his point of view.
+
+For instance, he makes much of the fact that we shot 6 days instead of 7 for
+S5, and that this therefore led to a 1/7th decrease in quality.  Well, it
+didn't affect the writing, the stories were still the stories.  I wrote just
+what I would have written for a 7 day shoot.
+
+Further, a fact he omits because it would get in the way of his argument is
+that we *did* have the liberty to shoot 7 days when we thought it was
+appropriate *and did so*.  (I think it was either A Tragey of Telepaths or
+Phoenix Rising.)  
+
+He omits the fact, documented through shooting schedules, that on virtually
+ever episode from S1-S4, we wrapped early almost every day, sometimes by an
+hour, sometimes by a couple of hours.  In 110 episodes, we had only about 20
+days of serious overtime, over 5 years of shooting, and in each case the
+overtime amounted to only a couple of hours here and there.  Never once had a
+forced call on an actor.
+
+Why is this important?  Because if you take an average of wrapping early 1 and
+a half hours per day, over six days, you *have* a seventh day right there.
+
+When we went to a 6 day schedule, we added about a page to each day's shoot,
+and we generally didn't go home early, we wrapped on time.  (Though in fact we
+were able to go home early on some days, depending on the scenes.)  That's it. 
+The main burden was on the art department to turn around sets quickly enough. 
+But there was no other qualitative impact otherwise.  Not one.  Zilch.
+
+To be sure that it could be done effectively, I was the first one to do a 6 day
+shoot, on Sleeping in Light, figuring that if I as a first time director could
+do it, anybody could.  And we did just fine.
+
+Anyway, that kind of bias infects the whole book, because it wasn't done the
+way he would have done it, and therefore it has to be bad.  And he looks for
+anything to bolster that point of view, no matter how insupportable.  It's not
+just that this is his POV, it has to be the truth, and he insists that no one
+can have any other point of view, or that person is an uncritical fanboy.
+
+But it's possible to be an uncritical fanboy in a positive *and* a negative
+direction.  And that is the case with the Lane book.  He does not take the
+facts in a critical way, examining them on their own terms, he lines them up to
+try and reflect his thesis going in.  
+
+A person can have a bias that leads them to be blindly praising toward
+something; and a person can have a bias that leads them to be blindly negative
+toward something.  This is a case of the latter.
+
+I've never had a problem with critical reviews.  Diane mentioned the B5
+magazine, but if you actually look at the reviews in that magazine, many of
+them do say negative things about various episodes.  Mind you this is in a
+publication that's licensed, and which I could have deleted that material if
+I'd chosen to.  But I let it go through, because I think we can all learn from
+criticism, and if our own publication was exempt from that, then it was no
+longer a proper magazine.  I gritted my teeth a lot, but it went through.
+
+There seems to be this perception that if something says positive things, then
+it isn't being critical; if it's negative, then somehow it's more objective or
+critical.  This is fallacious reasoning.  Criticism should be fair and
+evenhanded and constructive and, where possible, based in factual reporting.
+
+This book is none of those things.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 6 May 1999 01:50:14 -0600
+Subject: Re: The Babylon File Volume 2
+
+>I admit I have a bias going into it since I liked
+>Vol 1 a lot. Also I'm more inclined to agree based on the sole fact that
+>I felt the same way about many things and specifc episode. Maybe that
+>does not qualify me to look at it objectively,
+
+But that's okay, and that's the point...your feelings about the episodes are
+subjective, there's no such thing as an objective *opinion*.  Facts can be
+objective, opinions are a different creature.  The language means what it
+means.  And you're as qualified as anyone else to give your opinion on anything
+you so choose, and should not hesitate to do so.
+
+It's when others try to disguise opinion as fact that I think a line gets
+crossed.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 May 1999 01:48:33 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Dormammu?
+
+I enjoyed the early Dikto Dr. Strange books quite a bit.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 May 1999 07:06:07 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS, re: B5 and DS9.
+
+>Why did you not stand up
+>for yourself and protect your rights and property?
+
+I could not do so; once the contracts were signed for B5, WB owned B5 lock,
+stock and copyright.  They would have been the ones to have to sue Paramount,
+and they were not up for doing that on an issue like this.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 May 1999 23:36:26 -0600
+Subject: Re: B5 Awards listing?
+
+Let's see...this is from memory.
+
+Two Vision awards from the Space Frontier Foundation.
+
+Emmys forEFX and makeup.  
+
+A bucket of reader's choice awards from SFX magazine, Sci-Fi Entertainment and
+others.
+
+Two Hugo awards.
+
+(If you put the personal ones in the mix, you'd add the Bradbury Award and the
+Inkpot Award.)
+
+The American Cinema Foundation award.
+
+And others that have momentarily slipped my mind.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 May 1999 03:12:18 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Rising Star early release question..
+
+>There also seemed to be a "Rising Stars" 0 (zero) issue that was
+>distributed along with Wizard magazine...  Is this true?  If so, do you
+>know which issue of Wizard it was in? 
+
+It's in the Top Cow issue with the Fathom cover, just came out about a month
+ago, most stores should have it.  I'd actually suggesting reading that one
+*first* since it sheds light on the preview issue.
+
+
+
+Date: 20 May 1999 01:11:51 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Star Wars Movie (No Plot Spoilers)
+
+No, figure I'll wait until the lines die down a bit.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 May 1999 20:26:38 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS re. writers rights
+
+> I am concerned
+>that the ads,which imply a different plot line than the one you had
+>envisioned may come to pass, as a result of "artful" re-editing by the staff
+>at WB.
+
+
+WB doesn't make those ads, they're made by TNT.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 May 1999 14:07:32 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Babylon 5 Magazine Column
+
+>One more thing--you said in an accompanying article that the lease on
+>Babylonian Productions' building is up in May.  Did you renew the lease?
+
+Warners is trying to extend so it's still in hand if there's a second season.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 May 1999 18:25:22 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: A Suggestion
+
+I calls 'em as I sees 'em.  Always have, always will.  To do any less would be
+a disservice and a dishonesty.
+
+And believe me, it ain't gonna factor into SFC's decision one way or another. 
+If any of that had even the potential for being true, then I wouldn't have
+pending offers from literally all 3 major networks and 4 studios to come in and
+run shows for them.
+
+It's a non-issue.  Honest.  Would this face lie?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 May 1999 17:40:25 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade Question
+
+It could only be possible via licensed books, certainly, and if I'm going to
+write novels, I think I'd rather do originals.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 May 1999 22:33:54 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: dvd release
+
+>It seems that the release of Babylon 5 on DVD is in the works for the
+>near future.
+>Have you been approached by Warners to supply extra material or possibly
+>do  a director's commentary?
+
+No, not as of this writing.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 May 1999 21:17:47 -0600
+Subject: B5 Fan Mail Reroute
+
+Just a quick note to let folks know that any mail for the cast and crew should
+go to the fan club address henceforth, not to the Ventura Blvd. mail drop. 
+We're shifting all that stuff over to the FC address, which is P. O. Box 856,
+North Hollywood, CA 91603.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 May 1999 21:06:31 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Rising Stars Preview Issues
+
+Thanks, I think it's going to be a good book.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 May 1999 21:07:29 -0600
+Subject: Re: B5 Fan Mail Reroute -- Arrggghhhh!
+
+>One hopes that the old address will still be alive for a day or two?
+
+For a bit, yeah, but the sooner the general transition takes place, the better,
+just to make sure nothing gets lost.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 May 1999 23:58:46 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Third Psi-Corps Book
+
+>When will the third Psi-Corps. book be out, & what will come out
+>next--the first Technomage book, or the first Centauri book?
+
+The third Psi Corps book just arrived in manuscript form, so it should be
+soonish.  After that, I'm not sure which comes next.
+
+>So TNT wanted Sci-Fi to fund
+>all 22 episodes for the first season in order for them to pick it up &
+>complete the season? 
+
+That's correct.
+
+>I also heard that TNT wanted Dureena to be the
+>"sexual-explorer".  TNT obviously has a bunch of morons running that
+>network!
+
+I think either Dureena or Eilerson would've been fine, as long as the requisite
+amount of sex got in, which was the reason behind the notion.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 May 1999 23:59:04 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS, Re: B5 Magazine.
+
+>Is it true that that the Babylon-5 magazine is suffering a drop in sales and
+>is in danger of no longer being carried by some national chain bookstores
+>such
+>as "Barnes and Noble?
+
+Nope.  If anything, the magazine has been increasing a bit in size and scope
+because sales are solid and increasing, allowing that to happen.
+
+There are always some folks out there spreading this stuff...they've been doing
+it for years.  They get off on it.  All anyone has to do is *look* at the
+magazine to see how it's doing.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 May 1999 18:57:44 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Funding Crusade (was Re: ATTN JMS: Third Psi-Corps
+
+>Well it seems reasonable to me.  I assume if Sci-Fi had
+>picked up Crusade, they -- not TNT -- would have premiered
+>all 22 eps.
+
+Also correct.  Nor was it being stated as a bad or a wrong thing...the only
+point being that SFC would have to buy another 22 ep package at a time when
+they'd already picked up 3 other 22 ep series, AND made a huge deal with
+Spielberg in the $40 million range.  That's a lot for that net to bite off in
+one season.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Jun 1999 22:29:53 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS, Re: B5 Magazine.
+
+Further on this point, I got the following today from John Freeman, editor of
+the B5 magazine.
+
+Text follows:
+
+Joe 
+(Hope you can forward this if you think it necessary... I checked with our
+distributor and the rumour is pure hogwash....)
+
+Further to your response below I can confirm that Eastern News, our news
+stand distributor in North America, is actively seeking to increase our news
+stand (i.e. Barnes and Noble, etc.) sales. We're experiencing an upswing in
+sales, but it's more evident in the direct sales market. BTW, in a complete
+reversal of the situation in the UK, direct sales shops are more likely to
+have Babylon 5 on their shelves faster than news stands.
+One area we are still trying to sort out is setting up  a North American
+subscription house, which has taken much longer than we would have liked,
+largely because we are a non-US magazine company. However, I hope that
+particular 'nut' will be cracked very soon now - the paperwork has been
+incredibly complex.
+I would like to thank North American readers for their patience and
+enthusiastic support, evidenced by the growing size of my B5 mailbag!
+Best wishes
+John Freeman
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Jun 1999 16:18:06 -0600
+Subject: Re: Dreamwatch #58 Article
+
+It is, by the way, a very good and well informed article.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Jun 1999 16:20:40 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS: Crusade 'lost' episodes?
+
+>I read that all of the scripts for Season 1 of Crusade had been written.
+>What
+>happens to them *when* we get Crusade Season 2?  Will those scripts get used
+>or
+>are they lost to us?  Do they belong to TNT or to Warner Bros?
+
+We only got as far as 16, which is annoying since 14 was where we *really*
+cranked up the arc, and 16 was to be the season cliffhanger, shot early to
+handle the rather hideous CGI that would have been involved.
+
+The last one written, 16, synchronistically enough, was entitled "End of the
+Line."
+
+And WB owns the TV rights to the scripts.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Jun 1999 21:18:23 -0600
+Subject: jms on first eps
+
+Just for the record: I think the first one -- the only one written directly at
+TNT's behest -- is probably the weakest one, certainly the one I find least
+interesting.  It's lumbered with buckets of exposition, explaining things that
+don't need explaining, too many fights, too many explosions, too much
+swaggering around, all stuff the net wanted. 
+
+Then we go back to the show we wanted to make...Path of Sorrows is terrific,
+Well of Forever is a solid character story, The Long Road is just pure fun
+(that's pretty much reverse broadcast order, btw)...there's one or two in the
+bunch that are a bit slower than I'd like, but those are the exception rather
+than the rule.  
+
+Just to get my own feelings on this out there.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Jun 1999 21:21:58 -0600
+Subject: jms portland oregon query
+
+I have some family members who are looking for a retirement village or place in
+the Greater Portland area (I'm told that Portlandians will know what that
+means).  It should be a nice place, with the possibility of extending health
+care or medical assistance, upscale is cool, middle of the road is cool, as
+long as it's genuinely a nice place, decent sized, friendly, that sort of
+thing.
+
+They've been looking on their own, but haven't found anything, and I
+figured...what the heck, I'd try this venue and see if anything came up.
+
+Replies via email, no need to burden the forum with this, thanks.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Jun 1999 12:31:45 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: The Practical Side of the Crusade Universe
+
+We do get into some of the dynamics of this, yeah...the impact of the
+quarantine on trade, lifestyles, other stuff.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Jun 1999 19:26:54 -0600
+Subject: Re: ACtA/crusade: War Zone *spoilers*
+
+>i've seen some people(not sure if here or un unmod) posting about
+>inconsistancies between the end of ACtA, and the beginning of crusade, and
+>while there is at least one(dureena acting like the excalibur is new to her)
+
+Actually, she never gives that impression; her reaction to the others seeing
+the ship and being impressed is to shrug and say, "It'll do."  She's not
+impressed because she's already been there.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Jun 1999 23:06:19 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS - Final Reckoning (Psi Corp trilogy)
+
+I finished reading the book this past weekend, and it's possibly the best of
+the three, which I didn't think I'd say, given how much I liked the first two.
+
+What I think fans will like about it most is that while the first two dealt
+with what led up to B5's timeline, some of able to be inferred from stuff, this
+is all stuff that is yet to come...and it's nifty.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Aug 1999 18:45:31 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS:  Development?
+
+>Could you possilby tell us what genre this Series will be?
+>
+
+If it goes, it's about 98% mainstream and 2% speculative fiction...kind of an
+Ivory Snow mix....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Aug 1999 02:09:26 -0600
+Subject: Re: After Crusade episode 13...then what?
+
+>Always was more of a Yog Sothoth fan myself.
+
+ia ia Cthulhu fthagen. (spelled wrong so I won't piss off nyarlathotep)
+
+>Incidentally... did anyone else have nightmares for days after reading "The
+>Colour Out of Space"?
+>
+
+Me.  Bigtime.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Aug 1999 08:17:55 -0600
+Subject: Re: The reaction to Racing The Night
+
+>I am not standing up for TNT here, but again I must point out what has been
+>said in other posts. All 13 episodes that TNT is airing have been stated by
+>JMS
+>to be *"True Crusade"* as he saw it in his vision.
+>
+>The show was stopped by TNT after they wanted to interfere. Since JMS did not
+>agree to the changes, TNT stopped production.
+>
+>I am not justifying what TNT did, but you can not blame them for the shows
+
+Not entirely true.  The 20 pages of notes we got that were truly offensive were
+turned down by me.
+
+But they kept after us on other stuff on a daily basis.  They wanted Dureena's
+makeup softened, on the theory that it was a cliche if she actually *looked*
+like an alien...they kept making demands of other scripts, including revisions
+in such already finished scripts as "Well" that weakened the script...
+
+What I said was that "War Zone" was the only one written at TNT's behest, not
+that they didn't have input into the rest of them.  It was only with
+"Appearances" that I finally hit the wall and simply stopped taking their
+notes.
+
+Every day there was a campaign of attrition and the constant threat that if
+things weren't done, either the first shut-down would be permanent, or there
+would be another shut-down.  The show was essentially held hostage.
+
+I think that there's more positive than negative in all the episodes aired, and
+I'm proud of what we did under the conditions under which we had to labor; but
+understand that their fingerprints are on all of the first 8 to various
+degrees.  I separated War Zone from the rest because structurally, that's a
+story I would never have told if there wasn't a gun to my head.
+
+The only episodes totally free of interference are the first 5 shot.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1999 00:34:50 -0600
+Subject: Re: The Needs of Earth rating?
+
+>I just noticed that "The Needs of Earth" has been given a TV-14(DS) rating
+>which is for sexual content and language.  Wasn't this one of the ones
+>written before TNT asked for more sex and violence in the show?  Has JMS
+>mentioned anything about this?  
+
+No, this is actually pretty stupid...there's one shot where they think a nipple
+is visible (it isn't, we were very careful in editing) and another where they
+think a Eilerson says "goddamnit," but he doesn't.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1999 00:37:10 -0600
+Subject: Re: Rising Stars #2
+
+Just a correction...the one that's out now is actually #1, following the
+previews, #2 will ain't out yet.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1999 01:13:57 -0600
+Subject: Re: Common Sense, Anyone? ("Memory of War" spoilers)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+>And the prize our heroes win for resolving the crisis, the scientific
+>breakthrough that makes it all worthwhile, is the ability to infect
+>one's self with a reprogrammed alien biological warfare agent of
+>incredible sophistication - trust us, it's perfectly safe - in order
+>to avoid the indignity of wearing a filter mask for a couple of days.
+>
+>
+>This is an idiot plot, pure and simple.
+
+Funny...the microbiology experts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who vetted
+the script thought it would be a) a useful thing indeed, and b) extremely
+useful as a template in attempting to understand how the Drakh virus works.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1999 16:26:18 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Will You Do Another B5 Spinoff?
+
+>If Crusade doesn't come back (although I am really hoping it does
+>return), would you consider doing another B5 spinoff?  I love that B5
+>universe, & the thought of no more of it (especially with how bad a lot
+>of the series are these days) makes me a bit sad.
+
+No.
+
+I like the B5 universe as well, but I would prefer to move on to other
+projects, and not become a one-trick pony.  None of the other projects
+currently in the works have anything to do with B5.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1999 18:31:29 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - Clark Ashton Smith?
+
+>"Genius Loci" is the name of a very well known story by C.A.
+>Smith.  Any chance you are a fan of his as well as Lovecraft?
+
+Yes, I'm a fan of Smith's work, but no, the title is not a nod to him, since
+the phrase precedes his book by several hundred years....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Aug 1999 18:31:35 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Gideon's PPG?  Double barrelled?
+
+It's a targeting sight.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Aug 1999 23:00:30 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Will You Do Another B5 Spinoff?
+
+>Would there ever be a chance that there would be a movie done for the B5
+>univerce? 
+
+WB has inquired about one several times, but I'm in no real rush.  If I were to
+do one, it'd be a while down the road, and I'd want to take that time to think
+of a really good story, rather than rush something out just to do it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Aug 1999 23:30:26 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Isn't someone at WB pissed?
+
+>Aren't any of those folks still around, and if so, aren't they really ticked
+>off at TNT management for damaging (possible irreparably) that potential???
+>
+
+The problem in some measure is that there is an ongoing power struggle between
+WB and TNT (WB owns TNT, but the biggest shareholder in WB is Ted Turner).  And
+nobody -- I mean *nobody* -- wants to get caught in the switches on this one.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Aug 1999 07:31:38 -0600
+Subject: Re: "Insider" info on Crusade future ????
+
+TNT doesn't have options on *anyone*, only WB had options on the cast (which
+are now expired).
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Aug 1999 23:29:20 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Synchronicity
+
+>Many times when I go by the machines, they will call out "B5".  It's so
+>weird because some nights, it happens several times!
+>
+>Anyone else have some weird B5 concidences?
+
+One odd thing...seems like any time I have to leave Burbank airport, I end up
+going out of and returning in via gate B5.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Aug 1999 20:41:06 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Most Holy?
+
+No, no Cerberus reference was intended.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1999 16:45:24 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Phoenix Rising Series
+
+>Some people seem to think that your new series is Phoenix Rising, a
+>possible new Star Trek spinoff.  I hope it isn't, because, for one
+>thing, it has the same title as one of your B5 episodes (& I'm sure you
+>just hate that!).  Can you confirm or deny this rumor?
+
+No, totally and completely untrue.  I don't know where this stuff comes from.
+
+Some folks at Paramount have indicated privately that it'd be great if I could
+take over the ST TV franchise but I have no interest whatsoever in doing that. 
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Aug 1999 20:24:17 -0600
+Subject: Re: Norman Corwin and Babylon 5
+
+I could do a hell of a lot worse than be compared with Norman....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1999 17:04:21 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS: new STAR WARS film
+
+>What do you think about the new STAR WARS movie?
+
+Pretty to look at, but not terribly involving.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1999 17:05:06 -0600
+Subject: Re: Special Effects on Recent Episodes
+
+>Has anyone else
+>noticed this or am I projecting the overall better episode quality
+>onto the special effects?
+
+I think it's this to some extent...also we took a somewhat different approach
+to the look of the EFX, and it takes some getting used to.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1999 17:11:54 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS Crusade confusing (SPOILERS for AAOD & RTN)
+
+>Now, after watching the episode "Appearences and Other Deceits", obviously
+>all
+>episodes filmed, (#6-13) were filmed to have to air before #1-5.  Why would
+>someone do that?? JMS is also quoted to say that the last 5 to air are the
+>best. Again, why would you do that? You are wanting a campaign to try and
+>save
+>your series, yet you show the crappy episodes first, and drive the viewership
+>away.
+
+Let me ask you a real simple question:
+
+What makes you think it was my decision?
+
+TNT wanted the "new-look" episodes aired first.  They wanted to push the first
+5 back as far as possible.  I initially figured we'd do 5-6 of the "new look"
+ones first, the minimum possible, then the first 5, then the new-look (black
+uniform) ones to the end.
+
+TNT *mandated* that the black-uniform ones would go first.  It was not my
+choice.  I have NO control over broadcast.  
+
+Not only did they want to hold them back, they were debating if they'd even
+allow us to FINISH post on the first 5.  It was a struggle to let them finish
+'em, and they were the last ones to go through post.
+
+Before you fire, it's always a good idea to know what the target is first.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Aug 1999 17:21:17 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Enjoyed Rising Stars #1, you dream-shaper you!
+
+I hear this from time to time from folks, that they grew up on my work as kids
+into adulthood.  (I started selling to TV in 1984, so that's...fifteen years.)
+
+Suddenly I feel absolutely ancient....
+
+On the other hand, if it causes some folks to grow up asking questions and
+thinking about stuff, then it's a good thing and a service to the commonweal. 
+
+Was it Emerson?  "Be ashamed to die until you have performed some service for
+humanity."  It's just TeeVee...and there ain't much that's more trivial than a
+TeeVee writer...but I do hope it's had an effect.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Aug 1999 23:32:49 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: New B5 book
+
+>Noticed that there will be a new B5 book coming out in the UK in November(I
+>think) called the Babylon 5 Omnibus I.  It says it is written by J. Vornholt
+>and L. Tilton.  Would this be a collection of the 1st three Dell novels?
+
+Yep.  Don't know if they'll be doing any more.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Aug 1999 23:36:31 -0600
+Subject: Re: Authorized Scripts for sale at NASFIC
+
+>I wonder if there' s way to flip through them first? It might be good, but
+>the
+>televised versions of her previous scripts on Crusade were pretty bad. 
+>
+
+When thsi script came out (going for sale at Fiona Avery's table at 11:30
+Friday at NASFIC), Walter Koenig drove all the way across town specifically to
+say how much he loved it...he went on to memorize huge sections of it long in
+advance, and even performed sections of it in front of folks at at least one
+convention (as reported by several SF magazines) and apparently wowed them with
+it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Aug 1999 22:54:30 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn jms: Are you letting Crusade die?
+
+>It was my understanding that when WB let TNT out of their contract (a favor),
+>TNT agreed to relinquish their hold on show if WB could find another customer
+>(a return of the favor).
+>
+
+Your understanding is most emphatically incorrect.  TNT would have had the
+chance to get out of it had another network been found...no such deal having
+been in place, the contract sticks, despite TNT's many attempts to get out
+without paying any of the promised production budget.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Aug 1999 18:17:10 -0600
+Subject: NASFIC schedule change
+
+FYI for those who haven't checked the web site in the last few days, my
+presentation is now slated for 1:00 Saturday.
+
+Thankyew.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Aug 1999 01:26:18 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  B5 Scripts Available Through Fan Club
+
+Yeah, we plan to sell a number of B5 scripts in chronological order, for a
+limited period, one or so per month.  What that means is: we'll take orders on
+a script such as the Gathering from September 1 to the end of the month.  Then
+we'll print up only as many copies as have been ordered.  That's it.  Then we
+move to the next one.  It'll probably take years before it would cycle through
+all the scripts we make available before we got back to the Gathering again. 
+So when they're gone, for all intents and purposes, they're gone.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Aug 1999 22:44:54 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS:  What can't you?
+
+>Just by catagory, I know that you've written:
+>
+>stage plays          novels         short stories           comic books
+>song lyrics             newspaper articles       radio shows      magazine
+>columns
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Aug 1999 22:45:05 -0600
+Subject: Re: When is TNT gonna make up there minds
+
+>What Variety said about Babylon 5 is not very nice.  I won't
+>repeat it.
+
+To be precise, it was Variety's characterization of TNT's attitudes toward the
+show.  Which, given recent history, is to be expected.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Aug 1999 22:47:33 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS:  What can't you?
+
+Ignore the other post...I hit the wrong flipping button.
+
+To quote again:
+
+>Just by catagory, I know that you've written:
+>
+>stage plays          novels         short stories           comic books
+>song lyrics             newspaper articles       radio shows      magazine
+>columns
+>screenplays for both live action and animated from 1/2 hour to MOW length 
+>a textbook
+>So my question is:  Is there anything you simply can't or won't write?  Or
+>have
+>you just not gotten around to poetry and symphonies yet? <g>
+
+I totally suck at poetry.  At best I can come up with a kind of doggerel that
+should never be seen by anydamnbody.
+
+My feeling is that each kind of writing you do makes you better at another kind
+of writing, therefore it behooves you to do it all, if at all possible. 
+Writing an article teaches you structure, which you use in a screenplay; a
+screenplay teaches you dialogue which you use in a short story; a short story
+teaches you narrative structure which you can apply to novels...and so on.
+
+It's all meant to be a learning experience.  It's when you stop learning that
+the trouble starts.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Aug 1999 22:57:42 -0600
+Subject: Re: Bad Feelings About the Fan Club Script Offerings
+
+>Of course, what is being offered are cheaply produced expensive
+>"collectors items."  It really gives me a bad feeling and I hope more
+>thought will go into this.
+>
+
+There's several differences.  You're getting the acutal physical *script*, not
+a published version OF a script, the real deal.  
+
+Second, the Art of Star Wars published several hundred thousand copies of that
+script; collector's value is zero.  We will be putting out, at most, a few
+hundred copies of each one.  The rarer something is, the more it costs, and the
+greater its value.
+
+Third, the $25 price ($20 for an episode) is equal to or less than what is
+charged by script houses.
+
+Fouth, unlike these script houses that copy scripts unlawfully and never pay a
+dime to the author or the studio, all the B5 authors whose scripts we publish,
+like Larry or David or DC or others, will get a 10% commission on the sales.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Aug 1999 10:52:07 -0600
+Subject: Re: attn JMS: spoilers for: Path of Sorrows, Racing the Night,
+
+
+>1.  Is the Apocalypse Box inspired by The One Ring from Tolkiens Lord of the
+>Rings?
+
+No.
+
+>2.  Is Galen named after the town in Jonathan Carrolls "Land of Laughter"?
+>
+
+No.  He's named after a certain ancient physician.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Aug 1999 01:12:33 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Medieval Metaphors
+
+>After all that said, I
+>want to know: why have you chosen all those medieval metaphors to depict
+>the future of mankind? Do you believe we are getting back to the values
+>of Dark Ages in some way?
+
+Not per se, no, just applying some of the myths and models from that period to
+the future.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Sep 1999 08:00:36 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: You Seem Disillusioned
+
+Logging on from Australia....
+
+Actually, I'm not disillusioned.  Disappointed, sure, in how TNT chose to treat
+the show...but understand that a 5 year run is the anomaly in TV, even more so
+in SF.  B5 was the first non-Trek space-based SF series to go more than 3
+seasons in 30 years.  So the record ain't great.
+
+But if anything, I've been just as busy on other projects since Crusade ended,
+and all of it is what Crusade was not during the last half-year of its
+production: they're fun again.  I'm enjoying myself, and that's what I got into
+this thing for in the first place.
+
+There's plenty of room to do good work; you just have to find proper vessels
+into which to place your work.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Sep 1999 20:51:10 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade final episode (spoilers)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+>And the very 
+>last conversation was perfect, when Gideon says: "Life goes on." Was that 
+>something you put in after you knew this would be the last episode, or 
+>did it just happen to be there?
+
+Another Babylonian synchronicity.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1999 20:03:49 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Great ensemble of actors on Crusade!
+
+They're a good bunch, no mistake.  Thanks.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Sep 1999 21:24:20 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS, Re: No Hugo for *SiL*
+
+>With the Sci-Fi Channel website reporting that the 1999 Hugo award for *Best
+>Dramatic Presentation* went to "The Truman Show" do you feel this was a
+>rebuke
+>of B5's fifth and final season (which many are saying has lead to a dramatic
+>softening of support for your sci-fi franchise)?
+>
+
+Not at all (and I still don't consider it a franchise; how can it be a
+franchise if it's not continuing?).
+
+What I was told by those involved is that SiL did not air in Australia during
+or before the voting period; it did not, in fact, finally air until after the
+WorldCon itself was over by three days.  And the majority of folks coming to
+WorldCon were, of course, Australians.  So they didn't *see* the episode to
+vote for it.  
+
+I would not expect, or want, anyone to vote for the episode sight-unseen.  To
+do so means you've missed the point of the show.
+
+Truman Show (a damned good movie and well worth the award, btw) was written by
+a New Zealander, and directed by an Australian, so was the next logical choice.
+
+
+Once I knew that SiL wasn't going to air until after the Hugos, I pretty much
+knew it wouldn't get the Hugo.  (As it was, according to the site with all the
+official  numbers, SiL did get more raw numbers of votes than any other
+nominee, but due to the Australian balloting system, which uses a weighted
+scale, TS got the actual award.)
+
+And I note that the question is phrased in your usual negative fashion, and
+frankly, I heard from many folks who said that S5 was their favorite season,
+and there's a great editorial in Frontier (the main SF magazine in Australia
+and a fine publication) that sang the praises of S5 as necessary and right.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Sep 1999 18:37:31 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Wrestlers on Voyager
+
+>I recently heard that UPN wants to put wrestlers on Voyager now.  What
+>is your opinion on this?  I think the "Wrestlers on SF-Programs" thing
+>is really getting out of hand!
+>PS--I heard that the Voyager producers are going along with this
+>wrestling idea.  At least you had the integrity not to.
+
+I once heard someone say, in response to the idea of sendihng Geraldo Rivera
+into space on the Shuttle, "at least we'll finally be able to see the effect of
+a vacuum *on* a vacuum."
+
+I'm sorry, what was your question again...?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1999 18:32:08 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS at Nasfic *spoilers*
+
+>He then joked about a newmovie, "> > Women who go crazy every 28 days.  The
+>Blair Bitch Project." 
+
+Actually, it was about some women who, tied to the cycles of the moon, go nuts
+every 28 days, called "The Were Bitch Project."  Otherwise the pun doesn't
+work.
+
+I also apologized in advance for that, because of all the words I use -- and I
+use 'em all, I think every word in the King's english is fine by me -- that's
+the only one that I tend not to use and have never used before in a
+presentation, but as I said, I needed it to make the pun work.
+
+Other than that, when it comes to language...well, fuck it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1999 18:32:52 -0600
+Subject: The Gathering Script Available
+
+Yesterday I was reading over the original script for "The Gathering," which we
+are making available via thestation.com for this month only.  (Everything that
+goes through for sale has to be approved by me personally, and I wanted to make
+sure the copy was solid and readable, it's been a long time, after all.)  And
+for those who've asked -- and I should've gotten to this before, it's just been
+kinda nuts -- it does have scenes that were filmed and didn't make it into
+either version of the aired pilot movie for reasons of length, and some scenes
+and partial scenes that were not filmed at *all.*  I was actually kinda
+surprised at just how much there was (including two very funny scenes with
+Garibaldi and a tiny drunk alien in the Zocalo bar that we couldn't shoot
+because the mechanical props kept breaking down).
+
+Anyway, to those who've asked, yes, there's a pretty goodly amount of new stuff
+there (well, new to anyone who never saw the script).  It was amazing to look
+back at it all, after 7 years, and see it in script form again; haven't touched
+it since we did the re-edit.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1999 18:34:11 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS, Re: No Hugo for *SiL*
+
+>Also, from what I understand, you have arranged for episode screenings at
+>conventions in the past ... was there any reason why no screening of *SiL*
+>was
+>setup for the convention prior to voting?
+
+Because the voting is done long before the convention, by mail.  Clearly you do
+not have any clear idea on the process.
+
+>That is their opinion and that is fine, however, the fact is that, honestly
+>speaking, season five IS generally hailed as the weakest and least satisfying
+>of the shows run.
+
+So if somebody else says something, that's their opinion, but if you say it,
+it's a fact, is that it?
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Sep 1999 18:34:32 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS, Re: No Hugo for *SiL*
+
+My prior message was cut off before I finished...wonky computer today....
+
+To finish:
+
+>That is their opinion and that is fine, however, the fact is that, honestly
+>speaking, season five IS generally hailed as the weakest and least satisfying
+>of the shows run.
+
+To repeat...if someone else says they like it, then that's their opinion, but
+when you say something, it's the facts, right?  That's what you're saying here.
+
+Please give me the facts and figures to back this up, because it ain't what I
+hear at conventions, and it ain't reflected in the only -- ONLY -- objective
+form of reportage on B5's history: the P5 poll.  
+
+In the P5 poll, in which 2,403 people voted on episodes over the 5 year history
+of B5, the rankings are as follows, by season:
+
+PILOT: 6.32
+S1: 7.52
+S2: 8.11
+S3: 8.38
+S4: 8.58
+S5: 8.35
+
+With a standard deviation of .61, which means that the S5 rating could be as
+high as 9.  The .23 difference between S4 and S5 is statistically insignificant
+on every conceivable level, and even without that, the pilot, S1 and S2 ALL
+rated below S5 in the poll and it's essentially identical to S3.
+
+I've shown my homework, now you show yours.  Some people take it as read,
+because THEY didn't like it, that everybody else feels the same way (and I've
+heard from a LOT of people who very much liked S5 but just got tired of being
+shouted down by a few fanatics and stopped posting).  Again, the facts do NOT
+bear out your -- and I emphasize this word -- OPINION.  Sorry, but you do not
+have the key to unvarnished truth, only to your opinion, which is flatly and
+provably WRONG.
+
+So the facts definitely contradict you, as they tend to so often in your posts,
+from your claim through a "friend" that Harlan drinks, to this, to not knowing
+or understanding how the Hugo system works before criticizing it...it's a
+definite pattern on your part.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Sep 1999 00:14:37 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS: a new(?!) Crusade future question (spoil?)
+
+>I know that 3 Crusade scripts were written but not produced (To the Ends
+>of Earth, Value Judgements, The End of the Line).  I've heard you
+>respond maybe I'll put Crusade into novels, etc.  My question:  will you
+>somehow release these 3 already made scripts?  now that's something I'll
+>shell $20 bucks a pop for! 
+
+Dunno...haven't decided yet.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Sep 1999 00:15:46 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Wrestlers on Voyager
+
+>So, knowing how tough it is to make a living in *Hollywood,* your saying
+>simply
+>because someone makes their primary living as a professional wrestler YOU
+>would
+>preclude an individual from consideration for a role? I really do not believe
+>you're that shallow and superficial.
+
+Yes, I would, if it were done as a mandate from a studio as a ratings gimmick
+rather than for a legitimate story reason.
+
+As usual, your reasoning is specious.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Sep 1999 22:03:33 -0600
+Subject: Re: attn JMS: new Show - future of CRUSADE and BABYLON 5
+
+>My friend is a big Dragon Riders of Pern fan and told me that he saw
+>an interview with Anne McAffrey. She stated that there was Babylon 5
+>writer who was coming over to write the Pern series.  That leaves me
+>with two possible writers: JMS or Fiona Avery.
+
+Nope.  It's probably Larry DiTillio, who is a big fan of Anne's, and was our
+story editor for 2 seasons (and is a perfect choice for the job).
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1999 00:15:58 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: First Run Of US-Based Shows In Non-USA Markets
+
+The situation varies from market to market, but generally a non-US market buys
+the rights for a given period of time.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1999 18:21:57 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Fan Fiction
+
+Fan fiction, however nice and fuzzy it may be as a community of folks, is still
+a form of copyright infringement...it takes characters which are owned by a
+studio and mass-produces them (well, even a few hundred copies is technically a
+mass).  So no, I can't authorize or sanction it because that would put me at
+legal odds with WB, which owns the copyright.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Sep 1999 21:22:20 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS - Bryan Coney
+
+>Umm, on another list, Bryan Coney just contradicted what I have heard
+>you say regarding eithe Wolf 359 or Vorcon, or both about some of the
+>cast members not getting paid for their appearance. I totally don't want
+>to take him on, but I would like to know if I read you correctly
+>regarding this issue. If not, or if the situation has been cleared up
+>since last November, I need to know. I would rather not getting into a
+>war of words with him. 
+
+I was told, directly, by a number of cast members that they were most
+emphatically *not* paid for their appearances at VorCon, or in other cases paid
+only partially.  I have not heard anything to the contrary since then.  
+
+Beyond that, I know that WB has initiated action against Cooney on a variety of
+charges based on his convention activities, but that's all I know at this time.
+ I don't really keep track of it because he's not worth the expenditure of
+energy.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Sep 1999 23:41:38 -0600
+Subject: Re: Rising Stars?
+
+>Has anyone seen the second Rising Stars yet?
+>
+
+It'll be out soon...just yesterday got the final colored pages and inks on the
+book, so they should be going to press at any time.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Sep 1999 19:51:35 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS, Re: No Hugo for *SiL*
+
+>> There are three kind of lies. Lies, damn lies, and statistics.  Yes,
+>> but there is an error in the logic JMS. You have more viewers towards
+>> the end of the poll then you did at the begining. (Season 1 had fewer
+>> people then season two and so on and so forth).
+
+I'm sorry it's taken me this long to reply to this, but every time I see the
+quote preceding, I fall down laughing and I get bumped offline.
+
+Talking about errors in logic...once again, Von Bruno, you demonstrate your
+own, in the most glaring way imaginable.  It's the ultimate topper to your
+preceding inaccuracies.  This one is so massive and expansive that it's just
+breathtaking.
+
+Do you know *anything* about polling or public opinion measurement?  Before you
+answer, let me save you the time: no.  I do.  I have a degree in clinical
+psychology and a second degree in sociology, and as part of that had to take
+any number of specialized courses in polling and public opinion measurement.
+
+And here's where your logic falls down utterly.  Let me requote the above:
+
+>> There are three kind of lies. Lies, damn lies, and statistics.  Yes,
+>> but there is an error in the logic JMS. You have more viewers towards
+>> the end of the poll then you did at the begining. (Season 1 had fewer
+>> people then season two and so on and so forth).
+
+The more people you have in a poll, THE MORE ACCURATE IT IS.  The fewer people,
+the less accurate.  That utterly incontestable fact is at the core of every
+poll ever taken.  That's why they usually show you the raw numbers ("In a poll
+of two thousand people, ten percent thought Mars was not a planet but a candy
+bar").
+
+So the very element you claim made it LESS accurate in fact made it
+statistically MORE accurate.
+
+Just once, could you try to actually *know* something about what we're
+discussing here?  Do just a *little* homework from time to time?  Because right
+now, you're 0 for 5 on basic facts, just in the last round.
+
+And by the way, this is probably the last time I'm going to respond to you.  I
+can't lose that much work time laughing anymore.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1999 01:06:18 -0600
+Subject: Re: Rising Stars?
+
+>> Has anyone seen the second Rising Stars yet?
+>
+>   Yep, but they took one look at the artwork and their heads exploded
+>like an outtake from "Scanners."
+
+Which is kind of difficult since I didn't approve the final artwork until a few
+days ago.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1999 01:07:48 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS, Re: No Hugo for *SiL*
+
+>You can get some data out of it, but it's simply not an "utterly
+>uncontestable fact" that a greater sample size confers more accuracy
+>on a self-selected survey.
+
+What I was responding to was the statement that more responses made a survey
+*less* accurate.  Surely you're not saying that that's the case?  And yes, a
+larger sampling universe *does* make a survey more accurate within that
+preselected universe.  As long as the sampling within that universe is random
+-- and there's a wide range of diversity withih that preselected universe --
+the survey is accurate.
+
+For instance, phone surveys preselect anyone who has a phone.  At one point,
+there were still not a lot of phones in common use in the hinterlands, but that
+doesn't disqualify the poll.  A street corner poll preselects those who happen
+to be walking by the street corner.
+
+Now, if you're going to preselect for some particular specific variable -- all
+asians, for instance, or only people under 25 -- then you start to skew the
+data and thus the results, making it inapplicable to the greater, non-sampled
+universe.
+
+Point is, insisting that more numbers make a sample *less* accurate -- as VB
+was doing -- is utterly and totally inaccurate.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1999 01:16:16 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS: Don't you get tired?
+
+>Don't you get tired of the 'I can't discuss it yet' and the 'I can neither
+>confirm or deny that' and the showing of a neutral or optimistic face for the
+>sake of the project even though it's gone to hell in a handbasket?  The
+>political crap seems that it would grind you down and sand off your
+>integrity.
+>How do you deal with it?
+
+I don't, basically, as the whole TNT situation makes fairly evident.  I'm
+simply not a political creature.  My life would be eminently simpler and less
+stressful if I *were*, but I ain't.  I go for the philosophy of "Be sand, not
+oil, in the machinery of the world."
+
+The peculiar thing about it is...by all rights I should be hard-core
+unemployable.  But any time I become available, the phone rings...people who
+work with me invariably come back to work with me again,fully knowing that I'm
+a major-league pain in the ass.  I think the reason they do so is because they
+know that I'm *not* political, that whatever some might say the truth is that
+when I show up at the office in the morning, I check my ego at the door and
+everything I do, I do if I sincerely believe it's the best thing for the show,
+and the story.
+
+Somehow, it works.  Damned if I understand it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1999 01:19:19 -0600
+Subject: Re: Babylon 5 in retrospect
+
+>Maybe JMS will reply,  tell me I'm a fool, and that I've completely misread
+>him.
+
+Nah...you're a cutie pie.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1999 16:07:50 -0600
+Subject: Re: jms- B5 Copyright Ownership
+
+No, it's of no aid to me; WB owns B5 lock, stock and barrel.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1999 16:13:51 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Rising Stars #2
+
+The final colored pages have come through this past week, so it should be out
+shortly.  The interior artwork fell well behind what should have been the case.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Sep 1999 16:14:47 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS - Bryan Coney
+
+What hasn't been mentioned in all of this is that Dreamwatch Magazine did an
+independent investigation of the situation, that cast members had not been
+paid, spoke with the actors, and confirmed, in print, that the story was
+correct.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Sep 1999 17:40:05 -0600
+Subject: Re: B5: Into the Fire Cancelled
+
+Yeah, I got word of this today from one of the developers on the game;
+apparently the problem is two-fold: 1) because Sierra has taken so long to get
+the game out, it has become expensive, and the additional million bucks used to
+relocate the facility north (and everyone involved) was charged against the
+game, and 2) they made a deal with WB for X number of games in Y years, and
+they've chewed up most of that time already, and WB is (I'm told, haven't had a
+chance to verify this yet) loathe to renegotiate since it's now taken --what?--
+three, four years to get this first game out.  
+
+There's rumors that another studio might be interested in picking it up and
+finishing it off -- it was literally inches from being finished, and it's a
+spectacular game -- but again that's only rumor, I don't know anything beyond
+that.
+
+(The game would have allowed players to go through all of the major wars of the
+B5 universe -- the Dilgar War, the Earth/Minbari War, the Shadow War and the
+Earth Civil War -- with a chance of affecting the outcomes and dealing with the
+temporal stresses caused by that.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Sep 1999 23:50:49 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Value Judgements
+
+It's not my script, so it's not my call, but I don't think the author would
+overmuch like it.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Sep 1999 23:56:55 -0600
+Subject: Re: Hugo for Y2K??? Attn JMS
+
+>I have a ?, since Sleeping in Light was not seen in Australia at the time of
+>the Hugo award presentation. Will it be eligible for consideration in Y2K??
+>
+
+Thanks for the kind words elsewhere.  To your question...no.
+
+The only B5 stuff that will be eligible would be A Call to Arms, The River of
+Souls, and Crusade stuff.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Sep 1999 23:59:14 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS: Don't you get tired?
+
+>Major nosey questions:  Have you ever been personality typed?  what were the
+>results?  What did you think of them?
+
+The one time I took a career-oriented personality inventory, it said I was best
+suited to be an officer in the Army.  I think running a production company
+comes in right about there.
+
+Other than that, pretty much stayed clear of them...once had an IQ test that
+put me in the genius category (was in Mensa for about a year before I ran
+screaming out the door)...other than that, frankly, I think I'd rather not
+know.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1999 22:17:38 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Typical Episode Budget
+
+>For example, one of the figures I remember from the early days of TNG was the
+>"$1 million an episode" factoid, and I was wondering how things compared.
+>
+
+The average Trek budget was about $1.4 million, sometimes going to $1.6.
+
+The average B5/Crusade budget was about $920,000 per.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Sep 1999 22:20:09 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Grimjack?
+
+>I just remembered...it's been about...um...six years (what a
+>coincidence...) since you've mentioned the Grimjack screenplay you were
+>working on at one time.  Was there any further development on that?  Or
+>is it safely tucked into the back of a drawer somewhere?
+
+There was a rights problem between the writer of the comic and the publisher
+which could not be resolved; hence, it never got written.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Sep 1999 21:00:01 -0600
+Subject: Re: What's Next?
+
+I think Harlan (no surprise) put it best one day: "You get the show you want,
+and it gets no PR, no respect; you get another show and a chance to redefine
+SF, and they want to make it into wrestling.  You get one thing and they take
+away another.  Kiddo, there is a war in heaven over you."
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Sep 1999 23:45:02 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS:  Why SF?
+
+>In the midst of a small debate about just what constitutes SF, it occured to
+>me
+>to ask: as a writer, why do you work in SF?  What attracts you to the genre?
+>
+
+I've worked in a variety of genres -- murder mysteries, SF, detective series,
+animation/comedy, horror...I kinda like all of them.  If I have a predilection
+toward SF it's simply because I grew up an SF fan.  In brief: ah likes it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Sep 1999 22:22:22 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS: Don't you get tired?
+
+>Anyone here surprised???  It didn't take me long watching B5 to realize that
+>about ya Joe.  
+>I'm glad you've used it for good.  Thanks for everything.
+>
+
+Except, of course, that I don't believe it *means* anything.  At the very most,
+it may be some kind of indicator for potential or intuitive thinking, but at
+the end of the day it really doesn't mean anything; it's what you do with your
+potential that matters, and person A with less potential can do 100 times more
+than person B who had more potential but less *will*.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Sep 1999 23:23:22 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS: How does Del Rey do it?
+
+>Because of this, I'm curious what the process is in making a Babylon 5
+>novel from Del Rey?  Why Trilogies? 
+
+In Minbari, all things are three.
+
+> How are authors chosen?  
+
+By mutual consent; they'll suggest someone, and we'll talk about it.  Keyes'
+work I somewhat knew, and he seemed right...and Peter David *is* a Centauri. 
+Jeanne Cavelos' work on the shadow arc made her correct for the technomage
+books.
+
+>How did
+>the decision to spotlight the series' history and background, instead
+>of the lead characters and the station, come about?  
+
+It's that perverse "let's do the opposite of what the marketing people think"
+thing I get into sometimes; there's so much history in the B5 universe, and I'd
+worked so much of it out, it seemed a shame to waste it.
+
+Will there be any
+>single novels?  
+
+Dunno.
+
+Is Warners & Del Rey willing and/or interested in
+>adding Crusade characters and concepts into the B5 books?
+>
+There will be some...Galen is all through both the technomage books and a bit
+in the Centauri books.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Oct 1999 20:50:46 -0600
+Subject: Rising Stars #2 Is Out
+
+I think my prior message got munched...anyway, for those who've been following
+it, RISING STARS #2 hit comic stores this Wednesday.  Wanted to get the word
+out quickly because they have a tendency to vanish fast.
+
+
+jms
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Oct 1999 21:07:31 -0600
+Subject: RISING STARS #2 OUT THIS WEEK
+
+Just wanted to let folks know that the new issue hits the stands this week. 
+It's a little mystery story about how one goes about eliminating someone who is
+invulnerable...and how being invulnerable doesn't solve all your problems, and
+how you get by and get a job and live a life when nothing can touch you.
+
+It's kinda cool.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Oct 1999 22:12:16 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS:  A question on one of your quotes
+
+>When/how did Cavelos work on 'The Shadow Arc'?  I take it this means the
+>Shadow War (Seasons Three and Four), but as I understand it Cavelos was
+>only brought on in Season Five as a story editor (as well as editing the
+>B5 numbered novels and writing 7 herself), then she went on to Crusade.
+>
+>wait, do you refer to her writing "The Shadow Within" (B5 Book 7)?
+>
+Where did you get THAT information?  She was never a story editor on the
+series, she was the editor for the Dell books far earlier than S5.  And the one
+she wrote (noted above) dealt with Z'ha'dum and shadow technology and other
+advanced tech stuff, and so that made her right for the technomages.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Oct 1999 17:39:12 -0600
+Subject: Re: jms- Final Reckoning (Spoilers for this and Hannibal)
+
+>The story issues aside, I am also curious how much of an outline do you
+>write for the trilogies.  Is it a couple of paragraphs or many pages?  Are
+>there any plans in the works that the fans would be able to view the
+>outlines?
+>
+
+It varies, but on average each outline is about 25-35 pages.
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Oct 1999 17:39:26 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: RealVideo Cruasde Episodes on the web
+
+>Since TNT is almost certainly not going to rerun the Crusade episodes, and we
+>don't known when (or ever) we'll see them on video, would you give us the
+>permission to encode the Crusade episodes and put them up on the web, until
+>such
+>time as they become available to the audience in some other form?
+
+No, because I can't give that permission, the show is owned by WB, and that
+would be massive copyright infringement, and deny actors their residuals.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Oct 1999 22:32:27 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: RealVideo Cruasde Episodes on the web
+
+>Personally I think that WB are doing themselves no favours in blocking the
+>material being shown at cons which are run for charity or where any profits
+>go to charity. It helps broaden the audience and it's poor PR when it's
+>announced that "X has been pulled because the big bad men at WB/whoever
+>have said no" for me this passes onto guilds/unions/whatever if they're the
+>ones being sticky.
+>Hell the politicians will bend over backwards to bend the
+>rules if it's "For charity or in a good cause" and I'm cynical enough
+>to know that there's a goodly percentage doing it becuase it makes them
+>look good.
+
+Except, of course, that a number of conventions use the charity flag to cover a
+multitude of sins, often illegitimately...which also compromises the cons that
+ARE sincerely raising money for charity.  And that a con is giving money to a
+charity doesn't really mitigate the legalities involved; if I steal your car,
+sell it, and give the money to charity, the government isn't going to go
+"awwww" and let it go because the money ended up in a worthwhile cause.
+
+A secondary concern is that if ANY kind of money is involved, for a group
+screening, it can be legally constituted as a theatrical exhibition if any of
+the actors or others involved choose to press the point.  In fact, that
+happened to WB, after an episode of Lois and Clark was screened at a con.  One
+of the actors apparently took the position that this was a theatrical
+exhibition, and if you show a TV program in a theatrical venue, it triggers
+*substantial* payments per the various unions involved...and in this particular
+case, it cost WB in the vicinity of six figures.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Oct 1999 19:12:36 -0600
+Subject: Reminder re: jms email
+
+Every so often I have to post this...folks who've seen this before and know the
+drill, feel free to ignore it.
+
+Folks...understand that there are roughly 10-15 million of you out there, many
+of whom own PCs with modems.  That's a lot of people, many of whom have similar
+questions/thoughts/comments.
+
+The best place for those is here, in this forum, not in my personal email
+account.  It puts me in the position of either not answering ("what a rude
+sonofabitch, he says he'll answer fans but he didn't answer my email after I
+sent it to him TEN TIMES asking the same question") (and one such email did
+come to me with that complaint, by the way), saying I can't reply in email,
+which takes nearly as much time as replying, or ultimately repeating the same
+information every time somebody asks in email a question somebody else asked a
+week earlier.
+
+*Please* reserve the use of this email account for *PERSONAL  MATTERS OR
+MATTERS WHICH YOU DO NOT WANT DISCUSSED PUBLICLY*, not questions about stories,
+props, plots, arcs, ship armaments (you have NO idea how many of THOSE I get
+daily), contracts or the like.  I'd really rather not have to change my email
+address because I've had this one for a long time, but the emailbox is filling
+up these days with just those sorts of questions, and I've started to miss
+important email because it gets lost in the piles of "so what does Ulkesh mean
+and what was Kosh's first name?" messages.
+
+Thankyew.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Oct 1999 19:16:03 -0600
+Subject: B5 Jackets at thestation.com
+
+Invariably, whenever I show up at a convention flying the colors, the #1
+question I get is about the B5 cast and crew jacket.  "Where can we get one of
+those?"  Up until now, the answer has always been the same: you can't.
+
+For JUST this month, that will change: we are making a limited number (only
+about 200) of these same jackets available on www.thestation.com.  These are
+identical to the crew jackets, made by the same manufacturer, same materials,
+same detailed embroidery, the whole thing.  On ebay these jackets have gone
+from anywhere from $400-$1000, which is kind of obscene, but these are
+available here for a hell of a lot less.
+
+Also: we stopped taking orders for The Gathering script, which is now out of
+print until some point in the distant future.  We're doing one per month, so
+for those who missed out...it's too late.  This month it's the script for the
+first B5 episode, "Midnight on the Firing Line."  Orders will be taken for this
+month, and that's it.
+
+Just to keep folks informed, especially in the case of the jackets, because I
+think they're going to go fast.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Oct 1999 20:41:16 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  The Gathering Script & Final Reckoning (Spoilers
+
+>I liked the extra scene with Garibaldi & the insectoid-alien.  Was this
+>cut for time?  I think it would've been really funny.
+>
+
+We couldn't get the prosthetic to work right, so we never filmed it.  Unless
+you read the script, there's no other way to know about it.
+
+And yeah, Greg did a great job on the book.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Oct 1999 00:04:16 -0600
+Subject: Re: B5 Jackets at thestation.com
+
+>While I'm very interested in reading the scripts, I'm not particularly
+>excited
+>to have five seasons * 22 episodes of scripts weighing down a bookshelf.  I
+>would like to encourage JMS and the fan club to offer a CD-ROM (or two) with
+>all the scripts available in some convenient format (e.g., PDF or HTML). 
+
+Only problem with that is that it makes it very easy to print up and sell
+copies, or to send them out on the internet.
+
+BTW...I'm an idiot.  I meant to say Crusade jackets in my prior message, not
+the B5 jackets.  (And I'm told they'll keep taking Gathering orders until the
+8th because the system was down for a bit.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Oct 1999 16:08:49 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  The Gathering Script & Final Reckoning
+
+>Tallman's afterword in Andy Lane's The Babylon File Vol. 2 confirms the
+>rumor.
+>
+
+The problem with that is the way it was presented.
+
+An actor has a fee he or she receives for a full week's work.  Let's say, for
+the sake of argument, it's 7,000 for a 7 day shoot, only because that will make
+the math simpler.  If you only need an actor for one or two days, it's typical
+that you only pay the actor for the one or two days of work.  If it's more than
+that, you generally pay full freight, seven days, $7,000.
+
+We did this with Richard Biggs, who didn't have a problem with it, as most
+don't.  When we went to shoot "Path," we only needed Pat for one day. 
+Actually, it would've been only a partial day, 3 scenes.  Out around lunchtime.
+ So we offered a day rate.  She wanted a full week's salary.  We couldn't do
+that.  End of story.
+
+No animosity, no acrimony, we had what we had, and that didn't work out.  But
+it is utterly consistent with how all TV is done.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Oct 1999 19:20:57 -0600
+Subject: I'm an idiot
+
+My prior message mentioned B5 jackets...I meant to type Crusade jackets, but
+somehow it came out B5.  I must have a mental block on that name....
+
+BTW, also to correct, because the web site was down for about a week, The
+Gathering is still available, through October 8th.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Oct 1999 19:22:29 -0600
+Subject: Oops...Crusade, NOT B5 jackets
+
+I'd left this info under the heading "I'm an Idiot," then I realized that
+nobody would download that one to read because it isn't newsworthy or a secret.
+
+Anyway...I stooged it: I typed B5 jackets available when I meant to type
+Crusade jackets available on a prior message.  Terminal brain fart.  Mea culpa,
+mea culpa, mea maxima culprrrrrrrrpppppfhhhh.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Oct 1999 22:28:35 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for the laugh.
+
+>Oh, out of curiosity, is there anywhere I can fins enough (good) information
+>to
+>make a report on you? It seems that they had to tell the teachers (what a
+>moron) and I've gotten a wonderful extra assignment. "make a report on that
+>person whom you heard that from".
+
+I dunno, probably any of the grand jury hearings would suffice....
+
+That apart, do a yahoo search...you'll get more than anyone would want to know.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Oct 1999 22:30:43 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - dont leave us hangin
+
+>I dont like being left hangin.
+>
+>So what are you going to do? novels? online scripts? what?
+
+Something else.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Oct 1999 22:32:26 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS A Final Reckoning Question (Spoilers)
+
+>Was Bester's job from the outline you gave Mr. Keyes
+
+I'd have to check the outline, but I think that part came from Greg.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Oct 1999 22:33:59 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS (or anyone with possible knowledge) - Crusade re-runs
+
+>I note that from time to time someone announces that such-and-such a
+>local channel (in the US) is re-running Crusade.  This would seem to
+>indicate that TNT is starting to sell the syndication rights. 
+
+TNT doesn't own the rights to that, WB does.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Oct 1999 01:13:04 -0600
+Subject: Re: B5 Jackets at thestation.com
+
+>Almost as easy as it is to buy scripts from thestation, photocopy them and
+>sell copies or send them out on the internet after some OCR work, no?
+>
+We're talking hours of work in the latter scenario, as opposed to 30 seconds to
+download.  Thievery always happens, but you want to make it as difficult as
+possible.
+
+And photocopying a work into a scanner is a much clearer violation of copyright
+for purposes of prosecution than transferring something already in file form.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Oct 1999 00:49:28 -0600
+Subject: Re: and the cost would be...?
+
+As far as I know it has a satin lining.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Oct 1999 00:50:47 -0600
+Subject: Re: Crusade Writers Bible
+
+>Does the Crusade Writers Bible, as presented on www.thestation.com,
+>contain the story outlines for the entire series? 
+
+No, that was kept out of writing.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1999 22:32:48 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS - Telepath War
+
+>I've finished the Bester series. As good as it was, I can't help
+>feeling a little disappointed that the Telepath War was not covered
+>in detail. Do you have any plan to tell the story or have we heard
+>everything we need to know?
+>
+
+Thing is, the war is too big and too important to slip into what is, basically,
+the personal story of Bester.  So we handled it in much the same way we handled
+the Minbari war in most of season 1 and some of 2...we hear about it, and see
+the ramifications.  And down the road, we may get a clearer picture of what
+happened, and why.
+                               
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Oct 1999 22:35:48 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Progress on new series
+
+>I read on the net several months ago that you were working on a new
+>television series not releated to B5.  Can you say how that project is
+>developing?  When do you expect to get it on the air?
+>
+
+The process is long and slow; it took 5 years to get B5 on the air.  This one,
+if it goes, will take far less, but it still takes the amount of time it takes.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Oct 1999 20:25:11 -0600
+Subject: B5 game article
+
+This got sent to me from someone who got it off the Wired.com site...figured
+folks might be interested.
+
+jms
+--------
+
+
+'B5': Back B4 U Know It?
+by Andy Patrizio
+
+3:00 a.m. 20.Oct.99.PDT
+The dedicated fans of a game based on the Babylon 5 television series are doing
+their level best to find a new home -- and life -- for their favorite pastime. 
+
+When Sierra announced in September that it was killing off three games --
+including "Babylon 5: Into the Fire" -- as part of a massive reorganization
+that
+included 105 layoffs, angered fans went bonkers. 
+
+"A lot of people wanted to take out the Sierra servers and do other things to
+try and take Sierra out of the business," said Kevin MacNeil, aka Drazi Guy,
+one
+of the three coordinators of the FirstOnes.Com, a fan site that had been
+following development of the game. 
+
+"It took about a week to get everyone under control and to get ourselves
+coordinated and decide what direction we were going to
+head," he said. 
+
+The plan was to spread the news of the game's demise to every gaming site and
+Babylon 5 fan out there. It proved to be an effective
+tactic. 
+
+One editor for a gaming publication said he'd received more than 2,000 emails
+on
+the issue. Wired News has also been flooded with feedback from upset B5 fans. 
+
+Another target was game developers, and that campaign has also paid off. 
+
+"There are four companies who have shown interest in purchasing B5. We are now
+in discussions with all of them," said Dave Williamson, Sierra's senior vice
+president of business development. "Some have reviewed what we've got and some
+are in the process of scheduling meetings with us. So, we are actively pursuing
+the opportunities." 
+
+The B5 team members, who were all laid off together, bonded quickly with the
+FirstOnes crew. "They have been a great help for the team as far as morale,
+when
+it all first happened," lead programmer Dan Foy said. 
+
+Foy has been in the games industry for 10 years and has never seen anything
+like
+the FirstOnes' effort. "The show's popularity is certainly a part of it," he
+said. 
+
+Another reason for the loyalty is that the developers took an active role in
+the
+FirstOnes forums to discuss nuances of the game. "People really enjoyed
+participating with us and took it more personally when the project was
+cancelled," said Foy. 
+
+Even though the B5 team has a good severance package from Sierra, the crew is
+eager to renew work on the project. Foy said they need a pretty clear picture
+on
+a possible buyer within a month or they'll start losing members to other jobs.
+At that point, a new team will have to be rebuilt, which would delay the game
+even further. 
+
+He described the game as 65 percent complete. The engine is pretty much done,
+but artificial intelligence and some missions still needed work. 
+
+The FirstOnes faithful continue their work as well. A Web ring dedicated to
+spreading word of the game and trying to find a new publisher has sprung up. So
+far it has 16 member sites. Petitions to find a new publisher have almost 600
+signatures, and the message board on FirstOnes.com has 700 users posting to it.
+
+
+How long will they carry the torch? "We're going to hold out until the
+development team has moved on to other projects and there's no hope left," said
+MacNeil.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Oct 1999 00:03:29 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Wheel of Fire?
+
+>The meanings of the other season titles are pretty obvious:
+>Signs and Portents, The Coming of Shadows, etc.  But could
+>you give us any insight into the choice of "Wheel of Fire"
+>as the title for Fifth Season?
+
+"For I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that my own tears do scald like molten
+lead."  King Lear.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Oct 1999 18:14:04 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: simple question
+
+>Do Humans evolve into Vorlons at the end of Deconstruction and then go
+>back in time to fight the Shadows?
+>
+
+No.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Oct 1999 18:15:19 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS (or anyone else who might know) first 3 stations?
+
+>I was reading through the forums in the FirstOnes message boards a while ago
+>and there has been some discussion about what the first 3 Babylon stations
+>looked like and what colors they were
+
+They went in spectrum order, from red, a coule of interim colors I can't
+remember, to green, to blue.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Oct 1999 21:59:50 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: TechnoMage Tech (Spoilers for The Long Road and Final
+
+> I guess it begs the question:
+>Is Technomage technology, SHADOW technology?
+
+Expect more on that question in the forthcoming Technomage trilogy; for me to
+say too much now would give it away.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1999 00:16:29 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: What's Next?
+
+>Rising Stars is going smoothly, albiet a bit slow, and your new show is 
+>waiting for someone to latch onto it.  This makes me think you have some 
+>time on your hands (finally) - which being a workaholic, you're filling 
+>with something that hopefully you want to do.  A novel, perhaps?  What 
+>would you like to do next, if the show takes awhile to take off?
+
+I've been about as busy since Crusade as during it.  In addition to the comic
+(which is going great guns, but the schedule is a bit off, about which I've had
+some talks with the good folks at Top Cow), and the series project which is
+currently in rather serious development mode....
+
+There's the TV movie script I recently finished for CBS...the adaptation of CM
+Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons" for NPR's Beyond 2000 radio series...I
+finished a novel outline now being sold in NY...I have a feature film in
+development that's now in script stage...I knocked down two of the B5 stories
+in Amazing Stories Magazine (with one coming out this month and another due
+from me in December)... the ongoing column in B5 Magazine...in the next little
+bit I should finally conclude a deal for an original computer game I've
+designed (have both a developer and a publisher who want to do it)...the bulk
+of the original B5 novel outlines were written after Crusade was
+completed...and there's been a bunch of other stuff.
+
+But the main thing that's consumed my time has been the series development,
+which has just recently begun to show signs of maybe some good news coming,
+though I can't say anything more about it at this point.
+
+Suffice to say, though, it's been kinda hectic around here for the last few
+months.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1999 01:40:17 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS:  Why TV?
+
+>With all of the media that you've worked in, why have you chosen to tell so
+>many of your stories on TV?  Isn't that awfully ephemeral for the breadth of
+>story you tell?  
+
+It's an ephemeral medium but a pervasive one; it hits millions of people at a
+time.  A best selling novel reaches 100,000 people or so; at its worst, the
+average B5 episode was seen by 10 *million* people here in the US alone.  If
+the task of the writer is to tell stories to the largest number of people, then
+TV gives you that ability.
+
+And why abandon such a powerful and pervasive medium to the visigoths?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Oct 1999 15:30:58 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS:  Why TV?
+
+>::sigh:: yes, but a book you can re-read at leisure without the distraction
+>of
+>commercials.
+
+That's why god made VCRs.
+
+>BTW, I enjoyed "We Killed Them in the Ratings".
+>
+
+Thanks...I don't do that many mainstream stories, but that was one I enjoyed
+(if only to take a shot at TV in general).
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1999 18:27:08 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS:  Why TV?
+
+>The reason I asked is that there's an ethical dilemma in "We Killed Them in
+>the
+>Ratings" that I think is a thorny problem for any journalist in any media.
+
+Exactly, which is why I chose to examine that particular question in the story;
+I like questions that don't have particularly easy or facile answers.  And this
+is one of them.
+
+There isn't any hard and fast rule.  For instance: in recent years there were
+two particular cases of self-immolation here in the US, both as protest but
+also both were just a little bit not right in the head.
+
+Anyway...in one case, the reporter saw what was happening, and rolled film,
+made no attempt to intervene.  He was pilloried for his inaction and
+inhumanity.  In the other case, the other reporter saw what was happening,
+grabbed a coat, and rushed to put the fire out...and was pilloried for getting
+personally involved with the story instead of staying the "objective outsider,"
+which in truth does not exist because the only way to be TRULY objective is to
+not have any prior beliefs, convictions or experiences that would color one's
+perceptions.  
+
+I don't think there is a right answer or perspective on the question...which
+makes it fun to explore as a writer.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1999 18:33:45 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS: How do you work?
+
+>I was just wondering in what kind of environment you work in.  At home?
+>In an office?  And if in an office, do you rent a permenant one
+>somewhere or something (since you're obviously not working in a
+>TNT-Crusade office).
+
+Between shows, I work at my home office.  I travel light, don't have a lot of
+folks working for me, it's just me, so there's no need to maintain an office
+anywhere else.  I have a home office equipped with phone, fax, modem,
+computers, reference books, music, TV, every distraction I could ask for.
+
+>And during B5/Crusade, where did you work?  Was
+>there like an office of writers or something (which of course would have
+>gotten lonely in Y3, 4, 5 !)? 
+
+My office was in the B5 production building/studio in Sun Valley, at the end of
+the hall, bordering the Wall of Death (a wall where all the generators and
+power sources were, which was on the other side of the wall right behind
+mydesk...and for a studio we're talking a LOT of power...I didn't think much of
+it until we had an eletrician do an EMF sweep, came to the wall (where I sat
+every day for 3 years) and literally paled.  HIs comment, "Jesus, you could fry
+eggs over here."  So I moved to the other side of the office, and a lot of the
+fatigue I'd had for the preceding couple of years faded.)
+
+>Did you live/work near the set where they
+>shot? 
+
+Live, no...about 20 minutes away.  My office was about 15 feet from Stage C.
+
+>How much personal contact did you have with the actors?  Did you
+>ever watch them act/shoot the scenes?
+
+Constant personal contact.  We'd eat together at lunch, I'd go by the stage
+whenever possible (and often it wasn't) to watch scenes being shot, we
+sometimes would get dinner or otherwise hang out.
+
+>And is your office extremely
+>cluttered or organized?
+
+Yes.  It is extremely cluttered -- frighteningly so -- but I know where
+everything is.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Oct 1999 23:10:34 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: *sigh* a quick Question
+
+>The only MAJOR changes were in "War Zone" and the other episodes, discluding
+>the last five, were only minor changes. Correct? They weren't something like
+>what they did in "War Zone"; they didn't change the plot/whichever that was
+>in WAR ZONE. Right?
+
+This is a greyer question than appears at first blush.
+
+You need to understand that the notes-giving process was ongoing, that every
+day was a fight, and every day there were pressures from WB and others to
+accede to those requests and notes.  We were told repeatedly, "Look, give 'em
+the show they want for the first year, then you can make it your way in the
+second season."  
+
+I've always had a policy that if a note makes sense, whoEVER it comes from -- a
+network, a grip, a carpenter, whoever -- then I'll listen to it.  So I tried,
+where possible, to listen for any notes that made sense in the whirlwind of
+ka-ka that came our way.  Some who were not there said that I was acting
+unreasonably, and that only the one script WarZone was really affected, that
+the other scripts were already written and thus not affected.  But nothing
+could be further from the truth.  They were all whittled at in big or small
+ways.
+
+If a note didn't make sense...then the answer had to be No.
+
+The "big no" meeting was specifically about a small percentage of the
+scripts...and only one meeting out of many.  They kept at us *constantly*.  
+
+As Michelangelo said, "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle." 
+Sometimes the notes nibbled at big issues, sometimes at small ones, but there
+are profound effects either way.  Sometimes doing something as small as
+changing the rhythm of a scene can destroy it.  Take a particularly memorable
+piece of classical music (I won't even name it to illustrate the point further)
+that begins "dah-dah-dah-DAAAH."  
+
+Now change it to "dah-dah-dah-BLAAAT."  It's only one note difference.  You can
+say it' s just a teensy change.  But your gut says it ain't right, something
+there doesn't work.  
+
+Just for the hell of it...I'm going to reprint now one of my memos to TNT,
+omitting the name of the person involved.  This is emblematic of some of the
+exchanges.  (This memo was widely distributed to TNT, WB and Babylonian folks
+involved in the creative stuff, so it's by no means private.)
+
+Message follows.
+
+**********************************
+
+To: 	
+From:	Joe Straczynski
+Date:	December 8, 1998
+Re:	Latest Notes on Cuts and Scripts
+
+Dear 
+
+We've had a chance to review the latest batch of comments, and have some
+thoughts on how some of them can be done.  Others, as will be examined below,
+are more problematic.
+
+Prior to that, though, a general thought: when the notes process began in
+earnest subsequent to 105, we voiced the concern that we seemed to be getting
+conflicting reactions…on the one hand we received requests for action, on the
+other hand we got requests for more dialogue about what the stories mean to the
+characters, scenes that allow them to express their feelings to one another. 
+Prior to then, with the possible exception of a few scenes in 101, we had been
+primarily an action-based series.
+
+We said at this time that we needed clarification: did TNT want more action, or
+more dialogue scenes/exposition?  Since then, the script notes have been
+primarily oriented toward creating more dialogue scenes, more background on the
+characters, their feelings toward one another and the situations they're in,
+and the emotional consequences.  Essentially, expository scenes of one sort or
+another.  We have complied with those notes as much as we possibly could.
+
+So you can understand my concern when, having done as TNT asked, we get notes
+on the cuts that essentially pillory us for having a slower pace.  The pace is
+in large measure the result of adding in those expository scenes.  If TNT asks
+for new scenes or to expand scenes in which characters talk about their
+feelings, it's going to perforce slow down the action aspect.  
+
+I feel it's unfair to take us to task for doing what we were told to do.
+
+The Senator scene in 108 is particularly emblematic of this.  That scene was
+originally much shorter.  TNT asked for more information about how this was
+affecting people back home, how they felt about it.  We did that, and now are
+being told that the scene is too long.  It wasn't too long when we started with
+it.  It only became too long after we added in all the things that TNT asked us
+for.
+
+It is both confusing and demoralizing for all of us involved in the production
+of Crusade to receive contradictory notes.  As I mentioned in our previous
+meetings, there has to be consistency; if the goal post keeps getting moved
+around the field, we have no idea what to move toward.
+
+To be honest, the pacing that the current notes seem to be asking for is most
+embodied by episodes 101-105, the kind of show we were making prior to the
+hiatus and notes process.  
+
+Anyway, that's a general reaction that I think we need to address at some point
+in the future.  Meanwhile, on to the specific notes.
+
+NOTES ON PRODUCER'S CUTS
+
+(jms note to reader: a producer's cut is made after the episode has been filmed
+and we edit the thing.)
+
+THE WELL OF FOREVER
+
+"The opening seems slow.  Is there a way to open with the scene in which Galen
+convinces the crew to go to the Well of Forever?  This scene will catch the
+attention of the audience."
+
+There are only two scenes in the opening: a walk-and-talk scene with Matheson
+and Gideon, in which we learn that Matheson is going to get tested to ensure
+that he has not been improperly scanning people telepathically, and the
+convince-the-crew scene.  The most we could do structurally would be to flop
+the two scenes in sequence.
+
+Both are dialogue scenes.  The first one keeps us in motion, and sets up that
+Gideon is en route to a meeting; the second scene is that meeting.  We cannot
+edit out that part because it comes at a point where the camera is moving and
+we're well into the scene.  It seems to us best to start in on movement, to
+pull the audience in, and end on the conference scene, because that sets up the
+mystery: no one has ever come back.  To have that moment, and then the
+walk-and-talk, would eliminate the dramatic end of the teaser, which we're
+hoping to use to make the audience want to come back after the commercial
+break.
+
+So on careful reflection, this one can't really be done without actually
+working against the overall pacing and structure of the episode.
+
+WAR ZONE
+
+'The pacing of this episode, as well as 106 and 107, is consistently slow."
+
+While there may be some validity to this as far as 106 is concerned, about
+which more later, I find "slow pacing" a very difficult concept to apply to
+this episode.  
+
+WAR ZONE contains 25 interior shots, 52 exterior shots, and a total of 115
+scenes over 43 pages, averaging 3 scenes or major shots per page, which is
+something of a record for a script on this or just about any other show.  It
+has stunts, fights, hand-to-hand combat, air-to-air combat, air-to-ground
+combat, sneaking, shooting, and buckets of other action.  It is, frankly, the
+most ambitious and fastest-paced episode we've ever produced, rivaled only by
+103, which is in your hands now, and which is anything but slow.
+
+I believe that, as with 103, the pacing will become more evident once the CGI
+and other effects are in. 
+
+"The fight scene in the opening…is choppy and unrealistic."  We did the best we
+could there with what we had in the dailies, which were also sent to TNT.  It
+was a small set, and we really only have the two scenes with which to play.  
+
+However:
+
+Ø I agree that there are some places where a couple of transitional shots (such
+as the downshot, and the crew running out the door coming into the stairwell
+scene) are a bit awkward, given the coverage we had.  We jumped into the scene
+a bit faster because we wanted to speed up the pacing, get into the
+confrontation with Gideon quickly, rather than wait for them to start at the
+top of the stairs and come all the way down.  
+
+Ø We can try to further expand the fight by lengthening the first piece, but
+only by double-cutting some of the footage we have from B-camera and grabbing
+bits of side-action, but this will add more cuts and that may also make it more
+"choppy."  
+
+Ø If you want additional fight stuff for that scene, it would have to be shot
+as new material, and there will be costs involved in doing that.
+
+"…the scenes which include the senator's speeches need to be cut back."  As
+noted previously, this scene was expanded to meet TNT's earlier notes. 
+Virtually all of the information presented here is necessary for the audience
+to understand what the show is about: the plague, the blockade, why Gideon was
+chosen, and what the mission is. 
+
+Ø However: there is a small piece or two that can be lifted, about 5-15 seconds
+worth, which may help to pick up the pacing.  It would, however, mean
+eliminating some of the material asked for in earlier notes.  So if TNT is okay
+with that, we can trim up the scene and add those seconds to the fight scene in
+the teaser.
+
+If "unrealistic" could be better defined for us, that would be very helpful,
+because that one has us kind of stumped.
+
+Ø One other thing we can do in future episodes that will help the pacing is to
+work more closely with the directors, who tend to loved their long panning
+shots to open up a scene, rather than just jumping into it.  (We sometimes get
+stuck with those long pans because coverage tends to start later into the
+scene, leaving us unable to cut into the scene any later.)   
+
+"Gideon doesn't seem to have an understanding or a rapport with his ship."
+
+So that I can better understand the note, at what point does Gideon indicate
+that he doesn't understand his ship?  
+
+As for "a rapport with his ship," in this episode he is assigned to the
+Excalibur for the first time.  He's only been there for a few hours; it seems
+unrealistic to expect to build a rapport with a place in just a few hours.
+
+"There are also logic problems.  How does he know where the conference room is
+on the Excalibur without some investigating?"
+
+In the first Excalibur scene, Matheson escorts Gideon to the bridge.  Gideon
+can see the conference room from his chair.  Since it is in his clear line of
+sight, I'm not sure how much further investigation is required in order to find
+it.
+
+"Introduce Trace by name earlier."
+
+Ø We don't have any footage of this, but we can add an ADR line using his name.
+
+Regarding the Chambers scene…here we must agree to disagree.  Her letter to her
+sister seems very emotional to everyone here and at WB.  Further, it's not a
+crying scene because that scene is about encouraging her sister about their
+intention to find a cure.  She has to be strong for her sister, not fall apart.
+ This had to be done as a recorded letter to her sister because we couldn't
+afford another actor at that point.
+
+Also, that scene was sent through in script, and everyone was fine with it at
+the time.
+
+Regarding 106 and 107…as we noted in our conversation prior to their
+publication in script form, having done massive action shows in 101-105, we
+needed to have a couple of smaller, quieter shows in order to balance out the
+costs involved.  So yes, they are slower episodes, as I noted at the time they
+would be.  You can't produce every episode at a screaming pace and expect to
+stay on budget.  Some are loud, some are quiet; the key is just to do more
+louds than quiets.
+
+SCRIPT NOTES
+
+(jms note to readers: this refers to scripts that were then in the
+preproduction stage)
+
+APPEARANCES AND OTHER DECEITS
+
+"Can we have one of our primary characters become inhabited by the being
+instead of either Rice or Janey?"
+
+This is not possible; in order to provide the solution to the problem, we need
+Chambers, Eilerson and Matheson outside, and free.  I chose those individuals
+specifically because they're the ones who together work out the solution.  If
+you take any of them out of the equation, you don't have the people necessary
+to resolve this.  So they can't become inhabited.
+
+If we choose another character from our roster of regulars, that means a
+substantial rewrite and increased cast costs…and we have further problems
+because we only have access to a limited number of episodes per cast member,
+and we're trying to spread them out for maximum effect.  So this one we can't
+really do.
+
+"It might be fun to play up the comedy with (the fashion consultant)…have him
+get the crew into more trouble, not out of it."
+
+That would be kind of the cliché way to go, in my view; to have him even
+inadvertently help the process is a nice surprise.  Also, to create a thread
+where we have to set up a third problem in the script (the changes being asked
+for by Earth being one, the infestation being the second) and pay it off
+requires more room than we have in 43 pages, and is an unnecessary beat.
+
+"Can we heighten the crew's annoyance with the changes being made on the ship?"
+ The changes are not actually made until the end of the episode, which makes
+this rather problematic.  We can add material in which they voice their
+concerns about what might be done, but this will again add expository dialogue
+that will slow down the pacing of the episode, and that seems to contradict
+what we are being asked for elsewhere.
+
+Ø Re: "decoding of 'the air is human,'"…I'll look at that and see if we can
+extend the discovery of what he's trying to communicate to make it clearer
+about how they get there.  Be advised, again, that this will add time and
+exposition and slow the pace.
+
+RULING FROM THE TOMB
+
+Regarding the recap of the request to edit down the Jehanne dialogue on page
+13, expressed at the time because it seemed too "far out"…as noted later in the
+script, we are using the actual dialogue of Joan of Arc in the script.  So if
+we are to retain our historical accuracy, we can't really change that material.
+
+"Henderson's murder at the end of the teaser needs to have more physical
+action…have it become more of a hand-to-hand struggle."
+
+We have already had to pull back on some of the stunt work in that episode due
+to budget limitations, and adding one more here is not within the limits of
+what we can do.  Also, the suddenness of the attack is what we're looking for,
+dramatically, rather than a prolonged struggle with someone we've never met.
+
+Ø However, I've spoken with John Copeland about this (he's directing this
+episode), and he will do what he can to maximize the action of that scene
+without having to add stunts or other costly elements.
+
+I hope that this will be of assistance in clarifying the situation.  We will
+certainly try and do what we can in the areas where we indicated we have some
+room to work, but as always, the degree to which we can make modifications is
+dictated to us by the budget, and we have an obligation to both WB and TNT to
+stay within those limits.
+
+Sincerely,
+
+Joe Straczynski
+
+********************************
+
+Back again.
+
+Hardly the picture of someone who is being hostile, I'd say.  But it does show
+that the notes process was ongoing.  Every script meant defending against the
+addition of exposition and dumb scenes (such as a scene in which Matheson shows
+Gideon where the conference room is, which is 10 feet from his chair, because
+somebody at TNT thought it would be confusing to the audience otherwise to
+figure out how he could know it's there.)
+
+>Meaning, you'd be pretty damn proud of those episodes [The Path of Sorrows,
+>Patterns of the Soul, Rules of the Game, ect.] that were only slightly
+>changed?
+>
+
+I'm proud of pretty much all of them, because of what they required.  If
+someone hands you a palm frond, a blender, and a car battery, and says, "Make
+me a radio out of this," and you actually DO it, you're proud of the result. 
+It ain't as pretty as it could be, but given the conditions under which you
+were laboring, it ain't bad.
+
+Some succeed more than others; but all would have been better *without* the
+kind of interference we received, the day to day battles, the war of attrition,
+the confusing and contradictory notes, and so on.
+
+That's why 101-105 are overall the best episodes, because they were troubled
+the least by outside forces.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Oct 1999 18:52:50 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: *sigh* a quick Question
+
+>Joe, it sounds like these notes were coming from several people and
+>directions.
+>Would it have been a reasonable request that TNT filter them all through one
+>person? Theoretically, this might have put that person in the position of
+>ensuring some consistance?
+
+That was *precisely* the problem.  The LA office wanted the exposition stuff,
+and the Atlanta office wanted the action/sex stuff, and we were constantly
+caught in the switches.  We tried constantly to get them to speak with one
+voice; it never worked.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1999 04:17:47 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS: Apologies in advance... a TNT Question
+
+>My question:  what the hell happened?  How did TNT change so much in
+>regards to B5/Crusade?  From what little I know, it seemed that the
+>execs thought since it was a new series they could change it (unlike the
+>already established B5), but what happened?!
+
+Simple answer: TNT Atlanta had never gotten involved before.  Also, B5 was a
+known commodity, it was never a question of getting input on the direction of
+the show, we just kept doing what we'd been doing.  Crusade was a new show, and
+people who didn't understand SF wanted a hand in determining the direction of
+the series.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Oct 1999 18:30:02 -0600
+Subject: Re: JMS: Apologies in advance... a TNT Question
+
+>Then, since hindsight is 20/20, it appears you should have sold Crusade to
+>TNT as being as B5-like as possible.  Ties to the known commodity could only
+>have helped here (e.g. B5 actors guest appearing on Crusade often). 
+
+Except at first TNT said they wanted NO connection to B5, or as little as
+possible, because they wanted it to be THEIR show...then, after they began to
+realize that the connection made sense (well into the writing process, I might
+add), they said no, no, it's OKAY to have B5 stuff going on...which is why
+Lochley is gone for so long.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1999 16:24:30 -0600
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: *sigh* a quick Question and a follow on request
+
+Alyson: that's a very good analysis of the situation.
+
+>Compounded on this dynamic seems to be an additional one of lack of
+>knowledge on some (both?) of the TNT parties about when and where they
+>can affect the product.
+
+This is also very much true.  In one scene we shot, there's a slight reflection
+on the monitor wherein we can see Gideon's face reflected.  (Intentional on the
+director's part.)  They asked if we could give them the scene without the
+reflection.  No, we can't...unless we reshoot it.
+
+One other area where we ran up against a  problem with understanding was on the
+EFX and delivery.  They simply couldn't visualize what was going into a CGI
+shot before we actually *did* it.  They'd look at a scene where we'd slugged
+time for action, and think it was slow, because no, there isn't anything there
+NOW, but there will be when the CGI is done.
+
+They also kept saying (after the first 5) that the show was too dark, that they
+couldn't see anything, that the colors were muted.  That's one reason they
+wanted the sets repainted, to make them more colorful.  We kept saying, no,
+it's NOT too dark, we don't know where you're getting that.
+
+I finally found out when I went to visit someone at TNT and looked at what THEY
+were looking at...not the digibeta footage, or a good clean copy of the
+edit...they were looking at a fourth- or fifth-generation dub of the *avid
+output*, which is a digitized version of the film, somewhat low-res.  
+
+So finally, we brought in their tech guy, and showed him the digital beta
+version, the actual footage.  He looked at it, and said, "Oh, okay, you're
+right, it's not dark at all."  But by then the mandate had come down from on
+high, LIGHTEN THE SCENES.  Which is why the first five have a moodier, more
+stylistic look to them than the rest.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Oct 1999 16:26:46 -0600
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS:  A third story? (Was "Re: Attn JMS: What's Next?")
+
+> If I'm understanding correctly, and there
+>is a third story in the works, can you share what it will be about?
+
+Haven't decided yet.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Oct 1999 23:25:04 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn. JMS B5 on Space
+
+>The Space channel (out of Toronto) is currently airing season 5 eps 3
+>times a day. (3 PM, 7 PM and 3 AM ET)  Think about this for a
+>moment--this amounts to fully one eighth of their broadcast day--not bad
+>for the little show that could, eh? 
+
+Cool...thanks, I had no idea.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Oct 1999 23:25:01 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: A third story? (Was "Re: Attn JMS: What's Next?")
+
+>How have the tales been doing for Amazing?  The editorial says a lot of
+>copies cleared down at the con in Australia. 
+
+What the folks at Amazing have indicated is that the B5 story issues have been
+among their best sellers, beating out nearly everything else.  That's kinda
+nice...
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1999 03:46:08 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS--B5 Calendar canon?
+
+>I just picked up the new year 2000 B5 calendar from Slow Dazzle, a very nifty
+>thing btw, and was wondering if the various dates mentioned are considered
+>canon.
+
+I don't know since they still haven't sent me one (though I've asked).
+
+>I understand a detailed chronology of the B5 universe will be published
+>shortly
+>in the B5 magazine; looking forward to that quite a bit.
+
+It's *truly* an astonishing piece of work.  I commend everyone out there with
+even the vaguest interest in B5 to pick up these issues with the chronology
+(it's just *huge* and totally inclusive).  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1999 20:40:14 -0700
+Subject: Re:Attn: JMS: TNT notes (WAS *sigh* a quick Question and a foolow
+
+>Unfortunately, Joe doesn't seem to be listening to us.  As I understand
+>it, some form of production memos are pretty normal on most shows. I had
+>thought Season 1 of B5 just for reasonable comparison.
+>
+
+No...it's just that there really aren't any, in terms of story.  The very few
+comments that came from our WB liaison were always sensible; if I disagreed, he
+deferred to my judgment; and they were always handled within a 2 or 5 minute
+phone call.  There's practically zero paper trail for that period.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Nov 1999 23:21:56 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  What did Walter Koenig think of Bester's fate?
+
+>Do you know if Walter Koenig had a chance to read the "PSI Corps Trilogy",
+>and if he did, what does he think of Mr. Bester's fate?  After all,
+>other than yourself, he was probably was the one most involved with the
+>character.
+
+I'm having lunch with him tomorrow...I'll ask.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 3 Nov 1999 19:45:57 -0700
+Subject: Re: New Amazing Stories Issue
+
+Just a general note...because Amazing is a quarterly publication, they don't
+rush to get the magazine out nationwide...it's still hitting newsstands and
+will be for a while yet, so if it ain't there, it will likely be there soon.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Nov 1999 23:37:43 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS in new Wizard magazine
+
+>You know.  I thing I hate the term comic book about as much Harlon
+>Ellison hates being termed a science fiction writer.
+>
+
+I dunno...*I* always thought I was writing a comic book....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Nov 1999 18:35:48 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: How do you feel TV show creators should treat fans?
+
+>However, creators such as Chris Carter (of X-FILES fame) are notorious
+>for "teasing" fans and then either not delivering or deliver something
+>totally different altogether, sometimes being more disappointing than
+>not. Or saying "we'll never do this on our show" and then a season or
+>two later, do it.
+
+Well, I don't really know if that's necessarily true of Chris, I think he
+always tries to be straightforward with folks.
+
+>How do you feel about this? Do you think this way of "teasing" the fans
+>is good or would you rather be upfront and truthful? And are your fans
+>important enough to you that you know if you cry "Wolf!" too many times
+>they won't believe/respect you?
+>
+I think you have to be careful to always be as accurate as possible.  (And bear
+in mind that one of the whole reasons for this exchange is to provide an
+accurate transcript of how a show is made, to help folks better understand the
+process and thus get better TV and have more input into that process...and that
+process is compromised if bad data is entered into the system.)
+
+I take some small pride in the fact that in 6 years of having this on-line
+conversation, when it comes to talking about this show, I have never once been
+caught out in a prevarication.
+
+Which is why I was kinda frustrated when the whole Claudia Christian situation
+went down, when she was saying she was fired when in fact she walked away over
+money.  People said "Well, who should we believe here?"  At that moment, to be
+honest, it felt to me like, "Why have I bothered to establish this reputation
+and conversation all this time if suddenly my word doesn't mean anything?" 
+Later, of course, Claudia came out and said, well, yeah, she did walk away, and
+it was over money, which is of course utterly her right, I just wish she'd said
+that at the start rather than much later...since the situatoion led to threats
+against me and abusive email and the like.
+
+So really, some people will believe what they choose to believe no matter how
+straight you've been with them in the past...that's been a hard lesson that
+I've had to learn.  All I can do is to keep doing what I've been doing, talking
+straight about the show to the best of my knowledge and ability.  And if I'm
+wrong about something, I cop to it instantly.
+
+What's good about that is that if I think a show didn't live up to
+expectations, I'll *say* so...quite bluntly sometimes.  But that way, when I
+say that show X is really, really *good*...fans know I ain't blowing smoke up
+their collective butts.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Nov 1999 19:11:54 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: How do you feel TV show creators should treat fans?
+
+>"Will you ever do a cameo on Babylon 5?"
+>
+>     "No."
+>
+>Ahem.
+>
+
+I said as straight as I can be about what happens in the show on the production
+side to within my knowledge and ability.  That means mainly what happens behind
+the scenes.  I a) consider the cameo to be a story thing, and b) what was I to
+say to that question?  "Oh, yes, I intend to be in the last episode shutting
+off the lights before B5 blows up"...?  That would be a massive spoiler.  And
+it ain't the point.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Nov 1999 20:17:40 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: How do you feel TV show creators should treat fans?
+
+>Well, no speaking role, and really, who better to be the one to pull the last
+>switch to shut down B5?
+>
+>
+
+Besides, it was supposed to be a *surprise*.  There's a qualitative difference
+between talking about what's happening, and something planned for down the road
+(if I had the courage at the last to do it, which I was never sure about).
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Nov 1999 20:44:22 -0700
+Subject: Re: A dumb ratings question...
+
+>> As someone who does nothing BUT watch TNT's air, I can tell you without
+>> a doubt that Crusade was promoted TO DEATH on TNT, and to a lesser
+>> extent on all the other Turner networks.  Although I have forgotten the
+>> exact figure now, I know that the ad campaign even before the first
+>> episode aired was well into the millions.  Lack of advertising was NOT
+>> the problem.
+
+That's simply not true.  For one thing, the few ads they had on TNT were comps,
+meaning they don't cost much of anything, and only appeal to viewers watching
+TNT to begin with.  For the B5 launch, they bought ads on other cable networks,
+bus ads, billboards, you name it...they did none of that for Crusade.  Zero. 
+Reviewers and journalists were constantly calling me to ask if they could get
+material for the show because TNT wouldn't give it to them.  I saw their ad
+campaign before they launched it, and even they admitted that it was only a
+small part of what they'd done for B5 and were doing for other shows.
+
+Your perception is your perception, but it doesn't jibe with the facts.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Nov 1999 21:51:55 -0700
+Subject: Finally! B5 Bible/Treatment Available!
+
+Folkses:
+
+For the last six years, I've been asked repeatedly -- in email and at
+conventions -- "Are you ever going to make the original B5 series writers'
+bible available?"  My general reaction was to simply say...maybe someday.
+
+After considerable reflection, and as a Solstice present to B5 viewers...we're
+finally going to make it available.
+
+TWO such *its*, to be precise.
+
+First: The original Babylon 5 Series Treatment
+
+This is the 23 page document, written in September 1988, that was used to sell
+the series for the five years it took to find a buyer.  It has different
+characters than were ever seen in the show, such as Dr. Chakri Mendak (a role
+that later became Dr. Stephen Franklin) and more background on Vice-Commander
+Laurel Chang... Sinclair's background is also quite different from what we
+eventually ended up with (including the fact that he was widowed, a piece I
+pulled away from his character for the series and held for someone like
+Sheridan)....the Vorlons were warlike, squabbling aliens....
+
+This was the first attempt to put B5 down on paper, in a process that would
+change and evolve over the next 5 years.  Ideas that were never used,
+characters who would never be seen again, the first stirrings of the Minbari
+War story (including a never used alternate explanation for why they
+surrendered), Delenn was a male character... Kosh had a mate who came with him
+to B5...on and on and on.
+
+Second: The original Season One Babylon 5 Writer's Bible
+
+This massive tome weighs in at over 60 pages, with comprehensive backgrounds on
+all the characters as well as guidelines for writing SF for TV in ways that
+would be different than all of our predecessors.  It lays out the first year of
+the arc and warns potential writers away from areas we plan to explore in later
+years, has additional backgrounds on regular characters never actually used in
+the series (such as a strange fellow named Mr. Jones who would have been
+alternately a bane and ally to Garibaldi), stories that would eventually be
+filmed, other stories that would never be used, information on the the history
+and technology of the B5 universe, Psi Corps, Earthforce, the various
+governments, and other areas...this is the Big One, the Grail of the B5
+fictional world.  The table of contents alone covers 2 pages.
+
+This bible was ONLY given to prospective writers, who were in turn asked to
+keep the material totally confidential.  The treatment was ONLY given to
+network/studio. heads and others in a position to buy the series.
+
+In addition, BOTH of these documents will be peppered with the original
+illustrations by Peter Ledger used to sell and visualize the series in its
+earliest stage, including the original keyhole logo, many of them reproduced in
+full color, others b&w.  Some of these images have shown up in various places,
+but others will be seen here by the world at large for the first time.
+
+(Note: the page counts given do NOT include the pages of artwork, which expand
+the length further.)
+
+I debated long and hard about whether or not I would ever make these available,
+but finally decided to give in to the many requests for the release of this
+material.  
+
+This material will shortly be made available at www.thestation.com and via
+phone orders.  I don't know how long we'll make them available, but I suspect
+it may not be very long.  
+
+In reading through the documents, it's like taking a trip back through time to
+what was, to the very beginnings of the series, what would be, what might've
+been, what never was...what got abandoned on the side of the road, what was
+kept.  At times the material is coy, informative, deliberately misleading in a
+couple of places where I wanted to avoid leaks, rude and sometimes it actually
+makes a rough kind of sense.
+
+They're going to cost a bit more than the scripts, because at 60+ pages in the
+case of the bible, and with the color illustrations, they're more expensive to
+produce, and we're only doing a limited number of these.  
+
+Expect the full info to go up on thestation.com in a few days.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Nov 1999 21:53:10 -0700
+Subject: Rising Stars #3 Out November 22nd
+
+Just wanted to say that...er, well...I guess the title of this message just
+said it.  The next issue of Rising Stars out 11/22 tells the story of Lee
+Jackson, the pyrokinetic whose fiery outburst started the whole thing rolling. 
+This one also features the artwork of Christian Zanier, who comes on board as
+regular penciler with this issue, and does a bang-up job.  This issue also
+hints at the motive for the ongoing murders.
+
+It's a corker.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1999 00:02:20 -0700
+Subject: Re: CRUSADE Rumor
+
+>The rumor is that Sci-Fi is negotiating with TNT to do some sort of
+>one-time special CRUSADE marathon.  All the episodes would be shown back
+>to back, and if the ratings were high enough to please the Skiffy Suits,
+>talks would begin for possible purchase of CRUSADE by Skiffy.
+>
+
+It's news to me, so I doubt its authenticity.  Also, they'd have to factor into
+the equation that the episodes have just run on TNT recently, so a lot of folks
+have seen 'em.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Nov 1999 22:13:16 -0700
+Subject: Re: Finally! B5 Bible/Treatment Available!
+
+>When I clicked to add either B5 Bible to my cart, it gave me the "We're
+>sorry, but this product is not currently available with the attributes you
+>selected." message.
+
+The info is *just now* starting to go up, so I imagine they are still adding in
+the info to the system.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Nov 1999 22:45:59 -0700
+Subject: Re: Finally! B5 Bible/Treatment Available!
+
+>BB-01A  Babylon 5 Autographed Bible  $45.00  
+>BB-01  Babylon 5 Bible   $35.00  
+>173-CB-01  Crusade Writers Bible  $20.00  
+>
+>Are the items in question?
+>
+
+The Crusade bible is a different thing; it's the additional B5 treatment that's
+being made available starting right now.  The Crusade bible was made available
+a bit ago.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1999 00:56:03 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Sleeping In Light (and a heart-felt thank you)
+
+No, thank you...you are most kind.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Nov 1999 18:47:17 -0700
+Subject: Re: Finally! B5 Bible/Treatment Available!
+
+>I've been meaning to ask this since I got the Crusade Bible...Does the
+>writers
+>bible change year to year?  I would think it would, if only to take into
+>account everything that is revealed in past seasons and to point out which
+>directions you want the show to go, but this is just guesswork.
+>
+
+I think we did a supplementary thing to the bible for year two, but that was
+it, and my memory could be off about that.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1999 16:32:45 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Sifl & Olly Will Return!
+
+Yeah, I heard that the other day...I'm looking forward to it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1999 16:34:31 -0700
+Subject: Re: Hands Outstretched
+
+>Hand of Friendship--
+>
+
+Delenn reaching out her hand to Sheridan.
+
+And of course gloved hands in the Psi Corps.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Nov 1999 23:02:13 -0700
+Subject: Re: Finally! B5 Bible/Treatment Available!
+
+>On that note, do you plan on releasing the supplementary things or
+>season 2 through 5 bibles of Babylon 5 for sale on The Station, now that the
+>S1 bible is up for sale?
+>
+
+I very much doubt it; there was just minor tinkering done to the thing.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Nov 1999 05:27:55 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN. JMS - Odd questions
+
+>1) Is Kosh supposed to be the Oracle of Delphi? It just hit me today that he
+>has those babbling sounds in the suit (that sounds like wind rustling in
+>leaves) and then he makes a short statement that no one understands until
+>what he has said has come to pass.
+>
+
+Yeah, that's always how I kind of looked at him.
+
+>2) Did you, long ago, have a glimpse of your future like Londo did?
+>
+
+Some things I probably should not comment on.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Nov 1999 23:11:08 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Lyta & G'Kar Story (Spoilers)
+
+>Also, this may sound dumb, but I was wondering how Lyta was able to send
+>G'Kar a telepathic message in the story, since he isn't a telepath.  I
+>guess I missed something in the series!
+
+We've had other examples in the show of someone sending a telepathic signal to
+someone else who wasn't a teep...Kosh to Sheridan being the one that comes to
+mind right offhand.  We've established in the books that a teep can send into a
+normal, but obviously it doesn't work in the other direction.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1999 02:17:14 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Rising Stars
+
+Your words are most kind; thank you, and I hope you continue to enjoy the book.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Nov 1999 02:17:15 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Chris Carter Rumor
+
+I can't comment at this time.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Nov 1999 16:56:54 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: four quick questions
+
+>I read in the german Babylon 5 newsgroup that all Crusade episodes will
+>be available as rental video tapes with german synchronisation in
+>february 2000. Do you know anything about that? Will Crusade also be
+>available in the stores?
+
+I'm afraid I've no idea.
+
+>The Lurkers Guide mentioned an artikel from Cleveland Live
+>(http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/pd/news/tuesday/e16scif.ssf)
+>with a very interesting quote:
+>
+>"X-Files" creator Chris Carter and "Babylon 5" creator J. Michael
+>Straczynski are teaming up for a CBS drama. 
+>Any comments from you? ;-)
+>
+Not at this time.
+
+>Is there a chance to see you next year in London? In march there will be
+>the Starfury Millenium Con (no Wolf359 con AFAIK) with
+>Peter, Andreas, Richard and Jason and some german B5 fans, too!
+>
+No, no plans for UK conventions next year, and would not be involved with this
+one in any event given some of the folks involved.
+
+>And final...any news from the DVD sector?
+
+Not that I've heard.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Nov 1999 17:00:31 -0700
+Subject: Re: Crusade Jacket MIA?
+
+No, there's not a problem.  We wanted to wait until the last of the orders were
+in, and then ship everything pretty much at once, which is easier for the
+fulfilment house to deal with given the bulk of the items involved.
+
+I think they've either stopped taking orders, or will stop shortly, so stuff
+should go out soon.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Nov 1999 18:17:24 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade and NDEI site
+
+It's a typo.
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1999 23:07:16 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS: Selling B5 Scripts & Pricing
+
+>So we must spend $20 a script on thestation.com for a B5 script...
+>
+>just thought you'd be interested to know that for $20 you can buy a
+>multimedia CD which includes ALL 175 Deep Space Nine scripts along with
+>their video promos.  Same thing for Next Generation.  Why didn't you do
+>this?
+
+First, is this CD by any chance licensed?  
+
+Second, that is the going price for actual, physical scripts.  Go to any other
+place in town, X-Files, or a script store, and that's the going price to get an
+actual script.  Lots and lots of folks don't want just a CD, they want the
+physical script.  I can get all of an Mark Twain's books on CD, but I *prefer*
+to buy them in book form.
+
+Third, these are collectibles whose value is more than just the paper.
+
+If you don't get that concept, there's nothing I can do that will explain it to
+you.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1999 23:11:33 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS: Some bible questions/praise
+
+>
+>s
+>p
+>o
+>i
+>l
+>e
+>r
+>
+>s
+>p
+>a
+>c
+>e
+>
+>p
+>r
+>o
+>v
+>i
+>d
+>e
+>d
+>
+>b
+>y
+>
+>m
+>e
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>That should be enough space.  (maybe more than enough LOL).
+>
+>What I enjoyed most was seeing how you moved some of the pieces of
+>peoples lives around.  I can't find it know but one of your suggested
+>stories was Garibaldi talking with his father in the hospital, not
+>Ivanova.  Or the fact that you mentioned in the bible Franklin was
+>divorced with two kids, that didn't come out in the show (to my
+>recollection).  So many ideas to play with, so little TV time to show
+>it.
+>
+
+The first was a story that Larry looked at in the treatment and suggested would
+be better given to Ivanova since Garibaldi had already had a lot of
+character-related exposure.  And as for the latter...I didn't get a chance to
+bring it up early on, and finally vetoed the thing as laying in too many
+threads, especially since an ex-wife would end up playing significantly in the
+Sheridan thread.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 21 Nov 1999 23:12:49 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - Babylon 5 "SERIES 1" Bible
+
+>1) The bible refers out to a 200-page Arc document.  Can you tell me if
+>this is ever going to be released in any way, shape, or form.
+
+Not a chance.
+
+>2) The bible covers *Season 1* only !  Does this mean we have 4 more of
+>these bibles to look forward to (Please say "yes").
+>
+
+No, since there were only minor modifications done to the thing for S2, and
+there were no other changes done for S3-5.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1999 07:10:12 -0700
+Subject: Re: SFX Magazine, JMS and Double Standards
+
+I think that we have a British/American misunderstanding here, because the
+gesture reported is not designated as one that calls the person asking the
+question a "wanker," at least not in this country, though it may be in the UK. 
+It's more meant here as indicating that the person talking doesn't have a clue
+and is just jerking around with the answer.
+
+Though it's a moot point, since SFX is a fairly useless publication on just
+about every imaginable front.  Never have so many jumped-up fanboys done so
+little, with so much, for so long.
+
+Wankers.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1999 19:19:48 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS: Selling B5 Scripts & Pricing
+
+>I appreciate the fact that they are collectibles, my point is some people
+>(like
+>myself) aren't willing to spend about $2,200 on 110 scripts... it's too much
+>money!  I really do want these scripts, but it's too much.  Can't there be a
+>cheaper alternative?
+
+Well, for one thing, we're not going to release all 110 scripts, only the
+highlights and justifiable releases.  Grey 17 for instance will never be
+released, it may only plan to escape....
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Nov 1999 21:00:58 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: TV Production Role
+
+>I came across "Executive Story Consultant" but not Story Editor, is
+>Executive Story Consultant just another wording for Story Editor?
+>
+
+No.  A consultant can read scripts and give suggestions...a story editor
+rewrites.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1999 18:07:18 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - 200 page document
+
+First, you have to understand that there is no requirement that I release
+*everything* that has ever been done for the show, and that I do have some
+rights to privacy, and to keep some things for myself.
+
+Second, the original document was such that is was random notes bunched
+together by time and character, sometimes cross-referenced, sometimes not. 
+It's like an outline to oneself that is never supposed to make sense to someone
+else because it was never *written* for someone else.  They are my private
+notes, to myself.
+
+Where does anyone here have a problem with the concept of private notes?
+
+Further still...the material contains bunches of quick premises for possible
+stories or episodes, some used, some not, and if I let them out then those
+not-used stories can never be used, and may end up elsewhere.
+
+Lots of people seem to have this idea that the final result was widely
+divergent from the original arc, hence this interest, and that proceeds from a
+false premise.  It really didn't change that much.  Anyone looking at the S1
+bible right now sees stuff that was laid out for the later seasons, and it was
+pretty much all done...right down to telling writers not to get Lyta into a
+relationship because she would eventually become starstruck by Byron, and I
+didn't want anything else to get in the way of that.
+
+So it really *isn't* that different.  What the original material *is* is
+scattergun, written in quick fragments or sudden thoughts dashed down in the
+middle of the night or while working on something...it's in no condition to
+release to anyone.  I'd have to go through the material, reorganize it in a way
+that would be all-chronological or all character, take out the stuff that I
+would want to hold onto for future use...and then it wouldn't *be* the original
+document anymore.
+
+Whereas the overall approach was there from the git-go, the details were always
+a work in progress, refining the ideas further and further during the five
+years it took to sell the darned thing.  Imagine five years of random notes as
+the story coalesced, and you've got a pretty solid idea of the mess it looks
+like.
+
+>JMS how often would you refer to this 200 page document yourself?  Did you
+>refer to it as much through out season 5 as you did the first season?  
+
+Yeah, I referred to it constantly.  Early on, to expedite things, since it is
+such a clutter, I broke out each season at the very start of S1, putting each
+episode on a card in a black binder, which had two-sided sheets that held 10
+cards per side.
+
+I did this for all five seasons before we ever shot a frame of film on S1.
+
+That binder sat on the first shelf on the left in my office for five years. 
+People would come in and ask where the material was, and I'd explain that the
+original material was in the triple-encrypted file...and they never knew that
+the distillation of that material was sitting right behind them, close enough
+to reach over and pull down off the shelf.
+
+>Did you
+>have a similar document for Crusades or was Crusades included in the
+>original document in some form
+
+Not as lengthy, no.
+
+>Several weeks ago I remember you saying
+>something about the final fate of a few of the major characters.  Does this
+>document contain this sort of information?  If so then I do understand the
+>desire to not release it
+
+There's a lot of that in it as well, on the theory that even if I never used
+it, *I* would have to know what it was, in terms of the history of the B5
+universe and where it and the characters were all going.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1999 19:57:40 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Final Approval
+
+Damn...that one slipped by.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1999 23:02:03 -0700
+Subject: Re: SFX Magazine, JMS and Double Standards
+
+>Maybe now they aren't <that> good.  Most of their crimes are those of
+>self-indulgence, and self-congratulation.
+
+Having been a journalist myself, I also kind of have a problem with an editor
+of a publication using that publication as a tool in a fanboy vendetta.  But
+that's just me, I'm whacky that way.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1999 23:04:24 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS:  Chronology question
+
+>I'm really looking forward to the chronology in the upcoming B5 magazines.
+>Can
+>you tell us how it will be set up?  There are various 'canon' items that
+>weren't actually shown on screen (books, comics, magazines) and I wondered if
+>they will be included and annotated as to the source?  Also, how many issues
+>will it take?
+>
+>
+
+I think it'll be stretched across 2-3 issues.  The thing can't quite be
+explained as you've outlined the question here, it really kinda has to be seen.
+ It incorporates a LOT of stuff from various sectors into a detailed timeline
+that has been checked and cross referenced with our material to ensure its
+accuracy.  It's real nifty.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 23 Nov 1999 23:59:57 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: four quick questions
+
+>> In article <s3gg97ng3ef16@corp.supernews.com>, Ryan Nock
+>> <Tai_sa@hotmail.com> wrote:
+>> 
+>> > Jms at B5 <jmsatb5@aol.com> wrote in message
+>> >
+>> > "> >Is there a chance to see you next year in London? In march there will
+>be
+>> > > >the Starfury Millenium Con (no Wolf359 con AFAIK) with
+>> > > >Peter, Andreas, Richard and Jason and some german B5 fans, too!
+>> > > >
+>> > > No, no plans for UK conventions next year, and would not be involved
+>with
+>> > this one in any event given some of the folks involved."
+>> >
+>> >
+>> >
+>> > JMS, I hope it's not true, but that reply seems to imply that you have a
+>> > problem with Peter, Andreas, Richard, or Jason.  Again, I hope that's not
+>> > true, but I wouldn't expect you to explain why even if it is true.
+>> 
+>> I don't think he's referring to the actors, but rather the folks who
+>> put on the con. ISTR some problems with one of the UK cons last year...
+>
+>AFAIK is there only a problem with Wolf359 (a UK Con runner) since the
+>Wolf359-Con "The Alliance" 1997 in Blackpool. I hope there is no general
+>problem from JMS visiting Cons in the UK.
+
+Correct, I have no problems with the cast attending, or with the UK.  That
+unpleasantness with Boston Harbor is long,  long forgotten....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 24 Nov 1999 22:03:49 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - 200 page document
+
+>But, Joe, I would ask this of you.  Keep the thing around, and let it be
+>released someday -- 50 years after your death, if you like.
+
+You must understand: if you go through all of my files, for all the scripts and
+stories I have written, you will find ONLY final drafts.  I routinely destroy
+ALL of my annotated drafts, rough drafts, preliminary drafts and most notes.  I
+think that, in the end, what has to stand or fall is the work, and one doesn't
+let out one's rough drafts or unfinished work.  
+
+A while back, there was a long and heated debate between me and some other
+online folks on the issue of unfinished work and annotated drafts; I'm
+foursquare against them being released posthumously.  This, to me, falls under
+the same heading.
+
+All the rough-draft stories, all the MSW scripts, and all my B5 scripts with my
+handwritten edits, changes, annotations, deletions, and revisions...are mulch. 
+As they should be.
+
+One does not go out in public only partially dressed.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1999 00:35:04 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Music Tastes (B5 Magazine)
+
+>In the latest B5 Magazine (US), they were asking people involved with
+>B5, including yourself, what their musical-tastes were.  You said that
+>you like a group called Kodo.  I have never heard of them--what kind of
+>music do they perform?
+
+It's KODO, all caps, and they're a Japanese...I don't know if group is the
+right word, collective?...bunch who use Kodo drums and similar massive drums
+for traditional Japanese music of the kind that gets the blood moving.
+
+For a newcomer to that kind of music, I suggest SAI-SO, their latest which is
+actually a remix of their Iridori album by Western DJ/mixer guys.
+
+If you just want to jump in, get their Live at the Acropolis CD...it's fucking
+brilliant.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1999 17:16:49 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS: Some bible questions/praise
+
+>My recollection is that this is something that The Great Maker
+>has admitted lying about.  The triple-encrypted computer files
+>were actually a boxful of index cards on a shelf in his office
+>where he could stare at them while telling visitors about
+>the triple-encrypted computer files.
+
+No, that is completely untrue.  The cards were a distillation of my notes,
+broken down by season.  
+
+Please don't put words in my mouth, I have enough trouble with the ones that I
+put there on my own.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 26 Nov 1999 17:21:50 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS: It's been a year
+
+No, I understand the motivation and whence it comes; on a much higher plane,
+it's the kind of stuff that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had to deal with after he
+sent Sherlock Holmes over the falls of Reichenbach, after Dickens dispensed
+with some of his characters...so I do understand it.
+
+And thanks.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1999 19:32:39 -0700
+Subject: jms recommends....
+
+Flumadine.  You've never heard of flumadine?  
+
+Lemme explain, 'cause this stuff just saved my ass.
+
+Flumadine has to be taken within 48 hours of contracting the flu, which I just
+recently got.  (After you've had pneumonia, as I did about a year and a half
+ago, it makes you much more susceptible to flu and upper respiratory infections
+and the like...and I'm susceptible to begin with, you can set your flu-calendar
+by me).
+
+What does it do?  It's a prescription drug that produces an enzyme that blocks
+reproduction of the virus.  So what you have in the first 48 hours is all you
+have, and those die off in time.  The result is that your symptoms are cut by
+about 50%, and the duration can be similalry cut.
+
+It's only been out for about a year, so most folks don't know about it...even
+most of the staff at the medical center didn't know about it, though the doctor
+was familiar with it.  I figured, having gotten the flu, I didn't have anything
+to lose by taking a shot.
+
+And sonuvagun...it worked.
+
+So I commend it to you heartily.  Just remember, though: if you think you're
+getting the flu, you *have* to get it within the first 48 hours or it won't be
+effective.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1999 21:26:42 -0700
+Subject: Re: jms- Rising Stars #3
+
+I believed it was supposed to be this week, but it looks like there's been a
+delay in shipping; expect it next week.  Much apologizings....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1999 21:30:35 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5, TNT, & SCI-FI
+
+>My question is, is there a
+>time limit on this contract?  If so, how long before it expires?  Are there
+>other stipulations such as requiring them to air the reruns (even if it is
+>in a really crappy time slot)?  Has anybody (SCI-FI Channel included)
+>expressed interest at picking up the reruns after TNT's contract expires or
+>is it way to early for that?  And is Crusade part of the same contract or
+>is it another deal all together
+
+I believe that the license for TNT to run B5 runs through late 2001, so it
+would be available thereafter.
+
+>And speaking of Crusade, is it officially 100% dead yet?  I know that
+>budget concerns were the initial reasons SCI-FI couldn't pick it up (at
+>least that's the story we were told) and I know they've cancelled Slider's
+>and Poltergeist, but they're also producing a couple of new series, so is
+>there still no room in their budget for Crusade or is it too late even if
+>there were (what with your other projects and expired actor contracts,
+>etc)? 
+
+My feeling is that if it hasn't happened by now, it's probably not going to. 
+The efforts made by the fans have been terrific, and appreciated, and valued by
+all involved...but if it were to happen, it would have had to have happened by
+now, I think.  Mind, I could be wrong, odder things have happened, but that's
+how it looks to me at this point.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1999 21:32:53 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Strange "Rising Stars" Promo
+
+>   On the other hand, the listing announcing "Rising Stars" #5 for 
+>January 2000 was decidedly different:
+>   The unknown issue! Tempers reach an all time high as deadline
+>     crunches weigh heavy on the shoulders of all! Atist, inker and
+>     colorist are still unknown but JMS will still deliver one heck of
+>     a story. Soon to be lengthened into a 900 page novel, grab
+>     yours today. Peace!
+>
+>What's *that* all about?
+>
+
+I've no idea, since the script for #5 was turned in *ages* ago.  In general,
+the scripts have stayed 3 issues ahead of the publishing schedule.  And even
+before it was turned in, I provided TC with a synopsis of the story for use in
+solicitations.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1999 21:45:46 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS - Souls
+
+>I am told you are an atheist; I am just agnostic.
+>Question: do you believe in souls? (cf Soulhunter, River of Souls)
+>--
+
+Define exactly what you mean by souls.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 27 Nov 1999 21:46:31 -0700
+Subject: Re: SFX Magazine, JMS and Double Standards
+
+Paul...
+
+Re: your synopsis.
+
+Marry me.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Nov 1999 01:08:50 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: I agree w/you re: original notes.
+
+>So to my mind, the B5 universe is closed fer business. It's as you wanted:
+>a good story, nothing more or less, to be re-read from time to time when
+>the real world isn't too appealing, up on the shelf with all the other
+>classics. 
+
+>Thanks for everything, from pilot episode to release of original scripts
+>and bibles. Thanks for a good time. Ciao.
+
+You're welcome.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Nov 1999 21:43:22 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: A way to get B5 reruns off TNT
+
+The B5 reruns expire on TNT around fall 2001, if I remember correctly.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 28 Nov 1999 21:48:53 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS - Souls
+
+>I think it's rather easy to define - a non-physical component of a 
+>person which is independant of their physical existence and still
+>incorporates all important elements of their personality such that
+>it would be unmistakeably unique.  (being non-physical it would
+>be undetectable and unaffected by any physical processes)
+
+Except of course that this also defines *mind* just as well as it does *soul*. 
+The mind exists IN the brain, as the soul reputedly exists IN the body, but you
+can poke around someone's cerebral cortex all you want, you won't find *mind*. 
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1999 15:52:49 -0700
+Subject: Re: This rests on your shoulders.
+
+>What do *you* think souls are?  I would never 'define' souls, but since you
+>didn't say you outright did not believe in souls, your belief must go at
+>least to a certain point.
+
+But of course the definition is key to asking and answering the question. 
+Unless one can say what one means one can never mean what one says.  If you're
+talking about an immortal soul that goes to heaven or hell...then my answer is
+no.  If you're talking about the personality, as in "she's a very soulful
+person," or having a lot of soul in one's work...then that's a whole different
+*concept*, and in that case being more psychological than spiritual, then the
+answer is yes.
+
+As someone else once said...god is in the details.  Literally, in this
+discussion.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Nov 1999 15:53:51 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS:  Morden in shadows *spoilers for Macbeth*
+
+>Then I remembered how two or three times Morden sort of shrank into shadows,
+>as though the lights above him dimmed.
+
+We moved a screen between him and the light-source, then moved it away again.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Dec 1999 00:32:07 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Would you ever do a DVD "special edition?"
+
+I'd be only thrilled to do something along these lines.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Dec 1999 23:14:02 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS - Loscon clarification
+
+The project is being moved around, but the development season which goes from
+about June through October was pretty much over when all hell broke loose, so I
+expect nothing much can be done with it until next June at the earliest.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Dec 1999 23:14:49 -0700
+Subject: Re: jms Tells the Chris Carter/CBS story at Loscon
+
+Just to jump in a bit...
+
+The irony of course is that if Harsh Realm had been canceled even a week later,
+we would've concluded the deal with CBS for the show I'd created and which
+Chris, Frank Spotnitz and I would exec produce.  CBS had agreed to a pilot
+production deal, and they were haggling over the per episode license fee should
+the show get picked up for series when HR got canceled and the ripple effect
+started.
+
+The other thing I wanted to mention is that in my years in the biz, I have
+rarely enjoyed a partnership with anyone as much as with Chris and Frank, who
+are not only stand-up guys, but in all of our discussions I don't think a
+single idea got broached that didn't make sense.  
+
+Their approach is the same we had at B5: you check your ego at the door and do
+what's best for the story.  I have nothing but good things to say about them,
+and even though Fox felt that they needed to go forth only with 100% CC after
+HR was canceled (the logic being that it didn't work because Chris didn't
+actually create it), I consider the experience a positive one.
+
+They're good people over there at 1013.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Dec 1999 23:14:49 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS. Sleeping in Light
+
+No, John's not in the ep.  We'd shot a group shot of all of us wheeling
+somebody down the hospital aisle, but cut it for time.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Dec 1999 23:15:15 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - Re: 200 page document
+
+>> Anyone looking at the S1 bible
+>> right now sees stuff that was laid out for the later seasons,
+>> and it was pretty much all done...
+>> right down to telling writers
+>> not to get Lyta into a relationship
+>> because she would eventually become starstruck by Byron,
+>> and I didn't want anything else to get in the way of that.
+>
+>I thought Byron was originally intended for Ivanova, up until Claudia
+>decided to leave the show...???
+>
+
+Correct.  Note the use of the word *starstruck*, not *involved with*.  The
+theory was that Byron would have gotten involved with Ivanova, who -- feeling
+she'd messed up by being too closed off to a somewhat similar person decides to
+take a chance with someone, only to have it blow up in her face -- while Lyta
+suffered from unrequited love (a constant B5 theme), which would no less fuel
+her desire to avenge him.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Dec 1999 23:36:09 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Difference between CoS script and actual filmed episode
+
+Any time you shoot an episode, some lines or other, or even partial scenes (or
+whole scenes) can end up on the cutting room floor to fit.  Dry, we ran about
+42 minutes 15 seconds 12 frames (I think), and we had to hit that every time
+for formatting purposes.  So you edit it all to fit, and sometimes you have to
+leave stuff out to make it all work.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Dec 1999 15:40:23 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS Rising Stars #3
+
+>In RS #3, a comment was made that Flagg had to change his name over the
+>copyright. Was this for real, (As I know there used to be another Flagg in
+>another company's line up.)
+
+To a certain extent.  After the PR for Rising Stars got going, Howard Chaykin
+noticed the Flagg name, and he did (and does) have the rights to Flagg.  I'd
+thought it was only American Flagg! that he had the rights to, and it wouldn't
+be an issue, but apparently it's otherwise.
+
+It wasn't a big deal, really...I saw Howard one night at dinner (we're not
+close friends, but we are friendly acquaintances, and I've always been a big
+fan of his work), and we chatted about it, and I suggested the solution that's
+in the book, he laughed, thought it was a great and funny idea, and that was
+the end of it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Dec 1999 15:42:19 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Characters Who Have Problems
+
+>I've noticed, from watching B5 & reading Rising Stars, that you tend to
+>write characters who have problems they need to overcome.  This is what
+>I like about your writing the most.  I've all ready mentioned my problem
+>with depression & how B5 helped me to deal with it (along with therapy,
+>of course) here.  I also had to deal with OCD (obsessive-compulsive
+>disorder) along with it, so I had a tough time.  It's nice to see
+>characters who also face real problems on television & in print.  So
+>thank you again!
+>
+>
+Thanks...I don't believe in totally perfect people, we all have our flaws as
+well as our virtues, and that's what makes us interesting, particularly from a
+storytelling point of view.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Dec 1999 15:43:53 -0700
+Subject: Re: jms Tells the Chris Carter/CBS story at Loscon
+
+>How will this effect your writing workload?  More novels and/or short
+>prose stories?  Maybe another comic series?
+
+There's still plenty to do, and several other projects in the works while the
+project I was doing for Chris is being shopped elsewhere.
+
+Believe me, I never lack for stuff to work on.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Dec 1999 15:45:46 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS. Sleeping in Light
+
+Yeah, that was me...but in truth, it was self-indulgent and at the end of the
+day, it was clear to me that it had no business being there.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Dec 1999 00:15:38 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Characters Who Have Problems
+
+Marcus was a martyr waiting to happen, looking for something worth throwing his
+life away on because he could find little worth in his own.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 11 Dec 1999 18:52:53 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS B5 section on the SFC Internet site
+
+>Yes, but stopping Crusade was a breach of contract with WB.  Why doesn't WB
+>yank
+>B5?  The shows might be different, but the owner and broadcaster are the
+>same.
+
+You can't apply one situation against another; their license on B5 is solid and
+by contract until the end of 2001 or thereabouts.  To pull B5 would breach WB's
+contract with TNT, and they would be liable.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Dec 1999 12:34:55 -0700
+Subject: various from jms
+
+Some overall quick notes, just some business and housekeeping stuff to get out
+of the way....
+
+1) It looks like the genie.com site and address will be unreachable after the
+first of January, so anyone using that email address for me should delete it.
+
+2) By a similar token, after the first of the year I'm going to be
+quasi-retiring the jmsatb5@aol.com email address, since technically I'm *not*
+at B5 anymore, and I'm kind of clearing the decks for other stuff in future.  I
+won't delete the ID, because at AOL but rather let it go dormant, because if
+you delete it somebody else can begin using it soon after, but I'll gradually
+be shifting over to the new address, straczynski@aol.com in terms of answering
+email.  
+
+3) Folks sending fan mail to the cast should do so at the fan club mail address
+rather than the Ventura Blvd. address, because that's soon going to be set
+aside for only personal stuff.
+
+4) My Last Word column in the new B5 Magazine (as well as the one in the issue
+prior to this) got foreshortened by about 50% due to an apparent glitch at the
+magazine.  So if it ends kinda whacky, that's the reason for it.  They'll
+reprint the whole thing in an upcoming issue (and such errors will not occur in
+future).
+
+5) The Paul Harper wedding is off, I've decided instead to stay in the bathroom
+all night and cry.
+
+Thankyew.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Dec 1999 17:10:30 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: The Mars Missions
+
+>In light of the recent failures of the Mars probes, I'm hearing
+>increased talk of cutting funds to NASA, launching Congressional
+>hearings, and just rethinking the whole space idea and/or strategy.
+>Your work and perspective are highly regarded by many at NASA, maybe
+>even Congress. As someone with a vision of space, is there anything
+>you can think of to say to these obviously frustrated people?
+>
+
+Maybe if they'd *had* proper funding, instead of having to scrape by and
+compromise things, the damned thing WOULD have landed intact.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Dec 1999 17:11:25 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN:JMS/PAD Centauri Prime Bk. 1 (SPOILERS)
+
+No real spoilers here....
+
+>1: Is Kane really Galen?
+
+No.
+
+>2:Is the Senna the young nanny in ItB?
+>
+
+Yes.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 12 Dec 1999 23:09:24 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: The Mars Missions
+
+>She's been grumbling a lot about how all that
+>money for failed missions could've gone to the homeless and worthier
+>programs
+
+Or one stealth bomber.
+
+Do her and yourself a favor: buy her a copy of Michael Moore's DOWNSIZE
+THIS...and let her get a sense of where far, FAR more money is really going.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Dec 1999 16:10:32 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS:  B5 Declared Vulgar?!
+
+And I couldn't possibly be prouder.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Dec 1999 20:16:29 -0700
+Subject: two quickies (from jms)
+
+Forgot two points in my Various note...encroaching senility, I suppose....
+
+1) Many folks have sent me email asking when Rising Stars #3 comes out...it
+actually came out about a week ago.  So it's still out there, though copies are
+starting to get hard to find.
+
+2) For folks who are mainly planning to stay home New Year's Eve and watch the
+apocalypse happen on national TV...a special 2 hour edition of 48 Hours airs
+that night, with the Future being its topic.  Oddly, they thought I might have
+a thing or two to say about it, so in theory (at least until they develop the
+film and see the true horror that is joe), I'm supposed to be in a segment or
+two of the thing.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Dec 1999 22:03:08 -0700
+Subject: Re: What's that Irish Poem again? (No Compromises on TNT)
+
+>> I'm paraphrasing it here but it's commonly a prayer for alcoholics.
+>
+>It's called The Serenity Prayer:
+>
+>
+
+And it never appeared in the show.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 15 Dec 1999 05:39:31 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS:  B5 Declared Vulgar?!
+
+>I can usually see where these groups are coming from (not agree with them,
+>but see where they are at - very important to remember that :-), but in this
+>case I can't even imagine what they might be on about...
+
+Doesn't matter, and don't bother, because it ain't about the show, it's about
+this group trying to garner publicity and attention by attacking TV shows, the
+oldest and smarmiest trick in the book.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 17 Dec 1999 16:24:07 -0700
+Subject: Re: two quickies (from jms)
+
+>Would staying home and watching "Apocalypse Now" count?
+>
+
+Depends on whether or not you plan to burn down the house while you're doing
+it.
+
+And for folks looking on, as I'm sure is no surprise to many of you, this
+padguy is Peter David, author of the first of the Centauri books that just hit
+the stands.  (Who better to write one than a latent Centauri?)
+
+So if you have questions, here's the guy to ask.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Dec 1999 14:26:49 -0700
+Subject: don't abuse jms email
+
+Those of you know know the drill can ignore this.  The rest....
+
+I've said it here again and again: If you have a technical question, post it to
+the newsgroup.  MY PRIVATE EMAIL IS TO BE USED ONLY FOR PRIVATE MATTERS THAT
+CANNOT BE DISCUSSED PUBLICLY FOR WHATEVER LEGITIMATE REASON.
+
+Also, series on the air or not, DO NOT SEND ME STORY IDEAS, or send me a note
+with a question you're asking for a fanfic thing you're writing and then
+proceed to tell me the story as it's "not a story idea, it's the story I'm
+writing for my fanfic publication."  Only an idiot cannot perceive that these
+two are the same thing.
+
+Yet, despite this request, I continue to get constant email broaching those two
+requests, really the only ones I've put in, and I don't think they're asking
+too much.  And now they're starting to come in email to the straczynski@aol.com
+address.
+
+I'm appending just one of the endless such notes I get these days as an example
+of something that could be just as well posted publicly, and has a zillion
+questions, which if I answered every one, for every email I get, I would do
+nothing else, ever, at any time.
+
+Folks, and you know who you are, either you play by the few small rules I've
+asked you to honor, or I'm going to have to start closing off my email address
+to only people I know...because I use those addresses for business and I have
+to wade through ten thousand "what's the defense grid EMP output?" type
+messages to find the mail I have to answer.
+
+I don't want to have to do that, but if I continue to get essentially spammed
+with this sort of thing, I will.
+
+So do NOT send me the following sort of note.  Please honor the request
+detailed above (and sending me a note that says, "I know you said not to send
+you this kind of note, but this is just a one-time question" doesn't work
+because there are FIFTEEN MILLION of you with "one-time questions".)
+
+I've always tried to maintain an open email policy, but it really is starting
+to get abused beyond the point where I can handle it efficiently.
+
+Thank you.
+
+jms
+
+-----------------
+What Not To Send Me.  I have removed the person's name to avoid subjecting him
+to ridicule.  Call me a softy.  (And don't you love how it says "A question"
+when it's 8 questions?)
+
+Subj:	 A question about tech, the novels, etc.
+Date:	12/16/1999 9:39:39 AM Pacific Standard Time
+From:	
+To:	straczynski@aol.com
+
+I already sent you an email to your Jmsatb5@aol.com addy, so I will not make 
+this one tremendously long, because you'll have my other questions to answer 
+if you can get to them :)
+
+1.)  White Stars - did the Minbari actually have the ability to build more?  
+I know that Delenn mentions around season 3 that the "First Wave" of White 
+Stars have been built, yet around Season five, Sheridan's comments about 
+"running out" eventually make it sound like they cannot build them anymore.  
+Is this a case?
+
+2.) Some discussion amongst some friends and I have centered around a 
+definition for a "Defense grid."   Did you or anyone involved in B5 actually 
+define what a defense grid is? (I know that, at least for EF, its 
+interceptors and possibly ECM - is there more than just stealth or 
+interceptors to a defense grid?  Some speculation has included "EM Fields" 
+or "grav-fields" like some pseudo-shield technology, but I am wondering what 
+you have to say on this.)
+
+3.) Does ANY race on bablyon 5 use anti-matter based weaponry, or a type of 
+reactor system?  I recall a quote from SEason five from Franklin dealing 
+with the nature of weapons, and "disrupting" is mentioned, which is why i 
+asked. Also, do Minbari employ some sort of "Forcefield" in their weaponry?  
+I noticed that in In the Beginning, their tractor beams emitted from the 
+weapons emittors it would seem, so I ask because of this.
+
+4.) Vorlons and Shadows:  another discussion between me and some other 
+people considered whether or not the shadows employed nanotechnology in 
+their ships, rather than a more "biological" or "Cellular" approach for the 
+Vorlons.  Further, I was wondering if Vorlon and Shadow technology each 
+reflected their beliefs (The Vorlons favor a more "Evolutionary" approach - 
+they keep most of the same tech over a long period but refine it to great 
+degrees, making it more powerful, while the Shadows seem to appear to favor 
+many new and different approachs.. more revolutionary.)
+
+5.) Once in a comment you made reference to "gravimetric drives" on the 
+White Star being based on magnetic and gravitic principles - is this 
+something that you received from your tech advisors (JPL I think?)
+
+6.) I've noticed that with the demise of Crusade, a large influx of novels 
+seems to have started again...  is the B5 universe moving to a print media?  
+Or have you considered this?  (By the way, have the Technomage books you 
+mentioned Jeanne Cavelos, sorry If I misspelled her name, come out to your 
+knowledge?  I really enjoyed book 7, and have been wondering.)
+
+7.)  Just two verification notes, if you could.  In "Final Reckoning", we 
+learn Lyta apparently is dead.   Did she die during the telepath war, and if 
+so, was Bester involved?  (And do we learn in any way how she dies?)
+
+Secondly, I ran across a note that you had made a interview in a magazine 
+called "Dreamwatch" that talked about technomage technology, and had 
+mentioned that the Shadows had "loaned" technology to the technomages, and 
+if so, was ALL their technology shadow based, or did they have more beyond 
+that (IE other technology from other races, or their own tech) and you had 
+also mentioned that the reason the technomages left was to avoid repaying 
+the debt.  I missed the issue, so I am just wondering if you had mentioned 
+those things, and if there is anything you are allowed to add, or any 
+summary that i might have neglected mentioning or got wrong.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Dec 1999 14:31:38 -0700
+Subject: jerry doyle runs for congress
+
+I'd heard this rumor the other day, and called Jerry to see if it were true or
+not.  Well, he called back, and it's true.  He's running for US Congress in the
+24th district, state of California (just north of the valley).  
+
+I differ with Jerry on just about every one of his political views, always
+have, but I think that his entering the race is great.  And while our views
+differ, the thing about Jerry is that he talks straight and you always know
+where he stands on an issue, no waffling.  So on that basis alone I think it'd
+be great if he won.  I don't have to agree with his positions to respect their
+origin, and the forthrightness with which they are expressed.
+
+Go get 'em, Jer.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 18 Dec 1999 22:32:24 -0700
+Subject: Re: SFX Tries to get one back...
+
+>Then on the back page in the smallest of small type they suggest "a
+>course in British Sign language for JMS".
+
+Perhaps while they're recommending classes they could try taking Journalism 101
+to learn how real journalists work.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 19 Dec 1999 17:17:58 -0700
+Subject: Re: River Souls Novel.
+
+>The lady who was going to write it supposedly posted to one of these B5
+>lists. The author and B5 continuity person (Avery I thinks her name) got
+>into a tiff. The author posted her side of the deal, I think on this list??
+>So if that was really her, she explained the continuity person wanted to be
+>listed as a co-author or something like that. Ended in a pissing match with
+>the author dropping the deal and moving on to other projects.
+>
+>
+Not correct.  
+
+The book felt massively padded to me.  For instance, we're into the vault in
+the movie within about 3 minutes.  That segment was stretched out to something
+like 20 pages or more.  
+
+I went through and made indications were the padding should be cut out...and
+after it was all cut, there was only about two-thirds of a book left.  It
+needed a b-story or elemen to flesh it out, which Peter and others did with the
+novelizations, but wasn't done here.  So I asked Fiona to come up with one,
+since I was frantic at the time with production and we didn't get any
+indication from Del Rey of a desire to come up with one.  She did so, writing
+out a detailed outline that fit and worked well.  There was no money involved,
+she did it just to help, and asked only for a small credit somewhere in the
+book, along the lines of "additional material supplied by...." 
+
+In any event, the process dragged on, and it didn't seem to work out, and
+finally the book was jointly killed.  It's obvious the author tried her best,
+but we look for a kind of approach that fits in with the rest of the books, and
+this one just didn't work on that level.
+
+If the author is slamming our reference editor, that's unfortunate, because it
+was my call on the book from start to finish.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Dec 1999 19:50:16 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS. Kosh and Lorien debate
+
+When Ulkesh said "we are all Kosh," he was simply being metaphorical, not
+literal; too many people took that as a literal statement.
+
+And yes, Lorien knew Kosh hisownself.  Long, long ago....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Dec 1999 19:57:27 -0700
+Subject: Re: 2 Questions about "Sleeping in Light"
+
+>When Shariden was talking to Franklin and said that Delenn was grey
+>concil in training if not in fact what did he mean?
+
+That she had been trained as Grey Council, and that even though she was no
+longer a member of the Council, hence not a member in fact anymore, that
+training was still much in evidence.
+
+>Vir signing something with a Ranger was the Ranger Zack Allen?
+
+It was Zack but he wasn't a Ranger, he was an advisor/counselor to the throne.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 20 Dec 1999 21:56:57 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS:  Synthetic Worlds?
+
+>I just noticed a new addition to your online signature <g>.  Is Synthetic
+>Worlds your company?  Love the name.  Think the copyright will help?
+>
+
+Synthetic Worlds, Ltd. is my personal company, which has been around for about
+15 years, give or take.  (The credit appears on the original B5 pilot.)
+
+As for the copyright info...I've freely given permission for my material to be
+reposted to other groups, but NOT to anyone to put into magazines or books. 
+One publisher lately had to redo his entire book because he tried to use my
+material without permission.  Courts have ruled that internet postings are the
+copyrighted material of the poster...and one can deny permission as much as
+allow it.  So that's what I did.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 22 Dec 1999 01:16:46 -0700
+Subject: Re: SFX Tries to get one back...
+
+>they go on to say "SFX is the only SF magazine not afraid to say what it
+>thinks"
+
+If that were actually true, then the magazine would consist mainly of blank
+pages.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 30 Dec 1999 17:43:59 -0700
+Subject: airdate correction
+
+I was incorrect about the airing of the 48 hours thing for which I was
+interviewed; apparently it's going to air Thursday night on CBS, not Friday
+night.  Again, I have no idea how much of my interview they did or didn't use,
+so I can't guarantee anything, except that I probably said something stupid in
+there somewhere.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Dec 1999 00:02:14 -0700
+Subject: Re: B5 VCD, is this authentic??
+
+
+
+It's certainly nothing *I've* ever seen before.
+
+>Saw this on Ebay, looks weird, so I don't know if it's authentic
+>(although I'm betting no)
+>
+>So if anyone could check this out and tell me if it's real or fake:
+>
+>http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=226037261
+>
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Dec 1999 00:08:57 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Comments on KODO
+
+>Well, after reading your reccomendation, I put "KODO: Live at Acropolis" on
+>my
+>Christmas list
+
+>What are my thoughts?
+>
+>I think it's f*cking awesome, and I don't attach that label to many things.
+>In
+>fact, my fingertips are now bruised from drumming along with the CD too much.
+
+>Track 5 in particular ("O-Daiko") is mind blowing. 
+>
+
+Here's what you have to know about that cut.  Go look at the back cover.  See
+that massive drum off to the left, the one twice as big as a person?  Now look
+at the front cover.  See the guys standing there with the sticks in front of a
+smaller version of that drum?  Those sticks weigh something like 5-10 pounds
+each.  They hold those sticks high above their heads to reach the drum, one in
+particular who keeps the main beat going, and they keep doing that for the full
+length of that track, which is an astonishing accomplishment.  You think he's
+going to fall over after a while.
+
+When I heard that, and saw the video, my first thought was, "Ah, well, there's
+someone else who knows what it felt like to make B5."
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Dec 1999 00:03:01 -0700
+Subject: Re: airdate correction
+
+I was even more incorrect than I thought; apparently (given a phone call today
+from CBS), they thought the piece was important enough to justify pulling it
+out and making it a stand-alone piece on its own.  It's going to air twice,
+once Sunday morning, once I think Monday (I'll have to check the message
+later); the longer version of the two runs about 8 minutes.
+
+More as I get specifics.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Dec 1999 00:25:01 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS - B5's impact on ordinary folk
+
+That's really wonderful to hear; please extend my thanks for the kind words.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Dec 1999 03:06:57 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS  TNT scheduling & contractual obligations
+
+>when we make a deal
+>for syndication of a show there are specifics as to when and how often it is
+>to be aired.  Is this not the case with TNT? 
+
+Apparently it wasn't done, especially since this is not syndication, but cable.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Dec 1999 00:17:09 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS Crusade Jacket quality
+
+>Opened box for Crusade jacket with some forboding because ordering
+>clothing online is not something I do easily. Software, okay, but clothing
+>is so personal. However, I am VERY impressed with the  quality of material
+>(classy), design (simple but elegant), embroidery (tight, bright and
+>proportioned) and overall proportions and shape. 
+
+Thanks.  You have to understand that what we did was to make the jackets
+*identical in every way* with the ones we gave the cast and crew in workmanship
+and quality.  That's why it's kind of a big deal.  It costs a hell of a lot to
+get that quality, so there really ain't much profit in it, but if we were going
+to do it, I wanted it done right.
+
+>That said, I couldn't help bring back an old but related topic, namely the
+>Babylon 5 jackets. 
+
+We're planning those for the spring, again in a limited edition.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Dec 1999 06:39:16 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS: B5 mag story?
+
+>
+>Is this connected to the Amazing Stories work?
+>
+
+No, totally separate.  Readers can clip out the entry, choose one of four story
+areas, and I'll write a story to fit that category.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Jan 2000 23:25:59 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Genie online service finally shut down
+
+>I think you were still a member when I left in early 1996, when its
+>new owners yanked up the rates, driving off many long-time users. This
+>withered the content. Did you stay until the end?
+
+Until they turned off the lights.
+
+>An aside: I recall that you appear regularly in a forum in CompuServe.
+>I have heard recently that owner AOL is making changes to CompuServe
+>that will make that service far less attractive to content providers
+>such as yourself.
+
+If true that would be most unfortunate; it's been a good forum, and the one
+I've been on the longest, since something like 1985.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Jan 2000 23:28:15 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - A belated thank-you
+
+>So thank you, for creating something very special.
+>
+
+Your words are most kind; thank you for them.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Jan 2000 21:03:05 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: when is next Centauri Prime book scheduled?
+
+I'm not entirely sure; I have the cover for it in hand, so I suspect it will be
+arriving soon in manuscript form.  I'd hazard a guess at late spring.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Jan 2000 21:05:27 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Rising Stars Trades?
+
+>Since Rising Stars is a maxi-series and not ongoing, will it be
+>collected in trade paperback/s in the future? 
+
+Dunno...I've heard rumblings about a graphic novel or suchlike, but haven't had
+time to pursue the conversation.
+
+BTW, Issue 4 hits newsstands THIS WEEK.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Jan 2000 21:08:09 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Thank you.
+
+>Thanks to Babylon 5 I am now majoring in Computer Animation.
+
+That's great; good luck to you, and thanks for the kind words.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 5 Jan 2000 23:40:00 -0700
+Subject: Re: attn jms: writing
+
+>
+>Can you tell us a little bit about the way you write your storys?
+>
+>How do you get your ideas for stories and characters and how do you handle
+>them?
+
+I always start with character.  Character gives you plot; if you start with
+plot and try to back your way into characater, you can go afoul very easily.
+
+You have to know who your character is, what he wants, how far he will go to
+get it, and how far someone else will go to stop him.  Answer those questions
+and 90% of the plotting work is done for you.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Jan 2000 17:54:17 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS ... permission?
+
+>Basically, I'm asking you now if we have your permission to "play" with
+>your characters in B5 fanfic?  I just wouldn't feel right doing it if
+>you said no.
+
+I can't give permission because WB owns the rights to those characters, not me.
+ And I think they would still view it as a form of copyright infringement.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 6 Jan 2000 17:57:57 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn: JMS - The Complete Book of TV Production?
+
+>I was wondering if there are any plans for a companion tome to The Complete 
+>Book of Screenwriting that would deal with TV Production.
+>
+
+I think it would probably be a less viable book in the marketplace since that's
+a more specialized audience, so I don't know if I could make a go of it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Jan 2000 18:25:40 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Rising Stars Trades?
+
+>> BTW, Issue 4 hits newsstands THIS WEEK.
+>>
+>>  jms
+>Yeah, pull the other leg.  This series would probably be finished sooner if
+>it were on TV, rather than at Top Cow.
+>
+
+Actually, it IS out this week, and the rest of the schedule is falling into
+place as well.  Christian is massively catching up on the scripts in hand.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 13 Jan 2000 18:23:20 -0700
+Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Comments on KODO
+
+>I get to see KODO perform live in LA on January 30th, and I'm just
+>jumping up and down inside at the prospect. I've seen them live several
+>times, and it just gets better and better each time. I'm doing the happy
+>dance right now, you will just have to trust me on this one.
+
+Where are they performing?
+
+jms
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Jan 2000 19:28:28 -0700
+Subject: Rising Stars 4 is out
+
+Just FYI.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Jan 2000 19:36:35 -0700
+Subject: Repost: fyi, Rising Stars #4 is out
+
+Re-sent, since the prior message seems to have gotten crunched.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 14 Jan 2000 20:10:30 -0700
+Subject: Third AMAZING STORIES Story
+
+The first one was a Londo story because I really wanted to do something
+different and cool with the character, go inside his head and show the
+transition to being emperor, let folks know that inside he was still the same
+Londo...the second one with Lyta and G'Kar was mainly for fun, to play with
+them and see their relationship together out there.
+
+The third, which I just finished and turned in to Amazing Stories, and which
+will appear I think around May, was written with one express purpose: to set
+the proverbial cat amongst the proverbial pigeons with something that's going
+to send a ripple all through B5 fandom; it's a story I don't think anyone ever
+expected to see.
+
+Just the first line alone should stun a number of B5 folks
+
+And that's all I'm going to say about it.  But just know...there's a real
+toad-strangler coming up in May.
+
+(And Rising Stars 4 is out now.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Jan 2000 01:17:20 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: It could have been great
+
+>Any chance we can burn the Galactica 1980 tapes and have a repeat shot at
+>the original concept with JMS at the helm?
+
+I'd sooner stick an ice pick in my ear.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Jan 2000 01:18:46 -0700
+Subject: Re: jms-Amazing Stories?
+
+>When's your third B5 story supposed to appear in Amazing Stories? 
+
+May.  Check my message in another thread about the third story....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Jan 2000 01:19:17 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Future of B5 On Space...
+
+>Have you done as well
+>financially as you hoped you might from B5?  I remember you saying that
+>you own a piece of the *net* profits from B5.  Has it shown a *net*
+>profit yet? 
+
+No, nor will it ever.  That's how Hollywood bookkeeping works.  We know,
+because e were told, that when the show was still first airing on PTEN, it was
+a mandate that ALL PTEN shows had to show a profit every season in order to be
+renewed.  That was a hard and fast rule.  
+
+Each year, we got renewed, because we made a profit for WB.  Once, in a meeting
+with the execs after year 3, they complimented us on how much money the show
+had made for WB.
+
+Then they turn right around and, for purposes of net participation, pump out
+balance sheets that show we'll forever be in the red.
+
+Net means nothing because they can continue to charge anything and everything
+against the revenue, and you can never show a profit on paper; it's only if you
+own a piece of the gross that actual money appears.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Jan 2000 01:19:51 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS: Rising Stars questions
+
+>1) Are you going to do a letter column in the comic?  I'm not too
+>familiar with Image/Top Cow's policy.  It appears some comics have a
+>letter column and others just have advertisements.
+>
+
+We're discussing that now.
+
+>2) I've been searching the posts and haven't seen you state how long the
+>series is going to run. 
+
+24 issues.
+
+> Are you really running Flagg's new name
+>in front of focus groups?  Do the readers get to write in and help pick
+>the new name?
+
+Nope and nope.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Jan 2000 01:21:36 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN. JMS:  Rising Stars Comments
+
+>One thing that is probably out of your hands somewhat is the loooonnnng
+>time between issues.  
+
+Actually, TC is really getting that part together; 4 came one month after 3,
+and we just locked down the pencils and inks on 5, so that's heading toward
+hitting the next deadline, or damn close to it.
+
+Five, by the way, is probably the strongest issue of the bunch, and definitely
+kicks over the table on the storyline.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Jan 2000 01:25:30 -0700
+Subject: Re: Rising Stars #4
+
+Actually, Pyre -- Jerry -- is alive; it's the other firestarter, Lee Jackson,
+who's dead.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Jan 2000 01:33:21 -0700
+Subject: Re: Third AMAZING STORIES Story
+
+> That being the case, does
+>WB have story approval? 
+
+Nope.  They don't get into it.
+
+Consequently, don't think I haven't played with the idea of going nuts from
+time to time....
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Jan 2000 01:24:34 -0700
+Subject: Re: More comments, and a question
+
+>All my friend wants is an
+>honest, balanced representation of her religion, and not one where the only
+>person who seems to have any faith in Rising Stars is a zealot. 
+
+1) Not every single so-called religious person is a good person, as Jimmy
+Swaggart and his ilk have shown.  I portray that which is appropriate to the
+story.  Having done some very even handed stuff on religion on B5, I don't feel
+I have anything to prove on this issue.
+
+2) If fairness is an issue with her, may I expect that she will solicit an
+honest, balanced representation of atheism from the pulpit of her church
+sometime soon?
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
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+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 16 Jan 2000 16:03:47 -0700
+Subject: Re: Rising Stars #4
+
+>I think the confusion between the two comes because Pyre hasn't been
+>named, to my recollection, in any of the regular issues yet, and there's
+>a scene of him fighting Flagg, Jason, in #3 while in the midst of Lee's
+>story.  See one guy on fire in the middle of the story of another and
+>it's understanable that one might confuse the two.
+
+Yeah, that's correct.  I'd wanted one panel in 3 that helped separate them out,
+but it didn't quite come out the way I'd described, but we should clarify that
+soon.
+
+ jms
+
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+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 25 Jan 2000 21:42:51 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Harlan ?
+
+>I was always surprised that for whatever reasons Harlan never wrote a
+>B5 episode.
+
+Except of course that we collaborated on a couple of produced episodes.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 29 Jan 2000 00:01:30 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN. JMS - One Question
+
+>How would you characterize network interaction (notes, suggestions,
+>requests, demands, etc.) that occurred in Season 1 of Babylon 5 vs. Season 1
+>of Crusade?
+
+Our scripts were reviewed at WB by our liaison, Gregg Maday, who from time to
+time would call with what was basically a question.  "I'm wondering if we may
+need to clarify X for the audience," or "Is there some way to strengthen this
+element?"  In each case, the conversation was left with, "I'll leave the
+disposition of this to your discretion." 
+
+The thing about Gregg's notes or suggestions were that they were generally
+well-considered, thoughtful, and totally aimed at making the story work.  So we
+always got along great.  
+
+And by the time season 2 rolled around, we got a couple of notes on the first
+couple of episodes, then that was literally that...we were on our own after
+that.  He trusted us to do the right thing by the story, and we never violated
+that trust.
+
+>I'd have thought that after writing/producing five full seasons of Babylon
+>5, any network would have let you alone based upon your recent track record.
+
+Yeah, one would think that...though that's also what Rod Serling thought after
+doing Twilight Zone, only to find himself torpedoed amidships creatively during
+Night Gallery.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 31 Jan 2000 03:36:42 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Dureena in "Path of Sorrows"
+
+>Besides, how does Galen know what buttons to press? Didn't he meet
+>Dureena fairly recently? I didn't see them really getting to know so
+>much about each other during the show.
+
+If a technomage can know the 6 words to make someone fall in love with you
+forever, he can sure as heck know which buttons to push on Dureena.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Feb 2000 22:10:32 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS:  Untold Secrets?
+
+>When Babylon 5 was finished, there were many plot threads left hanging -
+>some of them major ones.  For example - David Sheridan's fate
+
+That will be covered in one of the Centauri novels being written by Peter
+David.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+to reprint specifically denied to
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+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Feb 2000 22:11:32 -0700
+Subject: Re: JMS: Gil Kane
+
+>Just got the word this afternoon about Mr. Kane's passing on. Heavy
+>mourning in progress on rec.arts.comics.misc and rac.dc.universe, by the
+>looks of it...
+
+I hadn't heard this until now.  It's a terrible loss.  He was the one person
+who could make the Atom *not* a silly character.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+to reprint specifically denied to
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+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 1 Feb 2000 22:14:47 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - Religion in B5
+
+>But even if you don't
+>belong to any church or organized religion, I was wondering if you might
+>
+>be a Unitarian-Universalist and just didn't realize it...?
+
+The way I see it, if you're going to be a unitarian you may as well be an
+atheist and get it over with.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+to reprint specifically denied to
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+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 2 Feb 2000 21:32:11 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN: JMS - Religion in B5
+
+>Oh, dear--JMS isn't playing nice again!  :)
+
+Hey, c'mon, I'm pulling my punches here.
+
+>You should've heard what he said at Westercon in '98!  He said he
+>wouldn't believe in God until God put up a message in the sky, in huge
+>letters, saying "Come here, MF!" (I won't write it out, but you know
+>what the term is.)  It didn't go over well with some people, bu it made
+>me laugh (me & my irreverent sense of humor!).
+
+Yeah, but I also ended with, "But I'd *still* like to see where that neon
+sign's plugged in."
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+to reprint specifically denied to
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+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 4 Feb 2000 22:23:41 -0700
+Subject: Voice in the Wilderness scripts
+
+Just as an FYI, we'll be making the scripts for the two-part episode "A Voice
+in the Wilderness" available via www.thestation.com for a limited time.
+
+ 
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+to reprint specifically denied to
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+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Feb 2000 22:25:55 -0700
+Subject: rising stars #5 out 2/16
+
+Just to let folks know it's coming out next week.  I think this one's the best
+of the bunch so far, and a LOT happens and gets revealed.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+to reprint specifically denied to
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+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 7 Feb 2000 22:53:03 -0700
+Subject: Re: OT: The Haunting
+
+It's one of my all-time favorite films.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+to reprint specifically denied to
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+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 8 Feb 2000 01:45:40 -0700
+Subject: Re: rising stars #5 out 2/16
+
+>Is this the way you've structured most of the story: each chapter having 
+>more punch and being better than the preceeding one?  Thus each one will 
+>be the best of the bunch when published?  Or are there to be peaks and 
+>troughs? (I realize any particula issue might span the range, generally 
+>from low to high...)
+
+There are always peaks and valleys; the first bunch of Rising Star issues were
+really establishing the rules and who some of the characters are; the fact that
+the murders are going on, the possible motive, and introducing a bunch of
+suspects.
+
+Now all that pipe has been laid, and I can start to really move the arc of the
+story forward, do more in present-tense than in flashback.  That's kind of
+where the fun really kicks in.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Feb 2000 16:59:50 -0700
+Subject: Re: OT: The Haunting
+
+>I'd seen it as a teenager, and I was not a fan of horror films, and
+>to prove the point it scared the bejeebers out of me. The scariest part of
+>'The Haunting' was that the audience never saw the monster. That's what
+>kept the intensity of the fear going throughout the movie.
+
+About the only film of that period that's more unsettling is SECONDS, with (of
+all people) Rock Hudson.  It's a terrific film, marginally speculative fiction,
+but it'll utterly leave you with the heebie-jeebies.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Feb 2000 17:00:01 -0700
+Subject: Re: Voice in the Wilderness scripts
+
+> The binding had snapped apart in the post and the thing had to be
+>treated with kid gloves. I've since heard others have had similar problems.
+
+The binding was done rather than just using brads because we thought it would
+make the thing spiffier.  I've copied your message to the manager of the club
+and we'll see about making the packaging better.  This is the first time I've
+heard of the problem.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 9 Feb 2000 23:43:44 -0700
+Subject: Re: Voice in the Wilderness scripts
+
+I emailed Val, the current head of the fan club, concerning the few that have
+had problems, and this was her reply:
+
+**********8
+
+"Joe
+
+We are meticulous about padding our shipments.  We also replace damaged
+bibles to everyone who notifies us of any problems.  This binding is not
+cheap, it costs us $1.00 per unit plus labor in addition to duplication.
+Unfortunately, if these customers don't make me aware of the problem I can't
+rectify it.
+
+I am more than happy to replace damaged items.  I understand that sometimes
+despite padding and "Do Not Bend"
+stamped all over the package the US Postal Service still sees fit to mishandle
+packages.
+
+
+Val"
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
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+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Feb 2000 22:46:20 -0700
+Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5 this year on DVD in UK
+
+>I really hope that you will have the chance to work with the people from
+>WB and give some input to the project.
+
+So do I.
+>Did someone from Warner contact you?
+
+Nope.
+
+>Can you tell us something about what kind of material you want to see on
+>a Babylon 5 DVD? 
+>My first thoughts was comments from you, lost scenes, bloopers, story
+>background and some information about the CGI from FI and ND would be
+>great, too.
+
+You just answered that for me.  I'd like to see all that stuff on, plus
+commentaries from cast or crew, script pages, storyboards, sketches, all the
+stuff that is still find-able, but which may begin to disappear over the years.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
+
+
+
+Date: 10 Feb 2000 22:47:18 -0700
+Subject: Re: Crusade on Video?
+
+>Anyone know if Crusade will appear on video in the near future? 
+
+Apparently it's now coming out in the UK on tape.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/ftp/b5.appearances b/ftp/b5.appearances
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+
+                                SEASON 1 CHART
+
+   This is the Babylon 5 Character Appearances List, maintained by David
+   Henderson (davidh@camelot.bradley.edu). Because not every character is
+   in every episode, this chart was devised to show who was in which
+   shows.
+
+   This List will be posted to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 approximately the
+   first of each month, being updated on ftp.hyperion.com at about the
+   same time. I will try to keep it updated as much as possible. This
+   document was last updated July 27, 1994 and contains most information
+   up to and including "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 2".
+
+
+Season 1      +--------+-------+---------+--------+-------+------+-----+----+
+Earth         |Jeffrey | Susan | Michael |Stephen | Talia |M.Her-|  C. |Tech|
+Alliance      |Sinclair|Ivanova|Garibaldi|Franklin|Winters|nandez|Sakai| #1 |
+--------------+--------+-------+---------+--------+-------+------+-----+----+
+Midnight on...|    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   X   |  -   |  -  | X  |
+Soul Hunter   |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  -  | X  |
+Born...Purple |    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   X   |  -   |  -  | X  |
+Infection     |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  -  | X  |
+Parliament... |    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   -   |  -   |  X  | X  |
+Mind War      |    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   X   |  -   |  X  | X  |
+The War Prayer|    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  -  | X  |
+And The Sky   |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  -  | X  |
+ Full of Stars|--------|-------|---------|--------|-------|------|-----|----|
+Deathwalker   |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   X   |  -   |  -  | X  |
+Believers     |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  X   |  -  | -  |
+Survivors     |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  -  | X  |
+By Any Means..|    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   -   |  -   |  -  | X  |
+Signs and P.. |    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   -   |  -   |  -  | X  |
+TKO           |    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   -   |  -   |  -  | X  |
+--------------|--------|-------|---------|--------|-------|------|-----|----|
+Grail         |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  -  | X  |
+Eyes          |    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   -   |  -   |  -  | X  |
+Legacies      |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   X   |  -   |  -  | X  |
+A Voice in...1|    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   X   |  -   |  -  |    |
+A Voice in...2|    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |       |  -   |  -  |    |
+Babylon Squ...|    X   |   X   |    X    |        |       |      |     |    |
+The Quality...|    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   X   |      |     |    |
+Chrysalis     |    X   |   X   |    X    |        |       |      |     |    |
+--------------|--------|-------|---------|--------|-------|------|-----|----|
+Sub-Totals    |   22   |  22   |   22    |   10   |   7   |  1   |  2  | 16 |
+--------------|--------|-------|---------|--------|-------|------|-----|----|
+Season 1      |Jeffrey | Susan | Michael |Stephen | Talia |M.Her-|  C. |Tech|
+Earth         |Sinclair|Ivanova|Garibaldi|Franklin|Winters|nandez|Sakai| #1 |
+Alliance      +--------+-------+---------+--------+-------+------+-----+----+
+
+Season 1      +-------+-----+------+-------+-----+-------+-----+-----+
+Aliens        | Londo |     | Amb. | Kosh  | Vir |       | Na' | n'  |
+              |Mollari|G'Kar|Delenn|Naranek|Cotto|Lennier|Toth |grath|
+--------------+-------+-----+------+-------+-----+-------+-----+-----+
+Midnight on...|   X   |  X  |  X   |   X   |  X  |   -   |  -  |  -  |
+Soul Hunter   |   -   |  -  |  X   |   -   |  -  |   -   |  -  |  X  |
+Born...Purple |   X   |  X  |  -   |   -   |  X  |   -   |  -  |  X  |
+Infection     |   -   |  -  |  -   |   -   |  -  |   -   |  -  |  -  |
+Parliament... |   X   |  X  |  X   |   -   |  X  |   X   |  X  |  X  |
+Mind War      |   -   |  X  |  -   |   -   |  -  |   -   |  -  |  -  |
+The War Prayer|   X   |  X  |  X   |   X   |  X  |   -   |  -  |  -  |
+And the Sky   |   -   |  -  |  X   |   -   |  -  |   -   |  -  |  -  |
+ Full of Stars|-------|-----|------|-------|-----|-------|-----|-----|
+Deathwalker   |   X   |  X  |  -   |   X   |  -  |   X   |  X  |  -  |
+Believers     |   X   |  X  |  X   |   X   |  -  |   -   |  -  |  -  |
+Survivors     |   X   |  X  |  -   |   -   |  -  |   -   |  -  |  X  |
+By Any Means..|   X   |  X  |  -   |   -   |  -  |   -   |  X  |  -  |
+Signs and P...|   X   |  X  |  X   |   X   |  -  |   -   |  -  |  -  |
+TKO           |   -   |  -  |  -   |   -   |  -  |   -   |  -  |  -  |
+--------------|-------|-----|------|-------|-----|-------|-----|-----|
+Grail         |   X   |  -  |  X   |   X   |  X  |   X   |  -  |  -  |
+Eyes          |   -   |  -  |  -   |   -   |  -  |   X   |  -  |  -  |
+Legacies      |   -   |  -  |  X   |   -   |  -  |   -   |  X  |  -  |
+A Voice in...1|   X   |     |  X   |       |  -  |   -   |  -  |     |
+A Voice in...2|   X   |     |  X   |       |  -  |   -   |  -  |     |
+Babylon Squ...|       |     |      |       |     |       |     |     |
+The Quality...|   X   |     |      |       |     |   X   |     |     |
+Chrysalis     |   X   |  X  |  X   |   X   |     |       |     |     |
+--------------|-------|-----|------|-------|-----|-------|-----|-----|
+Sub-Totals    |  14   | 11  |  12  |   7   |  5  |   5   |  4  |  4  |
+--------------|-------|-----|------|-------|-----|-------|-----|-----|
+Season 1      | Londo |     | Amb. | Kosh  | Vir |       | Na' | n'  |
+Aliens        |Mollari|G'Kar|Delenn|Nanarek|Cotto|Lennier|Toth |grath|
+              +-------+-----+------+-------+-----+-------+-----+-----+
+
+Season 1      +-----------------------+--------+-------+-------+------+-----
+Reference     |     Earth Alliance    |Centauri| Narn  |Minbari|Others|Total
+Chart         |JS SI MG SF TW MH CS T1| LM  VC |G'K N'T| De Le |KN n'g|
+--------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---+---+---+---+---+--+---|-----
+Midnight on...|X  X  X  -  X  -  -  X | X   X  | X   - | X  -  | X  - | 10
+Soul Hunter   |X  X  X  X  -  -  -  X | -   -  | -   - | X  -  | -  X |  7
+Born...Purple |X  X  X  -  X  -  -  X | X   X  | X   - | -  -  | -  X |  9
+Infection     |X  X  X  X  -  -  -  X | -   -  | -   - | -  -  | -  - |  5
+Parliament... |X  X  X  -  -  -  X  X | X   X  | X   X | X  X  | -  X | 12
+Mind War      |X  X  X  -  X  -  X  X | -   -  | X   - | -  -  | -  - |  7
+The War Prayer|X  X  X  X  -  -  -  X | X   X  | X   - | X  -  | X  - | 10
+And The Sky   |X  X  X  X  -  -  -  X | -   -  | -   - | X  -  | -  - |  6
+ Full of Stars|--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---|---+---|---+---|--+---|-----
+Deathwalker   |X  X  X  X  X  -  -  X | X   -  | X   X | -  X  | X  - | 11
+Believers     |X  X  X  X  -  X  -  - | X   -  | X   - | X  -  | X  - |  9
+Survivors     |X  X  X  X  -  -  -  X | X   -  | X   - | -  -  | -  X |  7
+By Any Means..|X  X  X  -  -  -  -  X | X   -  | X   X | -  -  | -  - |  7
+Signs and P...|X  X  X  -  -  -  -  X | X   -  | X   - | X  -  | X  - |  8
+TKO           |X  X  X  -  -  -  -  X | -   -  | -   - | -  -  | -  - |  4
+--------------|--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---|---+---|---+---|--+---|-----
+Grail         |X  X  X  X  -  -  -  X | X   X  | -   - | X  X  | X  - | 10
+Eyes          |X  X  X  -  -  -  -  X | -   -  | -   - | -  X  | -  - |  5
+Legacies      |X  X  X  X  X  -  -  X | -   -  | -   X | X  -  | -  - |  8
+A Voice...pt1 |X  X  X  -  X  -  -  ? | X   -  | -   - | X  -  | -  - |  6+
+A Voice...pt2 |X  X  X  -  ?  -  -  ? | X   -  | -   - | X  -  | -  - |  5+
+Babylon Squa..|X  X  X                |        |       |       |      |
+The Quality...|X  X  X  X  X          | X   -  | -   - | -  X  | -  - |
+Chrysalis     |X  X  X                | X      | X     | X     | X    |
+--------------|--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---|---+---|---+---|--+---|-----
+Sub-Totals    |22 22 22 10 7+ 1  2  16| 14  5  |11   4 |12  5  | 7  4 | 164+
+--------------|--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---|---+---|---+---|------|-----
+Season 1      |     Earth Alliance    |Centauri| Narn  |Minbari|Others|Total
+Reference     |JS SI MG SF TW MH CS T1| LM  VC |G'K N'T| De Le |KN n'g|
+Chart         +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---+---+---+---+---+--+---|-----
+
+Sorted by production order
+
+Season 1        +-----------------------+--------+-------+-------+------+-----
+Reference       |     Earth Alliance    |Centauri| Narn  |Minbari|Others|Total
+Chart           |JS SI MG SF TW MH CS T1| LM  VC |G'K N'T| De Le |KN n'g|
+----------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---+---+---+---+---+--+---|-----
+Infection      1|X  X  X  X  -  -  -  X | -   -  | -   - | -  -  | -  - |  5
+Soul Hunter    2|X  X  X  X  -  -  -  X | -   -  | -   - | X  -  | -  X |  7
+Midnight on... 3|X  X  X  -  X  -  -  X | X   X  | X   - | X  -  | X  - | 10
+Born...Purple  4|X  X  X  -  X  -  -  X | X   X  | X   - | -  -  | -  X |  9
+Believers      5|X  X  X  X  -  X  -  - | X   -  | X   - | X  -  | X  - |  9
+And The Sky... 6|X  X  X  X  -  -  -  X | -   -  | -   - | X  -  | -  - |  6
+The War Prayer 7|X  X  X  X  -  -  -  X | X   X  | X   - | X  -  | X  - | 10
+Parliament of..8|X  X  X  -  -  -  X  X | X   X  | X   X | X  X  | -  X | 12
+Grail          9|X  X  X  X  -  -  -  X | X   X  | -   - | X  X  | X  - | 11
+Mind War      10|X  X  X  -  X  -  X  X | -   -  | X   - | -  -  | -  - |  7
+Survivors     11|X  X  X  X  -  -  -  X | X   -  | X   - | -  -  | -  X |  7
+Chrysalis     12|X  X  X                | X      | X     | X     | X    |
+Deathwalker   13|X  X  X  X  X  -  -  X | X   -  | X   X | -  X  | X  - | 11
+By Any Means..14|X  X  X  -  -  -  -  X | X   -  | X   X | -  -  | -  - |  7
+Legacies      15|X  X  X  X  X  -  -  X | -   -  | -   X | X  -  | -  - |  8
+Signs and P...16|X  X  X  -  -  -  -  X | X   -  | X   - | X  -  | X  - |  8
+The Quality...17|X  X  X  X  X          | X      |       |    X  |      |
+Babylon Squa..18|X  X  X                |        |       |       |      |
+TKO           19|X  X  X  -  -  -  -  X | -   -  | -   - | -  -  | -  - |  4
+A Voice...pt1 20|X  X  X  -  X  -  - ( )| X   -  | -   - | X  -  | -  - |  6+
+A Voice...pt2 21|X  X  X  - ( ) -  - ( )| X   -  | -   - | X  -  | -  - |  5+
+Eyes          22|X  X  X  -  -  -  -  X | -   -  | -   - | -  X  | -  - |  5
+----------------|--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---|---+---|---+---|--+---|-----
+Sub-Totals      |22 22 22 10 7+ 1  2 16+| 14  5  |11   4 |12  5  | 7  4 | 164+
+----------------|--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---|---+---|---+---|------|-----
+Season 1        |     Earth Alliance    |Centauri| Narn  |Minbari|Others|Total
+Reference       |JS SI MG SF TW MH CS T1| LM  VC |G'K N'T| De Le |KN n'g|
+Chart           +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---+---+---+---+---+--+---|-----
+
+JS  Jeffrey Sinclair    SI  Susan Ivanova       MG  Mike Garibaldi
+SF  Stephen Franklin    TW  Talia Winters       MH  Maya Hernandez
+CS  Catherine Sakai     T1  Tech #1
+
+LM  Londo Mollari       VC  Vir Cotto           G'K G'Kar
+N'T Na'Toth             De  Delenn              Le  Lennier
+KN  Kosh Naranek        n'g n'grath
+
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+
+   Many thanks to...
+   J. Michael Straczynski (straczynski@genie.geis.com)
+      for creating Babylon 5;
+
+   Matthew B. Ryan (mbr2@kimbark.uchicago.edu Curious of All Natures),
+   Frank Perricone (perricone@wsyd.com),
+   Gharlane of Eddore (gharlane@nextnet.ccs.csus.edu),
+   Steven Grimm (koreth@hyperion.com), and
+   Timothy W. Lynch (tlynch@cco.caltech.edu)
+      for helping to fill in the holes in the list;
+
+   Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusunkyou.cs.jhu.edu),
+   Jeff Hildebrand (hildebra@math.wisc.edu),
+   Shelley Diane Lewallen (sdl5241@tam2000.tamu.edu),
+   Mark L. Stackpole (ca572@cleveland.freenet.edu), and
+   Kyle L. Webb (kwebb@carina.unm.edu)
+      for finding mispelings, catching misteaks, discovering tyops, and
+      noticing erorrs.
+
+   This list is Copyright (c) 1994, David Henderson and the Have a Nice
+   Day Co.
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+Season 2            +--------+-------+---------+--------+-------+------+-----+
+Humans              |  John  | Susan | Michael |Stephen | Talia |Warren| Lou |
+                    |Sheridan|Ivanova|Garibaldi|Franklin|Winters|Keffer|Welch|
+--------------------+--------+-------+---------+--------+-------+------+-----+
+Points of Departure |    X   |   X   |    X *  |   X    |   -   |  X   |  -  |
+Revelations         |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   X   |  -   |  X  |
+The Geometry of Sha.|    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  X  |
+A Distant Star      |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  X   |  -  |
+The Long Dark       |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  -  |
+A Spider in the Web |    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   X   |  -   |  -  |
+Soul Mates          |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   X   |  -   |  X  |
+A Race Throu..Places|    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   X   |  -   |  -  |
+The Coming of Shado.|    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  -  |
+GROPOS              |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  X   |  X  |
+All Alone in...Night|    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  -  |
+Acts of Sacrifice   |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  -  |
+Hunter, Prey        |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  -  |
+There All Honor Lies|    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   X   |  X   |  -  |
+And Now for a Word  |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  -  |
+Knives              |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  -  |
+In the Sha..Z'ha'dum|    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   X   |  -   |  -  |
+Confessions and Lam |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  X   |  -  |
+Divided Loyalties   |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   X   |  -   |  -  |
+The Long Twilight St|    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  -  |
+Comes the Inquisitor|    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   -   |  -   |  -  |
+The Fall of Night   |    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   -   |  X   |  -  |
+--------------------|--------|-------|---------|--------|-------|------|-----|
+Sub-Totals          |   21   |  21   |   21 *  |   19   |   7   |  5   |  4  |
+--------------------|--------|-------|---------|--------|-------|------|-----|
+Season 2            |  John  | Susan | Michael |Stephen | Talia |Warren| Lou |
+Humans              |Sheridan|Ivanova|Garibaldi|Franklin|Winters|Keffer|Welch|
+                    +--------+-------+---------+--------+-------+------+-----+
+
+ * - Garibaldi was unconscious in this episode, but was shown onscreen.
+
+Season 2               +-------+-----+------+-------+-----+-------+-------+
+Aliens                 | Londo |     | Amb. | Kosh  | Vir |       |       |
+                       |Mollari|G'Kar|Delenn|Naranek|Cotto|Lennier|Na'Toth|
+-----------------------+-------+-----+------+-------+-----+-------+-------+
+Points of Departure    |   -   |  -  |  X * |   -   |  -  |   X   |   -   |
+Revelations            |   X   |  X  |  X   |   X   |  -  |   X   |   X   |
+The Geometry of Shadows|   X   |  -  |  -   |   -   |  X  |   -   |   -   |
+A Distant Star         |   -   |  -  |  X   |   -   |  -  |   -   |   -   |
+The Long Dark          |   X   |  X  |  -   |   -   |  -  |   -   |   -   |
+A Spider in the Web    |   -   |  -  |  -   |   -   |  -  |   -   |   -   |
+Soul Mates             |   X   |  X  |  X   |   -   |  X  |   X   |   -   |
+A Race Through Dark Pl.|   -   |  -  |  X   |   -   |  -  |   -   |   -   |
+The Coming of Shadows  |   X   |  X  |  X   |   X   |  X  |   -   |   -   |
+GROPOS                 |   -   |  -  |  X   |   -   |  -  |   -   |   -   |
+All Alone in the Night |   -   |  -  |  X   |   X   |  -  |   X   |   -   |
+Acts of Sacrifice      |   X   |  X  |  X   |   -   |  -  |   -   |   X   |
+Hunter, Prey           |   -   |  -  |  -   |   X   |  -  |   -   |   -   |
+There All Honor Lies   |   X   |  -  |  X   |   X   |  X  |   X   |   -   |
+And Now for a Word     |   X   |  X  |  X   |   X   |  -  |   -   |   -   |
+Knives                 |   X   |  -  |  -   |   -   |  X  |   -   |   -   |
+In the Shadow..Z'Ha'Dum|   -   |  -  |  X   |   X   |  X  |   -   |   -   |
+Confessions and Lamenta|   -   |  -  |  X   |   -   |  -  |   X   |   -   |
+Divided Loyalties      |   -   |  -  |  X   |   X   |  -  |   -   |   -   |
+The Long Twilight Strug|   X   |  X  |  X   |   X   |  -  |   -   |   -   |
+Comes the Inquisitor   |   -   |  X  |  X   |   X   |  X  |   X   |   -   |
+The Fall of Night      |   X   |  X  |  X   |   X** |  X  |   X   |   -   |
+-----------------------|-------|-----|------|-------|-----|-------|-------|
+Sub-Totals             |  10   |  8  | 16 * |  10   |  7  |   7   |   2   |
+-----------------------|-------|-----|------|-------|-----|-------|-------|
+Season 2               | Londo |     | Amb. | Kosh  | Vir |       |       |
+Aliens                 |Mollari|G'Kar|Delenn|Nanarek|Cotto|Lennier|Na'Toth|
+                       +-------+-----+------+-------+-----+-------+-------+
+
+ * - Delenn was only shown in a flashback in this episode, but was shown
+ onscreen.
+ ** - Kosh revealed himself in this episode, but did not speak.
+
+Season 2          +-----------------------+--------+------+-------+----+-----
+Reference         |         Human         |Centauri| Narn |Minbari|    |Total
+Chart             |JS SI MG SF TW WK ZA LW| LM  VC |GK  NT| De Le |Kosh|
+------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---+---+--+---+---+----|-----
+Points of Dep.   1|X  X  X  X  -  X  -  - | -   -  | -  - | X   X | -  |  7
+Revelations      2|X  X  X  X  X  -  -  X | X   -  | X  X | X   X | X  | 12
+T.Geometry of S. 3|X  X  X  X  -  -  -  X | X   X  | -  - | -   - | -  |  7
+A Distant Star   4|X  X  X  X  -  X  -  - | -   -  | -  - | X   - | -  |  6
+The Long Dark    5|X  X  X  X  -  -  -  - | X   -  | X  - | -   - | -  |  6
+A Spider...Web   6|X  X  X  -  X  -  X  - | -   -  | -  - | -   - | -  |  5
+Soul Mates       8|X  X  X  X  X  -  -  X | X   X  | X  - | X   X | -  | 11
+A Race Through...7|X  X  X  X  X  -  -  - | -   -  | -  - | X   - | -  |  6
+The Coming of S. 9|X  X  X  X  -  -  X  - | X   X  | X  - | X   - | X  | 10
+GROPOS          10|X  X  X  X  -  X  -  X | -   -  | -  - | X   - | -  |  7
+All Alone.Night 11|X  X  X  X  -  -  -  - | -   -  | -  - | X   X | X  |  7
+Acts..Sacrifice 12|X  X  X  X  -  -  X  - | X   -  | X  X | X   - | -  |  9
+Hunter, Prey    13|X  X  X  X  -  -  X  - | -   -  | -  - | -   - | X  |  6
+There.Honor Lies14|X  X  X  X  -  X  X  - | X   X  | -  - | X   X | X  | 11
+And Now...Word  15|X  X  X  X  -  -  -  - | X   -  | X  - | X   - | X  |  8
+Knives          16|X  X  X  X  -  -  -  - | X   X  | -  - | -   - | -  |  6
+In the..Z'ha'dum17|X  X  X  X  X  -  X  - | -   X  | -  - | X   - | X  |  9
+Confessions and 18|X  X  X  X  -  X  -  - | -   -  | -  - | X   X | -  |  7
+Divided Loyaltie19|X  X  X  X  X  -  X  - | -   -  | -  - | X   - | X  |  7
+The Long Twiligh20|X  X  X  X  -  -  .  - | X   -  | X  - | X   - | X  |  8
+Comes the Inquis21|X  X  X  -  -  -  -  - | -   X  | X  - | X   X | X  |  8
+Fall of Night   22|X  X  X  -  -  X  X  - | X   X  | X  . | X   X | X  | 11
+------------------|--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---|---+--|---+---|----|-----
+Sub-Totals        |22 22 22 19 6  6  7  4 |11   8  | 9  2 |17   8 | 11 | 174
+------------------|--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---|---+--|---+---|----|-----
+Season 2          |         Human         |Centauri| Narn |Minbari|    |Total
+Reference         |JS SI MG SF TW WK ZA LW| LM  VC |GK  NT| De Le |Kosh|
+Chart             +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---|---+--|---+---|----|-----
+
+JS   John Sheridan       SI   Susan Ivanova       MG   Michael Garibaldi
+SF   Stephen Franklin    TW   Talia Winters       WK   Warren Keffer
+Mo   Morden              LW   Lou Welch           ZA   Zack Allen
+
+LM   Londo Mollari       VC   Vir Cotto           GK   G'Kar
+NT   Na'Toth             De   Delenn              Le   Lennier
+Kosh Kosh Naranek
+     _________________________________________________________________
+Replacing Morden with Zack Allen in the reference chart.
+
+   Many thanks to...
+   J. Michael Straczynski (straczynski@genie.geis.com)
+      for creating Babylon 5;
+
+   Special Thanks go to Dan Winger (winger@sewp.nasa.gov), who supplied a
+      large portion of the data for the first seven episodes.
+
+   Steven Grimm (koreth@hyperion.com)
+      for helping to fill in the holes in the list;
+
+   Larry W. Virden (lvirden@cas.org)
+      for finding mispelings, catching misteaks, discovering tyops, and
+      noticing erorrs.
+
+   This is maintained by David Henderson (davidh@camelot.bradley.edu),
+   and is Copyright (c) 1994 and 1995, David Henderson and the Have a
+   Nice Day Co. It is also available on the World-Wide Web at:
+   http://rhf.bradley.edu/~davidh/b5-appearances2.html
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+BABYLON 5 PRODUCTION CREW INFORMATION
+=====================================
+(Information about J. Michael Straczynski at end of file)
+
+Richard Compton, Director: Richard has worked a lot on TV, including
+The Equalizer, ST:TNG ("Haven"), and many TV movies.  Compton will be
+a co-producer on the series, directing some episodes and coordinating with
+other directors to maintain a consistent look to the series.
+
+Producer (series) : John Copeland
+
+Production Manager (series): Kevin Cremin
+
+Ron Thornton (Computer EFX): Computer Graphics expert.
+
+John Iacovelli (Production designer) Has worked on "Honey I Shrunk the Kids".
+
+Billy Dickson (Director of Cinematography)
+
+Bob Brown (Production Manager/Line Producer): Producer and/or
+production manager on War of the Roses, Indiana Jones & the Temple of
+Doom, Return of the Jedi, Iceman and Childs Play (all three).
+
+Mary Jo Slater (Casting Director) Did casting for the revived Dark Shadows,
+Intruders mini-series, and Star Trek VI.
+
+Costume Designer (series): Anne Bruice
+
+Visual Consultant: Steve Burg
+
+Christopher Franke (Musical Score - Series) Former member of Tangerine Dream.
+Has done Thief, Angel Falls, Universal Soldier, Tommyknockers.
+
+Stewart Copeland (Musical Score - Pilot) formerly of The Police.  He has done
+music for The Equalizer TV series as well as the Francis Ford Coppola movie
+"Rumblefish".
+
+Harlan Ellison is the Conceptual Consultant for the series.  He has also
+written a "Manifest" for the show that will explain to other writers how to
+write science fiction for television and Babylon 5, in particular.
+
+Lawrence DiTillio is Story Editor.  He has worked on Captain Power, The
+Hitchhiker, Real Ghostbusters and other shows.
+
+Writers signed for scripts include D.C. Fontana, David Gerrold, Christy
+Marx (new Twilight Zone and others), and Marc Scott Zicree (Friday the 13th
+TV series and author of the Twilight Zone Companion).
+
+DIRECTORS ON THE SERIES:
+
+Jim Johnston - Actor turned director
+
+Janet Greek - Northern Exposure, is a science fiction fan.
+
+Bruce Seth Green
+
+Deborah Navarra
+
+=======================================================
+J. Michael Straczynski's Credits (from a post on GEnie)
+=======================================================
+
+      Okay, because they've been requested (I got another couple of
+ notes in email asking for this), here's a quick rundown on my prior
+ work.  This isn't everything...this is about half of the body of
+ work...but this is probably the more interesting stuff.
+
+  ...BOOKS
+
+ THE COMPLETE BOOK OF SCRIPTWRITING, Writer's Digest Books (now out
+ of print, mainly because I'm about 2 years behind delivering the
+ new edition, THE (EVEN MORE!) COMPLETE BOOK OF SCRIPTWRITING.
+
+ DEMON NIGHT, horror/dark fantasy novel, hardcover, E. P. Dutton.
+ Nominated for Bram Stoker Award, Horror Writers of America.
+
+ OTHERSYDE, dark fantasy novel, hardcover, Dutton.
+
+ TALES FROM THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE, softcover, anthology of my
+ adaptation of my TZ3 episodes.  Bantam.
+
+  ...SHORT STORIES
+
+ "Your Move," Amazing Stories Magazine.
+ "A Last Testament for Nick and the Trooper" Shadows 6 anthology.
+ "Say Hello, Mister Quigley," Pulphouse Magazine, and the Midnight
+ Grafitti anthology.
+ (There are others, but those are the good ones.)
+
+  ...ARTICLES/JOURNALISM
+
+ 500+ published articles -- ranging from feature articles, to reviews,
+ investigative articles and others -- appearing in PENTHOUSE, VIDEO
+ REVIEW, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (for which I was a regular Special
+ Correspondent), THE LOS ANGELES HERALD EXAMINER (ditto), TIME, INC.
+ (where I was on staff at various points), SAN DIEGO MAGAZINE, THE
+ SAN DIEGO and LOS ANGELES READER(s), WRITER'S DIGEST (10 years worth
+ of columns and articles as a Contributing Editor), and others that
+ I've forgotten and am too lazy to dig out.
+
+  ...RADIO
+
+ On-air reviewer and entertainment editor for KSDO Newsradio, San
+ Diego, for about 2-3 years.
+
+ Host, HOUR 25, a weekly SF talk show in L.A. for 5 years.
+
+ Radio drama writer for ALIEN WORLDS, MUTUAL RADIO THEATER, and
+ writer/producer/director on other radiodrama projects.
+
+  ...THEATER
+
+ A dozen produced plays, including "The Apprenticeship," a full-
+ length play which played at the Marquis Public Theater in San
+ Diego for 20 weeks.  Includes many one-act plays.  One play
+ published in book form by Baker's Plays.  (No, I'm not telling
+ you what it is.)
+
+  ...COMICS
+
+ Wrote issue of TEEN TITANS SPOTLIGHT: Two Face vs. Cyborg, "Face
+ to Face Two Face."
+
+ Wrote issue of STAR TREK comic for DC: "Worldsinger."  (Cover of
+ "Worldsinger" is now Star Trek trading card.)
+
+ Wrote issue of NOW's TWILIGHT ZONE comic, "Blind Alley."
+
+  ...TELEVISION
+
+ Animation:
+
+ Writer/story editor, Filmation Studios, HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF
+ THE UNIVERSE, then subsequently, SHE-RA.  Wrote about 20-25 episodes.
+
+ Writer, JAYCE AND THE WHEELED WARRIORS, about 11-12 episodes.
+
+ Writer/story editor, THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS, writing about 15-20
+ episodes or more.  (I actually have no idea how many, really.)
+
+ Live Action:
+
+ Story editor, CAPTAIN POWER, writing or co-writing about 16 episodes.
+ Nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Series
+ (the Gemini is Canada's version of the Emmy).
+
+ Story editor, THE TWILIGHT ZONE, writing about 12 episodes.  (1 for
+ the network Zone, 11 for the syndicated Zone.)
+
+ Writer, NIGHTMARE CLASSICS: THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR.
+ HYDE, for Showtime.  Nominated for Writers Guild and Ace Awards.
+
+ Story Editor, JAKE AND THE FATMAN, writing 4-5 episodes and one
+ TV movie.
+
+ Co-producer/Producer, MURDER, SHE WROTE, writing about 9 episodes.
+
+ Supervising Producer, WALKER, TEXAS RANGER, writing 1 episode.
+
+ UNPRODUCED CREDITS:
+
+ Developed (with Larry DiTillio) ELFQUEST animated series for CBS.
+ Wrote MR. FREEZE, SF/comedy motion picture for Ivan Reitman.
+ Wrote 4-hour "V" miniseries, "V: The Next Chapter" for Warners.
+ Wrote series development on a dozen different projects.
+ Wrote other feature film screenplays for DIC and London Films.
+
+      Anyway, those are the highlights.  I've left out a lot of stuff, and
+ subsets of stuff (like the prime-time TRGB's special, for which I cowrote
+ a couple of songs with Brian O'Neal of the Busboys, and other song
+ related stuff...I've had about half a dozen songs get out there, plus one
+ on record), but those are the main items.
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+BIBLIOGRAPHY -- BABYLON 5 IN THE MEDIA
+
+-----------------------
+Major Magazine Articles
+-----------------------
+
+Cinefantastique Magazine Articles:
+
+    December 1992 issue has a two page article on Babylon 5.
+
+    January, 1993 issue has a  20 page feature article/cover story.
+
+    Cinefantastique sister publication Femme Fatales Spring 1993 has
+    a feature on "The Women of Babylon 5"
+
+    February 1994 issue (with major features on Batman) has a two page
+    article.
+
+    March 1994 issue will have a major Babylon 5 feature.
+
+Starlog Magazine Articles:
+
+    Starlog Spectacular #4, March 1992, page 54. Article on NewTek's Video
+    Toaster. The photo that fills the bottom half of the page is an early
+    version of the Babylon 5 station.
+
+    Starlog: September, 1992 Has a feature article on Babylon 5. NOTE: The
+    pictures with the articles are either outdated or have little, if
+    anything, to do with Babylon 5.
+
+    Starlog Spectacular, Jan 1993 :  Feature article with many pictures from
+    the computer animation done for the show.
+
+    Starlog: February, 1993 has an interview with Andreas Katsulas where he
+    talks about his involvement with Babylon 5 and other genre appearances.
+
+British Magazines Starburst, TV Zone and DWB have also had major articles.
+
+Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz, who works with Ron Thornton on the visual effects,
+will have an article in _Toaster User_ in the Spring of '94.  Call AVID
+publications at 800-322-2843 from the USA.
+
+_Electronic Dreams_ #14 & #15 contain the ULTIMATE interview of Christopher
+Franke, composer for Babylon 5.  Contact elana@netcom.com for details.
+
+--------------------
+TV Specials Produced
+--------------------
+
+E! Televsion produced a "Behind the Scenes" special on the pilot movie
+which has aired on E! Television and occasionally turns up on the channel.
+Note that one segment of the special focused on some of the animatronics
+used for background characters seen only briefly (if at all).
+
+PTEN produced several short features (five minutes or less) introducing 
+Babylon 5's pilot, and the launch of the series.  These were fed on satellite 
+and may have been broadcast at odd times on local stations.
+
+For the launch of the series, PTEN produced a "Making of Babylon 5" special 
+hosted by Walter Koenig.  This aired approximately a week before the series 
+opener.
+
+An early rendering of Babylon 5 and some ships can be found on a demo 
+videotape of the Video Toaster.  Call NewTek at (800) 765-3406 and request a
+copy of their latest demo tape for the Video Toaster.
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+                  The Unoffical Babylon 5 Technical Manual
+
+                            By Thomas Chiverton
+
+   Last updated - 26/10/97, includes Eps. up to Season 4, #1 (HOTW), and
+                              Update number 10
+                                  [title]
+There are no spoilers for the UK in this document. See separate Update file
+B5.tech.1 or b5-techu.txt for updates.
+Each update release is numbered.
+
+WHAT ISNT IN HERE:
+Char details, or spoilers (i.e. stuff not shown/published in U.K.)
+WARNING: THIS MEANS THAT THIS DOC MAY HAVE SPOILERS FOR SOME COUNTRIES.
+THESE ARE NOT MARKED. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
+Story ideas etc.
+(This is because it is a tech manual, small amounts of info on races is
+included, however, to aid in identification)
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+All pictures are held on a different server. It's very reliable, but please
+excuse it if it won't give you the pictures. I have no control over it !
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+NEW / UPDATED
+
+   * More URL changes
+   * URL changes
+   * Minor wording changes
+   * Rearenged where to get updates, fixed some dodgy HTML
+   * Everything, went to Wolf 359 and talked about the manual
+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Index
+
+   * List of Terms Used
+   * I B5 Information and Stats
+   * II Shadow Technology
+   * III Strieb Technology
+   * IV Lumati Technology
+   * V Narn Technology
+   * VI Centuri Technology
+   * VII Minbari Technology
+   * VIII Humen (also know as Earther) Technology
+   * IX Vorlon Technology
+   * X Jump Gates
+   * XI What Ships Fire What Weapons (Partly written by David Engkent)
+   * XII The White Star
+   * XIII Sigma 957 Aliens
+   * XIV Epsilon 3 (The Great Machine)
+   * XV Misc. (What will *not* fit anywhere else !)
+   * Legal stuff, credits, where to get further updates etc
+   * Back to main B5 page
+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+TERMS USED:
+
+Organic / Non-organic tech: Refers to wether the technology used is organic
+('grown') or metalic ('built') or not.
+
+Hyper-Space: A different dimension/Universe, which maps large distances in
+our universe to small distances in the different one, allowing for
+interstellar travel without bypassing the photonic barrier. Newtonian
+physics apply, so any inertia created while passing through a gate remains
+upon entry/exit.
+Accessed via a jump gate or point. Distorts transmissions that past through
+it greatly, giving communications a very limited range.
+Major colour scheme is shades of red.
+Trained telepaths rated P12 or better can aid navigation in Hyper-space by
+homing in on a targets thought emissions.
+Ships of a certain size are capable of entering hyper-space without using a
+gate, with a large cost in energy. It has become common for these ships to
+construct gates after arriving in a new system, in order to save energy for
+future trips.
+80% of the Galaxy is outside hyper space beacon range.
+It is assumed that exposure to HS for periods longer than a few weeks is
+dangerous to cell/DNA structure.
+RS to HS is a 1 to many phenomena, whereas HS to RS is a many to one
+phenomena.
+(Zathras) ... once you come out of hyperspace past the galactic rim, all
+your points of reference are gone ...and you can't just "keep going" in a
+straight line in hyperspace. (JMS)
+
+Tachyon Space: Maps distance travelled within it into a shift in time (but
+not position) in the 'real' Universe. Impulses of energy and the time
+distortions these create can do 'great harm', such as speeding up a
+travellers personal time, resulting in death within a short time. The exit
+is a gradual fade from Tachyon Space to real space, entry is by a hole,
+edged with glowing blue/white energy, through which a picture of the other
+time can be seen, broadcasts heard etc.
+Once in the other time zone, care must be taken, powerful energy discharges
+can 'unstick' the traveller, sending them forwards or backwards along their
+time line, where they 'leap' into their future or past self.
+
+Hyper-space Engines: The system of guidence computers and beacon trackers
+and the like that allow a ship to navigate in hyper-space using a
+pre-created Jump Gate or Point. Low power consumption means almost all
+ships, incl. fighters have this system fitted.
+
+Jump point (or Vortex Generator): Entrance to Hyper space. Large permenant
+points have a focusing system in orbit around them, four seven-mile long
+generators.
+These are free floating with a central computer controlling the position
+thrusters; these allow the brackets to re-position for larger than average
+ships and maintain a relative stationary position. The element Quantium-40
+(a derivative of which is Duridium) is a vital component of jump gate
+construction. As a consequence of the amount of energy a jump gate
+produces, it takes a long time to shut one down and even longer to start it
+back up. Smaller, ship generated gates have no such orbital devices.
+The point is unstable, and can be closed by a large energy discharge. Known
+as jump points when they are unfixed (i.e. generated by a ship) Detecting
+ships coming out of a jump gate is limited by time. While you can get the
+frequency identification of a ship a few minutes prior to its exiting
+hyper-space, much more information can be gained just as it begins to exit;
+like silhouette, mass, etc.
+Jump gates (and points) are directional, a yellow gate for entry to
+hyperspace, and blue for exiting. Travel is not possible in the 'wrong'
+direction.
+Jump points broadcast a signal in hyper space that is detectable for 1000km
+or so.
+(See also X Jump Gates)
+
+Jump Point Generator: allows a ship to create its own jump point from its
+location to hyper-space, without using a fixed entry/exit jump gate.
+Requires large amounts of power, and so only carried by larger ships. They
+also require a stable power source, or they malfunction, destroying the
+ship. They also require a recharge time before they can be reused. Once
+shut down, they need time to rebuild their energy levels before they can be
+resued.
+
+NOTE: Advanced races (First Ones) don't need jump points or generators to
+enter hyper-space (Shadows- phase, or 'ripple', Sigma 957 Aliens- a 'hole',
+Vorlons are the exception to this. But they introduced the technology to
+the current races.
+
+Beam weapon: As yet unidentified craft weapons, maybe plasma, ion, neutron
+or laser based, depending on the ship.
+
+Missiles: Miscellaneous launched weapons (mines, missiles, remote
+controlled ships etc. as applicable to size of ship.) Including:
+Mass Driver: Propels mass from ship to the target. Banned by all-race
+agreement, but Centuri used them against the Narn home world, 'bombing them
+back to the stone age'.
+Energy Mine: Operate as 20th century mines, but can be guided to target at
+high speed, releasing a disc of energy when detonated.
+
+Cruiser: Medium sized ship. Sometimes used as ambassadors transport.
+
+Fighter: one or two being fighter craft.
+
+Mother: Home base for fighters. In addition to specifically mentioned
+weapons these probably carry 'weapons of mass destruction' (Fusion bombs,
+ion cannon, mass drivers, heavy energy weapons).
+
+Back to top
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+I
+
+Babylon 5
+
+Babylon 5 is the last of the Babylon stations. After the loss of Babylon 4,
+the station was left with a minimal budget. Even with additional alien
+funding, the Earth Alliance kept looking for ways to reduce their financial
+commitment. Even so, Babylon 5 is a marvel of human engineering, even in
+the face of more advanced alien technology. It is a cylindrical construct
+nearly five miles long with a maximum capacity of 250,000 beings. While the
+interior rotates for a gravity positive environment, the spine of the
+station, housing the zero-g docking bays, and the fusion reactor are
+relatively stationary. Framing the rear of the station are the blue heat
+radiator fins.
+Babylon 5 is painted blue, where it is not left as bare metal.
+B5 has a mass of 2.5 million tons. It is a little over 5 miles long. The
+main body is 5 miles long, and the docking guides add another .3 miles on
+to that.
+
+Normal planetary gravity is simulated by rotating the station. Outward
+acceleration at the perimeter is approximately 9.8 m/s2 [1g]. The station
+does not have engines per se, although there are small thrusters used in
+maintaining it's location at the L5 point. It is located 160,000 km from
+where Babylon 4 used to be, and is 92,000km from the planet.
+
+The station is defended by a low level defence grid, as well as several
+small weapon emplacements located beneath panels on the outer hull, and a
+complement of more than 48 Starfuries (both original and Thunder Bolt
+versions).
+
+The "front" of the station consists of two docking bays, the first allowing
+small craft to enter along the 0g centreline, and be transferred to the
+appropriate bay, and the second dedicated to craft remaining in free fall.
+The forward section also contains the cobra bays for the fighters.
+
+Other locations of interest include the Observation Dome, from where the
+station is run; the Zocalo, a shopping and entertainment district; and the
+Garden, an O'Neill style environment (cylinder with gardens, pools, cafes
+baseball etc. in it).
+
+The station's main computer is based on crystalline human-alien hybrid
+technology, and is capable of both written and voice input and output in
+several languages. Integrated within its system is the Babcom
+communications network, which handles intastation, ship-to-station, and
+long- range Tachyon messages.
+All the computer systems on the station are controlled via this centralised
+system. This system is subject to commands from terminals, and also the
+external communications feed, so Earth Alliance command could order the
+shutdown of life support for instance, although the access codes have now
+been changed. When the system was originally put on-line an artificial
+intelligence (or personality) was installed as part of the interface, but
+was later removed due to compatibility problems with the human staff.
+However, the personality (called Sparky) still surfaces from time to time.
+
+All command crew and diplomatic staff have a 'Link' stuck to the back of
+their hand, which acts as a futuristic walkie talkie. These contain a
+tracking beacon. Earthforce personal links are bio-coded and can not be
+used by anyone except their correct owner. Any attempt to use someone
+else's link triggers a warning in C&C.
+
+Main power is handled by the fusion generator at the tail of the station.
+
+Internal co-ordinates are as follows. First a colour, denoting a ring of
+the station. Then one of, on average, 36 level numbers, and a letter
+denoting section. Hence the main corridor passes through blue 15 a for
+example.
+
+A jump gate is located nearby with the Corridor being the standard approach
+vector to the station. Vessels straying off the Corridor's flight path are
+fined.
+
+South, Back end                                 North, Front end
+
+                       Radiator Fins
+                       |
+                       V                             Tachyon Emitter
+                                                         |
+                   /\ /\ /\                              V
+                   || || || /\____________  _______      .
+         __       _||_||_||//-------------\/--------\___/_____
+ |\______||______/ || || ||       | |     |  |  \___/   \   ^
+ ||      ||      | ---------------| |     |  |  |___     |  |
+ ||______||______\________________| |_____|  |  |___\___/   Docking Horns
+ |/      ||        || || || \_____|_|/    |__|__/
+                   || || ||
+                   \/ \/ \/
+
+   ^              ^     ^    ^     ^     ^ ^  ^ ^ ^   ^
+   |              |     |    |     |     | |  | | |   |
+   |              |     |    |   Green   | |  | | |   Docking bay
+   |              |     |    |  section  | |  | | Cobra bays
+   |              |     |    |           | |  | Med lab/Iso lab
+   |              |     |    |           | |  Blue section
+   |              |     |    |    the    | Red section
+   |              |     |    +--Garden---+
+   |              |     Gray section
+   |              Brown section
+   Fusion reactor
+
+(ASCII art by Richard Meikle)
+
+
+In the fore of the station is the zero-gravity docking bay entrance. Two
+docking horns frame the bay, to help guide and stabilise the huge bulk
+freighters. Once parked in front of the area, a freighter is offloaded,
+refuelled by the 'hose jockeys', and loaded up again.
+The docking guides have magnetic strips laid into them, so that personal
+can walk out on to them easily.
+
+The zero-g bays extent well into the middle of the station, just above red
+sector. Although the area is stationary, it as accessible from many parts
+of the habitable sections of the station.
+
+Mounted above and between the docking horns is the Tachyon
+transmitter/receiver and the docking beacon.
+
+Below the zero-g docking bay, in the rotating section, is the docking bay
+proper. All ships enter the station dead centre. An incoming ship
+surrenders its shipboard computer to the Babylon 5 Command and Control, or
+C&C, located directly beneath the bay entrance. While most pilots can
+easily match the station's rotation, however the possibility of pilot error
+is far greater than computer error. Unfortunately, certain cost-cutting
+measures in docking hardware have lead to accidental loss of life and
+property. A ship is then taken and lowered into one of many bays located
+toward the hull. The docking areas are divided into sections, with the
+diplomatic and military bays having restricted access.
+Starfuries are housed in separate launch bays in cobra shaped projections
+along the round front of the station, hence their common name "Cobra Bays."
+
+Set in the front of the station, beneath the entrance to the dock areas, is
+a window which looks into C&C. This can be covered with a set of blast
+doors, as can the docking entrance. C&C is located 1/3 of the way off the
+spin axis, and hence is a low gravity area (1/3g). The C&C main 'Window' is
+in fact, a huge slab of armor glass that can do multiple duty as a
+controllable filter and digital display device. The 'window' can be
+transparent when you want it to, and can also display video images from any
+source; thus, the C&C window can be looking out through the eye of a camera
+on the loading bay spines, through a camera mounted on the non-rotating
+spine, or from any camera-equipped spot on the station, including the
+Maint-Bots. The only time the view through the C&C "Window" seems to be
+spinning is when it's been switched to "Transparent Mode" or it is
+displaying the view seen from a camera mounted on a spinning part of the
+station. (Gharlane of Eddore)
+
+The interior station is itself divided in to colour coded sectors. Blue
+sector houses station administration and EA personnel quarters. Also in
+Blue Sector are the Medlabs, staffed by highly trained xenobiologists to
+tend to the ambassadors and Earth Force personnel. Medlab One is a small
+facility exclusively used by the Medical Chief of Staff, Doctor Stephen
+Franklin.
+There are larger medical facilities, resembling proper hospitals, elsewhere
+on the station.
+A recent addition to Blue Sector is the Strategic War Room, from which the
+war with the Shadows is monitored and directed.
+
+Red Sector is relegated to business and diplomatic chambers.
+Red Sector's highlight is the Zocalo. Hundreds of shops, stands, bars,
+restaurants, and clubs line the curved passageways, as does the EA postal
+services Post Office.
+
+Aliens requiring alternate atmosphere/gravity to generally more common
+oxy-nitro combinations live in the Alien Sector. While most aliens here
+require special mixes, oxygen breathing aliens tend to gravitate here, away
+from the overabundance of humans elsewhere. Ambassadors and their
+entourages are housed in a separate part of Green Sector, with higher
+security.
+The alien sector is not all blank corridors covered in noxious gasses, the
+Hanging Gardens houses various varieties of alien plant life suited to a
+methane-ammonia atmosphere. The Garden got its name from the various
+spheres of soils that hang suspended from the ceiling by thick chains. Most
+of the alien growths are phosphorescent.
+The Dilgar War Memorial was erected here to commemorate the world and
+species that fell to the Dilgar.
+
+Green sector contains high-security quarters for the various alien
+diplomats (with adjustable environment quarters for ambassadors that
+require it). The Vorlon quarters are number 8.
+Unauthorised personnel are not admitted.
+
+Both Grey and Brown Sectors were largely unfinished due to budgetary
+constraints.
+Grey sector is infamous for the Babylon 5 Triangle -- an area around Grey
+17 that leads an active imagination to believe the place is haunted.
+Maintenance crews have reported strange lights, sounds and disappearances
+in the area.
+There is a 'extra' level between the levels labelled Grey 16 and Grey 17,
+resulting in Grey sector having 'only' 29 levels. The real Grey 17 is
+inaccessible from normal routes, and is filled with junk, a rather nasty
+alien, and a mad cult.
+
+All sectors (apart from those under the garden) have 95 levels.
+
+The Service Collar is the name for the structure immediately behind the
+command and docking sphere at the head of the station. Immediately "south"
+of the collar is Customs and Disembarkation. Customs is a hundred-meter
+wide chamber running alongside the collar. While most employees are human,
+several aliens are employed using hardware translators.
+
+The entire interior of the rotating cylinder is called the Garden. It's
+main purpose is to provide food and oxygen reclamation for the station.
+Most of the food grown here do not require seasonal changes, since there
+are no seasons in this artificial environment. Foods that do need seasonal
+variation are grown in separate hydroponic areas. In addition to necessary
+insects cultivated in the zoos below the "ground," birds are also in the
+Garden all of which are now used to the "new physics" of flying in this
+environment. No one is allowed to "camp out" on the interior anyone doing
+so is arrested for destroying precious crops. A small percentage of the 12
+square miles of vegetation is used for recreation. Supporting the park
+plant life is twenty meters of dirt, under which are four levels of
+hydrobays, support systems, storage and silage units, water and oxygen
+reclamation units, chemical processors, farm equipment garages, and insect
+zoos. There is a train in the garden that runs around the circumference of
+the station. The garden is half a kilometer across.
+
+"Downbelow" is a term used to describe the unused parts of the station
+where the homeless, or Lurkers, eke out a living. Trapped on station for
+various reasons, most die here unknown and unrememberd.
+
+A monorail runs the length of the station, along the axis of rotation,
+hence it is in a zero-g environment, and so is known as the Zero-G Train.
+
+The hull of Babylon 5 is a double hull to provide an extra layer of
+protection from micrometor strikes and internal explosions. This leaves a
+crawl space between the two hulls.
+
+The rotating sections are mounted on electro-magnetic bearings.
+
+B5 communicates with earth via a faster than light link able to carry many
+live video feeds to and from B5. This FTL link also allows real-time video
+communication with other races homeworlds and ships.
+B5 is orbited by unmanned maintenance robots (Maint-Bots).
+These have colour vision, the feed from which may be patched into the B5
+video network.
+
+B5 also has video cameras (Monitors) that can be sent to automatically film
+an area. The video recorders are made of an extremely ultralight material,
+new alloys that in total weigh less than an ounce; it has a visible (and
+audible) air propulsion system, a high speed fan with a
+stabiliser/gyroscope that keeps it steady, and moves it forward. (JMS)
+
+The main power source is a fusion reactor, mounted at the rear of the
+station. This can be reached, for maintaince purposes, by the Zero-G Train,
+or via a large set of doors set into the hull. Inside these there is a
+large open space, with the reactor wall forming one wall of this space.
+
+The floors are linked via 'transport tubes' that take the form of lifts,
+which move radily (that is, from the centre line outwards to the hull).
+
+Update to B5 Weapons Grid
+A visiting platoon of Ground Pounders installed an enhanced Defence Grid
+for the B5 station. The updated specs are as follows:
+
+   * Pulse cannons
+   * Interceptors
+   * Mine launchers
+   * Upgrade to the tracking system ( x3 speed increase)
+
+Distributed in 6 groups along the main back bone of the station.
+
+B5 Population
+
+   * 1,500 Dock Workers
+   * 6,500 Earthforce personnel
+   * 42% of population are 'Aliens' i.e. non-Earthers
+   * Total Population: 1/4 million
+
+When it became operational in 2257, the odds on it lasting six months were
+500-1 Lloyds of London, 350-1 Las Vegas and 200-1 New Vegas.
+By 2259 the odds were 250-1 Lloyds of London, 200-1 Las Vegas and 5-1 New
+Vegas and 41% of people were against the station, as opposed to nearer 30%
+at the outset.
+
+Each area (such as green-2 or whatever) is split into segments. These
+segments can be isolated from each other in the event of fire, flood or
+vacuum. This is achieved by having a transparent door slide down and seal
+off the area. The door has strips of the zones colour, and small flashing
+red lights set into it.
+In the docking and other areas close to vacuum these are stronger, made out
+of a beryllium alloy. They are highly resistant to PPG fire, the rebounds
+being a grave danger to the firer !
+
+Production Methods
+Instead of creating new forms and processes in the construction of the
+Babylon stations, the Earth Alliance altered established mass production.
+For example, Exploration vessels are nearly five miles long and its
+rotating section as wide. Production lines required only a minimal
+alteration to construct sections of the hull and the rotational interface.
+The pieces were jumped from the stardocks to Epsilon Eridani and assembled.
+Materials from Sol system's asteroid belt and minerals found in the Tigris
+system were used. In the case of Babylon 4, some of the materials used were
+the salvageable remains of Babylon 1 through 3 (see also Humen Technology).
+
+Credit Cards
+Beings entering Babylon 5 are given a credit chit. Any currency held by the
+being is converted to current Earth-value credits according to the currency
+exchange rate. The credit chit contains the being's name, ID, additional
+personal information, including genetic anti-forgery information, and the
+current amount of credits the being currently has in the Babylon 5 central
+computer (the chit is also tied to a being's IdentiCard). Employees of the
+station have their salaries tied into the chit. It is used as a debit card.
+Each purchase or transfer runs down the total amount of credits until a
+deposit is made.
+
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+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+II
+
+Shadow Technology
+
+These are the oldest race, older even than the Vorlons. At least twice they
+have tried to take over the galaxy. The Shadow's real name is 10,000
+letters long.
+A 4 foot high spider like organic creature, it is four legged, with a long
+neck and a pair of pincers. Many eyes that glow in the dark. Invisible
+except on certain frequencies.
+They seem to prefer to work via agents such as the Centuri, Morden and
+maybe the Strieb.
+Some Human agents appear to come from the exploration ship Icarus, which
+carried Sheriden's wife. It landed on the 'deserted' Shadow home world,
+Za'Ha'Dum, where it encountered the Shadows. The Humans who did not agree
+to help were killed. Those who agreed to help now travel space corrupting
+races. These agents are always protected and accompanied by a 'minder' that
+is normally invisible, sometimes even the Shadows themselves.
+At any one time most of the Shadows are on their home world, Za'Ha Dum,
+they use other beings to pilot their ships. Their whole civilization was
+moved underground centuries ago (B5 timeline), in interests of security. In
+general the city is shaped like an egg hewn out of the bed rock, with
+several large skylights set into the roof, to afford a view of the sky.
+Also in the city are huge, 2 or miles deep, shafts.
+Organic/Bio-technology is used to modify 'donors' to act as Cores for their
+ships, suggesting organic technology
+
+Like most advanced aliens, the ships have an organic look and are composed
+of a large number of interlocked pentagons.
+The skin of these are made of a shimmering oily black substance able to
+withstand the rigors of space and hyper-space travel. The skin is extremely
+versatile; able to be in a rigid, flexible, or fluid state seemingly at
+will. It appears to bond easily with other vessels having similar "skin."
+Carbon-based lifeforms, not properly prepared, die immediately upon
+touching this substance. Being organic in design, damage to the ship acts
+as it would a living being (for example: severing a spine on the Shadow
+vessel will put the Shadow vessel in shock or anger, depending on its
+mental state and "personality.")
+'When it flies past you, its like a scream in your mind'.
+'Once they target you they never stop, never slow down, never give up.
+until they have destroyed you- they are nearly invincible'
+The mother ship, at least, creates a characteristic trail of neutrinos as
+it moves through hyper-space. This trail, if found, can be used to find the
+ship.
+One craft was excavated on Mars, and another of Ganymede.
+Only current non-First One ship that stands a chance against it is the
+White Star (see section XII- White Star)
+Shadow vessels are vulnerable to telepathic interference. At a cost of
+great strain a P5 or better can scramble and upset their central operating
+system, rendering them 'harmless'. In this state several ships can surround
+and attack easily.
+Vulnerable to sustained, very high energy, continuous beam weapons, such as
+those carried on the White Star and Narn Cruisers, and by Vorlon ships. One
+White Star, with all energy diverted to forward weapons and a Narn heavy
+cruiser, or two normal strength White Star forward cannons and a Narn heavy
+cruiser is sufficient to explode a 'Crab in 5 seconds.
+All Shadow ships can 'warble' into and out of hyperspace. Shadow Ships
+require a weapons lock, which can be detected.
+
+FIGHTER Shaped like a fat starfish.
+Capabilities
+
+   * Energy ball of some kind.
+   * Impervious to fighter fire, but can be destroyed by ramming them,
+     although they still remain active for a short time. The White Star was
+     able to destroy 6 in a short battle.
+
+PROBE Shaped like a cross between a Battle crab, with long curving
+'fingers', and a Berserker probe. Stronger than fighters, but not as much
+as a Ship or Crab, they can withstand the loss of 2 or 3 spines long enough
+to ram the offending ship.
+Capabilities
+
+   * Hyper-space engines
+   * Single shot cannon
+   * High power sensor arrays and communications systems
+
+MOTHER AND CRUISER Shaped like a many legged spider. The Mother is 2-3
+miles across, the cruiser about 600 meters in width (spine to spine).
+Composed of organic technology the Mother requires a sentient being to
+operate as its Core. The Core must be properly prepared for insertion. If
+it is not, the result is a confused, disoriented, and insane ship. Although
+merged with the ship, the Core can be removed with great difficulty and
+with permanent mental damage to the Core. The Core is neither pilot nor
+passenger, it is a ready-made thought matrix. An organic unit can process
+information faster than most computer systems and reacts faster when
+formulating strategy. It is much easier and faster to temper an existing
+brain than manufacture a complex computer.
+The Mothers are two-tiered with the lower part housing the weapons. The
+upper tier houses a wing of approximately seventy-five fighters, with a
+possible total complement of two-hundred fighters.
+As for defensive systems, the Shadow Ship can absorb destructive energy,
+but at the cost of great pain. Many smaller hits, as from many fighters,
+appear to confuse the ship, to the point where it does not return fire.
+Capabilities
+
+   * One very high energy beam weapon, more powerful than most other
+     weapons seen. This device can cut an enemy ship in half in under a
+     second, although it is possible to dissipate this, the energy cost is
+     large. The weapon appears ineffective against Vorlon mother ships.
+   * hyper-space engines.
+   * Impervious to fighter fire. When hit by combined fire power of several
+     enemy mother ships a small portion of one 'leg' was severed. The wound
+     'healed' itself.
+   * Two ships may join to become one larger ship. They same to travel in
+     this paired formation, they are then known as Battle Crabs.
+   * Mothers can fire a spiked ball which explodes into many fighters.
+   * They can also fire a device into a jump gate that destroys it, along
+     with any ship unlucky enough to be in the gates field, this maybe just
+     a simple cannon blast.
+   * They can enter and leave hyper-space without using a jump point,
+     instead they just *ripple* into and out of normal space.
+   * Although impervious to normal weapons, one was destroyed by an
+     exploding jump gate (See Section X- jump gates), and another by an
+     extreme gravitational field. Another technique was used by a Vorlon
+     cruiser- using some form of modulated energy beam the Vorlon ship was
+     able to capture a Shadow Vessel, and then ram it, destroying it.
+     Telepaths appear to impair the interface between them and their Core.
+
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+III
+
+Streib Technology
+
+This race has so far only been encountered by the Narn, Minbari and the
+Earthers.
+They are assumed to be restricted to their home world. At the moment they
+are currently engaged in obtaining 'samples' of the technology and
+creatures of neighbouring space. Their last two raids were into Narn and
+Earth space.
+In both encounters they were followed back to their home world, and fired
+upon, and, in at least one case, had their ship destroyed.
+They may be allied to the Shadows. Small figures, large heads and eyes. A
+minor race.
+
+SHIP A huge ship, unsymetrical. Equipped with a torture chamber where
+captured aliens are forced to fight, and are experimented upon.
+Capabilities
+
+   * High energy rapid fire energy cannon.
+   * Tractor beam.
+   * hyper-space engines / jump point generator.
+
+The ships cannon seems to have great difficulty in hitting targets.
+
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+IV
+
+Lumati Technology
+
+This race has only recently been encountered.
+They scorn of 'inferior' races, and will not left a finger to help a lesser
+species, but they do consider Humens non-inferior, even if they now have
+strange ideas about Humen sexual acts. Tall, symbiotic. Deep crevices on
+head.
+
+SHIP Structured from 5-6 spheres, linked by symmetrical sets of four
+triangles.
+Capabilities
+
+   * Unknown weapon systems, assumed energy cannon / missile.
+   * hyper-space engines. Possibly jump point generator, the ship is big
+     enough to hold one.
+
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+V
+
+Narn Technology
+
+One of the Big Four races, lizard like in appearance. 150 years ago they
+were almost wiped out by the Centuri who strip mined the Narn home world.
+They eventually managed, after 100 years, to drive them off. For them the
+words 'Never Again' have special meaning. Their B5 ambassador, G'Kar,
+guessed the Shadows are coming.
+They are possibly much older than almost any other race, but were decimated
+in the first war against the Shadows, and now in this one as well, having
+only 10 or 15 ships left.
+Non-organic tech.
+They are the only race not to have telepaths, although they used to have
+them, they were killed off by the Shadows, resulting in too small a gene
+pool for them to breed a telepath.
+Home world is called Narn.
+Non-organic technology
+
+FIGHTER Flat and rounded.
+Capabilities
+
+   * Beam weapon.
+
+HEAVY FIGHTER Chunkier version of fighters. Better amoured / weaponed.
+
+DREADNAUGHT Looks like two heavy fighters join base to base by a bridge.
+Capabilities
+
+   * Jump point genearator, hyperspace engines.
+   * More pwerful version of cruiser.
+
+MOTHER SHIP Larger version of fighter, composed of three decks. The bridge
+can be sealed off from rest of ship. One kilometer long.
+Capabilities
+
+   * Beam weapons.
+   * hyper-space Engines, jump point generator.
+   * Missiles.
+   * Suffer a comms black out after re-entering normal space.
+
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+VI
+
+Centuri Technology
+
+One of the big four races. Attempted twice to trick Humens on first
+contact, saying they were a lost Centuri colony, and that the Centuri ruled
+the entire Universe. Large fan of hair on males. Females shave their heads.
+
+Earth's first encounter with aliens was with them and the Centuri traded
+Earth jump gate technology.
+Home world is known as Centuri Prime.
+Non-organic tech.
+
+BLOCKADE MINES Squat cylinder, with two cannons revolving around the top.
+Assumed to be remotely controlled or automatic. Inaccurate, we have only
+seen them once, but most shots missed, and it was also commented that they
+were 'beginning to get [the] range', implying they can not fire straight
+away upon a target.
+Capabilities
+
+   * Cannons (see above), but these appear to be very inaccurate.
+
+FIGHTER Crescent shaped, thin and 'spacialdynamic'
+Capabilities
+
+   * Beam weapon.
+   * Prob. hyper-space engines.
+
+CRUISER Cross shaped
+Capabilities
+
+   * hyper-space engines and jump point generator,
+   * missiles, misc. beam weapons.
+
+Note: The Centauri appear to be the only race whose cruisers do not have
+some sort of beam weapon. Centauri cruisers rapid-fire single shots from
+the centre point of the front of the ship. They also appear to have lesser
+weapons elsewhere on their cruisers, but the ones that seem most effective
+in battle are the front-and-centre guns that fire some sort of elongated
+shot.
+
+MOTHER Like two cruisers joined side by side
+Capabilities
+
+   * Beam weapons.
+   * hyper-space engines and jump point generator.
+   * Missiles
+   * Mass drivers.
+
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+VII
+
+Minbari Technology
+
+One of the big four races. Almost wiped out the Humens in a huge war,
+driving them back to their 0 home system, and then home world, bypassing
+the Mars and Io colonies. All remaining Earth ships ordered into Earth
+orbit.
+At the last moment the Minbari surrendered, after examining a captive
+Human, and discovering that they were reborn Minbari souls, but not before
+19800 out of the 20000 ships were destroyed.
+Recognised by bony protrusions on skull.
+Home world known as Minbar, the 7th planet from their sun. One quarter of
+planet covered by north polar ice cap. So rich in crystal deposits many
+cities carved out of crystal formations. Three languages Len'a, Feak and
+Adrinato (the language of the religious cast). An example of Adrinato is
+'Ni sec schlect slem wa' Meaning 'I am your friend, in peace'. The Minbari
+have had artificial gravity for some time, and all Minbari ships are driven
+by a garivtio-magnetic system. They are also at the experimental stage of
+time travel, having the ability to control certain types of time fields,
+however this is at a very early stage, horse and carriage compared to a
+modern sports car, or the Great Machine.
+Semi-organic tech.
+
+Rings The Minbari have been observed using small rings to great effect. One
+such ring was observed increasing the local gravity a whole order of
+magnitude. Careful observation indicates the presence of a small silvery
+discoloration on the ring finger of the Minbari ambassador, probably some
+form of cybernetic interface. Thus the rings most probably act merely as
+transmission devices to much larger units. It is therefore postulated that
+the devices are only usable in certain areas, in this case the quarters of
+the Minbari ambassador.
+
+FIGHTER Y shaped, like Chigs from Space: Above and Beyond.
+Capabilities
+
+   * Beam weapon.
+   * hyper-space engines.
+
+FLYER (Equivalent to Cruiser/Shuttle) Flat, with upright fins at corners.
+Capabilities
+
+   * hyper-space engines.
+   * Atmosphere capable.
+
+MOTHER 300m long, 200 M tons, shaped like an angel fish.
+In the centre of Minbari cruisers there is the Tactical Centre. Over head a
+large inverted mushroom hangs. A full 360 degree view is offered here, and
+communication to any ship in range is as easy as speaking to it. Displays
+on offer range from tactical maps to camera images.
+Capabilities
+
+   * hyper-space engines, jump point generator.
+   * Tractor beam.
+   * Highly resilient to fighter weapons.
+   * Some form of stealth tech. that prevents Earther scanners at least
+     from locking on.
+   * 12 fusion lasers
+   * 6 neutron cannons
+   * 6 missile launches (20M ton per missile)
+   * 1 forward stasis beam
+   * 4 attractor breams around launch bay
+   * Cargo pay able to hold up to 2000 m tons
+   * 64 crew
+   * 150 troops
+   * maximum speed of .2 c
+
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+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+VIII
+
+Earther Technology
+
+The last of the big four. 'Mankind'.
+Scanner systems can be knocked out using an Electro Magnetic Pulse, as from
+a fusion bomb.
+Messaging systems stamp all transmissions with a date stamp, and in
+military systems a 'subchannel ID' which allows the sender to be
+authenticated.
+Non-organic tech.
+
+FIGHTER (SA-23E)
+                            [sf wire] [sf pers]
+The SA-23E Mitchell-Hyundyne Starfury is a single-seat non-atmospheric
+fighter craft utilised by the Earth Alliance for short range defence
+operations. It is armed with two Plasma Projection Guns, as well as four
+Pulse Discharge Cannons. Unlike in classic Terran designs, the pilot sits
+almost perfectly vertically in the cockpit, operating the vessel by a
+combination of hand, foot, and voice-activated controls.
+It has an average speed of 15km/s.
+One of the most intriguing facets of Starfury operations is the launch
+sequence. The pilot enters the cockpit by a short ramp, wearing a pressure
+suit. As he prepares for launch, the bay is depressurized. When all is
+ready, the fighter pivots point-down into launch position, and is launched
+by the inertial forces created by station rotation. After it clears the
+station, the main engines fire.
+These engines are the most unusual aspect of the design, being placed on
+long wings, forming an X shape.
+Weapons
+
+   * Four 20 megawatt pulse discharge cannons (located on thruster pods)
+   * Up to 8 externally mounted missiles with nuclear, frag., jam etc.
+     warheads as needed.
+   * PDC's may be replaced with unguided missile launchers.
+   * 2 PPG's mounted under cockpit.
+
+Four fuel cells mounted on the inboard trailing edge of each wing.
+Thrust is vectored using a system of 8 flaps mounted behind the engines.
+Launch rail attach points can be seen on the underside.
+Long range scanners can detect objects up to 2 hours flight time away, and
+mix passive and active systems, and feature a multi-level active amp.
+4.4 m long, 1 pilot. Thrust glows bluw-white. Seems not to have evolved
+much since the Earth-Minbari war.
+
+   * Variants
+        o Star Fury (Black Omega): Used for infiltration due to advanced
+          stealth capabilities. Very expensive. Omega decal on underside.
+        o Star Fury (two seater): two cockpits, one facing forward, one
+          facing aft. Missiles and heavy pulse cannons, fixed forward
+          mountings, with a turret on the back.
+        o Star Fury (Thunder Bolt (SA-42B) ):
+        o Star Fury (Thunder Bolt (SA-42B) ):
+          1 rapid burst pulse cannon. 4x missile rack under        [tb-sce]
+          cockpit. Wings are more planer and feature swing wing on
+          each of the 4 thrusters. When extended act as aerofoils, else
+          folded over the body. Better speed and manoeuvrability then the
+          original.
+                                      [tb pers]
+          Next generation of fighters, atmosphere capable- the thunderbolts
+          can do a low-level bombing run and then leave the atmosphere. 2
+          seater. Minimum speed in atmosphere is about Mach 2, due to small
+          wing size. Thrust glows orange, maybe they are not as efficent
+          due to having to work in the atmosphere as well ?
+
+Control of Ships A Starfury needs and uses all 6 degrees of freedom. This
+means there are two T shaped joysticks, one for each hand.
+To yaw right, you might pivot the right hand stick to the right, increasing
+the angle to increase the speed of the yaw ... as you hold it there you
+keep spinning until you let go, at which time the ship stops itself. To
+achieve this the computer would give an initial burst from the correct
+thrusters to set your roll in motion at a rate proportional to the amount
+you have depressed the stick ... when you let go, the computer gives
+another burst from the opposite thrusters to stop your spin.
+This kind of control would be very intuitive and would minimise the
+possibility of the pilot becoming disoriented in a fast but complex
+manoeuvre. Also a "manual" mode would be included that gave you direct
+control over the thrusters. In this mode, the control sticks would act more
+like throttles .. when depressed, the thrusters activate at proportional
+intensity and when released, the thrusters turn off.
+Another feature is the ability to set the "zero"... the motion of your base
+frame of reference. Your base frame of reference would be the motion the
+ship would have when the control sticks are zero-ed. For example, if you
+want to dock on B5, you need to set your translation to be 0,Vy,0... that's
+speed Vy down the axis of the station and 0,0 lateral motion. Also, you'd
+need to set your spin velocities to be 0,Ry,0... the core of the station
+rotates at a certain velocity which you must match before entering the
+docking bay. So, your base frame of reference could be set to 0,Vy,0;
+0,Ry,0... when you release the control sticks, the computer makes sure that
+these are your velocities relative to the station. If, as you approach the
+core, you notice that you're a little off-axis, you can keep virtual-active
+mode on and nudge the stick in the right direction a few times to translate
+over onto the axis without having to manually cancel the translation when
+you get right on the axis. Meanwhile, if you notice that your spin rate is
+a tad too slow, you could depress the manual button on the spin stick and
+then twist in just a bit to the right to boost your y-axis rotation rate,
+setting your new base frame to be rotating a little faster in the clockwise
+direction.
+Of course, the computer on a Starfury would very likely have all kinds of
+support for automatically performing precise manoeuvres since manual
+docking is needlessly tedious... especially for an exhausted pilot who's
+just coming off an adrenaline high. These can be activated by voice
+command, such as 'roll 270 degrees left', 'rotate to track target, continue
+course', 'set zero reference to target', 'collide with target' or 'maximum
+thrust' as well as more mundane tasks such as 'dock with target' or 'divert
+all power to life support'.
+(Scott Silvey)
+The foot pedals are used to cycle through scanned targets on the HUD.
+Fire control is similar to modern fighter planes, with weapon selection and
+firing combined into a few switches on one of the joysticks.
+Ejecting is done by pulling two tabs mounted either side of the pilots
+head.
+
+CRUISER Functional. Rotating mid-section.
+Capabilities
+
+   * hyper-space engines, jump point generator.
+   * Powerful forward beam weapon.
+   * Prob. missiles.
+
+HEAVY CRUISER As above
+Capabilities
+
+     As above but more weapon sites, incl. a rear mounted powerful beam
+     weapon, and a fighter compliment.
+
+Hyperion (and similar class) destroyers: 150 meters Omega class ships: 500
+meters (excluding guns/atennas) B1, B2, B3, B4, B5 STATIONS
+
+   * Babylon's 1, 2 and 3 were destroyed by various races before
+     completion.
+   * Babylon 4 is much more heavily armored then Babylon 5, shaped like a
+     traffic cone, with solar arrays at the bottom, two large rotating
+     sections, the smaller front section framed by 4 very large Y shaped
+     weapons pylons. Painted green, as opposed to Babylon 5's blue. Pulled
+     back in time 1000 years to act as a new base of operations during the
+     last Shadow War. The reason for 2 counter rotating sections is to set
+     the total angular momentum to zero, thus enabling B4 to move much more
+     easily than would otherwise be the case. B4 has a certain amount of
+     movement, much more compared to B5, for instance, but still too
+     limited to make it more than a snack for anything with access to a
+     jump point. It is 6 miles long. It is located 160,000 km from where
+     Babylon 5is now, and is 92,000km from the planet.
+   * Babylon 5 remains in neutral territory. See also Section I- Babylon 5
+     .
+
+Breaching Pods: A small, limited mobility, transport vessel. Equipped with
+4 corner mounted cluster pods, egg shaped body. Carries a large number of
+troops from the assault ship to the target vessel, where it seals its self
+on to the hull, and cuts an opening for the troops. Raiders: Small one or
+two man attack fighters. Similar in shape to Cylon attack ships, they
+present a very small front/back profile. Assumed to have a limited range,
+and so must operate from a near-by base. Assumed beam weapons. Not very
+effective in combat, half a dozen or so were wiped out by two star furies.
+Most vunrable on their wings. Atmosphere able. Raider Base: A chunky squat
+life support and engine blocked mounted 'behind' a large wheel like
+structure that the Raiders dock to. Able to open its own jump point. All
+explosives manufactured in the Earth Alliance are laced with special
+chemical codes to allow them to be traced to a particular buyer/batch.
+
+The security forces of Babylon 5, unlike the civilian population, are
+allowed to carry weaponry in the line of duty. The standard issue weapon is
+the PPG, a small hand-held weapon which ionises small quantities of
+hydrogen or helium gas, and suspends the resultant product in a magnetic
+bottle, which is then released by a moving electric charge. The bottle
+decays, resulting in an energy discharge.
+
+Identicards
+Most likely, the Identicards are an outgrowth of the "smart" cards of the
+twentieth century, acting as a combination driver's licence, credit card.
+passport, and medical file. A crystalline memory module, similar to the
+ones used in the main computer could hold medical information, account
+balances, immigration status, and possibly even a small personal calendar
+ala the PDA's introduced in the late 1980's. The technology is simple, but
+requires a merger of data networks difficult to un-bureaucratize.
+
+Dust:
+Dust, an addictive manufactured drug, allows non-telepaths of several races
+to probe the minds of others, experiencing all the victim's memories and
+thoughts in the space of a few minutes. Unfortunately, this leaves the
+victims unconscious, and telepathic victims never recover. The more often
+Dust is taken, the more is required to achieve the effect the next time.
+Dust was originally developed, and is apparently still being produced, by
+Psi Corps in an attempt to induce permanent telepathy in normal humans; the
+experiment has been a failure so far.
+
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+IX
+
+Vorlon Technology
+
+The second oldest race. The ships (and certainly the Cruiser) are
+completely organic, a living being. The pattern on the ships can be seen to
+move slightly.
+The ships are as sentient as dogs, and are breed by the Vorlons as ships.
+(JMS)
+Have an almost unique defence system which can dissipate energy weapons
+fired at their ships, leaving only the physical impact. This device,
+however, appears to have a long recharge time, and in this case the ship
+has to take the hit, a Vorlon Mother being so far the only ship to survive
+a direct hit from a Battle Crab. The organic tech. also allows the ships to
+evolve, and learn.
+The Vorlon race is one of the last remaining First Ones.
+Vorlons appear as humanoid figures cloaked in glowing cloaks of light. Each
+race sees something different, yet the same- an angel or god. Every race
+that is apart from the Centuri. However most of the time Vorlon ambassadors
+wear an organic 'encounter suit'. As well as acting as a space suit, the
+suit can tap into local energy reserves and use them to produce telekinetic
+effects, or deliver a energy 'slap'. The suit may be a living 'being' as
+with their ships.
+When Vorlons are killed, no body is found.
+Have manipulated most races to condition them to see the correct thing, and
+act accordingly, when they reveal themselves.
+Vorlons appear to use standard jump point techniques ! This is because the
+Minbari obtained jump gate technology from them, and they spread it to
+other races, resulting in the 'standard' looking gates and points.
+Very organic technology.
+
+FIGHTER + CRUISER (Fighters are smaller version of Mother ships) Egg
+shaped, with four tendrils extending forward from the point. Vorlon
+Cruisers are 60 m in length.
+Capabilities
+
+   * Beam weapon (energised in the nexus of the tendrils).
+   * hyper-space engines (jump point generator on mother.
+   * Method of propulsion unknown.
+   * Note also the "petals" which open out and towards the rear of the
+     craft, and may be related to its propulsion (they are always shown
+     being folded towards the craft as it approaches the docking bay of
+     Babylon 5; of course, it wouldn't fit in the approach tunnel if the
+     petals were extended...).
+
+SHUTTLE Like fighter, but elongated.
+Capabilities
+
+   * Beam Weapon?
+   * hyper-space engines.
+   * NOTE: Talks to Kosh via Vorlon writing. Kosh appears to be a
+     subordinate to either the ship, or the sender of the message.
+   * Ship has facility to maintain Humen life for extended periods.
+   * Ship has auto-detect and destroy feature active while it is docked.
+     This takes the form of a probe which morphs out of the side of the
+     ship. It is not known what action it would take with persistent
+     attackers.
+   * Surface is similar to Shadows', but is yellow with green patches, and
+     can alter its look to generate letters.
+   * Kosh's Shuttle is almost permanently locked in B5 docking bay number
+     13.
+   * Shuttles are made for individual Vorlons, they are part of them, and
+     can not live with out them. When the Vorlon dies, the ship grieves as
+     best it can, for it is some sense alive, this usually takes the form
+     of delivering itself and the personal effects to the nearest sun.
+
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+X
+
+Jump Gates
+
+Construction:
+"Quantium" is a generic term applied to molecules which have been
+sufficiently stressed by catastrophic events that some of their
+electron-pair bonds reach across (or "tunnel through") the potential
+barrier between normal space and hyper-space.
+Quantium ores are normally found on planets which have been close enough to
+a supernova to get blasted and irradiated, but far enough out that they
+haven't been completely vaporised.
+Quantium can't be made on purpose, at least by the technologies of
+non-First Ones / Ancients so most starfaring races spend a lot of time
+looking for Quantium.
+The appended number refers to the isotope involved.
+The preferred version of Quantium-40 is the Potassium-40 isotope.
+Due to packing-fraction effects and long-term decay effects (Potassium-40
+has a half-life of about 1.27 x 10 ^ 9 years) natural abundance of
+Potassium-40 is low. (On Earth, for example, Potassium-40 is only about
+.0118% of naturally-occurring Potassium on the planet!)
+The problem is that rods of almost any metallic, or transition-metal,
+Quantium alloy can be put into gate nodes and resonated at very high
+frequencies, resulting in a localised juxtaposition of Normspace and
+hyper-space but most Quantium metals have crystal structures that require
+very high driving frequencies, some up as high as gamma radiation. For some
+reason known only to the Great Maker, Potassium-40 (in its Quantium form)
+provides a stable, very high energy (and thus hard to disrupt) but low
+frequency, trans-barrier bond. As a result, the driving electronics used to
+excite Potassium-40 Quantium Gate resonators are easily achievable by Humen
+technology.
+Quantum-bonded Potassium 40 is the Gate-node material preferred by most
+races, due to the low cost of the necessary support technology. This does
+not mean, however, that other races, or even humans, have to use
+Quantium-40 for gates. It's just the best and most economical engineering
+choice. Quantized Calcium-40 and Argon-40, both stable isotopes, have been
+used; but both, due to trans-barrier bond lengths, and lower bond energies,
+require more expensive machinery. (Calcium-40 is inefficient, and tends to
+vaporise under load, and Argon-40 has to be run as a supercooled solid, at
+liquid Helium temperatures.) Both require much higher frequency driver
+electronics.
+Jump points are formed in a particular location within a margin of error;
+it's not like throwing a newspaper at a door.(JMS)
+
+Each jump point, when viewed from hyper-space, can be thought of as a
+lighthouse, sending out a signal to guide ships to it.
+Once in hyperspace, you can ride the navigational beams between beacons,
+and by corrolating the beacons, know where you have to come out.
+(JMS)
+Ships lock on to this beam to prevent themselves from becoming lost. If the
+signal is lost, there is little hope of re-establishing contact, and the
+ship must attempt to carry on its course on internal gyroscopic
+measurements only.
+This is a high risk manoeuvre, and many ships have been lost without trace
+in hyper-space.
+
+Aside from simply destabilising the point by firing on it or whatever,
+there is another way to use a point as a weapon. If one Gate is opened in
+another Gate, the competing energies are impossible to control and the
+whole thing explodes. However opening a jump point onto a jump point is
+impossible due to the hideous amount of energy required. However, if a
+convient jump gate is to hand, a jump point can be opened within that
+instead, the effect is the same. (JMS)
+The energy released is huge, and expands rapidly.
+
+The Babylon 5 Jump Gate is able to be told to reject certain ships,
+presumably on the basis of mass / shape etc. This may not be a common
+feature, but a function of the generation system used.
+
+Back to top
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+XI
+
+What Ships Fire What Weapons
+
+Earth Alliance Star Furies are armed with two PPG's and four PDC's, both of
+which are white balls. They can carry unguided nuclear rockets.
+The two Human mother ships we saw in battle were the Hyperion and the
+Agamemnon. Hyperion seems to have larger PPG type weapons mounted on
+turrets and on a forward fixed gun. The Agamemnon has a particle beam-like
+weapon (That was the only weapon it fired, but I'll assume it has more).
+
+Narn fighters seem to carry PPG style weapons.
+A Narn cruiser fires both Particle beam and PPG type weapons.
+
+Centauri Fighters fire a PPG-like weapon only the blasts are red while Narn
+Fighters and Star Furies have white blasts.
+Centauri Cruisers have similar red blast weapons. However, Instead of being
+PPG's they could be ion Cannons (G'Kar mentioned twice that Centauries used
+ion cannons).
+Centauri Blockade Mines fire orange elongated shots.
+
+Both Minbari Fighters and Warships have Green Particle beam-style weapons
+(the Narn's and the Agamemnon fired red particle beams). The Warships have
+larger ones.
+
+Note: I use the word "like" because there is no concrete proof that the
+weapons are Particle Beams or PPG's.
+(David Engkent)
+
+The White Star fires purple elongated blasts from the pods, and white
+elongated blasts from somewhere near the front. Also on the front is rapid
+fire pulsed green energy weapon (Fusion cannon).
+
+Vorlon mothers energise a ball of yellow/green energy in the nexus of their
+tendrils. From here a beam of energy is release.
+Vorlon cruisers have some form of large scale energy weapon as well, which
+can be modulated, and act as a 'net' for larger vessels.
+Vorlon fighters have yellow/green sparks of energy from their tendrils'
+nexus.
+
+Shadow fighters fire white balls of energy, and pulse as they fire.
+Shadow probes fire elongated purple blasts, looking like mini versions of
+the Shadow ships main weapon. Battle Crabs, Cruisers and Mothers have a
+continuos pinky-purple ray.
+
+Back to top
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+XII
+
+The White Star
+
+                                                                   [ws sch]
+                                       [ws sch 2, upside down :-)]
+The White Star is a ship created by a
+melding of Vorlon and Minbari technologies, and is to date the only
+non-Vorlon ship that has escaped the Shadows. The surface is 'pearl, so its
+got a weird refractive quality'. It has a kind of manta look to it, almost
+Minbari like flowing lines. The pods are each attached to the body by two
+intertwined 'wings', and glow when the ship manoeuvres, as does a single
+underslung pod.
+It is attached to the B5 station, just like a shuttle or transport ship,
+and is under the B5 commanders control. It was, however, commissioned by
+the Minbari religious caste, without the knowledge of some on the Minbari
+High Council (The Grey Council).
+The White Star uses local drive engines based on magnetic and gravitational
+principles; in a sense, it doesn't so much push itself toward other worlds
+as pull itself or repel itself. One side effect of creating a powerful
+gravitational system is the ability to create artificial gravity.
+(JMS)
+This allows it to alter its internal gravitational field to enable a smooth
+transition from the White Star to, say, a large rotating space station that
+it has grappled on to and burnt through the hull of.
+The ship is extremly manoeuvrable, it has dodged multiple shots from a
+Battle Crab, whereas almost all other ships fired upon have been hit 1st
+time.
+It is smaller than other ships of its power, and faster than any other ship
+of the same size, certainly faster than any Humen ship.
+The controls mix coloured crystal/sonic controls with more standard
+displays and can display hi-res. maps and other displays above the forward
+windows. However, the weapons on the ship are not able to directly damage a
+fully capable Shadow ship.
+Named to coincide with the Black Star, a Minbari battle cruiser destroyed
+by Sheriden in the Earth-Minbari war, and now kept in orbit around a White
+Dwarf.
+The outer skin is very tough, only slightly less able to withstand extremes
+of pressure and temperature than a Shadow ship.
+Equipped with the Vorlon-style skin, enabling the ship to learn from
+experience, to change, to evolve. This enabled it to learn from previous
+encounters with the shadows, and adopt the Vorlon Defence System, which
+deflects most of the energy of a shot away, leaving only the physical
+impact.
+Weapons may be controlled by computer or by hand, hand firing is more
+useful at extreme range. The White Star's forward battery is powerful
+enough to destroy a Battle Crab, however the energy demands of using this
+as a continuous burst means the jump engines have to be taken off-line,
+leaving the ship with no hyper space ability for 20 minutes. The beam cuts
+a tunnel through a Battle Crab in the space of a few seconds.
+The White Star is one member of a fleet of similar ships.
+It is 130 meters long, and has an escape pod mounted on its back.
+                                 [ws-pers]
+Capabilities
+
+   * hyper-space engines, jump point generator (almost certainly two,
+     mounted one aft and one forward).
+   * 3 arrays of weapons (forward, left pod and right pod)
+        o 1 heavy fusion laser (green, pulsed) (forward array)
+        o 3 banks of rapid fire heavy neutron cannon (one to each array)
+        o 3 power stasis beams (one to each array)
+   * Attractor beams, based on magnetic attraction, causing a mottled blue
+     coating on the attracted ship.
+   * Grapple legs, and hull cutters.
+
+Back to top
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+XIII
+
+Sigma 957 Aliens
+
+Their real name is 15,000 letters long, and they can be summoned by
+broadcasting this signal close to planets where they 'walk among the stars'
+(JMS)
+Their ship is huge, from a hemi-sphere base, a long cylinder emerges,
+tipped with a black globe with 70's style computer graphics on it
+(mono-chromatic squares and lines of dots mostly). This stalk is rimmed at
+the base by bony protrusions that extend over the lip of the base. There is
+some 'bad blood' between them and the Vorlons, but they have agreed to help
+in the War.
+Semi-organic tech.
+
+Capabilities
+
+   * Prob. beyond our understanding, i.e. 'magic'
+   * Non stnd. hyper-space tech.
+
+Back to top
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+XIV
+
+Epsilon 3 (The Great Machine)
+
+From the outside, just some nova blasted desolate planet, but it actually
+houses a huge machine, built long ago by a gone race. It is now run by a
+Minbari, who has offered its services to Babylon Five.
+Tunnelled through a large part of the planet Euphrates, a planet orbiting
+Epsilon Eridani, the Great Machine is powered by massive banks of fusion
+generators (the largest are 5 to 10 miles across).
+Highly advanced technology is housed within; including the time distortion
+devices used to "hijack" Babylon 4.
+
+The Great Machine is controlled by the Heart - a control room where the
+Custodian is bodily hooked up to the machine. The machine itself chooses
+who may control it. Once installed, the Great Machine's operations are tied
+to the life signs of the Custodian. By entering the Machine, the
+Custodian's life is greatly extended, mostly by rejuvenating the physiology
+of the individual. The previous Custodian was the member of an unknown race
+named Varn who described that by being the Heart you "see all the futures,
+hear all the songs, and touch the edge of the universe with [one's]
+thoughts." The Heart allows anyone hooked into the Machine access to an
+"Ethernet." The Ether Interface allows a being to travel along the paths
+woven between all lifeforms. Within the Ether, time and space are
+irrelevant. Travelling the pathways can bring the traveller to the past,
+present, and future, allowing the Custodian to see into distant worlds and
+to gain greater understanding of the universe. A race of aliens live
+inside, acting as caretakers.
+
+Capabilities
+
+   * Can gather all forms of information from a large area, project a
+     hologramatic image of its operator large distances, and to
+     astronomically distant places by tapping the paths, or energies, that
+     link all life together.
+   * Has many energy based defence systems to prevent unauthorised craft
+     landing on the planet, and presumably weapons to use against orbital
+     craft.
+   * Heavily armed with missile launchers, planetary-scale slicer beams,
+     electronic debilitator wave generators.
+   * The Machine has the ability to record transmissions found on the
+     Etherweb from the past, and possibly future.
+   * The Custodian can also utilise the Machine's holographic projection
+     system, allowing the receiver real-time interaction with the golden
+     holo-image of the Custodian.
+   * The massive computer banks contain reports regarding the First Ones
+     and their haunts: Tales of encounters with alien forces beyond
+     description and stories of vast and nameless forces that prowl the
+     ruins of ancient cities.
+   * At a great cost in terms of strain and energy, can create and control
+     a stream of Tachyons, which can control time rifts, and use them as
+     entries to Tachyon Space.
+
+Back to top
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+XV
+
+Misc.
+
+(What will *not* fit anywhere else !)
+How does a changeling net work?
+This piece of technology is on the restricted list, so a sample was not
+available for study. However, similar technologies have used a hologram to
+mask the wearer in a form of high- tech camouflage. The key question is how
+does the onboard computer know which image to project. The images are
+usually of the immediate background, or pre-programmed. But then, there
+must be someone who knows the image....
+
+Metaphysics:
+The Babylon 5 universe seems to behave according to the Copenhagen
+interpretation of Quantum Physics, with a number of 'ghost' futures
+co-existing until a choice is made which makes one of them 'real'. Messages
+may be passed 'backwards' from these ghost realities, though not forward
+from 'now' to the 'future'.
+Time travel is possible in both directions, but at great strain, and cost
+in terms of energy. So far the only thing to do this feat is the Great
+Machine, however it seems likely that the Vorlons, Shadows, Sigma 957 and
+other First Ones have this technology, as do the Minbari to some small
+degree.
+
+Data Crystals:
+Much as 3.5" inch disks are the common storage media world-wide today, so
+data crystals are the common inter-race storage medium. Shaped like a very
+small (2cm) long transparent crystal they can store large amounts of data.
+As with disks this can be anything from text, to video, to sound, even
+personalities can be encoded.
+The data is encoded as a pattern of refracting light, and the crystal
+altered to produce this pattern when illuminated.
+
+Berzerker Probes:
+These low-intelligence probes were sent out by the hundreds by an unknown
+race. They have no crew or weapons. Their seamless hull suggests they are
+(at least partially) organic ships. The probes are programmed to seek out
+intelligent life.
+Once a suitable subject is found, the probe transmits alphabet and language
+codes (in all possibility not even the tongue of the Berserkers). If the
+subject figures out the code within a set amount of time, the probe
+transmits a series of over 600 questions relating to physics, quantum
+mechanics, molecular biology, genetics, and other advanced sciences. In
+return for correct answers, the probe promises to give the subject cures
+for every known disease, improved jump gate data and other advanced
+technology; if the subject fails to answer correctly, the probe will
+self-destruct with the force of 500 thousand megatons.
+The subjects have twenty-four hours to respond. Unknown to the victims, the
+probe will detonate if the correct answers are given, failure to answer
+will prompt the probe to move on to another target.
+In the event that the probe queries beings living on a planet, the blast is
+generally sufficient to wreak havoc with most incoming and outgoing
+communication systems (also further damaging the planet's ecosystem by
+throwing up a dust curtain) giving the Berserkers enough time to send more
+probe ships and finish the job.
+
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+
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+
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+
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+Kaiser, Andy Dunn, J M S ( how could I forget ! ), Scott Silvey.
+Also to the newsgroups R.A.S.T.B5.M, U.M.S.T.B5 and U.M.S.T.B5.M .
+Special thanks and praise to Mario Di Giacomo, the original technical FAQ
+author of old, on which this is based.
+
+I retain the copyright on all original parts, 3rd party articles are
+credited where known, and (c) remains with author unless stated otherwise.
+
+Where to get a new copy of this document, or the update file (order of
+usefulness):-
+
+   * WWW:
+        o htttp://www.home.ch/~spaw1791/b5index.htm (main site)
+        o http://www.mk.dmu.ac.uk/guests/b5/ (mirror)
+   * E-Mail: mail Falken@Bigfoot.com and ask to be added to the mailing
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+
+Please note: Manual will soon aquire more pictures, but will remain as a
+single file untill the end of season 5, when it will be split. The update
+will stay as text only.
+Please also note: This document is not in anyway officially endorsed by
+JMS, Warner Brothers or anyone else involved in anyway with the B5 TV show.
+However, as this is a copyrighted document, I'd like to be informed if it
+is used by anyone in an official capacity, or is distributed beyond the
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+  ***********************************************************************
+  *      Update to the B5 Technical Manual, last updated - 26/10/97     *
+  *      Last Episode Viewed: Episode 14 ( ? ), Season 4                *
+  ***********************************************************************
+This is update number: 12
+Update now only info on eps Season 4 after ep 2.
+
+(Updating all the time... if the above date is more than about one month
+old, and B5 is on show in the UK, find a new copy, see end)
+
+I retain the copyright on all original parts, 3rd party articles are
+credited where known, and (C) remains with author unless stated otherwise.
+
+NOTE TO U.S. READERS: I haven't seen much season 4 yet, so if sending me
+stuff relevant to this manual and season 4 please mark it as spoiler and
+include spoiler space!
+	
+Story ideas, HTML links etc will not be found here, but...
+
+           WARNING: SPOILERS FOR SOME COUNTRIES. THESE ARE
+                  NOT MARKED. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
+Check the 'last viewed' above, if you haven't seen at least up to that 
+episode, it is possible you will be spoiled.
+
+NEW / UPDATED LIST (last 5 local changes):
+1) New Web address. It'll stay here. Promise <kof>
+2) Major chnages to the workings of hyper space, white star 'lean', EA 
+links, epsilion 3, EA molecular confinement, identicard cloning, 
+sorted out this list.
+3) Draak, minbari handguns, transaltors for vorlon, vree, draak
+4) White Star jump engines, shadow cloud, centuri rifles, sigma 957 ships, 
+	     ------------------START OF UPDATE---------------
+
+     Index
+     ~~~~~
+I    Shadow
+II   White Star / Minbari
+III  Humen
+IV   Vree
+V    Minbari Cruisers
+VI   Vorlon
+VII  Metaphysics
+VIII First Ones
+VIV  Narn
+X    Centuri
+XI   Draak
+XII  Hyper Space    **** STUNNING RELISATION ****
+XIII Misc
+End  Where to get Further Updates 
+
+     Maintained by Thomas Chiverton <Falken@Bigfoot.com> 
+
+       Thanks to:     J M S (how could I forget! )
+					  R.A.S.T.B5.M
+					  U.M.S.T.B5
+                      
+I
+The Shadows have developed a weapon called 'The Cloud'. It is
+gray/black and acts as a very large scale energy damper, on the scale of
+planets and more it can wipe out almost all energy production. It is 
+invisable to (at least the White Star's / Vorlon's) sensors.
+Shadows use this to immobilize large fleets, or to calm a planet down before
+bombarding it with 'thousands of megatons times thousands of missiles'. These
+burrow down, almost into the mantle, before detonating, tearing the planet
+apart from the inside.
+
+Missiles: Long, thin and organing looking. Could be hollow too.
+
+II
+White Star class ships have automatic repair and other systems, and can
+be piloted by a single person if need be, provided that they 'don't run into 
+any trouble'.
+Extreme cold shuts down the jump engines.
+Artifical gravity system offers a form of feed back during combat and 
+other near-limit manouvers to indicate it is near it's design limits. 
+This manifests as an appropriate centrifugal 'force'.
+There is some evidence that some of the fleet may have replaced their 
+forward neutron cannon with a non-line of sight 'slice-n-dice' type 
+ray. This may have been learnt during encounters with the Shadows, due 
+to the Vorlon and hence evolving nature of the ship.
+
+Handguns: Silver, long barreled and elabortly designed.
+
+III
+Old style destroyers: Similar to Hyperion class. No rotating sections
+however. Has four forward and four backward pointing guns mounted in
+pairts on the top and bottom of the main body. These guns are very
+large, assumed heavy energy.
+
+PPG rifles: Long, ovel barrel, with a red laser sight mounted on top.
+
+Link: The molecular bonding system used to attach it to skin appears 
+to fail under some conditions, pulling the hairs out of the wearers 
+arm.
+
+Molecular Container: A substance harder than diamond, designed to be 
+hardened around the object to be transported. The containment can only 
+be broken using the appropiete molecule.
+
+Ienticards can be cloned, but this is a samll time operation as it is 
+usualy easy to detect, and brings on a small fine as punishment.
+
+IV
+Vree look like shrimps in armor.
+Vree ships are shaped like discs, like the classic UFO shape. From their
+underside they fire many green dart shaped blasts, very rapidly. These are
+very effective against fighters.
+Vree ships: c. 400 m in diameter
+
+TRANSLATOR: Connected to the envirmoment suit, looks vaguly like a 
+crystal ball held in a metal skelaton. Flashes when in use.
+
+V
+Also highly resilient to even large gun fire power, 3 Battle Crab death
+beams needed to disable one within a reasonable time frame.
+
+VI
+Vorlon's are able to wrap areas of hyperspace in on itself, effectively hiding
+their ships from passing ships. However, there is no physical method to stop
+other ships entering the bubble. They appear to use this to sneak up on
+targets. On passing through this bubble, a mottle blue web-work 
+appears on the skin of the ship. Instruments appear to be confused by 
+the curvature of hyperspace inside the bubble, making navigation 
+difficult.
+
+Encounter Suits: Vorlon encounter suits can energize blue energy at the back
+of the up-sweeping ridge, and uses this as controlled lightning. Suits
+can also absorb, to a point, massive amounts of energy, whether electrical
+or as plasma (as in a PPG shot). Able to surround itself with a 
+transperent dome able to reflect weapons fired at it.
+Vorlons true form is a large semi-transparent almost-fluid like being,
+but can project different images into each of those present.
+Vorlon bio-technology is advanced enough to modify humans with gills, and
+increased telepathic abilities.
+
+
+VORLON PLANET KILLERS (formally Big Ships):
+Huge, massive, gigantic- *BIG* etc. etc.
+Saucer shaped with blue edge and four massive reaching tendrils at the
+front. '3 or 4 miles across'.
+CAPABILITIES: Unknown. Hyperspace engines for certain, probably able to
+open a jump point, as it is probably responsible for the hyperspace 'folding'.
+Its fire power is the key feature of a Vorlon planet destroying raid. They
+emerge from hyperspace with just enough firepower to cover the planet killer,
+wipe out the target, and vanish.
+The firing sequence starts with the blue edge turning yellow in a sweeping
+band from the left and right. The bands meet in the middle, and project
+something forward, where it is guided and controlled by the tendrils before
+being fired.
+
+Ships appear to be either red/orange or green in colour.
+
+HEAVY CRUISERS: Larger version of cruisers, but with a single necelle shaped
+tear-drop protrusion on the top at the back. This appears to have many small
+yellow windows in it.
+CAPABILITIES: Jump point generator, hyperspace engines. More powerful version
+of a cruiser. Close in weapons ?
+
+OBSERVATION POST: In at least one case the Vorlons built a city on a large
+asteroid, and used it as an observation post. It had many close in and long
+range weapon systems to offer protection. The city was comprised of spires and
+saucers.
+
+TRANSLATOR: Worn on encounter suit, although Vorlons are telepathic 
+and have no need of them ! POints of light flash on and off when used.
+
+VII
+The Babylon 5 universe operates on the (outdated ?) theory of 'Particular
+Time', that is there are particles ( called chronos ) that 'carry' time.
+This means it is possible to prevent chronos progress, trapping things in the 
+'gap' between two instances, between the tick and the tock.
+
+VIII
+First One's ships are generally extremely big. They generally use non-standard
+jump points.
+The ships are extremely powerful. Three ones of various races were able
+to destroy a Vorlon Planet Killer in just a few seconds. Weapons fired are as
+varied as the races. There are Vorlon-like nexus-generated beams, which fire
+out at varying angles from the nexus, huge long pilers of energy, yellow
+electric like rays and many more.
+
+Sigma 957's: Fires from the base of the hemi-sphere, many bolts of 
+thin lightning.
+
+VIV
+Narn Handguns: Rectangular, with three short barels one above each 
+other. Fires orange/red shots.
+
+X
+Centuri Handguns: Shapped like long-bareled versions of Earth pistols, 
+ornately decorated. Fires blue shots.
+Centuri Rifles: Long, with a blast shield to protect the firer, fire s
+white spheres.
+
+XI
+The Draak are dark servants of the Shadows, distintive by their weird 
+smeared out look.
+MOTHERSHIP: Several tens of times longer than a White Star, the 
+armour is very strong, the combined efforts of several White Stars not 
+even scratching it !
+CAPABILITIES: Not yet known
+
+FIGHTER: A less organic looking Vorlon fighter, with a blue/green 
+crystel held in the grip of four tendrils. This emmits a continuos 
+green/blue ray, along which pulses travel. This must be powerful, 
+because it managed to damage a White Star, although not seriously.
+CAPABILITIES: Powerful beam weapon.
+
+TRAVEL POD: Shaped like a tulip bulb, it opens two sets of four petals 
+(inner and outer) while traverling, similar to a Vorlon ship.
+CAPABILITIES: Not yet known
+
+TRANSLATOR: A small tennis ball sized sphere that pulses.
+
+XII
+Not all real space co-ords are able to exit to hyper space. When a point is 
+formed it settles itself at an appropiete real space co-ord (see Jump 
+Gates) and links into hyper space. This means hyper space is a limited 
+sub-set of all of the points in real space, so of course distances in 
+hyper space are shorter, and now we don't need to worry about the 
+1:many, many: 1 real space : hyper space thing and its attached 
+probablistic problems.
+
+
+XIII
+The planetary slicer beam(s) on Epsilon 3 bear a similar look to the Shadows
+beam weapon. Epsilion 3 also has a weather control system.
+15 km/s seems to be a standard attack speed, for Humans and Minbari anyway.
+
+	      -------------------END OF UPDATE---------------
+
+Where to get a new copy of this document (order of usefulness):-
+
+WWW:          http://www.home.ch/~spaw1791/b5index.htm  (main site)     
+              http://www.mk.dmu.ac.uk/guests/b5/        (mirror)
+E-Mail:       mail Falken@Bigfoot.com and ask to be added to the
+              mailing list
+FTP:          ftp.hyperion.com/pub/babylon-5/ (file name b5.tech.1)
+                     (Updated infrequently)
+
+Please note: Manual is in HTML form. The update is perodicly combined with
+the manual to update the manual. But this will not be done untill at 
+least ep 412 has aired in the UK.
+
+Please also note: This document is not in anyway officially endorsed by JMS,
+Warner Brothers or anyone else involved in anyway with the B5 TV show.
+However, as this is a copyrighted document, I'd like to be informed if it
+is used by anyone in an official capacity, and/or is distributed beyond the
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+
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+other author is indicated in brackets.
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+<center>
+<h1>The Unoffical Babylon 5 Technical Manual</h1>
+<h2>By <a href="#etc">Thomas Chiverton</a></h2>
+Last updated - 26/10/97, includes Eps. up to Season 4, #1 (HOTW), and Update
+number 10<br>
+<img width="402" height="256" src="http://www.dungeon.com/~sati/ships.jpg" alt="title">
+</center>
+There are no spoilers for the UK in this document. See separate 
+Update file B5.tech.1 or b5-techu.txt for updates. <br>
+Each update release is numbered.<p>
+<strong>WHAT ISNT IN HERE:</strong><br>
+Char details, or spoilers (i.e. stuff not shown/published in U.K.)<br>
+<strong>WARNING: THIS MEANS THAT THIS DOC MAY HAVE SPOILERS FOR SOME
+COUNTRIES. THESE ARE NOT MARKED. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.</strong><br>
+Story ideas etc.<br>
+(This is because it is a <strong>tech</strong> manual, small amounts of info on races is
+included, however, to aid in identification)<hr>
+All pictures are held on a different server. It's very reliable, but please excuse it
+if it won't give you the pictures. I have no control over it !
+<hr>
+<h3>NEW / UPDATED</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li>More URL changes</li>
+ <li>URL changes</li>
+ <li>Minor wording changes</li>
+ <li>Rearenged where to get updates, fixed some dodgy HTML</li>
+ <li>Everything, went to Wolf 359 and talked about the manual</li>
+</ul>
+<hr>
+<h1>Index</h1> 
+<a name="start">
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="#terms">List of Terms Used</a>
+ <li><a href="#b5">I</a> B5 Information and Stats
+ <li><a href="#shad">II</a> Shadow Technology
+ <li><a href="#str">III</a> Strieb Technology                   
+ <li><a href="#lum">IV</a> Lumati Technology                    
+ <li><a href="#narn">V</a> Narn Technology
+ <li><a href="#cent">VI</a> Centuri Technology                   
+ <li><a href="#min">VII</a> Minbari Technology                   
+ <li><a href="#hum">VIII</a> Humen (also know as Earther) Technology
+ <li><a href="#vor">IX</a> Vorlon Technology              
+ <li><a href="#jg">X</a> Jump Gates
+ <li><a href="#whatfire">XI</a> What Ships Fire What Weapons (Partly written by David Engkent)
+ <li><a href="#white">XII</a> The White Star
+ <li><a href="#sigma">XIII</a> Sigma 957 Aliens
+ <li><a href="#ep3">XIV</a> Epsilon 3 (The Great Machine)
+ <li><a href="#misc">XV</a> Misc. (What will *not* fit anywhere else !)
+ <li><a href="#etc">Legal stuff, credits, where to get further updates etc</a>
+ <li><a href="http://www.home.ch/~spaw1791/b5index.htm">Back to main B5 page</a>
+</ul>
+
+<hr>
+
+<h3><a name="terms">TERMS USED:</h3>
+Organic / Non-organic tech: Refers to wether the technology used is
+organic ('grown') or metalic ('built') or not.<p>
+
+Hyper-Space: A different dimension/Universe, which maps large
+distances in our universe to small distances in the different one,
+allowing for interstellar travel without bypassing the photonic barrier.
+Newtonian physics apply, so any inertia created while passing through 
+a gate remains upon entry/exit. <br>
+Accessed via a <a href="#jg">jump gate</a> or point. Distorts transmissions that past through
+it greatly, giving communications a very limited range. <br>
+Major colour scheme is shades of red.              <br>
+Trained telepaths rated P12 or better can aid navigation in Hyper-space by 
+homing in on a targets thought emissions.             <br>
+Ships of a certain size are capable of entering hyper-space without
+using a gate, with a large cost in energy. It has become common
+for these ships to construct gates after arriving in a new system, in
+order to save energy for future trips.                    <br>
+80% of the Galaxy is outside hyper space beacon range.<br>
+It is assumed that exposure to HS for periods longer than a few weeks is 
+dangerous to cell/DNA structure.<br>
+RS to HS is a 1 to many phenomena, whereas HS to RS is a many to one
+phenomena.<br>
+(Zathras)
+... once you come out of hyperspace past the galactic rim, all your
+points of reference are gone ...and you can't just "keep going" in a
+straight line in hyperspace. (JMS)<p>
+
+                                                            
+Tachyon Space: Maps distance travelled within it into a shift in time (but
+not position) in the 'real' Universe. Impulses of energy and the time
+distortions these create can do 'great harm', such as speeding up a
+travellers personal time, resulting in death within a short time. 
+The exit is a gradual fade from Tachyon Space to real space, entry is by a
+hole, edged with glowing blue/white energy, through which a picture of
+the other time can be seen, broadcasts heard etc.<br>
+Once in the other time zone, care must be taken, powerful energy discharges
+can 'unstick' the traveller, sending them forwards or backwards along
+their time line, where they 'leap' into their future or past self.<br>
+<p>
+
+Hyper-space Engines: The system of guidence computers and
+beacon trackers and the like that allow a ship to navigate in
+hyper-space using a pre-created Jump Gate or Point. Low power consumption
+means almost all ships, incl. fighters have this system fitted.
+<p>
+
+Jump point (or Vortex Generator): Entrance to Hyper space. Large
+permenant points
+have a focusing system in orbit around them, four seven-mile long
+generators.                                                       <br>
+These are free floating with a central computer controlling the position
+thrusters; these allow the brackets to re-position for larger than average 
+ships and maintain a relative stationary position. The element Quantium-40 
+(a derivative of which is Duridium) is a vital component of jump gate 
+construction.  As a consequence of the amount of energy a jump gate produces,
+it takes a long time to shut one down and even longer to start it back up.   
+Smaller, ship generated gates have no such orbital devices.       <br>
+The point is unstable, and can be closed by a large energy discharge.
+Known as jump points when they are unfixed (i.e. generated by a ship)
+Detecting ships coming out of a jump gate is limited by time. While you can
+get the frequency identification of a ship a few minutes prior to its
+exiting hyper-space, much more information can be gained just as it begins to
+exit; like silhouette, mass, etc.                            <br>
+Jump gates (and points) are directional, a yellow gate for entry to
+hyperspace, and blue for exiting. Travel is not possible in the 'wrong'
+direction.<br>
+Jump points broadcast a signal in hyper space that is detectable for 1000km
+or so.<br>
+
+
+(See also <a href="#jg">X Jump Gates</a>)<p>
+
+Jump Point Generator: allows a ship to create its own jump point from its
+location to hyper-space, without using a fixed entry/exit jump gate. Requires
+large amounts of power, and so only carried by larger ships. They also
+require a stable power source, or they malfunction, destroying the ship.
+They also require a recharge time before they can be
+reused. Once shut down, they need time to rebuild their energy levels
+before they can be resued.  <P>
+
+<strong>NOTE:</strong> Advanced races (First Ones) don't need jump
+points or generators to
+enter hyper-space (Shadows- phase, or 'ripple', Sigma 957 Aliens- a 'hole',
+Vorlons are the exception to this. But they introduced the technology to
+the current races.     <p>
+
+Beam weapon: As yet unidentified craft weapons, maybe plasma, ion, neutron
+or laser based, depending on the ship.<p>
+
+Missiles: Miscellaneous launched weapons (mines, missiles, remote controlled ships
+etc. as applicable to size of ship.) Including: <br>
+ Mass Driver: Propels mass from ship to the target. Banned by all-race
+  agreement, but Centuri used them against the Narn home world, 'bombing 
+  them back to the stone age'.                  <br>
+ Energy Mine: Operate as 20th century mines, but can be guided to 
+  target at high speed, releasing a disc of energy when detonated.<p>
+
+Cruiser: Medium sized ship. Sometimes used as ambassadors transport. <P>
+									<P>
+Fighter: one or two being fighter craft.<p>
+
+Mother: Home base for fighters. In addition to specifically mentioned 
+    weapons these probably carry 'weapons of mass destruction' (Fusion
+	bombs, ion cannon, mass drivers, heavy energy weapons).<p>
+
+<a href="#start">Back to top</a><hr>
+
+I<h3><a name="b5"> Babylon 5</h3>
+Babylon 5 is the last of the Babylon stations. After the loss of Babylon 4,
+the station was left with a minimal budget. Even with additional alien
+funding, the Earth Alliance kept looking for ways to reduce their
+financial commitment. Even so, Babylon 5 is a marvel of human engineering,
+even in the face of more advanced alien technology. It is a cylindrical
+construct nearly five miles long with a maximum capacity of 250,000 beings.
+While the interior rotates for a gravity positive environment, the spine of 
+the station, housing the zero-g docking bays, and the fusion reactor are 
+relatively stationary. Framing the rear of the station are the blue heat
+radiator fins.                   <br>
+Babylon 5 is painted blue, where it is not left as bare metal.<br>
+B5 has a mass of 2.5 million tons. It is a little over 5 miles long.
+The main body is 5 miles long, and the docking guides add another
+.3 miles on to that. 
+   <p>
+ 
+Normal planetary gravity is simulated by rotating the station.  Outward
+acceleration at the perimeter is approximately 9.8 m/s2 [1g]. The station
+does not have engines per se, although there are small thrusters used in
+maintaining it's location at the L5 point. It is located 160,000 km from where Babylon 4 used to be, and is 92,000km
+from the planet.
+<p>
+ 
+The station is defended by a low level defence grid, as well as several
+small weapon emplacements located beneath panels on the outer hull, and
+a complement of more than 48 Starfuries (both original and Thunder Bolt
+versions).                                   <p>
+ 
+The "front" of the station consists of two docking bays, the first allowing
+small craft to enter along the 0g centreline, and be transferred to
+the appropriate bay, and the second dedicated to craft remaining in free
+fall.  The forward section also contains the cobra bays for the fighters.
+					      <p>
+Other locations of interest include the Observation Dome, from where the
+station is run; the Zocalo, a shopping and entertainment district; and
+the Garden, an O'Neill style environment (cylinder with gardens, pools, cafes
+baseball etc. in it).                            <p>
+ 
+The station's main computer is based on crystalline human-alien hybrid
+technology, and is capable of both written and voice input and output
+in several languages. Integrated within its system is the Babcom
+communications network, which handles intastation, ship-to-station, and long-
+range Tachyon messages.                             <br>
+All the computer systems on the station are controlled via this centralised
+system. This system is subject to commands from terminals, and also the
+external communications feed, so Earth Alliance command <strong>could</strong> order the shutdown of life
+support for instance, although the access codes have now been changed.
+When the system was originally put on-line an artificial intelligence (or
+personality) was installed as part of the interface, but was later removed
+due to compatibility problems with the human staff. However, the
+personality (called Sparky) still surfaces from time to time.<p>
+
+All command crew and diplomatic staff have a 'Link' stuck to the back of their
+hand, which acts as a futuristic walkie talkie. These contain a tracking
+beacon. Earthforce personal links are bio-coded and can not be used by anyone except
+their correct owner. Any attempt to use someone else's link triggers a warning
+in C&C.<p>
+
+Main power is handled by the fusion generator at the tail of the station.
+							<p>
+Internal co-ordinates are as follows. First a colour, denoting a ring of
+the station. Then one of, on average, 36 level numbers, and a letter denoting
+section. Hence the main corridor passes through blue 15 a for example.<p>
+
+A jump gate is located nearby with the Corridor being the standard approach
+vector to the station.  Vessels straying off the Corridor's flight path are
+fined.                                                        <p>
+<pre>
+
+South, Back end                                 North, Front end
+
+		       Radiator Fins
+		       |
+		       V                             Tachyon Emitter
+							 |
+		   /\ /\ /\                              V
+		   || || || /\____________  _______      .
+	 __       _||_||_||//-------------\/--------\___/_____
+ |\______||______/ || || ||       | |     |  |  \___/   \   ^
+ ||      ||      | ---------------| |     |  |  |___     |  |
+ ||______||______\________________| |_____|  |  |___\___/   Docking Horns
+ |/      ||        || || || \_____|_|/    |__|__/
+		   || || ||
+		   \/ \/ \/
+
+   ^              ^     ^    ^     ^     ^ ^  ^ ^ ^   ^
+   |              |     |    |     |     | |  | | |   |
+   |              |     |    |   Green   | |  | | |   Docking bay
+   |              |     |    |  section  | |  | | Cobra bays
+   |              |     |    |           | |  | Med lab/Iso lab
+   |              |     |    |           | |  Blue section
+   |              |     |    |    the    | Red section
+   |              |     |    +--Garden---+
+   |              |     Gray section
+   |              Brown section
+   Fusion reactor
+      
+(ASCII art by Richard Meikle)
+     </pre>
+In the fore of the station is the zero-gravity docking bay entrance. Two
+docking horns frame the bay, to help guide and stabilise the huge bulk
+freighters. Once parked in front of the area, a freighter is offloaded, 
+refuelled by the 'hose jockeys', and loaded up again.<br>
+The docking guides have magnetic strips laid into them, so that personal
+can walk out on to them easily.<p>
+
+The zero-g bays extent well into the middle of the station, just above red
+sector. Although the area is stationary, it as accessible from many parts 
+of the habitable sections of the station.                     <p>
+
+Mounted above and between the docking horns is the Tachyon
+transmitter/receiver and the docking beacon.                <p>
+
+Below the zero-g docking bay, in the rotating section, is the docking bay
+proper. All ships enter the station dead centre. An incoming ship surrenders
+its shipboard computer to the Babylon 5 Command and Control, or C&C, located
+directly beneath the bay entrance. While most pilots can easily match the
+station's rotation, however the possibility of pilot error is far greater 
+than computer error. Unfortunately, certain cost-cutting measures in docking
+hardware have lead to accidental loss of life and property. A ship is then 
+taken and lowered into one of many bays located toward the hull. The docking 
+areas are divided into sections, with the diplomatic and military bays
+having restricted access.                           <br>
+Starfuries are housed in separate launch bays in cobra shaped projections 
+along the round front of the station, hence their common name "Cobra
+Bays."                                                <p>
+
+Set in the front of the station, beneath the entrance to the dock areas, is
+a window which looks into C&C. This can be covered with a set of blast
+doors, as can the docking entrance. C&C is located 1/3 of the way off the spin axis, and hence is a low
+gravity area (1/3g). The C&C main 'Window' is in fact, a huge slab of
+armor glass that can do multiple duty as a controllable filter and digital
+display device. The 'window' <strong>can</strong> be transparent when you want it to, and
+can also display video images from any source; thus, the C&C window can be 
+looking out through the eye of a camera on the loading bay spines, through 
+a camera mounted on the non-rotating spine, or from any camera-equipped spot 
+on the station, including the Maint-Bots.
+The only time the view through the C&C "Window" seems to be spinning
+is when it's been switched to "Transparent Mode" or it is displaying
+the view seen from a camera mounted on a spinning part of the station. 
+(Gharlane of Eddore)
+                   <p>
+
+The interior station is itself divided in to colour coded sectors.
+Blue sector houses station administration and EA personnel quarters. Also in
+Blue Sector are the Medlabs, staffed by highly trained xenobiologists to
+tend to the ambassadors and Earth Force personnel.  Medlab One is a small
+facility exclusively used by the Medical Chief of Staff, Doctor Stephen
+Franklin.                                            <br>
+There are larger medical facilities, resembling proper hospitals, elsewhere
+on the station.                                       <br>
+A recent addition to Blue Sector is the Strategic War Room, from which the
+war with the Shadows is monitored and directed.           <p>
+
+Red Sector is relegated to business and diplomatic chambers.  <br>
+Red Sector's highlight is the Zocalo. Hundreds of shops, stands, bars,
+restaurants, and clubs line the curved passageways, as does the EA postal
+services Post Office.                                             <P>
+
+Aliens requiring alternate atmosphere/gravity to generally more common
+oxy-nitro combinations live in the Alien Sector.  While most aliens here 
+require special mixes, oxygen breathing aliens tend to gravitate here, away
+from the overabundance of humans elsewhere. Ambassadors and their entourages
+are housed in a separate part of Green Sector, with higher security.<br>
+The alien sector is not all blank corridors covered in noxious gasses, the
+Hanging Gardens houses various varieties of alien plant life suited to a
+methane-ammonia atmosphere. The Garden got its name from the various spheres
+of soils that hang suspended from the ceiling by thick chains. Most of the
+alien growths are phosphorescent.                                       <br>
+The Dilgar War Memorial was erected here to commemorate the world and species
+that fell to the Dilgar.                                <P>
+
+Green sector contains high-security quarters for the various alien diplomats
+(with adjustable environment quarters for ambassadors that require it).
+The Vorlon quarters are number 8.                        <br>
+Unauthorised personnel are not admitted.                     <p>
+
+Both Grey and Brown Sectors were largely unfinished due to budgetary
+constraints.                                                     <br>
+Grey sector is infamous for the Babylon 5 Triangle -- an area around Grey
+17 that leads an active imagination to believe the place is haunted.<br>
+Maintenance crews have reported strange lights, sounds and disappearances in 
+the area.<br>
+There is a 'extra' level between the levels labelled Grey 16 and Grey 17,
+resulting in Grey sector having 'only' 29 levels. The real Grey 17 is 
+inaccessible from normal routes, and is filled with junk, a rather nasty 
+alien, and a mad cult.<p>
+
+All sectors (apart from those under the garden) have 95 levels.<p>
+
+The Service Collar is the name for the structure immediately behind the
+command and docking sphere at the head of the station. Immediately "south" 
+of the collar is Customs and Disembarkation. Customs is a hundred-meter wide
+chamber running alongside the collar. While most employees are human,
+several aliens are employed using hardware translators.<p>
+
+The entire interior of the rotating cylinder is called the Garden. It's
+main purpose is to provide food and oxygen reclamation for the station.
+Most of the food grown here do not require seasonal changes, since there are
+no seasons in this artificial environment. Foods that do need seasonal 
+variation are grown in separate hydroponic areas. In addition to necessary
+insects cultivated in the zoos below the "ground," birds are also in the 
+Garden all of which are now used to the "new physics" of flying in this
+environment.  No one is allowed to "camp out" on the interior anyone
+doing so is arrested for destroying precious crops. A small percentage of the
+12 square miles of vegetation is used for recreation. Supporting the park 
+plant life is twenty meters of dirt, under which are four levels of 
+hydrobays, support systems, storage and silage units, water and oxygen 
+reclamation units, chemical processors, farm equipment garages, and insect
+zoos. There is a train in the garden that runs around the circumference of the
+station. The garden is half a kilometer across.   <P>
+
+"Downbelow" is a term used to describe the unused parts of the station
+where the homeless, or Lurkers, eke out a living.  Trapped on station for 
+various reasons, most die here unknown and unrememberd.<P>
+
+A monorail runs the length of the station, along the axis of rotation, hence
+it is in a zero-g environment, and so is known as the Zero-G Train.<P>
+
+The hull of Babylon 5 is a double hull to provide an extra layer of
+protection from micrometor strikes and internal explosions. This leaves a
+crawl space between the two hulls.                               <P>
+
+The rotating sections are mounted on electro-magnetic bearings.<P>
+
+B5 communicates with earth via a faster than light link able to carry many 
+live video feeds to and from B5. This FTL link also allows real-time video
+communication with other races homeworlds and ships.        <br>
+
+B5 is orbited by unmanned maintenance robots (Maint-Bots).       <br>
+These have colour vision, the feed from which may be patched into the B5
+video network.                                                    <P>
+
+B5 also has video cameras (Monitors) that can be sent to automatically film an
+area. The video recorders are made of an extremely ultralight material, new
+alloys that in total weigh less than an ounce; it has a visible (and
+audible) air propulsion system, a high speed fan with a stabiliser/gyroscope
+that keeps it steady, and moves it forward. (JMS)               <P>
+
+The main power source is a fusion reactor, mounted at the rear of the
+station. This can be reached, for maintaince purposes, by the Zero-G Train,
+or via a large set of doors set into the hull. Inside these there is a large
+open space, with the reactor wall forming one wall of this space.<P>
+
+The floors are linked via 'transport tubes' that take the form of lifts,
+which move radily (that is, from the centre line outwards to the
+hull).                                                              <P>
+
+<strong>Update to B5 Weapons Grid</strong><br>                                             
+A visiting platoon of Ground Pounders installed an enhanced Defence Grid 
+for the B5 station. The updated specs are as follows:                      
+<ul>
+ <li>Pulse cannons
+ <li>Interceptors
+ <li>Mine launchers
+ <li>Upgrade to the tracking system ( x3 speed increase)
+</ul><br>
+Distributed in 6 groups along the main back bone of the station.<p>
+
+<strong>B5 Population</strong><br>
+<ul>
+ <li>1,500 Dock Workers
+ <li>6,500 Earthforce personnel
+ <li>42% of population are 'Aliens' i.e. non-Earthers
+ <li>Total Population: 1/4 million
+</ul><br>
+When it became operational in 2257, the odds on it lasting six months were
+500-1 Lloyds of London, 350-1 Las Vegas and 200-1 New Vegas.<br>
+By 2259 the odds were 250-1 Lloyds of London, 200-1 Las Vegas and 5-1 New 
+Vegas and 41% of people were against the station, as opposed to nearer 
+30% at the outset.<p>
+
+Each area (such as green-2 or whatever) is split into segments. These
+segments can be isolated from each other in the event of fire, flood or
+vacuum. This is achieved by having a transparent door slide down and seal off
+the area. The door has strips of the zones colour, and small flashing
+red lights set into it.<br>
+In the docking and other areas close to vacuum these are stronger, made out 
+of a beryllium alloy. They are highly resistant to PPG fire, the rebounds 
+being a grave danger to the firer !<p>
+
+<strong>Production Methods</strong><br>
+Instead of creating new forms and processes in the construction of the
+Babylon stations, the Earth Alliance altered established mass production.
+For example, Exploration vessels are nearly five miles long and its 
+rotating section as wide. Production lines required only a minimal
+alteration to construct sections of the hull and the rotational interface.
+The pieces were jumped from the stardocks to Epsilon Eridani and assembled.
+Materials from Sol system's asteroid belt and minerals found in the Tigris
+system were used. In the case of Babylon 4, some of the materials used were
+the salvageable remains of Babylon 1 through 3 (see also <A
+href="#hum">Humen Technology</a>).
+				       <P>
+<strong>Credit Cards</strong><br>
+Beings entering Babylon 5 are given a credit chit. Any currency held by the
+being is converted to current Earth-value credits according to the currency
+exchange rate. The credit chit contains the being's name, ID, additional
+personal information, including genetic anti-forgery information, and the
+current amount of credits the being currently has in the Babylon 5 central
+computer (the chit is also tied to a being's IdentiCard). Employees of the
+station have their salaries tied into the chit. It is used as a debit card. 
+Each purchase or transfer runs down the total amount of credits until a
+deposit is made.                 <p>
+
+<a href="#start">Back to top</a><hr> 
+
+II<h3><a name="shad"> Shadow Technology</h3>
+These are the oldest race, older even than the Vorlons. At least twice they
+have tried to take over the galaxy. The Shadow's real name is 10,000 letters long.
+   <br>
+A 4 foot high spider like organic creature, it is four legged, with a long
+neck and a pair of pincers. Many eyes that glow in the dark. Invisible
+except on certain frequencies.             <Br>
+They seem to prefer to work via agents such as the Centuri, Morden and maybe 
+the Strieb.                                    <br>
+Some Human agents appear to come from the exploration ship Icarus,
+which carried Sheriden's wife. It landed on the 'deserted' Shadow home world,
+Za'Ha'Dum, where it encountered the Shadows. The Humans who
+did not agree to help were killed.  Those who agreed to help now travel 
+space corrupting races. These agents are always protected and accompanied
+by a 'minder' that is normally invisible, sometimes even the Shadows 
+themselves.                                        <br>
+At any one time most of the Shadows are on their home world,
+Za'Ha Dum, they use other beings to pilot their ships. Their whole 
+civilization was moved underground centuries ago (B5 timeline), in interests
+of security.  
+In general the city is shaped like an egg hewn out of the bed 
+rock, with several large skylights set into the roof, to afford a view of
+the sky. Also in the city are huge, 2 or miles deep, shafts.<br>
+Organic/Bio-technology is used to modify 'donors' to act as Cores for
+their ships, suggesting organic technology             <P>
+
+Like most advanced aliens, the ships have an organic look and are composed
+of a large number of interlocked pentagons.                   <br>
+The skin of these are made of a shimmering oily black substance
+able to withstand the rigors of space and hyper-space travel. The skin is
+extremely versatile; able to be in a rigid, flexible, or fluid state 
+seemingly at will. It appears to bond easily with other vessels having 
+similar "skin." Carbon-based lifeforms, not properly prepared, die 
+immediately upon touching this substance.  Being organic in design, 
+damage to the ship acts as it would a living being (for example: severing 
+a spine on the Shadow vessel will put the Shadow vessel in shock or anger, 
+depending on its mental state and "personality.")        <br>
+'When it flies past you, its like a scream in your mind'.       <br>
+'Once they target you they never stop, never slow down, never give up. 
+until they have destroyed you- they are nearly invincible'      <br>
+The mother ship, at least, creates a characteristic trail of neutrinos as
+it moves through hyper-space. This trail, if found, can be used to find
+the ship.                                                           <br>
+One craft was excavated on Mars, and another of Ganymede.               <br>
+Only current non-First One ship that stands a chance against it is the White 
+Star (see section <a href="#white">XII- White Star</a>)                 <br>
+Shadow vessels are vulnerable to telepathic interference. At a cost of
+great strain a P5 or better can scramble and upset their central operating
+system, rendering them 'harmless'. In this state several ships can surround
+and attack easily.<br>
+Vulnerable to sustained, very high energy, continuous beam weapons, such as
+those carried on the <a href="#white">White Star</a> and <A
+href="#narn">Narn</a> Cruisers, and by
+Vorlon ships. One White Star, with all energy diverted to forward weapons
+and a Narn heavy cruiser, or two normal strength White Star forward cannons
+and a Narn heavy cruiser is sufficient to explode a 'Crab in 5
+seconds.<br>
+All Shadow ships can 'warble' into and out of hyperspace.
+Shadow Ships require a weapons lock, which can be detected.<P>
+
+<strong>FIGHTER</strong> Shaped like a fat starfish.<br>
+ <dt>Capabilities</dt><ul>
+ <li>Energy ball of some kind.</li>
+ <li>Impervious to fighter fire, but
+ can be destroyed by ramming them, although they still remain active 
+ for a short time. The <a href="#white">White Star</a> was able to destroy 6 in a short battle.
+     </ul><p>
+
+<strong>PROBE</strong> Shaped like a cross between a
+Battle crab, with long curving 'fingers', and a Berserker probe.
+Stronger than fighters, but not as much as a Ship or Crab,
+they can withstand the loss of 2 or 3 spines long enough to ram the
+offending ship.
+<dt>Capabilities</dt><ul>
+ <li>Hyper-space engines</li>
+ <li>Single shot cannon</li>
+ <li>High power sensor arrays and communications systems</li>
+</ul><p>
+
+<strong>MOTHER AND CRUISER</strong> Shaped like a many legged spider.
+The Mother is 2-3 miles across, the cruiser about 600 meters in width
+(spine to spine). Composed of
+organic technology the Mother requires a sentient being to operate as
+its Core. The Core must be properly prepared for insertion. If it is not, 
+the result is a confused, disoriented, and insane ship.  Although merged
+with the ship, the Core can be removed with great difficulty and with
+permanent mental damage to the Core.  The Core is neither pilot nor
+passenger, it is a ready-made thought matrix.  An organic unit can process
+information faster than most computer systems and reacts faster when
+formulating strategy. It is much easier and faster to temper an existing
+brain than manufacture a complex computer.<br>
+The Mothers are two-tiered with the lower part housing the weapons.
+The upper tier houses a wing of approximately seventy-five fighters, with a
+possible total complement of two-hundred fighters.<br>
+As for defensive systems, the Shadow Ship can absorb destructive energy, but
+at the cost of great pain. Many smaller hits, as from many fighters, appear
+to confuse the ship, to the point where it does not return fire.<br>
+ <dt>Capabilities</dt><ul>
+ <li>One very high energy beam weapon, more powerful
+ than most other weapons seen. This device can cut an enemy ship in
+ half in under a second, although it is possible to dissipate this, the
+ energy cost is large. The weapon appears ineffective against <a
+ href="#vor">Vorlon</a> mother ships.
+ <li>hyper-space engines.
+ <li>Impervious to fighter fire. When hit by combined fire power of several
+ enemy mother ships a small portion of one 'leg' was severed. The wound
+ 'healed' itself.
+ <li>Two ships may join to become one larger ship. They same to travel in this
+ paired formation, they are then known as Battle Crabs.
+ <li>Mothers can fire a spiked ball which explodes into many fighters.
+ <li>They can also fire a device into a jump gate that destroys it, along with
+ any ship unlucky enough to be in the gates field, this maybe just a simple
+ cannon blast.
+ <li>They can enter and leave hyper-space <strong>without</strong>
+ using a jump point, instead they just *ripple* into and out of normal space.
+ <li>Although impervious to normal weapons, one was destroyed by an exploding
+ jump gate (See Section <a href="#jg">X- jump gates</a>), and another by an extreme gravitational field.
+ Another technique was used by a Vorlon cruiser- using some form of
+ modulated energy beam the Vorlon ship was able to capture a Shadow Vessel,
+ and then ram it, destroying it. 
+ </li>Telepaths appear to impair the interface between them and their Core.
+      </ul><p>
+<a href="#start">Back to top</a><hr>
+
+III<h3><a name="str">Streib Technology</h3>
+This race has so far only been encountered by the Narn, Minbari and the
+Earthers.     <br>
+They are assumed to be restricted to their home world. At the moment they 
+are currently engaged in obtaining 'samples' of the technology and 
+creatures of neighbouring space. Their last two raids were into Narn 
+and Earth space.  <br>
+In both encounters they were followed back to their home world, and fired
+upon, and, in at least one case, had their ship destroyed.<br>
+They may be allied to the Shadows. Small figures, large heads and eyes.
+A minor race.                                           <p>
+
+<strong>SHIP</strong> A huge ship, unsymetrical. Equipped with a torture chamber where
+captured aliens are forced to fight, and are experimented upon.
+ <dt>Capabilities</dt><ul>
+ <li>High energy rapid fire energy cannon. 
+ <li>Tractor beam. 
+ <li>hyper-space engines / jump point generator.
+</ul>
+The ships cannon seems to have great difficulty in hitting targets.
+     <P>
+<a href="#start">Back to top</a><hr>
+
+IV<h3><a name="lum">Lumati Technology</h3>
+This race has only recently been encountered.<br>
+They scorn of 'inferior' races, and will not left a finger to help
+a lesser species, but they do consider Humens non-inferior, even if they
+now have strange ideas about Humen sexual acts. Tall, symbiotic. Deep
+crevices on head.                                <p>
+
+<strong>SHIP</strong> Structured from 5-6 spheres, linked by symmetrical sets of four
+triangles.
+ <dt>Capabilities</dt><ul>
+ <li>Unknown weapon systems, assumed energy cannon / missile.
+ <li>hyper-space engines. Possibly jump point generator, the ship is big enough
+ to hold one.
+ </ul><p>
+
+<a href="#start">Back to top</a><hr>
+
+V<h3><a name="narn">Narn Technology</h3>
+One of the Big Four races, lizard like in appearance. 150 years ago they
+were almost wiped out by the <a href="#cent">Centuri</a> who strip mined the Narn home world.
+They eventually managed, after 100 years, to drive them off. For them the
+words 'Never Again' have special meaning. Their B5 ambassador, G'Kar,
+guessed the Shadows are coming. <br>
+They are possibly much older than almost any other race, but were decimated
+in the first war against the Shadows, and now in this one as well, having
+only 10 or 15 ships left.           <br>
+Non-organic tech.                       <br>
+They are the only race not to have telepaths, although they used to have
+them, they were killed off by the Shadows, resulting in too small a gene pool
+for them to breed a telepath.               <br>
+Home world is called Narn.                      <br>
+Non-organic technology<p>
+
+
+<strong>FIGHTER</strong> Flat and rounded.
+ <dt>Capabilities</dt><ul>
+  <li>Beam weapon.
+      </ul><p>
+
+<strong>HEAVY FIGHTER</strong> Chunkier version of fighters. Better
+amoured / weaponed.<p>
+
+<strong>DREADNAUGHT</strong> Looks like two heavy fighters join base to base by a bridge.
+<dt>Capabilities</dt><ul>
+ <li>Jump point genearator, hyperspace engines. </li>
+ <li>More pwerful version of cruiser.</lI>
+</ul>
+
+<strong>MOTHER SHIP</strong> Larger version of fighter, composed of three
+decks. The bridge can be sealed off from rest of ship. One kilometer
+long.
+ <dt>Capabilities</dt><ul>
+ <li>Beam weapons.
+ <li>hyper-space Engines, jump point generator.
+ <li>Missiles.
+ <li>Suffer a comms black out after re-entering normal space.
+     </ul><p>
+
+<a href="#start">Back to top</a><hr>
+
+VI<h3><a name="cent">Centuri Technology</h3>
+One of the big four races. Attempted twice to trick Humens on first
+contact, saying they were a lost Centuri colony, and that the
+Centuri ruled the entire Universe. Large fan of hair on males. Females
+shave their heads. <br>
+Earth's first encounter with aliens was with them and the Centuri traded Earth
+jump gate technology.                                               <br>
+Home world is known as Centuri Prime.                                  <br>
+Non-organic tech.              <p>
+
+<strong>BLOCKADE MINES</strong> Squat cylinder, with two cannons revolving around 
+the top.<br>
+Assumed to be remotely controlled or automatic. Inaccurate, we
+		have only seen them once, but most shots missed, and it was 
+		also commented that they were 'beginning to get [the] range',
+		implying they can not fire straight away upon a target.
+ <dt>Capabilities</dt><ul>
+ <li>Cannons (see above), but these appear to be very inaccurate.
+			</ul><p>
+<strong>FIGHTER</strong> Crescent shaped, thin and 'spacialdynamic'
+ <dt>Capabilities</dt><ul>
+ <li>Beam weapon. 
+ <li>Prob. hyper-space engines.
+    </ul><P>
+<strong>CRUISER</strong> Cross shaped
+ <dt>Capabilities</dt><ul>
+ <li>hyper-space engines and jump point generator,
+ <li>missiles, misc. beam weapons.
+            </ul><br>
+<strong>Note:</strong> The Centauri appear to be the only race whose
+cruisers do <strong>not</strong> have some
+sort of beam weapon.  Centauri cruisers rapid-fire single shots from the
+centre point of the front of the ship.  They also appear to have 
+lesser weapons elsewhere on their cruisers, but the ones that seem 
+most effective in battle are the front-and-centre guns that fire some 
+sort of elongated shot.          <p>
+
+<strong>MOTHER</strong> Like two cruisers joined side by side
+ <dt>Capabilities</dt><ul>
+ <li>Beam weapons.
+ <li>hyper-space engines and jump point generator.
+ <li>Missiles
+ <li>Mass drivers.
+      </ul><p>
+<a href="#start">Back to top</a><hr>
+
+VII<h3><a name="min">Minbari Technology</h3>
+One of the big four races. Almost wiped out the Humens in a huge war,
+driving them back to their 0
+home system, and then home world, bypassing
+the Mars and Io colonies. All remaining Earth ships ordered into 
+Earth orbit.                <br>
+At the last moment the Minbari surrendered, after examining a captive Human,
+and discovering that they were reborn Minbari souls, but not before
+19800 out of the 20000 ships were destroyed.<br>
+Recognised by bony protrusions on skull.        <br>
+Home world known as Minbar, the 7th planet from their sun. One quarter of
+planet covered by north polar ice cap. So rich in crystal deposits many
+cities carved out of crystal formations. Three languages Len'a, Feak and
+Adrinato (the language of the religious cast). An example of Adrinato is
+'Ni sec schlect slem wa' Meaning 'I am your friend, in peace'.
+The Minbari have had artificial gravity for some time, and all Minbari ships
+are driven by a garivtio-magnetic system. They are also at the experimental
+stage of time travel, having the ability to control certain types of time
+fields, however this is at a very early stage, horse and carriage compared
+to a modern sports car, or the <a href="#ep3">Great Machine</a>.       <br>
+Semi-organic tech.<P>
+
+<strong>Rings</strong> 
+The Minbari have been observed using small rings to great effect.  One
+such ring was observed increasing the local gravity a whole order of
+magnitude. Careful observation indicates the presence of a small silvery
+discoloration on the ring finger of the Minbari ambassador, probably some
+form of cybernetic interface. Thus the rings most probably act merely
+as transmission devices to much larger units. It is therefore postulated
+that the devices are only usable in certain areas, in this case the 
+quarters of the Minbari ambassador.
+<P>
+<strong>FIGHTER</strong> Y shaped, like Chigs from Space: Above and Beyond.
+ <dt>Capabilities</dt><ul>
+ <li>Beam weapon. 
+ <li>hyper-space engines.
+     </ul><p>
+<strong>FLYER</strong> (Equivalent to Cruiser/Shuttle) Flat, with upright fins at corners.
+ <dt>Capabilities</dt><ul>
+ <li>hyper-space engines.
+ <li>Atmosphere capable. 
+     </ul><p>
+<strong>MOTHER</strong> 300m long, 200 M tons, shaped like an angel
+fish. <br>
+In the centre of Minbari cruisers there is the Tactical Centre. Over head a
+large inverted mushroom hangs. A full 360 degree view is offered here, and
+communication to any ship in range is as easy as speaking to it. Displays
+on offer range from tactical maps to camera images.
+
+ <dt>Capabilities</dt><ul>
+ <li>hyper-space engines, jump point generator.
+ <li>Tractor beam.
+ <li>Highly resilient to fighter weapons. 
+ <li>Some form of stealth tech. that 
+ prevents Earther scanners at least from locking on.
+ <li>12 fusion lasers
+ <li>6 neutron cannons
+ <li>6 missile launches (20M ton per missile)
+ <li>1 forward stasis beam
+ <li>4 attractor breams around launch bay
+ <li>Cargo pay able to hold up to 2000 m tons
+ <li>64 crew
+ <li>150 troops
+ <li>maximum speed of .2 c 
+	     </ul><p>
+<a href="#start">Back to top</a><hr>
+
+VIII<h3><a name="hum">Earther Technology</h3>
+The last of the big four. 'Mankind'.<br>
+Scanner systems can be knocked out using an Electro Magnetic Pulse, as from
+a fusion bomb.                          <br>
+Messaging systems stamp all transmissions with a date stamp, and in military
+systems a 'subchannel ID' which allows the sender to be authenticated.<br>
+Non-organic tech.         <P>
+
+<strong>FIGHTER (SA-23E)</strong><br>
+<center>
+<img width="203" height="143" src="http://www.dungeon.com/~sati/sf-wire.jpg"
+alt="sf wire">
+<img width="239" height="164"
+src="http://www.dungeon.com/~sati/sf-pers.jpg"
+alt="sf pers">
+</center>
+The SA-23E Mitchell-Hyundyne Starfury is a single-seat non-atmospheric
+fighter craft utilised by the Earth Alliance for short range defence
+operations. It is armed with two Plasma Projection Guns, as well as
+four Pulse Discharge Cannons.  Unlike in classic Terran designs,
+the pilot sits almost perfectly vertically in the cockpit, operating the
+vessel by a combination of hand, foot, and voice-activated
+controls.<br>
+It has an average speed of 15km/s.                           <br>
+One of the most intriguing facets of Starfury operations is the launch
+sequence. The pilot enters the cockpit by a short ramp, wearing a
+pressure suit. As he prepares for launch, the bay is depressurized. When
+all is ready, the fighter pivots point-down into launch position, and
+is launched by the inertial forces created by station rotation. After
+it clears the station, the main engines fire.<br>
+These engines are the most unusual aspect of the design, being placed on
+long wings, forming an X shape.<br>
+<strong>Weapons</strong> 
+<ul><li>Four 20 megawatt pulse discharge cannons (located on thruster pods)
+       <li>Up to 8 externally mounted missiles with nuclear, frag., jam etc. 
+       warheads as needed. 
+       <li>PDC's may be replaced with unguided missile 
+       launchers. 
+       <li>2 PPG's mounted under cockpit.</ul><p>
+Four fuel cells mounted on the inboard trailing edge of each wing.<br>
+Thrust is vectored using a system of 8 flaps mounted behind the engines.<br>
+Launch rail attach points can be seen on the underside.<br>
+Long range scanners can detect objects up to 2 hours flight time away, and
+mix passive and active systems, and feature a multi-level active amp.<br>
+4.4 m long, 1 pilot. Thrust glows bluw-white. Seems not to have
+evolved much since the Earth-Minbari war.<br>
+<ul><li>
+<strong>Variants</strong>
+<ul>
+ <li>Star Fury (Black Omega): Used for infiltration due to advanced stealth
+capabilities. Very expensive. Omega decal on underside.
+ <li>Star Fury (two seater): two cockpits, one facing forward, one facing aft.
+Missiles and heavy pulse cannons, fixed forward mountings, with a turret on
+the back.
+ <li>Star Fury (Thunder Bolt (SA-42B) ):
+ <img align="right" alt="tb-sce"
+ src="http://www.dungeon.com/~sati/tb-sce.jpg" width="134"
+ height="286">
+ <br>1 rapid burst pulse cannon.
+4x missile rack under cockpit. Wings are more planer and feature swing wing
+on each of the 4 thrusters. When extended act as aerofoils, else folded over
+the body. Better speed and manoeuvrability then the original.
+<center>
+<img alt="tb pers" src="http://www.dungeon.com/~sati/tb-pers.jpg"
+width="364" height="254">
+</center>
+Next generation of fighters, atmosphere capable- the thunderbolts can do a
+low-level bombing run and then leave the atmosphere. 2 seater. Minimum
+speed in atmosphere is about Mach 2, due to small wing size. Thrust
+glows orange, maybe they are not as efficent due to having to work in
+the atmosphere as well ?
+</ul>                                 </lu></ul>
+<strong>Control of Ships</strong>
+A Starfury needs and uses all 6 degrees of freedom.  This means there are two
+T shaped joysticks, one for each hand. <br>
+To yaw right, you might pivot the right hand stick to the right, increasing 
+the angle to increase the speed of the yaw ... as you hold it there you keep
+spinning until you let go, at which time the ship stops itself. To achieve 
+this the computer would give an initial burst from the correct thrusters to
+set your roll in motion at a rate proportional to the amount you have 
+depressed the stick ... when you let go, the computer gives another burst
+from the opposite thrusters to stop your spin. <br>
+This kind of control would be very intuitive and would minimise the
+possibility of the pilot becoming disoriented in a fast but complex
+manoeuvre. Also a "manual" mode would be included that gave you direct control 
+over the thrusters. In this mode, the control sticks would act more like
+throttles .. when depressed, the thrusters activate at proportional intensity
+and when released, the thrusters turn off.         <br>
+Another feature is the ability to set the "zero"...  the motion of your base
+frame of reference.  Your base frame of reference would be the motion the
+ship would have when the control sticks are zero-ed.  For example, if you 
+want to dock on B5, you need to set your translation to be 0,Vy,0... that's
+speed Vy down the axis of the station and 0,0 lateral motion. Also, you'd 
+need to set your spin velocities to be 0,Ry,0... the core of the station
+rotates at a certain velocity which you must match before entering the
+docking bay. So, your base frame of reference could be set to 0,Vy,0;
+0,Ry,0... when you release the control sticks, the computer makes sure
+that these are your velocities relative to the station. If, as you
+approach the core, you notice that you're a little off-axis, you can
+keep virtual-active mode on and nudge the stick in the right direction
+a few times to translate over onto the axis without having to manually
+cancel the translation when you get right on the axis. Meanwhile, if you
+notice that your spin rate is a tad too slow, you could depress the 
+manual button on the spin stick and then twist in just a bit to the 
+right to boost your y-axis rotation rate, setting your new base frame
+to be rotating a little faster in the clockwise direction. <br>
+Of course, the computer on a Starfury would very likely have all kinds 
+of support for automatically performing precise manoeuvres since manual 
+docking is needlessly tedious... especially for an exhausted pilot
+who's just coming off an adrenaline high. These can be activated by voice
+command, such as 'roll 270 degrees left', 'rotate to track target, continue 
+course', 'set zero reference to target', 'collide with target' or 
+'maximum thrust' as well as more mundane tasks such as 'dock with target' or 
+'divert all power to life support'.                  <br>
+(Scott Silvey)                                           <br>
+The foot pedals are used to cycle through scanned targets on the HUD.<br>
+Fire control is similar to modern fighter planes, with weapon selection and
+firing combined into a few switches on one of the joysticks.      <br>
+Ejecting is done by pulling two tabs mounted either side of the pilots head.
+								 <P>
+<strong>CRUISER</strong> Functional. Rotating mid-section.
+ <dt>Capabilities</dt><ul>
+ <li>hyper-space engines, jump point generator.
+ <li>Powerful forward beam weapon. 
+ <li>Prob. missiles.
+</ul>
+<strong>HEAVY CRUISER</strong> As above
+ <dt>Capabilities</dt><ul>
+ </li>As above but more weapon sites, incl. a rear mounted
+ powerful beam weapon, and a fighter compliment.
+</ul>
+Hyperion (and similar class) destroyers: 150 meters
+Omega class ships: 500 meters (excluding guns/atennas)
+
+<strong>B1, B2, B3, B4, B5 STATIONS</strong>
+<ul>
+ <li>Babylon's 1, 2 and 3 were destroyed by various races before completion.
+ <li>Babylon 4 is much more heavily armored then Babylon 5, shaped like a
+traffic cone, with solar arrays at the bottom, two large rotating sections, 
+the smaller front section framed by 4 very large Y shaped weapons pylons. 
+Painted green, as opposed to Babylon 5's blue.
+Pulled back in time 1000 years to act as a new base of operations during
+the last Shadow War.
+The reason for 2 counter rotating sections is to set the total angular
+momentum to zero, thus enabling B4 to move much more easily than would
+otherwise be the case. B4 has a certain amount of movement, much more
+compared to B5, for instance, but still too limited to make it more than
+a snack for anything with access to a jump point.
+It is 6 miles long.
+It is located 160,000 km from where Babylon 5is now, and is 92,000km from the planet.
+
+ <li>Babylon 5 remains in neutral territory. See also Section <a href="#b5">I- Babylon
+ 5 </a>.
+     </ul><P>
+
+<strong>Breaching Pods:</strong> A small, limited mobility, transport vessel. Equipped with 4
+corner mounted cluster pods, egg shaped body. Carries a large number of 
+troops from the assault ship to the target vessel, where it seals its self on 
+to the hull, and cuts an opening for the troops.
+
+<strong>Raiders:</strong> Small one or two man attack fighters. Similar in shape to Cylon
+attack ships, they present a very small front/back profile. Assumed to have a
+limited range, and so must operate from a near-by base. Assumed beam weapons.
+Not very effective in combat, half a dozen or so were wiped out by two star
+furies. Most vunrable on their wings. Atmosphere able.
+
+<strong>Raider Base:</strong> A chunky squat life support and engine blocked mounted 'behind'
+a large wheel like structure that the Raiders dock to. 
+Able to open its own jump point.
+
+All explosives manufactured in the Earth Alliance are laced with special
+chemical codes to allow them to be traced to a particular buyer/batch.
+	<P>
+The security forces of Babylon 5, unlike the civilian population, are
+allowed to carry weaponry in the line of duty.  The standard issue weapon
+is the PPG, a small hand-held weapon which ionises
+small quantities of hydrogen or helium gas, and suspends the resultant product 
+in a magnetic bottle, which is then released by a moving electric charge.  
+The bottle decays, resulting in an energy discharge.<P>
+
+<strong>Identicards</strong><br>
+Most likely, the Identicards are an outgrowth of the "smart" cards of the
+twentieth century, acting as a combination driver's licence, credit card.
+passport, and medical file.  A crystalline memory module, similar to the
+ones used in the main computer could hold medical information, account
+balances, immigration status, and possibly even a small personal calendar
+ala the PDA's introduced in the late 1980's.  The technology is simple,
+but requires a merger of data networks difficult to un-bureaucratize.
+				<P>
+<strong>Dust:</strong><br>
+Dust, an addictive manufactured drug, allows non-telepaths of several races 
+to probe the minds of others, experiencing all the victim's memories and 
+thoughts in the space of a few minutes.  Unfortunately, this leaves the 
+victims unconscious, and telepathic victims never recover.  The more often 
+Dust is taken, the more is required to achieve the effect the next time.  
+Dust was originally developed, and is apparently still being produced, by 
+Psi Corps in an attempt to induce permanent telepathy in normal humans; the 
+experiment has been a failure so far.<P>
+<a href="#start">Back to top</a><hr>
+
+IX<h3><a name="vor">Vorlon Technology</h3><br>
+The second oldest race.  The ships (and certainly the
+Cruiser) are completely organic, a living being. The pattern on the ships
+can be seen to move slightly.                 <br>
+The ships are as sentient as dogs, and are breed by the Vorlons as
+ships.<br>
+(JMS)<br>
+Have an almost unique defence system which can dissipate energy weapons fired 
+at their ships, leaving only the physical impact. This device, however, 
+appears to have a long recharge time, and in this case the ship has to take
+the hit, a Vorlon Mother being so far the only ship to survive a direct hit 
+from a Battle Crab. The organic tech. also allows the ships to evolve, and
+learn.                                            <br>
+The Vorlon race is one of the last remaining First Ones.<br>
+Vorlons appear as humanoid figures cloaked in glowing cloaks of light. Each
+race sees something different, yet the same- an angel or god. Every race
+that is apart from the Centuri. However most of the time Vorlon ambassadors
+wear an organic 'encounter suit'. As well as acting as a space suit, the
+suit can tap into local energy reserves and use them to produce telekinetic
+effects, or deliver a energy 'slap'. The suit may be a living 'being' as
+with their ships.                                          <br>
+When Vorlons are killed, no body is found.                     <br>
+Have manipulated most races to condition them to see the correct thing, and
+act accordingly, when they reveal themselves.<br>
+Vorlons appear to use standard jump point techniques ! This is because the
+Minbari obtained jump gate technology from them, and they spread it to other races,
+resulting in the 'standard' looking gates and points.<br>
+
+Very organic technology. <p>
+
+<strong>FIGHTER + CRUISER</strong> (Fighters are smaller version of Mother ships) Egg
+shaped, with four tendrils extending forward from the point. Vorlon
+Cruisers are 60 m in length.
+ <dt>Capabilities</dt><ul>
+ <li>Beam weapon (energised in the nexus of the tendrils).
+ <li>hyper-space engines  (jump point generator on mother.
+ <li>Method of propulsion unknown.
+ <li>Note also the "petals" which open out and towards the rear of the craft,
+ and may be related to its propulsion (they are always shown being folded
+ towards the craft as it approaches the docking bay of Babylon 5; of course,
+ it wouldn't fit in the approach tunnel if the petals were extended...).
+   </ul><P>
+<strong>SHUTTLE</strong> Like fighter, but elongated.
+ <dt>Capabilities</dt><ul>
+ <li>Beam Weapon? 
+ <li>hyper-space engines.
+ <li>NOTE: Talks to Kosh via Vorlon writing. Kosh appears to be a subordinate
+ to either the ship, or the sender of the message.</li>
+ <li>Ship has facility to
+ maintain Humen life for extended periods.</li>
+ <li>Ship has auto-detect and destroy
+ feature active while it is docked. This takes the form of a probe which
+ morphs out of the side of the ship. It is not known what action it would
+ take with persistent attackers.</li>
+ <li>Surface is similar to Shadows', but is
+ yellow with green patches, and can alter its look to generate
+ letters.</lI>
+ <li>Kosh's Shuttle is almost permanently locked in B5 docking bay
+ number 13.</li>
+ <li>Shuttles are made for individual Vorlons, they are part of them, and can
+ not live with out them. When the Vorlon dies, the ship grieves as best it
+ can, for it is some sense alive, this usually takes the form of delivering
+ itself and the personal effects to the nearest sun.</li>
+     </ul><P>
+<a href="#start">Back to top</a><hr>
+
+X<h3><a name="jg">Jump Gates</h3>
+<strong>Construction:</strong><BR>
+"Quantium" is a generic term applied to molecules which have been 
+sufficiently stressed by catastrophic events that some of their
+electron-pair bonds reach across (or "tunnel through") the potential
+barrier between normal space and hyper-space.<BR>
+Quantium ores are normally found on planets which have been close
+enough to a supernova to get blasted and irradiated, but far
+enough out that they haven't been completely vaporised.   <br>
+Quantium can't be made on purpose, at least by the technologies of
+non-First Ones / Ancients so most starfaring races spend a
+<strong>lot</strong> of time looking for Quantium.                                   <br>
+The appended number refers to the isotope involved.              <br>
+The preferred version of Quantium-40 is the Potassium-40 isotope.  <br>
+Due to packing-fraction effects and long-term decay effects (Potassium-40
+has a half-life of about 1.27 x 10 ^ 9 years) natural abundance of
+Potassium-40 is low. (On Earth, for example, Potassium-40 is only about 
+.0118% of naturally-occurring Potassium on the planet!)     <br>
+The problem is that rods of almost any metallic, or transition-metal,
+Quantium alloy can be put into gate nodes and resonated at very high
+frequencies, resulting in a localised juxtaposition of Normspace and
+hyper-space but most Quantium metals have crystal structures that require
+<strong>very</strong> high driving frequencies, some up as high as gamma radiation.
+For some reason known only to the Great Maker, Potassium-40 (in its 
+Quantium form) provides a stable, <strong>very</strong> high energy (and thus hard to
+disrupt) but <strong>low</strong> frequency, trans-barrier bond. As a result, the
+driving electronics used to excite Potassium-40 Quantium Gate resonators 
+are easily achievable by Humen technology.                     <br>
+Quantum-bonded Potassium 40 is the Gate-node material preferred by
+most races, due to the low cost of the necessary support technology.
+This does <strong>not</strong> mean, however, that other races, or
+even humans, <strong>have</strong>
+to use Quantium-40 for gates. It's just the best and most economical
+engineering choice. Quantized Calcium-40 and Argon-40, both stable
+isotopes, have been used; but both, due to trans-barrier bond lengths,
+and lower bond energies, require more expensive machinery.
+(Calcium-40 is inefficient, and tends to vaporise under load, and Argon-40
+has to be run as a supercooled solid, at liquid Helium temperatures.)
+Both require <strong>much</strong> higher frequency driver
+electronics.<br>
+Jump points are formed in a particular location within a margin of error;
+it's not like throwing a newspaper at a door.(JMS)<p>
+
+Each jump point, when viewed from hyper-space, can be thought of as a
+lighthouse, sending out a signal to guide ships to it.          <br>
+Once in hyperspace, you can ride the navigational beams between
+beacons, and by corrolating the beacons, know where you have to come
+out.<br>
+(JMS)<br>
+Ships lock on to this beam to prevent themselves from becoming lost. If the
+signal is lost, there is little hope of re-establishing contact, and 
+the ship must attempt to carry on its course on internal gyroscopic 
+measurements only.                                                  <br>
+This is a high risk manoeuvre, and many ships have been lost without trace
+in hyper-space.                                         <P>
+
+Aside from simply destabilising the point by firing on it or whatever, there
+is another way to use a point as a weapon. If one Gate is opened in another
+Gate, the competing energies are impossible to control and the whole thing
+explodes. However opening a jump point onto a jump point is impossible due
+to the hideous amount of energy required. However, if a convient jump gate
+is to hand, a jump point can be opened within that instead, the effect is
+the same. (JMS)                                         <BR>
+The energy released is huge, and expands rapidly.           <P>
+
+The Babylon 5 Jump Gate is able to be told to reject certain ships, presumably
+on the basis of mass / shape etc. This may not be a common feature, but a 
+function of the generation system used.<p>
+
+<a href="#start">Back to top</a><hr>
+
+XI<h3><a name="whatfire">What Ships Fire What Weapons</h3>
+Earth Alliance Star Furies are armed with two PPG's and four PDC's,
+both of which are white balls. They can carry unguided nuclear rockets.<BR>
+The two Human mother ships we saw in battle were the Hyperion and the
+Agamemnon. Hyperion seems to have larger PPG type weapons mounted on turrets
+and on a forward fixed gun. The Agamemnon has a particle beam-like weapon
+(That was the only weapon it fired, but I'll assume it has more).
+						  <P>
+Narn fighters seem to carry PPG style weapons.       <BR>
+A Narn cruiser fires both Particle beam and PPG type weapons.
+							 <P>
+Centauri Fighters fire a PPG-like weapon only the blasts are red while Narn 
+Fighters and Star Furies have white blasts.                 <BR>
+Centauri Cruisers have similar red blast weapons. However, Instead of being 
+PPG's they could be ion Cannons (G'Kar mentioned twice that Centauries used 
+ion cannons).                                                   <BR>
+Centauri Blockade Mines fire orange elongated shots.
+					      <P>
+Both Minbari Fighters and Warships have Green Particle beam-style weapons
+(the Narn's and the Agamemnon fired red particle beams). The Warships have
+larger ones.                                     <p>
+
+Note: I use the word "like" because there is no concrete proof that the 
+weapons are Particle Beams or PPG's.
+						   <br>
+(David Engkent)                                       <P>
+
+The White Star fires purple elongated blasts from the pods, and white 
+elongated blasts from somewhere near the front. Also on the front is rapid
+fire pulsed green energy weapon (Fusion cannon).         <p>
+
+Vorlon mothers energise a ball of yellow/green energy in the nexus of their
+tendrils. From here a beam of energy is release.            <br>
+Vorlon cruisers have some form of large scale energy weapon as well, which
+can be modulated, and act as a 'net' for larger vessels.        <br>
+Vorlon fighters have yellow/green sparks of energy from their tendrils'
+nexus.                                                          <p>
+
+Shadow fighters fire white balls of energy, and pulse as they fire.<br>
+Shadow probes fire elongated purple blasts, looking like mini versions of
+the Shadow ships main weapon.
+Battle Crabs, Cruisers and Mothers have a continuos pinky-purple ray.    <p>
+
+<a href="#start">Back to top</a><hr>
+
+XII<h3><a name="white">The White Star</h3>
+<img align="right" alt="ws sch"
+src="http://www.dungeon.com/~sati/ws-sce.jpg" width="217"
+height="123"><br>
+<img align="right" alt="ws sch 2, upside down :-)"
+src="http://www.dungeon.com/~sati/ws-sce2.jpg" width="159"
+height="83"><br>
+
+The White Star is a ship created by a melding of Vorlon and Minbari
+technologies, and is to date the only non-Vorlon ship that has escaped
+the Shadows. The surface is 'pearl, so its got a weird refractive quality'.
+It has a kind of manta look to it, almost Minbari like flowing lines. 
+The pods are each attached to the body by two intertwined 'wings', and glow 
+when the ship manoeuvres, as does a single underslung pod.<br>
+
+It is attached to the B5 station, just like a shuttle or transport ship,
+and is under the B5 commanders control. It was, however, commissioned by the
+Minbari religious caste, without the knowledge of some on the Minbari High
+Council (The Grey Council).                                   <br>
+The White Star uses local drive engines based on magnetic and
+gravitational principles; in a sense, it doesn't so much push itself toward
+other worlds as <strong>pull</strong> itself or <strong>repel</strong> itself.
+One side effect of creating a powerful gravitational system is the ability to
+create artificial gravity.                                                          <br>
+(JMS)                                                                 <br>
+This allows it to alter its internal gravitational field to enable a smooth
+transition from the White Star to, say, a large rotating space station that
+it has grappled on to and burnt through the hull of.     <br>
+The ship is <strong>extremly</strong> manoeuvrable, it has dodged multiple shots
+from a Battle Crab, whereas almost all other ships fired upon have been hit
+1st time.                                                    <br>
+It is smaller than other ships of its power, and faster than any other ship 
+of the same size, certainly faster than any Humen ship.        <br>
+The controls mix coloured crystal/sonic controls with more standard displays
+and can display hi-res. maps and other displays above the forward windows.
+However, the weapons on the ship are not able to directly damage a fully
+capable Shadow ship.                                            <br>
+Named to coincide with the Black Star, a Minbari battle cruiser destroyed by 
+Sheriden in the Earth-Minbari war, and now kept in orbit around a White
+Dwarf.                                                           <br>
+The outer skin is very tough, only slightly less able to withstand
+extremes of pressure and temperature than a Shadow ship.       <br>
+Equipped with the Vorlon-style skin, enabling the ship to learn from
+experience, to change, to evolve. This enabled it to learn from previous
+encounters with the shadows, and adopt the Vorlon Defence System, which
+deflects most of the energy of a shot away, leaving only the physical
+impact.                                                            <br>
+Weapons may be controlled by computer or by hand, hand firing is more useful
+at extreme range. The White Star's forward battery is powerful enough to destroy a Battle
+Crab, however the energy demands of using this as a continuous burst means 
+the jump engines have to be taken off-line, leaving the ship with no 
+hyper space ability for 20 minutes. The beam cuts a tunnel through a Battle 
+Crab in the space of a few seconds.<br>
+The White Star is one member of a fleet of similar ships.<br>
+It is 130 meters long, and has an escape pod mounted on its back.
+
+<center>
+<img alt="ws-pers" src="http://www.dungeon.com/~sati/ws-pers.jpg"
+width="264" height="181">
+</center>
+
+ <dt>Capabilities</dt><ul>
+ <li>hyper-space engines, jump point generator (almost certainly
+		two, mounted one aft and one forward).
+ <li>3 arrays of weapons (forward, left pod and right pod)
+  <ul>
+  <li>1 heavy fusion laser (green, pulsed) (forward array)
+  <li>3 banks of rapid fire heavy neutron cannon (one to each array)
+  <li>3 power stasis beams (one to each array)
+  </ul>              
+ <li>Attractor beams, based on magnetic attraction, causing a
+	     mottled blue coating on the attracted ship.
+ <li>Grapple legs, and hull cutters.
+      </ul><p>
+<a href="#start">Back to top</a><hr>
+
+XIII<h3><a name="sigma">Sigma 957 Aliens</h3>
+Their real name is 15,000 letters long, and they can be summoned by
+broadcasting this signal close to planets where they 'walk among the
+stars' (JMS)  <br>
+Their ship is huge, from a hemi-sphere base, a long cylinder emerges,
+tipped with a black globe with 70's style computer graphics on it
+(mono-chromatic squares and lines of dots mostly). This stalk is rimmed at
+the base by bony protrusions that extend over the lip of the base.
+There is some 'bad blood' between them and the Vorlons, but they have agreed
+to help in the War.<br>
+Semi-organic tech.     <P>
+
+ <dt>Capabilities</dt><ul>
+ <li>Prob. beyond our understanding, i.e. 'magic'
+ <li>Non stnd. hyper-space tech.
+      </ul><p>
+<a href="#start">Back to top</a><hr>
+
+XIV<h3><a name="ep3">Epsilon 3 (The Great Machine)</h3>
+From the outside, just some nova blasted desolate planet, but it actually
+houses a huge machine, built long ago by a gone race. It is now run by a
+Minbari, who has offered its services to Babylon Five.<BR>
+Tunnelled through a large part of the planet Euphrates, a planet orbiting
+Epsilon Eridani, the Great Machine is powered by massive banks of fusion
+generators (the largest are 5 to 10 miles across).        <BR>
+Highly advanced technology is housed within; including the time distortion
+devices used to "hijack" Babylon 4.                           <p>
+
+The Great Machine is controlled by the Heart - a control room where the
+Custodian is bodily hooked up to the machine. The machine itself chooses 
+who may control it. Once installed, the Great Machine's operations are 
+tied to the life signs of the Custodian. By entering the Machine, the
+Custodian's life is greatly extended, mostly by rejuvenating the physiology
+of the individual. The previous Custodian was the member of an unknown race 
+named Varn who described that by being the Heart you "see all the futures,
+hear all the songs, and touch the edge of the universe with [one's] 
+thoughts."  The Heart allows anyone hooked into the Machine access to an
+"Ethernet."  The Ether Interface allows a being to travel along the paths
+woven between all lifeforms.  Within the Ether, time and space are 
+irrelevant.  Travelling the pathways can bring the traveller to the past,
+present, and future, allowing the Custodian to see into distant worlds and to
+gain greater understanding of the universe. A race of aliens live inside,
+acting as caretakers.                                        <P>
+
+ <dt>Capabilities</dt><ul>
+ <li>Can gather all forms of information from a large area,
+		project a hologramatic image of its operator large
+		distances, and to astronomically distant places by tapping
+		the paths, or energies, that link all life together. 
+ <li>Has
+		many energy based defence systems to prevent unauthorised 
+		craft landing on the planet, and presumably weapons to use
+		against orbital craft. 
+ <li>Heavily armed with missile launchers,
+		planetary-scale slicer beams, electronic debilitator wave 
+		generators. 
+ <li>The Machine has the ability to record 
+		transmissions found on the Etherweb from the past, and 
+		possibly future.  
+ <li>The Custodian can also utilise the
+		Machine's holographic projection system, allowing the
+		receiver real-time interaction with the golden holo-image of
+		the Custodian.  
+ <li>The massive computer banks contain reports
+		regarding the First Ones and their haunts: Tales of encounters 
+		with alien forces beyond description and stories of vast and 
+		nameless forces that prowl the ruins of ancient cities.
+ <li>At a great cost in terms of strain and energy, can create
+		and control a stream of Tachyons, which can control time
+		rifts, and use them as entries to Tachyon Space.
+     </ul><p>
+<a href="#start">Back to top</a><hr>
+
+XV<h3><a name="misc">Misc.</h3> (What will *not* fit anywhere else !)<BR>
+<strong>How does a changeling net work?
+	</strong><br>
+This piece of technology is on the restricted list, so a sample was not
+available for study.  However, similar technologies have used a hologram
+to mask the wearer in a form of high- tech camouflage.  The key question
+is how does the onboard computer know which image to project.  The images
+are usually of the immediate background, or pre-programmed.  But then,
+there must be someone who knows the image....
+		     <P>
+<strong>Metaphysics:</strong><BR>
+The Babylon 5 universe seems to behave according to the Copenhagen
+interpretation of Quantum Physics, with a number of 'ghost' futures
+co-existing until a choice is made which makes one of them 'real'. Messages
+may be passed 'backwards' from these ghost realities, though not forward
+from 'now' to the 'future'.      <BR>
+Time travel is possible in both directions, but at great strain, and cost
+in terms of energy. So far the only thing to do this feat is the Great
+Machine, however it seems likely that the Vorlons, Shadows, Sigma 957 and
+other First Ones have this technology, as do the Minbari to some small
+degree.                              <P>
+
+<STRONG>Data Crystals:</STRONG><br>
+Much as 3.5" inch disks are the common storage media world-wide today, so
+data crystals are the common inter-race storage medium. Shaped like a very
+small (2cm) long transparent crystal they can store large amounts of data.
+As with disks this can be anything from text, to video, to sound, even
+personalities can be encoded.     <br>
+The data is encoded as a pattern of refracting light, and the crystal
+altered to produce this pattern when illuminated.<P>
+
+<strong>Berzerker Probes:</strong><br>
+These low-intelligence probes were sent out by the hundreds by an unknown
+race. They have no crew or weapons.  Their seamless hull suggests they are (at
+least partially) organic ships.  The probes are programmed to seek out
+intelligent life.                     <br>
+Once a suitable subject is found, the probe transmits alphabet and language
+codes (in all possibility not even the tongue of the Berserkers).  If the
+subject figures out the code within a set amount of time, the probe transmits a
+series of over 600 questions relating to physics, quantum mechanics, 
+molecular biology, genetics, and other advanced sciences.  In return for 
+correct answers, the probe promises to give the subject cures for every 
+known disease, improved jump gate data and other advanced technology; if the
+subject fails to answer correctly, the probe will self-destruct with the 
+force of 500 thousand megatons.           <br>
+The subjects have twenty-four hours to respond.  Unknown to the victims, the
+probe will detonate if the correct answers are given, failure to answer will
+prompt the probe to move on to another target. <br>
+In the event that the probe queries beings living on a planet, the blast is
+generally sufficient to wreak havoc with most incoming and outgoing
+communication systems (also further damaging the planet's ecosystem by 
+throwing up a dust curtain) giving the Berserkers enough time to send more 
+probe ships and finish the job.                    <P>
+
+
+
+<a href="#start">Back to top</a><hr>
+
+<h3><a name="etc">Legal, contact etc</h3>
+<center>
+<h4>Maintained by Thomas Chiverton, <a href="mailto:Falken@Bigfoot.com">Falken@Bigfoot.com</a> </h4>
+	</center> 
+<dt>Thanks to:</dt>  
+<li>Odarka Stefanyszyn, Andy Thomas, Gharlane of Eddore, Boris Skrbic,
+Zathras, Voltayre, Julian Graham, Mark Kochte, Bill, David Engkent,
+Robert Kaiser, Andy Dunn, J M S ( how could I forget ! ), Scott 
+Silvey.<br>
+Also to the newsgroups R.A.S.T.B5.M, U.M.S.T.B5 and 
+U.M.S.T.B5.M .<br>
+Special thanks and praise to Mario Di Giacomo, the original technical FAQ 
+author of old, on which this is based.
+					     </ul><p>
+I retain the copyright on all original parts, 3rd party articles are
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+<P>
+
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+<P>
+<strong>Please note:</strong>  Manual will soon aquire more pictures, but 
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+b5_jms_answers.txt         JMS's Answers & Info about Babylon 5       09/25/94
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+This document contains a selection of actual quotes by J.Michael Straczynski,
+creator of Babylon 5, from Usenet, GEnie, and CIS groups.  The latest version
+of this document can be found via anonymous FTP at ftp.hyperion.com.
+
+This document contains:
+  * Extractions from the more-or-less complete GEnie/Usenet/CIS JMS archives.
+  * An organized set of information & answers to questions, paraphrased here.
+  * Fun tidbits of useful and useless information you may have missed.
+  * Answers to questions you might have, so look in the FAQ and in here first!
+  * Original typos and anachronisms.  These are direct quotes, you see!
+  * Some lead-ins from quotes may be confusing based on questions asked.
+  * Minor spoilers (more like tidbits) for present and future episoded.
+  * Keywords to help you find a subject.  Search for an important word
+    (singular, not plural, and lowercase) preceeded by the ~ mark.
+    Examples :   ~delenn   ~g'kar   ~twin-peaks
+  * An index of keywords can be found at the end of the document.
+  * An update -- many additions, some deletions -- of the 5/14/94 version.
+    (most episode-specific stuff is gone; see the guide pages.)
+
+|
+|    Changes: Took out much episode-specific stuff (better off in the guide
+|    pages) and obsolete information, and added new information.  Some general
+|    information on season 2 exists, though season 1 is still the main topic.
+|
+
+This file contains material Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 by J. Michael
+Straczynski.  He has given permission for his words to be redistributed
+online, as long as they are marked as being copyright JMS. This compilation
+is Copyright 1994 by Dan Wood, and may be distributed electronically.
+
+Comments, corrections, and additions are encouraged via e-mail.  This document
+is being maintained by dan wood <danwood@pobox.com>.  Thanks to David "jazz"
+Navas, Elana Beach, Kyle Haight, Michael "Admiral" Zecca, Michele Worley, Lee
+Whiteside, David Strauss, and the Psi Corps.  And so it begins.....
+
+=============== Contents ===============
+
+   I. Story
+  II. Aliens
+         General; Language; Vorlons; Centauri; Minbari; Narn
+ III. Characters
+         Delenn; Franklin; G'Kar; Garibaldi; Hernandez; Ivanova; Kosh;
+         Lennier; Londo; n'grath; Na'Toth; Sakai; Sheridan; Sinclair
+  IV. Technology
+         Station; Ships; Jump Gates; Weapons; Communication; Medicine; Other
+   V. Universe
+         Vision; Earth Alliance; Psi-corps; Powers; Miscellaneous
+  VI. The Pilot
+ VII. The Episodes
+VIII. Books and Comics
+  IX. Show Production
+         Writing; Casting; Music; Visual Effects; Makeup; Sound; Editing;
+         Video; Production; Promos
+   X. Audience
+  XI. Nitpicks
+ XII. Will there be...?
+XIII. Products
+ XIV. JMS Himself
+  XV. Miscellany
+ XVI. INDEX OF KEYWORDS
+
+=============== Story ===============
+
+====    ~date ~episode ~time ~story ~2258 ~year ~month ~day
+
+????    What will the timeline be in the B5 story?
+
+     I'm working it so that real-time comes close to paralleling story-time in
+the series.  The events of the series will pick up approximately six months
+after the events of the pilot.  We'll have crossed into another year, so the
+first "year" in which the series takes place is 2258, year two of the series
+(if we get that far) would be 2259, and so on.
+---
+     No, we generally don't announce the day/month in the episodes, though
+sometimes dates or seasons are referred to tangentially or offhandedly. The
+real significant progression is year to year, which is why each year of the
+show will be marked in the opening narration and parallel real time (season 1:
+2258, season 2: 2259, etc.).
+---
+     There will be some time between episodes in the B5 universe; in some
+cases it's about a week, in some cases much longer, as long as we end up
+covering roughly a year.
+---
+     Approximately nine months have passed since the time of the pilot and the
+birth of the series.
+
+====    ~arc ~story ~five ~miss ~episode ~emerge ~change ~file
+
+????    How is the B5 story going to be told?  If B5 is a five-year arc,
+        will I miss out if I miss some episodes?
+
+     I've constructed the B5 writing scenario more or less as follows:
+
+     1) Each episode will be able to stand alone.  If you come in on season
+two, without having seen anything else, you'll be able to get into it.
+
+     2) Questions asked in the course of an episode or a season will be
+answered in that episode or season.
+
+     3) BUT...if you continue to watch the show, then over time a story writ
+on a much larger scale will begin to emerge.  Consider it like a triptych,
+something out of Hieronymous Bosch...each individual panel is sufficient unto
+itself, but put them all together, and suddenly you see connections and a
+whole picture that wasn't there a moment earlier.
+
+     Relationships will change.  People will live, and die.  Alliances wll
+shift.  And at one point or another, everything you THINK you know about these
+characters will be turned upside down.
+---
+     You have to understand the way this show is going to be structured. There
+aren't going generally going to be a lot of loose threads hanging around.
+Episodes will resolve themselves.  It's just that, from time to time, we'll
+carom off some point that seems tangential, but which will later become
+significant.  You don't have to watch every episode.  Hell, if I do this right
+-- and this is one hell of a hat trick, lemme tell you, when it comes to
+structure -- you can even watch them out of ORDER, within a season, and still
+follow what's going on.  The trick is to make it so that if something slips
+past, the viewer doesn't trip over it.  And when you do an episode that you've
+set up before, that set-up should in some subtle, non-heavy-expository way, be
+re-established for those who might not have seen the episode.
+
+     Telling people "This is a five year arc" in a big way almost as a warning
+is actually more destructive than constructive; it might lead people to think
+that they need to commit five years of their lives to get the whole story, and
+it's hard to get people to commit to even one ten-hour miniseries. You can
+watch any part you want, and get a good, solid, independently enjoyable
+hour-show out of it.  You can come in at any point you want.  The key is that
+the more you watch, the more you will pick up on the nuances and the threads
+we're going to be playing with.  Generally, we're going to keep those threads
+a bit light in the first season, then begin to draw in more of the general
+story arc in the second and subsequent seasons.  Let's use the first year to
+get the audience comfortable with the B5 universe, and with our characters,
+and in a handful of episodes, carefully begin leading everyone where we want
+them to go, so that when we start to accellerate things in year two, those
+who've been with us from the start can get right into it, and those who come
+to the show late can play catch up without any problem.
+---
+     The 5 year arc is worked out in considerable detail; 200 single spaced
+pages in a triple-encrypted file.
+---
+     There is a five-year story arc, yes.  What's planned?  Cool stuff.
+---
+     That said...I think the ending for the B5 storyline is pretty cool.
+
+     That said...I don't think it's really about the ending.  The ending is
+simply where the story finally stops.  Look at the ending of THE LORD OF THE
+RINGS.  Frodo back in the shire (though not entirely the same shire it was
+when he left), glad that it's all over.
+---
+     Will you be satisfied by the ending?  More to the question, are you being
+satisfied by the beginning, and the journey so far?  That's the more telling
+question.  B5 is more about the journey than the destination, though you have
+to craft one hell of a climax and a solid ending nonetheless.
+---
+     I think maybe 45-50% of our subtext and allusions have been noted to
+date, which is *real* good.
+---
+     Actually, one follow-up...one thing we've been very careful about is that
+when something is referenced in episode 9 that took place in episode 3, you
+don't *have* to have seen episode 3 for it to make sense; the information you
+need is collapsed or somehow incorporated into the dialogue in episode 9.
+Meaning that while VCRs and repeated viewings and groups can help to *predict*
+stuff, you don't need to have seen ANY prior episodes of the show to enjoy any
+one episode of the show.
+
+     But the *more* you watch, the more you get out of it.
+
+====    ~arc ~twin-peaks
+
+????    Watching Twin Peaks requires watching every episode, will B5 really
+        be any different?
+
+     The comment re: Twin Peaks is correct; I loved TP dearly, but if you
+missed one episode, you were screwed.  The way the story is constructed, you
+can come in at any point, even miss episodes, and still be able to follow the
+thing.  It's just that the *more* you watch, the more you'll get out of it.
+the more things you'll pick up on.  It's a very difficult task from a writing
+point of view, but worth the effort, I think.
+
+====    ~extend ~beyond ~more ~five ~series ~story ~thread ~franchise
+
+????    Any chance of extending beyond five years?
+
+     What happens at the end of the five year arc?  The "Babylon 5" series
+ends...if I have anything to say about it (and I do).  If something esle
+follows, we'll see what that is, but it won't be the same series, or the same
+title, or really the same characters.
+
+     Barring that very distant possibility, at the end of the five year arc, I
+take a very, very, VERY long nap....
+---
+     Re: the end of the 5th year...I've noted before that there is a thread
+raised during the B5 run that could be extended into its own series.  But it
+wouldn't be B5.  The story of Babylon 5 ends at the end of the fifth year.
+regardless.
+---
+     I'm being very careful not to let B5 turn into a *franchise*.  It's a
+story, created in X-parts, for television.  This thing will turn into an
+industry over my dead body.  The most that the framework will permit is a
+2-hour TV movie that caps year 5.  That's it.
+
+====    ~season ~five ~year ~22
+
+????    Though the story is locked into a five year time frame, is there a
+        chance of more than 22 episodes per season?
+
+     At this point, it's way too early to even *think* about topics like
+expanded seasons.  Obviously, yes, we could easily expand each season's worth
+of episodes from a story point of view.  That ain't no kind of problem.  As
+for the rest...only time will tell.
+
+====    ~philosophy ~holographic ~story ~arc ~episode ~image
+
+     Had an interesting conversation today with one of our crew.  I was
+talking to someone else about the writing philosophy on the show, and how it's
+comparable to a tryptich...you line up the stories and you begin to see a much
+broader story after a while.  A series of interconnected images.
+
+     And this crew person said that I was wrong, that wasn't how the show is
+being done.  Now lemme tell you...we encourage people on every level to speak
+frankly, at any time, to any one, but it takes considerable cojones to say
+something like that to one's exec producer, that he has his own series wrong
+in the description.  "Oh?" says I.
+
+     He explains that what it is, is "holographic storytelling."  I asked him
+what the hell this meant.  He said that the image of pictures side by side.
+linear storytelling, wasn't right.  That after he read two scripts, he went
+back and reread the first one, and now he could see things in it that he
+hadn't seen before.  When he'd read three, again he glanced over the first.
+and new things had come out.
+
+     "What it IS," he said, "is not side-by-side images, but *overlaping*
+images, like old fashioned photographic plates stacked up one on top of the
+other.  Each has a piece of the whole picture.  When you line them all up, one
+behind the other, and look through all of them at once, you realize what the
+picture is.  It's three-dimensional storytelling."
+
+     I had to think about that one a long time, but frankly, he's right, and
+I'm wrong.  That *IS* what we're doing, and I've been describing it
+incorrectly all this time.
+
+     Holographic storytelling...well, live and learn, I say.
+
+====    ~story ~arc ~ditillio ~five ~lunatic
+
+     Just recently, btw, I gave Larry DiTillio a printout with just a little
+of the coming 5 year arc...if he's going to story edit, he needs to know what
+lines not to cross, and I can't ride herd on that all the time.  He took it
+home, read it.  Called me.  Didn't even say hello.   Began the conversation
+with, "You are out of your f'ing mind."  I asked for some small clarification
+of his position.  He indicated that he thought it was absolutely great.
+something that'll really go down in the rolls when the final tally is done.
+"But you GOT to be out of your f'ing mind to try and pull something like this
+off.  It *can* be done...but it takes a lunatic to do it."
+
+     Sounds about right.
+---
+     Kiwi...understand that no changes are just made willy-nilly (to use your
+term).  This is a STORY.  As with any story, any novel, you have your moments
+of surprise, of sudden turns where you kick over all of the tables and watch
+the pieces scatter.  But the writer already knows where the pieces will land.
+It's all according to plan.  Nobody's going to be screwed over.  Anymore than
+when somebody reading, say, a Stephen King book feels screwed over when
+suddenly Salem's Lot, a nice quiet little town, suddenly gets filled with
+undead and characters are suddenly going through some remarkable
+changes...it's all part of the story.
+
+====    ~opening ~narration ~future ~history ~past ~tense
+
+????    How does the narration relate to the telling of the story?
+
+     My sense is that we have Sinclair narrating from some point in the
+future.  The transition of grammar takes place as we push into the station.
+from the outside in.  This was the last of the Babylon stations, and this
+particular segment of it is set in 2258.  (Season two would say, "The year is
+2259."  And so on.)
+
+     Many here will remember a show called "You Are There."  The usual
+narrator would say, paraphrasing here but keeping the grammar, "The year 1776
+was crucial to our nation's history.  The founding fathers were on the brink
+of declaring independence.  It's a moment of great importance.   The year is
+1776...and You Are There."  It's along those lines.  The purpose of the
+narrative changes to transition us into the story.
+---
+     The tense shifts are intentional, and go with the scenes we're seeing.
+They're *supposed* to shift, with the visuals, in order to bring us into the
+present from the future, at which point this story is being introduced.
+
+====    ~narration ~pilot ~opening ~londo ~history ~third ~age
+
+????    Why did Londo do the narration in the pilot?
+
+     Yeah, Londo seems like the *least* likely person to do the opening
+narration for a show like this; you don't even see him for nearly two full
+acts, and it's the kind of thing you'd expect the Commander to do.
+
+     But there are reasons for everything....
+---
+     "Mankind" was being used by Londo specifically in relation to humans, not
+sentient aliens including his own race.  Earthers.  Which was one reason (of
+many) I wanted his character to be the narrator, someone looking in from the
+outside.
+
+     As for the Third Age, it's -- oh, darn, look at the time, have to go....
+
+====    ~narration ~season
+
+????    What about narration for upcoming seasons?
+
+     For the series, my feeling is that the intro should be as short as
+possible, almost more for mood than for information.
+---
+     The rotating narrator thing was something that I mentioned en passant at
+the LosCon screening of "Midnight."  What I noted was that I was considering
+rotating the narrators each season; Londo for the pilot; Sinclair for year
+one; Ivanova for year two; Garibaldi for year three; G'Kar for year four; and
+Delenn for year five.  Haven't decided yet if I'm going to do it or not....
+---
+     Yes, we will definitely be changing the narration each year; the year two
+narration will likely be shorter, with some personal touch (I'm in the process
+of writing it now), and it'll vary in phraseology with each new narrator.
+---
+     Second year narration will be Sheridan.  Third year probably either
+Ivanova or Delenn.  Fourth year G'Kar.  Fifth year...possibly no one.
+---
+     Yes, we'll definitely be redesigning the opening sequence visually as
+well as in the narrative.
+
+====    ~name ~babylon ~why ~myth ~history ~four
+
+????    Why "Babylon 5"?
+
+     Thing is, Babylon has become a myth that can be interpreted and
+re-interpreted a zillion ways, and can't be unmentioned forever because of one
+of those interpretations.  That's why the name has come up more times than I
+want to think about, in song and story.  (Remember the song "Babylon," by, I
+believe, Donovan?)  We did a titles search before we began production, and the
+title Babylon 1 has been used 4 times, Babylon 2 has been used twice, Babylon
+3 appears in a copyrighted song title, and Babylon 4 has also been used
+(though neither copyrighted nor trademarked, so we've taken that step). Which
+also goes to Somtow using a Babylon 5 in his story.  It's a name that merits
+lots of re-interpretations.
+---
+     And here's a little something to consider.  Some have noted the location
+of B5's namesake, it's proximity to the Tigres and Euphrates, that sort of
+thing...speculated on other aspects of the show...but much of what you need to
+know about what will eventually happen in the course of the B5 story arc is
+already available to you.  In any decent desk encyclopedia.
+
+     What, you thought I pulled the name Babylon out of a hat?  Let's just say
+that there are going to be some interesting historical parallels....
+---
+     You have to really dig to get any good material on Babylon; it's not a
+big topic among commercial publishers, you really have to go for the academic
+publishing houses.  (Beware of religious publishing houses in this area; they
+have their own spin on things that tends to infect the text.)
+---
+     Ancient Babylon kind of began with a good idea, to form a central
+location for business, commerce, trading...and gradually went downhill from
+there.  The *idea* was solid, and that was the goal of the Babylon
+project...to form a place, a freeport, of trading, where cultures could come
+together.  And it sounded exotic.  Naturally, no one expects Babylon 5 to go
+the way of the original Babylon....
+
+     After all, we're *so* much smarter now.
+
+====    ~four ~story ~squared ~ditillio ~thornton ~three ~two ~one
+
+????    Will we find out what happened to Babylon four, three, two, one?
+
+     After the meeting, Ron Thornton and I were talking, and he said, "Okay.
+what's the deal on Babylon 4?  I mean, are we ever going to see what happened
+to it, or see it again?"
+
+     I smiled.  "Do you REALLY want to know?"
+
+     He considered it for a moment.  I think he gets nervous when I smile like
+that.  "Okay...sure."
+
+     So I told him.  And his eyes went wide as pancakes.  It was a wonderful.
+Tex Avery effect.  "Get out of here," he said, at first sure I was kidding. I
+explained that I was quite serious.
+
+     Last I saw him, he was wandering off, muttering to himself, but growing
+increasingly enchanted with the idea....
+---
+     The EA has owned all of the Babylons; 1-3 were sabotaged early in
+construction, so it wasn't too much of a loss.  They dumped a BIG budget into
+B4, and when that died, barely passed the budget for #5, skimping all the way.
+cutting it down to bare bones operating expenses.  They will and would never
+approve a #6.
+---
+     B4 never got as far as having a commander attached to it.  The last
+stages of construction on Babylon 4 were supervised by one Major Krantz.
+assigned specifically to that task.  He managed to get the station completed.
+and on-line, and Earthforce was just beginning the process of selecting a
+commanding officer to run the station when, 24 hours after the station became
+operational, it vanished, taking roughly 1,200 of its skeleton crew with it
+(including Major Krantz).
+---
+     B1-B4 were located in roughly the same sector, with B4 using some of the
+materials from 1-3 leftover.  B5 was constructed about 3 hours (traveling time
+in real-space) from the location of B4.
+
+====    ~first ~season ~story ~squared ~who ~what ~why ~answer ~line
+
+????    What will the first season be like? What kinds of things will happen?
+
+     So far, this season you'll learn a lot about all the cultures of our
+ambassadors, especially the Big Four; you'll see the League of Non-Aligned
+Worlds in action; you'll learn a LOT about the Psi Corps, Earth government and
+economics, the inner workings of Babylon 5, the history of the Babylon
+project, Sinclair's background (also a lot about Ivanova's and Garibaldi's
+past)...you'll see a darker side of Londo, a lighter side of G'Kar, a more
+ambiguous side of Delenn, some very weird sides of Kosh...and you'll come away
+with a real sense of B5 as a *place*, a habitat, where things are, what they
+do, how it works.  There will be an awful lot of action, and an even greater
+amount of humor...there are parts of the show that, even having seen them 16
+times, are still fall-down funny.
+
+     Other than that...not much to say.
+---
+     Since Mike mentioned it...yes.  "Babylon Squared" answers the B4
+question...though posing new questions about *why*.  Basically, every question
+we ask going into the first season we will answer, because I don't think it's
+right or fair or smart to keep people hanging around 3 years to get a simple
+answer to a simple question.  Season 1 of B5 is what I generally call the
+"what" season...you find out WHAT the Psi Corps is, WHAT happened at the
+Battle of the Line, WHAT happened to Babylon 4, and so on...whereas Season 2
+is the "why" season...WHY did that happen to Sinclair?  And so on. New
+questions arise, and we proide new answers, generally within the course of the
+following season, but while at all times making sure that each episode stands
+alone, regardless of where and which season you enter the series as a viewer.
+
+     (It's kinda like being one of those guys on the old Ed Sullivan show.
+spinning plates on top of long, thin rods...there's a LOT to keep in motion at
+all times.)
+
+     I'd classify the pilot movie as "who."
+---
+     Season one will generally answer 90% of the questions raised in season
+one; season two will answer the remaining 10%, and answer 90% of the questions
+raised in season two...and so on.  There will not be a sense of unfulfilled
+waiting.
+---
+     You will find out what happened to Sinclair, for starters, during the
+Earth/Minbari war.  In that respect, the pilot movie is like the first chapter
+of a novel.  For nearly 10 years, Sinclair has worked to convince himself that
+nothing happened to him on the Line other than what seems to be the case: that
+he blacked out for 24 hours.  He's just managed to convince himself of this.
+Now, suddenly, someone comes into his life and with seven words -- you'll know
+them when you hear them -- completely unravels the self-deception.  He knows
+then that something DID happen to him, that someone DID mess with his
+mind...and he is going to find out who, and why.
+
+     This he will do.  And the ramifications of that discovery will have a
+major influence on the series, on his relationships, and the future of not
+only his character but many others.
+
+     You will see what a Vorlon is...and what it represents.  And what it may
+have to do with our own saga, and a hidden relationship to some of our other
+characters (watch the reception scene carefully).  We'll discover that there
+are MANY players in this game.
+
+     One thing that separates this show from others is that on other shows.
+very often you do things to them to make for interesting drama...you take them
+prisoner, you make them kids, whatever...in this show, it's what's INSIDE the
+characters that will pose the greatest problems...and the greatest
+possibilities for drama.  Most every major character is either running to, or
+away from something in their hearts, or their pasts, or their careers.
+Garibaldi's past will catch up with him in a very difficult way that will
+affect his role and make him a very different character for as much as a full
+season, and have lasting effects thereafter.  Lyta will take part in a voyage
+of discovery that will very much change her character.
+
+     Some of the established empires will fall.  Some will rise.  Hopes and
+fortunes will be alternately made or destroyed.  At least one major group not
+yet known even to EXIST will make its presence known, but only gradually. Some
+characters will fall from grace.  Others will make bargains whose full price
+they do not understand...but will eventually come to realize, and regret.
+
+     At the end of the first season, one character will undergo a major, MAJOR
+change, which will start the show spinning on a very different axis. The first
+season will have some fairly conventional stories, but others will start the
+show gradually moving toward where I want it to go.   One has to set these
+things up gradually.  Events in the story -- which is very much the story of
+Jeffrey Sinclair -- will speed up in each subsequent season.
+
+     Someone he considers a friend will betray him.  Another will prove to be
+the exact opposite of what Sinclair believes to be true.  Some will live. Some
+will die.  He will be put through a crucible of terrible force, that will
+change him, and alter his destiny, in a profound and terrible way...if he goes
+one way, or the other, will determine not only his own fate, but that of
+millions of others.  He will grow, and become stronger, better, wiser...or be
+destroyed by what fate is bringing his way.  In sum, it is a story of hope
+against terrible adversity and overwhelming odds.
+
+     That, in broad brush strokes, is a *taste* of what I plan to do with the
+series.  I note this here because when the pilot airs, I am going to ask for
+your continued help in supporting the endeavor for the series, and it occurs
+to me that you ought to have at least SOME idea of what you're buying, and
+being asked to support.  One should never be asked to sign a blank check on
+the bank of one's conscience.
+
+====    ~second ~season
+
+????    What kinds of stuff do we get in the second season?
+
+     Overall title for season two: "The Coming of Shadows."
+---
+     Next season's last episode will not be a cliffhanger per se, but will,
+like "Chrysalis," just escalate the hell out of the show.
+---
+     Haven't yet seen or heard what the airdate schedule will be like for next
+year, but like you I hope it'll be with more new episodes straight through.
+and fewer interruptions by reruns.
+---
+     There will be 22 episodes in season two.
+---
+     Yes, in season two, we'll be seeing a lot of the jumpgates from up close,
+and straight through.
+
+====    ~adult ~nudity ~mature
+
+????    Will the show feature mature themes?
+
+     You really have to do whatever's right by the story.  Some adult themes
+have to be handled in an adult fashion.  There are some very adult themes in
+B5.  Some you may like, some you may not.  I don't think we'll be able to go
+in for nudity or the like because I don't think the stations would permit it.
+If they did...I still don't know if I'd use it or not, because it would really
+depend on the story.
+
+====    ~cliffhanger ~finale ~season ~end ~chapter ~change
+
+????    Will seasons be ending in cliffhangers?
+
+     As for "season finale cliffhangers," that depends on how you define that.
+If you mean a cliffhanger that, once resolved at the start of the next season.
+ends up having been more or less meaningless...no, we won't be doing that. But
+the end of each planned season will make a left turn designed to bring the
+show in new directions that will have long-erm (or long-term) effects on all
+of our characters.
+
+     Whether it's a chapter ending in a book, or an act break in a TV series.
+you build to a moment of change and transition, upping the stakes at each
+turn.  That's how our season-enders are constructed.
+---
+     RE: cliffhangers...not between episodes, certainly.  Between seasons.
+it's...hard to explain.  There are, or will be *changes* that happen from one
+season to another (as planned), specific events that take place that should
+bring one up short...but "cliffhanger" in the sense of leaving some guy
+hanging from a string over a lake of fire...no, no plans for such at this
+time.
+
+====    ~lie ~truth ~pilot
+
+     Matt: I like it when people lie in television, and we find out about it
+over time.  The "lost colony" routine was one such.  At one point, Garibaldi
+confronts Londo with this as reason for why he doesn't trust the Centauri.
+Londo shrugs it off as a "clerical error."  There will be a few points in the
+series when we'll get information, and we'll buy into it...and discover after
+a while that that character bald-facedly lied to the other character (and, by
+proxy, to us).  And naturally there will be consequences to this....
+---
+     Actually, at one point or another, just about *everyone* lied in the
+course of the pilot...including Sinclair, who lied to G'Kar, and of course
+Delenn lying to Sinclair in the Garden...and so on.
+
+     Basically, I have this theory that there are five kinds of truth.  (This
+is Joe's Theory of the Five Truths.)  There is the truth you tell to casual
+strangers and acquaintances.  There is the truth you tell to your general
+circle of friends and family members.  There is the truth you tell to only one
+or two people in your entire life.  There is the truth you tell to yourself.
+And finally, there is the truth that you do not admit even to yourself.  And
+it's that fifth truth that provides some of the most interesting drama.....
+
+====    ~laurel ~pilot ~abandon ~story ~inside ~assassin
+
+     This isn't so much a spoiler, since it concerns an abandoned story like
+(or, let me rephrase that...a modified story line).  I mention this here since
+I just mentioned it elsewhere, and might as well do so here.
+
+     Think hard about the pilot for a moment.  Whose job is it in the
+observation dome to monitor incoming ships...but apparently let the spider
+transport slip through unnoticed?  The station's skin should have (and likely
+did) detect something clamping onto it...but apparently someone over-rode that
+for the spider transport.  Someone had to PRE-arrange access via the computer
+for the assassin, since it easily palms its way into Varner's quarters.  (And
+what is the name of the person the access computer recognizes?)  Someone had
+to arrange for the transport tube to be delayed, and then *erase* that
+information from the computer system.  Someone who knew *exactly* when the
+Vorlon ship would be docking.  We see, at various times, the following people
+interacting with the assassin, in different capacities: Garibaldi, Lyta.
+G'Kar, Londo, Dr. Kyle, and of course, much later, Sinclair. Who did we never
+see in direct contact with the assassin?  Who was put in charge of the station
+after Sinclair was removed?
+
+     Do you notice a pattern developing?  Do certain things here point to a
+certain individual...who may, or may not, have been acting on her own
+volition?
+
+     And yes, this is something we planned to explore, though it wasn't on a
+*direct* line to the arc of our story.  It definitely impinged upon it, of
+course.  This has been modified due to the change in the character of the
+Lieutenant Commander, and this now won't go where it was going to go...but we
+still have some very interesting plans for our secondary character, not at all
+along the Takashima lines (which is why this isn't a spoiler), but certainly
+intriguing on their own terms.
+---
+     Now, I didn't say she was a villain.  I said that certain things may or
+may not have been done of her own free will, her own volition.  What this
+means...we'll see.
+---
+     The one thing that I dropped fairly completely due to the delay in
+getting the series going was the Laurel thread, which has now mutated and
+become something even more interesting, actually.  It's something that's
+enabled me to now build in a trap door that you won't see for a long time.
+even though it's sitting there in plain sight.
+
+=============== Aliens ===============
+
+======= General
+
+====    ~variation ~alien ~diversity
+
+????    Will there be diversity among aliens, just as there are among humans?
+
+     Yes, I *strongly* believe that there has to be diversity among our alien
+races...accents, political beliefs, religion, name it.  I think that is VERY
+important.  Yes, from time to time, you want the monolithic, perfectly
+homogeneous aliens, but if so, you want them to stick out a bit in contrast to
+the rest.
+---
+     G'Kar has the dominant accent of his people.
+
+     So does Kosh.
+
+====    ~alien ~humanoid ~n'grath ~grail ~kosh ~oyster ~pak'ma'ra ~cgi ~shadow
+
+????    Will we see really non-humanoid aliens?
+
+     Re: Non-humanoid...bear in mind, you still haven't seen what Kosh is
+inside that suit...others, very non-humanoid, will make their appearances down
+the road...and there's one race that has not yet been heard from, one shadow
+government so secretive its existence is only whispered about, and when *they*
+make their appearance, and you finally see what *they* look like...well, let's
+just say that I've talked at some length with our EFX people, and it'll take
+about 2 years to work out how to do this and make it credible.
+---
+     What you have to understand, though, is that if you're going to have a
+character BE a character, alien or not, you've basically got two choices: put
+a human actor in makeup of some kind or other. or you use puppets or
+animatronics, and in general the technology to realize that still isn't enough
+to make it really lifelike.
+---
+     Okay, but now, the only problem is...let's say we take your advice, and
+build an alien around the design of an oyster.  Now we have Sinclair having a
+converstion with an oyster.  Can you *imagine* the audience reaction?  Some
+things sound nice in theory, but when you build it, and try to play it for
+drama...it ends up very, very badly.
+---
+     On the other hand, the pak'ma'ra, which you'll get a good look at in
+"Legacies," are *quite* different from earth critters.
+---
+     We were going to have a CGI creature in the bar at one point, but vetoed
+it at the last minute.  So it's not there.  However, a CGI
+character/alien/critter does play a substantive on-camera role in one episode
+this season entitled "Grail."
+---
+     We've had other kinds of aliens, including the CGI creature in "Grail,"
+and we're doing more non-humanoid stuff in year two. mixing prosthetics with
+CGI.
+
+====    ~alien ~drazi ~abbai ~fishhead ~pak'ma'ra
+
+????    What are some of the non-aligned aliens?
+
+     Well, let's see...there's the Drazi (slightly purplish heads, the ones
+who beat the crap out of the guy in "War Prayer," and brought in the Drazi
+Sunhawk in "Deathwalker"), the pak'ma'ra (the ones who shuffle through frame
+in greenish robes, with tentacles where their mouths should be...and about
+whom there is something very weird, rather icky, which you'll see in
+"Legacies"), the Abbai, commonly known around the studio as "fishheads"...will
+post a fuller description later.  Those are the ones you see mainly in DW.
+
+====    ~drazi ~violent ~deathwalker ~prayer ~survivors ~sunhawk
+
+     The Drazi are a very violent, ill-tempered species; they were the ones
+who first showed up in "Deathwalker" in a Sunhawk to threaten the station;
+they beat up the guy in "The War Prayer;" they show up here in "Survivors;"
+there's an episode about a form of martial arts among the aliens that has a
+Drazi going at it...if there's a fight around, you can often find a Drazi at
+the center of it or at least nearby.
+
+====    ~second ~season ~alien
+
+????    How about the second season?  Even more aliens?
+
+     At this point, not much in the way of new aliens planned; we'd like to
+get away from the alien-of-the-week story (which though we didn't do it a
+*lot*, we did it enough that I want to edge away from it a bit), and
+concentrate on the aliens we already have.  If you just keep on throwing new
+aliens into the mix, soon it loses all impact.  We decided to try a whole
+bunch of aliens over season one, and pick the ones that worked, which we would
+then work to refine and integrate more fully into the storyline.   Right now.
+I think we've got about 15 races in addition to our primary groups (Narn.
+Minbari, Centauri).  Concomitant with this, we'll be working to make the
+prosthetics far more detailed and better able to be used in a dramatic
+context.
+
+     We scattergunned a lot in season one; now is the time to adjust, refine.
+focus and improve.  We'll still do the occasional new group, I just don't want
+that to begin driving the show.
+
+======= Language
+
+====    ~language ~alien ~translation ~spelling ~english ~ambassador
+
+????    How do languages get handled in B5?
+
+     There are actually several languages heard on B5, though you have to work
+to hear them.  (Those with surround will have an easier time.)  For instance.
+in the customs area, announcements are made first in English, then in
+Interlac.  In the bazaar area, you'll hear chirrups and whistles and clicks
+and a wide range of language-sounds.
+---
+     Re: language...if you're going to America from Russia as an ambassador.
+you're expected to know English fluently.  B5 is funded by (mostly) and
+operated by Earth, and English is more or less the dominant language.  Hence.
+they know it well enough to communicate with us.  (BTW, this is already
+happening here...every airport on the planet, for example, uses english
+consistently in the control tower to planes, and more people outside
+english-speaking countries are educated in english than we are in alternate
+languages.)
+---
+     The language facilities of aliens will vary; probably the most fluent (by
+virtue of necessity) are the ambassadors, whose english is perfect or nearly
+so (cyberlink to the brain dumping the English equivilants of their own
+language and grammar directly into the brain, very expensive and not a little
+painful).  The drawback is that some cultural references or some contextual
+areas may not be as clear as required.  (Londo wondering about ramoras, Delenn
+unsure for a moment about poetry....)
+---
+     We've already instituted the need for translation devices on several
+characters.  There are basically three dominant languages on B5, a kind of
+interstellar esperanto, Centauri, and English, which is the more or less
+official military/diplomatic language.  But not everyone is going to know
+those languages, so you need another way.  We have translation teams
+(referenced though not seen in "Soul Hunter"), and physical translation
+devices for use after we've had sufficient contact with a given group or
+individual to be able to decode two languages into one another.
+
+     (Incidentally, we're going with a slightly different version of English
+for things like airlocks and such, alongside the visual pictograms.  Not
+everyone who can speak english will have an immediate grasp of the intricacies
+of the language, and there have been multi cultural/esperanto like influences
+on English over the next 200 years.  So for things like Universe Today, you
+have standard conventional English, since that's primarily an Earther-oriented
+publication.  But then you have signs that read, for instance SECUR AREA, with
+an accent over the U.  We've taken the liberty of simplifying some aspects of
+english for nonhumans, as well as trying to figure out how the impact of
+multi- culturalism might affect language ovese of 200 years.)
+---
+     Yeah, that's one thing I've kind of slated in as a B story in a given
+episode...an alien comes aboard and they just can't quite manage to
+communicate, it's just too damned foreign in its thinking.  (What I'd love is
+for them to find out at the end that it's some other alien's damned cat or
+something, and they've been spending all this time trying to communicate with
+something that ain't sentient...but with aliens, how can you tell sometimes?)
+---
+     We're trying to work out the languages to some detail, but not as much as
+I'd like, at this point.  It'll probably have to wait until the post-season
+hiatus before I can sit down and really start pulling together a rough
+dictionary of sorts.
+
+====    ~native ~language ~subtitle
+
+????    Will aliens speak in their native languages?
+
+     I don't believe in monolithic aliens who all talk exactly alike, with the
+same accents, any more than I believe in humans who all talk exactly alike.
+Hence, the difference between Vir and Londo.
+
+     When they're together in their quarters, they're talking in Centauri.
+which we hear as English, as in WW II movies, the Germans are obviously
+talking to each other in German, but we hear it in English.  (The only other
+alternative is to subtitle whole lengthy segments of the show, which is both
+unworkable, awkward, and unfair to blind viewers.)
+---
+     No, it won't be rare.  And that's the reason why we're NOT doing
+subtitles.  This is the difference between something sounding neat on paper.
+but not in reality, and especially not on a TV series.
+
+     If you're doing a feature film, and only have one or two shots of aliens
+talking in subtitles, for brief periods, you can do this; also if you're doing
+an SF series in which you're mainly talking to humans, and only rarely among
+your own kind.
+
+     But in B5, a LOT of our time is spent with our various alien characters.
+And sometimes the conversation can get quite detailed, quite complex or
+political.  In one script, for instance, there's a 2 1/2 minute scene with
+G'Kar and Na'Toth, followed by two lengthy scenes with Londo and Vir, and
+Delenn and Vir.  So you're talking about maybe 5  minutes here.  The
+conversation is very detailed, very elaborate.  So are you a) going to put all
+of this complex dialogue on screen, line by line, and b) use subtitles for
+FIVE UNBROKEN MINUTES?
+
+     You'd kill yourself as a series.  No one would stand for it, and they'd
+be right.  Again, not every good idea is a workable or practical idea.
+
+====    ~n'grath ~language ~communicate
+
+????    How does n'grath communicate?
+
+     It speaks in cicada-like chirps and whistles, which are translated by the
+translation device on its chest (the lighted thingie).
+
+====    ~kosh ~language ~communicate
+
+????    How does Kosh communicate?
+
+     Now that we've finished mixing some shows, we've now seen how Kosh
+speaks, followed through to the end.  It's a very unusual system that he's got
+there, and it's *real* creepy to watch/listen to it.  The kind of thing that
+makes your skin crawl after a while.
+
+     I love it.
+---
+     Correct, Christopher Franke designed Kosh's voice.
+
+======= Vorlons
+
+====    ~kosh ~vorlon
+
+????    When will we know about Kosh Naranek, and vorlons in general?
+
+     There's simply nothing that I can say about Kosh just now.
+---
+     We will reveal what Kosh is a LOT sooner than year 5.  Closer to the end
+of year 2.
+---
+     The Vorlons are the great unknown.  They occupy a *huge* sector of space.
+No expedition ever sent to Vorlon space has ever returned, or sent back word.
+No human had ever even *seen* a Vorlon prior to Kosh's arrival on B5.  Their
+technology is vastly superior to just about everyone else's.  To unravel the
+mystery, to maybe get a *piece* of their tech, is more than sufficient
+inducement, I'd think.
+---
+     Kosh doesn't need an assistant.  In fact, no one's *really* quite sure
+what it is Kosh *does* most of the day.
+---
+     Kosh is always and forever *exactly* what he appears to be, no less and
+no more.  At the same time, Kosh is absolutely *nothing* like what he appears
+to be.
+
+     These are not contradictory statements.
+
+     And this is about the straightest answer I've given yet on the subject,
+believe it or not.
+
+======= Centauri
+
+====    ~centauri ~metaphor ~rome
+
+     No, the closest parallel to the Centauri would, I suppose, be ancient
+Rome.  I tend not to go that much to contemporary sources for metaphor, since
+it's too obvious and over-done.  Much of what's in B5 is drawn from much older
+sources.  The only exception, the only means of creating a metaphor for the
+present, is one that will take some time before it's even perceptible, though
+by the end of the season, you'll see what it is pretty clearly.
+
+====    ~centauri ~hair ~jewelry ~ornamentation ~bald
+
+????    How do centauri wear their hair?
+
+     Centauri males wear their hair in this fashion, the length of which is
+determined by the person's status.  Centauri women scorn such symbols of
+status and go bald except for a knot of hair from the back.  (Sort of a
+peacock approach.)
+---
+     Certainly, you could wear your hair longer than your status permits, but
+it's like pretending to a status you don't have, which is viewed as pathetic.
+---
+     Londo's people go for jewelry and ornamentation such as medals and
+sunbursts and the like.
+---
+     It's a standard bed, works fine.  Though we *did* have a thing in mind
+where Londo sits up in bed, having just had wonderful sex, and his hair is now
+hanging limp...but in a sudden burst of sanity we decided against it.
+
+====    ~centauri ~sex
+
+????    How many, um, tentacles do Centauri males have?  What do females have?
+
+     Centauri males have six.
+---
+     The awful thing is that the two women in props -- who were having FAR too
+much fun with this -- kept bringing me the tentacle to verify the shape. size,
+consistency, do we see veins or not....
+---
+     Centauri females, btw, have six narrow...ummm...slots on their backs.
+three on either side of the spine, right around the base of the spine.
+---
+     A sick thing that you should want to know these things; sicker still to
+come UP with these things....
+
+======= Minbari
+
+====    ~minbari ~caste ~military ~religious ~religion ~line
+
+     The religious and military castes have rarely disagreed on anything.
+until the religious caste ordered the surrender at the Battle of the Line.
+Since then, things have not been proceeding as smoothly....
+---
+     The three main components of Minbari society are the religious caste, the
+warrior caste, and the workers...which aren't really a caste per se, which is
+why they're not often included.  It's a very different. less influential part
+of their society.
+---
+     Valen was the one who brought Minbari civilization together. he is their
+Christ-figure.
+---
+     Generally, the religious caste takes precedence over the warrior caste.
+
+====    ~ornamentation ~minbari ~texture
+
+     Minbari don't do a lot of ornamentation, going instead for fabrics.
+textures and colors.
+
+====    ~minbari ~clan ~name ~caste
+
+     For those who might be interested, we've come up with some name for the
+various clans of the Minbari warrior caste.  The primary five are the Star
+Riders (the oldest), the Moon Shields, the Wind Swords, the Night Walkers and
+the Fire Wings.  (The first three refer to the early Minbari version of a
+mounted force, for which you need riders with shields and swords, with #4
+referring to foot soldiers, and the last to those whose clan first used flying
+machines in battle.)
+
+     (Oh, and Star Riders refers to those mounted soldiers who were trained to
+use the stars for navigation.  Behind them came the foot soldiers, who were
+expert at traveling by night.)
+
+====    ~minbari ~head ~bone
+
+     The bone that grows out of the back of Delenn's head is exactly that, not
+a decoration, but an actual part of the physiology.  It will differ with
+various Minbari in size, configuration and texture (another Minbari seen in
+the show has a darker tint to the bone structure, it's cracked and so on). The
+thought is that it grows from the back of the skull structure, and comes
+forward with age.  You can see the "root" of thed -- the -- structure whenever
+Delenn turns around.
+
+====    ~minbari ~grey ~council
+
+     For the most part, lower level types don't know the names of those in the
+Grey Council (speaking of Minbari for a moment).  They are kept fairly
+anonymous to avoid the cult of personality arising.  You'll see the full
+extent to which they preserve their anonymity in some of the upcoming
+episodes, specifically "Sky" and "Babylon Squared."
+---
+     A little aside for you...at one point this season, Delenn goes to the
+Grey Council.  There's a ritual she has to observe when she joins the ranks of
+the Nine.  Part of it is this statement she makes upon entering the circle: "I
+am Grey.  I stand between the candle, and the star.  We are Grey.  We stand
+between the darkness, and the light."
+
+====    ~minbari ~number ~triangle
+
+     Yes, I would think it fair to say that the Minbari have a thing for
+triangles and things that come in threes.
+---
+     Minbari use base 11, not base 10, so twelve would be eleventy-first year,
+and so on.
+---
+     Minbari base eleven includes fingers and head, from which the principle
+of mathematics comes.
+---
+One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven
+
+Eleventy-one, eleventy-two, eleventy-three, eleventy-four, eleventy-five.
+eleventy-six, eleventy-seven, eleventy-eight, eleventy-nine, eleventy-ten.
+twelfy
+
+Twelfty-one, twelfty-two, twelfy-three, twelfty-four, twelfty-five,
+twelfty-six, twelfty-seven, twelfty-eight, twelfty-nine, twelfty-ten.
+
+     And so on.
+
+     Who here still has a problem with this?
+
+======= Narn
+
+====    ~narn
+
+????    Are the narns going to be more than just the "bad guys"?
+
+     As for the Narns...yes, they are portrayed in a favorable light in many
+episodes, from "By Any Means" to "Chrysalis" and "Mind War," to name but a
+few.  Nobody is just one thing on this show.  Not nobody, not nohow.
+
+====    ~narn ~religion ~diversity
+
+     Actually, there are varying religions within the alien species as well;
+G'Kar is a follower of G'Quan, while Na'Toth's father followed G'Lan, and
+Na'Toth herself doesn't really believe in anything (this as noted in "By Any
+Means Necessary").  So that diversity isn't strictly or exclusively human.
+
+=============== Characters ===============
+
+======= Delenn
+
+====    ~delenn ~character ~makeup ~prosthetic ~female ~mask
+
+????    Why did you change Delenn's look after the pilot?
+
+     Once the decision was made to make her definitely female, that led us to
+modify the makeup.  Also, the original make up was done with very little lead
+time, and some things we liked, some things we didn't.   It's now sleeker.
+more attractive, and easier to apply and take off.
+---
+     Since we only really got a good look at one Minbari, it's kind of a moot
+point.  The new lines are generally consistent throughout Minbari.
+---
+     We're also modifying the prosthetics a bit.  Again, because Delenn is
+definitely female, we can use a little less in the way of heavy overlays on
+the head and face to convey ile keeping the desired androgynous look.  This
+lets us get the same basic image, but make a lighter and more easily applied
+mask that will allow Mira greater degrees of comfort and free her up to act
+without being hampered in any way.
+
+====    ~video ~croatia ~furlan
+
+     I can't remember if I mentioned this here or not...but did I note that
+apparently the B5 pilot is the #1 best selling/renting tape these days in
+Croatia?  What this means I have no idea....
+---
+     Mira was in a Croatian choir?!  I didn't know this.  She's never
+mentioned it.  I know that she was an actress there, but this part is news to
+me.  I must ask her about it when she comes in next week.
+
+======= Franklin
+
+====    ~franklin ~biggs
+
+     For the role of Dr. Stephen Franklin we have found an intense and
+powerful african-american actor named Richard Biggs.  He's younger, in his
+mid- to late thirties, dedicated, sharp and...again, the word I keep coming
+back to is *intense*.  Consider a younger Dr. (and I'm going to misspell this)
+Debakke: self-assured, confident almost to a fault.  He comes largely out of
+an experimental background, so his bedside manner isn't all it should be. He's
+often impatient.  His character is the newest addition to the B5 "team" of
+characters, and this will lead to a fair amount of conflict.
+---
+     Just a word or two on Dr. Franklin.  We're not bringing in someone who
+will play the role as a sloppy, floppy puppy with a ball.  Dr. Franklin is
+someone who's a little on the arrogant side, very serious, very dedicated, and
+is frequently in opposition to the military side of B5.    He's a very intense
+character, little in the way of bedside manner, invariably sure that he's
+right.  And sometimes he is going to be very, very wrong...with some difficult
+and painful consequences.
+
+======= G'Kar
+
+====    ~g'kar
+
+     We won't see G'Kar's mate this season.
+---
+     I believe G'Kar is about 50-60 in Earth terms, which is early middle age
+for Narns.
+---
+     I keep constantly fighting the urge to have G'Kar return from a trip to
+the Narn homeworld with a limp, a cane, and a (temporary) eyepatch, muttering.
+"Boy, the Thenta Makur have *no* sense of humor."
+
+     (Now we'll see how many get *that* one.)
+
+====    ~g'kar ~makeup ~prosthetic
+
+     We're also doing some minor modifications to G'Kar's prosthetic, making
+the chin less squared, the mouth a little broader, and the whole thing again
+easier to put on and take off.  It will also look far more realistic; parts of
+it LOOKED like a prosthetic when you got up close.
+
+     It's one thing to throw heavy prosthetics on an actor who's only going to
+wear it for the 4 weeks required for the pilot.  But to wear something day in
+and day out for 22 episodes...you have to think about that.  Our own concern
+was making it look even *better* for both of them, and we've found a way to do
+that.
+
+======= Garibaldi
+
+====    ~garibaldi ~pilot ~alcohol
+
+     Regarding Garibaldi...in the first hour-script that I've turned in, we do
+learn more about his past, and what brought him here.  And yes, there were
+some lives involved, but he was framed.  Doesn't mean he didn't screw up other
+things...and doesn't mean he won't screw up NOW, either.  He's had a problem
+with alcohol, and it may come back.  But there is a strong link to Sinclair
+that prompted him to give Garibaldi what is, essentially, his last chance.
+---
+     Brett: this isn't a case of jack-of-all-trades.  Garibaldi *has* to be a
+qualified fighter pilot as head of security of a *space station* where
+problems can come up in the space surrounding the station.  Also, as mentioned
+here before (I think) and certainly in one of our scripts, during the period
+between Garibaldi's last security job, and now, when eh (he) couldn't get a
+job as security chief, he was a pilot, running transport shuttles on a couple
+of ice mining operations.  (It was not a good period for him.)  Nothing is
+done arbitrarily with these characters.   All three of our main EA characters
+-- Sinclair, Garibaldi and Ivanova -- are qualified fighter and transport
+pilots.
+
+====    ~garibaldi ~shoe
+
+????    Do Garibaldi's shoes have a custom tread?
+
+     Don't know if GAribaldi's shoes have a custom tread or not; it's
+possible.
+
+====    ~garibaldi ~red ~italian
+
+????    Was Garibaldi's name taken from 19th century Italian hero Giuseppe,
+        who once led a group of soldiers called the "red shirts?" Coincidence?
+
+     The rest I can't comment upon, but for sure I took his name from the
+Italian hero you mention.
+
+====    ~garibaldi ~relationship
+
+????    Will Garibaldi get any relationship next year? [season 2]
+
+     Garibaldi will get something going next season....
+
+======= Hernandez
+
+====    ~maya ~hernandez
+
+     She's a medical doctor, running one of the many medlabs on B5.  (Dr.
+Franklin, as chief of staff, runs the primary medlab, supervising other
+doctors on-station.)
+
+======= Ivanova
+
+====    ~ivanova ~russian ~christian
+
+     Quick sketch of Ivanova: Russian, pessimistic, wry, very sharp.  She
+isn't in "Believers" because there was a one-week overlap with a prior
+committment on a film project, which we accommodated. --
+
+     Being of Byelorussian descent, I've always wanted to write for an ethnic
+Russian character.  Not someone with an accent, any more than I have an accent
+even though I have a last name with 10,000 consonants and no vowels. There's a
+wry and formal and stiff-necked and sometimes very passionate streak that runs
+through the Russian spirit, and a certain rough-hewn mysticism, a sense of
+absolute fatality and doom punctuated by moments of great belief in humanity.
+It's a mix of traits you don't much see in American television.
+
+     Which is why the new second in command is Lieutenant Commander Susan
+Ivanova, who will be played by Claudia Christian, a fantastic and very strong
+performer who just knocked us out of the room.  Very much a commanding
+presence, a little quirky when she wants to be, a shade on the pessimistic
+side.
+
+     Having come out of an Eastern European background, I've long lamented the
+stereotyped roles usually written for that kind of character, and look forward
+to drawing upon the real thing for her character.
+---
+     Claudia has settled nicely into the role, with this great edge to her
+performance.  Pessimistic, fatalistic, occasionally sarcastic, but in a funny
+way...that can turn right around and tear your heart out.
+---
+     I like Ivanova as well; she's got a very sly, very *sharp* intelligence
+going there.  She can deadpan you and whap you upside the head with a comment
+delivered almost as an aside, or an afterthought. It's the difference between
+wit and humor.  She doesn't tell jokes, but she's got a great sense of wit.
+---
+     Here's what I find curious (not necessarily in direct response to
+anything you said, but in general on this topic)...is that when Ivanova makes
+her remark to Garibaldi about snapping his hands off at the wrists, many
+people have assumed that she was insulting him, berating him, being bitchy.
+truly disliking and threatening him.
+
+     But the same words, put in the mouth of another male, wouldn't have drawn
+that reaction, and would've been classified under, "kidding around" or affable
+sarcasm.
+
+     Which is exactly what it is in this case.  In this place and this time.
+they're comfortable enough to mess with each other without it being taken
+seriously (among these characters, that is).  There are times they kinda like
+to phuque with each other a bit, just for the hell of it, as comrades will
+sometimes do.  ("Babylon Squared" has a great example of Sinclair and
+Garibaldi messing with Ivanova.)
+---
+     There's a Billy Joel song, where one particular lyric (and I'm quoting
+from memory) says, "You still have a pain inside you / That you carry with a
+certain pride / It's the only part / Of a broken heart / You could ever save."
+That's Ivanova.
+
+     She's had her heart stomped on a lot.  And she's been holding it in. Even
+with her father's death, she sucked in the pain, fought back the tears. There
+is one episode, which will be right at the end of the year, where she finds
+she can't run from her pain anymore...can't run from the tears...and deals
+with them in a scene that's very moving and absolutely brings tears to the
+eyes.
+---
+     Kwicker, Ivanova has *not* said stuff about being Russian "every other
+episode."  I made the error of having her say it twice in the two-parter, now
+everybody's seeing it as a big thing.  It was mentined in Soul Hunter.
+Survivors, and Voice, and insofar as I know, that's it.  (I'll allow for the
+possibility of one more, even though I don't recall any others.)  I don't
+think that 3-4 episodes in a 22 episode season quite qualifies as "every other
+episode."
+---
+     The main reason for the Lt. Cmdr. distinction in most circumstances is
+because otherwise you've got two Commanders on deck, and it helps to keep
+distinct which you're addressing. But we have some different ideas in mind for
+year two.
+---
+     And yes, Ivanova was born on Earth, in the Russian Consortium, though she
+was educated in large measure overseas.
+
+======= Kosh
+
+====    ~kosh ~word
+
+     As reward for the humor, here's what Kosh will *really* say, when he
+utters the first words we hear.  He's on the Observation Dome, looking out
+through the window as a ship passes overhead, the lights shining down at him
+through a window.
+
+     "Ahhh....beautiful."   Long beat as he looks around the place.  Then: "I
+will miss this...when it is gone."
+
+     And then he exits, as Garibaldi mutters to Ivanova, "I *really* hate it
+when he does that."
+---
+     The scene was trimmed for time.  It may show up again later.
+
+====    ~kosh ~writing
+
+     The hardest part is always writing Kosh, because you have to be very
+careful how much you use him, and what he says.  Too much and he loses his
+sense of mystery, and you don't want him spouting fortune-cookie type
+aphorisms.  He has a very deliberate way of speaking in which everything.
+every smallest nuance and inflection means something, but sometimes not what
+it appears to mean, or comes at it from a very different angle than normal
+conversation.  So I go as minimalist as possible, to get the meaning down to
+the smallest number of words possible.  And in one scene, one of only two he
+appears in, I got him down to *one word*, and that one word -- and it's a
+totally inoffensive, neutral word on its own terms -- should scare the hell
+out of *everybody*.
+
+====    ~kosh ~reception ~vorlon
+
+     Here's one little extra for you: only one person aboard Babylon 5 has any
+idea of what a Vorlon is, inside that suit, and only one race has had dealings
+with the Vorlons before.  Watch the reception at the end, and see if you
+notice anything unusual in the way the various people respond to Kosh.
+---
+     And who else isn't at the reception?
+
+======= Lennier
+
+====    ~lennier ~mumy ~minbari ~makeup
+
+     Well, we finished casting for the role of Lennier, who is Delenn's
+aide/attache.  We were looking for someone who could give us the most as a
+quiet, restrained, almost monk-like character, fairly innocent in his way.
+
+     And in a very nice bit of synchronicity, the person who came in and
+knocked us out with his audition was Bill Mumy, who has now been cast in the
+role.  Aside from his work in Lost in Space, Bill is a terrific actor whose
+role, I think, may sometimes have become a stumbling block from time to time.
+as did the roles of Shatner, Nimoy and others from Trek.   Here he will be a
+very different kind of character, barely recognizeable beneath the Minbari
+makeup, and can show a very different sort of approach to his work.  We're
+very excited to have him on the team.  (I think it will also be good to have
+someone around from a prior successful SF TV series who can help our cast
+prepare for the reception this show is likely to receive...and I suspect that
+very few if any of them really understand yet what that will mean.)
+---
+     Mumy's role, to answer that question, is a recurring role; I think he'll
+be in about half a dozen episodes or so for us.  To the best of my knowledge.
+this won't interfere with any other obligations Mumy has.
+---
+     BTW, this week will Bill Mumy's first week on B5, and he's done a very
+nifty job as Lennier.  He brings a wonderful sense of absolute innocence...the
+proverbial innocent abroad...to Lennier's character.  The Minbari prosthetics
+look great on him, enhancing the sense he brings to the character.  He's also
+great with the cast, and keeping things up during shooting.  At one point, as
+they're leaving camera, Delenn says to Lennier, who has just arrived at the
+station, "Now tell me of home; I have been away far too long."  His ad-libbed
+off-camera response: "Beatlemania is back." (Another ad-lib for another shot:
+"Minimalls...they're everywhere," and "Well, we just got Pizza Hut and
+cable.")
+
+======= Londo
+
+====    ~londo
+
+     Yeah, the more I delve into Londo's character, the more I find him
+intriguing.  He mourns for the loss of his beloved Empire, and this makes him
+vulnerable to some dangerous temptations.  There are a number of dark corners
+in his personality...but at the same time, a vulnerability, a sadness.
+
+     In the B5 story arc, Londo goes through some *major* changes, some good.
+some tragic, some frightening.  He becomes a major player, but not in the way
+he would ever have anticipated.
+
+     (Hold back, Joe, you've got a long stretch ahead of you here....)
+---
+     Re: Londo as a romantic character...bless your heart.  You are the first
+to have nailed it absolutely on the head.  If I had to write a description of
+the character, I doubt I could have done any better than what you just wrote.
+There are a *lot* of episodes that bring this out in him, including the next
+one up, "Born to the Purple," which I suspect will end virtually all of the
+hair jokes once and for all.
+---
+     Actually, no, Londo was not based on Brother Theodore, who I only
+discovered some time later on Letterman.  But Harlan and Peter David mentioned
+at the panel that Brother Theodore could make a swell brother for Londo in
+some episode, so this is something I may consider....
+
+====    ~cast ~jurasik ~garibaldi
+
+     Behind-the-scenes humor: because it had been so long since the pilot, it
+took a few of our actors a bit of time to get back into their characters, to
+find the characters' "fingerprints" for lack of a better term.  This is quite
+understandable given the long waiting period.  When he needed to find his
+character for a scene, Peter Jurasik mentioned that he would just stand up
+straight and yell, "MISter GariBALdi!" and he'd be right back in character.
+Sort of the B5 version of "Shazam!"
+
+     Minus the lightning bolt, of course.
+
+====    ~londo ~hair
+
+     We're going to re-create an entire new hairpiece that will lay flatter
+and look better from the back, which I felt was one of its drawbacks.  Also.
+we don't want to have Peter shave his head for the whole series, as he did for
+the pilot, so we're coming up with a longer prosthetic that'll come all the
+way over the top of the head to the eyebrows, where we'll blend it in
+unnoticeably.  This will make Peter's life just that much easier.
+---
+     We're not changing Londo's hair to make it anything less than what it is.
+It'll still be as outrageous as it was in the pilot.  What I was referring to
+specifically was the way it bunched up at the back of the head, just above the
+nape of the neck.  What they had done was take a conventional wig and shove
+the hair up and lock it into place; in this case, we're stringing a new.
+custom wig that will gently come up in the back, as if growing naturally in
+that direction.  The top part will be the same, it's only a matter of cleaning
+up the back, which simply didn't work aesthetically.
+---
+     I find it interesting that people can accept spots, scales, fur.
+foreheads, reptiles and parasites...but not a different style of hair, used to
+denote one's rank or position (as is done in some primitive societies right
+here).  Look at the history of hair just around us in the last hundred or so
+years...long hair, powdered wigs, crew-cuts, braids, dreadlocks, spikes.
+mohawks....
+
+     Among those I've talked to, it seems that folks from other places --
+England, Europe, some from Japan -- have *zero* problem with the hair.  It
+seems genuinely an American reaction.  I was talking to someone about this
+earlier this evening, and the comment came back that Americans in particular
+are absolutely *obsessed* with not being embarrassed, or being made fools of.
+When they (we) see someone who doesn't match our view of what's the norm, we
+imagine how we would feel in that position.  And to make ourselves more
+secure, as in high school, we make fun of what would personally embarrass us.
+When the underground/subculture of the 60s got ANY chance to express its
+views, what did people focus on?  Their hair.   Sometimes other personal
+traits, but usually the hair.  "Damn longhaired freaks."
+
+     To see *hair*, of all things, being somehow less acceptable than funny
+foreheads, scales, or other aspects of alien-ness flatly astonishes me.  (It
+was also pointed out to me that in the first season of the original Trek.
+there was a *lot* of mail to Paramount about losing the pointy ears on Spock.
+that they just looked stupid.)
+
+     It just seems sad to me, and somehow informative, that people are unable
+to see past the hair to the person.  Are we really that conservative and
+ethnocentric?  I particularly feel strongly about this for Peter, who is
+absolutely *out there*, taking a great risk with this character, who is doing
+an amazing performance...and all people can talk about is the hair, as though
+that somehow diminishes the performance.
+
+     Amazing, really....
+
+====    ~londo ~wife
+
+????    What's up with Londo and his wives?
+
+...moment in a script where Londo is talking about homeworld, where marriages
+are still arranged, to someone who doesn't want any part of that life. "Here,"
+he says, pointing to three photos, "these are my three wives: Pestilence.
+Famine and Death.  You think I married them for their personalities?  Their
+personalities could shatter entire *planets*.  Arranged marriages, every one.
+But it worked out.  They inspire me. Knowing they're at home, waiting for me.
+is what keeps me here, 75 light years away...."
+---
+     We'll see Londo's -- spouse/spouses, I'm avoiding saying which -- in
+time.
+
+????    Was Londo's "It can't be that bad" wife one of the three?
+
+     Actually, sadly, that was Londo's first wife, who he was forced to
+divorce later.  Eventually I'll get into this.
+
+======= n'grath
+
+====    ~n'grath
+
+     I would not describe n'grath as a "Mafia boss," since that's a very
+specific term.  Nor is it really any kind of organization.  He's a fixer.
+somebody you go to when you need something...a bodyguard, forged identicards.
+what-have-you.
+---
+     Garibaldi is quite aware of n'grath...and knowing that if he just
+vanished, somebody'd take his place in five minutes, prefers the trouble he
+knows to the trouble he'd have to track down.
+
+======= Na'Toth
+
+====    ~na'toth
+
+     Replacing the character of Na'Toth could be done, but at this point she
+knows stuff that is important for us to have access to in year two.   (Stuff
+mainly happening in "Chrysalis.")
+
+======= Sakai
+
+====    ~sakai ~caroline ~julia ~nickson ~sinclair
+
+     Finally, having gone his separate ways with Caroline -- she wanted him to
+leave his job, he wouldn't -- Sinclair renews a longstanding relationship with
+Catherine Sakai, a role we are going to cast sometime fairly soon.
+
+     Catherine works for an Earth Corp surveying asteroids and planets for
+minerological exploitation, making sure they're uninhabited, and finding items
+that might present the greatest possibility for profit.
+---
+     We've shot our first scenes between Sinclair and his new love interest.
+Catherine Sakai (as played by Julia Nickson).  This is a very, very strong
+character, and she brings a wonderful vibrancy to Sakai.   They have a unique
+relationship that looks and sounds like a real relationship, with all its ups
+and downs and dumb moments.  One way that I've reinforced this is that...well.
+in the first episode in which they meet again (they were involved before).
+just about every scene between them is lifted almost directly from personal
+experience.
+
+     And given some of the awkward, even painful conversations that take
+place, it was very, *very* hard to watch this being rehearsed.  (Michael and
+Julia worked over a weekend with the director to get the nuances just right.)
+When it came time to shoot the scenes, much as I wanted to be on-set, I just
+couldn't do it.  My heart just kept falling right down to my shoes.  I can't
+wait for the first person to say "I don't buy this as a real relationship"
+just so's I can whap him upside the head.  But I have a hunch that won't
+happen.  It comes across as very real, and as a very vulnerable moment for
+both characters.
+
+     "Write what you know," they said.  Right.  How about I just take a power
+drill and stick it in my ear...it'd be faster, less painful, and after a while
+I might even come to like it....
+---
+     Catherine Sakai is a surveyer.  She has her own business.  She has her
+own ship.  In some episode, she has nothing whatsoever to do with the
+commander, she's off doing her own business.  In "Mind War," as one example.
+we see her for 30 seconds with the commander in the morning, with both going
+off to their respective jobs, and that's it...the rest of the story she's in
+is exclusively hers, concerning something she runs into while on a survey run.
+---
+     Regarding Catherine Sakai...believe me, this ain't a consort kind of
+relationship.  It will be monogamous, but difficult in many ways.  This has
+been an on-again/off-again relationship between them for years, made up of
+three parts passion and two parts teeth.  It will be a very fiery
+relationship.  And this is a woman with her own business, her own ship, who
+comes and goes as she wishes.  You have to understand that I love writing
+strong female characters, and Catherine will be probably one of the strongest.
+
+====    ~catherine ~spousal ~overunit
+
+????    Is Catherine based on your Spousal Overunit?
+
+     Actually, no...Catherine Sakai is based more closely on another woman of
+my acquaintance, with whom I was involved for quite some time. And that's all
+you'll get out of me on the subject.
+
+======= Sheridan
+
+====    ~sheridan
+
+     I have, btw, now seen the finished (minus music and some minimal EFX)
+first episode of B5 with Bruce.  We did the producer's cut yesterday, and I
+have to say that I think it's very nice.
+---
+     And Bruce does a wonderful job in the role.  He's brought a lot to the
+table, and I think people are going to be very pleased.
+---
+     Yes, Sheridan is descended from Gen. Philip John Sheridan of the Union
+Army.
+---
+     Sheridan, the universe willing, will be there throughout the rest of the
+B5 story.
+---
+     Only Ivanova has served with him before; Garibaldi doesn't know him from
+Adam, and this will lead to some awkwardness and questions of trust down the
+road.
+---
+     Sheridan is a soldier.  A soldier is told, in wartime, THIS is your
+enemy.  You kill the enemy or your enemy kills you.  Afterward, you're in the
+same position American soldiers were in after the end of WW II when it came
+time to reconcile with the Germans and the Japanese.  It can sometimes be very
+awkward...and sometimes reconciliation takes a while.
+---
+     Captain John Sheridan is a war hero, of sorts; he squeaked out the only
+real victory of the Earth/Minbari War.  (Which means the Minbari don't
+generally like him a lot.)  He did what he did because that's his job.  He's a
+professional soldier.  For the last two years, he's been commanding the
+Agamemmnon, a high-visibility Earthforce starship on deep patrol.  As such, he
+has had to learn to work with a number of different races and species.
+---
+     "Sounds like a forumla to really PO the Minbari."
+
+     Yup.
+---
+     In some ways, his character is somewhat more well-rounded than was the
+case with Sinclair, over whom a general sense of doom often seemed to hang.
+Sheridan is often very thoughtful and introspective; at other times, he can be
+just a bit eccentric; he leads by respecting those who work under him, and
+giving them room to grow; like any career officer, he HATES the bureaucracy
+with a passion, and this is the one thing that can drive him nuts; he knows
+that commanding B5 is a great opportunity, but he also knows that his presence
+brings certain complications with it, and he's very ambivilant about that
+aspect; he's the son of a diplomatic envoy who disappeared on his 21st
+birthday, running off to see (of all things) the new Dali Lama being
+installed; he has a very easygoing manner, and a great sense of humor.  He
+quickly re-forms a friendship with Ivanova, for whom he has great respect and
+professional admiration.  (For a time she served under him at Io.)
+
+????    How critical to the B5 arc is Sheridan?
+
+     How critical was Aragorn to the storyline of Lord of the Rings?
+
+======= Sinclair
+
+====    ~sinclair
+
+     As I recall, the photo and article is about Sinclair's ancestor, who
+fought in the Battle of Britain.  And the framed piece is indeed a Sinclair
+Aircraft logo.
+---
+     There is some history there with Sinclair's father, but I'm not getting
+into it this season because there are some other family issues involving our
+characters that I want to delve into initially, and I don't want to step in
+the same stream too many times, as it were.
+---
+     You won't see Sinclair's brother this season...and that's all I can say
+for now.
+
+=============== Technology ===============
+
+======= Station
+
+====    ~station ~technology ~size ~capacity ~layout ~sets
+
+????    How big is the station?  What parts are there?
+
+     The station is a touch over 5 miles long.  It can hold roughly 250,000
+humans and aliens (many of whom are in transit at any point).
+---
+     250,000 is the *maximum* number of beings who can be there at one time;
+that's not necessarily the maximum number of living quarters.  In some ways.
+B5 is like an airport; you come in, linger, then move on to your eventual
+destiny (catching a few winks in the customs area waiting for the right ship
+to come in or go out).
+---
+     The blue fins at the back of B5 are, as I recall, for the purpose of
+radiating internal heat out of and from B5.
+---
+     The Starfuries are launched from the rotating part of the station.
+They're launched from the cobra bays, which are the cobra shaped projections
+alongside the round front of the station, and attached to it.
+---
+     Many aliens (all who require alternate atmosphere) live in the alien
+sector.  Those who can breathe oxygen can live in other areas, but tend to
+congregate with other non-humans in the oxygen sections of the alien sector.
+The ambassadors have their own environment supported quarters in the Green
+Sector, which is the high-security area for diplomats.
+---
+     The interior of the station does have some farm-land, orchards, an
+open-air hedge maze, and other green areas.  We'll be seeing them in varying
+degrees of detail throughout the series.  No specs are yet publicly available.
+---
+     Located above the station proper is the long zero-g cargo loading area.
+You'll see, in later episodes, ships pulling up in front of the area and
+offloading cargo.  That is accessible from many parts of the station.
+---
+     The zero-g cargo section extends from the front of B5 well into the
+middle of the station, *inclusive* of red sector, which is below it.
+---
+     The 2.5 million tons of spinning *metal* refers only to that part. the
+metal casing.  It doesn't include the furniture, the structures. the Garden,
+the 250,000 humans and aliens...so the total mass of the thing is MUCH greater
+than the 2.5 megatons.  Also, the body was shoved out of the area around the
+cargo bay, non-rotating, which would also cut down on the momentum (as opposed
+to shoving out out of the rotating part, where it would speed away at 1g).
+---
+     On the one hand...we have more interior sets than any other series that I
+know of; 18 standing sets and 42 swing sets.  And we're building a number of
+other sets for next year, including an Officer's Club.  In addition to C&C,
+we've seen various holding cells, numerous quarters, a conference room,
+Sinclair's briefing room, the Council Chambers, the business room, two
+separate restaurants, the Zocalo, the Dark Star Club, the Casino, the Happy
+Daze Bar, Doug's Dugout Sports Bar, the Ombuds Courtroom, various DownBelow
+sectors...we've shown a *lot*.
+---
+     Medlab is the smaller facility exclusively for Dr. Franklin, as Chief of
+Staff.  There are larger medical facilities, more like proper hospitals,
+elsewhere on the station.
+---
+     The CO's office next season will have a view of the Garden area, as will
+some other rooms.
+
+====    ~own ~earth
+
+????    Who owns the station?
+
+     The station is owned by the Earth Alliance, and if you're going to be
+staying there, you pay a fee.  Station employees are charged a fee against
+their salaries...which some of them aren't happy about.
+
+====    ~move ~position
+
+????    Will B5 ever be moving from its present position?
+
+     Re: B5 and movement...no, it ain't going anywhere.  Nor will it.
+
+====    ~rotate
+
+     The station was designed to rotate mainly because it's scientifically
+accurate.  Afterward, we realized that, as you suggest, it *does* give the
+station a very dynamic look.  Which only proves the point that if you take the
+time to actually do things correctly, to answer the next question, it works
+FOR you, not against you.
+
+====    ~defense ~grid ~weapon
+
+     The defense system for B5 consists of a system of moderate level
+defensive grids, hull-mounted weaponry (which is generally concealed behind
+large plates, which would be blown off with explosive bolts to reveal the
+weapons beneath), and a small number of individual fighter craft stored in a
+docking bay at the rear of the station.
+---
+     As for defense,  you'll see a full demonstration of this in the first
+season; for now, let's just say that that smooth looking exterior is laced
+with sections that can open and reveal all kinds of interesting things.
+Imagine a five mile long Swiss Army knife....
+
+====    ~computer ~voice
+
+     The computer system is quite good, based on a crystalline technology
+that's a mesh between alien and human-developed stuff.
+---
+     The computer voice belongs to Haley, our script supervisor.
+
+====    ~inside ~gravity ~garden ~illuminated
+
+     Yes, there are definitely different levels in each section of B5.
+
+     And yes again, down the road there will be both small flyers and
+individuals with air-packs in the zero-G section at the center of the Garden.
+Ron's worked out how to do it.
+
+     How's it illuminated?  Quite nicely, actually....
+
+======= Ships
+
+====    ~ship ~fighter ~starfury ~atmosphere ~wing ~fly
+
+     The fighters are the SA-23E Mitchell-Hyundyne Starfuries, and B5 has four
+fighter wings, each with approximately 12 fighters.
+---
+     The starfuries are *only* non-atmosphere craft, and they can't hold more
+than one person.  The other specs are over at Ron's, and I'll try to remember
+to snag them at some point.
+---
+     The fighters are built on a cross-wing structure (four wings), but very
+different from either X-wing or tie fighters.  The four wings have fore, aft.
+top, bottom and side thrusters, so that they can move in any direction...they
+can fly left to right, turn backwards, and continue to fly left to right.
+flying backwards, and thus fire right to left. They're perfectly designed for
+zero-g environments.
+---
+     There are a number of influences that go into the markings on the
+Starfuries.  (And not all 'furies are so marked; only those that are generally
+used by only one pilot, to whom the ship is assigned.)  We took in general the
+WW II model, where pilots used to decorate their craft with nose art to
+personalize it.  So some of it is of that flavor, while others echo more
+ancient heraldry.  (Ivanova's 'fury has an old Russian two-headed eagle in
+stylized form.)  Yes, again, an attempt to connect past, present and future.
+---
+     Your message is correct; there are various "weights" of Starfuries, some
+much more massive and impressive.  The ones on B5 are light, fast, not overly
+complicated, and quick-strike machines.  Another kind, which you'll see in the
+two-parter, has cockpits fore *and* aft, a two-person ship with much heavier
+shielding and armaments; the "Black Omega" version is made for top speed as an
+interceptor with advanced stealth components.
+---
+     Black Omega Starfuries are *hideously* expensive, rather like Stealth
+Bombers.  They have to be carefully maintained, and their existence isn't
+generally trumpeted.  (Like the Aurora, for instance.) They're not mainly a
+defensive system, but rather an infiltration unit used on black
+projects/covert missions.  They're not really meant for an operation like B5.
+---
+     Definitely; there are additional fighters berthed inside Earthforce One,
+with a minimum four outside on constant patrol.  In addition, it's got some
+pretty hefty defensive weaponry on board, though they're worked into the
+design so that they don't appear too obvious (bad for PR).
+
+====    ~starfury ~launch ~bay ~pressurized ~dock ~grail ~fighter
+
+????    How do starfuries launch?
+
+     The bay is pressurized, with drop doors beneath each fighter.  A ramp
+extends to the fighters individually, bringing on pilots.  The bays are
+depressurized as the pilots (in flight suits) prepare.  Then the drop doors
+open, the fighters pivot to nose-down position, and launch.
+---
+     The fighters are in regular configuration when the pilot boards.   Then
+the drop doors open, the ship tilts down on a massive pair of arms, and then
+they're released, the centrifugal force of the station sending them out the
+drop doors.
+---
+     The starfury fighter is launched by a drop straight out, nose pointed
+"downward," toward space.  Upon release, it flies pretty much straight out.
+still containing some of the momentum from the rotation, so it would appear to
+be going straight away from the station because its position in relation to
+the station, like a geosynchronous satellite, is still more or less correct.
+Shortly after getting out of the bay, the fighters fire up their engines.
+which lets them take any angle or direction they choose.  So they can very
+quickly head away on any trajectory.
+---
+     There is nothing wrong with the launch sequence.  It causes them to move
+directly away from the station, on a slight spiral, facing out to the stars
+from the pilot's POV.  Whether or not it looks funky has little to do with
+whether or not this is the most efficient means of doing this.  I think it's
+kind of funky that the space shuttle flies upside down while in orbit, its
+cargo bay facing down toward Earth, but that's the way it's done, and there
+are good reasons for it.  We sat down for a very long time with a bunch of
+designers and techies who know physics and know math and know flight dynamics.
+we ran computer models, and the physics are right.
+
+====    ~ship ~dock ~bay
+
+????    How do ships dock?
+
+     As you'll see in the series, we've worked out the docking bay stuff very
+clevely.  A ship enters dead center.  It is then taken and lowered into one of
+a number of different bays deeper within the station (by deeper I mean lower.
+more toward the hull).  That's how we can have a series of different docking
+bays in the first place.
+
+     There's a nifty CGI shot we'll be using at some point in the series where
+you can see the entirety of the docking bay, with the various ships arrayed
+inside.  Then there are the more secure bays areas, with restricted access, as
+when Kosh arrived.
+
+====    ~starfury ~dock ~bay ~enter
+
+????    How do starfuries dock?
+
+     The fighters enter via the main docking bay, where they are shunted back
+into the Starfury launch bays.  (BTW, for those who've asked, and let it never
+be said that we're unresponsive...we asked Ron to develop a CGI sequence that
+shows how ships get from the interior of the main docking bay down to the
+customs and loading bays.  I've seen it, and it looks pretty spiffy.  Look for
+it in "Grail."
+
+====    ~ship ~variety ~color ~witch ~starfury ~drazi ~sunhawk
+
+????    Will there be a variety of spaceships?
+
+     Yeah, we do a LOT of ships this season.  I have gifs of them all, and
+some of them are mind-bogglingly nifty.  What I like about Ron's work is that
+many of the space shots are works of art you could practically frame.  And
+he's done one very important thing: he's brought COLOR into space, in a big
+way.  Ships are personalized, painted, textured and made into things you enjoy
+looking at.  The Starfury nicknamed the Sea Witch is a great example of
+this...as well as a bunch of others.
+
+     Not all Starfuries are the same, btw...you'll be seeing a different
+category of them in "Mind War," and they're gorgeous.  Also very scary.   Not
+as scary, but more nifty, are the ones in "Survivors" and "Chrysalis."
+
+     Ah LOVES spaceships....
+---
+     There are other kinds of fighters; it's a question of what's intended for
+use where.  The Raider ships, and the Narn heavy fighters, are both
+atmospheric and non-atmospheric ships.  Some fighters, such as B5's
+Starfuries, the Drazi Sunhawk, the Ipsha Battleglobe and others (you'll see
+the latter two in "Deathwalker") are configured only for non-atmosphere
+activities, and have different configurations.
+---
+     On the ships...when Ron was pulling together the ships for that episode.
+we talked about it on the phone for a while, and I have to take the rap for
+the saucers...which I still think are cool.  I said, in essence, why the hell
+not?  Ron thought it was a great idea, and went and made it real.  I think if
+we ever see this kind of ship again, it'll need some more work, a little more
+weight and substance, some more detail, but they're okay.
+
+====    ~civilian ~earth ~ship
+
+????    Will there be starships from earth? civilian spacecraft?
+
+     Re: starships from Earth...yes, you'll be seeing a wide range of ships.
+from smaller transports and trading vessels to big mothers.  It is something
+of an empire, and the ships come in as many varied forms as we have cars and
+trucks and semis and tanks and on and on....
+---
+     Civilian spacecraft are fairly common; they're expensive, to be sure, and
+if you're just going from point a to point b, it makes more sense just to book
+passage on something, but many folks now make their living in space, so
+transport is required.
+---
+     BTW, have named an Earth Alliance Cruiser Hyperion, in notation of the
+library....
+---
+     The Hyperion is not typical; it's one of the ships that survived the War.
+Not many did.  There are niftier, newer ships built in the last eleven years
+that you'll be seeing eventually.
+
+====    ~ship ~cost ~economy
+
+     Owning your own space ship isn't cheap, but it also isn't as expensive as
+it might be.  The investment is about the same as starting up your own
+business.  There's not a lot of civilian "touring cars," for lack of a better
+term; better to use the liners and shuttles.  But for businesses, surveyers.
+explorers, traders and the like...yeah, they're within one's grasp.  And these
+sorts of ships are pretty much all run by computer.  No crew required.  Just
+go from place to place.  If it's a scientific survey ship, then you'll have
+some more.
+
+====    ~vorlon ~ship
+
+     And there *is* a utilitarian reason behind its design.  In addition, we
+want to show something VERY alien in design and construction...and frankly.
+there's NO reason a ship that isn't ever going to enter atmosphere needs to
+look aerodynamic.  In time, you'd move toward things that are visually or
+aesthetically interesting.  In this culture (Vorlon), art and science are
+closely allied, so this extension into the look of their ships is quite
+natural.  Concepts about what ships are have become very rigid and inflexible
+thanks to the preponderance of SF-TV shows. We want to loosen that up.  And
+that look DOES, as stated, have a practical aspect about it as well, which
+will be seen down the road.
+
+====    ~raider ~ship
+
+????    How about the raider ships?  Why so vulnerable?
+
+     RE: the Raider ships...they turned by a less effective system of
+thrusters put in here and there, not nearly as powerful as the systems used by
+the Starfuries.  The reason -- verifiable by the shape of the Raider ships --
+is that Raider ships are handicapped by the fact that they're made to function
+both in space *and* within an atmosphere (hence the aerodynamic wing shapes).
+which gives it something of a problem when dealing with the Starfuries, which
+are made ONLY for fighting in space, and are most ideally suited to it.  The
+Raider ships make compromises for greater utility, which is generally okay
+unless they run into superior forces of ships designed for spaceborne combat.
+
+======= Jump Gates
+
+====    ~jump-gate ~hyperspace
+
+     "What is the principle behind the jump gate?"
+
+     Manufactured by Whammo.
+
+     (Still working out the details.....)
+---
+     Re: jumpgates...I knew that multiples were used, but was still working
+out the *exact* details of how they work, and I hate to post anything until
+I'm 100% set, since this stuff tends to end up in FAQs....
+---
+     Jump gates aren't instantaneous; transit within a gate is usually a
+couple of days, though it seems a bit longer to those outside.
+---
+     Yes, most of the energy is expended getting in and out of hyperspace.
+with a fair amount being expended navigating through it.
+
+====    ~jump-gate ~action
+
+     And the action *doesn't* always happen conveniently located to a jump
+gate.  Sometimes, it can take *hours* or even days to get to where a ship or
+other object is located.
+
+====    ~jump-gate ~ship ~pay ~government ~bill
+
+????    How does a ship pay for use of a jump gate?
+
+     As soon as the ship comes through, its signature is registered and the
+fees debited against their account, if they have one at the station.   If not.
+the incoming person is asked for payment before being allowed onto the
+station.  In some cases, as with transports, corporations buy jump gate access
+in bulk, and then assign the routes to their various transports. (Believe it
+or not, this actually comes up in dialogue in "Midnight.")
+
+     Ah, but remember, the government is the one who put the jump gate in; no
+one individual or corp could afford to do that.  When your ship, if Earth
+registered, comes through, you're automatically billed, just like income
+tax...it goes against your credit.  If you're not Earth registered, you pay
+when you arrive at an Earth port or orbital transfer station.  Either way, you
+pay.  If you try to land somewhere without proper authorization, you'll be
+arrested and your ship confiscated.
+
+     Now, you could probably come through the gate, hang in space for a while.
+and go back in again (IF you're a non-Earth registered ship) and not pay
+anything...but in that case, what's the point?  It'd be like taking a
+difficult trip in a small ship across the Atlantic, and not getting out or
+going ashore once you arrive.
+
+====    ~jump-gate ~identify ~ship ~war ~minbari ~jump-point
+
+????    How are ships identified when they come out of jump gates?
+
+     1) Jump gates can only give you the frequency identification of a given
+ship some minutes prior to exiting hyperspace; just as it's about to exit, you
+can get much more detailed information, such as silhouette, mass, and so on.
+By then it's pretty much out...but at least you know as soon as it's out what
+it is.
+
+     2) You can't just shut down a jump gate like a light bulb.  It is a VERY
+powerful piece of equipment, and it takes a long time to shut down and a long
+time to start up again.  It's like a nuclear or fusion reactor in that
+respect.  If you shut it down, it'll *stay* down for some time, which may put
+you in a very bad position if you have to leave fast, and that's the only way
+out.
+
+     (During the Earth/Minbari war, jump gates created by the Earth Alliance
+were programmed only to accept certain coded frequenies that were changed
+regularly.  [That should read frequencies.]  This helped prevent Minbari ships
+using EA gates.)
+
+     3) Really large ship, such as war cruisers and long-range explorer
+vessels are powerful enough to punch their own entance into hyperspace.
+creating a jump point.  (Something you'll see happen in our first episode.
+btw.)  They can go in and out of hyperspace on their own, so they don't
+strictly need a gate, which is primarily a) for smaller craft incapable of
+generating their own jump point, and b) to help larger craft conserve energy.
+The Vorlon fleet could have come in via its own jump point, but the gate was
+there, and it allowed them to separate their smaller attack fleet while in
+hyperspace, so they could all come out together, as opposed to releasing them
+after making their own jump point.
+
+====    ~hyperspace ~jump-gate ~tot
+
+     Travel from point A to point B takes some amount of time.  But when
+you're near your destination, you can wait in hyperspace and choose to come
+out at a specific moment.  There's considerable speculation that both the
+Minbari and Vorlons have ships standing by in hyperspace, at various
+locations, in case they're needed quickly.  (In the pilot movie. Laurel
+Takashima even mentions that they are probably doing this.)  It's a
+correlation to the TOT (Time On Target) philosophy; you can send ships in from
+various sectors, have them lurk in hyperspace, then all come out at once.
+
+====    ~effect ~jump-gate
+
+     We've made some minor modifications to the jumpgate effect, in the
+texture and color of the warp EFX.  It looks a little less computer-y, and
+some science guys suggested that there should be red-shift built into the
+thing.  So now when objects come *out* of hyperspace, and we're looking into
+the jumpgate, the warp effect is blue; when you enter the jumpgate, it shifts
+toward orange/red.
+
+======= Weapons
+
+====    ~weapon ~ppg [Phased Plasma Gun]
+
+     PPG = Phased Plasma Gun, and yes, the settings work about the way you
+describe.  At full settings, it burns right through the body (and you can see
+this in some shots, albeit briefly and discreetly).  We also deal with the
+reality of what such a weapon *does* to you...internal burns, clothes melting
+into the skin, that sort of thing.  We don't get gross about it, but we try to
+stay with the reality of what we're creating.
+---
+     Re: the PPG firing...we talked to some high-IQ types about how a
+plasma-firing weapon might work.  There would be superheated bursts, some
+marginal escape of the gases used, and it would burn through the air, creating
+a small thunderclap-like sound.  So this is what we did.
+---
+     The PPGs are Phased Plasma Guns, using superheated helium.  It doesn't
+ricochet like conventional slugs, dissipates quickly after a hit, can be
+adjusted to produce surface damage, or cut straight through the body, or to
+make a big impact without burning through.  At full strength, they burn
+straight through any kind of body, causing massive internal burns and damage
+to the internal organs.  The clothes melt right into the skin.  It's not a
+pretty thing.  Generally they're operated at a lower or less lethal setting.
+---
+     The ripple is caused by heat from the discharge.
+---
+     There are definitely PPG assault rifles, which are visible in  "Grail."
+They can fire faster than pistols, but I don't think they could handle the
+power-buildup to fire 3-6 per second.  That's definitely slug-thrower turf.
+
+======= Communication
+
+====    ~communicate ~communicate
+
+     We're using a tachyon communications system to handle the FTL problem
+regarding communications.
+---
+     Communications will be instantaneous in *most* cases.  Once a ship enters
+hyperspace, however, communications can become more problematic.
+---
+     I've told our people that in season two (Neilsen willing), I want a new
+Babcom or general communications standby screen...and if I ever see the old
+one again, someone's going to get hurt....
+
+====    ~communicator ~link
+
+????    What's that thing on the back of [Sinclair's] hand?
+
+     The item on the back of Sinclair's hand is a Link, which is their
+personal communications system/powerbook/mainframe access system/pager.
+---
+     It's made to be adhesive to skin, but easily removed.
+
+======= Medicine
+
+====    ~medicine ~technology ~surgery ~math
+
+????    How do you envision medical technology?
+
+     Our medical advisor tells us that regen technology should be well in hand
+within the next 100 years, so you can grow back damaged internal organs and
+the like, and avoid having to do transplants.  Also that the system of surgery
+is moving toward non-invasive procedures, using light in more and different
+ways.
+
+     He went on past that, but there was some math involved...
+---
+     Re: the medical tools...we brought in a medical science consultant, who
+helped us design our instruments.  His sense was that we're moving more and
+more toward light as a system of treatment, non-invasive procedures, that sort
+of thing.  No, there aren't anything like those devices in today's operating
+rooms...but this is 250 years from now.  In any event, it *is* based on the
+latest info we're getting on new science from our medical advisor.
+
+======= Other
+
+====    ~gravity ~tractor
+
+????    Does Earth have any kind of artificial gravity?  Others?
+
+     I've said that Earth tech doesn't have any kind of gravitational tech,
+including magnetic/tractor beams.  The Minbari have a much greater control
+over and knowledge of gravitational science.
+
+====    ~computer
+
+     As for computer tech in 2258, it's something we're exploring for a story.
+Larry has an interesting idea or two on how to realize it visually, but it's
+hard to find something that's possibly accurate without making it godlike.
+Still, we're trying...
+
+=============== Universe ===============
+
+======= Vision
+
+====    ~universe ~human ~future ~vision
+
+     What I want to do with this show is to connect our past, our present, and
+our future, melding familiar images with new ones.  This isn't what you're
+used to seeing.  But it's what I want to *do* with it.  Otherwise all you have
+are unattainable futures about people who we barely recognize as being humans.
+doing things we can't relate to.  I'm sorry, but that just doesn't interest
+me.
+---
+     The main line I've been stressing with our writers and others who we're
+working with is the goal of making our humans more human, and our aliens more
+alien.  Much of our life is focused around things that don't generally show up
+in SF television...we cut ourselves shaving, we have to find a bathroom, our
+shoes don't fit...and these are the elements that help make a character more
+real somehow.  So yes, we're very definitely going for that aspect.
+
+====    ~human ~language ~history ~future
+
+     I don't believe in the notion that, when we go to the stars, we have to
+leave behind our individual languages, and cultures, and ethnic backgrounds.
+and fashions of dress.  We bring that with us as part of who and what we are.
+It's our differences that *strengthen* us.  It's not all going to vanish in
+200 years.  There are cultures in the eastern part of the world that have
+survived with minor changes for literally thousands of years.  250 years is
+the blink of an eye.  It's really a Western phenomenon; to us, 200 years is a
+long time, the whole history of our nation.  That changes when you go outside.
+I stood on the cobblestone walks of Trinity College in Dublin, and realized
+that on those same cobblestones some eager student raced across to the living
+quarters to announce news of a big revolution in the American colonies.  I
+stood in the neolithic burial mounds at New Grange, the oldest man-made
+stuctures in the world, older even than the pyramids...and realized that in
+human terms, 250 years isn't even a blip.  We're not going to change that
+much.
+
+     250 years ago, people worked, got married, had families, separated, had
+affairs, and hoped for a better world for their children.  250 years from now.
+it will be exactly the same.  Only the chrome of technology will vary. For a
+good example of this, go find an SF movie musical called "Just Imagine" made
+in the 1930s.  Set in the 1980s, it pictured a world of people with names
+instead of numbers, pills instead of food, and birth by machine.  Much of TV
+SF makes the similar error.
+
+====    ~station ~future ~realistic ~human ~fantasy
+
+     On your point that B5 looks and feels and, arguably, *is* something that
+humanity could build, is nominally within our grasp...this is something that
+we've been building toward for a while, is part of what we want to do with the
+show.  At a recent screening of some episodes for cast and crew, the one most
+frequent comment I got afterward was that it *felt* real, that this felt like
+how it might really be to work and live out on the fringe.  Many SF futures
+are so far beyond our grasp as to enter the realm of unattainable
+fantasy...I'd like to point to something as more within our grasp, to remind
+us that we can do this, and that maybe we SHOULD do this.
+
+====    ~religion
+
+????    How do you tie religion into the story??
+
+     Let me just lay the foundation here for a moment in the area of religion
+and Babylon 5.  I'm an atheist, that simple.  But that's me.  If you look at
+the long history of human society, religion -- whether you describe that as
+organized, disorganized, or the various degrees of accepted superstition --
+has always been present.  And it will be present 200 years from now.  That may
+not thrill me, but when one is a writer, one must deal with realities, and
+that's one of them.  To totally ignore that part of the human equation would
+be as false and wrong-headed as ignoring the fact that people get mad, or
+passionate, or strive for better lives.
+
+     So we do deal with the questions of religion, and spirituality, and their
+definitions, without being abusive.  A couple of stories on this area, like
+David Gerrold's "Believers" may be very controversial.  On the other hand, my
+script for "The Parliament of Dreams" is a straight-ahead showcase, in which
+every species on B5 is encouraged to demonstrate his or her dominant belief
+system, as practiced back home.  So we learn more about Minbari religion, more
+about the Centauri's rather Bacchanallian form of religion, along with others.
+And Sinclair is put in the difficult position of being asked to show what
+Earth's dominant belief system is. The solution to which is, I think, kinda
+cool.
+
+     In the Babylon 5 universe, all the things that make us human -- our
+obsessions, our interests, our language, our culture, our flaws and our
+wonderfulnesses -- are all still intact.
+---
+     Yes, Earth religions have had to come to grips with the existence of
+alien cultures; and religions from both sides have filtered into human an
+alien life.  We won't be dealing with that this season because we deal with
+the topic of religion a lot this season, and don't want to get too bogged down
+with it.
+---
+     Garibaldi is an agnostic.  Ivanova is jewish.  Sinclair was raised
+catholic and underwent training as a Jesuit.  Dr. Franklin is a Foundationist.
+Catherine Sakai is buddhist.
+---
+     What kind of Jewish Ivanova is...is something she's trying to resolve in
+her own head.
+---
+     The Foundation is a new religion, started close to the year 2000, which
+gradually grew and achieved a fair amount of respectability over the following
+200 years (as with mormonism, for instance).
+---
+     Great Maker is a term for the creator or god that has currency among many
+different races.  Its origins are lost in history.
+
+======= Earth Alliance
+
+====    ~history ~earth ~2257 ~2258 ~year
+
+     The history of Earth for about the last 100 years prior to the time of B5
+is broken out, and though it isn't laid out in detail in the series, it forms
+a reference backdrop for us, so it's all consistent when we refer to any part
+of it.  The pilot was 2257, the first year of the series is 2258, year two
+would be 2259, and so on.  The story requires 5 years of story time as well as
+5 years of real time to tell.  Things have to go through some real time lapse
+for the story to work out properly. Consequently, the narration at the top of
+the show ("...the year is 2258, the name of the place is Babylon 5") will be
+changed each season.
+
+====    ~ea ~earth ~bronze ~mars ~moon ~colony ~io ~centauri
+
+????    How big is the Earth Alliance?
+
+     The EA is fairly large, but not on a par with the Centauri at this point.
+There are various space platforms/colonies, colonies on the Moon, Mars, a
+major transfer point off Io...they've gone in and "helped" a number of
+bronze-tech worlds (that happened to have certain resources useful to EA), and
+are generally spreading like mice in a cheese factory.
+---
+     You are correct in that the Earth Alliance consists in the main of
+humans.  Aliens are generally not integrated into the system, except in very
+low-level stuff.  (In some bronze-tech worlds where humans have come in and
+pulled an India/England relationship, you may have colonial governors who are
+native aliens, but are basically puppets.)  There's more than just Mars, Earth
+and the Sol colonies; there are a number of other worlds and systems out there
+into which Earth has made a dent.
+
+====    ~earth ~politics ~senate ~nation ~state ~earthdome
+
+????    Will we be seeing Earth, or what's been happening on Earth, during
+        the series?
+
+     While we will not be *seeing* much of Earth in B5 (as in going there).
+what's going on back home will be a *constant* undercurrent to the series.
+You'll learn a lot about the state of Earth in 2258 in our universe during the
+course of the series.
+---
+     Actually, my plan is to show a *lot* of what's happening back on Earth.
+because that will tie into what happens on B5.  Social changes, politics.
+religion, sports...again, this relates to one of the themes of B5 from my
+point of view, the continuance of our species,the thread that connects our
+past, our present and our future.  And again, that's something that'll become
+fairly evident from episode one on.
+---
+     The questions concerned B5 and the political situation on Earth at this
+time.  Back home, there is an Earth Senate, which is made up of elected
+representatives from each nation-state; the larger and more powerful the
+nation, the more reps they get.  Which annoys the smaller nations no end. (And
+there's quite a bit of conflict between them; the smaller nation-states, with
+limited resources, keep grousing about why they should support B5 financially.
+as well as other space endeavors, when their economy really isn't set up to
+take as much advantage of the situation as the larger nation-states.
+---
+     The Earth government -- located in Earthdome -- is basically a republic,
+with reps from each nation serving as senators or in other capacities.
+---
+     Earthdome is on Earth.  In what used to be Geneva.
+---
+     And of course there still *are* conflicts between Earth countries at the
+time of B5.  Including conflicts over space.  In a news broadcast featured
+prominently in the upcoming two-parter, because of another item in the
+broadcast that's important for that episode, it's noted that the
+representatives in Earthdome from several countries have pulled out in protest
+on the grounds that since they do not benefit equally from the exploitation of
+space, they should not be expected or required to help pay for it on an equal
+basis as everyone else.
+
+====    ~fund ~economy ~ea ~four
+
+????    Who funded the Babylon projects?
+
+     The Earth Alliance funded the first few attempts exclusively; after
+they'd dumped all their money into B4, they needed outside funding to get B5
+going, and the Minbari were first to contribute money as a show of good faith.
+Then the Centauri added additional funding.  Those are the only two other
+races that've contributed significantly.
+
+====    ~found ~babylon
+
+????    Who founded the Babylon project?
+
+     David...what an absolutely wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful
+question.
+
+     I think I'll answer this in an episode next season.
+
+     It's something that I've known, and just filed away, but yeah, this
+should be dealt with.  And I'll do so.  (Though now you have to wait to see it
+on TeeVee.)
+
+====    ~rank ~military ~navy ~air ~badge ~uniform
+
+????    What is the rank system on B5 based on?
+
+     On the theory that some of the militaries have blended, the system of
+ranks is kind of a cross between the navy and the air force (at least the ones
+with which our characters will have any interaction).
+---
+     All Earthforce uniforms in this division are blue; EA marines are
+olive/brown; security and other NCO areas get grey.  Within those areas, it's
+further subdivided, and is distinguishable by the horizontal bars below the EA
+insignia.  Gold is command; silver is for command staff.  (Ivanova, being in
+between, has a divided bar, half gold and half silver.)  Red is medical, green
+is security.  Yellow is for science division.  The rank bars are on the
+shoulder.
+---
+     Sinclair and other officers are pure EA military, so they get the EA pins
+on the chest.  (Also the techs wear them in the dome, and others in charge of
+various divisions.)  Security is under the jurisdiction of EA, but are a
+separate component, staffed under B5 financing.  These, and medical, and
+scientific and environmental and other areas have their own symbol, which is
+worn on their chest and shoulder.  You can tell who works for EA because they
+have the EA also on their shoulder, whereas those who are employed directly by
+B5 have the B5 symbol on their shoulder.
+
+     The patches connote specialization: command is a starburst, lines that
+radiate into every area; security is a gunsight/targeting symbol; medical is a
+stylized medicine symbol, and so on.
+
+     Sinclair and Ivanova wear their officer's bars on their epaulets; not the
+triangular part per se, but the bars at the very far end of the epaulet, below
+the triangles.
+
+====    ~earth ~alliance ~ea ~administration ~autonomy
+
+     In most everyday situations B5 operates fairly autonomously; EA doesn't
+generally get involved unless there's a very good reason.  And from time to
+time, they do.  That happens right off the bat in the pilot movie, where they
+stomp down hard.  They exercise other authority from time to time --
+"suggesting" that a group of Centauri representatives be given the VIP
+treatment in order to encourage them to invest and help to defray the cost of
+running B5 (an issue that never seems to come up in TV SF...just how much DOES
+the Enterprise cost to run?), and in the series, there's considerable conflict
+planned for down the road between those on B5 and the EA officials (especially
+since not everyone is 100% behind B5, and would love nothing more than to see
+it shut down).
+
+     Wheels within wheels...that's the secret.
+
+====    ~sinclair ~administration ~autonomy ~earthdome
+
+     Sinclair functions within the parameters of Earthforce Command, but much
+in the way as a provisional governor might function.  He is answerable both to
+his superior officers in Earthforce, *as well as* the Babylon 5 Senate
+Oversight and Appropriations Committee.  A senatorial liaison often works
+between Sinclair and Earthdome (the EA capital city).
+
+====    ~mars ~colony ~ea
+
+????    Is the Mars Colony independent, part of Earth Alliance, or what?
+
+     The status of the Mars Colony is in considerable debate in B5's time.
+It's chafing under the EA's tight controls.  I wouldn't be surprised to see it
+try to secede at some point....
+---
+     The Mars Colony situation will be raising its ugly head on and off again
+for quite some time to come.
+
+====    ~squadron ~patch ~fighter ~starfury ~line
+
+????    Names of squadrons of Starfuries?
+
+     BTW, for those who might be interested in such things...continuing the
+Earth tradition, all of our various fighter wings have their own names.  The
+fighter unit that Ivanova belongs to, for instance, is the Ghost Riders.  The
+name of Sinclair's Earth/Minbari War Fighter unit was Death's Hand.  We've had
+patches made of these and other insignia, which get used at appropriate
+moments on their flight suits in the cockpit.  (I don't remember offhand the
+name of the primary fighter unit on B5, which is technically Delta Wing, but
+it has a specific name beyond that, and it just fell out of my head.)
+---
+     BTW, today I was gifted by some folks in B5 with a collection of some of
+the patches we've used on the fighter pilot suits.  You'll see these on the
+front breast and arms (both sides of each) of the suits, if only in the
+occasional glimpse.  Even though they'll probably never bee fully seen, we
+felt the need to make 'em real looking and finish them off to the last
+stitched detail.
+
+     These include the Earth Forces Off-World patch (gold-handled sword
+against a starburst within what looks like a cross between a mobius strip and
+human DNA), Earth Force Command (similar, but minus the starburst, with
+transverse red stripes against a black background), a B5 Fighter Wing Squadron
+patch (Flying Nightmares, B5FA-1013 on the outer ring, with a B5 symbol on the
+left side outlined by up-and-down red stripes, and on the right a black up and
+down stripe bordered by 2256), a rectangular Earth Alliance Fighter
+Identification patch (five-pointed command insignia circled by red and gold.
+overlaid with gold wings over Joe Straczynski), and the insignia worn by those
+on the Battle of the Line, a triangular patch with Star Fury on the upper left
+angle in silver on black, FA-23E in silver on black on the right upper angle.
+with the inner part of the triangle divided in two by a vertical silver
+stripe, blue on the left, gold on the right, over which is the design of one
+of the fighters in full accelleration, leaving trails behind it, with the
+squadron number 361st - TFS, with UGLY beneath it, and on the lower left angle
+of the patch, in black on silver, the words BUT WELL HUNG.
+
+     Which refers, of course, to the figher craft itself.
+
+     (They hang upside down prior to launch, you'll recall.)
+
+======= Psi-corps
+
+====    ~psi
+
+????    Telepaths are common in the B5 universe, but not in the our reality...
+
+     Interesting, innit, how they suddenly blossomed like that...?
+---
+     The whole telepathy issue is an interesting one in the universe of B5.
+There have always been attempts to prove the existence of telepathy, but in
+general the findings have been inconclusive.  But about 125 years or so ago in
+B5's timeline (2100-2110 and thereabouts) the findings began suddenly to tilt.
+and full-blown telepaths began to be discovered.  There were some abortive and
+confused attempts to legislate around this, most of which failed or were
+overturned in various courts of law.  About 2150 or so, the government
+agencies that regulated and oversaw telepaths were rolled over into the newly
+established Psi Corps, which became a clearing house for locating.
+controlling, and licensing telepaths for commercial, some very restricted
+legal, and military purposes.
+
+====    ~psi ~telepath ~rating ~legal ~scan
+
+????    Where do psi-corps ratings come from?  What are their legal
+        restrictions?
+
+     Psi Corps ratings are assigned from within the Academy, based on test
+results and personal interviews/training.  Restrictions: NO unauthorized scans
+-- you need the permission of the person, tacit permission, or written
+permission of next of kin -- and no "dipping," going into other areas not
+relevant to the current scan.  In criminal cases, psi's may not scan
+defendants during a trial or before to determine guilt or innocence, as this
+violates the right of due process.  After a conviction, a psi may be called
+upon to function in various capactities (which will be seen in "The Quality of
+Mercy").  A psi *may* scan the victim of a crime unable to remember details of
+an attack, but that information must be backed up by physical evidence, or it
+is inadmissible.
+---
+     The number of psi's in each category, from 1-12, gets rarer as you get
+higher.  Lots of folks have a minimal tendency, very few have any real talent.
+---
+     A Psi-rating comes through training and examination of a person's skills
+over time.  Ivanova's mother never went through the full sequence to get
+rated.  (Although they generally don't bother with P1s through P2s, so she was
+at least a P3 or above, in terms of raw ability.)  A psi rating isn't
+hereditary.
+---
+     No, the accused cannot ask for a psi to validate his or her innocence;
+the trial can ONLY proceed on the basis of evidence.  This is to prevent
+abuse, trials where a Psi looks at you and determines your guilt. When a life
+is at stake, you can't risk the possibility of some hidden agenda on the part
+of the telepath.  You'd have to use a telepath to verify the first telepath's
+scan, and on and on.  Best simply to exclude them from that aspect of the law.
+---
+     We're going to be doing a lot on the Psi Corps toward the middle of the
+series, btw.  There's quite a bit in D.C. Fontana's new story, "Legacies," and
+in a script I just finished, "Mind War."  The more I play around with the
+notion of legalized, licensed telepaths, the more room there is for all kinds
+of intrigue.
+---
+     As Walter says in "Mind War," about rogue telepaths, "Only Psi Cops are
+qualified to bring them down, so we're afforded greater...latitude."  (That's
+a paraphrase from memory.)
+
+======= Powers
+
+====    ~league ~non-aligned ~world ~empire ~security ~council ~un
+
+     There are more aliens than just the 5 major groups.  In addition to them.
+there's *bunches* of oththe classification of the League of Non-Aligned
+Worlds.  The Big Five constitute what is in essence the Security Counsel.
+while the rest are the General Assembly.  We will see these groups
+participating in that capacity in "Midnight."
+---
+     It was Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, Vorlon Empire
+and Earth Alliance, for anyone keeping track.  And yes, most all of them have
+some other alien species within their sphere of direct influence.
+---
+     Most of the non-aligned worlds have a less technologically advanced
+society, but mainly what constitutes membership in the Big 5 is the size of
+the government in question.  If it's just one planet and maybe a sister world
+or two, that's not enough to qualify.
+---
+     The Babylon 5 Advisory Council and the League of Non-Aligned Worlds
+functions in much the same fashion as the Security Council and the General
+Assembly in the U.N.  The smaller worlds and alliances can't weild as much
+power as any of the Big Five.  Together, they as a group get a vote equal to
+one of the Big Five; they can deputize one of their number to speak for them
+and cast that vote, which can often break ties or create ties.  It is not a
+terribly equitible situation, but it was the only workable solution that would
+be accepted by the other Ambassadors.  We'll see them chafing at this in
+"Deathwalker."
+
+====    ~peace ~war ~status ~alliance ~centauri ~narn ~vorlon ~minbari
+
+     I'll have to be a little circumspect here (damn it, you're doing it
+again....).  The Narn Regime is not currently at war with the Centauri
+Republic, which occuped the Narn homeworld for nearly a century before finally
+being driven off by the Narn resistance.  Their resources depleted they are
+not currently in a position to make war on anyone; being naturally rather
+paranoid, and having just been more or less enslaved, they have a dread of
+other races getting together and possibly harming them, as well as a hunger
+for the technology that might protect them down the road (as Russia feared
+invasion its Eastern Front after WW2).
+
+     There's a rough alliance between the Earth Alliance and the Centauri.
+since theirs was the first race we encountered.  (They told us at that time
+that they were the biggest guys around, that they ran everything, that we were
+a lost colony of theirs...which eventually was disproven by genetic
+examination.  The rest of their claims were also BS.  They were trying to
+impress the natives.)
+
+     There's some movement toward making nice with the Minbari, but also a
+GREAT deal of resistance, given the recent war.
+---
+     The Earth/Minbari war started with a Minbari first encounter (by us) that
+went tragically wrong and resulted in a firefight, in which the leader of the
+Grey Council was killed.
+---
+     The attack killed the Minbari leader, head of the Grey Council, Dukhat.
+the most evolved and wise soul of all the Minbari.
+---
+     The only questions I can remember...the vorlons have never fought a war
+with any other race.  (At least none has ever been recorded.)  And right now
+in the Minbari race there's a big split that took place after the
+Earth/Minbari war between the religious leaders and the military leaders.
+which culminated with the suicide of the Minbari commander at the conclusion
+of the war.  They've now arrived at an uneasy truce, but with time, who knows?
+---
+     The minbari warrior caste leader who committed suicide rather than issue
+the surrender command was Sineval.
+---
+     ...and as far as Kosh goes, better to have him where you can see him.
+than not.  They *are* a powerful group, and it wouldn't serve to ignore them.
+We courted them for 10 years for a first contact...and now we're stuck with
+them.
+---
+     The Earth/Minbari war lasted almost five years.  The terms of surrender
+were conditional; there was to be no reparation.  It was simply a cessation of
+hostilities.  It was not a clear-cut issue of being beaten or doing the
+beating; it just stopped...which left a lot of people feeling about the same
+way some did after Vietnam.  Peace with honor?  Maybe, maybe not.
+
+====    ~earth ~ea ~war ~dilgar ~deathwalker
+
+????    Has Earth been in other wars besides the Minbari war?
+
+     Earth has fougth in some other conflicts, on a smaller scale; prior to
+the Earth/Minbari war, they came to the assistance of the Non-Aligned Worlds
+against a race known as the Dilgar, which devastated whole worlds.
+---
+     The Dilgar War was one of the first conflicts that the EA got into, soon
+after establishing a presence in space.  We mainly entered it to try and make
+a "rep" for ourselves, then got more morally involved when we saw what was
+going on.  That and the Minbari War are the only real major conflicts Earth
+has been involved with, and Earth was not directly at risk in the Dilgar war.
+though if they hadn't been stopped, that might have changed eventually.
+
+====    ~earth ~ea ~centauri
+
+????    What was the Centauri relationship to Earth?
+
+     The Centauri never really got around to us.  They've been in a decline
+for a long time; the Narn occupation was one of the last of their imperialist
+rampages.  Now they're pulling back further and further.  And also as re:
+Earth...space is big.  100 years ago, we weren't putting out any radio or
+television or microwave transmissions; they can't check EVERY planet.  We got
+overlooked for a long time by lots of different groups.
+---
+     While we were in an agrarian state, and an early industrial state, we a)
+were of very little use, b) had little to offer, and c) came at a time when
+the Centauri were starting to fall back into isolationism just a bit.  The
+Narn had the misfortune to be strategically well located, had many resources
+the Centauri wanted, and provided other advantages.  One doesn't just conquer
+worlds helter-skelter; it takes time, money, effort and some blood to conquer
+worlds.  You only choose those which offer you enough to make the process
+worthwhile.  That simple.
+
+======= Miscellaneous
+
+====    ~station ~distance ~earth ~star ~universe
+
+????    Where in the galaxy is the station located?
+
+     We're still in the process of drawing up a detailed starmap with the
+distances from B5 to each of our major governments, but we're looking at
+roughly 25 light years from Earth.
+---
+     We'll imply some of the geography in the series, but the interactive
+computer program coming out soon has a map of the station, and shows where
+what is in relation to everything else.
+
+====    ~star ~location
+
+     Yes, we're trying to use real stars and constellations in our script
+references, as well as indications of new ones that may have been discovered
+in the 200 years between now and the time of B5.  (At one point, a
+tech-runner's background is being discussed, and they mention that he ran
+forbidden technology into the Vega and Proxima systems, for instance.)  Which
+star is the one Babylon 5 orbits?  One that hasn't been discovered at this
+point in time...but in about 50 years, it'll show up on the starcharts.  It's
+a fairly small star, dwarfed and hidden by several nearby binaries that
+overwhelm the spectrum visible from Earth.
+
+     Yeah, that's the ticket....
+---
+     The sector of space was chosen for B5 because a) it's pretty much in
+neutral territory, and b) of the neutral territory areas, this is the one that
+seems to have nothing of value in it, so nobody will be interested in fighting
+over what's there.  This may not necessariliy be true in the future.
+
+====    ~music
+
+????    Does rock music still exist in the Babylon 5 universe?
+
+     There's still rock and roll, plus other new musical forms that have come
+along, and still some franchises.  TZ3 is being played on various local
+stations, but not everywhere.
+
+====    ~drug
+
+????    How about drugs?  Has marijuana been legalized?
+
+     It's never come up, and probably never will, but in terms of backstory.
+yes, it was legalized quite some time ago.  There are only a certain number of
+drugs not allowed on B5; those which would lead to destructive, violent
+behavior that would disrupt the station, and Dust, about which you won't be
+hearing for a while.
+
+     Near as I can figure, all grass makes you want to do is sit around eating
+pizza and watching old Lucy reruns....
+
+====    ~money ~economy
+
+????    How does the economic system work, on Earth and on the station?
+
+     The Earth economy still runs on basic capitalism; the corporations
+under-write surveying and exploitation of planets, in some cases then selling
+what they find to the government in return for a piece of the profits, or via
+direct exploitation itself.  (By law they're forbidden from exploiting or
+strip-mining worlds with sentient life.)  There is also, as we discover in one
+episode, a big market for archaeologists who dig into now-dead worlds for
+whatever technology they can find, which might have been ancient there, but
+are new to us.
+---
+     Money works as in any large city.  You come in with the money of your
+place of origin (assuming you haven't made adjustments prior to arriving), and
+exchange it for prevalent Earth value credits, as determined by the current
+exchange rate.  You are issued a credit chit that has your name, ID, other
+information, including genetic information to prevent forgery, and that has
+your available credits as stored in the B5 computer.  As you pay, as with any
+credit card, you whittle away at that amount until it's gone, at which point
+you either cash in more of your money...or go broke.
+---
+     The credit chits work differently depending on who you are.  If you work
+for B5, your salary is tied into your credit chit, and you pay accordingly.
+If you're a visitor from elsewhere, bringing in non-Earth currency, you
+exchange that currency (as Aldous noted in "Grail"), much as you do now.
+Difference is, you turn in the currency at the B5 exchange.  It is processed
+on the current rate of exchange. and you are issued a credit chit programmed
+with an amount equal to whatever you brought in.  You use it the same way as a
+credit card. until it runs out, then it's rejected until you "recharge" it by
+exchanging more currency.
+
+     It's also tied into your identicard, which has every available fact about
+you.
+
+     Interestingly enough, I just saw an article in, I believe, WIRED. which
+noted that Sweden had just launched on a program of using this exact same
+device, same system, on a trial basis.
+
+====    ~law ~ombuds
+
+     Babylon 5 is a unique environment.  There are only two basic types of
+people (speaking only of humans for now) around: those employed by EA or the
+station (conflict of interest), or travelers, who won't be around long enough
+for a prolonged trial.  So in that kind of situation, the Ombuds arose...a
+2258 version of a Circuit Court Judge.
+
+     It's absolutely in line with what's been done in our own country.
+
+=============== Pilot ===============
+
+====    ~pilot ~broadcast
+
+????    Will the pilot movie of the week be broadcast again?
+
+     The pilot MOW will eventually be re-broadcast, but as of this time I
+don't know when that will be.
+
+====    ~pilot ~problem
+
+????    What was wrong with the pilot?
+
+     At risk of rehashing this one more time, what's missing from the pilot is
+25 minutes of additional material that further fleshed out the characters.
+
+     Each of the characters is being solidly rounded out in the series.
+showing multiple sides to each character.  All I can say is that I think
+you'll like what we're doing.
+---
+     Re: the pilot...I've hashed and rehashed this, and the bottom line is to
+see what we do in the series and judge the series by the series.  The DS9
+pilot had to explain very little that wasn't specific to the plotline: you
+already knew what a bajorran was, what a wormhole was, what the Federation
+was, what the cardassians were, on and on and on.  Because they didn't have to
+introduce any of that, they could spend time on other character moments.
+
+     We didn't have that luxury in the pilot.  We had to do what, in essence.
+ST has done over 25 years: establish our universe, painting it in broad
+strokes, as broad're done with that aspect.  And now we can do our
+character-based stories.  Which is exactly what we're doing.
+
+====    ~delay ~pilot ~series
+
+????    Why the big delay between the pilot and the series?
+
+     We'd always figured on going right to series, but once we had done the
+pilot, the studio said, in essence, "Well, we've got a pilot, we don't know if
+the market will sustain more than one space SF series, no other SF series has
+done well lately...maybe we ought to air the pilot first, and get the ratings.
+before committing to a series."  And that's what happened...much to our
+consternation at first, but in the long run it was a blessing in disguise.
+because that interim period allowed us to really do a lot to make the show
+better.
+---
+     Actually, the funny thing is, I don't much mind if people who hadn't seen
+the pilot don't catch the rebroadcast.  What we're doing now is SO radically
+better than the pilot that I almost can't watch it now.
+
+====    ~miss ~old ~character ~laurel ~lyta ~talia ~kyle
+
+????    What happened to the old characters on the pilot, not working
+        on the series?
+
+     On a classified mission (which I hope we will be able to get into at some
+point), Laurel has been reassigned out on the Rim, and Dr. Kyle is now working
+with the EA President on the issue of alien migration to Earth, a growing
+problem to some, a benefit to others.
+---
+     Pat Tallman passed on returning to the B5 project.   Our new telepath
+will be played by Andrea Thompson, with the character name Talia Winters.
+---
+     Much of the Lyta arc will now go to Talia, but there's now a different
+way of getting her into that arc.
+---
+     What it *does* give me, which is kinda nice, is that the only two people
+to have ANY direct contact with a Vorlon...have been transferred back to
+Earth.  Which plays wonderfully into something sinister I'd kinda like to
+develop that the Earth Alliance is working on behind the scenes....
+
+====    ~story ~arc ~pilot
+
+????    What is in the pilot, as it relates to the overall story?
+
+     How much of the basic "saga" is in the pilot?  Some...bits and pieces.
+The problem, always, is that we have a whole new universe to establish, with
+all the backstory that goes with that.  As it is, it's fairly "information
+intensive," as one person put it.  We find out about the Earth/Minbari war.
+the curious surrender, Sinclair's past, the missing 24 hours, the relations
+between the various governments and their own personal agendas, and a hint of
+what's to come.  This while establishing the backstory of all our characters.
+and telling a story in present time (for them).
+
+     I think you will find indications of what we've talked about for the
+series present in the pilot.  Which is why it bears watching more than once;
+you'll pick up more information and more of a sense of the world the more
+closely you inspect it.  (We tried to come up with a pilot that actually
+BENEFITS from close inspection, rather than falling apart if you look at it
+too closely.)
+
+=============== Episodes ===============
+
+====    ~chrysalis ~impact
+
+     Unrelated to anything that's preceded (thank goodness), here's a little
+something for consideration...thoughts to conjure with, when it comes to our
+season-ending episode/cliffhanger.
+
+     On Power, leaving out the things that unnerved people too much to let me
+do, I was still able, in the final episode/cliffhanger of that first season.
+to destroy the protagonist's base of operations totally and completely and
+beyond recall, set up a major change in the antagonist's appearance (the final
+mechanized stages of Lyman Taggert), eliminate all or nearly all of our
+Jonathan Power's supply lines and support personnel, totally turn around the
+direction of the show, and kill one major regular character.
+
+     So if that's what happens on a show where I'm not allowed full reign to
+do *everything* want...stop to consider for a moment what happens when there's
+no one to stop me from going all the way....
+
+     "Chrysalis" is going to be one heck of an episode....
+---
+     I have just seen the director's cut of "Chrysalis," which will be the
+last episode of this season...and I think it has just displaced "Sky" as the
+most heavy-weight episode of the season.  Even knowing what was coming, I just
+sat here, stunned, at the end of it.  Seeing dailies, bits and pieces, doesn't
+really prepare you for the whole thing.
+
+     What I like most about it are two things: one, by about halfway in, you
+really begin to understand that anything can happen, to anyone, and the rules
+that normally carry you through a television episode no longer apply.  It's a
+very dangerous, dislocating feeling.  Two: you get the very real feeling that.
+after this episode, nothing is the same anymore.  The show has taken a very
+profound and *irrevocable* turn that will have lasting effects on all of our
+characters.  Of all the episodes so far, this one has the most feeling of
+being the chapter end in a novel.
+
+     The really hard part will not avoiding the temptation to show this to
+people...because it really can't be allowed to get out prior to airing. There
+are too many twists and turns and revelations that spin one off into another.
+
+     One other thing's certain: after you've seen "Chrysalis," you're going to
+want to go back and check out three prior episodes...because something that
+you will have read/interpreted one way, without question or hesitation
+accepting it as what it obviously appears to be, will suddenly be turned on
+its head, and a brand new interpretation will emerge.  And it's *real*
+creepy....
+---
+     Re: the Oliver Stone thing...that's a comment made during the edit on
+"Chrysalis" as well.  I'm dying to see how people will react to what's done
+and revealed and advanced in that episode, but we have to sit on it; though
+we'll be mixing and finishing it in the next few weeks, we won't be turning it
+over to PTEN until shortly before airdate, because we don't want this getting
+all over town.  There's not a single major character who's not profoundly
+affected...or strongly set up for profound changes in the very near future.
+
+     I love it...it's my favorite of the season, without question.
+---
+     I give y'all a little gift...Kosh's very last line of the season, in
+"Chrysalis."
+
+     "You have...forgotten something."
+
+     It's not nearly as straightforward as it looks, and that one line will
+carry with it *major* repercussions.  (And no, it doesn't refer to the 24
+hours.)
+---
+     I am *not* teasing.
+
+     Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go watch "Chrysalis" again.
+
+====    ~demon ~ellison ~script
+
+[This refers to a potential sequel to Harlan Ellison's _Outer Limits_ episode.
+"Demon With a Glass Hand"]
+
+     I thought long and hard about the question of mixing universes, and
+allowed it only in this one case, because the events that propelled Trent (the
+character from Demon) into the past (our present) don't take place for another
+thousand years or so.  Thus it doesn't do my arc any harm at all. One could
+say that the events in "Demon" will happen at some point in the future of the
+B5 universe...unless some events change them.  On this one occasion.
+therefore, I decided to allow it.  But that's the ONLY one.
+---
+     We're still working out the dynamics of how these two universes would
+cross seamlessly, without doing damage to either.  We've got some solid leads.
+but this is 'way too early to get into them.  More down the road, one
+hopes....
+---
+     Yes, the two Harlan scripts are temporarily on hold, due to some health
+problems earlier this season (two heart procedures), the quake and his
+injuries there, and other stuff.  He has, however, served very well as our
+consultant, and it has been more than worthwhile.  His health permitting, we
+hope to continue the relationship in future.
+---
+[Ed. note: as of Aug. 94 below]
+
+     Harlan is currently writing the "Demon" sequel for us.  He is on as
+Conceptual Consultant next year, and is working closely with us.  But there
+are always people out to tear Harlan down, so I'd pretty much ignore these
+weasels.
+
+=============== Books and Comics ===============
+
+====    ~books ~comics ~canon
+
+     BTW, did I mention that DC is going to be doing a B5 comic?  And that one
+of our own locals here on the net just may have a little something to do with
+it?  And that Bill Mumy may write a bit for it, and Peter David, and me, and
+some other nifty writers?
+---
+     I work directly with DC on the comics line.  I approve artwork. stories,
+script and cover art.
+---
+     I'm trying to make the B5 novels and comics as much canon as I can.
+Basically, they take place within B5 continuity, as episodes that might have
+been.  The first four issues of the comic deal with issues that hit the
+series, but from another point of view/location.  The novel uses B5 as
+background of an event that makes sense within B5 continuity, and may be
+referred to in future episodes (not as a requirement, but only as
+background...no different than when you have to give background on any episode
+of stuff that's happened in the past, like Ironheart's escape. for instance,
+which we don't have to see/read about, but knowing is nice).
+
+     I *really* don't want these to be just throwaways media-tie-ins.  I want
+them to stand on their own as good work, *and* be part of our universe.
+
+     Thankfully, I no longer require sleep, and have transcended to a higher
+state of consciousness...ommmmmm....
+---
+     And yes, there is complete freedome to use Sinclair in the books since
+he's not entirely gone from the storyline at all, and still will carry a part.
+---
+     The comics series is free to bop forward and backward in time, all over
+the B5 universe, wherever the writer wants to take it.
+
+====    ~line ~minbari ~war ~book
+
+????    How about the Earth/Minbari war depicted in a book?
+
+     Yeah, I had the same conversation...suggested a structure rather like the
+Winds of War, set during the Earth/Minbari War, in that we have all of our
+characters in different places, seeing the story and the war from their
+perspectives, and how their paths intersect during that time in odd or
+unlikely ways.  Dell didn't think that was the way to go, that unless it was
+set in the present, people would feel disappointed.
+
+     Oh, well...eventually we'll get around to that part of the story.
+
+=============== Show Production ===============
+
+======= Writing
+
+====    ~writing ~believers ~quality
+
+????    What makes a good story?
+
+     A lot of our episodes are constructed to work as mirrors; you see what
+you put into it.  "Believers" has been interpreted as pro-religion. anti-
+religion, and religion-neutral..."Quality" has been interpreted. as you note,
+as pro-capital punishment, and anti-capital punishment.  We do, as you say,
+much prefer to leave the decision on what things mean to the viewer to hash
+out.
+
+     A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the
+occasional bar fight.
+---
+     One lovely thing about "Signs and Portents," which you picked up on. is
+something I like to play with; implying one thing while saying the opposite.
+Look at all the shadow's main representative, Morden, does: he asks people
+what they want; he gets tossed out of Delenn's quarters; he is pleasant in his
+demeanor at all times, never yells, always smiles, and is courteous; he takes
+an action which saves one of our main characters. Londo, from disgrace and
+resignation, and helps in the process of scragging the bad guys in the
+episode.
+
+     And yet everyone walks away thinking that the shadows are bad.  Which was
+of course the intent...by the way in which they did "good."
+
+     Kosh prevents humanity from achieving immortality, scares the hell out of
+Talia, never gives anyone a straight answer, doesn't seem to mind it if people
+fear him...and we walk away with the presumption that he is good. by virtue of
+the way in which he did things that were "bad."
+
+     In "The Quality of Mercy," I play a similar subtle game; the first time
+you hear about the alien device, you're told that it takes the life force from
+one person, killing them in the process, and gives it to someone suffering a
+terminal disease to restore them.  And everybody goes "yuck, that's awful."
+But that is *exactly* what happens at the end, and the general reaction is,
+"That's good."
+
+     This is something I do a lot in my scripts, which I don't generally see a
+lot of other people doing.  You *really* have to construct the script very
+carefully to pull something like this off...a little game between me and the
+audience.
+---
+     If you look at my scripts, you'll find that generally I write very tight,
+I don't leave a lot of threads hanging as a rule.  Same with the planned
+series.  No important threads will be left hanging by the end of it all.  And
+generally any really significant thread will be wrapped within a year of being
+introduced.
+
+====    ~character
+
+????    How did you create so many great characters?
+
+     In a way, I kinda took a shortcut...the kind of shortcut that helps you
+make the characters more real.  I basically peeled off aspects of my own
+background and divided it up among the characters.
+
+     I have an Eastern European background; that brings with it a certain
+amount of pessimism, a somewhat sardonic humor, and a view of life that is
+somewhere between resignation and astonishment, and gave that to Ivanova.
+
+     I was raised Catholic (though it wore off, I'm happy to report), so I
+gave some of that to Sinclair, escalating it to Jesuit training; gave him some
+of my fascination with history and religion and philosophy.  I've also lost a
+lot of people over the years, and gave him some of the sadness that comes with
+that.
+
+     One of the things that has constantly gotten me in deep trouble is that
+I'm basically a smartass; I always mouth off at *exactly* the wrong moment. So
+this went right to Garibaldi. along with my basic atheism.
+
+     The alien ambassadors are less personally based, since there have to be
+some alien characteristics about them; a different culture that informs who
+and what they are.  In those cases I kind of backtracked from what the species
+was. and tried to choose as typical a representative of that as I could.
+---
+     "Then explain Kosh."
+
+     Okay...you got me.
+---
+     It's impossible not to have the characters change to varying degrees once
+you cast actors to play them.  Gradually, Mira's personality has grown into
+Delenn, Andreas has added a lot to G'Kar, Garibaldi IS Doyle. and Boxleitner
+is bringing a lot to Sheridan.  You get to hear the characters' voices more
+the deeper you go, season-wise, and that's great.
+---
+     Re: Sinclair/Garibaldi/Ivanova basically liking each other; this will
+tend to stay, for many reasons.  One of the things that grates on mhy nerves
+about some dramatic TV is that they invent phony tensions and reasons for the
+main characters to bitch at each other, that generally don't mean a lot.
+Also, we see a lot of conflict in other shows, but not a whole lot of what
+*friendship* means.  And loyalty.  These three are friends, as well as
+co-officers; they will go to bat for one another, will if necessary die for
+one another.  I find that a lovely emotion.  There are plenty of others who
+argue with them, and plenty of other shows in which the main characters yell
+at each other all the time; why not explore the other end of the spectrum?
+
+     I will grant you that this is one of the more idosyncratic parts of the
+show; I have always placed a very high premium on friendship...my friends know
+that they can call me at midnight, and even if they're on the other side of
+the country, or the planet, I'll be there on the first plane if they're in
+trouble.  And I know I can do the same with them.  For some reason friendship,
+and loyalty, have become kind of passe in TV, and movies, and many other
+areas, as I think of it.  So for me, this becomes something worth
+communicating.
+
+     Bear in mind, though, that after this season, Sinclair goes elsewhere.
+and suddenly there's a new dynamic introduced into the show, which no one is
+entirely sure how to deal with.  It disrupts them, and that is for the good, I
+think, as they try and work it out and decide whether or not they can trust
+one another.
+
+====    ~writing ~script
+
+????    What makes up a script?
+
+     Yes, this is the actual text of a script.  And a script contains scene
+descriptions, dialogue, directions.  (Contrary to popular opinion, the actors
+don't just make up their lines when they hit the stage, based on loose ideas
+by somebody.)  My scripts tend to be *very* detailed, with camera movement
+suggestions, optical notes, indications of dissolves vs. cuts, on and on.
+---
+     A script page, single-spaced, works out to about the same wordage as a
+double-spaced prose fiction page, about 225-250 words per.
+
+====    ~ad-lib
+
+????    How much is ad-libbed?
+
+     The notion of how much actors improvise on TV is *grossly* exaggerated.
+I have not worked on any show yet in which the actor is allowed to just change
+lines or wordings on set without first getting permission from the story
+editor or producer.
+
+     The reason for this is very simple: episodes are not shot in order of
+scenes, but in order of location (i.e., all the mess hall shots are done in
+there, then you move the camera crew to another location, and you do all those
+scenes, then you interweave them in editing).  It's VERY easy to lose track if
+you're shooting that way, and you can change a line in scene 9, from "He said
+it's the absolute truth" to "He said he wasn't lying," not realizing that
+*another* character in another scene has already said, or will say, "Like Mike
+said, it's the absolute truth," and now those two scenes don't match.  Meaning
+you now have to go in and edit around it and loop the dialogue.
+
+     Sometimes an actor may not fully realize that there's a clue, or a
+particular line that must be repeated.  So the rule on EVERY show that I've
+ever worked on -- particularly the more technical ones -- have the same rule:
+absolutely NO changes allowed on set without consultation with the story
+editor/producer(s).  That's the rule on B5. Murder She Wrote, the Twilight
+Zone...on and on and on.
+
+====    ~ditillio ~ellison ~work ~writing ~production
+
+????    Tell us about how you work with DiTillio and Ellison.
+
+     We've recently, as of this past week, added a story editor to the staff.
+Larry DiTillio.  Which now makes three.  But there's an implicit understanding
+that this is a story that I want to tell, and I generally need to have final
+word on characters, stories and everything else that involves the scripts.
+Both Harlan and Larry are willing to defer to the reality that this is my
+universe.  I don't mean that to sound like an ego thing, because it's not.
+It's no different than writing a novel; I know where the story has to go when
+it hits the end, and we have to be sure not to fall off the tracks.  I didn't
+fight six years to get this show on the air to turn it over to a committee.
+
+     I know already that that is going to be probably my biggest problem when
+it comes to this series: turning over parts of it to other people.   Letting
+go.  But it's necessary.
+
+     It's important, though, to clarify the difference between letting people
+go where they want within a script, so that I can let Larry or Harlan or
+others have their own head, as opposed to general changes that might affect
+the story arc, which is a different category altogether.  The two of them have
+already had some great ideas on fleshing out some of the characters now that
+they're established, have expanded the universe and clarified many of the
+rules, the ideas, background stuff and so on.
+
+     I selected Larry as story editor because he's someone I've worked with
+dozens of times over nearly ten years; we know how one another works, to the
+point where we can shorthand a lot of stuff in meetings, which saves a lot of
+time.  He's an excellent script doctor when it comes to rewriting freelance
+scripts.  And he's one of the country's foremost role playing game designers;
+he's great on campaigns and coming up with huge sagas, and I need someone who
+can think on that kind of scale.
+
+     The other reason I had for selecting Harlan and Larry to work with, aside
+from their skills as writers, is that they're both two very strong individuals
+who won't be intimidated...*can't* be intimidated...and will fight for what
+they think is right.  I feel that's very important.  So they both give me an
+endless hard time.  Which is needed for the mix.
+---
+     Harlan is our conceptual consultant.  His job is to sit perched on my
+shoulder like Jiminy Cricket and point out to me the chuckholes, detours, and
+disasters-in-the-making that I might otherwise stumble into as I galumph my
+way through this show...and to harangue me and keep me on the SF straight and
+narrow and to challenge me constantly to do better.
+
+     He also reviews stories, helped write the opening narration, has given us
+several good concepts on the running of the B5 station, and
+otherwise...well...consults conceptually.
+
+====    ~story ~writing ~credit ~share ~b-story
+
+     There's some small amount of blurring that goes on in this show; a
+freelancer turns in a script, and things get added.  For instance, there was a
+need to really tighten up the story in "Believers," which could best be done
+by bringing in a small B story, which would allow us to streamline and
+intensify the main story.  So I wrote the B story and slipped it in.   In
+"Grail," for instance, there's a courtroom scene with a character named Mr.
+Flinn that was added to the script (I won't reveal what happens, but it's very
+funny.)
+
+     And of course nearly all of the freelance scripts have been based on
+assigned stories, something that's developed in-house (particularly if it's an
+arc story) and then given to a writer to do the full outline and script. So
+far the only story developed *outside* our offices first is D.C. Fontana's
+second script, "Legacies."
+
+     In none of these, however, will you see more than one writer's name on
+the script.  Just the writer who did the draft.  This is a policy I've had for
+a long time, starting on JAKE.  It's somewhat pro forma for some story editors
+or producers to do a rewrite, or add a scene, and then slap their name on the
+finished script...which cuts into the freelance writer's residuals forever
+thereafter.  My feeling is that if you're on staff, you are being compensated
+well for your work, and should leave the freelancers alone. The residuals are
+really their only way of making any real money off these things.  So we had a
+non-arbitration policy on JAKE, also on MURDER, and now on B5.  You'll never
+see a gang credit on this show.   Having been a freelancer myself, this sems
+the only fair way to run things.
+
+====    ~fan ~script
+
+????    What about fan-submitted scripts?
+
+     Re: scripts...for the first year, there will be only two people on staff:
+me, and Harlan Ellison, as creative consultant.  So the majority of the
+scripts will be freelance.  For that first season, we've already locked down
+our writers.  They will come from one of two groups: a) a small group of
+writers who I've worked with over the years and have trained to my tastes, and
+b) another small group of leading SF writers, many of whom don't work for TV
+anymore, but will break that absence for B5.
+
+     Part of the reason for this is to establish ourselves firmly during the
+course of that first season, get our feet wet, firm up our identity, and other
+hits by the same name.  It does no good for freelancers on the outside to try
+a script until they've seen at least one season, as well.   Finally, because
+there will be a certain amount of continuity and developing storylines from
+episode to episode, that requires a certain degree of direction from in-house
+on stories.  Very often we'll go to a writer and say, "Here...in this story, X
+has to happen.  Beyond making sure that X is included, do what you want."  An
+outsider won't have access to knowing what that X is.
+
+     Still, there will be episodes totally separate from the arc, and those
+are far more wide open.
+
+     One disservice that TNG has done the SF writing community is its -- in a
+way -- tendency to *use* SF fans as idea mills.  Hundreds of scripts arrive
+each month, they're read through, good ideas are plucked out, they pay a
+couple hundred bucks for the premise, then write it in-house.  Part of the
+reason they're always so desperate for material, and driven to this length of
+soliciting scripts from fans, is that they don't have a terrific reputation in
+the writing community.  Some of it is undeserved, a hanger-on from previous
+administrations, and some of it seems to have some basis in terms of the fact
+that you will never have the chance to see your script through to the end.
+
+     That problem does not exist with B5.  Our writers are already lined up
+and ready to go.
+
+     Starting with the second season, assuming we get that far, we will open
+things up more and be willing to look at finished scripts with a release form.
+I think that providing that opportunity is important.  But it won't be such a
+cattle-call in the way it's handled.
+
+======= Casting
+
+====    ~cast ~future ~actor
+
+????    Do the cast members know their characters' fates?
+
+     Some of the cast know the full extent of their character's story, some
+know a little, some know very little.  In those cases where we need to set
+stuff up for down the line, we have to explain some of these things.  Some of
+the cast want to know their future, some don't.
+
+====    ~ethnic ~casting ~minority ~culture ~hollywood ~international
+
+     Good point, btw, about the international aspects, on many levels.   I
+think that if we're going to fairly represent Earth in the future, you have to
+go beyond the "token" minority idea.  Not just one black, or one asian, but
+*lots* of folks in a mix...and not just from those two fairly safe groups.
+When was the last time you saw a Moslem on Trek?  Or a Jew?   Did somebody
+launch a Pogrom when we weren't looking?
+
+     That's the challenge...to be *truthfully* international, AND to show a
+true vision of the future, you're going to need Native Americans, Indians.
+Arabs, Africans, Hispanics, South Americans, Australians...on and on and on.
+Not to be politically correct (which I tend to think refers more to the way a
+character is *represented* than simply acknowledging his/her existence) but
+simply to include them as part of the human race as we go to the stars.
+---
+     The ethnic mix has nothing to do with any changes in the series.  We
+ended up keeping the mix intact.  Lost was one Caucasian woman, one black
+male, one asian female.  What we're adding is one Caucasian woman (Lt.
+Commander Ivanova), one black male (Dr. Stephen Franklin), and one asian woman
+(Catherine Sakai).  In addition, we're introducing a Hispanic doctor who will.
+we hope be a recurring character from time to time (look for her in
+"Believers" to start with).  And we will be doing more of this, not just in
+small parts, but larger ones as well.  We have been very careful to keep a mix
+of actors that reflects what our thesis is: that if we go to the stars, we're
+ALL going to the stars.
+
+     In fact, we just recently -- when we found out it was going on --
+instructed our casting people not to put any ethnic background information
+into the breakdown sheets that go out to actor's agents.  (In other words.
+usually you need a white male actor 30-40, with a mustache, that kind of
+specificity is commonplace in breakdowns.)  We have instituted open
+casting...anyone, of any ethnic background, is eligible for any role at any
+time.  We hope that this will *further* help us to broaden out the tapestry of
+our series.
+
+     This is a very committed show, on a lot of different levels, with the
+idea of trying to live out what we're preaching.  We have an almost equal
+breakdown of males to females in our crew and every aspect of our production.
+(I say almost equal because I'm *fairly* sure there are actually more women on
+the show, many in non-conventional jobs, than there are men.)  Our casting is
+open.  We've instituted recycling on an everyday basis.  I'm working on
+getting the styrofoam cups at the snacks table replaced by recycleable paper
+cups, and trying to set up a deal where we can give any leftover food from the
+catering truck to a shelter.  We've got women in the writer and director
+categories, and two of our three editors (a very dominantly male business) are
+women.
+
+     I don't like the way Hollywood works either.
+
+     That's why we're not DOING it that way.
+---
+     We've had no problem getting the word out, or getting people to
+understand our casting preferences.  The usual reaction is pleased
+astonishment....
+
+====    ~casting ~female
+
+????    Okay, how about casting females in parts usually given to males?
+
+     We do tend to try and stay open to gender stuff; usually there's a reason
+why someone is male or female, so it's cast that way.  But as an example...in
+"Quality of Mercy," the role as originally written was for a father/daughter
+combination.  In the process of casting, we thought, why not mother/daughter?
+So that's how it ended up.  In "Points of Departure," we have one of your
+requests already taken care of...a part of a war cruiser commander who
+could've been male or female...cast female.
+
+====    ~cameo ~crew ~netter ~bruice ~jms
+
+????    Will B5 crew members be featured in the show?  Will you do a cameo?
+
+     Actually, thus far, nearly everyone on our crew has appeared in the
+background of one episode or another, except for me.  Which is the way I like
+it....
+---
+     Nope, I don't do cameos; for me, it ruins the illusion.
+---
+     As a matter of fact, in a couple of episodes you'll see a photo of the
+Earth Alliance president.  The photo itself is of Doug Netter, my associate on
+the show and fellow executive producer.  (The woman running against the
+incumbent president in the election featured on "Midnight" is played, in
+photo, by our wardrobe designer, Ann Bruice.)
+
+======= Music
+
+====    ~franke ~line ~music ~composer
+
+????    Tell us about B5's composer
+
+     BTW, since as mentioned Stewart Copeland is going to be off touring and
+doing an album and other stuff, we've had to lock down someone else as our
+resident composer.  Someone suggested here numerous times has now been
+confirmed: Christopher Franke, of Tangerine Dream, who has done the
+soundtracks for such projects as Thief, Angel Falls, Universal Soldier.
+Tommyknockers and others.  In addition to being a solid percussion man and a
+great musician, he's a real techie, up on the latest technologies involving
+music and sound, and will be able to give B5 a VERY unique sound.
+---
+     It was the discussion early on here about composers, in which Chris
+Franke's name was mentioned, that bumped him to the top of our list and helped
+motivate us to take a look.  One more way the interaction has been positive.
+
+     And yes, he will be doing the entire season.  And composing a new B5
+theme.  (I keep suggesting something along the lines of "Bali High" from
+"South Pacific."  They keep hitting me with week old halibut. "Babylonnnnnnn
+FiiiiiiIIIIve.....")
+---
+     Well, we deliver our first final finished totally done episode on about
+October 8th.  Christopher Franke has some *great* ideas on how to handle the
+music, and plans a curious blending of music and sound effects in some places.
+plus instruments from other parts of the world not normally heard in the US.
+to try and create a "new music" kind of sound.
+---
+     The B5 soundtrack for the series is built from many different kinds of
+pieces, synthesized (based on one of the most extensive collection of
+musical/audio samples in the world, which Christopher has been in the process
+of collecting ever since he practically hand-assembled his first Moog), and
+symphonic, since we're using the Berlin Symphonic Orchestra for some elements
+of our score.  It changes dramatically depending on the subject.
+---
+     Christopher Franke is developing themes for each of the characters, plus
+themes for the station, for space in general, and for our various
+aliens...something that carries a sense of the minbari, the grey council.
+others.  He even wrote a wonderful little Narn libretto for G'Kar, a la
+Gilbert and Sullivan.  Some elements carry across shows, but in each show
+there are new and different pieces that work wonderfully.  He's nothing less
+than terrific.
+---
+     Actually, only a portion of the music for any given episode of B5
+consists of synthesized music.  Much of it is performed by Christopher's
+orchestra in Berlin, which is hooked via digital lines to his studio here in
+town.  Not all, certainly, but more than you might think is from that live
+orchestra.
+---
+     Frankly, in the long run, I'm *much* happier with Chris Franke.  Stewart
+was more of the "let's make a library of music and draw from it and remix a
+lot" school.  Nothing wrong with that, lots of shows do it.  Chris, on the
+other hand, uses *very* little library stuff; each episode is scored
+individually, and the music is lush, driving, powerful.  I couldn't be
+happier.
+
+????    I hate that "okay, laugh now" music that you sometimes hear!
+
+     After "Grail," we had a discussion with Chris about funny music.  We do
+not anticipate further discussions.  (In a full season of music for B5, this
+is the only discussion we've had of a critical nature, which is extraordinary
+for any series; he's done a lot of wonderful work for us.
+
+======= Visual Effects
+
+====    ~effect ~stock ~library ~establish ~planet
+
+????    How much stock footage is used in establishing shots?
+
+     We did some library stuff in the first few eps, but as we've ben (been)
+spending more time, we've built up more, and generally we have 3-4 new
+establishers per ep.  So there's less and less of it the deeper you get into
+the series.  (And when you come down to it, a shot of the station against a
+planet is going to be pretty much the same in general, unless there's specific
+activity going on around it.)
+---
+     We did a lot of exterior transitional shots in the first few eps of B5 to
+reinforce where we are and what this is; it diminishes in frequency the deeper
+into the series you get.
+
+====    ~cgi ~signs ~squared ~wilderness ~chrysalis
+
+????    Which episodes are heavy on effects?
+
+     Yeah, I'd say if you're looking for some cool CGI, you'll see it in
+"Signs."  I'd say overall that our most effects-heavy episodes are "Signs,"
+"Babylon Squared," "A Voice in the Wilderness" parts 1 and 2, and maybe
+"Chrysalis."  The first three in particular are real blow-outs.
+
+====    ~render ~station ~image ~cgi ~resolution
+
+     Also, Ron did *substantial* modifications to the B5 station itself.
+making it the biggest single object to render.  It has something like (and
+this is only my memory) 100 times the resolution of the station used in the
+pilot, so you can get right in close for paint-scraper shots.  It's much more
+detailed and substantial looking.
+---
+     Not necessarily...it may have been 100-times in resolution, or it may
+have been 1000-times in resolution...actually, as I think of it (via the fog
+that's in my head) I think you're right...I knew there was a 1 and some 0s
+involved in it...and it was a big deal...so maybe it *was* 1,000x.
+
+====    ~effect ~sky ~detail
+
+     Spent a very, very, very long day today in editing...not out of any
+problems, but because of the *astonishing* amount of detail we're putting into
+"And the Sky Full of Stars."  Leaving out all the live-action shots, there are
+25 CGI shots in one and a half minutes in one sequence alone.   (By way of
+comparison, there were 55 or so in the full two hour pilot for B5.) So we go
+frame by frame, making sure that everything meshes properly, through some
+pretty intense logistics.  You'll understand when you see it.
+
+     I've never seen the like of this particular episode before.  It's a real
+gem.
+
+====    ~render ~time ~cgi
+
+????    How much time is needed to render the images?
+
+     Re: time per scene rendering...you have to understand that the Toasters
+render 24 hours a day.  Ron et al set 'em going before they leave for the
+night, and the next morning come in to pick up the finished scene.  So you can
+do a LOT of CGI in the course of a week.  Generally several minutes of new
+stuff per week...and yes, that includes long, panning shots.  Trust me.
+there's a LOT of CGI in just about every episode of the series.  A couple of
+character-based stories are light, but they're more than compensated for in
+heavy-CGI stories like "Midnight," "Sky," and "Raiding Party," to name a few.
+---
+     Here's a thought to conjure with.  It takes about an hour to render a CGI
+frame that's very complex; 45 minutes if it's not terribly complex.   With the
+new Screamer, we can cut down that time by about half, so that a highly
+complex scene can be rendered in 15-30 minutes.  Average length for a CGI
+scene is about 60 frames, so figure 30 hours.  You can do a full show's worth
+of CGI in about a week, give or take.
+
+     Today we turn over the raw footage for a special scene that'll be in one
+of our episodes.  (Several scenes, actually, in the same episode.)   Ron's
+elves will be rendering 24 hours a day (on automatic at night) for the next
+THREE WEEKS to do something very special with this episode.  If it's done
+right, it won't really draw attention to itself, it'll just be very, very
+cool.
+
+====    ~cgi ~trek
+
+     Here's a Joe Predicts for you: by this time next year, ST will have gone
+either completely to CGI, or 95% to CGI.
+---
+     Also...apparently, at a convention, Rick Sternbach from ST said that the
+ST shows (DS9 and, subsequently, Voyager) would be shifting over to primarily
+computer EFX rather than models.  They're going to start coming over to OUR
+turf...and engaging in the usual learning curve, trial and erros, which we've
+already gone through.
+
+     Me...I just sit here and smile...and on one level, despite the way it may
+appear, I'm pleased.  It shows we were right.  And if they start doing CGI.
+it'll force both sides to again be competitive in terms of doing more, pushing
+things.  And that friendly competition is good for the blood, it should keep
+both shows on the cutting edge.  It'll also enable other shows to come in
+using CGI, meaning more SF on the air.
+
+     It also ties into what I've heard lately, that Paramount is getting
+hammered by some of the stations asking why the hell DS9 episodes often cost
+1.7 to 2 million dollars an episode to produce, where B5 is doing more, with
+half the budget.  I would love to hear the response to that.
+---
+     The funny part is that Berman and Pillar, according to mutual
+acquaintances and interviews, have been swearing up one side and down the
+other that they were never going CGI, were staying models.  And now they are
+coming to play on *our* turf.
+
+     Amblin's got Amigas with ten Screamers.
+
+     We've got only one Screamer.  But we've got Ron.
+
+====    ~cgi ~crisp ~blurry
+
+????    But the graphics look so darn crisp!
+
+     Just a note...re: the CGI looking crisp and unblurred...the blurring
+you're used to seeing is an artifact of atmosphere.  There is no air in space.
+and thus no blurring.  (Check the latest NASA footage for more on this.)
+That's of course why they put Hubble in space, to avoid the problems of
+blurring caused by atmosphere.
+
+     We probably could've put in atmospheric blurring to give it a different
+depth-of-field, but we have this bugaboo about being a -science- fiction
+show....
+
+====    ~cgi ~quality
+
+     The CGI are definitely getting better.  Year One was more or less getting
+used to the software and learning what was capable.  They've now gotten more
+sophisticated in their use of the equipment, more artistic in some ways...and
+the preliminary renderings I've seen for stuff in the beginning of year two is
+*very* cool.  It has even more of a sense of mass, and weight, and solidity.
+---
+     We're re-doing *all* of our computer displays for next year, using some
+nifty graphic designs.  Part of the problem is that the boys at Foundation
+were doing the displays, and they were swamped doing our main CGI, so that
+kinda fell by the wayside.  This year we've got someone who does ONLY our
+computer screens with us in-house.
+
+     Glad you liked the series font, btw; I picked it out me own self.   It's
+Serpentine Medium, for anyone interested.
+
+======= Makeup
+
+====    ~makeup
+
+     Makeup takes anywhere from 2-3 hours for our main characters on a regular
+basis.  In some cases, we've done something pretty close to full body
+prosthetics on G'Kar, and that is nearly double the normal time.
+
+====    ~mask ~prosthetic
+
+     Re: prosthetics...there are two parts, the inner area, which is taken
+from a mold of the actor's face, and the outer part, which is sculpted.  If
+you change actors, you do a different mold from the face of the actor to
+create the inner half, but you can keep the outer part the same (based on the
+sculpture).  Usually you sculpt it to stay close to and accent the actor's
+features.
+
+======= Sound
+
+====    ~sound ~surround
+
+     Just for clarification, while Chris does a great job on the music. the
+sound mix is done in the studio with our regular sound guys, who do the
+surround mix.  We spend a *lot* of time getting the mix to sound just right,
+to take full advantage of the surround channels.  A lot of the credit here
+goes to George Johnsen, our co-producer, who is an absolute perfectionist
+about this stuff.
+
+====    ~gun ~blast ~ppg
+
+     Our sound designer has finished working on the gun-sounds, and they sound
+very impressive.  We've come up with a different way of handling the gun
+sequences -- firing, impact, and sound -- based more on how these things would
+actually work if they existed.  And let me tell you, if you EVER ran into or
+heard one of these things coming your way, you'd get the hell out FAST.  We
+actually sat down for hours and tried to determine the effects on impact, on
+firing, on the surrounding atmosphere, and how to avoid the 30 mph problem
+usually associated with TV lasers.  (That is, you trace the "laser" across
+screen, you see it move, which means that this beam of light is moving slower
+than a bullet...which is silly.)  By all rights, it should be nearly invisible
+and nearly instantaneous...but then you don't see anything.  We've managed to
+come up with a nifty little solution to the problem.
+
+====    ~walla ~ditillio ~zocalo ~surround
+
+     BTW, for all you who ride the pause button and jack up the stereo volume
+(we're doing Dolby Surround, incidentally), I assigned Larry DiTillio to write
+a bunch of walla (background dialogue) for the Zocalo, the observation dome.
+customs and other areas.  Some of it's sane...but the rest...oh, man....
+
+====    ~sound ~space ~franke ~music
+
+????    How do you deal with the issue of "sound in space"?
+
+     And just so everybody knows...so you don't gig me on this later...I have
+spent more time than I want to *think* about lately talking with our sound
+people about the sound-in-space issue.  We've literally spent HOURS locked up.
+discussing various options, middle grounds, extremes and some off-beat
+possibilities.  I still don't know what we're going to do exactly, but for
+what it's worth, believe me, this has been examined to within an inch of its
+(and my) life.  What it comes down to now is this: we will have all of the
+options we discussed available to us at the final mix-down, and we will try
+them in different combinations.  Whatever works best is what we'll go with.
+And we won't know what that is until we get there.
+---
+     Today, at Christopher Franke's, I heard the music for "Soul Hunter," and
+it's brilliant.  It's very hard to describe...it's not rock, but it's
+aggressive, and powerful, not at all synth sounding.  And I think that he just
+may have resolved the sound in space question for the most part.  He tried
+some things we discussed, and it works great.  So this may be the solution
+we've been looking for.  (Though the first one who tells me there's no
+orchestra in space gets it in the eye.)
+---
+     We've found that what works best is to play primarily music as our space
+action/sound bed, overlaying just a tad with tonalities that aren't sound
+effects per se in most cases, but more sound cues that suggest a particular
+effect.
+
+======= Editing
+
+====    ~edit ~shot ~film ~robot
+
+     The editing, by the way, is a fascinating process.  Television is the
+process of making choices: you choose how to write the scene, you choose who
+you want to play the scene, the actor chooses how he wants to play the
+character, the director chooses how to stage the scene, the cinematographer
+chooses how to light and frame the scene, and then you and the editor choose
+how to structure that scene using the finished film.
+
+     What you have in your hands (not literally, since we're all computerized
+now, and hardly anyone uses film anymore in editing) is the film for a scene.
+You've got the master shot, showing everyone.  You may have 1, 2 or 3 takes of
+that shot.  Then you get the medium, close, and two-shots, as well as
+reverses.  You get 2-3 of those, times the number of characters in the scene
+(i.e., 2 close-ups of Sinclair in the scene, 2 or 3 close-ups of Garibaldi.
+plus the over-the-shoulder shots of both, on and on).  Though the staging is
+the same, the pacing of lines varies, the delivery varies, inflection, stance.
+attitude...there are subtle differences that become terribly important when
+you start cutting film.  Maybe the first close-up has the intensity you want
+in the first half, but falls off in the second part, so now you use part two
+of take two, which *does* finish with the required intensity.  But in that
+take, the actor visible in the same scene isn't quite where he's standing in
+the master shot, and you have to go back to the master for the next shot
+because that's where you need to see X entering the room....
+
+     It's a complex, complicated, exhausting process that requires you to hold
+the various scenes and shots all in your head at the same time, particularly
+if you want to do any last-minute restructuring, or "borrow" a shot from
+another scene to fill out this scene because there was a problem on the angle
+in what you've got.
+
+     But I'd be a liar if I didn't say it's an awful lot of fun.  You can make
+a scene play 50 different ways, depending on how you edit it.  And we've got
+some *great* editors working with us.
+---
+     We're using some state of the art computers for our editing work, in some
+ways in advance of EditDroid.  The first line is the Avid editor, which
+digitizes all of the printed takes from an episode and stores them in
+full-motion video/audio the same way you store a .gif file.  You can have
+instant access to everything; you don't have to swap disks in or out, and it's
+all immediate.  Once you've edited the thing to where you want it, you save
+the information to the system.  Then you provide all of the required prints to
+the major computer system at the editing house which then *automatically*
+assembles the entire cut overnight.  Operates almost entirely without
+supervision.  You come in in the morning, and your cut is waiting for you.
+
+     we're able to stay further toward the cutting edge of technology because
+we're small, new, and can react faster than something that has to work through
+an entrenched studio bureaucracy that has already invested major bucks in its
+old systems, and doesn't want to re-tool since what it has basically works
+fine.
+
+======= Video
+
+====    ~30 ~24 ~frames
+
+????    Is the show filmed at 30 frames per second[tv], or 24[movie]?
+
+     We *did* shoot the pilot (and will shoot anything that follows) at 30. I
+remember because somebody or other groused about the extra film costs.
+
+====    ~title ~opening ~ratio ~letterbox ~video ~composition ~hdtv ~laser
+
+     Well, we've finished finalizing our main/opening titles sequence, and
+done the on-line editing, and now will put it into the process and start
+putting whole shows together.  We've decided, in order to emphasize the
+cinematic aspects of our show, that it's taking more of a movie approach to TV
+SF...to do the main titles in letterbox format.
+---
+     Yes, the main titles will be in letterbox format for conventional
+televisions...we're taking the footage that we've shot in 16:9 aspect ratio.
+and shrinking it down just enough to fit, so there's black on top and bottom.
+the same way that, for instance, TNT shows movies in their full aspect ratio.
+And we've custom designed some CGI that also is in that format.  (In the case
+of series footage that we're using, there you'll be able to compare the
+regular aspect ratio of the broadcast with what's in the main titles.  In
+other words, there's a scene in "Parliament" of a Minbari gathering.  In
+regular aspect, as part of the show, you'll see it one way.  We've clipped a
+section of that for the main titles and used the full aspect ratio, and in
+that you'll see the far right and left sides normally clipped for standard TV
+aspect ratio.)
+
+     Apparently this is also done on Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, I learned the
+other day, so that'll give you some sense of it.  It's very effective at
+giving a real cinematic feel to your main titles.
+---
+     RE: composition...the monitor on which the director and DP can watch and
+see what the camera sees has on it demarkations to show the regular aspect
+ratio, as well as the widescreen view.  Which pretty much allows them to
+compose for both, for the most part.
+---
+     We're not shooting on videotape, so it's kind of a moot point.  We're
+shooting on film, which can be converted to HDTV standards *very* easily. The
+pixel density is a function of where you go once you decide to convert the
+film.  It's now being converted to video at standard resolution; when HDTV
+comes into existence commercially, the film will be reprocessed out and
+transferred to video at that level.
+---
+     We are shooting in 16:9 aspect ratio, cutting it down to normal TV aspect
+ratio for its initial broadcasts.  When a) the laserdisks are in time
+released, and b) when HDTV becomes more of a standard, the full letterboxed
+aspect ratio will be available.
+
+????    Why not just broadcast the episodes in letterbox?
+
+     Given that most household TV sets are fairly small, no, it wouldn't be
+fair or prudent to begin broadcasting the episodes in letterbox at this time.
+
+====    ~film ~image ~cgi
+
+????    How would B5 computer images look on the big screen?
+
+     Films are difficult because the level of resolution required to make an
+image that'll stand up to scrutiny on the big screen is still a major pain in
+the butt.  But that'll change in time.
+
+======= Production
+
+====    ~schedule ~day ~daily
+
+     For those who might be interested, I thought I'd pass along a quick view
+of the process of producing a show like B5, step by step (though briefly).
+
+     Day Minus 21: The script is finalized and distributed to all cast and
+crew.
+
+     Day Minus 14: The episode goes into serious pre-production, with meetings
+on visual effects, wardrobe, CGI and so on.  Props are designed and
+construction begun on both props and wardrobe and any sets that are specific
+to that episode.
+
+     Day Minus 10: Tone meeting with director and producers to make sure all
+parties see the story the same way.  Casting, begun on day 14, is finalized
+about this time.
+
+     Day Minus 6: Major production meeting with all departments, at which each
+scene is gone through in detail, examining and reinforcing what props.
+costumes, extras and lighting requirements are needed per scene.
+
+     Day One: Filming Starts.
+
+     Day Seven: Filming finishes.  Editing has been going on since day 2, as
+dailies arrive at the studio, with editors making rough assemblies of the
+scenes as they come in.
+
+     Day Eight/Nine: the director works with the editor to make the first.
+Director's Cut of the episode, relying to some degree on the preliminary
+Editor's Cut.
+
+     Day 10/11: Producers begin making their cut.  (Mainly me and John
+Copeland.)  Sit with editor and view each scene, picking out various takes and
+angles, integrating CGI.  Sometimes the cut varies a lot from the Director's
+Cut and is a whole new version...or it is very close to the Director's Cut.
+Producer's Cut finished around day 12/13.
+
+     Day 15: Producer's Cut is sent to primary editing bay for on-line
+editing, at which the frames of actual film are slugged and readied for the
+real thing (as opposed to editing computer images on the Avid).
+
+     Day 20: Episode is color-timed to make sure color values are correct.
+
+     Day 25: Spotting session...producers, sound designer, composer, dialogue
+editors meet and review the on-line edit or CTM (color timed master) to
+determine where sound and music should be placed, the kind of sound or music
+required, and number of frames/seconds duration.  Second spotting session with
+visual EFX supervisor to determine rotoscoping or other non-CGI EFX placement.
+
+     Day 39: Final mix-down of all elements: music, sound, looping, visual
+effects and other elements.  For this we sit in the mixing bay from 9 a.m. to
+7 p.m. nonstop, bringing in lunch, to determine balance of sound to music.
+music to dialogue, which elements to use or lose, and so on.
+
+     Day 46: Finished episode delivered to PTEN and in-house.
+
+     Total time required: 57 days.  And during this period, we are
+simultaneously editing at least 4-5 other shows, and have shot roughly another
+6 episodes, which are also in various stages of editing.
+
+     I've glossed over a few things, but that should give you some idea of the
+process and the highlights thereof.
+
+====    ~production ~order
+
+????    Are the episodes produced in the same order they are shown?
+
+     The production order was determined only by production requirements, not
+the story.  The airdate schedule is the one that matters.
+
+====    ~dubbing ~adr ~dialog ~looping
+
+     How much of any episode's dialogue is looped depends on whether or not
+the line was clear on the mike, if there was on off-camera noise, and other
+factors.  Sometimes there's almost none, sometimes there's a lot.
+
+====    ~black&white
+
+????    Any chance of black and white segments?
+
+     Actually, we came very close to doing a black-and-white segment this
+season, and might do so next.
+
+====    ~production ~cost ~money ~schedule
+
+????    How does B5 manages to keep costs so low compared to other shows?
+
+     On this whole "costs less = not as good" question, the one thing that
+galls me is the knowledge, accumulated through 120+ produced TV episodes, that
+30% *or more* of any show's budget is wasted.  It comes because you don't get
+a script until maybe 3-4 days before you have to shoot, and everybody works
+round the clock, ringing in double- and triple-overtime on EFX, costumes.
+sets, you name it.  So items that should by all rights cost maybe $150,000 end
+up costing you $300,000 or more.
+
+     In B5, we're generally 3-5 scripts ahead of ourselves at any one moment.
+Directors and crew get their scripts *weeks* before we have to shoot.  And
+even earlier than that, because I know what's coming down the road for the
+whole season, I can give someone literally *months* of advance warning on
+major EFX, or set requirements.  As a result of all this, items that normally
+cost $150,000 either cost exactly that, or we actually end up *saving* a
+little money.
+
+     A lot of television production is absolutely irresponsible.  That we are
+penalized in the press for acting responsibly is something that I just can't
+figure....
+---
+     One nice thing about the way we're doing this show is that we don't just
+have to set up gags within an episode; we can set them up *weeks* ahead of
+time, as long as the payoff is self-contained, but then when you see the
+earlier shows, now you get more out of it.
+
+====    ~schedule ~shooting ~season ~two ~year
+
+????    How is shooting for season two scheduled?
+
+     The time for prep on year two, if we were to get picked up, would be
+equal to year one, with the exception that we won't have to build all of these
+sets.  We'll have more time in that sense.  Again, the stories are pretty much
+mapped out for five years, so that's already done.
+---
+     P.S.  So far the first 3-4 episodes of B5's second season are in
+real-time order, each separated by a week in story-time as well as in real
+time.  It begins a few days into 2259, and the season would end just before
+the end of that year, with season three starting in 2260.
+
+====    ~history ~paramount ~pitch
+
+     Babylon 5 was conceived in 1986; the screenplay for the pilot (which was
+more or less what was shot) was written in 1987.  Also in 1987, art was
+commissioned and used to help in pitches to networks and studios.  The full
+project -- artwork, screenplay, series bible, treatment and sample stories --
+was shopped to several places, including Paramount in 1989.
+---
+     The first notes and drafts on Babylon 5 go back to 1976. though the first
+script wasn't finished until 1977/78.
+
+====    ~jms ~producer ~production
+
+     What do I do exactly?  Aside from writing my own scripts, I assign
+stories to other writers, and select those writers to work with.  (Because B5
+is tied to a story arc, many of our freelance scripts are based upon assigned
+stories.)  I'm also involved in every single stage of the series production:
+minus any notes from the studio (which are minimal, our last project got no
+notes at all, they're leaving us very much alone), Doug and I have final say
+over jevery aspect of the series.  (Generally Doug is more the businessman and
+deal maker, leaving most of the creative details to me.)  I do casting, work
+with the art directors on graphics, approve and work with the set designers.
+wardrobe people, prosthetics team, computer graphics team, visual effects.
+every single department.  I get final say on the editing of the shows.
+mussound effects, you name it.
+
+====    ~netter ~partner ~producer ~production
+
+????    What is your relationship with Doug Netter on the show?
+
+     As for Doug, he's my equal partner in the project.  Doug's been in the
+business as long as there's *been* a business, once serving as head of MGM. He
+was my producer on POWER, and he and I made a deal: he will never give me a
+creative note on that series.  And he kept that promise.  If it came in long.
+or short, or there was an effect we couldn't do, that was one thing, but
+creatively, he left me alone.  "I'm not a writer, that's your job," he said.
+There are very few people in this town who'll deal straight with you, and
+Doug's one of them.  So when I created B5, of all the choices available about
+who to partner up with, Doug was on top of the list.  He handles most of the
+business stuff, and I handle the creative stuff.  (Which isn't exactly true in
+some ways; I have to get into some of the business, and he has to get into
+some of the creative, but those are are general areas of expertise.)
+
+     His name generally appears in books about the film business, and in one
+of these books, it explains that when he was at MGM, his nickname was the
+Rattlesnake...hence, Rattlesnake Productions.
+
+====    ~budget
+
+????    What's the budget of a B5 episode?
+
+     The details of the budget per episide are classified...but you could
+easily take DS9's budget, cut it in half, and you'd still have more than we've
+got.
+
+     Which is, again, part of the overall plan...if we can prove that you can
+do quality SF on a budget comparable to non-SF series, it'll open the gates
+for more shows down the road.
+
+====    ~final ~cut ~executive
+
+     And yes, in TV, it's the exec producer who generally gets the final cut.
+whereas in film it's often the director (or, in some cases, the studio).
+
+====    ~pten
+
+     So far, the network (PTEN) is letting us do everything we want to do.
+even going for our more dangerous stories.  Which pleases me beyond anything I
+can convey to you.  They're trusting us to do what we think is right.
+---
+     I think that the PRIMARY reason that B5 is as good as it has been is that
+we've been pretty much left to our own devices without much in the way of
+interference from the studio/network.  The day a studio begins messing around
+with a show is when it pretty much becomes doomed.
+
+====    ~studio ~set
+
+     Preface: as has been stated before, since no studio facility was big
+enough for our purposes (we now have 20 standing sets and 57 swing sets, some
+120' wide or more), we took over an industrial facility roughly the size of
+Latvia and built three soundproofed soundstages, costume facilities.
+construction areas, dubbing room, prosthetics wings, you name it.  It's sort
+of a Lucas Ranch operation, everything under one roof.
+
+     A number of shows have taken over and converted such facilities to shoot
+series, but I'm proud to note that this is the *first* such conversion to be
+finally, officially and formally redefined by the city as a working studio.
+It's the *first* new studio in town in something like 10 years.  There's
+nothing else like it unless you want to actually go on the lot of a major
+studio.  (And it has the advantage of being off the lot, away from people who
+might wander into your stage and, oh, start giving you notes.  If you're a bit
+away, they have to drive over, and the hassle ain't worth it.)
+---
+     Ah!  Now I begin to understand.  Alas, my offices aren't on the Warners
+lot either; we're well and truly off-campus.  Next time look up north a piece
+past the Universal Black Tower, and wave, I'll see you.
+---
+     The end of the central corridor was a painting; correct.  And I never
+liked it.  So over the break, we *built* another 15 or so feet to the end of
+the corridor, going up, so now it's quite real, and we can put stuff in there.
+Much improved.
+
+======= Promos
+
+====    ~promo ~trailer ~teaser
+
+????    Who does the promos for the next episode? Why are they so inaccurate?
+
+     The teasers and promos are put together by the Warner Bros. marketing and
+promotions department.
+---
+     I have nothing to do with the trailers, except to sit in awe and
+astonishment, trying to recognize my episode in the trailer, which is a chancy
+business at best.
+---
+     Warners sometimes feels the need to "enhance" the shows through the
+promos...and sometimes they enhance them right into an alternate dimension....
+---
+     We're trying to get Warners to re-evaluate their approach to the teasers.
+
+=============== Audience ===============
+
+====    ~trek ~seaquest ~press ~publicity ~audience
+
+     Had a reporter in here the other day, and he asked if it bothered me that
+other shows were getting all the ink...meaning, I suppose, TNG and DS9 and
+SQ:DSV...and my response really said it all, I think.  It's like the Rocky
+movie.  Let the other guys get all the press, do the big flashy stuff, wave
+around big budgets...we'll just stand here in a meat locker, pounding slabs of
+meat with our bare hands....
+
+====    ~online ~warner ~pten ~demo ~computer ~platform
+
+     The one thing that I'd like to point out is that Warner/PTEN isn't in the
+programming business.  This isn't a normal part of their PR strategy. The only
+reason they have done this at all -- the B5 computer promo -- is in
+recognition of the online support here and elsewhere.  They have had to
+contract out for this, and because this isn't a proven (yet) strategy, could
+only carve out so much for it.  No, not every platform is covered; doubtless
+that will change with time.  But it's generally never done at ALL.  So I would
+just temper the discussion with that reality.
+
+====    ~impact ~viewer
+
+????    What kind of impact do you want the show to have on viewers?
+
+     The other day, a reporter asked me what I wanted to accomplish with
+B5...and I remembered this commercial showing a viewer plastered against the
+wall opposite the TV...and that seemed about right.  I don't want viewers to
+see a show and say, afterward, "Well, that was a nice story."   There has to
+be more than that.
+
+     And while we certainly have our episodes that are paced just a little
+more slowly, less intensely, because you have to have variation, have to allow
+time for character stories...there are some episodes, like "Sky," that just
+hit the viewer right between the eyes with a 2 by 4 *real* hard and say "HEY!
+PAY ATTENTION!  WE'RE NOT KIDDING HERE!"
+
+     Take no prisoners....
+
+====    ~con ~convention
+
+????    Will you be doing more con appearances?
+
+     I still plan to continue to go to cons, but probably at a somewhat
+reduced level, simply due to the requirements of exec producing this show and
+writing a smidge over half the episodes.  Probably hit the major cons.
+WorldCon and the like.  And always, *always* ComicCon.
+
+====    ~satellite ~iran ~iraq ~babylon
+
+     Re: satellite...one of the more interesting stories I've heard lately is
+that B5 is *very* popular via satellite...in Iran and Iraq, both of whom lay
+claim of one sort or another to the original Babylon.  Apparently that a
+Westerner has set a series in their well-remembered Babylon that is NOT a
+negative thing but a positive thing has got both countries quite pleasantly
+astonished.
+
+=============== Nitpicks ===============
+
+====    ~rank ~admiral ~administrator ~sinclair ~ambassador ~nitpick
+
+????    Why is Sinclair running this station? What rank would the
+        administrator have been if it hadn't been Sinclair?
+
+     As for Sinclair's status as both commander and ambassador...that is
+something we're going to deal with in the series.  By all rights, he shouldn't
+even BE there.  EA tried to stick an Admiral or some other high-ranking
+officer there.  The first race to sign onto the station, the Minbari, had
+approval over who was sent to that post.  They rejected everyone suggested.
+right down the line, until Sinclair.  EA Officials are still wondering why HE
+was selected.  (There is a reason.)
+
+     That post was previously designed to either include representing Earth as
+an ambassador (to avoid in-station conflicts) or as an adjunct to one. And at
+one point, an ambassador will arrive, and they will hash this out once and for
+all.
+
+     What you have picked up on are not flaws, but story points in the
+making...areas that will be explored down the road.  These questions WILL be
+answered.  It would have been very easy to make him Admiral or Ambassador
+Sinclair.  He was given this lower rank for a reason...and there are an awful
+lot of people who look at this, and wonder if Sinclair isn't just a *tad* too
+cozy with their former enemies in the war, and just where ARE his loyalties.
+*really*?
+---
+     Is it a conflict of interest...yes and no.  Sinclair functions much as a
+military governor in, for instance, California's past.  Someone in this
+position may speak on behalf of his government with neighboring countrires,
+and represent others.  Does it sometimes lead into a conflict of interest?
+Yes.  Is it sometimes unfair?  Yes.  Which is kinda like life, and that's why
+I rather like putting him in an awkward position.
+
+====    ~narration ~opening ~pten
+
+????    Can't you cut down on the narration size?
+
+     Doing the intro was something that PTEN wants for all its shows; if you
+check out Trax and Kung Fu, you'll see it there, as well.  It's my hope that
+we can trim the narration down by 1/2 in second and subsequent seasons.
+
+====    ~hyperspace ~travel ~light
+
+????    Aren't ships subject to relativity by travelling faster than light?
+
+     Actually, I'd argue that there's a difference between FTL travel, and
+removing oneself from the standard reference by entering hyperspace.
+
+====    ~gloves
+
+????    Why do so many characters wear gloves?
+
+     Talia, like all Psi Corps members, wears gloves because she has to, when
+in public, to minimize physical contact and accidental scans.  As for others
+wearing gloves...sometimes it's a fashion statement...and other times, well.
+space is very very cold....
+
+====    ~door
+
+????    Why are the doors shaped irregularly?
+
+     Re: the shape of the doors...they're set to notch into the wall, and in
+the case of depressurization, bolts shoot through the "teeth" that insert into
+the wall, to lock it securely into place.  It's much more airtight that way
+than a conventional door that swings or opens in the middle in case of an
+accident that opens a portion of the station to vacuum.
+
+====    ~station ~atmosphere ~orbit ~ship ~planet
+
+????    Why is Babylon 5 orbiting a planet, instead of being on a planet?
+
+     Many of the huge transports that'll be coming to B5 were never meant to
+operate within an atmosphere, they're strictly deep range starships, to which
+you transfer using atmosphere-capable shuttles.  We're not talking little
+flits, we're talking about ships that can be as big as a mile across. Dropping
+something that huge down into the gravity well of a planet is just unworkable.
+If you want something that can handle lots of big ships, it *has* to be in
+space...as in a station.
+
+     You could park a big ship near a planet, and use lots of shuttles to
+unload it down to the planet (gravity well, heavy cargo, lots of fuel, lots of
+time, more accidents), then haul it right back *up* again when it's sold or
+transferred...or you could build a station in zero G where your big transport
+just parks alongside, loads or unloads its cargo in zero gravity, and transfer
+it where needed.
+
+     And the atmosphere of the planet is no longer breathable.
+---
+     Yes, the nearby planet will eventually figure into the storyline.  No, I
+cannot currently tell you how.
+---
+     The world B5 orbits is Epsilon 3.
+
+====    ~lurker ~homeless ~station ~earth
+
+????    What are lurkers? Why not send 'em back?
+
+     Actually...y'know...it's funny, but I've been trying to come up with a
+name for the folks who just sorta roam B5, the "homeless" or others who have
+enough resources to get there in hopes of jobs or new worlds, and don't have
+enough to get off again...and who play a running game of tag of sorts with B5
+security..."Lurkers" ain't bad....
+---
+     Scenario Number One: sending the Lurkers back to Earth.  Comes a call
+from Earth Central: "Hell, no, you're NOT shipping them back here, we're
+overcrowded enough as it is, we will NOT give you permission to send them back
+here."
+
+     Scenario Number Two: turning them over to their representatives on B5.
+G'Kar: "Thank you very much for bringing this to my attention, Commander, I'll
+have him sent back at once."  Beat.  The commander leaves.
+
+     G'Kar: "Get OUT of here and don't come back!  I don't have time to deal
+with the likes of you, we're NOT paying to send you back to Homeworld, just
+get out!"
+
+====    ~humanoid
+
+????    There shouldn't be all these other aliens who look humanoid...
+
+     Actually, I disagree...the basic "model" of the human form is very well
+tailored and may be more general than we might suspect.  Legs for walking.
+probably two because all closed up sideways we present less of a silhouette
+for predators, and two legs are more nimble, can slip through narrower places
+than three.  Arms to lift, and hands to manipulate objects (show me a culture
+without a good opposable thumb) required for the birth of technology. Sensors
+(eyes/ears/nose) at the very highest part of the body, best for observational
+purposes, hunting and the like.
+
+     There are zillions of species on Earth, but you rarely seen anything
+above spider-level with more than six legs.  Now, I'm not saying that it's
+impossible to have other forms, not at all...only that the humanoid form may
+in fact be far more common than anyone suspects.
+
+====    ~starfury ~x-wing ~star ~war
+
+????    Why do the starfury fighters look like X-wings from Star Wars?
+
+     When we did the research on how a fighter could best operate in zero
+gravity, it seemed to require a four-wing axis with thrusters on every side.
+We've thus taken every possible step to make them NOT look like x-wings.
+particularly since there's no long, sleek forward section at *all*, it's a
+snub-nose, and the wings don't move, plus they have the unusual thruster
+combination.
+
+====    ~constellation ~orion
+
+????    I thought I saw Orion.  Are you showing constellations?
+
+     For starters, the Orion constellation would not look like the Orion
+constellation from another POV, say, 30 light years from here.  Another
+cluster of stars might *look* the same, or similar, but anyone expecting to
+see the constellations as we recognize them from here is going to be
+disappointed.
+
+     As far as I know, from what Ron's said re: constellations, while it may
+look like Orion, it isn't.  It's perception, the mind looking for patterns it
+recognizes.
+
+====    ~paper ~recycle
+
+????    They're using paper in the 23rd century, e.g. Universe Today?
+
+     It's not a paper,but synthetic material.  A customized (to each person)
+copy of UT comes out in your quarters, you take it with you, read it, dump it
+in the recycler and get it again the next day.
+
+====    ~cycle ~time
+
+????    Why the inconsistent meaning of the word "cycle" as a unit of time?
+
+     At one time we were working out what the time-reference would be on B5.
+One of the early things we talked about were cycles, but in fairly short order
+I decided against it because it didn't seem to mean much.   But this was.
+sadly, after "Grail" had been produced, and we couldn't dub over the cycle
+references with anything else, so it stayed.  It won't be appearing anywhere
+else henceforth.  One of our few continuity glitches.
+
+=============== Will there be... ===============
+
+====    ~holiday ~new-year
+
+????    Will there be holiday celebrations on B5?
+
+     We have a New Year's celebration in one episode later this season, and at
+some point will probably show other stuff next year.
+---
+     The new year's eve on B5 at the end of 2258 is definitely memorable.
+
+====    ~rank ~ea
+
+????    Will any high-ranking EA officers come to B5?
+
+     Yes, there are instances where other EA officers come aboard with
+equivilent or close ranks to our characters.  In one particular episode it
+makes for some considerable conflict....
+
+====    ~sf ~sci-fi ~convention
+
+????    How about a SF convention on the station?
+
+     An SF convention on board Babylon 5...oh dear....(slapping self, bad jms.
+*bad* jms).
+---
+     I don't know, but I think I can be *reasonably* sure that there won't be
+anyone there selling Dianetics books in the dealer's room....
+
+====    ~zero ~gravity ~garden
+
+     We plan to do some such shots for the series, in the zero-g section of
+the garden, and possibly in the zero-g cargo section that rides on top of B5.
+My mandate to Ron is to come up with a way of doing it that looks good. Once
+we have that, we'll do the story.
+
+====    ~time ~travel
+
+     With only one exception, you won't see time travel anywhere in the
+five-year run of the B5 story.
+
+====    ~sport ~recreation
+
+????    Sports and recreation?
+
+     Sports/recreation are things we're still trying to work out; not the
+conceptual part, but the part about "okay, how do we SHOOT this?"  I'm not big
+on "virtual reality" parlors or combat...I think people will still be more
+interested in playing with real people than pixels.  So we're trying to find
+ways we can visualize, in a TV series, things like zero-G tag or football.
+other sports that use our unique space environment.  One possibility is now
+being worked on, and we'll see if we can work it out for this season.  In any
+event, it's definitely something we're thinking about...I just don't want to
+rush into doing it until I know we can do it properly.
+
+====    ~dead ~minor ~kill
+
+????    In other shows, the characters that get killed off are always the
+        anonymous, unknown characters.  Will we see anybody get killed off
+        that's not just a minor character?
+
+     You'll get your wish...and you'll wish you hadn't....
+---
+     Matt: the most entertaining thing for a writer is creating a character;
+the second most entertaining thing is killing off a character.  Believe me, as
+you'll see in the Fight To The Death in the pilot, I have no problem dropping
+a body.  And as far as I'm concerned, only 2 or 3 characters in this series
+are indispensible...the rest are open to all kinds of interesting fates.
+---
+     The problem with episodic series is that, after a while, you know what
+the parameters are.  You know THIS character won't ever be killed, and THAT
+base has got to remain, and THIS can't change.  And you fall into a habit and
+into regular expectations.  I *love* to blow up those sorts of expectations.
+Find the one thing that NO ONE thinks you're ever going to do in your
+show...and do it.  It keeps EVERYBODY on their toes.  If you can tune in and
+never know for sure what's going to happen, knowing that everyone and
+everything is fair game, it makes the tension in the show far more real.  The
+reaction when Pilot/Jennifer Chase was killed off was astonishing...and when
+the base was destroyed with her.  I was at a con when it was shown, and one
+person finally broke the stunned silence and said, "Jesus, they're not kidding
+around, this IS a war."  Which was exactly the right response.
+
+     How this will affect B5...wait and see.
+
+====    ~ship ~enter ~leave ~hyperspace
+
+????    Will we get to see the point of view of a ship leaving or entering
+        hyperspace?
+
+     At some point, we'll probably see what it looks like from the ship'  POV
+leaving or entering hyperspace, yes.
+
+====    ~gay
+
+????    Will there be a gay character?  When will we meet this character?
+
+     (And at one point, we'll introduce a character -- assuming we haven't
+already -- who will be around for quite some time, and then we'll just drop.
+quite casually, that the character is gay.  I think that this is much better
+than doing A Gay Story.  Just drop it in and move on.)
+---
+     To give that information out now would defeat the dynamic of its
+revelation.  There's some stuff I can talk about, some that I can't.  That is
+one of them.
+
+     And how do you know you haven't already seen this character?
+---
+     Let me put this as simply as I can...in the year 2258, nobody *cares*
+about your sexual orientation.  It doesn't come up.  No one makes an issue out
+of it.  There are no discussions, no proclamations, no inquiries, no "how will
+they react?"  It's like being left-handed or right-handed; no one really cares
+one way or another.
+
+     Can we now move on past all of this?
+
+====    ~tractor
+
+????    Will there be tractor beams on the show?
+
+     B5 doesn's have tractor beams; for the most part, they don't exist in
+Earth tech of 2258, though other species might have them.  (There are
+differences in tech between races.)
+
+====    ~mime
+
+????    How about a planet of mimes?
+
+     An entire planet of mimes.....AN ENTIRE PLANET OF MIMES!?!
+
+     NUKE 'EM!
+
+     NUKE 'EM TILL THEY GLOW THEN SHOOT 'EM IN THE DARK!
+
+     YAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!
+
+====    ~bigotry ~earth ~first ~hate ~crime ~alien
+
+????    So, humans get together better in the future, is this universal?
+
+     That doesn't mean that bigotry is going to disappear, however; lilke
+religion, there is some dark impulse there -- the tribal preservation
+instinct, or somedamnthing -- that keeps turning up.  The target keeps
+changing, but the impulse remains.  So likely it'll turn toward the new
+"different" people...the outsiders...aliens.  I think you'll see a lot of
+people taking an "Earth First" (no relation to the current group) mentality.
+hate crimes against aliens, that sort of thing.
+
+====    ~flashback ~past ~sinclair ~running
+
+????    Are you going to use flashbacks to help tell the story?
+
+     Mike: we're not going to see a lot of Sinclair in the past, only what is
+necessary to understand the present...and there are going to be
+transformations, but I prefer to see my transformations take place in the
+present, pointing toward the future, than in flashback.
+
+     The difference, I suppose, is that in many shows, characters arrive at
+Point X in a series at the very beginning, and stay there for the duration.
+and we are sometimes shown what made them that way.  In B5, what I'm trying
+for is to take a certain set of characters, and move them all toward
+substantive changes in their lives, their characters, their beliefs and their
+allegiances.  Just about everyone on B5 is running to, or away from something.
+I don't want that simply as backdrop, I want that something to *catch up with
+them*.  That, to me, is where the fun starts.
+
+====    ~powerful ~being ~story ~alien
+
+????    Will there be any stories about all-powerful beings?
+
+     Mike: you needn't worry.  I find all-powerful beings of any stripe
+incredibly boring.  I find it more interesting when ordinary people are
+summoned to do extraordinary things, and must rise above their limitations
+without losing their limitations; succeeding in spite of them.  Sinclair is a
+man, period.  He may have a great calling ahead of him, as did Churchill or
+Lincoln or Alexander or (for all we know) Rondo Hatton, but they're all just
+men in the final analysis.
+
+====    ~transporter ~transmitter ~matter
+
+????    Will there be technology to transport matter?
+
+     Definite no on the question of matter transmitters.  That's a little too
+much in the magic/science-fantasy area for my preferences.  Space travel is
+done in ships.
+
+====    ~movie ~guest ~cast ~star
+
+????    Can you cast movie stars as guests?  DeVito? Lloyd? Gibson?
+
+     The problem, of course, with DeVito or Lloyd or (as some suggested) Mel
+Gibson or others it that their salaries would be, individually, equal to our
+entire production budget for 3-4 episodes.  Which means we'd have to shoot
+only 18 rather than 22.
+
+====    ~clothes ~uniform
+
+????    Will the crew wear anything besides crisp new uniforms?
+
+     Finally...yes, there are leftover clothes.  Why not?  There are in real
+life.  What you'll often see Sinclair wearing, when he's off duty in his
+quarters, is an old scruffy sweatshirt/sweater from the EA flight school.
+
+====    ~morn ~norm
+
+????    Will there be a "Norm/Morn" type in B5?
+
+     What is a Norm/Morn type?
+
+====    ~station ~inside ~garden ~life
+
+????    Will we be seeing more of the vegitated inside of the station?
+
+     Yes, we will.  In addition to the Zen garden, and the Fresh Air
+Restaurant, we'll be seeing the Orchard, the Pavillion, and the Maze, though
+you won't see the last one there for some time.  I don't think it shows up
+until "Chrysalis."
+---
+     There is some limited life within the garden...some birds (which you can
+hear sometimes), and insects, and the like.  (In one shot you can see an
+insect fly off one of our actors.  Yeah, sure, like we planned that....)  It's
+generally one season in the Garden, and plants requiring variation are raised
+in a separate hydroponics area, such as the orchard (seen in "War Prayer").
+---
+     Re: the crops/parkland...no, there are no settlements there.  You don't
+waste precious land needed for farming and oxygen reclamation and hydroponic
+gardens to throw up a shack or house.  Those who work in the central Garden
+area live in standard B5 quarters.  There are some recreational areas, a hedge
+maze (as you'll see later this season), and we're adjusting some of our sets
+to reveal more of the garden area.  No one "camps out" on the surface; if they
+try, they're destroying precious crops, and are arrested.
+
+====    ~cloaking
+
+????    How about clocking technology?
+
+     Who says you haven't already *seen* cloaking tech?
+
+=============== Products ===============
+
+====    ~merchandizing ~product ~deal
+
+     For me, merchandising is one of those aftershocks of the creative
+process, sort of an, "Oh, yeah, there's *that* part over there, too."  I'm not
+disdainful of it, it's just not something that I think about a lot, because
+first and foremost it's a *distraction*.  You start thinking about the
+*P*R*O*D*U*C*T* and not about the story.  Then you start bending the story to
+work in the product.
+
+     And that's something I've fought against as long as I've *been* in TV.
+When I was at Filmation, I fought tooth and nail against *any* interference in
+content from the sponsor, Mattel.  Especially when they started forcing in
+characters simply so they could market them.  That was the reason I resigned
+from Captain Power after the first season; my sense was that too much
+attention was being given to the merchandise aspect of the show, to the
+detriment of the series.
+
+     If a deal is set, I want to be part of the process afterward to insure
+the quality of the product, so it won't be a slapdash or cheap thing.  And it
+should be representative of the spirit of the show.  But that, for me, is
+about it.
+
+====    ~director ~pilot ~video ~release ~footage
+
+????    What are the odds of a director's cut of the pilot being released
+        which incorporates pilot footage which was removed?
+
+     The odds are zero, since the first version of the B5 pilot existed only
+as a computer-graphic file edited movie.  It wasn't edited on film, for real.
+until we'd pared it down.  We'd have to go in and totally re-edit and
+re-score, and I doubt that's going to happen.
+---
+     The computerized cut of the pilot is now dumped out of memory, and those
+portions only exist on a few VHS tapes of marginal quality.  Also, the footage
+in computer file form is *very* low grade, like a poorly scanned gif file.
+very low resolution.  It would be useless on a laser disk.
+
+====    ~script
+
+????    Will you be releasing scripts?
+
+     No plan to make the scripts available at this time, but who knows...?
+
+====    ~laserdisc ~video ~release ~widescreen
+
+????    How about laserdiscs?
+
+     I'm led to understand that videotapes of B5 will be out sometime around
+the Fall or so, from first season.  There will eventually be laserdisks, and
+the best part of *that* is that they'll be in the original letterbox format in
+which the show is actually filmed.
+
+     In fact, in preparation for that, we've begun the process of transferring
+the videotape CGI effects to film, in correct aspect ratio to match the
+original live-action film.  As we finish, this will all have to be
+quality-controlled, so though it's a burden, I've volunteered to get the first
+set of widescreen tapes so that I can screen them prior to final transfer to
+disk.
+
+====    ~soundtrack
+
+     I'm sure at some point there'll be a B5 soundtrack album, but when, I
+don't know.  My guess is that it'll wait until we have more stuff from the
+series to plug in.  I want to buy a copy for myself....
+
+====    ~technical ~program ~cd-rom ~compton
+
+     BTW, Compton's has signed to do a CD Rom of the Babylon 5 Universe, which
+is going to be VERY comprehensive...all the alien races, including the League
+of Non-aligned Worlds, background on the war, dictionaries, other reference
+stuff, you name it; it'll also be able to take advantage of the latest
+voice-recognition software, so you can run it exactly as the B5 computer is
+run.  ("Computer, language search, "Satai.")  There will even be some original
+CG and live-stuff shot for it.  It should be a killer CD Rom. (Now if only I
+could get my system up and running....)
+---
+     Re: the CD-Rom...we're planning some very cool stuff.  I've indicated on
+all pending licensing deals that I don't want them to be just one more media
+tie-in; they should have some independent value.  So in this case, I really
+want to use it to de-mysticize what television is, and how it's produced.
+Something for educational purposes.  So we'll track how the process is done.
+by taking a micro-example: from concept, to a scene in a script, to costume
+designs, production/set design, storyboards prosthetics, filming, editing.
+scoring and mixing.  As a culmination of this, there will be 5-7 brief dailies
+shosts, all from the same scene.   The job then is for the user to edit these
+dailies (establishing shot, medium close-up, close-ups, inserts and the like)
+into a *scene*.  You can literally see the dozens of ways you can create a
+scene from the same footage.  You can then play it back, possibly with some
+music, and see how it works...then play back the real scene as we did it, and
+compare and contrast.
+---
+     Last date I heard was January 1995, but the main problem is that there's
+just an awful lot of information to codify and assemble, and Compton's has
+been going through some personnel changes of late.
+
+====    ~technical ~manual ~program
+
+     I believe that Ron is working to put together a possible B5 tech manual
+sometime soonish.
+
+====    ~game ~rpg [role-playing game]
+
+     No word yet on any B5 RPGs, though it would be a perfect candidate. And
+Larry's the right one to write it (assuming I'm not keeping him busy on other
+stuff).
+
+====    ~autocad ~ship ~release
+
+????    Will Autocad documents of ship designs be made available?
+
+     I really don't know if they'll be released as autocad stuff or not, but
+will try to remember to inquire.
+
+====    ~blooper ~reel ~christmas
+
+????    Will there be a blooper reel?
+
+     The bloopers reel/christmas reel we did is just for internal use, I'm
+afraid (though it's *very* funny).
+
+====    ~licensing ~pten ~warner
+
+     PTEN licensing is handled by the Licensing Corporation of America, which
+can be reached via Warner Bros.
+
+====    ~fan ~club
+
+????    How about a fan club?
+
+     Since the series began to air, there's been a flood of mail and calls, so
+some kind of organization will be necessary to handle this, though no
+framework has been finalized yet.
+---
+     We're in the process of setting up some kind of fan liaison office. which
+would do some limited sales stuff, just enough to pay its own way.  Should
+this come about, we'll sell some of the B5 scripts through this office.  (One
+difference between us and ST is that we will pay the freelance writers a
+*royalty* on any scripts of theirs we sell.)  But this is still in the works.
+
+=============== JMS Himself ===============
+
+====    ~jms ~kosh
+
+     "JMS reminds me a little of Kosh...or is it the other way around?"
+
+     If it helps, bear in mind in which brain Kosh was *created*, and where he
+resides in off-hours, in this big circle running around in my skull with
+Delenn, Kosh, G'Kar and Londo chasing one another endlessly, like white mice
+in a wheel....
+
+====    ~favorite ~preference ~chrysalis ~sky ~jms
+
+????    What are your favorite episodes of the season so far?
+
+     By the way, if anyone's curious, here's how I'd rank the first six
+episodes in terms of my own personal preference, from 1-6: "The Parliament of
+Dreams," "Mind War," "Soul Hunter," "Born to the Purple," "Midnight on the
+Firing Line," and "Infection."  We'll see how close this coincides with your
+own reactions.
+---
+     But I'd say that our two *best* so far are still "And the Sky Full of
+Stars" and "Chrysalis."  I just watched a cut of "Chrysalis" today which
+finally had all the CGI in it, and had to scrape my brain off the opposing
+wall, it's *that* good.
+
+====    ~satisfied
+
+????    Are you satisfied with how the episodes have come out?
+
+     Generally speaking, in television, you're lucky to get on screen about
+half of what you had in mind when you saw it in your head.  So far, the
+average here is about 80%.  In a very few cases, I don't think the finished
+episode delivers as well as it might on the script, but for the clear majority
+of them, the episodes come through.  And in some cases, like "Sky" and
+"Parliament" and especially "Chrysalis," I got *over* 100% of what I had in
+mind...it came out even better than what I'd had in my head when I wrote it.
+It's a confluence of many factors...the guest star and how much he/she *gets*
+it, the EFX, the direction, and other things.   But across the board, I'd have
+to say that I'm very satisfied.
+
+====    ~success ~show ~rating
+
+????    How would you rate the success of the show?
+
+     I'm not sure, from my perspective, that there's any one definition of
+success that I'd use.  There are several:
+
+     1) How much is the project in its final form what I conceived it to be?
+This is something that Harlan keeps hammering home at me, pointing to what
+happened to him on the Starlost by way of comparison...it was dreadful, and he
+had to take his name off it. It's the show I wanted to make, made the way I
+wanted to make it, so on that level, I'm content.
+
+     2) The ratings.  Is what we conceived of interest to other people, or
+have we missed the mark?  Television, like any other medium, is aimed at an
+audience.  If the audience isn't there, then it comes down to "does the tree
+make a noise when it falls in an empty forest?"  Whether it's good or bad
+becomes nominally irrlevant.
+
+     And 3) Whether or not anyone talks about the show, or remembers the show.
+years down the road.  Something can get a lot of attention, critical acclaim.
+ratings, be what the creators envisoned...and be gone in a year, the flavor of
+the month.
+
+     If I had to pick one, it'd be #3.  As an atheist, my sense is that one
+achieves immortality by the effect one has on others.  If the show lives on
+beyond me, then I am satisfied.  Twain observed: "If you want your work to
+live forever...and by forever I mean fifty years...it must neither overtly
+preach nor overtly teach...but it must *covertly* preach and *covertly*
+teach."
+
+====    ~tv ~spinoff ~five
+
+????    Do you want to keep writing for TV?
+
+     It's hard, because as much as I enjoy TV, it's basically ephemeral; books
+stick around.  And I got into this whole gig at the beginning by writing
+prose.  Which is why, as I've noted before, if the B5 story goes its full
+length -- whether that's just 5 years, or with a possible spinoff, 10 years --
+when it's over, I'm retiring from TV.  By that point, I will have said
+everything I want to say for TV.  Then it's a house somewhere outside London
+or Cambridge, and novels.  I figure I'll be about 50 at that point (assuming
+10 years), and I'll have enough years left in me to tell some decent stories
+before it gets dark outside.
+
+====    ~record ~activity ~genie ~chronology ~dailies
+
+????    Are you keeping a record of your activities in the creation of B5?
+
+     As for keeping a record...I try, if spottily.  Oddly enough, the very
+best record of this process exists in the multi-megabytes that have been
+exchanged here, on GEnie and elsewhere.  It's something of a living
+chronology.  I try to take photos on the set (when I remember), and I'm
+keeping 1 copy of each day's dailies, instead of recycling the tapes.
+
+====    ~past ~writing ~break ~start
+
+????    What things have you worked on in the past?  How did you break
+        into writing?
+
+     I've always found "how/when did you get your break into writing" to be a
+very weird question, at least in my case; like asking a doctor, "when did you
+get your break into foot surgery."  It wasn't one thing at one time.  This is
+a career that I've prepared for, and worked toward, and entered incrementally
+over a very long period.  I always knew that I would be a writer, used to
+collect pencils and paperclips and could determine the better grade of erasers
+and #10 pencils at an age when most kids were still trying to figure out which
+end to hold.  It's just a quirk.
+
+     When I was 16, after having read comprehensively in every genre I could
+get my hands on, I decided that now was a good time to start.  So I began
+writing.  Short stories, poems, playlets, articles, you name it, I wrote it. I
+didn't show anyone at first, just kept slamming words together in the process
+of learning how to make little explosions of character and action. When I felt
+ready -- six months later -- I began showing it around.  The high school I was
+attending began producing some of my one-acts, and commissioned a full play
+from me; I began selling articles to local newspapers and magazines; even
+placed a one-act with a local theater, which decided to produce it before
+discovering that I was only 17 years old.  (When I showed up, they kept
+waiting for my parents to arrive, until I pointed out that *I* was the JMS on
+the script.)
+
+     After that, it was just a process of *writing* and *sending it out*.
+There is no mystery, no big break, no sudden revelation or secret handshake.
+Bit by bit, I sold more articles, sold more plays, sold some short stories.
+and bit by bit, almost without noticing, the list of credits got longer until
+one day, people started asking me when I knew I'd Made It as a writer, when it
+hadn't ever occured to me that I *had* made it as a writer...I hadn't realized
+it'd happened.
+
+     It's the difference, I suppose, between buying a finished house, and
+there it is...and watching the house go up brick by brick over a long period
+of time.  At what point did it "become" a house?
+
+     It's probably not a helpful answer, but it's the only one I have....
+---
+     Tolkien's work had a *profound* effect on me in college; as I later read
+all of the background material, the reams and reams of "history" that he wrote
+to background his novels, I began to realize that *that's* the way to do it.
+So I tried to take that kind of approach, filling out as much as humanly
+possible about the universe, characters and history.  It's the only really
+sensible way to tackle something this large.
+
+====    ~jms ~book
+
+????    What did you read growing up?
+
+     My favorite books when growing up: the Lord of the Rings trilogy. a
+Lovecraft anthology (The Color out of Space), and the Martian Chronicles.
+
+====    ~straczynski ~jms ~name ~formality
+
+????    Why "J. Michael Straczynski"? What do people call you? What do we call
+        you?  How is it pronounced?
+
+     It's "J. Michael Straczynski" on title credits mainly because that's the
+way it looks best, frankly.  Lets you sneak up on the whole name in
+progressively larger bites.  Joe Michael Straczynski looks kinda dumb to me.
+also too long; Joe Straczynski is too short, and unbalanced in terms of layout
+(he said quickly).  My friends call me Joe.  My crew calls me Joe. One person
+on the crew kept calling me Mr. Straczynski, which you should try saying out
+loud sometime.  Even *I* can't do it.  It was so painful to listen to that
+after a while I kept calling back "Joe" at him until he got the message.
+---
+     I've never been real big on formality.  And I know that typing
+Straczynski can be a fearsome thing indeed.  Fingers were never meant to move
+in that particular configuration, I think, and more than one person has had to
+dial 911 with his nose when his fingers tangled on the keyboard.
+
+     Point being..."Joe" is just fine.  If there's another Joe in a thread (as
+above), "Mr. S." is is also fine if you need to make the distinction. (One or
+two have called me Big S.  Some comment that I'm the biggest S in town...and I
+wish they wouldn't smile quite so broadly when they say it, or hold it quite
+so long.)
+
+     In any event, we're all in this together, so I think we can let formality
+slide.
+---
+     Americanized version: struh-zin-ski.
+
+     Byeloruss (native) version: strah-chin-ski.
+
+====    ~straczynski ~power ~lingerie ~household
+
+????    Is Straczynski a household name?
+
+     I hate to burst any bubbles, but I can go just about anywhere in the U.S.
+and find that nobody knows the name Straczynski, and the only time I've caused
+a mob scene at a K-mart was in a tussle over the last Captain Power
+figures...or was that when I wandered into the lingerie section and...well.
+never mind.
+
+====    ~role ~gerrold ~believers ~executive ~producer
+
+     Here's one of those interesting little things that happen sometimes
+during production.  We're shooting "Believers," David Gerrold's story.   Now.
+when we break for lunch, we all eat together -- crew, cast, writers.
+producers, everybody -- in this little area behind the stage.  I try to
+encourage everybody to stick around for lunch rather than split so that we can
+maintain that sense of being a real unit.
+
+     Anyway, I'm sitting across from someone I've seen on set a few times.
+who's apparently the teacher for a young actor we're using (Jonathon Kaplan)
+in "Believers."  I don't make a big deal out of my position on the show, dress
+like everybody else, so the guy sitting across from me at the table asks, "So.
+who do you play in this?"
+
+     Unable to resist the temptation, I say, "I play the executive producer."
+
+====    ~jms ~camera ~ellison ~tv
+
+????    Wanna be on Tee Vee?
+
+     As for me...the TV camera doesn't like me, it just sorta slides over me
+and adds 10 years to me.  Complicated by the fact that when I'm shoved in
+front of a TeeVee camera, my head retracts like a turtle, my neck disappears.
+and everything goes everywhere.  Harlan, on the other hand, is comfortable
+before a camera.  The camera *loves* Harlan.
+
+====    ~earthquake
+
+????    How did you and Babylon 5 come through the big 1994 earthquake?
+
+     Came through pretty much okay, all considered.  At the house, the living
+room fireplace is now IN the living room (on the floor), the patio has
+separated from the rest of the house, there's major cracks all over the place.
+everything that was on shelves is now on the floor...but the stage came
+through okay, and we're back to shooting today, if possibly on a reduced
+schedule.  (Everyone was given the option of not coming in today, but everyone
+wanted to show support, get back on the horse again, and get going.  Some even
+came in on their own time Monday to help with cleanup.)
+---
+     The worst part of the quake, really, was that my house was without
+electricity until Midnight Thursday night.  So I'd write (up against a real
+deadline because of the quake) at the office, charge up my notebook computer.
+go home, fire up the notebook, and write scripts by flashlight.
+
+====    ~religion ~spirituality ~atheist
+
+????    Where do you stand on religion?
+
+     I am an atheist, a total atheist, and am more than happy.  What I write
+is what I write, what I am is what I is.
+
+     Yes, much of my own background goes into what I write.  In the case of
+religion, and spirituality...a writer's job is to be as honest as he can in
+telling a story.  My canvas (for lack of a less grandiose term) is the human
+condition.  And since the dawn of sentience, humanity has been trying to
+figure out its place in the universe.  The religious impulse is as much a part
+of that process as anything else, and it must be treated with integrity and
+respect, as I would have my own views respected.  I try not to exclude
+something just because I don't agree with it, because that corrupts the whole
+purpose of writing, which requires an honest look at the subject.
+
+     And as a writer, there are parts of the religious impulse that I want to
+examine, and explore, and raise questions about, just as much as I'd like to
+explore the scientific aspects of living in space, and the more personal.
+emotional repercussions of this.  It's all a part of trying to figure out who.
+and what, and *why* we are.
+---
+     Actually, religion isn't totally irrelevant to B5 in that in several
+episodes we'll be dealing with, or touching upon that issue...there's a bit of
+it in "Soul Hunter," "By Any Means Necessary," "The Parliament of Dreams,"
+"Legacies," "Believers" and a couple of others.
+---
+     I've never felt the need, as a writer, to be didactic about this stuff.
+No, I don't believe in an afterlife...I also don't believe in the actual
+existence of Vorlons, either, but I write about them.  I don't think it's a
+requirement.  H.P. Lovecraft was one of our best writers of supernatural
+fiction, but I very much doubt that he believed in the Old Ones, or made
+bi-weekly offerings to Cthulhu.
+
+     All areas of human endeavor should be open to exploration, discussion and
+analysis, for what we can learn from them.
+
+====    ~nepotism ~drennan ~spousal ~means ~necessary
+
+     One thing I can mention now, since it's nearly finished: see, I have this
+real problem with nepotism.  Specifically...I hate it.  As a result, I make
+people I know work twice as hard.  The closer the tie, the more the person has
+to work to prove him or herself.
+
+     Kathryn Drennan, my Spousal Overunit, is also a writer, and has written
+for many other shows, primarily in animation, but with some forays into other
+areas.  (She was co-author on the Night Gallery series of articles I wrote for
+Twilight Zone Magazine, as one fr'instance, and was a producer with public
+televison for some time.)
+
+     Anyway, she desperately wanted to write a B5 script.  But because of my
+feelings about nepotism, I refused to give her an assignment.  (I can be a
+REAL pain in the ass.)  Something similar happened when I was working on The
+Real Ghostbusters; she loved the show, and wanted to write for it.  I put her
+through the wringer: she had to submit written premises, just like any other
+freelance writer, which were then sent on to the producers for final approval.
+They did not know of any relation between her and me; they based their
+approval only on the merits of the story.  Period.  And she ended up writing
+two episodes: "Egon's Dragon" and "The Man Who Never Reached Home." (The
+former is considered a favorite by many viewers of the show.)  Only long after
+we finished production did the exec producers on TRGBs learn that there was a
+relationship there; it was all based on the quality of the work.
+
+     But in the case of B5, I *am* the exec producer, so it became more
+difficult.  At first I said simply no.  Finally, I set into place a number of
+conditions/provisions.  NOT because she wouldn't do a great script, but only
+because I don't like the look of nepotism; I hate it, and I hate the way this
+town operates on the principles of nepotism.  The conditions were that she had
+to write the script completely on spec, no assignment; not a spec outline.
+which is shorter, but a spec *script*.   It would then have to pass muster
+in-house; if even one person thought it wasn't up to snuff, it got deep sixed.
+And revisions would not be handled by me, for the most part; she would have to
+work with Larry, who has a reputation (as Katherine Lawrence can attest) to
+not pulling his punches.   No favoritism.  Then the script would have to pass
+muster with Warners.   IF, after all that, the script was approved, then it
+would be bought, and not a moment before.  If anywhere along the line it
+didn't meet one of those criteria...then it would be a 50 page learning
+experience and nothing more.
+
+     Well, I'm pleased to say that it *did* pass muster with everyone, and "By
+Any Means Necessary" is now over halfway through production, with a number of
+people -- including Michael O'Hare -- saying it's their favorite so far.
+mainly for very odd reasons.  The premise is one that ST would never, EVER do.
+which is one thing I like about it; it also shows us more on the inner
+workings of B5, the blue-collar types who keep the whole place
+operational...and what happens when that falls apart.  The B story gets into a
+confrontation between G'Kar and Londo when Londo interferes in an important
+Narn religious observation.
+---
+     Kathryn's last name is Drennan.  Her full credit is Kathryn M. Drennan.
+Not Straczynski.  Probably displaying considerable wisdom on her part.  Ten
+thousand letters, no vowels.
+
+====    ~favorite ~television ~prisoner
+
+????    What's the coolest show ever made?
+
+     Disagreement: the coolest show ever made is THE PRISONER.  I hope to
+capture a little of the flavor of that show, mainly by playing a little with
+surrealism, what's real and what's not...but it'll pale beside that show. THE
+PRISONER, for me, is the perfect television program.  I've never really seen
+its equal.
+
+====    ~message ~comment ~online
+
+????    Are you still keeping up with the online community?
+
+     Yes, I try to log on here about once a day, and though it's getting
+tougher, I still read through *all* the messages in this area, though at times
+I skim a bit.  From my perspective, I try not to get in the way of the
+discussion, by either encouraging or discouraging positive or negative
+comments.  If I think someone is being unfair, or is just coming in to lob in
+a firecracker, watch everyone scatter and yell, and then run away (as the
+occasional spineless mindfucker among us is wont to do), I either fire back.
+or simply ignore the post.
+
+     The one major reason I decided to begin this interaction, despite
+CONSIDERABLE discourgement and disbelief from my peers, is that I think it may
+be of some use, and because I think that one should be willing to stand
+publicly with what you create, and because though many criticisms are issues
+of taste or subjective preference, sometimes (fairly often, actually), I learn
+something from the discussion, or I'm corrected in something, and that
+realignment is eventually reflected in the show.  I'm giving some serious
+thought to either revamping n'grath or killing him off given the reaction
+(paired with my own).  I won't be dictated to, but in some cases, as with
+n'grath, I may be uncertain, but willing to try and see if the experiment
+works.  Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, and the general perception
+here seems close to my own.  In addition, I was initially going to gloss over
+some of the legal aspects of the Psi Corps in "The Quality of Mercy," but when
+so many people expressed interest in how that worked, and when I saw some
+measure of confusion about it, I took the time to indicate how the legal
+aspects work when it came time to complete that script, thus answering the
+questions.
+
+     Sure, there've been more hostile or abusive or insulting messages posted
+here, primarily to get a reaction...I've seen that game before, and I'm
+neither impressed nor annoyed.  The general level of the discussion -- pro AND
+con -- is still generally of a high level, and quite revealing.  The
+experiment continues.
+---
+     BTW...someone dropped me an email note mentioning in passing that
+somewhere else there's a discussion going on about *this* discussion, and
+indicating that my presence here inhibits criticism of B5.
+
+     First, if I believed that, I wouldn't be here.  Second...it ain't true.
+
+     Along with logging on here and on a number of other systems under my own
+name, there are a few BBSs -- regional and national -- which have B5
+discussions giong on where I also hang out...but either under a pseudonym, or
+without leaving messages, thus no one knows I'm lurking.  I do this in order
+to get an unbiased view of the show, without my presence affecting the
+discussion one way or another.  Call it a control group, if you will.
+
+     And on those forums where I'm not known to be there, what you get are
+generally "I liked it" or "I didn't like it," about as broad as that.   Very
+little of the (to use the phrase of others) nits and detailed analyses that go
+on on the systems where I *am* known to hang out.  Since there's a conduit for
+direct feedback to the show, people here and on the other services where I'm
+on as myself tend to provide MORE criticism of the show, not less.  In some
+cases, the occasional person may feel that he HAS to find something to nit at.
+because there is the implicit request for feedback.
+
+     Nor do I try to get in the way of negative feedback; if I think that
+someone is getting personal in an attack, or making an unfair accusation, or
+blaming me for something that the show never did...I fire back.  I try to
+answer all questions as non-judgmentally as possible, and if someone asks if
+something's going to be done, point to the forthcoming episode where it *is*
+done.
+
+     I don't try to change people's opinions here (I let the show do that).
+don't try to intimidate people into silence (I don't think it's *possible* to
+intimidate this particular group in *any* event), and I have a much lower
+estimation for those who skulk off in dark corners to mutter their criticisms
+of the discussion here than speak openly.  I'm insulted by the allegation, and
+frankly think that anyone here who has been taking part in the discussion here
+should feel insulted about being portrayed as spineless and toadying, which is
+the implicit statement behind the allegation.
+
+     If I *ever* got the impression that my presence here was inhibiting an
+open discussion, inhibiting criticism, I'd log off.  But near as I can tell.
+being here *encourages* criticism, in greater volume than elsewhere.  The day
+that changes, I'm outta here.
+
+====    ~online ~newsgroup ~internet ~genie
+
+????    What do you get from hanging out in the Babylon 5 newsgroup?
+
+     What do I get from the newsgroup?  A "sense of the room," primarily, I
+suppose.  And knowing that someone's looking over your shoulder, and that this
+person is *right in your face*, and you can't avoid it, and you will havae to
+answer hard questions if you screw up, tends to keep you honest.  One can hide
+behind isolation.  One of the problems in TV is that if you get to a position
+high enough, lots of people around you start saying everything's just
+wonderful, you get "yes-men" and nobody tells you the truth anymore.  I don't
+think I have that problem here.  If anything, it's just the opposite; because
+I expect criticism...or, more accurately, because people *expect* that I
+expect criticism, that critiques are expected of them, there's MORE of it than
+on the systems where I lurk and my presence isn't generally known.
+
+     Beyond that...I've always felt that SF fans, particular SF media fans.
+are the most exploited group of viewers around.  They're expected to watch the
+show, pony up the dough for merchandise, then shut up and be good little
+viewers.  It's very difficult at times -- emotionally, and in terms of time
+and energy -- to stick around (there are currently 1,154 messages in my GEnie
+internet mailbox), but I think that it's important to keep with it.  Because
+it's a way of showing respect to the viewer, to be open and accountable and
+responsive.  Sometimes I get cranky, but I'm human, and that'll happen from
+time to time.  Usually I avoid that.
+
+     It just seems the courteous and proper thing to do.  Does that make ANY
+kind of sense to anybody...?
+---
+     Best thing about the net is that it forces you to ask questions.  The job
+of the writer is to come up with every possible question about your character
+and your world, and answer it, giving both greater verasimilitude.  But nobody
+can come up with EVERY conceivable question; but on the nets, you get
+questions you never *dreamed* of.  Which helps.
+---
+     Well, now, lemme defend the Internet for a second...what I find most
+interesting about it is that most of the Internet stuff comes in via major
+colleges, universities, research labs and the like.  So when you're dealing
+with a lot of people of college age, you're going to encounter rough spots.
+BUT...what you *also* get are people who are pretty sharp, have access to
+research material, are academics and scientists and research students...and
+lemme tell you, they keep you on your toes.
+
+     It's easy to hang out in a room where people are generally nice to
+you...and certainly relaxing; I tend to come here more with a sense of
+relaxing with friends, where there is some measure of "put up the persona and
+perform" on Internet...but one should be open to the tough stuff as well.
+Granted, at times it makes me cranky, and I probably respond with more heat
+than I'd like...but again, that's really more the exception than the rule.
+There's a lot of nifty people there.
+---
+     "And jms seems to be doing just fine...right, Joe?"
+
+     Yeah...absolutely...fine...look, hand me those crayons, okay...though I
+don't know why...the black one's all flat and you can't make good lines with
+it and they won't let me sharpen it because the last time I used the sharpener
+I put Nurse Filbee's finger in it but that wasn't my fault, she pointed it at
+me, so if I just have the crayons, the ones with the good points, I can get
+this done, get this done, on deadline, the deadlines are important, do you
+like the peach color or the green for the rabbit...?
+
+     What was the question again?
+
+====    ~story ~idea ~online
+
+????    Have you had problems with story ideas slipping through?
+
+     I have thus far changed about 3 or 4 minor elements because someone
+posted what could constitute a story idea that came uncomfortably close to
+what we were doing this season.  Fortunately, they were small things, and
+didn't affect anything substantial, but it is kind of a pain in the ass.
+
+====    ~online ~speculation
+
+????    Has anybody online speculated correctly what's gonna happen?
+
+     Nothing on any of the systems, no.  But at one convention back east, I
+was standing waiting to go on at a presentation, and a young woman came up to
+me and laid out a conjecture that was 100% right in every single aspect. She'd
+pegged it precisely.  I tried to conceal my growing horror.  Then she said.
+"But *nobody* would be crazy enough to try something like that, so THAT can't
+be it."  And with that, she toddled off...and I made no effort to correct her
+assumption.
+
+====    ~online ~flaming ~offend
+
+????    With all this criticism online, you must be immune from flaming.
+
+     Immune from flaming?  Hardly.  I've been flamed so much, if I even so
+much as *touch* a Jiffy-Pop Popcorn shaker it goes off....
+---
+     I work with Larry DiTillio.  Nothing offends me.
+
+====    ~critic
+
+????    How do you deal with all the critics in the media?
+
+     Here is the one and only thing I really have to say about critics (at
+least until otherwise provoked).
+
+     When "Lost in Space" went on the air, every critic hated it; they hated
+the cast, they hated the writing, they hated the sets...they panned it
+royally.  About a year later, when LiS was a big hit, and was selling magazine
+covers, a lot changed.  Then "Star Trek" appeared...and was crucified by the
+critics.  They hated the cast, they hated the writing, they hated the
+sets...TV Guide in particular.  They roundly dismissed it as an attempt to
+cash in on "Lost in Space"'s success.   Critics attacked Patrick Stewart in
+TNG for being stiff and unappealing, attacked DS9 on similar grounds.....
+
+     They *always* attack SF.  Always have, always will.  And always unfairly.
+---
+     I'm hesitant to get into the question of critics, and why they say what
+they say, because obviously anything I say is going to proceed from an agenda.
+and a certain bias on my part.  So if we accept that going in, then I suppose
+I can speculate a little....
+
+     As has been pointed out here by others, SF television has a history of
+getting crummy reviews.  I haven't seen one SF show, however good or bad, that
+didn't start out getting *creamed* by reviewers.  Some of the TNG original
+reviews that've been posted here are a hell of a lot worse than most of what
+the critics have said about us.  The majority of them do not like SF, don't
+care for SF, don't understand SF, and want to stick it in a pigeon hole, "Oh.
+it's like this."  What they don't recognize, they try to make fit their
+preconceptions...or they pan it.
+
+     Also, there's the issue of pride.  A lot of critics are (now) saying that
+TNG is this wonderful show (where once they derided it).  Same with DS9, and
+that everything else is crap.  Anything that might be perceived by them as a
+threat *to their published opinion* is something that they will attack.
+
+     Mind, I'm separating out those who might not particularly like the show
+from those who are going out of their way to assassinate the series before it
+even gets going.  I'd point to the USA Today review that just came out as
+emblematic of that approach.  He says that yes, it might get the ratings, it
+might succeed, but you should in essence be ashamed if that happens.  People
+have targeted this show with *incredible* vehemence bordering on character
+assassination.
+
+     I'd separate this out from some reviews that've come in, in the LA Times.
+and Hollywood Reporter, that didn't gush, that raised concerns, some of which
+I agree with.  They were actual analyses of the show, it's strengths and
+weaknesses, which are helpful, I think, to us and to the viewer.  I've *been*
+a reviewer, and I'm sorry, but the equivilent of "IT SUCKS" isn't a review.
+It's a Beavis line.
+
+     Beyond that, deponent sayeth not.
+
+====    ~favorite ~music ~country
+
+????    Favorite kinds of music?
+
+     I have very weird, very eccentric and eclectic tastes in music.  In
+addition to Meatloaf, I'm big on Leon Redbone, Indigo Girls, Enya, I'm
+starting to like Digable Planets...classical, jazz, big band, hard rock.
+celtic, blues, just about anything *except* country, which I couldn't warm up
+to even if I were cremated in a crate of Garth Brooks albums.
+
+====    ~asteroid ~story ~arc
+
+????    What happens to Babylon 5 if...say, you're walking down the street
+        and a wandering asteroid crash lands on you, three years into the
+        story arc?
+
+     What happens is this:
+
+     First they scrape up my remains.  Then they put me in the morgue. After a
+cursory examination, the death is ruled an act of god, which is the ultimate
+insult to an atheist.  Then they stick a big needle in one arm, and in my
+heel, and embalm what's left of me.  Then there's a service.  All of my
+friends come.  What they do with the rest of the rows after one is filled is
+anyone's guess.  Rent them out, I guess.  Next they plant me.  I lay there for
+a while, gradually coming to the realization that when they stuck me in this
+crummy suit, they yanked the pants into my butt and now I have to go through
+all eternity with a snuggie.  In time I get really annoyed by this, my essence
+rises up out of the coffin, AND HAUNTS YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR NATURAL LIFE!
+
+     Or, put another way, if you want to see the end of the story, it's in
+your vested interest to keep my ass ALIVE for the next 4.5 years.
+
+     Ever read Sheherazade?  Think about it.
+---
+     My notes are in a secure place.
+
+====    ~tv ~retire ~spinoff
+
+????    Do you plan on doing any more TV shows after B5?
+
+     It's hard, because as much as I enjoy TV, it's basically ephemeral; books
+stick around.  And I got into this whole gig at the beginning by writing
+prose.  Which is why, as I've noted before, if the B5 story goes its full
+length -- whether that's just 5 years, or with a possible spinoff, 10 years --
+when it's over, I'm retiring from TV.  By that point, I will have said
+everything I want to say for TV.  Then it's a house somewhere outside London
+or Cambridge, and novels.  I figure I'll be about 50 at that point (assuming
+10 years), and I'll have enough years left in me to tell some decent stories
+before it gets dark outside.
+
+====    ~pet ~cat
+
+????    Do you like pets?
+
+     Pets is okay.  Ah lahkes pets.  Pets be cool.  And cats be coolest.
+
+====    ~math ~jms
+
+????    How good are you at math?
+
+     Joe does not learn math in one episode.  Joe does not learn math in one
+*year*.  I took bonehead math in college three -- count 'em three -- times.
+and only passed the third semester because the class was taught by the same
+instructor, and the third time I wandered into his class, he siad, (or said).
+"Here...just go, I'll give you a C, just...leave."
+---
+     MATH!  MATH!  YOU SAID THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY MATH ON THIS TEST!  I DIDN'T
+STUDY!  HOW MUCH OF MY GRADE WILL THIS BE?!  AAAUUUGGGHHH!!!
+
+====    ~sleep
+
+????    Are you exhausted from all this work?
+
+     I am.  I'm exhausted all the time...running on 3-4 hours of sleep a
+night, producing during the day, writing all night...but it *is* fun.   The
+only hard part is that because of my close involvement in this show, and
+creating the characters, and assigning the stories, and working with the
+actors...I have Londo and G'Kar and Kosh and Garibaldi and all the rest
+running around in my head and yelling at each other 24 hours a day, and
+sometimes that can make you just a little nuts...you wanna tell them to shut
+the hell up for five minutes...and then they look at you with this wounded
+expression...you ever see a Narn sulk?  It's not a pretty sight.
+---
+     Yeah, easy for YOU to say, KAL...I've got Londo, Garibaldi, G'Kar, Kosh
+and half the Psi-Corps running around inside my head and yelling at each other
+24 hours a day...YOU try to sleep with all that racket.
+
+     I either need to find a better neighborhood, or a worse one, I can't
+decide....
+
+     "AH, my GOOD, CLOSE FRIEND, GariBALdi --"
+
+     That's it!  Everybody outta the pool......!
+
+====    ~hat ~paramount ~merchandizing
+
+      John Copeland, our producer, shows me something that John Iacovelli came
+into the office bearing...a B5 cap.  It's a very nice Babylon 5 cap.
+Stitching's a little off, though, I notice...not bad, but noticeable.  I learn
+it's commercially available.  Well, still and all, not a bad thing, I decide,
+trying to figure out why John's smiling at me in this really weird fashion.
+People have been asking for B5 caps, and now they can buy them through, it
+seems, Creation Entertainment, as this was bought at a Creation store in
+Glendale (Sci-Fi Universe), and it's a Creation produced item, under their
+license....
+
+      Then the tag hanging from the back of the cap slips out into my hand,
+dangling from that little white-plastic-string-thingie they stick through
+labels.
+
+      And what does the label on that white-plastic-string-thingie say?
+
+      OFFICIAL LICENSED PRODUCT, PARAMOUNT TELEVISION.
+
+      We never get a break...never...ever...the horror...the horror....
+
+                                    ..eeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEeeeee........
+
+=============== Miscellany ===============
+
+====    ~misc ~fan ~fiver
+
+????    What do Babylon 5 fans call themselves?  What do you call them?
+
+     Most B5 viewers that I've heard from call themselves Fivers, when they
+identify themselves as anything other than what they are, people of infinite
+taste and sensibility....
+---
+     I think the term usually used to describe B5 viewers is, "People Of
+Incredible Taste, Perception and Discretion."
+
+====    ~motto ~kid ~robot ~filk ~song [science-fiction folk-singing]
+
+     Re: kids/robots...the exact phrasing of that has gone through various
+permutations and paraphrasings; the specific line is "No kids or cute robots."
+The latter specifically entails entities such as Twiki (got the spelling right
+this time, thanks to whoever corrected me), who should be run down by a truck
+at the first opportunity.  (In fact, I can say without hesitation that if you
+ever DO see what passes for a cute robot on this show, keep a close eye on it.
+because you'll probably see somebody drop an anvil on it REAL fast.)
+
+     So this allows us to explore the question of robotics, but to do so in a
+fairly serious context.  Because logically, 200+ years in the future there are
+going to be some changes; robotics will be more common, though likely in some
+different form.  (If you've seen the promos or the pilot, you've seen the
+maintenance 'bot that checks out the hull of B5; it has arms, it moves, it's
+independent, it's a robot.  It just doesn't begin its report with
+"Bida-bida-bida.")
+
+     On the topic of kids...it's a deliberate decision to steer clear of that
+part, not because I think it's invalid, but because a) it's been done on
+another show, and its spinoff, rather intensively, and b) it's part of the SF
+stereotype, "We have to have kids because SF is a kid's genre."
+
+     Might there be a story about a family of refugees who come seeking
+sanctuary, or opportunity elsewhere?  Of course.  But any kids in that family
+won't be at the *center* of the story.  And they'll be gone by the end of the
+episode.  It's also a matter of context; absent the scenario just posed, this
+is a place for businessmen, travelers, mappers, traders, diplomats and others.
+it's not a place for kids.  It's also potentially a very DANGEROUS place.
+---
+     Hmm...maybe I should amend it to "No cute kids, no cute robots, and no
+filkers, ever...."
+
+     Nothing personal, but given the choice between listening to two hours of
+filking, and having my eyeballs scooped out, popped, spread on toast as jam
+and fed to me for breakfast...I'll take the latter.
+
+====    ~spoo
+
+????    What is spoo?
+
+     Spoo is.  What else can one say about spoo?
+---
+     Re: your desire to make and eat spoo at home...deponds on whether or not
+you ever want to have children later....
+
+====    ~strong ~women
+
+     Re: B5's roster of strong women characters...this is something of a
+bugaboo/obsession with me.  I *love* writing strong women.  (For that matter.
+I love strong-willed, independent, smart women in real life as well; I love
+being outsmarted, love it when someone can go toe-to-toe with me on
+something.)  Generally, and this isn't entirely intentional, women on shows I
+work on tend to get some of the best lines, as is often the case with Ivanova.
+It's not a case of being "one of the boys," but being one of the *people*.
+There's a subtle difference.
+
+     The women I write are often very close to many of the women I've been
+involved with over the years.  So far, no one's sued....
+
+====    ~pc ~politically ~correct
+
+????    Are you trying to be politically correct?
+
+     I take great joy in being politically *incorrect* at every possible
+opportunity.  I believe in the motto someone at the BBC once voice:  "There
+are some people we WANT to offend."
+
+====    ~crew ~softball ~five
+
+     Now here's comedy...we're fielding a Babylon 5 softball as one of the
+showbiz leagues.  (Many shows in town have softball teams, and th ey've
+organized into something that has grown quite substantially into a Big Deal.)
+We're making up jerseys for the team, and on the front there will be the B5
+logo, and on the back, for the team player number, there will be 5.  That's
+all.  The only number.  Which will make calling the game a WONDERFUL
+challenge..."And on shortstop we've got number five...out in center field is
+number five...with number five pitching and catching."
+
+     Everything about this show is surreal.
+
+     BTW...our first game is against the SeaQuest team.
+
+====    ~cricket ~set ~film
+
+     You wanna hear really dopey?  Of all the things that can bug you --
+literally, in this case -- it's always the small ones that get under your
+skin.  The goofy ones.
+
+     Take crickets for instance.
+
+     Crickets.  Cute little critters, welcoming the twilight, equipped with
+top hat and umbrella to usher Pinnochio into his long-sought humanity....
+Crickets.
+
+     Ah hates crickets.
+
+     A cricket family -- at least one that we know of -- moved into a corner
+of one of our sets.  The medlab, to be precise.  Now, when we're moving things
+around, building stuff, moving stuff, it's silent, as a cricket will generally
+be when made nervous.  But make it all nice and quiet -- as you would do for.
+say, filming -- and he becomes downright rambunctious.  And sure enough, there
+is is, deep in the audio background on a few shots.  Oh, we can hide the audio
+easily enough...but Getting The Cricket has become something of a cause around
+here.
+
+     We absolutely cannot find him.  I stood back there for ten minutes, eyes
+closed, trying to triangulate and draw a bead on the little sucker.   We've
+tried exterminators, smoke, nitrogen, assassins and psychics; we've tried
+scaring him and coaxing him, to no avail.  He is as invisible as god but with
+a MUCH louder voice.
+
+     You ever fire up a daily to hear, at the top of the take, the off screen
+director saying, as fast as he can, "Okaythecricket'ssilent,ACTION!"
+
+     Like I said...not really a problem, just one of those little things that
+niggle at you when there's nothing else going on.  So we're going to wait him
+out.
+
+     Anybody know offhand the lifespan of your average cricket...?
+
+====    ~millenium
+
+     The turn of the century with B5's conclusion is coincidence.
+
+     Mostly.
+
+====    ~o'hare ~communicator
+
+     Funny aside...on Friday, my accountant and his 10 year old son came by
+the set for a tour.  His son was wog-boggled by everything.  At one point in
+the filming, Michael O'Hare came over and struck up a conversation with the
+kid.  The kid asked what that thing is on the back of Sinclair's hand. "That's
+my communications device," O'Hare said.  The kid looked chagrined, glanced
+around, whispered to Michael to lean down, and explained -- to save Michael
+further embarrassment in future -- that the communicator was on his *chest*.
+
+     I would give my soul for a photograph of Michael's face at that moment.
+
+====    ~o'hare ~brother ~f-14 ~starfury
+
+     As it happens, btw, Michael O'Hare's brother is a Commander in the
+Gunfighters fighter squadron, running weapons, mainly, and flying an F-14. At
+some point we'll probably stick him in a B5 cockpit, and stick Michael in an
+F-14 cockpit....
+
+====    ~stolen ~g'kar ~mask ~makeup
+
+     Incidentally...as long as I'm here...an advisory.  We've got about as
+much security as anyone can *have* on a stage...but as with TNG and other SF
+shows, we've had our share of things suddenly vanishing.  We lost a biggie the
+other day, swiped by someone.  As mentioned, we re-examined G'Kar's
+makeup/prosthetic, and did some minor redesigning.  Prior to final approval, a
+full-size (head and neck) sculpture was done, painstakingly hand-painted.
+There's only the one.  And someone swiped it, right out of Doug Netter's
+office, where it was hanging on the wall.  I couldn't even begin to tell you
+how much it's worth; just the physical value alone would be considerable, let
+alone collector's value.
+
+     I'm putting this out here so that, if anyone here should see it at a
+convention, or a dealer's room, you should know that it's stolen merchandise.
+and should be reported to the police.  There's no chance of mistaking this for
+something else, since there's literally only the one in existence.
+
+====    ~theological ~crew ~soul
+
+????    What's this about a crew member leaving for "theological" problems
+        with "Soul Hunter"?
+
+     One person at a post production house we've used has indicated that he
+has "theological problems" with working on that episode; not because it's
+*against* what he believes -- he's worked on horror movies and stuff with
+devils and the like -- but because it takes a point of view he doesn't much
+like...in that he has to sit and defend the whole *context* of his
+ideas...meaning, it's making him think.  He can just poo-poo the stuff against
+what he believes, support what he does believe in...but he isn't quite sure
+where this show comes down, or where it makes *him* come down. I've had any
+number of problems with people on a show before, but this is the first time
+I've run into a theological problem.
+
+====    ~nonsense ~correct ~destruct
+
+     If what you think I said is correct, then what you think I said is what I
+said.  If what I might have said was not correct, then what I might have said
+is not what I said, incorrectly.
+
+     This message will self-destruct as soon as anyone manages to parse the
+grammar....
+
+====    ~inside ~joke
+
+????    Will there be in-jokes?
+
+     There are a lot of little in-jokes...but I'd rather let you see them than
+ruin the surprise.
+---
+     We sneak in GEnie coordinates from time to time....
+---
+     By the way...just for funsies I slipped a reference into one of our
+scripts to a location being at grid coordinates 471-18-25.
+
+====    ~fun ~skirt ~pajama ~londo ~walrus ~pants
+
+     Today was "Men In Skirts Day" for many in the Babylon 5 crew.
+
+     There are some things man was not meant to know....
+---
+     Re: the crew...today was Pajama Day.  Don't ask.
+---
+     Our head of post production, associate producer George Johnsen, pulled a
+number on me today that just struck me as hilarious, and I pass it on to you.
+(We do a lot of silly stuff behind the scenes.)
+
+     Take your hands.  Fold in the thumb until it's pointing in toward the
+palm of your hand, but not entirely.  Fan out your other four fingers on each
+hand as far as you can.  Now put the two hands together so that the index
+fingers touch, and the pinkies are on either side of one another (i.e., you've
+formed a crown or fan).  Raise your hands so that your wrists are settling on
+either side of the top of your head.
+
+     Now look at the person sitting next to you and say, "Live, Londo, and
+Prosper."  This is the unofficial B5 crew greeting.  Apparently some have been
+doing it when they arrive for work in the morning.
+
+     We're a sick bunch, but we're fun.
+---
+     Funny...I sometimes make up little clips from shows and put them to music
+for myself or for convention appearances...and I was giving some serious
+thought to assembling a montage and using "I Am the Walrus" by the Beatles as
+the music...and then realized that it would probably give away too much if I
+composed the pictures correctly with the lyrics.
+
+     I am the walrus...coo-coo ka choo....
+---
+     During the con appearance, Jerry told a story that *I* hadn't heard
+before.  There's a scene in the script "Midnight on the Firing Line" in which
+Talia (Andrea) goes into a transport tube, finds Garibaldi, and asks some
+questions about Ivanova.  They rehearsed it several times, this being Andrea's
+first time on the set, and filmed one take.  She comes down the hall, comes to
+thepen...and Garibaldi's pants are down around his ankles. Needless to say.
+that shot did NOT end up in dailies....
+
+====    ~fart
+
+     How You Know You're Finally Going Bananas, by JMS.
+
+     So there I was, lying abed, at 3 a.m., unable to sleep, and I come up
+with the Fart Classification System (FCS).  Basically, they break down into
+three categories: small farts are squibs, medium farts are crackers, and
+really huge farts are zeppelins.
+
+     I desperately need to get a life....
+
+====    ~flu ~nyquil
+
+     Cooney: I wasn't offended...very little offends me...EXCEPT THIS DAMNED
+FLU THAT REFUSES TO GO AWAY, AND EVERY NIGHT IT'S FEVER TIME, AND I'M GOING
+OUT OF MY MIND, YOU HEAR?  I'M GOING MAD!  I'M SPENDING MY DAYS AND NIGHTS
+TRYING TO WRITE IN TWO STATES OF MIND: DELUSIONAL OR CONFUSED (which on the up
+side is one more state of mind than is normal for me) AND I'M TIRED OF IT, YOU
+HEAR?  TIRED OF IT!
+---
+                        ....courtesy of NyQuil.
+
+     The colors, man, check out the *colllllllllllllooooorrrrrsssss*****...
+
+     ("May induce drowsiness" my ass...you're lucky if you make it across the
+room with this stuff....)
+
+====    ~more
+
+????    Do you have anything more to say?
+
+     Don't know really how much more there is to say; it's getting to that
+time when all the worthwhile talking will be done by the series itself.
+
+=============== INDEX OF KEYWORDS ===============
+
+22             2257           2258           24             30
+abandon        abbai          action         activity       actor
+ad-lib         administration administrator  admiral        adr
+adult          age            air            alcohol        alien
+alliance       ambassador     answer         arc            assassin
+asteroid       atheist        atmosphere     audience       autocad
+autonomy       b-story        babylon        badge          bald
+bay            being          believers      beyond         biggs
+bigotry        bill           black&white    blast          blooper
+blurry         bone           book           books          break
+broadcast      bronze         brother        bruice         budget
+cameo          camera         canon          capacity       caroline
+cast           caste          casting        cat            catherine
+cd-rom         centauri       cgi            change         chapter
+character      christian      christmas      chronology     chrysalis
+civilian       clan           cliffhanger    cloaking       clothes
+club           colony         color          comics         comment
+communicate    communicator   composer       composition    compton
+computer       con            constellation  convention     correct
+cost           council        country        credit         crew
+cricket        crime          crisp          critic         croatia
+culture        cut            cycle          dailies        daily
+date           day            dead           deal           deathwalker
+defense        delay          delenn         demo           demon
+destruct       detail         dialog         dilgar         director
+distance       ditillio       diversity      dock           door
+drazi          drennan        drug           dubbing        ea
+earth          earthdome      earthquake     economy        edit
+effect         ellison        emerge         empire         end
+english        enter          episode        establish      ethnic
+executive      extend         f-14           fan            fantasy
+fart           favorite       female         fighter        file
+filk           film           final          finale         first
+fishhead       five           fiver          flaming        flashback
+flu            fly            footage        formality      found
+four           frames         franchise      franke         franklin
+fun            fund           furlan         future         g'kar
+game           garden         garibaldi      gay            genie
+gerrold        gloves         government     grail          gravity
+grey           grid           guest          gun            hair
+hat            hate           hdtv           head           hernandez
+history        holiday        hollywood      holographic    homeless
+household      human          humanoid       hyperspace     idea
+identify       illuminated    image          impact         inside
+international  internet       io             iran           iraq
+italian        ivanova        jewelry        jms            joke
+julia          jump-gate      jump-point     jurasik        kid
+kill           kosh           kyle           language       laser
+laserdisc      launch         laurel         law            layout
+league         leave          legal          lennier        letterbox
+library        licensing      lie            life           light
+line           lingerie       link           location       londo
+looping        lunatic        lurker         lyta           makeup
+manual         mars           mask           math           matter
+mature         maya           means          medicine       merchandizing
+message        metaphor       military       millenium      mime
+minbari        minor          minority       misc           miss
+money          month          moon           more           morn
+motto          move           movie          mumy           music
+myth           n'grath        na'toth        name           narn
+narration      nation         native         navy           necessary
+nepotism       netter         new-year       newsgroup      nickson
+nitpick        non-aligned    nonsense       norm           nudity
+number         nyquil         o'hare         offend         old
+ombuds         one            online         opening        orbit
+order          orion          ornamentation  overunit       own
+oyster         pajama         pak'ma'ra      pants          paper
+paramount      partner        past           patch          pay
+pc             peace          pet            philosophy     pilot
+pitch          planet         platform       politically    politics
+position       power          powerful       ppg            prayer
+preference     press          pressurized    prisoner       problem
+producer       product        production     program        promo
+prosthetic     psi            pten           publicity      quality
+raider         rank           rating         ratio          realistic
+reception      record         recreation     recycle        red
+reel           relationship   release        religion       religious
+render         resolution     retire         robot          role
+rome           rotate         rpg            running        russian
+sakai          satellite      satisfied      scan           schedule
+sci-fi         script         seaquest       season         second
+security       senate         series         set            sets
+sex            sf             shadow         share          sheridan
+ship           shoe           shooting       shot           show
+signs          sinclair       size           skirt          sky
+sleep          softball       song           soul           sound
+soundtrack     space          speculation    spelling       spinoff
+spirituality   spoo           sport          spousal        squadron
+squared        star           starfury       start          state
+station        status         stock          stolen         story
+straczynski    strong         studio         subtitle       success
+sunhawk        surgery        surround       survivors      talia
+teaser         technical      technology     telepath       television
+tense          texture        theological    third          thornton
+thread         three          time           title          tot
+tractor        trailer        translation    transmitter    transporter
+travel         trek           triangle       truth          tv
+twin-peaks     two            un             uniform        universe
+variation      variety        video          viewer         violent
+vision         voice          vorlon         walla          walrus
+war            warner         weapon         what           who
+why            widescreen     wife           wilderness     wing
+witch          women          word           work           world
+writing        x-wing         year           zero           zocalo
+
+------------------------- Also Sprach Straczynski. --------------------------
+
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+Babylon 5 Actors Other Roles
+
+Compiled by Lee Whiteside
+Last Update: 10/18/93
+
+This file contains detailed listings of other roles for actors
+in Babylon 5.  Some info is pulled from the Actors and Actress lists
+maintained by Col Needham and available via ftp from 
+refugee.colorado.edu in the /pub/tv+movies/lists directory.
+
+Contents:
+
+Section 1 - Babylon 5 Series Main Cast
+Section 2 - Babylon 5 Pilot Cast Not in Series
+Section 3 - Babylon 5 Series Supporting and Recurring Cast
+Section 4 - Babylon 5 Series Guest Stars
+Section 5 - Babylon 5 Cameos
+
+Section 1. Babylon 5 Series Main Cast:
+
+
+Michael O'Hare (Commander Jeffrey Sinclair):
+
+Movies:
+	By A Thread
+	Into Thin Air
+	Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
+	Short Term Bonds
+	The Promise
+	Last Exit to Brooklyn
+
+TV Series: 
+	Equalizer
+	L.A. Law
+	Kate and Allie
+
+TV Movies:
+	Rage of Angels
+	Adams Chronicles
+	Case of Deadly Force
+	Blue Revolution
+	Keefer
+
+Broadway: 
+	A Few Good Men
+	Players
+	Man and Superman
+	Galileo
+
+
+Peter Jurasik (Ambassador Londo Mollari of the Centauri Republic):
+
+Movies: 
+	Problem Child
+	Enemy Mine
+	Tron
+	Straight Time
+	Mr. Jones
+	Night Club
+
+TV Series: Columbo
+	Hill Street Blues (regular)
+	Beverly Hills Buntz (regular)
+	Civil Wars
+	Remington Steele
+	MacGyver
+
+TV Movies: 
+	Acceptable Risks
+	Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer: The Bambi Bembenek Story
+	Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
+	Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
+	A House of Secrets and Lies
+	Love, Honor, and Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage
+	Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter
+	Without a Kiss Goodbye
+	Peter Gunn
+
+
+Andreas Katsulas (Ambassador G'Kar of the Narn Regime):
+
+Movies: 
+	Husbands and Wives
+	Sunset
+	Someone To Watch Over Me
+	Communion
+	Next of Kin
+	The Sicilian
+	True Identity
+	Hot Shots Part Duex (1993)
+	The Fugitive (1993)
+	Blame it on the Bellboy
+	Ragtime
+
+TV Series : 
+	Star Trek:The Next Generation (Romulan Tomalok in episodes
+	"The Defector", "The Enemy" and "Future Imperfect")
+	Alien Nation
+	The Equalizer
+	Max Headroom
+	The Human Factor
+	The Guiding Light
+
+TV Movies: 
+	The Death of the Incredible Hulk
+	Murder Times Seven
+	Seduction: Three Tales from the 'Inner Sanctum'
+	King of America
+    
+
+Jerry Doyle (Security Chief Michael Garibaldi):
+
+Movies: 
+	Kidnapped
+	Being in Time
+
+TV Series: 
+	Reasonable Doubts
+	Homefront
+	Bold and Beautiful
+	Moonlighting.
+
+
+Mira Furlan (Minbari Ambassador Delenn):
+
+Movies: 
+	When Father Was Away on Business
+	Three For Happiness
+	Dear Video
+	Southbound
+	The Condemned
+	The Beauty of Sin
+
+
+Claudia Christian (Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova):
+
+Movies:
+	Arena (1991) 
+	Clean and Sober
+	Dark Backward, The
+	Hexed
+	Hidden, The
+	Mad About You
+	Maniac Cop 2
+	Mom
+	Never on Tuesday
+	Think Big
+
+TV Series:
+	Berrengers
+	My Life and Times
+
+TV Movies: 
+	Blacke's Magic
+	Calendar Girl Murders  (aka Victimized )
+	Danielle Steel's 'Kaleidoscope'
+	Highwayman, The (1987)  (aka Terror on the Blacktop)
+	Houston: The Legend of Texas
+	Lies of the Twins 
+	Masterpiece of Murder, A 
+	Police Story: Monster Manor 
+	Relentless: Mind of a Killer 
+	Shannon's Deal 
+	Strays 
+
+
+Richard Biggs (Dr. Stephen Franklin):
+
+	No Info available.
+
+
+Julie Nickson (formerly Julie Nickson-Soul) (Catherine Sakai):
+
+Movies: 
+	China Cry: A True Story
+	Glitch!
+	K2
+	Sidekicks
+	Rambo: First Blood Part II
+
+TV Movies: 
+	Noble House
+	Around the World in 80 Days
+	Harry's Hong Kong
+	The Girl Who Came Between Them
+	Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders
+
+
+Andrea Thompson (Talia Winters):
+
+TV Series: 
+	Falcon Crest
+
+Movies: 
+	Delirious
+	Doin' Time on Planet Earth
+	Wall Street
+
+
+Vorlon Ambassador Kosh Naranek: Himself (i.e. animatronics)
+
+
+Section 2 - Babylon 5 Pilot Cast Not in Series
+
+Tamlyn Tomita (Laurel Takashima)
+
+Movies: 
+	Come See The Paradise
+	Orange Curtain
+	Hawaiian Dream
+	The Karate Kid II
+	Vietnam, Texas
+	The Joy Luck Club
+
+TV Series: 
+	Quantum Leap ("Temptation Eyes)
+	The Trials of Rosie O'Neil
+	Tour of Duty
+	Santa Barbara (series regular)
+	Raven (pilot episode)
+
+TV Movies: 
+	Hiroshima:Out of the Ashes
+	To Heal A Nation.
+
+
+Blaire Baron (Carolyn Sykes):
+
+Movies: 
+	A League of Their Own
+	Privilege
+	Skinner
+
+TV Series: 
+	Happy Days
+	Three's Company
+	General Hospital
+	The Guiding Light
+
+TV Movies: 
+	Saved By The Bell Hawaiian Style
+
+
+Johnny Sekka (Dr. Benjamin Kyle):
+
+Movies:  
+	The Fever
+	Ashanti
+	Southern Star
+	Khartoum
+	Woman of Straw
+	Hanky Panky
+	A Warm December
+	East of the Sudan
+	Flame in the Streets
+	Uptown Saturday Night
+	The Wild and the Willing (aka Young and Willing)
+	Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
+ 
+TV Movies: 
+	Roots Second Generation
+	Master of the Game
+	Kingston Confidential
+	Passion in Paradise
+
+
+Patricia Tallman (Lyta Alexander):
+
+Movies: 
+	Night of the Living Dead (remake)
+	Army of Darkness
+	Sweet Justice
+	Knightriders
+	Monsignore
+	Roadhouse
+	Kalifornia (1993)
+	Jurassic Park (1993 - stunt work, credited as Patrick Tallman)
+	Monkey Shines
+	Wedlock (aka Deadlock)
+
+TV Series: 
+	Generations
+	Tales from the Darkside
+	Miracles
+	Guiding Light
+	Star Trek: The Next Generation ("Starship Mine","Timescape")
+	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (stunt work)
+
+
+Section 3 - Babylon 5 Series Supporting and Recurring Cast
+
+Stephen Furst - Londo's assistant Vir Cotto
+
+TV Series: 
+	Delta House
+	St. Elsewhere
+	Have Faith
+
+TV Movies: 
+	The Bastard (mini-series)
+	Off Sides
+	If it's Tuesday, it Still Must be Belgium
+
+Movies: 
+	National Lampoon's Animal House
+	National Lampoon's Class Reunion
+	The Dream Team
+	Getting Wasted
+	Midnight Madness
+	Silent Rage
+	Swim Team
+	Take Down
+	The Unseen
+	Up the Creek 
+
+
+Bill Mumy - Delenn's assistant Lennier
+
+Best known as Will Robinson from Lost in Space,  He's part of the Barnes 
+and Barnes music group best known  for the song "Fish Heads" and is 
+currently writing for the "Lost in Space" comic series and hosting 
+the "Inside Space" magazine show on the Sci-Fi Channel.
+
+TV Series: 
+	Alfred Hitchcock Presents
+	The Twilight Zone
+	The Rockford Files
+	Sunshine
+	Lost in Space (series Regular Will Robinson)
+	The Flash ("Good Night Central City")
+	Superboy
+
+Movies: 
+	Dear Brigette
+	Captain America
+	Double Trouble
+	Hard to Hold 
+	Rascal
+	Twilight Zone: The Movie
+	Bless the Beasts and the Children
+
+
+Susan Kellerman - G'Kar's attache Na' Tothl
+
+TV Movies:
+	Dixie: Changing Habits
+	Fighter, The (1983) 
+	How to Murder a Millionaire
+	In Sickness and in Health 
+	Wild Women of Chastity Gulch, The 
+
+Movies: Beetlejuice
+	Couch Trip, The
+	Death Becomes Her
+	Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
+	Marrying Man, The (aka Too Hot to Handle (1991))
+	Oh, Heavenly Dog!
+	Planes, Trains & Automobiles
+	Secret of My Success, The (1987)
+	Where the Buffalo Roam
+
+
+Section 4 - Babylon 5 Series Guest Stars 
+ 
+Walter Koenig - Walter was due to appear as a character called "Knight
+One" in the episode "And the Sky Full of Stars" before his heart attack
+in July, 1993.  Plans are for him to appear in "Mind War" as a psi cop.
+
+TV Series:
+	Star Trek (Series Regular Ensign Chekov)
+	The Starlost (two episodes)
+
+TV Movies:
+	Questor Tapes, The (TV)
+	
+Movies:
+	Moontrap
+	Star Trek: The Motion Picture 
+	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
+	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
+	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
+	Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
+	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
+
+
+David McCallum - Best Known from the Man From U.N.C.L.E., also the title
+character in the 70's "Invisible Man" series and Steel in the British
+series "Sapphire & Steel".  He will guest star in the episode "Infection"
+
+Movies:
+	Around the World Under the Sea
+	Billy Budd
+	Dogs, The (aka Chiens, Les)
+	Freud (aka Freud: The Secret Passion)
+	Great Escape, The
+	Greatest Story Ever Told, The
+	Haunting of Morella, The
+	Hear My Song
+	Hell Drivers
+	Jungle Street
+	King Solomon's Treasure
+	Kingfisher Caper, The
+	Long and the Short and the Tall, The
+	Mosquito Squadron
+	Night Ambush (aka Ill Met by Moonlight)
+	Night to Remember, A (1958)
+	One Spy Too Many
+	Ravine, The
+	Rebel High
+	Robbery Under Arms (1957)
+	Screaming Skull, The (1958)
+	Secret Place, The
+	Slaughter (1983)
+	Sol Madrid
+	Terminal Choice
+	Three Bites of the Apple
+	To Trap a Spy
+	Violent Playground
+	Watcher in the Woods, The
+	Wind, The (1987)
+
+TV Movies:
+	Behind Enemy Lines (1985) 
+	Frankenstein: The True Story
+	Freedom Fighter 
+	Hauser's Memory 
+	Invisible Man, The (1975) 
+	Return of Sam McCloud, The 
+	Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E., The 
+	She Waits 
+	Jackie Collins' Lucky/Chances (mini)
+	Man Who Lived at the Ritz, The (mini)
+	Mother Love (mini)
+	
+TV Series:
+	Invisible Man, The
+	Man from U.N.C.L.E., The
+	Sapphire & Steel
+
+W. Morgan Sheppard - Was Blank Reg in Max Headroom, the Klingon commander
+of the prison camp in Star Trek VI,  Ira Graves in the ST:TNG episode
+"The Schizoid Man", and the hologram in seaQuest DSV.  He guest stars in
+the episode "The Soul Hunter" as the title character.
+
+
+TV Series: 
+	Max Headroom (Series Regular Blank Reg)
+	Star Trek: The Next Generation (Ira Graves in "The Schizoid Man")
+	SeaQuest DSV
+
+TV Movies:
+	Seduction: Three Tales from the 'Inner Sanctum' (TV)
+	
+Movies:
+	Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
+	Hawk the Slayer
+	Lucky Stiff (1988)
+	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
+	Wild at Heart
+
+
+Warner, David - Guest Stars in the episode "The Grail"
+
+Movies: 
+	Ballad of Cable Hogue, The
+	Blue Hotel
+	Blue Tornado
+	Bofors Gun, The
+	Code Name: Chaos
+	Company of Wolves, The
+	Cross of Iron
+	Dark at Noon, or Eyes and Lies (aka Oeil que ment, L')
+	Deadly Affair, The
+	Disappearance, The
+	Doll's House, A (1973/II)
+	Drive
+	Fixer, The
+	French Lieutenant's Woman, The
+	From Beyond the Grave
+	Grave Secrets
+	Hanna's War
+	Hostile Takeover
+	Island, The (1980)
+	Keys to Freedom
+	King's Story, A (voice)
+	Little Malcolm (aka Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuch)
+	Magdalene (aka Silent Night)
+	Man With Two Brains, The
+	Michael Kohlhaas (1969)
+	Midsummer Night's Dream, A (1968)
+	Morgan! (aka Morgan - A Suitable Case For Treatment)
+	Mortal Passions
+	Mr. North
+	My Best Friend Is a Vampire
+	Nightwing
+	Old Curiosity Shop, The (aka Mr. Quilp)
+	Omen, The
+	Perfect Friday
+	Providence
+	Sea Gull, The
+	Silver Bears
+	Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
+	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
+	Straw Dogs
+	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
+	Thirty-Nine Steps, The (1978)
+	Time After Time (1979)
+	Time Bandits
+	Tom Jones
+	Tripwire
+	Tron
+	Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter, The
+	Waxwork
+	Work Is a Four-Letter Word
+
+TV Series:
+	Star Trek: The Next Generation ("Chain of Command I & II")
+
+TV Movies:
+	Cast a Deadly Spell 
+	Christmas Carol, A (1984) 
+	Desperado (1987) 
+	Frankenstein (1984) 
+	Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil 
+	House on Sycamore Street, The 
+	John Carpenter Presents Body Bags 
+	Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen 
+	Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal 
+	S.O.S. Titanic 
+	Secret Life of Ian Fleming, The 
+	Uncle Vanya (1991) 
+	Victory at Entebbe 
+	"Charlie" (mini)
+	"Holocaust" (mini)
+	"Marco Polo" (mini)
+	"Masada" (mini)
+	"Twin Peaks"
+	"Wild Palms" (mini)
+
+
+Neame, Christopher - Guest Stars as Knight One in "And the Sky Full of Stars"
+
+Movies:
+	D.O.A. (1988)
+	Diplomatic Immunity
+	Dracula A.D. 1972 (aka Dracula Today)
+	Edge of Honor
+	Ghostbusters II
+	Licence to Kill
+	Steel Dawn
+	Street Knight
+	Suburban Commando
+
+TV Movies:
+	Boris and Natasha 
+	Great Escape II: The Untold Story, The 
+	Lady in the Corner 
+	Love Among Thieves 
+
+
+Revill, Clive - Guest Stars in "Born to the Purple"           
+
+Movies:
+	Assassination Bureau, The
+	Avanti! (S:GGN)
+	Double Man, The
+	Empire Strikes Back, The
+	Fine Madness, A
+	Legend of Hell House, The
+	Let Him Have It
+	Mack the Knife
+	Matilda (1978)
+	Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The
+	Severed Head, A
+	Zorro, The Gay Blade
+
+TV Movies:
+	Death Ray 2000 
+	Diary of Anne Frank, The (1980) 
+	Jake Spanner, Private Eye 
+	Masterpiece of Murder, A 
+	Monkey Mission, The 
+	Scarlett O'Hara War, The  (aka Moviola (1980/I) )
+	Sea Wolf, The (1993) 
+	"Centennial" (mini)
+	"George Washington" (mini)
+
+Scott, Judson - Guest Stars in "And the Sky Full of Stars"
+
+Movies: 
+	Escape (1990)
+	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 
+	True Identity
+
+TV Series: 
+	Colbys, The
+	Star Trek: The Next Generation ("Symbiosis")
+	V
+
+TV Movies: 
+	Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
+	K-9000
+
+Sanderson, William - Guests stars in "Grail"
+
+        Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, The
+        Black Moon Rising
+        Blade Runner
+        City Heat
+        Coal Miner's Daughter
+        Deadly Weapon
+        Fletch
+        Last Man Standing
+        Lone Wolf McQuade
+        Mirror, Mirror (1990)
+        Nightmares
+        Raggedy Man
+        Rocketeer, The
+        Savage Weekend
+
+TV Series
+
+        "Batman: The Animated Series" (voice)
+        "Newhart"
+
+TV Movies
+
+        Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains, The (TV)
+        Stephen King's 'Sometimes They Come Back' (TV)
+        "Lonesome Dove" (mini)
+
+
+Danica Mc Keller - Guest Stars as a Centauri Woman in "The War Prayer"
+
+Movies: 
+	Sidekicks
+
+TV Series:
+	The Wonder Years (series regular Winnie Cooper)
+
+TV Movies:
+	Camp Cucamonga
+
+Fabiana Udeno - Guest Stars in "Born to the Purple"
+
+
+Jonathon Kaplan - Guest Stars in "Believers"
+
+
+Section 5 - Babylon 5 Cameos
+
+Doug Netter (B5 Executive Producer) and Anne Bruice (B5 costumer) 
+as EA Officials displayed on a computer screen in a series episode.
+
+Kiki Stockhammer (Video Toaster Spokesperson) 
+reading "Universe Today" in the B5 Pilot.
+
+Ron Thornton (B5 Visual Effects) as a "lurker" in the B5 pilot.
+Also, one of the aliens was modeled after him.
+
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+
+The Babylon 5 Actors other Roles List compiled by Lee Whiteside, 
+Send updates, corrections or additions to:
+		L.WHITESIDE on GEnie
+		76044,502 on Compuserve
+		P14942@email.mot.com  \___ Internet mail addresses
+		leew@indirect.com     /
+
+The Magrathea BBS  (602) 833-9216 
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+The *Unofficial* Babylon 5
+**************************
+Encyclopedia
+************
+
+SPOILER WARNING: The information contained within may
+present spoiler information if you have not seen all the episodes.
+It is HIGHLY recommended that this guide be used as a
+reference AFTER you have seen an episode.
+
+Numbers in parentheses represent the Production Number of the
+episode in which that information was first found, if appropriate.
+The pilot movie is listed as (PIL). A complete episode list is at
+the end.
+
+Information from the pilot movie and the first 29 aired episodes
+(through Soul Mates) have been included.
+
+Spellings of terms come from a variety of sources. What JMS
+says is given top priority :^), followed by closed-captioning if it
+appears to be close, followed by whatever it sounds like to me...
+
+Maintained and edited by Brian O'Neill (oneill@cs.uml.edu).
+Corrections and prodding by David Henderson (
+davidh@camelot.bradley.edu).
+
+A
+*
+
+Abbai 4 
+   One of the members of the League of Non-Aligned
+   Worlds. 
+Abbut 
+   A Vicor employed by Ambassador Kosh to record the
+   thought patterns of Talia Winters. (Played by Cosie
+   Costa) (113) 
+Abby 
+   (No last name given) Senior telepath who guided Talia
+   Winters through her first year at Psi Corps. (206) 
+Agamemnon 
+   Earth Alliance heavy cruiser patrolling the Rim. (121) 
+Air Dome 
+   Earth Alliance fighter pilot training center. (122) 
+Alexander, Lyta 
+   Psi Corps level P5 telepath, assigned to Babylon 5 in
+   2257. Later transferred to Earth. Born Earth, December
+   10th, 2225. 6th generation telepath, registered with the
+   Psi Corps December 18th, 2252, license N617CC860.
+   (Played by Patricia Tallman) (PIL) 
+Alien Sector 
+   Section of Babylon 5 devoted to aliens with non-standard
+   breathing requirements. 
+Allen, Zack 
+   Security officer on Babylon 5. (Played by Jeff Conaway)
+   (206) 
+Alyt 
+   Commander of a Minbari ship when the regular captain is
+   absent. (115) 
+Amazonis Planitia 
+   Region of Mars near the Mars Colony. (109) 
+Amis 
+   Former GROPO and only survivor of a mysterious alien
+   attack during the Earth/Minbari War. (Played by Dwight
+   Schultz) (205) 
+Antarean Flar 
+   Unspecified delicacy. (108) 
+Antares Sector 
+   Unspecified sector of space. (PIL) 
+Antiagathic 
+   Drug which halts or reverses the aging process, resulting
+   in virtual immortality. (113) 
+Article 35 
+   Earth Alliance law stating that questions regarding
+   interpretation of regulations must be solved in a hearing
+   with at least 5 senior officers. (122) 
+Ashok, Vakar 
+   SunHawk captain for the Drazi Freehold. (Played by
+   Mark Hendrickson) (113) 
+Asimov 
+   Earth Alliance Starliner. (102) 
+Atambe, Major 
+   C&C officer on Babylon 5. (122) 
+
+B
+*
+
+Babylon 4 
+   The biggest and most expensive of the Babylon stations,
+   and the first to be completed (the previous three were
+   sabotaged and destroyed during construction). Babylon 4
+   disappeared without a trace 24 hours after becoming
+   operational. It was later discovered that the station was
+   "stolen" and being transported forward in time to be used
+   as a base of operations in a war that was to take place in
+   the future. Communications ID code 0010835-081677.
+   (118) 
+Babylon 5 
+   A space station built and run by the Earth Alliance
+   located in neutral space more or less central to all five of
+   the major races. It is 10 kilometers long and four
+   kilometers wide, and is divided into various sections.
+   Babylon 5 is the fifth station to carry the name
+   "Babylon", built on a minimal budget due to the loss of 
+   Babylon 4. 
+Babylon 5 Advisory Council 
+   Advisory council of Babylon 5, consisting of the
+   ambassadors from the 5 major races ( Centauri Republic, 
+   Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Narn Regime, and 
+   Vorlon Empire), as well as the League of Non-Aligned
+   Worlds. (103) 
+Balus 
+   World conquered by the Dilgar and later recaptured by
+   the Earth Alliance. (113) 
+Battle of Nu'Shok 
+   Centauri battle around 2160 where the Eye was lost. (116)
+Battle of Salos 
+   Battle between Earth Alliance and Dilgar forces where
+   the Dilgar were defeated and Jha'dur fled. (113) 
+Battle of the Line 
+   The final battle of the Earth/Minbari War, fought around
+   Earth itself. The Earth Alliance put up a last ditch effort
+   to defend itself against the oncoming Minbari forces, but
+   were decimated. Then, without explanation, the Minbari
+   surrendered. It is later discovered that the Minbari
+   surrendered so as to not harm their "souls". 
+Beldon, Alisa 
+   Teenager stranded on Babylon 5 when her father, Eliot,
+   died. Started to exhibit strong Psi ability (estimated P10)
+   with the onset of puberty. Left Babylon 5 to train with the
+   Minbari. Born 12 July 2244. (Played by Grace Una) (115) 
+Beldon, Eliot 
+   Father of Alisa Beldon, he brought her to Babylon 5 in
+   2256 where he worked in construction until his
+   termination in 2258. He was killed in an accident shortly
+   afterwards. (115) 
+Beldon, Esperanza 
+   Mother of Alisa Beldon, died in 2250 from Stafford's
+   Plague. (115) 
+Benson, Frank 
+   Security officer on Babylon 5 who developed large
+   gambling debts. Was used by Knight One to secure a
+   power source, and later killed by him. (Played by Jim
+   Youngs) (106) 
+Benzan 
+   Mollari household god of food. (108) 
+Ben Zayn, Colonel Ari 
+   Earth Alliance Internal Affairs investigator who was in
+   the top ten list to be chosen as commander of Babylon 5,
+   and who resented Sinclair for being chosen. Posed as 
+   Aaron Franks of the Quartermaster Corporation while
+   investigating Sinclair. (Played by Gregory Martin) (122) 
+Bester 
+   Psi Cop. Assigned with Kelsey to capture Ironheart.
+   (Played by Walter Koenig) (110) 
+Biggs, Malcolm 
+   Leader of Homeguard group. Old acquaintance of Ivanova.
+   (Played by Tristan Rogers) (107) 
+Black Omega 
+   Earth Alliance Interceptor squadron, consisting of a
+   modified (and expensive) version of Starfury equipped
+   with stealth capabilities. (110) 
+Black Star 
+   Minbari flagship during the Earth/Minbari War which
+   was destroyed by mines layed by Sheridan, earning the 
+   Earth Alliance its only victory in the war and Sheridan
+   the name "StarKiller". (121) 
+Blacklight Camouflage 
+   Electronic camouflage developed by Earth Force which
+   bends light so that the object blends into the background.
+   (107) 
+Book Universe 
+   Bookstore located on Babylon 5. (113) 
+Born of the Egg 
+   See Children of Time. 
+Boudreau, Elise 
+   EarthGov senator. (Played by Jessica Walter) (206) 
+Brain Wipe 
+   Removal of a person's memory and personality. (109,117)
+Branmer 
+   Minbari Shai Alyt and "Hero of the Line", a former high
+   priest who joined the Star Riders clan for the 
+   Earth/Minbari War, where he took part in the Battle of
+   the Line and was one of the Minbari responsible for the
+   decimation of Sinclair's squadron. Died in 2258, when his
+   body was paraded in front of all Minbari by the Star
+   Riders and Alyt Neroon until Delenn had the body
+   cremated. (115) 
+Bureau 13 
+   Secret organization within EarthGov dealing with black
+   projects and star-chamber justice. (206) 
+
+C
+*
+
+C-15 
+   Explosive. (111) 
+Caliban 
+   Former Mutari who helps Walker Smith to become the
+   first human participant in the Mutai. (Played by Don
+   Stroud) (119) 
+Carter, Amanda 
+   Member of the Mars Colony Business Affairs Committee
+   and former member of Free Mars. (Played by Adrienne
+   Barbeau) (206) 
+Carter, John 
+   Great grandfather to Amanda Carter who volunteered to
+   pilot the first colony ship to Mars. (206) 
+Centauri Prime 
+   Homeworld of the Centauri Republic. 
+Centauri Republic 
+   Political organization of the Centauri. 
+Chakan 
+   Provisional governor of the Mars Colony. (120) 
+Chang, Doctor 
+   Person in charge of the Icarus expedition to investigate an
+   ancient race out on the Rim. (122) 
+Changeling Net 
+   A form of holographic camouflage which allows the user
+   to appear in any recorded form. Prolonged use can be
+   fatal. (PIL) 
+Children of Time 
+   Members of a religious egg-born race. Also call
+   themselves "The Chosen" and "Born of the Egg". (105) 
+Chosen, The 
+   See Children of Time. 
+Chudomo, Third Fain of 
+   Sect of the Minbari religious caste. (108) 
+Cirrus, Mariah 
+   Woman who travelled in suspended animation on board
+   the Copernicus. Her husband, also on the Copernicus, was
+   killed during the voyage. (Played by Anne-Marie
+   Johnson) (205) 
+Clark, Morgan 
+   Vice President of the Earth Alliance under Luis Santiago,
+   took over as President on January 1st, 2259 after the death
+   of Santiago. (112,121,122) 
+Cobra Bay 
+   Section of Babylon 5 from which Starfury fighters are
+   launched. Named for its cobra-like shape. 
+Colesto 
+   Narn starliner. (113) 
+Comac 4 
+   Planet destroyed by Jha'dur in 2231. (113) 
+Connally, Neeoma 
+   Docker's Guild representative on Babylon 5. Father killed
+   during the Europa Mining Strikes. (Played by Katy
+   Boyer) (114) 
+Copernicus 
+   A pre-hyperspace deep space vessel, which carried 
+   Mariah Cirrus and her husband in suspended animation
+   for over a hundred years. (205) 
+Cortez 
+   Earth Alliance Explorer-class ship. (204) 
+Cotto, Vir 
+   Assistant to Centauri ambassador Londo Mollari. (Played
+   by Stephen Furst) 
+Cramer, Mary Ann 
+   Reporter for Interstellar Network News. (Played by
+   Patricia Healy) (101,114) 
+Crane, Marie 
+   Challenger to incumbent president Luis Santiago in the 
+   Earth Alliance presidential elections of 2258. (103) 
+Crawler 
+   Land vehicle used on Mars Colony. (109) 
+Crystal Port 
+   Computer I/O port for use with Data Crystals. 
+Cutter 
+   Assistant to Major Kemmer on the President's Security
+   Staff. A Homeguard supporter who attempted to frame 
+   Garibaldi for sabotage. (Played by Tom Donaldson) (111) 
+
+D
+*
+
+Daggair 
+   One of Londo Mollari's three wives. Divorced in 2259.
+   (Played by Lois Nettleton) (208) 
+Damocles Sector 
+   Sector of space where the rare poison Florazyne may be
+   found. (PIL) 
+Dark Star 
+   Night club on Babylon 5. (117) 
+Data Crystal 
+   Data storage device currently used by most major races. 
+Datya 
+   "Father", as used by the Children of Time. (105) 
+Davo 
+   Planet in the Centauri Republic; homeworld of Adira
+   Tyree. (104) 
+Deathwalker 
+   Epithet used by races in the Non-Aligned sectors to refer
+   to Jha'dur. (113) 
+Deeron 
+   Minbari Alyt in command of the war cruiser sent to
+   locate and if necessary destroy the Trigati. (Played by
+   Jennifer Anglin) (121) 
+Deghoul 
+   Alien thief busted by Garibaldi several times. (111) 
+Delenn 
+   Minbari ambassador to Babylon 5. Apparently Delenn is 
+   Satai, a member of the Grey Council, and holds a key to 
+   Commander Sinclair's memory. She is under orders to
+   kill him if he remembers. (Played by Mira Furlan) 
+Delvientos, Alberto 
+   Babylon 5 dock worker killed in the Talquith accident.
+   Brother of Eduardo Delvientos. (114) 
+Delvientos, Eduardo 
+   Babylon 5 dock senior foreman. Brother of Alberto
+   Delvientos. (Played by Jose Rey) (114) 
+Deuce 
+   See Mozechenko, Desmond. 
+Devereaux, Edgar 
+   Businessman involved in a plot to assassinate the Earth
+   Alliance president. Later killed by Garibaldi's Aide, Jack.
+   (Played by Edward Conery) (112) 
+Dilgar 
+   Savage warring race that invaded the Non-Aligned
+   sectors in 2230 and was defeated in 2232 with the help of
+   the Earth Alliance. Their sun later went nova, destroying
+   the remaining Dilgar. (113) 
+Dorian Massacres 
+   Unspecified. (113) 
+DownBelow 
+   The "underside" of Babylon 5, where Lurkers hide. 
+Draal 
+   Minbari teacher and mentor to Delenn, who replaced 
+   Varn as the guardian of Epsilon 3. (Played by Louis
+   Turenne) (120,121) 
+Drake, Nelson 
+   Assistant to Vance Hendricks. Taken over by one of the
+   bioweapons from Ikarra 7. (Played by Marshall Teague)
+   (101) 
+Drazi 
+   Member race of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds.
+   Somewhat militant, recognizable by the dark-purple
+   heads. Every five years, the Drazi split up into two
+   random factions, which battle each other to decide the
+   new ruler. 
+Drazi Freehold 
+   Political organization of the Drazi. (113) 
+Du'Rog 
+   Narn Councillor. Hired Tu'Pari to kill G'Kar before his
+   own death. (Played by Mark Hendrickson) (108) 
+Ducat 
+   Centauri unit of currency. 
+Dukhat 
+   Leader of the Minbari and the Grey Council when
+   Humans fit met the Minbari. Mortally wounded when the
+   first contact went wrong, which resulted in the 
+   Earth/Minbari War. Generally considered to be the most
+   evolved and wise soul of all the Minbari. (102,115) 
+Duridium 
+   Chemical by-product of Quantium-40. (110) 
+
+E
+*
+
+Earth Alliance 
+   Political organization based on Earth which includes the 
+   Mars Colony, Jovian moons, and Orion. The Earth
+   Alliance built and operates Babylon 5. 
+Earthdome 
+   Capital of the Earth Alliance located in what used to be
+   Geneva, Switzerland, Earth. 
+Earth Force 
+   Space division of Earth Alliance military. 
+Earth Force 1 
+   Space cruiser used as transport by the Earth Alliance
+   President. (111) 
+EarthGov 
+   Abbreviation for the Earth Alliance government. 
+Earth/Minbari War 
+   War which broke out around the year 2245 when a First
+   Contact situation with the Minbari went wrong. The 
+   Earth Alliance forces interpreted a movement by a
+   Minbari ship as threatening and in the ensuing battle the
+   Minbari ship was destroyed. The Earth forces returned
+   believing an invasion was imminent. It ended with the 
+   Battle of the Line around 2248. 
+Elric 
+   Leader of the Human Technomages. (Played by Michael
+   Ansara) (203) 
+Epsilon 3 
+   The planet near Babylon 5, also known as Euphrates.
+   Babylon 5 is located at the L5 point between the planet
+   and its solitary moon. It was believed to be barren and
+   lifeless, but in fact contained some form of outpost from
+   an ancient civilisation. (120,121) 
+Euphrates 
+   See Epsilon 3. 
+Euphrates Treaty 
+   Treaty between the Narn Regime and Centauri Republic
+   for rights in the Euphrates Sector being negotiated on
+   Babylon 5. (104) 
+Europa Mining Strikes 
+   Strikes on the Jovian moon of Europa for which the Earth
+   Senate invoked the Rush Act, resulting in the death of 
+   Neeoma Connally's father. (114) 
+Explorer Ship 
+   Large ships that spend years in deep space constructing 
+   Vortex Generators so that scout ships can follow. (204) 
+Eye 
+   The oldest symbol of Centauri nobility, it belonged to the
+   first Centauri emperor. Lost at the Battle of Nu'Shok a
+   hundred years prior, it was recovered in 2258. (116) 
+Eyes 
+   Slang term used by Earth Alliance for Internal Affairs.
+   (122) 
+
+F
+*
+
+Feeder 
+   See na'ka'leen Feeder. 
+Finagle's Place 
+   Shop on Babylon 5. (204) 
+Flinn 
+   Person on Babylon 5 whose grandfather was abducted by
+   an alien and was attempting to sue for damages from the
+   alien's grandson. (Played by John C. Flinn) (109) 
+Florazyne 
+   Rare poison found in the Damocles Sector. (PIL) 
+Flyer 
+   Minbari shuttle-type ship. (113) 
+Franklin, Dr. Stephen 
+   Resident Xenobiologist on Babylon 5. Destroyed his notes
+   on the Minbari during the war rather than turn them over
+   to the Earth Alliance to be used in development of a
+   bioweapon. Replaced Dr. Benjamin Kyle. (Played by
+   Richard Biggs) 
+Franks, Aaron 
+   Pseudonym used by Colonel Ben Zayn. (122) 
+Frasi 
+   Class of Narn heavy fighter. (110) 
+Free Mars 
+   Radical organization which wants Mars Colony to secede
+   from the Earth Alliance. (122) 
+Fresh Air 
+   Open air restaurant on Babylon 5. (104) 
+FutureCorp 
+   Earth corporation seeking a relationship with the Mars
+   Colony. (206) 
+
+G
+*
+
+G'Drog, Captain 
+   Narn Fighter pilot who rescued Sakai at Sigma 957.
+   (Played by Michael McKenzie) (110) 
+G'Kar 
+   Narn ambassador to Babylon 5. Member of the Third
+   Circle. (Played by Andreas Katsulas) 
+G'Lan 
+   Narn religious figure. (114) 
+G'Quan 
+   Narn religious figure. (114) 
+G'Quan Eth 
+   Plant indigenous to the Narn homeworld, used as incense
+   in religious ceremonies of the followers of G'Quan. The
+   seeds can also be added to alcohol to enhance the
+   intoxicating effect. (114) 
+Gajic, Aldous 
+   The only remaining member of the Holy Order that seeks
+   the Holy Grail. His wife Sara and kids were killed in an
+   accident on Mars while exploring Amazonis Planitia.
+   Killed by Deuce. (Played by David Warner) (109) 
+Galus, Ray 
+   Commander, leader of Zeta squadron on Babylon 5.
+   Killed in hyperspace in a near-collision with a Shadow
+   ship in 2259. (Played by Art Kimbro) (204) 
+Garibaldi, Michael, Chief Warrant Officer 
+   Security chief, Babylon 5. He has gotten into trouble at
+   various times, usually because he won't back down from
+   anyone, causing him to bounce around from job to job and
+   develop an alcohol problem. (Played by Jerry Doyle) 
+Glopitt Egg 
+   Actually a piece of "industrial goo". It was given to Shon
+   by Dr. Franklin to take care of, and glows when touched.
+   (105) 
+Glory Shop, The 
+   Shop on Babylon 5. (204) 
+Gold Channels 
+   High-priority communications channels usable only with
+   the expressed permission of the Station Commander. Uses
+   tachyon particles for instantaneous communication. (104) 
+Gray, Harriman 
+   Psi Corps liaison to Earth Force, level P10, loaned to 
+   Colonel Ben Zayn by Bester to investigate Sinclair.
+   (Played by Jeffery Combs) (122) 
+Green Tiger, The 
+   Shop on Babylon 5. (204) 
+Grey Council 
+   Mysterious religious leaders of the Minbari, whose
+   members are generally identified by grey cloaks and a
+   grey triangle on the forehead. There are 9 members. 
+Grid Epsilon 
+   Sector of space in which Babylon 5 is located. 
+GROPOS 
+   See Ground Pounders. 
+Ground Pounders 
+   Slang term for member of the infantry. GROPOS for
+   short. 
+Gyor 
+   Mutai champion in 2258. (119) 
+
+H
+*
+
+H'Ryok 
+   Narn councillor dispatched to Babylon 5 to bargain with 
+   Jha'dur, but who turned back when Jha'dur was attacked
+   by Na'Toth. (113) 
+Hague, William, General 
+   Chairman of the Earth Alliance Joint Chiefs of Staff.
+   (Played by Robert Foxworth) (121) 
+Hampton, Lise 
+   Former girlfriend of Garibaldi injured during rioting on 
+   Mars Colony. (Played by Denise Gentile) (120,121,118) 
+Happy Daze 
+   Bar found in the DownBelow section of Babylon 5. (111) 
+Hazeltine, Eric 
+   Babylon 5 environmental technician and acquaintance of 
+   Del Varner who was killed by a Minbari assassin posing
+   as Varner. (Played by Steven R. Barnett) (PIL) 
+Hedronn 
+   Member of the Grey Council sent to Babylon 5 to check
+   on Delenn when she initiated her transformation. (Played
+   by Robin Sachs) (121) 
+Hernandez, Dr. Maya 
+   Doctor and assistant to Dr. Franklin on Babylon 5.
+   (Played by Silvana Gallardo) (105) 
+Hendricks, Vance 
+   Archaeologist who discovered the ruins of Ikarra 7.
+   (Played by David McCallum) (101) 
+Hidoshi, Senator 
+   Earth senator and liason to Babylon 5. (Played by Aki
+   Aleong) 
+Hilak 7 
+   Narn colony conquered by the Dilgar around 2230. (113) 
+Homeguard 
+   Pro-Earth group which opposes all relations with aliens.
+   (107) 
+Horn, Abel 
+   Former militant leader of Free Mars. In 2252 sentenced to
+   Phobos Maximum Security outpost for the theft of 50
+   million credits from the Mars Conglomerate. Transferred
+   to Lunis Planum Prison Base after 1 year. Escaped April
+   15th, 2253. Supposedly killed by the Earth cruiser 
+   Pournelle in 2258 during the Mars Rebellion. Later found
+   to have been rescued and used in Project Lazarus by 
+   Bureau 13. Later killed on Babylon 5. (Played by Michael
+   Beck) (206) 
+Hose Jockey 
+   Title of dock worker responsible for fuel line
+   connections. (120) 
+Hyperion 
+   Earth Force heavy cruiser, commanded by Captain Ellis
+   Pierce. (121) 
+
+I
+*
+
+Icarus 
+   Earth Alliance exploration vehicle. Exploded while
+   investigating ruins of an ancient race out on the Rim.
+   (122) 
+ICE 
+   See Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics. 
+Ikarra 7 
+   Homeworld to an advanced civilization who were killed
+   by their own organic weapons over a thousand years ago.
+   (101) 
+Ilaros 
+   Centauri goddess of luck, patron of gamblers. (111) 
+Indonesian Consortium 
+   Political organization within the Earth Alliance. (120) 
+Ingata 
+   Minbari war cruiser used to transport the body of 
+   Branmer. (115) 
+Internal Affairs 
+   Division of Earth Alliance military charged with
+   investigating military operations. Referred to as "Eyes".
+   (122) 
+Interstellar Network News 
+   News broadcast network of the Earth Alliance. 
+InterWeb 
+   Computer information network used by the Earth
+   Alliance. (122) 
+Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics 
+   Special electronic devices used to prevent tracking and
+   monitoring of communications. (104) 
+Io 
+   One of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter, where the
+   Earth transfer jumpgate and station are located. (102) 
+Ipsha 
+   Unspecified race. (113) 
+Ironheart, Jason 
+   Rogue telepath (level P10). Former Psi Corps instructor.
+   Volunteered for experiments to increase Psi power.
+   Former lover and teacher of Talia Winters. (Played by
+   William Allen Young) (110) 
+Isogi, Taro 
+   Chief Executive Officer of FutureCorp and friend to 
+   Talia Winters. Killed in 2259 by Abel Horn while
+   meeting with Amanda Carter about Mars Colony on
+   Babylon 5. (Played by James Shigeta) (206) 
+Ivanov, Andrei 
+   Father of Susan Ivanova. Died on Earth from medical
+   complications. (Played by Robert Phalen) (104,109) 
+Ivanov, Ganya 
+   Brother of Susan Ivanova. Died in Earth/Minbari War
+   (104,119) 
+Ivanova, Sofie 
+   Mother of Susan Ivanova. Discovered to be telepathic, and
+   forced to undergo injections of Sleepers to disable this
+   ability. Took her own life 10 years later. (Played by
+   Marie Chambers) (103,122) 
+Ivanova, Susan (Suzotchka) 
+   Commander, Babylon 5. Replaced Laurel Takashima.
+   Born August 30th, 2230 in St. Petersburg, Russian
+   Consortium, Earth. Appointed to Babylon 5 in 2258 (Lt.
+   Commander), promoted to Commander 2259. (Played by
+   Claudia Christian) 
+
+J
+*
+
+Jack, Officer 
+   (No last name given) Security Officer and Aide to 
+   Garibaldi. Shot Garibaldi when he discovered the
+   assassination plot to kill the Earth Alliance president.
+   Sent back to Earth under orders of President Clark.
+   (Played by Macaulay Bruton) (112,122) 
+Jax 
+   Bartender in the Casino on Babylon 5. (122) 
+Jha'dur 
+   Also known as Deathwalker and Gyla Lobosh. Dilgar war
+   criminal. Born in 2195 on Omelos. Specialist in
+   biochemical, biogenetic, and cyberorganic weaponry.
+   Infected the entire polulation of Latig 4 with Stafford's
+   Plague as an experiment in 2230. Destroyed the planets 
+   Tirolus, Comac 4, and Malax in 2231. Fled the sector
+   after the Battle of Salos in 2232, when she was sheltered
+   by the Wind Swords while she developed an Antiagathic
+   drug. Held the Dilgar rank of Warmaster. Killed by a
+   Vorlon cruiser. (Played by Sarah Douglas) (113) 
+Jinxo 
+   See Jordan, Thomas. 
+Joint Chiefs of Staff 
+   Committee consisting of the head of each branch of Earth
+   Alliance military. 
+Jordan, Thomas (a.k.a. Jinxo) 
+   Grade 10 zero-gravity construction worker who worked
+   on all 5 Babylon stations. He believes that he is the focus
+   of a curse that if he left Babylon 5, it would be
+   destroyed/disappear as the previous four did. Took over
+   for Aldous Gajic in the search for the Holy Grail.
+   Nicknamed Jinxo. (Played by Tom Booker) (109) 
+Jovian Sunspot 
+   Favorite drink of Abbut. (113) 
+Jump Gate 
+   See Vortex Generator. 
+
+K
+*
+
+Ka-Tow 
+   A Mutari's second, or assistant. (119) 
+Kalain 
+   Second in command of the Minbari war cruiser Trigati
+   under Sineval, he took command after Sineval's death
+   believing that the a href="#Grey-Council">Grey Council
+   had betrayed them. Later died of self-inflicted poison
+   while in custody on Babylon 5. (Played by Richard
+   Grove) (121) 
+Kalika 
+   Ambassador from Abbai 4 and spokesperson for the 
+   League of Non-Aligned Worlds. (Played by Robin
+   Curtis) (113) 
+Kat 
+   Zocalo bartender. (Played by Kathryn Cressida) (120) 
+Keffer, Warren 
+   Starfury pilot and leader of Zeta Wing on Babylon 5.
+   (Played by Robert Russler) 
+Kelsey 
+   Psi Cop. Assigned with Bester to capture Ironheart, and
+   was later killed by Ironheart. (Played by Felicity
+   Waterman) (110) 
+Kemmer, Major Lianna 
+   Member of Earth Alliance President's Security Staff.
+   Daughter of Frank Kemmer. Blamed Garibaldi for the
+   death of her father. (Played by Elaine Thomas, Young
+   Lianna played by Robin Wake) (111) 
+Kemmer, Frank 
+   Jovian moon shuttle pilot, father of Major Lianna
+   Kemmer. Friend of Garibaldi. Killed in a shuttle pad
+   explosion on Europa which was intended to stop
+   Garibaldi from investigating illegal activities on the
+   colony. (111) 
+Kha'Ri 
+   Narn term for the ruling council. (113) 
+Kiro, Lord 
+   Descendent of the first Centauri emperor. Planned to use
+   the Eye to gain the Centauri throne for himself. Taken
+   captive by raiders and later killed by a Shadow ship.
+   (Played by Gerrit Graham) (116) 
+Knight One 
+   Member of a radical Earth group trying to prove
+   collusion between Earth Administration and the Minbari.
+   Monitored Knight Two during attempts to discover what
+   happened to Sinclair at the Battle of the Line. Killed by
+   Sinclair. (Played by Judson Scott) (106) 
+Knight Two 
+   Member of a radical Earth group trying to prove
+   collusion between Earth Administration and the Minbari.
+   Entered Sinclair's mind via "cybernet" in order to
+   discover what happened to him at the Battle of the Line.
+   Was brain damaged when Sinclair broke free and smashed
+   the equipment. (Played by Christopher Neame) (106) 
+Ko'Dath 
+   Ambassadorial assistant to G'Kar. Killed in an airlock
+   accident. (Played by Mary Woronov) (104) 
+Kolee 
+   Mollari household god of passion. (108) 
+Kosh 
+   (Also, Kosh Naranek) Vorlon ambassador to Babylon 5.
+   (Voice of Ardwight Chamberlain) 
+Koslov, Rabbi Yossel 
+   Russian-born rabbi and uncle of Susan Ivanova. (Played
+   by Theodore Bikel) (119) 
+Krantz, Major Lewis 
+   Earth Alliance military officer charged with overseeing
+   the completion of Babylon 4 at the time of its
+   disappearance. (Played by Kent Broadhurst) (118) 
+Kyle, Dr. Benjamin 
+   Xenobiologist assigned to Babylon 5 in 2257. Later
+   reassigned to Earth as an expert on Alien physiology by
+   the Earth Alliance President. Rumors have it that the
+   transfer was because of his contact with Vorlon 
+   Ambassador Kosh. (Played by Johnny Sekka) (PIL) 
+
+L
+*
+
+Ladira, Lady 
+   Centauri seer and prophetess. Aunt of Lord Kiro. Fortold
+   of the death of Lord Kiro by the Shadows and of the
+   destruction of Babylon 5. (Played by Fredi Olster) (116) 
+LaGrange 2 
+   Earth Alliance base located near the Mars Colony. (122) 
+Lake's Syndrome 
+   Painful, uncurable disease. (117) 
+Lamuda 
+   The "travelling robe", which is worn by one of the 
+   Children of Time before that person's ritual death. (105) 
+Latig 4 
+   Non-Aligned planet whose population was destroyed
+   when Jha'dur infected them with Stafford's Plague as an
+   experiment in 2230. (113) 
+League of Non-Aligned Worlds 
+   Representatives of smaller races and planets grouped
+   together to express their interests to the Babylon 5
+   Council. Includes the Drazi, Vree, Ipsha, and Abbai,
+   among others. 
+Lennier 
+   Assistant to Minbari Ambassador Delenn. Member of the 
+   Third Fain of Chudomo. (Played by Bill Mumy) 
+Li 
+   Mollari household goddess of passion. (108,117) 
+Li'Dak 
+   Narn Councillor and member of the Fifth Circle.
+   Sponsored Na'Toth as G'Kar's assistant. Was himself
+   sponsored as Councillor by Du'Rog. (108) 
+Line, Battle of the 
+   See Battle of the Line. 
+Link 
+   Personal communication device used by Earth Alliance
+   personnel. Generally worn on the back of the hand. 
+Llort 
+   Unspecified race known for their tendency to collect
+   anything just to have it. (115) 
+Lobosh, Gyla 
+   Pseudonym used by Jha'dur. (113) 
+Lurkers 
+   People, who for one reason or another (broke, criminal
+   activity, etc.) hang out DownBelow on Babylon 5. 
+
+M
+*
+
+M'Ola 
+   Mother of Shon and one of the Children of Time, who
+   along with her husband Tharg refused to let Dr. Franklin
+   operate on their son. (Played by Tricia O'Neil) (105) 
+Malax 
+   Planet destroyed by Jha'dur in 2231. (113) 
+Manya 
+   "Mother", as used by the Children of Time. (105) 
+Maray, Kiron 
+   Centauri, cousin of Vir Cotto, in love with Aria Tensus,
+   with whom he ran away to avoid an arranged marriage.
+   Placed in the fosterage of Andillo Mollari. (Played by
+   Rodney Eastman) (107) 
+Marie Celeste 
+   Earth Alliance transport. (116,109) 
+Mariel 
+   One of Londo Mollari's three wives. Divorced in 2259.
+   (Played by Blair Valk) (208) 
+Markab 
+   Member race of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds. 
+Mars Colony 
+   Earth Alliance colony, marred by political upheaval. 
+Mars Conglomerate 
+   Monopolistic corporation on Mars Colony. (206) 
+Mars Rebellion 
+   Period in 2258 when the Mars Colony rebelled against 
+   EarthGov, led by Free Mars. 
+Marzies 
+   Somewhat derogatory term used to refer to residents of
+   the Mars Colony. (121) 
+Mayan, Shaal 
+   Minbari poet and childhood friend of Delenn. Attacked
+   by Homeguard agents on Babylon 5. (Played by Nancy
+   Lee Grahn) (107) 
+Maynard, Jack 
+   Captain of the Cortez. Sheridan's first commanding
+   officer on the Moon-Mars patrol. Nicknamed "Stinky".
+   (Played by Russ Tamblin) (204) 
+Miller, General 
+   Earth Force representative with the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
+   (Played by Frank Farmer) (122) 
+Minbar 
+   Home planet of the Minbari Federation. 
+Minbari Federation 
+   Political organization of the Minbari. 
+Mind Burst 
+   Sudden influx of telepathic information felt by untrained
+   telepaths. (115) 
+Mind Quake 
+   Uncontrollable large-scale outbursts of telekinetic power.
+   (110) 
+Mitchell, Bill 
+   Fighter pilot and member of Sinclair's squadron. Killed
+   at the Battle of the Line. (Played by Justin Williams)
+   (106) 
+Mobotabwe, Derek 
+   Mars Colony reporter for Interstellar Network News.
+   (Played by Langdon Bensing) (120) 
+Mogath 
+   Mollari household god of the underworld and protector of
+   front doors. (108) 
+Mollari, Andillo 
+   Second cousin to Londo Mollari who took Kiron Maray
+   and Aria Tensus into fosterage. (107) 
+Mollari, Carn 
+   Nephew of Londo Mollari. Head researcher of Ragesh 3
+   agricultural colony. (Played by Peter Trencher) (103) 
+Mollari, Londo 
+   Centauri ambassador to Babylon 5. (Played by Peter
+   Jurasik) 
+Morden 
+   Human who spent a lot of time exploring the Rim.
+   Apparently an agent for the Shadows. (Played by Ed
+   Wasser) 
+Morph Gas 
+   Anesthetic gas used to quell a riot. (121) 
+Mozechenko, Desmond (a.k.a. Deuce) 
+   Smuggler working DownBelow on Babylon 5.
+   Nicknamed Deuce. (Played by William Sanderson) (109) 
+Mueller, Karl Edward 
+   Convicted of the murder of two Lurkers and a security
+   officer and sentenced to Brain Wipe. Escaped and later
+   killed by Dr. Laura Rosen. (Played by Mark Rolston)
+   (117) 
+Muta-Do 
+   The "sayer", or master of the Mutai. (Played by
+   Soon-Teck Oh) (119) 
+Mutai 
+   A no-rules fight similar to the Kumite on Earth, stressing
+   bravery. (119) 
+Mutari 
+   A fighter in the Mutai. (119) 
+
+N
+*
+
+N'kai 
+   Unusual word that appears in all Minbari language
+   dialects, but never means the same thing. Some meanings
+   include "sand", "father", and "boot". (117) 
+n'grath 
+   Insectoid alien known as a "fixer", or one who can supply
+   black market-style items or information to anyone who
+   can pay for it. 
+na'ka'leen Feeder 
+   Horrible creature indigenous to the Centauri Sector,
+   where it is kept under heavy quarantine. It feeds on the
+   neural activity of the brain associated with memory and
+   personality, essentially performing a brain wipe of the
+   victim. (109) 
+Na'Toth 
+   Diplomatic attache to Narn Ambassador G'Kar. (Played
+   by Caitlin Brown/Season 1, Mary Kay Adams/Season 2) 
+Naranek, Kosh 
+   See Kosh. 
+Narn Regime 
+   Political organization of the Narn. 
+Neroon 
+   Minbari Alyt and member of the Star Riders clan. Aide
+   and executive officer for 15 years to Branmer, he brought
+   Branmer's body to Babylon 5 to honor him in front of all
+   Minbari. (Played by John Vickery) (115) 
+Netter, General 
+   Presidential military advisor and head of the President's
+   Security Staff. (Played by Rod Perry) (111) 
+Ninja ZX-11 (1992) 
+   Motorcycle built by Garibaldi and Lennier. 
+Nolan 
+   Cobra Bay worker and Homeguard supporter who was
+   injured by a bomb explosion and fingered Garibaldi for
+   sabotage. Died when Major Kemmer revived him for
+   questioning. (Played by Jose Rosario) (111) 
+Nu'Shok, Battle of 
+   See Battle of Nu'Shok. 
+
+O
+*
+
+Office of Planetary Security 
+   Division of the Earth Alliance government. (121) 
+Ombuds 
+   Legal judicator for the Earth Alliance on Babylon 5. (109)
+Omelos 
+   Birthworld of Jha'dur in the Caliban Sector. (113) 
+Orion 
+   Planet of the Earth Alliance. 
+Orwell 
+   Supply officer on Babylon 5. (Played by Miguel Nunez
+   Jr.) (204) 
+Oxy Pills 
+   Pills allowing quick recovery of strenous activity. 
+
+P
+*
+
+pak'ma'ra 
+   Members of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds. Carrion
+   (raw, decaying flesh) eaters. (115) 
+Patrick 
+   (No last name given) Commander, Executive Officer of
+   the . (Played by Daniel Beer) (204) 
+Peekaboo 
+   Computer password used by Garibaldi. (122) 
+Petrov, Stephen 
+   Lurker who was caught for petty theft at one point, and
+   became an informant for Garibaldi. Killed when he
+   discovered a plot to assassinate the Earth Alliance
+   president. (Played by David Anthony Marshall) (112) 
+Phalos 12 
+   Unspecified Centauri battle led by Londo Mollari. (121) 
+Phased Plasma Gun 
+   Hand weapon which fires a "projectile" of plasma, or
+   superheated gas. The charge dissipates rapidly when it
+   strikes, so as to not cause substantial damage to hulls,
+   windows, etc. The coil is made of a morbidium alloy,
+   which is harder than diamond. Each PPG, except those
+   used by Earth Alliance Security, have serial numbers
+   etched on the coil. 
+Pierce, Captain Ellis 
+   Captain of the Earth Force heavy cruiser Hyperion.
+   (Played by Ron Canada) (121) 
+Pournelle 
+   Earth Alliance Heavy Cruiser. (206) 
+PPG 
+   See Phased Plasma Gun. 
+Project Lazarus 
+   Cyber experiments conducted in the late 2230s, which
+   took subjected near death and through the used of cyber
+   augmentation and deep mind scans controlled the subject
+   via an implanted computer. (206) 
+Proxima Centauri 
+   Location of Earth Alliance tachyon relay station, used for
+   communications. 
+Psi Cop 
+   Member of the Psi Corps who monitor and control
+   telepaths. All Psi Cops are level P12 telepaths. 
+Psi Corps 
+   Organization within the Earth Alliance who register,
+   train, and monitor Telepaths. 
+Purple Files 
+   Files belonging to Londo Mollari which contain
+   potentially damaging information for his family and the 
+   Centauri Republic. (104) 
+
+Q
+*
+
+Quadrant 37 
+   Disputed sector between Narn and Centauri, where a Narn
+   outpost was destroyed by the Shadows. (112) 
+Quantium-40 
+   Chemical compound vital to the construction of Vortex
+   Generators. 
+Quartermaster Corporation 
+   Company name used by Colonel Ben Zayn as a front for
+   his investigation of Sinclair. (122) 
+Quat, Pol 
+   Senator for the Indonesian Consortium. (120) 
+
+R
+*
+
+Ragesh 3 
+   Centauri agricultural colony, formerly a Narn colony,
+   which was attacked by the Narn Regime in a territorial
+   dispute in 2258. (103) 
+Rathenn 
+   Minbari acquaintence of Delenn and Draal. (120) 
+Refa 
+   Representative of the Centauri government. (Played by
+   William Forward) (203) 
+Rhoner, Dr. 
+   Medical Officer on the Cortez. (204) 
+Rim 
+   Outer reaches of the explored galaxy. 
+Ritchie Station 
+   Mars station destroyed by Abel Horn, killing friends of 
+   Sheridan. (206) 
+Rosen, Janice 
+   Daughter of Dr. Laura Rosen. (Played by Kate McNeil)
+   (117) 
+Rosen, Dr. Laura 
+   Doctor who lost her license in 2255 when an accident
+   resulted in the death of a patient. Later found a device
+   bought from a trader originally used asa means of
+   corporal punishment by draining life energy and feeing it
+   to others, but was able to use it to heal people. She used it
+   to kill Karl Mueller in self-defense and in turn cured
+   herself of Lake's Syndrome. (Played by June Lockhart)
+   (117) 
+Runningdear, Miriam 
+   Owner of a shop on Red 26 who was going to testify
+   against Deuce but became a victim of a Feeder. (Played by
+   Linda Lodge) (109) 
+Rush Act 
+   Earth law enabling the Senate to empower someone to
+   end an illegal strike using any means necessary, usually by
+   force. (114) 
+Ruterian 
+   Major Centauri god. There is a statue of Ruterian in the
+   Centauri cultural center on Babylon 5. (114) 
+
+S
+*
+
+San Diego 
+   Earth city destroyed by the first ever act of nuclear
+   terrorism. It is estimated that it will not be inhabitable
+   again until the mid 2300s. 
+Sakai, Catherine 
+   Planetary scout, owner and pilot of the scout ship 
+   Skydancer. (Played by Julia Nickson) 
+Salos, Battle of 
+   See Battle of Salos. 
+San Diego 
+   Earth city destroyed in a nuclear detonation by a terrorist
+   group. (103) 
+Santiago, Luis 
+   President of the Earth Alliance. Defeated Marie Crane in
+   the elections of 2258 with promises of better relations
+   with the Mars Colony and preserving Earth cultures in the
+   face of alien influences. Killed on January 1st, 2259 when
+   Earth Force 1 exploded, apparently as part of an
+   assassination. (103,111,112) 
+Satai 
+   Honorific title of a member of the Grey Council. (102) 
+Sechli Sakarr 
+   Minbari for "Soul Sick". (208) 
+Sha'Toth 
+   Father of Na'Toth. Follower of G'Lan. (108) 
+Shadows 
+   An ancient and very powerful legendary race which
+   nearly ruled known space thousands of years ago, but
+   were pushed back to their homeworld of Z'ha'dum on the 
+   Rim and subsequently disappeared, until recently. 
+Shai Alyt 
+   Minbari ship captain. (115) 
+Shak Tot 
+   Minbari term for a Soul Hunter. (102) 
+Shankar 
+   Narn "blood oath". (113) 
+Shar, Mila 
+   Head of agricultural litigation of Abbai 4. (Played by
+   Diane Adair) (107) 
+Sheridan, Anna 
+   Wife of Captain John Sheridan and long-time friend of 
+   Elizabeth Sheridan. Died in 2256 while as science officer
+   on the Icarus when the ship exploded while investigating
+   the ruins of an ancient race out on the Rim. (Played by
+   Beth Toussaint) (122) 
+Sheridan, Elizabeth 
+   Sister of Captain John Sheridan and long-time friend of 
+   Anna Sheridan. (Played by Beverly Leech) (122) 
+Sheridan, John, Captain 
+   Appointed Commander, Babylon 5, January 9th, 2259 by 
+   President Clark to replace Sinclair. Former captain of the 
+   Earth Alliance cruiser Agamemnon, spent the previous
+   three years on deep space patrol. He is the only Earth
+   Alliance commander to have one a battle against the
+   Minbari during the War, by mining the asteroid belt
+   between Mars and Jupiter, destroying the Minbari
+   flagship Black Star and several other ships. The Minbari
+   call him "StarKiller", and feel the battle was won by him
+   dishonorably. (Played by Bruce Boxleitner) 
+Sho-Rin 
+   The title of the current champion of the Mutai. (119) 
+Shon 
+   Son of M'Ola and Tharg, who suffered from congestive
+   blockage of the air bladder. Later killed by parents.
+   (Played by Jonathan Charles Kaplan) (105) 
+Sigma 957 
+   Planet in a disputed sector of space, which shows signs of
+   a signficant amount of Duridium, but was left
+   undeveloped due to strange occurances near there. (110) 
+Sinclair, Jeffrey David, Commander 
+   Commander, Babylon 5 and Earth Alliance Ambassador.
+   The only survivor of his squadron at the Battle of the Line,
+   he has no memory of what took place between when he
+   tried to ram a Minbari cruiser and when he awoke in his
+   fighter 24 hours later. Later discovered to have been
+   captured by the Minbari, tortured and scanned. Born on 
+   Mars Colony, and spent three years training as a Jesuit
+   before joining Earth Force. Reassigned as Ambassador to
+   the Minbari homeworld in 2259. (Played by Michael
+   O'Hare) 
+Sineval 
+   Minbari warrior and commander of the war cruiser 
+   Trigati who committed suicide rather than surrender at
+   the Battle of the Line. (115,121) 
+Skydancer 
+   Planetary scout vessel owned by Catherine Sakai. (110) 
+Slappers 
+   Skin tabs used to administer drugs, usually applied to the
+   back of the wrist. (119) 
+Slaver Glove 
+   Powered weapon used by slave owners to control slaves.
+   (206) 
+Sleepers 
+   Drug used to supress psychic abilities. (122) 
+Slitch 
+   Unspecified animal native to Orion. (122) 
+Smith, Walker 
+   Former SportCorp boxer who, with the help of Caliban
+   became the first human to fight in the Mutai. (Played by
+   Greg McKinney) (119) 
+Solis Planum 
+   Location on Mars. (120) 
+Soul Hunter 
+   Immortal humanoids drawn towards the death of sentient
+   beings to "save" their souls at the moment of death. At
+   least one has visited Earth in the past and may be the
+   cause of some myths. Known to the Minbari as Shak Tot.
+   (Played by W. Morgan Sheppard and John Snyder) (102) 
+Space 
+   (v) The act of placing someone unprotected in open space.
+   Used as a punishment by the Earth Alliance only when a
+   subject is convicted of treason or insurrection. (117) 
+Spoo 
+   Delicacy of unknown origin. (103) 
+SportCorp 
+   Earth corporation which promotes (and possibly
+   "controls") sporting events. (119) 
+Stafford's Plague 
+   Unspecified virulent disease. Used by Jha'dur for an
+   experiment on Latig 4, in which the whole colony was
+   infected and died. (113,115) 
+Starfury 
+   Standard Earth Alliance non-atmospheric fighter, which
+   comes in several configurations. The version used on
+   Babylon 5 is the SA-23E Mitchell-Hyundyne Starfury. 
+Star Laces 
+   Bioluminescent flowers native to the planet Davo. (104) 
+Star Riders 
+   One of the clans of the Minbari warrior caste. (115) 
+StarKiller 
+   Minbari name given to Sheridan after the destruction of
+   the Black Star. (121) 
+Station Phobos 
+   Station located on the largest of Mars' two moons. (122) 
+Stims 
+   Stimulants (drugs). (117) 
+Stoner, Matthew 
+   Former telepath and husband to Talia Winters, supposedly
+   left Psi Corps when he "lost" his telepathic powers, when
+   apparently he was transformed into an empath. (Played by
+   Keith Szarabajka) (208) 
+SunHawk 
+   Drazi destroyer-class ship with an unspecified drive
+   system. (113) 
+Sykes, Carolyn 
+   Owner and pilot of the trading vessel Ulysses.
+   Acquaintance of Sinclair. (Played by Blaire Baron) (PIL) 
+Syria Planum 
+   Location on Mars, where the Psi Corps has a secret
+   intellegence and training facility. (120) 
+
+T
+*
+
+T'Bar 
+   Narn Councillor, First Circle. (116) 
+Takarn 
+   Captain of the outcast vessel trying to reclaim Epsilon 3.
+   (Played by Michelan Sisti) (121) 
+Takashima, Laurel 
+   Vice-Commander, Babylon 5. Later transferred and
+   replaced by Susan Ivanova. Worked Mars Colony
+   Security after graduating from the academy. (Played by
+   Tamlyn Tomita) (PIL) 
+Talquith 
+   Narn cargo ship carrying a G'Quan Eth plant for 
+   Ambassador G'Kar, which was damaged when a cargo
+   bay computer malfunctioned and the pilot panicked. (114)
+Taree 
+   Narn alcoholic drink. (111) 
+Tasaki, Dr. 
+   Geologist and head of geology team that investigated
+   seismic activity on Epsilon 3. (Played by Jim Ishida) (120)
+Technomage 
+   A "magician" of sorts, who uses science to achieve the
+   effects of magic. (203) 
+Teela 
+   Minbari "home songs" (107) 
+Tensus, Aria 
+   Centauri, in love with Kiron Maray with whom she ran
+   away to avoid an arranged marriage. Placed in the
+   fosterage of Andillo Mollari. (Played by Danica
+   McKellar) (107) 
+Teronn 
+   Minbari living on Babylon 5. (Plated by Sandey Grinn)
+   (204) 
+Thalitene 
+   Planet mentioned by Tharg, possibly the homeworld of
+   the Children of Time. (105) 
+Tharg 
+   Father of Shon and one of the Children of Time, who
+   along with his wife M'Ola refused to let Dr. Franklin
+   operate on their son. (Played by Stephen Lee) (105) 
+Thenta Makur 
+   Narn Assassin's Guild. Traditionally leave a black flower
+   with the intended victim before striking. (108) 
+Ti Corval 
+   Leader of the Tikar. (sp) (206) 
+Tigris 
+   The star system in which Babylon 5 is located. 
+Tikar 
+   Alien race first encountered by Sheridan. (sp) (206) 
+Timov 
+   One of Londo Mollari's three wives, the only one he kept
+   when the Emperor granted him a divorce. (Played by Jane
+   Carr) (208) 
+Tirolus 
+   Planet destroyed by Jha'dur in 2231. (113) 
+Tokati 
+   Alien race on Babylon 5. (204) 
+Topside 
+   The opposite of DownBelow, or the "standard" parts of
+   Babylon 5. (111) 
+Torg's Syndrome 
+   Unspecified disease which killed Garibaldi's father. (206)
+Trakis 
+   Alien who attempted to steal Londo Mollari's Purple
+   Files in order to blackmail him. (Played by Clive Revill)
+   (104) 
+Treel 
+   Centauri fish, eaten as a delicacy. (119) 
+Trigati 
+   Minbari War Cruiser commanded by Sineval during the 
+   Earth/Minbari-War, which went rogue after Sineval's
+   death under command of Kalain. (121) 
+Triluminary 
+   Minbari device used for various purposes. There are only
+   three. (122,112) 
+Tu'Pari 
+   Narn assassin and member of the Thenta Makur,
+   commissioned by Councillor Du'Rog to kill Ambassador
+   G'Kar. (Played by Thomas Kopache) (108) 
+Tular 
+   Ikarran researcher whose thought patterns were recorded
+   in the bioweapon from Ikarra 7. (101) 
+Tyree, Adira 
+   Centauri dancer indentured to Trakis and used to seduce 
+   Londo Mollari to gain access to his Purple Files for
+   blackmail purposes. (Played by Fabiana Udenio) (104) 
+
+U
+*
+
+Ulysses 
+   Trading vessel owned by Carolyn Sykes. (PIL) 
+
+V
+*
+
+Varn 
+   Ancient guardian of Epsilon 3, replaced by Draal. (Played
+   by Curt Lowens) (120,121) 
+Varner, Del 
+   Human, born on Earth on June 27th, 2219. Wanted by the 
+   Earth Alliance for smuggling illegal technology. Brought
+   a Changeling Net to Babylon 5 as part of an assassination
+   attempt on Ambassador Kosh. Killed by a Minbari
+   assassin. (Played by John Fleck) (PIL) 
+Vibe Showers 
+   Shower units which instead of using water use sonics and
+   anti-bacterial lighting. (121) 
+Vicor 
+   From the 20th century Earth term "VCR", a living,
+   cyberorganic recorder, capable of recording almost
+   anything, including thought patterns. (113) 
+Valen 
+   Minbari leader who created the first Grey Council. (118) 
+Vortex Generator 
+   A large device which creates an entry to or exit from
+   hyperspace so that ships which cannot afford to carry
+   their own jump point generators can benefit from
+   hyperspace travel. Only very large ships carry their own
+   generators, and use them only when a local Vortex
+   Generator is unavailable. Also called a Jump Gate. 
+Vree 
+   Unspecified alien race, apparently noted for
+   "questionable" eating habits. Vree ships have a saucer
+   shape. (111) 
+
+W
+*
+
+Welch, Lou 
+   Security officer on Babylon 5. (Played by David J.
+   Crowley) 
+Wellington 
+   One of the Ombuds on Babylon 5. (Played by Jim Norton)
+   (109,117) 
+Wind Swords 
+   Fiercest of the Minbari warrior castes. Sheltered Jha'dur
+   while she produced weapons for them and developed her 
+   Antiagathic drug. (113) 
+Winters, Talia 
+   Psi Corps level P5 telepath. Assigned to Babylon 5 in
+   2258. Replaced Lyta Alexander. (Played by Andrea
+   Thompson) 
+
+X
+*
+
+Xon 
+   A second intelligent species to develop on Centauri Prime,
+   who were at constant war with the Centauri until the Xon
+   were wiped out. (108) 
+
+Y
+*
+
+Yokdri 
+   Fried tree worm, eaten as a delicacy. (119) 
+
+Z
+*
+
+Z'ha'dum 
+   Homeworld of the Shadows, located on the Rim. (122) 
+Zathras 
+   Alien of unknown origin who mysteriously appeared on 
+   Babylon 4 to aid in stealing the station. (Played by Tim
+   Choate) (118) 
+Zayn, Colonel Ari Ben 
+   See Ben Zayn, Colonel Ari. 
+Zento, Orin 
+   Labor negotiator for the Earth Senate who called for the
+   invocation of the Rush Act to end the Docker's Guild
+   strike on Babylon 5. (Played by John Snyder) (114) 
+Zimmerman, Arnold 
+   One of the Ombuds on Babylon 5. (109) 
+Zocalo 
+   "Open-air" marketplace on Babylon 5. 
+Zoog 
+   Centauri god. (112) 
+
+
+
+Episode List
+============
+
+Listed are the names and production numbers of Babylon 5
+episodes. Episodes are listed in chronological order (which does
+not match production order).
+
+Pilot movie
++++++++++++
+
+   The Gathering (PIL) 
+
+First season: Signs and Portents
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+
+   Midnight on the Firing Line (103) 
+   Soul Hunter (102) 
+   Born to the Purple (104) 
+   Infection (101) 
+   The Parliament of Dreams (108) 
+   Mind War (110) 
+   The War Prayer (107) 
+   And the Sky Full of Stars (106) 
+   Deathwalker (113) 
+   Believers (105) 
+   Survivors (111) 
+   By Any Means Necessary (114) 
+   Signs and Portents (116) 
+   TKO (119) 
+   Grail (109) 
+   Eyes (122) 
+   Legacies (115) 
+   A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1 (120) 
+   A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 2 (121) 
+   Babylon Squared (118) 
+   The Quality of Mercy (117) 
+   Chrysalis (112) 
+
+Second season: The Coming of Shadows
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+
+   Points of Departure (201) 
+   Revelations (202) 
+   The Geometry of Shadows (203) 
+   A Distant Star (204) 
+   The Long Dark (205) 
+   A Spider in the Web (206) 
+   Soul Mates (208) 
+   A Race Through Dark Places (207) 
+   The Coming of Shadows (209) 
+
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+BABYLON 5: Second Season Episode Information and Spoilers
+   
+    By David Strauss (dss2k@virginia.edu, replayer@genie.geis.com)
+    Last Update: 950105 // Last Posting: 950105 (Usenet) / 941230 (GEnie)  
+    ______________________________________________________________________ 
+    
+    Season Two: "The Coming of Shadows"
+
+    ______________________________________________________________________ 
+    
+    Listed in airing order, with production order noted at side.
+    
+     
+    1. (201) Points of Departure - Written by JMS. Directed by Janet
+       Greek. As the new station commander arrives, a renegade Minbari
+       warship threatens trouble. The mystery of the Battle of the Line
+       is revealed.
+       
+    2. (202) Revelations - Written by JMS. Directed by Jim Johnston.
+       G'Kar brings news of a terrible new enemy. The arrival of
+       Sheridan's sister opens up old wounds. Delenn emerges from the
+       chrysalis.
+       
+    3. (203) The Geometry of Shadows - Written by JMS. Directed by Mike
+       Vejar. A group of Techno-mages visit B5, interrupting Londo's
+       plans. Ivanova is promoted and takes on a diplomatic mission. 
+       
+    4. (204) A Distant Star - Written by D.C. Fontana. Directed by Jim
+       Johnston. An old friend of Sheridan's visits with an EA Explorer
+       ship, forcing Sheridan to consider his career. 
+       
+    5. (205) The Long Dark - Written by Scott Frost. Directed by Mario
+       DiLeo. A ship that has been travelling for a hundred years is
+       found to contain a woman, her murdered husband, and something
+       else. A war vet in the Zocolo claims the end is near. 
+       
+    6. (206) A Spider in the Web - Written by Larry DiTillio. Directed by
+       Kevin Cremins. An old friend of Talia's is murdered during
+       negotiations that could affect the future of the Mars colony. 
+       
+    7. (208) Soul Mates - Written by Peter David. Directed by John Flinn.
+       Londo's three wives visit the station as he reaches an important
+       milestone. Talia Winters' ex-husband arrives, offering her a way
+       out of the Psi Corps.
+       
+    8. (207) A Race Through Dark Places - Written by JMS. Directed by Jim
+       Johnston. Guest starring Walter Koenig, reprising his role as Psi
+       Cop Bester. Bester asks Talia to investigate the underground
+       railroad of unregistered telepaths. 
+       
+    9. (209) The Coming of Shadows - Written by JMS. Directed by Janet
+       Greek. G'Kar plots to assassinate the Centauri Emperor (Turhan
+       Bey) when he visits B5. Londo makes a decision that may start a
+       war with the Narns. Also guest starring Malachi Throne as the
+       Centauri Prime Minister. 
+       
+   10. (210) GROPOS - Written by Larry DiTillio. Directed by Jim
+       Johnston. Features the EA Marines, the Gropos, slang for "ground
+       pounders." Guest starring Paul Winfield as General Richard
+       Franklin, Dr. Franklin's father.
+       
+   11. (211) All Alone in the Night - Written by JMS. Directed by Mario
+       DiLeo. The actual circumstances of Sheridan's appointment to B5
+       are found to differ from the official story. Guest starring Robert
+       Foxworth. 
+       
+   12. (212) Acts of Sacrifice - Written by JMS. Directed by Jim
+       Johnston. Guest starring Paul Williams and Ian Abecrombie. 
+       
+   13. (213) Hunter, Prey - Written by JMS. Guest starring Richard Moll.
+       
+   14. (214) And Now For A Word - Written by JMS.
+       
+        
+   15. (215) Knives - Written by Larry DiTillio.
+       
+   16. (216) There All The Honor Lies - Written by Peter David.
+       
+   17. (217) In The Shadow of Z'ha'dum - Written by JMS.
+       
+     
+      ______________________________________________________________________ 
+    
+  OTHER BABYLON 5 NEWS
+  
+    Other titles that have been mentioned for season two are: "All Our Songs
+    Forgotten" by D.C. Fontana (originally titled "Unnatural Selection"),
+    "Expectations" by David Gerrold, and "The Very Long Night of Susan
+    Ivanova," by JMS. "The Customer is Always Right," a JMS script previously
+    mentioned, has been cancelled. Harlan Ellison is still working on the
+    sequel to the "Outer Limits" episode "Demon With a Glass Hand."
+    
+    Other guest stars for season two include: Bernie Casey. 
+    
+    B5 NOVELS
+    
+    The first batch of original B5 novels will be put out by Dell. The first
+    novel, due out in February, is "Voices" by John Vornholt. It focuses on a
+    Psi Corps convention on B5, with Talia and Garibaldi as the main B5
+    characters. Lois Tilton will write the second novel, "Accusations," due out
+    in April. Vornholt will also write the third novel, "Blood Oath," which
+    focuses on the Narns. 
+    
+    B5 SOUNDTRACK
+    
+    Christopher Franke's B5 soundtrack will be released on his label, Sonic
+    Images. A special limited edition is available now, with a general release
+    coming in early 1995. 
+    
+    B5 COMICS
+    
+    Issue #1 of DC's Babylon 5 comic, written by JMS, is "In Darkness Find Me,"
+    the flip-side of incidents that took place in "Points of Departure." The
+    artists are Michael Netzer and Rob Leigh. Issue #1 shows Sinclair being
+    recalled to Earth and assigned to Minbar. 
+    
+    The next seven issues of the comic are based on premises by JMS as well.
+    Issues 2-4 are written by Mark Moretti. Sinclair begins his new role as
+    Earth's first ambassador to Minbar as the Grey Council convenes to install
+    the new Minbari leader, and a Psi-Cop arrives on B5 with news about a plot
+    to assassinate that leader. Issues 5-8 will be written by Tim DeHaas with
+    art by John Ridgeway. The story of how Sinclair and Garibaldi met and
+    formed their friendship is intercut with a present-day story featuring
+    Garibaldi and Keffer. 
+    
+    B5 CD-ROM
+    
+    The CD-ROM from Compton's is postponed indefinitely because of internal
+    problems within the company. JMS has stated he expects it in Summer 1995. 
+    
+    B5 VIDEOTAPES AND LASERDISCS
+    
+    Finally, look for the first release of B5 videotapes (first season
+    episodes, of course) in the spring. Laserdiscs, in letterbox format, will
+    follow in the summer.  
+      ______________________________________________________________________ 
+
+--
+(C) 1995 David S. Strauss
+Redistribution allowed as long as credits remain intact.
+
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+        ERSTE *DEUTSCHE*   Babylon 5  Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
+        --------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Inhalt: Diese Datei enthaelt eine Liste von haeufig gestellten  Fragen  und
+        deren  Antworten  zu  der Fernsehserie *Babylon 5*.  Sie sollte von
+        jedem   gelesen   werden,   der   in   der   *deutschen*  Newsgroup
+        *de.rec.sf.babylon5*,     den     englischsprachigen     Newsgroups
+        rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 oder alt.tv.babylon-5  einen Artikel posten
+        will.
+
+Anmerkungen
+-----------
+
+***
+*** Neuigkeiten bzw. Aenderungen seit der letzten Ausgabe werden mit einem 
+*** vorangestellten "*" kenntlich gemacht!
+***
+
+Oft verwendete Begriffe/Kuerzel:
+   Hier werden  Kuerzel  und  Begriffe  aufgelistet,  die  in  der FAQ ohne
+   erneute Erklaerung verwendet werden.  Viele dieser Begriffe werden  auch
+   so  in  der  Serie  (zumindest  im  Original)  verwendet,  eine deutsche
+   Uebersetzung erscheint bei Fachbegriffen  zum  Teil nicht immer sinnvoll
+   (passende Vorschlaege werden gerne angenommen!).
+
+   Alien(s)            fremde Rassen oder einfach Ausserirdische
+   Cast                o. "Main-Cast" bezeichnet die Gruppe der Schauspieler
+   Crew                Drehcrew von B5
+   Downbelow           untere Regionen von B5; "Armenviertel"
+   EA                  Erdallianz ("Earth Alliance")
+   EP                  Executive Producer  (Fachbegriff)
+   ISN                 Interstellar Network (Fernsehsender)
+   Medlab              Krankenstation von B5
+   Opening Credits     "Danksagung" im Vorspann
+   Psi Corp            Organisation, in der jeder Telepath Mitglied sein muss
+   Raiders             Angreifer, hier als Piraten aufzufassen
+   Rim                 Randzone; Rand des bisher erforschten Raum-Gebietes
+   SE                  Story Editor        (Fachbegriff)
+
+
+SPOILERS -- was sind das denn fuer Dinger?
+------------------------------------------
+Der Begriff "Spoiler"  beschreibt  sog.   "Spassverderber", d.h.  Postings,
+die im Subject mit "SPOILERS"  warnen.   Diese  beinhalten  Episodeninhalte
+und/oder  Geheimnisse  aus  der Serie, die man nicht lesen sollte, um nicht
+Spannung  vorwegzunehmen!   Da   die   amerikanische   FAQ  viele  Spoilers
+beinhaltet, habe ich mich dazu entschlossen, einige von ihnen zu  entfernen
+bzw.   zu  entschaerfen.   Dies erlaubt es, den groessten Teil der FAQ ohne
+"Probleme"  lesen  zu  koennen,  ohne  zufaelligerweise  auf  bisher  nicht
+bekannte Fakten zu stossen.  Daher  hoffe ich auf Verstaendniss derjenigen,
+die die Serie soweit schon kennen und Spoiler- "immun" sind.   :)  
+Wer  die  Spoiler  trotz  Warnung  *unbedingt*  lesen will, der sollte sich
+einfach die Original-FAQ  (im  Sessel  angeschnallt)  durchlesen...  <g> Im
+Verlauf der Serie habe ich aber vor, die Episodenangaben  wieder  mehr  mit
+Spoilern zu versehen.
+
+
+Die BABYLON 5 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Liste        Ausgabe Nov. 1995
+
+    Stand:  November 1995
+            Diese FAQ wird regelmaessig auf den neuesten Stand gebracht,
+            wobei viele "neue" Sachen z.Zt. nur die USA betreffen.
+            
+            Sofern aber Rueckmeldungen kommen, nehme ich gerne Fragen
+            aus Deutschland zu Babylon 5 auf (E-Mail siehe am Ende).
+
+    WORLD WIDE WEB Benutzer koennen folgende Links benutzen:
+                   a) http://www.hyperion.com/lurk/lurker.html
+                      fuer "The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5",
+                      der "offiziell" genehmigten B5-Site
+                   b) Shadhowhunter's Babylon 5 - Webseite,
+                      Homepage der deutschen Babylon 5-FAQ 
+                      (sowohl in ASCII alsauch als WWW-Version)
+                      mit zusaetzlichen Infos zu B5 und
+                      vielen Bildern aus den ersten beiden
+                      Staffeln sowie Links auf amerikanische
+                      B5-Seiten
+                   c) http://zapf.fb15.uni-dortmund.de/robertd
+                      fuer die *erste deutsche* Babylon 5-Seite
+                      Diese Page, von Ackbar erstellt, enthaelt
+                      Infos, Bilder und Hintergrundberichte ueber
+                      Babylon 5 sowie Links auf andere B5-Seiten.
+
+    Die deutsche FAQ ist sowohl auf dem Hyperion alsauch ueber WWW ueber
+	die o.g. Seite (in ASCII zum downloaden) erhaeltlich!
+
+    Die letzte Version der Originaldatei kann bezogen werden ueber anonymous
+    FTP  bei  ftp://ftp.hyperion.com/pub/Babylon-5/babylon-5-faq (diese URL-
+    Kurzschreibweise beschreibt die FTP Adresse,  ftp.hyperion.com,  mitsamt
+    dem entsprechenden Verzeichnis- und Dateinamen).
+
+    Das englischsprachige  Original kann auch  ueber E-Mail  bezogen  werden
+    durch eine Mail an  mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu,  mit dem Nachrichteninhalt
+    "send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5-faq".
+
+
+HINWEISE zum Posten in der *amerikanischen* Newsgroup rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5:
+
+WICHTIG:   KEINE   STORY-IDEEN   IN   DER   NEWSGROUP   POSTEN!    Da   der
+         Erfinder/Executive Producer online ist, muesste er aus rechtlichen
+         Gruenden diese News- group verlassen.  DAS wollen wir auf *keinen*
+         Fall!
+
+WICHTIG: WENN  DU  SPOILER  in  der  Newsgroup  postest,  bitte  das  Thema
+         spoilerfrei  lassen  und stattdessen "spoilers for <episodenname>"
+         hineinschreiben.   Am  Anfang   der   Nachricht   dann  zuerst  20
+         Leerzeilen einfuegen.  Danke!!
+
+
+************ NEWS ********************************************
+*
+*   Seit Anfang November laeuft in den USA nun endlich die 
+*   dritte Staffel von Babylon 5 nach der Sommerpause.
+*   Wieder stehen den Zuschauern 22 spannende Folgen bevor, die vom
+*   Standpunkt der Gesamtgeschichte auch genau die Mitte trifft.
+*   Im Vergleich zu den beiden ersten Staffeln wird noch mehr in den
+*   Genuss von grandiosen Effekten kommen.
+*
+*   Ebenso stehen Gastauftritte von Majel Barret-Roddenberry, Walter
+*   Koenig und Michael O'Hare fest.
+*
+*   In Grossbritannien sind mittlerweile die ersten 14 Folgen der
+*   ersten Staffel auf Video erschienen. Die Amerikaner "kaempfen" 
+*   derzeit noch darum, dass WB Videos herausbringt. Dort weiss man
+*   anscheinend noch nicht genau, wie die Absatzchancen dafuer stehen.
+*
+*   Pro7 wird ab Silvester die zweite Babylon 5-Season zeigen!
+*   Dabei bleibt der alte Sendetermin sonntags, 18.25 Uhr, woechentlich,
+*   beibehalten (Ende der zweiten Staffel somit Mai/Juni).
+*   Die dritte Staffel ist derzeit noch nicht eingekauft. Somit wird es
+*   die "uebliche" Pause von 3-6 Monaten zwischen der zweiten und dritten
+*   Staffel geben.
+*
+*   Im WWW gibt es von Warner Brothers jetzt ebenfalls eine "offizielle"
+*   Babylon 5 - Seite: "http://pathfinder.com/Babylon5" ! 
+*   Diese Seite ist noch recht frisch, bietet aber gutes Styling und alle
+*   notwendigen Informationen.
+*
+*   In der amerikanischen Newsgroup laeuft derzeit die Abstimmung ueber
+*   die Einrichtung einer neuen Gruppe: "rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.info".
+*
+
+   -----------------------
+   Inhalt dieser FAQ Liste
+   -----------------------
+
+Diese FAQ-Liste ist ein "Startpunkt" fuer die vielen Fragen  und  Antworten
+zu  Babylon  5.  Detailliertere Quellen sind online erreichbar (siehe WWW).
+Siehe  Punkt  16  in  dieser   Liste  oder  folge  den  Querverweisen  fuer
+weiterfuehrende Informationen.
+
+    1. Was ist Babylon 5?
+    2. Wo kann man Babylon 5 sehen?
+       (a) USA  (b) Kanada  (c) Satellit (Nord Amerika)
+       (d) Grossbritannien  (e) wo sonst?   (f) Video
+    3. Wer steckt hinter Babylon 5?
+    4. An welchen anderen SF Projekten ist JMS beteiligt?
+    5. Welche Art von Special Effects hat Babylon5?
+    6. Worum geht es in Babylon 5?
+       (a) der Ort des Geschehens
+       *** SPOILERS ***
+       (b) Was geschieht in der ersten Season?
+       (c) Was geschieht in der zweiten Season?
+    7. Wer sind die Charaktere in der Show?
+        (a) Hauptrollem
+        (b) wiederkehrrende Charaktere
+    8. Babylon 5 Episoden und Geschichten
+        (a) Fernsehepisoden  (a1) im Ausland
+                             (a2) in Deutschland
+        (b) Kurzgeschichten  (c) Comics
+    9. Wie kann man die Leute hinter Babylon 5 erreichen?    
+   10. Wie hat sich Babylon 5 entwickelt?
+   12. Veranstaltungen/Appearances
+        (a) SF-Conventions    (b) The official Babylon 5 Newsletter 
+        (c) aktuelle Veroeffentlichungen
+   12. Einzeiler - F & A's
+   13. Verschiedene Infos
+        (a) Merchandising  (b) Babylon 5 online     (c) Einfluss von Fans
+        (d) Auszeichnungen (e) Babylon 5 Referenzen in anderen Arbeiten von JMS
+        (f) verschiedene Produktionsinfos
+        (g) Produktions- gegen Ausstrahlungs-Reihenfolge
+        (h) Aenderungen    (i) Fan Clubs
+   14. Wo kann man online-Informationen finden?
+        (a) Internet (b) GEnie (c) America Online (d) CompuServe (e) Andere
+   15. Dankeschoen und Rechtliches
+
+------------------------------
+
+Thema: 1.  Was ist Babylon 5?
+## Detaillierter Hintergrund: ftp://ftp.hyperion.com/pub/Babylon-5/b5log.txt
+## mehr Informationen: 
+##      ftp://ftp.hyperion.com/pub/Babylon-5/b5_jms_answers.txt
+
+Babylon  5  ist eine Science-Fiction Fernsehserie die von einer 8 km-langen
+Raumstation in der  Mitte  des  23.   Jahrhunderts handelt.  Diese befindet
+sich in der Mitte zwischen der Erde und vier anderen Alien-Rassen.
+Die Station wurde gebaut um eine  Funktion  wie  die  UN  darzustellen,  um
+Frieden   in  der  Galaxis  zu  bewahren;  jede  der  Allianzen  hat  einen
+offiziellen Repraesentanten auf der Station.
+
+Im  Gegensatz zu den meisten Fernsehserien besitzt Babylon 5 einen durchge-
+henden Erzaehlverlauf, der fuer  eine 5-Jahres-Miniserie ausgelegt ist.  Es
+sind fuer jede Saison Ereignisse geplant, die ueber laengere  Zeit  gesehen
+eine  grosse  Geschichte  erzaehlen.   Viele Ereignisse werfen im Laufe der
+Serie ihre  Schatten  voraus.   Trotzdem  ist  viel  Raum fuer individuelle
+Geschichten innerhalb jeder Saison und jede Episode kann fuer sich  gesehen
+werden.   Es  gibt sogar einen Ratgeber fuer Schreiber, alsauch ein kleines
+Kompendium ueber das Babylon 5-Universum.
+
+In Nordamerika befindet sich die Serie z.Zt.  in der zweiten Staffel.  Nach
+dem abendfuellenden  Pilotfilm  im  Februar  1993  startete  die Serie Ende
+Januar 1994 mit einer Staffel von 22 Folgen.   Die  zweite  Staffel  begann
+Ende  Oktober  1994.  Die Serie ist ausgelegt auf die Dauer von 5 Staffeln,
+wobei jede Staffel etwa einem  Jahr  entspricht.   Die Serie gehoert zu dem
+Warner Bros.  Television Consortium, auch Prime Time Entertainment  Network
+(PTEN) genannt, verbunden mit Stationen in den USA und dem Ausland.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Thema: 2.  Wo kann man Babylon 5 sehen?
+
+=======     a. USA
+
+In  den  meisten Regionen wird Babylon 5 Mittwoch abends um 20.00 Uhr ET/PT
+auf PTEN-Stationen gezeigt.   (Diese  Stationen  zeigen  auch  Kung Fu: The
+Legend Continues).  Stationen mit anderen  Verbindungen  zeigen  die  Serie
+moeglicherweise zu anderen Zeiten.
+
+## Stations-Liste: ftp://ftp.hyperion.com/pub/Babylon-5/b5tvlist.txt
+
+========    b. Kanada
+
+Der  gleiche  woechentliche Zeitplan wie in den USA, Mittwoch abends, wobei
+es von Station zu Station dennoch unterschiedlich sein kann.
+
+========    c. Satellit (Nord Amerika)
+
+Babylon 5 wird mehrere  Tage  vor  der  eigentlichen Ausstrahlung ueber den
+Satelliten Galaxy 4, Kanal 21, zu den Sendestationen uebertragen.
+Ton auf 6.2 links, 6.8 rechts, 5.8 mono, Sonntag 09.00-10.00 ET,
+Montag 14.30-15.30 ET, Dienstag 16.30-17.30 ET auf T1/T19
+PTEN Promo feed: donnerstags, 06.45 und 14.45 ET
+
+========    d. Grossbritannien
+
+Channel 4 hat die zweite Season komplett ausgestrahlt; die dritte Season
+wird wohl erst im Fruehling 1996 anlaufen.
+## Zeitplan: ftp://ftp.hyperion.com/pub/Babylon-5/uk-guide/b5uk-epguide.txt
+## mehr Infos: http://pandora.ps.ucl.ac.uk/~jmorley/B5-FAQ/B5-FAQ-INDEX.html
+
+========    e. wo sonst?
+
+In den folgenden Laendern laeuft Babylon 5 bereits oder ist geplant:
+
+Australien:   Network 7, dienstags um 11.30 PM
+              Melbourne: HSV-7, mittwochs ca. 11.30 PM
+              Tasmanien: Tasmanian Television; bisher kein Zeitplan
+Belgien:      VT4, sonntags, 18.10 (ebenso Canal Plus; s.u. Frankreich)
+Chile:        Megavision Ch. 9, sonntags (normalerweise), etwa 16:30
+Kolumbien:    INRAvision, donnerstags um 18:00
+Costa Rica:   freitags um 21.00 auf Channel 9
+Europa:       siehe Deutschland; fuer Grossbritannien: Sky TV
+Frankreich:   Canal Plus (mehr Details im Lurker's Guide)
+Deutschland   Pro7 sonntags um 18:25, seit 6. August 1995
+              (Zeitplan siehe unten)
+Griechenland: STAR Channel, samstags um 13:00, wieder seit 1. Juli
+Israel        Kabelkanal 3 Samstag Nacht/Sonntag Morgen 00.10
+& Jordan      (eine Stunde spaeter in Israel? -- nicht sicher)
+& Zypern
+*
+Italien:      RAI1, Montag bis Freitag, etwa 18.00 (*NOCH VERZOEGERT*)
+Malaysia:     TV2 mittwochs um 22:30, auch zweite Staffel
+*
+Norwegen:     TV2 am Sonntag um 16.20
+
+Neuseeland:   SKY Orange, startet bald
+Niederlande:  RTL5, samstags 15.00
+Philippinen:  RCTI
+Puerto Rico   WLII Kanal 11 an Samstagen um 13.00
+Portugal:     TVI, Sonntag nachmittags
+*
+Trinidad
+& Tobago:     AVM Kanal 4
+Spanien:      TV-1
+Trinidad      AVM channel 4
+& Tobago:
+
+Andere Infos sind nur Stationsnamen oder Gebiete: Taipei, TV3,  TVNZ,  TTV,
+BEC, Canal Sinco, ICP, Proziba.
+
+========    f. Video
+
+In Europa, Australien, Japan und Deutschland ist der  Babylon  5  Pilotfilm
+auf Video erhaeltlich (in Japan ebenso auf Laserdisc, als Import in den USA
+zu  bekommen).  Ein Videofilm von "A Voice In The Wilderness" ist ebenfalls
+erhaeltlich in diesen Laendern.  In Deutschland heisst dieser: "Spacecenter
+Babylon 5: Angriff der Aliens" (01.12.  auf Pro7).
+
+In England sind soweit die ersten 14 Episoden auf Video erhaeltlich.
+
+Folgen auf Video in den USA sollen im Sommer 95 erscheinen.  Spaeter sollen
+Widescreen (Letterbox) Laserdiscs folgen.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Thema: 3.  Wer steckt hinter Babylon 5?
+
+Die Show wurde kreiert von  J.  Michael Straczynski (JMS), der zusammen mit
+Doug Netter Co-EP der Show ist.  In Entwicklung befindet B5 sich seit  1987
+und in Produktion seit 1992.
+Doug   Netter   ist   ein   gleichwertiger   Partner  bei  Babylon  5,  der
+hauptsaechlich fuer die  geschaeftliche  Seite  verantwortlich ist, und die
+kreative Arbeit JMS ueberlaesst, genau wie sie es schon bei  Captain  Power
+gehandhabt hatten.
+Harlan  Ellison  ist  der Berater in konzeptionellen Sachen fuer die Serie.
+Er  hat  auch  ein  "Manifest"  geschrieben,  in  dem  fuer  andere Autoren
+beschrieben wird, wie Science-Fiction fuer Fernsehen, insbesondere  Babylon
+5,  zu  schreiben  ist.   Am  Ende der zweiten Staffel fuehrte er ueber die
+Produktion der Folgen ebenfalls Aufsicht.
+Sehr bekannte  Science-Fiction  Autoren  wie  Ellison,  David Gerrold, D.C.
+Fontana und Peter David, tragen mit ihren Skripten  zur  Serie  bei  (diese
+Namen duerften Star Trek-Fans nicht ganz unbekannt sein).
+Christopher Franke, ehemals "Tangerine Dream", komponiert den Soundtrack,
+der auch in Deutschland erhaeltlich ist.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Thema: 4.  An welchen anderen SF Projekten ist JMS beteiligt?
+
+## weitere Infos: ftp://ftp.hyperion.com/pub/Babylon-5/jms.credentials
+
+JMS  ist  seit mehreren Jahren mit dem Genre Fernsehen vertraut durch seine
+Arbeit als SE und  Schreiber  fuer  die Twilight Zone Fernsehserie, Captain
+Power und  die  Zeichentrickserie  "The  Real  Ghostbusters".   Er  schrieb
+ebenfalls  Geschichten  fuer "Jake and the Fatman" und "Murder, She Wrote".
+Veroeffentlicht wurden  von  ihm  ausserdem  mehrere  Kurzgeschichten, eine
+Antologie (Gedichtsammlung?)  und  zwei  Fantasy/Horror  Romane.   Bis  vor
+kurzem  war  er  Gastgeber von "Hour 25", einer Science-Fiction-Talkshow im
+Raum Los Angeles.
+
+Obwohl JMS Hauptaktivitaeten  bei  Babylon  5  liegen,  hat  er fuer andere
+Projekte gearbeitet.  Die Dreharbeiten zu einer Film-Adaption der  Grimjack
+Buecher  von  John  Ostrander  sollen  noch  1995  beginnen, zu dem JMS das
+Drehbuch schreiben wird.   Der  Pilotfilm  fuer eine andere Science-Fiction
+Serie, den JMS erdacht und  geschrieben  hat,  sollte  1994  in  Produktion
+gehen.   Hier  sollte auch wieder das Team JMS/Doug Netter zusammenarbeiten
+als EPs.  Der Titel ist bisher aber noch nicht bekannt geworden.
+JMS wuerde in diesem Projekt nicht  so viel mit den taeglichen Ablaeufen zu
+tun haben, wie er es z.Zt. mit Babylon 5 hat.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Thema: 5.  Welche Art von Special Effects hat Babylon 5?
+
+## mehr Infos: ftp://ftp.hyperion.com/pub/Babylon-5/b5_jms_answers.txt
+## o. Artikel lesen aufgelistet in 
+#              ftp://ftp.hyperion.com/pub/Babylon-5/b5.media
+
+Alle Spezialeffekte fuer Babylon 5 sind Computer Generated Images (CGI).
+Foundation Imaging, geleitet von Ron Thornton,  benutzt  Lightwave  3D  und
+spezielle   Software  fuer  Design  und  Rendering  der  visuellen  Effekte
+(Lightwave ist mittlerweile  auch  auf  PC  portiert  worden in der Version
+4.0); anfangs wurden auch noch Amigas verwendet.
+Weltraumszenen  sind klarer und wesentlich realistischer als Modell-Szenen.
+Einige  Innenszenen  wie  z.B.   die  Andock-Rampen  sind  "virtuelle Sets"
+bestehend aus live-action und Computerbildern.  Macintosh  und  PCs  werden
+gelegentlich fuer 2D-Effekte und Zeichenpakete benutzt.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 6.  Worum geht es in Babylon 5?
+
+========    a. der Ort des Geschehens
+
+Babylon 5, eine Raumstation  im  Orbit  eines  kargen Planeten im neutralen
+Raum, befindet sich  an  der  Kreuzung  verschiedener  Zivilisationen,  die
+Erdallianz  eingeschlossen, repraesentiert durch Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+[Zweite Season: Captain John Sheridan], der die Station leitet.
+
+Die Foederation der Minbari wird vertreten durch Botschafterin Delenn.  Die
+Minbari fuehrten vor 10 Jahren Krieg mit der EA.  Kurz  vor  Erreichen  des
+Sieges aber ergaben  sich  die  Minbari  mysterioeserweise.  Die besonderen
+Gruende dafuer erfaehrt man am Anfang der zweiten Staffel.  Delenn  glaubt,
+auf Babylon 5 eine spezielle Mission zu haben.
+
+Die Republik der Centauri - vertreten durch Botschafter Londo Mollari - war
+die erste fremde Rasse, die in  Kontakt  mit der Erde trat, und dabei half,
+die Entwicklung der Technologie voranzutreiben.   Wie  dem  auch  sei,  sie
+befinden  sich  eher  auf  einem  Abstieg, ungefaehr wie der des Britischen
+Koenigreichs, wo nach und nach Kolonnien "verloren" gingen.
+
+Das  von Botschafter G'Kar vertretene Regime der Narn wurde bis vor hundert
+Jahren von der  Republik  der  Centauri  versklavt,  konnte sich aber durch
+Rebellion befreien und machten sich unabhaengig und bauten  ihren  Einfluss
+auf.
+
+Das  Reich der Vorlonen wird repraesentiert durch Botschafter Kosh Naranek.
+Sie haben soweit eigentlich  jeden  Kontakt mit anderen Allianzen vermieden
+und  gelten  daher  als  ein  Mysterium.   Die  Vorlonen,   die   als   die
+technologisch  fortgeschrittenste  (bekannte)  Rasse gilt, stimmten zu, auf
+Babylon 5 vertreten zu sein.   Vorlonen  atmen eine Mischung aus Methan und
+anderen Gasen, weshalb Kosh auch einen speziellen Anzug traegt...
+
+Verschiedene andere Rassen  formen  auf  Babylon  5  die  Liga  der  Nicht-
+verbuendeten Welten, die zusammen eine Stimme im Rat haben.
+
+Und den meisten unbekannt ist da noch  eine  Rasse,  die  in  den  Schatten
+lauert.......
+
+========    b. Was gechieht in der ersten Season?
+
+   ==  SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS  ==
+
+WARNUNG:   Dieser   Abschnitt   beinhaltet   SPOILERS   in  chronologischer
+Reihenfolge, der also nur gelesen  werden  sollte, um das bisher Geschehene
+nachzuholen bzw.  gesehene Folgen aufzufrischen.  Sollten noch keine Folgen
+von Babylon 5 gesehen worden sein, so ist *dringend*  davon  abzuraten!!!!!
+Allgemein  ist  es das Beste (aber nicht erforderlich) die Folgen in dieser
+Reihenfolge  anzusehen.   Nur  bestimmte  Episoden,  deren  ein  besonderer
+Stellenwert zugerechnet wird, werden erwaehnt.
+
+Der Pilotfilm "The Gathering" spielt  im  Jahre 2257 und stellt die Station
+Babylon 5 vor, die kuerzlich erst in Betrieb genommen  wurde.   Der  letzte
+fehlenden  Botschafter,  Kosh, trifft auf der Station ein und ueberlebt nur
+knapp  einen  Mordanschlag.   Sinclair  wird  dieser  Tat  verdaechtigt und
+angeklagt.  Der Verdacht loest sich aber auf,  nachdem  sich  herausstellt,
+dass  der  wahre Verbrecher ein Anderer ist.  Viele Raetsel bzw.  Mysterien
+werden  vorgestellt:  Sinclairs  fehlende  24   Stunden  an  der  Front  im
+Erde-Minbari-Krieg (mit dem Hinweis durch den Minbari: "There is a hole  in
+your  mind.");  das  Mysterioese ueber Kosh, der nur vom Doktor und von der
+Telepathin gesehen wurde sowie  die  Zerstoerung bzw.  das Verschwinden der
+vorhergehenden 4 babylonischen Stationen.
+
+
+              STAFFEL EINS:  Signs And Portents
+                            (Zeichen und Wunder)
+
+* Ragesh 3 *
+SEASON EINS beginnt mit *Midnight On The  Firing  Line*,  zeitlich  etwa  6
+Monate  nach  dem  Pilotfilm  angesiedelt.   Lt.   Cmdr  Susan  Ivanova hat
+kuerzlich die Position  des  zweiten kommandierenden Offiziers uebernommen.
+Von ihr lernen wir, dass sie eine persoenliche Abneigung gegen den Psi Corp
+hat.  Die Posten des zweiten Offiziers und des Doktors werden neu  besetzt.
+Ebenso befindet sich eine neue Telepathin auf der Station.
+
+Ein  centaurischer  (landwirtschaftlicher)  Aussenposten  wird  von Raiders
+angegriffen, wobei sich herausstellt,  dass diese von jemanden unterstuetzt
+wurden.  Auf der Erde wird Luis Santiago zum  Praesidenten  der  Erdallianz
+gewaehlt.
+
+* Der Seelenjaeger *
+Ein *Soul Hunter*, einer der einer Rasse angehoert, die es sich zur Aufgabe
+gemacht  hat, wichtige Seelen zu sammeln und aufzubewahren, findet sich auf
+der Station  ein.   Er  versucht  spaeter,  mit  Gewalt  an  die  Seele von
+Botschafterin Delenn zu kommen.  Wir lernen, wie wichtig den  Minbari  ihre
+Seelen sind und dass sie verhinderten, dass ein Soul Hunter die Seele ihres
+Fuehrers Dukhat stiehlt.
+
+Die  Wichtigkeit  dieser  Folge  wird  erst  in Staffel 2 richtig deutlich.
+Delenn wird vom Soul Hunter "Satai"  genannt, was bedeutet, dass Delenn dem
+Grauen Rat ("Grey Council") der Minbari angehoert.  Dieses  macht  Sinclair
+neugierig, ob etwas auf der Station vor sich geht, von dem er nichts weiss.
+
+* Die Macht des Geistes *
+In  *Mind  War*  besuchen  zwei  Psi Cops, einer davon Bester (gespielt von
+Walter Koenig) deren telepathischer  Grad  P12 betraegt (die Telepathin der
+Station hat lediglich P5 im Vergleich) die Station auf der Suche nach einem
+fluechtigen Telepathen namens Jason Ironheart (vor den Cops auf der Station
+angekommen).  Ironheart hat besondere Faehigkeiten erlangt und  macht  eine
+Metamorphose durch... Er erzaehlt Sinclair, dass der Psi Corps auf der Erde
+immer  mehr  Macht gewinne.  Als Besters Kollegin getoetet wird, macht sich
+Sinclair einen neuen Feind.   Die  Telepathin Talia Winters bekommt zuletzt
+von Ironheart ein Geschenk, welches im Verlauf der Serie  noch  eine  Rolle
+spielen wird.
+
+* Angriff auf die Ausserirdischen *
+*The  War  Prayer*  stellt Leute vor, die der sog.  "Homeguard" angehoeren.
+Diese Gruppe plant Attentate  gegen  Aliens  und  findet  auf der Erde viel
+Unterstuetzung.
+
+* Gefangen im Cybernetz *
+*And The Sky Full Of Stars* zeigt zum Teil, was mit Sinclair vor 10  Jahren
+an  der Front im Erde-Minbar-Krieg geschah.  Verhoert von "Knight Two" wird
+Sinclair dazu gezwungen,  die  letzte  Schlacht nochmal durchzuleben.  Dort
+versuchte er, einen Minbari-Kreuzer zu  rammen.   Nach  dem  Entkommen  vom
+"Knight   Two"   entscheidet   sich  Sinclair,  Delenn  nichts  von  seinen
+Erinnerungen ueber die besagten 24 Stunden zu berichten.
+
+* Ein Wiedersehen mit Folgen *
+*Survivors*  bringt  Garibaldi  zurueck   in  seine  Alkoholsucht,  als  er
+beschuldigt wird, die Station sabotiert zu haben.  Die waren Taeter  kommen
+aber von der Homeguard.
+
+* Visionen des Schreckens *
+*Signs  And Portents* zeigt einen Angriff von Piraten auf die Station.  Die
+Hintergrundgeschichte, in  der  Londo  ein  lange  verschollenes Symbol des
+centaurischen  Reiches,  das  sog.   "Auge",  wiedererlangt,  ist  ueberaus
+wichtig.  Der mysterioese,  hoefliche  Morden  fragt  mehrere  Botschafter:
+"What  Do  You  Want?"  und  erachtet Londos Antwort als die Passende.  Das
+"Auge" wird von den  Raiders  gestohlen,  deren  Schiff wird aber von einem
+mysterioesen fremden Wesen zerstoert, welches ploetzlich aus  den  Schatten
+auftaucht.....   Morden  ueberreicht  das  "Auge"  an  Londo mit den Worten
+"...from  friends   you   don't   know   you   have..."  Eine  centaurische
+Zukunftseherin zeigt Sinclair ihre Vision von der Zerstoerung  von  Babylon
+5...
+
+* Die Untersuchung *
+Sinclair  wird  durch  ein  Mitglied  von  *Eyes*  (=Abteilung fuer interne
+Angelegenheiten der EA) ueber  seine  kontroversen Aktivitaeten des letzten
+Jahres befragt.  Ivanovas Angst vor- und Hass auf den Psi Corps zeigt  sich
+noch  deutlicher, als sie sich weigert, gescannt zu werden.  Es stellt sich
+heraus,  dass  jemand  bekanntes  hinter  dieser  Scharrade  gegen Sinclair
+steckt.   Sinclair  gewinnt  aber   mit   Hilfe   des   sympathischen   Psi
+Cop-Assistenten die Auseinandersetzung.
+
+* Angriff der Aliens *
+In  dem  Zweiteiler  *A Voice In The Wilderness* (in Deutschland als Video-
+Leihkassette mit dem  Titel  "Spacecenter  Babylon  5:  Angriff der Aliens"
+erhaeltlich) wird entdeckt, dass der Planet Epsilon 3, in dessen Naehe sich
+Babylon 5 befindet, nicht  soo  ausgestorben  ist  wie  bisher  angenommen.
+Zwischenzeitlich  bricht  auf Mars in einer Kolonie eine Rebellion aus.  Im
+Planeten wird ein sterbender Alien gefunden, der eine riesige und maechtige
+Maschinerie  kontrolliert.    Der   Erdallianz-Kreuzer   Hyperion  und  ein
+Raumschiff von Verstossenen  des  Planeten  erreichen  Babylon  5,  um  den
+Planeten  zu erobern.  Ein alter Freund von Delenn nimmt den Platz fuer den
+sterbenden Alien ein, alle  warnend,  die  den Planeten sich fortan naehern
+wuerden.  Auf ein Wiedersehen am Ende der zweiten Staffel...
+
+* Verloren in der Zeit *
+Die 24 Stunden nach Inbetriebnahme verschwundene Station Babylon  4  -  die
+groesste  der  Babylon-Stationen  -  taucht  in  *Babylon Squared* (B^2 oft
+genannt)  wieder  auf.   Zwischenzeitlich  wird  Delenn auf dem Kreuzer des
+Grauen Rates, zu dessen neuen  Anfuehrer gewaehlt.  Delenn lehnt diese Wahl
+aber ab, da eine Prophezeiung sagt, dass ihr Schicksal auf Babylon 5 liegt.
+Sie  verlaesst  den  Grauen  Rat  mit  einem  machtvollen   Werkzeug,   dem
+"Triluminary".   Waehrend  Stoerungen in der Zeit die Maenner auf Babylon 4
+rueckwaerts und vorwaerts blicken laesst (in einer Szene kommt etwas/jemand
+durch die Waende  was  durch  Garibaldi  und  seine Maenner bekaempft wird,
+wobei Sinclair zurueck in die fluechtende Menge gedraengt wird),  wird  die
+Mannschaft  von  Babylon 4 evakuiert.  Ein mysterioeser Alien, Zathras, der
+schon vorher erschien, erzaehlt von  einem grausamen, grossen Krieg und dem
+Versuch, B4 durch die Zeit zu bewegen,  um  diese  als  Operationsbasis  zu
+benutzen.   Zathras  ist  auf der Suche nach "dem Einen" ("The One") -- dem
+grossen Anfuehrer,  der  versucht,  der  Galaxis  Frieden  zu bringen.  Die
+Station ist bis auf  dem  eingeklemmten  Zathras  evakuiert,  der  von  dem
+ploetzlich auftauchenden "Einen" befreit wird.
+
+* Die Heilerin *
+*The Quality Of Mercy* zeigt eine  von  Dr.   Franklin - nicht ganz legal -
+gefuehrte Klinik in den unteren Sektionen von B5.  Es wird  ebenfalls  eine
+fremde "Heilmaschine" entdeckt, die in der Lage ist, Lebensenergie zwischen
+Personen zu uebertragen.
+
+* Chrysalis *
+*Chrysalis*, das Finale der ersten Staffel, bezieht sich auf den Kokon, den
+Delenn  mit Hilfe der Maschine, welche sie schon waehrend des ganzen Jahres
+baut, erschaffen  will.   Garibaldi  deckt  einen  Plan  zur  Ermordung des
+Erdpraesidenten auf...
+ Morden  taucht  wieder  auf und bietet Londo an, bei einem Problem mit von
+Narn besetzten Sektor "behilflich" zu  sein.   Delenn spricht mit Kosh, der
+sich Delenn zeigt, was ihren Glauben an die Prophezeiung  bestaetigt.   Sie
+konfrontiert  Sinclair mit dem Wissen ueber seine Folter, verschwindet aber
+in ihrem Kokon, bevor sie  miteinander  reden koennen.  Londo ist geschockt
+als er erfaehrt, dass die Narn-Basis einfach von einer  mysterioesen  Macht
+zerstoert wurde.  G'Kar verlaesst B5 um herauszufinden, wer oder was hinter
+der Zerstoerung der Basis steckt.  "Nothing's the same anymore"...
+
+========    c. Was geschieht in der zweiten Season?
+
+               STAFFEL ZWEI: The Coming Of Shadows 
+
+STAFFEL ZWEI wird eroeffnet in *Points Of Departure* mit der Versetzung von
+Sinclair  aufgrund botschaftlicher Pflichten auf die Heimatwelt der Minbari
+und der Versetzung von  Captain  John Sheridan als kommandierender Offizier
+auf Babylon 5. Garibaldi ist noch im kritischen Zustand; Delenn immer  noch
+in  ihrem  Kokon  und  G'Kar  noch  nicht wieder zurueckgekehrt.  Sheridans
+Verbindung zum Minbari-  Krieg  wird  erklaert.   Dieser hatte den einzigen
+grossen Sieg gegen einen Kreuzer der Minbari  verbuchen.   Lennier  lueftet
+das  Geheimnis  um  Sinclairs  vergessene  24  Stunden  und der Aufgabe der
+Minbari.  Lennier  verschweigt  aber  den  Rest  der  Prophezeiung, das ein
+grosser Feind kommen wird...
+
+
+Am Anfang von *Revelations*  entkommt  G'Kar  nur  knapp  dem  Angriff  von
+Shadows.   Sheridans  Schwester  kommt  auf  B5  an;  wir  lernen, dass das
+Expeditionsschiff "Ikarus" seiner Frau vor  zwei Jahren zerstoert wurde bei
+Erkundigung am Rande ("the rim")  des  bekannten  Raumes.   Morden  besucht
+wieder  Londo  und bittet informiert zu werden, sobald Londo irgendwas uber
+den "Rim" hoert.  Dr.  Franklin  benutzt die "Heilmaschine" um Garibaldi zu
+heilen.  G'Kar kehrt  nach  B5  zurueck  und  erkennt,  dass  ein  antiker,
+maechtiger  Feind  zurueckgekehrt  ist.   Garibaldi erwacht und erkennt mit
+Talias Hilfe den  Attentaeter.   Delenn  kommt  aus  ihrem Kokon heraus und
+erscheint bei einem Ratstreffen...  mit wesentlich  menschlicheren  Zuegen.
+G'Kar  erzaehlt  von  seinen  Entdeckungen  am  "Rim"  und  dem Plan, einen
+Narn-Kreuzer zur Erkundung des Planeten Za'Ha'Dum zu schicken.  Londo teilt
+dies Morden  mit.   Garibaldis  Attentaeter  wird  verhaftet,  verhoert und
+verschwindet  auf  dem  Weg  zur   Erde   vom   Gefangenentransport.    Der
+Narn-Kreuzer  wird  unmittelbar nach Erreichen des Shadow-Gebietes aufgrund
+Londos Informationen zerstoert (zersaegt :) ).
+
+
+*A Spider In The Web*  wird  ein  mysterioeses "Buero 13" ("Bureau 13") ge-
+nannt, welches von den San Diego-Wuesten aus operiert (Anm: San Diego  fiel
+einem  Atom-Anschlag  von  Terroristen  zum  Opfer).   Ein Attentaeter, von
+diesem Buero aus kontrolliert,  versucht eine Friedensverhandlung fuer Mars
+zu durchkreuzen.  Bei einem Scan erkennt Talia,  dass  ein  Psi  Cop  diese
+Operation leitet und den Attentaeter darauf programmiert hat, erzaehlt aber
+niemandem   davon.   Sheridans  Interesse  in  Verschwoerungstheorien  wird
+offenbart als er versucht, dieses Puzzle zu loesen.
+
+
+*A Race Through Dark Places*  bringt  Bester,  der  Psi Cop aus "Mind War",
+zurueck zu Babylon 5. Talia Winters erkennt endlich,  dass  der  Psi  Corps
+auch eine dunkle Seite besitzt.
+
+
+*The  Coming  Of  Shadows*  markiert  den  Anfang des Grossen Krieges.  Der
+alternde  Centauri-Kaiser  bricht   auf   Babylon   5   Momente  vor  einer
+historischen Rede zusammen, die Frieden zwischen den Centauri und den  Narn
+gebracht haette.  Ein Machtkampf bricht aus und Londo beauftragt Morden mit
+der Vernichtung einer grossen Narn-Kolonie durch die Shadows.
+
+
+*All Alone In The Night* handelt von der  Entfuehrung  von  Sheridan.   Wir
+lernen   ueber   Sheridan,   dass   er  ausgewaehlt  wurde,  Babylon  5  zu
+kommandieren,   damit   er   fuer   eine   Widerstandsbewegung   gegen  die
+unerfreulichen Aenderungen in der Erdregierung arbeiten kann,  insbesondere
+der Kontrolle durch den Psi Corps. In einem Traum Sheridans erscheint Kosh.
+
+
+*Hunter, Prey* ("Jaeger, Beute") waren symbolisch gesprochen die Erdallianz
+und der ehemalige Arzt des jetztigen Praesidenten (z.Zt.  der Ermordung von
+Santiago  halt  Vizepraesident).   Er hat Beweise, die bestaetigen koennen,
+dass Santiagos Tod ein Attentat war.
+
+
+*There All The  Honor  Lies*  gilt  fuer  die  Minbari.  Als Sheridan einen
+Minbari erschiesst, droht ihm das Ende seiner Karriere durch  ein  Komplott
+von gewissen Minbari.  Kosh lehrt Sheridan eine neue, mysterioese Lektion.
+
+
+Ein  Reporterteam  von  ISN  haelt sich auf Babylon 5 auf in *And Now For A
+Word*.  In Form einer Reportage werden die Botschafter interviewt, waehrend
+vor  der  Station  zwischen  den   Narn  und  den  Centauri  eine  Schlacht
+anfaengt...
+
+
+*In The Shadow Of Za'Ha'Dum* liegt der  Grund  des  Grauens.   Wir  lernen,
+welche  Verbindung  zwischen  Delenn  und  Kosh  besteht, dessen Geheimniss
+seines Anzugs etwas gelueftet wird.   Sheridan stellt fest, dass Morden vor
+zwei Jahren ebenfalls auf der Ikarus war, auf der seine Frau starb.
+
+
+Mit *Knives* wollen sich Londo und ein alter Freund duellieren, dessen Haus
+von den neuen centaurischen Machthabern als verraeterrisch angeklagt wurde.
+
+
+In *Confessions And Lamentations* bricht auf  Babylon  5  eine  verheerende
+Seuche aus, gegen die Dr.  Franklin machtlos ist (Anm.: mehr Infos momentan
+nicht erhaeltlich, da selber noch nicht gesehen).
+
+ANMERKUNG:
+Die Folgen *Divided Loyalties, 
+           *The Long, Twilight  Struggle*,  
+           *Comes The Inquisitor* und 
+           *The Fall Of Night* 
+werde ich spaeter erst in die dt. FAQ mit aufnehmen,  da das einfach 
+zuviel vorwegnehmen wuerde (auf Anfrage kann ich es natuerlich wieder
+reinsetzen).
+
+------------------------------
+
+Thema: 7.  Wer sind die Charaktere in der Show?
+
+## Cast Info:       ftp://ftp.hyperion.com/pub/Babylon-5/b5actors.txt
+## Characters Info: ftp://ftp.hyperion.com/pub/Babylon-5/b5log.txt
+               und  ftp://ftp.hyperion.com/pub/Babylon-5/b5_jms_answers.txt
+## Gastrollen:      ftp://ftp.hyperion.com/pub/Babylon-5/Guide/
+                      (entsprechende Episoden-Fuehrer nachsehen)
+## Veranstaltungen: ftp://ftp.hyperion.com/pub/Babylon-5/b5appearances
+## mehr Charactere: http://web.uml.edu/Babylon-Enc/enc.html
+              oder: ftp://ftp.hyperion.com/pub/Babylon-5/b5encyc.txt
+
+========    a. Hautprollen
+
+COMMANDER JEFFREY DAVID SINCLAIR            Michael O'Hare
+                                            (Staffel 1: Hauptrolle)
+
+Der Commander von Babylon 5  und  Repraesentant der Erdallianz waehrend der
+ersten Staffel.  Verfolgt von seinen Erfahrungen in  der  Vergangenheit  im
+Erde/Minabri-Krieg,  wird deutlich, dass er noch eine grosse Bestimmung
+in der 5-Jahresgeschichte zu erfuellen hat.
+
+CAPTAIN JOHN SHERIDAN                       Bruce Boxleitner
+[ab zweite Staffel]
+
+Kommandierender  Offizier  von  Babylon 5 nach der Versetzung von Commander
+Sinclair.   Direkt  und   ein   Schnelldenker;   vormals  Captain  des  EA-
+Miltaerkreuzers Agamemmnon.  Er gewann einen der wenigen Kaempfe gegen  die
+Minbari  im Krieg.  Seine Anwesenheit auf Babylon 5 hatte schwere Einwaende
+der Minbari-Regierung zur Folge.   Obwohl  er  es nicht weiss, spielt seine
+Vergangenheit eine wichtige Rolle fuer die kommenden Ereignisse auf B5.
+
+LT. COMMANDER SUSAN IVANOVA                 Claudia Christian
+
+Von  russischer  Abstammung,  eine  bestimmende  Persoenlichkeit,   oftmals
+gerissen,  irgendwie  pessimistisch.   Zweiter kommandierender Offizier und
+verantwortlich fuer alle taeglichen  Operationen  auf Babylon 5. Befoerdert
+zum Commander in der zweiten Staffel.
+
+TALIA WINTERS                               Andrea Thompson
+
+Babylon  5's ansaessige Telepathin, Psi Corps Rang 5. Durch ein "Geschenk",
+das sie in der  ersten  Staffel  erhielt  ("Mind  War") entwickelt sie ganz
+besondere Faehigkeiten.
+
+SICHERHEITSCHEF MICHAEL ALFREDO GARIBALDI   Jerry Doyle
+
+Verantwortlich fuer  die  Sicherheit  auf  Babylon  5.  Hat  eine  unruhige
+Vergangenheit,  wurde  aber von Sinclair fuer diesen Job ausgewaehlt.  Sein
+Rang  ist  "Chief  Warrant  Officer".   Guter  Freund  von  Sinclair; seine
+Beziehung zu Sheridan mag anfangs vielleicht nicht so gut sein.
+
+LIEUTENANT WARREN KEFFER                    Robert Rusler
+
+Geschwaderfuehrer  der  Zeta Schwadron, befoerdert zum Schwadronen-Fuehrer,
+nachdem sein Commander durch ein mysterioeses Schiff im Hyperraum zerstoert
+wurde.  Danach ist er besessen  von  der  Aufgabe, dieses Schiff zu finden,
+dessen Existenz zu beweisen...
+
+BOTSCHAFTER LONDO MOLLARI                   Peter Jurasik
+
+Repraesentiert die  Centauri,  eine  dekadente  und  verblassende Republik.
+Auesserlichkeiten beiseite, ist Londo ein "romantischer" Charakter mit ver-
+schiedenen offiziellen und persoenlichen Seiten, der sich  die  glorreichen
+Tage  der  Republik  zurueckwuenscht.   Sein  Verlangen, alles wieder so zu
+haben, wie es einmal war, bringt ihn auf einen sehr dunklen Pfad; er steckt
+mittendrin, als mysterioese Agenten ihm  helfen bei dem Wiederaufbau seines
+Imperiums.
+
+BOTSCHAFTERIN DELENN                        Mira Furlan
+
+Repraesentiert die Minbari.  Delenn  ist  Mitglied  des Grauen Rates; warum
+sie auf  Babylon  5  als  Botschafterin  auftritt,  ist  eines  der  vielen
+Mysterien  auf  Babylon  5 in der ersten Saison.  Sie glaubt auserwaehlt zu
+sein um eine Schicksal/Bestimmung  zu  erfuellen,  was  zur Folge hat, dass
+sich ihr Verhaeltnis zum Grauen Rat verschlechtern wird.
+
+BOTSCHAFTER G'KAR                           Andreas Katsulas
+
+Repraesentiert das Narn Regime.  G'Kar ist ein Patriot, immer auf der Suche
+nach Wegen, die Situation zugunsten der Narn zu veraendern.  Obwohl er  auf
+den  ersten  Blick  militant  erscheint,  wird  deutlich,  dass die Narn in
+erheblichen Schwierigkeiten stecken, als die  Centauri ihre Stellung in der
+Galaxis wieder aufbauen.
+
+DR. STEPHEN FRANKLIN                        Richard Biggs
+
+Mitte  dreissig,   bestimmt   und   selbstsicher.    Sein  Hintergrund  ist
+hauptsaechlich die experimentelle Medizin  und  hat  daher  keine  so  gute
+Umgangsform   mit   Kranken.    Seine  Bestimmtheit  geht  fast  schon  zur
+Besessenheit,  wobei  er  immer  bereit  ist,  Beduerftigen  zu  helfen  --
+inoffiziell natuerlich.
+
+VORLONEN BOTSCHAFTER KOSH NARANEK        (animatronics)
+                                         Chris Franke (Stimmeffekte)
+                                         Ardwight Chamberlain (Uebersetzung)
+
+Nach zwei Jahren auf der Station immer noch ein grosses Mysterium.  Niemand
+weiss, wie Kosh aussieht (ausser  Delenn) unter seinem Schutzanzug oder was
+er den ganzen Tag auf der Station macht (ausser studieren) oder was es  mit
+seinem  Schiff  auf  sich hat.  Gegen Ende der zweiten Staffel wird man ihn
+auch *richtig* sehen...  wobei seine  Beziehung  zu Babylon 5 dennoch nicht
+wesentlich deutlicher wird.
+
+VIR COTTO                                   Stephen Furst
+
+Centaurischer  Assistent  von  Londo.   Furchtsam  und  -  bisher  -  wenig
+respektiert von Londo.  Er kann nur dabeistehen und  zusehen,  wie  es  mit
+Londo bergab geht...
+
+NA'TOTH                                     Mary Kay Adams (zweite Staffel)
+                                            Caitlin Brown  (erste Staffel)
+
+Eine weibliche Narn, Assistentin von G'Kar.  Sie ersetzt Ko'Dath, die einen
+Unfall mit einer Luftschleuse hatte, kurz nachdem sie ihren Dienst begann.
+
+LENNIER                                     Bill Mumy
+
+Eine   moenchartiger   maennlicher   Gehilfe   von   Delenn,   fuehrte  ein
+kloesterliches Leben, ein wahrlich unschuldiger auf  Babylon  5  (zumindest
+bis jetzt).  Einer der wenigen, der  Delenns  wichtigen  Titel  kennt,  und
+begleitet  Delenn ("Lennier, soon...  I will be going into darkness...  and
+fire...") durch dick und duenn.
+
+MARCUS COLE                                 Jason Carter
+
+Ein Ranger, dauerhaft auf Babylon 5 stationiert, erstmals in Season 3.
+
+THEODORE                                    Louis Turenne
+
+Ein dominikanischer Moench, der die Station besucht, um die religioesen
+Glauben von ausserirdischen Rassen zu studieren, erstmals in Season 3.
+
+========    b. wiederkehrende Charaktere
+
+BESTER                                      Walter Koenig
+
+Ein *unfreundlicher* Psi  Cop  (ein  matchvoller menschlicher Telepath) der
+die Station von Zeit zu Zeit besucht...
+
+MORDEN                                      Ed Wasser
+
+Ein Mensch, der einige Zeit am  "Rim"  verbracht  hat,  und  unfreundlichen
+Kontakt  mit  den Shadows gemacht hat (siehe *In The Shadow Of Za'Ha'Dum*).
+Seine Hilfe hat Londo in eine schwierige Situation gebracht.
+
+CATHERINE SAKAI                             Julia Nickson
+
+Sie arbeitet fuer eine Firma  auf  der Erde, die Erkundungen von Asteroiden
+und Planeten zum Mineralabbau vornimmt.  Fliegt das Schiff Skydancer.   Hat
+eine  unregelmaessige  Beziehung  zu  Sinclair;  sie kennt ihn noch von der
+Akademie her.
+
+JACK (Nachname unbekannt)                   Macaulay Bruton
+
+Garibaldis "rechte Hand" in der ersten Staffel.
+
+LOU WELCH                                   David Crowley
+ZACK ALLAN                                  Jeff Conaway
+
+Weitere Assistenten von Garibaldi waehrend der ersten beiden Staffeln. Zack
+wird Mitglied des "Night Watch"-Programms, merkt aber zu spaet, wo er da
+reingeschlittert ist.
+
+N'GRATH                                     (animatronics)
+
+Ein  insektenartiges   nicht-menschliches   Wesen,   der   als   eine   Art
+"Unterweltboss"  bestimmte  Sachen  besorgen  kann.   Hat nur in der ersten
+Staffel eine Rolle.
+
+DR. MAYA HERNANDEZ                          Silvana Gallardo
+
+Ein Doktorin, die Dr. Franlin unterstellt ist.
+
+SENATOR HIDOSHI                             Aki Aleong
+
+Senator  Hidoshi  stellt  den  Hauptkontakt   der  Station  zum  Senat  der
+Erdallianz in der ersten Staffel dar.
+
+LORD REFA                                   William Forward
+
+Ein Landsmann von Londo, der ihm beim Streben nach Macht unterstuetzt.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Thema: 8. Babylon 5 Episoden und Geschichten
+
+## Voller Zeitplan und
+   Episode Zsfg.:    ftp://ftp.hyperion.com/pub/Babylon-5/b5episodes
+## Past episodes:       ftp://ftp.hyperion.com/pub/Babylon-5/Guide/
+## UK Schedule & Guide: 
+##    ftp://ftp.hyperion.com/pub/Babylon-5/b5uk-epguide.txt
+
+========    a. Fernsehepisoden
+
+========    a1. in den USA
+
+PILOTFILM (Jahr 2257)
+
+ 02-22-93      The Gathering (Titel nicht eingeblendet) von JMS, Regie: RC
+
+STAFFEL EINS (2258) Ausstrahlungsreihenfolge      
+                    (TITEL: "Signs and Portents")
+
+ Woche    Nr.  Titel                       Autor Regisseur
+ ---------------------------------------------------------
+ 01-24-94 103  Midnight on the Firing Line  JMS  RC
+ 01-31-94 102  Soul Hunter                  JMS  JJ
+ 02-07-94 104  Born to the Purple           LD   BSG
+ 02-14-94 101  Infection                    JMS  RC
+ 02-21-94 108  The Parliament of Dreams     JMS  JJ
+ 02-28-94 110  Mind War                     JMS  BSG
+ 03-07-94 107  The War Prayer               DCF  RC
+ 03-14-94 106  And the Sky Full of Stars    JMS  JG
+ 04-18-94 113  Deathwalker                  LD   BSG
+ 04-25-94 105  Believers                    DG   RC
+ 05-02-94 111  Survivors                    MSZ  JJ
+ 05-09-94 114  By Any Means Necessary       KD   JJ
+ 05-16-94 116  Signs and Portents           JMS  JG
+ 05-23-94 119  TKO                          LD   JF
+ 07-04-94 109  Grail                        CM   RC
+ 07-11-94 122  Eyes                         LD   JJ
+ 07-18-94 115  Legacies                     DCF  BSG
+ 07-25-94 120  A Voice in the Wilderness I  JMS  JG
+ 08-01-94 121  A Voice in the Wilderness II JMS  JG
+ 08-08-94 118  Babylon Squared              JMS  JJ
+ 08-15-94 117  The Quality of Mercy         JMS  LSF
+ 10-24-94 112  Chrysalis                    JMS  JG
+
+STAFFEL ZWEI (2259) Ausstrahlungsreihenfolge   
+             (TITEL: "The Coming of Shadows")
+
+ Woche    Nr.  Titel                       Autor Regisseur
+ ---------------------------------------------------------
+ 10-31-94 201  Points of Departure          JMS  JG
+ 11-07-94 202  Revelations                  JMS  JJ
+ 11-14-94 203  The Geometry of Shadows      JMS  MV
+ 11-21-94 204  A Distant Star               DCF  JJ
+ 11-28-94 205  The Long Dark                SF   MD
+ 12-05-94 206  Spider in the Web            LD   KC
+ 12-12-94 208  Soul Mates                   PAD  JF
+ 01-23-95 207  A Race Through Dark Places   JMS  JJ
+ 01-30-95 209  The Coming of Shadows        JMS  JG
+ 02-06-95 210  Gropos                       LD   JJ
+ 02-13-95 211  All Alone in the Night       JMS  MD
+ 02-20-95 212  Acts of Sacrifice            JMS  JJ
+ 02-27-95 213  Hunter, Prey                 JMS  MB
+ 04-24-95 215  There All The Honor Lies     PAD  MV
+ 05-01-95 214  And Now For a Word           JMS  MD
+ 05-08-95 217  In the Shadow of Za'Ha'Dum   JMS  DE
+ 05-15-95 216  Knives                       LD   SP
+ 05-22-95 218  Confessions and Lamentations JMS  KC
+ 10-11-95 220  Divided Loyalties            JMS  JT
+ 10-18-95 219  The Long, Twilight Struggle  JMS  JF
+ 10-25-95 221  Comes the Inquisitor         JMS  MV
+ 11-01-95 222  The Fall of Night            JMS  JG
+
+SEASON DREI (2260) Ausstrahlungsreihenfolge
+            (TITEL: "I am become Death, destroyer of worlds")
+
+ Woche    Nr.  Titel                     Autor  Regisseur
+ --------------------------------------------------------
+ 11/06/95 301  Matters of Honor             JMS  KC
+ 11/13/95 302  Convictions                  JMS  MV
+ 11/20/95 303  A Day in the Strife          JMS  DE
+ 11/27/95 305  Passing Through Gethsemane   JMS  AN
+ 12/04/95?304  Voices of Authority          JMS  MB
+ 12/11/95?306  Dust to Dust                 JMS  DE
+          307  Exogenesis                   JMS
+          308  Messages from Earth          JMS  MV
+          309  Point of No Return           JMS
+          310  Severed Dreams               JMS
+          311  Ceremonies of Light and Dark JMS  JF
+          312  A Late Delivery from Avalon  JMS
+          313  Sic Transit Vir              JMS
+
+Adam Nimoy wird ebenfalls in einem Zweiteiler Regie fuehren (315 und 316), 
+Ausstrahlung #13/14.
+
+SCHREIBER:  PAD = Peter A. David; LD = Larry DiTillio; KD = Kathyrn Drennan;
+            DCF = D.C. Fontana; SF = Scott Frost; DG = David Gerrold; CM =
+            Christy Marx; JMS = J. Michael Straczynski; MSZ = Marc Scott
+            Zicree.
+
+REGISSEURE: MB = Menachem Binetski; RC = Richard Compton; KC = Kevin Cremins;
+            MD = Mario DiLeo; DE = David Eagle; JF = John Flinn; LSF =
+            Lorraine Senna Ferrara; JG = Janet Greek; BSG = Bruce Seth Green;
+            JJ = Jim Johnston; AN = Adam Nimoy; SP = Stephen Posey; 
+            JT = Jesus Trevino; MV = Mike Vejar.
+
+========    a2. in Deutschland
+
+Sobald die deutschen Titel der zweiten Staffel bekannt sind, werden diese
+in der Liste eingefuegt.
+
+Die  in  Amerika  gezeigte  Sendung "Making of Babylon 5", durch die Walter
+Koenig fuehrte, wurde hier leider nicht gezeigt.
+
+PILOTFILM    (Jahr 2257)
+
+ 08-03-95      The Gathering (Titel nicht eingeblendet) von JMS, Regie: RC
+
+STAFFEL EINS (2258) Ausstrahlungsreihenfolge      
+                    (TITEL: "Signs and Portents")
+
+ Woche    Nr.  Titel                       Autor Regisseur
+ ---------------------------------------------------------
+ 08-06-95 103  Midnight on the Firing Line  JMS  RC
+               Ragesh 3
+ 08-13-95 102  Soul Hunter                  JMS  JJ
+               Der Seelenjaeger
+ 08-20-95 104  Born to the Purple           LD   BSG
+               Purpurdaten
+ 08-27-95 101  Infection                    JMS  RC
+               Ein unheimlicher Fund
+ 09-03-95 108  The Parliament of Dreams     JMS  JJ
+               Angriff auf G'Kar
+ 09-10-95 110  Mind War                     JMS  BSG
+               Die Macht des Geistes
+ 09-17-95 107  The War Prayer               DCF  RC
+               Angriff auf die Ausseridischen
+ 09-24-95 106  And the Sky Full of Stars    JMS  JG
+               Gefangen im Cybernetz
+ 10-01-95 113  Deathwalker                  LD   BSG
+               Die Todesbringerin
+ 10-08-95 105  Believers                    DG   RC
+               Die Glaeubigen
+ 10-15-95 111  Survivors                    MSZ  JJ
+               Ein Wiedersehen mit Folgen
+ 10-22-95 114  By Any Means Necessary       KD   JJ
+               Mit allen Mitteln
+ 10-29-95 116  Signs and Portents           JMS  JG
+               Visionen des Schreckens
+ 11-05-95 119  TKO                          LD   JF
+               Im Ring des Blutes
+ 11-12-95 109  Grail                        CM   RC
+               Der Gral
+ 11-19-95 122  Eyes                         LD   JJ
+               Die Untersuchung
+ 11-26-95 115  Legacies                     DCF  BSG
+               Krieger wider Willen
+ 12-01-95 120  A Voice in the Wilderness    JMS  JG
+               Angriff der Aliens
+ 12-03-95 118  Babylon Squared              JMS  JJ
+               Verloren in der Zeit
+ 12-10-95 117  The Quality of Mercy         JMS  LSF
+               Die Heilerin
+ 12-17-95 112  Chrysalis                    JMS  JG
+               Chrysalis
+
+STAFFEL ZWEI (2258) Ausstrahlungsreihenfolge      
+                    (TITEL: "Coming Of Shadows")
+
+ Woche    Nr.  Titel                       Autor Regisseur
+ ---------------------------------------------------------
+ 12-31-95 203  Points Of Departure          JMS  JG
+
+SCHREIBER und REGISSEURE siehe oben!
+
+========    b. Kurzgeschichten
+
+ Pub.Date   Titel                 Autor         ISBN (US)       ISBN (UK)
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ 02/95      Voices             John Vornholt    0-440-22057-2   0-7522-0644-3
+ 04/95      Accusations        Lois Tilton      0-440-22058-0
+ 09/95      Blood Oath         John Vornholt    0-440-22059-9
+ 02/96      Clarke's Law       Jim Mortimore    0-440-22229-X
+*
+ 03/96 The Touch of Your Shadow, Neil Barrett Jr. 0-440-22230-3
+        The Whisper of Your Name
+        
+Nach den ersten drei Novellen hat Dell fuer weitere fuenf unterschrieben.
+
+========    c. Comics
+
+ Month Issue    Title               Writers/Artists
+ --------------------------------------------------------
+ 01/95  1   In Darkness Find Me     JMS/Netzer/Leigh
+ 02/95  2   Treason                 Mark Moretti/Netzer/Leigh
+ 03/95  3   In Harm's Way           Moretti/Garzon
+ 04/95  4   The Price of Peace      Moretti/Netzer/Leigh
+
+            Shadows Past and Present (4-Ausgaben-Geschichte)
+ 05/95  5   With Friends Like These Tim DeHass/John Ridgway
+ 06/95  6   Against the Odds        "
+ 07/95  7   Survival the Hard Way   "
+ 08/95  8	Silent Enemies
+
+            Laser-Mirror-Starweb
+ 09/95  9   Duet for Human and Narn in C Sharp  David Gerrold
+ 10/95  10  Coda for Human and Narn in B Flat   "
+
+ 11/95  11  The Psi Corps and You               DeHass/Ridgway
+
+JMS schreibt eine vierteilige Geschichte,  in der Hauptrolle ein Charakter,
+der in der dritten Staffel vorgestellt wird;  Peter  David  und  Bill  Mumy
+werden   ebenfalls   einen   "Bogen"  anfangen.   Moegliche  wiederkehrende
+Schreiber bein- halten  John  Ostrander  und  Neil  Gaiman.  
+Die monatliche Erscheinungsweise der Comics ist nach Ausgabe 11 eingestellt
+worden.  Laut Vertrag sollen aber noch 13 mehr herauskommen.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Thema: 9. Wie kann man die Leute hinter Babylon 5 erreichen?
+
+Anr Warner Bros. kann man an die beiden folgenden Adressen schreiben:
+
+Dick Robertson                      Robert Daly, Chairman
+President                           Warner Brothers, Inc.
+Domestic Television Distribution    4000 Warner Boulevard
+Warner Bros. Television             Burbank, CA  91522
+Triangle Bldg, 4th floor
+4000 Warner Boulevard
+Burbank, CA 91522
+
+following address.  DO NOT SEND SCRIPTS OR STORY IDEAS.  Babylon 5 is NOT
+accepting outside stories or story ideas.
+
+Dem erschaffer der Serie, alsauch der Cast und der Crew kann man hier
+erreichen. ABER KEINE STORY-IDEEN ODER SKRIPTE SCHICKEN! Babylon 5 nimmt
+KEINE Geschichten von aussen an!
+
+J. Michael Straczynski          (wen ihr wollt)
+C/O BABYLON 5                   <---- VERY IMPORTANT !!!!
+14431 Ventura Blvd, suite 260
+Sherman Oaks, CA  91423
+
+Ihr  koennt auch E-Mail an JMS schicken, aber *vermeidet* es, seine Zeit zu
+verschwenden, checkt lieber den  Lurker's  Guide oder andere Archive durch,
+ob da Eure Fragen nicht schon beantwortet sind.
+Da die Amerikaner naturgemaess zwei Staffeln weiter sind  als  wir.   
+Somit duerften Fragen in der amerikanischen Newsgroup total untergehen.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Thema: 10. Wie hat sich Babylon 5 entwickelt?
+
+1986                erste Notizen und Entwuerfe der Babylon 5-Geschichte
+1987 Fruehling/     Babylon 5 Abhandlung kreiert von JMS;
+     Sommer         ebenso eine sog. "writer's bible"
+1988 Mai            Kuenstler Peter Ledger angestellt, um ein B5-Logo zu
+                    schaffen und eine Serie von Bildern, basierend auf der
+                    Abhandlung und der Bibel, welche dann fuer verschiedene
+                    Praesentationen verwendet wurden
+1988 Sommer/Herbst  Babylon 5 an CBS, HBO, ABC und andere eingereicht
+1989 Maerz          Babylon 5 an Chris-Craft Television gegeben, ein
+                    Konsortium von Stationen. CCT versprachen Unterstuetzung
+                    fuer B5, und Versuche wurden zwischen 1988 und 1989
+                    unternommen, um Co-Produktions-Vertraege mit aussen-
+                    stehenden Investoren zu bekommen
+1989 Juni/Juli      Babylon 5 wurde Paramount unterbreitet
+1989 Dezember       Babylon 5 empfaengt zusaetzliche Zusage von Unter-
+                    stuetzung von Warner Bros., die angefangen haben, mit CCT
+                    zu arbeiten und formen ein 5. Netzwerk zur gleichen Zeit
+1991 November       Babylon 5 ist angekuendigt als eines von drei Flagschiff-
+                    Projekten fuer Warners Prime Time Entertainment Network
+                    (PTEN). Die Vertraege tragen die Geschichte zu einem
+                    grossen Teil.
+1992 Juni/Juli      Casting fuer den Pilotfilm
+1992 August 10      Dreharbeiten zu dem Pilotfilm beginnen
+1992 September 4    Ende der Dreharbeiten fuer den Pilotfilm
+1992 November 7     Erste Auffuehrung des Pilotfilms auf der Convention
+                    "Wishcon II" in Springfield, Mass.
+1992 November 28    Erstes angekuendigtes Vorfuehren des Pilotfilms fuer
+                    die Convention-Teilnehmer auf der Loscon 19 in
+                    Los Angeles, CA
+1993 Januar 14      endgueltiger Schnitt des Pilotfilms fertig
+1993 Februar 19/20  Satelliten-Uebertragung des Pilotfilms an die lokalen
+                    Fernsehstationen
+1993 Woche von      TV-Debuet des Pilotfilms. Er erreicht ein "10.3 GAA"
+     Feb 22         nationale Einschaltquote, welche besser war als bei den
+                    Premieren von "Kung Fu: The Legen Continues" (10.2),
+                    "The Untouchables" (10.2) und "Time Trax" (8.3).
+1993 April          Vor-Produktion der Serie startet
+1993 Mai 28         Formelle Ankuendigung von Warner Bros. fuer
+                    einen Serien-Auftrag
+1993 Mitte Juli     Dreharbeiten zur Serie fangen an
+1993 spaeter Sommer Teile der ersten drei Episoden werden auf der San Diego 
+                    Comic Con, WorldCon und CopperCon 13 vorgefuehrt
+1993 Mitte Sept.    Foundation Imaging bekommt fuer die Visual Effects einen
+                    Emmy fuer den Babylon 5 Pilotfilm bei den Creative Arts
+                    Emmy Awards
+1993 Mitte Okt.     erste, komplette Episoden an Warner Bros. geliefert
+1993 Okt./Nov.      PTEN-Wiederausstrahlung des B5 Pilotfilms
+1993 November 26    "Midnight on the Firing Line" gezeigt auf der LosCon 20
+1994 Mitte Jan.     "Making of Babylon 5" ausgestrahlt
+                    (Walter Koenig fuehrte durch die Sendung)
+1994 Januar 20      Satelliten-Uebertragung der ersten Episoden
+1994 Januar 26      Start der woechentlichen Serie auf PTEN
+1994 Maerz 23       Dreharbeiten der ersten Saison beendet
+1994 Mai 12         Ankuendigung des Auftrags fuer die zweite Saison
+1994 August 10      Dreharbeiten zur zweiten Saison starten
+1994 Sept. 10       Emmy verliehen fuer Makeup-Design in "Parliament Of Dreams"
+1994 Nov.2 (etwa)   Premiere der zweiten Saison mit "Points of Departure"
+1994 Nov. 25        limitierte Ausgabe des B5 Soundtracks bei Loscon 21
+1995 Feb. 28        Viewers for Quality Television waehlen B5 als die #1
+                    syndicated drama-show, und die #16 Show insgesamt
+1995 April 20       Dreharbeiten der zweiten Saison beendet
+1995 April 25       Veroeffentlichung des B5 Soundtracks
+1995 Juni 8         PTEN erteilt Auftrag fuer die *dritte* Staffel
+1995 Mitte Mai      Casting zur dritten Staffel
+1995 Juli/August    Dreharbeiten zur dritten Staffel fangen an
+
+1995 August 3       Pilotfilm in Deutschland/Europa zu sehen
+1995 August 6       Start der ersten Staffel mit "Midnight" in Deutschland
+
+1995 Nov 6          Start der dritten Staffel in den USA
+
+1995 Dez 31         Start der zweiten Staffel in Deutschland/Europa
+
+------------------------------
+
+Thema: 11. Veranstaltungen/Appearances
+
+Wenn Ihr *zufaellig* in San Francisco sein solltet, so stattet dem
+neuen "Planet Hollywood" einen Besuch ab, dort sind "N'Grath" und
+das Monster aus "Infection" ("Ein unheimlicher Fund") zu sehen.
+
+========    a. Science Fiction Conventions
+
+## mehr Infos: Con-infos werden oft in Newsgroups gepostet, wie z.B.
+               alt.fandom.cons, rec.arts.sf.announce, rec.arts.sf.fandom.
+
+J. Michael  Straczynski  und viele B5 Darsteller und Crewmitglieder haben
+bisher an  Science-Fiction-Conventions  teilgenommen.  
+Kommende Auftritte beinhalten (Anm.: nicht weiter uebersetzt):
+
+CON-RAD, Oct 27th-29th, 1995, Universal City Hilton and Towers.
+Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, JMS, Harlan Ellison.
+For info, e-mail: cpl@rain.org
+
+LOSCON 22, November 24-26, 1995. Airport Hilton, Burbank CA.
+UNCONFIRMED appearance, but it's quite likely that JMS will be there.
+Info:   LASFS, 11513 Burbank Blvd., N. Hollywood CA 91601.
+LASFS Phone: 818-760-9234.  E-mail: RBourget@aol.com
+
+========    b. The Official Babylon 5 Newsletter
+
+In Zusammenarbeit mit J. Michael Straczynski wurde ein Babylon 5-Newsletter
+produziert.  Die Produktion ist z.Zt.  angehalten  worden  um  einen  neuen
+"Editor"  zu  finden.   Bitte  waehrend  dieser Zeit keine neue Anmeldungen
+schicken!   Derzeitige   Abonnenten   koennen  dennoch  Adressenaenderungen
+mitteilen.
+
+========    c. aktuelle Veroeffentlichungen
+
+## mehr Infos: ftp://ftp.hyperion.com/pub/Babylon-5/b5.media
+
+Die  Maerz-Ausgabe  1995  von _Sci Fi Univers_ beinhaltet einen Leitartikel
+ueber Babylon 5.
+*
+Im April 1995 "Starlog" ist ebenfalls ein Artikel ueber B5 erschienen.
+In der neuen Cinescape und Cinemafantastique sollte eine Geschichte zu
+Babylon 5 enthalten sein.
+Englands "Foundation" bringt eine Ausgabe "Media SF" mit Schwerpunkt B5
+heraus. Da das meiste davon neuer Inhalt, sollte es recht sehenswert
+sein.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Thema: 12. Einzeiler - F & A's
+
+Im folgenden sind Fragen beantwortet, die oft von neuen Fans von Babylon  5
+gestellt werden:
+
+Verschiedenes:
+
+F: Sind die B5 Kurzgeschichten und Comics Teil des offiziellen B5-Programms?
+A: Ja, JMS versucht sicherzustellen, dass die anderen Geschichten auch in die
+   grosse Geschichte passen.
+
+F: Wie kommt es, dass [name] sich in den "Opening Credits" befindet, aber 
+   nicht in der Show (d.h. in der jeweiligen Episode)?
+A: Charaktere die in mehr als 7 oder mehr Episoden auftreten, werden in
+   den "Opening Credits" gezeigt.
+
+F: Was kam zuerst, Deep Space 9 oder Babylon 5?
+A: Babylon 5 wurde Paramount bereits vorgestellt im Jahre 1989, zwei Jahre
+   bevor Deep Space 9 erfunden wurde.
+
+F: Warum wird im 23. Jahrhundert noch Papier benutzt?
+A: Papier ist bequem. Es ist zudem ein recycle-faehiges, synthetisches 
+   Material.
+
+F: Warum bekam Sinclair, nur ein Commander, den Job, die Station zu leiten?
+A: Die Minbari haben *alle* Bewerber abgelehnt, bis auf Sinclair.
+
+F: Was bedeutet das "Dritte Zeitalter der Menschheit" ("third age of mankind")?  
+   Was sind das 2. und 3.?
+A: Joe sagt's nicht. Das 1. und 2. bekanntgeben, wuerde das 3. verraten.
+
+F: Was ist mit Harlan Ellisons Skripts passiert?
+A: Diese sind aufgeschoben worden aufgrund Krankheit und Erdbeben-Verletzungen.
+
+F: Wie wird das Thema "Geraeusche im All" behandelt?
+A: Die Existenz von Geraeuschen im All ist diskutabel; denk's waer Musik.
+
+F: Wird der Pilotfilm nochmal wiederholt? (in den USA)
+A: Es wird vielleicht passieren, JMS weiss aber nicht wann.
+
+F: Wird man jemals einen "Producer's cut" des Pilotfilm geben incl.
+   der ausgelassenen Szenen?
+A: Nein, da die Aufnahmen nur im digitalen, "groben Schnitt" existieren.
+
+F: Warum ist die C&C (Command & Control)-Kuppel manchmal leer?
+A: Die Kuppel geht alle 36-48 Stunden in einen "Standby"-Modus
+   fuer Wartung, Backups, etc.
+
+F: Ist der "Be seeing you" Salut eine Referenz zu "The Prisoner"?
+A: Ja, sehr anzunehmen. Er kam zum erstenmal in "Mind War" vor.
+
+F: Warum sieht man das Sternenfeld ausserhalb des C&C nicht rotieren?
+A: CGI ist dafuer zu teuer; es wird immer noch an einer vernuenftigen
+   Loesung gearbeitet.
+
+Aliens:
+
+F: Was hat es mit dem Haar der Centauri auf sich?
+A: Haar ist ein Masstab fuer den Status: je laenger desto hoeher der Status.
+   Frauen tragen eine Glatze.
+
+F: Was ist das Ding auf den Koepfen der Minbari?
+A: Es ist ein Knochen. Er waechst mit dem Alter und variiert zwischen
+   verschiedenen Leuten, Geschlecht und Kaste.
+
+F: Ist Bill Mumy (Lennier) derselbe Junge von _Lost in Space_?
+A: Ja. Nur viel aelter.
+
+F: Wie hat der Krieg zwischen der Erde und den Minbari angefangen?
+A: Ein Missverstaendnis beim ersten Kontakt.
+
+F: Was ist bekannt ueber die Vorlonen?
+A: Sehr wenig. Sie sind "einsiedlerisch" und verstecken vielleicht etwas
+   unter ihren Anzuegen. (Dies duerfte sich bis zum Ende der zweiten Staffel
+   halten.) Keine Expediton in ihr Territorium kam zurueck...
+
+F: Warum sieht man Aliens sich immer in English unterhalten?
+A: Wie in 2. Weltkrieg-Filmen nehme man an, sie unterhielten sich in ihrer
+   Muttersprache.
+
+
+Technologie:
+
+F: Wie funktionieren Jump Gates (dt: "Materialisierungspunkte")?
+A: Schiffe treten in einer Gate ein und verlassen den Hyperraum durch
+   eine andere. Grosse Schiffe sind in der Lage, eigene Jumppoints
+   zu erzeugen.
+
+F: Wie gross ist die Station und welche Kapazitaet besitzt sie?
+A: 5 Meilen lang (ca. 8 km), Aufnahme von 250.000 Wesen moeglich
+   (dabei sind die meisten auf "Durchreise").
+
+F: Wie funktionieren PPGs (Phased Plasma Guns)?
+A: Eine super-erhitzte Ladung von Plasma brennt sich durch die Luft.
+
+F: Wie funktioniert die Kommunikation zur Erde?
+A: Tachyonen, ermoeglichen sofortige Kommunikation; problematisch in Jumpgates.
+
+F. Wo in der Galaxis befindet sich Babylon 5?
+A: Ungefaehr 25 Lichtjahre entfernt von der Erde, in der Naehe eines bis
+   jetzt unentdeckten Sterns.
+
+F: Wieso hat C&C Schwerkraft?
+A: C&C befindet sich ungefaehr 1/3 weit zur Mitte, somit haben
+   sie also eine leichte Schwerkraft.
+
+F: Warum quoted JMS die Nachrichten nicht, wenn er diese beantwortet?
+A: Sein News->Mail-Gateway hat nicht die Technologie... Muss man mit leben! :)
+
+------------------------------
+
+Thema: 13. Verschiedene Infos
+
+========    a. Merchandising
+
+## More Details: ftp://ftp.hyperion.com/pub/Babylon-5/b5_jms_answers.txt
+
+Allmaehlich erscheinen  jetzt  Babylon  5  Produkte.   Licensing Company of
+America,  eine   Tochtergesellschaft   von   Warner   Bros.,   regelt   die
+Lizensierungen von Babylon 5 Produkten.
+
+Creation Entertainment hat T-Shirts und Photos erhaeltlich -- (818) 409-0960.
+Ebenso sollen sie ein paar B5 Jacken haben, die JMS als fesch bezeichnet.
+
+Die interaktive CD-ROM von Compton's ist ersteinmal eingestellt worden.
+
+Ein  Soundtrack von Christopher Franke, ca.  56 Minuten lang, ist jetzt via
+"mail  order"  oder  im  Fachhandel  erhaeltlich.   In  England  sollte  er
+verfuegbar sein, zumindest in den HMV-Laeden (Her Majesty's Voice).
+
+## Soundtrack/Franke information: mail Elana Beach <elana@netcom.com>
+## or, with WWW, go to http://www.sonicimages.com/b5/b5home.html
+## Track index: ftp://ftp.hyperion.com/pub/Babylon-5/soundtrack-index
+
+Es gibt bereits  oder  demnaechst  von  MicroGames  ein Ein-Hand-Spiel.  Es
+wurde nach Sinclair herausgebracht, wurde deswegen nicht promoted  (in  den
+USA).  Eine neue Version mit Sheridan wird produziert und demnaechst in den
+Laeden in den USA zu finden sein.
+
+Babylon 5 Galoob  Micro-Machines  sind  jetzt  in  weiten  Teilen  der  USA
+erschienen  und sollten bald erhaeltlich sein bei Toys R Us (oder Wal-Mart,
+K-Mart und Target).  Es gibt vier Sets bestehend aus drei Schiffen, pro Set
+ungefaehr fuenf bis sechs Dollar.
+
+Ein  B5  Screensaver von "Sound Source" ist in Arbeit und sollte im Sommer/
+Herbst '95 fertig sein.
+
+In England sollte Ende  Februar  foplgendes  Buch  erscheinen: "Babylon 5 -
+Behind the Scenes".  ISBN soll 0752208411 sein.  Es ist nicht  bekannt,  ob
+dieses Buch auch ausserhalb von England erhaeltlich sein wird.
+-> Im Moment ist der Erscheinungstermin auf den Herbst verschoben!
+
+T-Shirts  und  Caps  hergestellt  von  All-U,  wie es scheint in sehr guter
+Qualitaet, ist der Hit unter der  B5  Cast und Crew.  Telefonnr.  von All-U
+ist "1-800-424-2558, ext.  105".
+
+Verschieden  B5-Merchandise-Produkte  --  Micro  Machines,  CD, Shirts etc.
+koennen jetzt bestellt werden bei Uncomyn Gifts.
+E-Mail an: uncomyn@halcyon.com  oder ueber 
+WWW: http://www.halcyon.com/uncomyn/b5.html
+
+Babylon Trading Cards von "Fleer" muessten seit September erhaeltlich sein.
+
+Von Sendai wird es demnaechst ein voll-farb B5-Magazin geben.
+*
+A fan-produced <*> pin, depicting the "jumpgate" symbol used to  denote  B5
+fans  all over the Internet, is available for ordering.  Visit the web site
+http://www.teleport.com/~carter/pdx-b5/pin.shtml     for     pictures     &
+information.
+
+========    b. Babylon 5 online
+
+Da JMS schon seit Ende  1991  auf  GEnie  ueber  Babylon 5 redet, ist GEnie
+einer der besonderen Plaetze fuer einen Fan.  Auf dem GEnie Science-Fiction
+"RoundTable"  gibt  es  zwei   Babylon   5-Kategorien,   Produktions-   und
+Story-Infos, in denen JMS mit den Fans ueber die Show redet.
+
+Andere  Babylonier  koennen ebenfalls online gefunden werden -- John Vulich
+und Mojo sind schon im Usenet  gesichtet worden; Mira Furlan schaut sich im
+GEnie um und viele Schreiber wie David Gerrold, Peter David, John  Vornholt
+und Christy Marx sind ebenfalls im GEnie oder im CI$ anzutreffen.
+
+JMS  ist  sehr  aktiv  im  Usenet  (seit  Juli 1993).  Er liest die Usenet-
+Nachrichten ueber eine "News->Mail"-Gateway, sodass seine Nachrichten nicht
+geordnet  sind  und   oft   nicht   zusammen  mit  den  Originalnachrichten
+erscheinen, auf die er  antwortet.   Seine  Software  macht  es  schwierig,
+Meldungen  zu  quoten.   Wenn  also die Aussage seiner Nachricht nicht klar
+sein sollte, kann man mit dem Newsreader auch nach einem bestimmten Subject
+suchen lassen.
+
+JMS ist auch im BIX, Compuserve und verschiedene andere Systemen aktiv.  Er
+sieht auch in verschiedenen Systemen  nach,  in denen man nichts von seiner
+Praesenz  weiss.   Damit  moechte  er  ein  Gefuehl  dafuer  bekommen,  wie
+Diskussionen ohne ihm ablaufen.
+
+Was JMS von seinen online-Teilnahmen hat, beschreibt er als einen "sense of
+the  room."  Ein  Schreiber  zu  sein  beinhaltet  auch,  sich  mit  Fragen
+auseinander-  zusetzen,  um  die  Charaktere  und  die  Welt,  in  der  die
+Geschichte spielt,  zu  staerken.   Aber  niemand  kann  sich  jemals  alle
+moeglichen Fragen selber stellen.  Die Netze sind daher sehr hilfreich, da,
+wie JMS es sagt, "on the nets, you get questions you never *dreamed* of."
+
+Ein  Diskussionsthema,  welches des oefteren aufkommt, ist die Bitte, keine
+Story-Ideen  in  den  Online-Foren  zu  veroeffentlichen.   Sollte naemlich
+jemand eine Story posten, und JMS zufaelligerweise schon daran arbeiten, so
+waere JMS rechtlich anklagbar, wenn  der  Absender  den  Verdacht  auessern
+wuerde,  dass  seine  Idee geklaut waere.  Z.B.  kam es schon vor, dass JMS
+eine B-Handlung fallen lassen musste,  da jemand in einer Newsgroup gefragt
+hatte,  was  waere,  wenn  "What  if  Joe  wrote  a  story   in   which   a
+"memory-challenged" person DISCOVERED records of who he or she was?"
+
+Oft wurde schon vorgeschlagen, dass der Absender seine Idee mit dem Vermerk
+"Veroeffentlichung"  oder  "Verzichtserklaerung"  versehen  koennte.   Dies
+wurde  wieder und wieder diskutiert.  Aber alles laeuft darauf hinaus, dass
+die Moeglichkeit eines  moeglichen  Prozesses  gegen  die Produktion von B5
+nicht auftreten darf, da - egal  ob  leichtsinnig  oder  noch  nichtmal  zu
+gewinnen  -  die Produktion von B5 fuer die Dauer des Prozesses eingestellt
+werden muesste.  Fernsehproduzenten muessen  im allgemeinen einigen Aufwand
+betreiben, um sich zu schuetzen.  In diesem Falle  liegt  JMSs  Anwesenheit
+auf   den   Netzen  in  einer  delikaten  Balance.   Wenn  jemand  wirklich
+Story-Ideen vorschlagen will, so auf jeden Fall erst Punkt 17a durchlesen!
+
+Online Maerchen: auf dem Usenet  kursiert  ein Witz ueber Sinclairs "duck".
+Diese  Referenz  wurde  erfunden  aufgrund  von  dreisten  Postings   ueber
+maennlicher  und weiblicher Anatomie, welche dann zensiert wurden zu "T*TS"
+and "D*CK", und dann zu "tots"  und  "duck" wurden.  Es gibt ebenfalls Gags
+ueber Zima und Baseballschlaeger.  Besser nicht danach fragen...
+
+========    c. Einfluss von Fans auf die Show
+
+Der  Standpunkt  von  Babylon  5  ist  bei  Grid  Epsilon   470,18,22   der
+korrespondiert  mit  dem  Originalort der Babylon 5-Themen auf GEnie (Seite
+470, Kategorie 18, Thema 22).  Die erste Erwaehnung der Planetenkoordinaten
+in "Mind War" waren Grid Epsilon  471,18,25, welche sich auf einem Thema im
+GEnie bezogen.
+
+Aufgrund von Reaktionen von Fans, die den Pilofilm sahen oder Clips, wurden
+vor der Ausstrahlung noch Aenderungen am Pilotfilm vorgenommen.  Die Stimme
+von Delenn ist die von Mira Furlan ohne irgendeine Veraenderung und  Delenn
+ist  von anfang an weiblich.  Zuerst war geplant die Stimme elektronisch zu
+ver- aendern und Delenns Geschlecht im  Laufe der Serie wechseln zu lassen.
+Einige   zusaetzliche   Nachvertonungen   wurden   von   Patricia   Tallman
+vorgenommen, um eine Szene mit Kosh im Medlab zu klaeren.
+
+Die  Brandmarkung  einer  Minbari in "The War Prayer", die Aehnlichkeit mit
+einer Folge von DS9 hatte, wurde behalten nach Feedback von Fans.  Es wurde
+ueberlegt, die Szene herauszunehmen  und  das Brandmal elektronisch aus dem
+Rest der Episode zu entfernen.
+
+Als vorgeschlagene Namen fuer eine riesige  Firma  und  einem  Mineral  aus
+rechtlichen  Gruenden abgelehnt wurden, fragte JMS in einer GEnie Kategorie
+um Hilfe.  Die resultierenden Namen  waren Quantium-40 fuer das Mineral und
+Universal  Terraform  fuer  die  Firma.   Q-40  wird  in  den  Folgen  "The
+Parliament Of Dreams" und "Mind War", Universal  Terraform  in  "Mind  War"
+erwaehnt.   Der  Kellner,  der in "Parliament" genannt wird, ist nach David
+Strauss benannt, der Q-40 vorgeschlagen hatte.
+
+Die Einwohner von "Downbelow"  werden  "Lurkers" (Rumlungerer) genannt, ein
+Begriff fuer diejenigen, die die Newsgroup nur lesen und nie posten.
+
+JMS hat  nach  Reaktionen  von  Zuschauern  das  Verschwinden  von  N'Grath
+veranlasst.
+
+Aufgrund  von Interesse in rechtlichen Sachen des Psi Corp wurden bestimmte
+Sachen in "The Quality Of Mercy" eingebaut.
+
+Ein  EA-Schiff  in  "A  Voice  In  The  Wilderness"  heisst  "Hyperion"  in
+Anerkennung der Babylon 5-FTP-Site bei ftp.hyperion.com.
+
+========    d. Auszeichnungen
+
+Sept. 1993  - Emmy Award fuer Special Visual Effects fuer den Pilotfilm
+Maerz 1994  - Space Frontier Foundation award fuer 
+              "Best Vision of the Future"
+Sept. 1994  - Emmy award winner fuer Makeup in "The Parliament of Dreams"
+?           - Cult TV Award fuer die beste neue Serie, GB
+?           - Jewish Televimage Award
+Juli  1995  - Emmy Nominierungen: Cinematography, Hairstyling, Make-up
+
+========    e. Babylon 5 Referenzen in anderen JMS Arbeiten
+
+In der Captain Power Episode "Final  Stand", erwaehnt Tank, dass er von der
+"Babylon 5 Genetic Engineering Colony" sei.
+
+In  der  JMS  Kurzgeschichte  "Othersyde"  wird  Babylon  5  als  eine  der
+Lieblingsserien eines der Charaktere erwaehnt.
+
+In der Captain Power Episode "A Summoning Of Thunder Part 2", als Hawk  den
+ersten  Kraft-Anzug  aktiviert, sagt Mentor "And So It Begins".  Dies wurde
+von JMS als eine Art "Kosh'ismus" eingeworfen.
+
+========    f. verschiedene Produktions-Infos
+
+Babylon  5  wird   im   Format   16:9   gefilmt,   fuers  Fernsehen  wieder
+umkonvertiert.  Es ist geplant, die  Episoden  spaeter  in  Widescreen  auf
+Laserdiscs  zu  veroeffentlichen,  alsauch  sobald  HDTV  aktuell ist.  Die
+Anfangstitel sind im Letterbox-Format.
+
+Der Ton wird in vollem  Surround Sound abgemischt.  Larry DiTillio schreibt
+die Hintergrunddialoge (das sog.  "walla").
+
+Das Alien-Makeup und solches fuer die Serie wird erstellt von  Optic  Nerve
+Studios  (Everett  Burrell  und  John  Vulich),  welches eine Aenderung zum
+Pilotfilm darstellt.
+
+Die fruehen Episoden hatten ein paar Bild- und Tonabweichungen aufgrund der
+Art und Weise, wie  Werbungen,  "closed  captioning" und aehnliches mittels
+analoger Ausstattung und  -Baendern  hinzugefuegt  wurden.   Einige  wurden
+korrogiert  mit  "The  War Prayer" mit mehreren Verbesserungen im Laufe der
+Zeit.
+
+Zwei  "Fehler"   wurden   ausgestrahlt   und   spaeter   berichtigt.    Die
+Originalversion  von  "Mind  War"  hatte einen CGI-Fehler (man konnte einen
+Stern durch ein Raumschiff sehen).  Die Originaluebertragung ueber Satellit
+von "Chrysalis"  war  unkorrekt  geschnitten;  manche  Sender  senden diese
+Version.
+
+========    g. Produktions- gegen Ausstrahlungsreihenfolge
+
+Die Produktion von Folgen  startete  weit  vor der Ausstrahlung, sodass die
+Ausstrahlungsreihenfolge   aufgrund   von   Produzenten-   und    Netzwerk-
+Entscheidungen  geaendert  werden  konnte.   Dies erlaubte es, zusaetzliche
+Zeit fuer Post- Production  und  Kosten  zu  verringern.  Der Grossteil der
+ersten Haelfte der  zweiten  Staffel  wurde  in  der  gleichen  Reihenfolge
+produziert wie sie auch ausgestrahlt wurden.
+
+========    h. Aenderungen
+
+----> zwischen dem Pilotfilm und der ersten Saison:
+
+Aufgrund  von  Aenderungen ("reworking"?) und Re-Casting nach dem Pilotfilm
+wurden Lt.  Cmdr.  Laurel Takashima,  Dr.  Benjamin Kyle und die Telepathin
+Lyta Alexander ausgewechselt.  Kyle und Alexander wurden  auf  mysterioesen
+Umstaenden  zur  Erde  zurueckgeschickt;  Takashima  ist auf einer geheimen
+Mission   und   wird   vielleicht   spaeter   zurueckkehren.    Viele   der
+Hintergrundgeschichten der ausgetauschten Charaktere  wurden fuer die neuen
+Charaktere uebertragen.
+
+Make-Up fuer G'Kar wurde verbessert und Delenns Aussehen wurde  grundlegend
+modifiziert, da der Charakter jetzt definitiv weiblich sein sollte.
+
+----> zwischen erster und zweiter Saison:
+
+Regisseur Richard Compton verliess die Show nach "Grail".
+
+Die  Erzaehl-  und Haupttitel (Vorspann) wurde gekuerzt, um neue Charaktere
+mit Bildern vorzustellen.
+
+Viele Verbesserungen an Kostuemen,  Make-Up,  Belichtung und FX wurden fuer
+die zweite Saison hinzugefuegt.  Viele neue Sets kamen dazu,  incl.   einem
+Basaar  und  einer  Offiziersmesse  genannt "Earhart's", nach dem bekannten
+Flieger.
+
+Um die Story ein bischen  voranzutreiben  wurde der Charakter des Commander
+Sinclair "vom Schachbrett" genommen am Anfang der  zweiten  Staffel.   Dies
+war   eine   gegenseitige,   freundschaftliche  Entscheidung  zwischen  den
+Produzenten und Michael O'Hare.  Sinclair  wird trotzdem noch eine wichtige
+Rolle in der Show spielen und zwischendurch zu sehen sein...
+
+## mehr Informationen:   ftp://ftp.hyperion.com/pub/Babylon-5/OHare.Leave
+
+Lt.  Cmdr.  Ivanova wurde zum Commander befoerdert; Delenn durchmachte eine
+physikalische Aenderung durch.  Na'Toth wurde neu besetzt und der Charakter
+des Warren Keffer kam hinzu.
+
+----> zwischen zweiter und dritter Saison:
+
+Zusaetzliche Sets werden benutzt,  u.a.   einem  ziemlich grossem Set.  Die
+Anfangserzaehlung wird folgendermasse lauten:
+  "The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace.
+   It failed.  But, in the Year of the Shadow War, 
+   it became something greater:
+   our last, best hope for...victory.  
+   The year is 2260.  The place: Babylon 5."
+
+----> Eine Liste von Folgen, die online erwaehnt aber umbenannt wurden:
+
+  "Blood and Thunder"       -->  "Midnight on the Firing Line"
+  "Amaranth"                -->  "Born to the Purple"
+  "Carnival!"               -->  "The Parliament of Dreams"
+  "A Knife in the Shadows"  -->  "Survivors"
+  "Backlash"                -->  "By Any Means Necessary"
+  "Raiding Party"           -->  "Signs and Portents"
+  "The Resurrectionist"     -->  "The Quality of Mercy"
+  "Chrysalis, Part II"      -->  "Points of Departure"
+  "A Trick of the Mind"     -->  "A Spider in the Web"
+  "Pestilence, Famine & Death">  "Soul Mates"
+
+> Skipte nicht verwendet in Saison 1:
+
+  "Target Unknown" und "Metaphors and Body Counts" (David Gerrold)
+
+> Harlan Ellisons Geschichten sind nicht fertig aufgrund  von  Gesundheits-
+  problemen  und  Verletzungen  vom L.A.  Erdbeben '94.  Inoffizielle Titel
+  sind "Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral" und "Demon on the Run"
+
+> Saison 2 Skripte fallengelassen (um den Bogen "zu spannen"):
+
+  All Our Songs Forgotten, a.k.a. "Unnatural Selction" (D.C. Fontana),
+  The Very Long Night of Susan Ivanova (JMS), "Expectations" (David Gerold)
+
+========    i. Fan Clubs
+
+Ein offizieller  Babylon  5-Fanclub  sollte  in  den  USA bald angekuendigt
+werden.  Aber es gibt ein paar internationale Fan-Clubs,  ebenso  Fan-Clubs
+von bestimmten Schauspielern:
+
+Friends of Michael O'Hare, P.O. Box 6541, Edgemere, MD  21219
+
+GB: B5 UK Fan Club, inoffiziell, aber abgesegnet von JMS.  #12.50 pro  Jahr
+GB;  #22/2  Jahre  UK;  +  50%  Uebersee,  zahlbar an "Questing Beast Ltd."
+Babylon Five UK Fan Club, PO Box 1147, London W3 7ZT.
+
+Garibaldi & Company, 12865 NE 85th St., Suite 267, Kirkland, WA  98033
+e-mail: Flashdanze@aol.com.  Also, there's the Jerry Doyle Media Group;
+contact Linda K. Shapley <flashdanze@aol.com> for information.
+
+Richard Biggs Fan Club, c/o Shirley Didemoico, 1133 Uptegraf Street,
+Pittsburgh, PA 15218
+
+Bruce Boxleitner's Official Fan Club, P.O. Box 57593, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
+Bruce Boxleitner Fan Club, c/o Darla Vasilias, 230 Deerfield Dr. Alexandria,
+VA 22309
+
+Australien: Dort gibt es ZWEi Fanclubs in Konkurrenz. Die Informationen zu
+            beiden sind hier zu finden.
+The Babylon 5 Oz Fan Club, PO Box 161, Adamstown NSW 2289.
+  AUD$20/year, AUD$35/2 years.  (genehmigt von Network 7.)  
+  Contact Aaron Brockbank <shadow@scorch.hna.com.au> fuer Informationen 
+  oder besuche http://www.ozemail.com.au/~bab5oz/bab5oz.html 
+Australian Babylon 5 Fan Club, PO Box 41, West Brunswick, Vic 3055. $10/
+Single, $12/Familie pro jahr; E-Mail glen.tilley@secv.telememo.au fuer Infos
+
+DEUTSCHLAND:
+  Journey to Babylon
+  Nachricht an  Katja Mallok
+                Heuduckstrasse 67
+                D-66117 Saarbruecken
+  32 DM/Jahr; mehr fuers Ausland
+
+------------------------------
+
+Thema: 14. Wo kann man online-Infos finden?
+
+========    a. INTERNET
+
+WORLD   gehe zu URL: http://www.hyperion.com/lurk/lurker.html
+WIDE    HINWEIS: Manche dieser Seiten beinhalten *VIELE* Bilder!
+WEB     Dies ist die beste Moeglichkeit, um B5-Information zu bekommen.
+        (um WWW via e-mail: sende Nachricht "WWW" an agora@mail.w3.org)
+
+USENET  rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5
+        Diese Gruppe wurde Ende Maerz '94 erschaffen und ist jetzt die
+        hauptsaechliche Babylon 5-Newsgroup. Ueber eine Mail-Gateway nimmt
+        JMS an der Gruppe teil.
+        SEHR  WICHTIG:  Bitte  *KEINE*  Story-Ideen  posten  (aus  rechtlichen
+        Gruenden)
+
+        alt.tv.babylon-5
+        Die originale Usenet-B5group, erstellt Feb. 1993. Immer noch online.
+
+        uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5 und aus.sf.babylon5 sind GB und Aussie-Gruppen
+
+        rec.video.satellite, rec.arts.tv, und rec.arts.sf.tv enthalten manch-
+        mal ebenfals Babylon 5 Diskussionen und Ankuendigungen.
+
+FTP     ftp.hyperion.com (192.65.216.1) ist die offizielle Site von der 
+        Babylon 5-bezogen Dateien via anonymous FTP bezogen werden koennen.
+        B5 Sounds sind auf der Agamemnon FTP site, 
+        NORTH AMERICAN MIRROR: ftp.uml.edu
+        AUSTRALIAN MIRROR:     econ-www.newcastle.edu.au
+        EUROPEAN MIRROR:       ftp.ctrl-c.liu.se
+        
+		Ueber FTP koennen folgende Infos abgerufen werden: JMS  Posting-
+		Archive, GIF/JPG-Bilder, Episoden-Zusammenfassungen und -fuehrer,
+		interaktive Demos, Analysen, Enzyclopaedie, TV Stationsliste,
+		Cast u. Charakterliste.
+        B5 Sounds sind auf:  Agamemnon, 
+        ftp://archive.egr.msu.edu/pub/babylon5  oder
+        ftp://archive.egr.msu.edu/pub/babylon5/b5.htm via WWW 
+
+REVIEW  The Babylon 5 Reviews Electronic Forum, moderiert von Michael S.Shappe
+LIST    und Shelley L. Stuart,  zurueck nach einer kurzen Pause
+        Zum abonnieren eine E-Mail an den automatischen List Server,
+            LISTSERV@cornell.edu.
+        ein *einzige* Zeile im BODY der Nachricht sollte lauten:
+        SUBSCRIBE B5-REVIEW-L Firstname Lastname
+        Da maschinell verarbeitet, keine Signature verwenden!
+
+STORY   eine Moeglichkeit fuer kreative "fan fiction" wurde ueber mailing list
+IDEAS   erstellt, um JMS von Story Ideen fernzuhalten. Wie oben, 
+LIST    E-mail an listserv@netcom.com.  Im BODY, folgende ZWEI Zeilen:
+           subscribe babylon5-creative
+           end
+        Anmeldung fuer eine auswahlartige Liste: sende Mail an
+        babylon5-creative-owner@netcom.com mit dem Subject: SUBSCRIBE DIGEST
+
+INTERNET ein woechentl. Chat im IRC space, auf #babylon5, immer samstags um
+RELAY   7 PM Eastern (23:00 GMT), diskutierend die letzte B5 Episode etc.
+CHAT    Info ueber IRC: ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/usenet/news.answers/irc-faq
+
+MUD     Es gibt ein B5 MUD (info: rmeikle@cs.strath.ac.uk ) erreichbar bei:
+        telnet underworld.demon.co.uk 2010
+        visit babylonfive
+
+LOCAL   A UK B5 newsletter is in operation called 'The Babylonian Times'.  To
+AREA    subscribe, email mdb@le.ac.uk with the following text in your subject:
+LISTS      SUBSCRIBE B5 NEWSLETTER
+
+*
+JMS     Um Mails mit JMS's Antworten vom Usenet (und deren eigentlichen
+RELAY   Fragen) alsauch eine Sammlung von CI$ JMS Postings, schickt eine
+LIST    E-Mail an majordomo@majordomo.cs.columbia.edu mit Inhalt
+        "subscribe b5jms"
+
+OTHER   Babylon 5--Online ist eine 1200+ Mitglieder B5 E-Mail-Liste-Club via
+LISTS   E-Mail. Sendet Euren Vornamen, wo Du diese Info gefunden hast, Deine
+        Stadt und Dein Land (Wohnort) an katana@indirect.com.
+
+========    b. GEnie
+
+Die beiden Babylon 5-Themen  sind  zu  finden  auf  Seite 471, Kategorie 18
+(allg.  serienbezogen) und  19  (Episoden-spezifisch).   Zusammenstellungen
+der  vergangenen  Meldungen  sind  erhaeltlich  im GEnie SFRT-Dateibereich,
+zusammen mit Graphic-Dateien und interaktiven Demos.
+
+========    c. America Online
+
+Von Zeit zu Zeit find auf AOL im OMNI & DC-Online-Bereich Interviews statt.
+Das TV Newsmagazin EXTRA hatte ebenfalls schon B5-Ereignisse und hat einige
+B5-Dateien im Angebot.  AOL-Benutzer koennen ebenso zur Newsgroup bekommen.
+
+========    d. CompuServe
+
+JMS besucht  ebenso  CompuServe,  in  dem  es  neben  einer aktiven Babylon
+5-Sektion (moderiert von Lee Whiteside) auch  noch  Bibliotheken  gibt  und
+woechentliche B5-Konferenzen.
+
+========    e. Andere 
+
+BIX  wird ebenso von JMS besucht wie auch andere Netzwerke.  Es gibt aktive
+B5 Sektionen auf  vielen  anderen  Netzwerken  und  Mailboxen in der ganzen
+Welt.  Babylon 5 Graphik- und  Infodateien,  weitergeleitete  JMS  postings
+sind  auf  vielen von diesen erhaeltlich.  Wenn Du eine lokale Mailbox oder
+Netzwerk betreibst, ist es gestattet, dass Du Resourcen von der FTP-Site in
+Deinem System zur Verfuegung stellst!
+
+------------------------------
+
+Thema: 15. Dankeschoen und Rechtliches
+
+Es steht jedem frei, diese deutsche FAQ in unabgeaenderter Form online
+zu verbreiten.
+
+     Das Copyright der deutschen Babylon 5 FAQ-Liste liegt 1995 bei 
+      Shadowhunter a.k.a Tobias Teschner (teschne@uni-muenster.de)
+       
+Dem Autor dieser FAQ liegt das ausdrueckliche Erlaubnis von Dan Wood vor,
+die englischsprachige FAQ,  die er gerade verwaltet,  zu uebersetzen  und
+gegebenenfalls abzuaendern.
+
+Verbesserungsvorschlaege, Ergaenzungen und (positive) Meinungen :)
+bitte an obige Adresse!
+
+------------------------
+vom Original:
+
+  Feel free to distribute this text file online.
+
+  The Babylon 5 Frequently Asked Questions List is Copyright 1995 by Lee
+  Whiteside and Dan Wood.  Acknowledgement is made to excerpted contributions
+  from the Babylon 5 online libraries.
+
+  Some of the information contained in this FAQ list is based on posts by J.
+  Michael Straczynski in the GEnie, Usenet, and Compuserve Babylon 5 areas.
+
+  Currently maintained by Dan Wood (danwood@pobox.com)
+  (Please send comments, corrections, etc. to the above address.)
+
+  Originally compiled by Lee Whiteside (leew@indirect.com; 76044,502 on CIS)
+  Fine-Tooth-Comb edited by David Henderson, Troy Rutter, Charles Gousha
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+                     BABYLON 5 - GRID EPSILON LOG
+
+                            REVISION ONE
+
+A guide to the characters and to the history of the station itself, as
+extracted from the GEnie posts of its creator, J. Michael Straczynski,
+with his permission.  This file is copyright 1992 by J. Michael Straczynski,
+Phil Posner, and compilation copyright by GEnie.
+
+(Editor's note: I have made an effort to change as little as possible the
+contents and context of JMS's messages.  The only changes made were 
+organizational in nature, trying to find a logical place for each piece of
+information. 
+
+By no means do I consider this complete. As JMS's posts continue to
+fascinate us here in 470/18/22 on GEnie, I fully expect that further
+relevant information will be appended, if not by me, then by others.)
+
+(Editor's note to Revision One - I have added to this file the
+announcements of cast and creative staff from JMS' posts at 470/18/22. 
+Also new is the explanation of `jump points', added to the first section.
+At this time the filming of the pilot episode, "The Gathering", has just
+been completed, on time and on budget.  We are all looking forward to its
+premiere in February 1993.)
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+If STAR TREK was "Wagon Train to the Stars," then BABYLON 5 is Casablanca
+in space.
+
+BABYLON 5 - THE STATION
+
+BABYLON 5 is a space station in neutral space more or less central to all
+five of the different alliances, human or alien. To get to one or the
+other, you have to pass through this sector of space. Thus, Babylon 5 has
+been created as a sort of port-of-call for travellers, statesmen,
+emissaries, traders, refugees and other, less savory characters.
+
+Ten kilometers long and four kilometers wide, Babylon 5 is divided into
+separate, discreet sections that rotate at differing speeds to provide
+different gravities to accommodate those who come to the station. 
+
+The station boasts living quarters, customs areas, docking bays, meeting
+areas, a casino, several bars/nightclubs, command and control domes fore
+and aft, a bazaar and a decent defensive grid. In addition, each of the
+various federations has one official representative aboard the station 
+(with the station's commander representing the Earth Alliance), so that it
+also functions as a sort of mini-U.N.
+
+It is home to humans and aliens in various roles, some arriving or
+departing every day, others working there full-time. They live on the very
+edge of the frontier, in the sense that if they get into trouble, there's
+no one who can arrive in time to help them. Because of the nature of the
+travellers, they bring their stories with them to Babylon 5 rather than
+having to seek them out. The stories are of people in flight, seeking
+sanctuary; stories of smugglers, assassins, traders, mappers, dignitaries
+and others, all on urgent missions of one sort or another.
+
+It is humanity's last hope for peace, a single hope in the middle of an
+uneasy, fragile peace.
+
+And it *is* fragile, and dangerous. It is called BABYLON 5 because the
+first three efforts to build the station were sabotaged and destroyed. The
+fourth one disappeared without a trace 24 hours after becoming operational.
+No one knows what happened to it. All of which makes those involved with #5
+just a trifle uneasy.
+
+And *that*...is only the beginning of our story.
+
+As for locations inside B-5...we've designed a number of very different
+looks and locations to give it a non-claustrophobic feel. By virtue of
+being patterned physically after the work of such scientists as Gerard K.
+O'Neil, the absolute center of the elongated station (which revolves to
+provide gravity) is a sort of hollow-world look, with fields and hydroponic
+gardens along the 360-degree circular section (which is about a half-mile,
+or a mile across)...and as you get closer to the absolute center, where a
+transport tube cuts from one end of the station to the other, naturally you
+get less and less gravity until you can literally hang suspended.  This
+area is known as the Garden.
+
+And there are living areas designed to accommodate different environments
+and atmospheres and conditions. The alien sectors are off-limits to humans
+without protection (breathing gear and other measures). Similarly, a heavy
+CO2 breather or methane breather would have to wear an encounter suit to
+travel among the humans on the station. In addition, the B-5 station is
+actually made up of several independent (though connected) sections, each
+revolving at a different speed in order to create alternative areas of
+gravity.
+
+Finally, on sets and the "look" of the place...again, there will be a mix. 
+Parts of the station are still under construction, and parts are finished.
+Some sections are in daylight, some in night, alternating by level and
+sector. On the very outer ring, the viewports are in panels ON THE FLOOR,
+so you're looking down and out into space, revolving beneath your feet.
+Some places will be beautifully finished and neat, and other areas will be
+very rough and in-the-works.  (Remember, B5 only recently went operational,
+and thus there are still some parts being constructed.) 
+ 
+In talking with our production designer, John Iacovelli, the one term he 
+kept using, over and over, was "travelogue."  We should get a real sense in
+this show of a world turned inside out...with varying textures, lighting, 
+angles, and a mix of looks.  There will *not* be a  homogeneous look to
+this place, if I or Iacovelli have anything to say about it.  You can walk
+from the carefully and neatly appointed Council Chamber room, to the high-
+tech control room, to a section of the station under construction and
+exposing beams and wires, to the dark and noire-looking nightclub, to  the
+Garden, to.... 
+ 
+You get the idea. 
+
+Located quite some distance away from B5 (a safe distance in case something
+goes wrong) is the jump point, which is a device which creates an "exit-
+point" from hyperspace.  It's tremendously powerful, allowing smaller ships
+to use the system without lugging around the massive amount of equipment
+and power sources to burst back in.
+
+The area itself is several miles across.  You go into one at point A, and
+emerge at point B.  Big ships -- BIG ships -- can create their own
+entrances and exits (which explains how the gates or jump points got
+somewhere), and they construct the gates as exploration continues, leaving
+gates the way you'd leave bread crumbs.
+
+At least, that's the theory.
+
+BTW...the Babylon 5 station isn't just floating there. It's at the L-5
+point in a binary star system between a moon and a barren, lifeless planet.
+
+Well, a *theoretically* barren and lifeless planet, anyway....
+
+But that's Year Two.  The sun and planet have been named Tigris and
+Euphrates.  The sector of space in which B5 is located is designated Grid
+Epsilon, at coordinates 470/18/22.
+
+
+THE BACKSTORY
+
+The date: 2257 A.D.
+
+We have gone to the stars, and found that we are not alone. We have moved
+quickly out, establishing relations with other civilizations that have let
+us leapfrog technologies via an information and cultural exchange with at
+least one other culture. Many contacts have been friendly. Some have not
+been quite so benign.
+
+THE EARTH/MINBARI WAR
+
+In 2245 or thereabouts, the Earth Alliance made First Contact with a race
+known as the Minbari.  They were, at that time, only the second major
+civilization we'd encountered, though we had certainly come across a number
+of non-aligned worlds and smaller governments, one or two worlds each. The
+Minbari represent a *major* force on every level, resources, technology,
+sheer number of worlds involved, on and on.
+
+The Minbari are the oldest of the different alien civilizations, and
+largely kept to themselves. Their interests were (and are) in attaining
+perfection: physical, mental, spiritual, emotional. They answer to a
+Council of Elders, whose pronouncements are considered law in an almost
+biblical sense. Though deeply religious in their way, they have also
+pursued the ways of technology, and as such they are easily the most
+advanced of the various alliances. But they view technology as transitory,
+a means to an end rather than an end in itself. Like Tom Bombadil in LORD
+OF THE RINGS, they can hold the Ring of Technology but it has no hold over
+them. 
+
+The Earth/Minbari war began as a misunderstanding. The first time a Terran
+ship encountered a Minbari starship, they studied each other closely. The
+Minbari ship made a move that they thought would be considered non-
+threatening. It wasn't. Even in the present of our story, no one is quite
+sure who fired first. The Minbari ship was greater in power, but taken by
+surprise, was destroyed, and the Earth ship limped back to base with tales
+of a terrible new enemy. Minbari ships, arriving to investigate, were
+interpreted to be the first wing of an invasion force by the base
+commander, and ships were launched in response before receiving formal
+authorization from Earth Central.
+
+The war put a great strain on the Minbari, who have always been strongly
+divided between the religious caste, and the military caste, who were now
+forced to work together. The religious caste were quietly opposed to the
+war, but were generally vague about their reasons when asked.
+
+The climax of the war was the Battle of the Line. Earth had all but lost
+the war. In a last-ditch attempt to save Homeworld, every available ship
+left in the armada was positioned around Earth itself. It was, everyone
+knew, a suicide mission. And that's, indeed, how the Battle of the Line
+started out to be.
+
+In the course of that battle, a lone ship -- a one-man fighter with very
+little in the way of armaments -- took several heavy hits.  His instruments
+failing, other ships blowing up all around him, he aimed his ship at the
+nearest Minbari cruiser, deciding to ram it in the hopes of destroying at
+least that one ship. He kept his ship on course for as long as he could
+hold out. Then, abruptly, he blacked out.
+When he awoke, he was still in his ship. Drifting. He fired up the engines,
+ready to continue, only to discover two things: first, that he had been out
+of it for a full 24 hours.  When he lost consciousness, he had 16 hours of
+oxygen left in his ship.  When he awoke 24 hours later...he had 12 hours of
+oxygen left in his ship.
+
+Second...the war was over. 
+
+And, incredibly, the Minbari had surrendered. On the very verge of success
+in the war, they had rolled over and sued for peace. No one in the Earth
+Alliance quite knew why, but they weren't about to debate the issue, and
+accepted minimal compensation for the war. The end of the war came with
+rumors of a major split between the military and the religious castes.
+
+Now, ten years later, the Earth Alliance is no closer to figuring out why
+the Minbari surrendered. It is, in fact, one of the great puzzles of that
+era, debated on a hundred different worlds. Only a few strange clues have
+slipped out. One is that the military genius who led the Minbari into the
+war committed suicide the day of the surrender, though it is unclear if his
+death took place before or after the surrender. And the rift between the
+military and religious castes apparently came to some sort of climax, with
+the religious caste taking complete control.  There are rumors of some sort
+of religious vision, of a prophecy of great things, and a prophecy of
+complete doom. But since almost nothing is known of Minbari religion, what
+this might be, no one knows. There are also rumors that the military caste
+has created a secret group of warriors dedicated to destroying the peace
+and reviving the war.
+
+At the conclusion of the war, those Terrans who fought in the Battle of the
+Line were proclaimed heroes. One of these men was Captain Jeffrey
+Sinclair...the pilot who still cannot account for the 24 hours he was out
+of contact with Earth Central.  It is this same Sinclair, now ranked as a
+Commander, who is now in charge of Babylon 5.
+
+As for the earth/minbari war, its repercussions will still be felt 
+throughout the show, and in time will form a major plot point.  There are
+also some deep resentments remaining on both sides that we'll have to deal
+with. The secret behind the Minbari surrender will gradually become clear,
+and will play a major role in our story.  It will affect each of our main
+characters in a deeply profound way.
+
+In the interim, as we begin our story, there is an uneasy peace between the
+Earth Alliance and the four other alien governments. To help cement that
+peace, the EA has constructed BABYLON 5.
+
+THE EARTH ALLIANCE
+
+The Earth Alliance is a fairly new force among the various powers that
+populate our show.  It is structured more or less along the lines of the 
+Commonwealth of Independent States: there is one monolithic voice that 
+speaks in terms of foreign policy, warfare, star travel, but within the
+framework of everything else -- domestic policy, economics and the like --
+the independent state makes its own rules.
+
+There are also a number of splinter groups in the world (or the universe, I
+suppose) of B-5. There are individuals who claim residency in no particular
+group or government, they're free-traders of the purest sort.
+
+There are colonies and fringe areas that consider themselves by and
+large to be independent. And, from time to time, there will be sparks of
+secession and the like. I've never much liked the Gleaming Steel Of A
+Perfect Federation approach; I like things a little more tentative, less
+sure. And for that matter, even WITHIN the E.A., there are factions and
+problems and power struggles and the like. Wheels within wheels.
+
+
+THE CHARACTERS
+
+COMMANDER JEFFREY SINCLAIR 
+
+Commander Jeffrey Sinclair has come far in the 10 years since the war. He's
+had some rough times, but overall he's progressed. And he has at last been
+given a major assignment, perhaps the most important job of his life,
+concomitant with his promotion to Commander.
+
+Jeffrey Sinclair is the Commander in charge of the Babylon 5 space station.
+
+Although all parties agreed that the station (and its predecessors,
+Babylons 1 through 4) was always intended as a sort of mini-U.N. as well as
+a free-port,  with an Ambassador from each different alien alliance
+present, the Minbari refused to name an ambassador until the station
+commander was named first.
+
+Shortly after Sinclair was named Commander, the Minbari assigned their
+first ambassador to the station.  Sinclair, a hero of the Line, carries
+with him a lot of emotional and psychological baggage from that war.  He's
+not happy with the term "war hero," since he saw what really happened on
+the Line, and knows it wasn't their combined bravery that drove off the
+Minbari. He feels deeply responsible for the deaths of his strike team on
+the Line, and is bothered by his inability to recall what happened during
+the 24 hours he was out of commission during the war.
+
+He's in his late thirties, good looking, but curiously haunted.
+
+The role of Commander Jeffrey Sinclair.  The actor cast in that role is
+Michael O'Hare, who we discovered while casting out of New  York, and who
+we have flown out to L.A. for this role.  He's a classically trained actor,
+a graduate of Juliard, who just knocked us out when he came in to audition. 
+He has a tremendous presence, and a voice vaguely reminiscent of Clint
+Eastwood at times.  His face has a curiously haunted look, but at the same
+time is (I'm told by the women who go "yum" whenever he enters the room)
+quite appealing.  
+
+Michael has appeared in such films as "By a Thread," "Short Term Bonds,"
+"Into Thin Air," "Pursuit," "The Promise," and others, as well as on
+television in "Blue Revolution," "Case of Deadly Force," "Rage of Angels,"
+"The Adams Chronicles," and in such episodic television shows as "The
+Equalizer," "L.A. Law," "Kate and Allie" and others.
+
+He is also a VERY accomplished stage actor, having appeared on Broadway to
+tremendous reviews in "A Few Good Men," "Players," "Man and Superman" and
+"Galileo," among many, many others.
+
+The one thing we did NOT want, which we knew from the start, was one more
+pretty-boy TV actor...we wanted someone with character in his face, with a
+broad dramatic range.  And we got all of it in Michael O'Hare.
+
+
+DELENN - THE MINBARI AMBASSADOR
+
+His name is Delenn. And he stays very close to Commander Sinclair.
+
+Some say he is keeping a close eye on Sinclair.
+
+Some say he is Sinclair's friend. And some say there may well be something
+very lethal behind those unreadable Minbari eyes.
+
+But then, there are many others, including a shadow-group in the Earth
+Alliance, who would very much like to know what happened during the 24
+hours that disappeared from Commander Sinclair's life.
+
+Delenn is of a somewhat philosophical bent, but he takes great pleasure in
+his emotions.  He is tall, slender, elegant, with obsidian-black eyes and
+an amazing strength that belies his appearance.
+
+A small joke in the script finds Delenn sitting quietly in the
+Garden, and someone asks him about it.  He'd thought that Sinclair had
+named it after the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, which he's read about...but
+it seems Sinclair named it after some other garden...a Square Garden of
+Madison, or something like that...and he's trying to find the cultural
+references and figure it out...probably thinks it's something to do with
+mythology....he only finds it a curious reference since this garden is
+*round*.
+
+The performer who will play Ambassador Delenn is Mira Furlan, whose work is
+extremely well known in Europe.  A native Yuglosavian who has appeared in
+such highly regarded films as "When Father Was Away On Business" (which
+received the Palme D'Or at Cannes, as well as an Oscar nomination), "Three
+For Happiness" (which took the Grand Prix at the Valencia Film Festival),
+"Dear Video", "Southbound," "The Condemned," "The Beauty of Sin," and
+nearly a dozen others, ALL of them starring roles.  There have also been
+starring roles in major European productions and half a dozen major film
+awards.  BABYLON 5 will be Mira Furlan's entry into American television.
+
+Ideally, what you want to do when you create an alien character is to go
+for a look that's, well, *alien*, something that's not quite right about
+it.  You can do this from the outside in, with really weird makeup, or from
+the inside out.  We have some of the former, and Delenn is one of the
+latter.
+
+What we have, basically, is a female actor playing a male character. Women
+simply *move* differently than men do; the gestures, the tilt of the head,
+the smile, it's just a shade different.  So you now take that, and wrap it
+inside a male character, aided by prosthetics to make the face and body
+more masculine.  Now, when you look at the finished product, you are
+looking at a male, but there's something wrong about it somewhere, and it
+makes you a little uncertain.  The first time I saw Mira in full makeup, it
+looked great.  And there was something very unusual about it, that sense
+that your eyes and your brain are in conflict somewhere about what you're
+seeing.
+
+That was a decision made early on, and that's what's different about
+Delenn.
+
+
+VICE-COMMANDER LAUREL TAKASHIMA.
+
+As stated, Commander Jeffrey Sinclair is the titular head of BABYLON 5. His
+concerns, though, tend to be more broad in scope...acting as the informal
+representative of the Earth Alliance, dealing with questions of policy and
+procedure, and keeping an eye on the Ambassadors.
+
+As a result, the day-to-day operations of the station are handled by Vice-
+Commander Laurel Takashima. (In case Sinclair is incapacitated or off-
+station Laurel is also empowered to take his place on the Council and speak
+for the E.A.)
+
+Laurel can usually be found in the B5 Command and Control Room (also
+referred to as the Observation Dome), where ships are coming and going,
+keeping an eye on who's going where. All departments report directly to
+her, and she is answerable only to Sinclair and Earth Central. If, as
+happens early on in "The Gathering," a ship's crew refuses to submit to a
+weapons search (a requirement for coming aboard B5), she has the authority
+to lock them out. (To one complaining ambassador, she stands firm on this,
+though noting, "I'll be happy to send them a fruit basket if it'll make you
+feel any better. But other than that, they can sit out there for the next
+solar year for all I care.")
+
+She has considerable interaction with the ambassadors and others coming
+aboard the station. All day-to-day operations are very much her purview.
+She initially met Sinclair when she was assigned to Mars Security during
+the food riots of 2254.
+
+Laurel is a rarity among the B5 crew, in that she is one of the few
+actually born on Earth. (Sinclair was born on the Mars colony, for
+instance.) Thus, she has strong roots on Homeworld, which gives her a
+perspective that's quite important at times. She's tough, and smart, and
+resourceful (conning one of the hydroponics guys into setting aside a
+couple of planters on the QT to grow coffee beans...very much against
+policy, but if you report her, you can't have any). She has a long-standing
+relationship with an off-world mapper who works for the E.A., but is gone
+quite a lot of the time. If a fight should ever break out, she can take 
+care of herself physically QUITE nicely.
+
+Laurel's job differs from Sinclair's in that his is more
+diplomatic/political, and is involved with the Big Picture of running B5,
+where Laurel is hands-on in terms of the day-to-day operations of actually
+managing the station. If an ambassador has a problem with what the E.A. is
+doing, he'll go through Sinclair first; if that same ambassador is annoyed
+that his resupply ship isn't being allowed to dock because they won't
+comply with the silly request for a weapons scan, that tends to be Laurel's
+problem to deal with.
+ 
+Naturally, there is some overlap and shifting of responsibility.  If the 
+station is ever attacked, she is as qualified to sit in the command chair
+and organize/dictate the defense as Sinclair.  Having run Mars Colony
+Security for five years before coming to B5, she's quite capable of
+handling the tough stuff. She's in her early thirties.
+
+Some of you here may have seen a WONDERFUL film entitled "Come See The
+Paradise," starring Dennis Quaid, along with a fantastic performance by
+Tamlyn Tomita.  (The story concerned a young Japanese woman and her
+husband, played by Quaid, and the internment camps of the second world
+war.)  She received rave notices for that performance, and for her many
+other projects, including major roles in "Orange Curtain," "Hawaiian
+Dream," "The Karate Kid II," and such television projects as "Quantum
+Leap," "The Trials of Rosie O'Neil," "Tour of Duty," "Santa Barbara" (where
+she was a series regular), and such TV movies as "Hiroshima," and "To Heal
+A Nation."
+
+Tamlyn Tomita has come aboard BABYLON 5 as Lieutenant-Commander Laurel
+Takashima, who in concert with Commander Sinclair has primary
+responsibility for running B5.  She is a phenomenal performer, vastly
+talented, with the strength of personality necessary for a job like the 
+one Laurel handles...we're absolutely thrilled to have her aboard.
+
+Those of you who have seen her work will know how fortunate we are to have
+her, and what presence and intelligence she will bring to that role.  She's
+just terrific.
+
+
+AMBASSADOR LONDO MOLLARI
+
+On the other end of the spectrum is Ambassador Londo Mollari, of the
+Centauri Republic. Londo is the most human of all the various ambassadors,
+and there's some speculation that we might be a long forgotten outpost of
+the Republic.
+
+Of course, the only ones MAKING that assertion are Londo's people, who have
+much to gain in trying to convince others of that.
+
+For a thousand years, the Centauri Republic was a force to be reckoned
+with. Like the English empire once upon a time, it held hundreds of planets
+in its control. It was a great military power. But slowly, as can happen,
+they grew content, and lazy, and gradually their own empire began to slip
+between their fingers. A world deciding to go rogue was troublesome, to be
+sure, but it's SO far away, and it's SUCH a bother to go take care of it,
+when we can easily get the same things from other places...let them go.
+They'll come crawling back sooner or later.
+
+As a result, they are now down to a Republic that consists of barely a
+dozen systems and thirty worlds.
+
+It was, interestingly enough, the Centauri Republic that was Earth's first
+contact with another major government. The CR was well in advance of Earth
+science, and we all considered them a terrible power...an illusion they
+didn't exactly try to correct.  Trade agreements were set up, and we gained
+an ASTONISHING amount of technical know-how in a very short time, letting
+us leap-frog a hundred years of progress in a single year.   They were most
+curious to get cultural stuff in return...music, art,
+philosophy,literature..."native" trinkets that could be resold for more
+money back on homeworld. In the thirty or forty years since then, however,
+we've found out the truth, that the CR is really on its last legs.  And
+we've taken the technology we've gotten and perfected it, and now the Earth
+Alliance is fast becoming oneof the dominant forces of this time.  And the
+Centauri Republic is trying to attach itself to us the way a ramora
+attaches itself to a shark...for preservation, in this case.
+
+They are governed by an emperor, and the government works mainly through
+personal and family influence.  It's a very indulgent society, and Londo
+reflects that.  Overweight, prone to gambling constantly (null-pool is his
+favorite), and fond of women and drinks, he understands his role and
+doesn't try to push it.  Like his Republic, he subsists on old stories and
+tales of former glory, remarking -- one night, when drunk -- "my god, we've
+become a tourist attraction.  See the Great Fallen Centauri Republic, open
+nine to five...Earth Time."  He is, by turns, a comic figure, and a tragic
+figure. By our standards, he would be in his late fifties.
+
+Oh, one other thing about Londo.  He has a wife, his third, actually, on
+Centauri Prime, and seven kids.
+
+And he would sooner hurl himself into the sun than go anywhere near ANY of
+them.
+
+Peter Jurasik will be playing the Centauri ambassador, Londo Mollari, a
+role that calls for some degree of humor, but beneath that a layer of
+something potentially not-good.  He knocked us all out during auditions. 
+We locked him down instantly.
+
+
+AMBASSADOR G'KARR
+
+At one time, the Centauri Republic controlled most of what is now 
+inhabited space.  As part of that, a race known as the Narns were
+once very much under Centauri control, and they received in many
+ways the most brutal treatment of any "protectorate" in Centauri 
+jurisdiction.  A little under a hundred years ago, as the power of the 
+Centauri Republic was fading, the Narns broke their chains in open
+revolution and expelled the occupying army, achieving independence.  The
+way they were able to achieve independence was through a strong  military
+mindset and sense of pride and destiny, a perception that has with time
+become something darker and more menacing.  Still smarting from two
+centuries of occupation, they launched a major effort to build up their own
+forces. They strip-mined their economy to get their hands on the  latest
+weapons tech, most of it illegally obtained.   They began slowly to 
+convince themselves that they had a Destiny among the stars...a destiny of
+conquest.
+ 
+And over the last few decades, they have been tentatively extending 
+themselves, taking over unallied planets here and there on the fringe of
+the  Narn system, small places that offered strategic and economic value,
+but which were too far away to fight for, and of too little importance to
+the Centauri republic, which was busy dealing with its own internal
+problems.
+ 
+The Narn Regime now is in many ways the X-factor, the new kid on the  block
+with something to prove.  They're growing awfully strong, awfully fast.  
+They're cunning, and determined, and quite deadly. 
+ 
+Which brings us to Ambassador G'Kar (pronounced Juh-KARR), of the Narn 
+Regime, married to a female war hero, whose fathers on both sides were also 
+distinguished veterans of a hundred campaigns.  In the main, his task is to
+use  the facilities of B5 wherever possible to Narn advantage -- from
+arranging  tech-smuggling to military objectives and so on -- while doing
+all possible to  interfere with the basic purpose of the station, to create
+the peace.  Peace  is not in their best interests, though they give the
+opposite impression.   They want to keep all sides divided and at each
+others throats so that they're  occupied while the Narns grow and expand
+quietly in the background.  The last  thing they want is an alliance aimed
+against them before they're ready.    One last note about G'Kar...I
+wanted to create someone specifically who folks would gradually come to
+expect is behind anything that goes wrong or afoul.  "Oh, he's the bad
+guy."  And to a large extent, for the first season, he  will be...then
+something quite surprising will happen, and everything you  THINK you know
+about Ambassador G'Kar will be turned completely upside down.  We've all
+seen the SF standard of The Villain Who Chews Scenery...I wanted to  take
+that and use it just long enough to get folks comfortable with the 
+convention...then pull the rug out from under them.    
+
+The actor who will portray Ambassador G'Kar of the Narn Regime is Andreas
+Katsulas.
+
+His film work includes the latest Woody Allen film, Blake Edwards'
+"Sunset," as well as "Someone To Watch Over Me," "Communion," "Next of Kin"
+and many others.  On television, he has appeared in ST:TNG as Romulan
+Commander Tomolak, ALIEN NATION, THE EQUALIZER, MAX HEADROOM, THE HUMAN
+FACTOR and many more.
+
+
+THE VORLONS
+
+Let's talk about the Vorlons...because there ain't much we can SAY about
+the Vorlons...because nobody KNOWS anything about them.
+
+In our opening movie, everyone's awaiting the arrival of the fifth and
+final ambassador (four if you don't count Sinclair) from the primary alien
+governments.  He is a Vorlon, a race we have tried, without much success,
+to learn about ever since we first picked up their transmissions. Several
+scout ships were sent on First Contact missions.  All of them met with
+unfortunate "accidents" upon entering Vorlon space.  
+The Vorlons tendered their most *sincere* apologies.
+
+And suggested no further expeditions.
+
+Now, at last, with B5 becoming functional, and all of the *other*
+ambassadors in place, it no longer makes strategic sense to continue in
+their isolation.  So the arrival of the Vorlon is a Big Deal.  No human has
+ever even SEEN a Vorlon.  
+
+And they play it right up to the hilt.  The ambassador -- Kosh Naranek --
+maintains only audio contact with B5 as his ship makes the long voyage,
+citing "problems" with audio.  He clearly doesn't want to broadcast the
+Vorlon face all over the quadrant.  So no problem, after all, he has to
+arrive eventually, and they'll see him then.
+
+Not quite.
+
+The ship arrives.  The Vorlon ambassador emerges from his ship...and well,
+y'see, he comes from a very different environment.  Lots of methane and
+CO2.  Our atmosphere is poisonous to Vorlons.  So he emerges wearing an
+Encounter Suit...which covers every square inch of his body except for his
+hands -- assuming those ARE his hands -- with a dark faceplate in the
+front.  The only place he can remove all of that is in his quarters, and
+there are no vids in his quarters, no way to observe him or see his true
+face.
+
+So...even now, no human has STILL ever seen a Vorlon.
+
+Well, that's not *entirely* true.  
+Legend has it that one human saw a Vorlon.  A pilot who crashed, off
+course, on a Vorlon colony.
+
+According to that legend, the human who saw a Vorlon...was turned to stone.
+But, after all, it's only a legend.  At least, that's what our
+resident xenobiologist sincerely *hopes* when he has to --
+
+Oops.  Not now.  Later.
+
+Early in the history of the B5 *series*, artwork was prepared that showed
+what Kosh looked like under that encounter suit.  It was designed as
+deliberate misinformation.  No one knows what a Vorlon looks like, not the
+studio, not my associates...not even my Spousal Overunit.  I've kept THAT
+one a close and very careful secret.  One that won't be revealed for about
+a season, maybe a season and a half, depending.  With luck, the surprise
+will be considerable...and will take the show into a completely unexpected
+direction.  
+
+By the way we've decided that Ambassador Kosh will be played by...himself.
+
+Kosh *will* be a mechanical creation/operated by a (for lack of a better
+term) puppeter inside, rather than an actor.  Remember, he wears an
+encounter suit at all times, so we won't see his face...as for the voice
+question...he doesn't speak for the entire 2 hours.  At the end, he makes
+*one* gesture (no, not THAT gesture), and that's it.  He *will* speak for
+the series, and for that we will get a voice actor to loop it, but not now.
+
+
+LYTA ALEXANDER - THE TELEPATH
+
+The name of the station's resident rent-a-telepath is Lyta Alexander. She
+works for B5, but she is available for businessmen who need to make sure
+that the person across the table can really deliver what's promised. 
+(Note: she is not the only one, they're pretty common in business at this
+time in the future.)  Not an empath, by the way, but a proper, licensed
+(Psi-Corps, Level 5) TELEPATH.  Bound by all the regs of the P-C.  No
+random scanning, no access to the gaming tables, no unauthorized dipping,
+all deals must be on record.  And there's the privacy question that TNG has
+never really dealt with.  A telepath peeping into someone's mind or
+emotions without that person's permission (or that of the next of kin) can
+likely have his or her license revoked.  It's a basic right of
+privacy...whereas a Certain Other I can think of is constantly peeping into
+people's emotions and feelings without so much as a by-your-leave.  And,
+again, this will be the very exacting reading of thoughts, rather than a,
+"I sense discomfort" sort of thing.  She's in her early thirties or late
+twenties.
+
+I'd created the role of Lyta Alexander (the rent-a-telepath) along with
+every other character 'way back when.  Between then and now, I saw the
+remake of "Night of the Living Dead," and was blown out of the room by one
+of the actors: Patricia Tallman.  I'd always thought that Lyta should have
+eyes somehow bigger than they should be (no makeup, just the perception),
+should be a redhead, and should be physically capable of handling herself. 
+So when time came to revise the script, update it and stuff, as I wrote
+Lyta's part, I kept thinking of Tallman (and expanding the part
+commensurately).
+
+As we began auditions, I kept an open mind...but always kinda hoped that
+Patricia would be the one that we all liked.  And, sonuvagun, that's how
+it's worked out.  So she's Lyta.  (In addition to NOTLD, she's also
+appeared in "Knightriders," "Roadhouse," "Monsignore," in the upcoming
+"Army of Darkness," and in television on "Generations," "Tales from the
+Darkside," "Texas" and "Guiding Light.")
+
+Basically, about half our cast members have backgrounds in the genre, like
+Katsulas and Tallman and, nominally, Tomita and Jurasik.  The rest do not. 
+I think that makes for a good mix.
+
+
+CAROLYN SYKES
+
+Carolyn Sykes is Commander Sinclair's...darn, what's the right word these
+days?  Significant other?  Lady-friend?  Lover?  Main squeeze?  (I keep
+having this recurrent flash from "Young Frankenstein," as Frau  Blucher
+calls out, "He vas....my BOYFRIEND!")
+
+Carolyn has been romantically involved with Sinclair for a couple of years
+when we meet her.  She knows quite a bit about him, but there are some
+things he still hasn't told her.  They have a very adult, sexual
+relationship, and they are both independent and equal.  She is the owner,
+and pilot, of the trading vessel ULYSSES...a self-made woman who's an
+established and respected trader in a variety of goods.  She works mainly
+within the Earth Alliance colony worlds, though in the last few years she's
+added routes in the Centauri sector.  
+
+She's sophisticated, sharp, and no-nonsense...screw around with her too
+much, change the terms of your agreement in hopes of taking unfair
+advantage of her, and she'll jettison the cargo right into the sun.  She
+has a reputation to protect, and would rather lose the deal than be dealt
+with unfairly.  It sets a bad precedent...and on some of the worlds she has
+to deal with, the perception of strength is vital.
+
+Her feelings about Sinclair's position are mixed.  On the one hand, she
+feels that he's the right man for the job, and he's doing a terrific job. 
+On the other hand, she knows that part of him longs to be back in the
+pilot's seat of a starship, and when things start to get bad, she offers
+him that chance...to tell them all to piss off, and the two of them will
+pool their resources, buy a bigger ship, and go off on their own.
+Because of their schedule, she must find time together when they can,
+stolen hours before the next run to another world, another system.  They
+are both supportive of each other, though that doesn't remove the
+occasional conflict common to any relationship.  She isn't dark and driven,
+she's a strong female character who's *happy* in her work, she enjoys it --
+the freedom, being responsible -- and wouldn't change it for the world.
+
+They are very much involved with each other, but because of their different
+lives, both know that there's every chance that this might all end between
+them.  So they don't often deal with that question, though it's a thought
+that is sometimes expressed in the bedroom, at night, in soft tones.  They
+might drift apart, find someone else, or something could happen to one or
+both of them; their jobs are not exactly conducive to longevity.  So they
+seize every moment and enjoy it as best they can.  She's in her early or
+middle thirties.
+
+For Commander Sinclair's lady-friend, trader Carolyn Sykes, we have Blair
+Baron.  If you've seen "League Of Their Own," she's in the opening sequence
+as the daughter who encourages her mother to go out and attend the Hall of
+Fame opening.
+
+
+DR. BENJAMIN KYLE
+
+Dr. Benjamin Kyle is Babylon 5's resident xenobiologist.  He's in his late
+forties or early fifties, black, very thoughtful, very dignified...with a
+sly sense of humor (not sarcasm) that tends to catch one off guard.  He
+began as a physician on Earth, and was a leading researcher into
+xenobiology there, gaining a quick grasp of the ins and outs of the few
+alien cultures that we (then) were in contact with.  Naturally inquisitive,
+early on as a much younger man he began to "hitch-hike" onto deep-space
+ships, always hungry for new information that could be used by humans and
+outworlders alike.  (His deal was that he would act as ship's physician
+without charge, in exchange for a bit of freedom whenever they made
+planetfall somewhere.)
+
+He has seen, catalogued and operated on more alien lifeforms than just
+about any other Earther in this time.  And had his share of close scrapes,
+as well.  Some races consider is sacrilege for any other race to "enter"
+their bodies through surgery...Ben will take the risk if it means saving a
+life.
+
+He's detailed, methodical, single-minded...and if one route is closed,
+he'll go another, even if it means getting into a fair amount of trouble. 
+(Which happens in the pilot.)
+
+One scene omitted from the script for purposes of time is kind of
+illustrative of Ben's humor.  During a crisis -- there's someone in the
+medical area (I'm being deliberately vague) who's in trouble, and Ben's on
+stims, staying awake to see the patient through -- he at one point has to
+talk to Sinclair.
+
+Sinclair is asleep, Carolyn beside him, when the call comes in via the
+bedside monitor.  Noting Carolyn's state of undress, Sinclair tells the
+monitor to receive the call, "audio only."  Ben starts in on his
+report...then stops.  He can't see Sinclair.  Sinclair, noting Carolyn who
+stirs beside him, says, of the monitor, "Slight malfunction."  
+
+"Ah," Ben's voice comes..."Hello, Carolyn."  He knows she's there, and
+tells Sinclair c'mon, let me see you while I'm talking to you...I'm a
+doctor, I'm not going to see anything I haven't seen before.
+
+With a shrug from Carolyn, Sinclair switches on the video.
+Ben's face appears on the monitor.  He looks over to Carolyn.  Smiles. 
+"Nice tan."
+
+Carolyn's response...is best left unstated.
+
+Ben volunteered to come to Babylon 5 for several reasons: as the best in
+his field, he's most capable of dealing with any emergencies, and this is
+the sort of place where that is most needed.  In addition, he's getting a
+little old to be hitch-hiking on starships...why not settle down
+somewhere where the aliens come to *you* instead of the other way around?
+
+He's single, his wife having passed away some five years ago, one more
+reason he's come to B5.  There's nothing left at home for him now that
+she's gone.  He has two grown children, one of whom is successful, the
+other...well, less so.
+
+He's been offered research grants from some of Earth's biggest
+corporations, universities have offered him important posts, the government
+would LOVE to have him come work for them (where, he suspects darkly, they
+would have him work on alien biological warfare)...but he's said no to all
+of them.  His place is as a working physician and xenobiologist, at a place
+where he will have ample time to study the new species they encounter, and
+do his part for peace.
+
+For the part of Dr. Benjamin Kyle we have Johnny Sekka, who has been
+featured in such films as THE FEVER, HANKY PANKY, ASHANTI, A WARM DECEMBER,
+THE SOUTHERN STAR, KHATROUM,  WOMAN OF STRAW and others (working, along the
+way, with such folks as  Ryan O'Neal, Sidney Poitier, Orson Welles,
+Laurence Olivier and Sean Connery, to name but a few), and in such
+television projects as MASTER OF  THE GAME, ROOTS: THE SECOND GENERATION,
+KINGSTON CONFIDENTIAL and PASSION IN PARADISSE...Johnny Sekka comes out of
+the Old Vic in London, the Royal Court theater, and the Strattford Theater,
+classically trained.  
+
+He's a wonderful actor, with a great sense of elegance and style and 
+power.  Like so many others, when he came in the door, we knew instantly 
+that this was the one for us.  (And the kind of accent you wish every 
+doctor had...you'd trust him immediately.)
+
+
+SECURITY CHIEF MICHAEL GARIBALDI
+
+Michael has a long and not terribly salutory history.  He's been bounced
+from one job to another for years, always getting into trouble with
+someone or other, usually because he won't back down from a fight, and
+won't obey orders that involve hidden criminalities. He's also been
+framed on occasion...all of which drove him into serious problems with
+alcohol.  He's largely overcome those problems...at least, so he now
+believes.
+
+When turned loose on a case, anyone and everyone is fair game, and no one
+is presumed innocent until he has all the facts.  He has little
+respect for policy or diplomatic niceties.  He's outwardly confident in his
+abilities, but wracked internally by doubt.  
+He's in his late thirties or early forties, with a face lined by
+the troubles he's survived.  He was brought to B5 by Commander
+Sinclair, over EA objections, because Sinclair wanted someone who would do
+what was required, even if it involved him.  Someone with allegiance only
+to the truth.  He got it.  Now he has to figure out if that's
+really such a good idea or not....
+
+For Security Chief Michael Garibaldi, a series regular, we've tapped Jerry
+Doyle.  Probably a number of you may not be familiar with that name, but
+he's been around a lot.  He only got into the acting business about 2-3
+years ago, but  hit almost immediately, with major roles in such films as
+"Kidnapped" and "Being in Time," and on television in "Reasonable Doubts,"
+"Homefront," appearing 27 times in "Bold and the Beautiful," and in
+"Moonlighting."
+
+He's not only a fine actor, but a *very* strong personality, well suited to
+work with the actor playing Commander Sinclair...about whom more later. 
+We'd gone through a number of actors for the role of Garibaldi -- something
+like 25 or 30 -- many of whom were good, but he knocked us out.  When
+someone comes into audition, you usually do a "slate," meaning you stick
+'em against a wall and ask them their name, their height, and which part
+they're auditioning for.  In this case, when asked "And which role are you
+auditioning for?" he answered, "The role I'm going to get...Michael
+Garibaldi."  And he did.
+
+
+MORE ABOUT THE CREW
+
+Insofar as crew relations are concerned...bear in mind that on any show,  a
+*lot* of that comes about as you introduce the characters, and the actors
+get to know each other.  Chemistry can't be predicted.  What we do have,
+for now, is that Laurel Takashima met Cmdr. Sinclair when she was working
+Mars  Colony security, and because she refused to go along with kickbacks
+to some corrupt E.A. officials, was being held back.  He was transferred
+there in an advisory capacity, saw her potential, and pulled her back from
+some  potentially dangerous (and self-destructive) stuff she was getting
+into out of frustration at being passed over repeatedly for promotion.   
+He's also known Garibaldi, the B5 security chief, for some time, but has 
+never actually worked with him for any prolonged period of time.  He has 
+elected, over the objections of Earth Central, to give Garibaldi this 
+position, and it's his last chance to make good.  But from time to time,
+the requirements of a security chief don't reconcile with the needs of the 
+commander.  
+
+He's only recently begun working with the resident xenobiologist and the
+newly-arrived station telepath. 
+ 
+Is there conflict between them?  Yes, at times severe.  They all deeply 
+respect one another, but conflict arises as it must given the situation,
+and the close proximity, and the problems they encounter.  The basic
+requirement of ANY good drama is interpersonal conflict. 
+
+
+THE PRODUCTION STAFF
+
+Doug Netter is Exec Producer on BABYLON 5.  I am Co-Executive Producer. I
+worked with Doug on several projects in the past, including CAPTAIN POWER,
+where he was, again, producer.  He's irascible, and every bit as much of a
+pain in the butt as I am.  He grouses, carries on... one day I expect to
+wander into the offices and find him wearing a patch over one eye, a knife
+between his teeth, talking to a parrot and preparing to board the building
+next door.
+
+And I trust him implicitly.  Doug is a straight-shooter.  I have three
+rules I live by when I work on a project: I never lie, I never BS, and I
+never, EVER bluff.  Doug's the same way.  When he tells you he will do X,
+it happens.  Period.  He's a pro, and was previously the head of production
+at MGM.
+
+When we were working together on CP, Doug made me a promise.  He said,
+"Look, Joe, you know me, I'm not a writer, that's not what I'm good at.  So
+I will never give you a creative note.  Production notes, hell yes. 
+Creative scripts notes...no."
+
+And he kept that promise.
+
+Which is why, when it came time to show someone what I'd come up with on
+BABYLON 5, instead of going righ off the bat to a big studio or a
+network...I went to Doug.  He liked it, and we formed a partnership to
+pruce the movie and the series.  He's invested a lot of time and effort
+over the last 4 years, when it seemed it would never happen, but he never
+lost faith in the project.
+
+We have a great relationship: we insult each other shamelessly.  I've even
+learned to somewhat mimic his voice, so I can return fire with his own
+words, in his own voice.  When our casting director met with us for the
+first time and started going over how much she *loved* the script, he broke
+in, "No, no, no, jeez, what're you saying, you can't say that, we NEVER say
+that, I'm telling you you can't work with the man if you say that kind of
+thing.  You gotta tell him it's *sufficient*, but just barely, and with
+luck we can save it in post.  Jeez, no, don't ever do that again."
+
+He's a very funny man.
+
+I'm having him roughed up on Friday.
+
+THAT'S who Doug Netter is.
+
+Director: Richard Compton.  One of the prime directors for The Equalizer
+and Hill Street Blues and Miami Vice.
+
+Director of Cinematography: Billy Dickson.  Billy has an amazing eye for
+color and shadow and composition that many of you may have seen on the
+Desperado programs.  First-class.
+
+EFX Director: Ron Thornton.  Main EFX fellow behind The Addams Family,
+Highlander II, Plymouth, Dr. Who The Movie and others.
+
+Production Designer: John Iacovelli.  Award winning production designer
+direct from Honey, I Shrunk The Kids and other projects.
+
+Production Manager/Line Producer: Bob Brown.  Previously producer or
+production manager on War of the Roses, Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom,
+Return of the Jedi, Iceman and the three Childs Play movies.
+
+Casting Director: Mary Jo Slater.  Mary Jo has cast untold numbers of
+movies and TV programs, from the revived Dark Shadows to the recent
+Intruders mini-series to Star Trek VI.
+
+Plus others we've nabbed from James Cameron's company, Steven Spielberg's
+company, George Lucas' company, Jim Henson's company, and others.  Names as
+I can release them.
+
+Those of you into films may know the work of John Stiers, who's done most
+of the physical SFX for the James Bond films, for Outland and other films. 
+He's an academy award winner who *never* works in television, out of
+choice.  Turns out, he heard of what we were doing with B5, and asked to
+see a copy of the script, not believing what he'd heard, that anyone would
+even TRY something like this for television.  Read the script...and he's
+aboard B5 in that capacity.  Turned down a film job that would have paid 3
+times as much.  At the production meeting today, he commented that he
+hasn't seen a group of people, or an operation, or an attitude like this in
+television EVER...and that the last time he ran into something like this in
+film was on the first James Bond movie, where everyone knew they were
+creating something special.
+
+
+HARLAN ELLISON
+
+For the first time today, another writer was hired to write some material
+for B5.  This for the series down the road.  Long before we can begin
+hiring writers on the series, we need...well, not a bible, because that's
+already written...and not a sample script, because that's already written
+as well...but for lack of a better term, and since we're sticking with such
+Biblical references as Babylon to start with, call it an Epistle. 
+Something which will spell out, for writers, what you should and should not
+do in a science fiction television series...the dumbnesses to avoid, the
+overused plots, the goals to aspire toward.  Call it a manifesto of our
+intentions.  For something like this, I went to someone with the toughest
+standards around. So yes, Harlan Ellison has been commissioned to write it. 
+And has accepted.  And is starting posthaste.
+
+If *that* doesn't tell writers we mean business, and set the standard of
+what we intend to shoot for, I don't know what will.
+
+
+
+THE PHILOSOPHY
+
+Given that the first 3 Babylon stations were destroyed, and the fourth
+vanished...why rebuild it?  Why make B5?  It was an idea that was right, 
+and those responsible refused to knuckle under to what was, in effect,
+terrorism.  During WW II, someone asked Winston Churchill what he would do
+if a V-2 took out Big Ben.  "We shall rebuild it," he said.  And what if
+they knock THAT down?  "We shall rebuild it again, and again, as many times
+as is required.  Because it is not theirs to destroy, it is OURS."
+
+B5, at this crucial time, is the last, best hope for peace, and there are
+people dedicated to pursuing that peace, whatever the cost, however many
+times others may try to destroy it.  Those aboard B5 know the risk, but
+come because they believe in what it stands for, just as U.N. observers go
+into a country knowing fully that they may be killed. Why more Babylons?
+Why make more space shuttles after one blows up, even though you KNOW that
+the odds indicate that at least one more will go, sooner or later?
+Why continue with the Gemini space program even after those astronauts died
+in that terrible fire?
+
+Because the universe doesn't reward you for doing what's safe, and easy. 
+Because courage and persistence is what pulled us out of the seas and onto
+land and dragged us through millions of years of evolution.   What sets the
+human race apart from everything else is our persistence, the stubborn,
+noble dignity that propelled Washington's men, when offered the chance to
+stand down during the revolutionary war, when they were tired and bleeding
+and frostbitten, to refuse to knuckle under, and to go on.
+
+During WW II, again, there were cases of planes sent in to bomb strategic
+sites...and when one batch was shot down, another wing went off.  And
+another. And another.  Until finally SOMEONE got through.   Because it had
+to be done.  The consequences were too terrible otherwise.
+
+We have come into an age when it seems passion is passe, when the very
+common coin of our shared humanity, the willingness to put our lives on the
+line for a cause or a belief, seems somehow suspect.  Why do people rebuild
+BABYLON 5 even though it's not safe?  Why do they go there when it's not
+safe?
+
+Because the Earth/Minbari war ALONE almost wiped out humanity.  We can't
+afford NOT to be there.
+And these people are willing to put their lives on the line to see that
+never happens again.  Because they damn near won the first time, and the
+next bunch might well finish the job.
+
+One of my favorite pieces of verse is from Tennyson's ULYSSES.  And it is
+at the core of what BABYLON 5 is about.  It concerns the final voyage of
+Ulysses...older, tired, who has lost his family and most of his kingdom and
+most of his men, betrayed and saddened...and he gathers up those few
+surviving members from his earlier journey, and as they prepare to push
+off, he concludes with a final benediction: "Though we are not now that
+strength that in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we
+are: one equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate but
+strong in will, to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield."
+ 
+Ethnic Diversity: yes, most definitely.  Leaving the aliens aside for the 
+time being where sexuality may not necessarily be as we know it, and ethnic 
+background is a bit different, and since the question concerned itself with 
+humans...our *main characters* consist of the following: a male caucasian 
+commander; a female Japanese vice-commander; a male Italian security chief;
+a black Xenobiologist male; a female telepath whose ethnic background we
+haven't yet determined; a female caucasian trader (Sinclair's S.O.); and
+(for the series, later) a female environmental specialist (probably
+Hispanic).  My  feeling here is that we have *all* gone to the stars, and I
+want there to be a  good ethnic mix in both the main characters, and the
+guest-starring and cameo  actors.  And I *especially* want to see a nearly
+50/50 mix of men and women in  equally significant jobs and
+responsibilities.  
+
+Relationships: My sense of the story is that things are a lot more relaxed
+in that respect.  Some folks get married.  Others don't.  There are open-
+ended relationships.  It's not a big deal one way or another; there are 
+always going to be those who prefer monogamy, and those who tend to roam.  
+
+And bear in mind one *crucial* aspect to B5...there is a constant mix of 
+not only ethnic groups, but alien races, religions, thought, standards,
+mores,  and sexual practices.  This will present a constant opportunity to
+explore  alternate ideas, and to mix-and-match.  By our exposure, humans
+may adopt some alien notions, and vice versa.  B5 is the ultimate melting
+pot, just as the  early Ports of Call were a hodge-podge of dialects,
+backgrounds, beliefs and other elements, whose only real commonality was
+that their business or  personal lives brought them to the same place at
+the same time.  Same with B5. 
+ 
+Re: action...a lot of the action will take place aboard B5, just as a lot 
+of the action in a cop show or mainstream drama takes place in a city...and
+B5 is exactly that, a self-contained city or world of its own.  There's
+*plenty* of opportunity for drama in that, when you stop to consider the
+staggering conflicts possible between people, races, and technologies.   
+But there will also be some action outside...there's a good amount of that
+in the pilot movie, and there will be potential for more as we go along.  
+The one thing I want to *avoid* is the New Threat Of The Week story, in
+terms of somebody attacking B5.  I think that would get old REAL fast.  The
+best terrain for conflict is, as Fitzgerald said, the human (or alien)
+heart in conflict with itself. 
+ 
+Will there be zealots?  Oh, yes.  To be sure.  Keep an eye on the
+Minbari.... 
+ 
+Re: Fandom (ed):  It's fun to see this sort of thing bouncing back from 
+the other side of the screen...though the comment about a fandom for a show
+that doesn't exist yet is well taken.  I don't *want* people signing on to 
+something they haven't seen yet, at least not to excess, because up until
+the *minute* that we hit the airwaves, this is all just balloon juice.  You 
+shouldn't give this project too much support, just as you shouldn't start 
+handing around blank checks that you've signed. 
+ 
+Let us *prove* what we can do.  SF fans are *constantly* being hustled by 
+one person or company or another.  They/you are shilled at conventions,
+hyped on nonexistent projects, and get your hopes up only to have them
+dashed.    If what I write here is interesting, if it gives a sense of how
+a show like this comes together...terrific.  But the only thing that
+fundamentally matters is what's on the screen.  Until then, take everything
+here with a pound of salt. 
+ 
+Force us to prove the point.  If we are fortunate enough, once we hit the 
+air, to find fans and others who appreciate the show, we want those who
+will challenge us and force us to put up or shut up.  Because talk is
+cheap.  Mine included. 
+
+End of sermon. 
+
+Re: what I learned on my trips to conventions and appearing on WHY CAN'T
+THEY GET IT RIGHT? panels...what I came away with was a general sense of
+frustration from people who felt that in most cases, a show ends up being
+either good SF and bad television, or good TV but bad SF, and why can't you
+mix the two?  They pointed to the lack of character conflict in TNG, noting
+(correctly) that conflict is the core of ANY drama.  They wondered --
+repeatedly -- why it is that every time a decent concept comes along,
+someone has to hobble it with kids or cute robots.
+
+It was just a general sense of frustration that while SF in print (and to
+SOME extent films) has grown up into adulthood, TV SF was still perceived
+AND EXECUTED as though for kids, or without the grittiness or maturity of
+the work you'd associate with Gibson or Sterling or Clarke.   ST was, by
+and large, an anomaly in that it treated SF with a modicum of respect. 
+There's not been much of that, the audience tended to feel.
+
+Which made me all the more determined to try and bring SF into the
+mainstream not by compromising the SF, but by -- as it were -- bringing the
+mountain to Mohammed by incorporating elements that mainstream viewers 
+have come to expect from non-SF series: adult characters with adult
+relationships, sexual and otherwise; interpersonal conflict; marriages and
+divorces and pregnancies and all the other elements that are the common
+coin of our shared humanity.  People who live in a world that, unlike the
+antiseptic Enterprise, requires courage and struggle and hope and joy and
+effort, exactly as those elements are required in our own lives.
+
+My models, in a way, are DRAGNET and HILL STREET BLUES.  There was a time 
+when cop shows were viewed the same way SF shows are viewed now: of
+interest only to people into police procedurals and mysteries, which  was
+considered a very small proportion of the audience.  The along came
+DRAGNET, which for the first time showed cops going on dates, having
+divorces, barbeques, fights...and that show went through the roof because
+it fleshed out the characters (for that time...yes, they're stiff and
+cardboard now, but at that time they were revolutionary, and if you check
+your TV history, you will find that DRAGNET is still considered the most
+successful cop show ever produced for TV).  HILL STREET BLUES was the final
+culmination of that process, a model from which came shows like LA LAW and
+ST. ELSEWHERE and others.
+There is absolutely NO reason on earth why that same process cannot apply
+to SF.  And that is what we are pledged to do on this show.  I expect
+either to succeed -- astonishingly -- or fail, just as astonishingly. But
+there won't be a middle ground.
+
+
+JMS on his approach to storytelling, after his comment that he knows the
+first scene of the first season, and the last scene of the very last (year
+five) season of the show, and the question "is every single episode  mapped
+out?":
+ 
+I know where each season will end, and where the next season will begin.  
+Those episodes are locks.  Within each season, I have set aside 
+benchmarks...certain events that much happen at some point in that given 
+season.  Assuming a 22 episode season, about half, or 11 out of each 22,
+will be benchmark episodes.  The other 11 will be up for grabs in terms of
+the  general arc of the show.  I think you *have* to be open to what some 
+freelancer hits you with unexpectedly, be open to surprises and things you 
+never considered. 
+ 
+It's a very fine line.  The goal is that if you didn't know about the 
+show, had no sense of history or any of the characters, you could tune in
+to Episode 18, Season 3, and be able to enjoy the show *immediately*.  The 
+problem with a show like, say, TWIN PEAKS (which I enjoyed enormously, by
+the way), was that if you missed an episode or two, you were pretty much
+lost. 
+
+Each and every episode of B5 ***must*** be able to stand completely on its 
+own. 
+ 
+What happens is that you start laying down threads that, over time, as you
+watch more and more episodes, tells a much larger story.  The more you 
+watch, the more you'll get out of it.  If you watch one, you'll be able to 
+enjoy that one strictly on its own terms. 
+ 
+It's a trick I learned while writing/story editing, of all things, The Real
+Ghostbusters.  Those were written on two levels; one for younger viewers,
+one for older.  If you didn't get the older stuff, it didn't get in the way
+of enjoying the show.  If you *did* get the more sophisticated stuff, it
+added another *layer* to the experience. 
+ 
+Another comparison, out of my league as it might be, would be the 
+Hieronymous Bosch painting, Garden of Earthly Delights.  You can go in to
+any  panel or section of that triptych, and that could almost be a painting
+on its  own terms, it's so detailed.  When you pull back, though, you begin
+to see a much larger story, a wider and more varied tapestry. 
+ 
+It's a challenge, from a writing point of view, but it's eminently do-able. 
+We started to do some of that in Power; that show changed dramatically at
+the end of season one, and we were starting to develop threads that, in 
+toto, would tell a much different story.  There were clues all over the
+place. (Soaron saying, of his programming, "There is something in my
+program I do not understand...there is something in the dark," referring,
+as we would later  discover, to a program that would force him to kill
+Dredd; the fate of Power's mother; the *real* agenda behind what was going
+on; wheels inside wheels  inside wheels....)
+
+Maybe it's my Eastern European heritage, but I *love* sagas, and B5 will 
+present a chance to tell that kind of saga.  When I was assigned the V 
+miniseries job, I took a similar approach, trying to create a whole and 
+consistent world. 
+ 
+But this is hardly revelation; the world of SF print has been doing this 
+now ever since the Lensman books.  The job now is translating that approach
+to television, and bring it up to, oh, at least where SF was 20 years 
+ago.... 
+
+
+"What about sin?"
+
+Personally, I'm for it.
+
+There's nothing more boring than someone who's overcome all his or
+her vices...so all of our characters will be prey to one problem or
+another.  Ambassador Londo Mollari has a BIG gambling problem (and a
+secondary problem with women), Garibaldi has a history with alcohol and
+other substances that almost got him kicked out of his prior jobs...I find
+the most interesting people those who are always fighting to be better, to
+be more, to avoid falling into vice despite terrible temptation.
+
+And some will not survive that temptation.
+
+At the central core of our humanity is the fact that we are flawed, and
+it's overcoming those flaws that makes for real drama.  Or, in some cases,
+being overcome BY those flaws.
+
+You have to understand the key issue that has always been, and will always
+be, at the *heart* of Babylon 5.  In 99.9% of all SF-TV in the last twenty
+years or so, there have always been the Noble Good Guys and the Awful Bad
+Guys.  I don't buy that.  Whether it's 20 years from now or 200, we will
+still be humans.  Some will be better or more noble than others, and some
+will be constantly on the lookout for the next scam, the next vice, the
+next thrill or danger or target.  
+
+In Babylon 5, I want to hew as closely as possible to how REAL people would
+react in this situation.  I haven't labored at this for four years to do
+one more Good Guy In Shoot-Em-Ups With The Bad Guys Show.
+
+Garibaldi will lapse in his rehabilitation.  Londo will get in very serious
+trouble because of his vices.  Laurel will have a run-in with certain
+chemicals.  Even Sinclair will fall prey to a weakness of his own.  The
+question is...what do each of them now DO about it?  THAT is what makes it
+interesting.
+
+There's a short story entitled "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg," by Mark
+Twain.  In that story, we meet a town of people who have put up a sign
+outside their town, "Lead Us Not Into Temptation."  And they have
+scrupulously avoided temptation for years.  One day, into this town of
+self-proclaimed and self-satisfied virtue comes temptation, in the form of
+a bag of gold which someone, offering the right phrase, is supposed to
+collect.  The man who really left it (and we find later it's lead), gives
+the town's most virtuous people fake phrases, to see if they will try and
+collect that which is not theirs.
+
+Every one of them fall for it...and the town is embarrassed and
+ashamed...and many are wonderfully vindicated by this.  And now the sign in
+front of the town reads, "Lead us INTO Temptation."  Because it's only when
+we are truly tested that our virtue means a damn thing.
+
+"The human heart in conflict with itself," William Faulkner said, is the
+only thing worth writing about.  Mainstream shows explore that question in
+hospitals, in police stations, in lawyers offices, on the frontier.  Now B5
+will explore it on the frontier of space, in a self-contained world of its
+own.  If that wasn't the whole point, I'd have given up on this a long long
+time ago.
+
+There's one final thing to consider: many of the SF shows of the past have
+been produced by people who knew nothing of the genre, or who held outright
+contempt for the genre. I'm a fan. I came up through the ranks of SF shows
+hating some and loving those few that treated its audience as though they
+were reasonably intelligent.  THE PRISONER is, to my mind, one of the
+finest examples of television storytelling.
+
+As a fan, I want it done *right*.  Virtually every member of our production
+team is a fan.  This is almost unheard-of in television.  And they all have
+a point to prove...that you *can* do good SF on television and have it be
+successful, WITHOUT talking down, WITHOUT filling the show with cute kids
+or robots, WITHOUT turning every episode into a shoot-em-up, and WITHOUT
+getting pompous or self-impressed.  
+
+For four years, this has been our dream, our child, awaiting birth.
+
+We hope that it will be well received, given a good home, and nourished so
+that it can grow strong.
+
+ADDITIONAL READING
+
+STARLOG #182 - September 1992. Pg.34, "Where Empires Touch", by Lawrence
+V. Conley.
+
+WRITER'S DIGEST - October 1992.  Pg.64, "Selling a Space Station" by J.
+Michael Straczynski.
+
+CINEFANTASTIQUE - December 1992.  Pg.16 "Babylon 5" by Mark Altman.
+
+STARLOG SPECTACULAR - January 1993. Pg. 52 etc. "Foundation and Empire"
+by Adam Lebowitz.
+
+THE BABYLON 5 NEWSLETTER - Subscriptions: $5 USA, $6 Canada, check or m.o.
+payable to C. Marx to BABYLON 5 NEWSLETTER, c/o Christy Marx, Box 2325,
+Oakhurst, CA  93644.
+==========================================================================
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+470) on GEnie, and is Copyright (c) 1992 by GEnie.
+
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+                 THE BABYLON 5 RANDOM QUOTE GENERATOR FAQ
+		http://www.reed.edu/~horde/b5/b5quote.html
+               Last modified: Friday, 21-Jul-95 10:39:00 PDT
+
+          By: Mr. Heiji Horde, horde@reed.edu
+          
+          The Babylon 5 Quote FAQ was originally maintained by: 
+            Michael "The Admiral" Zecca, zecca@starfury.cgd.ucar.edu 
+          
+Upcoming Releases
+
+   It's the *long* wait until October. I'll probably wait until the first
+   break during the third season before releasing a new version. 
+   
+The current version is 2.2
+
+   This contains quotes from the TV movie "The Gathering" through the
+   second season episode "Confessions and Lamentations".  
+     _________________________________________________________________ 
+   
+Topics:
+
+     * What is it? 
+     * Why did/didn't you include this line? 
+     * Where can I get my copy? 
+     * How do I unpack the program? 
+     * Why this strange program? 
+     * What are all these other files? 
+     * Release schedule 
+     * What about my Macintosh or DOS box? 
+     * Possible problems 
+    
+     _________________________________________________________________ 
+   
+What is it?
+
+   A homemade fortune program that will generate a random quote from an
+   episode of Babylon 5. The program is currently designed to run under
+   standard Unix and DOS environments.  
+     _________________________________________________________________ 
+   
+Why did/didn't you include this line?
+
+   I try to capture quotes that: 
+   
+          seem significant to the overall Babylon 5 plotline, 
+          tell us something about one of the characters, 
+          sound really funny, or 
+          sound really cool. 
+          
+   Of course, I might be a little biased towards the lines that I pick.
+   So if you'd like to make your own modifications for your own personal
+   use, I have no problem with that.  
+     _________________________________________________________________ 
+   
+Where can I get my copy?
+
+   If you want the complete distribution of the B5 random quote generator
+   can be found at either of the following anonymous FTP sites: 
+     * ftp.hyperion.com:/pub/Babylon-5
+     * ftp.uml.edu:/Babylon-5
+     * ftp.ctrl-c.liu.se:/babylon5
+       
+   The filenames you're interested in are: 
+     "b5quotes.tar" - if you're a Unix user 
+     "b5quotes.zip" - if you're a DOS user 
+   
+   They contain the *SAME* files. So you don't need both of them. 
+   
+   If you just want the updated quotes, you can get them from: 
+       ftp.reed.edu:/users/horde/quote 
+   The updated files are be there in various formats for you to
+   download. Get the one that is appropriate for you.
+     _________________________________________________________________ 
+   
+How do I unpack the program?
+
+   To extract the files from the TAR file, type the following: 
+          tar -xvf B5quotes.tar 
+          
+   For more information on tar, see your man pages. 
+          
+   To extract the files from the ZIP file, type the following: 
+          unzip b5quote.zip
+
+     _________________________________________________________________ 
+   
+What are all these other files?
+
+   Version 2.2 contains several other files: 
+     * General Files 
+          + HISTORY: the version history of the B5 quote generator 
+          + README: a little info for you to help you get set up. 
+          + list-b5.cnf: the configuration file needed by quote ,quotesh,
+            or quote.exe 
+          + quot-b5.0: (uncompressed) quotes from the TV movie 
+          + quot-b5.1: (uncompressed) quotes from the 1st season 
+          + quot-b5.2: (uncompressed) quotes from the 2nd season 
+     * For Unix Users 
+          + quotesh: the shell executable for a quote files. 
+          + Makefile and quote.c: C source code for an alternate way to
+            generate the random quotes. This runs much faster than
+            quotesh. 
+     * For DOS Users 
+          + quote.exe: The quote executable 
+          + b5.bat: A batchfile to run quote.exe with the B5 quotes 
+            
+   Depending which program you decide to use, you'll have you make some
+   changes to quotesh, quote.c, or b5.bat to make them run properly on
+   your machine. This is covered in the README file.  
+     _________________________________________________________________ 
+   
+Why this strange program?
+
+   The template for the quote generator is based on an old Star Trek: The
+   Next Generation quote generator I wrote several years ago. Over the
+   years I've played with various formats for the quote files, trying to
+   figure out the best way to get what I wanted done. What you see in
+   this program is the result of all that. 
+   
+   The new format I'm using for the quotes files should make it easy to
+   port them into the standard Unix fortune program. Why not just use the
+   standard fortune program? Because when I release updates, I want
+   people to be able to just drop the new files in and not worry about
+   rehashing a database like you do with the standard fortune
+   distribution.  
+     _________________________________________________________________ 
+   
+Release Schedule
+
+   v 1.0, March 1994 
+          First release by zecca@starfury.cgd.ucar.edu 
+          Added quotes from TV movie "The Gathering" 
+          Added quotes from first season episodes "Midnight on the Firing
+          Line" through "And the Sky Full of Stars" 
+          
+   v 1.1, June 1994 
+          Added quotes from first season episodes "Deathwalker" through
+          "TKO" 
+          
+   v 1.2, December 1994 
+          Added quotes from first season episodes "Grail" through "The
+          Quality of Mercy" 
+          
+   v 1.99, December 1994 
+          Taken over by horde@reed.edu 
+          Added quotes from first season episode "Chrysalis" 
+          Added quotes from second season episodes "Points of Departure"
+          through "Soul Mates" 
+          
+   v 2.0, January 1995 
+          Cleanup and actual release of version 1.99 
+          
+   v 2.1, March 1995 
+          Add quotes from second season episodes "A Race Through Dark
+          Places" through "Hunter, Prey" 
+          Starting this version there will be 2 distributions. One for
+          Unix platforms (.tar) and one for DOS platforms (.zip). The
+          distributions contain the same files, it's just that not all
+          DOS users have tar and not all Unix users have zip. 
+          
+   v 2.2, July 1995 
+          Add quotes from second season episodes "There All The Honor
+          Lies" through "Confessions and Lamentations" 
+          
+    
+     _________________________________________________________________ 
+   
+What about my Macintosh or DOS box?
+
+   It's been a while since I did any programming on a Mac, but if I get a
+   chance I might do a port...but then, I might not. 
+   
+   Starting with release 2.0, there is a DOS executable which will read
+   the same quote files as the Unix version.  
+     _________________________________________________________________ 
+   
+Possible Problems
+
+   Problems? What Problems? 
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+
+  Babylon 5 Stations: US/Canada
+  
+   Maintained by Steven Grimm (koreth@midwinter.com)
+   
+   For other countries, see the Lurker's Guide country list at
+   http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/countries/.
+   
+   If you see something here that's wrong, please send me mail with the
+   correct information!
+   
+  United States
+  
+   Babylon 5 is not currently airing in the United States. It will return
+   in January 1998 on cable network TNT. See the US episode list page of
+   the Lurker's Guide at
+   http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/countries/us/eplist.html for schedule
+   details.
+   
+  Canada
+  
+   CITY-TV is allegedly working on buying rights to season five.
+   
+   The "Space" cable channel is also in negotiations to show B5; they ask
+   that viewers please not contact them about it. It's being worked on
+   already and they have limited staff to answer the hundreds of E-mail
+   messages they get on the subject -- they're already quite exasperated
+   by the flow of "Is there news yet?" mail. If and when there's news
+   from them you'll see it here.
+   
+    Reruns of Old Episodes
+    
+   Toronto
+          CFMT airs seasons 1-4 Monday-Friday at 7PM.
+          
+    Station Notes
+    
+   If a station airs B5 at midnight, it is listed for the actual day it
+   airs, thus 'Sun 12:00am' is late night Saturday.
+   
+   * Stations with an '*' have been known to move B5 around a lot for
+   sports, so double check your listings to make sure when things are in
+   season.
+   
+   1.
+          A mailing list exists to discuss Vancouver-area B5 airings;
+          send mail to nw-b5-request@babcom.com with "subscribe" in the
+          message body to join.
+   2.
+          A mailing list exists to discuss B5 airings in the Southern
+          Ontario area, including the Toronto and Barrie regions; send
+          mail to southontario-b5request@babcom.com with "subscribe" in
+          the message body to join.
+          
+   Station list originally compiled by Lee Whiteside (leew@indirect.com).
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+From: Babylon 5 FAQ <no_hormel_products@anywhere.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5 FAQ (A): Information about Babylon 5
+Approved: news-answers-request@mit.edu
+Organization: Minbari Grey Council
+Followup-To: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
+Reply-To: (see signature)
+Summary: The final version of the Frequently Asked Questions list
+         for the television series, _Babylon 5_.
+
+Archive-name: tv/babylon-5/faq
+Frequency: weekly
+Last-modified: 29 May 1998
+
++-----------------------------------+
+|  BABYLON 5 FAQ, part (A):         |
+|  Information about Babylon 5      |
+|  and answers to Frequently Asked  |
+|  Questions.  Includes guidelines  |
+|  for online discussion groups.    |
+|                                   |
+|  29 May 1998 Edition - FINAL ONE  |
++-----------------------------------+
+
+I am retiring the Babylon 5 FAQ because it has been made obsolete by the
+large number of other resources available on the World Wide Web.  There
+isn't really a need for a FAQ anymore in today's WWW world.
+
+Time-dependent information has been removed from this final version.
+Files like this tend to get archived for a while, so I am publishing a
+final version to stay in the various archives so it doesn't appear that
+a new version is forthcoming.
+
+For the latest information on Babylon 5, I direct you to:
+
+http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html
+for the highly detailed "Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5."
+
+http://www.thestation.com/home.html
+for a wide range of merchandise and collectables.
+
+http://tnt.turner.com/babylon5/
+for the latest information in U.S. airings.
+
+These sites, or sites pointed to by these sites, should hold the information
+you need to keep up on Babylon 5.
+
+    -------------------------
+    Contents of this FAQ List
+    -------------------------
+
+    1.  What is Babylon 5?
+    2.  Where can I see Babylon 5?
+        (a) USA  (b) Canada  (c) Satellite  (d) Elsewhere  (e) Video
+    3.  Who is behind Babylon 5? (i.e. Who the heck is JMS?)
+    4.  What other SF projects has JMS been involved with?
+    5.  What kind of Special Effects does Babylon 5 have?
+    6.  Babylon 5 Episodes and Stories
+        (a) Television Episodes         (b) Novels      (c) Comics
+    7.  How can I contact the folks behind Babylon 5?
+    8.  One-Liner FAQs
+    9.  Miscellaneous Info
+        (a) Babylon 5 online  (b) Fans' influence (c) Awards
+        (d) Babylon 5 References in other JMS works
+        (e) Miscellaneous Production Info  (f) Production vs. Airing Order
+        (g) Production Changes  (h) Fan Clubs
+    10. Where to find online information
+        (a) Internet  (b) GEnie  (c) America Online  (d) CompuServe  (e) Other
+    11. Credits and Legalese
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 1.  What is Babylon 5?
+
+Babylon 5 is a science fiction television series, set in the mid 23rd Century,
+which takes place on a five-mile-long space station, centrally located near
+Earth and four other alien alliances.  The station was built as a kind of
+United Nations, to help preserve peace in the galaxy;  Each of the alliances
+has an official representative on the station.
+
+Unlike most television series, an overall story arc has been planned for
+Babylon 5 as if it were a miniseries or written novel.  Over the course of its
+five-year run, events tell an overall story;  hints are dropped along the way
+that foreshadow events to come.  However, each hour-long episode tells an
+individual story and can be viewed alone. (As the show has progressed, many
+episodes are less stand-alone than the earlier ones, however.)
+
+The series is in its fifth season in North America, and is also airing
+in many other countries, usually behind the US.  The show, originally
+syndicated to individual stations across the U.S, is now airing on cable/
+satellite network TNT, with new fifth-season episodes each week as well as
+daily reruns.
+
+A sequel series, to be called _The Babylon Project: Crusade_, has been
+confirmed, and will begin production in July 1998 for a January 1999 premiere.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 2.  Where can I see Babylon 5?
+
+Please see the Lurker's Guide for the latest information.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 3.  Who is behind Babylon 5? (i.e. Who the heck is JMS?)
+
+The show was created by J. Michael Straczynski (JMS), who is co-executive
+producer on the show along with Doug Netter.  It has been in development since
+1987, and in production since 1992.  Doug Netter is an equal partner in
+Babylon 5, mainly handling the business side and leaves the creative work to
+Straczynski.  Harlan Ellison is the Conceptual Consultant for the series;  he
+has also written a "manifesto" for the show that explains to other writers how
+to write science fiction for television and Babylon 5, in particular.  Well-
+known science fiction writers, including David Gerrold, D.C. Fontana, and
+Peter David contributed scripts to some episodes, although JMS writes the bulk
+of the scripts.  Christopher Franke, formerly of Tangerine Dream, does the
+soundtrack.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 4.  What other SF projects has JMS been involved with?
+
+JMS has been involved with genre television for many years, as story editor
+and writer for the Twilight Zone TV series (syndicated version), Captain
+Power, and the animated The Real Ghostbusters.  He has also written for 'Jake
+and the Fatman' and 'Murder, She Wrote.' JMS has also had many published short
+stories, an anthology, and two fantasy/horror novels.  Until recently, he was
+co-host of Hour 25, a Los Angeles area science fiction radio talk show.  He
+has also written a well-regarded book on scriptwriting.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 5.  What kind of Special Effects does Babylon 5 have?
+
+All special effects for Babylon 5 are computer generated imagery (CGI).
+For the first three seasons, the effects were done by Foundation Imaging,
+headed by Ron Thornton, utilizing Lightwave 3D and specialized software to
+design and render the visual effects.  (Lightwave is now running on PCs;
+Amigas were used originally.)  Macintoshes and PCs are used occasionally
+for 2-D effects and painting packages. Starting in season 4, the effects
+are done in-house at Netter Digital, using similar equipment to Foundation's.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 6.  Babylon 5 Episodes and Stories
+
+========    a. Television Episodes
+
+PILOT MOVIE (year 2257)
+
+ 00. 02-22-93      The Gathering    Writer: JMS  Director: RC
+ 00. 01-04-98      The Gathering [re-edited and re-scored version]
+
+SEASON ONE (2258)        (Season title: "Signs and Portents")
+
+ #   Week of  No.  Title                     Writer  Director
+ ------------------------------------------------------------
+ 01. 01-26-94 103  Midnight on the Firing Line  JMS  RC
+ 02. 02-02-94 102  Soul Hunter                  JMS  JJ
+ 03. 02-09-94 104  Born to the Purple           LD   BSG
+ 04. 02-16-94 101  Infection                    JMS  RC
+ 05. 02-23-94 108  The Parliament of Dreams     JMS  JJ
+ 06. 03-02-94 110  Mind War                     JMS  BSG
+ 07. 03-09-94 107  The War Prayer               DCF  RC
+ 08. 03-16-94 106  And the Sky Full of Stars    JMS  JG
+ 09. 04-20-94 113  Deathwalker                  LD   BSG
+ 10. 04-27-94 105  Believers                    DG   RC
+ 11. 05-04-94 111  Survivors                    MSZ  JJ
+ 12. 05-11-94 114  By Any Means Necessary       KD   JJ
+ 13. 05-18-94 116  Signs and Portents           JMS  JG
+ 14. 05-25-94 119  TKO                          LD   JF
+ 15. 07-06-94 109  Grail                        CM   RC
+ 16. 07-13-94 122  Eyes                         LD   JJ
+ 17. 07-20-94 115  Legacies                     DCF  BSG
+ 18. 07-27-94 120  A Voice in the Wilderness I  JMS  JG
+ 19. 08-03-94 121  A Voice in the Wilderness II JMS  JG
+ 20. 08-10-94 118  Babylon Squared              JMS  JJ
+ 21. 08-17-94 117  The Quality of Mercy         JMS  LSF
+ 22. 10-26-94 112  Chrysalis                    JMS  JG
+
+SEASON TWO (2259)     (Season title: "The Coming of Shadows")
+
+ #   Week of  No.  Title                     Writer  Director
+ ------------------------------------------------------------
+ 23. 11-02-94 201  Points of Departure          JMS  JG
+ 24. 11-09-94 202  Revelations                  JMS  JJ
+ 25. 11-16-94 203  The Geometry of Shadows      JMS  MV
+ 26. 11-23-94 204  A Distant Star               DCF  JJ
+ 27. 11-30-94 205  The Long Dark                SF   MD
+ 28. 12-07-94 206  Spider in the Web            LD   KC
+ 29. 12-14-94 208  Soul Mates                   PAD  JF
+ 30. 01-25-95 207  A Race Through Dark Places   JMS  JJ
+ 31. 02-01-95 209  The Coming of Shadows        JMS  JG
+ 32. 02-08-95 210  Gropos                       LD   JJ
+ 33. 02-15-95 211  All Alone in the Night       JMS  MD
+ 34. 02-22-95 212  Acts of Sacrifice            JMS  JJ
+ 35. 02-29-95 213  Hunter, Prey                 JMS  MB
+ 36. 04-26-95 215  There All The Honor Lies     PAD  MV
+ 37. 05-03-95 214  And Now For a Word           JMS  MD
+ 38. 05-10-95 217  In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum    JMS  DE
+ 39. 05-17-95 216  Knives                       LD   SP
+ 40. 05-24-95 218  Confessions and Lamentations JMS  KC
+ 41. 10-11-95 220  Divided Loyalties            JMS  JT
+ 42. 10-18-95 219  The Long, Twilight Struggle  JMS  JF
+ 43. 10-25-95 221  Comes the Inquisitor         JMS  MV
+ 44. 11-01-95 222  The Fall of Night            JMS  JG
+
+SEASON THREE (2260)      (Season title: "Point of No Return")
+
+ #   Week of  No.  Title                     Writer  Director
+ ------------------------------------------------------------
+ 45. 11-06-95 301  Matters of Honor             JMS  KC
+ 46. 11-13-95 302  Convictions                  JMS  MV
+ 47. 11-20-95 303  A Day in the Strife          JMS  DE
+ 48. 11-27-95 305  Passing Through Gethsemane   JMS  AN
+ 49. 01-29-96 304  Voices of Authority          JMS  MB
+ 50. 02-05-96 306  Dust to Dust                 JMS  DE
+ 51. 02-12-96 307  Exogenesis                   JMS  KC
+ 52. 02-19-96 308  Messages from Earth          JMS  MV
+ 53. 02-26-96 309  Point of No Return           JMS  JJ
+ 54. 04-01-96 310  Severed Dreams               JMS  DE
+ 55. 04-08-96 311  Ceremonies of Light and Dark JMS  JF
+ 56. 04-15-96 313  Sic Transit Vir              JMS  JT
+ 57. 04-22-96 312  A Late Delivery from Avalon  JMS  MV
+ 58. 04-29-96 314  Ship of Tears                JMS  MV
+ 59. 05-06-96 315  Interludes and Examinations  JMS  JT
+ 60. 05-13-96 316  War Without End, Part I      JMS  MV
+ 61. 05-20-96 317  War Without End, Part II     JMS  MV
+ 62. 09-30-96 318  Walkabout                    JMS  KC
+ 63. 10-07-96 319  Grey 17 is Missing           JMS  JF
+ 64. 10-14-96 320  And the Rock Cried Out,      JMS  DE
+                   No Hiding Place
+ 65. 10-21-96 321  Shadow Dancing               JMS  KF
+ 66. 10-28-96 322  Z'ha'dum                     JMS  AN
+
+SEASON FOUR (2261)       (Season title: "No Surrender, No Retreat")
+
+ #   Week of  No.  Title                     Writer  Director
+ ------------------------------------------------------------
+ 67. 11-04-96 401  The Hour of the Wolf         JMS  DE
+ 68. 11-11-96 402  What Ever Happened           JMS  KD
+                   to Mr. Garibaldi?
+ 69. 11-18-96 403  The Summoning                JMS  JM
+ 70. 11-25-96 404  Falling Toward Apotheosis    JMS  DE
+ 71. 1-27-97  405  The Long Night               JMS  JL
+ 72. 2-03-97  406  Into the Fire                JMS  KD
+ 73. 2-10-97  407  Epiphanies                   JMS  JF
+ 74. 2-17-97  408  The Illusion of Truth        JMS  SF
+ 75. 2-24-97  409  Atonement                    JMS  TD
+ 76. 4-21-97  410  Racing Mars                  JMS  JT
+ 77. 4-28-97  411  Lines of Communication       JMS  JF
+ 78. 5-05-97  412  Conflicts of Interests       JMS  DE
+ 79. 5-12-97  413  Rumors, Bargains and Lies    JMS  MV
+ 80. 5-19-97  414  Moments of Transition        JMS  TD
+ 81. 5-26-97  415  No Surrender, No Retreat     JMS  MV
+ 82. 6-02-97  416  The Exercise of Vital Powers JMS  JL
+ 83. 6-09-97  417  The Face of the Enemy        JMS  MV
+ 84. 6-16-97  418  Intersections in Real Time   JMS  JL
+ 85. 10-06-97 419  Between the Darkness         JMS  DE
+                   and the Light
+ 86. 10-13-97 420  End Game                     JMS  JC
+ 87. 10-20-97 421  Rising Star                  JMS  TD
+ 88. 10-27-97 501/ The Deconstruction           JMS  SF
+              422* of Falling Stars
+* Shot in the fifth season, 501 became the season 4 finale,
+  replacing 422, the series finale, to air in season 5.
+
+SEASON FIVE (2262)       (Season title: "The Wheel of Fire")
+
+ #   Date     No.  Title                     Writer  Director
+ ------------------------------------------------------------
+ 89. 98/01/21 502  No Compromises               JMS  JG
+ 90. 98/01/28 503  The Very Long Night of       JMS  DE
+                   Londo Mollari
+ 91. 98/02/04 504  The Paragon of Animals       JMS  JG
+ 92. 98/02/11 505  A View from the Gallery      JMS+ JG
+ 93. 98/02/18 506  Learning Curve               JMS  DE
+ 94. 98/02/25 507  Strange Relations            JMS  JF
+ 95. 98/03/04 508  Secrets of the Soul          JMS  TD
+ 96. 98/04/01 511  Day of the Dead              NG   DL
+ 97. 98/03/11 509  In the Kingdom of the Blind  JMS  DE
+ 99. 98/03/18 510  A Tragedy of Telepaths       JMS  TD
+ 99. 98/03/25 512  Phoenix Rising               JMS  DE
+100. 98/04/08 513  The Ragged Edge              JMS  JC
+101. 98/04/15 514  The Corps Is Mother,         JMS  SF
+                   The Corps is Father
+102. 98/05/27 515  Meditations on the Abyss     JMS
+103. 98/06/03 516  Darkness Ascending           JMS  JG
+104. 98/06/10 517  And All My Dreams,           JMS  GG
+                   Torn Asunder
+105. 98/06/17 518  Movements of Fire and Shadow JMS
+106.          519  The Fall of Centauri Prime   JMS
+107.          522  Wheel of Fire                JMS
+108.          520  Objects in Motion            JMS
+109.          521  Objects at Rest              JMS  JC
+110.          422/ Sleeping in Light            JMS JMS    
+              522a*
+* Shot in the fourth season, 422 became the series finale.
+
+TV MOVIES       (airing on TNT)
+
+     Date          Title                     Writer  Director
+ ------------------------------------------------------------
+     01-04-98      In the Beginning             JMS  JT
+     07-19-98      Thirdspace                   JMS  MV
+     11-08-98      The River of Souls           JMS  JG
+     01-03-99      A Call to Arms               JMS  JG?
+
+* * * * * See the Lurker's Guide for more current information.
+
+A sequel series, titled _The Babylon Project: Crusade_, will begin production
+in July 1998, for premiere in January 1999.  Further details can be found in
+the Lurker's Guide. 
+
+WRITERS:    PAD = Peter A. David; LD = Larry DiTillio; KD = Kathyrn Drennan;
+            DCF = D.C. Fontana; SF = Scott Frost; DG = David Gerrold; NG =
+            Neil Gaiman; CM = Christy Marx; JMS = J. Michael Straczynski; JMS+
+            = JMS with story by JMS and Harlan Ellison; MSZ = Marc Scott
+            Zicree.
+
+DIRECTORS:  MB = Menachem Binetski; RC = Richard Compton; JC = John Copeland;
+            KC = Kevin Cremins; MD = Mario DiLeo; KD = Kevin Dobson; TD = Tony
+            Dow; DE = David Eagle; JF = John Flinn [III]; KF = Kim Friedman;
+            LSF = Lorraine Senna Ferrara; SF = Stephen Furst; GG = Goran
+            Gajic; JG = Janet Greek; BSG = Bruce Seth Green; JJ = Jim
+            Johnston; DL = Doug Lefler; JL = John LaFia; JM = John McPherson;
+            AN = Adam Nimoy; SP = Stephen Posey; JT = Jesus [Salvador]
+            Trevino; MV = Michael [Laurence] Vejar.
+
+========    b. Novels
+
+Date   Title                     Author           ISBN (US)     ISBN (UK)
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ 02/95 Voices                    John Vornholt    0-440-22057-2 0-7522-0644-3
+ 04/95 Accusations               Lois Tilton      0-440-22058-0 0-7522-0649-4
+ 09/95 Blood Oath                John Vornholt    0-440-22059-9 0-7522-0654-0
+ 02/96 Clark's Law               Jim Mortimore    0-440-22229-X 0-7522-0153-0
+ 03/96 The Touch of Your Shadow, Neil Barrett Jr. 0-440-22230-3 0-7522-0158-1
+        The Whisper of Your Name
+ 05/96 Betrayals                 S. M. Stirling   0-440-22234-6
+ 03/97 The Shadow Within         Jeane Cavelos    0-440-22348-2
+ 04/97 Personal Agendas          Al Sarrantonio   0-440-22351-2
+ 06/97 To Dream                  Kathryn Drennan  0-440-22354-7
+       in the City of Sorrows
+ 01/98 In the Beginning                           0-345-42452-2
+       [Novelization of JMS story] Peter David
+ ??/98 Thirdspace
+       [Novelization of JMS story] Peter David
+
+See the Lurker's Guide for more recent information.
+
+========    c. Comics
+
+ Month Issue    Title               Writers/Artists
+ --------------------------------------------------------
+ 01/95  1   In Darkness Find Me     JMS/Netzer/Leigh
+ 02/95  2   Treason                 Mark Moretti/Netzer/Leigh
+ 03/95  3   In Harm's Way           Moretti/Garzon
+ 04/95  4   The Price of Peace      Moretti/Netzer/Leigh
+
+Shadows Past and Present
+ 05/95  5   With Friends Like These Tim DeHaas/John Ridgway
+ 06/95  6   Against the Odds        ""
+ 07/95  7   Survival the Hard Way   ""
+ 08/95  8   Silent Enemies          ""
+
+Laser-Mirror-Starweb
+ 09/95  9   Duet for Human and Narn in C Sharp  David Gerrold
+ 10/95  10  Coda for Human and Narn in B Flat   ""
+
+ 11/95  11  The Psi Corps and You               DeHaas/Ridgway
+
+ 01/98  12  In Valen's Name         JMS/Mike Collins
+ 02/98  13  In Valen's Name 2       JMS/
+ 03/98  14  In Valen's Name 3       JMS/
+
+See the Lurker's Guide for more recent information.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 7.  How can I contact the folks behind Babylon 5?
+
+You can contact TNT to thank them for picking up B5, at the following
+address:
+
+Turner Network Television (TNT)
+One CNN Center
+P O Box 105366
+Atlanta, GA 30348
+
+You can write to the show's creator, as well as the cast and crew, at the
+following address.  DO NOT SEND SCRIPTS OR STORY IDEAS.  Babylon 5 is NOT
+accepting outside stories or story ideas.
+
+J. Michael Straczynski (or any cast or crew member)
+C/O BABYLON 5                                      <---- VERY IMPORTANT !!!!
+14431 Ventura Blvd, suite 260
+Sherman Oaks, CA  91423
+
+(Babylon 5 is filmed on an independent lot; they are not open for set tours.)
+
+E-mail to JMS:  To avoid causing problems & wasting JMS's time, PLEASE:
+
+ * Do not send JMS e-mail inquiries & comments about the Babylon 5 story.
+   If you have questions/comments, do so only in a PUBLIC forum.
+   (But first, see the Lurker's Guide page for the current episode, or search
+   the JMS archives to see if your question was already asked and answered!)
+
+ * Only send JMS e-mail regarding confidential matters, and then only to his
+   Genie address.  (See the Lurker's Guide archives to find that out.)
+
+ * Do not send JMS any attached files.  (A Trojan Horse got him recently!)
+
+ * Do NOT send story ideas, requests to read scripts/stories, requests for
+   agent suggestions, requests for items, autographs, scripts, tours, etc.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 8.  One-Liner FAQs
+
+Following are some of the questions asked a lot by newcomers to Babylon 5 and
+brief answers to those questions.
+
+Production:
+
+Q: Are the B5 novels and comics part of the official B5 canon?
+A: Yes, JMS attempts to make sure the other stories tie into the big story.
+
+Q: How come [insert name] is in the opening credits but not in the show?
+A: Characters contracted for 7 or more episodes are in the opening credits.
+
+Q: Which came first, Deep Space 9 or Babylon 5?
+A: B5 was pitched to Paramount in 1989, two years before DS9 was created.
+
+Q: What has happened with Harlan Ellison's scripts?
+A: They've been delayed due to poor health and a full schedule.
+
+Q: Is the "Be seeing you" salute a reference to "The Prisoner"?
+A: Yes, most definitely.  It first appeard in season 1's "Mind War."
+
+Q: Why don't we usually see stars revolving outside C&C?
+A: CGI is too costly; They're still working on a reasonable solution.
+
+Q: Who does the voice for the main B5 computer?
+A: Haley McLane, Script Supervisor on the B5 production staff for seasons 1-3.
+
+General:
+
+Q: Why are they using paper in the 23rd century?
+A: Paper is convenient.  It's actually a recyclable, synthetic material.
+
+Q: Why was Sinclair, only a Commander, given the job of running the station?
+A: The Minbari rejected all choices, down the line, until it reached Sinclair.
+
+Q: What does the "Third Age" of mankind mean?  What are the 1st and 2nd?
+A: This is not revealed until the first part of the fourth season.
+
+Q: Why is the C&C (Command and Control) Dome sometimes empty?
+A: It goes on "standby" every 36-48 hours for maintenance, backups, etc.
+
+Q: How is the "sound in space" issue dealt with?
+A: Existence of sound in space is debatable; you can think of it as music.
+
+Q: Did Ivanova and Winters have a romantic affair?
+A: Yes.
+
+Aliens:
+
+Q: What's with the Centauri Hair?
+A: Hair is a measure of status: more elaborate = higher status. Women go bald.
+
+Q: What is that thing on Minbari heads?
+A: It's a bone; it grows with age and differs for individuals, sex, and caste.
+
+Q: Is Bill Mumy (Lennier) the same guy from _Lost In Space_?
+A: Yes.  Only much older.
+
+Q: How did the war between Earth and the Minbari start?
+A: A misunderstanding on first contact.
+
+Q: What is known about Vorlons?
+A: Very little. Reclusive, and may be hiding something under those suits.
+
+Q: Why are we always seeing aliens speaking English to each other?
+A: As in WWII movies, we assume they are speaking in their native tongue.
+
+Q: What race has the 'flying saucer' ships?
+A: The Vree, a race that shows up from time to time; first in "Deathwalker."
+
+Technology:
+
+Q: How do jump gates work?
+A: Ships enter one and exit another. Large ships can make their own points.
+
+Q: What's the size and capacity of the station?
+A: 5 miles long, holding as many as 250,000 beings (many in transit).
+
+Q: How do PPGs (Phased Plasma Guns) work?
+A: A super-heated burst of plasma, burning through the air.
+
+Q: How does communication with Earth work?
+A: Tachyons, giving instantaneous communications; problematic in jump gates.
+
+Q: Where in the galaxy is the station?
+A: Less than 25 light years from earth, at the star Epsilon Eridani.
+
+Q: How does C&C have gravity?
+A: They are about 1/3 out from the center, so they do have light gravity.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 9. Miscellaneous Info
+
+========    a. Babylon 5 online
+
+Because JMS has been on GEnie talking about Babylon 5 since late 1991, GEnie
+is a choice place to be for a Babylon 5 fan.  On the GEnie Science Fiction
+RoundTable, there are two Babylon 5 categories where JMS talks with the fans
+about the show, both production and story info.
+
+Other Babylonians can be found online as well -- John Vulich and Mojo have
+been spotted on Usenet; Mira Furlan lurks on GEnie; many writers such as David
+Gerrold, Peter David, John Vornholt, and Christy Marx are on GEnie or CI$.
+
+JMS is very active on the Usenet (since July 1993), although he stopped
+participating when the flamebait quotient became intolerable.  He has rejoined
+the Usenet fold with the creation of the moderated newsgroup.
+
+JMS is also active on BIX, on CompuServe, and several other systems. (He also
+"lurks" on a few systems to get a sense of how Babylon 5 discussions go
+without his presence known.)
+
+What JMS gets out of his participation online, is, as he puts it, a "sense of
+the room."  Being a writer means coming up with questions to strengthen
+characters and the world of the story, but nobody could ever come up with
+every conceivable question. The nets are helpful because, as JMS puts it, "on
+the nets, you get questions you never *dreamed* of."
+
+One topic of discussion that arises frequently is the request that no story
+ideas be suggested in the online forums.  This request is in place because if
+somebody suggests a story, and it happens to be one that JMS is working on
+already, that JMS is potentially open to lawsuits if the poster were to
+suspect that her story idea were stolen.  For instance, JMS had to scrap a
+story he was working on because somebody asked 'What if Joe wrote a story in
+which a "memory-challenged" person DISCOVERED records of who he or she was?'
+(This story was resurrected in the third season after some difficult legal
+finageling....)
+
+Often there are suggestions that the poster could include with their ideas a
+"disclaimer" or a "release."  This has been debated over and over again, but
+the issue boils down to the problem that no matter what, the B5 production
+would be exposed to lawsuits, which, even if frivolous and unwinnable, would
+shut down production of the show while in litigation.  Television producers in
+general must go to great lengths to keep themselves protected, so JMS's
+presence online hangs in a delicate balance.  If you do wish to suggest story
+ideas, you can use the creative mailing list described in section 10a.
+
+Online lore:  On usenet, a running joke is the Sinclair's "duck."  This
+reference came about because of rude postings about male and female anatomy,
+which became censored to words "T*TS" and "D*CK," which became "tots" and
+"duck." There are also running gags about Zima and baseball bats.  Don't ask.
+There's of course the <*> symbol that shows up in many fans' signatures since
+the first season; it appears to represent a jumpgate, but its origin is lost
+in obscurity.
+
+========    b. Fans' influence on the show
+
+The location of Babylon 5 is at Grid Epsilon 470,18,22 which corresponds to
+the original location of the Babylon 5 topic on GEnie (Page 470, CAT 18, Topic
+22).  The first mention of a planet's coordinates in "Mind War" were Grid
+Epsilon 471,18,25 which corresponds to a topic in the Babylon 5 Category on
+GEnie.
+
+Partially due to fan response from those who saw the pilot movie or clips,
+some things in the pilot movie were changed before broadcast.  The voice of
+Delenn is Mira Furlan's voice without any processing and Delenn is female to
+begin with.  Original plans were to electronically process her voice and have
+Delenn change sex during the series. Some additional voice-over was done by
+Patricia Tallman to clarify one scene in the show with Kosh in the Medlab.
+
+The branding of a Minbari in "The War Prayer" that had similarities to a DS9
+episode was kept after feedback from fans about it.  It had been considered
+removing the branding scene and electronically wiping the brand from the rest
+of the episode.
+
+In the first season, when names submitted for a mega corporation and a mineral
+were rejected for legal reasons, JMS went to the GEnie B5 Category and asked
+for suggestions. The resulting names used are Quantium-40 for the mineral
+(submitted by David Strauss) and Universal Terraform for the company (submit-
+ted by Arne Starr), and were used in "Parliament of Dreams" and "Mind War."
+Perhaps not coincidentally, the waiter in one of the episodes is named David.
+
+The denizens of "Downbelow" are called "lurkers," a term for those on the
+newsgroups who read messages but never post.
+
+Based on interest in the legal aspects of the Psi Corps, he indicates how
+some of this works in "The Quality of Mercy."
+
+An EA ship in "A Voice in the Wilderness" is named "Hyperion" in
+acknowledgment of the original name of the Babylon 5 archive site and home of
+the Lurker's Guide, formerly ftp.hyperion.com.
+
+The lightbulb joke in "Convictions" is an homage to the net presence of
+B5 and the various jokes that people post.  A reference to Sheridan's "true
+face" as being mashed by his pillow came out of Usenet discussion.
+
+========    c. Awards
+
+Sept. 1993  - Emmy Award for Special Visual Effects for the Pilot movie
+March 1994  - Space Frontier Foundation award for "Best Vision of the Future"
+Sept 1994   - Emmy award winner for makeup in "The Parliament of Dreams"
+?           - Cult TV Award for best new series, UK
+?           - Jewish Televimage Award
+July 1995   - Emmy nominations: Cinematography, Hairstyling, Makeup
+May 1996    - "The Coming of Shadows" awarded Compuserve Homer Award for
+              Dramatic Presentation
+July 1996   - "Comes the Inquisitor" nominated for Emmy in Cinematography
+Sept. 1996  - "The Coming of Shadows" wins Hugo award
+Oct. 1996   - Sci-Fi Universe: Best Series, Best Actor (Boxleitner), Best
+              Sup. Actor (Jurasik), Best Sup. Actress (Furlan)
+Oct. 1996   - Space Frontier Foundation award for "Best Vision of the Future"
+Dec. 1996   - American Cinema Foundation's E Pluribus Unim Award
+              for Television Series, Drama: "Passing Through Gethsemane"
+July 1997   - Emmy nomination for best makeup in "The Summoning"
+Aug. 1997   - "Severed Dreams" wins Hugo award
+
+See the Lurker's Guide for more recent information.
+
+========    d. Babylon 5 References in other JMS works
+
+In the Captain Power episode "Final Stand," Tank mentions that he's from the
+Babylon 5 Genetic Engineering Colony.
+
+In the JMS Novel "Othersyde," Babylon 5 is mentioned as one of the characters'
+favorite TV series.
+
+In the Captain Power Episode "A Summoning of Thunder Part 2", when Hawk
+activates the first power suit, Mentor says "And So It Begins".  This has
+been confirmed by JMS as a "Koshism" he threw in.
+
+========    e. Miscellaneous Production Info
+
+Babylon 5 is being filmed in the 16:9 aspect ratio, trimming it for broadcast.
+Plans are for the episodes to later be available in widescreen on laserdisc
+and when HDTV happens.  The opening titles are in letterbox format.
+
+Audio is being done in full Surround Sound.  Larry DiTillio wrote
+background dialogue (known as "walla") in the first two seasons.
+
+Alien makeup and such for the series is being done by Optic Nerve Studios
+(Everett Burrell and John Vulich) which is a change from the pilot.
+
+The early episodes had some video and audio degradation due to the manner in
+which commercials, closed captioning and such were being added using analog
+transfers and used tape.  Some was corrected by the broadcast of "The War
+Prayer" with more improvements in time.
+
+Several "errors" have been broadcast and then later fixed.  The original
+"Mind War" had a CGI error (you could see a bright star through a ship in
+the first scene) that was corrected for later broadcasts.  The original North
+America satellite feed of "Chrysalis" was incorrectly assembled; some markets
+broadcast this version.  An incorrect historical reference to Jack the Ripper
+from "Comes the Inquisitor" was replaced.  In "Moments of Transition", an EA
+Cruiser was mistakenly labelled the Agamemnon, and will be replaced.  It is
+anticipated that footage of Anna Sheridan featuring Beth Toussant was
+replaced with Melissa Gilbert footage to improve continuity. (VERIFICATION?)
+
+========    f. Production Order vs. Airing Order
+
+Several episodes were aired in a different order than they were originally
+produced.  One reason is to allow extra time for post-production of a
+particularly effects-laden episode.  In a few cases, episodes were aired in
+a slightly different order from their original production order; for details,
+see WWW: http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/countries/master/
+
+The fourth season finale was as production number 501, along with the fifth
+season episodes.  This is because the series finale had already been filmed,
+and once B5 was given its fifth season, the episode was held until the end of
+the fifth season.
+
+TNT has assured fans that the episodes, when aired on TNT, will be aired in
+an official order as determined by JMS.
+
+========    g. Production Changes
+
+----> Between pilot and first season:
+
+Due to reworking and recasting after the pilot, Lt. Cmdr. Laurel Takashima,
+Dr. Benjamin Kyle, and telepath Lyta Alexander were replaced.  Kyle and
+Alexander were sent back to Earth under "mysterious circumstances"; Takashima
+is on a classified mission, and may return someday.  Much of the character
+stories and back-histories were transferred to their replacements.
+
+Make-up for G'Kar was improved; Delenn's look was substantially modified once
+it was established that the character would be female.
+
+----> Between first and second season:
+
+Director Richard Compton, a fixture on B5 at its inception, left the show
+after "Grail."  The narration and main titles was changed to be shorter, and
+to include new graphics introducing the characters.  Many improvements in
+costumes, makeup, lighting, and FX were added for season 2. Several new sets
+were added, including a bazaar and an officer's lounge called "Earhart's,"
+after the famed aviator. In order to advance the story, the character of
+Commander Sinclair was moved "off the chess board" at the start of season 2.
+According to JMS, this was a mutual, amicable decision between producers and
+Michael O'Hare.  Lt. Cmdr. Ivanova was promoted to Commander; Delenn went
+through a physical change.  Na'Toth was re-cast, and the character of Warren
+Keffer was added.
+
+----> Between second and third season:
+
+The narration changed once again.  Additional sets were brought on, including
+a rather large one.  Keffer and Talia Winters, and Na'Toth are no longer on
+the show; Zack Allan was made a regular character, and Marcus Cole was brought
+in as a regular.
+
+----> Between third and fourth season:
+
+Foundation Imaging is no longer doing the visual effects; they are now done in
+house by Netter Digital.  Additionally, many of the behind-the-scenes crew
+that had been on the show since the beginning are not returning.  Lyta
+Alexander joins the main cast of the show.
+
+----> Between fourth and fifth season:
+
+Claudia Christian leaves the cast; Tracy Scoggins joins the cast.
+
+----> A list of episodes that have been mentioned online and later retitled.
+
+  "Blood and Thunder"       -->  "Midnight on the Firing Line"
+  "Amaranth"                -->  "Born to the Purple"
+  "Carnival!"               -->  "The Parliament of Dreams"
+  "A Knife in the Shadows"  -->  "Survivors"
+  "Backlash"                -->  "By Any Means Necessary"
+  "Raiding Party"           -->  "Signs and Portents"
+  "The Resurrectionist"     -->  "The Quality of Mercy"
+  "Chrysalis, Part II"      -->  "Points of Departure"
+  "A Trick of the Mind"     -->  "A Spider in the Web"
+  "Pestilence, Famine & Death">  "Soul Mates"
+  "Cat and Mouse"           -->  "A Tragedy of Telepaths"
+
+  Season 3 was initially called "I am Death, Destroyer of Worlds."
+
+> Scripts not used in Season 1:
+
+  "Target Unknown" and "Metaphors and Body Counts" (David Gerrold)
+
+> Harlan Ellison stories mentioned but not written: "Midnight in the Sunken
+  Cathedral" and "Demon on the Run"
+
+> Season 2 story titles shelved:
+
+  All Our Songs Forgotten, a.k.a. "Unnatural Selection" (D.C. Fontana),
+  The Very Long Night of Susan Ivanova (JMS), "Expectations" (David Gerold)
+
+========    h. Fan Clubs
+
+See the Lurker's Guide for current listings.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 10. Where to find online information
+
+More detailed information can be found on the WWW at
+http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/resources/online.html
+
+========    a. INTERNET
+
+WORLD   "The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5" is by far the best source for
+WIDE    B5 updates, information, analyses, images, and so on.
+WEB     North America (West):        http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html
+        Mirrors of the Midwinter site are:
+        North America (East):           http://www.dscga.com/lurk/lurker.html
+        Australia:                      http://www.cybersite.com.au/babylon5/
+        Sweden:                    http://www.lysator.liu.se/lurk/lurker.html
+        Greece:                           http://www.ntua.gr/lurk/lurker.html
+
+        The Babylon 5 Fan club:
+        http://www.thestation.com/home.html
+
+        The Official B5 web site is less ambitious, but has a nice set of high
+        quality official graphics, movies, etc. at http://www.babylon5.com/
+        However, do not expect to see much new content here now that TNT is
+        hosting the show.
+        
+        TNT has a nice site, http://tnt.turner.com/babylon5/.  It holds
+        North-American schedule information and other goodies.
+
+        The site for the Official B5 Fan club is http://www.thestation.com/
+        
+        An unofficial encyclopedia is http://interweb.uml.edu/B5/Enc/
+
+        The web holds dozens of web pages devoted to B5; you can find many
+        of them via links at the Lurker's Guide or the official site.
+
+USENET  rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.info
+        A low-volume, moderated list for announcements and information related
+        to Babylon 5, as well as general compilations of JMS postings.
+        A must for anybody who can get Usenet.  Created November 1995.
+        This group is archived on the web: http://ivory.ora.com/rastbi/
+        (IS THIS SITE STILL ACTIVE?)
+
+        rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
+        The new moderated discussion group in which JMS participates, as well
+        as co-producer George Johnsen, along with occasional other B5 staffers
+        and writers.  Created April 1996.
+
+        rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5
+        This group was created in Mar 28 1994 and is the main unmoderated
+        Babylon 5 discussion newsgroup.  JMS no longer participates here.
+
+        alt.tv.babylon-5
+        The original Usenet B5 group, created Feb 18 1993, and still online
+
+        uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5 and aus.sf.babylon5 are UK and Oz groups.
+
+        rec.video.satellite, rec.arts.tv, and rec.arts.sf.tv may also contain
+        Babylon 5 discussion and announcements.
+
+FTP     ftp.midwinter.com (206.148.146.193) is the main site from which you
+        can retrieve Babylon-5-related files via anonymous FTP.
+        NORTH AMERICAN MIRROR: ftp.uml.edu
+        AUSTRALIAN MIRROR: econ-www.newcastle.edu.au
+        EUROPEAN MIRROR:  ftp.ctrl-c.liu.se
+
+REVIEW  The Babylon 5 Reviews Electronic Forum, moderated by Jefrey Anbinder.
+LIST    To subscribe, e-mail the automated list server, listproc@cornell.edu.
+        Put a single line into the body of the  message, reading:
+        SUBSCRIBE B5-REVIEW-L Firstname Lastname
+        This is processed by machine, so do not include a signature.
+
+STORY   An outlet for creative "fan fiction" has been set up as a mailing list
+IDEAS   in order to keep JMS from being exposed to any story ideas.  There's
+LIST    also a speculation mailing list.  Send e-mail to these addresses:
+        b5-creative-request@lists.best.com for creative stories, or to
+        b5-speculation-request@lists.best.com for speculation.  Place the word
+        SUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
+
+INTERNET A continuous chat exists on EFnet on channel "#Babylon5".
+RELAY   Info on the B5 chat: http://www.nwlink.com/~brett/B5irc/
+CHAT
+
+MUD/    There's a B5 MUD (info: rmeikle@cs.strath.ac.uk ) reachable by:
+MUSH    telnet underworld.demon.co.uk 2010 / visit babylonfive
+        A B5 Mush can be found at gateway.targonia.com 4201.
+
+LOCAL   MANY areas now have local area mailing lists, thanks to the babcom
+AREA    list server.  WWW: http://www.babcom.com/b5/lists.shtml
+LISTS   Or, over e-mail, send 'help' to majordomo@babcom.com for a complete
+        list of commands.  'lists' gets you the list of lists served.
+
+JMS     To get mailings of JMS's answers from Usenet (and their preceeding
+RELAY   questions) as well as digest of CI$ JMS postings, send e-mail to
+LIST    majordomo@majordomo.cs.columbia.edu containing "subscribe b5jms"
+        Another similar service is available by sending e-mail to
+        majordomo@ulc199.residence.gatech.edu with "subscribe jms-posts"
+        in the body of the message.
+        WWW: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/b5jms/
+
+WARNER  A new mailing list from Warner Bros. for fans has been started; it has
+BROS.   occasional "newsletter" mailings.  Mail listserv@taz.warnerbros.com
+LIST    with body text: subscribe babylon5 firstname lastname
+        [This list may no longer be active.  Let me know if you know!]
+
+ELEC-   "The Zocalo" is a 4100+ member B5 club/newsletter via e-mail.
+TRONIC  Send your first name, where you found this info, your city, state,
+NEWS-   and country of residence to katana@highfiber.com.
+LETTERS WWW: http://www.highfiber.com/~katana/
+
+========    b. GEnie
+
+The two Babylon 5 topics are located at Page 471, Category 18 (general
+series-related) and 19 (episode-specific).  Archives of past messages are
+available in the GEnie SFRT files areas, along with graphics files and the
+interactive demos are also available in the file area.
+
+========    c. America Online (AOL)
+
+AOL now features a Babylon 5 Section (Keyword: Babylon5). There are official
+promotional images, movies, and sounds and an (uncredited!) adaptation of this
+FAQ list. Interactive interviews with the cast and crew occur frequently.  JMS
+now participates in the message areas.
+
+========    d. CompuServe
+
+JMS is a regular daily participant in the SF & Fantasy Media One Forum
+(SFMEDONE), where there are three active Babylon 5 sections (for general
+discussion and spoiler discussions, and the UK audience), two weekly B5
+conferences, and quarterly JMS conferences.  There is also another B5
+conference, in the eDRIVE grouping of forums, under ETV, Section 7, SF/Sci-Fi;
+JMS pops in there from time to time.
+
+========    e. Other
+
+JMS also frequents BIX, and lurks on other networks; there are active B5
+sections on many other networks and BBSs around the world.  Babylon 5
+graphic files, information files, and forwarded JMS postings are available
+on many of these systems.  If you have a local BBS or network, feel free to
+add some of the resources from the FTP site over to that system!
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 11. Credits and Legalese
+
+This text file may be distributed online, in complete or excerpted form, as
+long as acknowledgement is made to the authors, and the URL of the current
+version of this file is indicated. (see top of document.)
+
+The Babylon 5 Frequently Asked Questions List part (A) is Copyright 1996-98 by
+Dan Wood.  Acknowledgement is made to J. Michael Straczynski, previous FAQ
+maintainer Lee Whiteside and to excerpted contributions from the Babylon 5
+online libraries, especially The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5 and The Zocalo.
+
+Maintained by Dan Wood.  This is the final edition.
+
+-------------------------   "If one company dominates everything, it's
+ NAME: Dan Wood       <*>   dangerous.  You kill innovation and you lose
+  WEB:    www.karelia.com   the capacity to create alternatives.  Ultimately,
+EMAIL:danwood@  ^ ^ ^ ^ ^   that isn't good for the consumer or the country."
+ SPAM:abuse@hormel.com :)         -- Samuel Miller, U.S. Justice Department 
+-------------------------   BOYCOTT MICROSOFT: <http://www.vcnet.com/bms/>
+
diff --git a/ftp/babylon-5-news-schedule b/ftp/babylon-5-news-schedule
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+Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.info,rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated,rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5,alt.tv.babylon-5,aus.sf.babylon5,rec.arts.sf.tv,alt.answers,rec.answers,news.answers
+From: Babylon 5 FAQ <no_hormel_products@anywhere.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5 FAQ (B): News & Schedule
+Approved: news-answers-request@mit.edu
+Organization: Interstellar News Network
+Followup-To: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
+Reply-To: (see signature)
+Summary: This is the final version of the news/schedule section of the
+         Babylon 5 FAQ.
+
+Archive-name: tv/babylon-5/news-schedule
+Frequency: weekly
+Last-modified: 29 May 1998
+
++-----------------------------------+
+|  BABYLON 5 FAQ, part (B):         |
+|  News & Schedule of Episodes      |
+|                                   |
+|  29 May 1998 Edition - FINAL ONE  |
++-----------------------------------+
+
+I am retiring the Babylon 5 FAQ because it has been made obsolete by the
+large number of other resources available on the World Wide Web.  There
+isn't really a need for a FAQ anymore in today's WWW world.
+
+Time-dependent information has been removed from this final version, which
+means that this entire part (B) of the FAQ has been gutted.
+
+Files like this tend to get archived for a while, so I am publishing a
+final version to stay in the various archives so it doesn't appear that
+a new version is forthcoming.
+
+For the latest information on Babylon 5, I direct you to:
+
+http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html
+for the highly detailed "Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5."
+
+http://www.thestation.com/home.html
+for a wide range of merchandise and collectables.
+
+http://tnt.turner.com/babylon5/
+for the latest information in U.S. airings.
+
+These sites, or sites pointed to by these sites, should hold the information
+you need to keep up on Babylon 5.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Credits and Legalese
+
+This text file may be distributed online, in complete or excerpted form, as
+long as acknowledgement is made to the authors, and the URL of the current
+version of this file is indicated. (see top of document.)
+
+The Babylon 5 Frequently Asked Questions List part (B) is Copyright 1996-98 by
+Dan Wood.  Acknowledgement is made to J. Michael Straczynski, previous FAQ
+maintainer Lee Whiteside and to excerpted contributions from the Babylon 5
+online libraries, especially The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5 and The Zocalo.
+
+Maintained by Dan Wood.  This is the final edition.
+
+-------------------------  "Depending on a single company for all future
+ NAME: Dan Wood       <*>   OS innovation and on another for all future
+  WEB:    www.karelia.com   CPU innovation would be tragic for an indus-
+EMAIL:danwood@  ^ ^ ^ ^ ^   try driven by technology."
+ SPAM:abuse@hormel.com :)       -- Tom R. Halfhill, Sr. Editor, BYTE Mag.
+-------------------------   BOYCOTT MICROSOFT: <http://www.vcnet.com/bms/>
+                           
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+Newsgroups:
+rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.info,rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated,rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5,alt.tv.babylon-5,aus.sf.babylon5,rec.arts.sf.tv,alt.answers,rec.answers,news.answers
+From: Babylon 5 FAQ <no_hormel_products@anywhere.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5 FAQ (C): Setting for season 1
+Approved: news-answers-request@mit.edu
+Organization: Earth Alliance
+Followup-To: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
+Reply-To: (see signature)
+Summary: This document is a supplement to the Babylon 5 FAQ list.  It
+contains
+         information to help viewers of the show who are catching up with
+the
+         show in season 1  ("Signs and Portents", Earth year 2258).
+
+Archive-name: tv/babylon-5/setting/season1
+Frequency: bi-weekly
+Last-modified: 17 December 1997
+
++-----------------------------------+
+|  BABYLON 5 FAQ, part (C):         |
+|  Setting for season #1            |
+|                                   |
+|  A guide for viewers who wish to  |
+|  catch up to the events  leading  |
+|  up to season 1, "Signs and Por-  |
+|  tents."   This is the year 2258  |
+|  in the opening credits.          |
+|                                   |
+|  This holds minor spoilers for    |
+|  the pilot only, and descriptions |
+|  of characters and settings for   |
+|  season 1.                        |
++-----------------------------------+
+
+There are SEVEN parts to the FAQ: (A) Information about B5; (B) News and
+Schedule; (C), (D), (E), (F) are the settings for seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
+respectively.
+
+The latest version of all parts of the FAQ can be retrieved via anonymous
+ftp
+at ftp://ftp.midwinter.com/pub/Babylon-5/ or via e-mail by sending a note to
+mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with any or all of these lines in the message body:
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/faq
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/news-schedule
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/setting/season1
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/setting/season2
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/setting/season3
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/setting/season4
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/setting/season5
+
+WORLD WIDE WEB users should see http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html
+for the much more detailed "Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5"; the information
+in this document is similar to the "Universe" section.
+
+    -------------------------
+    Contents of this document
+    -------------------------
+    1.  Introduction
+    2.  The Setting of Babylon 5
+    3.  The Major Players
+    4.  The Characters
+    5.  The Story So Far
+    6.  Past and Current reference
+    7.  Credits and Legalese
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 1.  Introduction
+
+    It was the dawn of the third age of mankind, ten years after the Earth/
+    Minbari war.  The Babylon Project was a dream given form.  Its goal: to
+    prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could
+work
+    out their differences peacefully.  It's a port of call - home away from
+    home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers.  Humans and
+    aliens wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning
+    metal, all alone in the night.  It can be a dangerous place, but it's
+our
+    last best hope for peace.  This is the story of the last of the Babylon
+    stations.  The year is 2258.  The name of the place is Babylon 5.
+        -- Commander Sinclair
+
+    ####    Narration from the Pilot movie, "The Gathering":
+
+    I was there at the dawn of the third age of mankind.  It began in the
+    Earth year 2257 with the founding of the last of the Babylon stations,
+    located deep in neutral space.  It was a port of call for refugees,
+    smugglers, businessmen, diplomats and travellers from a hundred worlds.
+    It could be a dangerous place, but we accepted the risks because Babylon
+5
+    was our last, best hope for peace.  Under the leadership of its final
+    commander, Babylon 5 was a dream given form.  A dream of a galaxy
+without
+    war, and species of different worlds could live, side by side in mutual
+    respect.  A dream that was in danger as never before, by the arrival of
+    one man on a mission of destruction.  Babylon 5 was the last of the
+    Babylon stations.  This is its story.
+        -- Centauri Ambassador Londo Mollari
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 2.  The Setting of Babylon 5
+
+A hundred years ago, humanity made contact with its first alien civilization
+-- or more to the point, they made contact with us.  Before the arrival of
+the
+Centauri, we were confined to our own solar system, forced to use slow
+sleeper
+ships to explore the universe.  The Centauri gave us the stars, offered us
+the
+use of their "jumpgates" -- portals into hyperspace -- and later, taught us
+to
+make our own.  In exchange for this and other technologies, they asked only
+for trinkets, novelties to sell back home.
+
+In the eighty years that followed, humanity flexed its muscles, expanding
+outward at a rapid pace.  When a group of less powerful races was attacked
+by
+an invading army, Earth came to their aid, cementing its role as a major
+galactic power, if a young, brash one.
+
+The wave of euphoria came crashing down when humanity made contact with a
+mysterious race called the Minbari.  The Earth-Minbari War began with a
+misunderstanding, a human captain and a Minbari commander too quick on the
+trigger.  Thanks to bad luck or something darker, our first meeting with the
+Minbari resulted in the death of their supreme religious and political
+leader.
+To the Minbari, what followed was a holy war, vengeance for the murder of
+their spiritual leader.  Earth was no match for the technologically superior
+Minbari, and they easily beat us back to our home planet.
+
+Then, without explanation, as their ships closed in on Earth and wiped out
+our
+last desperate defenses, the Minbari halted their advance and surrendered.
+Only an elite few knew why.
+
+The Babylon Project was conceived in the aftermath of the war.  Modeled
+after
+the United Nations, it would be a meeting place, neutral ground where the
+powers could meet and work out their differences peacefully.
+
+The first three Babylon stations were sabotaged in mid-construction.  The
+fourth was completed, but just as it was about to go online, it vanished
+without a trace.  The Earth government would have stopped there, but some of
+the alien governments, seeing the value of a meeting ground, offered
+financial
+assistance for the construction of a fifth station.  Naturally, there were
+strings attached.
+
+Babylon 5 is the story of the last of the Babylon stations, the last hope
+for
+a galaxy without war.  It begins in the year 2257 with the opening of the
+Babylon 5 station.
+
+ + + + + +
+
+Season 1 opens almost a year after the station went on-line.   Things have
+functioned surprisingly smoothly, considering the fate of the station's
+predecessors.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 3.  The Major Players
+
+========    a. The Earth Alliance
+
+The Earth Alliance, headquartered in Geneva, is in charge of the station and
+the surrounding space.  It is led by President Luis Santiago, a
+forward-looking politician who values Earth's participation in Babylon 5
+tremendously.  Of special note is a branch of the Earth government called
+Psi-Corps, responsible for the tracking and training of human telepaths.
+The
+EA appointed Commander Jeffrey Sinclair to command Babylon 5, although the
+installation of such a low-ranked officer made more than a few people upset.
+
+========    b. The Minbari Federation
+
+Earth's former adversary, the Minbari Federation, was the major alien
+contributor to the construction of Babylon 5.  An old, highly spiritual
+race,
+Minbari are humanoid with exterior bone crests on their heads.  The Minbari
+are ruled by a body known as the Grey Council, three members from each of
+the
+three castes of Minbari society.  The reason behind the sudden Minbari
+surrender at the climax of the Earth-Minbari War is a closely guarded
+secret,
+but what isn't a secret is that the warrior caste was none too pleased about
+the order; even today, it is a source of tension within Minbari society.
+
+========    c. The Centauri Republic
+
+The Centauri were the first aliens encountered by humanity.  Physically,
+they
+look nearly identical to humans, and in fact the Centauri initially claimed
+that Earth was a lost colony (a claim they later retracted after humans
+discovered that the similarities weren't so great after all.)  Centauri
+women
+are bald; men wear their hair in peacock-style fans whose length indicates
+the
+wearer's social standing.  The Centauri Republic is a fading empire, slowly
+losing control of its member worlds, a decline much like that of the British
+Empire.
+
+========    d. The Narn Regime
+
+Among those formerly under Centauri domination are the Narn, a
+reptilian-looking race who fought off their oppressors in a century-long war
+of attrition.  Now the Narn Regime is building its military up, trying to
+settle the score through an aggressive expansionist policy.  Most Narn would
+like nothing better than to see the Centauri wiped from the face of the
+universe, and from all appearances, they'll shortly be in a position to get
+their wish.
+
+========    e. The Vorlon Empire
+
+The final major government represented on Babylon 5 is the Vorlon Empire.
+The
+Vorlons are shrouded in mystery.  Even though their ambassador is on the
+station, nobody knows what they look like; they dress in bulky encounter
+suits.  Whether the suits are there to keep a noxious atmosphere in or
+prying
+eyes out is a matter of some debate.  The Vorlons are an extremely powerful
+race; no expedition into their space has been heard from again.  They seem
+to
+have had dealings with the Minbari in the past, though neither the Minbari
+nor
+the Vorlons care to discuss the matter.
+
+========    f. The League of Non-Aligned Worlds
+
+Each of the five races has an ambassador on the Babylon 5 Advisory Council,
+something like the UN Security Council.  In addition, a number of smaller
+governments are members of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds, which is also
+represented on the Council.  This group is generally sympathetic to Earth,
+largely because Earth stepped in to save many of them from invasion by a
+hostile race (now extinct) twenty years ago.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 4.  The Characters
+
+========    a. Main Cast (appearing in most episodes throughout the season)
+
+i. Humans
+
+COMMANDER JEFFREY DAVID SINCLAIR            Michael O'Hare
+
+The commander of Babylon 5 and representative of the Earth Alliance.  A
+survivor of the climactic Battle of the Line at the end of the Earth-Minbari
+War, Sinclair sometimes yearns for his days as a hotshot fighter pilot, and
+partially for that reason, he's given to taking unnecessary personal risks.
+He's uncomfortable in his position and in fact isn't entirely sure why he
+was
+given command of such a major post and made a high-level diplomat; his stiff
+demeanor is perhaps due to a fear that he isn't up to the job he's been
+given.
+He is also haunted by suspicions that something happened to him during a
+24-hour blackout during the final moments of the Earth-Minbari war.
+Sinclair
+was born on Mars Colony and is 39 years old.
+
+LT. COMMANDER SUSAN IVANOVA                 Claudia Christian
+
+Second in command and in charge of the day-to-day operations of Babylon 5,
+Ivanova is an ambitious career officer.  She can be quirky or pessimistic at
+times, but she has a dry sense of humor that shows itself in the rare
+moments
+she is able to relax among others.  Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and
+raised
+abroad on Earth, she has a strong dislike for the Psi-Corps, whose
+legally-mandated drug treatments drove her mother to suicide after it was
+discovered her mother was a latent telepath.  She is new on the station and
+often buries herself in her work; her friends are few and her family is all
+but gone.
+
+SECURITY CHIEF MICHAEL ALFREDO GARIBALDI    Jerry Doyle
+
+In charge of security on Babylon 5.  He has a troubled past, bouncing from
+position to position and trying to overcome alcoholism.  He was picked by
+Sinclair for the job; the two worked together in the past.  Sinclair knew
+that
+Garibaldi would be persistent, not willing to give in to political pressures
+-- in Sinclair's words, "a pain in the ass."  Garibaldi is something of a
+smart-aleck, always ready to crack a joke, but given to bouts of self-doubt
+and introspection when nobody's looking.  His rank is "Chief Warrant
+Officer."
+
+DR. STEPHEN FRANKLIN                        Richard Biggs
+
+Dedicated and assured, a specialist in xenobiology (alien biology,) and in
+charge of Medlab on Babylon 5.  His background is mainly in experimental
+medicine, so his bedside manner is occasionally not what it should be.  His
+strong sense of personal morality is at times in conflict with his duties as
+the chief medical provider for aliens from hundreds of worlds and cultures,
+some of whom view his obligations rather differently.  In his middle
+thirties
+now, he spent years hitchhiking through space, offering his doctoral
+services
+in exchange for the opportunity to examine new life forms.
+
+TALIA WINTERS                               Andrea Thompson
+
+Babylon 5's resident telepath, on her first solo assignment, with level 5
+psi
+rating, bound by the rules and regulations of the Psi Corps.  She sells her
+telepathic services to businessmen, and occasionally assists Sinclair in
+negotiations.  Talia was raised and trained by the Psi Corps, meaning that
+that organization is her family.
+
+ii. Ambassadors
+
+AMBASSADOR LONDO MOLLARI                    Peter Jurasik
+
+The representative of the Centauri Republic.  Londo views Babylon 5's
+mission
+as something of a sham, with limited chance of helping his people regain
+their
+lost glory and sense of purpose.  His assignment on Babylon 5 is not
+considered an important position, in spite of the high status that his
+regalia
+and high-standing hair would indicate.  A war hero in his younger days, he
+has
+since grown decadent and indulgent.  Londo can often be found in one of the
+station's bars or casinos, drinking himself to oblivion.  He has a biting,
+cynical sense of humor.  Perhaps his only real friend is Garibaldi, who
+understands something of what Londo has been through.
+
+AMBASSADOR DELENN                           Mira Furlan
+
+Represents the Minbari Federation.  Delenn is a member of the highest
+Minbari
+governmental body, the Grey Council, and why she's masquerading as a lowly
+ambassador is one of the ongoing mysteries of Babylon 5.  A member of the
+religious caste, Delenn's belief in fate and destiny is often evident.  She
+is
+fascinated by humans and tries to learn all about them; some say she is
+suspiciously watchful of Commander Sinclair.
+
+AMBASSADOR G'KAR                            Andreas Katsulas
+
+The representative of the Narn Regime rose to his position in part thanks to
+his wife's renown as a hero of the revolutionary war against the Centauri,
+but
+his own ambition and ability are more than equal to the job.  G'Kar will
+waste
+no opportunity to turn a situation to the Narns' advantage, even if it means
+antagonizing everyone else on the station.  He takes pride in his position
+and
+himself, a pride perhaps bordering on arrogance at times.  G'Kar would like
+nothing better than to see the Centauri, and Londo in particular, pay dearly
+for their brutal occupation of Narn.
+
+AMBASSADOR KOSH NARANEK                     Ardwight Chamberlain
+(translation)
+                                            Chris Franke (voice effects)
+                                            Jeffrey Willerth (in the suit)
+                                            and animatronics
+
+Even less is known about Ambassador Kosh than about his race.  He arrived on
+the station in 2257 and was promptly the victim of a complex assassination
+plot involving the Minbari and others.  He is rarely seen in council
+meetings,
+claiming that "we take no interest in the affairs of others," and Vorlons'
+reasons for coming to Babylon 5 at all are unknown.  Kosh communicates
+through
+a complex sequence of musical tones, translated into English by a device on
+his encounter suit.  When he speaks, his words are few and sound cryptic,
+but
+often have a strange truth to them.  Kosh's quarters are filled with a dense
+atmosphere of methane and other gases; whether he needs it or is using it to
+make himself less accessible is an open question.  Even when he's receiving
+visitors there, Kosh wears his suit.
+
+========    b. Supporting Characters (also in the opening credits)
+
+iii. Ambassador assistants
+
+LENNIER                                     Bill Mumy
+
+Delenn's aide, fresh out of a monastery on the Minbari homeworld.  He's
+something of an innocent abroad, perhaps the one person on Babylon 5 without
+a
+hidden agenda or a knife waiting to stab someone in the back.  He reveres
+Delenn, whom only he knows of her high stature back home; to him she's a
+holy
+figure.  First appears in "The Parliament of Dreams."
+
+VIR COTTO                                   Stephen Furst
+
+Diplomatic Attache to Ambassador Londo.  Timid, unsure of himself, at times
+he
+seems little more than someone for Londo to throw things at.  However, he is
+the only one to know what Londo is going through as difficult times
+approach.
+
+NA'TOTH                                     Caitlin Brown
+
+A female Narn, assistant to G'Kar.  Though she appeared on the scene in
+somewhat dubious circumstances, she is fiercely loyal to G'Kar.  She prefers
+the direct approach rather than G'Kar's subterfuge and deception.  First
+appears in "The Parliament of Dreams."
+
+========    c. Recurring and Past Characters
+
++-----------------------------------+
+|  This section  lists  characters  |
+|  that are seen from time to time  |
+|  on Babylon 5.   Characters that  |
+|  have appeared in the past,  and  |
+|  may have some relevance  to the  |
+|  current season, are listed here  |
+|  as  well,  to provide  context.  |
+|  This  includes characters  from  |
+|  the pilot that are no longer on  |
+|  the series.                      |
++-----------------------------------+
+
+ALFRED BESTER                               Walter Koenig
+
+A Psi-Cop, one of an elite unit of the Psi Corps whose function is to track
+down rogue telepaths, among other things.  Perhaps in part because of his
+P12
+psi rating -- more than twice as high as Talia's -- he seems to have risen
+to
+a position of some importance in the Corps.  Bester ruthlessly pursues his
+agenda, which most of the time is the same as the Corps'.  First appears in
+"Mind War."
+
+MORDEN                                      Ed Wasser
+
+A human who spent a while on the rim, and seems to have made contact with
+the
+mysterious race, known only as the shadows.  His aid to Londo has put the
+ambassador in a difficult situation.  First appears in "Signs and Portents."
+
+CATHERINE SAKAI                             Julia Nickson
+
+She works for an Earth company that surveys asteroids and planets for
+mineral
+exploitation.  Runs the survey ship Skydancer.  She and Sinclair have had an
+on-again, off-again romantic relationship over the past decade.  First
+appears
+in "The Parliament of Dreams."
+
+JACK                                        Macaulay Bruton
+
+Garibaldi's assistant, whom Garibaldi has taken under his wing.  Friendly,
+and
+seems a bit naive.  First appears in "Mind War."
+
+LOU WELCH                                   David Crowley
+
+One of Garibaldi's lieutenants.  First appears in "Survivors."
+
+N'GRATH                                     (animatronics)
+
+An insect-like non-humanoid alien, a sort of underworld boss, who can
+arrange
+or fix things for a price.  First appears in "Soul Hunter."
+
+SENATOR HIDOSHI                             Aki Aleong
+
+A member of the Senate committee overseeing Babylon 5.  Senator Hidoshi is
+often the one to deliver unpleasant government orders to Sinclair, though he
+seems personally to agree with Sinclair much of the time.  First appears in
+"Deathwalker."
+
+LYTA ALEXANDER                              Patricia Tallman
+
+Babylon 5's first commercial telepath, rating P5, in her early thirties or
+late twenties.  She was transferred off the station shortly after examining
+Kosh, presumably due to her newfound knowledge of the Vorlons.  First
+appears
+in "The Gathering."
+
+LAUREL TAKASHIMA                            Tamilyn Tomita
+
+Originally the second in command of Babylon 5 (cf "The Gathering"),
+Takashima
+was reassigned, and has not been heard from since.  She was raised on Earth,
+and had worked with Sinclair on Mars.
+
+CAROLYN SYKES                               Blaire Baron
+
+Sinclair's former romantic interest; she owned a trader ship that passed
+through Babylon 5 from time to time.  She left Sinclair because he wasn't
+willing to give up his command to travel with her.
+
+DR. BENJAMIN KYLE                           Johnny Sekka
+
+Formerly Babylon 5's chief physician and xenobiologist.  African, in his
+fifties, with a subtle sense of humor.  After treating -- and seeing --
+Ambassador Kosh, he was recalled to Earthdome.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 5.  The Story So Far
+
++-----------------------------------+
+|  This section contains  spoilers  |
+|  for the pilot movie of  Babylon  |
+|  5.  It contains no spoilers for  |
+|  this or subsequent seasons.      |
++-----------------------------------+
+
+Season one opens after the station has been operational after nearly a year,
+much longer than the odds would have predicted.  In "The Gathering" (the
+pilot
+movie), Ambassador Kosh, the last ambassador to arrive, was poisoned
+immediately upon arrival.  Sinclair was framed by a radical member of the
+Minbari warrior caste.  In saving Kosh, B5's doctor and resident telepath
+saw
+Kosh under his encounter suit; they were transferred back to Earth shortly
+afterward.  Babylon 5's second in command, Takashima, was replaced by Lt.
+Commander Ivanova.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 6.  Past and Current Episode Reference
+
++-----------------------------------+
+|  This section contains brief de-  |
+|  scriptions  of episodes  up to,  |
+|  and including, the current sea-  |
+|  son.   These entries do contain  |
+|  minor spoilers, enough to iden-  |
+|  tify the episode title based on  |
+|  its storyline.                   |
++-----------------------------------+
+
+Pilot Movie
+
+* The Gathering
+  Sinclair is framed for the poisoning of Ambassador Kosh.
+
+Season One: "Signs and Portents"
+
+* Midnight on the Firing Line
+  Narn agents attack a Centauri Agricultural colony.
+
+* Soul Hunter
+  An alien arrives on the station to collect and save people's souls.
+
+* Born to the Purple
+  Londo's secrets are in danger of being stolen by a beautiful Centauri
+slave.
+
+* Infection
+  A biotechnological fighting creature is unleashed on the station.
+
+* The Parliament of Dreams
+  G'Kar is in danger of assassination during a week of religious festivals.
+
+* Mind War
+  A renegade telepath is pursued by Psi Cops; Sakai explores a distant
+planet.
+
+* The War Prayer
+  Homeguard anarchists attack aliens; young lovers are counseled by Londo.
+
+* And the Sky Full of Stars
+  Sinclair is forced to relive his experience on the Battle of the Line.
+
+* Deathwalker
+  A war criminal has discovered the secret to immortality.
+
+* Believers
+  Franklin struggles with saving a child against against religious beliefs.
+
+* Survivors
+  After a disaster, Garibaldi is on the run and slips back into alcoholism.
+
+* By Any Means Necessary
+  Babylon 5 dock workers are on strike; Londo interferes with Narn religion.
+
+* Signs and Portents
+  As raiders attack B5, a man is asking strange questions of the
+ambassadors.
+
+* TKO
+  Ivanova sits shiva for her father; Garibaldi's friend takes on the champ.
+
+* Grail
+  A man in search of the Holy Grail visits B5; Lurker attacks link to Kosh.
+
+* Eyes
+  Sinclair is accused of wrongdoing by an Internal Investigations officer.
+
+* Legacies
+  A Minbari war hero's body is gone; a young telepath must choose her
+future.
+
+* A Voice in the Wilderness I
+* A Voice in the Wilderness II
+  The planet below shows signs of activity; an Earth Ship is sent to assist.
+
+* Babylon Squared
+  The long-missing Babylon 4 mysteriously re-appears; Delenn gets a big
+offer.
+
+* The Quality of Mercy
+  Franklin investigates a medical clinic; Talia enters the mind of a killer.
+
+* Chrysalis
+  Garibaldi uncovers a plot to kill the president; Delenn begins a change.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 7. Credits and Legalese
+
+This text file may be distributed online, in complete or excerpted form, as
+long as acknowledgement is made to the authors, and the URL of the current
+version of this file is indicated. (see top of document.)
+
+The Babylon 5 Frequently Asked Questions List part (C) is Copyright 1996-98
+by
+Dan Wood and Steven Grimm.  Acknowledgement is made to J. Michael
+Straczynski,
+previous FAQ maintainer Lee Whiteside and to excerpted contributions from
+the
+Babylon 5 online libraries.
+
+Currently maintained by Dan Wood.
+Comments, suggestions, etc. are always appreciated.
+
+This text file was edited on QUED/M text editor running on a Macintosh.
+
+If you maintain an online B5 service, I can send you each FAQ update.  I
+don't
+have the resources to send updates to individuals, so please don't ask.
+
+-------------------------
+ NAME: Dan Wood       <*>               "Change the world before
+  WEB:    www.karelia.com                someone else does it for you."
+EMAIL:danwood@  ^ ^ ^ ^ ^                 -- J. Michael Straczynski
+-------------------------
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+Subject: Babylon 5 FAQ (D): Setting for season 2
+Approved: news-answers-request@mit.edu
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+Summary: This document is a supplement to the Babylon 5 FAQ list.  It
+contains
+         information to help viewers of the show who are catching up with
+the
+         show in season 2  ("The Coming of Shadows", Earth year 2259).
+
+Archive-name: tv/babylon-5/setting/season2
+Frequency: bi-weekly
+Last-modified: 17 December 1997
+
++-----------------------------------+
+|  BABYLON 5 FAQ, part (D):         |
+|  Setting for season #2            |
+|                                   |
+|  A guide for viewers who wish to  |
+|  catch up to the events  leading  |
+|  up to season 2,  "The Coming of  |
+|  Shadows." This is the year 2259  |
+|  in the opening credits.          |
+|                                   |
+|  This holds SPOILERS for  season  |
+|  1 episodes  *AND* for the first  |
+|  *two* episodes of season 2, and  |
+|  descriptions of season 2 set-    |
+|  tings. DON'T READ if you haven't |
+|  seen the first two s#2 episodes! |
++-----------------------------------+
+
+There are SEVEN parts to the FAQ: (A) Information about B5; (B) News and
+Schedule; (C), (D), (E), (F) are the settings for seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
+respectively.
+
+The latest version of all parts of the FAQ can be retrieved via anonymous
+ftp
+at ftp://ftp.midwinter.com/pub/Babylon-5/ or via e-mail by sending a note to
+mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with any or all of these lines in the message body:
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/faq
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/news-schedule
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/setting/season1
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/setting/season2
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/setting/season3
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/setting/season4
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/setting/season5
+
+WORLD WIDE WEB users should see http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html
+for the much more detailed "Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5"; the information
+in this document is similar to the "Universe" section.
+
+    -------------------------
+    Contents of this document
+    -------------------------
+    1.  Introduction
+    2.  The Setting of Babylon 5
+    3.  The Major Players
+    4.  The Characters
+    5.  The Story So Far
+    6.  Past and Current reference
+    7.  Credits and Legalese
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 1.  Introduction
+
+    The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace.  A self-contained
+    world five miles long, located in neutral territory.  A place of
+commerce
+    and diplomacy for a quarter of a million humans and aliens.  A shining
+    beacon in space, all alone in the night.  It was the dawn of the Third
+Age
+    of Mankind...the year the Great War came upon us all.  This is the story
+    of the last of the Babylon stations.  The year is 2259.  The name of the
+    place is Babylon 5.
+        -- Captain Sheridan
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 2.  The Setting of Babylon 5
+
+A hundred years ago, humanity made contact with its first alien civilization
+-- or more to the point, they made contact with us.  Before the arrival of
+the
+Centauri, we were confined to our own solar system, forced to use slow
+sleeper
+ships to explore the universe.  The Centauri gave us the stars, offered us
+the
+use of their "jumpgates" -- portals into hyperspace -- and later, taught us
+to
+make our own.  In exchange for this and other technologies, they asked only
+for trinkets, novelties to sell back home.
+
+In the eighty years that followed, humanity flexed its muscles, expanding
+outward at a rapid pace.  When a group of less powerful races was attacked
+by
+an invading army, Earth came to their aid, cementing its role as a major
+galactic power, if a young, brash one.
+
+The wave of euphoria came crashing down when humanity made contact with a
+mysterious race called the Minbari.  The Earth-Minbari War began with a
+misunderstanding, a human captain and a Minbari commander too quick on the
+trigger.  Thanks to bad luck or something darker, our first meeting with the
+Minbari resulted in the death of their supreme religious and political
+leader.
+To the Minbari, what followed was a holy war, vengeance for the murder of
+their spiritual leader.  Earth was no match for the technologically superior
+Minbari, and they easily beat us back to our home planet.
+
+Then, without explanation, as their ships closed in on Earth and wiped out
+our
+last desperate defenses, the Minbari halted their advance and surrendered.
+Only an elite few knew why.
+
+The Babylon Project was conceived in the aftermath of the war.  Modeled
+after
+the United Nations, it would be a meeting place, neutral ground where the
+powers could meet and work out their differences peacefully.
+
+The first three Babylon stations were sabotaged in mid-construction.  The
+fourth was completed, but just as it was about to go online, it vanished
+without a trace.  The Earth government would have stopped there, but some of
+the alien governments, seeing the value of a meeting ground, offered
+financial
+assistance for the construction of a fifth station.  Naturally, there were
+strings attached.
+
+Babylon 5 is the story of the last of the Babylon stations, the last hope
+for
+a galaxy without war.  It begins in the year 2257 with the opening of the
+Babylon 5 station.
+
+ + + + + +
+
+Babylon 5's mission appears increasingly hopeless.  After nearly two years
+of
+operation, everything is changing for the worse.  Though Babylon 5's mission
+of peace continues, war appears to be imminent, and there is a dangerous new
+power in the galaxy that few even suspect exists.  Amid the heightening
+tensions, the complex relationships among the major powers are shifting in
+unpredictable ways.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 3.  The Major Players
+
+========    a. The Earth Alliance
+
+The Earth Alliance, headquartered in Geneva, is in charge of the station and
+the surrounding space.  Its president was recently killed in an "accidental"
+explosion.  His successor seems to be taking the goverment in a sinister
+direction.  President Clark is connected with the Psi-Corps, an organization
+responsible for the tracking and training of human telepaths; increasingly,
+though, the Corps appears to be meddling in Earth politics, pursuing its own
+agenda.  Evidence that the last president's death was not an accident isn't
+being taken seriously.  Babylon 5's first commander, Sinclair, was abruptly
+removed from his post and sent to the Minbari homeworld.  The new commander,
+Captain Sheridan, has his work cut out for him; keeping the peace has never
+been more difficult.
+
+========    b. The Minbari Federation
+
+An old, highly spiritual race, Minbari are humanoid with exterior bone
+crests
+on their heads.  Once an adversary of Earth, the Minbari Federation has
+continued to show interest in and friendship with humanity.  Over the past
+year, a few have discovered why: the Minbari religious caste believes that
+some humans are carrying reincarnated Minbari souls, a discovery made by the
+Minbari ruling body, the Grey Council, on the brink of victory over Earth
+eleven years earlier.  The abrupt cessation of the Earth-Minbari War was a
+direct result; Minbari have a strict moral code against killing others of
+their kind.  Some in the religious caste also believe in a prophecy of their
+original spiritual leader, Valen, that the Minbari must unite with another
+race to defeat an ancient enemy.
+
+========    c. The Centauri Republic
+
+The Centauri Republic, long considered a fading empire, seems to be on the
+upswing, thanks to a deal that Ambassador Londo Mollari struck with a
+mysterious race he knows next to nothing about.    In terms of appearance,
+Centauri appear human at first glance, though that's deceptive.  Women shave
+their heads; men wear their hair in fans, with length indicating social
+standing.  The Republic is rife with political intrigue and backstabbing.
+
+========    d. The Narn Regime
+
+Among those formerly under Centauri domination are the Narn, a
+reptilian-looking race who fought off their oppressors in a century-long war
+of attrition.  The Narn Regime has been building up its military, and it
+looks
+like that preparation may pay off, as the Centauri have gotten aggressive
+again and there may be more conflict ahead.  Only Narn Ambassador G'Kar
+believes that somebody else is responsible for the Centauri's military
+flexing
+and that more races than the Narn are in danger.
+
+========    e. The Vorlon Empire
+
+Even though the Vorlon Empire has had a representative on Babylon 5 for a
+year
+and a half, almost nothing is known about their race; even their appearance
+is
+shrouded in mystery as their Ambassador, Kosh, is only seen in a bulky
+encounter suit.  Kosh seems to be taking an interest in Captain Sheridan,
+but
+his interest in humans is still shrouded in mystery.  The Vorlons are an
+extremely powerful race; no expedition into their space has been heard from
+again.  There seems to be some history between the Vorlons and the Minbari,
+but neither one is willing to say what it is.
+
+========    f. The Shadows
+
+The Shadows are a strong and dark power who are clearly not interested in
+being discovered.  Only those who pay attention to prophecies suspect they
+may
+have returned after a centuries-long absence.  Through their human agent
+Morden they have offered to help Londo restore the Centauri Empire's
+glory...
+but clearly that's only one step in their larger plans.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 4.  The Characters
+
+========    a. Main Cast (appearing in most episodes throughout the season)
+
+i. Humans
+
+CAPTAIN JOHN SHERIDAN                       Bruce Boxleitner
+
+The commander of Babylon 5 and representative of the Earth Alliance.  One of
+the few heroes of the Earth-Minbari War, Sheridan scored Earth's only major
+victory of the war, something which has earned him the hatred of the Minbari
+warrior caste.  Charismatic, quick-thinking, and occasionally serious,
+Sheridan was hand-picked by the President to replace Sinclair.  Sheridan is
+still recovering from the loss of his wife Anna, who died on an alien
+archaeological dig.  Most of his career has been spent aboard starships;
+he's
+still in the process of getting used to being the head of what is
+essentially
+a small city in space.  Sheridan and Ivanova have served together in the
+past.
+
+COMMANDER SUSAN IVANOVA                     Claudia Christian
+
+Second in command and in charge of the day-to-day operations of Babylon 5,
+Ivanova is an ambitious career officer.  She can be quirky or pessimistic at
+times, but she has a dry sense of humor that shows itself in the rare
+moments
+she is able to relax among others.  Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and
+raised
+abroad on Earth, she has a strong dislike for the Psi-Corps, whose
+legally-mandated drug treatments drove her mother to suicide after it was
+discovered her mother was a latent telepath.  Although she has become more
+comfortable with her job and her role on Babylon 5, she has a tendency to
+bury
+herself in her work.  Her promotion to Commander has given her new
+ambassadorial duties, which she finds extremely challenging.
+
+SECURITY CHIEF MICHAEL ALFREDO GARIBALDI    Jerry Doyle
+
+In charge of security on Babylon 5.  He has a troubled past, bouncing from
+position to position and trying to overcome alcoholism.  He was picked by
+the
+station's first commander, Sinclair, who knew that Garibaldi would be
+persistent, not willing to give in to political pressures -- in Sinclair's
+words, "a pain in the ass." Garibaldi is something of a smart-aleck, always
+ready to crack a joke, but given to bouts of self-doubt and introspection
+when
+nobody's looking.  His natural sense of paranoia wasn't reduced when he was
+shot in the back by his own second-in-command while he was investigating the
+death of President Santiago; he recovered, but is now convinced that
+something
+is dreadfully wrong at the heart of the Earth Alliance.  His rank is "Chief
+Warrant Officer."
+
+DR. STEPHEN FRANKLIN                        Richard Biggs
+
+Dedicated and assured, a specialist in xenobiology (alien biology,) and in
+charge of Medlab on Babylon 5.  His background is mainly in experimental
+medicine, so his bedside manner is occasionally not what it should be.  His
+strong sense of personal morality is at times in conflict with his duties as
+the chief medical provider for aliens from hundreds of worlds and cultures,
+some of whom view his obligations rather differently.  Often bordering on
+the
+obsessive and overworking himself frequently, Dr. Franklin is known to
+operate
+outside the rules when he feel the issue is important: he runs a free clinic
+in the Downbelow section for those who cannot afford medical care; he also
+serves on an "underground railroad" for telepaths who do not want to be
+found
+by the Psi Corps.  In his middle thirties now, he spent years hitchhiking
+through space, offering his doctoral services in exchange for the
+opportunity
+to examine new life forms.
+
+TALIA WINTERS                               Andrea Thompson
+
+Babylon 5's resident telepath, on her first solo assignment, with level 5
+psi
+rating, bound by the rules and regulations of the Psi Corps.  She sells her
+telepathic services to businessmen and occasionally assists the station
+personnel.  Talia was raised and trained by the Psi Corps, meaning that that
+organization is her family.  Last year, she was visited by an old teacher
+who
+had undergone a Psi Corps experiment.  He altered her, giving her
+telekinetic
+abilities and possibly other powers as well.  He also warned her of the
+changing nature of the Corps; she is now not entirely sure she trusts its
+motives.
+
+ii. Ambassadors
+
+AMBASSADOR LONDO MOLLARI                    Peter Jurasik
+
+The representative of the Centauri Republic.  Londo views Babylon 5's
+mission
+as something of a sham, with limited chance of helping his people regain
+their
+lost glory and sense of purpose.  He has a biting, cynical sense of humor.
+Without realizing it at first, Londo has struck a bargain with the Shadows,
+who are working to advance his career and restore the Centauri to their past
+splendor, asking in return only the granting of an unspecified "favor" at
+some
+point in the future.  It is a bargain he is already beginning to regret, but
+the restoration of his people means so much to him that he feels it's worth
+the price.
+
+AMBASSADOR DELENN                           Mira Furlan
+
+Represents the Minbari.  A member of the Minbari ruling body, the Grey
+Council, she came to Babylon 5 posing as a simple ambassador to study humans
+after the discovery that some of them carry Minbari souls.  She was offered
+the leadership of the Council but turned it down, instead returning to
+Babylon
+5 to play a role in a prophecy involving a struggle between darkness and
+light.  Once back, after consulting with the Vorlon ambassador, she used a
+mysterious device to transform herself into a bizarre half-Minbari,
+half-human
+hybrid.  She claims she undertook the change to act as a bridge of
+understanding between humans and Minbari; whether that's the real reason or
+not, only she knows.
+
+AMBASSADOR G'KAR                            Andreas Katsulas
+
+Represents the Narn Regime.  Though ambitious and often antagonistic, G'Kar
+is
+extremely spiritual, and his knowledge of ancient scripture has led him to
+realize that an ancient race has come back to help the Centauri rebuild
+their
+empire.  He has even survived an encounter with the shadows, but none in his
+own government or the Babylon 5 council admit to believing him.  G'Kar is
+well-read, deeply spiritual, and extremely intelligent.
+
+AMBASSADOR KOSH NARANEK                     Ardwight Chamberlain
+(translation)
+                                            Chris Franke (voice effects)
+                                            Jeffrey Willerth (in the suit)
+                                            and animatronics
+
+After a year and a half on the station, Kosh and his people are still an
+enigma, and Kosh seems to prefer it that way.  With the coming of the
+Shadows
+-- Kosh is one of the few who seem to know about them -- he has started
+attending council meetings, though his reasons for coming to Babylon 5 are
+still unknown.  Kosh communicates through a complex sequence of musical
+tones,
+translated into English by a device on his encounter suit.  When he speaks,
+his words are few and sound cryptic, but often have a strange truth to them.
+Kosh's quarters are filled with a dense atmosphere of methane and other
+gases;
+whether he needs it or is using it to make himself less accessible is an
+open
+question.  Even when he's receiving visitors there, Kosh wears his suit.
+
+========    b. Supporting Characters (also in the opening credits)
+
+iii. Ambassador assistants
+
+LENNIER                                     Bill Mumy
+
+Delenn's aide, recently of a monastery on the Minbari homeworld.  He reveres
+Delenn as an almost holy figure and accepts her transformation without
+question.  Still something of an innocent thanks to his isolated upbringing,
+Lennier is slowly learning the ways of diplomacy.  First appears in "The
+Parliament of Dreams."
+
+VIR COTTO                                   Stephen Furst
+
+Diplomatic Attache to Ambassador to Londo.  Generally timid and unsure of
+himself, Vir occasionally works up the nerve to confront Londo about the
+dangerous path he's following by dealing with Morden.
+
+NA'TOTH                                     Mary Kay Adams
+
+A female Narn, assistant to G'Kar.  She is one of the few whom he's told
+about
+his discovery that an ancient enemy is on the move.  Fiercely loyal to
+G'Kar,
+she prefers the direct approach rather than G'Kar's subterfuge and
+deception.
+
+iv. Humans
+
+LIEUTENANT WARREN KEFFER                    Robert Russler
+
+Head of Zeta Squadron, the newest of Babylon 5's fighter wings.  Keffer
+leads
+many of the excursions away from the station, when the presence of a
+command-level officer isn't required.  Keffer's family is back on Earth.
+First appears in "Points of Departure."
+
+========    c. Recurring and Past Characters
+
++-----------------------------------+
+|  This section  lists  characters  |
+|  that are seen from time to time  |
+|  on Babylon 5.   Characters that  |
+|  have appeared in the past,  and  |
+|  may have some relevance  to the  |
+|  current season, are listed here  |
+|  as well, to provide context.     |
++-----------------------------------+
+
+AMBASSADOR JEFFREY DAVID SINCLAIR            Michael O'Hare
+
+The commander of Babylon 5 and representative of the Earth Alliance for its
+first two years of operation.  Shortly after the death of President
+Santiago,
+Sinclair was recalled to Earth and assigned to a new post, as the first
+human
+ambassador to the Minbari (cf. comic "In Darkness Find Me.") He had been
+named
+commander of Babylon 5 at the insistence of the Minbari, who captured him
+during the Battle of the Line and scanned him.  Delenn is certain Sinclair
+has
+an important destiny (cf. "Soul Hunter," "A Voice in the Wilderness, part
+2.")
+This is borne out by the brief glimpse into the future in "Babylon Squared,"
+in which he was the leader of an army of light fighting in a great war.
+
+PRESIDENT WILLIAM MORGAN CLARK              Gary McGurk
+
+When President Santiago was killed in an "accidental" explosion, Clark took
+office and immediately began his own agenda.  He personally assigned
+Sheridan
+to his position, unaware of Sheridan's interest in fighting the mounting
+corruption in Earth government.  Not much of an advocate of Babylon 5's
+interests.  First appears in "Chrysalis."
+
+ALFRED BESTER                               Walter Koenig
+
+A Psi-Cop, one of an elite unit of the Psi Corps whose function is to track
+down rogue telepaths, among other things.  Perhaps in part because of his
+P12
+psi rating -- more than twice as high as Talia's -- he seems to have risen
+to
+a position of some importance in the Corps.  Bester ruthlessly pursues his
+agenda, which most of the time is the same as the Corps'.  First appears in
+"Mind War."
+
+MORDEN                                      Ed Wasser
+
+Little is known about the human agent of the Shadows.  He is able to
+communicate with them directly, and is one of the few who know they've been
+on
+Babylon 5.  Never a major player, he is always ready to talk to Londo and
+pass
+messages to and from his "associates."  Delenn and G'Kar have met him, but
+only Delenn has any idea who he is.  Morden is meticulously polite, but
+nonetheless is a menacing presence who can casually discuss the deaths of
+tens
+of thousands of Narn as easily as most people talk about the weather.  First
+appears in "Signs and Portents."
+
+JACK                                        Macaulay Bruton
+
+Garibaldi's seemingly naive and loyal assistant until he shot him in the
+back
+on New Year's Eve when Garibaldi discovered a conspiracy to assassinate
+President Santiago.  Garibaldi identified him as his assailant, but he
+disappeared while being transferred to earth for prosecution.  Possibly
+associated with the Psi Corps.  First appears in "Mind War."
+
+LOU WELCH                                   David Crowley
+
+One of Garibaldi's lieutenants.  First appears in "Survivors."
+
+ZACK ALLAN                                  Jeff Conaway
+
+One of Garibaldi's lieutenants, Zack is earnest and trustworthy, if not
+necessarily the brightest person on the station.  After the arrest of
+Garibaldi's old aide for attempted murder (cf. "Revelations,") Zack has
+risen
+to a new level of importance in Garibaldi's staff.  First appears in "A
+Spider
+in the Web."
+
+LORD REFA                                   William Forward
+
+A ruthless, unprincipled Centauri noble with whom Londo is cooperating in a
+bid for power.  First appears in "The Geometry of Shadows."
+
+LYTA ALEXANDER                              Patricia Tallman
+
+Babylon 5's first commercial telepath, rating P5, in her early thirties or
+late twenties.  She was transferred off the station shortly after examining
+Kosh, presumably due to her newfound knowledge of the Vorlons.  First
+appears
+in "The Gathering."
+
+DRAAL                                       John Schuck
+
+The steward of the vast machinery below on Epsilon 3.  He is a Minbari who
+was
+looking for a new purpose in life when he heeded the call to replace the
+caretaker of the planet, immediately declaring it off-limits to all until
+the
+time was right.  First appears in "A Voice in the Wilderness" (part 1) and
+originally played by Louis Turenne.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 5.  The Story So Far
+
++-----------------------------------+
+|  This section contains  spoilers  |
+|  for season 1 of Babylon 5.   It  |
+|  contains  no spoilers for  this  |
+|  or subsequent seasons.           |
++-----------------------------------+
+
+The first season, titled "Signs and Portents," introduced the players and
+plot
+elements of the five-year saga.  The Psi Corps is shown to have a very
+strong
+control of the government back home.  Commander Sinclair's involvement in
+the
+sudden Minbari surrender in their war with Earth ten years before is
+partially
+explained, and it is clear that Delenn is more than just an ambassador on
+Babylon 5.  A strange man named Morden does a favor for Londo Mollari, who
+doesn't realize how dearly he will pay for that favor.  The planet under
+Babylon 5 turns out not to be lifeless, but its caretaker does not want any
+visitors.  Babylon 5's predecessor, Babylon 4, which had mysteriously
+dissapeared just after going online, appears again, and is being yanked
+through time to serve as a military base for a war in another time; a much
+older Sinclair seems to be involved in that war.  Finally, on New Year's Eve
+of 2258, Delenn, acting on a prophecy, builds a device which produces a
+physical transformation for her; the Earth Alliance president is
+assassinated
+and it appears that the political climate back home is getting worse; and
+Londo calls upon his new friend and his mysterious associates to wipe out a
+Narn base which will plummet the Centauri and Narn into war.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 6.  Past and Current Episode Reference
+
++-----------------------------------+
+|  This section contains brief de-  |
+|  scriptions  of episodes  up to,  |
+|  and including, the current sea-  |
+|  son.   These entries do contain  |
+|  minor spoilers, enough to iden-  |
+|  tify the episode title based on  |
+|  its storyline.                   |
++-----------------------------------+
+
+FOR THE FIRST SEASON, PLEASE SEE PART (C) OF THIS DOCUMENT.
+
+Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
+
+* Points of Departure
+  Sheridan arrives; a long-missing Minbari ship appears at Babylon 5.
+
+* Revelations
+  Sheridan's Sister visits the station; Delenn's change is revealed.
+
+* The Geometry of Shadows
+  Technomages visit Babylon 5; Ivanova must calm fighting Drazi factions.
+
+* A Distant Star
+  An explorer starship is lost in Hyperspace; Dr. Franklin advises
+nutrition.
+
+* The Long Dark
+  A lurker is terrorized by powerful alien that has escaped a sleeper ship.
+
+* Spider in the Web
+  "Bureau 13" sends an operative to B5, putting Talia in danger.
+
+* Soul Mates
+  Londo's three wives visit the station; Talia's ex-husband visits as well.
+
+* A Race Through Dark Places
+  Psi-Cop Bester returns to track down an underground railroad for
+telepaths.
+
+* The Coming of Shadows
+  Londo initiates war with the Narns as the Centauri emperor visits B5.
+
+* Gropos
+  Foot Soldiers are stationed on B5 as Franklin is reunited with his father.
+
+* All Alone in the Night
+  Sheridan is held captive on an alien ship; Delenn's fate is under
+decision.
+
+* Acts of Sacrifice
+  Ivanova attempts to impress a new species; G'Kar asks for support.
+
+* Hunter, Prey
+  Garibaldi and Franklin must find a fugitive with sensitive information.
+
+* There All The Honor Lies
+  Sheridan must defend himself against accusations of a Minbari.
+
+* And Now For a Word
+  A TV Newsmagazine pays a visit to B5 amidst Narn/Centauri strife.
+
+* In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+  Sheridan discovers Morden's connection with the Shadows; Nightwatch
+begins.
+
+* Knives
+  Londo must duel an old friend; Sheridan is hit by hallucinations.
+
+* Confessions and Lamentations
+  A deadly plague breaks out over the Markab population.
+
+* Divided Loyalties
+  Lyta Alexander returns with accusations of a traitor on Babylon 5.
+
+* The Long, Twilight Struggle
+  Londo initiates a decision that will end the Narn-Centauri war.
+
+* Comes the Inquisitor
+  An inquisitor arrives to question Delenn's belief in her destiny.
+
+* The Fall of Night
+  Sheridan goes against Earth's stance on the Centauri; Keffer finds a
+shadow.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 7. Credits and Legalese
+
+This text file may be distributed online, in complete or excerpted form, as
+long as acknowledgement is made to the authors, and the URL of the current
+version of this file is indicated. (see top of document.)
+
+The Babylon 5 Frequently Asked Questions List part (D) is Copyright 1996-98
+by
+Dan Wood and Steven Grimm.  Acknowledgement is made to J. Michael
+Straczynski,
+previous FAQ maintainer Lee Whiteside and to excerpted contributions from
+the
+Babylon 5 online libraries.
+
+Currently maintained by Dan Wood.
+Comments, suggestions, etc. are always appreciated.
+
+This text file was edited on QUED/M text editor running on a Macintosh.
+
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+don't
+have the resources to send updates to individuals, so please don't ask.
+
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+Subject: Babylon 5 FAQ (E): Setting for season 3
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+Summary: This document is a supplement to the Babylon 5 FAQ list.  It
+contains
+         information to help viewers of the show who are catching up with
+the
+         show in season 3  ("Point of No Return", Earth year 2260).
+
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++-----------------------------------+
+|  BABYLON 5 FAQ, part (E):         |
+|  Setting for season #3            |
+|                                   |
+|  A guide for viewers who wish to  |
+|  catch up to the events  leading  |
+|  up to  season 3,  "Point of  No  |
+|  Return."  This is the year 2260  |
+|  in the opening credits.          |
+|                                   |
+|  This holds SPOILERS  for season  |
+|  1 & 2 episodes, and descrip-     |
+|  tions of season 3 settings.      |
+|  DO NOT READ unless you are now   |
+|  watching SEASON 3 episodes!      |
++-----------------------------------+
+
+There are SEVEN parts to the FAQ: (A) Information about B5; (B) News and
+Schedule; (C), (D), (E), (F) are the settings for seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
+respectively.
+
+The latest version of all parts of the FAQ can be retrieved via anonymous
+ftp
+at ftp://ftp.midwinter.com/pub/Babylon-5/ or via e-mail by sending a note to
+mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with any or all of these lines in the message body:
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/faq
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/news-schedule
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/setting/season1
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/setting/season2
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/setting/season3
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/setting/season4
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/setting/season5
+
+WORLD WIDE WEB users should see http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html
+for the much more detailed "Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5"; the information
+in this document is similar to the "Universe" section.
+
+    -------------------------
+    Contents of this document
+    -------------------------
+    1.  Introduction
+    2.  The Setting of Babylon 5
+    3.  The Major Players
+    4.  The Characters
+    5.  The Story So Far
+    6.  Past and Current reference
+    7.  Credits and Legalese
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 1.  Introduction
+
+    The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace.  It failed.
+
+    But, in the Year of the Shadow War, it became something greater:
+    our last, best hope... for victory.  The year is 2260.  The place:
+    Babylon 5.
+        -- Commander Ivanova
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 2.  The Setting of Babylon 5
+
+A hundred years ago, humanity made contact with its first alien civilization
+-- or more to the point, they made contact with us.  Before the arrival of
+the
+Centauri, we were confined to our own solar system, forced to use slow
+sleeper
+ships to explore the universe.  The Centauri gave us the stars, offered us
+the
+use of their "jumpgates" -- portals into hyperspace -- and later, taught us
+to
+make our own.  In exchange for this and other technologies, they asked only
+for trinkets, novelties to sell back home.
+
+In the eighty years that followed, humanity flexed its muscles, expanding
+outward at a rapid pace.  When a group of less powerful races was attacked
+by
+an invading army, Earth came to their aid, cementing its role as a major
+galactic power, if a young, brash one.
+
+The wave of euphoria came crashing down when humanity made contact with a
+mysterious race called the Minbari.  The Earth-Minbari War began with a
+misunderstanding, a human captain and a Minbari commander too quick on the
+trigger.  Thanks to bad luck or something darker, our first meeting with the
+Minbari resulted in the death of their supreme religious and political
+leader.
+To the Minbari, what followed was a holy war, vengeance for the murder of
+their spiritual leader.  Earth was no match for the technologically superior
+Minbari, and they easily beat us back to our home planet.
+
+Then, without explanation, as their ships closed in on Earth and wiped out
+our
+last desperate defenses, the Minbari halted their advance and surrendered.
+Only an elite few knew why.
+
+The Babylon Project was conceived in the aftermath of the war.  Modeled
+after
+the United Nations, it would be a meeting place, neutral ground where the
+powers could meet and work out their differences peacefully.
+
+The first three Babylon stations were sabotaged in mid-construction.  The
+fourth was completed, but just as it was about to go online, it vanished
+without a trace.  The Earth government would have stopped there, but some of
+the alien governments, seeing the value of a meeting ground, offered
+financial
+assistance for the construction of a fifth station.  Naturally, there were
+strings attached.
+
+Babylon 5 is the story of the last of the Babylon stations, the last hope
+for
+a galaxy without war.  It begins in the year 2257 with the opening of the
+Babylon 5 station.
+
+ + + + + +
+
+Babylon 5 has failed in its mission.  War has erupted, and is quickly
+pulling
+all the major races in.  The station's original mission of peace may have
+failed, but it has become something greater: a chance for victory.  The
+alliances formed are recent, though, and the players may not be ready to win
+the war.  Meanwhile, the Earth goverment back home seems to have its own
+agenda, and will likely not be of any help in the fight against the
+darkness.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 3.  The Major Players
+
+========    a. The Earth Alliance
+
+The Earth Alliance, headquartered in Geneva, is in charge of the station and
+the surrounding space.  The corrupt administration of the EA, led by
+President
+Clark, has connections to the sinister activities of the Psi Corps, a
+government agency that tracks and trains human telepaths and increasingly
+seems to be running the government rather than serving it.  An Orwellian
+agency called Night Watch is stifling any signs of dissent, carting people
+off
+to be reeducated if they don't cooperate.  Earth has taken a questionable
+stance by allying itself with the expansionist Centauri Empire, hoping to
+save
+its own skin by allowing the Centauri to roll unhindered over the lesser
+races
+Earth once saved.  Babylon 5's commander, Captain Sheridan, along with a
+small
+group, is covertly and subtly working to covertly wrestle control away from
+the current administration, bolstered by evidence that President Clark was
+directly involved in the assassination of his predecessor.
+
+========    b. The Minbari Federation
+
+An old, highly spiritual race, Minbari are humanoid with exterior bone
+crests
+on their heads.  Once an adversary of Earth, the Minbari Federation has
+continued to show interest and friendship with humanity, though how long
+that
+will remain the case is uncertain.  The balance of power in the Minbari
+ruling
+body, the Grey Council, has shifted in favor of the warrior caste, many of
+whom are none too happy about the surrender to Earth twelve years earlier.
+(Only the Council and a few outsiders know that the war was ended when the
+Council discovered that some humans carry Minbari souls.) The Minbari have
+been a major power for well over a millenium, and were instrumental in the
+defeat of the Shadows, an ancient enemy, when they last rose up a thousand
+years ago; many are now preparing for another confrontation.
+
+========    c. The Centauri Republic
+
+The Centauri Republic, only months ago a fading empire, is currently on an
+expansionist path.  A deal with unknown forces enabled Ambassador Londo
+Mollari to regain much of their past glory.  It seems only a matter of time,
+though, before the deal runs its course and the Centauri find out its price.
+In terms of appearance, Centauri appear human at first glance, though that's
+deceptive.  Women shave their heads; men wear their hair in fans, with
+length
+indicating social standing.  The Centauri Emperor is a puppet, completely
+under the thumb of several royal houses who have risen to ascendancy with
+Londo's help.
+
+========    d. The Narns
+
+Once a major power, the Narn Regime has been recently conquered in a brutal
+assault by the Centauri, especially humiliating since they were unwilling
+subjects of the Centauri Republic a hundred years ago and had broken free of
+their control.  Former ambassador G'Kar, one of the few who knows that the
+Centauri aren't working alone, leads a resistance movement from Babylon 5,
+but
+his chances of reclaiming his homeworld seem slim.  Narns have a reptilian
+appearance and are easily provoked.  The strict new rules imposed by the
+Centauri (including the death of the killer's family if any Narn kills any
+Centauri) have forced them to move carefully.
+
+========    e. The Vorlon Empire
+
+Very little is known about the Vorlon Empire.  The Vorlons are an ancient
+race, the last remaining member of a group of elder races known as the First
+Ones who ruled the galaxy millions of years ago.  The Vorlons have visited
+the
+lesser races for eons, possibly manipulating many of them for their own
+purposes.  The fact that Vorlons appear as holy figures of legend to the few
+onlookers who see them outside their encounter suits -- different figures to
+different observers, no less -- seems to support that.  The Vorlons are
+ancient adversaries of the Shadows, and it's to help wage war against them
+one
+last time that the Vorlons remained behind when most other First Ones went
+away.  They are able to project images into people's minds, no doubt part of
+the reason for their subjective appearance.
+
+========    f. The Shadows
+
+The Shadows are a dark power, ancient beyond even the Vorlons.  They have
+fought fierce wars against the First Ones across millions of years.  The
+last
+Great War against the Shadows was ten thousand years ago; after that,
+perhaps
+thinking the Shadows destroyed, most of the First Ones departed.  A thousand
+years ago the Shadows rose again, and were defeated by an alliance of the
+few
+remaining First Ones and others, including the Minbari.  Now, with no First
+Ones other than the Vorlons to oppose them, their victory seems certain;
+what
+their ultimate goals are, nobody knows, except perhaps their human
+representative, Morden.  The Shadows generally choose to make themselves
+invisible, though some can sense their presence anyway.
+
+========    g. The Rangers
+
+The Rangers are an underground "army of light," comprised of Humans and
+Minbari, formed to gather information and perform covert operations in the
+war
+against the Shadows.  Organized with the help of Minbari Ambassador Delenn,
+Sinclair (former Babylon 5 commander and current Earth ambassador to Minbar)
+and Captain Sheridan, the Rangers have pledged their lives to fight the
+coming
+darkness.  Rangers are identified by a pin which depicts elements of human
+and
+Minbari appearance.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 4.  The Characters
+
+========    a. Main Cast (appearing in most episodes throughout the season)
+
+i. Humans
+
+CAPTAIN JOHN SHERIDAN                       Bruce Boxleitner
+
+The commander of Babylon 5 and representative of the Earth Alliance.  One of
+the few heroes of the Earth-Minbari War, Sheridan scored Earth's only major
+victory of the war, something which has earned him the hatred of the Minbari
+warrior caste, though since his appointment he has generally gotten along
+with
+the Minbari.  Working with a General back home, he is involved in a
+"consipiracy of light," a covert effort to wrestle control away from the
+corruption spreading in EA government.  When he found out that the Shadows
+were responsible for the loss of his wife Anna, he pledged himself to help
+defeat them.  Along with Delenn, Sheridan is in charge of the Rangers on
+Babylon 5.
+
+COMMANDER SUSAN IVANOVA                     Claudia Christian
+
+Second in command and in charge of the day-to-day operations, along with
+some
+ambassadorial duties, on Babylon 5, Ivanova is an ambitious career officer,
+hoping one day to command B5 or her own starship.  She can be quirky or
+pessimistic at times, but she has a dry sense of humor that shows itself in
+the rare moments she is able to relax among others.  Having poor success in
+relationships, most recently in losing Talia, she is not an easy person to
+get
+to know.  Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and raised abroad on Earth,
+Ivanova
+is a latent telepath, "not even a P1," but has spent her life hiding her
+talent from Psi Corps after their legally-mandated drug treatments drove her
+mother to suicide.  She is a member of Sheridan's "conspiracy of light."
+
+SECURITY CHIEF MICHAEL ALFREDO GARIBALDI    Jerry Doyle
+
+In charge of security on Babylon 5.  Though he has a troubled past, bouncing
+from position to position and trying to overcome alcoholism, he seems to
+have
+found his home on Babylon 5.  Garibaldi is something of a smart-aleck,
+always
+ready to crack a joke, but given to bouts of self-doubt and introspection
+when
+nobody's looking.  His natural sense of paranoia wasn't reduced when he was
+shot in the back two years ago by his own second-in-command while he was
+investigating the death of President Santiago.  He is working with Sheridan
+in
+the fight against the corruption on Earth, and assists in dealings with the
+Rangers.  His rank is "Chief Warrant Officer."
+
+DR. STEPHEN FRANKLIN                        Richard Biggs
+
+Dedicated and assured, a specialist in xenobiology (alien biology), and in
+charge of Medlab on Babylon 5.  His background is mainly in experimental
+medicine, so his bedside manner is occasionally not what it should be.  His
+strong sense of personal morality is at times in conflict with his duties as
+the chief medical provider for aliens from hundreds of worlds and cultures,
+some of whom view his obligations rather differently.  Bordering on the
+obsessive, Franklin overworks himself frequently, to the point of abusing
+medical stimulants to keep himself going.  He is known to operate outside
+the
+rules when he feel the issue is important: he runs a free clinic in the
+Downbelow section for those who cannot afford medical care; he serves on an
+"underground railroad" for telepaths who do not want to be found by the Psi
+Corps; he is also part of Sheridan's work against the corruption back on
+Earth.  In his middle thirties now, he spent years hitchhiking through
+space,
+offering his medical services in exchange for the opportunity to examine new
+life forms.
+
+ii. Ambassadors
+
+AMBASSADOR LONDO MOLLARI                    Peter Jurasik
+
+The representative of the Centauri Republic.  Once on an inconsequential
+assignment, Londo has become one of his government's most powerful figures
+due
+to a Faustian bargain struck with new "friends" he knew nothing about, a
+deal
+that has spun far out of control.  With their help, and the help of a few
+other ambitious Centauri, his government decimated the once powerful Narn
+Regime.  Once jovial and indulgent, Londo is now deadly serious as he comes
+to
+realize what the consequences of his association with the Shadows really
+are.
+
+AMBASSADOR DELENN                           Mira Furlan
+
+Represents the Minbari.  Once a member of Minbar's ruling body, the Grey
+Council, she lost her position after her controversial decision, following a
+prophecy, to undergo a transformation that gave her human characteristics.
+Religious, with a strong sense of fate and justice, she believes that she is
+the chosen one, who will lead in the upcoming fight against the Shadows.
+
+G'KAR                                       Andreas Katsulas
+
+The ambassador of the Narn Regime when there was a Narn Regime to represent,
+G'Kar is now a refugee in exile, wanted by the Centauri Republic.  Sheridan
+granted him asylum on Babylon 5, which G'Kar is using as a base of
+operations
+from which to organize a movement to retake his homeworld from the Centauri.
+With limited resources, his authority challenged by the other Narn, G'Kar's
+position is truly desperate.  Ironically, he was among the first to realize
+that the Shadows were helping the Centauri, but nobody heeded his warnings.
+G'Kar is well-read, deeply spiritual, and extremely intelligent.
+
+AMBASSADOR KOSH NARANEK                     Ardwight Chamberlain
+(translation)
+                                            Chris Franke (voice effects)
+                                            Jeffrey Willerth (in the suit)
+                                            and animatronics
+
+In order to save Sheridan's Life, Kosh finally has shown himself outside of
+his encounter suit, which he would wear even in his own methane-filled
+quarters when receiving visitors.  Kosh is still very much an enigma; to
+many
+species, he appears as a holy being of light -- an angel, for instance.
+Kosh
+has taken a great interest in Sheridan, and is attempting to train him for
+the
+upcoming fight against the Shadows.  He communicates through a complex
+sequence of musical tones, translated into English by a device on his
+encounter suit.  When he speaks, his words are few and sound cryptic, but
+often have a strange truth to them.
+
+========    b. Supporting Characters (also in the opening credits)
+
+iii. Ambassador assistants
+
+LENNIER                                     Bill Mumy
+
+Delenn's aide, recently out of a monastery on the Minbari homeworld.  He
+reveres Delenn as an almost holy figure and accepts her physical
+transformation without question.  He has pledged his life to her, in fact,
+and
+is perfectly willing to die by her side.  Still something of an innocent
+thanks to his isolated upbringing, Lennier has learned some of the art of
+diplomacy during his tenure on Babylon 5.  First appears in "The Parliament
+of
+Dreams."
+
+VIR COTTO                                   Stephen Furst
+
+Diplomatic Attache to Ambassador Londo.  Vir feels strongly that the choices
+Londo has made over the past year and a half are taking the Centauri down a
+self-destructive and morally wrong path, and he's getting less and less shy
+about expressing that opinion to Londo.  He feels somewhat powerless in his
+position, close to the major decisions but always on the sidelines.  He is
+being groomed for career advancement, although that may be just Londo's way
+of
+getting him out of the way.
+
+iv. Humans
+
+MARCUS COLE                                 Jason Carter
+
+A Ranger permanently stationed on Babylon 5, he oversees the flow of
+information from rangers stationed in the area.  Often flamboyant and
+acerbic,
+Marcus has picked up the Minbari language and fighting skills from his
+tenure
+on Minbar.  He has taken a liking to Commander Ivanova, though she's
+approaching the relationship with more than a little caution.  Unlike many
+Humans who felt a calling to become a Ranger, he says he joined their number
+only after his brother was killed by Shadows.
+
+ZACK ALLAN                                  Jeff Conaway
+
+Garibaldi's principal lieutenant, Zack is earnest and trustworthy, if not
+necessarily the brightest person on the station.  He is a member of the
+Nightwatch, though he's having second thoughts now that he sees how it's
+being
+used to persecute and harass innocent people.  First appears in "A Spider in
+the Web."
+
+========    c. Recurring and Past Characters
+
++-----------------------------------+
+|  This section  lists  characters  |
+|  that are seen from time to time  |
+|  on Babylon 5.   Characters that  |
+|  have appeared in the past,  and  |
+|  may have some relevance  to the  |
+|  current season, are listed here  |
+|  as well, to provide context.     |
++-----------------------------------+
+
+AMBASSADOR JEFFREY DAVID SINCLAIR            Michael O'Hare
+
+The commander of Babylon 5 and representative of the Earth Alliance for its
+first two years of operation.  Officially, he's on the Minbari homeworld as
+Earth's ambassador, but his main function is as the head of the Rangers.
+Sinclair is of special importance to Delenn, and though she hasn't fully
+explained why, it's likely he carries a Minbari soul of some stature.  A
+glimpse into the future when he was head of Babylon 5 revealed that he will
+be
+involved in the theft of Babylon 4, and will possibly be witness to the
+eventual destruction of Babylon 5 at Garibaldi's hands.
+
+PRESIDENT WILLIAM MORGAN CLARK              Gary McGurk
+
+The president of the Earth Alliance, not much of an advocate of Babylon 5's
+interests.  When President Santiago was killed in an "accidental" explosion,
+Clark took office and immediately began his own corrupt agenda.  He
+personally
+assigned Sheridan to his position, unaware of Sheridan's interest in
+fighting
+the mounting corruption in Earth government.  First appears in "Chrysalis."
+
+ALFRED BESTER                               Walter Koenig
+
+A Psi-Cop, one of an elite unit of the Psi Corps whose function is to track
+down rogue telepaths, among other things.  Perhaps in part because of his
+P12
+psi rating -- more than twice as high as Lyta's -- he seems to have risen to
+a
+position of some importance in the Corps.  Bester ruthlessly pursues his
+agenda, which most of the time is the same as the Corps'.  First appears in
+"Mind War."
+
+MORDEN                                      Ed Wasser
+
+A member of the same expedition Sheridan's wife was on, Morden was captured
+by
+the Shadows and now works for them.  He is often accompanied by one or two
+of
+them, though they're invisible to most people.  Never a major player, he is
+always ready to talk to Londo and pass messages to and from his
+"associates."
+Delenn and G'Kar have met him, but only Delenn has any idea who he is.
+Morden
+is meticulously polite, but nonetheless is a menacing presence who can
+casually discuss the deaths of tens of thousands of Narn as easily as most
+people talk about the weather.  And, it appears that he is involved with the
+dark activities going on back on Earth as well.  First appears in "Signs and
+Portents."
+
+BROTHER THEO                                Louis Turenne
+
+A Dominican monk, establishing residence on the station to study the
+religious
+beliefs of alien races.  Willing to trade the services of his order for the
+ability to stay on the station.  First appears in "Convictions."
+
+JACK                                        Macaulay Bruton
+
+He was Garibaldi's seemingly loyal assistant until he shot him in the back
+as
+soon as Garibaldi discovered a conspiracy to assassinate President Santiago.
+Garibaldi identified him as his assailant, but he disappeared while being
+transferred to earth for prosecution.  Possibly associated with the Psi
+Corps.
+First appears in "Mind War."
+
+LORD REFA                                   William Forward
+
+A ruthless, unprincipled Centauri noble with whom Londo is cooperating in a
+bid for power.  Refa and his cohorts are more or less in charge of the
+Centauri Republic; the Emperor is simply a figurehead who follows their
+lead.
+As Londo has grown uncomfortable in his dealings with his mysterious allies,
+Refa has taken to dealing with them himself.  First appears in "The Geometry
+of Shadows."
+
+(Second) LIEUTENANT DAVID CORWIN            Joshua Cox
+
+Third in command in C&C, after Sheridan and Ivanova.  Corwin is shy but
+well-intentioned, a loyal officer.  First appears in "Signs and Portents."
+
+LYTA ALEXANDER                              Patricia Tallman
+
+A former Psi Corps telepath -- the first one assigned to the station, in
+fact.
+Three years ago she scanned Ambassador Kosh, an experience that left her
+forever altered, though she has told nobody the full extent of it.  Shortly
+thereafter she was recalled to Earth for questioning.  Now she's on the run
+from the Corps, even working to expose some of its machinations.  First
+appears in "The Gathering."
+
+DRAAL                                       John Schuck
+
+The steward of the vast machinery below on Epsilon 3.  He is a Minbari who
+was
+looking for a new purpose in life when he heeded the call to become
+caretaker
+of the planet.  He has offered his services in the upcoming Shadow War as
+well
+as in Sheridan's "consipiracy of light."  First appears in "A Voice in the
+Wilderness" (part 1).
+
+TALIA WINTERS                               Andrea Thompson
+
+Operating as Babylon 5's resident telepath for nearly two years, Talia left
+the station when her unwilling involvement in a classified Psi Corps
+experiment was exposed and changed her forever.  Her whereabouts -- or her
+fate -- are not known.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 5.  The Story So Far
+
++-----------------------------------+
+|  This section contains  spoilers  |
+|  for seasons 1 and 2 of  Babylon  |
+|  5.  It contains no spoilers for  |
+|  this or subsequent seasons.      |
++-----------------------------------+
+
+After B5's commander, Jeffrey Sinclair, is reassigned, Captain Sheridan
+takes
+over command of the station, unaware of his fate.  G'Kar realizes that there
+is a new race lurking in the shadows.  Delenn emerges, transformed to be
+half
+human, though not fully explained.  The mystery of the Minbari surrender is
+finally revealed:  The Minbari discovered that Minbari souls were being
+reborn
+in humans.  The situation on Earth is getting worse; an unknown "Bureau 13"
+is
+working in the background and the "Night Watch" program is stomping down on
+dissidents; meanwhile, Sheridan is part of an underground movement to gain
+control back from the corrupted government; he brings his trusted officers
+into the fold.  On the eve of an historic speech that would have prevented a
+Narn-Centauri War, Londo calls upon his unknown agents to attack a major
+Narn
+colony, starting the war.  The mysterious shadows behind the Centauri
+brutality are finally revealed to Sheridan; it has been known that this
+ancient race has been building up strength; Delenn and Kosh enlist Sheridan
+to
+help in the upcoming war against the shadows.  The Centauri, with the aid of
+the shadows, end the war with the Narn decisively by bombing the Narn home-
+world "into the stone ages."  The Centauri soon begin annexing other worlds,
+Kosh has finally revealed himself, and a shadow has been caught on camera.
+The Great War is begun.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 6.  Past and Current Episode Reference
+
++-----------------------------------+
+|  This section contains brief de-  |
+|  scriptions  of episodes  up to,  |
+|  and including, the current sea-  |
+|  son.   These entries do contain  |
+|  minor spoilers, enough to iden-  |
+|  tify the episode title based on  |
+|  its storyline.                   |
++-----------------------------------+
+
+FOR THE FIRST TWO SEASONS, PLEASE SEE PART (C) AND PART (D) OF THIS
+DOCUMENT.
+
+Season 3: "Point of No Return"
+
+* Matters of Honor
+  Earth investigates reports of shadows; Sheridan is given a new ship.
+
+* Convictions
+  Somebody is planting bombs in populated areas on the station.
+
+* A Day in the Strife
+  G'Kar is told to go home; an alien probe arrives at the station.
+
+* Passing Through Gethsemane
+  Lyta is back; A peaceful monk is confronted by violent images.
+
+* Voices of Authority
+  Earth sends B5 a political officer; Ivanova goes to contact some Old Ones.
+
+* Dust to Dust
+  Bester returns in search of drug smugglers; G'Kar has a revelation.
+
+* Exogenesis
+  Alien parasites are invading the bodies of lurkers.
+
+* Messages from Earth
+  An archeologist brings a tale of shadows which leads Sheridan to Jupiter.
+
+* Point of No Return
+  Nightwatch attempts to take over the station; a Centauri prophetess
+visits.
+
+* Severed Dreams
+  Clark tries to seize Babylon 5, forcing Sheridan to declare independence.
+
+* Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+  Delenn is held hostage; New uniforms for the crew.
+
+* Sic Transit Vir
+  Vir discovers he has a betrothed, who is not as innocent as she seems.
+
+* A Late Delivery from Avalon
+  King Arthur appears on Babylon 5, but he may not be who he claims.
+
+* Ship of Tears
+  Bester is at odds with the Shadows; G'Kar joins the B5 war council.
+
+* Interludes and Examinations
+  Confrontations with the shadows begin; the shadows retaliate against Kosh.
+
+* War Without End I
+* War Without End II
+  Sinclair returns to pull Babylon 4 1000 years through time.
+
+* Walkabout
+  Franklin leaves to find himself; Sheridan tests out a Shadow weakness.
+
+* Grey 17 is Missing
+  Garibaldi investigates a missing level; Delenn is appointed Ranger One.
+
+* And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+  Londo uses Vir in a plot against Lord Refa; Religious leaders arrive on
+B5.
+
+* Shadow Dancing
+  The forces of light attempt a preemptive strike against the Shadows.
+
+* Z'ha'dum
+  Sheridan goes to the homeworld of the Shadows.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 7. Credits and Legalese
+
+This text file may be distributed online, in complete or excerpted form, as
+long as acknowledgement is made to the authors, and the URL of the current
+version of this file is indicated. (see top of document.)
+
+The Babylon 5 Frequently Asked Questions List part (E) is Copyright 1996-98
+by
+Dan Wood and Steven Grimm.  Acknowledgement is made to J. Michael
+Straczynski,
+previous FAQ maintainer Lee Whiteside and to excerpted contributions from
+the
+Babylon 5 online libraries.
+
+Currently maintained by Dan Wood.
+Comments, suggestions, etc. are always appreciated.
+
+This text file was edited on QUED/M text editor running on a Macintosh.
+
+If you maintain an online B5 service, I can send you each FAQ update.  I
+don't
+have the resources to send updates to individuals, so please don't ask.
+
+------------------------- "Saying Windows 95 is equal to Macintosh is
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+From: Babylon 5 FAQ <no_hormel_products@anywhere.com>
+Subject: Babylon 5 FAQ (F): Setting for season 4
+Approved: news-answers-request@mit.edu
+Organization: Conspiracy of Light
+Followup-To: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
+Reply-To: (see signature)
+Summary: This document is a supplement to the Babylon 5 FAQ list.  It
+contains
+         information to help viewers of the show who are catching up with
+the
+         show in season 4 ("No Surrender, No Retreat", Earth year 2261).
+
+Archive-name: tv/babylon-5/setting/season4
+Frequency: bi-weekly
+Last-modified: 17 December 1997
+
++-----------------------------------+
+|  BABYLON 5 FAQ, part (F):         |
+|  Setting for season #4            |
+|                                   |
+|  A guide for viewers who wish to  |
+|  catch up to the events  leading  |
+|  up to  season 4, "No Surrender,  |
+|  No Retreat."  This is the year   |
+|  2261 in the opening credits.     |
+|                                   |
+|  This holds SPOILERS  for season  |
+|  1, 2, 3 episodes, and descrip-   |
+|  tions of season 4 settings.      |
+|  DO NOT READ unless you are now   |
+|  watching SEASON 4 episodes!      |
++-----------------------------------+
+
+There are SEVEN parts to the FAQ: (A) Information about B5; (B) News and
+Schedule; (C), (D), (E), (F) are the settings for seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
+respectively.
+
+The latest version of all parts of the FAQ can be retrieved via anonymous
+ftp
+at ftp://ftp.midwinter.com/pub/Babylon-5/ or via e-mail by sending a note to
+mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with any or all of these lines in the message body:
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/faq
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/news-schedule
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/setting/season1
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/setting/season2
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/setting/season3
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/setting/season4
+    send usenet/news.answers/tv/babylon-5/setting/season5
+
+WORLD WIDE WEB users should see http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html
+for the much more detailed "Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5"; the information
+in this document is similar to the "Universe" section.
+
+    -------------------------
+    Contents of this document
+    -------------------------
+    1.  Introduction
+    2.  The Setting of Babylon 5
+    3.  The Major Players
+    4.  The Characters
+    5.  The Story So Far
+    6.  Past and Current reference
+    7.  Credits and Legalese
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 1.  Introduction
+
+    It was the year of fire / The year of destruction /
+    The year we took back what was ours.
+
+    It was the year of rebirth / The year of great sadness /
+    The year of pain / and the year of joy
+
+    It was a new age / It was the end of history /
+    It was the year everything changed
+
+    The year is 2261 / The place: Babylon 5.
+
+        -- Lennier, Zack, G'Kar, Lyta, Vir, Marcus, Delenn, Londo, Franklin,
+           Ivanova, Garibaldi, and Sheridan
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 2.  The Setting of Babylon 5
+
+A hundred years ago, humanity made contact with its first alien civilization
+-- or more to the point, they made contact with us.  Before the arrival of
+the
+Centauri, we were confined to our own solar system, forced to use slow
+sleeper
+ships to explore the universe.  The Centauri gave us the stars, offered us
+the
+use of their "jumpgates" -- portals into hyperspace -- and later, taught us
+to
+make our own.  In exchange for this and other technologies, they asked only
+for trinkets, novelties to sell back home.
+
+In the eighty years that followed, humanity flexed its muscles, expanding
+outward at a rapid pace.  When a group of less powerful races was attacked
+by
+an invading army, Earth came to their aid, cementing its role as a major
+galactic power, if a young, brash one.
+
+The wave of euphoria came crashing down when humanity made contact with a
+mysterious race called the Minbari.  The Earth-Minbari War began with a
+misunderstanding, a human captain and a Minbari commander too quick on the
+trigger.  Thanks to bad luck or something darker, our first meeting with the
+Minbari resulted in the death of their supreme religious and political
+leader.
+To the Minbari, what followed was a holy war, vengeance for the murder of
+their spiritual leader.  Earth was no match for the technologically superior
+Minbari, and they easily beat us back to our home planet.
+
+Then, without explanation, as their ships closed in on Earth and wiped out
+our
+last desperate defenses, the Minbari halted their advance and surrendered.
+Only an elite few knew why.
+
+The Babylon Project was conceived in the aftermath of the war.  Modeled
+after
+the United Nations, it would be a meeting place, neutral ground where the
+powers could meet and work out their differences peacefully.
+
+The first three Babylon stations were sabotaged in mid-construction.  The
+fourth was completed, but just as it was about to go online, it vanished
+without a trace.  The Earth government would have stopped there, but some of
+the alien governments, seeing the value of a meeting ground, offered
+financial
+assistance for the construction of a fifth station.  Naturally, there were
+strings attached.
+
+Babylon 5 is the story of the last of the Babylon stations, the last hope
+for
+a galaxy without war.  It begins in the year 2257 with the opening of the
+Babylon 5 station.
+
+ + + + + +
+
+Babylon 5 has failed in its original mission, yet has it done much more than
+was intended.  A great war is underway against a powerful enemy that existed
+only in legends until a few years ago.  Having seceeded from its Earth
+govern-
+ment that once ran the station, Babylon 5 is now the center of activity of
+a great alliance among dozens of races to push back the forces of darkness.
+The alliance has recently found its first real victory, but at great
+expense;
+the fate of Babylon 5 and the surrounding governments hang in the balance.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 3.  The Major Players
+
+========    a. Babylon 5 (an independent state)
+
+Babylon 5 was an outpost operated by the Earth Allance, built with the aid
+of
+a few alien governments.  Captain Sheridan declared independence in mid-2260
+to side with the resistance opposing the corrupt government on Earth.  By
+continuing its function as a remote outpost for use by a multitude of
+species,
+B5 has been able to maintain its autonomy from Earth.  With the war against
+the Shadows out in the open, the station has served as a base of operations.
+The station orbits around a planet, once thought barren, which houses an
+ancient, vast machine that may prove useful to the forces of light in the
+years to come.
+
+========    b. The Earth Alliance
+
+The Earth Alliance, headquartered in Geneva, is currently under martial law,
+led by its corrupt president, William Morgan Clark.  Several colonies of
+Earth
+(including Babylon 5) have seceded from the EA, but Clark's grip back home
+is
+strong, thanks to his loyalists and help from Psi-Corps, a government agency
+in charge of overseeing humans with telepathic abilities, and the Night
+Watch,
+and Orwellian agency designed to stifle political dissent.  Earth has taken
+a
+questionable stance by allying itself with the expansionist Centauri Empire,
+hoping to save its own skin by allowing the Centauri to roll unhindered over
+the lesser races Earth once saved.  Even worse is the fact the EA goverment
+appears to be working behind the scenes with the Shadows, the great Enemy
+against which Babylon 5 is leading the forces of light.
+
+========    c. The Minbari Federation
+
+An old, highly spiritual race, the Minbari are humanoid with exterior bone
+crests on their heads.  Once an adversary of Earth, the Minbari Federation
+has
+teamed up with Babylon 5 and a coalition of many other races to fight an
+ancient enemy from a thousand years ago, the Shadows.  The Grey Council,
+Minbar's ruling body, was recently dissolved, with a rift opening between
+the
+Warrior Caste and the Religious Caste.
+
+Only a few know that Minbar and Earth have linked histories: a human,
+Sinclair, the first commander of Babylon 5, traveled back in time to the
+previous war against the Shadows and delivered a new base of operations,
+Babylon 4, to the Minbari.  Sinclair became a great spiritual leader, the
+founder of Minbari society and a prophet thanks to his knowledge of future
+events.  Sinclair's journey opened a doorway between Minbari and humans, and
+since the last war a thousand years ago, Minbari souls have been slowly
+reincarnating in human bodies.  Upon discovering that, the Minbari halted
+their recent war against the humans.
+
+========    d. The Centauri Republic
+
+The Centauri Republic, once a fading former power, has allied itself with
+the
+Shadows and is enjoying a renaissance of military and political might.  The
+Centauri are even allowing the Shadows to house ships and personnel on their
+homeworld.  The insane Centauri Emperor, Cartagia, believes the Shadows will
+elevate him to godhood if he cooperates with them. Instead, the pact is
+likely
+to leave Cartagia dead and Centauri Prime in ruins.  Centauri are mostly
+human
+in appearance; men wear their hair in fans whose height indicate social
+standing, and women have shaved heads.
+
+========    e. The Narns
+
+Once a major power, the Narn Regime was one of the victims of Centauri
+expansionism, especially humiliating since they were unwilling subjects of
+the
+Centauri Republic a hundred years ago and had only recently won their
+freedom.
+Under the leadership of former ambassador G'Kar, now living in sanctuary on
+Babylon 5, the Narn are assisting with Babylon 5 security and doing what
+they
+can to help in the struggle in the fight against the Shadows while
+attempting
+to rebuild their homeworld and their forces.  Narns have a reptilian
+appearance and are easily provoked.
+
+========    f. The Vorlon Empire
+
+The Vorlons are an ancient race, the last remaining member of a group of
+elder
+races known as the First Ones who ruled the galaxy millions of years ago.
+The
+Vorlons have visited the lesser races for eons, manipulating many of them
+for
+their own purposes; they are responsible for the appearance of telepathy in
+at
+least some races, a modification they hoped would aid the eventual defeat of
+the Shadows, their ancient adversaries.  Though the Vorlons have helped
+orchestrate the alliance against the Shadows, and have shown themselves to
+be
+an awesome military power, they are reluctant to involve themselves
+directly,
+preferring to place younger races on the front lines and avoid the risks of
+direct confrontation.
+
+========    g. The Shadows
+
+The Shadows are a dark power, ancient beyond even the Vorlons.  They have
+fought fierce wars against the First Ones across millions of years.  The
+last
+Great War against the Shadows was ten thousand years ago; after that,
+perhaps
+thinking the Shadows destroyed, most of the First Ones departed.  A thousand
+years ago the Shadows rose again, and were defeated by an alliance of the
+few
+remaining First Ones and others, including the Minbari.  The Shadows have
+been
+working over the millenia to spark struggle and chaos among the lesser
+races,
+ostensibly to provoke growth and evolution; their method is the opposite of
+that of the Vorlons, who prefer to manipulate the other races more subtly.
+The
+Shadows generally choose to make themselves invisible, though some -- such
+as
+telepaths -- can not only sense their presence, but are able to immobilize
+Shadow ships, a fact which has not escaped the notice of Babylon 5's crew
+and
+their allies in the Shadow war.
+
+========    h. The Rangers
+
+The Rangers are an "army of light," comprised of Humans and Minbari, formed
+to
+gather information and perform covert operations in the war against the
+Shadows.  With fighting out in the open, so too is their presence. Their
+leader is Minbari Ambassador Delenn, with the aid of Captain Sheridan.
+Rangers
+are identified by a pin which depicts elements of human and Minbari
+appearance.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 4.  The Characters
+
+========    a. Main Cast (appearing in most episodes throughout the season)
+
+i. Humans
+
+CAPTAIN JOHN SHERIDAN                       Bruce Boxleitner
+
+The commander of Babylon 5 and leader of the war against the Shadows,
+Sheridan
+was representative of the Earth Alliance before he declared Babylon 5's
+independence from the Earth Alliance.  He was assigned to Babylon 5 because
+he
+seemed the hard-line military type; yet he was part of the growing movement
+against the corruption back on Earth.  When he found out that the Shadows
+were
+responsible for the loss of his wife Anna, he pledged himself to help the
+Vorlons and the Minbari defeat them.  Sheridan has recently found himself
+romantically involved with Delenn, the representative of the Minbari.
+Season
+4 begins with Sheridan, having fallen at Z'ha'dum, in a strange state
+between
+life and death.
+
+COMMANDER SUSAN IVANOVA                     Claudia Christian
+
+Second in command and in charge of the day-to-day operations, along with
+some
+ambassadorial duties, on Babylon 5, Ivanova is an ambitious career officer,
+hoping one day to command B5 or her own starship.  She can be quirky or
+pessimistic at times, but she has a dry sense of humor that shows itself in
+the rare moments she is able to relax among others.  Having poor success in
+relationships, most recently in losing Talia, she is not an easy person to
+get
+to know.  Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and raised abroad on Earth,
+Ivanova
+is a latent telepath, "not even a P1," but has spent her life hiding her
+talent from Psi Corps after their legally-mandated drug treatments drove her
+mother to suicide.
+
+SECURITY CHIEF MICHAEL ALFREDO GARIBALDI    Jerry Doyle
+
+In charge of security on Babylon 5, at least up until when he and his
+starfury
+mysteriously disappeared immediately after Sheridan took his fall at
+Z'ha'dum.
+He has a troubled past, bouncing from position to position and trying to
+over-
+come alcoholism. And though he seems to have found his home on Babylon 5,
+the
+circumstances of his disappearance may prove to be trouble for him.
+Garibaldi
+is something of a smart-aleck, always ready to crack a joke, but given to
+bouts of self-doubt and introspection when nobody's looking.
+
+DR. STEPHEN FRANKLIN                        Richard Biggs
+
+Having just recovered from an addiction to medical stimulants and returned
+to
+duty after a break to deal with his personal problems, Franklin is charge of
+Medlab on Babylon 5.  A specialist in xenobiology (alien biology), his
+background is mainly in experimental medicine, so his bedside manner is
+occasionally not what it should be.  His strong sense of personal morality
+is
+at times in conflict with his duties as the chief medical provider for
+aliens
+from hundreds of worlds and cultures, some of whom view his obligations
+rather
+differently.  He is known to operate outside the rules when he feel the
+issue
+is important.  In his middle thirties now, he spent years hitchhiking
+through
+space, offering his medical services in exchange for the opportunity to
+examine new life forms.
+
+ii. Ambassadors
+
+AMBASSADOR LONDO MOLLARI                    Peter Jurasik
+
+The representative of the Centauri Republic.  Once on an inconsequential
+assignment, Londo struck a Faustian bargain with the Shadows -- new
+"friends"
+he knew nothing about -- putting the Centauri on an expansionist path that
+has
+resulted in the decimation of the Narn homeworld and brought chaos to the
+region of the Galaxy near Babylon 5, exactly what the Shadows wanted. Once
+jovial and indulgent, Londo has now removed most of his enemies in the
+Centauri Government, and seems destined to become Emporer, withstanding the
+problems he's having with the current Emporer.
+
+AMBASSADOR DELENN                           Mira Furlan
+
+Religious, with a strong sense of fate and justice, Delenn was the Minbari
+ambassador, and is now the leader of the Rangers in the fight against the
+Shadows.  Once a member of Minbar's ruling body, the Grey Council, she lost
+her position after her controversial decision to undergo a transformation
+that
+gave her human characteristics, a transformation that has brought her very
+close to Captain Sheridan.
+
+G'KAR                                       Andreas Katsulas
+
+The ambassador of the Narn Regime when there was a Narn Regime to represent,
+G'Kar is now a refugee in exile, wanted by the Centauri Republic.  Sheridan
+granted him asylum on Babylon 5, and now G'Kar has joined the effort to
+fight
+the Shadows however he can; he eventually hopes to retake his homeworld from
+the Centauri.  G'Kar is well-read, deeply spiritual, and extremely
+intelligent.
+
+AMBASSADOR KOSH                             Ardwight Chamberlain
+(translation)
+                                            Chris Franke (voice effects)
+                                            Jeffrey Willerth (in the suit)
+                                            and animatronics
+
+Kosh is the representative of the Vorlon Empire, and is the replacement for
+the first Vorlon representative, also called Kosh, who was killed by the
+Shadows.  While the first ambassador was mysterious, withdrawn, and
+enigmatic,
+the new ambassador has all those traits and also seems less friendly and
+tolerant of others.  As with his predecessor, he communicates through a
+complex sequence of musical tones, translated into English by a device on
+his
+encounter suit.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+========    b. Supporting Characters (also in the opening credits)
+
+iii. Ambassador assistants
+
+VIR COTTO                                   Stephen Furst
+
+Diplomatic Attache to Ambassador Londo.  Vir feels strongly that the choices
+Londo has made over the past year and a half are taking the Centauri down a
+self-destructive and morally wrong path, and has gone from timid to bold in
+expressing that opinion to Londo.  He feels somewhat powerless in his
+position, close to the major decisions but always on the sidelines.  Vir
+sympathizes greatly with the plight of the Narns, and managed to save
+thousands of Narn lives through forged travel papers while he was stationed
+on
+Minbar last year.
+
+LENNIER                                     Bill Mumy
+
+Delenn's aide, originally brought up monastery on the Minbari homeworld.  He
+reveres Delenn as an almost holy figure and accepts her physical
+transformation without question.  He has pledged his life to her, in fact,
+and
+is perfectly willing to die by her side.  Still something of an innocent
+thanks to his isolated upbringing, Lennier has learned some of the art of
+diplomacy during his tenure on Babylon 5.  Lennier has been helpful to
+Delenn
+in leading the Rangers and fighting against the Shadows.
+
+iv. Humans
+
+MARCUS COLE                                 Jason Carter
+
+A Ranger permanently stationed on Babylon 5, he oversees the flow of
+information from rangers stationed in the area.  Often flamboyant and
+acerbic,
+Marcus has picked up the Minbari language and fighting skills from his
+Ranger
+training.  He has taken a liking to Commander Ivanova, though she's
+approaching the relationship with more than a little caution.  Unlike many
+Humans who felt a calling to become a Ranger, he says he joined their number
+only after his brother was killed by Shadows.
+
+ZACK ALLAN                                  Jeff Conaway
+
+Garibaldi's principal lieutenant, Zack is earnest and trustworthy, if not
+necessarily the brightest person on the station.  He earned Garibaldi's
+trust
+last year when he rejected the Machiavellian "Nightwatch" organization that
+was bent on taking control away from the station on behalf of President
+Clark.
+In Garabaldi's absence, he's had to take over as security chief on the B5.
+
+LYTA ALEXANDER                              Patricia Tallman
+
+A former Psi Corps telepath -- the first one assigned to the station, in
+fact.
+Three years ago she scanned Ambassador Kosh, an experience that brought her
+back to the station to serve as an aide for Kosh.  She has been helpful to
+Sheridan in the fight against the shadows, proving that telepaths have an
+advantage against Shadow ships.  With the original Ambassador Kosh now dead,
+she is having a difficult time working with his replacement.  And her work
+with the vorlons seems to be improving her telepathic ability....
+
+========    c. Recurring and Past Characters
+
++-----------------------------------+
+|  This section  lists  characters  |
+|  that are seen from time to time  |
+|  on Babylon 5.   Characters that  |
+|  have appeared in the past,  and  |
+|  may have some relevance  to the  |
+|  current season, are listed here  |
+|  as well, to provide context.     |
++-----------------------------------+
+
+EMPEROR CARTAGIA                            Wortham Krimmer
+
+The current Emporer of the Centauri Empire. Placed in power by Lord Refa and
+his ambitious allies, Cartagia has allied himself with the shadows in a way
+that makes even Londo uncomfortable.
+
+LORIEN                                      Wayne Alexander
+
+An ancient one -- the oldest -- who accompanies Sheridan after his fall.
+
+MORDEN                                      Ed Wasser
+
+A member of the same expedition Sheridan's wife was on, Morden works for the
+Shadows.  He is often accompanied by one or two of them, though they're
+invisible to most people.  Never a major player, he is always ready to talk
+to
+Londo and pass messages to and from his "associates."  Morden is
+meticulously
+polite, but nonetheless is a menacing presence who can casually discuss the
+deaths of tens of thousands of Narn as easily as most people talk about the
+weather.  He is involved with dealings between Shadows and the corrupt Earth
+government as well.
+
+ANNA SHERIDAN                               Melissa Gilbert
+                                            (Originally: Beth Toussaint)
+
+John Sheridan's wife was presumed killed in an explosion while on an
+expedition to a newly discovered planet which we now know as Z'ha'dum.  She
+wasn't killed, but was used by the Shadows.  She finally surfaced after five
+years, but it was discovered that her personality had been altered and she
+was
+no longer really Anna.  She was killed when the White Star exploded on
+Z'ha'dum.
+
+JEFFREY DAVID SINCLAIR                      Michael O'Hare
+
+The commander of Babylon 5 and representative of the Earth Alliance for its
+first two years of operation, Sinclair was transferred to Minbar to serve as
+Earth ambassador, but unofficially to function as head of the Rangers.
+Sinclair recently brought Babylon 4 back through time to aide the Minbari in
+their war against the Shadows of 1000 years ago; in doing so, he used the
+same
+device that had transformed Delenn in order to attain Minbari appearance,
+and
+in doing so, became Valenn, Minbar's great spiritual leader who formed the
+Grey Council.
+
+PRESIDENT WILLIAM MORGAN CLARK              Gary McGurk
+
+The president of the Earth Alliance, Clark was vice-president when he had
+President Santiago assassinated; he rose to power with the help of
+Nightwatch,
+the Psi Corps, and some kind of involvement with the Shadows, dissolving the
+EA Senate and declaring Martial Law.
+
+AMBASSADOR KOSH NARANEK                     [same credits as the 'new' Kosh]
+
+One of the oldest Vorlons, possibly thousands of years old, Kosh was the
+Ambassador to Babylon 5 until he was killed by the Shadows.  Though as
+secluded and cryptic as any Vorlon, Kosh had seen something special in
+Sheridan and had given him various 'lessons' that supposedly help Sheridan
+to
+understand himself.  In fact, Kosh saved Sheridan's life, leaving his
+encounter suit and appearing as an angel, recognizeable to many species as a
+holy being of light.  Kosh had also enlisted Lyta Alexander as an aide for
+unknown purposes.
+
+ALFRED BESTER                               Walter Koenig
+
+A Psi-Cop, one of an elite unit of the Psi Corps whose function is to track
+down rogue telepaths, among other things.  A powerful figure in the
+Psi-corps,
+perhaps in part because of his high P12 psi rating, Bester was often at odds
+with Babylon 5 personell; he recently found himself an unexpected ally of
+Sheridan and the fight against the shadows when he discovered that the woman
+that he loved had been abducted by the Shadows.
+
+NUMBER ONE                                  Marjorie Monaghan
+
+The tough-as-nails leader of the Mars resistance, Number One, as she is
+known,
+intensely distrusts telepaths and will rarely compromise once she's made up
+her mind.  She has a soft spot for Dr. Franklin, though she rarely shows it.
+
+LISE HAMPTON                                Denise Gentile
+
+Once involved with Garibaldi when he worked on Mars, Lise has come back into
+Garibaldi's life, though she's on her second husband since they parted
+company
+years ago.
+
+BROTHER THEO                                Louis Turenne
+
+A Dominican monk, establishing residence on the station to study the
+religious
+beliefs of alien races.  Willing to trade the services of his order for the
+ability to stay on the station, Theo and his brothers have been helpful
+spiritual guides in the difficult days of the war against the Shadows.
+
+JACK                                        Macaulay Bruton
+
+He was Garibaldi's seemingly loyal assistant until he shot him in the back
+as
+soon as Garibaldi discovered a conspiracy to assassinate President Santiago.
+Garibaldi identified him as his assailant, but he disappeared while being
+transferred to earth for prosecution.
+
+LORD REFA                                   William Forward
+
+A ruthless, unprincipled Centauri noble who worked with Londo in a bid for
+power.  But over the last year, Refa and Londo found themselves at odds when
+Londo realized he was uncomfortable with the chaos he had initiating.  Londo
+finally eliminated and disgraced Refa, paving the way to Londo's ascension
+with his rival eliminated.
+
+LIEUTENANT DAVID CORWIN                     Joshua Cox
+
+Third in command in C&C, after Sheridan and Ivanova.  Corwin is shy but
+well-intentioned, a loyal officer, and has accepted Sheridan's decision to
+secede from the Earth Alliance.
+
+DRAAL                                       John Schuck
+
+The steward of the vast machinery below on Epsilon 3.  He is a Minbari who
+was
+looking for a new purpose in life when he heeded the call to become
+caretaker
+of the planet.  He has offered his services in the upcoming Shadow War,
+though
+Sheridan has kept Draal as his 'ace in the hole' so far.
+
+TALIA WINTERS                               Andrea Thompson
+
+Operating as Babylon 5's resident telepath for nearly two years, Talia left
+the station when her unwilling involvement in a classified Psi Corps
+experiment was exposed and changed her forever.  Her whereabouts -- or her
+fate -- are not known.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 5.  The Story So Far
+
++-----------------------------------+
+|  This section contains  spoilers  |
+|  for Babylon 5 seasons 1 through  |
+|  3.  It contains no spoilers for  |
+|  this or subsequent seasons.      |
++-----------------------------------+
+
+Babylon 5, a space station constructed with the hope of keeping the various
+races in the galaxy at peace, seems to function as it should for a while.
+In the first year of its operation, the station's Commander Sinclair
+discovers that he had been captured and interrogated in the Earth-Minbari
+war of a decade ago, only to have his memory erased for unknown reasons.
+The crew of B5 discover that the barren world below them is actually
+housing a vast underground complex of machinery, and the mystery of the
+disappearance of Babylon 4 is partly revealed: it had been taken through
+time by unknown forces to assist in a war in an unknown place and time.
+Behind the scenes, an ancient race, known only as The Shadows, is building
+its forces.  Through Morden, a Human intermediary, the Shadows subtly begin
+working their influence on the galaxy by capitalizing on the desires of
+Centauri ambassador Londo Mollari to rebuild his fading empire.  Londo lets
+his benefactors assist him by destroying a Narn outpost, thus reigniting
+conflict with the Narn Government.  On that same day, the President of the
+Earth Alliance is killed in an explosion that few realize is really an
+assassination, and Delenn, the Minbari ambassador, activates a machine that
+will cause her to physically transform.
+
+Days later, the original commander of the station, Sinclair, is reassigned,
+and Captain Sheridan takes command, unaware of the existance of the
+Shadows.  The mystery of the Minbari surrender is finally revealed:  The
+Minbari discovered that Minbari souls were being reborn in humans.  Delenn
+emerges from a cocoon to appear nearly human; she claims she has done so to
+promote peace between the Humans and the Minbari.  The situation on Earth
+is getting worse; covert forces are working in the background and the
+"Night Watch" program is stomping down on dissidents; meanwhile, Sheridan
+reveals that he is part of an underground movement to gain control back
+from the corrupted government; he brings his trusted officers into the
+fold.  On the eve of an historic speech that would have brought peace
+between the Narn and Centauri, Londo calls upon his unknown agents to
+attack a major Narn colony, starting a war.  Ambassadors Kosh and Delenn
+reveal the existance of the Shadows behind the Centauri brutality; Sheridan
+is enlisted to help in an upcoming war against them; he takes it personally
+when he learns that the Shadows were likely responsible for the death of
+his wife five years ago when she travelled to a planet called Z'ha'dum.
+The Centauri, with the aid of the Shadows, terminate the war with the Narn
+decisively by bombing the Narn homeworld "into the stone ages."  The
+Centauri soon begin annexing other worlds; the enigmatic Ambassador Kosh
+finally reveals himself, revealing that Vorlons appear to most races as
+angels; and a shadow ship has been caught on camera, undoing the secrecy
+that the shadows had been maintaining. The Great War is begun.
+
+The Minbari give Sheridan a powerful new ship, the White Star, to command
+in the upcoming fight against the Shadows.  Further corruption in Earth
+government is revealed when it is learned that the Shadows have been
+cooperating with certain individuals in government.  The Earth alliance
+plunges into civil war as martial law is declared back home; Sheridan is
+forced to secede from Earth and is only able to keep the forces at bay with
+the help of the Minbari.  The shadows begin attacking openly (and seemingly
+randomly); Sheridan builds an alliance among the many races by enlisting
+the help of the Vorlons, an act which results in the death of Ambassador
+Kosh.  Sinclair returns to the station with a message from the past; with
+the help of the machinery on the planet below, The White Star takes Babylon
+4 through time to assist in a war against the Shadows of 1000 years ago.
+Londo continues his ascension to power in the Centauri government, removing
+his political rival.  Using a discovery that telepaths interfere with the
+functionality of Shadow Ships, Sheridan and Delenn organize their alliance
+in to a preemptive strike against the Shadows, celebrating a difficult
+victory.  Sheridan's wife appears, returning from Z'ha'dum, the homeworld
+of the Shadows, and attempts to convince Sheridan that the shadows really
+aren't the bad guys; Sheridan rejects her plea when he discovers that her
+personality has been altered; instead, he rigs the White Star to crash onto
+and detonate a bomb on Z'ha'dum; Hearing the advice of Ambassador Kosh in
+his head, Sheridan jumps into an abyss below him just before the explosion;
+he is presumed dead.  Immediately after the explosion, the shadow ships
+that had been threatening B5 dissapear, possibly returning home; one of the
+ships seems to have taken Garibaldi along with it.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 6.  Past and Current Episode Reference
+
++-----------------------------------+
+|  This section contains brief de-  |
+|  scriptions  of episodes  up to,  |
+|  and including, the current sea-  |
+|  son.   These entries do contain  |
+|  minor spoilers, enough to iden-  |
+|  tify the episode title based on  |
+|  its storyline.                   |
++-----------------------------------+
+
+FOR THE FIRST THREE SEASONS, PLEASE SEE PART (C), (D), (E) OF THIS DOCUMENT.
+
+Season 4: No Surrender, No Retreat
+
+* The Hour of the Wolf
+  Londo learns of a disturbing deal back home; Ivanova heads to Z'ha'dum.
+
+* What Ever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+  G'Kar avoids the Centauri while he searches for Garibaldi.
+
+* The Summoning
+  Delenn continues to rally support for a plan to attack the Shadows.
+
+* Falling Toward Apotheosis
+  The Vorlons continue fighting the Shadows; Kosh is asked to leave B5.
+
+* The Long Night
+  The Army of Light prepares a strike; Londo plots against Cartagia.
+
+* Into the Fire
+  The Army of Light moves against the Shadows.
+
+* Epiphanies
+  Bester brings news of Earth's plans against B5; Garibaldi resigns.
+
+* The Illusion of Truth
+  ISN sends a team to do a second story about Babylon 5.
+
+* Atonement
+  Delenn must finally face up to her role in the Earth-Minbari War.
+
+* Racing Mars
+  Franklin and Marcus go on an undercover mission to Mars.
+
+* Lines of Communication
+  Marcus and Franklin continue their Mars mission.
+
+* Conflicts of Interests
+  Garibaldi gets a new job working with forces tied to mars.
+
+* Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+  Sheridan tricks the non-aligned worlds; Delenn tries to stop civil war.
+
+* Moments of Transition
+  The Warrior caste demands Delenn's surrender; Earth is targeting
+civilians.
+
+* No Surrender, No Retreat
+  Sheridan attempt to liberate an Earth Colony.
+
+* The Exercise of Vital Powers
+  Garibaldi arrives on Mars; Lyta helps franklin with the frozen telepaths.
+
+* The Face of the Enemy
+  Sheridan's search for his father leads him to Mars.
+
+* Intersections in Real Time
+  Sheridan is held captive on Mars.
+
+* Between the Darkness and the Light
+  Ivanova takes on Clark's forces as a plan to rescue Sheridan is developed.
+
+* Endgame
+  Sheridan's forces make their final strike.
+
+* Rising Star
+  Earthgov decides Sheridan's fate; Delenn offers an astounding proposition.
+
+* The Deconstruction of Falling Stars (filmed in fifth season)
+  The history of Babylon 5 is recollected from various points in the future.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 7. Credits and Legalese
+
+This text file may be distributed online, in complete or excerpted form, as
+long as acknowledgement is made to the authors, and the URL of the current
+version of this file is indicated. (see top of document.)
+
+The Babylon 5 Frequently Asked Questions List part (F) is Copyright 1996-98
+by
+Dan Wood and Steven Grimm.  Acknowledgement is made to J. Michael
+Straczynski,
+previous FAQ maintainer Lee Whiteside and to excerpted contributions from
+the
+Babylon 5 online libraries.
+
+Currently maintained by Dan Wood.
+Comments, suggestions, etc. are always appreciated.
+
+This text file was edited on QUED/M text editor running on a Macintosh.
+
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+don't
+have the resources to send updates to individuals, so please don't ask.
+
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+Subject: Babylon 5 FAQ (G): Setting for season 5
+Approved: news-answers-request@mit.edu
+Organization: Interstellar Alliance
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+Reply-To: (see signature)
+Summary: This document is a supplement to the Babylon 5 FAQ list.  It contains
+         information to help viewers of the show who are catching up with the
+         show in season 5 ("The Wheel of Fire", Earth year 2262).
+
+Archive-name: tv/babylon-5/setting/season5
+Frequency: bi-weekly
+Last-modified: 29 May 1998
+
++-----------------------------------+
+|  BABYLON 5 FAQ, part (F):         |
+|  Setting for season #5            |
+|                                   |
+|  A guide for viewers who wish to  |
+|  catch up to the events  leading  |
+|  up to  season 5, "The Wheel of   |
+|  Fire," airing in 1998 on TNT in  |
+|  the U.S.  This is the year       |
+|  2262 in the opening credits.     |
+|                                   |
+|  This holds SPOILERS  for season  |
+|  1 - 4 episodes, and descrip-     |
+|  tions of season 5 settings.      |
+|  DO NOT READ unless you are now   |
+|  watching SEASON 5 episodes!      |
++-----------------------------------+
+
+NOTE: The Babylon 5 FAQ is going into retirement after this edition, so
+please don't be concerned that the season 5 descriptions are incomplete.
+
+WORLD WIDE WEB users should see http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html
+for the much more detailed "Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5"; the information
+in this document is similar to the "Universe" section.
+
+    -------------------------
+    Contents of this document
+    -------------------------
+    1.  Introduction
+    2.  The Setting of Babylon 5
+    3.  The Major Players
+    4.  The Characters
+    5.  The Story So Far
+    6.  Past and Current reference
+    7.  Credits and Legalese
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 1.  Introduction
+
+(2258)
+Kosh:     And so it begins...
+Assassin: There is a hole in your mind.
+Sinclair: What do you want?
+G'Kar:    No one here is exactly what he appears.
+Sinclair: Nothing's the same any more.
+(2259)
+Senator:  Commander Sinclair is being reassigned.
+Mollari:  Why don't you eliminate the entire Narn homeworld,
+          while you're at it?
+Elric:    I see a great hand reaching out of the stars.
+Sebastian:Who are you?
+(2260)
+Reporter: President Clark has signed a decree today declaring martial law.
+Sheridan: These orders have forced us to declare independence.
+Bester:   ...Weapon supplies...
+Sheridan: ...Unless you people get off your encounter-suited butts and
+          do something.
+Zathras:  You are the one who was.
+Kosh:     If you go to Z'Ha'Dum, you will die.
+(2261)
+Lorien:   Why are you here?  Do you have anything worth living for?
+Delenn:   I think of my beautiful city in flames.
+Sheridan: ...Giants in the playground.
+Sheridan: Now get the hell out of our galaxy!
+Sheridan: We are here to place President Clark under arrest.
+(2262)
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 2.  The Setting of Babylon 5
+
+A hundred years ago, humanity made contact with its first alien civilization
+-- or more to the point, they made contact with us.  Before the arrival of the
+Centauri, we were confined to our own solar system, forced to use slow sleeper
+ships to explore the universe.  The Centauri gave us the stars, offered us the
+use of their "jumpgates" -- portals into hyperspace -- and later, taught us to
+make our own.  In exchange for this and other technologies, they asked only
+for trinkets, novelties to sell back home.
+
+In the eighty years that followed, humanity flexed its muscles, expanding
+outward at a rapid pace.  When a group of less powerful races was attacked by
+an invading army, Earth came to their aid, cementing its role as a major
+galactic power, if a young, brash one.
+
+The wave of euphoria came crashing down when humanity made contact with a
+mysterious race called the Minbari.  The Earth-Minbari War began with a
+misunderstanding, a human captain and a Minbari commander too quick on the
+trigger.  Thanks to bad luck or something darker, our first meeting with the
+Minbari resulted in the death of their supreme religious and political leader.
+To the Minbari, what followed was a holy war, vengeance for the murder of
+their spiritual leader.  Earth was no match for the technologically superior
+Minbari, and they easily beat us back to our home planet.
+
+Then, without explanation, as their ships closed in on Earth and wiped out our
+last desperate defenses, the Minbari halted their advance and surrendered.
+Only an elite few knew why.
+
+The Babylon Project was conceived in the aftermath of the war.  Modeled after
+the United Nations, it would be a meeting place, neutral ground where the
+powers could meet and work out their differences peacefully.
+
+The first three Babylon stations were sabotaged in mid-construction.  The
+fourth was completed, but just as it was about to go online, it vanished
+without a trace.  The Earth government would have stopped there, but some of
+the alien governments, seeing the value of a meeting ground, offered financial
+assistance for the construction of a fifth station.  Naturally, there were
+strings attached.
+
+Babylon 5 is the story of the last of the Babylon stations, the last hope for
+a galaxy without war.  It begins in the year 2257 with the opening of the
+Babylon 5 station.
+
+ + + + + +
+
+Babylon 5 has failed in its original mission, yet has it done much more than
+was intended.  It was built to keep the peace, yet a great war erupted which
+treated the races on Babylon 5 as pawns -- yet, with Sheridan and Delenn's
+leadership, they drove the aggressors away.  Not long after, the station served
+as a base for taking back Earth from a totalitarian regime.  And now, the
+station serves as the base of a nascent Interstellar Alliance -- one which
+will undergo many growing pains in the next year.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 3.  The Major Players
+
+========    a. Babylon 5 (an independent state)
+
+Babylon 5 was an outpost operated by the Earth Allance, built with the aid of
+a few alien governments.  Captain Sheridan had declared independence in
+mid-2260 to break away from a totalitarian Earth, but now that Earth has been
+restored as a democracy, it serves as the base for a new interstellar
+alliance.  Its status is in limbo, but is planned to be purchased from Earth
+to maintain autonomy.
+
+========    b. The Earth Alliance
+
+The Earth Alliance, headquartered in Geneva, has just been liberated from
+martial law.  Most citizens are happy to see democracy restored, but there
+will likely be those loyal to the old guard who will have trouble adjusting
+to the new rules.  A particular hotspot is the  Psi Corps, a government agency
+in charge of overseeing humans with telepathic abilities.  The influence of
+the Psi Corps has risen tremendously in the last few years, and it is clear
+to many that a conflict between telepaths and non-telepathic "mundanes" is
+imminent.
+
+========    c. The Minbari Federation
+
+An old, highly spiritual race, the Minbari are humanoid with exterior bone
+crests on their heads.  Once an adversary of Earth, the Minbari Federation
+sided with Babylon 5 and a coalition of many other races to fight an ancient
+enemy from a thousand years ago, the Shadows.
+
+Only a few know that Minbar and Earth have linked histories: a human,
+Sinclair, the first commander of Babylon 5, traveled back in time to the
+previous war against the Shadows and delivered a new base of operations,
+Babylon 4, to the Minbari.  Sinclair became Valen, the great Minbari spiritual
+leader, builder of modern Minbari society and a prophet thanks to his knowledge
+of future events.  Sinclair's journey opened a doorway between Minbari and
+humans, and since the last war a thousand years ago, Minbari souls have been
+slowly reincarnating in human bodies.  Upon discovering that, the Minbari
+halted their recent war against the humans.
+
+========    d. The Centauri Republic
+
+The Centauri Republic, once a fading former power, has come into a precarious
+situation due to the government's alliance with the Shadows in the recent
+conflict.  The Centauri drove them out, but it is clear that the minions of
+the Shadows have intentions of getting even with the Centauri.
+
+========    e. The Narns
+
+Once an up and coming power, the Narn Regime was a victim of Centauri
+expansionism, especially humiliating since they were unwilling subjects of the
+Centauri Republic a hundred years ago and once again fell under their hand in
+the recent years.  Liberated again, it appears that the Centauri will leave
+them alone for good.  Narns have a reptilian appearance and are easily
+provoked.
+
+========    f. The Rangers
+
+The Rangers are an "army of light," comprised of mostly Humans and Minbari,
+originally formed to gather information and perform covert operations in the
+war against the Shadows, they now act as the patrollers and protectors of the
+fledgling Interstellar Alliance.  Rangers are identified by a pin which
+depicts elements of human and Minbari appearance.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 4.  The Characters
+
+========    a. Main Cast (appearing in most episodes throughout the season)
+
+i. Humans
+
+PRESIDENT JOHN J. SHERIDAN                  Bruce Boxleitner
+
+Formerly the commander of Babylon 5, Sheridan has been elected to the
+presidency of the new Interstellar Alliance.  Sheridan is newly married to
+Delenn, the representative of the Minbari.  A strong leader, he shattered
+everybody's expectations by participating in a revolution against a
+totalitarian government on Earth as well as an interstellar war against the
+Shadows.  Because he was recently brought back from death by the galaxy's
+oldest resident, he now has less than 20 years left to live.
+
+MICHAEL ALFREDO GARIBALDI                   Jerry Doyle
+
+Once in charge of security on Babylon 5, he left that post while under mental
+control of the Psi Corps.  Now recovered, he has taken up the position of head
+of covert intelligence for the new Interstellar Alliance.  Garibaldi is
+something of a smart-aleck, always ready to crack a joke, but given to bouts
+of self-doubt and introspection when nobody's looking.
+
+DR. STEPHEN FRANKLIN                        Richard Biggs
+
+Franklin is charge of Medlab on Babylon 5.  A specialist in xenobiology (alien
+biology), his background is mainly in experimental medicine, so his bedside
+manner is occasionally not what it should be.  His strong sense of personal
+morality is at times in conflict with his duties as the chief medical provider
+for aliens from hundreds of worlds and cultures, some of whom view his
+obligations rather differently.  He is known to operate outside the rules when
+he feel the issue is important.
+
+ii. Ambassadors
+
+AMBASSADOR LONDO MOLLARI                    Peter Jurasik
+
+The representative of the Centauri Republic, soon to become Emperor of
+Centauri Prime.  Stuck on an inconsequential assignment, Londo struck a
+Faustian bargain with the Shadows -- new "friends" he knew nothing about --
+putting the Centauri on an expansionist path that resulted in the decimation
+of the Narn homeworld and bringing chaos to the region of the Galaxy near
+Babylon 5, exactly what the Shadows wanted.  That conflict is over, and he is
+now on a slow path to redemption.
+
+AMBASSADOR DELENN                           Mira Furlan
+
+Religious, with a strong sense of fate and justice, Delenn was the Minbari
+ambassador who then became the leader of the Rangers in the fight against the
+Shadows.  Once a member of Minbar's ruling body, the Grey Council, she lost
+her position after her controversial decision to undergo a transformation that
+gave her human characteristics, a transformation that has brought her very
+close to Captain Sheridan, whom she has recently married.  Delenn is now on
+the council of the new Interstellar Alliance.
+
+AMBASSADOR G'KAR                            Andreas Katsulas
+
+The ambassador of the Narn Regime, then a fugitive when his homeworld fell to
+Centauri Prime, G'Kar has become a central figure of the new interstellar
+alliance. G'Kar is well-read, deeply spiritual, and extremely intelligent.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+========    b. Supporting Characters (also in the opening credits)
+
+iii. Ambassador assistants
+
+VIR COTTO                                   Stephen Furst
+
+Diplomatic Attache to Ambassador Mollari. Having to watch Londo work with the
+Shadows from the sidelines, he has grown from a naive, timid assistant to a
+confident leader, though he still must operate under the shadow of Londo.  Vir
+served briefly as the Centauri ambassador to Minbar, and was involved in a
+humanitarian effort to save Narn lives during the recent war.
+
+LENNIER                                     Bill Mumy
+
+Delenn's aide, originally brought up in a monastery on the Minbari homeworld.
+He reveres Delenn as an almost holy figure and feels left out now that Delenn
+has married Sheridan.
+
+iv. Humans
+
+CAPTAIN ELIZABETH LOCHLEY                   Tracy Scoggins
+
+The newly appointed commander of Babylon 5, Lochley represents Earth's
+interests on the Station.  Hand-picked by Sheridan to succeed him (or
+Ivanova), Lochley apparently knows Sheridan from the past.  Though tough and
+serious while on the job, she does have a sly sense of humor.
+
+SECURITY CHIEF ZACK ALLAN                   Jeff Conaway
+
+Once Garibaldi's principal lieutenant, Zack was promoted to Chief of security
+after Garibaldi resigned.  He earned the trust of Sheridan and Garibaldi
+when he rejected the Machiavellian organization Nightwatch, which was bent on
+taking control away from the station on behalf of President Clark.
+
+LYTA ALEXANDER                              Patricia Tallman
+
+A Psi Corps telepath, the first assigned to the station, in fact.  Five years
+ago she scanned Ambassador Kosh, and subsequently left the Corps.  Her scan
+later brought her back to the station to serve as Kosh's aide.  She proved
+helpful in the fight against the Shadows, due to her Vorlon-enhanced telepathy.
+When the original Ambassador Kosh died, she had a hard time working with his
+replacement, and eventually turned on him.  Finding herself alone and unable
+to find work, she reluctantly re-joined the Corps after Bester approached her
+with an unorthodox proposal.
+
+========    c. Recurring and Past Characters
+
++-----------------------------------+
+|  This section  lists  characters  |
+|  that are seen from time to time  |
+|  on Babylon 5.   Characters that  |
+|  have appeared in the past,  and  |
+|  may have some relevance  to the  |
+|  current season, are listed here  |
+|  as well, to provide context.     |
++-----------------------------------+
+
+LIEUTENANT DAVID CORWIN                     Joshua Cox
+
+Brought up through the ranks working as a technician in C&C, Corwin is now an
+executive officer working under Captain Lochley.  Corwin is shy but
+well-intentioned, and a loyal officer.
+
+ALFRED BESTER                               Walter Koenig
+
+A Psi-Cop, one of an elite unit of the Psi Corps whose function is to track
+down rogue telepaths, among other things.  A powerful figure in the Psi Corps,
+perhaps in part because of his high P12 psi rating, Bester was often at odds
+with Babylon 5 personnel; he recently found himself an unexpected ally of
+Sheridan and the fight against the Shadows when he discovered that the woman
+that he loved had been abducted by the Shadows.
+
+LISE HAMPTON                                Denise Gentile
+
+Once involved with Garibaldi when he worked on Mars, Lise has come back into
+Garibaldi's life.  Her second husband, a business tycoon, is dead, and she is
+in charge of his corporation.
+
+MARCUS COLE                                 Jason Carter
+
+Marcus was the head ranger stationed on Babylon 5 until last year, when he
+sacrificed his life to save Ivanova's.
+
+JEFFREY DAVID SINCLAIR                      Michael O'Hare
+
+The commander of Babylon 5 and representative of the Earth Alliance for its
+first two years of operation, Sinclair was transferred to Minbar to serve as
+Earth ambassador, but covertley became the head of the Rangers.  Recently,
+Sinclair took Babylon 4 back through time to aide the Minbari in their war
+against the Shadows of 1000 years ago; in doing so, he used the same
+device that had transformed Delenn in order to attain Minbari appearance, and
+in doing so, became Valen, Minbar's great spiritual leader who formed the
+Grey Council.
+
+DRAAL                                       John Schuck
+
+The steward of the vast machinery below on Epsilon 3.  He is a Minbari who was
+looking for a new purpose in life when he heeded the call to become caretaker
+of the planet.  He has offered his services in the Shadow War, though Sheridan
+has kept Draal as his 'ace in the hole' so far.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 5.  The Story So Far
+
++-----------------------------------+
+|  This section contains  spoilers  |
+|  for Babylon 5 seasons 1 through  |
+|  3.  It contains no spoilers for  |
+|  this or subsequent seasons.      |
++-----------------------------------+
+
+Babylon 5, a space station constructed with the hope of keeping the various
+races in the galaxy at peace, seems to function as it should for a while.
+In the first year of its operation, the station's Commander Sinclair
+discovers that he had been captured and interrogated in the Earth-Minbari
+war of a decade ago, only to have his memory erased for unknown reasons.
+The crew of B5 discover that the barren world below them is actually
+housing a vast underground complex of machinery, and the mystery of the
+disappearance of Babylon 4 is partly revealed: it had been taken through
+time by unknown forces to assist in a war in an unknown place and time.
+Behind the scenes, an ancient race, known only as The Shadows, is building
+its forces.  Through Morden, a Human intermediary, the Shadows subtly begin
+working their influence on the galaxy by capitalizing on the desires of
+Centauri ambassador Londo Mollari to rebuild his fading empire.  Londo lets
+his benefactors assist him by destroying a Narn outpost, thus reigniting
+conflict with the Narn Government.  On that same day, the President of the
+Earth Alliance is killed in an explosion that few realize is really an
+assassination, and Delenn, the Minbari ambassador, activates a machine that
+will cause her to physically transform.
+
+Days later, the original commander of the station, Sinclair, is reassigned,
+and Captain Sheridan takes command, unaware of the existance of the
+Shadows.  The mystery of the Minbari surrender is finally revealed:  The
+Minbari discovered that Minbari souls were being reborn in humans.  Delenn
+emerges from a cocoon to appear nearly human; she claims she has done so to
+promote peace between the Humans and the Minbari.  The situation on Earth
+is getting worse; covert forces are working in the background and the
+"Night Watch" program is stomping down on dissidents; meanwhile, Sheridan
+reveals that he is part of an underground movement to gain control back
+from the corrupted government; he brings his trusted officers into the
+fold.  On the eve of an historic speech that would have brought peace
+between the Narn and Centauri, Londo calls upon his unknown agents to
+attack a major Narn colony, starting a war.  Ambassadors Kosh and Delenn
+reveal the existance of the Shadows behind the Centauri brutality; Sheridan
+is enlisted to help in an upcoming war against them; he takes it personally
+when he learns that the Shadows were likely responsible for the death of
+his wife five years ago when she travelled to a planet called Z'ha'dum.
+The Centauri, with the aid of the Shadows, terminate the war with the Narn
+decisively by bombing the Narn homeworld "into the stone ages."  The
+Centauri soon begin annexing other worlds; the enigmatic Ambassador Kosh
+finally reveals himself, revealing that Vorlons appear to most races as
+angels; and a shadow ship has been caught on camera, undoing the secrecy
+that the Shadows had been maintaining. The Great War is begun.
+
+The Minbari give Sheridan a powerful new ship, the White Star, to command
+in the upcoming fight against the Shadows.  Further corruption in Earth
+government is revealed when it is learned that the Shadows have been
+cooperating with certain individuals in government.  The Earth alliance
+plunges into civil war as martial law is declared back home; Sheridan is
+forced to secede from Earth and is only able to keep the forces at bay with
+the help of the Minbari.  The Shadows begin attacking openly (and seemingly
+randomly); Sheridan builds an alliance among the many races by enlisting
+the help of the Vorlons, an act which results in the death of Ambassador
+Kosh.  Sinclair returns to the station with a message from the past; with
+the help of the machinery on the planet below, The White Star takes Babylon
+4 through time to assist in a war against the Shadows of 1000 years ago.
+Londo continues his ascension to power in the Centauri government, removing
+his political rival.  Using a discovery that telepaths interfere with the
+functionality of Shadow Ships, Sheridan and Delenn organize their alliance
+in to a preemptive strike against the Shadows, celebrating a difficult
+victory.  Sheridan's wife appears, returning from Z'ha'dum, the homeworld
+of the Shadows, and attempts to convince Sheridan that the Shadows really
+aren't the bad guys; Sheridan rejects her plea when he discovers that her
+personality has been altered; instead, he rigs the White Star to crash onto
+and detonate a bomb on Z'ha'dum; Hearing the advice of Ambassador Kosh in
+his head, Sheridan jumps into an abyss below him just before the explosion;
+he is presumed dead.  Immediately after the explosion, the shadow ships
+that had been threatening B5 dissapear, possibly returning home; one of the
+ships seems to have taken Garibaldi along with it.
+
+Sheridan finds himself at death's door and finds the galaxy's oldest resident,
+Lorien, there to guide him back to life.  Londo returns home to find that the
+new Centauri emporor is dangerously insane, planning on the destruction of
+Centauri Prime.  G'Kar, searching for Garibaldi, is captured by the Centauri
+and tortured.  Garibaldi is found, but is acting peculiarly and soon resigns.
+Ivanova and Marcus discover that the Vorlons are gathering to battle the
+Shadows directly; Sheridan and Lorien battle with the new Vorlon ambassador.
+The Army of light begins a battle with the Shadows and the Vorlons; the war
+comes to an abrupt end when those races find that they cannot get the younger
+races to choose their way.  Londo assassinates the Emperor, detroys the Shadow
+base on Centauri prime, and withdraws from Narn.  With the Shadows gone,
+President Clark on Earth launches a plan to recapture Babylon 5.  Garibaldi
+comes upon a plan by a tycoon on Mars to control the telepaths, but then
+discovers he has been a pawn of the Psi Corps as they eliminate that problem.
+Civil war erupts on Minbar; Delenn and Neroon, a warrior caste member, manage
+to bring the war to an end.  Sheridan undertakes a campaign to recapture
+Earth, starting first with the outer colonies and working inward.  Sheridan is
+captured by Clark's forces, and tortured.  Ivanova leads a rescue, and
+Sheridan's forces finally liberate Earth, mortally wounding Ivanova.  Using an
+ancient healing machine, Marcus saves Ivanova's life but dies in the process.
+Delenn, Londo, and G'Kar found an Interstellar Alliance, and Sheridan is
+elected President.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 6.  Past and Current Episode Reference
+
++-----------------------------------+
+|  This section contains brief de-  |
+|  scriptions  of episodes  up to,  |
+|  and including, the current sea-  |
+|  son.   These entries do contain  |
+|  minor spoilers, enough to iden-  |
+|  tify the episode title based on  |
+|  its storyline.                   |
++-----------------------------------+
+
+FOR THE FIRST FOUR SEASONS, PLEASE SEE PART C THROUGH F OF THIS DOCUMENT.
+
+Season 5: The Wheel of Fire
+
+* No Compromises
+  Lochley arrives on Babylon 5; Sheridan is inaugurated.
+
+* The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
+  Londo has a major heart attack and must face his demons.
+
+* The Paragon of Animals
+  Garibaldi works to enlist the aid of local telepaths.
+
+* A View from the Gallery
+  An attack on the station is seen from the eyes of two of the station's crew.
+
+* Learning Curve
+  An underground crime leader threatens the safety of the station.
+
+* Strange Relations
+  Bester attempts to retrieve the refugee telepaths from the station.
+
+* Secrets of the Soul
+  Franklin discovers a dark secret held by the Hyach.
+
+* Day of the Dead
+  A Brakiri religious festival brings some unusual visitors to the station.
+
+* In the Kingdom of the Blind
+
+* A Tragedy of Telepaths
+
+* Phoenix Rising
+
+* The Ragged Edge
+
+* The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
+
+* Meditations on the Abyss
+
+* Darkness Ascending
+
+* And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
+
+* Movements of Fire and Shadow
+
+* The Fall of Centauri Prime
+
+* Objects in Motion
+
+* Objects at Rest
+
+* Wheel of Fire
+
+* Sleeping in Light
+
+------------------------------
+
+Subject: 7. Credits and Legalese
+
+This text file may be distributed online, in complete or excerpted form, as
+long as acknowledgement is made to the authors, and the URL of the current
+version of this file is indicated. (see top of document.)
+
+The Babylon 5 Frequently Asked Questions List part (F) is Copyright 1996-98 by
+Dan Wood and Steven Grimm.  Acknowledgement is made to J. Michael Straczynski,
+previous FAQ maintainer Lee Whiteside and to excerpted contributions from the
+Babylon 5 online libraries.
+
+Thanks to Charles Gousha, David Henderson for their suggestions and fixes,
+and to many people who helped me fill in the opening credits.
+
+Maintained by Dan Wood.  This is the final edition.
+
+----------------------  "Microsoft does not like negative or even objective
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+http://www.karelia.com   about it. If something appears that they don't like,
+   danwood@  ^ ^ ^ ^ ^   they have the ability to punish the publication."
+----------------------         -- Bob Ingle, Pres., Knight-Ridder New Media
+                            BOYCOTT MICROSOFT: <http://www.vcnet.com/bms/>
+
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+Don't panic -- this is just the bit that I've finished, i.e.
+the references in the book of Isaiah. Most of it is lifted
+straight from the King James version, but a little bit of
+commentary is included. (I like poetry, so I use the King
+James version rather than one of the modern language
+versions. This will present a problem with the book of Daniel,
+because the Catholic version of Daniel includes stuff that
+was cut from the King James version, and the book of Daniel
+is set during the Babylonian captivity. I'm not going to
+worry about it too much right now, because I have a long, long
+way to go before *that* is my biggest problem.)
+
+I'll probably finish Daniel or Revelation next, but it will
+take me awhile to get around to it.
+
+---Michele L. Worley (michele_l_worley@yahoo.com)
+
+
+
+---begin included text---
+--Isaiah Chapter 13--
+The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
+
+Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice
+unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates
+of the nobles.
+
+I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called
+my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in
+my highness.
+
+The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a
+great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations
+gathered together; the Lord of Hosts mustereth the host of
+the battle.
+
+They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even
+the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy
+the whole land.
+
+Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come
+as a destruction from the Almighty. Therefore shall all
+hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt; and they
+shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them;
+they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth; they
+shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as
+flames.
+
+Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath
+and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate; and he shall
+destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
+
+For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof
+shall not give forth their light; the sun shall be darkened
+in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her
+light to shine. And I will punish the world for their evil,
+and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the
+arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the
+haughtiness of the terrible.
+
+I will make a man more precious than gold; even a man than
+the golden wedge of Ophir.
+
+Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall
+remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts,
+and in the day of his fierce anger. And it shall be as
+the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up; they
+shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one
+into his own land.
+
+Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every
+one that is joined with them shall fall by the sword. Their
+children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
+their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
+
+Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall
+not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight
+in it. Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces;
+and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their
+eye shall not spare children.
+
+And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the
+Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew
+Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither
+shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation;
+neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall
+the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts
+of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be
+full of doleful creatures, and owls shall dwell there,
+and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the
+islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons
+in their pleasant palaces; and her time is near to come,
+and her days shall not be prolonged.
+--end Isaiah Chapter 13--
+
+And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall
+give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from
+the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, that thou
+shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and
+say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
+--Isaiah 14:3-4
+
+Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy
+coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief
+ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all
+the kings of the nations. All they shall speak and say unto
+thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like
+unto us?
+   Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of
+thy viols; the worm is spread under thee, and the worms
+cover thee. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son
+of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which
+didst weaken the nations!
+    For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into
+heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I
+will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the
+sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the
+clouds; I will be like the most High.
+    Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of
+the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee,
+and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the
+earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; that made the
+world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof;
+that opened not the house of his prisoners?
+    All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in
+glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of
+thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of
+those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go
+down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under
+the feet. Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial,
+because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people;
+the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned. Prepare
+slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers,
+that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face
+of the world with cities. For I will rise up against them,
+saith the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name,
+and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the Lord.
+   I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and
+pools of water; and I will sweep it with the besom of
+destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
+---Isaiah 14:9-23
+
+
+[speaking in my own voice now]
+Note the reference in verse 22 that the son and the nephew
+will be cut off, and compare against "Midnight on the Firing
+Line", episode #1, season #1, in which the chief researcher
+on the Centauri colony Ragesh III, Londo's nephew, was made
+to suffer.
+
+The reference to God as "Lord of hosts" == "Lord of Sabaoth";
+Sabaoth being a word that means "hosts" or "armies".
+
+The reference to Lucifer in this passage is the original
+source for the stories of a rebellion of angels against
+God's authority. The actual reference here is to the king
+of Babylon, and note the mocking tone --- Isaiah is using
+the florid phrases of court speech with heavy sarcasm.
+
+In Isaiah, the references to Babylon actually refer to
+Babylon; in Revelation, the references should not be taken
+so literally.
+[my voice off]
+
+Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise
+like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,
+that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! The
+nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters, but
+God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall
+be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and
+like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. And behold at
+eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This
+is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them
+that rob us.---Isaiah 16:12-14
+
+Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the
+rivers of Ethiopia; that sendeth ambassadors by the sea,
+even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go,
+ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to
+a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation
+meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have
+spoiled! ---Isaiah 18:1-2
+
+The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the
+south pass through, so it cometh from the desert, from a 
+terrible land. A grievous vision is declared unto me; the
+treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler
+spoileth.---Isaiah 21:1-2
+
+Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink;
+arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield. For thus hath
+the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare
+what he seeth.---Isaiah 21:5-6
+
+And he cried, A lion; My lord, I stand continually upon
+the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward
+whole nights; and behold, here cometh a chariot of men,
+with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said,
+Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images
+of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
+---Isaiah 21:8-9
+
+Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death,
+and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing
+scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us;
+for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have
+we hid ourselves; therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold,
+I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone,
+a precious corner stone, a sure foundation; he that believeth
+shall not make haste. Judgement also will I lay to the line,
+and righteousness to the plummet; and the hail shall sweep
+away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the
+hiding place.
+   And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and
+your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing
+scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down
+by it. From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you;
+for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by
+night; and it shall be a vexation only to understand
+the report.---Isaiah 28:15-19
+
+Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the
+Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who
+seeth us? and who knoweth us?---Isaiah 29:15
+
+Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without; the ambassadors
+of peace shall weep bitterly. The highways lie waste, the
+wayfaring man ceaseth; he hath broken the covenant, he hath
+despised the cities, he regardeth no man.---Isaiah 33:7-8
+
+Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter; I did mourn
+as a dove...---Isaiah 38:14
+
+Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said
+unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they
+unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far
+country unto me, even from Babylon. Then said he, What have
+they seen in thine house? and Hezekiah answered, All that
+is in mine house have they seen; there is nothing among my
+treasures that I have not shewed them. Then said Isaiah
+unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord of hosts; Behold,
+the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that
+which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall
+be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.
+And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt
+beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in
+the palace of the king of Babylon.--Isaiah 39:3-7
+
+[I am the Lord] that saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd,
+and shall perform all my pleasure; even saying to Jerusalem,
+Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall
+be laid.---Isaiah 44:28
+
+[my voice on]
+Cyrus (as far as I know) was the founder of the empire of
+Persia. He ruled a couple of generations before Xerxes,
+who had the unfortunate disagreement with the Spartans.
+During his youth, Xerxes ruled Babylon for his father, but
+I don't know how long Babylon had been part of the Persian
+empire at that point.
+[my voice off]
+
+Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon,
+sit on the ground; there is no throne, O daughter of the 
+Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
+--Isaiah 47:1
+
+All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear which among them hath
+declared these things? The Lord hath loved him; he will do
+his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
+---Isaiah 48:14
+
+And they that shall be of thee shall build up the old waste
+places; thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations,
+and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The
+restorer of paths to dwell in.---Isaiah 58:12
+
+They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web; he
+that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed
+breaketh out into a viper. Their webs shall not become garments,
+neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their
+works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in
+their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to
+shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
+wasting and destruction are in their paths. The way of peace
+they know not; and there is no judgement in their goings;
+they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein
+shall not know peace. Therefore is judgment far from us,
+neither doth justice overtake us; we wait for light, but
+behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
+---Isaiah 59:5-9
+
+Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their
+windows?---Isaiah 60:8
+
+
+---end included text---
+
+#############################################################################
+
+
+This batch covers *only* the book of Revelation. I included not
+only the Babylon references, but the Four Horsemen, since the
+group occasionally receives posts about "Soul Mates".
+
+Before anyone gets upset, let me mention that I do *not*
+break paragraphs by verses, but (roughly) by ease of
+reading. I do give chapter and verse with each quote.
+Any comments of mine are marked as such. As usual, I am
+using a King James version rather than a modern language
+translation.
+---Michele L. Worley (michele_l_worley@yahoo.com)
+
+---begin included text---
+--Revelation--
+And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard,
+as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying,
+Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse; and he that
+sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him; and he
+went forth conquering, and to conquer.
+    And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second
+beast say, Come and see. And there went out another horse that
+was red; and power was given unto him that sat thereon to take
+peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another;
+and there was given unto him a great sword.
+    And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third
+beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse;
+and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
+And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A
+measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley
+for a penny, and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
+    And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice
+of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold
+a pale horse; and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell
+followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth
+part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and
+with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
+---Revelation 6:1-8
+
+[my comment: At the time this was written, it would have been
+understood that the prices mentioned for food were outrageous;
+that is why modern translations use thousands of dollars
+rather than pennies as units. Horseman #3 is generally called
+Famine, but I have heard various names for #1, #2, and #4.
+In particular, I have usually seen #4 listed as Pestilence.]
+
+And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman
+clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and
+upon her head a crown of twelve stars; and she being
+with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to
+be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in
+heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads
+and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his 
+tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did
+cast them to the earth; and the dragon stood before the
+woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her
+child as soon as it was born. And she brought forth a man
+child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron; and
+her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
+---Revelation 12:1-5
+
+[my comments: The poet William Blake painted "Woman Clothed
+with the Sun and the Red Dragon" (my recollection of the
+title may be slightly off) as one of his drawings of the
+Apocalypse. Any of you who have read Thomas Harris' _Red
+Dragon_ have seen a reference to the painting. I mention it
+here because when I saw Varn inside the machine in _A Voice
+in the Wilderness_, the image reminded me of the painting.
+But that may be just a fluke association.]
+
+And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen,
+is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations
+drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
+---Revelation 14:8
+
+And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the
+seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the
+wrath of God upon the earth. ---Revelation 16:1
+
+And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials,
+and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew
+unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many
+waters; with whom the kings of the earth have committed
+fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made
+drunk with the wine of her fornication.
+    So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness; and
+I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of
+blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was
+arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and
+precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full
+of abominations and filthiness of her fornication; and upon her
+forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE
+MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw
+the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the
+blood of the martyrs of Jesus; and when I saw her, I wondered
+with great admiration. And the angel said unto me, Wherefore
+dost thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman,
+and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath seven heads and
+ten horns.
+    The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall
+ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition; and
+they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not
+written in the book of life from the foundation of the world,
+when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
+    And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are
+seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
+--Revelation 17:1-9
+
+[my comment: At the time, anybody would have known that Rome,
+the chief city of the Roman Empire, was built upon seven hills.]
+
+And there are seven kings; five are fallen, and one is, and the
+other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a
+short space. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is
+the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. And
+the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have
+received no kingdom as yet, but receive power as kings one
+hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their
+power and strength unto the beast. These shall make war with
+the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them; for he is Lord of
+lords, and King of kings; and they that are with him are called,
+and chosen, and faithful.---Revelation 17:10-14
+
+And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which
+reigneth over the kings of the earth.---Revelation 17:18
+
+[my comment: for practical purposes, all of chapters 17 and
+18 concern Babylon, but I am only hitting the high points
+here. Also, for any of you who are acquainted with the poems
+and drawings of William Blake, one of his drawings from
+Revelation is of Babylon the Great as described above.]
+
+And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon
+the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation
+of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of
+every unclean and hateful bird.---Revelation 18:1
+
+How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously,
+so much torment and sorrow give her; for she saith in her
+heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no
+sorrow. ---Revelation 18:7
+
+[my comment: If JMS has this in mind, Sheridan is in
+big trouble...
+
+Clarification:
+
+All we keep hearing about Sheridan on the net are comments
+that he's too cheerful, he smiles too much, he's too confident,
+he likes the creature comforts that go with being in charge
+of B5. That's the reason for my associating that verse with
+Sheridan, even though it is speaking of Babylon as being
+female.
+
+That's all. No deep significance, just an association that came
+together in my head when I was typing the stuff up.]
+
+
+...Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying,
+Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for
+in one hour is thy judgment come. And the merchants of the
+earth shall weep and mourn over her, for no man buyeth
+their merchandise any more. ---Revelation 18:10-11
+--end Revelation--
+--end included text--
+
+##############################################################################
+
+(Some raven references, apropos "All Alone in the Night")
+
+There is an excerpt from Genesis and also an excerpt from 1 Kings,
+but I haven't tried to go over those books thoroughly --- these
+are just raven references. The stuff from Jeremiah and Lamentations
+is about as thorough as I can make it.
+---Michele L. Worley (michele_l_worley@yahoo.com)
+
+--Genesis 8: Noah, the raven, and the dove --
+And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened
+the window of the ark which he had made; and he sent forth a
+raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried
+up from off the earth. Also he sent forth a dove from him, to
+see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
+but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she
+returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face
+of the whole earth; and then he put forth his hand, and took her,
+and pulled her in unto him into the ark. And he stayed yet
+another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the
+ark; and the dove came in to him in the evening; and lo, in her
+mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off; so Noah knew that the waters
+were abated from off the earth. And he stayed yet another seven
+days, and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him
+any more. --Genesis 8:6-12
+
+[stray bit of information: the word "forty" used to be used
+where "many" was meant. These days, people would say, "O,
+there are a million of those things." Same sort of thing.
+I can't cite a reference for this, this is just stray information.]
+--end Genesis 8--
+
+--1 Kings chapter 17: Elijah and the ravens--
+And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead,
+said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom
+I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but
+according to my word. And the word of the Lord came unto him,
+saying, Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide
+thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And it
+shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have
+commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
+   So he went and did according to the word of the Lord; for
+he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
+And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and
+bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
+--1 Kings 17:1-6
+--end 1 Kings chapter 17--
+
+--Jeremiah--
+Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel,
+saith the Lord; it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a
+nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest
+what they say.
+--Jeremiah 5:15
+
+For among my people are found wicked men; they lay wait, as he
+that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
+--Jeremiah 5:26
+
+A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; the
+prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their
+means; and my people love to have it so; and what will ye do
+in the end thereof? --Jeremiah 5:30-31
+
+[NOTE: If the quotations from chapter 5 of Jeremiah sound
+familiar from some other context which you can't place,
+they are read by Lord Peter Wimsey in "Busman's Honeymoon"
+by Dorothy Leigh Sayers when he reads the lesson in church.]
+
+I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that
+thou mayest know and try their way. --Jeremiah 6:27
+
+Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men,
+that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all
+adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. --Jeremiah 9:2
+
+Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit; one
+speaketh peaceably with his neighbour with his mouth, but in
+his heart he layeth his wait. --Jeremiah 9:8
+
+The spoilers are come upon all high places through the
+wilderness; for the sword of the Lord shall devour from
+one end of the land even to the other end of the land;
+no flesh shall have peace.--Jeremiah 12:12
+
+Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness,
+and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and,
+while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of
+death, and make it gross darkness.--Jeremiah 13:16
+
+The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately
+wicked; who can know it?---Jeremiah 17:9
+
+For I have not sent them, saith the Lord, yet they prophesy
+a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye
+might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
+--Jeremiah 27:14-15
+
+I have heard a rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent
+among the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against
+her, and rise up to the battle.--Jeremiah 49:14
+
+[chapters 50-52 concern Babylon]
+The word that the Lord spake against Babylon and against the land
+of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. Declare ye among the
+nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal
+not; say, Babylon is taken... --Jeremiah 50:1-2
+
+At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and
+the cry is heard among nations.--Jeremiah 50:46
+
+Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon,
+and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up
+against me, a destroying wind...--Jeremiah 51:1
+
+Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his
+soul; be not cut off in her iniquity, for this is the time of
+the Lord's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense.
+Babylon hath been a golden cup unto the Lord's hand, that
+made all the earth drunken; the nations have drunken of her
+wine, therefore the nations are mad. Babylon is suddenly
+fallen and destroyed; howl for her; take balm for her pain, if
+so she may be healed. We would have healed Babylon, but she is
+not healed; forsake her, and let us go every one into his own
+country; for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted
+up even to the skies.--Jeremiah 51:6-9
+
+For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: The
+daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor; it is time
+to thresh her; yet a little while, and the time of her
+harvest shall come.--Jeremiah 51:53
+
+Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall
+sing for Babylon; for the spoilers shall come unto her from the
+north, saith the Lord.--Jeremiah 51:48
+
+Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should
+fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers
+come unto her, saith the Lord. A sound of a cry cometh from
+Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans;
+because the Lord hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her
+the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a
+noise of their voice is uttered; because the spoiler is come
+upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every
+one of their bows is broken; for the Lord God of recompenses
+shall surely requite.--Jeremiah 51:53-56
+--end Jeremiah--
+--Lamentations--
+How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is
+she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and
+princess among the provinces, how is she become triburary! She
+weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among
+all her lovers she hath none to comfort her; all her friends have
+dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
+--Lamentations 1:1-2
+
+Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see
+if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me,
+wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce
+anger. From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it
+prevaileth against them; he hath spread a net for my feet, he
+hath turned me back; he hath made me desolate and faint all the
+day. The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they
+are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength
+to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom
+I am not able to rise up.
+--Lamentations 1:12-14
+
+The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of
+Zion; he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his
+hand from destroying; therefore he made the rampart and the
+wall to lament; they languished together.
+--Lamentations 2:8
+
+Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee; and
+they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy
+captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of
+banishment.
+--Lamentations 2:14
+
+He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
+--Lamentations 3:2
+
+He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
+--Lamentations 3:6
+
+Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
+Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction
+of the daughter of my people. Mine eye trickleth down, and
+ceaseth not, without any intermission, till the Lord look down,
+and behold from heaven. Mine eye afflicteth mine heart because
+of all the daughters of my city. Mine enemies chased me sore,
+like a bird, without cause. They have cut off my life in the
+dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. Waters flowed over mine head;
+then I said, I am cut off. I called upon thy name, O Lord, out
+of the low dungeon. Thou hast heard my voice; hide not thine ear
+at my breathing, at my cry.
+--Lamentations 3:47-56
+
+Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations
+against me. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all
+their imaginations against me; the lips of those that rose up
+against me, and their device against me all the day.
+--Lamentations 3:60-62
+
+How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed!
+the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every
+street. The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how
+are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of
+the potter!
+--Lamentations 4:1-2
+
+For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests,
+that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her. They
+have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted
+themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
+--Lamentations 4:13-14
+
+As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help; in our
+watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
+They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets; our end
+is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. Our 
+persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven; they
+pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the
+wilderness. The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord,
+was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we
+shall live among the heathen.
+--Lamentations 4:17-20
+
+Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us; consider, and behold our
+reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to
+aliens.
+--Lamentations 5:1-2
+
+We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to
+be satisfied with bread.
+--Lamentations 5:6
+--end Lamentations--
+
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+<title>THE OFFICIAL BABYLON 5 CAST LIST</title>
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+<pre>
+===================================================================
+THE OFFICIAL BABYLON 5 CAST LIST
+Copyright 1994 Astralight Productions
+Compiled by Troy A.. Rutter (techy@iastate.edu)
+Version 3.00
+Last Update: 11/15/94
+Covers All of the First Season and Pilot: The Gathering" - "Chrysalis"
+Covers Second Season: "Points of Departure" - "Revelations"
+Cross Referencing added by Jacque Marshall
+		       (jacque@ncar.ucar.edu)
+HTML conversion by Dan Dassow (dand@seas4.mdc.com)
+Permission granted for transmission to electronic information and
+	retrieval systems but not for publication in any compilation, be it
+	written or electronic, or journal without written permission from
+	the author.
+Additions/Corrections should be sent to techy@iastate.edu
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+-----------------------------List by Actor------------------------
+
+ACTOR NAME               CHARACTER NAME              EPISODES
+==================================================================
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Adair,+Diane">
+Adair, Diane</a>             Mila Shira                  7
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Adams,+Mary+Kay">
+Adams, Mary Kay</a>          Na'Toth                     24
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Aleong,+Aki">
+Aleong, Aki</a>              Senator Hidoshi             9,12,19
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Anderson,+Lynn">
+Anderson, Lynn</a>           Rose                        21
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Anglin,+Jennifer">
+Anglin, Jennifer</a>         Deeron                      23
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Attell,+Toni">
+Attell, Toni</a>             Med Tech #1                 2
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Austin,+Jeff">
+Austin, Jeff</a>             Centauri #1                 1
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Banks,+Joe">
+Banks, Joe</a>               Guard                       8
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Barnett,+Craig">
+Barnett, Craig</a>           Security Guard              18
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Barnett,+Steven">
+Barnett, Steven</a>          Eric                        0
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Baron,+Blaire">
+Baron, Blaire</a>            Carolyn Sykes               0
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Bensing,+Langdon">
+Bensing, Langdon</a>         David Mobotabwe             18
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Bentley,+Jim">
+Bentley, Jim</a>             Man                         2
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Bergeron,+Philippe">
+Bergeron, Philippe</a>       Lurker                      21
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Biggs,+Richard">
+Biggs, Richard</a>           Dr. Stephen Franklin        2,4,7-10,15,17,19,21,22,
+							23-24
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Bikel,+Theodore">
+Bikel, Theodore</a>          Rabbi Koslov                14
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Booker,+Tom">
+Booker, Tom</a>              "Jinxo" / Thomas            15
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Boxleitner,+Bruce">
+Boxleitner, Bruce</a>        Captain John Sheridan       23-24
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Boyer,+Katy">
+Boyer, Katy</a>              Neeoma Connally             12
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Brabec,+Anita">
+Brabec, Anita</a>            Dome Tech #3                13
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Broadhurst,+Kent">
+Broadhurst, Kent</a>         Major Krantz                20
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Brown,+Caitlin">
+Brown, Caitlin</a>           Na'Toth                     5,9,12,17,22
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Bruton,+Macaulay">
+Bruton, Macaulay</a>         Aide                        8
+Bruton, Macaulay         Garibaldi's Aide            6,22,24
+Bruton, Macaulay         Tragedy                     16
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Burnette,+Liz">
+Burnette, Liz</a>            Lurker #1                   22
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Butto,+Chuck">
+Butto, Chuck</a>             Security Officer #1         7
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Canada,+Ron">
+Canada, Ron</a>              Captain Ellis Pierce        19
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Cervantes,+Gary">
+Cervantes, Gary</a>          Strongarm #1                8
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Chamberlain,+Ardwight">
+Chamberlain, Ardwight</a>    Kosh Naranek                1,7,9,10,13,15,22
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Chambers,+Marie">
+Chambers, Marie</a>          Sofie Ivanov                16
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Chan,+Michael">
+Chan, Michael</a>            Roberts                     7
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Chapman,+Jonathan">
+Chapman, Jonathan</a>        Ambassador #1               23
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Chaves,+Richard">
+Chaves, Richard</a>          Alvares                     7
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Choate,+Tim">
+Choate, Tim</a>              Zathras                     20
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Christian,+Claudia">
+Christian, Claudia</a>       Lt. Commander Susan         1-24
+			   Ivanova
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Combs,+Jeffrey">
+Combs, Jeffrey</a>           Harriman Gray               16
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Conery,+Edward">
+Conery, Edward</a>           Devereaux                   22
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Conley,+Mark">
+Conley, Mark</a>             Tech #1                     2
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Cook,+David">
+Cook, David</a>              Special Agent #1            11
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Costa,+Cosie">
+Costa, Cosie</a>             Abbut                       9
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Costa,+Frank">
+Costa, Frank</a>             B4 Guard                    20
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Courtney,+James">
+Courtney, James</a>          Gyor                        14
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Cox,+Joshua">
+Cox, Joshua</a>              Dome Tech #2                13
+Cox, Joshua              Tech #1                     23
+Cox, Joshua              Tech #2                     17,19
+Cox, Joshua              (uncredited)                20
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Coyle,+Kelly">
+Coyle, Kelly</a>             Earthforce Liaison          18
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Cressida,+Kathryn">
+Cressida, Kathryn</a>        Bartender                   18
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Crowley,+David">
+Crowley, David</a>           Lou Welch                   11,16,24
+Crowley, David           Second Guard                21
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Curtis,+Robin">
+Curtis, Robin</a>            Ambassador Kalika           9   
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Darling,+David">
+Darling, David</a>           Guard #1                    2
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Delgado,+Kim">
+Delgado, Kim</a>             Dome Tech #3                23
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Ditilio,+Robert">
+Ditilio, Robert</a>          Ambassador #1               9
+Ditilio, Robert          Norg                        3
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Donaldson,+Tom">
+Donaldson, Tom</a>           Cutter                      11
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Douglas,+Sarah">
+Douglas, Sarah</a>           Jha'dur/Deathwalker         9
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Dowe,+Don">
+Dowe, Don</a>                Earth Fighter               6
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Doyle,+Jerry">
+Doyle, Jerry</a>             Security Chief Michael      0-24
+			   Garibaldi
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Eastman,+Rodney">
+Eastman, Rodney</a>          Kiron Maray                 7
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Egan,+Maggie">
+Egan, Maggie</a>             ISN Reporter                11
+Egan, Maggie             Newsperson                  1
+Egan, Maggie             News Anchor                 21
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Farmer,+Frank">
+Farmer, Frank</a>            General Miller              16
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Farrow,+Sav">
+Farrow, Sav</a>              Tech #1                     4
+Farrow, Sav              Tech #2                     9
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Fega,+Rus">
+Fega, Rus</a>                Merchant #1                 23
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Fleck,+John">
+Fleck, John</a>              Del Varner                  0
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Flinn,+John">
+Flinn, John</a>              Mr. Flinn                   15
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Furlan,+Mira">
+Furlan, Mira</a>             Delenn                      0-2,5,7,8,10,13,15,17-20
+							22-24
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Furst,+Stephen">
+Furst, Stephen</a>           Vir Cotto                   1,3,5,7,15,22-24
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Gabrielli,+Elisa">
+Gabrielli, Elisa</a>         Guest Liasion               6
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Gallardo,+Silvana">
+Gallardo, Silvana</a>        Maya Hernandez              10
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Gentile,+Denise">
+Gentile, Denise</a>          Lise Hampton                19,20
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Giannini,+Jim">
+Giannini, Jim</a>            Ock                         3
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Graham,+Gerrit">
+Graham, Gerrit</a>           Lord Kiro                   13
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Grahn,+Nancy">
+Grahn, Nancy</a>             Shall Mayan                 7
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Grove,+Richard">
+Grove, Richard</a>           Kalain                      23
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Guillory,+Bennet">
+Guillory, Bennet</a>         Merchant #2                 23
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Gunther,+Mike">
+Gunther, Mike</a>            Alien #1                    7
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Hader,+Catherine">
+Hader, Catherine</a>         Young Woman                 23
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Hampton,+Paul">
+Hampton, Paul</a>            Senator, The                0,1
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Hardin,+Joy">
+Hardin, Joy</a>              Narn #1                     5
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Harrington,+Cheryl+Francis">
+Harrington, Cheryl 
+        Francis</a>          Senator                     22
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact? Hayes,+William">
+Hayes, William</a>           Traveler                    0
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Healey,+Patricia">
+Healey, Patricia</a>         Mary Ann Cramer             4,12
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Heller,+Chip">
+Heller, Chip</a>             Rowdy #1                    19
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Hendrickson,+Mark">
+Hendrickson, Mark</a>        Ambassador #2               23
+Hendrickson, Mark        Alien #1                    11
+Hendrickson, Mark        Ashok                       9
+Hendrickson, Mark        Du'Rog                      5
+Hendrickson, Mark        Grey Council #1             8
+Hendrickson, Mark        Grey Council #2             20
+Hendrickson, Mark        Narn Captain                1,24
+Hendrickson, Mark        Narn Pilot                  22
+Hendrickson, Mark        Thegras                     7
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Henning,+Ted">
+Henning, Ted</a>             Guard #2                    2
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Hoffman,+Linda">
+Hoffman, Linda</a>           Tech #2                     0
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Hubley,+Whip">
+Hubley, Whip</a>             Raider #1                   13
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Hutchison,+Daniel">
+Hutchison, Daniel</a>        Security Guard              4
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Ishida,+Jim">
+Ishida, Jim</a>              Dr. Tasaki                  18
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Jackson,+Robert">
+Jackson, Robert</a>          Tech #3                     0
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Jung,+Calvin">
+Jung, Calvin</a>             Guard                       5
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Jurasik,+Peter">
+Jurasik, Peter</a>           Londo Mollari               0,1,3,5,7,9-13,15,18,19
+							21,22-24
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Kaplan,+Jonathon">
+Kaplan, Jonathon</a>         Shon                        10
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Kasdorf,+Lenore">
+Kasdorf, Lenore</a>          ISN Reporter                14,18,19
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Katsulas,+Andreas">
+Katsulas, Andreas</a>        G'Kar                       0-1,5-7,9-13,22-24
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Kelegian,+Sylva">
+Kelegian, Sylva</a>          Tech #2                     4
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Kirby,+Randall">
+Kirby, Randall</a>           Businessman #1              5
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Kiriyama-Lem,+James">
+Kiriyama-Lem, James</a>      Med Tech                    22,24
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Kluger,+Garry">
+Kluger, Garry</a>            Man                         13
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Koenig,+Walter">
+Koenig, Walter</a>           Bester                      6
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Kopache,+Thomas">
+Kopache, Thomas</a>          Tu'Pari                     5
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Letchworth,+Drew">
+Letchworth, Drew</a>         Comedy                      16
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Lee,+Stephen">
+Lee, Stephen</a>             Tharg                       10
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Leech,+Beverly">
+Leech, Beverly</a>           Elizabeth Sheridan          24
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Leong,+Wesley">
+Leong, Wesley</a>            Paramedic                   22
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Lockhart,+June">
+Lockhart, June</a>           Dr. Laura Rosen             21
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Lodge,+Linda">
+Lodge, Linda</a>             Mirriam Runningdear         15
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Logan,+Kristopher">
+Logan, Kristopher</a>        Ambassador #3               23
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Loffler,+Gianin">
+Loffler, Gianin</a>          Lurker #2                   22
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+London,+Damian">
+London, Damian</a>           Centauri Senator            21
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Lowe,+Tom">
+Lowe, Tom</a>                Gunman #1                   3
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Lowens,+Curt">
+Lowens, Curt</a>             Varn                        18,19
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Martin,+Gregory">
+Martin, Gregory</a>          Colonel Ari Ben Zayne       16     
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Martinez,+Ricardo">
+Martinez, Ricardo</a>        Worker #2                   12
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Marshall,+David+Anthony">
+Marshall, David Anthony</a>  Stephen Petrov              22
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Mathis,+Lee">
+Mathis, Lee</a>              Fighter #1                  13
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+McBride,+Kevin">
+McBride, Kevin</a>           Guard                       21
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+McCallum,+David">
+McCallum, David</a>          Dr. Vance Hendricks         4
+McCallum, David          Vance Hendricks, Dr.        4
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+McCoy,+Douglas">
+McCoy, Douglas</a>           Alpha Seven                 20
+McCoy, Douglas           Delta 7                     1
+McCoy, Douglas           Fighter #2                  13
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+McGurk,+Gary">
+McGurk, Gary</a>             Morgan Clark                22
+McGurk, Gary             President Morgan Clark      24
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+McKellar,+Danica">
+McKellar, Danica</a>         Aria Tensus                 7
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+McKenzie,+Michael">
+McKenzie, Michael</a>        Pilgrim                     5
+McKenzie, Michael        Narn Captain                6,12
+McKenzie, Michael        Narn Navigator              24
+McKenzie, Michael        Migo                        14
+McKenzie, Michael        Vastor                      23
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+McKinney,+Greg">
+McKinney, Greg</a>           Walker Smith                14
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+McNeil,+Kate">
+McNeil, Kate</a>             Janice Rosen                21
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Mercado,+Hector">
+Mercado, Hector</a>          Pilot                       13
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Mills,+Katherine">
+Mills, Katherine</a>         Dancer                      3
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Mumy,+Bill">
+Mumy, Bill</a>               Lennier                     5,9,15,16,21,22-24
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Neame,+Christopher">
+Neame, Christopher</a>       Knight Two                  8
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Nickson,+Julia">
+Nickson, Julia</a>           Catherine Sakai             5,6,22
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Norris,+Mike">
+Norris, Mike</a>             Butz                        3
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Norton,+Jim">
+Norton, Jim</a>              Ombuds Wellington           15,21
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+O'Brien,+Patrick">
+O'Brien, Patrick</a>         Cart Owner                  17
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+O'Hare,+Michael">
+O'Hare, Michael</a>          Jeffrey Sinclair,           0-22
+			   Commander
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+O'Neil,+Tricia">
+O'Neil, Tricia</a>           M'ola                       10
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Oh,+Soon-Tek">
+Oh, Soon-Tek</a>             Muta-Do, The                14
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Olster,+Fredi">
+Olster, Fredi</a>            Lady Ladira                 13
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Page,+Kevin">
+Page, Kevin</a>              Businessman                 6
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Parker,+F.+William">
+Parker, F. William</a>       Businessman #1              0
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Perry,+Rod">
+Perry, Rod</a>               General Netter              11
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Peterson,+Laura">
+Peterson, Laura</a>          Gera Akshi                  3
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Phalen,+Robert">
+Phalen, Robert</a>           Andrei Ivanov               3,14
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Porro,+Mark">
+Porro, Mark</a>              Security Guard              7
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Revill,+Clive">
+Revill, Clive</a>            Trakis                      3
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Rey,+Jose">
+Rey, Jose</a>                Eduardo Delvientos          12
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Riojas,+John">
+Riojas, John</a>             Guard                       22
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Rizzoli,+Tony">
+Rizzoli, Tony</a>            Guard                       4
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Robertson,+Marianne">
+Robertson, Marianne</a>      Dome Tech                   5,7
+Robertson, Marianne      Dome Tech #1                6,13
+Robertson, Marianne      Hostage                     0
+Robertson, Marianne      Tech #1                     1,3,8,9,11,12,14-20
+Robertson, Marianne      Tech #2                     2
+Robertson, Marianne      Tech #3                     4
+Robertson, Marianne      Tech                        22
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Robinson,+Glenn">
+Robinson, Glenn</a>          Head Waiter                 5
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Rogers,+Tristan">
+Rogers, Tristan</a>          Malcom Biggs                7
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Rolston,+Mark">
+Rolston, Mark</a>            Karl Mueller                21
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Rosales,+Tommy">
+Rosales, Tommy</a>           Panicked Man                20
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Rosario,+Jose">
+Rosario, Jose</a>            Nolan                       11
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Sachs,+Robin">
+Sachs, Robin</a>             Hedronn                     23
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Sage,+Dave">
+Sage, Dave</a>               Businessman #2              0
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Sanderson,+William">
+Sanderson, William</a>       Deuce                       15
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Scott,+Judson">
+Scott, Judson</a>            Knight One                  8
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Sekka,+Johnny">
+Sekka, Johnny</a>            Dr. Benjamin Kyle           0
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Sharkey,+Debra">
+Sharkey, Debra</a>           Tech #2                     23
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Sheppard,+W.+Morgan">
+Sheppard, W. Morgan</a>      Soul Hunter #1              2
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Shishino,+Fumi">
+Shishino, Fumi</a>           Screaming Woman             22
+Shishino, Fumi           Security Guard              8
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Silver,+Robert">
+Silver, Robert</a>           Reno                        13
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Sirag,+Scott">
+Sirag, Scott</a>             Kosh Naranek                0
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Sisti,+Michelan">
+Sisti, Michelan</a>          Takarn                      19
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Snyder,+John">
+Snyder, John</a>             Orin Zento                  12
+Snyder, John             Soul Hunter #2              2
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Starcher,+Brian">
+Starcher, Brian</a>          Other Pilot                 23
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Strauss,+Kim">
+Strauss, Kim</a>             Ensign                      23
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Stroud,+Don">
+Stroud, Don</a>              Caliban                     14
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Tabata,+Warren">
+Tabata, Warren</a>           Guard                       24
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Tallman,+Patricia">
+Tallman, Patricia</a>        Lyta Alexander              0
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Teague,+Marshall">
+Teague, Marshall</a>         Nelson Drake                4
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Thomas,+Elaine">
+Thomas, Elaine</a>           Lianna Kemmer               11
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Thompson,+Andrea">
+Thompson, Andrea</a>         Talia Winters               1,3,6,9,17-19,22-24
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Tomita,+Tamlyn">
+Tomita, Tamlyn</a>           Laurel Takashima            0
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Toussaint,+Beth">
+Toussaint, Beth</a>          Anna Sheridan               24
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Toy,+Patty">
+Toy, Patty</a>               PSI Corps Rep               18
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Trencher,+Peter">
+Trencher, Peter</a>          Carn Mollari                1
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Turenne,+Louis">
+Turenne, Louis</a>           Draal                       18,19
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Udenio,+Fabiana">
+Udenio, Fabiana</a>          Adira Tyree                 3
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Una,+Grace">
+Una, Grace</a>               Alisa Beldon                17
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Valinote,+Thomas">
+Valinote, Thomas</a>         Security Guard #2           23
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Vaughn,+Floyd">
+Vaughn, Floyd</a>            Worker #1                   12
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Vickery,+John">
+Vickery, John</a>            Neroon                      17
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Von+Hicks,+Erich">
+Von Hicks, Erich</a>         Businessman #2              5
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Wake,+Robin">
+Wake, Robin</a>              Young Lianna                11
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Warner,+David">
+Warner, David</a>            Aldous Gajic                15
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Wasser,+Ed">
+Wasser, Ed</a>               Guerra                      0
+Wasser, Ed               Morden                      13,22,24
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Waterman,+Felicity">
+Waterman, Felicity</a>       Kelsey                      6
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Weil,+Jerry">
+Weil, Jerry</a>              Technician                  18
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Williams,+Bergen">
+Williams, Bergen</a>         Security Guard              22
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Williams,+Justin">
+Williams, Justin</a>         Mitchell                    8
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Williams,+Lynn">
+Williams, Lynn</a>           Customs Guard               13
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Woronov,+Mary">
+Woronov, Mary</a>            Ko D'Ath                    3
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Wrangler,+Greg">
+Wrangler, Greg</a>           Security Guard #1           23
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Yashima,+Momo">
+Yashima, Momo</a>            Goyokin, Dr.                3
+Yashima, Momo            Dr. Goyokin                 3
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Yeuell,+Paul">
+Yeuell, Paul</a>             Customs Guard               4
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Young,+William">
+Young, William</a>           Jason Ironheart             6
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Youngs,+Jim">
+Youngs, Jim</a>              Benson                      8
+<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Zimmer,+Constance">
+Zimmer, Constance</a>        Young Woman Patient         21
+
+EPISODE GUIDE:
+0       <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/000.html">The Gathering</a>
+1       <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/001.html">Midnight on the Firing Line</a>
+2       <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/002.html">Soul Hunter</a>
+3       <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/003.html">Born to the Purple</a>
+4       <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/004.html">Infection</a>
+5       <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/005.html">Parliament of Dreams</a>
+6       <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/006.html">Mind War</a>
+7       <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/007.html">The War Prayer</a>
+8       <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/008.html">And the Sky Full of Stars</a>
+9       <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/009.html">Deathwalker</a>
+10      <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/010.html">Believers</a>
+11      <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/011.html">Survivors</a>
+12      <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/012.html">By Any Means Necessary</a>
+13      <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/013.html">Signs and Portents</a>
+14      <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/014.html">TKO</a>
+15      <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/015.html">Grail</a>
+16      <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/016.html">Eyes</a>
+17      <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/017.html">Legacies</a>
+18      <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/018.html">A Voice in the Wilderness I</a>
+19      <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/019.html">A Voice in the Wilderness II</a>
+20      <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/020.html">Babylon Squared</a>
+21      <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/021.html">The Quality of Mercy</a>
+22      <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/022.html">Chrysalis</a>
+23      <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/023.html">Points of Departure</a>
+24      <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/024.html">Revelations</a>
+--
+"So long as you have hope, there's ALWAYS a chance."
+	-"The War"
+</pre>
+</body></html>
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+===================================================================
+THE OFFICIAL BABYLON 5 CAST LIST
+Copyright 1994-1996 Astralight Productions
+Compiled by Troy A. Rutter (techy@iastate.edu)
+Version 3.22
+Last Update: 1/10/96
+Covers All of the First Season and Pilot: "The Gathering" - "Chrysalis"
+Covers All of Second Season: "Points of Departure" - "The Fall of Night"
+Covers Third Season:  "Matters of Honor" - "Passing through Gethsemane"
+Permission granted for transmission to electronic information and
+        retrieval systems but not for publication in any compilation, be it
+        written or electronic, or journal without written permission from
+        the author.
+Additions/Corrections should be sent to techy@iastate.edu
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+-----------------------------List by Actor------------------------
+
+ACTOR NAME               CHARACTER NAME              EPISODES
+==================================================================
+Abercrombie, Ian         Correlilmurzon              34
+Adair, Diane             Mila Shar                   7
+Adair, Diane             Markab Mother               40
+Adair, Diane             Narn Mother                 43
+Adams, Mary Kay          Na'Toth                     23,34
+Ainsley, Paul            Centauri #1                 34
+Aleong, Aki              Senator Hidoshi             9,12,19
+Alexander, Wayne         Sebastian                   43
+Allen, Eddie             Man                         30
+Ames, Granville          Psi Cop                     37
+Anderson, Lynn           Rose                        21
+Anglin, Jennifer         Deeron                      23
+Anglin, Jennifer         Alien #1                    27
+Anglin, Jennifer         Narn Second                 34
+Ansara, Michael          Elric                       25
+Apesanahkwat             Telepath #1                 30
+Argenziano, Carmen       Urza Jaddo                  39
+Attell, Toni             Med Tech #1                 2
+Austin, Jeff             Centauri #1                 1
+Banks, Joe               Guard                       8
+Barbeau, Adrienne        Amanda Carter               28
+Barnett, Craig           Security Guard              18
+Barnett, Steven R.       Eric                        0
+Baron, Blaire            Carolyn Sykes               0
+Beck, Michael            Abel Horn                   28
+Beer, Daniel             Patrick                     26
+Bennett, Douglas         First Man                   41
+Bensing, Langdon         Derek Mobotabwe             18
+Bentley, Jim             Man                         2
+Bergeron, Philippe       Lurker                      21
+Betancourt, Anne         Dr. Gonzales                47
+Bey, Turhan              Centauri Emperor Turhan     31
+Biggs, Richard           Dr. Stephen Franklin        2,4,7-11,15,17,19,21-27,
+                                                        29-40,41-42,45-48
+Bikel, Theodore          Rabbi Koslov                14
+Blades, Lynn             News Anchor #2              48
+Booker, Tom              "Jinxo" / Thomas            15
+Boxleitner, Bruce        Captain John Sheridan       23-48
+Boyer, Katy              Neeoma Connally             12
+Brabec, Anita            Dome Tech #3                13
+Bradley, Neil            Purple Drazi                25
+Bradley, Neil            Alien #2                    27
+Bradley, Neil            Kha'Mak                     31
+Bradley, Neil            Minbari #3                  36
+Bradley, Neil            Narn #2                     42
+Bradley, Neil            Narn #1                     47
+Broadhurst, Kent         Major Krantz                20
+Brown, Caitlin           Na'Toth                     5,9,12,17,22
+Brown, Julie Caitlin     Guinevere Corey             36
+Brown, Donovan           Pak'Ma'Ra Ambassador        44
+Brunt, Natalie           Business Person             48
+Bruton, MaCaulay         Garibaldi's Aide            6,22,24
+Bruton, MaCauley         Aide                        8
+Bruton, MaCauley         Tragedy                     16
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+Butto, Chuck             Security Officer #1         7
+Canada, Ron              Captain Ellis Pierce        19
+Carr, Jane               Timov                       29
+Carter, Jason            Marcus Cole                 45
+Casey, Bernie            Derek Cranston              35
+Cervantes, Gary          Strongarm #1                8
+Chamberlain, Ardwight    Kosh Naranek                1,7,9-10,13,15,22,24,31,
+                                                        33,35-36,38,41,43,45,
+                                                        48
+Chambers, Marie          Sofie Ivanova               16
+Chan, Michael Paul       Roberts                     7
+Chapman, Jonathan        Ambassador #1               23
+Chapman, Jonathan        Green Drazi #2              25
+Chapman, Jonathan        Narn Pilot #2               31
+Chapman, Jonathan        Minbari #2                  36
+Chapman, Jonathan        Narn Second                 42
+Chapman, Jonathan        Drazi Pilot                 45
+Chaves, Richard          Alvares                     7
+Chiros, Jim              Centauri #1                 43
+Choate, Tim              Zathras                     20
+Christian, Claudia       Lt. Commander Susan         1-25
+                            Ivanova
+Christian, Claudia       Commander Susan Ivanova     26-48
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+Combs, Jeffrey           Harriman Gray               16
+Conaway, Jeff            Zack Allan                  28,31,34-36,38,41,44,46,
+                                                        48
+Conery, Edward           Devereaux                   22,25
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+Cook, David Austin       Special Agent #1            11
+Corri, Nick              Lt. Ramirez                 33
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+Costa, Frank             B4 Guard                    20
+Courtney, James Jude     Gyor                        14
+Cousins, Brian           Rick                        30
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+Cox, Joshua              Tech #2                     17,19
+Cox, Joshua              Tech #1                     23,25,28,32-35,37,39,41-
+                                                        44
+Cox, Joshua              Tech                        26
+Cox, Joshua              (uncredited)                20
+Cox, Joshua              2nd Lt. David Corwin        47
+Coyle, Kelly             Earthforce Liaison          18
+Craig, Andrew            Human                       40
+Cressida, Kathryn        Bartender                   18,30,34
+Crowley, David L.        Lou Welch                   11,16,24-25,29,32
+Crowley, David L.        Second Guard                21
+Curry, Christopher       Ronald Quantrell            37
+Curtis, Robin            Ambassador Kalika           9
+Cutrona, Ryan            Sgt. Major Plug             32
+Darga, Christopher       Narn #1                     34
+Darling, David D.        Guard #1                    2
+De Jesus, Wanda          Sarah                       35
+De La Paz, Danny         Running Man                 41
+Delgado, Kim             Dome Tech #3                23
+Delgado, Kim             Comm Tech                   26
+Dilascio, Diane          Telepath #2                 30
+Ditillio, Robert         Norg                        3
+Ditillio, Robert         Ambassador #1               9
+Doland, Juli             Pilot #1                    44
+Donaldson, Tom           Cutter                      11
+Dotrice, Roy             Frederick Lantze            44
+Douglas, Sarah           Jha'dur                     9
+Dourif, Brad             Brother Edward              48
+Dowe, Don                Earth Fighter               6
+Doyle, Jerry             Security Chief Michael      0-48
+                            Garibaldi
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+Eastman, Rodney          Kiron Maray                 7
+Egan, Maggie             Newsperson                  1
+Egan, Maggie             ISN Reporter                11,32,40
+Egan, Maggie             News Anchor                 22
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+Farrow, Sav              Tech #2                     9
+Fega, Rus                Merchant #1                 23
+Fleck, John              Del Varner                  0
+Flinn, John              Mr. Flinn                   15
+Flinn, John              Obnoxious Man               46
+Folger, Mark             Centauri                    48
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+Forward, William         Refa                        25,31
+Forward, William         Lord Refa                   39,42
+Foxworth, Robert         General William Hague       23,33
+Furlan, Mira             Delenn                      0-2,5,7,8,10,13,15,17-20,
+                                                        22-24,26,29-30,32-34,
+                                                        36-38,40-48
+Furst, Stephen           Vir Cotto                   1,3,5,7,15,22-25,27,29,
+                                                        31,34,36,38,39,43-44,
+                                                        47
+Gabrielli, Elisa Pensler Guest Liaison               6
+Gallardo, Silvana        Maya Hernandez              10
+Garver, Elisa Beth       Tech #2                     32,39,42,44
+Gentile, Denise          Lise Hampton                19-20
+Giannini, Jimm           Ock                         3
+Golzalez, Steven         News Anchor #1              48
+Graas, John Christian    Johnny                      37
+Graham, Gerrit           Lord Kiro                   13
+Grahn, Nancy Lee         Shaal Mayan                 7
+Grindlay, Annie          Thirteen/Psi Cop            28
+Grinn, Sandey            Teronn                      26
+Grinn, Sandey            Narn Captain                34
+Grove, Richard           Kalain                      23
+Guillory, Bennet         Merchant #2                 23
+Gunther, Mike            Alien #1                    7
+Hader, Catherine         Young Woman                 23
+Hamilton, Rick           Mitch                       44
+Hampton, Paul            The Senator                 0-1
+Hardin, Joy              Narn #1                     5
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+Harrington, Cheryl       Senator                     22
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+Healy, Patricia          Mary Ann Cramer             4,12
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+Hendrickson, Mark        Narn Captain                1,24
+Hendrickson, Mark        Du'Rog                      5
+Hendrickson, Mark        Thegras                     7
+Hendrickson, Mark        Grey Council #1             8
+Hendrickson, Mark        Ashok                       9
+Hendrickson, Mark        Alien #1                    11
+Hendrickson, Mark        Grey Council #2             20
+Hendrickson, Mark        Narn Pilot                  22
+Hendrickson, Mark        Ambassador #2               23
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+Hendrickson, Mark        Narn #1                     43-44
+Hendrickson, Mark        Narn #2                     47
+Henning, Ted W.          Guard #2                    2
+Henry, Richard           Security Man                17
+Hoffman, Linda           Tech #2                     0
+Hubley, Whip             Raider #1                   13
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+Hunter, Morgan           Pvt. Kleist                 32
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+Hutton, Rif              ISN Reporter                42
+Hyde-White, Alex         Pierce Macabee              38
+Ishida, Jim              Dr. Tasaki                  18
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+Johnson, Rick            Security Guard #1 [Jay]     46
+Jung, Calvin             Guard                       5
+Jurasik, Peter           Londo Mollari               0,1,3,5,7,9-13,15,18,19,
+                                                        21-25,27,29,31,34,36-
+                                                        39,42,44-48
+Kaplan, Jonathon Charles Shon                        10
+Kasdorf, Lenore          ISN Reporter                14,18-19
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+                                                        31,34,37,42-47
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+Keith, Robert            Malcolm                     48
+Kelegian, Sylva          Tech #2                     4
+Kelly, Michael Francis   Guard                       43
+Kilpatrick, Patrick      Robert Carlson              46
+Kimbro, Art              Ray Galus                   26
+Kirby, Randall           Businessman #1              5
+Kiriyama-Lem, James      Med Tech                    22,24
+Kiriyama-Lem, James      Medlab Tech                 27
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+Koenig, Walter           Bester                      6,30
+Kopache, Thomas          Tu'Pari                     5
+Larimore, Jason          Lurker                      46
+Lee, Stephen             Tharg                       10
+Leech, Beverly           Elizabeth Sheridan          24
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+Leong, Wesley            Paramedic                   22
+Letchworth, Drew         Comedy                      16
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+Lockhart, June           Dr. Laura Rosen             21
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+Loffler, Gianin          Lurker                      30
+Logan, Kristopher        Ambassador #3               23
+London, Damian           Centauri Senator            21
+Lowe, Tom                Gunman #1                   3
+Lowens, Curt             Varn                        18-19
+Macht, Stephen           Na'Far                      47
+Mair, Ossie              Store Owner                 36
+Malek-Yonan, Rosie       Doctor                      40
+Manzoni, Mike            Guard                       40
+Marshall, David Anthony  Stephen Petrov              22
+Marshall, Marie          P.F.C. Dodger               32
+Martin, Gregory          Colonel Ari Ben Zayn        16
+Martinez, Ricardo        Worker #2                   12
+Mathis, Lee              Fighter #1                  13
+McBride, Kevin           Guard                       21
+McCallum, David          Dr. Vance Hendricks         4
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+McCoy, Douglas E.        Fighter #2                  13
+McCoy, Douglas E.        Alpha Seven                 20
+McGee, Gwen              Med Tech                    46
+McGuire, Brian Michael   Man                         29
+McGuire, Bryan Michael   Customs Guard #1            31
+McGuire, Bryan Michael   Guard #2                    35
+McGurk, Gary             Morgan Clark                22
+McGurk, Gary             President Clark             24
+McKellar, Danica         Aria Tensus                 7
+McKenzie, Michael        Pilgrim                     5
+McKenzie, Michael        Narn Captain                6,12
+McKenzie, Michael        Migo                        14
+McKenzie, Michael        Vastor                      23
+McKenzie, Michael        Narn Navigator              24
+McKenzie, Michael        Alien Customer              36
+McKenzie, Michael        Markab Victim               40
+McKenzie, Michael        Drazi #1                    46
+McKinney, Greg           Walker Smith                14
+McNeil, Kate             Janice Rosen                21
+Mercado, Hector          Pilot                       13
+Michael, Christopher     Shooter                     30
+Mills, Katherine         Dancer                      3
+Moll, Richard            Max                         35
+Morshower, Glenn         Franke                      34
+Mumy, Bill               Lennier                     5,9,15,16,21,22-24,29,31,
+                                                        36,38,40,43-46,48
+Neame, Christopher       Knight Two                  8
+Nettleson, Lois          Daggair                     29
+Neuman, Jani             Med Tech                    41
+Nickson, Julia           Catherine Sakai             5-6,22
+Norris, Mike             Butz                        3
+Norton, Jim              Ombuds Wellington           15,21
+Norton, Jim              Dr. Lazarenn                40
+Nunez, Miguel A., Jr.    Orwell                      26
+O'Brien, Patrick         Cart Owner                  17
+O'Hare, Michael          Commander Jeffrey Sinclair  0-22,31
+O'Neil, Tricia           M'ola                       10
+Oh, Soon-Teck            The Muta-Do                 14
+Olster, Fredi            Lady Ladira                 13
+Page, Kevin              Businessman                 6
+Parker, F. William       Business Man #1             0
+Patton, Joshua           Human/Minbari Kosh          44
+Perry, Rod               General Netter              11
+Peterson, Laura          Gera Akshi                  3
+Phalen, Robert           Andrei Ivanov               3,14
+Porro, Mark S.           Security Guard              6
+Pryor, Mowava            Tonia Wallace               32
+Reiser, Damon C.         Lurker                      35
+Revill, Clive            Trakis                      3
+Rey, Jose                Dock Supervisor Eduardo     12,37
+                            Delvientos
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+Rizzoli, Tony            Guard                       4
+Robertson, Marianne      Hostage                     0
+Robertson, Marianne      Tech #1                     1,3,8-9,11-12,14-20
+Robertson, Marianne      Tech #2                     2
+Robertson, Marianne      Tech #3                     4
+Robertson, Marianne      Dome Tech                   5,7
+Robertson, Marianne      Dome Tech #1                6,13
+Robertson, Marianne      Tech                        22
+Robinson, Glenn          Head Waiter                 5
+Rogers, Tristan          Malcolm Biggs               7
+Rolston, Mark            Karl Mueller                21
+Rosales, Tommy           Panicked Man                20
+Rosario, Jose            Nolan                       11
+Rusler, Robert           Warren Keffer               23,27
+Rusler, Robert           Lt. Warren Keffer           31,36,40,44
+Ryan, John St.           Troublemaker                47
+Sachs, Robin             Hedronn                     23,33
+Sachs, Robin             Na'Kal                      44
+Sage, Dave               Business Man #2             0
+Sage, David              Centauri Merchant           34
+Sanderson, William       Deuce                       15
+Schuck, John             Draal                       42
+Schultz, Dwight          Amis                        27
+Scott, Judson            Knight One                  8
+Secrist, Bluejean Ashley Markab Girl                 40
+Sekka, Johnny            Dr. Benjamin Kyle           0
+Sharkey, Debra           Tech #2                     23
+Shelby, Larita           Med Tech                    47
+Sheppard, W. Morgan      The Soul Hunter             2
+Sheppard, W. Morgan      Warmaster G'Sten            42
+Shigeta, James           Taro Isogi                  28
+Shishino, Fumi           Security Guard              8
+Shishino, Fumi           Screaming Woman             22
+Shiveley, Debby          Aide                        35
+Silver, Robert           Reno                        13
+Silver, Robert           Merchant                    35
+Simmons, Tom             Security Guard #2           46
+Simms, George            Security Guard              41
+Sirag, Scott             Kosh Naranek                0
+Sisti, Michelan          Takarn                      19
+Smallwood, Tucker        David Endawi                45
+Smith, Michael Bailey    G'Dok                       47
+Snyder, John             Soul Hunter #2              2
+Snyder, John             Orin Zento                  12
+Starcher, Brian          Other Pilot                 23
+Steedman, Tony           Dr. Everett Jacobs          35
+Stewart, Nils Allen      Large Man                   45
+Strauss, Kim             Ensign                      23
+Strauss, Kim             Green Drazi                 25
+Strauss, Kim             Markab Ambassador           27,40
+Strauss, Kim             Narn Pilot #1               31
+Strauss, Kim             Narn #2                     43
+Strauss, Kim             Drazi Ambassador            44
+Stroud, Don              Caliban                     14
+Struycken, Carel         Trader                      29
+Sullivan, Sean Gregory   Ashan                       36
+Swink, Kitty             Senator                     45
+Szarabajka, Keith        Matthew Stoner              29
+Tabata, Warren           Guard                       24-25,27
+Tagawa, Cary-Hiroyuki    Morishi                     46
+Tallman, Patricia        Lyta Alexander              0,41,48
+Tamblyn, Russ            Captain Jack Maynard        26
+Teague, Marshall         Nelson Drake                4
+Teague, Marshall         Narn                        33
+Teague, Marshall         Ta'Lon                      47
+Thomas, Craig            Human                       43
+Thomas, Elaine           Lianna Kemmer               11
+Thompson, Andrea         Talia Winters               1,3,6,9,17-19,21-24,28-
+                                                        30,36,38,41
+Throne, Malachi          Centauri Prime Minister     31
+                            Malachi
+Tomita, Tamlyn           Laurel Takashima            0
+Toussaint, Beth          Anna Sheridan               24
+Toy, Patty               PSI Corps Rep               18
+Toy, Patty               Ogilvie                     26
+Trencher, Peter          Carn Mollari                1
+Turenne, Louis           Draal                       18-19
+Turenne, Louis           Brother Theo                46,48
+Udenio, Fabiana          Adira Tyree                 3
+Una, Grace               Alisa Beldon                17
+Valinote, Thomas         Security Guard #2           23
+Valk, Blair              Mariel                      29
+Vaughn, Floyd            Worker #1                   12
+Vickery, John            Neroon                      17,33
+Vickery, John            Mr. Welles                  44
+Von Hicks, Erich Martin  Businessman #2              5
+Wake, Robin              Young Lianna                11
+Walker, Andrew           Psi Cop                     45
+Walter, Jessica          Senator Elise Voudreau      28
+Warner, David            Aldous Gajic                15
+Wasser, Ed               Guerra                      0
+Wasser, Ed               Morden                      13,22,24,38,45
+Waterman, Felicity       Kelsey                      6
+Weil, Jerry              Technician                  18
+Williams, Bergen         Security Guard              22
+Williams, Justin         Mitchell                    8
+Williams, Lynn Red       Customs Guard               13
+Williams, Paul           Taq                         34
+Winfield, Paul           General Richard Franklin    32
+Wing, Leslie             Mother                      37
+Woren, Dan               Bartender                   40
+Woronov, Mary            Ko D'Ath                    3
+Wrangler, Greg           Security Guard #1           23
+Yashima, Momo            Dr. Goyokin                 3
+Yeuell, Paul             Customs Guard               4
+Young, William Allen     Jason Ironheart             6,30
+Youngs, Jim              Benson                      8
+Zimmer, Constance        Young Woman Patient         21
+Zimmer, Kim              Cynthia Torqueman           37
+
+
+---------------------------List by Crew Name----------------------
+
+CREW NAME                TASK                        EPISODES
+==================================================================
+Action Video, Hollywood  Pin Registered Transfers &  0-2
+                            Digital Optical 
+                            Compositing
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+Adams, Marshall          Gaffer                      1-29,31-44
+Aronowitz, Greg          Shop Foreman                0
+Ball, James              2nd Assistant Camera        0
+Beaudine, Skip           1st Assistant Director      2-3,5-6,8,12-13,18-19,22-
+                                                        23,25,31,33,35-36,38,
+                                                        41,44
+Beaudine, Skip           Unit Production Manager     27-28,30,40,42,45-48
+Bechtel, Marla K.        Assistant Editor            2-3,5-6,8,12-13,18-20,22
+Beigle-Bryant, Paul      Computer Imaging            0-48
+                            Supervisor
+Berlin Symphonic Film    Music Performed by          1-48
+   Orchestra, The
+Binetski, Menachem       Directed by                 35
+Binford, Joe, Jr.        Assistant Editor            0
+Bodytech                 Special Effect Contact      6,9,11-14,16-22
+                            Lenses by
+Brooksbank, Steve        Casting Associate           6,9,11-14,16-22
+Brooksbank, Steve,       Casting by                  23-44
+   C.S.A.
+Brown, Robert Latham     Producer                    0
+Brown, Robert Latham     Unit Production Manager     0
+Bruice, Ann              Costume Designer            1-43
+Bruice Aling, Ann        Costume Designer            44-48
+Buckner, Adam            Assistant Editor            39-41,43
+Burr, Kathie             Assistant Editor            1,4,7,9-11,14-17,21,23,
+                                                        25,27,30-31,33,35,37
+Burr, Kathie             First Assistant Editor      36,38-48
+Burrell, Everett         Series Make-up Effects      1-44
+                            Created by
+Burrus, John             Apprentice Editor           45-48
+Carlstedt, Peter         Re-recording Mixer          28-43
+Carothers, Bruce         Best Boy Grip               45-48
+Casey, Shannon           Visual Effects Coordinator  0
+Casey, Shannon           Visual Effects Producer     1-48
+Champion, Fern, C.S.A.   Casting by                  45-48
+Chauvin, Eric            Matte Artist                13-14,18-19,21,23-48
+Chong, Ronnie            1st Assistant Director      46
+Citron, Lisa M.          Editor                      1,8,15,17,19-20,22
+Coffey, Linda            Sound Mixer                 23-35,38-48
+Cohen, Harry             Sound Design                0,13-14,16,18-20,23-27
+Cole, Barbara            Property Master             1-22
+Collins, Stephen         Camera Operator             0
+Compton, Richard         Directed by                 0-1,4,7,10,15
+Compton, Richard         Co-Producer                 1-5,7-8,10,15
+Copeland, John           Co-Producer                 0
+Copeland, John           Produced by                 1-48
+Copeland, Stewart        Music by                    0
+Corring, Douglas         2nd Assistant Director      20-21,36-37,40-48
+Corring, Douglas         2nd 2nd Assistant Director  32-35,38-39
+Coyle, Kelly             Executive Producers'        23-44
+                            Assistant
+Coyle, Kelly             Producers' Assistant        38
+Cremin, Kevin G.         Unit Production Manager     1-26,29,31-39,41,43-44
+Cremin, Kevin G.         Directed by                 28,40,45
+Criswell, John           Special Effects Makeup      0
+                            Supervisor
+Cush, Fionagh            Make-up Effects Artist      45-48
+David, Peter             Written by                  29,36
+DeRouin, Colin           Set Designer                0
+Dennett, James A., II    2nd 2nd Assistant Director  45-46
+Di Leo, Mario            Directed by                 27,33,37
+Dickson, Billy           Director of Photography     0
+Ditillio, Lawrence G.    Story Editor                1-22
+Ditillio, Lawrence G.    Executive Story Editor      23-44
+Ditillio, Lawrence G.    Written by                  3,9,14,16,28,32,39
+Drennan, Kathryn M.      Written by                  12
+Durand, Clare            DGA Trainee                 0
+Eagle, David J.          Directed by                 38,47
+Eilerson, Pamela         2nd Assistant Director      5-6,9,11-19,22-26,31-35,
+                                                        38-39
+Eilerson, Pamela         1st Assistant Director      20,27,30,42-43,45,47-48
+EFX Systems              Digital Sound &             0-48
+                            Re-Recording by
+Ellison, Harlan          Conceptual Consultant       1-48
+Elmer, Marc              Assistant Editor            24,26,28-29,32,34
+Esparza, Tracie          Executive Producers'        1-48
+                            Assistant
+Evans, Alyson            Production Coordinator      0
+Fallace, Nancy S.        Set Decorator               1-22
+Farr, John K.            Gaffer                      0
+Ferrara, Lorraine Senna  Directed by                 21
+Ferry, Kim M.            Assistant Hair & Make-up    45-48
+Flinn, John C., III,     Director of Photography     1-29,31-39,41,43-48
+   A.S.C.
+Flinn, John C., III,     Directed by                 14,29,42
+   A.S.C.
+Fontana, D.C.            Written by                  7,17,26
+Foster, David W.         Editor                      24,27,29,33,37-38,41,47
+Foundation Imaging       Visual Effects Produced by  0-48
+Franke, Christopher      Music Performed by          1-48
+Franke, Christopher      Music by                    1-48
+Freesh, Bill             Re-Recording Mixer          0-1
+Frost, Scott             Written by                  27
+Funk, Greg               Make-up Effects Artist      45-48
+Garbarino, Mark          Make-up Effects Supervisor  45-48
+Gerrold, David           Written by                  10
+Gess, Cindy              Boom Operator               0
+Gilmore, Ruth            Key Scenic Artist           0
+Gordin, Eyal             Camera Operator             1-22
+Gording, Jonathan, O.D.  Special Effect Contact      23-48
+                            Lens Consultant
+Greek, Janet             Directed by                 8,13,18-19,22-23,31,44
+Green, Bruce Seth        Directed by                 3,6,9,17
+Haigh, Ted               Assistant Art Director      0
+Henry, Carol             Script Coordinator          23-48
+HeyNeker, Jan M.         Key Grip                    0
+Higgins, Joanne          Executive Producers'        23-48
+                            Assistant
+Hitch, Sherry            Digital Effects Animation   43
+Hitch, Sherry            Composite 2D Animator       45-48
+Hoien, Erin              Sound Supervisor            1-27
+Hoien, Erin              Supervising Sound Editor    28-44
+Holly, Kim M.            Costume Supervisor          1-48
+Hoover, Mike             Production Accountant       45-48
+Howard, Jason            Leadman                     1-22
+Huff, Will               Make-up Effects Artist      45-48
+Huse, Linda              On Set Costumer             23-28
+Huse, Linda              Key Costumer                29-48
+Iacovelli, John          Production Designer         0-48
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+Johnsen, George          Supervising Sound Editor    0
+Johnsen, George          Associate Producer          1-48
+Johnson, Jon, M.P.S.E.   Sound Design                1-12,15,17,21-22
+Johnston, Jim            Directed by                 2,5,11-12,16,20,24,26,30,
+                                                        32,34
+Kavounas, E.J.           Producers' Assistant        23-48
+Kline, Kelsey            Producers' Assistant        1-22
+Kobayashi, Alan          Graphic Artist              45-48
+Kontra, Joe              2nd Assistant Director      27-30
+Kowalski, Peter B.       1st Assistant Camera        1-22
+Kowalski, Peter B.       Camera Operator             23-48
+Kutchaver, Kevin         Digital Effects Animation   3-28,38,40,42
+Langenfeld, Rebecca      Script Coordinator          1-22
+Laser-Pacific Media      Electronic Laboratory(tm)   0-48
+   Corporation
+Laseter, Curtis          Construction Coordinator    23-48
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+Lebowitz, Adam "Mojo"    Senior Computer Animator    44-48
+Ledger, Peter            Conceptual Artist           0
+Linsalata, Joseph N.     2nd Assistant Director      0
+   (J.J.)
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+McLane, Haley            Script Supervisor           0-48
+McWhirter, David         2nd 2nd Assistant Director  47-48
+Meisels, Karen           Asst. Production            0
+                            Coordinator
+Menichini, Paul          Sound Editor                23-27
+Menichini, Paul          Sound Effects Editor        28-32
+Menichini, Paul          Sound Designer              33-48
+Michaels, Myke           Key Hairstylist             0-8,10-11,15
+Michaelson, Brad         2nd 2nd Assistant Director  40-44
+Mitchell, Patrick        Sound Mixer                 1-22
+Monroe, Steven R.        1st Assistant Camera        0
+Mora, Michael            Set Dresser                 0
+Morse, Mary Kay          Key Make-up Artist          1-22
+Morse-Fischer, Sarah     Production Accountant       1-44
+Moser, Michael           Sound Effects Editor        45-48
+Muller, Chris            Assistant Art Director      0
+Murphy, Fred V., II      Director of Photography     30,40,42
+Neale, David H.          Gaffer                      30
+Neale, David H.          Best Boy Electric           45-48
+Netter, Douglas          Executive Producer          0-48
+Netter, Jason            Apprentice Editor           23-35
+Netter, Jason            Assistant Editor            36,38,42,44-48
+NewTek, Inc.             3D Visual Effects System    0-22
+                            Furnished by
+NewTek, Inc.             Lightwave 3D(R) Furnished   23-48
+                            by
+Nimoy, Adam              Directed by                 48
+Norkin, Susan            Post Production             0-44
+                            Coordinator
+Norkin, Susan            Post Production Supervisor  45-48
+O'Bright, Terry          Re-recording Mixer          1-44
+O'Bright, Terry, C.A.S.  Re-recording Mixer          45-48
+O'Connor, Chris          Production Coordinator      1-48
+Oberman, Tivoli &        Production Accounting       1-48
+   Miller, Ltd.             Services Provided by
+Optic Nerve Studios      Series Make-up Effects      1-48
+                            Created by
+Orr, Todd                Re-recording Mixer          2-22
+Pacific Film             Color by                    0-48
+   Laboratories
+Paladini, Mark, C.S.A.   Casting by                  45-48
+PANAVISION(R)            Cameras & Lenses            0-48
+Parigi, Robert           Sound Supervisor            45-48
+Payne, Richard           Animator                    0
+Pepin, Guy               Property Master             0
+Posey, Stephen L.        Directed by                 39
+PTN Consortium           Author of this film/motion  0-48
+                            picture
+Pugh, Steve              System Engineer             45-48
+Radulovic, John          1st Assistant Director      0-1,4,7,9-11,14-17,21,24,
+                                                        26,28-29,32,34,37,39-
+                                                        40
+Rae, Ted                 On Set Visual Effects       45-48
+                            Supervisor
+Raymond, Deborah         Art Director                0-22
+Roberts, Susan           Wardrobe Key Set            0
+Robinson, Skip           Editor                      2,5,10-12,18,21,25,28,31,
+                                                        34,36,40,43,46,48
+Rodriguez, Paul          Director of Sound Services  0
+Rogers, Keith            Re-recording Mixer          44-48
+Rosenkranz, Roland G.    Art Director                23-48
+Ross, Scott              Asst. to Executive          0
+                            Producer
+Rossall, Kerry           Stunt Coordinator           0-6,8-48
+Rowland, Marge           Production Accountant       0
+Rubinstein, Alexandra    Set Decorator               45-48
+Saks, Daniel A.          Set Decorator               23-44
+Sanders, Suzanne         Key Makeup                  0
+Schilz, Michael J.       2nd Assistant Director      1-4,7-8,10
+Sherwood, Rob            Makeup Supervisor           0
+Sinise, Robert L.,       Edited by                   0
+   A.C.E.
+Slater, Mary Jo, C.S.A.  Casting by                  0-44
+Smith, "The" John        Gaffer                      45-48
+Smithe, Traci            Key Hairstylist             9,12-14,16-48
+Sokol, Paul              Special Effects Supervisor  45-48
+Sparks, Frank J.         Stunts                      0
+Speakman, Cathie         Dialogue/ADR Editor         0
+Spritz, Neal             Sound Mixer                 36-37
+Stears, John             Special Effects             0,4
+                            Coordinator
+Sternlicht, Suzanne      Editor                      3-4,6-7,9,13-14,16,23,26,
+                                                        30,32,35,39,42,44-45
+Straczynski, J. Michael  Co-Executive Producer       0
+Straczynski, J. Michael  Executive Producer          1-48
+Straczynski, J. Michael  Written by                  0-2,4-6,8,13,18-25,30-31,
+                                                        33-35,37-38,40-48
+Straczynski, J. Michael  Created by                  1-48
+Stribling, Rick          Key Grip                    1-30
+Suskin, Mitch            Visual Effects Supervisor   1-42
+Swain, Richardmark       Animator                    0
+Sweeterman, Wally        1st Assistant Camera        23-38,40-48
+Tanenbaum, Jim           Sound Mixer                 0
+Teaney, Ken              Re-Recording Mixer          0
+Teska, John              Senior Computer Animator    44-48
+Thackery, Wendy          1st Assistant Camera        39
+Thornton, Ron            Visual Effects Designed by  0-48
+Trevino, Jesus           Directed by                 41
+Trugman, Alan            Wardrobe Supervisor         0
+Ultimate Effects         Special Effects by          1-3,5-48
+Vejar, Michael Laurence  Directed by                 25,36,43,46
+Vernacchio, Dorian       Art Director                0-4,7-8,10
+Vulich, John             Series Make-up Effects      1-48
+                            Created by
+Walters, Mark-Louis      Property Master             23-48
+Warner, John "J.W."      Key Grip                    31-48
+Wheaton, John            Make-up Effects Sculptor    45-48
+Wild, Ron                Makeup Sculpture &          0
+                            Application
+Wilson, Susie            Conceptual Artist           0
+Woolway, Harry           Sound Effects Editor        33-44
+Zanetti, Cinzia          Key Make-up Artist          23-48
+Zicree, Marc Scott       Written by                  11
+
+EPISODE GUIDE IN AIRING ORDER:
+0       The Gathering
+1       Midnight on the Firing Line
+2       Soul Hunter
+3       Born to the Purple
+4       Infection
+5       Parliament of Dreams
+6       Mind War
+7       The War Prayer
+8       And the Sky Full of Stars
+9       Deathwalker
+10      Believers
+11      Survivors
+12      By Any Means Necessary
+13      Signs and Portents
+14      TKO
+15      Grail
+16      Eyes
+17      Legacies
+18      A Voice in the Wilderness I
+19      A Voice in the Wilderness II
+20      Babylon Squared
+21      The Quality of Mercy
+22      Chrysalis
+23      Points of Departure
+24      Revelations
+25      The Geometry of Shadows
+26      A Distant Star
+27      The Long Dark
+28      A Spider in the Web
+29      Soul Mates
+30      A Race Through Dark Places
+31      The Coming of Shadows
+32      Gropos
+33      All Alone in the Night
+34      Acts of Sacrifice
+35      Hunter, Prey
+36      There all the Honor Lies
+37      And Now for a Word
+38      In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum
+39      Knives
+40      Confessions and Lamentations
+41      Divided Loyalties                           
+42      The Long, Twilight Struggle                 
+43      Comes the Inquisitor                        
+44      The Fall of Night                           
+45      Matters of Honor                            
+46      Convictions                                 
+47      A Day in the Strife                         
+48      Passing through Gethsemane                  
+
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+===================================================================
+THE OFFICIAL BABYLON 5 CAST LIST (by Order of First Appearance)
+Copyright 1994-1996 Astralight Productions
+Compiled by Troy A. Rutter (techy@iastate.edu)
+Version 3.22
+Last Update: 1/10/96
+Covers All of the First Season and Pilot: "The Gathering" - "Chrysalis"
+Covers All of Second Season: "Points of Departure" - "The Fall of Night"
+Covers Third Season:  "Matters of Honor" - "Passing through Gethsemane"
+Permission granted for transmission to electronic information and
+        retrieval systems but not for publication in any compilation, be it
+        written or electronic, or journal without written permission from
+        the author.
+Additions/Corrections should be sent to techy@iastate.edu
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+------------------List by Order of First Appearance---------------
+
+ACTOR NAME               CHARACTER NAME              EPISODES
+==================================================================
+Parker, F. William       Business Man #1             0
+Sage, Dave               Business Man #2             0
+Baron, Blaire            Carolyn Sykes               0
+O'Hare, Michael          Commander Jeffrey Sinclair  0-22,31
+Fleck, John              Del Varner                  0
+Furlan, Mira             Delenn                      0-2,5,7,8,10,13,15,17-20,
+                                                        22-24,26,29-30,32-34,
+                                                        36-38,40-48
+Sekka, Johnny            Dr. Benjamin Kyle           0
+Barnett, Steven R.       Eric                        0
+Katsulas, Andreas        G'Kar                       0-1,3,5-7,9-13,22-24,27,29,
+                                                        31,34,37,42-47
+Wasser, Ed               Guerra                      0
+Robertson, Marianne      Hostage                     0
+Sirag, Scott             Kosh Naranek                0
+Tomita, Tamlyn           Laurel Takashima            0
+Jurasik, Peter           Londo Mollari               0,1,3,5,7,9-13,15,18,19,
+                                                        21-25,27,29,31,34,36-
+                                                        39,42,44-48
+Tallman, Patricia        Lyta Alexander              0,41,48
+Doyle, Jerry             Security Chief Michael      0-48
+                            Garibaldi
+Hoffman, Linda           Tech #2                     0
+Jackson, Robert Jason    Tech #3                     0
+Hampton, Paul            The Senator                 0-1
+Hayes, William           Traveler                    0
+Trencher, Peter          Carn Mollari                1
+Austin, Jeff             Centauri #1                 1
+McCoy, Douglas E.        Delta 7                     1
+Chamberlain, Ardwight    Kosh Naranek                1,7,9-10,13,15,22,24,31,
+                                                        33,35-36,38,41,43,45,
+                                                        48
+Christian, Claudia       Lt. Commander Susan         1-25
+                            Ivanova
+Hendrickson, Mark        Narn Captain                1,24
+Egan, Maggie             Newsperson                  1
+Thompson, Andrea         Talia Winters               1,3,6,9,17-19,21-24,28-
+                                                        30,36,38,41
+Robertson, Marianne      Tech #1                     1,3,8-9,11-12,14-20
+Furst, Stephen           Vir Cotto                   1,3,5,7,15,22-25,27,29,
+                                                        31,34,36,38,39,43-44,
+                                                        47
+Biggs, Richard           Dr. Stephen Franklin        2,4,7-11,15,17,19,21-27,
+                                                        29-40,41-42,45-48
+Darling, David D.        Guard #1                    2
+Henning, Ted W.          Guard #2                    2
+Bentley, Jim             Man                         2
+Attell, Toni             Med Tech #1                 2
+Snyder, John             Soul Hunter #2              2
+Conley, Mark             Tech #1                     2
+Robertson, Marianne      Tech #2                     2
+Sheppard, W. Morgan      The Soul Hunter             2
+Udenio, Fabiana          Adira Tyree                 3
+Phalen, Robert           Andrei Ivanov               3,14
+Norris, Mike             Butz                        3
+Mills, Katherine         Dancer                      3
+Yashima, Momo            Dr. Goyokin                 3
+Peterson, Laura          Gera Akshi                  3
+Lowe, Tom                Gunman #1                   3
+Woronov, Mary            Ko D'Ath                    3
+Ditillio, Robert         Norg                        3
+Giannini, Jimm           Ock                         3
+Revill, Clive            Trakis                      3
+Yeuell, Paul             Customs Guard               4
+McCallum, David          Dr. Vance Hendricks         4
+Rizzoli, Tony            Guard                       4
+Healy, Patricia          Mary Ann Cramer             4,12
+Teague, Marshall         Nelson Drake                4
+Hutchison, Daniel        Security Guard              4
+Farrow, Sav              Tech #1                     4
+Kelegian, Sylva          Tech #2                     4
+Robertson, Marianne      Tech #3                     4
+Kirby, Randall           Businessman #1              5
+Von Hicks, Erich Martin  Businessman #2              5
+Nickson, Julia           Catherine Sakai             5-6,22
+Robertson, Marianne      Dome Tech                   5,7
+Hendrickson, Mark        Du'Rog                      5
+Jung, Calvin             Guard                       5
+Robinson, Glenn          Head Waiter                 5
+Mumy, Bill               Lennier                     5,9,15,16,21,22-24,29,31,
+                                                        36,38,40,43-46,48
+Brown, Caitlin           Na'Toth                     5,9,12,17,22
+Hardin, Joy              Narn #1                     5
+McKenzie, Michael        Pilgrim                     5
+Kopache, Thomas          Tu'Pari                     5
+Koenig, Walter           Bester                      6,30
+Page, Kevin              Businessman                 6
+Robertson, Marianne      Dome Tech #1                6,13
+Dowe, Don                Earth Fighter               6
+Bruton, MaCaulay         Garibaldi's Aide            6,22,24
+Gabrielli, Elisa Pensler Guest Liaison               6
+Young, William Allen     Jason Ironheart             6,30
+Waterman, Felicity       Kelsey                      6
+McKenzie, Michael        Narn Captain                6,12
+Porro, Mark S.           Security Guard              6
+Gunther, Mike            Alien #1                    7
+Chaves, Richard          Alvares                     7
+McKellar, Danica         Aria Tensus                 7
+Eastman, Rodney          Kiron Maray                 7
+Rogers, Tristan          Malcolm Biggs               7
+Adair, Diane             Mila Shar                   7
+Chan, Michael Paul       Roberts                     7
+Butto, Chuck             Security Officer #1         7
+Grahn, Nancy Lee         Shaal Mayan                 7
+Hendrickson, Mark        Thegras                     7
+Bruton, MaCauley         Aide                        8
+Youngs, Jim              Benson                      8
+Hendrickson, Mark        Grey Council #1             8
+Banks, Joe               Guard                       8
+Scott, Judson            Knight One                  8
+Neame, Christopher       Knight Two                  8
+Williams, Justin         Mitchell                    8
+Shishino, Fumi           Security Guard              8
+Cervantes, Gary          Strongarm #1                8
+Costa, Cosie             Abbut                       9
+Ditillio, Robert         Ambassador #1               9
+Curtis, Robin            Ambassador Kalika           9
+Hendrickson, Mark        Ashok                       9
+Douglas, Sarah           Jha'dur                     9
+Aleong, Aki              Senator Hidoshi             9,12,19
+Farrow, Sav              Tech #2                     9
+O'Neil, Tricia           M'ola                       10
+Gallardo, Silvana        Maya Hernandez              10
+Kaplan, Jonathon Charles Shon                        10
+Lee, Stephen             Tharg                       10
+Hendrickson, Mark        Alien #1                    11
+Donaldson, Tom           Cutter                      11
+Perry, Rod               General Netter              11
+Egan, Maggie             ISN Reporter                11,32,40
+Thomas, Elaine           Lianna Kemmer               11
+Crowley, David L.        Lou Welch                   11,16,24-25,29,32
+Rosario, Jose            Nolan                       11
+Cook, David Austin       Special Agent #1            11
+Wake, Robin              Young Lianna                11
+Rey, Jose                Dock Supervisor Eduardo     12, 37
+                            Delvientos
+Boyer, Katy              Neeoma Connally             12
+Snyder, John             Orin Zento                  12
+Vaughn, Floyd            Worker #1                   12
+Martinez, Ricardo        Worker #2                   12
+Williams, Lynn Red       Customs Guard               13
+Cox, Joshua              Dome Tech #2                13
+Brabec, Anita            Dome Tech #3                13
+Mathis, Lee              Fighter #1                  13
+McCoy, Douglas E.        Fighter #2                  13
+Olster, Fredi            Lady Ladira                 13
+Graham, Gerrit           Lord Kiro                   13
+Kluger, Garry            Man                         13
+Wasser, Ed               Morden                      13,22,24,38,45
+Mercado, Hector          Pilot                       13
+Hubley, Whip             Raider #1                   13
+Silver, Robert           Reno                        13
+Stroud, Don              Caliban                     14
+Courtney, James Jude     Gyor                        14
+Kasdorf, Lenore          ISN Reporter                14,18-19
+McKenzie, Michael        Migo                        14
+Bikel, Theodore          Rabbi Koslov                14
+Oh, Soon-Teck            The Muta-Do                 14
+McKinney, Greg           Walker Smith                14
+Warner, David            Aldous Gajic                15
+Sanderson, William       Deuce                       15
+Booker, Tom              "Jinxo" / Thomas            15
+Lodge, Linda             Mirriam Runningdear         15
+Flinn, John              Mr. Flinn                   15
+Norton, Jim              Ombuds Wellington           15,21
+Martin, Gregory          Colonel Ari Ben Zayn        16
+Letchworth, Drew         Comedy                      16
+Farmer, Frank            General Miller              16
+Combs, Jeffrey           Harriman Gray               16
+Chambers, Marie          Sofie Ivanova               16
+Bruton, MaCauley         Tragedy                     16
+Una, Grace               Alisa Beldon                17
+O'Brien, Patrick         Cart Owner                  17
+Vickery, John            Neroon                      17,33
+Henry, Richard           Security Man                17
+Cox, Joshua              Tech #2                     17,19
+Cressida, Kathryn        Bartender                   18,30,34
+Bensing, Langdon         Derek Mobotabwe             18
+Ishida, Jim              Dr. Tasaki                  18
+Turenne, Louis           Draal                       18-19
+Coyle, Kelly             Earthforce Liaison          18
+Toy, Patty               PSI Corps Rep               18
+Barnett, Craig           Security Guard              18
+Weil, Jerry              Technician                  18
+Lowens, Curt             Varn                        18-19
+Canada, Ron              Captain Ellis Pierce        19
+Gentile, Denise          Lise Hampton                19-20
+Heller, Chip             Rowdy #1                    19
+Sisti, Michelan          Takarn                      19
+McCoy, Douglas E.        Alpha Seven                 20
+Costa, Frank             B4 Guard                    20
+Hendrickson, Mark        Grey Council #2             20
+Broadhurst, Kent         Major Krantz                20
+Rosales, Tommy           Panicked Man                20
+Choate, Tim              Zathras                     20
+Cox, Joshua              (uncredited)                20
+London, Damian           Centauri Senator            21
+Lockhart, June           Dr. Laura Rosen             21
+McBride, Kevin           Guard                       21
+McNeil, Kate             Janice Rosen                21
+Rolston, Mark            Karl Mueller                21
+Bergeron, Philippe       Lurker                      21
+Anderson, Lynn           Rose                        21
+Crowley, David L.        Second Guard                21
+Zimmer, Constance        Young Woman Patient         21
+Conery, Edward           Devereaux                   22,25
+Riojas, John             Guard                       22
+Burnette, Liz            Lurker #1                   22
+Loffler, Gianin          Lurker #2                   22
+Kiriyama-Lem, James      Med Tech                    22,24
+McGurk, Gary             Morgan Clark                22
+Hendrickson, Mark        Narn Pilot                  22
+Egan, Maggie             News Anchor                 22
+Leong, Wesley            Paramedic                   22
+Shishino, Fumi           Screaming Woman             22
+Williams, Bergen         Security Guard              22
+Harrington, Cheryl       Senator                     22
+   Francis
+Marshall, David Anthony  Stephen Petrov              22
+Robertson, Marianne      Tech                        22
+Chapman, Jonathan        Ambassador #1               23
+Hendrickson, Mark        Ambassador #2               23
+Logan, Kristopher        Ambassador #3               23
+Boxleitner, Bruce        Captain John Sheridan       23-48
+Anglin, Jennifer         Deeron                      23
+Delgado, Kim             Dome Tech #3                23
+Strauss, Kim             Ensign                      23
+Foxworth, Robert         General William Hague       23,33
+Sachs, Robin             Hedronn                     23,33
+Grove, Richard           Kalain                      23
+Fega, Rus                Merchant #1                 23
+Guillory, Bennet         Merchant #2                 23
+Adams, Mary Kay          Na'Toth                     23,34
+Starcher, Brian          Other Pilot                 23
+Wrangler, Greg           Security Guard #1           23
+Valinote, Thomas         Security Guard #2           23
+Cox, Joshua              Tech #1                     23,25,28,32-35,37,39,41-
+                                                        44
+Sharkey, Debra           Tech #2                     23
+McKenzie, Michael        Vastor                      23
+Rusler, Robert           Warren Keffer               23,27
+Hader, Catherine         Young Woman                 23
+Toussaint, Beth          Anna Sheridan               24
+Leech, Beverly           Elizabeth Sheridan          24
+Tabata, Warren           Guard                       24-25,27
+McKenzie, Michael        Narn Navigator              24
+McGurk, Gary             President Clark             24
+Ansara, Michael          Elric                       25
+Strauss, Kim             Green Drazi                 25
+Chapman, Jonathan        Green Drazi #2              25
+Bradley, Neil            Purple Drazi                25
+Forward, William         Refa                        25,31
+Tamblyn, Russ            Captain Jack Maynard        26
+Delgado, Kim             Comm Tech                   26
+Christian, Claudia       Commander Susan Ivanova     26-48
+Toy, Patty               Ogilvie                     26
+Nunez, Miguel A., Jr.    Orwell                      26
+Beer, Daniel             Patrick                     26
+Kimbro, Art              Ray Galus                   26
+Cox, Joshua              Tech                        26
+Grinn, Sandey            Teronn                      26
+Anglin, Jennifer         Alien #1                    27
+Bradley, Neil            Alien #2                    27
+Schultz, Dwight          Amis                        27
+Johnson, Anne-Marie      Mariah Cirrus               27
+Strauss, Kim             Markab Ambassador           27,40
+Kiriyama-Lem, James      Medlab Tech                 27
+Beck, Michael            Abel Horn                   28
+Barbeau, Adrienne        Amanda Carter               28
+Walter, Jessica          Senator Elise Voudreau      28
+Shigeta, James           Taro Isogi                  28
+Grindlay, Annie          Thirteen/Psi Cop            28
+Conaway, Jeff            Zack Allan                  28,31,34-36,38,41,44,46,
+                                                        48
+Nettleson, Lois          Daggair                     29
+McGuire, Brian Michael   Man                         29
+Valk, Blair              Mariel                      29
+Szarabajka, Keith        Matthew Stoner              29
+Carr, Jane               Timov                       29
+Struycken, Carel         Trader                      29
+Loffler, Gianin          Lurker                      30
+Allen, Eddie             Man                         30
+Levitt, Judy             Psi Cop                     30
+Cousins, Brian           Rick                        30
+Michael, Christopher     Shooter                     30
+Apesanahkwat             Telepath #1                 30
+Dilascio, Diane          Telepath #2                 30
+Bey, Turhan              Centauri Emperor Turhan     31
+Throne, Malachi          Centauri Prime Minister     31
+                            Malachi
+McGuire, Bryan Michael   Customs Guard #1            31
+Bradley, Neil            Kha'Mak                     31
+Rusler, Robert           Lt. Warren Keffer           31,36,40,44
+Strauss, Kim             Narn Pilot #1               31
+Chapman, Jonathan        Narn Pilot #2               31
+Lehne, Fredric           Ranger                      31
+Winfield, Paul           General Richard Franklin    32
+Marshall, Marie          P.F.C. Dodger               32
+Foree, Ken               P.F.C. Large                32
+Hunter, Morgan           Pvt. Kleist                 32
+Chudabala, Art           Pvt. Yang                   32
+Cutrona, Ryan            Sgt. Major Plug             32
+Garver, Elisa Beth       Tech #2                     32,39,42,44
+Pryor, Mowava            Tonia Wallace               32
+Corri, Nick              Lt. Ramirez                 33
+Teague, Marshall         Narn                        33
+Ainsley, Paul            Centauri #1                 34
+Sage, David              Centauri Merchant           34
+Abercrombie, Ian         Correlilmurzon              34
+Morshower, Glenn         Franke                      34
+Darga, Christopher       Narn #1                     34
+Grinn, Sandey            Narn Captain                34
+Anglin, Jennifer         Narn Second                 34
+Williams, Paul           Taq                         34
+Shiveley, Debby          Aide                        35
+Casey, Bernie            Derek Cranston              35
+Steedman, Tony           Dr. Everett Jacobs          35
+McGuire, Bryan Michael   Guard #2                    35
+Reiser, Damon C.         Lurker                      35
+Moll, Richard            Max                         35
+Silver, Robert           Merchant                    35
+De Jesus, Wanda          Sarah                       35
+McKenzie, Michael        Alien Customer              36
+Sullivan, Sean Gregory   Ashan                       36
+Duvall, Vincent          Centauri Envoy              36
+Brown, Julie Caitlin     Guinevere Corey             36
+Harold, Eliott           Human Customer              36
+Hendrickson, Mark        Human/Alien Customer        36
+Chapman, Jonathan        Minbari #2                  36
+Bradley, Neil            Minbari #3                  36
+Mair, Ossie              Store Owner                 36
+Zimmer, Kim              Cynthia Torqueman           37
+Graas, John Christian    Johnny                      37
+Wing, Leslie             Mother                      37
+Ames, Granville          Psi Cop                     37
+Curry, Christopher       Ronald Quantrell            37
+Hyde-White, Alex         Pierce Macabee              38
+Hunt, William Dennis     Centauri Noble              39
+Forward, William         Lord Refa                   39,42
+Argenziano, Carmen       Urza Jaddo                  39
+Woren, Dan               Bartender                   40
+Malek-Yonan, Rosie       Doctor                      40
+Norton, Jim              Dr. Lazarenn                40
+Manzoni, Mike            Guard                       40
+Craig, Andrew            Human                       40
+Secrist, Bluejean Ashley Markab Girl                 40
+Adair, Diane             Markab Mother               40
+McKenzie, Michael        Markab Victim               40
+Bennett, Douglas         First Man                   41
+Neuman, Jani             Med Tech                    41
+De La Paz, Danny         Running Man                 41
+Simms, George            Security Guard              41
+Schuck, John             Draal                       42
+Hutton, Rif              ISN Reporter                42
+Bradley, Neil            Narn #2                     42
+Chapman, Jonathan        Narn Second                 42
+Sheppard, W. Morgan      Warmaster G'Sten            42
+Chiros, Jim              Centauri #1                 43
+Kelly, Michael Francis   Guard                       43
+Thomas, Craig            Human                       43
+Kehler, Jack             Mr. Chase                   43
+Hendrickson, Mark        Narn #1                     43-44
+Strauss, Kim             Narn #2                     43
+Adair, Diane             Narn Mother                 43
+Alexander, Wayne         Sebastian                   43
+Strauss, Kim             Drazi Ambassador            44
+Dotrice, Roy             Frederick Lantze            44
+Patton, Joshua           Human/Minbari Kosh          44
+Hamilton, Rick           Mitch                       44
+Vickery, John            Mr. Welles                  44
+Sachs, Robin             Na'Kal                      44
+Brown, Donovan           Pak'Ma'Ra Ambassador        44
+Doland, Juli             Pilot #1                    44
+Smallwood, Tucker        David Endawi                45
+Chapman, Jonathan        Drazi Pilot                 45
+Stewart, Nils Allen      Large Man                   45
+Carter, Jason            Marcus Cole                 45
+Walker, Andrew           Psi Cop                     45
+Swink, Kitty             Senator                     45
+Turenne, Louis           Brother Theo                46,48
+McKenzie, Michael        Drazi #1                    46
+Larimore, Jason          Lurker                      46
+McGee, Gwen              Med Tech                    46
+Tagawa, Cary-Hiroyuki    Morishi                     46
+Flinn, John              Obnoxious Man               46
+Kilpatrick, Patrick      Robert Carlson              46
+Johnson, Rick            Security Guard #1 [Jay]     46
+Simmons, Tom             Security Guard #2           46
+Cox, Joshua              2nd Lt. David Corwin        47
+Betancourt, Anne         Dr. Gonzales                47
+Smith, Michael Bailey    G'Dok                       47
+Shelby, Larita           Med Tech                    47
+Macht, Stephen           Na'Far                      47
+Bradley, Neil            Narn #1                     47
+Hendrickson, Mark        Narn #2                     47
+Teague, Marshall         Ta'Lon                      47
+Ryan, John St.           Troublemaker                47
+Dourif, Brad             Brother Edward              48
+Brunt, Natalie           Business Person             48
+Folger, Mark             Centauri                    48
+Keith, Robert            Malcolm                     48
+Golzalez, Steven         News Anchor #1              48
+Blades, Lynn             News Anchor #2              48
+
+
+------------------List by Order of First Appearance---------------
+
+CREW NAME                TASK                        EPISODES
+==================================================================
+Monroe, Steven R.        1st Assistant Camera        0
+Radulovic, John          1st Assistant Director      0-1,4,7,9-11,14-17,21,24,
+                                                        26,28-29,32,34,37,39-
+                                                        40
+Ball, James              2nd Assistant Camera        0
+Linsalata, Joseph N.     2nd Assistant Director      0
+   (J.J.)
+NewTek, Inc.             3D Visual Effects System    0-22
+                            Furnished by
+Lebowitz, Adam "Mojo"    Animator                    0
+Payne, Richard           Animator                    0
+Swain, Richardmark       Animator                    0
+Raymond, Deborah         Art Director                0-22
+Vernacchio, Dorian       Art Director                0-4,7-8,10
+Haigh, Ted               Assistant Art Director      0
+Muller, Chris            Assistant Art Director      0
+Binford, Joe, Jr.        Assistant Editor            0
+Meisels, Karen           Asst. Production            0
+                            Coordinator
+Ross, Scott              Asst. to Executive          0
+                            Producer
+PTN Consortium           Author of this film/motion  0-48
+                            picture
+Gess, Cindy              Boom Operator               0
+Collins, Stephen         Camera Operator             0
+PANAVISION(R)            Cameras & Lenses            0-48
+Slater, Mary Jo, C.S.A.  Casting by                  0-44
+Straczynski, J. Michael  Co-Executive Producer       0
+Copeland, John           Co-Producer                 0
+Pacific Film             Color by                    0-48
+   Laboratories
+Beigle-Bryant, Paul      Computer Imaging            0-48
+                            Supervisor
+Ledger, Peter            Conceptual Artist           0
+Wilson, Susie            Conceptual Artist           0
+Adair, Catherine         Costume Designer            0
+Durand, Clare            DGA Trainee                 0
+Speakman, Cathie         Dialogue/ADR Editor         0
+EFX Systems              Digital Sound &             0-48
+                            Re-Recording by
+Compton, Richard         Directed by                 0-1,4,7,10,15
+Dickson, Billy           Director of Photography     0
+Rodriguez, Paul          Director of Sound Services  0
+Sinise, Robert L.,       Edited by                   0
+   A.C.E.
+Laser-Pacific Media      Electronic Laboratory(tm)   0-48
+   Corporation
+Netter, Douglas          Executive Producer          0-48
+Farr, John K.            Gaffer                      0
+HeyNeker, Jan M.         Key Grip                    0
+Michaels, Myke           Key Hairstylist             0-8,10-11,15
+Sanders, Suzanne         Key Makeup                  0
+Gilmore, Ruth            Key Scenic Artist           0
+Wild, Ron                Makeup Sculpture &          0
+                            Application
+Sherwood, Rob            Makeup Supervisor           0
+Copeland, Stewart        Music by                    0
+Action Video, Hollywood  Pin Registered Transfers &  0-2
+                            Digital Optical
+Norkin, Susan            Post Production             0-44
+                            Coordinator
+Brown, Robert Latham     Producer                    0
+Rowland, Marge           Production Accountant       0
+Evans, Alyson            Production Coordinator      0
+Iacovelli, John          Production Designer         0-48
+Pepin, Guy               Property Master             0
+Freesh, Bill             Re-Recording Mixer          0-1
+Johnsen, George          Re-Recording Mixer          0
+Teaney, Ken              Re-Recording Mixer          0
+McLane, Haley            Script Supervisor           0-48
+DeRouin, Colin           Set Designer                0
+Mora, Michael            Set Dresser                 0
+Aronowitz, Greg          Shop Foreman                0
+Cohen, Harry             Sound Design                0,13-14,16,18-20,23-27
+Tanenbaum, Jim           Sound Mixer                 0
+Stears, John             Special Effects             0,4
+                            Coordinator
+Criswell, John           Special Effects Makeup      0
+                            Supervisor
+Rossall, Kerry           Stunt Coordinator           0-6,8-48
+Sparks, Frank J.         Stunts                      0
+Johnsen, George          Supervising Sound Editor    0
+Brown, Robert Latham     Unit Production Manager     0
+Casey, Shannon           Visual Effects Coordinator  0
+Thornton, Ron            Visual Effects Designed by  0-48
+Foundation Imaging       Visual Effects Produced by  0-48
+Roberts, Susan           Wardrobe Key Set            0
+Trugman, Alan            Wardrobe Supervisor         0
+Straczynski, J. Michael  Written by                  0-2,4-6,8,13,18-25,30-31,
+                                                        33-35,37-38,40-48
+Kowalski, Peter B.       1st Assistant Camera        1-22
+Schilz, Michael J.       2nd Assistant Director      1-4,7-8,10
+Burr, Kathie             Assistant Editor            1,4,7,9-11,14-17,21,23,
+                                                        25,27,30-31,33,35,37
+Johnsen, George          Associate Producer          1-48
+Gordin, Eyal             Camera Operator             1-22
+Compton, Richard         Co-Producer                 1-5,7-8,10,15
+Ellison, Harlan          Conceptual Consultant       1-48
+Bruice, Ann              Costume Designer            1-43
+Holly, Kim M.            Costume Supervisor          1-48
+Straczynski, J. Michael  Created by                  1-48
+Flinn, John C., III,     Director of Photography     1-29,31-39,41,43-48
+   A.S.C.
+Citron, Lisa M.          Editor                      1,8,15,17,19-20,22
+Straczynski, J. Michael  Executive Producer          1-48
+Esparza, Tracie          Executive Producers'        1-48
+                            Assistant
+Adams, Marshall          Gaffer                      1-29,31-44
+Stribling, Rick          Key Grip                    1-30
+Morse, Mary Kay          Key Make-up Artist          1-22
+Howard, Jason            Leadman                     1-22
+Berlin Symphonic Film    Music Performed by          1-48
+   Orchestra, The
+Franke, Christopher      Music Performed by          1-48
+Franke, Christopher      Music by                    1-48
+Copeland, John           Produced by                 1-48
+Kline, Kelsey            Producers' Assistant        1-22
+Morse-Fischer, Sarah     Production Accountant       1-44
+Oberman, Tivoli &        Production Accounting       1-48
+   Miller, Ltd.             Services Provided by
+O'Connor, Chris          Production Coordinator      1-48
+Cole, Barbara            Property Master             1-22
+O'Bright, Terry          Re-recording Mixer          1-44
+Langenfeld, Rebecca      Script Coordinator          1-22
+Burrell, Everett         Series Make-up Effects      1-44
+                            Created by
+Optic Nerve Studios      Series Make-up Effects      1-48
+                            Created by
+Vulich, John             Series Make-up Effects      1-48
+                            Created by
+Fallace, Nancy S.        Set Decorator               1-22
+Johnson, Jon, M.P.S.E.   Sound Design                1-12,15,17,21-22
+Mitchell, Patrick        Sound Mixer                 1-22
+Hoien, Erin              Sound Supervisor            1-27
+Ultimate Effects         Special Effects by          1-3,5-48
+Ditillio, Lawrence G.    Story Editor                1-22
+Cremin, Kevin G.         Unit Production Manager     1-26,29,31-39,41,43-44
+Casey, Shannon           Visual Effects Producer     1-48
+Suskin, Mitch            Visual Effects Supervisor   1-42
+Beaudine, Skip           1st Assistant Director      2-3,5-6,8,12-13,18-19,22-
+                                                        23,25,31,33,35-36,38,
+                                                        41,44
+Bechtel, Marla K.        Assistant Editor            2-3,5-6,8,12-13,18-20,22
+Johnston, Jim            Directed by                 2,5,11-12,16,20,24,26,30,
+                                                        32,34
+Robinson, Skip           Editor                      2,5,10-12,18,21,25,28,31,
+                                                        34,36,40,43,46,48
+Orr, Todd                Re-recording Mixer          2-22
+Kutchaver, Kevin         Digital Effects Animation   3-28,38,40,42
+Green, Bruce Seth        Directed by                 3,6,9,17
+Sternlicht, Suzanne      Editor                      3-4,6-7,9,13-14,16,23,26,
+                                                        30,32,35,39,42,44-45
+Ditillio, Lawrence G.    Written by                  3,9,14,16,28,32,39
+Eilerson, Pamela         2nd Assistant Director      5-6,9,11-19,22-26,31-35,
+                                                        38-39
+Brooksbank, Steve        Casting Associate           6,9,11-14,16-22
+Bodytech                 Special Effect Contact      6,9,11-14,16-22
+                            Lenses by
+Fontana, D.C.            Written by                  7,17,26
+Greek, Janet             Directed by                 8,13,18-19,22-23,31,44
+Smithe, Traci            Key Hairstylist             9,12-14,16-48
+Gerrold, David           Written by                  10
+Zicree, Marc Scott       Written by                  11
+Drennan, Kathryn M.      Written by                  12
+Chauvin, Eric            Matte Artist                13-14,18-19,21,23-48
+Flinn, John C., III,     Directed by                 14,29,42
+   A.S.C.
+Marx, Christy            Written by                  15
+Eilerson, Pamela         1st Assistant Director      20,27,30,42-43,45,47-48
+Corring, Douglas         2nd Assistant Director      20-21,36-37,40-48
+Ferrara, Lorraine Senna  Directed by                 21
+Sweeterman, Wally        1st Assistant Camera        23-38,40-48
+Netter, Jason            Apprentice Editor           23-35
+Rosenkranz, Roland G.    Art Director                23-48
+Kowalski, Peter B.       Camera Operator             23-48
+Brooksbank, Steve,       Casting by                  23-44
+   C.S.A.
+Laseter, Curtis          Construction Coordinator    23-48
+Coyle, Kelly             Executive Producers'        23-44
+                            Assistant
+Higgins, Joanne          Executive Producers'        23-48
+                            Assistant
+Ditillio, Lawrence G.    Executive Story Editor      23-44
+Zanetti, Cinzia          Key Make-up Artist          23-48
+NewTek, Inc.             Lightwave 3D(R) Furnished   23-48
+                            by
+Huse, Linda              On Set Costumer             23-28
+Kavounas, E.J.           Producers' Assistant        23-48
+Walters, Mark-Louis      Property Master             23-48
+Henry, Carol             Script Coordinator          23-48
+Saks, Daniel A.          Set Decorator               23-44
+Menichini, Paul          Sound Editor                23-27
+Coffey, Linda            Sound Mixer                 23-35,38-48
+Gording, Jonathan, O.D.  Special Effect Contact      23-48
+                            Lens Consultant
+Elmer, Marc              Assistant Editor            24,26,28-29,32,34
+Foster, David W.         Editor                      24,27,29,33,37-38,41,47
+Vejar, Michael Laurence  Directed by                 25,36,43,46
+Kontra, Joe              2nd Assistant Director      27-30
+Di Leo, Mario            Directed by                 27,33,37
+Beaudine, Skip           Unit Production Manager     27-28,30,40,42,45-48
+Frost, Scott             Written by                  27
+Cremin, Kevin G.         Directed by                 28,40,45
+Carlstedt, Peter         Re-recording Mixer          28-43
+Menichini, Paul          Sound Effects Editor        28-32
+Hoien, Erin              Supervising Sound Editor    28-44
+Huse, Linda              Key Costumer                29-48
+David, Peter             Written by                  29,36
+Murphy, Fred V., II      Director of Photography     30,40,42
+Neale, David H.          Gaffer                      30
+Warner, John "J.W."      Key Grip                    31-48
+Corring, Douglas         2nd 2nd Assistant Director  32-35,38-39
+Menichini, Paul          Sound Designer              33-48
+Woolway, Harry           Sound Effects Editor        33-44
+Binetski, Menachem       Directed by                 35
+Netter, Jason            Assistant Editor            36,38,42,44-48
+Burr, Kathie             First Assistant Editor      36,38-48
+Spritz, Neal             Sound Mixer                 36-37
+Eagle, David J.          Directed by                 38,47
+Coyle, Kelly             Producers' Assistant        38
+Thackery, Wendy          1st Assistant Camera        39
+Buckner, Adam            Assistant Editor            39-41,43
+Posey, Stephen L.        Directed by                 39
+Michaelson, Brad         2nd 2nd Assistant Director  40-44
+Trevino, Jesus           Directed by                 41
+Hitch, Sherry            Digital Effects Animation   43
+Aling, Ann Bruice        Costume Designer            44-48
+Rogers, Keith            Re-recording Mixer          44-48
+Lebowitz, Adam "Mojo"    Senior Computer Animator    44-48
+Teska, John              Senior Computer Animator    44-48
+Dennett, James A., II    2nd 2nd Assistant Director  45-46
+Burrus, John             Apprentice Editor           45-48
+Ferry, Kim M.            Assistant Hair & Make-up    45-48
+Neale, David H.          Best Boy Electric           45-48
+Carothers, Bruce         Best Boy Grip               45-48
+Champion, Fern, C.S.A.   Casting by                  45-48
+Paladini, Mark, C.S.A.   Casting by                  45-48
+Hitch, Sherry            Composite 2D Animator       45-48
+Smith, "The" John        Gaffer                      45-48
+Kobayashi, Alan          Graphic Artist              45-48
+Cush, Fionagh            Make-up Effects Artist      45-48
+Funk, Greg               Make-up Effects Artist      45-48
+Huff, Will               Make-up Effects Artist      45-48
+Wheaton, John            Make-up Effects Sculptor    45-48
+Garbarino, Mark          Make-up Effects Supervisor  45-48
+Rae, Ted                 On Set Visual Effects       45-48
+                            Supervisor
+Norkin, Susan            Post Production Supervisor  45-48
+Hoover, Mike             Production Accountant       45-48
+O'Bright, Terry, C.A.S.  Re-recording Mixer          45-48
+Rubinstein, Alexandra    Set Decorator               45-48
+Moser, Michael           Sound Effects Editor        45-48
+Parigi, Robert           Sound Supervisor            45-48
+Sokol, Paul              Special Effects Supervisor  45-48
+Pugh, Steve              System Engineer             45-48
+Chong, Ronnie            1st Assistant Director      46
+McWhirter, David         2nd 2nd Assistant Director  47-48
+Nimoy, Adam              Directed by                 48
+
+EPISODE GUIDE IN AIRING ORDER:
+0       The Gathering
+1       Midnight on the Firing Line
+2       Soul Hunter
+3       Born to the Purple
+4       Infection
+5       Parliament of Dreams
+6       Mind War
+7       The War Prayer
+8       And the Sky Full of Stars
+9       Deathwalker
+10      Believers
+11      Survivors
+12      By Any Means Necessary
+13      Signs and Portents
+14      TKO
+15      Grail
+16      Eyes
+17      Legacies
+18      A Voice in the Wilderness I
+19      A Voice in the Wilderness II
+20      Babylon Squared
+21      The Quality of Mercy
+22      Chrysalis
+23      Points of Departure
+24      Revelations
+25      The Geometry of Shadows
+26      A Distant Star
+27      The Long Dark
+28      A Spider in the Web
+29      Soul Mates
+30      A Race Through Dark Places
+31      The Coming of Shadows
+32      Gropos
+33      All Alone in the Night
+34      Acts of Sacrifice
+35      Hunter, Prey
+36      There all the Honor Lies
+37      And Now for a Word
+38      In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum
+39      Knives
+40      Confessions and Lamentations
+41      Divided Loyalties                           
+42      The Long, Twilight Struggle                 
+43      Comes the Inquisitor                        
+44      The Fall of Night                           
+45      Matters of Honor                            
+46      Convictions                                 
+47      A Day in the Strife                         
+48      Passing through Gethsemane                  
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+==================================================================
+THE OFFICIAL BABYLON 5 CHARACTER LIST
+Copyright 1994-1996 Astralight Productions
+Compiled by Troy A. Rutter (techy@iastate.edu)
+Version 3.22
+Last Update: 1/10/96
+Covers All of the First Season and Pilot: "The Gathering" - "Chrysalis"
+Covers All of Second Season: "Points of Departure" - "The Fall of Night"
+Covers Third Season:  "Matters of Honor" - "Passing through Gethsemane"
+Permission granted for transmission to electronic information and
+        retrieval systems but not for publication in any compilation, be it
+        written or electronic, or journal without written permission from
+        the author.
+Additions/Corrections should be sent to techy@iastate.edu
+Compiled by Troy A.. Rutter (techy@iastate.edu)
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+---------------------------LIST by CHARACTER ---------------------
+
+CHARACTER NAME                ACTOR NAME            EPISODES
+==================================================================
+2nd Lt. David Corwin          Cox, Joshua           47
+Abbut                         Costa, Cosie          9
+Abel Horn                     Beck, Michael         28
+Adira Tyree                   Udenio, Fabiana       3
+Agent #1, Special             Cook, David Austin    11
+Aide                          Bruton, MaCauley      8
+Aide                          Shiveley, Debby       35
+Aide, Garibaldi's             Bruton, MaCaulay      6,22,24
+Akshi, Gera                   Peterson, Laura       3
+Aldous Gajic                  Warner, David         15
+Alexander, Lyta               Tallman, Patricia     0,41,48
+Alien #1                      Gunther, Mike         7
+Alien #1                      Hendrickson, Mark     11
+Alien #1                      Anglin, Jennifer      27
+Alien #2                      Bradley, Neil         27
+Alien Customer                McKenzie, Michael     36
+Alisa Beldon                  Una, Grace            17
+Allan, Zack                   Conaway, Jeff         28,31,34-36,38,41,44,46,
+                                                       48
+Alpha Seven                   McCoy, Douglas E.     20
+Alvares                       Chaves, Richard       7
+Amanda Carter                 Barbeau, Adrienne     28
+Ambassador #1                 Ditillio, Robert      9
+Ambassador #1                 Chapman, Jonathan     23
+Ambassador #2                 Hendrickson, Mark     23
+Ambassador #3                 Logan, Kristopher     23
+Ambassador Kalika             Curtis, Robin         9
+Ambassador, Drazi             Strauss, Kim          44
+Ambassador, Markab            Strauss, Kim          27,40
+Ambassador, Pak'Ma'Ra         Brown, Donovan        44
+Amis                          Schultz, Dwight       27
+Anchor #1, News               Golzalez, Steven      48
+Anchor #2, News               Blades, Lynn          48
+Anchor, News                  Egan, Maggie          22
+Andrei Ivanov                 Phalen, Robert        3,14
+Ann Cramer, Mary              Healy, Patricia       4,12
+Anna Sheridan                 Toussaint, Beth       24
+Ari Ben Zayn, Colonel         Martin, Gregory       16
+Aria Tensus                   McKellar, Danica      7
+Ashan                         Sullivan, Sean        36
+                                 Gregory
+Ashok                         Hendrickson, Mark     9
+B4 Guard                      Costa, Frank          20
+Bartender                     Cressida, Kathryn     18,30,34
+Bartender                     Woren, Dan            40
+Beldon, Alisa                 Una, Grace            17
+Ben Zayn, Colonel Ari         Martin, Gregory       16
+Benjamin Kyle, Dr.            Sekka, Johnny         0
+Benson                        Youngs, Jim           8
+Bester                        Koenig, Walter        6,30
+Biggs, Malcolm                Rogers, Tristan       7
+Brother Edward                Dourif, Brad          48
+Brother Theo                  Turenne, Louis        46,48
+Business Man #1               Parker, F. William    0
+Business Man #2               Sage, Dave            0
+Business Person               Brunt, Natalie        48
+Businessman                   Page, Kevin           6
+Businessman #1                Kirby, Randall        5
+Businessman #2                Von Hicks, Erich      5
+                                 Martin
+Butz                          Norris, Mike          3
+Caliban                       Stroud, Don           14
+Captain Ellis Pierce          Canada, Ron           19
+Captain Jack Maynard          Tamblyn, Russ         26
+Captain John Sheridan         Boxleitner, Bruce     23-48
+Captain, Narn                 Hendrickson, Mark     1,24
+Captain, Narn                 McKenzie, Michael     6,12
+Captain, Narn                 Grinn, Sandey         34
+Carlson, Robert               Kilpatrick, Patrick   46
+Carn Mollari                  Trencher, Peter       1
+Carolyn Sykes                 Baron, Blaire         0
+Cart Owner                    O'Brien, Patrick      17
+Carter, Amanda                Barbeau, Adrienne     28
+Catherine Sakai               Nickson, Julia        5-6,22
+Centauri                      Folger, Mark          48
+Centauri #1                   Austin, Jeff          1
+Centauri #1                   Ainsley, Paul         34
+Centauri #1                   Chiros, Jim           43
+Centauri Emperor Turhan       Bey, Turhan           31
+Centauri Envoy                Duvall, Vincent       36
+Centauri Merchant             Sage, David           34
+Centauri Noble                Hunt, William Dennis  39
+Centauri Prime Minister       Throne, Malachi       31
+   Malachi
+Centauri Senator              London, Damian        21
+Chase, Mr.                    Kehler, Jack          43
+Cirrus, Mariah                Johnson, Anne-Marie   27
+Clark, Morgan                 McGurk, Gary          22
+Clark, President              McGurk, Gary          24
+Cole, Marcus                  Carter, Jason         45
+Colonel Ari Ben Zayn          Martin, Gregory       16
+Comedy                        Letchworth, Drew      16
+Comm Tech                     Delgado, Kim          26
+Commander Jeffrey Sinclair    O'Hare, Michael       0-22,31
+Commander Susan Ivanova       Christian, Claudia    26-48
+Connally, Neeoma              Boyer, Katy           12
+Cop, Psi                      Levitt, Judy          30
+Cop, Psi                      Ames, Granville       37
+Cop, Psi                      Walker, Andrew        45
+Cop, Thirteen/Psi             Grindlay, Annie       28
+Corey, Guinevere              Brown, Julie Caitlin  36
+Correlilmurzon                Abercrombie, Ian      34
+Corwin, 2nd Lt. David         Cox, Joshua           47
+Cotto, Vir                    Furst, Stephen        1,3,5,7,15,22-25,27,29,
+                                                       31,34,36,38,39,43-44,
+                                                       47
+Council #1, Grey              Hendrickson, Mark     8
+Council #2, Grey              Hendrickson, Mark     20
+Cramer, Mary Ann              Healy, Patricia       4,12
+Cranston, Derek               Casey, Bernie         35
+Customer, Alien               McKenzie, Michael     36
+Customer, Human               Harold, Eliott        36
+Customer, Human/Alien         Hendrickson, Mark     36
+Customs Guard                 Yeuell, Paul          4
+Customs Guard                 Williams, Lynn Red    13
+Customs Guard #1              McGuire, Bryan        31
+                                 Michael
+Cutter                        Donaldson, Tom        11
+Cynthia Torqueman             Zimmer, Kim           37
+D'Ath, Ko                     Woronov, Mary         3
+Daggair                       Nettleson, Lois       29
+Dancer                        Mills, Katherine      3
+David Corwin, 2nd Lt.         Cox, Joshua           47
+David Endawi                  Smallwood, Tucker     45
+Deeron                        Anglin, Jennifer      23
+Del Varner                    Fleck, John           0
+Delenn                        Furlan, Mira          0-2,5,7,8,10,13,15,17-20,
+                                                       22-24,26,29-30,32-34,
+                                                       36-38,40-48
+Delta 7                       McCoy, Douglas E.     1
+Delvientos, Dock Supervisor   Rey, Jose             12,37
+   Eduardo
+Derek Cranston                Casey, Bernie         35
+Derek Mobotabwe               Bensing, Langdon      18
+Deuce                         Sanderson, William    15
+Devereaux                     Conery, Edward        22,25
+Dock Supervisor Eduardo       Rey, Jose             12,37
+   Delvientos
+Doctor                        Malek-Yonan, Rosie    40
+Dodger, P.F.C.                Marshall, Marie       32
+Dome Tech                     Robertson, Marianne   5,7
+Dome Tech #1                  Robertson, Marianne   6,13
+Dome Tech #2                  Cox, Joshua           13
+Dome Tech #3                  Brabec, Anita         13
+Dome Tech #3                  Delgado, Kim          23
+Dr. Benjamin Kyle             Sekka, Johnny         0
+Dr. Everett Jacobs            Steedman, Tony        35
+Dr. Gonzales                  Betancourt, Anne      47
+Dr. Goyokin                   Yashima, Momo         3
+Dr. Laura Rosen               Lockhart, June        21
+Dr. Lazarenn                  Norton, Jim           40
+Dr. Stephen Franklin          Biggs, Richard        2,4,7-11,15,17,19,21-27,
+                                                       29-40,41-42,45-48
+Dr. Tasaki                    Ishida, Jim           18
+Dr. Vance Hendricks           McCallum, David       4
+Draal                         Turenne, Louis        18-19
+Draal                         Schuck, John          42
+Drake, Nelson                 Teague, Marshall      4
+Drazi #1                      McKenzie, Michael     46
+Drazi #2, Green               Chapman, Jonathan     25
+Drazi Ambassador              Strauss, Kim          44
+Drazi Pilot                   Chapman, Jonathan     45
+Drazi, Green                  Strauss, Kim          25
+Drazi, Purple                 Bradley, Neil         25
+Du'Rog                        Hendrickson, Mark     5
+Earth Fighter                 Dowe, Don             6
+Earthforce Liaison            Coyle, Kelly          18
+Eduardo Delvientos, Dock      Rey, Jose             12,37
+   Supervisor
+Edward, Brother               Dourif, Brad          48
+Elise Voudreau, Senator       Walter, Jessica       28
+Elizabeth Sheridan            Leech, Beverly        24
+Ellis Pierce, Captain         Canada, Ron           19
+Elric                         Ansara, Michael       25
+Emperor Turhan, Centauri      Bey, Turhan           31
+Endawi, David                 Smallwood, Tucker     45
+Ensign                        Strauss, Kim          23
+Envoy, Centauri               Duvall, Vincent       36
+Eric                          Barnett, Steven R.    0
+Everett Jacobs, Dr.           Steedman, Tony        35
+Fighter #1                    Mathis, Lee           13
+Fighter #2                    McCoy, Douglas E.     13
+Fighter, Earth                Dowe, Don             6
+First Man                     Bennett, Douglas      41
+Flinn, Mr.                    Flinn, John           15
+Franke                        Morshower, Glenn      34
+Franklin, Dr. Stephen         Biggs, Richard        2,4,7-11,15,17,19,21-27,
+                                                       29-40,41-42,45-48
+Franklin, General Richard     Winfield, Paul        32
+Frederick Lantze              Dotrice, Roy          44
+G'Dok                         Smith, Michael Bailey 47
+G'Kar                         Katsulas, Andreas     0-1,3,5-7,9-13,22-24,27,29,
+                                                       31,34,37,42-47
+G'Sten, Warmaster             Sheppard, W. Morgan   42
+Gajic, Aldous                 Warner, David         15
+Galus, Ray                    Kimbro, Art           26
+Garibaldi's Aide              Bruton, MaCaulay      6,22,24
+Garibaldi, Security Chief     Doyle, Jerry          0-48
+   Michael
+General Miller                Farmer, Frank         16
+General Netter                Perry, Rod            11
+General Richard Franklin      Winfield, Paul        32
+General William Hague         Foxworth, Robert      23,33
+Gera Akshi                    Peterson, Laura       3
+Girl, Markab                  Secrist, Bluejean     40
+                                 Ashley
+Gonzales, Dr.                 Betancourt, Anne      47
+Goyokin, Dr.                  Yashima, Momo         3
+Gray, Harriman                Combs, Jeffrey        16
+Green Drazi                   Strauss, Kim          25
+Green Drazi #2                Chapman, Jonathan     25
+Grey Council #1               Hendrickson, Mark     8
+Grey Council #2               Hendrickson, Mark     20
+Guard                         Rizzoli, Tony         4
+Guard                         Jung, Calvin          5
+Guard                         Banks, Joe            8
+Guard                         McBride, Kevin        21
+Guard                         Riojas, John          22
+Guard                         Tabata, Warren        24-25,27
+Guard                         Manzoni, Mike         40
+Guard                         Kelly, Michael        43
+                                 Francis
+Guard #1                      Darling, David D.     2
+Guard #1 [Jay], Security      Johnson, Rick         46
+Guard #1, Customs             McGuire, Bryan        31
+                                 Michael
+Guard #1, Security            Wrangler, Greg        23
+Guard #2                      Henning, Ted W.       2
+Guard #2                      McGuire, Bryan        35
+                                 Michael
+Guard #2, Security            Valinote, Thomas      23
+Guard #2, Security            Simmons, Tom          46
+Guard, B4                     Costa, Frank          20
+Guard, Customs                Yeuell, Paul          4
+Guard, Customs                Williams, Lynn Red    13
+Guard, Second                 Crowley, David L.     21
+Guard, Security               Hutchison, Daniel     4
+Guard, Security               Porro, Mark S.        6
+Guard, Security               Shishino, Fumi        8
+Guard, Security               Barnett, Craig        18
+Guard, Security               Williams, Bergen      22
+Guard, Security               Simms, George         41
+Guerra                        Wasser, Ed            0
+Guest Liaison                 Gabrielli, Elisa      6
+                                 Pensler
+Guinevere Corey               Brown, Julie Caitlin  36
+Gunman #1                     Lowe, Tom             3
+Gyor                          Courtney, James Jude  14
+Hague, General William        Foxworth, Robert      23,33
+Hampton, Lise                 Gentile, Denise       19-20
+Harriman Gray                 Combs, Jeffrey        16
+Head Waiter                   Robinson, Glenn       5
+Hedronn                       Sachs, Robin          23,33
+Hendricks, Dr. Vance          McCallum, David       4
+Hernandez, Maya               Gallardo, Silvana     10
+Hidoshi, Senator              Aleong, Aki           9,12,19
+Horn, Abel                    Beck, Michael         28
+Hostage                       Robertson, Marianne   0
+Human                         Craig, Andrew         40
+Human                         Thomas, Craig         43
+Human Customer                Harold, Eliott        36
+Human/Alien Customer          Hendrickson, Mark     36
+Human/Minbari Kosh            Patton, Joshua        44
+Hunter #2, Soul               Snyder, John          2
+Hunter, The Soul              Sheppard, W. Morgan   2
+ISN Reporter                  Egan, Maggie          11,32,40
+ISN Reporter                  Kasdorf, Lenore       14,18-19
+ISN Reporter                  Hutton, Rif           42
+Ironheart, Jason              Young, William Allen  6,30
+Isogi, Taro                   Shigeta, James        28
+Ivanov, Andrei                Phalen, Robert        3,14
+Ivanova, Commander Susan      Christian, Claudia    26-48
+Ivanova, Lt. Commander Susan  Christian, Claudia    1-25
+Ivanova, Sofie                Chambers, Marie       16
+Jack Maynard, Captain         Tamblyn, Russ         26
+Jacobs, Dr. Everett           Steedman, Tony        35
+Jaddo, Urza                   Argenziano, Carmen    39
+Janice Rosen                  McNeil, Kate          21
+Jason Ironheart               Young, William Allen  6,30
+[Jay], Security Guard #1      Johnson, Rick         46
+Jeffrey Sinclair, Commander   O'Hare, Michael       0-22,31
+Jha'dur                       Douglas, Sarah        9
+"Jinxo" / Thomas              Booker, Tom           15
+John Sheridan, Captain        Boxleitner, Bruce     23-48
+Johnny                        Graas, John Christian 37
+Kalain                        Grove, Richard        23
+Kalika, Ambassador            Curtis, Robin         9
+Karl Mueller                  Rolston, Mark         21
+Keffer, Lt. Warren            Rusler, Robert        31,36,40,44
+Keffer, Warren                Rusler, Robert        23,27
+Kelsey                        Waterman, Felicity    6
+Kemmer, Lianna                Thomas, Elaine        11
+Kha'Mak                       Bradley, Neil         31
+Kiro, Lord                    Graham, Gerrit        13
+Kiron Maray                   Eastman, Rodney       7
+Kleist, Pvt.                  Hunter, Morgan        32
+Knight One                    Scott, Judson         8
+Knight Two                    Neame, Christopher    8
+Ko D'Ath                      Woronov, Mary         3
+Kosh Naranek                  Sirag, Scott          0
+Kosh Naranek                  Chamberlain, Ardwight 1,7,9-10,13,15,22,24,31,
+                                                       33,35-36,38,41,43,45,
+                                                       48
+Kosh, Human/Minbari           Patton, Joshua        44
+Koslov, Rabbi                 Bikel, Theodore       14
+Krantz, Major                 Broadhurst, Kent      20
+Kyle, Dr. Benjamin            Sekka, Johnny         0
+Ladira, Lady                  Olster, Fredi         13
+Lady Ladira                   Olster, Fredi         13
+Lantze, Frederick             Dotrice, Roy          44
+Large Man                     Stewart, Nils Allen   45
+Large, P.F.C.                 Foree, Ken            32
+Laura Rosen, Dr.              Lockhart, June        21
+Laurel Takashima              Tomita, Tamlyn        0
+Lazarenn, Dr.                 Norton, Jim           40
+Lennier                       Mumy, Bill            5,9,15,16,21,22-24,29,31,
+                                                       36,38,40,43-46,48
+Liaison, Earthforce           Coyle, Kelly          18
+Liaison, Guest                Gabrielli, Elisa      6
+                                 Pensler
+Lianna Kemmer                 Thomas, Elaine        11
+Lianna, Young                 Wake, Robin           11
+Lise Hampton                  Gentile, Denise       19-20
+Londo Mollari                 Jurasik, Peter        0,1,3,5,7,9-13,15,18,19,
+                                                       21-25,27,29,31,34,36-
+                                                       39,42,44-48
+Lord Kiro                     Graham, Gerrit        13
+Lord Refa                     Forward, William      39,42
+Lou Welch                     Crowley, David L.     11,16,24-25,29,32
+Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova   Christian, Claudia    1-25
+Lt. David Corwin, 2nd         Cox, Joshua           47
+Lt. Ramirez                   Corri, Nick           33
+Lt. Warren Keffer             Rusler, Robert        31,36,40,44
+Lurker                        Bergeron, Philippe    21
+Lurker                        Loffler, Gianin       30
+Lurker                        Reiser, Damon C.      35
+Lurker                        Larimore, Jason       46
+Lurker #1                     Burnette, Liz         22
+Lurker #2                     Loffler, Gianin       22
+Lyta Alexander                Tallman, Patricia     0,41,48
+M'ola                         O'Neil, Tricia        10
+Macabee, Pierce               Hyde-White, Alex      38
+Major Krantz                  Broadhurst, Kent      20
+Major Plug, Sgt.              Cutrona, Ryan         32
+Malachi, Centauri Prime       Throne, Malachi       31
+   Minister
+Malcolm                       Keith, Robert         48
+Malcolm Biggs                 Rogers, Tristan       7
+Man                           Bentley, Jim          2
+Man                           Kluger, Garry         13
+Man                           McGuire, Brian        29
+                                 Michael
+Man                           Allen, Eddie          30
+Man #1, Business              Parker, F. William    0
+Man #2, Business              Sage, Dave            0
+Man, First                    Bennett, Douglas      41
+Man, Large                    Stewart, Nils Allen   45
+Man, Obnoxious                Flinn, John           46
+Man, Panicked                 Rosales, Tommy        20
+Man, Running                  De La Paz, Danny      41
+Man, Security                 Henry, Richard        17
+Maray, Kiron                  Eastman, Rodney       7
+Marcus Cole                   Carter, Jason         45
+Mariah Cirrus                 Johnson, Anne-Marie   27
+Mariel                        Valk, Blair           29
+Markab Ambassador             Strauss, Kim          27,40
+Markab Girl                   Secrist, Bluejean     40
+                                 Ashley
+Markab Mother                 Adair, Diane          40
+Markab Victim                 McKenzie, Michael     40
+Mary Ann Cramer               Healy, Patricia       4,12
+Matthew Stoner                Szarabajka, Keith     29
+Max                           Moll, Richard         35
+Maya Hernandez                Gallardo, Silvana     10
+Mayan, Shaal                  Grahn, Nancy Lee      7
+Maynard, Captain Jack         Tamblyn, Russ         26
+Med Tech                      Kiriyama-Lem, James   22,24
+Med Tech                      Neuman, Jani          41
+Med Tech                      McGee, Gwen           46
+Med Tech                      Shelby, Larita        47
+Med Tech #1                   Attell, Toni          2
+Medlab Tech                   Kiriyama-Lem, James   27
+Merchant                      Silver, Robert        35
+Merchant #1                   Fega, Rus             23
+Merchant #2                   Guillory, Bennet      23
+Merchant, Centauri            Sage, David           34
+Michael Garibaldi, Security   Doyle, Jerry          0-48
+   Chief
+Migo                          McKenzie, Michael     14
+Mila Shar                     Adair, Diane          7
+Miller, General               Farmer, Frank         16
+Minbari #2                    Chapman, Jonathan     36
+Minbari #3                    Bradley, Neil         36
+Mirriam Runningdear           Lodge, Linda          15
+Mitch                         Hamilton, Rick        44
+Mitchell                      Williams, Justin      8
+Mobotabwe, Derek              Bensing, Langdon      18
+Mollari, Carn                 Trencher, Peter       1
+Mollari, Londo                Jurasik, Peter        0,1,3,5,7,9-13,15,18,19,
+                                                       21-25,27,29,31,34,36-
+                                                       39,42,44-48
+Morden                        Wasser, Ed            13,22,24,38,45
+Morgan Clark                  McGurk, Gary          22
+Morishi                       Tagawa, Cary-Hiroyuki 46
+Mother                        Wing, Leslie          37
+Mother, Markab                Adair, Diane          40
+Mother, Narn                  Adair, Diane          43
+Mr. Chase                     Kehler, Jack          43
+Mr. Flinn                     Flinn, John           15
+Mr. Welles                    Vickery, John         44
+Mueller, Karl                 Rolston, Mark         21
+Muta-Do, The                  Oh, Soon-Teck         14
+Na'Far                        Macht, Stephen        47
+Na'Kal                        Sachs, Robin          44
+Na'Toth                       Brown, Caitlin        5,9,12,17,22
+Na'Toth                       Adams, Mary Kay       23,34
+Naranek, Kosh                 Sirag, Scott          0
+Naranek, Kosh                 Chamberlain, Ardwight 1,7,9-10,13,15,22,24,31,
+                                                       33,35-36,38,41,43,45,
+                                                       48
+Narn                          Teague, Marshall      33
+Narn #1                       Hardin, Joy           5
+Narn #1                       Darga, Christopher    34
+Narn #1                       Hendrickson, Mark     43-44
+Narn #1                       Bradley, Neil         47
+Narn #2                       Bradley, Neil         42
+Narn #2                       Strauss, Kim          43
+Narn #2                       Hendrickson, Mark     47
+Narn Captain                  Hendrickson, Mark     1,24
+Narn Captain                  McKenzie, Michael     6,12
+Narn Captain                  Grinn, Sandey         34
+Narn Mother                   Adair, Diane          43
+Narn Navigator                McKenzie, Michael     24
+Narn Pilot                    Hendrickson, Mark     22
+Narn Pilot #1                 Strauss, Kim          31
+Narn Pilot #2                 Chapman, Jonathan     31
+Narn Second                   Anglin, Jennifer      34
+Narn Second                   Chapman, Jonathan     42
+Navigator, Narn               McKenzie, Michael     24
+Neeoma Connally               Boyer, Katy           12
+Nelson Drake                  Teague, Marshall      4
+Neroon                        Vickery, John         17,33
+Netter, General               Perry, Rod            11
+News Anchor                   Egan, Maggie          22
+News Anchor #1                Golzalez, Steven      48
+News Anchor #2                Blades, Lynn          48
+Newsperson                    Egan, Maggie          1
+Noble, Centauri               Hunt, William Dennis  39
+Nolan                         Rosario, Jose         11
+Norg                          Ditillio, Robert      3
+Obnoxious Man                 Flinn, John           46
+Ock                           Giannini, Jimm        3
+Officer #1, Security          Butto, Chuck          7
+Ogilvie                       Toy, Patty            26
+Ombuds Wellington             Norton, Jim           15,21
+One, Knight                   Scott, Judson         8
+Orin Zento                    Snyder, John          12
+Orwell                        Nunez, Miguel A., Jr. 26
+Other Pilot                   Starcher, Brian       23
+Owner, Cart                   O'Brien, Patrick      17
+Owner, Store                  Mair, Ossie           36
+P.F.C. Dodger                 Marshall, Marie       32
+P.F.C. Large                  Foree, Ken            32
+PSI Corps Rep                 Toy, Patty            18
+Pak'Ma'Ra Ambassador          Brown, Donovan        44
+Panicked Man                  Rosales, Tommy        20
+Paramedic                     Leong, Wesley         22
+Patient, Young Woman          Zimmer, Constance     21
+Patrick                       Beer, Daniel          26
+Person, Business              Brunt, Natalie        48
+Petrov, Stephen               Marshall, David       22
+                                 Anthony
+Pierce Macabee                Hyde-White, Alex      38
+Pierce, Captain Ellis         Canada, Ron           19
+Pilgrim                       McKenzie, Michael     5
+Pilot                         Mercado, Hector       13
+Pilot #1                      Doland, Juli          44
+Pilot #1, Narn                Strauss, Kim          31
+Pilot #2, Narn                Chapman, Jonathan     31
+Pilot, Drazi                  Chapman, Jonathan     45
+Pilot, Narn                   Hendrickson, Mark     22
+Pilot, Other                  Starcher, Brian       23
+Plug, Sgt. Major              Cutrona, Ryan         32
+President Clark               McGurk, Gary          24
+Prime Minister Malachi,       Throne, Malachi       31
+   Centauri
+Psi Cop                       Levitt, Judy          30
+Psi Cop                       Ames, Granville       37
+Psi Cop                       Walker, Andrew        45
+Purple Drazi                  Bradley, Neil         25
+Pvt. Kleist                   Hunter, Morgan        32
+Pvt. Yang                     Chudabala, Art        32
+Quantrell, Ronald             Curry, Christopher    37
+Rabbi Koslov                  Bikel, Theodore       14
+Raider #1                     Hubley, Whip          13
+Ramirez, Lt.                  Corri, Nick           33
+Ranger                        Lehne, Fredric        31
+Ray Galus                     Kimbro, Art           26
+Refa                          Forward, William      25,31
+Refa, Lord                    Forward, William      39,42
+Reno                          Silver, Robert        13
+Rep, PSI Corps                Toy, Patty            18
+Reporter, ISN                 Egan, Maggie          11,32,40
+Reporter, ISN                 Kasdorf, Lenore       14,18-19
+Reporter, ISN                 Hutton, Rif           42
+Richard Franklin, General     Winfield, Paul        32
+Rick                          Cousins, Brian        30
+Robert Carlson                Kilpatrick, Patrick   46
+Roberts                       Chan, Michael Paul    7
+Ronald Quantrell              Curry, Christopher    37
+Rose                          Anderson, Lynn        21
+Rosen, Dr. Laura              Lockhart, June        21
+Rosen, Janice                 McNeil, Kate          21
+Rowdy #1                      Heller, Chip          19
+Running Man                   De La Paz, Danny      41
+Runningdear, Mirriam          Lodge, Linda          15
+Sakai, Catherine              Nickson, Julia        5-6,22
+Sarah                         De Jesus, Wanda       35
+Screaming Woman               Shishino, Fumi        22
+Sebastian                     Alexander, Wayne      43
+Second Guard                  Crowley, David L.     21
+Second, Narn                  Anglin, Jennifer      34
+Second, Narn                  Chapman, Jonathan     42
+Security Chief Michael        Doyle, Jerry          0-48
+   Garibaldi
+Security Guard                Hutchison, Daniel     4
+Security Guard                Porro, Mark S.        6
+Security Guard                Shishino, Fumi        8
+Security Guard                Barnett, Craig        18
+Security Guard                Williams, Bergen      22
+Security Guard                Simms, George         41
+Security Guard #1             Wrangler, Greg        23
+Security Guard #1 [Jay]       Johnson, Rick         46
+Security Guard #2             Valinote, Thomas      23
+Security Guard #2             Simmons, Tom          46
+Security Man                  Henry, Richard        17
+Security Officer #1           Butto, Chuck          7
+Senator                       Harrington, Cheryl    22
+                                 Francis
+Senator                       Swink, Kitty          45
+Senator Elise Voudreau        Walter, Jessica       28
+Senator Hidoshi               Aleong, Aki           9,12,19
+Senator, Centauri             London, Damian        21
+Senator, The                  Hampton, Paul         0-1
+Seven, Alpha                  McCoy, Douglas E.     20
+Sgt. Major Plug               Cutrona, Ryan         32
+Shaal Mayan                   Grahn, Nancy Lee      7
+Shar, Mila                    Adair, Diane          7
+Sheridan, Anna                Toussaint, Beth       24
+Sheridan, Captain John        Boxleitner, Bruce     23-48
+Sheridan, Elizabeth           Leech, Beverly        24
+Shon                          Kaplan, Jonathon      10
+                                 Charles
+Shooter                       Michael, Christopher  30
+Sinclair, Commander Jeffrey   O'Hare, Michael       0-22,31
+Smith, Walker                 McKinney, Greg        14
+Sofie Ivanova                 Chambers, Marie       16
+Soul Hunter #2                Snyder, John          2
+Soul Hunter, The              Sheppard, W. Morgan   2
+Special Agent #1              Cook, David Austin    11
+Stephen Franklin, Dr.         Biggs, Richard        2,4,7-11,15,17,19,21-27,
+                                                       29-40,41-42,45-48
+Stephen Petrov                Marshall, David       22
+                                 Anthony
+Stoner, Matthew               Szarabajka, Keith     29
+Store Owner                   Mair, Ossie           36
+Strongarm #1                  Cervantes, Gary       8
+Supervisor Eduardo            Rey, Jose             12,37
+   Delvientos, Dock
+Susan Ivanova, Commander      Christian, Claudia    26-48
+Susan Ivanova, Lt. Commander  Christian, Claudia    1-25
+Sykes, Carolyn                Baron, Blaire         0
+Ta'Lon                        Teague, Marshall      47
+Takarn                        Sisti, Michelan       19
+Takashima, Laurel             Tomita, Tamlyn        0
+Talia Winters                 Thompson, Andrea      1,3,6,9,17-19,21-24,28-
+                                                       30,36,38,41
+Taq                           Williams, Paul        34
+Taro Isogi                    Shigeta, James        28
+Tasaki, Dr.                   Ishida, Jim           18
+Tech                          Robertson, Marianne   22
+Tech                          Cox, Joshua           26
+Tech #1                       Robertson, Marianne   1,3,8-9,11-12,14-20
+Tech #1                       Conley, Mark          2
+Tech #1                       Farrow, Sav           4
+Tech #1                       Cox, Joshua           23,25,28,32-35,37,39,41-
+                                                       44
+Tech #1, Dome                 Robertson, Marianne   6,13
+Tech #1, Med                  Attell, Toni          2
+Tech #2                       Hoffman, Linda        0
+Tech #2                       Robertson, Marianne   2
+Tech #2                       Kelegian, Sylva       4
+Tech #2                       Farrow, Sav           9
+Tech #2                       Cox, Joshua           17,19
+Tech #2                       Sharkey, Debra        23
+Tech #2                       Garver, Elisa Beth    32,39,42,44
+Tech #2, Dome                 Cox, Joshua           13
+Tech #3                       Jackson, Robert Jason 0
+Tech #3                       Robertson, Marianne   4
+Tech #3, Dome                 Brabec, Anita         13
+Tech #3, Dome                 Delgado, Kim          23
+Tech, Comm                    Delgado, Kim          26
+Tech, Dome                    Robertson, Marianne   5,7
+Tech, Med                     Kiriyama-Lem, James   22,24
+Tech, Med                     Neuman, Jani          41
+Tech, Med                     McGee, Gwen           46
+Tech, Med                     Shelby, Larita        47
+Tech, Medlab                  Kiriyama-Lem, James   27
+Technician                    Weil, Jerry           18
+Telepath #1                   Apesanahkwat          30
+Telepath #2                   Dilascio, Diane       30
+Tensus, Aria                  McKellar, Danica      7
+Teronn                        Grinn, Sandey         26
+Tharg                         Lee, Stephen          10
+The Muta-Do                   Oh, Soon-Teck         14
+The Senator                   Hampton, Paul         0-1
+The Soul Hunter               Sheppard, W. Morgan   2
+Thegras                       Hendrickson, Mark     7
+Theo, Brother                 Turenne, Louis        46,48
+Thirteen/Psi Cop              Grindlay, Annie       28
+Thomas / "Jinxo"              Booker, Tom           15
+Timov                         Carr, Jane            29
+Tonia Wallace                 Pryor, Mowava         32
+Torqueman, Cynthia            Zimmer, Kim           37
+Trader                        Struycken, Carel      29
+Tragedy                       Bruton, MaCauley      16
+Trakis                        Revill, Clive         3
+Traveler                      Hayes, William        0
+Troublemaker                  Ryan, John St.        47
+Tu'Pari                       Kopache, Thomas       5
+Turhan, Centauri Emperor      Bey, Turhan           31
+Two, Knight                   Neame, Christopher    8
+Tyree, Adira                  Udenio, Fabiana       3
+Urza Jaddo                    Argenziano, Carmen    39
+Vance Hendricks, Dr.          McCallum, David       4
+Varn                          Lowens, Curt          18-19
+Varner, Del                   Fleck, John           0
+Vastor                        McKenzie, Michael     23
+Victim, Markab                McKenzie, Michael     40
+Vir Cotto                     Furst, Stephen        1,3,5,7,15,22-25,27,29,
+                                                       31,34,36,38,39,43-44,
+                                                       47
+Voudreau, Senator Elise       Walter, Jessica       28
+Waiter, Head                  Robinson, Glenn       5
+Walker Smith                  McKinney, Greg        14
+Wallace, Tonia                Pryor, Mowava         32
+Warmaster G'Sten              Sheppard, W. Morgan   42
+Warren Keffer                 Rusler, Robert        23,27
+Warren Keffer, Lt.            Rusler, Robert        31,36,40,44
+Welch, Lou                    Crowley, David L.     11,16,24-25,29,32
+Welles, Mr.                   Vickery, John         44
+Wellington, Ombuds            Norton, Jim           15,21
+William Hague, General        Foxworth, Robert      23,33
+Winters, Talia                Thompson, Andrea      1,3,6,9,17-19,21-24,28-
+                                                       30,36,38,41
+Woman Patient, Young          Zimmer, Constance     21
+Woman, Screaming              Shishino, Fumi        22
+Woman, Young                  Hader, Catherine      23
+Worker #1                     Vaughn, Floyd         12
+Worker #2                     Martinez, Ricardo     12
+Yang, Pvt.                    Chudabala, Art        32
+Young Lianna                  Wake, Robin           11
+Young Woman                   Hader, Catherine      23
+Young Woman Patient           Zimmer, Constance     21
+Zack Allan                    Conaway, Jeff         28,31,34-36,38,41,44,46,
+                                                       48
+Zathras                       Choate, Tim           20
+Zayn, Colonel Ari Ben         Martin, Gregory       16
+Zento, Orin                   Snyder, John          12
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+------------------------------List by Task------------------------
+
+TASK                          CREW NAME             EPISODES
+==================================================================
+1st Assistant Camera          Monroe, Steven R.     0
+1st Assistant Camera          Kowalski, Peter B.    1-22
+1st Assistant Camera          Sweeterman, Wally     23-38,40-48
+1st Assistant Camera          Thackery, Wendy       39
+1st Assistant Director        Radulovic, John       0-1,4,7,9-11,14-17,21,24,
+                                                       26,28-29,32,34,37,39-
+                                                       40
+1st Assistant Director        Beaudine, Skip        2-3,5-6,8,12-13,18-19,22-
+                                                       23,25,31,33,35-36,38,
+                                                       41,44
+1st Assistant Director        Eilerson, Pamela      20,27,30,42-43,45,47-48
+1st Assistant Director        Chong, Ronnie         46
+2nd 2nd Assistant Director    Corring, Douglas      32-35,38-39
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+                                                       26,28-29,32,34,37,39-
+                                                       40
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+                                                       41,44
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+                                                       38-39
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+                                                       32,34
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+                                                       40
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+                                                       41,44
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+   Digital
+Sound Design                  Cohen, Harry          0,13-14,16,18-20,23-27
+Sound Design                  Johnson, Jon,         1-12,15,17,21-22
+                                 M.P.S.E.
+Sound Designer                Menichini, Paul       33-48
+Sound Editor                  Menichini, Paul       23-27
+Sound Editor, Supervising     Johnsen, George       0
+Sound Editor, Supervising     Hoien, Erin           28-44
+Sound Effects Editor          Menichini, Paul       28-32
+Sound Effects Editor          Woolway, Harry        33-44
+Sound Effects Editor          Moser, Michael        45-48
+Sound Mixer                   Tanenbaum, Jim        0
+Sound Mixer                   Mitchell, Patrick     1-22
+Sound Mixer                   Coffey, Linda         23-35,38-48
+Sound Mixer                   Spritz, Neal          36-37
+Sound Services, Director of   Rodriguez, Paul       0
+Sound Supervisor              Hoien, Erin           1-27
+Sound Supervisor              Parigi, Robert        45-48
+Special Effect Contact Lens   Gording, Jonathan,    23-48
+   Consultant                    O.D.
+Special Effect Contact        Bodytech              6,9,11-14,16-22
+   Lenses by
+Special Effects Coordinator   Stears, John          0,4
+Special Effects Makeup        Criswell, John        0
+   Supervisor
+Special Effects Supervisor    Sokol, Paul           45-48
+Special Effects by            Ultimate Effects      1-3,5-48
+Story Editor                  Ditillio, Lawrence G. 1-22
+Story Editor, Executive       Ditillio, Lawrence G. 23-44
+Stunt Coordinator             Rossall, Kerry        0-6,8-48
+Stunts                        Sparks, Frank J.      0
+Supervising Sound Editor      Johnsen, George       0
+Supervising Sound Editor      Hoien, Erin           28-44
+Supervisor, Computer Imaging  Beigle-Bryant, Paul   0-48
+Supervisor, Costume           Holly, Kim M.         1-48
+Supervisor, Make-up Effects   Garbarino, Mark       45-48
+Supervisor, Makeup            Sherwood, Rob         0
+Supervisor, On Set Visual     Rae, Ted              45-48
+   Effects
+Supervisor, Post Production   Norkin, Susan         45-48
+Supervisor, Script            McLane, Haley         0-48
+Supervisor, Sound             Hoien, Erin           1-27
+Supervisor, Sound             Parigi, Robert        45-48
+Supervisor, Special Effects   Sokol, Paul           45-48
+Supervisor, Special Effects   Criswell, John        0
+   Makeup
+Supervisor, Visual Effects    Suskin, Mitch         1-42
+Supervisor, Wardrobe          Trugman, Alan         0
+System Engineer               Pugh, Steve           45-48
+Trainee, DGA                  Durand, Clare         0
+Transfers & Digital Optical,  Action Video,         0-2
+   Pin Registered                Hollywood
+Unit Production Manager       Brown, Robert Latham  0
+Unit Production Manager       Cremin, Kevin G.      1-26,29,31-39,41,43-44
+Unit Production Manager       Beaudine, Skip        27-28,30,40,42,45-48
+Visual Effects Coordinator    Casey, Shannon        0
+Visual Effects Designed by    Thornton, Ron         0-48
+Visual Effects Produced by    Foundation Imaging    0-48
+Visual Effects Producer       Casey, Shannon        1-48
+Visual Effects Supervisor     Suskin, Mitch         1-42
+Visual Effects Supervisor,    Rae, Ted              45-48
+   On Set
+Visual Effects System         NewTek, Inc.          0-22
+   Furnished by, 3D
+Wardrobe Key Set              Roberts, Susan        0
+Wardrobe Supervisor           Trugman, Alan         0
+Written by                    Straczynski, J.       0-2,4-6,8,13,18-25,30-31,
+                                 Michael               33-35,37-38,40-48
+Written by                    Ditillio, Lawrence G. 3,9,14,16,28,32,39
+Written by                    Fontana, D.C.         7,17,26
+Written by                    Gerrold, David        10
+Written by                    Zicree, Marc Scott    11
+Written by                    Drennan, Kathryn M.   12
+Written by                    Marx, Christy         15
+Written by                    Frost, Scott          27
+Written by                    David, Peter          29,36
+
+EPISODE GUIDE IN AIRING ORDER:
+0       The Gathering
+1       Midnight on the Firing Line
+2       Soul Hunter
+3       Born to the Purple
+4       Infection
+5       Parliament of Dreams
+6       Mind War
+7       The War Prayer
+8       And the Sky Full of Stars
+9       Deathwalker
+10      Believers
+11      Survivors
+12      By Any Means Necessary
+13      Signs and Portents
+14      TKO
+15      Grail
+16      Eyes
+17      Legacies
+18      A Voice in the Wilderness I
+19      A Voice in the Wilderness II
+20      Babylon Squared
+21      The Quality of Mercy
+22      Chrysalis
+23      Points of Departure
+24      Revelations
+25      The Geometry of Shadows
+26      A Distant Star
+27      The Long Dark
+28      A Spider in the Web
+29      Soul Mates
+30      A Race Through Dark Places
+31      The Coming of Shadows
+32      Gropos
+33      All Alone in the Night
+34      Acts of Sacrifice
+35      Hunter, Prey
+36      There all the Honor Lies
+37      And Now for a Word
+38      In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum
+39      Knives
+40      Confessions and Lamentations
+41      Divided Loyalties                           
+42      The Long, Twilight Struggle                 
+43      Comes the Inquisitor                        
+44      The Fall of Night                           
+45      Matters of Honor                            
+46      Convictions                                 
+47      A Day in the Strife                         
+48      Passing through Gethsemane                  
+
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+Shane Shellenbarger                               about 900 words 
+Appears soon in ConNotations
+
+
+
+ THE ELLISONIAN NAVIGATION by Shane Shellenbarger
+
+"This will be a manifesto about what we want the movie and the 
+series to do.  It's like the early stages of Citizen Kane where 
+Orson Wells has the 'Declaration of Principles'.  It will be, we 
+hope, the kind of document that will be handed around, reprinted, 
+and used by a lot of different shows to help make all science 
+fiction on television more intelligent and less cliche' ridden." 
+If J. Michael Straczynski's upcoming television show, Babylon 5, 
+were a ship, then the chief navagator is Harlan Ellison and the 
+chart is his manifesto.  Ellison says that the manifesto will be 
+similar to the piece he wrote for Reginald Bretnor's 1979 edition 
+of "Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and its Future" about 
+writing fantasy for television, only more so.  "It will be an 
+updating and expansion of that in terms of the kinds of things 
+you want writers who are going to be wanting to write a series to 
+know," says Ellison.  "It's difficult for people who are outside 
+the genre to understand the rigors of writing fantasy and science 
+fiction for television and it's even more difficult for those 
+inside to understand the rigors of writing for television.  What 
+this will be is a very long essay with specifics about the kinds 
+of thing you should not write for science fiction or fantasy on 
+television.  It's  going to talk about the logic of setting up 
+situations: they have to be internally logical.  Just because 
+it's fantasy or science fiction does not mean you can get away 
+with illogic and craziness.  It's about the ethics of the 
+program, trying to foster an interest in good, solid science 
+instead of having explosions in space like Star Wars.  There are 
+a number of aspects to it and we're going to cover them all.  It 
+will probably go through two or three different versions because 
+once I get done I'll say to Joe, 'What's missing and where do you 
+need me to expand?'  Joe will tell me and I'll do that, then 
+we'll go through it again, and again, and again.  Once we've done 
+half-a-dozen drafts it should be ready for when the series goes." 
+Ellison knows the shape of his manifesto, but still lacks the 
+substance that will make Babylon 5 unique.  "Apart from having 
+read Joe's pilot script, 'The Gathering', I have not yet seen the 
+pilot and Joe doesn't want me to see it until they get a good 
+answer print with music and the works," Ellison says.  "He's very 
+cautious and before he ever got involved with this project we sat 
+down and talked about my horrific experience on The Starlost, 
+which in many ways parallels Joe's experience on Babylon 5,  I 
+was able to tell Joe about the pitfalls I fell into and he has 
+managed to sidestep them.  This show should go very, very well, 
+indeed." As a creator who has had his work stolen more than once 
+by Hollywood producers, Ellison has an opinion about a show 
+positioned against Straczynski's Babylon 5.  "The thing that I 
+find really offensive is that Paramount knew about Babylon 5 long 
+before Deep Space Nine," Ellison says.  "They were warned, 'Why 
+put together a series that's exactly like something else that's 
+going to be on the air when you haven't got anything on paper 
+yet, you can go any direction you want.'  You can't prove this, 
+but there are a lot of us who feel that because they (Paramount) 
+didn't have any original ideas they just kind of revamped Joe's 
+idea in their own way and then months later said, 'Oh well, we're 
+going to have to reject Babylon 5 because we have a show very 
+much like it of our own.'  It's kind of a sad thing.  In fact, 
+they asked me to write for Deep Space Nine.  We talked about me 
+doing a show or two for them, even a story arc, but once Joe 
+hired me to do the manifesto I just felt it would not be 
+ethically correct." Even though he won't be writing for Deep 
+Space Nine, Ellison's ties with the late Gene Roddenberry seem 
+never to be severed.  "The book version of 'The City on the Edge 
+of Forever' will be coming out soon and when that hits it's going 
+to be a bombshell.  (After Roddenberry's death) I started from 
+scratch again.  It's been a very difficult piece of writing, 
+taking months and months.  Tom Maglioni is screaming, 'Everybody 
+wants their book,' but it's got to be written right, otherwise I 
+could be sued for libel.  I've got to write it very carefully and 
+I'm just not going to be rushed on it." Estimates concerning the 
+series start date vary, but Ellison has his own methods and he 
+demonstrated them.  "all I know is that a number of the actors 
+who were in the movie with term deals that put them in the series 
+had asked for wavers to go and do shows during October, November, 
+and December," Ellison says.  "They were all granted, but when 
+one of them asked for a waver in January that one was refused.  
+That indicates that they may want to be back at work by January 
+and they don't want somebody off someplace else doing another 
+show.  Having worked in the industry, about the only time they 
+deny wavers is when it's going to conflict with their own 
+schedule. With January quickly approaching, science fiction fans 
+will soon know the course that has been charted for Babylon 5.
+
+
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+BABYLON 5 FAN CLUB MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
+
+Members will receive their membership kits, which include:
+
+	A subscription to Fan Club newsletters, Universe Today and Headline
+	News, filled with exclusive interviews, photos, news about Babylon 5,
+	and exciting merchandise offers.
+
+	An 8x10 Cast Photo
+
+	Fourth Season Cast Mini-Poster (13"x20")
+
+	B5 Fan Club Button; Full Color Sticker
+
+	Membership Certificate (Signed by the show's Executive Producers, J.
+	Michael Straczynski and Douglas Netter)
+
+	Membership ID Card gives your membership number (needed for special
+	pricing on FC merchandise) along with a userID and access code to the
+	Members Only section of TheStation.com, the B5 Fan Club Web-site.
+
+
+YES!  I want to join The Official Babylon 5 Fan Club.  Please send my
+membership kit to:
+
+
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+
+
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+
+
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+
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+
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+
+
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+
+
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+
+
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+
+
+_____ I got this form from a friend.
+
+
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+tax); $19.95 for a Canadian membership; and $24.95 for Foreign
+memberships.  Orders must be in U.S. funds. Send check or money order
+(DO NOT send cash) made payable to:
+
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+
+
+Easy Ways to Join:
+
+1)  Mail: 
+	Mail this form to:  The Official Babylon 5 Fan Club
+			    PO Box 856
+			    North Hollywood, CA 91603
+
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+	Email this form to:  membership@thestation.com
+
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+	Access an online membership form at:  http://www.thestation.com
+
+
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+
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+	The credit card billing address must be the same as the shipping
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+
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+
+All returned checks are subject to a $15.00 service charge.
+
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+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Babylon 5 files</title>
+<link rel="made" href="mailto:koreth@midwinter.com">
+</head>
+<body>
+<h1>Babylon 5 file area</h1>
+
+<b>See Also:</b>
+
+<ul>
+   <li> <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html">The Lurker's
+	Guide to Babylon 5</a>
+   <li> <a href="ftp://ftp.midwinter.com/pub/Babylon-5/index.html">ftp.midwinter.com</a>
+	(CA, USA, original location of these files)
+   <li> <a href="ftp://ftp.uml.edu/Babylon-5/index.html">ftp.uml.edu</a>
+	(MA, USA)
+   <li> <a href="ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/docs/Babylon-5/index.html">ftp.ntua.gr</a>
+	(Greece)
+   <li> <a href="ftp://ftp.ctrl-c.liu.se/babylon-5/index.html">ftp.ctrl-c.liu.se</a>
+	(Sweden)
+   <li> <a href="http://www.cant.ac.uk/b5/hyperion/index.html">www.cant.ac.uk</a>
+	(UK)
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+<hr>
+
+<h2>Multimedia resources / Software</h2>
+<ul>
+   <li> <a href="Pictures/index.html">The pictures directory</a>
+	(or its much slower, but more Webbish,
+	<a href="Pictures/thumbs.html">alternate interface</a>.)
+   <li> The Babylon 5 Interactive demo for
+	<a href="B5-Interactive.cpt.hqx">Macintosh</a>
+	and
+	<a href="b5demo.zip">Windows</a>
+	users.
+   <li> The
+	<a href="b5quote.tar">Babylon 5 quotes program</a>
+	for UNIX systems; see also its
+	<a href="http://www.reed.edu/~horde/b5/b5quote.html">FAQ list</a>.
+	(<em>hh</em>)  A
+	<a href="http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~crow/b5quote.shtml">Web
+	interface</a>
+	is also available.
+   <li> A version of the episode guide for the
+	<a href="newton.sit">Apple Newton.</a>
+	See the
+	<a href="newton.txt">documentation.</a>
+   <li> Various
+	<a href="Clips/">sound and video clips</a>
+	from Warner Bros.' promotions department.
+   <li> Some 3-D
+	<a href="Models/">models</a>,
+	in Amiga "Imagine" format, of ships from the show.
+</ul>
+
+<h2>From the horse's mouth</h2>
+Information from series creator J. Michael Straczynski.
+<ul>
+   <li> Digests of JMS' messages (and some other information) from the 
+	<a href="GEnie/index.html">GEnie,</a>
+	<a href="CompuServe/index.html">CompuServe,</a>
+	and
+	<a href="America-Online/index.html">America Online</a>
+	services and the
+	<a href="Usenet/index.html">Usenet</a>
+	network. (<em>lw</em>/<em>dn</em>, <em>gm</em>, <em>sg</em>)
+   <li> The
+	<a href="b5_jms_answers.txt">JMS answers file</a>,
+	answers to various questions.  Compiled from his messages on GEnie
+	and Usenet. (<em>dw</em>)
+   <li> The
+	<a href="b5log.txt">Grid Epsilon log</a>,
+	a summary of the Babylon 5 universe, and descriptions of the show's
+	characters.  Somewhat out of date, as it was written while the pilot
+	movie was in production. (<em>pp</em>)
+   <li> A transcript of a July 1994
+	<a href="jms.radio.7-24-94">radio interview</a>
+	with JMS. (<em>mm</em>)
+   <li> An
+	<a href="OHare.Leave">announcement</a>
+	about Michael O'Hare (Commander Sinclair) regarding season two.
+	Contains spoiler information.
+   <li> A list of
+	<a href="jms.credentials">other works</a>
+	by JMS.
+   <li> Transcripts of real-time chat sessions from
+	<a href="America-Online/">America Online,</a>
+	<a href="Prodigy/">Prodigy,</a>
+	and
+	<a href="Delphi/">Delphi</a>
+	with JMS and others.
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Text files</h2>
+<ul>
+   <li> Text-only versions of the
+	<a href="Synopses/">episode synopses</a>
+	from the
+	<a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html">Lurker's Guide</a>.
+	(<em>sb</em>, <em>sg</em>, <em>mu</em>)
+   <li> The
+	<a href="babylon-5-faq">Babylon 5 Frequently Asked Questions list,</a>
+	with its companion documents, the
+	<a href="babylon-5-news-schedule">news/schedule file</a>
+	and season-specific files for
+	<a href="babylon-5-setting-s1">season 1,</a>
+	<a href="babylon-5-setting-s2">season 2,</a>
+	and
+	<a href="babylon-5-setting-s3">season 3.</a>
+	(<em>dw</em>)
+	A
+	<a href="b5faq-german">German</a> version is also available.
+	(<em>tt</em>)
+
+   <li> A
+	<a href="quickref.txt">quick-reference sheet</a>
+	listing all the episodes with brief summaries.  But use the
+	<a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/reference/episodes.html">hypertext version</a>
+	instead.
+
+   <li> Some official
+	<a href="Releases/">press releases</a>
+	about the show, as sent to TV stations.
+
+   <li> A discussion of the parallels between B5's storyline and the works of
+	<a href="lovecraft.html">H. P. Lovecraft.</a>
+	A
+	<a href="lovecraft.txt">text-only</a>
+	version is also available.
+
+   <li> A file full of
+	<a href="Kosh_Quotes.txt">Kosh quotes.</a>
+   <li> A Babylon 5
+	<a href="b5.tech">Technical Manual</a>. (<em>h</em>)
+	Also an
+	<a href="b5.tech.htm">HTML version</a>
+	and an
+	<a href="b5.tech.12">update</a>
+	covering the first three and a half seasons.  (<em>tc</em>)
+   <li> The
+	<a href="b5episodes">Episode/spoiler list</a>,
+	containing schedule information and some spoilers for upcoming episodes.
+	(<em>ds</em>)
+   <li> An
+	<a href="uk-guide/">episode guide</a>
+	based on the UK air schedule.
+	(<em>ey</em>)
+   <li> Digests of the old
+	<a href="Digests/">B5 mailing list</a>. (<em>tr</em>)
+   <li> Text-only versions of the
+	<a href="Guide/">episode guide pages</a>
+	from the
+	<a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html">Lurker's Guide</a>.
+	(<em>mr</em>)
+   <li> An early 1993 talk with
+	<a href="ellison.txt">Harlan Ellison</a>
+	about his role on B5, and other topics.
+   <li> A
+	<a href="soundtrack-index">detailed breakdown</a>
+	of the
+	<a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/resources/products.html#soundtrack">soundtrack CD,</a>
+	as well as a
+	<a href="soundtrack-clues">clue sheet</a>
+	to help your local record store order it if need be.  A
+	<a href="soundtrack-2-index">breakdown</a>
+	of the second soundtrack CD is also available.
+
+   <li> And miscellaneous
+	<a href="Misc/">other things.</a>
+
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Facts and Figures</h2>
+<ul>
+   <li> <a href="Credits/">Production credits</a>
+	for individual episodes, as listed onscreen. (<em>ju</em>)
+   <li> <a href="Bibliographies/">Bibliographies</a>
+	for some cast and crewmembers.  See also the
+	<a href="b5.media">media list</a>. (<em>tr</em>)
+   <li> <a href="History.Babylonia.html">A brief history of ancient Babylonia</a>,
+	which may have some interesting
+	<a href="Parallels.History">parallels</a>
+	in B5's storyline. (<em>sb</em>)
+   <li> A list of
+	<a href="biblical-references">Biblical references to Babylon.</a>
+	(<em>mw</em>)
+   <li> <a href="Dictionary">A glossary of people and places</a>.
+	There is a more complete
+	<a href="b5encyc.txt">encyclopedia</a>
+	as well. (<em>bo</em>)
+   <li> The
+	<a href="b5actors.txt">Babylon 5 Actors' Other Roles list</a>.
+	(<em>lw</em>)
+   <li> Cast listings sorted by actors' names
+	(<a href="cast.txt">plaintext</a>
+	and
+	<a href="cast.html">hypertext,</a>)
+	<a href="character.txt">characters' names</a>,
+	and
+	<a href="castbyep.txt">first appearance.</a>
+	(<em>tr</em>)
+   <li> Biographical information about members of the
+	<a href="b5.crew">production crew</a>.
+   <li> The
+	<a href="b5.appearances">appearances chart</a>,
+	listing which regulars appear in which episodes. (<em>dh</em>)
+   <li> A list of Babylon 5 season-two
+	<a href="sponsors.txt">sponsors</a>
+	based on a survey of four early episodes.
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+<hr>
+<a href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html">To the <cite>Lurker's
+Guide</cite> home page</a>
+</hr>
+
+<p>
+Maintainers/Contributors:
+<p>
+<pre>
+    SB = Shawn Bayern, bayern@minerva.cis.yale.edu
+    MC = I. Marc Carlson, imc@vax2.utulsa.edu
+    TC = Thomas Chiverton, falken@bigfoot.com
+    SG = Steven Grimm, koreth@midwinter.com
+    H  = The Harlequin, mdig8154@uriacc.uri.edu
+    DH = David Henderson, davidh@camelot.bradley.edu
+    HH = Heiji Horde, horde@reed.edu
+    Ju = Jackutis, genoa@mit.edu
+    JK = Jason Kempnich, jasonk@thehub.com.au
+    GM = The Green Meddler, kilgalen@tde.com
+    MM = Maria Montalvo, maria@mvuts.att.com
+    Mu = Matthew Murray, i9717029@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu
+    BO = Brian O'Neill, oneill@cs.uml.edu
+    DN = Dylan Northrup, northrup@madonna.coedu.usf.edu
+    PP = Phil Posner
+    TR = Troy Rutter, techy@iastate.edu
+    MR = Matt Ryan, mbr2@kimbark.uchicago.edu
+    DS = David Strauss, dss2k@virginia.edu, REPLAYER on GEnie
+    TT = Tobias Teschner, teschne@uni-muenster.de
+    LW = Lee Whiteside, leew@indirect.com
+    DW = Dan Wood, danwood@karelia.com
+    MW = Michele Worley, michele_l_worley@yahoo.com
+    EY = Edwin Yau, mrpotato@fastnet.co.uk
+    MZ = Michael "The Admiral" Zecca, zecca@ncar.ucar.edu
+</pre>
+
+</body>
+</html>
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+The following is from a long online post by J. Michael Straczynski
+answering a question about what he has worked on in the past.
+
+This file contains material Copyrighted by J. Michael Straczynski.
+He has given permission for his words to be redistributed
+online, as long as they are marked as being copyright JMS.
+
+--------- begin message ---------
+
+     Okay, because they've been requested (I got another couple of  notes in
+email asking for this), here's a quick rundown on my prior  work.  This isn't
+everything...this is about half of the body of  work...but this is probably
+the more interesting stuff.
+
+  ...BOOKS
+
+ THE COMPLETE BOOK OF SCRIPTWRITING, Writer's Digest Books (now out  of print,
+mainly because I'm about 2 years behind delivering the  new edition, THE (EVEN
+MORE!) COMPLETE BOOK OF SCRIPTWRITING.
+
+ DEMON NIGHT, horror/dark fantasy novel, hardcover, E. P. Dutton.  Nominated
+for Bram Stoker Award, Horror Writers of America.
+
+ OTHERSYDE, dark fantasy novel, hardcover, Dutton.
+
+ TALES FROM THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE, softcover, anthology of my  adaptation of
+my TZ3 episodes.  Bantam.
+
+  ...SHORT STORIES
+
+ "Your Move," Amazing Stories Magazine.  "A Last Testament for Nick and the
+Trooper" Shadows 6 anthology.  "Say Hello, Mister Quigley," Pulphouse
+Magazine, and the Midnight  Grafitti anthology.  (There are others, but those
+are the good ones.)
+
+  ...ARTICLES/JOURNALISM
+
+ 500+ published articles -- ranging from feature articles, to reviews,
+investigative articles and others -- appearing in PENTHOUSE, VIDEO  REVIEW,
+THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (for which I was a regular Special  Correspondent), THE
+LOS ANGELES HERALD EXAMINER (ditto), TIME, INC.  (where I was on staff at
+various points), SAN DIEGO MAGAZINE, THE  SAN DIEGO and LOS ANGELES READER(s),
+WRITER'S DIGEST (10 years worth  of columns and articles as a Contributing
+Editor), and others that  I've forgotten and am too lazy to dig out.
+
+  ...RADIO
+
+ On-air reviewer and entertainment editor for KSDO Newsradio, San  Diego, for
+about 2-3 years.
+
+ Host, HOUR 25, a weekly SF talk show in L.A. for 5 years.
+
+ Radio drama writer for ALIEN WORLDS, MUTUAL RADIO THEATER, and
+writer/producer/director on other radiodrama projects.
+
+  ...THEATER
+
+ A dozen produced plays, including "The Apprenticeship," a full-  length play
+which played at the Marquis Public Theater in San  Diego for 20 weeks.
+Includes many one-act plays.  One play  published in book form by Baker's
+Plays.  (No, I'm not telling  you what it is.)
+
+  ...COMICS
+
+ Wrote issue of TEEN TITANS SPOTLIGHT: Two Face vs. Cyborg, "Face  to Face Two
+Face."
+
+ Wrote issue of STAR TREK comic for DC: "Worldsinger."  (Cover of
+"Worldsinger" is now Star Trek trading card.)
+
+ Wrote issue of NOW's TWILIGHT ZONE comic, "Blind Alley."
+
+  ...TELEVISION
+
+ Animation:
+
+ Writer/story editor, Filmation Studios, HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF  THE
+UNIVERSE, then subsequently, SHE-RA.  Wrote about 20-25 episodes.
+
+ Writer, JAYCE AND THE WHEELED WARRIORS, about 11-12 episodes.
+
+ Writer/story editor, THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS, writing about 15-20  episodes or
+more.  (I actually have no idea how many, really.)
+
+ Live Action:
+
+ Story editor, CAPTAIN POWER, writing or co-writing about 16 episodes.
+Nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Series  (the
+Gemini is Canada's version of the Emmy).
+
+ Story editor, THE TWILIGHT ZONE, writing about 12 episodes.  (1 for  the
+network Zone, 11 for the syndicated Zone.)
+
+ Writer, NIGHTMARE CLASSICS: THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR.  HYDE, for
+Showtime.  Nominated for Writers Guild and Ace Awards.
+
+ Story Editor, JAKE AND THE FATMAN, writing 4-5 episodes and one  TV movie.
+
+ Co-producer/Producer, MURDER, SHE WROTE, writing about 9 episodes.
+
+ Supervising Producer, WALKER, TEXAS RANGER, writing 1 episode.
+
+ UNPRODUCED CREDITS:
+
+ Developed (with Larry DiTillio) ELFQUEST animated series for CBS.  Wrote MR.
+FREEZE, SF/comedy motion picture for Ivan Reitman.  Wrote 4-hour "V"
+miniseries, "V: The Next Chapter" for Warners.  Wrote series development on a
+dozen different projects.  Wrote other feature film screenplays for DIC and
+London Films.
+
+     Anyway, those are the highlights.  I've left out a lot of stuff, and
+subsets of stuff (like the prime-time TRGB's special, for which I cowrote  a
+couple of songs with Brian O'Neal of the Busboys, and other song  related
+stuff...I've had about half a dozen songs get out there, plus one  on record),
+but those are the main items.
+
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+Transcription of "One Step Beyond" radio program 7/24/94,
+KDHX-FM, St. Louis.  Chuck Lavazzi, producer.
+
+Transcription by Maria Ana Montalvo [I've attempted to be as accurate
+as possible.  Verbal hesitations (such as "um") have either been deleted,
+or indicated by "..".  Verbal "keep busy" phrases, such as "uh huh," in
+the middle of short speeches have also been deleted; I kept those in
+long speeches to make this easier to read.  When I couldn't understand a
+phrase, my best guess is indicated with square brackets and question marks,
+e.g. [?? guess ??].  (Of course, this whole thing is my best guess.)  Enjoy.
+mam 8/8/94]
+
+Revised 10/30/94: Fixed some misspellings; filled in one of the spots
+I didn't understand, based on a net discussion.  mam
+
+Cast:
+Chuck = Chuck Lavazzi
+Otis = Otis Woodard
+jms = J. Michael Straczynski
+assorted callers
+
+
+[introductory business deleted]
+
+Chuck: ... And this week our special guest, from his home in California,
+J. Michael Straczynski, the creator and executive producer of the science
+fiction TV series, Babylon 5.  And if you'd like to talk to him, and us,
+you can do it by calling 664-FM88.  We'll put you on the line, and you
+can talk to the man who created this show.
+
+Otis: Well, say his name again.
+
+Chuck: J. Michael Straczynski [stra-chin-ski].  I think I pronounced it
+right.  If I didn't, he'll tell me what's right [laughs] when we put him
+on 'cause he's listening to this right now.
+
+Otis: Well, the Babylon 5, and I'm sure there are people out there who are
+fans of the Babylon 5 ...
+
+Chuck: I sure am.
+
+Otis: ... just like the Firesign Theater [last week's guests] so,
+you'll get your ears full today on this wonderful show.
+
+Chuck: So stay tuned for science fiction, Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski,
+we're going to give away some tickets, and we're going to be playing some
+sort-of science-fiction-oriented comedy and music in there on the show where
+it's never the same show twice, you know, it's One Step....
+
+Otis: One Step Beyond ...
+
+Chuck: ... this one here.
+
+[music containing sound bites from Lost In Space]
+
+[Michael O'Hare's voice]: It was the dawn of the third age of mankind, 10
+years after the Earth-Minbari war.  The Babylon project was a dream given
+form.  It's goal: to prevent another war by creating a place where humans
+and aliens could work out their differences peacefully.  It's a port of call,
+home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepeneurs, and wanderers.
+Humans and aliens wrapped in 2,500,000 tons of spinning metal, all alone in
+the night.  It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for
+peace.  This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations.  The year is
+2258.  The name of the place is Babylon 5.
+
+[theme music]
+
+Chuck:  All right, and right now you're probably asking yourself, "What in
+the world do those two cuts have to do with each other?"  OK, here it is.
+The first cut you heard is something called "Celebration."  It was put
+together several years ago for a Lost in Space convention, and we got that
+from one of our listeners who calls himself Doctor Smith.  And of course,
+among the many voices you heard on that was the voice of Billy Mumy.  Now,
+it just so happens that Billy Mumy is featured in Babylon 5 as Lennier, the
+assistant to the Minbari ambassador, so of course, the next thing we heard
+was the main title for the TV series Babylon 5.  And the reason we did that
+(finally we're getting around to the point here at 9 minutes after the hour)
+is because on the phone with us right now, unless I've screwed up, is
+J. Michael Straczynski, the creator and executive producer of Babylon 5.
+Joe, are you still there?
+
+jms: I hope so.
+
+Chuck: Yes, you are.  You've been very patient.  We've had you on hold for
+about 20 minutes now.
+
+jms: It's always fascinating.
+
+Chuck: We're glad to have you here.
+
+jms: And you said it right.  The European version is stra-chin-ski.
+The Americanized version is stra-zin-ski, but you can call me Joe.
+
+Chuck: We'll do that, 'cause it'll be easier.  It's better than jms or
+Great Maker, in terms of radio anyway.
+
+jms: I think so.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.  Let me explain, once again, that ... for those of you who
+might not know, Babylon 5 is an internationally syndicated science fiction
+television show.  Here, in St. Louis, it's seen on KPLR Channel 11 in Dolby
+stereo at 10 a.m. on Saturday, which I think is an odd time, and repeated
+at 8 p.m. on Sunday, so, you have a chance to see this week's episode,
+which I believe is Legacies, and .. more than that I won't say, because
+I'm going to turn this over to Joe, to tell us a little bit about Babylon
+5, and how it might differ from some of the other science fiction shows you
+may have seen on TV.  And I also want to remind you, our listeners, that
+you can call us on 664-FM88, if you want to go on the air and talk to Joe.
+So, Joe, lay it on us.
+
+jms: Babylon 5 is a series set in the future about 250-some-odd years,
+aboard a space station which is about 5 miles long, and serves as a port of
+call, or a way station, if you will, similar to Venice, or other parts of
+Europe during the 14th century.
+
+Chuck: Uh huh.
+
+jms: A place of commerce, trade, diplomacy, where different parties can meet
+and work out their problems.  And .. what we're trying to do with the show,
+which is I think different than what's been done before for American
+television certainly, is that Babylon 5 is a five-year story.  Each episode
+stand alone, because it has to.  You can't be sure to watch every single
+week.  But over the long haul, as well as seeing the individual stories we
+have in the series, you'll see a much larger story with a beginning, a
+middle and end that unravels over 5 years.  It's an attempt to do for
+American television what the British have often done.  Like The Prisoner was
+a self-contained story ...
+
+Chuck: Right.
+
+jms: ... and it had a definite end point.  And this also has a definite end
+point.  I also want to try and do for science fiction television what ... as
+the print medium has been doing for..ever.  I grew up on the, on the true
+sagas of science fiction, the Foundation books, the ...
+
+Chuck: Oh, Asimov, yes.
+
+jms: [?? Krell | Carroll ??] books, and the Dune books, the Lord of the Rings,
+and asked the question, why has no one really tried to do something on that
+scale for American television.  And I figured, well, someone has to be the
+first one, might as well be me.
+
+Chuck: So, I mean, this is kind of unusual, too, because it's rare for us to
+actually have a science fiction either movie or TV that is really produced,
+or the brain-child of an actual science fiction fan, ironically enough.
+
+jms: Yes, this is the case where the loonies are running the asylum.
+
+Chuck: Yes!  Yes, we're all in favor of that here.
+
+jms: And certainly I've worked other shows, and very often they find guys who
+really don't know science fiction at all, but have track records running
+shows in general, and say here's a science fiction show; go run it.  And they
+approach it with either no knowledge of the series or contempt for science
+fiction in general.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.  Yeah.
+
+jms: A number of years ago, when I used to be a journalist, I was
+assigned to interview the producers of the series V.
+
+Chuck: OK.
+
+jms: Uh, not the miniseries which was terrific, but the series itself.  And,
+one thing one of the producers said, was that as long as we have space
+ships and laser blasts, and funny-looking aliens, we are guaranteed the
+science fiction audience.  We have to go beyond that.  And I was astonished
+at the level of real contempt showed toward the audience.  And that
+extends ... either contempt or lack of knowledge extends up and down the
+entire Hollywood system.  Fortunately, that is starting slowly to change as
+the old farts die off....
+
+Chuck: [laughs] That's a very frank way to put it, yes.
+
+Otis: That's very good.
+
+jms: And those of us who know and grew up with this stuff can take their
+place.
+
+Chuck: Is that really happening; I mean, do you see that as a real
+trend?  At this point?
+
+jms: It's ... an evolutionary trend, yeah.  In the sense of one level
+dying off, the next taking its place.  The other main concern, of course,
+has always been .. the budget, because science fiction shows have
+perennially been budget breakers.  They always cost huge, hideous
+amounts of money, and they always go over budget.  And one reason that
+networks and stations are leery of them is because they always do this.
+Babylon 5 is the very first American science fiction TV series in history
+ever to come in a few bucks under budget for the year.
+
+Chuck:  I didn't know that.
+
+jms: Yeah, and because of that, because of the model that we're using in our
+production, suddenly the networks are looking around saying, well, maybe it
+can be done, if we use the Babylon 5 model.  So now we have network and
+studio VPs making tours of the facility, seeing how the heck we're doing what
+we're doing.
+
+Chuck: Oh, really?  So you're attracting a lot of attention with this.
+
+jms: Yeah, and it is our hope ... that this will encourage more science
+fiction on television.  Because I think that, the more competition there is,
+the better off we're all gonna be, both those who make the shows as those
+who watch the shows.
+
+Chuck: Oh, for sure.  You know, let's back up a second.  You said the Babylon
+5 model is enabling you to come in under budget.  What is that model?  I
+mean, how does that differ from, oh, I don't know maybe, the Star Trek
+series, or some other series people might know.
+
+jms: What we're trying to do is ... my sense is when someone hands you 20 or
+some-odd million dollars to make a show, it kind of behooves you to act
+responsibly, which by itself is a bit of a break from tradition.
+
+Chuck: [laughs]  I guess in Hollywood, I guess that's true, yes.
+
+jms: But beyond that, we're doing what no one else is doing in town, is
+taking full advantage of technology, and the changes in technology in
+production, and post-production and other areas.  We have almost a
+completely-digital studio, which no one else has at this point.  In
+addition to that, we plan things out way ahead of time, because, again,
+this is a planned-out series, where every episode story is worked out 5
+years in advance.  I have every story for 5 years in my head.  Before we
+roll one frame of film, we know what stories we're going to be doing that
+year, what sets we're going to have to have constructed, what effects we're
+going to have to have, and we have at minimum of 6 scripts already in hand.
+So this gives all the different parties concerned enough time to sit 
+down ... and design things and build things properly, without having to
+rush.  It comes down basically to planning.  Which no one else does in this
+town.  It's always last minute [?that?] you're getting paid is on the stage,
+you're paying 24 hours of overtime to get things built in time, which is
+madness.  If you know where you're going, and you plan out ahead of time,
+you can save a lot of money and get more out of the process.
+
+Chuck:  I want to remind our listeners here two things: we're talking
+with J. Michael Straczynski, the executive producer of Babylon 5; the
+phone number here is 664-FM88 if you want to jump in here and talk to Joe
+and Otis and myself, and what else was I going to say, there was something
+else I was going to bring ...  Oh yeah, I was going ... so ... what you've
+just been saying is that really, one of the things that distinguishes
+Babylon 5 from some other stuff we may have seen is that it is planned out
+and has a finite beginning and end.  Is this why we sometimes, or at least
+I sometimes, get the feeling looking at other shows, that they're making it
+up as they go along [British accent], as they said in Monty Python?
+
+jms: Well, most shows do, to one extent or another.  I think that Brisco
+County, to some extent, was an exception to that, with their whole orb
+story line.  They kind of had an idea where they were going, and that made
+it, you know, for me as a viewer, an awful lot of fun.
+
+Chuck: Because it seemed to be something extended.  I think someone wants
+to go on the air here, so let's give 'em a shot.  Hello, you're on the air
+with J. Michael Straczynski.
+
+caller:  Yes, good afternoon.
+
+Chuck: Good afternoon.
+
+caller: My question was, how did you manage to get such intelligent
+programming on commercial television.
+
+Chuck: [laughs]  That's a good question.  Stay on the line, because ...
+you know, he's here, you're here, and .. we don't have a tape delay, so
+go ahead.
+
+jms: You lie to the stations.
+
+[all laugh]
+
+Chuck: I knew it!  That's the secret!
+
+jms: You tell them you're going to give them Baywatch in space, and
+you give them this instead.  By the time they find out, it's too late.  No,
+what's very fortunate for us is that as we took the show around for 7 years
+it took us to get the show on the air, we'd find out that executives that
+we had meetings with either got it, or they didn't get it, immediately.
+And the first person who got it was Evan Thompson, from ChrisCraft [sp?]
+Television, which was at that time putting a partnership together with
+Warner Brothers.  And the Warner Brothers' vice president, Dick Robertson,
+also saw the potential of what we had in mind to do, and believed in us,
+and said stick with us and we'll make this thing happen.  And what you have
+to do is find people like these, who understand the concept and are willing
+to support it, where often the emphasis is on dumbing down the show.  And
+these guys don't.  They're very good people.
+
+caller: Terrific.  Well, that's a wonderful thing.  Thank you.
+
+jms: Thank you.
+
+Chuck: OK.  Thank you for calling.  And, we'll take her off the line.  Once
+again, the number is 664-FM88, if you want to talk to Otis and I, and J.
+Michael Straczynski, the producer of Babylon 5.  And I'll tell you what I
+want to do at this point, Big O, we've got some business to do....
+
+Otis: Yes, we have a little business to do.
+
+Chuck: We got some business to do, and then we're going to play a couple of
+pieces of music, and then we'll be back with J. Michael Straczynski, and
+your calls about Babylon 5 and science fiction and stuff like that.  So,
+Big O, lay the business on us.
+
+[business deleted: PSA & promo]
+
+Chuck:  Well, once again, our guest is J. Michael Straczynski.  He's the
+producer, executive producer of Babylon 5, and we're going to drop off for
+a couple of songs here that are science-fiction related, then we'll be back
+with him and us and your calls.
+
+Otis: That's right, you can dial 664-3688, and you can talk to a real, real
+producer.
+
+Chuck: Hollywood producer type.  Although, I don't ... Joe, I guess you're
+not really a Hollywood producer in the old sense, from what you said.
+
+jms: I really try not to be.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.
+
+jms: And one last point, very quickly, I was thinking about your caller's
+questions.
+
+Chuck: Oh, OK.
+
+jms: And the other path, or the answer to her question is that you produce
+intelligent science fiction by hiring intelligent science fiction writers.
+
+Chuck: Ah.
+
+jms: And you have your, like, Dorothy Fontana, David Gerrold, Harlan
+Ellison, and others involved in your show, it certainly helps.
+
+Chuck: And, I'm going to come back to that point, after the music.  So,
+we're going to drop out here for a couple of things.  Well, here's one of
+our favorite groups, the Bonzo Dog Band, and I guess, since we're in outer
+space and also in the city, it's only fair we play a cut called I'm the
+Urban Space Man on the One Step Beyond show, KDHX, St. Louis.  The phone
+number here is 664-FM88 if you want to get in on the conversation.  We'll
+be back in about, oh, five minutes or so.
+
+[music]
+
+Chuck: Well, there he goes.  That's Harry Nilssen [sp?] with Space Man,
+and this is the One Step Beyond show, KDHX, St. Louis community radio with
+Chuck and Otis and our special guest, J. Michael Straczynski, from
+California.
+
+jms: Hi there.
+
+Chuck: Yeah, you're still there.  Ok.
+
+jms: I'm in here.
+
+Chuck: Yes.
+
+jms: Surprising to both of us, but I'm still here.
+
+Chuck: Yeah, hey listen, we've got ... it looks like someone's calling in.
+Otis is going to screen the call and see if they want to talk to you on
+the air but....  Let me remind folks, J. Michael Straczynski, the executive
+producer and creator of the science fiction TV series Babylon 5, and we
+have someone on line who wants to talk to you.
+
+jms: Great.
+
+caller: Good afternoon.
+
+Chuck: Hello.  You're on the air with J. Michael Straczynski.
+
+caller: Good afternoon.
+
+jms: Hi there.
+
+caller: First of all I've got a comment, and I speak for several of
+a roomful of people we've got sitting here.  We really appreciate
+the way Babylon 5 gives a realistic treatment of different religious
+points of view as opposed to some of the other space shows that are on TV.
+
+Chuck: Which shall remain unnamed.
+
+[laughter]
+
+caller: yeah.  There are so many.
+
+jms: Well, I appreciate that.  One thing that ... personally I am an
+atheist.  I make no bones about it.  But, as a writer, my obligation first
+and foremost is to be honest in my work.  And as you look around what you
+realize very quickly is that religion, whether it is human or alien or what
+have you, is, and always has been, mankind's foremost and first means of
+trying to understand the universe, and our place within the universe.  It
+tries to answer the questions we haven't answered anywhere else yet.
+Consequently, I think it behooves you to a) treat it with respect, and b)
+to realize that it ain't gonna go away in 250 years.  It's been with us
+since the dawn of sentient life on this planet, and it's going to be here
+for a long time to come.
+
+caller: OK, and I have a question.  When you talked about a station of the
+magnitude of Babylon 5 with a quarter of a million people on it, it raises
+some tremendous logistics problems, and I wonder if any background had been
+put into that, as far as the development of the story went.
+
+jms: Can you be more specific on that?
+
+caller: Well, like, how many shipments a day of food and removal of waste
+and processing of air and all....
+
+jms: Got it.  Yeah, we have indeed put some work into that, trying to
+figure out roughly the maximum number of ships that can come through any
+one particular time, how much space we have for living quarters, and we try
+to answer those questions in a realistic fashion without necessarily going
+into them every single week.  It forms sort of a backdrop in the back of
+our heads; whether we use it or not, it's always there.  And we try at all
+times to again be realistic in how we handle this stuff.  For instance,
+once problem you're going to have in an enclosed environment like this
+aside from the obvious problems of waste products and food and so on and so
+forth, is the fact that a lot of people, as with any large metropolitan
+area, are going to come looking for a new life.  For a better life, for job
+opportunities.  And they're going to come to the station.  And in our
+universe, again, being realistic, space travel costs money.  You don't just
+hop on a ship and go somewhere; it's going to cost you a lot of bucks.  And
+once you get to Babylon 5 some of the people who are looking for new lives
+spend a lot of money to get there, and have some money on hand to live for
+a while in hopes of finding that new opportunity.  When they can't find it,
+they often can't afford a ticket off the station.  So the question becomes,
+what do you do with these guys?  And you can't just, you know, throw 'em
+off into space and kill 'em.  To send all of 'em back to their relative
+homeworlds is going to cost you an awful lot of money, which their
+government doesn't want to pay for, and the [?business?] doesn't want to
+pay for.  So they end up migrating down to the lower depths of the station
+where they become known as lurkers.
+
+Chuck: Oh, OK.
+
+jms: And, they're basically Babylon 5's homeless.  And, they scavenge, they
+scrounge.  Very often you have guys who are doing less than legitimate work
+and they go down there and say I need 10 guys or 5 guys to do a job for us.
+And it's a real problem.  How do you, how do you deal with that problem?
+We're trying to answer that question.
+
+Chuck: So, we'll still have homelessness 250 years in the future, you think.
+
+jms: Yeah.  Yeah.  In particular in this kind of environment where you can't
+just go somewhere else.  Once you're there, there's the station, and there's
+space.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.
+
+jms: And you can't walk out the door.
+
+Chuck: So I guess it's not dissimilar from the position people were
+in, I guess, pre-mass-transportation when they'd reach a big port of call.
+
+jms: In a way, yes.  It's kind of ironic, where we've come much further in
+transportation technology, but, you know, by being in a restricted location
+like a space station, it causes similar problems to what we had a long time
+ago.
+
+Chuck: Are we going to be seeing something more of the lurkers, 'cause so
+far they've been kind of tangential, it seems to me.
+
+jms: We will see them from time to time, yeah, certainly toward the end of
+the season we see 'em popping up in a few places.  We try not to give too
+much story weight there, because there's a limitation of what you can do
+with that storyline.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.
+
+jms: But we do have some plans for down the road, though, yes.
+
+Chuck: OK.
+
+caller: Thanks for a wonderful show.
+
+jms: Thank you.
+
+Chuck: Thank you for calling.  And we've got another call, so I might as
+well go ahead and put them on.  Hello, you're on the air with J. Michael
+Straczynski.
+
+caller: Hi.  Uh, I had a question for you about something regarding a
+musical request.
+
+Chuck: Oh, for me!  OK, well, go ahead.
+
+caller: Yeah, I'd like to, yeah, um, I was wondering, I was wondering if
+you were, if you were gonna play, I don't know the name of the song, it's
+really famous, but I don't really remember the name too awfully well.
+
+jms: La Traviata.
+
+Otis: That's funny.
+
+caller: But, the theme, the theme, the theme music they used off of, off
+of Dark Star.
+
+Chuck: Dark Star.  No, I know that's kind of a cult science fiction film,
+but I've never seen it.  Joe, have you....
+
+caller: I like, I like the, I like the title, I like the, I like the,
+I like the song they used for the title off of that.  I was wondering,
+I thought maybe, I thought maybe if you, if you were gonna, gonna
+have that theme for the songs you could play that one.
+
+Chuck: I don't think I have that with me though.
+
+caller: Oh, heck.
+
+Chuck: But thanks for calling anyway.
+
+caller: OK.
+
+Chuck: OK.
+
+caller: Well, it's a good show.  I've seen it a couple of times.  It's
+all right.
+
+Chuck: OK, thank you.  Do you happen to know, Joe, what the theme
+song for Dark Star was, 'cause I've never seen it.
+
+jms: For some reason, Dark of the Sun is coming to mind, but that may
+not be correct.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.  We have another caller here.  Hello, you're on the air
+with J. Michael Straczynski.
+
+caller: Hi, Chuck, how are you?
+
+Chuck: Hi!
+
+caller: I just wanted ... I know I said I wasn't probably gonna call in,
+but I just....
+
+Chuck: Oh, this is ... OK, it's, yeah, OK, this is a friend of mine, Joe,
+who is....
+
+jms: My condolences to both of you.
+
+Chuck: Oh no, she and I are both big fans of the show.  We watch it
+together a lot.  OK.
+
+caller: Yes, and I have to tell you that when I started watching the show,
+I didn't expect to like it.  I really didn't.  I've been a science fiction
+fan from way back, and most of the time things fall really short.  This
+is ...  it's absolutely wonderful.  And the reason it's wonderful is
+because it's so well thought out.  And planned out.  And it has a definite
+storyline.  And I just wanted to congratulate you.
+
+jms: Well, thank you.  I appreciate that.  That means a whole lot.  We're
+trying to really be faithful to the genre, and have some fun doing it
+while we're at it.
+
+caller: Well good.  Thank you.
+
+jms: OK.
+
+caller: Byebye.
+
+Chuck: OK, thanks Lynn.  Yeah.... Well, there we obviously, we have some
+Babylonians out in the audience.
+
+Otis: Yes, you know, I was listening, and you know, I think that, that
+every now and then you expect something, you know listening, and
+[??viewers??] saying that, that in the back you have these logistical
+problems that sometimes you, you really don't, don't really confront, you
+know, and I was thinking to myself as I looked at the enormity of this, of
+this place, you know, the...  I always think that the next big war that the
+world, the world sees is gonna be one over garbage.  It's gonna be some
+country taking over another country to dump garbage on.  You know, I think
+that looking for a planet that we could use as our really big garbage dump
+is gonna be a big project.  And I wondered, you know you [laughs] as you
+look at future plots, do you see anything like that zooming up ahead?
+
+Chuck: Ecological concerns or any of that sort of thing.
+
+jms: [laughs] Ecological concerns, or finding a planet to dump on?
+
+[laughter]
+
+Otis: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right, finding a planet to dump on.
+[laughing] That's probably that's what I'm looking at.
+
+jms: We already have New Jersey.
+
+[laughter]
+
+jms: What more does one need?
+
+Chuck: [laughing] What more would we need with a planet, yes.
+
+Otis: [laughing] I guess you took care of that question right quick.
+
+Chuck: Good thing there's nobody from New Jersey out there.
+
+Otis: Yeah, I'll betcha there is.
+
+Chuck: That seems to have provoked another phone call.
+
+jms: Hey, I'm from New Jersey, what do you want.
+
+Chuck: Oh, really?  That seems to have provoked another phone call,
+however.  Let's put 'em on the air.  Hello, you're on the air.
+
+caller: Oh, hi.  This is uh, Bob Mattingly.  Uh, the theme song
+for Dark Star was Benson, Arizona.
+
+Chuck: Oh, OK.  By who?
+
+caller: I have no idea who played it.
+
+Chuck: OK.  Well, as long as you're here, did you want to talk to
+our guest, or did you just want to let us know about that.
+
+caller: No, just a little bit.
+
+Chuck: OK.
+
+caller: Bye.
+
+Chuck: Thank you.  Well, there you go.
+
+jms: You know, Chuck, for 5 years I hosted a show like yours here in Los
+Angeles.  I'm....
+
+Chuck: Did you really!?
+
+jms: I'm recovered now.
+
+[laughter]
+
+Otis: [laughing] It took a little while, I'll bet.
+
+Chuck: I'm not, obviously.  I'm still doing this.  But uh ... let's see,
+well, here's another caller, so let's put 'em on the air.  Hello, you're
+on the air.
+
+caller: Yeah, this is a guy from New Jersey, and I think you're all pretty
+rude.
+
+Chuck: Ok, well ... oops.
+
+jms: From New Jersey, you have to _be_ rude.
+
+Chuck: Yes, that's true.
+
+jms: To survive ...  with all that toxic waste that gets into
+your veins after a while.  It gets into your brain.
+
+Chuck: Is that what it is?
+
+jms: Must be.
+
+[Otis garbled, talking at same time]
+
+jms: That's why I'm a writer.
+
+Chuck: And....  Writer, that's right, I was going to go into that.  Now,
+you had mentioned earlier that you had a, a number of fairly well-known
+science fiction and fantasy writers who had worked on the show.  And
+we only touched on that briefly.  I'd like to maybe go back into who
+some of those folks are and what we may expect to see from them.
+
+jms: Well, they include some of the best and the brightest.  This past
+year, we have ... our creative consultant on the show is Harlan Ellison,
+who is probably known to every SF fan out there.  He wrote some of the
+best Outer Limits episodes, Soldier, Demon with a Glass Hand.  He wrote
+the Star Trek episode City on the Edge of Forever.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.
+
+jms: He's written multiple ... dozens and dozens of collections of short
+stories.  He does the Sci-Fi Channel, and, a very well-known science
+fiction writer.  We also have .. Dorothy Fontana, a.k.a.  D.C. Fontana,
+who was involved with the original Star Trek, writing the episodes for
+them.  Worked on War of the Worlds and other science fiction series.
+Logan's Run.  David Gerrold, who also worked on the original Star Trek,
+wrote Trouble With Tribbles.  And many other science fiction series beyond
+that.  My feeling is, if you're going to write a crime or mystery show, you
+want to get mystery writers.  You want to write a science fiction show, get
+science fiction writers.  For some reason, this, this logic eludes a lot of
+Hollywood producers.
+
+Chuck: It never seems to occur to them, either in TV or the movies, does it.
+
+jms: No, it doesn't as a rule, and again, go back to V for a second, the
+writers they brought on for that show were almost all soap opera writers.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.
+
+jms: And it showed [?then?] in the final product.
+
+Chuck: That's what you get.  We have another caller, so let's put
+'em on the line.  Hello, you're on the air with J. Michael Straczynski.
+
+caller: Yeah, it's me again.
+
+Chuck: OK.
+
+caller: I've got another question talking about the, the writing backup
+you have.  Do you have .. actual .. technical backup, scientifically-based
+people that give you input, because your science seems a lot more real
+than, say, Star Trek.
+
+jms: We do have technical consultants, medical consultants we used on, on a
+script-by-script basis if something comes up.  But by and large, because
+Harlan and Dorothy and David Gerrold and I, and others on the show grew up
+reading science fiction, and have a pretty good science background, a lot
+of it we just happen to know.  Which, again, makes it a little bit
+different.  You walk down the halls of Babylon 5 production offices, you
+don't tend to hear guys talking about their agents.  They're talking about
+the latest improvements in SCSI technology coming from Intel, you know.
+It's, it's that kind of a crowd.  And so because we're, you know, pretty
+well-rounded in that area, we can just put it in ourselves.  We still have
+a fact-check from time to time by guys who know, you know, the really good
+stuff.
+
+caller: That really shows.  I've seen a behind-the-scenes on, on Star Trek
+where the script had blanks in it with "tech" in parentheses, and they
+required other people to just fill in some technical mumbo-jumbo, and
+watching that, as an engineer, it doesn't really come off all the time.
+
+jms: Yeah, we never do that.
+
+caller: Yeah, and it shows.
+
+jms: Well, thank you.
+
+caller: So, thanks a lot.
+
+jms: All right.
+
+Chuck: OK, thanks for calling.  Well, that's a good point, actually, and I,
+I would agree that the technology, I mean obviously, it's still science
+fiction.  So, I mean we really don't have faster-than-light travel, and we
+still don't have jumpgates and so on, but it does to me seem a little more
+plausible than let's say some of the near-magical things we've seen on some
+other shows.
+
+jms: Well, bear in mind that, that about 80% of the technology shown on
+Babylon 5 is, is a technology we already have and have access to.  We
+create .. gravity on Babylon 5 not by some magical button you push to
+create artificial gravity, but the station rotates to create the gravity.
+Most of what we use is more or less based on current technology, things....
+We could do Babylon 5, we could create a Babylon 5.  It'd be a massive
+endeavor, but what you see, you could build.  The jumpgates and a few other
+areas are, of course, you know, they're a, they're a little bit fuzzier as
+far as the science goes.  A little more rubber science going in there.  But
+for the most part, we don't use faster-than-light travel; jumpgates allow
+you to get around relativity, by going through, you know, hyperspace.
+
+Chuck: Yes.
+
+jms: Which, it takes care of the whole time dilation problem.  So we're
+trying to stay pretty, pretty close and rigorous to it.  As a matter of
+fact, we got an award a couple of months ago from the Space Frontier
+Foundation.
+
+Chuck & Otis: Oh, OK.
+
+jms: For best vision of the future, and, and I sat with Pete Conrad, who
+also got an award, because they were saying this was the first time anyone
+had sat down and really looked at the commercial civilian space prospects
+and done it in a realistic fashion.
+
+Chuck: It makes sense to me.
+
+Otis: Yes.  It is really... it is really interesting that .. when are the
+ages, when or what, what do you find the age, what age group are you really
+hitting.  I'm just saying, like, you know Chuck Lavazzi, seems like, that
+he's, he's kind of one of those boomers, I believe.
+
+Chuck: [laughing] Guilty as charged.
+
+Otis: Are you, are you, are you really hitting the boomers, 'cause it seems
+like all of the sudden the boomers are really catching on to these kind of
+things.
+
+jms: I don't know.  They tell me at Warner Brothers that the demographics of
+the show are very good; that we're hitting .. the audience that we're
+supposed to be hitting.  My personal feeling is I don't really write for any
+particular audience.  I write what I think amuses _me_, and interests me,
+in the hope that if it does so, there are enough people out there who are
+as bent and twisted as I am, that will respond to the same thing.
+
+Otis: Well, you know, kind of picking your mind, you know, my son, you know,
+I have a, I have a couple of sons, and they're biracial.  And they look at,
+they look at a show like yours that put people in this certain ... you know,
+they're looking at, at, at a fast progression of a, of a race that's, that's
+almost one color.  They see, they see a show like yours as being a place
+where that, that whole process has escalated _fast_.  ...  I know I kind of
+leave you speechless, but my, my, my little boy, he, he sees your show as a
+place where, where, where the integration of the races just comes real fast.
+
+Chuck: Ok, where perhaps that sort of thing is no longer as important.
+
+Otis: Yes, that it's not important.
+
+jms: Yes, definitely it's not important and, and we, we have had every single
+ethnic mix you can think of on the show.
+
+Otis: And we know.
+
+jms: All of the .. the pairings on the show, the romantic pairings, have been
+interracial.  My feeling is that, if we're going to go to the stars, either
+we're all, we're all going to go, or nobody's going to go.
+
+Otis: There you go.
+
+jms: And that when you see something that is not a human coming at you,
+suddenly the fact that the guy to your right is black doesn't make a whole
+hell of a lot of difference.  'Cause you're both humans.  And I think that'll
+have a great unifying force.  And that when we do go to the stars, I think
+we're going to bring with us our language, our culture, our ethnic
+backgrounds, and, and everything that makes us, makes us _humans_ have to go
+with us.  And we're trying to hit that very strongly in the show.
+
+Chuck: Hey, we got a caller here, so I'm going to put him on.  Hello, you're
+on the air with J. Michael Straczynski.
+
+caller: Hello, welcome.  This is a very, very minor point, but you'd
+mentioned that .. Babylon 5 was 5 .. 5 miles long.
+
+jms: Approximately.
+
+caller: Uh huh.  Well, I was thinking, that .. in 250 years, do you think
+that our conversion to the metric system would be complete?
+
+[laughter]
+
+jms: Yes, but mine is not.
+
+Chuck: [laughing] Well, that makes sense.
+
+caller: OK.  I was just wondering, because it's long overdue.  We were
+supposed to convert, you know in a 10-year period in this country.
+
+Chuck: So this is one of the cases where, we're talking miles and so on
+because it just happens to be the way it's written.
+
+jms: We're talking miles as it, as we're looking at it from the current
+perspective.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.
+
+jms: But in the show, we tend by and large to use kil, uh, the metric
+system, in kilometers and stuff.
+
+Chuck: Oh, OK.
+
+jms: I think once or twice we slipped, and, and put in, you know, miles or
+something, or feet.  But we, we try and keep it metric.
+
+caller: Ah.
+
+Chuck: OK.
+
+caller: Very good.  All right.
+
+Chuck: Thank you.  You know, you touched on something.  We got us some
+business to do here, but I want to just throw this out.  I think it's,
+while it is true as Otis was mentioning that racial division don't seem
+to mean much among humans, we are now seeing in the Babylon 5 universe a
+transference of that kind of inter-group hatred to humans versus the
+non-human species.
+
+Otis: Yes.
+
+jms: That's correct.  There are, there ... We as a race, one of our, our,
+our less admirable attributes is that we always look for someone to blame.
+And, someone to scapegoat.  And, once we have realized that we're all
+pretty much the same, we're gonna look around for someone out there to
+blame for our problems.  And so we blame alien immigration, and alien
+migration, and aliens buying up real estate by the square mile, and .. as
+a way of dealing with our own problems.  And in addition to which, the
+Earth Alliance is only 10 years out of the war that we almost lost very
+badly.  It almost wiped out humanity.  And when that happens, and you get
+caught up short like that, it tends to give you kind of an inferiority
+complex for a while.  When someone hands you your head, you get kind of
+nervous for a while there after.
+
+Chuck: [laughing] Yes.
+
+jms: And so that, that inferiority complex is manifesting itself as
+aggression among various parts of the human population.  You have the Home
+Guard, which is .. sort of an anti-alien terrorist group.  You have political
+stuff going on behind the scenes, which is saying, aliens, you know, we have
+to, to restrict them, and keep their culture away from our culture.  And that,
+that is a real problem in the time of Babylon 5.
+
+Chuck: It's 3:45 in the afternoon, and Big O, you want to throw some business
+at us here?
+
+[business deleted: PSA, promo]
+
+Chuck: Thank you, Big O.  And I want to remind our listeners we're talking
+to J. Michael Straczynski, who is the creator and executive producer of the
+science fiction TV series Babylon 5, and we're taking your calls at 664-FM88.
+So you can talk to him, and us, if you just give us a buzz.
+
+jms: One follow-up, by the way.
+
+Chuck: Yes.
+
+jms: You asked me before what Babylon 5 is about.
+
+Chuck: Yes.
+
+jms: And on one level, the answer that I gave you is absolutely correct.
+But there is a second level that is to be considered.  And, and it's the
+kind of thing which when you say this to, as I did by accident once, the
+network executives asked, well what is the show about, and I made the error
+in one meeting we had of telling them the truth.
+
+[laughter]
+
+Chuck:  Oops.
+
+jms: And ... it is this.  You guys and I, and probably most listeners who
+are out there, are more or less in the same age range probably, in the 30s,
+40s, somewhere around there, given the audience we're probably going out to.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.
+
+jms: There is a sense in people more or less in our age range and a little
+bit older that somewhere in the last 20, 25 years, we fell off the
+merry-go-round.  That we stumbled.  And that we stumbled in Vietnam, we
+stumbled with John Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy and King.  We stumbled in
+Korea.  Wherever it was, or maybe it wasn't any one thing.  It was a
+series of stumbles.  And the problem is, when you stumble _a lot_, you
+look at your feet.  You look down.  And what science fiction television
+specifically, and television in general, must do, I believe, is to make
+people raise their eyes back up to the horizon.  Because when you do that,
+people discover something extraordinary.  That they're part of a grand
+parade that is building the future.  That behind us are our ancestors
+looking to us to say, make our lives have had meaning.  Make it so it
+wasn't for nothing.  And ahead of us are our inheritors and our children,
+saying, build the world we're going to live in.  And that it isn't just a
+question of having a job, and coming home in the evening, and watching
+television.  You're building the future.  That we have come to this place
+through 2 million years of evolution, struggle, and blood, and that the
+culmination of all of this is not Beavis and Butthead.  There is more to
+come.  And that's the obligation of television, and science fiction, to
+tell that to people, and say move on.  Build the future.  If you want it,
+and you make them want it now, they'll build it tomorrow.
+
+Chuck: Amen and preach it.  What can I say.
+
+Otis: Wow. [laughter]  That's well said.
+
+Chuck: Yeah, Otis was going yeah, yeah, go for it, while you were saying
+that.
+
+Otis: Right on.  Yes.
+
+Chuck: I want to remind you we're talking with J. Michael Straczynski, the
+creator of Babylon 5.  We are going to drop out for another music break,
+and during this music break, we are going to give away some stuff. 
+
+[rest of music intro, etc. deleted]
+
+Chuck: ... 3:54 in the afternoon on the One Step Beyond show, KDHX
+St. Louis community radio for the [?bipedal?] area, and here is Chuck, and
+there's Otis, and here on the line from California J. Michael Straczynski,
+producer... executive producer and creator of Babylon 5.
+
+jms: Hi there.
+
+Chuck: So, still with us, obviously.  Yes, obviously a somewhat more
+dystopic idea of the near future there in that song.  But in a way, but
+Babylon 5 in its own way, you were saying earlier, is .. both optimistic
+and maybe not so optimistic as some other visions of our future, it seems
+to me.
+
+jms: Well, what Babylon 5, and most science fiction set in the future says
+is that we do go on.  We don't wipe ourselves out in a nuclear holocaust;
+we manage to keep, keep ourselves going somehow.  But, that, as we go into
+the future and toward the stars, that which makes us human are our frailties
+and our flaws as well as our nobilities, stay with us.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.
+
+jms: And we must still work at overcoming the problems that we have.
+Personally, as a viewer of science fiction, I find the process of watching
+someone in the process of overcoming more interesting than someone who has
+already overcome everything.
+
+Otis: Yes, so, Chuck is, Chuck is screening one of your calls out
+right now, and, you said you had done radio at one time and was it ...
+
+Chuck: I'm back.
+
+Otis: ... was it this kind of radio that you were doing at one time?
+
+jms: Yes, for 5 years I was the host of Hour 25 here in Los Angeles.
+
+Chuck: Oh right!  I read that in your bio, yes.
+
+jms: Yeah, it's a science fiction talk show, 2 hours like your, your format
+is.  And, so we had a lot of guys on from the science fiction community,
+come on and talk about their work.
+
+Chuck: Well, we've got 2 people on hold now who want to talk to you,
+so I better get 'em on the air.  Let's get the first on one.  Hello,
+you're on the air with J. Michael Straczynski.
+
+caller: Oh, thank you.  First of all, I wanted to .. give him a comment about
+how much we appreciate his accessibility on .. radio shows like this, and also
+on .. Internet.
+
+Chuck: Great.  Yeah, I was gonna bring that up, but, thank you.
+
+caller: And, I also have an Internet comment for him.  I, I read his post on
+Internet every day, and I was wondering if the good comments and criticisms
+and the help he gets from that balance out the damage done by people who
+refuse to respect the no story ideas request.
+
+jms: In general, yeah, it does balance it out, and, and, I'd say that 99.9%
+respect that request, and the other [?hundredth?] percent you just have to
+deal with.  I find that the net is very very useful for me, in one sense
+because it gives you a sense of the room, as it were.  And on the other
+level, as a writer, my job is to think of every possible question about my
+characters and my universe, so that when I do sit down to write the show,
+it is well-thought-out, and there is verisimilitude to it.  But I cannot
+think of every possible question.  However, on the nets, I get every
+possible question.  And then some.  And, by virtue of having to answer those
+questions, and think about parts of the show I had never thought about
+before, it helps me, when I write the show, to have a much broader
+background of it.  So, I would say that, that over the long haul,
+although there are, there are occasional flame wars, and occasional
+aberrations, that the experience and the experiment has been more than
+worthwhile.
+
+Chuck: Great.
+
+caller: OK, thank you, so I really appreciate that, and I definitely
+enjoy reading all your posts, especially the sarcastic ones....
+
+[laughter]
+
+jms: Thank you.  It takes some, some kind of stupid to sit down and
+mess with a writer in a written medium.
+
+[laughter]
+
+caller: No kidding.
+
+Chuck: Boy, that's the truth, yes.
+
+jms: Ah, but I enjoy when they do, because you can get them so well.
+
+caller: OK.
+
+Chuck: Well, thank you for calling.
+
+caller: Thank you.
+
+Chuck: And we have another caller who's been waiting to talk to you
+here, so let's put her on.  Hello, you're on the air with J. Michael
+Straczynski.  Ooh, and you'd better turn down your radio.
+
+caller: Ok, yeah, I'm right here now.  Yeah, uh, my name is Don,
+and, I tuned into the program because of .. J. Michael Straczynski
+I've been following ... uh ...
+
+jms: Well, stop following me.
+
+caller: Oh, yeah, there, I'm following _you_, OK.  I've been following
+your, your .. column in Writer's Digest from time to time.  And, what Chuck
+and Big O may not realize is that you're kind of a Hollywood success story.
+I mean you had very humble beginnings, and, you kind of starved to death for
+a long time and, maybe you tried .. a couple of different genres before you
+arrived at science fiction.  And, I wondered if you could talk a little
+bit about ... genres....  Personally, lately I've been following westerns
+a lot, because I think it sort of an up-and-coming genre.  Big O this week
+has been sort of, lampooning westerns with....
+
+Chuck: [laughing] That's true, yes.
+
+caller: [laughs] And, so, can you talk a little about .. other genres that ..
+may have some future.  And maybe westerns as an example.
+
+jms: I, I, I am probably the last person you want to talk to and ask what's
+going to be happening next year that will make some money, or, or be a big
+genre, because I'm almost always wrong.  If you want to make money in the
+comic book business, follow me around to the store and buy whatever I don't
+buy.
+
+Chuck: [laughing] OK.
+
+jms: I ended up in science fiction more or less because that was always my
+first, my first _love_.  When I came to, to Los Angeles originally, there was
+not a lot of science fiction being done; there weren't 2 shows.  The majority
+of what is done in television is cop shows and mysteries and what have you.
+And I've always wanted to do science fiction, and always seized the
+opportunity to do so.  And, it wasn't so much not knowing which genre to go
+for as ... it wasn't around; there wasn't much, much venue.  And now there
+is more science fiction being done, thus I've ended up where I am.  My, my
+sense is .. that you'll be seeing more science fiction certainly to come ..
+in the next couple of years.  I think that the westerns are in the process
+of a slow and gradual comeback.  But unless, but if, and if the next
+couple, three shows to come down the pike are very good, that will cement
+that revival.  If they are not very good, then that will pretty much kill
+the revival.  I think that the, the cop show is currently being very well
+revitalized.  The mystery show is kind of floundering right now.  I think
+it's going to go by the boards after the last season of Murder, She Wrote
+for a while.  It'll go into sort of a, a hiatus.
+
+caller: You were involved in Murder, She Wrote, too, weren't you?
+
+jms: Yeah, I was there for 2 years, that is correct.
+
+caller: OK.
+
+jms:  And, but beyond that it's always, it's always a crap shoot
+because you never know what's going to happen.  Everyone said that ..
+cop shows were once dead on television, and that .. the franchise had run
+its course.  But in point of fact it's always come back.  So, you never
+really know what's going to come back, come back out at you.
+
+caller: OK.  Thank you very much.
+
+Chuck: Thank you for calling.
+
+jms: What the, the caller was also alluding to, Harlan Ellison refers to,
+you know, my background as kind of a Hora.., Horatio Alger story.  In
+that, I'm a Jersey street kid by, by nature and upbringing.  And when I
+came here to Los Angeles in 1981, it was without any contacts in the
+business, without any friends in the industry, without family in the
+industry.  And, my wife and I .. struggled to get in.  And, had some
+very very rough times, but I am living proof that you don't have to
+have someone who knows you in the business to break in.  You can, if you
+have the persistence, the talent, and the luck, to do it on your own.
+It's a longer and harder road.  I didn't eat a whole lot.  I'm 6 foot 5,
+and there's a photo of me from that period of time where I weigh 150 pounds.
+
+Chuck&Otis: Oh, whoa.
+
+jms: Yeah, 'cause I was using money that I should have been using to
+eat, and spending it on supplies.  Writing supplies.
+
+Chuck: So you really were the literal starving artist for a while there.
+
+jms: Literally, yeah.  It got so bad, one day I was, I was trying to
+write, and I got this obsession for a candy bar.  And I didn't have 25
+cents to go out and get a candy bar.  So I went down to the corner,
+[?it made you even mad?] after a while, and shoplifted a candy bar.  I
+ate it, it tasted like gall; I couldn't even finish it.  And, later on in
+the week I got a check, a small check and went back to the store, bought
+the same kind of candy bar, walked out, walked back in again, and put it
+back.  'Cause I just couldn't live with myself for having done that.
+
+Chuck: So it's not only the Minbari who have a strong sense of honor
+here.  [laughs]
+
+jms: I just couldn't sleep at night, it just bothered me.
+
+Otis: I understand that, I guarantee you.
+
+Chuck: I think I do, too.  We need to drop out for a couple of quick
+bits of business here, and, I want to remind you we're talking to
+J. Michael Straczynski, the executive producer of Babylon 5, and as
+soon as we come back we're going to take your calls at 664-FM88.
+And ...  when we do come back I'd like to, we haven't talked much
+about the, some of the alien races that are in the Babylon 5 universe,
+and I think they're pretty fascinating.  So...
+
+Otis: Yes.
+
+Chuck: I wondered, Joe, if we could go into that when we come back.
+
+jms: Sure thing.
+
+Chuck: OK.  We're going to drop out here, Otis has got something to
+lay on ya, and then we got a couple of quick bits of business.
+
+[business deleted: 2 promos]
+
+Chuck: And this is the One Step Beyond show, and this is Chuck, and
+Otis is on hand, and, on the line with us, all the way from
+California, is J. Michael Straczynski, the creator and executive
+producer of the science fiction TV series Babylon 5....
+
+jms: [?So?] there.
+
+Chuck: ... So, welcome back.  So there.  And we've already got a
+caller who wants to talk to you.  I want to remind everybody,
+664-FM88, 664-3688, is the phone number if you want to call up
+and go on the air and talk to Otis and I and Joe.  Feel free to
+do that, and here's someone who just did it; hello, you're on the
+air.
+
+caller: Hello.  Yes, I wanted to first of all comment and say this is
+a really great station....
+
+Chuck: Thank you!
+
+Otis: Thanks.
+
+caller: Well, you know, you gotta know who, who to rub and where and all.
+
+[laughter]
+
+Chuck: [laughing] Yes, ok.
+
+caller: Well, actually, I'm from Indianapolis and I'm visiting some
+friends here in St. Louis, partially because I knew that jms was going
+to be on the phone and I wanted to hear this.  So, there are some ..
+fairly .. big fans of the show.  I just wanted to make some comments,
+maybe ask a couple of questions.
+
+Chuck: That's what we're here for.
+
+caller: OK.  Uh, yeah, we have a large group of fans at work, and
+we sit there and we discuss the show afterwards, and try to figure
+out what's going on, and of course, it's, it's kind of like
+Twin Peaks, you have no idea, it seems like when you're sure you
+know what's going on, the next thing some left curve goes out and
+blows you away.  No, that's good, I like that.  At least you can't
+second-guess it like a lot of the .. sitcoms and things like that
+where, you know, you have the, it's, there's always, I, I guess you
+can break it down into A occurs then B occurs then A does this to B
+and B is embarrassed, but then C is cool, so they do that, you know.
+But [?you don't?] follow that pattern at all, and I really really like
+that, which makes this basically my favorite show on TV right now.
+
+jms: That's great, thank you.
+
+caller: Anyway, one thing that I, that I really like about the show
+specifically is that the .. the people slash aliens or, I guess we want
+to call them non-humans because, you know, "alien" is probably not
+politically correct.  But anyway, yeah, that's a comment about your intro,
+by the way.  Humans and aliens, now, come on, these are modern times,
+we can't be doing this.
+
+[laughter]
+
+caller: We do it anyway....
+
+jms: [laughing] It's a matter of perspective; they call us aliens,
+we call them aliens.
+
+caller: Right.  I guess that's true.  Anyway.  But on "the other
+program," we note that, you know, Vulcans are always good; humans are
+good; Klingons were bad, of course, but now they're good, they're our
+friends; Cardassians and Romulans are bad.  And what's interesting in,
+in .. B5, is that we can't really figure this out.  It's like we have
+Narms [sic] who appeared .. harmless and bad, but, not always.  And the
+Centauri who seem to be harmless, but they, they have a, they have a cold
+streak.  The Minbari, who appeared good, but then also not always also.
+And of course we, nobody can figure out what's going on with the .. Vorlons.
+
+[laughter]
+
+Chuck: Yeah, who knows, right.
+
+caller: Yeah, who knows.  Well, I know one person that does know.
+
+[laughter]
+
+Chuck: He's on the line with us right now, yes.
+
+jms: And I ain't talkin'.
+
+[laughter]
+
+Chuck: [laughing] Yes.
+
+caller: Theoretically, of course.  Anyway, one thing I do like is it's
+kind of different to watch this program because, one thing, and I'm
+certain that this is intentional, it shows that basically everybody is,
+everyone is self-interested.  And their self-interest doesn't even
+necessarily match what their respective governments or worlds.  And I
+know this is intentional and, and that's one thing that, that actually
+keeps my interest in watching the program, because you could tell that
+there's .. even friction caused by .. [?yeah, I don't know?] like,
+somebody's decision, and you know, well, they probably weren't supposed
+to do this, but they did it because it matched their own self-interest.
+
+jms: Well certainly there is... in one of our scripts I dropped in a
+line about that, where a character, I think it's G'Kar, says that there
+are 3 elements in the universe: energy, matter, and enlightened
+self-interest [laughter] and that makes everything run.  My feeling is
+that I, I, as a science fiction viewer and fan, I'm  kind of tired of
+the monolithic alien species, where they're all exactly alike.
+
+Chuck: Yes, really.
+
+jms: There must be differences between them, and, and in their heart
+where, they are good or bad depending on circumstances.  I also wanted
+to create a scenario in which we....  When the show first went on the
+air, everyone said, OK, fine, this is a good guy, good alien, this is a
+bad alien, this is the comic relief.  And they all got very smug and
+satisfied with that.  Then ... which was the, the purpose and the
+intent.  Now we move the chairs around a little.  All of a sudden, the guy
+you thought was your friend, ain't your friend any more.  All of a sudden
+your world is turned upside-down.  And I, I like surprises.
+
+Chuck: Another *WHAM*, as it were.
+
+jms: Yeah.  I like being surprised when I watch a television show, when
+you see the most unlikely thing happen, and ..  when G'Kar saved Catherine
+Sakai, no one saw that coming.  They all figured that he had some, some
+agenda; he was going to hurt her or whatever.  Nope.  He just did it
+because it was the right thing to do at that particular moment.
+
+Chuck: He had his reasons, yes.
+
+jms: He had his reasons.
+
+Chuck: He had his reasons.
+
+jms: And they may be exactly what he said.  Why not?
+
+Chuck: Although, didn't he also say in that same episode that nobody on
+Babylon 5 was what they appear to be?
+
+jms: That's right.  And he was totally correct.
+
+caller: Yeah, that, that was G'Kar that said that.  That was kind of
+interesting.  Of course, and here's Mr. Heartless, and .. he smiles and
+says, [?], not everyone is who they appear to be, and then of course
+everyone is going uh-oh, what's going on.
+
+[laughter]
+
+caller: We thought we had it figured out, but not.
+
+jms: Well, all of our characters go through an arc, a change in their
+character, and, and, for that to happen you must start 'em at point A,
+and move 'em toward point Z, and that means changing them along the
+way, very subtly.
+
+caller: Well, see, there's a little bit of a problem with all this.  And
+that is that, basically, you, either intentionally or not intentionally
+have gotten everyone conditioned that watches this, that we don't trust
+anything now; we think that, you know, if you watch Twin Peaks, you know,
+they'll show a close-up of a little, you know, you'd have this big wide
+expansive room, and then, the camera just pans in and pans in, and before
+you know it, it's looking at .. a little candle, where the flame is now
+full-screen, and, and then you think, Oh, that's significant, and then,
+of course, maybe it's not.  And that, that, that's what makes it
+interesting.  But I did want to comment on that, and that is that....
+I know that you've said before, on some of the computer nets and things,
+that you don't want to drag things on so long that people lose interest.
+And, you know, that's, that's of course my concern.  Not only that, but
+also, has to do with the, the .. fact that there is this long-term
+background story, and that the concern that I had, and that was the problem
+with let's say Twin Peaks, was that, unless you watched absolutely every
+episode, if you missed one you were basically _in trouble_.  And....
+
+Chuck: Even if you didn't miss one, you were in trouble, 'cause I used to
+watch that series.
+
+caller: That's true.  But you had at least a fighting chance.
+
+Chuck: [laughing] Yes.
+
+caller: If you didn't, if you didn't watch every episode you were totally
+in trouble.  And that's, that's one thing that I want to know, is about
+this possibility of people maybe getting lost, and the question is, is the
+viewership increasing, and, and/or will the earlier episodes repeat again,
+I know they've repeated some of them already once, so people can catch up?
+Or, or is it carefully designed in such a way that you won't have this
+problem?
+
+Chuck: OK.
+
+jms: Yes.
+
+caller: Oh, thank you.  That's it?
+
+[laughter]
+
+jms: The viewership does seem to be increasing.  What we try and do
+with the show is that whenever there's an episode where prior
+knowledge helps grasp what's going on, that information is imparted
+verbally in the course of the episode.  So that, it was designed in
+such a way that you can watch all the shows, half the shows, watch
+them in order or _out_ of order....
+
+Chuck: And you can still know what's going on.
+
+jms: And still know what's going on.
+
+Chuck: In fact, we just saw an example of that this past week's
+episode Eyes, which relies on a number of things that happened in the
+past, and those things are at least briefly touched on in the dialog.
+
+jms: Yeah, we always check these things.  I, I go to some people who don't
+watch the show every so often, and I have a script that requires prior
+knowledge which is recapped in the script, I give it to the guys who don't
+watch the show and say, does this make sense to you?  If you, never having
+watched an episode, can you follow what happens here.  And they come back
+and say, I was confused, we revised it so that it's clearer, so that you
+can come in wherever you want to, and pick up the show.
+
+Chuck: OK.
+
+caller: OK.  One other thing ....
+
+Chuck: I got another call on line, so... [?make it quick?]
+
+[a couple of people talking at the same time]
+
+caller: OK, one quick thing.  The question is concerning, at least in
+Indianapolis, our, our problem is that, and I know people in certain
+areas that absolutely don't get Babylon 5 at all, our station is 40
+miles away, it's mono, [background sounds of disgust] we have a real
+problem when everyone has these awesome, you know, surround sound TVs
+and things like this.  And we can't pick it up, and it's very frustrating
+that .. certain networks or whatever, are monopolizing the independents
+or whatever stations, and it's very hard to get that, and, has anything
+like this been addressed, or how, how are you dealing with that.  And
+that's all I wanted to ask.  Thanks.
+
+jms: Sure.
+
+Chuck: Thank you, for calling.
+
+jms: Each station tends to evaluate the needs of its local viewers.
+And if you're in a locality which has an independent station or two,
+and you want Babylon 5, your best bet is to write to your local station
+and say please carry the show.
+
+Chuck: Uh huh.
+
+jms: And if they get enough response, people who want to see it, then
+they go ahead and solicit it.
+
+Chuck: Yeah, because if they think there's an audience, they'll fill it.
+
+jms: Yeah.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.  We have another call here.  Hello, you're on the air.
+
+caller: Yeah, hi there.  I got to run real quick, I'm out here on my
+cellular, but, I just wanted to mention one thing that I, I kind of get
+the impression that nobody on your staff has any military experience,
+specifically because you're always calling the Lieutenant Commander
+"Lieutenant Commander."  And generally speaking, in the military, you
+don't bother with that subrank when you're speaking with someone, unless,
+of course, you're in the process of verbally slapping them down, at which
+point in time the commander might call a lieutenant commander "lieutenant
+commander" just to make it clear, to put her in her place. 
+
+[laughter]
+
+caller: Is that something you guys did on purpose, or is that just,
+like I say, you don't have anybody with military experience in your life.
+
+jms: No, we actually, we do.  In fact if you look at our military
+costumes and the insignia, and lot of it is grounded very strongly in
+military tradition.  What we realized, though, is that if you're
+on, on the observation dome, and there's a problem and the tech turns
+and says Commander, two guys are going to turn to you.
+
+caller: Uh huh.
+
+jms: And you want to have some means to distinguish them, because
+the person who runs the station isn't the captain, it's the commander.
+
+caller: Right.
+
+jms: So saying commander could be, you know, vague and confusing.  So
+we figure we'll keep this for right now and change it down the road.
+
+caller: Yeah.  I just, I just noticed it, you know, in just person-to-person
+conversation, though, and that, like I say, it's, it's, in my experience
+anybody who's ever called me lieutenant colonel is making a point that I'm
+just a lieutenant colonel...  [laughs]
+
+jms: Got it.
+
+caller: And I better get my act together.
+
+[laughter]
+
+Chuck: OK, well, thank you for calling.
+
+caller: Sure thing.  Byebye.
+
+Otis: Oh, that was like being in the Marine Corps when I, when they
+changed the rank and I became an Acting Sergeant.  You know, they,
+they, it was a, they, they, I was a sergeant, but they had another,
+they had a little, a little technical thing so I had to .. remake
+Sergeant again.  So to be called an Acting Sergeant used to be such a
+put-down; I was so glad to make that extra stripe so that I could be
+called Sergeant.
+
+Chuck: No fooling about it.
+
+Otis: Yes, no fooling around.  So are we... I really understand that,
+that caller.
+
+Chuck: See, I never would have known that.  'Cause I, I have no military
+experience myself.
+
+jms: Yeah, we were aware of it.  We just felt that this was, for now,
+the better way to go.
+
+Chuck: OK.  So it was more of a dramatic decision rather than anything
+else there.
+
+jms: Yeah.  Yeah.
+
+Chuck: Once again I want to remind folks we're talking to J. Michael
+Straczynski, the creator and executive producer of Babylon 5,
+here on the One Step Beyond show.  And I also want to remind you our
+phone number is 664-FM88 if you want to get in on the conversation
+here.  And, well, we have another caller, so I guess we'll get 'em
+on the air.  Hello, you're on the air with J. Michael Straczynski.
+
+caller:  Thank you.  A short question and a long one.
+
+Chuck: OK.  Oh, this is one of our, this is one of our programmers here at
+the station, it's Elliott.
+
+caller: Oh, hi there.
+
+Chuck: Go ahead, Elliott.
+
+caller: Thank you.  Um, what town in New Jersey you from?
+
+jms: I was born in Patterson, raised in Newark.
+
+caller: Oh, intense New Jersey.  All right.  [? I'm Union, myself??]
+
+jms: Yeah.
+
+Otis: [laughing] Intense.
+
+caller: No, 'cause I just wanted you to know that people from New
+Jersey are still out here.  If you remember the old Star Trek
+show, the first one, that was kind of the, the new .. new frontier
+in space.  And then they had the, the other Star Trek show, and that
+was kind of .. a little urban yuppie village in space, and, and....
+
+jms: [ ? ] David Gerrold calls a Club Med in space.
+
+[laughter]
+
+caller: Exactly.  Are you kind of the United States in space again,
+or is this a real world colony; is there an African component, an
+African village component; maybe .. an Islamic aspect to things.
+You know what I'm, I'm not, you know what I'm getting at, is there really
+a universal .. thing in space or is this just, once again, the US in
+space.
+
+jms: Well, no, there are, there are and have been, we've shown
+Arabs, Islamic, Africans, American Indian .. Native Americans.  We
+try to show everyone there isn't, like, a little Italy, or a little
+Africa, or a little, you know, Saigon, because there isn't room in the
+station.  They are all kind of shoved in together with each other.
+And, I think, and that's more interesting in the long run to
+have everyone sort of integrated, having to live with each other, than
+being pushed off into various different small communities.
+
+caller: Is it something like a submarine, where it's tight, and everyone
+has to get along?
+
+jms: Yeah.
+
+caller: And it's, and it's done on a very hierarchical basis, like
+there's the captain, and there's the, you know.  Is, is, is the Babylon
+5 a hierarchical place, or is it ...
+
+jms: Well, only in terms of....
+
+caller: ... uh, a democracy?
+
+jms: It's only hierarchical in terms of the military, which ..
+has its ranks and its orders.  But ... Babylon 5 is primarily a civilian
+living area.  The best comparison I could give to you would be a
+military governor of a state, like California was, it had a military
+governor before it became a state.  And, and, and, they have to deal
+with all the real piddly problems that take place in terms of getting
+water, irrigation put in, and, and construction, and there's a squabble over
+water rights.  And has to monitor all of this stuff, and deal with the,
+the Emperor of Mexico down the road, who has his own problems.  It's
+more that kind of an environment.  It's, it's, it's a mix of things, it
+really is.
+
+caller: I'm intrigued from a question that someone had asked before.
+Does someone truck away the garbage?
+
+[laughter]
+
+jms: Yeah, we got, we got garbage, we got toilets in Babylon 5.  We
+did one scene where we have .. Garibaldi and Sinclair talking at
+the urinals, just having a conversation.
+
+Chuck: Something we never saw on any other science fiction series [? I
+ever got ?] [laughter]  I always wondered where the bathrooms were
+on the Enterprise, darn it, you know....
+
+jms: Well, we always say where they are, you go right in the front
+door, and you see them doing their business while they're having
+a conversation.
+
+caller: And why specifically Babylon, of all places, or all names?
+
+jms: Well, a number of reasons, first and foremost being that, originally,
+if you look at its history, Babylon was not, did not have the onus
+that it has now.  It was designed to be a place of great commerce and
+industry, and people would come from other countries to do business
+there.  Gradually it began to unravel and eventually was thrown down
+several times.  And rebuilt about 5 times, by the way.  Babylon itself
+has been rebuilt about 4 or 5 times.  Beyond that, the storyline
+of Babylon 5 is somewhat designed to track the history of the original
+Babylon.  So if you were to get out a history book, and read up everything
+there is on the first Babylon, you would get some idea of where the show
+is going to go.
+
+caller: Nineveh. ...  That was a joke, never mind.
+
+jms: Yes.
+
+Chuck: There are some things he's not going to comment on, Elliott.
+I should warn you about that.
+
+[laughter]
+
+jms: Mene mene tekel upharsin.  [silence]  Never mind.
+[Note: This is "The writing on the wall."  Thanks to Larry Hiller for
+recognizing this from the clues given in the initial release of this.]
+
+Chuck: Never mind.
+
+[laughter]
+
+caller: Yeah also, just one more quick question: .. anything on science
+fiction _radio_ that you're....  I know, on my next, if I may do a plug
+for next Thursday's show....
+
+Chuck: Oh, go ahead, Elliott.
+
+caller: I'll be doing some excerpts from Ruby: The Adventures of a Galactic
+Gumshoe.
+
+Otis: Oh....
+
+caller: Specifically the sex with robots section.
+
+jms: I love Ruby.  Is this Ruby I or Ruby II?
+
+caller: Ruby I.
+
+jms: Ah.
+
+caller: The one that you can follow and make sense.
+
+[laughter]
+
+jms: Yes.
+
+caller: Do you, is there, do you know of any radio science fiction that's
+coming up that you're interested in, or anything in the past that you
+thought was awesome .. [??], whatever.
+
+jms: I loved Ruby.  I have the entire set, as a matter of fact, on disk.
+Ruby's terrific.  Alien Worlds I kinda liked, and also worked on
+for a while.  I love the Star Wars adaptations, which are now out
+on cassette.  As far as new stuff is concerned, there ain't a whole lot
+going on right now.
+
+Chuck: We've got, in fact, an example here that I may get on called
+Gyp Psychic in Hyperspace.  Are you familiar with that one?
+
+jms: No.  That I don't know.
+
+Chuck: OK, it's by a guy named ... I've forgotten his name now, but
+it's part of something called Audio Comics.
+
+jms: Oh, it's not a ZBS then?
+
+Chuck: No, it's not.  No, this is FlamCo Enterprises, some, some weirdo
+somewhere off in the Z who does this, but, we may get around to that at
+some point.
+
+caller: All right, well, thank you very kindly.
+
+jms: Thank you.
+
+Chuck: Thanks, Elliott.  And, boy, we've got another caller here.  You,
+you seem to be provoking a lot of phone calls here, Joe ...
+
+jms: Great.
+
+Chuck: ... so let's put 'em on the air.  Hello, you're on the air.
+
+caller: Oh, thank you.  Um, you were talking about such wonderful,
+lofty things before, I thought we'd bring it back down to the gutter
+again.  [laughter]  On the restroom scene, when .. Garibaldi and
+Sinclair were walking from the restroom, someone passed them and headed
+back into the men's room, and it looked very much like a woman.  And
+that's been troubling a bunch of us for some time now.  [laughter]
+What's the story about that?
+
+jms: Um, my, my story is that if you go past the men's room, there's
+another hallway there where, you, you really can't see it well on, on
+the shot, but it goes off to the, to women's restrooms.
+
+caller: Oh, OK.
+
+jms: That's my story; I'm sticking to it.
+
+[laughter]
+
+Chuck: OK, fair enough.
+
+caller: That window is kind of, you know, kind of placed in a bad spot
+there now, I think I'd take the rest.., the window out of the restroom
+if I was you.  [laughs]
+
+jms: Yeah, it was meant to be a mirror, I'm not sure how well that
+came off.
+
+[laughter.  Many people talking at once.]
+
+caller: Oh, I see.
+
+Chuck: Oh, all right.
+
+jms: Yeah, the director [ ?? ] shot for that.
+
+Chuck: I'm afraid we missed that completely.
+
+jms: Yeah, so did I.
+
+[laughter]
+
+caller: Thank you.
+
+Chuck: Thanks.  Byebye.  Boy, here's another call.  But once it....
+The phone number here is 664-FM88.  We're talking with J. Michael
+Straczynski, the man who created Babylon 5, and here's another caller.
+Hello, you're on the air.
+
+caller: Oh, hello, I want to stay with the bathroom scene.
+
+[laughter]
+
+Chuck: [laughing] Oh, please....
+
+jms: See what you've done now, what you've opened up with this.
+
+Otis: Yes.
+
+caller: There was a recent episode where the, I don't know what,
+the PsiCops are trying to, to pay back the Commander of Babylon 5.
+
+Chuck: Yeah, that was Eyes.
+
+caller: OK.
+
+Chuck: That was last week's episode.
+
+caller: Ok.  I thought I'd seen it before, but there was one scene
+where the younger, the PsiCop that's with the military guy, has confronted
+the, I don't know her name, the executive com.., the executive officer.
+
+jms: Ivanova.
+
+Chuck: Yeah, Ivanova.
+
+caller: Yeah.  In the restaurant.  And .. she loses her temper, and
+refers to tearing his head off and using it as a chamberpot.
+
+Chuck: Yes. [laughing]
+
+caller: Well, in the 23rd century [laughter] what is the character's
+basis for using that term?
+
+jms: Well....
+
+caller: I'm sure you have a _good_....
+
+jms: I got a flash for you.
+
+caller: OK.
+
+jms: Which is that most of our language and terminology goes back several
+hundred years.  A lot of it goes back a lot further than that.  Wednesday
+was Odin's day, you know.  Thursday was Thor's day.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.  Frika's day was Friday.  Yeah.  Right.
+
+jms: Yeah.  But the point being that, we're still using terminology
+now that goes back literally hundreds of years.  And, and to me, one
+thing that is important with the show is to keep pointing toward the
+continuity of the human species.  That parts of our traditions do go with
+us.  We use the term bar-and-grill all the time.  How many realize
+the fact that where that comes from was a time in, where, in, like the
+17- or 1800s when isolated pubs would have a grillwork put in, you know,
+there were no police in the area.  And to buy a drink you had to go in,
+pass money through the grill, the grillwork, they'd slide the bottle
+out to you, and keep the rest of it hidden behind, behind the wall.
+
+Chuck: I didn't know that.
+
+jms: That's where that comes from.  So to me, that, that terminology
+will still be around; it may be archaic, as much of our language today
+is archaic, but we still use it.
+
+caller: But obviously it has to mean enough to them to use in extreme
+emotional .. moments, because she was furious; that's the first thing
+that came to her mind.
+
+jms: Also she is, I'm sure she is read up on history, in particular
+the Russian history, and there may be parts of Russia that still, that
+don't have all the inner plumbing they should really have at this point.
+
+[laughter]
+
+Otis: And why wouldn't a spaceship sometimes, in, in circumstances, not
+have a pot?  I, I, I could understand that, you know, some, somehow
+this is coming clear to me.
+
+[laughter]
+
+Chuck: It's possible that the chamberpot may have changed somewhat in its
+technology, but who knows, yes.
+
+Otis: Be made out of different material but [laughing].
+
+jms: All right, I'll resolve this for you right now.  Chamberpot is
+a new word in the 23rd century that means TV antenna. [laughter]
+OK?  We're clear on this now?
+
+caller: I think I've got the big picture now.
+
+jms: I'm coming over there.
+
+caller: So I'll keep watching to see how all this great plotting .. gets
+together with all the characterization and the dialog, and I'll keep, I'll
+keep those things in mind.
+
+jms: OK.
+
+Chuck: Ok, and thank you.  I'm not gonna take another toilet query.  I
+mean ...
+
+Otis: No no no no no no.  I'm happy ...
+
+Chuck: ... I don't want any more of this.
+
+Otis: ... I'm happy to know that, I'm happy to know that there will be boys
+and girls in the future.
+
+jms: Oh absolutely.
+
+Otis: That's right, not just one kind, just, boys and girls.  And you
+just satisfied that, thank you.
+
+Chuck: Big O, you've got some business to do here.  Let's get that out
+of the way and maybe we won't get any more toilet questions.
+
+Otis: I don't know....
+
+[business deleted: PSA & promo]
+
+Chuck: ... This is the One Step Beyond show, of course, with Chuck and
+Otis, and we're talkin' to J. Michael Straczynski, who is the creator
+and executive producer of Babylon 5.  Joe, I've been wanting to ask about,
+and talk a bit more about the alien races, 'cause we haven't discussed
+them very much.  And there's some ...
+
+jms: No, we haven't.
+
+Chuck: And there's some really interesting ...
+
+jms: And we're not going to.
+
+Chuck: Yeah, let's, let's .. could you give us, give the listeners an
+overview of the various aliens that are showing up on Babylon 5.
+
+jms: Well, we have in addition to humans the, which are one part of
+the big 5....
+
+Chuck: Right.
+
+jms: We have the Centauri.  These are our first contact we ever made
+with another civilization, about, roughly a hundred years ago, in B5
+story time.  And it was from them where we first began to get jumpgate
+technology that allowed us to go to the stars.  And .. they began trading
+with us and, good relation, and they said, you know, Oh, we run everything,
+we run the whole universe, the whole galaxy, we are in charge of everything.
+Which we bought for a long time, until we got out there, and found out
+they were lying to us.  [laughter]  Which, you know, well, what do you want,
+it was a bookkeeping error, you know.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.
+
+jms: And .. then there are the Narns, who were conquered and ..
+suppressed by the Centauri for the better part of a hundred years, and
+have recently staged their own revolution and kicked them off, off the
+homeworld.  And now the Narns are sort of the new kids on the block,
+being very aggressive, and trying to, to overcompensate for what was
+done to them by doing it to somebody else.  Then there are the Minbari,
+who we ran into about 10 years ago, 12 years ago storytime-wise.
+And .., the first contact we had with the Minbari, Delenn's people,
+went terribly awry.  We first encountered a convoy of their ships,
+for the first time; we don't know who they were, they didn't know who
+we were.  They offered a gesture of respect of opening their gun
+ports, which, we didn't take as being anything but an act of aggression,
+and we opened fire.  They took it as being a, a surprise attack.
+
+Chuck: Oh boy.
+
+jms: Which destroyed their main ship and killed their leader.  And ..
+their religious leader Dukhat.
+
+Chuck: Ouch.
+
+jms: And they declared jihad, a religious war, and determined to wipe
+us off the face of the universe....
+
+Chuck: This sounds....  OK.
+
+jms: ... They .. and then, they, for, for reasons unknown, on the
+edge of wiping us out, stopped the, stopped the war, and surrendered,
+and no one quite knows why.  That's one of the big mysteries of
+our show, why did the Minbari surrender on the eve of victory.
+
+Chuck: Right.
+
+jms: Then there are the Vorlons....
+
+Chuck: Yes, there are the Vorlons, [laughs] whatever they are.
+
+jms: They .. we only see one of them.  He is in his encounter suit at
+all times which is required, or may not be required, it could be
+camouflage to keep us from seeing what he actually is inside.
+We've been aware of the Vorlons for, you know, some time now, but no one's
+ever seen one.  All ships trying to enter Vorlon space have terrible
+accidents.  They say don't do it again.  And, who and what they are
+and what they want is our, is another enigma in our show.
+
+Chuck: And in fact, the only two humans who ever saw a Vorlon got
+transferred off the station.
+
+jms: Very quickly.
+
+Chuck: Yes.  Now, I gotta ask you, was that actually part of the plotline,
+or was that just, a matter of the actors not being available.
+
+jms: In, in, in both cases, we and the actors couldn', didn't reach
+a, a meeting of minds for different, different reasons.  But, the one
+thing about having a storyline tracked out ahead of time is that you
+have trapdoors built in for every single character.
+
+Chuck: Aha.
+
+jms: And, and that departure _served_ us wonderfully by giving us another
+layer to the paranoia we try to create in the show.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.  So, serendipitously it all worked out.
+
+jms: It did indeed.
+
+Chuck: We got another caller here on line.  Hello, you're on the air.
+
+caller: Hi Chuck, it's Brice.
+
+Chuck: Oh, hi Brice.
+
+caller: Two observations.  One, language and its terms are even older
+than .. you and .. the author are describing.  I mean there are terms
+that date back a couple of thousand years.
+
+jms: Absolutely.
+
+caller: So you might as well use the old worlds; they'll change in their
+meaning but they'll be the same.  It's like bar-and-grill, that's a good
+example.  And the other thing is the Japanese use co-ed public toilets now,
+to go back to the subject you didn't want to.  So this'll ...
+
+Chuck: Gee, thanks, Brice.
+
+caller: ... probably help the program [laughs] sell more in Japan; I don't
+know, they'll feel right at home.  That's all.
+
+Chuck: OK.  Thank you.
+
+caller: Uh huh.  Bye.
+
+Chuck: Yeah, I should point out, I, I know that caller.  He is, in fact, a
+linguist by trade.
+
+jms: Ah.
+
+Chuck: So....
+
+jms: Yeah, I think, I think I mentioned it, they do, some of them do go back
+a couple of thousand years, to the .. Eurasian and Euro-Indian ..
+roots.  So, it does go back an awful long ways.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.
+
+jms: And why not use that language to show the continuity of the human
+species.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.  Well, of course at the same time it helps if you do have
+somethings that refer to contemporary, the contemporary world, just by
+virtue of the fact that really it's, it is a TV show that's being shown
+to a 20th century audience.  So....
+
+jms: You would think so, yes.
+
+Chuck: You would think so.  And of course, I mean, obviously that's why...
+we understand what the people are saying; realistically 250 years in the
+future, whatever language was being spoken would probably be about as
+comprehensible to us now as, our English would be to say, someone from
+Shakespeare's time.
+
+jms: Well, then again, not necessarily.
+
+Chuck: OK.
+
+jms: Pick up, there are a number of books which have, odd enough,
+letters, from children, at the time of George Washington, 200, well over
+200 years ago.
+
+Chuck: OK.
+
+jms: Those letters are as legible and readable today as they were then.
+Ah, the [?? speeches ??] of Abraham Lincoln ring as soundly today as
+they did then.  There, there is this, this sense people have that,
+that the future will change dramatically from what it has been.  And,
+and the future ain't what it used to be; it doesn't change that much
+any more.  There was a great movie, for, for those of your audience who
+are science fiction fans ... Just Imagine was the name of it.
+It was a 1930's black-and-white science fiction musical.
+
+Chuck: Whoa, this is a new one on me.
+
+jms: It was set in the year 1980, 50 years hence.
+
+Chuck: OK.
+
+jms: And, and, in their version of the future, people ate pills
+instead of having food, they had numbers instead of names, they
+gave birth by machine.  And all these things, you know, to their mind
+50 years was incalculable and all these things had to change.  Where
+in point of fact it hasn't changed that much.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.  It sounds like a cross between Hugo Gernsback and Brave
+New World.
+
+jms: Yeah, the chrome of technology has changed.  And, and certain
+new words have come into the language, but if you were to blip back in
+time right now to George Washington's period, you would not have that
+hard a time understanding them, or them understanding you.
+
+Chuck: I guess that's a valid point.  Ok.  I'll buy that.  Oh, here's
+another caller coming in, so let's put 'em on the air.  Hello, you're
+on the air with J. Michael Straczynski.
+
+caller: Yeah, hi Chuck, it's David.
+
+Chuck: Oh, hi.
+
+caller: I just wanted to echo what he was just saying, his points are
+very valid.  The largest changes that have been noticed, in terms of
+science fiction accurately predicting what the future is actually
+going to look like, are technological.  The, you know, Flash Gordon,
+as one commentator once put it, lives forever in a world of analog
+pages long after the rest of the universe has gone digital.
+
+Chuck: OK.
+
+caller: Yeah, the old fashioned, the U-meters and things like that, of
+the sort that you don't see in science fiction today because everything
+is all, you know, digital readouts now.
+
+Chuck: Uh huh.
+
+jms: There's a great example of this in the early Buck Rogers serials.
+Their, their ship's been hit, and they're going down, and and and Buck
+says to the other people in the ship, "All right, grab your anti-gravity
+belts," and they pick up these slim belts, which could be anti-gravity
+belts, you know, and put them on.  "Grab your ray guns," and they
+grab what could pass for very good ray guns.  "Grab the portable radio,"
+and they pick up these _huge_ [laughter] boxes, like 2 feet by 2 feet
+with huge antennas, because they knew what a radio was.  They couldn't
+get past where they were in current technology to foresee that a radio
+could be the size of your palm.
+
+caller: Yeah, there's an episode of The Flash that spoke to that too.
+A character's been in cryogenic stasis for 30 years, and he wakes up
+and says, "where are my personal helicopters, where are my gigantic
+cities of the future," you know, you know, "what happened to my future?"
+he cries.
+
+[laughter]
+
+jms: Part of the problem, I think, is that Americans view 200 years as
+being a real long time when that's all we've been here for.  But if
+you travel outside the country, to England or to Ireland, or or ...
+I stood in, in [? New Grange ?], in a burial mound that goes back
+to the Bronze Age, before the Bronze Age.  There you get a sense of
+what real time is.  Stand on the cobblestones of Trinity College, and
+you realize that at some point someone ran down those same cobblestones
+to say there's a revolution breaking out in America.  To them this is
+like yesterday's news.  We don't understand what real time is in this
+country, but I think over the next few centuries we'll figure it out.
+
+Chuck: We've gotten a bit myopic, I guess.
+
+caller: It is hard to get a grasp on that.  Chuck's housemate, Jeffrey,
+used to go to college in Jacksonville.  And he showed me... you know,
+one of his, one of the earlier graduates of that school was William
+Jennings Bryant.  And he showed me a brick wall where... you know
+we think of Bryant as the great orator, you know, "You shall not
+crucify mankind upon a cross of gold," and all that stuff.  And he
+showed me a brick wall where young student William Jennings Bryant
+carved his initials into the brick with a penknife.  And that made it
+all real.
+
+jms & Chuck: Yeah.
+
+caller: We thought of him as a young human being suddenly; he came
+to life in a way he never had before.  So you're right, we do have a
+trouble grasping that, without something concrete, as it were, to grasp
+on to.
+
+Chuck: Or brick, as the case may be.
+
+caller: Yes.
+
+Chuck: Hey, listen, thanks for calling.  We've got another call coming
+in.
+
+caller: You're welcome.  Byebye.
+
+Chuck: Byebye.  Ok, and here comes another caller.  Hello, you're on
+the air.
+
+caller: Thank you.
+
+Chuck: You're welcome.
+
+caller: Ah, jms, after reading some of your more sarcastic posts on
+Internet, and then hearing some of Ivanova's comments on the show, I was
+wondering if she was your alter-ego on the show, or if there's some of
+you in all the characters.
+
+jms: There's some of me in pretty much all the characters, particularly
+Kosh.
+
+[laughter]
+
+caller: Uh oh.
+
+jms: The less said the better.  But .. no, I love Ivanova because ..
+I am.... Straczynski is by nature White Russian background.  And I've
+watched Russians portrayed on television, and never quite seen it done ..
+really very well.  With a sense of both astonishment and doom that sort
+of follows them around wherever they go.  And I love writing for Ivanova.
+And she is probably in some ways the closest to myself.  But there's
+something of me in all the characters pretty much.  And, and that's kind
+of half the fun, is putting your own personality into some of the
+characters and watching them run around.  Basically, I, I go through
+every day with, with Kosh, and Garibaldi, and G'Kar and Londo running
+around in my head 24 hours a day which is a frightening thought on the
+best of days.
+
+[laughter]
+
+Chuck: You know, Ivanova, now that you mentioned her, I thought had a
+wonderfully typically Russian comment at the end of Grail, you know
+the one about ...
+
+jms: Boom!
+
+Chuck: ... sooner or later, Boom!, sure.  [laughs]  You know, it's
+all going to blow up eventually.
+
+jms: It's, it's that Russian sense of impending doom.  There's a scene
+in Soul Hunter, where .. she says that, in 200 years from now, we'll
+still be as.. be human, we'll still make the same mistakes over and over
+and over again.  And as Franklin says, Oh, you're a pessimist, and she
+says, no, I'm Russian, we understand these things. [laughter]  And
+that's exactly who and what she is.  That's what the Russian spirit is.
+You hope for the best, expect the worst.
+
+Chuck: Thank you for calling.
+
+caller: OK, thank you.
+
+Chuck: OK.  Another caller comin' in here; hello, you're on the line,
+with J. Michael Straczynski.
+
+caller: Hi.
+
+jms: Hi there.
+
+caller: I sort of, sort of took exception to some of the remarks I
+heard.  So, you're warned.
+
+Chuck: Well, OK, a little controversy couldn't hurt.  Go ahead.
+
+caller: Well, I've heard this before that, I've heard this before where
+people will criticize science fiction so called from like 50 years ago
+and say, oh well, the future didn't come out like that at all.  I don't
+know, I, you know, I think that there's... I would, I would argue that
+there's, you know, that there's lots, lots of folks that would say,
+you know, there's nobody... nobody would seriously take the point,
+nobody would seriously argue that, you know, these people are trying
+to predict the future.
+
+jms: Didn't say they were.
+
+caller: I mean.... Yeah, no, no, not at all.  I mean, you can, you can,
+you can pick out, you can pick out .. books and movies that have,
+that can portray just about any future that you can imagine.  You know,
+and none of these, none of them are compatible with the others.  I think
+a lot of what goes on is you get people .. a lot of these people have
+their own .. peculiar .. sociological theories.  And they like to write
+stories that sort of .. bear out their version of things.
+
+jms: Yeah, my only point really was that, there is a sense people have
+that 200 years from now we will be _vastly_ different people, and
+everything will have changed at some point and we aren't really even
+what we are now any more.  And in point of fact....
+
+caller: Yeah, I would agree with that, you know, yeah, things change,
+you know.
+
+jms: They do, but not, I think, on a very human level, on a personal
+level.  We.... Evolution doesn't work in 200 year bursts.
+
+caller: Well, I'll agree with that too.  A lot, you know, .. you, you,
+you're talking about things haven't changed in a long....  A lot of
+things don't change over time, and that's very true.  Yeah.
+
+jms: Yeah.
+
+caller: Absolutely.
+
+jms: I mean 200 years ago people got married, they had affairs, they
+got separated, they raised kids, they had jobs, they hoped for a better
+life for their kids.  And that'll be the same 200 years hence.  The
+technology will change; the chrome will change, but the human heart
+itself will not go through that much of a dynamic, I think.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.
+
+caller: Absolutely.  All right, that's all I want to say.
+
+jms: Great.
+
+Chuck: All right, thank you.  I think it's a good point.  It is
+unrealistic to expect that human nature, whatever that is, is going to
+suddenly radically alter itself within a couple of centuries.
+
+jms: No, no.
+
+Chuck: And I think it's a valid point.  I want to remind you it's
+4:41 in the afternoon; we're talking to J. Michael Straczynski, the
+creator and execugive .. executive [laughs], got my teeth [?? ].
+
+jms: You can call me the resident god.
+
+Chuck: Resident god of Babylon 5.  Thank you, that'll do just fine.
+And, Otis has some more business to throw at us here.
+
+[business deleted: PSA]
+
+Otis: ... I can see the big problem on P5.
+
+Chuck: B5?
+
+Otis: On B5.
+
+Chuck: Which is?
+
+Otis: It's Musak.  We, all of us, you know, I'll be fighting to get a
+little rap in, you know, and you'll be fighting to get some classical in,
+you know, it'll just be .. the first big war, the big split on B5.
+
+Chuck: We've seen no Musak on Babylon 5, have we?
+
+jms: I try and avoid it.  [laughter]  I was once scared by Musak.  I was,
+honest to God, I was in a supermarket in Glendale, California, and they
+had the Musak going, and .. I heard Helter Skelter done Musak.  [laughter]
+I left the supermarket at once, I didn't want to know who was at the
+checkout counter.
+
+[laughter]
+
+Chuck: Isn't that one of the signs of the Apocalypse?  I think it is.
+
+jms: I think so; it's the end times.
+
+Chuck: It's the end times.
+
+Otis: Well, also....
+
+Chuck: Dobbs would know, Bob Dobbs would know about that; we'll have to
+talk to him about it.
+
+Otis: OK, yeah.
+
+Chuck: We've got another caller on line, so let's put 'em on.  Hello,
+you're on the air with J. Michael Straczynski.
+
+caller: Well, not only did I call once, but I've called twice.
+
+Chuck: [laughing] Well, OK.
+
+caller: And I just had to say, I've, I've heard so far, I've heard the
+writers praised, I've heard the producers praised, and .. the missing
+element here is the actors, because ...
+
+Chuck: Oh, I was just going to bring that up.
+
+caller: ... they are awfully, awfully good, every single one of them,
+and the restraint with which things are being portrayed, I think, is
+very important.  I, I, I, I think it's .. people expect them to chew
+up the scenery and it's certainly not necessary, and .. would bother
+me greatly, so, I just wanted to say that the actors themselves
+deserve a lot of the credit for this, so....
+
+jms: I couldn't possibly agree with you more.  We have a terrific cast
+overall, and they do play things in a more human, restrained kind of a
+way than ... what you'll often get, in science fiction television, which
+is sort of a stereotype or an archetype, where they sort of find some
+personality trait to hook it on, and they play that one note for the
+rest of their lives.  And .. they're all very talented, they're all
+very good, and they're a joy to work with.  And the directors are also
+very good too on the show; they're very sharp, and they try to give the
+show a real, some sense of style.
+
+Chuck: OK.
+
+caller: Thank you.
+
+Chuck: Thanks.  Yeah, I should point out, that .. that the friend
+of mine who called in, and I, are both actors in fact in our spare
+time, in our copious free time.  And, we have both been admiring a
+lot of the work we've been seeing on Babylon 5 and, yeah, let's talk
+about some of those actors, because we haven't mentioned names and
+what they do, and how you ended up with them in the cast.  But I'd,
+I'd like to into some of that, because I think you have a very good
+cast there.
+
+jms: Thank you.  Basically, we just cast the best person to walk in
+the door.  The only interesting case off-hand was .. Jerry Doyle, who
+plays Garibaldi.  Who used to be a stock broker.
+
+Chuck: Oh, really?
+
+jms: And he got caught up in this whole junk bond thing, as a matter
+of fact.  And decided to go straight thereafter.  And came to be an
+actor.  And walked in the door, and, his resume -- you're going to
+love this -- his resume was 80% fiction.
+
+Chuck: [laughing] OK.
+
+jms: But you figure a guy who worked with junk bonds would do this.  And
+at the bottom of his resume: member, Dance Theatre of Harlem.  Now....
+
+Chuck: Don't tell me, that was the real part?
+
+jms: No, that's, that's bogus.
+
+Chuck: Oh, OK.
+
+jms: And no one had ever called him on this.
+
+Chuck: Are you serious?
+
+jms: The Dance Theatre of Harlem, what the hell is that?
+
+Chuck: A white guy who looks like ...
+
+jms: Yeah....
+
+Chuck: ... Bruce Willis, in the Dance Theatre of Harlem.
+
+jms: ... Yeah.  Yeah.  And no one had ever called... all right, all right,
+Jerry, dance.  And so he came in, you know, there's a scene where you
+bring the actor in, you put 'em up against the wall, you slate them, which
+means they say their name, and the role they're going for.  And so we're
+taping him, and he says, you know, my name is Jerry Doyle.  What part are
+you here to audition for?  The one I'm going to get.  [laughter]  When
+he said that, we knew, we found Garibaldi.
+
+Chuck: [laughing] OK.  Someone who has that attitude.
+
+jms: Yeah, exactly.  And .. Claudia Christian comes to us from a number
+of different films, including Hexed.  A terrific actress.  And, and all
+of our cast, they came to us, as anyone does, on a standard audition, and
+we tried to find the best possible synthesis of personalities.
+
+Chuck: I was wondering, because I had never heard of or seen most of these
+actors and actresses on the show.
+
+jms: You may have, but not necessarily noticed them.  For instance, Peter
+Jurasik, who plays Londo, was of course Sid the Snitch in Hill Street Blues.
+
+Chuck: Yeah, I, my, many Hill Street Blues fans have pointed that out to
+me, yes.
+
+jms: And Andreas gets around a lot, you saw Andreas, who is G'Kar, as
+the one-armed man in The Fugitive.
+
+Chuck: Right, Andreas Katsulas, yeah.
+
+jms: And he was in .. Hot Shots Part Deux....
+
+Chuck: Oh, he got the chicken shot at him, didn't he?
+
+jms: Yeah, yeah.  And .. a really nice guy.  And .. one thing that's
+great about our cast is they're not only nice people, but they're also
+very sharp.  Claudia is a Mensa member, a genius IQ.
+
+Chuck: I didn't know that.
+
+jms: Again, Jerry was a stock broker.  These are people who, who know a lot
+of stuff and bring a great deal of intelligence to the role with them.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.  I'm .. that's .. I'm just sort of impressed by that.  I had
+no idea about those little bits of business.  But I was noticing.... I,
+I was one of those folks who downloaded that Babylon 5 interactive, the
+Mac version.
+
+jms: Oh, yeah.
+
+Chuck: You know, which I guess was something you guys had sent out as a
+marketing gimmick ...
+
+jms: Right.
+
+Chuck: ... earlier in the year.  And I noticed some of the backgrounds of
+some of these actors, and it is pretty varied, I noticed, but some of them
+have some pretty substantial stage experience.  I notice Michael O'Hare,
+who plays Sinclair, has had quite a variety of stage experience, as a matter
+of fact.
+
+jms: Yeah, he's been a Broadway actor for a very long time, and was very
+well respected in that area.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.  So it's quite a cast.  Here's someone coming in, so we'll
+let them talk to you; hello, you're on the air with J. Michael Straczynski.
+
+caller: Hi, this is your cousin, Chuck, from the television side.
+
+Chuck: [laughing] OK.
+
+caller: I happen to be driving in a car [laughs] hearing you talking to
+the producer there of one of my favorite shows, and .. I was just wondering
+if there was some way I can, that I can leave a card, or I can, that I
+can contact him about possible job position either with his part, or
+with Foundation Imaging who takes care of the special effects.
+
+Chuck: Well, let me ask you this, do you have access to the Internet?
+
+caller: No, not me personally.
+
+Chuck: Ok.  I think maybe you ought to call us back after the show is
+over, and we'll talk to you, we'll talk to Joe off-line about that.
+
+caller: OK.
+
+Chuck: Ok, thank you.
+
+caller: All right.
+
+Otis: Hey, can I....
+
+Chuck: Now you got people calling in and looking for jobs.
+
+Otis: No, you see, I got, I got this... I got both of you on the phone,
+and I think that, that right now, this is Otis, and I'm looking at you,
+Chuck, and then I'm listening to Joe, and there's a little society
+developing, it's called the Internet group.  We are looking at them,
+and... I'm looking at them with fascination and I'm... I notice that
+when I listen to radio, TV, the announcer or the [??principle??] will
+always say here's the number where you can get me on my Inter... a way
+of getting 'em through the computer.  So, it's a whole group of people
+collecting, they seem to be very intelligent, about your age and your
+intelligence....  This group is getting _big_.  Is it international?
+Is it, is it, is it ethnic people involved, all kind of folks?
+
+jms: It's otherworldly.
+
+Chuck: It's otherworldly.
+
+Otis: It's otherworldly.
+
+Chuck: It's cyberspace, yeah.
+
+Otis: Amazing.
+
+Chuck: We hadn't really addressed that, Otis, you're right.  But, jms,
+Joe... he's known as jms on the Internet, that's how he signs all of
+his posts, and stuff.
+
+Otis: OK.
+
+Chuck: And .. there is on the Internet a Babylon 5 discussion group.  For
+those of you who have access to Internet news...
+
+Otis: My, my, my.
+
+Chuck: ... it's rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.  If you have access to news, you
+know what that means, and if you don't, don't worry about it.  And, it is
+a discussion group for fans of the show, but what's significant is that
+Joe reads it and posts his own thoughts on it, quite frequently.
+
+jms: About 500 messages a day come over my computer.
+
+Chuck: Whoa.  So, that's a very busy group.
+
+Otis: So, so, you get your computer and you're hooked up, you get hooked
+up to access.  That's the way you do it.
+
+Chuck: Uh huh.  Yeah.  And he's able to receive electronic mail from
+the viewers, and is able to respond publicly to their comments about
+the show, which is really kind of unusual.  I mean, this is becoming
+more typical, but certainly this is one of the few instances I know
+where the man who is the creator of a major television series has that
+kind of direct feedback from the people who are watching it.
+
+Otis: Yeah.
+
+jms: A few of us have done it on a small basis.  Sneakers, for instance,
+came in, and like 2 months before the movie opened, they were on line on
+various services.  They were there for a week or two after it opened,
+then they all vanished.
+
+Chuck: Uh huh.
+
+jms: This is....  The Babylon 5 on-line experiment has been going on now
+since before the pilot, and .. has stayed on, on all the various nets
+ever since, to get both the praise and the brickbats.  And to learn from
+them.  Currently I am on Internet, CompuServe, GEnie, NVN, Bix, FidoNet,
+and like 3 others.
+
+Chuck: Good grief.  Now if someone....
+
+jms: I have no life.
+
+[laughter]
+
+Chuck: Well, you know, I mean, but this is so typical, I think what
+especially prompted Otis to mention this was that last week, our 
+guests on the show were Phil Proctor and Dave Ossman, of the Firesign
+Theater.
+
+jms: Of course.
+
+Chuck: And .. are you a fan of their also, I'm just wondering.
+
+jms: I've heard it sometimes and enjoy it; I wouldn't call myself a fan
+because I don't follow it that closely.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.  And, Phil is also on the Internet, as it turns out, so
+Otis is getting deluged by Internet stuff....
+
+Otis: Oh yeah, it's coming at me.
+
+jms: We're taking over the world.
+
+Chuck: Joe, I gotta ask you something here that I've been wanting to
+bring up.  It's something I noticed about Commander Sinclair; I was
+watching Eyes again this morning, and noticed once again that Sinclair
+seems to have a rather striking ability to outmaneuver and outflank
+all the people who try to destroy him.
+
+jms: Uh huh.
+
+Chuck: This is at least the third or fourth time that he has shown
+that he, he knows the law better, and is sneakier than, almost
+everybody they've sent against him, and it suddenly occurred to me
+what this reminded me of.  Let me preface this: were you ever a fan
+of the old Secret Agent TV series?  With Patrick McGoohan?
+
+jms: Of course, yeah.
+
+Chuck: Sinclair reminds me a lot of John Drake.  Is that just accidental
+or....
+
+jms: I can see some of that; I think that anyone who gets to be in his
+position and has survived over the years _has_ to understand how to use
+the rules to your own best benefit.  Part of it is also that he was
+trained by Jesuits.
+
+Chuck: Yes.
+
+jms: And Jesuits train you how to use the rule and letter of the law to
+enforce the .. the heart of the law.  And so he knows how to do all that
+stuff.  And I like a character that doesn't solve every problem by
+punching somebody out.
+
+Chuck: Exactly.
+
+jms: I like someone who is smart enough to, if he sees a wall in front of
+him, doesn't just go through it; he can climb over it, tunnel under it,
+or go around it.
+
+Chuck: Yes, yes.  It's sort of like the legal equivalent of jujitsu; it's
+using your opponent's mass or his strength against him.
+
+jms: Right.
+
+Chuck: And I just... I gotta say we saw what I thought was a great example
+of that in Eyes, where, in the final confrontation between Sinclair and
+Colonel Ben Zayn, who is out to literally _get_ him, in any way possible.
+It seems to me that Sinclair literally pushes every single button that
+he knows he can push with that guy, plays him like a violin, and ..
+gets him to self-destruct.
+
+jms: Absolutely.
+
+Chuck: And I thought it was really a very well done scene, and a great
+illustration of the, the superiority in that sense of a brain over just
+sheer massive force.
+
+jms: Yeah, also in that kind of scenario, you really have to be, to be
+committed to going through all the way, because if you don't pull it off,
+if you don't push all the guy's buttons and he doesn't go off at you, you
+just court martialled yourself for insubordination to a superior officer.
+
+Chuck: So it was a very risky thing to do, also.
+
+jms: Very risky.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.  That's one of the things I admire about that character, but...
+I'm glad to hear that confirmed, because I knew you were a Prisoner fan.
+
+jms: Oh yeah.
+
+Chuck: But I also didn't know if you were a Secret Agent fan as well.
+Are we going to see any other indications of your interest in The Prisoner
+other than the "be seeing you" that we saw from [laughs] from Bester a
+while back?
+
+jms: Well, that was a nod in their direction.  I don't want to do too much
+because then you become, the show becomes a [??] _hommage_ rather than
+what the show was about.
+
+Chuck: Yeah.  Good point.  Well, I want to remind folks we've been sitting
+here talking with J. Michael Straczynski, the creator and executive
+producer of Babylon 5, and well, here's another person who wants to talk
+to us, so, we're running out of time but we can probably get a few more
+calls in.  Hello, you're on the air.
+
+caller: Yes.  I have a question about PsiCorps.  I don't want to get into
+it too much, but I'm curious as to how you developed that, what's the
+nature of it?
+
+jms: Nature of PsiCorps?
+
+caller: Right.
+
+jms: About 120 years ago, in B5 story time, for the first time they
+were able to prove that telepaths actually existed; they are among us.
+Now, what I have to do is sit back as a writer and say realistically
+how would this develop?  And if tomorrow, science said yes, there are
+actually telepaths living among us, they can read you minds, Congress
+will be in the next day making laws about it.  [laughter]  Particularly
+Congress, 'cause they'd be the first ones to want to hide from these guys.
+
+Chuck: I think that's very plausible, yes.
+
+jms: And they'll want to legislate them, to control them, to protect the
+public from _them_ because of their, you know, the privacy issues.  And
+on one level to protect them from the public, which could turn on them.
+To want to create an organization to which you _must_ either belong to,
+or take drugs to suppress your telepathic ability.  And the problem is,
+when you set up an organization that will embrace you from cradle to grave,
+and train you in commercial purposes, in military purposes, [?? all of a
+sudden ??] the military gets involved and wants to have the strongest
+telepaths they can get their hands on, that will in time become a rather
+corrupt organization from the inside.  There's too much power being put
+into one place.
+
+caller: Well, they actually, they scare me more than the Vorlons, the
+Narns, they scare me more than anybody on the show.
+
+jms: That's the intent.  They should be scary.
+
+caller: Well, thank you very much.
+
+jms: Thank you.
+
+Chuck: Thank you for calling.  Byebye.  Well, we are going to have to
+get out of here, so....  And I ... Joe, you need to get going and I
+really thank you for taking the two hours here to chat with us and our
+listeners.
+
+jms: No problem.
+
+Chuck: Once again, I've been talking here with J. Michael Straczynski,
+he is the creator and executive producer of Babylon 5 which you can see
+tonight at 8 o'clock.  This week's episode is Legacies.  Is there anything
+you'd like to tell the audience if they haven't seen it yet about Legacies?
+
+jms: Ah... the show should speak for itself.
+
+Chuck: Sounds reasonable.  Now, it... just a quick question then: Legacies
+is a new episode; how many more new episodes have we got before the next
+set of reruns?
+
+jms: You've got the two-parter, which begins next week.
+
+Chuck: OK.
+
+jms: Then you've got Babylon Squared, which reveals what happened to
+Babylon 4.
+
+Chuck: OH, OK.
+
+jms: And then .. The Quality of Mercy.  And then you've got a possible
+break for reruns, and then, before the new season begins in November,
+they may play Chrysalis, our last episode, the week before the new
+season begins, 'cause it's a killer episode.
+
+Chuck: Ok, that's a real *WHAM* episode.
+
+jms: It sure is.
+
+Chuck: OK.  And .. I understand also that we are going to be losing
+Commander Sinclair.  Yes?
+
+jms: Yes and no.
+
+Chuck: Sort of.
+
+jms: He's being moved somewhere off the chessboard, but he will be seen
+from time to time.
+
+Chuck: OK, great.  Well, Joe, thanks for taking time to talk to us once
+again, and .. we'll be watching, believe us.
+
+jms: Great, I appreciate it.
+
+Chuck: Thank you very much.  Byebye.
+
+jms: Thank you.  Bye.
+
+Chuck: Well, that was J. Michael Straczynski, he is the creator and
+executive producer of Babylon 5, and he's been our guest here on
+One Step Beyond.
+
+Otis: Well, it's been a great... another one of those mind-expanding
+programs here at One Step Beyond again.
+
+[wrap-up deleted]
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+<FONT SIZE=6>In the Shadows of Madness<br>
+<FONT SIZE=5>A Lovecraftian Look into the Babylon 5 Universe<br>
+             By Mark W. Chase<br>
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+</center>
+<HR>
+<PRE>
+
+"I have seen the dark universe yawning
+     Where the black planets roll without aim-
+Where they roll in their horror unheeded,
+     Without knowledge or luster or name."
+
+     This brief poem named merely "Nemesis" was the opening for the
+terrifying story, "The Haunter of the Dark", by Howard Philips Lovecraft.
+It was a tale of a universe turned upside down, as were all the "Mythos"
+stories of this young, New England writer.  The very essence of Lovecraft's
+mythos was that our universe was only a twisted delusion of a great, vast,
+inescapable darkness, of which mankind was nothing but the merest speck of
+insignificant matter.  Rarely ever did the tragic hero of a story survive
+with his sanity, if he survived at all.
+     Great, ancient beings, from the stars and beyond,prowl this universe--
+their nature and motives far beyond anything our feeble minds could hope to
+fathom.  Fragments of the unspeakable darkness would float almost by
+accident to our world.  By chance, some hapless mortal would stumble across
+it and his frail perception of reality would be shattered forever.
+     The ultimate irony of it all was that mankind did in fact make a
+difference in the universe despite our apparent infinitesimal worth.  The
+Great Old Ones did take notice of humans and had tried, and failed, to swat
+us from existence.  Individuals, though driven mad, did affect the course
+of the dark fate within the mocking universe.  Men fought against the
+darkness and won.  Great Old One cults were defeated, Deep One outposts
+were destroyed, and unspeakable summonings were subverted.
+     In possibly one brief glimmer of hope, mankind reached out and
+contacted the Elder Gods.  They were a distant, but benevolent collection
+of entities who opposed the great darkness.  They alone stood between our
+feeble world and the onslaught of unthinkable horrors.
+     In the years of H.P. Lovecraft's mythos cycles from 1919-1937 a great
+darkness swept through the universe.  In the years 2257-2262, it may have
+returned.
+<HR>
+     Already in its third season, Babylon 5 has taken on a mythos of its
+own.  As the Babylon 5 saga moves into the Shadow War, the story has grown
+darker and more ominous.  Or, as Susan Ivanova puts it in the third season
+introduction, "The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace. It
+failed."
+     But, she goes on to assure, "In the year of the Shadow War, it became
+something greater.  Our last, best hope for victory."   Against all odds,
+hope is always present -- unlike Lovecraft's writing where there is no hope
+at all.
+     There are many parallels between Babylon 5 and Lovecraft's works.
+These parallels may be intentional, some many have be unconscious, or, they
+may all be simply coincidence.  Whatever the case may be, I give you the
+relationships which I have uncovered.
+     The most obvious parallel is between the Shadows and Outer Gods or
+Great Old Ones.  In the Cthulhu Mythos, the Outer Gods were the demonic
+pantheon of ultimate, unspeakable darkness.  However, the Outer Gods
+themselves were the epitome of chaos and madness, without soul or mind.
+They twisted and wallowed in the eternal night, playing horribly mocking
+sounds with their demonic flutes, and orbited the ultimate nuclear chaos,
+Azathoth, who resides at the center of the universe.  The Outer Gods have
+been stripped of reasoning and ordered thought (as we perceive it anyway)
+so they may not be a perfect parallel with the Shadows.  However, as we
+shall see, some of the Outer Gods are not at all mindless.
+     If not the ultimate Outer Gods, certainly the Shadows are mirrored by
+the Great Old Ones H.P. Lovecraft wrote about.  Not nearly as powerful as
+the Outer Gods, the Great Old Ones do have ordered reasoning (though still
+vastly alien to human reasoning).  Cthulhu is the foremost well know Great
+Old One, but there are others, such as Hastur, Dagon, and possibly Shub-
+Niggurath and Yog-Sothoth.
+     Some Lovecraftian authorities believe that Shub-Niggurath and Yog-
+Sothoth were not Great Old Ones, but were in fact Outer Gods.  If this is
+the case, it would mean that not all Outer Gods are mindless.  In
+Lovecraft's stories, both of these god-like beings acted in logical, if not
+humanly comprehensible, way.  It is important to note that these Outer Gods
+still exist as cognitive entities.  It is possible that the Shadows are
+drawn from this surviving group of hideous gods.
+     The Great Old Ones are described by Lovecraft as having come to Earth
+from the stars.  They used technology, as did many other minor races, such
+as the Mi-Go, the Elder Things, and the Great Race.  They were masters of
+all the technologies and sciences, to the point of it being ultimate magic.
+Dark, black, sinister magic.
+     The Shadows of Z'ha'dum are certainly masters of dark technology, as
+seen by their unholy Shadow ships.  They dominate forbidden areas of space
+with godlike powers. Revelations in Babylon 5 episodes such as "Voices of
+Authority" tell us that the Shadows can see into souls, but they are apart
+from the energy which binds all life together.  The Shadows are in our
+universe, but forever separated from it.  Dark, cold, and ancient, the
+Shadows have slept for a thousand years, and are now awakening to renew the
+war against the First Ones.
+     To express this parallel, I will give your a brief quote from the
+"Encyclopedia Cthulhiana": "The Great Old Ones were at a time members of a
+company of beings titled the Elder Gods.  Because they practiced black
+magic, or they stole certain of the Elder God's sacred records, or even
+that they had the temerity to attack the homes of the Elder Gods
+themselves, the Great Old Ones were cast out by their brethren and
+imprisoned in various places in the stars, and even other dimensions.
+Having done this, the Elder Gods returned to their homes near the star
+Glyu'Uho, leaving the Great Old Ones within their prisons.  There will come
+a time, though, when the Great Old Ones will break free of the strictures
+imposed by the Elder Gods, and they will come forth from their jails to
+challenge the supremacy of their captors once again."
+     This almost sounds like something Delenn might say!  Replace Great Old
+Ones with Shadows and Elder Gods with the First Ones, and you have it.
+     In Lovecraft's mythos, the Elder Gods are not seen nearly as much as
+the Great Old Ones, or even the Outer Gods.  Likewise, we have seen many
+Shadows, and only one Old One (as of episode five of the third season).  In
+H.P. Lovecraft's work, the Elder Gods took the back seat and almost never
+stepped forward.  Nodens, possibly an Elder God, possibly a lesser god of
+the Dreamlands, did come forward briefly in the "Dream-Quest of Unknown
+Kadath".  As far as I am aware, this is the only Elder God to be named by
+Lovecraft.  If the First Ones of Babylon 5 are being treated like the Elder
+Gods of Lovecraft, the humans, Narns, and Minbari have little chance for
+survival.
+     Many other ancient races are found throughout H.P. Lovecraft's work,
+and they cannot be ignored in the Babylon 5 context.  There are the Mi-Go,
+the Elder Things, and the Great Race of Yith to name the major ones.  All
+these races are extremely advanced in the sciences.  We see this best with
+the Great Race in Lovecraft's excellent story "The Shadows Out of Time" (a
+title which catches me as being most significant in light of the ancient,
+dark race from Babylon 5).
+     In the story "The Shadows Out of Time", we learn of the Great Race's
+outposts on primordial Earth, of their vast libraries cataloging all the
+billions of races in the universe, and maybe other universes, and a good
+deal of their history and technology, all vastly beyond human
+comprehension.
+     The Elder Things from the story "At the Mountains of Madness" are
+described as having star ships, energy weapons, and other fabulous, magical
+technologies.  However, in the story we learn that the Elder Things had
+been wiped out eons ago. Only the ruins of their ancient cities remain in
+forgotten places in Antarctica.
+     The Mi-Go appeared in two of Lovecraft's stories.  "At the Mountains
+of Madness" the Mi-Go (this name was not given in the story) were the
+enemies of the Elder Things.  Many battles were fought between the two, and
+eventually the Mi-Go retreaded to the northern hemisphere of Earth.  Later,
+in the  macabre tale "The Whisperer in Darkness", the Mi-Go are busy
+collecting specimens of other races throughout the universe, collecting
+their brains rather, in very technology dependent ways.
+     The Vorlons may be attributed to one of these races; most likely the
+Great Race of Yith, as the Great Race was scholarly and was much wiser than
+the other two races I have outlined.  The other two are rather evil and
+sadistic.  Unfortunately, according to H.P. Lovecraft, the Great Race was
+all but wiped out millions of years ago by another race of beings dubbed
+merely the "Flying Polyps".  Strangely, these flying polyps can become
+invisible, just like the Shadows.  In contrast, the Vorlons were not wiped
+out by the Shadows, the Vorlons helped to defeat the Shadows.
+     It must also be put forward that Morden could very well be the
+equivalent of Nyarlathotep.  In Babylon 5, Morden appears to be nothing
+more than a Shadow/Centauri (and Earth Alliance!) go between.  In H.P.
+Lovecraft's works, Nyarlathotep was the messenger of the Outer Gods.  In
+Lovecrafts poem "Nyarlathotep", this dark messenger was a man; a man who
+brought final destruction to the human race.  In many stories Nyarlathotep
+was in the form of a man, though he also had many monsterous forms as well.
+In all appearance this "man" was mortal, but he had sinister, dark powers
+at his command.  If Morden ever becomes some hideous flying monster as
+black as the night itself, this parallel will be complete.
+     Could the Book of G'Quon be the Babylon 5 equivalent to the
+Necronomicon?  On several occasions, G'Kar has pointed out references to
+the Shadows, even pictures of their ships, all with terrifying revelations
+behind them.  He even gave the book to Garibaldi, telling him that it would
+be helpful.  I doubt the Book of G'Quon is a forbidden tome written by a
+mad Narn named G'abkul G'alkazard; and, as Babylon 5 appears to be much
+more optimistic than Lovecraft's tales, I will propose that the book of
+G'Quon is a "holy analogue" to the Necronomicon.
+     As I have stated earlier, these speculations are my own, and in no way
+do they express the views of J. Michael Straczynski, Doug Netter, or anyone
+working in the production of Babylon 5.  These ideas are my own and should
+not be taken out of context.  Babylon 5 is a unique and completely
+innovative universe of possiblities.  Like the universe of H.P. Lovecraft,
+the Babylon 5 universe has its own dark secrets -- secrets which man was
+not be meant to know, and of things which should not be.
+
+And so, I will leave you with a quote from the classic story "The Call of
+Cthulhu".  The tale which started it all.
+
+"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of
+infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.  The sciences,
+each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but
+some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such
+terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that
+we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light
+into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
+
+
+
+                         Bibliography
+
+Harms, Daniel - "Encyclopedia Cthulhiana" (1994)
+
+Lovecraft, H.P. -  "At the Mountains of Madness" (1936), "The Case of
+Charles Dexter Ward" (1941), "The Call of Cthulhu" (1928), "Dagon" (1919),
+"The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" (1948), "The Haunter of the Dark"
+(1936), "Nyarlathotep" (1920), "The Other Gods" (1933), "The Shadow Over
+Innsmouth" (1936), "The Shadow Out of Time" (1936), "The Whisperer in
+Darkness" (1931)
+
+Straczynski, J. Michael - the "Babylon 5" series (1993-1996), through
+Warner Bros. Television.
+
+
+Special thanks to Jon Fuller and Mathias Russ who assisted in the editing
+of this essey.
+
+If you have questions or comments to make, complaints or suggestions,
+please contact me at:
+<A HREF="mailto:mchase@cdc.net">mchase@cdc.net</A>
+or log on to my web page at:<A HREF="http://www.cdc.net/~mchase/mearth.html">
+http://www.cdc.net/~mchase/mearth.html</A>
+</PRE>
+</body>
+</html>
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+                        In the Shadows of Madness
+                A Lovecraftian Look into the Babylon 5 Universe
+                            By Mark W. Chase
+
+
+"I have seen the dark universe yawning
+     Where the black planets roll without aim-
+Where they roll in their horror unheeded,
+     Without knowledge or luster or name."
+
+     This brief poem named merely "Nemesis" was the opening for the
+terrifying story, "The Haunter of the Dark", by Howard Philips Lovecraft.
+It was a tale of a universe turned upside down, as were all the "Mythos"
+stories of this young, New England writer.  The very essence of Lovecraft's
+mythos was that our universe was only a twisted delusion of a great, vast,
+inescapable darkness, of which mankind was nothing but the merest speck of
+insignificant matter.  Rarely ever did the tragic hero of a story survive
+with his sanity, if he survived at all.
+     Great, ancient beings, from the stars and beyond,prowl this universe--
+their nature and motives far beyond anything our feeble minds could hope to
+fathom.  Fragments of the unspeakable darkness would float almost by
+accident to our world.  By chance, some hapless mortal would stumble across
+it and his frail perception of reality would be shattered forever.
+     The ultimate irony of it all was that mankind did in fact make a
+difference in the universe despite our apparent infinitesimal worth.  The
+Great Old Ones did take notice of humans and had tried, and failed, to swat
+us from existence.  Individuals, though driven mad, did affect the course
+of the dark fate within the mocking universe.  Men fought against the
+darkness and won.  Great Old One cults were defeated, Deep One outposts
+were destroyed, and unspeakable summonings were subverted.
+     In possibly one brief glimmer of hope, mankind reached out and
+contacted the Elder Gods.  They were a distant, but benevolent collection
+of entities who opposed the great darkness.  They alone stood between our
+feeble world and the onslaught of unthinkable horrors.
+     In the years of H.P. Lovecraft's mythos cycles from 1919-1937 a great
+darkness swept through the universe.  In the years 2257-2262, it may have
+returned.
+                                *   *   *
+     Already in its third season, Babylon 5 has taken on a mythos of its
+own.  As the Babylon 5 saga moves into the Shadow War, the story has grown
+darker and more ominous.  Or, as Susan Ivanova puts it in the third season
+introduction, "The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace. It
+failed."
+     But, she goes on to assure, "In the year of the Shadow War, it became
+something greater.  Our last, best hope for victory."   Against all odds,
+hope is always present -- unlike Lovecraft's writing where there is no hope
+at all.
+     There are many parallels between Babylon 5 and Lovecraft's works.
+These parallels may be intentional, some many have be unconscious, or, they
+may all be simply coincidence.  Whatever the case may be, I give you the
+relationships which I have uncovered.
+     The most obvious parallel is between the Shadows and Outer Gods or
+Great Old Ones.  In the Cthulhu Mythos, the Outer Gods were the demonic
+pantheon of ultimate, unspeakable darkness.  However, the Outer Gods
+themselves were the epitome of chaos and madness, without soul or mind.
+They twisted and wallowed in the eternal night, playing horribly mocking
+sounds with their demonic flutes, and orbited the ultimate nuclear chaos,
+Azathoth, who resides at the center of the universe.  The Outer Gods have
+been stripped of reasoning and ordered thought (as we perceive it anyway)
+so they may not be a perfect parallel with the Shadows.  However, as we
+shall see, some of the Outer Gods are not at all mindless.
+     If not the ultimate Outer Gods, certainly the Shadows are mirrored by
+the Great Old Ones H.P. Lovecraft wrote about.  Not nearly as powerful as
+the Outer Gods, the Great Old Ones do have ordered reasoning (though still
+vastly alien to human reasoning).  Cthulhu is the foremost well know Great
+Old One, but there are others, such as Hastur, Dagon, and possibly Shub-
+Niggurath and Yog-Sothoth.
+     Some Lovecraftian authorities believe that Shub-Niggurath and Yog-
+Sothoth were not Great Old Ones, but were in fact Outer Gods.  If this is
+the case, it would mean that not all Outer Gods are mindless.  In
+Lovecraft's stories, both of these god-like beings acted in logical, if not
+humanly comprehensible, way.  It is important to note that these Outer Gods
+still exist as cognitive entities.  It is possible that the Shadows are
+drawn from this surviving group of hideous gods.
+     The Great Old Ones are described by Lovecraft as having come to Earth
+from the stars.  They used technology, as did many other minor races, such
+as the Mi-Go, the Elder Things, and the Great Race.  They were masters of
+all the technologies and sciences, to the point of it being ultimate magic.
+Dark, black, sinister magic.
+     The Shadows of Z'ha'dum are certainly masters of dark technology, as
+seen by their unholy Shadow ships.  They dominate forbidden areas of space
+with godlike powers. Revelations in Babylon 5 episodes such as "Voices of
+Authority" tell us that the Shadows can see into souls, but they are apart
+from the energy which binds all life together.  The Shadows are in our
+universe, but forever separated from it.  Dark, cold, and ancient, the
+Shadows have slept for a thousand years, and are now awakening to renew the
+war against the First Ones.
+     To express this parallel, I will give your a brief quote from the
+"Encyclopedia Cthulhiana": "The Great Old Ones were at a time members of a
+company of beings titled the Elder Gods.  Because they practiced black
+magic, or they stole certain of the Elder God's sacred records, or even
+that they had the temerity to attack the homes of the Elder Gods
+themselves, the Great Old Ones were cast out by their brethren and
+imprisoned in various places in the stars, and even other dimensions.
+Having done this, the Elder Gods returned to their homes near the star
+Glyu'Uho, leaving the Great Old Ones within their prisons.  There will come
+a time, though, when the Great Old Ones will break free of the strictures
+imposed by the Elder Gods, and they will come forth from their jails to
+challenge the supremacy of their captors once again."
+     This almost sounds like something Delenn might say!  Replace Great Old
+Ones with Shadows and Elder Gods with the First Ones, and you have it.
+     In Lovecraft's mythos, the Elder Gods are not se, these flying polyps can become
+invisible, just like the Shadows.  In contrast, the Vorlons were not wiped
+out by the Shadows, the Vorlons helped to defeat the Shadows.
+     It must also be put forward that Morden could very well be the
+equivalent of Nyarlathotep.  In Babylon 5, Morden appears to be nothing
+more than a Shadow/Centauri (and Earth Alliance!) go between.  In H.P.
+Lovecraft's works, Nyarlathotep was the messenger of the Outer Gods.  In
+Lovecrafts poem "Nyarlathotep", this dark messenger was a man; a man who
+brought final destruction to the human race.  In many stories Nyarlathotep
+was in the form of a man, though he also had many monsterous forms as well.
+In all appearance this "man" was mortal, but he had sinister, dark powers
+at his command.  If Morden ever becomes some hideous flying monster as
+black as the night itself, this parallel will be complete.
+     Could the Book of G'Quon be the Babylon 5 equivalent to the
+Necronomicon?  On several occasions, G'Kar has pointed out references to
+the Shadows, even pictures of their ships, all with terrifying revelations
+behind them.  He even gave the book to Garibaldi, telling him that it would
+be helpful.  I doubt the Book of G'Quon is a forbidden tome written by a
+mad Narn named G'abkul G'alkazard; and, as Babylon 5 appears to be much
+more optimistic than Lovecraft's tales, I will propose that the book of
+G'Quon is a "holy analogue" to the Necronomicon.
+     As I have stated earlier, these speculations are my own, and in no way
+do they express the views of J. Michael Straczynski, Doug Netter, or anyone
+working in the production of Babylon 5.  These ideas are my own and should
+not be taken out of context.  Babylon 5 is a unique and completely
+innovative universe of possiblities.  Like the universe of H.P. Lovecraft,
+the Babylon 5 universe has its own dark secrets -- secrets which man was
+not be meant to know, and of things which should not be.
+
+And so, I will leave you with a quote from the classic story "The Call of
+Cthulhu".  The tale which started it all.
+
+"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of
+infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.  The sciences,
+each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but
+some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such
+terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that
+we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light
+into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
+
+
+
+                         Bibliography
+
+Harms, Daniel - "Encyclopedia Cthulhiana" (1994)
+
+Lovecraft, H.P. -  "At the Mountains of Madness" (1936), "The Case of
+Charles Dexter Ward" (1941), "The Call of Cthulhu" (1928), "Dagon" (1919),
+"The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" (1948), "The Haunter of the Dark"
+(1936), "Nyarlathotep" (1920), "The Other Gods" (1933), "The Shadow Over
+Innsmouth" (1936), "The Shadow Out of Time" (1936), "The Whisperer in
+Darkness" (1931)
+
+Straczynski, J. Michael - the "Babylon 5" series (1993-1996), through
+Warner Bros. Television.
+
+
+Special thanks to Jon Fuller and Mathias Russ who assisted in the editing
+of this essey.
+
+If you have questions or comments to make, complaints or suggestions,
+please contact me at:
+   mchase@cdc.net
+or log on to my web page at:
+   http://www.cdc.net/~mchase/mearth.html
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+The Babylon 5 Episode Guide for Apple Newton v0.5
+
+Seeing how I got into B5 in the middle of the second season, thereÕs a lot 
+I missed and probably will never see.  I wanted to have a copy of the 
+Babylon 5 episode guide to take with me to read at any time.  The first 
+version word for word matched the one on ftp.hyperion.com.  Problem was, it 
+created a 2 megabyte package.  To trim it down, I needed to remove 
+something and that something turned out to be the Òjms speaksÓ section.  
+Let me tell you, that was painful, but it was also the only real part that 
+wasnÕt required reading just to understand the episode.  I encourage 
+everyone, though, to read the full guide.
+
+This guide will have spelling mistakes and typos and formatting problems 
+and what-not.  Let me know if you find anything glaring.  All credit should 
+be given to the original authors of each episodeÕs guide...  I only 
+compiled them into a Newton book.  Future versions of the book will include 
+a table of contents for each episode and perhaps other information.
+
+This program requires about 1 meg of free space on the Newton.  Huge?  
+Perhaps.  Just wait until the series is finished!  If anyone is interested 
+in the 2 meg, "let's fill up a PC-Card" complete version with the "jms 
+speaks" section, let me know.
+
+I would like to know if anyone is using this because if not, then its 
+probably a waste of time trying to improve it.  It is, of course, freeware 
+but I would like responses and comments directed towards 
+Linger@starsys.mdn.com.  Enjoy!
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+
+                              BABYLON 5 EPISODES
+                               Quick Reference
+
+Also available via the Web as <http://www.hyperion.com/lurk/quickref.html>
+(use that version if you can; it's updated more often than this one.)
+
+     _________________________________________________________________
+   
+   Pilot Movie
+   
+   The Gathering - 02/22/93
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Richard Compton
+          The Vorlon ambassador is nearly killed by an assassin shortly
+          after arriving at the station, and Commander Sinclair is the
+          prime suspect.
+          
+   
+   Season One ("Signs and Portents")
+   
+   Midnight on the Firing Line - 01/26/94
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Richard Compton
+          When the Narn attack a Centauri colony, Londo and G'Kar nearly
+          come to blows. Meanwhile, raiders are attacking transport ships
+          near the station.
+          
+   Soul Hunter - 02/02/94
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Jim Johnston
+          Delenn is in danger when a soul hunter, an alien who captures
+          the souls of the dying, arrives at the station.
+          
+   Born to the Purple - 02/09/94
+          W: Larry DiTillio
+          D: Bruce Seth Green
+          Londo's career is in jeopardy when a beautiful slave seduces
+          him and steals a sensitive computer file. Garibaldi
+          investigates an unauthorized use of a restricted communications
+          channel.
+          
+   Infection - 02/16/94
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Richard Compton
+          An archaeologist smuggles ancient artifacts onto the station,
+          unleashing a living weapon.
+          
+   The Parliament of Dreams - 02/23/94
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Jim Johnston
+          Sinclair's old flame, Catherine Sakai, arrives during a
+          weeklong festival when humans and aliens demonstrate their
+          religious beliefs. An old enemy sends an assassin to kill
+          G'Kar.
+          
+   Mind War - 03/02/94
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Bruce Seth Green
+          Talia's old Psi Corps instructor, the victim of a secret
+          experiment, is the target of a manhunt involving the Psi-Cops.
+          Catherine wants to survey a promising planet for possible
+          mining, but G'Kar warns her to stay away.
+          
+   The War Prayer - 03/09/94
+          W: D. C. Fontana
+          D: Richard Compton
+          A violent attack on a Minbari poet rocks B5 and leaves Sinclair
+          scrambling to flush out a vicious pro-Earth group. Two
+          star-crossed young Centauri lovers seek Londo's protection.
+          Ivanova is shaken when a man from her past arrives at the
+          outpost.
+          
+   And The Sky Full Of Stars - 03/16/94
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Janet Greek
+          Sinclair is kidnapped and interrogated by members of a
+          pro-Earth group, determined to find out what transpired when
+          the commander was briefly missing in action during the final
+          battle of the Earth/Minbari war -- something Sinclair has never
+          been able to remember.
+          
+   Deathwalker - 04/20/94
+          W: Larry DiTillio
+          D: Bruce Seth Green
+          The station becomes a hotbed of galactic controversy when
+          Sinclair is forced to protect a notorious war criminal -- a
+          scientist who's invented an immortality serum. Ambassador Kosh
+          hires telepath Talia Winters to oversee a very unusual
+          negotiation.
+          
+   Believers - 04/27/94
+          W: David Gerrold
+          D: Richard Compton
+          Dr. Franklin asks Sinclair to intermediate with an alien family
+          who, because of their religious beliefs, refuses to allow
+          surgery that would save their dying child.
+          
+   Survivors - 05/04/94
+          W: Mark Scott Zicree
+          D: Jim Johnston
+          Garibaldi's past catches up to him, with some fairly disastrous
+          consequences that will linger long after the episode is
+          finished. He's blamed by some for an accident aboard B5, which
+          leads to hitting the bottle again after a prolonged abstinence.
+          
+   By Any Means Necessary - 05/11/94
+          W: Kathryn Drennan
+          D: Jim Johnston
+          An accident in the docking area kills a worker, threatening to
+          spark an illegal strike. Londo interferes in an important Narn
+          religious observation which leads to a confrontation between
+          him and G'Kar.
+          
+   Signs and Portents - 05/18/94
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Janet Greek
+          A sharp increase in raider activity has the station on the
+          defensive. Londo obtains a priceless Centauri artifact. A
+          mysterious stranger visits the station's alien ambassadors.
+          
+   TKO - 05/25/94
+          W: Larry DiTillio
+          D: John Flynn
+          An old friend of Garibaldi's arrives and tries to take part in
+          a dangerous alien combat sport. A rabbi helps Ivanova come to
+          terms with her father's death.
+          
+   Grail - 07/06/94
+          W: Christy Marx
+          D: Richard Compton
+          A traveller comes to B5, seeking the Holy Grail. A series of
+          unexplained attacks on several Lurkers may be linked to
+          Ambassador Kosh.
+          
+   Eyes - 07/13/94
+          W: Larry DiTillio
+          D: Jim Johnston
+          An internal affairs investigation to find out what's been going
+          on at B5 leads to Sinclair having a problem with the military
+          when he has to answer for his actions in settling the labor
+          strike as well as other decisions made during the course of the
+          season. Ivanova confronts a member of Psi-Corps, as well as her
+          own fears, when she is told to submit to a scan.
+          
+   Legacies - 07/20/94
+          W: D. C. Fontana
+          D: Bruce Seth Green
+          A girl entering puberty exhibits telepathic abilities, and the
+          crew must decide whether to turn her over to the Psi Corps. The
+          corpse of the Minbari military leader who oversaw the Battle of
+          the Line is the focus of a diplomatic incident.
+          
+   A Voice in the Wilderness part 1 - 07/27/94
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Janet Greek
+          Seismic activity on the planet near the station uncovers what
+          may be signs of an extinct alien civilization. An old mentor
+          pays a visit to Ambassador Delenn. The unrest on the Mars
+          Colony intensifies.
+          
+   A Voice in the Wilderness part 2 - 08/03/94
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Janet Greek
+          Sinclair fights two turf battles at once as alien invaders
+          claim the planet below the station, and an Earthforce captain
+          disagrees with him about how to deal with the situation.
+          
+   Babylon Squared - 08/10/94
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Jim Johnston
+          Babylon 4 returns as abruptly as it vanished, but its
+          reappearance may bode ill for the future. Delenn receives a
+          momentous offer.
+          
+   The Quality of Mercy - 08/17/94
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Lorraine Senna Ferrara
+          Talia is involved in carrying out the sentence of a convicted
+          murderer. Dr. Franklin investigates a possible medical scam in
+          Downbelow. Londo takes Lennier for a look at the less savory
+          sections of the station.
+          
+   Chrysalis - 10/26/94
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Janet Greek
+          First Season finale. A dying man leads Garibaldi to a discovery
+          that could cost him his life. Londo receives help in a dispute
+          with the Narns. Something begins to happen to Delenn.
+   
+   
+   Season Two ("The Coming Of Shadows")
+   
+   Points of Departure - 11/02/94
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Janet Greek
+          As a new commander assumes control of the station, a renegade
+          Minbari warship arrives, threatening trouble.
+          
+   Revelations - 11/09/94
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Jim Johnston
+          G'Kar brings news of a terrible new enemy. The arrival of
+          Sheridan's sister opens up old wounds for the new commander.
+          Dr. Franklin employs an unorthodox procedure to try to bring
+          Garibaldi out of his coma. Delenn's mysterious change is
+          completed.
+          
+   The Geometry of Shadows - 11/16/94
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Mike Vejar
+          Ivanova is promoted and given a diplomatic assignment. Londo
+          seeks affirmation from an unusual source.
+          
+   A Distant Star - 11/23/94
+          W: D. C. Fontana
+          D: Jim Johnston
+          Disaster strikes an old friend of Captain Sheridan. Dr.
+          Franklin offers nutritional advice to some reluctant patients.
+          
+   The Long Dark - 11/30/94
+          W: Scott Frost
+          D: Mario DiLeo
+          When a cryonic sleeper is awakened, a deadly, evil force is
+          unleashed on the station.
+          
+   A Spider in the Web - 12/07/94
+          W: Larry DiTillio
+          D: Kevin Cremins
+          Talia is caught in a treacherous web of intrigue after she
+          witnesses a murder.
+          
+   Soul Mates - 12/14/94
+          W: Peter David
+          D: John C. Flinn, III
+          Londo summons his three wives to Babylon 5. A mysterious man
+          from Talia's past reappears.
+          
+   A Race Through Dark Places - 01/25/95
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Jim Johnston
+          Bester asks Talia to investigate an "underground railroad" of
+          unregistered telepaths.
+          
+   The Coming of Shadows - 02/01/95
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Janet Greek
+          When the Centauri emperor visits the station, Sheridan tries to
+          keep G'Kar from going after him. Londo and Refa plot to
+          increase their power. A mysterious man seeks out Garibaldi.
+          
+   GROPOS - 02/08/95
+          W: Larry DiTillio
+          D: Jim Johnston
+          Dr. Franklin's father arrives, leading 25,000 ground pounding
+          soldiers on the station. The troops' arrival elicits fear from
+          both humans and non-humans that the troops may be going on a
+          secret mission that will involve the station becoming an armed
+          camp.
+          
+   All Alone in the Night - 02/15/95
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Mario DiLeo
+          Sheridan is kidnapped and taken to an alien ship. The Grey
+          Council decides Delenn's fate. General Hague makes an
+          unofficial visit to the station.
+          
+   Acts of Sacrifice - 02/22/95
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Jim Johnston
+          G'Kar asks Sheridan to intervene militarily on behalf of the
+          Narns; Ivanova tries to institute an ambassadorship with a
+          visiting alien.
+          
+   Hunter, Prey - 03/01/95
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Menachem Binetski
+          A fugitive with sensitive information about the Earth
+          government flees to Babylon 5.
+          
+   There All the Honor Lies - 04/26/95
+          W: Peter David
+          D: Mike Vejar
+          Sheridan is in hot water when he kills a Minbari warrior in
+          self-defense.
+          
+   And Now For a Word - 05/03/95
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Mario DiLeo
+          Babylon 5 is embroiled in a deadly conflict between the Narn
+          and Centauri; an ISN reporter covers the story and tours the
+          station.
+          
+   In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum - 05/10/95
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: David Eagle
+          Sheridan discovers a connection between Morden and the death of
+          his wife. The station is inundated by Narn refugees. A new
+          Earth Alliance agency tries to recruit station personnel.
+          
+   Knives - 05/17/95
+          W: Larry DiTillio
+          D: Stephen Posey
+          An old acquaintance requests Londo's help. Sheridan is plagued
+          by visions nobody else can see.
+          
+   Confessions and Lamentations - 05/24/95
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Kevin Cremin
+          The outbreak of a disease among the Markab population prompts a
+          panic on the station; Dr. Franklin races against time to find a
+          cure.
+          
+   Divided Loyalties - 10/11/95
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Jesus Trevino
+          Lyta Alexander, the station's first telepath (cf. "The
+          Gathering") returns with a warning that one of Babylon 5's
+          officers may be an operative for a top-secret government
+          organization.
+          
+   The Long, Twilight Struggle - 10/18/95
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: John Flinn
+          The Narn-Centauri War reaches a turning point. Sheridan is
+          contacted by a powerful friend, who offers assistance.
+          
+   Comes the Inquisitor - 10/25/95
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Mike Vejar
+          Kosh summons an ancient inquisitor to test Delenn. G'Kar tries
+          to rally the Narn on Babylon 5.
+          
+   The Fall of Night - 11/01/95
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Janet Greek
+          As the war escalates, a Narn cruiser seeks help from Babylon 5.
+          Earth takes a position in the war. Keffer makes a terrifying
+          discovery. Kosh takes a drastic step to save a life.
+          
+   
+   Season Three ("Point of No Return")
+   
+   Matters of Honor - 11/06/95
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Kevin Cremin
+          While an Earth official investigates the mystery ship
+          encountered by Lt. Keffer in hyperspace, Londo learns more
+          about the Shadows' plans for the Centauri, and the consequences
+          of his bargains. Sheridan receives a new tool in the fight
+          against the Shadows.
+          
+   Convictions - 11/13/95
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Mike Vejar
+          A series of bombings threatens the station, and Ivanova calls
+          on some unusual investigators to help solve the mystery.
+          
+   A Day in the Strife - 11/20/95
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: David Eagle
+          As Garibaldi tries to deal with the increasingly powerful
+          Nightwatch, an alien probe makes first contact with the
+          station. G'Kar tries to solidify his position among the Narn.
+          
+   Passing Through Gethsemane - 11/27/95
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Adam Nimoy
+          Lyta Alexander returns to the station at Kosh's behest. One of
+          Theo's brothers discovers that he may have a hidden past.
+          
+   Voices of Authority - 01/29/96
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Menachem Binetski
+          Ivanova and Marcus enlist Draal's help to attempt to contact
+          more of the First Ones.
+          
+   Dust to Dust - 02/05/96
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: David Eagle
+          An addictive drug spreads throughout the station, prompting a
+          factfinding visit by Bester. G'Kar reaches a turning point.
+          
+   Exogenesis - 02/12/96
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Kevin Cremin
+          Marcus and Dr. Franklin combat an invasion by parasitic aliens
+          that attach themselves to humans.
+          
+   Messages from Earth - 02/19/96
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Mike Vejar
+          Sheridan discovers a connection between President Clark and a
+          sinister figure, leading to a confrontation with the Earth
+          military. The Nightwatch attempts to take over the station.
+          
+   Point of No Return - 02/26/96
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Jim Johnston
+          Internal strife threatens to tear apart the command structure
+          of B5. The Nightwatch situation comes to a crisis point. Londo
+          receives another glimpse of his destiny.
+          
+   Severed Dreams - ??
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: David Eagle
+          
+   Ceremonies of Light and Dark - ??
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: John Flinn
+          
+   A Late Delivery From Avalon - ??
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: ???
+          
+   Sic Transit Vir - ??
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: ???
+          
+   Ship of Tears - ??
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: ???
+          
+   Interludes and Examinations - ??
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: ???
+          
+   War Without End, Part One - ??
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Mike Vejar
+          Sinclair returns to pull Babylon 4 through time.
+          
+   War Without End, Part Two - ??
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: Mike Vejar
+          Sinclair returns to pull Babylon 4 through time.
+          
+   Walkabout - ??
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: ???
+          No plot information is available.
+          
+   Grey 17 Is Missing - ??
+          W: J. Michael Straczynski
+          D: ???
+          No plot information is available.
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+              Babylon 5 Soundtrack Volume 2: Messages From Earth
+
+                          Compiled by David Goldfarb
+        Corrections, additions, and comments to goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu
+
+Last modified: April 27, 1997
+
+Contributors: Jeff Barcalow, Jason ?, Bruce Goatly, Jason Wong
+
+Track 1: Main Title 1st Season (Extended) 
+0:00-3:17
+
+Track 2: Messages From Earth
+0:00-1:38: "Z'ha'dum" -- The fall of the White Star and the Z'ha'BOOM.
+1:39-2:09: "Voices of Authority" -- Shadows attack Ivanova in the machine.
+2:10-4:20: "Severed Dreams" -- Earthforce ships arrive.  Battle.  Attempted
+           boarding; though the actual hand-to-hand combat is skipped.
+4:20-5:17:  "Severed Dreams" -- Starfury attack on C&C through Hiroshi's 
+            suicide run.
+5:17-6:39:  "Severed Dreams" --  repeat Hiroshi's suicide run through
+            destruction of other Earthforce cruiser.
+
+6:30-10:05: Reorchestration of themes from 4:48-5:38.  Probably original
+            to this album and not from any actual episode.  Note that from
+            9:00-9:12 we hear Christopher Franke's "signature sound" that
+            he includes somewhere in all of his solo albums.
+
+Track 3: Main Title 2nd Season 
+0:00-1:30
+
+Track 4: Z'ha'dum
+0:00-0:50: From 0:29-0:50 is played in "Messages From Earth", as G'Kar writes
+           in his book.
+0:51-1:59: "The Long Twilight Struggle" -- Narns and Shadows arrive at
+           Gorash VII; battle begins.
+2:00-2:55: "The Long Twilight Struggle" -- Londo watches as the Centauri bomb
+           the Narn homeworld.
+2:56-3:40: "Comes The Inquisitor" -- Lennier asks Sheridan to defy Kosh
+             and intervene to save Delenn; Delenn gets zapped.
+3:41-5:52: "The Long Twilight Struggle" -- Battle between the Shadows and 
+           the Narns.
+5:53-8:46: "Confessions and Lamentations" -- Dr. Lazarus tells Dr. Franklin
+           about the Draffa plague; Delenn visits Sheridan prior to entering
+           the Markab quarantine.
+8:47-8:53:
+8:54-8:59:
+9:00-10:59: "Falling Toward Apotheosis" -- Security forces ambush Kosh II.
+11:00-12:20: Bombing Narn, again.
+
+Track 5: Main Title 3rd Season 
+0:00-1:31
+
+Track 6: Severed Dreams
+0:00-1:06:
+1:07-1:58:
+1:59-2:35:
+2:36-4:01: "Messages from Earth" -- Marcus battles to save Dr. Kirkish.  This
+           runs longer than the music in the episode; the last thirty seconds
+           or so repeats the beginning.
+4:02-6:29: "Messages from Earth" -- Dr. Kirkish tells her story.
+6:30-9:45: "Messages from Earth" -- The White Star arrives at Ganymede;
+           the Shadow ship awakens; combat.
+9:46-11:15: "Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -- Sheridan surrenders to
+            death.
+11:16-11:33:
+11:34-12:56: "Messages from Earth" -- The White Star dives into Jupiter.
+12:57-14:09: "Messages from Earth" -- Confrontation with the Agamemnon; escape
+             via atmospheric jump point.
+14:10-14:30: *Not* "Messages From Earth".  That episode does have a triumphant
+             fanfare at this point, but it's a different one.  By 14:30 we're
+             definitely back into the score of "MfE".
+14:30-14:52: "Messages from Earth": Sheridan congratulates the White Star's
+             crew; the White Star begins its return journey through hyperspace.
+14:53-15:37: "Messages from Earth": Nightwatch theme.
+
+Track 7: Main Title 4th Season 
+0:00-1:29
+
+Track 8: Voices of Authority
+0:00-2:15: Probably original to this album.
+2:16-3:32: "A Late Delivery from Avalon" -- "Arthur" tells G'Kar of the battle
+           of Camlann.
+3:33-4:55: "A Late Delivery from Avalon" -- "Arthur" and G'Kar confront
+           the thieves.
+4:56-6:01: Repeat 0:00-2:15.  (Or at least similar.)
+6:02-7:15: "A Late Delivery from Avalon" -- Delenn/"The Lady of the Lake" takes
+           Excalibur from "Arthur".
+7:16-8:24: "A Late Delivery from Avalon" -- Franklin confronts "Arthur"
+           with the truth about his past.
+8:25-9:23: "A Late Delivery from Avalon" -- David MacIntyre continues to
+           relive the Battle of the Line.
+9:24-10:13:
+10:14-10:46: 
+10:47-11:10:
+11:11-11:39: "A Late Delivery from Avalon" -- MacIntyre hallucinates a figure,
+             armored like a medieval knight, stabbing him.
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+                      THE B5 SOUNDTRACK "CLUE SHEET"
+		     by Elana Beach <elana@netcom.com>
+
+What should you do if your local store does not stock Christopher Franke's
+"Babylon 5"  soundtrack - and don't know where to get it?  
+
+Just print out and fill out this Clue Sheet!  Give it to your best, local
+independent record store.  They should be able to special-order the
+soundtrack with the help of this document.   
+
+- - - - - - - - - - - - - <cut here> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
+
+*************** HOW TO FIND THE "BABYLON 5" SOUNDTRACK *******************
+******************** A Quick Guide For Retailers *************************
+
+TO YOU, THE LOCAL RETAIL STORE:
+This unoffical B5 Info Sheet has been put together by concerned fans of this 
+music to help your record store locate and order copies of the "BABYLON 5"
+SOUNDTRACK.  (An officially-approved version may appear later.)
+
+The "BABYLON 5" SOUNDTRACK, by Christopher Franke, was released on
+April 25, 1995.  It contains around an hour of music from the TV show
+of the same name.  ("Babylon 5" has no relation to "Star Trek")
+
+The music label of the "BABYLON 5" SOUNDTRACK is SONIC IMAGES,
+of West Hollywood, California. The catalog number is "SI 8502-2".
+(Rumor has it that the US distributor is "INDI".  Check it out.)
+
+WHAT IS SONIC IMAGES? 
+Sonic Images Records was formed in 1991 by Christopher Franke (formerly of
+Tangerine Dream).  This label has already released other Franke solo
+albums including "Klemania" (limited CD), "Pacific Coast Highway", "The
+London Concert (live) and "Enchanting Nature".  The contemporary
+instrumentalist group Shadowfax and England's own 'power-keyboardist' Mark
+Shreeve have signed onto Sonic Images. 
+
+SONIC IMAGES FAX NUMBER: (213) 650-1016, attention: Paul.  Include your
+store's phone number in order to be called back.  Please include a contact
+name for your store and the best time to call within your time zone. 
+
+SONIC IMAGES on the INTERNET:
+E-mail to: sonicimages@sonicimages.com.
+To speed Sonic's reply, use the record stores marker code B5-OST<*>
+in the subject line.
+
+World Wide Web: http://www.sonicimages.com
+
+If your normal means of special-ordering the "BABYLON 5" SOUNDTRACK do 
+not work, please use this info to help you get this CD in stock.
+
+If there is a name and number filled in this short form below, please help
+this person to purchase the "BABYLON 5" SOUNDTRACK via your store: 
+
+NAME________________________________________________
+PHONE________________(day)  _______________(evening)
+I need _____ copie(s) of the "BABYLON 5" SOUNDTRACK.  
+Thank you!!
+
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+         	     Babylon 5 Soundtrack CD Index
+
+		      Compiled by David Goldfarb
+     Comments, additions, or corrections to goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu
+
+NOTE: This file contains some spoilers for season one and the early part of
+      season two.
+
+Last modified: September 25, 1995
+
+Contributors: Antha Adkins, Aaron Brezenski, Bruce Goatly, Stephen Notley, 
+              John Shortess, Dave Spicer, Douglas Triggs, John Waters, 
+              Jason Wong
+
+Special thanks to Dave Spicer, who did a great deal of work.
+
+Suite 1: "Chrysalis"
+
+Track 1:
+0:00-0:10: "Babylon Squared" -- teaser
+0:11-0:39: "Babylon Squared" -- leaving Babylon 4
+0:40-1:05: "Believers" and "TKO" -- the starliner Asimov
+1:06-1:56: Season 1 opening title (beginning)
+1:57-2:13: Asimov theme again
+2:14-2:32: Season 1 opening title (conclusion)
+2:33-3:10: "Mind War" -- Ironheart vs. the Black Omega Starfuries
+3:11-3:28: Ambassador Kosh (many episodes)
+3:29-3:54: 
+3:55-track 2 0:07: "Deathwalker" -- Lennier talks to Sinclair in the council
+                   chamber
+Track 2:
+0:08-1:59: "Deathwalker" -- the arrival of the League ships
+2:00-2:41: "Deathwalker" -- Sinclair arrives in C&C, League ships back off
+2:42-3:02: "Deathwalker" -- Sinclair leaves C&C
+3:03-3:23: "Deathwalker" -- tag: Garibaldi and Sinclair in the Zocalo
+3:24-4:40: "Mind War" -- Talia and Ironheart meet in the corridor outside
+           Sinclair's office
+4:41-track 3 0:06: "Mind War" -- Bester briefs Sinclair (also Bester and
+                   Kelsey generally)
+
+Track 3:
+0:07-1:14: "Mind War" -- Ironheart in his quarters & the first "mindquake"
+1:15-1:45: "Mind War" -- Talia & Ironheart, reprise
+1:46-2:03: "Deathwalker" -- Jha'Dur discusses her immortality serum
+2:04-2:20: "Deathwalker" -- League ships leave
+2:21-2:41: "Midnight on the Firing Line" -- Garibaldi in the transport tube:
+           "Okay, my second favorite thing in the universe."
+2:42-3:10: "Soul Hunter" -- The renegade Soul Hunter escapes from the iso-lab
+3:11-5:03: "Soul Hunter" -- rendezvous with the damaged ship
+5:04-5:12: "Believers" -- start of act I
+5:13-5:25: "Mind War" -- Garibaldi and Bester in Sinclair's office: 
+           "Anatomically impossible, Mr. Garibaldi..."
+5:26-5:48: "Mind War" -- Catherine Sakai departs for Sigma 357
+
+Track 4:
+0:00-0:08: "The War Prayer" -- The Centauri kids in the medlab shortly after
+           Kiron awakens from his coma
+0:09-3:45: "Born to the Purple" -- Londo and Adira
+
+Suite 2: "Mind War"
+
+Track 5:
+0:00-0:50: "...And the Sky Full of Stars" -- Sinclair in bed, dreaming
+0:51-1:59: "...And the Sky Full of Stars" -- Sinclair, deranged, wanders B5
+2:00-track 6 0:04: "...And the Sky Full of Stars" -- "Requiem for the Line"
+
+Track 6:
+0:05-2:34: "Chrysalis" -- Garibaldi in the medlab, through the destruction
+           of Earth Force One and immediate aftermath
+
+Suite 3: "The Parliament of Dreams"
+
+Track 7:
+0:00-2:32: "...And the Sky Full of Stars" -- The Grey Council member tells
+            Delenn that if Sinclair remembers, he must die
+2:33-2:56: Background is "somber/sad music", heard in several episodes; e.g.,
+           when Liana leaves in "Survivors"; and in "Chrysalis", discussing 
+           Petrov's death in the medlab and again at Sinclair and G'Kar's
+           conversation. The high-pitched, repeated electronic sound is 
+           reportedly Christopher Franke's signature sound, heard somewhere
+           on all his solo albums.
+2:57-3:18: "Somber/sad music" continues
+3:19-3:31: "Survivors" -- Earth Force One enters the jumpgate to B5
+3:32-3:49: "Survivors" -- Garibaldi fights with Liana's aide
+3:50-4:08:
+4:09-5:15: "Survivors" -- Teaser: Garibaldi and Ivanova discuss the President's
+           visit; bomb explodes.
+5:16-5:49: "Mind War" -- Catherine Sakai arrives at Sigma 957
+5:50-track 8 3:14: "The Quality of Mercy" -- background music in "The Dark 
+                   Star"
+
+Track 8:
+3:15-3:42:
+3:43-5:37: "...And the Sky Full of Stars" -- Franklin and Delenn in the medlab
+           (somber/sad music with oboe)
+5:38-6:03: "...And the Sky Full of Stars" (?)
+
+Track 9:
+0:00-0:38: "...And the Sky Full of Stars" -- Sinclair, in VR, wanders alone
+           through the station
+0:39-0:49: "Infection" -- Earth personnel confiscate the biotech
+0:50-2:14: "Mind War" -- confrontation between Ironheart and the Psi-Cops
+2:15-3:09: "Mind War" -- Ironheart transforms
+3:10-4:27: "By Any Means Necessary" -- Rescue of dockworkers at start of act I
+4:28-5:04:
+5:05-5:42: "Survivors" -- Liana's departure (somber/sad music again)
+          
+
+Suite 4: "The Geometry of Shadows"
+
+Track 10:
+0:00-1:31: Season 2 opening title
+1:32-2:00: "GROPOS" -- the battle on Akdor (reminiscent of the battle from
+           "Signs and Portents")
+2:01-3:51: This section is called "FutureCorp" at the Sonic Images web site,
+           but I don't know what episode (if any) it's from.
+3:52-4:29: "GROPOS" -- Dodger's theme
+4:30-4:50: "Revelations" -- Dr. Franklin visits the newly-hatched Delenn
+4:51-5:20: A theme for Delenn; heard in "Soul Mates" and "Confessions and
+           Lamentations"
+5:21-5:57: "A Distant Star" -- the Cortez
+5:58-6:27: "Points of Departure" -- Lennier with Delenn's cocoon
+6:28-6:53: "Points of Departure" -- Sheridan arrives on Babylon 5
+6:54-7:26: "The Coming of Shadows" -- the Centauri Emperor arrives on 
+           Babylon 5
+7:27-7:33: "The Long Dark" -- The Copernicus tumbles towards B5
+7:34-7:46: "The Geometry of Shadows" -- Technomage theme
+	   
+Track 11:
+0:00-1:10: "A Distant Star" -- Delenn discusses "star-stuff"
+1:11-1:41: "A Distant Star" -- Keffer lost in hyperspace
+1:42-1:49:
+1:50-2:05:
+2:06-2:35: "Points of Departure" -- Lennier stands between Kalain and
+           Delenn's chrysalis
+2:36-3:23: "Chrysalis" -- Garibaldi, mortally wounded, crawls towards the
+           transport tube.
+Track 12:
+0:00-3:57: Extended version of the "Requiem for the Line"
+(American version: 0:00-4:13)
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+RESULTS: Babylon 5 sponsor survey (12/8/94)
+
+Below is a table of national sponsors of Babylon 5, surveyed over a
+period of several weeks.  Following the table is a set of mailing
+addresses of the most frequent sponsors.  B5 fans who want to express
+support directly to the sponsors may wish to write to those addresses.
+However, this should be done only after having written to their local
+television station first.
+
+NOTES/METHODS:
+
+(1) Only the number of advertising spots and the number of episodes
+sponsored (out of the four episodes surveyed) have been counted,
+rather than the total amount of time purchased.
+
+(2) Locally-identified companies or non-commercial promos were
+excluded from the table, although a few national products (such as
+automobiles) may have actually been placed only locally.
+
+(3) The count was based on first-run (Wednesday) broadcast on WSBK
+channel 38, Boston.  Advertising appearing from between the teaser
+through to the credits was included, but not those immediately before
+or after.
+
+(4) The count was based on FOUR recent episodes: Revelations
+(11/9/94), Geometry of Shadows (11/16/94), The Long Dark (11/30/94),
+and Spider in the Web (12/7/94).
+
+(5) This effort has been entirely on my own initiative.  Any errors
+are certainly mine.  I do not work for any of the sponsors.  Although
+I think that this bit of research may have been useful, I am not
+planning to continue the survey.  Someone who tapes the show is
+welcome to do a more obsessive job, using a stopwatch.
+
+RESULTS:
+
+#SHOWS  #SPOTS  SPONSOR         PRODUCT(S) ADVERTISED
+
+4       8       AT&T            True USA; 1800CALLATT; "You Will"
+3       5       Nissan          Pathfinder, Maxima, Altima
+3       5       Wrigley's       Winterfresh gum
+3       4       RCA             DirecTV
+3       4       Wendy's         fast food
+3       3       Arm & Hammer    Deodorant, PeroxiCare toothpaste
+3       3       Ballatore       Gran Spumante sparkling wine
+3       3       DHL             shipping
+2       8       Acclaim         games: NFL, M.Kombat,WWF,Beavis
+2       7       Procter&Gamble  Pampers, Noxzema, Sure, Scope, Folger's, Duncan Hines
+2       4       Hyundai         Elantra
+2       3       Coors           Coors Light beer
+2       3       Tott's          champagne
+2       2       Burger King     fast food
+2       2       House of Tsang  prepared take-out meals
+2       2       Oral-B Labs     Advantage toothbrush
+2       2       Plank Road      Red Dog Beer
+2       2       Radio Shack     AST computer
+2       2       Saturn          automobile
+2       2       Unknown?        Hooked on Phonics
+2       2       Ziff-Davis      Sports Illustrated
+1       2       Mars, Inc.      M&Ms
+1       1       Amer Express    Corporate card
+1       1       Anderson-Little clothiers
+1       1       BJ's Wholesale club     
+1       1       Blockbuster     video
+1       1       Chevrolet       S-series pickup
+1       1       Fannie Mae      mortgage broker
+1       1       Ford            Windstar
+1       1       Fox video       movie video: "Speed"
+1       1       GNC             Herbal Plus
+1       1       Lego            Duplo preschool toys
+1       1       Lever Bros.     Wisk
+1       1       MasterCard      credit card
+1       1       Miller Brewing  Miller Lite beer
+1       1       Orville Redenbacher     Redenbutters popcorn
+1       1       Pfizer          Plak
+1       1       PrimeStar       TV services
+1       1       Stanley         hardware
+1       1       Sunoco          MasterCard
+1       1       Toyota          Avalon
+1       1       Universal       movie: "Street Fighter"
+1       1       Warner Bros.    movie: "Disclosure"
+
+
+SELECTED SPONSOR ADDRESSES:
+
+Mr. D.L.Carney
+Vice President, Consumer Communications Services
+AT&T
+295 North Maple Avenue
+Basking Ridge, New Jersey 07920
+
+
+Mr. Earl Hesterberg
+VP, Marketing
+Nissan Motor Co.
+PO Box 191
+Gardena, CA 90248
+1-800-NISSAN1
+
+
+Mr. Ronald Cox
+Group VP, Marketing
+Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.
+410 N. Michigan Avenue
+Chicago, IL 60611
+1-312-644-2121
+
+
+DirecTV Customer Service
+PO Box 92600
+Los Angeles, CA 90009
+1-800-DIRECTV
+
+
+Mr. John Harper, Vice President
+Communications, Services and Support
+Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers
+4288 West Dublin-Granville Road
+Dublin, Ohio 43017
+1-800-826-3000
+
+
+Finally, you can also write to the studio to express your support:
+
+Mr. Dick Robertson
+VP, Domestic Television Distribution
+Warner Brothers Television
+4000 Warner Boulevard
+Burbank, CA 91522
+
+Mark D. Grover, Ph.D.  (grover@world.std.com)
+
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+Description of Babylon 5
+Based on Episodes and JMS notes.
+Compiled by I. Marc Carlson, IMC@vax2.utulsa.edu
+All materials copyright have been copyrighted by Time-Warner and
+Babylonian Productions.  Used without permission.
+
+                          /\ /\ /\
+                         -||-||-||----------------
+                         -||-||-||------------------------------------------
+ |\      ||-------------| || || |||   |     |      |   | | ----   ----
+ ||------||             |----------\  |     |      |   | | ---|---    |
+ ||------||             |----------/  |     |      |   | | ---|---    |
+ |/      ||-------------| || || |||   |     |      |   | | ----   ----
+                         -||-||-||-----------------------
+                          || || ||
+                          \/ \/ \/
+..........................|.......|...|.....|......|...|.|.............|....
+
+   ^                      ^   ^     ^          ^        ^^ ^ ^ ^   ^
+   |                      |   |     |          |        || | | |   |
+   |                      |   |     |        Green      || | | |   Docking bay
+   |                      |   |     |       section     || | | Cobra bays
+   |                      |   |     |                   || | Med lab/Iso lab
+   |                      |   |     |                   || Blue section
+   |                      |   |     |         the       Red section
+   |                      +---|-----|-------Garden-------+
+   |                          |     Gray section
+   |                          Brown section
+   Fusion reactor         ^                                             ^
+                          |                                             |
+                          |                                             |
+                          +-----Rotating Portion of the Station---------+
+
+(Initial Source: Cinefantastique Feb 1993.  Station sketch is based on
+original
+Ascii art by Richard Meikle and posted by Winchell Chung, Modified by I. Marc
+Carlson to closer match dimensions shown in "Points of Departure")
+
+Areas of Interest:
+      Yellow Sector:    Non rotating sections, 0g cargo bays, Fusion Engines,
+                        etc.
+      Blue Sector:      Maintenance and operations areas such as the docking
+                        bays, the Customs areas ("Customs sector"), and the
+                        Observation Dome/C&C.  There are hospitals and
+                        Medlabs.  Some living areas, the Sanctuary and the
+                        Rotunda.  There are 70 Decks in the narrower part of
+                        the hull.
+      Red Sector:       Wraps around The Garden. Marketplace and business
+                        areas such as the Zocolo, Hotel suites, casinos, bars,
+                        brothels, a bookstore;
+      The Garden        A large botanical area that runs the center,
+                        lengthwise, of the station.  It is an O'Neill
+                        environment, which enables an observer to look
+                        straight up to the other side of the rotating section. 
+                        Lining the circular wall are some farmlands, orchards,
+                        an open air hedge maze, fields, trees, artificial
+                        lakes, Hydroponics gardens and other areas for oxygen
+                        reclamation.  There are other areas where alien food
+                        is grown, as well as an area where food that is
+                        impractical to grow is synthesized.  Other foods are
+                        imported.  Weather can occur in the Garden area.
+      Green Sector:     Wraps around The Garden. Ambassadorial Suites.
+      Gray Sector:      Wraps around The Garden.  Alien Sector (qv).  Waste
+                        reclaimation area at Hull, Deck 49-51.
+      Brown Sector:     May or may not partially wrap around The Garden. 
+                        There are at least 90-91 Decks between the Axis and
+                        the Hull.
+      DownBelow:        The Slum areas below the main levels (the higher G
+                        sections?)
+      Topside:          The main, public areas.
+      Dockside:         The Cargo handling areas and docking bays.
+      Water and Waste reclamation systems are on decks 49-51 of blue and gray
+      sectors.
+      There are various embassies and diplomatic missions from various worlds. 
+      Because space on B5 is so tight, complete offices for every single
+      ambassador would kill most of the available space; so they have access
+      to the station's facilities for business rooms, meeting rooms,
+      conference rooms and the like.
+
+Internal Coordinates:
+      These are based first on color, denoting a "ring" or "sector", each
+      technically separate, but interconnected.  These consist of Blue, Gray,
+      Red, Green, Brown, etc.; then one of 36 "sector" numbers (Perhaps each
+      denoting a 10 degree region around the station's circumference); then a
+      "level" or a deck number (for instance Blue 15A).
+
+B5 Dimensions:
+      According to the Map in "Points of Departure" the station's total length
+      is X; the diameter of the largest rotating cross section is .094X; the
+      maximum length of heat radiator vanes from "top" to "bottom" is .26X.
+      The Fork/stabilizer is aproximately .094X long, although it only extends
+      .075X out from the main body of the station. It, and all non-rotating
+      sections are coded as Yellow. The foremost rotating section (the face of
+      which is .04X in diameter.) is colored Blue, and extends for .189X.  The
+      next section is Gray and is .019X long. The next, Red, section is .047X
+      long. The next section is of a darker color that may be Brown is .085X
+      long. The next section is Green and is .075X long.  The next section is
+      dark, and is .057X long.  Thus the rotating section is .547X long.  The
+      section housing the radiator vanes is .103X long and the final section,
+      housing the fusion reactors is .35X long.
+
+Physical Dimensions (My best estimate):
+            Station Length:                  8 kms (5 miles)
+            Diameter of Rotating Section:  752 meters (.47 miles)
+            Diameter of Blue Sector:       319 meters
+            Maximum Gravity (based on .5 rotation per minute):
+                                      1.97 G (10,306 cm/s^2)
+            C&C Distance from Axis:        125 meters
+            Gravity of C&C:                 .33 G (3,234 cm/s^2)
+            Maximum 4.1m Decks:  91
+            Deck 12:                        .27 G (2,646 cm/s^2)
+            Deck 15:                        .33 G (3,234 cm/s^2)
+            Deck 25:                        .51 G (4,998 cm/s^2)
+            Deck 40:                       1.02 G (9,996 cm/s^2)
+            Total Radiator Length:  2 km
+            Fork/Stabilizers Length: 752 meters
+            Fork Extention:          599 meters
+            Blue Sector Length:     1513 meters
+            Gray Sector Length:      152 meters
+            Red Sector Length:       377 meters
+            Dark Sector Length:      679 meters
+            Green Sector Length:     600 meters
+            Dark Sector Length:      456 meters
+            Vane Section Length:     824 meters
+            Fusion Section Length:  2800 meters
+                                  -------------
+            Total Length            8000 meters
+
+            Station Mass:          2.5x10^12 grams (Minimum)
+                                4x10^12   grams (Estimated)
+            Station's Actual Gravity based on Mass:
+                                2.7x10^-13 cm/s^2 (Minimum)
+                                4.34x10^13 cm/s^2 (Estimated)
+            Orbital Radius (Estimated): 100,000 km and 100,000 km behind E-3-A
+
+      Location:
+            Grid "Epsilon" 470x18x22.  The Station orbits a barren, seemingly
+            lifeless planet "Epsilon 3" (aka Euphrates*) in the L5 postition
+            between the planet and a small, gray moon.  The planet orbits
+            "near" Epsilon Eridani (Epsilon or Tigris*) in neutral space, more
+            or less central to all five of the major governments (nw).  [JMS
+            said initial that Euphrates was a Binary system (25-30 ly from
+            Earth), though this may have changed.]
+            B1-B4 were located in roughly the same sector, with B4 using some
+            of the materials from 1-3 leftover.  B5 was constructed about 3
+            hours (traveling time in real-space) from the location of B4.
+            [B4 was refered to as being in "Sector 14" (bs) while "Sector 7"
+            is "Almost on top of" the station (nw) and "Sector 10" is very
+            nearby.]
+      Description:
+            The non-rotating "fork" portion of the station "over" the rotating
+            landing bays sits astride a 0 G cargo handling bay.  The "fork"
+            extends into a flat non-rotating section that runs the length of
+            the station to the heat radiator vanes.  Behind them extends the
+            fusion reactor section that extends over a third of the length of
+            the station.  "Below" the reactor, several kms away from the
+            station, floats a "Hazardous Materials Storage" site.  The station
+            is spun for simulated gravity, ranging from 0 G along the axis to
+            about 2 Gs on the lowest deck.
+      Areas of Interest:
+            Yellow Sector:    Non rotating sections, 0g cargo bays, Fusion
+                              Engines, etc.
+      Living Areas:
+            There are living areas designed to accomodate different
+            environments, atmospheres, etc.  Some of the alien sections are
+            uninhabitable to humans without protective breathing gear or other
+            measures.  Similarly, heavy CO2 breathers or methane breathers
+            have to wear some sort of respirators or "encounter suits" to
+            travel among the humans on the station.  The station's life
+            support systems are capable of handling 250,000 entities, mostly
+            in the form of transient population.
+            Only the executive suites have sufficient water for traditional
+            bathing facilities.  The rest of the personnel make due with
+            sonics showers.
+            The primary means of transportation within the station are the
+            transport tubes, similar to elevators moving from level to level;
+            and the core shuttle, which travels along the axis in 0 G.  The
+            station operates on Earth Standard/Earth Mean Time, as well as
+            running on human cycles of day and night, with the lighting in the
+            hallways and Garden bright during the day times, and dark during
+            night.
+      Personnel:
+            Most of the humans on the station are civilian contractees,
+            handling things such as dockwork, food preparation, and so forth,
+            under contracts with the government.  Operations, such as the
+            techs in the Observation Dome, the Medical Staff, and Security are
+            Earthforce.  There are 1500 Guild Dockworkers, and 6500 Earthforce
+            Personnel.
+      Defensive Capabilities:
+            Until 2259, the station was protected by a low level Defense Grid
+            containing a variety of concealed hull mounted weaponry, which
+            were supplemented by Starfury wings housed in "Cobra Bays".
+            The Alpha, Delta and Zeta wings consist of 12 Starfurys each.
+            After the beginning of the Narn-Centauri Conflict, in 2259, the
+            station's defenses were upgraded with Pulse Cannons...
+      Internal Coordinates:
+            These are based first on color, denoting a "ring" or "sector",
+            each technically separate, but interconnected.  These consist of
+            Blue, Gray, Red, Green, Brown, etc.; then one of 36 "sector"
+            numbers (each denoting a 10 degree region around the station's
+            circumference*); then a "level" or a deck number (for instance
+            Blue 15A).
+            There are various "locator Graphics", pictograms using dots to
+            identify beings (Three dots on a line above and through three
+            larger circles for the Core Shuttle; a single dot over a slanted
+            bar for licing quarters; six dots to either side of a bar for a
+            meeting room; etc.
+      Legal Status:
+            The Station acts as a free port, a place of commerce, trade,
+            diplomacy, where different parties can meet to work out their
+            problems so the legal situation can be tricky.  Technically,
+            outside of the station is in neutral territory, while only within
+            the station are EA laws and regulations enforceable.  These
+            regulations are VERY strict.  Anyone coming onto the station must
+            be scanned for weapons, since no weapons are allowed on the
+            station.
+            In most everyday situations B5 operates fairly autonomously; Earth
+            doesn't generally get involved unless there's a good reason.
+            The commander of B5 is empowered to speak on behalf of his
+            government the say that a ship's captain exploring new worlds is
+            similarly empowered.  He is on equal footing with the Alien
+            ambassadors.  He is forbidden from using the Station's personnel
+            or firepower to, for instance, threaten someone into signing a
+            particular treaty, since that would be considered duress, and
+            therefore void.
+      Financial Conditions:
+            The Station is owned and operated by the Earth Alliance, and
+            although the EA funded the first few attempts exclusively; after
+            they'd dumped all their money into B4, they needed outside funding
+            to get B5 going.  The Minbari were first to contribute money as a
+            show of good faith. Then the Centauri added additional funding. 
+            Those are the only two other races that've contributed
+            significantly.
+            Because of this financial "burden", anyone who stays on the
+            station pays a fee.  Station employees are charged a similar fee
+            against their salaries.  Even the command staff may be required to
+            pay for their "room and board".   As soon as a ship enters through
+            the Jump Gate, its "signature" is registered and the fee for using
+            Gate is debited to the account or taxes of the ship's owner.  If
+            they don't have an account, they will be asked for payment before
+            being allowed to "land."
+
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+
+B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5
+B5                                  B5
+B5   Babylon 5 (UK) Episode Guide   B5
+B5        -=>  SEASON 1  <=-        B5
+B5                                  B5
+B5    Guide Date : November 1996    B5
+B5                                  B5
+B5     Compiled By : Edwin Yau      B5
+B5                                  B5
+B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5
+
+
+     CONTENTS (* = additions/changes)
+
+   * [1]  README
+     [2]  SEASON 1 CREDITS
+     [3]  EPISODE GUIDE
+          [3.1]  NARRATIONS
+          [3.2]  PILOT MOVIE
+          [3.3]  SEASON 1
+     [4]  U.K. AIR DATES & RATINGS
+     [5]  SEASON 1 UK EDITS
+     [6]  AND FINALLY...
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[1]  README
+===========
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 (UK) Episode Guide!  Don't be put off by the fact
+that it has a UK bias though as most of the information (i.e. the actual
+episode guide part and list of edits) is relevant to whatever country you
+are in!
+
+This guide is actually a portion of a much larger guide which I have split
+up due to the growing size of the guide.  To download other seasons look
+for the following files:-
+
+        b5uk_s1.txt     season 1 guide
+        b5uk_s2.txt     season 2 guide
+        b5uk_s3.txt     season 3 guide
+        b5uk_s4.txt     season 4 guide
+        b5uk_s5.txt     season 5 guide
+
+This guide is Copyright (C) November 1996 by Edwin Yau.  It may be
+redistributed freely in its complete form, but may not be reproduced in
+any form whatsoever if any monies is to be made from it.  No attempt has
+been made to supersede any rights held by Warner Bros. TV, Babylonian
+Productions Inc., Channel 4 TV, TNT, PTEN or any other copyright holders.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[2]  SEASON 1 CREDITS
+=====================
+
+STARRING:
+     Michael O'Hare      as   Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+     Claudia Christian   as   Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+     Jerry Doyle         as   Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+     Mira Furlan         as   Ambassador Delenn
+     Richard Biggs       as   Dr. Stephen Franklin
+     Andrea Thompson     as   Psi Corps Telepath Talia Winters
+     Stephen Furst       as   Vir Cotto
+     Bill Mumy           as   Lennier
+     Caitlin Brown       as   Na'Toth
+     Andreas Katsulas    as   Ambassador G'Kar
+     Peter Jurasik       as   Ambassador Londo Mollari
+
+CREATED BY..............: J. Michael Straczynski
+PRODUCED BY.............: John Copeland
+CO-PRODUCER.............: Richard Compton
+EXECUTIVE PRODUCER......: Douglas Netter
+                          J. Michael Straczynski
+ASSOCIATE PRODUCER......: George Johnsen
+CONCEPTUAL CONSULTANT...: Harlan Ellison
+DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY.: John C. Flinn III
+CASTING BY..............: Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+PRODUCTION DESIGNER.....: John Iacovelli
+STORY EDITOR............: Lawrence G. DiTillio
+MUSIC BY................: Christopher Franke
+MUSIC PERFORMED BY......: Christopher Franke and
+                          The Berlin Symphonic Film Orchestra
+VISUAL EFFECTS BY.......: Ron Thornton
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[3]  EPISODE GUIDE
+==================
+
+-------------------------------------
+[3.1]  OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATIONS
+-------------------------------------
+
+All narrations are opening unless otherwise stated.
+
+---------------------
+PILOT MOVIE NARRATION
+---------------------
+
+     "I was there at the  dawn of the  third age of mankind.  It began in
+     the Earth year  2257  with the  founding of  the last of the Babylon
+     stations, located deep in neutral space.   It was a port of call for
+     refugees, smugglers,  businessmen,  diplomats and  travellers from a
+     hundred  worlds.  Could be  a dangerous  place, but we  accepted the
+     risk because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace.
+
+     "Under the leadership of its' final commander, Babylon 5 was a dream
+     given form... a  dream of  a galaxy  without war,  when species from
+     different  worlds  could live  side by side  in mutual  respect... a
+     dream that was in danger as  never before by the  arrival of one man
+     on a mission of destruction.
+
+     "Babylon 5  was the  last of  the  Babylon  stations.  This is  its'
+     story..."
+
+                                             - Ambassador Londo Mollari
+
+------------------
+SEASON 1 NARRATION
+------------------
+
+     "It was the dawn of the  third  age  of mankind, ten years after the
+     Earth/Minbari  War.  The Babylon  Project  was a dream  given  form.
+     Its' goal: to prevent another  war by  creating a place where humans
+     and aliens could work out their differences peacefully.  It's a port
+     of call, home away from home for  diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs
+     and  wanderers;  humans  and aliens  wrapped  in two  million,  five
+     hundred thousand tons of  spinning metal...  all alone in the night.
+     It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last, best hope for peace.
+     This is the story of the last  of the Babylon stations.  The year is
+     2258.  The name of the place is Babylon 5."
+
+                                             - Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+
+------------------
+[3.2]  PILOT MOVIE
+------------------
+
+N/A) "The Gathering"
+
+     Directed by: Richard Compton
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+LYTA: "He did it!  He's the one!  He tried to kill the ambassador!"
+
+When Ambassador Kosh of the Vorlon Government arrives on Babylon 5 he is
+immediately the subject of an assassination attempt.  Using a telepath,
+the crew discover that the assassin is apparently Commander Jeffrey
+Sinclair, who finds himself on trial.  But as the crew investigate further
+the mystery deepens, and as Garibaldi digs deeper bodies begin turning up
+and some people aren't who they seem to be.  The crew must solve the
+mystery and find the real assassin before the arrival of the Vorlons, who
+will take Commander Sinclair back to their own world for trial.
+
+     Michael O'Hare      as   Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+     Tamlyn Tomita       as   Lt. Commander Takashima
+     Jerry Doyle         as   Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+     Mira Furlan         as   Ambassador Delenn
+     Blaire Baron        as   Carolyn Sykes
+     John Fleck          as   Del Varner
+     Paul Hampton        as   The Senator
+     Andreas Katsulas    as   Ambassador G'Kar
+     Peter Jurasik       as   Ambassador Londo Mollari
+     Johnny Sekka        as   Dr. Benjamin Kyle
+     Patricia Tallman    as   Lyta Alexander
+     Steven A. Barnett   as   Eric
+     William Hayes       as   Traveller
+     Linda Hoffman       as   Tech #2
+     Robert Jackson      as   Tech #3
+     F. William Parker   as   Business Man #1
+     Marianne Robertson  as   Hostage
+     David Sage          as   Business Man #2
+     Ed Wasser           as   Guerra
+
+------------------------------------
+[3.3]  SEASON 1 - SIGNS AND PORTENTS
+------------------------------------
+
+A01) "Midnight on the Firing Line"
+
+     Directed by: Richard Compton
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+G'KAR: "Would you like some Spoo?  It's quite fresh this week."
+LONDO: "Fresh is it?" [spits into Spoo!]
+
+An attack on Ragesh 3, a Centauri outpost, leads Londo to discover that
+the Narn Regime was behind it, and he goes after G'Kar.  Meanwhile pirates
+are attacking supply ships and as Sinclair calls a council meeting to
+authorise sanctions against the Narn Regime, Garibaldi discovers that the
+pirates will be attacking a supply ship carrying over 500 civilians.  Then
+Sinclair gets a message from the senator telling him that the Earth
+Alliance must stay neutral and things go from bad to worse for Londo at
+the meeting.
+
+     Paul Hampton        as   The Senator
+     Peter Trencher      as   Carn Mollari
+     Jeff Austin         as   Centauri #1
+     Ardwright Chamberlain
+                         as   Kosh
+     Maggie Egan         as   Newsperson
+     Mark Hendrickson    as   Narn Captain
+     Douglas E. McCoy    as   Delta 7
+     Marianne Robertson  as   Tech #1
+
+A02) "The Soul Hunter"
+
+     Directed by: Jim Johnston
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+SINCLAIR: "Two Soul Hunters!  Did somebody book a convention without
+          telling me?"
+
+A ship is stopped before it crashes into B5 and its lone occupant is
+bought onboard.  Delenn recognises the occupant as a Soul Hunter, a
+stealer of souls, and when news gets out of the occupant most of the
+aliens decide to book passage off B5.  Then a second Soul Hunter arrives
+and details emerge that the first Soul Hunter is there to take a soul of
+someone very important, but rather than wait for death to take its course
+and risk being late, he plans to kill and collect the soul there and then.
+
+     W. Morgan Sheppard  as   The Soul Hunter
+     John Snyder         as   Soul Hunter #2
+     Toni Attell         as   Med Tech #1
+     Jim Bentley         as   Man
+     Mark Conley         as   Tech #1
+     David D. Darling    as   Guard #1
+     Ted W. Henning      as   Guard #2
+     Marianne Robertson  as   Tech #2
+
+A03) "Born to the Purple"
+
+     Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
+     Written by.: Lawrence G. DiTillio
+
+KO'DATH: "I am Ko'Dath, the new head of your diplomatic staff."
+G'KAR: "Yes, err... I wasn't expecting you for several yea... err, days."
+
+Londo becomes involved with a very beautiful Centauri dancer, Adira, and
+ends up often neglecting his ambassadorial duties.  But Adira turns out to
+be a slave on a mission to steal Londo's "purple files", a set of
+confidential files detailing scandalous secrets.  Adira steals the files
+but changes her mind about handing them over to her owner, Trakis, who
+hires killers look for her.  Meanwhile Garibaldi detects some unauthorized
+transmissions on the restricted Gold channel and has a hard time pinning
+them down.
+
+     Fabiana Udenio      as   Adira Tyree
+     Clive Revill        as   Trakis
+     Mary Woronov        as   Ko'Dath
+     Jimm Giannini       as   Ock
+     Robert Phalen       as   Andrei Ivanova
+     Robert DiTillio     as   Norg
+     Tom Lowe            as   Gunman #1
+     Katharine Mills     as   Dancer
+     Mike Norris         as   Butz
+     Laura Peterson      as   Gera Akshi
+     Marianne Robertson  as   Tech #1
+     Momo Yashima        as   Dr. Goyokin
+
+A04) "Infection"
+
+     Directed by: Richard Compton
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+GARIBALDI: "If that thing leaves a waxy yellow build up... on anything,
+           I'm coming back here."
+
+Dr. Franklin's mentor, one Dr. Vance Hendricks, arrives on Babylon 5 with
+smuggled artifacts from a long dead civilization that he hopes will lead
+to a breakthrough in organic technology; the blueprints for living
+machines.  But things go wrong for Nelson Drake, Hendricks's assistant,
+when one of the artifacts slowly transforms him into an alien killing
+machine with a living armour compound that grows over his body.  Meanwhile
+Sinclair tries to avoid an attractive, reporter determined to interview
+him.
+
+     David McCallum      as   Dr. Vance Hendricks
+     Marshall Teague     as   Nelson Drake
+     Patricia Healy      as   Mary Ann Cramer
+     Sav Farrow          as   Tech #1
+     Daniel Hutchison    as   Security Guard
+     Sylva Kelegian      as   Tech #2
+     Tony Rizzoli        as   Guard
+     Marianne Robertson  as   Tech #3
+     Paul Yeuell         as   Customs Guard
+
+A05) "The Parliament of Dreams"
+
+     Directed by: Jim Johnston
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+LONDO: "Do you know what the last Xon said just before he died?...
+       Arrrgh!"
+GARIBALDI: "Can I kill him now?"
+SINCLAIR: "Let me get back to you."
+
+It's a week of festivities where everyone on Babylon 5 gets to experience
+the others religious beliefs.  During this time Ambassador G'Kar receives
+a death threat from an old enemy and becomes suspicious of everyone,
+including his newly arrived aide Na'Toth.  He hires a bodyguard to help
+protect him, but even the bodyguard turns up dead!  Meanwhile Catherine
+Sakai, an old flame of Sinclair's, turns up on B5 on business, and once
+again a romance builds up between them.
+
+     Julia Nickson       as   Catherine Sakai
+     Thomas Kopache      as   Tu'Pari
+     Joy Hardin          as   Narn #1
+     Mark Hendrickson    as   Du'Rog
+     Calvin Jung         as   Guard
+     Randall Kirby       as   Businessman #1
+     Michael McKenzie    as   Pilgrim
+     Marianne Robertson  as   Dome Tech
+     Glenn Robinson      as   Head Waiter
+     Erich Martin Von Hicks
+                         as   Businessman #2
+
+A06) "Mind War"
+
+     Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+SINCLAIR: "Mister, I don't care if you had a personal message from God
+          complete with stone tablets.  You lied to me!"
+
+When an escaped rogue telepath, Jason Ironheart, arrives on Babylon 5 to
+find Talia Winters, two Psi Cops are sent after him and will stop him any
+way they can.  But Jason is not all he seems and his presence could
+destroy Babylon 5.  Even the Psi Cops aren't telling the whole truth and a
+tale of genetic experiments on telepaths slowly unfolds.  During all this
+Catherine Sakai ignores G'Kar's warning about Sigma 957 and finds herself
+spiraling towards the planet with 2 hours to live.
+
+     William Allan Young as   Jason Ironheart
+     Felicity Waterman   as   Kelsey
+     Julia Nickson       as   Catherine Sakai
+     Walter Koenig       as   Bester
+     Don Dowe            as   Earth Fighter
+     Elisa Pensler Gabrielli
+                         as   Guest Liaison
+     Michael McKenzie    as   Narn Captain
+     Kevin Page          as   Businessman
+     Mark S. Porro       as   Security Guard
+     Macaulay Bruton     as   Garibaldi's Aide
+     Marianne Robertson  as   Dome Tech #1
+
+A07) "The War Prayer"
+
+     Directed by: Richard Compton
+     Written by.: D.C. Fontana
+
+IVANOVA: "... You're a vicious man."
+GARIBALDI: "I'm Head of Security.  It's in the job description."
+
+The tension and ill feeling between the aliens and humans on B5 grows
+after a Minbari poet is stabbed and branded by a pro-Earth group.  It
+leaves Sinclair and his crew scrambling to flush out the pro-Earth group
+before all out war breaks out on B5, which is not helped by G'Kar's
+interference.  Londo and Vir have their own problems when they clash over
+two young Centauri lovers seeking protection from arranged marriages, and
+an old lover of Ivanova's suddenly arrives at the station who has more on
+his agenda than she realises.
+
+     Tristan Rogers      as   Malcolm Biggs
+     Nancy Lee Grahn     as   Shaal Mayan
+     Michael Paul Chan   as   Roberts
+     Rodney Eastman      as   Kiron Maray
+     Danica McKellar     as   Aria Tensus
+     Diane Adair         as   Mila Shar
+     Richard Chaves      as   Alvares
+     Mark Henrickson     as   Thegras
+     Chuck Butto         as   Security Officer #1
+     Ardwight Chamberlain
+                         as   Kosh
+     Mike Gunther        as   Alien #1
+     Marianne Robertson  as   Dome Tech
+
+A08) "And the Sky Full of Stars"
+
+     Directed by: Janet Greek
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+SINCLAIR: "Well, well... looks like the pain is real for both of us."
+
+Sinclair wakes up to find B5 deserted, but it turns out that he has been
+kidnapped and is being interrogated inside a virtual reality cybernet by 2
+unknown assailants determined to find out what happened when he was M.I.A.
+for 24 hours during the "Battle of the Line", something he has never been
+able to remember.  As the rest of the B5 crew start a search for Sinclair
+he starts remembering bits and pieces of those 24 hours, but will they
+find him before he dies from his interrogation?
+
+     Judson Scott        as   Knight One
+     Christopher Neame   as   Knight Two
+     Jim Youngs          as   Benson
+     Justin Williams     as   Mitchell
+     Joe Banks           as   Guard
+     Gary Cervantes      as   Strongarm #1
+     Mark Hendrickson    as   Grey Council #1
+     Fumi Shishino       as   Security Guard
+     Macaulay Bruton     as   Aide
+     Marianne Robertson  as   Tech #1
+
+A09) "Deathwalker"
+
+     Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
+     Written by.: Lawrence G. DiTillio
+
+SINCLAIR: "Why?"
+KOSH: "You are not ready for immortality."
+
+Jha'dur, better known to many as "Deathwalker", is the last of the Dilgar,
+a race which fought the Earth Alliance and the League of Non-Aligned
+Worlds 30 years ago.  She is recognised on arrival at B5 and the League
+calls out for justice, but Sinclair receives orders to send her back to
+Earth as she has produced an immortality serum which she uses as a
+bargaining chip to retain her freedom.  Meanwhile Talia Winters conducts
+some very strange and peculiar business with Ambassador Kosh and a strange
+man.
+
+     Sarah Douglas       as   Jha'dur
+     Robin Curtis        as   Ambassador Kalika
+     Cosie Costa         as   Abbut
+     Aki Aleong          as   Senator Hidoshi
+     Ardwright Chamberlain
+                         as   Kosh
+     Robert DiTillio     as   Ambassador #1
+     Sav Farrow          as   Tech #2
+     Mark Hendrickson    as   Ashok
+     Marianne Robertson  as   Tech #1
+
+A10) "Believers"
+
+     Directed by: Richard Compton
+     Written by.: David Gerrold
+
+SHON: "Am I going to die?"
+
+An alien couple bring their child to Dr. Franklin looking for medical help
+with his life-threatening condition, but their ancient religion will not
+allow surgical procedure.  Franklin asks Sinclair to overrule the aliens'
+parental authority which he considers but finally rejects.  Knowing the
+boy will die if not operated on, Dr. Franklin and his assistant operate
+anyway not knowing the consequences of their actions.  Meanwhile Ivanova
+leads a rescue attempt of a ship which could be attacked by raiders.
+
+     Tricia O'Neil       as   M'ola
+     Stephen Lee         as   Tharg
+     Silvana Gallardo    as   Dr. Maya Hernandez
+     Jonathan Charles Kaplan
+                         as   Shon
+     Ardwright Chamberlain
+                         as   Kosh
+
+A11) "Survivors"
+
+    Directed by: Jim Johnston
+    Written by.: Mark Scott Zicree
+
+NOLAN: "It was... Gari... baldi..."
+
+Major Kemmer, the president's security adviser, arrives on B5 to inspect
+safety conditions and it seems that she has a grievance with Garibaldi who
+she blames for killing her father.  An explosion seriously injures a
+worker and as he dies he insists it was due to a bomb planted by Garibaldi.
+Kemmer arrests Garibaldi but he escapes, determined to find out who framed
+him.  As things go from bad to worse Garibaldi ends up hitting the bottle
+once again.
+
+     Elaine Thomas       as   Lianna Kemmer
+     Tom Donaldson       as   Cutter
+     David Austin Cook   as   Special Agent #1
+     David Crowley       as   Lou Welch
+     Maggie Egan         as   INS Reporter
+     Jose Rosario        as   Nolan
+     Robin Wake          as   Young Lianna
+     Mark Hendrickson    as   Alien #1
+     Rod Perry           as   General Netter
+     Marianne Robertson  as   Tech #1
+
+A12) "By Any Means Necessary"
+
+     Directed by: Jim Johnston
+     Written by.: Kathryn Drennan
+
+CONNOLLY: "I have spent my entire life defending workers' rights and I'm
+          not about to stop now!"
+
+An accident in one of B5's overcrowded loading docks between two ships
+causes the death of a worker.  Working conditions and obsolete equipment
+are blamed and Sinclair faces an illegal strike.  When the Senate sends in
+a negotiator things get worse and there are violent clashes between the
+workers and the security forces on B5.  A rare flower used in the Narn
+religious ceremonies is destroyed in the accident and G'Kar, needing one
+in time for the ceremony, discovers that Londo is the only other person
+who has one.
+
+     Katy Boyer          as   Neeoma Connolly
+     John Snyder         as   Orin Zento
+     Aki Aleong          as   Senator Hidoshi
+     Patricia Healy      as   Mary Ann Cramer
+     Michael McKenzie    as   Narn Captain
+     Jose Rey            as   Eduardo Delvientos
+     Ricardo Martinez    as   Worker #2
+     Marianne Robertson  as   Tech #1
+     Floyd Vaughn        as   Worker #1
+
+A13) "Signs and Portents"
+
+     Directed by: Janet Greek
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+KOSH: "Leave this place.  They are not for you.  Go.  Leave.  Now..."
+
+Raiders are robbing and destroying cargo vessels close to B5 and the crew
+prepare for defensive action.  Londo comes into possession of "The Eye",
+an ancient Centauri symbol of power, which is to be given to Lord Kiro,
+the Emperor's heir.  When the raiders attack another cargo vessel which
+turns out to be a decoy, there is an attack on the station itself, with
+raiders on B5 capturing Kiro and "The Eye".  Meanwhile a mysterious
+stranger arrives on the station asking the same question to the alien
+Ambassadors.
+
+     Gerrit Graham       as   Lord Kiro
+     Fredi Olster        as   Lady Ladira
+     Whip Hubley         as   Raider #1
+     Anita Brabec        as   Dome Tech #3
+     Ardwight Chamberlain
+                         as   Kosh
+     Joshua Cox          as   Dome Tech #2
+     Garry Kluger        as   Man
+     Lee Mathis          as   Fighter #1
+     Douglas E. McCoy    as   Fighter #2
+     Hector Mercado      as   Pilot
+     Marianne Robertson  as   Dome Tech #1
+     Robert Silver       as   Reno
+     Ed Wasser           as   Morden
+     Lynn Red Williams   as   Customs Guard
+
+A14) "TKO"
+
+     Directed by: John C. Flinn, III
+     Written by.: Lawrence G. DiTillio
+
+MUTA-DO: "... and I say 'Go Back to Earth.  The Mutai is not for you.'"
+
+Walker Smith, a disgraced ex-prizefighter from Earth, comes to B5 to visit
+his friend Garibaldi and to reclaim his honour by becoming the first human
+to fight in the Mutai, a fierce boxing event hosted by the alien races
+onboard the station.  But the Muta-Do will not let humans fight against
+aliens - Smith must find another way to enter the event.  Rabbi Koslov
+arrives on B5 to console Ivanova on the death of her father, and to help
+her come to terms with it - something she is unwilling to let him do.
+
+     Greg McKinney       as   Walker Smith
+     Soon-Teck Oh        as   The Muta-Do
+     Don Stroud          as   Caliban
+     Theodore Bikel      as   Rabbi Koslov
+     James Jude Courtney as   Gyco
+     Robert Phalen       as   Andrei Ivanov
+     Lenore Kasdorf      as   ISN reporter
+     Michael McKenzie    as   Migo
+     Marianne Robertson  as   Tech #1
+
+A15) "Grail"
+
+     Directed by: Richard Compton
+     Written by.: Christy Marx
+
+SINCLAIR "... One person's lunatic is another's true seeker."
+GARIBALDI: "You've been hanging out with Delenn too much."
+
+Gajic, a traveller, comes to B5 seeking the Holy Grail, hoping that one of
+the alien ambassadors has some information on it.  Meanwhile Deuce, a
+crime boss, forces Jinxo, a worker, to repay a debt by a certain time or
+be brainwiped by an alien appearing to be Ambassador Kosh, who has just
+brainwiped a witness planning to testify against Deuce.  In the course of
+their investigation, the B5 crew end up trying to find a terrifying
+"Feeder", and a captured Gajic and Ombuds Wellington.
+
+     David Warner        as   Aldous Gajic
+     William Sanderson   as   Deuce
+     Tom Booker          as   Jinxo
+     Jim Norton          as   Ombuds Wellingston
+     Linda Lodge         as   Mirriam Runningdear
+     Ardwight Chamberlain
+                         as   Kosh
+     John Flinn          as   Mr. Flinn
+     Marianne Robertson  as   Tech #1
+
+A16) "Eyes"
+
+     Directed by: Jim Johnston
+     Written by.: Lawrence G. DiTillio
+
+GARIBALDI: "If I kill him I would start a war..."
+
+Colonel Zayn (a.k.a."Eyes"), an investigator from the EarthForce Bureau of
+Internal Affairs, arrives on B5 with a military specialist from the Psi
+Corps to evaluate the loyalty of B5's command staff in the wake of the
+several political crisis on the station.  Garibaldi finds out some
+information on Zayn does some more digging, and when things don't go as
+planned for Zayn, he assumes command of B5 and threatens to court-martial
+Sinclair.  Lennier finds some time to help Garibaldi build a motorcycle.
+
+     Gregory Martin      as   Colonel Ari Ben Zayn
+     Jeffrey Combs       as   Harriman Gray
+     Macaulay Bruton     as   Tragedy
+     Marie Chambers      as   Sofie Ivanov
+     David L. Crowley    as   Lou Welch
+     Frank Farmer        as   General Miller
+     Drew Letchworth     as   Comedy
+     Marianne Robertson  as   Tech #1
+
+A17) "Legacies"
+
+     Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
+     Written by.: D.C. Fontana
+
+SINCLAIR: "Station 1, keep scanning that ship - if their tracking system
+          so much as blinks in our direction..."
+
+A Minbari war cruiser arrives at B5 with the corpse of their great war
+hero, Branmer, for display at various outposts throughout the galaxy, but
+when the corpse goes missing everyone is horrified and there is a search
+to find it, with the Minbari warrior caste leader threatening to start a
+war over it.  Meanwhile Talia and Ivanova clash over a 14-year-old orphan
+who has is also a powerful telepath.  They have different opinions as to
+the girl's best interests; G'Kar offers her a third choice!
+
+     John Vickery        as   Shai Alit Neroon
+     Grace Una           as   Alisa Beldon
+     Joshua Cox          as   Tech #2
+     Richard Henry       as   Security Man
+     Patrick O'Brien     as   Cart Owner
+     Marianne Robertson  as   Tech #1
+
+A18) "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part I"
+
+     Directed by: Janet Greek
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+LONDO: "If that's true it would seem you may have awakened something."
+
+Surface monitors detect seismic activity on Epsilon 3, the planet B5
+orbits.  A team is sent to investigate but their shuttle is attacked by an
+automated defense system built by a long-forgotten civilization.  Sinclair
+and Ivanova decide to try and get to the planet to find out what happened.
+Meanwhile Garibaldi attempts to find out any information on the violent
+political revolt on the Mars Colony where his ex-girlfriend is stationed,
+and Delenn is visited by Draal, one of her former teachers.
+
+     Louis Turenne       as   Draal
+     Curt Lowens         as   Varn
+     Craig Barnett       as   Security Guard
+     Langdon Bensing     as   Derek Mobotabwe
+     Kelly Coyle         as   EarthForce Liaison
+     Kathryn Cressida    as   Bartender
+     Jim Ishida          as   Dr. Tasaki
+     Lenore Kasdorf      as   ISN Reporter
+     Marianne Robertson  as   Tech #1
+     Patty Toy           as   PSI Corps Rep
+     Jerry Well          as   Technician
+
+A19) "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part II"
+
+    Directed by: Janet Greek
+    Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+PIERCE: "A show of force... is required."
+
+Deep inside Epsilon 3, Sinclair and Ivanova discover that seismic tremors
+have reactivated a defense system guarded by Varn, a dying 500-year-old
+cybernetic alien.  They bring him back to B5 and an EarthForce war cruiser
+arrives to claim the technology on the planet, but the captain sets off a
+chain reaction that will destroy the planet in less than 48 hours.  Then
+an alien warship arrives also laying claims to the planet and a
+misunderstanding leads to a space battle.
+
+     Louis Turenne       as   Draal
+     Curt Lowens         as   Varn
+     Ron Canada          as   Captain Ellis Pierce
+     Denise Gentile      as   Lise Hampton
+     Aki Aleong          as   Senator Hidoshi
+     Joshua Cox          as   Tech #2
+     Chip Heller         as   Rowdy #1
+     Lenore Kasdorf      as   ISN Reporter
+     Michelan Sisti      as   Takarn
+     Marianne Robertson  as   Tech #1
+
+A20) "Babylon Squared"
+
+     Directed by: Jim Johnston
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+KRANTZ: "Babylon 4 requesting help.  We need assistance."
+
+The strange death of a pilot and an emergency transmission leads to the
+reappearance of Babylon 4, which has been trapped in a violent time warp
+for the last 4 years, which projects B4 back and forth through time... All
+available rescue shuttles are sent to B4 and the crew are evacuated before
+it vanishes again, but not before Sinclair has visions of his own future
+and meets "The One" from another time in history.  Meanwhile Delenn
+travels to the Grey Council to receive some surprising news.
+
+     Kent Broadhurst     as   Major Krantz
+     Tim Choate          as   Zathras
+     Denise Gentile      as   Lise Hampton
+     Frank Costa         as   B4 Guard
+     Mark Hendrickson    as   Grey Council #2
+     Doug E. McCoy       as   Alpha Seven
+     Tommy Rosales       as   Panicked Man
+     Marianne Robertson  as   Tech #1
+
+A21) "The Quality of Mercy"
+
+     Directed by: Lorraine Senna Ferrara
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+WELLINGTON: "The personality of Karl Edward Mueller will be totally and
+            completely erased."
+
+Mueller, a psychopathic killer is sentenced to have a brainwipe, a
+telepathic process where the evil personality is erased and replaced with
+docile emotions.  Dr. Franklin does some investigating of his own on Dr.
+Laura Rosen who has been treating poor people illegally with an alien
+healing machine.  Mueller escapes, but not before being severely wounded
+and ends up in Laura's clinic holding her daughter hostage.  Londo takes
+some time to learn about the other alien races and takes Lennier to B5's
+nightclubs!
+
+     June Lockhart       as   Dr. Laura Rosen
+     Kate McNeil         as   Janice Rosen
+     Mark Rolston        as   Karl Mueller
+     Damian London       as   Centauri Senator
+     Jim Norton          as   Ombuds Wellington
+     Lynn Anderson       as   Rose
+     Phillippe Bergeron  as   Lurker
+     David Crowley       as   Second Guard
+     Kevin McBride       as   Guard
+     Constance Zimmer    as   Young Woman Patient
+
+A22) "Chrysalis"
+
+     Directed by: Janet Greek
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+KOSH: "And so it begins..."
+
+The season finale, and as it nears the end of the year 2258, a dying man
+signifies the start of a chain of events that leads Garibaldi to an
+important discovery that could cost him his life.  Morden, an agent for
+the mysterious Shadows, returns to give the Londo a hand with the Centauri
+dispute with the Narns over an outpost, and Delenn starts to go through
+some changes after her meeting with Kosh.
+
+     Julia Nickson       as   Catherine Sakai
+     Macaulay Bruton     as   Garibaldi's Aide
+     Liz Burnette        as   Lurker #1
+     Edward Conery       as   Devereaux
+     Maggie Egan         as   News Anchor
+     Cheryl Francis Harrington
+                         as   Senator
+     Mark Hendrickson    as   Narn Pilot
+     James Kiriyama-Lem  as   Med Tech
+     Wesley Leong        as   Paramedic
+     Gianin Loffler      as   Lurker #2
+     David Anthony Marshall
+                         as   Stephen Petrov
+     Gary McGurk         as   Morgan Clark
+     John Riojas         as   Guard
+     Marianne Robertson  as   Tech
+     Fumi Shishino       as   Screaming Woman
+     Ed Wasser           as   Morden
+     Bergen Williams     as   Security Guard
+
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+
+[4]  U.K. AIR DATES & RATINGS
+=============================
+
+DATE FORMAT: yy/mm/dd
+RATINGS FORMAT: position/viewers in millions
+
+Please note that the UK running order of the episodes may not be the same
+as the US order.
+
+AIR DATE  PROD.  TITLE                               RATINGS
+          CODE
+
+94/05/16   103   "Midnight on the Firing Line"       14/2.61
+94/05/23   102   "The Soul Hunter"                   26/1.79
+94/05/30   104   "Born to the Purple"                ??/1.20
+94/06/06   101   "Infection"                         19/2.12
+94/06/13   108   "The Parliament of Dreams"          ??/1.30
+94/06/20   110   "Mind War"                          21/1.86
+94/06/27   107   "The War Prayer"                    21/1.65
+94/07/04   106   "And the Sky Full of Stars"         25/1.46
+94/07/11   113   "Deathwalker"                       28/1.46
+94/07/18   105   "Believers"                         27/1.47
+94/07/25   111   "Survivors"                         30/1.50
+94/08/01   114   "By Any Means Necessary"            ??/1.60
+94/08/08   116   "Signs and Portents"                ??/1.40
+94/08/15   109   "Grail"                             ??/1.40
+94/08/22   122   "Eyes"                              ??/1.20
+94/08/29   115   "Legacies"                          ??/1.20
+94/09/05   120   "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1" 22/1.73
+94/09/12   121   "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 2" 21/2.05
+94/09/19   118   "Babylon Squared"                   22=/2.13
+94/09/26   117   "The Quality of Mercy"              27/1.76
+94/10/03   112   "Chrysalis"                         31/1.79
+94/10/09   N/A   "The Gathering"                     16/2.43
+95/01/21   119   "TKO"                               --/----
+
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+
+[5]  SEASON 1 UK EDITS
+======================
+
+All information included here are based on edits made on 1st run episodes.
+Repeated episodes that may have been further edited are not included.  If
+you know of any other edits, e-mail me all the details!
+
+Edits are listed in the format:-
+
+[ep. #]  [title]
+[edited scenes]
+
+A02) "The Soul Hunter"
+
+  a) Just before the tramp is killed by the other tramp with the knife,
+     there has been a 1-2 second edit where you should have seen a close
+     up of the knife the killer is holding.
+
+A07) "The War Prayer"
+
+  a) In the teaser with the Minbari poet being stabbed, you only see a
+     flash of the butterfly knife (a martial arts knife, a.k.a. ballisong)
+     twice and then the stabbed Minbari poet fall down before being
+     branded.  You don't see the actual stabbing.
+
+     The US version shows the knife 3 times and then the actual stabbing.
+
+  b) The scene where the Oriental pro-earth man is attacked by aliens is
+     cut.  Basically he gets beaten up a lot more in the US version!  The
+     UK version lasts 17 seconds.  The US version lasts 42 seconds.
+
+A08) "And the Sky Full of Stars"
+
+  a) In the scene where Sinclair has the complete version of his flashback
+     of the "Battle of the Line", he says "Not like this, not like this,
+     if I'm going out I'm taking you with me."
+
+     In the US version he actually says "Not like this, not like this, if
+     I'm going out I'm taking you bastards with me."
+
+A09) "Deathwalker"
+
+  a) In the teaser where Jha'dur is attacked by Na'Toth, you see Na'Toth
+     beating Jha'dur onto the ground - suddenly she miraculously has a
+     metal staff/wrench in her right hand and is about to strike Jha'dur
+     before getting held back.  What you don't see is the edit where
+     Na'Toth picks up the wrench and hits Jha'dur a couple of times, and
+     boy-o-boy was it painful!
+
+A10) "Believers"
+
+  a) After Franklin has performed the operation on Shon, his parents see
+     him and back off, start chanting and the father draws a knife.  The
+     knife scene is cut and you see them back off slightly - suddenly
+     Sinclair shouts at Franklin.
+
+A11) "Survivors"
+
+  a) The scene where Garibaldi is fighting Cutter during the countdown is
+     edited.  You did not see Cutter draw a knife.
+
+A14) "TKO"
+
+  a) This episode was not aired originally due to Channel 4 deeming that
+     the content of the violence ('alien bare-knuckle kick-boxing') was
+     too strong for a 6pm showing, so they skipped this episode completely
+     during the original run.
+
+     After much UK fan pressure, they finally aired the episode (un-cut)
+     on Saturday, 21 January 1995 @ 10.35pm.
+
+A18) "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1"
+
+  a) The scene in the bar where Garibaldi thumps the man who is making
+     remarks about the people on the Mars colony has been edited.
+
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+
+[6]  AND FINALLY...
+===================
+
+I hope you find this guide useful.  If you have any suggestions, comments,
+or just want to say hi, you can drop me a line at one of the following:-
+
+     Mr. Edwin Yau,     e-mail:   mrpotato@fastnet.co.uk
+     16 Hogarth Road,
+     HOVE,
+     East Sussex,
+     BN3 5RG.
+     ENGLAND.
+
+Hellos to... Peter Berry, Steven Grimm, Tobias Richter, Channel 4
+             Television and all the guys at Visual Imagination Ltd.!
+
+
+                              === END ===
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+B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5
+B5                                  B5
+B5   Babylon 5 (UK) Episode Guide   B5
+B5        -=>  SEASON 2  <=-        B5
+B5                                  B5
+B5    Guide Date : November 1996    B5
+B5                                  B5
+B5     Compiled By : Edwin Yau      B5
+B5                                  B5
+B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5
+
+
+     CONTENTS (* = additions/changes)
+
+   * [1]  README
+     [2]  SEASON 2 CREDITS
+     [3]  EPISODE GUIDE
+          [3.1]  NARRATIONS
+          [3.2]  SEASON 2
+     [4]  U.K. AIR DATES & RATINGS
+     [5]  SEASON 2 UK EDITS
+     [6]  AND FINALLY...
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[1]  README
+===========
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 (UK) episode guide!  Don't be put off by the fact
+that it has a UK bias though as most of the information (i.e. the actual
+episode guide part and list of edits) is relevant to whatever country you
+are in!
+
+This guide is actually a portion of a much larger guide which I have split
+up due to the growing size of the guide.  To download other seasons look
+for the following files:-
+
+        b5uk_s1.txt     season 1 guide
+        b5uk_s2.txt     season 2 guide
+        b5uk_s3.txt     season 3 guide
+        b5uk_s4.txt     season 4 guide
+        b5uk_s5.txt     season 5 guide
+
+This guide is Copyright (C) November 1996 by Edwin Yau.  It may be
+redistributed freely in its complete form, but may not be reproduced in
+any form whatsoever if any monies is to be made from it.  No attempt has
+been made to supersede any rights held by Warner Bros. TV, Babylonian
+Productions Inc., Channel 4 TV, TNT, PTEN or any other copyright holders.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[2]  SEASON 2 CREDITS
+=====================
+
+STARRING:
+     Bruce Boxleitner    as   Captain John Sheridan
+     Claudia Christian   as   (Lt.) Commander Susan Ivanova
+     Jerry Doyle         as   Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+     Mira Furlan         as   Ambassador Delenn
+     Richard Biggs       as   Dr. Stephen Franklin
+     Andrea Thompson     as   Psi Corps Telepath Talia Winters
+     Stephen Furst       as   Vir Cotto
+     Bill Mumy           as   Lennier
+     Mary Kay Adams      as   Na'Toth
+     Robert Rusler       as   Warren Keffer
+     Andreas Katsulas    as   Ambassador G'Kar
+     Peter Jurasik       as   Ambassador Londo Mollari
+
+CREATED BY..............: J. Michael Straczynski
+PRODUCED BY.............: John Copeland
+CO-PRODUCER.............: Richard Compton
+EXECUTIVE PRODUCER......: Douglas Netter
+                          J. Michael Straczynski
+ASSOCIATE PRODUCER......: George Johnsen
+CONCEPTUAL CONSULTANT...: Harlan Ellison
+STORY EDITOR............: Lawrence G. DiTillio
+MUSIC BY................: Christopher Franke
+MUSIC PERFORMED BY......: Christopher Franke and
+                          The Berlin Symphonic Film Orchestra
+CASTING BY..............: Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+                          Steve Brooksbank, C.S.A.
+VISUAL EFFECTS BY.......: Ron Thornton
+PRODUCTION DESIGNER.....: John Iacovelli
+DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY.: John C. Flinn III
+COSTUME DESIGNER........: Ann Brucie
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[3]  EPISODE GUIDE
+==================
+
+-------------------------------------
+[3.1]  OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATIONS
+-------------------------------------
+
+All narrations are opening unless otherwise stated.
+
+------------------
+SEASON 2 NARRATION
+------------------
+
+     "The Babylon Project  was  our last,  best,  hope for peace.  A self
+     contained world five  miles long,  located in  neutral territory.  A
+     place of commerce  and diplomacy  for a quarter  of a million humans
+     and aliens.  A shining beacon in space,  all alone in the night.  It
+     was the dawn of the  third age  of mankind,  the year  The Great War
+     came upon  us all.  This is  the story  of the last  of the  Babylon
+     stations.  The year is 2259.  The name of the place is Babylon 5."
+
+                                             - Captain John Sheridan
+
+---------------------------------
+SEASON 2 FINALE CLOSING NARRATION
+---------------------------------
+
+     "It was the end of the Earth year 2259  and the war was upon us.  As
+     anticipated,  a  few  days  after  the  Earth-Centauri  treaty   was
+     announced the Centauri widened their war to include many of the Non-
+     Aligned Worlds.
+
+     "And there was  another war brewing  closer to home.  A personal one
+     whose cost would be higher than any of us could imagine...
+
+     "We came to this place because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for
+     peace.  By the end of 2259  we knew  that it  had failed.  But in so
+     doing it became  something greater.  As the war  expanded it  became
+     our last, best hope for victory.  Because sometimes peace is another
+     word for surrender, and because secrets has a way of getting out."
+
+                                             - Commander Susan Ivanova,
+                                               "The Fall of Night"
+
+---------------------------------------
+[3.2]  SEASON 2 - THE COMING OF SHADOWS
+---------------------------------------
+
+B01) "Points of Departure"
+
+     Directed by: Janet Greek
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+SHERIDAN: "The president feels the Minbari had too much influence over an
+          Earth Outpost.  Times change."
+HEDRONN: "And the day that a man such as yourself is given such a position
+         of this importance is a dark day indeed.  We lost many of our
+         best warriors because of you... and we do not soon forget such
+         things.  If there is a doom upon this station it's because you
+         brought it here."
+
+Captain John Sheridan arrives on B5 to assume a command he isn't entirely
+sure about.  To complicate matters the Minbari do not agree with the
+appointment of a man known to them as 'The Starkiller'.  Sheridan also has
+to deal with a renegade Minbari warship, the Trigati, which has been
+sighted in the area, and when a Minbari is captured whilst attempting to
+assassinate Delenn, the Trigati appears and threatens B5.  Commander
+Sinclair reaches an important destiny and the secret of his missing 24
+hours at the Battle of the Line is revealed.
+
+     Richard Grove       as   Kalain
+     Robin Sachs         as   Hedronn
+     Robert Foxworth     as   General William Hague
+     Jennifer Anglin     as   Deeron
+     Jonathan Chapman    as   Ambassador #1
+     Joshua Cox          as   Tech #1
+     Kim Delgado         as   Dome Tech #3
+     Rus Fega            as   Merchant #1
+     Bennet Guillory     as   Merchant #2
+     Catherine Hader     as   Young Woman
+     Mark Hendrickson    as   Ambassador #2
+     Kristopher Logan    as   Ambassador #3
+     Michael McKenzie    as   Vastor
+     Debra Sharkey       as   Tech #2
+     Brian Starcher      as   Other Pilot
+     Kim Strauss         as   Ensign
+     Thomas Valinote     as   Security Guard #2
+     Greg Wrangler       as   Security Guard #1
+
+B02) "Revelations"
+
+     Directed by: Jim Johnston
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+LONDO [laughs]: "Why don't you eliminate the entire Narn homeworld while
+                you're at it?"
+MORDEN: "One thing at a time, Ambassador... One thing at a time."
+
+Londo continues to plot his rise to power with the aid of Morden.  G'Kar
+arrives back on B5 with news of a powerful and terrible new enemy.
+Sheridan deals with the loss of his wife with a little help from his
+sister, and Delenn finally emerges from her chrysalis looking very
+different.  Garibaldi is finally revived from his coma and, with some help
+from Talia Winters, confronts the traitor who shot him, but this only
+brings up some more sinister news.
+
+     Beverly Leech       as   Elizabeth Sheridan
+     Macaulay Bruton     as   Garibaldi's Aide
+     Beth Toussaint      as   Anna Sheridan
+     David L. Crowley    as   Lou Welch
+     Mark Hendrickson    as   Narn Captain
+     James Kiriyama-Lem  as   Med Tech
+     Gary McGurk         as   President Clark
+     Michael McKenzie    as   Narn Navigator
+     Warren Tabata       as   Guard
+     Ed Wasser           as   Morden
+
+B03) "The Geometry of Shadows"
+
+     Directed by: Mike Laurence Vejar
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+ELRIC: "As I look at you, Ambassador Mollari, I see a great hand reaching
+       out of the stars.  The hand is your hand.  And I hear sounds - the
+       sounds of billions of people calling your name."
+LONDO: "My followers?"
+ELRIC: "Your victims."
+
+Ivanova starts training in the finer points in being a diplomatic officer
+and is promoted to commander.  Her first test is to deal with the Drazi,
+who have split into two groups and are fighting it out to find which group
+will rule the other.  Over 100 powerful Technomages, who use magic-like
+science, arrive on the station and Londo makes a mistake by trying all
+means to seek an audience with them.  Garibaldi, still recovering from his
+wounds and the fact that he was betrayed by his own second-in-command,
+considers his future.
+
+     Michael Ansara      as   Elric
+     William Forward     as   Refa
+     David L. Crowley    as   Lou Welch
+     Kim Strauss         as   Green Drazi
+     Jonathan Chapman    as   Green Drazi #2
+     Neil Bradley        as   Purple Drazi
+     Joshua Cox          as   Tech #1
+     Edward Conery       as   Devereaux
+     Warren Tabata       as   Guard
+
+B04) "A Distant Star"
+
+     Directed by: Jim Johnston
+     Written by.: D.C. Fontana
+
+IVANOVA: "All my life I've fought against Imperialism.  Now, suddenly I am
+         the expanding Russian frontier!"
+FRANKLIN: "But with very nice borders."
+
+Sheridan's first commanding officer, Captain Maynard, shows up on B5 and
+questions his former subordinate about being tied to a desk as opposed to
+being out in space travelling the stars.  When Maynard's ship is trapped
+in hyperspace the B5 crew must find a way to rescue the ship... and they
+discover that something may be living in hyperspace.  Dr. Franklin puts
+Sheridan, Ivanova and Garibaldi on a strict diet which they are finding
+hard to keep to.  Meanwhile the Minbari are unsure of the Delenn's new
+appearance.
+
+     Russ Tamblyn        as   Captain Jack Maynard
+     Daniel Beer         as   Patrick
+     Art Kimbro          as   Ray Galus
+     Miguel A. Nunez, Jr.
+                         as   Orwell
+     Patty Toy           as   Ogilvie
+     Joshua Cox          as   Tech
+     Kim Delgado         as   Comm Tech
+     Sandey Grinn        as   Teronn
+
+B05) "The Long Dark"
+
+     Directed by: Mario DiLeo
+     Written by.: Scott Frost
+
+MARKAB AMBASSADOR: "She has bought something evil from the past - a
+                   soldier of darkness."
+
+A ship over 100 years old floating towards B5 is bought onboard and found
+to contain a cryogenically-frozen young lady and her murdered husband.
+Reviving the lady, Dr. Franklin develops a relationship with her.
+Meanwhile Garibaldi arrests a lurker who can sense a coming doom.  When an
+alien is killed on B5, the death is discovered to be similar to the death
+of the lady's husband and she becomes a suspect.  The death also leads to
+some dark news about an alien entity and Garibaldi sets out to stop it.
+
+     Anne-Marie Johnson  as   Mariah Cirrus
+     Dwight Schultz      as   Amis
+     Jennifer Anglin     as   Alien #1
+     Neil Bradley        as   Alien #2
+     James Kiriyama-Lem  as   Medlab Tech
+     Kim Strauss         as   Markab Ambassador
+     Warren Tabata       as   Guard
+
+B06) "Spider in the Web"
+
+     Directed by: Kevin G. Cremin
+     Written by.: Lawrence G. DiTillio
+
+SHERIDAN: "For the past 6 years there have been rumours about a rouge
+          agency operating deep inside Earth Gov.  A dirty tricks squad
+          dealing in black projects and star-chambered justice.  It took
+          me over 3 years just to get a name - Bureau 13.  And the man who
+          gave me that name died soon after..."
+
+As preliminary negotiations between Isogi, the Future Corp representative,
+and the Provisional Mars government representative ends successfully,
+Isogi is murdered.  But what seems like an assassination by the Free Mars
+movement turns out to be something much deadlier, and a shaken Talia finds
+that she is the murderer's next target!  However the murderer is not all
+he seems and as the crew investigate, things get deeper and deeper... the
+killer is supposed to be dead and someone else is pulling the strings!
+
+     Michael Beck        as   Abel Horn
+     Adrienne Barbeau    as   Amanda Carter
+     James Shigeta       as   Taro Isogi
+     Jeff Conaway        as   Zack Allan
+     Jessica Walters     as   Senator Elise Voudreau
+     Annie Grindlay      as   Thirteen/Psi Cop
+     Joshua Cox          as   Tech #1
+
+B07) "A Race Through Dark Places"
+
+     Directed by: Jim Johnston
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+TALIA: "Then what am I?"
+RICK: "The future..."
+
+Psi Cop Bester returns to B5 and enlists Talis's help with a mission - to
+investigate the underground railroad of unregistered telepaths that are
+being smuggled through B5.  But when they are attacked she ends up being
+kidnapped much to Garibaldi's distress.  Delenn asks Sheridan to help her
+understand humans better which culminates with a night out on B5.
+Meanwhile both Ivanova and Sheridan finds themselves locked out of their
+quarters for not paying extra rent!
+
+     Apesanahkwat        as   Telepath #1
+     Brian Cousins       as   Rick
+     Diane Dilascio      as   Telepath #2
+     Gianin Loffler      as   Lurker
+     Walter Koenig       as   Bester
+     Eddie Allen         as   Man
+     Kathryn Cressida    as   Bartender
+     Judy Levitt         as   Psi Cop
+     Christopher Michael as   Shooter
+     William Allen Young as   Jason Ironheart
+
+B08) "Soul Mates"
+
+     Directed by: John C. Flinn, III
+     Written by.: Peter David
+
+GARIBALDI: "I'll be keeping an eye on you."
+STONER: "Use both eyes.  You'll need them."
+
+Stoner, a man who has left Psi-Corp and is Talia's ex-husband, has come to
+B5.  He offers Talia a way out of the organisation.  Garibaldi, believing
+that Stoner has other motives in mind, and concerned for Talia, keeps a
+close eye on him.  Londo's 3 wives come aboard B5 to find out that he
+plans to divorce all but one wife.  He ends up poisoned, but is it one of
+his wives' doing?  Delenn has problems of her own since her transformation
+and Ivanova agrees to help her out.
+
+     Keith Szarabajka    as   Matthew Stoner
+     Lois Nettleson      as   Daggair
+     Blair Valk          as   Mariel
+     David L. Crowley    as   Lou Welch
+     Carel Struycken     as   Trader
+     Jane Carr           as   Timov
+     Brian Michael McGuire
+                         as   Man
+
+B09) "The Coming of Shadows"
+
+     Directed by: Janet Greek
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+G'KAR: "Our hope for peace is over.  We are now at war... We are now at
+       war."
+
+The aging Centauri Emperor arrives on B5, something which G'Kar feels
+strongly against.  He decides that assassination is the only option, but
+things do not go according to plan and he is in for a few revelations and
+surprises.  While G'Kar ends up offering the hand of friendship, Londo
+makes a decision which can only mean no turning back from the path he has
+chosen.  Garibaldi arrests a man who has been following him, but he turns
+out to have an important message for him from an old friend...
+
+     Fredric Lehne       as   Ranger
+     Malachi Throne      as   Centauri Prime Minister
+     Jeff Conaway        as   Zack Allan
+     William Forward     as   Refa
+     Turhan Bey          as   Centauri Emperor
+     Michael O'Hare      as   Ambassador Jeffrey Sinclair
+     Neil Bradley        as   Kha'Mak
+     Ardwight Chamberlain
+                         as   Kosh
+     Jonathan Chapman    as   Narn Pilot #2
+     Bryan Michael McGuire
+                         as   Customs Guard #1
+     Kim Strauss         as   Narn Pilot #1
+
+B10) "GROPOS"
+
+     Directed by: Jim Johnston
+     Written by.: Lawrence G. DiTillio
+
+SHERIDAN: "Killing is part of a soldier's job.  We can't deny it, we can
+          only live with it and hope the reasons for doing it are
+          justified."
+
+The station is overrun by 25,000 Earth Alliance Marines, better known as
+GROPOS (GROund POunderS).  Commanded by General Richard Franklin (Dr.
+Franklin's father), the marines are using B5 as a staging area before
+going off to battle.  While Sheridan and General Franklin work on a
+strategy for the dangerous battle ahead, the marines are disrupting life
+on B5 for the crew, ambassadors and other residents.  Meanwhile Ivanova
+gives Dr. Franklin some advice on getting on with his father.
+
+     Paul Winfield       as   General Richard Franklin
+     David L. Crowley    as   Lou Welch
+     Ryan Cutrona        as   Sgt. Major Plug
+     Ken Foree           as   P.F.C. Large
+     Morgan Hunter       as   Pvt. Kleist
+     Marie Marshall      as   P.F.C. Dodger
+     Art Chudabala       as   Pvt. Yang
+     Joshua Cox          as   Tech #1
+     Maggie Egan         as   ISN Reporter
+     Elisa Beth Garver   as   Tech #2
+     Mowava Pryor        as   Tonia Wallace
+
+B11) "All Alone in the Night"
+
+     Directed by: Mario DiLeo
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+DELENN: "Very soon now I will be going into darkness and fire.  I do not
+        know if I am fated to walk out again."
+
+While Ivanova deals with a surprise visit from General Hague, Sheridan
+goes on a mission, but is captured by aliens.  While the crew try to
+rescue him, he ends up having to fight his way out to freedom.  It is also
+discovered that his appointment to B5 is not all it seems.  Delenn,
+summoned to her homeworld, appears before the Grey Council only to be
+rebuked because of her new appearance and the path she has chosen to take.
+With the appointment of her successor she realises that things have taken
+more ominous directions.
+
+     Nick Corri          as   Lt. Ramirez
+     Marshall Teague     as   Narn
+     Robin Sachs         as   Hedronn
+     John Vickery        as   Neroon
+     Robert Foxworth     as   General Hague
+     Ardwight Chamberlain
+                         as   Kosh
+     Joshua Cox          as   Tech #1
+
+B12) "Acts of Sacrifice"
+
+     Directed by: Jim Johnston
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+NARN: "Tell the others...  We attack in 6 hours...  And when we finish
+      there must not be one Centauri alive left on this station!"
+
+Tension is escalating rapidly on B5 between the Narns and the Centauri
+thanks to the recent murder of over 5,000 Narn civilians, and fights
+between the two races break out on B5.  G'Kar, trying to get help from the
+other races, finds that he must fight his own people in the battle for
+peace.  Sheridan discovers that he can only help the Narns by unofficial
+means, and Ivanova must negotiate with the Lumati, a very strange new
+race, in the hope that they will side with the Earth Alliance in this
+conflict.
+
+     Paul Williams       as   Taq
+     Christopher Darga   as   Narn #1
+     Glenn Morshower     as   Franke
+     Jeff Conaway        as   Zack Allan
+     Ian Abecrombie      as   Correlilmurzon
+     Paul Ainsley        as   Centauri #1
+     Jennifer Anglin     as   Narn Second
+     Joshua Cox          as   Tech #1
+     Kathryn Cressida    as   Bartender
+     Sandey Grinn        as   Narn Captain
+     David Sage          as   Centauri Merchant
+
+B13) "Hunter, Prey"
+
+     Directed by: Menachem Binetski
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+KOSH: "I will teach you."
+SHERIDAN: "About yourself?"
+KOSH: "About you.  Until you are ready."
+SHERIDAN: "For what?"
+KOSH: "To fight legends."
+
+B5 receives a fugitive alert from EarthForce - the crew must assist Agent
+Cranston in tracking down Dr. Jacobs, President Clark's former physician,
+who has enough information to bring down the Earth Alliance.  Sheridan
+receives a message that would indicate that the doctor is not a traitor,
+and it would be in Earth's interest to get the doctor off the station
+before Cranston locates him.  The mystery of the Vorlons deepens as
+Sheridan has a very strange meeting with Ambassador Kosh.
+
+     Bernie Casey        as   Derek Cranston
+     Jeff Conaway        as   Zack Allan
+     Wanda De Jesus      as   Sarah
+     Tony Steedman       as   Dr. Everett Jacobs
+     Richard Moll        as   Max
+     Joshua Cox          as   Tech #1
+     Ardwight Chamberlain
+                         as   Kosh
+     Bryan Michael McGuire
+                         as   Guard #2
+     Damon C. Reiser     as   Lurker
+     Debby Shiveley      as   Aide
+     Robert Silver       as   Merchant
+
+B14) "There All The Honor Lies"
+
+     Directed by: Mike Laurence Vejar
+     Written by.: Peter David
+
+SHERIDAN: "Why would I, out of the blue, attack your man."
+ASHAN: "He was not a man though, was he?  He was Minbari... Starkiller."
+
+While chasing a thief, Sheridan is attacked by a Minbari warrior who he
+kills in self defense, but when another Minbari witnesses the fight and
+claims that Sheridan attacked and killed the Minbari without provocation,
+Sheridan's career and command comes into jeopardy.  Ivanova is assigned to
+keep an eye on Earth Alliance's new idea to raise funds for B5 by
+merchandising it, which causes some surprises and upsets.  Vir has his own
+problems when he finds out that he is to be replaced as Londo's attache to
+the station.
+
+     Julie Caitlin Brown as   Guinevere Corey
+     Jeff Conaway        as   Zack Allan
+     Sean Gregory Sullivan
+                         as   Ashan
+     Neil Bradley        as   Minbari #3
+     Ardwight Chamberlain
+                         as   Kosh
+     Jonathan Chapman    as   Minbari #2
+     Vincent Duvall      as   Centauri Envoy
+     Eliott Harold       as   Human Customer
+     Mark Hendrickson    as   Human/Alien Customer
+     Ossie Mair          as   Store Owner
+     Michael McKenzie    as   Alien Customer
+
+B15) "And Now For a Word"
+
+     Directed by: Mario DiLeo
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+CYNTHIA: "Do you think attacks of this nature put everyone onboard
+         Babylon 5 in unnecessary jeopardy?"
+G'KAR: "We are already in far greater jeopardy than you can possibly
+       imagine."
+
+Presented as a fictional newscast (complete with commercials), ISN does a
+special "Thirty-Six Hours on Babylon 5" feature.  Whilst there, they catch
+the eruption of an armed space conflict between the Narns and Centauri.
+ISN interviews Londo and G'Kar on the war between the two races and also
+talks to the senior crew of B5 and Delenn, getting them to reveal their
+personal thoughts.  While Sheridan is forced to send out fighters to
+protect B5, many people back on Earth are concerned about B5's
+effectiveness.
+
+     Kim Zimmer          as   Cynthia Torqueman
+     Christopher Curry   as   Ronald Quantrell
+     Granville Ames      as   Psi Cop
+     John Christian Graas
+                         as   Johnny
+     Leslie Wing         as   Mother
+     Joshua Cox          as   Tech #1
+     Jose Rey            as   Dock Worker
+
+B16) "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum"
+
+     Directed by: David J. Eagle
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+SHERIDAN: "I want you to teach me how to fight them, how to beat them,
+          because sooner or later I'm going to Z'ha'dum and I'm going to
+          stop them."
+KOSH: "If you go to Z'ha'dum you will die."
+
+As Sheridan sorts through information sent by his wife shortly before her
+death, Garibaldi recognises one of the supposed fatalities - Morden, who
+is on B5 at this very moment in time.  Against all advice and regulations,
+Sheridan detains Morden and questions him for hours, determined to find
+out how he survived and how the disaster happened.  Desperate for answers,
+he tricks Talia Winters into helping him.  When Delenn and Kosh reveal
+what is really going on, Sheridan is forced to make the most important and
+agonizing decision of his life.
+
+     Jeff Conaway        as   Zack Allan
+     Alex Hyde-White     as   Pierce Macabee
+     Ed Wasser           as   Morden
+     Ardwight Chamberlain
+                         as   Kosh
+
+B17) "Knives"
+
+     Directed by: Stephen L. Posey
+     Written by.: Lawrence G. DiTillio
+
+LONDO: "I have a destiny to fulfill.  One which will take our people back
+       to a golden age.  We are Centauri, Urza.  We are meant to conquer,
+       to rule, to build empires."
+
+Sheridan decides to investigate the Grey Sector, which is rumoured to be
+haunted.  While there he encounters a corpse of a trader which transfers
+an alien spirit into him.  He is left with many strange and disturbing
+visions, and the disappearance of B4 may hold the key.  Things do not go
+well for Londo either when Urza, a lifelong friend, arrives on the station
+asking for his help to restore his family's honour.  Londo, unwilling to
+help publicly, leaves Urza no choice but to challenge him to a duel to the
+death.
+
+     Carmen Argenziano   as   Urza Jaddo
+     William Forward     as   Lord Refa
+     Joshua Cox          as   Tech #1
+     Elisa Beth Garver   as   Tech #2
+     William Dennis Hunt as   Centauri Noble
+
+B18) "Confessions and Lamentations"
+
+     Directed by: Kevin G. Cremin
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+FRANKLIN: "No, something here doesn't add up, and unlike Mr. Garibaldi I
+          don't like mysteries."
+
+When members of the Markab race begin to die within days of each other and
+a Markab ship is found with all her crew members dead, Dr. Franklin places
+the entire Markab population under quarantine as he searches desperately
+for a cure.  When a Pak'ma'ra dies of the same disease, indicating it can
+infect other races, panic spreads throughout the station.  Dr. Franklin
+races to find a cure but he may be too late already as the death toll
+rises and a civilization balances on the brink of annihilation.
+
+     Jim Norton          as   Dr. Lazarenn
+     Diane Adair         as   Markab Mother
+     Andrew Craig        as   Human
+     Maggie Egan         as   ISN Reporter
+     Mike Manzoni        as   Guard
+     Michael McKenzie    as   Markab Victim
+     Bluejean Ashley Secrist
+                         as   Markab Girl
+     Kim Strauss         as   Markab Ambassador
+     Dan Woren           as   Bartender
+     Rosie Malek-Yonan   as   Doctor
+
+B19) "Divided Loyalties"
+
+     Directed by: Jesus Trevino
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+LYTA: "Just give him a message!  Tell him that someone here, one of you,
+      is a traitor... and I can prove it!"
+
+Telepath Lyta Alexander returns to B5.  Now part of a revolutionary
+movement against Psi Corp, she is convinced that there is a "sleeper" spy
+on board B5, and that the spy is a very important person onboard the
+station.  To make matters more complicated, the spy does not know he or
+she is a spy as the person would have been programmed by a new Psi Corps
+technique.  When someone attempts to kill Lyta, Sheridan allows her to
+scan the crew, but Ivanova resists the idea... then a startling discovery
+is made!
+
+     Patricia Tallman    as   Lyta Alexander
+     Jeff Conaway        as   Zack Allen
+     Douglas Bennet      as   First Man
+     Ardwight Chamberlain
+                         as   Kosh
+     Joshua Cox          as   Tech #1
+     Danny De La Paz     as   Running Man
+     Jani Neuman         as   Med Tech
+     George Simms        as   Security Guard
+
+B20) "The Long, Twilight Struggle"
+
+     Directed by: John C. Flinn, III
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+LONDO: "What?  Are you mad?  They will destroy our supply lines."
+REFA: "Not if your forces are there waiting for them."
+LONDO: "My forces?  And where will all your generals be during this time?"
+REFA: "Launching a full assault on the Narn homeworld itself."
+LONDO: "Great maker!  You can't be serious!"
+REFA: "Of course I'm serious."
+
+The Narns, running out of resources in the war against the Centauri,
+decide on a last ditch attempt to stall the Centauri.  A major strike is
+planned against a heavily guarded Centauri supply world, but the Centauri
+discover the plans for the attack and, with the help of the Shadows, stop
+the attack on the supply world and launch a surprise attack on the Narn
+homeworld.  The Narn eventually surrender, and Sheridan offers G'Kar
+sanctuary onboard B5.  Meanwhile, Sheridan and Delenn are contacted by
+Draal on the nearby planet, who offers them access to vast amount of
+information and resources, and Delenn introduces Sheridan to the Rangers.
+
+     John Schuck         as   Draal
+     Rif Hutton          as   ISN Reporter
+     William Forward     as   Lord Refa
+     W. Morgan Sheppard  as   G'Sten
+     Neil Bradley        as   Narn #2
+     Jonathan Chapman    as   Narn Second
+     Joshua Cox          as   Tech #1
+     Elisa Beth Garver   as   Tech #2
+
+B21) "Comes the Inquisitor"
+
+     Directed by: Mike Laurence Vejar
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+G'KAR: "Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead!  How do you
+       apologise to them?"
+VIR: "I can't."
+G'KAR: "Then I cannot forgive."
+
+G'Kar tries to rally the Narns on B5, continuing his resistance effort
+against the Centauri who have cut off all contact with the Narn homeworld.
+Garibaldi helps G'Kar find an illegal arms supplier who is able to smuggle
+weapons to the Narn homeworld.  Kosh tests Delenn's allegiance by
+summoning Sebastian, a human who claims to have lived in the 19th century.
+As Sebastian does a series of intense and torturous tests of willpower on
+her, she begins to falter... Even Sheridan may not be able to save her.
+
+     Wayne Alexander     as   Sebastian
+     Jack Kehler         as   Mr. Chase
+     Diane Adair         as   Narn Mother
+     Ardwight Chamberlain
+                         as   Kosh
+     Jim Chiros          as   Centauri #1
+     Joshua Cox          as   Tech #1
+     Mark Hendrickson    as   Narn #1
+     Kim Strauss         as   Narn #2
+     Craig Thomas        as   Human
+     Michael Francis Kelly
+                         as   Guard
+
+B22) "The Fall of Night"
+
+     Directed by: Janet Greek
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+KEFFER: "... It was jet black.  A shade of black so deep your eye kinda
+        slides off it.  And it shimmered when you looked at it.  A spider
+        big as death and twice as ugly.  And when it flies past it's like
+        your hear a scream in your mind."
+
+As the Centauri Republic 'expands' into Drazi and Pak'ma'ra territories,
+Sheridan confronts Mollari, but is warned to stay out.  Earth finally
+sends a representative to investigate the situation, but he gives Sheridan
+some unexpected news about Earth's position on the matter.  When B5 is
+found to be protecting a Narn cruiser a Centauri cruiser arrives to stop
+the ship, and a firefight ensues between the Centauri cruiser and B5.
+Keffer makes a terrifying discovery, Sheridan's life comes into danger and
+Kosh is revealed... or is he?
+
+     Roy Dotrice         as   Frederick Lantz
+     Jeff Conaway        as   Zack Allen
+     Juli Donald         as   Pilot #1
+     Rick Hamilton       as   Mitch
+     Robin Sachs         as   Na'Kal
+     John Vickery        as   Mr. Welles
+     Donovan Brown       as   Pak'Ma'Ra Ambassador
+     Joshua Cox          as   Tech #1
+     Elisa Beth Garver   as   Tech #2
+     Mark Hendrickson    as   Narn #1
+     Joshua Patton       as   Human/Minbari Kosh
+     Kim Strauss         as   Drazi Ambassador
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[4]  U.K. AIR DATES & RATINGS
+=============================
+
+DATE FORMAT: yy/mm/dd
+RATINGS FORMAT: position/viewers in millions
+
+Please note that the UK running order of the episodes may not be the same
+as the US order.
+
+AIR DATE  PROD.  TITLE                               RATINGS
+          CODE
+
+95/02/07   201   "Points of Departure"
+95/02/14   202   "Revelations"
+95/02/21   203   "The Geometry of Shadows"
+95/02/28   204   "A Distant Star"
+95/03/07   205   "The Long Dark"
+95/03/14   206   "Spider in the Web"
+95/03/21   207   "A Race Through Dark Places"
+95/03/28   208   "Soul Mates"
+95/04/04   209   "The Coming of Shadows"
+95/04/11   210   "GROPOS"
+95/04/18   211   "All Alone in the Night"
+95/04/25   212   "Acts of Sacrifice"
+95/05/02   213   "Hunter, Prey"                      16/2.00
+95/05/09   215   "There All The Honor Lies"
+95/05/16   214   "And Now For A Word"                29/1.87
+95/05/23   217   "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum"
+95/05/30   216   "Knives"
+95/06/06   218   "Confessions and Lamentations"
+95/07/25   220   "Divided Loyalties"
+95/08/01   219   "The Long, Twilight Struggle"
+95/08/08   221   "Comes the Inquisitor"
+95/08/15   222   "The Fall of Night"
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[5]  SEASON 2 UK EDITS
+======================
+
+All information included here are based on edits made on 1st run episodes.
+Repeated episodes that may have been further edited are not included.  If
+you know of any other edits, e-mail me all the details!
+
+Edits are listed in the format:-
+
+[ep. #]  [title]
+[edited scenes]
+
+B09) "The Coming of Shadows"
+
+  a) When the Centauri Prime Minister was stabbed, the shot of the knife
+     going in was cut out.
+
+B10) "GROPOS"
+
+  a) About half the bar brawl was cut.
+
+B21) "Comes the Inquisitor"
+
+  a) When G'Kar comes out of the elevator after Vir's apology, he cuts his
+     hand with his knife (which was edited out).
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[6]  AND FINALLY...
+===================
+
+I hope you find this guide useful.  If you have any suggestions, comments,
+or just want to say hi, you can drop me a line at one of the following:-
+
+     Mr. Edwin Yau,     e-mail:   mrpotato@fastnet.co.uk
+     16 Hogarth Road,
+     HOVE,
+     East Sussex,
+     BN3 5RG.
+     ENGLAND.
+
+Hellos to... Peter Berry, Steven Grimm, Tobias Richter, Channel 4
+             Television and all the guys at Visual Imagination Ltd.!
+
+
+                              === END ===
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+B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5
+B5                                  B5
+B5   Babylon 5 (UK) Episode Guide   B5
+B5        -=>  SEASON 3  <=-        B5
+B5                                  B5
+B5    Guide Date : November 1996    B5
+B5                                  B5
+B5     Compiled By : Edwin Yau      B5
+B5                                  B5
+B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5  B5
+
+
+     CONTENTS (* = additions/changes)
+
+   * [1]  README
+     [2]  SEASON 3 CREDITS
+     [3]  EPISODE GUIDE
+          [3.1]  NARRATIONS
+          [3.2]  SEASON 3
+     [4]  U.K. AIR DATES & RATINGS
+     [5]  SEASON 3 UK EDITS
+     [6]  AND FINALLY...
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[1]  README
+===========
+
+Welcome to the Babylon 5 (UK) episode guide!  Don't be put off by the fact
+that it has a UK bias though as most of the information (i.e. the actual
+episode guide part and list of edits) is relevant to whatever country you
+are in!
+
+This guide is actually a portion of a much larger guide which I have split
+up due to the growing size of the guide.  To download other seasons look
+for the following files:-
+
+        b5uk_s1.txt     season 1 guide
+        b5uk_s2.txt     season 2 guide
+        b5uk_s3.txt     season 3 guide
+        b5uk_s4.txt     season 4 guide
+        b5uk_s5.txt     season 5 guide
+
+This guide is Copyright (C) November 1996 by Edwin Yau.  It may be
+redistributed freely in its complete form, but may not be reproduced in
+any form whatsoever if any monies is to be made from it.  No attempt has
+been made to supersede any rights held by Warner Bros. TV, Babylonian
+Productions Inc., Channel 4 TV, TNT, PTEN or any other copyright holders.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[2]  SEASON 3 CREDITS
+=====================
+
+STARRING:
+     Bruce Boxleitner    as   Captain John Sheridan
+     Claudia Christian   as   Commander Susan Ivanova
+     Jerry Doyle         as   Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+     Mira Furlan         as   Delenn
+     Richard Biggs       as   Dr. Stephen Franklin
+     Bill Mumy           as   Lennier
+     Jason Carter        as   Marcus Cole
+     Stephen Furst       as   Vir Cotto
+     Jeff Conaway        as   Zack Allen
+     Peter Jurasik       as   Londo Mollari
+     Andreas Katsulas    as   G'Kar
+
+CREATED BY..............: J. Michael Straczynski
+PRODUCTION DESIGNER.....: John Iacovelli
+DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY.: John C. Flinn III
+CONCEPTUAL CONSULTANT...: Harlan Ellison
+PRODUCED BY.............: John Copeland
+EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS.....: Douglas Netter
+                          J. Michael Straczynski
+ASSOCIATE PRODUCER......: George Johnsen
+MUSIC BY................: Christopher Franke
+CASTING BY..............: Fern Champion, C.S.A.
+                          Mark Paladini, C.S.A.
+COSTUME DESIGNER........: Ann Brucie Aling
+VISUAL EFFECTS BY.......: Ron Thornton
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[3]  EPISODE GUIDE
+==================
+
+-------------------------------------
+[3.1]  OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATIONS
+-------------------------------------
+
+All narrations are opening unless otherwise stated.
+
+------------------
+SEASON 3 NARRATION
+------------------
+
+     "The Babylon Project was our  last, best hope for peace.  It failed.
+     But, in the Year of the Shadow War, it became something greater: our
+     last,  best  hope  for...  victory.  The  year  is 2260.  The place:
+     Babylon 5."
+
+                                             - Commander Susan Ivanova
+
+---------------------------------
+SEASON 3 FINALE CLOSING NARRATION
+---------------------------------
+
+     "It was  the end of  the Earth  year 2260 - and the  war had  paused
+     suddenly  and  unexpectedly.  All around us  it was if  the universe
+     were holding its breath - waiting.
+
+     "All  of life  can be  broken  down  into moments  of transition, or
+     moments of revelation.  Is that the feeling of both?
+
+     "G'Quan wrote  'There is a  greater darkness than  the one we fight.
+     It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way.'
+
+     "The war we fight  is not against  powers and  principalities, it is
+     against chaos...  and despair.  Greater than  the death  of flesh is
+     the death of hope - the death  of dreams.  Against this peril we can
+     never surrender.
+
+     The future is all around us,  waiting in moments of transition to be
+     born  in moments  of  revelation.  No one  knows the  shape of  that
+     future, or  where it will  take us.  We know  only that it is always
+     born in pain."
+
+                                             - G'Kar
+                                               "Z'ha'dum"
+
+------------------------------------
+[3.2]  SEASON 3 - POINT OF NO RETURN
+------------------------------------
+
+C01) "Matters of Honor"
+
+     Directed by: Kevin G. Cremin
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+DELENN: "There are beings in the universe billions of years older than any
+        of our races.  They walked among the stars like giants, vast yet
+        timeless.  They created great empires, taught the new races,
+        explored beyond the Rim... The oldest of the Ancients are the
+        Shadows.  We have no other name for them..."
+
+Londo decides it is time to sever his relationship with Morden since the
+Narn-Centauri war has ended.  Morden and his associates agree to this...
+with certain conditions.  A Ranger arrives asking for Sheridan's help in
+stopping a blockade and introduces the crew to the White Star, a new ship
+to help them in the battle against the Shadows.  And an EarthForce
+intelligence agent arrives to conduct an inquiry on how much the crew and
+the ambassadors know about the Shadows.
+
+     Tucker Smallwood    as   David Endawi
+     Ed Wasser           as   Morden
+     Nils Allen Stewart  as   Large Man
+     Ardwight Chamberlain
+                         as   Kosh
+     Jonathan Chapman    as   Drazi Pilot
+     Kitty Swink         as   Senator
+     Andrew Walker       as   Psi Cop
+
+C02) "Convictions"
+
+     Directed by: Michael Vejar
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+G'KAR: "Not many fishes left in the sea.  Not many fishes, just Londo and
+       me."
+
+As a series of bombings rock B5, Ivanova calls on some unusual monks with
+even more unusual skills to help track down the dangerous bomber who
+threatens to destroy the whole station.  Lennier, risking his life to save
+Londo from one such bombing, ends up in a coma, and soon after another
+explosion Londo finds himself trapped inside a transport tube with his
+nemesis, G'Kar, with their oxygen supply dwindling, much to G'Kar's
+delight!
+
+     Patrick Kilpatrick  as   Robert Carlson
+     Louis Turenne       as   Brother Theo
+     Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
+                         as   Morishi
+     John Flinn          as   Obnoxious Man
+     Rick Johnson        as   Security Guard #1
+     Jason Larimore      as   Lurker
+     Gwen McGee          as   Med Tech
+     Mike McKenzie       as   Drazi #1
+     Tom Simmons         as   Security Guard #2
+
+C03) "A Day in the Strife"
+
+     Directed by: David J. Eagle
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+LONDO: "Over the last two years, to my considerable surprise, I have
+       become very fond of Vir.  Sometimes in his eyes I see a younger
+       version of myself before... he would be better off away from here.
+       Away from what must be."
+
+G'Kar decides to leave B5 when a Centauri-appointed liaison arrives to
+take over his position onboard the station.  Londo arranges for Vir to
+become a liaison to the Minbari homeworld.  An alien probe makes first
+contact with B5, threatening to blow up the station if hundreds of
+scientific and mathematical calculations aren't answered correctly within
+24 hours.  Meanwhile Franklin finds himself relying on stims to keep him
+going.
+
+     Stephen Macht       as   Na'Far
+     Marshall Teague     as   Ta'Lon
+     Anne Betancourt     as   Dr. Gonzalez
+     Neil Bradley        as   Narn #1
+     Joshua Cox          as   Corwin
+     Mark Hendrickson    as   Narn #2
+     Larita Shelby       as   Med Tech
+     John St. Ryan       as   Troublemaker
+     Michael Bailey Smith
+                         as   G'Dok
+
+C04) "Passing Through Gethsemane"
+
+     Directed by: Adam Nimoy
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+GARIBALDI: "Nobody's ever been to the Vorlon homeworld and back again; and
+           yet she goes and comes back like she just took a trip to the
+           corner store. And now she's working for Kosh."
+           
+Lyta Alexander returns to the station and explains how she has been drawn
+to Kosh since she first touched his mind, and is the first human to have
+reached and returned from Vorlon space.  Brother Edward begins to see
+terrifying visions in his mind and discovers that he has a hidden dark
+past which he confronts.  As the B5 crew attempt to discover what is
+really happening Lyta meets with Kosh once again and a few more questions
+are raised...
+
+     Brad Dourif         as   Brother Edward
+     Patricia Tallman    as   Lyta Alexander
+     Louis Turenne       as   Brother Theo
+     Robert Keith        as   Malcolm
+     Lynn Blades         as   News Anchor #2
+     Natalie Brunt       as   Business Person
+     Ardwight Chamberlain
+                         as   Kosh
+     Mark Folger         as   Centauri
+     Steven Golzalez     as   News Anchor #1
+
+C05) "Voices of Authority"
+
+     Directed by: Menachem Binetski
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+IVANOVA: "Good luck, Captain. I think you're about to go where everyone
+         has gone before."
+                
+In preparation for the coming war Delenn suggests that they attempt to
+contact more of the First Ones for help.  Draal agrees to help them find
+more of the First Ones.  G'Kar presses Delenn on the subject of Rangers
+and is not happy with the lack of information he has been receiving from
+everyone recently.  A political officer from the Ministry of Peace is
+assigned to B5 and has more than work on her mind.  Ivanova makes a
+startling discovery and Zack has further personal conflicts to deal with.
+
+     John Schuck         as   Draal
+     Shari Shattuck      as   Julie Musante 
+     James Black         as   Security Guard #1
+     Joshua Cox          as   Corwin
+     Vimi Mani           as   ISN Anchor
+     Gary McGurk         as   Vice President Clark
+     
+C06) "Dust to Dust"
+
+     Directed by: David J. Eagle
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+NARN IMAGE: "You have the opportunity, here and now, to choose.  To become
+            something greater and nobler and more difficult than you have
+            been before.  The universe does not offer such chances often,
+            G'Kar."
+
+Vir returns to B5 and has differing points of view with Londo.  Bester
+arrives to investigate the appearance of a drug known as "Dust" that
+allows the user to activate his or her latent telepathic gene, and works
+with Garibaldi to catch the distributors.  G'Kar reaches a turning point
+when he gets holds of some "Dust" and, assaulting Londo, manages to delve
+deep into Londo's mind, trying to find out whatever secrets he can.
+
+     Julian Neil         as   Lindstrom
+     Jim Norton          as   Narn Image
+     Walter Koenig       as   Bester
+     Ardwight Chamberlain
+                         as   Kosh
+     Harry Hutchinson    as   Security Guard #1
+     John-Frederick Jones
+                         as   Centauri Diplomat
+     S. Marc Jordan      as   Shop Owner
+     Judy Levitt         as   PSI Cop
+     Gwen McGee          as   Med Tech
+     Philip Moon         as   Ashi
+     Walter O'Neil       as   Crazed Man
+     David Shark         as   Man
+     Kim Strauss         as   Vizak
+     Dani Thompson       as   Ombuds
+
+C07) "Exogenesis"
+
+     Directed by: Kevin G. Cremin
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+FRANKLIN: "Closer examination confirms that the bio-mass is 100%
+          genetically neutral.  It can exist in any life form."
+
+Ivanova must determine whether or not Lt. Corwin should join their group
+working against the Earth government.  Marcus Cole attempts to find out
+why people are disappearing on the station.  As he and Dr. Franklin
+investigate they are captured and discover that a race of parasitic aliens
+that can attach themselves to and take over the mind of any life form have
+been introduced into the station, and must stop them spreading before they
+take over the whole station.
+
+     James Warwick       as   Matthew Duffin
+     Wylie Small         as   Jacque Lee
+     Aubrey Morris       as   Duncan
+     Joshua Cox          as   Corwin
+     Ross Gottstein      as   Vendor
+     Eric Steinberg      as   Samuel
+     Donald Willis       as   Trader
+     Michael McKenzie    as   Man
+     Carrie Dobro        as   Dr. Harrison
+     Kat Cressida        as   Kat
+     Roger Rook          as   Lurker
+     Leslie Pratt        as   Woman
+
+C08) "Messages from Earth"
+
+    Directed by: Michael Vejar
+    Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+FRANKLIN: "If Earth and the Psi Corps really are working with the Shadows
+           this is too big.  How can we fight something like that?"
+
+A woman arrives on B5 and informs the crew that a Shadow ship was found
+on Mars seven years ago.  More recently, one has been uncovered on
+Ganymede, one of Jupiter's moons, and EarthGov wants to keep it in order
+to control Earth.  Sheridan decides to go to Ganymede and destroy the
+Shadow ship but finds himself battling the ship and in a confrontation
+with his old ship, the Agamemnon.  The Nightwatch grows in strength and
+Zack's position becomes more difficult.
+
+     Nancy Stafford      as   Dr. Mary Kirkish
+     Vaughn Armstrong    as   Security Guard #1
+     Merrin Dungey       as   Security Guard #2
+     Vimi Mani           as   ISN Anchor
+     Lorraine Shields    as   Cook
+
+C09) "Point of No Return"
+
+     Directed by: Jim Johnston
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+O'REILLY: "Everything's gone to hell, John.  God help us all.  You're on
+          your own."
+
+As the Earth Alliance is put under martial law, the late Emperor Turhan's
+third wife, Lady Morella arrives on B5 and agrees to give Londo a reading,
+but it is not what he wants to hear.  The Nightwatch are given orders to
+take over all security responsibilities and to root out traitors - this
+throws people onboard B5 into panic and chaos.  As the crew attempt to
+regain control of the station G'Kar offers help but demands admittance
+into the secret alliance in return.
+
+     Majel Barrett       as   Lady Morella
+     Marshall Teague     as   Ta'Lon
+     Vaughn Armstrong    as   Security Guard #1
+     Lewis Arquette      as   General Smits
+     Ed Trotta           as   Lt. General O'Reilly
+     Jonathan Chapman    as   Passing Minbari
+     Joshua Cox          as   Lt. Corwin
+     Maggie Egan         as   ISN Reporter #1
+     Milton James        as   Centauri Official
+     Gunther Jensen      as   Nightwatch Guard
+     Tony Rayner         as   Man
+
+C10) "Severed Dreams"
+
+     Directed by: David J. Eagle
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+HIROSHI: "Major, the ships receiving the attack order were already on
+         their way here.  He doesn't want to risk Babylon 5 breaking away,
+         so those ships are under orders to seize command of Babylon 5,
+         arrest and detain its captain and the rest of the command staff,
+         and put this station under the direct authority of President
+         Clark and the Nightwatch."
+
+The EAS Alexander, arrives at B5 bearing bad news.  Mars defies President
+Clark's orders.  In return Earth bombs its civilian bases.  Other Earth
+colonies declare independence and ISN is shut down.  Delenn visits the
+Grey Council.  The EAS Churchill arrives with news that loyal EA warships
+are arriving to capture the Alexander and take control of B5.  When the EA
+forces arrives a bloody battle between once allies begins in space and
+onboard B5.
+
+     Kim Miyori          as   Captain Sandra Hiroshi
+     Rance Howard        as   David Sheridan
+     Phil Morris         as   Bill Trainor
+     Bruce McGill        as   Major Ryan
+     James Parks         as   Drakhen
+     Jonathan Chapman    as   Religious Minbari
+     Joshua Cox          as   Lt. Corwin
+     Maggie Egan         as   ISN Reporter #1
+     Matt Gottlieb       as   ISN Reporter #2
+     Kim Strauss         as   Narn
+
+C11) "Ceremonies of Light and Dark"
+
+     Directed by: John C. Flinn, III
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+BOGGS: "Come with us... or die."
+
+The crew keep on looking for members of the Nightwatch that may still be
+hidden on the station.  Lord Refa arrives on B5 to meet with Londo.  The
+B5 computer takes on a new personality much to Garibaldi's annoyance.
+Delenn calls for a rebirth ceremony not knowing that she is the next
+target for the Nightwatch.  She and other Minbari are taken as hostages
+and will be executed unless all Minbari cruisers leave B5.
+
+     William Forward     as   Lord Refa
+     Don Stroud          as   Boggs
+     Paul Perri          as   Sniper
+     Kim Strauss         as   Lennan
+     Vincent Bilanco     as   Maintenance Man
+     Joshua Cox          as   Lt. Corwin
+     Harlan Ellison      as   Sparky the Computer
+     Doug McCoy          as   Guard
+     Ed Wasser           as   Morden
+     Jim Cody Williams   as   Thug #1
+
+C12) "Sic Transit Vir"
+
+     Directed by: Jesus Trevino
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+IVANOVA: "We ran a check on all the Narns who left Narn using Vir's travel
+         papers.  According to the transit relocation files every one of
+         them - all two thousand Narns, all of them - are dead."
+
+Ivanova experiences a very strange dream.  On his return to B5 Vir
+discovers that he has an arranged marriage and the lady in question has
+just turned up.  But his problems are only just beginning as two Narns
+have blood oaths against him.  Ivanova investigates and discovers a
+startling fact.  She confronts Vir and Londo about it.  Meanwhile Sheridan
+and Delenn's relationship develops.
+
+     Carmen Thomas       as   Lyndisty
+     Damian London       as   Centauri Official
+     James Jude Courtney as   Narn #1
+
+C13) "A Late Delivery from Avalon"
+
+     Directed by: Michael Vejar
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+ARTHUR: "Mister?  Mister!  Have I been gone that long?  Have you forgotten
+        everything?  I am Arthur, son of Utherpendragon and King of the
+        Britons.  No man takes Excalibur from me and lives."
+
+As the first Earth transport since B5's secession from the Earth Alliance
+arrives at the station, it brings along a man who believes he is King
+Arthur.  As Franklin and Marcus try to find out who he really is, Arthur
+and G'Kar form an alliance.  Meanwhile Garibaldi is having trouble getting
+a package from the Post Office and Sheridan attempts to form an alliance
+with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds.
+
+     Michael York        as   Arthur
+     Michael Kagen       as   Emmett Farquaha
+     Roger Hampton       as   Merchant
+     Dona Hardy          as   Old Woman
+     Michael Francis Kelly
+                         as   Security Guard #1
+     James Kiriyama-Lem  as   Med Tech
+     Robert Schuch       as   Lurker
+     Jerry O'Donnell     as   Security Guard #2
+
+C14) "Ship of Tears"
+
+     Directed by: Michael Vejar
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+SHERIDAN: "Are you sure you don't know what's inside that ship,
+          Mr. Bester?"
+BESTER: "Weapon supplies.  That's what I was told."
+
+A distress call from a lone Star Fury brings the crew in contact with
+Bester once more.  Wishing to help he tells them about a transport
+carrying vital weapons to the Rim for the Shadows, but these weapons turn
+out to be something much more.  G'Kar demands to join the alliance against
+the Shadows.  Delenn reveals to G'Kar the Grey Council's foreknowledge of
+the Shadow/Centauri alliance.  Then the Shadows begin their attack.
+
+     Joan McMurtrey      as   Carolyn
+     Diana Morgan        as   Alison
+     Walter Koenig       as   Bester
+     Debra Sharkey       as   Med Tech
+
+C15) "Interludes and Examinations"
+
+     Directed by: Jesus Trevino
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+KOSH: "You do not understand, but you will."
+
+The Shadows have begun their attack, beginning with worlds near the Rim.
+Londo prepares for Adira's return.  Franklin begins to feel the pressure
+and continues to take stims.  Morden slips onto B5 and confronts Londo
+about the pull back of the Centauri campaign.  Sheridan asks for Kosh's
+help against the Shadows but has a hard time convincing the Vorlon to act,
+getting very angry with Kosh in the process.  And then someone dies...
+
+     Jennifer Balgobin   as   Dr. Lilian Hobbs
+     Rance Howard        as   David Sheridan
+     Jan Rabson          as   Vendor
+     Ed Wasser           as   Morden
+     Ardwight Chamberlain
+                         as   Kosh
+     Jonathan Chapman    as   Brakiri
+     Maggie Ciglar       as   Tech
+     Glenn Martin        as   Ranger
+     Doug Tompos         as   Med Tech
+
+C16) "War Without End, Part I"
+
+     Directed by: Michael Vejar
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+DELENN: "At this moment the Great Machine is using all its power to
+        enlarge the temporal rift in Sector 14.  We will use it to go back
+        6 years into the past.  Once there we must prevent the destruction
+        of Babylon 4 and take the station with us through time, because if
+        we fail to save Babylon 4, Babylon 5 will also be destroyed."
+
+Garibaldi investigates a distress signal from Sector 14 and discovers that
+B5 is doomed for destruction in a Shadow attack.  Sinclair returns to the
+station and the crew discover that they must travel back in time to save
+B4 from destruction by the Shadows.  Failure of the mission will seal B5's
+fate.  Things do not go according to plan and Sheridan finds himself stuck
+years into the future on the Centauri homeworld.
+
+     Tim Choate          as   Zathras
+     Time Winters        as   Rathenn
+     Michael O'Hare      as   Ambassador Jeffrey Sinclair
+     Joshua Cox          as   Lt. Corwin
+     Kevin Fry           as   Centauri Guard
+     Eric Ziuot          as   Spragg
+
+C17) "War Without End, Part II"
+
+     Directed by: Michael Vejar
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+DELENN: "The war is never completely won.  There are always new battles to
+        be fought against the darkness - only the names change.  But we...
+        we achieved everything we set out to achieve.  We created
+        something that will endure for a thousand years.  But the price,
+        John, the terrible, terrible price."
+
+As the crew continue their attempt to send B4 back into the past an
+accident pushes the station into the future to the time of the episode
+"Babylon Squared".  Sheridan, stuck in the future, is sentenced to death
+by Londo.  Zathras, in his attempts to bring Sheridan back, is captured.
+Further revelations are discovered.
+
+     Tim Choate          as   Zathras
+     Kent Broadhurst     as   Major Krantz
+     Bruce Morrow        as   B4 First Officer
+     Michael O'Hare      as   Ambassador Jeffrey Sinclair
+     Kevin Fry           as   Centauri Guard
+     Eddie Mui           as   B4 Tech
+
+C18) "Walkabout"
+
+     Directed by: Kevin G. Cremin
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+IVANOVA: "Ambassador Kosh is dead."
+KOSH: "We are all Kosh."
+
+The new Vorlon Ambassador 'Kosh' arrives on B5 and turns out to be more
+mysterious than the old 'Kosh'.  Lyta Alexander returns to discover the
+cause of Kosh's death and to meet with the new ambassador.  She assists
+the crew in a trial attack on the Shadows using her telepathic powers, but
+not all the races are willing to assist in the attack.  Franklin meets a
+singer in Downbelow whilst on a journey to find himself.
+
+     Erica Gimpel        as   Cailyn
+     Patricia Tallman    as   Lyta Alexander
+     Jennifer Balgobin   as   Dr. Lilian Hobbs
+     Robin Sachs         as   Na'Kal
+     Ardwight Chamberlain
+                         as   Kosh
+     Michael McKenzie    as   Minbari Captain
+
+C19) "Grey 17 is Missing"
+
+     Directed by: John C. Flinn, III
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+NEROON: "I am sworn to stop you, Delenn, by any and all means necessary."
+
+When people start to disappear in Grey Sector, Garibaldi investigates and
+becomes trapped in a 'missing' level of Grey Sector.  Delenn accepts the
+responsibility and position of Ranger One, but as preparations begin for
+the initialization ceremony her life is threatened by Neroon.  Marcus must
+stop him at all costs.  Franklin begins to feel the effects of stim
+withdrawal symptoms.
+
+     Robert Englund      as   Jeremiah
+     Katherine Moffat    as   Supervisor
+     Eamonn Roche        as   First Man
+     John Vickery        as   Neroon
+     Time Winters        as   Rathenn
+     Thom Barry          as   Maintenance Worker
+
+C20) "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place"
+
+     Directed by: David J. Eagle
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+LONDO: "So I have found a way to get him away from here and back to Narn.
+       And once there he can be arrested, detained and executed.  And you,
+       Vir, are going to help me."
+
+Londo plots against G'Kar in an attempt to dispose of him once and for
+all.  He blackmails an unwilling Vir into helping him.  Lord Refa arrives
+with his own plans for conquest and kidnaps Vir.  A group of religious
+people arrive with information for Sheridan, who begins to feel the
+effects of the burden of responsibility as he continues to try and make
+sense of the Shadows seemingly random attack strategy.
+
+     Erick Avari         as   Rabbi Leo Meyers
+     William Forward     as   Lord Refa
+     Louis Turenne       as   Brother Theo
+     Mel Winkler         as   Reverend Will Dexter
+     Francois Giroday    as   Virini
+     Paul Keith          as   Drigo
+     Wayne Alexander     as   G'Dan
+     Marva Hicks         as   Singer
+
+C21) "Shadow Dancing"
+
+     Directed by: Kim Friedman
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+IVANOVA: "That's a lot of ships."
+MARCUS: "That's a bloody aweful lot of ships."
+IVANOVA: "Jump engines back on line yet?"
+MARCUS: "No.  If I signal the fleet this lot might pick it up.  If they do
+        we can't get away."
+IVANOVA:" Well, who wants to live forever?"
+MARCUS: "I do actually, but what the hell... signal away."
+
+With the discovery of an imminent Shadow attack, the White Star is sent on
+an advance warning mission.  Delenn attempts to convince as many races as
+possible from the League to join forces for a massive strike against the
+Shadows.  Franklin finally finds himself when his life is in mortal
+danger, but it is not what he expected.  Then the first large scale battle
+begins and the Shadows send a unexpected guest to B5.
+
+     Shirley Prestice    as   Barbara
+     Melissa Gilbert     as   Anna
+     John Grantham       as   Thug #2
+     J. Gordon Noice     as   Man
+     Jonathan Chapman    as   Brakiri
+     Joshua Cox          as   Lt. Corwin
+     Mark Hendrickson    as   Drazi Ambassador
+     Nicholas Ross Oleson
+                         as   Thug #1
+     Doug Cox            as   Husband
+
+C22) "Z'ha'dum"
+
+     Directed by: Adam Nimoy
+     Written by.: J. Michael Straczynski
+
+ANNA: "Don't you want to know what it's all about?  What it's really all
+      about?  I can do that,  All you have to do is come with me."
+SHERIDAN: "Where?"
+ANNA: "Where else?  To Z'ha'dum."
+
+Sheridan is both confused and shocked to find that his wife, Anna, has
+returned from the grave.  She convinces him to go with her to Z'ha'dum to
+hear the truth about the Shadows.  Franklin discovers something startling
+about Anna.  Londo receives a message from a Shadow agent.  A large scale
+Shadow fleet suddenly appears around B5, poised to attack.  Sheridan,
+caught in a trap, makes the ultimate sacrifice.  Garibaldi, whilst out
+defending B5 against the Shadow fleet, vanishes without a trace.
+
+     Jeff Corey          as   Justin
+     Ron Campbell        as   Messenger
+     Ed Wasser           as   Morden
+     Melissa Gilbert     as   Anna Sheridan
+     Ardwight Chamberlain
+                         as   Kosh
+     Joshua Cox          as   Lt. Corwin
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[4]  U.K. AIR DATES & RATINGS
+=============================
+
+DATE FORMAT: yy/mm/dd
+RATINGS FORMAT: position/viewers in millions
+
+Please note that the UK running order of the episodes may not be the same
+as the US order.
+
+AIR DATE  PROD.  TITLE                               RATINGS
+          CODE
+
+96/04/14   301   "Matters of Honor"
+96/04/21   302   "Convictions"
+96/04/28   303   "A Day in the Strife"
+96/05/05   305   "Passing Through Gethsemane"
+96/05/12   304   "Voices of Authority"
+96/05/19   306   "Dust To Dust"
+96/05/26   307   "Exogenesis"
+96/06/02   308   "Messages From Earth"
+96/06/09   309   "Point of No Return"
+96/06/16   310   "Severed Dreams"
+96/06/23   311   "Ceremonies of Light and Dark"
+96/07/07   313   "Sic Transit Vir"
+96/07/14   312   "A Late Delivery from Avalon"
+96/07/21   314   "Ship of Tears"
+96/07/28   315   "Interludes and Examinations"
+96/08/04   316   "War Without End, Part I"
+96/08/11   317   "War Without End, Part II"
+96/08/18   318   "Walkabout"
+96/08/01   319   "Grey 17 is Missing"
+96/09/08   320   "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place"
+96/09/15   321   "Shadow Dancing"
+96/09/22   322   "Z'ha'dum"
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[5]  SEASON 3 UK EDITS
+======================
+
+All information included here are based on edits made on 1st run episodes.
+Repeated episodes that may have been further edited are not included.  If
+you know of any other edits, e-mail me all the details!
+
+Edits are listed in the format:-
+
+[ep. #]  [title]
+[edited scenes]
+
+C02) "Convictions"
+
+  a) Near the end of the episode when Londo and G'Kar are found in the
+     elevator they should have said...
+
+     Londo: "Bastard."
+     G'Kar: "Monster."
+     Londo: "Fanatic."
+     G'Kar: "Murderer."
+     Londo: "You're insane!"
+     G'Kar: "That's why we'll win!"
+
+C03) "A Day in the Strife"
+
+  a) There is a very short cut where Franklin goes to his drawer to take
+     out a stim.  He takes the stim out and presses it against his wrist
+     (which was cut), and is then seem rubbing his wrist.
+
+C05) "Passing Through Gethsemane"
+
+  a) As Delenn visits Garibaldi in his office he stops the conversation in
+     order to hear the ISN broadcast on the "Death by Personality"
+     judgement given to a criminal.  When explaining to her what the item
+     is about he refers to the criminal as a bastard, which was edited out.
+
+C08) "Messages from Earth"
+
+  a) The scene at the beginning in which Marcus is bringing Kirkish aboard
+     the station is cut.  The fight sequences are trimmed and there are
+     reports that Marcus also said "Bastards" at one point.  
+
+C09) "Point of No Return"
+
+  a) During the scene in which Sheridan is announcing Martial Law, the
+     fight sequences have been trimmed.  Rather than have to edit
+     Sheridan's announcement, it appears that the images have been slowed
+     down in places to match the duration of the dialogue.
+
+C11) "Ceremonies of Light and Dark"
+
+  a) The fight scene in the bar with Marcus has been edited.  You should
+     have seen the large, bearded man grabbing a bottle from the bar and
+     swinging it at Marcus's head.  Marcus ducks, the bottle smashes into
+     the other bad guy's face, which takes him down.  Then Marcus takes
+     out the large, bearded man.  He might have said "bastards" again at
+     some point.
+
+  b) The scene where Delenn is knifed in the back has been edited.  You
+     should have seen the knife being thrown, hit Delenn, and hear her go
+     *umph*.
+
+C18) "Walkabout"
+
+  a) When Lyta is battling the Shadow Vessel using her mind you did not
+     hear her say "Burn you bastards."
+
+C19) "Grey 17 is Missing"
+
+  a) The fight scene between Marcus and Neroon have been edited.  If
+     anyone has details, please let me know.
+
+C21) "Shadow Dancing"
+
+  a) The scene where Franklin is knifed is shown in a bit more detail in
+     the US version.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[6]  AND FINALLY...
+===================
+
+I hope you find this guide useful.  If you have any suggestions, comments,
+or just want to say hi, you can drop me a line at one of the following:-
+
+     Mr. Edwin Yau,     e-mail:   mrpotato@fastnet.co.uk
+     16 Hogarth Road,
+     HOVE,
+     East Sussex,
+     BN3 5RG.
+     ENGLAND.
+
+Hellos to... Peter Berry, Steven Grimm, Tobias Richter, Channel 4
+             Television and all the guys at Visual Imagination Ltd.!
+
+
+                              === END ===
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